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Broadcasts live every Wednesday at 7:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com

In this lively Bonfire Night episode of the Shelley Tasker Show, I’m joined by my wonderfully sardonic co‑host, Mr Mallifficus Scott, for a warm, rambling catch‑up that swings from soggy UK weather and sleep‑deprived creativity to clocks changing, calendars, and the cozy comforts of autumn. We chat music-making mishaps, seaside nostalgia, wetsuit woes, the joys and perils of electric cars, and language quirks, before wading into spikier territory: remembrance parades and red tape, gender and changing‑room policies, schools and pronouns, ‘furries’ and litter boxes, and how bureaucracy and culture wars shape everyday life. We close with nods to news (Dick Cheney’s passing, prisoner release blunders), Cornwall curios, and a reflective segment on post‑WWII history that challenges received narratives—rounded off with tunes to lift the mood and see you into the week.

Expect banter, honesty, a few rants, and a lot of heart—from beach walks and Blackadder to harmonies, poppies, and the peculiarities of modern Britain.

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We had   a chance to turn the pages   over.   We can ride what we wanna ride.   We're gonna make ends meet. We've  

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Good evening you beautiful people out there. You are listening live to the Shelley Tasker Show.   And mister Scott is muted again. He does this every week.  

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I was waiting for an introduction.   Ah. What a shame. What a shame. I'll just introduce myself. Do it. To your co host, Malefika Scott.   I'm normally at least once wonderful at least once every, like, couple of weeks. It's just nice to see what the wording's gonna look like.  

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And I'm joined by my wonderful,   awesome, amazing co cod and host host voice mister Malefika Skov for a couple of hours of chit chat   and we could we entertain you.  

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Some things we may or may not cover in the show this evening. Migrant   who went   came to Britain, was sent back, came back again, has been sent back again. Are we paying for all this?  

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And a funny story.   My vet won't treat my son.   There's a strange one.  

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And the world is in mourning,   Dick Cheney died.  

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Gosh. I'm gonna have to Google Dick Cheney because I have no idea who that is.   Sorry.  

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Happy Guy Fawkes anyway folks.  

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What a tune. Remember people, yes, you are the voice.   Well, good evening ladies and gentlemen, beautiful people out there, you are listening to the Shelly Tasker Show coming live from radiosoapbox.com,   also being aired on Clear Air FM, the Sound of Freedom, It's good to have your company.   Happy hump day. It is bonfire night.   And here I am again with my wonderful co host, mister Maleficar Scott. Good evening, sir.  

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You you can quit with the buttering up.  

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I'm already offended. You haven't asked too late. You were offended.  

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So what? I can be offended. We covered that last week, didn't we? We did. So what? You can be offended. I'm not gonna wake up in the morning with leprosy. It'll be fine.  

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But secretly, you're hurt. You're hurt by my actions or should I say my non actions. You're hurt.  

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There might be a a part of my little toenail that is feeling slightly tender at this moment but other than that, no, I'm I'm good honestly. You're all man. You're all man. Rather rather than rather than going through bulletins,   at the beginning of the music intro, we just ribbed each other. Great. Well done.  

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I did have something to say. I know. But I just had to, you know, there we are. Anyway, how are you doing, my lovely?  

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I'm alright. I'm alright. It's been a bit of a drier day today. So, yeah, it's been pretty, yeah, it's been a pretty grueling couple of weeks weather wise.   But no, I'm good. I'm absolutely shattered, I have to say. Didn't get much sleep last night. And,  

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just I don't know. Oh, I know. Because you were busy. Because you sent me a song at quarter to one that I haven't had a chance yet to play.   And I gather after you've done that you're still bouncing full of energy and then you're up half the night buzzing, aren't you?  

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Well, no. The the actually, the tune I sent you, I I did earlier in the day. Oh. I actually had,   friend of show, mister Von Kirk, come round and,   you know, you know, me and my weird timing's right.   So   it's quite sometimes I write stuff, it's quite difficult to sort of   gauge whether it's four four or whether it's, you know, whether it's in standard time or or maybe not difficult to gauge that, but it's sometimes difficult with my strumming patterns and particularly my lyric patterns to sort of come up with something that doesn't interfere,   or or compliments, should I say. And, he was around for a couple of hours last night. I have to say,   nailed it. Nailed it. From what I was listening, it was was sounding really good. So,   yeah, some some things are moving in in that department. So before you ask me what I've been up to, obviously, I've been making music this week.  

Been working in the rain, as I've already insinuated.   And,   yeah, just generally living the hell out of life. That's what you've gotta do, isn't it?  

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It is, but I see, I'm at that point now. I just want a few evenings in.   It's bad, isn't it? I mean, tonight is my last sleep at work, and I've got eight whole nights off then, which I can't wait. Oh, wow. Oh, so need it.   And then,   tomorrow night we're out and then,   Saturday night we're out and I'm like, oh, do you know what? I just actually wanna stay in and watch crap TV. I think the weather has now hit me.   I need to recluse,   stay in my dressing gown and pyjamas, light a candle and just have a bit of cozy comfort time,  

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not thinking about stuff, just need a bit I totally get you. I totally get you. It's that that sort of vegetative time where it doesn't matter if there's crap TV or not. You're just happy. You just sat sat. You know what I mean?   But I think it's partly because they, you know, this this stupid daylight saving nonsense and they mess with the time every year. So it messes with your body clock every year as well. So it gets to, like,   would be, you know, half past five in the evening, and it's actually half past four in the afternoon, and it's getting dark, and it's like,  

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you know, it makes you feel more fatigued, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's crept up on me the last day in particular, actually. Hence, I wasn't bouncing. Good evening, mister Scott. Be awesome, mister Scott. I'm a little bit, but I'm trying to lift myself.  

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It's the thought of, oh, I've gotta go to work in a little bit. But like I know. And when you've when when you're doing shifts like you're doing as well, it's like,   I mean, I used to do when I worked within the care industry,   I   some of my shift, in fact, all my shifts start at 02:00 in the afternoon.   Nice. And you've got the well, yeah. But the thing is you've got all this stuff  

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just waiting for you and you don't really feel like you can do anything with the day. Do you know what I mean? Yep. Yep. Totally get you. It's just hanging over your head or hanging around your neck like an albatross as they say. Yeah. But I should be buzzing because I should be thinking, right, it's the last sleep at work tonight and then I've got eight whole evenings at home, you know. But, yeah, you're right about that hour, as much as I love it. I mean, the only positive thing so far is the time is actually right in my car.   And it's, the next six months, yeah, I never do.  

It's like, you, the time is right again.  

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So, yeah. That's that's that's funny. Like, it's it's weird, actually.   So I, as you know, last year got a a reasonably   new ride. It's nearly, still nearly ten years old, but it's relatively new van for me.   And before that, my my old van, which was ancient,   the clock used to change itself.   Right? And maybe maybe the listeners might be able to enlighten me on this. Right? But the clock used to change itself on my old Citroen Bolingo that I had.   It was a great little car, but, you know, it was   it was what it was.   But my my modern day,   like, Ford Transit   thing,   I've had to manually change the clock on. Now do you remember I don't know whether you remember. Me and Andy covered   on,   Andy's show or, like, our show, The Limeys, when I was on with Andy. We covered the fact that   the BBC   was switching off   the signal that told all the,   Economy Seven. So over here in The UK, we used to have a thing called Economy Seven, whereby the electricity went cheaper at night time if you were on a certain tariff. Mhmm. Everyone used it just to for their night storage heaters and all that kind of thing.  

And the BBC announced I think last year that they were switching off that thing   that switched over to Economy Seven. So everyone was just gonna have to be stuck with whatever tariffs   they were left with, you know. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I'm just wondering whether the signal for the clocks changing   was through the same   transmitter, quote, unquote, or the same transmission.   Because my modern day van, I've had to manually change the the time on it. How inconvenient. My old yeah. But my old, like, crappy Citroen Bolingo did it did it itself. Or I had to wait a day,   but it did it itself.  

Yeah. Yeah. I can't explain that away. I I I can only think it might be down to this radio signal thing to do with the,   you know, the cheap electricity, the economy seven switch over. So, yeah, if any listeners can enlighten me on that, I'd be really, really happy. It'll, you know, I'm Would you just make his day?   The mind won't work. I I suppose I could go and Google it. Yeah. I just You could. If anyone's got the answer just off the cuff, yeah, just let me know, will you?  

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Yeah. Little things. Little things that we question. I've I mean, I know you don't do the whole chat GBT, but that is my best friend.   Anything, I regularly type in things every day   to get answers. And more than often it is right.   Statistics, things like that. Yeah, it's good.   But, yeah, if you have chat GPT   you could just even speak that and ask it. Yeah.   Have I sold you a phone yet?  

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No. You haven't sold me a phone. Do you know what? I would rather spend   my phone's my phone. Yeah. I would rather spend the mental energy in in going and researching it and looking at it for myself. Because I think, not being funny, if you're told something,   it doesn't sink in. If you have to go and find it out for yourself, it's rather like when you write your shopping list. Mhmm. You know what you need for shopping, but the simple act of writing it on the list,   embosses it on some, like,   molecule in your brain, which actually helps you remember.  

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I know what you're saying. Synapse, whatever. So  

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the the the the practice of actually going and doing it yourself helps with the memory process, I guess is what I'm saying in simple terms. But that's why I still use a paper calendar.  

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And my other half often gets frustrated with me because   I take photos   of my calendar   and then if somebody asks me what I'm doing that day and I'm out, I just find the photo. And he's like, why don't you just put it all online? I'm like, but I need to visually   see it laid out big.   And, you know, when shifts come in, because they always come in by email,  

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there and then you've got to be quick to respond. I need that visual sign rather than going in and scrolling through and, you know, my brain's not the best anyway. You know? It's thinking. You've you've just got me thinking on another track. If they switch off people's access to stuff at a later date, like, in years to come, whatever, as as everyone's sort of predicting, if they switch off people's access to stuff,   wow, life's gonna be a real hassle if people have actually gotta use a physical calendar, isn't it?  

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Oh, but actually, then I think looking at looking at that calendar. Use a physical calendar. But that does stress me out sometimes, I see all the scribbles all over it every day and I'm like, ugh.   But, yeah, lists and things, I get what you're saying, but I still go shopping, I write a shopping list and I always forget it. And my brain at the moment, it's terrible. I have really hit that age, you know. I went to   Aldi yesterday morning to get some few to get a few bits. And then later on, it was like, oh, easy tea. I can't be arsed tonight.   Oh, Shelly, you forgot to get the pasta, you forgot to get the sauce and the garlic bread. Back to Tesco's again. And then I actually set my I know. And then I had to do something last night, I needed to send something to a friend. So I set an alarm   on my phone but by the time the alarm had gone off, I couldn't remember what it was for. I was like, I'm supposed to be doing something.  



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My brain, it's not good at the moment, I tell you. No. Well, yeah. It's that's, you know, that's a it's a tough it's a tough thing, ain't it? It really is a tough thing.  

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Not being a woman.   Well, yeah. Just well, having reaching that time of life. That age. Yeah. And it is. I'm I'm in on on all of these, like, Facebook groups and I read these   stories of women that are, like, deranged and   suicidal because they just don't know what's happening to them.   They're going nuts.  

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The thing is the the the I think nature's very cruel in that way. My dad always puts it this way as well. He's, you know, nature's very cruel. Men are very lucky in the respect that,   you know, their their body is   Stays the same. Well, no. It doesn't stay the same. We we have a menopause as well, but it's much, much, much more gradual.   Do you? Whereas  

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What's a what's a male menopause then? What does that entail? So so basically,  

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essentially.   Sorry. Yeah. But yeah. Basically, the menopause is caused by the lack of production of estrogen in your system. Mhmm.   So, the male the, like, the the production of testosterone in the male system happens an awful lot slower.  

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Oh, so you just get a little bit of a reduced sex drive. Is that it? Yeah. Is that it? Is that your male menopause? I I don't know. I haven't been through it yet.  

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Take from that what you will.  

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Don't join any women's group and just say I've got this problem, please.   No. No. No. No. That's  

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what I'm saying. But the thing is, for women, it's you you reach a certain point, and your body just says, actually, sorry. No. You're not having any more estrogen. Well, we'll let you have some, but a really, really small amount, and it's really not gonna be what not what you you know, it's it's not gonna be what you're used to. And, unfortunately,   you're you're on cold turkey whereas men don't get that. So there is you know, there there there is a menopause for men, but it's a lot more of a gradual thing and it's just not an issue. It's just, you know, they they slowly stop, I suppose,   making it waking up with morning word or something. I don't know. I don't know.  



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Well, if there's any male listeners that would like advice, please get in touch with mister Scott. He will be happy to help you and listen.  

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No. I really don't wanna hear any male   It's what we should do. I'm only enough. Yeah. That's the difference between men and women, Shelley, is is that men men don't like to talk about men's problems. Women will happily talk with each other about women's problems. Absolutely.   Yeah. Until the cows come home. Yeah. And to everyone that about that, lad, it's private.  

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And to anyone that will listen, basically. Yeah.  

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Yeah. Well,   tick box, you've achieved that one.  

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Yeah.   Well, it can only go one way or the other, can't it? Anyway, I'm not stressing, but it's just I think it's that time of the year, isn't it? And I know November. I always remember going to the doctors several years ago,   because, you know, I've probably said before I've been on antidepressants for, oh, twenty odd years.   And I've come off them and struggled   massively. And then it's like my mum said to me: What is the point of going through that for the sake of like one little tablet a day? And it does really help me. I always remember the doctor say in November, if anybody's gonna suffer from November, as soon as that hour changes,   the longer days, and it's just dark all day, isn't it? But Yeah. You know, it's gonna it's gonna hit you. And I'm thinking as much as I love this time of year, there's still a bit of me now, like, come on, summer. You know, we've just come out of it. So but a while to go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Looking forward to lighting cigarettes off the sun again. So that's Yeah. I'm playing your summer song.  



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Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, don't get me wrong. I don't mind the wind. I love being, like, tucked up warm when it's when the weather's atrocious outside I love it. Yeah. Bouncing off the windows and all that kind of thing. We've said it before on the show, but it there's something really nice. It's just just about   being inside and warm and Yeah. Comfortable   while all that's going on, you know. Something like  

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It's just cozy. Genetically inbuilt   Yeah. In all of us. You know what I mean? Roofing My son got into yeah. My son got into bed with me last night, and he said,   he said, mom, I've taken that flag out of the window.   It's because I had it hanging from his window.   He said, so I can open the window and listen to the rain. I was like, oh, that's so lovely.   The little things.  

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Yeah. No. It is that. I mean, one thing I really miss is,   going to bed at night and listening to the sea, because I used to I grew up Oh, I would love that.   Eighteen,   twenty years just, you know,   even when the windows were shut, you could hear the sea. You couldn't get rid of the noise of the sea.   So we were literally a a mile up a mile up above the shoreline, you know, so,  

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That does sound like heaven. I have times when I, like, just play,   just the sea in the background, you know, just for that calming environment and just yeah. Sometimes  

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but again, the same thing when it's when it's   dreadful storms and stuff outside, sometimes the sea would be so noisy   that you'd hear it crashing against the cliffs above the wind and stuff, you know, and it was just like,   and you still get that same sort of feeling of, oh, it's it's nice and warm in here. Yes. You know? If anyone's ever watched an angry sea, you know, just yeah. Yeah.  

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We're we're lucky, aren't we? Because the the sea, the beach is my place, and I always think I'm so lucky. We're also lucky to live in Cornwall, but to drive ten minutes to the beach   and walk the dog, you know, oh, it's just heaven and I love going in the sea. I did go in last time, probably about a couple of weeks ago and and it has started to get cold now,   but I think I need a thicker wet suit, but then obviously the thicker they get, the harder they are to get on.  

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Yeah. But, yeah, it's just my case. When you're cold, when you're when your fingers and hands are cold,   they're harder to get off too.   I remember the one of the last times I ever went surfing, I remember coming home with like   literally, I had a navy blue wetsuit and and my feet were pretty much the same color as the wet I was frozen,   absolutely frozen. The last time I went out for a winter surf,   and I was absolutely frozen, walked home   in in bare feet   up the hill,   and,   I was just sat in the garden, I just could I could I have I just didn't have the strength in my fingers to peel the wetsuit off. It was just and I was getting so frustrated as a kid.  

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They are hard work, aren't they? When I went out probably about six or seven weeks ago, I thought, right, I finished the shift. It was a gorgeous day. I'm gonna go swimming with the dog.   It was a nightmare actually taking him. But I was in my room and I just got my wetsuit on up to my waist and I couldn't get the zip going.   And I was even texting my neighbor, are you in, are you up?   And then I had to take it all the way down to my ankles again to kind of   get it going just a couple of inches on the zip   and then I could manage to get it all up. And then I went down to the beach and I thought I'd be very clever because I'd seen this lady do it with her dog and I tied Cooper up with one of those things that go into the sand that meant for camping really and I put him on like a long lead and he was howling and basically after two minutes he was in the sea with me with dragging the the corkscrewing   around, yeah, 10 meter line with him and I can enjoy swimming in the sea with him because he kind of goes into rescue dog mode. He thinks I'm drowning, won't leave me alone and every wave that crashes on him, he's jumping up and trying to eat it with his mouth. And   it's just too stressful. I'm like, nah. I'm not taking the dog when it's just me you know.  



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Yeah no definitely not, but then I don't I don't go in the sea a lot now   anyway, okay in fact I can't actually remember the last time I went in the sea, how about you? Oh that is bad, that is bad,   Oh, I love it. I just absolutely love it. Time well, said last time that I went surfing in the sea,   and struggled to get my wetsuit off and all that kind of thing and,   woke up in the middle of the night and just threw up everywhere because there was that much just nasty stuff in the sea.  

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So you swallowed a lot.  

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Yeah. So I'd obviously, you know, well, no, I hadn't swallowed a lot. It's just obviously, you know, what the Southwest Water do with all the sewage that they can't cope with,   they just eject it into the sea. So I reckon that's probably what happened and that was the last time I went flipping surfing when I was a kid. I think I was about   17,   16, 17, that was the last time I went surfing. I've been in the sea since, but Mhmm. Nah. No. I'm just not   yeah. Nah.  

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Nah. Not for you. No. I love it. I would have I would have hoped that Darren would have done a bit more like when we went on holiday,   we went on a boat trip. We only did one trip because it was just literally too hot and you stopped at like five different places   that you could get out and have a swim and it was just magical.   You know, when you can see everything below you. But it was still cold, it like literally   caught my breath as it quite often does when I get in the sea. I am that, I do struggle with the cold. I quite admire these people that go in and do cold water swimming but it does literally take my breath away.   And you're like   I'm gonna breathe. Fine.  

Oh, it's my back. Yeah. Yeah. I can imagine.   Woo   hoo.  

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Yeah. I think Billy Connolly did a sketch on that about his parents taking him on holiday to the North Sea or something like that.   Right. And then we go swimming and coming coming back with nothing nothing there.  

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Well, I mean, you know, when you're in places when we were on holiday on the last night, we had a little walk across the beach, and I was like, come on, let's go and have a swim. He's like, no. Oh, come on, don't be so boring.   He wouldn't get in. You could just walk in, it was just so warm. And then we went and found this little cafe that was, like, right next to our hotel that served English fish and chips. And it was lovely having fish and chips and a glass of wine last night in this really quiet bar at, like, midnight.  

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Nice. Oh, I do love holidays. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't been on, like, proper, like, overseas holiday for years.   For years. I think the last time I went was just somewhere, like, a family orientated thing, but I think that was when my 20 year old daughter was two.  

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Quite kidding. I haven't  

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been overseas   for about eighteen years, other than when I went to visit my mate   in Lithuania. I went there for his daughter's christening.   That was an eye opener. Really, really, cool bunch of people, actually. The all all the Lithuanians I met were really lovely bunch of people.   So I don't know what other people's opinions of the Lithuanians are, but, yeah, I I found them to be really really friendly and man, can they throw a party.   They can really throw a party. And we were it was a christening, so I did this is it could be a really long story, but I'll just cut it short. Imagine, picture really really long room, incredible banquet with everything you can think of in front of you,   and English on one end of the table and the Lithuanians on the other. And   my mate and his missus,   one was English, one one was Lithuanian   and,   it the Lithuanian   thing stopped between him and his missus and went to English and then its circulation ran the other end of the table and it stopped at me and then went Lithuanian and the guy I was sat next to didn't   well, hardly spoke a word of English, like literally just not even rudimentary skills like hello and things like that was about it.  

So he just looked at me after all the speeches were done. He looked at me and smiled and reached across the table and went,   schnapps?  

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A word you both understood.   I love it. Yes.   Yeah.   I I think it's great. It's like when we went to Turkey this year, we had a couple of incidents and,   like, I was in the sea with Piran and he was trying to, he was trying to get   this pipe or pole or something out, he was doing scuba diving like his dad. And he said to this lady, she was, she was fully dressed,   like like some of them are with their child and,   but he just looked at her and he, like, tried to use sign language but ushered them away and said, can you move out of the way, please? And we were laughing. It's just the way he said it and she moved out the way because she understood what he was saying.   But these language barriers, like, we was in the pool and there was this young boy and his whole family was egging him on to jump in, well, not jumping, dive in. And he was holding this position for ages,   like, leaning over in the proper diving position   and then he just kind of   fell in. And it was so funny. And I joined in the laughter as well. And I thought, isn't it wonderful? We can all share that   laughter,   these little barriers that we could all we don't need to speak the language for.  



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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there is yeah. I mean, and that's just the natural flow of things. That's that's when you don't have governments involved in things.  

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Things tend to work fine, I reckon. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, mister Scott, where has half an hour gone? We are, approaching   the bottom of the hour,   and I guess you better play a tune.  

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I can play a tune.   Tell you what, this one's you're I I always thought I might be too rocky for you. So,   You are sometimes.  

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A bit heavy. A bit heavy. You like your heavy stuff, don't you? If you're gonna disappear in the in on this break   I will very briefly. Time.  

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But just just listen to just the first thirty seconds. You'll look for or first thirty, forty seconds. They don't understand where I'm going with this. Okay. I'm not always that heavy. Okay.  

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Thank you.  

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A metal   band   with a zed in its   name. It must be hard to deal with   fame.   Songs sound the same.   I'd like to bring you down just a peg or two, but take a look at you now.   You're in a metal   band. How cool are you?   With a zed in its name.   Strom, you're minus into your blue interface   if that means anything   anywhere.   And if you have the grace to keep that face, keep your neck up great if you can.  

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I  

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grace   to keep the pace, keep your neck a break if you can.  

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Hello?   You you get the idea.   It was just a little you take out of, my head. Oh, right. Ah, it was a very short song, Mrs. Scott. Very short. It was quite a short song. Just made it back in the brink of time. Did you it was quite a short song, actually. I didn't realize it was gonna be quite I can play another one if you like. No. It's okay. It's okay. No. It's fine. I just I need my toilet breaks. It's like I've seemed, you know, too much information. But I just drink, drink, drink. And then it's, like, every half an hour in the evening. I just have to keep this to the ladies.   Anyway,   I had to   I had to share this before we get into anything because I found this hilarious. Somebody left this on my car.  

And,   it's like a business card   and in big bold letters it says: Learn to park, you accidentally parked like an asshole.   Get the help you need before becoming the shithead everyone hates.   Really? Yeah. So you think that's funny. Yeah. It's a it's a printed out card.   That's brilliant.  

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That's brilliant. You know, that reminds me a little bit of, yeah, that's something you can plunk on someone's car. I like it. You know, years ago years ago,   I don't I don't even know how I came across it. Someone gave me a magnetic   sticker that you put on car, you know, it's only magnetic, so you can peel it off a car and put it back on, you can put it where you want.   And, went for band practice one night years ago,   and,   after I'd loaded the bass player's amp and everything into the back of his van, just before he drove off, I slapped it on the back of his van, and it said, honk for gay rights, and it had a little rainbow across it. Oh, I love it. And,   he turned up for band practice three days later,   livid,   absolutely   livid. You show people beeping at me all the time. I knew what they were beeping at. You know? He he was hurling abuse at people out the window because they were beefing at him and stuff. Oh. But it wasn't and it wasn't till he went to a job the day that morning before the band practice,   he'd taken his van in for an MOT. And when he got back,   they were all taking the Mickey out of him for the sticker that he had on the back of his car.  



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Oh, aren't you wicked?  

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So he was livid. So it kinda backfired a bit, but, you know, he saw the funny side in the end.  

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Eventually.  

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I think he kept he kept it and stuck it on someone else's car. Yeah. So I mean, that makes me think probably doing its rounds.  

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Yeah. Yeah.   I mean, I don't think I parked like an asshole, to be fair. I think it probably been there for a couple of days but it did make me laugh.   I wasn't offended and sometimes though admittedly   my parking is horrendous   and I think I'll be alright.  

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People say I just like, abandoned my car next to the pavement but Yeah. I'm not the best person. I normally yeah. I've not been funny. You're the sort of person that I would probably walk past their parked car and go, oh, nicely abandoned. Yes. Yes. That's that's normally my quote at the time, you know. So Yeah. Yeah. Anyhow.   Anyhow. Talking of metal bands just quickly as well.   That was sort of a little bit of a Mickey take to my son as well. My son has just,   they headlined Fuel last week, which is the rock venue to play out in the middle of Cardiff.   Right. They absolutely smashed it.  

He's in a metal band, I have to say. So,   shout out to my boy if he's listening.   Aw. Which I expect he's at work.  

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But I've been listening to well, not I've been listening to personally. Piran has now really got into music and, like, for the last hour, he's just been playing Michael Jackson, I'm bad on repeat. I'm like, crikey.   Especially when they start playing your generation music, it's good. It's good.  

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Yeah. My daughter my 20 year old daughter is into all the bands that I was into when I was a   kid, including the weird and wonderful ones like The Doors and stuff, you know, which is, you know, that I suppose it was a throwback from the Oliver Stone film is that The Doors became popular again in my sort of musical era. So I was I was into all the Guns and Roses and,  

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But would you say that you were you were influenced by your parents' music? Because I think that's where a lot of people seem to get their influence from. I  

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grew up with my   I grew up with things like   my mom loved country,   so there'd be a lot of and that's had a bit of a revival recently, hasn't it, country?  

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Well, that's what we're going to watch tomorrow.   It's not a Dolly Parton tribute act.  

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Oh, that'll be great.   Yeah. It will it will If if the singers if the singer can do half as good a Jolley, it'll be great. Yeah.   Yeah. Regardless of what you think of   these,   like,   celebrities for their viewpoints and what they're told to say to the press and all that kind of thing, you can't take away from,   the enjoyment that they give and and the talent, you know.   So yeah, Dolly Parton had an amazing voice. So if the singer does half a half a as good a job, you'll have a great night. But,   no, my my dad used to I used to my dad used to have cassettes in the car. So going back in the day, we had cassette players in the car. Yes, folks, we did. And,   makes you feel old, doesn't it?  

Yeah. It's a cassette.  

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Yeah. Well, I've I've it wasn't long ago I borrowed my dad's car, actually. And I did send you the song and I said, I don't not sure if it's, like you can still find it on YouTube.  

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Oh, I downloaded it. It's here.  

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Did you did you listen to it? I did listen to it. Yeah. I thought it  

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was fantastic.   What was funny was that I thought it was on the radio because I've borrowed his car for a few days. I was like, are they playing this on the radio? And I was like, that's uncanny because I'm in my dad's car.   And I mentioned it to him and he said, oh, I don't know what song you're talking about. I was like, really?   Anyway, it was quite a good tune.  

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No. I said so I my dad used to have things like Simon and Garfunkel on Oh, yes.   So I mean   and regardless   of their political aspirations or views or whatever,   they the harmonies   between those two guys were amazing, absolutely   wonderful, and and probably really sculpted my because literally, I've always in the bands that I've been in, I've always been backing vocals, a, because I don't like the limelight,   and b, because I just I can just hear harmonies.   Mhmm. You know, when when, that's that's part of my ear for music is   things like listening to the the harmonies of people like Simon and Garfunkel and and things like that, and also not being allowed to touch touch my dad's guitar,   because we would always touch the tuning peg. So I learned very quickly how to tune it back in so he wouldn't notice. Mhmm.  

So but things like Simon and Garfunkel, I mean, those those harmonies were absolutely amazing back in the day.   And other than that, he used to have on   comedy tapes like Not the 09:00 News or,   an Australian guy called Rodney Roode, who was   really,   really rather rude.   And he just had them playing in the car because he assumed that I wouldn't know what he was talking about.  

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But we did it for lots of things, did we? Because I was,   one of my first comedy series that I used to love was the young ones.   And I was too young to understand the jokes, you know, but I just love the characters in it. And Neil. I can remember holding that plant pot up.   But they would tape it and I would watch it the next day, but I would watch them over and over again.  

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But yeah. Faulty Towers was my thing as a as a young child. Faulty Towers and Peter Sellers movies was my kind of   yeah.   Not so much Python but definitely Faulty Towers.   Later on in the years, I love things like Life of Brian and stuff like that. But,   yeah, I think Fawlty Towers,   John Cleese, I think, is probably my all time   comedic hero, I think.  

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Yeah. He's very talented.   Very.  

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It's just his timing and his deadpan   he's he's able to be he's able to be angry and humorous at the same time, which is just great. I love it.  

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And I think they did so well because they only did it with seven episodes, wasn't it? They didn't, like, lots of lots of series, they bring in, like, too many, don't they? Yeah. It was two series of six episodes each. So Oh, okay. Episodes in total. Right. And well If they've done any more, they probably would have ruined it.  

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Well, they would. And I think this the the the sort of the I I I believe that the,   the cast was sort of falling out with each other, and I think,   because   John Cleese got married to the girl that played Polly, the waitress,   I believe.   And I I don't know whether that was a lasting thing. But, I I know at one point Andrew Sachs, the guy who played Manuel, took John Cleese to court for the fact that he'd hit him too hard around the head with a saucepan while Oh, really? While doing one of the scenes. I think so. Yeah. I think it was so.   Yeah. They were quite surprised. Andrew Sachs originally was just he was,   I think he used to do, like, open university teaching Spanish as well.  

Because he was fluent in Spanish, that's why he got the part as Manuel. He had all the mannerisms and all the, you know  

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k. So, yeah, I know too much about it. Don't you tell I watched it to death? That and Blackadder.  

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Yeah. He was brilliant.   He still is actually. He's now, he's got a new series coming out on Netflix, I think in in December,   A Man and a Baby.   But he still does, you know, like, what was the other one? Man and the Bee. Piran loved it. It was stupid, but it was entertaining, you know. Yes. But it his his comedy  

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value is like what's the word? Indefatigable.  

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It's like you it's Oh, word of the week.   Right. So what does that mean? Indefatigable.   Indefatigable.   Indefatigable.   Indefatigable.   And what does that mean?  

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It's it's I'm like, not approachable. It's like it's,   you know, you you it's it's beyond reproach.  

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Indefacable.   Indefacable.   Okay. Yeah. That's stalled in my head for all of ten seconds. I'll bring that one out in conversation tomorrow. It's a cockatable.   Don't you know what that word means?   Oh, I do like your words each week. You have got,   wonderful   what's the word, array of vocabulary. Yes.  

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Yeah. I I don't know. I'd I'd probably just   spend too long thinking about one word at a time, maybe. I don't know.  

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Yeah. I I think this is one of those things if you read a lot as well, you just take in all these words, don't you?  

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Yeah. I I I think it's also I I was very   I was just very lucky with the way I was brought up. My mom always spoke the Queen's English and all that kind of thing. And as I said to you many moons ago, I always used to get the Mickey taken out of me in schools because I I spoke too posh.  

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Ew.   Ew.   Oh, wow. Interfecapical.   I think I've said it wrong. Anyway,   right. Should we move on with a little news slot? A little clip?  

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Yes. Indeed. What what what news clip would you like to play?  

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Cat Story.   Oh, yeah. Oh, let's have a bit of fun tonight. Crikey. I saw this and I couldn't believe this.  

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Oh, okay. Alright.   So, if if it comes in too quiet or too loud, I'll just stop and start again. Yeah. So, basically, my vet won't treat my son.   So   I'm just gonna preempt this by saying,   has she adopted   something   that she now calls her son? I'd this is where I'm going with it, but I'm just waiting to write the story.  

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Let's roll the story. Very important story. And recently I tried to take him to the vet because, you know, it's flu season. There's a lot of stuff going around. He's been sick. So since he's a cat, I tried to take him to the vet. And, they told me they could not treat him not. Because they are not licensed to treat humans. And I said, well, he's not really a human. He's a cat. He identifies as a cat. And they're like, I understand, but biologically,   he was born human, so we can't legally treat him here. Is that not discrimination?   Do I not have a lawsuit on my hands? I've been advocating for my son for years. It took me three years of fighting to get his school system to allow me to put a litter box in his school's bathroom that he could use. And that's with me paying for the litter and going and changing it out myself every single day. And, I mean, they threatened to kick my son out of school because he kept shitting his pants, and they said he needs to be potty trained before he can go to school here. I said he is litter box trained. He just doesn't like to use a toilet because he's not a human. And I remember when we finally got that litter box installed, oh my gosh. You would have thought something terrible happened. The whole country freaked out. I don't know why everybody's so scared of progressing   as a society.  



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There we are.   That's that's not that's not real. That's real. Shelley, no. You honestly, you're telling me that's real. That's real. Come on. We've talked about this before. Well, yeah.  

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I would say she's definitely got a lawsuit on her hand.   But I wouldn't say it's for what she's probably been thinking.   Are you not open to progression, mister Scott? I just think I'm sorry. Look. I'm sorry. It's my opinion, people, but I just think it's child abuse.   I I know. I really do. I just thought, how can you allow how can you   put your child through that?   Oh, well, I don't want to go against his wishes. You're the parent.  

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Yeah. What did we bring up? What did we bring up on the on the Barnum the Barnum,  

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episode that we did? And you brought up the whole thing about the how,   they they represent on the Barnum,   the Barnum World movie, how TV has changed.   And we played the clip, didn't we? Where whereby,   one of the early things that they show is two guys,   a conversation between two guys. This is a black and white film, and and you just hear one of them say, well, I think that you should let the boy decide for himself. And the other guy says, well, no, it's not like that.   Children will go for the first things with glitter and ribbons on, and it's down to, you know, you as a parent to   say no trust me, and you're gonna have to wait to make this decision.  

You know, and   I   just   I despair.  

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Honestly, is is that honestly real? You just put that on to wind me up, haven't you? No. I haven't. I was on Twitter. It's had loads of shares, and I remember when this story came out. We covered it, I'm sure, a couple of years ago in,   on Curnow   Connection. But and you were saying about somebody, you know, all these furries and they are allowed and I can remember the story of it. And, yeah.  

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So Yeah. I've heard such   things bounded about in the local community about local schools, but I've never really   known whether they're true because I've always sort of said, why do they have a litter box in the side of the classroom?   Because all the other kids gotta sit there and watch once.  

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Yeah. Yes.  

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Yeah.   What? Get with the times, mister Scott. Get with the times. I'm I'm on progression.   You  

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know why I don't have a mobile phone, Shelley? Mobile phone alert. Mobile phone alert. Yeah.   It's because of exactly   this sort of degradation allowed upon society.   And just the fact that,   honestly,   even just hearing that,   I'm a bit worried that my mind might have been softened in some small way like my the end of my toenail was hurt earlier when you did mention that you're wonderful. You know, I'm just worrying that there's a part of me that have might have been softened to these poor individuals.   Yeah. Yeah.   I don't believe there is for a minute, but, you know.  



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Yeah. I know where you're coming from. Yes.   Anyway, I just found it highly entertaining and I thought that just needs a share, just for giggles, just for shit giggles as mister Cypress was saying.  

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Yeah. Absolutely. It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and chits, isn't it?   No. But yeah. Honestly, if that's if that is a genuine thing and it's not just been put out there by some   person who's just trying to rile people and hurt, you know, do you know what I mean?   Upset people. If that's a genuine clip,   I feel so sorry for that child.   I'm sorry. I really honestly, that's that's heartbreaking, really, when you think about it in realistic terms.  

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But we have the choice now, and I think I probably mentioned this before,   when my granddaughter   had   her whatever check, six week check, they actually asked what gender   she was,   what her pronouns were gonna be. They actually asked you this now. And my daughter has said that somebody in her son's class,   who was seven at the time,   now   identified   as I can't remember their pronoun. But anyway, basically, them. Yeah. They were neither a boy nor a girl. Okay.   And, you know, this is what's going on.  

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As I keep saying, to say that somebody is a them is an absolute bastardization   of the English language which we have taken hundreds, if not thousands of years to   perfect,   you know.   So to to use the plural for an individual is just absolute,   literal   sacrilege.  

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Yeah. Yeah.   Well, moving on on a similar won't.  

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Sorry. A bit of a conversation stuff. No. That's alright. That's okay.  

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This is still ongoing at the moment. This this is an article from the October 20   but it's regarding, they're now known as the Magnificent Seven Nurses.   And basically,   the nurses, this is the title, Nurses take on woke NHS after explosive trans row erupts over changing rooms.   So seven trailblazing nurses are set for an historic showdown that has ramifications   for the NHS and public sector.   These brave women are waging a   historic fight against   Britain's refusal to accept biological sex. Pictured together for the first time, the Magnificent   Seven, as they have become known, are set for a legal showdown   with hospital bosses who have allowed unlawful workplace policies   to continue despite the supreme court ruling.  

In a rallying call before their face off they said that the battle against dangerous dogma was on to secure safety and dignity for every woman and girl in The UK. Sorry, my dog's barking because of fireworks.   They have launched a challenge against County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, which has permitted a man identifying   as Rose   to use the female only staff changing rooms.   This week's Landmark Employment Tribunal seeks clarification on the right to undress at work without a man present, but it is set to become a defining point in a trans rights row that has engulfed the entire public sector.   Mother of two, Bethany Hutchinson, 36, who is leading CPTED said, we are nurses who love our jobs and our patients and only want to be afforded the dignity of getting dressed and undressed for work without a man present.  

We are shocked that it has come this far, even more so after April's Supreme Court ruling.   We're doing this for the safety and dignity of every woman and girl across society and we will continue to fight these unlawful policies.   The case that's supported by lawyers at the Christian Legal Centre   challenges a Stonewall inspired policy adopted by the trust at Darlington Memorial Hospital.   Action was launched after Rose, a male nurse identifying as female,   menacingly loitered as they changed.   None was informed their room would be infiltrated by a biological male, with one left terror stricken when she heard his voice.   Another suffered a panic attack after being asked when alone, are you getting changed yet?  

And in April the supreme court ruled that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act refer only to biological   biological sex. With subsequent guidance from the equality watchdog amount into a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other facilities of the gender   they identify   as. So So at Wednesday's hearing, it will be claimed that the nurses were disturbed to discover   that NHS guidance explicitly states that any woman who objects to sharing change in facilities   with trans identifying males will not be tolerated   and must find an alternative.  

The tribunal will hear that after concerns were raised the nurses were told they needed to be more inclusive,   compromise,   broaden their mindset   and undergo   re education.   Rose Oh my word. Yeah. Rose even offered to personally educate them.   They will testify that after going public in stories that appeared in the daily express, that they were threatened by senior management   and further victimized by being forced to change for almost a year in a converted office that opens onto a clinical area and public corridor.   There are evidence that Newcastle Employment Tribunal   will open with the personal testimony of nurse Karen Danson, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, who has experienced PTSD.  

She will describe,   she will describe disturbing encounter in which Rose, wearing revealing boxer shorts, repeatedly asked if she was going to get changed, causing her to panic and relieve   her past abuse.   Nurse Danson will chronicle how her trauma was compounded when she discovered after legal action was launched that Rose was scheduled to assist in gynecological   surgery   despite object,   despite objections.   She was initially told the operation could only proceed with Rose present   or be postponed indefinitely   until the patient, the Asian, intervened.  

Mrs. Hutchins was forced to form a Darlington Nursing unit after receiving no support from any major unions.   The Royal College of Nursing was asked whether it supports the seven nurses, but told the Express it's not commenting.   So, basically it goes on the trust violated article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to respect a right to privacy,   requiring them to share a room with a biological male. But this is actually ongoing at the moment. But it's the fact   that, you know, they need to change their ways.   They need to be thinking, you know, a bit like you need to be with that whole cat thing. You need to be more open with it. We well, no. Obviously, need to be reeducated.  

Was it? Re educated.   Yes. Yes. Re educated.  

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Now, aren't look. You know, we could debate   well, actually, for me, there's not much of a debate to it, But I suppose,   in many respects, there are a lot of people who would choose to debate one or the other side of this.   Now,   one of the things that really stands out to me about this is just when you as Misha Popoff would say, when you look at the whole ball of wax, when you look at how this affects society,   it brings me back   to protocol 15.   And part of that, an excerpt of that says, our orators will expound   great problems,   which have turned humanity   upside down   in order to bring it at the end   under our beneficial   rule.  

So what I'm saying is they're creating these problems   in order to confuse   everyone   and turn humanity upside down,   in order to   more easily govern   the people that are buying into one side   or the other of it.   Do you get where I'm going with it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   Oh, this is just another symptom of the of the, of of the   essentially, the reality that we're we're being portrayed   is that you've got you know, we've got   cat litters, you know, cat litter boxes in schools and we've got, you know, all these different things and you've got all these great problems   being expounded   by   there you go, there's another word for you,   being expounded by who? Who's pushing all this stuff? And where's all this nonsense   coming from?  

You know?  

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Wow. Everything's just so woke.  

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The tune that I sent you last night, one of the lines out of it,   is   so now the masses writhe to keep inverted worlds alive, ideologies that won't survive unless we turn our backs on all we know to be true. And that's what is being asked of us right now,   I think. You have to turn a blind eye and just accept this is what it is. Or to even choose when your child is six weeks old as to what their gender or their pronouns are going to be. So they're actually   no. They're putting the onus on the parents who are who are particularly nowadays unsure themselves.   And the young look at the younger generation now.  

Not necessarily unsure of their own sexuality, but they don't want to necessarily make the choice for that child,   when it might turn out to be something else, so they'll call them them just in case.  

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You know? And then it's down on their down on their medical Yeah. And it's it's down for for those that they they desperately wanted a boy, but they got a girl. Well, actually, I'm gonna dress it like a boy. I'm gonna treat it like a boy, and it happens. Yeah. Or I wanted a boy, or I wanted a girl, and I got a or I wanted a cat, and I got a boy, or something. I don't know. It's just it's just the whole thing.  

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The whole   thing is is turning humanity   upside down exactly as it that's what it reminded me of, that that little section out of protocol 15. Okey dokey. Good. No. Yeah. Well, there we  

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are. Yeah. So Yeah. We we are approaching the top of that hour, mister Scott. Oh, are we?   Yes. We are. Listen to me. I'm on it this week, you know, doing my job. Song for you. I've got Oh, a fun one.   Go for it then. Yeah. I have.  

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Folks, you are listening live to radiosoapbox.com,   and probably,   if you're very lucky, you'll be listening,   the prerecord   on, radio Don't get it wrong.  

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Clearer.   Clearer.   You get it every week, but you need to write it down on a piece of paper and put it You know what it is? It's this whole thing about the taxation on air. Right?  

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And so did they wanna tax the air you breathe, like quite literally, so it's just like, yeah, I've got this whole thing in my head about the fact that air is free and I just thought, yeah, yeah. So clear air FM, the sound of freedom. Clear air FM, yeah. The sound of freedom, yeah.   And thanks to the folks over there for syndicating the show. That is fantastic.   This is   probably the best,   cover of Sublime   on the Internet, as far as I'm concerned, anyway. Here we go. Okay. Let's do  

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I don't practice   Santeria.   I ain't got no crystal ball.   I had a million dollars, but I   spent it all   the break, feel the break, feel   the break, and I got to live it up.   Oh, yeah.   Swear that I   am. What I really wanna know,   So what I really wanna   say, my baby.   What I really wanna say is   I've got mine,   and I'll make it. Yes. I'm hung up.   And I won't think twice to stick that bell straight down Sanchez Pro.   Believe me when I say that I got some for his punk ass.  

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There you go. That   is the best cover as far as I'm concerned of,   the Santa Ria tune,   the by Sublime.  

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So, I don't think I've heard the original.  

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Okay. Well, obviously, we can't play the original on the show. Obviously. Yeah.   But the,   yeah. Just just go on to YouTube and type   in the best Sublime cover.   That's that's not what I typed in, but you'll probably find it because it probably is that one.   There's a lot of people underneath saying, oh, this is definitely the best one on YouTube. So Right. And I have to agree. So Good. Oh, nice nice little cheery tune. Definitely.   Very much so. So come  

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on. Who's died?   Dick Cheney. Who's Dick Cheney?  

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So Dick Cheney,   a brief   very, very brief synopsis   here from the Financial Times.   Influential politician who was an apostle   of   unilateralism   among the strongest voices urging of the US invasion   of Iraq.   Who?   So he was, the the article goes on to say here, Dick Cheney, who enjoyed a forty year career at the center of power in Washington,   culminating in eight years as the most influential vice president in the nation's history,   died on Monday   at the age of 84.   So I just thought I'd mention that.   Obviously, his two term serving under president   w George w Bush   define his legacy.  

The generally pragmatic team playing conservative, his early years appeared trans,   transformed especially after the nine eleven terrorist attacks in The US into an apostle   of unilateralism,   unwilling to cooperate with American allies   and equally intent on,   vesting ever more authority   in the office of the presidency. So,   well, if you can remember the the Bush years Mhmm. They they they he was the most powerful man in the world at the time   as as as they would have you believe.   Yeah. If I I think it's cast Catherine   Austin Fitts. I can't get my words out tonight at all. I think it's the fact of lack of sleep.  

But Catherine Austin Fitz actually said, if you know their names, they ain't at the top.   I love that line. It's a good one. Yeah. That is. That is. Oh. So, yeah. He presided over things like 09:11 and and,   you know, and and everything that occurred afterwards and the, you know, the pressing of the invasion of Iraq and everything. So as I said at the beginning of the show, I'm sure the world is in mourning, his passing.   So, moving on.   I was just gonna say, also something I covered at the beginning of the show was the the migrant who turned up here, was sent back to France, got on a dinghy, came back. He was sent back again.   Yes.  

But also, we've got this whole thing about various prisoners being released and stuff. The six hours before the show started, there was a thing from BBC News saying police hunt for two prisoners wrongly released from one Wandsworth   in the past week. So it's taken them back to come out with the whole thing. But, yeah, we've just released a few more.   Don't know where they are.   I'm not surprised if I'd if I was in prison and they released me by accident, I'd flipping be very hard to find, I reckon.  

[01:05:59] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that happened on Saturday, actually. And there was a load of hoo because it was obviously kept quiet.   They didn't want people freaking out and stuff. But,   yeah. The crazy things. And I think someone was addressed, like, three times with the question if this had happened in parliament, and it just kept getting ignored.   But,   yeah, some crazy stuff going on.  

[01:06:20] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. Indeed. Crazier still is the fact that our down here in the Southwest of The UK, Cornwall,   our,   our only city down here Truro, which is city only because it has a cathedral.   It's not really that big.   But,   Truro City Council have now you'll like this. Truro makes the switch.   Electric van to cut carbon and costs. Hooray. So this is this puts me in the mind of the, there were some French,   over in France a few years or quite a few years back now.   They bought all their civil servants I believe electric cars to   to show the right you know show that do the right thing and all that kind of thing   and   a couple of years later there was like literally a football fields worth of these cars all parked up because the batteries had run out and they couldn't afford to replace them. I believe that's the case. That's what I was led to believe. So, yeah, let's see let's see where these, these new and fancy vans end up   in a couple of years' time when the council have to replace the batteries.  



[01:07:27] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm good with my diesel car. And I I think the thing is with these electric cars as well, they're dangerous in the fact you can't hear them coming up behind you. If you're out  

[01:07:38] Unknown:

walking No. My missus nearly walked out in front of one while we were walking the dog today because we just   we did not hear it coming.  

[01:07:46] Unknown:

Wow.  

[01:07:47] Unknown:

So yeah. There there there's gonna be a lot more. The thing is as well,   this they're so heavy compared to a normal car. This is this was always the contention with them is they do more damage to the roads because   they weigh twice as much as the normal car because of the the battery weight and the big   electric motor and everything that's in there. They they weigh a ton. Oh, just, you know, I don't know how how much, but they do weigh   an awful lot more,   which is why they stick to the road like glue and accelerate like nobody's business because they're they are pressed onto the ground with all that weight. But the problem with all that weight is inertia. And if you if you hit someone   at 20 miles an hour now this could be the reason why they've reduced all the speed limits to 20 a. Because if you hit someone,   it don't you know, if you hit someone at 20 miles an hour with a feather, let's just say,   well, it's just gonna bounce off them, isn't it? If you hit someone,   or say 30 miles an hour with a feather, let go go back to the old speed limit,   Hit someone at 30 miles an hour with a feather, it's not gonna make any difference. Hit them with a standard car at 30 miles an hour,   well, the chances of survival are are very, very high if you're only hit at 30 miles an hour. As soon as you go over 30,   chances of survival for the human body is is is considerably less, so the experts believe.  

But   if you get an object that weighs twice as much as a standard car, and hit someone with that at 30 miles an hour, then the impact and the inertia is so much greater. So this may be why   they're switching because they want everyone over on electric eventually, don't they?   Before they switch everyone to electric,   and and before they bring out the hydrogen cars, you see. So it just it stitches everyone up, you see. And then they, you know, then, oh, you're not on the old electric, are you? Oh, dear. Well, those batteries, they're very they're very hard to get rid of. They're not very good for the environment, so we're gonna have to tax you on that.  

[01:09:40] Unknown:

Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. And it's funny, isn't it? Because you see all these supermarkets that have charging stations. I very rarely see anybody. They've got, like, 10 spaces at one of our big Tesco's. And, like, I never see anybody charging their car. They're just wasting 10 spaces.  

[01:09:55] Unknown:

No. I see quite a lot of people charging electric Oh, do you? By me. Yeah. We got a services near us that, we see quite a lot of people check. Oh, right. I've mentioned it before because I go to there's there's there's one in a car park and there's one at the at the garage also. And I go up and I drive into the forecourt and I stop and   I open the hatch and I pull out the pump and I put in the thing and squeeze out how much fuel I want in,   walk in and pay and go and I'm I'm there. I'm done in like a couple of minutes tops   really, unless there's a queue.  

And I look over all these poor idiots   sat trying to entertain the kids or the dog or whatever because they're waiting for their electric car to charge. And all it's gonna do is cost them money because they've gotta go off and go to Starbucks and buy a coffee or something just to pass the time. True. True. Unless of course unless of course they put it on fast charge which eventually knackers the battery an awful lot quicker and then, you know, so it's just   they cut these people over a barrel. I just think there's me in my in my van, diesel van,   put in the fuel, off I go. Yeah. Yeah.  

Just how silly can you get? Oh, and it's for the environment. They don't give a they don't give a damn about the environment. Otherwise, they wouldn't be building so many blooming houses.  

[01:11:08] Unknown:

True. True.   Excuse me.  

[01:11:11] Unknown:

Yeah. Sorry. Rant of the week over. Okay. Okay.  

[01:11:16] Unknown:

Right. Would you would you like to play another one of my clips, mister Scott? I'd love to. I'd love to. I think we should go to the Remembrance Sunday one. I think we should as well as it is coming up. It's looming. Yes. It is looming indeed. Right. Here we go.  

[01:11:31] Unknown:

Here it goes, folks. Ought for our freedom, and now they are having their parade canceled for health and safety. What on earth has happened to Britain?   Let's get this straight. A remembrance Sunday parade that's run since the end of the first World War has just been canceled because of health and safety fears. You really could not make it up. In Upton On The Wirral, the local British Legion, just four active members doing their best, were told by the council that they couldn't go ahead with the annual march. Why? Because of public liability insurance,   risk assessments,   and, wait for it, the Liverpool FC victory parade. Apparently, the attack on that parade earlier this year means veterans now need to prove they are safe to walk down a road once a year. The legion had asked for basic support, a bit of help with insurance, and police for road closures. But the police said, not our job anymore. The council said, too risky, and now a century old community tradition has been reduced to a wreath laying and a few apologies.  

Simon Weston, the Falklands hero who knows a thing or two about courage, called it very odd. He's right. Because if fear dictates remembrance, what exactly are we remembering? We can't claim to honor bravery while hiding behind bureaucracy.   Let's be honest. This is not about safety. It's about box ticking paperwork and the slow death of common sense. The same system that can greenlight mass protests in London suddenly can't manage a few veterans and schoolchildren   walking in silence to lay poppies. And if councils keep hiding behind policy,   this will spread. Once one parade goes, the rest will follow. Bureaucracy wins, tradition loses, and the people who actually gave us the freedom to march forgotten behind a risk assessment form. Remembrance Sunday is about respect, not red tape. If a nation can't safely honor its fallen, then maybe it's not safety that's the problem. Maybe it's the leadership.  



[01:13:24] Unknown:

What do you think of that?  

[01:13:26] Unknown:

Yeah. Not a true word. So who was that guy?   He he deserves a shout out, that what that guy.   I don't. Tell us next week. Tell us next week. We'll we'll we'll give him a shout.   The thing is, you know,   he he's hit the nail on the head in every in every respect.   And and humorously so. He's done it   very tongue in cheek.   But it's very sad, isn't it? You know? There's only   there's only they probably just think, oh, there's only four guys organizing it now. Yeah. Well, they'll run out of steam eventually.   You know?   I'm I'm very glad to see though,   I've seen so many people wearing poppies this year.  



[01:14:08] Unknown:

Have you? No. I can't say that I've noticed. I've seen the guys selling them at the shops,   and interestingly   lots of people don't pay for cash. I've never got cash and I'm trying to get into that habit   to pop some money in their tin. But now they all have card readers on their desk.   To take payment by card.   So  

[01:14:30] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. Because yeah. Because yeah. Because they've been forced into that corner.   Not necessarily by the powers that should not be, but they've been forced into that corner by the fact that nobody carries. Everyone pays for everything on their bloody phone nowadays.   True. Are you missing queue there, Shelley? Mobile phone mobile phone alert.   They do though, don't they? Yeah. They're on their smartwatch or their mobile phone or by card, tap the card. You know, just go to the cash point and draw out some some pennies. It it look, it doesn't matter if you end up with a few bits of shrapnel.   I regularly end up like I regularly end up with shrapnel. If I pay for something in cash, obviously draw out the bank,   you know, pay for stuff in cash, I regularly end up with a part I've got a little drinks holder in the in the side of the van.  

And I that's where all my spare change goes.   And after, like, a couple of weeks or whatever, you you sort of dig out. You think, god, there's, like, pound coins and all sorts. God, I've got enough for a kebab there. Brilliant. You know? Or and and whatever's left over can go in the charity box at the kebab shop. Whatever. You know?   Yeah. There's a very old saying, isn't there? Take good care of your pennies,   and the pounds look after themselves.   You familiar with that one? I am. I am. Yeah. So take good care of your pennies, and the pounds look always save your spare change and stuff. And quite often,   if it's only, like, a few pence or whatever, I'll just I'll say to the people, stick it on a chat chariot is stick it in a charity. They've normally got two or three on the counter at the local garage and that kind of thing. I just say stick it in the charity, a charity of your choice. Do you know what I mean? And they're like, yeah, we'll do, you know, and they chuck it in. I can hear it drop as I'm going out the door. It doesn't go in the till, you know.  

Which is what one actual one of my bugbears actually is all these big name brand supermarkets   not having cash charity donation things on the tills.  

[01:16:20] Unknown:

No. But now instead, you see, you get tokens, don't you? When you do your shopping, like, I. E. In Tesco's,   they give you blue tokens depending on how much you spend   and then on your way out of the store, there's like, a little stand and it's got local charities   usually   and you deposit your little tokens into your chosen one. So  

[01:16:42] Unknown:

So, yes. They do that I believe in Asda as well. Marks and Spencer,   bad books with me because they have,   no cash donation things   on the and they don't even, you know, if you pay by card, you don't even get the option to donate to a charity or whatever on the little console thing. Not that I like doing that, but,   because the the choice is so limited and very very rarely is a local thing. But, you know,   that's why I tend to try and shop in local shops for local people and all that kind of thing. Because if you pay in cash, you might have a few spare coins that alright. You   you don't want the twos and the fives and stuff, but and and I know they all mount up, take your carrier pennies and all that kind of thing. But who wants to go and pay for a kebab in two two and five p pieces? They don't.  

So use that and just   just two or three p here and there is not gonna make any huge difference to you over a year   in your in your shopping. But it all mounts up for the for the, you know, the I saw this big bug bear about these big brand names now that don't actually have cash donation things on their counters. They should.  

[01:17:52] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. Well, the world just wants to get rid of it. I mean, my friend, Julie, was telling me the other day the problem,   you, you know my dear friends   Graham and Jules and they, they won't mind me saying this.   They are like the bravest people in the world and they will come on and talk about this at some point.   They've   not paid their council tax for several years now   and she has literally now been made bankrupt.   And it's interesting,   there's people   but, but it doesn't seem that it's legit. It but it's been in the papers.   They said that they closed a bank account and she phoned me on Sunday because she was like, can you pay   £20 into my bank account, to my PayPal account for me? She said, because I need this she needed to make some sort of payment, but she only had, like, £6 in there. And because she's now been made bankrupt,   she can't do it. And, of course, obviously, they're losing   their house.  

But there's lots of things playing that aren't aren't legit, supposedly, like,   it hasn't been signed by a court, but it's been put in the paper.   And then there was more information that came into light that they would be bank, she would be bankrupt from Sunday. Well, they don't do it on a Sunday, apparently.   Anyway, they've, they've gone through so much stress   and   obviously, they don't want to lose their house. And I said: Well, could you not at the moment? Because I've been, like, looking into it for them and I mean, they know their stuff and I mean, they are brave, bloody people.   And I think, because they're both self employed,   they can go down that route. You know, straight away, if I wasn't gonna pay my council tax now, I could go to court blah blah blah, but it'll just be taking out my wages.  

It's just a battle not worth fighting.   And they've gone through this now for years, bailiffs turning up and they know their stuff and they thought that they got away with it.   But at the moment   he's not been made bankrupt. So I said: Would it not be worth   that he pays off the remaining amount of that debt   And then, like, you get to keep the house and she's like, he won't do it. He's adamant we're gonna win this. And I'm like, okay.   And they're hoping, I'm praying for them, bless them. They both lost like a stone in weight, the stress and stuff. I'm not surprised. They are spoosh.   Yeah, yeah. And you know, being told that in a newspaper that you're bankrupt and having your bank account closed down and the bank told her that   she'd asked for it apparently to be closed down and she said: No, I never asked you that. But she, when she went into the bank to try and sort this out, she has a certain amount, element of cash, certain amount   and they wouldn't take it. They said: We don't take, this branch doesn't take cash anymore.  

It's mental, it's mental.   But, you know, I just pray that they find   a way because there seems to be so many issues that aren't legit, obviously.   How can you be made bankrupt if there's no signature on the form and stuff like that?   Anyway, I I could just pray for them, bless them, and I support them fully. And we ended up going out for lunch with them on Sunday,   having a catch up. But, yeah, there's some brave people out there, and if it isn't there? Yeah. There really are. There really are. And, you know,  

[01:21:12] Unknown:

wow. Yeah. I mean, I've actually I've I've nearly finished   the book that Graham lent me. Oh, okay. In gumboots. So yeah.   Oh, no. Heart goes out to them. Heart goes out to them completely because I I I've only had to deal with one court case in my entire life.   And it went I you know, it was it was a simple wrongful dismissal case and it dragged they dragged it out for like six months.   And every time you get a letter through or every time you get an email through, it's just   it's an it's another straw on your back, you know, as in, you know, the straw that broke the camel's back. And you you have to have so much resilience   to deal with it.  

And like like for me, when I was getting my court letters through,   I remember,   you know, my my missus would be trying to hold a conversation with me and, or we'd we'd be having a conversation and there'd be my email would ping up on the screen and I'd look   and it would be from the solicitor.   And I'd like and then I just I could no longer hold a conversation with anyone No. Until it was dealt with. No. No.   Not even in past, not even you know, do you want a cup of I can't I can't deal with it. I've I'm I'm focused. I've got to deal with this. And then you have to have the restraint   also   to let you because obviously, you instantly start tapping away your responses and this that and then you actually have to have the restraint within yourself to wait a few days,   so that the adrenaline goes and that you can go back over what you've done.  

Yeah. Because if you if you mess up,   you know, so it's it's all stressful. It's all stressful. And if you're dealing with bailiffs and stuff as well,   honestly, heart goes out to them, but very, very courageous   indeed. And, you know, we're we're taxed on a lie anyway. Council tax, doubly so.  

[01:23:01] Unknown:

Well, this is it. And they've got no mortgage on the house neither.  

[01:23:05] Unknown:

So it's just mental, isn't it? So four years worth of council tax building up.   They've, you know, they've played it every way going, they've avoided court,   and stuff like that.   And   they they really thought I think we all did. We thought they've done it. Because, you know, my friend Dave Lanyon as well, he hasn't paid council tax for years. And he says he couldn't advise anybody because it's like they treat every case differently.   But he seems to think working on you as a person rather than Well, he seems to think that because he changed the land registry deeds over before they bought in a load of new stuff, that's why they can't touch him. But he said, I could never advise anybody because what works for one person doesn't work for somebody else.  

[01:23:48] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:23:51] Unknown:

Yeah.   And that's a that's a brave crusade. Really, it's a brave crusade to go on. It is. And I really hope in my heart of hearts that they achieve some sort of landmark.  

[01:24:03] Unknown:

I do as well because I tell you what, if if it, like, got really bad and I can imagine, like because Jules has actually been out and bought a camper van.   And,   she's like, if the worst comes the worst, I've got a camper van.   And I've told her to sign it all over to my name. I said, you know, then I'll keep it. No, I won't. But just so that nobody can buy it. I just bought it at the weekends.   Yeah. But it's just learning to be clever, isn't it? Because they can take every asset. But I don't think it's going to come to that because I think, the thing is, they put the frighteners on you. So they've made her bankrupt, but not him yet.   So, you know, they're playing games all the time.  

And they keep it quiet for six months and you think, ah, it's done with, it's dealt with and then you get a blast like that. But, yeah,   they're bearing out, bless them.  

[01:24:52] Unknown:

That's that's what they do. That's what these people do, isn't it? It's a it's a war of gradualism with most of these people. So   yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow well done them well done them. I know. Listen. You're you're you you've got to be sort of mentally I am. Wind winding down. Winding down. I know. I'm gonna disappear   to my last sleep within a whole eight nights off. A whole eight nights off? A whole eight nights to yourself, nearly?  

[01:25:20] Unknown:

Nearly. Yeah. Nearly. They get you quick, they don't they? And and this is the thing.   You do two nights at work, one at home, two at work and it's just like, oh, I can't wait every night.  

[01:25:31] Unknown:

Yeah. Look. Make sure   you set aside  

[01:25:35] Unknown:

a couple of half days for your piano. That's all I'm gonna say. Yeah. And I will. I've been doing this. I haven't so much the last couple of days because it's just been   mental. And to be honest with you, when you've had a bit of time, it's like, do you know what? That's not what I feel like doing.   But I will. I feel creative. Yeah. Yeah. I can't switch on creativity. I get it. No. No. But, I am enjoying it and it's still that. It's still looking beautiful.  

[01:25:59] Unknown:

So, You're still gonna write a song?  

[01:26:01] Unknown:

Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm gonna do loads of things, Maleficus, when I've when I've got time. I'm gonna do everything. You're gonna do everything. I'm gonna do everything. I I mean, I've got, like, all the gear for a dark room to be set up,   in under the stairs in the studio.   Got all the gear now and,   I'm like, crikey, it's all very well having all these ideas, isn't it? It's time. But we will get there. We will get there. The bathrooms stink as well. The the chemicals stink. Yeah. Yeah. But I love it. I've never in my life, like, when I used to go to college and spend all day in the dark room and, like, when when the alarm would go at half a quarter, say the day ends, it's like never. You know when time just goes like that and you're having so much fun and you're so immersed in what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because you yeah. That's it. Yeah. I'm like that at work a lot.   Yeah. Yeah. It's all good. It's all good. Well, thank you for your company this evening, mister Scott.  



[01:26:54] Unknown:

Thank you for yours. And thank you for spending the time, you know, before, obviously, you you you know, you've got they had this albatross hanging around your neck for the day of having to go to work. Oh, well, I know. Spending your thank you for spending your final moments with us.  

[01:27:08] Unknown:

I just dedicate myself, yes,   to the show, to the listeners.   Anyway   Well, say goodnight folks to my awesome and wonderful co host. Oh bless you. Thank you and I will speak to you very soon and you people out there have an amazing week and we will we will be back next week and I'll leave you in the safe and very capable hands of Mr Scott.   Thank you very much. Thank you very much. See you soon, my lovely. You take care. See you soon. Take care. Toodle oo. Bye bye. I will. Bye bye. Everything goes quick. It will.  

[01:27:41] Unknown:

It will with eight days off to come. I mean, that's amazing, isn't it, folks? Eight days off, I can't even imagine it.   So coming up after the break, we're gonna do the final part of   other losses, James Parks, of other losses.   Some really actual, I'm gonna skip back literally a few minutes.   If you guys have been following every other week I've been playing this, so there's a if you skip back   like five weeks ago or whatever, you'll get the first bit, because Shelley does half an hour off,   every other week. So I've been using that time to put out this very, very important information that nobody's even aware of. So all the losses covers essentially,   the fact that more German soldiers died after World War two than during it, which is an inconceivable   fact   for most people.  

So if you are interested at all, go back over the, the other sections of the show. You can also simply listen to the whole thing in one go   by going to YouTube   and typing in other losses James Back.   Okay.   Back spelled q,   u e at the end, so   I think it is q u e at the end. I'll I'll clarify that at the end of the the clip, but we're gonna have a little music break now and then when I come back, I will play the the final segment of all all the losses. We'll have some observations   at the end and I'll play you out with some tunes. So,   yeah. Stay tuned folks. You're listening live to radiosoapbox.com   and,   you are listening. I gotta get it right now. You're listening   on the back foot, should I say,   to radio   Clear Air FM,   The Sound of Freedom, apparently so.  

And thank you for those folks for Syndicate English Show.   You can find us also on a plethora of other,   outlets on the Internet. Simply type in the Shelley Tasker Show   into Google and you will find us there with no adverts, no nonsense,   and no mainstream.   So,   this is a song called Remains of the Day by Blood Ruby, a band I used to host on pureoriginal.com   many many years ago.   You can still buy their music now. Go and search Blood Ruby band   or Blood Ruby music on Google, and if you like what you hear on this one,   there's more like it on their website. So, here you go.  

Remains of the day.   Yeah. The amazing Blood Ruby there. Absolutely fantastic. It's such a Kate Bush Bush esque voice.   I really I can't get my words out tonight. I think I had about three hours sleep last night, folks. So I think I'm doing   fairly well.   So,   onwards with, other losses, James Back, and it is b a c q u e, just so you know, James Back.   And you can find it on YouTube. Yeah. I'm not showing you anything here that you couldn't have already found for yourselves,   but,   one thing I want you to take from this little segment that is about to play   is that he's about to talk about how after the war   finished,   he's about to talk about how   the Western Allies decided that they take all sort of restrictions   from Western Germany while there were all sorts of restrictions   imposed in Eastern Germany. And, obviously, we know, you know, Berlin Wall and all that kind of thing, everything that sort of followed from the end of the of World War two,   and the East West divide and the the Cold War.  

What I want you to   what I want you to perceive, or what I would like you to get a handle on from what he's about to say is not necessarily what he's saying, but notice how   at the end of the war, once they'd achieved what they wanted to achieve,   whoever they are,   they're already setting the stage   for the next   conflict or the next   series of events,   which is gonna, you know, essentially   mean wars and cost lives,   which   always makes the fine you know, always makes the finance system   very, very rich. You know, there's there's no money to be made out of peace.   There is plenty of money to be made out of war. So it's just very interesting to see how they're already setting up. As I said at the end of, two weeks ago at the end of the show,   last time after I played the the other bit.  

It's almost like as Blackbird nine would say say,   they're setting it up for let's you and them fight.   Anyway, all the losses, here it goes. This is the final segment folks. So I hope you've enjoyed it,   and, I'll say I'll be back at the end of it to,   talk to the end of the show, hopefully. If I don't keep gibbering now, here it comes. That that they had taken more than $5,000,000,000  

[01:36:18] Unknown:

worth, which is 5,000   times as much. The Soviets and the Americans each accused   the other of lying about their reparations   as the Germans   starved to death in the streets   outside   the door.   Unable to speak to each other honestly,   the former allies mistrusted each other so much that the Western allies began strengthening   Germans   in the three Western zones   so they could become allies against the Soviets in the East.   The Western Allies reduced reparations,   reformed the inflated currency,   permitted immigration,   and restored communications,   although they did not restore free speech.  

The West Germans began the 'Wirtschaftfunder'   or economic miracle.   Starting with starvation   and rubble and virtually no natural resources,   the West Germans within fifteen years   had achieved the economic primacy   in Europe that the Allies had fought for two world wars to prevent. Soon, the Germans were once again among the   pointless.   And for the Germans   to gain superiority,   war was not necessary.   People everywhere admired the Germans for their amazing achievements.   No one asked why they so recently   had been starving and destitute.   If the historians of the Holy Alliance   wrote anything at all about Germany immediately after 1945,   they blithely   passed over millions of German deaths   to praise the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders.  

Good speak, plus shame for their own death camps and distaste   for the ugly subject itself,   annihilated research about the occupation.   Apart from a few small circulation books about the expulsions,   nothing accurate was published about the Morgenthau plan   and German starvation for many years   after the war.   The starvation was caused,   Western historians said, because there had been a world food shortage.   But the United Nations officially   disproved this.   Food production around the world was higher in 1947   than ever before.   Many Germans starved and only because the Allies denied them food.  

Millions more Germans died of Allied action after the war than during the war,   but nothing was accurately recorded   until 1989.   During the war, the German government counted about 4,500,000   dead soldiers and civilians.   The German censuses   observed by US ambassador Robert Murphy   have shown that the deaths in Germany increased greatly after the war,   reaching certainly 9,000,000   more dead Germans   and perhaps up to 14,000,000   in the six years of peace   only because of Allied policy.   We can never be sure   of the total number because the allied governments covered up this tremendous   national   slaughter   and are still doing so.  

As The US naval officer, doctor Albert Behnke said,   Germany was subjected   to physical and psychic trauma   unparalleled   in history.   Then in 1989,   from faraway Canada came a book entitled   Other Losses,   revealing that over a million German prisoners had died in French and American camps.   10 times as many as fell in the fighting   in the whole West Of Europe   in 1940   to 1945.   The forward to other losses was written by a senior United States Army historian,   colonel Ernest f Fisher.   This eminent American authority stated   that the French and American armies had   casually   annihilated   about 1,000,000 men, end quote.  

Other losses, the book caused a scandal   among politicians, diplomats, journalists, and academics   in Western Europe and North America.   At first, the senior American writer on Eisenhower,   Stephen e Ambrose,   supported the findings in other losses.   After reading the book and manuscript, he wrote,   I have now read other losses, and I wish I had not.   I have had nightmares every night since I started reading.   You have a sensational, if appalling story, and it can no longer be suppressed.   The full impact of which   neither you nor I nor anyone can fully imagine.   Many will curse you. Many will denounce you. Many will argue with you. Most will try to ignore you.  

Sincerely,   Stephen e Ambrose.   After the book came out, Ambrose appeared on the Dan Rather CBS   News.  

[01:41:50] Unknown:

I think Jim Bakker's cut made a major historical find here.   It has it is is to me as an American historian,   I'm ashamed.   There was   sadism and brutality,   denial of denial of medical supplies that were available,   denial of water in some cases when they were right on the banks of the Rhine and died of dehydration.  

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Now throughout the allied countries, remarkable scenes occurred.   Many thousands of eyewitnesses   who had been prisoners, including guards and one camp commander,   said on film, television, and in newspapers   that the American camps were deadly   and that other losses was true.   A Canadian magazine   made the book a cover story.   German newspapers were flooded with letters to the editor   after the book was reviewed.   A few Allied historians immediately protested.   No, there were no such mass deaths.   The contrast could scarcely have been more striking.   All those who said the camps were deadly had been in them.  

None of the historians who said the camps were okay   had been in one.   It was an historical   insurrection.   The voiceless and powerless victims   who had long been silenced by the powerful few   suddenly rose as witnesses against them.   Then in February 1990, Stephen Ambrose, contradicting   what he had previously stated,   wrote a review in the New York Times book review   saying that other losses was spectacularly   flawed   and would be seen to be worse than worthless   when the necessary research was done. End quote.   Sir Michael Howard in the Times literary supplement in England,   admitted that he was an enumerate historian,   incompetent to judge the book's crucial statistics.  

But he nevertheless knew that they were wrong because they could not meet his standard   of inherent probability.   Sir Michael did not define his standard of inherent probability,   which was just as well, because standards are fixed and probability   varies,   so the two are incompatible.   This helped to impose only one view of history,   namely that harsh view of Germany   imposed by the Holy Alliance in 1919,   reinforced in 1945,   and still in place today.   The view is that Germany alone bears the guilt for starting both wars,   that her Nazi leaders were all criminals fairly tried   and justly punished at Nuremberg.  

Even today, this is enforced by special provisions in German criminal law against denying or belittling Nazi crimes.   Many Germans accept this without inquiry   because they consider it to be politically correct.   As it was before, so it is again.   The people of Germany are misinformed   by inaccurate films and books   to their own economic and spiritual   disadvantage.   As it has been said by Bundeswehr officer   Max Klar,   quote, Germany is a nation of wounded souls. And   when one generation writes history down wrong,   the next may want to fix it with a bomb.   Lying and spying go on everywhere, but they also have a local habitation,   and the name   is military   industrial complex,   which now controls   the holy alliance of Britain, France,   Canada, and The USA,   victors of both wars   against Germany.  

President Eisenhower   explained the term in his exit speech in January   1961.  

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Good evening, my fellow Americans. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry   of vast proportions. In the councils of government,   we must car guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,   by the military industrial complex.   The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists   and will persist.   We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.  

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The military industrial leaders   have taken over the minds of hundreds of millions of people around the world.   Word by word,   mind by mind,   tax by tax,   war by war,   debt by debt,   through the Cold War and all the other post war wars   of the Holy Alliance.   The complex   has become seamless with us,   has identified with us,   militarized us,   bit by bit by byte by megabyte.   This process has been thorough   and extensive.   Beginning in government archives,   which in the   1940s were censored by Eisenhower   to hide his crimes against German prisoners   and going on through modern times.  

In 1987,   Major Merritt Drucker of the US army   was stationed in Germany with the US army   near Rheinberg.   He then discovered from a German ex prisoner   that there had been a huge POW   camp near Rheinberg.  

[01:47:45] Unknown:

We were never told anything about this phase of US history. Most of,   the education that we had about   the second World War or the fate of the German people,   just kinda skipped over this. I'll be very honest with you. It's a disgraceful period in our, unfortunately, our army history and our US government history. But in the Rhine Meadow camps,   it's almost an unrelieved story   of, human misery and suffering.   Unfortunately,   as I understand it, the situation in Germany   is such that   any effort to open them up the subject of the Rhine Meadow camps   to conduct ceremonies   or to locate the graves   is,   considered almost far right wing. It's extremely difficult for German political leaders, elected or appointed officials,   to delve into this subject   without being immediately accused of being neo Nazi or sympathizing to the far right. The subject is a is a forbidden subject,   for the most part in Germany.  

And in The United States, it's a subject we don't wanna write about and don't wanna investigate. So for these reasons,   the, the subject,   has has been covered up, to an extent. Just denial of it, not looking at it, not researching,   destroying records,   is one way that history can be can be covered up. We need to do history better.   We need to do military history   in an accurate, objective fashion.  

[01:49:16] Unknown:

The accuracy and honesty of such brave men as colonel Fisher,   Alfred de Sius,   Edward Snowden,   or Julian Assange   are obvious,   but we scarcely notice   because we rarely feel   the insidious   slow takeover   of our minds   word by word.   The military industrial leaders   contort words   by the ignorant force of their misconceptions,   such as a mission means an attack.   Oversight uniquely means overview.   Degrade means obliterate.   Other losses means massacre.   Mission   accomplished stands for mission failed.   Neutralized means murder,   enhanced interrogation,   hides torture.  

Asset means fighter jet. Kettle means terrify.   Pacify says crush.   Surveil means   spy. Stabilize means subjugate.   Pastoralize   means genocide,   and democracy   means tyranny.   These changes were conceived   by the military industrial leaders and later spread   by infected journalists.   Every time you use or understand one of these words, a few synapses of your memory are infected.   Every time you hear the word torture and you ease your conscience   by translating it to mean enhanced   interrogation,   you are spreading the infection in your brain.   The infected synapses spread the virus until your earlier version of yourself   has mutated   into a newer version of yourself,   and you have become what you did not want to be.  

You are one of them.   This gradual seizure of power over us is not a hostile takeover, but a merger   between the power elite and the flattered masses   who loved to believe   what they were told at the end of each of our post war wars.   We were victorious because we were virtuous,   which has now become   we are virtuous   because we were victorious.   To maintain   the virtue of the Holy Alliance   ratified at Nuremberg,   we continue to maintain   the criminality of Germany.   That is why astoundingly,   there is no peace treaty for World War two   between the Holy Alliance and Germany.  

That is why the Holy Alliance blames the Germans   for starting the war and for their evil deeds in their concentration   camps. That is why there are still 100 American military bases in Germany.   That is why Germany has paid hundreds of billions of dollars to its victims.   Why it places armaments   at the service of the allies and Israel,   why the UN Charter to this day identifies Germany as a hostile state, and that is probably why the bankrupt United States government   is so reluctant to return   the 300 tons of German gold   deposited there for safety during the Cold War.  

Germany,   the obedient servant of the Holy Alliance,   has nevertheless   become one of the most popular,   progressive, and prosperous nations of the world.   The United States secure,   prosperous,   and popular around the world in 1945   is now, to many people,   a frightening and discredited   warmonger.   The Allies   forced lessons   on the Germans by murder and by defeat.   Learn some humility.   Correct your faults.   Apologize for your crimes,   compensate your victims,   and reduce militarism.   We might help the Germans of today to realize   that they are still enchanted   by stories of their guilt. It would be healthy for those of us in the Holy Alliance   to seek forgiveness from the Germans   for what we have done.  

The Germans have learned lessons from their atrocities.   We have learned nothing from ours.   Perhaps we will soon.   One day we must.  

[01:54:11] Unknown:

Pretty powerful,   Pretty powerful indeed.   Please   do,   go and look up the whole video on YouTube.   Simply put in,   other losses,   James back,   and it will come out.   It's well worth a watch all the way through. And there's a lot of visuals with it, obviously, that you didn't get on the video, on on the, radio. So,   yeah, quietly, I'm going to get into that. Okay. So I'm gonna close that.   Just fade it out gently,   very gently. There we go. And, I'm gonna play you   a a very quick wartime tune before we go. And this one goes out for Patrick. Patrick, thank you so much for introducing me to this tune. It gets played rather a lot.  

[01:55:14] Unknown:

Fitz Creek, baby. You can't buy me   because I'm feeding neutrality.   Got my gun out. Can you see?   Bits Creek, baby, you can't bum me.   Bits Creek, baby, you look so cute,   all dressed up in your parachute.   Let that propaganda   be.   Blitz Creek, baby, you can't buy me.   I'll give you warning   because I'm afraid I'll have to ring.   So take my warning,   or else you'll get this hand grenade.   Blitzkrieg,   baby, you can't bum me.   Better   save up your TNT.   I don't want no infantry.   Blitzkrieg, baby. You can't mom   Blitzkrieg, baby. You can bum me.   Yeah. Because I'm feeding neutrality.  

Yeah. Got my gun out. Can you see that?   Blitzkrieg, baby, you can't bum me. Yeah. Blitzkrieg, baby, you look so cute.   All dressed up in your parachute.   Let that prop again   be.   Blitzkrieg, baby, you can't bum me.   I'll give you warning   because I'm afraid you   have to read.   So take my warning   or else you'll get this hand grenade.   Blitzkrieg, baby, you can't bum   me. Better save up your tea and tea   because I don't want no   infant tea.   Hobbits could be who can't bum me.  

[01:58:17] Unknown:

Don't you just love it? I thought I'd play something to sort of lighten the mood after that heavy subject.   Such a chill tune.   And, obviously,   you know, there there was a band named after that tune.   Wasn't very keen on the band though, I have to admit.   So we're coming very close to the end of the show. It is actually what we call Guy Fawkes night here in The UK.   Guy Fawkes probably being one of the bravest men to ever enter parliament,   along with his   other three mates,   all of which were set up to be hung, drawn, and quartered   for their crimes of attempting to blow up the House of Lords.  

And,   Guy Fawkes, the most famous one, actually managed to either trip and fall   or jump   off of the,   yeah,   off of the platform where he was to be hung, drawn, and quartered,   and managed to snap his own neck   in the fall on the rope,   rather than go through the last nasty   nasty bit of torture that he would have, you know, obviously would have been disemboweled and   each part of him each of the four parts would have been sent to the four corners   of the country as a warning to others not to defy the government.   Oh, yeah. Rings a bit true. A little bit true.   Anyway,   we'll be back with you next week, folks.  

You've been listening to the Shelley Tasker Show,   live   on radiosoapbox.com.  

[01:59:46] Unknown:

So thank you very very much for your company.   See you next week.