The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1385

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to podcast of the lotus eaters it is episode 1385 and it is the 30th of march

00:00:06.820 year of the lord 2026 joined by harry and josh hi and um we're only mildly late mildly yes very

00:00:17.160 good um today we are going to be talking about um a car a car has done something i can't believe it

00:00:23.700 yes cars are always doing that car driven by an indian national they made sure to actually get 0.98

00:00:27.940 that news out quite quickly this time oh really i i caught the story at the point where it was

00:00:33.340 just saying a car which basically told me that it wasn't but you are yes you are still required to

00:00:38.460 keep an open mind about the situation of course oh absolutely perhaps perhaps the car took on a

00:00:43.700 mind of its own while an indian man happened to be driving i'm surprised they haven't argued it 1.00

00:00:47.180 was a tesla and it was self-driving and it's actually elon that's behind it all uh well no

00:00:52.060 it was um it was a black suzuki swift so no i don't think they make self-driving versions of

00:00:59.200 those yet well we will we will learn more shortly and um jibai yes falling yes very sad lovely um

00:01:08.020 actually and i will be appreciating japanese racism which is chef's kiss um so with that

00:01:14.860 we've got

00:01:15.780 the segment of samson

00:01:18.920 why why what does that

00:01:20.980 mean why is when they have like

00:01:22.840 like like little cats

00:01:24.720 faces on everything and little

00:01:26.780 blushed cheese i have got some

00:01:28.780 of that when you say hawaii but

00:01:30.820 you've got a blocked nose no

00:01:32.380 that's a shame tell us more about the car

00:01:34.900 uh well

00:01:36.100 not at first because i have good

00:01:38.960 news and then bad news bad news to start

00:01:41.040 the week off folks uh apologies

00:01:43.040 for that but there is good news first the good news being that you can come and see us live

00:01:46.840 at the lotus eaters live event which is happening on the 11th of april that is a week on saturday

00:01:53.040 between 7 and 10 in swindon that is a little bit of bad news on top of the good news but it's

00:01:58.980 mostly good news and you can have fun seeing us do a live podcast seeing us do a live lads hour

00:02:04.520 and for some reason carl has decided to just get bodied in public by having me debate the prequels

00:02:09.480 with him i join in on that by the way is that allowed um i mean i don't really even know the

00:02:14.680 rules carl just sprang the whole thing on me and was like oh harry and me are doing a debate on

00:02:18.880 the prequel so please feel free i'm just going to get the audience to start throwing rotten

00:02:23.080 vegetables at him part way through i don't think we're strong on rules around here no exactly i

00:02:29.420 might get aa to come in sean michaels style halfway through and zip line from the roof so

00:02:34.240 you can join me for the debate either way should be really great fun onto the bad news so over the

00:02:41.300 weekend there was another incident an attack where a man drove a car into a crowd of people

00:02:47.240 in a british city this time it was derby in fryer gate let's just get it straight out of the way

00:02:53.980 if we go to gar derby which is down here we've got the census map right here fryer gate is around

00:03:02.520 this area somewhere up here as you can see if you have Asians that is a quite ethnically split city

00:03:12.340 there is a significant population of Pakistanis although this was not a Pakistani attacker

00:03:19.160 this was in fact an Indian attacker which there is not quite as much of a population of but you

00:03:24.480 as you can see as with all of the diversity that we have imported into the country bear in mind as

00:03:29.760 well this map data as much as we use it and reference it is now about six years out of date

00:03:35.640 and it is pre-Boris wave so bear that in mind all of these census maps are pre-Boris wave it was the

00:03:41.340 2020 census it was released in 2021 but the information was taken in 2020 which makes it

00:03:46.660 pre-full Boris wave right well because for for the past couple of years i've been looking at

00:03:50.920 these maps thinking god it's bad oh i didn't i didn't realize it was the all of these maps

00:03:56.280 significantly worse it was far worse you've got to remember as well that some of the main ethnic 1.00

00:04:01.080 groups that were coming through in the boris wave uh were of say like indian and nigerian

00:04:07.700 extraction through student visas and other routes that they were taking uh unskilled visas and so

00:04:14.020 the numbers here where you can see it goes up to maybe like a 12 15 in some areas are probably much

00:04:20.100 higher now because these ethnic groups will go into these cities move in with their family members 1.00

00:04:24.980 who are likely already there so these will have inflated since then either way as with all the

00:04:30.520 ethnic diversity that we get they don't actually like each other very much so they tend to self 0.99

00:04:35.340 segregate quite often but if you go into the ethnic group data and you can go into say for

00:04:41.880 instance white english friar brit friar gate is actually according to this outdated information

00:04:49.360 still in one of the more british areas obviously there's a few pockets here and there but it's

00:04:56.460 still maybe 50 it's technically supposedly you and derby one of the more um populated nightlife

00:05:03.180 areas in other words if you were driving around looking for a population of of natives this is

00:05:09.020 the sort of area that you would go to on a saturday night when people are going to be out and about

00:05:13.840 because the attack took place at about 9.30 in the evening.

00:05:16.680 People out and about in pubs going to businesses that are still open

00:05:20.760 because it's a city centre.

00:05:22.160 Yeah, this is where you would go.

00:05:24.220 And you're calling it an attack so it seems to be deliberate

00:05:26.840 rather than just a disembodied car as the media.

00:05:29.860 To be clear, a man has been arrested, an Indian man.

00:05:34.240 Let's just get that straight out of the way.

00:05:36.460 He has been confirmed as an Indian national.

00:05:39.520 They were originally saying Derby man,

00:05:41.520 but they have since confirmed that he is an Indian national who had been living in Derby for a few

00:05:47.660 years at this point and clearly hadn't enamoured him with the natives so this might in fact actually

00:05:52.960 be a Boris Wave arrival that we're talking about here because several years again Boris Wave 2020

00:05:59.180 to 2021 that five to six years can count as several years so this might be a direct result

00:06:05.580 of the Boris Johnson government so thank you very much for that yeah he just um to go into the actual

00:06:10.720 information that we've got here as you can see we're being told to keep an open mind about the

00:06:16.740 motives he has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder because the good news the slight

00:06:23.240 silver lining to come from all of this is that while people seven people have been seriously

00:06:28.960 injured nobody has been hit with life-threatening injuries so nobody died which in the case of an

00:06:37.140 incident like this where somebody's ploughed a car into a group of people is a very rare

00:06:42.400 occurrence most of the time not only do these take lives they take tens of lives like lots of people

00:06:49.760 tend to tend to die during these events so i mean thankfully that hasn't happened this time

00:06:55.480 although again it's serious as daily diversity events go in this country nobody dying or getting

00:07:00.920 raped is quite good i suppose of course the the tragedy itself is completely avoidable completely

00:07:06.700 unnecessary it's a direct result of us having these populations in the country in the first 0.99

00:07:11.620 place as pointed out with the census map data i say that this is potentially still one of the

00:07:16.880 more english areas of the country but in the radio news coverage that i was listening to this morning

00:07:22.780 a lot of the witnesses that they were interviewing sounded also of south asian extraction subcontinental

00:07:28.980 extraction so for all we know as a lot happens in this in this country these days it might have been

00:07:35.100 an attempt of the diversity against another group of diversity that they don't like entirely

00:07:41.320 possible i mean i already know all i need to know about this which was it was an indian national

00:07:46.320 that's come here in the past few years who obviously shouldn't be here bye bye that that

00:07:51.700 that should be it right yes so the police just the report on what they have been saying they said

00:07:57.660 that was a range of serious but not life-threatening injuries the incident occurred in

00:08:01.740 fryer gate at about 9 30 on saturday in the evening the force said that contrary to online

00:08:07.200 speculation there were no deaths again thank god for that it said detectives were working

00:08:11.960 alongside officers from counter-terrorism terrorism policing but were not yet designated

00:08:17.300 the designating the incident as a terror attack and were keeping an open mind about the potential

00:08:22.000 motives a lot of people originally were speculating that this was some kind of islamic terror attack

00:08:26.780 and then when it came out that he was an indian national i saw a lot of people online saying

00:08:30.720 how you guys jumped to conclusions not necessarily there is still a sizable islamic

00:08:35.540 population within india itself pretty big country with a lot of people there's still almost 200

00:08:41.680 million muslims within india but also there are other types of terror that have been exported 0.58

00:08:47.520 from india which obviously we don't know as of yet but other groups that um come from india like

00:08:53.900 that could be hindutfa i don't think i'm pronouncing that right close enough but they

00:08:59.740 are considered somewhat of a nationalistic terrorist group from india as well i'm not saying

00:09:05.820 like modi quite a lot yes they do not saying it had anything to do with those groups as of yet

00:09:12.060 but i'm just saying that those are some examples of groups that could come from india so the police

00:09:18.500 officer reporting on this said that officers apprehended the suspect on the other side of

00:09:22.220 the city center within seven minutes after the incident took place saying the swift action would

00:09:27.060 not have been possible without eyewitnesses who contacted us about the vehicle's whereabouts as

00:09:30.660 it was driven away from the scene and around the city centre i am waiting for them to pick out one

00:09:35.080 of the eyewitnesses having who reported it having been a foreigner so that they can try and turn this

00:09:39.700 into some kind of diversity success story as they did with the train terror attack that took place

00:09:45.200 near cambridge or the bondy beach i mean all of them all the bondy beach they try to take one

00:09:50.520 random foreigner who was involved in acting against the diversity attack and say see this

00:09:57.000 is why we've got diversity here in the first place to protect us from when the rest of the 0.70

00:10:01.480 diversity attacks us it's a silly argument because if none of them were there it wouldn't have 1.00

00:10:06.320 happened yeah so the driver was driving a black suzuki swift he was arrested on suspicion of 0.76

00:10:12.920 attempted murder causing serious injury through dangerous driving inflicting grievous bodily harm

00:10:17.640 with intent and dangerous driving he was described as a derby man aged 36 originally from india who

00:10:24.520 has lived in the uk for several years so again probably a boris wave import thank you very much

00:10:29.820 for that so this hits a little bit close to home because um on my mother's side of the family the 0.99

00:10:36.320 whole side of that whole side of the family i've looked through the records goes back through to

00:10:40.600 Derby for centuries for about 400 years at least maybe 500 years. My grandfather on my mother's

00:10:48.540 side was directly from Derby so I have quite a lot of family history there and so just even as

00:10:55.660 recently as outdated as this information is seeing that parts of the city centre have just been

00:11:01.780 entirely colonised. It's very similar to Swindon isn't it where the outskirts are probably quite

00:11:06.760 white still whereas this the center has been entirely surrendered to oris waves and the like

00:11:13.400 yeah you know my fam my family on that side they were industrialists around derbyshire in the 19th

00:11:19.080 century you know like classic textiles factories um owners of um large manufacturers and places

00:11:25.480 like that so just seeing the somewhere that's so close to my own personal family history has gone

00:11:30.760 to the dogs in this way and having the same sort of attacks that everywhere else in the country is

00:11:35.280 it's quite upsetting quite depressing but just to show the sign of the times and what kind of

00:11:40.120 place it is now so the mayor at the moment is this man ajit singh atwal classic british name

00:11:46.980 right there and people have been pointing out this as well not that i think it plays too much

00:11:52.580 into it but just to make a note of it because people are talking about it that back in 2014

00:11:56.440 he was a magistrate for the derby council and was actually removed for a short time because of the

00:12:02.200 fact that he went on holiday to india and decided to uh take this photograph with um an ak-47 and 0.88

00:12:08.920 post it all over his social media for some stupid reason which they considered to be a um quite a 0.85

00:12:14.900 breach of their council rules because it looks somewhat threatening i know when you see a 0.98

00:12:20.880 gentleman of that part of the world with an ak-47 one one presumes the worst there are certain 1.00

00:12:26.800 connotations that it brings to mind of course this attack ironically enough was taking place

00:12:31.960 in the same day that a stand-up-to-racism-refugees-welcome event protest

00:12:38.240 organised by a totally not-astroturfed Socialist Workers' Party of Britain...

00:12:45.020 How come they've all got the same sign?

00:12:47.160 That's always a great question.

00:12:50.380 Their blood is on your hands. 1.00

00:12:51.820 Yes, people's blood is on your hands, retarded refugee activist. 1.00

00:12:56.160 Congratulations, good job. 0.99

00:12:57.640 We're all proud of everything that you do to keep us safe.

00:13:00.540 thank you very much for all that that sign does not come off as intended does it no it certainly

00:13:06.520 does not and you know people have just been pointing out it's the classic thing now it's

00:13:10.500 all about perception management it's not about actually solving any of the problems it's all

00:13:14.800 about the perception management of making sure that despite the fact that he was from india

00:13:19.300 despite the fact that he was originally from i don't know rwanda we are talking of course about

00:13:24.060 a derby man or a welsh choir boy we can't draw any great connotations between this and foreign

00:13:30.220 populations coming into the country and the intentions that they may have for us because

00:13:34.300 we can't have there being any kind of um uh distress any kind of division within the public

00:13:41.860 except for all of those divisions that again already exist because clearly these people do

00:13:47.780 not want to be living near one another again like well this 2021 census is like the resounding

00:13:53.620 evidence to suggest that the multicultural experiment has failed that everyone has 1.00

00:13:57.540 self-segregated um with no direction from the government and in fact the government tries to

00:14:02.300 disincentivize it and it doesn't work again like just look at that i mean it's the thing with all

00:14:07.320 of these like in my local area there are now complaints and um and protests being organized

00:14:13.280 against it and i don't mean just going out in the street and holding up a sign saying we don't want

00:14:17.480 this actually organized protests going to the council trying to make official complaints and

00:14:21.880 stop it from happening where there's lots of local land being taken up so more big dino box

00:14:27.840 new builder states can be built and the thing that happens with them and the thing that i expect will

00:14:33.140 happen with them as they keep being built is as the town centers empty out this is the same sort

00:14:39.100 of thing that happened with the suburbs in america when you had the great north the great northern

00:14:43.460 migrations of all of the southern blacks coming to america and immediately take taking the city 1.00

00:14:48.020 centers for instance as those city centers empty out and this will be the towns as well as the

00:14:54.320 cities now of the natives they'll all just move into those into those new build estates 1.00

00:14:59.400 they'll all just self-segregate over there as well and you'll have a few diverse families

00:15:05.780 in there but mostly it will be natives and that is what's going to keep happening it will keep 1.00

00:15:11.940 balkanizing because of the inherent tensions that come with importing all of these populations 0.98

00:15:16.980 again like here's the town center pakistani population pretty heavily concentrated here

00:15:24.160 indian population heavily concentrated around where all of the pakistanis are because they

00:15:31.120 don't want to live with well all of britain is just a microcosm for every geopolitical conflict

00:15:36.140 going like if india and pakistan play each other in the cricket we have fights on the street 0.99

00:15:41.860 but leo was bringing up the point of like what is even a derby man then

00:15:47.360 i i have i've never lived in derby i have much more of a claim from my mother's side to be

00:15:53.820 considered a derby man than any indian who's lived there for a couple of years ever could 0.61

00:16:00.640 so again it's people trying to take the heritage of myself and other people and just hand it to

00:16:06.180 the entire world which i don't respect and i once lived in a farmhouse does that make me a farmer

00:16:11.100 now i mean it's absurd isn't it you're not from derby really if you're from india born and a

00:16:17.020 stable are you a horse i guess so clearly and um uh other people have been pointing out the

00:16:25.000 complete lack of a response really other than the perception management by the overdrive uh by the

00:16:31.480 establishment contrasting it with the incident with the jewish ambulances just last week where

00:16:38.740 Immediately the police, the king, the prime minister, all of them went into overdrive to make sure that we knew that this is a protected community, we have to protect these people, we won't stand this kind of behaviour in our country.

00:16:54.500 You could see that, for instance, King Charles immediately got named the patron of a British Jewish security non-profit following the ambulance attack.

00:17:05.240 has king charles made any statement on this attack no because the only time the establishment will

00:17:11.660 make any statement about these things is if it is against a protected group jews count as one of

00:17:20.100 those protected groups muslims protect account as one of those protected groups diversity counts

00:17:25.440 the british don't that's just how it goes and you can see it's not just again with the jews of this 1.00

00:17:31.820 country it's also King Charles himself has a long history as this article goes into in depth his

00:17:37.260 veneration of Islam and the protection of it and we'll just contrast it again with the fact that 0.95

00:17:41.980 back in 2024 immediately following the Southport riots and the attacks that took place in Southport

00:17:49.960 which killed a number of young white girls done by Axel Rudakabana the Rwandan who should never

00:17:55.920 have been in this country in the first place Keir Starmer went on to make an impassioned speech

00:17:59.820 against the people who got angry about it

00:18:02.080 and wanted to protest that he was even here in the first place.

00:18:05.440 And if I remember the timestamp,

00:18:07.320 let me just try and get that up for everybody.

00:18:11.900 What were his exact words on it?

00:18:14.200 We'll all remember this, won't we?

00:18:15.580 If you target people because of the colour of their skin

00:18:19.480 or their face, then that is far right,

00:18:24.040 and I'm prepared to say so.

00:18:25.380 But it doesn't matter what apparent motivation there is.

00:18:30.520 Your concerns don't matter.

00:18:32.740 And that was from the highest office in the land with any real political power that's supposedly accountable to the public.

00:18:41.880 But something like this happens and we're just told, keep an open mind.

00:18:46.820 Keep an open mind.

00:18:47.620 He was from Derby.

00:18:48.920 He's just as British as the rest of us because we're all so well known for getting into our cars and plowing through streets on a busy Saturday night.

00:18:58.040 so yeah bad news to start the week chaps sorry

00:19:01.720 got a few rumble yeah got two rumble rants here i was expecting one of you to say moving on or

00:19:13.020 something that's a random name there could be suzuki's around here and sigil stone says he

00:19:18.480 was just attempting to rid the world of the evil of pooing in the loo well if there was any there 1.00

00:19:24.840 were any takeaways going on open down that street i doubt there was much of that going on to begin

00:19:29.160 with what's going on in dubai so i have some good news that's good news if you hate dubai like me

00:19:37.460 and there are many reasons to hate dubai and before i tell you the good news i want to prime

00:19:42.520 you with hatreds to get the maximum payoff for why it's failing why it's going to fall and why

00:19:48.180 that is a good thing it looks quite nice in all the pictures that is true but i feel like it is

00:19:53.540 a monument to the worst excesses of the west with none of the positives of it and also my my back

00:19:58.840 garden looked in a lot bigger in the pictures that the real estate agents had on file as well

00:20:04.160 case but yeah i feel like there's there's lots of baubles and showy aesthetics and things like that

00:20:10.480 but it's sort of like mecca for materialists isn't it it's like where they go if you love

00:20:16.680 flashy shiny objects you're basically got the mind of a magpie and you just like shiny things

00:20:22.900 isn't it a tax haven yes that too but it is basically people sacrifice their soul and having

00:20:30.300 a nice way of life and i think nothing epitomizes this more than the burj khalifa so it is the

00:20:37.400 tallest building in the world but it has no reason to be because dubai is built basically on top of

00:20:42.620 an old fishing village arbitrarily picked um by the you know the ruling family as the site of this

00:20:51.080 new holiday destination but it's not like New York where the land was really valuable and so

00:20:57.860 there was an incentive to build upwards most of the land around Dubai is not built up on you know

00:21:04.420 there's no scramble for expensive land here so there's no reason to build it up and it's entirely

00:21:11.880 artificial it's just a great big monument to vanity it's an empty desert and there's another

00:21:19.520 element to this as well in that they're so focused on this vain ambition that it doesn't

00:21:25.840 even have proper infrastructure so the world's tallest building has to have trucks to come and

00:21:31.500 collect the human waste because it doesn't actually have proper plumbing so they have

00:21:35.980 poo trucks coming in and out so this glorious monument keep coming i know otherwise i mean

00:21:42.280 there's a lot of people at the top and on the lower floors i mean you're going to get an issue

00:21:46.200 You don't want to be one of the lower orders, do you?

00:21:48.380 No.

00:21:49.020 But yeah, this symbol of the advancement of the UAE in reality is just pure vanity.

00:21:57.080 It's not practical.

00:21:58.100 It doesn't exist for any of the reasons that the Western buildings exist like that.

00:22:02.180 Because if you look at the skyline, it's by far the tallest and there's no need for that.

00:22:08.020 But there are other reasons to hate Dubai as well.

00:22:10.980 you have to spend most of your time indoors because it can reach about 52 degrees celsius

00:22:15.600 or 125 fahrenheit which is into a crisp exactly and so maybe you can spend some time on the beach

00:22:23.340 but it's very hot and so most people spend their time indoors in air conditioning shopping so if

00:22:28.600 that's your idea of a nice place just in an eternal shopping mall it's like just a big sunny

00:22:34.560 Milton Keynes isn't it pretty much yeah it's going to be lost on a lot of people outside of Britain

00:22:39.820 in that reference but um there's also this weird double standard that makes me feel a bit

00:22:45.520 uncomfortable where obviously it's an islamic country but the authorities turn a blind eye 1.00

00:22:50.500 to people you know westerners breaking the tenets of islam so they're they they have these convictions 0.65

00:22:55.960 but they're like well for the right price you know if you're going to spend money here we'll let you

00:23:00.740 drink alcohol just as long as it's not on the beach because uh that's against the law and you'll

00:23:05.960 go to prison or if you're publicly intoxicated prison but if you're in a hotel or a licensed

00:23:12.060 premises that's okay but don't you dare step outside with that beverage because that's against

00:23:17.220 the law and they're pretty harsh and of course there is also an elephant in the room here

00:23:24.140 the questionable labor practices that has built the place in the first place and lots of reports

00:23:30.020 of indentured servitude and manipulative contracts to get people to build these buildings and

00:23:36.640 multiple instances of housemaids throwing themselves out of windows to um you know

00:23:41.340 supposedly willing people receiving a salary um coming to the point of throwing themselves out

00:23:47.520 of windows to escape their servitude makes one wonder if perhaps it's not as uh consensual as

00:23:54.940 you might imagine um and then also if you want to walk anywhere say you've had a drink in your

00:24:00.920 hotel and you can't drive anymore uh well too bad because uh the whole thing is designed around cars

00:24:07.320 um and because the whole place is just milton keams it is yeah and because the whole place

00:24:13.300 is designed around cars um there are lots of traffic jams in lots of high traffic areas

00:24:18.360 and so yeah it sounds like my worst nightmare is just a materialistic um you know monument to all

00:24:26.940 of the worst excesses of the west with none of the perks of it it's a sparkling little bauble 0.99

00:24:31.700 that stupid people go and live there um but you don't have to pay tax that's true but there are 1.00

00:24:37.860 also other places that are tax havens that are not this uh basically materialistic and degenerate 1.00

00:24:44.160 And that's not even mentioning all the things we hear about the weird sort of open secret that it's a hub of prostitution in the Islamic world as well.

00:24:54.700 The worst things I've ever heard about Dubai is when you read about Instagram models being invited over undercover, you could say, by weird princes to pay them lots and lots of money to do really disgusting things with fish and other assorted wildlife.

00:25:15.440 Yes, but you know what's not going to result in you having to do disgusting things with fish?

00:25:20.980 Lotus Eaters Live, which is going on...

00:25:23.700 no and carl's already sprung the prequel debate on me so who knows what else he's got up his sleeve

00:25:28.620 um this is going on on the 11th of april seven o'clock till 10 o'clock and we're going to have

00:25:33.820 some fun um it's going to be a blast be there or be square so first things first um i suppose

00:25:42.960 i may as well talk about the attacks on dubai because that might put a little bit of a damper

00:25:49.020 their public image the fact that there were drones iranian drones flying into buildings

00:25:55.020 that might be enough to put you off i think um

00:26:04.220 not the best video i'll admit but there you go yes that's not good

00:26:13.100 that is an indian guy sums it up i forgot about that to be fair but there's lots of indian

00:26:18.860 saying very dangerous no drone um because lots of the workers there are indian of course um so yes 1.00

00:26:25.800 it's very dangerous at the minute to be there um and lots of people um understandably a bit worried

00:26:31.860 and i'm just going to play this video um from the mail because it's accumulated all of the videos of

00:26:38.300 the attacks um much better than anywhere else to their credit um so you can see lots of things on

00:26:45.000 fire um the airport was temporarily closed after there was a drone strike on a fuel tanker um which

00:26:53.380 if i were flying to dubai the main airport getting hit by a drone attack would be enough to put me

00:26:59.200 off i don't know about you guys but uh i don't like to live quite that dangerously a number of

00:27:04.060 my friends were on holiday right as the iran war started and they all had to have delayed or

00:27:10.820 redirected flights because of what was going on in dubai i mean if you're going around southeast

00:27:15.760 asia or across the um the eastern hemisphere like the like all of the east like australia and

00:27:22.220 indochina etc you do eventually have to go through the middle east and dubai for connecting flights

00:27:27.280 and it's quite common for layovers isn't it yeah so you can see here this video shows lots of

00:27:33.100 fleeing I've got another video of that as well of just waves of people just

00:27:41.780 fleeing for their lives and this is the best demonstration yeah this isn't the

00:27:47.500 best demonstration I could find but we'll get on to why there's not a very

00:27:51.360 good videos of what's going on at the minute in a second but if you did want

00:27:58.300 to get out there British Airways has cancelled all flights into Dubai until

00:28:02.560 the summer um which is quite a long time to be cut off and particularly around a popular tourist

00:28:09.300 time and in fact i was able to find quite a long list of all of the airlines that have cancelled

00:28:15.080 their flights to dubai um some of these are also other areas in the middle east to be fair but

00:28:21.160 they're still going to have knock-on effects to dubai um because it connects it's a major hub i

00:28:27.620 mean it is those are times i've stopped at dubai i've never been to dubai but i've stopped in dubai

00:28:32.060 because it's a hub to everywhere else so you've got aegean airlines air baltic air canada air

00:28:37.500 europa air france um klm um they've directly suspended them to dubai specifically cafe pacific

00:28:45.660 which is hong kong delta um israeli um airlines which i'm not surprised emirates etihad um you

00:28:53.580 get the idea there's a long list i'm not going to carry on reading all of them but uh it's looking

00:28:59.180 pretty difficult to get a flight in and out of dubai at the minute um so that's probably going

00:29:05.180 to harm their tourist industry i would say i mean i feel bad for anyone who was laid over while all

00:29:09.500 of this started happening a court in the middle of it a little bit yeah i think people were able

00:29:13.980 to get out in the end i think a lot of the people who did try get out from britain um those are the

00:29:19.100 people that i've followed with this story um have been able to i don't think too many people are

00:29:24.460 trapped from what i've been able to see i mean still it'd be a terrifying situation and probably

00:29:28.240 one that ends up being massively expensive to get also wouldn't want to be stuck in the airport

00:29:33.100 because as we saw it's a target so you're in a dangerous place um if you're stuck there and i

00:29:40.120 think people are well aware of that and i think also if you were flying to dubai in one of the

00:29:44.600 limited flights that might still be going there i wasn't able to find any myself then they're

00:29:49.580 probably going to warn you listen this is dangerous i mean i do also feel a bit bad for

00:29:54.340 all of the expats over there who really as much as i wouldn't do it myself uh have gone to a place

00:30:01.680 that's been advertised as this land of wonder and opportunity where you barely have to pay tax on

00:30:05.660 anything and they've gone great i don't i won't have to pay taxes for a load of government policies

00:30:09.900 that absolutely despise me and make my life worse and they go over there and then this happens yeah

00:30:16.000 well um i i don't want people to be drone striked because they live in a place i disagree with

00:30:22.040 obviously i'm not that mean don't worry no um obviously i want everyone to be safe and i want

00:30:26.440 everyone to to get out safely but my problem is with the premise of the place in the first place

00:30:31.320 right oh yeah um so now everyone's fled um this is the the situation in the airport in dubai

00:30:41.280 by the way if you've ever been to any major airport anywhere in the world at any time it's

00:30:46.820 always busy i've never seen an airport that looks like that yeah it's completely empty isn't it

00:30:51.720 i mean it's to be expected considering that all the flights are cancelled but i've never seen

00:30:58.120 an airport this empty in my entire life i've done a fair amount of flying in my time

00:31:03.240 um and in fact it's not just the airports that are empty from some of the limited

00:31:09.000 flights that are going on um yeah there's no one on them i'm amazed that flight's still going ahead

00:31:16.760 to be honest with one person there but this isn't really getting much attention to be honest that

00:31:23.960 the entirety of their tourism industry which they rely on very heavily has basically completely

00:31:30.680 vanished to zero it's not like you know cornwall in britain where it relies on on tourism to a

00:31:36.520 significant degree and sometimes there might be a year where slightly fewer people go

00:31:40.840 So I don't know whether many industries can weather an entire year

00:31:45.700 without any tourists whatsoever.

00:31:48.500 I think that's enough to put a business that is leveraged,

00:31:52.320 as many of them probably are, under too much strain for them to bear.

00:31:56.820 Well, it's probably more like Iceland,

00:31:58.400 where the entire country's economy relies on tourism.

00:32:01.140 The entire country's economy is based on tourism.

00:32:03.400 And if all of a sudden...

00:32:04.400 It's oil and tourism in the UAE's case.

00:32:08.240 Yeah, but oil's not doing great over there, are you?

00:32:10.360 Yes.

00:32:10.840 yeah so like if iceland suddenly you couldn't get flights or boats over there all of a sudden

00:32:18.000 would probably collapse within a year and um i saw this video which i found quite endearing of

00:32:25.000 an old yorkshireman who's still in his hotel still braving it out um just narrating the lack of

00:32:30.860 people there so obviously this is one of the most famous beach fronts and hotel areas in all of

00:32:37.240 dubai and there's it's 10 in the morning as this this gentleman points out and there's no one there

00:32:44.240 well good morning start of another day it's going up 10 o'clock in morning now

00:32:52.240 and i think you've heard me going on about how quiet the hotel's getting

00:32:56.380 well if you look down here i know it's in a bit of shade but even so there's just nobody about

00:33:05.840 I know there's a few guests in the hotel, but there's not many.

00:33:11.520 So this is why I'm showing you this video, really,

00:33:14.940 because normally a couple of weeks ago when we first arrived,

00:33:21.840 them beds would be nearly full.

00:33:23.620 You'd be lucky to get a bed, to be honest.

00:33:27.340 You get the idea.

00:33:29.020 I just wanted to include this because, just so you know,

00:33:32.540 I'm not making things up.

00:33:33.720 You've got the voice of a very trustworthy Yorkshireman there.

00:33:37.680 I hope he got back safe.

00:33:38.980 Yeah, me too. I hope he enjoyed his holiday.

00:33:41.240 It'd probably be quite a nice time with no one around.

00:33:44.500 I think the Dodger drone every now and again.

00:33:47.260 Yeah, well, if you're in the swimming pool, you know, you just go under the water.

00:33:50.200 You'll be all right, won't you?

00:33:51.020 I mean, that's absolutely not the sort of place or hotel I would go to.

00:33:54.240 But if I were to, it being completely empty is about the best case scenario.

00:33:58.640 Yeah, I would say so.

00:34:00.220 So I hope you had a nice time.

00:34:01.640 But the point is here, of course, that everywhere is empty, that people are not going, and it's probably going to stay like this for a while, isn't it?

00:34:09.000 Because it's not exactly the most decisive conflict, the Iran-US and Israel conflict.

00:34:17.300 It could drag on for who knows how long, and even after it wraps up, if it wraps up any time soon,

00:34:23.440 people are going to be wary because the idea of getting you know staying in a nice hotel and a

00:34:28.860 drone blowing you up um is enough to put me off um and i already was uh you know quite averse to

00:34:35.220 going there in the first place well you can imagine when all those people moved to dubai

00:34:39.160 and they're drawing up their pros and con lists getting attacked um being in the middle of a

00:34:45.220 desert when their water supplies and fuel supplies run out i'd imagine didn't even feature on the

00:34:49.680 cons list i would imagine so so from now on everybody thinking about jubai is going to have

00:34:55.280 to add those on and i think there's it's going to take a very very long time for them to have to

00:35:02.680 recover to the point that they were before all of this went on if they can recover at all which i'm

00:35:08.880 not entirely sure but uh lots of the the countries around there the oil rich countries have been

00:35:14.200 trying to turn themselves into holiday destinations and the saudis are trying to do the

00:35:19.260 same thing in riyadh and a number of other places like uh they're spending an inordinate amount of

00:35:24.760 money on things like the lion city and they've got like a water sports complex and a skiing complex

00:35:30.320 and all sorts of things and saudis have a huge wwe deal as well they do and they keep hosting

00:35:35.860 events there as well so i don't think there's going to be quite as many this year i would say

00:35:40.580 so well i mean all these arab countries they realized we got yeah we got loads of oil but

00:35:44.880 oil is going to run out so we need to start building up secondary industries now and that's

00:35:49.840 why they did all of those things that you mentioned that that whole long list and iran was like oh

00:35:54.880 well we're not allowed to sell oil so we'll buy drones and missiles instead which obviously turned

00:35:59.920 out to be a it's like rock paper scissors drones and missiles beat building infrastructure usually

00:36:05.520 seems they do but the problem is that this has come at a time when there's growing competition

00:36:11.280 And what you would ideally want if you were running Dubai would be to make it the go-to place in the Middle East to go on holiday.

00:36:18.900 However, you've got other rivals coming up who are going to be less affected by this.

00:36:25.600 Like I didn't hear any strikes on Saudi tourist destinations, for example.

00:36:30.940 And so people might gravitate more towards them than they would have otherwise because of this going on.

00:36:35.360 So it could be the thing that puts Dubai into a death spiral.

00:36:39.260 and another thing that is doing that is the fact that many people who have realized wait I don't

00:36:46.180 want to live here anymore can't actually sell their homes in Dubai and yeah there's one person

00:36:53.000 who faces making losses on their 1.5 million pound mansion as all the property prices collapse

00:37:00.640 so if you've invested in property out there might have seemed like a good idea at first because it

00:37:05.540 was a growing industry however um if you can't sell it your assets are basically worthless aren't

00:37:11.620 they if you can't turn them into actual money well and also this isn't the moment you sell either 0.75

00:37:16.540 no it's a terrible time to sell and you'd be very stupid to do it but people are for some reason

00:37:21.120 but again at the same time like if if the city collapses within a year i mean you get the the 0.97

00:37:27.660 question is like do i try and wait it out and hope the city's still standing or do i try and sell now

00:37:33.280 and get out and get whatever money I can yeah I have I have heard it's like 80 percent drop in

00:37:37.760 prices yeah it's steep isn't it oh great and this is the concern when you get people like

00:37:42.960 Peter Hitchens saying you need to leave the country well if you go to another western country

00:37:49.280 the same problems that we have here are happening over there as well and then if you try and go to

00:37:54.340 somewhere that's presenting itself like Dubai did as an escape for you you won't have to pay too

00:37:59.000 much tax you'll be able to live in this world of paradise and opportunity well they're an

00:38:02.920 incredibly unstable regions of the world where this can happen at any time and also you're just

00:38:07.120 putting yourself at risk by living in the middle of a desert anyway yeah it's just it's not very

00:38:10.700 appealing just like would you like to live in a shopping mall in the desert no actually i don't

00:38:15.900 why why would anyone want that and uh it's even worse than that because the brits that were there 1.00

00:38:21.360 um are getting locked up because they videoed the drone strikes or took photos of them and at the

00:38:28.040 minute up to 70 britons are locked up in the uae including tourists expats and even cabin crew on

00:38:35.740 flights and even receiving an image in the uae can be treated as a crime with punishments of up

00:38:42.640 to 10 years in jail or fines reaching 200 000 pounds so this is the reality of your your shopping

00:38:51.160 mall in the desert is that if you take a photo when you're getting drone striked and send it to

00:38:55.800 loved ones to say that you're okay and you survived then you could face 10 years in prison

00:39:01.560 and bankruptcy yeah great i mean it's a weird contrast with with here where people are allowed

00:39:07.960 to murder native brits and basically get a slap on the wrist or in america where people go on 0.55

00:39:12.040 stabbing sprees on buses and basically just get away with it and in dubai if you get sent a photo

00:39:17.880 to go to prison yes it does put into perspective a little bit our own uh you know laws on these

00:39:26.680 sorts of things doesn't it that it's even harsher again at least on some things by the looks of it

00:39:32.040 and uh it's to the point where um apparently our prisoners are just getting beaten in their cells

00:39:39.880 and there's journalistic proof of this um supposedly and it's a known thing that they do

00:39:45.560 um so for for taking videos like this or pictures of the missiles uh you could be jailed for 10

00:39:54.780 years and face regular beatings in a country that you might not even want to live in anymore

00:39:59.100 um for the crime of documenting things that have happened in your life

00:40:03.400 i don't know that's uh not for me i think that should be enough to put off most people to be

00:40:09.460 honest. But God wasn't done with punishing Dubai for its vanity and hubris and so yeah there was

00:40:20.020 a really big storm and the world's tallest building was struck by lightning. You can see

00:40:26.020 here the streets were also flooded and this is when they're receiving drone strikes and the like

00:40:31.220 and missile strikes as well and some of the videos I've seen from the flooding is unbelievable.

00:40:39.460 So this one I believe shows the airport being flooded, of course this is the same airport that was recently struck by drones

00:40:47.460 now being flooded and turned into, as they say, the world's most expensive swimming pool

00:40:52.460 but also you see the buildings that have been built by Indian slave labour falling apart as well

00:40:58.460 There's all of this plastic artifice

00:41:00.460 Just in contact with the weather you get in the desert

00:41:04.460 Is that a plane trying to take up?

00:41:07.460 I'm not entirely sure.

00:41:09.460 I'm not entirely sure. It would be very stupid for it to take off. 0.98

00:41:15.460 We'll turn this out and touch, actually. 0.98

00:41:19.460 Tell you what, God's not subtle.

00:41:21.460 No.

00:41:23.460 I mean, striking the world's tallest building with lightning and then flooding their airport is a pretty strong omen, isn't it?

00:41:30.460 In a town where, as somebody in the Rumble Rants pointed out, they need to bus in water.

00:41:36.460 Mm-hmm. Well, here you go, guy

00:41:45.300 Sorry

00:41:49.260 Here are some of the buildings just falling apart with a bit of rain

00:41:53.820 You wouldn't get this back in Britain would you if it just rained?

00:41:58.400 We are used to rain though. Yes, they're not. That's true

00:42:03.300 not in our shopping malls usually no normally not also we're not in desert so we're kind of

00:42:11.540 used to it and expect it exactly so obviously we don't really have the infrastructure properly

00:42:18.480 built out there to deal with these sorts of things obviously to deal with missile strikes

00:42:22.320 not many countries do and drones but also just rain and and flooding and of course it's it floods

00:42:28.440 there relatively regularly and scenes like um this one no no credence that will uh get us

00:42:38.380 in trouble but um yes just the roads into the city getting flooded as well as um here's some

00:42:46.240 more here you go doesn't dubai look lovely this time of year if you don't get flooded out you can

00:42:52.220 get a drone struck so yes my point is that the city is terrible there are many good reasons not

00:43:00.460 to go there and hopefully if you did live there you had family there they're out and they're safe

00:43:05.400 and they're not harmed by all the things going on but this should be a cautionary tale not to

00:43:10.660 move to places like this because they are you know castles built on sand foundations of sand right

00:43:18.140 it's all going to come down eventually

00:43:20.420 and it's just a matter of time

00:43:21.940 Got plenty of rumble rants

00:43:24.820 from that one

00:43:25.500 People wanted to talk about

00:43:28.800 Dubai, do you want to read through them?

00:43:30.260 Sure, Ramshakalotta says

00:43:31.760 Dubai, the city where all drinking water

00:43:33.880 has to be shipped in, but they make a road

00:43:36.380 called Rainy Street where sprinklers

00:43:38.460 make it rain every 15 minutes

00:43:40.340 Great use of resources, guys

00:43:42.500 Sigilstone says

00:43:44.480 Can you imagine if Iran hit the huge convoy 0.99

00:43:46.500 of sewage trucks instantly

00:43:48.280 terraformed Dubai into Mumbai

00:43:49.860 to be fair

00:43:52.300 the majority of the population is Indian

00:43:54.140 so they'd feel quite at home

00:43:55.620 Ramshaf Galata says also more

00:43:58.360 than 70% of Dubai's population are Indians

00:44:00.480 Pakistani and Bangla there we go it's nice

00:44:02.380 to be vindicated immediately only

00:44:04.300 12% are native Emiratis

00:44:06.340 that's true

00:44:07.420 JDK

00:44:10.380 Moody says thoughts

00:44:12.200 from the panel on Ukraine

00:44:14.140 signing defence cooperation deals with the

00:44:16.180 UAE and other Gulf states while Russia, Russian forces suffer casualties on the scale of 9-11

00:44:22.460 every two to three days. I mean I'm not surprised that Ukraine is signing deals with whoever they

00:44:29.020 can but it's just further building ties to the United States and NATO countries who are

00:44:36.720 in on paper at least aligned with these states in the Middle East even though they sort of do

00:44:42.220 their own thing and these alliances don't really mean very much also doesn't seem like the greatest

00:44:46.540 time to be signing deals with the gulf states yeah i don't really see what's in it for either

00:44:51.500 of them really because either one of them could drag them into a conflict potentially and with

00:44:55.760 the russian forces losing casualties like that historically that's been russia's number one

00:45:01.480 tactic save send wave after wave after wave of men to die assuming those numbers are true yes 0.82

00:45:07.520 either way you know the loss of life in the conflict is obviously a tragedy

00:45:13.800 that's random name dubai is the real life equivalent of a mimic chess from dark souls

00:45:20.520 filters out all the low impulse control people marvelous really yes except for the fact that

00:45:26.700 whenever i play dark souls i always open those chests and get munched on by them you know you

00:45:31.780 can there's a difference in the type of chain i'm not patient enough i see i see a big chest and like

00:45:37.980 this is good if you wait long enough in some of them you can see them snoring that's true um i

00:45:43.580 think in free you can throw something at them and it opens its mouth and everything yeah they fall

00:45:47.300 asleep i'm very confused by this conversation you can see a big chest sometimes they're snoring

00:45:52.820 dan's not a gamer confirmed it's all right don't worry we're not talking about that kind

00:45:57.800 Dan plays particularly

00:45:59.480 Why he should

00:46:00.820 And Sigil Stone says guys I'm currently in Dubai

00:46:03.920 And all the flood water just turned into blood

00:46:05.980 There's frogs and locusts just everywhere

00:46:07.760 Should I be worried? No I think you'll be fine

00:46:09.800 I think you should

00:46:12.080 Just make sure you've got lambs

00:46:13.880 Make sure you've got a lamb

00:46:16.160 Nearby

00:46:16.760 That's a random name says Josh not beating the POC allegations

00:46:20.240 What does that stand for?

00:46:21.440 Person of colour

00:46:22.200 Is there a smoke alarm chirping in here somewhere?

00:46:26.160 or you could alternatively call it like a piece of charcoal

00:46:30.020 piece of coal yeah just an old chunk of coal

00:46:34.420 so i've got a bit of a bit of a more upbeat segment for us now it's all about appreciation

00:46:41.760 um and and there's many things to i mean let's start with appreciating elon musk because

00:46:46.780 not only did he give us a new feature on on twitter which we can we can we can basically

00:46:51.580 block regions so you can now turn off india isn't that only replies though it might be it might be

00:46:58.680 but he seems that's enough it's a start yeah he he seems to have made a tweak to the algorithm

00:47:04.700 that has because he probably noticed everybody was turning off india he was like okay well let's

00:47:09.860 let's deprioritize them and who are we going to stick in their place and they obviously had a bit

00:47:14.820 of a think and they decided the japanese and um it is the best upgrade ever because once we started

00:47:23.980 getting the japanese on our timeline it turns out they just really appreciate everything um

00:47:31.240 charming and delightful they are charming and delightful appreciative people and for example

00:47:36.660 they seem to really like america um especially texas for whatever reason probably the hats

00:47:43.420 it seems sort of idiosyncratic with america isn't it that exactly how they're dressed there the

00:47:49.500 blue jeans the cowboy hats the the czech shirts oh they love the shirts they also like england

00:47:56.040 quite a lot from what i recall that there's a whole genre of people over there called tier booze

00:48:00.680 although there might be there might even be a bit of that in here have you got the thing about how

00:48:05.700 this completely destroys all of the like cultural appropriation arguments as well you well i haven't

00:48:11.340 got that but you you make that at the appropriate point well i'll just say i mean just immediately

00:48:15.440 look look at this if this was say white people dressing in non-white attire you'd be told that

00:48:22.680 oh no this is cultural appropriation this is horrible because a lot of the other cultures

00:48:26.660 of the world are horribly resentful and don't like it when we do that whereas we the white people

00:48:32.060 see a see japanese people dressing up like us and go oh that's charming yes that's wonderful that's

00:48:36.800 delightful because we don't feel that same resentment it's flattery really isn't it like

00:48:40.540 it's appreciation when when i hear japanese people talking about england and our beautiful gardens

00:48:46.540 and our tea and our manners and the beautiful countryside it makes me very proud and and you

00:48:52.580 know i can i can say the same thing about japan as well yes we're sort of i see japan as britain

00:48:58.920 of the the east really here they are appreciating a bit of take me home country road

00:49:06.260 i mean it's a nice song anyway but they just do it so endearingly and charmingly japanese

00:49:27.300 it is very sweet also what you tend to find is when japanese people learn western instruments

00:49:33.120 they get really really good at them they're asians like good stuff cool skill of their

00:49:38.780 sort of musicianship is always very good japanese jazz music is crazy japanese power metal is

00:49:45.500 awesome if i find an album that is like a that has a sort of fun cover and it's from japan i'm

00:49:54.300 just like i put that on i'm just like wow that there's some good musicianship there guaranteed

00:49:58.420 every time the japanese are also absolutely fascinated by american barbecues and there's

00:50:04.120 a huge number of posts to them just appreciating the concept of a barbecue so so that's absolutely

00:50:09.300 endearing um if you are an appreciative person and and and you want to you know unlock your inner

00:50:14.920 japan uh come and appreciate swindon uh for our live event which will be on the 11th of april

00:50:20.940 it's almost as good as japan not really but we'll be there so there's that um

00:50:27.280 and dan really likes japan and japanese people so what's the difference a whole bunch of posts of

00:50:34.620 of japanese people practicing their uh pistol skills and as you say getting really good at it

00:50:40.940 because you know obviously they're they're intelligent asians so when they decide to

00:50:46.020 dedicate themselves something to i don't know if they have autists or whether they're just all like

00:50:49.340 that but they all just get really good at doing stuff um i think they've got a culture that values

00:50:54.560 mastery of a skill and so it really incentivizes people to pursue it it's sort of similar to

00:51:01.140 ourselves but to a degree that is a bit further i think yes yes uh this is another one of those

00:51:08.520 many posts of them appreciating the american barbecue and then went on to say look they just

00:51:13.780 they just really love honky tonk in general so um combine that with the japanese love of karaoke

00:51:21.540 and you know proper honky-tonk events where they all dress up they really do love texas they do

00:51:27.780 sort of country western aesthetic isn't it yeah yeah um but i mean they just appreciate stuff in

00:51:34.240 general so i mean this is this this charming young lass was was going around somewhere in

00:51:39.560 the mountain she says and found a cherry blossom just stopped to appreciate it because it's something

00:51:45.480 worth appreciating um this lady is just saying that she just really appreciates the alarm clock 1.00

00:51:52.800 um just how delightful it is to wake up to a new day in japan and appreciate the light clock um

00:52:01.740 these are the uh japanese um customer service at an airport i think it is uh and and and they just

00:52:09.540 want to let you know that they really appreciate the customer um and and they're all going to come

00:52:15.540 out in a line before they before they do the serving bit so they can bow to you and let you

00:52:22.000 know how jolly appreciative they are of the fact that you're queuing up um in an airport i mean

00:52:27.380 just compare that to to british customer service where they might grunt at you but they probably

00:52:32.680 wouldn't they probably they probably wouldn't even maintain eye contact even once and yet the

00:52:38.540 japanese do this quite charming um apparently it is a culture in japan to if you're early to work

00:52:46.040 park far away so that late arriving colleagues can have a car park right by the entrance

00:52:52.400 again just the complete opposite i mean what a lovely bit of an unfortunate parking job in that

00:52:59.320 ai generated image though yes right in the middle i'm sure they wouldn't do that but um no they

00:53:03.660 wouldn't they're far too nice that's the level of consideration that hasn't even occurred to me and

00:53:08.140 i obsess over politeness a bit yes exactly it wouldn't it wouldn't have occurred to me that

00:53:12.700 but going to get neurotic through the rest of this segment finding all new ways to be overly

00:53:17.680 polite to everyone oh yeah i mean you're just gonna feel like an underachiever they are they

00:53:21.520 are the final boss of politeness um then then this emerged once once japan replaced india on

00:53:28.240 our timelines uh best upgrade ever um it turns out they also just wildly appreciate um victorian

00:53:35.940 um tea cafes and so they've set some up uh and so this this cafe was was was becoming a bit viral

00:53:43.620 because what they do is they have uh lots of um pretty young lasses in sort of 1870s maids costume 1.00

00:53:51.680 who will um serve you in a cafe a full made tea service i'm i'm i'm i'm sold on this when are you

00:54:00.180 booking the flights dan yep uh very soon and it's got the whole cutesy aesthetic as well that's what

00:54:05.420 i meant oh yes kawaii yes kawaii what whatever that means that is that that is that much what

00:54:11.100 does kawaii mean samson it means cute in japanese ah right there you go um and and and at this cafe

00:54:19.360 uh that they paint you a little cat and little messages of encouragement on your plate yeah

00:54:23.880 that's kawaii like the happy cat pictures oh okay there you go there's three kawais in one place and

00:54:30.340 little you know little message or a little they might even take the time to draw you a little maid 0.95

00:54:35.620 again what a wonderfully appreciative culture um here's japanese people coming to um coming to

00:54:44.840 london now if you've if you've seen sort of videos of like this before there was a spate of those

00:54:50.540 going around not so long ago of um different foreigners people who are pressed would describe

00:54:58.320 as a derby man or something um being very aggressive um with the household guard trying

00:55:04.640 to provoke a reaction trying to provoke a reaction um but of course all foreigners are not equal um 0.96

00:55:10.640 japanese tourists i mean just just look at the way that they they behave um i'll give this a whirl

00:55:18.000 there you go she comes up she bows doesn't get too close maintains on the right side of the line

00:55:25.600 takes her photo bows again i mean this one she bows twice she bows to the horse

00:55:31.600 just to make sure she's bowing enough

00:55:35.680 did go slightly there though yep a quick a quick bow again they're all like this they're all just

00:55:40.800 they're all just wonderfully respectful and appreciative

00:55:46.880 this used to be commonplace in our country before mass migration didn't we didn't do the bowing but

00:55:51.120 but we did we did a level of politeness and we did and you sort of nod of the head to people

00:55:56.000 like when you particularly if you're in sort of the suburbs of the city where it's still weird to

00:56:00.280 yes say hello but you give like a head nod to someone as they pass by tip your hat to someone

00:56:05.240 yeah we we have lost something there lost the art of that without the top hats now

00:56:09.860 yes back i say um of course um they are also on their travels when they come around europe

00:56:16.060 sending back um words of warning so you know this is one of many videos uh this one is a japanese

00:56:23.960 person has had the misfortune to find themselves in paris and so it's nice to see the french have

00:56:28.320 tidied up a bit yes sending a warning cleaner than usual because because a japanese also have 0.91

00:56:33.620 this weird i can't remember what it is samson might know for the culture shock they get when

00:56:38.040 they go to europe and find that there are no europeans it's specifically about paris called

00:56:42.040 yes syndrome yes i was gonna say samson can back me up on this uh supposedly the japanese

00:56:47.520 have such an idealized vision of paris in their minds which comes from pop culture

00:56:53.400 disney films old classics that when they actually go to visit paris the shock is so much that they

00:56:59.640 become physically ill right i mean yes i have a similar feeling although i know what i'm going to

00:57:05.740 expect yes but imagine turning up not expecting that even worse the culture shop must be even

00:57:11.920 you're expecting ratatouille and instead you get parents oh yes i think they outnumber the people

00:57:18.540 in paris still don't they yeah well keeping traditions alive the only thing that i couldn't

00:57:22.860 quite figure out is is japanese twitter from from my timeline now that now that this is a thing now

00:57:28.120 that we get japanese post they don't seem to like their new prime minister very much i'm not

00:57:32.800 fully sure why i don't well i've heard tell that she's trying to open the gates for a start right 1.00

00:57:40.980 with immigration and uh yeah that's a little bit questionable in my opinion from what i've seen

00:57:46.860 i'm but my understanding was is that she her policy was something like you know you you can

00:57:54.700 come over and work but you won't get citizenship and you can only stay if you're culturally aligned

00:58:00.120 you behave yourself or something like that so i would have thought that's all right but i don't

00:58:04.360 know i don't really get how it works um but uh first female um uh prime minister and um 0.94

00:58:13.400 she's heavily criticized um for being a little bit girlish and flirty um 0.99

00:58:23.320 so again i don't fully under because i mean they've only just elected her

00:58:26.840 but japanese twitter seems there's a lot of this as well well as far as i'm aware one of the

00:58:32.600 reasons that people like yourself like the idea of the japanese girls so much dan is the fact that

00:58:38.000 they are so feminine and girly yeah but she's 65 so yeah young at heart um strikes me as good

00:58:46.440 diplomacy to you know yes be a lady in the room and try and charm all the men well that's what i

00:58:53.100 thought but there was just so much of this that maybe it's just i don't know maybe 50 maybe it's

00:58:57.960 just a you know a politically divided like everywhere else or maybe it's just 50 percent

00:59:02.960 of twitter but there was a lot of criticism of of the new prime minister for whatever reason

00:59:07.360 and video videos like this um because of mocking the whole thing but done in a sort of cutesy way

00:59:14.100 anyway probably better move on i wonder how you found this video

00:59:20.300 i i i don't know i just want to talk um appreciation as algorithms

00:59:27.840 as we found out um appreciation doesn't just go one way um foreigners going to japan

00:59:39.040 for some reason um get absolutely enamored by the by the toilets by the high-tech japanese toilets

00:59:46.780 um again i'm not really sure what's going on here is can anyone who's samson why are the

00:59:53.660 toilets in japan so good in high tech what are these videos you're showing us dan

00:59:59.260 samson they're just it's just technological innovation they're allowed to do it

01:00:06.120 okay but i mean what what do you get like a calming mist or sea breeze or launches water

01:00:12.820 water jet and i think that might be why the the reaction oh okay right fair enough harry's red

01:00:20.180 he's embarrassed for what you're doing to harry well there's so many buttons i would have thought

01:00:25.400 there would be a whole selection of options some of my friends recently went to japan and came back

01:00:30.460 saying how much they fell in love with the place you know they'd been for months across all of um

01:00:35.380 all of east asia and southeast asia australia and then they'd ended up in japan basically by

01:00:40.920 accident not planning on going there they said of everywhere that they went japan was the only

01:00:44.740 place that they wanted to go back to and the one place that they would actually consider moving to

01:00:48.780 in the future this was not what they were raving about okay right they were raving about everybody

01:00:54.500 was so polite so they were so quiet and well behaved everything was clean the culture was

01:00:59.880 delightful they didn't go and i really loved the bidets okay well i i am i'm simply reporting what

01:01:06.240 i found that's fair um maybe the maybe the high-tech toilets are just the cherry on top

01:01:11.820 of all of the other stuff but fine okay i'm just reporting uh don't shoot the messenger at least

01:01:17.360 it's not like china where they don't even have toilet roll you know they're rung above they've 1.00

01:01:21.440 got water high-tech i there must be a mist option on there i won't spend long on this but i'm just

01:01:27.380 saying one of the buttons must be a nice gentle mist a mist would just give you the sensation

01:01:33.900 that you've wet yourself surely yeah maybe i didn't think or maybe like a little smoke machine

01:01:39.040 so you can stroke anyway moving i want that yeah that's great on china i'm still traumatized from 0.98

01:01:48.400 idiot abroad when carl pilkington goes into the public and find there's no doors and there's just 0.82

01:01:53.560 a hole in the floor oh yeah i saw that in france that does not surprise me you get it in france 0.99

01:01:59.560 yeah yeah very very disturbing um why is japan like this um i mean another question about this

01:02:07.000 is is look this this is an apple store in japan and as you probably notice they don't even bother

01:02:14.600 locking anything because i mean why would you we used to be like this as well i remember the apple

01:02:19.240 stores down my way being like this i don't think they can be anymore no they can't be because um

01:02:26.760 um well here's an apple store in california to give you the contrast

01:02:33.400 yep oh it's an urban scholar doing it i never would have guessed

01:02:41.340 that boy's training to be an architect yeah one phone at a time and of course the the

01:02:48.560 the staff can see him doing this but there's not a damn thing they can do because if they were to

01:02:53.980 intervene, they of course would go to jail and he of course would not.

01:02:58.980 What's the point in a second amendment in that country at all?

01:03:02.980 If this were the wild west that the Japanese so admired, he would be like swiss cheese 1.00

01:03:08.100 at the minute.

01:03:09.100 He's not even able to pull his trousers up properly. 0.99

01:03:11.220 Look at those ridiculous shoes, what a pillock. 1.00

01:03:17.040 It is a bit unfortunate. 0.98

01:03:18.540 Now, because Japan has been getting a little bit enriched,

01:03:25.020 it has had a bit of this.

01:03:26.220 It's starting to experience it because, of course,

01:03:28.680 population isn't going up as fast as I'd like.

01:03:31.700 Have you got the video of the African getting turned into sushi? 0.99

01:03:35.640 God, no. Really?

01:03:37.360 You haven't seen that?

01:03:38.720 Oh, I know what you're on about. Yes, I've seen it.

01:03:40.340 Wonderful. It's wonderful.

01:03:41.860 There's an African playing up in public,

01:03:43.620 and so they wrap him in a big green plastic sheet.

01:03:47.400 Right.

01:03:47.600 Like you would roll up a rug

01:03:49.540 And sushi-fy him

01:03:52.000 And then put him into a car

01:03:53.340 Right, oh good

01:03:54.560 Not literally turn into sushi then

01:03:56.620 Because even for the Japanese 1.00

01:03:58.400 I mean we don't know what happened after the video ended

01:04:01.240 Possibly

01:04:01.620 But Japanese racism

01:04:05.400 Is just

01:04:06.200 I have to say

01:04:07.960 It is just like everything else they do

01:04:11.040 It's so sort of sincere and pure

01:04:13.540 they there was just absolutely no holding back i thought if originally i was going to do the

01:04:21.520 whole segment on on sort of sincere sweet japanese racism but i quickly realized i just cannot post

01:04:30.140 almost any of it that's the problem with racism i've long said is that it's it's impurity the

01:04:38.140 problem is that it's not pure enough like the japanese have yes yes but i mean

01:04:43.180 how how the phrases how the phrases but um i mean you could just read it out and give everybody a

01:04:51.260 taste dan no no i i i i i won't do that i wouldn't i wouldn't do that it's just that they don't have

01:04:57.260 any of the sort of cultural hang-ups and assumptions that we have and you realize

01:05:01.640 when you start to go through

01:05:03.400 Japanese Twitter

01:05:04.180 imagine the biggest racist 0.96

01:05:07.420 that you know 0.92

01:05:08.320 what an amateur

01:05:11.220 what an amateur we are

01:05:13.560 compared to

01:05:15.360 even just the most casual Japanese

01:05:17.480 chap which I thought

01:05:19.120 they are the professionals aren't they

01:05:20.420 they are professionals

01:05:21.160 I mean the Japanese are the people who did basically 1.00

01:05:24.820 just try and genocide parts of China 0.98

01:05:27.460 less than 100 years ago 0.79

01:05:29.240 oh yeah but those are different Japanese 1.00

01:05:30.620 and still didn't still haven't really apologized for it not that i'm asking them to no no but um

01:05:37.760 for whatever happened in in about halfway in between then and now obviously cause some sort

01:05:42.780 of reset however it works um and here we go here's a japanese person explain as a japanese person i

01:05:49.020 can tell you people are incredibly racist it's beautiful to witness with zero guard and it's

01:05:53.660 not hateful it's just like you people are troublemakers go away just sincere and pure i

01:05:58.420 like the image they're included with this as well like weird dragon ball z builder for some reason

01:06:03.860 like like goku with a hard hat just racistly telling people to leave japan as a spirit in

01:06:10.260 the sky i don't really understand that either but i put it in uh don't understand a lot of this but

01:06:15.460 i'm putting it in um i mean again this is an example of of so much of this stuff and uh you

01:06:21.900 know saying i i hate those foreigner tourists who come to japan because of the weekend uh these 0.99

01:06:26.740 shitty foreigners who come from work but can't even speak Japanese you know blah blah blah he's 0.98

01:06:31.020 going off about it and and and I understand I mean if I would like to go to Japan at some point 0.99

01:06:35.420 and if people have to protest me being there and you know tell me to go away I mean I completely

01:06:40.760 understand because you've got to keep the country Japanese is ultimately the most important thing

01:06:46.360 polite Englishmen are not the problem in Japan well probably not and in fact but if they need

01:06:51.600 to do it I understand I mean I have pointed out before that some of the white tourists that

01:06:56.440 they've had like the streamers like logan paul have been some of the ones sadly to open the

01:07:00.640 floodgates to the other streamers to come over where they've basically made a genre out of

01:07:04.740 live streaming themselves purposefully upsetting japanese people and being rude to them i really

01:07:09.760 despise that i've covered this before where the streamers are causing chaos and it's

01:07:15.220 they're obviously taking advantage of their their good nature that's enough to justify them closing

01:07:19.960 their borders yeah this is a bit of an example actually there was um i don't know if he's a

01:07:24.860 streamer but he was he was obviously trying to do something he he decided this this chap down here

01:07:30.040 to do a um a dance routine on the train and this one went kind of viral in japan it got a lot of

01:07:36.860 attention um and and as you can see the japanese were there in endearing um innocent um racism um

01:07:46.620 basically they they just have zero tolerance for this sort of breach of protocol he's a top

01:07:51.320 candidate for sushification i would say yes um and and i i blanked out the word here because of

01:07:57.960 course we can't in in this country um translate japanese twitter directly uh because they go

01:08:04.200 they go so much um harder and pure on this stuff um but because this one did go a bit viral the

01:08:10.580 train company themselves had no problem making exactly the same analogy by putting up these signs

01:08:16.920 um in response um advising people that you kind of need to behave yourself when you are

01:08:23.280 on public transport wait sorry go back there's that's that's interesting that the two figures

01:08:30.400 that they've chosen to represent like goodish behavior is the um yellowy orange fox and um

01:08:39.320 i don't think we can read too much yeah but um that's interesting yes when you but you see what

01:08:45.700 i mean and and the and the pure white polar bear whose child is being upset yes but the japanese

01:08:51.980 they they don't they don't filter they don't have to think through 13 different layers of how do i

01:08:57.180 avoid offending people no they just cut to the quick of it i appreciate that um yeah stuff like

01:09:05.060 this lots of this whenever immigrants badly behave i mean it just becomes a thing immediately and

01:09:09.760 they don't they don't hold back on any of it well they had a big problem with the kurds for a while

01:09:14.260 as well. Did they? I didn't know that.

01:09:15.960 You didn't think there'd be any relationship

01:09:17.980 with the Kurds, you know, Middle 0.90

01:09:20.060 Eastern people and Japan, but they've built 1.00

01:09:22.080 up a little bit of a so-called community

01:09:24.320 and have

01:09:26.100 already started causing problems. 0.98

01:09:28.860 I mean, this is a black 0.99

01:09:30.100 woman who's been living in Japan apparently for 10 years 0.57

01:09:32.160 and it's significantly

01:09:34.300 ramped up lately apparently.

01:09:36.760 The desire that they

01:09:38.260 and they're having these sort of protests

01:09:40.180 now

01:09:40.640 basically to try and get the foreigners out 1.00

01:09:43.760 because they can see what's happened to Europe

01:09:45.800 and they're like, no, thank you very much.

01:09:49.840 We're not having that.

01:09:51.460 So again, if I do go to Japan and you have to protest me,

01:09:53.660 I completely understand.

01:09:54.700 To be honest, it would be an honour to have a Japanese person be racist to me. 1.00

01:09:58.940 Yes.

01:09:59.440 I'd sort of be like, oh, well, thank you.

01:10:01.920 I'm touched.

01:10:03.120 Yes, I like that.

01:10:03.840 It's nice to be on the other side.

01:10:06.020 I mean, this is another example.

01:10:07.880 I mean, I won't play all the video, but basically...

01:10:10.880 Oh, yes. Oh, actually, no, this isn't the one. There's another one I was going to talk about as well. There was a sort of, for the small Muslim community there, they set up a pressure group to basically say, well, the norm in Japan is cremation. Well, we want burials. What are you going to do? And this Japanese politician stood up and said, go back to your own country and have a burial.

01:10:35.640 i mean i've said the same thing before when they they tried to they were going to build a mega

01:10:41.760 um islamic cemetery in cornwall of all places and i just said you know you've got no shortage

01:10:49.400 of sand in the middle east stick them in there well quite plenty room and and and this one is

01:10:54.140 another similar thing that's getting shot down um apparently a lot of um pakistani and african

01:10:59.200 american men are suing the japanese police for racial profiling uh because the japanese have

01:11:04.240 notice that certain groups commit crime at a higher rate and so they just focus on them

01:11:09.200 and apparently white europeans pretty much get left alone because they tend to

01:11:12.400 leasing isn't it yes um leasing based on evidence so there's there's a bit of a bit of profiling as

01:11:18.880 well um and again just just just generally endearing stuff um i mean i don't agree with

01:11:26.960 everything that she says but i mean obviously but excuse me ma'am if you could bring back

01:11:32.720 one person dead or alive who would it be like heroes never die yeah exactly

01:11:44.240 anyway moving on charlie chaplin fan big charlie chaplin i've seen this video

01:11:52.880 they like their karaoke as well so they are they are reliving all the uh the classic bangers

01:12:02.720 i'm not sure how long this can be played on youtube yes probably best done there then we go

01:12:14.560 i mean there's nothing wrong with this do you think it's do you think it's copyrighted that

01:12:18.620 the original loan of the song might come after us or something i mean it's about a girl and a flower

01:12:24.440 i mean it's not that i mean out of all the songs from that period it's the least bad one apparently

01:12:28.560 she does all of them okay she's working her way at her specialty now i'm not i'm not i'm not

01:12:33.700 endorsing the messages of the underlying song i'm just i'm just saying that they they just don't

01:12:38.680 have the whole baggage that stops them having the conversations that they need to have um which i

01:12:45.300 think is i don't think they're quite as ashamed about their axis relationship of the past are

01:12:50.300 they yes um so so that that's that's more or less what i had to say i do have a couple more links

01:12:54.860 have we got time have we got time i'll go on them all right then fine i'll i'll do the next bit uh

01:13:00.060 which is a bit of a twist um the weird sexualization in japan i'm immediately regretting

01:13:07.580 you asked for it josh i i don't i don't quite get how this works but apparently but this is

01:13:13.680 another part of the culture that at least i appreciate

01:13:15.620 again i'm not i'm not really sure again i'm trying to interpret the culture to understand

01:13:38.220 how this all works i've never seen this on british television i must tell you although

01:13:42.400 So, you know, there are some good Japanese game shows that I've seen.

01:13:46.280 Takeshi's Castle comes to mind.

01:13:47.820 That's excellent.

01:13:49.620 I don't know.

01:13:51.060 This one, we've got a nice girl in stocks. 1.00

01:13:56.160 Just your thinly veiled fetish.

01:13:59.020 I don't think particularly thinly veiled.

01:14:03.000 Now Dan has just found a way to show us his favourite fetish.

01:14:07.040 I had never seen any of this until today.

01:14:09.600 I just think it's a...

01:14:11.100 I never said you'd watched it before today.

01:14:13.100 I'm just saying it's now your favourite fetish content.

01:14:16.720 No, I'm just saying it's a fascinating culture

01:14:21.000 in all its different aspects.

01:14:23.400 You can say that, yes.

01:14:24.640 Yes.

01:14:25.020 I think that's fair.

01:14:27.160 A lot of this, I'm just genuinely confused.

01:14:29.860 I don't truly understand it.

01:14:31.360 For example, in the West,

01:14:34.560 obviously when girls go to the gym these days, 1.00

01:14:37.220 they wear the tightest possible lycra

01:14:39.120 and then presumably vacuum seal that

01:14:42.760 so they've got freckles on their labia,

01:14:44.280 you can still see it,

01:14:45.240 and then they get upset when you look at them.

01:14:47.580 Whereas watching one clip

01:14:48.780 where a Western girl was in Japan

01:14:51.740 and saying she has to wear really baggy clothes

01:14:54.520 when she goes to the gym,

01:14:55.880 otherwise people just stare at her 1.00

01:14:57.100 like she's a complete whore. 1.00

01:14:59.160 So I'm not entirely... 1.00

01:15:00.340 And at the same time,

01:15:01.240 the television has programs like this.

01:15:03.280 Yes, that's what I'm getting at.

01:15:05.040 That's what I'm getting at.

01:15:06.260 There is a strange confusion.

01:15:07.480 samson having been to japan a number of times would probably be able to better tell us about

01:15:11.780 it because he said that when it comes like advertising and such it's kind of like held

01:15:16.680 off to particular districts where kind of in an old-fashioned european way is understand that

01:15:22.860 there is degeneracy in the city but if you just make sure that it all stays in this one place how

01:15:27.240 does it work on the television spill everywhere else is there a similar cordon sanitaire to this

01:15:32.280 watershed yeah is this is this a watershed thing samson this this look like i don't know this

01:15:37.620 look like general entertainment to me um and the final one um wait wait samson i didn't catch that

01:15:43.080 we can't hear you now testing cut off

01:15:46.620 um and and then finally uh on this i think it might all be the same

01:15:55.020 but but apparently for whatever reason they needed to invent an exercise bloke bike that

01:16:06.720 is a sort of coochie blower i don't i don't again i don't fully get how this works but anyway i'm

01:16:12.100 amazed that that exists but i'm horrified that i witnessed it on camera yes so there we go let's

01:16:18.420 appreciate the fact that the japanese have replaced the indians on social media um here's a broad 0.99

01:16:24.460 sample of uh what you can expect i i think it's an upgrade i don't know about you chaps

01:16:30.400 i agree just sincerity appreciation um casual sincere racism and a little bit of

01:16:39.560 however you described the last couple of bits which i think is good but you know

01:16:44.920 uh take it as you will got plenty of rumble rant that's true okay

01:16:50.040 at the very least after my depressing segment to start it off i think you've both brought

01:16:59.980 smiles to everybody's face yeah so i was trying to i was trying to cheer everybody i slowly built

01:17:04.360 it back i was mainly talking about how much i hated something so it was difficult for it to

01:17:08.260 be cheery well as i like all of it there's joy and brought it around there is i i enjoy it there

01:17:12.700 was nothing on the japanese segment i didn't like as a british person i prefer to be miserable

01:17:16.420 anyway being happy is sort of you know not patriotic all right that's a random name says

01:17:21.780 fun fact the japanese word for to escape is to flee etc is niggeru i'm not i'm sure it's just 0.99

01:17:30.200 a coincidence dan side i right um base tape said he was about 15 minutes behind but that was the

01:17:36.480 most british thing that he'd ever heard related to josh's segment let's go to dubai in the middle

01:17:40.980 of a war for a nice bit of peace and quiet sounds lovely i don't know why you're going all the way

01:17:45.540 down there it's just sigil stone as well so what kind of kimono is samson wearing during this

01:17:51.560 segment well he didn't start off wearing one but he might have changed whilst we weren't just

01:17:55.360 appeared upon him i don't know how it's happened so go from that's a random name uh that one oh

01:18:01.600 okay oh you go up to you all right uh didn't the japanese try to genocide parts of china i already

01:18:07.000 like japan harry no need to try and sell me um oklidor says uh which would you prefer the japanese

01:18:13.580 game show or the current bbc well personally i would say the game shows have it's not even close

01:18:19.600 they've captured my own imagination i might even pay for my tv license if that yes i couldn't

01:18:26.740 resist i'm sorry we found something that josh is willing to pay taxes for fellows so a machine 0.98

01:18:33.660 that fires ping pong balls at a woman's ass and another machine that fires air a bit i presume 0.65

01:18:41.400 was heated air i mean it wouldn't be cold air it could be cold air i'm not sure which would be 0.98

01:18:46.140 better or worse um leave a comment if you know um do we have any video there was one last one as

01:18:52.060 well which is a little stone at the top it's like you're explaining dan not you is a complete boomer

01:19:00.480 have you seen the size of the mouse when he's been in the second studio doing dailies

01:19:05.940 he has the boomer mouse it takes up half the screen

01:19:09.040 that's an exaggeration

01:19:10.840 I just make it a bit bigger so my old eyes

01:19:12.860 can see it

01:19:13.560 Dan not playing the Japanese cover of

01:19:16.420 I wish I were in Dixie

01:19:18.740 alright

01:19:19.880 shameful display

01:19:21.980 let's just write it out quite like that

01:19:24.760 good Shogun 2 reference

01:19:26.640 let's do the video

01:19:27.660 oh no this study shows my side in a bad light

01:19:30.600 let's have a look to see what's been going on recently 1.00

01:19:32.640 well this is stupid behaviour 1.00

01:19:34.640 and he was punished in a court of law after expressing regret and remorse. 1.00

01:19:37.820 I'm not sure why the headline is sceptical about him being drunk specifically,

01:19:40.640 as if that's in contention after he emerged from a pub.

01:19:42.900 But, oh well, I condemn.

01:19:44.780 How about the other side?

01:19:46.240 Oh, would-be terrorists detonated themselves in an attempt to attend a protest,

01:19:50.520 no quotes around that word for some reason,

01:19:52.060 to release an actual terrorist.

01:19:53.800 Hmm, well, I can see why the study was removed.

01:19:57.660 Yeah, that's the thing.

01:19:59.000 It's the same thing with the ADL reports in America on left versus right-wing extremism,

01:20:03.180 where they massively inflate the number of right-wing extremist events

01:20:07.900 by taking it so that, I don't know,

01:20:10.200 some guy who has a tattoo of the American flag

01:20:12.860 punched his girlfriend in the face,

01:20:14.680 and they count that as a right-wing extremist event. 0.97

01:20:17.320 Punched her for America. 0.91

01:20:18.920 Yeah.

01:20:19.680 For freedom.

01:20:20.420 She got in the way of his view of a bald eagle.

01:20:24.020 I've just returned to Canada from a trip to the UK,

01:20:26.820 necessitated by the passing of my father.

01:20:29.400 Here he is leading a formation wheelbarrow team

01:20:31.700 called the Red Barrows as a local fate to raise money.

01:20:35.040 I was horrified to note the general attitudes of the people there.

01:20:37.880 As much as sites like Lotus Eaters are doing stolid work

01:20:40.620 with analysing what's going on,

01:20:42.160 you must not think that you are winning.

01:20:44.380 The grip the BBC has on the public at large

01:20:46.600 means that Matt Goodwin may be a bit useless,

01:20:49.180 but he does understand the confused minds of many of the public

01:20:52.180 who only get their news and analysis from the mainstream.

01:20:56.180 Yeah, I mean, it's fair that the TV-watching

01:21:01.600 brits are a challenge that's true also sorry to hear about your father yes doing all right yes

01:21:08.000 uh do you have any more videos uh samson those were all of the videos but all of the videos

01:21:12.780 right let's do some comments let me get the mouse samson thank you

01:21:18.600 all right i'll read through some of mine michael trebelbus king charles is a big fan of his uncle

01:21:26.520 edward so if he was a fan of a traitor king what kind of king would he be hm butter knife permit

01:21:31.580 registry you can usually tell it isn't one of the usual suspects driving the car in these types of

01:21:35.840 collisions by the fact that it either isn't a truck or a white german luxury performance car

01:21:41.620 baron von warhawk the difference between the state's reaction to a few empty jewish ambulance

01:21:47.300 getting burnt and the reaction to seven english people getting run over by a third worlder 1.00

01:21:51.560 shows who are the true masters of the country and guess what they don't care about you

01:21:55.200 Well, I would say, regarding that, it's just basically any ethnic minority group that isn't native Brit

01:22:03.320 is going to get a much more favourable treatment by the establishment.

01:22:07.620 Obviously, the reaction to the Jewish ambulances was massively overblown,

01:22:12.520 but at the same time, again, a Rwandan kid stabbed a bunch of white girls,

01:22:17.360 a Taylor Swift dance hall thing, and we had the Prime Minister himself coming out to tell you

01:22:23.080 you're wrong for being angry about it.

01:22:25.200 lord inquisitor hector rex listen i know he hit you with two tons of steel but did you die

01:22:30.280 yeah and that's a random name what kind of world would there ever uh in what kind of world would 0.62

01:22:36.480 there ever be indians in derby a clown world yes we do live in clown world okay um i'm not 0.95

01:22:44.300 going to read that name because that sounds incriminating to karl um with the current

01:22:48.400 demographic makeup of milton keen's why bother leaving if you want the dubai experience you're

01:22:53.580 still going to pay taxes that's something omar awad um early on in the conflict a clip was

01:22:59.340 circulating where the western tourists appeared to have fled and all that remained were crowds

01:23:03.820 of south asians honestly dubai looks much more appealing now that it's completely empty that's

01:23:09.780 true i mean a lot of the help are from the subcontinent aren't they and uh i imagine

01:23:15.320 they're not treated particularly well or given sanitary conditions so make of that what you will

01:23:20.900 frankly most tourist destinations are nicer when they're empty as well i agree yeah i when i'm

01:23:26.940 forced to be a tourist by circumstance i like the places where there are no tourists

01:23:31.740 um az desert rat i've never been to dubai but the few people i've known who have visited

01:23:37.920 say that it is miserably hot and humid with ridiculously expensive prices i'm not surprised

01:23:44.140 that's the impression i got it's basically a playground for people who want to pretend to be

01:23:48.700 important because they have some money it's like oh i've made made lots of money in sales i'm going

01:23:54.400 to fly out there and get some lip injections i didn't say it on the segment itself as well

01:23:59.840 but the burj khalifa the thing with that is right i don't want to sound like a feminist 0.98

01:24:03.940 it is basically a giant insecure penis in the sky isn't it it's an ego thing isn't it yeah you know 0.95

01:24:10.680 it can be related to that but the only reason they did it and built this really tall building 0.97

01:24:15.700 is just so just like oh we've got the biggest building we're so advanced but it's sort of you

01:24:20.360 know it's like someone saying how strong they are it sort of reeks of insecurity you don't point it

01:24:25.780 out you know you don't go out and build the tallest building it just sort of happens it's

01:24:30.380 like whoops we we needed this but i guess it's the tallest building now like that's how uh europe

01:24:36.400 and north america broke boundaries is we sort of did it as with a practical reason um derrick power

01:24:43.400 says this is what happens when you build your economy on sand literally I already made that

01:24:48.840 joke you might have said it before I did to be fair and then finally Henry Ashman says whilst

01:24:55.200 the UK gets more rain than the UAE generally speaking when it rains it will thump it down

01:24:59.840 plus any rain will cause flash flooding because the soil is essentially baked solid can be a bit

01:25:06.200 like that in the UK after a drought that is true however with all the money that they've got they

01:25:10.720 can easily build the correct infrastructure like it's not that hard to build drainage that works

01:25:17.920 i know most british councils might beg to differ but that's only because they prefer to spend their

01:25:23.840 money giving free stuff to minorities rather than you know clearing drains your section

01:25:30.940 all right i've got the answer that i need so furious dan says strong name that by the way

01:25:35.700 Japanese toilets

01:25:37.260 automatically raise

01:25:38.560 and lower the lid

01:25:39.620 they have heated seats

01:25:41.180 built in fans

01:25:42.300 ocean mist

01:25:43.280 and bidet functions

01:25:44.600 the tragedy that Japan 1.00

01:25:47.180 has no Mexican food

01:25:48.440 why own a Ferrari

01:25:49.440 when you can't take it

01:25:50.420 to the track

01:25:51.060 that's why they're

01:25:53.140 importing a few Indians

01:25:54.640 here and there

01:25:55.340 once they've got

01:25:55.960 the curries flowing

01:25:57.200 the toilets will

01:25:58.180 finally have a challenge

01:25:59.760 oh there you go

01:26:05.020 But they do have ocean mist.

01:26:07.500 I mean, so I was right. 0.98

01:26:09.940 Your dream of a wet arse, it can be a reality now. 0.99

01:26:12.880 No, what? 0.99

01:26:13.780 Not where? 1.00

01:26:15.180 Sorry, walking around with a wet arse. 0.99

01:26:17.400 I'm just saying, you know, after a hard day, a little gentle mist, 0.99

01:26:21.320 I mean, it wouldn't go and miss, would it?

01:26:23.960 I'm just trying to...

01:26:24.500 You're looking at me like I've gone mad.

01:26:27.680 I mean, surely that's right.

01:26:28.860 I'm just trying to think of a circumstance where I need a misty bottom 1.00

01:26:31.780 and I can't think of any.

01:26:32.920 I see your point

01:26:35.160 but I'm just saying

01:26:36.140 it's the only function that I think I would

01:26:39.360 it could be quite nice sometimes

01:26:42.640 I don't know

01:26:43.200 that's a random name

01:26:47.280 crime in Japan is so low

01:26:49.260 that something like 75% of stolen

01:26:51.360 bikes are found and returned to their owner

01:26:53.420 within a week or two

01:26:54.600 I wonder who the

01:26:57.200 culprits are 1.00

01:26:58.000 they don't have that terrible demographic do they

01:27:01.220 The bicycle thief demographic 1.00

01:27:03.780 Amy points out that

01:27:05.840 The Japanese ambassador to Britain

01:27:08.000 Is highly appreciative of

01:27:09.880 British culture, that is true

01:27:11.940 He's quite delightful

01:27:13.000 He's the best example of an ambassador I think I've ever seen

01:27:16.280 Also, Japan

01:27:17.660 If you're going to look at it from a perspective

01:27:19.860 Of geopolitical strategy

01:27:21.480 Right, okay

01:27:22.860 Just being nice

01:27:25.240 To the other countries and being 1.00

01:27:27.520 Really respectful of their cultures

01:27:29.760 has done so much

01:27:31.680 so many wonders for them. Less than 100

01:27:33.840 years ago they were supposedly the

01:27:35.820 greatest threat to all of

01:27:37.880 our eastern empire and all of our territory

01:27:39.840 in Asia and now we love them.

01:27:42.120 Why? Because they make funny cartoons

01:27:44.000 and seem really nice.

01:27:46.840 Yes.

01:27:48.200 I mean they nearly killed my grandfather

01:27:49.960 and now I'm defending

01:27:52.060 them. Yes lovely people.

01:27:55.560 I mean a bit

01:27:55.920 of a miss the grandfather thing but apart from that.

01:27:57.980 Dan wants to experience

01:28:01.100 The feeling of a Ukrainian rent boy 1.00

01:28:03.360 Having spat on his arse 1.00

01:28:05.100 That was a two dollar rumble rent 0.99

01:28:07.080 From Sigilstone

01:28:07.880 Bloody don't

01:28:09.060 Don't

01:28:11.180 There's a difference between an ocean mist

01:28:13.760 And one of Keir Starmer's bloody queue

01:28:16.580 At least you won't catch a disease

01:28:19.440 From the toilet will you

01:28:20.580 I'm not obsessed with a mist

01:28:23.120 I'm just saying

01:28:23.700 Because there's so many buttons

01:28:27.040 i thought what what could the buttons do and that was where my mind i mean what if what what do you

01:28:31.820 think the buttons do well i know what the buttons do i'm aware of what the toilet is right it's kind

01:28:36.880 of just like a thing that people know culturally okay well i don't know i don't know how to use

01:28:41.220 the free seashells sue me um anyway um that's it i think so thank you for coming um hopefully not

01:28:51.880 literally in that last segment and see you in the next one

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 30, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1385

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