The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1408

00:00:00.080 Hello and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1,408 for Thursday, the 30th of April, 2026.

00:00:08.760 I'm your host, Luca, joined today by two very fine gentlemen, Stelios and Beau.

00:00:13.160 How are you both?

00:00:14.480 I'm really well. How are you?

00:00:15.840 Yeah, I'm all right. I'm looking forward to it.

00:00:17.700 1408, there's a movie with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.

00:00:21.740 Is it?

00:00:22.240 My man.

00:00:22.780 I'll tell you what, you're much more schooled on the classic films than I am.

00:00:26.400 It's a horror movie, which is a very good adaptation of a short story by Stephen King.

00:00:32.560 Okay, I'll add it to the list. I'll get to it.

00:00:35.120 Anyway, today, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be talking all about His Majesty's visit to the colonies, to the United States.

00:00:42.700 We're then going to be talking all about the business executive from hell.

00:00:46.820 and then we're going to be concluding things by talking about the pandemic of crime that is now

00:00:52.580 scattering itself across our high streets up and down the country uh before we get into all of

00:00:59.020 that though I do just want to once again raise awareness for a fantastic conversation that

00:01:04.660 Stelios and I had a gargantuan three-part uh series talking all about Apollonius of Rhodes

00:01:11.720 Argonautica. He was the royal librarian at the Great Library of Alexandria, and he wrote possibly

00:01:19.260 what is the definitive telling of the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, Jason and the Golden

00:01:25.020 Fleece. And so we had a really great time discussing all of that, and we really think

00:01:29.880 you'll enjoy it. So if you want to check it out, you can go and subscribe on the website,

00:01:34.140 £5 a month, and get access to that and all of the other fantastic premium content, such as Epochs,

00:01:39.900 that we have on the website. All right, with all of this said, shall we crack on? So rejoice,

00:01:48.440 my friends, because we now have a king in America again, it turns out. So there was a notice that

00:01:56.940 was put out towards the end of last month. And obviously, it goes to say, even though that this

00:02:00.880 was announced to be happening, all of these things are planned months and months in advance,

00:02:05.700 of course, between both nations. And so this will have been long in the works. But nonetheless,

00:02:10.500 on the 31st of March, it was declared, I suppose, if we want to get medieval about it,

00:02:17.560 by royal decree, that on advice of His Majesty's government and at the invitation of the President

00:02:23.740 of the United States, the King and Queen will undertake a state visit to the United States of

00:02:28.100 America. The Majesty's Programme will celebrate the historic connections and the modern bilateral

00:02:33.520 relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States, marking the 250th anniversary of

00:02:40.860 American independence. And then the king would also be visiting the island of Bermuda as well

00:02:47.340 as his first royal visit to one of Britain's overseas territories. So this was already very

00:02:54.060 much, as I say, being planned. However, it came at something of a tumultuous time in the relationship

00:03:02.460 between Britain and America, because obviously, as we're all very well versed in by now,

00:03:08.000 Trump and his administration have been less than happy about Keir Starmer and not getting,

00:03:14.660 wholly committing ourselves, obviously, to Iran. And by I say not wholly committing,

00:03:19.560 I mean doing very little to do with it whatsoever and really just staying out of the conflict.

00:03:25.400 And as a result of this, of course, it led to some very serious strain in the relationship

00:03:32.280 between the United Kingdom and America,

00:03:34.580 and it's these sorts of events that really work

00:03:37.240 to redefine geopolitical alliances, isn't it?

00:03:40.620 It's these types of diplomacy that have wide-ranging butterfly effects.

00:03:45.060 There's another thing I think, well, I don't think I know,

00:03:47.040 that the White House and the State Department weren't best pleased

00:03:49.880 with Europe and Britain's response to the whole Greenland affair.

00:03:53.740 That sort of irked them, didn't it?

00:03:55.860 And from their point of view, I can say why.

00:03:57.960 Sure. 1.00

00:03:58.200 And then, yeah, throw the Iran thing on top. 0.92

00:04:00.640 Right. 0.90

00:04:01.440 They're annoyed.

00:04:02.280 Yeah, absolutely. But this was all made suddenly more real as well, because as a result of all of this, as it was announced, an internal Pentagon email reported by Reuters suggested that the US was considering options to punish NATO allies it believed had failed to support its war on Iran.

00:04:19.580 A Pentagon spokesman did not comment on the email's existence but said it would, quote, ensure that the president has credible options to ensure that our allies are no longer a paper tiger and instead do their part.

00:04:32.720 As President Trump has said, despite everything that the United States has done for our NATO allies, they were not there for us, the spokesman added.

00:04:41.240 And so things are all getting quite tense. And of course, from a British perspective, the last thing that we want after having a war for British sovereignty in the Falklands within living memory is to see all of that just go to waste and, you know, for the sacrifice of those brave British soldiers to be in vain to protect that territory simply because, you know, of an American attempt to punish us for not getting involved in the Middle East once more.

00:05:10.220 Can I say two things before you say something about it? So the NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance. So what Trump is saying about Article 5, it doesn't apply here.

00:05:22.120 No.

00:05:23.100 Because it's not that a NATO member was attacked and there is an obligation of other NATO members to rush to aid it.

00:05:31.540 Yes.

00:05:32.260 So that's not exactly when he says they weren't there for us. I think mostly he's just trying to apply pressure to them.

00:05:38.700 It's interesting you said there

00:05:40.600 It's Reuters

00:05:41.060 You've got to be so careful these days

00:05:42.900 With all different information coming out

00:05:45.460 Because I saw like everyone else

00:05:47.460 The Americans had talked about

00:05:49.540 Or there'd been an email somewhere

00:05:51.140 About a review of the Falkland status

00:05:54.940 And then I saw other people

00:05:56.440 A couple of days after that

00:05:58.000 Saying that was fake news

00:05:59.280 That's not real

00:06:00.080 That's all just like an online echo chamber thing

00:06:02.180 It's completely not true

00:06:03.380 It's not real

00:06:03.880 But Reuters are saying it is

00:06:05.720 And the spokesperson from

00:06:06.980 What the Pentagon or the State Department

00:06:08.620 said, at least confirmed on some level

00:06:10.740 that there was... Pentagon spokesman. Okay, right.

00:06:12.980 So, the thing is

00:06:14.720 we've been

00:06:16.820 in the Falklands ever since, what, the

00:06:18.600 16th century? Yeah, long time.

00:06:21.120 I think it was Hawkins,

00:06:22.760 wasn't it? Was it? Well, you'll know. I think Captain

00:06:24.740 Hawkins, like the age of Drake.

00:06:27.260 So, yeah, like the Elizabethan

00:06:29.080 age. Yeah.

00:06:30.300 The 16th century. Yeah. We've been on

00:06:32.740 those islands. Long, long, long before

00:06:34.520 Argentina existed as a

00:06:36.940 country yeah because that's one of the things the argentinians appeal to isn't it they say well we

00:06:41.860 should have inherited it from the spanish empire it's like but it wasn't the spanish empires to

00:06:46.080 give away yeah it was our territory and the ultimate bottom line is is that they've had

00:06:50.480 votes a number of times of the people that live there yes and it always comes back like 99 or

00:06:55.180 something very very extremely extremely high an overwhelming majority that they want to stay part

00:07:00.520 of a british dependency or a british overseas territory and so that's the end of the story

00:07:04.540 isn't it yes and it's also really bad that uh keir starmer is the pm right now because he's very

00:07:10.780 happy with talking about handing away the chagos islands to is it to mauritius yes yeah so this

00:07:18.720 does communicate weakness so definitely they will try to take advantage yeah the fact we can barely

00:07:23.800 muster one frigate yeah it's not look it's looking a bit sticky uh i suppose we could say

00:07:31.780 But all of this is to say that so the king's, you know, appointment to go and visit America has come a bit of an auspicious time, actually, where it could be a very powerful diplomatic tool to placate the Trump administration and just sort of like calm everything down again, remind one another of our long ties, you know, our enormous commonalities in our history and our philosophy and the common blood that we actually share with one another.

00:07:59.620 And I'm of the opinion, call me controversial, I'm in favour of no more brother wars.

00:08:05.400 That's my position with all of this.

00:08:08.180 Don't mention the war of 1812.

00:08:10.740 Well, we'll get to that later, actually.

00:08:14.500 But going off of this article as well, it says,

00:08:17.420 when asked in a phone interview with the BBC whether the visit could help repair the relationship,

00:08:23.120 Trump himself said, absolutely.

00:08:25.300 He's fantastic. He's a fantastic man.

00:08:27.460 absolutely the answer is yes i know him very well i've known him for years he's a brave man and he's

00:08:32.680 a great man they will uh they would be absolutely be positive uh the president also spoke about his

00:08:38.840 relationship with kia starmer uh who he has said can only recover if he changes his course on

00:08:45.020 immigration which yeah good point i i find it remarkable as well that trump is literally just

00:08:51.400 saying to him like regards and just ignore the fact whether or not trump is actually doing

00:08:55.540 these things himself to the degree that he should be in the United States, right? He is still

00:09:01.240 offering Starmer free advice here that would actually shore up his position. So maybe you

00:09:07.300 should just get on top of that immigration issue that everyone in the country keeps telling you to

00:09:11.500 sort out, Keir. And obviously, Keir Starmer being a total globalist is just, it's too unpalatable

00:09:17.300 for him to consider, even if it is just from a purely pragmatic level, the thing to do to shore

00:09:23.540 up his own power. So all of this was becoming very real. And so the King arrived at Washington

00:09:31.760 and you see here the Rose Garden line with band members in period outfits as they await for King

00:09:37.300 Charles III and President Trump to walk to the Oval Office. And I'll just play this in the

00:09:41.800 background. Late 18th century period outfit. Yeah, so they're all dressed like, you can see as well

00:09:47.540 the lobsters at the back there, the redcoats stood, the Union Jack, Union flags and everything.

00:09:53.940 I tell you what, God, we've lost some, excuse me, we've lost some aura over the centuries,

00:09:58.860 haven't we? I mean, just look at how fine we used to dress. So, right, there was a lot of pomp,

00:10:05.420 a lot of circumstance, and it was all quite good. And then we can obviously go to Trump's

00:10:10.620 first speech. And it's interesting to listen to. Here in the shadows of monuments to George

00:10:16.780 washington thomas jefferson honoring the british king might seem an ironic beginning to our

00:10:25.260 celebration of 250 years of american independence but in fact no tribute could be more appropriate

00:10:33.240 long before americans had a nation or a constitution we first had a culture a character

00:10:40.420 and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us

00:10:47.460 the rarest of gifts, moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the

00:10:55.380 sea. For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was settled and forged

00:11:01.180 by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British here on a wild

00:11:09.700 and untamed continent they set loose the ancient english love of liberty and the great britain's

00:11:17.140 distinctive sense of glory destiny and pride and that's what it is glory destiny and pride

00:11:23.600 i'll just pause there the one thing i just wanted to say is the writing for the speech is really

00:11:30.300 good yeah the the actual content of the speech as well because again it's actually it's appealing

00:11:36.740 to the fact that, no, America is special because it was colonized by a particular remarkable people.

00:11:44.300 It's expressly appealing to a sort of British exceptionalism that no one in our political

00:11:51.920 landscape here at home would ever possibly dare to appeal to, perhaps with the exception of Rupert

00:11:57.360 Lowe. But other than that, it's just something that our politicians would never touch.

00:12:02.180 and there's a constant frustration here because basically as we go through it one of the things

00:12:07.660 I'm going to lay out is the fact that the king and the president coming together in this way

00:12:11.560 has actually turned out to be a very powerful diplomatic tool and I think that as I mean we'll

00:12:18.280 see obviously what happens in the months to come it's just simply too early to guess but one thing

00:12:23.500 to say is just that it speaks to the fact that there is a real kingship there between those

00:12:29.780 nations and not just of course with america as well but australia new zealand canada and all of

00:12:35.240 these nations that still bear our people right and in some ways still uh even as they flood

00:12:41.340 themselves with countless foreigners as we do now as well it really does speak to the fact that if 0.99

00:12:46.620 that continues to happen then something irreplaceable dies with those people right it's the 0.99

00:12:53.800 end of something truly special yeah i mean it is fair to say historically speaking i've made loads

00:12:58.760 of content about uh the american history hours and hours and hours yeah and uh i'm an anglo-american

00:13:05.000 myself my father was born and raised in the united states got loads and loads of cousins over there

00:13:09.040 but when you look at the history of it there is completely undeniably the idea that the united

00:13:16.740 states as its own political entity is born out of in many ways sort of the english experience

00:13:22.980 they can't deny it that like the founding fathers and even like some of the founding documents not

00:13:28.180 just the constitution uh they mention or they're inspired by english common law in all sorts of

00:13:35.820 ways even though jefferson was a francophile jefferson was a francophile yeah he absolutely

00:13:39.880 was nevertheless uh in lots and lots and lots of uh the supreme court's decisions they will

00:13:47.140 they will reference the magna carta right for example just one just a couple of little examples

00:13:51.220 yeah but it's much more english than it is anything else and that's that's the easiest

00:13:55.920 argument in the world to make so yeah and of course we're tired by language and blood and

00:14:01.320 all sorts of things there's also a massive influence by thinkers like john locke and

00:14:06.200 the 17th century people like algernon sydney who definitely influenced john trenchard and who wrote

00:14:16.680 with another i don't remember right now the name the cater's letters it definitely had a major

00:14:22.700 effect than the founding father's philosophy. Yeah. And so then the king went to speak in

00:14:30.760 Congress as well. And, you know, I mean, it's a low hanging fruit, but there was something

00:14:35.120 genuinely funny about watching a bunch of Democrats in the No Kings protest,

00:14:40.820 getting up standing and giving an actual king a standing ovation, as they did many times

00:14:46.560 throughout the speech, in fact. And so obviously, Charles's speech to Congress itself obviously had

00:14:54.080 very, very clear political objectives to it. And of course, one thing to say as well, that

00:14:58.360 of course, Charles would not have written personally and singularly all of these speeches.

00:15:04.760 There would have been many, many hands around this speech. In fact, there's an article I didn't

00:15:09.720 include in here from The Guardian where it was talking about exactly that, the number of people

00:15:14.740 that were involved, like from the Foreign Office, from the State Department, you know,

00:15:18.480 for all these different things, from Downing Street itself, trying to create like the perfect

00:15:23.700 diplomatic letter of appeal to the United States. And even though I think that every single one of

00:15:30.500 these are disgusting traitors and globalists, I can't deny the fact that they have done a very 0.93

00:15:36.280 good job here in appealing to the American state on certain issues. And so we'll let Charles speak 0.98

00:15:44.460 here. In the immediate aftermath of 9-11, when NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time,

00:15:52.340 and the United Nations Security Council was united in the face of terror, we answered the call

00:15:59.460 together, as our people have done so for more than a century, shoulder to shoulder, through two

00:16:05.960 world wars, the Cold War, Afghanistan, and moments that have defined our shared security.

00:16:12.240 Today, Mr. Speaker, that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people.

00:16:37.120 So you can tell here.

00:16:38.760 Sorry, go on.

00:16:39.220 No, no, I just want to say that the way he started was very good because Trump has said several bad things about other NATO allies, allegedly not rushing to help what followed the 9-11, and especially there was a high death toll, and they didn't stand back, as he said at some point.

00:17:03.160 But I think he detracted. I mean, I'm talking about Trump when he said that they played safe and that they didn't.

00:17:10.600 Yeah, that was a total mistake by him. And it's a good thing that King Charles mentioned this.

00:17:15.140 Yeah. But as regards to the stuff with Ukraine, of course, I'm certainly not in favour of the war carrying on indefinitely.

00:17:22.660 And Europe and America have both expunged more than enough resources on it at this point.

00:17:27.520 But the thing is, as well, you can tell there that the king is very much just speaking as is just the nature of monarchy in the modern day, just as a mouthpiece for the British state itself.

00:17:38.820 And the British state is, of course, very, very hawkish when it comes to this sort of stuff.

00:17:45.940 But moving on to the actual state banquet as well, we had some more where, so you can see here, Trump was saying,

00:17:52.380 The first Americans saw themselves as free men carrying forward the ancestral liberties and ancient rights of the Anglo-Saxons into this new world.

00:18:01.960 In the eyes of American founders, our war of independence was not fought to reject this heritage, but to reclaim it and perfect it.

00:18:10.300 And honestly, it just feels kind of strange in a way to hear an actual guy from the top of politics just speaking about Anglo-Saxons.

00:18:21.000 It's like, oh, no, yeah, that thing that's constantly

00:18:23.340 that we're gaslit about, like, we don't actually exist.

00:18:26.400 Every day you hear, we're like, what is an Englishman?

00:18:28.560 And all this sort of stuff.

00:18:29.440 It's like, oh, yeah, obviously all this comes from the Anglo-Saxons 0.81

00:18:31.960 who are very real and responsible for the entire modern world, really, you know. 0.58

00:18:37.300 There's a movement in academia, isn't there?

00:18:39.180 Quite a strong one to even replace the words Anglo-Saxon.

00:18:43.900 I've talked all about it with Survive the Jive,

00:18:45.900 Tom Rousell a couple of times.

00:18:47.680 He's done a lot of work on it.

00:18:48.680 that they would like to wipe it out as a concept yeah so to have the leader of the free world

00:18:54.440 to actually just say actually no it is a it is a thing yeah and it's a great thing actually yeah

00:18:59.620 but obviously my my frustration with all of this is that two things are done at once one it because

00:19:06.440 in all of these speeches what is continually acknowledged is the fact that all of this comes

00:19:12.260 from a particular people with a particular sense of heritage and that that thing is of course and

00:19:17.020 they go on at length about how valuable this is and how it must be protected. But throughout the

00:19:22.620 entirety of the Anglosphere is a truly, you know, a statesman or monarch who is actually protecting

00:19:28.500 those things. Charles cannot go to every single, you know, speech that Charles will give about a

00:19:36.000 foreign country. He can't help but give some sort of a land acknowledgement about it. And yet when

00:19:41.280 it comes to the state of the English, the Anglo-Saxons, in our very own motherland, in our

00:19:46.380 very own home. It's absolute crickets. And so the entire affair is very, very frustrating.

00:19:53.060 However, that doesn't mean to say that this was possibly not one of, I think, Chalza is best

00:20:00.040 throughout this entire speech, because actually you can tell he was very witty. He delivered his

00:20:05.980 jokes very, very well. It was popular throughout the hall. And so I'll just play a few of them,

00:20:11.320 I suppose. A few highlights.

00:20:14.560 This said, our French friends can feel equally at home

00:20:18.540 with a glance at a map.

00:20:21.440 Indeed, you recently commented, Mr President,

00:20:24.180 that if it were not for the United States,

00:20:26.680 European countries would be speaking German.

00:20:30.120 Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French. 0.91

00:20:32.840 obviously referring to our victory i suppose in the seven years war and you know subjugating sort

00:20:45.380 of like french colonialism in in the colonies or certainly mitigating it uh throughout the land

00:20:50.580 but again it comes back to this thing it's like oh haha isn't this all very very funny and yes on

00:20:55.140 the one i can isolate the two it is very good diplomacy within the halls of power and yet

00:21:01.000 insufferable on the other hand because it points to the fact that yeah but what difference does

00:21:07.180 that make if actually the criteria is oh it would be bad for this particular people to be for events

00:21:13.560 to occur in which they would have to speak another language again i constantly come back to the

00:21:18.680 appeal of demographic replacement throughout the west where is the appeal to that when our towns

00:21:24.520 and cities are now taken up by people who speak urdu and arabic and you know like eritrean or

00:21:30.740 whatever African language it might be. And likewise, in the United States as well, how,

00:21:36.260 you know, states now are just having such an influx of Hispanic, you know, people that actually

00:21:42.360 a lot of these are now just speaking Spanish with one another as well. So like, if the language

00:21:47.420 is such an important thing to protect, then where is the action behind it that actually protects

00:21:54.180 these things. Nonetheless, I cannot deny it. No qualification. This was a banger.

00:21:59.560 On this occasion, I cannot help noticing the readjustments to the East Wing, Mr President.

00:22:08.960 Following your visit to Windsor Castle last year, and I'm sorry to say that we British,

00:22:14.860 of course, made our own small attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 1814.

00:22:24.180 Anyway, I am so glad we have an important opportunity

00:22:32.180 at this critical time to renew those bonds of history

00:22:36.240 and friendship between our nations and our peoples.

00:22:41.400 It is good that everyone can laugh about it, though.

00:22:43.640 Right.

00:22:44.260 I think there's still a wall somewhere inside the White House

00:22:47.400 where it's still scorched.

00:22:49.000 They've deliberately left it there.

00:22:49.920 Right.

00:22:50.340 Scorched from where, if anyone doesn't know,

00:22:52.440 there's a wall of 1812.

00:22:53.580 It's called the War of 1812, but most events went down in the War of 1814.

00:22:58.080 I've got a long-form bit of content on it, by the way, with Benjamin Boyce.

00:23:03.420 And, yeah, the British soldiers burnt it down.

00:23:06.000 I mean, Washington DC was sort of a new city.

00:23:09.780 They sort of built it deliberately more or less from scratch out of the marshes.

00:23:13.880 The White House was sort of brand new.

00:23:15.880 Not brand new.

00:23:16.380 It was very, very new at that point.

00:23:17.940 And, yeah, British soldiers went and burnt it down.

00:23:19.920 But the fact that everyone can just laugh about it now.

00:23:22.000 The King of England can go there in that building, make a joke about it,

00:23:25.840 and the Americans laugh.

00:23:27.360 That's great, really, isn't it?

00:23:28.240 I think.

00:23:28.700 It is.

00:23:29.020 I think, really.

00:23:29.460 No, I agree with you.

00:23:30.300 It's like old guys, two old brothers that are in their 70s,

00:23:34.780 and they used to fight each other, have fistfights when they were in their 20s.

00:23:38.160 But now they're two old dudes sitting on a porch laughing about it now.

00:23:41.480 Yeah.

00:23:42.200 It's healthy, right, I guess?

00:23:43.280 It is good.

00:23:44.060 I think.

00:23:44.400 I think so, too.

00:23:45.480 And this is part of, again, the frustration with it,

00:23:47.660 because it reminds you of what might be,

00:23:50.600 of the actual good relationship that all of these Western nations

00:23:54.040 could have with one another, that we could banter with the French

00:23:57.100 about the Hundred Years' War and Waterloo and the rest of it,

00:24:00.720 and the Americans about 1812 and all the rest of it,

00:24:04.040 and still get on as allies.

00:24:06.800 But we could maybe do that in a world where we're not constantly

00:24:10.420 replacing Europeans in Europe and Americans in America.

00:24:14.440 It's not so much to ask. 0.66

00:24:15.780 I do think it is really, really odd.

00:24:17.800 To me, it's an odd world view to be still hurt about things

00:24:22.640 that happened centuries or even millennia ago.

00:24:26.420 I can't remember who it was.

00:24:27.920 One of the Weinstein brothers, I think, maybe, went to Rome

00:24:30.180 and couldn't help but flip off the arch.

00:24:35.020 Titus has got a triumphal arch there.

00:24:37.100 Yeah.

00:24:38.040 And he's still angry about it.

00:24:39.480 He's been looking back in anger for 2,000 years. 1.00

00:24:42.280 Or Muslims whip themselves about some battle from the 8th century 0.99

00:24:45.200 or something. 0.97

00:24:45.780 are you saying come on like that's not with a turk

00:24:49.140 do you feel you could don't look back in anger still

00:24:53.540 clink a glass to the panto with the turk i'm sure you could so then as well i'll just actually for

00:25:03.760 the sake of time i'll i'll just read this as it says uh there was one particular orcus president

00:25:08.680 so actually what ended up happening is as a personal gift to trump as well charles has given

00:25:13.560 him a bell from HMS Trump, which, as it says here, was launched from the United Kingdom

00:25:20.280 shipyard in 1944 and served for the majority of life attached to a forced submarine squadron

00:25:25.800 in Australia.

00:25:27.140 And it played a critical role in the war in the Pacific.

00:25:30.520 And so they've given Trump, as a personal gift, the bell from HMS Trump as a gesture

00:25:37.740 to goodwill.

00:25:38.500 It says, may it stand as a testimony to our nation's shared history and shining future.

00:25:44.500 And so, as I say, you can see all of this was very, very carefully played out, right?

00:25:49.280 Everything about it, every word was very precisely chosen to appeal to particular interests of just realigning sort of the fraternity between the United States and the United Kingdom.

00:26:00.880 And it seems like Trump was very much affected by all of this.

00:26:05.480 I mean, he's always had a very soft spot for the monarchy, particularly he did for the Queen and now has for Charles as well.

00:26:13.040 I guess there's a bit of biased remorse in there from the Americans on this matter, but the fascination with monarchy.

00:26:20.560 But nonetheless, then, of course, because this was a four-day state visit, so then it also ended up with them visiting New York as well,

00:26:28.600 where they would go and visit Ground Zero and pay their respects for 9-11

00:26:33.260 and some other appointments throughout the city as well.

00:26:36.380 And it's not much related to a visit, but I did find this kind of hilarious as well.

00:26:42.540 When someone asked Mandani, when he was asked what he would talk to King Charles about,

00:26:48.160 if he could, he says, well, if I was to speak to the king,

00:26:50.800 I'd probably encourage him to return the Kohino diamond. 0.98

00:26:54.640 And it's like, Mandani, India don't want it, mate. 0.82

00:27:00.400 They've already said it belongs to us, and actually that's all fine. 0.80

00:27:03.600 But also, as people were pointing out, what an odd thing for an American 0.59

00:27:07.380 who's just as American as anyone else to possibly bring up. 1.00

00:27:10.860 Fair point.

00:27:11.540 I mean, yeah, he's very grievance-driven.

00:27:13.840 But also, he's constantly asking for money.

00:27:16.420 Have you checked?

00:27:17.720 Well, it wouldn't surprise me.

00:27:19.060 Yeah, right now he's saying we have a massive budget crisis.

00:27:22.360 We need to increase taxation.

00:27:24.640 Never saw that coming. Anyway, so, and as I say, all of this comes at a time when the Anglosphere Alliance is more brittle than it possibly ever has been. And we have seen really a good thing here, I think, actually, you know, for all of my grievances with Charles and I, I didn't actually expect to be talking about him again so soon.

00:27:46.700 But only two weeks ago, I did a segment just called The King is Complicit, laying out all of the things that the ways that he has allowed the troubles and the corruption and the just sheer barbarity of injustice that's been allowed to take hold in the United Kingdom.

00:28:03.760 Right. His part in all of that. So don't, you know, think here just because I'm glazing him here that I'm in any way like just some sycophant or friend of the king.

00:28:12.840 very sensible of his drawbacks. But this was a very successful visit by him. And it seems to

00:28:20.900 have gone down like a White House on fire, you know, in its popularity. So it's been really,

00:28:27.160 really good. But all of this comes as well, just as news today has come out that Indian-born 0.95

00:28:32.860 residents have officially become Australia's largest migrant group, overtaking the English

00:28:38.860 for the first time. And obviously, this is a total tragedy. This is not something that should

00:28:44.200 ever have been allowed to have happened or even been contemplated. And I would suggest that if

00:28:51.720 His Majesty wishes to keep the Anglosphere alliances together, then he is going to have to

00:28:58.600 become more alert to the grievances of the Anglo-Saxon peoples throughout the world for

00:29:04.360 those lands that they've obviously made homely for themselves. Because if they don't, then

00:29:10.180 eventually, just like everyone else, the king is not so above it that these problems are not going

00:29:15.320 to come knocking at his door. And eventually, God willing, we'll have a very patriotic prime

00:29:21.120 minister in charge who is going to bring these matters to the king's attention, whether or not

00:29:26.100 he wishes to discuss them. All right, so I'll just go through the rumble rants, quite a few of them.

00:29:33.660 So thank you. Tom Ratt for one dollar says the reality is that there's an unseen third party in Chagos, Falkland's and Labour's fortunes, China.

00:29:44.100 America recognises this dance of the seven veils we've been engaged in and is calling us out on it.

00:29:50.160 Sigil Stone for two dollars says the king's visit was largely uneventful, except for one moment when he visited New York.

00:29:56.320 He ordered his plane be. Can't read that. Thank you.

00:29:59.880 Logan Pine for a dollar says,

00:30:02.260 my thoughts are this is a double play on Trump's part.

00:30:06.120 Samson's laughing.

00:30:07.640 I highly doubt Starmer wants to be seen as Trump's man

00:30:12.340 if he gave away the Falklands.

00:30:14.580 Sorry, I'm just for the sake of time.

00:30:15.900 I'm just going to skip through them.

00:30:18.380 Fortean Barber says, we will restore our aura.

00:30:21.500 We shall bring peace, freedom, justice, and security

00:30:25.380 to our new empire. 0.96

00:30:27.080 Damn straight. 0.98

00:30:28.360 Cranky Texan for $5, thank you, says Charles is a globalist. 0.96

00:30:31.420 He represents the pound, not the British people

00:30:33.900 who are just debt mules to people like him.

00:30:37.120 Understand this and understand what is happening to your country.

00:30:40.560 Quite aware, Texan, I promise you that.

00:30:42.720 And Okidor, thank you for $2, says been so long since I've heard the king speak.

00:30:48.220 I forgot how stereotypically British his accent was.

00:30:51.600 It bloody ought to be, wouldn't it, if he's going to be our king?

00:30:54.640 funny not many people hardly anyone has that accent anymore because you listen to wills or

00:31:00.480 harry yeah they're kind of plummy sure they're not that old school bygone era yeah that old

00:31:07.680 school 1920s bbc yes type thing you just don't just don't see it anymore right so this is going

00:31:14.120 to be a very horrific segment there are some uh working environments that are absolutely hellish

00:31:20.640 and abusive for the people who work there.

00:31:24.200 And, I mean, we're really happy to not be in one of them.

00:31:28.020 No, I've got a good working environment.

00:31:30.060 Thank you, Carl.

00:31:30.780 But there are some environments where just they're absolutely hellish.

00:31:35.520 And there are even some people who are roofing their employees.

00:31:41.300 Yeah, they have stories that are so hellish that they cannot but evoke sympathy

00:31:47.000 to anyone who reads about the victims.

00:31:51.180 And I want us to be very, very careful today

00:31:55.060 and talk about this issue.

00:31:56.840 So it says here, major breaking news.

00:32:00.060 JP Morgan executive Lorna Hajdini has been accused,

00:32:04.360 this is an allegation, hasn't been proven yet, 0.91

00:32:07.020 of using her power to sexually harass and abuse 1.00

00:32:10.260 a junior male employee.

00:32:11.560 Now, the allegations here are absolutely horrifying, and there are several layers into this very distressing story, because let me just say that if it were a man doing that to a woman, all hell would have broken loose.

00:32:33.460 J.P. Morgan wouldn't, most probably they wouldn't have said, well, we don't believe the allegations, and goodbye.

00:32:41.560 They wouldn't have said this.

00:32:43.460 But now it's a woman being accused by a man, by a male intern.

00:32:49.580 And let's see what happened here, because I will say this,

00:32:52.900 and I really want you to sit down and be very careful,

00:32:59.180 because this is going to be very distressing.

00:33:03.060 So an article was published in the Hindustan Times.

00:33:07.180 I wonder why.

00:33:07.780 Lorna Hasdini, five things about JP Morgan executive accused of sexually harassing junior 1.00

00:33:14.020 employee.

00:33:17.020 And let me tell you, this is her. 0.67

00:33:19.020 Again, let me say this is an allegation.

00:33:21.300 Who is?

00:33:22.300 Please.

00:33:23.300 Yeah.

00:33:24.300 Lorna, please stop using the mouse.

00:33:27.300 Yes, this is her.

00:33:29.580 And she's accused by an anonymous plaintiff, used the name John Doe, but he didn't want

00:33:35.900 to be using his name in public. We'll have to talk about this in a bit. He accused her

00:33:43.280 of roofing him and abusing him sexually. Let me just say who she is. She's 37 years old. She 1.00

00:33:52.960 graduated from the Stern School of Business at New York University and has been with JP Morgan

00:33:58.000 since 2011, as per LinkedIn. I checked her LinkedIn profile because I wanted to find out

00:34:05.240 more about her. And she also speaks very fluently Albanian and English. Let me just say she moved up

00:34:15.880 the ranks analyst to becoming vice president in 2018 and getting the executive director post for

00:34:22.360 Leverage Finance in 2021. Her account also states that she lives in New York. So she's very well

00:34:28.800 established there and there's a question of whether people are very established in a working 0.59

00:34:36.000 environment that can use their power in order to harass their stuff well wouldn't be the first time

00:34:42.360 it wouldn't be the first time right say can i just yeah make a counter argument not a counter 0.98

00:34:49.180 argument just state the obvious we should roofie people actually yeah yeah let's make roofie and

00:34:56.420 great again no um come on i'm joking oh you can't be saying i'm joking you cannot not feel empathy

00:35:03.520 for the for the guy and i don't know what she actually did to him if it does turn out to be

00:35:08.360 truly horrific i really don't know any of the details but um but it's not the other way around

00:35:13.300 though i just want to make that point like if it is the other way around yeah that's terrible but

00:35:18.180 she's like at least kind of attractive it's like couldn't he just have like what's well take it

00:35:26.000 for the team take it for the male sex like yeah what's the problem right so sort of i think i think

00:35:33.140 i think we need to talk about this because there is a toxic male culture according to which you

00:35:39.200 know whenever male men are accused of being sexually abused by women men several men responded

00:35:46.380 by saying hey you're a you know i don't think it's constructive so let's let's look here what

00:35:55.460 happened okay yeah what actually happened yeah yeah or how bad was it you know let us talk about

00:36:00.200 the allegations we are going to talk about what we already know and what is an allegation we will

00:36:06.840 describe as an allegation i say one other quick thing of course i worked for jp morgan for a few

00:36:12.240 years like two three four years i can't remember you're a legend when i was young when i was in

00:36:16.940 my early 20s straight after uni at undergrad i worked for jp morgan asset management in near

00:36:21.900 liverpool street and i must say just from a lived experience irl loads of people that worked there 0.96

00:36:28.720 were absolute pricks so nick all right nick tell it loads loads of people there were dicks and 0.99

00:36:37.140 there's no like sexual uh there was no crimes but loads of them were absolutely you mean richards 1.00

00:36:43.700 and the small name was dick no they were surname head loads of the loads of the management were 1.00

00:36:51.160 Horrible, horrible, horrible people. 0.99

00:36:53.080 Really, really, really horrible, ambitious, like freakish, 0.99

00:36:57.000 like not nice people, loads of them.

00:36:59.340 So like I've worked in a few places

00:37:01.580 where there's a dodgy atmosphere,

00:37:02.620 the bosses are kind of bullies.

00:37:04.560 That was probably one of the worst places I ever worked.

00:37:07.680 It was really good.

00:37:08.680 So it's not beyond the sphere of the imagination

00:37:11.280 that something of the sort would happen.

00:37:13.000 This is what I want to ask you.

00:37:14.460 As someone who did have sort of contact

00:37:19.660 the company culture. I want to ask you if the thing I'm going to read here about the allegations

00:37:25.020 is something you think would absolutely happen there. So, her accuser claims she admitted to

00:37:31.260 dragging him with a date rape drug roofie on multiple occasions and during one encounter 0.70

00:37:38.140 berated him as he cried while she performed a sex act on him against his will. 0.99

00:37:43.580 really come on really oh don't oh don't oh please don't oh go on then come on no drugging someone 0.98

00:37:58.260 is terrible i'm laughing with your reaction because you know you know i like your humor but

00:38:04.340 drugging someone is absolutely unacceptable of course that's that's crazy right that's a crime

00:38:09.340 and should be the drugging bit but like you could get up and walk away it's probably physically

00:38:17.100 stronger than her he could push her away if he really didn't want it okay so i mean yeah but

00:38:21.680 the point is not the other way around physically bigger and stronger and heavier it's not that

00:38:26.100 that's not what's going on she blackmailed him though oh okay she told him if you don't succumb

00:38:31.220 to this if you don't let me penetrate your defenses you're gonna lose your job allegedly 1.00

00:38:37.660 That's true scumbag behavior. 1.00

00:38:39.140 No doubt. 0.99

00:38:39.900 No question of that.

00:38:40.740 Okay, fair enough.

00:38:41.160 So the complaint was filed Monday in New York County Supreme Court

00:38:44.380 by a plaintiff proceeding anonymously as John Doe,

00:38:47.760 who claims he chose to hide his name to protect himself

00:38:50.640 and his family after receiving threats.

00:38:53.560 By the way, it could be, let me just be devil's advocate here,

00:38:57.520 it could be the perfect excuse for someone who, you know,

00:39:00.980 effed up to explain the whole ordeal to his wife.

00:39:06.420 Just saying.

00:39:07.660 Just saying. But it could also be true. Right. The lawsuit also accuses JPMorgan Chase of enabling the alleged abuse and retaliating against the banker after he reported it, claiming the firm placed him on involuntary leave, destroyed his reputation and allowed threats against him to continue while Hajdini and others went unpunished.

00:39:30.920 And I want to read to you somewhat to understand what this guy went through.

00:39:35.900 So the abuse allegedly started almost immediately after the pair began working together in the spring of 2024.

00:39:45.740 And here there are several descriptions.

00:39:48.940 Do is Asian.

00:39:52.440 He joined as a senior VP director that March.

00:39:56.580 So he isn't exactly an intern.

00:39:58.820 this isn't exactly a low position where no one believes you and you're complete your whole

00:40:05.700 career depends on it one thing i will say is that being a vp in big banks like that doesn't

00:40:11.280 necessarily mean a great deal i mean you're you're more like a middle management thing but

00:40:14.780 nonetheless a senior vp and director that's reasonably senior it's not like it's not like

00:40:20.700 you're in the top 10 most powerful people in jp morgan but so you're not a nobody you're

00:40:25.080 certainly not an intern are you really yeah so he's not a t-boy allegedly he went through

00:40:30.340 really rough experiences so in early may 2024 he says he alleges that hasdini dropped her pen on

00:40:37.960 the floor next to his desk and while bending to pick it up rubbed his leg and squeezed his cuff

00:40:44.100 she was trying to get him send him a message he claims she then remarked oh did you play

00:40:50.300 basketball in college i love basketball players and he she said that they get her so wet

00:40:57.020 what's the problem seriously drugging someone and blackmailing them that's absolutely terrible but 1.00

00:41:08.400 that's just she's trying to she's flirting she squeezed his calf oh no oh a pretty blonde 1.00

00:41:16.500 I'm laughing with what you're saying. 0.98

00:41:19.720 I think you need to be a defense lawyer, to be honest.

00:41:22.040 Yeah, but that was just the beginning.

00:41:24.440 Okay, fair enough. 0.60

00:41:25.080 She upped her game afterwards.

00:41:26.780 Okay, all right.

00:41:27.480 Because, you know, she wouldn't have no as an answer.

00:41:31.800 Allegedly.

00:41:32.340 All right, fair enough.

00:41:32.760 Allegedly.

00:41:33.240 All right.

00:41:33.600 From there, Doe alleged the advances grew more explicit and frequent.

00:41:37.840 Later that May, Doe said in the complaint that Hajdin invited him out for drinks,

00:41:42.320 but he declined.

00:41:43.340 In response, she's alleged to have said,

00:41:46.920 if you don't F me soon, I'm going to ruin you. 0.91

00:41:50.840 Never forget, I Fing own you. 1.00

00:41:53.740 Yeah, that is scumbag. 1.00

00:41:55.900 Before squeezing his calf and stuff, that is just flirting. 1.00

00:42:00.780 Yeah, she's initially... 0.99

00:42:01.880 Saying that, that is out of order.

00:42:04.060 Because then you're like, oh, right, well, you're going to...

00:42:06.800 Yeah, that's horrible.

00:42:07.520 Yeah, it's really horrible. 1.00

00:42:08.180 Twice, Doe claims that Hasdini propositioned him for oral sex in the office 0.99

00:42:13.420 On one occasion asking 0.99

00:42:15.120 Birthday BJ for the brown boy

00:42:17.460 Samson Costello

00:42:20.060 Her little brown boy 0.91

00:42:22.100 Now she's also allegedly introducing also racist abuse 1.00

00:42:29.160 Well, or a racial fetish 1.00

00:42:32.380 That's a combination of racial and sexist abuse

00:42:35.020 So Waldo claims he continued to resist her advances, so he declined to the birthday treat.

00:42:45.020 Hashtini allegedly threatened professional retribution, telling him if he wanted to be promoted to executive director, he would need to start pleasing her, according to the lawsuit.

00:42:56.260 and she said you're gonna need to earn it my little arab boy toy allegedly during a social

00:43:04.640 event at her private members club during the same event he claimed she repeatedly groped his groin 0.96

00:43:10.620 under the table and spat in her hands running them over his neck and head 0.93

00:43:16.380 that's absolutely disgusting yeah that is great yeah this is super super i know i'm laughing but 1.00

00:43:24.520 she's like obviously really really aggressive and mental and the actual like uh blackmail element 0.97

00:43:30.440 to it that that's all horrible yeah but okay okay i'll give you that but if being offered 0.99

00:43:37.360 oral sex oh sorry i've lost my tiny violin i'm afraid oh poor dude oh he had to turn he had 0.99

00:43:46.140 to turn that down for a pretty blonde oh what was he eventually though he claims that the 0.99

00:43:51.820 the alleged harassment escalated into sexual assault.

00:43:55.660 Two witnesses are cited in the complaint

00:43:58.120 as corroborating parts of his account.

00:44:00.900 Though alleged that Hajdini used escalating threats

00:44:03.720 and racial abuse to coerce him into performing sexual acts.

00:44:07.920 He also claimed that Hajdini admitted to dragging him with Rufi

00:44:11.660 without his knowledge before some encounters

00:44:14.960 to incapacitate him and facilitate sexual activity.

00:44:18.420 so presumably someone this high up in jp morgan's will probably be able to get you know have a good 0.85

00:44:25.060 number of men available to her and so this entire thing is what just some sort of like sick power

00:44:29.680 game yeah i mean uh of all the jokes i've made if you drug someone yeah like that is yeah that's

00:44:37.620 that is that is properly mental isn't it and also say sorry i'm finished gone um everything about

00:44:44.780 your job everything that you are every having you to promotion that you have like i am in charge of

00:44:49.460 and if you don't do exactly this thing that you are not comfortable with doing which is a personal

00:44:54.180 and intimate thing then i mean he's in a terrible terrible situation here it's not the sort of

00:45:00.460 leverage that anyone should have over anyone else no you're right all joking aside you're absolutely

00:45:05.000 right of course right so allegedly he's a gravitational pull as far as sexual attraction

00:45:11.560 goes grew and drew her in the house and she assaulted him and confronted him and he told 0.67

00:45:19.300 her he wasn't interested and allegedly she removed her shirt began fondling her breasts 1.00

00:45:25.560 and racially insulted those wife remarking i bet your little asian fish head wife 1.00

00:45:30.920 doesn't have these cannons the complaint reads 1.00

00:45:33.960 she's just

00:45:37.560 so it's just why are you laughing you're playing this really deadpan it's just you know what it

00:45:44.180 is honestly it's the absurdity of her language it's just sort of like how yeah yeah i don't know

00:45:50.960 i'm a bit lost for words anyway so i didn't realize he was married that does make it way worse

00:45:55.680 i didn't that's the first i didn't know he was married yeah that makes the whole thing way worse 0.65

00:45:59.800 to me and she knew he was married yes that does make it way worse so claims then she forcefully 0.90

00:46:06.000 removed his pants and performed you know what on him against his will he continued to protest and

00:46:14.940 began to cry according to the lawsuit and she responded in a very uh heartless way allegedly

00:46:21.320 again let me say because stop effing crying if anyone would ever believe in believe you you're 0.99

00:46:28.440 an effing douchebag who thinks is hot, S-H-I-T, because you can't even get it hard. What is 0.99

00:46:37.020 this? And she then ordered him to perform things on her, ignoring his pleas of don't

00:46:43.320 make me do this. Right. Anyway, so I want to say this, that I don't know what happened 0.53

00:46:48.040 here, if it's true or not. And there is definitely the case that there can be female abuse of

00:46:55.400 men. And jokes aside, there is such a thing. And people and culture rushes to hear mostly 0.90

00:47:05.420 when it comes to the allegation of men abusing women. But when it comes to the allegation of

00:47:12.300 men being abused, whether by gay men or women, people tend to not pay that much attention. So

00:47:19.660 irrespective of whether this this case is uh accurate or not yeah i think that there is such

00:47:26.160 a point and i think we need to make it but let me just say i think personally i don't i think that

00:47:30.680 this is i i'm not uh buying it i think it's basically like a the screenplay of a bad steamy

00:47:37.640 show don't ask me how no um and there are several and there are several memes here that i'm gonna

00:47:45.680 one thing i'll say where she forced herself upon him and then forced him to do stuff to her now

00:47:52.920 sorry if you really didn't want to be in that room you can leave the room

00:47:58.600 yeah like despite her threats if you really didn't want to forget my career then i'm not

00:48:04.480 letting this happen to me you could also say yeah i'm a family man my family comes first

00:48:08.900 i'm sure my wife will understand she was like i'll ruin you it's like well so be it then

00:48:13.040 I'm not letting myself be sexually assaulted 0.85

00:48:15.380 I'm not a prostitute

00:48:16.480 Remember Duke of Wellington

00:48:18.200 Where they tried to blackmail 0.99

00:48:19.520 And it's like damn your blackmail 1.00

00:48:20.780 Just do what you will 1.00

00:48:22.980 But I'm not moving 0.97

00:48:24.080 Publish and be damned

00:48:25.080 So anyway there are several memes here 0.87

00:48:28.340 That I'm going to show you now

00:48:30.000 We're going to make it a more light hearted conversation

00:48:32.720 So Sound Dobber says

00:48:35.200 He shows a Peppa meme

00:48:36.620 Says I'm ready for my JP Morgan performance review

00:48:39.660 From my manager with great cannons

00:48:41.420 you get you get that saying great cannons is funny come on surely you realize that's funny

00:48:48.060 five minutes ago you gaslighted me into thinking that's not funny when it clearly is

00:48:52.200 here we have this from mads he says i said this to my boss at work and she replied how shocking it

00:48:59.540 is and how she'd never do that to her employees i'll give him a like i love mads posting

00:49:11.380 so much uh it says here point of view you're a junior banker at jp morgan and your md wants

00:49:17.620 to have a performance chat samson are you alive do you need an ambulance

00:49:26.380 okay samson's laugh is so funny and wholesome but it is um removes her shirt shirt and starts 0.99

00:49:35.440 fondling her breasts. Stop effing crying. That's another meme here. And that's the Trump meme. 1.00

00:49:46.280 Says, I'm living the male fantasy and being forced into sexual submission by my hot 1.00

00:49:51.680 corporate psycho bitch boss and I'm going to cry about it. Anyway, just, and how it feels to work 1.00

00:50:00.780 at Jamie Morgan. Right. So, okay. Joke aside, joke aside, I think we should definitely see

00:50:08.640 what is going to happen next in this case. And yes, there is such a case as people looking

00:50:15.720 the other way when it's males who say that they have been abused. Okay. I like how happy

00:50:26.700 this segment may have made you so bald eagle 1787 it may seem like it's ridiculous that he didn't

00:50:33.380 stop her but her position of parent without new york operates one word from her and he's in jail

00:50:38.820 no questions asked a hand on her equals abuse charges based ape i can't stop laughing imagine 0.66

00:50:46.080 bow you need this the i don't know if i can read that blah blah blah defense lawyer in court 0.82

00:50:54.160 belittling an accuser on the stand i'm going to hell fallen fiber bird says all depravity aside

00:51:02.900 i can safely say that this was the funniest segment in the history of the podcast thanks

00:51:08.520 thank you fallen fiber cheers uh thanks lads and especially both for sending me into office

00:51:15.220 hysterics bald eagle 1787 i worked in the finance sector the horror stories that i've heard about

00:51:22.420 every big bank headquarters in New York indicates something like this is normal and is constantly

00:51:27.840 covered up.

00:51:32.280 If he had, Sigil Stone 17, if he had pushed her away physically, he'd be the one charged

00:51:38.080 with assault and don't you dare to claim otherwise.

00:51:40.920 I agree here.

00:51:42.700 And I also think that this is also the line of defense that he needs to bring to his wife.

00:51:49.680 You know, I couldn't say no because she would accuse me of sexual assault

00:51:53.240 and that would ruin us.

00:51:55.700 This is definitely something he should consider telling his wife.

00:52:01.500 14 Barber says,

00:52:02.780 This awful case that Brother Stelius has brought to attention.

00:52:05.560 I'm so glad I did not work for someone like this.

00:52:07.840 I just keep thinking, what?

00:52:09.700 This is outrageous.

00:52:10.880 It is unfair.

00:52:11.540 I hope this receives justice.

00:52:15.920 Sigil Stone 17 says,

00:52:17.700 Bo, for the love of Christ

00:52:19.180 Put the hear me out cake away

00:52:20.960 She says that 1.00

00:52:23.640 She's an Albanian 0.97

00:52:25.340 And tells you something about standards 1.00

00:52:27.880 A drunk changeling says 0.95

00:52:30.000 Suddenly Carl always offering

00:52:31.560 To bring tea to set

00:52:32.900 Makes a lot more sense

00:52:34.400 Sigilstone 17 0.55

00:52:38.080 Woman using roofies 1.00

00:52:39.700 Means she does 1.00

00:52:40.880 Yeah okay

00:52:43.200 We're not reading that

00:52:45.200 Sigilstone often is

00:52:46.920 it's too spicy dude it's funny but we respect it we can't read that on the internet before we go to

00:52:53.960 the segment from your experience is this something that you think is completely outlandish i have a

00:53:01.420 i guess i'm not attractive enough i was never propositioned like that in any way at any point

00:53:06.700 in my entire career ever turn the cannons on you once

00:53:09.600 Yeah, right, yeah, not once.

00:53:15.720 Yeah, no, although I never saw anything the other way around either.

00:53:19.260 In 20-plus years of working in banking and asset management

00:53:22.680 and investment banking, really,

00:53:27.160 I never saw anything the other way around either,

00:53:30.860 like men really taking advantage of a much more junior woman.

00:53:34.900 I never saw.

00:53:36.720 Yeah, that's just my experience. 1.00

00:53:38.140 So all that feminism was a bunch of bullshit. 1.00

00:53:42.400 Right, okay. 1.00

00:53:44.280 We need to talk a little bit about the absolutely undeniable case

00:53:48.820 that Britain is awash with organised crime.

00:53:53.260 At a glance, our high streets are completely ruined by shop fronts,

00:54:00.700 which are massively, obviously, a front for organised crime

00:54:05.280 in various ways.

00:54:06.020 whether they're vape shops like takeaway shops chicken shops barber shops sweet shops or you

00:54:14.800 know and anyone that's watching this that lives in britain or has even visited britain in the last

00:54:18.460 few years will know what exactly what i'm talking about and of course it's a plague that's all over

00:54:23.680 all the big cities of course but even in smaller towns mid a mid-sized town like swindon and even

00:54:29.720 small places you go to sort of even now not always but often you'll find like a small sort of

00:54:35.260 provincial not much more than a village and they'll have like a couple of barber shops a couple of

00:54:39.640 vape shops it's just the it's just yeah we're completely flooded with it and they are a front

00:54:45.780 for largely what people trafficking modern day slavery money laundering drugs anything and

00:54:53.760 everything and everyone knows it like the local knowledge of the areas what they're in it's like

00:54:58.260 just it's the most open secret everyone knows what's going on everyone knows where all the

00:55:02.580 money laundering is and where the crime is coming from they just no one with the authorities will

00:55:07.180 actually do anything about it and most of these shops no one's in hardly ever they're in as well

00:55:12.000 also for some reason you can't pay with pos with card yeah they're like cash only oh right yeah

00:55:17.860 that's not super dodgy all right okay oh yes i remember 1950 do you ever go into a barber shop

00:55:25.340 and they're like oh because they're like oh what he actually thinks we're really a barber shop yeah

00:55:29.980 They turn around and they're like, really?

00:55:31.460 You want a haircut?

00:55:33.320 Get a clue.

00:55:34.520 Almost, don't they?

00:55:35.160 Sometimes.

00:55:35.320 Yeah, they do.

00:55:36.120 They turn around and they're like, really?

00:55:38.140 Some native actually wants a haircut?

00:55:41.100 Okay, bro.

00:55:41.960 I don't know how to call hair.

00:55:43.360 Yeah.

00:55:43.660 Just get a little clip.

00:55:45.240 Well, the vape shops are nearly all, not always, very, very often,

00:55:48.800 the people in there or running them are driving some top-of-the-range,

00:55:53.800 tricked-out BMW.

00:55:55.820 And they've obviously got lots and lots of money.

00:55:58.600 It's like, how are you making so much money from a vape shop

00:56:01.680 that no one's ever in?

00:56:04.800 Well, because it's all organised crime, isn't it?

00:56:07.180 I mean, here's a few just images, but people will know,

00:56:09.480 it's just a tiny number.

00:56:10.780 Have you ever seen a high street like this out there, anyone, in Britain?

00:56:13.760 All the time. 1.00

00:56:14.320 Just vape shops and just nonsense, just crap, just disgusting crap. 1.00

00:56:19.940 Shops like this? 1.00

00:56:21.300 Yeah.

00:56:22.200 And very often no one ever goes in there.

00:56:26.820 Okay.

00:56:29.120 Everyone knows what I'm talking about, don't they?

00:56:30.960 Yeah, it's...

00:56:31.480 Everyone knows what I'm talking about. 1.00

00:56:33.320 How many Turkish barbers do you need? 0.97

00:56:35.480 Like in Swindon, not even all of Swindon, 1.00

00:56:37.640 just one bit of our end of Swindon, not even Old Town,

00:56:40.260 Yeah.

00:56:41.020 What's there, like, ten barbers?

00:56:42.940 Yeah.

00:56:43.820 It's strange as well.

00:56:44.860 Ten? That's not an exaggeration, is it?

00:56:46.660 No, no, it's ridiculous. 1.00

00:56:48.260 And the half of time as well, they're not even actually staffed by Turks. 0.93

00:56:51.200 They're like Kurds or Afghans. 0.78

00:56:52.980 Or Iraqis.

00:56:53.760 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:54.180 They just say they're Turkish.

00:56:55.340 Yeah. 1.00

00:56:55.460 I don't know why, as if that's supposed to make it,

00:56:57.840 give it a sort of like air of eloquence or something.

00:57:00.660 I don't know.

00:57:01.480 Or nail places.

00:57:02.440 That's another one, isn't it? 1.00

00:57:03.200 Nail places. 1.00

00:57:04.860 The different ethnicities, quite often in the nail places, 0.99

00:57:07.220 you'll see people that they're like Vietnamese or something.

00:57:10.260 The Turkish barbers are quite often like Iraqi or Syrian or something.

00:57:16.320 And then the chicken shops are usually much more often Pakistanis

00:57:19.940 or Bangladeshis or Indians or something. 1.00

00:57:21.740 They've all got their own little thing, haven't they? 1.00

00:57:23.380 We're supposed to just ignore it.

00:57:24.760 It's supposed to just be, oh, that's fine.

00:57:26.640 This is absolutely fine.

00:57:28.500 Especially when there's just such an eyesore and a blight.

00:57:30.960 Like that building on the left.

00:57:32.480 It's beautiful.

00:57:33.260 It's classic.

00:57:33.900 It's obviously, you know, like English tradition.

00:57:36.260 It's nice.

00:57:37.180 It's civilised.

00:57:38.920 And then they're just like setting up,

00:57:40.560 just intermingling themselves in the streets.

00:57:43.080 And it just corrodes the entire aesthetic of the high street.

00:57:46.500 Those guys just sitting there just on their phones constantly

00:57:48.600 and never actually cutting anyone's hair.

00:57:50.360 Or you may have a barbershop where they're with 10 people working there.

00:57:54.760 Yeah.

00:57:55.220 Yeah.

00:57:55.840 Yeah.

00:57:56.360 You also have that.

00:57:57.420 One of them operates as just a lookout at the front of the shop all day.

00:58:01.360 Just sits on a little chair outside the shop all day on his phone.

00:58:07.380 It's just a bit sauce.

00:58:08.700 It's obviously organised crime, isn't it?

00:58:10.460 I mean, even Josh, did we have one for...

00:58:13.780 Even on Lotus Eaters, there's a particular bit of Swindon,

00:58:17.740 Manchester Road.

00:58:20.020 Is it particularly reputable?

00:58:21.940 No.

00:58:22.740 I know.

00:58:23.540 I know, you know.

00:58:24.260 Josh did a segment

00:58:26.120 Just walking down

00:58:26.800 This one particular road

00:58:27.720 In Swindon

00:58:28.120 Where it's just

00:58:28.720 Fake shop

00:58:30.300 After fake shop

00:58:30.980 After fake shop

00:58:31.620 After fake shop

00:58:32.280 Like one after the other

00:58:33.460 Yeah

00:58:33.840 It's crammed full of them

00:58:36.020 In fact

00:58:38.660 Josh did a thing

00:58:39.940 On Manchester Road there

00:58:40.960 And there's this article

00:58:42.160 From

00:58:42.440 It's actually from January

00:58:43.780 This year

00:58:44.660 Where it just says

00:58:46.260 Elicit tobacco and vapes

00:58:47.480 Worth £150,000 seized

00:58:49.200 In Swindon

00:58:49.940 This is in Swindon

00:58:51.600 Yeah

00:58:51.980 It's in the same part

00:58:53.140 what was it called

00:58:54.840 the Broad

00:58:55.980 was it Broad Green

00:58:57.080 or something

00:58:57.680 oh yeah

00:58:59.000 the Broad Green area

00:59:00.120 of Swindon

00:59:00.420 which is where

00:59:00.840 Manchester Road is

00:59:01.760 the Wiltshire Police

00:59:03.880 just four shops

00:59:04.920 the Istanbul Market

00:59:06.560 the Zabka Polsky Schlepp

00:59:09.040 the Romanian and Polish Shop

00:59:11.220 and Helsinki Mini Market

00:59:13.300 just those four alone

00:59:14.340 the police

00:59:15.860 decided to raid

00:59:17.740 just those ones

00:59:18.800 one day

00:59:19.640 the thing is as well

00:59:21.260 150 grand

00:59:22.020 the thing is

00:59:22.960 they know they know it that's the thing yeah the police know where everyone knows everyone knows

00:59:28.060 yeah yeah the thing is as well right think back to uh when we were doing the live event right and 0.84

00:59:34.420 there was that piddling little protest right outside we're talking about how the lotus eaters

00:59:38.860 weren't welcome in swindon and how like it's like oh but nothing to say about the the sheer level

00:59:45.100 of organized crime if swindon's yours as much as it's ours where is your concern for all of the

00:59:50.640 vape shops and the crime and the obvious black marketeering going on in just all of these

00:59:55.020 different streets oh you've nothing to say about that you're not going to spend a moment of your

00:59:59.160 days or your life ever caring about that and considering that probably because you know in

01:00:04.160 their thinking it'd be racist to do something about it or also they think that they shouldn't

01:00:09.180 criticize those who fund them well as i'm about to get on to possibility as i'm about to get onto

01:00:15.640 if you do criticize them they'll intimidate you threatening to kill you and stuff i'm not i'm not

01:00:20.500 Exaggerating? No. Okay, so here's another link I saw. The ITV News reports that up to 50% of convenience and vape shops linked to organised crime. That's a conservative estimate. 0.65

01:00:32.640 Yes. I would say it would be nearly all of them. Let's just watch a little clip of this.

01:00:40.480 Samson, do you need to do something to make that work?

01:00:42.600 best play

01:00:45.140 here about one in four takeaway shops on

01:00:47.380 high streets in some parts of Britain

01:00:49.220 are suspected of being a front

01:00:51.300 for organised crime according to

01:00:53.400 trading standards it's published a map

01:00:55.400 identifying streets

01:00:57.420 full of what they call

01:00:59.040 dodgy shops that sell counterfeit

01:01:01.360 and potentially harmful goods

01:01:02.960 well Nick Dixon is in Erdington in Birmingham

01:01:05.360 not Al Nick Dixon

01:01:06.400 Birmingham's named in particular in this report

01:01:09.100 of having some of the dodgiest

01:01:11.200 high streets in the whole of the uk we don't need more just that it's be it is now being mentioned

01:01:16.220 in the mainstream media basically as if they've just discovered this as if it's news to anyone

01:01:22.900 yeah in fact let's watch a little tiny clip from this you may have noticed the changing shape of

01:01:28.180 britain's high streets yes i can't see any um recovery in the high streets in the imminent

01:01:37.900 future whatsoever we've lost our high streets they've been hijacked a new report has revealed

01:01:43.820 some of the shops replacing some of britain's most recognizable brands aren't quite what they

01:01:48.300 see they're cover-ups for serious organized crime so why are criminal gangs taking over our high

01:01:54.540 street in some areas as many as half of convenience stores and vape shops up to a third of american

01:02:00.860 candy stores and a quarter of fast food takeaways are estimated to have links with organized crime

01:02:06.860 the main thing from our report is the scale of the problem yeah it's endemic across the uk these

01:02:13.180 aren't legitimate law abiding businesses um they are not paying tax they're not sticking to the

01:02:20.140 standards so they're really undermining the level playing field for business the challenge is uh

01:02:25.260 trading standards lacks the yeah okay so we all know what's going on and even the authorities

01:02:34.620 know that it's I mean they say a third of these half of these it's more it's most of them isn't

01:02:40.720 it it's most of them and so you can only really come to the conclusion that the government the

01:02:47.760 authorities even the police on some level don't mind it oh god who knows what backroom deals and

01:02:55.940 just corrupt police officers turning the other way and I mean we know how much you know as well

01:03:01.300 that those institutions of law and justice

01:03:03.500 have been captured by DEI and all these sorts.

01:03:07.340 The Home Office, yeah.

01:03:08.320 If the Home Office say,

01:03:09.920 because all policing comes under the purview of the Home Office,

01:03:12.300 all of it, right?

01:03:13.620 If they wanted to, if they had the political will at the very top

01:03:16.680 to sort of go to war with these people,

01:03:19.040 they could, and they would.

01:03:21.700 But they're choosing not to.

01:03:23.300 It's like the small boat invasion.

01:03:25.200 You're choosing not to stop them.

01:03:27.960 Because they would be racist.

01:03:29.140 you know in the uh the classic uh 1987 untouchables film with kevin costner and sean connery and

01:03:36.440 yeah i love that film yeah it's one of my favorite films where it's like sean connery's like mr ness

01:03:40.920 everyone knows where the liquor is everyone knows where the money is the problem is the person who's

01:03:45.920 willing to actually do something about it yeah and it's just exactly so everyone knows you know

01:03:51.240 it's right up to the prime minister himself everyone will know about this but there's only

01:03:55.480 a certain group of people who can do anything.

01:03:57.660 Because, as you say, for us mere plebs just walking the high street,

01:04:02.000 as you say, all of these are becoming very, very dangerous places.

01:04:05.180 I mean, it's the point, isn't it?

01:04:07.060 They're already being staffed, if that's the right word,

01:04:10.080 by criminals who are willing to come from abroad, insult us,

01:04:13.760 break our laws, and put us in harm's way.

01:04:16.260 Who knows what else they'd do.

01:04:18.640 We need an Elliot Ness.

01:04:20.940 Yes.

01:04:22.080 Our own team of untouchables.

01:04:24.300 So, yeah, it's not just simply the blight in and of itself.

01:04:27.660 It's that if you try and do something about it, you're in trouble now.

01:04:31.240 I mean, here's a BBC article. 1.00

01:04:33.480 We will kill you and burn your house. 1.00

01:04:35.580 Council staff under attack from high street gangs. 1.00

01:04:38.080 This one particular woman said that she was basically threatened

01:04:43.260 and intimidated by, in this case, Kurdish gangs.

01:04:46.840 Kurdish gangs were running loads of shops in her area,

01:04:50.000 and it was her job to sort of highlight it, bring it to attention,

01:04:54.040 try and do something about it. 0.99

01:04:55.340 They just told her, we'll kill you. 1.00

01:04:57.220 We'll burn your house down. 1.00

01:05:00.180 We'll run you off the road. 1.00

01:05:02.060 We'll just sit in our cars outside your house all the time

01:05:05.360 as an intimidation thing. 0.99

01:05:08.580 So she faced escalating threats from a Kurdish crime gang 0.79

01:05:12.520 that had been sending illegal cigarettes and nitrous oxide canisters.

01:05:17.000 groups of men repeatedly turned up

01:05:19.580 at her front door. Were they at least

01:05:21.740 caught or? Well I think

01:05:23.480 they were already on trial, that was the thing

01:05:25.700 they were already on trial

01:05:27.300 and some of their money

01:05:29.680 had been confiscated from them

01:05:31.540 and they were like blaming her

01:05:33.820 for it, trying to intimidate her

01:05:35.620 and her husband to the point where

01:05:37.100 she just had to flee, her and her husband

01:05:39.760 had to move, just had to flee

01:05:41.500 there's like all sorts of different

01:05:43.720 examples

01:05:44.340 where the

01:05:46.480 trading standards type

01:05:49.320 organisation which are the first people

01:05:51.660 to say oh actually you are selling like counterfeit

01:05:53.500 and dodgy things and not paying taxes

01:05:55.560 and that's the least of it

01:05:57.260 but even they just

01:05:59.440 haven't got the money or resources

01:06:01.020 or really they're just not equipped to deal with

01:06:03.460 because as soon as you scratch the surface

01:06:05.000 oh I'm dealing with a potentially 1.00

01:06:07.500 murderous gang of foreigners 1.00

01:06:09.420 oh I was only 1.00

01:06:11.220 I'm just a

01:06:12.080 trading standards guy

01:06:15.000 I'm not equipped to deal with that

01:06:16.780 This wasn't in the job description.

01:06:18.180 Yeah, exactly, yeah.

01:06:19.940 And you're saying that loads of them, like 70% or more of them,

01:06:22.600 have to deal with intimidation and things just constantly.

01:06:28.040 So this is the thing that's happening in Britain.

01:06:31.680 I think what needs to happen, in my opinion,

01:06:34.020 is that from the very, very top down, from the cabinet,

01:06:39.340 from the government itself, all the way down, the Home Office,

01:06:42.400 anyone that's protecting any of this or even just allowing it to go on,

01:06:46.380 needs to be swapped out with a new department

01:06:50.420 or a new agency, which is clean, Elliot Ness clean.

01:06:53.800 Yeah.

01:06:54.920 Right, who's prepared and has given the budget

01:06:58.600 to really kind of go to war with this

01:07:01.840 because it's ruining our country.

01:07:05.960 It's absolutely ruining our country.

01:07:07.360 If anyone thinks, oh, you're so overreacting, 0.95

01:07:09.600 you're so being like a right-wing fascist. 0.92

01:07:12.780 No, no.

01:07:13.260 remember the reality is it's these are all of our high streets are like this now it's not a small

01:07:19.820 problem and it affects all of us it doesn't matter whether you vote restore or green party this is

01:07:25.540 something that eventually if allowed to fester will just become ever present in all of our lives

01:07:30.620 um and you know and there's just something that can't be allowed to it's already gone too far

01:07:35.960 it's just the rule of law we've already got many laws on the books where you can't just set up a

01:07:42.680 a business and not pay the taxes not abide by the rules of what you are or aren't allowed to sell

01:07:50.600 i mean there's articles earlier in the week all about how you can go into some of these mini

01:07:55.560 markets and just ask for certain types of drugs whether they're prescription drugs or whether

01:08:00.080 it's weed whether it's cocaine and they're just like uh yeah sure yeah right we can we can tell

01:08:05.420 you that yeah um and probably for me probably the most more egregious than that is that they're

01:08:14.500 nearly always a front for money laundering in things that are even more nefarious yes not just

01:08:20.360 selling a bit of weed under the counter but you're actually laundering money from your people

01:08:25.040 trafficking business or your massive drugs crime cartel yeah or prostitution of god knows what

01:08:34.320 anything and everything and you have to wash that money you have to clean it yeah so you pretend you

01:08:39.900 run a chicken shop or a vape shop and you make loads of profits through that shop or that barbers

01:08:43.960 turkish barber shop so all it would require is the the law itself being enforced that the police

01:08:50.340 mob handed if needs be go into these places and say let's see all your books right now

01:08:55.900 oh it doesn't add up right you're closed down now and you're all under arrest until we find

01:09:01.440 out exactly what's going on and if you're foreign deported yes and that needs to happen on a massive 0.87

01:09:08.040 scale a massive massive scale yeah but you do need a a serious state to do this yeah of course 0.77

01:09:14.960 instead of a state that's ah maybe yeah but how are gonna how are they gonna eat chicken nuggets

01:09:19.640 if they're get gonna get deported or a prison doesn't have good food yeah it will require

01:09:26.560 sort of an iron hard will from the top of government yeah yeah and that's what i'm asking

01:09:34.240 for that's what i'm advocating for exactly that a party that might be interested in say restoring

01:09:39.200 britain for example right yeah that just tweeted out the other day yes there will be riots as we

01:09:45.220 put people into get in the back of the van you know just put people in the back vans and stick

01:09:49.400 them on the planes it's like but it's going to be necessary i mean there is as you say just i mean

01:09:54.500 all of our high streets have just been taken over by criminals yeah i just noticed a tweet there

01:10:01.240 that's come in there from bald eagle 1871 1787 sorry he says bo do you realize that going after

01:10:07.880 those storefronts is going to end with violence and loss of life on both sides those gangs aren't

01:10:13.160 going to give up quietly yeah i do realize that yeah yeah yeah and that's the evil that has been

01:10:17.140 foisted upon us and it's not good enough just to let it happen just ignore it oh well that's what

01:10:21.780 that's happened now or we'll just never ever have a normal high street ever again yeah it probably

01:10:26.300 will end in something horrible yeah but that's baked in they bake that in for us thank you very

01:10:31.940 much but but that's uh that's an outcome of for instance do it doing something about organized

01:10:38.380 crime yeah yeah yeah if you if you're gonna go and disarm a cartel or something yeah they're not

01:10:44.640 gonna hand them in but you have to right because that's the job of the state the job of the state

01:10:49.120 The number one responsibility of the government

01:10:51.580 is to ensure public safety and, yeah.

01:10:54.700 And that the law is maintained.

01:10:56.740 Yeah.

01:10:57.320 Like someone's beating you up and you can't fight back

01:10:59.460 because they might beat you up more.

01:11:01.060 That doesn't make any sense.

01:11:02.320 That logic is nonsense.

01:11:04.380 This is a terrible, terrible crime and injustice

01:11:07.000 and a disgusting thing, and it should, morally,

01:11:11.340 the argument is that it should be reversed and wiped away.

01:11:15.320 Or there might be some violence or something.

01:11:17.340 Well, unfortunately, yes.

01:11:19.120 yeah they won't go quietly i'm sure they shouldn't resist it's they shouldn't but it's a further

01:11:24.620 insult particularly to the english as well who were for so long i mean you know derided by

01:11:28.920 napoleon as a nation of shopkeepers right prided ourselves on the presentation of our high streets

01:11:35.380 when you look back at all of that that classic footage from the middle of the 20th century and

01:11:40.400 you see how impeccably you know the signage you know like all of the presentation in the shop

01:11:45.740 windows and everything i mean it was just genuinely impeccable it speaks to like the standards

01:11:50.640 that we could achieve and that the sense of prim and properness you know throughout england that

01:11:55.140 that brought such um like meaning and comfort and homeliness to all of the communities up and down

01:12:00.800 england and it's just been totally bastardized and taken away if what you described beau before

01:12:06.820 were the prince were the principle which kind of is of the government you have no state if the idea

01:12:13.580 is that I'm not going to do anything because there is going to be resistance, then you

01:12:18.480 have no state, you have anarcho-tyranny, and you're sending the wrong message across.

01:12:25.760 You're sending the message to bad people, I'm not going to do anything because I'm afraid

01:12:30.440 of you.

01:12:31.160 That's when you don't have a state.

01:12:33.760 But when the government is using its force to law-abiding citizens who may write an edgy

01:12:41.240 posed here or there that's where they are tyrannizing them yeah what a crazy state of

01:12:47.600 affairs and as well they just become sanctuaries for all of the illegals who've come across as well

01:12:52.760 yeah yeah to just like it's a disaster in multiple on multiple levels not least of all really the

01:12:59.860 aesthetic of the high street right that's almost like the least of the problems that it represents

01:13:04.440 isn't it something far far deeper and malignant here than simply that the high street looks

01:13:10.420 uglier than it used to right yeah so yeah terrible all right so on the uh super chats

01:13:19.340 so i have to yeah so uh where's the mouse here red one that's a random name has a pop up my hair

01:13:28.780 bo to be fair some of those barber shops give you that look because you have no bloody hair for them

01:13:34.120 to work with we'll have to keep it really short like this is too long right i need to get this

01:13:37.960 buzzed down to a bonehead again sometimes i do go into a barber shop and they're like

01:13:41.940 what there's nothing what can we do and i'm like i need to work with the beer didn't know though 0.90

01:13:47.360 i've got i've got a quarter of a mil of hair on my head that needs to be got rid of

01:13:51.460 all right okay fortine barber says the lucky part of living in cornwall currently

01:13:57.820 uh the attitude is if you're not with me then you're my enemy yeah good cornishman

01:14:03.520 I've got Star Wars quotes in the comments

01:14:06.700 today, I'm here for it

01:14:08.200 Sigalstone17, wait, let me read this

01:14:12.800 because sometimes you say things that are too spicy for us to

01:14:14.680 we all clear

01:14:20.820 can I read that one?

01:14:22.840 these segments

01:14:24.580 helped answer the question

01:14:26.680 I had of, why does the next town

01:14:28.860 over have so many barbers

01:14:30.340 when there's not enough

01:14:31.580 And there's not enough people to support them

01:14:33.760 There's enough addicts though

01:14:35.400 Yeah

01:14:37.760 I think a lot of it

01:14:39.940 To be perfectly honest

01:14:40.820 Is to do with modern day slavery or people trafficking

01:14:43.440 Whatever you want to call it

01:14:44.280 Which goes hand in hand to some extent

01:14:47.220 With prostitution

01:14:48.240 And drugs

01:14:49.760 A lot of it will be drugs money

01:14:53.960 Alright

01:14:57.500 Fictager says

01:14:59.440 When I lived in Dudley

01:15:00.800 I was desperate for a haircut

01:15:03.160 and went into one of those barbers

01:15:04.560 they called their mates to come in 0.99

01:15:06.500 and jump in front of me 1.00

01:15:08.680 they hardly did any cutting

01:15:10.180 completely fake

01:15:10.980 Okigdor

01:15:13.820 Okigdor

01:15:15.640 says

01:15:16.440 high streets turned into the low streets

01:15:18.920 yeah

01:15:19.960 and I read that one by a bald eagle

01:15:21.980 Okigdor again said

01:15:24.000 that would just change who gets thrown into the van

01:15:27.080 from the grooming gangs to the government

01:15:28.920 Did I read that right?

01:15:31.280 I think so.

01:15:33.740 Get in the back of the van.

01:15:36.040 He says, oh no, I have to go to one convenient shop for Kit Kats and cocaine.

01:15:41.820 And my lobster is too buttery.

01:15:44.860 My boss's cannons are too massive.

01:15:49.480 You're a funny man, Sig Jost.

01:15:53.680 Cannons.

01:15:54.920 There's no way that can't be funny to me.

01:15:56.320 No, it's old.

01:15:58.920 Bald Eagle again says,

01:16:00.400 the biggest question is,

01:16:01.280 why does the public have the steel spine

01:16:05.600 to accept the losses to allow the fight to continue?

01:16:10.000 If the public don't support it,

01:16:12.740 when the death starts, then nothing will change.

01:16:17.980 I think he means once the death starts,

01:16:20.220 then nothing will change.

01:16:23.280 I mean, maybe.

01:16:24.260 I mean, who knows?

01:16:25.280 All right.

01:16:25.880 That's your random name, says.

01:16:28.920 So can we finally admit that this problem has metastasised

01:16:32.100 and that the system is beyond saving?

01:16:35.300 No, it's not beyond saving.

01:16:36.780 Also, I have the exact same hair issues, Beau.

01:16:40.660 Bald is for the win.

01:16:43.360 It's based.

01:16:45.000 It is.

01:16:45.700 Wear it like a champ.

01:16:47.220 No, I don't think it's beyond saving.

01:16:50.280 No.

01:16:51.300 Things are hardly ever completely beyond saving.

01:16:54.540 In fact, these islands have been in worse spots than this before.

01:16:59.800 It's mostly a matter of will.

01:17:01.860 Yeah, it just needs political will.

01:17:04.600 It's not even an issue of coming up with a new philosophy

01:17:08.400 over intellectualising or anything.

01:17:10.340 It's just there are enough laws.

01:17:12.920 All it takes is people to enforce them.

01:17:16.200 We don't have to go and just completely reinvent the wheel

01:17:21.080 and fire and stuff.

01:17:22.260 It's just simple law enforcement.

01:17:24.920 We just need a government that has got,

01:17:27.400 well, it's as simple as that, isn't it?

01:17:28.480 We've got the iron will to confront all of our issues.

01:17:33.960 To be normal.

01:17:35.360 And tackle them, even if it does get dirty.

01:17:40.060 Yeah, definitely.

01:17:41.060 It can be done.

01:17:45.140 And it should be done.

01:17:46.060 No one in this country has anything better to do right now

01:17:48.900 than to help and save it.

01:17:51.620 That's a random name.

01:17:52.960 Just pop to another one.

01:17:54.320 It says, Britain is not beyond saving.

01:17:56.080 I meant the current usury-based 1.00

01:17:59.220 Gynocracy, fair enough 1.00

01:18:00.820 Sorry, I didn't mean to have a pop at you personally

01:18:02.880 That's a random name

01:18:04.080 No, far from it

01:18:06.480 It's a super fan, so thank you

01:18:09.220 An Ubi fan

01:18:10.400 Do we have video comments today, Samson?

01:18:17.300 Alright, in that case we'll go

01:18:18.960 We can talk about the comments for five minutes

01:18:20.900 Yeah, we can do that, just let me know when they're ready

01:18:23.400 The normal comments

01:18:24.480 Yeah, the normal comments. So Occupied England says, isn't it accurate to say that it's actually England, a.k.a. Westminster, not Washington, D.C., that is the centre of all English-speaking governing and ideological centrism?

01:18:40.020 I feel the King's visit was to remind the Trump regime that they are still part of a collective vassal of English liberal regime.

01:18:46.640 i i happen to disagree with you on this one um i mean obviously i agree with it yes being the

01:18:54.640 creators of the english language obviously england sits at the heart of the anglo the anglosphere and

01:19:00.960 you know the anglo world i i appreciate that but in terms of like america's ideological commitments

01:19:07.420 to wars um i feel like all we can actually do is appeal to those things i don't feel like like

01:19:13.560 America will do what is in America's interests, you know, or certainly, you know, what its state

01:19:19.420 believes it to be its interest. But I don't think that we have as much leverage over them. That's

01:19:25.280 why actually the intervention of the king was such a powerful one in many ways, because it's one of

01:19:30.120 the last good hands of prestige that the British state does actually have in its arsenal. It's

01:19:36.980 something that we have, that the French, for example, I'm not picking on them, but could never

01:19:41.840 muster president macron turning up to the united states just doesn't have the same gravitas

01:19:48.600 as sending king charles iii it just doesn't i think it depends on who represents you and whether

01:19:55.580 you think that they represent your nation well because people who do value their nation they do

01:20:01.060 want their representatives to have a sort of respect be respected on the international stage

01:20:08.320 So I think that that's what we're looking at here.

01:20:11.060 I mean, to speak for the French here,

01:20:14.440 nothing to disagree with you in what you say about the king,

01:20:17.720 but if they had a president that they felt was good

01:20:22.380 for French interests and commanded respect,

01:20:25.200 I think they would be also happy on that.

01:20:28.180 I've got a question for you.

01:20:29.100 Hasn't Greece currently got a monarchy?

01:20:31.880 No, no.

01:20:32.780 Oh, when was that abolished in like the 70s?

01:20:35.880 Yes, it was.

01:20:36.520 Did they not bring him back?

01:20:37.760 No, no, no.

01:20:38.520 Okay, sorry.

01:20:39.320 Fair enough.

01:20:39.680 There was a referendum after the junta, the coup.

01:20:42.980 In the 70s, is that?

01:20:44.460 Yes.

01:20:44.920 Okay.

01:20:45.140 I think in 1974, that's when the dictatorship fell,

01:20:48.460 and then they had a referendum about the monarchy,

01:20:51.280 and people chose no tea.

01:20:53.120 Okay.

01:20:53.800 All right.

01:20:54.060 Fair enough.

01:20:54.940 Fair enough.

01:20:55.560 Sorry for my total ignorance.

01:20:57.360 Was it because the monarch was in some way tied up with the junta?

01:21:00.740 No, I don't think so.

01:21:02.140 Right.

01:21:02.420 Okay.

01:21:03.120 A separate issue.

01:21:04.760 Okay.

01:21:05.580 Well, it looks like Samson's got the video comments up, so we'll start going through them.

01:21:10.140 So my old poly-sci professor went on an interesting diatribe about the usefulness of negotiation, using South Africa as an example.

01:21:18.340 He was basically saying, like, oh, well, you know, we wanted them to give up their connection to Rhodesia, and we used our leverage to get them to stop.

01:21:24.200 And then we kept sanctioning them anyway because, you know, they're bad people. 0.67

01:21:27.960 And so we did the same thing with them regarding the nuclear program, and they agreed, and then we kept sanctioning them anyway because they're bad people.

01:21:34.980 And basically did this till they fell apart.

01:21:36.920 And he cites this as like a success story.

01:21:39.040 And I'm thinking, this just tells me that you should never agree to anything a liberal asks you because they're always negotiating in bad faith.

01:21:46.400 Yeah, the Syrian refugee crisis is a perfect example of this. 0.98

01:21:50.400 It's like, oh, we need them to all come over here because Europe's the only place that's safe for them. 1.00

01:21:54.560 And they can go back once they're here. 0.96

01:21:56.840 And then once Syria is stabilized and people do start returning from places like Turkey and Lebanon, you know, the liberals on the continent, they're like, oh, no,

01:22:04.600 what are you doing

01:22:05.100 we can't let them go

01:22:05.880 we need them for the workforce

01:22:07.020 it's like no

01:22:07.520 the agreement was

01:22:08.340 I went home when it was

01:22:09.220 so yeah

01:22:09.860 so we'll always

01:22:10.840 yeah

01:22:11.780 be shrewd in that way

01:22:13.840 welcome aboard

01:22:17.500 this Avanti

01:22:18.360 West Coast service

01:22:19.580 to

01:22:20.160 Liverpool Line Street

01:22:21.740 I've walked there

01:22:30.540 really?

01:22:32.360 yeah

01:22:34.600 how unfortunate

01:22:36.840 so thank you for putting that together for us samson so that was our producer samson made that

01:22:53.060 video and then played it is that what happened yeah just to get clear just to get just to be

01:22:59.880 clear what happened just happened there yeah okay no liverpool is uh has some wonderful

01:23:04.280 parts to it it has some one of the best nights out i ever had was uh new year's eve liverpool

01:23:10.160 uh 2019 little did i know what a horror show we were going to go into the boris wave and lockdown

01:23:16.720 and all of that at the time but like that uh that particular night we were in the cavern club there

01:23:21.500 was like a beatles tribute act they did like a five and a half hour set through the night it was

01:23:26.400 one that it was an amazing night and the city was nice so yeah okay let's look at some dogs

01:23:31.920 what no video comments well we'll have to remedy that well gentlemen i'm going off to france

01:23:43.300 tomorrow yes my father is going to spend down my inheritance and he's going to take me to the u.s

01:23:51.040 cemetery in normandy and we'll probably do some other tours while in france from today's segment

01:23:58.580 i'd say it's going to be a more interesting trip

01:24:01.560 he has got a very cute dog yeah that is adorable yeah and i hope your journey goes really well for

01:24:09.620 you and i hope that you enjoy um you know manage to enjoy your time in france i also hope he watches

01:24:15.600 my segment because i'm sure michael would love this segment oh today's one yes all right yeah

01:24:21.280 also if anyone's if michael if you're interested i did uh i've done over the years two segments on

01:24:28.240 d-day about d-day right i chose those they can't do all that well in terms of clicks but

01:24:34.720 i thought they were good content talking about d-day on the 6th of june um so obviously not

01:24:41.080 obviously but i imagine if you've got family that fought or and or fell in normandy um yeah i hope

01:24:49.080 you i hope you enjoy the trip i hope you enjoy the trip absolutely that's uh all the video comments

01:24:53.440 is it samson all right great uh going back to my comments then we had a lord inquisitor hector x

01:24:59.520 who says last time someone roasted trump he ran for president careful charles well there's not

01:25:05.100 really anywhere else from he's already president now so uh we'll take our chances uh az desert

01:25:10.940 rats says that joke about remodeling the white house in 1814 is going to fly over uh most

01:25:16.920 americans heads people are often shocked when i talk about the war of 1812 yeah there is a bit of

01:25:23.080 selective amnesia i think when it comes to the war of 1812 i mean british troops did burn down

01:25:30.640 the white house stormed into washington the only time that's ever happened yeah in u.s history for

01:25:35.520 now um but ultimately we lost the campaign ultimately the british lost the campaign though

01:25:39.960 the americans tried to invade canada right like a couple of times they tried to invade canada and

01:25:47.800 the canadians didn't want it and they got they got turned back so no one really won that war

01:25:54.100 historians argue about who won or who lost that war both britain and the united states ended up

01:25:58.920 with egg on their face, basically.

01:26:00.140 It's remarkable as well.

01:26:00.900 It's an interesting one.

01:26:01.740 To fight that war simultaneously to Napoleon on the continent

01:26:06.400 and everything, in Europe at the time as well.

01:26:09.240 The year 1812 is the year Napoleon tries to invade Russia. 0.57

01:26:11.860 Right.

01:26:12.620 And so a lot happened in the year 1812.

01:26:15.740 And a lot of it that went down was actually in the year 1814,

01:26:18.480 which is, well, the year when Napoleon is not defeated at Waterloo,

01:26:23.380 but defeated and sent to Elba.

01:26:25.920 So that whole, those few years around at the beginning of the 19th century,

01:26:30.180 they're very, very tumultuous time.

01:26:32.100 Busy years for Britain.

01:26:33.520 Yeah.

01:26:33.860 Yeah.

01:26:35.420 Sorry, you were going to say something, Stelio.

01:26:37.040 No, I just wanted to say that I laughed a bit,

01:26:40.140 not because of what you were saying.

01:26:41.540 I wasn't making fun of the war.

01:26:43.940 But Dan sent a message that I'm going to read when I read the comments from mine.

01:26:47.780 I'll just read one more from mine then, which is from Joshua Pomponio,

01:26:52.900 who says, Thomas Jefferson kept a replica of Oliver Cromwell's death mask

01:26:57.600 at his home in Monticello.

01:26:59.560 When I went to visit there, the tour guide didn't know who that was

01:27:02.980 or why Cromwell would be influential to Jefferson.

01:27:08.460 That's very interesting.

01:27:10.820 I've got a long-form piece of content all about Jefferson.

01:27:13.400 He's a complicated, complicated man.

01:27:15.660 I don't agree with everything he ever said or did,

01:27:17.860 but I think he was a great man.

01:27:19.120 A titan of his age.

01:27:20.240 Yeah.

01:27:21.080 Extraordinary in many ways.

01:27:22.140 Very, very interesting.

01:27:22.900 person dan says dan our dan uh can we offer this jp morgan girl a job at lotus seaters

01:27:30.480 i suggest we give her the job manager of dan

01:27:33.860 you can imagine dabby no don't stop 1.00

01:27:41.600 Get back, leave me alone

01:27:45.120 Don't drop the pen

01:27:49.380 Yeah, Dan's just got a pocket full of pens

01:27:52.980 He's accidentally dropping all over the place

01:27:54.900 Stop touching my cuff

01:27:57.180 Omar Awad says

01:27:59.860 I wish I had enough theory of mind for both parties

01:28:02.320 To truly appreciate the Isat implications

01:28:05.040 For these exchanges must be fascinating

01:28:07.680 White Rider says 0.58

01:28:09.280 She roofed him on multiple occasions

01:28:11.440 i don't buy it if he didn't want it he would have done something after the first time her threats

01:28:17.180 fall through the second he gets drug tested at a hospital they had an affair and he's regretted

01:28:22.920 getting caught or something henry ashman says if all of this is true it's horrific

01:28:28.260 the language described sounds very show bobs and the game yeah or like some sort of tumblr fan

01:28:37.260 affection to me plus all the stories around is that and how any way to acquire cash has definitely

01:28:43.720 planted a seed of doubt here yeah it's it's like a bad spanish steamy show it's kind of like a

01:28:52.160 plionism because almost every steamy show is spanish i can't get past that and if it is the

01:28:57.180 other way around because you said that imagine it the other way around yeah the other way around

01:29:00.300 it's just a completely different story completely different dynamic if a woman is assuming she's 0.98

01:29:06.880 not like china and she's not much taller and heavier and stronger than you assuming that's 1.00

01:29:10.760 not the case you can physically stop her if you really wanted to she threatens to ruin your career 0.88

01:29:17.160 well yeah you're the man yeah you're the man in this situation right man up yeah you just physically

01:29:23.180 leave the room okay like you're a foot shorter than me and like 80 pounds lighter than me i'll

01:29:27.920 just pick you up and move you out of the way and i'm going to leave the room now you can you could 1.00

01:29:32.120 do you could have done that couldn't he and last comment by arizona desert rats some women are 1.00

01:29:36.680 really bad dirty flirting this lady seems like she's one of them yeah these are allegations i 1.00

01:29:43.460 will just say bo you say that he could have easily moved her out out of the way but you

01:29:48.100 have no idea how heavy her cannons were right yeah yeah uh anyway do you uh fancy reading

01:30:00.180 just one comment or two from a couple of comments from mine then ed miller band harassing enoch

01:30:05.800 Powell's spinning grave says that's their name they've said let's be honest the only reason

01:30:12.740 any of these illegal shops are facing any sort of justice is that the government isn't getting a

01:30:17.940 piece of the pie right maybe yeah quite possibly yeah they shut down the handful of ones that

01:30:23.140 are not giving the government their vig yeah i know maybe zach polanski will sort it out you

01:30:29.540 know he does seem to care about people paying their fair share so i'm sure that goes to the

01:30:34.360 black markets as well. 0.81

01:30:35.660 Yeah, why don't they feel the full force of the law? 0.92

01:30:40.600 And Omar Awad, I was on a go to the zoo with you once and you said we always pronounce

01:30:46.920 your surname incorrectly, so sorry, I've forgotten what you said was the correct way.

01:30:52.640 Apologies if I do too.

01:30:53.880 If we always keep saying it wrong, I can only apologise.

01:30:55.880 Anyway, you've said

01:30:57.320 The paradox of democracy

01:31:00.860 Is it's easy to vote to remove the gangs

01:31:04.760 And save the high street

01:31:06.200 But difficult to find someone to blame

01:31:08.300 For not doing it

01:31:09.480 Interesting point

01:31:11.220 Yeah, absolutely

01:31:13.880 Well, we hope that you've enjoyed the show today

01:31:16.880 Ladies and gentlemen

01:31:17.860 If you're a morning person

01:31:19.360 Then you can get up bright and early

01:31:21.000 Join Beau for Brekkie tomorrow

01:31:23.180 Which you should

01:31:24.800 obviously go and watch

01:31:25.760 Breakfast with Beau

01:31:26.620 best breakfast show

01:31:27.740 on the British television scene

01:31:29.580 and if not

01:31:31.400 of course

01:31:31.860 then we will be back

01:31:32.920 at 1pm

01:31:33.620 for the podcast tomorrow

01:31:34.920 and look forward

01:31:36.020 to seeing you then

01:31:36.620 take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 30, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1408

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