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Good afternoon folks.

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Welcome to the podcast. The load seat

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is for Monday, the 28th of August, 2023. I'm

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joined by Dan and

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distinguished scholar, Dr. Niva

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Nima Parvini, author of the

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populist delusion and profits of doom. How

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are you doing? Yes. I'd

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thank you for having me, Carl. I just like to say,

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bye bye. It now available

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in all bookstores. It's

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been a long time coming. It has. I'm

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glad you've come on. Um, so just to

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preface this podcast, we're all hung

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over and tired because we went to the skillings

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conference this weekend and it was brilliant.

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I thought, what were your opinions on it?

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Yeah, it was good. Uh, no, I enjoyed it a

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lot. Uh, I'm not, I'm not a natural socializer. So

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I'm going to lock myself in the office and stay with the wall for three

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days afterwards. But, but yeah, no, it was fun. I

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thought

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it was great. Wasn't it? Yeah. I mean, it's the

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third year they've run it and I thought the

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quality was really high that each

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of the speeches were really sensational

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this year, I thought.

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And, uh, yeah, it's great

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to meet people in real life. And, uh,

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we had some fantastic conversations as well

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outside of the talks, you know, and lots

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of drinking, lots of drinks, which we're

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getting, we're getting too old for this sort of

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thing. Um, but anyway, so let's

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begin. Uh, let's talk about

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the dark Lord, the Sauron

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of our era. His

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right honorable Sir Tony Blair. Yes.

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Um, he has a plan for Britain. Yes.

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Turn us into a cyberpunk dystopia. So,

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I mean, you've got this document that we're going to be looking at

1:41

in a second, but I think it may be worth,

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uh, outlining for the audience, some of

1:46

the audience who may not know that Tony

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Blair is not merely the former

1:52

prime minister.

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After, uh,

1:55

in 2007, you know, handed

1:57

over to Gordon Brown, he

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didn't go off into the. sunset and play golf and

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kind of put his feet up.

2:03

He set about immediately

2:04

building a global network based on the

2:07

contacts that he had built up as

2:09

a world premiere and set

2:11

up charitable institutions or

2:16

as we like to call them, NGOs, non-government

2:19

organizations

2:21

all around the world, especially in Africa

2:23

and also in the

2:25

Middle East where

2:28

he was working as a peace

2:31

envoy to the Middle East, the irony. And

2:33

also he did consultancy work

2:37

for governments around the world. So if

2:40

you were, I don't know, the president

2:42

of Kazakhstan, you could hire Tony Blair and

2:44

he'd come and give you Machiavellian

2:46

advice. When he would send you a suite of spads,

2:49

basically, special advisors who will come in and

2:51

basically tell you what to do and how to do it. Yes, and a

2:53

few years ago, some of the newspapers

2:56

kind of latched onto this. They were like, hold on,

2:58

why is the Saudi Arabian government giving

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Tony Blair millions of fans?

3:02

How is Tony Blair

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so rich? And

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so what he did is he consolidated

3:09

all of that network that he'd been building

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up over time

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into the Tony Blair

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Institute, which as far as I

3:18

can tell- Sorry, it's the Tony Blair Institute for Global

3:20

Change. Yeah, the Tony Blair Institute for Global

3:22

Change. And as far as I can tell,

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this

3:25

has a dual purpose.

3:28

The first purpose is to continue

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the essentially

3:31

missionary work that he's doing in Africa,

3:35

which has long reaching consequences.

3:37

For example, probably a lot of people don't know

3:40

that during COVID, it

3:42

was the Tony Blair Institute responsible for rolling

3:45

out the vaccine all across

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Africa with funding from

3:49

the Bill and- The

3:52

Gates Foundation. When you

3:54

say doing his missionary work, to be clear, the religion

3:56

is globalism.

3:57

Yeah, yeah, essentially setting

3:59

up. outposts for

4:02

the global empire in Africa.

4:05

And so it comes with a suite of stuff. So he'll go to

4:07

an African president, I'll give you

4:09

advice. My advice is I want

4:12

you to invest in digital infrastructure.

4:15

Oh, I've got a mate, Bill, or you're

4:18

on my contact in Microsoft. They'll

4:20

come and build your infrastructure

4:23

for you. We maintain ownership

4:25

of the data and all of that. But it

4:27

would be good for Africa to join the 21st century.

4:31

So that's one side of what the Tony Blair Institute

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does.

4:34

The other side, as far as I can tell,

4:36

is that they write

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policy white papers for the

4:40

British government

4:41

or for politicians

4:44

in the West and in the EU,

4:46

but especially in the British establishment. I

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think when we say the

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British establishment, the British government,

4:53

people will say, well, hang on a second, Tony

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Blair was a Labour Prime Minister. We have Conservative

4:57

Prime Minister. What are you talking about? To which,

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for example, Connor, when he went to the Conservative

5:02

Party Conference last year, saw the

5:05

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change booth at

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the Conservative Party Conference.

5:08

Yes, and in fact, I watched the Tony Blair

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Institute event at Chatham

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House a while back, because we follow him

5:15

pretty closely. And who

5:17

was there but the Secretary

5:19

of Defense, Ben

5:21

Wallace was there, shortly

5:23

before Jeremy Hunt became the Chancellor of

5:25

the Eastreka, remember in that kind of unofficial

5:29

coup that took place, who

5:32

did Jeremy Hunt interview on

5:34

his own little podcast,

5:36

the Tony Blair. And

5:39

they were clearly Macy because on the podcast,

5:42

Jeremy Hunt's little son was there and

5:45

was like, oh, good to see you again. So they're clearly,

5:47

I mean, I guess what we're saying is the Tory

5:49

establishment

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are as kind of

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fond of Tony

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Blair

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as Labour are

5:58

and on the Labour side of things.

5:59

Of course, the party

6:02

was captured by Jeremy Corbyn, but...

6:04

He's denounced by Keir

6:06

Starmer as taking direct direction from

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Tony Blair. I mean, when we say direct direction,

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I

6:12

mean, this is documented that

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Keir Starmer hired Tony

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Blair literally to give

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classes to the Shadow

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Cabinet.

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You know, here's how you be the new

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Labour. And just as a quick thing, don't

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think that this isn't happening in America either, because Tony

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Blair went to the Conservative Party conference or some

6:31

GOP conference where he was received like

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a hero.

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Absolutely. And in fact, Tony, I

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mean, this is the mind boggling thing. Do

6:39

you remember when Trump made the

6:42

deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia? He

6:44

wasn't called. Who

6:47

did Jared Kushner thank for his pivotal

6:50

role in the Abraham Accords,

6:52

none other than Sir Tony Blair. So

6:54

when we say this guy is a bit

6:56

like Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars,

6:59

what you really mean is that, I mean,

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here's something that the audience can do, which

7:03

we have learned to do, whatever the story

7:05

is. Okay.

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I'll give you a great recent example,

7:08

Niger.

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If a country comes up, just

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type in the country's name,

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Tony Blair or Tony Blair Institute.

7:16

Two weeks before the coup in

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Nigeria, Tony

7:20

Blair Institute had moved their bases

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from Bikini Faso to

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Niger, their whole operation. So

7:28

essentially what happened in the coup

7:31

is that

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Putin and the lads

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helped to kick out

7:38

Tony Blair from Niger.

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All I'm saying is you can follow this with hashtag

7:42

Dark Lord Watch on Twitter, where

7:45

people regularly, whenever Tony Blair is doing something,

7:47

they just tag hashtag Dark Lord Watch so

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you can keep up with what's happening. So I thought

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what we would do is take a look at something,

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but first, if you want to support us, go to the website,

7:57

go and watch our new epochs on Attila the Hun. in

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any way related to Tony Blair. In fact, it's the total

8:02

opposite style of running a kingdom

8:04

or an empire. And one, frankly, I would

8:06

love to return to. But no, Till of the Hundred,

8:09

a really interesting life and

8:11

an apologetic life, I think is the

8:13

best way I can put it. And it's a really interesting character.

8:16

The fall of the Roman Empire, which

8:18

actually does kind of mirror the fall of the West at the

8:20

moment. So anyway, go and watch that. It's

8:22

excellent. So I found

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this paper from the Tony

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Blair Institute, The Future of Britain

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in 2023, Ideas

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to Transform the Future of Britain. Excited?

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I'm excited. It's inevitable,

8:37

Carl. Yeah, it's going to happen. I

8:39

know, I know. I can't

8:42

put it to scroll down on this, so I'll just read

8:44

from it. So it begins with

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part two, what does Britain need to thrive?

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And the Tony Blair Institute tells us it needs

8:51

the quote, strategic state.

8:55

We'll get about that. We've gone from the fascist ethical

8:57

state. That's presupposed. Of course,

8:59

we're ethical. Now we're strategic. So

9:02

is that just their way of saying managerial? Yes. Yes.

9:05

This is what they call managerial state themselves.

9:07

I mean, there's

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quite a bit more to it. Where

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Tony Blair says strategic, what

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he really means is a public private

9:18

partnership. You may have heard from a world

9:20

economic forum

9:23

where Tony Blair is also a higher, by the way, and

9:25

touted to take over. Well,

9:28

the fusion of the big state and big government is not necessarily

9:30

a new idea. So

9:33

essentially Blair's vision

9:36

here is he says, well,

9:38

if you look at a company like Microsoft or Apple,

9:40

they have trillions

9:43

of like literally billions, if

9:45

not trillions of dollars of capital that

9:47

could be deployed and we don't capital that

9:49

is larger than literally the

9:52

budget of the British government or

9:54

of most, most nations.

9:56

So wouldn't it be nice if

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could build some bridges for us or build

10:02

some infrastructure or digital infrastructure.

10:05

They've got the capital investment

10:08

that governments no longer do.

10:10

So essentially you can do change

10:14

in economics just using them instead

10:17

of the state's money essentially. Well,

10:19

this is of course the core of this document

10:21

because, I mean, just

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to read very quickly from it, the technological

10:26

revolution is the single biggest force changing the

10:28

world today yet with other big periods of upheaval,

10:30

political leaders and government have been slow to adapt.

10:32

So you can see the whole framing is, look, there is

10:35

a managerial technocracy that is taking over the

10:37

world and it's happening whether you like it or not. So

10:39

really we need to be at the forefront of that, controlling that and

10:42

bringing that into existence or else

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someone else will control it. It won't be us. And

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that's the entire theme

10:47

of this document. So we'll

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go to the next page. So they say that this,

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delivering this requires a new vision and framework

10:54

including a commitment from the highest

10:56

political authority to leverage the

10:58

transformative power of technology for a mid 21st

11:01

century vision of the state. That's

11:03

terrifying, isn't it?

11:06

The highest, I mean, what's the highest authority in Britain?

11:08

Is it Tony Blair?

11:10

What's the thing? I don't know. I mean, it might

11:13

be. In theory it's the king. Yeah, in theory.

11:15

Yeah. Because it's interesting when you

11:17

hear him talk about what

11:19

he's done in Africa, he literally just refers to him as

11:21

my presidents.

11:23

He's quite clear that he ranks higher in the,

11:25

in the, in the house structure.

11:26

I mean,

11:28

the,

11:29

the scariest thing about this and the

11:31

thing that I find scary

11:33

about Blair in general

11:35

is that he's building Skynet. He's building

11:37

the maintenance. And

11:40

essentially, as far

11:42

as I can tell, the

11:44

government contracts, some massive

11:46

corporate, whether it's Apple or Microsoft or whoever

11:48

else could be Lomus. You know,

11:51

let me, let me carry on. So the

11:53

next thing is far deeper state investment in

11:56

technological AI era infrastructure,

11:58

utilizing cloud and model and software.

11:59

a more agile, responsive

12:02

and targeted state in

12:04

which the citizens have a digital identity and

12:06

control their data. I

12:08

mean, do we think

12:10

that we're really going to be in control of anything? Yeah. Do

12:12

you feel like you're going to have any real agency?

12:15

We're not going to own our data, certainly. Well, they think

12:17

that you should actually, which I agree with. I mean,

12:19

that is nice. But I don't think

12:22

that

12:23

the room for maneuver is going to be very broad.

12:26

I think it's a very narrow

12:28

range of things. Well, you will be able

12:30

to log on to their system and see your

12:32

data, which they are holding on your path. And

12:34

they'll give you a little control panel. Here are the five

12:36

things you can do. Yeah. And delete

12:38

won't be one of them. Yeah, exactly. A

12:41

new treatment of data as a comprehensive asset, which

12:43

can stimulate innovation in health.

12:45

So they're going to have complete health monitoring of

12:47

your current, I mean, eventually you'll be chipped

12:49

and it'll give them full spectrum

12:52

data on your physical condition. And

12:54

then when they're finally tired of you, you'll be flushed

12:57

out of the pod like in the matrix and put into the liquidizer.

13:00

I'm not even joking, actually. I think that's a genuine way

13:02

this is going. A greater alignment between the

13:04

government and private sector, here we go, to mobilize

13:06

effectively behind clear purposes such as around climate.

13:09

And a greater appetite for risk and

13:11

innovation. I'm so glad that the manager

13:14

of technology is prepared to take risks with my

13:16

life with greater expertise

13:19

from the outside, informing direction. So going on to

13:21

page seven, so they say, look, this is going to be

13:23

a new national purpose. I

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don't

13:26

realize we're in a national purpose.

13:28

I don't want purpose. I'm okay at the

13:30

moment. Thank you.

13:31

So they say that science and technology

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are the driving force of progress for much more than one age.

13:36

Advancing technology will allow us to live longer,

13:38

healthier lives, travel across the world

13:40

and into space and generate food and energy at scale.

13:43

The United Kingdom has been at the forefront of many of these

13:45

breakthroughs. It's home to one of humanity's great leaps,

13:47

the Industrial Revolution.

13:49

Another revolution is now taking place with developments

13:51

in AI technology with level of impact

13:53

akin to the internal combustion engine, electricity

13:55

and the internet. So incrementalism will not

13:58

be enough.

13:59

to make a great leap

14:01

forward. Yes. Yes. This is

14:03

precisely the language. The state

14:05

must be reoriented to this challenge. I

14:09

mean, I hate to bring up a

14:11

film analogies, you know, but

14:14

do you remember one of the Christopher Nolan, I think

14:17

it was the final one, the dark night where

14:20

Batman gains access to all

14:23

of the mobile phone data and

14:25

he literally has it all mapped out in front of

14:27

him and he's like, Oh, I

14:29

could, I could use this as surveillance. But

14:32

I'm Batman. That's his wrong. I'm

14:34

not going to do it. These guys

14:37

in the same scenario are basically going,

14:40

I'm Batman and I'm evil. Yeah. So I'm going to just

14:42

like, let's do it. Let's, let's build

14:44

the, I don't think they had that question for

14:47

themselves. They did. They didn't stop and ponder.

14:49

They just moved straight through that. They watched that and

14:51

thought that was a great idea. But there's

14:53

a second film, which probably people won't

14:55

remember back in the

14:56

nineties, back in the very early days

14:58

of the internet. It was called the lawnmower

15:01

man. Oh, I remember that. And do you remember

15:03

the lawnmower man disappears into

15:05

the, into the web essentially. But

15:07

do you remember what happens?

15:09

Access denied. That's correct. You

15:12

didn't say the magic word. And

15:15

this is the thing that is so worrying about this. It's

15:17

like, okay, yes. Convenience. Yes. You

15:19

know, all your stuff is there at touch of a button. Until

15:21

you have been determined to be an undesirable

15:24

and you've done wrong thing. That's

15:26

why they want to own the digital infrastructure because everything

15:28

connects to it. So there will be no access to denied

15:31

because it will be their system. Yeah. But until

15:33

they choose, you don't get access. Oh

15:35

yeah.

15:36

Yeah. And then the entire system being so interconnected,

15:39

they'll only need to press one button and everything

15:41

that you do on your daily basis will be completely

15:43

shut. And also they can customize it. They can set up a whole bunch

15:45

of permission flags, which we have already

15:48

had a social credit system in this country. And they'll do that

15:50

with the digital money.

15:51

You'll literally come to this money. You

15:53

can't spend this money

15:55

in an unapproved zone. That's

15:57

what's going to happen. I'm not exaggerating, but like you.

16:00

could become like a carbon criminal.

16:02

For example, like you have gone beyond

16:04

your carbon allocation for the year. And

16:06

then just, I mean, we're not even exaggerating

16:09

just like the Soviet union where the ruling

16:11

class would get special perks and privileges that didn't,

16:15

you know, uh, polysaria had a

16:17

different set of rules from the ruling class.

16:19

You know, we're pretty sure that Chitoni

16:21

is not going to be a carbon criminal, you know? Probably.

16:24

So they, they say that our priorities

16:26

for reform include strengthening the

16:28

office for artificial intelligence, the sort

16:30

of that provides best foresight function and

16:32

better support for government to deal with technological change,

16:35

creating Sentinel, a national

16:37

laboratory effort focused on researching and testing safe

16:40

AI with the aim of becoming the brain

16:42

for a UK and international AI regulator,

16:45

building AI era infrastructure, including computer

16:48

capacity, remodeling data as a public

16:50

asset, with the creation of highly valuable

16:52

public good data sets. So

16:55

you're not even going to know that the government's going to be doing

16:57

that. What he's really saying there is, is this is going to be

16:59

an expensive, substantial

17:01

area of growth. Yeah. Make sure you build in the

17:03

state as you go. And this is how you do it. Yes.

17:05

But, uh, and then requiring a tiered

17:08

access approach to compute provision under which,

17:10

uh, access to larger amounts of compute

17:13

comes with additional requirements. The demonstration response

17:15

with use and securing multi-decade investment

17:18

in science and technology infrastructure, et cetera,

17:20

going into the future. So he wants to

17:22

set up a centrally

17:24

managed government run AI brain

17:27

that is presumably going

17:29

to be tasked with running the functions

17:31

of government. It's going to be running the NHS

17:33

is going to be running the budgets

17:35

is going to be running whatever the government

17:38

currently runs. And they literally

17:40

called it Sentinel. Do you think they, I

17:42

mean, it's like they're writing a dystopian

17:45

sci-fi movie or something. Yeah. You

17:47

can,

17:47

I mean, I'm like immediately when

17:49

you said, Oh, we're going to create Sentinel. I'm thinking of

17:51

like how from space

17:54

odyssey. Sorry about all the film references.

17:56

This really is what this is. What

18:00

all dystopia really is, is imagine

18:02

a utopia and then think about the steps that you

18:05

need to take in order to get there. And

18:07

these are the steps. Yeah. But

18:08

is any, I mean, my question is, I

18:11

remember whenever I've watched

18:13

Blair with the guys from Microsoft and so on,

18:16

is there a voice there saying,

18:18

what could go wrong? Yeah. Yeah. Go wrong.

18:20

Yeah. What is there a voice in this document saying,

18:23

what could go wrong? What are the downsides? No, it's just, this is

18:25

inevitable. So, I mean, they've

18:27

got a bunch of proposals. So they want to centralize

18:29

all of the pensions into one savings pots. Why

18:32

not? They want to reform

18:34

planning to build more critical infrastructure faster,

18:37

which includes a national process for consent for

18:40

national infrastructure projects.

18:42

So it's impossible to think

18:44

that at some point the British public won't

18:46

be able to say no. We'll be able to say no. Like

18:49

we want to build this giant central AI grid

18:51

across the UK. We don't consent.

18:53

Yeah, we don't care. That's not going

18:55

to stop. We already signed the contract with Apple. Yeah,

18:58

exactly. Yeah. Defining onshore

19:00

wind and digital connectivity is critical infrastructure

19:03

onshore wind. I mean, nuclear

19:05

power plants. Anyway, using the power

19:07

of AI and digital twins to accelerate consultation,

19:09

planning and build. So basically put

19:11

it into the computer. This is what we want. Computer

19:14

will give you a white paper at the end of it

19:16

and you just press the appropriate button and the

19:18

computer will say, yep. We'll get all those contracts

19:20

sent out. That will be done. And you

19:22

will have to do very minimal work as

19:24

the person in charge, Mr Blair.

19:26

Sir Blair. He wants to introduce

19:29

a digital identity for a digital age. Government

19:32

should deliver a single digital identity, giving

19:34

users visibility of and control over when

19:36

and how their data is accessed and used, utilizing

19:39

a decentralized model without creating a new

19:41

central database that could be vulnerable, hacking or leaks.

19:44

Okay. Yeah. I believe where I see it. Well, that was

19:46

his one great defeat of

19:48

his years in power.

19:49

The IDs. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

19:52

and decentralization was a big thing as

19:53

well, but that's gone poorly, hasn't it? And

19:56

allowing people to use their digital identity to access

19:58

commercial goods and services as well as.

19:59

government services, which I mean,

20:02

that is just the worst, isn't it? Do we think

20:04

it's Mark of the beast, isn't it? Yes. Do we think Tommy

20:06

Robinson is getting into this idea?

20:08

Do we think he's going to be able to get flights wherever he wants? I mean, they

20:10

literally deported him from a holiday in Mexico.

20:14

Like this is, and that, that was just required

20:16

his old fashioned passport.

20:18

I just want to back up a second. I was a little bit worried

20:20

about the consolidation of all the pensions. And

20:22

yeah, I mean, this could be coming to

20:25

a state near you, you know,

20:26

British pensions,

20:29

hashtag managed by BlackRock, you

20:31

know, because that's what it would be. Well, that's, I mean, they manage

20:33

loads of pensions anyway, but that's exactly what it's going to be. And the reason

20:36

that he gives for wanting to

20:38

create, I mean, literally it's called GB

20:40

savings one.

20:42

It's not even called the national pension or something. GB

20:45

savings one,

20:46

a 400 billion pound super fund in

20:48

order to be able to more effectively reinvest

20:51

the pension money. So it's all pure managerialism.

20:54

But it's essentially saying we've run out of money and therefore

20:56

we are going to take yours. We're just going to put a gloss on it.

20:59

It's just stealing. And that is why I've never put

21:01

money into a pension because I've always found it

21:04

ludicrous that at some point before I hit 65,

21:06

it won't be stolen. Oh, yeah. And this is this

21:09

is it happening now. But they are all I mean,

21:11

to be clear,

21:12

they are also then and it will be somebody

21:14

like BlackRock, even if it isn't, probably

21:17

because they do pensions. They

21:19

will then be, I

21:20

mean, deciding, well,

21:22

we need to put it into these

21:24

kind of climate change friendly areas or

21:27

we need to put it into this woke organization.

21:29

And this is how they end up getting funding

21:31

for all their stuff because they're

21:33

controlling what

21:34

is effectively your money and investing

21:36

it on your behalf. How about an NHS

21:39

that's not focused on health and

21:42

that's not focused on just illness or it's focused on

21:44

health. So the NHS will

21:46

be concerned about your weight, for example,

21:49

they'll

21:49

be monitoring that presumably with the chip in

21:51

your skin and your digital identity, giving

21:53

each person their own personal health accounts through

21:55

the NHS app and owned by the individual. It

21:58

was held of the owned by the individual yet.

21:59

through their infrastructure.

22:02

Yeah, but the clues in the name is the NHS

22:04

app. It's not your data. Exactly.

22:07

You didn't make the app. You've got no control of where

22:09

the information goes. You just sign in. You

22:11

can just view it. Yeah, exactly. You can just view it. Developing

22:14

a new NHS cloud structure, so all

22:17

the data is set health centrally

22:19

within the existing systems, and turning

22:22

the genomic medicine service into

22:24

a fully fledged part of the health system, providing

22:27

whole genome sequencing to all patients

22:29

and supporting the move to prevention, well-being,

22:31

and personalized care.

22:33

So we've mapped your personal

22:35

genome. We know what likely

22:37

is to come up in your life as

22:40

a health condition, and we're prepared

22:42

for that.

22:44

And what I'm seeing here is that your phone is

22:46

going to be like, do you really

22:48

want that McDonald's? You want to think

22:50

again? Because we know. It'll be nudged first.

22:53

I mean, nudged. But then it'll

22:55

say, no, you've exceeded your calorie

22:58

allowance for today. You

23:00

can't have that. That's what it will come

23:02

to. And because you'll be paying through

23:04

your phone. And it'll say, no, that's right. It's access denied.

23:07

Too many carbon credits. You can't. Too

23:09

much health credit.

23:11

This is the future that Tony Blair

23:13

is building for us.

23:14

But of course, we're all going to have a quality education,

23:17

of

23:17

course,

23:17

powered by tech, establishing a digital learner

23:20

ID that will contain all the educational information,

23:22

enabling a personalized education for

23:25

every child, increasing parent

23:27

choice and access to quality education

23:30

by giving schools the freedom to provide hybrid lessons

23:32

and parents the right to request online classes

23:34

delivered by other schools and overhauling

23:37

offstead so that accountability is based on real-time

23:39

insights geared towards a continuous improvement of

23:41

standards.

23:42

I've got no doubt that the standards just go through the

23:44

real fun. They're talking about freedom

23:46

and choice. But what they're actually saying is we're

23:48

going to credentialize it. Yes. So you're going to have

23:50

freedom within the narratives which we have selected

23:53

for you. You've got a very narrow range of freedoms. You

23:55

cannot have options one, two, or three. I

23:57

mean, it's not going to be a Jordan Peterson lecture.

23:59

Exactly. Or one of yours, yeah.

24:02

Or one of mine. Yeah, it's not going to be anything like that. And

24:04

of course, they're going to bring about safer communities.

24:07

They're

24:07

going to put prevention at the heart of policing. Yeah,

24:09

okay. And what I love about this

24:11

bit is very,

24:13

I would say, value free, but

24:15

it doesn't consider the ideology of the people involved

24:17

in the system at all. They're going to put

24:19

prevention at the heart of policing, that's racist, develop

24:22

modern and flexible workforce that will

24:24

be diverse. Good

24:27

luck catching those criminals, ladies. Embedding

24:31

a new focus on professional standards and responsiveness,

24:33

oh yeah. Establishing a new national force

24:35

to tackle threats that cross

24:37

force boundaries and require strategic

24:40

response encompassing counterterrorism, serious

24:42

organized crime and cybercrime, and using

24:44

technology more intelligently to prevent criminality,

24:46

including digital identity to tackle

24:48

online fraud and then expansion of

24:51

facial recognition technology.

24:54

Aren't you just so glad to be living in the future?

24:56

See, the thing is,

24:58

is that just

25:00

to put a counterfactual in here, all

25:04

of this stuff is bad if it's run

25:06

by our enemies. I mean, all

25:08

of this stuff is probably bad for it's run by us. But

25:12

I could live with it. It was run by us. If it

25:14

was truly value free, for example, this

25:16

is the kind of base day. There is no

25:18

truly value free. It's power value. If it

25:20

was Mecha Bentham, Karl. Oh God. Right.

25:24

We're not. I mean, can you imagine? Can

25:26

you imagine what a completely value free facial

25:28

recognition tech technology like, oh, we

25:30

recognize this

25:32

typical criminal looks like.

25:34

So you understand what I'm saying? The phrenologist

25:37

they are. That has already happened. So this is

25:40

this is the safest city rollout. And

25:42

whenever they've done a trial, they've done effectively

25:44

what you've said and then scrapped it because it's racist.

25:49

So

25:49

it could be that it could

25:51

be. I'm just saying. What

25:53

did the AI turn out to be a bunch of old racist?

25:57

We just need to turn down the pattern recognition a bit.

25:59

I mean, there

26:02

is this kind of weird alternative universe

26:04

where digital ID actually completely solved

26:06

illegal immigration and reduces

26:09

crime to a zero. It's not going to happen.

26:11

But anyway, moving on. So they've got a decade of electrification.

26:15

Of course, everything

26:16

they want, they literally say all crucial

26:19

infrastructure, they want it all to be done

26:21

by renewable electrical generation.

26:23

Now that you might think, hang on a second, what's wrong with that? Well,

26:26

it can be turned off, right? When your car

26:29

is full of fuel, that

26:31

can't be turned off.

26:34

The electricity board can be denied to you

26:37

from your chip. Everything will

26:39

be literally triangulated in

26:41

an insanely complex system that can be triangulated exactly

26:44

on you at all times. That's

26:46

why that's bad. And of course, the final thing is

26:48

they want a better relationship with the EU, which basically means

26:52

voluntary alignment with EU regulations

26:54

on goods and regulatory equivalents of sanitary and

26:56

phytosanitary measures. So basically whatever the European

26:59

Union says and does, we're going to make sure that we do it

27:01

because we want it to be part of the European Union anyway.

27:04

So all of this is moving the

27:06

decisions

27:07

as far away from the populace as possible?

27:09

Yes. We

27:10

don't want them to have any delusions. Yeah.

27:13

And then we're going to say that they're free. Yes.

27:15

They're free to choose from

27:18

what we offer. Range of options that are

27:20

never going to change.

27:22

And possibly they'll be restricted.

27:24

But yeah. This is the true rule by the

27:27

managerial expert class. Yes. This

27:30

is the full spectrum.

27:32

Managerial cyber-technocracy

27:34

is literally

27:36

being laid out by the Tony Blair Institute. And

27:38

I think that they're serious. That's

27:41

it. So prepare yourselves for the future because

27:43

the Dark Lord Tony Blair is probably going to bring it about. It's

27:47

actually there was a book called the New Utopia

27:49

or Utopia by...

27:52

So sick of the Utopia.

27:55

Oh, it was Francis Bacon wrote a Utopian

27:57

book. I forget the name of it now. Where?

28:00

Was it literally called utopia? I

28:02

mean, Francis Bacon literally imagined

28:05

this kind of totalitarian

28:08

island that was being run

28:10

by a scientific

28:12

managerial expert class. And

28:14

in a weird way.

28:16

That's like basically the next Labour Party manifesto

28:18

there. I mean, this is literally Plato's

28:21

Republic. They recreated it. It's literally what

28:23

we're looking at. But anyway, yeah, so

28:25

get ready. It's coming. Be prepared.

28:28

So I was thinking, well, we've got a couple of big

28:30

brains in the room. Let's solve the incel

28:33

problem, shall we? Small thing. Just

28:35

a little thing, because

28:37

this sort of thing comes up every now and again.

28:40

And whenever I look at the comments, I'm always being told

28:42

that, you know, that you don't understand,

28:44

Dan, that the dating scene today is

28:46

absolutely cancerous. Yeah, well,

28:48

yeah, possibly. But I thought, you know, that's a bit of coke.

28:51

So what I did is I set myself up with a Tinder profile

28:53

and I thought I would invest. Your wife was thrilled

28:55

at that. Well, darling, I'm just

28:57

investigating the dating work. She's

29:00

used to me by now. But yeah, so I

29:02

set myself up. I went to the effort of writing

29:04

myself a nice profile

29:07

as well. So I

29:07

took the whole thing sort of incredibly seriously.

29:10

I'm a dissident rights content creator, committed

29:12

to the overthrow of the globalist managerial managerialist

29:15

parasite class for returnable traditional

29:17

values. I require intelligent conversation

29:19

and not a fat. Once

29:22

won a who'd you wed competition

29:25

against every man who ever lived. Yes. Well,

29:27

while hoping not to put you off, but giving women

29:30

the vote was probably a civilizational level mistake. Six

29:32

foot two, blue eyes, bit of pods, British teeth.

29:35

Yeah. So that's a strong opener. I'm

29:37

saying. No, I thought that was good. I mean,

29:39

if you're a woman on a dating, I'd be like, OK, well, at least I

29:41

remember this guy. Yes. And

29:44

the bit at the end, you know, that, you know, we're giving

29:47

the women the vote was a

29:49

mistake. That's very important. It's called

29:51

a neg.

29:52

So you've got to give a neg. And

29:54

apparently that's that's how for anyone watching, we're all

29:57

married and we've been married, not to each other.

29:59

to our wives, we all have kids. We've

30:02

been married for years. And I

30:04

mean, it was probably 2009 was the

30:08

last time I looked at a dating site

30:10

called Plenty of Fish. I kind

30:12

of missed the whole... But

30:15

even then that was like, I never had success

30:17

there. I always had success with women in real life.

30:20

That's how I'm actually... Well, in order to make the

30:22

experiment viable, we also got one of the lovely

30:25

Lotus Ladies in the office to also sign

30:27

up for a count at the same time. Right. We

30:29

thought basically we'd see what happens.

30:31

Are we going to get a disparate experience?

30:33

I think I can predict the results here. Well, you

30:36

say that, you see, because we set

30:38

it up at the end of the day and headed

30:40

off home. Basically after two hours,

30:43

I got a ping. Oh,

30:44

really? Yes. So I got my first hit

30:47

and I thought, well, this is good. There we go. That's

30:49

my one like has come through. So there

30:51

was a lady who was like, you know what? I do hate votes

30:53

for women as well. Yeah.

30:55

Or reading, you know, it's one of the two years.

30:58

But yeah, I'm a global manager. Journey to Thousand

31:00

Miles starts with a single step and

31:02

minor comforter. So

31:04

got in touch with a lovely Lotus lady to say,

31:06

okay, had a hit. Where

31:08

are you at this point? Do you want to guess? It's

31:11

like 300 or something. Next

31:13

slide. There we go. This

31:16

is literally after two hours. Yeah. 237 likes.

31:21

Um, yes.

31:24

Now don't don't feel too bad for me

31:26

because come the following day,

31:29

I did get a 400% increase

31:31

in my likes and she only got an 85% increase

31:34

in her likes. To be fair, though, there's a lot of room for

31:36

improvement on your one.

31:37

Yes. Got one. Yes. She's

31:40

got 237.

31:42

Right. I

31:44

was hoping not to not to make that connection. But yes,

31:47

yes. So then, right, so

31:49

then the experiment ended because she got

31:51

blocked. What?

31:53

Yeah, she got she got blocked the following day. And I think it

31:56

was because because we didn't we didn't want to have to sit

31:58

there and go through them annually.

32:00

So we paid the £15 in order to

32:03

see straight through.

32:04

And I think they were so put off

32:06

by a woman actually paying for dating,

32:09

but they thought that she was a fake and they kicked her off.

32:12

Really? Who tinned it? Yes. Oh,

32:15

right. Yeah, they blocked her out, so that didn't work. But

32:17

you're not a real woman because you paid tinned her

32:20

money. Yes.

32:21

That's an amazing algorithm they've got going on there.

32:23

Yeah, it's probably true most of the time. Oh,

32:25

I don't doubt that. It's true. I would

32:28

imagine. Tenderos, hang

32:30

on.

32:31

There's a woman who's paid? What never hasn't? That's

32:33

not never happened. That's not happened. Oh, that's

32:36

a spam. One of the

32:38

things I'm fascinated by is that I wonder if we workshop

32:40

your intro a little bit, would it change? Like, you

32:42

know, it's rather than I am a dissident of right.

32:45

I mean, I am a sensible centrist committed

32:47

to traditional English gentlemen.

32:49

Yeah. Or, you know, you just

32:51

finesse the language a little bit. Or,

32:54

and I'd also be interested in a version

32:56

which is I

32:57

am committed to social justice.

33:00

I love feminism type thing to see

33:02

which one would play. Well, actually,

33:04

so this is the interesting point

33:07

that she made. She made a number of interesting points. And the first thing

33:09

is a lot of people, they always blame the women on

33:11

these dating sites for their preferences and about how

33:13

they're sort of seeking out the top tier men. That's

33:15

always the sort of the standard pushback and stuff. But she

33:18

made the very reasonable point. If I've got 400 people

33:21

who are like me, well,

33:23

of course, I'm going to be picky. I mean, anyone

33:26

would be so you can completely understand the dynamic

33:28

of how it works. And

33:30

the other thing I'm thinking is, you know, from the guy's perspective,

33:33

because when we were when we were in the dating market,

33:36

basically, pulling required

33:39

going to the pub and being

33:41

the best choice within the pub that

33:43

could still stand at 2am. And

33:46

often, like those choices were quite

33:48

narrowed down for you. Yeah. So

33:52

the point is, if you went to the pub often enough, you

33:54

would be the best choice sooner or later. Whereas

33:56

in now's world, you basically need to be

33:58

the best option within a 20.

33:59

26 mile radius. Out of hundreds

34:02

and hundreds of eligible men who are already

34:04

showing their interest. Yeah. Who

34:06

have already got their photos up so they don't take a

34:08

day off, they don't sleep, you know, the profile

34:10

is always a bit bloody harder to

34:13

stand out in that situation. I don't

34:15

envy that at all. So

34:17

this tweet makes a good point. A friend of

34:19

yours, Nima.

34:24

So, just as a proof thing, I don't know who

34:26

this person is, but I've seen

34:28

you talking about them. Why

34:31

don't you like, what does RFH stand for?

34:34

I can't, I can't, I'm not sure if I can say

34:37

on air. Rad Femme, and then

34:39

the name of a famous mid-century German

34:41

painter. Oh really? A painter.

34:44

Yes. Oh, okay. Failed

34:46

painter, I believe. Yeah. I mean, she's an interesting-

34:49

Follow Earthter. She is generally speaking, you

34:52

know, a dissident,

34:54

but she's also a radical feminist. A dissident for

34:56

what? She's also a radical feminist. That's

34:59

an interesting point. And I mean,

35:01

even though a lot

35:04

of our friends block her, I have

35:06

an interest in- How could you block such an entertaining

35:09

looking profile? I just think she's really, okay,

35:12

she's really good at Twitter. She

35:14

just, you know, like how I say Ash the cars,

35:16

like objectivity, good at Twitter. She is

35:18

also objectively good at riling

35:21

up the ads. She

35:24

makes a good point here. She says that 85%

35:27

of the UK's dating app users is

35:29

male. Yes. Yes.

35:32

Which really highlights the

35:34

issue, doesn't it? It's a lot

35:36

of very thirsty men and a much smaller

35:39

pool of thirsty women are given

35:41

a much greater, like

35:44

our lady was saying, it's much

35:46

easier to be picky

35:48

when you've got hundreds in a couple of hours

35:50

to the other guy's got one. Well, yes,

35:53

it's a bit like trying to pull up the event that we've just come

35:55

from. I mean, there was a disco on the second night, but

35:58

it was- Yeah.

35:59

mostly male. What would have been rather slim

36:02

pickings, which is all leading to,

36:05

have we got the next one?

36:08

Sorry, can we get back to that? Oh, go on. It's a big thing,

36:10

right? So I agree actually

36:12

completely with this comment she's

36:14

made. Your dating app data doesn't mean anything by

36:16

the way. Dating apps are anywhere between 2.3 to 90% male.

36:20

Women don't like dating apps, and

36:22

the user experience was designed around gay men, not straight

36:24

women.

36:25

Oh, that's totally true. Straight women don't tend

36:27

to use dating apps.

36:28

The minority who

36:30

want to go and hook up with some ultra

36:33

hot guy that they can be totally picky about.

36:35

That's, you

36:37

don't find a woman on a dating app. It's just

36:39

a rule of thumb. I think it's

36:42

worth pointing out that

36:43

the reason that I am more tolerant

36:45

of this woman is because

36:48

from a certain point of view, she just tells basic

36:50

truths to

36:53

kind of tradlock crew. Basic

36:55

truths about that. The basic truth under there. I'm so

36:57

shocked to know that women don't like the dial A app

37:00

and that it's filled with men. Yeah, I know.

37:03

It's again, it's not very deep insight,

37:05

but it's obviously true. Yeah, quite.

37:08

Well, what this is leading to is,

37:10

where's the next chart? Are we gonna

37:13

pull that? This chart is basically

37:15

showing the rise of

37:17

in-cells. So it's basically men under 30

37:20

who have had zero sexual partners.

37:24

And yeah, 2018 is when the data stops and

37:27

it was a third then. And

37:29

that was pre-COVID,

37:31

where basically the

37:33

only option you had were these dating apps. So

37:36

that must be significantly higher at this point. Probably,

37:40

yeah. I can't imagine it's gone down.

37:42

I mean, this suggests to me, I remember

37:45

reading a fascinating book years ago called

37:48

The Evolution of Everything by Matt

37:50

Ridley.

37:51

Now, I probably disagree

37:53

with most of the things he says in that, because he says that everything's

37:55

bottom up and I say everything's top down.

37:58

But really interesting. interesting chapter

38:00

in that book about the rise of monogamy and

38:03

why monogamous religions won out

38:05

over a

38:06

polygamous ones, like where you've got the Sultan

38:09

with the hareen

38:10

and his basic point is that

38:12

in that scenario, um,

38:15

you've got a huge number of men

38:17

locked out of the sex market because they're all

38:19

with the Sultan, they're all part of the hareen.

38:22

Yes. Okay.

38:23

Um, and eventually what happens

38:25

is, is that the sex style of men start

38:28

getting violent

38:29

essentially. Yeah. Right. So the,

38:32

you know, because marriage is basically domesticating

38:34

a man. So, so if you had,

38:36

if you have a look at what happened in Middle Eastern cultures, you

38:39

kept on having these uprisings

38:41

against the Sultan

38:42

because he was monopolized him and his

38:44

family were just monopolizing sex. So

38:46

love the idea of like a 14th century insult

38:49

uprising. It's the Sultan in a, I

38:51

mean, I'm not making this up. I know. I know. It's just

38:53

really funny. This is what I was going to come to you later, but,

38:55

but basically what we're going to get is we

38:57

are seeing an oversupply of in cells

39:00

and then later on, we're going to see an oversupply of

39:02

spinsters. Yes. So, you know, what,

39:04

what does that do to a society when you've

39:06

got all of that sort of, um,

39:08

well, as you said, the raw male energy

39:11

with no outlet on one side and spins

39:13

is a few years later. In a way, when

39:15

the left are worried about the quote unquote

39:17

in cell problem,

39:19

it is a legit, it is actually legitimate because

39:21

you have all of this pent up energy

39:24

and it's got nowhere to go. But also,

39:26

also there's a fundamental, um, unfairness

39:28

about it as well. Right. It's not the fault

39:31

of these young men that women aren't interested

39:33

in. They didn't create the system. They didn't set the

39:35

scene. They grew up in a world

39:37

that was radically against them and in

39:40

favor of the sort of promiscuous

39:42

Tinder using. And what's very interesting

39:44

is that

39:45

one figure we should mention talking about

39:47

the Sultan is that there's the rise of

39:49

a kind of new Sultan. Like

39:51

that's what Andrew Tate is. He's an unofficial

39:54

modern day Sultan who is monopolizing

39:58

women. And so his mess.

39:59

And the message

40:02

of people like him is,

40:03

well, listen, it doesn't take much to stand

40:05

out in this market. You

40:07

know, you might, you might as well make

40:09

hay while the sun shines. Yeah. You

40:12

know, uh, so that's what, that's one message

40:14

that gets out there. But of course it exacerbates

40:16

the problem because the more Andrew takes there are

40:19

the higher that percentage of installs goes up because

40:22

he, they are monopolizing more and more of the market.

40:24

So it's, uh, kind of interesting that I'm

40:27

playing out. It's also interesting that there is a unit class

40:29

coming into being as well,

40:31

which I remember reading

40:33

something about this a while ago, like essentially every era of history

40:35

has got the way of making the units. And

40:38

it's like, that's it can't be true. And then you

40:40

look around now, you're thinking, well,

40:42

it'd be careful on that. We all knew. Well,

40:44

I won't go, I won't go very much further, but uh,

40:46

you know, what I'm saying is it's, they

40:48

could create the unsullied real life. The

40:51

nary is happening

40:52

if that's what it takes.

40:55

And the flip side of this is let's go to the,

40:58

uh, let's go to Chris's, let's go to Chris's tweet

41:00

if we can call that up. Yeah. So,

41:02

um, it's, it's, it's basically the approach thing. Chris Williamson.

41:05

Yeah. So this is pointing out that 55%

41:07

of single men say that they haven't approached

41:09

a woman in the last year. Well, yeah,

41:11

no, no wonder you're bloody in so then.

41:14

Well,

41:14

yeah, but I mean, the, there are all

41:16

kinds of civilizational incentives against doing

41:18

it. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

41:21

So,

41:21

um, but I, I, I run through the stats because

41:23

they're quite relevant. They're saying so 70% of

41:26

young women under 30 are basically saying that they wished

41:28

that they were approached more. Whereas when

41:30

you get over 40 with women, it flips. And

41:32

now the majority of them say that they don't want to be

41:34

approached because they're married. Yeah.

41:37

So you've got this curious dynamic

41:38

where female nature is basically requiring,

41:40

um, men to make the first

41:42

move. They want that overwhelmingly 86%.

41:46

So they want men to make the first move, but

41:48

you've set up this, this, um,

41:50

culture with, with all of the sort of, well, you've got

41:52

the me to the Gillette ad. I

41:54

think, I think it's more than that as well, though. Uh, there is,

41:56

there is obviously all of that where it's a cultural,

41:59

a feminist cultural.

41:59

inclination to try and get men to actually

42:02

stop

42:03

approaching women. But also,

42:05

as the balance of power has shifted,

42:07

women now are the better educated,

42:10

they're the better employed, they have more

42:12

material wealth,

42:14

and they have systems that are loaded

42:16

in their favor. And so this

42:19

all works against

42:21

the courage of men and the self-confidence

42:23

of men because a young man can't say, well, I've got

42:26

a great job, I've got great education, at least I'm

42:28

physically an impressive person in myself.

42:30

That's another one of the paradoxes is as you

42:32

go up the educational strata for women,

42:35

they find it harder and harder to find a male

42:37

partner. Yes. So college educated

42:39

women, yeah, much more of them

42:41

are single because they can't find somebody who meets their stance.

42:43

So I'm not necessarily saying stop educating women,

42:46

I'm just saying if we were to do that, they would

42:48

be happier. And

42:49

young men would also be happier.

42:50

I actually,

42:53

a friend of mine that

42:54

I know, I've known since my school days

42:57

get married later this year, which obviously

42:59

meant we went on a stag too. So earlier

43:02

this year, I went to Magaluf. Can you imagine

43:04

me? Not really. That's why I had the Hawaiian shirt

43:07

because I went to... And how was it?

43:10

Well, I actually saw an example of this up

43:12

close because me and my 40, like

43:15

all of us lads who are literally 40

43:17

years old, married with kids, and

43:20

a bit,

43:21

well, you can see, you know, past our

43:23

peaks, past our peaks, dad pods

43:26

or whatever, we were out, you know.

43:30

But of course we remember, we

43:32

just reverted to doing what we did when we were 18, we

43:34

were out, you know, it was Magaluf. And

43:37

when we were in this little club, a group of

43:41

Zoomer lads walked in, they must have been about 18,

43:43

19. Now

43:44

bear in mind, we're in Magaluf.

43:47

There

43:47

are women

43:48

everywhere. They're drunk

43:50

and they're in Magaluf. And,

43:52

you know... If you can't score here, you can't score. Right. And

43:55

literally these five lads walked in, they

43:57

bought like a bottle of...

43:59

They sat around the table and

44:02

they just went on their phones. And

44:05

honestly, two hours, they

44:07

were just on all of them sitting quietly on

44:09

their phones as I watched my old

44:11

school friends

44:12

dominate the dance floor

44:14

and basically Hoover

44:16

up the attention. I mean, they didn't do

44:18

anything. They committed.

44:20

They probably still dance. What I'm saying is

44:22

they dominated the, they dominated the attention

44:25

of the girls, those guys.

44:28

You know, if that was us back when we were 18,

44:30

they would have been because we're not afraid of approach.

44:33

That's that we don't have. We haven't had that beaten out of us.

44:35

I don't know. It's like when when you were that age,

44:37

but when I used to walk into a bar, my mates, we

44:39

basically walked through the door, just go like that and maybe

44:41

see each other once or twice again through the through the

44:43

rest of the night, just interacting with people in the club. I

44:46

mean, I don't want to get into tactics where

44:48

you send in the hot one to win. Sure. No,

44:51

but the point is these young men had no confidence to not

44:54

even approach a woman, but to enjoy themselves. Not

44:56

even to talk to each other or dance. They would

44:58

just, they would literally just interact. Yes. Because

45:01

there's the thing like, okay, you can, you know, there are very things,

45:03

but like just having a guys,

45:06

a group of guys standing around talking and having

45:08

fun is an attractive thing

45:10

for, cause, and this, this is, you know, I'm

45:12

not much of a dancer, but what me and my mates used to do, just

45:14

go to a pub or a club and just, we

45:17

just enjoy ourselves with each other, have a laugh, you know,

45:19

fool around. And then like, you know, a couple of

45:21

women on the peripheral, someone will start talking to one.

45:23

So they see you having fun. You seem

45:25

like a fun person to talk to. Exactly. And

45:27

so they want to talk to you. And so suddenly now you are talking to

45:29

women without really having done anything, then just

45:32

enjoy yourself

45:33

and these lads. And I've seen it before as I'm, you know,

45:36

when you go into a pub or something, and just sat there on the phone,

45:38

it's like,

45:39

you've got no options here. But,

45:41

but also you've got no chance when you're doing

45:43

that, you're basically taking yourself out of

45:46

the game as it were. And the thing is,

45:48

is that in an environment like

45:50

that, in a way, and it's right. It's

45:53

not that hard

45:54

to stand out, you know, and

45:56

in many cases, all it is, is like

45:59

job. and a bit

46:01

of confidence. You don't even need to be like. But

46:05

the whole thing that we're talking about, the making the approach, it

46:07

has been beaten out of young men through the things

46:09

I talked about, the meat, the gel adder, all that kind of stuff. And

46:11

actually, I'll give you an anecdote. It's

46:14

quite awful actually, but there was a company

46:16

that I wasn't involved in, but a mate of mine was on

46:18

the board of this company. And they basically

46:20

had a guy speak to one of

46:22

the girls and just say, oh, would you like to get a drink sometime?

46:25

A perfectly normal approach. She kicked up a fuss, went to

46:27

HR. They looked at it and said, oh,

46:29

come on.

46:29

This was a mild,

46:32

polite response. But then what happened is

46:35

the management were about to go, yeah,

46:37

fine, we just knocked this one back. And then they said,

46:39

oh,

46:40

hang on a minute. This department is

46:42

a little bit overstaffed

46:43

and employment law is a right ball ache.

46:46

We've got a free pass here.

46:48

And then they thought, yep, we'll do it. So

46:50

they binned him,

46:52

but basically to bypass employment law

46:55

on the whole issue.

46:57

I mean, I will say probably don't

46:59

try it on with anybody at work then. But

47:03

another part of this though as well,

47:05

is that one thing you quickly learn, especially

47:07

as a young man,

47:09

as a young, when you're 18, 17, 18, 19,

47:12

is that you are gonna get knocked back a lot. And

47:15

I mean, I remember I had a friend,

47:16

his tactic for the night was basically, ask

47:19

every girl, ask every single girl and one will say yes, right?

47:21

Eventually one will say yes. And he's like, well,

47:23

he doesn't care. And he's ridiculous, but he works. But

47:26

that was, and he had like,

47:28

you know, a lot of success with that sort

47:30

of thing. But in our day they

47:33

didn't call the police after the third one. But even if

47:35

it's not in a nightclub setting,

47:38

just like asking a girl you quite like out for

47:40

a drink,

47:41

you have to be prepared that she's gonna knock you back

47:43

and not let that crush you as

47:45

well. And often, and

47:47

I post these on Twitter quite often where

47:50

it's some woman being like, men don't

47:52

even pursue anyone, what's going on?

47:54

You say no and then they never talk to you again. I see a

47:56

lot of those tweets. It's basically along the lines

47:58

of, I said no to a guy. why isn't

48:01

he pursuing me? Yeah, because a lot

48:03

of, but again, this is not

48:05

something I can advise you to ever do because

48:08

it's very contextual. You

48:09

know, it depends on how she says no to you and

48:13

the whole thing's kind of a test of your resolve,

48:15

actually, but you know, in the modern era,

48:17

you can't really advise on that. So if

48:19

a woman says no, just leave it there. I mean,

48:22

without going into really advanced tactics, I mean,

48:24

if you can,

48:25

I mean,

48:27

you can also start getting a little

48:29

gamey where it's like, well,

48:31

she expects you

48:33

get a bit flirty or whatever, she expects you

48:36

to ask her out.

48:37

And then you don't do the thing that you kind of knock her off balance

48:39

a bit. And I mean, in my experience, they'll

48:41

just ask her out eventually.

48:43

They'll ask you out, you know? Well, they'll at least like, they'll

48:45

send like, like my wife sent a friend with her

48:48

number. I mean, they'll let you know

48:50

if they like it. They'll let you know, but you've

48:52

got to,

48:53

you've got to show that the interest is there, right?

48:56

Women get better at that as they get older.

48:58

So sort of the over 40 women are not

49:00

shy in the slightest of sort of letting themselves

49:02

be known, but the younger women, they kind of don't really

49:04

know how to do that apart from like sending a friend over,

49:07

but

49:07

yeah, they struggle with this. So

49:10

effectively, I've got a meme which we

49:12

have flipped through. So it's basically

49:15

this, this is what's happening is that it's

49:17

the older women, they don't like to be approached

49:19

and they're, you know, sort of force feeding the feminism

49:21

on young women. So I will then jump

49:24

to our plug for this episode, which

49:26

is going to be the evil origins

49:28

of feminism. So I mean, you on that

49:30

one, what was. I am, this is, excuse

49:33

me, this is Connor and I. It's Connor

49:35

has

49:36

a particular

49:38

academic hatred for the

49:40

original feminists. And he has

49:42

been through, for his degree, he went through all of that

49:45

stuff and had to read it all. I

49:47

read most of it for fun. But

49:49

he's got a really in-depth view of

49:51

it all. And so we went through it and

49:54

just, he just takes it apart

49:56

expertly. Cause this has obviously been just

49:58

a kind of a real bug bear for him.

49:59

And that's why we did part two of it. We did this part

50:02

one that was really good. I was like, I'm brilliant. And you know,

50:04

so I had to do it for my degree. And he was like, no, there's

50:06

more. And so I won't spoil

50:08

any of it, but definitely worth the time. This

50:10

one. So that's worth checking out. So I'm going to end on this paper

50:13

where we got the this is from Rob. Rob

50:16

Henderson did this. Oh, you've got a pipe

50:18

of that.

50:19

Yeah, so he did this interesting thing. It's

50:21

full of stats and so on, which I don't think we can we

50:23

can really get into now. But I'll just pick out one

50:25

or two that I thought were interesting. The

50:28

striking one for me is that one

50:30

in six young men are single.

50:33

About one in four women are.

50:35

So basically what's happening is they

50:37

are sharing high status men. Right. They

50:40

are getting they are getting double times. And I think

50:42

on some level, they must know. But they're but

50:45

they're but they're kind of they're kind of happy

50:47

with that rather than lowering their standards.

50:49

The Sultan effect. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

50:52

You already talked about. But again, what that's going to lead

50:54

to is spinsters.

50:55

Yeah. Armies and armies of

50:57

spinsters in the future. We've

51:00

already touched on the higher expectation point about

51:03

how basically if you if you educate women too much, they can't they

51:05

can't find a man and

51:07

they become unhappy over the long term. Yeah.

51:09

The political division one. That's quite interesting

51:12

as well. So that's basically pointing

51:14

out that

51:15

people are becoming less and less tolerant, particularly

51:18

the left of dating somebody outside of their sphere. You

51:20

know, I'm skeptical of this one because of

51:22

the stupid, sexy Republicans meme.

51:26

And there are lots of left wing women who. Oh,

51:28

yeah. But that's their being that they're

51:31

forcing themselves into it. Yeah. But

51:33

but I think there are a lot of them who like do

51:35

find the Maggie guy sexy. These Democrat women,

51:38

you know, some big maggot chud and they

51:40

just

51:41

I think that if given enough

51:43

time in a bar together, I think that's all itself. I

51:46

think there's just to go back to old

51:48

fashioned economics, I mean, it done.

51:50

The

51:50

difference between stated and revealed preference

51:53

on this one is that I mean, it's

51:55

very different. I'm sure

51:57

we all remember an article while

51:59

ago. think we covered this. Why can't I stop having sex

52:01

with Republican men? It

52:03

was just like, well, there's a revealed preference right there,

52:06

isn't there? It was very interesting. I

52:08

also think that, I mean, I don't

52:10

know if he has this stat there, but you know, there's

52:12

that stat of the boys are getting more conservative

52:15

and girls are getting more liberal.

52:16

I actually think that

52:18

speaking just,

52:21

you know, objectively,

52:23

women at some level want

52:26

male attention. They

52:27

want, okay, this is just kind of hardwired

52:29

thing. And

52:30

I think the women on that graph

52:32

are a lagging indicator that eventually

52:35

male attention, they'll start saying

52:37

and doing things together. Because

52:38

if most of the boys are conservative, they're

52:40

going to have to appeal to them because they are

52:43

the boys. And it's by a factor of two to one as well.

52:45

So like 8% of women are more liberal,

52:47

but like 20% of men are conservative.

52:50

And they will bend.

52:53

They will bend to your worldview

52:55

over time. My wife was a lefty because

52:57

well, basically young women are

52:58

when I met her, not anymore.

53:00

And this is something that I think a lot

53:03

of commentators always miss.

53:05

Like, do you remember back in the youth quake

53:07

of Corbyn?

53:08

But you have a look at the same people now and track

53:11

them. You know, they're watching us. They're

53:13

apart from all the other people. How many former Corbynistas

53:17

are now, you know, on our side

53:19

of things. So the analysis

53:21

is always that they assume that just

53:24

because some of these left wing now, they'll always

53:26

be left wing. But you know, it's the

53:29

it's tamer. You know, it's the Peter Hitchens story.

53:31

That's a white bill. We got a white bill out

53:34

of this. And the other white pill that I throw in at

53:36

the end of this is how people meet. It is

53:39

still overwhelmingly people meet in

53:41

person. So it's not the apps. So

53:43

I guess if I'm going to end up with any sort of message

53:46

on this is probably get off the apps and just go to the

53:48

pub.

53:48

Yeah, go to the pub. Well, there's no zooms

53:50

in the pubs anymore. But you've got to find

53:52

a way to interact with people in real life. Go

53:55

to the pub. You know, you're just going to have to do it, you know, you're just

53:57

going to you've got no real choice. Yeah, have fun.

54:00

Right, over to you. Yeah. All right.

54:02

Well, shall we roll the video? Do I?

54:05

Well, do you want to do a couple of plugs? Well, you, oh yeah. I

54:08

mean, I can, yeah, I can

54:10

tell people again, should buy the

54:12

profits of doom. Yeah. I'm sure

54:14

it'll be a, now the best selling book. You

54:18

can also buy courses

54:19

at the academic agency. I mean,

54:22

the Academy now, as it stands, the

54:24

actual universities, increasingly

54:26

that they're teaching people

54:28

what to think and how to

54:31

think.

54:31

And all of my courses, especially if you do the Trivium,

54:34

you know, how to write,

54:36

how to, how to, how to think using logic

54:39

and reason and evidence, how to

54:41

construct an argument through clear

54:43

writing. And then the third

54:45

course, which is foundations of rhetoric,

54:47

the third part of the Trivium, goes

54:49

right back to Aristotle and

54:53

establishes, you know, all of the tricks they used

54:55

to use, you know, the Sophists and all of that. Yeah.

54:58

It was considered a form of magic, but then it brings

55:00

it right up to date with people like Jonathan

55:02

Heights and Daniel Kahneman and the

55:05

Trivium used to be fundamental. Yeah.

55:07

The backbone of a classical education. People did the Trivium

55:09

for hundreds of years. In fact, they were still doing

55:12

it up until about

55:14

the 1950s. And what, one of

55:15

the things I

55:17

found when I was writing the Trivium

55:19

is that a lot of the textbooks were from the Victorian

55:22

era

55:22

and they expected 12 year old kids to

55:25

know this stuff.

55:26

Right. So, I mean, if you're ambitious,

55:28

you can get this for your 12 year old

55:30

and you know, if you want to talk about progress and decline,

55:33

if your 12 year old can do my Trivium, you know,

55:37

they're up to speed with

55:38

where like a kind of

55:40

public school boy from 1912 would be

55:42

or something like that. So

55:44

yeah, yeah, I tried to, you

55:46

know, obviously I need to make a living. So, and

55:48

this is the main way I do it, but also

55:51

like of the thousands of people now

55:53

who've done these courses,

55:54

it's helping basically fill in

55:57

what our education system is not doing it.

56:00

doing for us. And I have known people funny

56:02

enough about the dating thing.

56:04

Somebody did the Trivium, foundations

56:06

of writing in particular,

56:08

and it said it helped me

56:10

get a girl because she wrote to him and said,

56:12

it's refreshing that somebody was writing

56:15

in full sentences. So he

56:18

actually pulled. I'm not going

56:20

to go into that. consumer saved one at a time.

56:22

I'm just saying that, you know, but

56:25

more likely if you're at university or something, if

56:27

you're a student,

56:28

it should help you at least at the very least, your

56:31

essays, you know, with an outside chance of tail

56:33

with a, with a, with a very disout side. One

56:38

confirmed case is good.

56:41

Right. Can we, can we get to the video then please, John?

56:45

Oh yeah. By profit to do them as well. Yes.

56:47

When's it out? Is that out? I think that is out

56:51

at the end of the fifth of September, which is

56:53

next week. Okay. So if you put it in a pre pre-order

56:55

now to Amazon or you buy it there,

56:58

you should get it through the, I mean, some people have, I think

57:00

already started receiving their copies. So it's

57:03

kind of out basically. I just want to say one thing I really

57:05

like about Volo is he looks like an actual vampire.

57:08

You know, it's funny is that I got this, uh, when

57:10

I got my author copies,

57:12

uh, my wife picked up

57:14

this book and she looked at them. She

57:16

was like, what is this? Is this like a tea

57:18

party from hell? And

57:21

I said to her, who out of all of them, who will you go

57:24

for a tea party? You know, who would you invite over?

57:26

And she ended up saying Toynbee because he just kind

57:29

of looks like a little English gentleman. And

57:31

that's what he was. He was a little, a little bit faster. You

57:34

know, look at her and spank. Yeah.

57:36

Look like actual monsters from

57:39

Frankenstein and Dracula. Literally.

57:41

Yeah. Literally.

57:43

Anyway, right. Let's get, let's

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Oh, there we go. There we go. Right. So the BRICS, it

58:58

was a grouping of Brazil, Russia, India,

59:00

China, and South Africa. And they

59:02

have just announced that they're taking on Argentina,

59:05

Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi

59:07

Arabia, and the UAE. So

59:10

basically, a lot of

59:12

oil has just moved into this block. So as

59:15

I understand it, this is kind of

59:17

an economic block in particular

59:19

to set up a sort of what a new

59:22

currency or something.

59:23

Well, I think that's a sub project of it.

59:26

No, I mean, they're just going to, they

59:28

cooperate with each other in a trade

59:31

partnership. But

59:33

what's very clear about this is

59:35

that,

59:36

of course, it's China and Russia.

59:38

India has got a population of a billion people

59:41

plus South Africa is

59:43

a huge market. But I can't help but notice

59:45

that what this is, is a massive block

59:49

of non-Western countries. Yes.

59:51

Non-American. Yeah. But

59:54

you're up. And this,

59:57

I guess there's two things. First,

1:00:00

this is a huge development.

1:00:02

It's a complete realignment of the world order

1:00:04

because

1:00:05

India and South Africa in particular

1:00:08

are meant to be our allies. They're

1:00:10

meant to be allies of the West. Right?

1:00:13

Well, Saudi Arabia is meant to be the sort

1:00:16

of the satrapy of the US that their whole currency

1:00:18

system is based on. And Saudi Arabia has been

1:00:21

playing exactly this role up until

1:00:23

very recently. Yeah, when they're- And now they're

1:00:25

getting into bed with Iran,

1:00:27

Saudi Arabia. Who else was in there? Egypt,

1:00:31

Ethiopia. So

1:00:33

this is huge. Because this is like, I mean,

1:00:36

ooh, Putin is isolated in the world.

1:00:38

I mean-

1:00:39

Yeah, he's isolated with

1:00:42

nothing but all of the world's resources and population.

1:00:45

Right, so this is like a major L

1:00:48

for

1:00:49

the global American empire, as we

1:00:51

call it.

1:00:52

That's one part

1:00:54

of it. The second part of it though is,

1:00:56

how do we as people who generally

1:01:00

oppose what we call the regime, pass

1:01:02

this?

1:01:04

And the reason I wanted to bring up Dr. Steve Turley

1:01:06

here, who's a great guy. The venerable. Yeah,

1:01:08

he's a great guy. He's probably my

1:01:10

favorite YouTube channel. That genuinely gives me joy

1:01:13

to watch. I love the energy. Because I'm

1:01:15

kind of quite realist and bit down beat sometimes.

1:01:18

He's just so optimistic about everything. It is the unstoppable

1:01:20

rise of a nuclear war. Yeah, it's unstoppable. He makes me feel

1:01:23

good. You know, it's dopamine. Yes.

1:01:25

But he

1:01:27

does sometimes, he wants to see everything

1:01:29

in a lens of the woke versus

1:01:31

the conservatives, which is a very kind of like

1:01:34

US culture war. Unstoppable

1:01:36

conservative progress trends. Right,

1:01:39

and

1:01:39

one of the things I worry about

1:01:41

is that using that lens,

1:01:44

it can almost kind of trip you into siding

1:01:47

with people who

1:01:49

may not have our best interests

1:01:51

at heart. Right now,

1:01:53

Communist Party of China, kind of

1:01:55

a pucine,

1:01:57

the Islamic Republic of Iran.

1:02:00

Like this is the this is the new based.

1:02:04

Just looked into the western globalist

1:02:07

elite is my enemy and then he's gone be

1:02:09

enemy be enemy is my friends trying

1:02:11

to is my friend now one of the one of the.

1:02:14

Things that is interesting if i wanna speakers

1:02:17

at the event mention this as well.

1:02:19

Is that if

1:02:21

you have a look at the sort of things that saying

1:02:24

in this block the bricks countries

1:02:26

especially when the nigeria thing happened but

1:02:28

also more recently.

1:02:30

I love the rhetoric is actually quite anti

1:02:32

western

1:02:33

and it's not just we don't like

1:02:35

your work values

1:02:36

it is a complete rejection of the idea

1:02:39

of. I'm you know it's anti

1:02:41

colonial it's third world

1:02:43

list it's kind of it's our

1:02:45

time now and europe it's all done it's

1:02:47

over and it's done it's not it's

1:02:50

not anti western people is anti western

1:02:52

modes of thinking and governing and. But

1:02:54

yeah and also anti western

1:02:57

influence around the world okay now

1:03:00

the thing is is that if you have a look at the sort

1:03:02

of things they're saying.

1:03:04

It's actually not a million miles away from

1:03:06

the sort of stuff that ash the car

1:03:09

would say or the sort of stuff that a critical

1:03:11

race theorists would say

1:03:13

and so you have a very strange

1:03:15

scenario where are our internal

1:03:17

enemy if you want to put it that way on our

1:03:20

external enemy are saying the same

1:03:22

thing.

1:03:22

Yeah well i mean they're both basically

1:03:25

marxists so and and

1:03:27

and also like they're against each other

1:03:30

which is an odd part of this but.

1:03:32

It's we who are kind of

1:03:34

we have to remember i think

1:03:36

that even though

1:03:39

the internal the external enemy

1:03:41

are the same are against our internal enemy

1:03:44

i think the same sort of things and

1:03:46

i

1:03:47

think it you know.

1:03:48

Some people get a bit carried away with

1:03:51

my based pewton you know yeah

1:03:53

i'm saying.

1:03:55

There are a lot of people who do this because pewton

1:03:57

i think is very savvy i mean what

1:03:59

like so i. don't support Russia or Vladimir

1:04:01

Putin, blah, blah, blah. I've got no interest in

1:04:03

Russia. I've never been there and I don't care about it. But there's

1:04:06

no question that Putin is an effective

1:04:09

ruler. And one of the ways in which he's effective

1:04:12

is in his rhetoric. He knows that the West

1:04:14

will hear when he says, I'm

1:04:16

not going to let you transition children in Russia.

1:04:19

He knows we hear that

1:04:21

and he knows that the MAGA base, the conservatives

1:04:24

are just like, oh, well, I agree with that.

1:04:26

And so it creates

1:04:28

a kind of fracture within our own

1:04:30

country, especially the only cultural

1:04:33

conservative world leader. Yeah. Apart

1:04:35

from one or two. One

1:04:38

that's especially vocal and speaks in a way that

1:04:40

we understand. I mean, I've been reading

1:04:42

a lot of stuff

1:04:43

written around the time or just after World War

1:04:45

II recently by many different writers,

1:04:48

guys who served in the military, American

1:04:50

and British.

1:04:51

And I think one of the things that we've lost

1:04:54

over time is

1:04:55

the idea of thinking as

1:04:58

Europeans or as British people,

1:05:01

as against the interests

1:05:03

of America on the one hand, and as

1:05:05

Russia on the other. And at that time,

1:05:07

it was very common to see Europe caught between

1:05:10

essentially

1:05:10

two enemies

1:05:13

that didn't really have best

1:05:15

interests of the people in mind who had

1:05:17

a similar anti-colonial,

1:05:20

anti-European thesis. And

1:05:23

it's kind of interesting how this dynamic has

1:05:26

reared its head again. And

1:05:28

I guess the reason I'm bringing this up in

1:05:30

this way is that

1:05:32

I think

1:05:33

sooner or later, we're going to have to start thinking like,

1:05:35

well, if

1:05:37

this American ship is going to go down, are we going to

1:05:39

let

1:05:40

them take us down with them? Or

1:05:42

do we want to start standing on our feet again and

1:05:44

thinking of our interests again? Britain

1:05:46

joins the breaks. I

1:05:49

mean, it's not like, oh, we join the Russians

1:05:51

or we join.

1:05:52

It's how do we get

1:05:54

a sense of entering

1:05:58

world history ourselves again? Because there's There's

1:06:00

an argument to say that after World War II, Europe

1:06:03

has taken a time out. We've

1:06:05

not been... I mean, I remember the neocon

1:06:08

thesis. They talked about Europe

1:06:10

living in a postmodern paradise, but

1:06:12

America has to be in the world of power.

1:06:15

Well, we've been there, but on the US's leash.

1:06:18

So we have reliably backed... So Britain I'm

1:06:20

talking about particularly, we reliably blacked them up

1:06:22

for whichever war they wanted to do.

1:06:25

We have sort of been there, but not... We

1:06:27

just haven't been... We've

1:06:30

also towed our weight as

1:06:32

well. I'm one of the 2% GDP

1:06:34

on the military. Things like that. We've

1:06:36

actually been a very reliable partner in this. Is

1:06:39

it partner or is it cheerleading? Well,

1:06:41

very reliable satrapy. Right.

1:06:44

We've...

1:06:48

We're somewhere that

1:06:50

if this was the Roman Empire,

1:06:52

Spain was always

1:06:54

very reliable on raising levies for

1:06:57

the army. You could always raise men in

1:06:59

Spain.

1:07:00

We're that kind of place where

1:07:02

it's where pro the empire.

1:07:04

And I guess the question is, at what point

1:07:07

do Europeans start saying, being

1:07:09

part of this empire is starting to suck?

1:07:11

Well, since the Americans just screwed them royally

1:07:13

with their actions towards Russia, I mean,

1:07:16

they surely are looking at this and going, well, hang on a second.

1:07:18

Nord Stream. I mean, it's just, it's naked

1:07:20

at this point. Yeah.

1:07:22

Yeah.

1:07:23

All I'm saying is,

1:07:25

is that

1:07:26

it's kind of

1:07:28

this frame, almost obscures

1:07:30

what I'm trying to say here, which is that

1:07:33

actually you need to see this as

1:07:35

two different powers who are both trying to screw

1:07:38

you in different ways.

1:07:39

And we have to think like

1:07:41

some point we need to stand

1:07:43

on. This is the old classic

1:07:45

Henry Kissinger quote, isn't it? That it is dangerous

1:07:47

to be an enemy of the US, but it's fatal to be a friend.

1:07:51

And America will always betray its,

1:07:54

betray its friends. And we have

1:07:56

been in there so close and so tight. Our

1:07:58

moment of betrayal probably hasn't come.

1:07:59

But it will. Who was it? It

1:08:02

was from like Cecil Rhodes or someone who was like, England

1:08:04

doesn't have friends or enemies any interests.

1:08:06

That's what the world hegemon had. And

1:08:09

this is part of the issue is because

1:08:11

unlike British empire, which

1:08:14

yes, it did have its civilizing

1:08:16

mission and so on, but at base it

1:08:18

was pretty practical and it was pragmatic

1:08:20

in the way it went about things.

1:08:22

The American empire has always been

1:08:25

increasingly ideological.

1:08:27

Why are these countries turning towards China,

1:08:29

the Chinese sphere of influence? And

1:08:31

it's because I

1:08:33

mean, in the case of Iran,

1:08:35

right, the Americans have just said, if you

1:08:37

trade with them, we'll boycott you.

1:08:39

You trade with, you know, it's been way worse. I mean, it's

1:08:41

been, it's kind of Harry Clinton has

1:08:43

always been, let's invade Iran. Yeah. So

1:08:46

on the, on the Iranian side, it's just like,

1:08:48

yeah, we have no other choice

1:08:50

but to go with it. But if you think of some of

1:08:52

these other, these other countries there,

1:08:55

they don't want, it's like, oh,

1:08:57

we'll trade with you.

1:08:59

But also it comes with all

1:09:01

of these conditions attached, you know, Tony

1:09:03

Blair will come in and help build a school, but

1:09:06

it has to be a feminist school and you have to have

1:09:08

gay rights and all this sort of stuff. So this

1:09:10

part of the analysis of Thirli is actually true. That

1:09:12

is why this

1:09:13

block is growing, not because

1:09:15

the Russians and the Chinese are,

1:09:17

they're basically

1:09:21

just going to say, you give us oil, we'll give you stuff.

1:09:24

And it doesn't come with. And we don't need

1:09:26

to give you a lecture. We don't need to. Can we call

1:09:28

up the image of the droid Floyd thing? I

1:09:31

mean, this is the, this is the sort

1:09:33

of key example. I'll let you do it, John.

1:09:36

So it is on the end, but you know, America

1:09:39

goes out. It spreads democracy

1:09:41

by the bullet and the bomb. Yeah, the George Floyd

1:09:43

mural in Africa. Yeah, it's the last one, John.

1:09:46

Oh, okay.

1:09:49

But yeah, basically, you've got, you've got

1:09:51

to push the agenda. You've got to put up a pride flag. You've

1:09:53

got to have a, an image

1:09:55

of droid Floyd, you

1:09:58

know, put on your wall.

1:09:59

Kabul. Yeah. This

1:10:02

is one of the first things that Taliban painted over

1:10:04

as well. Yeah. I mean, what I mean, it means nothing.

1:10:07

I mean, that guy walked under. What does he,

1:10:09

what, why is there an African man with

1:10:11

I can't breathe on my wall?

1:10:14

And I mean, I'm afraid to say the more

1:10:16

America becomes identified

1:10:19

with, you

1:10:20

know, Lizzo and George Floyd

1:10:22

and social justice and pride,

1:10:24

which have become symbols of

1:10:26

the American empire, the

1:10:28

more countries are just going to turn away because

1:10:30

they don't want to be told. And what China

1:10:32

is doing, which is different from the first, because they're

1:10:34

calling this cold war to

1:10:36

what China is doing. That is different from

1:10:38

what the Soviet union used to do is they're

1:10:41

not trying to spread communism. They're not trying to say,

1:10:43

we trade with you. And it comes at the price of,

1:10:45

you

1:10:45

know, you have to put

1:10:48

the hammer and sickle up.

1:10:49

They're just, they're purely doing on this pragmatic

1:10:51

basis,

1:10:52

which like old fashioned. What they're doing

1:10:54

is useful stuff. Would you like an airport? Would

1:10:57

you like, would you like something else? Would you like a dollar

1:10:59

denominated loan? And by the way, if you, if

1:11:01

you don't pay back the dollar denominated, no, well,

1:11:03

we're going to have that those oil reserves or that

1:11:06

bauxite mine or whatever it is.

1:11:08

And they've done that around the world as well. I mean,

1:11:10

I think that was a Sri Lanka or

1:11:12

where basically

1:11:14

if you default, if you, it's

1:11:17

just like,

1:11:18

okay, that lands mine now. And this

1:11:20

is now Chinese territory.

1:11:22

And they've done that all

1:11:25

over. That's Australia. Let alone, let alone Sri Lanka

1:11:27

or all across the sort of Indian ocean.

1:11:29

That's all. I mean, literally the Belt and Road thing

1:11:32

is a bunch of like deep water harbors and

1:11:34

things like that. They're all connecting together. I watched a video on it. That's

1:11:36

like, Jesus Christ, how's America? Let this happen.

1:11:39

The other thing the Chinese will do, which

1:11:41

is very interesting

1:11:42

is that, you know, America,

1:11:45

they'll

1:11:46

go to a place like Iraq. They'll

1:11:48

say, Oh, it's very important that we're not seen

1:11:50

as conquerors. We're going to establish

1:11:52

a liberal democracy here. And it has to be Iraqi.

1:11:55

And

1:11:55

then they actually mean it. They, they, like, they

1:11:58

actually do it that way. Chinese,

1:12:00

they'll sign a deal and they'll be

1:12:02

like, Oh, we're going to build a, we're going to build something here. We're

1:12:04

going to build infrastructure. And they won't,

1:12:07

they won't hire local contractors. They

1:12:09

literally bring the entire

1:12:12

workforce, all Chinese. Uh,

1:12:14

if I, my dad told me about this when they were even

1:12:16

in, even in Wales, when they were taking apart a,

1:12:19

uh, uh, uh, uh,

1:12:22

uh,

1:12:23

plant that was there, they literally

1:12:25

came in a, in a shipping container, stayed

1:12:28

in the, like stayed in a container, didn't see

1:12:30

anyone

1:12:31

and

1:12:33

took all the stuff back bit by bit, cleaned

1:12:35

it up,

1:12:36

took it bit by bit and literally shipped it all back to China.

1:12:38

Um, so they keep it in, they kind of

1:12:41

keep it in house as an old

1:12:43

fashioned, almost extractive, colloquial

1:12:46

empire, if you want to go that way.

1:12:48

Um, but in a way that

1:12:50

works. I mean, it's worked all through history. So

1:12:52

why wouldn't they do it? Should we go back to Steve

1:12:54

Turley?

1:12:56

Um, well, I think the point is basically

1:12:58

made here. Um, uh,

1:13:00

I mean, you can watch the video in your own time, but

1:13:03

the basic point is made that

1:13:05

you see, I think it's very easy for people

1:13:07

on our side to

1:13:08

get a bit too caught up in all of this and end

1:13:11

up

1:13:12

almost making the third world est point

1:13:14

on their behalf. And one of

1:13:16

the, I mean, for example, later on in this video,

1:13:18

one of the people he cites is also a chap

1:13:20

who goes on a channel. I watch a lot called the Duran

1:13:23

or Jackson Hinkle. You have a look at Jackson

1:13:25

Hinkle. He's basically a old fashioned

1:13:27

Marxist. You

1:13:29

know, he, he devoted for George Galloway

1:13:31

type or a Galloway type. And this

1:13:33

is the danger when it comes to geopolitical, because

1:13:35

you, you end up

1:13:36

inadvertently

1:13:39

advancing an enemy's

1:13:41

agenda as opposed to something

1:13:43

that would be beneficial to it. Cause ultimately what

1:13:45

we want to do is we want to help

1:13:48

the people out in that high street, we just saw,

1:13:50

not, you know,

1:13:52

what they're planning in Beijing or something,

1:13:54

you know?

1:13:55

But we don't have a presence in this

1:13:57

fight. You know, we have been so thoroughly.

1:13:59

subjugated the, well, you

1:14:02

know, we are dissidents effectively.

1:14:04

So, you know, there was no one else that

1:14:06

you can sort of throw your weight behind if you're looking to talk

1:14:09

about geopolitical actions. Yeah. Who would

1:14:11

you say, who do you feel represents you?

1:14:13

And

1:14:13

the answer is nobody. Yeah. Nobody represents. I

1:14:15

mean, I like that Putin is advocating

1:14:19

a, the interests

1:14:21

of his people,

1:14:22

but they're not my people, but I would expect

1:14:24

him to, but like, yes, why can't we have that?

1:14:26

Yeah. Why can't we have one

1:14:29

of our national leaders? I think it's worth

1:14:31

saying as well that, you know, if you remember

1:14:33

Brexit was a meant to be about making

1:14:35

Britain sovereign again. But

1:14:38

sovereignty is basically the power

1:14:41

to determine whether

1:14:43

you enter wars or not, whether you

1:14:45

choose your own course or not. It's

1:14:48

decision making power. You don't always have a choice

1:14:50

whether you enter a war. But

1:14:53

you understand what I'm saying, right?

1:14:55

If Rishi Sunak decided, actually,

1:14:57

we're going to diverge massively from the

1:14:59

state department in Washington.

1:15:02

Just as he was installed, he will be removed

1:15:05

if that happened. I don't think the idea would ever

1:15:07

cross his mind. Of course, because,

1:15:09

you know, he's, he's a safe pair of hands as far as

1:15:11

the, their concern when it comes to that.

1:15:13

And I think that is something that,

1:15:16

you know, just because Brexit happened doesn't

1:15:18

mean that fight is,

1:15:20

is necessarily one yet because actual

1:15:22

sovereignty

1:15:23

means the ability to determine the course

1:15:25

of your own nation's destiny. And

1:15:30

as the situation more essence, I

1:15:32

think people around Europe can start thinking like

1:15:34

this more and more as

1:15:36

an inevitable, you mean,

1:15:38

really, this is the truth, the true meaning

1:15:41

of the F D in Germany, for example,

1:15:43

or the pen or, you

1:15:46

know, I hesitate to say

1:15:48

Maloney, Salvini, certainly in Italy,

1:15:50

you know, is, is But, but effectively what you're

1:15:52

saying is the, the further fun satrapies

1:15:55

have already begun this program. So the Saudi Arabia

1:15:58

and, you know, the India, they, they, they have already gone.

1:15:59

off the bandwagon. The frontiers

1:16:02

have started to fall away and when you were talking

1:16:04

about the wrong car, you

1:16:06

know, when an empire starts to fall apart, so

1:16:08

is the frontier that goes first.

1:16:10

But we're talking about major

1:16:12

provinces just start breaking away. And

1:16:15

I mean, Saudi is joining this is just if I'm

1:16:17

in the Americans, I'm like,

1:16:18

how will this happen? Well, that is a major,

1:16:20

major, we were the thing that propped up the Saudi

1:16:23

monarchy for like 80 years or something.

1:16:25

How is how can they feel

1:16:27

confident enough to defect from us? I tell you, I

1:16:29

mean, I hate to bring this back to like low

1:16:31

personal politics, but Donald

1:16:33

Trump,

1:16:34

right, when he got on the blower,

1:16:36

he was an old fashioned salesman, and he built

1:16:38

up a rapport. And he got to know guys,

1:16:40

right? Joe Biden, for

1:16:43

rates, right? It was his name. Yeah, Joe

1:16:45

Biden wouldn't even shake

1:16:48

his hand. Joe Biden personally

1:16:50

insulted MBS.

1:16:52

And he's not forgotten that. And this is

1:16:54

just old fashioned diplomacy. Well, do you know,

1:16:56

you know, you know, I remember like six months ago, Biden tried to have

1:16:58

a call with the Saudi king

1:17:00

and he refused him.

1:17:02

You don't do that. Of course, it's been rude. Don't

1:17:04

do that. The Emperor's just arrived. You

1:17:06

put on a full procession for it. Nope,

1:17:09

not today. And anyway,

1:17:14

let's do a video comments today, John. Society

1:17:19

depends on young men who are willing to die for

1:17:21

it. And young men are willing to die for a women

1:17:25

basically, but it's a certain type of woman and

1:17:27

it's not some woman who shakes

1:17:29

your butt around and pledges them sexually.

1:17:32

Strangely enough, men universally want to die

1:17:34

for their mom, past, present, or future.

1:17:36

They'll die for future moms. They'll die for

1:17:38

past moms. They'll die for present moms, women

1:17:41

and children first. And

1:17:43

the thing is, when men ask women to submit,

1:17:45

it's so that those women are worth defending.

1:17:48

And we're just trying to make them submit so they become

1:17:50

good moms. It's kind of wholesome and

1:17:53

feminism turned it into this ugly thing. We just

1:17:55

want you all to be good moms. It's nice. It's wholesome.

1:18:00

that fundamentally he is right, men die for mums.

1:18:02

That's absolutely and obviously true.

1:18:05

The problem I think is the American

1:18:07

Christian messaging

1:18:09

of submit, the

1:18:11

wrong messaging. I

1:18:15

mean, have you got a bad word to hand? Not

1:18:18

particularly. No, I don't either. But

1:18:20

I mean, obviously correct.

1:18:22

But just if I'd ever said

1:18:24

the word submit to my wife, I

1:18:27

think I'd be in

1:18:28

the wrong house for a few days.

1:18:30

I know the

1:18:35

trouble that's going to cause

1:18:37

me domestically and I just wouldn't want to. I

1:18:39

mean, I do say that to my wife, but I'm

1:18:42

not the model for

1:18:43

how you should run these things. Sure. And

1:18:46

my wife is like

1:18:48

actually the trad wife. She's

1:18:50

a stay at home mother with four kids. I

1:18:52

do the work. She does the house and there's

1:18:56

no way I'm going to use the word submit. It'd

1:18:59

be not worth my time. What about your wife? The

1:19:02

thing is about this is that

1:19:04

I always think that,

1:19:05

I mean, we mentioned, Taitil, you're on.

1:19:08

What

1:19:09

you see a lot in that sort

1:19:11

of space is a kind of pastiche. It's almost

1:19:13

like the feminist critique of the

1:19:16

toxic masculinity come to light.

1:19:18

If you actually have a look at genuinely

1:19:21

patriarchal societies like

1:19:23

Victorian Britain or whatever, it was all

1:19:25

built around consideration and

1:19:28

being the gentleman and actually

1:19:30

kind of giving way as a

1:19:32

kind of form of control and

1:19:34

authority. And so, It

1:19:38

was a sort of deference that verged on veneration.

1:19:41

Oh yeah. I remember reading a book a while ago that

1:19:43

Victorian men were morally obligated

1:19:46

to stand up when a lady entered the room.

1:19:48

Right. And then it came with all sorts

1:19:50

of all sorts of, so for

1:19:52

example, there's a meet, like if you have a look

1:19:54

at some of the conversations on Twitter that go on now,

1:19:57

you

1:19:57

know, supposedly trad men. are

1:20:00

always going on about, Oh, well, body count, body

1:20:02

count. And, um, in Victorian

1:20:04

Britain,

1:20:05

a woman was held up to be so moral

1:20:07

and traced that you'd never even dare accuse

1:20:09

her of

1:20:10

even if you had treated my husband, you wouldn't

1:20:12

even dare say it because

1:20:14

it was, you know, you, you. The

1:20:18

de facto assumption was that she was

1:20:20

chased.

1:20:21

There's an extremely good book about this circle,

1:20:23

sex and deviance by Guillain Faye

1:20:26

that

1:20:26

says the important thing is holding

1:20:28

up these sorts of ideals. Even if the truth

1:20:30

of them wasn't real, is this the one that includes

1:20:32

the immortal

1:20:34

going to France?

1:20:36

Well, he's a French guy. He's a, he's a French. Yes.

1:20:39

Yes. Going to France where,

1:20:42

uh, I

1:20:43

mean, young men would be initiated.

1:20:45

Yes. Uh, so this whole idea

1:20:48

that you should keep your virginity before marriage,

1:20:50

but actually in France, you know,

1:20:52

an old aunt would take a guy aside and be like,

1:20:54

you know,

1:20:56

show him the ropes before, before the wedding

1:20:58

type thing. And these things went on

1:21:01

in, you know, much more Christian

1:21:03

time. Let's just say his point

1:21:05

is, is that

1:21:07

it's the kind of fictions that people believe are

1:21:09

important, and then you kind

1:21:11

of fake in the hypocrisies

1:21:14

because it's impossible to live up to

1:21:16

them. Right. Um, whereas,

1:21:19

um, that is, that is, I mean, I don't think

1:21:21

any of the, the

1:21:23

kind of faux trans that we see

1:21:25

on Twitter really understand this sort of thing. It's,

1:21:27

it's very much a simulacrum. It's an aesthetic.

1:21:30

They're

1:21:30

not living near, they're not living the authentic

1:21:32

life. And this, this is why like

1:21:34

a word like submit, I'm living an authentic triad

1:21:37

life and I'm thinking there's no way my

1:21:39

wife would just feel very disrespected for

1:21:42

said that because it, she's not an

1:21:44

inferior in our relationship. She's got a huge

1:21:46

amount of responsibility. Like right now

1:21:49

I'm relying on her to take responsibility

1:21:51

for all of my children and the household and

1:21:53

the household bills. And like on a Monday,

1:21:56

she gets this weekly shopping and she's doing all that.

1:21:58

She's got responsibilities.

1:21:59

submit is not the right word.

1:22:02

You know, cooperate would be a much better word to be

1:22:04

honest.

1:22:05

Yeah. And I do think people have

1:22:07

to understand that

1:22:08

division of labor is such a thing, but

1:22:10

like,

1:22:11

it's quite hard to look after a kid. I mean, like

1:22:14

after I finish up today, you know,

1:22:16

my, my wife, but it's some holidays at

1:22:18

the moment, that means there's no nursery. So

1:22:20

my little one has been like,

1:22:22

my wife has been with a little one 24 seven.

1:22:24

That's hard going. So now,

1:22:27

right. When I, so when I go back, basically,

1:22:30

even though I'm tired, I'm going to have to help

1:22:34

kind of do my

1:22:36

bit there to let her kind of. Younger

1:22:40

people, our children will have no idea what we're talking

1:22:42

about. But trust us, when you, when you get to that point,

1:22:44

you'll realize the work that I

1:22:47

can see in my own wife, when like, for example, I got home

1:22:49

yesterday, I could see that she's just spent too

1:22:51

much time with the children in the last weekend

1:22:53

because I was away. So I'm going to have to do the same

1:22:55

thing tomorrow, actually, I think. And that's the,

1:22:57

and that is the kind of, the,

1:23:01

I think, I think for these young guys who are like,

1:23:03

Oh, well, it's all in, it's very important.

1:23:05

No sex before marriage. And the marriage is important

1:23:07

marriage, marriage, marriage.

1:23:08

But actually, what does it take to keep

1:23:11

a marriage? But what does it take? What is the

1:23:13

work of having family? And

1:23:16

I think that the best thing that

1:23:18

so-called trans could do would

1:23:20

actually give practical advice. We've got a buddy, radical

1:23:24

liberation in America. He's got eight

1:23:26

kids and they homeschool them. They give practical

1:23:27

advice on how they

1:23:29

do that. That stuff is

1:23:32

way more. I like people in our

1:23:34

sphere, but he is the one that I admire.

1:23:36

Yeah. Yeah. Shall

1:23:38

we do the next one? Yep.

1:23:40

So Carl and others griping that what Keene

1:23:43

Phoenix is too old in the Napoleon

1:23:46

movie. And this

1:23:48

is correct.

1:23:50

But given our current crop

1:23:52

of young actors, that would mean we'd have to have Ezra

1:23:54

Miller play him. That's awful.

1:23:59

the actors of Dogs like they did with Charles

1:24:02

Darnay and the truly best adaption

1:24:05

of The Tale of Two Cities, Wishbone

1:24:07

Edition,

1:24:08

given the current writer's strikes you could probably replace

1:24:11

a lot of those positions and you not lose

1:24:13

much quality. So

1:24:15

I mean you

1:24:16

make a very strong point and

1:24:19

my complaint about Joaquin

1:24:21

Phoenix being, I think he's 48 and I

1:24:23

think when Napoleon escaped

1:24:25

from Elba I think he was 46,

1:24:27

so if he's gonna be telling the life of Napoleon with

1:24:30

a 48 year old actor

1:24:31

he is obviously too old and will

1:24:33

appear too old but I mean maybe they can digitally deage

1:24:36

him or something like that right but I think

1:24:38

it's a very strong point you make. Modern actors

1:24:40

are terrible and Joaquin Phoenix is a previous

1:24:42

generation of actor who actually

1:24:45

at least has some talent and I mean

1:24:47

at least I think he will be a good Napoleon.

1:24:50

I think he'll do a good job and actually it's quite

1:24:52

an exciting film

1:24:53

actually. I have not, you know, it was Ridley

1:24:55

Scott? That's my biggest

1:24:57

question is why is this film being made

1:24:59

at all? What is the reason behind

1:25:01

it? Oh yeah but again of

1:25:03

all people,

1:25:05

Napoleon right now, very

1:25:07

interesting. Alright

1:25:09

let's go through a few written comments for us to sign

1:25:12

off. Generico says, welcome

1:25:14

to the loot seaters AA. Seeing you here is

1:25:16

like watching the Avengers team up for the first time.

1:25:18

You think that's a little bit cringe? I'll remind you that we have

1:25:21

a Dark Lord and his forces to defeat. Fair

1:25:23

enough.

1:25:23

Sophie says, wow academic agent.

1:25:26

This is amazing. I had no idea what you looked like,

1:25:28

what you were called. You open your mouth and I can recognize

1:25:30

your voice. Look at you. You look like

1:25:32

a proper Italian mob boss. So it's

1:25:34

nice seeing you on the podcast. I'm looking forward to

1:25:36

the conversation. I haven't got my cigars on me in a minute. And

1:25:40

I absolutely think you are cool.

1:25:43

Oh so I'm not. I'm not. When

1:25:45

your daughter says you're not cool.

1:25:48

Well this guy thinks I'm cool.

1:25:51

Richard says, the satanic Tony

1:25:53

Blair institutional evil never dies. Just

1:25:56

propagates and gets funding from rich donors. Andrew

1:25:59

says, I remember not

1:25:59

even a decade ago when I was in university, actions

1:26:02

like those Tony Vera's Undertaking in Africa were

1:26:04

textbook examples of neocolonialism

1:26:06

and decried with the utmost vigor by academics.

1:26:10

Well, yeah. Omar says,

1:26:12

the absolute audacity with which they claim they

1:26:14

want Britain to thrive. They will never talk

1:26:16

about conserving anything good because they hate Britain.

1:26:19

The definition of Britain is the London

1:26:21

bubble of political elite facilitated

1:26:23

by a myriad of exotic serfs. Who's

1:26:25

going to pour a prat? Their

1:26:28

definition of thrive is GDP line go up

1:26:31

because their standard of living will never be affected.

1:26:33

So many solutions to problems that never needed fixing

1:26:36

or wouldn't exist without government failures. Dark

1:26:38

Lord is far too polite a description of

1:26:40

this creature.

1:26:41

Omar's comments are always really good.

1:26:45

When it comes to your segment,

1:26:47

Lord Nerevar says, as a single young

1:26:49

man in the modern dating culture, I can advise anyone in a

1:26:51

happy relationship to nurture and cherish

1:26:53

it like your life depends on it. It's not fun

1:26:55

out here, bros. Now this is a

1:26:58

problem that I do hear from a lot of

1:27:00

young men.

1:27:01

I can go to a bar, but the kind

1:27:04

of woman that I will meet is not the kind

1:27:06

of woman I want to meet. Yeah. So

1:27:09

my week of thinking about this and

1:27:11

looking what's available and out there, I'm thinking of taking

1:27:13

out key man insurance on the wife because

1:27:16

you wouldn't want to be without at

1:27:19

this point. I mean, as long

1:27:21

as the policy was

1:27:22

new for old, he would

1:27:24

have to have that in there. I'm not too fussy about the

1:27:26

loaner. I don't know what I'd do with something. I'm a robot.

1:27:31

Rose says, join a club so you and whoever

1:27:33

you meet will have a common interest. I met my husband,

1:27:35

a libertarian dimension.

1:27:37

That's probably reasonable. Yeah. Le

1:27:39

French only swipes left. The chap called Le

1:27:42

French and he always changes his name depending on the subject

1:27:44

we're talking about. As someone who has worked

1:27:46

in multiple dating app companies and

1:27:48

have seen normal looking men successfully get laid repeatedly,

1:27:51

I can say that the success rate varies wildly between

1:27:54

apps. There's two types of men who stand out.

1:27:56

Those who are built well with top 10% and those party a lot and

1:27:59

get women.

1:27:59

the lure of free alcohol.

1:28:01

So interestingly, our lovely lotus

1:28:03

lady did point out that she was looking

1:28:05

through these profiles and what she was most

1:28:07

shocked about is the feminization of the men

1:28:10

on them.

1:28:10

Really? Because she kind of split it down into there's

1:28:13

the Jimbros,

1:28:15

the old guys who just don't have a clue

1:28:17

how this bloody thing works and then the

1:28:19

no hopers. But consistent, well,

1:28:22

the old guys, well, most of the time

1:28:24

they didn't fill out the profile bit at all, but even

1:28:26

the Jimbros, the feminization

1:28:28

in their language and their profile, it was things like,

1:28:31

I'm looking out for my mental wellbeing

1:28:33

and my, you know, all

1:28:35

of that kind of new age politics. And she

1:28:38

was looking through and say, Oh, that was a good looking

1:28:40

guy reading. And it's like, Oh my God,

1:28:42

no. Yeah. So you're one probably, I mean, how many hits

1:28:44

did you get eventually? Uh,

1:28:46

I stopped checking off, but

1:28:48

I know it was about five or six by

1:28:50

the following morning. And then after that, that's not bad in

1:28:52

the day.

1:28:53

Yeah, I suppose not. You know, and it's probably just because your profile

1:28:55

doesn't come across as a feminine. Yeah. If

1:28:57

anything else, if anything was uncompromising, it

1:29:00

was like, Nope, this is what I want. Yeah.

1:29:02

One of the questions I've got is that what about

1:29:05

all those other things that are conventionally

1:29:07

have kind of got women, like for example, like,

1:29:10

uh, you

1:29:11

know, being successful,

1:29:14

having a good career or having high status

1:29:17

or, you

1:29:17

know, this is the kind of old trope of the,

1:29:20

of the, like the little Hollywood director with Marilyn

1:29:22

Monroe on his arm and things like that, you know, I mean,

1:29:24

because there's one metric for women and there are multiple

1:29:26

metrics of success for men. Right. And, and

1:29:29

this is why I'm all of this is kind of book

1:29:31

space, but in the real world, I mean,

1:29:33

it's like,

1:29:35

you know, another way of going about your profile is

1:29:37

like, well,

1:29:39

you know, I, you know, we're a hundred grand, but this

1:29:41

is, this is something that's increasingly, as I

1:29:43

point out, this increasingly out of the reach of zoomers, because

1:29:46

if you're an under 30 zoomer, you probably don't have

1:29:48

anything.

1:29:49

And

1:29:51

this is one of the issues, I guess, is that I mean,

1:29:53

it's actually something my wife was talking about. Is

1:29:55

that equality?

1:29:56

It's not that young women don't

1:29:58

want to get married.

1:29:59

Okay.

1:30:01

It's that

1:30:02

people want to get married to people their own age,

1:30:05

right?

1:30:06

Um, a lot of the time,

1:30:08

but

1:30:08

of course women also want to

1:30:10

do the, they want to marry up. Yeah. So

1:30:13

conventionally, there used to be like a 10 year age

1:30:16

gap. If you go back, but the silent

1:30:18

generation, the boomers, yeah. Yeah. If you go back a

1:30:20

few, like the boomers started, they're the ones

1:30:22

who started carrying at the same age. And like, even

1:30:24

with them, it's common for there to be several years, but yeah,

1:30:27

seven or 10 year gap. Because

1:30:29

if you're a guy in your mid thirties, you've got everything

1:30:31

together, you've already got, you can

1:30:33

afford to

1:30:35

run a family. And you're actually

1:30:37

ready to do the same. So like the 35 year old

1:30:39

and the 25 year old, 30 year old and the 20 year old, for

1:30:43

example, whereas now I think people

1:30:45

think of things like that as being a bit strange,

1:30:48

but

1:30:48

of course, so I'd

1:30:51

totally encourage it, but really,

1:30:54

that would be the solution to this because by

1:30:56

the time somebody's in their mid thirties,

1:30:58

they should be looking at

1:31:00

someone in their early, like a girl

1:31:02

in their early twenties.

1:31:03

And he then could kind

1:31:07

of take care of her in that

1:31:09

sort of. You can provide resources that she requires.

1:31:12

Exactly. Yes. But, but I honestly,

1:31:14

I'm, I'm quite in a shame of those, marry a younger woman

1:31:16

chaps. And if you're in your twenties, just,

1:31:19

just get to work basically. But right,

1:31:21

we've got to end it there. So, Nima, it's

1:31:24

the academic agent. Where can people find

1:31:26

you if they want more? Well, I mean, a lot of

1:31:28

people, I mean, mine, I am Nima Farbini, the author

1:31:30

of this book, but, um, a lot of people

1:31:32

don't know, but

1:31:33

I am also academic agent on YouTube.

1:31:36

And I am also

1:31:38

OG Roland rat on Twitter. Really?

1:31:40

And I know people who

1:31:43

got my books, watch my channel and

1:31:45

follow me on Twitter and don't know I'm all three people,

1:31:47

but I am all three people. Is there

1:31:49

any chance of, um, an official

1:31:51

profile? No, I am

1:31:54

an OG, a

1:31:55

non on the internet, an

1:31:57

old tab. It's I I'm from the old forum. days.

1:32:00

So I'm never going to stop. I'm always going to have different

1:32:03

names. I'm different. Right. Right.

1:32:05

Well, thanks so much for joining us and we

1:32:07

will see you tomorrow. Take care folks.