The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1394

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1394.

00:00:05.760 I am your host today, joined by Charlie Downs.

00:00:09.520 Good to be here. Second show of the day.

00:00:10.860 Yes, second show of the day. I hope you're not tired of him yet.

00:00:13.600 We have hungover Nick Dixon.

00:00:15.700 Sadiq Khan, for president.

00:00:17.800 For president, who doesn't understand which country that he's in.

00:00:20.920 And we managed to find this lovely young chap lying on a street corner outside earlier.

00:00:25.740 What was your name again, Mark?

00:00:27.620 Yeah, my name is Marek.

00:00:28.760 Marek we've got Marek and he said that he has some opinions that he'd like to share with

00:00:33.260 everybody so we thought you know what let's give him a go yes your deadlift technique is very bad

00:00:37.540 I don't deadlift the Romanian deadlifts I am not willing to risk myself from Romania Romania good 0.93

00:00:43.480 yeah yeah there you go now keep your pockets to yourselves this is ridiculous yes this is Mark 0.80

00:00:48.900 you all know Mark probably he's going to talk to us about some things that he's noticed recently 0.77

00:00:53.620 that's very specific and amongst those things that we've all noticed recently that we're going

00:00:57.980 to be talking about that is going to be whether reform will ever field a white candidate which

00:01:03.040 is a pressing question uh you're going to be telling us about gavin newsom's wife gavin newsom's 1.00

00:01:09.280 insane wife yes the most insane woman in america possibly taking over from hillary and aoc it's

00:01:15.640 incredible the stuff she says i'm looking forward to it and we're going to end with your segment on 0.82

00:01:20.240 whether zoomers are physically capable of enjoying themselves indeed uh the answer is no but we'll

00:01:26.100 get to that well as a resident zoomer i have opinions that's that'll be interesting i will

00:01:32.760 be fielding this debate and refereeing uh but first just to make everybody aware before we

00:01:37.000 get into that we have the live event you probably already know about this but if you don't be there

00:01:41.760 mark won't be there i don't know if that will entice you further uh but it's tomorrow at seven

00:01:48.820 till 10 at the mecca in swindon it's going to be a grand old time so make sure you come along

00:01:53.280 And also after this, we have Lads Hour, where we are going to be physically strapping Carl down and forcing him to watch Monty Python until he laughs.

00:02:02.380 So there is a risk that we might actually have to cancel and postpone the live event tomorrow if he still hasn't laughed by then.

00:02:09.720 So fingers crossed for everybody, because otherwise it might just be a big waste of everybody's time.

00:02:14.400 But with that, tune in and let's get into the news.

00:02:18.320 Good. Well, I think I'm first.

00:02:19.660 so I thought I'd open up with this article here in the new statesman that was published

00:02:23.920 a few days ago titled Rupert Lowe wants to hurt Nigel Farage and it's basically a an update on

00:02:30.320 where Restore Britain is up to and uh where Rupert is up to and so I thought as spokesman

00:02:35.720 and campaigns director of Restore Britain I would come here today give an update on what we've been

00:02:40.260 up to and a call to action for everybody listening to this podcast right now now there was a couple

00:02:45.220 of paragraphs at the bottom of this that I wanted to use to kind of, here we go. So two weeks ago,

00:02:50.820 Lowe's anger culminated in the registration of a new political party, Restore Britain. The choice

00:02:55.220 of verb was intended as a credential of Lowe's more hardline conservative approach. All true so

00:02:59.520 far. Farage wants to reform the UK to make the country into something new while settling the

00:03:04.780 legacies of successive waves of immigration and cultural integration. Also true, and this is 0.99

00:03:09.240 something that we've been pointing out from the beginning, which is that the framing of Reform UK

00:03:13.820 is actually very telling, because they believe fundamentally in this version of Britain.

00:03:18.280 They believe in the UK, the kind of post-1997, post-multiculturalism, post-mass immigration

00:03:24.080 consensus. And what they think it needs is mere reform, tweaking around the edges. But actually,

00:03:29.600 at its core, it's a good idea. It's a good project.

00:03:31.760 We need the foreigners who are willing to fly the Union Jack.

00:03:34.440 Exactly. 1.00

00:03:35.060 That's all we need.

00:03:35.940 Yeah. And they're quite honest about this when you listen to them. They will say that

00:03:40.340 Britishness is about British values and they'll basically uh toe the Blairite line on um you know

00:03:46.120 matters of British identity and so on um and if you listen to the likes of Layla Cunningham um

00:03:50.480 they are almost indistinguishable from the Conservative or Labour parties um you know in

00:03:55.600 her policies for London her view of uh you know again what it means to be British and so on um

00:04:00.400 so this is all correct from the new statesman so far. Lowe on the other hand wants to restore

00:04:05.480 to return it to a past that will be recognizable by the ethnic composition of these islands 0.58

00:04:09.380 after a program of brutal mass deportations which fly in the face of the basic principles

00:04:14.420 of natural justice. Now obviously that's loaded full of emotive language but yes it is the case

00:04:18.660 that we want to restore Britain to something that it was you know certainly close to before which is

00:04:24.120 a cohesive country at peace with itself and the world and yes part of that will be a program of

00:04:30.180 mass deportations deporting millions of people. A bit lazy of them to just cut and paste from

00:04:34.120 your website isn't it? I mean brutal mass deportations like brilliant. Yeah well I was reading this and

00:04:38.840 I was like, is this an endorsement?

00:04:40.940 They've just flipped the morality by saying,

00:04:43.240 fly in the face of the principles of natural justice

00:04:45.340 rather than completely conform with.

00:04:47.100 Yeah, it's so funny for them to, like you say,

00:04:49.520 invoke natural law, natural justice,

00:04:51.900 when in fact the way that the British are living today

00:04:54.520 is completely at odds with any concept of natural law.

00:04:57.360 Is this author a particular fan of Thomas Aquinas?

00:05:00.640 Must be.

00:05:02.120 You've got this idea of restoration.

00:05:04.580 It's like the restoration of the status of the British peoples.

00:05:07.440 It's a restoration of our stamp on the world.

00:05:11.320 You know, what have we contributed?

00:05:13.160 What are we continuing to contribute?

00:05:14.640 And what will be the role of our people in the future?

00:05:18.200 Whereas, as you say, Reform UK, the UK with a Y project being essentially a managed liberal global economy unit with no peoples within it, really.

00:05:33.680 yes uh so just recognizing our peoples is a restoration worth doing yeah this is the thing

00:05:39.060 very quickly not to you know we don't have to get into all of this right now because it's a little

00:05:41.860 bit high-minded but this idea of restoration is very important because the analogy that i

00:05:46.400 sort of use in my own mind is one of a house and it's a house that was you know it was built it

00:05:50.940 was beautiful there were people living in it and then it was allowed to fall into disrepair there's

00:05:54.380 squatters living in it and the various sort of views of the different parties on that house

00:05:59.420 are well they're just important to understand to understand the political landscape so the

00:06:03.540 conservatives will say well no the house is still basically all right you know there's people living

00:06:07.860 in it so it must be fine so keeping it the way it is right now which is decrepit and you know

00:06:12.720 the windows are smashed and the door is hanging off its hinges and all the rest of it and anybody

00:06:16.900 can go in and live in there and all the rest of it that's fine that's all good Labour say actually

00:06:21.720 it's wrong to even suggest that there is such a thing as an ideal form of this house and this

00:06:26.120 house as it is now is just as good as it was when it was built 100 years ago or whatever same very

00:06:31.000 much with the Greens. The Greens think you just need to accelerate further into the decline. And

00:06:34.680 actually, that's a good thing. It's a good, it's beautiful to have crackheads living in your house

00:06:38.220 and squatting in your loft and everything. Whereas we are saying, and reform are saying,

00:06:42.920 if we just tweak some of the things, if we put the door back on its hinges and patch up one of

00:06:47.180 the windows, then everything will be fine. It's just incremental, minuscule change. Whereas

00:06:51.040 Restore Britain is saying, no, there is such a thing as an ideal form of this house, of this

00:06:55.280 home of this country um that we can aspire to and which we can use the uh you know the levers of

00:07:02.280 power levers i should say i'm not an american um to achieve and to create and you know this country

00:07:07.660 was great before and it can be great again it's just a case of having the will to do so and to

00:07:11.160 recognize that that is actually possible if we want it and to entertain like uh you know larger

00:07:16.560 scale sweeping actions that are required you know a complete re-envisioning of the role of the state

00:07:23.280 the role of different arms of the state what services are offered you know again part of that

00:07:27.760 reform uh tinkering if you will is we've got all of these different services and we will offer all

00:07:33.600 of them still and restore is saying actually it's going to be difficult yeah we might have to cut

00:07:37.820 some of those services away and we probably will yeah and then you're going to have to step up

00:07:42.820 people are going to have to step up and even beyond that you listen to the likes of robert

00:07:45.200 jenrich uh and he's committing to maintaining the independence of the bank of england and

00:07:49.820 continuing to listen to the office for budget responsibility and their forecasts which have

00:07:54.400 been wrong like every time every year since it's been set up in 2010 honestly bottom five every

00:07:59.060 time yeah it's just it's it's absurd but they they basically do acknowledge that the system as it's

00:08:04.020 currently constituted is is basically fine it just needs to be tweaked around the edges but that's

00:08:07.760 not what we're saying we're saying that radical change is necessary and the vast majority of the

00:08:11.860 british public agree with us in that the language here is so similar to something we covered last

00:08:15.980 week there was this aris rusnos piece in unheard and he quoted from the ippr who did a sort of

00:08:21.580 survey but the the language in the ippr which is a lefty think tank they were saying like oh

00:08:25.860 there's alarming talk about mass deportations and they want to tear up they kind of they use

00:08:29.600 like natural and they kind of write some things this principles of natural justice they can see

00:08:34.140 on the left is that it's always been 1997 you know like there that's the essential thing it's

00:08:38.740 like we're talking about sort of ancient you know loyalty to your kindred you know your country these

00:08:44.760 kind of ancient obvious things that really no one can dispel with but they're talking as if like

00:08:50.340 their thing is the absolute baseline reality i find that fascinating it's complete nonsense they

00:08:54.420 do think that though they do think like that all these people think like that whether it's the

00:08:57.440 conservatives or reform or the greens like they all do basically agree that this version of britain

00:09:02.080 is good it's just the degrees to which it should be pursued that differs and this is the interesting

00:09:06.940 about the greens by the way and i think we'll get into this uh in this segment um i've been saying

00:09:10.920 a lot of things recently about the fact that the right way to approach the Greens is not to just

00:09:15.260 say that they're mad and that their voters are mad. Because actually, if you speak to a lot of

00:09:19.140 Green voters, they are totally normal people, especially when you speak to young Green voters

00:09:22.640 under the age of 30, like me. Not that I'm a Green voter, just that I'm under the age of 30.

00:09:27.560 You know, these are people who are listening to the Greens, listening to the fact that they're

00:09:30.720 prepared to talk about wealth inequality, the difficulty that a lot of people have,

00:09:34.580 not just young people, in buying and owning their own home outright, the way in which

00:09:39.620 our economy has become completely de-industrialized we don't make anything in this country anymore

00:09:44.760 and work is uninspiring um a lot of people are listening to that and thinking finally someone's

00:09:49.320 someone's listening to me right and in in the diagnosis of the problems um they are the greens

00:09:54.540 are basically correct but it's when it comes to the solutions that obviously there is a problem

00:09:57.960 but a lot of people are i think leaning towards the greens basically as a burn it all down screw

00:10:02.720 they think they're going to get free money there's that but all but also and we were discussing this

00:10:07.600 earlier, and it's a point that came up in my discussion with Pete McCormack, is that the

00:10:11.900 Greens are willing to call out vested interests, political and private vested interests. And the

00:10:19.120 rightist response to it, if it's of a libertarian bent in the kind of way that reform does,

00:10:25.720 makes it sound as though you are simply defending those vested interests, like bankers and

00:10:30.920 billionaires, the conservatives are notorious for it, and for defending housing companies, etc.

00:10:35.580 And so the approach to trying to win over those people is not to recycle old libertarian arguments about the necessity of billionaires and creative destruction.

00:10:45.880 It's to recognize that, no, actually, the actions of billionaires as protected and involved with the political class in this country, their interests have screwed over all of the young people in this country.

00:10:59.780 Anybody outside of their own class and the friends that they socialize with weekly, we have all been screwed by these people.

00:11:07.860 And it's something with reform as well, is that they're not willing to acknowledge the failures of, yes, the year.

00:11:16.240 Like, frankly, I'm sorry, but Brexit was a dismal failure.

00:11:20.860 But only if you were a Brexit voter.

00:11:23.500 You were voting for one thing.

00:11:25.680 The people implementing Brexit, like you said, were never unclear about what they wanted from it.

00:11:32.380 Ten years ago, Nigel Farage was telling everybody, 0.78

00:11:35.060 if we get Brexit, we get more Commonwealth wholesome black and browns in this country.

00:11:39.880 So Nigel Farage, as much as he may complain about it now, 0.99

00:11:43.080 through the Boris wave, actually got exactly what he wanted,

00:11:46.340 which was a greater variety of slave labour for vested interests.

00:11:51.220 And we need to be able to call that out.

00:11:53.160 And if you can't call that out, then the youth are not going to be interested in what you have

00:11:58.280 to say. And this is what's unique about Restore Britain's position. We are beholden to no special

00:12:04.020 interests, because for one thing, our leader is one, an elected member of parliament who answers

00:12:08.360 only to his constituents, and two, is independently wealthy and has lived a life of, you know,

00:12:13.360 being a businessman, has accumulated his own wealth. So he doesn't, like Rupert does not care

00:12:17.340 about the status of being at these Westminster drinks parties and dinners and all the rest of

00:12:22.440 it. He doesn't care about making money out of this. He donates his parliamentary salary to

00:12:25.920 local charities. And so we have a leader who is, in my view, uncorruptible. He's not going to be

00:12:32.580 bought off by any of these interest groups that you're talking about. And he is prepared, we are

00:12:36.640 all prepared, to speak frankly about the architects of the problems that Britain currently faces,

00:12:42.340 many of whom are business elites, you know, moneyed interests. Lord Wolfson, who was very

00:12:46.840 eager for the Brexit vote to go through so that he would be able to get a better market for cheap

00:12:51.860 leave and this is the great very quickly this is the this is the the great irony when it comes to

00:12:55.240 the greens as they will complain of the of the billionaires and the capitalists destroying our

00:12:58.940 society um but they will not once talk about the fact that mass immigration is the project

00:13:05.260 the flagship policy of that class because it's in their interest to have as you say a massive pool

00:13:11.500 of workers many of whom come from countries where they would not be able to earn anything close to 1.00

00:13:15.260 what they own in this country and therefore prepared to take lower wages than the natives 1.00

00:13:19.320 Yeah, that's a massive blind spot. I don't know why they're even like that. But one thing, though, I did actually do this on my podcast, which is available. But is there a slight difference between Rupert being a libertarian and the younger Zoomers being a bit different on economics? 1.00

00:13:33.760 Yeah, well, again, I mean, Rupert has libertarian instincts. That's certainly true. And I think, broadly speaking, that's a good thing because he's a believer in just the power of the British spirit, the enterprise, the ability of our people. And he believes that just needs to be unleashed because it's currently being weighed down by, you know, absolute tons of red tape and regulation and all the rest of it. 1.00

00:13:52.760 And so in that sense, I think he's absolutely right with his libertarian leanings. Where there is more, as we spoke about, where there is more, I think, debate within the party, it's just the extent to which the state should be involved in ameliorating some of the problems that we have economically today. Because Rupert's instincts certainly are to just allow the market to do its thing, which is a perspective I can completely understand. My view is that we are in a position that does demand more intervention from the state to kind of rectify some of the problems we have in the economy and beyond.

00:14:21.400 I would say when it comes to things like control of labor through the borders and such things like that, because again, of course, the only way to do that is through state action.

00:14:29.880 Yeah, that being the flagship program of the elites to keep the borders open for a variety of reasons, yes, but the business class certainly support it for the sake of cheap labor.

00:14:38.540 That should be where some regulations come in.

00:14:40.880 I think one of the benefits of pulling back regulation in a more libertarian manner would be helping family businesses and smaller businesses and middle class style businesses to actually get on with their lives so that our high streets are not filled with criminal enterprise.

00:14:55.760 Yeah, because if you do cut immigration, the wages will go up for workers and certain sectors like hospitality might struggle.

00:15:01.920 But then I suppose you're saying, well, we cut regulation and we help you out in that way.

00:15:05.960 But that would be the concern.

00:15:06.840 gone. I mean, you can also subsidize, you know, in the directions that need to be subsidized,

00:15:11.380 right? We already know that green tech is a long gamble being made by the establishment at the

00:15:17.740 moment. We know that the greens want to take that gamble and turn it into a suicidal plunge,

00:15:21.740 headlock off a cliff. But if you take what would be subsidizing, say, green sectors right now,

00:15:28.120 you need a way to redistribute the wealth essentially from the financial sector into

00:15:34.560 those manufacturing bases, and that could be largely education. So I can see Restore Britain

00:15:40.660 providing more funding to education in specific industry-specific areas.

00:15:46.520 Certainly. Well, I mean, something we're going to get onto is the fact that we are

00:15:48.980 working on policy at the moment, and this is all very much in the works. But just going on in this

00:15:54.080 article, to this next paragraph, some are content to laugh at Lowe and his current piddling efforts.

00:15:59.180 We'll get onto that. He announced on Wednesday that he would only stand a handful of candidates

00:16:02.560 in the May local elections, all of them in Great Yarmouth, which is Rupert's constituency.

00:16:06.900 And I want to get onto that because, first of all, to address this idea that what we're doing

00:16:11.300 is in any way small or piddling. So we have been rolling out our branches across the country over

00:16:19.040 the last couple of months since we launched. We've currently got, I think, about 300 up and

00:16:24.020 running. So that's 300 constituency branches with volunteers going out every single day,

00:16:29.060 canvassing knocking on doors uh posting leaflets through doors speaking to people and getting the

00:16:33.740 word out there about restore britain which is crucial because we've been completely blacklisted

00:16:37.540 from the mainstream media you know they're they're not giving us any attention right the way you know

00:16:41.680 from the bbc right the way through to gb news they just don't want to know which is quite telling

00:16:46.160 because i always say to people you know farage the idea that farage is a an anti-establishment

00:16:50.580 figure um in my view is completely discredited by the fact that he's put in front of the british

00:16:54.920 public every single day. Because you have to ask the question always when somebody is given

00:16:58.900 headlines every single day, well, why? Why is this person being put before the public? And it's

00:17:04.200 because he's not actually a threat to the political media status quo. The ultimate goal is to win the

00:17:09.420 election and it's never covered on the TV. They never mentioned Restore Britain. Are you just

00:17:13.120 running the country? That's virtually what they're trying to do then. Yeah. So yeah, so I just wanted

00:17:17.200 to take a look at some of these branches and the turnout and the type of people that are coming

00:17:21.340 along. So this was in Horsham, where me and Lewis Brackpool, our director of investigations,

00:17:26.160 ran the launch event. It was incredibly well attended. We were expecting about 40 people

00:17:30.980 to turn up. That's how many people turned up, which already was impressive, given that this

00:17:34.540 is a Lib Dem constituency, which before going Lib Dem in 2024, was Tory for 150 years, right?

00:17:40.480 So this is not necessarily our natural heartlands. But we ended up having over 100 people there,

00:17:45.620 not all of whom are in this photograph. And at one point, I asked the room, I said,

00:17:49.820 just out of interest, can we have a show of hands here? For how many of you is this your first

00:17:53.960 political meeting? And I kid you not, 90% of the room put their hand up. And that's what we're

00:17:58.180 finding across a lot of these meetings, is these are people who have not, until now, been politically

00:18:03.620 engaged. They've not had political representation at the national level. They've just felt completely

00:18:08.320 disaffected, disenfranchised. And now that Restore Britain exists, many of these people feel so

00:18:13.400 motivated by the condition of the country and by the agenda that we are putting forward, that

00:18:18.560 they're actually prepared to get up off their sofa, come out on a, you know, I think we did

00:18:22.880 this on a Monday night. I'm going to a meeting tonight down in Kent. You know, it's a Friday

00:18:26.840 night. People have probably better things to do, but we're expecting a hundred people to be at that

00:18:31.140 as well. And this is happening all over the country. So that was Horsham. This was Ribble

00:18:35.820 Valley. Again, good turnout. And, you know, a lot of young people as well, a lot of young faces,

00:18:40.640 same was true in Horsham. This was in Yorkshire. Again, big turnout. All these people who,

00:18:45.360 the majority of whom they didn't vote in 2024. They are not feeling particularly enthused by

00:18:51.520 the offerings of reform or anybody else. And the people that are showing up to these don't look

00:18:55.780 like, as I'm sure the media would like to characterize them as, a bunch of loony cranks

00:19:01.180 in the local area. They look like normal people. Yeah, they really are. And this is the thing,

00:19:06.900 I mean, again, my experience of going to these meetings and meeting our members,

00:19:10.340 it really is an interesting sort of cross-section of our society, because it's everybody from

00:19:14.920 uh you know 18 year old guys who are still in sixth form or college who feel so motivated by

00:19:20.660 what they're being taught in their school by what they're seeing in their local neighborhoods or

00:19:24.400 high streets or whatever that they want to get out and do something um all the way through to 0.53

00:19:28.940 you know pensioners who fear for the future of the country for the sake of their grandchildren

00:19:32.360 as well as business like local business owners we've had many of those um coming to the meetings

00:19:37.440 who are uh feeling the weight of the burden that this government is placing on them um and so on

00:19:42.880 So it's really like, it's like the blood and bones of Britain are coming out for Restore Britain,

00:19:47.600 which I find incredibly encouraging. And as this post says, we have just exceeded 127,000 members

00:19:53.980 nationwide, which makes us the fourth largest political party by membership in the country,

00:19:58.500 bigger than the Conservatives, which is the oldest and most successful political party

00:20:02.220 in the world, in history, and fairly close behind Reform, the Greens and Labour.

00:20:08.800 so we're a real contender when it comes to our ability to mobilize people because that at the

00:20:13.800 end of the day is what politics is all about it's about getting people out of their seat and out of

00:20:17.880 their house you know and the idea that restore britain's a purely online phenomenon or that this

00:20:22.120 is some sort of small isolated phenomenon it's just not true it's really just not and i can tell

00:20:28.440 you that because i've been to a lot of these meetings i've spoken to these people um and just

00:20:32.260 on that i mean the idea that do you have any idea when these people are going out canvassing what

00:20:37.960 the kind of response they're getting from their local areas is like i think this is the thing i

00:20:41.720 mean everybody well a lot of people who support reform will say you know it's all well and good

00:20:46.120 what you guys are saying but nobody knows you nobody knows rupert nobody knows restore britain

00:20:49.660 so no so it's not going to go anywhere and that look i mean we're a new party obviously and rupert's

00:20:54.300 only been an mp since 2024 so it's definitely the case that we are lower profile than nigel farage

00:20:58.900 and reform but that's not necessarily a bad thing because nigel farage is very famous in the great

00:21:03.940 94% of the public know who he is, but the majority of that 94% don't like him. I think he's got the

00:21:10.400 second highest disapproval rating after Starmer of any politician in the country. So plenty of

00:21:14.280 people like him, yes, but plenty of people really don't. And so we are in a unique position whereby

00:21:18.900 we can actually kind of have a fresh start in terms of our brand and what people think of us.

00:21:25.280 And from what I understand, the response has been very, very good so far from the people

00:21:28.660 who've been volunteering. You are all well known enough to be getting articles written about you

00:21:33.580 a new statesman was it that yeah they've done a few about us as well as have the telegraph as

00:21:37.660 have the guardian i mean you know and it's all been negative obviously because that's it's always

00:21:41.340 going to be that all the telegraph ones were by tim stanley to be fair it was about 16 and the

00:21:45.520 most reliable of all of the faces our nation's greatest journalistic mind um anyway so this is

00:21:52.100 the point is restore britain is is massive basically and it's um quite overwhelming in a

00:21:58.080 way to be uh involved with something that is this that has been this disruptive and explosive

00:22:03.100 but i really think the sky's the limit with what we're doing so with that said i want to talk a

00:22:07.500 little bit about our um strategy for the local elections which is obviously the next opportunity

00:22:12.940 for parties to you know show the public what they have to offer them and we've been clear that you

00:22:19.780 know we set up as a party we were registered with the electoral commission you know what a matter of

00:22:23.880 weeks ago and we've only been set up as a party for less than two months and the priority in that

00:22:28.260 time has been rolling out our local branch infrastructure as i've just been showing you

00:22:32.280 And that's been tremendously successful. And I think we're sort of predicting that within the

00:22:38.140 next month, we're going to have all constituencies in the country covered. Everywhere will have a

00:22:42.400 local official Restore Britain branch. And we're going to be publishing details of all the ones

00:22:46.820 that currently exist later today on our website. So if you don't know whether you have a branch

00:22:51.720 in your local area or whether one needs setting up, check the Restore Britain website later today

00:22:56.360 and that information will be available. And if there's not one in your local area, volunteer.

00:23:01.280 here. You know, put yourself forward. You can use this form here, which is linked in the show notes

00:23:06.120 to put yourself forward to be a branch organizer or indeed a local or national candidate. And the

00:23:10.820 more people we have, the more people we will be able to mobilize and just kind of raise awareness

00:23:15.980 for Restore. Because as I said, it's not going to be the mainstream media that does that for us.

00:23:19.620 It has to be us, those of us who are motivated enough to get involved with something like this.

00:23:25.800 We have to be the ones to spread the word. So as I say, do this form, sign up for it now.

00:23:31.280 And that then does bring me on to our local election strategy. So a lot of people were

00:23:34.820 hoping that we'd be standing nationwide in the local elections, because we are a political party,

00:23:39.960 we're looking to win political power. But to be frank, and we made a statement on this

00:23:44.400 last week or the week before, we're just not in any position to do that, right? We've been setting

00:23:49.280 up the local branch infrastructure, and vetting the people running those has been the priority to

00:23:53.420 make sure we are using people who are competent, who are motivated, who agree with us and our

00:23:58.000 agenda, because this is not something that other parties do very well. I mean, reform, we know,

00:24:03.500 for example, in the 2024 election, they did not have a full slate of candidates. So they stood

00:24:08.420 hundreds of paper candidates. And they're doing the same thing at these local elections,

00:24:12.940 which is just unbelievable, given that they are a party of that size.

00:24:16.220 Yeah. So, you know, they're in a position where they actually can't stand a full slate of

00:24:21.580 candidates. And we don't want to, you know, we have no interest in just kind of arbitrarily

00:24:26.140 just standing in these elections in as many seats as possible just for the sake of it because that's

00:24:29.800 not going to do anybody any good it's not going to do the party any good and the people standing

00:24:33.240 um you know it's not going to so they may not be the right people right and so the people putting

00:24:37.600 their faith in us won't be well served by us doing that so we're just focusing on great yarmouth which

00:24:42.720 is rupert's constituency because we've been preparing to stand in the local elections there

00:24:47.060 for several months because we've got a local party set up there called great yarmouth first

00:24:51.140 which is working in collaboration with restore britain and we're hoping to sweep the board

00:24:56.120 there and basically use great yarmouth as a proof of concept to show that actually where we stand

00:25:01.080 we win we can mobilize a huge number of activists and the agenda that we're offering is genuinely

00:25:06.520 popular and it's looking like that's possible right well this is the funny thing i mean many

00:25:10.220 people including farage himself have said well you know when it comes to actually standing they

00:25:13.780 they'll only poll one percent and if rupert was to stand again in great yarmouth he wouldn't win

00:25:17.440 based on the polling that we've seen great yarmouth first is currently polling at about 50

00:25:21.860 percent in great yarmouth which is like one party state type territory so we're very confident that

00:25:26.840 we're going to win all of the seats that are being contested and if we do that we can use great

00:25:31.360 yarmouth council as a kind of proof of concept to show what we can achieve in local government

00:25:35.560 so with that all said um i would encourage everyone listening right now who's able to

00:25:40.580 to sign up to this uh different volunteer portal to come up to great yarmouth and to volunteer

00:25:46.360 here for us um there's a number of dates on there which are our kind of key action days which you'll

00:25:51.980 see if you go through this and um yeah i mean if if you if you believe in restore britain if you

00:25:57.080 believe in what we're trying to achieve it's essential that you come out and uh help us out

00:26:02.280 in great yarmouth and it will be probably a lot of fun i mean we're all you know the whole restore

00:26:05.800 britain team is going to be up there i expect to see you lads up there as well well i'm a massive

00:26:09.700 reform restore almost a terrible Freudian step a massive massive restore britain supporter though

00:26:14.660 i do find it hilarious the idea of great yarmouth as a one-party state with rupert as just kim

00:26:18.860 the north the posters around the place you'll they'll be out marching for him soon and then

00:26:24.700 and then we get rid of democracy get rid of democracy across the country not looking to

00:26:28.960 do anything like that i've um i've been up to great yarmouth a number of times um with with

00:26:33.620 rupert and the rest of our team and honestly the uh reputation he has there is just unbelievable

00:26:38.280 because he's not from great yarmouth and he's made no secret of that fact um but he is absolutely

00:26:42.840 adored by his constituents. And that's because he is genuinely a fantastic constituency MP. He's done

00:26:47.980 a lot for Great Yarmouth. I've just pulled my laptop out because I want to make sure I've got

00:26:51.660 the dates right so that everybody can know when they need to go up to Great Yarmouth. So the dates

00:26:56.800 that you need to go up there, if you want to support Restore Britain, if you want to help us

00:26:59.960 out with what we're trying to achieve, are the 18th of April, the 22nd of April, the 23rd of April,

00:27:05.920 and the 2nd to the 7th of May. So the 7th of May is polling day. That's when the local elections

00:27:11.600 are actually happening um so if there's any day you want to come up make it that one um

00:27:16.340 and it will be most appreciated i mean as i keep saying we can't do this by ourselves and um if you

00:27:23.040 believe in what we're trying to achieve you know come up come and uh help us out in great yarmouth

00:27:28.000 it'll be a lot of fun um and really i mean that's all i had to say about where we're up to with

00:27:33.020 restore britain realistically one of the greatest criticisms that i think most of us have of the

00:27:38.260 kinds of spheres that a lot of us operate in is that it falls to internet politics yeah there's

00:27:43.240 a lot of people talking and talking about doing things but not a lot of people who then put their

00:27:48.420 money where their mouth is and go out and do something so if you have been frustrated like

00:27:53.200 many of us have with that state of affairs and you believe in the message of restore britain

00:27:57.820 then now kind of is the time to actually say it's time to move out of the internet and into the real

00:28:03.740 world yeah where we can start to try to affect real change yeah we're not going to get another

00:28:08.840 shot like restore britain is my view and that's why i work for restore britain like i i genuinely

00:28:13.420 believe that it is a viable vehicle for the kinds of things that we want to see happen in this

00:28:18.520 country um because like you say i mean i've been in the kind of online right space for a number of

00:28:23.340 years and the amount of talk there is about organization and all of this kind of stuff

00:28:27.340 and the uh the very little of that that's actually happened um is is quite telling and so now that we

00:28:32.540 actually do have not just an organization, but a registered political party, the fourth largest in

00:28:36.820 the country by membership with an MP who's currently in parliament as its leader, who's

00:28:40.760 prepared to, you know, we're like the policies that we're offering are the most radical. I think

00:28:46.940 it's the most radical agenda that any party has offered in this country, probably since Enoch

00:28:51.280 Powell. I mean, the positions that we're taking on deportations and all the rest of it, like this

00:28:55.200 is seriously radical stuff. And if you want to save the country, that's what's going to be necessary.

00:28:58.660 Just to bring it back to the human level as well. You mentioned that it's going to be a fun

00:29:02.320 time it's going to be a good a good day out uh and uh every single person who's ever attended any

00:29:08.120 of the live events that we've had put on uh that shieldings have put on who are obviously uh friends

00:29:12.740 of the show uh and that the basket weavers have put on uh which obviously i like to represent

00:29:19.580 when i'm on here uh say that every single time you get together with real people there's just

00:29:23.900 something about it there's that intangible quality that is uh that shows that you're doing something

00:29:29.500 uh that that is going to form a core memory for you that's way stronger than anything you can do

00:29:34.720 just yapping on x or uh or on facebook so get down there lads totally totally um yeah go to

00:29:41.960 the links in the show notes sign up to be a member and a volunteer for restore and yeah let's restore

00:29:47.660 britain well here's hoping lads and a good look to everybody yes uh we do have quite a few rumble

00:29:54.080 rents from during that segment so i'll go through those before we move on to the next one pat j

00:29:58.080 reads sending in a whopping $200 donation thank you very much pat that is very generous of you

00:30:04.580 saying wish i could be there tomorrow but i must be somewhere else please have a round on me we

00:30:09.500 shall do and i hope that whatever you're doing is fulfilling and then ryan damon uh ryan the man

00:30:17.260 there we go uh says some money for the mad lads sending in ten dollars thank you say hello to my

00:30:22.420 daughter Mackenzie from the great state of New Hampshire live free or die well hello to you

00:30:27.660 Mackenzie I hope you're having a great day based ape unfortunately I'm not going to make it down

00:30:32.620 to Swindon tomorrow due to having to take care of my puppy completely understandable take my

00:30:37.720 donations and get the boys a drink on me p.s. the prequels suck I hope you get destroyed well I've 0.89

00:30:42.940 been re-watching Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones as of last night and this morning and they 0.93

00:30:47.020 are fantastic movies you're completely wrong but we will accept your ten dollars thank you very much

00:30:51.200 sigil stone can we get an update from josh on the random chimp event currently occurring i do not

00:30:58.160 keep up to date with the random chimp news that uh he does although he will be in later so we can

00:31:03.820 ask him then tom rat i put myself forward to coordinate for west yorkshire for restore haven't

00:31:09.320 heard back but wanted to check if you have someone or not i have an x community ready to hand over in

00:31:15.020 either case yeah so i believe we do have a branch set up in west yorkshire that's just off the top

00:31:19.600 my head i might be wrong about that as i say check later on our website and the full list will be

00:31:23.620 published um if not and you have applied um check your junk folder on your email because that is

00:31:29.340 something that's happening like our replies are going to people's junk because that happens happens

00:31:32.620 with everyone um but i mean if you haven't heard anything you know chase it up all right tom rat

00:31:37.180 again setting up the local branches before fielding candidates to the foot uh is the right first step

00:31:42.380 before fielding paper candidates uh the next is to create the ideological backbone that will inform

00:31:48.780 a future manifesto yeah i mean i should have mentioned that in my segment actually but that's

00:31:52.280 another thing that we are working on at the moment alongside rolling out the branch infrastructure is

00:31:56.340 building our you know policy foundations we've got a number of policy papers like full policy

00:32:01.560 papers in the works um using a number of um you know vetted i hesitate to use the word experts

00:32:07.880 because it's such a tarnished phrase these days but actual experts people who know their stuff

00:32:12.460 about the field that they're writing about on all issues from energy through to national security

00:32:17.260 through to tax through to i mean basically every area is currently in the works but this stuff

00:32:21.660 and again this is where like we're just not interested in lying to people and giving people

00:32:25.400 like false hope and comfort and all that sort of thing like this stuff takes time it's hard

00:32:29.500 it's uh you know it's it's not a thing yeah it's dull um whether that's the standing in local

00:32:36.000 elections leafleting door to door setting up the branch network or creating the policies this stuff

00:32:41.680 all takes time and money and effort from a huge number of people but it's all happening and in

00:32:47.320 time i'm confident we are going to be like the best positioned party to take government in 2029

00:32:51.980 and dragon lady chris with the last one so far polling day is my birthday do it for me lads so

00:32:58.240 there you go even more reason to go out and win this one let's move on to the next segment where

00:33:02.820 nick can tell us about gavin newsom's mad wife all right well a bit of fun after that fairly

00:33:07.380 serious segment this is just partly just banter that is interesting for the future of american 0.99

00:33:11.180 politics where it's going to go so gabby newsome's wife is completely insane not only that she is 0.99

00:33:16.820 cryogenically frozen at the moment of peak woke in her mind it's just we're just still living in 1.00

00:33:21.580 woke times nothing's changed and she just sounds absolutely mental and completely out of touch

00:33:26.480 in a series of shocking videos so i'll just play this one first you sound like a sun headline

00:33:31.400 i'm just trying to sell it i'm thinking about i'm thinking about your youtube views i'm like how do

00:33:34.800 i sell this at the start a series of shock some of them are old some of them are new they're all

00:33:38.340 absolutely bat bleep crazy um this one starts off with a somewhat sympathetic thing about her sister 0.66

00:33:43.240 and then gets into the mad thing so I do recommend I'm not a monster there is a sympathetic element 0.95

00:33:47.200 but let's play this one when we interviewed the the young men who were juvenile offenders in San

00:33:53.540 Quentin um I told them about my own loss where um my my I lost my older sister a few days before

00:34:02.040 my seventh birthday and I blame myself for her death and I share that um because that they

00:34:10.320 ultimately were accused of committing these violent crimes and sentenced for life and I

00:34:16.180 think it shocked them that this you know blonde lady who was you know the uh interviewing them

00:34:22.920 had a similar story um was perhaps in the wrong place at the wrong time and but wasn't punished

00:34:30.400 the way they were because clearly it was an accident but theirs was probably an accident too

00:34:35.680 um so anyway i share that just because i it i guess you know i quite enjoy

00:34:43.780 spending time with people and being real and unmasking and showing them that it's safe to

00:34:50.660 unmask themselves beautiful she's she's addicted to the therapy session she's like oh i went and

00:34:58.220 I explain myself and it's decompression for me and this man he said to me I murdered my wife

00:35:04.000 and that won three children and she's like oh that's so bad it's probably an accident

00:35:08.720 I tripped and the knife just happened to stab her 27 times there was a load of banana peels

00:35:18.300 do you remember that Simpsons bit with the rakes it was like that with banana peels and me and my

00:35:22.700 knife and my wife right because losing a sister horrible but then you go and that is very sad

00:35:26.520 But it says here, Gavin Newsom's wife recalls telling prisoners at San Quentin about running over and killing her sister with a golf cart.

00:35:33.880 So she lost her sister by accidentally running her over.

00:35:36.800 So she was seven by accident.

00:35:38.900 And then the question is, what were the parents doing and things like that?

00:35:40.900 Very strange.

00:35:41.680 But then you go, but that doesn't mean that all hardened criminals are just there on accident.

00:35:46.500 It's like, oh, what did you do?

00:35:47.580 You say slipped on the rake and committed a string of murders.

00:35:50.380 It's like, what are you talking about?

00:35:51.800 It's like, when I packed the machete into my bag this morning,

00:35:55.100 I thought, this is an accident waiting to happen.

00:35:58.720 But I needed to be prepared.

00:36:00.140 But I needed to be at Notting Hill.

00:36:02.540 Sorry.

00:36:03.180 I'm there every year.

00:36:04.820 Yeah, exactly.

00:36:05.660 So the idea of in the left's head, and her head particularly,

00:36:09.040 it's like, no retributive justice.

00:36:11.240 It's all about rehabilitation.

00:36:12.320 Criminals are the real victims.

00:36:13.820 Anarcho-tyranny. 0.97

00:36:14.920 Absolutely mental.

00:36:15.960 I mean, it's like in that episode of The Simpsons

00:36:17.780 where Snake is like, hey, that was self-defence. 0.96

00:36:20.240 Those nuns came at me first.

00:36:21.800 i don't really buy that it's just we've got plenty of these don't we hear about how um

00:36:28.660 boys shouldn't be right wing we just want to quite say it then just end up just saying it

00:36:32.480 like stop being right wing guys boys we all know i think are increasingly are realizing that boys

00:36:39.360 um are moving away from sort of the more uh progressive boys that spend time online

00:36:50.500 are moving a little bit, I'm trying not to be political here,

00:36:56.720 but are moving to the right and being sort of influenced by the Andrew Tates

00:37:02.980 and some of that sort of alt-right socialization online that we know is very, very dangerous.

00:37:08.420 My husband and I were alarmed when our kids were watching sports online

00:37:13.460 and my son knew about Andrew Tate and thought he was pretty cool

00:37:17.300 and thought that he was a Republican grandfather

00:37:19.480 who's not a Trumper, but a fiscal conservative.

00:37:24.040 Sorry, is she just complaining 1.00

00:37:26.300 that her children are becoming groipers 1.00

00:37:28.140 right under her nose? 1.00

00:37:29.740 The next generation of Newsoms is there

00:37:32.160 watching Nick Fuentes every morning.

00:37:33.600 She's like, why does my young son,

00:37:35.320 like the guy smoking cigars, driving fast cars 0.61

00:37:37.700 and going on about women and kicking people in the face,

00:37:40.200 not the things that we provided, not his doll,

00:37:43.080 which we'll get into in a minute.

00:37:44.060 She's like, my son isn't gay. 1.00

00:37:46.040 I'm really disappointed. 0.99

00:37:47.220 Can I not get a trans son here?

00:37:48.820 Come on, I live in California.

00:37:50.580 I've tried so hard.

00:37:51.900 Charlize Theron has like four.

00:37:53.920 She was an actor as well.

00:37:55.960 I was an actor, I lived in California.

00:37:57.680 Can you not get me, I've got four kids, none of them are trans. 0.99

00:38:00.120 What are we doing here, people? 1.00

00:38:01.800 Surprise, surprise.

00:38:03.800 Boys are rejecting the feminine frame and becoming masculine.

00:38:09.880 I don't know why. 0.60

00:38:11.560 Shakes fist at Skye.

00:38:12.840 Yeah, absolutely insane.

00:38:13.980 I found some TRT in my son's bedroom,

00:38:16.380 but it wasn't the kind of hormones

00:38:17.800 we were hoping to find.

00:38:19.640 He just wanted to improve his bench press.

00:38:21.340 Ah, he foiled again.

00:38:22.680 Am I evil for swapping my boy's TRT for oestrogen?

00:38:26.660 It kind of amazes me.

00:38:28.400 I mean, I don't know when these clips are actually from,

00:38:30.200 but somebody with the political nous of Gavin Newsom,

00:38:33.160 and I'm not saying that he's amazing or anything,

00:38:34.600 but he clearly is, to some extent,

00:38:36.160 reading the room with where politics is going.

00:38:38.880 The fact that his wife is out saying this stuff

00:38:40.940 in 2026 is mind-blowing.

00:38:42.560 You'd think that he would have a chat with her

00:38:44.520 That's the great thing

00:38:45.440 He's there doing podcasts with Steve Banner

00:38:47.420 I'm reaching out across the aisle

00:38:49.300 That's the kind of guy

00:38:50.380 I'll talk to Steve Banner

00:38:51.680 Look at me

00:38:52.060 I'm kind of like the new centrist Democrat

00:38:53.720 Oh, safe to vote for it 1.00

00:38:55.240 I'll make gay jokes on my Twitter 1.00

00:38:56.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah 1.00

00:38:57.420 You could probably vote for me in the flyover state 1.00

00:38:59.680 And she's like 1.00

00:39:00.460 That face

00:39:02.140 You forgot to check with someone

00:39:03.260 Meanwhile Rubio and Vance are saying

00:39:06.520 Jennifer

00:39:07.060 She's called Jennifer

00:39:07.920 Keep getting out there

00:39:09.100 You're doing such great work

00:39:10.000 It's great for them

00:39:11.220 because she is tanking Newsome single-handedly, Gavin, that is. 0.59

00:39:15.040 She's Jennifer Siebel Newsome.

00:39:16.400 I forgot to bother saying her name because no one really cares.

00:39:19.340 This one, why her son should have a doll.

00:39:22.180 Let's just watch.

00:39:23.020 I've given our boys dolls, even if they tear the head off.

00:39:28.180 I've given them dolls to learn that care and caregiving

00:39:31.620 is not just an activity that's reserved for women,

00:39:34.840 but that it's also an activity that is a responsibility of men.

00:39:40.300 what i've done with both my daughters and my sons is if i'm reading a book and the protagonist is a

00:39:47.080 male i just change the he to a she and it just normalizes for my sons in particular it's not

00:39:53.000 even i don't even just do it for my girls i do it for my sons because i want them to see

00:39:56.480 that women can be the center of a story i just yeah i just turn on netflix turn on anything

00:40:02.020 oh i just want them to know that women could i think we knew that women could be the center

00:40:05.040 of the story number one number two changes the protagonist like and frodo baggins who was a woman

00:40:10.720 like what are you doing or more just like he could be non-binary i don't want to assume his pronouns

00:40:16.020 and then they went to mordor um but i'm just curious it's like i gave them a doll i remember

00:40:21.560 my my mother gave me uh a doll when i was child not because it was my doll but because i explained

00:40:27.960 so much and i drove him to the right but because uh my sister had a dollhouse right and she wanted

00:40:33.520 us to play together or whatever so she handed me a doll and i immediately turned it into a gun

00:40:38.240 yeah and then you're smacking the baby around the little baby uh i was thinking when she said about

00:40:44.520 like that sort of thing imagine in my mind of course every single thing my sister had like

00:40:50.960 one of these andrew tate mma you're just like for goodness sake you know it's just not what

00:40:56.720 we're interested in we want a stick a big stick a stick that looks like a gun i used to collect

00:41:02.060 like gun sticks as a kid it's built in she's like oh nature spoiled me again life finds a way

00:41:07.820 i will make everything a godmother yeah i will right she's going up against nature it's completely 0.80

00:41:15.640 insane we all know women are the heroes of everything it's the last thing that men need 0.98

00:41:19.660 when they're already like absolutely hated straight she's raising you know hopefully like 1.00

00:41:24.400 ostensibly like boys who why is she trying to tune them and gay them out it's just gay them out 0.77

00:41:30.620 just to don't ask me so like to treat it seriously for a second like it is borderline

00:41:36.680 you are denying you're denying your sons any kind of role model any kind of idol any kind of uh

00:41:43.600 sort of uh like a theoretical mentor figure uh someone who expresses the values that your parents

00:41:50.920 can point to because your parents can't be switched on all the time right i'm assuming

00:41:54.300 gavin and jennifer are very busy people and so like presumably when he's alone and he wants to

00:42:00.160 read a book and he wants to read conan the barbarian or something like that you know i'm

00:42:03.580 not saying everything conan does is something to be aspired to but he's like the masculine strength

00:42:08.140 and ideal in there you can say oh that's a positive value that's there but she's just

00:42:12.460 stripped all that away and she says uh when conan goes to the shop she uh you know goes in you know

00:42:20.020 she subjugated her she wants to see the husband subjugated the lamentation of the men yeah this

00:42:27.100 is causing real problems in relationships i actually know someone who's separated from his

00:42:30.420 wife because of this exact example and a series of other examples like it where she keeps trying

00:42:34.780 to give the kid he's like stop trying to give my son dolls like why are you doing it because 1.00

00:42:38.280 they've listened to like feminist podcasts and all this kind of thing and then think it's your 0.99

00:42:41.660 duty to give your son a doll it's like stop well we also have to take into account obviously it

00:42:47.900 all sounds completely pathologic i don't know what kind of audience that she's speaking to here

00:42:53.360 that she she could be embellishing a bit i don't doubt that she actually is mental but she could

00:42:59.000 also be embellishing in the same way you know how democrats love to play to their audience 0.82

00:43:03.960 like when when kamala harris or someone will get up in front of a a black audience and they'll go

00:43:09.560 i really love me some kfc and watermelon and they'll go when hillary does it it's worse

00:43:14.400 oh that southern accent is burned yeah when hillary clinton they try to play to the audience

00:43:20.260 So she might be thinking, like, oh, this will play so great to the audience. 1.00

00:43:24.960 I think she's a cheap believer.

00:43:26.100 Maybe I struggle to believe that somebody could be quite so cruel to their own son.

00:43:30.740 But at the same time, I'm not a mental leftist.

00:43:34.180 No, they will.

00:43:34.720 They'll sacrifice their own children for their social status, for their career, for their ideology. 0.98

00:43:38.360 It is that sick. 0.99

00:43:40.440 And just another mental one, we'll have a look.

00:43:42.440 There's so much to learn from same-sex couples who have learned to communicate

00:43:45.200 and who also are like, well, look, you know,

00:43:48.260 someone's got to do the care work in a same-sex male couple someone's got to do that so

00:43:52.420 i'm just gonna do it and this is like and not be afraid or ashamed because it's part of being human

00:43:57.060 we're all on a spectrum right it's just how society kind of pushes pushes us and pressures

00:44:03.160 us into these limiting gender roles but again it's like a 2012 talking point so we're all on

00:44:08.860 a spectrum guys like a spectrum she sounds like an airhead yeah i was just gonna say like she

00:44:13.480 doesn't actually sound like she knows what she's talking about she's repeating there's also this

00:44:17.260 is the sort of clip that i would expect to see played on like an instagram reel just before it

00:44:21.240 cuts to like two guys halfway up a mountain in a blizzard getting locked in you know that sort of

00:44:26.800 thing she's also obsessed with caregiving which comes up like several times in these clips and

00:44:30.600 you sort of realize at the end she just doesn't want to change it she wants gavin to change all

00:44:33.580 the nappies like she's upset as if she hasn't got like a maid anyway she keeps talking about

00:44:36.960 caregiving she hates the idea that a woman should care for the children she wants to make apart from 1.00

00:44:40.800 her nanny yeah and she wants to be the bloke this is what's up let's have a look patriarchy here 0.98

00:44:45.140 Trust me, I'm not a fan of Pam Bondi nor Kristi Noam, but I need to call out that it's no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women. 0.78

00:44:57.520 Let me explain. The conservative women that Trump handpicks, who align themselves with an agenda that controls women, restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy and pushing us back into this straightjacket of femininity that is only in service of men. 1.00

00:45:11.220 there's a familiar pattern here women are brought in packaged mar-a-lago style and 1.00

00:45:16.180 lift it up as long as they commit to wholeheartedly serve the interests of the patriarch at the top

00:45:21.320 now it looks like power she just said patriarchy seriously in and this must be recent because

00:45:26.800 she's talking about pan bondi yeah yeah so like she's seriously using the word patriarchy and

00:45:30.480 she sort of goes it's a very long video but she goes on to say that this is the real power guy

00:45:35.080 she's basically saying it's not about left and right anymore guys she's like let's step out of

00:45:37.960 it's about men versus women and men are evil oh the gender war i haven't heard that in a long time

00:45:43.340 but also it's it's just like she's talking about them being pushed out for not adhering to

00:45:48.480 a hierarchy in politics like all politics is exclusively hierarchy it's everyone 0.92

00:45:55.420 again just on the on on the obvious dumbness of her it's just it's just buzzword buzzword buzzword

00:46:01.960 buzzword i know that patriarchy people think patriarchy bad i'm talking about something i

00:46:06.200 think it's bad so i'll just keep saying the word and people will assume that i'm making some kind

00:46:10.620 of point all the while she's presenting herself as like the most feminine woman the most feminine

00:46:15.500 airy woman yeah imagine four kids in california blonde hair and that's what i was gonna say like

00:46:20.940 trad family they've got like a dynasty as well the newsome family there's so many they've had so many 0.97

00:46:25.500 kids and she's you know she's presenting herself in a way that's very obviously feminine she's 0.95

00:46:29.540 wearing makeup and everything which is all fine from my perspective but she's like pulling up the

00:46:33.260 ladder damn it yeah part of me think wonders if gavin newsome is just sort of gone like okay 0.66

00:46:39.500 there's the scale we all know the scale there's the hot crazy scale and he's just gone all in 0.99

00:46:46.080 yeah he's just bet it all and though and he's just hoping the children will turn out oh god

00:46:50.400 she's giving the kids dolls now and she's making my boys read about yeah when he sees it yeah and

00:46:55.860 one thing about i totally agree she's i think she's doing it to be like a bit quirky like 0.56

00:46:59.320 she's the most sort of straight down the line person you know four kids normal family something

00:47:03.940 she's like yeah but what you don't realize is i'm kind of like interesting i'm kind of like

00:47:06.800 i care about the patriarchy and i've got kind of interesting opinions like you're just saying the

00:47:10.480 same as all your brunch friends they all say this rubbish so boring anyway and she was yeah the

00:47:15.540 buzzwords thing i watched all these she's like systemic deconstructing patriarch just says all 0.89

00:47:20.840 these buzzwords because in lieu of an actual brain um what about this one i can't remember what this

00:47:25.160 is something annoying like every problem that we have in society right now will be fixed when 0.78

00:47:31.520 women come together and partner with our male allies and other allies but when more women are 1.00

00:47:37.580 in the rooms making decisions um changing the status quo and transforming not just our culture 1.00

00:47:44.400 but our society and our economy i'll give you sure i mean angela merkel theresa may hillary

00:47:49.420 clinton massive just in the art and just success after success when women it's literally like

00:47:54.920 20 i mean that's just 2024 this is like 2014 2015 level talking points yeah someone's doing

00:48:00.900 this for a decade that's what i want to know i know she's there you go 2024 so it is it is now

00:48:06.300 but as you say cryogenically frozen and peak woke um this one is just funny because gavin has to sit

00:48:11.980 there and just listen to it we women naturally whether we give birth or not have been socialized

00:48:18.700 to care about

00:48:20.420 children, their health,

00:48:23.360 their wealth,

00:48:25.020 the environment,

00:48:27.460 etc.

00:48:27.900 You care about that, I believe,

00:48:30.760 through your own socialization,

00:48:32.360 being raised by a single mom, 0.98

00:48:35.100 your aunts,

00:48:36.540 and your sister, surrounded by 0.92

00:48:38.280 a more feminine energy that ultimately

00:48:40.760 embraces caregiving.

00:48:42.000 We have to

00:48:43.000 entertain our kids,

00:48:45.500 care for our kids, feed our kids,

00:48:47.400 nurture them, love,

00:48:48.700 historically men have been socialized to just focus on work is it historic i'm getting some

00:48:53.700 big bait and vibes yeah it's like really bad yeah no i'm with you totally with you um he's

00:49:02.440 thinking about how he's going to move the heads in the fridge later i was just thinking like you

00:49:06.540 can you can believe that this guy goes out at night and just cast people up would you blame 0.99

00:49:12.200 him after this the other thing is that is if she stamps on his balls like to embrace the feminine 0.81

00:49:17.880 energy so she's quite masculine she's wearing a lot of heavy jewelry in the earlier clip she's 1.00

00:49:21.440 trying to be masculine she wants him to be feminine she's talking about socialite it's

00:49:24.600 all socialized she doesn't believe in nature at all it's all nurture 100% nurture everyone was

00:49:29.720 just a great liberal ditto blob at the beginning of the day and then we were all turned into what

00:49:34.540 we are now um there was thankfully that's the end of the video could you say rousseauian or will

00:49:38.940 certain commentators from america and romania start complaining we'll lose a lot of voters

00:49:44.060 Yeah, Baz down the pub, he's not going to be happy with that one.

00:49:46.500 You lose the Russo vote immediately.

00:49:48.780 So this is just an article.

00:49:50.780 What's interesting about this was just that she used the term,

00:49:52.720 interesting, he's pushing it,

00:49:53.940 but she used the term first partner instead of first lady. 1.00

00:49:57.600 That's the only reason I've put it, which is just so classic.

00:50:00.560 She's like, there you go, when Newsom won the race,

00:50:04.120 she's like, she chose the gender neutral title

00:50:05.720 of first partner of California.

00:50:07.580 So you get the idea of what she's like.

00:50:09.000 But what do we know about her, really?

00:50:10.020 well she claimed that Harvey Weinstein had a word we probably can't say on YouTube let's say

00:50:17.280 assaulted her in 2005 but what's interesting about it the jury couldn't decide on that one

00:50:23.440 even though they could decide in other cases that definitely Weinstein had done it but not

00:50:26.440 in her case what was interesting is that in 2007 she went to him asking for advice so quite strange

00:50:35.380 in 2005 she she makes the accusation but in cross-examination the defense attorney for

00:50:40.760 Weinstein questioned Siebel Newsom about a donation Weinstein later made to her now husband's

00:50:45.320 political campaign and the email communication she had with him in the years after the alleged

00:50:49.080 assault including a 2007 email to him asking for advice dealing with the media when she was dating

00:50:53.700 her husband who was the then mayor of San Francisco so this guy assaults you on a sofa it's a traumatic

00:50:57.700 terrible thing two years later you're like any advice Harvey by email seems interesting I'm just

00:51:04.120 interesting

00:51:05.260 I'm just giving you

00:51:06.240 a background

00:51:06.520 on this kind of

00:51:06.980 this kind of people

00:51:07.720 that pretend to be

00:51:08.520 super woke

00:51:09.740 and holier than thou

00:51:10.820 what are they actually like

00:51:11.760 did you say she was an actress

00:51:13.080 she was a former actress

00:51:14.320 yes

00:51:14.640 ah

00:51:14.940 yeah

00:51:15.560 it makes sense doesn't it

00:51:17.540 Gavin Newsom's wife

00:51:18.740 and her firm

00:51:19.240 pocketed 3.7 million dollars 1.00

00:51:20.740 from her gender stereotypes

00:51:22.000 charity

00:51:22.540 so of course she has

00:51:24.000 so she's a 0.99

00:51:24.360 she's a cynical opportunist 1.00

00:51:26.020 which does kind of 1.00

00:51:27.640 how dare you

00:51:28.140 which does kind of

00:51:30.320 lend credit

00:51:31.120 to my

00:51:31.500 credence to my theory

00:51:32.940 that she's just

00:51:33.660 throwing out buzzwords to the audience that she thinks will make it because she's in california

00:51:38.300 she thinks it's going to make her popular with people in california whereas really she's just

00:51:42.980 trying to get their money yeah well that hasn't loaded apparently but yeah what she did was she

00:51:46.780 she's got this representation project that's the name a charity that fights against intersectional 0.99

00:51:51.000 gender stereotypes and harmful gender norms that's her whole life just the idea that these

00:51:55.100 gender norms are harmful so in its accounting year ending march 2021 they received just over

00:52:00.700 a million in donations and grants before in expenses and paid out a total of 300 000 to 1.00

00:52:05.120 siebel and her company or 28 next year she paid herself in a company 302 500 from again just over

00:52:11.840 a million so she's paying herself a third and her company a third of the charity's money and it's a 0.73

00:52:17.040 nonsense charity anyway it's blm style stuff she's raising awareness nick don't you understand yes

00:52:22.680 just interesting about and how it could destroy gavin newson which he keeps talking because he's

00:52:27.800 trying to be Mr. Centrist. Tim Pool had an interesting idea on his show today that

00:52:31.800 the Democrats are going to split off from the current Republicans, and we're going to have

00:52:36.620 Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Kent, and RFK versus Vance and Rubio, and the kind of mad this type of person

00:52:43.960 Democrats are going to be put away. Interesting theory. I don't know if it's true, but...

00:52:48.360 I mean, Newsom would presumably in that situation try to align himself as a sensible Democrat to

00:52:53.960 try and crowd out the former democrats who are currently within trump and being kicked out of

00:52:59.300 trump well his theory there was that newsom would just become a more minor figure essentially be

00:53:02.720 put away who knows i mean if this keeps happening he certainly will be but i'm so you're hearing

00:53:07.140 things that the democrats have realized we can't go full mental terrorist all the time and win any

00:53:11.400 votes the wives haven't got the memo yet but exactly but she hasn't got the memo what if

00:53:15.700 there's 4d chess and he's gonna use her as a platform and say look what i have to deal with 0.93

00:53:20.160 every day civil servants not a problem yeah it's going to be even more in favor of him

00:53:26.100 that is it anyway something a bit more light-hearted but um yeah god help us yes

00:53:33.800 fun god help america fun videos for us all to enjoy do you want me to read any of these harry

00:53:38.080 uh we've got two of them you can read them if you'd like i don't mind um so if i can see them

00:53:43.240 so sigil stone says same-sex couples that have learned to communicate does she mean like lesbians

00:53:48.220 that speak in tight i can't read that can i i don't know domestic violence statistics are

00:53:54.660 available online i couldn't see you because my mic was in a race i started quite confidently

00:53:58.980 then backed out um so logan 17 pines says in california we recently had a huge scandal over

00:54:05.500 1.5 billion in fraud from la in la alone the state hasn't been fully audited so the iceberg

00:54:10.500 is huge interesting interesting yeah again cynical opportunist and uh let's get into the

00:54:16.540 zoomer question then mark indeed uh we're a millennial aren't you i am just about a millennial

00:54:22.860 yes so which is the worst generation would you say charlie boomers gen x or millennials

00:54:31.860 well my parents are gen x so i have a lot of the three i have the most experience with that

00:54:37.100 generation um and obviously being that my parents from the generation i've got a lot of time for

00:54:40.880 them i mean you know they raised me on like the films and stuff that they were watching so i've

00:54:45.260 got a kind of i think quite a good understanding of that generation uh and then of the other two

00:54:49.820 look i mean i grew up in kind of millennial culture like i grew up when like the internet

00:54:55.180 was kind of a big part of my life from the age of about 12. wasn't it yeah well i mean you know

00:55:00.560 it was it was i was like the kind of last generation to not grow up from birth with

00:55:04.680 the internet so i kind of more of a zillennial like myself well 2001 oh wait no nowhere near

00:55:10.380 actually never mind i didn't realize i was that much older than you yes we're humbling moments

00:55:15.780 oh my god so with that said no offense to present company but the millennials 0.99

00:55:20.020 do you know what we're just the worst i'm not offended because the millennials suck but the 0.98

00:55:23.500 zennials are a chosen golden generation is protected from it yeah the ones in the cut is 0.83

00:55:28.680 76 to 83 i believe it's just it's just the perfect generation i'm you know does that help you sleep 1.00

00:55:33.260 at night i'm speaking objectively well you know there's carl there's neiman there's ed there's

00:55:38.000 a whole load of all of these deplorables a basket if you will he's not presenting himself well i

00:55:43.360 never put myself in it but um it is a golden generation what are you mark just you're not

00:55:47.540 you're too young i'm 94 so just normal millennial older than i am just super whoa yeah he's just a

00:55:53.600 he's a super woke millennial as you can tell from the hipster beard yeah you agreed secretly with

00:55:57.840 all those videos i was just like oh where's evan newsome's wife oh jennifer jenny speak to me girl

00:56:05.540 I, being born in 96, cross over into Zillennial territory, it's like a Xenial but better. 0.95

00:56:13.540 And I would say next best after Zillennial is probably the Zoomers. 1.00

00:56:19.540 A Xenial is just someone who's woke but can't watch an entire video all the way through. 0.99

00:56:24.540 There's a tension deficit woke person.

00:56:26.540 And yet it's a great appreciator of the Star Wars prequels.

00:56:29.540 Exactly.

00:56:30.540 Which of course makes me far superior.

00:56:32.540 but I'm in the I guess I'm original Star Wars because I'm I'm old all right humbling well uh

00:56:38.000 I'm here to talk about we've had the super serious segment campaign for restore Britain 0.63

00:56:42.260 that side of things we've had the look at how insane this woman is segment for a bit of a laugh 1.00

00:56:47.840 and now I'm going to bore you with some statistics but we'll talk a little bit about the leisure 0.99

00:56:52.560 sector uh by which I mean do zoomers know how to have fun uh zoomers uh I think we do yeah yeah 0.68

00:57:00.660 yeah just about and that sort of thing but how you have fun that's the interesting point that's

00:57:05.120 where the moralizing that's where he's not we're not sat indoors playing with ourselves and our

00:57:11.060 funko so so the issue is is not necessarily that uh you're having fun in the wrong way

00:57:16.880 although we'll get onto that uh but as much as you're all broke and it's not our fault and that

00:57:23.240 you aren't spending very much on leisure and so attitudes to leisure are changing less avocado

00:57:28.300 photos and netflix netflix subscriptions is what i hear i see i see that you've been following a

00:57:33.200 very particular x account that's arisen in the last week um but yeah if you look here you can

00:57:38.600 see total net leisure spending over the past uh 10 years where it's basically a flat line right

00:57:45.480 you see this huge discrepancy where it dropped in uh covid but uh and then recovered uh but then

00:57:52.000 it's basically been in this sort of minus 11 percent average over the entire data set and if

00:57:58.360 i think if you exclude these big drops as well it's still uh pretty pretty dire despite the fact

00:58:04.860 that we added five million people at least officially on to the population and possibly

00:58:10.100 10 million yeah but all of their leisure activities are black market oh that's the question isn't it

00:58:15.520 so you you say uh if we go down and see sort of what people are spending on you can see

00:58:21.900 going to the gym has increased slightly but even since uh 2019 it's down so sort of the

00:58:28.760 the overall trend is up but the local change is down uh attending live sports events down down

00:58:34.800 down down everything's down across the board um except some small spikes in drinking and betting

00:58:42.460 and gaming uh so the question is then for people well what are if you're not spending your time

00:58:49.320 in the pubs and the bars if you're not spending your time uh you know at sports events and things

00:58:54.540 like that what's going on um so sort of bolster my argument here a little bit uh this is just a

00:59:00.480 little reddit thread where a millennial has weighed in refers immediately to reddit like

00:59:06.020 there's just uh someone saying yeah why why is zoom is online so anti-fun i don't see it much

00:59:13.320 at my college but a ton of it online people just so anti-fun everything's under a microscope

00:59:17.460 people aren't allowed to let loose what gives that is a big part of isn't it you think everyone's

00:59:21.780 going to be on video you're out it's going to be on the internet forever so that's true there's

00:59:25.820 this assumption that one everything will be filmed but also like that means that when you are having

00:59:30.420 fun and you are and you are recording it for for whatever reason posterity or whatever it is

00:59:36.940 then uh you are it's not like you're holding back something but you kind of treat it like a film

00:59:42.480 shoot i've got to say i mean it's like a professional thing you know this is something

00:59:45.660 that i i think about a lot so like i have a a rule which is that as soon as a camera comes out

00:59:51.120 in like a social situation doesn't really matter where it is unless it's with family i just shut

00:59:55.380 down like i'll just wait i don't say anything i don't do anything i just go like yeah that and

00:59:59.300 if the camera's in my face i'll just go like no like that i've always done that and that is that's

01:00:04.020 a very i mean i've never even thought about the fact that that's quite a weird and novel thing

01:00:07.880 for people to have to think about but you were thinking about your future the whole time well

01:00:12.100 I mean, it's just...

01:00:13.300 No, also, you just don't want embarrassing stuff.

01:00:15.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can totally get it.

01:00:17.100 Or it's just the environment.

01:00:18.360 I do remember there used to be a page on Facebook,

01:00:22.300 back when Facebook was relevant, called Lad Bible.

01:00:25.580 And before it got bought out by its corporate overlords

01:00:28.380 and turned into a sort of slop article manufacturer,

01:00:32.340 it used to post sort of the Daily Lad. 0.99

01:00:34.760 And it was whoever had done the stupidest thing possible 0.99

01:00:37.220 or the most based, possibly. 1.00

01:00:40.940 uh and uh and post it you know it's like someone's taking a dump in a urinal or something at a party

01:00:46.740 and you're just like and someone caught that on a camera like digital actual digital camera at the

01:00:51.040 time and it's like uh you're there you are mad lad um and just some nonsense like where are they now

01:00:57.960 that's my where are they now right whereas zoomers have grown up in an environment where the cameras

01:01:02.240 are everywhere all the time uh and so there is that sort of sense of um someone might be watching

01:01:08.880 you know the panopticon is in the room um and uh just to get back to this particular thread

01:01:16.360 it says uh this millennial says oh you never got taught it's not me uh i'm not working tomato thank

01:01:23.420 you very much uh you'll never got taught how to have fun as an adult it's truly bizarre right now

01:01:28.120 regardless of that a lot of the complaints on this thread which i see which i think where do i hang

01:01:33.640 out with that won't require us to spend money right he's giving uh advices and things free

01:01:38.840 concerts where do you find those i've never actually heard of them uh people go back up

01:01:44.060 for a second then mike there was something interesting yeah go on that that one uh i mean

01:01:48.120 this i don't know whether this is a is a uk or us uh subreddit or whatever but like you yeah

01:01:54.640 walmart home depot so yeah it's american but you know the countryside being paved over and they're

01:01:59.720 being like when is it i saw something about people smoking meth uh major meth smoking destination

01:02:06.260 like the park in my hometown um used to be so nice and i used to go there when i was a kid

01:02:12.400 and then as i was going up into my late teenage years you couldn't go there anymore certainly

01:02:16.360 after sort of six o'clock because there'd just be junkies everywhere and it was just you know

01:02:21.280 and that's the story for a lot of places now and i think that's another part of you know why gen

01:02:26.600 zed are struggling to uh i don't know to have fun in a way that millennials think is appropriate

01:02:30.920 it's not even so so it's like okay you've got this generational gap between what millennials

01:02:36.420 think and i will bring up some polling data about what people of different generations notably the

01:02:41.360 zoomers are absent from it at the moment but we'll that's why you're here basically aside from your 0.98

01:02:45.600 representation so uh you've got this idea of like nature and then you go like well nature's

01:02:51.580 constantly under attack from all these different things or i live in a city and it's really

01:02:54.640 difficult to get out and things like that um and but there's also this idea like you can see my

01:02:59.840 buddies and i used to just hang out play board games write comedy sketches books plays songs

01:03:03.320 together right but because everything is terminally online because you have access to a camera in your

01:03:08.100 phone and the internet at all times there's also a sense that you kind of feel like you're wasting

01:03:11.940 time if you're doing any of those pursuits purely for pleasure so it's like oh if i play board games

01:03:18.200 like why am i not running a board game centric podcast with my friends and suddenly turning this

01:03:22.420 into a profession or something right well that's that's that's something interesting when i've seen

01:03:26.720 um that guy clavicular a clip of him where he's where people are asking like why do you film

01:03:32.360 everything you do with the whole irl life streaming thing and he says it's like well why wouldn't i

01:03:38.000 just monetize my entire life if you're not monetizing your entire life you're just wasting

01:03:42.240 time why would i waste my time like that yeah so so there is this sort of uh you know i imagine 0.99

01:03:47.660 there's a lot of zoomers who are sitting around going right like okay there's all these things

01:03:51.600 i kind of want to do but like any time that i am provide doing an outlay because things are so tight

01:03:57.880 uh like i either is stressing me that uh stressing me out because i should be monetizing it in some

01:04:04.260 way or like i'm a failure for not having done so uh or i'm uh you know it's uh i'm making a mistake

01:04:11.700 basically by doing it i do also think like part of this is also a kind of dopamine hit thing because

01:04:16.860 those things listed there playing board games writing comedy sketches and so on uh i mean that

01:04:22.060 sounds kind of fun but i know that i wouldn't have the attention span to do a lot oh no charlie

01:04:27.040 well you've got these things but they're not necessarily inherently uh competitive except

01:04:34.880 maybe uh the board the board game thing i'm kind of joking by the way i do like i like i like playing

01:04:39.180 but doom scrolling tick tock i was gonna say like scrabble to doom scrolling and bed rotting like

01:04:44.980 that's uh you know maxing yeah that's quite an easy dopamine hit whereas all of these things are

01:04:50.720 and that's that's the other thing so if i move on uh so so first i'll just give this as the example

01:04:56.420 uh this is some chap who's like i built a fashion business 100k a year little loan from daddy but

01:05:03.400 we won't mention that um after starting a side hustle and being a young entrepreneur oh and he's

01:05:08.620 so styled that sort of thing but it's more that like that person who then has like a following

01:05:13.700 on instagram or whatever who's then like dozens like him get deluged into people's feeds when

01:05:18.860 they are doom scrolling uh and it's like oh right well now i'm feeling this sort of fatigue of like

01:05:25.240 i'm not doing anything like that uh i should be doing my sigma grind set every day and so your

01:05:30.820 your mind doesn't i just i've heard it on the internet your mind doesn't go from that to like

01:05:36.180 i want to decompress now i'm going to go for like a five mile walk it goes to ah what am i doing with

01:05:42.040 my life like i should be can i not uh put something together uh that's gonna make me rich so i can

01:05:47.620 escape this nightmare that i'm currently living in um and uh you can see uh as well that just the

01:05:55.000 price of admission for uh different letter activities just precipitously gone up you know

01:05:59.820 uh it's the same for everything it's just like just going to the pub for example is like insane

01:06:03.760 weirdly the united team has got worse that whole time and the money's and the price has gone up

01:06:08.420 i wonder i couldn't find this data on like what the actual tickets sales were you can find lots

01:06:13.520 of revenue figures but the actual number of tickets sold so you wonder how much of the price

01:06:17.680 hike is uh just sort of greedy sort of scraping from sort of uh 45 year old middle-aged men or

01:06:23.740 whatever uh and how much of it is the uh the fact that can i get enough people in the seats

01:06:30.540 because i didn't want to say you know if suddenly football was uh booming to a level never foreseen

01:06:36.540 I didn't want to say, oh, well, clearly that's where they're finding their enjoyment.

01:06:40.540 But I think the price of admission has gone up.

01:06:43.620 There's also a case of people, again, going back to that Reddit thread, where they're

01:06:47.380 complaining about lack of access to different leisure activities.

01:06:53.100 So I'll go back to these popular activities.

01:06:54.880 But you get to things like swimming pools, something pretty basic.

01:06:59.720 But most of it has, a lot of it's disappearing.

01:07:03.080 we've lost uh four to five hundred uh swimming pool closures in the past five years uh 76 of

01:07:10.500 which disappeared since 2020 so i don't swim you don't swimming one of the things is that the only

01:07:17.540 people i know who go to swimming pools regularly are those who are actively focusing on it as a

01:07:22.380 form of exercise or people taking their families to the swimming pool sure and as people who are

01:07:27.320 younger are both poorer and less likely to have families these days then that does limit the

01:07:31.540 amount of people who'd be going absolutely and the the young people are looking then for their

01:07:36.660 sort of cheaper uh leisure options which are almost entirely either solo pursuits or can be

01:07:43.140 done from an internet connection you know video gaming uh price per hour for video gaming way

01:07:48.700 cheaper than swimming even then with what you were saying before about monetizing i'm sure a lot of

01:07:53.480 them are thinking to themselves why am i just wasting my time playing video games when i could

01:07:57.540 be doing a let's play or streaming and trying to monetize it well absolutely but it's more

01:08:01.860 then you've got two sides of that which is there's the personality which will tend towards that

01:08:06.100 uh but there's also the personality of like there's social we're social animals you know

01:08:10.260 and people will play it used to be the first person shooter and now it seems to be more sort

01:08:14.040 of i don't know my mind's going to things like deep rock galactic and uh hell divers 2 and things

01:08:19.600 like that where there's a big uh social sort of scene where it's like you and three friends

01:08:24.600 against a horde or whatever can i just say on this very quickly yeah another point here

01:08:29.280 potentially i don't know about any data on this but i couldn't tell you the last time i went to

01:08:33.860 a public swimming pool but something i do like to do is what is today called wild swimming we're

01:08:38.120 just like swimming in rivers and in the sea and that sort of thing which is one free and two a

01:08:42.440 lot more enjoyable than being in like the sterile swimming pool i can see that uh we've also sort

01:08:48.700 of discovered where your like eventual scandal will come from it's like man discovered uh free

01:08:56.380 swimming as he called it i'm a citizen of the river that's what he said i'm a sovereign citizen

01:09:01.560 i can swim where i like sir this is polluted i do wear speedos yeah for the avoidance of

01:09:07.280 i'm not naked i didn't say skinny dipping you've brought that interesting interesting

01:09:11.640 uh right and then uh and then obviously swimming pools obviously somewhat niche interest but pubs

01:09:17.400 closing down so 15 000 pubs in the last 25 years uh and and seemingly going down down down now

01:09:24.180 obviously a lot of that is the like pubs are not willing to put the price of a pint to 15 pounds

01:09:29.940 um the ones who have survived have uh put uh sort of a lot more food on the menu you know used to

01:09:36.480 get a lot more sort of drinking bars and now food is where the profit margins are and soft drinks

01:09:42.440 interestingly but um pubs are down over 15 000 there used to be loads of articles which came

01:09:48.080 out when i was at university for instance which said no students are using the bars no no students

01:09:53.360 are using the student bars i went to my student bar and it's like well the prices are more expensive

01:09:57.480 than weatherspoons here yeah and uh well the supermarket has massively undercut this i mean

01:10:03.540 supermarkets frankly for all of their convenience have been a complete disaster for independent

01:10:08.180 businesses of all stripes because they do sell everything you find a supermarket effect in lots

01:10:13.060 of towns where load of loads of independent butchers independent green grocers and such

01:10:18.380 end up shutting down because people choose to go with the slightly cheaper more convenient option

01:10:22.580 so i don't really like supermarkets in towns most of the time because of that effect especially

01:10:28.180 small towns but also yeah pubs are expensive i still try and frequent my locals and go to the

01:10:36.100 pub maybe once a week with my friends in town but there was a music festival in my town recently

01:10:41.940 where most of the pubs were still relatively reasonable a lot more expensive than they used

01:10:47.360 to be but relatively reasonable and then my friend happened to be playing in the one bar

01:10:52.140 where say a a double whiskey and coke would be like i don't know seven pound fifty eight pound

01:10:58.800 in most of the other pubs i managed to he managed to be playing in the one place where it was over

01:11:02.600 12 pounds i mean that's for a double cocktail prices and so i was i was there like you are

01:11:08.420 lucky that i really want to see you play well it's just uh it's a question of the spaces where

01:11:15.940 people do their leisure you know i'm not even saying that this is an effect that has happened

01:11:21.560 due to a decline in attendance for whatever reason now i'm putting it down to a lack of funds uh but

01:11:27.760 there's also as i say it's the convenience is king and always will be and if you have access to uh

01:11:33.380 you know a machine that can uh provide a social experience in quotes um by not having to leave

01:11:40.920 your house a lot of people will be keen on that but it's not even like when i was a kid and if

01:11:44.760 you wanted to play multiplayer with people you all got together right because it was split screen or

01:11:49.780 or whatever at home or you took turns but now but now it's all uh it's all this remote stuff and so

01:11:56.580 you see this additional factor which is that loneliness is just massively increasing so we're

01:12:02.900 more interconnected than ever uh but we're suddenly like the loneliest generation is the 1.00

01:12:08.920 zuma generation well it is because of all of the surrogate activities which are on offer you can 1.00

01:12:14.240 get any of the any of the different social aspects of life catered to you now from inside your own 0.99

01:12:20.220 home oftentimes within your own bedroom and you never actually have to step outside and there is

01:12:24.560 a cumulative effect because you get social isolation because you spend all day playing

01:12:28.840 and playing video games. A lot of people will substitute romantic activities and sexual

01:12:34.760 activities for pornography and things along those lines. Romantic activities as AI chatbots are

01:12:40.980 becoming a thing and people are starting to fall in love with AI chatbots. That might become more

01:12:45.420 of a problem as the technology becomes more available and develops. And then added on top

01:12:50.140 of that if you spend all day at home getting no sunshine you're probably eating like shit 0.99

01:12:54.920 and then you're um you're not exercising at all you're incredibly sedentary your hormones will 0.97

01:13:01.320 mess up as well if you're a man your testosterone will probably crater which will lead to depression

01:13:06.720 and lead to you not wanting to go outside even more and sinking even more into those surrogate

01:13:12.600 activities so it will be it will be a sort of a compounding effect that happens with it all

01:13:18.560 but it's what i'm really trying to get at as well is just that what is leisure then if this is

01:13:25.240 actively causing people distress right this cycle of behaviors which are ostensibly made of things

01:13:31.820 which are designed to hit your dopamine that's also a concept that we're thinking of you you

01:13:36.080 used to do things because you enjoy doing them right and you didn't think about like what

01:13:40.100 particular chemical imbalance it was going to cause in in your favor or not that's the

01:13:44.680 the medicalization of society which comes in but then your mind is then thinking in these terms

01:13:50.900 all the time this idea of uh it is a your own medical condition and whether you need therapy

01:13:56.880 today or not because you haven't been able to see your friends and in the same way as you say

01:14:01.240 you outsource all these social uh activities to uh the machine essentially right whatever app is

01:14:08.800 trying to profit from you then you get to the point where uh like what is leisure like as a

01:14:14.900 concept to you right like is it this thing which you're actually doing for fun or is it just the

01:14:19.280 thing that sort of staves off the void to fill the time before you have to work again um and i think

01:14:26.000 it's a very it's actually quite an important question of how do we help people to or not we

01:14:33.580 necessarily as a a group of lads here but more as a as a society how do we help incentivize people to

01:14:40.720 uh do things which are going to be much more beneficial for i mean to be fair as an as an

01:14:45.320 individual involved with basket weavers you do actually try to help people with this kind of

01:14:49.500 thing well yes uh it's funny you should mention the basket weavers uh the basket weavers is a

01:14:53.840 social club for people of our particular political bent uh so basket we exist

01:14:58.760 i thought oak not hate said fascist sensible center uh so basket weavers uh is a community

01:15:07.060 building service uh which is basically all about we've been in operation for for yonks now i'm a

01:15:12.200 an ardent supporter of theirs although i don't run it directly uh you can also find them on

01:15:17.960 x at bw.net as the uh as the account handle but essentially it's all about getting people together

01:15:25.260 and to do things in real life to help you build your network and your community one of the points

01:15:30.880 that i didn't really come on to earlier was the fact that doing things outside and doing things

01:15:35.860 in a group together is the opportunity for spontaneity in a way in which your curated

01:15:41.220 experience of choosing which game to play for instance at home doesn't exist and so the the

01:15:47.340 networking opportunities that you'll have right which is a very corporatized way of putting it

01:15:51.240 but like basically if you want to find some more friends you've got to be in places where you can

01:15:55.140 find friends uh if you want to uh uh make connections within a particular niche interest

01:16:02.540 you know everything from warhammer 40k up to uh uh you know some sort of extreme sport i don't

01:16:09.260 know snowboarding or something then you need to be in the places where those are done and and people

01:16:14.600 only really seem to be going out to those places where the the niche interest demands it but i'm

01:16:20.800 just saying you can go out and about and explore things with your friends and it doesn't necessarily

01:16:25.540 need to be that direct plan or that direct thing that you're playing uh you can just have fun oh i

01:16:31.120 will say as a gentleman who enjoys video games i i i think moderation yeah all in moderation

01:16:38.340 just to make sure we're not just hammering video games as an activity because i also think there's

01:16:42.720 a lot of artistry to the creation of them so of course certain ones you could also basket weavers

01:16:48.160 recapture the golden age all of you get together the basket weaver's land party get yourselves an

01:16:56.460 xbox 360 halo 3 oh yes let's get on the sofa together have fun like that the real goal i mean

01:17:03.500 i'm old but the real golden age is is golden eye on the n64 four player you can do that license to

01:17:08.220 kill one shot kills there's a cx in every town infinite infinite distance grappling hook yes

01:17:14.240 there is another option which is commit yourself to the political struggle of course yes written 0.60

01:17:19.560 which is what i would recommend personally all of these things to be fair yeah my my my prevailing

01:17:25.320 wisdom is land party my prevailing wisdom as always is is to get out there and try something

01:17:30.780 new and break that bubble and that mold and if you're part of these people who say like everything's

01:17:35.860 too expensive there are options out there for you the basket weavers will help arrange things with

01:17:39.980 you uh and so on you know uh say there's this uh split in gen z i don't want to make it all

01:17:45.540 negative gen z is opting for a different kind of holiday we're all broken we're not doing shagaloof

01:17:49.680 so instead uh people going out on on holiday apparently this woman really loves cows but um

01:17:56.380 they look lovely they do they do look lovely she is doing a wojack pose which is in the lakes my

01:18:02.420 home is there it's more charming when it's done for hey look at these lovely cows than it is for

01:18:07.320 look at my nintendo switch or look at this fake chicken sure absolutely i'm trying to be

01:18:15.120 i'm trying to be hopeful mark i thought that's what this was about it's all about being positive

01:18:21.140 and hopeful harry just only problem is it says lake windermere which many argue is a tautology

01:18:25.480 because mia means lake that's why i went to school it's lake winder lake yes i see nice

01:18:31.000 that's based so it's like the river avon is uh the river river um he does not matter put the

01:18:37.660 lake whoever wrote this is probably a zoomer so uh yeah uh i think my segment's basically

01:18:44.620 i do i've got one other thing to add yeah shameless like self plug here so i wrote an

01:18:49.480 article earlier this year for the catholic herald because i'm a catholic um your shame titled well

01:18:54.700 titled self-improvement is not salvation and it was basically reacting to a series of stories

01:19:01.760 that came out around the beginning of the year saying that the new year's resolutions of gen z

01:19:06.680 are very different to those of their parents so it's less your kind of fad diets and that kind

01:19:12.220 of thing and more kind of ice baths and mindfulness and meditation and all this kind of thing

01:19:17.080 manifestations yeah but what the case that i made in this article was as somebody who uh especially

01:19:23.840 during covid pursued a lot of those kinds of things like i chose to use the sort of lockdown

01:19:28.340 period to sort of lift weights all the time i did the carnivore diet i sort of did my had a go at

01:19:34.060 meditating and all that kind of thing um what i quickly came to realize was that way of living

01:19:39.620 is at once better than the alternative that's offered to us because in i mean for me personally

01:19:43.900 there's certainly two sides to my personality one is the kind of self-improvement working out you

01:19:49.180 know kind of go-getting side but the other side is the kind of sit around and smoke weed and play

01:19:53.520 video games type side which you know i i did my fair share of when i was younger and i've sort of

01:19:59.440 put that all away now but it's certainly you know i think that's part of all zoomers experience is 0.87

01:20:04.360 living that way at least for a certain time and uh realizing that it's terrible and then there's 1.00

01:20:08.660 no way to live we were discussing this earlier yes yes we were um so so you know those are the 0.99

01:20:12.780 those are kind of presented as being the two options that zoomers have so you can either go

01:20:16.480 down the kind of self-improvement route which at its very best i kind of think of like jordan

01:20:21.580 peterson 12 rules for life back in the kind of sort of 2016 2018 kind of era when he was really

01:20:27.200 at his peak before he became whatever yeah yeah whatever he is now which is very sad i think um

01:20:33.240 but that kind of self-improvement where it is about you know building yourself up and turning

01:20:36.920 yourself into somebody that can be relied upon turning yourself into somebody serious that's

01:20:41.060 fantastic and it's better than just being a degenerate and a hedonist for sure um but even

01:20:46.120 that is not a source of meaning ultimately even that runs dry as a source of meaning and this

01:20:51.300 was the case that i made in my article was that can sustain you for even years you know if you do

01:20:56.320 like the kind of waking up at six in the morning and working out and running and doing sports and

01:21:00.780 eating a really regimented diet and counting your calories and doing you know meditation and all of

01:21:05.940 these kinds of things that's all good stuff um and it's better than just being as i say completely

01:21:10.240 unregulated in your life but ultimately you will find that on the other side of that is still

01:21:14.960 nothingness it's still like meaninglessness it has to ultimately be towards an end it can't be

01:21:19.580 an end in and of itself yeah and what you realize i mean what i realized in my experience was all of

01:21:25.080 those things that i was doing were typologies of essentially living a religious life so meditation

01:21:30.880 and mindfulness is basically just uh it's prayer without god and going and the uh you know like

01:21:36.680 fasting was another one of these uh new year's resolutions that a lot of gen z committed to and

01:21:40.740 that's obviously a practice associated with basically every religion i was going to say

01:21:45.460 Isn't the whole self-help movement in America basically a sort of denomination of Protestant evangelism?

01:21:52.620 That's basically the point I made, was a lot of these practices that Gen Z are organically rediscovering in their search for meaning are essentially religious in nature.

01:22:01.860 And so the solution to what we're talking about here, that I would propose, is a recognition of the fact that all of this that exists around us is not just coincidental.

01:22:12.360 It's not just kind of arbitrary.

01:22:14.200 like it's here for a reason it was created there is therefore a creator an author to all of this

01:22:19.960 you're here for a reason there is such a thing as objective reality um and it's your job to live in

01:22:25.680 a way that is in accordance with that rather than against that because we you're also a steward of

01:22:30.420 it right as much as you're a steward of yourself and you're a steward of your area part of basket

01:22:34.100 weavers which i should add uh it's not just for uk members it's a international um sort of not

01:22:40.080 organization but kind of movement um there's this idea of being having great stewardship over

01:22:46.740 your local area and you'll care more about it if you care about the people in it and so

01:22:50.340 the idea is to introduce you to more people to make more friends to uh then become a force to

01:22:55.660 be reckoned with and that is the greatest meaning i'm sure you can find um without religion itself

01:23:01.880 so there you go wonderful well i hope we've given you a lot to think on there and a lot to work on

01:23:07.740 as well so uh we do not have any more rumble rants samson do we have any video comments

01:23:14.080 we'll do them next week let's get on to the written comments from the website then

01:23:19.700 and uh would you like to read yours first yeah so yeah this is on my segment on great yarn i do not 0.78

01:23:26.720 have a great angle of either of the screens right so russian garbage human who i have met in person

01:23:31.920 multiple times now good chap i've been to dozens of reform events even volunteered at some average 0.55

01:23:37.060 age is invariably 50 plus reform are the dying grasp of going don't gasp sorry of the liberal

01:23:41.860 world order one last term until 2030 when the technocracy becomes impossible to escape yeah i

01:23:47.640 mean look reform i've been to plenty of reform events in my time because i was a supporter of

01:23:51.500 the party up until you know basically when they kicked ruper out because i thought like many

01:23:55.940 people that they were the most viable vehicle that we had and there's great people like in the

01:23:59.760 reform membership base there's fantastic people there's like-minded people i'm sure people who

01:24:04.660 listen to this podcast many of them will be reform members um and so the you know the base of reform

01:24:09.340 is really not the issue like it is the case that increasingly they're being viewed as the party of

01:24:13.320 boomers uh especially with their commitment to uh keep the triple lock um and and also this thing

01:24:19.880 that came out today of uh faraj uh rewarding this kind of uh wealthy boomer uh in this uh prize

01:24:26.560 draw that they did free uh free energy bills yeah um so that they are increasingly viewed as uh as

01:24:32.240 being for a certain generation, which I think is not to their credit. But look, I mean, we shouldn't

01:24:38.000 knock the reform membership, because many of them almost exclusively are good people who care about

01:24:42.260 the country. And as well, there are plenty of boomers in that as well, because I do think

01:24:47.820 people are a little bit too harsh on the generational gap there. Obviously, we have

01:24:53.100 criticisms of all of the various generations, but people go particularly hard on the boomers,

01:24:57.500 who are a product of their environment

01:25:00.000 as well as much as anybody else.

01:25:04.100 And so I don't want to alienate people

01:25:06.120 because it does alienate some people

01:25:08.220 when you go quite so hard against them.

01:25:10.240 Whereas the stereotype of them

01:25:12.120 does have a lot of factual basis.

01:25:14.140 But also there are plenty of boomers

01:25:15.580 who do want to help out the younger generations

01:25:17.700 who do see what's happening.

01:25:18.720 And there's plenty of boomers

01:25:19.460 who are coming to the Restore meetings as well.

01:25:21.460 Plenty of boomers who,

01:25:22.400 and just people of all age demographics

01:25:24.920 who are joining Restore.

01:25:26.260 So like, yeah, as you say,

01:25:27.400 this kind of intergenerational warfare thing. Look, there's a frank conversation to be had about

01:25:31.600 certainly the distribution of wealth between the generations, but that doesn't mean we have to be

01:25:35.400 antagonistic to each other. And I think that's only in service to the system if we are.

01:25:40.500 Kevin Fox says, the Greens have a lot of ideas. Some are okay. Many are from cloud cuckoo line,

01:25:47.300 land or whatever. Their main problem is they have absolutely no idea how to implement or pay for

01:25:51.100 these ideas and how to deal with the downstream chaos that these ideas will bring. Zach talking

01:25:55.220 about the balance of payments showed that we don't have a deficit it's not real money

01:25:58.340 is not going to work on the international stage well yeah i mean look my point on this is that

01:26:02.280 when the greens speak about the problems facing the country a lot of people especially those

01:26:07.100 under 30 who perhaps don't pay a huge amount of attention to politics but who do pay attention to

01:26:11.060 their own pay packet and their own neighborhood and their own high street when they hear zach

01:26:14.980 polanski talking you know in in a relatively charismatic way i mean and the competition is

01:26:20.880 not particularly great about the fact that people just can't people are sort of struggling to keep

01:26:25.820 up in this country a lot of people listen to that i think yeah i mean this guy gets it he just

01:26:30.180 thinks uh the green the greens just think that they can lock every billionaire in the country

01:26:34.260 and prevent them from leaving without scalping them and then also that like all of their cash

01:26:39.920 is immediately liquid at any one time yeah so i mean and that's and that's the thing like this

01:26:43.780 is what needs to be made clear to everybody thinking of voting greens on the basis that

01:26:48.000 I just laid out, which is to say you're not an ideological leftist. You just want to stick a

01:26:52.820 middle finger up at the system, essentially. You know, the solutions that the Greens proposed to

01:26:56.880 the problems that they're rightly identifying would exacerbate all of those problems because

01:27:00.660 they believe in more immigration. They believe in wealth taxes, as you said, both of which would

01:27:04.680 make the housing crisis worse, would make wages worse, and would make the overall level of wealth

01:27:08.900 in the country substantially lower, which would mean that everything would start to just grind

01:27:12.520 to a halt, even more so than it is now. Zesty King, some, nice name, some say every time Nigel

01:27:20.200 Farge is called a racist, he finds the nearest brown person and makes him a reform candidate. 0.53

01:27:24.320 I mean, it's incredible that reform, a party which has committed as a matter of policy to stripping

01:27:32.080 voting rights from Commonwealth citizens, which they currently have, by the way, which is an

01:27:35.500 absurd policy, will at the same time stand candidates in the local elections who are

01:27:40.360 themselves foreign nationals. So under a reformed government, if you're a citizen of India or

01:27:43.800 Bangladesh or wherever else, or Nigeria, you can come to the UK, you can't vote, but you can stand

01:27:48.560 in elections. That makes sense. It's just absurd. Genius. I think there's one relevant one here that

01:27:54.340 I'd like you to address from Mother of Hate Monsters, who says, Charlie, I love Restore,

01:27:57.780 but for the love of God, talk to an individual about sorting your graphics out. You can't have

01:28:02.640 superior meme game than fall flat on the leaflets and magic eye wall, oh text. Address that for us.

01:28:08.360 Yeah, look, I mean, so we saw all of the criticisms about that graphic yesterday.

01:28:12.180 And it's like, look, you know, we're not going to get it right every time.

01:28:14.460 We're a small team.

01:28:15.160 We're still, as I said in my segment, building up our, you know, our kind of HQ team and our national infrastructure.

01:28:22.360 And we don't have to, like, freak out about every little thing that happens.

01:28:26.120 And frankly, I mean, that graphic did really well on Facebook and Instagram, which is really where it was for.

01:28:29.500 It wasn't 4X, and it was on X that it was kind of panned.

01:28:32.340 But it's one graphic.

01:28:33.800 And those leaflets are doing the job.

01:28:35.360 um and i know everybody wants everything to be absolutely perfect and if there's one thing i've

01:28:39.600 learned uh doing restore it's that everybody has an opinion on how these things should be done uh

01:28:44.720 and all of that is valued like your feedback is very much valued we are big believers in listening

01:28:48.400 to the opinions of our base and our supporters and i recognize that it all comes from a place

01:28:52.460 of wanting restore to do well but all i would say is just like let's just you know yeah yeah think

01:28:58.440 about the big picture and focus on what's actually important like one graphic is like

01:29:01.260 you know it's not the end of the world all right then uh that is about all we have time for right

01:29:07.480 now so thank you all very much for joining us mark thanks for coming down to the studio as with uh

01:29:11.880 both of you it's just been me surrounded by guests today uh as you can see nick's about to break the

01:29:17.120 bottle straight back out again he's got some jack daniels hiding under the desk don't even drink

01:29:21.620 uh charlie yeah it makes it all the more confusing really he's gonna blues brothers his way out of

01:29:26.960 here and Charlie thank you very much for joining us everybody watching if you're subscribed remember

01:29:33.500 to tune in about half an hour for the lads hour we are going to force feed Carl Monty Python

01:29:38.300 until he laughs we'll see you then for everybody else have a great weekend and we hope to see you

01:29:43.520 at the live event tomorrow take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 10, 2026

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