The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1291

00:00:00.000 good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to the podcast the load seaters for

00:00:03.680 friday the 7th of november 2025 i'm joined by harry and dan and today we're going to be talking

00:00:09.480 about how sydney sweeney uh is just the most based celebrity in the world at the moment

00:00:15.900 uh how x is probably the thing that radicalized her and what happens if you just press the fix

00:00:21.940 everything button because we could just fix everything really easily um but uh yeah no

00:00:27.840 good friday thank god hey wasn't that a long week um i've had a good week i'm glad you guys have a

00:00:33.480 good week every week feels like a drag to me it's not even the it's not work at all it's not work

00:00:37.880 what's going on it's it's just life i think it's my age i think i'm just getting too old did you

00:00:42.580 not do anything nice on bonfire night no oh no i didn't do anything i i tried to i'm not getting

00:00:48.220 enough sleep that's my problem but uh anyway right tell me about it yesterday i've got some good news

00:00:53.080 though right because uh this year is the year of the chudette it's the year when hot women in

00:00:58.080 hollywood have decided we're not for equality actually we're actually kind of against equality

00:01:03.380 equality is a contemptible idea that doesn't apply to us and this has been brilliantly exemplified

00:01:11.440 but not only by sydney sweeney now you'll remember the sydney sweeney has great genes advert

00:01:17.380 from american eagle back in july and they are still seething about it it is amazing they are

00:01:24.240 they are i mean it's not even coping it's just open crying and just are you sure you're not the

00:01:30.700 equals of us and it's like sorry dumpy girls sydney sweeney is not your equal that's basically

00:01:36.780 what is being said so this came out in an interview with gq the other day there's there's a the write-up

00:01:43.960 here uh in gq sydney sweeney at life at the center of the conversation etc etc um but this didn't

00:01:51.220 really get a lot of attention as you see it's by katherine stofell there uh it was the interview

00:01:56.580 that got a lot of attention and the interview it was clips from it notice how it's only had

00:02:02.380 something like 65 000 views where's the views yeah yeah 65 yeah that's surprisingly low because like

00:02:08.040 honestly 98 of my twitter feed has been this yes yeah on twitter one particular part of it has got

00:02:14.240 millions of views yes because people took clips out of this because there are some really interesting

00:02:20.220 clips in it but i watched the whole thing and actually the interview is just gold from start to

00:02:24.560 finish uh for example in the beginning sydney tells us about her background in martial arts

00:02:29.500 i didn't know she had a background in martial arts let's have a listen

00:02:32.940 fight and film at the same time because i'd come home with bruises so i put it to the side but i

00:02:38.600 always wanted to find a story that would be able to bring that side of myself out but you're 13 year

00:02:44.980 old girl like what does fighting give you at that time in your life the element of surprise

00:02:49.820 i was the only girl there so there it was a lot of talk of oh what is she doing here the dads are

00:02:56.580 kind of a little like upset that their sons would be fighting a girl and then i would sometimes win

00:03:02.040 okay so there's a genuine joy that comes out here i like to fight people so sydney sweeney's like okay

00:03:09.420 i can understand that uh and so it carries on and the whole interview is permeated with sydney sweeney

00:03:16.920 just not caring about the emotional condition of the woman interviewing her but the woman interviewing

00:03:23.000 her basically begging her please recognize me as an equal so is is the the one that should have blue

00:03:29.980 hair and probably did have blue hair until is she trying to longhouse sydney sweeney the whole way

00:03:33.880 through yes right and so it's like why did you as a girl want to do martial arts because i could win

00:03:38.640 sometimes that's why well the funny thing is isn't that like what hollywood's been looking for from its

00:03:44.540 female stars for 15 20 years like furiosa in that mad max film they want like their bad bitches who can

00:03:52.800 fight and stand up to the guys they want their charlise theron starring as a woman overpowering men

00:03:59.240 three times bigger than her that comes up in the interview she says yeah i'm a strong independent

00:04:03.500 woman i can do what i like and suddenly the the woman interviewing is like no you can't do that

00:04:08.060 because that makes me feel inferior is basically the essence of the whole thing and that's been one of

00:04:13.420 the big contradictions of um modern feminism for a long time they're trying to simultaneously

00:04:19.240 pull the women up while keeping them all equal which is is not possible exactly and it's it's been

00:04:25.980 it just genuinely funny like there was one bit about seven minutes in where uh she also look

00:04:31.320 you're becoming like the center of the conversation you can see her body language look at the way she's

00:04:34.960 sat look at the the generally sort of like frumpy expression that she's got on she is not happy to

00:04:40.520 be doing this interview but because it's between like two like valley girls i guess you know the sort

00:04:44.880 of like american cool woman or like you know in group sort of theme like you can tell that she's

00:04:52.200 pretending to like sydney smith yeah i've seen this body language plenty of times before when my

00:04:57.480 missus has been around women and they both hate each other so obviously but they put up the front

00:05:03.960 in person i i was thinking i mean every guy if you if you just freeze frame this at any point every guy

00:05:09.760 knows these facial expressions and they've had it from their primary school teachers onwards to their

00:05:13.940 hr woman to female managers the whole lot that sort of i don't know how to describe it but that

00:05:19.480 toxic look that they have and what so presumably itch face yeah it's it's the attempt at long

00:05:24.980 housing yes she is trying to long house sydney sweeney but presumably hot girls get this treatment

00:05:30.400 from these type of women as well as guys do i i imagine they do but anyway like she's she's

00:05:35.220 interested in talking about power and fame push notifications about it it was and we all sort

00:05:39.840 of looked up and we're like oh sydney sweeney isn't just a talented actress and an up-and-coming

00:05:47.000 producer she's someone that people are really obsessed with and really fascinated by oh man

00:05:52.200 i know and i just i wondered did your sense of your own fame change this year

00:05:56.000 no i surround myself with

00:06:01.860 a really really strong group of people who have been in my life since i was little and

00:06:10.640 they take me out of hollywood take me out of this bubble and remind me

00:06:14.960 what the real world is and that that's where i exist

00:06:19.060 sorry just i mean a that's a great answer isn't it you know no i have a group of like strong reliable

00:06:25.460 people who i care about who care about me and i'm connected to real people in the real world and

00:06:29.660 i'm not just in your but essentially the question there was i can't help but noticing you're a lot

00:06:34.520 hotter and more successful than me yes would you like to set self-deprecate yourself back down to

00:06:39.320 my level yeah and she just goes no yeah no you can see it in the body like sydney sweeney is facing

00:06:45.960 her she's sort of facing away from sydney right look at her shoulders are kind of hunched her chest is

00:06:51.180 sunken and sydney sweeney is just sat there just like a goddess just like yeah i'm amazing and

00:06:56.540 everything about me is amazing and everything about my life is amazing and i'm not in any in any way

00:07:00.720 going to lower myself to your position it's so good uh anyway like 8 20 there's another uh just

00:07:09.260 a couple of banger moments really out there now as a person who has a lot of power i would say

00:07:16.100 person who people are obsessed with and someone who i gather is like really really focused on

00:07:21.460 their work so i wonder how does that change what you're looking for i don't think i'm looking for

00:07:28.880 a man right now what i've learned this year is that i have a really really amazing group of

00:07:36.240 girlfriends and i am strong and independent and that i'm gonna be okay if love finds me love finds me

00:07:48.280 i'm hopeless so it's just romantic so i hope love but the but look at the look at the contempt look at

00:07:54.800 the absolute expression um that's that's what i was going to pick up and you can tell eight minutes

00:07:59.880 into this interview sydney knows exactly what she's dealing with and and the homelander face is kicking

00:08:05.780 in absolutely and that's the thing yeah there's this genuine just look of superiority that says i see

00:08:12.560 what you are bitch you are it's it's so homelander i can't get over it but look you you have a lot of

00:08:19.480 power you know all this sort of stuff and it's like yeah let's show yeah i know i'm i'm better

00:08:25.840 than you yes way better than you it's just any thoughts i mean you guys are the women experts

00:08:33.080 lately lately you're you're reading all of this like it's just a big textbook whereas i i am i'm

00:08:39.780 completely oblivious but i can definitely sense everything that you you you you you when you get

00:08:46.760 well you'll you'll learn to understand how women deal with one another um but it's it's plenty well

00:08:51.300 it's so funny um anyway let's let's go on to where they start talking about the advert because that's

00:08:56.700 uh obviously absolute gold and the thing is it's it's gold for the whole thing as well we'll go for

00:09:02.380 a bit before just to make sure we got the right bit and i know that i'm just excited to see what

00:09:11.520 happens next and so i don't really let other people define who i am i'm happy to hear that

00:09:17.520 i love second hand concern for you lately we're sort of talking around this american eagle ad right

00:09:25.220 now and maybe we should just talk about it so were you surprised by the reaction

00:09:29.260 i did a gene ad i mean the reaction definitely was a surprise but sorry just a quick pause there i

00:09:41.860 love it for her it was just a tuesday yeah you know like the m bison thing for you know i've thought

00:09:47.160 about you all my life yeah but for me it was a tuesday every clip you've shown shown so far it's

00:09:52.900 the lib is setting up the frame yeah and she's just like no yeah it's every single time and also one

00:09:58.080 one thing that i've noticed everybody's been pointing out the facial expressions that this

00:10:02.980 um interviewer has been pulling they're like upturned eyebrows they're like really forced smile

00:10:08.580 but like behind the eyes all i'm detecting is that it's taking every fiber of her being to not burst

00:10:14.320 out crying yes like at the beginning of that where she was like oh i felt some second hand concern for

00:10:20.140 you and hearing how like just naturally confident sydney is she's like holding herself down she's pulling

00:10:25.880 herself down yeah yeah that's exactly right it's the forced grimace yeah that's hiding utter contempt

00:10:33.520 for herself yes like i wish i could be as confident as you but i'm not i'm an insecure person and i feel

00:10:41.020 like dying right now and notice sydney's outside no i'm really confident for the future i think it's

00:10:45.900 gonna go great it's like i'm not worried exactly why wouldn't she why wouldn't she uh anyway let's

00:10:52.280 carry on it was i i love jeans all i wear jeans i'm literally in jeans and a t-shirt like every day

00:11:00.520 of my life jeans are uncontroversial jeans are awesome yeah i like your jeans you look great

00:11:05.960 in your jeans i think i know how you're gonna answer this but i'm gonna ask anyway i mean

00:11:10.700 the president tweeted about the jeans ad or truth social about the jeans ad and

00:11:16.340 smile that just seems to me uh like a very crazy moment for anyone and i wondered

00:11:25.080 what that was like it was surreal it was surreal and it would be so sorry to like jump in but you can

00:11:35.220 see this bit the smile fading but i'm gonna ask anyway i mean so you got the smile

00:11:40.700 and then it starts about the jeans ad or truth social about that look at that you can see the

00:11:45.760 oh right now you're trying to lay a trap because she already knows who this woman is absolutely the

00:11:50.160 moment she mentions the president that's when the the smile fades it's like oh you're gonna try and

00:11:54.680 get me to say something anti-trump aren't you and smile banish also her eyes there's a subtle shift

00:11:59.780 in her eyes where she goes from friendly to predator eyes yes i know what i'm dealing with now right

00:12:06.080 it's exactly it and notice um that when she gives her answer look at that right look at that she

00:12:11.880 know i know what you're doing yes and i know what the answer to this is oh it was surreal it's not

00:12:17.340 politically charged at all it was just weird who can who can make a comment on that she's handled this

00:12:23.680 incredibly well and this is a lesson to basically any right winger if you don't want to answer their

00:12:29.500 questions you don't have to you can just take this kind of attitude and be securing yourself and just

00:12:35.100 say yeah that was weird wasn't it and move on but anyway we'll get to the the good bit and it would

00:12:40.420 be totally human uh i would probably feel like thankful that somebody had my back in public

00:12:48.840 you know and conveniently some very powerful people had my back in public and i wondered if if you felt

00:12:56.260 that way i don't think i don't think that it's not that that feeling didn't i didn't have that feeling

00:13:09.700 but i wasn't thinking of it like that or like of any of it i kind of just put my phone away i was

00:13:16.340 filming every day i'm filming euphoria so i'm working like 16 hour days and i don't really bring my phone

00:13:23.820 on set so i work and then i go home and i go to sleep so i don't really i don't really see a lot

00:13:31.420 of it yeah so funny no that that is a you problem yeah that is bro i have a life exactly i'm busy

00:13:39.840 i'm doing things i'm not like you constantly worrying about the people around me constantly

00:13:45.620 obsessing about social media yeah there's also just like the the the contempt of it all is like

00:13:51.660 it's clearly like dude it was a jeans advert yeah who cares why do you care so much about this

00:13:59.280 why have you got so much like personal emotional investment in the fact that a hot girl was in a

00:14:05.980 jeans advert and that's what this all boils down to because she doesn't recognize the principle of

00:14:11.260 equality i'm busy i'm working i'm hot i'm confident look at you though but suddenly knows why

00:14:18.240 she gets cast in of course she does you know of course obviously we all saw that dress she was

00:14:23.600 wearing the other day on the red i didn't like the variety thing i mean what one it was one it was a

00:14:28.720 see-through and second i'm fair i'm fairly confident i could have swallowed it without needing a glass of

00:14:33.660 water just in case my wife was watching this i didn't appreciate the dress um what dress exactly i

00:14:39.620 didn't even say it but i'm actually blind you mentally filtered out the dress yeah yeah yeah i

00:14:45.240 right hang on i i only ever look women in the face oh i see particularly in the eyes right

00:14:50.460 so there's there was apparently video of that going around apparently sydney sweeney getting into the

00:14:56.240 elevator with the c3 dress and the guy's looking ahead with his girlfriend looking at him so oh my god

00:15:01.200 what a horrible position to be in um but she knows what she knows what she's doing um but the point

00:15:06.440 is that she's not interested in this kind of moral equality and everything about the woman who's

00:15:12.340 interviewing her is essentially begging her look give me something give me give me an agreement that

00:15:17.060 yeah we're all a bit insecure oh this is a struggle session oh it's trying well yeah she wants it to be

00:15:22.540 a struggle session and if this had been done say four years ago at the height of craziness yeah it

00:15:27.500 would have been yeah but it's just not playing along yeah case for keeping your thoughts and your life

00:15:35.440 separate from that work but the risk is that you know there's a chance that somebody will get some

00:15:42.040 idea about what you think about certain issues and feel like i don't want to see christy because of

00:15:50.180 that like do you worry about that no no if somebody if somebody is closed off because of

00:16:00.240 something they read online to a powerful story like christy

00:16:07.400 then i hope that i hope something else can open their eyes to being open to art and being open to

00:16:19.640 learning and i'm not gonna be affected by that yeah you've come here like really willing to i love

00:16:28.460 this impervious shield of contempt that sydney sweeney has for all of this woman's points just absolute

00:16:35.500 contempt i don't care about any of these stupid things that you're bringing up yes i'm too successful

00:16:41.040 and beautiful and rich and important to give a damn about what you're complaining and you love to see

00:16:46.180 because you've seen those charts where females are just becoming radically left and men are going

00:16:51.860 right gently right but we females are going radically left and i've heard so many commentaries

00:16:56.880 online from females who are saying something along the lines of um oh men are going to have to come to

00:17:01.480 our side if they want to get laid and men are like nope and and what and what this is doing is this is

00:17:06.540 setting a role model where girls like sweeney are going to get the top guys yes and then more and more

00:17:11.880 girls are going to go oh hang on a minute it's a bit lonely out here and all i've got is skinny

00:17:15.940 fat pencil neck lib guys to pick from actually over there and they'll be surrounded by the kind of

00:17:23.020 women who are going to encourage them to do things to make themselves uglier too that's what that's what

00:17:28.240 all those kinds of women do no you look great without the eyebrows cut your weird hair so you've got

00:17:33.680 the side shade put your hair all weird you know you don't look bad with a few extra pounds you know

00:17:38.740 you wear it queen you own it it's all just self-sabotage whereas sydney's like she is

00:17:46.300 every single one of like the old-fashioned beauty standards right she's blonde she's blue-eyed she's

00:17:53.040 white she's got big tits and she's totally proud of it yeah what was it they call it like

00:17:59.860 traditional beauty standards like who gives a shit but what what i love about it is that sydney

00:18:05.840 as you were saying is basically like an alpha woman it's one she knows that she's like you know

00:18:10.560 the most desired woman on the planet at the moment and so like her being like oh but in fact we'll get

00:18:14.680 to the genes bit right now uh because this is just just gold i need to talk about this whole discourse

00:18:20.520 that doesn't have that much to do with you and i'm grateful for that um did you is there something

00:18:27.960 that you want to say about the ad itself the sydney's when he has great genes do you have

00:18:33.180 the ad spoke for itself you think the ad spoke for itself okay and the criticism i love it just

00:18:39.940 is there something you want to say about the ad no also like what's the what's the end goal here do

00:18:44.860 you want to just like shit on the people who paid you to star in an advert do you want to do you want

00:18:49.620 to become unemployable to future advertising opportunities whatever that um harry potter girl who's

00:18:55.700 always shitting on jk rowling and emma watson oh yeah yeah and she recently came crawling back

00:19:00.300 yes because jk rowling yeah yeah she did because jk rowling is an alpha woman as well and it's just

00:19:04.480 like i don't care i'm literally a billionaire and literally i've got like 15 million followers on

00:19:09.760 twitter and recently uh emma watson was like yeah i i do still really care about her and i do really

00:19:15.000 really oh really like now though interesting how the alpha women are currently crushing the coalition

00:19:20.880 of like beta women who all like yeah actually we'll go gay race communism and that's what

00:19:25.040 she's asking are you going to give us anything because we've had a lot of critiques of you being

00:19:29.080 like oh you know that genes advert is kind of implying racial superiority are you going to give

00:19:33.640 us anything and sydney was like no and it's lovely watching the body language in this that the the lib

00:19:38.880 started off so confident at the beginning of this because she just thought i'll offer her the opportunity

00:19:43.440 to abase herself to disavow trump to um you know all of the things and every time she just says no and

00:19:50.560 sydney knows what she's dealing with and and the lib is getting more and more uncomfortable she's got

00:19:54.920 these pre-prepared questions and she asked that question and you could see her dying inside because

00:19:59.860 i know that sydney is not going to take this opportunity she's just going to shut me down

00:20:04.460 and make me look stupid look at that expression in fact that is the expression of a predator

00:20:08.480 that is someone who wins that is someone who is in the middle of a fight at the moment and is

00:20:14.020 way better than their opponent and they know it like she is absolutely unfazed by all of this and

00:20:19.880 honestly i love to see this it's so fun of the content which was basically that maybe specifically

00:20:26.460 in this political climate like white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority like

00:20:33.280 that was kind of like the criticism broadly speaking and since you are talking about this i just wanted

00:20:37.740 to give you an opportunity to talk about that specifically i think that when i

00:20:42.480 i have an issue that i want to speak about people here oh that's so funny yeah and and you were

00:20:51.600 talking about predator face yeah as soon as as soon as she clocked where that question was going it

00:20:56.160 became you know laser eyes super predator yeah i'll pause it on the bit where i want to get to because

00:21:01.840 there's a particular that much to do with you and i'm grateful for that um did you is there something

00:21:08.640 that you want to say about the mousy behavior the sydney sweeney has great genes do you have

00:21:13.920 the ad spoke for itself you think the ad spoke for excel okay and the criticism of the content

00:21:20.140 which was basically that maybe so that it's that bit right there where you know her her mouth is set

00:21:28.000 yes and she's just again this is the waiting for it because because as well we've had 10 years of

00:21:33.960 this yes sydney has seen this she's grown up to yeah to other actors for 10 years she's starred in

00:21:40.120 loads of stuff where i assume other actors that she's worked with have been through this same thing

00:21:45.740 and she clearly just doesn't want to deal with it total disdain it's the homelander face it's pure

00:21:51.700 homelander energy just like no no i am better than you and i don't care i mean because as well she's

00:21:56.820 probably spoken with these other stars behind the scenes yeah you've said oh god i feel so humiliated

00:22:01.900 doing that i don't care about these things but you know we've got to do it to get on and sydney's

00:22:06.920 decided no i've got my army of twitter chuds behind me they're gonna buy anything i put my face well

00:22:13.340 just check she's 28 so she's never not known peak culture war yeah bullshit yeah it's always been a

00:22:19.360 part of her life and what what what i really like and what no one else is really paying attention to

00:22:23.960 is the quality of sydney's answer it's not just that she's been like no i'm not gonna denounce

00:22:29.120 white supremacy or whatever you bullshit you're pulling up i'm notice someone's like i want to

00:22:34.140 give you the opportunity and sweeney addresses the opportunity so no i have all the opportunity i

00:22:38.660 need you don't give me opportunities i have plenty of opportunities and so when i want people to know

00:22:44.920 something they'll know you know she doesn't even address the question like the substance of the

00:22:49.100 question she addresses the framing why would i get opportunities from you yes and look at through

00:22:53.460 the homelander face it's just like what you can't give me anything my power comes from me

00:22:58.520 yes your permission exactly and it is it is just so good uh there's a bit at the end as well that

00:23:05.400 was just a complete mogging which uh is really really funny that i'll i guess we'll watch very

00:23:10.040 quickly um but yeah total mogging here what did it that way i've always looked at it as my body is

00:23:17.600 another tool to tell this story how does using that tool change when you are more in the driver's

00:23:24.400 seat as a producer i mean i'm thinking about the housemaid like there's a scene in that where you're

00:23:29.520 in this home theater and you're wearing like a push-up bra and she's like okay this is not a push-up

00:23:33.380 bra this is just my boobs oh wow

00:23:36.100 it's just it's it's her face while she's doing it look at the goblin yeah

00:23:47.400 versus like no you cannot even comprehend my boobs

00:23:51.700 exactly yeah the thing is among female status hierarchy right yeah boobs is the one of the top

00:23:59.760 things that they fight for status over so that out of everything else that was the true mog

00:24:05.500 right there it was so good i i don't need push-up bras yeah actually you might you might have thought

00:24:11.360 it was yeah but look at i mean that expression just the smug oh no all of this is just a giant win for

00:24:17.580 me you're a loser you know like like i said this whole thing it was i i didn't think the whole thing

00:24:26.560 was going to be so funny but the whole thing was just so good and such a brutal mogging of the kind

00:24:32.340 of mousy dumpy plain pro-social justice type of woman it was a complete mogging and she knows it as

00:24:40.620 well even if it's not conscious she can feel it but anyway the internet noticed and of course

00:24:45.780 everyone was like you know do you want to disavow white sperm she's like no

00:24:49.360 how dare you have good genes and not apologize it's like

00:24:53.460 i mean it's so brutal this has become the new soy versus the chad for women

00:25:00.420 it 100 is it 100 is like the little um the the woman who's formed by consensus on the left

00:25:08.220 and then the woman who is just powerful in her own right on the right because the interviewer as

00:25:13.540 well just has the most stereotypical hr lady physionics everybody like you say who has worked

00:25:20.880 in an office job is familiar with their hr leader knows that woman everybody who has gone to a who's

00:25:28.960 been to school knows that woman yes and they have grown to hate her because it is her social standards

00:25:35.000 that have been used to guide society for the past few decades who knows how long this is going on for

00:25:41.660 and they are sick of it yeah you're completely right and of course so they were like oh right

00:25:45.560 she's actually a racist and it's like i don't even think that's what's happening here i think she's

00:25:50.720 just confident in herself and powerful this is about as you said uh female status rather than like

00:25:56.800 you know ideological contraptions whether or not people want to say that she is racist though there

00:26:01.800 is something important here because ultimately like people are saying it's not necessarily that they

00:26:07.580 wanted to get her to denounce white supremacy or anything is they wanted her to prostrate to the

00:26:13.040 idea that she should be ashamed to be white and she's not yeah whether or not she's proud or would

00:26:21.800 say something like the it's okay to be white or whatever no it doesn't matter she's just not ashamed

00:26:27.200 yes and that's pretty big as far as somebody as famous as her coming out yeah and not saying that

00:26:33.320 oh i need to be ashamed of myself i need to be ashamed of my ancestors or anything like that she's

00:26:38.360 just like no no i'm just i don't even know if it goes that far with it it's like you know how can

00:26:43.060 you say that you have great genes aren't we all equal it's the it's the violation of the principle

00:26:47.260 of equality that this woman on the left is so het up about i mean don't get me wrong all of that

00:26:52.000 does follow from obviously but i don't think that's what's happening in her mind at the moment i think

00:26:56.240 it's just literally like no i mean you know it was gene advert what do i care you know the whole thing's

00:27:02.200 great anyway they're gonna call her a racist either way so it doesn't uh literally this is

00:27:07.100 this is what they take from her being confident in herself there you go again literally i'm not

00:27:12.860 going to say i'm ashamed to be white therefore yeah evan middle-aged typical mam danny voter

00:27:20.700 yeah yeah says oh you're adolf hitler then you're not ashamed of yourself yeah well in that case you

00:27:26.180 must hate me you think you have good genes it's like bro it's demonstrable that she has good genes

00:27:30.740 no one's questioning it and she's just confident about herself because of it and it's like right

00:27:35.540 well you're adolf hitler it's like okay however this is admittedly a very funny pose it is it is

00:27:41.840 funny i'm not gonna lie it's funny but it's funny for many reasons but like i said she's just the

00:27:48.140 best example of this in recent days but actually very recently a lot of sort of alpha women have

00:27:53.580 come out and said you know what i don't care about your equality uh you had of course kira knightley

00:27:57.300 the other day literally laughing about the idea that uh transgenders are upset by something about

00:28:03.860 one of her films and she literally just like i hadn't heard she's voicing one of the characters

00:28:08.220 in an audiobook or state of play or something harry potter or something yeah of harry potter and she

00:28:12.680 said oh don't you know that there's some uh trans boycott going on over it she's like i don't care

00:28:17.680 yeah she literally i'm very sorry to hear that and laughs in the face you can see she could barely

00:28:22.700 control her laughter through this so um again obviously you know very beautiful woman has a

00:28:28.960 very successful life doesn't care about their opinion and even jennifer lawrence was like look

00:28:32.600 i don't really want to talk about politics uh i don't need to i'm successful in my own right

00:28:37.280 this is not my problem this is your problem uh jennifer lawrence as far as i'm aware has been a

00:28:43.420 shit lib like publicly her whole life but this does suggest the shift where she's noticing well

00:28:50.840 keira knightley sydney sweeney these people are now putting uh pushing people in the other

00:28:56.540 direction pulling things in their direction maybe me just like having constant tds isn't where people

00:29:04.440 want me to be anymore well that that snow white girl must have sent a signal out because i can't

00:29:08.860 remember what her name is but whoever the girl in the snow white was she attacked ziegler something

00:29:13.000 yeah so she she attacked half her audience was saying look if you if you like trump don't come and

00:29:17.980 watch the movie and the movie absolutely tanked and her career is finished now so that that must

00:29:22.980 have like flagged up for these other actresses that actually yeah attacking half the audience is a bad

00:29:27.180 thing at minimum but also i do think you're right harry i think there's a general vibe shift going on

00:29:32.580 where actually the attractor would be saying no i don't care about that at all uh i'm just hot and

00:29:36.340 that's really popular uh and so why jennifer lawrence is remembering back to 10 years ago when she was

00:29:42.680 the hottest girl in hollywood and she wants to recapture that but now the hottest girl in hollywood

00:29:48.180 is literally adolf hitler but so but i think i think they're understanding that at no point are

00:29:53.360 they actually chained by the dumpy hr women because they're not they can do whatever they like

00:29:58.380 anyway let's uh uh pat says they're real and they're spectacular oh man that i love that mogging i

00:30:04.700 love the absolute mogging and the general delight in sweeney's face to be able to say no it wasn't a push-up

00:30:09.120 um aaron clark says 100 100 pounds on youtube thank you very much thank you um uh keep up the

00:30:17.080 great work lad says strange history uh save the uk what would sir frank crisp do uh should be everyone

00:30:22.020 standard why don't i know who sir frank crisp is i don't either uh sydney the inventor of the crisp

00:30:29.120 no the sydney sweeney clip is a nature documentary it is it genuinely is and it is it's like a lion

00:30:36.260 talking to a hyena right that's genuinely what this was like a lion talking to a hyena like you

00:30:42.700 know the hyenas like don't you need a pack around you no i don't need a pack around me why would i

00:30:46.240 um g'day uh says luke hope you guys doing well thank you for having a look at the video

00:30:50.940 gen zed from liberals far right that i recommended i haven't had a look at it yet but i will do um

00:30:56.160 upper norwood says the john lewis christmas ad depicts an all-white british family with a normal

00:31:01.380 father who isn't the butt of the joke and the guardian is seething i will have to check that

00:31:05.240 out that sounds very entertaining um base tape says i'm sorry but ever since i noticed sydney

00:31:11.840 has a face i can't get over the dead eyes the cold lifeless eyes well that's the that's the

00:31:15.900 homelander expression i disagree you can see plenty of times in that interview where she seems to just

00:31:21.120 have like perfectly normal lively eyes faces lit up you know yeah it's it's the points where she goes

00:31:26.660 predator mode where they shut down a little bit and she she loses that uh friendly shine from them

00:31:33.000 yeah she realizes she's dealing with an enemy you know it's like oh right okay then fine you know

00:31:37.640 we're in a conflict and actually for young men who's got choice you really should be trading at

00:31:41.960 least one point of hotness for one point of baseness anyway so true you're gonna be happy in the long

00:31:46.780 way nevermo says harry is a poser that's obviously true cheers zerg says akal sitch is calling you

00:31:52.820 a white oh okay i guess i am uh white i mean he's he's got me there questionable uh just so you

00:32:00.540 know and you ever want a weak point weak point his arguments ask if he becomes a japanese citizen he's

00:32:05.000 japanese all right well yeah but sitch is a liberal so obviously i'm not a liberal so he doesn't agree

00:32:10.180 with the things i think uh why is he saying that you're white i think he's calling me a white nationalist

00:32:15.240 oh all right okay i i'm not any kind of nationalist british or english patriot yes that's exactly what

00:32:23.600 i think of myself as um abdullah says do you think tom artyom alexandrovich will face justice i've

00:32:32.280 never heard of that person i don't know who that is me neither so i'm afraid i can't answer that

00:32:35.840 uh b chain says hail sydney best girl over here in city my sound voted for a siek mayor democrat

00:32:41.500 uh he has said how he doesn't care how much he has to raise taxes he's going to do everything to

00:32:47.060 protect the illegals well i mean this the thing is everyone's like freaking out about the mandani

00:32:52.520 thing but i'm actually completely in favor of the democratic socialists having their day in the sun

00:32:57.240 you know no go nuts i want to see exactly how badly things get so we can hold it up as an example and

00:33:01.620 say this is what you do we can't do that in future well it's going to be escaped from new york

00:33:06.180 yeah literally it's going to be escaped from new york and i volunteer as snake plissken

00:33:09.940 arcadia says i'm a woman i admire sydney's attitude she rocks i grew up with women like

00:33:15.460 farrah fawcett women unashamedly aware of their power i hate these hr karens they've ruined

00:33:20.260 everyone's fun totally true yeah the hr karens they are individually pathetic people yeah but they

00:33:25.800 use the power of group and consensus to promote their own values and their shit values yeah that's

00:33:33.420 what they are anyway um shouldn't be swearing so much on the podcast because we've all done it sorry

00:33:37.220 yeah anyway all right then so uh after we've spoken about the radicalization of sydney sweeney

00:33:47.100 let's speak about what probably did it to her because uh she's probably got a very based alt out

00:33:52.160 there that's what i assume when i saw all of those clips i felt like tweeting out saying all right which

00:33:56.520 one of you is it which one of you sydney and uh there's a there's a reason for that the sky news

00:34:01.800 has exposed for everybody which is that according to their very scientific and rigorous nine month

00:34:08.780 study the x elon musk's twitter is pushing you to be very based great pushing right wing views on

00:34:18.280 people supposedly according to this the x algorithm prioritize sending new users right wing leaning

00:34:25.180 content so let's just take a look a little bit uh the teaser that they've got here

00:34:30.140 we're losing identity of our country and somebody needs to sound fight for it we just want to protect

00:34:37.620 our community and our country a september heat wave in central london english flags everywhere the huge

00:34:44.780 crowds in westminster didn't turn out just for the unite the kingdom rally organized by tommy

00:34:49.920 and robinson the anti-islam activist they're also chanting someone else's name

00:34:57.040 elon musk joining in from america one of the most influential and controversial figures in global

00:35:02.880 tech business and politics whether you choose violence or not a plant is coming to you

00:35:08.960 you either fight back or you die musk's speech at the rally was live streamed on x his social media

00:35:16.000 platform an alternative universe of posts and identities a platform he's been using to attack

00:35:22.160 british politicians and to pass judgment on issues affecting the uk especially immigration and grooming

00:35:29.200 or rape gangs the sky news will not address the validity of any of those claims or any of any of

00:35:37.120 the reasons why he would want to attack british politicians for those things it's just throwing it

00:35:43.280 out there and expecting that the docile idiotic sky news viewer their lowest common denominator will

00:35:50.240 go well this is foreign interference in politics recalling ed milliband at the labor conference we

00:35:55.600 want you out of our politics and out of our country the whole framing up to this point was this is

00:36:01.040 self-evidently bad until we get to this bit where it's supposed to be self-evidently this is not

00:36:04.800 something you're supposed to worry about yes but anybody else would look at this whole video and go like

00:36:09.280 yep well it'd be far more persuasive if we didn't have two horrific acts of violence happen this

00:36:15.440 week yes if the stabbing of the what was the chap's name wayne broadhurst in uxbridge literally

00:36:22.720 the video of it just stabbing him to death on the street for no reason and then the huntington train

00:36:27.040 attack where 10 people got stabbed and one was killed well the narrative that they're trying to

00:36:30.880 spin with the huntington train attack was that oh well don't you understand it was an immigrant

00:36:35.200 who helped to stop it once it started happening so thankfully in that situation one they're ignoring

00:36:41.440 the englishman who got stabbed in the head to protect people but the argument there is well see

00:36:47.920 the violent immigrants cancel each other out that's literally their argument but that's lefty

00:36:53.440 maths immigration caused 10 stabbings but stopped the 11th therefore immigration is good yes that's

00:36:58.960 literally what they're arguing and so like i said this this would be far more persuasive uh you know when

00:37:04.000 elon musk is like violence is coming to you and they're like see look at that bad thing it's like

00:37:07.920 but it it is demonstrably true and we've had two terrible examples this week again they're hoping

00:37:13.120 that the audience has been primed enough to know that elon musk interfering interfering in british

00:37:18.720 politics is an automatic bad thing we hate foreign influence in our politics unless it's george soros

00:37:24.560 unless we're doing it or unless it's the european courts for instance unless it's anybody who supports

00:37:30.320 labor when it's when it's right wing interference that's when yeah when it's against us and uh they

00:37:35.920 go on to say something pretty telling here those posts have earned hundreds of thousands of likes

00:37:41.200 and interactions must support twitter in 2022 in order to wipe out what he described as the woke mind

00:37:48.320 virus influencing western politics he renamed it x he got rid of the content moderation teams and he

00:37:54.000 promised to turn it into a free speech platform so you'd probably expect to see a lot more

00:37:59.120 right-leaning content as a result of all of that sorry you would expect to see it so they're just

00:38:04.880 outright saying and admitting listen we know twitter was silencing these people we were censoring

00:38:10.560 these people so you would expect to see a lot more of it but now we are seeing a lot more of it

00:38:16.560 that's a problem again i can't help but feel kind of sydney swenish about this do you want to

00:38:21.600 denounce it no no no that's that's good it reminds me of how the other day these people were still

00:38:28.320 so locked into their little echo chambers that they've made for themselves in the old left-wing

00:38:34.400 twitter that there was the dara o'brain incident where somebody had pointed out to him that there had

00:38:42.080 been the abuse of girls going on uh when he was arguing about how evil the right wing was for

00:38:48.080 demonizing refugees and such and it was even in a particular place that he was talking about

00:38:52.880 that he he responded saying look i was talking about this one town but even there had been happening

00:38:57.520 apparently yeah because he was saying really where abuse of girls when did that happen and he was

00:39:05.120 absolutely absolutely dogpiled educated everybody yes educated everybody came together it was like

00:39:13.040 the torches were lit the fires of gondor have been lit and everybody came out of the woodwork to

00:39:20.720 provide him with countless examples and the easy thing is as well these examples come from mainstream

00:39:27.200 news sources sources that dara would appreciate as being unbiased and neutral didn't he spend a decade

00:39:34.320 doing a comedy show about the news yeah it's called mock the week i did a post about that about how

00:39:39.680 you know the whole the mock the week the whole purpose of it was to tell the viewers that people

00:39:45.440 who read the daily mail are irrational and racist for no reason and if you listen to the things that

00:39:51.520 the daily mail say or say anything that sounds like something the daily mail might report on then

00:39:57.280 you should laugh and dismiss it yes despite the fact that the daily mail were just reporting on things

00:40:02.160 that were actually happening i've got to say right like the daily mail it's they are terrible but like

00:40:08.000 with the guardian when they just do a here are the facts of what's happened they're generally okay yes

00:40:13.200 they're generally all right it's when they get political it was it was just demonizing people yeah

00:40:17.920 that was his his job right so they were so used to their little echo chamber that they're still

00:40:25.440 getting used to the fact that now oh i can't just bs anymore people will dogpile me for being willfully

00:40:32.480 stupid and ignorant there's that millennial woes cat thing that goes around everywhere which is just

00:40:37.440 you know their entire thing is just pretending not to understand the argument he deleted that

00:40:43.760 he deleted that that's why most of them moved over to blue sky that's why otto english and other

00:40:47.760 people they because they just got so sick of being corrected we're not allowed to have the people

00:40:53.600 that we're demonizing speak back us harry because if we do we lose those arguments and we look like

00:40:59.680 morons yes and not just morons purpose and purposeful and malicious morons just out of

00:41:06.400 interest did sky news do a piece on the bias of blue sky no right weird how that didn't come up

00:41:12.400 and notice they didn't do a piece on the bias of twitter before elon musk bought all that yeah no

00:41:16.880 they certainly didn't mention anything about say the fbi literally having back doors into twitter to tell

00:41:22.160 the algorithm to censor and silence people perfectly fine that's all perfectly fine because it was

00:41:28.240 being run in a left-wing fashion they did that study here saying that uh you know when he promised

00:41:34.640 to uh turn twitter into a haven for free speech renamed it x fired roughly 80 percent of the staff

00:41:40.720 based and made the algorithm open source anyone can view the code so the the the methodology was this

00:41:47.440 they made nine new x accounts each one a british person with different political leanings three were

00:41:54.080 left-wing three right-wing and three had no interest in politics and they looked at this over the course

00:41:59.680 of about nine months but they say here over a two-week period we pulled around 90 000 posts from our users

00:42:06.480 for you pages then we used an llm an ai tool to categorize most of that content by political leaning

00:42:14.400 this of course ignores that over the course of the time they were doing it the algorithms changed

00:42:18.800 like five times anyway but also llms are not exactly the most reliable source of categorization

00:42:26.080 because all they're drawing upon is an existing body of reporting and commentary on the subject so

00:42:32.000 if the existing body of reporting commentary is actually maybe deporting illegal immigrants is a

00:42:36.800 good idea despite the fact that that's a really normal centrist that was a democrat position

00:42:41.600 literally until like 10 minutes ago that something like 75 percent of people agree with that's

00:42:46.320 categorized as right wing well they not only llms not only have a left-wing bias built into them

00:42:52.560 except for grok most of the time yeah and i doubt they used grok i doubt they use grok they have an

00:42:59.120 anti-white bias that i was reporting on on the show a few weeks ago right and so they will see as you say

00:43:06.800 what 20 years ago would have been moderate to centrist positions and go this is not only right-wing

00:43:13.360 this is extreme right-wing rhetoric and they will categorize it as such they say our right-wing voices

00:43:20.160 dominated the political content our new users saw the algorithm push posts that didn't align with their

00:43:26.000 interests and here you have the breakdown of the political content 32 percent left 62 percent right

00:43:33.280 only six percent non-partisan hang on sorry can we go back up to that thing is right so actually

00:43:39.360 if you look at the like the political leanings of like the general public well i mean i don't think

00:43:45.200 it is actually 62 percent that's coming out there i think that this is going to be miscategorizing

00:43:49.200 things are fairly centrist but that's roughly what you'd expect about a third of the population is

00:43:53.920 probably left-wing yeah so i'd expect about a third of discourse to be left-wing and then i'd expect the

00:43:58.560 rest of it not to be left-wing that's not unrepresentative of the the amount of people

00:44:03.200 who vote for labor that's actually really quite representative you would expect the most engagement

00:44:08.720 to go to the posts that have the most to do with the problems that people experience in their everyday

00:44:13.680 lives and especially within britain with the country changing in the ways now that even leafy little rural

00:44:20.880 towns are not escaping the second order and direct consequences of mass immigration into this

00:44:27.600 country this right-wing rhetoric the right-wing talking points those discussions are going to

00:44:34.560 be the things that get the most engagement because they are most relevant to people's lives exactly for

00:44:39.200 how many people their main problem is a lack of dei and then how many people are going to see that post

00:44:44.320 and go well that's interesting i'll share that how many people are going to see the adverts that are

00:44:49.360 posted and see what that reform woman was saying versus the counters to it and which one are they

00:44:55.360 going to agree with when they look at how the country's changing but by this standard i bet that

00:45:00.000 keir starmer's twitter feed is basically a right-wing twitter feed because he's going on constantly about

00:45:05.040 smashing the gang stopping the boats cutting spending you know making balancing the budget

00:45:10.640 these are all considered to be right-wing canards from the left-wing position but they're not they're

00:45:16.560 completely normal centrist everyday politics but this would make keir starmer a right-wing account by this

00:45:22.240 standard that's true and they've got more information in the article itself as you would

00:45:27.840 expect it's a uh not an amazing article because as well the methodology is not great but here's uh

00:45:34.640 here's some of the things that they endorse as being far-right extremist posts that musk himself

00:45:40.640 has come out with which is that uh you know a tolkiening lord of the ring a tolkien reference when

00:45:46.320 tolkien wrote about the hobbits he was referring to the gentle folk of the english shires who don't

00:45:49.760 realize the horrors that take place far away able to live their lives in peace and tranquility because

00:45:53.840 they were protected by the hard men of gondor so true this uh compares illegal immigrants to

00:45:58.880 monstrous fictional characters i mean it wouldn't be so apt if the illegal immigrants didn't keep

00:46:04.240 coming over here and committing atrocities it's all the night every single day every single day it is

00:46:10.720 becoming a daily occurrence it's so weird that in my lifetime lord of the rings has gone from something

00:46:16.000 that you read at school to being on the prevent watch list for books that indicate that you're

00:46:21.040 far right and 1984 as well in 2001 it was britain's favorite book right it was literally the the

00:46:27.520 favorite still up there it probably is they just haven't next to the quran they just haven't done

00:46:31.200 it for a long time but uh it was to brit literally voted britain's favorite book and now it's the sort

00:46:36.640 of thing that radicalizes you into the far right yeah so it goes through more of the information here are

00:46:41.600 the dots that represent right-wing uh accounts here's the ones that represent left-wing accounts

00:46:46.720 blah blah blah the non-partisan and then they go through a few graphs only 14 of the uh political

00:46:53.040 content sent to our right-leaning users was left-wing that's because we don't engage with it the only my

00:46:58.080 feed is full of libs at the moment i was i was going to say the thing is we actually we do engage

00:47:04.080 with yeah yeah because we see it and we go well that's wrong yeah let me correct you that's a quick

00:47:08.960 trope that is yeah i can get some good engagement off of that and you are right that for you tends

00:47:13.840 to be stuffed with very mainstream leftists yeah lewis goodall shows up on mine all the time when he

00:47:21.440 was still on the platform before i think he blocked me yes he did block me before otto english blocked me

00:47:29.040 his popped up constantly and i do think because it's trying to prioritize engagement it will prioritize

00:47:36.000 rage baiting and you know i'm not even against it i actually i actually like the interactions

00:47:40.960 right because it's in the interactions that funny things happen well it is fun yeah exactly right

00:47:45.280 it's fun and it's also interesting getting them to respond something because i mean like the the

00:47:49.200 other day um um mike galsworthy was like well what you know if being british isn't a passport then what

00:47:55.120 is it and it's like that's great i he wouldn't have come out and said that on his own if he wasn't

00:47:59.840 responding to other people on the platform right and so it shows you where their mindset is and so

00:48:04.400 actually it's really useful for the dialectic itself no i agree but they're coming to the

00:48:09.600 conclusion right-wing content was shown most prominently regardless of users political

00:48:13.600 thinking there's algorithmic bias this is one of my favorite graphs in the whole thing because it shows

00:48:19.520 over over versus under representation how much people tweet versus what kind of engagement they

00:48:26.560 get and you can see rupert lowe sits right in the middle of how much you tweet and he gets the most

00:48:32.000 engagement of anybody he does get boosted but also he he's got great social media team who know how

00:48:38.080 to play the game to get engagement i feel bad for george galloway because he is there tweeting like his

00:48:45.520 life he is really hammering that keyboard isn't he like he's going nowhere like more than double

00:48:51.600 almost everybody else the next person is richard tice i just want to be clear richard tice and george

00:48:58.720 galloway both have me blocked good on you good on you so i had no idea that they were tweeting into the

00:49:04.560 void they're they're he they're underrepresented but george galloway tweets almost twice as much

00:49:10.080 as tices and gets slightly less engagement than these other green dots just uh some of these ones

00:49:16.320 let's see nigel garage i mean you would expect the prime minister of the country to get the

00:49:22.160 most engagement or at least diane abbott is over represented who else have we who's this right at

00:49:28.160 the bottom how is rishi sunak over represented why is yeah come on i mean it does look like he tweets

00:49:37.760 more than he gets engagement but that's just my way of reading the graph there but again what i think

00:49:42.960 what they're missing out here is that like you don't have to tweet a lot to get the most engagement

00:49:48.480 if people want to engage with the content they will rupert lowe is speaking to points that are

00:49:53.840 very popular at this particular time because he is hammering home mass deportations and he is hammering

00:50:00.080 home how to actually realize mass deportations george galloway who knows what he's talking about

00:50:08.960 communism evidently nobody really cares nobody really cares one of my favorite things of this

00:50:16.320 was that they uh brought up a few people obviously this is a threat to democracy yeah ed milliband i

00:50:22.160 agree ed milliband wants you to know that it's a threat to democracy ed davies they have a little

00:50:26.320 clip of him here speaking about this if it plays will it play it's all right i saw his tweet where he was

00:50:32.000 he was saying uh basically uh if our opponents get to speak then democracy is in danger so that's

00:50:38.640 very liberal ed oh yes i mean ed very very serious person wants to know how serious a threat that this

00:50:45.680 is because the uh liberal democrats very serious party and he has shown himself to be serious the

00:50:51.680 whole point if my opponents are allowed to speak then democracy is over it's like that no what are you

00:50:56.240 talking about it's just people like won't vote for you that's the end of the world so here's some

00:51:00.400 examples this is what they claim to be extreme left-wing content on here voting for nigel farage

00:51:06.480 because you want things to get better for the working classes like voting for jimmy savile

00:51:09.920 because you want to help kids i'd say that's left wing yeah yeah that's left wing but it's not really

00:51:14.320 extreme there are i mean it's basic it's unfunny but it's not like extremist i would say if they'd

00:51:21.120 got a load of examples of leftist um brits like celebrating the death of charlie kirk which they

00:51:28.160 could have done that would have been extreme i mean that that's the take of somebody who has 247

00:51:32.960 followers yes and this was extreme right-wing content which says the labor party are complicit

00:51:39.040 in the grooming and rape of young white girls that's why they deny a national inquiry where's the lie

00:51:45.680 where's the lie i guess it's just extreme right-wing content harry but there you go that's that shows

00:51:50.240 that sort of bias that we're talking about of the llm that they must have used amusingly they say here

00:51:55.520 that they spoke to a number of ex-twitter employees who definitely were not seething

00:52:00.240 about this saying that uh many think musk's decision to fire eight eighty percent of the

00:52:05.040 twitter staff when he bought the company reduced the quality of content on the platform yes yes of

00:52:10.800 course they were going to say the platform the platform got worse when they fired me

00:52:16.000 says ex-twitter employee what a shock amazing reporting there from you sky news pronouns he him

00:52:23.520 and it goes on to talk about rupert lowe and how much traction he's getting they did actually speak

00:52:28.960 to ben habib so fair play that he was saying that was a good thing and um they go on to say like oh

00:52:35.360 well at least we've got the online safety act and we may be able to regulate this out of uh out of

00:52:40.080 existence now so it's it's just it's just saying that oh people are only becoming more right-wing in

00:52:46.560 the country because of twitter elon musk has gerrymandered the algorithm to make sure it is

00:52:53.920 that way to make sure that they are more right-wing and it's it's nothing else nothing else at all

00:53:00.400 that's a big critique of the um of the thing it's nothing else it's not to do with the daily stabbings

00:53:06.480 not to do with the daily stabbings that are going on it's maybe because we know about the daily

00:53:11.040 stabbings yes well that might be it because as we'll see in a moment the bbc certainly don't like

00:53:15.520 to push or report this sort of stuff in a way that many people see at least one of my favorite

00:53:20.800 things obviously here's a big critique of the actual methodology that they undertook so that he

00:53:26.160 says that uh they were using they were in collaboration with the center for countering

00:53:30.560 digital hate i see all this study so this was less than unbiased this was very biased and that's

00:53:39.120 enough to discredit it in the first place although at the same time again i wouldn't be shocked if it

00:53:44.800 is that the x algorithm is pushing more people to right-wing accounts if only because they are what

00:53:50.160 are getting more traction they're speaking more to the issues that people care about each day rather

00:53:56.160 than leftists who bot likes on their posts so that they can say billionaires want you to hate migrants

00:54:03.200 vote for socialism so you can love migrants who are going and i bet the center for digital hate

00:54:08.960 is funded by the us government a bit of it that hasn't been defunded yet probably probably by

00:54:14.080 the british government one of my favorite responses to it though was this snp np for dundee central

00:54:19.760 saying i'm just at the end of my patience of x it's neither neutral or it's grop at grop app factual

00:54:26.080 whatever that means largely a tool for far right opinions what a sad day uh sad end to the intelligent

00:54:33.120 world that twitter wants inhabiting when it was just me and my friends and uh he went on to say

00:54:40.160 it looks like he's deleted it because uh because he said he said underneath this it was a free speech

00:54:47.920 platform not anymore i mean that that literally summarizes this entire thing elon musk is not that

00:54:53.840 i'm gonna allow both wings of politics to come onto twitter and suddenly it's like oh this is a far

00:54:59.040 right app and actually we had artificially jury rigged the um actually rigged the political discourse

00:55:06.320 and once you take your foot off of the neck of the right on this then they become dominant it's like

00:55:11.280 okay well then there we go that's what you get that's what political discourse is yeah and and in

00:55:15.680 the absence of a platform like this where people are getting exposed to people who are talking about

00:55:21.360 what's actually going on in the country the actual concerns that people have what were they getting

00:55:25.760 from say the bbc well there was this big telegraph article exposing this memo that supposedly plunged

00:55:34.320 the bbc into crisis i'll go over this quickly because i've taken up enough time we are running short

00:55:39.680 time already uh but basically the tele telegraph published an internal dossier um written by former

00:55:45.600 journalist michael prescott who sent it to the bbc board that exposed a string of incidents that

00:55:50.320 demonstrate serious bias in the corporation's reporting and this is includes uh them doctoring

00:55:57.600 for a bbc panorama documentary a speech by donald trump to make it wrongly appear as though he was

00:56:03.360 directly calling for violence on the other day on the 6th of january and uh who until uh and he also

00:56:10.000 points out things like um this was not the end of panorama's distortion of the day's events on january

00:56:15.280 the 6th 2021 so-called proud boys trump supporters marched to capitol hill before trump had started

00:56:20.560 speaking david's report to the egsc the editorial guidelines board highlighted that trump's speech

00:56:26.160 clip was followed by video footage of the proud boys marching towards congress to create the impression

00:56:31.280 that trump supporters had taken up his call to arms that's the bbc a supposedly neutral institution

00:56:37.280 one of the most uh interesting things that i noticed here though was that in the in the big memo if you

00:56:42.560 scroll down far enough there's a part where he talks about the selection bias of push notifications

00:56:48.240 for people using the bbc app and he says that it favored certain stories being sent out to the bbc's

00:56:55.360 push notifications to more than seven million users on the app an internal review of all notifications in

00:57:02.560 september 2023 considered the selection of stories sent out as push notifications compared to stories

00:57:09.200 on um on other other ways that the bbc sends out information the review concluded that it was

00:57:15.360 significant that of 219 notifications just four were about the issues of illegal immigrants and asylum

00:57:22.720 seekers of those three centered on the poor conditions or mistreatment of migrants of course they did

00:57:29.680 so it's not that the bbc the bbc likes to be able to shroud themselves in the cover of neutrality

00:57:36.080 well we do report on these issues yes but you don't push them to your audience in the same way

00:57:42.720 that you do with positive stories about migrants about how they're so mistreated about how you need to

00:57:49.040 be doing more for them because again it's not necessarily what you report it's how you report it

00:57:55.200 and how you push it on people so the bbc has been shown time and time again to have major bias

00:58:01.040 when it's reporting on these things whereas twitter might have the opposite bias but again

00:58:06.240 these are real concerns that people have and are very right to have if this if this is what people

00:58:14.000 can expect to be landing in their neighborhood very very soon the people have the right to know

00:58:20.080 the bbc we're trying to hide that from you so sky news entire investigation is not only

00:58:27.120 methodologically unsound it's also just another attempt for the establishment to try to rein in

00:58:34.320 people's concerns about the things that could get them hurt that could hurt their family and destroy

00:58:39.600 our country that's good some comments sorry i'll fix that um do a proper salute carl um well i'm not

00:58:47.920 going to do any kind of salutes at the moment uh jesus's king says friday dream team hoorah

00:58:53.280 uh frank crisp uh was the most famous lawyer in 19th century london he built fryer park on henley

00:58:58.320 on thames uh and owned owned by later owned by musician george harrison i did not know that i had not

00:59:04.640 heard of him uh moriarty sends us 20 pounds thank you very much and uh they just need to keep the

00:59:10.320 receipts for the new york stuff when it comes to mandani i agree uh right let's carry on okay so um

00:59:17.040 oh do we can we get the uh the tabby tab things up there we go ah you you might be missing a few

00:59:23.840 actually can you have emergency look at the document and load it up because um there's a lot more than

00:59:28.400 that technical difficulties ladies and gentlemen it'll be he'll be with us in a minute while he's

00:59:33.440 doing that let's uh stick it stick it stickers with the first one at least because i can put that on

00:59:36.960 that's a bit of video um yeah right there you go any any second here we go here we go load the rest

00:59:45.680 in the background it's almost the first one never mind right i'll work around it um so it's fairly

00:59:51.520 obvious sorry harry i think he means the everything is worst link yes the number one yeah there you go

00:59:59.280 just so that we can set up the second i can waffle on with that while we while you're loading the rest of

01:00:04.640 the background there we go there we go so it's it's fairly obvious to everybody that things are

01:00:09.920 getting worse and politics is basically geared up to stop you from trying to improve it or even to

01:00:16.800 notice that there's anything wrong in the first place yeah um this will this is what inspired me to

01:00:22.240 to take a look at this uh this topic this was a sort of heartbreaking heartfelt um interview with

01:00:27.920 the world war ii soldier um as we come up to remembrance sunday and and it's worth just playing

01:00:33.440 the first sort of whatever it is uh i know where we get to the first minute or so of this what does

01:00:40.480 remembrance sunday mean for you what is your message my message is i can see in my mind's eye there was

01:00:50.320 rows and rows of white stones of all the hundreds of my friends and everybody else that gave their lives for

01:00:58.800 what a country of today no i'm sorry but the sacrifice wasn't worth the result that it is now

01:01:10.720 oh well i'm sorry what what do you what do you mean by that though there we go straight in there

01:01:17.200 adele rey there's an interesting story that constantin kissin tells about a little ray um because

01:01:22.320 he a few years ago he was the only sort of um non-leftist on a panel on good morning britain

01:01:30.240 talking about english identity and adele rey apparently after they finished the panel came

01:01:36.880 off the stage and said to him wasn't it great that we didn't have any white british people on

01:01:41.200 and constantin was just like why would you say that and i mean he didn't say that to him but he was just

01:01:47.360 shocked uh and so adele rey seems to be like just knowingly subversive yes but i mean he's

01:01:55.520 everybody knows what that old boy is talking about oh yeah everybody knows and straight away what do

01:01:59.840 you mean by that yeah but no it's the woman next to him so i'm sorry to hear that you don't care you

01:02:04.800 know this guy's heartbroken over this but his friends died for the integrity of the country and look

01:02:09.440 at the state of it yeah and look it's it's it's perfectly obvious uh what is going on and you

01:02:17.600 know as frazz says here we literally have a fix everything button uh that nobody wants to use now

01:02:24.080 this is a meme that i'm sure um well everybody has probably seen at this point or you will be seeing

01:02:29.280 more a lot of people are are mentioning the fix everything button and the idea is basically this

01:02:35.520 there is a button and if you press it you fix everything but the entire narrative is don't

01:02:42.560 press the button you know you can't press the switch there is no switch yeah uh people say you

01:02:48.240 shouldn't press the switch and maybe don't it isn't as easy but you know the thing i read all of this

01:02:53.040 in michael gove's voice it's simply not possible to press the switch but what happens if you actually

01:03:00.480 did i mean we might fix everything well yes but what what does the switch do and can you just press

01:03:06.880 it there are going to be screeches about human rights the global south isn't going to be happy

01:03:12.160 yeah but add a rail cry yeah but now you didn't now you're doing the bit around the edge you can do it

01:03:17.040 there's going to be a lot of foreign nationals who are nationalists for their own country who are going

01:03:22.240 to be very upset they're going to be sent back to their own countries yes but what does the button

01:03:26.960 actually do so when i'm and and i'll i'll try and keep an eye on the um on the comments scrolling

01:03:32.720 past and uh chaps chip in as well but there's there's a number of things that it that it could

01:03:37.920 actually do and i've got a little list and please do everybody add on to it well it's going to raise

01:03:44.000 people's wages it's going to make the streets safer it's going to make houses cheaper it's going

01:03:48.000 to make politics centered back on the white british population of the country right uh it's going to

01:03:53.840 make schools easier to access for your children it's going to roads are going to be less busy

01:03:59.360 nhs appointments are going to be actually uh possible now you're not going to be sat dying

01:04:04.240 of cancer on a waiting list um there there are just i mean it's almost infinite you you you're

01:04:10.320 saying a load of you're saying that it doesn't mean migration might throw themselves out of windows

01:04:13.840 though yes that's true it'll probably but the thing is i reckon it'd improve the gdp i'm not even

01:04:18.960 certainly and it will at least improve gdp per capita um yes so you're you're saying it does

01:04:25.920 read migration uh there's a lot of things that pressing the switch does yes that is one of them

01:04:31.680 that's one of them i mean i i've actually got very first thing on my list is um the most obvious one

01:04:37.920 for me is you just execute violent criminals yep you just do it yep the streets become safer the

01:04:44.480 prisons population goes down like the money we spend on all of this goes down yeah i mean i

01:04:51.440 quite like el salvador i mean they didn't they didn't literally execute everybody but they did

01:04:55.040 the next best thing put them in a cell forever well they found everybody that had the i am a criminal

01:05:01.040 tattoos yes i am literally a rapist murderer tattooed on them and then they put them in prison

01:05:06.640 to which the rate plummeted for some reason yeah to which for some reason all of the left started weeping

01:05:12.800 yeah i mean i thought it was quite soft too i would have gone further but you know fair enough as long

01:05:17.600 as the problem's solved and um oh there we go yeah oh look at that they they pressed the fix everything

01:05:25.440 button and it fixed everything el salvador went from the most obscenely sort of um crime ridden

01:05:34.000 environment most dangerous place on earth to one of the safest over 100 homicides per 100 000 people

01:05:41.040 in what's that 2015 yeah that's mad isn't it it's just mad you don't have a country you don't have

01:05:47.520 a country when that's happened you haven't and like an open fortnite server and that's what you

01:05:52.160 yeah yeah it literally it's a pvp so right because i mean like there were stories of them just kicking

01:05:56.800 around heads in the street and stuff like you're like oh my god oh it's terrifying stuff it's like if

01:06:01.440 if one of the if one of the gang members decided they like the look of your daughter or girlfriend

01:06:06.000 they just take them and then what are you going to do i mean i suppose the correct answer is try

01:06:11.440 and get her back but then you will be killed and then your family won't have a provider yeah and

01:06:16.160 naib bukele was the one maverick the only man with the vision to say let's not do that i'm gonna press

01:06:23.040 the switch guys yeah he pressed it and and i remember beforehand there was these you get these sort of

01:06:29.040 documentaries and these ngos and stuff who were basically doing the they were doing the meme they were

01:06:33.520 like you know it's impossible to fix sociologists don't understand why crime is so bad in el salvador

01:06:38.560 we know it's complicated we know there's no easy fix well that that's something else the uh fix

01:06:43.840 everything switch would actually do as well which would make a lot of ngo employees unemployed and

01:06:49.840 probably put them in prison as well to be honest for facilitating all of this so all the lefty lawyers

01:06:55.840 and the judges they'd be out of work they're literally their jobs would evaporate if you just

01:07:00.240 press the fix everything switch it would you get you get rid of all the legislation that allows them

01:07:05.040 to keep murderers and rapists in the country and then the whole thing just evaporates one easy button

01:07:11.680 um the next thing i've got is um i've decided to go for energy on this one um so for me the next thing

01:07:20.320 it does is we just start building nuclear power stations yep or use coal until the nuclear is online

01:07:25.760 yes and gas yeah the shale so yeah that's another great point uh the energy prices go down by a lot

01:07:31.680 so that's prosperity for britain so if you're you're a business you need cheap energy costs there's no

01:07:36.320 cheap there's no prosperity without cheap energy so suddenly the british economy starts rocketing up

01:07:41.920 and i imagine you could get rid of a bunch of regulations with it as well so it's just like okay well

01:07:46.800 we could all get richer like i said the gdp will go up any other suggestions or you're doing my third

01:07:52.320 well my third was actually the way you started which would be migration yeah and then the world

01:07:56.560 just gets a lot better and more pleasant just the weather probably gets better

01:08:04.240 if we start pumping more and more coal into the sky and we and we actually cause climate change the

01:08:10.080 weather will get warmer i don't know we've got to be against that on youtube oh and and just following

01:08:14.400 the logic crew oh you've just you've just you've just given a youtube well i was i was i was gonna say

01:08:19.680 um okay how can i say it without adopt the saudi arabian approach to border security oh yeah yeah i

01:08:28.240 mean i think that's a respectable way of doing things because actually you you can just

01:08:36.080 you can fix it yes you can just make things happen i mean what i mean why why can't we just have

01:08:43.280 the navy in the english channel who sort of arrive with their foghorns

01:08:47.920 defending the coastline get out the loud hailer and say turn around and go back again fire a warning

01:08:54.640 shot and then if they don't well sink them then just or else yes how many boats do you think you'd

01:09:01.280 actually need to sink not many yes i mean it's literally going to be like with the somali pirates

01:09:07.200 you sink one or two of their boats and that's it they never come again yes it's done done um

01:09:14.000 high bar on people coming in so basically get rid of the low skill stuff yeah do all of that all the

01:09:21.040 dependents no you can stay in your own countries and be dependents there button button is firmly

01:09:25.840 pressed um imagine how much money the taxpayer is going to save on the benefit culture alone

01:09:31.120 when we just don't allow foreigners to claim benefits again just there's one button that fixes

01:09:36.800 everything about this country your taxes plummets we were having this conversation in the office

01:09:42.400 yesterday i mean my thinking would be you know if you don't have at least one british grandparent

01:09:47.760 native british grandparent you're not getting you're not getting welfare yeah

01:09:52.480 right and and and that i think is actually a genuinely a sensible middle of the road type policy

01:09:58.400 and i even know you know a handful of immigrants and they wouldn't have a problem with that because

01:10:01.920 they're like well we got i've got a job yeah and you could even make if you rack up 25 years of

01:10:06.560 national insurance contributions okay you can get a pension then but you need to have done something

01:10:10.320 but it would cut out basically millions of them yep and so millions of people just go home on their

01:10:15.920 own accord oh i can't just suckle at the teat of the british taxpayer anymore i'm not going to stay here

01:10:20.800 then and so we have to pay out hardly any money everything gets cheaper you get paid more

01:10:26.160 suddenly it looks like the country has a future number four i thought um scrap welfare restore

01:10:34.320 workhouses i think that goes turn to dickens yes i think it goes a bit beyond just pressing the

01:10:41.520 button there though really yeah yeah because you've got to innovate a whole slew of new things now i think

01:10:46.800 i think the i suppose if you're going to say that we can't just innovate things there needs to be an

01:10:52.640 anti-progressive education curriculum sure would that be part of the fix everything button just

01:10:58.160 remove all of no no that's a long-term thing right yeah these are long-term solutions but like if you

01:11:02.880 just press the fix everything button then instantly stuff would just change i mean don't get wrong we'd

01:11:07.600 want to go further and do a lot of other things but i think just what we've listed so far would be

01:11:13.280 just such a massive improvement to the country yes you wouldn't notice the country the country wouldn't

01:11:18.320 be falling apart it would obviously scrap any and all subsidies towards foreigners starting

01:11:23.280 businesses and the bbc did that report um on the mini marts the foreign mini marts all being fronts

01:11:30.160 for illegal activity which we already knew uh so where do they get the money for that well part of

01:11:35.360 it is council subsidies that just gets thrown out immediately just and deported the people who are

01:11:40.640 committing the crimes because they've committed a crime therefore they get deported everything's fixed

01:11:44.960 easily i i don't think building a few work houses is that difficult i'm not saying it's that

01:11:50.800 difficult what i'm saying is it's a bit outside of the scope of just pressing the button well okay

01:11:56.160 okay so fine the the so so this is a purely negative we get rid of things yeah we just stop doing things

01:12:02.800 that we're doing all right yeah you could just press that but it takes it takes effort to do everything

01:12:06.960 that's destroying yeah it's a lot of work you can turn the welfare button off surely yeah but that's

01:12:11.120 exactly my point that's the thing we just turn that off turn that off turn don't allow

01:12:14.880 new people that don't allow dependence in don't allow this don't allow that and suddenly everything

01:12:19.040 gets better um you you might push back on my fifth one then which was um flat taxes i mean i'm happy to

01:12:28.320 have conversations about it i just want taxes reduced generally yes i mean i'll give you a fair as part of

01:12:33.920 this when we already said get rid of net zero we did say like uh use coal and nuclear power so that is

01:12:39.440 also thinking thinking into the future oh sure well i'll give you an example when i was when i was

01:12:44.560 working in finance we had one of our lawyers he did he did the tax and i went into his office which

01:12:49.840 was a fair size office and he's got these these bookshelves and um i noticed that they were all in

01:12:55.760 the same format and i said to him you know what are all these books so it's it's oh it's one book it's

01:13:01.040 just multiple different that's the tax law jesus and and i was like really all of that and he says oh no

01:13:06.800 it's worse than that he pointed over there and there were these stacks of cardboard boxes also

01:13:12.160 full of tax law yes and and he wasn't duplicating that was and he just those ones in the boxes the

01:13:18.080 ones that he didn't use often enough to take them out the box that is the current tax law situation

01:13:23.200 i i've got a new tax law that could help all of our problems or at least many of the problems

01:13:28.720 which is no tax for english 100 tax for foreigners seriously though like like i hate paying tax and

01:13:39.360 it's obviously byzantine in its application so just streamlining it would be way easier

01:13:46.160 we need a single page tax law yeah yeah it's a ron paul tax law and if we didn't have to pay

01:13:52.240 unbelievable amounts of money to foreigners and all these other things then we could afford it

01:13:55.840 yeah pick a number whatever it is 20 yeah that's how much you pay and then scrap all the rest of it

01:14:02.000 so wouldn't we scrap vat yeah on everything well i mean i mean you could you could say okay we're

01:14:08.080 going to have a vat rate of 20 an income and a capital gains rate of 20 or whatever but just keep

01:14:13.600 it nice and simple as long as it fits on one page you scrap all of the subsidies nobody needs an accountant

01:14:19.280 anymore so for example i mean i've got a small business which i invoice this place for

01:14:23.360 i need i need a an accountant i can't function without it everybody does imagine imagine a world

01:14:31.120 where you didn't need all of this yes yes and the thing is if it was just a predictable 20 at least

01:14:36.320 okay well at least i know what's happening yeah you know i might not be happy with it but at least i

01:14:39.920 know it's still far too high for me i agree but you know what was it the americans were revolting over

01:14:45.600 slightly two percent on tea all right to be two point five percent tax there you go yes yes that's

01:14:52.560 fair enough um number six um i did a brokonomics on this just the other week it's the last one that

01:14:58.080 came out this whole democracy thing i'm going a bit sour on it so i looked at some options and

01:15:02.640 ultimately what i came to was actually probably democracy can work but the franchise needs to get

01:15:09.600 considerably restricted net taxpayers well i i was thinking you you i i quite like the um was it the

01:15:17.440 starship troopers the distinction between a citizen and a civilian and you earn your citizen status and

01:15:23.040 then you can vote so i quite like that i think the does this immediately mean like conscription or no

01:15:31.280 no i think you could you could adapt it to a modern environment so you'd say look if you've had uh

01:15:37.600 i know 10 years net tax contributions you you get the franchise you get to vote and so anyone is

01:15:44.080 just sat there going well yeah i've paid taxes net taxes for 10 years great i get to vote and those

01:15:48.560 people are like oh i don't because i'm a parasite oh boohoo well too bad parasite yeah i mean i was

01:15:55.520 thinking something like a few years ago it didn't necessarily have to be military i mean it could be

01:15:59.920 a whole bunch of different functions you could look at it just through tax contributions and then

01:16:03.920 you've got all the information you need it's all there and you could just do it tomorrow

01:16:07.280 yes the other one i should raise and uh might get a little mile just on on this one as well

01:16:13.600 kia starmer remember he's like i'm going to lower the voting age 16 it's all right so we're allowed

01:16:16.960 to mess around yes with who has the franchise we're allowed to do so we can't just take it away from

01:16:20.560 women if we want so we can just you know when we get the base right when government it's like

01:16:23.920 all right no if you've ever claimed benefits you're never voting yes we could do that if we wanted

01:16:27.920 because kia starmer could just lower it to 16 year olds arbitrarily right so this is totally fine

01:16:31.920 should women vote is that is that on the button i mean to be fair i think it's more palatable to

01:16:39.120 people if it's on actual service as in if a woman has worked for 50 years and paid lots of tax yeah

01:16:43.920 okay i think she should you know because she's worked and paid next tax but you know english

01:16:48.720 women i don't mind voting i think the whole idea of the um the evil white woman voting for everything

01:16:54.880 progressive is a bit overblown it it is a bit government there was another and it and it isn't

01:17:00.160 just it's basically just a way to demonize white women which i don't like but government employees

01:17:04.720 shouldn't be able to vote i think if you work for the government if you if you are employed by the

01:17:08.320 state you shouldn't be allowed to vote well that that was my my seventh idea and i think possibly the

01:17:13.600 best one which is um sort of reinvigorate a culture of national service so rather than having a huge

01:17:20.560 state you know we got that flat tax what if we said okay well it's 30 percent if you contribute

01:17:27.040 and it's it's 20 if you give a day a week to the state in some way or other and that could be military

01:17:33.440 reserves it could be um as a deputy for the police it could be as a teacher so for example you know we

01:17:39.280 got beau here he could have a lower tax rate if he spent a day a week teaching at the local school

01:17:44.800 you know you could be teaching philosophy um you know the amount of

01:17:51.120 low-grade public sector volume that could be removed and simply replaced with you know

01:17:58.880 people doing a contribution and having a positive feedback to the system that they're in i mean

01:18:05.280 this is what you're also suggesting is is contributing back to your local community

01:18:09.200 as well that builds relationships have a community back yeah this is a great idea but i think it's a bit

01:18:13.840 beyond the scope of the fix it everything easily switch okay well i was padding it out because the

01:18:18.480 first three were so strong that i don't there wasn't really much discussion to be had on them

01:18:23.680 well obviously obviously obviously obviously yes we're right so so we agreed we we should actually

01:18:29.280 just press the button i mean you know there's going to be a lot of objections it's quite terrifying

01:18:34.160 that you'd even think about it but uh i am thinking about it as with as with everything my biggest

01:18:39.280 question with this is um what does the cia think yes it was quite possibly because sadly they're going

01:18:46.960 to be the ones who have um a big disagreement with the fix everything button because the cia

01:18:52.160 likes breaking things well that was wildly uncontroversial uh we're going to press the

01:18:56.640 button okay let's have a look at the video comments then um dreadnought logan by the way says i've

01:19:02.400 been watching the rest of this politics i've never seen such a group of people more delusional with the

01:19:06.560 worst advice yeah i mean this is a perennial thing that rory stewart what's the kramer the financial

01:19:13.760 analyst where everything jim kramer yeah rory stewart has become a kind of political jim kramer

01:19:19.760 uh where it's just whatever the opposite of what he predicted was is is coming to pass oh yes i saw

01:19:26.320 i thought i'd heard that kramer name they've got the uh anti inverse kramer which does better than

01:19:32.640 pelosi yes incredible and honestly if you look at rory stewart's predictions for the last like three

01:19:38.720 years everything was the opposite of what he predicted so if you just had been no trump's

01:19:44.640 going to win this is going to happen blah blah you know they'll there'll be a peace settlement in the

01:19:48.400 middle east gaza will sign up to this thing like rory stewart no none of that's going to happen all

01:19:52.080 of it happened it's like that's incredible it's genuinely incredible how one man can be so wrong

01:19:56.960 but it's because of the echo chamber that they find themselves in but anyway let's go to the video

01:20:01.120 comments there are loads today christian's pilgrimage is successful despite significant

01:20:09.520 challenges missteps and battles in the second part of bunyan's tale christian's wife christiana and

01:20:14.800 their four children set out to follow in his footsteps the tale magnifies the first part and describes more

01:20:20.240 fully the pitfalls and brutes besetting the pilgrims slaying the villains and erecting signs to follow the

01:20:25.280 right path should travelers accept the righteous advice i stand in for worldly pleasures madame bubble

01:20:30.960 is an interesting analogy for feminism in our modern age the tale also provides hope to those

01:20:36.080 who are not completely virtuous but would still follow the pilgrims path i think this is out of

01:20:41.520 order um but let's go for another that was three of four sir yeah oh yeah yeah yeah you played as

01:20:49.040 two first harry yeah and now you're about to play as three maybe the american wizard of oz tale is a

01:20:54.720 tawdry and somewhat shocking corruption of the pilgrims progress what's clear from his book is

01:20:59.520 that bunyan was keen to promote the protestant idea of salvation through faith alone unfortunately this

01:21:05.040 is a concept that catholics cannot comprehend it's not that faith is the only way to achieve salvation

01:21:10.800 but that one can only turn to the path of salvation through faith alone if you embark on the path without

01:21:16.000 certain prerequisites or thinking you can do it from first principles by yourself then you're likely to go

01:21:21.040 horribly wrong can we go for mcleod's one next please quite aside from the point that he's making

01:21:27.520 i do like his voice it's very soothing oh yeah if ever i'm on a ship or a plane that's going to crash

01:21:33.360 i want captain to have that voice because i think i'll be kind of okay with it i say when we uh

01:21:39.040 we when me and my wife went to Italy we got on one of the planes and a woman's voice came through

01:21:44.160 the intercom saying this is your captain and my wife was like oh my god i was like yeah well

01:21:50.560 this is shanik was she wasn't uh car we need to get off the plane let's go to the next one

01:22:01.120 so here's a bit of history so isis took a lot of influence uh from the mexican cartel execution videos

01:22:06.960 because there was a lot of internet traffic that was coming from from the middle east

01:22:10.880 towards the various narco blogs that were all there most infamous was a father and son that

01:22:15.600 were executed by a chainsaw so i wouldn't look that up if i were you uh also um mexico was also like

01:22:22.560 uh the big influence on how modern warfare was um done today with drones because they were using it

01:22:27.840 in various assassinations so this goes a wild place yeah it's mental like i i i honestly it's

01:22:35.200 genuinely horrific so whenever anyone's like oh we shouldn't do anything about the cartels like no

01:22:39.520 they really should yeah i i know people who've gone on holiday to mexico before and i just go why

01:22:46.000 well there are tourist areas that obviously are left alone still cancun is lovely and still though

01:22:51.360 still but yeah there are areas in mexico that are just not under the control of the government

01:22:55.760 so when they're like oh what our sovereignty you don't have something anyway let's go to the next one

01:22:59.440 what well well well well this comes as no surprise to anyone that lives in new york new york city has

01:23:11.680 once again proven that not only has it completely forgotten 9-11 but it is at this point buried it and

01:23:18.960 built a mosque over it yes they elected the communist luckily now we'll see cyberpunk in real life

01:23:33.280 now that's way that's way too optimistic uh what you're gonna see is a modern version of the soviet

01:23:39.120 union the rich are gonna flee the people who can't flee are gonna be stuck there and everything's gonna

01:23:44.720 get really worse but honestly like i said i i'm kind of for it you know i want them to have this

01:23:48.960 terrible example to have to nail their colors to because at the moment they're currently oh yeah

01:23:53.200 mam dunny he's amazing you know zach polanski's like yes this is it everyone's like yeah this is

01:23:57.360 our guy it's like superb well i think if i think if new york turns into a giant favela which it will

01:24:04.000 which it will all of the people who are going to stay there are going to be perfectly happy with it

01:24:08.640 because it's their like when you say that their way of life they forgot 9-11 well no maybe it's the fact

01:24:13.840 that the people who moved to new york over since 9-11 were all not so upset about it so like it's

01:24:19.600 then it's their natural way of life to cram themselves into tiny dirty disgusting assholes

01:24:26.080 you remember the videos of them cooking rats on the street and stuff like that yeah

01:24:29.440 that's like that was a joke in like demolition man or whatever

01:24:32.640 but it's really happened anyway let's let's go to the next one

01:24:43.840 basically yes uh let's go to samson i thought i have an idea who this is

01:25:00.640 oh

01:25:27.680 so our producer sam says currently on holiday because he's traveled to japan

01:25:44.560 i am very very jealous i hope you have a very nice time yeah i hope he has a great time

01:25:50.080 at least he got his visa let's go to the next one

01:25:57.680 i appreciate the sentiment but it wasn't particularly blackpilling today i think

01:26:11.360 no today was quite great yeah i'll still take some cats yeah

01:26:15.200 you can you can understand why people would be like oh god it might be bad news on the podcast

01:26:28.640 you know because when he's recorded this would be fair 90 of the time it is so yeah exactly

01:26:33.920 that's it hey again lotus eaters i'm at binchester roman fort now this in front of you is the best

01:26:43.040 preserved roman bath house in all of britain so this is the warm room specifically and this

01:26:50.400 all in front of you is all original roman concrete and what we have here is the hyper course system

01:26:57.360 the way in which the entire structure would have been heated up and just through here you can see

01:27:04.400 how it will work yep this is uh well well known because there are loads and loads of roman ruins

01:27:12.080 like i went to sicily see some roman ruins you see the uh ruins of a hyper course there where

01:27:16.560 it's literally just like you know a floor that's stacked up and then what they do is uh pump hot air

01:27:22.240 into the uh under the floor and so the floor is nice and hot obviously they get slaves to do this

01:27:27.200 uh and then they have you know uh basically a sauna um that's all really beautifully heated it would

01:27:33.520 have been fun to be there yeah it would have been great uh all right uh lancelot says two out

01:27:37.920 three lotus eaters are afraid of their wives probably i respect my wife thank you very much

01:27:44.400 sophie says let me spill the beans about us women we will mentally compare ourselves to other women

01:27:49.200 all the time and become both petty and insecure when another woman in the room is clearly more

01:27:53.360 desirable than us feminists say this is because of patriarchy but i'm telling you we are biologically

01:27:58.080 engineered like this and have to deal with it as individuals when a woman says we need more women

01:28:02.800 in hollywood what she actually means is i need to be in hollywood i demand you hire me it's a very

01:28:07.280 sneaky way to play the victim and try and trying to get a job that can also give you extra prestige

01:28:12.000 so yes insecure women hate secure women and hate women who are more successful than them there's

01:28:16.240 no sisterhood it's a lie you know that's that's really interesting because i find that men tend to

01:28:20.800 like secure men i i actually you know like the insecure men um generally tend to kind of like

01:28:27.920 you know gravitate around the secure men i'll tell you what it is it's the skinny guy going to the

01:28:34.160 gym yeah for the first time being insecure and then discovering that the big buff chad is actually more

01:28:40.880 than happy to help him yeah i've heard loads of your guy wants to bring the the other guys up because

01:28:47.280 it is the brotherhood it's the war band you want to be surrounded by equals this guy's lagging let's

01:28:53.600 help him we're not going to leave him behind well because because the hunting group wants the the

01:28:58.960 worst hunter to come up yeah yeah and there is there is a genuine brotherhood as well and this this was

01:29:05.040 what nora vincent found in her book isn't it where she was like all right actually men actually feel

01:29:10.240 like they're on their own all the time so men treat each other quite well uh unlike women who are

01:29:15.440 feel that well and also she found out how women treat men oh exactly yeah and obviously to check

01:29:20.640 herself into a mental asylum as a woman she knew how women treated women and yeah it was like a

01:29:25.040 look into a lovecraftian horror for yes so it's just yeah jimbo says uh isn't it amazing just how

01:29:30.880 many people are being radicalized and isn't it amazing just how radicalized how radicalization

01:29:35.200 seems to be just saying no to middle class women uh yeah yeah uh russian says the sydney interviewer

01:29:40.480 is doing the same facial expressions as the adolescent psychologist god i'm seeing tired of seeing

01:29:44.960 this in real life media yeah it's it's incredible it's actually incredible uh someone online says from

01:29:50.240 the way the interviewer talked to sydney was so disgusting i can't stand that wheedling attempt

01:29:54.720 to drag something from her and if a spurg picked up on it you know sydney who is normal definitely

01:29:58.880 did uh well sydney seemed to be in like genuine combat mode like this the sort of face you'd expect

01:30:04.640 of someone who knows they're in a fight so uh it was great um roman observer are you upset about

01:30:09.840 about the billionaires no i have great tits

01:30:16.240 it's so good i genuinely it's the such a great way to end the week uh arizona desert rat says the

01:30:22.880 interviewer is asking closed questions but sydney is given open up giving open answers this lady

01:30:27.360 doesn't know what she's trying to go up against uh yeah it's it's so so good unfortunately we're

01:30:32.400 running out of time so i'm gonna have to move on um kevin says the latest stats released about

01:30:37.680 prevents save uh savored right-wing street uh savored right-wing extremism than islamic extremism

01:30:43.600 maybe that's because to be reported to prevent as an islamic extremist you have to be seen the

01:30:47.600 suicide vest yeah exactly um omar says if the leftist talking points weren't interesting they

01:30:52.960 wouldn't have to come crawl back to blue sky leftist knows no leftist talking points and they hate it

01:30:58.480 i think it's more about being in the thunderdome i think everyone likes to be engaging with the

01:31:03.600 opposition you know the the idea that the opposition is going to be provoked by what

01:31:07.280 you've said or something they like the humiliation of getting ratioed but they think they're owning

01:31:12.880 the chuds as well so you know uh ben says if you sign up as a volunteer member of the british

01:31:17.760 defense league and rack up 100 deportations can you get an extra vote well that's a great question

01:31:21.920 dan we're gonna need to know we need an answer to that one to be honest yes service brings whatever

01:31:26.880 is citizenship that's correct um and uh henry says uh something i think definitely needs to be

01:31:33.840 addressed is the uh what is something i think definitely needs to be added to the fix everything

01:31:38.960 button is simplifying planning laws for infrastructure projects my god that's so true yeah and that's

01:31:43.920 that literally just almost just repeal almost all of it just so we can build some stuff because it is

01:31:49.680 genuinely absurd how laden we are with well quite possibly to keep on the theme it's you just delete all

01:31:56.400 laws since 1997 yeah and there's that that was what harrison was talking about not only the great

01:32:03.600 repeal it's not like the country was a hellscape before 1997 is it there was also there was also

01:32:08.480 that that whole great clarification bill you're saying but that's only to make sure they can't

01:32:13.440 maliciously interpret the great repeal bill i like that if we just go back to the laws we had in 1996

01:32:20.960 how would the country be worse right parliamentary sovereignty theoretically you could literally

01:32:26.000 repeal every law since 1688 that's true return to the glorious revolution and then spend half sorry

01:32:32.560 catholic viewers yeah and then spend half a morning putting back all the stuff you need yeah yeah sorry

01:32:37.920 catholic there might be something about the internet or something like that you actually do want but

01:32:41.920 anyway on that note we're out of time so half an hour lads out we're going to be doing uh who would

01:32:46.880 you choose between what is it something like 5 000 cavemen and um every time there's a step up in

01:32:54.080 military tech right the number of units goes down so you start with 5 000 cavemen and you end up with

01:32:59.680 seven delta force could seven delta force take out 5 000 cavemen i don't think well join us in half an

01:33:05.280 half an hour to find out

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