Baklava, yes, secret to baklava is the flavorful syrup. It's sugary, but sometimes also other flavorings, the quality at least of the sugary syrup and the honey and such. If you use honey instead of sugar syrup, this matters a lot. It's the contrast between the layered crunchy phyllo dough, which has to be thin, many fine layered, drizzling with sugary syrup, moist. And I like pistachio baklava. I like with many ground pistachios, I think it's better than nuts. And then the Persians use sometimes rose flavoring, rose water like they do in so many of their desserts. Optional would be to include clove or cardamom. You see, this is my great concern, the quality of baklava, which is great and joy with Turkish coffee, these are my priorities.

Caribbean rhythms, episode 146, I think, unless I'm wrong. Is it 145 or 146? But on desserts show, this my priority, the quality of my sweet meats. I once told Anna Kachian about certain Hong Kong restaurant in Boston Chinatown, Jumbo Seafood, I think was called. A very nice vibe, mural of Hong Kong in the background where they had oyster, ginger, scallion, hot pot. They had fried eels, spicy salt fried eel, and such specialty. And it was usually packed with Chinese men. Late at night you could see people who were very clearly trafficking money and who knows what else from China. You know the type, they're loud with a toothpick in the corner of the mouth and open shirt with that kind of undershirt underneath and the kind of Chinese gangster style. Were they Chinese gangsters?

I don't know, the owner of the restaurant had a very dignified and professional air. He could have been a general in the Chinese military intelligence system. I don't know, but I love their food. And the vibe late at night, it was open late. Chinese people only, I hope I'm not being indiscreet, but Anna Kachin went there with Daddy and her man friend, and they enjoyed the atmosphere and the Cantonese specialties. But then, I recently found out, I have not been to America in years, but I found out this place was closed, likely as a result of pandemic, but who knows, many good places closed because of that disaster. Regardless, it's been of great, put me in great distress to learn this, that it closed. These kinds of things are my priority, you see. It's same as, I'm just like him,

I'm like the protagonist of Lampedusa's The Leopard, Prince Fabrizio. You see, I'm a prince, yes, I'm prince. In case you haven't seen this, you should watch the movie with Burt Lancaster as a leopard, and then read the book, it's good. but in the book, the protagonist considers his yearly, let's say, I don't know, family vacation or rather countryside pilgrimage, this type of thing to be a far more important thing than any political matters taking place in the world at large or it goes on in newspapers. So yes, I'm just like this. I agonize over the closure of a favorite restaurant more than anything. Which brings to mind, if I may go on tangent, that a good city ought to keep open, to keep open signature businesses that bring joy to the life of its people.

I cannot tell how many times I've seen this. Businesses, restaurants, bars that were widely beloved or by a special clientele at least beloved and very popular and did very well financially but they closed. Again, not even because it wasn't run well or the owner ran into problems or they ended up having few customers but because of such petty things as disputes with the owners of the property over the rent and people are very stubborn. They like to savor their spite, you know, this kind of thing, cut off your nose to spite your face, and they dig in on the decision. And then the city loses a beloved business because, you know, the restaurant or whatever does not want to pay more in rent or can't, and the owner insists on it.

And I've seen this happen in numerous cities, whether it's a nice big department store with favored restaurant and bars on the top roof and it closed because simply they cannot reach agreement on the rent or in Buenos Aires it has some good restaurants now but at the time let's say 10 15 years ago about that time 11 12 years ago it had very few good restaurants one of my favorites actually forget the name I think something with F it closed over just this kind of dispute and it never reopened. It was placed serving high quality Argentinian classics like schnitzel, which usually in Argentina is fried in some kind of used car oil and very repulsive, but they did a beautiful, crisp, fresh schnitzel or their brain ravioli

with delicious ragu. It was opened late in Palermo, Hollywood's so-called neighborhood because all the movie studios are there and at night it's filled up with high-class prostitutes and trannies and many such things, and like I said on last show, for me this very amusing parade to watch, very late at night, but it closed and never reopened. I've seen the same thing happen in a few other places, really beloved locations of retarded disputes and can't a city step in or even crowdsource money or pressure somehow to keep such places open. They affect the quality of life in a city far more than even whether you fix potholes on time or garbage collection or cleaning streets. So anyway, these things animate me more than political international disputes and living,

as many of you like apparently to live in an update of political Fox News versus CNN sports ball where you are entirely mentally determined by newspapers. What men like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and I believe Mencken too and such despised as as the newspaper mind of the democratic man. And it's a kind of actually average man-type course entertainment, very barely above pornography, I believe that. There is more virtue in jerking off half the day to pornography, not much more, slightly more than in getting animated over this political newspaper and arguing about it. Turkish coffee and baklava, I'd like to talk this. If you read about such things, Almost everything in so-called research, let's say of baklava or Turkish coffee, which is a very rewarding pairing,

but everything, if you read about its history, is which nation claims the origin? And now listen for a moment, how pathetic is that? And that's really what nationalism is, you know. It's Norwegians, and I love the Norwegian people, but asking anxiously what New York Times says about Norway now, or any other small nations. Of course, I not pick on Norway, they are good as far as these things go. and relatively not vain and obsessed with dignity, but you look at Eastern nations, including East Europe, South Europe, Southeast Europe, the Middle East, not to speak of, and that's their overriding concern. Is our nation being introduced abroad? Do they realize that we claim ownership over this particular pastry? That's about the level of nationalism, what it means.

Every Balkan nation refuses to call it Turkish coffee. It's a bizarre kind of spite. Almost every. They claim instead, no, it's Albanian coffee, it's Bulgarian coffee. Of course, the Armenians and Greeks are the most adamant on this point. They hate the Turks so much. It's Armenian coffee, you see. Please, same with baklava. It's likely a very ancient dessert. It might have multiple sources, but you have convoluted debates about does it come from a Roman or a Byzantine dessert? Is it an Assyrian one? Is it a tradition inherited in part from nomadic Turks who enjoyed layered pastries or layered breads and such. So you see, this is what nationalism actually means in the end, it's pathetic. And the American Anglo used to be beyond this. Used to be, yes, you savages can argue about

who owns this particular type of crumbly pastry. We will design with our German cousins and Saxon cousins rockets to go to the moon and computers and such. Of course, America now is sinking into the same idiocy. Do you respect arbario culture? Do you respect that we have this type of tortilla? This is more identity. This kind of thing is, but it's always what nationalism is meant. Everywhere you see is a Cape Verdean insisting to you that only their nation has a word for nostalgia. And only their nation has come up with the world changing innovation of frying polenta. You see, no one's ever thought about frying a starch. No one's thought about layering some dough, nuts or sesame and sugaring it. It's a matter of national security who came up with it first, you know.

And that's about how I see the Palestinian-Israeli conflict fundamentally, which I suppose, as a pundit, this is what I am supposed to be, right? That I have to engage in pornball like this and give my opinion and take on it. I love it. I love seeing all the wankers online. Tactical analysis from Malcolm Mobutu Azabanga. I can't wait to read tactical strategic geopolitical analysis from Azabanga on Compact Magazine. I can't wait for the teach-ins from college professors and online pundit, pile driver Professor Wannabes, about the history you see of the conflict. And I especially enjoy the disputes about who was there first. That's the most wonderful type, the minutiae of life in 9th century A.D. Levant versus the 19th century.

And it actually reminds me very much of Balkanoid stupidities in the same matters, when Hungarians and Romanians flutlessly debate on who owned Transylvania first, who was there first, as if that matter each comes with its meme history, as if the events of year 1000 versus 1200 AD has any bearing at all on convincing people living in that area right now or convincing the world even. No, no, friend, you cannot say Turkish delights are Turkish, they're Armenian. No, they're Iraqi, they're Albanian. Let's have a 1,000 page forum dispute on who came up with the idea to use some kind of agar or gel and starch and sugar flavorings and yes essentially that's what this dispute is as well which uh which sheep vagina feels better you know the albanian or

the iraqi sheep fondlers can have a 500 page forum debate on who can pleasure a mountain sheep better that's nationalism for you and that's this conflict it's an unsolvable fruitless sketching from both sides. I've seen it for 20 years or more, they engage in the same arguments. The violence does not essentially change what it is, you know, the fact that there is lurid violence. It's the same as when Schopenhauer says that it doesn't matter if you have kings over a drawing board and maps deciding the future of nations or you have robbers in a cellar arguing over dividing the day's booty and such. Fundamentally it's the same thing, it's It's the same idea because it's the same situation, the same configuration of feelings and emotions and actions.

Its essence doesn't change just because one carries more dignity for the many and awe for the minds of the commons or because it's historically associated with more or less so-called important things. And the Palestine-Israeli dispute is the equivalent of the 700-page thread where a Romanian and Hungarian battle it out over who was there first 1,000 years ago or an Albanian and a Bulgarian over who invented this particular kind of sausage with pretzel. We must argue over the pretzel, and in fact, my historical right, if you want to go there, I mean that area of Transylvania belongs to the Holy Roman Emperor, if you want to go there. And here, too, the disputes over history and justice are fruitless, wankery, and the pastime

of, I remember, you know who is the pastime of this, the favorite pastime activity? I arrived in Greece long ago as a small boy and I had come from communist country where he did not have public disputes about politics, but I saw the old men fighting each other in the streets with umbrellas over similar kinds of fights, political fights, porn fights. They might as well fight over which is the superior porn star, I think, but they sit out all day in these countries, these idler countries, they play backgammon, they drink coffee and sparkling water and fight with umbrella in the streets and yell at each other. And only imperial rule can solve these problems, maybe, and there's no empire today capable of this.

But I won't get involved myself in disingenuous disputes that really are not of any bearing on anything. I would be much more excited about the election that happened today in Argentina, where my My Argentinian friends say that Millais will probably win, has a high chance, we will see there will be large vote fraud. But why? Because Millais' victory would be won in a continuing series of humiliations of the global leftist establishment and it would deprive the international left of a very strong and noxious base actually that they had in Argentina since the loss of Macri who was also somewhat retarded. Argentina now, one of the most aggressive countries of the international left, look up the São Paulo Forum, the Forum of São Paulo and what they do.

And Millet's victories there would deprive them of this, besides the fact that I am very fond of this country, I want to go live there again, I want to see a revival of Buenos Aires, one of the most romantic and free cities of the world. And perhaps one of my remote hopes is that in the future, enough frogs and enough American artists of high ambition would make a scouting trip there and find it to be congenial to their taste also, and perhaps we could all live one day, or many of us in Buenos Aires, where we would be free. I don't want to get into this now, these are my favorite subjects, that's a big subject. But to get involved in disingenuous disputes, and I've seen this play before is what I'm telling you, since the early 2000s there was the second intifada at the time,

And every once in a while there are the same kind of breakouts of violence and nothing really ever changes. And while people get very agitated in news about them, it gives pundits something to talk about. And if you want to know the truth of the situation, I was talking once with Israeli special forces guy. He was a killer. Extreme killer from Russia. You could see extreme hard face. Movie star hard face. I forget where he was from. I think Samara in Russia. And a complete killer, very solid frame, skinhead, a darkness and intensity in his eyes, I remember he was a real killer. I don't think he smiled once, although I like to be a buffoon and make people smile, maybe I got him to smile once. But he says something, yes, that he's tired of fighting for retarded leaders of Israel

and that the whole premise of the conflict is absurd, the debates are dishonest, disingenuous, that he hates the Palestinians and wants them declared Egyptian or Jordanian citizens and expelled to those countries or similar. Somewhat may. He knew, yes, Israel would get condemned and isolated by international community, but it's better than continuing this low-level dishonesty that goes on where he and his friends are asked to risk their lives and nothing ever comes of it, there's no solution, and that no arguments about the justice of their cause or history changes any of these desires. And conversely, he say, he does not blame the Palestinians because it's totally natural for a Palestinian and to be expected that he wants to do the same to the Jews and kick

them out of the land or kill them, and that again he would feel that way if he was a Palestinian. And the fruitless debates about whether Mark Twain saw that the land was useless under the Arab – you know the arguments, it's not just Mark Twain, by the way – Gabinot, the steampunk father of racism, points out how much the lands that were previously fruitful under Jews or Greeks became complete slum under the rule of Arabs. I know this, and he was very much acquainted, by the way, Gobino with Islam and the whole area. He was ambassador to Tehran, and he actually wrote a wonderful book, The Religions and Philosophies of Central Asia. I don't know if it has been translated into English. It's not nearly as well known as his main book, Gobino, I'm talking now.

But in this other one, he talks about how Islam is a perfect fit for the character of the people in that region and the different Islamic sects, and he goes into why. And by the way, it's not all an attack, he has appreciation for these theories and philosophies. But regardless, what do such arguments matter? Do you think you'll convince a man who grew up on that land, whether Israeli, Jew or Palestinian, that you'll convince him with a historical argument or an argument from justice or reason that yes, you see, you should leave, you deserve to lose, you shouldn't have your home, you should give your home to others, or you should give the home that you believe to be yours or to have been your grandfather's, you shouldn't want to have it back because that's not true.

You should let that go and you should go live in the slum, or you should leave the country. Many such useless things, all the arguments are pointless. This conflict, more than any other, reminds me of how pathetic human reason is. What often just a rationalization after the fact is. It's really the female rationalization hamster. It's not just in the minds of women. Most men are mentally female like this. This kind of catching. can't take it and if you want a solution the only solution is the total expulsion of one or the other of this population. That's always been the solution in the 20th century at least in such cases. Until that time it will just be continue periodic chimp outs like this and this is why if you look at the biggest front

war since World War two it's Operation Storm that the Croats did with American leadership in 1994 I think or something like that at least it was not American leadership, maybe American advisors, but the Croats did this during the Yugoslav Wars. They just kicked out the Serbs from Croatia, and let's say the Bosnians as well, ethnically cleansed that land with American blessing, which is why Croatia now is a pretty nice and peaceful prosperous place. Or in the case that I mentioned before, Hungary and Romania, the only reason they are not engaging in mutual chimp outs over Transylvania, and that you don't have this kind of of violence in that rather patchwork ethnic region, is because both Romania have been pacified by NATO. They've been integrated into this,

I don't want to call it imperial thing, but they've been essentially bought off into piping down. And without this kind of solution or otherwise ethnic cleansing, however you want to call it, that's what solved these wars in what remains fundamentally a democratic time. That's the more profound thing that maybe you realize from this that whatever form of government happens and however much direct democracy is mediated, the ideals of our time are still democratic, the self-determination of a people and so on. And when you have that mindset, it doesn't have the luxury of imperial mildness. So many retards, you could say journalists or such, synonymous with retard, with clutch pearls, a phrase like imperial mildness, because they have images of seeth from Star Wars,

they have images of fascist imperialism destroying restive planets and such. You know, I shoot electricity from my fingers, I'm corrupting the youth. But actually, empires can afford mildness. I suppose it's maybe right to qualify this and say that each empire and modern democracy has a brutality and a mildness of its own. But if you look historically, you have imperial rule that's quite successful and mostly peaceful and mild for a long time, for centuries, ruling over many minorities. Whereas in democratic times, multi-ethnic states are very difficult, full of fraught violence, genocide, ethnic cleansing, because democracy defined as the national self-determination of a people, and ultimately the actual form of government, I'm saying, doesn't matter as much,

because almost all nations today define themselves roughly like this. And in this sense, the 20th century, the era of decolonization and fake nationalism. I do believe there are statistical studies of such things that the blood spilled over these petty wars all over Africa, the third world, even Europe, when added up in the 20th century, it's far more and maybe even far more per capita than say an empire historically would have had or the different wars of the dynasties in European history. something crazy like the 30 years war. Maybe you don't consider that, but aside from that, which, of course, an empire will chimp if people is especially troublesome. The Romans did this a few times, not just against Israel, but against other nations that were too restive,

so they had to be a little bit crushed. But mostly the Romans are famous for being Clement, and this was continued by their successors, the Byzantines, who were quite tolerant of many minorities and so on within their empire who lived side by side. And they will occasionally, empires, I mean, fixate on one part of their domains and say, yes, let's romanize this, you know, we're going to fixate on this and let's, either they did this to Southern and Southeastern Spain, for example. But in general, the Romans let peoples be and they are quite mild and so on. And it's rather in this era of national self-determination and so-called democracy, the mobilization of peoples to their so-called national identities, I believe encouraged by very unscrupulous local elites

who simply want control, power, eminence, what men have always wanted. But this is what causes ethnic wars, pogroms, massacres, and many such things much more than historically. Rwanda and that whole area could be quite peaceful and worse under feudal and mild rule of the Tutsis, but under ethnic self-determination, it becomes a killing ground. And many such things even beyond that, When you consider Marxoid also self-mobilization, which is another aspect of the awakenings of the life of the many, you get things like Paul Pott, whereas I keep saying under imperial rule you don't get that kind of violence so much. And so you see maybe intuitively the only way the whole Levant could be peaceful and

stable is if there was a third outside power over everything, as there was under the Byzantines or the Ottomans even. And who knows who else, maybe Putin can assert himself as the third Rome in the region. He can be the Byzantine Emperor again. This is why I said the House of Hohenstaufen should reassert itself. Of course it doesn't exist anymore. But where is the King of Jerusalem? I say that Prince Pedro of the House of Two Sicilies, he holds the rightful title to the King of Jerusalem and he should be brought in. He lived in Madrid now I think, has a very nice beautiful blonde family. It's very funny that the old Italian aristocratic families as well as the Spanish and the South Italian and so forth, they become blonde over generations because every other generation

they marry a Swedish woman and such. It's very funny. But if you want to go there, you should maybe bring in some neutral third party like the House of the Two Sicilies to rule Jerusalem. Because I do think the United States, which should be doing this and kind of has been for the last few decades, but it's doing it as usual, incompetently. The United States is good at certain things, like building Empire State Building, building Hoover Dam, but as presently arranged, it's unable to be an empire. It's completely actually incompetent at it, and no one is more wrong than the pundit fools who see. They judge that because places like Russia or China are having temporary setbacks and and not that I think these are examples of nations that should be emulated by the way,

or that they are successful empires by any means, but they're having tough time with COVID and then now Ukraine thing. And you've seen the kind of boosters or pretenders to boosters of American power worldwide to claim that American empires is a debt, neoliberalism on the upswing, it's powerful. Next year, when the newspaper changes and America has some troubles, they will change their tune, their move, I've told you, from Fukuyama back to Samuel Huntington. But maybe they've forgotten the abysmal failures of the last 30 years that had a big part in what brought about the campaigns of the idiot Bernie Sanders and also of Trump in the first place. Those failures do not just disappear, you know, and they ruined America's reputation abroad, the involvement in Iraq and so forth,

the involvement in Libya. And it seems to me that this conflict, unsolvable under modern configurations, a costly, painful conflict, Israel, Palestine, so-called. Please, however, don't bring up, so I'm supposed to cry crocodile tears at either the Israeli or the Palestinian suffering. What is it to me or to you, other than that it's on the news? I am tired of fake, saccharine thing, actually. I cry over doggies being adopted instead. This friend account, Carlos Cagathos, an anime-yugend account, he says this, and I agree with him. I cry profusely at movie about doggy, YouTube about doggy, meeting the owner after being separated for a year or two. You know, I had good doggy in the park where I grew up, and they tried to take her from us.

They put her far away, but this beautiful bitch doggy, she found her way back from other side of city. Such a good stray doggy. I trained her to attack the nasty old people, and I ended up adopting one of her pups as as a pet, but I had to give that puppy away because I lived in an apartment, so you see this is making me tear up, thinking about this and other doggies, but Palestinian children not so much, sorry. Such things take place all the time in Tibet, in Xinjiang, and you hardly ever hear about it. You are bastards, you see, both sides of this, crying about their losses, wanting the world to cry about them, because you think your lives and your suffering is worth more than others, but what's this? It's not on TV, so it's not real. What about Tibet?

Not to even speak of, what is it, the death toll and the suffering in the Congo Wars in the last 20 years, by the way, when, what is it, how many hundreds of thousands, was it a million to two million people who died in those wars? And you never hear or see it on TV, are those lives worth less? Should I get very worked up about the fighting in the Congo? And I'm not one who's, what can you say about this, you know, they call me a racist, right? I'm supposed to be the racist and yet I get offended at the crocodile tears that normies and politicians cry Because a preferred group like the Palestinians or the Jews who both have their lobbies in the West and yes the Palestinians have Their extensive lobby to by the way, not just the left and the international left

That's always been with them in the third world this but Qatar Saudis and so forth the Saudi Lobby is rarely talked about by people like Mir Shimer though he goes there too, unlike some of his followers. But preferred groups like the Palestinians or the Jews are on the TV, so you have to cry crocodile tears for them. While the deaths and sufferings of countless others in similar conflicts goes totally ignored, and what's to my heart the Orangutan in Indonesia, the suffering of the Orangutan, which is far worth more in life than human, they get ignored. Am I supposed to ignore the ethnic cleansing on the other hand of the Armenians, which just happened in Azerbaijan with American and Israeli help, by the way? But I ignore this suffering as well. And what about Burma?

The Burmese people are not taking Muslim interference anymore. They are pushing them out, and they are protecting Buddhist dharma. I am much for the monk Viratou. But in that case, too, look, I will continue this about Burma in a moment. To be fair, I want to return to talk about desserts. But since I'm on this now, I'll continue a little bit about this hypocrisy about whose suffering gets applauded and such. I will be right back. Biden administration, the adults are back in the room. Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, the defenders of the Republic. Yes, how is this working out for you? But look, I was saying about Burma. I like the monk we ratu there, the mad monk, so-called, he's not mad at all, but Time magazine

paid by the international Saudi influence, is calling him the Buddhist bin Laden and this kind of idiocy. And insofar as you hear about the suffering of the Muslims and the Rohingya people in Burma, again it's the Saudis and the Qataris have such powerful lobby in Washington, D.C., they have many politicians in America bent over an oil barrel and taking it dominated by Doug Stile. There is news story, Amir, I posted on just such subjects. You might want to look. You hear this on the news about Muslims in Rohingya and their suffering, but you don't hear about the suffering of the Burmese people at the hands of these Muslims in times before and the way that Muslims there boycott and attack Buddhist businesses and such and why

the Burmese state and the Burmese monks had to expel them in the first place in the same way that Sri Lankan and Thai monks and others are taking the spearhead in the fight against international Marxist Islam. And in this case, by the way, I would be all up to support Israel too, if things were equal. I'd say, sure, your fight against Islamo-Marxism is to be commended, just like Burma's, just like Angola's. By the way, yes, Angola banned the construction of new mosques, and I approve this. On the other hand, there's an extra complication, though, when it comes to Israel, which is that Bibi backstabbed Trump during the fake 2020 election when it was being disputed at the end. Is it too much to ask for someone like Bibi to at least not have thrown his support behind

Biden, among the first of world leaders to do so, I believe? How is that working out for you now, Bibi? You have your adult in the room. How is it working out? And could Bibi have changed election results? I doubt, but it would have helped to have a foreign leader widely respected by large parts of American population and especially members of the so-called Republican Party say wait a minute, this isn't what goes on in first world countries, that you stop the vote in the middle of the night, kick out observers and then the results are mysteriously reversed, and only in those locations where the vote was stopped in the middle of the night. In normal cases, America would step in and would call countries that did that, that is a fake election.

And a simple statement from Bibi like that, you know, would have helped somewhat. And furthermore, I am concerned that Israel has done nothing at all to restrain or call out organized ashk groups in the West that agitate for or facilitate mass migration, or that fight against nationalist groups and factions, who are my friends. And this is especially egregious, for example, case of Flanders-Bellang, although hardly it's a unique case, it's not unique, but this is a Flemish nationalist and anti-migration group who are in fact very much pro-Israel. And I know some of the European nationalist kids, they don't come from neo-Nazi skinhead families or whatever you think. Many of them come from religious Catholic families, especially in France, and they grow

up partly having embraced the Holocaust narrative and being friendly to Israel actually, and then they find out that when they form their own nationalist parties or factions in Europe who are advocating for measures in Europe that are far less actually than what Israel puts into law right now in Israel itself. But they argue for much less and they find themselves called Nazis and neo-Nazis and local Ashk groups, European Union Jewish groups attack them. Israel does not restrain these groups from attacking nationalists or advocating for mass migration. In fact, Israeli diplomats and the Israeli establishment as a whole also attack these European nationalist groups. They're boycotted by Israeli diplomats. Again, they're condemned by European Jewish groups and such.

And it's true that there are those in Israel who might like them. There are a few. Israeli MP who met with Flem's Belang people, in other cases I think Bibi and other people support Orban and such, that's something to be welcomed, but on the whole it's too little too late because even when that happened, I mean when an Israeli MP met with representatives of Flem's Belang, there was widespread condemnation and again this is what I mean, as a whole Israel either does nothing to restrain the likes of Peter Beinart and Paul Singer in the West or in many cases actively works against my friends in Europe who are, I need to repeat, this is what is upsetting because many are openly pro-Israel and they are rebuffed and

it would be very helpful if the state of Israel was consistent on these matters and did something for factions in Europe and America who are fighting against the left and fighting for the borders and against the demographic replacement of peoples. And I know that perhaps Israel cannot police the Jewish left abroad. That's fine. That's understood. However, there are many prominent individuals like Paul Singer or Bill Kristol or such. Bill Kristol isn't that as powerful as people think. He's a spokesmouth. But people like Paul Singer and other donors to the Republican Party who are pro-Israel but at the same time anti-Trump, anti-border control in the United States. And yes, somebody like Bibi even, even if it was not the whole Israeli state, but at

least people like Bibi speaking out saying, you know, Paul Singer, we in Israel believe that we should have a Jewish majority and that we're a Jewish state and the historic American people, not to speak of also other European peoples in Europe proper, they have a right to the same things that you do and you are being a bad Jew by doing these things. And that would help quite a lot I think because someone like Paul Singer, a lot of his protection so-called is he hides behind his Jewishness and uses it as a weapon in the same way that a college chick uses her being a woman, she plays the woman card and uses that as a weapon. You see what I mean? And having somebody like Bibi take that away from him would help somewhat I think, would help somewhat.

In any case, it would then be worthy of support by, let's say, normal Americans, normal Europeans as well as the nationalist or anti-migration right. But until that happens, why are the fortunes of Bibi who backstep Trump of any concern? I don't know. I see no reason at all for normal American or European to conserve himself with welfare of Israel or Palestine. Whether Israel acts this way out of bad intentions or lack of gratitude, or if it does so out of powerlessness, all are valid arguments, that is, you know, Israel can't just come out and support something like Flem's Belong, it would smear itself even more, some people say. Maybe so, but again it's irrelevant, in the same way that it's irrelevant whether Israel

doesn't want to help America and the Middle East in any direct way, or if it cannot do so because of how it would look. For example, Israel can't send soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan to help the United States the way Australia or Poland did because of how it would look. But in the end that doesn't matter because it's not doing for whatever reason, it's not doing what an ally should and must do. So you see that's that. When Israel at the very least will condemn the so-called Hebrew immigrant aid society that actually is now helping African and other migration into America and Europe. When it condemns not only Soros, but leaders of the anti-nationalist Ashk organizations in America and Europe, when it condemns also again people like Paul Singer, which I'm telling

you they would have some power and influence in restraining you though, because a lot of these organizations and individuals use rank and file Jews as human shields. They use their Jewishness to shield themselves from criticism, to give themselves an air of victimhood, and to give themselves also fairly enough credit with the American people who on the whole look very well on Jews. And in that sense, if Israel calls them out, it would take that patina and image away from them and to actually help someone. But Israel does not do that, you see. And yet, please excuse me, because to keep on this tangent, I think that as online trolls, the frogs, should do all to encourage developments where a breach develops, a real and full breach,

if it develops between the Israelis and the international Jewish left, that would be a good thing. The basic elements of this breach were already beginning to emerge before this conflict. But I think if played right, the online, let's say frogs, at least the smart ones, could have a good role in promoting such a breach and promoting infighting on the left. But of course, most people on the online right are retards. They are instead actually trying to promote unity in that camp. They fulfill what Nietzsche said about idiotic anti-Semites. But this event, the latest Levantine chimp-out, is interesting maybe insofar as it leads to changes in political factions in the West. And perhaps it could pry away liberal, maybe even some of the left-center Jews and Jewish

donors, if it could pry them away from the left and the woke left, and there are signs that that could already be happening, that could maybe be a valuable thing. But I want to here also introduce for you a pessimistic point and a black bill so-called. Even if, let's say, someone like Shapiro, who is not by American standards on the left so-called, he is understood by, let's say, a normie American to be on the right, but as such Shapiro is a minority voice in politics. Shapiro does not call Ben Shapiro for all his, whatever you want to call it, I think It's just conventionalism and idiocy. But he doesn't actually control, for example, American migration policy. He can posture all he wants, that he doesn't care about the browning of America,

but people like him are not running immigration policy. And you could convince all the Ben Shapiro's of the world and get them on the immigration restriction side. And I don't think it would change anything in regards to immigration policy in United States, not to speak of Europe. I think people on the online right, so-called, who are Jew-obsessed perhaps miss this point that in Europe, for example, mass migration takes place with broad popular support. I would say even in the United States it does. And it happens on humanitarian grounds, on human rights and empathy grounds that Europeans genuinely believe in. And it is mainly right now the parties that are for migration are also for the Palestinians out of the same morality. And you could convert, I would say,

maybe even the left center and the liberal Jews in America to, maybe they will wake up. It's, excuse me, it's quite amusing to see how many of such people thought they would be immune from being called white, but now they find out that they, by the, let's say what the Argentinians called La Negrada by the beige-yad, the beige whores of the world, lumped them in with whites, and now they're shocked by that. But I have a somewhat pessimistic view of this, that even if, let's say, the Jewish left or part of it, or the liberal Jews, the left, center right Jews in the United States became migration restrictionists as a result of all of this, it would hardly change anything, I'm afraid. in terms of, again, migration policy, but that remains to be seen. On the far right, there are also cleavages

exposed by this conflict, but who cares, really? We are in a little ghetto, we have little outside influence. Who cares what happens on the so-called hard right? It's tiny. The fact that the face fag, the public far right in America, which is super tiny, I don't want to say their names to even boost them more, but you know who they are. They are constantly promoted as the face of the far right by media in the United States. They can hardly pack 15 guys into a room. That they are siding with the Palestinians so ostentatiously is not surprising at all. They've always done that. David Duke did that too, and they're just David Duke 2.0. Of course, David Duke also had SPLC photographers at his rallies, as do his heirs in the so-called alt-right in America, the face-fag version,

the people who have conferences, rallies, and so on, and they're barely actually even trying to hide their relationship with the SPLC anymore. The face fact far right in the United States has always been an extension of the DNC and the left to use as a weapon, as agent provocateurs and such, and in this connection I must emphasise something, since to defend myself I can only call out the devil by his name and point out to whatever audience is willing to listen of what I see happening, plots against me and such. There was early during the events of this crisis, during the Hamas chimp out in particular, an obviously coordinated effort by people who did not read my book or who read it but are lying, to try to say that Hamas are the real Bronze Age warriors and such.

And I don't know if in this case, the attempt was to actually induce casual users of Bronze Age so-called imagery and such, and various fools, if it was to induce them to actually support Hamas, or if it was, and it was probably this, it was probably a crude attempt to link the words in tweets and declarations so that then they could be searched, as keywords I mean, associated statistically, so that then an article could be written by a disingenuous journalist, and yes, leftist journalists often work with these, the far-right types in the United States. And so then the purpose, of course, would be to focus law enforcement attention on me, on my book, on anything having to do with so-called Bronze Age and such because Hamas is a designated terrorist organization and this act was so

ostentatiously and obnoxiously stupid violent that you know inevitably you see what I'm saying and this has been the hope of every leftist journalist and SPLC employee for many years that the actual right-wing awakening in America and Europe could somehow be labeled or tied or distorted as white ISIS, American Taliban and this kind of thing, and they did it again during the Taliban takeover of Kabul. Oh, these are the real Bronze Age warriors, and so on. This just seems the latest effort in that direction. So I have to call it out. To some extent, it's also just disingenuous people who hate me and are envious of my reach and of the appeal of my book, which is, I think, true counterculture appeal lately. artists and such love my book and you know a lot of these bastard people who

imagined themselves commentators and pundits are jealous and so they try to poon me they try to poon me as happened also during the Ukraine war to try to say oh the real Bronze Age people are the ones going the reddit leftists going to volunteer in Ukraine under the Black Sun banner you know in other words to die in a hostel in Lvov hit by a Putin missile and such that's Bronze Age to then you see. So I wrote the whole article in American Sun attacking this view and the misuse of war in the name of vitalist philosophy or Nietzscheism, which is nothing new because the neo-cons in the 2000s were also doing the same because it's complete misreading of my book. You will maybe have noticed that never in my book do I celebrate things like

the Simba rebellion in 1963 Congo to rape and kill white nuns in a similar type of chimp out as what you just saw with Hamas, or Sendero Luminoso Maui's terror group from Peru, or Khmer Rouge, or anything similar, and only an imbecile who misread my point complete would wonder why I didn't include these. The Hamas chimp-out itself actually is hardly different essentially from another idiot blowing himself up in a pizzeria or a discotheque. It's very funny when you mass kill civilians, you know, it doesn't always work to whatever you imagine is your stated goal or advantage. I mean, they kill Thai laborers. I don't know, can you explain that? If you kill a Thai laborer in Israel or a Nepalese laborer, is that guy

also their colonial occupier? I don't know. At least from the point of view of the Palestinians, it somehow works at odds with them. Isn't that also an oppressed peon of Zionist global capital or whatever they call it. But yes, the chimp out you saw is hardly different from blowing yourself up in a pizzeria and has nothing to do with problems I talk about in book because this kind of violence you're seeing in these repeated wars, whether it's here or Ukraine, it takes place as virtual. You look up the words vacuum activity. It takes place in a playpen. It's a form of play acting. It's performative. I'm going to die in a romantic way and violence as such is not capable of breaking through the problem of what I called own space in the book.

As a matter of fact you will maybe see that in Bronze Age mindset I never even talk much about conventional military heroes of the 20th century at all. It's not really exactly a Bronze Age reenactment book you know because it's simply not about let's say military heroes, oh he died gloriously in this charge in World War I. Most of the reviewers of my book, and basically all of the negative reviewers, ignore completely the last aphorism. There is a reason for that. But what I say in that last aphorism rings throughout the book, and it has nothing to do with performative chimp-outs or with employing as a name of vitalism or let's say what I call the spirit of the Bronze Age, which is more accurately the spirit of its very beginnings

and very end, but it's got nothing to do with using that to support your cause of the day that you read in the newspaper and that you think you can use against your enemy. It's complete misreading. I believe it is implicit in what I wrote there that all peoples, all religions even, and certainly all states and nations today are broken and empty. I would never encourage a friend to die for any fake modern nation or group if every single one has fallen into the hands of damaged life and of zeros and exists now only to aid the replication and sustenance of zeros. And that said, where were we? Yes, it would be interesting, excuse me, if this latest crisis could actually lead to some permanent cleavages and infighting and breaks on the left, broadly defined, however you define the left.

And if the online right were not mostly populated by earnest and humorless cretins now, they could take advantage of it. I've seen some have tried to, they should be commended. For example, trying to get woke leftist professors fired and such, that's great. That's what should be done. And for those of you who aren't aware of what goes on in our little ghetto on the so-called hard right, the few impish and enterprising youths who are trying to get these leftist Antifa professors fired, who are the greatest antagonists in the replies of the tweets I'm talking about and such? In other words, there are frogs that are targeting Antifa professors who are saying things about Israel, Palestine, things the professors are supporting Palestinian violence, and the frogs

are trying to get them fired, that who is the greatest antagonist of this, who is in the tweets and such, trying to stop them. It was others supposedly far right, mostly of the face-fagged variety, Jew obsessives and such, who are claiming that by getting Marxist woke professors fired for attacking Israel, you are showing yourself to be a Zionist lapdog and such, and I must say, when these people are not just retards, you can be sure that SPLC employees and leftist professors themselves on alt, sock and fake accounts, play acting as online Nazis and desperately trying to stop frogs from getting their woke friends fired from their shitty jobs. But the reason why does not matter. Every Markzoid that you can get fired from academia is a good thing. But you see, yes, this is what I'm saying.

Otherwise the conflict itself, I mean, what better occasion would you have to argue for non-intervention and yet how few people do you see doing this? Isn't that supposed to be the logical endpoint of the Trump push, of what happened to all the libertarian-ish as well as the so-called dissident right non-interventionists calling, well, this is an excellent opportunity to have disengagement entirely from the Middle East, but how many are doing so? Trump himself, it is true, was probably far more assertive in American meddling abroad and so on, but I would like to see one condition where a politician, a Trumpist, a MAGA guy guy, or a pundit of that type with a public persona, can go in front of nation and say

bring all the soldiers home. Close all the bases. America is a big continental power. It doesn't really need the rest of the world. It certainly doesn't need this pointless and self-defeating interventionism that gets falsely called an empire. An empire brings the nation and the core of the empire benefits. What benefits does the so-called American empire bring as a Roman citizen, as a British citizen, you could go through the possessions of the British Empire, of the Roman Empire, you'd be respected, you would, as a Portuguese even, you would find jobs in the Portuguese overseas territories. What advantage does the American get from the empire now? What does America get from being involved specifically in the Middle East, for example?

And this conflict now, savage, stupid, petty, with really no solution, used this occasion to say disengage, cut off both parties. It's something I've argued for a long time. You know, I am tired, as many people are, of hearing the whining and quenching from Israel. It's a powerful country with a powerful military. It should solve its own security problems. And if that means getting isolated from international community, these are choices that sovereign nations have to make. But I wrote an article in 2019 about this. And even before that I was saying disengagement, and the point is that non-intervation is something that politicians, pundits, or journalists, authorities as such, they could be shamed into at this moment, or rather it's easy to mock opponents of disengagement, to show them

to be either fools, uninformed, or disingenuous. But this opportunity, as you can see, is mostly missed yet again by the brain trust of the so-called dissident right. There are benefits, by the way, coming from American empire and I doubt that in the ultimate calculation they are. I doubt that America gets things as a whole, concrete goods from these foreign engagements. But even if it does, let's say for argument it does, there is great value to making politicians and establishment authorities describe explicitly what these benefits are. For example, oh you mean America has a phantom economy that depends only on the strength of the dollar so that with this dollar paper it can buy foreign goods cheaply because it doesn't produce or want to produce them itself.

And this is maintained only by American soldiers and the American military, in other words the petrodollar, its strength is granted to America by other nations because of America's military. Okay, pay up then. In that case, soldiers, military should be paid much more, there should be million dollar bounties signing bonuses and such. It's just that instead of this, and with a lot of fake words, Americans are inured, used, submitted to getting scammed. But it would be much harder to scam them if the reasons for foreign entanglements were made concrete and explicit, enumerated, or maybe there would be calls to not have a fake economic economy based on vendor-financed debt? Maybe there will be calls for self-sufficiency,

that there are giant oil reserves that are untapped and abandoned, especially under Biden. Wouldn't it make sense to have America focus on these instead of getting involved in Middle East? Wouldn't it make sense to rebuild American industry instead of relying on interventions to prop up petrodollar or whatever excuse they come up with for why America should care what happens in foreign tribal conflicts. Or perhaps you say, yes, empire is worth it, so therefore we seize the oil, like Trump said, and each American gets a cut, a check from the sale of Iraqi profit oil. Oh, Russia and China will move in if you leave. Okay, let Russia and China bleed there and all around the world. It's not that easy, you know.

Maybe Biden can tell his critics that he's engaging in a red state jobs program with the aid to Israel and Ukraine. he wants to say that. After all, remember, the aid to these countries is not in the form of cash sent to Bibi so that he can buy an extra house by a lake, as Bernie Sanders did. It's in the form of subsidies to American arms manufacturers. It's American weapons being sent. So maybe Biden will want to claim that. I'm just doing a stimulus jobs program for red state arms manufacturers. And he can say, well, just like the late Soviet Union, We don't really produce anything anymore except fancy weapons to export around the world. You know, the late Soviets also were exporting quite fine weapons in that rickety economy of theirs.

I wonder what the world will look like without the American so-called Pax Americana. I think life in America itself could improve. But life abroad I consider a death to the world, the so-called American peace. It's a suffocating, look at what happened to Mark Thatcher. She went with friends to try to take over Equatorial Guinea, and America and France stops all these kinds of adventures. Let the pieces fall where they may, let the regions have their own history. If Israel wants to expand to the Euphrates, which is probably what would happen in that area, without American involvement by the way, is that Israel, Iran, and probably Turkey would divide the whole Middle East between themselves, but who cares?

It isn't like America is getting any concrete benefits out of it as a historical empire would. Its policy at the moment, it would be an improvement, I say, to have a bisexual, handsome, Czech fashion model pose, fashion fitness model pose on Instagram and say, one nation, Israel, Palestine, love and peace. And that's about as good as, I mean, if White House came up with something like that, it's about as good as what they will end up doing, for real. This is why I prefer to talk about restaurants and dessert culture and such. Desserts culture, not Levantine and sand culture and so on. I mean desserts, which I will return to now on next segment. I will be right back. Welcome back to show and I would like to make an addendum because since my first episode

I have talked about this matter of the French settlers in Algeria and I remind you that They had lived there 100 to 150 years, in other words, longer than most Israeli Jews have lived in Israel. Algeria was their home, and during the Algeria struggle, so-called for independence, really the anti-colonial struggle in which the United States gave support to the Marxist Islamists. But in the United States, the Jewish press and in Europe was very much for this Marxist anti-French agitation in Algeria. And it was, as Hilar Duberrier points out, predictable result that Algeria would turn into one of the main bases of operation against Israel itself. That happened and that was not a learning moment for, let's say, this wing of the media.

And I wonder if that will change now, but in any case, what I mean to say is, I am tired to hear whether it's from Israelis themselves who I have argued with in the past when I make this point about French Algeria or Rhodesia, and they say, oh, but Israel is not a colonial culture. We have made a local culture or ridiculous arguments about biblical provenance and such for which there is no archaeological or genetic evidence for that matter. But regardless, what would be nice to see is a case where such arguments against white settler colonialism in whatever form were no longer made, at least by supporters of Israel, of whatever background they may be, by the way, including Republican so-called conservative normies, even if, I'm not saying whatever their ethnic background may be, but

if they would stop their disingenuous support only for Israel and maybe acknowledge that the fate of Rhodesia and of Algeria was a tragedy, that there should be a memorial to what happened to a million and a half French settlers. I would have liked Algeria to have been a French possession to perpetuity. The lives of the Algerian people themselves I think could have been improved. Algiers could be some kind of beautiful fusion French-Arabic capital now. They would have very nice desserts and such. I would have liked to visit. But you know people love, people are vile, they're full of spite and they prefer to be ruled by their own so-called native bad rulers than good foreign rulers because they They imagine it gives them dignity and self-rule, which does nothing of the sort.

But that's all by the by. I would have liked to see a French Algeria and to have, if they call themselves conservatives and partisans of civilization, to support that consistently everywhere and not just to make some bizarre exception in the case of this one country where, again, good feelings are not reciprocated. But I've talked since first episode of this and actually well before that about the cause of French Algeria, and that's what I'm concerned about, and Rhodesia, and that happening to other populations that actually remain around the world because there is process of slow motion decolonization also happening in places like Bolivia and so forth. Even after hundreds of years there's a resurgence now against so-called white European settler colonialism.

And I'd like to see a consistent push against that instead of this hypocritical making of distinction so well, no, we can have colonialism but you can't have that because that's, you know, please maybe he has to stop, maybe he has to stop this. But that's by the by, nobody listens to me, so that's why I talk desserts. In Algeria, they could make beautiful baklava, also I don't know, is that a North African thing? I don't think so. They make Bastia. You know what this is. It's also phyllo dough pastry, but they fill it with chicken, and it's half savoury, half sweet, and puts powdered sugar on top. But there is a whole tradition of making chicken desserts, as I will talk about on this segment. But let me say a word about Middle Eastern Oriental desserts and such,

which are usually extremely sweet, by the way. Whether it's baklava in Turkey, Greece, Balkans near East, you go to India, there are quite a few equivalents of something like baklava there. You may know gulab jamun. These are a cheese bowl, dough, small donut types, and also sugar syrup type thing. And I am guessing they may be a Mughal import from Middle East or from Persia. But regardless, it's in some way typical of world desserts. A good version, yes, I like gulam jamun, nice caramelized cheese and such, and sugar syrup. But it's typical in that almost every nation has dessert traditions that are cloyingly sweet over sweet dessert and traditional dessert, almost same thing. I remember being in New Orleans.

I was there only for, I don't know, three to five days, long time ago, and a fag waiter in a nice restaurant come at end. And I ask about dessert, he say, and we have very traditional desserts, which means they, I'm not going to try to do that voice, but they run very sweet, you know, they run very sweet, okay? And yes, this is what they, I mean, this is also something I associate with hot climates in general. I've seen this pattern. When I was a small boy, I end up in Greece, first country outside my own I knew. I was shocked by the gigantic cockroaches. Of course, now these cockroaches have spread everywhere, the cockroaches on the street. But everything there seemed to run sweet, I mean all the fruits that weren't as sweet

in my own country were extremely sweet there, and it's not like Greece is tropical you know, but sweet apples, over sweet pears, all such fruit. I suppose the plums were cloyingly sweet, I suppose the hotter sun made them sweeter or I don't know, but all their desserts were insanely sweet such that I could not really eat them. I've noticed this everywhere, that has a hot climate or is around the equator in Peru. There is food, dessert, sospiro le menio. It's a famous one which is basically a meringue that is inevitably sweet on top of, I thought it was dulce de leche but it's like a caramel type paste. It's also, you can't eat it, it's so sweet. It's sweet upon sweet and it's called manjar blanco or blank mange is the older name which which you may find even in medieval cookbooks,

and it used to be made, I tell you, with chicken, some kind of sweet chicken pudding with milk and such, but now it's just milk, almond paste, I think, and lots of sugar browned into this paste. And if you want to talk Latin American desserts, there's another one, tres leches, the national dessert of Mexico, which is also cloyingly sweet. It's like a sponge cake infused with milks, but it's so awfully sweet, I can't take it. I suppose it's a matter of taste. If you enjoy, you have to respect differences, different strokes for different folks. But anyway, I noticed this in warm countries. First they have a sweet tooth, but in places like Thailand, sugar is just one of the flavourings on the table. They leave a jar of sugar, like there is also salt and pepper on the table in other places,

but there you just pour sugar on food. Like if you're three years old and mentally retarded, you know, I lived for a long time in Brazil, I know the same thing there, they can't take any kind of spice in parts of Brazil, they start retching if they eat McNuggets, but they love sugar, there's sugar everywhere on everything. And they're a major sugar producer, sure, but still, it's not much different if you go to Iberia, they have these Portuguese pastries, both in Portugal and in Brazil, which I've complained about before. All the Iberian pastries, everything is based on egg or milks or some combination. Think flan, right? But the flan in Portugal or Brazil is incredibly sweet to where you can't eat it. Or Argentinian alfajores. These are sweet cookies, like think

an Oreo type dough type cookie type thing with a sweet dulce de leche caramel cream in the middle, where the sugar is so sweet, it burns your tongue. But they have a porous, childlike tongue that just loves to soak up the sugars, and they don't feel that. To them, that's sustenance. To them, it's a sub-Saharan mana. All these southern people in their lust of overly sweet things. But yes, the kin-dim, kin-ji, Mirio, again, just a yellow-colored ball of sugar, supposedly with egg yolks. And to turn back to the Mediterranean search, if you think there's the same thing in Spain, where there are nunneries specializing, some of them making literally just sugar egg yolks, which a few months ago I actually got a taste for these. If they're well made, I'm not attacking.

One bite can be quite good, especially with coffee and such. It's just a dense egg yolk, circular, soft, and made with sugar and sugar glazing. But I'm saying traditional desserts, this is usually all they are. The Spanish got mazapan or marzipan from the Arabs, supposedly, which again is just aggressively, They nuke almond paste with sugar into this dense thing, and yes, the North Euros got a taste for it because Lubeck, Hanseatic League, beautiful town, Lubeck, Marzipan is very famous, but this is what I mean about nationalism of this type. If I make a claim about who came up with Marzipan, there are going to be a hundred conflicting stories that people will be ready to slice throat over this, but to me, you can class it with things like nougat, right?

Spanish culture is very important, it's called Turon. exists in important Italy too, but again, what is it? It's a kind of thick, dense thing made from egg whites and much sugar, and they often put different kinds of nuts and such. Or on the other hand, halwa from Persia, which is also spread all around the Mediterranean and Europe and is based on various kinds of flour also packed with sugar, but same texture as marzipan and nougat, just this dense block of thing that's so sweet. And I mean to say the homogeneity. Of course there are variations. I suppose if you're an obese dessert gourmand you could probably go on about what a philistine I am to class all these things together. There are variations in taste somewhat, sure, even between the thousand different kinds of Portuguese

egg tart, egg custard tarts. But it's all the same thing in the end. And then when you look at Asian desserts you also see a remarkable homogeneity and again the same cloying sweetness. This time it's based on sweet beans, or rice, or some combination of the two. So rice and beans, the famous slop sustenance of the Latinx working classes, but that's also the base of the Asian, almost all Asian desserts. I love Japan, but their desserts, and I know what weebs will hate me for this, they'll want me to cut off finger ritual Yakuza style for producing the Japanese dessert culture. But really it's all just pounded rice of some type or sticky rice with some kind of sweet bean filling or accompaniment, red adzuki bean paste or similar, and it's the same in

Chinese desserts, they don't have the mochi pounded rice tradition, or maybe they do but it's not as developed, they have these dough balls filled with fried or baked, filled with sweet bean. But in fact all of East Asia, don't get me wrong, sometimes this can hit the spot, it be quite good too, but I like, for example, rice slop pudding, whether it's the European version, Asturias in northern Spain is well known, but really it's all over Europe. There's an Icelandic rice milk pudding that the Icelanders just love in winter. They cannot grow rice there obviously, but they've long imported it and it's a staple in Icelandic winters to have sweet rice pudding. It can hit the spot, be quite good. I like Asia in varieties, there is Pulut Hitam, a kind of, it's usually thinner, it's all

over Malaysia and Indonesia region, it's a kind of black or purple rice pudding with coconut milks and coconut sugar, and on the other hand there is Vietnamese, there's Vietnamese white rice pudding, can I go to Saigon and like in The Quiet American, have a prostitute girlfriend on a riverboat in Saigon and smoke opium with her. But again, Vietnamese white rice pudding is some kind of sweet bean garnish on top of coconut milk's rice, but at least they traditionally put some salt on top of the rice, which cuts through the sweetness. I prefer that. And then there's the mango version with sticky rice, everyone knows. But I'm not saying this to produce Asian food or such, or for that matter, Iberian desserts.

All of these can be quite good, and the Japanese are very proud of their confectionary traditions. They have stores, restaurants entirely devoted to their confectionaries and pastries which they serve with matcha. Mochi, this rice cake, which mostly in the West is known as an ice cream filling, but mochi just is a rice, pounded rice cake, these buns, you know, it's wonderful in some way and present with some variety, they sometimes fill it with fruit and in presentation they can be made to look beautiful and dainty and aesthetic, but ultimately it's all pounded sticky rice of some type, usually with some beans and extremely sweet. And I am especially fond of one kind. In spring, they use cured cherry leaves as a cover garnish, sakura mochi.

It gives a salty mix, salty mix feel. I like this. And furthermore, there is one variation quite different. There's a popular old type of Japanese dessert. I single it out because it's very refreshing. It's called warabi mochi. It's a kind of gelatinous starch, similar to Turkish delight, but much lighter, less sweet and lighter. It's made from bracken starch. That's a fern, and it's covered with a garnish of kinako, which is a sweet toasted soy flour. This dessert is not too sweet and is served cold, is refreshing in warm weather with nice tea, but otherwise the Japanese traditional desserts, although again they can be very refined and different in presentation and color, and in fact can take a lot of dainty

preparation but they follow the pattern again of excessively sweet traditional desserts, universal homogeneity of sweet traditional desserts, and not just sweet but again homogenous In Japan and East Asia, pounded rice and beans. In Iberia, milk, sugar, eggs. All over the Mediterranean and Middle East, these various nougat marzipan type blocks really of sugar with very slight different flavors. It reminded me I was watching the other day Chef's Table show on Netflix, and this is a somewhat pretentious documentary series on the lives of chefs, and there is one about Grant Achatz, who is an American chef who started restaurant Alinea in Chicago, molecular gastronomy. But before I say this, let me just go on a quick tangent, this show Chef Table, before I forget, it's rather depressing.

You see in this series, this documentary series, a reflection of what Nietzsche said, that men, especially later in their lives, become convinced that they were destined somehow for their vocation and certainly in the Middle Ages in guilds and such you were born knowing you would be whatever a cobbler or a tanner or such and you would be destined for that profession and you see in this show an illustration of what the other depressing kind of part Nietzsche adds to this which is that men forget how arbitrary in some ways in a random was their embrace of their vocation in modern times. They fell into it by accident, and then they come to identify with it. And especially in the profile of the Troigro flagship restaurant, the Troigro culinary

family who I may have mentioned before, they have these broad faces that you may find even in the highlands of Anatolia, these alpinid faces that are obviously a kind of European pre-Aryan throwback. They're wonderful cooks. Their restaurant in France has held the three Michelin stars for I don't know how many decades, I think since the 1930s or whatever, something like that. I know their outlet in Rio de Janeiro where I think it's Claude Troigro. He very nice man. I don't want to repeat myself, but I understand watching this episode about his his brother, I think it is, or his uncle in France who has their flagship restaurant. I understand why he desperately wanted to get away from that and just go to completely

crazy tropical exciting different country and breathe freely because it was so depressing watching this episode, this man, the third or fourth generation, to lead his family restaurant and in his life story you can see he tried to get away from it. He tried to find his own path in life. He didn't want to be a chef, he wanted to be something else, and you can see he gets pulled back into it. The family business ends up pulling him back. He can't escape, and it's a kind of depressing giving in on his part. He just submits to it, and then he comes to identify with his vocation. But in so doing, the weight of expectations, the fact that they've had three Michelin stars for generations, the accumulated practices of this restaurant, the family pressures,

it's just such a suffocating, claustrophobic thing to watch this episode. And this is one of the great chefs of the world, right? And you can see he kind of tried to make his own way in some culinary innovations within in that restaurant, but that particular effort makes it even more pathetic and sad somehow. I don't know. It's sad watching this show sometimes. Not the Alain Passard episode, this is the French version of Chef's Table, where he says, I was 14, I decided to be a chef, and I've never changed my mind, and he's absolutely passionate about cooking as an art, and he does it, he has a kind of freedom about him, But almost every other episode it's a depressing story about someone essentially falling into

a profession and again you see the arbitrariness of how men identify with their vocations. I don't know, Nietzsche talks about this. It's actually a profound subject because this goes more to the structure of a state and of societies and merely formal political structures and such. but perhaps I talk that another time. In any case, the episode on Grant Achatz, who made molecular gastronomy innovative restaurant Alinea in Chicago, he French trained the French laundry restaurant California famous restaurant, and then he start this. It doesn't matter, he's pioneering in showy post-modern cuisine, I've never been to that, but I would love to, Alinea was supposed to be America's most distinctive first restaurant for a while, but he got some kind of cancer in his mouth

he was cured with radiation, but the radiation zapped his taste parts, and he thought he would never be able to taste again, but over some months, one day he started to see, oh, this coffee tastes sweet, and he was taken aback. His taste gradually returned, and he said the first sense of taste to return was for sweet, he started sensing sugar, and I don't think this is merely an accident of pathology or such, I think really his sense of taste was biologically reborn, reconstituted, and probably for human infants, too. Sugar and sweet is the first thing they taste, maybe. Second observation make me think of something similar. If you live in tropical climate, many times there are these tiny ants in kitchens. You can't get rid of these ants, whatever you do to them. They're so resilient.

Once they have a way into a house, or if you live next to any kind of foliage outside, they will be there. They're masters at finding anything sweet or sugar. If you leave one grain of sugar on a spoon in the sink, or a pit from an apple, or anything, and a few hours later there's a whole line of these tiny ants that are carting it out. It's almost impossible to get rid of them. And you can't leave a honey container outside, or sugar, even if you close them tight or put them in a plastic bag, and so on. You have to store anything sugar-wise in the fridge. And given their determination, I'm surprised they don't find ways even into fridges, but I noticed something interesting, that they go for glycine as well. And now most of you have maybe tried glycine by now,

you know it tastes sweet, but there's no sugar in it. The Japanese companies, which are very good at manufacturing amino acids especially, if you're into supplements, you'll know this, basically the best kinds are manufactured in Japan. No offense to German and American manufacturers, but Japan is especially known for this. And they designed, I think, a kind of artificial sweetener from glycine and some other amino acids that also have a sweet type taste, I forget which. Maybe it is an American company using Japanese products. I'm maybe confusing it. Doesn't matter, the point is glycine is an amino acid building block of protein. It's not a sugar. But I found I could not leave this outside either in a tropical environment because these ants got confused and they went for it.

So obviously they must have the same taste receptors that humans do and things that taste sweet, whether or not they have sugar, they go at least for sugar, they're attracted to glycine because it has a sugar reminiscent taste and that's quite amazing, I think. Coincidentally, I've heard it said that glycine is a big demonstration of the lack of intelligent design of life because all animals supposedly, at least all mammals, but I wonder also if insects, but all mammals for sure are chronically deficient in glycine. Life is deficient in glycine, which is why you feel good after you finally discover glycine, and you include it, or you include collagen or glycine-rich foods in your diet, which used to be staples and no longer are, because your body actually lacks glycine chronically

in the same way that humans and other monkeys lack vitamin C, just chronically deficient. The vitamin C thing is explained evolutionarily by fact that monkey has fruit-based diet, and so body turns off endogenous production of vitamin C. You don't need it because it's plentiful already in your ancestral monkey diet. And it is estimated though that non-primate animals, that rats for example, they create the equivalent of 10 grams of vitamin C in human per day, which is why I distrust a lot of rat studies by the way. It's not comparable because of things like this. But what would explain universal glycine deficiency in life, in life forms in general? This is an interesting question. Regardless of what I'm getting at with the example of the ants and the chef Grant Atchat's

reconstruction of taste buds after his cancer therapy zapped it, is, you know, obviously the taste for sweet is the most relentless, most primitive in all life. Even the primitive ant apparently feels it. And it's not for the elements of sugar, it's for how it affects your taste buds. You know, the world as will and representation, right? And yes, this makes sense. The sugar being, I mean, look, great beat goes so far as to say you don't even need to eat fats, period, because your body will synthesize all the fatty acids it needs from sugars. Maybe you are meant to live like that, like an aphid. Do you believe in this? I think it's possible that humans are giant aphids who are being farmed by the now absent owners of this planet, regardless.

Sugar is basis of all sustenance, most basic and primitive taste. I think this is why, first of all, all children and all overgrown children, which include most women, but many primitive people also have extremely strong sugar drive and sweet tooth and they love this taste. Excuse me. I may have said when I first encountered Nutella and I ate Nutella on toast bread with butter and Nutella on top. That's like crack for an 80-year-old, you know, but children love that and they cannot handle or don't prefer usually complex tastes, for example, of cured cheeses or meats or certain types of spices, or in wine the famous distinction between fruity wines and on the other hand flinty, earthy, musty wines, and red wines especially, which because the taste

of most women is for the fruity, sweet type variety, and I don't mean necessarily sweet but kind of fruity, there's so much wine produced in California and Argentina to this taste, that basically wine has been engineered to have to be a variation of fruit juice. Whereas the earthy flinty wines produced in parts of France, in parts of Bordeaux and such, if you like, Saint-Esteff is always a good such wine, but it's often a bit expensive. But these have somewhat fallen out of favor. I don't know if with connoisseurs, but with public at large, they're rare and out of favor. But anyway, I wonder if just this intense sugar drive that is so universal to mankind and to all life, if this explains the relative homogeneity of desserts in traditional food

cultures and their cloying sweetness, it seems always that it's just, let's decide that this will be our delivery system for a sugar high, you know, and in Japan and Asia it's pounded rice and bean paste in some mixture, again in Iberia it's varieties of custards, egg, milk sugar in a hundred different, slightly different forms, or in other parts, again nougat, marzipan, halwa-type things in big parts of the world, stretching from India to Spain and so on. And the desserts in all of Latin America achieve again a level of sweetness that grates the tongue, it completely masks anything else that may be in it, it's just they might as well be mainlining sugar, I can't take it, so you know where I'm going with all this. In France there is exception.

Cuisine develops there too refined, demanding palates of finicky, bored, court aristocrats wanted something better, so France developed a variety in desserts that broke through this somewhat and I will talk this briefly on the next segment, but there is maybe another kind of exception, the Turkish, and I think they're related in a way, I think. Why not I take a quick break and I discuss mankind's refined dessert cultures, the Ottoman and the French. I will be right back. Yes, welcome back to show there is a long tradition of pederasts, European pederasts and other such who travel to Arabic world because they like Arabic men or it could be Arabic boys. I don't know exactly the practices. So William Burroughs is famous for having spent much time in Morocco for these purposes

and these customs, as is well known, are quite accepted throughout North Africa and the Near East and Middle East. The protestations of Mr Ahmadinejad and forum posters from Iran aside that there are no gays in Iran, actually I wish I could read that forum entry where saying, I am from Iran, we never had any gays and we would fuck all of you pansies up the ass in high school anyway, something along these lines. And Alan Bloom, he liked and I'm told he preferred Arabic men. This is my information. I don't want his estate suing me. This is a rumor I heard. Only the facts on this show. But I wonder if he did so, Alan Bloom, if he liked Arab men out of a kind of Jewish nationalist motivation. In other words, you are my ethnic enemy, fuck me hard you strong Arab men and that type of thing.

That's very common, especially among politically activist women, especially when they hate or are fixated on fighting against a foreign ethnic group or race. It is just a peculiarity of female psychology that they will end up fetishizing that. And so it's very common to have Asian activists online who complain about white power structure and white settler colonialism and how Asians are slighted and objectified and discriminated against and so forth. And then you find out they invariably fuck white guys in college, white frat guys and so forth. And this just very common, this just very common phenomenon, I don't know. Tariq Nasheed also complains about certain black mulatta activist girls who engage, oh, but she has white boyfriend, she's race traitor and such, this very, and don't get

me started of course on white nationalist girls, so-called, I would strongly advise caution against their particular psychological peculiarities, however, this subject on this show, I will go there, I have this Caribbean rhythm, we go there on this show, you might You might as well watch Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David and he gets Palestinian Girlfriend, roughly same dynamic. You might as well put Larry David in charge of American policy on the Middle East and tell him to enact that particular episode. Perhaps forced marriages within the Levant will solve these problems. Anyway, to get back to desserts, I dislike cloying heavy and sweet desserts. I just miss the possibility of what a beautiful thing Mediterranean, French, North Africa could have been, and it was taken away from us.

And I will not be preached at by people who are advocating that or want to forget it or think it's just that I should quench and whine about other anti-colonial struggles around the world and such, or you know what I'm saying. But in any case, as the show is on desserts, my personal favourites are the ones that include fruit and I mean especially cooked fruit, although a special is just normal fruit tart type with uncooked fruit but with a light dough base. You know what I'm talking about, cream, custard cream and various glazed fruit on top. This is very refreshing and nice if it's done well and the fruit are high quality. But I'm not here to impose my tastes on you. Not everyone likes this. I'm not talking just serve a plate of fruit or fruit salad at the end of meal, I find

this lazy and unpleasant, but especially when a restaurant usually has fruit salad, even nice restaurants I've found, will usually have variation of melon and papaya and these type of, I don't know what you call those fruit, they're very watery and a similar taste. It's the equivalent to me of claiming you're making a Chinese stir fry but you put big cut zucchini and a big, you know, the kind of serrated carrot and broccoli in it. It's a cop-out or celery, you know. Anyway, I'm not saying just serve. But outside Europe, when the end of meal, you are given, for example, fruit sorbet or such thing, that's usually because of a European influence, you know. Otherwise, you'd get the, that's what I'm saying, the traditional dessert's cloyingly sweet. I recommend it to Elon when he was

in Tokyo. On Twitter, of course, I don't know Elon myself, but you go to Ototo restaurant in Aoyama. It's nothing that out of the ordinary in Japan, but I went there all the time because it's very well done traditional seafood, fish, charcoal grill restaurant, and the cook who own it is a special spurg, every piece of fish cooked perfectly, but end of meal they they offer from, Japan has many unusual citrus varieties, and some of them are cross-bred and engineered by Japanese citrus planters, and they have some of the most exotic citrus, it's sorbet form, very stimulating at end of seafood meal, but this is not, as far as I know, any kind of Japanese tradition. It's imported from Europe, and ultimately it may be traced back to Persia, where there is also somewhat of an exception

to the rule I've mentioned so far, in that they do have some interesting desserts that are not just sugar delivery systems, being especially they are concerned with unusual flavors like rose water, and in some cases they do have tradition of frozen desserts. For example, the very nice Persian dessert called palude, which I also love, which is this kind of thin vermicelli starch-like noodles, they're noodle-like things, they're frozen, and they're so sweet with rose water and something sour and sometimes pistachio. and it's a nice break. To mention, I mean, it's a break from the otherwise monotony of world dessert cultures in that it's cold, slight sour, aromatic, refreshing, not too sweet, very refined taste, and on this whole tendency, it finds, I think, apex in Ottoman desserts, okay,

which might be the crown of Ottoman cuisine, or at least what's left of it. You know, Ottoman cuisine is not shawarma and kebab, okay, it's very refined, court cuisine developed over a long time before decaying imperial class, which is the origin of all refined cuisines like the French and the Chinese. But in the Ottoman case, there was a break of type. A friend describes what remains of it are the recipes, but not really the tradition. A tradition, when it's real, a tradition is something that exists passed down from master to student in an uninterrupted chain. And once the chain is broken in any discipline or art, it's very hard to reestablish. I'm talking about real traditions now, not the fake state-based politicized garbage that both right and left talk about.

You need that chain of apprenticeship and that doesn't really exist actually today in almost any of the arts. I wonder if it exists in movie making, it should. Young artists should not have to find his way alone in the world as he does in most of these things like painting now, but does David Lynch have student apprentices and such? This is how arts progress by meaning they refine themselves into something that's consistently good and high. But I met a friend recently and he asked me why is there not beautiful art in the world anymore and I think it's mostly because our world is ugly and art to some extent does have to tell the truth and more important there is not a class of people now with refined enough tastes

who are living in enough psychic pain and who would require the art as a salve, as a cure. And so, because you don't have the audience, you don't have the artist. This, perhaps, what is truth. Or you have them, but an artist may produce something very sporadically, and again, out of his own personal genius, whereas in the past there was a traditional aid structure, an apprenticeship through which he could work. I don't know if this takes place in movies, and it should, but in Kuzine, the Ottoman case with the fall of that empire, the cooks were over. They didn't pass on their skills to students. And so unlike in French, and I suppose somewhat Chinese case, where despite the fall of Chinese empire and the coming of communism, the culinary traditions probably continued still,

but in the Ottoman case it did not. Now I'm told there are restaurants now in Istanbul where they are trying to revive it, but again it's from recipes and that's not the same thing. It's like trying to revive a philosophical tradition by reading Plato or Al-Farabi and following their written recipes for it. I think that's fruitless. You need, like you see in Star Wars, the popularized image of it, the Sith, right? An uninterrupted chain of transmission from master and apprentice. But that doesn't exist anywhere. So anyway, I think the Ottoman tradition may have survived in the limited form of some of their desserts. I spent three weeks, I think maybe a total of one month in two installments in Istanbul some time ago. Correct name is Constantinople.

This is more than 10 years ago, and I forget the exact... I think it still exists. I ended up going almost every day to Saray Mu'ale Bicisi, which is a dessert palace restaurant. It's on several floors. It's gigantic. They love their desserts. I went to the one in Taksim area of Istanbul. The thing is, what I've said about desserts so far is true in part also for Turkish ones. They tend to be variations on baklava and centered around Various starches doused in sweet syrups whether it's the pastry phyllo dough or kataifi of various kinds Including stringy dough or my favorite which is again and this is this is slight different though Because this is variation on medieval blank mange a strange dessert called Tabuk Goksu springy white pudding I like springy type texture

It's made with very finely shredded chicken breast that you know you can't really taste the chicken in it but it's very nice textured dessert not so sweet and the beautiful thing they put slight sauce on it but it comes with kaimak which is a slightly fermented dense cream collected from from milk you know when you boil milk and a kind of solid thin cloth like layer develops on top and then they scoop that off and they keep scooping that off and it builds layers of cream like that then they They slight ferment that and they serve it half frozen on top of pastries such as this pudding. It's delicious for very nice effect when you pair with stronger Turkish coffee. It's very amazing feeling. I went almost every day to this dessert place and yes, apparently this pudding, I mentioned

tavugongsu, it's a recipe passed down from high Ottoman court tradition, but also quite similar again to some medieval European desserts. And kataifi in general is of Arabic origin, but in the Turkish world it becomes much better. In the Arabic world, kataifi is much too sweet. This is what I'm telling you, the origin of something matters far less than how it is ascended, how it is refined and developed into higher forms by ingenuity and art and genius. Not that I want to apply the word genius to desserts, but this is what I mean. This also what Nietzsche say with birth of philosophy, if you look to his early essay on the earliest Greek philosophers, he points out, yes, now in our time he means the 19th century, excuse me, the attack.

There are all these scholars who try to trace back the roots of philosophy to Egypt or India or Mesopotamia, and they try to say notions that this or that Greek philosopher may have found the origins of his doctrines in some other culture, perhaps Pythagoras from the Indians or Empedocles from the Egyptians or such things. And he says how pointless this is, because of course Greeks freely borrowed, but the Greek genius was to perfect and to make things what they should really be, whereas if you go instead to the origins of something, it's always in barbarism, in things that are in in fact half-formed, and things that aren't fully what they could be, what they should be, you know, and this is true even for religion, the gods, they find their fullest being an

expression in the genius of Homer poetry, and not in the coarser versions that you might find in earlier mythologies of the chronicles of the Orient. But anyway, it's the same with cuisine, probably the roots of all fine cuisine is in some peasant dish of whatever country, but in the hands of Ottoman cooks catering to the demanding tastes of a bored court life, it turns into something magnificent and it's the same of course with France. And France by far must take the prize for amazing desserts. Even the lowly French toast. If you have French toast at a nice French restaurant, Pam Perdu, lost bread. I met a friend recently, Scott Laughlin, I tell him please have the French toast here. He was outraged. We were going to a nice restaurant. Why do you ask me to

have French toast? It's gross. No, but he loved it because they're crispy on the outside, very soft, moist, delicious inside, having been dipped in milks or buttermilk. And I understand in Hong Kong, they serve this sometimes with so-called meat floss in between layers of French toast, which I find this powdery meat-dried pork product, I think is gross. Why am I telling this? Because I have vivid memory in talking to you now. I was with a friend long ago at a Brazilian restaurant, this was in Brazil. We asked, what is this dish? And the waiter proceeded to tell us special appetizer, some kind of Russian type salad and some kind of on top, it wasn't the meat Chinese, meat powder thing, but maybe something similar in that diced turkey or whatever.

And the thing is he made this gesture, okay, this gesture with his fingers rubbing the the tips of one hand fingers together to indicate diced and like how it's sprinkled on top, which is so revolting. Okay, this gesture with these fingers, I threw a fit and I violently refused this offer of this dish. And I find the concept of using meat and especially making such gestures with your fingers, you know, sprinkling, it's outrageous and immoral. And I resolved to walk out of any restaurant that engages in this, where the waiter does disgusting gesture. I encourage you also, if you feel offended in restaurants, to simply consider calling the police. I mean, what the hell are we doing here? Is this a civilized

society? I would respect maybe Palestinian suicide bombers if they instead targeted pizzerias more on the quality of the ingredients and such. I've had some terrible shawarma in the past. I can't believe the kinds of things restaurateurs in so-called civilized countries things they can get away with in much of the Middle East. I assume that open violence would break out if you served soggy shawarma bread and such things I've had. I hear Iraqi food is the best of all Middle Eastern ones. I myself have never specifically tried it in let's say an Iraqi establishment. I would love to. But there is a Jewish Iraqi sandwich that now you can get in New York in various places, the sabich, not sandwich, but S-A-B-I-C-H.

in pita or other type, I think called lafa, whatever other type of that Middle Eastern pita type covering, and you put fried eggplant, egg, hard boiled, spices, green herbs, some salads type, maybe tabouli, a lot of tahini sauce, and especially you put amba for flavoring which is fermented mango relish from Iraq, similar to kind of mango chutney you find in India, but I think the Iraqi version, its fermented mango is savory and sweet, much better. I like this kind of half-vegetarian sandwich, very tasty for lunch. You know, it's interesting, you look at the Iraqi Jews, and they have a quite high level of achievement. I don't know the statistics behind that group as a whole, but the Sassoon family, for example,

and quite a few others, the men who built Hong Kong and some of Shanghai, I believe, for the British, they were Iraqi Jews, the Qadoori family and such, and there may be exceptions but I've met other very smart Iraqi Jews and I wonder how Cochrane and Harpending thesis about the development of Jewish intelligence which they limit to Ashkenazi how it would compare here why and there are certainly many dummy Jews like from Yemen but the Iraqi ones seem to stand out in smarts and again I don't know how the whole nation does what the tests and such worth looking Anyway, in desserts, the French leads away with the airy, wonderful, light, especially cream puff type thing. The profiterole, the éclair, the Napoleon or mille-feuille type cakes, which other nations have copied varieties.

So now, for example, there's a whole tradition of Austrian and Hungarian pastries that these nations are very proud of. But I see them just as borrowings and variations on the French. They're not anything to scoff at, they're good, but I don't think they can be said to have improved French desserts. French desserts. For example, the most famous cake from Austria, the Sachertort, the Sachert cake. I don't think it's really that great. It's just barely above Entenmann's. Even when it's well done, it's just some sponge cake layer with chocolate and marmalade at the middle. And then the Hungarian Dobos tort or Dobos cake is also layered in this case thin sponge many layers of cake. And in my view it's also borrowed from just French mille-feuille or Napoleon cream puff style, which is however

much better. And the filling of most of these pastries, the French ones I mean, which as I understand they were Hitler's favorites. He had a real hankering. This man had real sweet tooth, Hitler. He loved the cream puffs and these airy type of torts I'm talking about now. I don't know the source for this. Is this more slander and so on of Hitler? I have not looked into it. But apparently, when he got really revved up in one of his autistic hysterical frenzies, then he liked to relax with this kind of cake. Maybe that's true. Would you have coffee and cake with Hitler at his Alpine retreat? What would be subject conversation? But look, I love these desserts, too, and much depends on the craft in making

the creme patissiere, the cream filling, which is just a thicker custard. It's same as the creme anglaise custard that you might find in a floating island dessert on the bottom, the liquid. But here it's thicker like a cream, you know what it is, and it's just what's normally inside a eclair or a Boston cream pie doughnut for that matter. But the skill in crafting the dough of the pastry itself and such and that cream, that is truly special when it's well done. It's very light, often not too sweet, the real Hitler experience of dessert enjoyment. And I don't think other nations have been able to equal it, but actually French excel at other types. They just have hundreds of variations of this cream puff profiterole type thing.

But they do chocolate very well also, unlike other nations where it may be cloyingly sweet again or heavy. But you've seen the Bouche de Noel or the Yule log Christmas chocolate cake, which again And if done right, with the right kind of cocoa and such, and done right I mean it has to be done by a French or someone who respects French traditions. Because if not, it will just be Hershey chocolate sugar bomb. But otherwise it really is the ultimate chocolate cake. It's one thick log of pure sugared cocoa, but it really needs nothing else. And similarly French chocolate mousse, rarely done right in restaurants outside France, It becomes sick and impossibly sweet if you eat in any Latin American restaurant or even Spanish ones.

But the original is super light, it's airy, it's made with egg whites and I think cream, but very super light and dark chocolate bitter. This is what I'm saying, it's the nation that has led the way against maybe the overly sweetened infant taste bud. The desserts of almost all nations cater to most primitive of food desires and are just this guy's sugar bomb, sugar delivery system, but the French may be the first to truly break that. And of course now many restaurants have started to serve half savory desserts, but some of them in desire to innovate go too far and bungle it in the process, they go in the other direction. But in France this has long been, and it is in the realm of fruit I think that French preparations are supreme. I loved cooked fruit desserts.

I say love because I am in the middle of starvation, psychosis, I haven't eaten dessert for quite a while. But the cooked fruit dessert is art that, actually even in America, can be very well done sometimes. The humble apple or cherry pie can be very enjoyable, again depends on crust. And then the supreme is the cobbler, a Georgia fruit cobbler with peach often, but I don't like it when they make it again too sweet with the crumble crust on top, I like the other kind of crust, but it can be immense and satisfying, but the French routinely excel at this, I'm saying. I remember a walk long ago through Paris, I go inside pastry shop, they had tiny bite-sized fruit tart baked pastries with garnish of thyme or rosemary

on top, and I had never seen that before at the time. I found amazing this mix, they love to use herbs of this type in cooking fruit desserts or fruit preserves. And as good as the American cobbler is, again, nothing beats the French for doing the same thing but lighter, more consistently airier, whether it's their crepes with marmalade or preserves filling. Or my favorite dessert at the moment, which is the tarte tatin and its attendant varieties, is a caramelized fruit tart. You caramelized fruit before and then you cooked them in this crust without the covering often apple, but can be made with pear and peach, apricot, many such other things. You caramelize fruit, I think, in a pan first with sugars, and then you cook like a light

dough, but the fruit are exposed. This is similar to American upside-down apple or pineapple cake, which also exists in Brazil under a different variety. And these New World desserts are also nice, but again, they're much heavier. This is what I'm saying. Who wants heavy dessert, especially at the end of meal, but the French slightly sour or savory desserts have, I say, broken with the whole mankind regression to infantile state, and even beyond an evolutionary regression to aphid condition, in the same way that fetus evolves in mother womb so the taste buds can be made to evolve backwards, which isn't entirely to be condemned, by the way, because there's something to be said always, there's a power and attraction to to returning to extremely primitive psychophysiological conditions.

But the French, as always, they add a perverse twist with their innovations in time and other. Again, the only parallels I found outside of this are a couple of things from Persian high cuisine and one or two puddings from Turkish Ottoman dessert confectionary, whether it's the white pudding or I forgot to mention they make a mastic pudding in which many of you are now acquainted with mastic gum, you chew it to make your jaw stronger, but the Turkish make a pudding in which they put small mastic pieces, and that's very good and refreshing too. Ray Pete, on the other hand, would love maybe the clafoutis, similar varieties of pastry or cake. I will tell you, I highly recommend this meal, and it veals off already from dessert

into a replacement meal if it's done right. In fact, dessert can act as meal replacement by the way. Instead of having it after a big meal and getting fat, try skipping dinner and having light ice cream instead. I don't mean, excuse me, I don't mean light milks or such. Real ice cream but don't accompany it with fudge and brownie and such. Just pure ice cream. See how you feel. I have friends who have successfully cut body fat percentage with this innovation. I think I might start making my own saffron ice cream, saffron being the precursor of amphetamines in some cases, you know, but I think saffron supplement can be quite unpleasant. I found these, you take and it can make you anxious. Anyway, the klafutti

technically is just fruit, especially black cherries, cooked in a kind of flan-like batter baked in oven. It's just, again, milk, sugar, eggs and sunflower and can be made with different not just cherries, but I think that you can change the quantities of all of this you see. The clafoutis itself is from southwest France, it's one of the Occitan speaking areas, but it's very much a dessert, can often run sweet in a restaurant, but it's easy to make it home in a variation and can be a very repeat approved meal. And I mean that in the best way of what repeat means, where he's correct, where he's correct about the fact that cooked dairy and cooked fruit with sugar together is exceptionally easy on the human digestive system and very comforting, really a stress-free food, especially

if you're under physiological stress. It's just easy to digest. People must realize that a lot of physiological and even psychological stress come from bad digestion, which is why I recommend strongly you have digestive enzymes as part of your regular supplement stack, and if you do experience anxiety, try adding digestive enzymes after especially big meals or even normal meals, you might feel better. But this is a big thing for Ray Pied, so if you manipulate the ingredients a bit in what I just said, let's say you make the batter not just with milk but with a light cheese of ricotta type, and you reduce the flour content or you maybe use a different kind of flour like tapioca if you think wheat has anti-nutrients or whatever.

But you can make it, let's say, with peaches if you don't have cherries. A soft stone fruit like prune, plum, cherries, peaches. Plums are used in the variety of this dessert that exists in Brittany. And in Brittany, they really char the top in the oven. The top becomes quite dark and you may want to do that, it adds very nice taste. But this is a rapid point that cooked fruit, dairy, sugar, maybe a little egg yolk or egg combination is for whatever reason very easy on human digestive system to process. It can act as a stress relief type food and I mean especially in physiological sense. At this point you can say yes, it's become a kind of light cheesecake but much lighter than American cheesecake. But I am wary to recommend this because you say cheesecake and now girl listen to show

and then order gigantic cheesecake Entenmann's Whole Foods and eat all the cheesecake for breakfast. In general, I believe desserts and especially pastries should be completely banned by modern states especially for women. In the case of women, alcohol and pigging out after alcohol party night and then dessert has led to unacceptable obesity, it must be absolutely forbidden for the health of nations. It's an outrage to me to see in Brazil, which had such beautiful women, and then the bakeries started to appear in the late 2000s, an absolute Portuguese bakery craze, the Portuguese carrying out essentially biological warfare on their bigger colony of which they're slightly envious. Let's make their women into hogs.

and the women did balloon up in size in the early 2010s, and in recent years to some extent thought culture has counteracted that, and now again there are many girls with very fit physique and such in Brazil, the men have all turned into slobs, I don't know what's going on, but the bakeries, why you need to sandwich, why you need heavy corn cake with so many toppings? Listen I propose on government to pay close attention to national heritage of women's sizes and such to ban most dessert? Do you like fat Palestinian woman screaming after eat heavy baklavas and shoot AK-47 into the air? Most popularized fine cookery, ban that. Ban scientific food processing. Ban food science in general. Make girls hate food. It's part of a country's ancestral patrimony, the bodies

of its women, and it must save them so that you don't have this, in the United States too, this bulge of depressed men who've never seen a thin girl. That happens in certain parts of the United States, you know, and certain ethnicities. But how much life would change if many women now in the world were not fat? I'm talking about Turkish kadun, stuffing herself again with sweet meat, baklava, sugar syrup, or Mexican, the most obese country in the world now, Mexico just gorging on fried sugar dough. This is an outrage to mankind. Macron must send mechanized French liquidation squadrons to address this problem. Listen, I say too much. I will come back next week. I'm being pressured to do episode on Anaxagoras and Anaximander, pre-Socratic philosophers. There is basically gun to my head,

so I must go now and pass out from food starvation psychosis. Until next time, bap out.