The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1339

00:00:00.040 Hello and welcome to the podcast of The Load Seaters, episode 1339 for Friday, the 23rd of January, 2026.

00:00:09.480 I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Brother Stelios.

00:00:12.800 Hello.

00:00:13.160 And Brother Nick.

00:00:14.060 Hello.

00:00:14.400 Thank you for joining us, brother.

00:00:15.680 No worries.

00:00:16.320 And today we're going to be talking all about how our replacement can no longer be ignored.

00:00:22.540 We're then going to be talking about the mission to restore the arts,

00:00:26.040 and then we're going to be finishing off your Friday ushering in the weekend with the beauty of Euromaxing,

00:00:33.360 which I'm really looking forward to.

00:00:35.700 So, I suppose with all that said, shall we make a start?

00:00:39.700 Do I have to do Islander first?

00:00:41.100 It's all right.

00:00:41.740 Well, all right.

00:00:42.560 Then I'll just...

00:00:43.120 Because it was on the screen.

00:00:44.060 I was like, when I say have to, I mean we want to, because it's so brilliant.

00:00:47.980 Well, it is brilliant.

00:00:49.320 That's what I meant.

00:00:49.800 And it has an exclusive interview with Rupert Lowe.

00:00:51.780 Yeah, there is.

00:00:52.340 Well, you've already...

00:00:53.160 I'll tell you what, I think you're doing the shit, aren't you?

00:00:55.200 Yeah, Islander.

00:00:56.780 Which number is it?

00:00:57.980 Number five.

00:00:58.780 Islander five.

00:00:59.700 Yes.

00:01:00.160 An exclusive interview with Rupert Lowe.

00:01:01.940 It's got...

00:01:02.720 What else has it got?

00:01:03.800 Any of you guys in it?

00:01:04.640 AA, Morgoth, me, Carl.

00:01:05.780 Oh, wow.

00:01:06.700 Nima's in it, so we've got the left represented.

00:01:09.120 Wild Stocks last, guys.

00:01:10.360 Yeah.

00:01:10.480 LotusEaters.com.

00:01:12.200 Slick.

00:01:13.280 Magnificent.

00:01:13.800 All right.

00:01:14.280 Okay.

00:01:14.780 Carl makes that look easy.

00:01:16.140 It's not.

00:01:16.660 It's quite hard.

00:01:17.480 Okay, do you want me to start my bit?

00:01:19.280 Yeah, sure.

00:01:19.800 Go on.

00:01:19.980 So, I've just been informed, everyone,

00:01:21.700 that I can't say any of the words in my bit,

00:01:23.840 because they're all banned on YouTube.

00:01:25.600 So, it's going to be interesting.

00:01:26.560 But luckily, I'm trained, Ofcom trained,

00:01:28.940 so I'm used to not saying words.

00:01:30.920 So, I'm going to try and go through this whole...

00:01:32.460 I can't even say the title of it,

00:01:34.080 but let's just call it demographic change

00:01:36.020 is a pressing issue that can no longer be ignored.

00:01:38.660 And it's gone mainstream.

00:01:39.900 I know you all know this stuff here at LotusEaters,

00:01:42.520 but we've got the richest man in the world

00:01:44.640 and one of the most popular broadcasters in the world

00:01:46.580 constantly talking about this every day now.

00:01:49.280 So, it's like, the only choices you have

00:01:52.600 are to lie and say that it's not happening

00:01:56.180 when it so clearly is.

00:01:57.500 Yeah, when people are living in towns and cities

00:01:59.920 across the United Kingdom

00:02:01.420 where it's visibly the case that it is.

00:02:03.500 Yeah, and these massive broadcasters are covering it.

00:02:05.940 Or you can say it's a good thing or an indifferent thing.

00:02:09.860 Those are basically your choices.

00:02:12.060 Or the choice that I'm going for,

00:02:13.480 which is to say,

00:02:14.640 I'm not sure about this.

00:02:16.340 Maybe it's not great for people

00:02:17.940 to sort of gradually be

00:02:19.700 a word that sounds like begins with art.

00:02:23.520 This is impossible.

00:02:24.980 This has been rendered absolutely impossible to say.

00:02:26.840 But anyway, maybe it's not a great thing

00:02:28.060 when, you know,

00:02:28.640 because you generally don't want people to die out, do you?

00:02:31.760 Anyway, so look at these from,

00:02:34.000 someone has quoted Tucker here, this video,

00:02:36.560 and they've got the figures from the video,

00:02:37.860 so we don't need to watch it.

00:02:38.600 But it's truly astonishing figures.

00:02:39.920 This should be a big warning for Europe.

00:02:41.440 USA in 1950 versus now.

00:02:43.800 New York, 90% white.

00:02:45.860 Now 30%.

00:02:46.900 LA, 94%.

00:02:47.940 Now 37%.

00:02:49.180 Detroit, 84%.

00:02:50.340 Now 10%.

00:02:51.220 Chicago, 86%.

00:02:52.260 Now 29%.

00:02:53.000 Philadelphia, 80%.

00:02:53.960 Now 36%.

00:02:54.960 Baltimore, 76%.

00:02:56.020 Now 27%.

00:02:56.720 That's comparing to 1950.

00:02:58.220 Very stark figures.

00:02:59.960 Hard to deny.

00:03:00.660 You just see all that old footage, don't you,

00:03:03.420 of New York, you know,

00:03:04.460 and the grand skyscrapers going up

00:03:06.540 towards the beginning of the 20th century.

00:03:08.680 And, you know,

00:03:09.360 those, you know,

00:03:10.640 white working class labourers

00:03:12.080 who were there sitting on the scaffolding

00:03:14.260 and everything, just risking that

00:03:16.080 to obviously, you know,

00:03:17.520 help build their civilisation.

00:03:19.540 And then fast forward 100 years later,

00:03:22.980 you've got this random, like,

00:03:25.200 Indian, African, like, Muslim guy

00:03:27.280 saying, oh, it was all built by immigrants, actually.

00:03:29.520 The whites had very little to do with it.

00:03:31.520 It's just the deepest insult.

00:03:33.960 It's a little rude, isn't it?

00:03:34.940 It's a little rude.

00:03:36.120 It's just bad manners, ladies and gentlemen.

00:03:38.240 And so we've got Tucker talking about it here.

00:03:41.120 Now, he says armed enforcers

00:03:43.580 of the thing we can't say,

00:03:45.060 swarm ICE officers in Minneapolis.

00:03:47.540 So he was saying that the ICE officers

00:03:49.740 are just trying to sort immigration

00:03:50.920 and you're stopping them.

00:03:52.220 So therefore, you're part of the enforcement

00:03:54.120 of this trend that's happening

00:03:55.280 in demographic change.

00:03:56.460 And he does a whole 90-minute piece on it,

00:03:58.520 which I've watched,

00:03:59.100 and we obviously can't go through much of it.

00:04:00.760 But the gist is,

00:04:02.620 this has happened throughout history.

00:04:04.340 Certain peoples have diminished

00:04:06.260 at the hands of other peoples

00:04:07.620 in an effort to control them more easily, basically.

00:04:12.000 He cites, he goes back to Genghis Khan,

00:04:14.200 he cites the English and the Irish.

00:04:15.860 He even cites Israel, I suppose.

00:04:17.580 China and Tibet.

00:04:18.400 In for a penny, in for a pound with Tucker, I guess.

00:04:20.120 Yeah, and he goes to all those examples

00:04:21.140 and says it's never really a great thing.

00:04:23.020 It's done usually for power and control.

00:04:25.460 And he just calls it what it is.

00:04:26.700 And also, what's more,

00:04:27.940 it's usually done under a state of war as well.

00:04:31.500 It's always done with antagonistic intentions.

00:04:34.680 It's never done for the betterment

00:04:37.080 or, dare I say, enrichment

00:04:38.780 of the host population

00:04:40.680 that is suffering the change.

00:04:42.720 Right.

00:04:43.280 And let's just get a flavor of what he says then.

00:04:45.000 But also to control.

00:04:47.440 Once again,

00:04:48.880 this is not a conspiracy theory.

00:04:51.360 This is the story of recorded history.

00:04:54.420 And it's a story of the present day.

00:04:57.540 Obviously.

00:04:58.020 And only a country

00:05:00.400 completely divorced

00:05:02.260 from history,

00:05:04.460 from human nature,

00:05:06.120 from reality itself,

00:05:07.940 could ever fall for,

00:05:10.200 ooh,

00:05:10.840 it's a debunked,

00:05:12.980 far-right,

00:05:13.640 white nationalist

00:05:14.500 conspiracy theory.

00:05:16.920 Really?

00:05:18.840 No, it's not.

00:05:20.060 It's just the opposite.

00:05:21.260 It's the realest thing

00:05:22.240 that ever happened.

00:05:23.240 And that's not even a judgment.

00:05:27.840 It's just a fact.

00:05:29.100 When you want to control a place,

00:05:31.260 you change the demographics.

00:05:33.500 In 1947,

00:05:37.180 Mandate Palestine,

00:05:38.580 what's now Israel,

00:05:39.700 was about 80% Arab.

00:05:42.000 The next year,

00:05:43.840 it was what,

00:05:44.280 like 32% Arab.

00:05:46.140 The next year,

00:05:47.860 after the War of Independence in 1948,

00:05:50.100 I'm not attacking anyone at all.

00:05:51.700 But the point is,

00:05:54.280 Israel...

00:05:55.700 I think I meant to stop it earlier

00:05:57.480 when he's...

00:05:58.280 Because he now just goes on about

00:05:59.480 Israel for ages,

00:06:00.380 which is sort of...

00:06:01.240 It's about how replacement changes.

00:06:03.180 Yeah,

00:06:03.540 word we can't say

00:06:04.680 does stuff.

00:06:07.020 You know what?

00:06:07.260 It'd be really funny

00:06:07.880 if we actually could just say it.

00:06:09.280 Yeah, yeah.

00:06:09.780 Mess me up immediately before again.

00:06:11.140 We're playing it safe.

00:06:12.120 Just a test for Nick.

00:06:13.680 It's an initiation test.

00:06:14.860 So,

00:06:15.560 took us on a whole documentary on this

00:06:17.020 just to give you an idea

00:06:17.840 of how sort of mainstream

00:06:18.920 this has gone in a way.

00:06:20.100 Though, of course,

00:06:20.420 he's not completely the mainstream.

00:06:21.900 And he says,

00:06:22.620 the West isn't just tolerating

00:06:23.740 mass migration.

00:06:24.520 Our governments are funding it.

00:06:25.800 In our new documentary,

00:06:27.200 Something Europe,

00:06:28.080 following the world's

00:06:29.060 deadliest migration route,

00:06:30.540 our cameras uncover

00:06:31.160 what no one wants you to see.

00:06:32.080 So,

00:06:32.160 he's done a whole documentary on it.

00:06:33.220 And Paul Weston comes in

00:06:36.900 and says there are fewer

00:06:37.480 than three million white males

00:06:38.860 aged 20 to 30

00:06:39.720 living in England and Wales.

00:06:41.120 More than three million

00:06:42.020 Afro-Islamic males,

00:06:43.220 I don't know exactly

00:06:43.800 what that means,

00:06:44.920 aged 20 to 30

00:06:45.840 entering,

00:06:46.780 entered Britain

00:06:47.220 over the last decade.

00:06:48.800 So,

00:06:49.480 gives you an idea

00:06:50.140 of some stats.

00:06:51.640 And Wilford Riley quotes this

00:06:52.720 and says,

00:06:53.040 the levels of contemporary migration

00:06:54.480 to the West

00:06:54.960 really are completely nuts.

00:06:56.940 And male,

00:06:57.720 in a way,

00:06:58.240 no real wave of refugees

00:06:59.560 has ever been

00:07:00.320 for the 2,000 or so years

00:07:01.980 we've studied.

00:07:03.260 So,

00:07:03.980 as we've heard a lot,

00:07:05.220 fighting age males,

00:07:06.180 this phrase,

00:07:06.700 we've heard quite a lot.

00:07:07.940 And look who picks up on this.

00:07:09.300 It's old Elon.

00:07:10.860 If this continues,

00:07:11.800 entire cultures will be erased.

00:07:13.500 That makes a good point.

00:07:14.920 Well, yeah,

00:07:15.300 and it's quite extraordinary

00:07:16.120 to have Elon talking about this.

00:07:17.560 I mean,

00:07:17.700 I'm sure we've talked about this before,

00:07:19.080 but,

00:07:19.940 you know,

00:07:20.800 someone that,

00:07:21.520 like the richest man in the world,

00:07:22.780 and he's talking about this

00:07:23.660 almost daily.

00:07:25.080 Quite extraordinary.

00:07:25.780 The thing is as well,

00:07:27.020 there is always,

00:07:28.240 a manufactured reason.

00:07:31.360 Whatever they need to do,

00:07:33.200 and it's not even convincing,

00:07:34.640 of course,

00:07:35.020 but they just try their best

00:07:36.900 to tailor it

00:07:37.740 to whatever country it is

00:07:39.160 that they're inflicting it upon.

00:07:41.420 If it's ours,

00:07:42.100 it's because of slavery and empire.

00:07:43.940 If it's Ireland,

00:07:44.880 it's literally for staying neutral

00:07:46.700 during World War II.

00:07:48.700 If it's,

00:07:49.160 I mean,

00:07:49.440 you know,

00:07:49.760 I mean,

00:07:50.040 for example,

00:07:50.340 I've never heard that one.

00:07:51.040 Is that the other thing?

00:07:51.520 Well,

00:07:51.780 or Sweden,

00:07:52.460 or something like that.

00:07:53.340 You know,

00:07:53.660 they just always come up with something

00:07:55.740 to justify.

00:07:57.340 I mean,

00:07:57.500 take Greece for an example,

00:07:59.080 Stelis,

00:07:59.320 because that's had quite a rapid demographic shift,

00:08:03.000 hasn't it,

00:08:03.460 recently?

00:08:04.060 But obviously,

00:08:05.160 Greece for centuries and centuries

00:08:07.340 was obviously under the Turks,

00:08:09.100 so what guilt could there possibly be in Greece?

00:08:10.900 Something that was really good in Greece

00:08:13.040 in the 20th century

00:08:13.980 was that there was population exchange.

00:08:16.040 Turks and Greeks in Greece

00:08:19.040 were swapped for Greeks in Turkey.

00:08:22.120 Right.

00:08:22.420 That was really good.

00:08:23.400 But now lately,

00:08:24.500 yes,

00:08:24.860 there has been an issue,

00:08:26.280 an issue with this as well.

00:08:27.800 I think this is a very interesting discussion

00:08:30.180 because where exactly the line

00:08:32.260 between controversy and fact is...

00:08:35.260 We'll find out today

00:08:36.020 whether this is demonized.

00:08:37.100 It's very hard.

00:08:37.680 No,

00:08:37.920 because one thing to say

00:08:39.620 is that you always have to check

00:08:42.020 the rhetoric of those in power.

00:08:44.560 And those in power say one thing,

00:08:46.440 that right now in the West,

00:08:50.020 indigenous people in the Western world

00:08:52.300 are not having a replacement rate in birth.

00:08:57.540 Their birth rates are below replacement level.

00:09:01.420 And they say that

00:09:03.040 because they take this as inevitable

00:09:05.780 and they say that,

00:09:07.000 well,

00:09:07.440 because it's a trend right now,

00:09:09.120 we are going to treat it as inevitable.

00:09:11.380 That is what they are doing.

00:09:13.220 And we are going to say,

00:09:15.060 we are going to draft policy

00:09:17.440 as if this is going to be

00:09:19.200 the tendency of the future.

00:09:21.720 So they're saying,

00:09:23.240 if current trends continue

00:09:25.220 and they are taking it as a given

00:09:27.420 that they are going to continue,

00:09:28.660 you need X amount of population

00:09:34.440 in order to come in

00:09:35.660 and help with the economy,

00:09:37.700 try to lower the debt per capita ratio

00:09:41.940 or a number or whatever.

00:09:43.960 But the point is,

00:09:44.920 and the question there is,

00:09:46.160 that when they do this,

00:09:47.900 they tacitly admit

00:09:49.500 that they are engaged in population change,

00:09:52.860 in demographic change.

00:09:54.120 It is happening and it's a good thing.

00:09:55.560 The reasons why they do it

00:09:56.960 are maybe different

00:09:58.040 or the reasons why they say they do it

00:10:00.520 are maybe different

00:10:01.640 to the reasons that Tucker says

00:10:03.740 they may be doing it for.

00:10:05.100 But the important thing is that

00:10:06.620 this is policy,

00:10:08.680 the policy of bringing foreign populations

00:10:12.020 into the Western world

00:10:13.420 in order to address the population collapse.

00:10:16.880 But the major question

00:10:18.280 that people are going to be,

00:10:19.760 should be asking here

00:10:20.760 is whether these policies

00:10:22.100 are actually harming

00:10:23.920 the attempt to reverse that trend.

00:10:27.160 because you could say right now

00:10:28.680 in the Western world,

00:10:29.760 this is a trend.

00:10:31.000 If it continues,

00:10:32.200 yes, there is going to be a problem.

00:10:33.660 The question is

00:10:34.340 whether the proposed remedy

00:10:35.740 of the establishment

00:10:36.620 is actually harming this.

00:10:38.920 It could be even unintentionally.

00:10:40.440 It doesn't have to be,

00:10:41.200 you know,

00:10:41.520 a closed conspiracy

00:10:43.180 behind closed doors,

00:10:45.840 but it is harming.

00:10:46.840 Yeah, well,

00:10:47.540 one obvious way it might harm that

00:10:48.820 is competition for housing

00:10:50.720 and people think

00:10:51.500 we can't afford a house,

00:10:52.660 why have children?

00:10:53.440 That's one obvious one.

00:10:54.520 Another one is a far more subjective feeling

00:10:56.440 of do I want to bring my kids up here

00:10:58.220 or feeling of being less safe.

00:11:00.660 Another thing,

00:11:01.360 yeah,

00:11:01.480 they vary between

00:11:02.640 it's not happening

00:11:03.280 or it's happening

00:11:03.760 and it's a good thing,

00:11:04.440 of course.

00:11:04.740 Chuck Schumer basically admitted it

00:11:06.080 in a famous quote

00:11:07.440 about a year ago.

00:11:08.700 Yeah,

00:11:09.020 so they will say it sometimes.

00:11:11.620 But another argument though

00:11:12.500 is what does it matter

00:11:14.400 if the birth rate goes down?

00:11:15.400 If you don't bring in people,

00:11:16.640 you just have a slightly lower birth rate.

00:11:17.960 I know people like Elon Musk

00:11:18.840 actually think

00:11:19.460 that that will mean

00:11:20.140 you can't maintain

00:11:21.160 your structures and systems,

00:11:22.740 but I don't know.

00:11:23.360 Some people say that's not even true.

00:11:24.320 I think it's an issue.

00:11:25.520 It's an empirical issue

00:11:26.600 and that's why I think

00:11:28.200 personally I'm a realist

00:11:29.240 when it comes to policy.

00:11:30.380 I think that,

00:11:31.000 you know,

00:11:31.400 someone has to move

00:11:32.440 in piecemeal fashion

00:11:33.700 rather than just,

00:11:34.760 you know,

00:11:35.440 come and tear the whole system down.

00:11:37.180 But I think that

00:11:37.880 to a very large extent

00:11:38.840 there is a pessimism

00:11:41.060 that infuses

00:11:42.020 the spirit of those

00:11:43.360 who draft policy

00:11:44.140 when it comes to this matter.

00:11:45.400 And they're taking it as a given

00:11:46.900 as if the birth rate

00:11:48.460 will never continue.

00:11:49.960 And what is really interesting...

00:11:50.620 And as if that's

00:11:51.140 necessarily a disaster.

00:11:52.600 They went from kind of

00:11:53.240 Malthusianism

00:11:53.840 to thinking,

00:11:55.580 oh, hang on,

00:11:55.860 it's a disaster

00:11:56.300 that's too low.

00:11:57.260 Yes.

00:11:57.600 So when did that happen?

00:11:58.340 And what is interesting here

00:12:00.600 is the angles

00:12:02.600 from which people

00:12:03.500 are approaching this subject

00:12:05.340 because you very rarely,

00:12:08.260 no, actually,

00:12:08.960 not rarely,

00:12:09.720 you very frequently

00:12:10.460 listen to people

00:12:12.280 using arguments

00:12:13.920 against whites

00:12:16.140 that they wouldn't use

00:12:17.740 when it comes to other groups.

00:12:19.120 So for instance,

00:12:19.740 if you want to make

00:12:20.600 a culturally preservationist argument

00:12:22.380 or a group preservationist,

00:12:26.000 you're immediately branded

00:12:27.300 as a far-right extremist.

00:12:30.620 That's not the case.

00:12:31.440 Why should you say,

00:12:32.780 for instance,

00:12:33.260 that it's a bad thing,

00:12:34.640 it's a good thing

00:12:35.480 to say,

00:12:36.020 here's a tribe in Africa

00:12:37.620 or in a place

00:12:38.540 in the Indonesia

00:12:39.380 or somewhere,

00:12:40.460 let's not destroy

00:12:41.680 their culture

00:12:42.320 for cultural preservationist reasons.

00:12:45.120 But why is the same rhetoric

00:12:47.280 bad when it comes

00:12:49.200 to talking about white people?

00:12:50.700 And that's another change

00:12:52.020 I've noticed

00:12:52.420 which maybe

00:12:53.220 might come up here

00:12:54.040 but it's

00:12:54.640 people are becoming

00:12:56.200 more and more aware

00:12:57.180 that white people

00:12:58.060 and white Europeans

00:12:58.660 are a tiny minority globally

00:13:00.220 and that therefore

00:13:01.120 your argument becomes

00:13:02.100 more and more pertinent.

00:13:03.760 It's hard not to say,

00:13:04.640 hang on,

00:13:04.880 we're just talking about survival.

00:13:06.380 It's not about domination

00:13:07.740 or supremacy,

00:13:08.380 it's actually becoming

00:13:08.920 about survival.

00:13:10.000 Why lose a culture?

00:13:11.080 Why is it a problem

00:13:12.340 if you lose another culture

00:13:14.160 but not a problem

00:13:15.060 if you lose this culture

00:13:16.020 over here?

00:13:16.580 There are certain islands

00:13:17.740 you can't put a Coke can on them

00:13:19.500 or you're in your,

00:13:20.280 you break the law

00:13:21.620 because you've brought

00:13:22.400 an outside influence

00:13:23.860 and they can shoot you

00:13:24.760 with arrows if you arrive

00:13:25.820 and they're allowed to

00:13:26.880 and there are these cultures

00:13:28.280 it's like,

00:13:28.860 don't mess with this culture

00:13:29.560 we're trying to preserve it

00:13:30.360 they're going to die out

00:13:31.200 they're not in touch

00:13:33.120 with the modern world

00:13:33.620 and all that sort of thing.

00:13:34.640 Yes,

00:13:34.800 when it comes to

00:13:35.500 this particular culture

00:13:36.480 it's like,

00:13:37.060 oh it should definitely

00:13:37.680 die out,

00:13:38.180 it's disgusting.

00:13:39.220 That's basically

00:13:39.640 what they're forced

00:13:40.200 into saying

00:13:40.840 because there's no rationale

00:13:41.920 for it as you say.

00:13:42.920 Also,

00:13:43.580 it's like this culture

00:13:44.520 needs to die out,

00:13:45.520 it's disgusting.

00:13:46.160 They say in English

00:13:48.060 on technology

00:13:49.940 created by Western minds.

00:13:51.700 Yes,

00:13:51.940 unless they were totally consistent

00:13:52.900 and they were happy

00:13:53.520 about all other

00:13:54.140 indigenous peoples

00:13:54.800 dying out

00:13:55.300 and they said something

00:13:55.840 like that's just progress.

00:13:57.300 Then I could live with it

00:13:57.980 as consistency at least

00:13:59.240 but it's never,

00:14:00.000 it's always this particular group.

00:14:01.360 It's always who's the enemy.

00:14:02.600 Yeah.

00:14:02.820 Let's make them max,

00:14:03.900 let's do,

00:14:04.700 inflict maximum damage

00:14:05.780 upon them.

00:14:06.200 Right.

00:14:07.240 Hard to argue.

00:14:07.940 So on that thing

00:14:09.820 about whether we actually

00:14:10.840 need to bring in people

00:14:12.240 or the replacement birth rate,

00:14:14.320 Western replies to Musk

00:14:15.220 and says,

00:14:15.920 if it doesn't continue

00:14:16.580 entire cultures

00:14:17.260 will still be erased.

00:14:18.760 White British babies

00:14:19.540 will fall below 50%

00:14:20.520 of birth this year

00:14:21.180 and below 25%

00:14:22.120 within 15 years.

00:14:23.740 White women cannot be forced

00:14:24.700 to replicate

00:14:25.180 Muslim women's 3.5 birth rate

00:14:27.060 unless remigration happens

00:14:28.100 to English have gone.

00:14:29.120 So it's this argument

00:14:30.460 about is it just

00:14:31.620 about the birth rate

00:14:32.160 or is it the birth rate

00:14:32.800 combined with the immigration

00:14:33.780 that's the problem?

00:14:35.040 And also do incentives

00:14:36.200 even work?

00:14:36.780 You know,

00:14:37.660 try them in Hungary

00:14:38.780 and things like that.

00:14:39.420 It's my understanding

00:14:40.040 they don't necessarily

00:14:40.940 work that well.

00:14:42.540 These economic incentives

00:14:43.520 have more kids and stuff.

00:14:46.320 The issue with the demographic

00:14:48.000 is that no one knows

00:14:49.120 exactly what it is,

00:14:51.500 what it boils down to,

00:14:53.200 the causes.

00:14:53.780 It's an incredibly complex issue

00:14:55.960 and it affects almost

00:14:57.880 the entire planet.

00:15:00.060 You have only,

00:15:00.960 for instance,

00:15:01.460 Chad,

00:15:01.920 Nigeria,

00:15:02.740 India,

00:15:03.640 and some other places.

00:15:05.560 Israel is above

00:15:06.420 replacement rates.

00:15:07.180 But mainly,

00:15:07.600 you're right,

00:15:08.040 Japan,

00:15:08.520 very low,

00:15:09.020 Korea,

00:15:09.640 catastrophically low.

00:15:10.840 So yeah,

00:15:11.080 it's not just Western.

00:15:11.880 Sometimes it gets,

00:15:12.580 it's like,

00:15:13.280 you know,

00:15:13.460 Andrew Tate will say

00:15:14.060 something like,

00:15:14.320 white people don't have babies.

00:15:15.260 It's like,

00:15:15.440 well,

00:15:15.560 neither do Koreans

00:15:16.420 and the Japanese

00:15:17.380 and so on.

00:15:18.100 Yeah.

00:15:18.380 Did you ever hear

00:15:18.960 Paul Morland's

00:15:19.720 trilemma on this actually?

00:15:20.940 Yeah,

00:15:21.160 I think so.

00:15:21.640 You know the trilemma?

00:15:22.300 He said you can have

00:15:22.900 two of these

00:15:24.000 but not all three.

00:15:24.860 Oh yes.

00:15:25.600 And it was egotism

00:15:27.100 by which he just meant

00:15:28.120 not having children

00:15:29.240 because you're selfish,

00:15:30.420 economic growth

00:15:31.480 and ethnic continuity.

00:15:33.440 I think he called it

00:15:33.980 something like that

00:15:34.460 and he points out

00:15:35.180 China's chosen to,

00:15:36.520 sorry,

00:15:37.100 Japan has chosen

00:15:37.920 ethnic continuity

00:15:39.060 and what he calls egotism

00:15:40.620 so they sacrificed

00:15:41.740 economic growth

00:15:43.280 and we've gone for growth

00:15:44.520 and egotism

00:15:45.900 and we've sacrificed

00:15:46.560 ethnic continuity.

00:15:47.240 Well,

00:15:47.660 we've gone for those

00:15:48.500 but we haven't even

00:15:49.280 got the growth.

00:15:50.420 We haven't even got the growth.

00:15:52.840 So,

00:15:53.360 yeah.

00:15:53.880 That comes up as well,

00:15:54.480 the economic argument later.

00:15:55.720 So,

00:15:55.840 and for some reason

00:15:56.240 I put Elon Musk here

00:15:57.040 just saying whites

00:15:57.640 are a rapidly dying minority.

00:15:58.780 I think just the fact

00:15:59.480 that Musk is saying

00:16:00.660 things like this

00:16:01.320 is just so extraordinary to me

00:16:03.400 and then I put a reply about it

00:16:05.200 saying we should get funding

00:16:06.140 and stuff.

00:16:06.560 He actually liked that reply.

00:16:08.080 Oh,

00:16:08.340 it was just the madness

00:16:09.080 of Musk liking it.

00:16:10.380 My replies are being liked

00:16:11.280 by Zuma historian

00:16:12.180 and Elon Musk.

00:16:12.880 I'm like,

00:16:13.140 what timeline is this?

00:16:15.040 Getting spicy.

00:16:16.180 Yeah,

00:16:16.400 it's a strange world.

00:16:17.500 So,

00:16:18.440 and then someone else

00:16:19.180 counters this and says,

00:16:20.520 you know,

00:16:21.140 really dislike the rapidly

00:16:22.120 dying language.

00:16:23.120 The global white population

00:16:24.220 is only shrinking slightly.

00:16:25.180 The real dangers

00:16:25.720 from them being,

00:16:27.180 are we allowed to say that,

00:16:27.840 in their own countries.

00:16:28.820 So,

00:16:29.600 this place.

00:16:30.120 So,

00:16:30.700 he's saying it's recoverable.

00:16:32.120 So,

00:16:32.280 again,

00:16:32.560 it's the question,

00:16:33.420 is it the birth rate?

00:16:34.140 Is it the immigration?

00:16:34.820 Is it the combination?

00:16:36.080 So,

00:16:37.200 this was,

00:16:38.420 I just put,

00:16:38.900 Elon Musk like this as well.

00:16:40.540 I just,

00:16:41.100 he's like an obscure

00:16:42.360 Amelia tweet

00:16:43.140 and he actually reposted this.

00:16:45.340 So,

00:16:45.620 this is just sort of

00:16:47.380 Amelia breaking down some facts.

00:16:49.160 People love saying

00:16:49.740 the English are immigrants in England.

00:16:51.280 The English have lived in England

00:16:52.420 over 1400 years.

00:16:53.640 That's far longer than the Maori

00:16:54.640 have lived in New Zealand.

00:16:55.580 But that comparison

00:16:56.260 is apparently off limits.

00:16:57.540 The English didn't arrive in England.

00:16:58.480 They became England

00:16:59.160 over more than a millennium.

00:17:00.640 So,

00:17:00.740 I just,

00:17:00.880 smart lass at Amelia.

00:17:02.640 Yeah,

00:17:02.880 she's smart

00:17:03.320 and that's sort of

00:17:03.840 Stelius' argument.

00:17:04.920 23,000 likes.

00:17:06.140 That's his argument

00:17:06.760 about the,

00:17:07.140 you know,

00:17:07.300 indigenous peoples.

00:17:08.140 One rule for them.

00:17:10.320 Oh,

00:17:10.460 and this is just,

00:17:11.180 you know,

00:17:12.540 definitely can't say that on YouTube.

00:17:14.120 But,

00:17:14.480 this is just people

00:17:15.860 talking about it

00:17:16.560 more and more.

00:17:17.080 I don't know.

00:17:17.560 I'm too scared to play it now

00:17:18.880 after what we've said.

00:17:19.700 But more and more people

00:17:20.340 are talking about it

00:17:20.920 from the richest man in the world

00:17:22.760 to various TikTok girls

00:17:24.660 and things.

00:17:25.460 This is another one.

00:17:26.100 And what's more as well,

00:17:27.340 the establishments

00:17:29.600 on willingness to pivot,

00:17:31.140 right,

00:17:31.320 because when you think about

00:17:32.460 so many of the things

00:17:33.580 that the technocrats

00:17:34.540 and those in the EU

00:17:35.500 actually want to do,

00:17:36.780 like climate justice

00:17:38.280 and social justice

00:17:39.180 and all these,

00:17:39.800 all these sorts of things,

00:17:41.140 right,

00:17:41.440 they just have

00:17:42.380 entirely progressive

00:17:43.660 political aims.

00:17:45.360 They could achieve

00:17:46.580 so much more of them

00:17:48.240 and actually maintain

00:17:49.500 their hold on power

00:17:50.580 if they were just willing

00:17:52.460 to meet us

00:17:54.000 on this one particular issue,

00:17:55.520 which is a sense

00:17:56.320 of demographic security

00:17:57.740 on our own continent,

00:17:59.480 in our own homeland,

00:18:00.800 right,

00:18:01.340 but they won't do it.

00:18:02.980 They can't do it.

00:18:04.180 You're begging them

00:18:05.120 to put the knife down

00:18:06.500 and stop shanking

00:18:08.020 the neck of our continent

00:18:09.300 and they're like,

00:18:10.500 no!

00:18:11.880 Well, it's, yeah,

00:18:13.020 that's often the case

00:18:13.640 with our current managerial elite.

00:18:15.200 The idea is,

00:18:15.860 oh, they're just pragmatic

00:18:16.720 and sort of non-ideological,

00:18:18.580 but actually it's

00:18:19.040 extremely ideological

00:18:19.840 because so often

00:18:20.780 what they do

00:18:21.280 is not logical even.

00:18:23.080 No.

00:18:23.500 It's not even just utilitarian.

00:18:24.900 It's like actively destructive.

00:18:26.260 So, yeah,

00:18:26.640 and there's another person here.

00:18:27.880 But it isn't just the EU.

00:18:30.160 Oh, no, it's not.

00:18:30.820 It's also America

00:18:31.780 and Canada

00:18:32.740 and New Zealand

00:18:33.500 and, yeah,

00:18:34.220 everywhere else.

00:18:34.700 Yeah, it's most Western governments

00:18:35.980 with Trump as a kind of outlier

00:18:37.380 sort of semi-resisting it.

00:18:39.040 But this Avery,

00:18:40.420 again, we don't need to watch

00:18:41.120 the whole thing,

00:18:41.600 but in case she says

00:18:42.300 something dodgy,

00:18:42.800 but only 10% of children

00:18:43.820 in Brussels

00:18:44.200 are of Belgian origin.

00:18:46.040 British residents

00:18:46.740 are a minority in London

00:18:47.620 and 10 brothers

00:18:48.220 have a non,

00:18:49.880 sorry, majority

00:18:50.840 non-white population.

00:18:52.160 Mohammed is the number one

00:18:52.900 baby name in England.

00:18:53.520 Sweden has 65 no-go zones

00:18:55.260 and 900 uncontrolled areas

00:18:57.080 across Europe

00:18:57.580 and sometimes people dispute

00:18:58.620 these no-go zones,

00:18:59.840 but I think it's pretty clear

00:19:00.660 Sweden is a bleep storm

00:19:03.140 at the moment.

00:19:04.300 Now you've got one argument,

00:19:05.400 you can just say

00:19:05.960 why is it a problem though,

00:19:07.460 which is

00:19:07.820 Brian Crasenstein's response

00:19:10.940 when Musk said

00:19:11.900 whites are a rapidly

00:19:12.600 dying minority.

00:19:13.720 That's one response.

00:19:14.960 You can just

00:19:15.420 sort of mask off.

00:19:16.340 Well, it is a response,

00:19:17.960 but then it just comes down

00:19:19.060 to a thing, doesn't it?

00:19:19.860 And this applies to

00:19:20.720 any minority

00:19:21.640 who takes that particular line,

00:19:23.560 which is that,

00:19:24.160 okay, but then

00:19:24.780 don't be surprised

00:19:26.580 when I show

00:19:27.680 absolutely no consideration

00:19:29.300 for you

00:19:30.440 or your ethnic troubles

00:19:31.760 or, you know,

00:19:32.360 the things that you care about.

00:19:34.080 You see,

00:19:34.900 people like Crasenstein,

00:19:36.200 they say

00:19:36.920 whenever they,

00:19:38.340 for instance,

00:19:38.860 criticize capitalism or not,

00:19:40.200 and I think

00:19:40.860 there are way more

00:19:41.600 communistic people

00:19:43.040 than Crasenstein,

00:19:44.060 but it is an argument

00:19:45.360 that they're putting for it.

00:19:46.380 They say, for instance,

00:19:47.560 the advance of capitalism

00:19:48.980 is harming,

00:19:49.960 for instance,

00:19:50.420 this particular species

00:19:51.820 in that particular environment.

00:19:53.560 It's going extinct.

00:19:55.460 Therefore,

00:19:55.960 capitalism bad.

00:19:57.820 He wouldn't,

00:19:59.000 he would definitely

00:19:59.880 not ask this question

00:20:01.520 if it were another group.

00:20:04.380 Correct.

00:20:05.240 If it were,

00:20:05.660 he would definitely

00:20:06.400 not be asking this question.

00:20:08.020 Mm-hmm.

00:20:08.780 Which is why Carl says

00:20:09.580 why would it be a force

00:20:10.800 for a diamond?

00:20:11.460 And that's the issue

00:20:12.060 with wokeness

00:20:12.780 because I want to say

00:20:14.040 because there is

00:20:14.640 a particular form

00:20:15.400 of dialectic

00:20:16.180 that this discussion takes

00:20:18.680 because they are,

00:20:20.340 especially the left

00:20:21.360 purposefully tries

00:20:23.200 to put it this way.

00:20:24.120 So we have to bear in mind

00:20:27.420 that for 12 years now,

00:20:29.880 the dominant leftist paradigm

00:20:31.960 in the West

00:20:32.860 is the woke paradigm.

00:20:34.580 We don't hear so much

00:20:35.520 about, you know,

00:20:36.320 syndicalism

00:20:37.040 and communism,

00:20:39.880 you know,

00:20:40.260 we hear much more

00:20:41.520 about the Gramscian

00:20:42.760 element of it.

00:20:43.860 And in their framework,

00:20:46.260 white people,

00:20:47.500 especially straight white males,

00:20:49.020 are the oppressor.

00:20:50.440 Mm-hmm.

00:20:50.560 And all they have to do

00:20:52.240 through this framework,

00:20:53.360 according to their rhetoric,

00:20:55.100 is just say that

00:20:57.620 you have to do

00:20:58.360 reverse discrimination

00:20:59.400 and how do they call it?

00:21:02.400 It's affirmative action

00:21:04.000 in any other case.

00:21:05.440 Positive discrimination.

00:21:06.080 In order to harm

00:21:07.220 straight white males.

00:21:09.000 Mm-hmm.

00:21:09.300 This rhetoric

00:21:10.260 is part and parcel

00:21:11.480 of that worldview.

00:21:13.760 Yeah.

00:21:13.980 And that's the issue

00:21:15.340 is that they are

00:21:17.000 constantly trying to say

00:21:18.460 that if you disagree

00:21:20.860 with this,

00:21:21.820 with what they're doing,

00:21:23.220 you're, on the other hand,

00:21:24.200 a white supremacist.

00:21:25.820 As if there is no room

00:21:27.400 in the middle,

00:21:28.220 which was the basic 90s,

00:21:30.780 like,

00:21:31.160 let's just not look at it.

00:21:32.900 Yeah,

00:21:33.160 that's another argument.

00:21:34.140 Let's not make it

00:21:34.740 about race.

00:21:35.320 Yeah.

00:21:35.700 No,

00:21:35.840 they're the ones

00:21:36.220 that particularly have a problem

00:21:37.080 with a particular group,

00:21:37.860 as you say,

00:21:38.320 and for some reason

00:21:38.980 want to raise...

00:21:40.080 Carl's question is actually...

00:21:41.660 Well,

00:21:41.760 that's what I'm saying.

00:21:42.240 He says what you're saying.

00:21:43.760 Why would it be a problem

00:21:44.480 if blacks were a dying minority?

00:21:46.340 So,

00:21:47.040 this calls it out.

00:21:48.040 So,

00:21:48.420 yeah,

00:21:48.880 exactly.

00:21:49.480 So,

00:21:49.620 there you go.

00:21:50.680 Musk,

00:21:51.160 just leaving this here.

00:21:53.420 Yeah.

00:21:53.880 And,

00:21:54.180 I mean,

00:21:55.480 he's like,

00:21:55.720 oh,

00:21:55.820 you still haven't answered it.

00:21:56.640 It's like,

00:21:57.560 loads of people

00:21:58.060 have picked up on this.

00:21:59.900 And this,

00:22:00.220 yeah,

00:22:00.380 again,

00:22:00.580 this is the same point.

00:22:01.160 It's a little bit of an

00:22:01.840 imagined roles were reversed,

00:22:03.400 which we know is a bit of a cliche.

00:22:05.560 But,

00:22:06.320 Adam says,

00:22:07.320 if you were to say

00:22:08.160 that black people

00:22:08.700 are being eliminated

00:22:09.280 off the planet,

00:22:10.260 Democrats would call it a G-word.

00:22:11.940 We probably can't say.

00:22:12.720 But if you say white people

00:22:13.780 are being ethnically cleansed,

00:22:15.360 Democrats applaud it.

00:22:16.360 Absolutely shameful.

00:22:17.420 So,

00:22:18.160 yeah.

00:22:20.960 Orin with the idea

00:22:21.800 that it is just hatred.

00:22:22.900 They celebrate the elimination

00:22:24.000 of white people.

00:22:24.820 It isn't a mistake.

00:22:25.400 It isn't Marxism.

00:22:26.220 It's a bloodthirsty desire

00:22:27.140 to see you and your children dead.

00:22:28.560 So,

00:22:29.060 Orin definitely had his

00:22:30.000 re-evict that day.

00:22:31.040 I want to say,

00:22:31.980 though,

00:22:32.100 that I think that

00:22:32.960 you can't separate

00:22:34.840 neo-Marxism

00:22:37.080 from this much

00:22:38.920 because it's that

00:22:40.480 neo-Marxist framework

00:22:41.720 that tries to say

00:22:44.000 that instead of

00:22:44.760 going about it

00:22:45.500 in terms of

00:22:46.200 rich industrial

00:22:47.440 capitalists

00:22:48.240 versus proletariats

00:22:49.400 is straight white males

00:22:50.980 against everyone else.

00:22:52.480 Yeah.

00:22:52.840 But I think what Orin's

00:22:53.680 really saying is

00:22:54.220 although there is that

00:22:55.180 flimsy ideological justification,

00:22:57.000 you scratch the surface,

00:22:58.420 beneath it,

00:22:58.860 it's often just hatred.

00:22:59.820 You can definitely say

00:23:00.680 that this applies

00:23:01.720 for classical Marxism.

00:23:02.780 They would feel

00:23:03.840 this sense of,

00:23:05.020 this innate sense

00:23:05.820 of resentment

00:23:06.460 with or without Marxism.

00:23:08.340 Is that why you're...

00:23:09.280 Yeah,

00:23:09.560 I'm saying a lot of times

00:23:10.300 it's a mask

00:23:10.820 and a convenient...

00:23:11.880 Look,

00:23:12.180 as many people have said,

00:23:13.360 I think as Andrew Doyle

00:23:14.080 has said,

00:23:14.440 woke has been a great boon

00:23:15.820 for bullies,

00:23:16.500 basically.

00:23:17.080 There's a lot of nasty people

00:23:18.120 and nasty sentiments

00:23:18.960 that you can dress up

00:23:20.080 in clever ideological language.

00:23:22.440 In fact,

00:23:22.740 that is the whole of the left.

00:23:24.660 Discuss.

00:23:26.140 And Trump

00:23:26.800 has got about as close

00:23:27.840 to saying it

00:23:28.680 as he can

00:23:29.920 if you're...

00:23:30.400 Trump's going to say it.

00:23:31.400 And this was in

00:23:32.680 another segment,

00:23:34.260 I think,

00:23:34.420 with Josh,

00:23:34.800 but may as well just play it.

00:23:35.820 The situation in Minnesota

00:23:37.460 reminds us

00:23:39.240 that the West

00:23:40.260 cannot mass import

00:23:41.440 foreign cultures

00:23:42.500 which have failed

00:23:43.860 to ever build

00:23:44.720 a successful society

00:23:46.060 of their own.

00:23:47.220 I mean,

00:23:47.500 we're taking people

00:23:48.400 from Somalia

00:23:49.400 and Somalia

00:23:51.000 is a failed...

00:23:52.620 It's not a nation.

00:23:54.120 Got no government,

00:23:55.240 got no police,

00:23:56.100 got no military,

00:23:56.720 got no nothing.

00:23:58.840 Can't sound like

00:23:59.640 a Nina Simone song

00:24:00.460 for a minute there.

00:24:01.400 Ain't got no police.

00:24:03.760 Ain't got no sunshine,

00:24:05.160 has it?

00:24:05.280 It's not even a country.

00:24:05.920 They're walking around

00:24:06.740 killing each other.

00:24:07.580 Like,

00:24:07.660 he often says

00:24:08.420 they're not even a nation.

00:24:09.300 But when it's put so starkly,

00:24:10.860 I mean,

00:24:11.080 that is well put.

00:24:12.680 The West cannot mass import

00:24:14.080 foreign cultures

00:24:14.840 which have failed

00:24:15.540 to ever build

00:24:15.960 a successful society

00:24:16.740 on their own.

00:24:17.520 I mean,

00:24:17.820 that's a compelling case

00:24:18.960 in one sense.

00:24:19.420 I want more of that

00:24:20.440 sort of stuff

00:24:20.980 coming from the WEF

00:24:21.780 if we've got to have it.

00:24:23.640 That must have changed

00:24:24.720 this year.

00:24:25.540 Didn't see that

00:24:26.000 on the agenda.

00:24:27.040 Where's the bug-eating stuff?

00:24:29.580 And just to end on then,

00:24:30.540 Tucker sort of summarizes it.

00:24:32.200 As I say,

00:24:32.820 he goes through

00:24:33.200 all the examples

00:24:34.180 in history.

00:24:34.660 Then he says,

00:24:35.400 no one's even making

00:24:36.380 the economic case anymore.

00:24:37.980 He says,

00:24:38.280 it's not a conspiracy,

00:24:38.960 that's ridiculous.

00:24:39.980 I'm just observing facts.

00:24:41.840 And then he says,

00:24:42.480 and by the way,

00:24:43.480 no one's even making

00:24:44.200 the case economically,

00:24:45.780 so what is the reason?

00:24:47.800 Behind what you're watching.

00:24:50.040 No one is making

00:24:51.220 an economic case

00:24:52.040 for mass migration.

00:24:53.100 Nobody is making

00:24:53.940 an economic case

00:24:55.480 for keeping tens of millions

00:24:57.120 of illegals in this country

00:24:58.460 because there isn't

00:24:59.220 an economic case for it.

00:25:00.360 There is no case

00:25:01.340 that begins with,

00:25:02.840 let me tell you how

00:25:03.780 this will make

00:25:05.460 our country better.

00:25:06.900 No one even makes that case.

00:25:09.020 The case they're making

00:25:10.280 is we are replacing

00:25:12.440 the people

00:25:13.660 who founded this country

00:25:15.540 who built the system

00:25:17.500 for themselves,

00:25:18.860 by the way,

00:25:20.020 with a brand new people

00:25:22.140 who have very little

00:25:23.600 in common

00:25:24.100 with those people.

00:25:25.160 And why are we doing that?

00:25:26.020 Because we hate those people.

00:25:28.960 That's Tucker's hate.

00:25:29.780 You disagree

00:25:30.220 because you say it's policy,

00:25:31.300 but we certainly

00:25:31.840 don't hear that much about it.

00:25:32.360 No, you definitely hear,

00:25:33.880 for instance,

00:25:34.420 some of the American libertarians,

00:25:36.100 many of them,

00:25:36.820 to make that very argument.

00:25:39.340 Yeah, but not that much,

00:25:40.340 do you?

00:25:40.620 I mean, you don't,

00:25:41.240 he may be using

00:25:42.220 Tucker's moral prep.

00:25:42.700 Well, libertarians

00:25:43.420 really push that line

00:25:44.780 ahead.

00:25:45.560 With respect,

00:25:46.100 does anyone care

00:25:46.640 what libertarians say?

00:25:47.460 When do you hear

00:25:48.160 the mainstream,

00:25:49.980 you hear Chuck Schumer say it?

00:25:51.220 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:25:51.800 You don't hear it very often.

00:25:52.700 If you want to go

00:25:53.380 a late theory on it,

00:25:54.640 there could definitely

00:25:56.080 be people

00:25:56.820 with libertarian leanings

00:25:58.280 within the administration

00:25:59.600 and within the whole

00:26:00.720 purview of the White House.

00:26:01.780 But do we often hear

00:26:03.820 the case made

00:26:04.760 on very logical,

00:26:06.300 the terms you're outlining,

00:26:07.380 which is a logical case.

00:26:08.500 Tucker's saying it's hatred.

00:26:09.600 Do we ever hear people

00:26:10.160 come out and say,

00:26:11.220 I mean,

00:26:12.360 they couldn't,

00:26:13.160 if you've got a vacuum

00:26:15.040 where Tucker's coming out

00:26:16.020 and saying that,

00:26:16.520 if they wanted to get

00:26:17.320 on top of it,

00:26:18.000 wouldn't they come out

00:26:18.600 and say,

00:26:19.180 it's not about hatred,

00:26:19.960 it is happening

00:26:20.480 and here's why it's happening.

00:26:21.520 That's what they don't dare do.

00:26:22.560 Let me just qualify

00:26:24.800 a bit what I'm saying

00:26:25.540 because I,

00:26:26.560 what I frequently,

00:26:28.360 when I,

00:26:28.740 I frequently disagree

00:26:30.240 with Carlson

00:26:30.900 because I think he is

00:26:32.020 in favor of very

00:26:33.380 low resolution explanations.

00:26:36.340 He tries to make it

00:26:37.460 much less complex

00:26:38.600 than it actually is

00:26:39.600 and in this case,

00:26:40.400 there are people

00:26:41.160 making economic arguments.

00:26:42.740 Whether they're good

00:26:43.380 or bad,

00:26:43.980 it's another,

00:26:44.480 it's another point.

00:26:45.760 Frequently,

00:26:46.120 I think they're bad.

00:26:47.540 But it's...

00:26:48.720 Well, even,

00:26:49.560 sorry,

00:26:50.000 even Starmer came out,

00:26:51.080 didn't he,

00:26:51.400 in one of his famous speeches

00:26:53.320 where he was suddenly based

00:26:54.240 and said...

00:26:54.500 Fraudinger's Enoch Powell.

00:26:56.560 He said,

00:26:57.260 look,

00:26:57.320 back then,

00:26:57.880 the one thing

00:26:59.080 Starmer U-turned on.

00:27:00.260 Yeah,

00:27:00.480 he said,

00:27:00.920 Island of Strangers,

00:27:01.480 he said this is an experiment,

00:27:03.040 a reckless experiment

00:27:03.720 and there are not...

00:27:04.760 And when Peston asked him

00:27:06.280 at a press conference

00:27:06.900 about the economic benefits,

00:27:08.340 he said there are no economic benefits

00:27:10.140 but we're still doing it.

00:27:12.020 So no one's caught up

00:27:12.920 and stopped this.

00:27:13.540 What I'm noticing here

00:27:14.280 is no one's actually...

00:27:15.820 It's almost become

00:27:16.420 this accepted idea

00:27:17.580 that it just has to happen.

00:27:19.020 But when people are saying,

00:27:19.760 hang on,

00:27:19.980 why does this have to happen?

00:27:20.960 Why does this one group

00:27:21.740 have to be replaced

00:27:22.480 in their own countries?

00:27:23.480 That's certainly a part.

00:27:24.620 And what's the rationale?

00:27:26.640 Because you've just admitted

00:27:27.400 it's not economic.

00:27:28.920 It's just happening.

00:27:30.500 No one's updated the software.

00:27:32.600 Yeah.

00:27:32.960 It's one thing

00:27:34.100 to go through

00:27:35.220 with this madness,

00:27:36.460 right?

00:27:36.700 It's another thing entirely

00:27:38.080 to expect

00:27:38.840 no resistance

00:27:39.860 to come from it.

00:27:41.260 To actually just expect

00:27:42.520 the people to,

00:27:43.600 oh yeah,

00:27:44.060 all right,

00:27:44.500 we'll just extinguish

00:27:45.740 2,000 years of history.

00:27:48.140 Yeah,

00:27:48.400 it's fine.

00:27:49.020 Yeah,

00:27:49.180 okay.

00:27:49.380 It's like,

00:27:50.180 oh,

00:27:50.320 if you say so,

00:27:51.000 if we need to do that,

00:27:52.500 then it's like,

00:27:53.060 no,

00:27:53.340 obviously that's not

00:27:54.260 going to happen.

00:27:55.300 You put people

00:27:56.000 in a state

00:27:56.580 where they feel

00:27:57.300 this existential dread,

00:28:00.600 you know,

00:28:00.820 this sense of doom

00:28:02.000 of their entire continuum.

00:28:05.260 Yeah,

00:28:05.540 that is going

00:28:06.300 to really irritate people.

00:28:08.520 And that's something

00:28:09.200 that I don't think

00:28:10.020 they appreciate.

00:28:10.980 That's an anxiety

00:28:12.120 that most people

00:28:13.520 of our age

00:28:14.040 have just had to live with

00:28:15.400 for our entire lives.

00:28:17.320 Just that uncertainty

00:28:18.940 for the future

00:28:20.600 and whether or not

00:28:21.660 England

00:28:22.040 and all the other

00:28:23.080 countries in the West

00:28:23.960 will even exist

00:28:25.280 in any meaningful sense

00:28:27.160 by the end

00:28:28.160 of this very century.

00:28:29.700 Yeah,

00:28:29.820 and it taps into

00:28:30.400 the most fundamental

00:28:31.160 aspects of human nature.

00:28:33.360 Will,

00:28:33.580 you know,

00:28:33.880 reproducing yourself,

00:28:35.080 you know,

00:28:35.220 worry about your offspring,

00:28:36.760 you know,

00:28:36.920 what will my son grow up in?

00:28:38.540 Of course,

00:28:38.960 I know people

00:28:39.380 who are sort of

00:28:39.900 where I live

00:28:41.060 and my football team

00:28:41.720 and things

00:28:41.980 who are the sort of

00:28:42.860 blob type people

00:28:43.660 who are so complacent

00:28:45.000 about it.

00:28:45.200 They just say,

00:28:45.640 oh,

00:28:45.720 well,

00:28:45.960 places change over time,

00:28:47.240 blah, blah.

00:28:47.560 I'm thinking your children

00:28:48.600 are going to grow up

00:28:49.380 in a much worse country

00:28:50.280 where they are probably hated

00:28:51.880 and it's like

00:28:52.780 you're very glib about it.

00:28:54.460 But if you're not,

00:28:55.820 if you're someone

00:28:56.160 who feels it,

00:28:56.880 then it's quite hard

00:28:57.500 to unfeel it,

00:28:58.700 isn't it?

00:28:58.960 So yeah,

00:28:59.440 it's very naive

00:28:59.960 to think they could get away

00:29:00.640 with it.

00:29:00.760 But then they've done

00:29:01.320 so much,

00:29:01.960 COVID,

00:29:02.700 they're just so used

00:29:03.420 to getting in a room,

00:29:04.320 deciding what's going to happen

00:29:05.260 and the plebs

00:29:06.020 will just put up with it.

00:29:06.940 But this one is very hard

00:29:08.120 for them to get across the line.

00:29:09.180 Anyway,

00:29:09.340 I don't want to go too far

00:29:15.200 past.

00:29:15.760 It was mainly mime.

00:29:16.860 Yeah,

00:29:17.040 we'll reduce Lucas

00:29:18.780 so you can have full time.

00:29:19.840 Is that all right?

00:29:22.400 All right,

00:29:22.960 I'll just quickly go through

00:29:23.880 these rumble rants.

00:29:25.640 Apologies if it's not anything

00:29:26.940 I can actually say.

00:29:28.520 Crank Texan for $10,

00:29:29.780 thank you,

00:29:30.240 says,

00:29:30.620 there is a huge number

00:29:31.660 of NGOs

00:29:32.300 that exist only

00:29:33.540 to move massive numbers

00:29:34.920 of people

00:29:35.500 into the West.

00:29:36.760 These NGOs

00:29:37.380 are funded

00:29:37.960 with many billions

00:29:39.040 of dollars

00:29:39.560 of government grants.

00:29:40.960 We pay for this.

00:29:41.840 Yeah,

00:29:42.120 absolutely.

00:29:43.060 Well said, Texan.

00:29:44.140 And obviously,

00:29:44.740 it becomes even steeper

00:29:47.840 because the more foreigners

00:29:48.980 that you bring in,

00:29:50.120 the more foreigners

00:29:50.820 that are incentivized

00:29:52.180 to bring more foreigners

00:29:53.340 in as well.

00:29:54.080 And so it constantly escalates.

00:29:56.980 Okigdor says,

00:29:58.320 population decline

00:29:59.700 is not bad

00:30:00.520 in and of itself,

00:30:02.140 but if you fill

00:30:03.180 that void

00:30:03.680 with imports

00:30:04.660 instead of letting

00:30:05.920 the generations refill,

00:30:07.740 then you don't have

00:30:08.820 room for population

00:30:10.120 to heal.

00:30:10.840 Absolutely.

00:30:11.600 I mean,

00:30:11.860 you know,

00:30:12.100 you think about the fact

00:30:12.840 that the whole of Europe

00:30:14.100 managed to recover

00:30:15.100 from the Black Death

00:30:16.360 and actually,

00:30:17.880 and I don't mean this

00:30:18.960 to sound as sick

00:30:19.700 as it does,

00:30:20.700 but the Black Death

00:30:21.880 probably had brought

00:30:23.100 more benefits

00:30:23.920 to Europe

00:30:24.540 than what our current

00:30:25.420 elites are bringing to it.

00:30:26.820 So that's a random name,

00:30:28.740 says,

00:30:29.160 once again,

00:30:29.680 it all boils down

00:30:30.500 to women.

00:30:31.500 Everything they do

00:30:32.340 is about safety

00:30:33.260 and status.

00:30:34.440 They've been propagandized

00:30:35.620 to feel unsafe

00:30:36.800 around men

00:30:37.480 and think motherhood

00:30:38.900 is low status.

00:30:40.680 So they call babies

00:30:42.200 parasites.

00:30:43.180 Well,

00:30:43.400 there is absolutely

00:30:44.280 a problem

00:30:45.140 with that thinking.

00:30:46.600 They also want

00:30:47.300 to bring people in

00:30:47.860 because they feel

00:30:48.220 it's kind

00:30:48.700 and it's unkind

00:30:49.380 to have a border.

00:30:50.420 Yeah.

00:30:51.060 But I'm not of this...

00:30:52.980 Kill the 19th.

00:30:53.740 What?

00:30:54.620 Call me a white knight,

00:30:57.520 but I'm not entirely

00:30:58.740 sold on the idea

00:30:59.840 that like,

00:31:00.300 oh,

00:31:00.480 it's just the women

00:31:01.480 and if we could just,

00:31:02.280 you know...

00:31:02.800 It's not just the women.

00:31:03.720 It's also people

00:31:04.420 under 30,

00:31:05.180 people without property.

00:31:06.180 Yes, all right.

00:31:06.600 Now you're making

00:31:08.220 far more sense to me.

00:31:09.880 I'd take the vote

00:31:10.500 off almost everyone.

00:31:11.500 Yeah.

00:31:12.360 That's a random name.

00:31:13.320 Only Stelios can vote.

00:31:15.600 God,

00:31:16.020 wouldn't that be

00:31:16.420 a better world?

00:31:18.240 I'd love to see

00:31:19.000 your foreign policy

00:31:19.820 towards Turkey.

00:31:20.460 I'm too low resolution.

00:31:21.600 I'm just rabble-roused

00:31:22.860 by people like Tucker,

00:31:23.760 so I can't be trusted.

00:31:24.800 I want a Thanos gauntlet,

00:31:26.180 the Infinity Gauntlet.

00:31:27.680 That's my policy,

00:31:28.800 you know.

00:31:30.680 That's a random name.

00:31:31.460 It also says,

00:31:32.240 taxes were meant

00:31:33.040 to last until the end

00:31:34.100 of World War I.

00:31:34.920 Mass migration

00:31:36.020 was supposed to

00:31:36.780 not be massive,

00:31:38.360 but an economic boon

00:31:39.720 and not disrupt

00:31:40.900 the ethnic makeup

00:31:41.780 of the West.

00:31:43.020 Fool me once.

00:31:44.120 Yeah, absolutely.

00:31:45.480 And Sigil Stone says,

00:31:46.880 so when is

00:31:47.880 Brother Dankula

00:31:48.740 joining the Lotus Eaters

00:31:49.980 for a new showing

00:31:50.900 after joining

00:31:52.120 a monastery?

00:31:53.100 Yeah, it's all been

00:31:53.920 a good fun that,

00:31:54.880 hasn't it?

00:31:55.960 All right then.

00:31:56.900 So,

00:31:58.180 oh, it's got a new cut.

00:32:01.620 All right.

00:32:02.440 Anyway,

00:32:02.960 we'll pick that up later.

00:32:04.920 So,

00:32:05.420 ladies and gentlemen,

00:32:06.560 there is some good news

00:32:08.440 that I have here for you.

00:32:09.760 Now,

00:32:10.040 I want to do a segment.

00:32:11.400 You may remember

00:32:11.980 a few months back

00:32:13.160 I hosted a segment

00:32:14.620 talking all about

00:32:15.640 the Pendragon Foundation

00:32:17.160 and the revival

00:32:18.800 of British castles,

00:32:21.260 reintegrating them

00:32:22.400 into our sense of society

00:32:24.360 and trying to restore

00:32:25.940 something which is

00:32:27.280 being lost to us.

00:32:28.340 and this is a segment

00:32:30.120 of a similar kind.

00:32:32.060 But on this time,

00:32:33.340 on this occasion,

00:32:34.080 it's not castles,

00:32:35.040 but rather literature

00:32:36.160 and art

00:32:36.920 that I want to focus on

00:32:38.220 because ultimately

00:32:39.640 people are,

00:32:42.620 culture is one of the

00:32:43.540 great things

00:32:44.320 that gives us

00:32:45.400 entertainment

00:32:46.360 and meaning, right?

00:32:48.000 it allows us to meditate

00:32:49.620 on the finer,

00:32:51.020 higher aspects of life

00:32:52.340 and I think

00:32:53.180 that there is

00:32:54.220 a dissatisfaction,

00:32:56.900 actually,

00:32:57.680 amongst many people.

00:32:59.020 I'm not saying the masses,

00:33:00.100 but many people

00:33:00.840 for higher forms

00:33:02.460 of art,

00:33:03.520 good writing

00:33:04.180 that really speaks

00:33:05.120 to their moment

00:33:06.160 and really,

00:33:07.000 they only have

00:33:08.260 the classics

00:33:09.220 to fall back on

00:33:10.420 because these are

00:33:11.300 the things that have

00:33:12.240 survived,

00:33:13.280 tried,

00:33:13.560 and tested

00:33:14.080 through the ages

00:33:14.920 and are uncorrupted

00:33:17.700 or certainly

00:33:18.760 they were uncorrupted

00:33:20.180 by intersectionality

00:33:22.000 and all of the

00:33:23.320 very aggressive

00:33:24.580 ideologies

00:33:25.560 that basically

00:33:26.280 seek to take

00:33:27.260 those great achievements

00:33:28.840 from our own heritage,

00:33:30.200 from our own canon

00:33:30.980 away from us

00:33:32.220 and basically

00:33:33.520 give them to

00:33:34.720 foreigners

00:33:35.380 who didn't create them

00:33:36.720 and say

00:33:37.340 they're just as much

00:33:38.320 yours

00:33:38.760 as they are

00:33:39.640 anyone else's.

00:33:40.700 And on the one hand,

00:33:41.640 yes,

00:33:41.940 it is wonderful

00:33:42.880 when you find

00:33:44.060 a piece of art

00:33:44.960 that,

00:33:45.380 you know,

00:33:45.560 when people come

00:33:46.300 from all over

00:33:47.560 the world

00:33:48.120 to Paris

00:33:49.020 to look at

00:33:49.880 da Vinci's paintings,

00:33:51.180 right,

00:33:51.380 there is a certain

00:33:52.880 nobility to that

00:33:54.000 but also

00:33:54.760 it's very,

00:33:56.200 it's always important

00:33:57.140 to realise

00:33:57.920 the time and place

00:33:59.080 that those things

00:33:59.780 came from

00:34:00.440 and the genius

00:34:01.340 of the actual people

00:34:02.940 behind them.

00:34:04.260 Now,

00:34:04.720 speaking of

00:34:05.840 art and culture,

00:34:07.560 I wanted to

00:34:08.500 just say as well,

00:34:09.420 we have issue five

00:34:10.860 of Islander magazine

00:34:12.100 out now

00:34:12.860 and this is one

00:34:13.940 of the things

00:34:14.440 that I'm talking

00:34:15.460 about,

00:34:15.720 it's an attempt

00:34:16.260 by Rory

00:34:16.860 and a very

00:34:17.380 successful one

00:34:18.280 I might add

00:34:19.280 to make a magazine

00:34:21.180 full with

00:34:22.180 highly philosophical,

00:34:24.000 really engaging

00:34:24.980 essays.

00:34:25.640 You can tell

00:34:26.080 from the aesthetics

00:34:26.860 that Rory has put

00:34:28.420 a great deal

00:34:29.300 of work,

00:34:29.800 there's a comic,

00:34:30.880 there's work

00:34:31.700 with an interview

00:34:33.120 with Rupert Lowe

00:34:34.000 and many great

00:34:35.100 articles in it

00:34:35.900 so if you're

00:34:36.580 interested,

00:34:37.500 you can go and

00:34:38.080 buy that on the

00:34:38.900 website for

00:34:39.680 £14.99

00:34:40.600 and whatever

00:34:41.920 postage and

00:34:42.780 packaging you

00:34:43.520 have to bear

00:34:44.120 in your country.

00:34:45.760 So let's just

00:34:47.060 talk,

00:34:47.720 shall we,

00:34:48.020 a little bit

00:34:48.560 about the

00:34:49.340 absolute state

00:34:50.940 of the British

00:34:53.100 arts industry

00:34:54.600 right now.

00:34:56.140 Nick,

00:34:56.720 as a man

00:34:57.320 who was a

00:34:58.300 comedian,

00:34:59.200 I mean,

00:34:59.780 not to,

00:35:00.400 you're still funny,

00:35:01.320 you're still very funny,

00:35:02.080 but you're a retired

00:35:03.420 comedian,

00:35:03.880 was it easy

00:35:06.260 for you navigating

00:35:07.420 those social circles?

00:35:09.120 Did you feel like

00:35:09.660 you got a fair

00:35:10.320 hearing in that

00:35:11.780 world?

00:35:12.600 Well no,

00:35:12.900 I mean it got to

00:35:13.420 the point where

00:35:13.920 they literally

00:35:14.320 would tell you

00:35:14.800 there's no way

00:35:15.500 you can have an

00:35:15.900 agent if you're

00:35:16.520 a straight white

00:35:17.040 man and I

00:35:18.100 was famously,

00:35:18.920 I say famously

00:35:19.480 because it wasn't

00:35:20.020 famous,

00:35:20.300 but I was cancelled

00:35:20.980 for raising this

00:35:22.860 after about a decade

00:35:24.140 in comedy,

00:35:24.700 I just had enough

00:35:25.340 and someone told

00:35:26.940 me I couldn't get

00:35:27.480 a gig because I

00:35:28.120 was a straight white

00:35:28.700 man and I just

00:35:29.660 shared the message

00:35:30.320 with all the

00:35:30.820 identifying.

00:35:31.840 What did you have

00:35:32.380 to sleep with

00:35:33.000 to get a gig?

00:35:33.880 Well you had to

00:35:35.760 just be the right

00:35:36.500 well.

00:35:37.780 The right hue.

00:35:38.680 Yeah,

00:35:39.060 well maybe I didn't

00:35:40.160 find out the answer

00:35:40.740 to your question,

00:35:41.240 but I certainly

00:35:41.640 didn't manage it.

00:35:43.340 Yeah,

00:35:43.760 I was told I couldn't

00:35:44.260 have a gig because

00:35:44.620 I was a straight

00:35:44.940 white man,

00:35:45.300 I just shared it

00:35:45.880 with the identifying

00:35:46.600 information taken out

00:35:47.460 and everyone

00:35:48.060 shouted at me saying

00:35:48.900 you're not allowed

00:35:49.600 to even say this

00:35:50.240 but everyone knows it

00:35:50.960 and that's just

00:35:51.520 one of many problems

00:35:52.300 with it.

00:35:53.120 But we don't get,

00:35:55.160 are you talking

00:35:55.660 about funding

00:35:56.260 and things like that?

00:35:56.940 Yes.

00:35:57.520 That doesn't even

00:35:58.120 really come into it

00:35:58.880 in comedy,

00:36:00.340 at least it didn't

00:36:01.240 for me,

00:36:01.700 I don't know

00:36:02.080 how you would get it

00:36:02.860 but yeah,

00:36:03.820 you certainly

00:36:04.100 wouldn't get it

00:36:04.520 if you were

00:36:04.820 the wrong type.

00:36:07.060 Yeah,

00:36:07.480 but you can see here,

00:36:08.680 I just want to

00:36:09.120 draw your attention

00:36:09.720 to 116.8 million

00:36:12.900 pounds of

00:36:13.560 National Lottery

00:36:14.300 funding per year

00:36:15.400 in Arts Council

00:36:16.400 National Lottery

00:36:17.240 Project grants,

00:36:18.560 our open access

00:36:19.300 funding program,

00:36:20.480 right?

00:36:20.760 So that's a hell

00:36:22.020 of a lot of money

00:36:22.860 that can go to

00:36:24.020 young aspiring

00:36:25.100 creatives who

00:36:26.240 are obviously

00:36:26.980 wanting to

00:36:28.000 create something

00:36:29.080 that speaks

00:36:29.700 to the zeitgeist,

00:36:30.680 to the moment

00:36:31.200 and also as well

00:36:32.740 we can't

00:36:34.540 underestimate

00:36:35.100 art

00:36:35.820 in terms of

00:36:37.080 theatre

00:36:37.420 that just exists

00:36:39.100 to give

00:36:40.440 pure entertainment,

00:36:42.060 to just bring

00:36:42.800 some sense

00:36:43.560 of joy,

00:36:44.720 an actual

00:36:45.180 oh I had a

00:36:45.900 really nice

00:36:46.480 evening tonight

00:36:47.200 but no,

00:36:47.820 everything now

00:36:48.540 has to have

00:36:49.180 some progressive

00:36:50.520 message to it

00:36:52.180 and the

00:36:53.460 theatre...

00:36:54.340 But it's this joy

00:36:54.580 of which you speak,

00:36:55.660 I have no memory

00:36:56.940 of it.

00:36:57.280 Yeah.

00:36:57.400 And it's so

00:36:58.440 in your face,

00:36:59.680 especially with

00:37:00.620 Netflix,

00:37:01.120 you're watching

00:37:01.780 at something

00:37:02.260 that otherwise

00:37:02.960 seems to be

00:37:03.680 just fine,

00:37:04.920 perfect,

00:37:05.600 fine,

00:37:05.880 and then out of

00:37:06.640 nowhere you

00:37:07.120 just have

00:37:07.640 Dionysus getting

00:37:09.540 effed in the

00:37:10.980 bathroom by

00:37:12.180 strangers.

00:37:12.920 Yeah,

00:37:13.060 someone was saying

00:37:13.520 that,

00:37:13.740 was it Matt

00:37:14.060 Walsh saying

00:37:14.520 you used to be

00:37:15.460 able to watch

00:37:16.080 out of nowhere

00:37:16.800 he goes to

00:37:17.340 the bathroom,

00:37:17.880 someone does

00:37:18.420 him and then

00:37:18.800 he goes back.

00:37:19.880 Again,

00:37:20.360 just who wants

00:37:21.480 to watch this?

00:37:22.660 Yeah,

00:37:22.880 I know,

00:37:23.240 and Matt

00:37:23.980 Walsh was saying

00:37:24.360 you can't watch

00:37:24.880 with your kids

00:37:25.300 anymore because

00:37:25.780 they'll be like

00:37:26.160 suddenly you'll

00:37:27.080 be watching it

00:37:27.520 and then a

00:37:28.320 random scene.

00:37:29.260 It's a complete

00:37:29.640 filler.

00:37:30.140 It's just

00:37:30.480 degeneracy to

00:37:31.520 just constantly

00:37:32.060 get Satan

00:37:32.920 in your face.

00:37:33.980 Yeah,

00:37:34.160 and also,

00:37:34.720 it's a Japanese

00:37:35.660 Mozart,

00:37:36.320 it's an Asian

00:37:37.080 hammer getting

00:37:38.360 beaten up by

00:37:39.000 white people.

00:37:39.700 It's just like,

00:37:40.180 ugh.

00:37:40.740 See,

00:37:41.200 because of this,

00:37:42.380 as you see here

00:37:43.160 on their website,

00:37:44.180 again,

00:37:44.420 this constant

00:37:45.220 insatiable

00:37:46.200 need for

00:37:47.560 diversity

00:37:48.240 at all costs.

00:37:50.120 The other thing

00:37:51.140 as well is

00:37:51.800 that it takes

00:37:52.500 money away from

00:37:53.420 young aspiring

00:37:54.340 native voices

00:37:55.360 and pushes

00:37:56.420 them towards

00:37:57.480 minority groups

00:37:58.740 who are obviously

00:37:59.480 entirely,

00:38:00.660 you know,

00:38:01.400 invested in

00:38:02.080 their own struggle,

00:38:03.020 their own sense

00:38:03.600 of place in the

00:38:04.320 world.

00:38:05.560 I just realised

00:38:05.880 you started a

00:38:06.660 company called

00:38:07.120 Native Voices,

00:38:08.380 which is like

00:38:08.800 funding young

00:38:10.280 men who want

00:38:11.340 to write something.

00:38:12.100 Yeah,

00:38:12.600 and then let's

00:38:13.540 just have a look,

00:38:14.240 for example,

00:38:14.680 on some of the

00:38:15.300 things that have

00:38:15.780 been on the

00:38:16.380 National Theatre

00:38:17.340 recently,

00:38:18.140 shall we?

00:38:18.840 So let's start

00:38:19.620 with Nye,

00:38:20.780 where you can see

00:38:21.360 Martin Sheen,

00:38:23.120 I can't remember

00:38:25.020 his name,

00:38:26.500 Michael Sheen,

00:38:27.560 sorry,

00:38:27.800 there we are,

00:38:28.520 is Nye Bevan

00:38:29.600 in an epic

00:38:30.400 Welsh fantasia

00:38:31.460 about one man's

00:38:32.640 dream of the

00:38:33.440 NHS,

00:38:34.500 and so you have

00:38:35.520 at the National

00:38:36.200 Theatre a play

00:38:37.340 where people can

00:38:38.220 go,

00:38:38.860 progressives can

00:38:39.480 go and have

00:38:39.940 a religious

00:38:40.600 experience,

00:38:42.320 right,

00:38:42.700 and talk about

00:38:43.280 the foundation

00:38:44.320 of the welfare

00:38:45.540 state and the

00:38:46.340 NHS,

00:38:47.000 and they can all

00:38:47.720 sit there and

00:38:48.360 clap and cheer

00:38:49.300 as they,

00:38:50.300 you know,

00:38:50.600 cheer for a

00:38:51.500 system that

00:38:52.400 doesn't work,

00:38:54.360 right,

00:38:54.740 it's absolutely

00:38:55.600 mental,

00:38:56.300 and what's more

00:38:56.900 as well,

00:38:57.320 they are opposed

00:38:58.300 to the very

00:38:58.880 solutions that

00:39:00.160 could actually

00:39:00.860 make it work.

00:39:02.000 Several of them

00:39:02.500 die in the

00:39:03.440 audience while

00:39:04.000 watching the

00:39:04.860 play because

00:39:05.240 they've been

00:39:05.420 waiting three

00:39:05.840 years for their

00:39:06.400 surgery,

00:39:07.140 as they're

00:39:07.660 clapping,

00:39:08.200 they're just,

00:39:09.300 sorry,

00:39:09.940 this would be

00:39:10.340 ironic,

00:39:11.060 the most ironic

00:39:12.320 deaths you can

00:39:12.900 have,

00:39:13.160 clap in the

00:39:13.540 NHS while

00:39:14.200 dying because

00:39:14.820 of it.

00:39:16.020 Something a

00:39:16.900 little more

00:39:17.240 recent,

00:39:17.680 what's on

00:39:18.060 now?

00:39:18.340 Well,

00:39:18.500 we have Pride,

00:39:19.380 a new musical

00:39:20.500 based on their

00:39:21.360 hit film.

00:39:22.460 Let's have a

00:39:23.300 see what it's

00:39:23.920 all about.

00:39:24.420 What hit film?

00:39:25.700 Summer 1984,

00:39:27.800 only not that

00:39:28.920 1984 I guess,

00:39:30.680 with minors on

00:39:32.020 strike across the

00:39:32.880 country,

00:39:33.520 24-year-old

00:39:34.240 activist Mike

00:39:34.980 Ashton tries to

00:39:36.040 rally a disparate

00:39:37.200 group of gay men

00:39:38.440 and lesbians in

00:39:39.780 supporting the

00:39:40.500 beleaguered minors.

00:39:41.980 Lesbians and

00:39:42.700 gay supports

00:39:43.660 support the

00:39:45.040 minors,

00:39:45.840 LGSM,

00:39:47.120 quickly find

00:39:48.660 itself intertwined

00:39:49.900 with a small

00:39:50.640 pit village in

00:39:51.520 South Wales.

00:39:53.500 Anyone,

00:39:53.940 you want to go

00:39:54.320 see this,

00:39:54.840 Stelios?

00:39:55.280 None of this.

00:39:55.820 I'll get us two

00:39:56.380 tickets for this

00:39:57.680 weekend.

00:39:58.660 Remember the

00:39:59.240 only gay in the

00:40:00.020 village?

00:40:00.440 That was set in

00:40:01.080 Wales.

00:40:01.520 This doesn't

00:40:02.260 happen in

00:40:02.700 Wales.

00:40:03.220 The Welsh

00:40:03.620 mining strikes,

00:40:04.420 there were no

00:40:04.860 gay people

00:40:05.320 anywhere.

00:40:06.120 They didn't

00:40:06.500 exist.

00:40:07.320 Maybe they

00:40:07.880 were heavily

00:40:08.300 closeted if

00:40:08.880 they did.

00:40:09.420 Yeah,

00:40:09.700 I think the

00:40:10.180 fathers might

00:40:10.780 have something

00:40:11.640 to say about

00:40:12.260 it.

00:40:12.900 But the

00:40:13.440 point is,

00:40:14.040 it's always

00:40:14.820 pandering to

00:40:15.860 some sort

00:40:16.640 of woke

00:40:17.920 cause,

00:40:18.420 for want of

00:40:19.020 a better way

00:40:19.520 to put it.

00:40:20.220 And it's

00:40:20.820 part of this

00:40:21.860 suffocating

00:40:23.260 nature of the

00:40:24.460 arts in

00:40:24.980 Britain right

00:40:25.560 now that

00:40:26.080 everywhere you

00:40:27.000 go,

00:40:27.440 you try and

00:40:28.420 look for

00:40:29.400 something

00:40:31.260 authentic that

00:40:32.240 speaks to your

00:40:32.900 own history.

00:40:33.740 You can't

00:40:34.240 because the

00:40:34.680 BBC or

00:40:35.620 Netflix have

00:40:36.360 bastardised it.

00:40:37.740 Just the

00:40:38.280 Netflixification

00:40:39.320 of all European

00:40:41.820 history.

00:40:42.820 You also have,

00:40:43.660 of course,

00:40:43.860 the fact that

00:40:44.360 if you are a

00:40:45.200 young upstart

00:40:46.260 with a creative

00:40:46.940 idea and you

00:40:48.300 perhaps don't

00:40:49.200 have the actual

00:40:49.900 money to front

00:40:51.200 it and bring

00:40:51.700 your vision to

00:40:52.320 life, you can

00:40:53.240 apply to the

00:40:53.840 Arts Council,

00:40:54.540 but you're not

00:40:55.320 going to get a

00:40:56.060 fair hearing if

00:40:57.760 you're not

00:40:58.220 radically

00:40:58.700 progressive.

00:40:59.820 And, you

00:41:00.140 know, I just

00:41:00.640 think back to

00:41:01.820 my own days at

00:41:03.080 drama school when

00:41:03.820 I was at uni

00:41:04.420 there, and I

00:41:05.260 mean this

00:41:05.740 sincerely, none

00:41:06.520 of it is to

00:41:07.120 disparage the

00:41:08.740 people that I

00:41:09.700 met there and

00:41:10.260 that I, you

00:41:10.640 know, just spent

00:41:11.160 my day-to-day

00:41:12.020 goings-on with

00:41:12.840 in the classes

00:41:13.460 because they

00:41:14.000 were really

00:41:14.360 nice people,

00:41:15.560 you know, and

00:41:15.920 I respect them

00:41:16.500 immensely, but

00:41:17.360 what I am

00:41:17.900 saying is that

00:41:18.660 you know exactly

00:41:19.520 the type of

00:41:20.480 theatre and

00:41:21.900 politics that

00:41:23.260 they were

00:41:23.660 inevitably going

00:41:24.440 to create.

00:41:25.400 And it's

00:41:25.760 certainly not

00:41:26.460 something that

00:41:27.240 speaks to

00:41:28.220 reform voters,

00:41:30.660 disgruntled

00:41:31.220 working-class

00:41:31.940 Englishmen, or

00:41:33.220 just actually any

00:41:34.320 of the key

00:41:35.180 demographics in

00:41:36.680 the country that

00:41:37.600 we should actually

00:41:38.460 be caring about

00:41:39.400 and trying to

00:41:40.460 elevate and,

00:41:41.460 you know,

00:41:42.020 help.

00:41:42.500 You know, I

00:41:43.740 don't watch

00:41:44.340 films beyond

00:41:45.080 2012, but

00:41:47.120 there's some in

00:41:47.940 2014 that I'll

00:41:48.940 allow that are

00:41:49.500 quite good, but

00:41:50.080 2012 is when you

00:41:51.320 had like Margin

00:41:52.080 Call, Warrior,

00:41:53.540 you had Money

00:41:54.100 Ball, 2014 you

00:41:55.680 had the drop,

00:41:56.640 after that I

00:41:57.220 just don't,

00:41:57.620 that's because of

00:41:58.060 the woke cut-off

00:41:59.420 where it just

00:41:59.760 becomes unbearable.

00:42:00.840 Yeah.

00:42:01.320 In theatre, I

00:42:02.060 don't, I mean,

00:42:02.880 I don't even go

00:42:03.420 anyway, but it

00:42:04.240 must be just the

00:42:05.100 same.

00:42:05.540 Andrew Dawes told

00:42:06.120 me it's almost

00:42:06.880 worse in theatre

00:42:07.620 than anywhere.

00:42:08.340 Oh, definitely,

00:42:09.340 definitely.

00:42:10.720 And so, this is,

00:42:11.720 but this is, oh,

00:42:12.640 hello there.

00:42:13.560 I'll try and

00:42:14.400 refresh that one.

00:42:16.540 This is why, oh,

00:42:17.680 there we go.

00:42:18.360 This is why I, part

00:42:19.760 of the reason why I

00:42:21.180 pitched Chronicles as

00:42:22.640 a series when I first

00:42:23.680 joined the Lotus

00:42:24.280 Eaters in the first

00:42:25.100 place, not only so

00:42:26.620 that people could

00:42:28.060 learn about all of

00:42:29.300 these great texts

00:42:31.180 from the Western

00:42:32.000 canon, and you can

00:42:33.300 see here we've got

00:42:34.080 all sorts of stuff.

00:42:35.040 I go back to the

00:42:35.620 beginning, we've got

00:42:36.260 Beowulf, we've got

00:42:37.240 Dickens, Stelios and

00:42:39.060 I recently did one

00:42:40.020 talking all about a

00:42:40.920 play by Niccolo

00:42:41.800 Machiavelli himself,

00:42:43.800 where we talked about

00:42:44.900 that, and you see as

00:42:46.220 well in the way that

00:42:46.940 Machiavelli writes that

00:42:48.260 play, he is looking

00:42:50.380 back at the ancient,

00:42:52.380 at antiquity, and,

00:42:53.920 you know, the Roman

00:42:54.600 Republic, and he's

00:42:55.960 trying to craft in the

00:42:57.660 Renaissance period a

00:42:59.380 play that adheres to

00:43:00.540 the form and themes of

00:43:03.740 antiquity.

00:43:05.160 He's trying to write

00:43:05.840 comedy based on

00:43:07.400 Terence and Plautus,

00:43:08.700 right, and so there's

00:43:09.540 this sense of

00:43:10.660 inheritance and

00:43:11.580 continuity there, and

00:43:13.220 that is what part of

00:43:14.360 the reason why art is

00:43:15.500 so bad these days is

00:43:17.400 because we've severed

00:43:18.640 that continuity and

00:43:20.560 said, no, all that

00:43:21.720 matters now is, like,

00:43:23.520 my particular, like,

00:43:25.640 narcissistic interest.

00:43:27.100 Yeah, and the other

00:43:27.480 reason, of course, is

00:43:28.060 because the left don't

00:43:29.460 believe in objective

00:43:30.600 beauty, so you look at

00:43:32.060 the contrast between

00:43:33.020 Roger Scruton's

00:43:33.900 documentary, Why Beauty

00:43:34.920 Matters, and the

00:43:36.120 series on modern art,

00:43:37.160 The Shock of the

00:43:37.680 New, you see that,

00:43:38.840 you know, the idea

00:43:39.980 that beauty is

00:43:40.520 something to be

00:43:40.920 aspired to, and it's

00:43:41.800 quite hard to get to

00:43:42.600 in art, you have to

00:43:43.160 become a master like

00:43:44.120 Titian or Caravaggio

00:43:45.480 versus making a urinal

00:43:47.260 and just saying that's

00:43:48.260 art now, like Duchamp

00:43:49.200 did.

00:43:49.740 You see that, that's a

00:43:50.600 complete splitting.

00:43:51.620 Yeah.

00:43:51.780 It's quite ironic.

00:43:52.260 Actually, like, a rap

00:43:53.140 music video is up there

00:43:54.600 with a red band or

00:43:55.620 something.

00:43:55.860 Yeah, right, right.

00:43:56.340 And it's quite ironic

00:43:56.900 you've got The Wasteland

00:43:57.580 because, of course, to

00:43:58.180 people like C.S.

00:43:58.900 Lewis, that was

00:43:59.920 decadent and sort of

00:44:02.620 tied with the

00:44:03.300 decline in values, and

00:44:04.660 he didn't buy into all

00:44:05.560 that modernism.

00:44:06.400 Yeah.

00:44:06.560 So I'm hoping you'll

00:44:07.280 have some C.S.

00:44:07.780 Lewis in here as well.

00:44:08.940 Oh, definitely.

00:44:09.620 I just read the

00:44:10.200 Ransom trilogy, so I'd

00:44:11.980 recommend that.

00:44:12.700 But anyway.

00:44:13.320 Well, actually, but

00:44:13.880 let's just talk about

00:44:16.640 something from The

00:44:17.440 Wasteland, actually, just

00:44:18.620 for a second, because

00:44:19.320 it is relevant as well,

00:44:20.580 because you just

00:44:21.180 mentioned the fact that

00:44:21.980 there was a lot of

00:44:22.740 people at the time

00:44:24.000 didn't like Elliot's

00:44:25.060 The Wasteland, right?

00:44:26.000 They saw this

00:44:26.440 modernist style as a

00:44:28.660 bastardization, and they

00:44:29.780 saw it as, you know,

00:44:30.640 not adhering to the

00:44:32.820 old forms, and so

00:44:33.960 Elliot is trying to

00:44:35.340 create something new

00:44:36.420 to speak to modernity,

00:44:39.120 right?

00:44:39.360 He's trying to write a

00:44:41.020 modernist poem, because

00:44:42.220 ultimately, a lot of the

00:44:44.120 romanticist poets of the

00:44:45.800 Victorian era, and, you

00:44:47.220 know, those just before

00:44:48.200 as well with people like

00:44:49.140 Shelley and Byron, you

00:44:50.640 know, society had

00:44:52.300 changed so much that

00:44:54.540 that old literature

00:44:55.540 wasn't able to speak to

00:44:56.980 the present moment

00:44:57.940 anymore in a way that

00:44:59.500 people could see it

00:45:00.380 reflected in their own

00:45:02.040 lives, and so I fully

00:45:04.140 accept that The Wasteland

00:45:05.200 is very much a question

00:45:06.360 of taste, and it's not

00:45:08.180 to everyone's, but as

00:45:09.080 an example, art needs to

00:45:11.580 simultaneously move

00:45:13.480 forward and push

00:45:14.280 boundaries, but it also

00:45:15.480 has to show a reverence

00:45:17.520 for what came forward.

00:45:18.580 Well, it doesn't need

00:45:18.720 to, that's one type of

00:45:19.680 art, and of course

00:45:20.440 Lewis and Tolkien were

00:45:21.640 rebelling against that

00:45:22.520 and saying, no, no, we

00:45:23.140 want to go back to the

00:45:23.740 old myths and the old

00:45:24.780 stories with Lord of the

00:45:26.180 Rings and all of

00:45:27.360 Lewis's work, partly in

00:45:29.020 rebellion to people like

00:45:29.980 Eliot, but I know what

00:45:30.700 you mean, even now, of

00:45:31.800 course, Eliot would

00:45:32.420 seem like high art and

00:45:33.320 high culture, to them it

00:45:34.820 seemed like decline and

00:45:36.380 something that we didn't

00:45:38.360 want, but now, yeah, we'd

00:45:39.640 be desperate for an

00:45:40.320 Eliot, because it

00:45:41.040 relatively, of course, it

00:45:42.120 still seems, you know, very

00:45:43.520 high level.

00:45:44.340 And the final thing I'd

00:45:45.700 just say about Chronicles

00:45:46.840 as well is that one of the

00:45:48.340 things that I really wanted

00:45:49.940 to do with it was not just

00:45:52.320 to educate people on these

00:45:54.220 particular plays and bits

00:45:55.600 of literature, one of my

00:45:57.800 hopes was that people

00:45:58.920 would take those and

00:46:00.240 actually be inspired by

00:46:01.800 something in them, you

00:46:03.140 know, whether or not you

00:46:04.240 read this one on a

00:46:05.600 medieval German epic on

00:46:07.780 the Nibelungenlied or

00:46:08.940 Shakespeare or ghost

00:46:10.260 stories, right, gothic ghost

00:46:11.740 stories, and think to

00:46:13.180 yourself, oh, that's

00:46:14.240 really interesting, I

00:46:15.300 might try my hand on

00:46:16.520 that, that in some way

00:46:17.840 this series would push

00:46:18.920 people to actually find

00:46:20.780 some creativity to put

00:46:22.240 their own work out there,

00:46:24.020 because it isn't the case

00:46:25.940 that all of the great

00:46:26.920 works of art have already

00:46:28.080 been made or written or

00:46:29.460 painted, you know, we

00:46:31.020 still have the possibility

00:46:33.260 of making them, and I

00:46:34.940 think that this is why

00:46:36.040 it's so important that we

00:46:38.100 support people within our

00:46:39.720 own spheres, right, when

00:46:41.380 we see them doing good

00:46:42.980 things, and so rather than

00:46:45.120 buying your books and your

00:46:46.880 classic novels from places

00:46:48.220 like Amazon, right, who

00:46:50.000 don't have your best

00:46:51.180 interests at heart, you can

00:46:52.700 put your money in places

00:46:53.920 like Oldspeak Bookshop,

00:46:55.400 which is actually, she's

00:46:56.580 very patriotic, she's

00:46:58.700 had very good, some

00:47:00.260 very wonderful one-star

00:47:01.560 reviews from woke

00:47:03.960 customers who've been in

00:47:05.200 there, which is amusing

00:47:07.160 to me, and so.

00:47:08.380 Brilliant, and they also

00:47:08.960 have a whole room of

00:47:09.760 Roger Scruton work that

00:47:11.680 was left of them.

00:47:12.160 Scruton, Starkey, yeah,

00:47:13.460 lots and lots of.

00:47:14.800 I think the Scruton

00:47:15.340 stuff is like unique

00:47:16.100 because I think it was

00:47:16.660 left to that bookshop,

00:47:18.260 and some of it you can't

00:47:19.120 get anywhere else, that's

00:47:20.100 my understanding.

00:47:20.820 Right, and so, you know,

00:47:22.380 but because I get

00:47:23.000 reminded by stuff like

00:47:24.760 this, I was in London

00:47:26.700 one time, God help me,

00:47:28.480 and around the corner

00:47:29.800 from King's Cross

00:47:30.760 Station there was a

00:47:31.560 bookshop there, and you

00:47:32.760 know me, I'm always one

00:47:33.860 to go in the bookshop,

00:47:34.800 and I went in there, and

00:47:36.080 all of the literature,

00:47:37.740 all of it, you know,

00:47:38.640 the fiction and non-fiction,

00:47:40.180 it was all left-wing,

00:47:41.960 right, all of the

00:47:42.860 literature was left-wing,

00:47:44.240 and so if they're going

00:47:45.400 to play that game, you

00:47:46.940 need to set up an

00:47:47.800 alternative, and again,

00:47:48.940 that's one reason why

00:47:49.980 it'd be great to support

00:47:51.140 Oldspeak Bookshop, for

00:47:53.180 example.

00:47:54.000 Yeah, I used to work

00:47:54.900 in London's oldest

00:47:55.540 bookshop, which is

00:47:56.100 Foils, which was great,

00:47:57.460 but then, as you say, if

00:47:58.840 you're going to like a

00:47:59.240 Waterstones in North

00:48:00.040 London, you'll just be

00:48:00.900 hit with Antifa, this,

00:48:02.560 Black Lives Matter,

00:48:03.220 that, everything by

00:48:04.380 women only in the

00:48:05.380 fiction section.

00:48:06.560 That's another thing,

00:48:07.060 people are like, oh,

00:48:07.520 men don't read fiction,

00:48:08.300 it's like, because it's

00:48:09.000 going to be completely

00:48:09.460 hijacked by women.

00:48:10.800 Men are the, most of

00:48:11.980 the great fiction writers

00:48:12.820 are men, very lately

00:48:14.580 it's been hijacked by

00:48:15.660 women, but it's decided

00:48:16.900 that men don't read

00:48:17.580 fiction.

00:48:17.960 Anyway, sorry to hijack

00:48:19.400 you.

00:48:19.760 That's all right, and so

00:48:21.000 really what all of this

00:48:22.340 is building to, friends,

00:48:23.460 is that you have an

00:48:24.660 opportunity to use your

00:48:27.540 own creativity and write

00:48:29.180 something that can come

00:48:30.600 to the fore.

00:48:31.340 So we have here by the

00:48:32.600 great Old Sovereign

00:48:33.580 Publishing House, the

00:48:35.540 great Panathenaia, the

00:48:38.020 event of 2026.

00:48:39.720 So what they're asking

00:48:40.540 for is to write an act

00:48:41.920 for a play based on the

00:48:43.140 work of Plutarch and

00:48:44.700 draft a simple scene for

00:48:46.100 the rest.

00:48:46.820 There is $2,500 prize

00:48:49.580 money for the winner,

00:48:50.960 along with a publishing

00:48:52.200 contract with them, and

00:48:53.520 the two finalists will

00:48:54.540 have their act performed

00:48:55.760 on an actual London

00:48:57.340 stage, and the winner

00:48:58.620 will be announced by

00:48:59.600 popular acclimation.

00:49:01.620 I'm sure there'll be

00:49:02.380 boisterous clapping all

00:49:03.640 around in the theatre,

00:49:04.780 on the floor, and this

00:49:06.820 you will have until the

00:49:08.420 spring to complete the

00:49:09.500 play for publication, and

00:49:11.340 all details about the

00:49:12.540 event are on their

00:49:13.640 website, so if you reach

00:49:15.080 out then submissions need

00:49:17.000 to be in by the 3rd of

00:49:18.060 August, and I think

00:49:19.440 that stuff like this is

00:49:21.180 a magnificent initiative

00:49:22.600 because it's someone,

00:49:24.620 it's something where

00:49:25.420 you're not immediately

00:49:26.560 prone to censorship, it's

00:49:28.860 something that's actually,

00:49:30.260 as they say, drawing on

00:49:31.420 something from classical

00:49:32.580 antiquity as well, and

00:49:34.440 not in a bastardised way

00:49:37.140 as they, you know, do it

00:49:38.520 today, which we'll come to

00:49:40.200 just now actually, because

00:49:41.360 the old Sovereign Publishing

00:49:43.220 did a, had an interview with

00:49:45.180 The Telegraph, which is

00:49:46.900 also not loading.

00:49:50.000 Oh, great.

00:49:50.640 It is crucial, while you're

00:49:51.900 loading that, I'll just say

00:49:52.560 it is crucial we do these

00:49:53.440 things because the left

00:49:54.580 completely controls culture,

00:49:56.340 and it's really important

00:49:56.860 to have art that isn't

00:49:57.760 necessarily just making an

00:49:58.920 overt political point, but

00:50:00.660 it's sort of broadly, you

00:50:02.280 know, but it's not

00:50:02.880 leftist.

00:50:03.720 Yeah, you'd be able to try

00:50:04.920 and refresh that for me,

00:50:05.820 Harry, mate.

00:50:06.380 I'll be able to read from

00:50:07.900 here in the meantime.

00:50:09.680 It says,

00:50:10.160 A publishing house is

00:50:11.420 hoping to dislodge

00:50:12.600 overtly political plays

00:50:14.240 from London's theatre

00:50:15.340 scene.

00:50:16.500 Playwrights have been, as

00:50:17.700 I've said, everything that

00:50:18.960 I've just done previously.

00:50:20.460 Ah, thank you.

00:50:21.840 Old Sovereign Publishing,

00:50:23.180 a company specialising in

00:50:24.680 classic literature, has

00:50:26.740 put up the money for a

00:50:27.660 writing competition.

00:50:29.160 George Carter, the

00:50:30.100 company's director, told

00:50:31.280 The Telegraph,

00:50:32.300 We are hoping to take

00:50:33.320 back the stage from the

00:50:34.440 agiprop and overtly

00:50:35.680 political nature of most

00:50:37.420 modern theatre and stage

00:50:38.760 to a more serious form

00:50:40.400 that is focused on the

00:50:41.580 stage as a place to

00:50:43.080 perform art.

00:50:44.440 He added that much of

00:50:45.500 British theatre was

00:50:46.440 navel-gazing, sometimes

00:50:48.120 supported with state

00:50:49.280 funding distributed by the

00:50:50.940 Arts Council of England,

00:50:52.660 as I spoke about earlier,

00:50:54.560 and it goes on to give

00:50:56.740 examples of the types of

00:50:59.000 theatre that we are up

00:51:00.480 against, right, in our

00:51:02.060 modern times.

00:51:02.940 So it says,

00:51:03.600 The Royal Court Theatre,

00:51:05.120 which receives some

00:51:06.060 taxpayer funding, has

00:51:07.480 recently staged a

00:51:08.760 for black boys who

00:51:10.000 have considered suicide

00:51:11.180 when the hue gets too

00:51:12.500 heavy, a play basically

00:51:14.240 about black men and

00:51:15.480 therapy, and I'm not

00:51:16.840 suggesting for a second

00:51:17.960 that obviously black men

00:51:19.940 shouldn't have therapy,

00:51:21.440 but what I am saying is

00:51:22.780 this type of play would

00:51:26.340 get put on and would get

00:51:27.620 Arts Council backing,

00:51:29.180 but if you were to put on

00:51:30.580 something, say, called,

00:51:31.820 and again, I hate to do it,

00:51:33.060 Nick, but for white boys who

00:51:34.920 have considered suicide,

00:51:36.300 right, you know that that

00:51:37.880 play would never get put on

00:51:39.120 the stage.

00:51:40.040 Even though they have much

00:51:40.500 higher rates, by the way.

00:51:41.860 Indeed.

00:51:42.540 And a play, yes, and also

00:51:45.260 another play which is about

00:51:47.540 the experience of Israeli

00:51:49.460 Arabs as well.

00:51:51.000 And so the, as I said,

00:51:52.640 there's the NHS play, and

00:51:53.900 this might, you might find

00:51:55.360 this interesting,

00:51:56.180 Stelios, there was

00:51:57.220 recently a rap version of

00:51:59.500 Euripides' The Barcai.

00:52:02.320 I don't want to listen to it.

00:52:03.860 No, me neither.

00:52:04.980 And you'll never have to,

00:52:05.960 my friend.

00:52:07.540 The Almedia Theatre,

00:52:08.980 which is partially

00:52:09.920 subsidised, has staged

00:52:11.600 The New Otherland, a play

00:52:13.440 about a man who

00:52:14.460 initiates a breakup after

00:52:17.480 coming out as a

00:52:18.360 transgender woman.

00:52:19.960 Obviously, you've got

00:52:20.920 at the Globe, plays where

00:52:22.900 they make Joan of Arc

00:52:24.020 non-binary, which I find...

00:52:25.960 Sorry, that will tend to

00:52:26.860 initiate a breakup.

00:52:28.480 Yeah, you're right.

00:52:29.280 Yeah, yeah, that'll do

00:52:32.580 it, that'll do it.

00:52:34.560 Sorry, Joan of Arc.

00:52:35.140 You never know.

00:52:38.280 And also, just say, the

00:52:39.600 Globe caused, it says in

00:52:41.400 2022, when they put on

00:52:42.660 iJoan, where they

00:52:44.320 interpreted Joan of Arc as

00:52:46.280 non-binary, and I will

00:52:47.900 just say as well, if you

00:52:49.240 tried to go back in time

00:52:50.900 and explain the concept

00:52:52.300 of non-binary to Joan of

00:52:54.080 Arc, she would burn you

00:52:55.420 as a heretic.

00:52:56.620 So, there's not really

00:52:57.940 much of a kindred spirit

00:52:59.040 in there, is there

00:52:59.840 either.

00:53:00.620 But, on a more sensible

00:53:02.200 note, Mr. Carter said,

00:53:04.360 whatever their merits

00:53:05.200 might be, I doubt anyone

00:53:06.520 will remember them next

00:53:07.640 year, let alone in 10,

00:53:09.180 15, or 100 years.

00:53:11.000 And he hopes that the

00:53:12.660 format will encourage the

00:53:13.980 creation of work in

00:53:15.080 tradition, in the

00:53:16.440 tradition of literary

00:53:17.620 greats, saying, the

00:53:18.880 main impetus is to create

00:53:20.180 something era-defining

00:53:21.740 and worthwhile.

00:53:22.840 The concept takes a cue

00:53:24.160 from Isculus, Shakespeare,

00:53:26.980 and Goethe, who take

00:53:28.540 their historical, at the

00:53:30.560 basis of those from, for

00:53:33.340 so much of their greatest

00:53:34.360 work.

00:53:34.820 Sorry.

00:53:35.640 So, I think that people

00:53:37.260 should really be encouraged

00:53:39.040 to apply for this, right?

00:53:41.100 I think that you should, if

00:53:43.060 you've always been an

00:53:44.420 aspiring writer, if you

00:53:45.620 want to write something and

00:53:47.120 have the opportunity to get

00:53:48.880 it shown, this is a

00:53:50.260 fantastic way to do it.

00:53:51.700 And what's more as well,

00:53:52.620 you're being supported

00:53:53.600 and fronted by very, very

00:53:55.580 good people.

00:53:56.640 And if you are perhaps

00:53:58.060 unsure about doing it, I

00:54:00.340 would just say as well

00:54:01.280 that, in my experience,

00:54:03.180 trite though it is, it is

00:54:05.380 always harder to go from

00:54:06.800 zero to one than it is to

00:54:08.580 go from one to ten, right?

00:54:10.140 Making a start on something

00:54:11.560 like this is always the

00:54:13.880 hardest but most important

00:54:15.300 step.

00:54:16.300 And even if you're not

00:54:18.120 interested in writing in

00:54:20.400 this particular competition,

00:54:23.380 I would still encourage you

00:54:24.600 greatly to support it as

00:54:25.900 well because this is how

00:54:28.240 we win back the culture,

00:54:30.500 right?

00:54:30.860 They have the Arts Council,

00:54:32.480 they have the funding,

00:54:33.780 they don't need any more

00:54:34.780 help, they've got more

00:54:35.740 than enough as it is,

00:54:36.740 right?

00:54:37.180 It's on each and every one

00:54:38.640 of us to build and support

00:54:40.200 one another so that we can

00:54:41.780 put on good theatre, you

00:54:43.660 know, good art and I think

00:54:46.720 that this is a really,

00:54:48.480 really commendable effort

00:54:49.700 from the old Sovereign

00:54:51.300 Publishing House and I

00:54:53.260 hope that you all follow

00:54:54.780 it just as I will.

00:54:58.040 I have wokeness fatigue,

00:54:59.900 man.

00:55:00.320 Right, okay.

00:55:00.940 Well, you were saying all

00:55:03.600 this stuff and I felt my

00:55:05.060 soul being crushed.

00:55:06.680 It's just I can't stand it.

00:55:07.820 That was his aim.

00:55:08.680 This didn't make you

00:55:09.440 hopeful for the future?

00:55:10.500 No, no, it did.

00:55:11.220 I'm talking about the woke

00:55:12.100 stuff.

00:55:12.520 Right.

00:55:13.500 Just one rumble rant from

00:55:15.220 mine from Yuki

00:55:16.300 Waltworth says,

00:55:16.960 the gays certainly have an

00:55:18.400 interest in something I can't

00:55:20.620 read, actually.

00:55:21.420 Funny if you're going to read.

00:55:22.100 I'll leave it there.

00:55:23.000 You started strong and then

00:55:24.040 you're like, oh.

00:55:25.300 I started with such

00:55:26.200 conviction.

00:55:26.800 I'm just, the gays,

00:55:27.560 oh, no, no, no, no, no.

00:55:29.280 Right, okay.

00:55:30.360 Stelios.

00:55:31.120 Right.

00:55:31.660 Tell me all about your

00:55:34.780 romance.

00:55:35.320 There we go.

00:55:36.280 Right, okay.

00:55:36.980 So, I'm exhausted because of

00:55:40.620 hustle culture.

00:55:42.080 Are you exhausted?

00:55:43.420 I'm very fatigued.

00:55:44.900 Are you exhausted?

00:55:45.700 When I find out what it

00:55:46.340 means, I'll decide.

00:55:47.840 The answer is yes.

00:55:49.000 Right.

00:55:49.240 And we have the antidote to

00:55:50.880 hustle culture.

00:55:51.780 Now, a few words about what

00:55:52.840 this is and then we're going to

00:55:54.600 talk about the Euromaxing,

00:55:56.040 which is exactly what you need

00:55:57.480 in your life and what will

00:55:59.280 improve your life and you will

00:56:00.640 actually enjoy it way more.

00:56:02.940 Right, so hustle culture is a

00:56:05.260 problem.

00:56:06.020 It's not just about working

00:56:07.460 hard.

00:56:08.140 It's about the mindset that you

00:56:10.260 are only as good as you work.

00:56:14.040 There is nothing outside of

00:56:16.420 work good in your life and

00:56:17.600 there is a sort of

00:56:18.540 performative productivity there

00:56:20.500 like people go out of the

00:56:21.800 wake 4 a.m. and they say,

00:56:24.140 no, I go to the gym and I'm

00:56:25.580 pumping iron and stuff.

00:56:27.480 The Sigma grind set.

00:56:28.440 I know what you're talking

00:56:28.960 about now.

00:56:29.440 Yeah, and also there's the

00:56:30.860 idea of having no free time

00:56:32.700 and no boundaries between work

00:56:34.780 and free time.

00:56:36.200 It's the side hassle also that

00:56:38.640 your main job isn't the only

00:56:40.420 thing.

00:56:40.800 You need also to monetize your

00:56:42.560 free time, which makes it kind

00:56:44.460 of not free time.

00:56:45.880 Yeah, this became very popular

00:56:46.880 with people like Gary V and all

00:56:48.000 these type of people.

00:56:48.980 It's also not disconnecting from

00:56:50.940 social media.

00:56:51.760 It's being there 24-7, scrolling

00:56:54.540 down all the time, replying all

00:56:56.660 the time, working all the time.

00:56:59.580 That's what it is.

00:57:00.420 And it has several negative

00:57:02.640 effects.

00:57:04.000 It has chronic, it leads to

00:57:07.040 chronic workplace stress that

00:57:09.620 leads to exhaustion and reduce

00:57:11.260 professional efficacy.

00:57:13.000 And also it has diminutive return,

00:57:15.740 diminishing returns.

00:57:17.980 Because research shows that if

00:57:22.940 you, after 50 hours per week, your

00:57:25.700 productivity drops down massively.

00:57:27.800 And if you don't take regular

00:57:29.500 breaks, again, your productivity

00:57:31.380 drops down massively.

00:57:33.660 It's much better to work, let's

00:57:37.580 say, in an eight-hour period.

00:57:39.840 If you take two breaks in the

00:57:42.380 middle, let's say, two and a half

00:57:44.240 hours and then again the other two

00:57:45.660 and a half hours, it's much better

00:57:47.720 than if you work eight hours

00:57:49.180 straight.

00:57:49.660 And if you just...

00:57:50.380 the brain fog.

00:57:51.740 And if you take a break just

00:57:53.360 between the hours of nine and

00:57:55.040 five, just for the whole time.

00:57:57.180 Exactly.

00:57:57.700 That's even better.

00:57:58.740 Right.

00:57:59.460 When I've listened to these

00:58:00.460 entrepreneurial people, sorry, I

00:58:01.660 didn't know where you were going

00:58:02.240 with it at first because I didn't

00:58:02.960 see the link with Euromaxing, but

00:58:04.140 I'm sure we'll get there.

00:58:04.900 But when I've heard these

00:58:06.080 entrepreneurial people, they

00:58:07.120 always say they do like four

00:58:08.660 hours just solid in the morning,

00:58:09.940 no distractions, no window open.

00:58:11.660 And they do four hours.

00:58:12.960 But that's when their brain is

00:58:14.280 most awake.

00:58:15.540 And then that's it.

00:58:16.260 They're just focusing on their

00:58:17.660 main thing.

00:58:18.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:58:19.380 But it's also...

00:58:20.740 Deep work.

00:58:21.320 It's another way of looking at

00:58:23.580 life, which is a very

00:58:25.480 unsatisfying life.

00:58:27.100 It's the kind of...

00:58:27.480 Have you watched the movies

00:58:28.260 where they said that there are

00:58:29.680 two days a billionaire enjoys

00:58:31.560 their yacht when they buy it

00:58:33.100 and when they sell it?

00:58:33.900 Yeah, yeah.

00:58:34.300 Just they don't enjoy having

00:58:35.580 it and using it.

00:58:36.900 It's this kind of mentality.

00:58:38.340 Get these funny morning

00:58:39.640 routines as well, don't you?

00:58:40.660 Wake up at 4.30, have my

00:58:42.100 electrolytes, get slapped in

00:58:43.820 the face by a woman I employ.

00:58:45.940 You know what I mean?

00:58:46.240 All that sort of thing.

00:58:47.280 Yeah.

00:58:47.520 The kind of Chris Williams

00:58:48.320 and stuff.

00:58:48.640 Someone should tell Carl,

00:58:49.800 by the way, because all he

00:58:50.420 does is work.

00:58:51.040 He'll work here, do two shows.

00:58:52.520 I get home, he's already

00:58:53.260 uploaded several videos.

00:58:54.500 I'm like, how is he doing it?

00:58:55.840 Someone else said this to me

00:58:56.680 the other day.

00:58:57.180 No one knows how he's doing it.

00:58:58.180 He needs Euromaxing.

00:58:59.500 He's not a clone.

00:58:59.920 And it's another way of viewing life

00:59:02.020 which links success with wealth

00:59:04.080 and status.

00:59:04.620 Also, it messes up with your coffee

00:59:07.160 habits because you don't sit down

00:59:09.360 to enjoy coffee.

00:59:10.640 You go and get a cup of coffee

00:59:12.180 just to drink it while you're

00:59:13.860 working.

00:59:14.480 So it's just an accompaniment to

00:59:16.600 working.

00:59:17.120 Everything becomes an...

00:59:18.840 Coffee to go.

00:59:19.960 You're not just sitting there with it.

00:59:21.220 Exactly.

00:59:21.900 Exactly.

00:59:22.540 Not very Greek or zero free time.

00:59:24.780 All of it is time for the side

00:59:26.180 hassle and monetizing your stuff.

00:59:28.860 And it's always...

00:59:29.620 It's about working all the time.

00:59:31.300 And...

00:59:31.460 What do you do if you have

00:59:32.020 nothing else in your life?

00:59:33.000 Asking for a friend.

00:59:34.680 I'll tell you.

00:59:35.600 I'll tell you.

00:59:36.220 Actually, there's quite a lot to be

00:59:37.620 doing.

00:59:38.020 Okay, brilliant.

00:59:38.760 And this segment is about that.

00:59:40.360 Right.

00:59:40.680 So Gen Z has cut down on their

00:59:43.780 effort at work because they do not

00:59:45.540 think it is worth it if they

00:59:47.320 cannot afford long-term financial

00:59:49.680 goals.

00:59:50.740 So it isn't just that people say

00:59:52.920 that it's not a rewarding

00:59:54.120 lifestyle on its own.

00:59:55.620 It also doesn't tend to lead to

00:59:57.960 the success it promises.

00:59:59.880 And it also tends to create a

01:00:01.620 very...

01:00:02.520 Let's say a feeling of guilt.

01:00:05.340 Like anything that if you don't

01:00:07.780 have success and if you're not a

01:00:09.400 billionaire, it's 100% your fault.

01:00:12.080 And it was 100% up to you.

01:00:14.800 And you're just someone who isn't

01:00:17.900 a worthy person.

01:00:19.500 So Gen Z has a much more different

01:00:22.340 approach to work or at least the

01:00:24.500 tendency within it is different.

01:00:25.920 They can't afford a house anyway,

01:00:27.280 whatever they do.

01:00:28.100 Yeah.

01:00:28.720 So if you...

01:00:30.480 Could I please have the mouse,

01:00:31.560 please?

01:00:32.140 Yeah.

01:00:32.440 Oh, yeah.

01:00:32.780 Sure.

01:00:32.880 They say also that it isn't just

01:00:34.740 that.

01:00:35.020 It's an issue that...

01:00:36.300 You remember some years ago the

01:00:38.100 promise about the ease with which

01:00:41.440 we could strike a work and free time

01:00:43.960 balance, work-life balance, is just

01:00:47.060 complete nonsense.

01:00:47.780 Now almost no one has work-life

01:00:51.060 balance.

01:00:51.400 And tell us in the comments if you

01:00:53.220 do and if you don't.

01:00:54.440 Just tell us.

01:00:55.260 And they've talked about...

01:00:56.220 I don't know if they brought it in,

01:00:56.960 but they've talked about these rules

01:00:57.720 where your boss isn't allowed to

01:00:59.060 contact you.

01:00:59.920 It's kind of like...

01:01:00.540 They probably brought it in in

01:01:01.220 France.

01:01:01.560 Have you heard these rules where

01:01:02.240 your boss is not allowed to contact

01:01:03.360 you between certain hours?

01:01:05.340 Really?

01:01:05.780 No.

01:01:06.080 This was something being proposed.

01:01:07.720 I can't remember if it came in or

01:01:08.720 not.

01:01:09.220 That they would actually bring a ban on

01:01:10.600 it.

01:01:10.800 Because, yeah, obviously now you can

01:01:11.840 just be messaged at any time.

01:01:13.960 Anyway.

01:01:14.120 And we have rising depression rates,

01:01:16.880 especially, for instance, in the

01:01:18.600 whole world.

01:01:19.240 But here is just...

01:01:20.820 In Europe, you see, for instance, in

01:01:22.240 France, they say it's very depressed.

01:01:23.900 They say young individual, one out of

01:01:25.820 10 are depressed.

01:01:27.720 An older individual, 15.6%.

01:01:30.400 It tends to be high.

01:01:33.380 In Germany, 9.1% young individuals

01:01:36.580 are depressed.

01:01:37.780 7.4% of older individuals depressed.

01:01:41.320 It seems like we've lost it.

01:01:43.640 We've lost balance.

01:01:45.240 And there is a kind of feeling here,

01:01:48.160 like you see this clip from Mads that

01:01:51.080 says, driving to my 9 to 5 job while

01:01:54.520 drag dealers and 8-year-old YouTubers

01:01:57.740 are buying their third property.

01:01:59.900 And there is also the other bit is that

01:02:01.380 there is no 9 to 5 work.

01:02:04.100 9 to 5 is 7.30 to 6.30.

01:02:07.360 At best.

01:02:08.160 At best.

01:02:09.160 It's just there's no 9 to 5 work.

01:02:11.000 And if you also want to go to the gym or

01:02:12.740 something, your whole day is off.

01:02:14.960 Yeah, those, sorry to interrupt, I always

01:02:16.960 feel like I'm interrupting.

01:02:17.720 Those physical jobs start to look more

01:02:19.920 appealing, like construction, where you

01:02:22.400 can, this is like the film Office Space,

01:02:23.940 where you end up doing construction instead

01:02:25.020 of an office job.

01:02:25.520 You can't really take that home with you

01:02:26.900 when you're on a building site.

01:02:28.500 It just sort of ends.

01:02:29.600 Anyway, go on.

01:02:30.000 So now we have the antidote to household culture.

01:02:33.460 And this antidote is Euromaxing, also known in

01:02:36.720 some circles as soft living.

01:02:39.100 Now, we are going to have lots of fun with this

01:02:41.480 because it's actually a very fun way of viewing

01:02:43.600 life.

01:02:44.560 And we are also going to talk about perhaps my

01:02:47.400 favorite account on X, Mads.

01:02:50.100 Towards the end, we're going to have lots of fun

01:02:52.100 with it because it's just genius.

01:02:54.740 Mads, thank you for your service, sir.

01:02:56.220 And it's one of the fastest growing accounts on X.

01:02:59.060 So I think he went from 60k to 120k in no time.

01:03:03.060 Look, it's just this.

01:03:04.020 This is from about 10 days ago.

01:03:06.280 It has 375k.

01:03:09.100 Let's help him a bit.

01:03:10.520 Maybe he needs an extra like.

01:03:12.460 Right.

01:03:13.860 Okay.

01:03:14.540 So the queue is Euromaxing.

01:03:16.980 And we are going to show you first the aesthetics

01:03:19.500 of Euromaxing.

01:03:21.120 Here is just enjoying the sunshine while being

01:03:23.900 effortlessly stylish in a European aficionado

01:03:29.020 of high culture sense of being a natural aristocrat

01:03:32.300 where you can just enjoy the sunshine,

01:03:35.260 enjoy a drink, just be there.

01:03:37.200 Also enjoy reading a good book or a good magazine.

01:03:40.760 And speaking of good magazines,

01:03:42.240 you could Euromax with Islander No. 5.

01:03:45.140 It's only $14.99.

01:03:47.180 It's the fifth issue of our magazine.

01:03:52.720 Rory has made an excellent job here.

01:03:55.000 He has even a comic inside this magazine.

01:03:58.240 It has an interview with Rupert Lowe

01:04:00.140 and also articles by Carl, by Luca here.

01:04:04.800 Oh, hi.

01:04:05.100 Rory is truly a Morgoth's review, academic agent.

01:04:10.180 So if you want to, you can Euromax with Islander No. 5 as well.

01:04:14.040 Only $14.99.

01:04:15.300 Now let's watch more about the aesthetics.

01:04:18.680 You can also Euromax against digital ID.

01:04:21.440 You can just effortlessly be in nature and just love it.

01:04:26.180 Not being there, not trying to think of anything

01:04:28.440 other than just enjoying it.

01:04:30.080 Look at this.

01:04:30.640 This is like...

01:04:31.440 Turn your phone off.

01:04:32.340 Take the picture, turn your phone off.

01:04:35.140 It's a bit ironic because I took the picture

01:04:37.520 and I posted it that I wanted to do.

01:04:39.780 But I just wanted to show you just...

01:04:42.040 You can go out and you can actually enjoy the view.

01:04:45.180 Why?

01:04:45.540 Because if you're in hustle culture,

01:04:48.160 you don't enjoy beauty around you.

01:04:50.340 Because as Schopenhauer said,

01:04:52.840 the beauty of a bridge is completely not present

01:04:57.520 to the person who is in a haste.

01:04:59.460 So if you're not in a haste

01:05:00.880 and you're in a different frame of mind

01:05:02.760 where you don't always think about job,

01:05:05.100 maybe your job,

01:05:06.620 maybe you're going to open your eyes

01:05:08.340 and look at the beauty around you.

01:05:10.560 Look at this also.

01:05:11.620 The only problem with this is I went back to the lakes

01:05:13.220 where I'm from.

01:05:13.800 I put up a photo,

01:05:14.960 hundreds of people just saying,

01:05:16.000 where's the mosque, mate?

01:05:16.760 Or it just needs a mosque, including Carl.

01:05:18.760 I was like, guys, how blackpilled are you people?

01:05:20.900 I remember that.

01:05:21.260 I can't put a single picture of the lakes

01:05:24.340 without like hundreds of like,

01:05:25.740 where's the mosque?

01:05:26.800 I'm like, you guys,

01:05:27.500 you've lost in your own mind.

01:05:28.880 Stop being terminally online.

01:05:30.940 Go out and enjoy the lovely English countryside.

01:05:34.700 We've done a segment together.

01:05:36.580 Yeah, we did.

01:05:37.160 Yeah, we're talking all about our favorite places.

01:05:38.900 We showed you the beauty of the country.

01:05:40.700 Right.

01:05:40.980 So it also has a nice aesthetic here.

01:05:45.140 You can just,

01:05:46.300 it's romanticizing the mundane.

01:05:48.680 Sit down,

01:05:49.960 have a coffee,

01:05:51.100 enjoy the sunshine,

01:05:52.540 have a nice walk.

01:05:54.500 Don't constantly think about working.

01:05:57.760 Right here we have,

01:05:58.660 just look at this aesthetics.

01:06:00.640 It's also about an aesthetic revolution.

01:06:03.040 It is.

01:06:03.820 It is.

01:06:04.360 Right?

01:06:04.760 It's a revolution of the soul.

01:06:06.800 It is.

01:06:07.580 Also here, look at this.

01:06:08.700 You're a maxing.

01:06:09.880 Look at these waters here.

01:06:11.440 Ah, yes.

01:06:12.300 Yeah.

01:06:12.560 It's just like Cleethorpes.

01:06:14.420 It reminds me of some places here.

01:06:15.820 You can just have some nice pasta here.

01:06:18.680 Look at this.

01:06:19.480 Just enjoy things around you.

01:06:22.500 Right.

01:06:22.960 Now,

01:06:23.820 there's actually lots of work behind this

01:06:26.380 because I initially thought it was just an issue

01:06:28.620 having to do with Mads and that account.

01:06:31.420 But turns out there's an enormous philosophical literature.

01:06:34.580 Actually, there is.

01:06:35.560 Yeah, right.

01:06:36.040 And it links in some respects to Epicurus,

01:06:38.740 the Hellenistic philosopher.

01:06:40.360 But we aren't going to talk about the Epicurus that much here.

01:06:43.880 We are going to talk about Guy Bourdin,

01:06:46.680 who was an American who was very famous

01:06:49.840 and he traveled the world and he had a message to give us.

01:06:53.880 And, you know, you see him here sitting

01:06:56.660 and enjoying the sunshine, a coffee and a baguette.

01:07:00.100 And some cigarettes.

01:07:00.960 And some cigarettes.

01:07:01.860 A bit of loose change.

01:07:02.960 And they make fun of him a bit here.

01:07:05.020 They say, woke up, walked to the cafe,

01:07:07.460 sat there with friends for two hours,

01:07:09.640 went to have lunch with them,

01:07:11.300 having coffee again with no intention to work today.

01:07:14.260 I'm Euromaxing.

01:07:15.900 Aspirational.

01:07:16.340 And there is a sort of message that was here in Bourdin's philosophy

01:07:22.840 and they say that it has been forgotten.

01:07:28.580 Let me just say it's that he had the threefold message.

01:07:31.980 It is, don't just consume food, enjoy food.

01:07:35.060 The same with life.

01:07:36.800 Don't follow the herd.

01:07:38.560 Get off the tour bus and go your own way.

01:07:41.340 And three, don't give your money to the corporate change.

01:07:44.040 Give it to someone who puts their heart and soul

01:07:46.520 into the food they create.

01:07:48.220 You don't have to be a commie to enjoy this message.

01:07:51.560 Because in some respects, yes, it's absolutely the case

01:07:55.560 that the corporatization of our lives and the environment

01:07:59.060 is fueling this hassle of culture.

01:08:04.580 Yes.

01:08:04.860 And the point is, it's not gaining money

01:08:07.740 in order to buy free time and freedom.

01:08:09.700 It's not gaining money in order to feel bad

01:08:12.600 about not having enough money.

01:08:14.300 So money has to be a means to an end.

01:08:16.680 It's not the end.

01:08:18.060 And it looks like lots of people are treating it as the end.

01:08:21.420 Here we have just, you know, the Macron memes.

01:08:24.200 Yeah.

01:08:24.620 We're making fun of Macron now.

01:08:26.480 They put him in the Bourdin meme here.

01:08:29.840 Just, yeah, just ridiculous.

01:08:32.120 Sorry.

01:08:33.220 Right.

01:08:33.620 So let's have a look at also the people

01:08:36.440 who are making fun of it a bit.

01:08:37.900 They're saying Euromaxxing is wake up without an alarm,

01:08:41.480 meet with friends for coffee,

01:08:42.680 have lunch with the same friends,

01:08:44.760 start day drinking, do nothing else.

01:08:47.560 It's a sort of backlash against the idea of constantly working.

01:08:52.620 But you can find the middle, the balance.

01:08:56.240 It sounds like Euromaxxing is just my 20s.

01:08:58.820 That's what it sounds like when you're in your 20s.

01:09:00.780 Hang your 30s, hang your 40s, hang your 50s.

01:09:03.800 You can't live like that now.

01:09:04.780 Do you miss your 20s, though?

01:09:06.500 I do miss that aspect of, like, these formless days

01:09:08.740 that can have a sense of adventure

01:09:10.000 rather than just grinding out work, which is all I do now, yeah.

01:09:13.800 Is it?

01:09:14.480 Yeah.

01:09:14.780 Yeah.

01:09:15.020 So I do miss it.

01:09:15.620 But I am going to make a counter segment

01:09:17.280 called Protestant guilt maxing,

01:09:19.940 which is just about work ethic and guilt

01:09:22.040 because, you see, you need that.

01:09:23.740 The reason we're great as Anglos

01:09:26.100 is because we have that guilt

01:09:27.120 and we have to get stuff done.

01:09:28.000 We couldn't just sit around all day

01:09:29.320 like the Spanish or something.

01:09:31.040 I went with the Spanish because he's here.

01:09:32.940 But anyway, carry on.

01:09:35.160 No, I just want to say about this

01:09:36.500 because I actually have a response to you.

01:09:38.700 So there was this book by Max Weber,

01:09:41.640 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

01:09:44.020 He was trying to link the Protestant ethic

01:09:46.140 with the rise of capitalism.

01:09:49.520 And it has, to some extent, been a bit superseded.

01:09:53.600 And people have said that.

01:09:54.600 He has a point, but it's not the ultimate thing.

01:09:57.200 But also, one thing is that in the Protestant ethic,

01:09:59.720 you could say, for instance,

01:10:00.580 especially in the Calvinist one,

01:10:02.300 you could say that it's fundamentally a...

01:10:05.220 Now, I know that this won't appeal to the Calvinist,

01:10:08.520 but it's fundamentally a very anxious mindset

01:10:11.720 because you work all the time

01:10:13.600 because you think that if it works,

01:10:16.160 it's a sign that you're not going to burn in hell forever.

01:10:19.220 It's a sign that you have been chosen by God to do this.

01:10:22.160 So isn't it a sort of mentality that,

01:10:25.180 at least in the here and now,

01:10:26.960 let's say, insofar as life on earth is concerned,

01:10:31.640 doesn't it make you a bit less relaxed?

01:10:34.360 Work here now so you can yoromax in heaven.

01:10:36.740 Work now so devils with tridents

01:10:39.540 aren't going to poke your ass for eternity.

01:10:41.320 Yeah, I don't think even it comes from that in my case.

01:10:43.820 I mean, in the Calvinist case, maybe.

01:10:45.360 But there is a general guilt all the time

01:10:47.000 if you're not working.

01:10:47.900 And annoyingly, it's really bad if you're that

01:10:49.180 and you're lazy like me.

01:10:50.660 So at least someone like Carl is actually working

01:10:52.380 and being really productive.

01:10:53.180 The worst is a constant guilt

01:10:54.280 and you're still not doing it.

01:10:56.040 But anyway, so yeah, maybe you're onto something.

01:10:58.420 Right.

01:10:58.760 And so I want to show you now

01:11:00.540 some of the posts by Mads

01:11:03.380 because I think now it's time to just have some fun.

01:11:05.680 And I want to show you...

01:11:07.980 Friday afternoon.

01:11:08.300 It's Friday afternoon.

01:11:09.400 We want to do the segment.

01:11:11.580 Also, this is going to go on YouTube on Sunday evening.

01:11:14.520 Let's have some relaxed stuff.

01:11:16.320 I want to show you how, in some respects,

01:11:18.900 there's this difference between...

01:11:20.280 There's the backlash against this whole hassle culture.

01:11:24.580 So in hassle culture,

01:11:25.700 you constantly have to show how productive you are,

01:11:28.540 how you go to the gym,

01:11:29.800 how you're a gym shark.

01:11:30.720 Like I say now,

01:11:31.740 I did look at this full Mamdani.

01:11:34.720 He can't bench press.

01:11:36.440 Actually, that's actually true.

01:11:38.260 But there's this.

01:11:40.320 And there's...

01:11:41.140 We're going to show you some of the posts by Mads.

01:11:45.280 Just did several sets of some bullshit at the gym.

01:11:48.860 Got no idea which muscles have been targeted.

01:11:53.720 Thanks for me.

01:11:55.320 Here, also.

01:11:56.900 In, as we said, in hassle culture,

01:11:59.180 there's the idea that you're 24-7 available.

01:12:02.020 It says here,

01:12:02.580 sorry, I didn't reply.

01:12:04.020 Me for the last five hours.

01:12:05.920 Just listening to music again.

01:12:08.680 75K likes.

01:12:10.180 It has an appeal.

01:12:11.580 People like...

01:12:11.940 But there is an allure.

01:12:13.120 Yeah.

01:12:13.640 Let's look at this one.

01:12:14.600 It says also now,

01:12:15.320 my phone is always on do not disturb

01:12:17.280 because I am disturbed enough already.

01:12:21.340 Do you like that message, Nick?

01:12:23.200 Yeah, I agree with that message.

01:12:23.980 Relatable.

01:12:24.520 My phone's nearly always on do not disturb.

01:12:26.080 No one even wants to message me.

01:12:27.180 But if they did, they couldn't.

01:12:29.240 Are you 24-7 available?

01:12:31.580 No.

01:12:33.240 Depends.

01:12:34.540 I'm not available.

01:12:36.060 You're not available.

01:12:36.680 He's not one.

01:12:37.420 I don't...

01:12:37.920 I never...

01:12:38.580 Access to you must be scarce.

01:12:40.460 I never have...

01:12:40.980 That's a sign of status.

01:12:42.180 Thank you.

01:12:42.580 I never have notifications on my phone.

01:12:43.760 Who do these people want things to constantly blip at them?

01:12:45.680 I want nothing to attack me ever,

01:12:47.540 to just leave me alone.

01:12:48.660 Yeah.

01:12:49.100 Elon, like my tweet.

01:12:50.100 Do not disturb.

01:12:51.040 Yeah, yeah.

01:12:52.580 These are not my office hours, Elon.

01:12:54.480 Right, okay.

01:12:57.140 Now, he says there is, again, the other difference here

01:13:01.100 between free time in hustle culture becomes zero free time

01:13:06.640 because you have to find ways to monetize it.

01:13:10.120 Here is just the exact opposite,

01:13:11.700 saying staying up late because I don't want my free time to end

01:13:15.100 and tomorrow is the start.

01:13:16.560 I do this all the time.

01:13:17.800 It's a big problem I've got.

01:13:18.720 You're a Euromaxer at heart.

01:13:20.080 I'm a Euromaxer at heart because I'm like,

01:13:21.060 I want to max out the night.

01:13:22.980 I'm like, brilliant.

01:13:23.540 I can watch...

01:13:24.280 Right.

01:13:24.500 I can fit in another film here, stuff like that.

01:13:26.360 But it destroys the next day.

01:13:28.240 Yeah.

01:13:28.480 But it's like, this is my time.

01:13:30.040 Yeah.

01:13:30.180 Yeah.

01:13:30.400 It's like, you know how they say you have the angel and the demon?

01:13:33.280 Yeah.

01:13:33.720 You have the Euromaxer and the Calvinist.

01:13:36.020 The Euromaxer tells you, Nick, Nick, enjoy your free time.

01:13:39.360 They have to say, you're going to burn in hell.

01:13:41.240 I used to get home from GB and he's very late at like 1 a.m.

01:13:44.400 or whatever.

01:13:44.700 I'd be like, right now, this is the only time I can enjoy

01:13:46.580 because I'm finished.

01:13:47.700 Then I'd be up until 5, whatever.

01:13:49.340 Seinfeld also had a great bit about this.

01:13:50.640 You ever hear that Seinfeld bit about night guy

01:13:52.300 doesn't know about morning guy?

01:13:54.260 And he's like, they just don't have any communication.

01:13:56.160 Right.

01:13:56.500 Night guy's like, this will be fine.

01:13:57.660 And morning guy's like, what were you thinking?

01:14:00.460 Sorry.

01:14:01.480 Euromaxing.

01:14:02.120 Now, and there is a very fun thing

01:14:04.980 because now he takes it to the other extreme

01:14:07.240 and he just constantly tells us how he hates work

01:14:10.360 and says here, it's not even procrastination at this point.

01:14:13.580 I'm just not doing it.

01:14:14.900 Now, this account says that it's not run by Mads Mikkelsen,

01:14:19.860 but I like to think that it is.

01:14:21.220 Well, I'm just so pleased, though,

01:14:23.580 that when it came out that you're able to actually

01:14:26.120 just look at the location for all of the accounts online.

01:14:28.740 This account actually is in Denmark as well.

01:14:31.140 Yeah, maybe it is.

01:14:32.680 Oh, thank God.

01:14:34.320 Yeah, because at least it's a Dane.

01:14:36.300 Imagine Euromaxing coming from the Southeast Asia or something.

01:14:40.000 Right.

01:14:40.520 It's just, yeah.

01:14:41.620 Cambodian.

01:14:42.220 Yeah, Pakistan is Euromaxing or something.

01:14:45.000 But what is interesting is that they have, you know,

01:14:47.880 constantly photos with Mads Mikkelsen.

01:14:50.340 And we've said with Harry, Harry's theory is that Mads Mikkelsen

01:14:54.900 has this effortlessly cool look and it's easy to look.

01:14:58.860 It's somehow contradictory because you simultaneously look very polished,

01:15:03.480 but also don't try about it, but also not working.

01:15:06.800 So here it's, and it says here,

01:15:09.000 they call me 007 at work, zero motivation, zero skills,

01:15:12.960 seven smoke brains.

01:15:17.420 Here, stop caring.

01:15:19.020 That's literally all you have to do.

01:15:21.140 Just imagine this Mads every time you get mad, sad, anxious, jealous, etc.

01:15:25.500 I want to say I like this and I aspire to this aesthetic.

01:15:29.540 Because I think there's something deep ingrained into the European mindset

01:15:33.520 to want to actually be an aristocrat,

01:15:36.540 to not do work that much,

01:15:38.800 to have all your benefits provided by serfs or something

01:15:42.480 and just sit there, enjoy your drink or something.

01:15:46.820 It's kind of like why some people are gravitating towards,

01:15:50.000 I think, the aristocratic temperament.

01:15:52.480 Yeah.

01:15:52.840 We really miss maids as well.

01:15:54.580 Like, you know, just having a maid.

01:15:55.980 Even someone like C.S. Lewis just had a maid.

01:15:58.340 That was normal for so long.

01:16:00.220 Return to maids.

01:16:01.180 Yeah, return to maids.

01:16:02.380 Just sit there, enjoy the sunshine with your drink or something

01:16:06.320 and then everything somehow magically someone else does.

01:16:09.880 Yeah, yeah.

01:16:11.020 Why did we get rid of servants and maids?

01:16:12.480 That was the decline.

01:16:13.480 Yeah.

01:16:13.780 It was like, oh, do it yourself.

01:16:15.080 It's got an appointment too.

01:16:16.620 Right.

01:16:17.600 People knew their place.

01:16:19.240 I would have probably,

01:16:20.120 I would have been in the underclasses,

01:16:21.400 a northerner, of course,

01:16:22.540 so that's the only problem.

01:16:23.180 Wouldn't you be an earl or something?

01:16:25.020 No, I'd be in the underclasses.

01:16:26.640 Earl of Dixon.

01:16:27.960 That's the only problem.

01:16:28.600 I'd probably be like the one doing the grunt labor.

01:16:31.720 That's the only slight problem with my theory.

01:16:34.460 Probably for Stelios.

01:16:35.360 I don't know.

01:16:35.820 I don't know how it would work.

01:16:37.220 Right.

01:16:37.540 This is just his working from home routine,

01:16:39.940 just smoking and drinking.

01:16:41.240 Yeah.

01:16:41.640 Here he says,

01:16:43.940 me calculating how much time I can waste at work

01:16:47.220 without being fired.

01:16:48.920 The thing about this is like,

01:16:50.380 if you do work you like,

01:16:51.360 a lot of this doesn't come up,

01:16:52.220 but when you have like normal jobs,

01:16:54.180 you need all these things.

01:16:55.780 Also, I really love this.

01:16:57.480 It says,

01:16:57.780 living my eight-hour shift

01:16:59.760 after taking 32 smoke breaks

01:17:02.180 and doing absolutely nothing

01:17:04.240 for acting all day.

01:17:10.360 This is what we should aspire to.

01:17:16.240 Don't show that to Carl.

01:17:17.660 Don't show this to Carl.

01:17:18.700 It's so effortlessly filmy though.

01:17:20.280 Yeah.

01:17:20.900 And I'll say,

01:17:21.460 being weird here is the price of being authentic.

01:17:25.760 And I will say this,

01:17:27.920 because I hate winter.

01:17:29.200 I like puns about ice.

01:17:30.840 I like puns about ice,

01:17:31.880 but this really speaks to my heart

01:17:34.460 when they say how life is going to feel

01:17:35.900 when we finally make it

01:17:37.500 to the April-July phase.

01:17:40.120 That's just it.

01:17:41.020 Just take a stroll or something,

01:17:43.100 dress up to be,

01:17:44.840 to be, you know,

01:17:46.380 seritorial.

01:17:46.840 Just let time pass.

01:17:48.300 Let time pass.

01:17:49.320 But also it's good.

01:17:50.660 Actually,

01:17:51.300 you may think that this is going to make you

01:17:53.000 a deadbeat or something,

01:17:54.320 but actually it's the key to longevity.

01:17:57.140 Would you expect this?

01:17:59.040 I would actually,

01:17:59.640 because you always hear the Mediterranean diet.

01:18:01.360 You always hear that they're living the longest

01:18:03.600 and just chilling and we're living it.

01:18:05.580 And they get away with smoking

01:18:06.420 because they have all the other...

01:18:07.520 In Scotland,

01:18:08.100 you can't smoke.

01:18:08.940 You'll have a heart attack.

01:18:09.860 But in Italy,

01:18:10.720 for some reason you can smoke

01:18:11.760 and it's because you're outside

01:18:12.900 drinking little coffees

01:18:13.940 and eating a good diet.

01:18:15.420 Yeah.

01:18:15.680 It's because of Euromaxxing.

01:18:17.940 Euromaxxing saves lives.

01:18:19.700 It does.

01:18:20.260 Yeah.

01:18:20.360 Yeah.

01:18:21.040 Preferably you shouldn't have a mafia around you?

01:18:23.920 Yeah.

01:18:24.580 That might take a few years off.

01:18:26.700 Okay.

01:18:27.680 Right.

01:18:28.020 It says here,

01:18:28.700 scientists find key to longevity.

01:18:30.920 This from 10 years ago,

01:18:32.360 an Italian village

01:18:33.520 where one in 10 people

01:18:34.820 live beyond 100 years.

01:18:36.820 Fresh food,

01:18:37.900 sex,

01:18:38.260 or is it the rosemary?

01:18:40.100 Research team spent six months

01:18:42.020 investigating the health and habits

01:18:44.280 of the elderly residents of Aciaroli.

01:18:48.740 And if you read,

01:18:50.880 basically they're Euromaxxing.

01:18:54.520 So.

01:18:55.560 It's all there.

01:18:56.700 The evidence is before your eyes.

01:18:58.220 Exactly.

01:18:58.700 So here I want to end up with this tablet,

01:19:03.040 this table,

01:19:03.880 and show you the distinct worldviews here

01:19:07.100 and compare hustle culture and Euromaxxing.

01:19:11.140 So in hustle culture,

01:19:12.340 success is measured in terms of output,

01:19:14.980 wealth,

01:19:16.140 and status.

01:19:16.960 In Euromaxxing,

01:19:18.220 in terms of peace,

01:19:19.420 quality of life,

01:19:20.300 and health.

01:19:21.020 You'll constantly hear people telling you,

01:19:23.720 if you're not a billionaire,

01:19:25.100 you can't have a good life.

01:19:26.460 You can't have quality of living

01:19:28.560 or you're nothing or whatever

01:19:29.920 if they take it out

01:19:32.000 or if they panic max.

01:19:34.920 But it's far simpler than this.

01:19:38.140 It's far simpler than this

01:19:39.420 according to the Euromaxxing perspective.

01:19:41.160 When it comes to the coffee habits,

01:19:43.100 also tea habits,

01:19:44.400 you could...

01:19:44.520 Thank you.

01:19:45.020 You could T-Maxx, obviously.

01:19:46.580 Yeah.

01:19:46.880 Yeah.

01:19:47.180 I will.

01:19:47.880 So you could take a cup of tea while working

01:19:50.660 or a cup of coffee to a company you're working

01:19:53.440 or you could just sit at a cafe.

01:19:55.680 Andrew Tate is furious at this segment.

01:19:58.540 This is the anti-Andrew Tate segment.

01:20:00.240 But you know who would have liked it

01:20:01.100 is Scott Adams.

01:20:01.940 I did a piece on Scott Adams for my YouTube.

01:20:04.040 Actually, this one bit I had to cut off YouTube

01:20:05.520 because of copyright,

01:20:06.340 but I had some music.

01:20:06.900 But he did this great video

01:20:08.620 where he said,

01:20:09.100 you know the thing that I'll remember?

01:20:10.740 And he was known for success tips

01:20:12.400 and being incredibly successful

01:20:13.520 and being rich.

01:20:14.500 But he said,

01:20:14.840 the thing I'll remember most again

01:20:16.440 is watching Disney movies with my stepkids.

01:20:19.580 Yeah.

01:20:20.520 Absolutely.

01:20:21.340 And time doesn't go back

01:20:22.580 and it goes forward really fast.

01:20:25.300 Sadly.

01:20:25.800 Yeah.

01:20:26.160 It's a relationship to remember,

01:20:27.300 which is,

01:20:27.740 I don't have any,

01:20:28.460 but I'm living the work life

01:20:30.480 while secretly,

01:20:31.460 like you say,

01:20:32.020 secretly wanting to Europe.

01:20:33.020 There's a Europe maxer in all of us.

01:20:35.120 In all of us.

01:20:35.700 Yeah.

01:20:36.140 Free time in hustle culture

01:20:37.800 is used for a side hustle.

01:20:39.960 In Europe maxing,

01:20:41.220 it's used for leisure or community.

01:20:44.480 And work ethic is first in, last out.

01:20:47.500 The other Europe maxing is work to live,

01:20:49.500 don't live to work.

01:20:50.380 You have to strike a work-life balance.

01:20:52.440 I want to say that

01:20:53.520 this is an aspirational goal for me,

01:20:56.520 primarily because I'm exhausted

01:20:57.980 with all sorts of projects

01:21:00.780 because I also have a Calvinist inside me

01:21:04.520 or something.

01:21:05.260 Because I have all sorts of projects

01:21:07.740 apart from work

01:21:08.680 and I find it very hard to find,

01:21:12.200 to have a work-life balance.

01:21:14.740 Because again,

01:21:16.280 free time for me

01:21:17.040 is usually taken to work

01:21:19.120 on a different project.

01:21:20.240 Yeah.

01:21:20.420 If you have any kind of self-employment aspect,

01:21:22.000 like I do YouTube and Substack,

01:21:23.620 and yeah, it's a nightmare.

01:21:24.700 When you're in a normal job,

01:21:25.560 of course,

01:21:25.940 the incentives are to do

01:21:26.760 as little as possible.

01:21:27.940 If you're doing anything for yourself,

01:21:29.480 you can always be doing something.

01:21:30.760 You could always be working on

01:21:31.780 your series about the ancient...

01:21:33.960 But also,

01:21:34.620 apart from working or something,

01:21:36.280 it's just sometimes

01:21:37.100 sit down and enjoy the view

01:21:38.420 and I think we're missing it.

01:21:40.040 Yeah.

01:21:40.200 Or go out with friends.

01:21:41.920 How...

01:21:42.200 I mean,

01:21:42.840 I'm here for three years.

01:21:44.280 I constantly listen to people

01:21:45.560 talking about social bonds

01:21:47.140 and community.

01:21:48.480 Yeah.

01:21:49.040 I've started watching...

01:21:49.960 Them being dissolved.

01:21:51.520 Yeah, I've started reading fiction again

01:21:52.640 for this reason.

01:21:53.540 And it does...

01:21:54.000 I do end up making videos about it,

01:21:55.280 but read what you actually want to read

01:21:57.480 sometimes rather than,

01:21:58.180 I've got to read this dense political book.

01:22:00.020 Read fiction or something like that.

01:22:01.760 Yeah, just enjoy, yeah.

01:22:02.740 So, that's it.

01:22:05.740 Maybe consider this

01:22:06.780 as a New Year's resolution.

01:22:08.980 Try to find some time to Euromax

01:22:11.620 and just enjoy life a bit more

01:22:13.300 and perhaps live longer,

01:22:15.140 have less stress.

01:22:17.120 And maybe even your productivity could rise

01:22:19.600 because there are diminishing returns

01:22:22.320 and constantly burning yourself out.

01:22:25.420 And at the end of the day,

01:22:26.500 work to live,

01:22:27.180 don't live to work.

01:22:27.920 And as we said before,

01:22:29.380 time doesn't move backwards.

01:22:31.100 And at the end,

01:22:32.040 usually people remember things

01:22:35.200 that aren't that work-related.

01:22:38.640 All right.

01:22:39.500 Well, back to Calvinism for me.

01:22:42.180 Get Ty back up.

01:22:43.440 Yeah.

01:22:43.620 I'll just go through the rumble rants.

01:22:45.500 It says,

01:22:46.360 Engaged View,

01:22:47.260 as from my segment says,

01:22:48.600 this wholesale degradation of theatre

01:22:50.900 was predicted in an article called

01:22:53.140 What Shall We Ask of Writers

01:22:55.300 by Howard Maltz,

01:22:56.620 a member of America's

01:22:57.780 Hollywood communist cabal.

01:22:59.320 Ironically,

01:23:00.100 Maltz was absolutely destroyed

01:23:01.540 by the Hollywood communists

01:23:03.000 for even broaching the subject.

01:23:05.340 It was explained very well

01:23:06.500 in a YouTube video called

01:23:07.880 Hollywood Was Always Read

01:23:09.280 by Raysvist.

01:23:10.300 I'll check it out.

01:23:10.980 Thank you.

01:23:12.360 Tickfagius says,

01:23:13.540 I wrote my first horror feature script,

01:23:16.160 got purchased,

01:23:16.980 and we're now looking for investors.

01:23:18.860 No modern day nonsense or politics,

01:23:21.000 just a straight up story

01:23:22.460 with a potential new horror icon I created.

01:23:26.420 Well, congratulations on getting that written,

01:23:29.800 Tickfagius.

01:23:30.880 Send it in to me if you want,

01:23:32.520 and I'll take a look at it myself.

01:23:34.960 Sigilstone says,

01:23:36.420 My daily prayer as I drive to work.

01:23:38.800 Lord, please give me patience,

01:23:40.920 because if you give me strength,

01:23:42.600 I'm going to need bail money.

01:23:44.800 Funny comment.

01:23:45.380 Kasadwen says,

01:23:47.980 I know this is a meme segment,

01:23:49.960 but I truly think the core of

01:23:51.400 Zillennial Zuma workplace despair

01:23:53.620 is the lack of purpose behind it.

01:23:56.180 If we're working to support a family,

01:23:58.240 men can endure any suffering.

01:24:00.180 I think that's really true.

01:24:02.140 And that's a random name,

01:24:03.660 says,

01:24:03.940 The timing for this segment

01:24:05.000 couldn't have been better,

01:24:06.740 as I decided last week

01:24:08.200 to quit my job,

01:24:09.260 sell my condo,

01:24:10.460 return to live with my parents,

01:24:12.520 and fully focus on my game,

01:24:15.100 Euramaxing for the win.

01:24:16.420 I mean,

01:24:16.720 I hope it works out for your random name.

01:24:18.440 Hopefully it works.

01:24:19.040 Yeah.

01:24:19.560 All right.

01:24:20.320 Video comments, Harry?

01:24:21.640 Do we have any?

01:24:23.140 No?

01:24:24.020 All right.

01:24:24.400 Great.

01:24:24.640 Well,

01:24:24.940 it saves us a lot of time.

01:24:26.380 All right.

01:24:27.480 Do you want to read some

01:24:28.440 from your section, Nick?

01:24:30.420 So, Omar,

01:24:31.280 there's deliberate focus

01:24:32.260 on replacement rates

01:24:33.140 like it's a stock investment

01:24:34.260 that must either stay the same

01:24:35.440 or increase.

01:24:36.360 But the country was much better off

01:24:37.860 when the population

01:24:38.500 was magnitude smaller.

01:24:40.140 It's a baseless assumption

01:24:41.180 that quality of life

01:24:42.020 will decrease proportional

01:24:42.960 to the population size

01:24:44.340 because they've tried

01:24:45.040 their narrative

01:24:45.520 and incentives

01:24:46.380 to multiple pyramid schemes

01:24:48.120 like pensions,

01:24:48.740 GDP, etc.

01:24:49.960 Yeah,

01:24:50.200 good point,

01:24:51.200 Hector Rex.

01:24:52.980 They're trying to replace Europeans,

01:24:54.480 but you know what can't be replaced?

01:24:56.000 Island of Five,

01:24:56.940 selling like hotcakes

01:24:57.920 and the irreplaceable

01:24:59.340 once it's gone.

01:25:00.160 I like this one as well

01:25:00.840 from Rex.

01:25:01.640 Nick's segment,

01:25:02.380 challenge rating,

01:25:03.200 impossible.

01:25:04.140 Yeah,

01:25:04.260 I found out just minutes before

01:25:05.540 I couldn't say any of the words

01:25:06.780 in it.

01:25:07.120 It would have been much better.

01:25:08.820 I don't want to take up

01:25:09.640 too much time on mine,

01:25:10.880 but...

01:25:11.300 That's all right,

01:25:11.660 we've got five minutes.

01:25:12.760 We have time.

01:25:13.660 Nick,

01:25:14.120 Euromax,

01:25:14.860 just...

01:25:15.200 Well,

01:25:16.580 EJ,

01:25:17.260 so,

01:25:17.720 firstkeeper Orland says,

01:25:19.320 PJW did a short clip

01:25:20.480 yesterday or the day before

01:25:21.500 covering a chat

01:25:22.240 with an imam

01:25:22.860 and a rabbi

01:25:23.460 at the WEF.

01:25:24.960 Oh, yeah.

01:25:25.860 I saw that.

01:25:26.440 The old Europeans thing,

01:25:27.540 yeah,

01:25:27.680 that was bad.

01:25:28.720 Elon,

01:25:29.320 I saw Elon quote tweeting

01:25:30.840 that and all.

01:25:33.520 Someone online,

01:25:34.400 population shrinkage

01:25:35.180 wouldn't be a problem

01:25:35.760 if there wasn't

01:25:36.360 social security,

01:25:37.660 a Ponzi scheme

01:25:38.220 that requires

01:25:38.700 infinite population growth.

01:25:40.120 Good point.

01:25:42.220 Russian garbage human

01:25:43.280 says,

01:25:43.600 yes,

01:25:43.760 I'm a misogynist,

01:25:44.600 but I hate weak men

01:25:45.420 even more.

01:25:46.640 Fair.

01:25:47.960 It was sort of maybe

01:25:48.680 joking about what we said.

01:25:51.180 Furious Dan,

01:25:52.000 I believe the approved

01:25:53.180 alternative term

01:25:53.900 is the big swap,

01:25:55.060 but it's ironic

01:25:55.520 that even the term

01:25:56.700 must be replaced.

01:25:57.360 Oh, yeah,

01:25:57.780 good point,

01:25:58.620 Bonnie.

01:25:59.040 Yeah,

01:25:59.340 good point.

01:26:00.340 All right,

01:26:00.880 from my segment,

01:26:01.900 Sophie Libs says,

01:26:02.880 apparently they're making

01:26:03.760 a new version of Hamlet

01:26:05.180 that will be about

01:26:06.200 a migrant's fight

01:26:07.320 against colonialism,

01:26:08.980 thus to be or not to be.

01:26:11.720 Taking a play

01:26:12.760 that is about something

01:26:13.980 so universal and dark

01:26:15.460 as the futility of life

01:26:16.840 and the inevitability of death

01:26:18.220 to make it into another

01:26:20.160 I'm an oppressed brown person

01:26:22.200 story is just,

01:26:23.900 yeah.

01:26:24.180 when the animated lion movie

01:26:27.060 got it more right,

01:26:29.200 it's just so sad.

01:26:30.660 Yeah,

01:26:30.920 I agree with that,

01:26:31.900 Sophie.

01:26:32.240 Also,

01:26:32.640 it's like,

01:26:32.980 you know,

01:26:33.300 oh,

01:26:33.960 rebellion against colonialism

01:26:35.540 for the country of,

01:26:37.740 check's notes,

01:26:38.740 Denmark.

01:26:40.100 You know,

01:26:40.420 ah,

01:26:40.620 yes,

01:26:40.840 that great world-spanning empire.

01:26:43.440 Michael Dribelbus says,

01:26:45.180 Luca,

01:26:45.740 your chronicles on Lovecraft

01:26:47.160 and Lord of the Rings

01:26:48.040 have inspired me

01:26:48.980 to reread Lovecraft

01:26:51.040 and actually sit down

01:26:52.000 and read Tolkien,

01:26:52.720 especially his Beowulf.

01:26:54.960 Oh,

01:26:55.180 well,

01:26:55.520 thank you very much,

01:26:56.140 Michael.

01:26:56.400 I'm glad that you're

01:26:57.160 getting so much out of it.

01:27:00.680 Kulain Sloan says,

01:27:02.100 radical progressivism

01:27:03.260 has destroyed popular art

01:27:04.940 as with films,

01:27:06.240 games,

01:27:06.640 books,

01:27:06.980 etc.

01:27:07.580 You have to go entirely indie

01:27:09.360 or else

01:27:10.140 just go corpo slop.

01:27:12.580 Yeah,

01:27:12.820 and it also contributes

01:27:13.980 to people's perception

01:27:15.420 that

01:27:16.120 art

01:27:17.400 has to have,

01:27:19.020 is innately

01:27:19.500 left wing,

01:27:20.640 right?

01:27:20.820 People are just like,

01:27:21.600 oh,

01:27:22.080 well,

01:27:22.220 it's always rebelling

01:27:23.120 against the establishment

01:27:24.320 of the time,

01:27:25.140 so it's always progressive.

01:27:26.580 It's like,

01:27:26.800 well,

01:27:26.920 not necessarily.

01:27:28.260 Like,

01:27:28.420 take,

01:27:28.680 for example,

01:27:29.180 the play that I covered

01:27:30.340 a few weeks ago,

01:27:31.620 Fuente over Huna

01:27:32.500 by Lopa de Vega.

01:27:34.520 It's a play from the

01:27:35.200 Spanish Golden Age

01:27:36.180 and that is a very

01:27:37.220 reactionary play.

01:27:39.020 It's talking about

01:27:39.820 the corruption

01:27:40.400 of the feudal order

01:27:41.520 by men who are

01:27:42.780 unworthy of it

01:27:44.340 and it ends with

01:27:45.540 literally

01:27:46.180 Ferdinand and Isabella,

01:27:48.520 you know,

01:27:48.820 of Aragon and Castile

01:27:50.000 coming in

01:27:50.600 and reasserting

01:27:52.220 their rightful place

01:27:53.560 in the order

01:27:54.000 of the great chain of being.

01:27:55.340 So it's entirely

01:27:56.560 a reactionary play

01:27:57.800 but the left

01:27:58.860 will just look at

01:27:59.740 the rebellion

01:28:00.500 that takes place

01:28:01.480 in it

01:28:01.860 and appropriate it

01:28:03.580 for communist messaging.

01:28:05.720 Yeah,

01:28:05.940 and there are

01:28:06.420 lots of conservative

01:28:07.400 writers,

01:28:08.060 obviously Tolkien and Lewis,

01:28:09.400 Canute Hampson,

01:28:10.720 more on the right,

01:28:12.480 you've got a

01:28:13.080 Pound of course,

01:28:14.380 Eliot as you covered,

01:28:15.880 you do have quite a few

01:28:16.780 and even Dostoevsky,

01:28:19.720 it's Christian,

01:28:20.780 it's not lefty stuff.

01:28:22.800 Yeah,

01:28:23.300 it's interesting,

01:28:23.800 Tolkien as well,

01:28:24.240 people are very uncomfortable

01:28:24.840 with the fact that he

01:28:25.380 supported Franco

01:28:26.160 in the Spanish Civil War.

01:28:27.700 That was largely

01:28:28.200 because of the Catholicism.

01:28:29.760 Well,

01:28:29.880 they can be uncomfortable

01:28:31.380 with it

01:28:31.900 but they shouldn't be

01:28:32.540 surprised at it.

01:28:33.740 Because he was

01:28:34.380 a staunch Catholic

01:28:35.280 and that was the only way

01:28:36.240 to defend Catholicism

01:28:37.100 and he actually

01:28:37.900 argued with Lewis

01:28:39.060 about that

01:28:39.600 but anyway,

01:28:40.140 we don't have time

01:28:40.880 for all that.

01:28:41.260 That's alright.

01:28:41.600 I'll just,

01:28:42.680 last one from me,

01:28:44.000 check out Angel Studios

01:28:45.500 says AZ Desert Rat.

01:28:47.100 They've become

01:28:47.980 the alternative

01:28:49.400 for movies,

01:28:50.180 TV and streaming.

01:28:51.020 Alright,

01:28:51.360 I will,

01:28:51.720 thank you.

01:28:52.720 Right,

01:28:53.200 Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex,

01:28:55.040 Stelius looking

01:28:55.800 absolutely maxed today.

01:28:57.720 Thank you.

01:28:59.400 Michael Dribalbis,

01:29:00.840 the only people

01:29:01.380 with 24-7 access

01:29:02.660 to mere family.

01:29:04.140 Fair point.

01:29:05.000 Michael Brooks,

01:29:05.900 value peace

01:29:06.580 and enjoy simple things

01:29:07.780 like books,

01:29:08.340 music and Islander.

01:29:09.900 Stop watching TV,

01:29:10.860 I work 42 hours,

01:29:12.680 I left a career

01:29:13.740 as a chef

01:29:14.420 where work follows you

01:29:15.820 and becomes you.

01:29:16.660 I now work nights

01:29:17.460 in factory,

01:29:18.540 I earn more than ever

01:29:20.060 and when I leave

01:29:20.880 it's done,

01:29:21.640 I don't carry it around.

01:29:22.920 Have good balance

01:29:23.920 as I garden walk

01:29:24.820 and have been working

01:29:26.320 on my house,

01:29:27.140 also living in tiny

01:29:28.200 Cornish villages.

01:29:29.620 Helps,

01:29:30.120 I have sheep

01:29:30.740 as neighbours.

01:29:32.060 That's nice.

01:29:32.560 That sounds wonderful.

01:29:33.460 My dad was a chef

01:29:34.140 and we lived above

01:29:34.880 the restaurant.

01:29:35.300 Talk about

01:29:35.920 no work-life balance.

01:29:37.060 Jim Farrey says,

01:29:38.460 work 35-55 hours

01:29:40.820 most weeks

01:29:41.360 as a drama teacher,

01:29:42.960 take home about

01:29:43.800 35k after costs,

01:29:46.280 working till 9pm

01:29:47.940 four nights a week

01:29:48.940 plus gigging nationally

01:29:50.300 definitely contributed

01:29:51.560 to me checking out

01:29:53.100 and the destruction

01:29:53.840 of my relationship

01:29:54.720 with ex and stepkids.

01:29:56.780 Do not hassle.

01:29:59.020 Do not hustle.

01:30:00.340 Indeed.

01:30:01.080 All right then.

01:30:01.800 And Dajun is nuts,

01:30:02.740 I'm all against

01:30:03.380 hustle culture

01:30:04.120 but I feel the idea

01:30:04.980 of Euromaxxing

01:30:05.680 is being coopted

01:30:06.520 by communist

01:30:07.260 anti-work types

01:30:08.620 with the intent

01:30:09.240 of trying to whistle

01:30:10.040 out of self-responsibility

01:30:11.420 for their economic

01:30:12.800 well-being.

01:30:13.900 You don't want

01:30:14.360 ER nurses

01:30:15.060 Euromaxxing

01:30:15.780 taking mid-day naps.

01:30:17.580 Yeah,

01:30:17.740 absolutely.

01:30:18.960 I think

01:30:19.760 communists,

01:30:21.080 first of all,

01:30:21.480 try to infiltrate

01:30:22.260 everything,

01:30:22.820 number one.

01:30:23.740 Number two,

01:30:24.660 I think that

01:30:25.420 there is a

01:30:26.380 fun,

01:30:27.520 edgy part,

01:30:28.780 let's say,

01:30:29.660 an extreme backlash

01:30:30.620 against hassle culture

01:30:31.740 that takes the form

01:30:32.860 of I don't want

01:30:33.640 to work,

01:30:34.320 I don't want

01:30:34.860 to do anything

01:30:35.420 at work.

01:30:36.180 But at the end

01:30:36.880 of the day

01:30:37.220 there is the

01:30:38.240 golden mean

01:30:39.320 between those two

01:30:40.260 points which is

01:30:40.960 that thing is

01:30:42.260 work to live,

01:30:43.140 don't live to work,

01:30:43.940 it's not not working.

01:30:45.020 It would have been

01:30:45.280 better if Stalin

01:30:46.260 had Euromaxxed more.

01:30:48.200 It would have been

01:30:48.620 less destructive

01:30:49.320 if it had done

01:30:50.080 more Euromaxxing

01:30:50.940 and chilling.

01:30:51.460 Yeah,

01:30:51.680 definitely.

01:30:52.620 All right,

01:30:53.560 well,

01:30:53.920 I hope you've enjoyed

01:30:55.220 that ladies and gentlemen.

01:30:56.580 You can join us

01:30:57.260 in half an hour

01:30:58.020 for Lads Hour

01:30:59.380 if you'd like to see

01:31:00.100 more of us.

01:31:00.620 We're going to be

01:31:00.960 playing a game

01:31:01.500 of Time Guetter

01:31:02.380 with the three of us

01:31:03.940 and Dan.

01:31:04.440 It should be a lot

01:31:05.420 of fun where,

01:31:06.200 you know,

01:31:06.400 we have to guess

01:31:06.900 locations and time

01:31:08.380 periods as well.

01:31:09.800 So,

01:31:10.300 oh yeah,

01:31:10.700 yeah,

01:31:10.860 look at that.

01:31:11.420 I'm worried I'm

01:31:11.800 going to look

01:31:11.980 stupid again,

01:31:12.520 but okay.

01:31:13.780 Anyway,

01:31:14.360 and if not,

01:31:15.060 then we hope

01:31:15.780 you have a very

01:31:16.740 pleasant Euromaxxing

01:31:18.400 weekend and we wish

01:31:20.060 you all the best

01:31:20.620 until we see you

01:31:21.340 Monday.

01:31:21.860 Take care.

01:31:22.360 Bye.

01:31:35.280 Bye.

01:31:35.420 Bye.

01:31:36.280 Bye.

01:31:36.880 Bye.

01:31:37.460 Bye.

01:31:37.820 Bye.

01:31:38.320 Bye.

01:31:39.140 Bye.

01:31:39.540 Bye.

01:31:40.740 Bye.

01:31:41.920 Bye.

01:31:42.160 Bye.

01:31:42.740 Bye.

01:31:44.320 Bye.

01:31:44.780 Bye.

01:31:45.080 Bye.

01:31:45.180 Bye.

01:31:46.620 Bye.

01:31:49.020 Bye.

01:31:49.200 Bye.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 23, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1339

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