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Welcome to another episode of the Kernow Connection, hosted by Mallificus Scott and Shelley Tasker.
Join us for an engaging mix of local news, historical insights, and personal anecdotes, all delivered with the unique charm of Cornwall.
[00:01:01]
Mallificus Scott:
Welcome 1 and all to the Kernow Connection, your little neural pathway to the southwest of the UK. I am your host, Malefika Scott, along with my co host, Shelley Tasker, who should be joining me right now.
[00:01:28] Shelley Tasker:
Good evening, mister Scott. Hello, missus Tasker. How are you? I'm jolly good. Thank you. Yourself?
[00:01:35] Mallificus Scott:
I'm living the dream. Good. So am I. The dream as always. Whose dream it is, I'm not quite sure, but I blooming will help hope they're enjoying it. Yeah. You might just wake up. Oh, yes. Okay. Well, we're we're coming live out of radiosoapbox.com. The, date today is 12th June, and it is 4 minutes past 8. Before we start here on the Kernel Connection, I should say that we here reserve the rights to all our works and all our thoughts. A thought worth bearing in mind for any practitioner of law. By the way, I just wanna say, this song goes out to my friend Gary and since he played it to me, I can't get it out of my head and it's been such a lovely day today.
It's been in my head all day. So here we go. This one's for Gary. I've
[00:03:08] Unknown:
Egypt come floating down the towns. Friends. Of cigarettes off the sun.
[00:05:45] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. I like that.
[00:05:50] Mallificus Scott:
Does that not make you feel summery or what?
[00:05:55] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. Nice tune. Nice tune.
[00:05:57] Mallificus Scott:
It's lovely. Gary played that on the show that he did with me and Patrick, the last show that he did, which hasn't actually been released yet. Spoiler alert. I'll talk about that in a bit. But I haven't been able to get it out of my head since. It's just it's such an earworm, that one. I just love the line, saw the pyramids out of Egypt, come sailing down the Thames, broke a little piece off to eat it, and sold it to my friends.
[00:06:25] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:06:26] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. It's a bit like the song, the whiter shade of pale, nobody really knows what it means.
[00:06:31] Mallificus Scott:
Well, the the the show that we did was about, pro, pro or anti or drug experience.
[00:06:38] Shelley Tasker:
Oh, okay. Yeah.
[00:06:41] Mallificus Scott:
That was obviously a drug experience one, I'm assuming. Oh,
[00:06:48] Shelley Tasker:
how are you, my lovely? I we we I haven't spoken to you for about a week. I know. I know. I'm I'm alright, my lovely. My lovely. We're all my lovely in Cornwall, aren't we? Everybody says that, don't they? You're alright, my lovely? No. I'm very well. Thank you. I'm a little bit tired because, I've been up since 4 AM because Wow. My I know my son had he's gone to Manchester for 2 nights with his school residential. And so, yeah, he had to be at school for quarter to 5. So yeah. I know. And then I surprised my daughter by meeting her at the gym at 6 o'clock. So, Oh, wow. Well done to you. That's motivated.
Well, I was up. It's like, do I go to go back and go to sleep for a couple of hours, or should I go to the gym? And I was like, right. No. I'm gonna do it. So Well done you. I would have been
[00:07:37] Mallificus Scott:
seriously tempted to go back to bed at that time in the morning.
[00:07:41] Shelley Tasker:
Oh, it was tempting. It was tempting, but you do feel good getting up that early. It's just a a bugger when you do, isn't it, really? I mean, I've been waiting to crash, and my brain's not really working, but, you know, just a little bit less than usual, which is not always best when it's, like, on form. But, no. So I'm tired, but apart from that nonsense. Well, but, yeah, life is good,
[00:08:05] Mallificus Scott:
mister. Wow. That's that's yeah. Wow. That's, that's amazing. You know, like I say, I think I would have probably gone back to bed if it was me, getting but having said that, you know me. I'm a night owl. Yeah. I do tend to,
[00:08:20] Shelley Tasker:
you know, keep quite late hours. I know you do because the sky pool start you lot come to life when I go to bed because my phone starts beeping, and I think, oh god. They're starting a phone call now. No. I can't join in because I'm in bed then, and it's like, no. I do think sometimes shall I just join in and just, like, say everybody ignore me, and I'll just listen to you all like a radio show? Because that can be quite, you know, nice as long as I don't have to speak. But, yeah, you are a nighter. Snoring in the background. Well, I do, the thing is we're a bit of a nighter. We are up till, like, midnight most nights. But I said to, like, Darren earlier, I could do this more often, but he said, you wouldn't be able to stay up till midnight every night if you're gonna get up at 5 o'clock and go to the gym.
So I don't know if we can swing things around, but who knows? It was nice to day anyway. Yeah. Well, no. Good on you for for, yeah, for for taking the, what, or for take for grasping the motivation and and not letting go of it. That's that's good. It's little things, isn't it? When I went to bed last night, I put all my gym stuff in the bathroom, and I thought, well, I'll put it on. And if I don't go, it doesn't matter. You know? But I had it on, and then,
[00:09:26] Mallificus Scott:
so it's like, well, I may as well go, you know? Joe, that's funny. You've just triggered a really weird memory for me. Right? Genuinely. Because your your lad's just gone off on a school whole school camp, hasn't he? Yeah. I remember school camp when I was in, like, the the the 4th year when I was it was like the final school camp ever of primary school, and I was so excited about going. I got dressed into all my I got got up at 11 o'clock at night because I couldn't sleep. I got dressed into all my clothes for the next day and then went back to bed.
[00:09:54] Shelley Tasker:
That's why I was Perfect idea. Yeah. I was perfectly ready. But yeah. So you didn't do that. You didn't go that far then? You just Oh, no. No. I was dreading the alarms not going off though, but Piran set his alarm as well. But it's like Christmas when you've gotta get up that early. You know? And he was gibbering all the way down to school saying, like, oh, I've been to Liverpool now. I've been here. I've been there. And, yeah. And I mean, 2 nights ago, he was, like, adamant he wasn't going. And I was like, oh god. Here we go. And I managed to persuade him by showing pictures of, like, the they go to, like, a globe snow globe place, where they do skiing and stuff like that, Sleighing. He saw the sleigh in the snow, and he was like, alright. I'm gonna go. Oh, wow. So it's 2 nights away. Yeah. They've been at Manchester, football stadium today and stuff. Oh, they're doing loads. So, yeah, it's lovely for them.
[00:10:41] Mallificus Scott:
That's great. Yeah. I bet it cost a pretty penny. Don't even tell me. Don't even tell me. I don't do you know? I don't care because his dad paid for it.
[00:10:48] Shelley Tasker:
So if he didn't go Well, there you go. Exactly. If he didn't go, I wouldn't have been too bothered because you know that we have this ongoing issue with my child maintenance.
[00:10:59] Mallificus Scott:
Yes. Well, we won't go there again. No. I will just say as a well aware.
[00:11:03] Shelley Tasker:
Well, I will just say, and I do feel better for it. I get a pound a day from him, and, I kind of flipped last week because I was I had a horrible cold, and I had a couple of low days. And it wasn't until we did the radio show. I was like, do you know what? I'm feeling a bit more alive and with it, but I got my £31 paid into my bank account, and I was just thinking about things, and I sent it back to him. And the word that I wanted to use, they wouldn't use let me use as the reference. So I just sent it back, and the reference was stick it up your ass. So, I you know, people say, oh, you're cutting your nose off despite your face. Yeah. Maybe I am. But £31, I'm like, yeah. Just get lost.
[00:11:46] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. Yeah. Do you know what? Do you know what? If you don't wanna make that much effort for your kid Yeah. Yeah, you can stick it up your ass. And do you know what? It's not cutting your nose off to spite your face. That's not allowing yourself to have the piss taken out of you. Excuse my language, folks, on the radio. I I know we are before the watershed at the moment. Oh, yes. Yes. But, yes, it does, yeah, it does
[00:12:07] Shelley Tasker:
So I thought if he doesn't go on the trip if he doesn't go on the trip, I wouldn't have lost anything, and that's just karma for his dad. I wanted him to go. Of course, I did. But, obviously, I didn't pay for it. So, anyway, he probably feels like a super, super duper dad than now he's paid for a school trip. So, anyway, moving on. Moving on. It's Wednesday. Talking, yeah, talking talking of paying for things. Crikey over.
[00:12:33] Mallificus Scott:
So living down here in Cornwall, the air is very salt, isn't it, down here? And if you live right on the coast, your cars don't last all that long unless they're very, very well protected with wax oil or all that kind of thing. Are you aware of this, Shelley? It's a well known fact that cars rust out quicker down here in Cornwall. I didn't know that. But okay. But, you know, not not helped obviously by the fact that and and what is I don't think there is another option other than heated roads. But, the fact that they spread salt everywhere. It's not grit. They're lying to you. It's rock salt. Right? They spread over the roads to stop ice from forming. So all that time, you're driving your vehicle over over salt, which is, like, the worst thing that you could possibly drive your vehicle over Yeah. Other than maybe, I don't know, lava?
So, so to cut a long story short, this week has been very, very expensive. I bought a van, or I don't know. Not a year ago yet. Maybe a year. And, the guy that sold it to me I arrived 10 minutes before that, my cat's meowing at the door. Sorry. Sorry, folks. I'm gonna have to let it in. Otherwise, it's gonna do everyone's headache. Come on. Come on. I'm not gonna call you what I normally call you because people just tuning in won't realize that you're a cat. Okay. So Oh my god. Do you call it pussy then? No. No. It's it's to do with the color of its coat. Let's not go there. Alright. It's not tabby.
And it's only to do with the color of its coat. It's nothing to do with anything else. Okay. It's just an ongoing joke in the household. Right. Yeah. Folks, if you wanna know what color my cat is, please just send me an email at [email protected], and I'll send you a nice photograph of my cat. This good looking cat, although she's rather irritating. So, anyway, to cut a long story short, yes, the I arrived 10 minutes before this guy because I knew where the van was, you see. So I arrived 10 minutes before this guy who was gonna sell it to me sold it to me, and I went underneath it. And a little screwdriver in my pocket and I was there poking away at bits and bobs and yeah! It was solid! It was solid! What I didn't realize was, later when it goes for MOT time that my mechanic was literally pulling metal plates off of the bottom that had been stuck there by this arse Oh.
So literally the, my my van I have had about a year, let's just say about a year, will not go through another MOT without spending serious money on it. So it's really not worth it unless you're a mechanic. So I've had to bite the bullet. So I've been van shopping today, which has actually been quite exciting. Yeah. I bet. Well, it's not because it's like, you know, partying with silly money, nowadays especially. But, yeah. So that's kind of my news. That's what I've been up to. I've had a very, a really irritate don't you just hate people like that? I mean, I'm gonna sell the van on, but I'm gonna tell them what's wrong with it. Do you know what I mean? And just be decent about it. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. You've got to, haven't you? Of course you have. Of course you have.
But, you know, my own fault, I should have had a mechanic come with me or something. I don't know. But like I said, I did go underneath the thing and poked it like crazy and yeah. Whatever. You didn't? Whatever. I just got sold a duffer, Shelley. Never mind.
[00:16:19] Shelley Tasker:
It's done a year for you.
[00:16:21] Mallificus Scott:
It's done a year. Yeah. Some expensive years driving, that was. So yeah. Anyway, more expensive than normal.
[00:16:28] Shelley Tasker:
So Well, talk about more expensive than normal. I mean, I know that olive oil is one of the most expensive things that's gone up. And when I went to Aldi yesterday, I bought a bottle of the nice stuff, and it costs more than a bottle of wine.
[00:16:44] Mallificus Scott:
Oh, easily? Yeah. I was like You don't even have to buy the nice stuff. No. Olive oil now costs far more than wine. So yeah. Because I won't cook I don't like cooking with anything that's pressed from a seed.
[00:16:56] Shelley Tasker:
Oh, okay.
[00:16:58] Mallificus Scott:
I don't like using sunflower. I will use it if it's there and there's nothing else, but no. Generally, I try and cook with olive oil because, well, my mate from Canada keeps banging on. Anything pressed from right. He's from York originally. So, hey, mate. Anything pressed with a c Pressed from a c is not good for you. Why? You know? Just in case anyone got confused and said, that's not a Canadian accent. He's from York originally. So yeah. And he's hammered it into me. And in actual fact
[00:17:29] Unknown:
so I I do try not to use oil pressed pressed from seeds.
[00:17:37] Shelley Tasker:
So They they tried to get it into us, didn't they, that olive oil was bad for you in all of these fats? And, actually, it's the opposite as usual.
[00:17:46] Mallificus Scott:
Rather like raw milk. Yes. Raw milk is bad for a few people.
[00:17:53] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. I'm gonna try and get some, actually.
[00:17:56] Mallificus Scott:
Oh, raw makes milk sales at the moment. In the US, they're they're, they they've had that whole thing about, bird flu infecting cattle.
[00:18:06] Shelley Tasker:
Right.
[00:18:08] Mallificus Scott:
Oh, just never ending in it. All this zoonotic nonsense, you know, anyway, so they've had bird flu in cattle, They'll have it in pigs next and then we can really can say that pigs might fly. But they've had bird flu in cattle and then they said about how raw milk oh no, that was it. They had they were talking about bird flu and some influencers. Some influencers, Shelley, on TikTok like that. I turned around and said, well, actually, raw cow's milk is really good for, you know, flu symptoms and this, that, and the other because of certain enzymes in it or whatever. I don't know. And then the next week, we had a mail online article saying, bird flu found in raw cow's milk.
[00:18:53] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. I never thought of it like that, actually. Yeah. I just, like, load of rubbish, but it's because everybody's moving to it. So it seems now like Holland and Barrett and all the health food shops are, like, growing. People are are much more aware about what they're eating, I think. And this whole gut health is massive. I don't even I didn't realize until a couple of years ago just how, you know, how important your gut health is and how taking antibiotics.
[00:19:21] Mallificus Scott:
Your gut. Yeah. Your immune system is largely in your gut. Yeah. So it's it's vital really, you know, that you do maintain a sort of you know, don't eat eat too much rat poison and and don't and like you say like you say, you know, antibiotics.
[00:19:44] Shelley Tasker:
Antibiotics can be just as dangerous. Yeah. Well, they reckon with the probiotics, but they're not you know, they say, like, thousands of probiotics in this make or what have you. It's a load of rubbish. How
[00:19:56] Mallificus Scott:
is this like the is this like the, yeah, the the the silly yoghurt y drink thing? Yeah. Yeah. Market. Yeah.
[00:20:02] Shelley Tasker:
I I met a lady on a sour milk in a in a Kraut. That's it. Whatever kraut is, a creamy sort of thing, a fermentation like process. I met a lady on Saturday, and she was saying that she had whooping cough. And I was saying, oh, my son's had whooping cough. Blah blah blah. Anyway, we got in this real in-depth conversation about gut health, and, gosh, she knew her stuff, but fascinating. Yeah. So there's a place in Lisgard, apparently, I need to get hold of to get this special stuff, but it's trying to well, it's probably not really that special. You can make your own and stuff, but, unfortunately, it's just a bit hard for me to try and get that in my son's diet because he's got a very limited diet. But I can probably sneak a little bit in, like mashed potato and stuff. You know?
[00:20:42] Mallificus Scott:
Yes. Don't serve. He's listening to the show. He's in Manchester.
[00:20:47] Shelley Tasker:
I probably noticed that. But, no, I'm just try I'm getting sneakily clever of how I can just try and get a bit of goodness into him. You know, I finally managed to get some vitamin c chewies in him. Well, I'd rather he have, like, the proper stuff, but it's better than nothing. And it's taken ages, and because he was that poorly, he agreed to take them. You know? So Right. It's it's been about nearly 9 weeks now with this cough. It is now phasing out, I've got to say, but, oh, it's just been awful. So, yeah, probiotics all the way.
Well, probiotics even But in in the natural sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:21:23] Mallificus Scott:
So anyway, well, look. I'm just gonna a couple of interesting things news wise in Cornwall. So obviously, you know, we are from Cornwall folks, so that's that's that's kind of where hits home for us first. So, I'm talking of hitting home, Suspected explosive shell found on beach. Well, looking at it, it's definitely an explosive shell. There's a picture of it on on the BBC news website. In St. Agnes Beach, which is obviously that's sort of halfway between me and you, isn't it? So, Yeah. It doesn't look old enough to be a World War 1 though, to me, but, I might be wrong. So any listeners that are listening Phil Hadley, if you're listening, can you please identify that that that shell for me?
That was a great show with Phil last week, by the way. Had quite a few people, talk to me about or write to me about that, one while the show was going on. So Great stuff. Yeah. That was that was good. It was re really interesting to hear about the, the shootout between the black troops and the white troops at at, was it Lisgard or Launceston? 1 of the 2.
[00:22:35] Shelley Tasker:
Can't remember. No. It wasn't the 2. No. It was interesting. Very interesting. And, yeah, Phil's actually offered to take me and the on a sort of war tour. I've had an email from him. Yeah. Very precise, isn't he, that same night? And it was like, we could do this. It'd take 5 hours, and I was like, whoo. Yeah. So I've I've messaged and emailed back, and I said, I'll speak to Maleficus, and we will Oh, I sorted. You said I'll speak to Shelley.
[00:23:01] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. I did. But this is the first time I've actually spoken to you about it, and I'm doing it on air. So there we go. But I think it'd be a good thing to, take him up on. I'd I'd Definitely. So, Definitely. Yeah. And I'll take some sort of recording device so that, you listeners can come with us. And, it should be quite an interesting little tour because Phil obviously really knows his stuff. So, yeah yeah good stuff So, another thing that I thought I'd bring up Cornwall news wise is close to home for me, Shelley. 2 men arrested on suspicion of murder after woman dies at Newquay
[00:23:38] Shelley Tasker:
Home. So that's that's the town I kind of Oh, I read I read about this home. Apparently, it's not a good place, is it? Several people have died there. Go on. Fill me in. Fill me in. Well, I just read the, read the article on it. Briefly remembered it. It said that this house is, well, just not a good place. People have died there. I think somebody was kidnapped there. I don't know. It's a big drug place. Wow. Yeah. That's all I know, really.
[00:24:05] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. Not good. Not good. Newky, when I was when I grew up as a kid, was was kind of a kind of a dodgy area. There were all there were dodgy areas of it. You know, there was always a lot of drugs in Yuki when I was a kid. But it's just sort of spiraled out of control now. Crazy. So a little smish little small not smishing, little small fishing village, really, you know? Come Holiday Resort. It's just it's just weird who who you attract in various places, isn't it? But,
[00:24:35] Shelley Tasker:
I think it's everywhere at the moment. Crime and stuff. Yeah. Crime. Crime and stuff. Crime and stuff.
[00:24:45] Mallificus Scott:
That was a great show you had with your 2 guests. I I caught the last 10 minutes of your show that you just had with shell you know, the Shelley Tasker show.
[00:24:52] Shelley Tasker:
And I didn't catch the names of the folks that you were talking to. But, yeah, they some interesting things to say. And and they're they're independent camps? They're both independent. And Debbie Hicks, she was the woman you might have seen the videos in COVID times. She was going around the Gloucester her hospitals filming that they were empty, and she got arrested the next night in a dressing gown and stuff. And then, Martin Castello, he is a former MP for the UKIT party a few years
[00:25:21] Mallificus Scott:
ago. So he knows his stuff. Yeah. No. Interesting. Interested to know what he thinks about the forming of UKIP. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. The money for the forming of UKIP just as the BNP were were gaining votes against the Labour and the Conservative. Yeah, and then suddenly UKIP it gets conjured into existence. So, Yeah. I'd be interested to have a chat with him at some point. I'm sure he could probably set me straight on a few things. Yeah. My suspicious mind and all that. You know, Shelley? My suspicious mind? Get in trouble for that sort of thing.
Oh, dear. You know, you can't think freely nowadays, not in the UK. Oh, no. It's a silly idea. Silly idea indeed. Well, look, we are coming up to the bottom of the it's your it's your kernel connection, isn't it, this week? It is. Did you get what I sent you? Very nice. You did. You sent the audio you sent me audio and the video. And the video. I didn't mean to send the video. I just Oh, okay. That's alright then. That's that's fine. That's fine. Yes. Folks, you are listening to radiosoapbox.com currently. We're not on the Hertz yet. We're not on the radio frequencies unless you're, have a very fancy radio, but, yet nevertheless, me and Shelley appear here once every Wednesday, and, obviously, Shelley's show is beforehand.
The schedule is building up on Radio Soapbox. Isn't it just Shelley? I hear Andy Hitchcock went live this week. Yes. I did see that. Yeah. Wowzers. About that. Yeah. Fantastic. Well, I'm really I haven't listened to the show yet. My MP 3 player is still broken, and I haven't replaced it. So, normally, I listen to shows fairly regularly. But, I don't know if you have phone, you could play it on that, couldn't you? If I had a modern phone, Shelley, yeah, I could. And I could join Telegram groups. Oh, you could. I could get the NHS app so that I could tell when people were near me with COVID, couldn't I? That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Wouldn't that be lovely? You don't have to have that app. Oh, yeah. I know I don't have to have that, but, you know, I just wouldn't be keeping up with the times if I didn't have that. You know? You just like being the odd one out, don't you? Oh, I love it. I know you do. I love you know, when people turn around to me and say, what you mean you haven't got a mobile phone? I was like, well, I haven't got a mobile phone. How hard is that to compute?
[00:27:41] Shelley Tasker:
The piece your life must have. I mean, I lost mine earlier for half an hour, and I was going nuts nuts because, software said that it was in this house. And I was like, no. I bet I've sent sent it over my granddaughter in her baby bag. But I found it outside, and my brain is just crazy today. But, yeah, they are a pest, and I think you do you get to I like to think, like, if I go to work, if the school phoned me or something we've always got an excuse, haven't we? Because even now, people say, well, when I was 11, I didn't have a phone. We managed.
[00:28:10] Mallificus Scott:
But if you can have that safety aspect, then Oh, yeah. Well, if you've got that safety excuse, yeah, you can you can use a mobile phone to your heart's content. Yeah. Everyone's got the, oh, what if I go out for a walk and fall over and break my leg? Well, what would have happened in the past? You know, you'd have flagged someone down and said, excuse me, mate. I've broken my leg. Can you give that?
[00:28:28] Shelley Tasker:
We were out having a stroll in the woods a couple of weekends ago when, was getting all stressed because we took a different turn, and then he was, like, really serious. He's like, what if we get lost? Darren hasn't even got his phone on him because I was like, that will be an adventure then, won't it? Yeah. It's an adventure. Exactly. That's exactly what it is. It's an adventure. Like,
[00:28:47] Mallificus Scott:
phones and Internet take all the adventure out of life and all the humanity out of it as well. So, yeah. No. I I am, as regular listeners will know, I'm not a mobile phone advocate at all. I hate the things. They they corrupt society. So, you know, do you know another thing that really annoys you? I'm not going to the bottom of the hour break yet. Do you know another thing that really annoys you? Get it off your chest. I've got to. Yeah. I've got to because, you know, we want peace and quiet for your kernel connection. You know what I mean? Right? What the other thing that really irritates me is loyalty cards. Things like Nectar and the Co operative are doing loyalty cards, and you get you get to pay this price if you're one of our if you're one in our club, you know, if you're in the co op club then you pay less than people that aren't in the co op club. And it's like, that's discrimination.
[00:29:41] Shelley Tasker:
Well, you should bring that up. That would be quite funny. Well, I have. Have you got a car up card? No. I don't agree with them. It's just a promotion. Because you're so bloody awkward, I don't know if you shop at Tesco's, and it isn't you're right because I won't pay the price. There's nothing worse when you're gonna buy something, and it says club card price, like, £2.50 less. Yeah. You're gonna get, I'm gonna use my club card. Are you cutting your nose off despite your face and, like, just spending more again because you don't wanna be in an agreement or anything. You don't wanna be part of the club. No. I just I simply don't buy the products.
[00:30:15] Mallificus Scott:
It's as simple as that. It really is as simple as that. Like, I went into Sainsbury's. Right? And there's a there's a there's a occasionally, not often, but occasionally, I'm partial to a a to a whisky and because I can't drink a lot of it, it knocks me for 6. I'm a bit of a lightweight when it comes to spirits, right? Kate and there's a lovely whisky called Cardoo which is and they do a gold version. And do you know what? It's lovely, but it's expensive. You go into Sainsbury's and it's like, oh, you can buy this for 26 quid and it's like, what? Really? It's normally like 40 quid a bottle. Yeah. Only if you've got a Nectar card. And it's just like, well, I'm not buying it then.
So I just got Shelly, I just go without. It doesn't bother me. I'd rather go without than than play their little game.
[00:31:04] Shelley Tasker:
Do you know what I mean? You're doing lots of these voices tonight, Maleficus. You're a bit wound up, aren't you? I am. I am. I'm sorry. Your car?
[00:31:13] Mallificus Scott:
I'm gonna I'm gonna calm down. Well, yeah, it's been a bit of a Your members' points. Bloody members' points. Bloody members' points. Oh, will you miss out then? You miss out. I will. I will. Good. Good. If you receive something for free, you are the product.
[00:31:31] Shelley Tasker:
Oh, so what? They've got my house address. I don't really give a shit. They can find out everything anywhere now. If it gives me a bit of money off, I'm doing it. They can't with me because I haven't got a mobile phone. No. But you're also spending more money, aren't you?
[00:31:47] Mallificus Scott:
No. I'm not. I just don't buy the phone. Don't have it. So you go without. You cut your nose off despite your face. No. I just, you know, I just learn I just learn Like me with my charm maintenance. Learn a bit of patience. I just learn a bit of tolerance. Tolerance. I because I'm not I'm not a very tolerant person, to be fair. But, no, I just, you know I look. It's all down to the serenity prayer, isn't it? You know? You always bring it back to that, don't you? I do. Yeah. But that I live my life by a lot that a lot of the time. You know? It's the wisdom to make the difference, which decides whether you're happy or not.
[00:32:20] Shelley Tasker:
Being wise enough to know the difference whether you can change something or not makes it you know, it's that I see. I think I did cut my nose off a bit despite my face for the £31 because that would have more or less paid for my eyelashes to be done. But, no, I'll have horrible eyelashes because of you.
[00:32:37] Mallificus Scott:
Because that's what your child maintenance really goes on for me. I'll tell you what then. Is that is that what's really eating you, the fact that you might have cut your nose off despite your faith? No. I just think £31.
[00:32:51] Shelley Tasker:
Feel like that. No. I just think 31. It is a piss take, but I suppose if you average that out over the year, that might buy, I don't know, something. But no. Well, £31
[00:33:04] Mallificus Scott:
a month. It's you know? Well well, I'll work it out over the break. It's not much. 12 times 31, So it's not that difficult. But, yeah. Tell you what, we'll go for the break because we are You won't lose out. We're well past we're well past the break. So I'm going to, put on a a a a little bumper for a couple of minutes so that we can go off and pour ourselves another cup of glass of Chianti or cup of tea or whatever it is that you folks like drinking as well. And if it's morning time over there in the States or afternoon time, yeah, it's 4 o'clock somewhere in the world, folks. Help yourself.
[00:33:41] Shelley Tasker:
Why not?
[00:33:43] Mallificus Scott:
Why not, indeed. Okay. Here's a here's a little something that we wrestled up a couple of months ago, and I think I played on one of the last shows. So, yeah. Here we go. See you in a few minutes, folks. The amazing mister Green on vocals there. So welcome back, folks. You are listening to radiosoapbox.com. It is the connection with, Shelley Tasker and myself, Maleficas Scott. Welcome back, Shelley.
[00:37:14] Shelley Tasker:
Welcome back,
[00:37:16] Mallificus Scott:
Thank you very much.
[00:37:18] Shelley Tasker:
So Have you calmed down?
[00:37:20] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. I have. I have, but I'm actually really chilled out. I'm just gonna sit back, with a with a glass of Chianti. As I said before, I haven't really got a glass of Chianti in front of me. But I'm gonna sit back now and just chill out and listen to your, Kurnow connection.
[00:37:34] Shelley Tasker:
Okeydoke. Right. Well, I've sent you across a couple of, thingy majigies.
[00:37:41] Mallificus Scott:
A a couple of thingy majigies, but you only need me to use one of them. Is that right? No. 2 if you can.
[00:37:46] Shelley Tasker:
If you can't use the other one, it doesn't matter because I know this. If I can actually I I will do it.
[00:37:51] Mallificus Scott:
I I can the first one, I can play straight away. The second one, I can so it can be grouped now. Oh, no. I can actually play it while we're on of course, because we're not using but to I'm using my but to transmit, so so I will be able to play it, but you might not be able to hear it, Shelley. So I'll let you know when it's finished. Alright. I'm sorry. I don't need it played yet, not till I've done the reading. Okay? That's alright. No worries. Okay. Right. Okay. I've got everything you need. I've got everything.
[00:38:16] Shelley Tasker:
Right. Well, here we go. Right. This week, my kurnow connection is about admiral William Bly. He was a disciplinarian and seaman, born Saint Trudy 1753 to 18 17. William Bly is a legend thanks to the movies. In Mutiny on the Bounty 1935, Charles Laughton in a classic of over the top acting played Bly as an a oh, god. My glasses are crap. I can't read those words. I blame it on the tool.
[00:38:53] Mallificus Scott:
Right. He loved Don't blame don't blame me.
[00:38:57] Shelley Tasker:
No. I want to blame you. I read this over earlier to check if I can read it all when I've just switched the light on, and I've got an eye test on Saturday. Anyhow, I'm just making excuses for being shit. Sorry. Right. Here we go. Okay. Right. And this guy liked to hand out a good flogging, 60 lashes, and lay it with a will. But then in the final reel of the film comes redemption in a heroic feat of seamanship. The difficulty in rescuing the truth from the myth is that the myth contains so much truth. Anger management was hardly Blythe's strong suit but seamanship certainly was.
There are two versions of his birth and parentage. One is that he was the son of John Bly, a native of Saint Q and born in Plymouth. His own is that he was born at Tinton Manor in Saint Toody in about 17/53 and was the son of Charles and Margaret Bly. His father, a customs officer, had ambitions from the first day that the Navy was to be William's career. When the family moved to Plymouth, the 9 year old William worked as a naval officer servant on a man of war. A good option in those days for smart lads and literally the best way to learn the ropes. At 16, he enlisted and at 23, he was sailing master of a ship. No mean feat for such a young man as it meant that he he was its chief navigator and one of its chief mapmakers.
Also, as that ship happened to be HMS Resolution, it meant that he would be under the eye of the 4th most navigator and surveyor of the 18th century, Captain Cook. The voyage ended tragically for Cook, killed in a skirmish with the Sandwich Islanders. For Bly, it afforded the best possible experience in surveying Eveneth when resolution returned to Britain in 17/80. The credit for his maps went not to him but to his superiors. To modern sensibilities, that seems outrageous. But at the time, it was all quite right and proper. The navy was elitist and no one doubted it.
Bly chafed not at the injustice, but at occupying a rank so far below his capacities. So he set about the social and professional gate crashing necessary to get a commission. As a rule, commission went to naval families or people with pull up the Admiralty. And in those terms, Bly's background was wrong. But But there was a war on. His obvious merits must have counted for something, and a good marriage may have helped too. In 17/81, he married Elizabeth Betham, daughter of the collector of customs for the Isle of Man, and shortly afterwards, he became Lieutenant Bligh.
6 years service followed. He saw action in battles with the French at the Dogger Bank in 1981 and at the Gibraltar underlord Ho in 17/82. And then in 17/87, he was appointed, still in the rank of lieutenant to control the bounty. The object of the bounty's famous voyage which had been planned by Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, was to gather breadfruit seeds from Tahiti and sail on with them to the West Indies where they would be raised as a crop to feed the slaves. Unfortunately, nothing went right. It was bad luck that the ship's volunteers contained 2 young gentlemen from the Isle of Man who were to make much mischief.
Fletcher Christian, a 23 year old midshipman looking to be commissioned at the end of the voyage, and Peter Hayward, a boy of 14. It was further bad luck that the bounty lost time. Unable to weather Cape Horn, it had to turn about and take the long route west to east and it was disastrous that arrived at Tahiti and with the breadfruit seeds safely aboard, it was now too late for a fair wind. Bly had to wait for 6 weeks till the season changed. Long enough for the crew to lose the habit of discipline on endless shore leave among all the 2 amicable people. When the ship did set sail, Bly's strictness met with not always dumb insolence.
Ironically, one cause of resent resentment was a health regime that was for everyone's benefit. As James Cook had done, Bly regularly called all hands to dance to keep them fit and made sauerkraut and lime juice compulsory items of diet to ward off scurvy. Some biographers think that whereas Cook could speak softly and be obeyed at once because he was tall, Bly struggled to command because he was short. Napoleon would have smiled at any idea that moral authority was measured in centimeters, and it seems likelier that Blythe struggle was simply with his temper, especially with people who were social superior like Fletcher Christian.
Rightly or wrongly, he persecuted Christian, accusing him of cowardice and theft. Wrongly and indeed criminally, Christian set himself at the head of the malcontents and there was mutiny on 28th April 1789. With 18 loyal members of his crew, Bly was put overboard in an open boat. The next 6 weeks proved that Bly could rise to heroism. His boat was 23 long, 6 feet 9 inches wide. He had no sextant, no chart. Thanks to strict discipline, careful husbanding of their rations, and brilliant improvisation, he made a sextant. Blythe sailed his little craft to Timor, a distance of 3,680 nautical miles. Wow. And all aboard survived.
They landed on amazing, isn't it? It is, really. Amazing. Yeah. They landed on the 14th June. Shh. Bly not only kept a full log of the journey, which can be read in Fasimil today, but obeyed his original orders and mapped the Indiva Straits on route. Chartering a schooner in Taima, his party returned next March in 1970. Cleared of all blame for the mutiny, he resumed his navy career, was promoted to captain, and by 17/92 was back in Tahiti, this time getting the breadfruit successfully to its destination in the West Indies. His nickname in the navy at the time was Breadfruit Bly, and his exploits earned him the gold medal of Society of Arts.
In more warlike mode, he took part as the commander of different ships at the battles of Camperdown and Copenhagen. His conduct in the latter earned him Nelson's praise for bravery. That year, he was also elected fellow of the Royal Society for his services to navigation and botany botany. And then from that high point, his life came full circle and involved him in another mutiny, this time on land. So that's a little bit about him.
[00:45:42] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. And I think he got high praise from Nelson. Yeah. Nelson is one of my one of my heroes.
[00:45:52] Shelley Tasker:
So have you not ever seen the film, Mutiny on the Bounty? When I was a tiny kid at Christmas. Yeah. Probably. So so it was based I remember anything about it? I can remember bits, But, interestingly, it's a film that I have seen many, many years ago. Like I say, I remember bits, and it was based on William Bly
[00:46:11] Mallificus Scott:
from Cornwall. Okay.
[00:46:14] Shelley Tasker:
So that's it, really. So I've got Should I should I play the the things that you've Yeah. Play the one that's, like, 4 minutes long.
[00:46:22] Mallificus Scott:
Okay. Because I don't know if we're gonna run out of time. First one. Is that the first one or the second one? Oh. The one that's a video or the one that's audio?
[00:46:31] Shelley Tasker:
I don't know. Just play anyone. It'll all be relevant kind of. One of one of them is a trailer for the movie, and it kind of tells the tale a little bit, and the other clip is a scene from the movie.
[00:46:44] Mallificus Scott:
Well, let's let's,
[00:46:46] Shelley Tasker:
let's just hit potluck.
[00:46:48] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. Alright. Let's hit potluck. I'll I'll play the one that I've got ready to roll, and that's this
[00:46:59] Shelley Tasker:
one. That's the right one.
[00:47:10] Unknown:
On December 23rd 17, 87, his majesty's ship, Bounty, sailed from England, bound for the South Seas. On route, they began a fantastic series of historical events, culminating in the most famous mutiny in history. The dramatic story of that mutiny has for more than a century excited the imagination of men, women, and children the world over. From initial conception to completion, Mutiny on the Bounty has been an unprecedented and exciting adventure in the history of picture making. The bounty herself, built in historic shipyards in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. First ship ever to be built from the keel up, especially for a motion picture. Then across the world, a truly global project through the actual locales, the islands of Tahiti and Pitcairn.
Tahiti, for generations, the dream island of the western world. A land of easygoing, fun loving people. A land that has always represented escape from civilization. A land where there is no time, no tomorrow, only today. Now Metro Goldwyn Mayer crystallizes the lure of adventure that beckons from beyond the horizon in one of the most extraordinary motion pictures ever made. Like all great motion victors, Mutiny on the Bounty is a story of people. You're going too lightly, Quintal. A story of provocative and colorful characters brought to life by unforgettable star personalities.
Marlon Brando is Fletcher Christian, an officer and a gentleman, a lover, yet a man among men. Trevor Howard is the infamous captain Bly, relentless and cruel. The bounty was his first command, and he intended it to be successful at any price. Mister Christian. Richard Harris portrays the reckless John Mills. The middle lord, mister Christian. And there is Torita, a luring daughter of an exotic land.
[00:49:26] Unknown:
Fletcher Christian is is my name.
[00:49:32] Unknown:
Is my name.
[00:49:34] Unknown:
No. No. No. Fletcher.
[00:49:39] Unknown:
No. No. Fletcher.
[00:49:41] Unknown:
It is a matter of supernatural indifference to me whether you contaminate the natives or the natives contaminate you. I have but one concern. Our mission, let any one of you provoke an incident which endangers it,
[00:49:56] Unknown:
and I should cause that man
[00:49:59] Unknown:
to curse his mother for giving him birth.
[00:50:02] Unknown:
That captain's deceit, not me.
[00:50:11] Unknown:
I wonder why an alleged gentleman should give his first loyalty to ordinary seamen. In my years of service, I have never met an officer who inflicted punishment upon men with such relish. Your lot puts a foot on me again. There'll be no more killing aboard this ship, not even captain Blythe.
[00:50:33] Unknown:
If that's an attempt to earn clemency, I spit on it.
[00:50:36] Unknown:
You remarkable pig. You can thank whatever pig god you pray to who haven't quite turned me into a murderer.
[00:50:45] Unknown:
Mutiny of the Bounty thrills with moments that will live forever in your memory.
[00:51:22] Shelley Tasker:
And that's that. No need for the other one. That'll be fine. I love I love the Hammy music. It is brilliant, isn't it? Yeah. What a such an old film. I I think there's been modern versions of it made as well, but I was surprised because I've watched that film, and he was that's based on a Cornish man. So Yeah. There you go. There you go. That excellent kurno connection, shall it? Thank you, mister Scott. Give give yourself a xylophone
[00:51:48] Mallificus Scott:
jingle.
[00:51:49] Shelley Tasker:
Hang on. I'll have to get it out of the cupboard. Don't worry. It's fine. I thought you'd be all prepped for me. Really do it for you, but
[00:51:59] Mallificus Scott:
there we are. Not sounding good tonight. You tune in. That was far more impressive than the ones you do for me. You had loads of notes in there. You've you've learned to play that thing really fast. Well, I'm still practicing my little drum, you know,
[00:52:13] Shelley Tasker:
along with my toys, but I just like having them. But, you know, hey ho.
[00:52:18] Mallificus Scott:
No. Excellent. Yeah. No. Interesting. I'm gonna have to revisit that film. Definitely. I think I will. I don't do fiction normally, as you know. But I'm definitely gonna have to revisit that film because, it's a Cornish boy, innit? Yeah. Yeah.
[00:52:33] Shelley Tasker:
He was quite a brute. Yeah. So it seems. Yeah.
[00:52:36] Mallificus Scott:
Well, I'm I'm not give gonna give anything away. I've got I've got quite a kind of exciting con kernel connection for you and the listeners next week. So I'll get into that next week. Now I did say, what was it? I said at the beginning of the show, spoiler alert, didn't I? What was the spoiler alert? Can you remind me? The spoiler alert was, No. No. No spoiler here. Oh, no. That's it. Spoiler alert. The Limeys is gonna be live this week. Me and Andy are going, live on Sunday morning to do the do the, Limeys show, which we don't normally do. So anyone that is up early enough, 10 AM on a Sunday morning, in the UK time, that is, you will catch me and Andy live. So any mistakes we make, yeah, you'll hear it all.
That's the great thing. Oh, that is good news. Yeah. Yeah. Please. It's great. I'm look I'm looking forward to it looking forward to it. I'm just I haven't, listened back to the Peter Hammond one he did yet this week. But, no. I will happily listen.
[00:53:45] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. And can I give a small spoiler alert? Go on. Excuse me. I cleared my voice. On Sunday, I'm starting a new show. Oh, good. Oh, yes. Quite different. I'm doing Women's Hour, and that's what it's gonna be. So I'm not invited then? No. You're not a girl. No men. No man will ever be on that show. It's just gonna be a nice relaxing hour. Could you just co op? We're so desperate. You can listen, but you can't join in. Yes. So I'm really excited about that because lots of things That's a really good idea. Yeah. Life and women and emotions and things like that. I've met some wonderful people the last week in women's circles, and weird things have happened this week, too long to go into.
But basically I saw a woman out chugging last week, and I've seen her several times before. At the traffic lights in Tuckamil, she's got a push chair with her with a baby in it, and she's in all her fitness gear, and she's doing star jumps. She's smiling. She's singing. Honest to God, you see her, and you just can't stop smiling. And I put a thing on Facebook saying, does anybody know who this lady is? Anyway, people send me her details. I've spoken to her, and she's gonna be a guest. I wanna speak to people that inspire other people and just random people. Inspire a bit of happiness. Inspire a bit of happiness. Yeah. Definitely. But again?
[00:55:14] Mallificus Scott:
Just yeah. Yeah. Again, that's what I know. I go back to it every time. That's what the serenity Press is all about. A little bit of happiness. Inspire a little bit of happiness, you know? Yeah. Folks, you know, don't don't worry about the things that you can't change. Just concentrate on having a having a good life and just just moving forward with it with the things that you need to do for for other people and those you love. That's it, isn't it, really?
[00:55:36] Shelley Tasker:
It is. Yeah. It is. The things we do for our hobby.
[00:55:41] Mallificus Scott:
Indeed. Well, look. I'm looking forward to that. I'm gonna have a listen even though I'm not a woman. So I I I was tempted to play Monty Python to play us out at the show, but instead, inspired by your connection Okay. Catch us next week, folks, on the kurno connection. Thanks for being here, Shelley. Okay. Catch us next week, folks, on the Kona Connection. Thanks for being here, Shelley. It's always a pleasure.
[00:56:07] Shelley Tasker:
Thank you. See everybody next week.
[00:56:11] Mallificus Scott:
Take care, folks.
[00:56:20] Unknown:
Winder blowing east near east, we had to give a shit. You ought to see us runnin', the winder blowing free.
Welcome 1 and all to the Kernow Connection, your little neural pathway to the southwest of the UK. I am your host, Malefika Scott, along with my co host, Shelley Tasker, who should be joining me right now.
[00:01:28] Shelley Tasker:
Good evening, mister Scott. Hello, missus Tasker. How are you? I'm jolly good. Thank you. Yourself?
[00:01:35] Mallificus Scott:
I'm living the dream. Good. So am I. The dream as always. Whose dream it is, I'm not quite sure, but I blooming will help hope they're enjoying it. Yeah. You might just wake up. Oh, yes. Okay. Well, we're we're coming live out of radiosoapbox.com. The, date today is 12th June, and it is 4 minutes past 8. Before we start here on the Kernel Connection, I should say that we here reserve the rights to all our works and all our thoughts. A thought worth bearing in mind for any practitioner of law. By the way, I just wanna say, this song goes out to my friend Gary and since he played it to me, I can't get it out of my head and it's been such a lovely day today.
It's been in my head all day. So here we go. This one's for Gary. I've
[00:03:08] Unknown:
Egypt come floating down the towns. Friends. Of cigarettes off the sun.
[00:05:45] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. I like that.
[00:05:50] Mallificus Scott:
Does that not make you feel summery or what?
[00:05:55] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. Nice tune. Nice tune.
[00:05:57] Mallificus Scott:
It's lovely. Gary played that on the show that he did with me and Patrick, the last show that he did, which hasn't actually been released yet. Spoiler alert. I'll talk about that in a bit. But I haven't been able to get it out of my head since. It's just it's such an earworm, that one. I just love the line, saw the pyramids out of Egypt, come sailing down the Thames, broke a little piece off to eat it, and sold it to my friends.
[00:06:25] Unknown:
Yeah.
[00:06:26] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. It's a bit like the song, the whiter shade of pale, nobody really knows what it means.
[00:06:31] Mallificus Scott:
Well, the the the show that we did was about, pro, pro or anti or drug experience.
[00:06:38] Shelley Tasker:
Oh, okay. Yeah.
[00:06:41] Mallificus Scott:
That was obviously a drug experience one, I'm assuming. Oh,
[00:06:48] Shelley Tasker:
how are you, my lovely? I we we I haven't spoken to you for about a week. I know. I know. I'm I'm alright, my lovely. My lovely. We're all my lovely in Cornwall, aren't we? Everybody says that, don't they? You're alright, my lovely? No. I'm very well. Thank you. I'm a little bit tired because, I've been up since 4 AM because Wow. My I know my son had he's gone to Manchester for 2 nights with his school residential. And so, yeah, he had to be at school for quarter to 5. So yeah. I know. And then I surprised my daughter by meeting her at the gym at 6 o'clock. So, Oh, wow. Well done to you. That's motivated.
Well, I was up. It's like, do I go to go back and go to sleep for a couple of hours, or should I go to the gym? And I was like, right. No. I'm gonna do it. So Well done you. I would have been
[00:07:37] Mallificus Scott:
seriously tempted to go back to bed at that time in the morning.
[00:07:41] Shelley Tasker:
Oh, it was tempting. It was tempting, but you do feel good getting up that early. It's just a a bugger when you do, isn't it, really? I mean, I've been waiting to crash, and my brain's not really working, but, you know, just a little bit less than usual, which is not always best when it's, like, on form. But, no. So I'm tired, but apart from that nonsense. Well, but, yeah, life is good,
[00:08:05] Mallificus Scott:
mister. Wow. That's that's yeah. Wow. That's, that's amazing. You know, like I say, I think I would have probably gone back to bed if it was me, getting but having said that, you know me. I'm a night owl. Yeah. I do tend to,
[00:08:20] Shelley Tasker:
you know, keep quite late hours. I know you do because the sky pool start you lot come to life when I go to bed because my phone starts beeping, and I think, oh god. They're starting a phone call now. No. I can't join in because I'm in bed then, and it's like, no. I do think sometimes shall I just join in and just, like, say everybody ignore me, and I'll just listen to you all like a radio show? Because that can be quite, you know, nice as long as I don't have to speak. But, yeah, you are a nighter. Snoring in the background. Well, I do, the thing is we're a bit of a nighter. We are up till, like, midnight most nights. But I said to, like, Darren earlier, I could do this more often, but he said, you wouldn't be able to stay up till midnight every night if you're gonna get up at 5 o'clock and go to the gym.
So I don't know if we can swing things around, but who knows? It was nice to day anyway. Yeah. Well, no. Good on you for for, yeah, for for taking the, what, or for take for grasping the motivation and and not letting go of it. That's that's good. It's little things, isn't it? When I went to bed last night, I put all my gym stuff in the bathroom, and I thought, well, I'll put it on. And if I don't go, it doesn't matter. You know? But I had it on, and then,
[00:09:26] Mallificus Scott:
so it's like, well, I may as well go, you know? Joe, that's funny. You've just triggered a really weird memory for me. Right? Genuinely. Because your your lad's just gone off on a school whole school camp, hasn't he? Yeah. I remember school camp when I was in, like, the the the 4th year when I was it was like the final school camp ever of primary school, and I was so excited about going. I got dressed into all my I got got up at 11 o'clock at night because I couldn't sleep. I got dressed into all my clothes for the next day and then went back to bed.
[00:09:54] Shelley Tasker:
That's why I was Perfect idea. Yeah. I was perfectly ready. But yeah. So you didn't do that. You didn't go that far then? You just Oh, no. No. I was dreading the alarms not going off though, but Piran set his alarm as well. But it's like Christmas when you've gotta get up that early. You know? And he was gibbering all the way down to school saying, like, oh, I've been to Liverpool now. I've been here. I've been there. And, yeah. And I mean, 2 nights ago, he was, like, adamant he wasn't going. And I was like, oh god. Here we go. And I managed to persuade him by showing pictures of, like, the they go to, like, a globe snow globe place, where they do skiing and stuff like that, Sleighing. He saw the sleigh in the snow, and he was like, alright. I'm gonna go. Oh, wow. So it's 2 nights away. Yeah. They've been at Manchester, football stadium today and stuff. Oh, they're doing loads. So, yeah, it's lovely for them.
[00:10:41] Mallificus Scott:
That's great. Yeah. I bet it cost a pretty penny. Don't even tell me. Don't even tell me. I don't do you know? I don't care because his dad paid for it.
[00:10:48] Shelley Tasker:
So if he didn't go Well, there you go. Exactly. If he didn't go, I wouldn't have been too bothered because you know that we have this ongoing issue with my child maintenance.
[00:10:59] Mallificus Scott:
Yes. Well, we won't go there again. No. I will just say as a well aware.
[00:11:03] Shelley Tasker:
Well, I will just say, and I do feel better for it. I get a pound a day from him, and, I kind of flipped last week because I was I had a horrible cold, and I had a couple of low days. And it wasn't until we did the radio show. I was like, do you know what? I'm feeling a bit more alive and with it, but I got my £31 paid into my bank account, and I was just thinking about things, and I sent it back to him. And the word that I wanted to use, they wouldn't use let me use as the reference. So I just sent it back, and the reference was stick it up your ass. So, I you know, people say, oh, you're cutting your nose off despite your face. Yeah. Maybe I am. But £31, I'm like, yeah. Just get lost.
[00:11:46] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. Yeah. Do you know what? Do you know what? If you don't wanna make that much effort for your kid Yeah. Yeah, you can stick it up your ass. And do you know what? It's not cutting your nose off to spite your face. That's not allowing yourself to have the piss taken out of you. Excuse my language, folks, on the radio. I I know we are before the watershed at the moment. Oh, yes. Yes. But, yes, it does, yeah, it does
[00:12:07] Shelley Tasker:
So I thought if he doesn't go on the trip if he doesn't go on the trip, I wouldn't have lost anything, and that's just karma for his dad. I wanted him to go. Of course, I did. But, obviously, I didn't pay for it. So, anyway, he probably feels like a super, super duper dad than now he's paid for a school trip. So, anyway, moving on. Moving on. It's Wednesday. Talking, yeah, talking talking of paying for things. Crikey over.
[00:12:33] Mallificus Scott:
So living down here in Cornwall, the air is very salt, isn't it, down here? And if you live right on the coast, your cars don't last all that long unless they're very, very well protected with wax oil or all that kind of thing. Are you aware of this, Shelley? It's a well known fact that cars rust out quicker down here in Cornwall. I didn't know that. But okay. But, you know, not not helped obviously by the fact that and and what is I don't think there is another option other than heated roads. But, the fact that they spread salt everywhere. It's not grit. They're lying to you. It's rock salt. Right? They spread over the roads to stop ice from forming. So all that time, you're driving your vehicle over over salt, which is, like, the worst thing that you could possibly drive your vehicle over Yeah. Other than maybe, I don't know, lava?
So, so to cut a long story short, this week has been very, very expensive. I bought a van, or I don't know. Not a year ago yet. Maybe a year. And, the guy that sold it to me I arrived 10 minutes before that, my cat's meowing at the door. Sorry. Sorry, folks. I'm gonna have to let it in. Otherwise, it's gonna do everyone's headache. Come on. Come on. I'm not gonna call you what I normally call you because people just tuning in won't realize that you're a cat. Okay. So Oh my god. Do you call it pussy then? No. No. It's it's to do with the color of its coat. Let's not go there. Alright. It's not tabby.
And it's only to do with the color of its coat. It's nothing to do with anything else. Okay. It's just an ongoing joke in the household. Right. Yeah. Folks, if you wanna know what color my cat is, please just send me an email at [email protected], and I'll send you a nice photograph of my cat. This good looking cat, although she's rather irritating. So, anyway, to cut a long story short, yes, the I arrived 10 minutes before this guy because I knew where the van was, you see. So I arrived 10 minutes before this guy who was gonna sell it to me sold it to me, and I went underneath it. And a little screwdriver in my pocket and I was there poking away at bits and bobs and yeah! It was solid! It was solid! What I didn't realize was, later when it goes for MOT time that my mechanic was literally pulling metal plates off of the bottom that had been stuck there by this arse Oh.
So literally the, my my van I have had about a year, let's just say about a year, will not go through another MOT without spending serious money on it. So it's really not worth it unless you're a mechanic. So I've had to bite the bullet. So I've been van shopping today, which has actually been quite exciting. Yeah. I bet. Well, it's not because it's like, you know, partying with silly money, nowadays especially. But, yeah. So that's kind of my news. That's what I've been up to. I've had a very, a really irritate don't you just hate people like that? I mean, I'm gonna sell the van on, but I'm gonna tell them what's wrong with it. Do you know what I mean? And just be decent about it. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. You've got to, haven't you? Of course you have. Of course you have.
But, you know, my own fault, I should have had a mechanic come with me or something. I don't know. But like I said, I did go underneath the thing and poked it like crazy and yeah. Whatever. You didn't? Whatever. I just got sold a duffer, Shelley. Never mind.
[00:16:19] Shelley Tasker:
It's done a year for you.
[00:16:21] Mallificus Scott:
It's done a year. Yeah. Some expensive years driving, that was. So yeah. Anyway, more expensive than normal.
[00:16:28] Shelley Tasker:
So Well, talk about more expensive than normal. I mean, I know that olive oil is one of the most expensive things that's gone up. And when I went to Aldi yesterday, I bought a bottle of the nice stuff, and it costs more than a bottle of wine.
[00:16:44] Mallificus Scott:
Oh, easily? Yeah. I was like You don't even have to buy the nice stuff. No. Olive oil now costs far more than wine. So yeah. Because I won't cook I don't like cooking with anything that's pressed from a seed.
[00:16:56] Shelley Tasker:
Oh, okay.
[00:16:58] Mallificus Scott:
I don't like using sunflower. I will use it if it's there and there's nothing else, but no. Generally, I try and cook with olive oil because, well, my mate from Canada keeps banging on. Anything pressed from right. He's from York originally. So, hey, mate. Anything pressed with a c Pressed from a c is not good for you. Why? You know? Just in case anyone got confused and said, that's not a Canadian accent. He's from York originally. So yeah. And he's hammered it into me. And in actual fact
[00:17:29] Unknown:
so I I do try not to use oil pressed pressed from seeds.
[00:17:37] Shelley Tasker:
So They they tried to get it into us, didn't they, that olive oil was bad for you in all of these fats? And, actually, it's the opposite as usual.
[00:17:46] Mallificus Scott:
Rather like raw milk. Yes. Raw milk is bad for a few people.
[00:17:53] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. I'm gonna try and get some, actually.
[00:17:56] Mallificus Scott:
Oh, raw makes milk sales at the moment. In the US, they're they're, they they've had that whole thing about, bird flu infecting cattle.
[00:18:06] Shelley Tasker:
Right.
[00:18:08] Mallificus Scott:
Oh, just never ending in it. All this zoonotic nonsense, you know, anyway, so they've had bird flu in cattle, They'll have it in pigs next and then we can really can say that pigs might fly. But they've had bird flu in cattle and then they said about how raw milk oh no, that was it. They had they were talking about bird flu and some influencers. Some influencers, Shelley, on TikTok like that. I turned around and said, well, actually, raw cow's milk is really good for, you know, flu symptoms and this, that, and the other because of certain enzymes in it or whatever. I don't know. And then the next week, we had a mail online article saying, bird flu found in raw cow's milk.
[00:18:53] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. I never thought of it like that, actually. Yeah. I just, like, load of rubbish, but it's because everybody's moving to it. So it seems now like Holland and Barrett and all the health food shops are, like, growing. People are are much more aware about what they're eating, I think. And this whole gut health is massive. I don't even I didn't realize until a couple of years ago just how, you know, how important your gut health is and how taking antibiotics.
[00:19:21] Mallificus Scott:
Your gut. Yeah. Your immune system is largely in your gut. Yeah. So it's it's vital really, you know, that you do maintain a sort of you know, don't eat eat too much rat poison and and don't and like you say like you say, you know, antibiotics.
[00:19:44] Shelley Tasker:
Antibiotics can be just as dangerous. Yeah. Well, they reckon with the probiotics, but they're not you know, they say, like, thousands of probiotics in this make or what have you. It's a load of rubbish. How
[00:19:56] Mallificus Scott:
is this like the is this like the, yeah, the the the silly yoghurt y drink thing? Yeah. Yeah. Market. Yeah.
[00:20:02] Shelley Tasker:
I I met a lady on a sour milk in a in a Kraut. That's it. Whatever kraut is, a creamy sort of thing, a fermentation like process. I met a lady on Saturday, and she was saying that she had whooping cough. And I was saying, oh, my son's had whooping cough. Blah blah blah. Anyway, we got in this real in-depth conversation about gut health, and, gosh, she knew her stuff, but fascinating. Yeah. So there's a place in Lisgard, apparently, I need to get hold of to get this special stuff, but it's trying to well, it's probably not really that special. You can make your own and stuff, but, unfortunately, it's just a bit hard for me to try and get that in my son's diet because he's got a very limited diet. But I can probably sneak a little bit in, like mashed potato and stuff. You know?
[00:20:42] Mallificus Scott:
Yes. Don't serve. He's listening to the show. He's in Manchester.
[00:20:47] Shelley Tasker:
I probably noticed that. But, no, I'm just try I'm getting sneakily clever of how I can just try and get a bit of goodness into him. You know, I finally managed to get some vitamin c chewies in him. Well, I'd rather he have, like, the proper stuff, but it's better than nothing. And it's taken ages, and because he was that poorly, he agreed to take them. You know? So Right. It's it's been about nearly 9 weeks now with this cough. It is now phasing out, I've got to say, but, oh, it's just been awful. So, yeah, probiotics all the way.
Well, probiotics even But in in the natural sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:21:23] Mallificus Scott:
So anyway, well, look. I'm just gonna a couple of interesting things news wise in Cornwall. So obviously, you know, we are from Cornwall folks, so that's that's that's kind of where hits home for us first. So, I'm talking of hitting home, Suspected explosive shell found on beach. Well, looking at it, it's definitely an explosive shell. There's a picture of it on on the BBC news website. In St. Agnes Beach, which is obviously that's sort of halfway between me and you, isn't it? So, Yeah. It doesn't look old enough to be a World War 1 though, to me, but, I might be wrong. So any listeners that are listening Phil Hadley, if you're listening, can you please identify that that that shell for me?
That was a great show with Phil last week, by the way. Had quite a few people, talk to me about or write to me about that, one while the show was going on. So Great stuff. Yeah. That was that was good. It was re really interesting to hear about the, the shootout between the black troops and the white troops at at, was it Lisgard or Launceston? 1 of the 2.
[00:22:35] Shelley Tasker:
Can't remember. No. It wasn't the 2. No. It was interesting. Very interesting. And, yeah, Phil's actually offered to take me and the on a sort of war tour. I've had an email from him. Yeah. Very precise, isn't he, that same night? And it was like, we could do this. It'd take 5 hours, and I was like, whoo. Yeah. So I've I've messaged and emailed back, and I said, I'll speak to Maleficus, and we will Oh, I sorted. You said I'll speak to Shelley.
[00:23:01] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. I did. But this is the first time I've actually spoken to you about it, and I'm doing it on air. So there we go. But I think it'd be a good thing to, take him up on. I'd I'd Definitely. So, Definitely. Yeah. And I'll take some sort of recording device so that, you listeners can come with us. And, it should be quite an interesting little tour because Phil obviously really knows his stuff. So, yeah yeah good stuff So, another thing that I thought I'd bring up Cornwall news wise is close to home for me, Shelley. 2 men arrested on suspicion of murder after woman dies at Newquay
[00:23:38] Shelley Tasker:
Home. So that's that's the town I kind of Oh, I read I read about this home. Apparently, it's not a good place, is it? Several people have died there. Go on. Fill me in. Fill me in. Well, I just read the, read the article on it. Briefly remembered it. It said that this house is, well, just not a good place. People have died there. I think somebody was kidnapped there. I don't know. It's a big drug place. Wow. Yeah. That's all I know, really.
[00:24:05] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. Not good. Not good. Newky, when I was when I grew up as a kid, was was kind of a kind of a dodgy area. There were all there were dodgy areas of it. You know, there was always a lot of drugs in Yuki when I was a kid. But it's just sort of spiraled out of control now. Crazy. So a little smish little small not smishing, little small fishing village, really, you know? Come Holiday Resort. It's just it's just weird who who you attract in various places, isn't it? But,
[00:24:35] Shelley Tasker:
I think it's everywhere at the moment. Crime and stuff. Yeah. Crime. Crime and stuff. Crime and stuff.
[00:24:45] Mallificus Scott:
That was a great show you had with your 2 guests. I I caught the last 10 minutes of your show that you just had with shell you know, the Shelley Tasker show.
[00:24:52] Shelley Tasker:
And I didn't catch the names of the folks that you were talking to. But, yeah, they some interesting things to say. And and they're they're independent camps? They're both independent. And Debbie Hicks, she was the woman you might have seen the videos in COVID times. She was going around the Gloucester her hospitals filming that they were empty, and she got arrested the next night in a dressing gown and stuff. And then, Martin Castello, he is a former MP for the UKIT party a few years
[00:25:21] Mallificus Scott:
ago. So he knows his stuff. Yeah. No. Interesting. Interested to know what he thinks about the forming of UKIP. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. The money for the forming of UKIP just as the BNP were were gaining votes against the Labour and the Conservative. Yeah, and then suddenly UKIP it gets conjured into existence. So, Yeah. I'd be interested to have a chat with him at some point. I'm sure he could probably set me straight on a few things. Yeah. My suspicious mind and all that. You know, Shelley? My suspicious mind? Get in trouble for that sort of thing.
Oh, dear. You know, you can't think freely nowadays, not in the UK. Oh, no. It's a silly idea. Silly idea indeed. Well, look, we are coming up to the bottom of the it's your it's your kernel connection, isn't it, this week? It is. Did you get what I sent you? Very nice. You did. You sent the audio you sent me audio and the video. And the video. I didn't mean to send the video. I just Oh, okay. That's alright then. That's that's fine. That's fine. Yes. Folks, you are listening to radiosoapbox.com currently. We're not on the Hertz yet. We're not on the radio frequencies unless you're, have a very fancy radio, but, yet nevertheless, me and Shelley appear here once every Wednesday, and, obviously, Shelley's show is beforehand.
The schedule is building up on Radio Soapbox. Isn't it just Shelley? I hear Andy Hitchcock went live this week. Yes. I did see that. Yeah. Wowzers. About that. Yeah. Fantastic. Well, I'm really I haven't listened to the show yet. My MP 3 player is still broken, and I haven't replaced it. So, normally, I listen to shows fairly regularly. But, I don't know if you have phone, you could play it on that, couldn't you? If I had a modern phone, Shelley, yeah, I could. And I could join Telegram groups. Oh, you could. I could get the NHS app so that I could tell when people were near me with COVID, couldn't I? That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Wouldn't that be lovely? You don't have to have that app. Oh, yeah. I know I don't have to have that, but, you know, I just wouldn't be keeping up with the times if I didn't have that. You know? You just like being the odd one out, don't you? Oh, I love it. I know you do. I love you know, when people turn around to me and say, what you mean you haven't got a mobile phone? I was like, well, I haven't got a mobile phone. How hard is that to compute?
[00:27:41] Shelley Tasker:
The piece your life must have. I mean, I lost mine earlier for half an hour, and I was going nuts nuts because, software said that it was in this house. And I was like, no. I bet I've sent sent it over my granddaughter in her baby bag. But I found it outside, and my brain is just crazy today. But, yeah, they are a pest, and I think you do you get to I like to think, like, if I go to work, if the school phoned me or something we've always got an excuse, haven't we? Because even now, people say, well, when I was 11, I didn't have a phone. We managed.
[00:28:10] Mallificus Scott:
But if you can have that safety aspect, then Oh, yeah. Well, if you've got that safety excuse, yeah, you can you can use a mobile phone to your heart's content. Yeah. Everyone's got the, oh, what if I go out for a walk and fall over and break my leg? Well, what would have happened in the past? You know, you'd have flagged someone down and said, excuse me, mate. I've broken my leg. Can you give that?
[00:28:28] Shelley Tasker:
We were out having a stroll in the woods a couple of weekends ago when, was getting all stressed because we took a different turn, and then he was, like, really serious. He's like, what if we get lost? Darren hasn't even got his phone on him because I was like, that will be an adventure then, won't it? Yeah. It's an adventure. Exactly. That's exactly what it is. It's an adventure. Like,
[00:28:47] Mallificus Scott:
phones and Internet take all the adventure out of life and all the humanity out of it as well. So, yeah. No. I I am, as regular listeners will know, I'm not a mobile phone advocate at all. I hate the things. They they corrupt society. So, you know, do you know another thing that really annoys you? I'm not going to the bottom of the hour break yet. Do you know another thing that really annoys you? Get it off your chest. I've got to. Yeah. I've got to because, you know, we want peace and quiet for your kernel connection. You know what I mean? Right? What the other thing that really irritates me is loyalty cards. Things like Nectar and the Co operative are doing loyalty cards, and you get you get to pay this price if you're one of our if you're one in our club, you know, if you're in the co op club then you pay less than people that aren't in the co op club. And it's like, that's discrimination.
[00:29:41] Shelley Tasker:
Well, you should bring that up. That would be quite funny. Well, I have. Have you got a car up card? No. I don't agree with them. It's just a promotion. Because you're so bloody awkward, I don't know if you shop at Tesco's, and it isn't you're right because I won't pay the price. There's nothing worse when you're gonna buy something, and it says club card price, like, £2.50 less. Yeah. You're gonna get, I'm gonna use my club card. Are you cutting your nose off despite your face and, like, just spending more again because you don't wanna be in an agreement or anything. You don't wanna be part of the club. No. I just I simply don't buy the products.
[00:30:15] Mallificus Scott:
It's as simple as that. It really is as simple as that. Like, I went into Sainsbury's. Right? And there's a there's a there's a occasionally, not often, but occasionally, I'm partial to a a to a whisky and because I can't drink a lot of it, it knocks me for 6. I'm a bit of a lightweight when it comes to spirits, right? Kate and there's a lovely whisky called Cardoo which is and they do a gold version. And do you know what? It's lovely, but it's expensive. You go into Sainsbury's and it's like, oh, you can buy this for 26 quid and it's like, what? Really? It's normally like 40 quid a bottle. Yeah. Only if you've got a Nectar card. And it's just like, well, I'm not buying it then.
So I just got Shelly, I just go without. It doesn't bother me. I'd rather go without than than play their little game.
[00:31:04] Shelley Tasker:
Do you know what I mean? You're doing lots of these voices tonight, Maleficus. You're a bit wound up, aren't you? I am. I am. I'm sorry. Your car?
[00:31:13] Mallificus Scott:
I'm gonna I'm gonna calm down. Well, yeah, it's been a bit of a Your members' points. Bloody members' points. Bloody members' points. Oh, will you miss out then? You miss out. I will. I will. Good. Good. If you receive something for free, you are the product.
[00:31:31] Shelley Tasker:
Oh, so what? They've got my house address. I don't really give a shit. They can find out everything anywhere now. If it gives me a bit of money off, I'm doing it. They can't with me because I haven't got a mobile phone. No. But you're also spending more money, aren't you?
[00:31:47] Mallificus Scott:
No. I'm not. I just don't buy the phone. Don't have it. So you go without. You cut your nose off despite your face. No. I just, you know, I just learn I just learn Like me with my charm maintenance. Learn a bit of patience. I just learn a bit of tolerance. Tolerance. I because I'm not I'm not a very tolerant person, to be fair. But, no, I just, you know I look. It's all down to the serenity prayer, isn't it? You know? You always bring it back to that, don't you? I do. Yeah. But that I live my life by a lot that a lot of the time. You know? It's the wisdom to make the difference, which decides whether you're happy or not.
[00:32:20] Shelley Tasker:
Being wise enough to know the difference whether you can change something or not makes it you know, it's that I see. I think I did cut my nose off a bit despite my face for the £31 because that would have more or less paid for my eyelashes to be done. But, no, I'll have horrible eyelashes because of you.
[00:32:37] Mallificus Scott:
Because that's what your child maintenance really goes on for me. I'll tell you what then. Is that is that what's really eating you, the fact that you might have cut your nose off despite your faith? No. I just think £31.
[00:32:51] Shelley Tasker:
Feel like that. No. I just think 31. It is a piss take, but I suppose if you average that out over the year, that might buy, I don't know, something. But no. Well, £31
[00:33:04] Mallificus Scott:
a month. It's you know? Well well, I'll work it out over the break. It's not much. 12 times 31, So it's not that difficult. But, yeah. Tell you what, we'll go for the break because we are You won't lose out. We're well past we're well past the break. So I'm going to, put on a a a a little bumper for a couple of minutes so that we can go off and pour ourselves another cup of glass of Chianti or cup of tea or whatever it is that you folks like drinking as well. And if it's morning time over there in the States or afternoon time, yeah, it's 4 o'clock somewhere in the world, folks. Help yourself.
[00:33:41] Shelley Tasker:
Why not?
[00:33:43] Mallificus Scott:
Why not, indeed. Okay. Here's a here's a little something that we wrestled up a couple of months ago, and I think I played on one of the last shows. So, yeah. Here we go. See you in a few minutes, folks. The amazing mister Green on vocals there. So welcome back, folks. You are listening to radiosoapbox.com. It is the connection with, Shelley Tasker and myself, Maleficas Scott. Welcome back, Shelley.
[00:37:14] Shelley Tasker:
Welcome back,
[00:37:16] Mallificus Scott:
Thank you very much.
[00:37:18] Shelley Tasker:
So Have you calmed down?
[00:37:20] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. I have. I have, but I'm actually really chilled out. I'm just gonna sit back, with a with a glass of Chianti. As I said before, I haven't really got a glass of Chianti in front of me. But I'm gonna sit back now and just chill out and listen to your, Kurnow connection.
[00:37:34] Shelley Tasker:
Okeydoke. Right. Well, I've sent you across a couple of, thingy majigies.
[00:37:41] Mallificus Scott:
A a couple of thingy majigies, but you only need me to use one of them. Is that right? No. 2 if you can.
[00:37:46] Shelley Tasker:
If you can't use the other one, it doesn't matter because I know this. If I can actually I I will do it.
[00:37:51] Mallificus Scott:
I I can the first one, I can play straight away. The second one, I can so it can be grouped now. Oh, no. I can actually play it while we're on of course, because we're not using but to I'm using my but to transmit, so so I will be able to play it, but you might not be able to hear it, Shelley. So I'll let you know when it's finished. Alright. I'm sorry. I don't need it played yet, not till I've done the reading. Okay? That's alright. No worries. Okay. Right. Okay. I've got everything you need. I've got everything.
[00:38:16] Shelley Tasker:
Right. Well, here we go. Right. This week, my kurnow connection is about admiral William Bly. He was a disciplinarian and seaman, born Saint Trudy 1753 to 18 17. William Bly is a legend thanks to the movies. In Mutiny on the Bounty 1935, Charles Laughton in a classic of over the top acting played Bly as an a oh, god. My glasses are crap. I can't read those words. I blame it on the tool.
[00:38:53] Mallificus Scott:
Right. He loved Don't blame don't blame me.
[00:38:57] Shelley Tasker:
No. I want to blame you. I read this over earlier to check if I can read it all when I've just switched the light on, and I've got an eye test on Saturday. Anyhow, I'm just making excuses for being shit. Sorry. Right. Here we go. Okay. Right. And this guy liked to hand out a good flogging, 60 lashes, and lay it with a will. But then in the final reel of the film comes redemption in a heroic feat of seamanship. The difficulty in rescuing the truth from the myth is that the myth contains so much truth. Anger management was hardly Blythe's strong suit but seamanship certainly was.
There are two versions of his birth and parentage. One is that he was the son of John Bly, a native of Saint Q and born in Plymouth. His own is that he was born at Tinton Manor in Saint Toody in about 17/53 and was the son of Charles and Margaret Bly. His father, a customs officer, had ambitions from the first day that the Navy was to be William's career. When the family moved to Plymouth, the 9 year old William worked as a naval officer servant on a man of war. A good option in those days for smart lads and literally the best way to learn the ropes. At 16, he enlisted and at 23, he was sailing master of a ship. No mean feat for such a young man as it meant that he he was its chief navigator and one of its chief mapmakers.
Also, as that ship happened to be HMS Resolution, it meant that he would be under the eye of the 4th most navigator and surveyor of the 18th century, Captain Cook. The voyage ended tragically for Cook, killed in a skirmish with the Sandwich Islanders. For Bly, it afforded the best possible experience in surveying Eveneth when resolution returned to Britain in 17/80. The credit for his maps went not to him but to his superiors. To modern sensibilities, that seems outrageous. But at the time, it was all quite right and proper. The navy was elitist and no one doubted it.
Bly chafed not at the injustice, but at occupying a rank so far below his capacities. So he set about the social and professional gate crashing necessary to get a commission. As a rule, commission went to naval families or people with pull up the Admiralty. And in those terms, Bly's background was wrong. But But there was a war on. His obvious merits must have counted for something, and a good marriage may have helped too. In 17/81, he married Elizabeth Betham, daughter of the collector of customs for the Isle of Man, and shortly afterwards, he became Lieutenant Bligh.
6 years service followed. He saw action in battles with the French at the Dogger Bank in 1981 and at the Gibraltar underlord Ho in 17/82. And then in 17/87, he was appointed, still in the rank of lieutenant to control the bounty. The object of the bounty's famous voyage which had been planned by Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, was to gather breadfruit seeds from Tahiti and sail on with them to the West Indies where they would be raised as a crop to feed the slaves. Unfortunately, nothing went right. It was bad luck that the ship's volunteers contained 2 young gentlemen from the Isle of Man who were to make much mischief.
Fletcher Christian, a 23 year old midshipman looking to be commissioned at the end of the voyage, and Peter Hayward, a boy of 14. It was further bad luck that the bounty lost time. Unable to weather Cape Horn, it had to turn about and take the long route west to east and it was disastrous that arrived at Tahiti and with the breadfruit seeds safely aboard, it was now too late for a fair wind. Bly had to wait for 6 weeks till the season changed. Long enough for the crew to lose the habit of discipline on endless shore leave among all the 2 amicable people. When the ship did set sail, Bly's strictness met with not always dumb insolence.
Ironically, one cause of resent resentment was a health regime that was for everyone's benefit. As James Cook had done, Bly regularly called all hands to dance to keep them fit and made sauerkraut and lime juice compulsory items of diet to ward off scurvy. Some biographers think that whereas Cook could speak softly and be obeyed at once because he was tall, Bly struggled to command because he was short. Napoleon would have smiled at any idea that moral authority was measured in centimeters, and it seems likelier that Blythe struggle was simply with his temper, especially with people who were social superior like Fletcher Christian.
Rightly or wrongly, he persecuted Christian, accusing him of cowardice and theft. Wrongly and indeed criminally, Christian set himself at the head of the malcontents and there was mutiny on 28th April 1789. With 18 loyal members of his crew, Bly was put overboard in an open boat. The next 6 weeks proved that Bly could rise to heroism. His boat was 23 long, 6 feet 9 inches wide. He had no sextant, no chart. Thanks to strict discipline, careful husbanding of their rations, and brilliant improvisation, he made a sextant. Blythe sailed his little craft to Timor, a distance of 3,680 nautical miles. Wow. And all aboard survived.
They landed on amazing, isn't it? It is, really. Amazing. Yeah. They landed on the 14th June. Shh. Bly not only kept a full log of the journey, which can be read in Fasimil today, but obeyed his original orders and mapped the Indiva Straits on route. Chartering a schooner in Taima, his party returned next March in 1970. Cleared of all blame for the mutiny, he resumed his navy career, was promoted to captain, and by 17/92 was back in Tahiti, this time getting the breadfruit successfully to its destination in the West Indies. His nickname in the navy at the time was Breadfruit Bly, and his exploits earned him the gold medal of Society of Arts.
In more warlike mode, he took part as the commander of different ships at the battles of Camperdown and Copenhagen. His conduct in the latter earned him Nelson's praise for bravery. That year, he was also elected fellow of the Royal Society for his services to navigation and botany botany. And then from that high point, his life came full circle and involved him in another mutiny, this time on land. So that's a little bit about him.
[00:45:42] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. And I think he got high praise from Nelson. Yeah. Nelson is one of my one of my heroes.
[00:45:52] Shelley Tasker:
So have you not ever seen the film, Mutiny on the Bounty? When I was a tiny kid at Christmas. Yeah. Probably. So so it was based I remember anything about it? I can remember bits, But, interestingly, it's a film that I have seen many, many years ago. Like I say, I remember bits, and it was based on William Bly
[00:46:11] Mallificus Scott:
from Cornwall. Okay.
[00:46:14] Shelley Tasker:
So that's it, really. So I've got Should I should I play the the things that you've Yeah. Play the one that's, like, 4 minutes long.
[00:46:22] Mallificus Scott:
Okay. Because I don't know if we're gonna run out of time. First one. Is that the first one or the second one? Oh. The one that's a video or the one that's audio?
[00:46:31] Shelley Tasker:
I don't know. Just play anyone. It'll all be relevant kind of. One of one of them is a trailer for the movie, and it kind of tells the tale a little bit, and the other clip is a scene from the movie.
[00:46:44] Mallificus Scott:
Well, let's let's,
[00:46:46] Shelley Tasker:
let's just hit potluck.
[00:46:48] Mallificus Scott:
Yeah. Alright. Let's hit potluck. I'll I'll play the one that I've got ready to roll, and that's this
[00:46:59] Shelley Tasker:
one. That's the right one.
[00:47:10] Unknown:
On December 23rd 17, 87, his majesty's ship, Bounty, sailed from England, bound for the South Seas. On route, they began a fantastic series of historical events, culminating in the most famous mutiny in history. The dramatic story of that mutiny has for more than a century excited the imagination of men, women, and children the world over. From initial conception to completion, Mutiny on the Bounty has been an unprecedented and exciting adventure in the history of picture making. The bounty herself, built in historic shipyards in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. First ship ever to be built from the keel up, especially for a motion picture. Then across the world, a truly global project through the actual locales, the islands of Tahiti and Pitcairn.
Tahiti, for generations, the dream island of the western world. A land of easygoing, fun loving people. A land that has always represented escape from civilization. A land where there is no time, no tomorrow, only today. Now Metro Goldwyn Mayer crystallizes the lure of adventure that beckons from beyond the horizon in one of the most extraordinary motion pictures ever made. Like all great motion victors, Mutiny on the Bounty is a story of people. You're going too lightly, Quintal. A story of provocative and colorful characters brought to life by unforgettable star personalities.
Marlon Brando is Fletcher Christian, an officer and a gentleman, a lover, yet a man among men. Trevor Howard is the infamous captain Bly, relentless and cruel. The bounty was his first command, and he intended it to be successful at any price. Mister Christian. Richard Harris portrays the reckless John Mills. The middle lord, mister Christian. And there is Torita, a luring daughter of an exotic land.
[00:49:26] Unknown:
Fletcher Christian is is my name.
[00:49:32] Unknown:
Is my name.
[00:49:34] Unknown:
No. No. No. Fletcher.
[00:49:39] Unknown:
No. No. Fletcher.
[00:49:41] Unknown:
It is a matter of supernatural indifference to me whether you contaminate the natives or the natives contaminate you. I have but one concern. Our mission, let any one of you provoke an incident which endangers it,
[00:49:56] Unknown:
and I should cause that man
[00:49:59] Unknown:
to curse his mother for giving him birth.
[00:50:02] Unknown:
That captain's deceit, not me.
[00:50:11] Unknown:
I wonder why an alleged gentleman should give his first loyalty to ordinary seamen. In my years of service, I have never met an officer who inflicted punishment upon men with such relish. Your lot puts a foot on me again. There'll be no more killing aboard this ship, not even captain Blythe.
[00:50:33] Unknown:
If that's an attempt to earn clemency, I spit on it.
[00:50:36] Unknown:
You remarkable pig. You can thank whatever pig god you pray to who haven't quite turned me into a murderer.
[00:50:45] Unknown:
Mutiny of the Bounty thrills with moments that will live forever in your memory.
[00:51:22] Shelley Tasker:
And that's that. No need for the other one. That'll be fine. I love I love the Hammy music. It is brilliant, isn't it? Yeah. What a such an old film. I I think there's been modern versions of it made as well, but I was surprised because I've watched that film, and he was that's based on a Cornish man. So Yeah. There you go. There you go. That excellent kurno connection, shall it? Thank you, mister Scott. Give give yourself a xylophone
[00:51:48] Mallificus Scott:
jingle.
[00:51:49] Shelley Tasker:
Hang on. I'll have to get it out of the cupboard. Don't worry. It's fine. I thought you'd be all prepped for me. Really do it for you, but
[00:51:59] Mallificus Scott:
there we are. Not sounding good tonight. You tune in. That was far more impressive than the ones you do for me. You had loads of notes in there. You've you've learned to play that thing really fast. Well, I'm still practicing my little drum, you know,
[00:52:13] Shelley Tasker:
along with my toys, but I just like having them. But, you know, hey ho.
[00:52:18] Mallificus Scott:
No. Excellent. Yeah. No. Interesting. I'm gonna have to revisit that film. Definitely. I think I will. I don't do fiction normally, as you know. But I'm definitely gonna have to revisit that film because, it's a Cornish boy, innit? Yeah. Yeah.
[00:52:33] Shelley Tasker:
He was quite a brute. Yeah. So it seems. Yeah.
[00:52:36] Mallificus Scott:
Well, I'm I'm not give gonna give anything away. I've got I've got quite a kind of exciting con kernel connection for you and the listeners next week. So I'll get into that next week. Now I did say, what was it? I said at the beginning of the show, spoiler alert, didn't I? What was the spoiler alert? Can you remind me? The spoiler alert was, No. No. No spoiler here. Oh, no. That's it. Spoiler alert. The Limeys is gonna be live this week. Me and Andy are going, live on Sunday morning to do the do the, Limeys show, which we don't normally do. So anyone that is up early enough, 10 AM on a Sunday morning, in the UK time, that is, you will catch me and Andy live. So any mistakes we make, yeah, you'll hear it all.
That's the great thing. Oh, that is good news. Yeah. Yeah. Please. It's great. I'm look I'm looking forward to it looking forward to it. I'm just I haven't, listened back to the Peter Hammond one he did yet this week. But, no. I will happily listen.
[00:53:45] Shelley Tasker:
Yeah. And can I give a small spoiler alert? Go on. Excuse me. I cleared my voice. On Sunday, I'm starting a new show. Oh, good. Oh, yes. Quite different. I'm doing Women's Hour, and that's what it's gonna be. So I'm not invited then? No. You're not a girl. No men. No man will ever be on that show. It's just gonna be a nice relaxing hour. Could you just co op? We're so desperate. You can listen, but you can't join in. Yes. So I'm really excited about that because lots of things That's a really good idea. Yeah. Life and women and emotions and things like that. I've met some wonderful people the last week in women's circles, and weird things have happened this week, too long to go into.
But basically I saw a woman out chugging last week, and I've seen her several times before. At the traffic lights in Tuckamil, she's got a push chair with her with a baby in it, and she's in all her fitness gear, and she's doing star jumps. She's smiling. She's singing. Honest to God, you see her, and you just can't stop smiling. And I put a thing on Facebook saying, does anybody know who this lady is? Anyway, people send me her details. I've spoken to her, and she's gonna be a guest. I wanna speak to people that inspire other people and just random people. Inspire a bit of happiness. Inspire a bit of happiness. Yeah. Definitely. But again?
[00:55:14] Mallificus Scott:
Just yeah. Yeah. Again, that's what I know. I go back to it every time. That's what the serenity Press is all about. A little bit of happiness. Inspire a little bit of happiness, you know? Yeah. Folks, you know, don't don't worry about the things that you can't change. Just concentrate on having a having a good life and just just moving forward with it with the things that you need to do for for other people and those you love. That's it, isn't it, really?
[00:55:36] Shelley Tasker:
It is. Yeah. It is. The things we do for our hobby.
[00:55:41] Mallificus Scott:
Indeed. Well, look. I'm looking forward to that. I'm gonna have a listen even though I'm not a woman. So I I I was tempted to play Monty Python to play us out at the show, but instead, inspired by your connection Okay. Catch us next week, folks, on the kurno connection. Thanks for being here, Shelley. Okay. Catch us next week, folks, on the Kona Connection. Thanks for being here, Shelley. It's always a pleasure.
[00:56:07] Shelley Tasker:
Thank you. See everybody next week.
[00:56:11] Mallificus Scott:
Take care, folks.
[00:56:20] Unknown:
Winder blowing east near east, we had to give a shit. You ought to see us runnin', the winder blowing free.
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