1 00:00:01,399 --> 00:00:05,480 This is London Calling, London Calling. I don't know what happened to Dald 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,880 Trump. This is a different guy per day then when he was running in 3 00:00:08,919 --> 00:00:13,320 twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. And I think I did the direction ad gone 4 00:00:13,359 --> 00:00:22,679 with his campaign. It's the wrong direction. Welcome to London calling with me 5 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,359 James Denny Pole and my very good friend mister Toby Young. So toobs. 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:32,920 Yet again, we are working on the day when we're supposed to be not 7 00:00:33,039 --> 00:00:41,880 working because these communist strokes satanic Satanic calendar three days off, and the Americans 8 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,079 have one as well. I gather they've got Memorial Day and we've got what's 9 00:00:45,119 --> 00:00:50,039 our excuse for having this bank holiday? I think it's just I'm not sure 10 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:53,799 what the excuse is. Is it an extra holiday because of the coronation? 11 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,000 Oh no? Or is it a regular holiday? If it's, if it's 12 00:00:58,039 --> 00:01:00,240 onthing to do with the coronation, I'm jolly glad than I'm working to show 13 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,000 my contempt for I don't think it is. I think I think it's called 14 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,480 the Spring Bank Holiday, at least according to my calendar. Anyway, I 15 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,560 have no idea, but like you, I haven't let up at all. 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,359 I've been working all day. I've been writing my Spectator column. We're now 17 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,359 recording the podcast. I'm going into gb News to do Jacob Ruse Mook show 18 00:01:19,519 --> 00:01:23,879 later. It's a normal working Monday for me, and I can hear my 19 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,879 neighbors in their garden sitting around the barbecue getting drunk, having a nice time, 20 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,920 and I just think, you know, I feel like slightly kind of 21 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,799 alienated from that that normally world because I'm such a great I always stop it, 22 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,920 James, don't trump normally world like you're not one. You are totally 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,840 a normal I'm not in the hours I keep, James, I'm just claiming 24 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:47,560 in the hours I keep, I'm not a normal. Yeah, I'll give 25 00:01:47,599 --> 00:01:51,159 you that. You are a workerholic. Well, we know you're on the 26 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:53,840 spectrum. You're kind of You're weird and it's what you do. You can't 27 00:01:53,879 --> 00:01:59,239 help it. Now. I feel wretched and full of self loathing. If 28 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,159 I don't work, or if I do less than six hours work during the 29 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:08,520 day, I'm consumed with self disgust. M Yeah, yeah, well I've 30 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:15,400 been even though I hate these these public holidays because you know what they do. 31 00:02:15,439 --> 00:02:20,719 I was complaining to our evil producer of evil brand before you appeared that 32 00:02:21,479 --> 00:02:25,000 they kind of cause log jams of things like suppose you want to book an 33 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:30,439 appointment with your chiropractor or your dentist or whatever. Instead of having to wait 34 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:34,560 a week, you've probably got to wait two weeks because that extra day they've 35 00:02:34,599 --> 00:02:39,000 they've had not working means that they haven't got any gaps in their schedule. 36 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:45,520 And yeah, yeah, that that is correct. And it also kind of 37 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:51,800 pushes the kind of rubbish collection timetable here in Ealing where I live completely out 38 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,240 of wax, so you know, because because we had a bank holiday on 39 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,879 Monday, it pushes everything back by forty eight hours and it takes them about 40 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,759 a month to readjust to the original timetable. And in the meantime, people 41 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,319 are putting their bins outside that clue as to whether they'll be collective or not 42 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,759 the following day, and the foxes get hold of the food waste and it's 43 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:14,080 just chaos for the next month. Because almost almost do you think as if 44 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:20,919 it's by design that is they look because look, they want to they want 45 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,039 to crash the economy. They want to they want to put a um for 46 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:30,240 the spoke to talk about jam a stick in the in the in the in 47 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:35,639 the cogs of the machine or whatever, and yeah, cause chaos. They 48 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,280 want to they want to cause chaos. I didn't believe this, but but 49 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:45,719 I did. It's just let public holidays are assigned that we are approaching the 50 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,120 end. It's a bit like this alleged where do you shock? Do you 51 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,000 do? You get to waitresses? And I there reason to waitress anywhere near 52 00:03:53,039 --> 00:03:57,680 me because I live in Acting. But now I gather there's been some um 53 00:03:58,639 --> 00:04:03,639 what food supplied problems in Waitrose. It has been like I mean, I 54 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:09,439 yeah, I shop at waight Rose and Aldi because there's there's the tube, 55 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,360 so you know, get your cheap stuff at Aldi and you get your your 56 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,319 fancy So what do you what do you get at Waitrose? And what do 57 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:20,720 you get it Aldi? I'm actually curious. Oh, Aldi steak Their steak 58 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:27,519 is really really good, good value. Um roots right? Often is better 59 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:34,519 at better at Aldi? Um uh? Parmesan. Aldi is the only place 60 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,560 to buy parmesan. Well, I don't know about Little maybe they're the same, 61 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:43,000 but yeah, parmesan is really in chunks, really cheap. So so 62 00:04:43,079 --> 00:04:46,879 I will go to Aldi maybe once a month and buy a load of steaks 63 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:51,480 and a load of parmesan black pepper I get from Aldi. Um, they're 64 00:04:51,519 --> 00:04:56,079 good for wine, if you drink wine. They're high end wine is always 65 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,240 quite well chosen. There's a sort of mix of mix of things, and 66 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:01,839 so what do you what do you what do you still go to wait ros 67 00:05:01,879 --> 00:05:04,800 for? Oh? Well, I go wait go to waitress because I'm because 68 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,199 I'm lazy, because I don't want to. I don't want to have to 69 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,759 do multiple supermarkets. Or I mean I should, I should. I should 70 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:16,000 be going to the bakery for the bread, and the fruit roof for the 71 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:20,639 fruit, and the green grocer for the vegetables and stuff, but and the 72 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:24,959 fishmonger for them. But I don't. Right, well, not least because 73 00:05:24,959 --> 00:05:28,399 there's not a fishmonger anywhere near me. But but yeah, I go there 74 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:33,000 because they've got all the high end things you need, like the posh tin 75 00:05:33,079 --> 00:05:38,959 tomatoes. I mean there's some really poshed tin tomatoes that my son uses to 76 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:44,480 make ratatui, right okay, like like they're they're they're about two pounds sixty 77 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,199 a tin, but they're really good. Um. Yeah, and they've got 78 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,639 a fish counter and you go on Fridays you get your twenty percent discount return 79 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:57,920 for giving them your information, so so so they know they're know every last 80 00:05:57,959 --> 00:06:00,439 detail of what you like to do and where you shop and what you buy 81 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,720 and stuff, and obviously they then feed it to the enemy, who can 82 00:06:03,759 --> 00:06:06,959 then control you. But at least you get twenty percent of your monkfish, 83 00:06:06,959 --> 00:06:12,959 which otherwise be completely unaffordable, right right, Okay, gosh, will I 84 00:06:13,079 --> 00:06:16,120 envy you all these choices jebs. To imagine like going to Waitrose because it's 85 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,360 the nearest supermarket to your house just out of laziness. I mean, I 86 00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:25,560 have to travel several miles to get to the nearest wait Ros, the nearest 87 00:06:27,079 --> 00:06:31,160 well even London. Yeah, everything is isn't Isn't London full of stuff that 88 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:36,680 you'd want? Well, it's it's actually where I live that there is a 89 00:06:36,759 --> 00:06:43,160 kind of up and coming shopping street called church Field Road. When I first 90 00:06:43,439 --> 00:06:46,720 moved to Acton, there was one, and I'm not exaggerating, one coffee 91 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:51,519 shop, one vaguely respectable posh coffee shop on church Field Road, and within 92 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,680 months of my moving in, it's shut down because you know, there just 93 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,560 wasn't enough business to sustain it. Now there are multiple coffee shops. There's 94 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:04,399 a greengrocer, there's a Sainsbury's. There are two Japanese restaurants, So it's 95 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:09,040 a it's gradually turning into you know, Marlbon High Street, but it's still 96 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,199 got a ways to go. But it's yeah, so you can't you can 97 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:14,720 get there's a there's an Italian Delhi which does nice sandwiches. There's a chimney 98 00:07:14,759 --> 00:07:17,839 bakery. I think it's a Romanian form of baking. But anyway, so 99 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,360 Hungarian perhaps, any So, there are there are, there are, there 100 00:07:20,439 --> 00:07:24,240 are some nice shops if you can be bothered to. But but the nearest 101 00:07:24,279 --> 00:07:29,040 supermarket is literally Londis, which is the kind of supermarket they have attached to 102 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,079 Esso gar Rogers, Um not it's okay, but you know, you can't 103 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,920 get kind of parmesan and that kind of thing. I remember my in laws. 104 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:40,879 In fact, I think I think posh posh people generally um pronounce it 105 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,079 Lundus that's in London, in the same way they would pronounce Covent Garden Covent 106 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:54,000 Covent Garden. And I thought, isn't isn't Aldi pronounced all day? Probably 107 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,720 anyway, well, I would have thought it's German. It is German. 108 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:03,639 Yeah, Aldi, do you think, Yeah, Aldi, Oldie, I 109 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:09,519 did think, old Aldi. We do have a little that's opened relatively nearby 110 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:15,759 that lead Okay, yeah, that that's recently open next to a kind of 111 00:08:15,959 --> 00:08:20,839 newly created residential development down the road. That's our second nearest supermarket, and 112 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:24,399 we my kids like it because you can get much cheaper chocolates, cheaper even 113 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:28,879 than Cadbury's dairy milk. I'll bet the Americans, the American listeners are bloody 114 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:33,279 loving this conversation about in the supermarkets that they've never heard of before and completely 115 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:37,799 can't relate to it. You know. I think there might be adults all 116 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:43,559 these and liddles now in America, but who knows. Anyway, James, 117 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:48,200 before we started, you were admiring my clip on glasses sort of clip but 118 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,360 they're their glasses that break in the middle and then I kind of and then 119 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:54,960 they reattach and then they just hang around my neck on a very loose on 120 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,799 a very tight sort of plastic rope as it were, so they don't swing 121 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,120 about. So yeah, I love these glasses. I saw them on this 122 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:07,759 American TV show and this character who was supposed to be this incredible nerd he 123 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,399 was. Add investigator wore them in order to kind of, you know, 124 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,440 just underline what an incredible nerd he was. And I looked at them, 125 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,039 I thought, I'll have a pair of those. So I managed to trek 126 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,960 down a pair, and I've got two, and I'm expensive that well, 127 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,399 they're not very expensive if you just buy them off the shelf, because they 128 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,879 come with, you know, just standard lenses as opposed to prescription lensers. 129 00:09:26,919 --> 00:09:31,639 But I had the standard lenses removed and replaced with prescription lenses so they suit 130 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,879 my prescription. But you were going to say that you're not a fan of 131 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:37,720 glasses. Yes, I know, I got you all excited by because the 132 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:41,679 way I phrased it was I said, I reckon that glasses are part of 133 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,480 the conspiracy, which obviously I don't. I don't, I don't mean literally, 134 00:09:45,519 --> 00:09:48,120 I'm trying. I'm trying not to wear glasses because I had a bit 135 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,440 of a shot. Did I don't tell you this? I had a bit 136 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,399 of a shock the other day. I went to my optition and normally i'm 137 00:09:54,759 --> 00:09:58,000 I go in there for my eye test, and he tells me how even 138 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:03,559 though I wear glasses, is um for you? Know for driving and stuff 139 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:11,639 that my my sight is amazingly good, and this time my site, my 140 00:10:11,799 --> 00:10:16,600 vision had gone to pot like one of my eyes had had dropped whatever that 141 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:20,720 you know, it had dropped onto the next level. And I was a 142 00:10:20,759 --> 00:10:28,399 bit shocked by this. And as I understand it, UM, glasses, 143 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:33,080 although obviously they make you seem more clearly, also contribute to the deterioration of 144 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,759 your of yours. You know, they create a need. And if you've 145 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:41,240 got the self disciplinary obviously I haven't that you know, there are all sorts 146 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:46,559 of things you can do to improve your site. These these these tricks that 147 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:50,559 you can play, these sort of eye muscle improvement things and looking into the 148 00:10:50,759 --> 00:10:54,360 looking at the horizon and so on. So anyway, that's what I'm trying 149 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:58,039 to do. Also, the clincher for me was when I talked to the 150 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:07,399 old mask of our hunt UM. He told me that when he'd worn glasses 151 00:11:07,519 --> 00:11:13,559 hunting, he'd on two occasions he'd come he'd come off and mashed the glasses 152 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,960 in his face. And so I'd stopped wearing glasses and started wearing contact lenses. 153 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,519 And this had never occurred to me, that you'd actually land face first, 154 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,279 but I suppose the thing is the stuff they don't tell you about hunting. 155 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,320 I mean this, people are so sort of blase about it, for 156 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:33,840 one, and they're so sort of brave that they don't they don't talk about 157 00:11:33,879 --> 00:11:37,960 these things, but they don't. They never explain all the horrible things that 158 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,519 can go wrong. You'd have to discover them for yourself. I hadn't known 159 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:46,679 about glasses glasses accidents. So have you go? Are you what is your 160 00:11:46,879 --> 00:11:52,679 visual impairment? Um? I don't. I don't like to think of it 161 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,519 as an impairment, like I think it as a blessing. Toby, and 162 00:11:54,559 --> 00:12:00,080 I think that you shouldn't talk about these things as if they're disabilities. But 163 00:12:00,399 --> 00:12:03,200 what is my what is my vision? Blessing? My vision? Blessing is 164 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:09,120 the time? Very very good at reading small print, like Anna Karenina, 165 00:12:09,919 --> 00:12:13,600 I'm now on well past the middle point, I think, Um, but 166 00:12:15,799 --> 00:12:20,399 I can't when I'm watching TV. I can't work out what's going on with 167 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:22,799 without glasses. That's the real point. In fact, the misery of our 168 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:28,600 lives, every single evening, without fail is we've got the supper. It's 169 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,159 it's it's good, it's hot on the plate. Needs to be eaten now, 170 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:37,039 and then I say wearing my glasses, and the wife loses it completely 171 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:39,759 because she wants to watch TV while her food food's hot, and I can't 172 00:12:39,799 --> 00:12:43,559 watch TV until the glasses have been found. And you know, it's just 173 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,799 that's why you need glasses like this, Jess, because they'll always be around 174 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,639 your neck when they're not being worn, so you'll always know where they are. 175 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,919 That's the whole advantage of these glasses. When you get to our age, 176 00:12:54,279 --> 00:12:56,600 you do lose your glasses. It is a bit of a problem we 177 00:12:56,639 --> 00:13:01,960 should break at this point. There's some messages from sponsors. Hey, folks, 178 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,840 James Llax here for ricochet dot com. The other day, I was 179 00:13:03,879 --> 00:13:07,320 looking at the member feed, which unless you remember, you can't read, 180 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,679 and I was writing a little private piece about my daughter's graduation, and I 181 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,279 set it to private because I wanted it to be for the community that is 182 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,000 Ricochet, and gosh, I wish you would have been able to read it. 183 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:20,919 But that's on you, isn't it. Now. I know everybody on 184 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:28,159 the internet wants you to give them money streaming services and subscriptions, and your 185 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,840 apps have subscriptions, and it's just it's annoying, and you look at it 186 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,200 and you say, you know, I really don't want to be burdened with 187 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,799 another thing to pay. But the thing is, Ricochet is not a burden. 188 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:39,759 It's a gift. And once you go there and start seeing all the 189 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,120 voices, meet all the friends and the diverse post. I mean we talk 190 00:13:43,159 --> 00:13:46,240 about a radio and jazz and old music and sports and everything else, you'll 191 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:50,360 realize this is the place you've been looking for all these years on the internet. 192 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:54,919 Forget Twitter, forget Facebook. Ricochet that's the community that you have been 193 00:13:54,919 --> 00:13:58,039 looking for. Ricochet dot com. I'm not AOTU. You go there right 194 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:05,440 now. Um, what I was going to say was um. In your 195 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:11,639 brief absence, I've discovered from Brian Evil, Brian the producer, that they 196 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:18,440 do have Aldi in in America everywhere, and it's pronounced they pronounced it aldi. 197 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,919 So maybe you're right. Maybe I too. I had a real problem. 198 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,279 Do you remember the band um alt Jay or alt Jay? No? 199 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,440 Okay, they're they're good, they're good. Um, they've got they've got 200 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,120 a very good I recommend if you google a song called um. This is 201 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:43,480 from Tilda. It's really good. Okay, Um And yeah, they're they're 202 00:14:43,519 --> 00:14:48,639 a good band um and I could never remember whether they're pronounced alt jay or 203 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:54,399 alt jay because it's it's from the key the key on your on your computer. 204 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,320 Is that an alt or an alt? I think it's an alt. 205 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:00,639 I think yeah, as in the alt right or alt media. I think. 206 00:15:00,679 --> 00:15:03,440 I think I think there maybe there is a maybe maybe we're supposed to 207 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,279 pronounce it out if in the UK. I don't know, but I've ad 208 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,240 it's like, yeah occasion, I mean, you're particularly bad at this. 209 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:18,279 You your your grandmar is appalling because of your comprehensive education. But even in 210 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,039 with my near perfect English, I make mistakes, like, for example, 211 00:15:22,799 --> 00:15:30,120 apparently I mispronounced Malaysia. I think occasionally I say Malaysia. Okay, it's 212 00:15:30,159 --> 00:15:33,159 not how do you say it? I think I say Malaysia too, yeah, 213 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:35,720 yeah, no, No, Malasia is correct. Okay, okay, 214 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,600 you're not meant to say Malaysia. I say, do you say tissue or 215 00:15:39,679 --> 00:15:43,919 tissue? Tissue? Yeah? I think I sometimes get into trouble for saying 216 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:50,879 tissis you tissue? I think is this such a thing that you would I 217 00:15:50,879 --> 00:15:54,759 can imagine no coward might pronounce it that way? If he was trying to 218 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,440 ingratiate himselves with upper class circles and then get maybe. Then they look at 219 00:15:58,519 --> 00:16:02,159 him like, you're frankly common law. We don't. We don't say it, 220 00:16:02,279 --> 00:16:06,759 as you right, whether they do, maybe they do. I also 221 00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:11,399 mispronounced coriander. I think it's coriander, isn't it. Yeah, although Americans 222 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,519 say cilantro, I know, yeah, which is very no no no no 223 00:16:15,519 --> 00:16:18,440 no, no, no no no cilantro. I think a spring onions. 224 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,600 So the American scallions. Oh, you're right. I think I speak American 225 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:30,039 better than you, shameful galleons. So, James, has anything caught your 226 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,879 eye in the news? Have you noticed this Target brew her half? So 227 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:41,360 there's this American supermarket chain called Target, and um, they've gone into trouble 228 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:49,840 with various conservative commentators and influencers because they've gone all in on promoting Pride Month. 229 00:16:49,919 --> 00:16:53,600 I think it is um and uh and they're and they and they're promoting 230 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:03,240 like rain the Rain Rainbow insignia to kids in the kind of kids LGBTQ plus 231 00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:07,119 clothing section of their big department stores in Middle America. And so there's been 232 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:11,559 a sort of boycott Target campaign and I think it's resulted in their stock price 233 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:18,160 falling by twelve percent. These these these conservative boycott campaigns, finally taking a 234 00:17:18,279 --> 00:17:22,880 leaf out of the kind of woke left stop funding hate playbook, are unbelievably 235 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:29,079 affective. I mean, almost destroyed bud Light now target is in their sites, 236 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,240 and it seems to be equally equally devastating. I don't I don't believe 237 00:17:33,319 --> 00:17:36,960 the stories. I think that they're just they're just fabrications, that they're there 238 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,160 too to distract us from other things. I mean, for example, I 239 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:48,480 think inexcusably, I think I may have shared somebody's I saw something, you 240 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:52,359 know how on Twitter you sometimes see it a tweet and you can't resist retweeting 241 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,680 it just because of your instant Pavlovian reaction. You think, oh, yeah, 242 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,400 that's that stimulated me. Someone going to stimulate other people by sharing it 243 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,480 with them. Um, there was there was a picture of unsold bottles of 244 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:11,079 or other cans of bud Light piled high, and and and and even though 245 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:15,400 that the the price they were asking for, it was like, you know, 246 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,319 they were almost giving it away. It was like sort of one dollar 247 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:23,160 sixty for twenty cases or whatever. And still they couldn't. They couldn't give 248 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,960 it away, and I was thinking, actually, I shouldn't have shared it 249 00:18:27,079 --> 00:18:32,559 because this is just the current game they're playing with us. They're toying, 250 00:18:32,599 --> 00:18:36,400 you know, and and they they want to something to be fair that they 251 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,599 are right here, aren't there. They want you to use the phrase get 252 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,359 woke, go broke because they love it because it was you. You've taken 253 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,240 the bait, you believed it. What what? What this is this is 254 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:48,960 down to? I think it's just the running again, the running down of 255 00:18:49,079 --> 00:18:55,680 the I hate to use the word capitalist, but the system we've gone at 256 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,640 the moment. They just want to undermine it. They want to you know, 257 00:19:00,039 --> 00:19:03,359 who owns a bud Light is Anhoiser Bush? Yeah. I mean I 258 00:19:03,599 --> 00:19:07,480 don't care whether they whether they go under or not, because I'm sure that 259 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,880 they're many owned by black Rock and so they're all they are going to be 260 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,880 part of big evil. But I think it's it's all part of the two 261 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,960 and fro, the Punch and Judy show of just like let's get let's get 262 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,319 the right wing commentators worked up about this and let's get the left when people 263 00:19:22,319 --> 00:19:26,039 worked about that. I just think it's it's meaningless. I just it's it's 264 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:33,799 your your your ability to detect hidden hands and all these events. It's quite 265 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:38,400 something. It's almost like detecting a hidden hand in the weather, Yeah, 266 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,279 which I suppose it was some respects you do. There is there is a 267 00:19:41,319 --> 00:19:47,319 hidden of course there is where you think I forgot. I was trying to 268 00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:49,680 think of the most absurd possible thing. They call it, described to a 269 00:19:49,759 --> 00:19:53,200 hidden hand. But of course I've hit on something which she do believe has 270 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,400 been controlled by the cabal. But they're up front about it. They call 271 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,480 it. They call it duo engineering. I mean, I mean, this 272 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:03,440 is legit. If you, if you, if you even if even Google 273 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:07,880 probably will tell you that it will show you places where you can find examples 274 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,720 of geo engineering. So yeah, they are. They are controlling the weather. 275 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:17,799 They've probably been controlling it for controlling I say, they probably presumably can't 276 00:20:17,839 --> 00:20:21,559 micro manage every last detail, but they have a they have a pretty good 277 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:22,720 go at it. Yeah, I mean I do, I do spot the 278 00:20:22,759 --> 00:20:26,599 hidden if you have you seen that film? Um they live? Yes, 279 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,599 Yes, I thought that was going to be why you originally said that you 280 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:37,200 thought glasses were part of the kind of conspiracy to kind of you know, 281 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,240 destroy our critical faculties and turn us into kind of servile supplicants. I thought 282 00:20:41,279 --> 00:20:45,119 you were going to appeal to that. Actually the glasses are kind of doctor 283 00:20:45,279 --> 00:20:49,839 to stop us seeing what's really going on. Oh yes, no, the 284 00:20:51,079 --> 00:20:55,720 version of that. They live concept when you watch to see what's really going 285 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:59,480 on, So they live For those who haven't seen it, is this John 286 00:20:59,519 --> 00:21:03,880 Carpenter film which has become a kind of, um, a meme, hasn't 287 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,839 it, apart from anything else. The glasses, you know, and they're 288 00:21:06,839 --> 00:21:10,759 about these glasses, these special glasses that when you put them on, you 289 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:14,400 see the world as it really is. And so that this guy is handing 290 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,039 out the glasses so you could and what you see is that that when you 291 00:21:18,079 --> 00:21:21,440 see when you when you walk down the street and you see a post post 292 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:26,240 of advertising something and then you put on the glasses and it says consume eat 293 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:30,440 by or whatever, and and you put on the glasses and you see that 294 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:36,119 that the world is really controlled by these these kind of alien alien people and 295 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,559 you can see them beneath the skin once you wear the glasses. Well, 296 00:21:38,599 --> 00:21:41,680 so when you when you saw that movie Tobes, what did you think it 297 00:21:41,759 --> 00:21:45,079 was just sort of amusing satire about people like me, or did you think 298 00:21:45,079 --> 00:21:49,319 there was anything in it? Well, I didn't. I think I didn't 299 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,599 see it until I already knew that it had been kind of taken up by 300 00:21:53,599 --> 00:21:57,359 people like you as a sort of cult classic which actually, in a sort 301 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:03,519 of metaphorical way, revealed the truth about the world we live in. And 302 00:22:03,559 --> 00:22:06,400 I thought what I thought it was, And I thought, in that respect, 303 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:07,640 it was sort of it was quite prescient, wasn't it. It was 304 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:14,519 sort of for it did seem to be it was a kind of crude indictment 305 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,359 of capitalism and the way we live now from the point of view of, 306 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,359 you know, a conspiracy theorist who thinks he knows what's really going on. 307 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,759 I mean, I didn't think it was I didn't think it was intended to 308 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,440 satirize people like you. Rather, I thought it was intended to kind of 309 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:33,599 reflect your your view. I mean, I think I think Carpenter's sort of 310 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,200 probably in the same gang as you. I wonder. I mean, i'd 311 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:41,440 really like to think so, because I love John Carpenter. He's one of 312 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:45,359 my favorite directors, not least because his soundtracks are so good. But he 313 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,559 was a composer, wasn't as well as a filmmaker. He composed those kind 314 00:22:49,599 --> 00:22:55,160 of the classic theme to Halloween and some of these other films, and the 315 00:22:55,240 --> 00:23:00,319 Saught on Precinct thirteen his his soundtrack to that. And I've seen quite I've 316 00:23:00,319 --> 00:23:03,839 seen quite a lot of John Carpenter films. Ghosts, Ghosts of Mars is 317 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,240 one of my favorites. Dark Star one of my favorites. When I was, 318 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,160 you know, a teenager, I thought it was absolutely was that. 319 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,559 That was That's very old. Was that was that? I think that was 320 00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:18,759 his first movie. I think it was. Yeah, that's that's one. 321 00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:21,720 I too. Oh, actually, this is this is where where we're venturing 322 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,279 into culture. We are venturing into culture territory. In the news, I 323 00:23:26,319 --> 00:23:27,519 was thinking, I was. I was looking at that obviously, you know, 324 00:23:27,559 --> 00:23:32,599 I don't believe in the news, and I was thinking, what what 325 00:23:32,599 --> 00:23:37,279 what is happening in Karrent affairs that is worth mentioning? And I was wondering 326 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:40,480 what you might mention? And I was thinking, well, maybe you'd want 327 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:45,279 to mention the fact that urdu Ian has won his third election. Yes, 328 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:49,799 and I'm happy about this. Whereas I think it's great. I haven't. 329 00:23:49,799 --> 00:23:52,039 I haven't really been following it. But why do you think it's great? 330 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:56,680 Isn't he a bit of a Well? It's interesting, isn't it? Um? 331 00:23:56,839 --> 00:24:03,240 I remember where Boris Johnson? Do you remember him? This? Yes, 332 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,079 somebody character who used to edit Edit the Spectator. And then I came 333 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:12,240 up with a with a with an amusing yet obscene limerick about Erdigan the one 334 00:24:12,319 --> 00:24:17,079 Spectator competition. Didn't it he did? Can you remember how it went? 335 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:22,359 Non't either? Um? Is it repeatable on a family show like this? 336 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,119 Well? No, I mean I I can't actually remember how it went, 337 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:32,240 but it was It was certainly rude and cheeky, and it was awkward. 338 00:24:32,279 --> 00:24:38,160 Wasn't it created awkwardness when Boris Johnson became Born's secretary? I think was that? 339 00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:41,880 Was that the scandalous thing? Yes? I think so, I think, 340 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,440 yeah, yeah, yeah. It was sort of felt that you can 341 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,359 either be a journalist or you can be a foreign secretary, but you can't 342 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,799 be both. I think I've got it. I think I think I'm going 343 00:24:48,839 --> 00:24:52,799 to read it out, James. I think it's just about within the limits 344 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,720 of our of our family friendly show. There was a young fellow from Anchora 345 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:02,480 who was a terrific wanker until he sowed his wild oats with the help of 346 00:25:02,519 --> 00:25:06,160 a goat, but he didn't need him stop to thank her. Yeah, 347 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,559 I don't think wanka is a rude words of America, is it. I 348 00:25:08,599 --> 00:25:11,880 don't think so. No, they don't. I don't think they know exactly 349 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,680 what it means. So they just think it's a kind of ticky swear word. 350 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,400 Some words in America that we think can not rude, they think really 351 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,119 rude, don't they. I can't remember they do. Well, you can't, 352 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,359 can't mention it. We can't say, we can't. The C word 353 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:32,759 is much more offensive in America than it is here. People don't use it 354 00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:36,920 sort of, they don't. They don't pepper everyday conversation with the C word 355 00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:40,440 in the US like they do here. They reserve, they particularly loath. 356 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,920 Yeah, if you've got somebody a cut in America, it's like really really 357 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,519 bad, whereas here it's just kind of term affection, isn't it. Head 358 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:51,400 Yeah, anyway, So what we're gonna say about, why are you pleased 359 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:56,119 that erdigan has been reelected? Well, it's it's done to this terps. 360 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:04,200 But since my awakening I've remember how I was telling you that when I was 361 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,119 growing up, I used to watch narm movies with my brother Dick, and 362 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,480 we you know, we watched Apocalypse Now six or seven times and became familiar 363 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,960 with all the lines, and we watched the watched the scene where in The 364 00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:19,519 Deer Hunter we watched. We watched The Deer Hunter about six times, but 365 00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:23,559 the scene in the cage with with with the Russian Roulette about fifty times. 366 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:26,920 Right, which which film do you rank more highly, Apocalypse Now or The 367 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:34,400 Deer Hunter. I think it depends on whether you used to what used to 368 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,960 enjoy The Deer Hunter more? Because I used to enjoy de Niro's tiger stripes, 369 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,759 special Forces uniform and and and the rats and the and the Russian Roulette 370 00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:48,160 scene. But we didn't used to watch the whole movie because the whole movie 371 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,079 was quite boring. But after I've taken drugs for the first time, I 372 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:59,319 think suddenly Apocalypse Now became became more appealing. Right, I wonder which one 373 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,000 I haven't seen either of them recently. I wonder which one stood up better 374 00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:06,799 with stood the test of time. Um, I imagine is probably held up 375 00:27:06,839 --> 00:27:10,119 a bit better. But who knows. Um. I think there we had 376 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,079 to have a whole nun movie, because I watched all the non movies, 377 00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:18,039 you know, including the obscure ones like um, like the Odd angrysh Shot, 378 00:27:18,079 --> 00:27:22,319 which is an Australian one about the Sas, and there's there was one 379 00:27:22,319 --> 00:27:26,279 called Incident at Mukwa. I think it changed its name. It had Burt 380 00:27:26,319 --> 00:27:30,000 Lancaster in it, and I remember it only because I watched it at an 381 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,599 open air cinema in Greece when I was on my gap year travels. And 382 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:38,920 then I afterwards I picked up this girl, Um and we went off to 383 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:47,880 NIreland together and had quite a saucy Weekum Australian girl called Anne UM. So 384 00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:51,960 anyway, so I remember that movie vividly. UM. I always think a 385 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,519 bit very fondly UM. But yeah. So, So the point is that 386 00:27:56,799 --> 00:28:00,640 since my since I realized that the Americans started the vie Now War, and 387 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,680 that it was that it was started by the same people, the same forces 388 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,400 that started the First World War, Second World War and all wars you know, 389 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,720 the Iraq Wars and stuff. So so my sympathy with UM countries around 390 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:18,720 the world oppressed by the American hegemony, my sympathists all have gone away from 391 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,319 the West because I narrowized the West as a baddy and to my sympathis are 392 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:29,079 now for the countries which are being used as pawns in the schemes of these 393 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:36,559 the evil American kabbal. So I look at Turkey and I think that the 394 00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:40,920 West is currently again air Dowan. But what he's trying to do is trying 395 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,519 to establish a Turkish identity rather than he doesn't want to be sucked into the 396 00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:49,799 American notion of democracy, which means obeying all America's rules. I mean, 397 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:52,559 I know, I know you think American democracy is great, and you you 398 00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:56,359 buy into all that, but I don't. I think that. I think 399 00:28:56,359 --> 00:29:00,559 that the Western way is not good. I think we're sold apart up and 400 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,519 I think that the kind of imperialism that the Americans and the British used to 401 00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:11,240 control the rest of the world and rape their economies and control their politicians is 402 00:29:11,279 --> 00:29:15,440 not a good thing. So when one of their guys, I du you 403 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:21,559 know, when when when a country's when somebody who is not pro America, 404 00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:25,400 the enemy of the worst is my friend. But he's not exactly the enemy 405 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,039 of the West, is he because Turkey is a member of NATO. Sure, 406 00:29:29,119 --> 00:29:32,880 but but I think certainly your friend Putin has has said how pleased he 407 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,920 is that the Duan has been left, and so so you might consider that 408 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:42,039 a tell as to where Urduan's sympathists lie. So so I'm saying, well 409 00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:45,119 done, Urduan. I'm very pleased. And if you want to invite me 410 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,359 to the presidential palace to help celebrate your victory and we can drink tea, 411 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:56,599 because because presumably you don't do doesn't ye, I might fretm okay, Well 412 00:29:56,599 --> 00:30:00,279 that's how he's listening. The the the the event I was going to discuss 413 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:07,480 was I don't know if you saw any of it, but Rhonda Santis's announcement 414 00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:14,400 which he made on Twitter spaces and he was sort of being interviewed by Elon 415 00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:18,079 Musk, and it was all a bit of a disaster because Twitter spaces crashed 416 00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:23,039 because so many people wanted to use the spaces to hear the announcement and watch 417 00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:26,680 the interview. It was all delayed by I think more than an hour, 418 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:32,839 and lots of you know, de Santis's enemies on the left and the right 419 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:37,839 were kind of gleefully celebrating the kind of cock up that was his presidential announcement. 420 00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:45,240 And I read one explanation for that, which is that when Elon Musk 421 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:48,680 took over Twitter, Twitter Spaces had over a hundred employees, but he fired 422 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,920 all but three of them, so so he didn't have the kind of digital 423 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,519 infrastructure to cope with this kind of presidential launch or presidential bid launch. And 424 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:03,119 I'm sort of curious as to why Elon Musk is sort of was was was 425 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,720 hosting this and why he's sort of being I mean, you know, I 426 00:31:06,759 --> 00:31:11,759 think he has made perfectly rational reasons perhaps for supporting De Santists, but maybe 427 00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:15,440 do you think there's any any chance that in the course of the you know, 428 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,079 in the course of his campaign, Descantists is going to tap up Musk 429 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,599 as his vice presidential running mate. I wonder if that's what Musk has in 430 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,480 mind. I don't know, I spose about campaign funding. If Musk is 431 00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:33,039 on the ticket, I don't trust Desantists at all. My my take on 432 00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:40,000 De Santist is that essentially he's Conservative Inc. Masquerading as somebody who's quite red 433 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:45,440 blooded. That I think that the whole behavior of Florida during the pandemic. 434 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,799 You know, like we don't believe in the in the in the vaccine and 435 00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:51,519 stuff. I mean, it was red meat to people like me. But 436 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,319 actually I think it was just part of the cover. I think. I 437 00:31:53,359 --> 00:31:59,359 think, I think that the only purpose of desantists is to try and sabotage 438 00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:04,799 Trump's m Trump's electoral campaign. And by the way, I mean, I'm 439 00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:07,279 not even I don't carry account of a Trump either. I'm just that's just 440 00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:13,559 my take. It could be wrong, but that's I think it's UMB's supposed 441 00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:16,559 to learn. I think it is a genuine bid for the Republican nomination, 442 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:21,000 and I think he'd like to be president, not just sabotage Trump. But 443 00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:27,839 I thought that, you know, his response to the pandemic, unlocking sooner 444 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,759 than all the other US states that had locked down, remaining unlocked, expressing 445 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,000 caution about the vaccine. I think he's been generally, you know, a 446 00:32:38,119 --> 00:32:44,240 better governor, has handled the pandemic and it's aftermath, better than almost every 447 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:49,400 other US governor. And he's also been I also obviously sympathized with his war 448 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,720 and woke I think, you know, his his his attempts to root out 449 00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:58,920 critical race theory, and gender identity ideology from you know, American high schools 450 00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:02,960 is obvious admirable um. And you know, I thought his his way of 451 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,319 trying to troll the Libs over you know, open borders by shipping off illegal 452 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:14,759 migrants to places like Martha's Vineyard was was a master stroke. And I think 453 00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:16,440 that you can really accuse him of not being a properly conservative when he when 454 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,079 he barreled those things in mind, I think he actually his his his kind 455 00:33:20,079 --> 00:33:22,759 of record on the pandemic was obviously better than Trump's, who was a bill 456 00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:27,440 over the place. Oh, I look, I think Trump was absolutely rubbish. 457 00:33:27,559 --> 00:33:31,960 I think that's the main on the list of charges I would lay against 458 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,359 Trump, that would be the main one. That he seemed to push the 459 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,799 death job as much as any of the people that want hates, like like 460 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,960 Fauci and so. But on on the Santists point, I mean, you've 461 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,319 you've given him a list of of of red meat things he's done. It 462 00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:50,400 doesn't really undermine the point that I was making, which is that these are 463 00:33:50,519 --> 00:33:52,440 these are things that he's done in order to as part of the smoking mirrors 464 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,680 of politics that that he's Yeah, sure, he's done some things that make 465 00:33:55,799 --> 00:33:59,880 people like you and me go, yeah, go to scantists. He's great 466 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:07,279 critical race theory, U freedom. Yeah. Um, But if if my 467 00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:13,239 theory was correct, then he'd behave in the same way, wouldn't he be. 468 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,920 I mean, if if if if, if he if he were trying 469 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:22,440 to portray himself as as a as a a sort of a Margaret alternative to 470 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,880 Trump, then he would be doing those things. He wouldn't be saying, 471 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:30,960 well, I think that we should have more um, more wokeness in schools, 472 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,239 and I think we should we should get jabbed up with the death jab 473 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,719 just like people did in the in the Blue States. He wouldn't be doing 474 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,400 that. So the only difference in that in our takes is we both like 475 00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:43,800 some of the things he's done, but I'm cynical about it and you're not. 476 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,079 You're cynical about his motives. Yeah, um, I think that. 477 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:54,320 I don't mean the Democratic establishment and their outriders, you know, in the 478 00:34:54,400 --> 00:35:00,360 legacy media certainly seemed to think that, judging from his terical reaction to his 479 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:07,639 declaration that he is pepos is a greater threat to Biden in twenty four than 480 00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:09,840 Trump does. They seem much more sanguine about the prospect of a Trump Biden 481 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:15,119 runoff than they do about the prospect of a Desantist Biden runoff. And you 482 00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:19,480 know, the hysteria branding him a racist. And I think you've seen any 483 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,079 of this stuff. We ran a piece about it in the Daily Skeptic from 484 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:27,079 a recent contributor. He's started contributing some great stuff called Tony Morrison, and 485 00:35:27,519 --> 00:35:34,360 he lives in America originally English, that he documented the kind of hysterical denunciations 486 00:35:34,679 --> 00:35:40,679 of Desantists from various organizations like the ACLU, claiming that he has created a 487 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,159 state which is unsafe for people of color Latinos, when in fact, you 488 00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:50,639 know, more than fifty percent of the Latinos who turned out in the twenty 489 00:35:50,679 --> 00:35:55,280 two gubernatorial election vote of a disantist, and actually there are more I think 490 00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:01,159 African American owned businesses in every state in Florida than every other state apart from 491 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:07,440 California. And you know, the claim that that he's created this environment which 492 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:09,679 is no longer safe for people of Carla because he's such a white supremacist. 493 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:14,320 I mean, it's all crazy, hysterical blooney. But the fact that they're 494 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,000 kind of trying to hit him with this stuff suggests that they think he poses 495 00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:23,960 a greater threat to ill that. I'd call that Muscovka. It's it's given 496 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,199 that that the entire political class is in is in on these games. Um 497 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:34,119 So, I mean, okay, suppose suppose you were a LIB and you 498 00:36:34,199 --> 00:36:39,199 were desperate for Trump not to win. Um, who would you? Who 499 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:44,199 would you say you were you were most scared of Um? You know you 500 00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:47,400 You wouldn't admit that you're you're most scared of Trump. You'd want you'd want 501 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:53,400 the enemy to think that that their guy, their guy, the guy that 502 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:59,440 you didn't feel threatened by, was was more of a threat. It's like 503 00:37:00,199 --> 00:37:04,880 everything you get told in politics is a line. It's like an episode of 504 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:09,280 Succession. They just scheme and plot and scheme and plot. Everything they say 505 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,719 when they open their mouths and their lips moves. They're lying to all of 506 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,199 them, all of them their scum. They're a bunch of pedophiles, perverts 507 00:37:19,079 --> 00:37:22,519 that they're on the today. Have you seen them? I haven't actually seen 508 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:27,840 the finale of Succession. I haven't actually. I think it comes out tonight, 509 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,360 doesn't it say? In culture corner, we can talk about how we 510 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,079 haven't seen succession. If you have another break and then we can go into 511 00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:37,559 the culture corner. This is Stephen Hayward of the power Line Blog and the 512 00:37:37,599 --> 00:37:42,159 power Lines Show on Ricochet, inviting you to tune in each weekend to our 513 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,079 three Whiskey Happy Hour, where John, You and I, along with the 514 00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:52,239 pseudonymous Lucretia power Lines International Woman of Mystery, breakdown the week's top stories and 515 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:57,360 continue our long running arguments about first principles and also critique the best whiskey is 516 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,639 available in the world. That's power Lines three Whiskey Happy Hour, hosted by 517 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:09,360 Ricochet and found on all of your favorite podcast platforms. Before we move on 518 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:15,960 to discussing how we haven't seen a succession. Yeah, I just wanted to 519 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:21,599 say I kind of apologize. I think two people that I've encouraged to watch 520 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:28,920 Silo, I'm now about five episodes in and I'm starting to think they're spinning 521 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,880 it out. They're just like, all I want to know is what's it 522 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,480 like outside the silo? Are they lined to us? Have they been lyned 523 00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:39,599 to us? What is the world beyond the silo? Why do they die 524 00:38:39,639 --> 00:38:43,000 when they go out there in their space? Suits. Is it because their 525 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,079 poison or stuff. I don't think we're going to find out the answer to 526 00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:49,440 this, you know, for another two seasons, because apparently there's three books 527 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,519 in the series. In the series, this first series deals with the first 528 00:38:53,559 --> 00:38:58,800 book, and they do this, they do this trick. The only thing 529 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,760 you want to know is the thing that they withhold from you, and they 530 00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:06,719 all, I know, let's make it a who done it? Let's let's 531 00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:12,920 what's the secret motivation of the guy played rather badly paid by the Canadian rapper 532 00:39:13,039 --> 00:39:20,920 common toy called Commons That I thought at first, this is this is quite 533 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:27,000 interesting world building and stuff, but they're really really drawing it out. As 534 00:39:27,159 --> 00:39:30,960 as as my tip, I would much rather people went to watch Sanctuary, 535 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,400 the Japanese sumo series that I recommended. What I watched to the end, 536 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,960 and it's although it ends on a cliffhanger, it's it's still it's more interesting 537 00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:45,880 than Silo. What about I watched. Yes, so I haven't watched Silo 538 00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:50,719 yet and it doesn't sound like I should now, but I did watch most 539 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,880 of the first episode of food Bar. Food Bar is a new Arnold Schwartzen 540 00:39:54,960 --> 00:40:01,639 nigger TV series. You've lost he played. He plays like a ci a 541 00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:08,719 kind of James Bond like agent who is on the verge of retirement but is 542 00:40:09,599 --> 00:40:14,840 asked to do one last job to go in and rescue and undercover agent. 543 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,360 He's about to have her cover blown, and it turns out to be his 544 00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:22,519 daughter. So it's kind of like it's sort of like, I suppose an 545 00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:28,199 action adventure slash comedy in the same mold as True Lies. I suppose, 546 00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:32,559 But my god, it's bad. It was just bad. I abandoned it 547 00:40:32,599 --> 00:40:36,400 about two thirds of the way for Channel. I can't watch any more of 548 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:42,199 this. It's on Netflix. Is it really? Because obviously that they're trying 549 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,679 to jump on that bandwagon that our friend Mark Miller spotted a while ago where 550 00:40:46,079 --> 00:40:52,639 they rehabilitate your favorite Ages stars and the action stars. Now they did it 551 00:40:52,679 --> 00:40:54,639 with who I probably looked it with Stallone. Yeah, they probably looked at 552 00:40:54,639 --> 00:40:59,360 the success of Yeah, you're right, of the thing is, Yeah, 553 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,840 Watson is so fundamentally unlikable. I mean, it's it would be like trying 554 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:10,519 to think of the Matt Hancock having a sort of TV series with Matt Hancock 555 00:41:10,599 --> 00:41:15,280 or something. Yeah, and he's such he's such a bad actor. As 556 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,599 well. I mean, his his his line readings in Fubar are just appalling. 557 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,360 His attempts to kind of convey emotion. I mean, it's all at 558 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:27,360 a sort of cartoonish one dimensional level anyway, but even that he can barely 559 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,719 manage. His range is so limited. I mean, he's just he's sort 560 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:34,960 of sort of gurning and hemming his way through the whole thing in a in 561 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,559 a just unbearable to watch way. And I guess what when he you know, 562 00:41:37,559 --> 00:41:39,719 when he was a kind of you know, when he when he looked 563 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:44,679 like a condom stuff with walnuts to use, you know, Clive James's famous 564 00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,119 description of him. You know, there was something sort of oddly kind of 565 00:41:47,159 --> 00:41:52,960 mesmerizing about his kind of physique and and and he was sort of almost a 566 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:59,840 sort of walking, living cartoon. But now that that's sort of gone. 567 00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:01,920 It hasn't entirely gone, but it's largely gone. And he's sort of a 568 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,320 little bit you know, he's I think he plays a sixty five year old 569 00:42:06,559 --> 00:42:08,079 in this series, but I wouldn't be surprised if actually, in real life 570 00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:10,440 he's about seventy five. So he's kind of, you know, he's sort 571 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:15,599 of sort of trying to trying to kind of, you know, be an 572 00:42:15,599 --> 00:42:19,719 action man and kind of run after lorries and jump on the back of them, 573 00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,760 and it's just kind of hopelessly implausible. I've suddenly remembered, sorry, 574 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,480 the thing I was going to tell you at the beginning of the show, 575 00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:29,639 and I've remembered it just in time. Do you know what I'm going to 576 00:42:29,639 --> 00:42:35,360 do after this? We Oh, I've got to go to the gym and 577 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:40,960 do weights and stuff, do resistance training. Do you know why on a 578 00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:45,719 doctor's recommendation. No, my sodding son has said to me, has banned 579 00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:53,159 me from wearing short sleeve shirts because my arms are so stick skinny that he 580 00:42:53,199 --> 00:42:57,679 feels embarrassed to see me with him, and so like when when I went 581 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,840 to the races with him a couple of weekends ago, Remember I wore my 582 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:08,119 favorite polo shirt and it says Khaki um polo shirt. And he said, 583 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:12,360 you'll never to wear that again because your arms aren't thick enough. And he 584 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,719 said, Dad, you've got to You've got to put on some muscle. 585 00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,880 And he wants to he wants to give me protein drinks um, and he 586 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,760 wants to force me to go to this. I've I've I've I've caved and 587 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:28,360 I've said, Okay, I'm gonna go and push some weights or whatever you 588 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,599 do this evening to keep you happy. Um. And he's he's really on 589 00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:38,519 it. And he showed me this this article today from the I think the 590 00:43:38,559 --> 00:43:43,480 Telegraph saying something. I had a picture of Daniel Craig, which is which 591 00:43:43,519 --> 00:43:49,079 is why you reminded me of this when you're talking about schwartznigger and he wants 592 00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:53,119 me to have a body like Daniel Craig. Um. And I don't like 593 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:58,079 Daniel Craig, I particularly don't like what she did. This is what I 594 00:43:58,079 --> 00:44:04,360 wanted to move on to. Um, that Daniel Craig destroyed. I think 595 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:09,800 the Bond franchise didn't. He turned it from being something fun into being something 596 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:19,079 really ponderous and ugly and sort of sado masochistic and pretentious, I mean, 597 00:44:19,199 --> 00:44:22,480 help by directors like Sam Menders and stuff. And my son said to me, 598 00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:24,199 well, what about Skyfold. Skyfield was a good movie, and I 599 00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,679 said, yes, it was a good movie, but it wasn't a good 600 00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,320 Bond movie. Are you with me on this? That that that Craig was 601 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:35,239 the end of that well, he's certainly been, you know, a more 602 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:39,639 earnest, kind of high minded, pretentious, politically correct bomb than some of 603 00:44:39,639 --> 00:44:45,280 his predecessors. But I had I had grown a little bit tired of Pierce 604 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,559 Brosnan, and I suspect he'd grown a little tired of playing the role. 605 00:44:49,559 --> 00:44:53,400 And you know, I mean, there really isn't anyone apart from Connery who's 606 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:59,519 really done a bang up job of Lazon By. I'd love do you know 607 00:44:59,559 --> 00:45:05,760 what? I urge you to go and rewatch service and the scene where they 608 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:10,320 go up to the restaurant with all the girls from different nationalities. He's wearing 609 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:16,280 a kilt. It's it's so fantastically UNPC. It's just glorious. Actually, 610 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,559 I could have done with more Lason bum boy, But yeah, he was. 611 00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:24,280 He recently got into trouble, didn't he for saying something UNPC on stage 612 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:29,119 about all the women he'd slept with I think when he was playing the Bond 613 00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:36,280 role. Yeah, yeah, recently got canceled. Isn't it originally a KeyWe? 614 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,239 I think it was originally a KeyWe. Maybe it's Australian um. Yeah, 615 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,639 but yeah, I found it difficult to watch on her Magically Secret Server 616 00:45:42,679 --> 00:45:45,000 because it has those kind of speeded up sequences, you know, the car 617 00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:47,480 chases. In order to make them seem somehow more dramatic, they took the 618 00:45:47,559 --> 00:45:51,679 very poor decision of actually speeding up the film in a really obvious way. 619 00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,239 Looks like Benny Hill sketch that was That was rubbish. I agree. Apparently 620 00:45:54,239 --> 00:46:00,000 they're talking of speeded up things, or well actually not really talking speed up 621 00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:07,159 things. I used to get quite annoyed by the editing of the the Tutorberg 622 00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:14,719 Forest battle in Gladiator, right, you know where where the editing sort of 623 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:21,480 whether you want to use sort of the cuts to deceive your eye and just 624 00:46:21,559 --> 00:46:24,039 into makings you think you've seen things that you haven't seen, or just like 625 00:46:24,159 --> 00:46:28,000 messing with your head so that it feels like action and fast pace. And 626 00:46:28,039 --> 00:46:30,639 I'm thinking, now, I want to see what's happening. I don't want 627 00:46:30,679 --> 00:46:32,559 to be tricked into seeing what's happening. Um. You know they're making a 628 00:46:32,599 --> 00:46:36,119 new Gladiator film. I know. I think I heard about, Yeah, 629 00:46:36,119 --> 00:46:40,360 who's going to be playing the Russell Crowe character? Well, presumably he's is 630 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,079 he does he come back from the dead. I don't think it's him. 631 00:46:44,119 --> 00:46:49,239 I mean he oh, Is it a prequel, I don't know nothing about 632 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,920 it. Cgi to kind of make Russell Crowe look young again, I don't 633 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:58,760 know, So, James, I saw a film a couple of nights ago 634 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,559 called Air, which is on Amazon Prime. It's any recently come out from 635 00:47:02,559 --> 00:47:07,719 the cinema, but it's already on Amazon Prime. And it's it's it's set 636 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:14,079 at Nike in the nineteen eighties, and it's about Nike's pursuit, or the 637 00:47:14,119 --> 00:47:17,440 pursuit of one man who was the kind of basketball guru within Nike, his 638 00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:23,039 pursuit of Michael Jordan to become a kind of partner of Nike, to promote 639 00:47:23,119 --> 00:47:28,559 Nike basketball boots. And it's all about, you know, the attempt to 640 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:35,000 kind of win this contract and persuade Michael Jordan and his mother played by Viola 641 00:47:35,119 --> 00:47:37,039 Davis, who is kind of the woman who wears the pants in the family, 642 00:47:37,079 --> 00:47:40,440 makes all the big decisions. So you have Matt Damon as the basketball 643 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:45,440 guru working for Nike, trying to persuade her that it's in Michael Jordan's interest 644 00:47:45,519 --> 00:47:50,559 to sign with Nike, even though at that point Nike was the least cool 645 00:47:50,639 --> 00:47:54,519 of the Big three Converse, Adidas, and Nike and Michael Jordan's supposedly an 646 00:47:54,519 --> 00:47:58,679 Adidas fan and whatnot. And you wouldn't think it would be very good. 647 00:47:58,679 --> 00:48:00,159 And it's sort of it is, in its own way of kind of eulogy 648 00:48:00,199 --> 00:48:07,199 to woke capitalism. Um you know, um he eventually I won't tell you. 649 00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:08,880 Well, I guess everyone knows what happens, so it's hardly a spoiler. 650 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,880 I mean, does he does he sign up with them in the end. 651 00:48:13,119 --> 00:48:15,880 In the end, he signs up and creates this shoe called Air Jordan, 652 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:20,159 which is unbelievably successful. Does it transform the brand? Transforms the brands? 653 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:25,559 After that, Nike becomes the dominant player in the kind And it's funny 654 00:48:25,599 --> 00:48:29,119 because and it's odd. It's odd that you kind of you're being told a 655 00:48:29,159 --> 00:48:31,519 story in which you know quite a lot. You know, you're kind of 656 00:48:31,599 --> 00:48:36,719 kept in suspense as to what happens throughout. You know, will Matt Damon 657 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:42,199 managed to nail this deal or will it slip through his fingers and go to 658 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,519 Adidas? And it's like, well, it's not alternate history. Everybody knows 659 00:48:45,119 --> 00:48:49,079 how it ends. And yeah, the odd thing about films like that in 660 00:48:49,119 --> 00:48:52,440 which you absolutely know the ending is that somehow the kind of suspense still works 661 00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,960 at some level, and you feel this kind of great sense of relief and 662 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,719 satisfaction when it ends in a kind of happy way, when it has a 663 00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:05,360 happy ending instead of an unhappy ending, even though you know exactly what's going 664 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,519 to happen from the word go. But and I don't quite know how that 665 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,360 how that particular sleight of hand works, but it works. But but you 666 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:15,880 know, it's definitely a eulogy to woke capitalism. And at the end we're 667 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:20,679 told that Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, gave two billion, has 668 00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:22,639 given two billion dollars to charities. I think, oh, well, he's 669 00:49:22,639 --> 00:49:27,599 a nice book, you know. And this deal, this this extraordinary deal 670 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:32,440 transformed the fortunes of athletes who went on to make similar deals with big brands 671 00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:36,840 and enriched them in a way that they couldn't have been before. I supposed 672 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,199 to kind of applaud this guy. It's like, capitalism is fine, provided 673 00:49:39,599 --> 00:49:45,039 it's a bit more inclusive and welcomed diversity, equiting inclusion. That seems to 674 00:49:45,039 --> 00:49:47,079 be the kind of theme of the movie Becnetheless, you know, directed by 675 00:49:47,079 --> 00:49:52,320 Ben Affleck, reasonably well done, quite entertaining. Where's the Corinthian spirit? 676 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:58,079 I mean that's it's It's like athlete should not get paid this this amount of 677 00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:00,400 money. It's just just bread. And because, isn't it, we should 678 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:13,920 just break for one more message from all sponsors. Hello, I'm Dennis Neil 679 00:50:14,079 --> 00:50:17,559 and here's what's bugging me. The media are burying some of the biggest scandals 680 00:50:17,599 --> 00:50:22,480 of our lifetime, and I'm here to call them out on it and make 681 00:50:22,599 --> 00:50:25,840 fun of them for it. The Twitter files and government censorship, the Biden 682 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:31,079 documents, the Hunter laptop, the lies of the FBI and the Russia Gate 683 00:50:31,159 --> 00:50:37,199 hoax, China spy balloons and toxic chemical burnoffs. Join me to hear things 684 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:43,199 no other journalist will dare tell you. All that and more on What's Bugging 685 00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:49,000 Me? Available for download and streaming every Thursday right here on the Ricochet Audio 686 00:50:49,159 --> 00:51:08,039 Network and wherever you get your podcasts Ricochet Join the conversation. UM watched the 687 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:13,119 terrible film last night. An old film. I don't whether we only watched 688 00:51:13,119 --> 00:51:15,000 half of it. We just wanted to see what it was like. You 689 00:51:15,039 --> 00:51:20,440 ever seen Velvet gold Mine? Uh? Isn't it? Todd Haynes film about 690 00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,599 the velvet underground. What's said? What's What's what? We were trying to 691 00:51:22,599 --> 00:51:25,639 look up Todd Haynes. Apparently he makes films about gay people or something. 692 00:51:27,159 --> 00:51:29,280 No, he's now, he's now. Yeah, he's now. Isn't he 693 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:34,119 quite a celebrated director in his own way, sort of the king of indie 694 00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:38,519 cinema. Yeah, Velvet Gold gold Mine is really, really, really it's 695 00:51:38,599 --> 00:51:45,840 it's supposedly based on well, it is obviously based on nakedly based on Bowie 696 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:50,079 with a bit of iggy pop. Is that there's you and McGregor plays an 697 00:51:50,159 --> 00:51:57,280 iggy pop character, um who gets his kit off, and that sort of 698 00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,559 pretty boy actor with three names. He plays the bully. But it's just, 699 00:52:01,679 --> 00:52:06,599 oh, it's awful. It's awful, awful. I'll take your word. 700 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,039 So I watched something. I watched something awful in its own way, 701 00:52:09,159 --> 00:52:17,119 James. It was ant Man three, Quantum Mania. I'm sure it would 702 00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,920 be attempted to watch it, James. But I came home, I went 703 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,960 to I went and saw the playoff final, the Championship playoff final at Wembley, 704 00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:30,239 Luton v Coventry. A friend of mine is a big Luten fan. 705 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:35,039 Got a box, a corporate box at Wembley, and we went there for 706 00:52:35,119 --> 00:52:37,280 lunch and watched the game, and I drank a fair amount of wine. 707 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:43,559 Came back and in my impaired state, decided with my fourteen year old son 708 00:52:43,599 --> 00:52:49,599 to watch ant Man three Quantum Mania, and I fell asleep mercifully within about 709 00:52:49,639 --> 00:52:53,400 fifteen minutes. But the fifteen minutes I saw were just unbelievable. Drek confirming 710 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:59,159 to me that Marvel has completely jumped the shark and is incapable of producing another 711 00:52:59,199 --> 00:53:01,960 movie worth watching. Having said that, I probably will give at least fifteen 712 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:06,800 minutes of my time to Guardians of the Galaxy three, which is, by 713 00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,800 the standards of the current Marvel cinematic universe, is apparently not not the worst. 714 00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,480 Um So, well, I think that's enough culture, isn't it. 715 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:21,280 I've got to got to go and drink. Yeah, But I show, 716 00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,760 say, James, my kids are constantly trying to get me to go down 717 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:28,480 to the gym with them too. So two of them anyway, have have 718 00:53:28,599 --> 00:53:31,519 gone into you know, going to the gym. They've become real gym rats, 719 00:53:31,559 --> 00:53:35,440 and they do weights and the rest of it. And they're constantly telling 720 00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:37,480 me that, you know, in order to in order to avoid becoming kind 721 00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:42,840 of elderly and infirm. I need to start lifting weights, and they always 722 00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,320 present it not it's not not not a cosmetic thing whereby they they're embarrassed to 723 00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,800 be seen with me because I'm such a blob. It's it's more that it's 724 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,840 supposedly for my own good. You know, it's a tyranny exercise for the 725 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,960 good of its subjects. To paraphrase, yes, yes, Lewis. Yes. 726 00:53:57,039 --> 00:54:00,440 Now that's the other thing I get told about muscle weight that after forty 727 00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:06,280 you've got to blah blah blah because blah blah blah blah blah. What that 728 00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:10,880 generation? Um, I mean, I suppose children maybe that do they belong 729 00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:15,519 to the same generation or I don't know, but um, it's they don't 730 00:54:15,519 --> 00:54:19,559 seem to do things like go clubbing or have sex or anything like that. 731 00:54:19,599 --> 00:54:22,599 They seem to be just just well, yeah, I don't I don't think. 732 00:54:22,639 --> 00:54:25,760 I'm not sure. I think that I think that going to the gym 733 00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,840 isn't a substitute for going clubbing and trying to pick up girls and going to 734 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,800 concerts and leading this sort of life that we did at their age. I 735 00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,280 think it's more of a kind of substitute for religion, isn't it. There's 736 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,000 a very moral component in it, as though as though they're they're they're kind 737 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:47,360 of discharging their moral duty to themselves to kind of to become the kind of 738 00:54:47,519 --> 00:54:52,239 best physical versions of themselves they can. It's it's odd that they're having they 739 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,719 kind of they kind of preach from this Bible with a kind of righteousness, 740 00:54:54,760 --> 00:55:00,440 as though there is something morally virtuous about spending time in the gym, looking 741 00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:05,159 in the mirror and lifting weights and admiring your muscles. It's kind of it's 742 00:55:05,159 --> 00:55:07,599 always been slightly you know, odd to me, and I guess Schwartzenegger, 743 00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:12,239 you know, to go back to to him. There was always that that 744 00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,199 kind of that that sort of ethic of self improvement, of kind of looking 745 00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:21,119 after yourself, of exercising of self discipline. There was always a kind of 746 00:55:21,159 --> 00:55:22,440 moral component to it. There was a kind of you know, it was 747 00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:29,079 like a teutonic version of kind of muscular Christianity. Yeah, anyway, it's 748 00:55:29,079 --> 00:55:30,800 gone, it's gone viral. It's now mainstream, and that seems to be 749 00:55:32,119 --> 00:55:38,559 that generation's version of muscular Christianity, muscular secularism. Next week, Toby, 750 00:55:38,599 --> 00:55:44,440 when you look at the picture of me on the screen. You will see 751 00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:49,519 absolutely no difference because obviously weren't Willie. I mean it's going to take bloody 752 00:55:49,519 --> 00:55:52,039 ages and I'm not sure, yeah, exactly. Well, I'll tell you 753 00:55:52,039 --> 00:55:54,920 what, though, you should take a before picture if you are going to 754 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:59,280 take it up and do it regularly. Take get your get get get Ivo 755 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,159 to take it before picture. And then in a year's time he can he 756 00:56:01,199 --> 00:56:05,320 can, he can take an after picture. You can compare and contrast now, 757 00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:09,079 because I don't want to be carrying too much weight and muscle for the 758 00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,239 for the hunting season, which I think is going to be the last. 759 00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,199 I think that. I think when when your man Stymer gets in, it's 760 00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:19,639 going to be all over for not just hunting, but the entire country. 761 00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:25,760 And I'm going to flee abroad and watched watching and watch Britain burns from a 762 00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:30,960 distance until wherever I've gone gets destroyed as well. Now at the end of 763 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:35,960 the world and end, and that's it. A pessimistic picture you paint, 764 00:56:36,039 --> 00:56:38,599 James. Yeah, so I want to leave that thought people's heads for their 765 00:56:39,079 --> 00:56:44,519 post bank all the day day. Okay, James, good constitute And we're 766 00:56:44,519 --> 00:57:07,559 talking next week right, Bye Bye. Ricochet joined the conversation