The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1424

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1424. I'm your

00:00:06.620 host Harry, joined today by Stelios, who is desperately attempting to mock the rest

00:00:13.000 of the panel, and Josh, who is doing it quite effortlessly, frankly.

00:00:18.680 That's unexpected, thank you.

00:00:20.040 Well, the tan looks good.

00:00:21.300 Oh, thank you.

00:00:22.020 Enjoyed your time in Great Yarmouth.

00:00:23.540 Trump tan.

00:00:24.800 Trump tan. It's not fake. This is hard work in the sun.

00:00:29.220 the tie is gold not red folks that's true yes not running for the libertarian party either just to

00:00:35.540 be clear he just really loves gold and today if you want to send me some please do sorry

00:00:41.460 no address you just know where to find him uh and today we're going to be talking about uh

00:00:47.160 keir starmer finally clearing out all of the foreigners and saving britain uh we're going

00:00:52.020 to be talking about people who believe that they are animals and the return of the zimbabwean

00:00:58.000 goblin menace now before we started i did say to josh that you know i don't know whether i prefer

00:01:03.780 monkey news or goblin news but whichever that i'm after i always know that i've got the right man on

00:01:08.960 the case we are also going to talk about clinical lycanthropy okay lycanthropy it's going to be a

00:01:15.600 left of field podcast so we're going to be talking about starma and then werewolves and goblins were

00:01:20.600 there many goblins in yarmouth uh i didn't see any werewolves um potentially you know i didn't

00:01:28.380 see the full moon so it was possible all right well i'm excited to find out and i hope all of

00:01:33.860 you are and with that let's get into first of all the heady business of learning how labor and

00:01:39.680 starmer in particular has decided to save britain in this rather shocking turn of events

00:01:45.800 Keir Starmer himself has announced on Twitter that net migration has fallen by 82%.

00:01:51.440 He says, I promise to restore control to our borders. My government is delivering.

00:01:56.600 I know there's more to do. We're introducing a skills-based migration system that rewards contribution and ends our reliance on cheap overseas workers.

00:02:04.960 Now this is quite interesting because it's rather the opposite of what a lot of people expected from a Labour government who they expected to just throw the borders open even further than the Tories had, although there are a minority of people who believed that Labour were actually going to do this and kind of behave as the sensible party while the Tories are out of power in the run-up to reform getting their go potentially in 2029.

00:02:32.400 that was the assumption back in 2024 there is a lot of caveats to this i would say uh being

00:02:39.280 sensible given the scale of things is a very very very very low bar it is it is a low bar to cross

00:02:47.740 but by god if we're going to give it to starmer we are going to give it to starmer here that he

00:02:52.140 has crossed the incredibly low bar of being somehow better on immigration than the tories

00:02:57.620 were in terms of overall numbers i hate to be the party pooper but uh i think there's plenty of that

00:03:04.540 coming in the second don't worry absolutely we still have three years to go oh absolutely and

00:03:09.980 he may need some votes so i hate to be the bearer of potentially bad news i don't think he's as

00:03:17.960 sensible as people portray him as being i do remember the discourse when after the elections

00:03:23.240 all i'm just all i'm gonna say is just remember how he reacted during southport no nobody's ever

00:03:28.940 going to forget southport i'm not saying that the guy is forgiven i'm not saying that he's a good

00:03:32.720 man i think we all dislike keir starmer quite quite a lot but that is to say uh that for this

00:03:39.760 particular piece of news the alternative has to be considered the alternative would have been

00:03:45.420 three more years two more years five more years of potentially rishi sunak's government now i know

00:03:52.220 it probably wouldn't have just been Rishi Sunak the whole time

00:03:54.420 because the Tories were like a revolving

00:03:56.500 door of Prime Ministers by that point

00:03:58.380 but given the track record

00:04:00.540 of the Tories up through those

00:04:02.420 14 years, particularly the last

00:04:04.180 3 or 4, the

00:04:06.380 alternative that we could have been facing would

00:04:08.400 have been a lot worse, so we do have to

00:04:10.440 say, you know, it is an improvement from the

00:04:12.420 utter disaster that the Tories were

00:04:14.340 while that is not a high standard to clear

00:04:16.360 they have managed to clear it

00:04:18.020 Shabana Mahmood has also been saying it as well

00:04:20.260 given those numbers it's it's worth pointing out here the numbers are correct here yes and the tory

00:04:26.000 high of almost a million net um into the country um was when they i think it was a year where there

00:04:34.780 was 1.2 million people coming in and one of the things that i find interesting that's missed by

00:04:40.900 this net migration figure is that that was 2023 whereas in 2022 it was actually 1.4 million but

00:04:48.320 the net migration figure was lower because there was a greater level of emigration exactly and so

00:04:54.100 that also gets lost that within those two years there's almost you know three million people

00:05:00.220 coming to the country in two years which is absolutely insane given our population so yes 0.79

00:05:05.780 with the expectation expectation being that they'll cycle through and a lot of them will 0.74

00:05:09.960 filter back to their own countries once their visas expire but we don't actually know that

00:05:15.640 they do one of the things that the government does in calculating the emigration data is that

00:05:20.960 they just take the figures of all of the visas that they know are expiring on their systems

00:05:24.940 and count them as emigration well it's there's no actual system to check that they are leaving

00:05:30.540 the country it's expecting that the the the system which chases up people um for expired visas is a

00:05:38.460 hundred percent successful which no government system is a hundred percent successful and i

00:05:43.720 think that actually it's more likely that the vast majority of people who sort of break their

00:05:49.740 visa conditions and don't return home get away with it and can stay and they're just here illegally

00:05:55.060 which probably and they probably go into the black market economy yeah it probably massively

00:05:59.280 inflates the illegal numbers here because of course not only are the people coming over in

00:06:04.720 the small boats and in lorries and all of the like or overstaying on holidays you've also got

00:06:09.780 people overstaying on visas which is why we have these larger much larger population projections

00:06:15.040 than our actual official statistics might suggest yeah if you go on the ons website i think the

00:06:20.920 current official statistics are something like 69 million and however many hundred thousand

00:06:26.280 the actual projections by other population experts are a lot higher than that for how many people are

00:06:33.580 in the country because of all of the people who will have expired their visas and then just stayed

00:06:37.380 Some as high as 90 million, although I think that was done with food.

00:06:41.540 That's an upper projection.

00:06:42.680 It is, yeah.

00:06:43.640 Food and waste in sewage, and that could also include tourists

00:06:47.980 and all number of other extraneous variables, so it's an imperfect...

00:06:52.600 Or an excess of fatties.

00:06:54.540 That's also true.

00:06:55.820 There are plenty of people who are probably eating enough for two or three people.

00:06:58.980 And producing enough waste.

00:07:01.000 Yeah.

00:07:01.520 Yes, but let's go into a further breakdown of some of this data

00:07:04.540 so that we can get the proper context for all of this

00:07:07.420 and see what the figures are.

00:07:08.440 So the net migration figure is 171,000,

00:07:12.580 which, as they point out here, is almost half of 2024's figure.

00:07:17.400 The figure now is at its lowest since 2012,

00:07:20.380 excluding the COVID pandemic,

00:07:21.820 but we don't actually count that

00:07:23.680 because of, obviously, the exceptional circumstances

00:07:25.540 and also we know from the figures that have been released,

00:07:28.360 migration basically continued and then skyrocketed afterwards.

00:07:31.000 So whatever minor period of relief we might have had during COVID was immediately made up for tenfold afterwards.

00:07:39.200 Starmer says there's still more to do.

00:07:41.600 Data reveals also that 93,525 people have claimed asylum in the UK in the year to March 2026,

00:07:49.720 down 12% on the year prior, but still more than double that scene just before the pandemic.

00:07:55.160 the ONS said net migration continued to fall to levels last seen in early 2021 when a new

00:08:02.640 immigration system was introduced and COVID travel restrictions were in place

00:08:05.980 Sarah Crofts the board's deputy director said that the recent decrease is driven by fewer people

00:08:12.140 arriving from outside the EU particularly for work policy changes from early 2024 and here is the

00:08:19.180 nice graph where you can see the total arrivals and there's that huge spike almost 1.5 million

00:08:27.080 in March of 2023 that's sort of the Boris slash Rishi wave because it carries on uh under Rishi

00:08:33.460 as well well really you could call it the Patel wave because a lot of it was done under Preeti

00:08:39.080 Patel's uh reforms of health and social care because as she's said a number of times in

00:08:44.360 interview since defending her record on such a thing it was done entirely for the nhs to make

00:08:51.740 sure that she she's even tried to throw the question back at interviewers who uh who throw

00:08:57.100 this one out at her by saying what did you want the nhs to collapse or something well this is the

00:09:02.900 same nhs that we pay an inordinate amount of money to train our own domestic uh doctors and the like

00:09:10.120 and medical professionals that then go on to Australia and North America in large numbers 0.78

00:09:16.220 because they can't find a job in the NHS. So there's this weird dichotomy here. I wonder

00:09:21.620 who is lying here. Is it Priti Patel who has a record to defend? Or is it lots of doctors

00:09:27.460 who can't find jobs? I personally can't decide.

00:09:31.020 And on top of all of that, there have been a number of cases where people have just been, 0.99

00:09:34.260 all of these people coming in from the third world to take these health and social care

00:09:37.600 positions have been revealed to just be fraudulently getting qualifications in the first 0.65

00:09:41.720 place yeah it's an underreported scandal in the making that is that there's an entire industry of

00:09:48.120 fake credential generation basically and it's not being interrogated and i think that there just has

00:09:53.840 to be additional testing of people at the very least and it should be it should be obvious to

00:09:59.480 people when there are stories like that person who uh couldn't speak english as a language therapist

00:10:04.760 Yeah, as a language therapist, all those people who were, it was I think in an old care home where the woman got caught in the stair lift and ended up bleeding to death and they tried to call up an ambulance and they couldn't speak English properly and the operator couldn't understand what they were saying.

00:10:20.360 If they were properly qualified to work in the UK, they'd be able to speak basic English.

00:10:25.420 Or those who are told to say that they are gay in order to not be deported to countries that aren't particularly friendly to that orientation.

00:10:33.180 yes where these people this was a recent bbc article as well where they would they were

00:10:38.380 finding that not only would these immigration assistants uh like these uh these legal helpers

00:10:44.140 who weren't actually licensed uh try and get them to lie they would also set up fake photo ops at

00:10:49.440 gay clubs and then also get them fake boyfriends imagine how they're gonna advertise it it's like

00:10:55.860 we're helping the world to come out of the closet what would alice say to many of these people hey

00:11:00.360 he wouldn't look too kindly on them pretending i don't think he would be very happy about it but

00:11:04.320 again a lot of this uh this now downturn in net immigration is due to uh policy changes that they

00:11:10.300 say was made in early 2024 under the former conservative government and the labor government

00:11:14.740 has retained these measures and in some cases expanded on them under um under you know shabana

00:11:21.420 mahmood has made a lot of changes like the indefinite leave to remain this is what a lot of people are

00:11:26.060 worried about for the next three years leading up to 2029 this is why a lot of people are very

00:11:31.380 focused on the maker field contest that is coming up next month where if andy burnham gets in he

00:11:38.900 could potentially pose a threat to keir starmer's leadership and if he gets in as prime minister

00:11:44.320 instead of keir starmer a lot of people are concerned that he would throw open the floodgates

00:11:48.780 and remove the indefinite leave to remain changes and other positive changes that have been made

00:11:53.520 over the past few years under the immigration policy.

00:11:56.880 So that's a big worry with Maker Faire.

00:11:58.860 Fair concern, to be fair.

00:12:00.300 It is a fair concern, because whatever else you want to say about this government,

00:12:04.620 some of these more hardline changes to immigration policy

00:12:07.520 have clearly had something of a positive effect.

00:12:10.980 They say some of these changes include most overseas students

00:12:15.360 being restricted from bringing family members to the UK

00:12:18.000 and care workers being restricted from bringing dependents with them.

00:12:21.220 In fact, whole sections of the health and social care route, which is one of the reasons that that figure became so ridiculously high in 2023, have been just completely axed.

00:12:33.800 The figure dropped, I believe, if you go on the government website from like £100,000 last year to £1,000 this year, which is quite a remarkable change.

00:12:43.620 ministers also increased the general salary threshold for those arriving on skilled visas

00:12:47.540 from 26 200 pounds to 38 700 pounds still not net contributor to the uk in terms of tax though no

00:12:54.860 i think that's 41 000 something around that range and they point out in this article after brexit

00:13:01.980 there was a large increase in immigration conservative ministers relaxed salary

00:13:05.580 thresholds and some other routes for health and social care workers to plug shortages

00:13:09.280 in the workforce so fair point there never forget that this was done on purpose to us and all of the 0.92

00:13:16.460 side order effects and direct consequences of this massive wave of immigration including all 0.99

00:13:22.900 of the atrocities that we see every day including the recent Henry Novak situation where the Sikh 0.84

00:13:28.340 murdered him and the police just stood by and cuffed him because supposedly he was racially

00:13:34.460 abusing this person which he wasn't and let him bleed out and die all of that was done on purpose

00:13:40.380 that was a policy decision but let's take a look at some of the more detailed figures again so we

00:13:47.040 can see the ethnic well not the ethnic breakdown but the national breakdown of some of these figures

00:13:51.900 from the uh is there anything that we can do about the colors on the screen jack it's a bit

00:13:56.880 difficult to tell i can read if you as as long as everybody can read that so that's all right

00:14:01.700 just the dark mode thing isn't it yeah there we go that's a lot clearer now so you can see non-eu

00:14:06.880 versus eu immigration still the majority of this immigration was coming from non-eu sources but if

00:14:12.280 we go to non-eu emigration quite a few were leaving eu a lot of were leaving but also british

00:14:19.340 nationals which i think it is important to point out as well british nationals will include anybody

00:14:23.900 who has a passport so it doesn't necessarily mean that they are not necessarily ethnic british yeah

00:14:29.520 It doesn't mean they're necessarily of ethnic British background, but still will probably include plenty of those as well.

00:14:35.260 It's 246,000, so that's what brings the figure down to 171,000, so that's still a lot of people.

00:14:42.140 Overall, the figure is still around 800,000 people came into the country last year,

00:14:48.340 although it is, you know, 110,000 of those were British nationals,

00:14:52.060 so if we're going to go off the assumption that most of those are going to be ethnic British background,

00:14:56.320 that is a few people returning but still a majority outflow of british nationals from

00:15:02.320 the country which is not great that is still a form of population replacement this is not the

00:15:08.020 kind of uh graph you would want to see especially the largest line here being non-eu nationals

00:15:15.420 coming into the country which as as we've seen from lots of data across all of europe 0.55

00:15:19.540 very rarely contribute to the country in a positive way financially and certainly not

00:15:25.380 in terms of socially or crime other than those metrics well if we go down further there's a lot

00:15:30.880 of great breakdowns on here we can see where are most of these people coming in which visa routes

00:15:34.800 are these people taking well of course as i cover well as liz hevering covered the other month a lot

00:15:40.820 of it is university related a lot of this is study related these are student visas that these people

00:15:46.860 are coming in on and while it is more difficult for them to bring family members across now that

00:15:51.540 is still a ridiculous amount of people that we're bringing into the country to use our universities

00:15:56.100 basically just to prop the universities up so that a load of waste universities don't have to go under

00:16:01.700 well we've got this horrendous situation where the universities run like a for-profit business

00:16:06.760 and sort of whore themselves out to the whole world whilst the british state subsidizes them

00:16:12.760 as well and all this really does is it makes it harder for actual british people as in people 0.68

00:16:20.380 with ancestry here to go to good universities as well as Europeans who we might actually

00:16:27.040 want to keep here because they will be productive and they have studied here so they've sort

00:16:31.880 of proved that they can live here and speak the language and fulfil the criteria of the

00:16:37.120 course. So we're sort of doing everything completely the wrong way here.

00:16:42.160 And still as well, student visas suffer the same weaknesses that most of the other visa

00:16:47.780 systems do which is that they can just stay their visa can expire they can get into the black market

00:16:54.640 they can get onto the um the black market housing ladder if they just stay with friends or relatives

00:17:00.480 or hide away in somebody's cupboard or something like that they live in the potter they live in

00:17:06.180 the cupboard under the stairs yeah it's a british it's a story as british as you know like a full

00:17:11.860 english breakfast and a cup of tea um then they can just stick around when there's no proper way

00:17:17.780 of checking if they've left once their visa has expired and then they can also apparently apply

00:17:22.800 to be a green councillor and get true and get voted in and where are most of these people coming from

00:17:30.060 as you can expect india most of them massively study related as well most of these are heavily

00:17:39.400 heavily overwhelmingly study related but it's interesting the breakdown here indians that's 1.00

00:17:46.660 just not surprising at this point pakistanis you would think that we would have learned our lesson 1.00

00:17:53.000 when it comes to letting more and more pakistanis into the country immigration red list needs to 1.00

00:17:57.760 happen yes um chinese i don't know why we want to keep admitting as many spies into the country 1.00

00:18:03.740 as possible. Nigerian, what else is that to say? The Nepalese is an interesting one as well because 0.99

00:18:11.680 a lot of those are probably going to be getting into, potentially getting into, you know, work

00:18:16.680 that they shouldn't on a student visa and it's interesting when you look at Nepal being a

00:18:20.980 basically entirely dependent economy on remittances. Nepal takes in 26% of its GDP

00:18:29.760 in remittances so they are highly highly dependent on their own population going out

00:18:37.220 earning money elsewhere and extracting it and sending it home so as far as i can tell 0.96

00:18:42.560 the nepalese are an entirely extractive population wherever they can be a sherpa can they 0.89

00:18:48.340 no not everybody i'm surprised it isn't higher to be honest well if you just bear in mind the 0.82

00:18:54.900 geography and i i imagine a lot of them go elsewhere as well a lot of them will stick in

00:19:00.200 the neighboring countries but when they come over here i see the nepalese frankly it's just a purely

00:19:04.480 extractive population uh when you see the remittance figures and if we go further down we

00:19:09.500 can see some of the totals because the ons actually has uh not this one further down in section eight

00:19:17.160 they have estimates for the non-uk born population now this is not the descendants of people who were

00:19:24.460 non-UK born and then were born into this country this is just the people who have arrived here

00:19:29.760 who are still living here now and you can see the overall estimate as of the 30th of June

00:19:34.800 2024 has accumulated to 13.1 million people in a population of estimated official figures 69

00:19:47.200 million and the non-EU born population of that is 9.2 million these are absurd figures and most of

00:19:55.840 those non-EU born are from the data are not going to be financial contributors to the country so

00:20:03.740 they're taking money out of our economy and that's a decent chunk of a nine million

00:20:09.100 there i think yeah so these are still no matter what the overall net figures are the cumulative

00:20:16.520 total the cumulative effect of all of the years of immigration that we've been through at this point

00:20:22.520 has led to a position where potentially potentially one seventh of the population of this country or 0.91

00:20:30.240 near enough are all non-eu born which is absolutely ridiculous but it's one of the other things like 0.99

00:20:39.080 you pointed out where a lot of these people are going to be entirely extractive one of the reasons

00:20:43.140 why it's ridiculous to see certain people coping against these figures as well and saying that this

00:20:48.460 is a bad thing that net immigration has dropped because this will have an adverse effect on the

00:20:54.900 economy according to big brain ream ibrahim favorite of the channel very pro-immigration

00:21:03.140 very pro-immigration not that she would have any kind of like personal bias towards it or anything

00:21:08.540 I mean even if it did have an adverse effect on the economy and of course the truth is the

00:21:14.800 complete opposite that these people are taking lots of money out of the economy and we'd be much

00:21:18.440 better without them I would be more than happy to live off of you know nuts and berries I foraged

00:21:24.780 in the woods for the sake of not having to live like this well if we were stranded on an island

00:21:30.320 where we had nothing to eat but nuts and berries within about 100 years it'd probably be a paradise

00:21:35.060 and they'd all want to move there anyway exactly that's that's the problem but i would like to ask

00:21:39.900 people like reem where have where are the benefits we've been having mass migration for decades up

00:21:47.020 to this point since blair at least much further beyond than that where are the benefits there's

00:21:53.340 no economic growth pretty much whatsoever in fact economic growth is being heavily stunted by the

00:21:59.240 weight of the state completely stagnant so if my life has been improved so much where are the

00:22:06.140 improvements please tell me that but then there are leftists who are trying to use this as an

00:22:11.460 attack against the right by saying that nobody's life has improved reform voters and i would assume

00:22:17.760 in that you can also say that you can add on the addendum right wingers in general your entire life

00:22:23.820 is a lie migration has plummeted and we're all worse off than ever why because small boats have

00:22:29.540 never been the problem the rich always have which implies that net migration falling to 171 000 means

00:22:36.280 that all of those other people identified in the statistics the nine or so million official figures

00:22:43.020 that we have vanished while it would be interesting if keir starmer had the power to thanos snap

00:22:49.840 migrants just out of the country altogether um it would save his uh popularity i i think it would

00:22:55.840 do wonders for his popularity while it would be quite miraculous that's not what has happened

00:23:01.360 and also they're conflating legal and illegal migration which obviously the scale of legal 0.74

00:23:07.840 dwarfs the illegal migration is this guy green uh he's gay it says here gay okay so close enough

00:23:16.800 one of the other things that he is trying to do is he's trying to present this as an issue of 0.63

00:23:23.440 the rich just as an economic issue and the obvious thing he is ignoring is that open borders are

00:23:29.280 driving wages down and they're in a way music to the ears of those who want to uh who want

00:23:37.520 low wages for their employees this is something that very frequently happens especially with a

00:23:43.600 with the cult of polanski yeah they don't understand the supply and demand it's always

00:23:49.440 the rich but they never say well wait is this actually helping some rich people like if you

00:23:58.000 explain to them in the in the black death a massive fall in the population actually massively 0.83

00:24:02.800 increased people's quality of life they wouldn't understand that it's like well all the rich people

00:24:06.960 died and we took their stuff no actually uh it was that there were less people therefore wages

00:24:11.600 went up because there was more demand for employees it's supply and demand it's basic

00:24:16.600 come on yes i mean some have even suggested because of what you're saying there that polenski

00:24:22.480 is a plant i don't think that some people some people say i've no no plant in the green party

00:24:28.100 some like corbyn style supporters have said that he's presenting a false opposition to prevent

00:24:34.880 somebody like corbyn taking all of the uh taking all of the energy instead i would just say that

00:24:40.560 He's a vindictive leftist who cares more about hurting indigenous European people

00:24:46.240 than he does about principled opposition to corporate interests,

00:24:50.380 which many of these people fall victim to.

00:24:52.800 I think he definitely has very negative dispositions and sentiments

00:24:58.460 towards Europeans and also the British specifically.

00:25:02.640 But one thing is just I don't see Corbyn having that much of a momentum.

00:25:06.620 Neither do I. That's why I think that people saying that may be a bit coping.

00:25:09.440 You are describing the views of silly people. 0.97

00:25:12.380 I think it's cope. 0.98

00:25:13.860 I think it's cope from people.

00:25:15.680 But one of the interesting phenomenons that people like,

00:25:19.600 because this figure is coming from British Future,

00:25:21.760 Sundar Katwala's think tank.

00:25:24.360 It's been going all over social media, on Twitter as well.

00:25:27.640 One of the things that people like Sundar Katwala can't get his mind around

00:25:31.120 is that despite the fact that net migration has dropped,

00:25:36.460 people aren't perceiving it that way people are still perceiving net figures of immigration

00:25:43.260 as being rising well people don't just look at spreadsheets all day and you know in their normal

00:25:50.060 life it might be what us political commentators do but normal people just sort of look around them

00:25:54.760 and see who are these people around me oh wait they're not british okay immigration hasn't gone

00:26:00.900 down then well yeah because the reason is sunder and everybody else of his uh mentality who may or 0.62

00:26:07.200 may not be watching this uh a lot of the foreigners who people are perceiving as changing the country

00:26:12.700 are still here they didn't just vanish as carl points out here's the catch it's still 813 000

00:26:22.920 foreigners in as you pointed out josh the only reason the figures have dropped so sharply

00:26:28.160 is because they were so high in the first place we still have a net outflow of british nationals

00:26:35.880 we saw that 110 000 came in 246 000 still left and then you have the non-eu national studies

00:26:44.020 study visas expiring but the expired visas don't mean that they have actually left the country

00:26:50.400 so all of the people who came who have changed the country a lot of them are still here which

00:26:55.740 is why people are not perceiving this as being a major change similarly here you can see from 2012

00:27:02.740 which is when the figures were last this low to now this person did some calculations and figured

00:27:10.000 out the total net migration of non-eu nationals into the uk and this is just the official figures

00:27:16.720 if they didn't if the people who are said to have left did leave that's still an extra four and

00:27:23.660 almost a half million people of non-EU background came into this country all of this while the 1.00

00:27:30.080 economy's stagnated and per capita probably got worse I think I think it's time people stopped 1.00

00:27:37.420 with the star measures based hypothesis it's a very tiresome trying to attempt to square the

00:27:44.780 circle it's just come on yeah and again to just put that in even blunter terms in 2001 one in 12

00:27:52.680 people living in the uk were born overseas 25 years later it's roughly one in five how you

00:27:59.280 cease to have a country that's a that is a seismic effect that we are feeling there that is a sea

00:28:06.880 change in demographics in this country before excuse me before the modern period you could 0.97

00:28:12.800 never imagine something like this happening so quickly in the roman empire there were massive

00:28:18.680 demographic changes within rome but they did not happen in 25 years and they still led to the

00:28:26.460 collapse of the roman empire at least partially led to the collapse and again just to remind

00:28:31.960 everybody that the home office have just admitted you know the visas go we just kind of think that

00:28:39.960 they're going hope we hope they do you know we we don't check i mean it's not like it's our job to

00:28:47.000 check or anything so there are lots and lots of catches on this initially triumphant news which

00:28:55.440 has been announced and even then even then if there weren't all of these catches 171 000 is still

00:29:03.620 over three times what enoch powell was complaining about in the 1960s as something that is going to

00:29:12.600 be um that is going to be permanently changing this country so it's still not a figure to

00:29:18.880 celebrate in the first place but with all of that said when compared to the alternative of

00:29:25.480 potentially another five years of uh completely botched tory governance i've got to say i think

00:29:31.980 this is still doing a better job than they would have had so um congrats i guess

00:29:37.960 and we've got to rumble rants 40 and barber brother stelios josh and harry have a fantastic

00:29:47.220 weekend is ever anyone thank you you're going to makerfield for restore uh thank you yes i will

00:29:52.480 uh i think i should be there a few of the days to provide some of the coverage for the for the

00:29:57.420 website so uh look out for me there cookie boy says i'm hoping the postal votes in makerfield

00:30:02.740 will weigh heavily in the greens favor might make labor think twice about postal voting on demand

00:30:07.140 right two things before we start this segment for youtube um first of all i want to thank the chat

00:30:13.760 for the love that they are sending me and i'm gonna give you two gifts first i'm gonna call

00:30:19.860 harry a hippie as you have been asking me to because you asked me to i am you're a hippie

00:30:25.300 i'm yeah i'm a hippie i know a glastonbury frequent uh no i've never been glastonbury

00:30:30.960 i've been bloodstock a few times i was there i was there a few weeks ago i climbed up the

00:30:34.960 tauren it was majestic nice that sounds lovely great and uh yeah we are going to talk about

00:30:42.980 a new trend and the moral panic that surrounds it and there's there are people who think that

00:30:51.460 we are living in the end times and this is a trend where people essentially identify spiritually

00:30:58.520 with animals they're called therians have you heard of this trend guys now i have i mean you're

00:31:06.600 welcome we we did a whole um episode on the website about it you and i didn't we if you 0.95

00:31:12.020 remember harry i've clearly purged it from my mind we we didn't see the degeneracy we looked at

00:31:18.340 scientific research studies didn't you were courteous enough not to subject me to any

00:31:23.080 videos of it yes thank you for that you're welcome right so i'm going to actually subject

00:31:27.880 actually do videos of it because it's because karma is you know what what have i done i'm

00:31:34.840 joking i'm joking but no i want us to examine this as scientists through the perspective of

00:31:41.820 people who care about scientific data and truth and actually want to understand people around us

00:31:47.440 and see what this trend is it started in south america at least this is how these 1.00

00:31:55.660 as everything against god starts yeah let's let's look at this look at what this lass is doing 0.56

00:32:04.640 uh we don't have yeah we we need sound do we yes we absolutely need look at these people

00:32:13.900 so they they are dressed like animals they have animals uh yeah if you can actually listen to

00:32:20.480 them making animal noises this is the the kind of thing that makes me think that maybe the push to

00:32:27.040 end bullying in schools was a bad idea do you know what happened could i please have the control of 0.94

00:32:31.660 the mouse please furry culture absolutely destroyed emos in the same way that crack did black ghettos 0.83

00:32:39.180 yeah but because all i'm seeing here is a bunch of emos in furry outfits yeah but they all have 0.94

00:32:45.420 harry they are not fairies they're not fairies they look no they look an awful lot like furries

00:32:52.380 to me you're you're making the pun with several innuendo as a connotation i i'm actually talking 0.54

00:32:59.780 about fairies i'm just right okay so let's look at what happens here young fairians identify as

00:33:09.700 animals in buenos aires teenagers in argentina adopt the therian identity using mosques and

00:33:16.340 animal behaviors the phenomenon has gone viral on social media generating diverse analyses among

00:33:22.580 mental health specialists about this trend and it has chat gpt summary there it it also has

00:33:29.540 several political connotations because yeah they have made it political this just seems to me like 1.00

00:33:36.260 they're idiot teenage emos. Let's look at this. Hey, that's a good jump. 1.00

00:33:45.060 I want you to listen to the noise. Listen to...

00:33:49.220 Wait, you're gonna listen to the one on the tree making tree noises.

00:33:59.940 I've never heard a tree that sounds like that. Right, okay, so I put the word Therians 0.99

00:34:06.020 on youtube and it has several shorts and videos here and you're welcome i i saw this so you have 1.00

00:34:14.340 to watch it as well therians do identify as animals stop spreading lies therians are still

00:34:20.500 human you can't hand us the therian community gives us what we need uh pov it says you want

00:34:28.260 to be an animal without any of the downs guys hashtag therians kemonomimi it doesn't surprise 0.77

00:34:35.300 me that there's a large

00:34:37.200 intersection with

00:34:38.460 the modern

00:34:40.980 gendered terms, all of that nonsense 0.93

00:34:43.440 the intersectional 0.81

00:34:44.760 Right, so I started

00:34:47.300 checking out to see what this trend

00:34:49.320 is. These are just raw XD

00:34:51.380 teenagers transplanted 1.00

00:34:53.980 into an era of

00:34:55.280 even greater. I know it's of our generation

00:34:57.620 Harry, but it was a lot more wholesome

00:34:59.420 and less psychologically

00:35:01.340 damaging. Well that's what's

00:35:03.440 happened. Raw XD

00:35:04.960 had a certain like annoying charm to it right this is what happens when these same people are

00:35:11.360 transplanted 20 years later with greater internet access right so it's i was introduced to a new 0.51

00:35:18.260 vocabulary with words like theriotype or fake therian so you can see here why therian masks 0.77

00:35:26.100 are scaring people a human called me a cat i am not a cat i'm sorry i love this guy's face 0.88

00:35:34.140 they misanimal him fairies yes anyway um you can check out what it is by the way i want to say 0.84

00:35:43.980 this is at a slop that says here the therian phenomenon is exploding here's why it matters

00:35:49.900 i checked this account it has 11 million uh subscribers and barely crosses the 200 views

00:35:56.860 really yeah right so we also have the term quadrobics you know what quadrobics is

00:36:03.100 enlightened this is this how they get used to walking on all fours yes and doing other things

00:36:10.460 so it's like aerobics but it's on fours so it's quadrobics i'm sure that's going to be very good

00:36:17.180 for your bipedal spine that's definitely not evolved to walk on two legs yeah so it has

00:36:21.900 tutorials right mr science how to be aetherian well you might drag your knuckles on the ground

00:36:26.780 but the rest of us don't this is northern bullying right here right so people are trying to understand

00:36:33.000 what this trend is it's definitely much more online than these teenagers being weird yeah it's

00:36:39.120 um is it harry or are you a bit or are you a bit suspicious and you have to give them benefits such

00:36:45.700 as the benefit of the doubt yeah have an open mind harry you bigot yeah because i i want to inquire

00:36:51.080 about your stereotypes guys okay oh what are you spiritually speaking if you dig down into

00:36:56.820 your connection to the animal kingdom what is your stereotype sea lion sea lion this is like

00:37:04.120 asking you harry what's your animal what's my animal uh let's let's see my star sign because

00:37:11.020 this is the same as that is a leo so i guess i'll be a lion oh right it says here what slop lion

00:37:17.180 What Therians mean?

00:37:19.480 I'm the sleeping lion.

00:37:20.500 The term Therian refers to individuals who experience a strong internal identification with a specific animal, such as a wolf, fox, cat, or horse.

00:37:32.300 This identity does not mean they believe they're physically animals, but rather that they feel a deep emotional or psychological connection to a non-human species.

00:37:40.080 that said i think that what the media is trying to do is to contain it because i am going to show

00:37:47.240 you how this trend has escalated and in some respects maybe they actually do think that

00:37:53.300 they're animals could i interject with some actual serious psychology for a second but i am serious

00:37:59.080 as well of course of course now i don't doubt it but uh i haven't been my sort of speculation here

00:38:05.640 is that a lot of these people probably grew up around animals and pets

00:38:09.560 and they might have had troubled relationships with the humans in their life.

00:38:14.080 Human beings are socially complicated

00:38:15.700 and if you don't quite have the social skills to navigate human beings,

00:38:20.280 perhaps the simplicity of an animal

00:38:22.080 makes you feel like you have a greater affinity for them

00:38:25.860 and they give you love and comfort unconditionally

00:38:28.240 rather than the difficult people

00:38:30.680 who have much higher standards and criteria than an animal does.

00:38:35.160 and therefore they feel more affinity to animals and it sort of snowballs from there.

00:38:40.620 That's my working theory.

00:38:41.960 Is that why they're identified with wolves?

00:38:44.680 For instance, wolves can't hurt them or something.

00:38:47.280 I mean, in that case, the Romans are the original Therians, aren't they? 0.92

00:38:51.280 Because they all originate from two men raised by wolves.

00:38:54.820 So it says here the broader concept is linked to another concept I learned.

00:38:58.520 It's therianthropy, a term used in online communities.

00:39:01.760 and it says that the trend has expanded through viral videos showing young people imitating animal

00:39:07.180 movements wearing masks or accessories of course it's reddit tumblr and discord if i could have

00:39:12.800 guessed the platforms it would have been those three to be honest yes so one thing i want to say

00:39:18.000 is i want i want to um keep the vocabulary really clear this is not clinical lycanthropy which is

00:39:25.840 what i think i have the clinical lycanthropy here it says is a psychiatric syndrome within

00:39:32.880 which the patient has the delusional belief of turning into a wolf i i think i was a werewolf

00:39:40.160 at some point a wolf i was in soho in the rain trying to get a very hairy chow mein yeah i i

00:39:47.680 had just had an episode i mean you should see other you should see other people i've seen

00:39:52.880 i've heard i didn't actually see people trying to turn into a super saiyan after a vindaloo chicken

00:39:59.280 street food or something oh dear this is what it means to go further beyond

00:40:09.520 break the frontier it's telling us the self-aware wolf there you go oh come on

00:40:16.160 sorry you you have to clip this the out of context you have to clip josh's horrible pun

00:40:25.200 i think that was a pretty good pun actually that was quite sharp it was good but i mean 0.86

00:40:29.780 as well it was cheesy so let us address the elephant in the room what are therians the 0.56

00:40:35.680 viral phenomenon taking over latin america says here essentially that it appears to be an identity

00:40:42.120 they share a deep connection with a specific animal that forms throughout their lives that said

00:40:49.460 it's not like they they are old and they have matured and they look back and they say well

00:40:55.020 yeah i remember i started being a wolf around 7 15 and now i'm a 65 year old wolf waiting for my

00:41:02.240 pension that's not exactly it it's young people doing it so the very fact that the media is trying

00:41:09.020 to portray it as a trend of an identity developing through life is a bit premature i'd say from

00:41:16.300 a scientific perspective right so here i want to show you this video because it's also let

00:41:22.520 you yeah look at this here let us look at this here that's the therian dance also this

00:41:30.660 man thinks he's a lizard i mean fair play at least this is i mean he's having a great

00:41:36.960 i don't think they do that in nature but at least that's a bit more fun and slightly less weird

00:41:43.860 that that's unnerving that's more quadrobic but i i appreciate this the reptilian dance it's like

00:41:50.240 i came here from the spaceship from the moon which is a hologram and i'm ruling you basically so i'm

00:41:55.880 just having a good time there is something a little bit eyes wide shut about that one isn't

00:42:00.260 there yeah fidelio i like the guana man i don't know about you right so i love the iguana man

00:42:05.900 Right. Media are trying to contain it a bit and say, well, they just feel a sort of deep spiritual connection to this animal and this.

00:42:17.080 But I want us to ask ourselves whether we can be a Therianthrope.

00:42:21.200 And it says essentially there's no ritual or initiation that is involved in becoming a Therian.

00:42:27.000 Therianthropy is not a religion or religious practice.

00:42:29.640 If you're a Therian, you just are. 1.00

00:42:32.400 You can just be a Therian. 0.98

00:42:33.980 so you just know one day you you wake up and you know if you are a therianthrope you just know it

00:42:40.320 there's a familiar feeling with the animal and a feeling of this is what i am some describe it as

00:42:47.140 a certain feeling you get in your chest um especially sometimes if it hurts before you're

00:42:52.700 flying an uplifting feeling of relief when you see your theriotype do not you get a feeling in

00:42:58.400 your chest and you actually identify with a xenomorph that's going to be very disturbing

00:43:02.160 like the alien yeah you have to find sigourney weaver you won't feel it for very long that's

00:43:06.820 true right also they just make sure to point out this isn't a sex thing guys this isn't a weird

00:43:12.460 sex thing no this isn't stop accusing we're not like those freak furries it has nothing to do

00:43:17.720 about it has nothing to do about sexuality with sexuality it's all about identity not everything

00:43:24.160 is sexualized harry no i'm just you should have known this i'm just you have watched the netflix

00:43:28.320 show in your life i'm just saying that they point not ever i'm just saying that they pointed out

00:43:32.320 stelios i'm just that's all i'm saying i'm saying that you know i respect that this isn't like those 0.84

00:43:36.640 weird degenerate furries this is like above board no this is actually more serious than fairies

00:43:43.560 more serious than furries absolutely i mean i love the animal kingdom what's there to not like there 0.99

00:43:50.300 you have to find a spiritual animal mosquitoes those fish that swim up your penis i don't like 0.92

00:43:56.780 any of those which which was your therian type i don't know yet i think maybe the koala that just 0.97

00:44:01.720 sits there in euromax's altar all day that's that's i'm an aspiring koala max i remember hearing that

00:44:08.260 the majority of koalas carry chlamydia i was i was gonna say that's also a form of euromax

00:44:13.060 right so there was a link here with that i can't find but i will tell you what there is

00:44:18.760 there has been a political dimension into the discussion this is a spanish far leftist who

00:44:25.900 said essentially that all this is bs that mille is pointing people's attention to in order to

00:44:33.280 prevent people's attention from the reforms he's making um i mean he's making sweeping economic

00:44:40.280 reforms but hey look at those people dressed as animals yes that's according to her and because

00:44:45.440 i'm really gdp i'm really interested in the luke who's talking side of things let us remember she

00:44:53.040 is a spanish far leftist who cheers what she calls the great replacement and she wants the

00:45:01.160 spanish to be replaced these are her words and her party got less than one percent in the recent

00:45:08.220 regional election so yeah she the spaniards weren't particularly happy with her um the el

00:45:15.260 Pais says here that this is what this is a trend that isn't as big as people are saying. I agree 1.00

00:45:23.400 with them on this, but I completely disagree with what they're going to say afterwards. They're

00:45:28.280 saying that all this is just what right wing extremists are using in order to promote anti

00:45:34.880 wokeness. Well, this is I mean, we've we've discussed about this view several times. I'll

00:45:41.440 say this very briefly you don't need many people to cause problems in your society because it's

00:45:49.760 not fundamentally about small groups you could say for instance that when it comes to to the

00:45:55.000 trans lobby it's not there aren't many people but you can have woke rules within an environment 0.84

00:46:00.620 that could be completely homogenous but it does destroy that environment because these are bad

00:46:08.780 rules i haven't necessarily seen anything that suggests it's directly woke it seems to be its

00:46:13.960 own sort of separate thing where that you know the identity the fluidity of the identity seems to be

00:46:19.880 a similar theme but at the same time you know if you pardon the pun there's a wolf at the door

00:46:27.100 that is immigration surely you should be focusing on that and not this right and now something

00:46:33.580 happened in portugal and uh we are approaching the end of the segment they actually went to the vet

00:46:41.740 some of them were some of them felt ill and the spiritual identification with the animals

00:46:48.540 was so strong that they went to the vet what did they have worms fleas um did they uh

00:46:55.340 ready to be neutered oh that'd be i don't know but here it's fun because portugal's veterinary

00:47:00.380 vet vet veterinary association clarifies role amid therian identity trends why is it affecting

00:47:08.700 largely the spanish and portuguese speaking world this is isn't it obvious why enlighten us

00:47:15.980 vague well well it is it's just self-evident isn't it it just is guidance for veterinarians

00:47:22.940 They say that the advice they give their members, should a Therian seek examination or treatment, they must decline any medical act, diagnosis or therapy, as these fall outside their legal scope of practice.

00:47:37.880 They should respond respectfully and clearly, also by recognizing the Therian identity of the Therian, explaining that veterinary professionals are trained and licensed solely to care for animals, not humans.

00:47:51.540 and you would expect here we have again they say we treat animals non-humans and here we have

00:47:59.400 them saying hate speech against us has become popularized so we are gonna have again a new

00:48:07.620 trend that doesn't have to have many people to annoy us this is just teenagers being weird

00:48:17.080 look at this guy he knows what's going on yeah also one thing one thing that had that had me

00:48:22.800 fooled for a second i mean just posing in front of cameras and recording videos and caring about

00:48:30.580 your views is typical animal behavior so yeah this is exactly what an animal would do the animal

00:48:37.760 kingdom works on an attention economy yeah the cats and dogs that are you know that are pets

00:48:44.020 they definitely care about being on camera well it definitely so this is exactly how you show

00:48:50.500 you are spiritually a cat or a dog chasing instagram views i do see plenty of cats on instagram so

00:48:56.980 all right well rumble rants rumble rants you got you got plenty uh josh will go to make a field to

00:49:06.380 satiate his hunger by eating the competition now that i would pay to see said i was a sea lion

00:49:11.360 drunk changeling

00:49:13.560 the only cure is 1.00

00:49:14.700 euthanasia 1.00

00:49:16.060 based ape 0.80

00:49:17.740 I'm a monkey

00:49:18.400 see it's

00:49:19.240 it's already

00:49:20.040 infected the chap

00:49:20.960 random name

00:49:22.420 that's a very nice

00:49:23.240 psychological analysis

00:49:24.280 Josh

00:49:24.660 I think they're just 1.00

00:49:25.720 gay 1.00

00:49:26.080 it's 0.94

00:49:27.300 it's possible

00:49:28.020 40 and Barber

00:49:29.180 Zeus's good order

00:49:30.300 requires Harry

00:49:31.020 to watch the videos

00:49:32.040 of what these people

00:49:32.800 are up to

00:49:33.180 that's right

00:49:33.680 Stelios was just

00:49:34.460 doing the will of Zeus

00:49:35.300 and Wolfman Jarl

00:49:36.920 not sexualized they

00:49:38.240 so they've been

00:49:38.780 to the local vet

00:49:39.560 for the snip

00:49:40.220 tragic

00:49:40.780 tragic let's talk about goblins yes so one fateful day in june of 2024 i informed the world about the

00:49:51.720 goblins terrorizing zimbabwe stelios was there you were present you must remember this very well

00:49:56.460 yeah there was a goblin mode segment it was indeed but harry was not there and you were not there

00:50:01.480 so i need to refresh your memory a bit before i give you the latest goblin updates about their

00:50:07.860 return and how things have actually escalated in zimbabwe especially but also there's some

00:50:13.040 alarming news that the goblin menace has spread around the world and i wanted to warn you about

00:50:18.460 this so obviously you can watch that segment for a full update but to give you a very quick

00:50:25.000 whistle stop tour um here's a story from 2022 um this is an account from a villager saying just

00:50:33.580 before school closed the goblins attacked five or six girls on the same day the headmaster ran

00:50:38.060 away after the incident some teachers have also left the school i don't know if they're going to

00:50:42.420 come back when school opens and because of course um goblins had terrorized the school and that's

00:50:47.680 not a picture of a goblin by the way that's just a charm oh an anti-goblin charm um i'm not entirely

00:50:53.700 it didn't work very well and they said that the goblins left it behind as it's like a special

00:50:58.480 magical charm with hair and buck teeth but it's weird but um it's the best excuse to not go at

00:51:04.760 school here's another one that shows just how far back it goes this is 2012 another school this time

00:51:11.300 a girls school was attacked by goblins um they're just targeting schools and not just that but also

00:51:17.100 here's a story um when was this one uh 2012 12 yeah yeah 26 women women woke up without their

00:51:25.480 undergarments on um and they were all found in a neighboring village and uh let's be honest if

00:51:31.860 this were have some competition yeah if if if this were a person how could they remove undergarments

00:51:38.040 from 26 sleeping women and get away with it and collate them into a place they have to be magical

00:51:43.920 creatures there's no way that that was possible do do we know what the goblins were up to um when

00:51:50.660 jfk was assassinated no but it's a good point and i think it's something we need to focus on

00:51:56.080 um here's another one even the police themselves are scared to tackle the goblin menace this is

00:52:02.540 about um an area in zimbabwe where the police were harassed by goblins and um here's a direct

00:52:11.060 quote here they described being harassed bodies being violated doors opening on their own and

00:52:15.980 things climbing on the roof making it impossible to sleep and so they abandoned the police station

00:52:20.480 and left the area entirely

00:52:22.360 unpoliced because of the goblins scaring

00:52:24.460 them away. And it's also

00:52:26.600 worth mentioning, I covered part

00:52:28.540 of this story, this is the story

00:52:30.720 if you remember Stelios, where

00:52:32.200 parents kept on waking up to find

00:52:34.480 their children's heads shaved

00:52:35.920 and also one was stabbed

00:52:38.520 in the leg. So I'm going to read

00:52:40.440 the update, there's an update on this story

00:52:42.720 so apparently

00:52:43.960 they sent their children away 0.81

00:52:46.580 they sent their children to their grandmother 0.98

00:52:48.740 in South Africa 0.99

00:52:49.640 however the goblins followed them

00:52:52.960 it was only three days after they arrived

00:52:55.640 that the goblins started playing their usual tricks

00:52:57.860 and then the children were brought back to Zimbabwe again

00:53:01.700 and apparently they even sent their children

00:53:03.820 to stay with neighbours in Zimbabwe

00:53:05.680 they're still in Zimbabwe but just nearby 0.99

00:53:08.960 and the creatures followed them there as well

00:53:11.640 and the children's grandmother actually

00:53:13.900 this is quite sad so please be serious

00:53:17.340 She tearfully revealed that the community had suspected that she's a witch

00:53:21.740 and she denied that in her 80-year existence she's remained a devout Christian

00:53:27.100 and she doesn't practice witchcraft.

00:53:30.200 She never communed with goblins. 0.88

00:53:31.820 No, and I believe her because the goblins often turn people against people

00:53:36.400 in that part of the world and it's quite sad, actually.

00:53:39.160 And, of course, we need to point out the fact that the goblins can get into your mind,

00:53:43.000 which is very much a point of concern here

00:53:47.400 because one gentleman, he stabbed a 19-year-old in the breast and neck with a chisel as she slept

00:53:55.760 and then plunged the tool into his own neck as she was bleeding to death

00:53:59.600 and the man who's 24 claimed the attack on his wife

00:54:03.860 was a product of him being tormented by goblins that was punching him in a dream

00:54:10.560 and he was trying to defend himself against the goblin

00:54:12.740 but the goblin tricked him into murdering his wife and attacking himself and he did receive a jail

00:54:18.380 sentence but only because he was uh declared temporarily insane by the goblins of course

00:54:23.720 um but the good news is they can be fought um here's a story of a clinic you know a medical

00:54:29.640 clinic that was cleared of goblins but it doesn't really divulge the the methodology that you need

00:54:35.020 to do it and thankfully um there's a local religious prophet that showed us the methodology

00:54:42.060 and Stelios we went over this and don't worry

00:54:44.040 after this story it's all novel

00:54:45.880 and new goblin news since the

00:54:48.000 last coverage but I want to

00:54:49.980 talk about this because it's important to show you the

00:54:51.920 method if you do encounter goblins how you

00:54:53.980 deal with them so

00:54:55.420 that's the verdict of

00:54:58.020 the goblin inquiry

00:54:59.020 at first I thought these goblins 1.00

00:55:02.060 were just like 0.95

00:55:02.740 cheeky little rascals I thought you know 0.62

00:55:05.920 that they were just going to be you know like stealing 0.98

00:55:07.680 underpants and causing a little bit

00:55:09.960 of mischief here and there but here

00:55:11.340 African leprechauns yeah like African leprechauns you know or like they can like English or like 0.97

00:55:16.560 English gnomes you know they just like you sneak about do cheeky things but after hearing about it 0.99

00:55:21.460 forcing that poor man to murder his own wife you know I thought that this is rather sinister really

00:55:27.620 yeah well it depends on what mood you catch the goblins in sometimes it's petty hijinks that can

00:55:32.360 be overlooked sometimes it's really horrible things but uh here we have a case of um prophet

00:55:37.780 Siziba, he says, when they asked me to kill the goblins after the Zion people, I don't know who

00:55:42.740 those people are. It goes all the way back to the Bible. I know. They had failed. People thought I 0.74

00:55:48.060 could just jump in and do it at once, but it's not done that way. I had to prepare. This is the

00:55:52.540 reason we spent the night singing and praying. I had to set traps because if I had not done that,

00:55:57.060 the goblin was going to kill me, he said. A goblin has a powerful spirit, so we had to pray

00:56:01.800 for the chicken. There's no setting up here of anything. You just sort of have to know what's

00:56:06.480 going on uh but they had to pray for the chicken so that by the time um the goblin died the goblin

00:56:13.400 spirit would move into the chicken and not into anyone because of course you don't want to get

00:56:17.900 possessed by the chicken and the owner of the goblin yeah sorry chicken possession is frankly

00:56:25.580 not that important it's peanuts isn't it um anyway so the the owner of the house who was being uh

00:56:30.900 haunted by the goblins had to hold the chicken down um and uh he talks about as for the jameson

00:56:36.320 bottles of course jameson being a form of whiskey it's just a coincidence because all we wanted were

00:56:40.880 empty bottles where we put our prayers and the bottles would explode as a signal for us to go

00:56:46.120 ahead um and so the fact they had to drink the bottles to make them empty but what happened to

00:56:50.660 the jameson itself did the goblins get that first no i think they drank it um which i imagine

00:56:55.800 probably helped a lot with the singing um all night long but um it's good to know that there's

00:57:01.180 method you just need some empty whiskey bottles and a chicken and you can rid yourselves of

00:57:06.360 goblins as long as you stay up all night singing and praying well and a belly full of whiskey helps

00:57:11.040 as well yeah i imagine so um there is also um something that you do need to be wary of fake 0.92

00:57:18.760 shamans because they could rape you um so apparently a woman who is desperate for help 0.86

00:57:24.520 um allowed a man into her two-roomed house which was still under construction but she had problems 0.99

00:57:30.420 with goblins in her house and once inside he began his ritual and the fake healer told her to remove

00:57:36.820 her trousers and then lit a fire on a stick and place the burning stick between her legs claiming

00:57:41.900 the flames would drive away the goblins but this is not as we know we saw the successful ritual this

00:57:46.820 is not the same one this sounds like nothing like established anti-goblin practice exactly

00:57:51.580 and uh the ritual quickly turned into assault and then he pushed the woman to the floor but

00:57:58.380 she managed to escape and get away

00:58:02.020 and the fake shaman got 15 years in prison 1.00

00:58:04.580 which is some real justice

00:58:06.140 not only for the assault

00:58:08.000 but also targeting a woman who's desperate 0.78

00:58:10.940 in need of goblin

00:58:12.220 and she's still got a goblin problem afterwards as well

00:58:14.860 yeah, after going through all of that 1.00

00:58:16.540 and you know, it's not just women 0.99

00:58:19.700 that have to undergo these sorts of sexual assaults

00:58:22.300 the police themselves, male police officers 0.56

00:58:24.900 get sexually assaulted by female goblins um so um here's a statement from one of the police 0.78

00:58:32.720 officers that was sexually assaulted once inside the goblins start caressing us all over the body 0.95

00:58:37.500 they touch your head shoulders waist and stomach like someone uh caresses her boyfriend you feel

00:58:43.200 it in your sleep but you cannot wake up to fight it off once awake we find the doors open after

00:58:48.040 waking up sometimes we pray but as soon as we sleep we'll hear knocks on the windows and the 0.98

00:58:53.080 episodes begin again we suspect these are female goblins and their only interest is sex with males 0.98

00:58:58.580 um yes they made me do it they made me do it no stare i swear it was a goblin and uh it's worth 0.97

00:59:06.000 pointing out as well that sorry dear one of the locals wanted the police to return because they

00:59:11.580 were protecting some construction tools in in this this building and and so they stayed there

00:59:17.080 to prove that okay it's safe to stay here and the local that was trying to prove the point says um

00:59:21.800 well it's not them speaking directly but the person who asked them

00:59:25.120 we asked someone to guard the place at night since we have construction property kept on site

00:59:29.460 the guy who slept there keeps the lights on at night

00:59:32.800 and he said he only heard noise on the windows and the rooftops

00:59:36.260 as the goblins seemed to be shy of light

00:59:38.180 so you know how to get rid of them

00:59:40.600 you know that they don't like light

00:59:42.280 have you seen the film Gremlins?

00:59:43.700 same thing, they don't like bright lights

00:59:45.400 just pointing that one out

00:59:47.880 so I've also got a happy ending

00:59:51.460 it's not all doom and gloom so you remember hearing about that grandmother who was being

00:59:57.060 accused of witchcraft she was able to basically return to normalcy in the house after lots of

01:00:04.460 church members came over and they prayed and they chanted and fasted and through their devotion to

01:00:10.580 the christian god the goblins were banished which is a modern day miracle really and thankfully her

01:00:18.360 reputation has now been cleared in the local community and she can live a normal life again 0.96

01:00:22.180 which is nice to hear but as we've seen goblins are no laughing matter and people from the outside

01:00:29.340 should be warned that when they go to Zimbabwe they do need to respect the local problems and

01:00:35.360 one American woman basically learned this lesson the hard way and what happened was a dawn raid

01:00:43.580 was carried out on Martha O'Donovan's

01:00:45.600 home in Zimbabwe

01:00:47.100 after she tweeted that

01:00:49.440 President Robert Mugabe 0.99

01:00:51.020 is a goblin whose wife and stepson 1.00

01:00:53.640 bought a Rolls Royce 1.00

01:00:54.980 and that was enough to get her raided 1.00

01:00:57.000 because of course, goblins are no laughing matter 0.99

01:00:59.680 and to compare 0.87

01:01:00.560 a leader like Mugabe to a goblin

01:01:03.400 is really unfair 0.94

01:01:05.000 to the goblins. Anyway

01:01:07.080 there has been a very

01:01:10.520 If your IQ is single digit

01:01:12.520 yes exactly so there have been some horrendous turns of events as well recently this is from

01:01:21.360 march of this year so this is one of the more recent goblin based stories of the goblins taking

01:01:26.460 a darker turn and encouraging a former police detective to go berserk and shoot four people

01:01:34.080 so i'll tell you about this story and also the sun did a good job of actually finding out some

01:01:38.340 other goblin related hijinks and they're not quite as sinister as this so um that's definitely a man

01:01:44.420 who's communed with goblins are there any good goblins that you can sort of appeal to in order

01:01:49.120 to fight the bad one no i think they're universally bad kind of like are we we're looking for like a

01:01:53.960 parthenax style goblin in the same way that you know he was the good dragon skyrim yeah you get

01:01:59.980 to find a good goblin uh jason move every claim that's a bit you know prejudiced josh it could

01:02:06.120 well be but until their behavior improves i'm afraid we've got to judge them all with you know

01:02:11.400 severe scrutiny but this guy claims he'd been tormented by goblins that forced him to drive to

01:02:16.800 a church shrine with his mum and then they ordered him to shoot a 62 year old local prophet

01:02:21.640 with his pistol and then he allegedly killed a local police inspector a barman and another man

01:02:28.940 as well as wounding four other people and also they mention here um muveve 42 who was married

01:02:35.980 to three women in different towns at the same time had seven children later fled to mozambique

01:02:41.440 they're sort of shaming him like not only did you abandon your wife you abandoned two others as well

01:02:45.740 um uh his defense lawyer said he was obviously unhinged i feel like that's a little bit unfair

01:02:54.040 Because, obviously, goblins are real and if someone claims that there are goblins influencing them, we've seen already that it can drive people to murder.

01:03:03.100 I mean, really, why is he on trial?

01:03:05.920 I know, it's the goblins, obviously.

01:03:08.520 And she added that the state witness admitted that on that day of the commission of the offence, the accused was restless and being haunted by goblins.

01:03:17.580 So she did point that out correctly.

01:03:19.600 The accused person without any conscience

01:03:21.940 Kicked the bodies of his victims

01:03:23.320 Particularly the officer shot by him

01:03:25.260 And he denies murder

01:03:26.940 And the son actually did some good investigative work here

01:03:30.480 And found some additional goblin stories

01:03:32.680 That I hadn't actually heard of before

01:03:35.120 So

01:03:37.060 Goblins often cause problems in Zimbabwe

01:03:40.480 But they are said to be invisible to everybody

01:03:42.360 Except the person they attack

01:03:43.740 Naked female goblins once chased 1.00

01:03:46.180 Terrified policemen out of the 1.00

01:03:47.940 out of the nick in that that was we've already covered that one to be fair and screaming school

01:03:53.400 girls fled the high school um after being attacked in their classroom by dwarf goblins who metamorphosized

01:03:58.640 into baboons i remember reading about this one last time wait there's a goblin here we have to

01:04:03.800 ask it i know it can be i'm looking at it well can you see it the fourth chair i don't

01:04:10.360 still i think we need to get um we get a priest on the case frankly yeah a woman told josh

01:04:17.520 Break out the Jamesons.

01:04:19.300 We've got a plan.

01:04:20.540 All right.

01:04:20.940 No, we need stronger stuff.

01:04:22.500 Much stronger stuff.

01:04:24.000 What's stronger than whiskey?

01:04:25.140 Blimey.

01:04:25.840 Yeah.

01:04:26.840 So a woman told her she suffered four consecutive miscarriages

01:04:30.100 after being unknowingly married off to a goblin.

01:04:32.380 This is something that people don't know about.

01:04:34.740 And both her and her husband claim to have been forced to marry goblins.

01:04:39.080 I know a few people like that.

01:04:40.420 And she says that my husband and I can no longer have Lula Lula together.

01:04:44.700 I don't know what Lula Lula is, but we can only speculate.

01:04:47.520 Goblins made him a eunuch

01:04:50.460 Apparently so

01:04:52.140 Loveless Nota, 41, blamed a goblin curse

01:04:55.460 On the fact three of her husbands died 1.00

01:04:57.080 Whilst the other two dumped her

01:04:59.080 She complained, men now fear to approach me

01:05:01.460 Those goblins are cruel, aren't they? 0.60

01:05:04.060 Many young girls are dying in households

01:05:05.800 Where goblins are active 0.83

01:05:06.820 Women are sexually abused by invisible men 0.65

01:05:08.920 We urgently need help 0.95

01:05:10.300 Goblin interference was also suspected

01:05:13.320 When Custom Mutahima

01:05:15.080 The head man of Mutahima Village

01:05:17.040 in east zimbabwe suddenly collapsed and died other relatives accused his brother aaron of

01:05:21.420 possessing a special charm that enabled him to have spiritual sex at a distance with a person

01:05:27.860 of his choice um he minded them so he protested that he was innocent and said he had nothing to

01:05:35.920 do with the goblins um he says i don't know why i've been labeled a wizard i just visited my

01:05:40.860 brother when he was bedridden and then he died the local chief ordered the family to stop their

01:05:45.860 shenanigans and start a cleansing process immediately to get rid of the goblins so yeah

01:05:51.820 it's rife and in fact here's another one um of another school having to close this was of march

01:05:57.560 last year um they're terrorizing image it is yeah well it's getting a lot of use so i found this

01:06:04.440 interesting this is a new development so a local villager was talking about carrying out the

01:06:09.000 traditional cleansing rituals as we've seen works with the chicken and the like um they're talking

01:06:13.700 about that's how it works then a teacher at the school you know with these new age ideas said

01:06:18.740 some of us believe in supernatural forces while others rely on science the best way the best

01:06:24.220 approach is to involve both traditional leaders and mental health experts that way we cover all

01:06:28.480 possibilities and find the real cause which i feel like is blaming a lot of the victims here

01:06:33.320 and it even goes further than that because another community member dismissed the claims of goblins

01:06:37.580 altogether and they attributed it to psychological distress which as we've seen how could that be

01:06:43.300 the case when all of these real phenomena

01:06:45.300 have gone on. The goblins cause

01:06:47.000 psychological distress, so the answer

01:06:49.100 is still the same. Exactly.

01:06:51.240 And they say, people are quick to blame witchcraft

01:06:53.240 when there could be other explanations. Mass

01:06:55.140 hysteria happens, especially among students.

01:06:57.720 Maybe they saw something strange and panic

01:06:59.340 spread. We need experts to investigate

01:07:01.440 not just traditionalists and religious

01:07:03.120 leaders, which I think is

01:07:05.020 you know, maybe

01:07:07.360 they're paid off by the goblins, maybe

01:07:09.200 they receive some sort of

01:07:10.720 payment in gold. They're sort of

01:07:13.280 on side with the goblins here frankly gaslighting i know yeah exactly and there's a really horrifying

01:07:19.680 story here which uh for some reason isn't loading i think it will load i think there's goblin

01:07:25.840 mischief would you be able to click the reload button here because i can certainly give it a

01:07:30.240 try it's not on samson do it no not samson sam jack is jack hang on i can do it i can do it

01:07:36.640 it's all right goblins have control of the mouse um so one woman's been tormented by goblins for

01:07:42.480 30 years and apparently um she says my ordeal started when relatives went to a witch doctor

01:07:48.920 i was only three years old at the time and the witch doctor gave them 10 goblins which were

01:07:53.200 supposed to stay at the homes of either my father's or mother's relatives instead five were

01:07:57.920 assigned to me and the other five to my younger sister they tormented me every day from as early

01:08:03.180 as six o'clock in the morning um in the evening sorry um they began to appear oh so they're a

01:08:08.660 nighttime phenomenon sorry yeah sometimes disguising themselves as my relatives i live

01:08:13.920 in constant fear because i never know when they will come they'll disturb my sleep and my peace

01:08:18.380 when i menstruate they come to drink the blood even when i throw away my sanitary pads they

01:08:23.240 retrieve them to take the blood they are benefiting financially from the goblins leaving me to suffer 0.57

01:08:29.040 alone that her family obviously further alleging that her relatives interfered with her personal

01:08:34.100 life and destroyed important documents including including her academic certificates and

01:08:38.640 identification papers um her o levels and advanced level certificates were burnt as well as her birth

01:08:44.620 certificate and national id cards because her family wanted her to remain a vessel for the

01:08:49.600 goblins so they can accumulate wealth and empower by setting the goblins on her and her life has

01:08:55.660 become very difficult and apparently she's um now homeless and she doesn't have proper clothes or

01:09:00.920 property um because of her family basically dooming her to torment with goblins for their

01:09:07.000 own riches and this is uh something that doesn't really get touched on because people can benefit

01:09:12.540 financially from these goblins and it's a real shame because no one's really talking about it

01:09:17.400 especially not internationally and i think that we should draw a bit more attention to that right so

01:09:22.300 one question i have i don't know if you can answer it now but if if not that's okay do you know what

01:09:28.200 is the position of goblins in the lore of zimbabwe because i mean i'm not going to discover

01:09:35.640 far exactly here it seems to me that this is one way in which they're trying to give an explanation

01:09:41.340 for the horrific abuse that they they experience it's like i mean you you mentioned the goblins

01:09:49.200 took the form of their family yeah we know that frequently for instance there is sexual abuse

01:09:55.820 from within the extended family let's say uncles are the worst offenders data shows that's not me

01:10:03.440 to say so it's what it's it's like saying well no um no the goblins took my uncle's uh form well

01:10:11.600 you you can certainly see people um taking advantage of it so there's another story from

01:10:16.520 this same news website goblin goblins claim man claims sorry goblins forced him to sell

01:10:22.380 grandmother's property and claims goblins force him to lose at cards all his property

01:10:27.020 so the man um claims that he was selling his grandmother's property to fund his drug addiction

01:10:33.460 now i think this man uh we all know that drug addicts steal things from other people to sell

01:10:38.740 and i think he's using the the very real phenomenon of goblins to make an excuse for

01:10:43.660 his filthy habit and i for one think that this is particularly gross because obviously he's using

01:10:49.680 goblins as a proxy for his own bad behavior here which isn't funny because of course as we can see

01:10:56.140 here another school was attacked only on the 20th of march and all of these school children having

01:11:02.780 their educations disrupted 17 children out of the 350 enrolled have exhibited strange and alarming

01:11:10.800 behaviors thanks to these goblins and according to witnesses the learners collapsed during lessons

01:11:15.400 or flee classrooms in terror, claiming to have been visited or tormented by malevolent spirits,

01:11:20.780 which I think at this rate we all know are goblins.

01:11:23.440 They don't allow them to concentrate.

01:11:24.860 So, Josh, I think the pressing question that everybody is wanting to ask here is,

01:11:31.060 is upon, frankly, goblins' impact on international law.

01:11:35.820 Does the UN have a pact on this?

01:11:38.740 Well, it doesn't take it near enough seriously,

01:11:40.920 because, of course, goblins at the minute are quite localised,

01:11:45.520 although my final link shows that they are spreading worldwide,

01:11:49.680 which is a recent phenomenon, and it's very scary because they've...

01:11:53.280 The question is, you know, does the ECHR have any sort of carve-outs 0.96

01:11:59.400 for goblin-related refugees?

01:12:02.360 Are goblin rights human rights? 1.00

01:12:04.260 No, well, they're not seen as human beings. 0.98

01:12:07.280 They're different entities.

01:12:08.280 Of course, in Zimbabwe, I don't want these people to be suffering

01:12:11.280 from goblin-related mischief and attacks, 1.00

01:12:14.460 but at the same time, if they come over here,

01:12:16.100 we need provisions to make sure that the goblins aren't being carried along by them,

01:12:19.860 whether knowingly or not.

01:12:21.420 Yeah, I mean, they can bring goblins with them,

01:12:23.760 and that brings problems to areas.

01:12:25.440 As we saw, they could be brought to South Africa, couldn't they,

01:12:28.560 where they weren't previously, and it's a big problem.

01:12:31.100 And actually, I spoke to someone who was born in Rhodesia,

01:12:34.720 as it was known at the time.

01:12:36.200 Of course, it's now Zimbabwe,

01:12:37.460 and they said that the locals even back then many many years ago would put their beds on

01:12:44.180 piles of bricks to keep them high up so the goblins couldn't reach them because obviously

01:12:48.460 the goblins are small and so there are lots of goblin preventative measures in place 0.64

01:12:53.220 and I think that what we need to do is just support the Zimbabweans in preventing these 1.00

01:12:58.800 goblins really high stilted beds is a good start yeah maybe have nightlights give them nightlights 0.73

01:13:05.740 to keep the goblins out of the room and that sort of thing.

01:13:08.400 And, of course... 0.95

01:13:09.040 A wall built around Zimbabwe to prevent them from spreading elsewhere. 1.00

01:13:13.140 That's a good idea. 1.00

01:13:13.940 If they can enter South Africa, who knows where else they could get.

01:13:16.720 And also, I think that them targeting schools as well. 0.98

01:13:20.840 I think there needs to be some sort of anti-goblin... 0.95

01:13:23.080 Yeah.

01:13:23.560 If they're creatures of the night and they don't like light,

01:13:26.280 maybe electricity would be a good idea.

01:13:28.300 Yeah, just having some infrastructure there.

01:13:29.780 Stealing infrastructure. 0.93

01:13:30.380 Because, of course, the infrastructure since the Rhodesian times

01:13:34.380 has declined quite rapidly.

01:13:35.740 there's less electricity than there used to be in the like same with South Africa and so what we

01:13:40.660 need is some solid infrastructure maybe get some Europeans in and build some floodlights in certain 0.97

01:13:45.960 areas that are high goblin density and speaking of electricity actually one thing that does really

01:13:53.000 worry me is this this thing from OpenAI of course the owners of ChatGPT have encountered little

01:14:00.320 micro goblins and this is quite serious because of course chat gpt is used around the world and if

01:14:06.580 little tiny micro goblins can go through the wires and access anyone then it's not just

01:14:14.420 zimbabweans that need to worry it's anyone really that has access to chat gpt and let me just read

01:14:21.840 what it says here starting with chat gpt 5.1 our model began developing a strange habit

01:14:27.980 They increasingly mention goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors,

01:14:32.000 unlike model bugs that show up through a tanking eval or spiking training metric

01:14:36.640 and point back to a specific change.

01:14:39.320 This one crept in subtly, as goblins often do.

01:14:43.380 A single little goblin in an answer could be harmless, even charming,

01:14:47.600 but across model generations, as we've seen, multiple goblins cause problems.

01:14:51.600 Though the habit became hard to miss.

01:14:53.320 The goblins kept multiplying.

01:14:55.280 You've seen the film Gremlins.

01:14:56.680 you know they get into water well i guess they get into computer servers and they multiply and

01:15:02.240 we need to figure out where they came from well we know the answer to that don't we open ai clearly

01:15:07.100 you know not invested their money zimbabwe the right places the answer is zimbabwe um now their

01:15:13.260 explanation which is misguided is uh they say the short answer is that the model's behavior

01:15:18.620 is shaped by many small incentives in this case one of the incentives came from training the model

01:15:23.500 for the personality customization feature in particular the nerdy personality we unknowingly

01:15:29.800 gave it a particularly high reward for metaphors with creatures from there the goblins spread so

01:15:35.260 basically they they coded in uh they haven't quite got it in that the goblins are real and they get

01:15:40.560 into the wires but they coded in a vulnerability which the goblins were able to exploit get into

01:15:46.740 and multiply and um i suppose my point here is that you all need to take the goblin menace far

01:15:53.600 more seriously than we are now because it's no longer contained to zimbabwe and we've seen the

01:15:58.900 cases in zimbabwe escalating you know my last time i covered it you know i covered it two years ago

01:16:05.280 i had to go all the way back to 2012 to have a full segment's worth of material

01:16:09.300 now i've had a full segment's worth of material in just two years it's accelerating and it is

01:16:14.940 accelerating as well josh i think what we're failing to consider here is that this article

01:16:18.960 i don't mean to get conspiratorial it was written by goblins it's trying to obfuscate the actual

01:16:25.580 issue that the goblins are on the inside of the system now so yeah i've warned you be careful

01:16:31.460 all right and we've got plenty of rumble rants for that one so uh we don't know what the goblins

01:16:40.900 were doing when they got JFK, but we know what they were doing on 9-11. Weird how goblins only

01:16:47.360 show up wherever 60 IQ Africans live. I think that's being somewhat unfair to this obviously

01:16:53.380 real phenomenon. I'm afraid the good goblins mysteriously left with the Rhodesians. 0.99

01:17:01.040 What would you say to that, Josh? Well, I've seen a newspaper article about goblin attacks

01:17:07.760 in the 1950s in Rhodesia,

01:17:10.200 so I don't think that's quite true, actually.

01:17:12.280 I would argue, in fact, that the Rhodesians

01:17:13.840 were probably keeping them at bay. 1.00

01:17:16.420 Yeah, well, with the power of electrical lights,

01:17:18.820 I think that's the best thing.

01:17:20.360 Here's one for you, Josh.

01:17:22.020 Do we have any goblin-related crime stats?

01:17:24.040 Can we get Rupert to put in an FOI?

01:17:26.460 Well, one of the stats that we addressed last time,

01:17:29.020 didn't we, Stelios,

01:17:29.620 is that despite making up only 13% of all crime incidents, 0.53

01:17:36.860 goblins are responsible for 50 percent of harassment cases yeah so it's their

01:17:42.200 per capita overrepresented in harassment mm-hmm terrible an optic door we can't

01:17:47.240 judge these poor souls just because there's a simple answer does not mean

01:17:50.840 it is the correct answer the simplest answer of course being that goblins did

01:17:55.220 it and a random name finishes off here with all jokes aside isn't life wild as

01:18:00.500 a caveman I don't know what you mean and let's get on with the video comments

01:18:06.860 The Boys, the Amazon original series, had a terrible ending.

01:18:12.220 It was a really serious political satire, and you...

01:18:16.080 Harry, you missed out on what I think is easily one of the worst examples. 0.97

01:18:20.260 The character, called Stormfront, murders entire buildings of black people 0.99

01:18:24.160 for no reason other than that black. 1.00

01:18:27.620 She turns out to be a Nazi. 1.00

01:18:29.920 No, an actual Nazi.

01:18:33.160 I wonder where they got the idea for the name.

01:18:34.960 yeah uh no i i i remember that i watched series two when it came out and watching series two when

01:18:41.940 it came out like i there's there's a guy on youtube called big bungie who uh has been who

01:18:47.840 did a video years ago on how bad the show was i'm surprised that more people weren't along with him

01:18:53.120 because after the second series came out i didn't need any outside influence from reviewers i was

01:18:57.440 just like that sucked it's a really bad series of television especially after the first one was

01:19:02.880 alright and all the Stormfront stuff was just like oh okay that's what this show

01:19:07.560 is now but but but yeah that was very obvious they were never subtle here the

01:19:15.360 majestic spider-man has some but just it policies for the kingdom of England

01:19:22.860 wales and scotland first policy you introduce a flat tax rate of 10 percent no loopholes

01:19:33.940 everyone will pay our next run a five percent business rate there no other taxes on businesses

01:19:42.600 just at five percent there's some sensible fiscal policy coming there peter pera knows

01:19:49.240 a bad policy it really does something big just happened in car world which will affect normie

01:19:55.300 ville too first brands is a giant holding company which owned the majority of production firms for

01:20:00.360 aftermarket parts and they just entered chapter seven bankruptcy production didn't just stop the

01:20:04.940 factories are being broken up no matter what we're gonna have a massive loss of knowledge problem as

01:20:09.760 all them boys is getting fired we had a similar problem during the pandemic which is why you got

01:20:13.460 stuff like flat tappet lifters going from a century old solved problem to a 50 50 shot of

01:20:17.700 blowing up your brand new motor. Anyone with a daily driver is going to see a similar drop in

01:20:21.620 quality and basic stuff like brake pads, oil filters, you name it. Just another instance of

01:20:26.380 life getting that little bit harder. Happy motoring. I mean, first of all, I really enjoyed

01:20:32.880 that time lapse of building that engine. Second of all, it's interesting actually, because

01:20:38.480 the aftermarket parts industry is normally one big company does these sorts of things and then

01:20:44.320 it breaks up and normally what happens is you get some of the former employees banding together and

01:20:49.640 doing their own employee run thing that normally turns out to be better in the long run than the

01:20:54.480 the main thing and hopefully that's what happens here because uh obviously aftermarket car parts

01:21:00.020 are very important and you you don't want to have to be keep on going back to the manufacturer for

01:21:04.960 them right you don't want faulty brake pads that's certainly true yeah well hopefully your hopeful

01:21:10.900 look to the future is more accurate there so for right-wing books there is another one called the

01:21:17.940 postling saga by john ringo and it's basically about the human race being uplifted into sort

01:21:23.740 of a space federation of aliens to be kind of a warrior cast so interestingly there is a more

01:21:29.460 evil race in the federation one of the founders who are basically incapable of doing violence

01:21:34.740 against other living creatures so they instead conduct violence through basically controlling

01:21:39.800 markets and economies and turning like internal federation races against each other to maintain

01:21:45.300 their own power if they sound familiar to you you would be correct they are basically space quakers

01:21:51.260 i like the cover of them just fighting space reptiles i feel like space bugs has been a little

01:21:59.860 bit overdone now space reptiles now that's the new frontier of sci-fi i i think uh the reptilians

01:22:08.020 i mentioned right before we started i just i last night i finished the first halo game

01:22:13.420 for the first time ever it was it was awesome uh the covenant kind of looked like space reptiles

01:22:20.720 a little bit so you know yeah and i started the second one and i can i started it and i could

01:22:26.480 already tell oh now we're getting into proper space opera territory i'm loving this so far so good

01:22:32.120 today's sci-fi recommendation is the high crusade by paul anderson the year is 1345 and a ship

01:22:39.840 containing demons who don't speak latin descends from the heavens and lands in ansby lincolnshire

01:22:44.440 the local baron and his men take the ship and one demon and decide to use the ship to invade

01:22:49.980 france and retake jerusalem shenanigans ensue nice what a fantastic premise for a book that sounds

01:22:56.460 cool i got a couple of other rumble rants in a random name i had the exact same reaction harry

01:23:02.160 when the nazi died i tuned out the boys fictagious this african goblin stuff sounds like the

01:23:09.520 representation the diversity in movies is crying out for i mean how do we know that the goblins

01:23:14.340 aren't already running the movie entertainment industry frankly it would explain a lot i mean

01:23:19.020 a film about goblins in zimbabwe would do phenomenally well especially produced in

01:23:25.080 zimbabwe i'd love to see the kind of production value they can get be really good for the economy

01:23:28.980 i mean i re-watched district nine very recently only a week ago and if they can do that in south

01:23:33.320 africa why not zimbabwe yeah with goblins and we'll get on to the written comments on the

01:23:39.340 website now ron swansey thanks for yet another unhinged stelios friday segment 1.00

01:23:44.740 for my segment dirty belter i don't think we should allow foreigners into the country

01:23:50.920 unless they marry a native being half brazilian i'm biased there fair play if you want people to 0.91

01:23:56.700 fit in they need some blood tie to the land those with no blood tie will almost always be foreigners

01:24:01.600 in their heart as few sane people feel they have more in common with those whom they don't share 1.00

01:24:06.240 a history with than those they do second third and fourth generation immigrants are still foreigners

01:24:11.420 if they're not native i mean that's that's all just common sense that really is grant gibson

01:24:17.140 One in five people are born overseas. That's insane. Canada, hold my beer. I don't know what

01:24:23.260 the figures are in Canada. Is it more like one in four? Let me know. Theo R. I think another

01:24:28.360 thing people miss when they ask why people don't see the decline in immigration is that the public

01:24:34.260 are just not reacting to the current state of things, but also the change in things. The trend

01:24:38.720 is still more foreigners into the UK. Absolutely right. And Grant, again, the internationals on a 1.00

01:24:44.760 visa don't have to use the black market so much when i was an international in the states visa

01:24:49.460 gave me the ability to get a u.s bank account a u.s cell phone rent and none of these companies

01:24:55.240 wanted to put an expiry on my account there's no data sharing after the fact so aside from a job

01:25:00.280 i would have effortlessly stayed in a relatively normal life and even then just having an

01:25:05.040 independent contractor type relationship is not uncommon and would have been very manageable that

01:25:10.100 is that's that's completely ridiculous that you're able to get all of that and they were just sort of

01:25:15.140 like ah you know just hold on to it yeah just hold on to it because they're all just after money

01:25:19.840 kevin fox don't forget that as far as the nepalese are concerned we still have gurkha regiments

01:25:25.540 hardly surprising they'd be sending money home to support their wives kids and families that is fair

01:25:31.220 that we do have the gurkhas over here but also again just as a full population uh 26 percent of 0.98

01:25:39.160 their entire economy being based on remittances meaning means that their entire economy will be

01:25:45.480 based in some way or another around sending people overseas to earn the money that comes back into the

01:25:51.240 economy it's something like 10 billion dollars so they've only got a 40 billion dollar or so

01:25:56.260 economy in the first place in terms of overall gdp so most of the rest of it everything else that

01:26:01.700 goes on there is probably government uh like just keeping the government running and then training

01:26:06.980 people to go overseas to earn the money that comes back into the country that's how these

01:26:11.680 sorts of places operate anyway do you want to go ahead 30 belter says that he thinks that his spirit 0.87

01:26:17.180 animal would be a golden retriever because he's retarded michael dribelbis so really nice so 0.90

01:26:22.940 they're fairies sounds like another chapter of harry's in-depth study of the gay rights movement 0.93

01:26:27.840 not that kind of fairy steve stevens we have a troop of these therians where i live a lot of 0.89

01:26:35.640 them are local acrobatics champions they're however largely detested because the group up

01:26:41.260 and walk around town on all fours they're not pooping in the park are they hope they're covering

01:26:47.660 it dirty belter again says i think that the overlap between weebs furries and autistics is 0.98

01:26:54.920 the desire to have more overt expressions to be easier to read get rid of fairies you'll need to 0.93

01:27:00.280 cure autism or get the spugs interested in something cool like trains or electronics 1.00

01:27:05.160 yeah yeah do industrial things that's what you're playing to your strengths justin b says i don't

01:27:11.760 think uh these people grew up around pets it was probably also the prevalence of anthropomorphic

01:27:16.680 animals in cartoons as they were growing up ben gale says to be honest i'm going to defend these

01:27:22.140 people or animals this is just people going as sexy black cat for halloween but with more role

01:27:28.160 play i think it is harmless and it'll drop it after they get new hobbies i hope so i kind of

01:27:34.280 agree i'd like to say to me it just looks like raw xd teenagers finding something new and weird

01:27:39.460 to hold on to for a couple of years and last one really quick quick before we go to yours

01:27:44.940 michael drebelp is identifies as a dragon now and puts on a flamethrower time to use the breath

01:27:51.200 weapon nice furious dan says i do love josh's segments and the sequel of monkey news and

01:27:56.940 goblin time i eagerly await the inevitable crossover monkeys versus goblins banana vengeance

01:28:02.000 well as they move up north africa they're inevitably going to encounter monkeys so it's

01:28:07.500 only a matter of time mother of hate monsters has sent a nice picture that they have drawn of a

01:28:15.120 goblin i'm not sure if we can pull that one up um hm butter knife permit registry says goblins

01:28:21.240 werewolves and skinwalkers we haven't been this spoiled with cryptozoology since carl's video

01:28:25.800 about bigfoot that is true yes once a year you never know when it's going to be but um michael 0.80

01:28:33.440 says good to see zimbabwe continues to demonstrate that since they got rid of um rhodesians they are

01:28:38.600 truly exemplifying that they are an advanced society um i can't read that um jimbo g says

01:28:46.640 say what you will about rhodesia but they kept the goblins at bay that's my theory

01:28:50.820 uh michael says it's obviously not goblins it's the underpants gnomes

01:28:56.580 and then george happ says goblins seem to cause trouble wherever they go

01:29:01.300 it's true you can't control nor can you trust a goblin and we've got two more uh sent in very

01:29:08.840 quickly all the recent teenage identity fads are the result of a reduction in alpha male bullying

01:29:13.680 uh probably true and want all order says meant to send it yesterday with the apac segment but

01:29:18.800 Razor Fist's heel turn to a trusted planner

01:29:20.920 and shill for Trump and Maga's worst

01:29:22.760 excesses is really sad to see.

01:29:24.800 I mean, I'm not good. I won't comment so

01:29:26.760 hard on that and I won't sort of speculate

01:29:28.580 as to why that is

01:29:30.240 publicly.

01:29:33.960 And

01:29:34.440 with that, I will say

01:29:36.820 that perhaps goblins are involved somehow.

01:29:40.000 But make

01:29:40.820 sure to be on the watch out for goblins

01:29:42.920 while you tune in in half an hour

01:29:44.720 for Lad's Hour. Well, what are we

01:29:46.780 doing for Lad's Hour, Jack?

01:29:48.800 we're doing fantasy president for lads hour in half an hour so check that out tune in and

01:29:57.200 watch out for the goblins this weekend friends stay safe take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 22, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1424

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