In this engaging episode, we delve into the fascinating world of education from the past, exploring exam papers from the late 1800s in both the United States and England. These historical documents reveal the rigorous standards and expectations placed on students, highlighting a stark contrast to modern educational practices. The hosts discuss the implications of these findings, reflecting on how societal changes have influenced education and the perceived decline in intellectual rigor over time.
Additionally, the conversation shifts to cultural observations, including the evolution of fashion and societal norms. The hosts humorously recount personal anecdotes from their school days, touching on themes of self-respect, traditional values, and the impact of modernity on cultural identity. The episode also features a lively discussion on the role of women in society, the influence of feminist movements, and the broader implications of multiculturalism. With a mix of humor and insightful commentary, this episode offers a thought-provoking look at how past and present intersect in shaping our world.
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Well, hi everyone and welcome back. It is Thursday May 2025 and it's going back to school day to this evening. Actually, probably isn't, but it's all about your education. Well, it's not gonna be all about that. We can't talk about education for three hours but we can talk about quite a few things. Paul English Live 89. Welcome to the show. And I guess you all went to school at some point. It doesn't really end, you know? It doesn't really end, except in that formal sense. Sense. So we're gonna be looking at some old exam papers for a little while during the show. How about that? You're all excited. Yeah. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. What a funny little day I've had today. I've been swimming along really well and, kind of grizzly kind of day today weather wise here.
Pretty atypical for what you would normally expect at this time of the year and I'm starting to grumble a bit but I really can't because I think since the March, round about March, maybe even earlier than that, the weather around here has been absolutely spectacular. So it's only gone a little bit pear shaped over the last few days and I am informed, very positively by my, sons that, the weather is about to improve massively over the next few days again. So there we go. We always like to talk off with a little bit of weather chat, don't we? We really do. I hope you've had a good time whatever you've been doing the last week or so. I had a, a thrilling actually, a I I mean it actually, a really good little outing with Ria Bow on Sunday here on WBN three two four. I rock up there as a guest once a month about every four weeks or so. So it was, it was my turn this week. Good job I remembered actually, but we had some very good, well I did. I'd I spouted off a little bit as as you can probably recall I can do that sort of thing from time to time and I got a big sort of $45.50 minutes of spouting off time which was great looking at things such as race and all that kind of stuff and who our own people are. Really the topics that are most important it's just that, I want to talk about them all the time. You probably don't want to hear about it all the time but I'm hard pressed to think about things that are actually any more important considering how pear shaped, tiresome, and oafish it is to be alive in England at the moment, which, my co host who's here already, Eric von Esigth, will know a thing about, or or two. Eric, good good evening to you. Greeting.
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Greeting. Nothing. How's the weather around in in in nearly sunny Fockham? What's going on over there? Oh, it's it's really nice today. Yeah. We haven't had any rain, and, it's very beautiful. You know, it's a blue sky with a few puffy or puffy white clouds depending on going along actually. Yes. But, no. It's very, very nice. And, my, celery in my greenhouse is coming on a treat. So I'm I'm well pleased. I had some nice celery picked fresh from the greenhouse, all organic. Celery? And celery. Yeah. Yeah. I grow my own celery. I once read a thing about celery.
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Mhmm. That is is if you eat nothing but celery, you will get thinner because you burn off more energy by your jaw movement than you actually absorb into your body from the celery. There's nothing in it. Is that right? Yes. That's that's quite correct. And,
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I actually took, survival Steve's advice the other day, and I found some thistles in my garden. And he said if you scrape all the prickly bits off and eat the stem, it tastes like a cucumber. No. It tastes like the stem of a thistle. It's horrible. Lovely. No. It's not very nice. Yes. But, oh, it's, it's things are jogging along. And, I've noticed the your picture, for the, advertisement Yes. To the go. Is that from Tom Brown's school days?
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I thought it was from, I actually when I came across it, I actually thought it was a picture of you, Eric, at Fockem Hall Grammar, at some point. Well And I was trying to work out which one was you. I think I think you're one of the people I mean, I'm in there as well, of course, but no one will have a guess. I I but I I thought the only clue really is that you're probably wearing a hat, but I have no idea. Yes. Yes. I'm wearing I I think I'm the one behind there looking a bit startled, and you're probably the one with a catapult. Maybe. Who knows? The catapult is a jolly good isn't that catapult a great thing? Do you remember catapults? They were I do. You could buy them in toy shops.
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And, unfortunate well, what happened, my uncle, there where he lived got them banned. Now that's interesting, wasn't it? And you think, what is that? The reason why is his son, my cousin, was blinded in one eye by a kid with a catapult.
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Oh, good grief. Yeah. And that's really not
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That's really I don't like things like that. No. My, my one yeah. Go on. But I was gonna say that didn't get him out of being conscripted into the army, and he's conscripted in the army with one eye. So there we go.
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Really?
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Yeah. With one. Just the one. Just one eye. Yes. He was conscripted into the army. That was he was called up just at the end of the war in 1945 when they run out of can of fodder. So Perfect. And as long as you could stay in and walk, you that's you passed the army medical.
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Anybody could get in. Well, of course, you you did. I mean, now to put everybody out of their misery, of course, it it is a picture of Tom Brown's school days. It is. It is. That film. Yes. And to think that Although I don't know, who's Tom? Is Tom in that picture? I don't think he's even in that picture, is he? I don't know. But do you realize those actors now are in their nineties?
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That's quite At least they're alive.
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They might not still be alive. Who knows?
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Yeah. Yeah. They might not be. But there's something about black and white films. I don't know. It gives them more atmosphere. There's something about the lighting. And I don't know whether you know you remember that, advert for I'm not sure. It was for a beer. We went, Gucci. Do you remember that one in the eighties?
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With Tom and You're talking about
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some and Dave, aren't you? Chaz and Dave. What was that? Gertrscher. Chaz. Chaz and Dave. That's right. Yes. They live near Yeah. You are. Far from me. And when they did that film for the advert, it was filmed in black and white. And there was no one around that knew how to set up the lighting. And they found out the very one of the last lighting technicians that was on the film, oh, the third man. Right. He's still alive. He was in his Yeah. Eighties, I think. And they pulled about retirement, and they said, can you do the lighting for this advert?
And they said, when he was setting it up, people think, does he know what he's doing? He said, everything looked awful. Absolutely awful. The people looked dreadful. They thought, oops, we got the wrong bloke. He said, but when they saw the finished product, it was fantastic. He knew his style. Right? Yeah. But he said, when they were setting up, he said they were the project the the the producer was thinking, oh, dear. Oh, dear. We might we dropped the clanger in. No. They hadn't. And he said, there's there's probably nobody around today that has got that skill.
They really knew how to do it for black and white. So the the when they shot Tom Brown's School Days, you see the lighting on that, that's that's near perfect. They had people that knew what they were doing.
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Yeah. It is a fantastic film. If if people haven't seen it, it's probably a bit ropey, I think, technically. I I called it I mean, this doesn't have to be a show about Tom Brown's School Days. Although Tom Brown's School Days is a book. I have you ever read it? I I've never read it. Never read it. Never read it. No. I saw the film when I was very, very young. I must have been about seven or eight, so I don't Yeah. Wasn't really I don't remember it much, you know. I know it's something No. Me neither. Torture. Well, I I saw it actually, I saw it about a year back, and I may have mentioned on here, you know, this thing about those little stout challenges that one gets in life from time to time. And the one that Tom faces when he arrives at school is, and, of course, it's one of those schools known as British public school type things.
He is he is a he's rather a sensitive boy at the time, but he's got gumption, as they say, which is really rather tremendous. And, any new boy has to stand up on a table in the dining hall, after, I guess, after they've eaten or maybe they've got I think pretty much they've got scraps left, maybe bits of celery left. Who knows, Eric? They might have lots of celery because they probably wouldn't want to do that. And and they have to stand up and sing the school song, whatever it was. Right? Ordeal. Whilst they're being pelted with food. Charles, how nice. Yeah. It's an ordeal by fire, but all he's already met a couple of friends that make, keep on going, Tom. Keep on going. Bang. Bang. Bang. You keep on getting hit with food. And I thought, yeah. Maybe that's what needs to be reintroduced back into British schools. I don't know about you. Maybe that's what needs to be reintroduced, you know.
These ordeals, they are. It's quite a conference, of course, but it it turned young boys into men instantaneously. Possibly, it didn't. I don't know. I mean, that's the legend, isn't it? But, yeah. It's quite a good scene that he's very plucky. He's very plucky. But I remember there's a, there's a site that, I used to visit regularly whilst the author was still alive. He I'd I never no one actually really knows his name. It's a website called Cambria Will Not Yield, And, I may have mentioned it before here but, you know, one keeps on mentioning things because it's always worth re mentioning good things. And, Cambriawillnotyield.com.
And he would write like an essay come sermon. It's almost like a sermon in a way, but very accessible once a week. And they used to get published every Saturday, UK time. They used to arrive about 03:00 in the afternoon. So I guess he must have published them because he's in The States. The only thing anybody really knew about him was that he was a retired law enforcement officer from America, but he sure didn't write like one. I mean, he's absolutely amazing writing. And, if you if you wanna sort of plunge into a more a broader view of all sorts of themes with regards to law, race, true Christian law, I would highly recommend it. I mean, these things sound as if I'm preaching to you. Well, I guess I am in a in a way. I guess that's what it is is to be an advocate of something and suggest that it might do you some good.
But it was tremendous. He used to write a great deal. There's many articles on Tom Brown's School Days, the book. And he rated it as one of the highest, most moral and ethical books you could read. Damn. All for good reading for your sons and daughters. Yeah. Seriously. And you would have to sort of go through some of his analysis or his critiques to really get it. But it really is. Is it Arnold that wrote it or something? I can't remember because Tom Brown creates rugby according to the legend, doesn't he?
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Well, it's it was actually published, I think, in 1857, and it was set in 1830. Right. But it was the film was 1940, it was made. So it made during Yeah.
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World War two. Yeah. So Well, they probably remade it as a as a TV series, didn't they, as well? I'm pretty sure they must have done. Didn't yeah. They had Ian Ogilvy as Flashman, as Flash, you know, the bullet. Oh, hang on a moment. Are you talking about ripping yarns? They're ripping yarns. No. No. I'm talking about the I'm talking about the real one. Really? The really oh, no. Actually, Ian Ogilvy was in there. He was, wasn't he? He was. He was a school bully.
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They had what is it? Crucifying pupils, didn't they? Every year, they they crucified some pupils, didn't they? They sort of,
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on on the side of the building, that one is terrible. Yeah. If you're particularly naughty, you were actually nailed to the school wall. I think you were. Yes. That's it.
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Yes.
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And I remember they got there's several of them were actually up there nailed to the wall, weren't they? It was a it's like a kitchen wall. They were in the outdoors. Yes. They were all a little bit put out by that. I used to love ripping yarns. That was a fantastic series. Well, it it was actually. I mean, it tap it taps into this thing. It taps into this I was listening to someone the other day saying England is lost. You know, you hear this a lot of the time. I know exactly what they mean. I just don't want to sort of mire myself around in it. You've gotta kinda get really close, you know, or or break it down what you think it is that's being lost. But it's not so much as it's being lost. It's more that every as many people are aware, it's gradually being removed through denying us any voice to actually stop it. So we're gonna have to acquire one, you know. That's what, I guess, this show and others are part of that process of trying to find a voice and find the platforms and develop them in such a way that we can halt things that we basically don't want, like everything that the government does. Like, we don't want any of it. Like, we don't even want a government, I would suggest. I mean, why would we want one? Agree with you. Think of one benefit.
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No. We don't want one. I don't want one. Well, you know, I never put an advertisement saying lonely English bloke really would like a government to sort his life out. I never put an advert up for that, did you? You ever advertised for the post? No. No. And Ronald Reagan said, if government took a holiday for a month or two, would anybody notice any difference? No. They wouldn't. Mhmm. If it's supposed and and and that's it. What about when they re test parliament? Does anybody does anybody notice any difference? No? No.
That's the trouble. They don't. And I know. But we we we really do not need, government. I've always said this. But I think that's the big problem. We'd be conditioned to look for a leader from school days. And that's the thing. Yeah. We've they've had this conditioning. And it takes several generations to wind that out of us to be more Well, maybe we can get onto this talk about leadership because I think it's a fascinating topic in the sense that
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I agree with you in what you say. And then I think I've often made the comment that I think it's unavoidable under certain situations. I think it just is. And I think, you you know, even in a conversation, I'm leading it right now because I'm gobbling off, but then I'll stop and let you lead it. You know, you could say, well, that's a bit of a liberal sorry to use that word, everybody. Bit of a liberal use of the word leading, but I think it is, you know, an incivilized company as I am right now, Eric, obviously, as you're well aware. It works, doesn't it? You kind of baton the ideas back and forth. But sometimes, some people in a conversation become inspired or highly energized by something and for the period that they're gobbing off, they get all the attention. I mean, that's kinda how it works. The communication thing is a is a big deal. It really is a big deal. I mean, everything has been molded by the way you and I talk and think, you know, in our own lives personally and those that we've affected.
And then you only have to look at what comes out of the orifices of these so called politicians and and the effect that they have. I mean, I would suggest probably less of an effect on people like you and me and our good audience here. But generally, you know, huge swathes of the public sort of, you know, because they never get the time off to really sort of think about what's being said, I I slowly cajoled, subdued, hypnotized, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Something that I guess we've all went through when we were a bit younger, you know, school, when we were trying to avoid school bully, Eric, you know. Things like this. Well, I actually what I found is if I made them laugh see, I was bullied bullied terribly. But if I made them laugh, they stopped bullying me. So all I thought you were gonna say I thought you were gonna say that you were bullied terribly because you were making them laugh. Stop making us laugh, Eric. No. No. No. It's a good way out.
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Found always come back with something your enemy least expects. So always go back that you it's and this is what I learned to to actually laugh. And if you laugh, you'll find
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that by the time you can calm the situation down and just I I think it's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Or is it at you? No. It's with you, isn't it? Isn't that isn't that their old adage?
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It is. What is it? Something. I don't know. I just made it up. Something like that. Yeah. Was it cry and you cry alone? But, Kingst of Whitlock is Do you, stop it, Harry? What's it? What's it? Fart? Fart? And I I just don't know. I didn't take one.
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18 minutes. Is that a world record?
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Well, actually, the Kingston Winston Whitler said, thank you, Paul and Eric, for being proud of being English. Now Mhmm. There's two things I'd like to say about English because when you look at it, we are one of the most discriminated people there is. And there's such as a political party called the English Constitution Group that has found out a lot about the English. And there's another thing, and I don't wanna harp on too much about the war because there's a lot of bit about it. But there was a a German POW who was captured, and he was brought back to, Cardiff Docks.
And the Germans were told, if you're gonna surrender surrender to the Americans, not the British, because we haven't bombed the Americans. We bombed the British. So they will be the you know, a bit unkind to us. Well, he said it was the other way around. The Americans were brutal to me generally. I mean, he generalizing here to the prisoners, but the English weren't. And he was shocked because when he they they they thought they were gonna be marched through the streets, and people be pelting them and spitting at them and all kinds of things. He said, not at all. He said, as I was walking through, he said, there's a woman waiting across the road with a little child in the pushchair, and the child started waving and smiling.
And the woman smiled, and the POW smiled and waved back. And Pete was sort of getting on with their work. It's almost, oh, wow. And he said, when they got to the prison camp, instead of being met with guards and that, they'd actually put out in the press anyone they were desperate for anyone that could speak English German. And they were met Right. By a Methodist minister, an old boy who was really nice, and, WRVS ladies serving soup, sandwiches, coffee, and tea, elderly motherly types who could speak German, because they put out this, you know, plea for anybody could speak German. And he said they were so kind, but he noticed that a difference between English who were generally beaten down and rather placid and very, very nice and Scottish. She said, we knew when the Scottish were gonna guide us. They were pretty hard. But he said the English in the world were quite sort of placid.
He said, and very nice. Hello. Hello. And we are. We are bloody placid. When you think about it, we've been in slight shape. A nice cup of tea. Oh, yes. Yes. Missus Hodges. Would you? Oh, come on. That's it? Come on. Come on, vicar.
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All that yeah. It is. It's amazing. But you can imagine that scene
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with the Methodist minister speaking fluent German. And and he said there were nurses that were geriatrics. He said they're in his seventies. And they just said, hello. You alright? You know, and they could all speak German. He said, but he said, it's really funny to be met by these elderly people who are giving them sandwiches and tea and see if they're alright. He said, all very kind and pleasant and polite. He said, really treated well. He said he This is good, didn't it? Yeah. And this is But he said, that was an Englishness. And, obviously, Welsh as well because there's there was in Wales. But he said that, and he said the guards, they he said most of them were the old boys in their 50 because they conscripted people in their fifties. In 1951, they moved the conscription age up to 51. And he said they were generally were First World War veterans.
He said they're placid. He said that they're quite pleasant. Oh, just old fellas, you know, he said that who didn't really want any trouble, and they're quite okay. But he said, that was the thing that really shocked them. They expected to be in a hard time with it. They wouldn't expect it to be met by a Methodist minister who could speak absolutely fluent German. And he said it's really weird. And he was an old boy as well. Very old. You know?
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Hello. You know? Oh, I like all I like I mean, I I sometimes think we should do a show about things like neck curtains and scones and stuff. We should really about really minute humdrum things because, no, I mean, one of the things I don't miss so much from, when I moved away from up north was kind of small talk. It used to drive me nuts. Oh, same here. Same here. When I was a teenager having to listen to this. Oh, hello. Hello. Have you seen missus so and so's curtains? Seriously, there are things like this. I'm just sort of losing the will to live as I'm listening to this. There's a big world out there. Why do you have to talk about curtains all the time? But there is that. There is that. Actually, and the and the the ripping yarn stuff used to tap into that in a big way, particularly that sort of northern obsession. It's like an anal obsession with describing everything for hours. There's that bit, isn't it? You know? Yeah. It goes on and on and on. It's exhausting. Like, in The Secret Life of Eric Oldthwaite, you start they start to Oh, that's right. That's what I'm fighting about. Yeah. They they about a shovel, everybody. For you Americans, we are talking about a shovel as a spade. And he said, what does he say? He says, I Howard Molson's got a new shovel, has he?
I used to listen to things like this. They used to actually really happen in front of me. I said, Speer and Jackson number three. Really? How much did that cost? This kind of stuff. And you're going, it's just a shovel. Can we get on with doing the work? No. It's got this embrasure on it. And all it's the detail. It's this obsession with using lots of adjectives to describe Yeah. It's very funny. It is. That's in my It's very funny. That's in that's right. I mean, but my dad used to go to deep I'm not blaming, but, you know, not criticize me, dad. He was great, my hero. Yeah. But he often went into great explicit
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real detail on things that don't really matter.
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I know. I know. It's just draining, isn't it? You can't get away either. They pin you down because they think you're absolutely enchanted with what they're saying, and you go, oh, I don't know about that. Anyway, I haven't given a quick shout out to everybody that's listening. Everybody on WBN three two four, good afternoon if you're in The States. Good evening if you're here in jolly old England. Everybody on YouTube, I've not checked the figures, but I've I've got a wizard little thing going on right now. I've got both of the chats, one from YouTube and one from, Rumble. On the same screen, I've discovered a cunning little thing to save a bit of real estate. So they're both running at the same time. So quick shout out to everybody in both of us. Thanks very much, Laurie, for your kind comments about being on with Rhea at the weekend. I I it's great being it's like a little treat for me because I don't have to press any buttons. I just rock up and start shooting my mouth off, which is great. Maybe I just need to get some need to get an audio slave around here, Eric. You know, somebody to press all the buttons and things. It would. And then I could spend a little bit more time in makeup and and get my cigarette holder all proper, and then we'd be ready to go, wouldn't we? So That's right. We would need
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But what about something else that's traditionally English, which is being lost a frighteningly. Right? And that is different weird things that they did mainly in the West Country, like the Obios. It's not a Hobby Halls. It's the Obios. Anybody heard of that? Where that The Obios. And that was at the Obios at Padstow. And every year, it was like, this is where this kind of paganism is still with us. Even though, the country's mainly c of e, Church of England, we still got these pagan traditions. And another one is they used to run through, a street somewhere in Dorset, I think it was, with a barrel full of tar that was alight on their head. And that just run off. What what about the what about the cheese rolling competition? That's up, Neil. No. Isn't it? You see that where that where that mad.
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Yeah. That's so chill. Shout out in the chat. Remind us. I have you seen the video footage? So listen. I certain English but there's a place in England. People from all of is it England or is it on the border with Wales? I don't know quite where it is. But if something writes in, they can let us know. And they they have to chase that cheese down the hill. That is that the one you're talking about? That's the one. Yeah. And there's broken legs and everything. I mean, it's absolutely insane. It's so it's absolutely mad. This is not a sort of slightly gradual hill. This is a thing of it's near. It's like a sheer cliff. Then off they go and, of course, their legs run out faster than they can go and they go head over rear end and off they go and there are people coming down with all sorts of broken limbs and fractures and stuff like, oh, I've loved it. It's great. I'm coming back again next year. Right. Okay. Well, I worked with an an American. Gloucester. You came straight from the White. Thank you. Gloucester from the Rumblers. Thank you very much for yeah. The Kingston Whittler has come to our rescue again and saved our blushes. Thank you very much, Kingston Whittler. Yeah. Gloucester. So if anybody wants to look this up in Gloucester, they have this thing. I can't remember the name of it. It's quite Cheese rolling.
Is that what it is? Just cheese rolling and they roll cheese rolling as you would. I mean, I know it's I mean, that's actually quite normal because whenever I get a bit of cheese from the supermarket, the first thing I'm looking for is a hill or a little gradient to roll it down. I don't know about you, Greg. It's the first thing that springs to my Well, that's right. Some cheese. I must make it roll down something, You know? Well It's very important. American,
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if you go into I I won't suggest Google, but possibly Yandex or, you know, a a decent search engine. Yeah. And tap in Padstow Cornwall Obios. So it's Obios. And you'll see it one of the most weirdest festivals ever. It is really weird. And they do this all around, you know. And, Patrick said, is it Cornwall with cheese? Right? No. It's Gloucester, which is away from Cornwall. Cornwall has some of the weirdest traditions. They they really do.
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Do you think I mean, what with, Wisconsin being the cheese capital of America, I wonder if they've got any hills. You should have a look at it, Patrick. Yeah. If you Yes. Have a go and have a look at it. Find the thing and see if you can recreate it. And then you could twin up with Gloucester and you could have sort of there could be two legs of it to see how many limbs get broken. You're gonna have you gotta find quite a savage little hill, though. And it is savage, isn't it? That thing is. I don't know what the gradient is, but it's it's steeper than 45 degrees. Let's put it that way. It is, actually. Yeah. Yeah. It's about it's about 50 or 60 degrees. It's nuts. And all these people in the interview at the top. Have you ever done this before? Nobody. It looks fun. Alright.
There's there's ambulance at the bottom. Years of tradition.
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What about that one where they go, downhill racing, where they have these, like, racing cars, and they push them. And it's caught on. They do it in South America now, and they go for miles. And these things get up to a heck of a speed. So what do you mean? Yes. Skatebox. They got crushed helmet on its side and everything. They go down the It looks terrifying.
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Yeah. Well, given that we're going out on Radio Soapbox as well as WBBN, maybe we need the Radio Soapbox Derby. I don't know what that what it is. But I think we need one because it sounds good, doesn't it? So maybe we invite listeners to build their own vehicle. Yeah. It is quite a thing.
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And, anyway, in Essex well, just quickly. In Essex No. They have got the stinging nettle eating competition where they get stinging nettles, I kid you not, and put them in their mouth and eat stinging nettles.
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Good. Oh. This is where this is Essex, is it, Eric? Essex. Yes. Yes. Essex. Essex explains a few things now. I'm glad you've told me that. But now now I some things that were puzzling me have become crystal clear. They eat nettles. Okay.
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Although nettle soup's supposed to be fantastically good for you. Yeah. The the sting goes I mean, I was told by survival Steve that you could have nettle and cleaver soup, and it's delicious. The sting Yeah. From the nettles goes when you put it in hot water. So you don't have any problems. It tastes like greens or cabbage. No. Not quite cabbage, but like greens. But Yeah. They eat the nettles uncooked and raw straight in the mouth.
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Right. That's okay. That's fine. Well, we need to get some pictures of that on May list. It. Yes. It does. I think it shows something. I don't know quite what it shows. But maybe we could get somebody we could get somebody to actually eat them and then interview them live here on the radio. Do you think we could do that? Can you give me some nettles at about quarter past eight and then let us know when you can talk? Yes. Anyway, Eric, those little chirpy lads in that in that, image from Tom Brown's school days and, you know, harking on with all that and drape things and, you know, I believe in all that kind of stuff, frankly, because, because I just do. I've decided to I mean, it's difficult to sort of look at so called modern education and think that there's anything worthwhile in it at all. You know, you don't even get beaten. I mean, at least that was something to actually tell your mum and dad about or you get beaten again or your mates. You know, you got you got street cred, didn't you? I did. I got caned a couple of times. It was like, yeah. You're in the gang now. And then I bumped into my, I bumped into my cousin who went to the same school about six years before I did, and he told me one day he got caned five times in one day.
And I said, no. Aw. I got twice, and you got five lashings. He said, you're five. I got five. I thought, you know, I said, come and sit down for at least a couple of minutes because we're all tough up north, and, bottoms are made out of leather. But in my school in my school,
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you had to go in and cane the headmaster. So weird school, it was.
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Right. Nettles, nettle eating, beating headmasters. I guess that. Yes. I'm beginning to get more of a cultural backdrop on Essence now, Eric. It's beginning to it's beginning to build up. It's beginning to build up. As you can tell, if you if you actually caught me on on Ria's Sunday show, it's very, very serious stuff. And we do get serious here from time to time, but, also, sometimes we don't. Currently, we're not too serious. But I wanted to bring into your into your thought process, Eric, and the listeners out there right now. This is really rather, because the the picture that's in the show was sparked off by a conversation I had the other day, with Paul Bina.
And I can't remember if it was part of Roger Sales' show or not, who I'm working to get to sort of come on for an hour or so every month, which is I'm kind of sort of restructuring things a little bit around here. And just to let you know, Monica Schafer is gonna be joining us in about half an hour forty minutes for the last hour or a couple of hours of the show, and we're just gonna be getting a Canadian update and all sorts of things there. But, yeah, I was having this conversation with Paul, and we got around to talking about I don't know how it came up. Have you ever seen, those exam papers that were issued in America and Britain, England, in the eighteen hundreds, early '19 hundreds. You ever seen these things?
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I do reckon I have, but I've forgotten
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all about it. So I remember Okay. So Sorry about it. Alright. Well, here's the thing. I'm gonna start reading you some of the questions. Alright? And it's to embarrass you, me, and Yes. All the audience. If you don't think you're thick right now, I suspect in a few moments, you're going to have to revise your opinion, most of you. Of course, some of these terms are kind of ancient, I guess, to certain people. But, I've got a pupil's examination. This is British, this one. Right? Incorporated by royal Royal Charter, the College of Preceptors. I don't know who they were. Alright. This is Midsummer Night eighteen fifty nine. So is this a sort of isn't this a sort of exam that Tom Brown would be taking? What do you think? Yes. Well, he he was set in that 1830, wasn't he? So he would have been probably been more stricter. They had a more difficult question. Oh, yeah. Yeah. By 1859, they were all showing everybody the eighteen thirty exam papers and going, god, we've gone thick, haven't we?
It's someone's looking back. Anyway, just a few questions. I've got an American one which I'm gonna read from. I might even keep pulling these things up from the show. It's just to create a sense of oh, this is, from the arithmetic paper. Okay? I won't burden you with too much, but I'll just give you some ideas. One, what does it say? Says, well, the notes. The maximum value of this paper is 200 marks. No third class candidate will pass unless, unless he or she opt or he would have been obtains at least 30 marks nor any second class candidate unless he obtains at least 40. Okay. So there we go. This is second and third classes. So I guess whatever that means. Maybe you had a first class a bit like we did at school, you know, top stream, middle stream, and mental oaths. I was in the mental oath stream for a mental health. So did I. Yes. You know, purely for market research purposes and social understanding. You know, I think that's why I went down there to see what it was like.
It was during my horsing around, couldn't give a flying, you know, years. Those sorts of things which happen when you're a young lad. And if they don't, this you've you aren't grown up right. Anyway, number one, this is arithmetic. Right? Define Yeah. Reduction and practice. Explain multiplication and division as applied both to integers and to fractions. I'll just wait a few moments while you whip out your fucking whole pencil and write it down. K. Don't worry. K. Number two. Now this is where it gets cool. I love this stuff. Two. Reduce. One. Three hundred and 40 five thousand six hundred farbings into threepances, shillings, and pounds. I'm serious.
I'll say this again. Embracing yourself. I hope you're all paying attention. You've got a pencil and pad out there. Maybe this is the new radio sound quiz that we're going to do in the future. I need to do one. Reduce 345,600 farthings. Nobody don't even know what a farthing is, right? Which is very interesting. Interthrrepancies, shillings, and pounds. Number two, 12,345 English l's, I don't know what an l is, e l l s into quarters, nails, and inches. Three, a 70 miles into furlongs, poles, and yards. Flat of l. Yeah. This is number three, find by practice the value of 3,825 articles at £2.17 shillings 4 and a half pence each.
Do you like this? Isn't this cool? $18.59. This is average school kid of nine could work all this out, you know, and still, you know, go down pit and work for his father. How about this one? Number four. How many tons of coal can be purchased for £315.03 shillings 10 and a half pence at 17 shillings 3 and a quarter pence per ton?
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Bloody.
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They're good, aren't they? Aren't they? This is the British Royal Caribbean. The American ones are just as tough. They're just as amazing in terms of what they were expecting from people. Right?
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Yeah. According to professor, Edward Dutton, he believes our IQ and it's strange. It he said I think it was 1859, but don't hold me on that. I think it was 1859. He said our IQ has started to nosedive since 1859. It's actually gone down.
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And It doesn't mean one minute to seven, does it mean? It doesn't mean 1859. We've only been going an hour and a bit. Well, there's a theory that Yeah. Only the strongest
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survived before the Industrial Revolution. And after the Industrial Revolution, people survived childbirth who wouldn't normally survive. And that created a kind of a not weakness. And then when you come to think about it, communism was strength up around about the eighteen forties when that first and second generation of those who survived childbirth that normally wouldn't have done came along. Because it was hygiene which increased the more, which actually, helped childbirth because we became more hygienic. So when you think about it, you know, our IQ is going down. I mean, for example, I don't I think your father was probably been the same. My father was a walking calculator. He didn't need a calculator calculator machine. He would actually calculate it in his mind.
Mental arithmetic. He was genius at it. Absolutely genius. He would get there long before anybody else. Mind you, he was, after a while, he was, hold on. I'm gonna sound like, our dear and gracious leader, Keir Starmer. My dad was actually for a short time a toll maker. He certainly made a toll in you. Yes. He made the toll. Yes. He was very bad. He actually had a built in spirit level where he could put a picture on a wall. You put a spiritual spirit level on it, even a spiritual level as well, and it'd be spot on. You didn't need a spirit level. It is it it you can actually get things spot on by eye. That's, that he he he would calculate everything. He did carpentry. He calculate everything in his head, and he he he, you know, change. He was spotted instantly.
By the time you picked up your calculator, he got the answer.
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Well, I've I've said this about decimalization that that ten's a pretty rubbish number. I mean, I'm trying to be as intentionally retarded as I possibly can and go back as far as we can because, apart from which, we've lost guineas. And I have no idea why I love the sound of the word. I mean, the guinea, of course, is to do with the slave trade, really, isn't I think that's where it sprung up. £1.01 shillings. That extra shilling was the commission to the salesman. You know, you're paid in guineas. Yeah. So they get paid in pounds, but the the the extra shilling on the it's 21 shillings, right, which nobody knows what we're talking about. Right? But proper money, real money, used to have 20 shillings to the pound, and they used to be 12 pennies in every shilling. So 240 pennies to the pound. And people go, what on earth is this? Oh, it's genius. That's what it is. Because you can do an awful lot more with 240 than you can with the number hundred. It's useless. It's a hundred. Two I mean, 360 is even better. It's an amazing number. You can do tons of it. Let me give you a few more of these wizzo questions. Okay. Because I just that. I never stopped delighting in even reading them out and just watching my brain go all funny.
How about this? A wheel makes 514 revolutions in passing over one mile 476 yards and a foot. What is its circumference? That's cool, isn't it? So you need to work out how many inches there are in one mile 476 yards and a foot and then, divide it by 514, you'll find so that's pretty straightforward. I mean, I can work I can't sit down and do it. How about this is nice. A person bought 1,763 yards of cloth at 5 shillings 3 and a half pence per yard and retailed it at 6 shillings and 11p per yard. What was his profit? And another one on money, a bankrupt owes £3,549 and can pay 17 shillings 6p on the pound.
What are his effects worth and what loss do his creditors sustain? These are just general are there wizard ques don't you think he's great? These are sort of practical questions. It's really good. Yes.
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You know? It's like It is it is And and I think the other thing is the names we had for coinage. Like, for example, if you went down a market and you say, how much is that? You say, give us a dollar. Now a dollar was 10 shillings. That was slightly 5 shillings. 5. No. It's 10.
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Wasn't it 10 shillings? Yeah. I'm but it ain't been, but don't take 5. It was 5 bogs. It was a dollar. Because it used to be 4, $4 to the pound in the nineteen twenties. And that's where it came from. There used to be I mean, I know it's what? It's $1.20 now, but but it used to be $2.80
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and, I thought it was 10 shillings.
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Yes. No. There used to be $4 to the pound, and therefore a dollar was 5 bob. We completely confused everybody. Nobody knows what we're talking about, but I do. So a bob is slang for 1 shilling, and a shilling today is 5 measly pee. But back in the day, if your if your auntie gave you a shilling, god, the amount of ice cream you can get for a shilling was just unbelievable. I know because I did.
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I saved up five and six. Five and six was and I was bloody super rich. I'm gonna afford a corgi toy for that five Wish I'd known you then. Yeah. Bloody hell. I strut strut myself strutting around the school. I've got a five and six in my pocket. I've saved it up. My mate. Moneybags, Eric. Hello, Eric. Yeah. Yeah. Remember me, I'm your best friend.
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I'm a gob stop. Honest.
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It's surprising. And, the the other one, what was it now? There was a name for bits. Who was the bloke before Churchill? What was his name there? I've got a old dot piece of paper. What was old crumbs?
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A Thruppen bit. I thought it was just a Thruppenie bit. Is there a is there actual name for it? Is there?
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I think A Thruppen. That's interesting. What was now, Chamberlain's first name, he introduced the throttling bit. Yeah. And they used his first name. I'll just look that up. Hang on. Nevilles. That's it. They called them Nevilles. So there should I'd be a Nevilles. Not where I'm in the Yeah. Well, apparently, in the thirties, when he introduced them, and Fortis, they called them Nevilles. And then that gradually went out because they used to be a silver throaty bit, wasn't it? And then they changed it to a kind of brass, so it's strictly bit. And he introduced it. That was Neville Chamberlain. So they called him Neville. Yep.
Yeah. So that was another no. But I don't understand why in America, they're called dollars bucks. Where did the buck come from?
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It's to do with, I think it's to do with buckskins that you could buy.
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Really? Yep.
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Didn't know. If there are any, American types, any of you American lost in the rumble or the YouTube chat, confirm that is something to do with the price of buckskins. Yeah. It it is. I'm pretty sure it is. Or it might be that buckskins were actually used as money at some point. They could have been, you know, in remote areas when people ran out of money, Eric. I think that that's something to do
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with that. Yeah. I've just I'm looking close. And it just said Yeah. In 1967, '10 shillings became $1.
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So it's probably in the late sixties, they said give us a dollar. Yeah. It would have changed by then, but in the nineteen twenties Yeah. When we were down In the twenties. Yeah. It used to be $4. It's all to do with whatever you could get. So it would have been 10 shillings because they used to be $2 and 40 or something to the pound. So 10 bob would get you a dollar.
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Yeah. Because this is in '60 because I remember going down to markets and, the blokes, you know, they'd say, how much is that? The blokes said, give us a dollar and it's 10 shillings. I I want you to spend a month in the late sixties. Yeah. You know, a few minutes ago, when we were talking about people talking about things in far too much detail. I think I'm just going into that. Yeah.
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Guess what? I'm doing it too. Oh, no. That can't be the right change for that. It is. Yeah. I'm sure. Anyway, I'm sorry everybody who who doesn't know what we're talking about, but you've got it it might have might have intrigued you. Let me give you one last question for now from this mathematics paper. I'll just work it out. Alright. If I get it's just the way the questions are structured. There's only about 30 words and the and they just get you go. If I get eight ounces of bread for 6p when wheat is 15 shillings a bushel, what ought a bushel of wheat to cost when I get 12 ounces of bread for 4p?
I can't even get my brain around that. Do you want me to say that again? It's such a fantastic question. If I get eight eight ounce yeah. So you're right. Our IQ is really going through the floor. Where's AI when you need it? Right? If I get eight ounces of bread for sixpence when wheat is 15 shillings a bushel, what ought a bushel of wheat to cost when I get 12 ounces of bread for fourpence? There you go. Of course, I don't know how many ounces there are in a bushel, so I'm lost
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because I'm sick. I've lost that knowledge. But also, had hectares, didn't they? They still use hectares, but Oh, I love hectares. Don't you? You got a hectare. Well, there was there was a there was a children's show called Hector's House. Now I used to think it's something to do with Hector's House when I was a kid.
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I would love a nice hectare myself. Oh, yes. Yes. I've got a weakness for them. I've got a weakness for them. Do you know?
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The retail trade, in architecture is we, officially use metric, in architecture. But if you do any, say, you're designing, doing architecture in a shop, it'll all be worked out in feet and inches per square foot. So they look at their sales area as per square foot, not in metric. They still use and, people think, yes. We're totally metric. No. We're not. People still buy a pint of beer, I believe. You can still get a pint. So Right. Something that that shocked me because I spent a little time, you know, in the design of, I'm sorry to say, the supermarkets and things.
And, it was all worked out in square footage. So that was a Right. A bit of a cultural shock. Yeah. Yeah. But who remembers slide rules? Anybody remember slide rules? I've still got one. Well, I should say that. Slide rules. Yeah. Yes. I remember slide rules. Staedler used to make them. I've got a Staedler one. And, I don't think you buy them anymore. You you can buy them. So can I now they were something where you could actually use a slide rule, and there's no batteries, not solar or anything like that? You it was all by sliding a cursor backwards and forwards. And, yes. That's that's, they they went out when pocket calculators came in. So that's something else that, you know, engineers used to use, but they don't use now. It's all calculations.
So, and I bought one of the first Sinclair calculators, and it was crap. And then it cost £20, and it is absolute. It must have been all and and then, of course, Japan flooded the market with pocket calculators soon afterwards, and they become dirt cheap. And look at them now. I bought a scientific calculator the other day in the pound shop for what which they don't sell things for pound for £1.50. Seriously, £1.50, which is what, you You know, pennies. Yeah. And it it it's a proper scientific calculator.
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It's it's got all the Well, but now that you are issuing your own Fockham Hall pencil, we don't need anything like calculators. All you need is sheets of paper and pencils and a brain that works. Let's jump on over to, an American exam paper. I'm sure everybody's thrilled by this. I don't know whether this makes for good radio but I'm quite enjoying it myself. So you'll have to shout and say, good grief. Can we get on to sorry. But, what are we threading into it? I think this drop in IQ and, you know, there's good and bad things probably to say about Victorian education. No doubt. There are many people can can come up with reasons why it's a dreadful thing. But somehow, I'm I'm afraid I just tend to see it through rose tinted spectacles, beating, shouting at people, masters walking around with mortarboards on yelling. I mean, what's not to like? It just seems grand. I mean, it just seems forceful.
Breeds character. That's what I would suggest even though I would probably be wimping and sniveling like any other little boy, you know, being yelled at if I was nine years of age. I'm sure it's pretty grim at times. Anyway, this is, this is really, I suppose, for our American listeners if you're out there, I'm gonna read a few questions. It's called actually, I've got a question to ask first. I need an answer somewhere in the chat. It says, could you have passed the eighth grade in 1895? Anybody got any idea? I don't know if you do, Eric, but has anybody in chat got any idea what age you are when you sit the eighth grade or you're in the eighth grade? I'm just having a look because I don't know how old it would be. Just to get my brain around it about how old you would have been in the eighth grade. Anybody? Any takers? Obviously. No. Not seeing anything as yet. Right. Maybe something. Students thirteen to 14 years of age. I'm too lazy. I can't be bothered to do a search. I could, but then you'll hear me clashing about on the keyboard. Yeah. There needs to be looking. To 14. It's considered the third second, third, or fourth year of middle school.
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So there it is. Right. In The UK Okay. Year eight is the second year.
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So So we're talking so basically, the people is 13 to 14 years of age. Yeah. Young teenage. Alright. Then brace yourselves, everybody. You ready? I'll tell you what's interesting as well about this. I mean, I don't know if this is the entire exam, although it might be. Let me just have a look at the entire page. It's broken into, five sections. Grammar, you've got one hour to deal with with seven questions. Arithmetic, 1.25, I guess an hour and fifteen minutes. US history, you've got forty five minutes on that. Orthography, and we'll come to that in a second. We'll be able to tell what that is, from the questions. Time, you have an hour. And geography, also an hour. Let's start off with a few grammar questions. Okay? I'll just read it out. It said, eighth grade final exam from Salina, Kansas 1895.
And thank you, Paul, for sending this to me the other day. It says this in the notes says, this is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 for 14 year olds. Okay. We'll we'll give them the benefit of the doubt. From Salina, Kansas, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal. Alright? Grammar. You've got an hour. I'll give you the seven questions and we'll just go through the questions. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters. Nine. Okay? Number two. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
Three, define verse, stanza, and paragraph. Four, what are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of do, lie, lay, and run. Five, define case, illustrate each case. Number six, what is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation. And question seven, it seems to be seven through 10 maybe. It says write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. For 14 year olds.
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Bloody hell.
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That's a Who needs AI if you've got everybody tuned up like this? You don't need it. It's junk. Yeah. Anyway, there's no such thing as AI. It's just a big tape recorder. I'm just I mean, I don't even use the thing. It's just incredibly silly. It's good for doing images for the show though from time to time. That's pretty impressive, isn't it? What do you think? It's good? That is incredibly impressive. It's fantastic. It's just Yeah. You know, you go back. So this is for 14 year olds in 1895. Arithmetic got one point two five hours, I assume, an hour and fifteen minutes. That's what it means. Name and define the fundamental rules of of arithmetic. Alright.
Number two. Mhmm. A wagon box is two foot deep, 10 foot long, and three foot wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? You see, I don't know what a bushel is. I'm thinking on this stuff. I'd have to look at what a bushel is. No. I've lost I mean, I've heard of it, but I don't know what it is. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 pounds, what is it worth at 50¢ per bushel deducting £10,050 for tare, t a r e?
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Don't know what that is. That'd be good. Brilliant, if you know what these were. Yeah.
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Yeah. It'd be brilliant. We'd be geniuses if we could do we'd be able to sort out England if we could work this stuff. If we could pass this 1895 exam, we'd be more qualified than any politician in England right now. They're that stupid. Right? They wouldn't be able to pass this. Right? Oh, I wouldn't. And I we can come on to that in a second because I do think they ought to have to pass the exam to become a politician. Now I mean it, and it should be tougher than this. Number it should. Number four, district number 30 three has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at 50 pound $50 per month and have a hundred and $4 for incidentals?
I don't know. Find the cost of 6,720 pounds of coal at $6 per ton. Well, that's yeah. You need to know how many pounds there are. How many pounds are there in a ton? You say, I don't know. I don't know. Stupid. I don't know. I forgot I did know, but I can't remember now. And, of course, it's because they've still used to kill the guy. And all this metric stuff. I hate metric. It makes you stupid. It just does because it it's just it's Well, I I actually I actually think in imperial, but works in metric. So somebody said a meter
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to the Yeah. You're going three foot two. I was about three foot. Yeah. Yeah. It's about three foot. Me too. And, an inch, somebody says 25 millimeters. Oh, it's it's an inch. And I used to be able to convert backwards and forwards backwards and forwards in in in the head like that. And that's, but I I still think in imperial even though we're supposed to be fully metric, and we have been since officially 1971. But, you know, it it it it's much easier, I find, to think of an inch and and and and that. The strange thing is that America
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is still imperial. They still work in imperial, don't they? Which is So it's a much nicer word as well, isn't it? Don't you think the word imperial is great? Imperial is yes. You know what you're doing. It does. It's as though you're in charge of Metroid is froggy French, isn't it? It came about after the, bloody Napoleon.
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Yep. Yes. It it is actually French, unfortunately.
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I know. Although a scientist chap friend that I've got did point out to me, and I suppose, you know, this I'm now revealing even more stupidity that I possess, that, the metric thing stitches all of science together. So you've got things like kilograms and a thousand grams and and all it all seems to work. It's all comes together,
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you know. So, apparently, you know, a cubic meter of water is what? A metric ton. Is a metric ton different to a proper ton, a British one? Yes. There's tonnase and and things like that. And I tell you something else, it gets me is kilometers per hour. That means absolutely what's it all to me. It's gotta be miles per hour. I mean, oh, it's, you can go 15
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kilometers an hour. What's that? What is it? I don't know. Tell me 15 miles an hour. I've got some idea what it is or 20 miles an hour. And I know that's 80 miles an hour is bleeding fast. A hundred miles an hour even faster. So there we go. That that's it. Well, whenever I choose to waste a few hours watching motor racing or tennis, which I do. Right? They have a speed clock on the tennis thing, and they're always quoting me out in kilometers an hour. I have no idea. So my quick rule of thumb is, the way I calculate it as fast as I can is 80 kilometers an hour is 50 miles an hour spot on. Right? That's that's your measuring thing. So every eight kilometers an hour is five miles an hour, and I can usually be able to work it out and get a proper sense of speed. When they say, we're doing 320 kilometers an hour, I'm going, what's that in proper money? It's 200 miles an hour by the way. So it's, that's right.
So I centigrade to Fahrenheit, once it you double it and add 30. That's the way Yeah. That's where you get a rough idea. Oh, that would come back and add 30. Let's throw in a couple more questions here because and then we'll go to a song. And then after the break, we might be joined by our guest. I've not even checked yet because I'm just so engaged with all these wonderful questions. How about this one? We did the thing at so much per ton. Find the interest of $512.60 for eight months and eighteen days at 7%. Okay.
Find bank discount on $300 for ninety days, no grace at 10%. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods? I don't even know what a rod is. You know what a rod is? Rod The farmers over here still those must be English measurements that got flown over there. They've got to be. Right? Write a bank. How about this? Number 10. Write a bank check, a promissory note, and a receipt. See? They're different. How about that? Okay. We're coming to the end of the hour and, I hope you've all passed the exam and you feel suitably stupid having having heard these questions. That was the whole purpose was to basically embarrass all of us, with our complete lack of ability and compass mentalness around these things and just to show how stupidly we've all been trained into all this sort of stuff.
I'm gonna play a song, and I'll tell you who sent it to me, once I'm whilst it's playing. This is by, Colby Acuff. Never heard of him before. It's called If I Were the Devil. How about that? But it popped up on the Telegram chat earlier today and shout out to whoever sent it. I'll look up the name in a second. We're gonna do this and then we're gonna, come through or come back for hour two. You're listening to Paul English Live here on WBN three two four and other assorted streaming outlets.
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If I were the devil, first thing that I'd do is I'd come off like I ever gave a damn about you I'd let you catch a peak of all your greatest desires I'd watch the flames in your eyes burn like hellfire. Find all the wolves in the land And I'd make them fight each other tooth to nail and hand to hand Find all the sheep, make them stir up the pie. Because once the wolves have killed each other, sheep are what I want. The devil walks among us friends. I know this is true. And I don't know if he's red, and I don't know if he's blue. One thing that I know need to take a look around. If I were the devil, this world wouldn't be my playground.
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I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I
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cry. I want to brainwash my parents, and I have the world I'll be in every schoolhouse lecturing little boys and girls. Devil walks among us friends I know this is true And I don't know if it's me And I don't know if it's you One thing that I know need to take a look around. If I were the devil, this world wouldn't be my playground. My final act,
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I'll tell you what it'd be.
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I have everyone so medicated they could never see. A glove and hugs on horned head would be hard to scat, and the best part of it all is they can climb their demise. The devil walks among us friends. I know this is true. And I don't know if it's me, and I don't know if it's you. One thing that I know need to take a look around. If I were the devil, this world was mine to see. Well, I'd witnessed all the atrocities, and it'd probably frighten me. So I run back home with a story to tell. I tell all my demon friends that I always preferred hell.
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Yeah. Thank you. That was, oh, who was that? I just announced it, but thank you to Matthew six. I think you know who you are for actually saying that. Colby Acuff, a c u, double f, If I Were the Devil. Delightful little song. Didn't even get chance to listen to all of the lyrics, but, great arrangement that, really fantastic stuff. And welcome back to part two or hour two. And, glancing around here in our shambolic electronic studio, I see that we've been joined by Monica Schafer. Monica, hi. Good
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afternoon to you, isn't it? It's your early afternoon, I think. It is. Thank you. Good good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. And can you hear me? Is is it sound okay?
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Clear as a bell. Yeah. Clear as a bell. Yeah. If we get any feedback on volume, don't you worry about it because I'll turn it up here. But I to me, you sound great. So, I think we've got sound levels pretty good. No. You sound fantastic. My first question, Monica, based on our our conversation of the other day is, how did the beef tongue go?
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Oh, that's it is so delicious. That is just the most tender, wonderful meat. And I made a nice sauce for it, chopped it up after I cooked it, you know, and put it into that sauce, and it is absolutely delicious. You probably wish you were here.
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I do. I do. I do. We were talking about tongue a bit. Eric, when you were young, did you did you did your mom get beef tongue in at home? Yes. She did. And this is a true story.
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My, I used to love tongue. And my dad said to my granddad, oh, would you like some beef tongue? And he said, I'll never eat anything that comes out of an animal's mouth. And my dad said, yeah, but you eat eggs, don't you? Sorry. And that was true. That's that's what actually happened.
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Oh, it's all going on over there at Fockham, isn't it? Eating nettles and all this kind of stuff. What? What's going on? No. No. It's fantastic. What is
[01:07:16] Unknown:
Hello, Eric. Good to be with you again. I was gonna say see you, but I'm not seeing you. But it's good to be on with you again. And and also, Paul, it's wonderful to be on your show again, and I'm quite delighted about, you know,
[01:07:33] Unknown:
your invitation to come on a regular basis. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. We'll hopefully have you here once a month or something like that, and it's fantastic. We can get a sort of Canadian update and a and a latest whatever you've cooked update, which we're probably gonna end up being more interested in the cooking, I suspect, because, you know, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach and all that kind of stuff. But, I heard that. I have heard that. You did? Yes. Yes. I did. You've heard it. I think it's true. What do you think, Eric? Do you think it's true? I think it's true to some degree.
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Yes. Yes. Cook, cooking is, leads was it the, leads to a man's heart? Yes. So Yeah. It does. I mean, quite honestly, you know, I I had a girlfriend once whose cooking was so bad, the dog you give it to the dog, and he lick his backside to take the awful taste out of his mouth. You know, that's how bad it was. Sorry.
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Oh, Eric. You you and your saucy jokes. I'm sorry, Monica. You but you've met Eric before. I think you knew what to expect. And what can I do? It's quite infectious, laughing. I do love it. It is. Did you manage to catch, Monica? I because I wasn't watching the studio. I was just dealing with a few things here. Did you manage to catch any of these amazing questions that came from this exam paper in,
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in the late eighteen hundreds in Salina, Kansas? Oh, you know what? I must have missed that part because I did turn it on and I caught bits and pieces of the show.
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And and I'm not sure that maybe that was the context that I missed, but there yeah. I I missed a lot of it, but please, you know No. No. No. It's fine. I mean, I think that's a pretty good excuse because I know you what you're really saying is you couldn't answer any of them, so you're just pretending not to have heard them. I know. We know what's going on, Randy. Try me. Just just try me. Okay. So, you know, we've set a few of these out, but now that you're here and this is closer to you, this is from Salina, Kansas 1895 for the eighth grade. Now we were trying to check the now we understand, and I'm just double belting. Eighth grade is about 14 years of age. Is that right?
Six and eight. Yes. Yes. It would be. Yes. Yeah? Mhmm. Okay. Cool. 14. So I've I'll I'll read some new ones out. How about this? So we did a few on arithmetic. The last one was write a bank check, a promissory note, and a receipt. So this is for people lads and lasses about 14. Pretty impressive, I think. History, US history, they've got forty five minutes to answer these eight questions. Give the epochs into which US history is divided. Two, give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. Well, no. I don't want to because it was actually discovered by somebody else but still that's me. Three, relate the causes and results of the revolutionary war. Four, show the territorial growth of The United States.
Five, tell what you can of the history of Kansas. Is that because Kansas doesn't have much history? No. I'm being slightly cheeky there. Number six, describe three of the most prominent battles of the rebellion. Seven, who were the following? Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe. Oh, I know a few of those. Eight, name events connected with the following dates, sixteen o seven, sixteen twenty, '18 hundred, '18 '40 '9, and 1865. And they had forty five minutes to to rattle through that lot. Wow. Wow. Impressive. It's impressive, isn't it? Extremely
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impressive. And you know what they told us in school? We're always getting smarter. We're always getting better. We're always getting more sophisticated. We're always going upwards on a trajectory that means, you know, back back in the day, they were all stupid and ignorant.
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What a it's so opposite, isn't it? It is? It is. It is opposite. Well, I tend to think so. I think that they've I mean, what comes the questions what what I love about them is that they're so brief.
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They're incredibly brief. Well, it They're only about It challenges the student to actually give, an answer from their themselves rather than just add a sorry, answer a multiple choice, which is these days, you know, more common. Just go a, b, c, d, or all of the above or none of the above or whatever. You know? So then people could just guess. But this actually challenges the student to bring forth an answer out of their knowledge, out of their heads, they have to compose the answer. That's that's very valuable. You know? Yeah. That's good.
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It is. Well, I mean, we don't have to sit on edumacation, as I call this episode, all day long. It was just something that came up from a a conversation I've mentioned earlier that I'd had with Paul the other day and he just mentioned this. And I'd I'd seen these years ago and read them maybe ten or twelve years back and I always remember being dazzled by them. We've been reading out some English ones as well from 1859 which are just off the charts really in terms of the challenge. But it's to do with measures that we don't use anymore, like farthings and l's. I don't know what an l is. It seems to be have something to do with nails and things and all this kind of stuff. But Or the elbow.
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It's some Maybe. It derives something from the elbow. Maybe it's a I don't know. I don't know. I've heard of it, but I don't remember what it is now.
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Yeah. Do do you think do you think Canadian politicians would be able to pass this exam? Oh, gosh. Monica. Are you kidding me? Are you Sort of. Yeah. I am a bit. I'm teasing you a little bit. I am a bit. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think we could we wouldn't be able to find one politician over here that could deal with it. I mean, I know all the audience out there have actually got all the answers, but they're just so shy. They don't want to write into the chat room and brag with all their knowledge. But it's I may it's just I mean, I guess, you know, obviously, the children were being trained in this or the young adults at 14. But it's still it's just impressive. The range of things. Because they sat down and did an exam, basically. Just do this exam with geography in it and arithmetic and, the rules of grammar and and you go, well isn't that really what you actually need? You really need to know numbers and you really do need to know language. And, if you know those things because numbers, of course, are described in language. We can only even mathematics is reliant upon whatever your root language is, English in this case, you know, to be able to to make yourself intelligible.
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How about this? This is not
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Sorry. Yeah. No. No. Well, this is I was just gonna add to that, you know, that examine
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not just numbers and language, but history and geography quite in-depth. It was good. Yep.
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It is. It is. And we we'd have to assume that they've been taught some things about these characters. I mean Well, yes. Morse Morse is the guy that invented Morse code, isn't it? Whitney, I don't know. Bell, I'm assuming, is the guy that invented the telephone.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think so. Or who would oh, Edison did the light bulb. That's right. I was thinking light bulb, but Bell He did the light bulb. Yes.
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Lincoln's the guy that started the civil war. No. I'm just doing that to tease Northerners. He didn't cry. Abraham Lincoln, obviously, I even we know about him. Penn, who gives his name to Pennsylvania is about William Penn, the Quaker, who was locked up for free speech violations over here and therefore moved to America. This is true. He was a Quaker, and they locked him up for for actually preaching sermons in London, and they didn't come on the street. I
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I learned something new today. Thank you for that. I knew that there were lots of Quakers in Pennsylvania. Well, lo and behold, I guess that would be the origin.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The whole of the Quaker thing is quite interesting because these have got I mean, they're known, apparently, as being rather canny businessmen. I mean, it's not something that's floated around here much. Not that much is floated around here, I guess, in in public discourse much. But, I worked in a company that was run by Quakers and they did seem to be rather efficient. A little austere, although they did have a sort of mild sense of humor about things. But, yeah, the the Quakers are the people who found out once the Bible had been translated that you were not to swear oaths.
You didn't swear an oath. That's right. And and business was predicated on oaths. Yeah. And they were banned from Parliament and Hertfordshire,
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where I live, is particularly famous for Quakers. And there was a famous Quaker in a place called where, and people say where where that made, a grotto. There's this place called a grotto, and that was made in the seventeen seventies or something, sometime around about there. And Right. I've been there, and it's very very interesting. And what he did is, he was a, a businessman, and he made a lot of money, but to create employment for people, he had this thing, dug, this grotto dug and then, ships used to have shells that were where they would go out, say to live somewhere and they would, for ballast, they put seashells into the holes holds to bring back. So, the inside of this grotto, Scott's grotto, it's called, is covered in shells. And you can go down there any time of the year, and it's the same temperature.
That's the most interesting thing. So you go down in midwinter. It's it's Yeah. It's a nice it's nice and so I wouldn't say cool, but it's just right. And you go down there midsummer because it gets pretty hot. It's nice and cool down there and I went I visited there in the one of the hottest months and it was lovely and cool down there it's beautiful and it's called Scott's Grotto and it's not sure if the, when I went there it's privately owned but I'm not sure if English heritage own it or anything like that but it was it's well worth a trip. I I it it it you know, it's, not not tourists don't make a point of going there, and not many tourists know about it, but it's called Scotts Grotto. So there we go. There's a little bit of info there and there's That's isn't a Grotto. Friends meeting houses in around near where I live there's a lot of Quakers around here and that's it. Yeah. And, they you you you see him in the local store queuing up for oats. There's Scott sorry. Both of us. So it's a terrible one, that one, isn't it? It's not. But I do like we've actually got several boxes in the houses.
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Sometimes we go through a porridge phase around here, and we're just coming to the end of one. They last about a month. There's There's a month of porridge and then we go, I've fed up a porridge. Now, we move on to something else, you know, like like exotic toast. Listen, I don't want to stick on all this edumacation stuff all night long. But I wanted to just a last few questions here from the Salina, Kansas exam paper of 1895. Orthography. Now I this is funny because the word is almost new to me, so it shows what a dimbo I am. O r t h, ography, orthography. Oh. And we get a gist of it from the questions. There's 10, but I won't read them all out, but they're quite impressive questions. Like number one, what is meant by the following? Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabic syllabication.
Syllabic as in syllables, syllabication. What are elementary sounds and how are they classified? What are the following? And give examples of each. Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals.
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Wow. These are great. I love this, Mark. Hey. Margaret, I don't need to be told that My my my father was suffer from that.
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Sorry?
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My granny had linguals. She got ointment for it, though, and it did clear it up after a while. Sorry.
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Yeah. No. Linguistics and language, it it's very interesting to me. And and my father was always really interested in etymology. There you go. I know that word for sure because that's the origins of words, where they come from. So, yeah, that was always kind of a subject in our in our house, in our home. That part I liked.
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Yep. Me too. I mean, I just think, you know, we'll probably what should I do with these things? I need to start creating a space where I can put links to this stuff so that people can pick them up and things. But, this is on a website called commonplacefacts.com. Commonplace facts Com. This Salina, Kansas paper. And I'll just read one last one for now unless I get the urge later on because I'm just enjoying myself so much. Eight. No. Question number eight. Mark diacritically, that's one word, diacritically, and divide into syllables the following and name the sign that indicates the sound card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, sell, rise, blood, fair, and last. And then I'll just give you one last one here.
It says, use the following correctly in sentences. Sight, spelled c I t e, spelled s I t e, spelled s I g h t. And there's three or four others. It's quite tremendous, actually. That's wonderful.
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English the English language probably has more of those things than any language where you have the same pronunciation but these completely different words with completely different meanings and spellings.
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Yeah. Maybe it's the root of legalese, Monica. What do you think? You know, the whole of the deception of language in courts probably springs out of this. I don't know. Well Maybe. I I I But it does kind of
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But but what the thing with the English language, I've often had well, I have had one thing that I said was that was taken out of context, which is probably more difficult in other languages. You know, I've said something, and people have taken it completely out of context and and and and misinterpret it. So sorry. I just And why do you think that's,
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more difficult in other languages? I'm curious.
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Well, I I don't know because one word in this country can mean several things. It's the way it is actually meant. Right. For example, basket. You could say we can have a basket of fruit, but then it could be offensive. But say, look at that old basket down there.
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That's true. Geyser. Geyser
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is water gushing out of the ground. It which I've got in New Zealand. But you say, look at that old geyser over there. Okay? Uh-huh. It's the same word, but a different context. Yeah. We say we say geyser.
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We say geyser. Really? A geyser. For the water. The water.
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Yeah. Yes. But but yeah. Go ahead. Yep. And so that's the thing. I think that because of that, other languages have, a less so having one word that has several meanings, but it's all calling how it's said. It does happen, but it it is it's it's more so, I think, in English. Yes. I could be wrong. Oh, I think that's it. You know? I think probably German language more descriptive of things, more precise
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Yeah. Maybe. I think that might be the case. Although, they do say English has a huge vocabulary so that you can describe things. I don't know. That's a very good question. Maybe some of the listeners will will, get back to you about this because that's a very interesting subject.
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It is. I need to get a Shakespeare chap on at some point. I've got one in mind, who talks about that period in history when Shakespeare was writing. There's one proposition that there was a collection of writers are actually responsible for the output and that it coincides with a period when they were introducing new words consciously into the English language to be able to move it to another phase. A bit like a great reset in language, to use a modern bit of terminology. It's very interesting. It really is. It's tremendously interesting sort of field of study about you know, because Shakespeare is amazing, except it isn't because most people can't bridge the language gap. It's so your brain sort of grinds the gear when you read these way that they talk, and you go, no. That's that's in the front and in the back, and I got to work it all out. So it slows down a little bit. But, yeah, it's it's fascinating. But look at the words that I've spoken to, which Yeah. Sorry, Eric. Yeah. Please.
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No. I was gonna say, look at the words that have entered into our language because languages are evolving all the time. Now my cousin, he was English, but he lived in Greece for a long time. And he spoke like they spoke in the nineteen fifties Because all he spoke to was other people that had moved there in nineteen fifties. So he hadn't this was before the days of the Internet. And I mean, look at the word blitz. Now, blitz was unheard of in the English language, until World War two. And now we say, oh, we're gonna buy some get some fruit, put it in a liquidizer, and blitz it, and things like that. The other one I said the other week was p as in new or pist as in newt. That was unheard of before the Americans came here during World War two. And what they Yeah. Used to say is pissed as an Inuit.
But where they were in Norfolk, Norfolk people thought it was newt, and it stuck in England. So in England, you'd say pissed as a newt. In the thirties, it was unheard of.
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Things like that. The and and the other one So the Inuits are are a Canadian tribe, aren't they, Monica?
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Yeah. Actually, that's some something I know a lot about. I I grew up in a in a household, in a home where that we were steeped not only in German culture but in Inuit culture because that's the very reason I'm a Canadian is because my father read a book about them when he was a little boy, was so fascinated by the Eskimos, that's what they were called. And he he just it was his dream to go to the Eskimos, and so that is what he actually did. And he met my mother before he left Germany, and so she also came to Canada. They got married, had five children. And in the fifties, they lived in the North. I was born at the end of the fifties, but, we were steeped in in Eskimo culture in our home. We have had a a lot of their art, their soapstone carvings, and we had visitors from the North. They'd come stay with us.
My father told epic stories. You know, when we had company, especially, we always enjoyed that because he he was a good storyteller then about about the Eskimos and some of the, you know, each carving that we had had a a big story around it. So he would give a tour of the the soapstone carvings, and each one of them had an a big story. So that was very, very interesting for me. And so it it gives me some, a little degree of, authority, I suppose you could say, when I now talk about the the lies that they are telling us that they're unfolding right before our very eyes about this Canadian genocide that, you know, the House of Commons passed in less than two minutes a resolution that, yes, Canada did a genocide on the on the, natives, you know, the Indian residential schools, which I guess there were also some Eskimos in some of them. I don't know exactly. But, you know, the Indians that would cover all the the so called first nations people.
And, so, yeah, Canada, you know, there's this big story and that continues here even though they have not cover uncovered a single bone. This story started in May of twenty twenty one, so exactly four years ago because it was late May when they came out with this big announcement that they found these 215 graves of children at Kamloops, the the old residential school site at Kamloops with ground penetrating radar. And, you know, they've been showered with money from the government, which means all of us are paying for this. And many other places in Canada have also been given a ton of money, and they have not uncovered a single piece of evidence to substantiate their claims, you see. So and I have talked about this a lot.
And even the Eskimos, those that I grew up with this, you know, just this big love of them, well, they this, you know, subsequent generation, and they're being indoctrinated, and they basically are jumping on the bandwagon themselves. And I did publish an article on my website. It's called freespeechmonica.com, monica with a k. And you'll find an article there a while back because the Canadian government did an apology to the Eskimos while they call them Inuit now because Eskimo is, for some reason, politically incorrect, but it just means raw meat eater. So Well, Eskimo does. Yeah. Eskimo means the Indians call the Indian tribes called the Eskimos Eskimo because they they were raw meat eaters and somehow in our politically correct world.
And really, it's just for the purpose of scrambling our brains and making us always be on edge of what are we allowed to say and what are we not allowed to say because Eskimos themselves call themselves Eskimos. I know one who lives not far from here, and he's he's maybe just a quarter Eskimo, but he says, no. I'm an Eskimo. And so it's kinda like the Indians. They'll call themselves Indian, but somehow if we say Indian, it you know, they they they don't like that, or we're being told, oh, no. We don't call them this, call them that, don't call them the other thing. Right? It's just to keep us always scrambling. What are we allowed to say and when and keep us always on edge. Right? But, anyway, they got this apology plus, I think it was, like, $45,000,000 payout from the Canadian government because over the course of a decade or two during the 60s and 70s, supposedly the government slaughtered a thousand of their sled dogs and was out to ruin their lifestyle. But I knew something about this personally. So I wrote an article about that.
People can go find that or if you like, I can tell you what that was about in in a nutshell. Do you want me to tell you about it?
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Yeah. I do. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, I mean, my just the little connection that we have here, if it is a little connection, is to do with the royal family's involvement in something to do with Canadian schools. That's an unpleasant story. And I don't know whether that winds into this. But you
[01:30:10] Unknown:
Oh, you know what? I I Please go ahead. I talked about that story for years, but I think it also is a false story. The Queen and Kamloops and all that, or is that what you're talking about? The missing missing children? You know, I think it might be a false story, and I don't, you know, pump that story out there anymore because these are the kinds of things that if indeed it is a disinformation story, it undermines us when we are trying to uncover and tell the truth about matters. And I mean, there's enough that we can talk about that is in real time right now with their lies that they're they're, pumping out about these graves, that that story to me is it's just gone way back on the back burner. And I, yeah, I I read an article maybe, I don't know, a year ago or something that kind of outlined that that is Right. A false story. So I won't go there right now. But, with the Inuit, the reason it perked, it it really caught my attention because Cause they talked about these dogs. Now I remembered a very specific story of when my father was in the North and and my mother and my older siblings.
And, one of these stories had to do with a child, a toddler who had been attacked by one of these sled dogs. And sometimes these things happen. I mean, these sled dogs are kind of like half wild. You know, they're they're domesticated. They're meant to be pulling the sleds. But it was at a time when a lot of the Eskimos were starting to buy Ski Doos and, you know, leave behind that lifestyle of travelling around with dogs pulling a sled. And my father, he was very strong in encouraging them to hold on to their lifestyles, keep their lifestyles, keep their sled dogs, don't be getting skadoos because, you know, if you're out there and you have a blizzard shutting you down for two weeks or whatever and you can't move because this blizzard is making it so that you really can't move, you can't see anything and you would be just inviting death if you move. So you you hunker down, you, you know, make yourself some shelter with the snow, with the blowing, whatever, into a drift snow drift, and it you can you can wait it out.
You if you really got hungry, you could always eat one of your dogs and you still have the rest of your team. Also, the dogs sorry. I'm having I my throat something catching in the butt back of my throat, but you can't Beef tongue. Good one, Paul. Also, as a Ski Doo, it might break down at minus 45, and you might not get it started again. Or you might run out of gas where the these situations don't happen with dogs. They will they will go. They will continue to go. And like I say, you you cannot eat a a Skidoo or a snowmobile.
I guess Skidoo is like Kleenex. It's a trade name, so I should call it Snowmobile. Anyway, so dogs and sled dogs were much safer and better way to go. So there was my dad encouraging them to stick with their old lifestyle. And now decades later, the Inuit are getting $45,000,000 and an apology for the, you know, so called murder of a a thousand dogs over the course of, I think it was ten or twenty years, they were saying. Now, I asked the question and I sent this letter to the CBC reporter and I sent it to several politicians. Of course, there was crickets in return. I never heard a word back but I did publish it, like I say. And I asked the question, so that dog that mauled that toddler because the toddler got too close to it or maybe the dog got off of its tether or whatever when they were in in camp, Is that one of the thousand dogs that got killed after it mauled that child that needed something like several dozen stitches to the face? And that was one of the people, by the way, that contacted us after my father died in 02/2009.
We had so many letters coming, you know, tribute letters to my dad. People that absolutely loved and adored my dad, and I never even knew most of these people, and they wrote letters to us. And, you know, that really sounds like one of these evil white men that just, you know, went out and his goal was to genocide the native people and and to ruin their old lifestyle. Right? But I just told you a story that is completely opposite to that. So, yeah, that was an an an interesting story where I knew from my personal experience and knowledge that what they were bringing us in the mainstream news now, decades later, is just based on nothing. It's false. I think the Inuit, in general, they were they were changing a lifestyle. It was on their own accord. I think maybe they found it easier to ride around on a skidoo and hunt with a rifle than to go with a sled dog and their old spears or whatever. Like, it of course, it's easier.
And, and then maybe there were a lot of dogs around. Maybe some of them it wasn't an isolated incident there what happened to that one toddler. Right? So there were all kinds of things in the background, but, oh, no. It was evil white man that went and destroyed their lifestyle. You know, this this kind of thing, I'm just I'm I'm really quite fed up with these stories. And, you know, what back to the Graves stories, like I say, they've been showered with money, pumped full of money, and they haven't uncovered a single bone. Instead, they'll say, well, oh, this is so traumatic and I think we need to let the children rest for now.
And, you know, now it's four years later, and they still haven't dug up a single grave or anomaly because they know this is the key. They know they're not gonna find any bones. They know it. So they don't want that story to be busted open.
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Yeah. It's there seems to be a kind of, epidemic's a bit strong, but there's there are a lot of incidents like this where and the and one of the common themes is that whichever nation it's taking place in, in your case, obviously Canada, the people, us, our people, have got something to be ashamed about that happened in the past and therefore someone needs to be paid for it. And this seems to be like another version of that. I mean, I'm trying to think of it. No doubt we'll be hit with all of these things. You know? It just goes on. You hit the nail on the head. There there is an epidemic of this, and I would say that it it is all about
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making us have this thing white guilt. Right? Yep. All of these stories. And it is all to do with this war on our people. That's what it is. And, you know, this is one of the ways they go at it. There's so many other like, it's full spectrum warfare going on against us, and it's irregular warfare. So most people are oblivious to the fact that we are in a war. You know, this this is the part that makes it more dangerous, I think, than if the war was actually, overt and clear. And they say, okay. We, the x y zed tribe, we don't like you, the white people, the Caucasian people, the people of European descent, and we are gonna go about now killing you.
Mhmm. I mean, they do say it. They do tell us. You know, you've got people like Noel Ignatiev, Harvard professor, but this is so insidiously kind of veiled for the average Joe Blow that mainstream media, the our CBC that, you know, the Communist Broadcast Corporation. Oh, sorry. Canadian
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Canadian Broadcasting No. No. I think you had it right. We Yeah. Yeah. We've got the Bolshevik. We've got the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation over here. Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. That works. What are we gonna call the
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Australian broadcast? The ABC? What are we gonna call them? I don't know. But but Bolshevik Communist, that that works really well for our respective countries. But, yeah, they're not gonna spell it out for their audiences. They're not gonna spell it out and say, yeah, this tribe that wears those little hats, they they really are after us. They want us dead and gone. But yet they tell us these things, right? They tell us. And, you know, this current story, the way it's unfolding in real time, there are so many parallels, and I won't spell out the other big hoax of the previous century, but you know, the one that revolves around, World War Two, but you know, they're they're the parallels are striking, they wait a few decades to really put out the story because they know if they do it too soon, that the people will have too many real time memories of well, they say, wait a minute. That doesn't make sense. Or, you know, the they've they've ripened us. They've softened us up for these stories, and then they then they bring it out.
And now, you know what? We're called haters or we're called racist if we just barely question this. There are cases of politicians having tried to question these narratives and just say, look. There there's actually no evidence, and these are just alleged graves. And just just trying to add some accuracy to the language, and they get canceled. They get lambasted for being evil racist, for being disrespectful, for being this and that. The other thing, this is happening right now in real time. I'm watching it, and I'm kind of trying to shout it from the mountain tops and from the rooftops about it, as best I can because we really need to break this spell.
That's how I see it. Anyway, back to you. I've talked a lot. No. No. We we do need to break the spell. I think
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I I think it's a it's a thought line that goes deep because it's gonna we're inviting people to get uncomfortable with us and it's tricky. It's tricky, you know, in the sense that what's the actual solution? I mean you've got this episode there. We have episodes over here. There's always a lot of talking. Lawyers come in. They get paid a lot of money. Somehow, we're always told that justice is about to be done or something, and it involves vast sums of money. And whilst all this sort of thing is being paraded about in the papers, where everybody's going and just generally getting run getting demoralized, you know. Aren't we terrible people? It is about, you know, inducing guilt in us for all sorts of things. Apparently, the only people that ever did anything bad and wrong are us. Everybody else is great, you know. Yes. They're fant they never did anything bad at all. Honestly, they really didn't eat one another in the eighteen hundred's in Africa. They didn't.
No. No. No. They were just great. You turned up and you've they were so emotionally upset. They started eating one another because you guys turned up. Really? And it just goes on and on and on. I mean, as I've mentioned, you know, I'm a locationist. I think the whole issue is to do with location because I'm trying to come up with new terms to sort of at least allow white people to hang around in the conversation long enough before they start to feel that it might have gone a bit racist, you see. Because as soon as they feel that, they're kind of out the door, a lot of them. Although, I I I do think that that the, the callous is building up around that as well. I think it's just people are getting,
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they're just exhausted. It's the team. What do you mean by location is? Can you just tell me? Yeah. Sure. So
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the the issue is it's it's to do with location of tribes. It's not to do with the fact that tribes can or cannot get on. We've got history to show periods where people live peaceably with each other for hundred years until King Fatty got really envious about King furball or whatever and they had a big fight. Right? And it's as if white people are the only people in the world that ever do this sort of thing. It's simply not true. It's everywhere you see it. But, my sort of proposition or a proposition is this: you take two or more different tribes, I. E. Races, and you put them in the same location, I. E. In modern terms, the same bit of real estate.
You are everything's gonna get destroyed. I can't tell you when, but I know it will Because history shows that that's the outcome every single time. Because natural forces that are very powerful in individuals just slowly build up. They just do. And people go, no. We can really make it work. But the actual response is, we don't need to make it work. Why doesn't everybody effectively, you know, for what it's a trite term, stay at home Yes. Live with your own. We can relate with one another commercially quite easily. It's not difficult. We don't need to sort of start punching each other in the mouth or anything like that. I know that people have in the past. And I understand many of the forces that bring that about, but it's locationism. Yes. It's it's not to do so they got you hate these people. You got no. I don't hate them. I hate the fact that we're all living in the same space.
This is what I hate. I hate that. That is I have a stronger version and dislike of it because I know where it's gonna lead. You don't. We could make it work. Why? Why would you expend all this energy on trying to make an unworkable situation work? It's it's absolutely mad. It's completely mad. Thank you. It really is. So, you know, it's a bit like, like, I've got a quote so I can't find the clip. I was just looking from Jared Taylor. It's only about thirty seconds long and I can remember most of it. He's been interviewed recently by someone. And she says, how can we make multiculturalism work? And he said, well, it's a bit like saying, how can we make alcoholism work?
It's true. It's just absolutely true. There's there is don't you think? You can think of some other analogies. He's absolutely Respect. Yeah. Let's all cope with alcoholism. I'm sure we can make it work. I'm sure it'll be really satisfying and it'll really enhance the quality of life. It's deranged. And so it's that it's that pursuit of this completely false supposedly great goal Okay. But that is at the root of the madness. Yes. We
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we are not pursuing this. It's that certain tribe that we're not allowed to criticize. The one that we get criminalized for criticizing.
[01:44:38] Unknown:
They're doing this too. The Jehovah's Witnesses you talked about last year. There's Jehovah's Witnesses involved. The Jehovah's Witnesses, I also want we're not allowed to criticize, isn't it? It's true. The witness. Right.
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You're absolutely right. But we've also got a long history. Yeah. I mean, there's a section of our own people who are effectively what you would call race traitors, and we've always had them. Well, okay.
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You're right. You're right. But you know what? We've I again, for some reason, I don't know why I do this. I'm always thinking about why this has happened and it always leads back to that certain tribe that wishes us all mixed up because they have been, influencing us through their psychological warfare for a long, long, long, long, long time. You know? So we grew up I grew up in a different sort of a milieu in terms of my own frame of mind and and how I perceive the world because we were all influenced by their their, you know, they've been dominant in the education, the curriculum, and whatnot.
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What producing really stupid exam papers since 1898?
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That too. That too. But this whole thing this like, why is the word racist the most weaponized word? Well, we have to go to the center of the core of why it's the most weaponized words because they want us to not, want us you know, birds of a feather flock together like what your whole big explanation about location. Like, we don't have to hit each other over the head. We don't have to fight each other. We just want our own living space.
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You know? So Oh, you can't have that, Monica.
[01:46:16] Unknown:
Yeah. I don't. Because then oh, I know. That's the thing. The way we seem to be the only, group of people whose our lands are the ones that are being invaded. Right? Like, I don't I don't see that happening with other races. They they and they all get their own month to celebrate their their ethnicity, but except for the European peoples, we don't get to have a a time to celebrate our own achievements and celebrate our culture. No. That's that would be like white supremacist
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if we did that. Right? It's rich rich culture. Well, I mean Yeah. But I was gonna ask you, sorry to cut across you. Can you give a bit more volume, Eric? You're just I've I've got you as loud as I can. Is that is that better? Yeah. Just a little more. That's great. Yeah. Just slightly lower in the mix. Thank you. The what do you have you heard of a chap called Kevin Annette? Yeah. I have. He's he's okay. What what do you know about him? Because I I know something about him. And and it I know very little about him. It's not good. I know that he I know that he was digging a lot of dirt around, and that's all I do know. He he's an absolute
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fraud and an absolute piece of dirt that has caused a lot of
[01:47:27] Unknown:
Don't hold back, Monica. It's well, yeah. I I could I could get a lot more stronger. Allegedly. Come on. We use we're gonna use Guardian, but he's the as far as I'm aware, is he not the source of this He's the source of the Queen and
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and Philip sort of abuse of children's story. Isn't that right? Isn't he the epicenter of of that particular scenario? Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if he is the the epicenter of that story. I I wouldn't be surprised. And now that would also affirm what I said earlier that I I don't, perpetuate that story. Is that the right word? I don't, talk about that story as as something that happened. I I did for a while there for a couple of years, but I don't think there is any evidence and proof of any of that. Whereas, these other things that they are pumping out and, yeah, Kevin Annette, he has been a fraudster, and he is very slick at it. He's very, very smooth and good. So that makes him particularly dangerous.
And so well meaning people on our side, especially I've had some American friends who are wide awake about, oh, you know, lots of things that are going on in the world. And then they say, oh, but Monica, but but but but but Monica, what about this and that? And they learned it all from Kevin Annette. So they believe that, you know, all these stories of how we genocided the the Indian children and whatnot and and it's nonsense. I mean, you know, so and I've watched several documentaries of people getting together on panels, putting it out there, their own experiences with Kevin Annette and how he defrauded them of a lot of money and was a complete fraud.
And they learned by the hard knocks, you know. So they had been completely on board with him, and boy oh boy did he take them to the cleaners. And that that was not just one group of people. It was several groups of people, and they documented, you know, what had happened to them. So, yeah, he is he is not a good dude. So I would say to anybody out there who's still, you know, sourcing their information from something that comes from Kevin Annette, know that this is a fraud you are dealing with.
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Yeah. Well, he's he definitely is the source of that particular story there. What's the situation in Canada with the Chinese? What's going on there? Do we we hear nothing about it, but I've got a relation who lives in used to live in Vancouver. No. He's still in Vancouver. I think he's retired now. And I just get stories every now and again from the major cities, from family connections, a week it's from a distance. I have no idea,
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with an ever escalating Chinese presence in Canada. There there is. And especially in British Columbia and parts of Vancouver, you would think that you have entered China. I did hear also about, I think it was on the site sea dam project. Anyway, there was a work camp up in remote part of British Columbia, and a friend of mine who also worked sort of at a nearby work camp or or was working on the same project but in a different camp, he said that that one camp work camp, they don't even have English on the signs anymore. It's only Chinese. It's like all Chinese workers on that. And then, okay, Vancouver, the big cities. I I'll tell you one thing. The foreign students are like, huge numbers of them have come in as foreign students.
And now I'm picking up information that a lot of them will just pretend to be the students, and they have no intention of going back. They actually are just the the stepping stone to get in and then bring in everybody else. And then you have homes in Vancouver that go for 3 and a half million that, you know, one generation ago might have been affordable for a family on a single income and pay it off in a few years. Like, it's just becoming impossible for even, you know, third, fourth generation Canadian Vancouver families for them to buy a home in Vancouver. I mean, it's just impossible because there's a lot of Chinese money coming to buy these homes. Right? So and other other invaders too, like, you know, Pajeet's Indians, the the dot Indians as opposed to the feather Indians of North America. So, yeah, it's it's a problem. I mean, the policy and now you've got Mark Carney who is in this century initiative, and I don't know if you've ever heard about the century initiative.
Do you know about
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that? No. Please tell us more. Mark Carney, of course, we're all big fans over here because he was so brilliant when he was head of the Bank of England bossing Liz Truss around, you know. And he he comes across as a as a remarkable, piece of sort of human vomit, really. But, yeah, please tell us tell us more, Monica. Yeah. Okay. So the Century initiative. Okay. Our current population in Canada, I think it's something,
[01:52:34] Unknown:
like, forty forty one million. And that's even way higher. Like, it's really expanded since even just, I don't know, fifteen years ago. I I remember it always being around thirty, thirty three million, something like that, but now it's above higher than 40,000,000. Well, he the Century initiative is all about making Canada's population be a hundred million by the turn of this century, like, by 2100. And that's just seventy five years from now, and it wants to more than double the population of Canada. Do you think that is through a nice high birth rate among Caucasian people, or do you think that's from that they will, you know, open the immigration doors to Germans and Dutch and French and, you know, European Caucasian race people? Uh-uh.
No. That is to open the floodgates even wider and actively bring in all these people. And guess what? We have a housing crisis in Canada. So and our own birth rate among our our people is very low. So if we didn't have these invaders coming in, there would be no housing crisis and we would be able to afford to buy homes. But, oh, no, we've got a housing crisis. And so Mark Carney also, that's one of his big promises is to really ramp up the bill you know, starts home home building starts. And so that's that's what we have here at the helm.
That's not good. We need to expose this, you know, talk about it and and stop it somehow. Like, this this this cannot continue.
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And so yeah. That's what we're I mean, tragically, it probably can because it seems to be it's this the similar process, slightly different form of it, is continuing here, under Sir Keith Starmer. And, of course, him and Carney and all of these people, they're in the same club Yes. Really, aren't they? And, you know, so the thread it seems to me is that wherever there are our people who are operating on, as I call it, the fumes of Christendom, I e that structure that gave us the laws that that enabled us to be strong and build most of the Western world and turn it into what it was. Wherever we are, we are to be chewed up and spat out because I suspect strongly it's more than a suspicion I'm reasonably sure that this is at the heart of it.
They can't have people floating around who might start restoring the true law and get strong again. So every single thing that we look at that you know, we talk about everything here. Right? The design of buildings. The way that ladies dress like junk these days. The fact that blokes look like blobs and they've got pipe cleaner arms and bellies and they're all soft. They pay too much video games and have to have their legs taken off. Seriously, I heard this the other day because they've got thrombosis from sitting in front of this, you know when they're in their early 20s. The the whole of the destruction of the family. I could I could go on. In fact, I will. That's what the show is all about. Go on and on and on about it. But but the, all of it has a this is the common theme. It's the common theme and we have got people from our our own tribe gladly participating in this. It would appear, that's all I can say. Now, I'm assuming that most of them are perverts anyway, either sexually and or spiritually and or intellectually. They've become perverted.
They are not actually living a straight life and they're seeking to induct everybody else into this abomination which is what it is. And that they don't see or maybe they do say, they just don't care anymore. Or maybe they hate us anyway. You always get people in your own village who hate everybody else in the village and want to kill them. And it seems as though it's a a collection of those types of people. Like Carney, like Starmer, like all of these others, like Tony Blair over here, like the Clintons, you know, we could go on. We could, you know, have a competition, you know. Can you name 50? We should put it on that exam. We could name 50 people that are masquerading as honest leaders of the Western nations that are actually undermining it. I mean, we wouldn't be short of takers, would we? There's there's many of them. Paul, I I I'm mesmerized
[01:56:57] Unknown:
by the photo that you have up on for this show, you know, the the thumbnail image. Yeah. Me too. I'm mesmerized by that because I doubt if any of those boys turned out to have thrombosis and have to have their legs amputated. These guys, I'm sure that, you know, they look like strapping young lads who are gonna turn into good strong men. And on that subject of men and women, I'm telling you, you started something, Paul, with that show that you invited me on a while ago.
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Should women have the vote? Yeah. How do we take it off them? I I am I am Yep. I'm absolutely
[01:57:34] Unknown:
getting more and more consumed by this topic and, you know, how to unravel this whole feminist agenda and whatnot. And I'm
[01:57:44] Unknown:
I I'll talk to you more about that, you know, another No. We can do it in the next hour. I think we should. I I I think we should we'll open it because we've had an hour and we had an hour or so talking about exam papers, and I'm in a bit of format for what we do in the first. Well, it's okay. We, you know, we can we could bang on about these things all the time and we're going to. I mean, I know I'm going to be banging on about them but the idea is that hopefully one that, you know, as we keep banging into this stuff we every name again hit a little seam of gold and we we get something that energizes us to the next stage. I mean, I still think the great challenge is finding a way to set our own people metaphorically on fire.
We need more people like us who are fundamentally outraged at this and the problem that we have, the challenge is that if you communicate to the other people from your position of outrage and passion, they run off. They do. I can't handle
[01:58:41] Unknown:
that. That's something I've noticed, though. I mean, you look at pictures, for example, from 1960 to 1970,
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how people Bit more volume, Eric. Still a bit quiet. Is that is that better?
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I I I've got my volume full up here. Now, look at how people changed. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I've got it full up, you know. So
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There we go. Back to the old usual. This is good. Is anyway, those now that I was gonna say
[01:59:09] Unknown:
is if you look at 1960, '19 '70, things changed tremendously. 1970 to 1980 then changed. Now from about 1980 onwards, look at fashions and things like that, nothing much has changed. Cars haven't really changed that much. Nothing much has advanced culturally. But do you want it to advance culturally? We want to actually have, you know, enrich our culture
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and, you know, and and make it better. That's the thing. We're not doing that. But Well, let's let's talk about that, and let's talk about the women's vote thing, and let's talk about this so called empowerment of women and all these other things in our too because there's there's so much to an earth on that topic. It's it's a huge one and it's always a good one. We're at the end anyway of hour two and I'll stay here on WBN three two four. So we will be back again, same time next week on WBN, the two hour slot from 3PM 5PM US Eastern, eight PM to 10PM UK Greenwich Mean Time or whatever we're on. British Summer Time is it now, Eric? I don't know what it's called. It's all too fancy and clever for me. We'll be carrying on with the show anyway on Rumble and YouTube and on Radio Soapbox, and on Eurofolk Radio, for the next hour after this short break but, we'll see you all again on WBN next week. I'm gonna play you out on WBN but we're carrying on, with, a song by Henry Mancini. I haven't played I'm gonna play what should I play? What do you want? I could play baby elephant walk, which I love, or I could play what's the other one? The the really pretty one?
Lujon. What do you want? Takers, loujohn or an elephant? What do you want? It's just terrible. Haven't Is everything? I don't know them. You don't know. Just take take take. We'll play the elephant. We'll see you next week. Here's the elephant. We'll be back after this elephant's had a little walk. I was smiling all the way through that one. I think it's an absolutely lovely happy little tune. It makes you want to get your own baby elephant, doesn't it, everyone? Doesn't it? It was beautiful.
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Loved it.
[02:03:52] Unknown:
Oh, you can't beat Henry. We'll probably play out with Lou Jean a little bit later which is one of the most wonderfully syrupy beautiful tunes ever. But, anyway, welcome back to hour three or the final hour of the show this week. Quite a lot of messages which I can't keep up with. Got a very lively set of messages flowing through YouTube so it's brilliant that many of you have shown up there. YouTube's been a kind of tentative attempt here for a few months. It just takes time to build all these sorts of things up and I really do need some slaves around here to work on all this thing. I mean I know it's not the done deal to do that, say things like that but it'd be jolly good if we could just get a few sort of little urchins to help me, which would be which would be great and very lively also in rumble. So shout out to to both of you there and I'm trying to at least I've got them all on one screen and hopefully I might even be able to read some things out. So, really really great to have you all along as we try and build this up and keep on pounding the truth out as best as we can. But anyway,
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yes, Eric. Tell you what,
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You're still quiet. I don't know what to do. What if what if what if I don't know? I'm gonna look,
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before I turn, I'll start twiddling around with some settings because I don't know what the hell's gone wrong. But you see I'm glad you say you weren't gonna start twiddling with your knobs, Eric. I'm glad you didn't say that. Yes. But what I was quickly going to say is, Monica may not realize that, in England, we've got a very highly cultural film about Eskimos. It's called Eskimo Nell, very, very cultured film all about Eskimos, I think. Look it up on Google. And the other one is, Tom Brown's School Days. There was a famous, person that was even though it's an American film, believe it or not, it was supposed to be in great it's supposed to be in England.
There was a famous person who was in it that people may not realize. He's dead now, but he spoke like this, and he was on an opportunity in our friends. So that's a little clue. Opportunity? Oh, yes.
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Yes. Yes.
[02:05:55] Unknown:
I think there's a stick down your throat. Spewey Green. He was actually in Tom Brown's school days. So there we go. Was he? Trivia there. Yes. Oh, yeah. He was. I remember that.
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I remember that. Now the big question is, Monica Sorry. Monica, that wonderful picture that you like so much, which one's Eric?
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And which one is you, Paul? And which one is Patrick?
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Absolutely. This is what we want to know. And the other question is, what have we all got underneath our hats? That's what everybody needs. What are we keeping underneath our hat? Oh. Yeah. Yeah. I I had a catapult. I did have a catapult but when they were made out, you you needed a really good bit of wood. I think you need something like oh, I don't know. You need a really strong tree. I mean, modern catapults are really rather amazing. I was thinking of getting one actually. Are you talking about the sling that he's got? The you're calling that a catapult. Right? Yeah. That's what we call them over here. We call it a catapult. Yeah. Have you got your cat? Yeah. So we all had them as kids.
We all and the the really, key thing was to get very good elastic, and he had to of course, everybody started off with their mother's knicker elastic. I think you would have done that, wouldn't you, Eric? Yeah. Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. The traditional way. Yes. Until your mum says, have you been in my knicker drawer again?
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Yes. But not American knickers because they say that one yank and they're off. Sorry.
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I remember making making slingshots.
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I love that. That's like a dad joke on steroids. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Dear. One yank and they're off. Oh. Oh, it's just very
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Okay. Got it.
[02:07:43] Unknown:
Yeah. I've managed to crank you up actually and and turn you down a bit, Monica. You'll you all sound fine. So I think give us a shout out there in the chat if if the sound mix is a little bit better. So we've got you up to a sensible volume right now. Okay. I I'm on a microphone, a very fancy microphone that I got myself a standard You sound great. It's Eric turns up, tells the jokes. The more jokes he tells, the quieter he gets. I don't know what's going on but it was just anyway, it's fine now. So let we don't need to That's good. We don't need to talk about it. No. That's that's cool but, yeah. Of course. When I went to my school, I was dressed like that all the time. Of course. Were you dressed like that at your school, Eric, when you went to Fockem Hall Grammar? What was it like? Of course. Of course.
[02:08:21] Unknown:
We was dressed like that. By the way,
[02:08:25] Unknown:
The the assuming it, the sound has reset itself for some unknown reason. It keeps doing that. Right. Wow. Gosh. You've got hang on. Woah. Woah. Woah. Right. Okay. Hang on. Just hold on. Bloo. You just blew me up your face. Nice to have you back. That's lovely. Holy moly. Now let me turn Monica up because she's gonna be like a mouse now. Hang on just a second. Oh no. I don't think so. This is a very sexy mic. Really? No. No. I I you don't need to know but I was fiddling around with some sliders and things here to get you both at the same volume. Fiddling with the mic? Yeah. Yeah. I'm a bit of a button player. I had to do it, you see.
[02:08:58] Unknown:
So there we go. That's great, Eric. That's nice. Anyway, so that's wonderful. But what why why is my microphone resetting itself for some weird reason? Because we had it perfect at the beginning of the show. It went back to 50. 90 out of 90. So
[02:09:10] Unknown:
I just don't know. I know. That's too much. I can't cook.
[02:09:15] Unknown:
Dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip well, I tell you what, we we had a school uniform, and my parents had to pay out for a cap. None of us wore caps. None of us. So that was something that was never worn. Funny, ain't it? It is. So, yeah, no. School uniform very much. I thought it was crap.
[02:09:34] Unknown:
I just didn't like it. Well, I'll tell one of the school. I I loved mine. I just loved being the goody two shoes at school. Now I wasn't the goody two shoes. But, a little school thing, and then let's get on to how we can rob women of the vote. Because, you know, we could have fun with this. Well, when, let's see, grammar school. Yeah. I went to a boys' grammar school. I'm I'm a jumped up grammar school boy. I think that's a phrase that you call it. Isn't that isn't that from the Johnny English film? She's just jumped up grammar school boy. Oh, jumped up. Is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that from the Johnny English film? Get back in your hole, your little working class yob. And, Kippets and curts. Was that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But on the first day of school, of course, in junior school everybody wears shorts. Right?
And then you've got that long summer and you're gonna leave junior school and you're gonna go to high school or grammar school at the age of 11 to 18. And, so your parents, those those of you your parents that knew what they would, would take you along to the outfits and you get a pair of long trousers but not one guy. One guy one guy turned up in shorts and it was very very bad for him very bad because for the rest of his life at that school he's very bright as well but obviously not when it came to the trouser department he got that completely wrong he was known as Harry hotpants then for the next seven years. That's all he was ever known as simply because he turned up in trousers. It's not much of a story, is it? He's one of those sort of English schoolboy sort of things that was quite innocent at the time. But, yeah, Harry Hotpants. And that's and even if I signed today, that's the first thing I would oh, Harry. Harry Hotpants.
[02:11:13] Unknown:
Well, we got a check called Card, and he came from a big family. I think about 10 of them. So he was dressed in his brother's hand me downs. So he had trousers or, pants, as you call them in Canada. They're about four inches above his ankles, and National Health Glasses. Now, I must explain what National Health Glasses were like. They were sort of round and they were such crap that they were always held together with sticky plaster because they're all used to fall a bit, you see. Jimbo's wire glasses, National Health glasses that that children I I do. Yeah. Yeah. And they would often be held together. You know, people would use, That's right. Medical elastoplast, wouldn't they, to hold them together and stuff like that? That's it. Well, poor Very exciting stuff. Poor old Carl was always picked on all that, but he was very, very clever at mathematics. He was quite a clever kid. And I've got a story which is a little bit in length.
Might tell it later. It's, it's about my usual subject, but it actually did happen. But what I was going to say is Card, I'd later found out that he went to America, and he became a a university lecturer and did very well over there. So there we go. And he's still extra riches. Put sticking plaster around his glasses as a university. Special outfits. But Yeah. We had the mayoress come to the school. And, let's put it this way. She was wearing a a skirt that's a little bit too short for her age, and it's bloody great straw hat and a kind of flowery, dress that looked like a sort of, well, it it it looked like a, a flat floral sort of outfit. And she thought she was given the Gettysburg Address, you see. And she stood up, and she's going on and on and on. Now, at our school, we had these microphones that I think were from the second World War because, you could they could pick up any sound at the front of the audience, but not necessarily on stage. See? So, you know, your people will be talking again.
You know, things like that. Well, for some unknown reason, card was standing right at the front under the microphone, which is very, very strange for Card. He was standing there looking up at his bearest. Whether he's looking up her skirt or not, I do not know. But anyway, on with the story. And, she she was going on and on. And there was, a house as she went into the school. It was a janitor's house because, you know and there was all beautiful plants plants in there. She said, as I walked in toward the, theatrical pause, the squirrel to the air, I noticed the janitor's house that had roses, theatrical pause, that smelled of that that smelled beautifully, and she's and there was a pulse, subtly, far and carted out the loudest fart you could ever wish to hear, and it brought the whole school down with laughter. And I was sent out and given a real strict disciplined sort of, dressing down outside.
Stop laughing, boy. It's not funny. I smelled this rose, and it smelled so beautiful of
[02:14:37] Unknown:
at the time, it was tough. Something about something about the schoolboy jokes. You know?
[02:14:46] Unknown:
Eric, you should have been in our family. You know? The two older brothers and, oh my goodness, there were there were some good jokes going on. And the biggest jokester of all was happened to be my brother, Alfred. He really was. He's funny guy, funny funny funny. But I just see that Patrick is in the chat, but I don't see him in the show. I don't know if you're gonna bring him in, Paul.
[02:15:09] Unknown:
Oh, I wasn't even looking, you see. I'm looking I'm reading all the things, aren't I? Yeah. I don't know the things. Yes. But in our private chat. Patrick. Welcome. How how how is it out there in cheese land in Wisconsin? How are things and have you found a hill to roll cheese down? That's what we really want to know. Hey. Hey. Hi. Am I quiet enough? You're too quiet. We can barely hear you. Oh, it's okay. I got it. Alright. Okay. You were teasing. Well well done. You got me all worried then. Fantastic. Oh, I'm going mad here.
[02:15:34] Unknown:
I'm doing alright. Kind of kind of a gloomy Wisconsin day. You were telling me about the gloomy English day today, but, we got the same here. But it's nice weather out. No no jackets required.
[02:15:50] Unknown:
So quite good. A little drizzly. Oh, that's great. That's good. That's good. Well, that's great. Anyway, we were just about to get Monica, I wanted to ask you, your schooling, did you go to an all girls school or did you go to a mixed school? What was it like for you?
[02:16:06] Unknown:
It was it was mixed, boys and girls. Yeah. Right. And it was when I was sometime in elementary school, perhaps grade five or so, when they lifted the rule for girls that we didn't have to wear skirts or dresses anymore. And because we didn't have school uniforms, but we did have certain etiquette and girls were supposed to wear dresses or skirts or whatever, you know. And A dress code as it were. Yeah. I guess it was a dress code and then that was lifted and I remember distinctly how there was there were a few girls who just were so jubilant. They were just like, they threw their books in the air when the announcement came through the overhead and just were absolutely euphoric over that. I was kind of neutral, but I was happy. I just saw, yeah. Okay. Like, you know, we climb trees too and stuff like that. So it's all good. But, you know, I see that all as part of the drive to where we are now, where anything goes. There's I sometimes think about the things that not only the students are wearing but some of the teacher female teachers are wearing. I'm thinking, hey, you forgot to finish getting dressed. Those are your what we used to call leotards, like the the tights underneath a dress or underneath a skirt. And they don't have anything above, and sometimes you really see their crack because it Yeah. It's so tight and the seam is pulled so tight that they purposefully Yes. Sew it that way that you see that it's just outlining the buttocks completely.
And I find that this is absolutely, it's just unacceptable. If I had anything to do with it, if I was in that school as a principal or a teacher, I would insist upon a dress code that you do not come to school when you're just half dressed like that. And then when I see the teachers doing it, that disgusts me even more. It is so I mean, this is where it's sung to. I'm without words, actually, I'm speechless about it. And in the context of what we alluded to earlier, you know, we did that show a few months ago about the women's vote and all that. I mean, all of the the context together on this is it's just so important. And, you know, it's that certain tribe again that we're not allowed to criticize that has pushed pushed pushed the feminist agenda. They're proud of it. They boast about it because they package everything so nicely.
And, oh, you know, life was so unfair before, and we were just enslaved in the home, enslaved by our husbands, enslaved, enslaved. And so now you should become emancipated and liberated, and now you go out and be in a cubicle. And, I mean, what where has that gotten to us? And and where, you know, you have the the children wearing these god awful tights, and and the teachers wearing these god awful tights and pretend that that's their pants, that there's clothing.
[02:19:07] Unknown:
These same people these same people are the same ones who are offended by everything but immodesty.
[02:19:13] Unknown:
Oh, yes. Good point. Exactly.
[02:19:17] Unknown:
True.
[02:19:19] Unknown:
Oh, such a good point. Offended by everything.
[02:19:22] Unknown:
I've seen teachers covering tattoos. If I was a headmaster, my teacher would be get out. Wouldn't even see be teaching children with loads of filth all up their arms and everywhere. And,
[02:19:36] Unknown:
what gets you Well, obviously, the answer now is to not if you have children or you're about to have them is you don't let them anywhere near a so called school because it finished. It finished obviously in Salinas, Kansas. It hadn't finished by 1898 because they were still setting proper exams. And over here, right through I mean really probably up until it still felt like England around here. I think probably through into the early eighties. After Tony Blair arrived, though, it began to sort of slope all over the place. There's this acceleration of cultural decay all under the guise of progress, and, it's all gonna be great and all this kind of other stuff. It's because, you know, Blair and these other people are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Their confidence is bolstered by who's backing them but they're actually they're I think they're specially selected for their pliable mediocrity and that's why you don't have anybody with any sense of stern discipline. The other thing as well, Monica, coming back to this thing about the dress code that you were mentioning and the so called relaxation of it, it robs us of mystery. This is a it's a terrible thing that's being taken out the world. The the thing is that although it is restraining and people say, well you're all dressed in uniforms to get you to think uniformly. Yeah, but people didn't think uniformly.
Now that they can dress any way they like, they do. They're all thinking the same. Yeah. But, I remember, you know, we wore a uniform at school. If you actually sat in in some of the conversation we had as teenagers, we were 15, 16 through to 18 in the common room and stuff. There was just fantastically interesting stuff stuff with everybody arguing like mad about stuff and having completely very different opinions because there's something about restriction that breeds strength. You do need to be constrained. It works because also it's that buffer that you're about to break out of. Of course, you then discover that everything that you were taught at school doesn't really stand you in much good stead at all in the real world when you turn up for a job. They've been teaching you guff. I mean they taught they taught us less guff. Now, I have no idea because I do sound like a middle aged fart but I guess that's because I am one. But, you look at it you go what? I mean I never thought my schooling was that impressive when I compared it with the way my dad talked about his.
And I was talking about it, who was I talking to the other day? Something about I think it was here. I've got my dad's school report from when he left school, in 1939 at the age of 14 and he was, he went to work at the co op for three years and then he signed up into the Navy in February 1942 because you could, if you volunteered, you could go in at 17. He said, I want to be in the Navy so they took him on. His school report from his headmaster is amazing. It's absolutely, to me, it's just absolutely amazing. There are four paragraphs on it, probably two or three sentences in each paragraph. So we're talking 12 or 15 sentences.
And a bit like the phraseology used in these exam questions that I was quoting half an hour or an hour back, it's so to the point. It's so clear. The problem one of these things one of the problems that people don't see with so called multiculturalism is the complete befuddlement of the language. You've got to have it in this language and that. No. We don't. What we have to do is everybody needs to go home. I don't I'm not here to accommodate the feelings of other people. I barely want to accommodate the feelings of my own people at times because they irritate me just like we do all the time. But at least you don't have to spend four days setting out the terms and conditions. It's as if the communications process is an inexhaustible opportunity.
And I I link all these things together like bloody laser printers, you know, with laser printers. I I dread to think what a school report is now for children. It's probably colossal. Here's your 60 page report on your son and daughter. What? I don't want all this Probably all AI. Yeah. It's just come the more it's as if if I produce a really big document, this is indicative of how intelligent I am. No. It's the other way around. It's how stupid you are. You can't get to the bloody point. Get to the point. And so we've got this wooliness in everything. There's a vagueness in the way that people dress, carry themselves. That's why I put that picture up.
They've all got hats. The hats probably cost more than most common people at the time had in their pockets. I don't know what the hats cost. They're not cheap. I mean these are TOFS at a public school in this in Tom Brown's school days but there's something about that structure of discipline and particularly, you know, if you think about the sexual relationships or that period in life from like, I don't know, 13 or 14 or wherever and it kicks off with you when you're a boy and whenever it kicks off with you you're a girl. It's an amazing period. It's absolutely amazing because you're comp as a boy, you're completely clueless and you know the girls have got the upper hand. Good. They bloody need they need to have it and that's real feminine power at that stage. It's of a different type. But now, you know, as you're saying the teachers just look like, what's the old word? Trollops.
I quite like that word.
[02:24:39] Unknown:
I totally like something else. They're a joke. I see your latest one where you see girls with ripped tights, skirts that just about cover any embarrassment, and hobnail boots, but not feminine at all. And they just call that beautiful with black fingernails, tattoos, piercings.
[02:24:58] Unknown:
They're trying to aglify themselves. Are you sure they call that beautiful? Because I think that, like you say, uglify themselves. It is a deliberate strategy to uglify themselves, and I'd I'd not sure why, but I I'm not sure. It's It's being pushed though. That's being glorified.
[02:25:18] Unknown:
There's people in their sixties that are looking like that now. Yeah. I noticed an older duration. I mean,
[02:25:25] Unknown:
I know. It's sad. Do you ever meet old punks? I probably just offended people who were punk rockers. Good grief. They're hilarious. They're unbelievable. I mean, I saw a guy the other day. Must have been in his mid sixties with a Mohican. And I just thought Yeah. Has it not dawned on you that it was idiotic when you were young but you got some street cred from your mates but now it's just you look pathetic. It's as if there's not been one movement of development in these people's lives and they're still addicted to sort of Oh. Banging around stuck in some kind of arrested development. I mean, by the way, I love talking like a middle aged fart like this. It's just great. The fact that I turned into my dad, I'm now beginning to think it's the most fantastic thing ever.
You know, not you couldn't have told me that when I was 18, but now, it's just tops. It's absolutely wonderful. Out their foolish dreams.
[02:26:14] Unknown:
Mhmm. My granddad always said, self respect. He always believed in self respect. And my mother always taught me, clothes maketh man.
[02:26:25] Unknown:
Clothes what? Make maketh man? Maketh man. Yeah. Clothes maketh Clothes maketh the man. Yeah.
[02:26:31] Unknown:
And, they also make it the woman as well Yes. Because You look at now I've got no time for any politicians. But you look at Trump's wife, the way she dresses. She holds her status as a lady. Why? Because she wears longer skirts. She looks feminine, nicely dressed, neat, tidy. And I I think that, there's very few women that you could say are ladies now, that really do know how to dress to show that feminine charm, but there's an air of mystery about them. That is that is that sort of like a lady as far as I can see. You're more likely to see them in a church
[02:27:16] Unknown:
than out in public. Yeah.
[02:27:20] Unknown:
I know it's I mean, you you see what's walking around now, and it's as if they've got no self respect whatsoever and they're just trying to dress like a tramp. I mean, when you see, Chairman Mao's communist China, say, in the mid seventies, where everybody had to wear denim, you look around now, everybody's wearing bloody denim. So, you know, it's just like communist China, where everybody's wearing a uniform. It it it's it's it's it's ridiculous. I mean, if I go out wearing a suit, I I feel overdressed.
[02:27:57] Unknown:
But once upon a time, almost everybody went out wearing a suit, especially if we're wearing a suit. Are you wearing a suit right now? I am. I've got a suit and tie on for this show, Eric. Good for you. Well, we chose your suit. Let's see what we're doing. The button, and my my bow tie is actually spinning around. I want you to picture it right now as I'm changing. Like And I've got those little lights that flash on my lapels. There's all sorts of things going on here. One has to dress up for for the show. You've got your broadcasting trousers on, haven't you? I've got my broadcasting trousers on, although they sometimes fail me, yes, spectacularly. But they're they're actually holding up quite well with the industrial
[02:28:33] Unknown:
strength gusset, which is required for such manly manly work as this. Patrick was saying that that he's the tall guy, so he's the boy on the right in your thumbnail image. And then I would I was gonna put Eric as either the guy next to him there with the sort of, the look on his face like he's wondering. Or or or maybe the guy doing the slingshot. You know, a little bit of mischief. Little bit of mischief there. Yep. And then Paul would be, I guess, maybe the other guy there. I don't know. What do you think? I I think Paul is the one I should. Yeah. Yeah. I think Paul has the slingshot.
[02:29:10] Unknown:
Yeah. I'll get that signature for you. Stop talking dribble about economics, I say, as I unleash a bullet at his head. Yeah. That's what it is. I did have Eric down as the one second from the right.
[02:29:21] Unknown:
I did. I just That would be me. That would be typically me. The glove. That's it. That was my first thought. But then when then he was kind of telling jokes, he started telling jokes, and I thought, ah, he's got the guy with the slingshot. So there you go. But, anyway, you know, you talk about self respect. That is just such an important thing. Respect in general, that's a very, very important concept, a very important word, but this it starts with self respect reflected in how we present ourselves, how we dress when we, you know, go downtown or into even just mundane activities like go to the grocery store, go to the do our chores downtown, you know, post office, whatnot, and self respect that it's just so important. So if we're these days, the the fad, I think people pay more for ripped jeans and stuff like that. Like, what's that about? That there's no self respect there. You know, I think the thing is, I agree I agree with everything. However, there are times certain
[02:30:19] Unknown:
women can carry certain things off, can't they? And others can't. I think that's all it's about to a great degree. I mean, I hate the tattoos. I hate the face metal. It's just repulsive. I mean, it's literally, why are you doing that to yourself? Why am why are you uglifying yourself permanently? Why would you do such a thing? In fact, it's actually a friend of mine, not a friend of mine, a friend of one of my sons, a young lad, had one of these little things to his nose. He's a nice guy and I said you need to take that out. I I I could only get away with it because I've known him for a long time. I wouldn't say that to a young guy that I didn't know ever in the street or even a young girl, although I am often tempted to do that. But the optics would be awful and I'd be in prison, you know, for causing an affray or something or distressing somebody. But but some of these females do need communication. Will you please stop wear wearing looking like that? Some of us are about to look at you. I I I'm trying to get my breakfast down. I see that at church too. It's like you're in church. What are you wearing? The skimpy dress and, you know, it it it doesn't it's not becoming of a lady.
It's not Well, they've lost they've lost this sense of entire of you. Yeah. I think the subtle feminine charms, which are very powerful, that that oh, it's not overt enough, but it's all about sort of excessive cleavage. Look, I I don't we know that the sex drive is just off the charts at certain parts of your life and you've but it's it's constraining it and containing it really works because it actually amplifies it. It doesn't reduce it. It makes it even better and I know I bang on like some old fart about these things but, you know, if we look at some of the black and white films like from the forties in The States and places like that, the women just look stunning to me. I mean, they're absolutely because they're contained.
They're not actually putting everything out there. That's what makes it amazing. When you put it all out there, there's nothing like this. Like, why is this on offer to everybody in the world then? Is it just a meat market? And, unfortunately, it has become that. It's almost as if the less clothing I wear as a woman, the more attractive I will be. No. It's the other way around, love. It's actually the other way around. We you know. The other thing about Sorry. Give me Or go ahead, Eric.
[02:32:29] Unknown:
Oh, sorry. I've charmed in. Please carry on. That's okay. No.
[02:32:34] Unknown:
I was just gonna say with it okay. Those I I love your comments about, you know, when they were dressed with more modesty, and and that actually was more appealing and more attractive. And it's not a big meat market out there. And and it appealing and more attractive. And it's not a big meat market out there. And and it also coincided with the time when our families were bigger. And so all these trends happen at this they are not coincidental coincidental. It we have gotten smaller families now with the, you know, women going into the workforce, women becoming more like men, and told we can do anything a man can do, and don't be enslaved by your man in a home. So go out and work. Do all these candidates. Guess guess what? Our our families have gotten smaller. So as we contract, well then, oh, now we need workers. So let's open the doors to all these other people to come in. I mean, this was not just a coincidence.
[02:33:31] Unknown:
Yeah. It's planned. It reminds it reminds me of what I heard about what's going on in Africa. They have a Swahili word called Matumba. And what Matumba is, it's it's the clothes that they get on these big ships and big bales. And it's all like secondhand clothes from the West of just like junk trashy looking t shirts and, you know, shorts and that kind of thing. And these people in Africa, they they used to make their handmade, just like beautiful dresses, colorful, you you know, cultural tribal type garb, and they'd make their own clothing.
And now they're just reliant on these these big ships to come in with the Mutumba that have, like, English words, phrases on them, you know, Reebok, Nike, all that crap. And that's kind of what's happened there too. It's it's just it's just it's a it's all a plan and then they come to America. It's like, oh, we may as well come to where all this Matumba is coming from and, you know, continue on searching for the wealth that we can find. And in the process,
[02:34:43] Unknown:
put them out of their
[02:34:45] Unknown:
traditional work. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So it happens there and then that they then they're taken in by it. Well, all this free free stuff, that must be the great place there. Let's go there. But in the meantime, they put behind all their tribal ways of doing things and we're better
[02:35:05] Unknown:
compared to Better for them there where they are. There. Yeah. Exactly. Not to be, you know, say, oh, they're better than us. No. Just better for them to stick to their culture where they are, stick to their place That's right. And all is well in the world.
[02:35:20] Unknown:
Yeah. Yep. It's a happier place. Yeah. It is. Location is All this that's right. It's not it's thermal stuff. Am I right in saying that, I did hear that a lot of Eskimos just reject these these modern materials and still dress in the traditional, I don't know, sealskin stuff and and whatever because it keeps them more warmer. Do you know I mean, I'm sure you you would know more about that, Monica, than I do, but that's what I heard. I don't know how true it is.
[02:35:51] Unknown:
Well, I Are they wearing more leash? Yeah. I can't actually answer that for you know, I I haven't been up in the North in in many years, and so I don't know. I would think that the folks who live in the the small towns in the North that they would just probably dress in our, you know, western clothing. Perhaps a lot of them have kept to their traditions. I hope they have. That would be a good thing. And you're absolutely correct that these furs and, you know, sewing the the furs into their garments, that would be the best clothing for out on the land when it's cold in winter, and it does get cold up there.
[02:36:36] Unknown:
Yeah. I would think that even like the I was talking earlier on the chat about Harris Tweed and how how it would be nice just to have a Harris Tweed jacket. They're they're kind of spendy, but it's made of a natural material, sheep's wool. And and it's, it's, you know, British Isles made, you know, native to your yeah. Exact well, and it's probably really nice. And,
[02:37:00] Unknown:
well, actually, my neighbor gave it to me. And it is it's worth a lot of money. And it is very comfortable and very warm to wear. You can't be wool. Wool will keep you lovely and warm. And I've got a suit that I inherited. I've had to change the trousers modify the trousers because they're a bit flared. I don't like that. But that that but it fits me, and it's my dad's old suit, and that is wool. And moths love it. But I mean, seriously, though, that is so warm. You don't get over hot in it. You just feel just right. And modern, nylons and mixed
[02:37:34] Unknown:
fibers, they're not really good for you. They are absolute rubbish to be straight with you. Yeah. We Because you're overheating them. Yeah. Agreed. The natural fibers definitely definitely definitely superior. I I have a little story that, for some reason, it just jumped into my head, but it's of good entertainment value, I would say. But my dad, he he always was very frugal and, you know, kept things and if things like, he would try to, mend or get my mom to mend clothing for him if if things started to get threadbare and whatnot. But he had these old pants that he had brought along. You know, one of the things he had brought along in in the crate when he came from Germany to Canada.
And when he was working at the in the hospital there in Edmonton, some colleagues of his said, oh, Otto, you're so stylish. I didn't know that you were so stylish, but it turns out he was so far behind that he was ahead because the this colleague said, those pants with the cuffs there, I've only seen those on the, you know, ads from New York City, like, where the fashion houses are. You know, this this must have been in the sixties maybe before cuffs came back, and then cuffs were about to make a scene. But they had started in New York at the fashion houses. And dad had these old pants. They were already 30 or 40 years old, and they had cuffs on the bottom. So he was so far behind. He was ahead in his Yeah. Style.
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Well, the suit that I've got that my dad had, it really does fit you properly. You really you you notice how much workmanship went into suits years ago, and this looks like one of these Italian suits because it it really fits you well. And, again the trousers had to be altered. I've altered the trousers so that they're so that they sort of fit you, correctly because I cannot stand baggy trousers. I was just trying to understand it. But,
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people sort of look at it Can't you? You don't like baggy trousers? I detest baggy trousers. Yeah. So they gotta fit you I love baggy trousers because I think there's plenty of rummage for your scrummages, I used to say. Oh, yes. Yes. Now, but Yeah. Those Chinese type costumes versus briefs. Men's men's nineteen forties and fifties trousers. Those they're just the most comfortable trousers I ever wore in my life. I once bought a a secondhand dinner jacket and suit from Oxfam about 1977. It cost me £10. It was the best suit I ever had. It felt it was falling apart when I bought it but I managed to get sort of three or four years wear out of it. The trousers were just I look so good in those trousers. I really did. Okay. So I just did. I was 19 or something and I just because they still had a bit of the that, you know, that silk ribbon that runs on the outside. So I got the pub in them. We all used to wear we what we dressed it was sort of the punky thing or whatever. I wasn't a punk but I I just I just bought I only had a £10 anyway so I bought this thing and it was just fab and I just felt so cool. The jacket weighed a ton. I don't know what it was made out of. It's like five That's right. Hundred sheep had gone. It was so heavy and it had all these silk little different pockets where I could keep my, you know, my Beretta and things like that in my imagination of course and stuff like this. It was just fantastic.
Maybe we need, you know, here I am just drumming up an idea that I've got no time to actually execute, but maybe we need a kind of, some kind of a movement with regards to clothing that has to start off small like all men should start wearing handkerchiefs or something or we all start wearing cravats. I actually bought a cravat, about a year ago, and I have to say it really does suit me. I look absolutely charming. What's a cravat? And what? Well, instead of having a tie, going around your collar, you you have the you have the you have the shirt open, but the the cravat goes around your neck and goes under your shirt. It's a bit like a scarf.
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Like Austin Powers.
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Yeah. That's right. Yes. I say. I actually
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I I I wear cravats. I I I don't like to. I prefer cravats. And, because remember old Chinese saying, man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day. Sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt that one.
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That's Eric for you folks.
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Nothing rude today, is it?
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No. No. No. There's nothing rude at all. So I don't so if it were for men, if there was a small sort of clothing accoutrement or whatever you want to call it that we could champion. I mean, I like the idea of the pencil. I like the idea of pens. But, maybe we could sell subtle handkerchiefs, you know, for the Fock and Fock range of clothing. Oh, yes. Yes. I've always liked the idea of the Fock and Fock. The Fock and Fock and it needs to be on a tin or something. You know, some guy with brill cream wearing a sort of cravat and everything. I don't know.
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But, what what about pocket watch? I I I think the pocket watch there is something about the dignity of a pocket watch.
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It's a simpler time.
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Well, no. It's not only that. You for example, suppose you're going to buy a railway ticket. Okay? You dress scruffy. The bloke behind the desk will sort of look at you. Although, you can't actually go to a desk now. It's all done by a machine, or you have to do it online. But let's say when you had now if you stood there wearing a suit and you got your pocket watch out and looked at the time and slowly put it back that shows a presence you're saying my time is precious what you do in waiting Whereas, you go to him scruffy and you look at your wristwatch, that means nothing. There's something about a dignity of a pocket watch, and,
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it carries I have one. It's called my phone. Yes. Unfortunately. Yeah. Me too.
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Well, I don't something's gotta get I mean, I I kind of label myself as a neo Victorian. I want to restore Victorianism because it's so repellent to the left that I just think great. That's really good. And I'm also thinking that really with regard to tech, I've had enough of it. I mean, I'm teched up. It's not that I don't know how it works. I use it all the time and aspects of it I love but it's just got out of hand and silly recently, of course, as it all it was always going to. So I also think the handle of being a neo Luddite works as well. Although, maybe that would be lost on the working classes. What are you talking about?
Well, you see the Luddites were these people that opposed the mechanization of of, mills and things. It was putting everybody out of work. That issue, of course, has never gone away. It's the war between usurers and workers, which is the bedrock of all the problems that we're facing. You know, I know I always draw it back to banking because it's just my bent. But, it's always true as well. It is. It's never it's never ever not true that. It's remained eternally true for thousands of years that this is the thing that causes all the problems. And it causes all this distress then pressures on families, then people don't want children. I mean, you mentioned earlier, Monica, you know, about we're always being berated for our low birth rates, but nobody actually bothers to actually have any more sentence to say than that. That's it. You're not having enough children. Well, do you want to actually find out why? It's because as a people, we're responsible. We actually most of our people act responsibly. I can't so they've been thrashed economically and they can't afford them. We've been no. But we've been gaslit about that because
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back Yep. When was that book that by Paul Ehrlich of that certain group of people that were not allowed to critic criticize, and it was called the population bomb. That came out during my youth. That influenced us. That impacted us a lot. And our people, we do have conscience. We you know, we believed all this that, oh, the Earth is overpopulated and we're we, of course, are ruining the planet. And we better have less children. And so who had less children? Our people had less children. All the wrong people. Exactly. Oh, and that's a very racist comment of you to say that, Patrick. Well, yeah. I I I don't I don't mean it to sound that way, but the people that were they were pushing it were the ones that were were self defeating. I'm making a very sarcastic, please please please don't take that seriously. That was extremely sarcastic because that's how they portray us. No. No. No. That that our people were the only ones who who but, you know, to say, oh, all the wrong people had less children, meaning, you know, perhaps people who were responsible and whatnot. I think that was the devious plot all along. Exactly. Exactly. You get my point. I was being a little bit, tongue in cheek there when I said, oh, how racist, because that's what they would say to us. And I actually remember my parents having that conversation that my father saying things like that at the dinner table that, you know, people who have higher intelligence and whatnot, like, we should be having more children. We should. And I just thought, oh, he's so like, that is just awful that he's saying that because that's what had been drummed into me. That cut you know, that that is an awful way of thinking because, you know, this was just a couple of decades post World War two. And and, you know, we've been really told how evil the Germans were and told that they wanted to take over the world and that they, you know, all this, oh, whatever.
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I know, Paul, you don't want us to get too deeply into No. No. I don't mind. Yeah. I don't mind. I mean, I think I think the background to it is is big and simple and therefore not seen, unfortunately, by most of our people at the moment, although more are seeing it. Because they're not willing to engage with what they probably consider because they've been trained up up to this point to consider them as toxic topics.
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But I I yeah. They're they're classed as toxic. And you do you don't have lots of money to have children. No. You don't. That's a big lie. It is. It's true. And if you look at the Amish, the Amish get by with very little but they're they're having lots of children because they don't have a television to look at, so they entertain themselves elsewhere, you know, in another way. Anyway, my to finish my point, my father was right.
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And there are a lot of things that our parents were right about that at the time, you know, we had perhaps frictions with them or, you know, kind of, had bumped up against them. A lot of things, like, that they were right on and that now, later, I I see the light of that. But, anyway yeah.
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Can I ask Well, I you see, I think I think Eric, you're quite You're a bit quiet? Please hurry
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on. Well, I was just gonna say Oh. Eric wants to say something there. Go ahead, Eric. Oh, very quickly. Did your
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dad, whenever he go out, always went out with a shirt and tie? Oh my goodness. Yes.
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How did you know? Always. Everywhere he went. Know. And That was that generation. People used to wear a shirt and tie and and a suit. Always. He he would put on suit. Dress. I remember the dentist when he he moved to Jasper in the last few years of his life so that I could help him out a little bit, and that's where I was living. Right? And I remember people remarking to me and even the dentist's wife, because she used to come to me. We played music together. She was one of my violin students. And she remarked about that, oh how her husband was was so quite tickled and delighted about the respect that my father showed by putting on a suit and tie to go to the dentist, you know, like it that's what he did. At home he wore his oldest raggedy clothes that was patched up and mended, and he had he was very intent on mending old sweater and fashion. That's it. Make two of men. Yeah. Yeah. That's my dad's footsie. He would repair everything. Yeah.
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But possible. Suit and tie. Yeah. There was more reverence back in the day too Yes. Yes. Amongst people. They knew their place in society. They they knew their status, and and they respected higher authority. Whether whatever that higher authority, you know, was. If it was a person or if it was God or or Yes. Let's see another one. A place for it.
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Oh, my dad always had his shoulders back. And he's always pulling my he said, pull your shoulders back and breathe, you know, always sort of, I think that people in those days that went through the war, there was gentlemen and ladies. And I think that's what we've lost where a gentleman is a gentleman to a lady. The people, you know, lady women tried to be ladies and men were gentlemen, and that is it. And we lost it. That that's the thing.
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I think it was probably informed, Eric, as well, by the way that their parents were during World War one or that period, the early nineteen hundreds. Because people didn't have a lot of money but they didn't need a lot because they didn't have a lot of proportion as much debt. We've mentioned it here before. So you wouldn't have much stuff but you didn't need much stuff. You didn't even want much stuff. I don't want I've got too much stuff as it is. I can't get rid of stuff. Same here. He sort of sticks to you and you go, I've gotta get rid of this stuff. Do I really need all this stuff? I mean, my stuff is just books everywhere. I keep breaking my neck on them and stuff like that. But that's just Tell me about it. But but, you know, back in the day, people couldn't afford books until the paperback came along and all these sorts of I mean, really, they're very expensive things. Traditionally, they've always cost quite a bit for people to get them but they could read and do things. So if you had a good pair of shoes, you really looked after them. In fact, they were your pride and joy. My mum was always banging on about shoes. She said, there's no point in having a fine suit and all that kind of stuff if your shoes are not good. She said, because shoes are the first thing people look at, and it's true. If you've got really rough, rubbish shoes on, the whole effect is destroyed because it's the biggest thing you can do on the earth.
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That that's my mum and dad
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to to a tee. Sorry to come up with you. Say, sit up straight, Paul. Stop slouching. I'm not slouching. That's dead. Sit up straight. Right. And stop slurring your words, and don't say sat day. But as you sat down
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so highly polished. I bet your dad, Monica and Paul, their shoes were so highly polished. Oh, you bet. And my dad because he learned I mean, your father was in the army, and that and that your dad, Paul was in the navy. They had to have their shoes highly polished. And my dad, he could well, they were like mirror shined. He showed me how to do it. And now You're a little quiet again. Sorry. Oh, what's going on? Microphone. It's it's something's going I don't know what's going on with this microphone. It just keeps readjusting itself. I'm all the time putting it on the the the sound of it. I have a question for you for you gentlemen.
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Yes. And back back to the discussion about gentlemen being gentlemen and and ladies being ladies. Like, how many have you had had the experience of you're opening a door for a woman, maybe going into a store or whatever, and and she
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snubs you, you know, maybe just, I don't need that or whatever. I don't need that. No. I'm pretty good at sussing those type of women out, and I wouldn't do that for them anyway. So Right. I'm joking. I don't I don't I really don't come across that because I don't you know, maybe I go to church, you know. That's about the time when I see women and I hold the door open and the snow. I think when you're in a social thing, people tend to behave well. But shopping and stuff, these everybody's become more insular and atomized and focused on themselves.
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And, basically, they won't look at you anyway because most people are looking at their phones. Right? And they're automatic doors now. You don't even have to open doors. True. They're so lazy. My shoes, by the way, are absolutely you can see your face in mine. My black shoes. Me too. I'm serious. I once when I bought them, now where did I get this stuff? I was up in London sometime, and some salesman was selling this sort of shoe polish in it was a big shopping center in Paddington. I bought this stuff. I've still got it to this day in about 1988 and I've still got some of it left. You need so little of it. It's this amazing sort of, it's like beeswax. I've forgotten what it's got. It's purely for leather shoes. You only need a little bit. The shoes just they reflect the sun. They're absolutely amazing.
So I and I had occasion to wear them a few weeks ago and I was with my sons and their shoes were okay and everything. But, my shoes I've also got quarter tips in the heels. I think we talked about this before but you you cut the heel, you tuck them to a cobblers. I paid a lot for these shoes. They were the shoes I got married in actually and they're still amazing. They still fit me brilliantly and look great. You can tell you how often I go out to dancing and dinners and things like this, but, you you cut the the quarter off the the back, the outside corner of the heel, and you put metal in there And they were all very they said, why are your shoes making that noise? I said, because this is me recreating what it would have sounded like if the Third Reich had arrived here. They all laughed. I said, this is a proper sound. This is what a man sounds like. This this separates the master from the servant.
It's absolutely fantastic. They're just great and they make me feel strong. You go, this is ridiculous. What are you? A shoe fascist? Yeah. If you like. I couldn't care less. I love them. And, Blakey's.
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That's what you need. Blakey's. Remember Blakey's?
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Yeah. I do. I do. All of that that kind of stuff. But I think some kind of, it's it's wonderful to talk about these things and there's loads more to talk about in this particular area. Finding ways to regalvanize people may be difficult. I mean, the thing about the, the birth rate and what you were saying, Monica about you know that book the population bomb and all that kind of stuff it's true and it's because we're trying to take things on and be responsible in what we know is our own home. But we've been forced into sharing it with people that we were never asked if we wanted them in as tenants and we don't.
We just don't. Now the problem we've got is that no one wants to say it because they're going to do it because they're going to get abused. Well I say it all the time. Yeah. And the thing is you've got to approach it. It's working out bad for all of us which is the plan. It's going to work out bad for them, the arrivees. They go, well, we're help helping them economically. Temporarily, that may be the case. Long term, it's over. It's toast is this place for everybody if you don't get to grips with it and people won't confront it. So, you know, your people are your tribe that's it. But I want to be with everybody. Well, you're on the wrong planet, right? Well, go off. Go away because it doesn't work and if you come up with an example to show me where it does work then I'd consider it but there ain't one, right? And I've looked enough so I can't even be bothered looking or not. There's none. There's not one. Whenever an alien race comes into any other culture that culture's finished. Every single it's finished, it's finished. So the only chance for us now is is it possible in my case to get Englishmen and women to go, 'hey, this is our home. We haven't done any harm to these people and we don't mind helping them but they're not living in our home.' Oh boy.
Exactly. You'll come and see me in prison won't you? Because that's the nub of it and all the other things would flow from that. So all of the work to fix the problem is completely wasted because it's a bit like having a hole in your bucket. No one's pointing out there's a hole in the bucket. Oh, don't look there. No. There's a hole. It's never going to work. It never has. Why are you pursuing it? It's a bit like yeah. I'll play you this clip. Are you ready? This is Jared Taylor just talking for thirty seconds. Where have I got? I think I dug it up. Let me just put it here.
This is just thirty seconds.
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I ask him how he thinks multiculturalism
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could work. That's like saying, how can we make alcoholism and insanity work? How can we make cholera work? How can we make AIDS work? How can we make something that is inherently unstable and will eventually result in my extinction? Why would I even think in terms of making it work when it's clear it is not working and it would require a fundamental change in human nature for it to work?
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Nailed it. That's it. So the whole of the current liberal ideology to pursue equality and and their misuse of the word diversity, they don't realize that they're destroying diversity. All of their drives actually annihilate the natural order of things for everybody involved. But the white guys feel guilty because apparently we caused it all. No. We didn't. We didn't. Though
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to be perfectly clear, and I know you know this, but those who actually are bringing all this about, they know darn well what they're doing. They want to destroy us. Mhmm. Well, and there's a hypocrisy
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there too because they wouldn't do it amongst themselves
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either. Right. Yeah. That's right. They don't. That's right. Well, there's that book that was written by, what's his name? Kevin McDonald. Right? Co, with the completely inappropriate title. I'm not trying to knock his work. I'm I've read some of it. Called A People That Shall Dwell Alone. Right? Have you heard of the book? No. No. Never heard of it. It's in reference it's in reference to the Jewish people. A people that shall dwell alone is the title. It's completely inept as a title. What was it when you think about it? What's his what's he most known for? He wrote loads. Culture is it Culture of Critique? Culture of Critique. Yeah. That's that's And several others. But the title of that book is completely wrong. Why? Like, they are Because it's the complete opposite. Because they're not a people. They No. No. No. No. No. They don't. They're not a people that dwell alone nor have they ever. Okay. But in their own, like, Israel that's what their policy is. Well that's what they say but the actual truth is the people that need to dwell alone are us because it's a biblical thing. It's not addressed at them. And this is part of this confusion. People go 'but they've got that from their Bible.' No, they're not in it. Apart from as Herod or Judas or whatever people don't know this. You know this is part of this entire problem with the whole thing. So the money changes that Jesus threw out threw out of the time. That's right. That's right. We're coming to the end of the show.
I'm just I'm not gonna go out with the same tune. We're gonna play, I'm gonna play something else. Monica, it's been great having you here and I'm looking forward to having you back on a regular basis. I hope you'll come in another month's time or something. Thank you. Yeah. It's gonna be great. And, and Eric and Patrick, thank you very much for this evening. Thank you everybody in YouTube and in Rumble. Yeah. Thanks very much guys and and everybody on Soapbox and Eurofot Radio and wherever you've been listening. We're gonna play you out with 'Luzjean' by Henry Mancini. We'll be back again at the same time next week. See you all then. Have a cracking week everybody and, think about becoming a neo victorian. Why not? We'll see you all then. Bye for now.
Oh, didn't want to work. Where's it gone? Oh, it didn't wanna work. How about that? I've been let down by that. So, technology.
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Just get a hammer. It has. It's just
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let me down. Oh, I can't even play it. Look, nothing will play now. So you're gonna have to I could sing it, but oh, this is so underwhelming and so unimpressive, isn't it? There you go. Eric.
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Eric on the comb and paper.
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Oh, this is quite good. Here we go. Let's give it a go now. Isn't that lovely? Henry Mancini Lujon. This will make you all sleep nice tonight. Bye for now, everyone. Bye bye. Cheers. Okay. Oh, everybody's gone. Everybody's left me sometime.
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Well, hi everyone and welcome back. It is Thursday May 2025 and it's going back to school day to this evening. Actually, probably isn't, but it's all about your education. Well, it's not gonna be all about that. We can't talk about education for three hours but we can talk about quite a few things. Paul English Live 89. Welcome to the show. And I guess you all went to school at some point. It doesn't really end, you know? It doesn't really end, except in that formal sense. Sense. So we're gonna be looking at some old exam papers for a little while during the show. How about that? You're all excited. Yeah. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. What a funny little day I've had today. I've been swimming along really well and, kind of grizzly kind of day today weather wise here.
Pretty atypical for what you would normally expect at this time of the year and I'm starting to grumble a bit but I really can't because I think since the March, round about March, maybe even earlier than that, the weather around here has been absolutely spectacular. So it's only gone a little bit pear shaped over the last few days and I am informed, very positively by my, sons that, the weather is about to improve massively over the next few days again. So there we go. We always like to talk off with a little bit of weather chat, don't we? We really do. I hope you've had a good time whatever you've been doing the last week or so. I had a, a thrilling actually, a I I mean it actually, a really good little outing with Ria Bow on Sunday here on WBN three two four. I rock up there as a guest once a month about every four weeks or so. So it was, it was my turn this week. Good job I remembered actually, but we had some very good, well I did. I'd I spouted off a little bit as as you can probably recall I can do that sort of thing from time to time and I got a big sort of $45.50 minutes of spouting off time which was great looking at things such as race and all that kind of stuff and who our own people are. Really the topics that are most important it's just that, I want to talk about them all the time. You probably don't want to hear about it all the time but I'm hard pressed to think about things that are actually any more important considering how pear shaped, tiresome, and oafish it is to be alive in England at the moment, which, my co host who's here already, Eric von Esigth, will know a thing about, or or two. Eric, good good evening to you. Greeting.
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Greeting. Nothing. How's the weather around in in in nearly sunny Fockham? What's going on over there? Oh, it's it's really nice today. Yeah. We haven't had any rain, and, it's very beautiful. You know, it's a blue sky with a few puffy or puffy white clouds depending on going along actually. Yes. But, no. It's very, very nice. And, my, celery in my greenhouse is coming on a treat. So I'm I'm well pleased. I had some nice celery picked fresh from the greenhouse, all organic. Celery? And celery. Yeah. Yeah. I grow my own celery. I once read a thing about celery.
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Mhmm. That is is if you eat nothing but celery, you will get thinner because you burn off more energy by your jaw movement than you actually absorb into your body from the celery. There's nothing in it. Is that right? Yes. That's that's quite correct. And,
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I actually took, survival Steve's advice the other day, and I found some thistles in my garden. And he said if you scrape all the prickly bits off and eat the stem, it tastes like a cucumber. No. It tastes like the stem of a thistle. It's horrible. Lovely. No. It's not very nice. Yes. But, oh, it's, it's things are jogging along. And, I've noticed the your picture, for the, advertisement Yes. To the go. Is that from Tom Brown's school days?
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I thought it was from, I actually when I came across it, I actually thought it was a picture of you, Eric, at Fockem Hall Grammar, at some point. Well And I was trying to work out which one was you. I think I think you're one of the people I mean, I'm in there as well, of course, but no one will have a guess. I I but I I thought the only clue really is that you're probably wearing a hat, but I have no idea. Yes. Yes. I'm wearing I I think I'm the one behind there looking a bit startled, and you're probably the one with a catapult. Maybe. Who knows? The catapult is a jolly good isn't that catapult a great thing? Do you remember catapults? They were I do. You could buy them in toy shops.
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And, unfortunate well, what happened, my uncle, there where he lived got them banned. Now that's interesting, wasn't it? And you think, what is that? The reason why is his son, my cousin, was blinded in one eye by a kid with a catapult.
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Oh, good grief. Yeah. And that's really not
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That's really I don't like things like that. No. My, my one yeah. Go on. But I was gonna say that didn't get him out of being conscripted into the army, and he's conscripted in the army with one eye. So there we go.
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Really?
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Yeah. With one. Just the one. Just one eye. Yes. He was conscripted into the army. That was he was called up just at the end of the war in 1945 when they run out of can of fodder. So Perfect. And as long as you could stay in and walk, you that's you passed the army medical.
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Anybody could get in. Well, of course, you you did. I mean, now to put everybody out of their misery, of course, it it is a picture of Tom Brown's school days. It is. It is. That film. Yes. And to think that Although I don't know, who's Tom? Is Tom in that picture? I don't think he's even in that picture, is he? I don't know. But do you realize those actors now are in their nineties?
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That's quite At least they're alive.
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They might not still be alive. Who knows?
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Yeah. Yeah. They might not be. But there's something about black and white films. I don't know. It gives them more atmosphere. There's something about the lighting. And I don't know whether you know you remember that, advert for I'm not sure. It was for a beer. We went, Gucci. Do you remember that one in the eighties?
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With Tom and You're talking about
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some and Dave, aren't you? Chaz and Dave. What was that? Gertrscher. Chaz. Chaz and Dave. That's right. Yes. They live near Yeah. You are. Far from me. And when they did that film for the advert, it was filmed in black and white. And there was no one around that knew how to set up the lighting. And they found out the very one of the last lighting technicians that was on the film, oh, the third man. Right. He's still alive. He was in his Yeah. Eighties, I think. And they pulled about retirement, and they said, can you do the lighting for this advert?
And they said, when he was setting it up, people think, does he know what he's doing? He said, everything looked awful. Absolutely awful. The people looked dreadful. They thought, oops, we got the wrong bloke. He said, but when they saw the finished product, it was fantastic. He knew his style. Right? Yeah. But he said, when they were setting up, he said they were the project the the the producer was thinking, oh, dear. Oh, dear. We might we dropped the clanger in. No. They hadn't. And he said, there's there's probably nobody around today that has got that skill.
They really knew how to do it for black and white. So the the when they shot Tom Brown's School Days, you see the lighting on that, that's that's near perfect. They had people that knew what they were doing.
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Yeah. It is a fantastic film. If if people haven't seen it, it's probably a bit ropey, I think, technically. I I called it I mean, this doesn't have to be a show about Tom Brown's School Days. Although Tom Brown's School Days is a book. I have you ever read it? I I've never read it. Never read it. Never read it. No. I saw the film when I was very, very young. I must have been about seven or eight, so I don't Yeah. Wasn't really I don't remember it much, you know. I know it's something No. Me neither. Torture. Well, I I saw it actually, I saw it about a year back, and I may have mentioned on here, you know, this thing about those little stout challenges that one gets in life from time to time. And the one that Tom faces when he arrives at school is, and, of course, it's one of those schools known as British public school type things.
He is he is a he's rather a sensitive boy at the time, but he's got gumption, as they say, which is really rather tremendous. And, any new boy has to stand up on a table in the dining hall, after, I guess, after they've eaten or maybe they've got I think pretty much they've got scraps left, maybe bits of celery left. Who knows, Eric? They might have lots of celery because they probably wouldn't want to do that. And and they have to stand up and sing the school song, whatever it was. Right? Ordeal. Whilst they're being pelted with food. Charles, how nice. Yeah. It's an ordeal by fire, but all he's already met a couple of friends that make, keep on going, Tom. Keep on going. Bang. Bang. Bang. You keep on getting hit with food. And I thought, yeah. Maybe that's what needs to be reintroduced back into British schools. I don't know about you. Maybe that's what needs to be reintroduced, you know.
These ordeals, they are. It's quite a conference, of course, but it it turned young boys into men instantaneously. Possibly, it didn't. I don't know. I mean, that's the legend, isn't it? But, yeah. It's quite a good scene that he's very plucky. He's very plucky. But I remember there's a, there's a site that, I used to visit regularly whilst the author was still alive. He I'd I never no one actually really knows his name. It's a website called Cambria Will Not Yield, And, I may have mentioned it before here but, you know, one keeps on mentioning things because it's always worth re mentioning good things. And, Cambriawillnotyield.com.
And he would write like an essay come sermon. It's almost like a sermon in a way, but very accessible once a week. And they used to get published every Saturday, UK time. They used to arrive about 03:00 in the afternoon. So I guess he must have published them because he's in The States. The only thing anybody really knew about him was that he was a retired law enforcement officer from America, but he sure didn't write like one. I mean, he's absolutely amazing writing. And, if you if you wanna sort of plunge into a more a broader view of all sorts of themes with regards to law, race, true Christian law, I would highly recommend it. I mean, these things sound as if I'm preaching to you. Well, I guess I am in a in a way. I guess that's what it is is to be an advocate of something and suggest that it might do you some good.
But it was tremendous. He used to write a great deal. There's many articles on Tom Brown's School Days, the book. And he rated it as one of the highest, most moral and ethical books you could read. Damn. All for good reading for your sons and daughters. Yeah. Seriously. And you would have to sort of go through some of his analysis or his critiques to really get it. But it really is. Is it Arnold that wrote it or something? I can't remember because Tom Brown creates rugby according to the legend, doesn't he?
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Well, it's it was actually published, I think, in 1857, and it was set in 1830. Right. But it was the film was 1940, it was made. So it made during Yeah.
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World War two. Yeah. So Well, they probably remade it as a as a TV series, didn't they, as well? I'm pretty sure they must have done. Didn't yeah. They had Ian Ogilvy as Flashman, as Flash, you know, the bullet. Oh, hang on a moment. Are you talking about ripping yarns? They're ripping yarns. No. No. I'm talking about the I'm talking about the real one. Really? The really oh, no. Actually, Ian Ogilvy was in there. He was, wasn't he? He was. He was a school bully.
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They had what is it? Crucifying pupils, didn't they? Every year, they they crucified some pupils, didn't they? They sort of,
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on on the side of the building, that one is terrible. Yeah. If you're particularly naughty, you were actually nailed to the school wall. I think you were. Yes. That's it.
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Yes.
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And I remember they got there's several of them were actually up there nailed to the wall, weren't they? It was a it's like a kitchen wall. They were in the outdoors. Yes. They were all a little bit put out by that. I used to love ripping yarns. That was a fantastic series. Well, it it was actually. I mean, it tap it taps into this thing. It taps into this I was listening to someone the other day saying England is lost. You know, you hear this a lot of the time. I know exactly what they mean. I just don't want to sort of mire myself around in it. You've gotta kinda get really close, you know, or or break it down what you think it is that's being lost. But it's not so much as it's being lost. It's more that every as many people are aware, it's gradually being removed through denying us any voice to actually stop it. So we're gonna have to acquire one, you know. That's what, I guess, this show and others are part of that process of trying to find a voice and find the platforms and develop them in such a way that we can halt things that we basically don't want, like everything that the government does. Like, we don't want any of it. Like, we don't even want a government, I would suggest. I mean, why would we want one? Agree with you. Think of one benefit.
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No. We don't want one. I don't want one. Well, you know, I never put an advertisement saying lonely English bloke really would like a government to sort his life out. I never put an advert up for that, did you? You ever advertised for the post? No. No. And Ronald Reagan said, if government took a holiday for a month or two, would anybody notice any difference? No. They wouldn't. Mhmm. If it's supposed and and and that's it. What about when they re test parliament? Does anybody does anybody notice any difference? No? No.
That's the trouble. They don't. And I know. But we we we really do not need, government. I've always said this. But I think that's the big problem. We'd be conditioned to look for a leader from school days. And that's the thing. Yeah. We've they've had this conditioning. And it takes several generations to wind that out of us to be more Well, maybe we can get onto this talk about leadership because I think it's a fascinating topic in the sense that
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I agree with you in what you say. And then I think I've often made the comment that I think it's unavoidable under certain situations. I think it just is. And I think, you you know, even in a conversation, I'm leading it right now because I'm gobbling off, but then I'll stop and let you lead it. You know, you could say, well, that's a bit of a liberal sorry to use that word, everybody. Bit of a liberal use of the word leading, but I think it is, you know, an incivilized company as I am right now, Eric, obviously, as you're well aware. It works, doesn't it? You kind of baton the ideas back and forth. But sometimes, some people in a conversation become inspired or highly energized by something and for the period that they're gobbing off, they get all the attention. I mean, that's kinda how it works. The communication thing is a is a big deal. It really is a big deal. I mean, everything has been molded by the way you and I talk and think, you know, in our own lives personally and those that we've affected.
And then you only have to look at what comes out of the orifices of these so called politicians and and the effect that they have. I mean, I would suggest probably less of an effect on people like you and me and our good audience here. But generally, you know, huge swathes of the public sort of, you know, because they never get the time off to really sort of think about what's being said, I I slowly cajoled, subdued, hypnotized, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Something that I guess we've all went through when we were a bit younger, you know, school, when we were trying to avoid school bully, Eric, you know. Things like this. Well, I actually what I found is if I made them laugh see, I was bullied bullied terribly. But if I made them laugh, they stopped bullying me. So all I thought you were gonna say I thought you were gonna say that you were bullied terribly because you were making them laugh. Stop making us laugh, Eric. No. No. No. It's a good way out.
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Found always come back with something your enemy least expects. So always go back that you it's and this is what I learned to to actually laugh. And if you laugh, you'll find
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that by the time you can calm the situation down and just I I think it's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Or is it at you? No. It's with you, isn't it? Isn't that isn't that their old adage?
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It is. What is it? Something. I don't know. I just made it up. Something like that. Yeah. Was it cry and you cry alone? But, Kingst of Whitlock is Do you, stop it, Harry? What's it? What's it? Fart? Fart? And I I just don't know. I didn't take one.
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18 minutes. Is that a world record?
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Well, actually, the Kingston Winston Whitler said, thank you, Paul and Eric, for being proud of being English. Now Mhmm. There's two things I'd like to say about English because when you look at it, we are one of the most discriminated people there is. And there's such as a political party called the English Constitution Group that has found out a lot about the English. And there's another thing, and I don't wanna harp on too much about the war because there's a lot of bit about it. But there was a a German POW who was captured, and he was brought back to, Cardiff Docks.
And the Germans were told, if you're gonna surrender surrender to the Americans, not the British, because we haven't bombed the Americans. We bombed the British. So they will be the you know, a bit unkind to us. Well, he said it was the other way around. The Americans were brutal to me generally. I mean, he generalizing here to the prisoners, but the English weren't. And he was shocked because when he they they they thought they were gonna be marched through the streets, and people be pelting them and spitting at them and all kinds of things. He said, not at all. He said, as I was walking through, he said, there's a woman waiting across the road with a little child in the pushchair, and the child started waving and smiling.
And the woman smiled, and the POW smiled and waved back. And Pete was sort of getting on with their work. It's almost, oh, wow. And he said, when they got to the prison camp, instead of being met with guards and that, they'd actually put out in the press anyone they were desperate for anyone that could speak English German. And they were met Right. By a Methodist minister, an old boy who was really nice, and, WRVS ladies serving soup, sandwiches, coffee, and tea, elderly motherly types who could speak German, because they put out this, you know, plea for anybody could speak German. And he said they were so kind, but he noticed that a difference between English who were generally beaten down and rather placid and very, very nice and Scottish. She said, we knew when the Scottish were gonna guide us. They were pretty hard. But he said the English in the world were quite sort of placid.
He said, and very nice. Hello. Hello. And we are. We are bloody placid. When you think about it, we've been in slight shape. A nice cup of tea. Oh, yes. Yes. Missus Hodges. Would you? Oh, come on. That's it? Come on. Come on, vicar.
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All that yeah. It is. It's amazing. But you can imagine that scene
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with the Methodist minister speaking fluent German. And and he said there were nurses that were geriatrics. He said they're in his seventies. And they just said, hello. You alright? You know, and they could all speak German. He said, but he said, it's really funny to be met by these elderly people who are giving them sandwiches and tea and see if they're alright. He said, all very kind and pleasant and polite. He said, really treated well. He said he This is good, didn't it? Yeah. And this is But he said, that was an Englishness. And, obviously, Welsh as well because there's there was in Wales. But he said that, and he said the guards, they he said most of them were the old boys in their 50 because they conscripted people in their fifties. In 1951, they moved the conscription age up to 51. And he said they were generally were First World War veterans.
He said they're placid. He said that they're quite pleasant. Oh, just old fellas, you know, he said that who didn't really want any trouble, and they're quite okay. But he said, that was the thing that really shocked them. They expected to be in a hard time with it. They wouldn't expect it to be met by a Methodist minister who could speak absolutely fluent German. And he said it's really weird. And he was an old boy as well. Very old. You know?
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Hello. You know? Oh, I like all I like I mean, I I sometimes think we should do a show about things like neck curtains and scones and stuff. We should really about really minute humdrum things because, no, I mean, one of the things I don't miss so much from, when I moved away from up north was kind of small talk. It used to drive me nuts. Oh, same here. Same here. When I was a teenager having to listen to this. Oh, hello. Hello. Have you seen missus so and so's curtains? Seriously, there are things like this. I'm just sort of losing the will to live as I'm listening to this. There's a big world out there. Why do you have to talk about curtains all the time? But there is that. There is that. Actually, and the and the the ripping yarn stuff used to tap into that in a big way, particularly that sort of northern obsession. It's like an anal obsession with describing everything for hours. There's that bit, isn't it? You know? Yeah. It goes on and on and on. It's exhausting. Like, in The Secret Life of Eric Oldthwaite, you start they start to Oh, that's right. That's what I'm fighting about. Yeah. They they about a shovel, everybody. For you Americans, we are talking about a shovel as a spade. And he said, what does he say? He says, I Howard Molson's got a new shovel, has he?
I used to listen to things like this. They used to actually really happen in front of me. I said, Speer and Jackson number three. Really? How much did that cost? This kind of stuff. And you're going, it's just a shovel. Can we get on with doing the work? No. It's got this embrasure on it. And all it's the detail. It's this obsession with using lots of adjectives to describe Yeah. It's very funny. It is. That's in my It's very funny. That's in that's right. I mean, but my dad used to go to deep I'm not blaming, but, you know, not criticize me, dad. He was great, my hero. Yeah. But he often went into great explicit
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real detail on things that don't really matter.
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I know. I know. It's just draining, isn't it? You can't get away either. They pin you down because they think you're absolutely enchanted with what they're saying, and you go, oh, I don't know about that. Anyway, I haven't given a quick shout out to everybody that's listening. Everybody on WBN three two four, good afternoon if you're in The States. Good evening if you're here in jolly old England. Everybody on YouTube, I've not checked the figures, but I've I've got a wizard little thing going on right now. I've got both of the chats, one from YouTube and one from, Rumble. On the same screen, I've discovered a cunning little thing to save a bit of real estate. So they're both running at the same time. So quick shout out to everybody in both of us. Thanks very much, Laurie, for your kind comments about being on with Rhea at the weekend. I I it's great being it's like a little treat for me because I don't have to press any buttons. I just rock up and start shooting my mouth off, which is great. Maybe I just need to get some need to get an audio slave around here, Eric. You know, somebody to press all the buttons and things. It would. And then I could spend a little bit more time in makeup and and get my cigarette holder all proper, and then we'd be ready to go, wouldn't we? So That's right. We would need
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But what about something else that's traditionally English, which is being lost a frighteningly. Right? And that is different weird things that they did mainly in the West Country, like the Obios. It's not a Hobby Halls. It's the Obios. Anybody heard of that? Where that The Obios. And that was at the Obios at Padstow. And every year, it was like, this is where this kind of paganism is still with us. Even though, the country's mainly c of e, Church of England, we still got these pagan traditions. And another one is they used to run through, a street somewhere in Dorset, I think it was, with a barrel full of tar that was alight on their head. And that just run off. What what about the what about the cheese rolling competition? That's up, Neil. No. Isn't it? You see that where that where that mad.
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Yeah. That's so chill. Shout out in the chat. Remind us. I have you seen the video footage? So listen. I certain English but there's a place in England. People from all of is it England or is it on the border with Wales? I don't know quite where it is. But if something writes in, they can let us know. And they they have to chase that cheese down the hill. That is that the one you're talking about? That's the one. Yeah. And there's broken legs and everything. I mean, it's absolutely insane. It's so it's absolutely mad. This is not a sort of slightly gradual hill. This is a thing of it's near. It's like a sheer cliff. Then off they go and, of course, their legs run out faster than they can go and they go head over rear end and off they go and there are people coming down with all sorts of broken limbs and fractures and stuff like, oh, I've loved it. It's great. I'm coming back again next year. Right. Okay. Well, I worked with an an American. Gloucester. You came straight from the White. Thank you. Gloucester from the Rumblers. Thank you very much for yeah. The Kingston Whittler has come to our rescue again and saved our blushes. Thank you very much, Kingston Whittler. Yeah. Gloucester. So if anybody wants to look this up in Gloucester, they have this thing. I can't remember the name of it. It's quite Cheese rolling.
Is that what it is? Just cheese rolling and they roll cheese rolling as you would. I mean, I know it's I mean, that's actually quite normal because whenever I get a bit of cheese from the supermarket, the first thing I'm looking for is a hill or a little gradient to roll it down. I don't know about you, Greg. It's the first thing that springs to my Well, that's right. Some cheese. I must make it roll down something, You know? Well It's very important. American,
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if you go into I I won't suggest Google, but possibly Yandex or, you know, a a decent search engine. Yeah. And tap in Padstow Cornwall Obios. So it's Obios. And you'll see it one of the most weirdest festivals ever. It is really weird. And they do this all around, you know. And, Patrick said, is it Cornwall with cheese? Right? No. It's Gloucester, which is away from Cornwall. Cornwall has some of the weirdest traditions. They they really do.
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Do you think I mean, what with, Wisconsin being the cheese capital of America, I wonder if they've got any hills. You should have a look at it, Patrick. Yeah. If you Yes. Have a go and have a look at it. Find the thing and see if you can recreate it. And then you could twin up with Gloucester and you could have sort of there could be two legs of it to see how many limbs get broken. You're gonna have you gotta find quite a savage little hill, though. And it is savage, isn't it? That thing is. I don't know what the gradient is, but it's it's steeper than 45 degrees. Let's put it that way. It is, actually. Yeah. Yeah. It's about it's about 50 or 60 degrees. It's nuts. And all these people in the interview at the top. Have you ever done this before? Nobody. It looks fun. Alright.
There's there's ambulance at the bottom. Years of tradition.
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What about that one where they go, downhill racing, where they have these, like, racing cars, and they push them. And it's caught on. They do it in South America now, and they go for miles. And these things get up to a heck of a speed. So what do you mean? Yes. Skatebox. They got crushed helmet on its side and everything. They go down the It looks terrifying.
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Yeah. Well, given that we're going out on Radio Soapbox as well as WBBN, maybe we need the Radio Soapbox Derby. I don't know what that what it is. But I think we need one because it sounds good, doesn't it? So maybe we invite listeners to build their own vehicle. Yeah. It is quite a thing.
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And, anyway, in Essex well, just quickly. In Essex No. They have got the stinging nettle eating competition where they get stinging nettles, I kid you not, and put them in their mouth and eat stinging nettles.
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Good. Oh. This is where this is Essex, is it, Eric? Essex. Yes. Yes. Essex. Essex explains a few things now. I'm glad you've told me that. But now now I some things that were puzzling me have become crystal clear. They eat nettles. Okay.
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Although nettle soup's supposed to be fantastically good for you. Yeah. The the sting goes I mean, I was told by survival Steve that you could have nettle and cleaver soup, and it's delicious. The sting Yeah. From the nettles goes when you put it in hot water. So you don't have any problems. It tastes like greens or cabbage. No. Not quite cabbage, but like greens. But Yeah. They eat the nettles uncooked and raw straight in the mouth.
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Right. That's okay. That's fine. Well, we need to get some pictures of that on May list. It. Yes. It does. I think it shows something. I don't know quite what it shows. But maybe we could get somebody we could get somebody to actually eat them and then interview them live here on the radio. Do you think we could do that? Can you give me some nettles at about quarter past eight and then let us know when you can talk? Yes. Anyway, Eric, those little chirpy lads in that in that, image from Tom Brown's school days and, you know, harking on with all that and drape things and, you know, I believe in all that kind of stuff, frankly, because, because I just do. I've decided to I mean, it's difficult to sort of look at so called modern education and think that there's anything worthwhile in it at all. You know, you don't even get beaten. I mean, at least that was something to actually tell your mum and dad about or you get beaten again or your mates. You know, you got you got street cred, didn't you? I did. I got caned a couple of times. It was like, yeah. You're in the gang now. And then I bumped into my, I bumped into my cousin who went to the same school about six years before I did, and he told me one day he got caned five times in one day.
And I said, no. Aw. I got twice, and you got five lashings. He said, you're five. I got five. I thought, you know, I said, come and sit down for at least a couple of minutes because we're all tough up north, and, bottoms are made out of leather. But in my school in my school,
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you had to go in and cane the headmaster. So weird school, it was.
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Right. Nettles, nettle eating, beating headmasters. I guess that. Yes. I'm beginning to get more of a cultural backdrop on Essence now, Eric. It's beginning to it's beginning to build up. It's beginning to build up. As you can tell, if you if you actually caught me on on Ria's Sunday show, it's very, very serious stuff. And we do get serious here from time to time, but, also, sometimes we don't. Currently, we're not too serious. But I wanted to bring into your into your thought process, Eric, and the listeners out there right now. This is really rather, because the the picture that's in the show was sparked off by a conversation I had the other day, with Paul Bina.
And I can't remember if it was part of Roger Sales' show or not, who I'm working to get to sort of come on for an hour or so every month, which is I'm kind of sort of restructuring things a little bit around here. And just to let you know, Monica Schafer is gonna be joining us in about half an hour forty minutes for the last hour or a couple of hours of the show, and we're just gonna be getting a Canadian update and all sorts of things there. But, yeah, I was having this conversation with Paul, and we got around to talking about I don't know how it came up. Have you ever seen, those exam papers that were issued in America and Britain, England, in the eighteen hundreds, early '19 hundreds. You ever seen these things?
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I do reckon I have, but I've forgotten
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all about it. So I remember Okay. So Sorry about it. Alright. Well, here's the thing. I'm gonna start reading you some of the questions. Alright? And it's to embarrass you, me, and Yes. All the audience. If you don't think you're thick right now, I suspect in a few moments, you're going to have to revise your opinion, most of you. Of course, some of these terms are kind of ancient, I guess, to certain people. But, I've got a pupil's examination. This is British, this one. Right? Incorporated by royal Royal Charter, the College of Preceptors. I don't know who they were. Alright. This is Midsummer Night eighteen fifty nine. So is this a sort of isn't this a sort of exam that Tom Brown would be taking? What do you think? Yes. Well, he he was set in that 1830, wasn't he? So he would have been probably been more stricter. They had a more difficult question. Oh, yeah. Yeah. By 1859, they were all showing everybody the eighteen thirty exam papers and going, god, we've gone thick, haven't we?
It's someone's looking back. Anyway, just a few questions. I've got an American one which I'm gonna read from. I might even keep pulling these things up from the show. It's just to create a sense of oh, this is, from the arithmetic paper. Okay? I won't burden you with too much, but I'll just give you some ideas. One, what does it say? Says, well, the notes. The maximum value of this paper is 200 marks. No third class candidate will pass unless, unless he or she opt or he would have been obtains at least 30 marks nor any second class candidate unless he obtains at least 40. Okay. So there we go. This is second and third classes. So I guess whatever that means. Maybe you had a first class a bit like we did at school, you know, top stream, middle stream, and mental oaths. I was in the mental oath stream for a mental health. So did I. Yes. You know, purely for market research purposes and social understanding. You know, I think that's why I went down there to see what it was like.
It was during my horsing around, couldn't give a flying, you know, years. Those sorts of things which happen when you're a young lad. And if they don't, this you've you aren't grown up right. Anyway, number one, this is arithmetic. Right? Define Yeah. Reduction and practice. Explain multiplication and division as applied both to integers and to fractions. I'll just wait a few moments while you whip out your fucking whole pencil and write it down. K. Don't worry. K. Number two. Now this is where it gets cool. I love this stuff. Two. Reduce. One. Three hundred and 40 five thousand six hundred farbings into threepances, shillings, and pounds. I'm serious.
I'll say this again. Embracing yourself. I hope you're all paying attention. You've got a pencil and pad out there. Maybe this is the new radio sound quiz that we're going to do in the future. I need to do one. Reduce 345,600 farthings. Nobody don't even know what a farthing is, right? Which is very interesting. Interthrrepancies, shillings, and pounds. Number two, 12,345 English l's, I don't know what an l is, e l l s into quarters, nails, and inches. Three, a 70 miles into furlongs, poles, and yards. Flat of l. Yeah. This is number three, find by practice the value of 3,825 articles at £2.17 shillings 4 and a half pence each.
Do you like this? Isn't this cool? $18.59. This is average school kid of nine could work all this out, you know, and still, you know, go down pit and work for his father. How about this one? Number four. How many tons of coal can be purchased for £315.03 shillings 10 and a half pence at 17 shillings 3 and a quarter pence per ton?
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Bloody.
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They're good, aren't they? Aren't they? This is the British Royal Caribbean. The American ones are just as tough. They're just as amazing in terms of what they were expecting from people. Right?
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Yeah. According to professor, Edward Dutton, he believes our IQ and it's strange. It he said I think it was 1859, but don't hold me on that. I think it was 1859. He said our IQ has started to nosedive since 1859. It's actually gone down.
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And It doesn't mean one minute to seven, does it mean? It doesn't mean 1859. We've only been going an hour and a bit. Well, there's a theory that Yeah. Only the strongest
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survived before the Industrial Revolution. And after the Industrial Revolution, people survived childbirth who wouldn't normally survive. And that created a kind of a not weakness. And then when you come to think about it, communism was strength up around about the eighteen forties when that first and second generation of those who survived childbirth that normally wouldn't have done came along. Because it was hygiene which increased the more, which actually, helped childbirth because we became more hygienic. So when you think about it, you know, our IQ is going down. I mean, for example, I don't I think your father was probably been the same. My father was a walking calculator. He didn't need a calculator calculator machine. He would actually calculate it in his mind.
Mental arithmetic. He was genius at it. Absolutely genius. He would get there long before anybody else. Mind you, he was, after a while, he was, hold on. I'm gonna sound like, our dear and gracious leader, Keir Starmer. My dad was actually for a short time a toll maker. He certainly made a toll in you. Yes. He made the toll. Yes. He was very bad. He actually had a built in spirit level where he could put a picture on a wall. You put a spiritual spirit level on it, even a spiritual level as well, and it'd be spot on. You didn't need a spirit level. It is it it you can actually get things spot on by eye. That's, that he he he would calculate everything. He did carpentry. He calculate everything in his head, and he he he, you know, change. He was spotted instantly.
By the time you picked up your calculator, he got the answer.
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Well, I've I've said this about decimalization that that ten's a pretty rubbish number. I mean, I'm trying to be as intentionally retarded as I possibly can and go back as far as we can because, apart from which, we've lost guineas. And I have no idea why I love the sound of the word. I mean, the guinea, of course, is to do with the slave trade, really, isn't I think that's where it sprung up. £1.01 shillings. That extra shilling was the commission to the salesman. You know, you're paid in guineas. Yeah. So they get paid in pounds, but the the the extra shilling on the it's 21 shillings, right, which nobody knows what we're talking about. Right? But proper money, real money, used to have 20 shillings to the pound, and they used to be 12 pennies in every shilling. So 240 pennies to the pound. And people go, what on earth is this? Oh, it's genius. That's what it is. Because you can do an awful lot more with 240 than you can with the number hundred. It's useless. It's a hundred. Two I mean, 360 is even better. It's an amazing number. You can do tons of it. Let me give you a few more of these wizzo questions. Okay. Because I just that. I never stopped delighting in even reading them out and just watching my brain go all funny.
How about this? A wheel makes 514 revolutions in passing over one mile 476 yards and a foot. What is its circumference? That's cool, isn't it? So you need to work out how many inches there are in one mile 476 yards and a foot and then, divide it by 514, you'll find so that's pretty straightforward. I mean, I can work I can't sit down and do it. How about this is nice. A person bought 1,763 yards of cloth at 5 shillings 3 and a half pence per yard and retailed it at 6 shillings and 11p per yard. What was his profit? And another one on money, a bankrupt owes £3,549 and can pay 17 shillings 6p on the pound.
What are his effects worth and what loss do his creditors sustain? These are just general are there wizard ques don't you think he's great? These are sort of practical questions. It's really good. Yes.
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You know? It's like It is it is And and I think the other thing is the names we had for coinage. Like, for example, if you went down a market and you say, how much is that? You say, give us a dollar. Now a dollar was 10 shillings. That was slightly 5 shillings. 5. No. It's 10.
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Wasn't it 10 shillings? Yeah. I'm but it ain't been, but don't take 5. It was 5 bogs. It was a dollar. Because it used to be 4, $4 to the pound in the nineteen twenties. And that's where it came from. There used to be I mean, I know it's what? It's $1.20 now, but but it used to be $2.80
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and, I thought it was 10 shillings.
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Yes. No. There used to be $4 to the pound, and therefore a dollar was 5 bob. We completely confused everybody. Nobody knows what we're talking about, but I do. So a bob is slang for 1 shilling, and a shilling today is 5 measly pee. But back in the day, if your if your auntie gave you a shilling, god, the amount of ice cream you can get for a shilling was just unbelievable. I know because I did.
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I saved up five and six. Five and six was and I was bloody super rich. I'm gonna afford a corgi toy for that five Wish I'd known you then. Yeah. Bloody hell. I strut strut myself strutting around the school. I've got a five and six in my pocket. I've saved it up. My mate. Moneybags, Eric. Hello, Eric. Yeah. Yeah. Remember me, I'm your best friend.
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I'm a gob stop. Honest.
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It's surprising. And, the the other one, what was it now? There was a name for bits. Who was the bloke before Churchill? What was his name there? I've got a old dot piece of paper. What was old crumbs?
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A Thruppen bit. I thought it was just a Thruppenie bit. Is there a is there actual name for it? Is there?
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I think A Thruppen. That's interesting. What was now, Chamberlain's first name, he introduced the throttling bit. Yeah. And they used his first name. I'll just look that up. Hang on. Nevilles. That's it. They called them Nevilles. So there should I'd be a Nevilles. Not where I'm in the Yeah. Well, apparently, in the thirties, when he introduced them, and Fortis, they called them Nevilles. And then that gradually went out because they used to be a silver throaty bit, wasn't it? And then they changed it to a kind of brass, so it's strictly bit. And he introduced it. That was Neville Chamberlain. So they called him Neville. Yep.
Yeah. So that was another no. But I don't understand why in America, they're called dollars bucks. Where did the buck come from?
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It's to do with, I think it's to do with buckskins that you could buy.
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Really? Yep.
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Didn't know. If there are any, American types, any of you American lost in the rumble or the YouTube chat, confirm that is something to do with the price of buckskins. Yeah. It it is. I'm pretty sure it is. Or it might be that buckskins were actually used as money at some point. They could have been, you know, in remote areas when people ran out of money, Eric. I think that that's something to do
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with that. Yeah. I've just I'm looking close. And it just said Yeah. In 1967, '10 shillings became $1.
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So it's probably in the late sixties, they said give us a dollar. Yeah. It would have changed by then, but in the nineteen twenties Yeah. When we were down In the twenties. Yeah. It used to be $4. It's all to do with whatever you could get. So it would have been 10 shillings because they used to be $2 and 40 or something to the pound. So 10 bob would get you a dollar.
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Yeah. Because this is in '60 because I remember going down to markets and, the blokes, you know, they'd say, how much is that? The blokes said, give us a dollar and it's 10 shillings. I I want you to spend a month in the late sixties. Yeah. You know, a few minutes ago, when we were talking about people talking about things in far too much detail. I think I'm just going into that. Yeah.
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Guess what? I'm doing it too. Oh, no. That can't be the right change for that. It is. Yeah. I'm sure. Anyway, I'm sorry everybody who who doesn't know what we're talking about, but you've got it it might have might have intrigued you. Let me give you one last question for now from this mathematics paper. I'll just work it out. Alright. If I get it's just the way the questions are structured. There's only about 30 words and the and they just get you go. If I get eight ounces of bread for 6p when wheat is 15 shillings a bushel, what ought a bushel of wheat to cost when I get 12 ounces of bread for 4p?
I can't even get my brain around that. Do you want me to say that again? It's such a fantastic question. If I get eight eight ounce yeah. So you're right. Our IQ is really going through the floor. Where's AI when you need it? Right? If I get eight ounces of bread for sixpence when wheat is 15 shillings a bushel, what ought a bushel of wheat to cost when I get 12 ounces of bread for fourpence? There you go. Of course, I don't know how many ounces there are in a bushel, so I'm lost
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because I'm sick. I've lost that knowledge. But also, had hectares, didn't they? They still use hectares, but Oh, I love hectares. Don't you? You got a hectare. Well, there was there was a there was a children's show called Hector's House. Now I used to think it's something to do with Hector's House when I was a kid.
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I would love a nice hectare myself. Oh, yes. Yes. I've got a weakness for them. I've got a weakness for them. Do you know?
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The retail trade, in architecture is we, officially use metric, in architecture. But if you do any, say, you're designing, doing architecture in a shop, it'll all be worked out in feet and inches per square foot. So they look at their sales area as per square foot, not in metric. They still use and, people think, yes. We're totally metric. No. We're not. People still buy a pint of beer, I believe. You can still get a pint. So Right. Something that that shocked me because I spent a little time, you know, in the design of, I'm sorry to say, the supermarkets and things.
And, it was all worked out in square footage. So that was a Right. A bit of a cultural shock. Yeah. Yeah. But who remembers slide rules? Anybody remember slide rules? I've still got one. Well, I should say that. Slide rules. Yeah. Yes. I remember slide rules. Staedler used to make them. I've got a Staedler one. And, I don't think you buy them anymore. You you can buy them. So can I now they were something where you could actually use a slide rule, and there's no batteries, not solar or anything like that? You it was all by sliding a cursor backwards and forwards. And, yes. That's that's, they they went out when pocket calculators came in. So that's something else that, you know, engineers used to use, but they don't use now. It's all calculations.
So, and I bought one of the first Sinclair calculators, and it was crap. And then it cost £20, and it is absolute. It must have been all and and then, of course, Japan flooded the market with pocket calculators soon afterwards, and they become dirt cheap. And look at them now. I bought a scientific calculator the other day in the pound shop for what which they don't sell things for pound for £1.50. Seriously, £1.50, which is what, you You know, pennies. Yeah. And it it it's a proper scientific calculator.
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It's it's got all the Well, but now that you are issuing your own Fockham Hall pencil, we don't need anything like calculators. All you need is sheets of paper and pencils and a brain that works. Let's jump on over to, an American exam paper. I'm sure everybody's thrilled by this. I don't know whether this makes for good radio but I'm quite enjoying it myself. So you'll have to shout and say, good grief. Can we get on to sorry. But, what are we threading into it? I think this drop in IQ and, you know, there's good and bad things probably to say about Victorian education. No doubt. There are many people can can come up with reasons why it's a dreadful thing. But somehow, I'm I'm afraid I just tend to see it through rose tinted spectacles, beating, shouting at people, masters walking around with mortarboards on yelling. I mean, what's not to like? It just seems grand. I mean, it just seems forceful.
Breeds character. That's what I would suggest even though I would probably be wimping and sniveling like any other little boy, you know, being yelled at if I was nine years of age. I'm sure it's pretty grim at times. Anyway, this is, this is really, I suppose, for our American listeners if you're out there, I'm gonna read a few questions. It's called actually, I've got a question to ask first. I need an answer somewhere in the chat. It says, could you have passed the eighth grade in 1895? Anybody got any idea? I don't know if you do, Eric, but has anybody in chat got any idea what age you are when you sit the eighth grade or you're in the eighth grade? I'm just having a look because I don't know how old it would be. Just to get my brain around it about how old you would have been in the eighth grade. Anybody? Any takers? Obviously. No. Not seeing anything as yet. Right. Maybe something. Students thirteen to 14 years of age. I'm too lazy. I can't be bothered to do a search. I could, but then you'll hear me clashing about on the keyboard. Yeah. There needs to be looking. To 14. It's considered the third second, third, or fourth year of middle school.
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So there it is. Right. In The UK Okay. Year eight is the second year.
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So So we're talking so basically, the people is 13 to 14 years of age. Yeah. Young teenage. Alright. Then brace yourselves, everybody. You ready? I'll tell you what's interesting as well about this. I mean, I don't know if this is the entire exam, although it might be. Let me just have a look at the entire page. It's broken into, five sections. Grammar, you've got one hour to deal with with seven questions. Arithmetic, 1.25, I guess an hour and fifteen minutes. US history, you've got forty five minutes on that. Orthography, and we'll come to that in a second. We'll be able to tell what that is, from the questions. Time, you have an hour. And geography, also an hour. Let's start off with a few grammar questions. Okay? I'll just read it out. It said, eighth grade final exam from Salina, Kansas 1895.
And thank you, Paul, for sending this to me the other day. It says this in the notes says, this is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 for 14 year olds. Okay. We'll we'll give them the benefit of the doubt. From Salina, Kansas, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal. Alright? Grammar. You've got an hour. I'll give you the seven questions and we'll just go through the questions. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters. Nine. Okay? Number two. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
Three, define verse, stanza, and paragraph. Four, what are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of do, lie, lay, and run. Five, define case, illustrate each case. Number six, what is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation. And question seven, it seems to be seven through 10 maybe. It says write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. For 14 year olds.
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Bloody hell.
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That's a Who needs AI if you've got everybody tuned up like this? You don't need it. It's junk. Yeah. Anyway, there's no such thing as AI. It's just a big tape recorder. I'm just I mean, I don't even use the thing. It's just incredibly silly. It's good for doing images for the show though from time to time. That's pretty impressive, isn't it? What do you think? It's good? That is incredibly impressive. It's fantastic. It's just Yeah. You know, you go back. So this is for 14 year olds in 1895. Arithmetic got one point two five hours, I assume, an hour and fifteen minutes. That's what it means. Name and define the fundamental rules of of arithmetic. Alright.
Number two. Mhmm. A wagon box is two foot deep, 10 foot long, and three foot wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? You see, I don't know what a bushel is. I'm thinking on this stuff. I'd have to look at what a bushel is. No. I've lost I mean, I've heard of it, but I don't know what it is. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 pounds, what is it worth at 50¢ per bushel deducting £10,050 for tare, t a r e?
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Don't know what that is. That'd be good. Brilliant, if you know what these were. Yeah.
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Yeah. It'd be brilliant. We'd be geniuses if we could do we'd be able to sort out England if we could work this stuff. If we could pass this 1895 exam, we'd be more qualified than any politician in England right now. They're that stupid. Right? They wouldn't be able to pass this. Right? Oh, I wouldn't. And I we can come on to that in a second because I do think they ought to have to pass the exam to become a politician. Now I mean it, and it should be tougher than this. Number it should. Number four, district number 30 three has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at 50 pound $50 per month and have a hundred and $4 for incidentals?
I don't know. Find the cost of 6,720 pounds of coal at $6 per ton. Well, that's yeah. You need to know how many pounds there are. How many pounds are there in a ton? You say, I don't know. I don't know. Stupid. I don't know. I forgot I did know, but I can't remember now. And, of course, it's because they've still used to kill the guy. And all this metric stuff. I hate metric. It makes you stupid. It just does because it it's just it's Well, I I actually I actually think in imperial, but works in metric. So somebody said a meter
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to the Yeah. You're going three foot two. I was about three foot. Yeah. Yeah. It's about three foot. Me too. And, an inch, somebody says 25 millimeters. Oh, it's it's an inch. And I used to be able to convert backwards and forwards backwards and forwards in in in the head like that. And that's, but I I still think in imperial even though we're supposed to be fully metric, and we have been since officially 1971. But, you know, it it it it's much easier, I find, to think of an inch and and and and that. The strange thing is that America
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is still imperial. They still work in imperial, don't they? Which is So it's a much nicer word as well, isn't it? Don't you think the word imperial is great? Imperial is yes. You know what you're doing. It does. It's as though you're in charge of Metroid is froggy French, isn't it? It came about after the, bloody Napoleon.
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Yep. Yes. It it is actually French, unfortunately.
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I know. Although a scientist chap friend that I've got did point out to me, and I suppose, you know, this I'm now revealing even more stupidity that I possess, that, the metric thing stitches all of science together. So you've got things like kilograms and a thousand grams and and all it all seems to work. It's all comes together,
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you know. So, apparently, you know, a cubic meter of water is what? A metric ton. Is a metric ton different to a proper ton, a British one? Yes. There's tonnase and and things like that. And I tell you something else, it gets me is kilometers per hour. That means absolutely what's it all to me. It's gotta be miles per hour. I mean, oh, it's, you can go 15
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kilometers an hour. What's that? What is it? I don't know. Tell me 15 miles an hour. I've got some idea what it is or 20 miles an hour. And I know that's 80 miles an hour is bleeding fast. A hundred miles an hour even faster. So there we go. That that's it. Well, whenever I choose to waste a few hours watching motor racing or tennis, which I do. Right? They have a speed clock on the tennis thing, and they're always quoting me out in kilometers an hour. I have no idea. So my quick rule of thumb is, the way I calculate it as fast as I can is 80 kilometers an hour is 50 miles an hour spot on. Right? That's that's your measuring thing. So every eight kilometers an hour is five miles an hour, and I can usually be able to work it out and get a proper sense of speed. When they say, we're doing 320 kilometers an hour, I'm going, what's that in proper money? It's 200 miles an hour by the way. So it's, that's right.
So I centigrade to Fahrenheit, once it you double it and add 30. That's the way Yeah. That's where you get a rough idea. Oh, that would come back and add 30. Let's throw in a couple more questions here because and then we'll go to a song. And then after the break, we might be joined by our guest. I've not even checked yet because I'm just so engaged with all these wonderful questions. How about this one? We did the thing at so much per ton. Find the interest of $512.60 for eight months and eighteen days at 7%. Okay.
Find bank discount on $300 for ninety days, no grace at 10%. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods? I don't even know what a rod is. You know what a rod is? Rod The farmers over here still those must be English measurements that got flown over there. They've got to be. Right? Write a bank. How about this? Number 10. Write a bank check, a promissory note, and a receipt. See? They're different. How about that? Okay. We're coming to the end of the hour and, I hope you've all passed the exam and you feel suitably stupid having having heard these questions. That was the whole purpose was to basically embarrass all of us, with our complete lack of ability and compass mentalness around these things and just to show how stupidly we've all been trained into all this sort of stuff.
I'm gonna play a song, and I'll tell you who sent it to me, once I'm whilst it's playing. This is by, Colby Acuff. Never heard of him before. It's called If I Were the Devil. How about that? But it popped up on the Telegram chat earlier today and shout out to whoever sent it. I'll look up the name in a second. We're gonna do this and then we're gonna, come through or come back for hour two. You're listening to Paul English Live here on WBN three two four and other assorted streaming outlets.
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One, two, three,
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If I were the devil, first thing that I'd do is I'd come off like I ever gave a damn about you I'd let you catch a peak of all your greatest desires I'd watch the flames in your eyes burn like hellfire. Find all the wolves in the land And I'd make them fight each other tooth to nail and hand to hand Find all the sheep, make them stir up the pie. Because once the wolves have killed each other, sheep are what I want. The devil walks among us friends. I know this is true. And I don't know if he's red, and I don't know if he's blue. One thing that I know need to take a look around. If I were the devil, this world wouldn't be my playground.
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I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I'm gonna be a little bit more than I thought. I
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cry. I want to brainwash my parents, and I have the world I'll be in every schoolhouse lecturing little boys and girls. Devil walks among us friends I know this is true And I don't know if it's me And I don't know if it's you One thing that I know need to take a look around. If I were the devil, this world wouldn't be my playground. My final act,
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I'll tell you what it'd be.
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I have everyone so medicated they could never see. A glove and hugs on horned head would be hard to scat, and the best part of it all is they can climb their demise. The devil walks among us friends. I know this is true. And I don't know if it's me, and I don't know if it's you. One thing that I know need to take a look around. If I were the devil, this world was mine to see. Well, I'd witnessed all the atrocities, and it'd probably frighten me. So I run back home with a story to tell. I tell all my demon friends that I always preferred hell.
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Yeah. Thank you. That was, oh, who was that? I just announced it, but thank you to Matthew six. I think you know who you are for actually saying that. Colby Acuff, a c u, double f, If I Were the Devil. Delightful little song. Didn't even get chance to listen to all of the lyrics, but, great arrangement that, really fantastic stuff. And welcome back to part two or hour two. And, glancing around here in our shambolic electronic studio, I see that we've been joined by Monica Schafer. Monica, hi. Good
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afternoon to you, isn't it? It's your early afternoon, I think. It is. Thank you. Good good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. And can you hear me? Is is it sound okay?
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Clear as a bell. Yeah. Clear as a bell. Yeah. If we get any feedback on volume, don't you worry about it because I'll turn it up here. But I to me, you sound great. So, I think we've got sound levels pretty good. No. You sound fantastic. My first question, Monica, based on our our conversation of the other day is, how did the beef tongue go?
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Oh, that's it is so delicious. That is just the most tender, wonderful meat. And I made a nice sauce for it, chopped it up after I cooked it, you know, and put it into that sauce, and it is absolutely delicious. You probably wish you were here.
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I do. I do. I do. We were talking about tongue a bit. Eric, when you were young, did you did you did your mom get beef tongue in at home? Yes. She did. And this is a true story.
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My, I used to love tongue. And my dad said to my granddad, oh, would you like some beef tongue? And he said, I'll never eat anything that comes out of an animal's mouth. And my dad said, yeah, but you eat eggs, don't you? Sorry. And that was true. That's that's what actually happened.
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Oh, it's all going on over there at Fockham, isn't it? Eating nettles and all this kind of stuff. What? What's going on? No. No. It's fantastic. What is
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Hello, Eric. Good to be with you again. I was gonna say see you, but I'm not seeing you. But it's good to be on with you again. And and also, Paul, it's wonderful to be on your show again, and I'm quite delighted about, you know,
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your invitation to come on a regular basis. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. We'll hopefully have you here once a month or something like that, and it's fantastic. We can get a sort of Canadian update and a and a latest whatever you've cooked update, which we're probably gonna end up being more interested in the cooking, I suspect, because, you know, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach and all that kind of stuff. But, I heard that. I have heard that. You did? Yes. Yes. I did. You've heard it. I think it's true. What do you think, Eric? Do you think it's true? I think it's true to some degree.
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Yes. Yes. Cook, cooking is, leads was it the, leads to a man's heart? Yes. So Yeah. It does. I mean, quite honestly, you know, I I had a girlfriend once whose cooking was so bad, the dog you give it to the dog, and he lick his backside to take the awful taste out of his mouth. You know, that's how bad it was. Sorry.
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Oh, Eric. You you and your saucy jokes. I'm sorry, Monica. You but you've met Eric before. I think you knew what to expect. And what can I do? It's quite infectious, laughing. I do love it. It is. Did you manage to catch, Monica? I because I wasn't watching the studio. I was just dealing with a few things here. Did you manage to catch any of these amazing questions that came from this exam paper in,
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in the late eighteen hundreds in Salina, Kansas? Oh, you know what? I must have missed that part because I did turn it on and I caught bits and pieces of the show.
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And and I'm not sure that maybe that was the context that I missed, but there yeah. I I missed a lot of it, but please, you know No. No. No. It's fine. I mean, I think that's a pretty good excuse because I know you what you're really saying is you couldn't answer any of them, so you're just pretending not to have heard them. I know. We know what's going on, Randy. Try me. Just just try me. Okay. So, you know, we've set a few of these out, but now that you're here and this is closer to you, this is from Salina, Kansas 1895 for the eighth grade. Now we were trying to check the now we understand, and I'm just double belting. Eighth grade is about 14 years of age. Is that right?
Six and eight. Yes. Yes. It would be. Yes. Yeah? Mhmm. Okay. Cool. 14. So I've I'll I'll read some new ones out. How about this? So we did a few on arithmetic. The last one was write a bank check, a promissory note, and a receipt. So this is for people lads and lasses about 14. Pretty impressive, I think. History, US history, they've got forty five minutes to answer these eight questions. Give the epochs into which US history is divided. Two, give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. Well, no. I don't want to because it was actually discovered by somebody else but still that's me. Three, relate the causes and results of the revolutionary war. Four, show the territorial growth of The United States.
Five, tell what you can of the history of Kansas. Is that because Kansas doesn't have much history? No. I'm being slightly cheeky there. Number six, describe three of the most prominent battles of the rebellion. Seven, who were the following? Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe. Oh, I know a few of those. Eight, name events connected with the following dates, sixteen o seven, sixteen twenty, '18 hundred, '18 '40 '9, and 1865. And they had forty five minutes to to rattle through that lot. Wow. Wow. Impressive. It's impressive, isn't it? Extremely
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impressive. And you know what they told us in school? We're always getting smarter. We're always getting better. We're always getting more sophisticated. We're always going upwards on a trajectory that means, you know, back back in the day, they were all stupid and ignorant.
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What a it's so opposite, isn't it? It is? It is. It is opposite. Well, I tend to think so. I think that they've I mean, what comes the questions what what I love about them is that they're so brief.
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They're incredibly brief. Well, it They're only about It challenges the student to actually give, an answer from their themselves rather than just add a sorry, answer a multiple choice, which is these days, you know, more common. Just go a, b, c, d, or all of the above or none of the above or whatever. You know? So then people could just guess. But this actually challenges the student to bring forth an answer out of their knowledge, out of their heads, they have to compose the answer. That's that's very valuable. You know? Yeah. That's good.
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It is. Well, I mean, we don't have to sit on edumacation, as I call this episode, all day long. It was just something that came up from a a conversation I've mentioned earlier that I'd had with Paul the other day and he just mentioned this. And I'd I'd seen these years ago and read them maybe ten or twelve years back and I always remember being dazzled by them. We've been reading out some English ones as well from 1859 which are just off the charts really in terms of the challenge. But it's to do with measures that we don't use anymore, like farthings and l's. I don't know what an l is. It seems to be have something to do with nails and things and all this kind of stuff. But Or the elbow.
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It's some Maybe. It derives something from the elbow. Maybe it's a I don't know. I don't know. I've heard of it, but I don't remember what it is now.
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Yeah. Do do you think do you think Canadian politicians would be able to pass this exam? Oh, gosh. Monica. Are you kidding me? Are you Sort of. Yeah. I am a bit. I'm teasing you a little bit. I am a bit. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think we could we wouldn't be able to find one politician over here that could deal with it. I mean, I know all the audience out there have actually got all the answers, but they're just so shy. They don't want to write into the chat room and brag with all their knowledge. But it's I may it's just I mean, I guess, you know, obviously, the children were being trained in this or the young adults at 14. But it's still it's just impressive. The range of things. Because they sat down and did an exam, basically. Just do this exam with geography in it and arithmetic and, the rules of grammar and and you go, well isn't that really what you actually need? You really need to know numbers and you really do need to know language. And, if you know those things because numbers, of course, are described in language. We can only even mathematics is reliant upon whatever your root language is, English in this case, you know, to be able to to make yourself intelligible.
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How about this? This is not
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Sorry. Yeah. No. No. Well, this is I was just gonna add to that, you know, that examine
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not just numbers and language, but history and geography quite in-depth. It was good. Yep.
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It is. It is. And we we'd have to assume that they've been taught some things about these characters. I mean Well, yes. Morse Morse is the guy that invented Morse code, isn't it? Whitney, I don't know. Bell, I'm assuming, is the guy that invented the telephone.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think so. Or who would oh, Edison did the light bulb. That's right. I was thinking light bulb, but Bell He did the light bulb. Yes.
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Lincoln's the guy that started the civil war. No. I'm just doing that to tease Northerners. He didn't cry. Abraham Lincoln, obviously, I even we know about him. Penn, who gives his name to Pennsylvania is about William Penn, the Quaker, who was locked up for free speech violations over here and therefore moved to America. This is true. He was a Quaker, and they locked him up for for actually preaching sermons in London, and they didn't come on the street. I
[01:15:00] Unknown:
I learned something new today. Thank you for that. I knew that there were lots of Quakers in Pennsylvania. Well, lo and behold, I guess that would be the origin.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The whole of the Quaker thing is quite interesting because these have got I mean, they're known, apparently, as being rather canny businessmen. I mean, it's not something that's floated around here much. Not that much is floated around here, I guess, in in public discourse much. But, I worked in a company that was run by Quakers and they did seem to be rather efficient. A little austere, although they did have a sort of mild sense of humor about things. But, yeah, the the Quakers are the people who found out once the Bible had been translated that you were not to swear oaths.
You didn't swear an oath. That's right. And and business was predicated on oaths. Yeah. And they were banned from Parliament and Hertfordshire,
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where I live, is particularly famous for Quakers. And there was a famous Quaker in a place called where, and people say where where that made, a grotto. There's this place called a grotto, and that was made in the seventeen seventies or something, sometime around about there. And Right. I've been there, and it's very very interesting. And what he did is, he was a, a businessman, and he made a lot of money, but to create employment for people, he had this thing, dug, this grotto dug and then, ships used to have shells that were where they would go out, say to live somewhere and they would, for ballast, they put seashells into the holes holds to bring back. So, the inside of this grotto, Scott's grotto, it's called, is covered in shells. And you can go down there any time of the year, and it's the same temperature.
That's the most interesting thing. So you go down in midwinter. It's it's Yeah. It's a nice it's nice and so I wouldn't say cool, but it's just right. And you go down there midsummer because it gets pretty hot. It's nice and cool down there and I went I visited there in the one of the hottest months and it was lovely and cool down there it's beautiful and it's called Scott's Grotto and it's not sure if the, when I went there it's privately owned but I'm not sure if English heritage own it or anything like that but it was it's well worth a trip. I I it it it you know, it's, not not tourists don't make a point of going there, and not many tourists know about it, but it's called Scotts Grotto. So there we go. There's a little bit of info there and there's That's isn't a Grotto. Friends meeting houses in around near where I live there's a lot of Quakers around here and that's it. Yeah. And, they you you you see him in the local store queuing up for oats. There's Scott sorry. Both of us. So it's a terrible one, that one, isn't it? It's not. But I do like we've actually got several boxes in the houses.
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Sometimes we go through a porridge phase around here, and we're just coming to the end of one. They last about a month. There's There's a month of porridge and then we go, I've fed up a porridge. Now, we move on to something else, you know, like like exotic toast. Listen, I don't want to stick on all this edumacation stuff all night long. But I wanted to just a last few questions here from the Salina, Kansas exam paper of 1895. Orthography. Now I this is funny because the word is almost new to me, so it shows what a dimbo I am. O r t h, ography, orthography. Oh. And we get a gist of it from the questions. There's 10, but I won't read them all out, but they're quite impressive questions. Like number one, what is meant by the following? Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabic syllabication.
Syllabic as in syllables, syllabication. What are elementary sounds and how are they classified? What are the following? And give examples of each. Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals.
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Wow. These are great. I love this, Mark. Hey. Margaret, I don't need to be told that My my my father was suffer from that.
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Sorry?
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My granny had linguals. She got ointment for it, though, and it did clear it up after a while. Sorry.
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Yeah. No. Linguistics and language, it it's very interesting to me. And and my father was always really interested in etymology. There you go. I know that word for sure because that's the origins of words, where they come from. So, yeah, that was always kind of a subject in our in our house, in our home. That part I liked.
[01:19:34] Unknown:
Yep. Me too. I mean, I just think, you know, we'll probably what should I do with these things? I need to start creating a space where I can put links to this stuff so that people can pick them up and things. But, this is on a website called commonplacefacts.com. Commonplace facts Com. This Salina, Kansas paper. And I'll just read one last one for now unless I get the urge later on because I'm just enjoying myself so much. Eight. No. Question number eight. Mark diacritically, that's one word, diacritically, and divide into syllables the following and name the sign that indicates the sound card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, sell, rise, blood, fair, and last. And then I'll just give you one last one here.
It says, use the following correctly in sentences. Sight, spelled c I t e, spelled s I t e, spelled s I g h t. And there's three or four others. It's quite tremendous, actually. That's wonderful.
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English the English language probably has more of those things than any language where you have the same pronunciation but these completely different words with completely different meanings and spellings.
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Yeah. Maybe it's the root of legalese, Monica. What do you think? You know, the whole of the deception of language in courts probably springs out of this. I don't know. Well Maybe. I I I But it does kind of
[01:21:00] Unknown:
But but what the thing with the English language, I've often had well, I have had one thing that I said was that was taken out of context, which is probably more difficult in other languages. You know, I've said something, and people have taken it completely out of context and and and and misinterpret it. So sorry. I just And why do you think that's,
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more difficult in other languages? I'm curious.
[01:21:22] Unknown:
Well, I I don't know because one word in this country can mean several things. It's the way it is actually meant. Right. For example, basket. You could say we can have a basket of fruit, but then it could be offensive. But say, look at that old basket down there.
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That's true. Geyser. Geyser
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is water gushing out of the ground. It which I've got in New Zealand. But you say, look at that old geyser over there. Okay? Uh-huh. It's the same word, but a different context. Yeah. We say we say geyser.
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We say geyser. Really? A geyser. For the water. The water.
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Yeah. Yes. But but yeah. Go ahead. Yep. And so that's the thing. I think that because of that, other languages have, a less so having one word that has several meanings, but it's all calling how it's said. It does happen, but it it is it's it's more so, I think, in English. Yes. I could be wrong. Oh, I think that's it. You know? I think probably German language more descriptive of things, more precise
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Yeah. Maybe. I think that might be the case. Although, they do say English has a huge vocabulary so that you can describe things. I don't know. That's a very good question. Maybe some of the listeners will will, get back to you about this because that's a very interesting subject.
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It is. I need to get a Shakespeare chap on at some point. I've got one in mind, who talks about that period in history when Shakespeare was writing. There's one proposition that there was a collection of writers are actually responsible for the output and that it coincides with a period when they were introducing new words consciously into the English language to be able to move it to another phase. A bit like a great reset in language, to use a modern bit of terminology. It's very interesting. It really is. It's tremendously interesting sort of field of study about you know, because Shakespeare is amazing, except it isn't because most people can't bridge the language gap. It's so your brain sort of grinds the gear when you read these way that they talk, and you go, no. That's that's in the front and in the back, and I got to work it all out. So it slows down a little bit. But, yeah, it's it's fascinating. But look at the words that I've spoken to, which Yeah. Sorry, Eric. Yeah. Please.
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No. I was gonna say, look at the words that have entered into our language because languages are evolving all the time. Now my cousin, he was English, but he lived in Greece for a long time. And he spoke like they spoke in the nineteen fifties Because all he spoke to was other people that had moved there in nineteen fifties. So he hadn't this was before the days of the Internet. And I mean, look at the word blitz. Now, blitz was unheard of in the English language, until World War two. And now we say, oh, we're gonna buy some get some fruit, put it in a liquidizer, and blitz it, and things like that. The other one I said the other week was p as in new or pist as in newt. That was unheard of before the Americans came here during World War two. And what they Yeah. Used to say is pissed as an Inuit.
But where they were in Norfolk, Norfolk people thought it was newt, and it stuck in England. So in England, you'd say pissed as a newt. In the thirties, it was unheard of.
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Things like that. The and and the other one So the Inuits are are a Canadian tribe, aren't they, Monica?
[01:24:49] Unknown:
Yeah. Actually, that's some something I know a lot about. I I grew up in a in a household, in a home where that we were steeped not only in German culture but in Inuit culture because that's the very reason I'm a Canadian is because my father read a book about them when he was a little boy, was so fascinated by the Eskimos, that's what they were called. And he he just it was his dream to go to the Eskimos, and so that is what he actually did. And he met my mother before he left Germany, and so she also came to Canada. They got married, had five children. And in the fifties, they lived in the North. I was born at the end of the fifties, but, we were steeped in in Eskimo culture in our home. We have had a a lot of their art, their soapstone carvings, and we had visitors from the North. They'd come stay with us.
My father told epic stories. You know, when we had company, especially, we always enjoyed that because he he was a good storyteller then about about the Eskimos and some of the, you know, each carving that we had had a a big story around it. So he would give a tour of the the soapstone carvings, and each one of them had an a big story. So that was very, very interesting for me. And so it it gives me some, a little degree of, authority, I suppose you could say, when I now talk about the the lies that they are telling us that they're unfolding right before our very eyes about this Canadian genocide that, you know, the House of Commons passed in less than two minutes a resolution that, yes, Canada did a genocide on the on the, natives, you know, the Indian residential schools, which I guess there were also some Eskimos in some of them. I don't know exactly. But, you know, the Indians that would cover all the the so called first nations people.
And, so, yeah, Canada, you know, there's this big story and that continues here even though they have not cover uncovered a single bone. This story started in May of twenty twenty one, so exactly four years ago because it was late May when they came out with this big announcement that they found these 215 graves of children at Kamloops, the the old residential school site at Kamloops with ground penetrating radar. And, you know, they've been showered with money from the government, which means all of us are paying for this. And many other places in Canada have also been given a ton of money, and they have not uncovered a single piece of evidence to substantiate their claims, you see. So and I have talked about this a lot.
And even the Eskimos, those that I grew up with this, you know, just this big love of them, well, they this, you know, subsequent generation, and they're being indoctrinated, and they basically are jumping on the bandwagon themselves. And I did publish an article on my website. It's called freespeechmonica.com, monica with a k. And you'll find an article there a while back because the Canadian government did an apology to the Eskimos while they call them Inuit now because Eskimo is, for some reason, politically incorrect, but it just means raw meat eater. So Well, Eskimo does. Yeah. Eskimo means the Indians call the Indian tribes called the Eskimos Eskimo because they they were raw meat eaters and somehow in our politically correct world.
And really, it's just for the purpose of scrambling our brains and making us always be on edge of what are we allowed to say and what are we not allowed to say because Eskimos themselves call themselves Eskimos. I know one who lives not far from here, and he's he's maybe just a quarter Eskimo, but he says, no. I'm an Eskimo. And so it's kinda like the Indians. They'll call themselves Indian, but somehow if we say Indian, it you know, they they they don't like that, or we're being told, oh, no. We don't call them this, call them that, don't call them the other thing. Right? It's just to keep us always scrambling. What are we allowed to say and when and keep us always on edge. Right? But, anyway, they got this apology plus, I think it was, like, $45,000,000 payout from the Canadian government because over the course of a decade or two during the 60s and 70s, supposedly the government slaughtered a thousand of their sled dogs and was out to ruin their lifestyle. But I knew something about this personally. So I wrote an article about that.
People can go find that or if you like, I can tell you what that was about in in a nutshell. Do you want me to tell you about it?
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Yeah. I do. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, I mean, my just the little connection that we have here, if it is a little connection, is to do with the royal family's involvement in something to do with Canadian schools. That's an unpleasant story. And I don't know whether that winds into this. But you
[01:30:10] Unknown:
Oh, you know what? I I Please go ahead. I talked about that story for years, but I think it also is a false story. The Queen and Kamloops and all that, or is that what you're talking about? The missing missing children? You know, I think it might be a false story, and I don't, you know, pump that story out there anymore because these are the kinds of things that if indeed it is a disinformation story, it undermines us when we are trying to uncover and tell the truth about matters. And I mean, there's enough that we can talk about that is in real time right now with their lies that they're they're, pumping out about these graves, that that story to me is it's just gone way back on the back burner. And I, yeah, I I read an article maybe, I don't know, a year ago or something that kind of outlined that that is Right. A false story. So I won't go there right now. But, with the Inuit, the reason it perked, it it really caught my attention because Cause they talked about these dogs. Now I remembered a very specific story of when my father was in the North and and my mother and my older siblings.
And, one of these stories had to do with a child, a toddler who had been attacked by one of these sled dogs. And sometimes these things happen. I mean, these sled dogs are kind of like half wild. You know, they're they're domesticated. They're meant to be pulling the sleds. But it was at a time when a lot of the Eskimos were starting to buy Ski Doos and, you know, leave behind that lifestyle of travelling around with dogs pulling a sled. And my father, he was very strong in encouraging them to hold on to their lifestyles, keep their lifestyles, keep their sled dogs, don't be getting skadoos because, you know, if you're out there and you have a blizzard shutting you down for two weeks or whatever and you can't move because this blizzard is making it so that you really can't move, you can't see anything and you would be just inviting death if you move. So you you hunker down, you, you know, make yourself some shelter with the snow, with the blowing, whatever, into a drift snow drift, and it you can you can wait it out.
You if you really got hungry, you could always eat one of your dogs and you still have the rest of your team. Also, the dogs sorry. I'm having I my throat something catching in the butt back of my throat, but you can't Beef tongue. Good one, Paul. Also, as a Ski Doo, it might break down at minus 45, and you might not get it started again. Or you might run out of gas where the these situations don't happen with dogs. They will they will go. They will continue to go. And like I say, you you cannot eat a a Skidoo or a snowmobile.
I guess Skidoo is like Kleenex. It's a trade name, so I should call it Snowmobile. Anyway, so dogs and sled dogs were much safer and better way to go. So there was my dad encouraging them to stick with their old lifestyle. And now decades later, the Inuit are getting $45,000,000 and an apology for the, you know, so called murder of a a thousand dogs over the course of, I think it was ten or twenty years, they were saying. Now, I asked the question and I sent this letter to the CBC reporter and I sent it to several politicians. Of course, there was crickets in return. I never heard a word back but I did publish it, like I say. And I asked the question, so that dog that mauled that toddler because the toddler got too close to it or maybe the dog got off of its tether or whatever when they were in in camp, Is that one of the thousand dogs that got killed after it mauled that child that needed something like several dozen stitches to the face? And that was one of the people, by the way, that contacted us after my father died in 02/2009.
We had so many letters coming, you know, tribute letters to my dad. People that absolutely loved and adored my dad, and I never even knew most of these people, and they wrote letters to us. And, you know, that really sounds like one of these evil white men that just, you know, went out and his goal was to genocide the native people and and to ruin their old lifestyle. Right? But I just told you a story that is completely opposite to that. So, yeah, that was an an an interesting story where I knew from my personal experience and knowledge that what they were bringing us in the mainstream news now, decades later, is just based on nothing. It's false. I think the Inuit, in general, they were they were changing a lifestyle. It was on their own accord. I think maybe they found it easier to ride around on a skidoo and hunt with a rifle than to go with a sled dog and their old spears or whatever. Like, it of course, it's easier.
And, and then maybe there were a lot of dogs around. Maybe some of them it wasn't an isolated incident there what happened to that one toddler. Right? So there were all kinds of things in the background, but, oh, no. It was evil white man that went and destroyed their lifestyle. You know, this this kind of thing, I'm just I'm I'm really quite fed up with these stories. And, you know, what back to the Graves stories, like I say, they've been showered with money, pumped full of money, and they haven't uncovered a single bone. Instead, they'll say, well, oh, this is so traumatic and I think we need to let the children rest for now.
And, you know, now it's four years later, and they still haven't dug up a single grave or anomaly because they know this is the key. They know they're not gonna find any bones. They know it. So they don't want that story to be busted open.
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Yeah. It's there seems to be a kind of, epidemic's a bit strong, but there's there are a lot of incidents like this where and the and one of the common themes is that whichever nation it's taking place in, in your case, obviously Canada, the people, us, our people, have got something to be ashamed about that happened in the past and therefore someone needs to be paid for it. And this seems to be like another version of that. I mean, I'm trying to think of it. No doubt we'll be hit with all of these things. You know? It just goes on. You hit the nail on the head. There there is an epidemic of this, and I would say that it it is all about
[01:37:02] Unknown:
making us have this thing white guilt. Right? Yep. All of these stories. And it is all to do with this war on our people. That's what it is. And, you know, this is one of the ways they go at it. There's so many other like, it's full spectrum warfare going on against us, and it's irregular warfare. So most people are oblivious to the fact that we are in a war. You know, this this is the part that makes it more dangerous, I think, than if the war was actually, overt and clear. And they say, okay. We, the x y zed tribe, we don't like you, the white people, the Caucasian people, the people of European descent, and we are gonna go about now killing you.
Mhmm. I mean, they do say it. They do tell us. You know, you've got people like Noel Ignatiev, Harvard professor, but this is so insidiously kind of veiled for the average Joe Blow that mainstream media, the our CBC that, you know, the Communist Broadcast Corporation. Oh, sorry. Canadian
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Canadian Broadcasting No. No. I think you had it right. We Yeah. Yeah. We've got the Bolshevik. We've got the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation over here. Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. That works. What are we gonna call the
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Australian broadcast? The ABC? What are we gonna call them? I don't know. But but Bolshevik Communist, that that works really well for our respective countries. But, yeah, they're not gonna spell it out for their audiences. They're not gonna spell it out and say, yeah, this tribe that wears those little hats, they they really are after us. They want us dead and gone. But yet they tell us these things, right? They tell us. And, you know, this current story, the way it's unfolding in real time, there are so many parallels, and I won't spell out the other big hoax of the previous century, but you know, the one that revolves around, World War Two, but you know, they're they're the parallels are striking, they wait a few decades to really put out the story because they know if they do it too soon, that the people will have too many real time memories of well, they say, wait a minute. That doesn't make sense. Or, you know, the they've they've ripened us. They've softened us up for these stories, and then they then they bring it out.
And now, you know what? We're called haters or we're called racist if we just barely question this. There are cases of politicians having tried to question these narratives and just say, look. There there's actually no evidence, and these are just alleged graves. And just just trying to add some accuracy to the language, and they get canceled. They get lambasted for being evil racist, for being disrespectful, for being this and that. The other thing, this is happening right now in real time. I'm watching it, and I'm kind of trying to shout it from the mountain tops and from the rooftops about it, as best I can because we really need to break this spell.
That's how I see it. Anyway, back to you. I've talked a lot. No. No. We we do need to break the spell. I think
[01:40:18] Unknown:
I I think it's a it's a thought line that goes deep because it's gonna we're inviting people to get uncomfortable with us and it's tricky. It's tricky, you know, in the sense that what's the actual solution? I mean you've got this episode there. We have episodes over here. There's always a lot of talking. Lawyers come in. They get paid a lot of money. Somehow, we're always told that justice is about to be done or something, and it involves vast sums of money. And whilst all this sort of thing is being paraded about in the papers, where everybody's going and just generally getting run getting demoralized, you know. Aren't we terrible people? It is about, you know, inducing guilt in us for all sorts of things. Apparently, the only people that ever did anything bad and wrong are us. Everybody else is great, you know. Yes. They're fant they never did anything bad at all. Honestly, they really didn't eat one another in the eighteen hundred's in Africa. They didn't.
No. No. No. They were just great. You turned up and you've they were so emotionally upset. They started eating one another because you guys turned up. Really? And it just goes on and on and on. I mean, as I've mentioned, you know, I'm a locationist. I think the whole issue is to do with location because I'm trying to come up with new terms to sort of at least allow white people to hang around in the conversation long enough before they start to feel that it might have gone a bit racist, you see. Because as soon as they feel that, they're kind of out the door, a lot of them. Although, I I I do think that that the, the callous is building up around that as well. I think it's just people are getting,
[01:41:49] Unknown:
they're just exhausted. It's the team. What do you mean by location is? Can you just tell me? Yeah. Sure. So
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the the issue is it's it's to do with location of tribes. It's not to do with the fact that tribes can or cannot get on. We've got history to show periods where people live peaceably with each other for hundred years until King Fatty got really envious about King furball or whatever and they had a big fight. Right? And it's as if white people are the only people in the world that ever do this sort of thing. It's simply not true. It's everywhere you see it. But, my sort of proposition or a proposition is this: you take two or more different tribes, I. E. Races, and you put them in the same location, I. E. In modern terms, the same bit of real estate.
You are everything's gonna get destroyed. I can't tell you when, but I know it will Because history shows that that's the outcome every single time. Because natural forces that are very powerful in individuals just slowly build up. They just do. And people go, no. We can really make it work. But the actual response is, we don't need to make it work. Why doesn't everybody effectively, you know, for what it's a trite term, stay at home Yes. Live with your own. We can relate with one another commercially quite easily. It's not difficult. We don't need to sort of start punching each other in the mouth or anything like that. I know that people have in the past. And I understand many of the forces that bring that about, but it's locationism. Yes. It's it's not to do so they got you hate these people. You got no. I don't hate them. I hate the fact that we're all living in the same space.
This is what I hate. I hate that. That is I have a stronger version and dislike of it because I know where it's gonna lead. You don't. We could make it work. Why? Why would you expend all this energy on trying to make an unworkable situation work? It's it's absolutely mad. It's completely mad. Thank you. It really is. So, you know, it's a bit like, like, I've got a quote so I can't find the clip. I was just looking from Jared Taylor. It's only about thirty seconds long and I can remember most of it. He's been interviewed recently by someone. And she says, how can we make multiculturalism work? And he said, well, it's a bit like saying, how can we make alcoholism work?
It's true. It's just absolutely true. There's there is don't you think? You can think of some other analogies. He's absolutely Respect. Yeah. Let's all cope with alcoholism. I'm sure we can make it work. I'm sure it'll be really satisfying and it'll really enhance the quality of life. It's deranged. And so it's that it's that pursuit of this completely false supposedly great goal Okay. But that is at the root of the madness. Yes. We
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we are not pursuing this. It's that certain tribe that we're not allowed to criticize. The one that we get criminalized for criticizing.
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They're doing this too. The Jehovah's Witnesses you talked about last year. There's Jehovah's Witnesses involved. The Jehovah's Witnesses, I also want we're not allowed to criticize, isn't it? It's true. The witness. Right.
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You're absolutely right. But we've also got a long history. Yeah. I mean, there's a section of our own people who are effectively what you would call race traitors, and we've always had them. Well, okay.
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You're right. You're right. But you know what? We've I again, for some reason, I don't know why I do this. I'm always thinking about why this has happened and it always leads back to that certain tribe that wishes us all mixed up because they have been, influencing us through their psychological warfare for a long, long, long, long, long time. You know? So we grew up I grew up in a different sort of a milieu in terms of my own frame of mind and and how I perceive the world because we were all influenced by their their, you know, they've been dominant in the education, the curriculum, and whatnot.
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What producing really stupid exam papers since 1898?
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That too. That too. But this whole thing this like, why is the word racist the most weaponized word? Well, we have to go to the center of the core of why it's the most weaponized words because they want us to not, want us you know, birds of a feather flock together like what your whole big explanation about location. Like, we don't have to hit each other over the head. We don't have to fight each other. We just want our own living space.
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You know? So Oh, you can't have that, Monica.
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Yeah. I don't. Because then oh, I know. That's the thing. The way we seem to be the only, group of people whose our lands are the ones that are being invaded. Right? Like, I don't I don't see that happening with other races. They they and they all get their own month to celebrate their their ethnicity, but except for the European peoples, we don't get to have a a time to celebrate our own achievements and celebrate our culture. No. That's that would be like white supremacist
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if we did that. Right? It's rich rich culture. Well, I mean Yeah. But I was gonna ask you, sorry to cut across you. Can you give a bit more volume, Eric? You're just I've I've got you as loud as I can. Is that is that better? Yeah. Just a little more. That's great. Yeah. Just slightly lower in the mix. Thank you. The what do you have you heard of a chap called Kevin Annette? Yeah. I have. He's he's okay. What what do you know about him? Because I I know something about him. And and it I know very little about him. It's not good. I know that he I know that he was digging a lot of dirt around, and that's all I do know. He he's an absolute
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fraud and an absolute piece of dirt that has caused a lot of
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Don't hold back, Monica. It's well, yeah. I I could I could get a lot more stronger. Allegedly. Come on. We use we're gonna use Guardian, but he's the as far as I'm aware, is he not the source of this He's the source of the Queen and
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and Philip sort of abuse of children's story. Isn't that right? Isn't he the epicenter of of that particular scenario? Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if he is the the epicenter of that story. I I wouldn't be surprised. And now that would also affirm what I said earlier that I I don't, perpetuate that story. Is that the right word? I don't, talk about that story as as something that happened. I I did for a while there for a couple of years, but I don't think there is any evidence and proof of any of that. Whereas, these other things that they are pumping out and, yeah, Kevin Annette, he has been a fraudster, and he is very slick at it. He's very, very smooth and good. So that makes him particularly dangerous.
And so well meaning people on our side, especially I've had some American friends who are wide awake about, oh, you know, lots of things that are going on in the world. And then they say, oh, but Monica, but but but but but Monica, what about this and that? And they learned it all from Kevin Annette. So they believe that, you know, all these stories of how we genocided the the Indian children and whatnot and and it's nonsense. I mean, you know, so and I've watched several documentaries of people getting together on panels, putting it out there, their own experiences with Kevin Annette and how he defrauded them of a lot of money and was a complete fraud.
And they learned by the hard knocks, you know. So they had been completely on board with him, and boy oh boy did he take them to the cleaners. And that that was not just one group of people. It was several groups of people, and they documented, you know, what had happened to them. So, yeah, he is he is not a good dude. So I would say to anybody out there who's still, you know, sourcing their information from something that comes from Kevin Annette, know that this is a fraud you are dealing with.
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Yeah. Well, he's he definitely is the source of that particular story there. What's the situation in Canada with the Chinese? What's going on there? Do we we hear nothing about it, but I've got a relation who lives in used to live in Vancouver. No. He's still in Vancouver. I think he's retired now. And I just get stories every now and again from the major cities, from family connections, a week it's from a distance. I have no idea,
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with an ever escalating Chinese presence in Canada. There there is. And especially in British Columbia and parts of Vancouver, you would think that you have entered China. I did hear also about, I think it was on the site sea dam project. Anyway, there was a work camp up in remote part of British Columbia, and a friend of mine who also worked sort of at a nearby work camp or or was working on the same project but in a different camp, he said that that one camp work camp, they don't even have English on the signs anymore. It's only Chinese. It's like all Chinese workers on that. And then, okay, Vancouver, the big cities. I I'll tell you one thing. The foreign students are like, huge numbers of them have come in as foreign students.
And now I'm picking up information that a lot of them will just pretend to be the students, and they have no intention of going back. They actually are just the the stepping stone to get in and then bring in everybody else. And then you have homes in Vancouver that go for 3 and a half million that, you know, one generation ago might have been affordable for a family on a single income and pay it off in a few years. Like, it's just becoming impossible for even, you know, third, fourth generation Canadian Vancouver families for them to buy a home in Vancouver. I mean, it's just impossible because there's a lot of Chinese money coming to buy these homes. Right? So and other other invaders too, like, you know, Pajeet's Indians, the the dot Indians as opposed to the feather Indians of North America. So, yeah, it's it's a problem. I mean, the policy and now you've got Mark Carney who is in this century initiative, and I don't know if you've ever heard about the century initiative.
Do you know about
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that? No. Please tell us more. Mark Carney, of course, we're all big fans over here because he was so brilliant when he was head of the Bank of England bossing Liz Truss around, you know. And he he comes across as a as a remarkable, piece of sort of human vomit, really. But, yeah, please tell us tell us more, Monica. Yeah. Okay. So the Century initiative. Okay. Our current population in Canada, I think it's something,
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like, forty forty one million. And that's even way higher. Like, it's really expanded since even just, I don't know, fifteen years ago. I I remember it always being around thirty, thirty three million, something like that, but now it's above higher than 40,000,000. Well, he the Century initiative is all about making Canada's population be a hundred million by the turn of this century, like, by 2100. And that's just seventy five years from now, and it wants to more than double the population of Canada. Do you think that is through a nice high birth rate among Caucasian people, or do you think that's from that they will, you know, open the immigration doors to Germans and Dutch and French and, you know, European Caucasian race people? Uh-uh.
No. That is to open the floodgates even wider and actively bring in all these people. And guess what? We have a housing crisis in Canada. So and our own birth rate among our our people is very low. So if we didn't have these invaders coming in, there would be no housing crisis and we would be able to afford to buy homes. But, oh, no, we've got a housing crisis. And so Mark Carney also, that's one of his big promises is to really ramp up the bill you know, starts home home building starts. And so that's that's what we have here at the helm.
That's not good. We need to expose this, you know, talk about it and and stop it somehow. Like, this this this cannot continue.
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And so yeah. That's what we're I mean, tragically, it probably can because it seems to be it's this the similar process, slightly different form of it, is continuing here, under Sir Keith Starmer. And, of course, him and Carney and all of these people, they're in the same club Yes. Really, aren't they? And, you know, so the thread it seems to me is that wherever there are our people who are operating on, as I call it, the fumes of Christendom, I e that structure that gave us the laws that that enabled us to be strong and build most of the Western world and turn it into what it was. Wherever we are, we are to be chewed up and spat out because I suspect strongly it's more than a suspicion I'm reasonably sure that this is at the heart of it.
They can't have people floating around who might start restoring the true law and get strong again. So every single thing that we look at that you know, we talk about everything here. Right? The design of buildings. The way that ladies dress like junk these days. The fact that blokes look like blobs and they've got pipe cleaner arms and bellies and they're all soft. They pay too much video games and have to have their legs taken off. Seriously, I heard this the other day because they've got thrombosis from sitting in front of this, you know when they're in their early 20s. The the whole of the destruction of the family. I could I could go on. In fact, I will. That's what the show is all about. Go on and on and on about it. But but the, all of it has a this is the common theme. It's the common theme and we have got people from our our own tribe gladly participating in this. It would appear, that's all I can say. Now, I'm assuming that most of them are perverts anyway, either sexually and or spiritually and or intellectually. They've become perverted.
They are not actually living a straight life and they're seeking to induct everybody else into this abomination which is what it is. And that they don't see or maybe they do say, they just don't care anymore. Or maybe they hate us anyway. You always get people in your own village who hate everybody else in the village and want to kill them. And it seems as though it's a a collection of those types of people. Like Carney, like Starmer, like all of these others, like Tony Blair over here, like the Clintons, you know, we could go on. We could, you know, have a competition, you know. Can you name 50? We should put it on that exam. We could name 50 people that are masquerading as honest leaders of the Western nations that are actually undermining it. I mean, we wouldn't be short of takers, would we? There's there's many of them. Paul, I I I'm mesmerized
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by the photo that you have up on for this show, you know, the the thumbnail image. Yeah. Me too. I'm mesmerized by that because I doubt if any of those boys turned out to have thrombosis and have to have their legs amputated. These guys, I'm sure that, you know, they look like strapping young lads who are gonna turn into good strong men. And on that subject of men and women, I'm telling you, you started something, Paul, with that show that you invited me on a while ago.
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Should women have the vote? Yeah. How do we take it off them? I I am I am Yep. I'm absolutely
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getting more and more consumed by this topic and, you know, how to unravel this whole feminist agenda and whatnot. And I'm
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I I'll talk to you more about that, you know, another No. We can do it in the next hour. I think we should. I I I think we should we'll open it because we've had an hour and we had an hour or so talking about exam papers, and I'm in a bit of format for what we do in the first. Well, it's okay. We, you know, we can we could bang on about these things all the time and we're going to. I mean, I know I'm going to be banging on about them but the idea is that hopefully one that, you know, as we keep banging into this stuff we every name again hit a little seam of gold and we we get something that energizes us to the next stage. I mean, I still think the great challenge is finding a way to set our own people metaphorically on fire.
We need more people like us who are fundamentally outraged at this and the problem that we have, the challenge is that if you communicate to the other people from your position of outrage and passion, they run off. They do. I can't handle
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that. That's something I've noticed, though. I mean, you look at pictures, for example, from 1960 to 1970,
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how people Bit more volume, Eric. Still a bit quiet. Is that is that better?
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I I I've got my volume full up here. Now, look at how people changed. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I've got it full up, you know. So
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There we go. Back to the old usual. This is good. Is anyway, those now that I was gonna say
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is if you look at 1960, '19 '70, things changed tremendously. 1970 to 1980 then changed. Now from about 1980 onwards, look at fashions and things like that, nothing much has changed. Cars haven't really changed that much. Nothing much has advanced culturally. But do you want it to advance culturally? We want to actually have, you know, enrich our culture
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and, you know, and and make it better. That's the thing. We're not doing that. But Well, let's let's talk about that, and let's talk about the women's vote thing, and let's talk about this so called empowerment of women and all these other things in our too because there's there's so much to an earth on that topic. It's it's a huge one and it's always a good one. We're at the end anyway of hour two and I'll stay here on WBN three two four. So we will be back again, same time next week on WBN, the two hour slot from 3PM 5PM US Eastern, eight PM to 10PM UK Greenwich Mean Time or whatever we're on. British Summer Time is it now, Eric? I don't know what it's called. It's all too fancy and clever for me. We'll be carrying on with the show anyway on Rumble and YouTube and on Radio Soapbox, and on Eurofolk Radio, for the next hour after this short break but, we'll see you all again on WBN next week. I'm gonna play you out on WBN but we're carrying on, with, a song by Henry Mancini. I haven't played I'm gonna play what should I play? What do you want? I could play baby elephant walk, which I love, or I could play what's the other one? The the really pretty one?
Lujon. What do you want? Takers, loujohn or an elephant? What do you want? It's just terrible. Haven't Is everything? I don't know them. You don't know. Just take take take. We'll play the elephant. We'll see you next week. Here's the elephant. We'll be back after this elephant's had a little walk. I was smiling all the way through that one. I think it's an absolutely lovely happy little tune. It makes you want to get your own baby elephant, doesn't it, everyone? Doesn't it? It was beautiful.
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Loved it.
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Oh, you can't beat Henry. We'll probably play out with Lou Jean a little bit later which is one of the most wonderfully syrupy beautiful tunes ever. But, anyway, welcome back to hour three or the final hour of the show this week. Quite a lot of messages which I can't keep up with. Got a very lively set of messages flowing through YouTube so it's brilliant that many of you have shown up there. YouTube's been a kind of tentative attempt here for a few months. It just takes time to build all these sorts of things up and I really do need some slaves around here to work on all this thing. I mean I know it's not the done deal to do that, say things like that but it'd be jolly good if we could just get a few sort of little urchins to help me, which would be which would be great and very lively also in rumble. So shout out to to both of you there and I'm trying to at least I've got them all on one screen and hopefully I might even be able to read some things out. So, really really great to have you all along as we try and build this up and keep on pounding the truth out as best as we can. But anyway,
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yes, Eric. Tell you what,
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You're still quiet. I don't know what to do. What if what if what if I don't know? I'm gonna look,
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before I turn, I'll start twiddling around with some settings because I don't know what the hell's gone wrong. But you see I'm glad you say you weren't gonna start twiddling with your knobs, Eric. I'm glad you didn't say that. Yes. But what I was quickly going to say is, Monica may not realize that, in England, we've got a very highly cultural film about Eskimos. It's called Eskimo Nell, very, very cultured film all about Eskimos, I think. Look it up on Google. And the other one is, Tom Brown's School Days. There was a famous, person that was even though it's an American film, believe it or not, it was supposed to be in great it's supposed to be in England.
There was a famous person who was in it that people may not realize. He's dead now, but he spoke like this, and he was on an opportunity in our friends. So that's a little clue. Opportunity? Oh, yes.
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Yes. Yes.
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I think there's a stick down your throat. Spewey Green. He was actually in Tom Brown's school days. So there we go. Was he? Trivia there. Yes. Oh, yeah. He was. I remember that.
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I remember that. Now the big question is, Monica Sorry. Monica, that wonderful picture that you like so much, which one's Eric?
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And which one is you, Paul? And which one is Patrick?
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Absolutely. This is what we want to know. And the other question is, what have we all got underneath our hats? That's what everybody needs. What are we keeping underneath our hat? Oh. Yeah. Yeah. I I had a catapult. I did have a catapult but when they were made out, you you needed a really good bit of wood. I think you need something like oh, I don't know. You need a really strong tree. I mean, modern catapults are really rather amazing. I was thinking of getting one actually. Are you talking about the sling that he's got? The you're calling that a catapult. Right? Yeah. That's what we call them over here. We call it a catapult. Yeah. Have you got your cat? Yeah. So we all had them as kids.
We all and the the really, key thing was to get very good elastic, and he had to of course, everybody started off with their mother's knicker elastic. I think you would have done that, wouldn't you, Eric? Yeah. Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. The traditional way. Yes. Until your mum says, have you been in my knicker drawer again?
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Yes. But not American knickers because they say that one yank and they're off. Sorry.
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I remember making making slingshots.
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I love that. That's like a dad joke on steroids. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Dear. One yank and they're off. Oh. Oh, it's just very
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Okay. Got it.
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Yeah. I've managed to crank you up actually and and turn you down a bit, Monica. You'll you all sound fine. So I think give us a shout out there in the chat if if the sound mix is a little bit better. So we've got you up to a sensible volume right now. Okay. I I'm on a microphone, a very fancy microphone that I got myself a standard You sound great. It's Eric turns up, tells the jokes. The more jokes he tells, the quieter he gets. I don't know what's going on but it was just anyway, it's fine now. So let we don't need to That's good. We don't need to talk about it. No. That's that's cool but, yeah. Of course. When I went to my school, I was dressed like that all the time. Of course. Were you dressed like that at your school, Eric, when you went to Fockem Hall Grammar? What was it like? Of course. Of course.
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We was dressed like that. By the way,
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The the assuming it, the sound has reset itself for some unknown reason. It keeps doing that. Right. Wow. Gosh. You've got hang on. Woah. Woah. Woah. Right. Okay. Hang on. Just hold on. Bloo. You just blew me up your face. Nice to have you back. That's lovely. Holy moly. Now let me turn Monica up because she's gonna be like a mouse now. Hang on just a second. Oh no. I don't think so. This is a very sexy mic. Really? No. No. I I you don't need to know but I was fiddling around with some sliders and things here to get you both at the same volume. Fiddling with the mic? Yeah. Yeah. I'm a bit of a button player. I had to do it, you see.
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So there we go. That's great, Eric. That's nice. Anyway, so that's wonderful. But what why why is my microphone resetting itself for some weird reason? Because we had it perfect at the beginning of the show. It went back to 50. 90 out of 90. So
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I just don't know. I know. That's too much. I can't cook.
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Dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip well, I tell you what, we we had a school uniform, and my parents had to pay out for a cap. None of us wore caps. None of us. So that was something that was never worn. Funny, ain't it? It is. So, yeah, no. School uniform very much. I thought it was crap.
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I just didn't like it. Well, I'll tell one of the school. I I loved mine. I just loved being the goody two shoes at school. Now I wasn't the goody two shoes. But, a little school thing, and then let's get on to how we can rob women of the vote. Because, you know, we could have fun with this. Well, when, let's see, grammar school. Yeah. I went to a boys' grammar school. I'm I'm a jumped up grammar school boy. I think that's a phrase that you call it. Isn't that isn't that from the Johnny English film? She's just jumped up grammar school boy. Oh, jumped up. Is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that from the Johnny English film? Get back in your hole, your little working class yob. And, Kippets and curts. Was that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But on the first day of school, of course, in junior school everybody wears shorts. Right?
And then you've got that long summer and you're gonna leave junior school and you're gonna go to high school or grammar school at the age of 11 to 18. And, so your parents, those those of you your parents that knew what they would, would take you along to the outfits and you get a pair of long trousers but not one guy. One guy one guy turned up in shorts and it was very very bad for him very bad because for the rest of his life at that school he's very bright as well but obviously not when it came to the trouser department he got that completely wrong he was known as Harry hotpants then for the next seven years. That's all he was ever known as simply because he turned up in trousers. It's not much of a story, is it? He's one of those sort of English schoolboy sort of things that was quite innocent at the time. But, yeah, Harry Hotpants. And that's and even if I signed today, that's the first thing I would oh, Harry. Harry Hotpants.
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Well, we got a check called Card, and he came from a big family. I think about 10 of them. So he was dressed in his brother's hand me downs. So he had trousers or, pants, as you call them in Canada. They're about four inches above his ankles, and National Health Glasses. Now, I must explain what National Health Glasses were like. They were sort of round and they were such crap that they were always held together with sticky plaster because they're all used to fall a bit, you see. Jimbo's wire glasses, National Health glasses that that children I I do. Yeah. Yeah. And they would often be held together. You know, people would use, That's right. Medical elastoplast, wouldn't they, to hold them together and stuff like that? That's it. Well, poor Very exciting stuff. Poor old Carl was always picked on all that, but he was very, very clever at mathematics. He was quite a clever kid. And I've got a story which is a little bit in length.
Might tell it later. It's, it's about my usual subject, but it actually did happen. But what I was going to say is Card, I'd later found out that he went to America, and he became a a university lecturer and did very well over there. So there we go. And he's still extra riches. Put sticking plaster around his glasses as a university. Special outfits. But Yeah. We had the mayoress come to the school. And, let's put it this way. She was wearing a a skirt that's a little bit too short for her age, and it's bloody great straw hat and a kind of flowery, dress that looked like a sort of, well, it it it looked like a, a flat floral sort of outfit. And she thought she was given the Gettysburg Address, you see. And she stood up, and she's going on and on and on. Now, at our school, we had these microphones that I think were from the second World War because, you could they could pick up any sound at the front of the audience, but not necessarily on stage. See? So, you know, your people will be talking again.
You know, things like that. Well, for some unknown reason, card was standing right at the front under the microphone, which is very, very strange for Card. He was standing there looking up at his bearest. Whether he's looking up her skirt or not, I do not know. But anyway, on with the story. And, she she was going on and on. And there was, a house as she went into the school. It was a janitor's house because, you know and there was all beautiful plants plants in there. She said, as I walked in toward the, theatrical pause, the squirrel to the air, I noticed the janitor's house that had roses, theatrical pause, that smelled of that that smelled beautifully, and she's and there was a pulse, subtly, far and carted out the loudest fart you could ever wish to hear, and it brought the whole school down with laughter. And I was sent out and given a real strict disciplined sort of, dressing down outside.
Stop laughing, boy. It's not funny. I smelled this rose, and it smelled so beautiful of
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at the time, it was tough. Something about something about the schoolboy jokes. You know?
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Eric, you should have been in our family. You know? The two older brothers and, oh my goodness, there were there were some good jokes going on. And the biggest jokester of all was happened to be my brother, Alfred. He really was. He's funny guy, funny funny funny. But I just see that Patrick is in the chat, but I don't see him in the show. I don't know if you're gonna bring him in, Paul.
[02:15:09] Unknown:
Oh, I wasn't even looking, you see. I'm looking I'm reading all the things, aren't I? Yeah. I don't know the things. Yes. But in our private chat. Patrick. Welcome. How how how is it out there in cheese land in Wisconsin? How are things and have you found a hill to roll cheese down? That's what we really want to know. Hey. Hey. Hi. Am I quiet enough? You're too quiet. We can barely hear you. Oh, it's okay. I got it. Alright. Okay. You were teasing. Well well done. You got me all worried then. Fantastic. Oh, I'm going mad here.
[02:15:34] Unknown:
I'm doing alright. Kind of kind of a gloomy Wisconsin day. You were telling me about the gloomy English day today, but, we got the same here. But it's nice weather out. No no jackets required.
[02:15:50] Unknown:
So quite good. A little drizzly. Oh, that's great. That's good. That's good. Well, that's great. Anyway, we were just about to get Monica, I wanted to ask you, your schooling, did you go to an all girls school or did you go to a mixed school? What was it like for you?
[02:16:06] Unknown:
It was it was mixed, boys and girls. Yeah. Right. And it was when I was sometime in elementary school, perhaps grade five or so, when they lifted the rule for girls that we didn't have to wear skirts or dresses anymore. And because we didn't have school uniforms, but we did have certain etiquette and girls were supposed to wear dresses or skirts or whatever, you know. And A dress code as it were. Yeah. I guess it was a dress code and then that was lifted and I remember distinctly how there was there were a few girls who just were so jubilant. They were just like, they threw their books in the air when the announcement came through the overhead and just were absolutely euphoric over that. I was kind of neutral, but I was happy. I just saw, yeah. Okay. Like, you know, we climb trees too and stuff like that. So it's all good. But, you know, I see that all as part of the drive to where we are now, where anything goes. There's I sometimes think about the things that not only the students are wearing but some of the teacher female teachers are wearing. I'm thinking, hey, you forgot to finish getting dressed. Those are your what we used to call leotards, like the the tights underneath a dress or underneath a skirt. And they don't have anything above, and sometimes you really see their crack because it Yeah. It's so tight and the seam is pulled so tight that they purposefully Yes. Sew it that way that you see that it's just outlining the buttocks completely.
And I find that this is absolutely, it's just unacceptable. If I had anything to do with it, if I was in that school as a principal or a teacher, I would insist upon a dress code that you do not come to school when you're just half dressed like that. And then when I see the teachers doing it, that disgusts me even more. It is so I mean, this is where it's sung to. I'm without words, actually, I'm speechless about it. And in the context of what we alluded to earlier, you know, we did that show a few months ago about the women's vote and all that. I mean, all of the the context together on this is it's just so important. And, you know, it's that certain tribe again that we're not allowed to criticize that has pushed pushed pushed the feminist agenda. They're proud of it. They boast about it because they package everything so nicely.
And, oh, you know, life was so unfair before, and we were just enslaved in the home, enslaved by our husbands, enslaved, enslaved. And so now you should become emancipated and liberated, and now you go out and be in a cubicle. And, I mean, what where has that gotten to us? And and where, you know, you have the the children wearing these god awful tights, and and the teachers wearing these god awful tights and pretend that that's their pants, that there's clothing.
[02:19:07] Unknown:
These same people these same people are the same ones who are offended by everything but immodesty.
[02:19:13] Unknown:
Oh, yes. Good point. Exactly.
[02:19:17] Unknown:
True.
[02:19:19] Unknown:
Oh, such a good point. Offended by everything.
[02:19:22] Unknown:
I've seen teachers covering tattoos. If I was a headmaster, my teacher would be get out. Wouldn't even see be teaching children with loads of filth all up their arms and everywhere. And,
[02:19:36] Unknown:
what gets you Well, obviously, the answer now is to not if you have children or you're about to have them is you don't let them anywhere near a so called school because it finished. It finished obviously in Salinas, Kansas. It hadn't finished by 1898 because they were still setting proper exams. And over here, right through I mean really probably up until it still felt like England around here. I think probably through into the early eighties. After Tony Blair arrived, though, it began to sort of slope all over the place. There's this acceleration of cultural decay all under the guise of progress, and, it's all gonna be great and all this kind of other stuff. It's because, you know, Blair and these other people are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Their confidence is bolstered by who's backing them but they're actually they're I think they're specially selected for their pliable mediocrity and that's why you don't have anybody with any sense of stern discipline. The other thing as well, Monica, coming back to this thing about the dress code that you were mentioning and the so called relaxation of it, it robs us of mystery. This is a it's a terrible thing that's being taken out the world. The the thing is that although it is restraining and people say, well you're all dressed in uniforms to get you to think uniformly. Yeah, but people didn't think uniformly.
Now that they can dress any way they like, they do. They're all thinking the same. Yeah. But, I remember, you know, we wore a uniform at school. If you actually sat in in some of the conversation we had as teenagers, we were 15, 16 through to 18 in the common room and stuff. There was just fantastically interesting stuff stuff with everybody arguing like mad about stuff and having completely very different opinions because there's something about restriction that breeds strength. You do need to be constrained. It works because also it's that buffer that you're about to break out of. Of course, you then discover that everything that you were taught at school doesn't really stand you in much good stead at all in the real world when you turn up for a job. They've been teaching you guff. I mean they taught they taught us less guff. Now, I have no idea because I do sound like a middle aged fart but I guess that's because I am one. But, you look at it you go what? I mean I never thought my schooling was that impressive when I compared it with the way my dad talked about his.
And I was talking about it, who was I talking to the other day? Something about I think it was here. I've got my dad's school report from when he left school, in 1939 at the age of 14 and he was, he went to work at the co op for three years and then he signed up into the Navy in February 1942 because you could, if you volunteered, you could go in at 17. He said, I want to be in the Navy so they took him on. His school report from his headmaster is amazing. It's absolutely, to me, it's just absolutely amazing. There are four paragraphs on it, probably two or three sentences in each paragraph. So we're talking 12 or 15 sentences.
And a bit like the phraseology used in these exam questions that I was quoting half an hour or an hour back, it's so to the point. It's so clear. The problem one of these things one of the problems that people don't see with so called multiculturalism is the complete befuddlement of the language. You've got to have it in this language and that. No. We don't. What we have to do is everybody needs to go home. I don't I'm not here to accommodate the feelings of other people. I barely want to accommodate the feelings of my own people at times because they irritate me just like we do all the time. But at least you don't have to spend four days setting out the terms and conditions. It's as if the communications process is an inexhaustible opportunity.
And I I link all these things together like bloody laser printers, you know, with laser printers. I I dread to think what a school report is now for children. It's probably colossal. Here's your 60 page report on your son and daughter. What? I don't want all this Probably all AI. Yeah. It's just come the more it's as if if I produce a really big document, this is indicative of how intelligent I am. No. It's the other way around. It's how stupid you are. You can't get to the bloody point. Get to the point. And so we've got this wooliness in everything. There's a vagueness in the way that people dress, carry themselves. That's why I put that picture up.
They've all got hats. The hats probably cost more than most common people at the time had in their pockets. I don't know what the hats cost. They're not cheap. I mean these are TOFS at a public school in this in Tom Brown's school days but there's something about that structure of discipline and particularly, you know, if you think about the sexual relationships or that period in life from like, I don't know, 13 or 14 or wherever and it kicks off with you when you're a boy and whenever it kicks off with you you're a girl. It's an amazing period. It's absolutely amazing because you're comp as a boy, you're completely clueless and you know the girls have got the upper hand. Good. They bloody need they need to have it and that's real feminine power at that stage. It's of a different type. But now, you know, as you're saying the teachers just look like, what's the old word? Trollops.
I quite like that word.
[02:24:39] Unknown:
I totally like something else. They're a joke. I see your latest one where you see girls with ripped tights, skirts that just about cover any embarrassment, and hobnail boots, but not feminine at all. And they just call that beautiful with black fingernails, tattoos, piercings.
[02:24:58] Unknown:
They're trying to aglify themselves. Are you sure they call that beautiful? Because I think that, like you say, uglify themselves. It is a deliberate strategy to uglify themselves, and I'd I'd not sure why, but I I'm not sure. It's It's being pushed though. That's being glorified.
[02:25:18] Unknown:
There's people in their sixties that are looking like that now. Yeah. I noticed an older duration. I mean,
[02:25:25] Unknown:
I know. It's sad. Do you ever meet old punks? I probably just offended people who were punk rockers. Good grief. They're hilarious. They're unbelievable. I mean, I saw a guy the other day. Must have been in his mid sixties with a Mohican. And I just thought Yeah. Has it not dawned on you that it was idiotic when you were young but you got some street cred from your mates but now it's just you look pathetic. It's as if there's not been one movement of development in these people's lives and they're still addicted to sort of Oh. Banging around stuck in some kind of arrested development. I mean, by the way, I love talking like a middle aged fart like this. It's just great. The fact that I turned into my dad, I'm now beginning to think it's the most fantastic thing ever.
You know, not you couldn't have told me that when I was 18, but now, it's just tops. It's absolutely wonderful. Out their foolish dreams.
[02:26:14] Unknown:
Mhmm. My granddad always said, self respect. He always believed in self respect. And my mother always taught me, clothes maketh man.
[02:26:25] Unknown:
Clothes what? Make maketh man? Maketh man. Yeah. Clothes maketh Clothes maketh the man. Yeah.
[02:26:31] Unknown:
And, they also make it the woman as well Yes. Because You look at now I've got no time for any politicians. But you look at Trump's wife, the way she dresses. She holds her status as a lady. Why? Because she wears longer skirts. She looks feminine, nicely dressed, neat, tidy. And I I think that, there's very few women that you could say are ladies now, that really do know how to dress to show that feminine charm, but there's an air of mystery about them. That is that is that sort of like a lady as far as I can see. You're more likely to see them in a church
[02:27:16] Unknown:
than out in public. Yeah.
[02:27:20] Unknown:
I know it's I mean, you you see what's walking around now, and it's as if they've got no self respect whatsoever and they're just trying to dress like a tramp. I mean, when you see, Chairman Mao's communist China, say, in the mid seventies, where everybody had to wear denim, you look around now, everybody's wearing bloody denim. So, you know, it's just like communist China, where everybody's wearing a uniform. It it it's it's it's it's ridiculous. I mean, if I go out wearing a suit, I I feel overdressed.
[02:27:57] Unknown:
But once upon a time, almost everybody went out wearing a suit, especially if we're wearing a suit. Are you wearing a suit right now? I am. I've got a suit and tie on for this show, Eric. Good for you. Well, we chose your suit. Let's see what we're doing. The button, and my my bow tie is actually spinning around. I want you to picture it right now as I'm changing. Like And I've got those little lights that flash on my lapels. There's all sorts of things going on here. One has to dress up for for the show. You've got your broadcasting trousers on, haven't you? I've got my broadcasting trousers on, although they sometimes fail me, yes, spectacularly. But they're they're actually holding up quite well with the industrial
[02:28:33] Unknown:
strength gusset, which is required for such manly manly work as this. Patrick was saying that that he's the tall guy, so he's the boy on the right in your thumbnail image. And then I would I was gonna put Eric as either the guy next to him there with the sort of, the look on his face like he's wondering. Or or or maybe the guy doing the slingshot. You know, a little bit of mischief. Little bit of mischief there. Yep. And then Paul would be, I guess, maybe the other guy there. I don't know. What do you think? I I think Paul is the one I should. Yeah. Yeah. I think Paul has the slingshot.
[02:29:10] Unknown:
Yeah. I'll get that signature for you. Stop talking dribble about economics, I say, as I unleash a bullet at his head. Yeah. That's what it is. I did have Eric down as the one second from the right.
[02:29:21] Unknown:
I did. I just That would be me. That would be typically me. The glove. That's it. That was my first thought. But then when then he was kind of telling jokes, he started telling jokes, and I thought, ah, he's got the guy with the slingshot. So there you go. But, anyway, you know, you talk about self respect. That is just such an important thing. Respect in general, that's a very, very important concept, a very important word, but this it starts with self respect reflected in how we present ourselves, how we dress when we, you know, go downtown or into even just mundane activities like go to the grocery store, go to the do our chores downtown, you know, post office, whatnot, and self respect that it's just so important. So if we're these days, the the fad, I think people pay more for ripped jeans and stuff like that. Like, what's that about? That there's no self respect there. You know, I think the thing is, I agree I agree with everything. However, there are times certain
[02:30:19] Unknown:
women can carry certain things off, can't they? And others can't. I think that's all it's about to a great degree. I mean, I hate the tattoos. I hate the face metal. It's just repulsive. I mean, it's literally, why are you doing that to yourself? Why am why are you uglifying yourself permanently? Why would you do such a thing? In fact, it's actually a friend of mine, not a friend of mine, a friend of one of my sons, a young lad, had one of these little things to his nose. He's a nice guy and I said you need to take that out. I I I could only get away with it because I've known him for a long time. I wouldn't say that to a young guy that I didn't know ever in the street or even a young girl, although I am often tempted to do that. But the optics would be awful and I'd be in prison, you know, for causing an affray or something or distressing somebody. But but some of these females do need communication. Will you please stop wear wearing looking like that? Some of us are about to look at you. I I I'm trying to get my breakfast down. I see that at church too. It's like you're in church. What are you wearing? The skimpy dress and, you know, it it it doesn't it's not becoming of a lady.
It's not Well, they've lost they've lost this sense of entire of you. Yeah. I think the subtle feminine charms, which are very powerful, that that oh, it's not overt enough, but it's all about sort of excessive cleavage. Look, I I don't we know that the sex drive is just off the charts at certain parts of your life and you've but it's it's constraining it and containing it really works because it actually amplifies it. It doesn't reduce it. It makes it even better and I know I bang on like some old fart about these things but, you know, if we look at some of the black and white films like from the forties in The States and places like that, the women just look stunning to me. I mean, they're absolutely because they're contained.
They're not actually putting everything out there. That's what makes it amazing. When you put it all out there, there's nothing like this. Like, why is this on offer to everybody in the world then? Is it just a meat market? And, unfortunately, it has become that. It's almost as if the less clothing I wear as a woman, the more attractive I will be. No. It's the other way around, love. It's actually the other way around. We you know. The other thing about Sorry. Give me Or go ahead, Eric.
[02:32:29] Unknown:
Oh, sorry. I've charmed in. Please carry on. That's okay. No.
[02:32:34] Unknown:
I was just gonna say with it okay. Those I I love your comments about, you know, when they were dressed with more modesty, and and that actually was more appealing and more attractive. And it's not a big meat market out there. And and it appealing and more attractive. And it's not a big meat market out there. And and it also coincided with the time when our families were bigger. And so all these trends happen at this they are not coincidental coincidental. It we have gotten smaller families now with the, you know, women going into the workforce, women becoming more like men, and told we can do anything a man can do, and don't be enslaved by your man in a home. So go out and work. Do all these candidates. Guess guess what? Our our families have gotten smaller. So as we contract, well then, oh, now we need workers. So let's open the doors to all these other people to come in. I mean, this was not just a coincidence.
[02:33:31] Unknown:
Yeah. It's planned. It reminds it reminds me of what I heard about what's going on in Africa. They have a Swahili word called Matumba. And what Matumba is, it's it's the clothes that they get on these big ships and big bales. And it's all like secondhand clothes from the West of just like junk trashy looking t shirts and, you know, shorts and that kind of thing. And these people in Africa, they they used to make their handmade, just like beautiful dresses, colorful, you you know, cultural tribal type garb, and they'd make their own clothing.
And now they're just reliant on these these big ships to come in with the Mutumba that have, like, English words, phrases on them, you know, Reebok, Nike, all that crap. And that's kind of what's happened there too. It's it's just it's just it's a it's all a plan and then they come to America. It's like, oh, we may as well come to where all this Matumba is coming from and, you know, continue on searching for the wealth that we can find. And in the process,
[02:34:43] Unknown:
put them out of their
[02:34:45] Unknown:
traditional work. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So it happens there and then that they then they're taken in by it. Well, all this free free stuff, that must be the great place there. Let's go there. But in the meantime, they put behind all their tribal ways of doing things and we're better
[02:35:05] Unknown:
compared to Better for them there where they are. There. Yeah. Exactly. Not to be, you know, say, oh, they're better than us. No. Just better for them to stick to their culture where they are, stick to their place That's right. And all is well in the world.
[02:35:20] Unknown:
Yeah. Yep. It's a happier place. Yeah. It is. Location is All this that's right. It's not it's thermal stuff. Am I right in saying that, I did hear that a lot of Eskimos just reject these these modern materials and still dress in the traditional, I don't know, sealskin stuff and and whatever because it keeps them more warmer. Do you know I mean, I'm sure you you would know more about that, Monica, than I do, but that's what I heard. I don't know how true it is.
[02:35:51] Unknown:
Well, I Are they wearing more leash? Yeah. I can't actually answer that for you know, I I haven't been up in the North in in many years, and so I don't know. I would think that the folks who live in the the small towns in the North that they would just probably dress in our, you know, western clothing. Perhaps a lot of them have kept to their traditions. I hope they have. That would be a good thing. And you're absolutely correct that these furs and, you know, sewing the the furs into their garments, that would be the best clothing for out on the land when it's cold in winter, and it does get cold up there.
[02:36:36] Unknown:
Yeah. I would think that even like the I was talking earlier on the chat about Harris Tweed and how how it would be nice just to have a Harris Tweed jacket. They're they're kind of spendy, but it's made of a natural material, sheep's wool. And and it's, it's, you know, British Isles made, you know, native to your yeah. Exact well, and it's probably really nice. And,
[02:37:00] Unknown:
well, actually, my neighbor gave it to me. And it is it's worth a lot of money. And it is very comfortable and very warm to wear. You can't be wool. Wool will keep you lovely and warm. And I've got a suit that I inherited. I've had to change the trousers modify the trousers because they're a bit flared. I don't like that. But that that but it fits me, and it's my dad's old suit, and that is wool. And moths love it. But I mean, seriously, though, that is so warm. You don't get over hot in it. You just feel just right. And modern, nylons and mixed
[02:37:34] Unknown:
fibers, they're not really good for you. They are absolute rubbish to be straight with you. Yeah. We Because you're overheating them. Yeah. Agreed. The natural fibers definitely definitely definitely superior. I I have a little story that, for some reason, it just jumped into my head, but it's of good entertainment value, I would say. But my dad, he he always was very frugal and, you know, kept things and if things like, he would try to, mend or get my mom to mend clothing for him if if things started to get threadbare and whatnot. But he had these old pants that he had brought along. You know, one of the things he had brought along in in the crate when he came from Germany to Canada.
And when he was working at the in the hospital there in Edmonton, some colleagues of his said, oh, Otto, you're so stylish. I didn't know that you were so stylish, but it turns out he was so far behind that he was ahead because the this colleague said, those pants with the cuffs there, I've only seen those on the, you know, ads from New York City, like, where the fashion houses are. You know, this this must have been in the sixties maybe before cuffs came back, and then cuffs were about to make a scene. But they had started in New York at the fashion houses. And dad had these old pants. They were already 30 or 40 years old, and they had cuffs on the bottom. So he was so far behind. He was ahead in his Yeah. Style.
[02:39:08] Unknown:
Well, the suit that I've got that my dad had, it really does fit you properly. You really you you notice how much workmanship went into suits years ago, and this looks like one of these Italian suits because it it really fits you well. And, again the trousers had to be altered. I've altered the trousers so that they're so that they sort of fit you, correctly because I cannot stand baggy trousers. I was just trying to understand it. But,
[02:39:35] Unknown:
people sort of look at it Can't you? You don't like baggy trousers? I detest baggy trousers. Yeah. So they gotta fit you I love baggy trousers because I think there's plenty of rummage for your scrummages, I used to say. Oh, yes. Yes. Now, but Yeah. Those Chinese type costumes versus briefs. Men's men's nineteen forties and fifties trousers. Those they're just the most comfortable trousers I ever wore in my life. I once bought a a secondhand dinner jacket and suit from Oxfam about 1977. It cost me £10. It was the best suit I ever had. It felt it was falling apart when I bought it but I managed to get sort of three or four years wear out of it. The trousers were just I look so good in those trousers. I really did. Okay. So I just did. I was 19 or something and I just because they still had a bit of the that, you know, that silk ribbon that runs on the outside. So I got the pub in them. We all used to wear we what we dressed it was sort of the punky thing or whatever. I wasn't a punk but I I just I just bought I only had a £10 anyway so I bought this thing and it was just fab and I just felt so cool. The jacket weighed a ton. I don't know what it was made out of. It's like five That's right. Hundred sheep had gone. It was so heavy and it had all these silk little different pockets where I could keep my, you know, my Beretta and things like that in my imagination of course and stuff like this. It was just fantastic.
Maybe we need, you know, here I am just drumming up an idea that I've got no time to actually execute, but maybe we need a kind of, some kind of a movement with regards to clothing that has to start off small like all men should start wearing handkerchiefs or something or we all start wearing cravats. I actually bought a cravat, about a year ago, and I have to say it really does suit me. I look absolutely charming. What's a cravat? And what? Well, instead of having a tie, going around your collar, you you have the you have the you have the shirt open, but the the cravat goes around your neck and goes under your shirt. It's a bit like a scarf.
[02:41:29] Unknown:
Like Austin Powers.
[02:41:31] Unknown:
Yeah. That's right. Yes. I say. I actually
[02:41:35] Unknown:
I I I wear cravats. I I I don't like to. I prefer cravats. And, because remember old Chinese saying, man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day. Sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt that one.
[02:41:52] Unknown:
That's Eric for you folks.
[02:41:57] Unknown:
Nothing rude today, is it?
[02:41:59] Unknown:
No. No. No. There's nothing rude at all. So I don't so if it were for men, if there was a small sort of clothing accoutrement or whatever you want to call it that we could champion. I mean, I like the idea of the pencil. I like the idea of pens. But, maybe we could sell subtle handkerchiefs, you know, for the Fock and Fock range of clothing. Oh, yes. Yes. I've always liked the idea of the Fock and Fock. The Fock and Fock and it needs to be on a tin or something. You know, some guy with brill cream wearing a sort of cravat and everything. I don't know.
[02:42:28] Unknown:
But, what what about pocket watch? I I I think the pocket watch there is something about the dignity of a pocket watch.
[02:42:36] Unknown:
It's a simpler time.
[02:42:38] Unknown:
Well, no. It's not only that. You for example, suppose you're going to buy a railway ticket. Okay? You dress scruffy. The bloke behind the desk will sort of look at you. Although, you can't actually go to a desk now. It's all done by a machine, or you have to do it online. But let's say when you had now if you stood there wearing a suit and you got your pocket watch out and looked at the time and slowly put it back that shows a presence you're saying my time is precious what you do in waiting Whereas, you go to him scruffy and you look at your wristwatch, that means nothing. There's something about a dignity of a pocket watch, and,
[02:43:14] Unknown:
it carries I have one. It's called my phone. Yes. Unfortunately. Yeah. Me too.
[02:43:21] Unknown:
Well, I don't something's gotta get I mean, I I kind of label myself as a neo Victorian. I want to restore Victorianism because it's so repellent to the left that I just think great. That's really good. And I'm also thinking that really with regard to tech, I've had enough of it. I mean, I'm teched up. It's not that I don't know how it works. I use it all the time and aspects of it I love but it's just got out of hand and silly recently, of course, as it all it was always going to. So I also think the handle of being a neo Luddite works as well. Although, maybe that would be lost on the working classes. What are you talking about?
Well, you see the Luddites were these people that opposed the mechanization of of, mills and things. It was putting everybody out of work. That issue, of course, has never gone away. It's the war between usurers and workers, which is the bedrock of all the problems that we're facing. You know, I know I always draw it back to banking because it's just my bent. But, it's always true as well. It is. It's never it's never ever not true that. It's remained eternally true for thousands of years that this is the thing that causes all the problems. And it causes all this distress then pressures on families, then people don't want children. I mean, you mentioned earlier, Monica, you know, about we're always being berated for our low birth rates, but nobody actually bothers to actually have any more sentence to say than that. That's it. You're not having enough children. Well, do you want to actually find out why? It's because as a people, we're responsible. We actually most of our people act responsibly. I can't so they've been thrashed economically and they can't afford them. We've been no. But we've been gaslit about that because
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back Yep. When was that book that by Paul Ehrlich of that certain group of people that were not allowed to critic criticize, and it was called the population bomb. That came out during my youth. That influenced us. That impacted us a lot. And our people, we do have conscience. We you know, we believed all this that, oh, the Earth is overpopulated and we're we, of course, are ruining the planet. And we better have less children. And so who had less children? Our people had less children. All the wrong people. Exactly. Oh, and that's a very racist comment of you to say that, Patrick. Well, yeah. I I I don't I don't mean it to sound that way, but the people that were they were pushing it were the ones that were were self defeating. I'm making a very sarcastic, please please please don't take that seriously. That was extremely sarcastic because that's how they portray us. No. No. No. That that our people were the only ones who who but, you know, to say, oh, all the wrong people had less children, meaning, you know, perhaps people who were responsible and whatnot. I think that was the devious plot all along. Exactly. Exactly. You get my point. I was being a little bit, tongue in cheek there when I said, oh, how racist, because that's what they would say to us. And I actually remember my parents having that conversation that my father saying things like that at the dinner table that, you know, people who have higher intelligence and whatnot, like, we should be having more children. We should. And I just thought, oh, he's so like, that is just awful that he's saying that because that's what had been drummed into me. That cut you know, that that is an awful way of thinking because, you know, this was just a couple of decades post World War two. And and, you know, we've been really told how evil the Germans were and told that they wanted to take over the world and that they, you know, all this, oh, whatever.
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I know, Paul, you don't want us to get too deeply into No. No. I don't mind. Yeah. I don't mind. I mean, I think I think the background to it is is big and simple and therefore not seen, unfortunately, by most of our people at the moment, although more are seeing it. Because they're not willing to engage with what they probably consider because they've been trained up up to this point to consider them as toxic topics.
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But I I yeah. They're they're classed as toxic. And you do you don't have lots of money to have children. No. You don't. That's a big lie. It is. It's true. And if you look at the Amish, the Amish get by with very little but they're they're having lots of children because they don't have a television to look at, so they entertain themselves elsewhere, you know, in another way. Anyway, my to finish my point, my father was right.
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And there are a lot of things that our parents were right about that at the time, you know, we had perhaps frictions with them or, you know, kind of, had bumped up against them. A lot of things, like, that they were right on and that now, later, I I see the light of that. But, anyway yeah.
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Can I ask Well, I you see, I think I think Eric, you're quite You're a bit quiet? Please hurry
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on. Well, I was just gonna say Oh. Eric wants to say something there. Go ahead, Eric. Oh, very quickly. Did your
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dad, whenever he go out, always went out with a shirt and tie? Oh my goodness. Yes.
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How did you know? Always. Everywhere he went. Know. And That was that generation. People used to wear a shirt and tie and and a suit. Always. He he would put on suit. Dress. I remember the dentist when he he moved to Jasper in the last few years of his life so that I could help him out a little bit, and that's where I was living. Right? And I remember people remarking to me and even the dentist's wife, because she used to come to me. We played music together. She was one of my violin students. And she remarked about that, oh how her husband was was so quite tickled and delighted about the respect that my father showed by putting on a suit and tie to go to the dentist, you know, like it that's what he did. At home he wore his oldest raggedy clothes that was patched up and mended, and he had he was very intent on mending old sweater and fashion. That's it. Make two of men. Yeah. Yeah. That's my dad's footsie. He would repair everything. Yeah.
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But possible. Suit and tie. Yeah. There was more reverence back in the day too Yes. Yes. Amongst people. They knew their place in society. They they knew their status, and and they respected higher authority. Whether whatever that higher authority, you know, was. If it was a person or if it was God or or Yes. Let's see another one. A place for it.
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Oh, my dad always had his shoulders back. And he's always pulling my he said, pull your shoulders back and breathe, you know, always sort of, I think that people in those days that went through the war, there was gentlemen and ladies. And I think that's what we've lost where a gentleman is a gentleman to a lady. The people, you know, lady women tried to be ladies and men were gentlemen, and that is it. And we lost it. That that's the thing.
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I think it was probably informed, Eric, as well, by the way that their parents were during World War one or that period, the early nineteen hundreds. Because people didn't have a lot of money but they didn't need a lot because they didn't have a lot of proportion as much debt. We've mentioned it here before. So you wouldn't have much stuff but you didn't need much stuff. You didn't even want much stuff. I don't want I've got too much stuff as it is. I can't get rid of stuff. Same here. He sort of sticks to you and you go, I've gotta get rid of this stuff. Do I really need all this stuff? I mean, my stuff is just books everywhere. I keep breaking my neck on them and stuff like that. But that's just Tell me about it. But but, you know, back in the day, people couldn't afford books until the paperback came along and all these sorts of I mean, really, they're very expensive things. Traditionally, they've always cost quite a bit for people to get them but they could read and do things. So if you had a good pair of shoes, you really looked after them. In fact, they were your pride and joy. My mum was always banging on about shoes. She said, there's no point in having a fine suit and all that kind of stuff if your shoes are not good. She said, because shoes are the first thing people look at, and it's true. If you've got really rough, rubbish shoes on, the whole effect is destroyed because it's the biggest thing you can do on the earth.
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That that's my mum and dad
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to to a tee. Sorry to come up with you. Say, sit up straight, Paul. Stop slouching. I'm not slouching. That's dead. Sit up straight. Right. And stop slurring your words, and don't say sat day. But as you sat down
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so highly polished. I bet your dad, Monica and Paul, their shoes were so highly polished. Oh, you bet. And my dad because he learned I mean, your father was in the army, and that and that your dad, Paul was in the navy. They had to have their shoes highly polished. And my dad, he could well, they were like mirror shined. He showed me how to do it. And now You're a little quiet again. Sorry. Oh, what's going on? Microphone. It's it's something's going I don't know what's going on with this microphone. It just keeps readjusting itself. I'm all the time putting it on the the the sound of it. I have a question for you for you gentlemen.
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Yes. And back back to the discussion about gentlemen being gentlemen and and ladies being ladies. Like, how many have you had had the experience of you're opening a door for a woman, maybe going into a store or whatever, and and she
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snubs you, you know, maybe just, I don't need that or whatever. I don't need that. No. I'm pretty good at sussing those type of women out, and I wouldn't do that for them anyway. So Right. I'm joking. I don't I don't I really don't come across that because I don't you know, maybe I go to church, you know. That's about the time when I see women and I hold the door open and the snow. I think when you're in a social thing, people tend to behave well. But shopping and stuff, these everybody's become more insular and atomized and focused on themselves.
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And, basically, they won't look at you anyway because most people are looking at their phones. Right? And they're automatic doors now. You don't even have to open doors. True. They're so lazy. My shoes, by the way, are absolutely you can see your face in mine. My black shoes. Me too. I'm serious. I once when I bought them, now where did I get this stuff? I was up in London sometime, and some salesman was selling this sort of shoe polish in it was a big shopping center in Paddington. I bought this stuff. I've still got it to this day in about 1988 and I've still got some of it left. You need so little of it. It's this amazing sort of, it's like beeswax. I've forgotten what it's got. It's purely for leather shoes. You only need a little bit. The shoes just they reflect the sun. They're absolutely amazing.
So I and I had occasion to wear them a few weeks ago and I was with my sons and their shoes were okay and everything. But, my shoes I've also got quarter tips in the heels. I think we talked about this before but you you cut the heel, you tuck them to a cobblers. I paid a lot for these shoes. They were the shoes I got married in actually and they're still amazing. They still fit me brilliantly and look great. You can tell you how often I go out to dancing and dinners and things like this, but, you you cut the the quarter off the the back, the outside corner of the heel, and you put metal in there And they were all very they said, why are your shoes making that noise? I said, because this is me recreating what it would have sounded like if the Third Reich had arrived here. They all laughed. I said, this is a proper sound. This is what a man sounds like. This this separates the master from the servant.
It's absolutely fantastic. They're just great and they make me feel strong. You go, this is ridiculous. What are you? A shoe fascist? Yeah. If you like. I couldn't care less. I love them. And, Blakey's.
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That's what you need. Blakey's. Remember Blakey's?
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Yeah. I do. I do. All of that that kind of stuff. But I think some kind of, it's it's wonderful to talk about these things and there's loads more to talk about in this particular area. Finding ways to regalvanize people may be difficult. I mean, the thing about the, the birth rate and what you were saying, Monica about you know that book the population bomb and all that kind of stuff it's true and it's because we're trying to take things on and be responsible in what we know is our own home. But we've been forced into sharing it with people that we were never asked if we wanted them in as tenants and we don't.
We just don't. Now the problem we've got is that no one wants to say it because they're going to do it because they're going to get abused. Well I say it all the time. Yeah. And the thing is you've got to approach it. It's working out bad for all of us which is the plan. It's going to work out bad for them, the arrivees. They go, well, we're help helping them economically. Temporarily, that may be the case. Long term, it's over. It's toast is this place for everybody if you don't get to grips with it and people won't confront it. So, you know, your people are your tribe that's it. But I want to be with everybody. Well, you're on the wrong planet, right? Well, go off. Go away because it doesn't work and if you come up with an example to show me where it does work then I'd consider it but there ain't one, right? And I've looked enough so I can't even be bothered looking or not. There's none. There's not one. Whenever an alien race comes into any other culture that culture's finished. Every single it's finished, it's finished. So the only chance for us now is is it possible in my case to get Englishmen and women to go, 'hey, this is our home. We haven't done any harm to these people and we don't mind helping them but they're not living in our home.' Oh boy.
Exactly. You'll come and see me in prison won't you? Because that's the nub of it and all the other things would flow from that. So all of the work to fix the problem is completely wasted because it's a bit like having a hole in your bucket. No one's pointing out there's a hole in the bucket. Oh, don't look there. No. There's a hole. It's never going to work. It never has. Why are you pursuing it? It's a bit like yeah. I'll play you this clip. Are you ready? This is Jared Taylor just talking for thirty seconds. Where have I got? I think I dug it up. Let me just put it here.
This is just thirty seconds.
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I ask him how he thinks multiculturalism
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could work. That's like saying, how can we make alcoholism and insanity work? How can we make cholera work? How can we make AIDS work? How can we make something that is inherently unstable and will eventually result in my extinction? Why would I even think in terms of making it work when it's clear it is not working and it would require a fundamental change in human nature for it to work?
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Nailed it. That's it. So the whole of the current liberal ideology to pursue equality and and their misuse of the word diversity, they don't realize that they're destroying diversity. All of their drives actually annihilate the natural order of things for everybody involved. But the white guys feel guilty because apparently we caused it all. No. We didn't. We didn't. Though
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to be perfectly clear, and I know you know this, but those who actually are bringing all this about, they know darn well what they're doing. They want to destroy us. Mhmm. Well, and there's a hypocrisy
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there too because they wouldn't do it amongst themselves
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either. Right. Yeah. That's right. They don't. That's right. Well, there's that book that was written by, what's his name? Kevin McDonald. Right? Co, with the completely inappropriate title. I'm not trying to knock his work. I'm I've read some of it. Called A People That Shall Dwell Alone. Right? Have you heard of the book? No. No. Never heard of it. It's in reference it's in reference to the Jewish people. A people that shall dwell alone is the title. It's completely inept as a title. What was it when you think about it? What's his what's he most known for? He wrote loads. Culture is it Culture of Critique? Culture of Critique. Yeah. That's that's And several others. But the title of that book is completely wrong. Why? Like, they are Because it's the complete opposite. Because they're not a people. They No. No. No. No. No. They don't. They're not a people that dwell alone nor have they ever. Okay. But in their own, like, Israel that's what their policy is. Well that's what they say but the actual truth is the people that need to dwell alone are us because it's a biblical thing. It's not addressed at them. And this is part of this confusion. People go 'but they've got that from their Bible.' No, they're not in it. Apart from as Herod or Judas or whatever people don't know this. You know this is part of this entire problem with the whole thing. So the money changes that Jesus threw out threw out of the time. That's right. That's right. We're coming to the end of the show.
I'm just I'm not gonna go out with the same tune. We're gonna play, I'm gonna play something else. Monica, it's been great having you here and I'm looking forward to having you back on a regular basis. I hope you'll come in another month's time or something. Thank you. Yeah. It's gonna be great. And, and Eric and Patrick, thank you very much for this evening. Thank you everybody in YouTube and in Rumble. Yeah. Thanks very much guys and and everybody on Soapbox and Eurofot Radio and wherever you've been listening. We're gonna play you out with 'Luzjean' by Henry Mancini. We'll be back again at the same time next week. See you all then. Have a cracking week everybody and, think about becoming a neo victorian. Why not? We'll see you all then. Bye for now.
Oh, didn't want to work. Where's it gone? Oh, it didn't wanna work. How about that? I've been let down by that. So, technology.
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Just get a hammer. It has. It's just
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let me down. Oh, I can't even play it. Look, nothing will play now. So you're gonna have to I could sing it, but oh, this is so underwhelming and so unimpressive, isn't it? There you go. Eric.
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Eric on the comb and paper.
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Oh, this is quite good. Here we go. Let's give it a go now. Isn't that lovely? Henry Mancini Lujon. This will make you all sleep nice tonight. Bye for now, everyone. Bye bye. Cheers. Okay. Oh, everybody's gone. Everybody's left me sometime.
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Blasting the voice of freedom worldwide, you're listening to the Global Voice Radio Network.
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Bye bye, boys. Have fun storming the castle.
Introduction and School Memories
Weather and Gardening Chat
Tom Brown's School Days Discussion
Government and Leadership
Humor and School Bullying
English Traditions and Festivals
Education and Exam Papers
Currency and Measurements
American Exam Papers
Interview with Monica Schafer
Canadian Indigenous Issues
White Guilt and Historical Narratives
Locationism and Multiculturalism
Cultural Decay and Fashion
School Uniforms and Gender Roles
Self-Respect and Clothing
Population and Responsibility
