All right. Good afternoon, everybody. First day, the 11th. Happy Sad Remembrance Day.

For everyone, we published a remastered version of the 2010 speech that I gave about that,

which you can check out, of course, at FDRPodcast.com. And I feel very strongly about this.

And, you know, for those of you who don't know, the BBC, of course, is the British Broadcasting Corporation,

which is a taxpayer forced, funded British institution. And if you don't pay the licensing fee, well,

like all things that are taxpayer forced and funded, you go to jail. You can go to jail, or at least you can be prosecuted.

And of course, all of the fines increase and things just get worse and worse, all of this

kind of stuff, right?

So the fact that it is a forced institution is pretty terrible, and the fee is 169 pounds a year.

Mandatory payment.

It is just wretched.

The license fee model was established under the Royal Charter renewed every 10 to 11

years, the camera on runs until 2027. Ensuring editorial independence from government or commercial

interests, which means it's pure propaganda. It's pure propaganda. So how is it enforced? How is it that it is collected? Well, there are these sinister

notices you see in England about, we know you've got a TV, we can scan, we can tell, you

better pay, you better pay. So watching recording on streaming live TV, including the I player without a

license, is a criminal offense punishable by prosecution. So evasion hit record rates of 12.5% in 2025,

prompting around 2 million enforcement visits,

though prosecutions only affect about 0.18% of suspected cases.

So how did they figure it out?

So TV licensing uses data-driven and on-the-ground approaches

to identify potential evaders,

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