The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1501

00:00:00.000 hello everyone welcome to the podcast of the lotus eaters today is tuesday the 8th of september and

00:00:05.540 this is episode 1501 and i'm pleased today to be joined by brother nate and brother dan and we have

00:00:12.960 some very interesting topics to talk about we are we have to talk about an israeli minister

00:00:17.860 who claims that the falklands belongs to argentina and they do not yes i had to change the title on

00:00:23.220 that a few times before i caught it through the censors yes i saw that yeah we are going to talk

00:00:28.340 about the imminent collapse of the far right not just in germany as the title of the adverse

00:00:33.660 supplement may suggest but in general and then we're going to talk about the far right you mean

00:00:39.040 the center right no the center right you said did i say far right okay um and then how your honey is

00:00:46.500 fake right um dan do you want to start who is this fellow here that is ben gaviv okay um handsome 0.93

00:00:57.480 chap that he is uh a bit of a bit of a jewish supremacist uh and all-round nutter this guy

00:01:04.540 something's clearly ticked him off in the last few days though he's he's got a bit um

00:01:10.020 airy yes uh is it just the uh the last two days though a few days though because he does have a

00:01:17.760 history of oh he's got he's got a history of being generally disagreeable um i i wondered if he's got

00:01:23.460 any connection to to this guy emperor titus um who um on this day in history completed the

00:01:29.840 destruction of jerusalem maybe that's what's is that a 40k reference no no no that's uh no

00:01:36.400 actually that might be the wrong titus but there was emperor titus who had a bit to do

00:01:40.980 so maybe maybe it's one of those um anniversary things that's got him so wound up because what

00:01:47.120 he's been saying is um is it's it well basically wants the argentinians to invade the falklands

00:01:54.380 yes he he says that yeah which is you know slightly irritating given everything that

00:02:03.840 britain has done for israel and let's uh bear in mind that this is a israeli government official

00:02:09.280 yes isn't just an edge poster no no no no no he he i mean he's the national security minister

00:02:14.520 yes he is also coalition key part of the coalition yes exactly right yeah i mean

00:02:20.680 britain has done quite a lot for for israel over the years i mean they've um i mean well first of

00:02:25.420 all the 1917 balfour declaration um which which basically established israel in the first place

00:02:31.320 i mean there's that um the um you know the under the under the the british administration of the

00:02:39.540 territories the jewish population went up from 80 000 to 650 000 you know which is so basically

00:02:45.200 you know we helped them establish it in the first place um there was the whole 1956 suiz crisis

00:02:51.320 um where where britain and france coordinated against nassau the um you know the the the

00:02:57.780 egyptian uh president and sort of sworn enemy of nasir that's the one um yes you're right yes

00:03:06.820 i'm not very good with foreign words but yeah um then there's the sort of the in the modern day

00:03:13.540 there's rather extensive intelligence and counter-terrorism sharing and cyber cyber

00:03:18.160 terrorism and he knows something about it because he's deeply involved in well i mean he is the yes

00:03:23.720 he's the minister for it so so there is that so he's going to be well aware he's going to be well

00:03:27.880 aware of the 2001 and um 2023 strategic partnerships so we can when we keep doing

00:03:36.300 things all plus billions of trade that britain has with israel uh mostly buying from there so

00:03:42.920 i was gonna say isn't it more beneficial for israel yes yes quite a bit rather than us our

00:03:47.820 trade them's terrible i mean the relationship has been rocky i mean there was the um king david

00:03:53.440 hotel bombing um of the of the british team that was there 91 people down the assassination of

00:04:01.040 lord moyne a couple of british army sergeants were abducted um hung and then their booby their

00:04:07.880 their bodies booby trapped so you know it has it has been a rocky relationship of time and the

00:04:14.320 group that did that in fact the guy who did it uh mentioned begging um i mean he went on to uh

00:04:21.140 found the lakud party and um actually became prime minister of israel so there have been some rocky

00:04:28.620 things in there but yeah now as for as for this guy um yeah as you as you exact as you say he's

00:04:34.040 the um israeli national security minister um he was actually convicted for terrorism in 2007

00:04:39.940 not only uh was he convicted for terrorism or did he have a poster on his house of a a jewish

00:04:49.780 terrorist jewish supremacist terrorist who opened fire and yeah barrett goldstein yeah yeah who was

00:04:56.220 who um according to the israelis this isn't according to me but according to the israelis 0.94

00:05:01.240 he is a um a mass murdering terrorist okay but was ben gvir convicted also terrorism so the photo

00:05:08.380 the picture that you're referring to is baruch goldstein yes he had a photo of him in his house 0.59

00:05:12.780 and he he's a sort of mass murdering terrorist um and that's the israeli supreme court saying that

00:05:18.160 that's not me saying that yeah um he i mean he he was like i say convicted for for well supporting

00:05:23.640 a terrorist organization in 2007 um and i mean he he just comes out with the most incredibly

00:05:30.160 extreme stuff all the time i mean he's a guy who put up that tweet which we can't even um you know

00:05:37.180 you can't even get it onto it you can't share it or bookmark it on twitter anymore that one about

00:05:42.080 how um we're basically calling for the extermination of the lebanese he says for every

00:05:48.160 tier of an israeli mother a thousand lebanese mother must weep all of lebanon must burn and

00:05:52.840 then he continues to say stuff which again i'll say he isn't just an edge edge lord online he is

00:06:00.140 he is uh an official no yeah he's the national security minister um it it seems like you know

00:06:08.780 whatever we have done for israel is is not enough i'll be in his bonnet he has a bit yes so i mean

00:06:15.600 i mean he's advocating for uh you know advocated for seizing um you know israel sorry lebanese

00:06:22.600 civilians oh just just snatching up innocent civilians um as a part of the war process um

00:06:31.620 well as as well as going on to say that all of lebanon should burn i mean this is this is a

00:06:35.820 christian country after all we're talking about here but he doesn't particularly like it um what

00:06:41.100 else have i got um yeah he he put up this ai video of ai with politicians i've got a mouse but

00:06:49.600 maybe somebody maybe let me see here if i have the mouse there you go

00:06:55.600 sound off you get the idea basically feeding prisoners into um a slaughterhouse did he do

00:07:05.380 this comes from a guy called glen decent is this that's the guy that's on um uh what is it

00:07:12.380 the the duran let's see here okay yep yeah so um yeah not a um not a not a top guy

00:07:21.900 um well sorry no he is a top guy he's a top one not a not not an admirable chap i would say

00:07:28.060 now um you know getting the argentinians to invade the falklands is not at this time

00:07:34.420 israeli state policy but at this time at this time yes but he is nevertheless um you know a

00:07:43.780 minister of the government um and a sort of key power player within it um and and what caused all

00:07:52.400 of this oh yeah and also yeah i mean i've i i remember i want to mention the greater israel

00:07:58.780 project um on air and i had loads of people come back at me and say oh that's just a conspiracy

00:08:03.740 um well here here is this ben gaviv chap on stage talking about it so

00:08:09.540 so there's that i'm not familiar with what that is um basically is it about our next

00:08:19.140 everybody around you take them over make it oh right make make it all israel basically right

00:08:24.220 yeah i thought that was pretty obvious to be to be honest uh yeah well no i wanted to do

00:08:29.100 well no no apparently apparently it is a conspiracy theory ah even though he's not supposed to talk

00:08:33.500 about it and you will get told off if you if you mention it right right but he's saying it he can

00:08:38.400 say it on stage right televised it's different yes that's an interesting double standard isn't it

00:08:44.120 uh yes yes it is a bit now um what what caused the upset so it was basically um

00:08:53.120 um but burnham is considering um some very mild um restrictions on trade to um areas of the west

00:09:04.940 bank right so this is not i mean he's not advocating for a boycott of israel or anything

00:09:10.120 like that he's just saying no we shouldn't we shouldn't be developing trade links with um

00:09:15.400 well what burnham would consider to be the occupied territories right in the west bank

00:09:20.240 so i mean it's a very tepid move um and it's a sort of very partial sort of trade restriction

00:09:28.420 and it certainly doesn't apply to israel as a whole but nevertheless that was enough for

00:09:35.500 ben gavir to start calling for the invasion of falklands islands so yes not not the fine

00:09:42.240 oh and also he wants the um uh the british ambassador in israel to be kicked out

00:09:47.280 in this case so yeah possibly hysterical reactions it's a bit strong i will give you that

00:09:54.800 um it's not just him of course now um i just want to make it clear when i go on to the next bit

00:10:00.440 uh i'm going to bash a few americans uh we got we got a big american audience i'm not bashing you

00:10:05.020 i think in fact if anything i think you guys will be on board that there is an element in the

00:10:10.600 american right which is perhaps a little bit unhinged um just what just a small element

00:10:17.200 Yes, yes. We like most of them, not Mark Levin.

00:10:22.020 So, I mean, Mark Levin is now just calling for the boycott of the UK wholesale.

00:10:27.000 Oh.

00:10:28.760 Yes.

00:10:29.500 That's interesting.

00:10:30.860 Yes. I mean, he's basically saying that 40 states across the US, I don't know why,

00:10:34.960 but 40 states across the US have laws requiring that you basically break off all contact with anyone who does a boycott of Israel.

00:10:42.380 This is not a boycott of Israel.

00:10:43.780 it's uh not developing any trade links um in the occupied territories as described uh but no mark

00:10:51.540 is now saying okay you need to you need to basically excommunicate the uk altogether

00:10:55.620 um wow yes okay thank you thank you for that mark unhinged isn't it really yes um randy fine

00:11:04.040 is also one of these sort of known quantities for being a little bit when well israel first

00:11:10.100 basically oh yeah yeah yeah yeah never america first i don't know why i presume maybe something

00:11:15.960 to do with apac yes i i i honestly think he would do it for free these two um but yes and and as

00:11:25.360 callum points out here um to to uh mr fine right who i presume is a floridian uh the british trade

00:11:33.720 florida is about five to seven times larger um than florida's trade with israel uk is florida's

00:11:40.480 largest source of foreign direct investment and israel is 19th u uk visited numbers and

00:11:46.460 tourism spending in florida is much higher same faith and language but yes again it seems to

00:11:53.280 go on a bit israel first um the other thing that is that i find intriguing as well is um

00:12:00.120 actually an israeli company is investing in because if you go back to the original tweet

00:12:06.180 where he's talking about we're basically suggesting that we're stealing money from

00:12:09.300 the argentinians um by owning the oil extraction companies there um the israelis have a significant

00:12:17.140 stake in the oil extraction that is happening there brilliant so yes so again he has possibly

00:12:25.540 not thought that one all all the way through um now for those of us that don't get israeli funding

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00:12:58.260 helpful so that we can put stuff in the space that we've got um we'd love that um but yes so

00:13:04.380 then we ought to get on to um well could the falklands actually be invaded by argentina

00:13:13.000 with or without i think absolutely not quick section segment over

00:13:19.000 no definitely not why not nate why well they've got their economy's tanking they've got bugger

00:13:27.000 and they've got bingavir now brilliant no still no what even with israeli support

00:13:34.820 i think they're a little bit preoccupied well yeah but there's always space for one more war

00:13:41.400 is there is there yes you tell me fair point um no it is it is something that comes up because

00:13:48.760 every so often i mention i mentioned the falklands and there's always people in the comments say oh

00:13:52.800 yeah but could we really take it back if um if 1982 happened all over again you know could we

00:13:58.900 really do it yeah yeah yeah i mean look look our military is terrible at the moment right like it

00:14:06.160 i this isn't me suggesting that our military is brilliant and it's just objective truth is it's

00:14:12.340 just not very good but it's it still absolutely urinates all over argentina to be fair when we

00:14:17.940 say that our military isn't good it is actually very good it's just small no no no uh well so i

00:14:24.980 disagree i mean you know naval ships trying to be launched and they're not launching that's an

00:14:28.980 embarrassing joke yes you know the amount of people that are in reserves and things like that

00:14:33.200 it's not a massively high military the military spend isn't good in terms of overall quantity is

00:14:37.700 is is high like it's actually quite a lot of money you know in actual raw numbers but how it gets

00:14:43.680 spent is a joke but i mean a british type 45 if it actually works oh yeah yeah yeah i mean the

00:14:50.740 argentine has got no answer for that yeah i think they've got like one do they have like one submarine

00:14:55.220 or something like that and that's it they've got basically no yeah and their navy's nothing by

00:15:00.100 comparison as well i think when it comes to comparisons between armies we need to remember

00:15:05.860 why each army is needed because not every country is going to take its entire army and take it to

00:15:11.540 one place so well that's one thing to factor in but i think there are two fat two other

00:15:17.840 factors that we haven't mentioned one is andy burnham um the this government so far with the

00:15:25.720 previous prime minister keir starmer was very wasn't particularly showing that they want to

00:15:32.420 defend british uh territory like with the chagas no no normally they want to pay people to take it 0.98

00:15:37.280 off our hands yeah so i think that right now the big the most dangerous thing it's andy burnham 1.00

00:15:45.280 yes and you know lack of will to defend them but the other bit is that personally i think

00:15:52.140 millet is bluffing yes most probably uh trump and uh netanyahu urged him to say this in order to

00:16:01.400 to pressure the british government yes but right now i think he is in the middle of changing

00:16:08.900 argentina yes and him doing anything of that sort would create a massive global scale

00:16:18.080 um dissatisfaction with yes i mean no and just because ben gavir is with him or something

00:16:24.700 wouldn't change much and just because a podcaster uh you showed before mark levin

00:16:30.200 just said yay it's it's not so yes never nevertheless it's always fun to talk about

00:16:35.380 whether it could actually sort of be pulled off or experiment yes yeah but the thing is that when

00:16:40.440 we're comparing militaries it's not that the entire british military would go to the falklands

00:16:46.060 leaving no we wouldn't need the uk unprotected that i mean that's the key thing is the is

00:16:51.180 basically the problem has been reversed back in 1982 it was they they could take it present it

00:16:57.860 as a fait accompli and then say look we've got it now what are you going to do about it and we had

00:17:02.260 to go there and take it back the issue has been reversed and maybe mainly because of this place

00:17:06.900 the uh mount pleasant i should have a mouse there we go i'm gonna have a mouse the the the mount

00:17:11.940 pleasant uh complex so the raf base there um brigadier charles harmer based down there you

00:17:19.140 don't see much there but but basically yeah this this outfit so he's got a proper full-size heavy

00:17:26.740 lift um runway there now this did not exist back um in in the early 80s and so basically the issue

00:17:33.760 is is that whoever controls this airfield controls the Falklands um they've got four

00:17:41.280 RAF typhoons uh based there and they're sort of quick reaction ready so you'll have um you know 0.99

00:17:49.800 you'll have a um you know a a squadron of of chaps basically sitting around in their flight suit 1.00

00:17:55.440 waiting for the word ready to you know run into the planes and get into the air 1.00

00:18:00.720 and basically they can be in the air before a fast jet can arrive from Argentina so even if

00:18:07.600 even if they launched a lightning strike plus this this RAF base has sort of multiple

00:18:13.380 surface to air missile defense systems so for example it's also got a couple of these

00:18:20.000 so these are sort of sky saber um air defense mobile units as well so they could be positioned

00:18:26.220 around the island as well as what you've got on the bases in the four um typhoons do we have to

00:18:31.660 source any of these parts from america or get approval for any of these things from america

00:18:36.700 because that's also part of the issue is yeah how sort of inexplicably intertwined our militaries

00:18:42.800 are to the point where you've got to get approval for certain things or codes from america and

00:18:47.220 there's parts from america yes other nonsense well to be fair the americans get their stuff

00:18:51.760 from china so that is true yes it's a bit it's a bit of a cascading problem all the way down on

00:18:57.800 that one there is also another thing uh about melee is that i think correct me if i'm wrong

00:19:02.580 but i think in 1982 argentina was governed by a junta was yes so there wasn't that much internal

00:19:09.860 opposition inside at least there was no there was now there is more well there was internal pushback

00:19:15.440 that's kind of why they launched the attack on the falklands in the first place to distract from

00:19:19.000 the internal problems yes um so they attacked the falklands expecting to get sort of national

00:19:24.500 support and it and it kind of did work a little bit i don't think millay can do that now no it

00:19:29.380 would be a bit maybe i'm wrong but i don't think he can or will do he makes hints and noises from

00:19:34.760 time to time so yeah we got we got the typhoons we got the uh sky sabers quite often i mean it's

00:19:41.340 not publicized when but quite often you have a an astute class uh submarine in the area as well

00:19:46.940 i mean it's not it's not publicized when it's there and when it's not but it quite frequently

00:19:51.360 checks in on the in that area um the rgs better make bloody certain that they don't attack on a

00:19:57.420 day where that's there because because that's not going to work and look the the essential problem

00:20:02.220 is is do the people always wonder about you know can uh can it happen um the the issue is is i know

00:20:09.540 they say it's you know it's in argentina well it's not that i mean that is actually still 500

00:20:15.720 kilometers from there to there yeah yeah that's a long and also you need lots of fuel for your jets

00:20:21.500 yes and i don't know about how they can have um naval support i don't know the kind of naval

00:20:28.920 support they can well i i have been i have been thinking about that and look basically so you've

00:20:34.280 got air defense there you've got uh surface to air missile systems uh you know and the

00:20:38.980 and the four typhoons possibly in a stute somewhere around here although it's not publicized

00:20:44.280 on the island themselves they've got fighting troops of 120 men as a minimum as well as 100

00:20:52.340 um local um what do you call them falklandese men i don't know what you call them falkland

00:20:58.180 folklanders yes there's another company of another 100 falkland men um in a military reserve there

00:21:04.900 but more to the point the british military quite frequently rotates people around there for

00:21:10.380 training so it will have no less than 200 fighting men but can be in the several thousand

00:21:16.940 again that's not publicized when troops are training there but it does happen quite a lot

00:21:22.280 so you've you've got at least a couple of hundred if not a couple of thousand men there

00:21:26.760 now the issue is if argentine actually wanted to invade it let's say they managed to pull off

00:21:33.380 a sufficient mobilization in complete secret which is a big ask by itself mobilizing an army

00:21:39.940 without anyone noticing that something is up and that getting fed back through intelligence

00:21:45.400 connections i mean that but let's say they pulled that off the issue is okay you can you can fly out

00:21:52.160 from there to there in a bit over an hour you can have jets over so if you're using jets you could

00:21:58.120 get parachute troops there but those jets are going to need to get past the missile defense

00:22:03.140 systems and the four typhoons yeah so that's that's a bloody big ask by itself but if somehow

00:22:08.660 and and argentine argentina just doesn't have the air force to do this if the air force could take

00:22:15.380 out the typhoons and the missile defense systems and the sky saber defense systems if they could

00:22:22.140 do all of that and they could start landing parachute troops but that's basically the only

00:22:26.440 way that it could work that could be you know but also if they don't go for a blitzkrieg they would

00:22:31.340 have to do a something like a naval blockade because help could arrive from the sea they're

00:22:37.440 doomed if they do that because what's their capacity for doing so yes well they don't have

00:22:43.080 the air force to take out all of those systems there but okay even if you could drop parachuted

00:22:49.000 troops onto it they're not going to be able to carry much yeah so i mean certainly no vehicles

00:22:54.440 or maybe a few light vehicles but the amount of fuel can take they're basically going to be down

00:22:58.460 to water rations and and you know ammunition for for a day or two if if that the biggest so you're

00:23:04.940 going to have to get naval supplies there now that to that like i said it's 500 kilometers

00:23:10.460 so at 15 knots you're looking at a bit over a day about 26 hours to go from there to there

00:23:16.300 26 hours to get a serious um you know troop contingent over there is less than it takes

00:23:25.340 for britain to fly from i can't zoom out anymore but yeah from there uh to there is is 15 hours

00:23:34.160 flight so if even if they manage to somehow conceal a mass build-up of troops even if we

00:23:42.600 only spotted at the point of launching basically we can have reinforcements there before their

00:23:47.800 ships get there yeah so the only way to do it is with overwhelming air superiority which the

00:23:54.240 argentinians don't have because otherwise what's going to happen is let's say that let's say that

00:23:59.560 you know the flow uh small flotilla is well large flotilla is a couple of hours into the journey

00:24:05.700 where we still got 24 hours in that time you can easily get several heavy lifts down here

00:24:12.440 and yes your your immediate priority would probably be initial uh additional raf personnel

00:24:18.300 to begin with um you know additional key systems for that but you could you could easily take

00:24:22.840 several hundred special forces down there in that time sas and sbs types and and then over the coming

00:24:28.300 48 hours after that you can then start the heavy lifts of the of the regular regiments as well so

00:24:34.020 basically we can reinforce it faster than they can they can attack it so in answer to the question

00:24:38.220 of um you know even if ben gavir does somehow talk the rgs into giving it a go it's it's going

00:24:48.240 to win very badly for you so you know probably best not listen to ben

00:24:51.720 and i have the mouse do you want to check the comments i'll have a look yeah so uh okly door

00:25:01.000 says do we know the falklands are stocking up on ukrainian drone tech um that in itself would

00:25:07.480 make a difficult tech i don't know actually i don't i don't know the army is actually looking

00:25:11.760 into drones much it should be um a jeet read um a ten dollars thank you very much what

00:25:26.120 did i read it wrong

00:25:30.640 um a chat with a cat says you're putting me off uh mark felton has an excellent video about

00:25:41.180 potential falklands war that is nate uh mark felton has an excellent video about a potential

00:25:49.680 falklands war that is well worth watching um thank oh pat pat j reed thank you pat

00:25:56.860 um and and

00:25:59.740 should we should we just have a should we have an intermission

00:26:06.440 i'm good sorry all right um and and sigil stone 17 says randy fine was caught on video going

00:26:14.180 around using other congressmen's voting buttons in favor of israel while they were distracted

00:26:20.160 oh right okay okay right very good let's laugh it out i'm good i'm good okay give him a minute

00:26:28.420 um yeah how is this uh person called dan

00:26:32.800 no i see it now it's it's pat j reed okay yes

00:26:39.200 yeah i'll get there in the end

00:26:43.360 right we are going to talk about the imminent collapse of the center and particularly the

00:26:50.780 center-right we had state elections in germany particularly in the state of saxony anhalt

00:26:56.480 and the afd scored a great win they got 43.8 percent of the votes they doubled their previous

00:27:06.920 results in the previous state elections there. I think they were in 2021. And yeah, it was a

00:27:14.760 massive win. And the CDU got less than 20%. It got around 17.2%. And this means that with the AFD

00:27:27.160 and the CDU they get around 61 percent and now there are several voices within the CDU

00:27:35.580 such as Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Mertz talking about them being unable to continue

00:27:44.800 as they do. It can't be business as usual as he said and the question is what happened

00:27:53.940 and they will pretend to start a process of self-reflection and self-criticism which will

00:28:02.900 lead to nothing what the cdu yes the cdu because they're not going to self-reflect i said it's

00:28:10.240 going to lead to nothing they say that they are going to engage in self-reflection and self-criticism

00:28:15.660 which is going to lead to nothing i mean they haven't done it for the last 50 years so yeah

00:28:19.420 they won't do it but the thing is that it's an interesting question why did this happen why does

00:28:25.840 this keep happening and i do think that to a very large extent what we see throughout europe is

00:28:32.760 to to a big extent the fault of the so-called center-right parties like the cdu parties that

00:28:42.240 are claimed to be center-right but essentially find themselves to be the right hand of the left

00:28:48.220 And in a nutshell, this is what is happening throughout Europe.

00:28:52.180 And firewalls are particularly unable to resist tidal waves, if you get what I'm saying.

00:29:01.080 Good imagery then, mate.

00:29:05.120 Okay, so at the moment, the AFD is around 29% across the entire country.

00:29:13.580 so if there were federal elections right now what would people vote and 29 say that they would vote

00:29:21.960 for the afd and it's the first time in years that the cdu gets less than 20 they get 19.5 here

00:29:31.800 according to this poll i think that's the real take-home isn't it like afd's rise is brilliant

00:29:37.060 of course but it's the fall of the cdu that's really staggering it is staggering and the

00:29:44.380 question is how can they not see it yeah how can they not see it how can they not see that

00:29:50.660 they themselves are responsible for the rise of what they call far right now we are going to talk

00:29:56.580 about this and what this shows for for europe and for contemporary politics in the west and

00:30:04.000 i'll start by saying this first of all i know that several people use the term far right because

00:30:11.080 they think it's edgy personally i don't use it because it's a i think a bullshit term that the 0.91

00:30:16.520 left invented when everyone got tired of them calling everyone who wasn't a leftist fascist 0.89

00:30:22.620 so now the new ever it got really tiring and now the new term that they are using is far right but

00:30:31.240 far right is just a weird term it's more like it's meant to confuse people because there already are

00:30:38.920 terms to denote let's say extremist versions of the right like nazi fascist neo-nazi these terms

00:30:48.600 exist but they were used really liberally from the left and what we see here is a combination

00:30:55.320 of several factors number one we have leftists for whom everyone who isn't as left as mal is the

00:31:03.160 last rampant of the bourgeoisie locked in an existential friend enemy fight with them so

00:31:09.820 they're far right and then we have the center right across europe and across the west but

00:31:17.480 mainly europe that is looking at the far left in purely electoral terms and they say well

00:31:28.420 these guys are guys that could deprive votes from the center left so let's use them as sort of our

00:31:36.860 unholy allies and the problem with the firewalls that we see in europe right now and they are going

00:31:44.820 to be extinguished is that the problem that so-called center-right parties have when they

00:31:52.020 team up with leftists is that if the premise of their alliance is let us guard against the far

00:32:01.060 right and the far right is always going to be defined by the left then essentially everyone

00:32:09.240 who isn't a leftist is being called far right so the center-right becomes the right hand of the

00:32:14.380 left the left yeah the right hand of the left and that's why people don't like the so-called center

00:32:21.660 right now and they aren't particularly governing as center-right parties and i will show you some

00:32:27.840 examples right so let's see what chancellor mertz says here germany has left nationalism behind and

00:32:37.320 will never again allow ethnic nationalism in germany i understand so sorry is this also

00:32:43.720 is the i don't know if you've got this in in this clip this is also where he said 0.92

00:32:47.540 words to the effect of like he will not allow the afd to ruin what they've managed to create

00:32:54.600 over the last few years and it's just such a bizarre doubles doublespeak i mean what have 0.86

00:33:00.120 you haven't created anything you've destroyed your country yes it's on the precipice of complete

00:33:05.580 collapse what do you think you've created MERS like what have you actually established what

00:33:10.960 have you created nothing and I detect a pattern in center-right politicians is that on every subject

00:33:17.220 they act as if there is only one enemy like for instance in geopolitics when it comes to Putin's

00:33:24.260 Russia Putin's Russia is the only enemy yeah it's not um it doesn't cross their minds that the same

00:33:32.140 things that putin wants to do to europe are things other sides want to do to europe and in some cases

00:33:39.680 even worse so it doesn't cross his mind that for instance flooding his country and europe 0.84

00:33:47.780 with thousands of islamists millions of islamists is something that destabilizes europe and makes 0.77

00:33:55.200 it worse we're going to talk about it right so here we have a post by apostolos pistolas a greek 1.00

00:34:01.120 commentator who i have much time for he says well they literally put out articles like this and then

00:34:10.500 they're wondering why the afd is rising and they say here the new germans time to redefine what it

00:34:16.000 means to be german yeah no how about how about the germans decide what it means to be german

00:34:22.360 is this on a state level you the state does not determine what people are the state is there to

00:34:29.440 represent the people you don't determine who and what it is that you're representing that's not how

00:34:34.400 it works absolutely you're a slave if you believe in you know buy into this sort of commentary and

00:34:40.800 whenever we're talking about europe there are always you you are guaranteed to come across

00:34:46.300 liberal leftists who are going to tell you that the center right is essentially the uh the face

00:34:54.520 of the far right but they're doing the exact opposite so here we have kenneth roth saying

00:35:00.980 german chancellor mertz seems about to make the mistake that other centrist leaders have made

00:35:06.840 to fend off the far right preemptively implementing their program does not diminish the need for them

00:35:13.260 but legitimizes and reinforces them where on earth does he see mertz implementing the program

00:35:22.000 of the afd i'm stumped no idea i don't see i don't see him saying anything about three you know minus

00:35:29.400 300 000 net uh immigration figures yes where's that it's the same uh pattern that we see several

00:35:38.100 people especially academics i i think he is an academic uh yeah yale university

00:35:44.940 writing wrongs

00:35:47.020 Burke

00:35:47.500 former Human Rights Watch

00:35:49.120 executive director

00:35:50.240 for 30 years

00:35:51.280 the human rights

00:35:52.540 people in Europe

00:35:54.160 need to understand

00:35:55.200 that human rights

00:35:56.980 and the ECHR

00:35:58.660 is not there for you

00:36:00.500 it's literally there 1.00

00:36:02.260 to benefit foreigners 0.71

00:36:04.540 over you 0.98

00:36:05.120 it's their

00:36:06.240 sole purpose

00:36:07.940 in terms of

00:36:08.620 how it's implemented

00:36:09.380 and interpreted

00:36:10.180 just to benefit foreigners

00:36:12.000 at your expense 0.87

00:36:13.200 human rights law

00:36:13.860 should be called

00:36:14.540 i don't know um european discrimination laws or something european genocide that's what's

00:36:19.980 happening eric kaufman has a good um comment on this academic left liberal orthodoxy that the

00:36:27.380 center mainstreams the far right by trying to reduce immigration is a zombie theory which has

00:36:32.840 no data behind it and has lured in one centrist party after another yeah absolutely that's what

00:36:39.440 happens and very frequently you have intellectuals flushing titles your way and center-rightists are

00:36:48.280 going to say right these are the respectable dudes we want to appear respectable and essentially they

00:36:53.800 find themselves in a race to prove to the left that they're more progressive than the leftists

00:37:00.580 and those of us who are watching us those of you who are watching us from the uk just think of the

00:37:06.680 tories 14 years of rule of the uk um meant to oversee also brexit have led to the tory party

00:37:18.040 that we see today a party that was competing with labor for who is the more progressive one

00:37:25.700 well i mean all center-right parties i've ever seen they campaign on the right and govern from

00:37:31.000 the left that's what they seem to be doing james rothwell says here german chancellor frederick

00:37:37.880 mertz vows to struggle on despite disastrous election result in saxony alholt says determined

00:37:44.360 to stick with the reform program of his coalition with the spd and andrea chapova has a really good

00:37:49.720 response here as well insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different

00:37:54.520 results this is precisely what they're doing and it's at some point they have to ask themselves 0.99

00:38:01.460 are we the stupid ones i don't think they'll ask themselves if they're the baddies but 0.98

00:38:07.640 how can they expect this to work right mertz here says that he's he's very afraid about the future 0.99

00:38:17.480 of germany the future of germany is at stake well the future of germany is at stake and your party

00:38:23.100 the christian democratic uh union is going to be at stake when the majority of your country is 0.99

00:38:29.640 populated by islamists what do you like where's your logical conclusion here like extrapolate it 1.00

00:38:35.740 down to its foregone conclusion you won't have a country yes uh but why can't you think that far 0.95

00:38:42.560 ahead why can't you do second third fourth order consequences are we missing something though

00:38:47.080 because he may be very sophisticated in his reading and he has a 5d chess way of thinking

00:38:53.640 about it and he says here the cdu's historic electoral setback in saxony anhalt um is owed

00:39:03.500 to the fact that people can no longer follow his train of thought oh right yeah they don't want to

00:39:08.880 follow it mate um or or you could say that they can absolutely follow your train of thought

00:39:14.600 and they think that it just doesn't help them it doesn't work for germany it doesn't work for

00:39:21.360 themselves as individuals it doesn't work uh their how it doesn't work for their households

00:39:26.980 and also just they can't see how you expect the same bad strategy to work next time it won't work 0.91

00:39:36.040 next time all it does is to catapult the afd into power eventually right here he says that's why

00:39:44.540 they're pushing so hard to outlaw it ban it they've been pushing really really hard to try to 0.99

00:39:49.260 ban the afd well yeah but the more time the more time goes by the more difficult it's going to be

00:39:55.720 for them yeah yeah he says that we are not going to let these people who trust the federal republic

00:40:02.520 of germany and everything we have achieved in recent years and decades despite all the mistakes

00:40:08.280 that exists despite all the problems we have we will not let the uh these people talk our country

00:40:14.380 into ruin take our country into ruin well mate you've achieved that yourself so don't worry about 0.99

00:40:19.540 it there is no greater ruin that the afd could could push germany into than the ruin or or that's 1.00

00:40:27.180 not already established under you right so question for mertz um is it conceivable that there are

00:40:35.720 extra problems for your country than the afd let's say for the sake of you know for a hypothesis

00:40:44.320 let's say that they are bad let's say that they are they're bad as you say how are you gonna 0.98

00:40:51.000 counter them but just doing the same thing that is going to catapult them into power 0.98

00:40:56.040 by telling the germans that they should just accept decline and they should just accept 0.83

00:41:04.280 thousands and millions of people from countries that aren't european and explicitly hate europe

00:41:12.040 come to their countries and change the population mix the culture everything how do you expect this

00:41:18.960 to work right and i want to show you here this clip from mertz the mertz of 2000 the mertz of

00:41:28.460 a era in germany where there were no millions of syrians or afghans or or people from the mean

00:41:37.420 at zone let's see what he says here he speaks in german and i want to show you what he says

00:41:44.040 he says that he's not ready to accept that the minister of interior gives interviews with words

00:41:50.420 like the boat is full asylum applicants have to be pushed off quickly we can no longer accept so 0.95

00:41:58.320 many foreigners in germany and the same government that he belongs to in its practical politics that 1.00

00:42:05.360 does exactly the opposite ladies and gentlemen we have problems in germany with foreigners

00:42:10.400 and not only in the big cities in the ballroom areas i come from the rural region also in the

00:42:18.280 rural areas there are problems that are now disturbing and moving people with criminality

00:42:25.240 with very high unemployment for foreigners with impoverishment and essentially

00:42:32.100 he has the rhetoric of the afd right now with one minor difference when he said this

00:42:40.800 uh he said this 25 years ago the problems that the afd is talking about right now and highlighting

00:42:50.160 didn't exist to that extent to the extent that they do now so he already knows i mean what

00:42:57.820 happened to this guy what happened to this guy why did this guy the mertz of 2000s suddenly felt

00:43:04.920 that he has to tie his country to a program that says that there are only human rights for criminals

00:43:13.120 but not for victims i have um i have a theory tell me you noticing that there's something

00:43:18.980 different about him 26 years ago more hair and less no glasses yet his eyes clearly worked

00:43:26.820 okay so he could he could notice he could notice yeah okay right and he isn't the only one who can

00:43:35.600 who does notice because it's very simple it's very simple there are communities that are

00:43:44.040 overrepresented in crime. And the response by the establishment, both in Germany and in the EU

00:43:51.940 and in the UK, is to go multicultural, try to present crime as an isolated case and use

00:44:00.980 the framework of human rights and the framework of the ECHR that historically has been used in 0.74

00:44:10.500 order to improve let's say the lives of people to use it against them because suddenly now 0.80

00:44:17.920 the germans and the europeans in their respective countries are all faced with the same pattern

00:44:25.860 this pattern me is the over-representation of several groups more often than not non-europeans

00:44:35.440 in violent crime and when they engage in crime crime is being treated as an isolated case

00:44:45.120 and they don't particularly seem to be punished adequately they have a whole establishment that

00:44:52.300 says well the their violent crime is the language of the oppressed let's not be particularly hard

00:45:00.100 on them because it's traumatic for them to come from the third world to the first world let's 0.71

00:45:06.720 not deport them because their son may not like the chicken nuggets back in the countries they

00:45:12.820 come or because they are gay friendly and the countries that they will be deported to are not

00:45:21.320 gay friendly and would mistreat them and we have an establishment in europe that seems to be geared

00:45:28.260 to protect everyone except europeans and mertz is aiding this he's sort of trying to say that 0.96

00:45:37.260 everyone who is talking about this and against this is far-right and extremist here we have this

00:45:43.900 article by brussels signals syrians and afghans in germany eight times as likely to be suspects

00:45:50.440 of violent crime as locals we have here data from the federal police of germany indicating

00:46:00.140 the same trend that several crimes several communities are overrepresented in crime

00:46:06.140 particularly from the middle east and north africa and the response by the establishment is

00:46:13.820 You can talk about it only in the context of saying that the failure of some people to integrate is due to the natives who haven't integrated them and assimilated them enough by paying enough benefits to them. 0.53

00:46:32.180 So you can only talk about crime when the conclusion is, but you have to be taxed more, native European, in order to pay for the people who come from a non-European background that more often than not explicitly hates Europe. 0.72

00:46:51.300 And then not only do we listen to the establishment making excuses for their failures of assimilation, we have the establishment promoting multiculturalism that says explicitly, do not assimilate. 0.79

00:47:06.660 So all I'm going to show is an entry from the Sauta invasion on X.

00:47:15.660 And people watch this.

00:47:17.620 People are aware of what is happening.

00:47:20.660 And also people from Germany watch this.

00:47:24.040 And they say, don't want this for my country.

00:47:26.920 I don't want to be invaded by thousands of people.

00:47:31.560 And then I don't want them to be overrepresented in crime.

00:47:35.020 and be told that i'm responsible for their crime that the victim is responsible for the perpetrator

00:47:43.920 and that the only way to reduce crime is to pay more so people do see this and they don't want

00:47:51.980 this for the country and any other conclusion than saying that this has to stop is aiding the

00:48:00.600 destruction of Europe. And to the extent that people who call themselves center-right are

00:48:06.800 supporting this, they will collapse. They will simply collapse. Because Europe will remain

00:48:13.300 European. It isn't going to be destroyed. It isn't going to become a caliphate. It's going to remain

00:48:20.000 European. So yes, they should engage in self-reflection and conclude something other than it's the 0.96

00:48:30.920 evil far-right composed of people who don't want the European nations and the European

00:48:38.520 continent to liquidate or to blame. The conclusion has to be different. And if strong and tough

00:48:47.660 measures aren't taken right now the future will be bleak for everyone so yeah i i think the so-called

00:48:56.580 center right needs to wake up and implement tough measures right now that say that are pro-european

00:49:04.180 and put europeans first because a yugoslavia 2.0 isn't a future worth uh looking uh looking

00:49:13.620 towards. It's simply not a good future to want. And let's prevent this.

00:49:24.480 Right. Okay. Sigilstone17 says, enough about human rights. It's time to discuss human wrongs.

00:49:34.720 The Greeks invented democracy. Now everyone glared at Stelios. Sad Stelios. Yeah, we did

00:49:41.580 invent democracy with a very strong idea of the demos and its cohesion and this is precisely the

00:49:48.460 cohesion that the eu right now seems to be hell-bent on destroying um

00:49:55.320 okay i'll go down to daddy's belt he says that he needs an afd in maryland my choices are either

00:50:06.320 democrat independent democrat independent communist or democrat wearing an elephant label

00:50:14.960 okay should we go to the third segment yep

00:50:23.040 if samson could stop messing around with a buddy mouse that'd be great

00:50:28.240 oh no he needs to sorry

00:50:29.520 i'm not battling with samson on the mouse there right anyway shall we talk about honey

00:50:37.500 yes yeah great honey scandal this isn't like brand new news but it will be to some people

00:50:43.060 and i thought it'd be worthwhile covering i come here uh i tend to try and bring white pills now

00:50:48.800 or at least something interesting something which can benefit people uh in some way uh so i thought

00:50:54.900 we would talk about honey seems like a weird thing but honey uh is a very british thing it was a

00:51:00.220 worldwide thing as well obviously but the british love honey we have for centuries in fact uh so

00:51:07.620 much so that in the last few centuries of course it became a sort of a cultural touchstone for

00:51:12.700 children's books winnie the pooh got a lot of bit of winnie the pooh uh a.a. mill better than that

00:51:19.480 immigrant bear was it padding paddington oh right yeah he's a peruvian yeah whereas winnie

00:51:26.440 yeah winnie proper british stuff you can see you can see winnie down the beaches of dover with a

00:51:31.660 mask on you wouldn't you wouldn't get you wouldn't get paddington doing that no no not at all um so

00:51:38.220 a.a milne's first winnie the pooh book story uh was published on 14th of october 1926

00:51:48.740 this is not winnie the pooh facts but it's super important right so for the past hundred years

00:51:53.600 generations of children have loved winnie the pooh again it's permeated culture uh and obviously

00:52:01.000 part of that uh part of that story was pooh's love of honey who loved honey he really pooh

00:52:09.560 he really loved he was a fiend for honey i mean if there was an allegory for addiction i mean that's

00:52:14.380 he was an addict he was an absolute addict no honey no money but when he pays up yeah so

00:52:20.840 honey's brilliant like objectively there are actually lots of benefits of honey

00:52:25.400 why is honey so good well honey contains antioxidants this isn't like dietary advice

00:52:31.960 by the way but i just want to kind of build a picture of why this is important and why you

00:52:36.460 should care it contains antioxidants like flavonoids phenolic acids that may help protect

00:52:42.260 against conditions like type 2 diabetes heart disease darker honey varieties tend to offer

00:52:48.440 more antioxidants than lighter ones honey does raise the blood sugars like other sugars obviously

00:52:54.500 but research sort of to counteract that suggests that it may help improve fasting blood sugar

00:53:00.660 levels and increase adiponectin a hormone that can reduce inflammation and support blood sugar

00:53:08.580 regulation honey may help suppress coughing and children of one years of age support wound and

00:53:14.980 burn healing when applied topically uh just anecdotally um guys that follow me on twitter

00:53:22.300 will know i drilled through my hand and that's actually something that the nhs provided i thought

00:53:28.760 they were gonna yeah how did you do this well they provided honey yeah genuinely it's actually

00:53:33.500 on the nhs now is that it's something which top topically applied for dressings to increase wound

00:53:39.260 healing which that was that was my my first interaction with that as a do you know that

00:53:44.860 method but it's you know that honey is the one food that never spoils yeah because all it does

00:53:49.340 is crystallize yeah yes yeah and you can bring it back to its fluid state so actually um there was

00:53:55.580 um some honey because they used to put honeys in the pyramids with the the pharaoh chaps and they

00:54:01.020 found some and there was like this thick crust on top um that are kind of well like you say

00:54:06.520 crystallized but once you break through that you've got honey under there so if you ever if

00:54:11.760 you ever need a very long-term food source honey's your stuff yeah good it's really really good yeah

00:54:19.280 um in terms of how sort of long we've been eating honey for uh it dates back uh night like 9 000

00:54:28.140 years ago. Honey as a food source dates back like 9,000 years which is quite crazy really

00:54:34.520 when you think about it. Neolithic farmers were using honeybees for their food. Rock

00:54:42.300 paintings in Spanish caves depicted people gathering honey from wild bees. Date back

00:54:46.960 to a very similar time as well. So it's really really old. It's really ancient. We've all

00:54:52.080 enjoyed honey for a long time. There's my setup for the segment. Hopefully you enjoyed

00:54:55.980 it because scandal okay what happened most honey you buy is actually fake most honey you buy is

00:55:06.600 completely fake now i did say this isn't new but it was new to me and if it's new to me it might

00:55:12.620 be new to someone watching and so if it can be beneficial to someone watching then there is a

00:55:17.700 moral good here so the eu i know the eu awful things um but they did coordinate this thing

00:55:25.560 called uh from the hives which was it was basically like an investigation into honey right

00:55:30.820 um just to try to see like what like what's going on with honey right of the prevalence of uh market

00:55:38.160 the market of honey that had been adulterated with sugars and there is a distinct you're creating a

00:55:45.500 completely different product yes when you're adulterating honey it's not the same chemically

00:55:50.180 honey is basically just simple sugar suspended in water i mean that's that's the core of it

00:55:54.260 so if if you do so it's quite an easy thing to pad out it is but the difference is is actually

00:56:02.100 stark and we'll get to that uh towards the end um but so there's basically this this this happened

00:56:07.760 in 21 22 um and nine in ten honey samples so it's not just the eu nine in ten honey samples from the

00:56:17.380 uk retailer uh just uk retailers failed authenticity tests yeah i can believe that

00:56:23.240 i mean i well i don't know what you're going to say but at very least they would pad it out with

00:56:27.840 simple sugar suspended water because yeah i mean that is the the brunt of it is that it is um it's

00:56:33.760 like cutting the coke to make it go further it's exactly yes literally exactly that is that's a 1.00

00:56:38.480 great analogy so so i get annoyed with a woman because because i like to buy your woman yes

00:56:44.760 right because i like to buy because there's a place near me on my dog walk yeah and they've 0.90

00:56:50.040 got a beehive in their garden and they sell locally produced honey and that's the best kind

00:56:55.180 the locally produced stuff so i nice get to get it from there and if i can't get it from there

00:56:59.020 fortune and mason does a sort of really big glass thing with a bit of honeycomb in them i like that

00:57:04.100 but sometimes the wife will buy it from a supermarket and every time i see it i have

00:57:08.600 to tell her off and then put it in the bin it's absolute trash yeah it's completely it's genuine 0.95

00:57:12.740 trash so common ingredients found in fake honey is like uh corn syrup high fructose corn syrup 0.95

00:57:18.360 uh we know that that's not massively great for you cane or beet sugar syrup again not great

00:57:23.820 rice syrup not great uh things like added water so they sort of even pad it out the fluidity of it

00:57:32.520 uh with water there's even artificial dyes and flavorings again just because it's not actually

00:57:39.960 honey so they're trying to replicate it uh from from all metrics to make it look uh and sort of

00:57:47.000 i don't know tastes like honey i guess um but this is quite crazy so this was back in

00:57:51.560 i think this was back in 2024 okay um so again it's not this is not new this has been around for

00:57:58.360 a while and you can see this so the uk branch of the honey authenticity network sent 30 samples

00:58:05.560 last month this was in 2024 from britain to for a novel commercial test based on the dna profiles

00:58:11.880 of genuine honey five were from uk beekeepers and 25 from big retailers including supermarkets

00:58:17.560 the test found that 24 out of the 25 jars of honey from retailers were considered suspicious

00:58:24.360 all five samples from uk beekeepers were considered to be genuine honey importers in the uk and some

00:58:32.040 experts challenged the reliability of such testing but this is the latest batch of tests suggesting

00:58:37.560 you know what may be widespread adulteration in the honey supply chain

00:58:40.920 with some products suspected of being bulked out with cheaper sugars uh cheaper sugar syrups there

00:58:45.720 was also some recent stuff done as well but you can just see it again eu investigation

00:58:50.760 published in 2023 found 46 percent of imported sample products were suspected to be fraudulent

00:58:56.840 including all 10 honey samples from the uk it's like reducing gold from coins yeah yeah but the

00:59:04.440 question is what do they put in its stead oh so i did i did read that out corn syrup

00:59:09.480 cane beet sugar syrup rice syrup waters artificial dyes and flavors and and so what you strip out

00:59:16.840 from it you know you you strip out the the pollen right so you get the pollen benefits you're

00:59:22.280 stripping that out it's a kind of an old wives tale but anecdotally anecdotally apparent apparently

00:59:27.480 it does work it is true people who suffer from hay fever if you have locally sourced honey because

00:59:33.400 it's the it's the the low dose of pollen if from your direct local area it can alleviate your

00:59:40.640 symptoms um you also remove natural enzymes right because you're again you're bulking out with other

00:59:47.400 stuff so bees add special enzymes during the honey making process that provide antibacterial

00:59:52.260 and health benefits which is why as i said at the start that's partially one of the reasons why

00:59:57.140 the nhs quite literally now uses honey as a as a dressing for your wounds because of

01:00:03.300 honey or fake honey do they use honey or fake honey how can you be certain that the honey

01:00:09.600 they gave you was fake what i'm saying they use real honey okay good that's why they use it

01:00:14.760 because it strips out the natural fake honey strips out the natural enzymes yeah uh nutrients

01:00:21.040 as well so adulterated products uh when you're filling it out with uh different sugars you're

01:00:28.720 changing its glycemic index and glycemic load so those two things uh people with diabetes will be

01:00:35.120 familiar with um but it's basically the quantity of sugar uh and how quickly your gastric emptying

01:00:41.440 occurs and thus elicits uh an insulin response i hate it when it's rapid brilliant um so few things

01:00:50.560 how to spot fake honey three easy tests to protect it well you're buying it from the supermarket

01:00:55.760 that's that's the number one way yeah well yeah true um and so this article i quite liked it

01:01:01.600 honeyheaven.co.uk it's just a little blog post here why fake honey is a problem the issue with

01:01:07.040 fake honey goes far beyond just being cheated at the shop the product you're buying often contains

01:01:11.760 added ingredients like glucose syrup corn syrup rice syrup high fructose corn syrup all of which

01:01:17.200 are much cheaper to produce than real honey uh these fullers are used to bulk up blah blah but

01:01:22.640 it's not just that you know you're like you pay a really high price for honey like even if you're

01:01:27.040 buying fake stuff in the shop like it is actually quite expensive to be honest um i think i figured

01:01:32.560 out how you got the idea for this segment now you typed honey heaven into google and then this came

01:01:38.160 up and you're like oh no not what i had in mind but i can get a segment out of this good one but

01:01:43.120 no so this this actually we'll get to how i got to this in a minute right um but yeah quite good

01:01:49.200 hahaha um so three at-home tests to spot fake honey uh water test uh fill a glass with room

01:01:56.320 temperature water uh add a spoon uh using a clean spoon drop a spoonful of honey into the water what

01:02:02.000 to look for real honey a drop of genuine raw honey will sink to the bottom so there you go straight

01:02:07.200 it away fake honey uh will probably just dissolve like quite quickly because again it's bulked out

01:02:14.080 with water isn't it as well as like other syrups other sugars crystallization so what you said

01:02:19.580 um honey will just naturally crystallize that's just naturally what happens with it to be honest

01:02:24.440 real honey will just crystallize um fake honey probably won't like yeah at all uh label check

01:02:33.140 uh so interestingly like even looking for like uk source stuff it will still suggest you know

01:02:40.620 it doesn't mean that it's not fake right you can be like product of the uk well we've established

01:02:46.460 that actually a lot of the stuff in the uk is fake as well um and it says there's deceptive

01:02:51.460 wording you know honey blend honey syrup or honey product uh but even products that just say honey

01:02:58.520 we'll have it again you know or honey flavor yeah or honey flavor definitely yeah um so

01:03:08.180 a few more bits and pieces here what is raw honey versus fake honey kind of been over that to be

01:03:12.700 honest um was that there um this another bees another bees yeah there's loads there's loads

01:03:20.520 of really interesting videos on this this entire subject um that sort of builds it all out and

01:03:26.160 really paints a picture of how rife this problem is there is a really actually really interesting

01:03:31.620 video on bees joe rogan had this bee expert on once it was about five or six years ago now but

01:03:37.400 it for some reason it was just the most fascinating episode of joe rogan ever well they sort of

01:03:41.960 facilitate entire ecosystems yes which is another reason why fake honey is really bad i mean there's

01:03:50.000 so many layers of why fake honey is bad it's bad for you you're spending your money on slop

01:03:54.700 you're not getting the benefits again implicit in the statement of buying slop um is that you're not

01:04:01.480 getting the benefits of real honey either um but you're you're also not facilitating your local

01:04:06.800 ecosystems you know this isn't like some tree hugging segment either by the way um but it is

01:04:12.220 kind of important you know you you should facilitate the growth of bees across the world

01:04:17.340 you know we do need them like it's super important it's integral to uh ecosystems

01:04:22.520 uh and again another another interesting article just understanding adulterated honey there's so

01:04:28.020 much stuff about this when you when you start looking it's crazy again i didn't realize until

01:04:34.640 recently um and funny story the only reason i know about this recently is uh i set about making

01:04:41.160 some mead those that follow me on x will know this like i made like a 10 minute video documenting the

01:04:46.900 entire process and then a follow-up video so i've made mead uh a few years now and those wondering

01:04:52.900 what mead is it's just honey wine it's one of the i love mead i always have a bottle of mead in the

01:04:57.940 fridge in the fridge yes i like no i like it cold okay all right interesting if you can make your

01:05:05.200 own mead that's cool it's really easy to make and it's one of the oldest alcohols known to man

01:05:09.380 one of the oldest when you say very easy could you describe it in 30 seconds how to make mead

01:05:13.540 yeah sugar uh sugar honey water yeast fine it's literally that easy yeah but real honey

01:05:23.560 well so this is the thing right so for this particular batch of mead i wanted to make

01:05:29.100 uh blackberry mead so i wanted to i wanted to go out pick my own blackberries it was blackberry

01:05:34.960 season recently so i went out picked my own blackberries uh which is definitely a lovely

01:05:40.020 british pastime you guys should uh indulge in and i was like right okay so i picked local blackberries

01:05:46.880 literally just all around my local area there's loads and loads of blackberries um so i picked

01:05:51.220 loads of them and then i thought right well i i want to i want to go you know i'd like to support

01:05:55.940 something local i'd like to get uh some local honey um so i did uh and i this is close to me

01:06:03.360 brinkworth apiaries they did not pay me to say this um and it was i i ordered it it was cheap

01:06:10.720 like for honey it was it was cheap uh for real honey it was cheap uh and it was the most delicious

01:06:17.840 honey i've ever tried in my entire life and then i just kind of just went down this rabbit hole of

01:06:21.760 why are you giggling to yourself now i'm reading the chat they're saying they're making the they're

01:06:26.980 making the meme gay the mead gay oh brilliant what's the gay meme they say you know the 0.96

01:06:33.860 they're turning the frogs gay by alex joe they're making the mead gay with fake honey so i went down 0.99

01:06:40.520 this rabbit hole of trying to understand honey uh and and why honey is sort of complete crap now 0.97

01:06:48.260 to be honest but you could also tell you can tell in the flavor you can tell in the consistency of

01:06:53.860 But, and I just think it's really important, you know,

01:06:56.720 it's an integral part of our sort of-

01:07:00.740 Ecosystem.

01:07:01.440 Our ecosystem.

01:07:02.820 And it's been a really important part of our diet.

01:07:05.080 And we've just sort of given over an element of our culture

01:07:08.880 to the sort of global markets, basically.

01:07:12.600 And this is part of that, you know.

01:07:15.240 Fake honey is there to service a global market,

01:07:17.480 a global need for it to be quick, quick, quick, straight away.

01:07:20.820 everything on tap immediately whereas apiaries local apiaries you'll see that they are actually

01:07:27.940 only available at certain times if they sell out they sell out there are cycles to these things

01:07:33.240 uh and i think you should go support a local apiary you know why they're called apiaries

01:07:38.280 as opposed to beeries probably because that sounds dumb well yeah but an apiary conjures

01:07:46.360 up a completely different i have no idea it's probably to do with the um i don't know the the

01:07:52.360 the latin term for b or something i genuinely don't know to be honest is it the greek term for

01:07:57.320 b no no it must be latin then it's the first time i i encounter this word all right so yeah go go buy

01:08:03.400 local honey um that's probably your guaranteed way to uh ensure that you are not buying complete

01:08:11.640 crap and i tell you now it's unlikely that you would regret it either if you like honey

01:08:18.600 buy a local honey and it will probably be one of the most delicious honeys you've ever had 0.99

01:08:24.600 in your entire life i don't find this hard to believe i think honey that is locally produced

01:08:33.320 especially in villages and stuff that isn't just for mass production yes perfect now before we go

01:08:40.600 we have some of the comments

01:08:42.260 the chat is saying

01:08:44.500 Apis means B in Latin

01:08:46.560 so there you go

01:08:47.380 Samson before we play this

01:08:50.440 we do have time

01:08:51.500 I want you to load the video I sent you

01:08:54.020 because I want to show

01:08:56.060 yeah after the Ramble Rants

01:08:58.240 but I want to show you

01:09:00.040 something but let's start 0.72

01:09:02.360 with the Ramble Rants

01:09:03.620 Sigil Stone says

01:09:06.480 Winnie the Pooh is that Indian 1.00

01:09:07.680 brilliant

01:09:09.660 um citrus state again says bees are actually allergic to pollen it causes them to develop

01:09:14.300 hives brilliant uh logan 17 says uh as someone who works in the food industry buy raw honey

01:09:24.280 it's fairly cheap and very tasty yeah i mean it was cheaper than buying fake honey from a

01:09:28.420 shop it was genuinely cheaper i mean you're supporting someone local doing something good

01:09:33.440 uh meat is delicious and insidious one second you're sober the next second you're falling

01:09:38.280 down drunk worth it definitely it is quite strong isn't it made yeah you can get 15 you can get 15

01:09:44.160 easy yeah yeah yeah super strong i remember which how much and it's just so drinkable so easy to

01:09:49.380 drink yes that's the thing that's part of the danger of it yeah you start out with like one

01:09:53.340 wine glass of a thing or whatever i drank a whole bottle i actually use a um uh a bloody horn from

01:09:59.320 something like a i don't know brilliant i've got a few of them yeah and then yeah but one of those

01:10:04.160 so i use a horn thing of course you do yes but i but you know if you were to have like a wine

01:10:10.000 glass of it that one wine glass yeah get you right you'll be feeling special yeah i love it

01:10:15.100 yes yeah mead is mead is delicious it's so easy to make as well uh again you know there are elements

01:10:20.740 of i don't know embrace traditionalism that's that's what i would reject modern modernity

01:10:28.160 embrace tradition yeah i think there are parts that that should be embraced definitely reject the 0.96

01:10:33.580 the philosophically draining elements of the global homo markets for sure right so i want to 0.99

01:10:39.840 we we will play your videos and we will read your comments but because right now several people here 1.00

01:10:45.860 are learning how to drive i want to show them how not to park so i want to play this video

01:10:52.100 who's learning how to drive uh i i'm afraid i can't uh it's cold i can't say oh i know that

01:10:58.600 Okay, so this is how you not park, how you shouldn't park. 0.94

01:11:04.220 A Sydney woman has pleaded guilty to one of the worst cases of drink driving.

01:11:09.020 Elizabeth Bourgeois was caught on camera in March,

01:11:12.340 reversing from a supermarket car park at Taramurra.

01:11:15.560 Oh, it just keeps going.

01:11:18.440 Wow.

01:11:20.060 You'd think you'd stop after the first hit. 1.00

01:11:21.980 I mean, even by the standards of woman parking, that is something special. 1.00

01:11:25.040 You know, our world means nothing to them. 0.99

01:11:28.600 yeah so i want people who are learning how to drive now to just watch this video and

01:11:37.260 bear this in mind right let's go to the video

01:11:41.480 hello to cedars it's been a while since i did a video comment so i thought i would show you guys

01:11:53.640 our garden before it got too cold to see any vegetables or fruits so this is the tomato garden

01:12:03.880 and these are some peppers and chilies this is a thigh dragon green chili which is possibly one

01:12:13.320 of the spiciest green chilies i have ever eaten very nice javi thanks thank you javi and samson

01:12:20.200 can we turn the damn thing up because i had to go to like 98 internal cpu usage to make out all

01:12:27.360 of that i had to really concentrate error 404 something i find interesting about the media 0.54

01:12:36.180 is that they generally try to portray federal institutions like the fbi and the mounties as

01:12:42.400 being forces of good and generally being wholesome chungus types that you can trust well you know

01:12:48.100 state police and local sheriffs 0.59

01:12:50.160 are evil incarnate

01:12:51.660 now I think the last few decades

01:12:54.120 have shown us this is not necessarily

01:12:56.080 the case and can you guys think of any

01:12:58.200 other institutions that are pretty horrible

01:13:00.340 but are generally depicted as good

01:13:02.240 by the media

01:13:02.980 yeah journalism

01:13:06.300 for a start

01:13:06.940 yeah journalists

01:13:09.540 movie makers

01:13:11.280 Hollywood loves making movies about Hollywood 1.00

01:13:14.220 and journalists and both of them are scumbags 1.00

01:13:16.160 obviously politicians 1.00

01:13:17.080 yeah people blanket people what kind of people like melissa mccarthy 1.00

01:13:25.700 she's supposed to be she's one of the she's a fat uh short actress who is uh always uh very 1.00

01:13:34.280 playing very loud and annoying characters and uh you're supposed to find her stupid wokeness 0.99

01:13:45.060 endearing i'm not familiar with the work i have no idea who that is is that thing well lotus 0.84

01:13:52.960 here's i'm back after a long hiatus i returned and i will show you again all the cat pics i will

01:14:02.980 show you more charlotte who desperately needs a bit more loving in this my videos and of course

01:14:10.960 The Spooner Man

01:14:12.620 His movie just made over like

01:14:14.940 3 billion something

01:14:16.580 So he's gonna get some more

01:14:19.340 Loving

01:14:19.680 By the way

01:14:31.720 I think the second cat

01:14:34.000 Is called Peter Purr

01:14:35.900 Let's play the next one

01:14:38.260 This one is for Carl

01:14:40.220 Welcome, Carl, ever deeper to the Boomer rabbit hole. 0.99

01:14:43.180 You see, the Boomer is the most violent generation, and you really do see this in the care industry. 0.96

01:14:47.980 Once had to be a human shield to a pregnant co-worker because the Boomer was criticised, and that means war. 0.99

01:14:54.420 Now, they then get upset and play your victim. 0.93

01:14:57.120 If it turns out, well, I can overpower and beat him to submission a pregnant teenager, 0.91

01:15:01.860 but someone who actually is in their prime and not just screaming about being in their prime while dying of old age, 1.00

01:15:07.060 I can't beat him.

01:15:08.400 Woe is me!

01:15:10.220 Also done for go!

01:15:24.220 A round of applause to the Deadly Wyvern!

01:15:40.220 awesome where is that i was over castle mate what

01:15:53.140 balls over castle it said at the start balls over castle or something like that

01:15:59.220 where is that i like that there should be more jousting shouldn't there yeah

01:16:05.720 go to the king's flame festival that's you could probably joust in this office it's big enough

01:16:09.980 let's read the comments dan do you want to go oh yes all right hang on give me a second i

01:16:20.060 what are you doing what is being said that you're nothing nothing

01:16:25.020 people are giggling giggling a lot on this stream what's going on

01:16:30.620 may we proceed shall we proceed all right fair enough um

01:16:36.460 Starmer's fiery but mostly

01:16:39.480 peaceful backdoor says

01:16:40.920 with great allies like these who needs

01:16:43.420 enemies yes well it's not official

01:16:45.340 policy at the moment but

01:16:46.580 Alex Ogle

01:16:50.820 says Dan could the Ben Gavir tweet

01:16:53.380 be somewhat elaborate

01:16:55.100 8D chess move based on the fact that Labour

01:16:57.260 Party are

01:16:58.120 anti-semitic to force

01:17:01.080 Britain to take possessions of the Falklands more

01:17:03.060 seriously I don't think so

01:17:05.340 probably not i don't think i don't think ben gavir is trying to help us out um

01:17:10.440 oh michael dribbler says when i worked with the british army in the 80s that's 40 years ago

01:17:17.180 often said with the finest army on a shoestring budget and he also says um that one of his um

01:17:23.020 early military instructors was a guy who had been in the sas who was dropped into the falklands

01:17:27.820 and he spent a month um in a hidden position observing the argies moving around um and at

01:17:36.180 the end of the month or was it months um he had to be carried out because his art because his

01:17:40.960 muscles had atrophied so much that he couldn't move lying in a place for so well done that man

01:17:47.240 well done um henry ashman says um concerned how much that trump appears to be in netanyahu's

01:17:57.460 pocket so maybe the u.s will invade the falklands on argentinians behalf yeah look if the americans

01:18:03.000 are going to invade anywhere it should be here not not the falklands um george happ says the

01:18:09.380 falklands were promised to the british no i can't probably can i read that one am i allowed to yeah

01:18:13.640 all right uh the falklands were promised to the british 3 000 years ago i don't think that is

01:18:18.320 i think i think we got it in 1833 if i remember correctly uh and the the argies have never had

01:18:25.860 a position there because well they just haven't well apart from that bit in 1982 but that doesn't

01:18:33.060 count uh william clifton says uh we shouldn't wait for uh argentina to invade the falklands

01:18:39.720 we should stop them in their tracks and invade um tierra del fiongo there you go there you go

01:18:48.020 means fire it's a fiery but it's a peaceful zone no what what we oh actually the very next comment

01:18:54.920 it's just said what i was going to say um last peter simon says the uk could also evaporate uh

01:19:00.480 bionis eros bionis eros wiped out um headline from starship troopers is meme magic uh that

01:19:07.160 is on the cards well now i disavow i don't think we should we should nuke bionis eros

01:19:11.920 um or any other country to be fair which is why i had to change the title of my segment so many

01:19:19.100 times um nathan uh nichols says uh even if the argentinians could muster up a navy force to

01:19:26.220 invade the falklands i don't believe the pm would have the conviction to declare war yeah that's

01:19:30.660 what you said in my statement the bigger problem is not that the military couldn't do it it's the 0.96

01:19:35.820 stammers and burnhams yes it's that we're led by cut traitors um 0.98

01:19:41.580 Zebedee 0.93

01:19:44.840 says even if Burnham knows

01:19:46.820 giving up the Falklands would be a suicidal

01:19:48.920 policy for Labour, in 1982

01:19:51.040 there was no airbase, runway or air support

01:19:53.200 now there were typhoon fighters and troop

01:19:54.940 stationed there, satellites, early warning systems

01:19:56.980 etc

01:19:57.380 and it's hundreds of miles from the Argentinian coast

01:20:00.760 so you can't cross it

01:20:01.780 and Jordy Salzman

01:20:03.980 says to paraphrase an old

01:20:06.300 empire poem

01:20:07.880 whatever

01:20:08.880 happens we have got the royal gurkhas rifles and they do not oh i see it's in rhyme that's why i

01:20:18.800 couldn't pronounce it okay michael drabelby says on germany the only thing in the middle of the

01:20:25.300 road is roadkill it's good to see germans are choosing patriotism over socialism again he says

01:20:31.920 the stelios the center right is about to be frozen out that's a mr freeze reference 0.63

01:20:39.200 dredner logan who showed us peter purr and the other pussycat thank you very much for this

01:20:46.240 stelios what are you describing what you're describing is the sandcast idea where he has to

01:20:52.540 do what he's doing because it will hurt his ego henry ashman says something that is not related

01:21:01.580 to my segment but i'm gonna say it anyway he says ben veer's comments are making me think that the

01:21:07.420 concept of is that is a lot more widespread than expected mild criticism met with the threat of

01:21:13.760 war what's is it is it honor i don't know i see it a lot yeah it's like is it honor systems like

01:21:22.200 you're driving offends me let's indians have an honor system

01:21:25.960 it doesn't make sense to a civilized society should i do a segment on is that at some point 0.99

01:21:34.760 then right okay there we go um is it supposed to be indian or is it supposed to be from other

01:21:41.520 subcontinent yeah right okay okay making a note look right uh last peters simonson says

01:21:48.780 i prefer to be called far right than any of the socialist derived terms that were far left far

01:21:54.300 to the left of me and uh lord inquisitor hector rex says mertz am i so out of touch no it's the

01:22:03.260 german people who are wrong all right some comments on mine uh hm butter knife permit

01:22:10.140 registry great name it says you can get apiaries that mount to your wall inside the bees travel

01:22:16.260 through a hose into it and you can use them to produce honey it's expensive for a kit but it's

01:22:20.960 got to be worth it i'd love one to make mead with i did not know that to be honest um you can

01:22:26.040 actually source bees which are bred to be docile around humans as well um so yeah like again i went

01:22:34.400 way down a rabbit hole of looking up all this stuff you can genuinely find uh docile bees so

01:22:40.140 you can just have an apiary in your garden basically around them like they obey you no

01:22:46.300 they just won't go and attack you okay basically like you could be in your garden you know a few

01:22:51.540 meters away from them and they won't come out and aggressively they don't declare a state of

01:22:56.700 emergency exactly exactly um annie moss uh says the kind of honey that is best for wounds is manuka

01:23:04.460 honey which comes from new zealand and australia where the trees grow it has unique antibacterial

01:23:10.120 properties not found in regular honey the same annie moss who's been slagging me off in the

01:23:14.880 comments the whole podcast she has said good things about me and uh and lads hour so uh oh

01:23:20.900 well as long as you say nice things about you that's all right that's fine yeah i'll just

01:23:25.020 bloody take it shall i all right starammers fiery but mostly peaceful backdoor says we all know

01:23:32.380 winnie the pooh would flay paddington bear and place his rug at the entrance of his tree as a

01:23:36.700 warning to other invaders based i support hundred acre wood nationalism based mate i love it so if

01:23:43.540 live votes for you dan yeah sophie live says i'm actually with dan mead with ice cubes on a warm

01:23:48.900 summer day is delicious yes yeah well i say i'm yeah i'm a winter fan of mead i love it um i love

01:23:55.860 it at christmas warmed up as a sort of an alternative to uh mulled wine i like mulled wine

01:24:04.180 brilliant i don't i don't want to save it for christmas i want to know i want to have it every

01:24:08.980 night oh every night most nights you might have a problem there son

01:24:16.100 what am i going to do with all the excess brain cells i'm getting old oh well fair spend them 0.94

01:24:20.020 while you've got them kill them off mate yes uh lord inquisitor hector rex says uh nate's 0.84

01:24:25.300 segment is the bee's knees way i'm glad you liked it i'm trying to bring like i don't know white

01:24:32.580 pill slash interesting or honey peels yeah i just i don't know just yeah that's funny um

01:24:38.980 yeah see you you're in stitches yeah my side my sides are splitting um get a bit bogged down with

01:24:46.940 the grind of the the everyday grievance uh trying to bring something a bit funner people in the

01:24:52.720 comments are saying i'm an alky no you can't be an alky unless it's cheap lager if it's expensive

01:24:57.000 stuff you're not an alky me it's really cheap to make so how come stuff i buy is expensive then

01:25:04.220 you don't make it yourself all right um diogenes nuts so it's fun fact honey contains anti-allergens

01:25:13.400 for local pollens yeah that's what i said uh which means if you're planning a holiday to a foreign

01:25:18.040 region eating locally sourced honey while they're or ordering some online and eating it for a few

01:25:23.580 weeks uh before you travel can reduce travel fever allergies to an area your allergies aren't

01:25:29.620 adapted to anecdotally most likely a placebo effect local honey helps the jet lag

01:25:34.420 um is there anything else that's interesting here uh lord inquisitor says best honey i've had

01:25:44.840 is from the amish in the u.s oh yeah i can believe i just again i just think anything that's that's

01:25:50.460 actually um uh more traditionally uh you know made grown source whatever will always be better

01:26:00.240 always be superior uh tom w samson you're dying samson what's going on brain it in bud

01:26:08.020 um tom tom w says uh call me a bee because i love the honeys

01:26:13.660 way samson i have another video for for people to watch because everyone's talking about it and

01:26:22.200 maybe are you aware of algebra oh god yeah i think we need to tell the audience what you think

01:26:29.540 yeah sure we still have four minutes yeah we might as well play this because

01:26:33.820 yeah samson you okay i you shouldn't die on us yeah please don't die okay so um there is a very

01:26:41.900 um high end high quality conversation in the tucker carlson podcast and i'm sure you will 0.81

01:26:49.940 struggle to follow it but i'll just help you it's about algebra let's see dan you can kill

01:26:55.740 some brain cells let's let's kill some brain cells why does algebra put letters into numbers 0.99

01:27:02.600 i think just to fuck with you so you deal with math in your job every day you've already i think 1.00

01:27:10.800 demonstrated your grasp of math is is high very i mean functional math yeah yeah for sure yeah 1.00

01:27:19.800 well if you can build a wood-fired kiln yeah um you understand math so but what you didn't add

01:27:28.480 letters to numbers in the process of doing that's the weirdest thing nowhere did i find any letters

01:27:33.720 in my math to calculate the size and structural integrity of a cantonary arch isn't that weird

01:27:39.340 oh that was weird because everybody every math teacher was always like you need to know some

01:27:44.680 algebra i've yet to encounter a single person in my life that uses algebra actually have you

01:27:52.560 so like you but you would know yeah but i mean i live in a fake world um that's why you use fake

01:28:00.500 math with letters congratulations to everybody out there in the matrix good job you're good

01:28:06.320 little goy slaves oh that's amazing so basically that is ai isn't it um surely that's not real 0.78

01:28:15.620 you think it's ai 0.90

01:28:16.820 are you willing to bet no way that's real samson is samson is saying it's real

01:28:26.240 surely tucker carlson appreciates what algebra is for if it were ai probably there would be a

01:28:33.020 community note underneath because this is one of those uh things that um tucker carlson defenders

01:28:39.900 would be very eager to say that this is ai this isn't a thing so so what do you think tell me in

01:28:47.380 the chat do you think that algebra first of all i think it was uh invented by the arabs just

01:28:55.820 out of doubt it i think no no i think i think it was but what is interesting is that they're

01:29:02.100 christian slaves might have come up with it that's possible well okay in the arab world let's say

01:29:08.100 but uh what is interesting is just essentially this is all about find finding the missing 0.96

01:29:14.180 numerical link and he goes there and said well why don't you put a letter it's so fake and gay 0.97

01:29:19.660 if you don't put a if you don't put a number yeah you retard you're trying to find what the number 0.98

01:29:26.740 is because it gives you repeatable yeah just relations wake up from the matrix of your 1.00

01:29:31.440 stupidity you pathetic retard okay thank you very much ladies and gentlemen 1.00

01:29:40.120 our pod our podcast is over yes cheerio samson is dying of laughter 1.00

01:29:48.200 Okay, thank you very much

01:29:52.640 Thank you, Dan

01:29:53.360 Thank you, Nate

01:29:54.560 See you, goodbye

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - September 08, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1501

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