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

Co-host Mr Scott sits in for Shelley and welcomes broadcaster Eric Von Essex for a wide‑ranging, good‑humoured conversation that blends personal history, media literacy, and local culture. We discuss Cornwall’s pull, smuggling lore, lost chapels in the dunes, and how pubs and parish life once anchored real community. Eric shares moving family recollections from Malta, Sicily and D‑Day, the gap between Hollywood myth and wartime reality, and why he published his father David J. Powis’s memoir, My World War Two, to set the record straight. We explore propaganda old and new, from Disraeli and Chesterton to modern “thumbscrew tightening,” phones-as-cages, staged political theatre, and the power of humour to puncture tyranny. We also trail an upcoming Christmas special on the 1914 Christmas Truce and a forthcoming mini‑series on nuclear energy myths featuring Galen Windsor—plus shout‑outs to independent artists listeners can support. Resources mentioned include Powis’s book, the warveteran.co.uk site, archive.org for Lt-Col J. Creagh Scott’s Hidden Government, and indie music from Blood Ruby, First to Eleven, Whom By Fire and Trevor John. Listeners are invited to join the conversation, share local stories, and reconnect with neighbours—because community begins on your own doorstep.

[00:01:00] Unknown:

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome one and all to the Shelley Tasker Show.   It's good to have your company. Today's date is the 11/26/2025,   Wednesday, of course. Wacky Wednesday, as Blackbird nine would call it. And as you've probably guessed,   this isn't Shelley. No. Mister Scott standing in for Shelley who is just so happens to be on hiatus again. Off to see the illegal eagles tonight. Are you darling? I hope you have a lovely time.   But anyway, folks, so while the cat's away, you know what they say.   It's gonna be a great show for you guys tonight.  

Yeah. Shelley may be on hiatus, but don't worry. We do.   Shelley may be on hiatus, but we have got an excellent guest for you tonight.   Radio Soapbox listeners will be very familiar with this guy.   But since this show has recently taken on a new audience,   thought it'd be good to,   well, broaden the horizons of hosts and listeners alike.   And it's national   thumbscrew tightening day. Yes. Budget's come round again.   And nuclear waste. Anyone ever heard of Galen Windsor?   If you haven't,   wow. Well, we're gonna be covering some of that over the next few weeks on the show.   And genuinely, sadly,   so far 13 dead after a residential tower fire   in Hong Kong.  



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I will stay. I will stay. I will stay. I can guarantee it hasn't fallen down.  

[00:03:52] Unknown:

Too soon? Too soon? I don't know.   Yeah. There you go. That was carve your heart out yourself. I love that tune. Really, really nice tune. I'm just gonna let that bleed out in the background. There we go. So, yeah. As I said to you folks, Shelley's on hiatus this week, but you are listening to the Shelley Tasker Show. We're coming live out of radiosoapbox.com   and,   have been taken on by another platform as well. So shout out to those listening,   from Radio   Clear Air FM. So,   as I said, we've got, an absolutely excellent guest with us tonight.   I've listened to his shows so many times,   and they're always a great laugh.  

Such a sense of humor, this guy.   Radio soapbox,   listeners, as I said, will be familiar with him.   But,   I just thought it would be nice to   because we've never we've been on the same show once, I think, on a round table,   but we've never actually had a one to one between us. And,   I'm just kind of interested as to know   how he got where he is and why he's doing what he what he is now. So it is a absolute pleasure to welcome   mister Eric Von Essex to the Shelley Tasker Show. Welcome, sir.  

[00:06:14] Unknown:

Good evening, and thank you very much for allowing me on allowing me on.   And I feel rather honored. Thank you so much for the for the nice build up. It's much appreciated.   But,  

[00:06:26] Unknown:

yes, you're you're worthy, sir. I I as I say, I've listened to quite a few of your shows.   But for for all intents and purposes tonight, I'm just gonna pretend that I haven't. I'm probably gonna ask you something that I probably know anyway that you've already covered on the show. But,   Yeah. I I know that we both share similar interests when it comes to sort of That's right. Time stuff, historical stuff.   You're also a great lover of my my home county as well, aren't you? Maybe we'll start there. Oh, Cornwall. And it's very strange because  

[00:06:55] Unknown:

the only family link I've got to Cornwall that I know of   is my   father's   auntie   married a Cornishman.   And that's about the only link I've got. So it's not a blood link, is it? Yeah. It's not really a blood link, is it? And when I when I used to go there on holidays as a child, I used to say to my parents, oh, I'm going home.   I actually looked on Cornwells. What happened? I still do.   It's it's got this sort of draw. I don't know what it is.   A a kind of,   hypnotic trance, you know. I sort of I want to go to Cornwall. It's such a beautiful county. And it's a shame the It's absolutely stunning. The the customs and excise people knocked down all the trees   in well, to stop the smugglers.  

Sods.  

[00:07:40] Unknown:

Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, yeah, man. I mean, obviously, there's lots of I could tell you a few smuggling stories. Well, maybe we can get a little later. Yes. Yes.   Yeah. So, where I grew up,   there's some lovely old books. I think one of them is actually on archive.org   and it's called Saint Evell, a portrait of a parish.   And there's some brilliant little smuggling stories in there because, of course, smugglers   weren't really smugglers. They weren't necessarily   smuggling stuff in a shore.   They were they were really they were wreckers. And what they were doing is so many ships got wrecked on the Cornish Coast,   that people would go down. And, you know, in in tough times, you just go and help yourself to whatever the beach delivers you,   which to them was fair game. But, obviously, to customs and excise officers,   no, that belonged to the crown. So,  

[00:08:33] Unknown:

yeah. They they held a lot of sway. They were called coast guards back then. Now the coast guard goes out and picks up people in the middle of the channel and brings them over here. Yeah. Yeah. But so they used to take pot shots at the customer excise people. And I I I think that's a very good that could be, a national sport, I think. You know? I'm only joking. I'm only joking. Why don't police knock on me door? Yes. And, is it true they used to wash their windows with gin because it was cheaper than water?  

[00:08:59] Unknown:

That's what I have. I have heard that. I have heard that.   I mean, yeah, I can't imagine them waste wasting good West Country cider on washing their windows. Not that it would be any good.  

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No.   Are you anywhere near the coast?  

[00:09:14] Unknown:

Yeah. Well, I grew up right on the coast. And I'm I'm a little bit inland, but considering   it's only like 15 miles wide or something like that at its widest point, it's really, you know, you're always near the coast. So the further inland you go, the higher up you get, and you can still see the coast. If I if I walk up onto the hill above my house,   I can it's a it's a it's a big old hill. If you get to the top of that, you can see both coasts from the top of that hill. Really? You must be down near the tip, near the Lizard, and that sort of area. No. No. I'm fairly central. So I'm just I'm currently,   around Newquay area.  



[00:09:51] Unknown:

I know Newquay. Yes. We used to go there. Yeah. Perimples. Yeah. And is there any truth   that there's a hidden cathedral   under the sands of Perumpol? Because I think it's the Northern church.   Is it church? Is there is there any truth? Yeah. It's it's not really a cathedral.  

[00:10:08] Unknown:

It's   a tiny, tiny little chapel,   that was built. And, yes, the sand dunes have have now covered it all up. So Ah. But there is a little place that you can go to. There is there is a little walk you can go around. It's called the Lost Church Walk, and you can walk round and walk round the area. And sometimes bits of it are uncovered and sometimes they're not. So  

[00:10:29] Unknown:

I thought it was an old wives' tale because,   when I was a cathedral would be a wife's tale. It would be, wouldn't it? We was told a cathedral when I was a kid, but I think the owner of the in Yuki actually called the Cathedral Cavern,  

[00:10:43] Unknown:

and it was used   off of Porth off of Porth Headland. There was a place called Cathedral Cavern, and people used to go and,   hold town seminars down there. There'd be bands playing in there and all that kind of thing, and and the local council had it all blown up because it might have been unsafe.  

[00:11:00] Unknown:

So yeah. Of course. Bit of heritage. They love blowing things. Yes. They love blowing things up because,   you know, I I was actually trying to think of something good that governments do. I I didn't quite,   no. I can't I haven't hit on anything yet,  

[00:11:14] Unknown:

but, Well, as I did say, it's it's it's national thumb screw thumb screw tightening day today Yes. Obviously. Yes.   Which is, you know, my mother came around, a couple of days ago, and she said, oh, if they do this with the budget and if they do this with it, I said, mom, what do they do every year with the budget? What do they do? They just tighten the thumbscrews incrementally a little bit more so that you can kind of just about put up with it for the next year. And then when the next year comes about, they do exactly the same again. When have the cost of anything ever gone down? They've never gone down.  

[00:11:46] Unknown:

Precisely. Like,  

[00:11:47] Unknown:

and And also when have the cost of anything ever gone down   in recent memory?  

[00:11:54] Unknown:

Well, we gotta pay the usury scam, haven't we? That's the thing because that's where our money's going. And it goes into a big usury pit. And, eventually, it eats away and eats away, and it eventually has the shirt off your back, literally. Yeah. And that's what happens to all   every usury scam since the beginning of time. It's the game.   And It's the game. Yeah.   Absolutely.   And what they do   So the peasants result revolt.   The peasants revolt.   Then there's a huge   vacuum.   And then the   usually scammers put a dictator of their choice   into power and people have it even worse after that. And it's a it's like a revolving little wheel that goes round and round and round.  

And when you looked in the papers, when was it? About a month or two back? Britain on the edge of a revolution.   Yes. They want that to be because they want an even worse dictator than what we got now.   And Of course. You know, just look back in history. They've done it every time, time after time.   And it's worked because people can't see through it, unfortunately.  

[00:12:59] Unknown:

That is Well, they just they just they just need to vote harder next time. That's the problem, isn't it? That's that's how it's perceived, you know.   You just gotta vote a bit harder next time. Vote for vote the right people in next time. And you've got all the people that are putting their faith in people like Farage and,   and and all that kind of thing.   For me   Oh, all that. You gotta you gotta you gotta look at how where the guy was funded in why the guy was funded into, like, UKIP in the first place.   Not necessarily him in particular.  

Although I dare say he was handpicked by someone for some reason, whether it was his best mate because he thought he was a nice chap or for completely nefarious reasons. Who knows?   But, you know, they were funded in to take votes away from the BNP   at the perfect time using very similar policies. But,   you know, not that I'm a huge fan of the modern day BNP when it was a grassroots movement back in the nineties and they actually won seats for, you know, for local voters, then, you know, that's that's a different kettle of fish. But nowadays, you know, I don't think there's a single political party that I could get behind.  

[00:14:08] Unknown:

I've gotta be honest. Well, there there isn't. But do we need them? You see, this is the thing.   To me,   it's like a superstition.   And   I've often said, well, it's pleasant we didn't have government. People say, it'd be total anarchy. There'd be riots on the street. There'd be, there won't be any law and order, bloody bloody bloody.   Would there be? Because when you look at, for example, when the Berlin Wall Came Down, Poland didn't have a government for two years. And most Polish people that lived in Poland at that time said it's the best two years of their life.   Because government wasn't sticking its nose in, people started business, so they weren't worried about taxes. People started working things out for themselves. And I know that in Argentina when they had the financial crisis   in the,   I think it's early nineties.  

I was speaking to I used to work with Argentinian that was there at the time, and he said that,   there was potholes in the road. So what a group of people did, they got together, went down the local council with some, bolt chain slippers,   undid the local   chair, and then started repairing the road themselves and filled the holes in. And people Yeah. Started become responsible. They paid,   I don't show I think it was barter,   to get their children educated.   And without government sticking their nose in, people the country started to do alright until the IMF looked in and thought, bloody old people are starting to wake up. They can do without government. Quick. Get a government in.   And I think, actually, governments are demonic.  

I really do think they're they are a death cult because   the   you know,  

[00:15:49] Unknown:

what what was your opinion? I I I I think   in my view, I think everything should be organized by parishes.   Simple as that. Right? So Agree. So   if if,   so let's take the the the COVID era, for instance. Isn't it, you know,   is it is it b is BCE before before COVID era? I'm not quite sure.  

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I love that one.  

[00:16:17] Unknown:

No. It's,   take that era for instance, you know, everyone was worried that, there was that much fear mongering put about in not just the mainstream media and the press, but also the independent media was used as a as a massive leverage tool on people as well, I believe, you know,   that was used to,   you know, lever lever people into a fearful position no matter what side of the fence you were on. And a lot of people were worried that you might get force jabbed. You know, they they might, you know, make it mandatory for everyone.   And you had all these horror stories of people being chased after with butterfly nets in China and being pinned down and jabbed and things like that. You know?  

So the one thing I always say is that, you know,   it's it's all very well going out and trying to do good in the world, but it really actually starts on your own doorstep   in the respect that if that had occurred   and a bunch of people had turned up at my next door neighbors,   with the intention of jabbing my next door neighbors and their children,   who were very young at the time   Mhmm. It would have taken the community to come out   and tell them to very, very   unpolitely sling their hook.   Mhmm.   And but without if you don't know the people that live next door to you, this is my biggest contention as you may or may not know is mobile phones. And it's not the technology, it's what it's used for. It's the cage that's being built that everyone's happy to sit in. I agree.   If people,   lived life by knowing who lived next door to them rather than who liked what they had for dinner on Facebook,   there would be a sense of local community, and this brings us back to why they're why they banned smoking in pubs, and then so that's half the community.  

Don't wanna go to the pub anymore. And then the the other half of the community who didn't spend all their money on cigarettes and could afford to pay £5 plus a pint, you know,   carried on going. But now, it the tax on alcohol and everything has got so much that all the local community   has been to and alright, the church   should have been the original local community and the pubs probably took over from there. I get it. But   in recent in the last few hundred years, the pubs,   the public houses, the bars have been the absolute hubs of the community.   Mhmm. That's where people went and put the world to rights. And if someone was a scoundrel   in the local neighborhood,   you   know, everyone would know about it. And we're not this is why   this is this is so inverse, isn't it? Gossip is really frowned on. How did you draw the line between gossip and letting you know that there's some weirdo living next to,   you know, living down the road who likes to look through people's letter boxes at night or something. You know? Yeah. There's no harm in gossip, quote, unquote,   like that unless it's done in a malicious way. And that's what communities were built on.  

You know? Yeah. That's that's that's right. These public houses, these, and people knowing each other and and communicating with each other on a regular basis.   You know?  

[00:19:26] Unknown:

Well, before the industrial revolution, that was what it was like. There was not really unemployment   as such because everybody   knew their place in a village. There'd be the grave digger. There'd be the coffin maker. There would be the butcher,   the tailor, you know, as it goes on. And you knew who who to rely on. You didn't worry about I longed for a local butcher. I longed for a local butcher. Yeah. We haven't got one. Armor.   We haven't got one. Yeah. We got a local farm, but he's hanging on by his fingernails.   But,   the local butcher, unfortunately, did himself in the eye because during the COVID era,   he had all these rules and regulations. Only one person in the shop, you know, all this sort of stuff. And people didn't shop there. They went out of business. Yeah.  



[00:20:07] Unknown:

And he he shot himself in the foot. Way that they that was another way that they they got these people is and it's only fear.   You're the biggest controller, isn't it? Oh, yes. Fear. Yes.  

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Well,   it's a bit like, nuclear bombs. Now I question. I'm not saying they don't exist. I question if they exist   because   it seems to be enormous   fear porn. And   I saw a chap on UK column,   as a video. He's on YouTube,   and he's done the science. You know, he's actually got, quite high qualifications   in in in in this sort of subject.   And he doesn't believe that nuclear bombs exist at all. And he said nuclear energy isn't what we've been told. It's a load of rubbish.  

[00:20:50] Unknown:

So this is a very interesting thing that you brought up. I don't know whether you heard in in the intro there. I was talking about about a guy called Galen Windsor. Have you heard that name before?  

[00:21:01] Unknown:

Because I have. No.  

[00:21:03] Unknown:

No. It was Thank you.   Well, look. I'm gonna say right now, thank you to Ralph who regularly emails me. I don't know whether he listens to this show, but he was a listener to previous shows that I've been on. And I still get his emails, and he's an absolute Mhmm. Absolutely brilliant guy   for just getting together a whole load of information, stuff that he's been looking at over the last month. And then he compiles it all into an email and just sends it out to a bunch of people. And I'm one of the recipients, which is always really nice.   So in his email in in in Ralph's monthly email this month, I got to looking at a video of a guy   called Galen Windsor   who worked   on nuclear projects across America,   for many, many years.  

And,   he contests   that   nuclear energy is a thing.   And he did a big talk on how much plutonium and how much whatever it was because it was plutonium was used in one of the bombs for,   for,   I think Nagasaki was plutonium and Hiroshima was the other one. I can't remember what   what it was.   But anyway,   he contests that there is no harm in radiation. In fact, this guy died   at 82   having worked   in,   in and around radioactive products   all his life, even swimming in the cooling tanks of the nuclear reactors   and Wow. This kind of thing. And one of the reasons   he   contests, one of the reasons   that we're told that it's so fearful and so scary and so dangerous is because it is a reusable commodity   that the the energy   bill payer is paying for the storage of   after it's been used. Oh.  

So I'm gonna I'm gonna over the next few because Shelley takes half,   every other week,   Shelley,   finishes half an hour early. So what I do is I use that time to to play the odd lecture, the odd speech, this, that, and the other.   And over the next few weeks, obviously, bar Christmas, we've got a special Christmas show coming up, which you might like to get involved in. I'll talk about that in a minute. Thank you.   I'm gonna be playing this lecture by Galen Windsor. Now it it   I'm not gonna go too much into detail because I'm no expert, but what I watched last night for an hour and a half   absolutely blew me away.  

I even watched this guy   physically consume radioactive products.  

[00:23:40] Unknown:

Oh, I think hang on. I think I've seen a person do that, but there's a German,   teacher   who, during the COVID was was actually booted out of teaching because he wouldn't take the jab and all that. And he looked into Nagasaki and Hiroshima,   and he said his research   shows he said it wasn't any nuclear bombs at all. It was conventional explosives with mustard gas. And the people were sick because   they said it was radiation poisoning, but it wasn't. It was the mustard gas. And he said the burns that those people got are   almost the same as when they bombed other cities,   with,   fire bombs and that type of thing. So Oh, the phosphorus bombs and the yeah. Phosphorus. That's the word I was looking for. Sorry. Yeah. Thanks for thanks for that. And I think that,   it does make you think because we're told so many lies.  



[00:24:37] Unknown:

I mean Waters are being muddied all the time. And literally, half the that's what I believe   not all, but   a good   percentage. I wouldn't I wouldn't say maybe even half, but Mhmm. Maybe less than half of the independent media   is there for that exact reason, just to muddy the waters, keep each other at each other's throats, and,   you know, all that kind of thing.   And then you've got the mainstream media stirring the pot as well and riling up the oldies who still actually   read those   stupid tabloid papers. I mean, the all these newspapers now, nobody really buys a physical newspaper unless they're, I would say, around   80 years old.  



[00:25:23] Unknown:

Correct? Yes. Or they need cat litter. That's another one. The one's on the line there. Cat litter. Cat litter. Yeah. Well, damn these parts, mate. You just pick up a copy of Farmers Weekly. That's free. Yeah.   Was it something to put your chips in if you want the old time, you know, because you used to put chips. Your chips, I miss those days. Or fries if you're in America in the old, newspaper. So you can sort of read read yesterday's news of what's eating your chips. You know?   I miss those days. I do. Having your chips wrapped up in newspaper, cone of chips as a kid, wrapped up in newspaper, and they put so much vinegar on the bottom of the newspaper. It go all the way on the cone. That's it. Yeah. I I remember that. But you got a bloody lot of chips for your money. You really did get you got a full bag. Now you get you can count them on the thing. Back then. Yeah. It was pence back then, wasn't it? Yeah. Cheap as chips. That's where the word comes from. Cheap as chips. They were dirt cheap. Potatoes, they're grown here.   Well, they were grown here. And so if you go into your local supermarket, they're grown all over the world now, aren't they? You know? So you get potatoes from Poland from Mongolia. Mongolia   and   wherever. But going back to truth and that type of thing,   I think it was Sefton Delmar who was head of propaganda during World War two.  

At the end of war, he said and I can't repeat it verbatim. This is off the top of my head. Somebody be out probably correct me on this. It was was it, propaganda is like a neat   kept lawn,   and we must stop the weeds of truth  

[00:26:56] Unknown:

coming up coming through. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. So, there's another quote that I like actually by AK Chesterton.   GK Chesterton.   Yes. And he said, journalism is like shining a spotlight on a wall in a darkened room.   That's right. It's very, very true. Who's gonna argue with him? That was part of his chosen profession, and he even wrote propaganda for the war effort. So he'd know. Oh, yes.  

[00:27:24] Unknown:

And so did the Lord or Reith of the, BBC, the first director general. He was the,   propaganda   writer for the government in World First World War.  

[00:27:35] Unknown:

Wow.   Wow. That, you know, the, so the waters are being muddied on a regular basis by as many people as possible. And then you've got all these useful idiots that are sat on   their mobile phones   searching   AI for their answers and and and vehemently arguing their point even though it's a computer that's told them,   you know,   because they don't wanna learn anything for themselves anymore. Is   it woe betide anyone that wants to pick up a book nowadays?  

[00:28:04] Unknown:

Oh, yes. All we can all so far they can read unless it's on the on the screen. I mean, I can't stay in these what what they call them now? The computer things or that which you get a book on them. Can't remember the name. Oh, Kindle. Senior moment. Thanks, mate. Yeah. Kindle. Yeah. I I can't read things on a Kindle. It has to be on pages   for it to inwardly sink in. And I still take a notebook and pencil with me everywhere I go. I have a note little tiny notebook, a five notebook, and a pencil.   And people Yeah.   You know, got no battery with it, and there it is. It's easily stored. But going back to propaganda and truth, I mean, my father, he was in frontline intelligence during the war.  

And no, we're not a special family. We're not from the   elite or anything like that. He got into it because they had the highest one of the highest casualty rates. So anybody's a bit intelligent, they can put in frontline intelligence.   My way. So he wasn't behind the desk. He was actually the lowest rank in frontline intelligence.   And   he used to see these terrible Hollywood films after the war. It must have been very frustrating for him. And so that's wrong. That's wrong. This is absolute rubbish. We showed him Saving Private Ryan, and we had to turn it off because he he's just saying that's wrong that's wrong that's wrong that's wrong. He said whoever advised Spielberg wasn't there because he was in the first landing first wave of landing craft   next to where the fiction film Saving Private Ryan. And I had that in that is a fiction film   was supposed to be,   depicted.  



[00:29:35] Unknown:

And they merit. Well, look. I Eric, hold that thought. This is Okay. I knew this would be a great chat. I knew this would be a great chat.   No. I've been really looking forward to catching up with you, so that's great. And I, I hope, we We look forward to this as well. Yeah. Yeah. Brilliant.   So we on this show, we do a we do a break every half hour just so that you can go and get yourself a cup of tea or whatever.   So I'm gonna play a little tune   here.   What tune shall I play? We'll see I suppose see since we've been talking about   wartime stuff. Let me just flip to another little thing here.  

I think it's that one.   Yeah. Okay.   Let's go for   all I know about this one is it's, Charlie and his Orchestra.   So enjoy, folks. Ah, yes. War time war time swing for you folks.  

[00:30:37] Unknown:

Back in a few minutes. When you met someone who set you back on your heels.   Goody goody.   So you met someone   and now you know how it feels.   Goody goody.   So you gave him your heart too.   Just like I gave mine to you.   And he broke it into little pieces.   Now how do you do?   So you lie awake just singing the blues all night.   Goody goody,   so you think that's not the battle of dynamite.   Razors   you.   Who is that guy who sent you back on your heels? Winnie Churchill,   who never fought in France and doesn't know how it feels.   Winnie Churchill.  

Not a word he said came through.   He is always teasing you.   He breaks the empire into little pieces.   What are you going to do?   Who lies awake just dreaming of revenge all night?   Winnie Churchill.   He would like to put the whole world on a barrel of dynamite.   Hooray!   And hallelujah,   Winnie.   Your headed coming to you. You declared that war,   and you feel like never before.   Now I hope you're satisfied   your rascal you.  

[00:33:14] Unknown:

Welcome back, folks. That's Charlie and his orchestra there. Goody goody. Hope you enjoyed that one. You are listening live to radiosoapbox.com   and on the back foot on, Radio   Clear Air FM. So,   you're joining me here on the Shelley Tasker Show. It's mister Scott, and I've got an amazing guest with me, mister Eric Von Essex. Welcome back, Eric.  

[00:33:36] Unknown:

Thank you.   Well, I feel quite honored actually. It's very, very, very nice, and very honest to be on your show. Thank you, Maleficos. It's it's great.   We was talking about was it how history has been distorted  

[00:33:49] Unknown:

in the mouth of lies? Saying about your your dad. Yeah. Your dad, you know, not being able to watch movies because they were just full of nonsense, basically.  

[00:33:58] Unknown:

That's right. And people believed them, believed it, and argued with him as if he wasn't there.   That was the thing. And that must have been terribly frustrating to him, but he had the patience of a saint. And he just said, where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise. He just used to just Wow.   Serene. They had incredible passion. That's very noble  

[00:34:19] Unknown:

of him to say that. I I, you know, I I think I would have probably used the Asimov phrase. Those peep those people who think they know everything are a great irritation to those of us that actually do.  

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It's a good one. That one is. But, you know, there were for example, there's a neighbor now. He was in Malta during the full siege of Malta.   And Wow. More bombs fell on Malta than the whole of the blitz.   That that was that was how heavily bombed it was. And we had a neighbor   where I was a when I was a child   who,   whose brother was in Gibraltar   during the war, and she was obsessed with thinking that my father was in Gibraltar, and her brother never saw any action at all. So she's going around the neighborhood saying, oh, yes. He was in Gibraltar.   And my father said, no. I was in Malta.  

That was the heavily bombed. Oh, yeah. But my brother was in Gibraltar, and he never saw any action. I wasn't in Gibraltar. I was in Malta. Yes. Gibraltar.   And in the end, he just gave up. And then and the and the neighborhood thought that my father was sort of making it up. They thought he was in Gibraltar. No. He was in Malta.  

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And this is the thing. Yeah. I mean, Malta was I mean, one of my all time one of my all time heroes was Jeff Wellum. Jeff, the boy Wellum, the 18 year old Spitfire pilot in the back. Oh, yes. Yes.   Yes. And, he regales an absolutely brilliant story of,   taking part in he didn't realize what it was at the time, but Operation Pedestal,   where they, you know, to relieve the siege of Malta. He said that his entire squadron   took off from the aircraft carrier   without a single bullet between them because the wings of the aircraft have been stuffed full of cigarettes because and when he asked the the fitter what he was doing, he said,   well, there's light and a bullet, sir, and there's short of cigarettes on Malta, sir.  

So the entire the entire squadron   took off from, from the aircraft carrier   without a single bullet between them.  

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Unbelievable.   Well, it it's it's it's a it's a the you see, I'm gonna say something now which you will not find in the history books, but I know is a 100% true.   Because my uncle was also on Malta.   Although, my father and my uncle didn't what happened later on that that my father went to Sicily afterwards.   And,   that's where he got into the intelligence,   and that's where he met,   my future uncle   who he married   my,   his best friend's   sister   who became my mother. So,   there's a long story that is. But going back to Malta,   again, you won't find this in the history books, and this is very controversial.  

My uncle was actually in Valletta,   and the Maltese had had enough, and they raised the white flag. And he was part of one of   the members of the troops who were ordered to tear it down.   And that and that's why they gave them the VC because they they they raised the right flag. They gave up.   And my father who was in the torpedo depot,   he actually lived on   six  

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dog biscuits a day. That's all they had to eat. Six dog biscuits a day. I've heard stories of them. If they could get hold of eggs, which was a real luxury, there was a lady that could take that would go and cook up a lovely omelette for you as long as you took took your own hydraulic oil to have it cooked in.  

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Really?  

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Well Yeah. I've got that in a book up here. Yeah. I've I've been through that one for ages. But But They they were really starving. And, several of his, colleagues actually died of malnutrition  

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Because   when they they   what happened   is I've got a little soft spot for Palestine.   The reason why is a ship   managed to run the gauntlet,   and it got through.   And it was loaded with Palestinian chocolate.   And they were allowed Wow. One piece of chocolate. I think it was a week or something like that. And the sweetness in the chocolate kept him going. Because as a picture of my father, he's a walking skeleton.   And if if it wasn't for Palestine,   I wouldn't be here talking to you now.  

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Wow. Because you'd That's that's that there you go.  

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So I've got a soft spot, and I I'd like to say thank you to anybody from Palestine. Thank you very much for saving my dad's life.   So Yeah. That's it. Because he he said he he he they were absolutely starving.   And they thought when they left Malta that they're going back home.   And,   someone noticed that the sun was on the wrong side of the ship.   That's a bit weird. No. They went to Egypt.  

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And they went  

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and they went to Egypt for,   and   they   they shouldn't have done. They were given lots of food because their stomachs are strung. A lot of them die because they overate. They shouldn't do because if your stomach's strung, you shouldn't. And the worst thing you can do to a starving person is give them food. You've got to give them,   strange enough. It's very small amounts and,   you know, sugar basically to build them up. But,   they went to Great Bitter Lake in Egypt.   And,   no, they had to do, that that that was for, I think it was Operation Husky, and I got this muddled up, for the invasion of Sicily.   And he was in the first one of the first landing craft in on Sicily.  

And then they fall all the way through to and it's a Regorbuto   Ridge.   That's where my dad got into the intelligence section because they had so many losses in the intelligence that they, you know, they they were desperate. And that's where I met my uncle.   And,   my dad   was fascinated with numerology.  

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And, Oh, okay. That's that's that's quite a subject in and of itself.  

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Well, he's they they you see, D Day wasn't known as D Day. Remember, this was about nineteen forty two, forty one, forty two.   It was known as the second front.   And my uncle said to my dad, when do you think the second front's gonna be? And he said, 06/06/1944   at 06:30 in the morning. Because it's all three sixes and nines.   And,   later on when my dad was in the landing craft   on the once the first wave to go in on d day my uncle said not bad he was only twenty four hours out out because   d day was supposed to be the June 5   And just as you said it, there was announcements   over the public address system on the ship.  

The second front has been delayed by twenty four hours.  

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Oh my word. Yeah. Oh my word. What a story.   What a story. That's amazing, isn't it? Really. And, It's absolutely astounding.  

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But Montgomery was hated   because when they fought through in Sicily,   he came along to address the troops.   And he was talking to him like children.   Oh, we're throwing rocks at the Jerry, you know, over,   we we already got, was it, from Sicily to Italy? Oh, it's a pushover. And we got a little job for you, and then you'd be going home. Now these men, a lot of them now my dad was a conscript,   but a lot of the regulars   had come from India,   and they're on their way home. They've done about seven years in India, so they haven't seen their families.   And they was kept at Malta.  

That's where the stop off point was. And when the war was declared,   they they were they were trapped in Malta. They kept in Malta. They were kept on there. And then they thought they were going home, and they went to Egypt.   And then   they fought all the way through Sicily, and they thought they were going home. And Montgomery wanted them to go   on,   to invade   Italy.  

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And what happened You mean the soft underbelly of Europe? Soft underbelly.  

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And,   I'll let you into another little secret that my dad's got in his book. There's a lot that you won't find in the history books.   They went in under strength   because   the vast majority of people are deserted.   The minute deserted, they'd had enough.  

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Wow.  

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And you won't find that in the history books. Montgomery, when he was telling them   that, you know, that was going to invade Italy,   the high ups who couldn't stay in Montgomery turned a blind eye. They were giving him   a lot of lip. A hell of a lot. The chats would be right. Because he didn't notice on their shoulders it said intelligence.   And so they weren't I'm not being snobby here, but they weren't the average They're quite educated. My dad was quite educated.   Although, you know, he's very, very intelligent.   Unfortunately, he didn't get to university. He could've done, but his parents couldn't afford it. He came from a very poor household background.  

And   they start and he had to actually make a retreat,   a very quick retreat because the abuse to him was so bad. It almost got to the point where people lobbing stuff at him. They really hated his guts.  

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Yeah. It doesn't surprise me, but he was well known as a bully anyway. You know? From from his days back in Sandhurst, he was well known as a bully. Oh, yeah. A few people have written about that.   Not a pleasant man. And and and, you know,   quite a short guy as well, wasn't he? So that probably, you know That's it. Napoleon Syndrome, all that kind of thing. Oh, crumbs. Very much so. Right? But  

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you know that,   but I mean, when they capture prisoners, quite a few in the intelligence could speak German.   But he said there never any problems because all the prisoners could speak English.   And my dad had a lot of respect for one general, Montgo   Rommel.   Oh, yeah. Because Rommel because the German they said, Rommel is at the front line with all the troops, and he eats our rations. He will not have he'll only have filled rations. He will not have special food for himself. He's at the front with us, and he leads us.   And that's what they respected.  

And he said, if the food's not good enough for the men, you know, we'll find out because I eat their Russians.  

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Yeah. I mean yeah. I mean, the thing is with him as well, he was boosted up   also by the British government,   you know, as an excuse for them not winning very you know, not doing very well initially in in Africa.   Churchill Yeah. Bigged up,   Rommel in in parliament just to sort of say, oh, we're up against a very cunning man and all this kind of thing. And that was propaganda gold over in Germany, wasn't it? You know? Yeah. Because, yeah, I think it was Hitler said, if you if you once once the opposition start,   you know, bigging up your generals, then, you know, it's a it's a huge morale boost for the troops and all that kind of thing. Oh, yeah. Yes.  

No. No. He I mean, he was he was because, have you read David Irving's book? Yeah. The Rommel,  

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book. I haven't read it, but I know of it, and I've heard his speeches a lot. I've got a lot of respect for David Irving. It's fantastic.  

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David, I I met David a few times. He did lectures quite Mhmm. Fairly close. He did a few lectures in Plymouth where I that I went up to, and I'd I'd I'd already sent him a a very old copy of granddad's book and all that kind of thing. Yeah.   But,   yeah, I bought a few quite a few books off of him when I went up to the lectures.   And Ronald was one of them.   And he was   wow. I mean,   what I think that that guy had such a a huge amount of integrity   and   a   a balls the size of coconuts, I have to say. Yeah.  

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Oh, yes. But so your granddad wrote a book, did he? That's interesting. My granddad wrote oh, okay. Yeah. So,  

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and   so what what well, tell you what, we'll cover we'll cover that in in a little bit after the   after the top of the hour. Unless you wanna cover it now because I was gonna ask you. I mean, we can cover Granddad's book in a bit on on how I got to where I am. So I'm gonna ask you now,   what did did Eric Von Essex ever consider that he would end up being a radio host?  

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No.   I I how I became one is is a mystery to me. Doing here? What the hell are you doing here? Explain.   Well, that that's right. I mean, it's about fifteen,   sixteen years ago I started.   And I normally a very shy sort of introvert type.   So people think, oh, he sounds very extra. No.   And I think it I don't know.   To well, if somebody knows why I got into this,   please tell me because I don't know. I just was I I just   I I was attracted to it, and I might be because I had three uncles that were stand up comedians.   And Oh. That might have come from that. And when I was a kid, I mean, you'd be in pain with laughter with them. And then all three of them were different type of comedians.  

One said funny stories about it. So you would dread coming round.   No. Not really. No. That they're they're all very funny, but you never you see, they never crossed over with their humor. They have different types of humor.   I mean, the uncle that,   was my mom's brother,   he was good for   for for,   gags.   You could you you the timing with his gags was fantastic.   And then and they all played in a band, different bands,   and they would sort of you know, when the when when they were tuning up, they they do their comedic bits. And then they had the youngest one,   he   he wasn't in the war, but he would have funny stories about himself.  

And then you had the eldest brother, he would twist things around. For example,   when I needed to go to the loo well, actually, no. I'm jumping ahead.   My,   my my uncle,   and this is the oldest one, and my mom and dad,   they after the war, they went on a cycling trip in Norfolk, you see. And at those those days, the Salvation Army was at its height. And there's pictures everywhere with a pretty young girl with a tambourine,   and it had happy soul   written on it, you see. Anyway Oh, okay. Just bear that in mind. And my uncle,   said,   we said, is there a Salvation Army place around here?  

I   said, sorry.   Didn't know he was religious. No. No. I need to go to the Salvation Army.   And his wife said, what are you on about? He said, I'm I'm getting a bit desperate. I need to go to the Salvation Army.   And we're really puzzled. I said, what do you mean?   He said, a pissole.   A piss  

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hole? Oh.  

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So when I was young,   I didn't quite understand what it quite quick off the mark like. Yeah. I like it. What it meant. So I said, mommy, I need to go to the Salvation   Army.   Alright, dear. We'll take you there.   What a strange little boy.   That's how we do it. So if you need you to go to the Louvre, you say I need to go to the Salvation Army. I didn't know what it meant at that age. They said even I got older, you know, my parents explained it. And even now, I think, oh, must go to Salvation Army.  

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Well, isn't it funny it's funny what sticks with you, isn't it? It's funny It is. With you. Yes. But, niggas, so So you've got no excuse for actually being here then? Nothing actually I mean, nothing.   Just you just thought you'd have a have a I mean, I must admit, like, you're because you're on with Paul English quite a lot,   and you've got your own show, which is like the Fockem Hall Radio, which which obviously That's right. You know, very tongue in cheek, love it, all that kind of thing.   But you've you cover I mean, the amount of subjects you cover on your shows, I mean, and you've always got some Wiki quip as as the sort of title of the show and that kind of thing.   Yeah. I mean, you you've you've had all sorts of people on your shows over over you know, because looking back through your back catalog, and there's there's a wealth of it. You must be a very wise man by now.  



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Well, I hope so. But, I mean, I've had some people on which I'd never have on again.   And   there's   some, but I want back again, but they don't come back. I don't know why. But, no. I think what it is, I believe,   and I've always thought this well, I've thought this for a long time, that   greatest weapon against the establishment, whoever you wanna call it, who's really against us   as making our lives a misery,   the psychopaths   that are in control,   is humor, because they haven't got a sense of humor. And when you look throughout history, for example,   look at,   what happened   at Ceausescu.  

I think it was in Romania. Was he in Romania? I think it was. It was humor that brought him down.   Oh, was it really? Was that what Yeah. That was what Yeah. Was oh, okay. Because the because what happened,   he banned comedians.   And they found a loophole in the law, so they did a miming act. So people still laughed, and the miming act was funnier than when they could speak.   And when he stood up on his, you know, platform,   people were laughing at him. He didn't know what's going   on. And I think this is why we got this politically correct humor that's not funny.   Because when you look at these psychos in power, I mean, you look at, Keir Starmer. I mean,   if you correct a joke with him, he'd sort of have that expression on his face if he's just been touched up. So, mhmm. You know? I mean, he's not quite of the this world.  

And I think   that we can bring out a lot of truth with humor,   and we can really get to them because that's our greatest weapon. That's something the psychos in control don't understand is humor. Yeah. And it's part of the human spirit.   Yeah. That's And we gotta laugh and keep laughing at them.  

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And this is partly beautiful concept, honestly. And it was and and also it brings   happiness, which is something that they definitely don't want you to have. I mean, it is National Thumbscrew Tightening Day as I've already mentioned.  

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Oh, it is. It is. But partly the reason and I think another reason why I did come into this broadcasting is I gave my father a promise before he died.   And my dad and I were very, very close.   And,   he had,   untreated shell shock.   So   from an early age, I mean, with shell shock, you're kind of it's like a long playing record where you that that's got stuck in a groove. He would actually   tell me about World War two.   He didn't realize that I'm not blaming the father, but I heard things at a very young age that I shouldn't have heard. But I'm not blaming the father. So if you want, you know, with World War two, I can rattle on about it and repeat what my father said because I had it from a very early age   over and over and over and over again.  

And   my dad wrote   a book between ten years to write.   And   it's very detailed, and he was a stickler for accuracy. Everything had to be accurate. And the publishers wouldn't touch it because   they wanted to put a lot of fiction in it. You know, all this gung ho stuff. Oh, we showed oh, Monty was marvelous. Oh, crap. No. No. No. He didn't want that. So but this is long before Amazon. This is in year 2000.   I drew up my savings and published it myself.   But I'm pleased to say it's on Amazon now. I've got it on Amazon, because self publishing then, those days was was hard work. But before he died, he see, through his life,   it was frustrating   because   people who had never been in the war, as I said earlier, they heard the Hollywood version because there's the Hollywood version and what really happened during the war. And people believe the Hollywood version.  



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And what they've been it's what they've grown up with. And as   I I quite often say sorry sorry to cut you short, but That's okay. I quite often say, there's very few people in this world   actually worthy of your contempt.   Most of them have just been deceived.  

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Yeah.   They they have been deceived. And what got me, they would they would say, you don't know what you're talking about. And he said, I was there.   And,   I said to him on his deathbed, I said, look. I'll do all I can   to get because this book wasn't   published for profit. No. That wasn't in it.   That book was published to get the truth over, and I said, I'll do all I can, dad,   to get that truth over.   And that was it. And then, and then he died that night. So that is part possibly the reason why I got into broadcasting on the serious side, to get that truth over because   I and I'm glad to see the truth is starting to just trickle out.  

But all you hear   is   the propaganda   of World War two, which is still believed today. You don't hear the real truth.   And that's that's it. And the the old ex servicemen   went along with the propaganda because they didn't wanna step out of line.   So it's a kind of false,   because anybody would start to tell the truth.   And I'm glad to see that old chappy on, Remembrance Day, was it, on the November 11   on, breakfast television,   saying the truth. What was it all for?   Because my father said, well, he's being means tested.   He said, if only we'd have known the truth,   we'd have all thrown our rifles down and given up.  

And the means tested went,   oh, yes. And she took it as a joke.   And my father and I just   went silent and just   looked straight through her. Didn't say a word.   I think that was more powerful than said anything.  

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Yeah. Yes. I think so as well.   Yeah. Yeah. I hope she felt as small as she deserved to.   Yeah. Yeah. It's   wow. I mean, and you well, I have to say, Eric, you're doing a fantastic job of upholding Thank you very much. That promise to your dad. You really are.   So what's the name of the book? I I suppose we ought to say this before the top of the hour. Thank you. Thank you very much. So what's the name of the book? And and let's let's let the developers know where they can find it. It it's it's on Amazon,  

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and it's My World War two by David James   Powis, which is p o w   I s. And I've just given it away that Eric Von Essex is my, shall we say, radio name.   So it's oops.   Oops. No. It's not. And people call me I say to people, you can call me anything you want as long as it's not too late for my dinner, and that's it.   But no. It's David j Powers, p o w I s,   and it's my world war two.   And then it's also we've got a website,   warveteran.co.uk.   So there it is. And thank you so much for allowing me to say that. It's much appreciated. Thank you. Oh, no. Definitely. I mean, and I'd strongly suggest that if people want another  

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little piece of the jigsaw puzzle, go out and buy the book. Go out and read it. For Christmas. Yeah.   Yeah.   Well, I admire you for not doing it for profit as well. I did exactly the same with granddad's book.   Where's granddad? Was he in the second World War? Granddad no. Granddad was in the Boer War in the first World War. Wow. My granddad   my granddad was born in 1878.  

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Mine was '18 my granddad was 1888.   So he's ten years younger.  

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Right.   Yeah.   So   yeah,   he he conceived my mom when he was in his mid to late sixties. So hence, I was born   I was born nearly a hundred years after my granddad was.   Wow. So It's incredible.   Yeah. But we can get into a bit of that. I I suppose the new listenership   has got no idea who mister Scott is either   as they didn't have any idea,   who mister von Essex was before he came on the show.   So,   listen folks, we're gonna take a little short break now and,   have a little bit of music as we always do. I'm just gonna change the little thing up here so that we can have   there we   go.  

So we can have something a bit fun, I suppose.   I've been playing a lot of covers   recently,   Eric, just purely because,   obviously, there's the whole copyright silly thing, but there's some amazing talent out there on   on the Internet. And I think some of these people just need need a little bit of a boost in their direction. So,   yeah.   Okay. Well, we'll get back into a bit more of that after after the break, folks.   Don't go too far. We're live on radiosoapbox.com,   folks. And, I suppose if you listen on the podcast, you can just fast forward past the tune if you're absolutely engrossed in what we're saying. So here you go.   This is a cover version of the wonderful Cranberries tune, Linger.  

I might have to adjust the volume.   Catch you in a few minutes, folks.   There you go. What a lovely cover that was. That's by a group called First two Eleven. You can find them on YouTube, guys. Go and give them a go and give them a look. Go and give them a thumbs up.   Yeah. What do you think of that? That's pretty good cover, wasn't it, Eric?  

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That was that was pretty good. Yes.   We we we have a, a chappy on.   What was his name now? I've got a terrible name names memory for names. I'm I think I'm in the senior moments, you know. But   it's nice to get talent on that that is not in the main you know, it's not pushed by the   usual people. And,   we have,   where is he now?   Trevor John.  

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You heard of Trevor John at all? Yeah. I've heard of him. I've I've heard I think I've heard him on you on your show, haven't I?  

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You may oh, yes. You would have done. And a chap called Dan who's in a group called Whom by Fire.   So that's Great.  

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And and they, so have they got a place that we can go and visit them as well? Or we may as well may as well throw out the address there.  

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Well, hey. If you're there any Whom   By Fire,   they're on Facebook,   so you can find him pretty easy on Facebook.   And,   Trevor John is on WhatsApp. So you look up Trevor John. I'm not sure they've got websites. I don't think they've got websites. Oh, okay. Oh, very decentralized.  

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Well done, folks. Well done. Yes. Very good. And  

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that that I tell you, Summit, Home by Fire,   they're a bit like,   bit cross between Genesis   and Pink Floyd. They're really good. Ah. Very professional. Ambient. Yeah. And they're from they're from the gateway to the East. I don't know whether people in Cornwall know this romantic place. It's called Saffen D'Anse.   You know? Oh, Saffen D'Anse. Run off, Saffen. Well, you know what? I I got   sniff afterwards, you see. That's the way you speak, say something.   But,  

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Oh, I think I might have lost you. It comes with you. Oh, you're back.   Are you still with us, Eric? I'm still in I'm still with you. Yes. Hello? Yeah. I'm sorry. You broke up a little bit there. Sorry. So just repeat what you said. Oh, it  

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it's my steam powered router, I think, that's doing it. No. It's, part of South End. Tighten the electric band, boys. That's what you said. Oh, I need to do that. Run faster. More electricity.   Yeah. But, sir, shoot me a minute.  

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Actually, I'm looking for Eric out of breath throughout the show. You know he's just charging up his router. Just pedal it. That's it. Yeah.  

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Well, it's been going slow recently. It seems to be cold weather and wet weather that that makes it go a bit funny. But, I was gonna say, when you what's what's the weather like up there at the moment? Just just out of interest. Because I tell you what It's nice and sunny today, but   freezing. Absolutely freezing cold.   But it's gonna get warmer.  

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It's that time of year, Eric, where I I don't know whether you know by trade. I'm a gardener in the daytime. That's what I do. That must be The last few weeks   have I've mainly   these last few weeks, I've been mainly   blowing leaves.   That's it. Like, because it's autumn, isn't it? And and Yes. Do you know what? This particular leaf blower, you can only use it right handed, mate. Honestly, my right arm at the moment, I feel like I'm 13 again.   It's ridiculous.  

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Really? Because I would think mind you, you're a little bit warmer in Cornwall   than you are in Hertfordshire.   But, oh, sorry. The I say Hertfordshire.   We're independent country, Fockem Hall, in our in surrounded by Hertfordshire, of course, because because I've declared independence for the rest of the country, you see. Why why can't we all and Cornwall should as well. We should have complete independence from the rest of the As far as  

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I'm concerned, the Cornwall never signed anything to join The UK.   You're right. I'm aware. If if anyone can point me in in in a direction where there's a signature somewhere that Cornwall   agreed to be part of The UK, then then show me. Somebody, please. Yeah.  

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Well,   I think that's, it's actually an island because it's only when they built the Tamar Bridge   that it didn't become an island. Because once upon a time, there's water between   England,   and Cornwall.   And people in Cornish people say, oh, up there in on the Mainland,   they refer to England as the Mainland.  

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And it it it Well, that's because primarily we're we're Celts and we're Cornish. That's why. That's right. That's right. Yes.  

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And you speak Gaelic because or Gaelic. The last they're trying to re was it the last   true Gaelic speaker died about fifty years ago,   but they're reintroducing  

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it, aren't they? There's lots of people that try to speak. They've been doing that with the Cornish language as well since the nineties. They've there there was a big European budget to to,   to,   you know, bring to the fore Cornish language. But there were very few Cornish, like, proper Cornish people left in Cornwall.   That's right. As you know, like the Cornish, you moved out all over the world anyway because of the whole mining industry and all that kind of thing. So  

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Yeah. America especially.   Because America. Yeah.   Yes.   Where was it? I think it's Pennsylvania. I think it is. There's a lot of big Cornish a lot of people there. I think it's  

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well, you can find a Cornish shovel in most places around the world   because the Cornish knew how to dig through rock.   That's right. You can find Cornish pasties. I I went to visit out visit my uncle in South Africa when I was 14, and I walked down the main street in Grahamstown and found  

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found Cornish pasties for Sam. Really? And, of course, it is a religion if you use the wrong meat in a Cornish pasty. I think, was it people should   they used to be hung, drawn, and quartered. And now I think if that that was the punishment, it's worse than murder putting the wrong is it supposed to be beef or lamb in a Cornish pasty? I can't remember. It's supposed to be beef skirt.  

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That's what it's supposed to be. Beef That that that's it. Beef skirt. Yeah. But the traditional Cornish pasties were were,  

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savory on one side and sweet on the other. That's it. And Yeah. In Norfolk, they call it,   similar. They call it a donkey.   What they did, they got bread, hold the inside out, and then put all meat one side and savory the other side, And they took that on, in the fields with them to eat for lunch. And they call it a donkey.   But it wasn't pastry. It was it was bread on the outside. But it was was it the tin miners? Reason it's all it's got I got that sort of crust on the side. Because the tin was poisonous,  

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they would eat the Cornish past and then throw the crust away. So they didn't poison it. Which nowadays is sacrilege. You don't throw the crust away. You eat them nowadays. That's the best bit, ain't it? Back in those days. Yeah. They're back in those days. Yeah. Because obviously, in tin mining, there was a lot of arsenic and that kind of thing as well. So it was really dangerous to, you know, you you that's why they put big crusts on your pasties so you could eat the food and not poison.  

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Yeah. Yeah. But it's a it's   a shame to hear that accents are going on. For example, there used to be a Hertfordshire accent.   And I worked with a bloke that had a Hertfordshire accent. They he was the last. You don't hear the Hertfordshire. And I guess it's the same in Cornwall as well. You don't hear you know, it's it's because of  

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television and I mean, it's it's there are there are dying there are dying breed, the Cornish, in in many respects.   Although you can still go to rural areas of Cornwall, there's plenty of people speaking with a Cornish accent, but it's got a very, very English dialect nowadays. Whereas,   there was this old chap,   years ago when I was growing up as a kid, a guy called Billy Gooch.   And he lived all on his own. Billy Gooch. Yeah. He lived all on his after his mom died, he lived all on his own. I knew him when he was about 86, and he was still working.   Probably the strongest man I've ever met. He would he would,   he would spend all day with a sledgehammer on a piece of granite, you know, and and still be ready to go home, cook his dinner, and read his bible, which is what he did every night.  

And you'd see him cycling around the place with his tools   strapped to the frame of his bicycle and all that kind of thing. And when he spoke,   and I grew up in Cornwall. When he spoke,   you had to really concentrate   to understand what he was actually saying.  

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We had a fellow similar.   He I don't know quite what happened. I think he might have been in World War two or something happened. But he lived in the woods. And he had a bicycle   which he converted   to,   sharpen knives and things. And he used to go around the streets,   sharpening knives. And he got on the back of this bicycle and pedaled,   I don't know how he kinda turned it around. And he had this grindstone, and he would sharpen people's knives and things for them. He did all the housewives. And,   his home was the woods. He lived in a tent in the woods.   And,   yeah. And I don't know what happened to him. He's obviously died. He'd be over 100 now. And, that was something else that is gone. And he was a happy man. You know, he used to whistle and Yeah. And and really enjoyed himself.  

And all those sort of people   sorry. You're gonna say? No. That's alright. No. All those sorts of people can't finish finish what you were saying. Sorry. What I was gonna say is, you know, I bet your granddad was probably a very happy man as well. You know, it it life then, although it was tough, I think people it's easy to look back on life with rose colored spectacles.   But they'd had less stress,   far less stress than what we have now. And I heard, somebody,   it was,   people   see more images in one day   today   than someone in the eighteen sixties would have seen in their lifetime.  



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Just think of it. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it. And you've you've just hit on my pet hate again. Blumming mobile phones.   You know, people living their entire life through these little rectangle babysitters, which is actually a cage that they're sat in, and they just don't realize it yet. Oh, and they shout over them. That's right. I mean, you go to the local market, you get,  

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and you think, I don't want to hear their conversation.   I'm not interested in their conversation. Why do they shout over their mobile phones? And   because when I'm out, my phone is off. People can't contact me. It's like the old days.   I mean, I got rid of a landline because it was better for me not to have a landline. But the fact is is that,  

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I think that mobile phones, they're a blessing and a curse at the same time. It's a double edged sword. They are. They well, look, as I as I always say, and Shelley's gonna go if Shelley listens back to this show, she's gonna go, oh, he's not bloody going on about mobile phones again.   It's not the technology. It's brilliant technology.   It's what it's being used for. It's Yes. People people don't realize that this is a cage that's being built around them, and they don't want to let it go.   Ah. Now this that's the most insidious thing about it. That's   it. They want their cage. Lord, take away my freedoms and just leave me with my creature comforts. Oh, and my mobile phone.  

You know?  

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You're right. And are they doing some sorry. I didn't mean to cut across you there, but there's something creepy that's happening throughout The United Kingdom and in America.   And I know this because, you know, Patrick, don't you? He comes on,  

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all sorts of different   well. Yeah. He's a very good man.  

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Now I'll just explain what's happening in my local town.   They've decided   years ago, there used to be a road that ran through the town, and they pedestrianized it in the nineteen seventies.   And the council decided that, no, they wanna bring the little road back. Now, they've been a year now this road goes for a couple of 100 yards.   That's it. This pedestrian area is just a couple 100 yards.   They've been a year digging holes,   putting cables here, there, everywhere.   There used to be a subway where pedestrians could walk under the,   the bypass,   because it Bypasses the town, safely,   and cut the other side of Bypass and go into the center of the town.  

Some bright spark has decided, nah.   They filled the Underpass   in and put some traffic lights in to irritate the motorists.   Wonder what genius came up with that one. So let's face it. Crossing at the traffic lights is more dangerous than going down an underpass.   Anyway,   what I was gonna say,   they've been Progress, Eric. It's called progress. Yes. That's right. With the picture.   And I've but I've been farting around with cables here, cables there, cables everywhere.   I mean, the Romans could have made this,   paved this area in about a fraction of the time that these people could have done with all machines.  

Anyway, what's happened is all these strange posts gone up   with I don't know whether they're lights, cameras, or what it is, but they're here, there, and everywhere.   Now there's something similar happening in Patricks, Mokel Town. I wonder what's happening in Cornwall.   What what do these posts look like? Well, there are posts they haven't got bloody 20 miles an hour written on them, have they? Because they're everywhere. But this is in the pedestrian part   because it's still got a little pedestrian part that is a bit difficult to explain, but there's a road guys running and it's still pedestrian part. But there's every couple of feet, there's a post that's about   well, how high that? Twelve, fifteen foot?  

And it looks like spot lamps are all different angles   on them, but these spotlights haven't got lights on them. What are they?   I don't know. Unless it's something cameras.  

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That's what I thought. Cameras if they're not lights.  

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Or something else. Could it be five g? I don't know. I don't wanna jump to conclusions that they might be lights. I might be wrong.   But why have they taken so long  

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to do such a small amount of work over a year? Yeah. Because there's, like, the behind every piece of work that they do, this is you gotta you gotta picture that it's all gradualism, isn't it? So Yeah. Like, the they they   do all these little tasks, but it's actually to prepare   for a much bigger task that's being undertaken, and it's being coordinated on a lot much, much larger scale. So for instance, in in Newquay that we said about earlier in Cornwall,   they've   got,   all these new houses going up. I mean, Newquay has almost doubled in size, and it's all duchy, what they call duchy land. Oh, cool. All these houses have been built on.   New Road layouts put in, all that kind of thing. And there's one new road that you can go through,   you go through a valley, a chapel valley it's called. It doesn't doesn't really matter, it's immaterial.  

But as you drive down this this sort of strange winding road that winds its way across the beautiful countryside, you can see that there's on on alternate positions on either side of the road are dropped curb lines where they intend to put in more housing.   Oh. Has the planning gone in for said housing?   No. But the dropped curb stones are already there in place because they know they will get the planning.   Yes.   This so   all this is sort of, organized around a lot much larger scale than is let on, I think.  

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Oh, it is. I mean, my background is architecture.   And   I've sat in plan well, the last planning meeting I went to,   about a bit now, I hasten to add.   They   this is where the public are allowed in. They said, oh, this is going ahead and we got just got to go through the motions. That's what they said at the beginning of the planning. Meeting   to decide whether to have have it. Is this going ahead, but we gotta go through the motions. So what's the point of them holding up a planning  

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meeting where we're supposed to decide whether to have it? It's no different to going out and voting, Eric. It's no different, is it? That's right. That's right.   And who you vote for, the same people get in. So it's just like   But I mean, where are you? Rather like Yeah. I was gonna say that's rather like down here in Cornwall.   For five years,   a little place called Saint Denis where it's it's a it's an old mining village. There's a a little old,   church at the top of the hill, Saint Denis Church and all that kind of thing.   They wanted to build an incinerator   right on the edge of this little mining village. And we're not talking   a small one. We're talking one with 150 foot, 200 foot cooling towers. Oh, no.  

And for five years, all the locals campaigned, and there were   thousands and thousands and thousands of signatures from all the locals all over Cornwall who were didn't want it to happen.   It didn't matter because the planning had already been agreed through Whitehall   for the French company   that wanted to build the incinerator.   So   it had already gone through.   There's there was no you know, it didn't matter how many signatures went on paper.   It had already gone through.   Yeah. So Just steam runs. Going through the motions, making people believe that they've got some sort of freedom of choice   just like voting.  



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Yes.   Well,   to me, you know, democracy and voting is about as much use as a hang glider is to an elephant.   Because  

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I mean, it depends on what size hang glider, but That's right.  

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But but really, when you think about it, I mean,   we used to say, I mean, I was freelance in here, and, what they call,   oh, what is it? Subbies or,   mercenaries is what they used to call us. Mercenaries.   Yeah. The mercenaries. Because they used to say, I'm a mercenary architect. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. It's a good one. Working there. And they say, how much are they paying? Right? I'll I'll work there.   But,   but we'd say if you wrote a book about it, people wouldn't believe it.   It's true. If you wrote a book about what really goes on, people would not believe it.   I mean, the building industry is one of the most wasteful injuries in in industries in the world.  

And I think it's probably one of the most corrupt. We're all told to keep our  

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carbon footprint down, which we Oh, yes. Load of absolute bloody nonsense. But It is. You know, you know,   one of the biggest,   carbon, if you want to call it that, impact you can have on the environment is building on it for goodness sake. Correct. And also You know? Bloody electric cars. I hate them. I love cars, but I can't sound electric cars.  

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Because I like driving. Actually, I used to like driving when there was no speed cameras and such, and you could drive along quite happily. I'm not a speed merchant,   but now you're made to feel like a criminal directly getting in your car. You know, they tax you the hell with petrol, but   but electric cars, the they're dodgy cars.   People should be forced to wear goofy teeth false teeth when they drive them. But you think all the electromagnetic   radiation   inside.   And why have they got these screens?  

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I wouldn't be so worried about that. I mean, so the whole thing is is that we had electric vehicles over a hundred years ago in New York. All the vehicles were electric.   That's right. And it was the petrol companies that that put the kibosh on it in order that they could, you know, bring in these nice big powerful   and it was also the petrol companies that funded the the first,   Earth Summit in Rio of which our black and white prime minister of the time, you know why I say black and white, John Major.  

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Oh, hello. It's John Major. Yes. Yeah. Exactly.  

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Hello. What an what an unfortunate voice to have as a sponsor.  

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Honestly   I'm having I'm having a flare with a bit of being a curry. I don't believe that for one moment. I think it's made up make him look interesting. Is, John, very interesting major.   He looked like a sort of,  

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a a a train spotter, didn't he? I've got nothing against train spotters. He was just another one of these damaged people to come out of these institutions   that Yeah. You know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna level any labels at these institutions, but there is there is a good reason why there is   certain   really unethical   aspects sexually when it comes to these   to these to these high level, these high profile people. I mean, you go to, like, the the sort of Epstein thing and the Prince Andrew thing and all that kind of nonsense. And and obviously, this is a whole lot of nonsense being drip fed to the public anyway.   Again, like we said earlier, just to muddy the waters. If it was that important that we see the files, Epstein files,   why don't they just release   all of them?  

All of them. Correct. You know? What instead,   what they're doing is it's like a little carrot on a stick thing.   You know? Yeah. And someone gets, oh, we've got a bit more information coming. Oh, no. Wind it in a bit further.   Wind it in a bit further. So, you know, we'll get drip fed all this info. It's rather like the Kennedy assassination. You're never gonna get to know all the facts about that either. But it's a misdirection.  

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And whilst people are looking at that, they're not seeing  

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I mean, I don't have you what's being done with their noses. Exactly.  

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The late great Dave Starbuck, he was a comedy magician   magician.   And he said governments do exactly the sneaky things that he did on stage   and hid things in plain view   and did misdirection.   He said they use all the techniques that a magician uses.   Correction, not magician is an illusionist. He's very caught on that. Not a magician. There's a big difference. He was an illusionist. He did illusions and things. And I think  

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Go on. Sorry. Carry on. No. No. That's alright. I'll finish. It's okay. I was I was just gonna say that the there's a quote that granddad uses in chapter one of his book, and it's a quote from Disraeli, the prime minister in Victorian times. Yes.   It's from one of his books that he wrote. It's a book called Coningsby. If anyone wants to look it up, Coningsby by Disraeli.   Granddad uses an excerpt from it in the first chapter of his book.   It's chapter one, is there a hidden hand? And underneath, it's got this quote. It says, governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government   being themselves controlled   by the hidden hand. Right. Now if Disraeli,   the prime minister,   wrote that down,   for for whatever reason.  

You know, it's rather like my comment on GK Chesterton earlier. He knew his trade. Why would anyone argue with that?  

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Yeah.   That's right. So Yeah. Yeah. But we've gotta talk about your granddad's book because we we haven't got around to it. I'm fascinated. Oh, well, I mean, that's kind of what got me into  

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all this. Like I say, why did you become a radio host? Similar. Well, I'll I'll I'll get it I'll yeah. Similar. I'll get into it after the bottom of the hour. I will Okay. Take an early we'll we'll take an early break, and I'll find a nice song for us. Do you want something lively, or would you like something relaxing? Oh, I I don't mind. I I enjoyed Peter Gunn at the beginning, wasn't it? It was Peter Gunn that that that was, the the first record, I think it was. And anything of your choice done. I'll tell you what. We'll Yeah. Tell you what we'll go with. We'll go for a relax. This has been a very relaxing, very laid back chat, actually. So we'll go for something very relaxing. I've played this a few times on the show before. It's by a band called Blood Ruby.   Go and look them up, Blood Ruby Music.  

Just put that into Google. You'll find it.   Very Kate Bush esque voice. Oh.   I like Kate Bush. So yeah. So you you'll you'll probably like this. Very relaxing.   Don't fall asleep, folks. We'll be back we'll be back in two shakes of a shaky thing. You're listening live to the Shelley Tasker Show on radiosoapbox.com   and on the back foot   on Radio Clear Air FM. Catch you in a few minutes, folks. This is Remains of the Day, Blood Ruby.   There you go. The beautiful blood ruby there. So what did you think of that one, Harry? Wow.  

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That was brilliant. She just sounded like Kate Bush, didn't she? She's she's really   close. She's very clever. Yeah. She's Is she a Cornish lady?  

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No. No. No. That was a band. So I used to run a website, called pureoriginal.com   about twenty odd years ago, and that was one of the bands that submitted their tunes to me for promotion. So and it was all given away for free. No no money being made anywhere, and I'm still for free as a hobby.   And I had, like, 50 odd artists on there. So every so often,   you know, I'm still upholding my promise. I'm still,   playing their music for them here, there yeah. Here and there, not not all the time. I try and pick out some other people as well. And, you know, it's   I just got a message actually. So mister Von Kurt, who is an avid listener to your show, has been rather poorly for the last few days. Oh, I'm sorry. Just got a little message from him,   just saying that he's tuned in, and, yeah, he really likes that song as well. So, I like that song as well. It's very nicely done. Hat off to you, mister mister Von Kerr. I hope you're feeling better.  



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Yes. I do hope you're feeling better as well. And let's plot some positive thoughts towards him. And it does work. It it it you know, it it the body works from the mind. So we you know, nice positive thoughts. There we go. But,  

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mind you, November is, I think it's National Illness Month, isn't it? Because everybody seems to get one round round November. Don't know what it is. Is is that not because they go around all the schools and and and vaccinate with these vape sprays, and and they go they dish out all the flu jabs to people, and all the COVID jabs to people, and all these different jabs that people ingest. And then, so you don't know. You can't really,   you know, it's it's hardly laboratory.   It's hardly like a a laboratory environment to assess how we're getting ill, is it?  

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Precisely.   What what   what what I what I did what I did during the lockdown, I used to enjoy acting deaf. So someone says, something to you like, that I I was in the Lidl's and the bloke behind the cashier said, would you mind standing back, please? I said, pardon and lent across to it. Can you speak up a little bit? I can't hear you. Can you stand stand what? Sorry? Sorry? Pardon? And I used to do this a lot. I'd always move closer, and they'd they'd almost run a mile as if, oh, oh, is it the person's getting closer? And when I said to my neighbor   that the last time anybody stuck a needle in my arm was when I was about 11 years old at school, and I didn't have any choice in the matter. She went, you haven't had your COVID, Jap? You haven't had a flu, Jap? I said, nope.  

She was sort of took us to the stoke took a step back as if, oh, you know, he's unclean or something like that. Mhmm.   What's wrong with these people? Because I don't believe in   germ theory. I think there's a lot to go for terrain theory.  

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It's it's fear. It's fear. That's at the end of the day, everyone is very reactive when it comes to self preservation.   Yeah. And, you know, this whole thing and as we're gonna be touching on over the next few weeks, the whole thing about nuclear energy.   Very, very interesting that that Galen,   Windsor,   speech that I'm gonna be playing on the show over the next few weeks. Oh, I'll listen to that.   What I will,   be doing also so we're gonna do,   a bit of a Christmas special.   Oh, fantastic. In the respect that   one of the things that I would like to concentrate on for a Christmas special   is the Christmas truce in 1914.  



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Oh, yes. Yes. And,  

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I have a a huge amount of anecdotes from people that were actually there. My own granddad,   and I'll get into the book and stuff in a sec, but my own granddad   said,   if it hadn't have been for the generals,   that would have been the end of it.   So and they rotated all yes. They rotated all the troops   to stop them from having any sympathy for those that they shared   Christmas merriment with,   and they ordered all the artillery to open up and all that kind of thing after open after changing the troops around.   They they   they worked a number on on public goodwill,   in order to maintain the war effort.  

So, yeah, we're gonna be covering the Christmas truce for the Christmas show because our show actually we're gonna prerecord it,   but our show actually is gonna air on Christmas   Eve for any of you guys that have got nothing better to do on Christmas Eve than listen to,   me, Shelley, and some others giving their anecdotes when it comes to the Christmas truth. So Oh, that's fantastic. Because  

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all granddads are in a very interesting man because the reason World War one come to an end   is because,   the French army mutin it. Then they kept that back as well. They would not they refused,   to go over the top. Yeah. And they made bleating noises like sheep when they marched past the generals.   And, also,   the   German Navy mutinies as well. That's the real reason World War one came to an end. Otherwise, they kept it going.  

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Well, so they would because it's yeah. All wars are a racket. Isn't it? The book, Wars a Racket.  

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Smedley Butler. Have you read that one? Yeah. That's one of the best Smedley Butler.   Yeah.  

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If if if nobody if anyone listening hasn't read that book,   go out and read that book. So,   coming on to books then. So my granddad's book Mhmm.   My grand so why am I here also?   So my granddad wrote a book   back in 1954.   As I said before, he served in the Boer War.   He commanded on the Somme in the First World War.   Wow.   And   was in in command of various regiments of the Princess Louise's second   battalion, Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders.   So,   he when he came home, he was invalided from the war.   He   I mean, the medals the guy earned   Mhmm.  

I'd I'm not even gonna go through listing them, but he he he earned a lot of medals. He earned an awful lot of respect. He got six mentions in at least five. I've got six dispatches at home, but two of them have the same date. So I'm not sure whether they are separate instances or not.   But at least five mentions in dispatches   from 1915   onwards.   When he came home,   he was, a shell went off behind him and filled him full of shrapnel. So another shell shocked victim as well in some respects.   And back in those days, obviously, they didn't have the you know, he had a piece of shrapnel close to his heart. He had it all up his back. He went blind and deaf in his left eye and ear.   And I don't know whether it's the same instance, but he he told my uncle,   you know, his son. He he said that,   at one point, they'd gone out on a on a really dangerous sort of thing. And and   a shell went off next to him,   and his friend who was a piper in the regiment,   was next to him. And he said he looked around, and he just he just never saw him again. There was just nothing left of him.  

Oh. So when you think what these people actually saw and went through, I mean, yeah, absolutely dreadful. You the the mind can't even imagine it,   for us folks that have had it too easy for too long.   Yes. I agree.   Some would suggest.   So anyway, when he came home, he was invalided. He he came home. He studied economics, politics.   He was already a member of the the peerage of Great Britain.   So Really? Wow. He was o OBE and all that kind of thing. Well, peerage isn't passed on, so I'm just a lowly peasant.   But he came back and studied,   as I say, economics politics and   wrote a book called Hidden Government.  

Oh. You can find Yes. You can find that   currently   nowhere other than archive.org,   and you can find it there for free. I'll write that down. We did re we did rerelease it in 2017,   and it's currently been pulled by the publisher   simply for the use of a font on the front cover.   Nothing to do with the information inside it, apparently, but someone was obviously irritated enough to look into the legitimacy   of the use of fonts,   which I must say, I designed the front cover. And as far as I was aware, it was a free font to use until you go back to the website a few years later and read the small print.   So,   anyhow,   the book basically   described how both communist and capitalist governments are run by the same people.  



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Yes.  

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And   it's   a very, very informative book. We republished it back in 09/2017   with the AK Chesterton Trust who,   they are they published Candor Journal, which is the longest standing nationalist magazine to be put out in The UK. It's over fifty years in publication.   And they kindly paid for the publishing,   the,   the ISBN   number, everything they paid for, everything to be done. And they asked me,   you know,   you know, do you want any sort of royalties from it? This is going back to it's not for profit. Mhmm. Mhmm. And I said no. Anything that you would get that you would potentially send my way, just put back into keeping Kandor going and Grandad's work going.  

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Alright. So Grandad What was his book again? Sorry. So it's it's it's called Hidden Government,  

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and it's by Lieutenant Colonel Jay   Cray Scott,   spelled c r e a g h,   Scott.   As I say, anyone that owns a 2017   copy at the moment,   is holding on to a collector's item because they're out of print, they're out of publication.   Thankfully,   we're gonna be redoing the book   next year at some point with a whole load more information because I didn't realize what a prolific   speaker and writer my granddad was at the time. There's even people like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound commenting on his articles. Really? So   What?   So that's that's that's kind of why I'm here. So when I republished it, we we,   I was asked to go on a radio show down in Australia   to talk about it,   which I did.  

In actual fact, we spent two hours covering the chapter antisemitism   and the plan.   And,   I I kind of ended up   being a guest on radio shows, and then I ended up co hosting a radio show a few months later with the same Australian chap and was with him for about a year. And and I just think, you know what, Eric? It's one of those things. There's very little we can do on to do about the shape of the planet that that that we live in.  

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Yes.  

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It's it doesn't fit us. You know? We're not we're not living in in in the correct reality that we should be living in. We're not living the life that we're supposed to be living. When we're we're so far from nature, it's it's frightening.  

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I agree. Almost satanically  

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so.   And I just think whatever little you can do in this world,   Whether it's just speaking to people, and that's something I do an awful lot when I'm out walking the dog. I'm always planting seeds. You know, my favorite seed to plant is   if every country in the world is in debt, who are they in debt to?   And it gets a lot of people coming next time you bump into them walking. There's, oh, I've been thinking about what you said. You know? So if there's Yeah. If there's if all I can do in the world is is,   speak and just,   you know, put across another   way of looking at things. I don't need people to agree with me. I'm not expecting people to agree with me. But you know what?  

As the seed seed,   the seed sower's parable out of the bible is just a beautiful   thing when you think about,   when you think about it in terms of information, you know, and the seeds that fall on stony ground and the feed the seeds that fall on fertile soil   and and all that kind of thing.   I'm never   so   to to clarify,   the reason I'm a radio host, I don't actually know. I kinda just fell into it,   rather like you did.   And it's more about I don't expect to wake anyone up or persuade   anyone.   I expect them   to do it for themselves.   And   people that come back and listen and they send emails and this, that, and the other, most of them   are just so thankful that they're not the only lunatic out there in the world that thinks the way I do.  



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Well, I I know what you I know what you mean, but   I I I think that,   you're right about sowing seeds. It's surprising.   You know, if one gets through,   you've woken one person up, and we can all do our little bit, all positive, to push in the right direction.   Because I personally believe that government and people like that,   these lefties, who I can't stand,   they're townies, most of them, And they love ugliness.   I mean, you look at most of these left wing people. They never go in the country.   They live in the towns. And that's why the first people to go for   are farmers because farmers can think independently.  

They they are self motivated. That's right. Whereas,   that's what they don't want. They want people to be yes men to the government. That's what communism is all about. And I think it's a form of mental illness.   Because when you look at these crap holes in London that these commies can live in, they really are   dumps. I mean, I detest London.   I think it's a horrible place.   Overrated.   I used to write work there, and I couldn't wait to get away from there,   you know, at the end of the day. But   it it I I don't know. I've never understood what the attraction to towns is. If I go anywhere at all, the country, the first place I will avoid will be the city or or the capital.   And I worked in London. I never saw any of the tourist sites at all. Just didn't interest me.  



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No. No? No. But then but then, I suppose it's what you're sucked into and what you're not sucked into. Are you sucked into the illusion or not? And it's like, you know,   and that's the whole thing about   everyone's truth is different.   Right? My truth, I'm quite happy with my truth. I'm quite happy with where I am sitting in the world. Not happy necessarily with where I am in the world   because I'd like the world to be a different way than it is. But you   you know, just planting those little seeds. I've got a lovely little quote here   from Lemmy Kilmister,   the the the Lemmy, the guy from Motorhead.  

It's a brilliant quote. He says, apparently, people don't like the truth,   but I do like it. I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit,   then maybe just once, one of them will turn around and say, oh, wait a minute. I was wrong.   I live for that happening.   Rare. I assure you. That's Oh. And I just Brilliant. Brilliant. It is true though, isn't it? It's so rare. But, you know, when when you get into a conversation with someone   and and this this was a this is a quote from a guy I used to work with. He said, when you get into a conversation with someone without the idea that your own paradigm can be changed,   you're simply airing your views.  

Yeah. That's it. You're not taking anyone else's perception on board. And I think that's what separates,   us and a lot of the listeners   from a lot of other people is that they just don't want to   make waves and they just want to be accepted, which is why I said earlier,   most there's very, very few people. It's literally, really, if you think about it, in in the general scheme of things, it's just it's only a tiny handful of people that you should ever have any contempt for. All the rest of them have just simply been deceived,   and me along with them.  



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Oh, yes. I I have. But, I mean, it's like mass formation theory. There's that 30% of people will believe everything the government says.   40%   go with the flow, and 30% are us that can see straight through it. But   I go more than that. I think that all it needs is 5%   of the 40% that go with the flow to come over to our side   and it would make a huge change and that's what the government are worried about   and I really do believe that it doesn't need need that many people because when you look at how these tyrants got into power for example,   you know, the, Bolsheviks,   7%   support. That's all they had even though they weren't Russian.  

Chairman Mao, 5%.  

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That's all he had. Yeah. But they had the financial backing. That's That's right. Thing. Isn't it? It's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's again, governments do not govern. They are they simply control the machinery of government themselves being controlled by the hidden hand. And That's right. And that's the thing, isn't it? You've got   all this,   you know, as I've said so many times before, right, this whole thing with the Russia Ukraine War.   If Russia honestly didn't want his enemies to have any of Ukraine,   then why did he make it a long and protracted war whereby Ukraine was sold off at a rate of knots to all his western   adversaries?  

You know? That's right. And it's rather like this whole thing,   this Galen Windsor thing. Shortly after Galen Windsor gave his went round on a on a nearly a year long tour giving these talks about how undangerous   radioactivity   was,   In April   that he gave the speech that I'm gonna be playing on the on the show over the next few weeks,   in April,   lo and behold, we have the Chernobyl   disaster,   which scared the hell out of everyone.  

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And I had really actually rain falling on me,   so I'm still here. Yeah.  

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Yeah. Well, this guy, as I say, used to swim in the cooling tanks for goodness sake. He even used to bottle up the water,   wash the bottle off because he'd have to go through decam contamination and it would show up. Now if you can hold supposed radioactive material   inside a plastic bottle and you've rinsed off the outside of it,   and it's not being picked up on a Geiger counter. That shows you that it's got no penetration whatsoever.  

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You're right. So And what yeah. Sorry. Carry on. So it's it's it's  

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gonna be a really interesting few weeks on that. But, I will obviously have to Wow.   We've got, well, how long Oh, I look forward to that. Christmas now.  

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Oh, blimey. Hang on. It's only about three and a half, four weeks. Is it something like that? About four four weeks. Yes. And I usually do a Christmas special as well because,  

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I think Paul's show falls on I'm not sure if it's Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Christmas Day? Wasn't it? Paul's show falls on Christmas Day this year. So that's Paul English, folks, for those listening That's right. Over on,   over on, Clear Air FM.   Paul English also does a show on Radio Soapbox and the paulenglish.com   or Paul on paulenglishlive.com,  

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isn't it? That's right. Yes.  

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And And Eric is quite often a cohost with with Paul as well, and they are great shows. So  

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And and and and well, they are. I mean, I think Paul does a fantastic  

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job. But going back to your grandfather Paul's a machine. Paul's an absolute machine. Let's not let's not make any bones about this. This is guy that got appendicitis last year and didn't hardly even notice.  

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Wow.  

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That's tough. Yes. He walks around with shorts on as well, doesn't he? He does. In this weather. And and yeah. Yeah. He I believe he went to the Antarctic in shorts as well. I I'm not sure. That might just be a rumor.  

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But what I was gonna say, my my granddad,   he said to me now,   he   used to support the Labour Party, my granddad. I certainly wouldn't. But,   what I'm talking about is the Labour Party as it was in the nineteen twenties.   And when it was set up in nineteen o seven, was a very different Labour Party to what we got now.   Totally. And he used to say to me when I was very young, watch out for the infiltrators. Remember that? Now as a child, you think, what's he on about? As I've got older, I've noticed that. Because he noticed the Labour Party being infiltrated in the nineteen twenties.  

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Every single movement completely changed. Yeah. Every single movement gets infiltrated. People think they're doing a good thing, and they think it's all grassroots. It's like this whole flag movement that happened a few months back. Yeah. You know? It was a great thing. Yeah. Great idea, but until you realize that it's being,   Yeah. Manipulated   from behind,   and it's being push up pushed out into the mainstream as well as the independent.   And then it culminated   in the absolute fast that was the Tommy Robinson march in London. You know? And and I I it pains me to see all those people   who were there   with with the   with the right ideas,   but having their goodwill used against them in a complete circus.  



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Oh, crumbs. Tommy Rabbi's son. I mean, that man,   well, let's be blunt about it. He's a Mossad Asian as far as I'm concerned, allegedly, I believe.   Because,   you just got to look at where he is, where he goes to. And   he just come up from nowhere.   Why?   And I think we got I I wouldn't just for our own part.  

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It's it's incitement.   It's basically,   you know, creating division and us and them.   And none of these people who do these things ever mention   the banking  

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industry Correct. Ever. None of them. And you mentioned that to an MP. He he well, you don't get MPs knocking around your door now, but I mentioned that to MP. They're off like a like a a greyhound with a rocket up its backside.   Boom. They're off. That that because they all know about usury   or the make out they don't know about usury.   Because  

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that is what is actually ruling us. So you can vote for anybody you like, Tom or Tom Cobry at all, but they won't say anything about usury. Oh, no. No. Well, you you can vote in whoever you like as as long as it's the people that they've put in front of you. Yeah. That's that's the point, isn't it? And it's like, you know, I I think Bill Hicks did it exactly right back in the nineties when he said, well, I think the puppet on the left, you know,   thinks how I think, and I think the puppet on the right thinks how I think. And it's like, well, then wait. There's one guy holding up both puppets.   You know?  

You're right. But people just don't see it, do they? And it's it's that's I guess that's what we're all up against in many respects.  

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Well, I used to be conned by this. I used to I used to think these politicians, you know, they're trying to help. They're not.   They're really not doing anything. There's only one politician that well, I wouldn't say he's a politician, the chap that's done so for his people.   And,   we won't go into that because we the the the you know,   and that was You get into trouble. Sure. You get into   trouble. You can't say things like that. That's right. That's right. But you used to have a very interesting mustache.   And I'm not talking about Stalin.  



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But That's true. Talking about the mustached one as as he was referred to by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and then incarcerated   as a result.  

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Yeah.  

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Yeah. And Sorry. I like all this shit. Sorry. That's just What Yes. It's just my brain. Sorry.  

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But what's what what what's hate speech? I mean, when it's out, I just wonder what hate speech is, you know?   Because the biggest hate speeches are governments.  

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They hate us. Well, is it is it not, I I don't know whether she coined the phrase, but she says it quite often. Monica Schafer said, you know, truth is,   truth is hate for those that hate the truth.  

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Oh, that's a good one. Yes.   Truth is hate for yeah. You're right. Because I think her brother is is doing time. The truth. Yeah. He's in jail. I hate his brother's doing time. You know, you know, I've known I've known a fair few people that have  

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suffered suffered for for things that they've said.   Yeah.   You know,   I I played a clip. Do you remember the,   clip,   by Rowan Atkinson   talking about Yes. Getting rid of the,   section five of the public order Yes. Where people could get arrested for calling a police horse gay and all that kind of thing. I played that on the show a few weeks back,   along with a, alongside a clip by a comedian called Steve Hughes,   who,   used to do overstepped   the mark a bit because he's toned it down quite a lot now. But some of his some of Steve Hughes' early stuff is bang on the money,   probably right up your street, Eric, because I know you like to make people laugh about the the things that they should be laughing about. And let's Yeah. Let's face it. This whole world, really, when you think about how you should be living and why   everything you seem so dissonant from everything. It's because we're living in a world   that we shouldn't be living in. It's not designed for us in this way. We should be living,  

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like, as if like, make the Swiss look poor.   I mean, when you think of,   if this was handled right, you know, it should be   the land of milk and honey that was promised to the first World War veterans, but they never got. You know, we come back to a hit was it a land fit for heroes of milk and honey? What's happened? Yeah. Poverty. What's happened?  

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And and and again,   as I say,   National Thumbscrew Tightening Day, they are continuing to tighten the thumbscrews   year on   year. So That's right. Do you expect anything to get better, folks? Just because you're gonna hope to vote the right people in?   Of course, you're not.   If you listen to this show, you're not  

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expecting much at all. Well, on a positive note, though, I believe   that we need to ignore them out of existence.   Seriously.   Ignore governments. Go away. We don't want to go you know, we want we wanna wanna live there, wanna live in town of but you have a piece of land, you put,   something on there where you wanna live.   You know,   shoot. Go away. We don't we we don't want your henchmen around. Because to me, there's no difference between mafia   and government.  

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The only difference is that Again, that's where you need local community around you. People that you know to be able to step in and help enforce your will. And it starts with a mindset. This whole thing starts with a mindset. Are you with them or not?   And if you're not with them,   start finding people that you are with. Correct.   And particularly in your own community,   everything should be organized by parishes. And people coming in and out of parishes that aren't recognized, yeah, rightfully, they should be treated as a stranger because we, you know, we do. You wait from around here, are you, boy? That's right. Why?   Do do do do you know, do do you need lodgings for the evening or anything? Can we take care of you in any way? That's what a local community would do. That's right. I agree with you. It wouldn't descend into anarchy. I think I think communities would look after each other for the greater good of themselves.  



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And also, if you became ill, you would see a proper healer instead of a,   shall we say, a a pharmaceutical  

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drug pusher. Yes. Yes. We would. Look, Eric, we're coming very, very close to the show.   Thank you so so much for coming on. It's a pleasure. By all means, come on again. We'll we'll carry on the chat.   Please let people know where they can find your book again and the name of it just before we start. Oh, it's very kind. Thank you. It's David  

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James Powis. David David j Powis. And it's, my world war two, and it's available on Amazon.   Or you can look on warveteran.co.uk.  

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And there we are. Thank you very much. You beauty. You beauty. Yeah. A round of applause for mister mister Eric Von Essex folks.   Bless you. They are all they are all clapping. They are all clapping.   So take care my good man and I'll speak to you after the show.   Goodbye, listeners, by the way. Sorry. My apologies.