The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1448

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters. I am your host, Firas, joined today by

00:00:08.260 Josh and Nate here with us. And we are going to discuss the Montreal shooting and the tragedy of

00:00:18.240 incels. We are going to be talking about the butter chicken tsunami. Yeah. Is that like the

00:00:27.160 Fukushima tsunami or is it worse worse oh wait you wouldn't expect that from butter chicken

00:00:34.100 hazardous to health I hear oh yeah it sounds serious and the latest developments in the

00:00:42.960 climate panic which Josh will be telling us all about apparently it's summer

00:00:48.760 um so starting off with the montreal shooter as i'm sure you have heard uh something quite tragic

00:00:57.800 but also in some ways just shocking happened in montreal uh there was a shooter by what i would

00:01:08.760 describe as a biomarxist i'm guessing who he went to a biomarxist i'll explain i'll explain

00:01:18.360 I literally never heard that phrase before.

00:01:21.100 Yeah.

00:01:22.840 He basically went to the headquarters of Pornhub in Montreal, 1.00

00:01:29.180 which is in a pretty Jewish neighborhood,

00:01:32.440 and fired at the building,

00:01:35.820 and then shot at two police officers before he himself was killed. 0.99

00:01:42.200 Now, one of the police officers was a Muslim. 0.77

00:01:45.620 That's the gentleman who was killed.

00:01:48.360 and the second one was a female she accidentally shot a civilian coming out of the building i

00:01:57.240 believe and he turned out to have been a rabbi and then she ran away from the actual shooter

00:02:05.560 and got shot and at that point the shooter was killed was shot by other officers and and killed

00:02:11.480 um that's briefly the incident and if you were to try to write it into a script nobody would

00:02:19.140 believe you but that seems to have been exactly what happened to the best of my knowledge

00:02:24.520 it reads like a joke doesn't it it's a rabbi a muslim and a woman go into

00:02:30.040 i mean i don't i don't want to laugh about it because it's just yeah the the the incel

00:02:40.960 biomarxist uh wrote a pretty lengthy manifesto um and it seems that he has some other writings as

00:02:49.680 well. And what I want to focus on is the tragic elements about which he is right. Not that in any

00:03:00.500 way that justifies the shooting. As a Catholic, you're only allowed to use force under proper 1.00

00:03:08.880 authority. That means you don't get to just randomly go and start blowing up or shooting

00:03:13.900 people and you don't kill unarmed individuals that that that's just not something that you

00:03:20.540 should be doing so having said that a lot of the diagnosis as is quite common with marxists and

00:03:30.420 leftists a lot of the diagnosis is correct the solutions are absolutely horrible that tends to 0.79

00:03:37.420 be a repeated pattern with the left where they get the problem but their solution to it is much

00:03:43.580 much worse than the problem i mean on the topic of manifestos one i found very interesting was

00:03:49.680 ted kaczynski's because right a lot of his read that yes a lot of his descriptions of the problems

00:03:56.360 of the world were bang on and articulated very well but the solution to bomb computer shops and

00:04:01.740 to renounce all technology i feel is perhaps not the best yes there's going to be much nuance

00:04:07.080 I suppose it's like, here's the issue, extremist position, humanly possible as the solution.

00:04:13.860 Okay.

00:04:15.000 Exactly.

00:04:16.740 And the shooter's starting point is essentially that there are amongst men the haves and the have-nots,

00:04:26.080 but also in a biological sense.

00:04:28.800 That the haves are basically what he calls the favored men.

00:04:32.900 They have access to women.

00:04:35.100 They have access to wealth.

00:04:37.080 They are generally tall and good-looking, whereas in today's society, because of the breakdown in monogamy, they have not only have a lot less materially, but they have zero access to intimacy and zero access to love.

00:04:53.700 Yeah, I mean, he's not actually wrong.

00:04:55.700 Modern dating, what do they call it, hypergamy?

00:04:58.380 That's what he talks about.

00:05:00.060 Oh, right, yeah.

00:05:00.560 I mean, it's a well-known thing.

00:05:02.560 The data has been revealed.

00:05:05.100 Yes.

00:05:05.720 It's just known now.

00:05:07.080 something which is inarguable and it is unfortunate it is a shame um it's sad like it's

00:05:13.240 not that i'm justifying this but it is sad it's genuinely socially destructive yeah i mean it's

00:05:18.200 a breakdown of all society actually civilization at that level exactly can't continue it's almost

00:05:25.460 civilizational uh ruin yes i can i can uh down that path for some words of reassurance here that

00:05:31.660 the kind of examples that we see of really egregious behavior in terms of non-monogamy

00:05:40.560 that tends to be very much in the media spotlight and all the people that are quietly getting on

00:05:47.500 with their lives and behaving themselves well that's not necessarily newsworthy it doesn't

00:05:52.060 circulate and so this does actually give people an outsized impression of the scale of the problem

00:05:58.460 a lot of the time yes there are plenty of good people out there you just have to be in the right

00:06:04.140 circles to meet them you have to of course you know if you want to meet quality people you have

00:06:09.020 to be one yourself usually and you have to work on yourself and not to sound too much like yes

00:06:14.780 dr peterson many years ago but um if you want to have a better life the best thing you can do

00:06:21.420 is better yourself yes i mean yeah sentiments massively shared for sure this guy completely 0.56

00:06:27.820 rejects any of this as with all marxists he is a materialist determinist and so he thinks that

00:06:34.960 you're either attractive or you're not and that's the end of that discussion yeah and to some extent

00:06:41.580 what he speaks about is reflected in the experience of many men today um it doesn't mean that there is

00:06:48.140 nothing that he can that can be done about it i mean you have an inherent just looks generally

00:06:53.620 that we have you know the sort of symmetrical elements of a person's face for sure but i mean

00:06:58.800 you could still go to the gym for instance you could still eat better yes you know you could

00:07:02.320 take care of yourself get a clean yourself yeah get a haircut i mean there's still factors which

00:07:06.860 would uh invariably by a large percentage improve your chances but this is the that's the deterministic

00:07:14.620 acts that that's the deterministic aspect here he completely rejects all of these things but i

00:07:19.440 wanted to get to the points that he gets right ever so quickly it's also worth mentioning that

00:07:23.820 there are plenty of men who are not conventionally attractive in the slightest but have you know

00:07:29.820 presence have a sense of humor and and can punch well above their their weight just simply by being

00:07:36.080 entertaining and one has to bear in mind that women are actually more forgiving on physical

00:07:40.500 appearance than men are um and so you know that's one positive i suppose for a man at the very least

00:07:48.200 is that you can just be an interesting, entertaining person to be around

00:07:55.140 and that will work in your favor.

00:07:57.140 Yes, absolutely, absolutely.

00:07:59.980 But the point that he makes is that monogamy has broken down

00:08:03.100 and that the society is in a state of hypergamy

00:08:06.320 where a very small number of men essentially have tinder harems. 0.57

00:08:11.720 Women pursue these men and ignore all of the others 0.93

00:08:15.720 and end up with massively unrealistic expectations. 0.55

00:08:18.200 but then there are other factors contributing to this and one of the ones that he correctly

00:08:27.120 identifies I would argue is the modern nature of capitalism not in terms of that it permits

00:08:35.120 the free exchange of goods and services but in the fact that it makes materialism into a god 0.96

00:08:45.040 and it has set up society in a way that basically encourages women to go into the workforce and 0.98

00:08:54.400 compete with men and when they don't they get welfare from the state so the natural inclination

00:09:01.440 of a woman to go and find a mate who will be her provider is removed from social dynamics 0.98

00:09:09.640 and replaced either by fictional email jobs or by administrative jobs or by the state itself.

00:09:21.280 Meaning that the imperative is warped, and given the breakdown of any morality, 0.97

00:09:28.200 there is no reason for women to be faithful to one man. 1.00

00:09:32.860 And what that leads to is that average women end up chasing higher status men 1.00

00:09:38.000 and ignoring men of their own status.

00:09:41.720 It's a bit humoristic though, isn't it?

00:09:44.000 You don't do a mass shooting without being a bit...

00:09:47.260 Well, yeah, I've got...

00:09:48.120 Oh, I'm here, obviously.

00:09:49.800 Closing the segment, isn't it?

00:09:51.480 Exactly, exactly.

00:09:53.340 This is partly true

00:09:55.180 and we have to acknowledge that it's partly true

00:09:59.000 and then move on and see, well, how do we address this?

00:10:02.520 I think that there are sections of society that are doing this

00:10:05.440 but one of the problems with these sorts of ideas

00:10:09.400 is that it talks about women in some

00:10:11.500 as if they all behave the same.

00:10:13.040 It's on a monolith.

00:10:14.120 And I don't think that's necessarily true.

00:10:16.740 Correct. 0.99

00:10:17.060 I think of, you know, if I'm looking at women, 1.00

00:10:21.820 I think, you know, does she have quality virtues? 1.00

00:10:26.200 Like a virtuous woman would not, you know, 1.00

00:10:28.960 be part of someone's Tinder harem

00:10:31.140 under no circumstances, under no environmental conditions.

00:10:34.140 that's the fundamental issue and what he misses is that the possibility of tinder harems only exists

00:10:43.580 because of contraceptives and abortion but the thing is if it wasn't for contraceptives and

00:10:48.540 abortion being part of a tinder harem would be a fundamentally unrewarding experience for women

00:10:53.900 because they would be saddled with babies and no providers that's fair i suppose yeah and so

00:10:59.340 the fact that women get used in this way, which is something that he complains about,

00:11:04.940 is highlighted in the encyclical Humanae Vitae from the Catholic Church, from the Pope in 1968,

00:11:14.940 I believe, which explains that the toleration of contraception is going to lead to the degradation

00:11:20.620 of women as they become used purely for sexual purposes and that means that relationships get 0.91

00:11:29.500 hollowed out and emptied out and that marriage becomes in a sense unnecessary so just so there

00:11:36.780 is there are these chains in his logic that he misses gone trying to get in there so yeah i think

00:11:43.660 fundamentally um we're we're actually seeing a massive decline in uh dating app usage now

00:11:50.780 you know he's which is a good thing which is a massively good thing obviously um so

00:11:56.140 it we're speaking as if these things still go on and they probably do but in a much

00:12:01.460 smaller percentage than what this chap is making out for sure and also in a much smaller percentage

00:12:05.940 than what they were previously going on because i feel like just anecdotally more and more people

00:12:12.240 are pursuing substance in their relationships the atomization can only go so far if there were the

00:12:18.960 birth rate would be much higher it would be above well no but there's still the lag effect yeah so

00:12:23.720 but but that's only just the unhappiness actually in the last year so i i refute that good sir with

00:12:30.120 with the lag effect it still occurs right the lag effect still happens and i think we are still

00:12:34.700 getting there like um it was very notable last year uh i think there's a multitude of articles

00:12:40.940 going around actually about the decline in um dating app usage and go going back to what you

00:12:47.740 were suggesting was that more and more people are actually going out trying to meet in person

00:12:50.620 and have something substantive uh more uh related i i should i should have said this at the very

00:12:57.780 beginning this guy is insanely bitter and resentful and vengeful yeah yeah so i guess my overall take

00:13:05.480 is it's a shame because if he if he just logged offline and actually gotten out there a little

00:13:10.240 a bit more would have well to to his credit the guy is is incredibly well read and his manifesto

00:13:16.580 is full of very solid and reliable references um and he's widely read as well not just well read

00:13:23.760 so to be fair you could have this guy did off someone he could have well he could have he could

00:13:31.700 have he didn't if he had a wash and got outside well he he he says he had my my point here in

00:13:39.240 this segment is this there is a bunch of very valid points that are made in this manifesto

00:13:45.180 that reflect the reality that the condition of modern man is tragic now the condition of man

00:13:53.520 has always been tragic but it's not been tragic in this particular way for centuries no i don't

00:13:59.260 refute that i mean it is it is awful that that's what i'm getting at and i i will agree so when he

00:14:03.980 No matter how big you're tipping now. 0.99

00:14:05.880 When he discusses the two-income trap, how the state favours women, 0.87

00:14:09.760 how essentially there are these positions of middle management and all kinds of... 0.97

00:14:16.100 These are daycare jobs.

00:14:17.600 I'm consistently amazed. 1.00

00:14:18.900 And more importantly, he emphasises the reality that men can't own anything 0.51

00:14:23.640 because the capitalist classes found it much more effective to import labour rather than raise wages.

00:14:31.160 So he's heavily critical of immigration.

00:14:33.980 because of the reality that it basically destroys the ability of men to earn and therefore the

00:14:41.240 ability of men to own and therefore the ability of men to build. You're not going to build

00:14:46.900 something with the same dedication if it isn't yours. And to the extent that you are a very good

00:14:51.800 laborer, you are a laborer because as the Pope Leo XIII said in Rerum Novarum, your aim is to

00:15:00.740 use your wages to build something of your own and to have some something that is yours and that

00:15:06.920 require purpose and require purpose exactly within a man and if the only available jobs

00:15:13.740 are minimum wage jobs which where you are competing with the rest of the planet coming

00:15:21.060 to compete with you on your wages then you are obviously going to end up in a deeply destructive 0.82

00:15:25.880 society and leading to a state where men don't own anything and can't own anything and that 0.93

00:15:33.960 devalues men in the eyes of women because women are always looking at the end of the day for a

00:15:39.820 provider so not only is the state competing with you for the role of provider but the rest of the 0.88

00:15:46.780 world is competing with you for your wages limiting your ability to be a provider and that is part of

00:15:52.520 tragedy of men in the modern world and that has to be acknowledged that's that's what i'm trying

00:15:57.960 to get to with with this with this here um and he makes the point that nobody is satisfied with this

00:16:04.600 arrangement because the women who are chasing the uh elite men or the men who are most attractive

00:16:12.040 to women themselves are constantly worried about infidelity yeah i mean there's no long-term

00:16:17.000 Yeah, exactly. There's no long term satisfaction there. He's very bitter against women. That much is obvious. But to his credit, he does mention that women are also not satisfied with this arrangement.

00:16:31.420 And that's why you see the phenomenon of 35 year old, 36 year old women desperate for marriage and children having lived a previous life that was a lot more promiscuous. 0.61

00:16:43.540 Yeah, I mean, modern civilization was basically built on a lie being sold. 0.91

00:16:46.460 Exactly. And then he goes on to say that the quality of relationships that average men have when they do have them is considerably lower because the women aren't as attracted to the men.

00:16:57.300 They are older. They are less willing to take care of the home, contrary to what the Pope says, which is that women's primary place of work should be the home. 0.54

00:17:07.100 This is what they're naturally suited for. 1.00

00:17:08.660 and instead of recognizing that your prime years and in your 20s this is when you should be having

00:17:17.000 children you end up with a lower quality relationship with basically exhausted less 0.53

00:17:23.540 than energized women who aren't that into you anyway and who don't do the kind of work that

00:17:31.100 you would have expected in a previous generation so there is this social collapse that is happening

00:17:37.720 and this social collapse and degradation is real rather than having um as as advocated for by the

00:17:46.340 church marriage that is total and completely giving where one guy where the man gives himself

00:17:53.500 fully and the woman gives herself fully for the betterment of the family we have these sort of

00:17:59.920 stunted marriages, essentially. Lower quality than your grandparents' marriage, in general.

00:18:09.340 There is a sense of the past being idyllic. No, it wasn't. But there is a certain truth

00:18:17.620 to what the guy argues here. And that basically is a transformation. It was always understood

00:18:27.780 that the family is the bedrock of society that man worked to build something for his own good

00:18:33.600 and for the family and now you have the welfare state where that substitutes for the role of

00:18:40.400 children for the role of husbands for the role of pretty much every everyone else that is needed in

00:18:45.260 your life and you end up in this dependency and this does increase the loneliness of men to an

00:18:52.000 extent that's become unbearable. And this guy gives a lot of examples of people's posts online

00:18:57.960 that sort of show a huge amount of desperation. And you get pornography massively contributing

00:19:07.820 to that. And you get all kinds of distractions from video games to fast food to all kinds of

00:19:15.860 degenerate behavior that lower your quality of life, but also have the effect of making

00:19:21.840 you more compliant and making the unbearable loneliness a little bit more tolerable on

00:19:30.260 a daily basis.

00:19:32.740 So these things are actually happening, and they're happening because the elites themselves

00:19:39.840 have become insanely cruel and dismissive.

00:19:42.500 I mean, the reaction of the elites in Britain to the grooming gang scandal.

00:19:47.320 Yeah, to shrug it off.

00:19:50.100 His point is that they're cruel and dismissive to men.

00:19:54.120 But no, no, no.

00:19:55.180 They're cruel and dismissive to everybody who isn't part of the elite.

00:19:58.940 And their own excesses in their personal lives contribute to this.

00:20:04.600 Because we just had basically the Mandelson cabinet resign.

00:20:08.820 and it's being replaced by the Mandelson cabinet again.

00:20:13.860 So these elites that are sort of hidden from public view

00:20:18.740 do engage in insanely degenerate behavior

00:20:23.620 that preys on the weakest through their money

00:20:27.280 and through their capabilities,

00:20:29.120 but leads them to become more and more monstrous

00:20:33.080 because the elites have no concern

00:20:35.700 other than the perpetuation of their own power

00:20:37.980 and their power comes from their their wealth so in this sense the blame on capitalism

00:20:43.660 uh is correct now one word missing from his whole uh manifesto is usury which i think is is quite

00:20:58.740 important uh the the pope says in rerum novarum we should we clearly see and there is general

00:21:06.120 agreement then that there must be some remedy for the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly

00:21:13.640 on the majority of the working class. For the ancient working men's guilds were abolished in

00:21:19.120 the last century, and no other protective organization took their place. Public institutions

00:21:25.180 and the laws set aside the ancient religion, which would have presumably provided for care for your

00:21:32.020 fellow man, restraint in your sexuality and in your behavior, etc., etc., and then contraceptives

00:21:38.920 and abortion kind of completed that destruction of society, and it has come to pass that working

00:21:46.640 men have been surrendered, isolated, and helpless to the hard-heartedness of employers and the greed

00:21:53.360 of unchecked competition, including competition from an infinite supply of labor that further

00:22:00.740 it values them. The mischief has been increased by rapacious usury, which, although more than

00:22:07.420 once condemned by the church, is nevertheless under a different guise, but with like injustice,

00:22:13.280 still practiced by covetous and grasping men. Correct. Because what happens to young men now? 0.73

00:22:20.620 You end up with a massive amount of student debt, thinking that this is going to better you,

00:22:25.560 improve your station in life, improve your attractiveness to women. Next thing you find

00:22:29.960 yourself in a permanent debt trap and that destroys your ability to build something and

00:22:35.700 destroys your ability to build a family so the ills that are identified in this manifesto are all very

00:22:42.400 real and there's no denying them even if they are exaggerated i'm happy to deny some of them okay

00:22:50.100 um i think that that there's there's something sort of gross to me as a man of of wallowing in

00:22:56.880 self-pity and saying, oh, the world's so

00:22:58.820 unfair to me. You're sort of making a victim

00:23:00.840 of yourself, and I think that any self-respecting

00:23:03.180 man that does this sort of thing 0.99

00:23:04.540 is sort of pathetic. 1.00

00:23:06.560 And I think that 0.99

00:23:08.640 you look at what your ancestors had to go

00:23:10.840 through. You know, they

00:23:12.800 didn't sit around whinging about how unfair

00:23:14.860 the world is. But it came with possession and meaning

00:23:16.780 and purpose.

00:23:18.140 Forge this for

00:23:20.840 yourself. You don't have it handed to you as a

00:23:22.900 man. You have to work

00:23:24.480 incredibly hard, and I think that people 0.89

00:23:26.840 sitting around whinging about it is quite frankly a little bit pathetic but but let's let's be a

00:23:32.580 little bit honest here let's be a little bit honest here if you work insanely hard in a warehouse 0.90

00:23:38.640 owned by amazon you are not going to find an attractive mate but working hard isn't necessarily

00:23:45.220 just the you're you're looking at the materialistic perspective of working hard you can work hard on

00:23:49.960 yourself which i presume that's what you're referencing i don't know if you're working a 12

00:23:53.940 hour shift how much are you going to work on yourself i used to do 16 hour days i still used

00:23:59.940 to work out when i was i i'm not i i have very little good very little uh here is here is here

00:24:08.260 is the truth here is the truth when you think about social policy in general you have to accept

00:24:16.580 the weakness of mankind in general and society therefore ends up needing guardrails

00:24:23.780 that are there for the non-elite majority is that merely rather than having this libertarian 0.95

00:24:31.940 attitude towards society which is precisely what has gotten us but that takes a libertarian way

00:24:37.780 from a man doesn't it we are living in a very libertarian social society socially we are i i

00:24:44.820 I don't see how it could be even more liberal.

00:24:47.580 People are living on top of each other like insects.

00:24:50.220 That's the society we live in.

00:24:52.020 It's this horrible...

00:24:53.220 But that is a natural outgrowth of the fact

00:24:55.840 that employers can import infinity people.

00:24:58.720 I very much agree with that.

00:25:00.740 And the state will work with the classes

00:25:02.740 that already own property

00:25:04.240 in order to restrict the new supply of property.

00:25:07.320 I think people just need to come to terms with the fact

00:25:09.880 that there's no one out to save you.

00:25:11.400 There's no one here to help you.

00:25:12.600 you've got to you know make your own life for yourself and it's not an easy thing but the

00:25:20.260 world has always been hard and the world has always been hard but it has never lacked meaning

00:25:25.860 so much because the current economic structure and this much is true works against the ability

00:25:33.880 of young men to possess and mate when you can possess something even if it's a hovel when you

00:25:42.180 can mate and bring about children even if they're freakish you have meaning and purpose

00:25:48.660 if you can't have any of those what you're asking men to do is not only be materially deprived

00:25:55.980 but also to be spiritually strong in spite of it even as the entirety of society works against

00:26:03.120 your soul so you were able to go through massive periods of deprivation because you still had

00:26:09.640 meaning this combination of lack of meaning and lack of spirituality is historically new

00:26:18.520 i mean and it is destructive in a particular way and you should look to the rights and duties

00:26:25.900 that capital has towards labor including the ability of young men to own and marry if they

00:26:34.860 can't own anything and they can't marry anyone you are going to get this biomarxist ideology

00:26:45.020 that tries to say to the dispossessed revolt rebel kill and when you get there it will be ugly

00:26:55.180 so what i want to do is just acknowledge the bits and pieces that are true while arguing that the

00:27:03.900 church has for a very long time seen how these ills are going to worsen and warden against it

00:27:11.900 and because we are fallen and living in a fallen world nobody listened

00:27:17.020 so that's the case that i'm trying to make

00:27:23.100 i think that you can still come out the other side with you know i've never had any religious belief

00:27:28.060 and I've come out the other side reasonably well through just...

00:27:34.420 You are totally handsome, Josh.

00:27:36.300 That's very kind of you.

00:27:37.320 I try. I try.

00:27:39.880 I'm trying to give people hope that that's the main purpose of what I'm doing here.

00:27:44.340 I'm not trying to suggest that you're even necessarily wrong.

00:27:48.260 I'm just trying to say that even if everything is as bad as is said in this manifesto,

00:27:53.980 the correct course of action is still to strive for better.

00:27:58.060 yourself in the shoes of someone with a 95 to 105 iq it's not too hard for me to be honest

00:28:07.260 i i'm probably 85 whatever um put yourself in the shoes of someone like that who isn't particularly

00:28:14.300 attractive isn't particularly tall and works at a warehouse for amazon and think about him

00:28:22.140 from his perspective.

00:28:25.700 This is what society should always consider.

00:28:30.300 The kinds of people who are not going to be incredibly competent,

00:28:35.360 aren't going to achieve greatness or be remembered,

00:28:39.120 but yet are absolutely necessary

00:28:41.480 because they are the men that you will call on to fight wars,

00:28:45.540 to kill enemies, to obey the law,

00:28:49.120 and to maintain the fabric of society and when you think of these individuals

00:28:55.300 all policy must be made with them in mind including the death penalty for criminals

00:29:00.860 that would be my humble argument i think the way i look at it is that

00:29:07.180 having sympathy or empathy for these men not only is it weird to sort of have that for another man

00:29:14.420 to a certain degree but also i think that your role as a man is to help outline the path they

00:29:21.640 should be taking and and not necessarily saying i'm going to help you along the way it's you have

00:29:28.120 to pursue this yourself by the very definition of following the path but at the very least you must

00:29:33.920 have an economic structure and a social structure that doesn't actively work against these ambitions

00:29:41.520 But I think part of pursuing that path is pushing back against these, right?

00:29:46.780 Like, part of the reason I'm here is that, to my mind, part of being a man...

00:29:50.420 Most people aren't morally strong.

00:29:53.200 But they can be.

00:29:54.440 If you're... 0.99

00:29:55.320 As you try to practice Christianity, and we have to remember that it is an act of will, 1.00

00:30:02.360 you are slowly... 0.94

00:30:04.380 As I try to practice Christianity, I am slowly made aware of my own faults and sins.

00:30:09.780 and how hard I need to fight to overcome them

00:30:13.900 and constantly fail.

00:30:18.100 And that is what gives me some empathy for others,

00:30:23.100 my own failure.

00:30:26.880 Maybe you are blessed with permanent success,

00:30:29.460 and I wish you more of it.

00:30:30.680 Certainly not.

00:30:31.500 And I wish you more of it.

00:30:32.680 But that is part of the Christian relationship with God,

00:30:36.980 which is the constant examination of my own flaws

00:30:41.880 and the admission of my failures in remedying them.

00:30:46.740 I mean, I'm rereading meditations at the minute.

00:30:49.780 And so it's something that's existed in humanity since before, Christendom.

00:30:55.160 And it's obviously something that is incredibly important to foster in people.

00:30:58.640 So I very much agree with you on that,

00:31:00.300 that admitting your own imperfections

00:31:03.500 and having some sympathy when you see it in others

00:31:06.280 is always a good thing, yes.

00:31:08.240 And therefore, when you see it en masse

00:31:09.920 for the rest of society,

00:31:12.780 that clearly has implications

00:31:14.800 for economic and social policy

00:31:16.380 in order to safeguard the midwits

00:31:21.060 who over time can produce genius children

00:31:23.100 if your perspective is Nietzschean.

00:31:25.580 And if your perspective is Christian, 0.95

00:31:28.040 the midwits like me 0.90

00:31:29.360 who are going to, 0.95

00:31:31.740 either them or their children,

00:31:33.200 have to fight for civilization.

00:31:36.280 That is the extent of my claim.

00:31:39.100 And so, as I said, the murderer had a good diagnosis.

00:31:44.620 But as with all Marxists, his solutions were absolutely horrible, including mass murdering people.

00:31:53.620 And he even wasn't good at that.

00:31:55.180 He only killed one cop and himself got killed.

00:31:59.600 So, anyway, let's have a quick look at some of the comments.

00:32:06.280 introducing monogmosexuality attraction to one partner finding pleasure through one

00:32:14.720 relationship regardless of no not regardless of gender no we're not doing that we've been

00:32:21.080 down the slippery slope we're not going down the slippery slope again uh where can a man

00:32:26.500 in his 20s 30s find a good lass at a pub at a lecture at a supermarket apparently arc

00:32:35.180 People were like,

00:32:35.800 ARK's basically turned into a dating place.

00:32:38.780 I didn't even know ARK was on.

00:32:40.860 But yeah, people were posting about it,

00:32:42.200 but it's basically turned into dating. 0.99

00:32:43.840 Get yourself a nice Tory wet girlfriend.

00:32:47.140 That's a random name. 0.98

00:32:48.400 If you get a Tory wet,

00:32:49.460 you can slowly push them right.

00:32:52.400 To be fair,

00:32:53.680 some of the dating apps,

00:32:55.420 I have friends who particularly hinge over things like Tinder.

00:32:59.240 I know people who've got into successful long-term relationships through them.

00:33:02.740 also have hobbies

00:33:04.840 go to clubs

00:33:05.740 where you practice

00:33:06.540 these hobbies

00:33:06.960 have something in

00:33:07.660 common with someone

00:33:08.560 we should have a

00:33:09.200 hobby anyway

00:33:09.760 just for your

00:33:10.300 investment

00:33:10.720 good for its own

00:33:11.580 sake yeah

00:33:12.220 yes

00:33:12.540 yes

00:33:13.180 certainly

00:33:13.620 Dragon Lady

00:33:16.120 Chris compliments

00:33:17.000 you on your

00:33:17.560 fit bod and

00:33:18.180 tattoo

00:33:18.500 I saw that

00:33:19.140 thank you very

00:33:19.540 much

00:33:19.840 thank you

00:33:21.360 and that's a

00:33:22.880 random name

00:33:23.300 says never let

00:33:23.980 anyone tell you 1.00

00:33:24.720 that female cops 1.00

00:33:25.600 can't shoot 1.00

00:33:26.120 civilians as well

00:33:26.820 as male shooters

00:33:27.540 moving on to the

00:33:30.260 next segment

00:33:30.880 just scroll down on this moving on to the next segment

00:33:36.240 so you have something to say about a butter chicken tsunami all right yeah so let's talk

00:33:43.260 about the butter chicken tsunami that is about to hit new zealand not my words actually

00:33:50.580 but chicken tsunami was something the uh new zealanders one of their political parties

00:33:58.360 called it amazing is buttered chicken even an indian thing you know they made it for us didn't

00:34:05.220 they buttered chicken was made for british people but we had chicken and we had butter

00:34:09.600 well and the indians butter chicken dick yeah a lot of the indian dishes in england were made

00:34:15.180 specifically for us by the indians because we like a certain thing so a lot of not getting food

00:34:20.960 poisoning mainly yeah well yeah well as people have rightly said we've got the recipes we don't

00:34:26.900 need the people now um but anyway so uh this whole uh segment is inspired uh by a recent

00:34:34.760 development about just indians in new zealand and that's what we're talking about the butter

00:34:39.580 chicken tsunami is a bunch of indians moved to new zealand and irreparably changing i mean not 0.97

00:34:46.460 irreparably changing we can we can change stuff uh demographics yes basically it's just all about

00:34:51.280 demographics uh so this one in particular uh racist attacks leave new zealand's indian community

00:34:57.340 feeling hounded oh okay um was there a vote on you guys moving there i always like how

00:35:07.080 whenever there was whenever there's graffiti they don't actually tell you what's been said

00:35:11.580 it could just say um you know front row seats back home for all indians well i mean it's graffiti

00:35:18.020 Well, I mean, this one, if you're just listening, but if you're watching, you can see what's on the screen.

00:35:24.120 I mean, that's, I mean, it's there, isn't it?

00:35:28.500 The New Zealanders don't seem happy with Indians being on New Zealand soil.

00:35:32.820 And they don't like British people on New Zealand soil.

00:35:36.440 So, goodness me, they're definitely not enjoying the Indians.

00:35:40.340 It seems that there's a pretty big pushback.

00:35:42.120 So I'll just read a little bit of this.

00:35:43.340 It seems that, once again, Modi signed a free trade agreement that included... 0.95

00:35:47.580 biomass free movement for it yeah like in the film snatch when the gypsy's throwing a dog in 0.87

00:35:52.620 the deal modi does a trade deal and throws in a couple of million indian people as well modi is 0.87

00:35:57.880 on record uh basically talking about indians going to countries to sort of destabilize yes and and

00:36:04.840 change the political system yes and and so it's a deliberate political strategy whereby it's

00:36:12.460 disgusting well he uses the diaspora in these various countries um to act as a political wedge

00:36:19.880 between what the rest of the population want and what india and the diaspora want yes yeah

00:36:25.200 yeah and so that that's the that's the main crux of this but let me build to it

00:36:29.180 let me build okay right so india this is just in this post i just thought i'd read it because

00:36:33.920 it's funny um and it's got it's got the the segment title in it so anyway uh indian communities

00:36:41.140 across new zealand say they're feeling hounded after a surge in racist incidents oh no graffiti

00:36:46.180 targeting indians has cropped up across auckland with racist and violent calls spray painted at

00:36:52.180 three public spaces i mean that's not very many is it three three wouldn't make me feel hounded

00:36:58.900 yeah hounded is a strong word for free obviously extreme innit yeah i mean constitution of indians

00:37:05.380 seems to be a bit wet at this point like you're hounded after three brilliant i mean it is calling

00:37:13.180 for violence i suppose but also sorry sorry to interrupt i've just noticed this that's in a

00:37:19.640 public toilet that's the wrong place for it of all the way it's like a victimless victimless crime

00:37:28.900 oh exactly that's so new zealanders that is self-defeating graffiti what are you doing

00:37:35.440 you just defaced a public space with no political ends come on now whatever don't you know there was

00:37:41.960 a big campaign poo to the loo they're not they're not fond of them normally if you're going to do

00:37:47.100 graffiti which you shouldn't because it's ugly at least do it on the ground yeah preferably near a

00:37:53.700 ditch um so this is the thing after new zealand signed a free trade agreement with india last

00:37:58.400 month new zealand first deputy leader shane jones whose party opposes the agreement which you

00:38:04.760 should this is obviously just you know it's immigration gerrymandering uh said he would

00:38:11.360 not agree with a butter chicken tsunami why is there this euphemism i love that i think it's

00:38:19.320 brilliant why why can't you just say wave of immigration of indians i mean i like the term

00:38:25.520 butter chicken tsunami i think it's great i don't think a wave of immigration of indians would have

00:38:31.220 sort of generated the same kind of attention yeah i do like it butter chicken tsunami does

00:38:38.480 sound like something i would order in a restaurant though that's the problem yeah yeah no true

00:38:43.720 it's something you get after going to a restaurant frankly anyway so his comment came on the hills

00:38:50.260 of auckland mayor wayne brown calling an indian staff member at the public broadcaster rnz 1.00

00:38:54.980 a muslim terrorist but there is a decent possibility that he's right well this is the 1.00

00:39:03.200 thing i mean the thing is like this is when they get all of these phobias and racisms mixed up 0.94

00:39:08.560 yeah was he being anti-muslim was he being anti-indian was he being like okay

00:39:13.160 where is it where is it yeah the thing is uh again the the broader context here is just

00:39:20.320 stop signing agreements with india stop doing it it's destructive you you can do this up to the

00:39:27.740 point but when you demographically you know replace your citizenry with indians at what 0.99

00:39:34.860 point do you just become a vassal state and and why isn't china trying to compete for these

00:39:40.700 exceptional indians there actually is a little bit of that which we'll get to really yeah yeah

00:39:44.760 actually believe it or not it's china beginning to uh yeah no genuinely um chinese racism is sort 0.74

00:39:50.540 of something else because oh yeah they're like they're they are they're gonna have the same 0.92

00:39:56.160 sort of ship of feces only with extra feces um oh a ship of feces yeah feces yeah i like it i heard

00:40:03.600 it the first time good i like it good um so i just thought we'd take a look at this obviously

00:40:09.000 no one you know i i don't know much about the um australasian immigration right like new zealand

00:40:17.880 australia it's not something i've really massively kept up to date on i know australia is really

00:40:21.640 suffering at the moment and they they're having enough especially from indian immigration yeah

00:40:26.480 massively who end up yep yep and it seems to be now new zealand is the same as well right so this 1.00

00:40:33.160 They're further long than Australia.

00:40:35.900 Yeah, so this was actually only in 2023. 1.00

00:40:38.720 17% Asian. 1.00

00:40:42.000 Yeah. 0.82

00:40:43.640 2% Middle Eastern. 0.92

00:40:45.640 Yeah.

00:40:47.320 Oh, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African. 1.00

00:40:50.100 It's a weird bundle, isn't it? 1.00

00:40:51.920 I mean...

00:40:53.340 And, again...

00:40:54.580 I don't recognise any of these people. What are you talking about?

00:40:56.660 Also, more than a...

00:40:59.400 I mean, this is the quarter of New Zealand's population was born overseas.

00:41:02.220 that's insane i mean that is you are being replaced at that point it doesn't matter who

00:41:07.580 you're being replaced with you are being replaced you like your land and your culture should

00:41:12.060 probably sort that out um and so this is what this is what we get i mean so again 17.3 percent

00:41:18.600 were asian right so 861 600 people that that was just 2023 um i've got the most recent the

00:41:26.680 population of new zealand is so tiny yeah oh yes there's nothing i mean this is the most recent

00:41:32.620 migration data right uh coming into new zealand year ending january 2026 uh so china 17 and a

00:41:42.700 half thousand chinese people i mean given how interested they are in their uh new uh economic

00:41:53.620 sphere of co-prosperity what would the japanese call it sphere of co-prosperity or something like

00:41:59.140 that oh blimey yeah hit me on the spot something like that uh and actually that outweighs the

00:42:05.120 indians believe it or not because the indians were 17.3 okay thousand but when they say asians

00:42:13.120 uh there's a lot i mean the philippines right 10 500 sri lancans 5 500 most of the time nobody

00:42:21.920 objects to the filipinos they don't no they're relatively i mean they're known as was a place

00:42:27.500 of smiles isn't it they're like happy people saying relatively they have their own gangs and

00:42:33.060 things like that for the most part they're the most benign yeah they're vietnamese aren't they

00:42:37.120 also quite christian as well very catholic for the most part very catholic uh yes and also

00:42:44.800 kind of adjacent to because they had a lot of american uh bases there so right american culture

00:42:49.560 cultural influence um so that's obviously bad and then this was the thing which inspired this

00:42:55.500 entire segment um because i just saw this and i thought wow and i think i think i even reposted

00:43:00.520 this and that's where i said well at what point are they a vassal yes right indian leaders in

00:43:07.100 new zealand stop stop there stop there stop there that shouldn't exist you shouldn't have indian

00:43:14.160 leaders in new zealand what are you doing what are you doing we shouldn't we shouldn't have them here 1.00

00:43:18.740 The only Indian leaders should belong in India 0.93

00:43:20.880 Notice what is going on 1.00

00:43:23.480 The letterhead there

00:43:24.360 You've got the Buddhist council

00:43:25.600 You've got some Hindu writing there 0.98

00:43:27.980 The Sikh symbol

00:43:29.100 I don't know what that right hand one is there

00:43:31.800 But all of the religions of India 0.96

00:43:36.260 Other than maybe 1.00

00:43:37.480 Oh no it's Islam at the right hand side 1.00

00:43:40.620 So you've got all of the religions of India

00:43:42.720 All the main ones anyway

00:43:43.780 Coming together to put their religious differences aside

00:43:48.040 and promote their own sectarian interests.

00:43:51.380 Ethnic interests, to be precise, not sectarian.

00:43:53.900 These are different sects that absolutely abhor each other.

00:43:57.020 And the fact that they would sort of unite in this way...

00:44:00.320 Co-ethnics, yeah.

00:44:01.840 ...is genuinely unhinged.

00:44:03.880 This is why a lot of the Maoris are sort of beginning to advocate

00:44:06.580 for a white New Zealand and a white Australia.

00:44:09.660 They understand that the deal that they have with the British 0.54

00:44:14.300 and those assimilated into the British cultures there,

00:44:18.820 like the Europeans that have assimilated in Australia and so on,

00:44:22.480 isn't going to be paralleled if they end up with Indian or Chinese leadership. 0.91

00:44:29.760 They know what will be done to them. 0.99

00:44:31.460 They know that they'll be Uyghur the second that they try to breathe the wrong way.

00:44:35.560 Oh, yeah.

00:44:35.920 So there is this reality there.

00:44:40.260 Westerners are benevolent in a particular way towards these communities,

00:44:43.420 which indians and chinese will never be sorry if you are just listening and you're not watching

00:44:48.520 what we've got here is basically indian leaders in new zealand have warned warned and we'll read

00:44:54.780 a bit of it political parties that they will mobilize their communities to vote for whichever

00:44:59.480 party offers the strongest policies on hate speech and social cohesion so it says quote when it comes

00:45:06.580 to politicians suffering from protests in front of their houses parliament moves at dame lisa

00:45:12.220 carring carrington and sir richard hadley speed to bring in mitigating legislation but when it

00:45:19.220 comes to hate-filled incitement to burn down mosques there shouldn't be any in new zealand

00:45:24.820 what are you doing and temples the 18.4 percent of the ethnic voting population of new zealand

00:45:31.340 again that's that's an insane number receives well-intentioned lip service at best and absolute

00:45:39.300 silence at worst from political party leaders the royal commission warned of such incitement

00:45:45.460 and provocation seven years ago and successive governments have put the issue in the too hard

00:45:50.340 basket the silence from two of the political party leaders also speaks volumes this is not

00:45:55.320 an abstract concern our communities they're not integrated send them home our communities live

00:46:01.180 with this fear in the recent past some of our places of worship have already been burnt

00:46:05.500 people don't just randomly burn things down firebomb and make threats just out of thin air

00:46:13.340 do they it's always interesting these letters start by saying here's what's happened to us

00:46:18.400 but they miss out the whole thing yeah what have you done to everyone else yeah because generally

00:46:23.660 speaking people from new zealand are good people yeah um they're pretty hospitable you know they're

00:46:30.300 of British Isles stock, mostly,

00:46:34.220 other than, of course, the Maoris.

00:46:36.080 Many of them still have some elements of it.

00:46:39.080 And so they're part of our culture.

00:46:41.340 And generally speaking,

00:46:43.060 they're quite personable, hospitable people.

00:46:46.260 And so to have received this reaction

00:46:48.540 implies at least some degree of incitement there,

00:46:53.260 not excusing, of course, violent efforts.

00:46:56.260 and so and and then just to kind of push on to some of the last little bits to say we do not

00:47:01.720 want new zealand to become a hate divided society where hate is normalized and violent threats to

00:47:07.680 burn are tolerated as free speech we seek fit for purpose legislative settings and community focused

00:47:15.220 social cohesion and education programs that protect education programs that protect every

00:47:21.260 new zealand regardless of their faith ethnicity or background as ethnic and faith leaders

00:47:26.860 representing diverse communities across uh i can't even say that new zealand we come together

00:47:33.080 with one voice and one resolve we all share a sacred duty to protect places of worship uphold

00:47:38.640 sanctity of all life and affirm the timeless principle that humanity is one family these

00:47:43.320 values demand that we speak out in defense of social cohesion mutual respect we can no longer

00:47:48.060 tolerate violent threats they burn temples gudwaras and mosques enough is enough i mean

00:47:52.420 at the end of the day may i interrupt you did they object when india decided to revoke the

00:47:58.500 citizenship of like millions of people in india and pretty much expel everybody they didn't like

00:48:04.420 under the rubric of hindu national diversity for thee but not for me that's the thing that sort of

00:48:10.200 is always striking about this stuff well especially from indians yes yes the most 1.00

00:48:17.240 vile thing it's one of the most vile things out of their country 1.00

00:48:20.640 it's up there it's pretty great when you've seen them uh come up against one another genuinely

00:48:27.660 it's really really awful uh so they adopt this language because they know that it works and

00:48:35.380 they know that nobody's going to stand up and firmly say actually this language works in these

00:48:41.520 context because of this culture and it doesn't work on you when when when when you're in a strong

00:48:48.120 position yeah and the whole conversation ends up being taken up by this human rights lingo that

00:48:54.700 they don't actually believe in i mean islam's view on hinduism is quite well known the buddhist

00:49:01.780 reaction to islam in myanmar is quite well known these guys are just being so dishonest about this

00:49:09.560 Well, I think the sort of smoking gun here is the fact that they're pushing for hate speech legislation, which ultimately will be used exclusively against the white population of New Zealand, to silence legitimate criticism of their bad behaviour. 0.84

00:49:27.340 And so the gall of them to say, well, we're being treated unfairly, whilst pushing for policies that treat people unfairly in the same breath is quite astounding, really.

00:49:39.560 but not surprising no yeah i mean to bring it back closer to home here these kind of policies

00:49:46.600 these draconian policies that they are pushing for are the same kind of policies which led to

00:49:52.440 henry novak yes and that situation so make no mistake this is you know the slippery slope like

00:49:59.240 it is this does happen there are real ramifications there are enough anecdotal evidence it was a

00:50:04.600 a litany of examples to indicate this and just to sort of round this out a little bit um you need

00:50:12.200 to get a handle on this because by just current projections by 2036 the indian sort of subcontinent

00:50:20.140 of new zealand will increase by 79 percent that's your current projections and that's if you don't

00:50:28.860 elect some absolute raging lunatic uh that just opens the floodgates even more even though they

00:50:34.060 probably have and this is based on 2023 uh baseline so the 2026 baseline is obviously

00:50:39.600 going to be higher right because my figures the official figures were based on the 2023

00:50:45.020 so by 2036 i mean you've got just an insane insane population change so if you don't get

00:50:53.080 a handle on it will not be new zealand and i often now see a lot because i've you know

00:50:59.300 looked into this a little bit more you see adverts that come to new zealand come to new

00:51:02.420 zealand no one's going to go there you're not going to attract people that want to work there

00:51:06.320 because it's going to be a vassal state of india yeah that's

00:51:14.500 the dangerous path that they're on anyway uh should we get to some of these comments

00:51:18.840 based ape imagine deciding to end yourself in a blaze of glory after writing a 200 page

00:51:26.240 manifesto only be to be totally overshadowed by a female officer shooting the wrong person 0.73

00:51:32.360 and nobody caring about you.

00:51:35.320 Yeah.

00:51:36.220 There's a cruel twist of irony there,

00:51:37.740 or perhaps cruel's not the right word, is it?

00:51:40.660 Bitter.

00:51:42.740 That's a random name.

00:51:43.940 There's a reason Alexander the Great stopped.

00:51:46.880 And I won't continue.

00:51:49.740 Josh, you need to fix that statement.

00:51:51.960 Whatever.

00:51:53.640 Hear me out.

00:51:54.580 This can all get solved in a couple of weeks.

00:51:56.480 moving on to

00:52:02.180 Josh's wonderful segment

00:52:04.600 give you a minute

00:52:10.220 please continue

00:52:11.900 please continue

00:52:13.080 if you're living in Britain at the minute

00:52:15.820 don't be alarmed

00:52:17.000 if you look up

00:52:18.060 you might see something unfamiliar

00:52:19.680 that ball of fire in the sky is called the sun

00:52:22.340 and you're probably not used to seeing it

00:52:24.000 but at the minute it's been out for a full week

00:52:26.360 and it's been driving people insane and i wanted to talk about this in the context of

00:52:31.820 climate panic because there have been many tactics that they've used over the years

00:52:36.980 you may remember this documentary pushed by al gore an inconvenient inconvenient truth sorry

00:52:43.940 and from 2006 where it predicted that the north pole would have no ice in the summer in a couple

00:52:50.460 of decades it came out in 2006 and believe it or not it has been a couple of decades it is 2026

00:52:56.260 and yet there is still ice

00:52:58.440 in the summer. Apparently the polar bear

00:53:00.500 population is quite high

00:53:02.720 and doing very, very well. It's been going up.

00:53:04.400 Yes.

00:53:06.120 Which, to be honest, I don't like the sound

00:53:08.560 of because they eat people. I don't

00:53:10.460 want to be eaten by a polar bear. They're genuinely terrifying.

00:53:12.920 Yeah, top three animals

00:53:14.620 I'm scared of. Genuinely terrifying.

00:53:16.360 And rightly so, yeah. And then

00:53:18.380 there are also things like this.

00:53:20.700 This, I had to go to

00:53:22.220 the web archive

00:53:24.280 because it's since been deleted

00:53:26.040 but this is from Greta Thunberg in

00:53:28.020 2018. A top climate

00:53:30.040 scientist is warning that climate change will

00:53:32.040 wipe out all of humanity unless

00:53:33.940 we stop using fossil fuels over the next

00:53:35.920 five years. Well

00:53:37.280 guess what? It's been

00:53:40.040 five years. That was 2023

00:53:41.520 and either we're all going to go

00:53:44.040 extinct, which there are no signs

00:53:46.060 of, at least not because of climate change

00:53:48.160 anyway. So this

00:53:50.060 was obviously a scaremongering tactic.

00:53:51.940 So they've basically been trying to say, listen

00:53:53.680 there'll be a massive biblical level

00:53:55.860 flood you're going to get wiped out or actually you know climate change is going to wipe out all

00:54:00.400 of humanity and these predictions have repeatedly failed the latest one that they've been trying to

00:54:06.360 push here is the UN using it the climate crisis they're trying to use big scary words oh it's a

00:54:12.600 crisis you've got to you've got to be scared all the weather's coming to get you and this isn't

00:54:18.480 really working either they've been using the climate crisis term for quite some time you may

00:54:22.400 have noticed it yes entering vocabulary and people are becoming less and less patient of this sort of

00:54:28.840 thing in the 70s there was a huge global cooling scare then there was the global warming scare

00:54:35.460 now it's the climate crisis so that if it's heating or cooling you should be scared but also

00:54:42.520 even if there were no humans whatsoever the climate would still be changing so you should

00:54:46.880 be scared of that too brilliant oh just be afraid okay but um the recent nice weather which to be

00:54:55.180 fair is unfamiliar in britain we used to rainy summers and miserable overcast skies um but it

00:55:02.920 is already being positioned as evidence this genic freak talking about the weather like well she

00:55:09.200 warns 40 degree weather's about to hit okay okay just the beginning well that sounds great love

00:55:15.360 that that'd be great i've been sat on my balcony enjoying some sunshine there's not much to enjoy

00:55:20.300 in the uk so i'd love a good bit of weather to be honest the last thing that the government can't

00:55:24.460 take from us yeah that would make things much more palatable i see that they're running around

00:55:29.160 london making sure that people remove their acs remove their yes acs they are making property

00:55:35.720 owners in london remove their air conditioning that's bad for the environment because it's bad

00:55:40.660 for the environment how did i guess uh and i and there's always an inequality element in france

00:55:46.860 there was a school that tried to ins that the parents bought an ac unit for the school and then

00:55:52.880 the municipality said that this increases inequality and so it is forbidden how does it

00:55:59.800 what because other schools in the district couldn't buy acs so these are very miserable

00:56:09.740 communists very much like the the the montreal shooter um eco commies are genuinely like 0.99

00:56:19.260 my most hated flavor of leftists because they're mental yes like they're left it's a mental anyway 0.93

00:56:25.580 but that's mental yes correct correct but the the latest thing is for you to be scared of hot weather 0.96

00:56:32.780 which is a tough sell to british people because if you've ever been in britain when it's hot

00:56:37.260 it's like uh you know when the flying ants come out you know one one day you just step outside

00:56:43.860 and they're everywhere yeah and it's the same with british people in the hot weather we we get we

00:56:48.560 enjoy it we go outside we go to the beach we go swimming we go to the pub like everybody else who

00:56:54.700 was normal and and we enjoy it believe it or not i i've been out in the hot weather quite a lot i'm

00:57:00.180 still here to tell the tale i'm not dead it's amazing it is a really difficult cell this climate

00:57:06.280 nonsense in britain because it's awful the majority of the time so the moment it's like oh so nice

00:57:12.360 weather it's like no you're not allowed to enjoy it that's some respite from the garbage but you're 0.94

00:57:18.120 like no no no no no no that's bad yes if the government don't want more of that no no please

00:57:22.600 if the government announced we're gonna dredge up all of the oil in the north sea and just burn it

00:57:27.960 so we get nicer weather i'll be like all right well let's go let's crack on um here we have um

00:57:34.280 the leader of the green party here it's officially the hottest june day ever

00:57:38.760 we know who is to blame fossil fuel firms the billionaire media weak politicians all of a

00:57:44.440 sudden you're endorsing these these things like i want more hot weather it's been lovely so you

00:57:49.640 know north sea absolutely needs to be drilled and there's a lot of oil but also we've we've

00:57:58.280 we've been doing rapid decarbonization and it's changed anything mate obviously it's not gonna

00:58:05.400 change it with a very tiny percentage of emissions and you know the atmosphere has had much more

00:58:12.280 carbon in it in the past and it wasn't that all of the the giant insects at the time were

00:58:17.800 you know running coal plants yes it was produced by nature and then it was corrected by nature

00:58:23.480 and so as long as we're preventing animals from going extinct it doesn't matter really it doesn't

00:58:28.360 destabilize things that much as long as we've got sort of a custodianship over the planet it's fine

00:58:36.200 um here's another i hate it when they do this it's the most infuriating thing ever it's it's

00:58:41.400 capitalism that is making you warm the sun has just done a deal with i don't know the capitalist

00:58:47.960 class and it's been shining more and it's boiling you and also they made the maps big scary and red

00:58:54.760 for like the thing is if these kinds of models were to ever work the track record of the office

00:59:05.960 of budget responsibility and of economists in general would be absolutely unblemished i saw

00:59:12.360 whereas in reality they get everything wrong with these models i had a friend who worked in

00:59:19.380 oil forecast modeling and then he looked at his company's 20-year track record

00:59:25.440 utter garbage and they're using the same exact models to predict this stuff

00:59:31.800 and it is going to be utter garbage that's i saw a really funny post about this you know this this 0.94

00:59:39.720 forecast by 2056 it was like they might be getting to that don't worry okay all right yeah it was

00:59:44.180 it was classic brilliant loved it so um there are some fair points that i want to concede before

00:59:50.660 going in hard against this nonsense um there are people pointing out that uh the heat in britain

00:59:57.260 is slightly different um in that the humidity is much higher here because a lot of the moisture

01:00:01.600 in the air so you feel it a lot more and also our houses are designed to keep in the heat because

01:00:06.200 It's much colder here than it is hotter.

01:00:09.440 That's why brick is used.

01:00:11.140 Brick is excellent at keeping heat inside.

01:00:13.280 Yes.

01:00:13.700 It's one of the reasons this particular kind of brick is used.

01:00:16.420 And also, we don't tend to use air conditioning,

01:00:19.020 and so it affects us particularly much.

01:00:21.620 Although my advice is if you are suffering from the heat,

01:00:25.220 there are three-foot fans you can get for about 20, 30 pounds

01:00:30.000 that do the job, and if you sit at home or whatever,

01:00:33.500 just have it blowing on you.

01:00:34.660 and it is well worth the cost

01:00:37.320 and you don't have to shell out for a great big air conditioning unit

01:00:41.400 or get it fitted.

01:00:42.480 It doesn't need to be expensive, you can get by with that.

01:00:45.120 And if you've got elderly people, young children or pets,

01:00:49.820 getting a small fan like that is what you should probably do.

01:00:53.220 If it's a hot day as well and you've got a dog, put down a wet towel.

01:00:57.800 There you go.

01:00:58.300 These are all things that you can do to mitigate it.

01:01:00.540 It's not a disaster.

01:01:01.740 We're not all going to die.

01:01:03.040 it just requires a little bit of common sense to deal with it and there are ways that are perfectly

01:01:08.080 within the purview of pretty much anyone who is a functioning human being to cope with these sorts

01:01:14.280 of things and another fair thing I wanted to point out is this video that buses trains in

01:01:20.320 the underground should have air conditioning and because it's an enclosed space with lots of people 1.00

01:01:25.200 it's pretty unpleasant and I saw this this East Asian bus driver I presume I 1.00

01:01:32.820 don't know what part of the world he's from calling out Sadiq Khan saying I bet 1.00

01:01:36.500 your office is air-conditioned but my bus isn't basically I'll play it just a

01:01:40.440 little bit. Sadiq Khan what temperature is your office? My office is 35 degrees

01:01:47.960 35 degree, okay?

01:01:50.800 More water.

01:01:54.360 36.6.

01:01:56.200 36.6.

01:01:57.780 36.8, sorry.

01:02:00.380 That is terrible.

01:02:01.080 Are you feeling a bit better now, yeah?

01:02:02.740 I feel like...

01:02:04.120 Cooler.

01:02:04.680 The cycle, nine miles to work.

01:02:07.020 You get the idea.

01:02:09.220 I think he was having a particularly bad day.

01:02:11.000 And to be fair, if he's stuck in the bus all day with no air conditioning, that's pretty rough.

01:02:16.260 route masters had big windows then they were adapted to modernity and the windows shrunk

01:02:21.780 but before that i'm i remember the number 18 bus in london you could just pretty much open the

01:02:27.800 window all the way and feel like you're sitting outside and it was open in the back if you can't

01:02:31.460 do that now now outfit safety and the risk of people tossing each other from buses have sort

01:02:40.140 of stopped this from happening you either have windows open fully or air conditioning but you

01:02:45.980 have none you're basically in a giant moving greenhouse yes so i have sympathy for that

01:02:51.580 however if you're just a passenger you can tolerate it i've been on the tube when it's

01:02:56.320 like 30 degrees it's not nice you're hot but it ends and you can survive um and you know it's not

01:03:04.800 that bad but you look at these maps now and they're using red to basically try and scare people

01:03:11.180 but there are many parts of the world where these temperatures are just normal and of course sorry

01:03:17.260 but the trance flag on top it's the generous icing on the cake isn't it on top is just insulting

01:03:25.420 exactly and of course the color red is one of the colors that grabs your attention the most because

01:03:31.420 we're biologically predisposed to draw our attention to it because believe it or not this

01:03:36.380 This is a little bit patronizing.

01:03:37.640 It is the color of blood.

01:03:39.080 And the color of blood, you know, we have formed as beings to recognize it

01:03:45.160 because it either means there is an animal we've hunted that is bleeding,

01:03:47.980 which is worthy of attention,

01:03:49.560 someone we know is bleeding, which is worthy of attention, or ourselves.

01:03:53.380 And so they use this, as well as people use things like the slop siren on Twitter,

01:03:59.160 to draw attention because of this biological predisposition.

01:04:04.060 but it's sort of like nudge theory in a way it's making people scared because the color red is the

01:04:09.180 scariest color you know if something is red that is generally bad and they're doing this on purpose

01:04:15.200 whereas actually people can go out in many of these temperatures um and enjoy it and in fact

01:04:21.300 i've been on holiday where it has been 50 degrees um in almeria in spain it's hot you don't want to

01:04:28.860 be out in the sun that long but you you can survive um you know if you're young and healthy

01:04:34.980 maybe if you're quite elderly or you've got a young baby it's not wise to do it but people are

01:04:40.680 mature enough to to use their common sense and mitigate against these things and you can also

01:04:45.320 point out the fact that in cairo which is a very large city in in egypt if you're not aware i don't

01:04:51.000 know you wouldn't just lost me there you're not familiar no it's not that i'm not familiar it's

01:04:55.880 that any comparison that begins with Cairo, I just know that's not.

01:05:00.120 Well, my point is that they spend five months of the year over 30 degrees,

01:05:04.860 which would be seen as dark red.

01:05:07.360 So if they can survive five months of average temperatures

01:05:10.800 exceeding 30 degrees, maybe it's possible that we can survive a week.

01:05:18.100 Maybe society isn't going to collapse.

01:05:21.140 But in 20 years' time, we're all going to be dead.

01:05:23.700 thank you richard tice oh you're not gonna be around to see it god um so i also thought this

01:05:34.060 was interesting so um i'm just gonna leave this to play see extreme heat amber warning okay right

01:05:40.740 and then red is also extreme heat so you've got both of them marked as extreme heat by the net

01:05:48.600 office here um so what's the purpose of the red and amber warnings then if they represent the same

01:05:55.760 thing just more extreme heat it's just extra extreme what it makes no sense and and how is

01:06:05.180 this meant to communicate any meaning to the public like red is sort of scary dangerous when

01:06:09.500 you look at it in terms of like wind or storms it genuinely conveys safety information you should

01:06:15.440 pay attention to but when it's temperature it's being used in a slapdash way to scare people

01:06:22.620 basically like you can go out in in 40 degree heat and and sure you might be sweaty it might

01:06:29.580 be a little bit uncomfortable but you'll be fine just make you're not going to step out into the

01:06:35.280 sun and just evaporate no um it's not like 75 degrees you're not in the sahara um you will live

01:06:41.820 um it turns out and um there's also things like this worth pointing out as well that there was

01:06:48.280 the medieval warm period and this is a comparison the red indicates how hot it was versus the little

01:06:53.640 ice age and the modern warming period and you can see that the medieval warm period is actually much

01:06:58.820 hotter and you know what they don't have they don't have the conveniences of taps they didn't

01:07:04.660 have swimming pools i mean they could dip in lakes and rivers and they had wells but it's not as

01:07:10.360 convenient is the modern day they don't have fans they don't have electricity they don't have the

01:07:16.000 same kind of buildings that can shelter you and and it was so extensive that in that period britain

01:07:22.600 was prime wine growing country like the the wine industry in the south of britain was just

01:07:29.240 top notch because the climate was so completely different so the idea that this is all just human

01:07:36.980 connectivity, I mean, you know, so why did that happen? What were they, was China industrializing

01:07:43.540 in 1200? I don't know. I mean, yes, they were before the Mongol invasion and they had the

01:07:48.820 precursor, different conversation, but not modern industry. Yeah, but my point here is that if our

01:07:54.760 medieval ancestors could survive much higher temperatures, as we can see here, perhaps with

01:08:01.480 all of our modern conveniences it's not so bad and maybe a little bit of perspective might be

01:08:07.080 warranted here it's not scary it's not going to kill us all but nevertheless they're trying to

01:08:12.640 scare people and in fact there are people pointing out that Poland's top temperature hasn't been

01:08:21.860 exceeded in its 105 year national heat record I think it was set in 1921 and it still hasn't

01:08:30.700 been exceeded and so it sort of makes sense that maybe there's a lot of scaremongering maybe there

01:08:38.140 are measures being taken as they has been demonstrated where they took them a temperature

01:08:43.440 measurement to compare against the past above a tarmac runway which obviously would be hotter

01:08:49.400 that's happened a bunch of times and that's true of a lot of the measurements in Britain

01:08:53.320 it is yeah and of course if you take the measurement in a city a lot of it is concrete

01:08:58.160 or stone or glass or things that trap heat.

01:09:01.880 Exactly.

01:09:02.780 And so it's not going to be a fair measurement.

01:09:05.900 You need to find a spot that's sort of been unaltered by humanity

01:09:08.980 to have a fair measure.

01:09:10.900 But of course, the place where you measure it has changed

01:09:13.460 and so it's very difficult to actually measure it

01:09:16.420 in a methodologically sound way.

01:09:19.460 Also, the measuring equipment,

01:09:22.600 Lewis Brackville did some FOIs on that.

01:09:26.300 Yes.

01:09:26.560 showed that they were just

01:09:27.820 all out of whack. Brilliant.

01:09:31.380 Yeah. You can't trust any of this.

01:09:32.720 And I mean, to say

01:09:34.700 that climate scientists are scientists

01:09:36.420 does a lot of scientists' disservice

01:09:38.560 because their understanding of

01:09:40.640 statistics and methodology is sort of

01:09:42.480 a joke compared to some of

01:09:44.620 the proper scientists

01:09:46.640 and I'm saying that as a psychologist, which

01:09:48.460 physicists will say the same about me.

01:09:51.540 So, if

01:09:52.680 I can say it, then

01:09:54.080 maybe there's a little bit of truth to it.

01:09:56.560 um and here is the the 2056 thing um that i just couldn't believe what i was seeing

01:10:04.480 they can't even predict the weather properly for tomorrow and they're saying here's what

01:10:09.460 the weather's going to be like on the 23rd of june 2056 mental this is from the met office

01:10:14.580 um i don't know what you were yeah it was that yeah it's very funny the same thing yeah

01:10:19.140 um it's ridiculous i don't know what they're playing at other than trying to scare people

01:10:24.920 like it's going to be 45 degrees in bristol or you know it's going to be 41 in london and think

01:10:31.580 of how hot that will be that'll be really horrible central england there's basically hell

01:10:35.320 like what what what shade of red are you going to use next what are you doing it's like a deep

01:10:42.200 crimson it's like freshly exposed blood yeah at that point like what they may as well just have

01:10:49.520 big sort of fiery late 90s flame graphic like they're at some cheesy rock concert just show

01:10:56.900 the british isles on fire like a brass ice skit or something um and one of the things that amused

01:11:03.340 me was um these sorts of things where um they're talking about these high temperatures recorded

01:11:11.480 and look it's big red and scary oh they're recording all of europe is facing these terrible

01:11:16.920 I think the answer is more air conditioning

01:11:18.900 yeah

01:11:19.500 I mean the answer obviously is make air conditioning

01:11:22.780 more available, just make energy cheaper

01:11:24.760 technology is the answer

01:11:27.080 to this, yes

01:11:27.840 it's not rocket science

01:11:29.820 now this really made me laugh

01:11:31.860 so where is it

01:11:34.780 I think there's a graph here

01:11:36.020 don't worry, I'll get to all of this

01:11:38.720 so it says in just two weeks

01:11:40.660 in May 2026

01:11:42.400 Europe went from cooler than average to a heat wave

01:11:44.960 oh no

01:11:45.900 you're saying yeah you're saying that in the summer sometimes the temperature changes

01:11:51.340 but it was cooler than average to begin with and now it's hotter than average

01:11:55.580 maybe it's just that this is how sometimes the summer goes so what is that is that the ice age

01:12:00.220 what's happened yeah it's nice and cool but um two degrees change and and they've got the red

01:12:08.620 out brilliant the funny thing is that they're talking about um this massive crisis this terrible

01:12:13.500 climate thing blasting windows thing well we'll get to this so there have been lots of different

01:12:20.300 reactions across europe that have sort of captured a national flavor for each country okay so the

01:12:26.380 dutch are encouraging children to drink water and giving them slightly shorter school days

01:12:30.620 okay the french are giving free cinema and museum tickets to under 25s and over 65s why which is

01:12:37.900 because their air conditions french thing ever that's exactly what i thought the spanish have

01:12:43.900 turned on their water sprinklers um okay the italians are subsidizing those who don't want

01:12:49.820 to work which is the most italian very that is very italian thing i've ever heard of the belgians

01:12:55.500 are going to church because it's because it's cool um apparently they're doing uh school exams

01:13:01.260 in churches because they're nice and cool okay um and the german postman are wearing shorts

01:13:07.260 oh no i know i mean great minds um yeah this is these are all relatively reasonable reactions to 0.94

01:13:20.300 high heat okay and the chalk on windows thing is i'll show you the french are just chalking

01:13:26.780 up their windows for some reason they're a bit eccentric apparently it keeps the heat out i 0.99

01:13:31.820 I don't know why.

01:13:32.640 It's just one school that chalked its windows with chalk.

01:13:36.460 Brilliant.

01:13:37.080 Great, well done.

01:13:37.680 I mean, I have a lot of questions.

01:13:41.880 Why do that?

01:13:43.060 But I can't say any of them.

01:13:47.840 Let's, well, let's move on.

01:13:50.540 There's the graphic again.

01:13:51.620 I forgot I included that.

01:13:54.440 Here's some news saying,

01:13:56.100 heatwave titans grip on Europe,

01:13:57.700 leaving trail of deaths. 1.00

01:13:59.220 This is from a Turkish outlet. 1.00

01:14:01.100 Yeah. 0.86

01:14:01.820 just a trail of death um actually um let's let's address this the heat waves come through and just

01:14:09.200 murdered people has it millions of people just left burnt to a crisp i mean people die of heat

01:14:15.280 than of colds is my understanding so let's say two people die in this this um this summer from

01:14:23.380 the heat which is you know about average where it's actually attributable to heat exposure and

01:14:28.860 things like that in a population of say about 70 million these let's round it off to that just for

01:14:34.580 the sake of ease of the numbers that is still a 0.000029 percent chance of death so that is the

01:14:45.400 same odds as flipping a coin and getting 25 consecutive heads and you're 2.5 times more

01:14:52.600 likely to be killed by a cow each year about four four or five people each year die of cows

01:14:59.200 cow well cow attacks um not just you know a cow falls from the sky or something divided by bulls

01:15:06.600 versus cows or do they i think uh much like um urban crime statistics um both men and females

01:15:14.380 get lumped together giving undue um impressions for the female violence you you get what i'm just

01:15:21.320 yes yes um but actually one of the things you need to be most worried about is going for a swim

01:15:27.000 actually because drowning deaths are soaring and particularly in france as people go for a swim to

01:15:32.240 cope with the temperatures actually you're more likely to die from that than you are from the

01:15:36.260 sunshine um and so just be careful i also have comments that i can't share is that about a certain

01:15:42.780 bone density that prevents certain people from being able to swim as well as certain others

01:15:46.980 maybe the demographics of france i'm guessing yeah maybe with that yeah right again i've seen

01:15:52.680 their football team um so this has got to the point where schools have started closing

01:16:00.980 because they're worried about the heat my kid's school is closing at 12

01:16:07.380 it's ridiculous isn't it just get an air the place is so badly designed to handle heat that

01:16:15.520 really you can't keep 20 30 children in a classroom this way by air conditioning either that or back

01:16:25.320 not to sound too old i'm only 30 but back in my day when it was hot we had a classroom fan and

01:16:31.500 if you got too hot you stood in front of it for a little bit and then you cooled down and then you

01:16:35.660 went back to your seat and that was that was fine we all live to tell the tale yeah funnily enough

01:16:42.100 people have

01:16:44.940 come before this

01:16:46.120 beginning of history

01:16:48.220 this absurd reaction to things

01:16:50.220 go away

01:16:53.320 it's on

01:16:53.900 so full list of

01:16:57.140 1,196 schools

01:16:59.540 shutting early today as red heatwave

01:17:01.260 comes into force with some closing entirely

01:17:03.400 it is amazing to me all these things

01:17:05.520 that we do and yet we still

01:17:07.460 try to push for more productivity

01:17:09.420 because they're even trying to force

01:17:11.160 legislation through to make people like shut work at a certain time at a maximum heat level

01:17:16.520 yeah so it's like right well do you want people to be productive or not because everything

01:17:21.860 politicians do just slows everyone down makes the country less productive schools don't need

01:17:27.760 to close just get a bloody air con work doesn't need to close just get bloody air con it's really

01:17:32.880 not a big deal yeah you might be a bit uncomfortable going to and from work just deal with it you might

01:17:37.300 smell a little bit yeah so will everyone put some deodorant on deal with it good advice and uh i was

01:17:44.560 amazed by this as well rail passengers told to travel only if essential amid red extreme heat

01:17:49.940 warning and at the minute there is a red extreme heat warning i came in to work on the train

01:17:55.480 wearing this i made it here true revolutionary i know i made it here i crawled in like i'd been

01:18:03.200 stuck in the Sahara Desert for three days

01:18:06.220 with chapped lips and red skin

01:18:07.780 but I made it here and I'm alive

01:18:10.180 and just take a drink of water with you

01:18:13.460 don't overexert yourself

01:18:15.440 and you will live

01:18:16.560 don't submit to this climate alarmist nonsense

01:18:19.920 they've tried directly scaring you

01:18:21.680 saying everyone's going to die

01:18:23.320 now they're doing it a little bit more indirectly

01:18:25.780 just don't fall for it

01:18:27.360 just use your common sense

01:18:28.840 and you will be fine 0.96

01:18:30.080 make sure children, elderly people

01:18:32.420 and your pets are well taken care of and enjoy the weather and all will be well

01:18:37.840 thank you archidor says pander to people and their comfort how dare something infringing

01:18:45.880 comfort good point cranky texan the climate narrative is not about the ecosphere it's about

01:18:52.880 the people the purpose is to herd us into a particular solution that won't work to an ancient

01:18:59.100 dalian problem ko triple seven six at first we were below average then we were above average

01:19:08.180 congratulations you figured out how average works yes i it exactly i write that uh i do

01:19:17.960 uh peter begley peter c begley don't forget that new zealand to get a number of fijian indians who

01:19:25.880 who fled the island nation after trying to take over the government there

01:19:28.640 in the late 80s, early 90s, ending up with a military coup.

01:19:33.760 You know, a military coup, yeah.

01:19:40.860 I think France, who do you think will be the first European country?

01:19:44.500 Which one do you think it will be? 1.00

01:19:46.260 I'd bet on the French. 1.00

01:19:47.700 Well, I know Germany's really bad as well. 1.00

01:19:49.680 I think Germany. 0.80

01:19:51.160 Germany would be interesting.

01:19:52.280 They were going to bring in conscription. 1.00

01:19:54.440 and the military people like no that's a bad idea yeah there's too many muslims here like we can't 1.00

01:20:00.040 yeah uh brandon name i can't read your comments man fallen firebird modern climate change is some 0.59

01:20:09.160 degree caused by human co2 the problem though is the excessive boy cried wolf scaremongering 0.94

01:20:15.240 and the proposed leftover solutions are always retarded 0.88

01:20:18.000 maybe maybe but do we have enough data over a long enough time period that's always been my 0.83

01:20:25.200 question i think also that we we still haven't effectively understood the climate because it's

01:20:31.300 incredibly complex yes and it is really difficult because it's an entirely global system it's

01:20:38.840 literally cosmic in that sun uh bursts and sun events on the sun impact the weather on earth

01:20:45.840 mm-hmm essentially so we're gonna need a super intelligent AI I think to decide

01:20:51.720 and then if you program it the right way it'll give you the answer you want so

01:20:55.320 it's it's it's it's not that easy Samsung do we have some video comments

01:20:59.940 sir. Thank you.

01:21:13.920 Vasco.

01:21:29.940 it is the month of the sacred heart of jesus heart of jesus

01:21:36.120 um just for information

01:21:38.660 hey lotus eaters give them another breaking news update people in san francisco mental you know

01:21:44.940 they decided to pass some law in the middle of night on a thursday evening thursday midnight

01:21:49.620 risen tax law about 10 for all businesses yeah they just did that so not only did they charge

01:21:54.780 software they are charging new business tax also charging a new levy on the medicare tax

01:21:59.240 our version nss for you guys so please come pop us is that popcorn yeah tonight i saw popcorn being

01:22:08.720 eaten with chopsticks okay i mean i imagine the california tax policy is genuinely insane

01:22:17.340 i i don't understand i mean it's eating popcorn and watching california crumble is a wise move

01:22:24.700 to be fair

01:22:25.200 I don't know about the chopsticks though

01:22:27.960 I used to set my weekend alarm as Radio 4

01:22:32.680 for news comedy plays

01:22:34.360 but changes pushed me away

01:22:35.880 revisiting the station

01:22:37.280 today's schedule, 20 June

01:22:38.960 was the comedy Dead Ringers 0.85

01:22:40.640 crap

01:22:41.200 an 18th century comic romp 0.79

01:22:43.040 with an up-to-date twist

01:22:44.320 no

01:22:45.020 and profiles in which

01:22:46.500 Becky Milligan presented

01:22:47.600 Rupert Lowe as a toff

01:22:48.860 with a list of dubious links

01:22:50.500 poor political performance

01:22:51.740 and an unspecified allegation

01:22:53.540 of his behaviour

01:22:54.860 Reporters favour using linked to to undermine.

01:22:58.000 Well, everyone who works for the BBC is automatically linked to sexual abuse.

01:23:03.240 So could that be why Milligan referred to the grooming gang report rather than its proper title?

01:23:10.780 It wouldn't surprise me, to be honest.

01:23:12.900 They've been very sly about how they present things.

01:23:16.080 Although the local news coverage of the Manchester mayoral announcement was actually quite fair,

01:23:23.720 which was interesting

01:23:24.840 I think we need to now

01:23:29.660 reach out and we need to

01:23:31.840 show that we are listening to people

01:23:33.680 across the board including in the

01:23:35.760 community, it is clear that

01:23:37.620 when we went into the last election

01:23:39.300 relationships were damaged

01:23:41.100 as leader of the Labour Party

01:23:43.220 I would make it my business to put those

01:23:45.600 relationships right and as a start to

01:23:47.600 pretend I can say tonight that the first

01:23:49.720 foreign visit I would do as leader

01:23:51.840 of the Labour Party would be to Israel

01:23:53.860 to show that message from the very start.

01:23:59.860 I mean, yeah, and the appointments

01:24:01.820 of the chief of staff

01:24:04.400 and a bunch of other people around him,

01:24:06.940 not exactly encouraging.

01:24:11.860 And then I met this nice man from Minneapolis.

01:24:19.160 Welcome to my boat.

01:24:21.840 Look at me

01:24:23.600 Uh-huh

01:24:24.620 Look at me

01:24:26.040 Okay

01:24:27.060 I'm the captain

01:24:28.800 Okay

01:24:29.660 And just like that

01:24:33.900 I was a Somali pirate 1.00

01:24:37.240 Wonderful use of

01:24:44.480 Is that AI that did that?

01:24:46.140 Someone just very good at editing

01:24:47.560 Enjoyed that very much

01:24:48.620 Farscape follows John Crichton as he is stranded on the other side of the galaxy and made a fugitive

01:24:55.520 on the living escaped prison ship Moya along with the ship's symbiotic pilot a priest a deposed king

01:25:01.100 a warrior and an ex-soldier most of whom have diverging goals it's a smashing adventure with

01:25:06.880 excellent characterization superb alien designs courtesy of the Jim Henson company and a base

01:25:11.680 perspective on fatherhood a child deserves two parents my child deserves a father made me a

01:25:16.820 Statue. I strongly recommend it.

01:25:20.460 I know, you just watched that.

01:25:21.600 It's pretty good.

01:25:23.860 Add it to my list.

01:25:26.640 Very good.

01:25:28.740 Alright then,

01:25:29.640 shall we look at some of the comments from the website

01:25:31.560 Samson?

01:25:38.180 You can read one in the meantime

01:25:39.360 if you like.

01:25:44.540 I have to read this.

01:25:45.680 I don't care what happens.

01:25:46.440 that's a random name by 2030 the hypoporbean ice caps surrounding the garden of nurgle will 0.68

01:25:53.140 finally melt at which point the world will be flooded by a butter chicken tsunami mostradamus

01:25:58.480 yeah all right um let me look at some of my comments and then we'll look at some of yours

01:26:10.220 justin says steel man for the woman cop when you watch the video the shot that downs the civilian

01:26:15.600 doesn't sound different to the other shots so some people are thinking that it may have been

01:26:20.080 the shooter that got him rather than the cop if not with a civilian coming from the direction of

01:26:24.720 the shooter without warning the cop was probably already panicking with her partner having been

01:26:28.160 shot so shooting before realizing it before he was a civilian is understandable yes i agree um

01:26:34.880 yes she should have been trained better to assess the threat quickly i also i don't think it's a

01:26:38.640 question of training man i just don't think that all jobs are for all people i that's that that's

01:26:44.800 the long and short of it uh violence is a man's domain it should remain the man's domain shouldn't

01:26:50.000 be you know you shouldn't have women in frontline policing or or frontline military service or these 0.99

01:26:55.920 kinds of jobs it's things where physical strength and and sort of comfort with violence that you can 1.00

01:27:03.520 only get with a certain portion of men yeah derek power master of chippies in a nutshell women are 0.58

01:27:10.800 are allowed to be modern men are expected to be traditional and yet only one gets rewarded for it

01:27:16.400 quote unquote yeah fair enough diogenes uh going to push back on joss's statement of women behaving

01:27:25.020 like a monolith such individuals in a group would demonstrate variance from the mean median but a

01:27:30.400 woman as a function of being more socially hierarchical than competition based cluster 1.00

01:27:36.240 closer to the mean in part due to social pressure so yes not all women want to be in a tinder harem 1.00

01:27:42.360 but a majority a seven out of ten will admit to being in a situationship which is what a harem

01:27:49.400 looks like from the inside from the pov of someone who doesn't understand it is a harem

01:27:53.940 i think that um it's uh it is a convincing argument in the abstract but you meet people

01:28:02.640 in the world that take you by surprise that don't fit any neat model of understanding and

01:28:09.600 they are out there and you it's sort of difficult to communicate the fact that

01:28:15.000 there are lots of different kinds of people in the world and not there's a lot of variance in

01:28:20.440 human behavior and not all of them behave in the same way even if the most visible ones seem to

01:28:26.180 and i understand why people put these arguments forward you want to read a couple of your

01:28:31.720 comments sure um we don't want to do the butter chicken tsunami once oh yeah yeah oh sorry um

01:28:39.700 michael we shouldn't do the butter chicken says pattern recognition is not racism i yeah yeah i

01:28:47.600 prefer to uh consider myself a pattern recognition enthusiast um but you know whatever

01:28:53.840 uh michael joe belbis again says on new zealand the majority population need to always vote for

01:29:00.840 the ones that don't pander to minorities yep otherwise you won't have a civilization so yeah

01:29:06.040 get on it uh mermidon says i remember hearing an indian government official saying they're not

01:29:12.720 selling the best and brightest but the drugs of their society says quite a bit well yeah i mean

01:29:18.080 that says quite a bit especially given the society it's presented in western media as the best and

01:29:24.980 brightest and the sort of elite human capital yeah anyway uh josh you want to read a couple of yours

01:29:30.580 Of course. California Refugee says,

01:29:33.400 London Underground has been warming up over decades and there is no way to call it.

01:29:37.120 The underground heats up the clay soil, which has been a natural heat sink,

01:29:41.460 but it's not able to absorb all the heat anymore after decades of use.

01:29:45.080 Once again, the best solution is to port peas.

01:29:48.820 It's amazing. It's a cure-all, isn't it?

01:29:51.760 Fewer people, less heat.

01:29:53.600 I mean, you can't argue with that, though, can you?

01:29:55.280 And then I'll read one more, a shorter one.

01:30:00.580 Diogenes says

01:30:04.660 Sorry Josh but under the capitalist lens

01:30:06.600 Red is the colour of Coca-Cola

01:30:08.180 Your beach holiday this year is brought to you

01:30:10.740 By the cool crisp taste of an

01:30:12.680 Ice cold Coca-Cola

01:30:14.660 Thank you

01:30:16.880 Alright

01:30:18.520 And that is all the time that we

01:30:20.780 Have for today, thank you so much for joining

01:30:22.740 Us, we will see you again tomorrow

01:30:24.480 At the same time

01:30:30.580 Thank you.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 25, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1448

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