"She's got intuition. She also has elite knife-fighting skills — she thinks she's a Barbary pirate. If she reckons she's going to knife-fight a bear, she's displaying incredible delusion about reality."

Brian and Alison read a blog by a writer explaining that women choose the bear because the bear is indifferent to them, then work out that nobody asked the bear.

"It's like listening to a guy brag about a yacht you know he doesn't have."

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"The worst part of a death like that is that all you can do is learn from it. You can't comfort the family. You can promise them you're going to do better, but their family member is still dead."

Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks, Mike Stevenson and Richard the Lionhearted, on an ITV News investigation into learning disabled and autistic patients dying in NHS care.

Adrian Pulton, 56, went into hospital with a broken hip. He was incorrectly listed nil by mouth and went nine days without food. His sister says he told her he knew he was going to die. By the time the family worked out he wasn't being fed, he was too unwell to recover.

Also: why knowing something about your own condition makes doctors less likely to diagnose it, what happens to a patient who understands everything and can't enunciate it, and the healthy seventeen-year-old whose family waited years for an answer.

The trust's statement said they had undertaken an investigation "to identify any learning points."

"If you don't know what NPO stands for, you don't know that your family member has been ordered no food."

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"If tomorrow men invent some anti-matter device that produces the twelve additional Earths needed to satisfy women on the left, then by making those women dependent, those men are oppressing them — so now they owe a hundred and forty-four Earths."

Brian and Alison respond to an Australian video arguing that feminism is a death trap that will eat itself, and won't do it before it takes millions of unborn children with it.

Also: why men on the left have to earn 2.3 times what a conservative man does to get married, the ratchet that makes today's liberal expectations tomorrow's conservative baseline, and what happens when the stay-at-home dad conversation becomes a conversation about what women want.

"This is just watching two people argue over something they read on a cereal box. Can we get back into the realm of historical facts, please?"

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"Imagine living in a land where the inhabitants sew angel wings on your every opposable joint, reward your every lie, rationalise your every impulse, and treat you not like a child they wish to discipline but as a pet they wish to wear like a precious jewel. There's an upsetting number of women out there for whom I have just described paradise. To me, as an average man, it sounds like hell."

Brian, Hannah Wallen and Dr Randomercam on the reaction to Lindsey Clancy killing her three children — including the women insisting her husband must have done it, when she had sent him out on an errand so he'd be gone long enough.

Also: Panama criminalising paternity fraud with two to five years and no statute of limitations, the campaign to turn Professor Jason Arday's suicide into a racism story, and the test for whether you're the extremist — ask when it's gone too far, and see if the answer is "never."

"You can say I'm a socialist and YouTube will make you a megastar. Say I'm a nationalist and you'll be arrested for hate speech."

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"If there's naked flesh, it must have lady parts, I guess."

Brian and Alison read an article arguing that AI is biased against women — built partly on a report that more than half of twenty-nine nudify apps, asked to undress a photo of a fully dressed man, gave him breasts instead.

Also: the Stanford resume study the article cites and the counter-studies it leaves out, and why no feminist has ever been asked to prove the definition of patriarchy.

"I broadly agree that Sam Altman has not invented God. But you'd have to believe Sam Altman is behind a bunch of apps made in Korea or Estonia. She's arrived at the right sentiment by a circuitous path that makes no sense."

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"Let them eat cake — and the cake is destroying the civilization that makes cake."

Brian and Alison work through a video by a woman explaining that the birth rate is society's fault, and that women are not incubators for GDP.

Also: what happens to the argument when you ask who the labour behind the entitlements is, the Neanderthal pelvis and what it was actually built for, why a woman's fiancé might dislike her friends, and the thread that no amount of reading will get through.

"The only more free you could be is a ghost, lady."

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"The lie in slippery slope is that there are no brakes. The lie in motte-and-bailey is that there is no difference."

Hannah Wallen hosts with Lauren Brooks and Mike Stevenson: there is a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is nothing about a right to the pursuit of death, or anyone else's right to help you get there.

Also: what a doctor retiring under pressure from every direction except his patient does to the people still in his waiting room, why "no fault divorce" is really all-his-fault divorce, and the mobility aid you can only use easily if you actually need one.

"Steve Jobs pursued all kinds of alternative therapies for his cancer. They didn't work, but nobody was pushing euthanasia on him. Sure, he paid for useless snake oil — but he made the decision."

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"Male characters should be as beautiful as possible, but female characters have to be irreproachable swamp donkeys that make you vomit on sight."

Brian and Dr Randomercam on two men declaring for the 2027 WNBA draft, one of whom identifies as sometimes identifying as a woman.

Also: the Blizzard harassment investigation and what happened to the men reported on, why Ireland has put the manosphere at the top of its priority list, a costume as a genetic category, and the marriage rate at 47 percent.

Plus where "women's work" actually comes from. Some women did want to work the coal mines — until rich Victorian women complained they were doing it in unsavory positions and unsavory dress. Men were sent to investigate, came back shocked, told the queen, and laws were passed:

"They got those crusty lower women out of the crusty upper women's hair, and the coal mines as well."

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"I feel like I'm getting spots in my vision from looking this directly at the epicenter of female thinking."

Brian and Alison return to the author of My Dear Stalker, who has a new article: if you approach a woman, she rejects you, and you then stop interacting with her, that's punishing her for her boundaries.

She wasn't obligated to keep him around — that would be mean. He is obligated to stay, because otherwise he hates women.

Also: what happens when you ask an AI why the man should stay and it can't find a reason either, the friend who resented a man for not wanting her, and a long stretch of REPO with Gabriel afterwards.

"Instead of improving my craft as a novelist, I gotta go home, open up my laptop, and write a blog on my Medium shitting on men for however long it takes me."

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"Feminism is Marxism with extra steps — take out the capitalist, slot in men, with even less evidence than Marx had."

Brian and Alison watch Julia Long's Battle of Ideas talk arguing that trans women are the real manosphere, and that she is being pushed out of the movement she helped build.

Also: what happens when the framework you spent fifty years building gets applied to you by someone else, why the pornography argument keeps arriving without a connecting sentence, the domestic violence figures nobody reads past the first line, and a frontier on Venus.

"None of this has any grounding. It's somebody's drunken ramblings on a napkin. Some woman had a dream once and woke up really upset at her husband."

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