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In this episode of Paul English Live, we navigate through a variety of topics with a festive twist. We kick off with a discussion on the potential of terahertz frequency wands and the intriguing concept of activating dormant stem cells. The conversation then shifts to the technical challenges and cultural implications of broadcasting across multiple platforms, highlighting the unique aspects of radio as a medium.
As the holiday season approaches, we delve into the nostalgic charm of Christmas music and the cultural significance of traditional celebrations. The episode features humorous anecdotes about Christmas plays and the quirks of festive traditions, providing a light-hearted look at the season.
We also explore the historical and cultural impact of dance, from English country dances to the passionate Paso Doble, reflecting on how these traditions connect us to our past and each other.
The discussion takes a serious turn as we address the geopolitical implications of advanced military technology, specifically Russian missiles, and the broader context of global power dynamics. We touch on the role of media and propaganda in shaping public perception, emphasizing the importance of critical thinking.
Throughout the episode, we maintain a balance of humor and insight, offering listeners a blend of entertainment and thought-provoking commentary. As we approach the end of the year, the show encourages reflection on cultural heritage, the importance of community, and the power of tradition in bringing people together.
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Oh, I do like this music. Just puts me in the mood.
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Paul Angus Live coming up on Global Voice Network.
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I, didn't do that very well, did I? Hi. Welcome back, everyone. It's Thursday, October the no. It's not October, December. Oh, it's good to have one last cock up before Christmas. And mind you, the show's early. There could be many more coming just yet. This is Paul English Live. We're here every Thursday on WBN 324. We're here from 3 PM, 5 PM US Eastern, 8 PM to 10 PM here in the UK. Hi, everyone, and welcome to the show. And I've got a few more technical ducks in a row this week. So, yeah, our main station is WBN 324 for the next couple of hours, but we're also going out of a rumble. We're going out of a d live, and we're also going out today on YouTube.
Managed to get it sorted this week. And I'll be joined by the usual crew of reprobates reprobates, even if I can speak properly, who'll be with us for the duration, I hope. Hi. Welcome back, everyone. Just had a quick slurp of water. Seriously, it was. I know it's the festive season to be having fun and all that kind of stuff, but we can't start out too early, can we? Now that wouldn't be the that wouldn't be the right thing to do. Anyway, I hope you've all been having a cracking week. I've been having a really busy week, actually, and I'm feeling in a really good mood, which is probably never a good sign. Always means that lots of things can start going wrong. I don't wanna be too negative, but, obviously, I just was. Anyway, what was I doing earlier in this week? Oh, yeah. If you've if you've looked into the Rumble channel from time to time and by the way, wherever you're listening, if you wanna actually sort of get involved in chatting, you know, that kind of typing thing and everything, there's a pretty lively chat that we have over on Rumble. You'll find the link to that at paulenglishlive.com, and, that's the place to get typing away. But, yeah, I've had a pretty busy week. I was on with, one of the things I've put up a few a couple of weeks ago was a a little sort of 1 hour slot that I did with, a good lady over here called Karen Dodd.
And we did a couple more of them this week, 2 in a week. I don't know. I feel like a radio tarp these days all over the place. But, no, they were jolly good. They were covering, a lot of sort of, well, basic things and intertwined things and historical things. And, it's kind of a different gig for me being on the sort of receiving end of it. I don't know which one I prefer best. They're both good. I don't know which is the best though. But I had a lot of fun. So, a quick shout out and a big thank you to Karen for setting that up. I think we'll be doing a few more. If you want to find her channel, there's a link to it actually on the Rumble channel. I think it's wise women weekdays. I think that's what it is. But you'll find it, and it's a developing channel there on YouTube and, lots of good stuff. And, interestingly, how about this? This is just a little sort of technical aside. As you know, I don't use a webcam. We don't use a video feed here. We're we're basically running audio out over a video platform. In this case, you know, Rumble is the main one.
But, also, I've sportingly and courageously decided to start going out on YouTube simply because we could at hopefully minimal extra fuss. Whether it turns out to be a dead duck, I don't know. But, thought it was worth giving it a go, you know, the season of goodwill to all men and all that kind of stuff. So we're going out over there, and, we'll look to sort of build the audience up accordingly. I'm just trying to get into every channel I can. I mean, I'm even thinking about possibly even paying for a subscription to x and running a live, a live version of the show there. But as I was saying, this is this is really a radio audio show that we, that we nestle and run across video platforms.
And, being a tight one, I've never bought a webcam. But, actually, no. It was also sort of an executive decision a long time ago to not really get into video too much. And I probably droned on about it a bit here before, but I like I personally chug away listening to things whilst working and doing things, and I suspect many of you are the same, particularly when you think about the sort of material that we cover and all that kind of stuff. So, I'm often slightly, not rude, but I never know what to say when someone sends me a 3 hour video. I haven't got time to watch it because you've probably noticed she can't do anything else whilst you're watching the video. But that said, that there's a nice little sort of format that has just sprung up with Karen.
She's actually on the video feed. I stay on the audio feed, and, somebody wrote in on her channel, a kindly comment, basically saying that they thought it really worked as a format. In other words, they could look at Karen and see what was going on there, but I'm sort of, in this case, the voice coming in from the outer the nether regions of the world. And, I think it works too. I quite like it anyway. So there you go. A bit of sort of technical blabber to kick things off. Anyway, we're here to talk about all sorts of things. I wanna talk about rockets to start off with. But before I do that, because I I'm sure you all you all wanna talk about rockets, I want to welcome everybody, into the show. We've got in the studio along with me, there's Paul, who was absent last week, probably doing something important. Patrick's here, and Eric's here. But, Paul, seeing as that you weren't here last week and you are here now, welcome back to the show. How are you?
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I'm really good, and, hopefully, I mean, I you know, I'm saying, like, nighttime prayers and stuff that that your part of the world, as soon as you get rid of Stommer, it will no longer be referred to as the nether region of the world.
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Well, because it's It is a nether region at the moment. Yeah.
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It's it's quite quite a load going on over there, isn't it? A load of something. I don't know. But but the you could and you look at me talking to me. Week, and I only got sleepy Joe.
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I know. I know, Paul. You're right. But I've noticed, x, you know, Twitter. There's a couple of really good souls on lawn, particularly on the Telegram chat that's associated with this show who pile in with the the Xlinks, which is pretty useful for me. So I think I've given a shout and a thanks to Lorne before, and there's another one. But it is very useful because I just don't have enough time sometimes to scour all the sources that I want to. It's a full time job, or it would be. Must get a slave to do that. I don't know if slave is the correct word. Technical assistant, is it? Sure. But that would be really, really cool. But that chat's fantastic.
The Paul English chat on Telegram has got some really good quality commentators and nice little mild disputes and tit for tats every now and again. Nothing untoward. So thank you all who are in there for behaving well most of the time. No. Seriously, behave well. Great, actually. And I've noticed on x, the word communism is popping up a lot now. People are really getting it that we just live under communism, and I've been banging on about this for years, but, of course, it wasn't it wasn't basically that obvious. But Starmer is just a full on sort of Politburo, Trotskyite, Pabloist nut job, basically, you know, this great drone that we've been burdened with. So, and as Eric's mentioned here before, even though he came in and he's just run out of the studio, I don't know what he's done. What's he done? He's just run out of the studio. But as Eric mentioned here before, he's probably really a blessing in disguise because he's getting everybody a bit wound up, and that's that's no bad thing.
So even you begin to sit up and take notice over there. What a complete, individual he is. He's quite a thing. He really is. Anyway, anyway, Patrick, how are things with you in balmy, boiling hot Wisconsin? Yeah. It's only negative 5 right now. It's snowing. Is that all? That's pretty warm for you guys at this time of the year, isn't it? Yeah. It's fine. It's heating up.
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Well, we're, yeah, we're we're getting snow, so, hopefully, it's gonna be a a nice, snowy Christmas. And all the family, you know, out of everybody gets together and has a good time. We go to mass, midnight mass, and
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Cool. Have a good time. That's nice. That's what it's all about. It's family It is really. It's a family time, isn't it? It is a family time. And I'm being I actually put up the Christmas decorations today, which is a light. There's a certain I've got to do a bit more, frankly. We've got these carers that comes in the house to go, where's the Christmas decorations? I'm saying, what if you're volunteering? You know? But they weren't. They weren't volunteering to do that. So, I've got this I've got one of these really cordy little flashing light. I can't even begin to describe it. Maybe I should film it. It's quite pathetic, but it makes me laugh because it's it is so pathetic that it's it's it's full of good cheer. At least, it's full of that. And, I don't go in big time for those sorts of things anyway, but, tomorrow, I will be arming the front room with a lot of candles, which is basically my way of dealing with it, and then just create a chilled out space for a few days.
And, our our sort of little period is getting less and less excessive, and and therefore, all the better for it, actually. I find it much more connected, but I'm I'm quite jealous that you're gonna get snow. We we might be lucky if we get slush. We can get fog. We usually get rain. Would you would you bet would you not be surprised to hear that? We often get rain. A lovely nice rainy day. But if we if we get a crisp cold icy one, which we had today I mean, I've I've taken up going out for a walk for about an hour and 45 minutes now. It's quite a quite a haul, and I'm going at quite a lick. And I've been out 4 or 5 days in a row doing this. Today was particularly cold. The old knees sticking out the end of my shorts were really taking a bit of a hammering today.
But once you get going, it was great. I've met all the dog walkers. So because I'm going out at the same time each day, I keep bumping into the same people with their dogs. Because I don't have a dog, so I've got to show an interest in their dogs. Well, I do if I wanna be sociable. And I am quite sociable, so I show an interest in them. Anyway, one of them's got a 6 month old shepherd dog called, Robbie. And, I couldn't really quite understand it because she wasn't a young lady, and I think the dog's gonna you know, if I come along and find out that the dog's still alive and that she's she's on her on her uppers and completely tied out, it wouldn't surprise me because the dog's full of beans. But, anyway, that's what's been going on. That's what's been going on here. Eric, anyway, welcome to the show. Greetings. Good to have you. Greetings. Is it snowing where you are?
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No. It's really cold, though. And, you know, when I meet dog walk because I don't know what it is. They tend to ignore me now because I cracked a joke. I just said, you know, remember the old Chinese saying, a dog is not just for Christmas. With care, there's can be some leftover for sandwiches in the New Year. That's just don't know why they don't wanna know me. Strange, isn't it? You know?
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I thought a dog was just for Christmas, so I've I've been reading that wrong all these years. Remember, a dog's for Christmas, not for life. Isn't it? Have I got it the wrong way? Something like that. Yes. Anyway, what happened earlier, I was just about to come on, and it all went
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blank. I don't know. Sort of
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I'll come back again. No. You haven't. Yeah. You're you're still there.
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I thought it's something I was saying. You know?
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Well, not yet. I was just practicing for when you do say it.
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Yes. Yes. You know, no brussels sprouts jokes because it's Christmas. But, anyway, So, I'll tell you what, though. You're bloody loud today. That's what I'm trying yeah. No. This is a good it's not a moan. It's great. You're really up in the mix, so we can yeah. You're blasting our ears out. It's very good, Eric. I like it a lot. It's great. No. It's good. Well, I've been fluffing around with the sound, you see. Make it a little bit better. So I made sure everything's okay this time. You know? But, no, back to the weather. It's been quite nice here today. And, of course, lunchtime, then the clouds roll in as it happens every day, but then they rolled out again. So it's quite pleasant, but they're it's gonna warm up for Christmas. It's gonna be unseasonally
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warm over Christmas. Oh, good. Okay? I I don't mind unseasonably warm at all. It's it's fine by me. It's I'm absolutely fine with it. Yeah. Don't have a problem with that at all. It's never we've not really had since we moved down here, I think we've seen snow once in 24 years, which actually I was quite impressed to even see at all. Yeah. We had there was one where the whole place got covered with snow for about 4 or 5 days, and it was when the my sons were young. So, really, although we only got one like that, at least they got one. Do you know what I mean? And it was great. Really, really good day there.
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Apparently apparently, 1963, 64,
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the sea froze. It was so cold. That was the I did down here. Yeah. I worked with a guy when I first moved down here, Eric, and he's a bit older than me. So he would have been about I don't know. When they're at the grape freeze, was it 62 or 63? He's he's about 8 4. Yeah. He was about 8 or 9 years of age, something like that. He said, they just moved down from London. They thought, great. Well and the whole sea froze. They were absolutely frozen. I thought it'd be quite impressive. I've never seen a frozen sea. But, apparently, even down here, on the old South Coast of England, it was so chilly that the old sea froze right up. Yeah. So Yes. The dog's frozen lampposts
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as well, wasn't it?
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Yes. Anyway, I'm just looking for the I'm just for the mute button there, Eric. I didn't find it. But no. There we go. Marvelous. Very good. Anyway, I wanted to start off talking about rockets today. You know as you do. We haven't talked about rockets on here for a long time, have we? And, it's not the sort of thing I normally do talk about. But I was speaking to you know, we had a guest on, and I in fact, he might be back with us, on Boxing Day next week, because obviously next week's show, and there will be one, is on Boxing Day. And I was talking to him earlier the week about a few other things, and we he got around to talking about Russian rockets. So I am assuming you've all seen this report. Was it about a week ago of this test that the Russians did of this rocket that's really rather quick? Have you seen this?
Pretty fast, this thing. Anybody seen that? You mean with the multiple warheads? I mean, the one that just goes like the bloody clappers. By the bloody clappers, I mean, MAC 27. You can go look it up, everybody. See how fast Mac 27 is. It's astonishingly fast. It's sort of stupid fast. It's 30,000 miles an hour or something or 24,000 miles an hour. I'm serious. This thing is just ridiculous. So they were saying that if if if mister Putin gets a bit cross and finally cannot show any more restraint, with us, whoever we mean by us, if he presses the button, it would be on London in under 8 minutes, and is literally unstoppable. There's nothing on earth that could stop it. So there you go. Anyway, I I got me thinking about that. And, I've mentioned here before and this is not necessarily a World War 2 show tonight, although you never know where we're gonna go with these things. That's what kinda makes it fun. But one of the books I mentioned at some point in the past, and we'll maybe look at it a bit more, is a book called The Chief Culprit by Viktor Suvorov. Now Suvorov was a defector. He scarpered over here, I think, when the wall came down, either just before or just after when all that sort of thing was going on. And he wrote a couple of books. The other one's the more famous one, and I can't even remember the title of it. But he followed up with this one called the chief culprit, Stalin's grand design to start World War 2, and Suvorov's ex Russian intelligence. Okay? So either this is a super psyop or it's really true. However, I think much of it's true because the factual information in it is pretty good. I just wanted to read everybody. I hope you're all sitting comfortably, or driving in a straight line or whatever you're doing. Chapter 8 is called and this is really interesting, and it's relevant to this rocket thing.
Stalin and the destruction of Soviet Strategic Aviation. Okay? And the first chapter and I'll I'll I'll re I'll sort of go over the rest ad libbing it from memory. It just says this is Stalin this is the opening part of the chapter. Stalin could have averted World War 2 with one stroke of his pen. He had many such opportunities. Here is one of them. In 1936, the Soviet Union developed the heavy, high speed, high altitude bomber TB dash 7, later re renamed p e 8. I hope you're all taking notes. There'll be a test later on, everyone. Here are some reviews of it. Air Force major general p Stefanovsky, test pilot of the TB 7, the multi ton ship surpassed in its flight capabilities at an altitude of 10 kilometers.
All the best European fighters of its time. Right? This is 1936. Now I'm not gonna read the rest of it. It's definitely a book worth reading if you're into this kind of stuff because much of it is about the logistics that are required to actually get a war up and running, and these things don't happen overnight as many of you are well aware. So we're talking 1936, and, what what that chapter talks about, this TB 7, the p e 8, there was a problem or there was an operating altitude for fighter planes and bombers based on the, physics of internal combustion engines driving those propellers.
So the higher the plane goes, the less oxygen there is in the atmosphere, the hotter the engine gets. It will get so hot if you keep trying to take it higher and higher that it just literally will stop. It can't work. It can't there's just nothing to to fuel it, literally. So they were always pushing to get these things to go as high as they possibly could. And there's a Russian engineer whose name's in this chapter, but I don't need to tell you what it is because I don't know I don't know his name. And, he came up with a he came up with a solution for this. And, what he did was he they built another engine, which they put in the fuselage of the bomber.
And they said from this engine, there were 4 pipes, 1 to each engine, 2 on each wing. These pipes carried cold air or oxygen directly over to the engine. And this other engine operated on maybe it was an electric engine or a generator, something like that. It was a different sort of air pump that he put on board this thing, which wasn't constricted by the lack of oxygen. So probably an electric pump of some sort. I I'm just recalling and making this up. You can go and check out the, the true details, but they got it to work. And what, what it meant was just as that first quote is that this thing could fly basically way way higher than any, allied plane could fly. This is 1936, okay, before all the naughtiness had started.
And, they built about 8 of them, and Stalin gave the order to build them, then recalled the order, then gave the order to build them again, then recalled it again, and this went to and fro several times. In the end, they as I said, they built about half a dozen of these things, and that was it. Now it wasn't a problem of manufacturing capacity at all. It was a tactical reason, and this is really fascinating, I think. Stalin had been building up this colossal army for quite a while. It takes quite a while to build up 6,000,000 men on the Polish border. You don't do that sort of stuff overnight. Years in the planning and in the making because, the the background to this is that Stalin was not supposed to be the guy in charge of Russia. It was supposed to be Trotsky.
Trotsky was the place man of the men in London of the city, and, Stalin turns up basically out of nowhere, starts killing everybody and just dominated the whole place, and that was that. He got too much allegiance from the heavy guys, and everybody had to watch themselves. So Trotsky didn't get in. And Stalin's they did they were a bit worried about Stalin because the idea that they had then, and and we're under this idea, the Trotsky idea, was to roll out communism culturally almost. Right? To absorb the west through cultural decay and to take your time. No rush. Stalin wasn't really into that. He was really into building the world's largest army as far as we know. I mean, it's pretty big. 6,000,000 men. Right? I don't know if there's ever been any armies bigger than that. So why didn't he build this plane?
Why didn't he build it? Because because he he he understood that if an in due course word would get out that they had this bomber, right, he wouldn't be able to start a war because there's no defense against it. And I think Suvorov mentions sort of creates a sort of, an imaginary picture. He said, imagine that Stalin invites all the world leaders to his dasher somewhere out in the backwards of Russia or wherever it was. You've got this huge field, and they're all having port and brandy or vodka or whatever they're doing. And then he he directs the attention of all the dignitaries to a field, say, about 5 miles away. So just have a look over there with you, and the whole thing just explodes. You wouldn't have heard anything. You wouldn't have seen anything. The whole thing just erupts because he sent some of these bombers over at a height you can't see or hear, that you can't detect. They're that high.
And so his reasoning or the tactical reasoning was, if they know I've got this, I can never get my war started because they won't start a war with us because we've got this weapon that's so advanced and beyond their capabilities of defending themselves. Get the drift? It's a bit odd, isn't it? I thought it was odd when I read it. But you sort of see through it. You go, ah, yeah. Makes complete sense. Well, so that's how they handle it then to get a war started. And when I saw this thing about the this rocket that they've got, I forgot the name of it, going absolutely like the clappers over 20,000 miles an hour or some ludicrous figure. I mean, it's just absolutely astonishingly fast in the Earth's atmosphere. This is not going out of it, whatever people might think about the Earth's atmosphere. I know people have got varying deep, differing opinions on that.
So I viewed it as a peace offering. Seriously. Going, what they're doing is they're saying, look. Look. We really don't want a war with you because we've got this, and you've done a stand the chat. We're gonna let you know that we've got it so that you'll come to your senses and just calm down a bit, and stop behaving like assholes. What do you think of my logic? Is it pathetic and stupid? Any any views, anyone, on that that line of thinking?
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Well, I think that Putin, he was I don't know whether he still is a member of the World Economic Forum. And I think he's in on it. I think he's part of the gang. And I think it's all contrived. So most of the news we're getting is pantomime views and misdirection and whatever, especially about UFOs and other nonsense like that. So I think it's all part of the fear porn. And what is said and what is done, they reckon that regarding Syria did you hear that rabbi talking that apparently, they're gonna got his word for it. Putin is actually on the phone with Israel, and it it was a deal they've done between each other. Was that true or not? I don't know. Wouldn't surprise me? It wouldn't surprise me. So Nothing would surprise me. Think that Putin, this war thing, I now believe that wars are basically, playing genocides because they're obsessed. It's a death cult we've got ruling us, with, killing people off. And that's that's and they want a war. That's what they're build building for. And I think that the planning behind the scenes with Putin and everybody else is, yeah, let's let's wipe out so many million more people. That's it.
So that's my feeling of it.
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Yeah. It's definitely got I mean, it's not a thought I've not had. I mean, I've I remember those pictures of Putin meeting up with all those guys running around in their silky costumes with some pictures painted. Oh, you remember those things from about 20 years ago? George Bush is in there. They're all pouncing around in some field looking gay as you know? And, you know, we're all masons and all doing this, that, and the other. And I've mentioned here, of course, before that there are there's photographic pictures. Well, there would be photographic, but there are photographs of Putin doing the, the power gen training under British Royal Arch Freemasonry in about 1981.
This is to do with Richard Tomlinson, all that Mi 5 stuff that came out in the mid to late nineties, which is seriously weird. And the websites that are linked to that are seriously weird and odd and touch upon these sort of occult or and I mean that in the sort of nasty sense of it. These dangerous sort of training practices they did, where trainees would die during the training, regularly, because they were put into situations where they were all well, they were, I think, taken to the point of death and then revived, and this psychologically changes you forever, probably makes you a super drone or something like that. I have no idea what, but a lot of very strange comments on those things. And this is to do with Putin's situation back then.
And, of course, we have to remember he was head of the secret service type thing, wasn't he? Yes. But I'm still I'm still fascinated by it because there's always been these reports of these colossally fast Russian missiles. There was an Australian research, and I forgot his name now. I was I couldn't remember it today, and I probably won't remember it tomorrow, but, an Australian guy used to do a lot of reports on advanced military hardware like this as sort of like the Mexican standoff in the world. Well, we've got this. Yeah. But we've got this. Yeah. And then next month, yeah. But they've got this, and they've got they've got that. So I've not seen any pictures of this rocket going, although there are some spectacular stuff. There is some spectacular stuff on YouTube of these sort of automatic firing, mob mobile rocket launches in Russia. I don't know if you've ever seen this stuff. It's it's like Iron Man. You know, the film Iron Man, it's literally like that. These things just come up vertically very slowly to a height of about 200 feet. Then they click you hear all these clicks and whistles. They turn horizontally and just shoot off parallel to the surface of the Earth at some colossal speed, and I'm going, it's so impressive, technically, and you're going, I hope there's not a war a warhead in that. Although, I accept that the idea of atomic weapons has a big question mark against it. This is something that's been coming up recently. People saying, do atomic bombs really exist? And I think, there is a lot of evidence suggest that, yet again, we are probably having the world pulled over our eyes with that stuff.
But, yeah, I just thought why would they let you know? Why would they let them know that if, you know of course, if you're right, Eric, and I I I tend to your view as well that this is all one big massive pantomime. Well, Vladimir, you're gonna be paying the bad guy for about four and a half years. Really? Yes. And then this is gonna happen. Because what's actually happening in the Ukraine is a brother's war, no different to World War 2. Not not at all. The Ukrainians and the Russians are basically the same people, aren't they, on the ground?
And yet the people in charge of the Ukraine are not let I'm just being tactful. They're not the same people, are they? There are different sorts of people. They're people with different plans and aims and goals, and they're they're not those people. They're not the ones that are out in the field having their heads blown off. And, I've forgotten what the actual casualty rate is in Ukraine, but it's pretty big. I don't know if it's near 6 figures yet, but it's it's a huge chunk of Ukrainian young men. And what will happen when they've all gone? Oh, hang on. There'll be a vacuum of men in there, and that'll be filled by some other tribes or something.
Call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't know. I don't know what to say, really.
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It's worse. The First World War, apparently, it's like a World War one situation. And Mhmm. There is not enough It's a meat grinder, isn't it? It's just a meat grinder. There's not enough meat here. Yeah. To, to to to make up the next generation. So the next generation is just wiped out. It's it's it's a it's a lost generation. Again, all by design. I really do believe that. And once they've run out of Ukrainians, guess who else they're gonna use? Our our sons and daughters and the rest of Europe's sons and daughters into the meat grinder. That's what I think the overall plan is probably going to be. But, regarding nuclear weapons, no. I I do question whether they exist. I think they are as real as, them landing on the the 3 or 2 men, rather, landing on the moon in 1969.
They didn't have the technology then, and they didn't have the technology for nuclear weapons. And people say, well, okay. What about, the, test they did where troops, are suffering now from cancers due to the radioactive fallout? Well, remember, they got injected with a load of toxic muck before the tests. And, of course, they can we can produce radiation. Yes. Temporarily. Because when they say, oh, radiation's deadly, look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There's people living there. Look at, at that place in Russia, Shoneville Shoneville, which I can never pronounce correctly.
There's animals living there. You can go and visit there if you want to. And it's completely wiped, completely deserted. And I remember at the time, I'm old enough to remember, I said, nothing will be able to live there for a 1000 years at least. But it is. You won't be able to go there for at least a 1000 years. People are going there. So I question it. Now as for nuclear power stations, I don't know how they work, but I I there are quite a few scientists that have written books now that say that to make a nuclear bomb is so complicated, we haven't got the technology.
We can probably do nuclear power station. We can't do techno nuclear bombs. So I I'm over minded about it.
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Yeah. I I I know enough to get my opinion bent this way and that at the moment. There is a good guy though with he's no longer alive. I I was looking him up yesterday. A pilot and then a scientist and researcher from New Zealand called Bruce Kathy, c a t h I e. Have you I don't know if you've ever heard of him. Bruce Kathy. His videos are still up. Someone's compiled a lot of them into, like, a 6 and a half hour monster, some of his lectures that were shot on videotape in the late eighties nineties. And Kathy, one of his presentations is about the sheer ludicrous complexity of getting an atomic bomb to fire, to actually go off, and it's to do with geolocations on the earth and timing. There's a lot of complicated physics that come into it. You can't just sort of drop one outside of the window, and it'll go off.
And that's a very compelling argument with a lot of sort of physics involved. So you need to have your sort of physics head on and be open to the idea of maybe learning a few things. They're not beyond the layman, but they do require a little bit of thought. He did some fantastic work on that. And, of course, there's, also Ray West over here, r a e, Ray West. His his main site is big dash lies dot org, which I actually love graphically as a site. I don't know if you ever been there. Bighyphenlies dot I think it's dot org or dot com. You'll find it. The the thing about the site is it's completely written in HTML, which might sound geeky for me to say that, but you'll know what I mean when you see it. It's just an absolute sea of text and links. It's quite brilliant in a way. It must be so exhausted to have put together.
But it it it links over to another site all about I think it's called Nuke Lies or no nukes or something like that, which is a, it doesn't seem to be such a thriving community now. But I think about 15 years or so ago, there were a lot of posters in there, you know, when the during the forum age of the Internet. And, a lot of people talking about the sheer almost impossibility of getting these things to fire off. So we've been lied to about everything else. And you just mentioned the moon landings as well. Somebody sent me a a little clip today, which is unplayable really. You know, people put these clips together, and they keep putting this gawky bloody mood music in the background. It really drives me crazy. I wanna hear what people are saying. I like music. I like talking. But when they mix them together to create some kind of heavy impression, I can't take it too seriously. However, this was of a guy who's died relatively I think he died just a couple of years ago. I don't know from what. It wasn't about that. He was talking about his father being in, an air force base in 1968 and 69 and, had had to remain silent about this his entire life. He passed in 2,002, and had told his son this. And his his son was ill, so he said, now I can say this to the camera because my dad wanted to say it to me. And he was talking about masses of cement and sand that were in these 2 aircraft hangars out at this US Air Force Base, where they basically recreated and shot and filmed all the moon landings. That was the location for them. They also had the moon buggy. Remember that thing? How did they get out there? Yes. Yes. All that kind of stuff. And
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wasn't it amazing how the soil that was thrown up by the wheels dropped to the moon's surface at the speed of gravity? Isn't that amazing? Yes. I know.
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I know.
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How do they do it? I know. But everything else was one six g apart from the apart from all the dust that's being thrown up. Mhmm. Thanks for that, isn't it? And why can't we do it again?
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What's that, Patrick? Why can't we do it again?
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Can we we don't have the compute we don't have the computing power, apparently.
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No. They lost all the plans. Yeah. The first time in history, they've lost the plans. So it's a bit like,
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Henry Ford, back in the model t Ford. They make a few, and suddenly, we can't make any more, fellas, because we lost all the planes. You know, it's done there. Can't find them. What have you done with the memory? I don't I don't know. I went I went for my breakfast. There I was. Maple syrup, pancakes, sausages. I was talking to the chief engineer. We looked around. They're all gone. Really? Yeah. Well, they must not make it like they
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used to. Just just like automobiles used to be so much so much more classier and so so much, so much less complication in as far as computers and electronics.
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Mhmm. Spot on. There's a there's a fellow around where I live that, has a a Chevy, 1952, I think it is. The early fifties. And he's doing it up. Where he got it from, I don't know. I mean, it's a left hand drive. Because there's a lot of there was a lot of American Air Force bases sort of in Essex and that. And a lot of the Americans brought their vehicles over. They shipped them over. I think the you probably know now about this, Paul or Patrick. But I think they had a deal or something where they could actually get the vehicles over. Well, when they went back home, it it was a bit more expensive. So they used to sell all the vehicles off cheap. So there's lots of Brits walking around in American cars.
But, unfortunately, there's such gas guzzlers that, you know, our our fuel over here is so expensive compared with America where it was that, you know, very few people could afford them. But when you look at this Chevy, I was behind it the other day, it's a work of art. It really is a work of art. Beautiful. You know, everything's solid that looks it is built solid. Somebody sat down with a pencil and designed it. You know? It's the pencil, Eric.
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It's the the pencil's the killer app. It's the pencil and the pen and the human ear with the pencil stuck behind it. That sound? Yeah? Oh, the white coat? Remember the white coat? Was it a white coat, didn't they? They had a white coat with all their sleeves rolled up and men pouring over it with slide drills and some of them smoking pipes as they're long on stage. They hadn't tap on the tip. This is wrong, Brian. This is not gonna work. That kind of stuff. Just marvelous. It is. It's you just go, yeah. Look. We don't want all this. I don't want you all work it out. I want some blokes to work it out with pencil, and we want this guy to shave some bits of wood to show you what the wing's gonna look like. So there's this attempt to create a moving thing that is a little bit more than just, a fridge on wheels, which is really all they are now. They're basically they're just to keep the contents fresh and safe upon arrival. They're tedious, very boring sorts of things.
Whereas I remember when I saved you know, I was of course, Eddie. I was one of the few people in Yorkshire who could actually afford all the petrol because my first car was a 4 liter Chevy. And, my yeah. Yeah. And my dad said, how are you gonna afford to put petrol in that? I said, I don't know. That's a very good question. It was a very good question. I know I won't drive it that much, and that's basically what happened. I couldn't drive it as much as I would like. But when I did, I was very happy. Big old thing, beautiful, and makes all the right sounds. There's a sort of visceral connection with all the engineering that blokes get. It's a bloke thing, I guess. You know you know, women are gonna go, oh, it's all oily and dirty. Go, yeah. That's what's great about it. That's what we like.
We really like all that stuff.
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Well, I worked with a bloke who works in Canada for a long time. Contract bloke like the rest of us, and he bought a Trans Am, and it got it had it shipped over. It's left hand dry. Yeah. And this thing, you could actually feel the the floor sort of almost vibrating when you were next to it. It's lovely sort of floating sounds of a v 8. And hang on. I'm not sure it's a v 8 or v 16, but my god didn't it go. It was it was beautiful.
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The sound of a I love it all. It's all silly and blokey. It it is. It really is. I mean, I've got a I don't know whether he's got one now. We we had some friends. I I think we still have them, but we'd have some friends up in London. And, he was in the building game, and he was really good. Great guy. And, he was really into Americana. They used to take their holiday every year in, what's that big place in Carolina? I don't know whether it's north or south. They used to go to, some great place. I'm like, it's completely run out of my head.
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Say that again. Was it a beach?
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It might have been. But on the Atlantic? Yeah. Could have been. Maybe. I don't know. There's somewhere they used to go all the time and love it. And all their furniture in their house was American furniture. They used to ship it in. Like so I remember seeing the bed, not that I was nursing around there. You know, I count the leeward there and the the I said, how big is that bloody bed? It was enormous. And, of course, it was massively overbuilt, which I liked even more. Huge amounts of wood in it. But he what what's this really expensive super truck that you guys stupidly buy? The Ford, what's it, f 150 or something? What are those things, Patrick? Do you know about these things? Go up, you know, f f 250, 350,
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650.
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And they're not inexpensive, are they? They're quite a pricey bit of kit, aren't they, these days? Well, he has those. He has those. That's what he has. He ships those in because he likes in London to drive. It's like driving a tank around. Yeah. Yeah. The turning circle is just a joke in London. You need a little London cab or you need a little mini in London, but now he liked those things. I completely understood why. They're kind of a it's an experience to just get one of these things. So Yeah. For a smart car in the back in the bed. Yeah.
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Can you imagine can you imagine the film bullet with Steve McQueen with him driving an electric car?
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Just Well, just making that little swish sound as the as the rubber goes across the road. Yeah. I know. So
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no. I actually wouldn't be powerful enough for that, would it? Just go that's all you do.
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Because We do get we do get around to talking about cars quite a bit, but I do think they're relevant, actually. I think they're kind of I mean, there was a clip I came across today, which would have been useless because really you needed to see the video footage because it was translated. It was of these, another one that I've seen. I think I've mentioned it here before. Going over to battery cars. I forgot what country it was. It might be Nigeria or somewhere like that. These young lads, young, 5 8 years of age, right, talking to the camera about their daily work, getting this crap out of the ground to make these shitty batteries for these crap useless dangerous battery cars.
Right? It was heartbreaking. Really, it's just completely not on. And all these environmental people need to see that. What about the environment for these people? It was absolutely horrific. This little lad 5 said my mom died, and I have to do this, and I hate it, and I'm scared every day, and I have to go into this black pit, and it's just horrific. And he was quite an articulate little lad. You could see. He wasn't he'd not been grand down by life just then. The 8 year old would have been was a bit more. He looks a lot lot older than his years because of what they're aiming to do. This is out of order, this stuff. It's completely not on for a technology that's useless. I mean, seriously, it's absolutely useless. We I again, you know, I'm banging on about it. I walked I walked up down the beach every day. I have to look at this £14,000,000 of wind park joke stuck out in the sea.
I mean, it's just yeah. And it's there. It's completely destroyed the natural beauty of the sea lion because it would. Right? They're junk. They're hardly ever turned on because there's so much wind that comes down the South Coast if it gets around the Isle of Wight that they can't turn them on. Yeah. They're ugly.
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I remember going out to the Black Forest and and Yep. And walking up the hills and seeing these ugly windmills, and and it's just ridiculous. So they and they get rid of their coal the coal plants and the the nuclear plants, and it's supposed to all be replaced by windmills and
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solar and and these other things. It's all a bit much. It is. It is. It's it's a terrible sort of thing, but, yeah. So still not happy about the car thing, particularly as all the solutions exist as we've mentioned here before, but we can't apply them because someone else has stepped in. And, no, we're going to solve your problems with electrical power. Actually, that's not really solving any problems. No. It is environment environment, carbon carbon carbon.
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Default. And that's part of the reason you have a war right now between Russia and Ukraine. They're the area that Donbas is in is is one of the most rich coal areas in in, Europe. Mhmm. And not only that, you have all of these blast furnace furnaces for making steel and iron. And how are you gonna do that? How are you how are you gonna smelt iron ore using wind power? It's such a waste.
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I know. Yeah. Well, Britain apparently has 400 years of coal. 400 years of coal or more underneath the surface. And what what they did That's just in Wales.
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That's just in Wales, Eric. That little the little sort of intro, the pre show track that I play, because I like it, kinda gets me in the mood by public service broadcasting. It's something I think there will always be coal. Well, there will, but there will be if we if we don't use it. It's amazing stuff. I mean, it's just oh god. Anyway, don't get me started. Although I'm permanently started with this stuff. It's, we're not allowed to solve our own problems because somebody else, our betters, apparently know how to solve it properly, which, of course, they don't because they're a totally hijacked group of people.
They're hijacked to this global, you know, what is it, interdependence nonsense that they've designed to stop all your nations warring. We wouldn't war if people like you weren't around. And, of course, this stuff just never seems to end. It's it's it is like gangs at school sort of trying to control things and smashing it all up at the same time. Nobody really benefits. I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious for the 10000th time, but, you know, sometimes you have to, I guess. But, yeah. By the way, just if you're in the Rumble chat, I've just put the link through, to the article to add the video footage that I can't really play.
It's from, yes, the daily mail, daily mail dot co dot u k. But the link's in the Rumble chat for those of you who wanna go and check it. And, it's just word re worth reading the article. The reason for putting it in is I really think we need to get on the case of these battery people. All of these incidents with these battery cars, they keep on getting forgotten. Oh, what a surprise. Like, there was that one with that massive sort of, that, freight cargo ship where, like, 100 of them burned. You remember seeing that one couple of years ago? Electrical fires starts in the hole, just burnt the inside, like, 100 of them. And then what happened was at Luton Airport, Eric. Do you remember that about 2 or 3 years ago? Yes. It was a massive fire at Luton Airport.
No mention of that. No mention of that at all. No. No batteries, batteries, batteries. And, of course, they're putting all these electrical connection points in, and they're just another mess and more street clutter and street architecture and junk that we don't need. So, yeah, stick with petrol. I don't care.
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Petrol was a byproduct. They they were used to throw it away. They didn't know what to do with it. And the first vehicles were diesel, made up to run on peanut oil, believe it or not. Yeah. And, then they sort of decided to use this petrol stuff. But they say, oh, electric cars were around in the 1900, and there was more electric cars around than there were petrol ones. Well, the reason petrol won out was because it's so more efficient. I mean, fine. I mean, electric cars are fine if you just wanna go to 10 miles down the road and do down the shops or to pick up the children or or whatever you wanna do like that local. And I haven't got a problem with it. But if you wanna go a great distance, forget it if you got an electric, guys. It's not, mate. It's it's not for that.
Yeah. It's re you know, it's bonkers. And they can't see that. I mean, the range is what? Some you're lucky if you get 100 miles, and you have to wait for about 3 hours for it to charge. If you're lucky, you have to find a charging spot. So
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bonkers Okay. Yeah. Battery cars. That's what they're not electric cars. They're battery cars. The the weak point in them is and the control point is the battery tech, and that's what they're all geared up to. I suppose Musk would not be didn't Musk invest huge amounts in some battery manufacturing plant somewhere in the States a couple of years ago to make huge amounts of batteries? Yeah. There's something going on there with all that kind of stuff. So it's always worth going back to these things and touching upon them and, you know, hey ho. So don't come around to my house in a bloody electric car, a battery car, I mean, to get my language right. Don't want that.
Very, very silly vehicles. We don't like them. Old smelly vehicles, Volvos in particular, much appreciated. Let's let's just rub their noses in it everywhere we can. Anyway, moving over to something this is just a brief one, but this is a good update. Sam Melia, who you who we've mentioned here before, but we've not we've not focused massively on Sam Melia. We're I'm totally sympathetic, empathetic to his situation. And for Lara, his wife, As you know, he put some stickers up, saying it's okay to be white, which, of course, is, worse than murdering people apparently these days according to the completely compromised and communist overthrown judiciary system over here. But, somebody called Darren Grimes, who I think is a a reporter on GB News, not that I'm a watcher, but you never know. You can never tell with these things.
A post from him, new Sam Melia was banged up for 2 years for distributing downloadable stickers. He's now back with his children and wife just in time for Christmas. That's fantastic. So very, very pleased for him. Just let everybody know who didn't yeah. He is. He's great. He's really, really good. He deserved none of that. But, of course, he's a warning shot to the rest of us. We don't want you putting stickers up and asserting your racial identity. You can't do that because you're about to be overthrown and thrown into the bin you lot, so don't start getting uppity about it.
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Yeah. And and even if you disagree with the the notion of standing up for your race, at at least you, you know, that there used to be that notion as as I may not agree with you, but I'll fight to the death so that you have the freedom of speech to say what you want and believe what you want. That used to be the old liberal notion, and that's just simply It did.
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Freedom of speech. Do you remember that, Eric, around here, freedom of speech? Do you remember that?
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No. Because well, I do I do remember, though, was when I was a kid, and it was the wartime generation around things, people always said, oh, don't worry. We live in a free country. You can say what you want. Do you remember that? And then when that generation died, that statement died with them.
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You never hear that. You can't Yeah. That's true. To a great degree, you're absolutely right. Yep. Well, the the reality of the matter is your your speech isn't really free unless you're speaking the truth. Mhmm. And Right. That what is truth ends up being the the problem. And if you conflict with powerful people, then you're gonna have problems if if they don't believe in the truth themselves, and it's just a matter of profits and money that speaks pow you know, power is you know, what it truth becomes the opinion of the powerful at a certain point. And that's the case that we deal with every day, especially in the current media that we consume, most people consume, as it's becoming more easy for them to distribute their their lies and propaganda as, you know, the Internet is an example of that.
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Yes. Yeah. It is. Some, wanted to play a silly thing. You ready for a silly thing? Yeah. This is, what's this silly thing? It's about 40 seconds long. British company launches I don't know if you've heard this. It's quite British company launches an AI granny that talks with scammers so as to waste their time. Heard of this? Yeah. I I forget where I saw that. I think I posted that in your chat. Did you? Well, that's cool. Well, kudos to you or wherever I go. I've got it from Zoomers IRL, but listen to this. I think it's about here we go. It's about a minute long. Just listen. Here's AI Granny, and I could probably do with one of these at home.
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Scammers, I'm your worst nightmare. I'm an AI created by 02 to waste phone scammers' time. So w then a dot. 3 times w and then dot. I think your profession is bothering people. Right? I'm just trying, to have a little chat.
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It's nearly been an hour for the last
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Gosh. How time flies. It's showing me a picture of my cat, Fluffy. It's showing you a picture of your cat, Fluffy. Stop calling me dear, you stupid Got it, dear. Because while they're busy talking to me, they can't be scamming you. And let's face it, dear, I've got all the time in the world.
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There you go. Isn't that fun?
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Do you remember that American? I was good in it. Yeah. I was just like that. Bloke. You said all you do is you just say yes. So everything they say, they just say yes. So can I have your credit card number, please? Yes. Or can I have the number then? Yes. I just have to say nothing, but yes. And eventually, she gets so paid off. They give up.
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Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. We might not start doing that. Yes. So there you go. My maybe that's the first sort of reasonably funny and useful application of AI that I've I've heard, the super automated robot thing is pretty good. I quite liked that. Just a series of clips. I said we're bombing around a bit. Got another one here. Completely disconnected with this. You know that, Bint? I think that is the correct technical term for her. What's she called? What's her first name? Vondelion. What's her first name again? Can't remember.
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Oh, that Betty. Betty. Betty.
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Betty. And this is, sorry. It's disrespectful to Betty's everywhere. I had an auntie Betty. She was lots of fun. Bettie fond of lying, I call her, or whatever her real name is. Rather humorless. Yeah. Here's here is one minute of her just being a w e f monkey. It's just and I just love the sort of double speak. And here, here we go. This is about vaccines, everyone. Isn't it fun?
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A better world also means a healthier world, and vaccination is our best chance to do this. Vaccines have saved millions of lives in the past 50 years. But right now, millions of children are still at risk. They need vaccines. So we must continue to support vaccination around the world. And today, I am pleased to pledge $290,000,000 for Gavi, the vaccine alliance. Each child should be protected. And more will come. Together with Gavi, we have the goal to vaccinate 500,000,000 children by 2030. Europe will do its fair share. You can count on us, my friends.
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Yay. We can count on them, can't we? We can at least count on them to do I just remembered what her first name is. It's Arceula, isn't it? Arce Arceula.
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It
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is. It's Arceula from the flying. Isn't that her name? Arceula. It is. I'm sure it's. Yeah. Yeah. But they found it wasn't appropriate. So they changed it to.
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Bill Gates. Isn't Bill Gates tied to the Gabby thing? What does that all
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You remember? I don't know. Some alliance. $290,000,000 for Gavi, g a v. Gates Alliance for vaccinating individual. I don't know what it stands for. Just make it up. It's an acronym. You know? You know? I said, yeah.
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Now cry later, I guess, because, you got you got the same crowd in in power right now. You have Donald Trump who started the vax you know, he basically got the ball rolling with the whole COVID thing. He could have shut it down and said, nope. Buck stops here, just like Harry Truman did when he took office back after World War 2 or during World War 2. Yeah. We're in kind of a dire situation if you think about it in that regard.
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Well, we are. I mean, it's not, obviously, it's not really to do with vaccines or the complete lack of, efficacy of them or anything. It's just to do with mind control. It's, again, we're down to this root problem everywhere that people have been trained and understandably, regressively, therefore, huge numbers of people believe this guff. I mean, I thought the really telling sound from that clip was the applause from the from the crowd. Right. They're going, wow. So if you just give me a name of all of them, I'll make sure I never ever meet you in my life ever. I mean, at least we could say that this is a good thing, that these gatherings of these people, at least it keeps them all together in one space. If we can just sort of run a fence around them when they're all gathered up and get them sectioned in there for a while Send the coordinate. That would help.
Yeah. Here, Vlad. Send one of those high speed rockets. Why not do a test right here, like, now? We'll we'll be there in 5 minutes. Yeah. That's that's the point. Go on. Give it a go. Make the world a better place. It's, it's tragic, though. I mean, my sort of venal silly comments aside, but not that silly. It is it still remains a tragedy that we've got so many people who do understand that they're a tragic lost cause at the moment. Anyway, maybe there is still hope for them, but I've no idea where they're gonna get it from to recover. I mean, you can't I don't know whether they paid to go to this thing to see us stand up and talk bullshit.
Maybe they did or they just but they actually use their time to go and listen to this complete insane stuff. Well, my guess is
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they're all they're all paying tithes to an organization that they, you know, that they've got money on the line. Mhmm. They're the they're the shareholders Yeah. Of this thing.
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Anyway, we know it's coming up to Christmas, and I know I played this Christmas song last week, the one by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers. But since then, there has been a reply. So you remember I played that song, freezing this Christmas? I'm gonna play it again because the Labour Party have come out with a countersingle, which I'm gonna play after this one. So I'll remind you of the old one that we're gonna take a little break. It'll run for about 4 minutes. This one's about 3 minutes and 16 seconds. And then the labor response is a mere 45 seconds or something because they really wanted to get to the point. So we're gonna take a little break for a few minutes. We'll have this nice Christmas song, highly relevant, and, we'll be back after this, everyone.
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Trying to imagine
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a house that's full of cold. Try to imagine being 18 years old. That's where I'll be since care left me. I wish tears could heat my home. What can I do Christmas? While Keir Star is warm, it'll be cold, so cold. We'll have few at home this Christmas.
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And she told me she doesn't get out of bed till midday because she didn't want to tell me it's a good time. Each time
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I remember
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I've paid taxes
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all my life. I cry as I wonder. Will I make it? Will my wife? I just break down as I look around. And the only things I see are foreign walls and open doors and the freezing away pea. It'll be freezing this Christmas while the money at home this Christmas.
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We inherited a situation where there was a £22,000,000,000 black hole in the public finances.
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Do you remember last year when Rishi was here? We never thought there'd be an end. I don't remember looking at you then. I don't remember thinking that next Christmas, things won't be this bad for us. But, darling, this year, things are even worse. I mean, we really we really need warmth. And 2 tiered gear doesn't care there at all.
[01:06:05] Unknown:
It'll be freezing this Christmas without fuel at home. It'll be freezing this Christmas while Keirste Harbour's warm. It'll be cold so cold without fuel at home, this Christmas.
[01:06:35] Unknown:
Merry Christmas, Kier. I hope you can sleep at night. Yeah. Merry Christmas, everyone. Me doing the DJ thing. That was, yeah, that was from last week. Now here's the labor party with their 42nd reply.
[01:06:58] Unknown:
Farmers falling all around me, pensioners shivering, having fun. It's the season, not for our Muslim voters. Merry Christmas, everyone. We're gonna have a party tonight. I'm gonna find lord Ali underneath the mistletoe. We'll kiss by candlelight. Merry Christmas, everyone. Now my polling collapsing all around us. I'm gonna find Lord Ally underneath the mistletoe. Get me out of losing my job. Merry Christmas, everyone.
[01:07:34] Unknown:
Brilliant, And, which one was best? It's, it's difficult. I I thought they were both really rather brilliant. But, yeah, that's another little sort of skit that's shooting around on the interwebs as a sort of response. Yeah.
[01:07:47] Unknown:
Yes. Yes. But, I've actually found I know it's the same in America, but, wherever you go, you're you're sort of getting a kind of eardrum communism. And I was out shopping yesterday, and I've I've got the, Bumbo Christmas junk music ear defenders, you see, and you stick them in, your ears, and it blots out Slade singing Christmas tune, and that wings. And then it's, oh, it's Christmas. I actually hate those 2 so much. They make me feel physically sick. I have to run out the shop. I can't eat. I don't wanna hear them. I mean, it's it's it's it's like a kind of torture. How do people work with it going pipe through all the time? And now they've got it in the local supermarket. And so we've creamsmith.
[01:08:37] Unknown:
And I mean I like your version better, Eric. If you could do a recording like that day. I'd I'd gone for that.
[01:08:44] Unknown:
So is it the same in America, Paul and Patrick? You know, do you get eardrum communism? Or, because Spike Milligan tried started, an action group, didn't he, called Pipe Down, or he supported it, where they wanted people to turn pipe music off. And it worked for a while, and then suddenly everybody's forgotten about it. So, over to you, fellas. What what's it like in America? Do you get eardrum some people call eardrum fascism or eardrum communism? So, you know, it's dreadful over here. Yes? Silence courtesy of what do I say next? Yes. I don't know.
[01:09:23] Unknown:
And probably you don't get it. I I'll tell you what, Eric. I was, yeah, I don't I don't know if the slide thing. Now when did that first come out? 1970 something or other. 74, I think it was. Yes. I think it was. Came out, it was quite exciting and fun. But now that's 50 years that they've been blasting this into people's heads. By the way, I just because I'm so keen on the charts and what's really popular in popular music and not, I was just trying to find out if that, one by the granny harmer stoma thing, the first one, freezing this Christmas, actually was number 1. But according to the official singles charts, whatever that is, which is at officialcharts.com, very exciting, everybody. I know you'll probably be blasting over there as fast as you possibly can go.
The official UK singles chart reflects the UK's biggest songs of the week, whatever biggest means, based oh, it says based on audio and video streams, download CDs, and vinyls compiled by the official charts company. So, top, number 1 is last Christmas by Wham. Didn't they play that last Christmas? Didn't they play that last Christmas? And they'd pray the Christmas before. It's always about last Christmas with them. It's not about this one. So I have no idea what the All I Want for Christmas is You by Maria Carey is at number 3. You've heard all of these before. Rocking Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee. That's actually quite nice that. I like that. I do like that one. Yes. Do you like it? Yeah. I like that one. Yes. But the way that Maybe maybe we could play a lot of Christmas songs on Boxing Day next Thursday. Well, I might even play for you today, really, you know, just to make you all puke a bit, because why not? I don't see why I should have to suffer alone. We can make every we can share our suffering with everybody else.
Somebody called Tom Grennan has, was obviously very confused, has got a song called It Can't Be Christmas. Well, it is Tom. It is, you dingbat. It is Christmas. Fairy tale of New York, which I love. That's absolutely brilliant. I really love that. What what I find
[01:11:29] Unknown:
ironic is that a lot of these Christmas songs are written by people who don't celebrate Christmas.
[01:11:35] Unknown:
Yes. Mhmm.
[01:11:37] Unknown:
Yes. There is that. In fact, fairy tale of New York, I'm gonna play later on, and that's because I've got such a soft spot for Kirsty McCall, who's sadly no longer with us. But, I absolutely I thought Kirsty McColl was the bee's knees, very, very witty lady, and that's always a genuinely, I thought, wonderful. And, of course, what's his name? Who's the head of the pokes? He he shuffled off this model coil, didn't he, recently? The guy who who basically had lost most of his teeth. The Yeah. He he he really conformed to the archetypical Irish drunken poet, I mean, like, on steroids. And, isn't it? I I like it anyway. It's not the sort of thing I ever thought I would like, but it's that contrast in her sweet voice and his rough growling whiskey soaked thing.
And, yeah, it's it's sentimental, and I'm a sucker for sentimentality every now and again. So there you go. You found that a thing. Anyway, I haven't got a station ID for a bit, so I'll just do one verbally. You're here listening to Paul English Live. Main site's Paul English Live dotcom, but we're going out, obviously, on wbn324. We're here every Thursday, 3 PM to 5 PM US Eastern, 8 PM to 10 PM in the UK. And we often chunder on a a little bit longer on Rumble if you just can't get enough of us. And really, you shouldn't be able to get enough of us because this is just should be the highlight of your week, possibly. Well, maybe not. But there we go. So, yeah. So the charts are very interesting. Christmas magic, snowman.
It's beginning to look look a lot like Christmas by my Michael Buble, Mickey Bubbles, isn't that his name, or something like that? Merry Christmas, everyone, by Shaking Stevens. There you go. That's probably made you sugared sugar a little bit, Eric, I would have thought. Yes. Oh, Andy Williams is in there with It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
[01:13:26] Unknown:
Ah, ah, now that is something that I went down to the local supermarket. It's like a superstore. And, it was people's people said, go Christmas Eve, it's empty. So I thought, oh, I'll do I'll do that. It wasn't. It was absolute chaos. And people are falling over themselves to get the money off items, you see, because they're gonna close it today. And it was like the siege of Stalingrad is get about to begin, you know, pit with supermarket trolleys for that. And some poor sod collapses. And there's people stepping over him as this bloke's collapsed to get the money off items, and the staff have to put sort of, like, trolleys round him to protect him. And all the time, he kept Al G Williams singing over over the over the, the, what do you call it? Over the speakers there.
It's the most wonderful time of the year. So this and it was really surrealistic. Just, oh, collapse. It's the most wonderful time of the year. A bit of fighting though for each other to get the money off items. And I'd really sort of almost well, it wasn't punch wasn't punches, but it was almost, don't you push, mate. I'm not shoving you. And this is all it does is Paul Sartre laid on the ground. He's glad. Oh, man. It's the most wonderful time of the year. So I like that funny.
[01:14:49] Unknown:
It's like the Star Wars bar scene with Christmas music.
[01:14:53] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. It was so false. It's so Oh, people do behave so well when there's a bargain around, don't they? Actually, most over here, you know, they mainly do, Actually, I have no idea why people are so keen on bargains. Everything seems to be not too bad price, or am I just sort of I mean, the price has been going up with everything, but they don't seem to behave badly when there's these sort of sale things on. I I haven't seen it. I've seen some of the footage of things in Walmart and stuff where there's literally a stampede, and they're all grabbing those large TVs and all that kind of stuff. But it's not every day, is it? Bless them. And they get so excited about getting some stuff.
As Hyundai's combust,
[01:15:31] Unknown:
they just combust. They're they're they're they're they're closing the local one, and they're selling stuff off. When I went there, it's probably more now, 20% off. But I shouldn't really say this, but I found that when I I calculated out, I looked at the Energizer batteries, 20% off. I could buy them cheaper, somewhere else even though they they said 20% off. So Right. Must have been very expensive from the start up, but there's nothing they already wanted. You know? It's sort of I don't know. You know? It's, I don't know whether they've gone bust or not, but they've just had it refurbished about a month, 2 months before beforehand, and now they're closing it down, which seems a hell of a waste. It's it's a must be a cute situation. I I don't know what's going on. Weird.
But that I thought it was because I know they were taken over by an Australian firm, and we had loads of, summer products being sold in the winter. Because nobody had told their management that in the northern hemisphere, it's winter, and in the southern hemisphere, it's summer. So we so you had to, like, in the middle of winter, you had barbecues and all this stuff being sold. And it's actually freezing cold outside. Oops.
[01:16:50] Unknown:
But,
[01:16:51] Unknown:
the other one was, wasn't it? Asda was taken after over by Walmart, and they had a greeter in the an old boy that greeted people. As people walked in the shop, who is who is this silly old So what the deal it was because it's not part of our culture. I don't know whether they have them in America. Do they do they have greeters in supermarkets, Patrick? Do you know?
[01:17:14] Unknown:
Yeah. They do. They they have, greeters at at, like Walmart and all these other places. Oh, what did that go, Rhea? I'm missing out on all this, Christmas music because I hardly ever go out to these supermarkets shopping. It's just, I I don't know. Maybe I'm just
[01:17:31] Unknown:
out of it, not not, out out of the loop, out of the Christmas loop. Is it me? Wham. Oh, it sounds like a description of an elephant breaking wind. Actually, you know, with so I'm with Wham. No. Is that really a bit different elephant bucketing wind? Yeah.
[01:17:47] Unknown:
Well, who is that? George I got the opportunity to I got the opportunity to insult someone about WAM the other day. And whenever I get an opportunity like that, I always take it up, of course. And, so there was someone who'd not been watching she said, don't tell me what happened with Strictly. This is shorthand for Strictly Come Dancing. I said, well, there's not much chance of that as I've never watched it in my life. Is this that dancing nonsense? I said in my sort of hoity way. Said, don't you watch it? I said, no. I'm a man. We don't watch things like that. She said, oh, no. She said, this girl anyway, you mustn't tell me because I want to know who's won. I said, there's no chance at all. So, of course, she realized that I was absolutely repulsed by the idea that she even watched. She said, oh, well, she said after that, there's a whole biography about George Michael. I said, mhmm. I won't be watching that either.
It's great. She said, are you sort of teasing me? I said, yes. Yes. That's exactly right. That's what I'm doing. Yes. You shouldn't be watching such filthy rotten stuff. Can't you find some good documentaries about particle physics or something and learn something useful? So, anyway, that's just me being a snooty git, but, we're always good for you. Feminine or not. Wake me up. No. We don't do any of that around here. We're British. Yeah. I've I've got I take extra at this time of the year, one has to take extra amounts of British stiff upper lip tablets to make sure that you keep your yourself, you know, in shipshape audition and don't get sucked into all that piffle of nonsense. Yeah. It's it's exhausting.
I mean, I do real I real what's that, Paul?
[01:19:18] Unknown:
Eric, be nice because I know exactly what flashed behind his eyeballs when you said stiff upper lip tablets.
[01:19:29] Unknown:
I don't have a blanket. Steady, everybody.
[01:19:34] Unknown:
This is a family show, although you have to be 18 to listen to it.
[01:19:39] Unknown:
So it's for a family of 18 year olds and above. Yeah. But it is. Well, have we, did by the way, have you seen La Peta Mime yet? The the that marvelous that marvelous film?
[01:19:49] Unknown:
No. I'm actually I'm saving it for Christmas day. I thought it would be inappropriate in keeping with the spirit of the season, don't you think? Yeah? Oh, that's that's right. Yes. Well, actually,
[01:19:59] Unknown:
I went with a girl so I used to have a girlfriend that was keen on dancing.
[01:20:02] Unknown:
Oh, it's all coming out now. Come on. I I'm I'm, allergic to dancing.
[01:20:07] Unknown:
I come from a long line of non dancers. My father never ever danced with my mother. I only saw it once. He danced once. You're a pro. Experience. She had to dance with her brothers, because he said no. Yes. And I'm to say, because he always said that it's only women and poofs that dance, but men don't dance.
[01:20:28] Unknown:
I like the sound of your dad.
[01:20:30] Unknown:
Oh, yes. No. So and when I went out with this girl, she wants to take me to dancing classes. And he said took me to one side and said, you're not one of them, are you? So, anyway, she dragged me along. I see Grease. It was it was being shown for the umpteenth time because I had a rerun of it. And I saw the first, I think it was minute, and then slept flow through the whole film. Later on, it was on television, and exactly the same. I slept through the whole film. So I've never I've I've Greece has been played, but I've never actually seen the film because I always slept through it because I found it so boring. I saw 11 Newton John. That sort of woke me up a bit. Oh, that's she's nice and off I win. You know?
Mhmm. But, no. It's it's it's funny. I did though I did get dragged along to dancing classes, and, it was a big you see, I don't know why it's because I'm left handed, but when they say go left, I go right. When they say go right, I go there. And they play this strange tune called get off my bloody foot. I've never heard of it before. So I was playing this music. I said, what is it? She said, get off my bloody foot. And I thought, I've never I've never heard that record. Have you heard of it? These dad jokes are the best.
[01:21:45] Unknown:
I can't remember this.
[01:21:47] Unknown:
I tell you what, because it's Yeah. I'd stumbled and fell. To save myself, I put my head on the radiator, and my hand got on the dirt at the back of the radiator, and she had a nice white frog on. I just dance. Well, she was. I wasn't. I can't dance. I unfortunately, it's all fingermarks all the way around the back of her knife. That was the end of that relationship. So, anyway, that that's another story. But, yes, I am to dancing what Cyril Smith was to hang gliding, I think. Yes. The world's worst dancer.
[01:22:27] Unknown:
The rhythm does I don't know. I'm kind of ambivalent about dancing. There is a sort of the modern stuff is just all silly. But when I see, I'm gonna go nostalgic here for a period I didn't even live in. I've got this perception. This the whole idea of courting after the war or even before it, after World War 2, the fact that the all the blokes are generally in suits, usually with great baggy trousers, particularly after World War 2, I just think gentsuits from, like, 46 through to 56, that kind of period, just Yeah. Brilliant. They're really, really good. Guys look good in them. There's lots of rummage for your scrimmage and all that kind of stuff. It's you know what I mean? Well, it is. It's kind of it disguises things. It's not vulgar. It's great. It's all about allure I agree with you. And hiding things, and this is better. This is way, way better. And, of course, if a bloke's dressed like that, then the women obviously have to outdo the guys, and they do, and they look fantastic.
And it's ex I I I love that. I think that that sort of romanticize, whatever people may wanna think, of course, if you're gonna battle in variety club or something, you know, getting covered in pale ale, it's not quite the same thing. Of course, it was like that for a lot of people, but the attempt to do it was great. And I think my mom and dad met at a tea dance. No one was drinking any beer. They all used to go dancing after 12 because nobody drank. They wanted me to be able to dance properly. They don't have to get drunk. You couldn't remember the steps. Rather a quaint idea, isn't it?
It is. But there's there's something there's something dignified about it, and and I kind of like it. I think the only dance the the dancing that I always wanted to do, which is ludicrous. You know, what's that Spanish dance? Is it the Paso Doble? Is it that one? Where the where the guys the woman is like, she's a long way away from him on the dance floor, relatively speaking. And he stands still like either the matador or the bull or he maybe he's the bull. I don't know.
[01:24:26] Unknown:
Is in that film
[01:24:27] Unknown:
it's in that film Strictly Ballroom. Have you ever seen that film, that Australian film Strictly Ballroom? Have you seen that? No. Well, no. Because I'm a non dancer. I wouldn't see it, would I? Well, it's not really about dancing. It's actually I thought it was really fantastic because it's it's kind of it's about high level ballroom dancing competitions, but in Australia. And it's it's got this sort of gritty vulgarity to it running through it as well as sort of a romantic story. There's all sorts of little things in it, and it's a bit of a blast, really. I'm sure the ladies would like it. Of course, I'm revealing myself as being a bit of a pouf by talking about it. I accept that. But there's a fantastic scene in it where Is it a tango? There's a there's a I'm talking about what? Is it a tango? That's the one you think you're talking about, that dance? Oh, that's a dirty dance from South America. We're not talking about anything like that. No. No. I'm not talking about the tango. I don't think I'm I'm thinking it's the pasadouble.
And, the story is, there's this young lad who's get who's very good at all that sort of ballroom dancing, you know, with all the frocks and all that. He doesn't wear the frocks. He's dressed like a bloke, but he's very good at all that. And he's he's got this he's hen pecked, as it were, by his mum, who's absolutely obsessed with him entering the Pan Pacific championships because he's gonna win it. And he must dance with this other girl. But he actually doesn't wanna dance these steps driving his partner crazy. It's so hysterically dramatic. It's very funny. It's sort of it is. I guess it's sort of like a soap, but it there's something very comic about it as well. It's got its tongue in its cheek along a lot of the way through the film. Anyway, if he he he starts dancing with this other girl who is of Spanish descent. I mean, she's an Australian.
And, her father's Spanish, and that, that they are somewhere in Sydney or whatever. And there's a fantastic scene. I think it's the best scene in the film. It's just something to do with this relationship between men and women and how it works through dance. And it's just, you know, maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I I really do like this scene in memorable things from movies. He he takes her back, and she's late coming at home. And her father is an extreme or it's her uncle, I think, because she's lost her dad, and he's really in charge. And he's full of fire and fury. It's like he's gonna lamp him. He's sort of blazing Latin fury about the whole thing. You know? I said, why are you so late? And all this kind of stuff. And she says, well, I was out dancing, and he starts laughing at them both. You know? Like, dancing. What do you mean?
And then they said, Paso Doble, this lad goes, Paso Doble. He said, you dance the Paso Doble. They, he says, yeah. He said, go and show me then. It's kind of one of these awkward moments in a film. So he starts dancing his version of the Paso Doble, and this guy's just wetting him. And he calls all his mates out from around the back or all these sort of Spanish guys playing guitars. And they look at him and they just can't stop laughing. And his wife who is a large lady, they're just in hysterics watching him dance this stuff. And he gets extremely angry about this because he thinks he's doing it right. Okay? And, so her uncle, who is this fiery guy relatively short, says, Paso Doble, and he says, I'll show you, and he gets his wife or this lady who's very large physically, very large lady. And so you're looking at this, you're going, this is a bit strange. Right? It's it doesn't fit the stereotypes.
And then he does this. He dances it with her, and it's fantastic because it's full of fire. You can feel it. It really and I thought, now that is manly. The way he does that is an extremely manly thing. And your dad, Eric, I think, if he saw that, he might go, I won't mind having a go at that, but it ain't easy. And the reason one of the reason I like it, he wears these boots, and they're on this wooden floor bodies absolutely smashing hell out of the floor with this stamping rhythm because it's all this flamenco rhythm with the with the music. So there's something about it that's not Faye.
It it's not feminized. It's completely masculine the way that he dances, And it's a courting ritual, and it's very powerful. I I thought, anyway, maybe maybe that's the last time I get to speak on this show. But, no, seriously, I've just revealed something. I think it's it's worth watching that film just for that bit. There's also some bloody funny bits where wigs come off and all sorts of other things. What what what's the name of the game? It's called Strictly Ballroom. Strictly Ballroom. Yeah. It's not so you know, it might not hold your attention for the whole thing, but just do your you might wanna just do your best with it. It's very cheesy intentionally, and as long as you know that, that's fine. But it's done in a kinda honest, lively Australian sort of way, and it's not that bad. It's not prissy by any means. And the politics in the world of ballroom dancing are bloody hilarious.
So funny. They're all rigging these competitions and all putting makeup on, and they just look ludicrous. And yet there's this real story bubbling underneath. So it's, I just think it's a good scene. If anybody out there's seen me wanna say anything in the chat to back me up on this, but it's all gone deathly quiet. The gun Paul's obviously lost it big time.
[01:29:38] Unknown:
So but there you go. I would recommend it. I'd recommend it. Dad would have liked it because, you see, his father believed that all the problems of this country, remember, they didn't have Internet in those days, stems from the dance floor because his father was a non well, he couldn't be a dancer because he's he was blind, his father was. But he reckons all these problems for the country started from the dance floor.
[01:30:02] Unknown:
It's all to do with the dancing. It's ordinary. It's not the dancing. We could get the bloody country sorted out, but, no, we've all got to go off dancing.
[01:30:12] Unknown:
Because my father's put on the dance halls. And, I actually sat through because my girlfriends always were dancers, you see, and I'm not. I don't know quite what the the attraction was and, sat through come dancing.
[01:30:27] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:30:28] Unknown:
And where was it someone had sewn all their sequins on all thing things like that? I slept through that as well. So Yeah. I just find anything to do with dancing. It's a marvel it's well, if I had insomnia, it'd cure me. I could just just put anything about dancing, and I'd just fall straight asleep.
[01:30:45] Unknown:
Well, I know exactly what you mean also, but there's an interesting thing from a kinda awkwardness point of view for boys, isn't it? Don't you think I I'm interested in it. Like, so at school, when we were kids, we did country dancing, and I didn't like it. Right? Because No. I'm 7 or 8. You're doing these things, and you're skipping around, and you know it's not hang on. I don't want that. No. No. If you said to all the boys, do some sword dancing. Alright. Come on. Let's get some of that going. Seriously, you know, apart from the sort of wet Nellies. You know, the Timothys in the class. Now if you're called Timothy, it's not I just picked it out as a name right at the time. I just associate it with someone who's a bit wet. That kind of thing. But the it's it's interesting that we don't perceive dancing as having really any masculine qualities at all. And yet when I saw this guy dance the pas de double, this old guy do it, I was gripped. And I've seen other, you know, genuine things in, like, Spanish tavernas where they've been filmed and they do this stuff. And the women are they've got the it's a whole piece of theater. It's their face. They're extremely fixed on one another. It's a complete reenactment of something. It's a courting process as if, he is or she's seducing a bull. I can't remember which way it is. I suppose it must be that way around.
There's something brilliant about it because when they start to me, there was. I I mean, it's much more elaborate than a no it's not sort of like, I'll put your hand around my waist and we'll dance around and do a waltz. It's not like that at all. It's it's a theatrical piece, and it's communicating something that that seems to me to be very old, which I like. It's got that feeling about it. And the guys dance like a man would with a lot of force and a lot of rhythm and a lot of proud, you know, the the way they stand in that proud fashion. So it's theater, but it transmits something. And, of course, the woman starts off about 30 feet away from him. And as he dances, he's slowly moving up to her and effectively seducing her, and she joins with him at the end. And there's something I thought pretty cool about it. I thought it was pretty it's not disco. Let's put it that way. It ain't disco. Discos. Oh, I can't say it. But I tell you what I did like. I did like river dance, and I like to see on it. Dennis loves a disco. You know? Dennis shout out. Dennis loves a disco. I'll have to you you 2 should go to a disco. He could introduce you to dancing.
[01:33:06] Unknown:
Oh, no. But, I mean, I liked river dance, but I was put off, you know, I like to see the young girls with nice legs all dancing around. But then I was and then I suddenly was put off when Michael Flatulence came plancings across the bloody stage. That sort of Yeah. That aided it for me. Oh, no. I don't wanna see him. You know? But, no. If I could just add the add the, that'd been alright. You know? And the other thing is, why is it that we're ballet dancing? Why don't they get taller dancers? Why don't they why don't they have to stand on their toes? I just I can never work that one out. Surely, should they they get make the stars as they are taller?
[01:33:37] Unknown:
Then when you get down there, you go on. Get down to the Royal Ballet. Sort them out, Eric. Hey. I I just noticed something here.
[01:33:44] Unknown:
Get someone a bit taller. Yeah. Problem solved. See? That's it. There's a dirty joke, but I won't mention it because of family show.
[01:33:54] Unknown:
It is.
[01:33:56] Unknown:
We do it aft we can do it after hours or something or whatever. But aft after 10 o'clock, I might do it. Yeah. If if, I don't Hey. I I mean, I I I could there was a dancing thing that I did a few I went dancing a few years ago. This is it wasn't awkward. It was actually quite amazing in a way. Is amazing the right word? Maybe that's a bit over the top. I knew this chap in I didn't know this chap. There was a chap in Chicago. I got introduced, really bright guy. I think he's an etymologist or something. Oh, what is he? I can't remember. He he was that's words, isn't it? I'm getting completely confused. He studies, insects and things like this, and he was the condid or came over to the Royal Albert Victoria Museum. I was working there.
And, we had a mutual friend, and he said, hey. I'm gonna be in London. This is about 4 or 5 years ago. So I'm gonna be in London over Christmas and New Year. Could we meet in London on New Year's Eve? And I wrote back and went, no. We can't. He said, why can't we do that? I said, because I'll never get out. I'll never get home. Right? I'm not coming up to London on New Year's Eve. It'll be impossible. He went, oh, he said, well, there's another dance meet because he was inviting me to an English country dance. Of course, I couldn't wait to go. This is obviously not true. I didn't even know what he was talking about, to be quite honest. I had an idea, vague idea, a sort of grown up version of all that country dancing you might have done at school. Yeah. So he said, there's another one at Blackheath in Kent or wherever he was. A week afterwards, he said, we could meet up there. Now I wanted to meet him to talk to him about things. I went, sure. Yeah. That'll be easy. I can do that. So it was on a Friday evening, and I I rocked up at this parish hall.
And for people outside of England, the parish hall is there are a lot of them. They're larger flat floored halls, which are used for dance meetings and bingo drives and raffles and charity events that are connected to churches and things like this. And, they have their own sort of little thriving life, and they have a canteen. Usually, people these large urns of hot tea and stuff like that. It's all yeah. It's not that's right. It's not a bar as such, but I thought they might be selling a few beers. So I said so I'm driving up there thinking, well, I'll get there. We can set off to an area. So once because he was a musician. He played the, was it the whistle? He played the he he he played the flute and the he played quite a few things very good, and he was really into this.
And I got there, and it was so awkward because I thought, well, there's bound to be somewhere where I can just sit outside of where they're all dancing and just wait for them all to finish. No. That wasn't like that. The the hall, everybody that was there was dancing, everyone except me. And he said, how will I recognize you? And I sent him a text and said, well, I look like a giant wasp. I said, my I've got jet black trousers on and I've got a really bright yellow shirt on. And I, so when I walked through, I, he said, well, I'm playing in the band. So I looked over and I clocked him immediately. So I sat down, but I felt, like a spare part at a wedding as it were. It was ridiculous because there were 50 people there all dancing in this big organized dance. All 50 of them are interlocked into a complete coordinated sort of thing, and they have a caller.
Someone who's walking around calling out the steps. Now I would imagine anybody hearing this is going, oh, this sounds icky, and it and it was at first. That's how I felt. It seemed extremely sort of stayed when I first arrived. And this this old dear came up to me, Joan, I think she was called. And she came up, and I talked to her. She said, oh, are you here to see someone? I said, yeah. Actually, I'm here to see this chap over there in the band. She said, well, I'm Joan. I'm I'm 84. I said, well, you look great. And she's, yeah, so you'll be dancing with me. I started laughing. She was really commanding. So you'll be dancing with me. I said, no, Joan. I I can't dance. She said, oh, good. That'll make it all the more fun. Come along. And she just completely bossed me around, and I I was the youngest person there.
Right? Okay? I was the youngest person there. And she dragged me into this group, and my goal was to not, Eric, stand on anybody's toes. That was all my goal was was to get through what however long it was gonna last. It was about 5 or 6 minutes in the end. This it was the tail end of one of the dances they were doing, and not to stand on anybody's toes. And I didn't. So I achieved my goal, and she was delightful. She was lovely. And, I was very relieved to sit down, and then we got talking. And it was a really interesting thing talk. There were some very interesting people there. People who knew the history of English country dance. And I'm thinking, am I interested in this? But once they started talking, I was very interested in it. And it goes back to the civil war.
There's a lot of interesting things came up in the conversation. So when the English civil war was about to kick off or in the process of kicking off, many people in England thought that Cromwell was gonna smash everything up because they they bloody well did to a great degree. And I can't wait to melt his statue down and turn it into a urinal when I get in charge because I'm not a fan as you can probably tell. And so there was a guy yeah. There was a guy called Playford, and he said, we're gonna lose a lot of our heritage. This guy's gonna smash everything to bits. I'm really sort of turning into a comic book anecdote to get it across quick, but that was the gist of it. So he and colleagues, went all around England recording the music, the lyrics, and the dance steps of all of these dances that were taking place quite naturally throughout England in villages, on village squares, on village greens, in halls.
Peep that's what people did. On a Saturday night, they didn't go to the disco. They went to these organized large scale sort of coordinated country dances, and they're very intricate. And you have to learn these steps. It's like a sort of an organized, comfortable, cooperative courtship ritual with large numbers of people, and you bump you actually change partners all the way through. Anybody who's familiar with this will be laughing at me about how thick I am putting it across, but to me, this was all new. And so Playford went around and recorded all of this stuff and kept it as a record. And it was these dances from the 17th century that we were dancing, which I found really interested. Right?
Because suddenly, because I knew that I felt connected in just only slightly with what was going on here 400 years ago. It was it was quite brilliant. And, Coleman, who was the guy who'd come over, lived in Chicago of Irish descent. He started telling me about all of these sort of English and Irish and other sort of folk dancing groups all over the world, and he participates and probably does right now in many across America. But he was saying that of all of them, he liked the English one the most. And I said, why? Because I'm I didn't know. I had no no I said, why? He said, because he said there's there's very little ego in it. And he he we were talking. He said, look at what's going on. He said, these are all our people. There were 50 of our people. You know exactly what English people, all of them. Right?
On this thing, he said, look at how they're all working together. He's I said, yeah. He said, there's no ego involved in this. He said, when you were out dancing, I I I guess you got help. I said, yeah. But there was one of Fisher's woman, not Joan, another one. Right. Stand here. There was one of those, right, who I quite like. I like those women. When they're being really bossy, I find it very funny. And, they're completely oblivious to any sort of facial expressions you might pull. They just keep hammering on. You gotta stand here. No. Stand over there. No. Like this. Do that. And all that kind of stuff. There were some really interesting points just came up, and it was a totally different vibe. The musicians don't do solos. He said, notice how the band it's nothing to do with the band. It's not about everybody looking at the band and them showing off. The band are there completely to serve the dance, which is everybody involved all at the same time. It's a totally different approach to what we think of. So if you look at the breakdown of that rich tool courting aspect that is imbued within dance, just as I was mentioning with regards to the pas de double, which is the Spanish high spirited and wonderfully romantic version of it, I would suggest.
You see how things have basically been, made more and more primitive. It's basically UGG now, isn't it? In fact, it hasn't got to the stage where people just jump up and down. I remember the seventies just jumped up and down and spat up one another during the punk rock era, which was just completely ridiculous. Because I that was during my time. I was supposed to be bolted into that. I just used to laugh at it and thought, total crap. And and they were total crap then, and they're total crap. Now it's all them. It's just total crap because it was designed to wreck music at that stage. It's a completely artificial change. There's nothing genuine about it at all.
And, I but that you see this fall off in civilizational behavioral standards through dancing. And it really came home when I saw this play for dance. I was part of it from 400 years 350 years ago. And and there's something it wasn't unmanly, Eric. Even your dad might have liked it because he could have talked to your uncle in the middle of the dance moves, and they could have moaned about it or something. But you get to meet everybody else. Really complicated. I didn't cock it up too much. He said, you were really good. I said, oh, come on. For 5 minutes, I didn't even know what I was doing.
But there was it was definitely a different sort of space that you get put into. Anyway, maybe this is relevant to talk about because it's Christmas, and we hope you're all gonna be out dancing at large scale English country dances in the countryside. But seriously, there is a serious point to it. It buy binds all the people together, breaks all the age things down. You're all working for the good of everybody else in that moment for x number of minutes. There's something in that. It's very, very important. I thought so. I had a very good feeling and vibe about it and felt very happy about it in a non egotistical sort of way. It wasn't about strutting your stuff. It was about helping everybody else to make the whole thing work as one big
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it was cool, actually. And it's how you find a girlfriend as well, isn't it? Because folks that dance have an advantage over Mhmm. Folks who can't dance. But Mhmm. I was told by someone, by a woman, and she said, if you can't dance, wear a suit. She said, because a woman will fall for a man with a suit because it's like a uniform, and women always fall for uniforms. So that was a little bit of advice I got. So wear a suit.
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Well, I isn't it something to do that it it sends out a signal of self control to some degree or personal discipline that you're you've got strength about you, that you actually can tie a tie, and your shoelaces are actually tied, and your shoes are shiny. I used to kinda like all that kind of stuff. I still in fact, tomorrow, I'm going I'm going out to the staff due tomorrow. You could have come, Eric, but it's probably a bit of a haul for you. But we're having the end of year staff due at the pub tomorrow, 6 o'clock start, and, I don't have a Hamburg hour. 2nd.
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It wasn't a 22nd. I asked the 20th, Laura. Oh, it's the 20th. 20th.
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Oh. It's the 20th. Don't worry about it. You can come to the we'll bring everybody up for the fucking festival in the summer, and we can all have a country dance. We need to get a country dance coordinator, and we'll do all that. Yeah? And and it'll be all strange. It's way better than Morris dancing. Morris dancing always freaked me out a bit as well, all that rattling and stuff. Although, I understand it's a great tradition if you're into it, but it's not really my thing. But,
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Or we could have a fucking version of the haka called the no. But I'll say.
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Oh, god. God. It is Christmas.
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You didn't need to say it. It's actually funny if you don't say it. I I get I get where you were going with that one. Yes.
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That was what's, oh, what's his name now? A famous comedian, Max Miller, said, never hit the punchline. Never ever hit the punchline. It's funny if you don't hit the punchline because he never did. Oh, I know a Max Miller joke that's so vulgar. I can't tell it. It's unbelievable, some of those jokes he told back then before. Wow. But there's one that they said he didn't tell because he was a bit because, apparently, he was very, very prim and proper when he came off stage. And very sort of subdued in many ways. But if it's the Swissmist
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one It's quite dull. Yeah.
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If it's if it's a Swissmist one, it's the what the Swissmist one, he didn't say, apparently. Roy had looked into it, and he didn't actually say it. It was a a tribute to him, but he didn't say it was too smutty even for him.
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Because I'll tell you another one off air. I can't tell it on air. It'll ruin what the best reputation I might have left for decency. What?
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Well, there's one he said, this is Carl. Carl, this one is. Yeah. This is very Carl. But it's a, I I got home from work the other day, and there's a man there in the nude. So can you imagine that lady? Can you imagine that? He said, he said I said to the wife, what's he doing here? She said, oh, don't worry. He's a nudist. He's come to work make a telephone call. And so they went straight onto another guy.
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Yeah.
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I've got one that's a bit for anyway, swiftly moving on. But yeah. Anyway, so that's it, everybody. It's country dancing for us a lot. Not really. But the Playford music's quite you can find them tons of it on YouTube If you're gonna look at and it's extremely relaxing to the mind. It's good. It's good background stuff if you're thinking about other things. It's got that it connects you into stuff. It's it must have been very different days then. I don't know how many people were alive in England in the 1600. Well, after Cromwell had finished, not as many as before he started. Let's put it that way, but it it wasn't as many as today. And so you you get you tap into this kind of stuff, the the way that country life was lived, I suppose. And there's something in that. There's a value in that, I feel. A good gives you a few little insights and stuff like that. So Well, I think, also, it was easier for because you look at the amount of single people there are today,
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and it was more easier to find a partner in those days because, I mean, my granddad married the girl almost next door. She she lived down the same road. And She didn't mind that he didn't dance? She didn't know. I'm talking about on my mother's side. It was on my father's side. Sorry. Dancers. The the my mother's side, yes, they were dance. My uncles used to dance. They used to dance with my mom because my dad wouldn't dance. But as I say, I saw him once dancing with my mom. We wasn't dancing because he couldn't dance. And the look on his face, he just just said it all.
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He looked bored out of his skull.
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Oh, hang on. We got something coming on the background.
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And now this is making me feel a bit ill, Paul. No. Oh, I felt queasy. Oh, gosh. Oh, god. It's not right. You know? I don't even have any tablets to cope with stuff like that. It was vomit inducing when it first came out, and it's even worse now after all these years. Good grief. They should never have been allowed to even exist, let alone record records. My god. Have you got Billy Colony's version? That's better.
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EBay didn't version of it. He did buy what is it? Yes. In the brownies, instead of in the navy, is it the brownies, which is the girl girl guys, which is the female version of the scouts in this country. And in the Brownies, isn't it? It's got oh, well.
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In the Brownies? Oh, let's have should we have a song? Let's have a song. Let's let's have a song. We'll have Brenda Lee for 2 minutes. We we're not at the end of the show, but I'm gonna put Brenda Lee on rocking around the Christmas tree because, because I'm going to. So here we go. We're just it's only a 2 minute song. It's nice. It's lovely. Get you in the mood for something or other. Here we go.
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False
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Yeah. Brenda Lee there rocking around the something. I like that. It's not yeah. That that's I like that. Excellent. Yeah. And and do you notice the music from about the fifties? I mean, I also like, a lot of the stuff that's done in the sixties as well as well as Christmas records. But you don't hear that in the supermarkets when you go in there. They're playing, excuse my language, the crap. They're they're they're modern stuff. Like, Slade and all that, which is not modern. It's 50 years old. But I think early come up to the early sixties. Who is that bloke who, went to jail? He had the wall of sound. What's his name now? Phil Spector. Phil Spector. Yeah. His stuff was brilliant. It really was.
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And, and how turned out to be as arranged murdering pervert, but still Apart from that, it was, Apart from that, he's a lovely bloke. He used to give his mother flowers and that. Yeah. It's great. Just complete nut job other other than that. But, yeah, yeah, they are. The water sounded yeah. All that kind of stuff back then. Brilliant. Eric, were you referring to this one? That was a really nice one.
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Were you were you referring to this one?
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No. We can't listen to that either. It's in the Brownies.
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He was talking about it.
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Yeah. That is the one. That's the one with Billy Connolly. And then the one that was it d I v's the Divorce. Remember that one? The Divorce?
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Divorce.
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Yeah. That's it. He did his version of it about his dog, to go to the vet. That's a classic. That was when he was good. He he lost it after that.
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Few comments from the chat. Just swing swinging in here. The the, the Kingston Whittler writes a few moments ago. My youngest said today that there were people in her class who didn't realize that Christmas was a celebration of the birth of Jesus. Well, well, should we be surprised? No. Is it disappointing? Maybe. Just part of the sort of cultural decay,
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of the whole thing. I remember not that long ago well, it was probably 20 years ago when in the public schools, they would have the government schools here, they would have a Christmas pageant. And I remember the kind of the death nail of those things was when they decided that, they couldn't sing Silent Night because of its reference to religious themes. Now think about that. It's it's like the quintessential Christmas song, Silent Night, and you can't sing it because it's it's it goes against somehow, I don't know, this this false notion of the separation of church and state in a school.
And that was kind of, like to me, that was, like, the final draw when it's you you see no hope for an institution that will do something like that.
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No. No. I I think it's good to have those things even though they may appear to be quaint and controlling and people would disagree with it. But the fact is it's our tradition and culture, and all of us go through that stuff, and you don't come out bad on the other side. It actually this far it imparts far more good than the pathetic things that they blow out a proportion to try and dismiss it or shut it down. I mean, as a season, it's a season of family, obviously, and getting together. It is a season to celebrate, the birth of Christ. Whether he was born on that day or not, to me, never really made too much difference. And those are the first arguments as a teenager. He was never born there. I'm going, well, I don't know.
But does it really you know, as long as you're remembering these things, of course regarding that argument,
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there wasn't there a census that took place where Caesar demanded that everyone go back to their native town? You'd think there'd be records of that, and that would kind of give you an indication of when it actually took place.
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Yep. Yeah. I think there's just people sort of tracking his birth. And but I know that Peter Hammond is on regularly with Andy Hitchcock. I think there's one of his presentations, which is to, support I'm just using that word. He seeks to prove and does the very good job of it, showing that December 25th was that way. But, of course, my concerns about I don't really mind. I don't think it's a point even worth getting too head up about. It doesn't upset me either way. I'm just aware of all the theological horse trading that took place at that time, you know, because it's the feast wasn't it the feast of Saturnalia or something and this, that, and the other? It's a few days after the winter solstice, which is hey. Coming up in 2 days. Shortest day on Saturday, everyone. That's it. It's, almost summertime again. We'll be back. It'll be sunshine soon. The days start to get longer.
Of course, the the the tougher weather is yet to come. But, yeah, all that kind of thing of of bolting things into other existing festivals, something that Constantine was pretty good at when he was sort of porting Christianity into the existing structure of the Roman Empire's year and all the anniversaries that they had. They they kinda move this. And there's a lot in in rulers of evil, which I haven't mentioned for nearly 2 hours in the show, by about that about that kind of stuff, about the the moving of the exchanging of apostles for old gods and certain temples and the changing of names or much of it down to Constantine's work back then to actually sort of port Christianity as it were and nationalize it or internationalize it courtesy of the Roman Empire. So very interesting tales there. It doesn't invalidate things, though, with regards to the actual dates or the root meaning of them, but, in my view.
And another comment here from, the the Kingston Whittler, they rarely ever have assemblies, and in those, they don't even sing any hymns. My daughter, kept being told to tuck in her cross chain until she got the rule changed. Teachers wouldn't dare do that with something that I must come to another comment, but or with the others. I I guess that's the implication, which is true. Yeah. It it goes to the whole masonic
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notion that Christians in the lodge can't talk about Jesus. Isn't there some sort of rule that they have where they can't preach the name of they can't even say the name of Jesus?
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I didn't know that, but it wouldn't surprise me, that specific one. I'm aware of other things that they've got constraints on, but that wouldn't surprise me. I mean, they make out, of course, that they're a Christian thing, but they're not. Not when the people get through to those higher levels, then they suddenly find out. And, of course, they're tested all the way to see whether they're really willing to go against everything that they started off with in life and whether they're prepared to work again it. You know? And I know, you know, going back to Dennis and the disco, disco Dennis, king of the discos, which is not fair on him, of course, but we have to tease him while he's not here a little bit. I mean, he's you know, his video, the free masonic victory of World War 2, well, it's really the free masonic control of things right now. I do think it's a it's a good as good a term as any, apart from which trying to identify which group is not is not a particularly good use of time. We've got a clutch of them. They're all involved. It doesn't really matter who's the king shit out of the lot. It really doesn't.
We just know that most of them are compromised and corrupted individuals of literally zero use to the likes of us, generally. Hey. Look. We're we're moving towards the end of our 2 hour slot here. God. It flies around 57 minutes past. Absolutely blasted around. It's all the fun and talk of dancing and things. That's what it is. We've all been dancing in our heads and and all that kind of stuff. So, well, look. We're coming in the end. What do I do? Well, I'll say goodbye. We're we're I have another song. I've got loads on lined up here, and we're gonna do I'll do some more Christmas songs on Boxing Day, because why not? It's the only time of the year when you get to do it, really. Of course, today's image is not really a Christmas image, although maybe it's maybe it's father Christmas studying the roots in his in his book, but I'm not really that much into Satan clause. There's all that kind of stuff going on. I think you can read too much into these things as well. I think it's a great time for children.
I I still now remember it as such a magical period. And I think without children or grandchildren around, you could see it ain't for me, it's not really Christmas, to be honest. It didn't really work. It didn't really work the right way. Anyway, let's do Andy Williams or let's Andy Williams serenade us out of the show. This is Andy from I don't know what he recorded this. It's the most wonderful time of the year. It's the most wonderful time for the end of the show as well. So we're gonna bid you farewell on WBN. We're gonna play out with this song. We'll be here again same time next week, Boxing Day in England. Do you call it Boxing Day in in the United States, Patrick? What do you call? Canadians do.
Do they? Yeah. Yeah. Boxing Day. Yeah. I used to think it was about boxing. I always used to thought, dad, where are all the boxing matches? No. No. No. It's where everybody puts their present back into boxes. Why would they do that? I just wanna play with them for couldn't understand all that. So So keeping everybody in check. But, yeah, we'll be back again next week. If you're if this is the last we speak to you, we wish you all a very merry, happy, loving family Christmas, if you're able to get one. And to be with friends, have a fantastic time. Let go. Forget about all this crap. We all need to. And, just be with the ones that you love. Listen to some good stuff. Watch some good movies maybe. Whatever you wanna do. We hope you all have a chilled and refreshed, time of it. For those of you who can't get enough, we're gonna carry on and rumble for another hour. We'll play out with Andy Williams for now. I think we will. Oh, hang on just a minute. Let me just make sure that I actually provide somebody. The party. Don't know what that is, but here's Andy.
See y'all next week, everybody, on WBN.
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It's the happiest season
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of
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all. With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings when friends come to call, it's the happiest season of all. There'll be parties for hosting marshmallows, for toasting and caroling out in the snow. There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. It's the most wonderful time of the year. There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. It's the most wonderful time of the year. There'll be much mistletoeing and hearts will be glowing when loved ones are near. It's the
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most
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Andy. That was Andy. That's somebody else. That was Andy Williams. I like that one. It's a it's a nice, warm, happy one. Anyway, welcome back. We're still if you've never went anyway, we're still on Rumble here chugging along, and we plan to chug chugging a little bit. But that's a nice one, Eric. Do you like that one? Do you like Andy? Oh, yes. I I think of that supermarket with that poor sod collapsing. Every time I hear that, you know, I shouldn't laugh. You know? It was serious, but
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to to
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I gotta say, it would have been a lot of fair work. You did. You're a for love. Yes. Yeah. No. It's all good stuff. I don't mind those ones. They're all I suppose it's slightly nostalgic because I I remember hearing those when I was young and, you know, absolutely apoplectic with excitement about Christmas when you're a kiddie. It's quite a ridiculous thing. It's completely my wish. It is. It's amazing. And they're very, very strong memories, sort of, you know, visceral things and all that kind of stuff. I wanted to ask you, Eric. Were you ever in any Christmas school plays?
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Yes. Yes.
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All the starring parts did you get? What what kind of featured roles did you get? I had I had to say,
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what what proof have we of we of his doing? And that was, the sword in the stone we did. You know, was it king half or something? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And, I I stood there, and I had these woolen tights on, you see, which were very, very itchy.
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So I was just scratching I'm trying to picture this. It's looking quite good. I'm beginning to smile. Yeah. Carry on. Yeah.
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And it's all the lights are on, you see, and I was sweating hot. And the tea and there's the, teachers say, stop scratching. I'm scratching like hell. And and there's my mom and dad in the audience there. You see, they arrive late. It was always late. And my dad's sitting there with a smile on his face. My and they said, whatever you do, don't wave to your parents. You're on stage. As my mom, waving like anything, I thought, oh, no. Oh, no. Because I I I I if I don't wave back, I'm gonna I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna get a clap around the ear. So I was there thinking, oh, well, yeah, I'm gonna get a clap around the ear when this finishes. Anyway, I was scratching and scratching and scratching.
And when it comes to my turn, it's like, and what both has we have we of his doing? I always remember that. I said, what doing have we of his proof? And they should I think the kids should be bleeding because, you know, you know, so what proof are we of his doing? And all the old jokes roll with laughter. So
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So you were a little witty from a very early age, Eric. You're being witty from a very early age. I like that.
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Well, unknowingly, shall we say?
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Yeah. So best yeah. I I I remember my first starring role. I was very pleased. I told my parents They were very proud. I got picked to play old King Cole in, when I was about 6 or 7 years of age. This is at infant school before I even understood what anything was about at all. And I but I do remember them strapping loads of foam round me and cushions to make me look very fat, which I quite liked, really. So I got to wear a crown. I can't remember what I said. I probably didn't even remember it at the time, but there you go. That was my first starring role. And, of course, from then, I've never looked back, actually. It's just been, you know, just one one victory after another, one great amazing performance after another, really. So, yeah, I there was a little joke I remember about this, the or an anecdote someone was telling. Oh, yeah. About the 3 wise men.
And, let me see if I can, fur so it was talking about this thing at the school play, and they kinda got confused when they came on the the the young lads that were playing it. And, and the first lad comes on and goes, yeah. Blah blah blah. I bring gold. And, so the second wise man walks on, and he says, and and I bring myrrh. And the third one, it was the confused one, came in and said, Frank sent this,
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which I quite like.
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Does that make sense? Does that make sense? Frank sent this. No. It's frankincense, but I quite liked it. I quite liked it as a joke. It was a witty one for me at the time. Anyway, that one's fallen completely flat. So swiftly moving on quickly. It's just so painful. You had to be there so we enjoy it. That kind of stuff. Yeah. Coming coming from aunt Sally, anyway, going back into the into things serious things. And Sally writes, I believe that the Christian churches appropriated the pagan festival of Yule and made it all about Jesus. And it makes sense because it is the time of the sun returning. Yeah. Why not? People have a big deal about this. They they but, like, oh, they stole this and so that well, no. They didn't. Who cares? Really, seriously, it's not even important. It's what we say anything is that's really important stuff.
And, and it makes complete sense. I mean, I can imagine, you know, it makes complete sense. I mean, where would Dickens be anyway without this whole winter event and, you know, Scrooge and all this kind of stuff? That evokes probably more fully than just about any other story, the whole sense of charity and decency and the, and coming to goodness, you know, in terms of the metamorphosis and breakdown of Scrooge. And, it's still a wonderful story. Oh, it's great. I meant I keep meaning to record it as an audiobook, but I I get lost in I I just can't seem to find the time of doing it. But the the opening sequence and everything, all the opening scenes as they're described, it's opening scenes as they're described, it's really rather brilliant stuff. It's, it really it's a wonderful story. I I don't understand. What's the tradition with the ghost stories other than, he started it. He started it. Started it. That was it? Okay. Yeah. I well, I'm not aware of the being a Christmas ghost before that. It's this combination of the ghost and
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Scrooge's redemption, I suppose, or him coming back to life. I guess I never I never listened to the lyric in that Andy Williams song he was talking about telling ghost stories. So it's like, well, we're I wonder what How did he say that? Was he? Was that lyric in there? Was it? Yeah. Yeah. I was too busy getting drunk, Patrick, while it was playing.
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No. No. Do you know what Nathan does? He comes on the show occasionally. He actually gives out, Christmas cards, to complete strangers who look as very unhappy, and he said he puts a smile on their face. Oh, that's lovely. Lovely thing to do. Yeah. He just just Yeah. It is. Give him a Christmas card. And, you know, and Yeah. That is nice for him to do that. I think unusual things like that. I mean, there was a a something which we never saw was begging on the street. And there's a chap. He wasn't begging. He just had a cup there. Freezing cold day, and he looked like an ex serviceman there. And, you know, I I my decision, I don't give to charities, but I give to people on the street. Because my my okay. There might be drug dealers. I I don't drug addicts, I don't know. But at least it's going to the source, and it's not going to pay for some director's new BMW or whatever it is.
And, most of these charities are a rip off anyway. And I think if more people go to people on the streets, it'd be a lot of a a better look. You know? It'd just be better. That's all. Because it's going directly to the people who actually
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many of whom who need it. I I learned a new word today. Alminer. Have you ever heard of an Alminer?
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An alm a l m I n e r? No. No. L a l m
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o n e r.
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Somebody who gives out arms or arms? Yeah. Yeah.
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I'd never heard that word before. That's an interest it's an interesting concept. It's
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Arms, Paul. Is supposed to be Saint Nicholas. I got confused when I was a kid. I thought it meant for people that didn't have any arms with an r, and I thought why are they giving people arms? Yeah. It was difficult to work that one out. You've gotta see the spelling on that one. But yeah.
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They're the arms houses, didn't they? That's they're around near me. There's a arms houses,
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which is strange. I want to read you something from a Christmas carol. Can I do that? Just one paragraph. It's I like this. It's right at the beginning, and it's when his nephew rocks up and he's a right crotchety old scrote, and they're having a little scrap. And his nephew says they're talking about keeping Christmas. And Scrooge's nephew says, keep it, but you don't keep it. Scrooge replies, let me leave it alone then. Much good may do you, much good it has ever done you. And then Scrooge's nephew says this, his little speech, but he goes, there are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited, I dare say, returned the nephew. Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time when it has come round, apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that, as a good time.
A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And, therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good and will do me good, and I say, god bless it. And I quite like that, which is why I read it out. I quite like that a lot. I think that really sums up a lot of the goodness, the idea that people do get a little bit cheery. Although I'm sort of ridiculously cheery these days with everybody I see, but I'm gonna have to go overly cheery over the Christmas period if we can do it. But, I like that a lot. It's a great story. It brightens up the darkness, which is going to, you you know, just be be having the longest day of the year,
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and then it's gonna get brighter as as time goes on after that. It is. Yeah. It's wonderful.
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And I think I've probably mentioned on other broadcasts in the past few years about a film that I would recommend if you can get a hold of it, called, relatively recent. Who's in it? I think Christopher Plummer's in it, actually. Maybe even Michael Caine, Eric, just for you. I can't remember right. More names. Chris? Yeah. He's not is he I think it might be Christopher Plummer. I think it is because he's no longer alive. It's called the man who invented Christmas. Anybody here seen it? The man who invented Christmas.
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Never heard of it.
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Relatively new, about 6 or 7 years old. Can't recommend it highly enough. Seriously, it's wonderful. It's brilliant because it's 2 stories in one. It's the story Dickens has just returned from America on a tour. This is all true. And he's broke, and he needs to write something good. And what actually happened was that he ended up writing A Christmas Carol, which I guess is one of his most notable books, I guess. Certainly, the one that most people, I guess, would think about when they think about Dickens. And, it's the story of how his struggle to write this, intertwined with his real, flashbacks to when he was a kid, working in the boot factory and all this. He had a really tough time of it.
And many of the people in his real life, as this film goes through, become these characters in A Christmas Carol, and it's it works really well. There's something delightful about it. It's very Christmassy, but with a little edge. There's some great exchanges, and I just think it's fab. I'm probably gonna watch it. I've watched it twice, I think, 3 years since I last watched it. So maybe I'm due to watch it again this Christmas bit. The man who invented Christmas, which is about Dickens, because he in Victorian, he really did, actually. I mean, he just invented it. It wasn't a big as big a deal, but he just brought it all to life with this story. It's quite a thing when you think about it, 150 years ago whenever it was. So, yeah, it's it's a it's a good little film. It it really is.
And there's arsonist Yeah. There are. Yeah. Dickens' journey his his essays on his visit to America are amazing. You should you guys, you ought to look and not read them. The he goes to a prison. Is it Anderson? He goes to a prison. Oh, gosh. It's harrowing. I couldn't believe it when I read it. Because he, you know, he was a court reporter. So all of these tragic and what people, I guess, perceive as melodramatic scenes in Dickens are actually most of them are true. He was he started off as a court reporter from about the age of 18. Yeah. And so he learned all this. They actually happened, these terrible things. Victorian England was if you didn't have any money, it was bloody horrible.
And that's what he's recounting. You know, that's why I've mentioned before, you know, in a way, he's like that rear guard action about this encroachment, the ruination of of people through industrialization, the poverty, you know, in cellar. All this stuff is true. The the tiny Tim and them have it's all completely that's what he dealt with. So that's I think that's why his stories have such an edge, and people really warm to them because, obviously, he theatricalizes them and extends them as as a novelist should. But it's really quite a thing. And, so the film sort of touches touches on that as well. But, yeah, when he went to America, there's 2 bits that stick out. One is that he's on a train.
I can't I haven't got a bit in front of me. I have to record this because it's just worth it as just to hear. He's on a train traveling from, I don't know, wherever to wherever, somewhere to Baltimore, I think. So, you know, somewhere on the in the east. He's on a train. And he looks out of the wind, and he sees these sort of little clouds or what he thinks are bits of cotton wool flying past the window. And he goes he goes to the, where the 2 carriages are and to actually look and see what's causing it on. He finds that it's a carriage further up full of Americans. He calls for whatever, who are all nonstop, spitting out of the window just nonstop.
I couldn't believe it. It's just like a complete sea of spit flying past his window, which struck me. It's quite an image, isn't it? It just go they're all doing that. I don't know if it's backache chewing or whatever it was. There was that. And then when he goes to this prison, that's harrowing because this American prison. Holy moly. There's a I can't remember the crime. There's a guy that's been in solitary confinement for 20 years for stealing a bicycle. Seriously. And he visits him, and the warden's there with him. And the warden says, do you think you've improved by being in here 20 years? And he says, yes. And and Dickens just reveals all this, and that was his loathing and detestation of the prison system there.
It is quite it's it's this is not long ago. We're talking 18 sixties. It's not it's not long ago, really. I don't think. You know? So, no, his notes on America are great. You you should read those guys. You'll get it's like having your own country reflected back to you through the eyes of a foreigner. There's something very, useful, I think, in that. You get they see things that you wouldn't see just like there's a lot of videos going around at the moment with Americans over here talking about what it's like living in England, and they complain about certain things, which I guess we complain about. But there are other things that they see that I've just completely taken for granted and gone almost unconscious of. And you suddenly go, oh, yeah. That actually is really good. And I'm just not thinking about it too much. So it's good to see yourself through somebody else's eyes. And, although it's a bit of a time ago, you you Dickens' notes on America, I think that's what it's called, or something like that. They're they're pretty cool. They're pretty good stuff. That that's a book?
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Yep. Okay. It's a book. I I haven't read very much Dickens. I think tale of 2 cities is about it.
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It's the biggest selling novel ever. Do you know that?
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No. I didn't know that. Ever. Like, a 115,000,000
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copies or something and climbing. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Tale of 2 Cities. French revolution. I also read I keep reading the opening chapters of it, which is just amazing when the horse covered in absolutely pissing it down. They're going up Shooter's Hill, which I used to drive around in London all the time. So and they're all and the the carriage is sliding back down the hill because it's so wet. It's just great. I mean, god. I don't know why I remember all this stuff, but I the way that they wrote back then, of course, is you get if you like adjectives, Dickens is your guy because you're gonna get you're gonna get a lot of them because it's, it's overblown by today's writing standards, but it's got its own magic. Obviously, if you can discipline yourself to sit down with it long enough to get into it, it does require some mental stamina, I guess, a little bit more than, you know, playing Sudoku on your mobile phone or whatever it is. And it's interesting that he was a court reporter because a lot of his books revolve around justice and injustice
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Oh, yeah. And how they resolve.
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Yeah. Dave Dave, that was a court reporter as well, wasn't he? Was he? Comedian. Yes. Yes.
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It's I mean, comedians really are people who have got insight into things. I I seriously, they it's it's a a a an acceptable way of of commenting on the human condition and lightening the load to some degree. Because what we all find it funny that everybody else has got foibles, and we know that we've got them too. But it's like, yeah, we're all a bit crap. So let's all laugh about it, and it's great. It's very good. Dave Allen came out with a classic. He said he was, doing a report on a in a cult,
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And there was a teddy boy type came in with his hands in his pockets chewing. And the Mhmm. The willy old judge said, stop masticating. He took his hands out of his pockets, carried on chewing. He said, sorry, your honor. Sorry. That's true, apparently.
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Well, that's the sort of joke, he would Dave Allen would tell, ain't it? It's a good joke.
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It's not rude, is it?
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No. It's just one of those little moments in life. It's my memory.
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Paul Paul, we He really is. Were were you listening earlier to George Hobbs' show?
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No. I I've just been I've been flat out until getting the thing. But He he was talking about this this,
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criminal that Biden had just, wasn't he he hadn't pardoned him so much as, I forget the word that was used. It's basically he pardoned this guy, this judge, and he was involved in this thing, they were calling the cash for kids scandal because it was a judge who had money invested through a friend of his who was a builder Right. In this, corrective facility for profit, corrective facility for juveniles. And he was excessively sentencing children to to these these long sentences like this, stealing a CD for from Walmart. The guy the kid the child gets, a year in the correctional facility for you know, this this kind of injustice was going on. And this is the character that Biden just pardoned.
And it's just when you listen to it, it's just ridiculous because the the number of children that were sentenced for these petty crimes and then the suicides and things that ended up happening as a consequence of these harsh sent sentences that were passed down. Also, these judges could get kickbacks from from this facility that was for profit that took in the children.
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Who judges the judges, Patrick? That's right. Well,
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that's that they're divorced from the priests that should be informing the judges. That's that's what I see. Yep.
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Nice little comment here from the Kingston Whittler for us all. It says, Eric, Patrick, and Paul be a very happy Christmas to you and your families. Finding your show has been one of the best things to happen in 2024. Well, we agree with you, Kingston Whitaker. We think it's one of the best things to happen. We think you're a man of good sound taste. Excellent. Marvelous comment. We'll read your stuff out all day long. No. Seriously, thank you. That's that's great. And,
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that's that's fine. Thanks for the good wishes. I've sent a wish wish back. How is our, our friend who actually suffered a stroke recently? I hope he's I hope he's bet getting better and now hospital. You know he is. No. He is. He's actually
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I've I've not been able to see him for about 2 weeks because all my cars have been blowing up. I'm I'm serious. I'm serious. I'm blown up too. Oh, that's The other one's squeaking like mad. The steering went the other day, so I'm just fixing that. But I understand he is due home this week. He could even be home by now. Now under what circumstances, I don't know, but I'm planning to get over and try and see him maybe this weekend because I will have transport to get over. So as soon as I've had a chat with him, I'll be able to give a a more solid update. And, hopefully, maybe on Boxing Day, next week today, I can do just that. So, Chris, if you are at home and you have tuned in and you have got this, we're all wishing you the best, and we want you to recover and get well.
And, I don't know whether he's able to hear us or not, but I'm saying it anyway. And and if I get through to him and get a report, I'll bring it back here as soon as I can and let you know. Get well soon, Chris.
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Yeah. Yeah. And, and, also, you are all invited on to the Christmas special, which is, Sunday and Monday. The Sunday one will be more of a serious one, and the Monday one will be more of a fun one. So you can come on both or any of them. So, that's That's this that's this coming weekend, Eric. Yeah? This this coming weekend. Yes. Because Nathan's coming on. He studied the Bible very carefully, so he's gonna come up with something very con controversial, I believe. So he may be interested. So that's on a Sunday. And on the Monday, this will be on, YouTube, so we can't say naughty words. That'll upset YouTube. But, the thing is with YouTube, because it's visual, we can't have even if you, you know, you don't put a camera on, you can't have too many on YouTube, but you can, obviously, on radio. That's the advantage of radio, because you can have up to 11 on radio.
And, so it's so much more better. So you're invited, and it's, I'm gonna have a word with Nathan. I think maybe the serious one might be better on the Monday, and the Sunday one would be more of a laugh and a joke, you know, that type of thing. We've sort of worked something out, but you're invited for both of them. So Paul, Patrick,
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both 2 Pauls rather than Paul, and and Paul. I I should be able to take you up on at least one of them, Eric. So I I look forward to joining you for a bit of fun over the weekend. Yeah. That would be great. Yes. Always good stuff.
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Also, Patrick, you know, Paul and Patrick, you're you're both invited. So, you know Yes. Thank you. I think that's, radio is better. It really is, because
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you can have more guests on. That's the good thing about it. Well, of course, it's better. That's why we do it, Ernie, so that we can do this radio thing. It is the theater of the imagination, which, of course, is a complete cliche, but it but it's also true. It's also true. And it's like I was mentioning right at the beginning of the show in the little slightly excitable start that I always kick off with. I've done this thing with Karen Dodds the other day. We did 2 this week. Week. I ought to really try and post them to my channel, but they're on her YouTube channel. A lot of fun, going out to people who I I I think looking at some of the comments have not come across the sort of things that I was sort of talking about, things that we talk about here quite regularly even though, of course, we disperse it with a lot toilet humor. Well, one of us does anyway, which is always always appreciated and necessary.
It's always important. It's important to throw that in. But someone had written a comment. You know, I I meant that Karen was on the camera, but my voice or the was just coming in as audio, and it's actually easier to concentrate on. I find the visuals distracting, but actually that's because I'm not looking at them. I don't look at them.
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So But also there's bandwidth as well, because you you have a bandwidth. Oh, yeah. And if Bloody bandwidth gobblers. Yeah. They do. This is why I have lost problems with that. Yeah. Because, Robert was sort of he he speak to, and he's got, like, he he's bloody, huge sorry. His, Internet was going down all the time. So Gordon was on. You know, that's the problem. So, yes. But, is it sort of more of a New Year thing in America, and less of a Christmassy thing? Because I know in Scotland, it's New Year is sort of sort of little bit more important in many ways.
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Would Hogmanay.
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Hogmanay. Is what's it like in America? Because I know that, in some states, you're back to work on the next day after after Christmas. Whereas over here, we have about, what, almost 2 weeks holiday, don't we?
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Well, it it I suppose it depends who you work for, if you work for Scrooge or not.
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Oh.
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Because it is a holiday. You should you should take it's a feast day. Why why not take take more time off? It's a Wednesday, so take Thursday and Friday off. Why not?
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Yeah. Why not? That's that's the thing. But over here, it's most places, I mean, they shut down on Christmas Eve, and they don't open up until January 2nd. Yeah. So, you know, it's it's the the whole place is sort of dead for for about a week. But, it's not gonna be no no snow this year, apparently. Especially down the south, we don't get snow hardly at all. Now it's gonna be, warmer than normal, so that's gonna be nice, ain't it?
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It'd be fine. I don't mind. I don't mind if we get snow. Alvin Kirk, I'm just skimming through the things. I asked for a a plug for last night's Shelley Tasker shows. Of course. That was a Christmassy type show. You can find the Shelley Tasker channel on Rumble. So there'll be a recording of yesterday's show on Shelley Tasker's Rumble channel for those. And that was a Christmas see, a good Christmassy one hour chat. Although I think Maleficos had interminable technical trouser problems. His technical trousers kept falling down. He kept getting disconnected and, and stuff like that. But Shelley held the fort along with guests and everything, so that was pretty good. So, yeah, that is that a good enough plug? I'm very bad at that sort of stuff, aren't I? But I'll give anybody a plug, in these things.
Also, another comment here. Just going back to Dickens. This is from the stirring at Billy Silver. Teasing. Dickens was apparently, he writes, pressured to remove the association of one of his characters with an infamous tribe. Can you guess? Nope? Clueless, Billy. I don't know. What are you on about? Yeah. What's that all about? No. I don't know. Speaking of anybody see anybody see the, the David Lean make of Oliver Twist? That might be something what you're talking about, Billy. I don't know. Have you seen David Lean's version? It's absolutely fantastic. Black and white thing. No. What what's his name? Who's the guy that plays Bill Sykes? He went on to play Long John Silver. His name's run right out my head. Great English actor.
You know what I mean? He played Long John Silver in the I I I know I know who you mean, but I can't think of that. I hate you when that happens. He's I'm looking at his face. I can't put a name to it. Newton. Robert Newton. There you go. Braeden works. He he plays Bill Sykes in that. He's absolutely murderously fantastic. And it's in black and white. It's a bloody brilliant film, Oliver Twist. For every film that David Lean makes is just so watchable. I like the movie. Just the on. It's the storytelling. It just gets sucked in, and it just goes. They're really sort of entertaining all these years on because it's all driven by cut character stuff and plot. And so, yeah, that's a that's a good one to watch at Christmas, actually, even though it's nothing to do with Christmas. But Oliver Twist. Yeah. The David Lee version with Robert Newton. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. That's a man who invented Christmas. So yeah. Of course. The man who invent I I see that people have been searching for it and coming across with spurious spoof things on YouTube. As far as I'm aware, you might have to pay for it. I think I've found it we watched it on Amazon Prime. I don't know if you that's our main thing, because I just watch movies every now and again. Don't watch TV. Just watch films. And so Amazon Prime, it might be on there.
You might be able to get it as a download or something like that. I don't know. So, it's definitely worth watching, though. But do you know what it Also, if you do watch it, I'd love to hear from you next week what anybody thought about it. And by hearing mean, maybe call in. You know, you can always call in. If you if you get the urge, it'd be great, because it just sort of breaks up the audio space. And we're I'm always interested to hear how people phrase and say and deal with things. It's always great stuff. So,
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that's just Yeah. And if you don't get snow, you could also watch doctor Zhivago. There's another David Lean film.
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It might be. I've never wanted to watch that for some reason. I haven't. Even though Julie Christie looks amazingly beautiful in it, I think it's because I can't stand Omar Sharif. I just don't like the look of my hair. It's a very dark movie, actually. Yeah. I know. Yeah. It's not fun, is it? Russian revolution. Right? Yeah. And do you know it's Yeah. That wasn't much fun, was it, the Russian revolution? It was quite a miserable affair, I think. If anything bad.
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Yeah. Yep. Do you know the freezing side? Did you know that it was filmed in Spain in the middle of summer, and they used candle wax to make it look like, ice? And the actors were absolutely boiling hot, and they're supposed to be shivering cold. Wait. What? What? Right? Is this doc doctor Zhivago? Zhivago. But did you know that Oliver, when it was released, it clashed with the third man film. And there's a few had a bit of a hoo about, an act, shall we say, the role of someone in Oliver who,
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shall we say, might be to do with Semolina, Andy Semolina. So he's not Oh, you mean Alec Guinness and his role as Fagan. That's what you're referring to, aren't you? And then Alec Guinness went on to become Obi Wan Kenobi. So I don't know what we read into that. I believe not much.
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Wasn't he? Actually, no. It's Robert Newman was Fagan, wasn't he, in the in the original one? No. No. Robert Newman is Robert Newton's Bill Sykes, the guy with the dog. Sykes. Sorry.
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Even the dog's scared of him. When he looks at the dog, the dog starts whimpering. He's that really gets it across. What a brute he is. And, yeah. No. Alleghenus plays Fagan, the chief of the pickpockets, going on to play Obi Wan Kenobi. He also played, a leading role in Lawrence of Arabia, didn't he, as Sheikh whoever. He's in there. And also the fall of the Roman Empire, which is a film, which, is freely available on YouTube, starts off pretty cool. I mean, it's a 19 60 film or something, so it's that style, you know, where things are a little bit slower. So if you can't cope with that, you can't cope with it. But, he plays Marcus Aurelius, and the opening sort of 10 or 15 minutes. It's like setting the scene for Gladiator. It's exactly the same stuff. There's him as Marcus are released. They're out in Germania. There's this leading, general with him. They're having a chat. They've gotta try and contain the tribes and going, oh, is this where you ripped off plot off from? But not really. It's historical. You know? It doesn't invalidate Gladiator. Fantastic, no film. But Oh, yes. Yes. But Alec Guinness always said, you could always tell
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the, I you could always tell a man by the cut of his trousers. If his trousers are too short, totally slovenly sorry. If his trousers are too long, totally slovenly. And if too short, completely loony. And that's that was Alec Guinness his wife.
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I might make a note about that. Maybe, Alec, maybe he was onto something. Maybe he knew. Maybe the truth is in the trousers. Absolutely. Truth is in the trousers.
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That up, didn't I?
[02:37:07] Unknown:
No. Sorry. I got it across. My mom used to say that you always judge a man by his shoes.
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Oh, well, my mom said that. Yes. She treated dirty shoes. Oh, yeah. My mom did too. My dad I couldn't stand it. He he was in the military. That's great. His shoes were, like, mirror polished. He knew how to polish them up high. And I tried to copy them, and he said, oh, when are you gonna start polishing your shoes? Is it for a joke? I mean, they were always highly polished. A nice squeaky leather.
[02:37:38] Unknown:
And she's got the wrong yeah. You remember Kiwi Polish? That's what we had at home. Yes. Kiwi Polish. Yes? Oh, now we're talking to you, aren't we? Yeah. The bottoms of his shoes. The actual bottoms of the shoes were polished as well. So Okay. That's a bit weird. Yeah. That's that's a bit weird that that's a bit on a marble floor and That with the
[02:37:57] Unknown:
They had to in the army. In the army, they had to polish the bottom of their shoes. They they'd look they're jobs. And that he just carried it on. And I did it. I almost slipped towards it overhead. But, no. It's not weird that they did that because he learned how to do it in the army because he was a conscript. You know? But, there's it's, it's surprising when you look at people now. When you look at Mao's China, where everybody was dressed in denim and all look the same. You look at people now, they're either dressed in denim or they're dressed in tracksuits and all look the same. We've got just like Mao's China.
[02:38:32] Unknown:
Do you know Well, it's obvious that we've we've this topic keeps coming up for a reason. I think, really, I probably need to create something called the English outfitters or something like that. And we need to we need to get proper men's trousers. You know? We need to look into men's trousers, more fully generic, as my headmaster would have said, making a faux pas much to the amusement of us all, but we do. And, yeah, there's no there's no reason. I'm going to be wearing trousers tomorrow. I'm quite worried about it because I don't I don't wear them that often. I used to wear them all the time. Now where are my trousers? Of course, then you find trousers that you used to be able to fit into quite easily. I've still got trousers, like, 25 years old. Immaculate. Right?
And I'm I'm and then I'm laughing at myself going, oh, I remember my dad now about this age going, oh, I can't get into this suit, love. It's so funny. It's really, really funny. But I've got a jacket. I've got a dog tooth jacket, which I bought when I was, 28, and it still fits me. And I'm right chuffed. I can still fasten the front button. It's not even it's not okay. It's not loose like I was when I was trim, but it's not bad. And I thought, not bad. Not bad. 40 years of eating bread and puddings, and I can still get into my could still get to my dog toothed shirt. So that was pretty good.
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Yeah. Yes. It's so nice.
[02:39:59] Unknown:
I was looking here We can't really do fashion on radio. We would need video. And then, Eric, you could be wearing these items of clothing that you're talking about. We could all look at your shoes. Use your imagination.
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That's even funnier, I suppose.
[02:40:12] Unknown:
Yeah. I guess it is. I guess it is. I was looking here at Alec Guinness's,
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filmography. He did one on Cromwell in 1970. It's called Cromwell.
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Yeah. Richard Harris played Cromwell. Yep. Yeah.
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Brother, son, sister, moon, but that would be about Saint Francis of Assisi 72. And then Hitler, the last days the the last 10 days. Have you ever seen that one?
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No. No. Okay. I can't really no. I'm I'm unlikely to. It's it's difficult to
[02:40:45] Unknown:
think the Guinness doing that. The tropes the the tropes that they came up with.
[02:40:50] Unknown:
Do you remember do you remember no. You might not have seen this one. This is an English black and white thing. The man in the white suit. Have you seen that one, Eric?
[02:40:58] Unknown:
I haven't seen I heard of it. It's about a bloke who made a suit that was indestructible, wasn't it? Yeah. It's fantastic. Yeah. It's a wonderful film. He's a chemist working in a,
[02:41:07] Unknown:
a clothing manufacturers, and he comes up with this dye. He creates this white suit out of it, and it's completely indescribable. You can't put a stain in it or anything. Right? Nothing. And, at first, this is just one of these things. It's very sort of symbolic, really, in some of the topics that we talk about here. Right? It's fantastic. So he creates the solution to suits wearing out. And at first, of course, they're like, this is amazing. This is fantastic. A few hours later, they start to think about this and they're going, this is really bad. If we start selling these suits, no one's gonna buy any more suits. Of course, he's got this suit on, so the rest of the film is basically a chase as they try to hunt him down. The man in the white, and he's lagging it all over the place.
Anyway, I won't give you the punchline because there is a kicker in the end, but it's a good little film. It's one of those quirky sort of British sort of things in 19 fifties, but it's good. And, particularly the soundtrack of all the test tube bottles go blip blip blip. I quite like all that kind of stuff. So that was a fun one. He was good in that. He was really good in that.
[02:42:07] Unknown:
I'll have to watch that Oliver Twist one. So did did you mention that Alec Guinness was pagan in that?
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Yeah. He is. Yeah. Yeah. He is. He is, and he's very good in it. And it's good. And he's you'll quite like his accent. It's not overly theatrical. I don't think at all. I think it's pretty spot on. And, of course, there there have been complaints, but the fact is it's based on truth. And Dickens would know because that's where these characters came from, court cases. So that's what happened. So that's that. Stick it with your bum and deal with it. What else was I gonna say? Oh, yeah. Billy Silver also writes whilst we're on films and just having a bit of Christmas fun here, which we should do. He also mentions David Lean's great expectation as a masterpiece. Yep. David Lean film, and it is.
What's the name of the guy that he meets in the cemetery at the beginning? With the chains on. I can't remember his name. That's quite that's quite a thing. That's all in black and white. All in the fog. When he steals the cheese from home or is it the pie? Oh, it's a pie. Yeah. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go watch it. It's Great Expectations by David Lean, and I would imagine that that you will be able to find that on YouTube, as a freebie somewhere. It's old enough. You should be able to find that. Is on YouTube too. Yep. Yep. So they're good. And there's also I found the, A Christmas Carol starring, my favorite one.
Yeah. Again, I can't remember his name. He was in the, centrinians films. Oh, wow. Alastair Syme. Alastair Syme. See, it just takes a while, and then the cogs were Alastair Syme playing Scrooge. That's a black that's my favorite one of all the versions of Scrooge, of the films. Although, as I said, the man who invented Christmas is really good because but it's a modern telling of it, but it but it's still good. It's got a lot of heart to it, so that's good.
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Yeah. There there's an interesting one here. His first movie, David Lean's first movie was 1942, and it was called In Which We Serve, and it was by Noel Coward. And it was about Oh, yeah. Ship, the British destroyer HMS Turin. Mhmm. It's full of flashbacks of survivors as they cling to a life raft. Yep. That'd be that'd be a neat one.
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Yeah. So 1942, and his last film was about 1982, wasn't it, or something? Yeah. The passage to India. Yep. I think that was his last film. Early eighties or something. Eighty four. So 40 year but he he worked as an editor for, like, 10 years before that in another thing. And that's why his films work so well. He understood editing Yeah. Scene cutting, you know, rhythm, and all that hidden language of cinema. You've got it's almost effortless. You don't even notice it's going on. It's just really great storytelling. It's not sort of he's trying to show off. You just get sucked into the stories, and they just move along a pace. That's what makes him so good. As I've mentioned here before, my favorite film by him, and it is, is Hobson's Choice.
It's actually one of my top five film. I absolutely love that. I love it. But I wore almost worn it out. I've watched it about 3 times in the last 5 years, so I've gotta leave it alone for it. But, Yeah. Charles Long. It's just yeah. Yeah. I also it also goes down as one of my favorite love stories, romances. I'm serious as well. It's very funny the way that John Mills, this slightly this physically slight, but really good lad is completely dominated by Charles Laughton's, eldest daughter, Maggie. She just takes him in hand, and she basically says, right. I'm marrying you. And he's completely what?
It's very funny. She's just organized. She's like a woman who's just organizing life, and you you that's it. You've just been organized. And, it's it's very funny. Very, very funny. It's got some lovely scenes in it from anyway, I like it. I like it I like it a lot. I think it's really good. So There were works of art years ago that they really knew when they did the films.
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It was a work of art because they, they they were prepared to spend the money. And when you look at the film sets, they were built properly. Now it's quick, cheap, and,
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bums on seats. That's all they seem to be interested in. Well well, I think I think the main thing I would say is that they worked with and understood the the absolute paramount value of a sound story, more than anything else. If if the narrative hasn't got an engaging quality to it in some way, if you don't care about the characters and in modern films, I just don't care about many of them. They're so revolting and cocky. I just want them dead. I'm always rooting for the baddies to just blow all the goodies off the screen so we can get down to something interesting. They're tedious. They don't have any vulnerabilities. Everybody's just so smug and super confident about everything. It's boring as hell. Whereas the older films deal with actually real people, and therefore the drama is heightened. It's like it's like seeing normal people dimming things as opposed to, you know, the superheroification of everything. It's fun for a bit, but when films revert to nothing but that and, you know, vacuous digital special effects nonstop, don't they understand that the more they use them, the less impact they've got? It's as if it's just it's like drinking concentrated orange juice all the time. When you're a kid, first time you get to do it, wow.
3 or 4 times, I don't want that anymore. It's just too much. It's too much. I don't know. So I think they had better balance. And, of course, they were coming from a history of many of them from the theater, so they'd worked with, a more concentrated and higher level of writing. And, also, I think the other thing is the same with music, in the sixties seventies, because it cost quite a bit of money to put a film on, because it used to cost a lot to record an album, only the best of the talent would get into the studios and would get through the system to actually do it. I think that's true. Yeah. And that's why there's they're not all great or old films. Many of them are tedious beyond belief. You know? They they don't move quick enough from not for me. But the ones that are good are great because they're character based, and they're based on real dilemmas, and you are engaged with the the outcome for the characters, I think, very much so. You know? So, and that's all it's all good stuff.
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Yeah. And it still isn't cheap to make a film. Like, if you made a good film on film, it's it's I've thought about this before because I I studied cinematography, and I have have access to my I have a movie camera. And but the cost of a film is quite expensive just for the film itself. You know, for 4 minutes, it's, like, $500. Yeah. Just film, that's just for the film, not counting developing and then prints and all these other things and adding sound to it. Mhmm. It's an expensive thing. And, well, I suppose, if you're dealing with back then, you know, your salaries of actors and all this kind of add up as well because you take it's not like working at a factory, but it kind of is, but it isn't. It's more of a leisure type thing.
Theater and all these these other things.
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Well, there's still some films I wanna say. I saw, I saw the first 10 minutes of The Lady from Shanghai the other day, so I recorded the rest of it. Black and white film with Orson Welles playing an Irishman with a slightly dodgy Irish accent that time, seriously. But Rita Hayworth is in it, I suppose, ultimately, as the lady of Shanghai. She's absolutely stunningly beautiful, and it's a black and white film, but she just is because she's got all those feminine qualities. And, she she just looks fantastic. And then there's another clip of her going back to dancing, dancing with Fred Astaire in some movie, and it's just I went, wow. That's pretty that's I can understand why people would enjoy that. That's fun. My dad was a Fred Astaire fan. My mom liked Gene Kelly. Only one way to find out which was best. Mom and dad had to have a fight. Dad always won. So no. They didn't really. But, yeah, Fred, a staircase and ginger biscuits, as we used to say over here.
Yeah.
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Yes. Mhmm. But, I think Christmas is a time when families I don't know, you know, Christmas is a past week, all gather around the fire and have a good old fashioned family argument. And I normally did that, but actually throwing lamps and tables and chairs around it. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Nothing like a good old arm, isn't it? So there were actually there was something I don't know what it was. There's something cozy and warm about old films, isn't there? Very much so. Let you use your imagination more than now if there's guts and gore, they'll show you guts and gore. They're not trying to shock you.
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They're not trying to disturb you. They're not trying to do that at all. That's right. They're not trying to just repulse you or get a rise out of you by showing you something visceral and graphic and pornographic. That's not what it's about. The romance scenes are all way better because the door closes, as it should. Right? Yeah. Everything about it is to show restraint and control, and that is a that's encouraging. It sends out a right signal. This is how you behave around one of the you can learn a lot. You know, I I'm expecting, by the way. I was thinking the other day, I thought all these old films, they're gonna.
The way things are going with the cultural destruction of everything, you will better get these things. We we need to safeguard them. They'll just say, oh, it's not important. It's too old. People won't even know. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Mels China and,
[02:52:01] Unknown:
Stalin they they've binned a lot of film and stuff like that. But also what else happened is that, you know, the dad's army film, the BBC, binned a lot of the dad's army series. And luckily, someone found them in a in a, a a a a a dump and retrieved them. And if that person hadn't retrieved them, we'd we'd have lost a lot of the dad's army series. So, you know, even in mod modern days, they're they're bidding stuff. And there's a lot that's been lost. But I think you're right. They will go for those films because they're not it's it's a bit like, you know, that, the dam busters film, which I don't particularly care too much on. But, okay, it was made in 19 fifties.
And you know that Guy Gibson's dog, what the name his name was, well, they've actually edited that out. That that say it. Yeah. And they've edited the name out now. So he says, oh, there's all. And the people kids will look at it and think the dog's name was. Yeah.
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So why shouldn't they edit it out? You know? It's a reflection of the way people talk back then and talk in my house. No. We don't. Right? Because but but it's true. They were gonna do a remake. I can't remember what it was with some and they were gonna write it out. They're gonna change his name to Fido or Fang. Norman.
[02:53:24] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, that's a bloody point. We have a cooking delicacy. Seriously, it's called Spotty Dick. And it's Yeah. We did. Yes. Yeah. It's got and they they called changed it to spotted Richard, but they changed the back of the name now because everybody was laughing their heads off. The spotted dick is worse. It's a But spotted Richard's even worse because Richard Richard is, you know, an act Richard the 3rd, isn't it? Yeah. That's right. I don't know what that's right. It looks
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awful. Richard the third, and that's even worse. Right? So my god. The thing about the English language, the way the English use it, it's it's all vulgar and foul, full of double octopus and memes. Reminds me of a Tracy Oman's kid about that.
[02:54:04] Unknown:
Yeah? Yeah. I don't know. Really?
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Yeah.
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She isn't she the one that helped start the Simpsons?
[02:54:14] Unknown:
She gladly well is. Yeah. On the Tracey Ullman show. Yeah. It that that's where it first ran. The first 5 minute short, wasn't it? Or a 10 minute short or something inside the Tracey Ullman show? Yeah. And they're still making it to this day. 30 years on or something. Yeah. I think. Those actors those voice actors are onto a good thing, aren't they? What a role to land. I mean, seriously, all that work for all those years, nobody knows who you are, so you got all your privacy left. Hey.
[02:54:43] Unknown:
Yeah. Tracy Almond, though. She she started up on 3 of a kind, and that was Mhmm. In competition with, not the 9 o'clock news. But it it never quite made it as much as the BBC's not the 9 o'clock news. Mhmm. But I watched those old sketches that were in the sort of was it late seventies, early eighties? Well, it's mainly early eighties. And they're still funny. And this is to me, if a comedian is good, you can hear the same joke over and over and over again and still laugh. And that's the I think that is the qualities of a good comedian because they got what, I think is a, like, what they call a funny bone. They're really just funny. That's it. And they're timeless. Look at Dave Allen, George, George Carlin. They're timeless. The stuff they came out with. But it's the way they presented it. And I always remember my uncles, you know, often said they they used to read the audience.
And there's some gags they can say in some audiences and some, like, gags they couldn't say in other audiences. Well, a good comedian does read the audience.
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Yeah. They they they know when to roll their eyes.
[02:55:53] Unknown:
That's it. Yes. Yes. But, no. It it's, I think they've gone for a comedy. They've gone for everything that is happy. They're just trying to destroy it all the time. And I think Well, for a few days, Eric, over this period yeah. I think you're I think for a few days over this period,
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they're not part of our world, and we need to sort of reclaim it in that way. I you, would you? And we do. And I'll be talking to all my family on the phone. I won't be traveling around much. I've got my own challenges. But, nevertheless, I I tend to think back to all the good times I've had at this time of year, and it is a good time where people open up their hearts, as it said in Dickens, and don't view other people as just on their way, you know, fellow travelers to the grave, that this is all a good thing, and, it's great. Although I won't be actually buying Christmas lunch at my local pub because when I went past, it said 3 course Christmas lunch. Guess the price, Eric. How much do you think for a 3 course Christmas lunch at the pub?
[02:56:59] Unknown:
Well, it would once upon a time, you'd be paying about 15 quid, but I very much doubt whether it's that now. Yes. Try try £70.
[02:57:07] Unknown:
Wow.
[02:57:08] Unknown:
That's a pub. Joking. Or do you know what? I had you know what? I had a garden center the other week when I met John Hamer. It was 2 cups of coffee, 1 cup of tea, and 2 very small slices of cake, and I got 30 pence change out of £20.
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Yikes.
[02:57:28] Unknown:
Yeah. I mean, that is that is exorbitant. You know, drop a water on a tea bag. Come on.
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But everything, we're not in control of the prices that we're offered, are we, anymore? There's no, there's no adjustment on prices. There's no pushback. There's nothing. Everything just goes up. You you nobody knows what their water bill's gonna be next. Oh, we've just added 80 quid on them a quarter. Why? I think, I do know. My take on it is that it's just a part of them effectively impoverishing everybody so that you're more manipulable, and they can deal with the crap bank books that they've done. And I was I've been thinking about that a lot today because I really my New Year's resolution is to destroy the Bank of England. Anybody wanna join in? If you haven't got a New Year's resolution, take that one, will you? I want it destroyed, and I mean, in its current form, utterly extirpated. That means to tear out by the roots so that it never grows back in its current form. This is, of course, all piss and wind on this show. I accept all that, but it make it makes me feel slightly better. And I actually registered a domain name today, which is, dcbobdcbob.org.
And dcbob stands for decentralized Bank of Britain. And I want to begin it next. So the decent because that's all it's about. It's centralization of everything that's killing us. All the it's like cancer. All the power goes to the city, to the creditors, yeah, to the money men, to the money power, all of it. And, I don't want it. So, it's not to actually run it as a bank to start off with. My, my view has always been that we need huge numbers of people to understand how and why they're being robbed in the most simple direct, almost hit them in the guts type way, and would you like to put an end to it? And it's not to start using a banking system that jump all over you. It's simply to build up a huge alliance like the biggest consumer pressure group ever for the biggest consumer issue, which is the crap money that we are compelled to consume that destroys everything.
And, so I'm just gonna give it a go. I haven't been involved for 20 years doing something like this, but but I've been thinking about it last few days. I'm thinking maybe it's time to do something a bit more constructive. Anyway, so we could talk about that next week on Boxing Day,
[02:59:51] Unknown:
where we box the ears of the banks. I still hate their guts for what they do. Example though. You know? You mentioned to anybody in the street. I mean, I I I went into a farm shop today. I found out there's a farm shop that's 20 minutes walk from me that I didn't even know was there, which I can go to. And the eggs are much cheaper than the farm shop I normally go to Yeah. Which is a 15 Mile Drive. So I don't have to drive. I just just walk up walk 20 minutes up the road. And Which is decentralized, isn't it? We want to de
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everything that we look at, everything that we hate is this authority system. Communism is all it is. Up top. The politburo knows best. It didn't know it's head from its ass. They're just a bunch of vicious thieves and thugs. And they've got a gun. The the the trouble is their town is, and they they try to hunt people out to live. But you mentioned to anybody in the street, usury, they haven't got the foggiest idea what the word means. No. They were using Well, we might not have to we might not use that word. You know, the use of words is this. And, look, we're right at the end of the show, really. We should be wrapping up. We can go on for a bit longer, but I was just gonna say, I've boiled it down. I mentioned it here before. This
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I, didn't do that very well, did I? Hi. Welcome back, everyone. It's Thursday, October the no. It's not October, December. Oh, it's good to have one last cock up before Christmas. And mind you, the show's early. There could be many more coming just yet. This is Paul English Live. We're here every Thursday on WBN 324. We're here from 3 PM, 5 PM US Eastern, 8 PM to 10 PM here in the UK. Hi, everyone, and welcome to the show. And I've got a few more technical ducks in a row this week. So, yeah, our main station is WBN 324 for the next couple of hours, but we're also going out of a rumble. We're going out of a d live, and we're also going out today on YouTube.
Managed to get it sorted this week. And I'll be joined by the usual crew of reprobates reprobates, even if I can speak properly, who'll be with us for the duration, I hope. Hi. Welcome back, everyone. Just had a quick slurp of water. Seriously, it was. I know it's the festive season to be having fun and all that kind of stuff, but we can't start out too early, can we? Now that wouldn't be the that wouldn't be the right thing to do. Anyway, I hope you've all been having a cracking week. I've been having a really busy week, actually, and I'm feeling in a really good mood, which is probably never a good sign. Always means that lots of things can start going wrong. I don't wanna be too negative, but, obviously, I just was. Anyway, what was I doing earlier in this week? Oh, yeah. If you've if you've looked into the Rumble channel from time to time and by the way, wherever you're listening, if you wanna actually sort of get involved in chatting, you know, that kind of typing thing and everything, there's a pretty lively chat that we have over on Rumble. You'll find the link to that at paulenglishlive.com, and, that's the place to get typing away. But, yeah, I've had a pretty busy week. I was on with, one of the things I've put up a few a couple of weeks ago was a a little sort of 1 hour slot that I did with, a good lady over here called Karen Dodd.
And we did a couple more of them this week, 2 in a week. I don't know. I feel like a radio tarp these days all over the place. But, no, they were jolly good. They were covering, a lot of sort of, well, basic things and intertwined things and historical things. And, it's kind of a different gig for me being on the sort of receiving end of it. I don't know which one I prefer best. They're both good. I don't know which is the best though. But I had a lot of fun. So, a quick shout out and a big thank you to Karen for setting that up. I think we'll be doing a few more. If you want to find her channel, there's a link to it actually on the Rumble channel. I think it's wise women weekdays. I think that's what it is. But you'll find it, and it's a developing channel there on YouTube and, lots of good stuff. And, interestingly, how about this? This is just a little sort of technical aside. As you know, I don't use a webcam. We don't use a video feed here. We're we're basically running audio out over a video platform. In this case, you know, Rumble is the main one.
But, also, I've sportingly and courageously decided to start going out on YouTube simply because we could at hopefully minimal extra fuss. Whether it turns out to be a dead duck, I don't know. But, thought it was worth giving it a go, you know, the season of goodwill to all men and all that kind of stuff. So we're going out over there, and, we'll look to sort of build the audience up accordingly. I'm just trying to get into every channel I can. I mean, I'm even thinking about possibly even paying for a subscription to x and running a live, a live version of the show there. But as I was saying, this is this is really a radio audio show that we, that we nestle and run across video platforms.
And, being a tight one, I've never bought a webcam. But, actually, no. It was also sort of an executive decision a long time ago to not really get into video too much. And I probably droned on about it a bit here before, but I like I personally chug away listening to things whilst working and doing things, and I suspect many of you are the same, particularly when you think about the sort of material that we cover and all that kind of stuff. So, I'm often slightly, not rude, but I never know what to say when someone sends me a 3 hour video. I haven't got time to watch it because you've probably noticed she can't do anything else whilst you're watching the video. But that said, that there's a nice little sort of format that has just sprung up with Karen.
She's actually on the video feed. I stay on the audio feed, and, somebody wrote in on her channel, a kindly comment, basically saying that they thought it really worked as a format. In other words, they could look at Karen and see what was going on there, but I'm sort of, in this case, the voice coming in from the outer the nether regions of the world. And, I think it works too. I quite like it anyway. So there you go. A bit of sort of technical blabber to kick things off. Anyway, we're here to talk about all sorts of things. I wanna talk about rockets to start off with. But before I do that, because I I'm sure you all you all wanna talk about rockets, I want to welcome everybody, into the show. We've got in the studio along with me, there's Paul, who was absent last week, probably doing something important. Patrick's here, and Eric's here. But, Paul, seeing as that you weren't here last week and you are here now, welcome back to the show. How are you?
[00:10:08] Unknown:
I'm really good, and, hopefully, I mean, I you know, I'm saying, like, nighttime prayers and stuff that that your part of the world, as soon as you get rid of Stommer, it will no longer be referred to as the nether region of the world.
[00:10:29] Unknown:
Well, because it's It is a nether region at the moment. Yeah.
[00:10:33] Unknown:
It's it's quite quite a load going on over there, isn't it? A load of something. I don't know. But but the you could and you look at me talking to me. Week, and I only got sleepy Joe.
[00:10:46] Unknown:
I know. I know, Paul. You're right. But I've noticed, x, you know, Twitter. There's a couple of really good souls on lawn, particularly on the Telegram chat that's associated with this show who pile in with the the Xlinks, which is pretty useful for me. So I think I've given a shout and a thanks to Lorne before, and there's another one. But it is very useful because I just don't have enough time sometimes to scour all the sources that I want to. It's a full time job, or it would be. Must get a slave to do that. I don't know if slave is the correct word. Technical assistant, is it? Sure. But that would be really, really cool. But that chat's fantastic.
The Paul English chat on Telegram has got some really good quality commentators and nice little mild disputes and tit for tats every now and again. Nothing untoward. So thank you all who are in there for behaving well most of the time. No. Seriously, behave well. Great, actually. And I've noticed on x, the word communism is popping up a lot now. People are really getting it that we just live under communism, and I've been banging on about this for years, but, of course, it wasn't it wasn't basically that obvious. But Starmer is just a full on sort of Politburo, Trotskyite, Pabloist nut job, basically, you know, this great drone that we've been burdened with. So, and as Eric's mentioned here before, even though he came in and he's just run out of the studio, I don't know what he's done. What's he done? He's just run out of the studio. But as Eric mentioned here before, he's probably really a blessing in disguise because he's getting everybody a bit wound up, and that's that's no bad thing.
So even you begin to sit up and take notice over there. What a complete, individual he is. He's quite a thing. He really is. Anyway, anyway, Patrick, how are things with you in balmy, boiling hot Wisconsin? Yeah. It's only negative 5 right now. It's snowing. Is that all? That's pretty warm for you guys at this time of the year, isn't it? Yeah. It's fine. It's heating up.
[00:12:53] Unknown:
Well, we're, yeah, we're we're getting snow, so, hopefully, it's gonna be a a nice, snowy Christmas. And all the family, you know, out of everybody gets together and has a good time. We go to mass, midnight mass, and
[00:13:08] Unknown:
Cool. Have a good time. That's nice. That's what it's all about. It's family It is really. It's a family time, isn't it? It is a family time. And I'm being I actually put up the Christmas decorations today, which is a light. There's a certain I've got to do a bit more, frankly. We've got these carers that comes in the house to go, where's the Christmas decorations? I'm saying, what if you're volunteering? You know? But they weren't. They weren't volunteering to do that. So, I've got this I've got one of these really cordy little flashing light. I can't even begin to describe it. Maybe I should film it. It's quite pathetic, but it makes me laugh because it's it is so pathetic that it's it's it's full of good cheer. At least, it's full of that. And, I don't go in big time for those sorts of things anyway, but, tomorrow, I will be arming the front room with a lot of candles, which is basically my way of dealing with it, and then just create a chilled out space for a few days.
And, our our sort of little period is getting less and less excessive, and and therefore, all the better for it, actually. I find it much more connected, but I'm I'm quite jealous that you're gonna get snow. We we might be lucky if we get slush. We can get fog. We usually get rain. Would you would you bet would you not be surprised to hear that? We often get rain. A lovely nice rainy day. But if we if we get a crisp cold icy one, which we had today I mean, I've I've taken up going out for a walk for about an hour and 45 minutes now. It's quite a quite a haul, and I'm going at quite a lick. And I've been out 4 or 5 days in a row doing this. Today was particularly cold. The old knees sticking out the end of my shorts were really taking a bit of a hammering today.
But once you get going, it was great. I've met all the dog walkers. So because I'm going out at the same time each day, I keep bumping into the same people with their dogs. Because I don't have a dog, so I've got to show an interest in their dogs. Well, I do if I wanna be sociable. And I am quite sociable, so I show an interest in them. Anyway, one of them's got a 6 month old shepherd dog called, Robbie. And, I couldn't really quite understand it because she wasn't a young lady, and I think the dog's gonna you know, if I come along and find out that the dog's still alive and that she's she's on her on her uppers and completely tied out, it wouldn't surprise me because the dog's full of beans. But, anyway, that's what's been going on. That's what's been going on here. Eric, anyway, welcome to the show. Greetings. Good to have you. Greetings. Is it snowing where you are?
[00:15:30] Unknown:
No. It's really cold, though. And, you know, when I meet dog walk because I don't know what it is. They tend to ignore me now because I cracked a joke. I just said, you know, remember the old Chinese saying, a dog is not just for Christmas. With care, there's can be some leftover for sandwiches in the New Year. That's just don't know why they don't wanna know me. Strange, isn't it? You know?
[00:15:51] Unknown:
I thought a dog was just for Christmas, so I've I've been reading that wrong all these years. Remember, a dog's for Christmas, not for life. Isn't it? Have I got it the wrong way? Something like that. Yes. Anyway, what happened earlier, I was just about to come on, and it all went
[00:16:04] Unknown:
blank. I don't know. Sort of
[00:16:09] Unknown:
I'll come back again. No. You haven't. Yeah. You're you're still there.
[00:16:13] Unknown:
I thought it's something I was saying. You know?
[00:16:16] Unknown:
Well, not yet. I was just practicing for when you do say it.
[00:16:20] Unknown:
Yes. Yes. You know, no brussels sprouts jokes because it's Christmas. But, anyway, So, I'll tell you what, though. You're bloody loud today. That's what I'm trying yeah. No. This is a good it's not a moan. It's great. You're really up in the mix, so we can yeah. You're blasting our ears out. It's very good, Eric. I like it a lot. It's great. No. It's good. Well, I've been fluffing around with the sound, you see. Make it a little bit better. So I made sure everything's okay this time. You know? But, no, back to the weather. It's been quite nice here today. And, of course, lunchtime, then the clouds roll in as it happens every day, but then they rolled out again. So it's quite pleasant, but they're it's gonna warm up for Christmas. It's gonna be unseasonally
[00:16:58] Unknown:
warm over Christmas. Oh, good. Okay? I I don't mind unseasonably warm at all. It's it's fine by me. It's I'm absolutely fine with it. Yeah. Don't have a problem with that at all. It's never we've not really had since we moved down here, I think we've seen snow once in 24 years, which actually I was quite impressed to even see at all. Yeah. We had there was one where the whole place got covered with snow for about 4 or 5 days, and it was when the my sons were young. So, really, although we only got one like that, at least they got one. Do you know what I mean? And it was great. Really, really good day there.
[00:17:30] Unknown:
Apparently apparently, 1963, 64,
[00:17:34] Unknown:
the sea froze. It was so cold. That was the I did down here. Yeah. I worked with a guy when I first moved down here, Eric, and he's a bit older than me. So he would have been about I don't know. When they're at the grape freeze, was it 62 or 63? He's he's about 8 4. Yeah. He was about 8 or 9 years of age, something like that. He said, they just moved down from London. They thought, great. Well and the whole sea froze. They were absolutely frozen. I thought it'd be quite impressive. I've never seen a frozen sea. But, apparently, even down here, on the old South Coast of England, it was so chilly that the old sea froze right up. Yeah. So Yes. The dog's frozen lampposts
[00:18:12] Unknown:
as well, wasn't it?
[00:18:15] Unknown:
Yes. Anyway, I'm just looking for the I'm just for the mute button there, Eric. I didn't find it. But no. There we go. Marvelous. Very good. Anyway, I wanted to start off talking about rockets today. You know as you do. We haven't talked about rockets on here for a long time, have we? And, it's not the sort of thing I normally do talk about. But I was speaking to you know, we had a guest on, and I in fact, he might be back with us, on Boxing Day next week, because obviously next week's show, and there will be one, is on Boxing Day. And I was talking to him earlier the week about a few other things, and we he got around to talking about Russian rockets. So I am assuming you've all seen this report. Was it about a week ago of this test that the Russians did of this rocket that's really rather quick? Have you seen this?
Pretty fast, this thing. Anybody seen that? You mean with the multiple warheads? I mean, the one that just goes like the bloody clappers. By the bloody clappers, I mean, MAC 27. You can go look it up, everybody. See how fast Mac 27 is. It's astonishingly fast. It's sort of stupid fast. It's 30,000 miles an hour or something or 24,000 miles an hour. I'm serious. This thing is just ridiculous. So they were saying that if if if mister Putin gets a bit cross and finally cannot show any more restraint, with us, whoever we mean by us, if he presses the button, it would be on London in under 8 minutes, and is literally unstoppable. There's nothing on earth that could stop it. So there you go. Anyway, I I got me thinking about that. And, I've mentioned here before and this is not necessarily a World War 2 show tonight, although you never know where we're gonna go with these things. That's what kinda makes it fun. But one of the books I mentioned at some point in the past, and we'll maybe look at it a bit more, is a book called The Chief Culprit by Viktor Suvorov. Now Suvorov was a defector. He scarpered over here, I think, when the wall came down, either just before or just after when all that sort of thing was going on. And he wrote a couple of books. The other one's the more famous one, and I can't even remember the title of it. But he followed up with this one called the chief culprit, Stalin's grand design to start World War 2, and Suvorov's ex Russian intelligence. Okay? So either this is a super psyop or it's really true. However, I think much of it's true because the factual information in it is pretty good. I just wanted to read everybody. I hope you're all sitting comfortably, or driving in a straight line or whatever you're doing. Chapter 8 is called and this is really interesting, and it's relevant to this rocket thing.
Stalin and the destruction of Soviet Strategic Aviation. Okay? And the first chapter and I'll I'll I'll re I'll sort of go over the rest ad libbing it from memory. It just says this is Stalin this is the opening part of the chapter. Stalin could have averted World War 2 with one stroke of his pen. He had many such opportunities. Here is one of them. In 1936, the Soviet Union developed the heavy, high speed, high altitude bomber TB dash 7, later re renamed p e 8. I hope you're all taking notes. There'll be a test later on, everyone. Here are some reviews of it. Air Force major general p Stefanovsky, test pilot of the TB 7, the multi ton ship surpassed in its flight capabilities at an altitude of 10 kilometers.
All the best European fighters of its time. Right? This is 1936. Now I'm not gonna read the rest of it. It's definitely a book worth reading if you're into this kind of stuff because much of it is about the logistics that are required to actually get a war up and running, and these things don't happen overnight as many of you are well aware. So we're talking 1936, and, what what that chapter talks about, this TB 7, the p e 8, there was a problem or there was an operating altitude for fighter planes and bombers based on the, physics of internal combustion engines driving those propellers.
So the higher the plane goes, the less oxygen there is in the atmosphere, the hotter the engine gets. It will get so hot if you keep trying to take it higher and higher that it just literally will stop. It can't work. It can't there's just nothing to to fuel it, literally. So they were always pushing to get these things to go as high as they possibly could. And there's a Russian engineer whose name's in this chapter, but I don't need to tell you what it is because I don't know I don't know his name. And, he came up with a he came up with a solution for this. And, what he did was he they built another engine, which they put in the fuselage of the bomber.
And they said from this engine, there were 4 pipes, 1 to each engine, 2 on each wing. These pipes carried cold air or oxygen directly over to the engine. And this other engine operated on maybe it was an electric engine or a generator, something like that. It was a different sort of air pump that he put on board this thing, which wasn't constricted by the lack of oxygen. So probably an electric pump of some sort. I I'm just recalling and making this up. You can go and check out the, the true details, but they got it to work. And what, what it meant was just as that first quote is that this thing could fly basically way way higher than any, allied plane could fly. This is 1936, okay, before all the naughtiness had started.
And, they built about 8 of them, and Stalin gave the order to build them, then recalled the order, then gave the order to build them again, then recalled it again, and this went to and fro several times. In the end, they as I said, they built about half a dozen of these things, and that was it. Now it wasn't a problem of manufacturing capacity at all. It was a tactical reason, and this is really fascinating, I think. Stalin had been building up this colossal army for quite a while. It takes quite a while to build up 6,000,000 men on the Polish border. You don't do that sort of stuff overnight. Years in the planning and in the making because, the the background to this is that Stalin was not supposed to be the guy in charge of Russia. It was supposed to be Trotsky.
Trotsky was the place man of the men in London of the city, and, Stalin turns up basically out of nowhere, starts killing everybody and just dominated the whole place, and that was that. He got too much allegiance from the heavy guys, and everybody had to watch themselves. So Trotsky didn't get in. And Stalin's they did they were a bit worried about Stalin because the idea that they had then, and and we're under this idea, the Trotsky idea, was to roll out communism culturally almost. Right? To absorb the west through cultural decay and to take your time. No rush. Stalin wasn't really into that. He was really into building the world's largest army as far as we know. I mean, it's pretty big. 6,000,000 men. Right? I don't know if there's ever been any armies bigger than that. So why didn't he build this plane?
Why didn't he build it? Because because he he he understood that if an in due course word would get out that they had this bomber, right, he wouldn't be able to start a war because there's no defense against it. And I think Suvorov mentions sort of creates a sort of, an imaginary picture. He said, imagine that Stalin invites all the world leaders to his dasher somewhere out in the backwards of Russia or wherever it was. You've got this huge field, and they're all having port and brandy or vodka or whatever they're doing. And then he he directs the attention of all the dignitaries to a field, say, about 5 miles away. So just have a look over there with you, and the whole thing just explodes. You wouldn't have heard anything. You wouldn't have seen anything. The whole thing just erupts because he sent some of these bombers over at a height you can't see or hear, that you can't detect. They're that high.
And so his reasoning or the tactical reasoning was, if they know I've got this, I can never get my war started because they won't start a war with us because we've got this weapon that's so advanced and beyond their capabilities of defending themselves. Get the drift? It's a bit odd, isn't it? I thought it was odd when I read it. But you sort of see through it. You go, ah, yeah. Makes complete sense. Well, so that's how they handle it then to get a war started. And when I saw this thing about the this rocket that they've got, I forgot the name of it, going absolutely like the clappers over 20,000 miles an hour or some ludicrous figure. I mean, it's just absolutely astonishingly fast in the Earth's atmosphere. This is not going out of it, whatever people might think about the Earth's atmosphere. I know people have got varying deep, differing opinions on that.
So I viewed it as a peace offering. Seriously. Going, what they're doing is they're saying, look. Look. We really don't want a war with you because we've got this, and you've done a stand the chat. We're gonna let you know that we've got it so that you'll come to your senses and just calm down a bit, and stop behaving like assholes. What do you think of my logic? Is it pathetic and stupid? Any any views, anyone, on that that line of thinking?
[00:27:41] Unknown:
Well, I think that Putin, he was I don't know whether he still is a member of the World Economic Forum. And I think he's in on it. I think he's part of the gang. And I think it's all contrived. So most of the news we're getting is pantomime views and misdirection and whatever, especially about UFOs and other nonsense like that. So I think it's all part of the fear porn. And what is said and what is done, they reckon that regarding Syria did you hear that rabbi talking that apparently, they're gonna got his word for it. Putin is actually on the phone with Israel, and it it was a deal they've done between each other. Was that true or not? I don't know. Wouldn't surprise me? It wouldn't surprise me. So Nothing would surprise me. Think that Putin, this war thing, I now believe that wars are basically, playing genocides because they're obsessed. It's a death cult we've got ruling us, with, killing people off. And that's that's and they want a war. That's what they're build building for. And I think that the planning behind the scenes with Putin and everybody else is, yeah, let's let's wipe out so many million more people. That's it.
So that's my feeling of it.
[00:28:57] Unknown:
Yeah. It's definitely got I mean, it's not a thought I've not had. I mean, I've I remember those pictures of Putin meeting up with all those guys running around in their silky costumes with some pictures painted. Oh, you remember those things from about 20 years ago? George Bush is in there. They're all pouncing around in some field looking gay as you know? And, you know, we're all masons and all doing this, that, and the other. And I've mentioned here, of course, before that there are there's photographic pictures. Well, there would be photographic, but there are photographs of Putin doing the, the power gen training under British Royal Arch Freemasonry in about 1981.
This is to do with Richard Tomlinson, all that Mi 5 stuff that came out in the mid to late nineties, which is seriously weird. And the websites that are linked to that are seriously weird and odd and touch upon these sort of occult or and I mean that in the sort of nasty sense of it. These dangerous sort of training practices they did, where trainees would die during the training, regularly, because they were put into situations where they were all well, they were, I think, taken to the point of death and then revived, and this psychologically changes you forever, probably makes you a super drone or something like that. I have no idea what, but a lot of very strange comments on those things. And this is to do with Putin's situation back then.
And, of course, we have to remember he was head of the secret service type thing, wasn't he? Yes. But I'm still I'm still fascinated by it because there's always been these reports of these colossally fast Russian missiles. There was an Australian research, and I forgot his name now. I was I couldn't remember it today, and I probably won't remember it tomorrow, but, an Australian guy used to do a lot of reports on advanced military hardware like this as sort of like the Mexican standoff in the world. Well, we've got this. Yeah. But we've got this. Yeah. And then next month, yeah. But they've got this, and they've got they've got that. So I've not seen any pictures of this rocket going, although there are some spectacular stuff. There is some spectacular stuff on YouTube of these sort of automatic firing, mob mobile rocket launches in Russia. I don't know if you've ever seen this stuff. It's it's like Iron Man. You know, the film Iron Man, it's literally like that. These things just come up vertically very slowly to a height of about 200 feet. Then they click you hear all these clicks and whistles. They turn horizontally and just shoot off parallel to the surface of the Earth at some colossal speed, and I'm going, it's so impressive, technically, and you're going, I hope there's not a war a warhead in that. Although, I accept that the idea of atomic weapons has a big question mark against it. This is something that's been coming up recently. People saying, do atomic bombs really exist? And I think, there is a lot of evidence suggest that, yet again, we are probably having the world pulled over our eyes with that stuff.
But, yeah, I just thought why would they let you know? Why would they let them know that if, you know of course, if you're right, Eric, and I I I tend to your view as well that this is all one big massive pantomime. Well, Vladimir, you're gonna be paying the bad guy for about four and a half years. Really? Yes. And then this is gonna happen. Because what's actually happening in the Ukraine is a brother's war, no different to World War 2. Not not at all. The Ukrainians and the Russians are basically the same people, aren't they, on the ground?
And yet the people in charge of the Ukraine are not let I'm just being tactful. They're not the same people, are they? There are different sorts of people. They're people with different plans and aims and goals, and they're they're not those people. They're not the ones that are out in the field having their heads blown off. And, I've forgotten what the actual casualty rate is in Ukraine, but it's pretty big. I don't know if it's near 6 figures yet, but it's it's a huge chunk of Ukrainian young men. And what will happen when they've all gone? Oh, hang on. There'll be a vacuum of men in there, and that'll be filled by some other tribes or something.
Call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't know. I don't know what to say, really.
[00:33:01] Unknown:
It's worse. The First World War, apparently, it's like a World War one situation. And Mhmm. There is not enough It's a meat grinder, isn't it? It's just a meat grinder. There's not enough meat here. Yeah. To, to to to make up the next generation. So the next generation is just wiped out. It's it's it's a it's a lost generation. Again, all by design. I really do believe that. And once they've run out of Ukrainians, guess who else they're gonna use? Our our sons and daughters and the rest of Europe's sons and daughters into the meat grinder. That's what I think the overall plan is probably going to be. But, regarding nuclear weapons, no. I I do question whether they exist. I think they are as real as, them landing on the the 3 or 2 men, rather, landing on the moon in 1969.
They didn't have the technology then, and they didn't have the technology for nuclear weapons. And people say, well, okay. What about, the, test they did where troops, are suffering now from cancers due to the radioactive fallout? Well, remember, they got injected with a load of toxic muck before the tests. And, of course, they can we can produce radiation. Yes. Temporarily. Because when they say, oh, radiation's deadly, look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There's people living there. Look at, at that place in Russia, Shoneville Shoneville, which I can never pronounce correctly.
There's animals living there. You can go and visit there if you want to. And it's completely wiped, completely deserted. And I remember at the time, I'm old enough to remember, I said, nothing will be able to live there for a 1000 years at least. But it is. You won't be able to go there for at least a 1000 years. People are going there. So I question it. Now as for nuclear power stations, I don't know how they work, but I I there are quite a few scientists that have written books now that say that to make a nuclear bomb is so complicated, we haven't got the technology.
We can probably do nuclear power station. We can't do techno nuclear bombs. So I I'm over minded about it.
[00:35:18] Unknown:
Yeah. I I I know enough to get my opinion bent this way and that at the moment. There is a good guy though with he's no longer alive. I I was looking him up yesterday. A pilot and then a scientist and researcher from New Zealand called Bruce Kathy, c a t h I e. Have you I don't know if you've ever heard of him. Bruce Kathy. His videos are still up. Someone's compiled a lot of them into, like, a 6 and a half hour monster, some of his lectures that were shot on videotape in the late eighties nineties. And Kathy, one of his presentations is about the sheer ludicrous complexity of getting an atomic bomb to fire, to actually go off, and it's to do with geolocations on the earth and timing. There's a lot of complicated physics that come into it. You can't just sort of drop one outside of the window, and it'll go off.
And that's a very compelling argument with a lot of sort of physics involved. So you need to have your sort of physics head on and be open to the idea of maybe learning a few things. They're not beyond the layman, but they do require a little bit of thought. He did some fantastic work on that. And, of course, there's, also Ray West over here, r a e, Ray West. His his main site is big dash lies dot org, which I actually love graphically as a site. I don't know if you ever been there. Bighyphenlies dot I think it's dot org or dot com. You'll find it. The the thing about the site is it's completely written in HTML, which might sound geeky for me to say that, but you'll know what I mean when you see it. It's just an absolute sea of text and links. It's quite brilliant in a way. It must be so exhausted to have put together.
But it it it links over to another site all about I think it's called Nuke Lies or no nukes or something like that, which is a, it doesn't seem to be such a thriving community now. But I think about 15 years or so ago, there were a lot of posters in there, you know, when the during the forum age of the Internet. And, a lot of people talking about the sheer almost impossibility of getting these things to fire off. So we've been lied to about everything else. And you just mentioned the moon landings as well. Somebody sent me a a little clip today, which is unplayable really. You know, people put these clips together, and they keep putting this gawky bloody mood music in the background. It really drives me crazy. I wanna hear what people are saying. I like music. I like talking. But when they mix them together to create some kind of heavy impression, I can't take it too seriously. However, this was of a guy who's died relatively I think he died just a couple of years ago. I don't know from what. It wasn't about that. He was talking about his father being in, an air force base in 1968 and 69 and, had had to remain silent about this his entire life. He passed in 2,002, and had told his son this. And his his son was ill, so he said, now I can say this to the camera because my dad wanted to say it to me. And he was talking about masses of cement and sand that were in these 2 aircraft hangars out at this US Air Force Base, where they basically recreated and shot and filmed all the moon landings. That was the location for them. They also had the moon buggy. Remember that thing? How did they get out there? Yes. Yes. All that kind of stuff. And
[00:38:37] Unknown:
wasn't it amazing how the soil that was thrown up by the wheels dropped to the moon's surface at the speed of gravity? Isn't that amazing? Yes. I know.
[00:38:47] Unknown:
I know.
[00:38:49] Unknown:
How do they do it? I know. But everything else was one six g apart from the apart from all the dust that's being thrown up. Mhmm. Thanks for that, isn't it? And why can't we do it again?
[00:39:01] Unknown:
What's that, Patrick? Why can't we do it again?
[00:39:04] Unknown:
Can we we don't have the compute we don't have the computing power, apparently.
[00:39:08] Unknown:
No. They lost all the plans. Yeah. The first time in history, they've lost the plans. So it's a bit like,
[00:39:14] Unknown:
Henry Ford, back in the model t Ford. They make a few, and suddenly, we can't make any more, fellas, because we lost all the planes. You know, it's done there. Can't find them. What have you done with the memory? I don't I don't know. I went I went for my breakfast. There I was. Maple syrup, pancakes, sausages. I was talking to the chief engineer. We looked around. They're all gone. Really? Yeah. Well, they must not make it like they
[00:39:36] Unknown:
used to. Just just like automobiles used to be so much so much more classier and so so much, so much less complication in as far as computers and electronics.
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Mhmm. Spot on. There's a there's a fellow around where I live that, has a a Chevy, 1952, I think it is. The early fifties. And he's doing it up. Where he got it from, I don't know. I mean, it's a left hand drive. Because there's a lot of there was a lot of American Air Force bases sort of in Essex and that. And a lot of the Americans brought their vehicles over. They shipped them over. I think the you probably know now about this, Paul or Patrick. But I think they had a deal or something where they could actually get the vehicles over. Well, when they went back home, it it was a bit more expensive. So they used to sell all the vehicles off cheap. So there's lots of Brits walking around in American cars.
But, unfortunately, there's such gas guzzlers that, you know, our our fuel over here is so expensive compared with America where it was that, you know, very few people could afford them. But when you look at this Chevy, I was behind it the other day, it's a work of art. It really is a work of art. Beautiful. You know, everything's solid that looks it is built solid. Somebody sat down with a pencil and designed it. You know? It's the pencil, Eric.
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It's the the pencil's the killer app. It's the pencil and the pen and the human ear with the pencil stuck behind it. That sound? Yeah? Oh, the white coat? Remember the white coat? Was it a white coat, didn't they? They had a white coat with all their sleeves rolled up and men pouring over it with slide drills and some of them smoking pipes as they're long on stage. They hadn't tap on the tip. This is wrong, Brian. This is not gonna work. That kind of stuff. Just marvelous. It is. It's you just go, yeah. Look. We don't want all this. I don't want you all work it out. I want some blokes to work it out with pencil, and we want this guy to shave some bits of wood to show you what the wing's gonna look like. So there's this attempt to create a moving thing that is a little bit more than just, a fridge on wheels, which is really all they are now. They're basically they're just to keep the contents fresh and safe upon arrival. They're tedious, very boring sorts of things.
Whereas I remember when I saved you know, I was of course, Eddie. I was one of the few people in Yorkshire who could actually afford all the petrol because my first car was a 4 liter Chevy. And, my yeah. Yeah. And my dad said, how are you gonna afford to put petrol in that? I said, I don't know. That's a very good question. It was a very good question. I know I won't drive it that much, and that's basically what happened. I couldn't drive it as much as I would like. But when I did, I was very happy. Big old thing, beautiful, and makes all the right sounds. There's a sort of visceral connection with all the engineering that blokes get. It's a bloke thing, I guess. You know you know, women are gonna go, oh, it's all oily and dirty. Go, yeah. That's what's great about it. That's what we like.
We really like all that stuff.
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Well, I worked with a bloke who works in Canada for a long time. Contract bloke like the rest of us, and he bought a Trans Am, and it got it had it shipped over. It's left hand dry. Yeah. And this thing, you could actually feel the the floor sort of almost vibrating when you were next to it. It's lovely sort of floating sounds of a v 8. And hang on. I'm not sure it's a v 8 or v 16, but my god didn't it go. It was it was beautiful.
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The sound of a I love it all. It's all silly and blokey. It it is. It really is. I mean, I've got a I don't know whether he's got one now. We we had some friends. I I think we still have them, but we'd have some friends up in London. And, he was in the building game, and he was really good. Great guy. And, he was really into Americana. They used to take their holiday every year in, what's that big place in Carolina? I don't know whether it's north or south. They used to go to, some great place. I'm like, it's completely run out of my head.
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Say that again. Was it a beach?
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It might have been. But on the Atlantic? Yeah. Could have been. Maybe. I don't know. There's somewhere they used to go all the time and love it. And all their furniture in their house was American furniture. They used to ship it in. Like so I remember seeing the bed, not that I was nursing around there. You know, I count the leeward there and the the I said, how big is that bloody bed? It was enormous. And, of course, it was massively overbuilt, which I liked even more. Huge amounts of wood in it. But he what what's this really expensive super truck that you guys stupidly buy? The Ford, what's it, f 150 or something? What are those things, Patrick? Do you know about these things? Go up, you know, f f 250, 350,
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650.
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And they're not inexpensive, are they? They're quite a pricey bit of kit, aren't they, these days? Well, he has those. He has those. That's what he has. He ships those in because he likes in London to drive. It's like driving a tank around. Yeah. Yeah. The turning circle is just a joke in London. You need a little London cab or you need a little mini in London, but now he liked those things. I completely understood why. They're kind of a it's an experience to just get one of these things. So Yeah. For a smart car in the back in the bed. Yeah.
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Can you imagine can you imagine the film bullet with Steve McQueen with him driving an electric car?
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Just Well, just making that little swish sound as the as the rubber goes across the road. Yeah. I know. So
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no. I actually wouldn't be powerful enough for that, would it? Just go that's all you do.
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Because We do get we do get around to talking about cars quite a bit, but I do think they're relevant, actually. I think they're kind of I mean, there was a clip I came across today, which would have been useless because really you needed to see the video footage because it was translated. It was of these, another one that I've seen. I think I've mentioned it here before. Going over to battery cars. I forgot what country it was. It might be Nigeria or somewhere like that. These young lads, young, 5 8 years of age, right, talking to the camera about their daily work, getting this crap out of the ground to make these shitty batteries for these crap useless dangerous battery cars.
Right? It was heartbreaking. Really, it's just completely not on. And all these environmental people need to see that. What about the environment for these people? It was absolutely horrific. This little lad 5 said my mom died, and I have to do this, and I hate it, and I'm scared every day, and I have to go into this black pit, and it's just horrific. And he was quite an articulate little lad. You could see. He wasn't he'd not been grand down by life just then. The 8 year old would have been was a bit more. He looks a lot lot older than his years because of what they're aiming to do. This is out of order, this stuff. It's completely not on for a technology that's useless. I mean, seriously, it's absolutely useless. We I again, you know, I'm banging on about it. I walked I walked up down the beach every day. I have to look at this £14,000,000 of wind park joke stuck out in the sea.
I mean, it's just yeah. And it's there. It's completely destroyed the natural beauty of the sea lion because it would. Right? They're junk. They're hardly ever turned on because there's so much wind that comes down the South Coast if it gets around the Isle of Wight that they can't turn them on. Yeah. They're ugly.
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I remember going out to the Black Forest and and Yep. And walking up the hills and seeing these ugly windmills, and and it's just ridiculous. So they and they get rid of their coal the coal plants and the the nuclear plants, and it's supposed to all be replaced by windmills and
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solar and and these other things. It's all a bit much. It is. It is. It's it's a terrible sort of thing, but, yeah. So still not happy about the car thing, particularly as all the solutions exist as we've mentioned here before, but we can't apply them because someone else has stepped in. And, no, we're going to solve your problems with electrical power. Actually, that's not really solving any problems. No. It is environment environment, carbon carbon carbon.
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Default. And that's part of the reason you have a war right now between Russia and Ukraine. They're the area that Donbas is in is is one of the most rich coal areas in in, Europe. Mhmm. And not only that, you have all of these blast furnace furnaces for making steel and iron. And how are you gonna do that? How are you how are you gonna smelt iron ore using wind power? It's such a waste.
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I know. Yeah. Well, Britain apparently has 400 years of coal. 400 years of coal or more underneath the surface. And what what they did That's just in Wales.
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That's just in Wales, Eric. That little the little sort of intro, the pre show track that I play, because I like it, kinda gets me in the mood by public service broadcasting. It's something I think there will always be coal. Well, there will, but there will be if we if we don't use it. It's amazing stuff. I mean, it's just oh god. Anyway, don't get me started. Although I'm permanently started with this stuff. It's, we're not allowed to solve our own problems because somebody else, our betters, apparently know how to solve it properly, which, of course, they don't because they're a totally hijacked group of people.
They're hijacked to this global, you know, what is it, interdependence nonsense that they've designed to stop all your nations warring. We wouldn't war if people like you weren't around. And, of course, this stuff just never seems to end. It's it's it is like gangs at school sort of trying to control things and smashing it all up at the same time. Nobody really benefits. I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious for the 10000th time, but, you know, sometimes you have to, I guess. But, yeah. By the way, just if you're in the Rumble chat, I've just put the link through, to the article to add the video footage that I can't really play.
It's from, yes, the daily mail, daily mail dot co dot u k. But the link's in the Rumble chat for those of you who wanna go and check it. And, it's just word re worth reading the article. The reason for putting it in is I really think we need to get on the case of these battery people. All of these incidents with these battery cars, they keep on getting forgotten. Oh, what a surprise. Like, there was that one with that massive sort of, that, freight cargo ship where, like, 100 of them burned. You remember seeing that one couple of years ago? Electrical fires starts in the hole, just burnt the inside, like, 100 of them. And then what happened was at Luton Airport, Eric. Do you remember that about 2 or 3 years ago? Yes. It was a massive fire at Luton Airport.
No mention of that. No mention of that at all. No. No batteries, batteries, batteries. And, of course, they're putting all these electrical connection points in, and they're just another mess and more street clutter and street architecture and junk that we don't need. So, yeah, stick with petrol. I don't care.
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Petrol was a byproduct. They they were used to throw it away. They didn't know what to do with it. And the first vehicles were diesel, made up to run on peanut oil, believe it or not. Yeah. And, then they sort of decided to use this petrol stuff. But they say, oh, electric cars were around in the 1900, and there was more electric cars around than there were petrol ones. Well, the reason petrol won out was because it's so more efficient. I mean, fine. I mean, electric cars are fine if you just wanna go to 10 miles down the road and do down the shops or to pick up the children or or whatever you wanna do like that local. And I haven't got a problem with it. But if you wanna go a great distance, forget it if you got an electric, guys. It's not, mate. It's it's not for that.
Yeah. It's re you know, it's bonkers. And they can't see that. I mean, the range is what? Some you're lucky if you get 100 miles, and you have to wait for about 3 hours for it to charge. If you're lucky, you have to find a charging spot. So
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bonkers Okay. Yeah. Battery cars. That's what they're not electric cars. They're battery cars. The the weak point in them is and the control point is the battery tech, and that's what they're all geared up to. I suppose Musk would not be didn't Musk invest huge amounts in some battery manufacturing plant somewhere in the States a couple of years ago to make huge amounts of batteries? Yeah. There's something going on there with all that kind of stuff. So it's always worth going back to these things and touching upon them and, you know, hey ho. So don't come around to my house in a bloody electric car, a battery car, I mean, to get my language right. Don't want that.
Very, very silly vehicles. We don't like them. Old smelly vehicles, Volvos in particular, much appreciated. Let's let's just rub their noses in it everywhere we can. Anyway, moving over to something this is just a brief one, but this is a good update. Sam Melia, who you who we've mentioned here before, but we've not we've not focused massively on Sam Melia. We're I'm totally sympathetic, empathetic to his situation. And for Lara, his wife, As you know, he put some stickers up, saying it's okay to be white, which, of course, is, worse than murdering people apparently these days according to the completely compromised and communist overthrown judiciary system over here. But, somebody called Darren Grimes, who I think is a a reporter on GB News, not that I'm a watcher, but you never know. You can never tell with these things.
A post from him, new Sam Melia was banged up for 2 years for distributing downloadable stickers. He's now back with his children and wife just in time for Christmas. That's fantastic. So very, very pleased for him. Just let everybody know who didn't yeah. He is. He's great. He's really, really good. He deserved none of that. But, of course, he's a warning shot to the rest of us. We don't want you putting stickers up and asserting your racial identity. You can't do that because you're about to be overthrown and thrown into the bin you lot, so don't start getting uppity about it.
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Yeah. And and even if you disagree with the the notion of standing up for your race, at at least you, you know, that there used to be that notion as as I may not agree with you, but I'll fight to the death so that you have the freedom of speech to say what you want and believe what you want. That used to be the old liberal notion, and that's just simply It did.
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Freedom of speech. Do you remember that, Eric, around here, freedom of speech? Do you remember that?
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No. Because well, I do I do remember, though, was when I was a kid, and it was the wartime generation around things, people always said, oh, don't worry. We live in a free country. You can say what you want. Do you remember that? And then when that generation died, that statement died with them.
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You never hear that. You can't Yeah. That's true. To a great degree, you're absolutely right. Yep. Well, the the reality of the matter is your your speech isn't really free unless you're speaking the truth. Mhmm. And Right. That what is truth ends up being the the problem. And if you conflict with powerful people, then you're gonna have problems if if they don't believe in the truth themselves, and it's just a matter of profits and money that speaks pow you know, power is you know, what it truth becomes the opinion of the powerful at a certain point. And that's the case that we deal with every day, especially in the current media that we consume, most people consume, as it's becoming more easy for them to distribute their their lies and propaganda as, you know, the Internet is an example of that.
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Yes. Yeah. It is. Some, wanted to play a silly thing. You ready for a silly thing? Yeah. This is, what's this silly thing? It's about 40 seconds long. British company launches I don't know if you've heard this. It's quite British company launches an AI granny that talks with scammers so as to waste their time. Heard of this? Yeah. I I forget where I saw that. I think I posted that in your chat. Did you? Well, that's cool. Well, kudos to you or wherever I go. I've got it from Zoomers IRL, but listen to this. I think it's about here we go. It's about a minute long. Just listen. Here's AI Granny, and I could probably do with one of these at home.
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Scammers, I'm your worst nightmare. I'm an AI created by 02 to waste phone scammers' time. So w then a dot. 3 times w and then dot. I think your profession is bothering people. Right? I'm just trying, to have a little chat.
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It's nearly been an hour for the last
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Gosh. How time flies. It's showing me a picture of my cat, Fluffy. It's showing you a picture of your cat, Fluffy. Stop calling me dear, you stupid Got it, dear. Because while they're busy talking to me, they can't be scamming you. And let's face it, dear, I've got all the time in the world.
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There you go. Isn't that fun?
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Do you remember that American? I was good in it. Yeah. I was just like that. Bloke. You said all you do is you just say yes. So everything they say, they just say yes. So can I have your credit card number, please? Yes. Or can I have the number then? Yes. I just have to say nothing, but yes. And eventually, she gets so paid off. They give up.
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Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. We might not start doing that. Yes. So there you go. My maybe that's the first sort of reasonably funny and useful application of AI that I've I've heard, the super automated robot thing is pretty good. I quite liked that. Just a series of clips. I said we're bombing around a bit. Got another one here. Completely disconnected with this. You know that, Bint? I think that is the correct technical term for her. What's she called? What's her first name? Vondelion. What's her first name again? Can't remember.
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Oh, that Betty. Betty. Betty.
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Betty. And this is, sorry. It's disrespectful to Betty's everywhere. I had an auntie Betty. She was lots of fun. Bettie fond of lying, I call her, or whatever her real name is. Rather humorless. Yeah. Here's here is one minute of her just being a w e f monkey. It's just and I just love the sort of double speak. And here, here we go. This is about vaccines, everyone. Isn't it fun?
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A better world also means a healthier world, and vaccination is our best chance to do this. Vaccines have saved millions of lives in the past 50 years. But right now, millions of children are still at risk. They need vaccines. So we must continue to support vaccination around the world. And today, I am pleased to pledge $290,000,000 for Gavi, the vaccine alliance. Each child should be protected. And more will come. Together with Gavi, we have the goal to vaccinate 500,000,000 children by 2030. Europe will do its fair share. You can count on us, my friends.
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Yay. We can count on them, can't we? We can at least count on them to do I just remembered what her first name is. It's Arceula, isn't it? Arce Arceula.
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It
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is. It's Arceula from the flying. Isn't that her name? Arceula. It is. I'm sure it's. Yeah. Yeah. But they found it wasn't appropriate. So they changed it to.
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Bill Gates. Isn't Bill Gates tied to the Gabby thing? What does that all
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You remember? I don't know. Some alliance. $290,000,000 for Gavi, g a v. Gates Alliance for vaccinating individual. I don't know what it stands for. Just make it up. It's an acronym. You know? You know? I said, yeah.
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Now cry later, I guess, because, you got you got the same crowd in in power right now. You have Donald Trump who started the vax you know, he basically got the ball rolling with the whole COVID thing. He could have shut it down and said, nope. Buck stops here, just like Harry Truman did when he took office back after World War 2 or during World War 2. Yeah. We're in kind of a dire situation if you think about it in that regard.
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Well, we are. I mean, it's not, obviously, it's not really to do with vaccines or the complete lack of, efficacy of them or anything. It's just to do with mind control. It's, again, we're down to this root problem everywhere that people have been trained and understandably, regressively, therefore, huge numbers of people believe this guff. I mean, I thought the really telling sound from that clip was the applause from the from the crowd. Right. They're going, wow. So if you just give me a name of all of them, I'll make sure I never ever meet you in my life ever. I mean, at least we could say that this is a good thing, that these gatherings of these people, at least it keeps them all together in one space. If we can just sort of run a fence around them when they're all gathered up and get them sectioned in there for a while Send the coordinate. That would help.
Yeah. Here, Vlad. Send one of those high speed rockets. Why not do a test right here, like, now? We'll we'll be there in 5 minutes. Yeah. That's that's the point. Go on. Give it a go. Make the world a better place. It's, it's tragic, though. I mean, my sort of venal silly comments aside, but not that silly. It is it still remains a tragedy that we've got so many people who do understand that they're a tragic lost cause at the moment. Anyway, maybe there is still hope for them, but I've no idea where they're gonna get it from to recover. I mean, you can't I don't know whether they paid to go to this thing to see us stand up and talk bullshit.
Maybe they did or they just but they actually use their time to go and listen to this complete insane stuff. Well, my guess is
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they're all they're all paying tithes to an organization that they, you know, that they've got money on the line. Mhmm. They're the they're the shareholders Yeah. Of this thing.
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Anyway, we know it's coming up to Christmas, and I know I played this Christmas song last week, the one by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers. But since then, there has been a reply. So you remember I played that song, freezing this Christmas? I'm gonna play it again because the Labour Party have come out with a countersingle, which I'm gonna play after this one. So I'll remind you of the old one that we're gonna take a little break. It'll run for about 4 minutes. This one's about 3 minutes and 16 seconds. And then the labor response is a mere 45 seconds or something because they really wanted to get to the point. So we're gonna take a little break for a few minutes. We'll have this nice Christmas song, highly relevant, and, we'll be back after this, everyone.
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Trying to imagine
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a house that's full of cold. Try to imagine being 18 years old. That's where I'll be since care left me. I wish tears could heat my home. What can I do Christmas? While Keir Star is warm, it'll be cold, so cold. We'll have few at home this Christmas.
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And she told me she doesn't get out of bed till midday because she didn't want to tell me it's a good time. Each time
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I remember
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I've paid taxes
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all my life. I cry as I wonder. Will I make it? Will my wife? I just break down as I look around. And the only things I see are foreign walls and open doors and the freezing away pea. It'll be freezing this Christmas while the money at home this Christmas.
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We inherited a situation where there was a £22,000,000,000 black hole in the public finances.
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Do you remember last year when Rishi was here? We never thought there'd be an end. I don't remember looking at you then. I don't remember thinking that next Christmas, things won't be this bad for us. But, darling, this year, things are even worse. I mean, we really we really need warmth. And 2 tiered gear doesn't care there at all.
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It'll be freezing this Christmas without fuel at home. It'll be freezing this Christmas while Keirste Harbour's warm. It'll be cold so cold without fuel at home, this Christmas.
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Merry Christmas, Kier. I hope you can sleep at night. Yeah. Merry Christmas, everyone. Me doing the DJ thing. That was, yeah, that was from last week. Now here's the labor party with their 42nd reply.
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Farmers falling all around me, pensioners shivering, having fun. It's the season, not for our Muslim voters. Merry Christmas, everyone. We're gonna have a party tonight. I'm gonna find lord Ali underneath the mistletoe. We'll kiss by candlelight. Merry Christmas, everyone. Now my polling collapsing all around us. I'm gonna find Lord Ally underneath the mistletoe. Get me out of losing my job. Merry Christmas, everyone.
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Brilliant, And, which one was best? It's, it's difficult. I I thought they were both really rather brilliant. But, yeah, that's another little sort of skit that's shooting around on the interwebs as a sort of response. Yeah.
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Yes. Yes. But, I've actually found I know it's the same in America, but, wherever you go, you're you're sort of getting a kind of eardrum communism. And I was out shopping yesterday, and I've I've got the, Bumbo Christmas junk music ear defenders, you see, and you stick them in, your ears, and it blots out Slade singing Christmas tune, and that wings. And then it's, oh, it's Christmas. I actually hate those 2 so much. They make me feel physically sick. I have to run out the shop. I can't eat. I don't wanna hear them. I mean, it's it's it's it's like a kind of torture. How do people work with it going pipe through all the time? And now they've got it in the local supermarket. And so we've creamsmith.
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And I mean I like your version better, Eric. If you could do a recording like that day. I'd I'd gone for that.
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So is it the same in America, Paul and Patrick? You know, do you get eardrum communism? Or, because Spike Milligan tried started, an action group, didn't he, called Pipe Down, or he supported it, where they wanted people to turn pipe music off. And it worked for a while, and then suddenly everybody's forgotten about it. So, over to you, fellas. What what's it like in America? Do you get eardrum some people call eardrum fascism or eardrum communism? So, you know, it's dreadful over here. Yes? Silence courtesy of what do I say next? Yes. I don't know.
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And probably you don't get it. I I'll tell you what, Eric. I was, yeah, I don't I don't know if the slide thing. Now when did that first come out? 1970 something or other. 74, I think it was. Yes. I think it was. Came out, it was quite exciting and fun. But now that's 50 years that they've been blasting this into people's heads. By the way, I just because I'm so keen on the charts and what's really popular in popular music and not, I was just trying to find out if that, one by the granny harmer stoma thing, the first one, freezing this Christmas, actually was number 1. But according to the official singles charts, whatever that is, which is at officialcharts.com, very exciting, everybody. I know you'll probably be blasting over there as fast as you possibly can go.
The official UK singles chart reflects the UK's biggest songs of the week, whatever biggest means, based oh, it says based on audio and video streams, download CDs, and vinyls compiled by the official charts company. So, top, number 1 is last Christmas by Wham. Didn't they play that last Christmas? Didn't they play that last Christmas? And they'd pray the Christmas before. It's always about last Christmas with them. It's not about this one. So I have no idea what the All I Want for Christmas is You by Maria Carey is at number 3. You've heard all of these before. Rocking Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee. That's actually quite nice that. I like that. I do like that one. Yes. Do you like it? Yeah. I like that one. Yes. But the way that Maybe maybe we could play a lot of Christmas songs on Boxing Day next Thursday. Well, I might even play for you today, really, you know, just to make you all puke a bit, because why not? I don't see why I should have to suffer alone. We can make every we can share our suffering with everybody else.
Somebody called Tom Grennan has, was obviously very confused, has got a song called It Can't Be Christmas. Well, it is Tom. It is, you dingbat. It is Christmas. Fairy tale of New York, which I love. That's absolutely brilliant. I really love that. What what I find
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ironic is that a lot of these Christmas songs are written by people who don't celebrate Christmas.
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Yes. Mhmm.
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Yes. There is that. In fact, fairy tale of New York, I'm gonna play later on, and that's because I've got such a soft spot for Kirsty McCall, who's sadly no longer with us. But, I absolutely I thought Kirsty McColl was the bee's knees, very, very witty lady, and that's always a genuinely, I thought, wonderful. And, of course, what's his name? Who's the head of the pokes? He he shuffled off this model coil, didn't he, recently? The guy who who basically had lost most of his teeth. The Yeah. He he he really conformed to the archetypical Irish drunken poet, I mean, like, on steroids. And, isn't it? I I like it anyway. It's not the sort of thing I ever thought I would like, but it's that contrast in her sweet voice and his rough growling whiskey soaked thing.
And, yeah, it's it's sentimental, and I'm a sucker for sentimentality every now and again. So there you go. You found that a thing. Anyway, I haven't got a station ID for a bit, so I'll just do one verbally. You're here listening to Paul English Live. Main site's Paul English Live dotcom, but we're going out, obviously, on wbn324. We're here every Thursday, 3 PM to 5 PM US Eastern, 8 PM to 10 PM in the UK. And we often chunder on a a little bit longer on Rumble if you just can't get enough of us. And really, you shouldn't be able to get enough of us because this is just should be the highlight of your week, possibly. Well, maybe not. But there we go. So, yeah. So the charts are very interesting. Christmas magic, snowman.
It's beginning to look look a lot like Christmas by my Michael Buble, Mickey Bubbles, isn't that his name, or something like that? Merry Christmas, everyone, by Shaking Stevens. There you go. That's probably made you sugared sugar a little bit, Eric, I would have thought. Yes. Oh, Andy Williams is in there with It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
[01:13:26] Unknown:
Ah, ah, now that is something that I went down to the local supermarket. It's like a superstore. And, it was people's people said, go Christmas Eve, it's empty. So I thought, oh, I'll do I'll do that. It wasn't. It was absolute chaos. And people are falling over themselves to get the money off items, you see, because they're gonna close it today. And it was like the siege of Stalingrad is get about to begin, you know, pit with supermarket trolleys for that. And some poor sod collapses. And there's people stepping over him as this bloke's collapsed to get the money off items, and the staff have to put sort of, like, trolleys round him to protect him. And all the time, he kept Al G Williams singing over over the over the, the, what do you call it? Over the speakers there.
It's the most wonderful time of the year. So this and it was really surrealistic. Just, oh, collapse. It's the most wonderful time of the year. A bit of fighting though for each other to get the money off items. And I'd really sort of almost well, it wasn't punch wasn't punches, but it was almost, don't you push, mate. I'm not shoving you. And this is all it does is Paul Sartre laid on the ground. He's glad. Oh, man. It's the most wonderful time of the year. So I like that funny.
[01:14:49] Unknown:
It's like the Star Wars bar scene with Christmas music.
[01:14:53] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. It was so false. It's so Oh, people do behave so well when there's a bargain around, don't they? Actually, most over here, you know, they mainly do, Actually, I have no idea why people are so keen on bargains. Everything seems to be not too bad price, or am I just sort of I mean, the price has been going up with everything, but they don't seem to behave badly when there's these sort of sale things on. I I haven't seen it. I've seen some of the footage of things in Walmart and stuff where there's literally a stampede, and they're all grabbing those large TVs and all that kind of stuff. But it's not every day, is it? Bless them. And they get so excited about getting some stuff.
As Hyundai's combust,
[01:15:31] Unknown:
they just combust. They're they're they're they're they're closing the local one, and they're selling stuff off. When I went there, it's probably more now, 20% off. But I shouldn't really say this, but I found that when I I calculated out, I looked at the Energizer batteries, 20% off. I could buy them cheaper, somewhere else even though they they said 20% off. So Right. Must have been very expensive from the start up, but there's nothing they already wanted. You know? It's sort of I don't know. You know? It's, I don't know whether they've gone bust or not, but they've just had it refurbished about a month, 2 months before beforehand, and now they're closing it down, which seems a hell of a waste. It's it's a must be a cute situation. I I don't know what's going on. Weird.
But that I thought it was because I know they were taken over by an Australian firm, and we had loads of, summer products being sold in the winter. Because nobody had told their management that in the northern hemisphere, it's winter, and in the southern hemisphere, it's summer. So we so you had to, like, in the middle of winter, you had barbecues and all this stuff being sold. And it's actually freezing cold outside. Oops.
[01:16:50] Unknown:
But,
[01:16:51] Unknown:
the other one was, wasn't it? Asda was taken after over by Walmart, and they had a greeter in the an old boy that greeted people. As people walked in the shop, who is who is this silly old So what the deal it was because it's not part of our culture. I don't know whether they have them in America. Do they do they have greeters in supermarkets, Patrick? Do you know?
[01:17:14] Unknown:
Yeah. They do. They they have, greeters at at, like Walmart and all these other places. Oh, what did that go, Rhea? I'm missing out on all this, Christmas music because I hardly ever go out to these supermarkets shopping. It's just, I I don't know. Maybe I'm just
[01:17:31] Unknown:
out of it, not not, out out of the loop, out of the Christmas loop. Is it me? Wham. Oh, it sounds like a description of an elephant breaking wind. Actually, you know, with so I'm with Wham. No. Is that really a bit different elephant bucketing wind? Yeah.
[01:17:47] Unknown:
Well, who is that? George I got the opportunity to I got the opportunity to insult someone about WAM the other day. And whenever I get an opportunity like that, I always take it up, of course. And, so there was someone who'd not been watching she said, don't tell me what happened with Strictly. This is shorthand for Strictly Come Dancing. I said, well, there's not much chance of that as I've never watched it in my life. Is this that dancing nonsense? I said in my sort of hoity way. Said, don't you watch it? I said, no. I'm a man. We don't watch things like that. She said, oh, no. She said, this girl anyway, you mustn't tell me because I want to know who's won. I said, there's no chance at all. So, of course, she realized that I was absolutely repulsed by the idea that she even watched. She said, oh, well, she said after that, there's a whole biography about George Michael. I said, mhmm. I won't be watching that either.
It's great. She said, are you sort of teasing me? I said, yes. Yes. That's exactly right. That's what I'm doing. Yes. You shouldn't be watching such filthy rotten stuff. Can't you find some good documentaries about particle physics or something and learn something useful? So, anyway, that's just me being a snooty git, but, we're always good for you. Feminine or not. Wake me up. No. We don't do any of that around here. We're British. Yeah. I've I've got I take extra at this time of the year, one has to take extra amounts of British stiff upper lip tablets to make sure that you keep your yourself, you know, in shipshape audition and don't get sucked into all that piffle of nonsense. Yeah. It's it's exhausting.
I mean, I do real I real what's that, Paul?
[01:19:18] Unknown:
Eric, be nice because I know exactly what flashed behind his eyeballs when you said stiff upper lip tablets.
[01:19:29] Unknown:
I don't have a blanket. Steady, everybody.
[01:19:34] Unknown:
This is a family show, although you have to be 18 to listen to it.
[01:19:39] Unknown:
So it's for a family of 18 year olds and above. Yeah. But it is. Well, have we, did by the way, have you seen La Peta Mime yet? The the that marvelous that marvelous film?
[01:19:49] Unknown:
No. I'm actually I'm saving it for Christmas day. I thought it would be inappropriate in keeping with the spirit of the season, don't you think? Yeah? Oh, that's that's right. Yes. Well, actually,
[01:19:59] Unknown:
I went with a girl so I used to have a girlfriend that was keen on dancing.
[01:20:02] Unknown:
Oh, it's all coming out now. Come on. I I'm I'm, allergic to dancing.
[01:20:07] Unknown:
I come from a long line of non dancers. My father never ever danced with my mother. I only saw it once. He danced once. You're a pro. Experience. She had to dance with her brothers, because he said no. Yes. And I'm to say, because he always said that it's only women and poofs that dance, but men don't dance.
[01:20:28] Unknown:
I like the sound of your dad.
[01:20:30] Unknown:
Oh, yes. No. So and when I went out with this girl, she wants to take me to dancing classes. And he said took me to one side and said, you're not one of them, are you? So, anyway, she dragged me along. I see Grease. It was it was being shown for the umpteenth time because I had a rerun of it. And I saw the first, I think it was minute, and then slept flow through the whole film. Later on, it was on television, and exactly the same. I slept through the whole film. So I've never I've I've Greece has been played, but I've never actually seen the film because I always slept through it because I found it so boring. I saw 11 Newton John. That sort of woke me up a bit. Oh, that's she's nice and off I win. You know?
Mhmm. But, no. It's it's it's funny. I did though I did get dragged along to dancing classes, and, it was a big you see, I don't know why it's because I'm left handed, but when they say go left, I go right. When they say go right, I go there. And they play this strange tune called get off my bloody foot. I've never heard of it before. So I was playing this music. I said, what is it? She said, get off my bloody foot. And I thought, I've never I've never heard that record. Have you heard of it? These dad jokes are the best.
[01:21:45] Unknown:
I can't remember this.
[01:21:47] Unknown:
I tell you what, because it's Yeah. I'd stumbled and fell. To save myself, I put my head on the radiator, and my hand got on the dirt at the back of the radiator, and she had a nice white frog on. I just dance. Well, she was. I wasn't. I can't dance. I unfortunately, it's all fingermarks all the way around the back of her knife. That was the end of that relationship. So, anyway, that that's another story. But, yes, I am to dancing what Cyril Smith was to hang gliding, I think. Yes. The world's worst dancer.
[01:22:27] Unknown:
The rhythm does I don't know. I'm kind of ambivalent about dancing. There is a sort of the modern stuff is just all silly. But when I see, I'm gonna go nostalgic here for a period I didn't even live in. I've got this perception. This the whole idea of courting after the war or even before it, after World War 2, the fact that the all the blokes are generally in suits, usually with great baggy trousers, particularly after World War 2, I just think gentsuits from, like, 46 through to 56, that kind of period, just Yeah. Brilliant. They're really, really good. Guys look good in them. There's lots of rummage for your scrimmage and all that kind of stuff. It's you know what I mean? Well, it is. It's kind of it disguises things. It's not vulgar. It's great. It's all about allure I agree with you. And hiding things, and this is better. This is way, way better. And, of course, if a bloke's dressed like that, then the women obviously have to outdo the guys, and they do, and they look fantastic.
And it's ex I I I love that. I think that that sort of romanticize, whatever people may wanna think, of course, if you're gonna battle in variety club or something, you know, getting covered in pale ale, it's not quite the same thing. Of course, it was like that for a lot of people, but the attempt to do it was great. And I think my mom and dad met at a tea dance. No one was drinking any beer. They all used to go dancing after 12 because nobody drank. They wanted me to be able to dance properly. They don't have to get drunk. You couldn't remember the steps. Rather a quaint idea, isn't it?
It is. But there's there's something there's something dignified about it, and and I kind of like it. I think the only dance the the dancing that I always wanted to do, which is ludicrous. You know, what's that Spanish dance? Is it the Paso Doble? Is it that one? Where the where the guys the woman is like, she's a long way away from him on the dance floor, relatively speaking. And he stands still like either the matador or the bull or he maybe he's the bull. I don't know.
[01:24:26] Unknown:
Is in that film
[01:24:27] Unknown:
it's in that film Strictly Ballroom. Have you ever seen that film, that Australian film Strictly Ballroom? Have you seen that? No. Well, no. Because I'm a non dancer. I wouldn't see it, would I? Well, it's not really about dancing. It's actually I thought it was really fantastic because it's it's kind of it's about high level ballroom dancing competitions, but in Australia. And it's it's got this sort of gritty vulgarity to it running through it as well as sort of a romantic story. There's all sorts of little things in it, and it's a bit of a blast, really. I'm sure the ladies would like it. Of course, I'm revealing myself as being a bit of a pouf by talking about it. I accept that. But there's a fantastic scene in it where Is it a tango? There's a there's a I'm talking about what? Is it a tango? That's the one you think you're talking about, that dance? Oh, that's a dirty dance from South America. We're not talking about anything like that. No. No. I'm not talking about the tango. I don't think I'm I'm thinking it's the pasadouble.
And, the story is, there's this young lad who's get who's very good at all that sort of ballroom dancing, you know, with all the frocks and all that. He doesn't wear the frocks. He's dressed like a bloke, but he's very good at all that. And he's he's got this he's hen pecked, as it were, by his mum, who's absolutely obsessed with him entering the Pan Pacific championships because he's gonna win it. And he must dance with this other girl. But he actually doesn't wanna dance these steps driving his partner crazy. It's so hysterically dramatic. It's very funny. It's sort of it is. I guess it's sort of like a soap, but it there's something very comic about it as well. It's got its tongue in its cheek along a lot of the way through the film. Anyway, if he he he starts dancing with this other girl who is of Spanish descent. I mean, she's an Australian.
And, her father's Spanish, and that, that they are somewhere in Sydney or whatever. And there's a fantastic scene. I think it's the best scene in the film. It's just something to do with this relationship between men and women and how it works through dance. And it's just, you know, maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I I really do like this scene in memorable things from movies. He he takes her back, and she's late coming at home. And her father is an extreme or it's her uncle, I think, because she's lost her dad, and he's really in charge. And he's full of fire and fury. It's like he's gonna lamp him. He's sort of blazing Latin fury about the whole thing. You know? I said, why are you so late? And all this kind of stuff. And she says, well, I was out dancing, and he starts laughing at them both. You know? Like, dancing. What do you mean?
And then they said, Paso Doble, this lad goes, Paso Doble. He said, you dance the Paso Doble. They, he says, yeah. He said, go and show me then. It's kind of one of these awkward moments in a film. So he starts dancing his version of the Paso Doble, and this guy's just wetting him. And he calls all his mates out from around the back or all these sort of Spanish guys playing guitars. And they look at him and they just can't stop laughing. And his wife who is a large lady, they're just in hysterics watching him dance this stuff. And he gets extremely angry about this because he thinks he's doing it right. Okay? And, so her uncle, who is this fiery guy relatively short, says, Paso Doble, and he says, I'll show you, and he gets his wife or this lady who's very large physically, very large lady. And so you're looking at this, you're going, this is a bit strange. Right? It's it doesn't fit the stereotypes.
And then he does this. He dances it with her, and it's fantastic because it's full of fire. You can feel it. It really and I thought, now that is manly. The way he does that is an extremely manly thing. And your dad, Eric, I think, if he saw that, he might go, I won't mind having a go at that, but it ain't easy. And the reason one of the reason I like it, he wears these boots, and they're on this wooden floor bodies absolutely smashing hell out of the floor with this stamping rhythm because it's all this flamenco rhythm with the with the music. So there's something about it that's not Faye.
It it's not feminized. It's completely masculine the way that he dances, And it's a courting ritual, and it's very powerful. I I thought, anyway, maybe maybe that's the last time I get to speak on this show. But, no, seriously, I've just revealed something. I think it's it's worth watching that film just for that bit. There's also some bloody funny bits where wigs come off and all sorts of other things. What what what's the name of the game? It's called Strictly Ballroom. Strictly Ballroom. Yeah. It's not so you know, it might not hold your attention for the whole thing, but just do your you might wanna just do your best with it. It's very cheesy intentionally, and as long as you know that, that's fine. But it's done in a kinda honest, lively Australian sort of way, and it's not that bad. It's not prissy by any means. And the politics in the world of ballroom dancing are bloody hilarious.
So funny. They're all rigging these competitions and all putting makeup on, and they just look ludicrous. And yet there's this real story bubbling underneath. So it's, I just think it's a good scene. If anybody out there's seen me wanna say anything in the chat to back me up on this, but it's all gone deathly quiet. The gun Paul's obviously lost it big time.
[01:29:38] Unknown:
So but there you go. I would recommend it. I'd recommend it. Dad would have liked it because, you see, his father believed that all the problems of this country, remember, they didn't have Internet in those days, stems from the dance floor because his father was a non well, he couldn't be a dancer because he's he was blind, his father was. But he reckons all these problems for the country started from the dance floor.
[01:30:02] Unknown:
It's all to do with the dancing. It's ordinary. It's not the dancing. We could get the bloody country sorted out, but, no, we've all got to go off dancing.
[01:30:12] Unknown:
Because my father's put on the dance halls. And, I actually sat through because my girlfriends always were dancers, you see, and I'm not. I don't know quite what the the attraction was and, sat through come dancing.
[01:30:27] Unknown:
Yeah.
[01:30:28] Unknown:
And where was it someone had sewn all their sequins on all thing things like that? I slept through that as well. So Yeah. I just find anything to do with dancing. It's a marvel it's well, if I had insomnia, it'd cure me. I could just just put anything about dancing, and I'd just fall straight asleep.
[01:30:45] Unknown:
Well, I know exactly what you mean also, but there's an interesting thing from a kinda awkwardness point of view for boys, isn't it? Don't you think I I'm interested in it. Like, so at school, when we were kids, we did country dancing, and I didn't like it. Right? Because No. I'm 7 or 8. You're doing these things, and you're skipping around, and you know it's not hang on. I don't want that. No. No. If you said to all the boys, do some sword dancing. Alright. Come on. Let's get some of that going. Seriously, you know, apart from the sort of wet Nellies. You know, the Timothys in the class. Now if you're called Timothy, it's not I just picked it out as a name right at the time. I just associate it with someone who's a bit wet. That kind of thing. But the it's it's interesting that we don't perceive dancing as having really any masculine qualities at all. And yet when I saw this guy dance the pas de double, this old guy do it, I was gripped. And I've seen other, you know, genuine things in, like, Spanish tavernas where they've been filmed and they do this stuff. And the women are they've got the it's a whole piece of theater. It's their face. They're extremely fixed on one another. It's a complete reenactment of something. It's a courting process as if, he is or she's seducing a bull. I can't remember which way it is. I suppose it must be that way around.
There's something brilliant about it because when they start to me, there was. I I mean, it's much more elaborate than a no it's not sort of like, I'll put your hand around my waist and we'll dance around and do a waltz. It's not like that at all. It's it's a theatrical piece, and it's communicating something that that seems to me to be very old, which I like. It's got that feeling about it. And the guys dance like a man would with a lot of force and a lot of rhythm and a lot of proud, you know, the the way they stand in that proud fashion. So it's theater, but it transmits something. And, of course, the woman starts off about 30 feet away from him. And as he dances, he's slowly moving up to her and effectively seducing her, and she joins with him at the end. And there's something I thought pretty cool about it. I thought it was pretty it's not disco. Let's put it that way. It ain't disco. Discos. Oh, I can't say it. But I tell you what I did like. I did like river dance, and I like to see on it. Dennis loves a disco. You know? Dennis shout out. Dennis loves a disco. I'll have to you you 2 should go to a disco. He could introduce you to dancing.
[01:33:06] Unknown:
Oh, no. But, I mean, I liked river dance, but I was put off, you know, I like to see the young girls with nice legs all dancing around. But then I was and then I suddenly was put off when Michael Flatulence came plancings across the bloody stage. That sort of Yeah. That aided it for me. Oh, no. I don't wanna see him. You know? But, no. If I could just add the add the, that'd been alright. You know? And the other thing is, why is it that we're ballet dancing? Why don't they get taller dancers? Why don't they why don't they have to stand on their toes? I just I can never work that one out. Surely, should they they get make the stars as they are taller?
[01:33:37] Unknown:
Then when you get down there, you go on. Get down to the Royal Ballet. Sort them out, Eric. Hey. I I just noticed something here.
[01:33:44] Unknown:
Get someone a bit taller. Yeah. Problem solved. See? That's it. There's a dirty joke, but I won't mention it because of family show.
[01:33:54] Unknown:
It is.
[01:33:56] Unknown:
We do it aft we can do it after hours or something or whatever. But aft after 10 o'clock, I might do it. Yeah. If if, I don't Hey. I I mean, I I I could there was a dancing thing that I did a few I went dancing a few years ago. This is it wasn't awkward. It was actually quite amazing in a way. Is amazing the right word? Maybe that's a bit over the top. I knew this chap in I didn't know this chap. There was a chap in Chicago. I got introduced, really bright guy. I think he's an etymologist or something. Oh, what is he? I can't remember. He he was that's words, isn't it? I'm getting completely confused. He studies, insects and things like this, and he was the condid or came over to the Royal Albert Victoria Museum. I was working there.
And, we had a mutual friend, and he said, hey. I'm gonna be in London. This is about 4 or 5 years ago. So I'm gonna be in London over Christmas and New Year. Could we meet in London on New Year's Eve? And I wrote back and went, no. We can't. He said, why can't we do that? I said, because I'll never get out. I'll never get home. Right? I'm not coming up to London on New Year's Eve. It'll be impossible. He went, oh, he said, well, there's another dance meet because he was inviting me to an English country dance. Of course, I couldn't wait to go. This is obviously not true. I didn't even know what he was talking about, to be quite honest. I had an idea, vague idea, a sort of grown up version of all that country dancing you might have done at school. Yeah. So he said, there's another one at Blackheath in Kent or wherever he was. A week afterwards, he said, we could meet up there. Now I wanted to meet him to talk to him about things. I went, sure. Yeah. That'll be easy. I can do that. So it was on a Friday evening, and I I rocked up at this parish hall.
And for people outside of England, the parish hall is there are a lot of them. They're larger flat floored halls, which are used for dance meetings and bingo drives and raffles and charity events that are connected to churches and things like this. And, they have their own sort of little thriving life, and they have a canteen. Usually, people these large urns of hot tea and stuff like that. It's all yeah. It's not that's right. It's not a bar as such, but I thought they might be selling a few beers. So I said so I'm driving up there thinking, well, I'll get there. We can set off to an area. So once because he was a musician. He played the, was it the whistle? He played the he he he played the flute and the he played quite a few things very good, and he was really into this.
And I got there, and it was so awkward because I thought, well, there's bound to be somewhere where I can just sit outside of where they're all dancing and just wait for them all to finish. No. That wasn't like that. The the hall, everybody that was there was dancing, everyone except me. And he said, how will I recognize you? And I sent him a text and said, well, I look like a giant wasp. I said, my I've got jet black trousers on and I've got a really bright yellow shirt on. And I, so when I walked through, I, he said, well, I'm playing in the band. So I looked over and I clocked him immediately. So I sat down, but I felt, like a spare part at a wedding as it were. It was ridiculous because there were 50 people there all dancing in this big organized dance. All 50 of them are interlocked into a complete coordinated sort of thing, and they have a caller.
Someone who's walking around calling out the steps. Now I would imagine anybody hearing this is going, oh, this sounds icky, and it and it was at first. That's how I felt. It seemed extremely sort of stayed when I first arrived. And this this old dear came up to me, Joan, I think she was called. And she came up, and I talked to her. She said, oh, are you here to see someone? I said, yeah. Actually, I'm here to see this chap over there in the band. She said, well, I'm Joan. I'm I'm 84. I said, well, you look great. And she's, yeah, so you'll be dancing with me. I started laughing. She was really commanding. So you'll be dancing with me. I said, no, Joan. I I can't dance. She said, oh, good. That'll make it all the more fun. Come along. And she just completely bossed me around, and I I was the youngest person there.
Right? Okay? I was the youngest person there. And she dragged me into this group, and my goal was to not, Eric, stand on anybody's toes. That was all my goal was was to get through what however long it was gonna last. It was about 5 or 6 minutes in the end. This it was the tail end of one of the dances they were doing, and not to stand on anybody's toes. And I didn't. So I achieved my goal, and she was delightful. She was lovely. And, I was very relieved to sit down, and then we got talking. And it was a really interesting thing talk. There were some very interesting people there. People who knew the history of English country dance. And I'm thinking, am I interested in this? But once they started talking, I was very interested in it. And it goes back to the civil war.
There's a lot of interesting things came up in the conversation. So when the English civil war was about to kick off or in the process of kicking off, many people in England thought that Cromwell was gonna smash everything up because they they bloody well did to a great degree. And I can't wait to melt his statue down and turn it into a urinal when I get in charge because I'm not a fan as you can probably tell. And so there was a guy yeah. There was a guy called Playford, and he said, we're gonna lose a lot of our heritage. This guy's gonna smash everything to bits. I'm really sort of turning into a comic book anecdote to get it across quick, but that was the gist of it. So he and colleagues, went all around England recording the music, the lyrics, and the dance steps of all of these dances that were taking place quite naturally throughout England in villages, on village squares, on village greens, in halls.
Peep that's what people did. On a Saturday night, they didn't go to the disco. They went to these organized large scale sort of coordinated country dances, and they're very intricate. And you have to learn these steps. It's like a sort of an organized, comfortable, cooperative courtship ritual with large numbers of people, and you bump you actually change partners all the way through. Anybody who's familiar with this will be laughing at me about how thick I am putting it across, but to me, this was all new. And so Playford went around and recorded all of this stuff and kept it as a record. And it was these dances from the 17th century that we were dancing, which I found really interested. Right?
Because suddenly, because I knew that I felt connected in just only slightly with what was going on here 400 years ago. It was it was quite brilliant. And, Coleman, who was the guy who'd come over, lived in Chicago of Irish descent. He started telling me about all of these sort of English and Irish and other sort of folk dancing groups all over the world, and he participates and probably does right now in many across America. But he was saying that of all of them, he liked the English one the most. And I said, why? Because I'm I didn't know. I had no no I said, why? He said, because he said there's there's very little ego in it. And he he we were talking. He said, look at what's going on. He said, these are all our people. There were 50 of our people. You know exactly what English people, all of them. Right?
On this thing, he said, look at how they're all working together. He's I said, yeah. He said, there's no ego involved in this. He said, when you were out dancing, I I I guess you got help. I said, yeah. But there was one of Fisher's woman, not Joan, another one. Right. Stand here. There was one of those, right, who I quite like. I like those women. When they're being really bossy, I find it very funny. And, they're completely oblivious to any sort of facial expressions you might pull. They just keep hammering on. You gotta stand here. No. Stand over there. No. Like this. Do that. And all that kind of stuff. There were some really interesting points just came up, and it was a totally different vibe. The musicians don't do solos. He said, notice how the band it's nothing to do with the band. It's not about everybody looking at the band and them showing off. The band are there completely to serve the dance, which is everybody involved all at the same time. It's a totally different approach to what we think of. So if you look at the breakdown of that rich tool courting aspect that is imbued within dance, just as I was mentioning with regards to the pas de double, which is the Spanish high spirited and wonderfully romantic version of it, I would suggest.
You see how things have basically been, made more and more primitive. It's basically UGG now, isn't it? In fact, it hasn't got to the stage where people just jump up and down. I remember the seventies just jumped up and down and spat up one another during the punk rock era, which was just completely ridiculous. Because I that was during my time. I was supposed to be bolted into that. I just used to laugh at it and thought, total crap. And and they were total crap then, and they're total crap. Now it's all them. It's just total crap because it was designed to wreck music at that stage. It's a completely artificial change. There's nothing genuine about it at all.
And, I but that you see this fall off in civilizational behavioral standards through dancing. And it really came home when I saw this play for dance. I was part of it from 400 years 350 years ago. And and there's something it wasn't unmanly, Eric. Even your dad might have liked it because he could have talked to your uncle in the middle of the dance moves, and they could have moaned about it or something. But you get to meet everybody else. Really complicated. I didn't cock it up too much. He said, you were really good. I said, oh, come on. For 5 minutes, I didn't even know what I was doing.
But there was it was definitely a different sort of space that you get put into. Anyway, maybe this is relevant to talk about because it's Christmas, and we hope you're all gonna be out dancing at large scale English country dances in the countryside. But seriously, there is a serious point to it. It buy binds all the people together, breaks all the age things down. You're all working for the good of everybody else in that moment for x number of minutes. There's something in that. It's very, very important. I thought so. I had a very good feeling and vibe about it and felt very happy about it in a non egotistical sort of way. It wasn't about strutting your stuff. It was about helping everybody else to make the whole thing work as one big
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it was cool, actually. And it's how you find a girlfriend as well, isn't it? Because folks that dance have an advantage over Mhmm. Folks who can't dance. But Mhmm. I was told by someone, by a woman, and she said, if you can't dance, wear a suit. She said, because a woman will fall for a man with a suit because it's like a uniform, and women always fall for uniforms. So that was a little bit of advice I got. So wear a suit.
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Well, I isn't it something to do that it it sends out a signal of self control to some degree or personal discipline that you're you've got strength about you, that you actually can tie a tie, and your shoelaces are actually tied, and your shoes are shiny. I used to kinda like all that kind of stuff. I still in fact, tomorrow, I'm going I'm going out to the staff due tomorrow. You could have come, Eric, but it's probably a bit of a haul for you. But we're having the end of year staff due at the pub tomorrow, 6 o'clock start, and, I don't have a Hamburg hour. 2nd.
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It wasn't a 22nd. I asked the 20th, Laura. Oh, it's the 20th. 20th.
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Oh. It's the 20th. Don't worry about it. You can come to the we'll bring everybody up for the fucking festival in the summer, and we can all have a country dance. We need to get a country dance coordinator, and we'll do all that. Yeah? And and it'll be all strange. It's way better than Morris dancing. Morris dancing always freaked me out a bit as well, all that rattling and stuff. Although, I understand it's a great tradition if you're into it, but it's not really my thing. But,
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Or we could have a fucking version of the haka called the no. But I'll say.
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Oh, god. God. It is Christmas.
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You didn't need to say it. It's actually funny if you don't say it. I I get I get where you were going with that one. Yes.
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That was what's, oh, what's his name now? A famous comedian, Max Miller, said, never hit the punchline. Never ever hit the punchline. It's funny if you don't hit the punchline because he never did. Oh, I know a Max Miller joke that's so vulgar. I can't tell it. It's unbelievable, some of those jokes he told back then before. Wow. But there's one that they said he didn't tell because he was a bit because, apparently, he was very, very prim and proper when he came off stage. And very sort of subdued in many ways. But if it's the Swissmist
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one It's quite dull. Yeah.
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If it's if it's a Swissmist one, it's the what the Swissmist one, he didn't say, apparently. Roy had looked into it, and he didn't actually say it. It was a a tribute to him, but he didn't say it was too smutty even for him.
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Because I'll tell you another one off air. I can't tell it on air. It'll ruin what the best reputation I might have left for decency. What?
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Well, there's one he said, this is Carl. Carl, this one is. Yeah. This is very Carl. But it's a, I I got home from work the other day, and there's a man there in the nude. So can you imagine that lady? Can you imagine that? He said, he said I said to the wife, what's he doing here? She said, oh, don't worry. He's a nudist. He's come to work make a telephone call. And so they went straight onto another guy.
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Yeah.
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I've got one that's a bit for anyway, swiftly moving on. But yeah. Anyway, so that's it, everybody. It's country dancing for us a lot. Not really. But the Playford music's quite you can find them tons of it on YouTube If you're gonna look at and it's extremely relaxing to the mind. It's good. It's good background stuff if you're thinking about other things. It's got that it connects you into stuff. It's it must have been very different days then. I don't know how many people were alive in England in the 1600. Well, after Cromwell had finished, not as many as before he started. Let's put it that way, but it it wasn't as many as today. And so you you get you tap into this kind of stuff, the the way that country life was lived, I suppose. And there's something in that. There's a value in that, I feel. A good gives you a few little insights and stuff like that. So Well, I think, also, it was easier for because you look at the amount of single people there are today,
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and it was more easier to find a partner in those days because, I mean, my granddad married the girl almost next door. She she lived down the same road. And She didn't mind that he didn't dance? She didn't know. I'm talking about on my mother's side. It was on my father's side. Sorry. Dancers. The the my mother's side, yes, they were dance. My uncles used to dance. They used to dance with my mom because my dad wouldn't dance. But as I say, I saw him once dancing with my mom. We wasn't dancing because he couldn't dance. And the look on his face, he just just said it all.
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He looked bored out of his skull.
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Oh, hang on. We got something coming on the background.
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And now this is making me feel a bit ill, Paul. No. Oh, I felt queasy. Oh, gosh. Oh, god. It's not right. You know? I don't even have any tablets to cope with stuff like that. It was vomit inducing when it first came out, and it's even worse now after all these years. Good grief. They should never have been allowed to even exist, let alone record records. My god. Have you got Billy Colony's version? That's better.
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EBay didn't version of it. He did buy what is it? Yes. In the brownies, instead of in the navy, is it the brownies, which is the girl girl guys, which is the female version of the scouts in this country. And in the Brownies, isn't it? It's got oh, well.
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In the Brownies? Oh, let's have should we have a song? Let's have a song. Let's let's have a song. We'll have Brenda Lee for 2 minutes. We we're not at the end of the show, but I'm gonna put Brenda Lee on rocking around the Christmas tree because, because I'm going to. So here we go. We're just it's only a 2 minute song. It's nice. It's lovely. Get you in the mood for something or other. Here we go.
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False
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Yeah. Brenda Lee there rocking around the something. I like that. It's not yeah. That that's I like that. Excellent. Yeah. And and do you notice the music from about the fifties? I mean, I also like, a lot of the stuff that's done in the sixties as well as well as Christmas records. But you don't hear that in the supermarkets when you go in there. They're playing, excuse my language, the crap. They're they're they're modern stuff. Like, Slade and all that, which is not modern. It's 50 years old. But I think early come up to the early sixties. Who is that bloke who, went to jail? He had the wall of sound. What's his name now? Phil Spector. Phil Spector. Yeah. His stuff was brilliant. It really was.
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And, and how turned out to be as arranged murdering pervert, but still Apart from that, it was, Apart from that, he's a lovely bloke. He used to give his mother flowers and that. Yeah. It's great. Just complete nut job other other than that. But, yeah, yeah, they are. The water sounded yeah. All that kind of stuff back then. Brilliant. Eric, were you referring to this one? That was a really nice one.
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Were you were you referring to this one?
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No. We can't listen to that either. It's in the Brownies.
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He was talking about it.
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Yeah. That is the one. That's the one with Billy Connolly. And then the one that was it d I v's the Divorce. Remember that one? The Divorce?
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Divorce.
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Yeah. That's it. He did his version of it about his dog, to go to the vet. That's a classic. That was when he was good. He he lost it after that.
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Few comments from the chat. Just swing swinging in here. The the, the Kingston Whittler writes a few moments ago. My youngest said today that there were people in her class who didn't realize that Christmas was a celebration of the birth of Jesus. Well, well, should we be surprised? No. Is it disappointing? Maybe. Just part of the sort of cultural decay,
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of the whole thing. I remember not that long ago well, it was probably 20 years ago when in the public schools, they would have the government schools here, they would have a Christmas pageant. And I remember the kind of the death nail of those things was when they decided that, they couldn't sing Silent Night because of its reference to religious themes. Now think about that. It's it's like the quintessential Christmas song, Silent Night, and you can't sing it because it's it's it goes against somehow, I don't know, this this false notion of the separation of church and state in a school.
And that was kind of, like to me, that was, like, the final draw when it's you you see no hope for an institution that will do something like that.
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No. No. I I think it's good to have those things even though they may appear to be quaint and controlling and people would disagree with it. But the fact is it's our tradition and culture, and all of us go through that stuff, and you don't come out bad on the other side. It actually this far it imparts far more good than the pathetic things that they blow out a proportion to try and dismiss it or shut it down. I mean, as a season, it's a season of family, obviously, and getting together. It is a season to celebrate, the birth of Christ. Whether he was born on that day or not, to me, never really made too much difference. And those are the first arguments as a teenager. He was never born there. I'm going, well, I don't know.
But does it really you know, as long as you're remembering these things, of course regarding that argument,
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there wasn't there a census that took place where Caesar demanded that everyone go back to their native town? You'd think there'd be records of that, and that would kind of give you an indication of when it actually took place.
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Yep. Yeah. I think there's just people sort of tracking his birth. And but I know that Peter Hammond is on regularly with Andy Hitchcock. I think there's one of his presentations, which is to, support I'm just using that word. He seeks to prove and does the very good job of it, showing that December 25th was that way. But, of course, my concerns about I don't really mind. I don't think it's a point even worth getting too head up about. It doesn't upset me either way. I'm just aware of all the theological horse trading that took place at that time, you know, because it's the feast wasn't it the feast of Saturnalia or something and this, that, and the other? It's a few days after the winter solstice, which is hey. Coming up in 2 days. Shortest day on Saturday, everyone. That's it. It's, almost summertime again. We'll be back. It'll be sunshine soon. The days start to get longer.
Of course, the the the tougher weather is yet to come. But, yeah, all that kind of thing of of bolting things into other existing festivals, something that Constantine was pretty good at when he was sort of porting Christianity into the existing structure of the Roman Empire's year and all the anniversaries that they had. They they kinda move this. And there's a lot in in rulers of evil, which I haven't mentioned for nearly 2 hours in the show, by about that about that kind of stuff, about the the moving of the exchanging of apostles for old gods and certain temples and the changing of names or much of it down to Constantine's work back then to actually sort of port Christianity as it were and nationalize it or internationalize it courtesy of the Roman Empire. So very interesting tales there. It doesn't invalidate things, though, with regards to the actual dates or the root meaning of them, but, in my view.
And another comment here from, the the Kingston Whittler, they rarely ever have assemblies, and in those, they don't even sing any hymns. My daughter, kept being told to tuck in her cross chain until she got the rule changed. Teachers wouldn't dare do that with something that I must come to another comment, but or with the others. I I guess that's the implication, which is true. Yeah. It it goes to the whole masonic
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notion that Christians in the lodge can't talk about Jesus. Isn't there some sort of rule that they have where they can't preach the name of they can't even say the name of Jesus?
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I didn't know that, but it wouldn't surprise me, that specific one. I'm aware of other things that they've got constraints on, but that wouldn't surprise me. I mean, they make out, of course, that they're a Christian thing, but they're not. Not when the people get through to those higher levels, then they suddenly find out. And, of course, they're tested all the way to see whether they're really willing to go against everything that they started off with in life and whether they're prepared to work again it. You know? And I know, you know, going back to Dennis and the disco, disco Dennis, king of the discos, which is not fair on him, of course, but we have to tease him while he's not here a little bit. I mean, he's you know, his video, the free masonic victory of World War 2, well, it's really the free masonic control of things right now. I do think it's a it's a good as good a term as any, apart from which trying to identify which group is not is not a particularly good use of time. We've got a clutch of them. They're all involved. It doesn't really matter who's the king shit out of the lot. It really doesn't.
We just know that most of them are compromised and corrupted individuals of literally zero use to the likes of us, generally. Hey. Look. We're we're moving towards the end of our 2 hour slot here. God. It flies around 57 minutes past. Absolutely blasted around. It's all the fun and talk of dancing and things. That's what it is. We've all been dancing in our heads and and all that kind of stuff. So, well, look. We're coming in the end. What do I do? Well, I'll say goodbye. We're we're I have another song. I've got loads on lined up here, and we're gonna do I'll do some more Christmas songs on Boxing Day, because why not? It's the only time of the year when you get to do it, really. Of course, today's image is not really a Christmas image, although maybe it's maybe it's father Christmas studying the roots in his in his book, but I'm not really that much into Satan clause. There's all that kind of stuff going on. I think you can read too much into these things as well. I think it's a great time for children.
I I still now remember it as such a magical period. And I think without children or grandchildren around, you could see it ain't for me, it's not really Christmas, to be honest. It didn't really work. It didn't really work the right way. Anyway, let's do Andy Williams or let's Andy Williams serenade us out of the show. This is Andy from I don't know what he recorded this. It's the most wonderful time of the year. It's the most wonderful time for the end of the show as well. So we're gonna bid you farewell on WBN. We're gonna play out with this song. We'll be here again same time next week, Boxing Day in England. Do you call it Boxing Day in in the United States, Patrick? What do you call? Canadians do.
Do they? Yeah. Yeah. Boxing Day. Yeah. I used to think it was about boxing. I always used to thought, dad, where are all the boxing matches? No. No. No. It's where everybody puts their present back into boxes. Why would they do that? I just wanna play with them for couldn't understand all that. So So keeping everybody in check. But, yeah, we'll be back again next week. If you're if this is the last we speak to you, we wish you all a very merry, happy, loving family Christmas, if you're able to get one. And to be with friends, have a fantastic time. Let go. Forget about all this crap. We all need to. And, just be with the ones that you love. Listen to some good stuff. Watch some good movies maybe. Whatever you wanna do. We hope you all have a chilled and refreshed, time of it. For those of you who can't get enough, we're gonna carry on and rumble for another hour. We'll play out with Andy Williams for now. I think we will. Oh, hang on just a minute. Let me just make sure that I actually provide somebody. The party. Don't know what that is, but here's Andy.
See y'all next week, everybody, on WBN.
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It's the happiest season
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of
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all. With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings when friends come to call, it's the happiest season of all. There'll be parties for hosting marshmallows, for toasting and caroling out in the snow. There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. It's the most wonderful time of the year. There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. It's the most wonderful time of the year. There'll be much mistletoeing and hearts will be glowing when loved ones are near. It's the
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most
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Andy. That was Andy. That's somebody else. That was Andy Williams. I like that one. It's a it's a nice, warm, happy one. Anyway, welcome back. We're still if you've never went anyway, we're still on Rumble here chugging along, and we plan to chug chugging a little bit. But that's a nice one, Eric. Do you like that one? Do you like Andy? Oh, yes. I I think of that supermarket with that poor sod collapsing. Every time I hear that, you know, I shouldn't laugh. You know? It was serious, but
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to to
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I gotta say, it would have been a lot of fair work. You did. You're a for love. Yes. Yeah. No. It's all good stuff. I don't mind those ones. They're all I suppose it's slightly nostalgic because I I remember hearing those when I was young and, you know, absolutely apoplectic with excitement about Christmas when you're a kiddie. It's quite a ridiculous thing. It's completely my wish. It is. It's amazing. And they're very, very strong memories, sort of, you know, visceral things and all that kind of stuff. I wanted to ask you, Eric. Were you ever in any Christmas school plays?
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Yes. Yes.
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All the starring parts did you get? What what kind of featured roles did you get? I had I had to say,
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what what proof have we of we of his doing? And that was, the sword in the stone we did. You know, was it king half or something? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And, I I stood there, and I had these woolen tights on, you see, which were very, very itchy.
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So I was just scratching I'm trying to picture this. It's looking quite good. I'm beginning to smile. Yeah. Carry on. Yeah.
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And it's all the lights are on, you see, and I was sweating hot. And the tea and there's the, teachers say, stop scratching. I'm scratching like hell. And and there's my mom and dad in the audience there. You see, they arrive late. It was always late. And my dad's sitting there with a smile on his face. My and they said, whatever you do, don't wave to your parents. You're on stage. As my mom, waving like anything, I thought, oh, no. Oh, no. Because I I I I if I don't wave back, I'm gonna I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna get a clap around the ear. So I was there thinking, oh, well, yeah, I'm gonna get a clap around the ear when this finishes. Anyway, I was scratching and scratching and scratching.
And when it comes to my turn, it's like, and what both has we have we of his doing? I always remember that. I said, what doing have we of his proof? And they should I think the kids should be bleeding because, you know, you know, so what proof are we of his doing? And all the old jokes roll with laughter. So
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So you were a little witty from a very early age, Eric. You're being witty from a very early age. I like that.
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Well, unknowingly, shall we say?
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Yeah. So best yeah. I I I remember my first starring role. I was very pleased. I told my parents They were very proud. I got picked to play old King Cole in, when I was about 6 or 7 years of age. This is at infant school before I even understood what anything was about at all. And I but I do remember them strapping loads of foam round me and cushions to make me look very fat, which I quite liked, really. So I got to wear a crown. I can't remember what I said. I probably didn't even remember it at the time, but there you go. That was my first starring role. And, of course, from then, I've never looked back, actually. It's just been, you know, just one one victory after another, one great amazing performance after another, really. So, yeah, I there was a little joke I remember about this, the or an anecdote someone was telling. Oh, yeah. About the 3 wise men.
And, let me see if I can, fur so it was talking about this thing at the school play, and they kinda got confused when they came on the the the young lads that were playing it. And, and the first lad comes on and goes, yeah. Blah blah blah. I bring gold. And, so the second wise man walks on, and he says, and and I bring myrrh. And the third one, it was the confused one, came in and said, Frank sent this,
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which I quite like.
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Does that make sense? Does that make sense? Frank sent this. No. It's frankincense, but I quite liked it. I quite liked it as a joke. It was a witty one for me at the time. Anyway, that one's fallen completely flat. So swiftly moving on quickly. It's just so painful. You had to be there so we enjoy it. That kind of stuff. Yeah. Coming coming from aunt Sally, anyway, going back into the into things serious things. And Sally writes, I believe that the Christian churches appropriated the pagan festival of Yule and made it all about Jesus. And it makes sense because it is the time of the sun returning. Yeah. Why not? People have a big deal about this. They they but, like, oh, they stole this and so that well, no. They didn't. Who cares? Really, seriously, it's not even important. It's what we say anything is that's really important stuff.
And, and it makes complete sense. I mean, I can imagine, you know, it makes complete sense. I mean, where would Dickens be anyway without this whole winter event and, you know, Scrooge and all this kind of stuff? That evokes probably more fully than just about any other story, the whole sense of charity and decency and the, and coming to goodness, you know, in terms of the metamorphosis and breakdown of Scrooge. And, it's still a wonderful story. Oh, it's great. I meant I keep meaning to record it as an audiobook, but I I get lost in I I just can't seem to find the time of doing it. But the the opening sequence and everything, all the opening scenes as they're described, it's opening scenes as they're described, it's really rather brilliant stuff. It's, it really it's a wonderful story. I I don't understand. What's the tradition with the ghost stories other than, he started it. He started it. Started it. That was it? Okay. Yeah. I well, I'm not aware of the being a Christmas ghost before that. It's this combination of the ghost and
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Scrooge's redemption, I suppose, or him coming back to life. I guess I never I never listened to the lyric in that Andy Williams song he was talking about telling ghost stories. So it's like, well, we're I wonder what How did he say that? Was he? Was that lyric in there? Was it? Yeah. Yeah. I was too busy getting drunk, Patrick, while it was playing.
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No. No. Do you know what Nathan does? He comes on the show occasionally. He actually gives out, Christmas cards, to complete strangers who look as very unhappy, and he said he puts a smile on their face. Oh, that's lovely. Lovely thing to do. Yeah. He just just Yeah. It is. Give him a Christmas card. And, you know, and Yeah. That is nice for him to do that. I think unusual things like that. I mean, there was a a something which we never saw was begging on the street. And there's a chap. He wasn't begging. He just had a cup there. Freezing cold day, and he looked like an ex serviceman there. And, you know, I I my decision, I don't give to charities, but I give to people on the street. Because my my okay. There might be drug dealers. I I don't drug addicts, I don't know. But at least it's going to the source, and it's not going to pay for some director's new BMW or whatever it is.
And, most of these charities are a rip off anyway. And I think if more people go to people on the streets, it'd be a lot of a a better look. You know? It'd just be better. That's all. Because it's going directly to the people who actually
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many of whom who need it. I I learned a new word today. Alminer. Have you ever heard of an Alminer?
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An alm a l m I n e r? No. No. L a l m
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o n e r.
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Somebody who gives out arms or arms? Yeah. Yeah.
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I'd never heard that word before. That's an interest it's an interesting concept. It's
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Arms, Paul. Is supposed to be Saint Nicholas. I got confused when I was a kid. I thought it meant for people that didn't have any arms with an r, and I thought why are they giving people arms? Yeah. It was difficult to work that one out. You've gotta see the spelling on that one. But yeah.
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They're the arms houses, didn't they? That's they're around near me. There's a arms houses,
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which is strange. I want to read you something from a Christmas carol. Can I do that? Just one paragraph. It's I like this. It's right at the beginning, and it's when his nephew rocks up and he's a right crotchety old scrote, and they're having a little scrap. And his nephew says they're talking about keeping Christmas. And Scrooge's nephew says, keep it, but you don't keep it. Scrooge replies, let me leave it alone then. Much good may do you, much good it has ever done you. And then Scrooge's nephew says this, his little speech, but he goes, there are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited, I dare say, returned the nephew. Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time when it has come round, apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that, as a good time.
A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut up hearts freely and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And, therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good and will do me good, and I say, god bless it. And I quite like that, which is why I read it out. I quite like that a lot. I think that really sums up a lot of the goodness, the idea that people do get a little bit cheery. Although I'm sort of ridiculously cheery these days with everybody I see, but I'm gonna have to go overly cheery over the Christmas period if we can do it. But, I like that a lot. It's a great story. It brightens up the darkness, which is going to, you you know, just be be having the longest day of the year,
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and then it's gonna get brighter as as time goes on after that. It is. Yeah. It's wonderful.
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And I think I've probably mentioned on other broadcasts in the past few years about a film that I would recommend if you can get a hold of it, called, relatively recent. Who's in it? I think Christopher Plummer's in it, actually. Maybe even Michael Caine, Eric, just for you. I can't remember right. More names. Chris? Yeah. He's not is he I think it might be Christopher Plummer. I think it is because he's no longer alive. It's called the man who invented Christmas. Anybody here seen it? The man who invented Christmas.
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Never heard of it.
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Relatively new, about 6 or 7 years old. Can't recommend it highly enough. Seriously, it's wonderful. It's brilliant because it's 2 stories in one. It's the story Dickens has just returned from America on a tour. This is all true. And he's broke, and he needs to write something good. And what actually happened was that he ended up writing A Christmas Carol, which I guess is one of his most notable books, I guess. Certainly, the one that most people, I guess, would think about when they think about Dickens. And, it's the story of how his struggle to write this, intertwined with his real, flashbacks to when he was a kid, working in the boot factory and all this. He had a really tough time of it.
And many of the people in his real life, as this film goes through, become these characters in A Christmas Carol, and it's it works really well. There's something delightful about it. It's very Christmassy, but with a little edge. There's some great exchanges, and I just think it's fab. I'm probably gonna watch it. I've watched it twice, I think, 3 years since I last watched it. So maybe I'm due to watch it again this Christmas bit. The man who invented Christmas, which is about Dickens, because he in Victorian, he really did, actually. I mean, he just invented it. It wasn't a big as big a deal, but he just brought it all to life with this story. It's quite a thing when you think about it, 150 years ago whenever it was. So, yeah, it's it's a it's a good little film. It it really is.
And there's arsonist Yeah. There are. Yeah. Dickens' journey his his essays on his visit to America are amazing. You should you guys, you ought to look and not read them. The he goes to a prison. Is it Anderson? He goes to a prison. Oh, gosh. It's harrowing. I couldn't believe it when I read it. Because he, you know, he was a court reporter. So all of these tragic and what people, I guess, perceive as melodramatic scenes in Dickens are actually most of them are true. He was he started off as a court reporter from about the age of 18. Yeah. And so he learned all this. They actually happened, these terrible things. Victorian England was if you didn't have any money, it was bloody horrible.
And that's what he's recounting. You know, that's why I've mentioned before, you know, in a way, he's like that rear guard action about this encroachment, the ruination of of people through industrialization, the poverty, you know, in cellar. All this stuff is true. The the tiny Tim and them have it's all completely that's what he dealt with. So that's I think that's why his stories have such an edge, and people really warm to them because, obviously, he theatricalizes them and extends them as as a novelist should. But it's really quite a thing. And, so the film sort of touches touches on that as well. But, yeah, when he went to America, there's 2 bits that stick out. One is that he's on a train.
I can't I haven't got a bit in front of me. I have to record this because it's just worth it as just to hear. He's on a train traveling from, I don't know, wherever to wherever, somewhere to Baltimore, I think. So, you know, somewhere on the in the east. He's on a train. And he looks out of the wind, and he sees these sort of little clouds or what he thinks are bits of cotton wool flying past the window. And he goes he goes to the, where the 2 carriages are and to actually look and see what's causing it on. He finds that it's a carriage further up full of Americans. He calls for whatever, who are all nonstop, spitting out of the window just nonstop.
I couldn't believe it. It's just like a complete sea of spit flying past his window, which struck me. It's quite an image, isn't it? It just go they're all doing that. I don't know if it's backache chewing or whatever it was. There was that. And then when he goes to this prison, that's harrowing because this American prison. Holy moly. There's a I can't remember the crime. There's a guy that's been in solitary confinement for 20 years for stealing a bicycle. Seriously. And he visits him, and the warden's there with him. And the warden says, do you think you've improved by being in here 20 years? And he says, yes. And and Dickens just reveals all this, and that was his loathing and detestation of the prison system there.
It is quite it's it's this is not long ago. We're talking 18 sixties. It's not it's not long ago, really. I don't think. You know? So, no, his notes on America are great. You you should read those guys. You'll get it's like having your own country reflected back to you through the eyes of a foreigner. There's something very, useful, I think, in that. You get they see things that you wouldn't see just like there's a lot of videos going around at the moment with Americans over here talking about what it's like living in England, and they complain about certain things, which I guess we complain about. But there are other things that they see that I've just completely taken for granted and gone almost unconscious of. And you suddenly go, oh, yeah. That actually is really good. And I'm just not thinking about it too much. So it's good to see yourself through somebody else's eyes. And, although it's a bit of a time ago, you you Dickens' notes on America, I think that's what it's called, or something like that. They're they're pretty cool. They're pretty good stuff. That that's a book?
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Yep. Okay. It's a book. I I haven't read very much Dickens. I think tale of 2 cities is about it.
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It's the biggest selling novel ever. Do you know that?
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No. I didn't know that. Ever. Like, a 115,000,000
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copies or something and climbing. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Tale of 2 Cities. French revolution. I also read I keep reading the opening chapters of it, which is just amazing when the horse covered in absolutely pissing it down. They're going up Shooter's Hill, which I used to drive around in London all the time. So and they're all and the the carriage is sliding back down the hill because it's so wet. It's just great. I mean, god. I don't know why I remember all this stuff, but I the way that they wrote back then, of course, is you get if you like adjectives, Dickens is your guy because you're gonna get you're gonna get a lot of them because it's, it's overblown by today's writing standards, but it's got its own magic. Obviously, if you can discipline yourself to sit down with it long enough to get into it, it does require some mental stamina, I guess, a little bit more than, you know, playing Sudoku on your mobile phone or whatever it is. And it's interesting that he was a court reporter because a lot of his books revolve around justice and injustice
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Oh, yeah. And how they resolve.
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Yeah. Dave Dave, that was a court reporter as well, wasn't he? Was he? Comedian. Yes. Yes.
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It's I mean, comedians really are people who have got insight into things. I I seriously, they it's it's a a a an acceptable way of of commenting on the human condition and lightening the load to some degree. Because what we all find it funny that everybody else has got foibles, and we know that we've got them too. But it's like, yeah, we're all a bit crap. So let's all laugh about it, and it's great. It's very good. Dave Allen came out with a classic. He said he was, doing a report on a in a cult,
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And there was a teddy boy type came in with his hands in his pockets chewing. And the Mhmm. The willy old judge said, stop masticating. He took his hands out of his pockets, carried on chewing. He said, sorry, your honor. Sorry. That's true, apparently.
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Well, that's the sort of joke, he would Dave Allen would tell, ain't it? It's a good joke.
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It's not rude, is it?
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No. It's just one of those little moments in life. It's my memory.
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Paul Paul, we He really is. Were were you listening earlier to George Hobbs' show?
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No. I I've just been I've been flat out until getting the thing. But He he was talking about this this,
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criminal that Biden had just, wasn't he he hadn't pardoned him so much as, I forget the word that was used. It's basically he pardoned this guy, this judge, and he was involved in this thing, they were calling the cash for kids scandal because it was a judge who had money invested through a friend of his who was a builder Right. In this, corrective facility for profit, corrective facility for juveniles. And he was excessively sentencing children to to these these long sentences like this, stealing a CD for from Walmart. The guy the kid the child gets, a year in the correctional facility for you know, this this kind of injustice was going on. And this is the character that Biden just pardoned.
And it's just when you listen to it, it's just ridiculous because the the number of children that were sentenced for these petty crimes and then the suicides and things that ended up happening as a consequence of these harsh sent sentences that were passed down. Also, these judges could get kickbacks from from this facility that was for profit that took in the children.
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Who judges the judges, Patrick? That's right. Well,
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that's that they're divorced from the priests that should be informing the judges. That's that's what I see. Yep.
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Nice little comment here from the Kingston Whittler for us all. It says, Eric, Patrick, and Paul be a very happy Christmas to you and your families. Finding your show has been one of the best things to happen in 2024. Well, we agree with you, Kingston Whitaker. We think it's one of the best things to happen. We think you're a man of good sound taste. Excellent. Marvelous comment. We'll read your stuff out all day long. No. Seriously, thank you. That's that's great. And,
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that's that's fine. Thanks for the good wishes. I've sent a wish wish back. How is our, our friend who actually suffered a stroke recently? I hope he's I hope he's bet getting better and now hospital. You know he is. No. He is. He's actually
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I've I've not been able to see him for about 2 weeks because all my cars have been blowing up. I'm I'm serious. I'm serious. I'm blown up too. Oh, that's The other one's squeaking like mad. The steering went the other day, so I'm just fixing that. But I understand he is due home this week. He could even be home by now. Now under what circumstances, I don't know, but I'm planning to get over and try and see him maybe this weekend because I will have transport to get over. So as soon as I've had a chat with him, I'll be able to give a a more solid update. And, hopefully, maybe on Boxing Day, next week today, I can do just that. So, Chris, if you are at home and you have tuned in and you have got this, we're all wishing you the best, and we want you to recover and get well.
And, I don't know whether he's able to hear us or not, but I'm saying it anyway. And and if I get through to him and get a report, I'll bring it back here as soon as I can and let you know. Get well soon, Chris.
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Yeah. Yeah. And, and, also, you are all invited on to the Christmas special, which is, Sunday and Monday. The Sunday one will be more of a serious one, and the Monday one will be more of a fun one. So you can come on both or any of them. So, that's That's this that's this coming weekend, Eric. Yeah? This this coming weekend. Yes. Because Nathan's coming on. He studied the Bible very carefully, so he's gonna come up with something very con controversial, I believe. So he may be interested. So that's on a Sunday. And on the Monday, this will be on, YouTube, so we can't say naughty words. That'll upset YouTube. But, the thing is with YouTube, because it's visual, we can't have even if you, you know, you don't put a camera on, you can't have too many on YouTube, but you can, obviously, on radio. That's the advantage of radio, because you can have up to 11 on radio.
And, so it's so much more better. So you're invited, and it's, I'm gonna have a word with Nathan. I think maybe the serious one might be better on the Monday, and the Sunday one would be more of a laugh and a joke, you know, that type of thing. We've sort of worked something out, but you're invited for both of them. So Paul, Patrick,
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both 2 Pauls rather than Paul, and and Paul. I I should be able to take you up on at least one of them, Eric. So I I look forward to joining you for a bit of fun over the weekend. Yeah. That would be great. Yes. Always good stuff.
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Also, Patrick, you know, Paul and Patrick, you're you're both invited. So, you know Yes. Thank you. I think that's, radio is better. It really is, because
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you can have more guests on. That's the good thing about it. Well, of course, it's better. That's why we do it, Ernie, so that we can do this radio thing. It is the theater of the imagination, which, of course, is a complete cliche, but it but it's also true. It's also true. And it's like I was mentioning right at the beginning of the show in the little slightly excitable start that I always kick off with. I've done this thing with Karen Dodds the other day. We did 2 this week. Week. I ought to really try and post them to my channel, but they're on her YouTube channel. A lot of fun, going out to people who I I I think looking at some of the comments have not come across the sort of things that I was sort of talking about, things that we talk about here quite regularly even though, of course, we disperse it with a lot toilet humor. Well, one of us does anyway, which is always always appreciated and necessary.
It's always important. It's important to throw that in. But someone had written a comment. You know, I I meant that Karen was on the camera, but my voice or the was just coming in as audio, and it's actually easier to concentrate on. I find the visuals distracting, but actually that's because I'm not looking at them. I don't look at them.
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So But also there's bandwidth as well, because you you have a bandwidth. Oh, yeah. And if Bloody bandwidth gobblers. Yeah. They do. This is why I have lost problems with that. Yeah. Because, Robert was sort of he he speak to, and he's got, like, he he's bloody, huge sorry. His, Internet was going down all the time. So Gordon was on. You know, that's the problem. So, yes. But, is it sort of more of a New Year thing in America, and less of a Christmassy thing? Because I know in Scotland, it's New Year is sort of sort of little bit more important in many ways.
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Would Hogmanay.
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Hogmanay. Is what's it like in America? Because I know that, in some states, you're back to work on the next day after after Christmas. Whereas over here, we have about, what, almost 2 weeks holiday, don't we?
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Well, it it I suppose it depends who you work for, if you work for Scrooge or not.
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Oh.
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Because it is a holiday. You should you should take it's a feast day. Why why not take take more time off? It's a Wednesday, so take Thursday and Friday off. Why not?
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Yeah. Why not? That's that's the thing. But over here, it's most places, I mean, they shut down on Christmas Eve, and they don't open up until January 2nd. Yeah. So, you know, it's it's the the whole place is sort of dead for for about a week. But, it's not gonna be no no snow this year, apparently. Especially down the south, we don't get snow hardly at all. Now it's gonna be, warmer than normal, so that's gonna be nice, ain't it?
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It'd be fine. I don't mind. I don't mind if we get snow. Alvin Kirk, I'm just skimming through the things. I asked for a a plug for last night's Shelley Tasker shows. Of course. That was a Christmassy type show. You can find the Shelley Tasker channel on Rumble. So there'll be a recording of yesterday's show on Shelley Tasker's Rumble channel for those. And that was a Christmas see, a good Christmassy one hour chat. Although I think Maleficos had interminable technical trouser problems. His technical trousers kept falling down. He kept getting disconnected and, and stuff like that. But Shelley held the fort along with guests and everything, so that was pretty good. So, yeah, that is that a good enough plug? I'm very bad at that sort of stuff, aren't I? But I'll give anybody a plug, in these things.
Also, another comment here. Just going back to Dickens. This is from the stirring at Billy Silver. Teasing. Dickens was apparently, he writes, pressured to remove the association of one of his characters with an infamous tribe. Can you guess? Nope? Clueless, Billy. I don't know. What are you on about? Yeah. What's that all about? No. I don't know. Speaking of anybody see anybody see the, the David Lean make of Oliver Twist? That might be something what you're talking about, Billy. I don't know. Have you seen David Lean's version? It's absolutely fantastic. Black and white thing. No. What what's his name? Who's the guy that plays Bill Sykes? He went on to play Long John Silver. His name's run right out my head. Great English actor.
You know what I mean? He played Long John Silver in the I I I know I know who you mean, but I can't think of that. I hate you when that happens. He's I'm looking at his face. I can't put a name to it. Newton. Robert Newton. There you go. Braeden works. He he plays Bill Sykes in that. He's absolutely murderously fantastic. And it's in black and white. It's a bloody brilliant film, Oliver Twist. For every film that David Lean makes is just so watchable. I like the movie. Just the on. It's the storytelling. It just gets sucked in, and it just goes. They're really sort of entertaining all these years on because it's all driven by cut character stuff and plot. And so, yeah, that's a that's a good one to watch at Christmas, actually, even though it's nothing to do with Christmas. But Oliver Twist. Yeah. The David Lee version with Robert Newton. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. That's a man who invented Christmas. So yeah. Of course. The man who invent I I see that people have been searching for it and coming across with spurious spoof things on YouTube. As far as I'm aware, you might have to pay for it. I think I've found it we watched it on Amazon Prime. I don't know if you that's our main thing, because I just watch movies every now and again. Don't watch TV. Just watch films. And so Amazon Prime, it might be on there.
You might be able to get it as a download or something like that. I don't know. So, it's definitely worth watching, though. But do you know what it Also, if you do watch it, I'd love to hear from you next week what anybody thought about it. And by hearing mean, maybe call in. You know, you can always call in. If you if you get the urge, it'd be great, because it just sort of breaks up the audio space. And we're I'm always interested to hear how people phrase and say and deal with things. It's always great stuff. So,
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that's just Yeah. And if you don't get snow, you could also watch doctor Zhivago. There's another David Lean film.
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It might be. I've never wanted to watch that for some reason. I haven't. Even though Julie Christie looks amazingly beautiful in it, I think it's because I can't stand Omar Sharif. I just don't like the look of my hair. It's a very dark movie, actually. Yeah. I know. Yeah. It's not fun, is it? Russian revolution. Right? Yeah. And do you know it's Yeah. That wasn't much fun, was it, the Russian revolution? It was quite a miserable affair, I think. If anything bad.
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Yeah. Yep. Do you know the freezing side? Did you know that it was filmed in Spain in the middle of summer, and they used candle wax to make it look like, ice? And the actors were absolutely boiling hot, and they're supposed to be shivering cold. Wait. What? What? Right? Is this doc doctor Zhivago? Zhivago. But did you know that Oliver, when it was released, it clashed with the third man film. And there's a few had a bit of a hoo about, an act, shall we say, the role of someone in Oliver who,
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shall we say, might be to do with Semolina, Andy Semolina. So he's not Oh, you mean Alec Guinness and his role as Fagan. That's what you're referring to, aren't you? And then Alec Guinness went on to become Obi Wan Kenobi. So I don't know what we read into that. I believe not much.
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Wasn't he? Actually, no. It's Robert Newman was Fagan, wasn't he, in the in the original one? No. No. Robert Newman is Robert Newton's Bill Sykes, the guy with the dog. Sykes. Sorry.
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Even the dog's scared of him. When he looks at the dog, the dog starts whimpering. He's that really gets it across. What a brute he is. And, yeah. No. Alleghenus plays Fagan, the chief of the pickpockets, going on to play Obi Wan Kenobi. He also played, a leading role in Lawrence of Arabia, didn't he, as Sheikh whoever. He's in there. And also the fall of the Roman Empire, which is a film, which, is freely available on YouTube, starts off pretty cool. I mean, it's a 19 60 film or something, so it's that style, you know, where things are a little bit slower. So if you can't cope with that, you can't cope with it. But, he plays Marcus Aurelius, and the opening sort of 10 or 15 minutes. It's like setting the scene for Gladiator. It's exactly the same stuff. There's him as Marcus are released. They're out in Germania. There's this leading, general with him. They're having a chat. They've gotta try and contain the tribes and going, oh, is this where you ripped off plot off from? But not really. It's historical. You know? It doesn't invalidate Gladiator. Fantastic, no film. But Oh, yes. Yes. But Alec Guinness always said, you could always tell
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the, I you could always tell a man by the cut of his trousers. If his trousers are too short, totally slovenly sorry. If his trousers are too long, totally slovenly. And if too short, completely loony. And that's that was Alec Guinness his wife.
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I might make a note about that. Maybe, Alec, maybe he was onto something. Maybe he knew. Maybe the truth is in the trousers. Absolutely. Truth is in the trousers.
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That up, didn't I?
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No. Sorry. I got it across. My mom used to say that you always judge a man by his shoes.
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Oh, well, my mom said that. Yes. She treated dirty shoes. Oh, yeah. My mom did too. My dad I couldn't stand it. He he was in the military. That's great. His shoes were, like, mirror polished. He knew how to polish them up high. And I tried to copy them, and he said, oh, when are you gonna start polishing your shoes? Is it for a joke? I mean, they were always highly polished. A nice squeaky leather.
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And she's got the wrong yeah. You remember Kiwi Polish? That's what we had at home. Yes. Kiwi Polish. Yes? Oh, now we're talking to you, aren't we? Yeah. The bottoms of his shoes. The actual bottoms of the shoes were polished as well. So Okay. That's a bit weird. Yeah. That's that's a bit weird that that's a bit on a marble floor and That with the
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They had to in the army. In the army, they had to polish the bottom of their shoes. They they'd look they're jobs. And that he just carried it on. And I did it. I almost slipped towards it overhead. But, no. It's not weird that they did that because he learned how to do it in the army because he was a conscript. You know? But, there's it's, it's surprising when you look at people now. When you look at Mao's China, where everybody was dressed in denim and all look the same. You look at people now, they're either dressed in denim or they're dressed in tracksuits and all look the same. We've got just like Mao's China.
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Do you know Well, it's obvious that we've we've this topic keeps coming up for a reason. I think, really, I probably need to create something called the English outfitters or something like that. And we need to we need to get proper men's trousers. You know? We need to look into men's trousers, more fully generic, as my headmaster would have said, making a faux pas much to the amusement of us all, but we do. And, yeah, there's no there's no reason. I'm going to be wearing trousers tomorrow. I'm quite worried about it because I don't I don't wear them that often. I used to wear them all the time. Now where are my trousers? Of course, then you find trousers that you used to be able to fit into quite easily. I've still got trousers, like, 25 years old. Immaculate. Right?
And I'm I'm and then I'm laughing at myself going, oh, I remember my dad now about this age going, oh, I can't get into this suit, love. It's so funny. It's really, really funny. But I've got a jacket. I've got a dog tooth jacket, which I bought when I was, 28, and it still fits me. And I'm right chuffed. I can still fasten the front button. It's not even it's not okay. It's not loose like I was when I was trim, but it's not bad. And I thought, not bad. Not bad. 40 years of eating bread and puddings, and I can still get into my could still get to my dog toothed shirt. So that was pretty good.
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Yeah. Yes. It's so nice.
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I was looking here We can't really do fashion on radio. We would need video. And then, Eric, you could be wearing these items of clothing that you're talking about. We could all look at your shoes. Use your imagination.
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That's even funnier, I suppose.
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Yeah. I guess it is. I guess it is. I was looking here at Alec Guinness's,
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filmography. He did one on Cromwell in 1970. It's called Cromwell.
[02:40:21] Unknown:
Yeah. Richard Harris played Cromwell. Yep. Yeah.
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Brother, son, sister, moon, but that would be about Saint Francis of Assisi 72. And then Hitler, the last days the the last 10 days. Have you ever seen that one?
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No. No. Okay. I can't really no. I'm I'm unlikely to. It's it's difficult to
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think the Guinness doing that. The tropes the the tropes that they came up with.
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Do you remember do you remember no. You might not have seen this one. This is an English black and white thing. The man in the white suit. Have you seen that one, Eric?
[02:40:58] Unknown:
I haven't seen I heard of it. It's about a bloke who made a suit that was indestructible, wasn't it? Yeah. It's fantastic. Yeah. It's a wonderful film. He's a chemist working in a,
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a clothing manufacturers, and he comes up with this dye. He creates this white suit out of it, and it's completely indescribable. You can't put a stain in it or anything. Right? Nothing. And, at first, this is just one of these things. It's very sort of symbolic, really, in some of the topics that we talk about here. Right? It's fantastic. So he creates the solution to suits wearing out. And at first, of course, they're like, this is amazing. This is fantastic. A few hours later, they start to think about this and they're going, this is really bad. If we start selling these suits, no one's gonna buy any more suits. Of course, he's got this suit on, so the rest of the film is basically a chase as they try to hunt him down. The man in the white, and he's lagging it all over the place.
Anyway, I won't give you the punchline because there is a kicker in the end, but it's a good little film. It's one of those quirky sort of British sort of things in 19 fifties, but it's good. And, particularly the soundtrack of all the test tube bottles go blip blip blip. I quite like all that kind of stuff. So that was a fun one. He was good in that. He was really good in that.
[02:42:07] Unknown:
I'll have to watch that Oliver Twist one. So did did you mention that Alec Guinness was pagan in that?
[02:42:14] Unknown:
Yeah. He is. Yeah. Yeah. He is. He is, and he's very good in it. And it's good. And he's you'll quite like his accent. It's not overly theatrical. I don't think at all. I think it's pretty spot on. And, of course, there there have been complaints, but the fact is it's based on truth. And Dickens would know because that's where these characters came from, court cases. So that's what happened. So that's that. Stick it with your bum and deal with it. What else was I gonna say? Oh, yeah. Billy Silver also writes whilst we're on films and just having a bit of Christmas fun here, which we should do. He also mentions David Lean's great expectation as a masterpiece. Yep. David Lean film, and it is.
What's the name of the guy that he meets in the cemetery at the beginning? With the chains on. I can't remember his name. That's quite that's quite a thing. That's all in black and white. All in the fog. When he steals the cheese from home or is it the pie? Oh, it's a pie. Yeah. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go watch it. It's Great Expectations by David Lean, and I would imagine that that you will be able to find that on YouTube, as a freebie somewhere. It's old enough. You should be able to find that. Is on YouTube too. Yep. Yep. So they're good. And there's also I found the, A Christmas Carol starring, my favorite one.
Yeah. Again, I can't remember his name. He was in the, centrinians films. Oh, wow. Alastair Syme. Alastair Syme. See, it just takes a while, and then the cogs were Alastair Syme playing Scrooge. That's a black that's my favorite one of all the versions of Scrooge, of the films. Although, as I said, the man who invented Christmas is really good because but it's a modern telling of it, but it but it's still good. It's got a lot of heart to it, so that's good.
[02:44:04] Unknown:
Yeah. There there's an interesting one here. His first movie, David Lean's first movie was 1942, and it was called In Which We Serve, and it was by Noel Coward. And it was about Oh, yeah. Ship, the British destroyer HMS Turin. Mhmm. It's full of flashbacks of survivors as they cling to a life raft. Yep. That'd be that'd be a neat one.
[02:44:29] Unknown:
Yeah. So 1942, and his last film was about 1982, wasn't it, or something? Yeah. The passage to India. Yep. I think that was his last film. Early eighties or something. Eighty four. So 40 year but he he worked as an editor for, like, 10 years before that in another thing. And that's why his films work so well. He understood editing Yeah. Scene cutting, you know, rhythm, and all that hidden language of cinema. You've got it's almost effortless. You don't even notice it's going on. It's just really great storytelling. It's not sort of he's trying to show off. You just get sucked into the stories, and they just move along a pace. That's what makes him so good. As I've mentioned here before, my favorite film by him, and it is, is Hobson's Choice.
It's actually one of my top five film. I absolutely love that. I love it. But I wore almost worn it out. I've watched it about 3 times in the last 5 years, so I've gotta leave it alone for it. But, Yeah. Charles Long. It's just yeah. Yeah. I also it also goes down as one of my favorite love stories, romances. I'm serious as well. It's very funny the way that John Mills, this slightly this physically slight, but really good lad is completely dominated by Charles Laughton's, eldest daughter, Maggie. She just takes him in hand, and she basically says, right. I'm marrying you. And he's completely what?
It's very funny. She's just organized. She's like a woman who's just organizing life, and you you that's it. You've just been organized. And, it's it's very funny. Very, very funny. It's got some lovely scenes in it from anyway, I like it. I like it I like it a lot. I think it's really good. So There were works of art years ago that they really knew when they did the films.
[02:46:13] Unknown:
It was a work of art because they, they they were prepared to spend the money. And when you look at the film sets, they were built properly. Now it's quick, cheap, and,
[02:46:26] Unknown:
bums on seats. That's all they seem to be interested in. Well well, I think I think the main thing I would say is that they worked with and understood the the absolute paramount value of a sound story, more than anything else. If if the narrative hasn't got an engaging quality to it in some way, if you don't care about the characters and in modern films, I just don't care about many of them. They're so revolting and cocky. I just want them dead. I'm always rooting for the baddies to just blow all the goodies off the screen so we can get down to something interesting. They're tedious. They don't have any vulnerabilities. Everybody's just so smug and super confident about everything. It's boring as hell. Whereas the older films deal with actually real people, and therefore the drama is heightened. It's like it's like seeing normal people dimming things as opposed to, you know, the superheroification of everything. It's fun for a bit, but when films revert to nothing but that and, you know, vacuous digital special effects nonstop, don't they understand that the more they use them, the less impact they've got? It's as if it's just it's like drinking concentrated orange juice all the time. When you're a kid, first time you get to do it, wow.
3 or 4 times, I don't want that anymore. It's just too much. It's too much. I don't know. So I think they had better balance. And, of course, they were coming from a history of many of them from the theater, so they'd worked with, a more concentrated and higher level of writing. And, also, I think the other thing is the same with music, in the sixties seventies, because it cost quite a bit of money to put a film on, because it used to cost a lot to record an album, only the best of the talent would get into the studios and would get through the system to actually do it. I think that's true. Yeah. And that's why there's they're not all great or old films. Many of them are tedious beyond belief. You know? They they don't move quick enough from not for me. But the ones that are good are great because they're character based, and they're based on real dilemmas, and you are engaged with the the outcome for the characters, I think, very much so. You know? So, and that's all it's all good stuff.
[02:48:28] Unknown:
Yeah. And it still isn't cheap to make a film. Like, if you made a good film on film, it's it's I've thought about this before because I I studied cinematography, and I have have access to my I have a movie camera. And but the cost of a film is quite expensive just for the film itself. You know, for 4 minutes, it's, like, $500. Yeah. Just film, that's just for the film, not counting developing and then prints and all these other things and adding sound to it. Mhmm. It's an expensive thing. And, well, I suppose, if you're dealing with back then, you know, your salaries of actors and all this kind of add up as well because you take it's not like working at a factory, but it kind of is, but it isn't. It's more of a leisure type thing.
Theater and all these these other things.
[02:49:21] Unknown:
Well, there's still some films I wanna say. I saw, I saw the first 10 minutes of The Lady from Shanghai the other day, so I recorded the rest of it. Black and white film with Orson Welles playing an Irishman with a slightly dodgy Irish accent that time, seriously. But Rita Hayworth is in it, I suppose, ultimately, as the lady of Shanghai. She's absolutely stunningly beautiful, and it's a black and white film, but she just is because she's got all those feminine qualities. And, she she just looks fantastic. And then there's another clip of her going back to dancing, dancing with Fred Astaire in some movie, and it's just I went, wow. That's pretty that's I can understand why people would enjoy that. That's fun. My dad was a Fred Astaire fan. My mom liked Gene Kelly. Only one way to find out which was best. Mom and dad had to have a fight. Dad always won. So no. They didn't really. But, yeah, Fred, a staircase and ginger biscuits, as we used to say over here.
Yeah.
[02:50:21] Unknown:
Yes. Mhmm. But, I think Christmas is a time when families I don't know, you know, Christmas is a past week, all gather around the fire and have a good old fashioned family argument. And I normally did that, but actually throwing lamps and tables and chairs around it. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Nothing like a good old arm, isn't it? So there were actually there was something I don't know what it was. There's something cozy and warm about old films, isn't there? Very much so. Let you use your imagination more than now if there's guts and gore, they'll show you guts and gore. They're not trying to shock you.
[02:51:11] Unknown:
They're not trying to disturb you. They're not trying to do that at all. That's right. They're not trying to just repulse you or get a rise out of you by showing you something visceral and graphic and pornographic. That's not what it's about. The romance scenes are all way better because the door closes, as it should. Right? Yeah. Everything about it is to show restraint and control, and that is a that's encouraging. It sends out a right signal. This is how you behave around one of the you can learn a lot. You know, I I'm expecting, by the way. I was thinking the other day, I thought all these old films, they're gonna.
The way things are going with the cultural destruction of everything, you will better get these things. We we need to safeguard them. They'll just say, oh, it's not important. It's too old. People won't even know. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Mels China and,
[02:52:01] Unknown:
Stalin they they've binned a lot of film and stuff like that. But also what else happened is that, you know, the dad's army film, the BBC, binned a lot of the dad's army series. And luckily, someone found them in a in a, a a a a a dump and retrieved them. And if that person hadn't retrieved them, we'd we'd have lost a lot of the dad's army series. So, you know, even in mod modern days, they're they're bidding stuff. And there's a lot that's been lost. But I think you're right. They will go for those films because they're not it's it's a bit like, you know, that, the dam busters film, which I don't particularly care too much on. But, okay, it was made in 19 fifties.
And you know that Guy Gibson's dog, what the name his name was, well, they've actually edited that out. That that say it. Yeah. And they've edited the name out now. So he says, oh, there's all. And the people kids will look at it and think the dog's name was. Yeah.
[02:53:02] Unknown:
So why shouldn't they edit it out? You know? It's a reflection of the way people talk back then and talk in my house. No. We don't. Right? Because but but it's true. They were gonna do a remake. I can't remember what it was with some and they were gonna write it out. They're gonna change his name to Fido or Fang. Norman.
[02:53:24] Unknown:
Yeah. Well, that's a bloody point. We have a cooking delicacy. Seriously, it's called Spotty Dick. And it's Yeah. We did. Yes. Yeah. It's got and they they called changed it to spotted Richard, but they changed the back of the name now because everybody was laughing their heads off. The spotted dick is worse. It's a But spotted Richard's even worse because Richard Richard is, you know, an act Richard the 3rd, isn't it? Yeah. That's right. I don't know what that's right. It looks
[02:53:51] Unknown:
awful. Richard the third, and that's even worse. Right? So my god. The thing about the English language, the way the English use it, it's it's all vulgar and foul, full of double octopus and memes. Reminds me of a Tracy Oman's kid about that.
[02:54:04] Unknown:
Yeah? Yeah. I don't know. Really?
[02:54:08] Unknown:
Yeah.
[02:54:10] Unknown:
She isn't she the one that helped start the Simpsons?
[02:54:14] Unknown:
She gladly well is. Yeah. On the Tracey Ullman show. Yeah. It that that's where it first ran. The first 5 minute short, wasn't it? Or a 10 minute short or something inside the Tracey Ullman show? Yeah. And they're still making it to this day. 30 years on or something. Yeah. I think. Those actors those voice actors are onto a good thing, aren't they? What a role to land. I mean, seriously, all that work for all those years, nobody knows who you are, so you got all your privacy left. Hey.
[02:54:43] Unknown:
Yeah. Tracy Almond, though. She she started up on 3 of a kind, and that was Mhmm. In competition with, not the 9 o'clock news. But it it never quite made it as much as the BBC's not the 9 o'clock news. Mhmm. But I watched those old sketches that were in the sort of was it late seventies, early eighties? Well, it's mainly early eighties. And they're still funny. And this is to me, if a comedian is good, you can hear the same joke over and over and over again and still laugh. And that's the I think that is the qualities of a good comedian because they got what, I think is a, like, what they call a funny bone. They're really just funny. That's it. And they're timeless. Look at Dave Allen, George, George Carlin. They're timeless. The stuff they came out with. But it's the way they presented it. And I always remember my uncles, you know, often said they they used to read the audience.
And there's some gags they can say in some audiences and some, like, gags they couldn't say in other audiences. Well, a good comedian does read the audience.
[02:55:50] Unknown:
Yeah. They they they know when to roll their eyes.
[02:55:53] Unknown:
That's it. Yes. Yes. But, no. It it's, I think they've gone for a comedy. They've gone for everything that is happy. They're just trying to destroy it all the time. And I think Well, for a few days, Eric, over this period yeah. I think you're I think for a few days over this period,
[02:56:16] Unknown:
they're not part of our world, and we need to sort of reclaim it in that way. I you, would you? And we do. And I'll be talking to all my family on the phone. I won't be traveling around much. I've got my own challenges. But, nevertheless, I I tend to think back to all the good times I've had at this time of year, and it is a good time where people open up their hearts, as it said in Dickens, and don't view other people as just on their way, you know, fellow travelers to the grave, that this is all a good thing, and, it's great. Although I won't be actually buying Christmas lunch at my local pub because when I went past, it said 3 course Christmas lunch. Guess the price, Eric. How much do you think for a 3 course Christmas lunch at the pub?
[02:56:59] Unknown:
Well, it would once upon a time, you'd be paying about 15 quid, but I very much doubt whether it's that now. Yes. Try try £70.
[02:57:07] Unknown:
Wow.
[02:57:08] Unknown:
That's a pub. Joking. Or do you know what? I had you know what? I had a garden center the other week when I met John Hamer. It was 2 cups of coffee, 1 cup of tea, and 2 very small slices of cake, and I got 30 pence change out of £20.
[02:57:26] Unknown:
Yikes.
[02:57:28] Unknown:
Yeah. I mean, that is that is exorbitant. You know, drop a water on a tea bag. Come on.
[02:57:37] Unknown:
But everything, we're not in control of the prices that we're offered, are we, anymore? There's no, there's no adjustment on prices. There's no pushback. There's nothing. Everything just goes up. You you nobody knows what their water bill's gonna be next. Oh, we've just added 80 quid on them a quarter. Why? I think, I do know. My take on it is that it's just a part of them effectively impoverishing everybody so that you're more manipulable, and they can deal with the crap bank books that they've done. And I was I've been thinking about that a lot today because I really my New Year's resolution is to destroy the Bank of England. Anybody wanna join in? If you haven't got a New Year's resolution, take that one, will you? I want it destroyed, and I mean, in its current form, utterly extirpated. That means to tear out by the roots so that it never grows back in its current form. This is, of course, all piss and wind on this show. I accept all that, but it make it makes me feel slightly better. And I actually registered a domain name today, which is, dcbobdcbob.org.
And dcbob stands for decentralized Bank of Britain. And I want to begin it next. So the decent because that's all it's about. It's centralization of everything that's killing us. All the it's like cancer. All the power goes to the city, to the creditors, yeah, to the money men, to the money power, all of it. And, I don't want it. So, it's not to actually run it as a bank to start off with. My, my view has always been that we need huge numbers of people to understand how and why they're being robbed in the most simple direct, almost hit them in the guts type way, and would you like to put an end to it? And it's not to start using a banking system that jump all over you. It's simply to build up a huge alliance like the biggest consumer pressure group ever for the biggest consumer issue, which is the crap money that we are compelled to consume that destroys everything.
And, so I'm just gonna give it a go. I haven't been involved for 20 years doing something like this, but but I've been thinking about it last few days. I'm thinking maybe it's time to do something a bit more constructive. Anyway, so we could talk about that next week on Boxing Day,
[02:59:51] Unknown:
where we box the ears of the banks. I still hate their guts for what they do. Example though. You know? You mentioned to anybody in the street. I mean, I I I went into a farm shop today. I found out there's a farm shop that's 20 minutes walk from me that I didn't even know was there, which I can go to. And the eggs are much cheaper than the farm shop I normally go to Yeah. Which is a 15 Mile Drive. So I don't have to drive. I just just walk up walk 20 minutes up the road. And Which is decentralized, isn't it? We want to de
[03:00:19] Unknown:
everything that we look at, everything that we hate is this authority system. Communism is all it is. Up top. The politburo knows best. It didn't know it's head from its ass. They're just a bunch of vicious thieves and thugs. And they've got a gun. The the the trouble is their town is, and they they try to hunt people out to live. But you mentioned to anybody in the street, usury, they haven't got the foggiest idea what the word means. No. They were using Well, we might not have to we might not use that word. You know, the use of words is this. And, look, we're right at the end of the show, really. We should be wrapping up. We can go on for a bit longer, but I was just gonna say, I've boiled it down. I mentioned it here before. This
Introduction and Show Details
Weekly Recap and Guest Appearances
Discussion on Russian Rockets
The Nature of Modern Warfare
Nuclear Weapons Debate
Electric Cars and Environmental Concerns
Sam Melia's Release
Vaccination and Global Health Initiatives
Christmas Songs and Parodies
Dancing and Cultural Traditions
Christmas Spirit and Traditions
Charity and Giving During Christmas
Classic Films and Nostalgia
End of Year Reflections and Future Plans
