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check it out. All right, new topic, and this is

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one that I probably brought up a year ago and

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we just decided to do other stuff. So the life

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and the thought of Oswald Moseley.

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Speaker 2: Where do you want to start? Mosley's background going back

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literally fourth centuries, there's a lot of liminal events in

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British history. I mean that that that's not just some

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sort of like literary trope or something like don't understand

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like where Moseley ended up and like why he took

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the path he did, Like you've got to understand the

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trajectory of his family, Like he wasn't he wasn't an

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ordinary like lesser noble or whatever. You know, it makes

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perfect sense why he established but became the only viable

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like fascist tendency in Britain because there were a number

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of them and none of them gained any traction. Because

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the people at the Helm were were bizarre people who

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weren't plugged into the zeitgeist, or they were just you know,

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or they were just half assed Tories who had some

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admire or Mussolini, so they you know, they didn't like communism,

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so like, oh I'm a fascist or you know, they

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were they were these simple minded people who were kind

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of taken in by Darwinist uh intellectual cultism, you know,

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like Arnold Lease. And we'll get into the you know,

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Mosley actually understood fascism and he actually understood like the

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historical implications of it. And like I said, his he

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had a storied family, but like not in the way

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that people think, you know, like the kind of traditional

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and punitive description of his heritages. Oh well, he was

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just lesser aristocrat and as those people lost their privilege,

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they became fascist. Like that doesn't make any sense and

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that doesn't really track. You know, Mosley was basically middle class.

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His family had a lot of money. They were an

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incredible wealthy for hundreds of years, but they weren't this

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powerful uh like Noble House or something, you know, and

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the unreconstructed House of Commons like really until the middle

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of the nineteenth century, you know, most of the UK

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had like no representation in Parliament, and uh the House

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of Moseley, as it were, was one of those was

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part of that unrepresented demographic, you know, So they weren't

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this idea that the Mosleys were, you know, these kinds

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of like this kind of aristocratic faction in Parliament trying

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to like deny people their uh you know, being manumented

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and given the franchise. Like that's not what happened. Like

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they didn't really have the franchise, you know, like it

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wasn't And understand like where Moseley came from. Like you've

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got to understand that peculiar kind of localism that emerged

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in England, like specifically England and uh like the most leaves,

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their fate was was bound up with uh clergy of

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the Church of England and uh like the British military

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officer Corps. Like I was kind of like the such

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that they had like influence in their locale, like those

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are really the people they indexed with, which makes perfect sense.

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But they had this basic mistrust like both of parliament

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and of like traditional nobles, and that's like where fascism

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comes from, you know what I mean, Like it this

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should be clear as day to anybody, like Mostly wasn't

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a guy who followed fans, and he wasn't uh, he

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wasn't somebody who did stuff for cloud you know, I

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mean obviously like Northy, you guy, I just enjoyed being

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an iconic class like you believed in everything he was saying.

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And I think it's not just because like of an

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anglophone person, I find Mosey to be the most relatable

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of like fascist uh leaders. You know, Hitler was a

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messianic personage and almost like a great con like he

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It's hard to find people like that relatable, you know,

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the people like Kuadrian who were like orthodox mousa head

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like it doesn't it's you know, I find that to

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be like literally Byzantine, you know. But you know, Mosley

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is a somebody I think who doesn't really get enough

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inc in America, Like the British rite about him all

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the time. It's usually punitive and stupid and simple minded.

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But he's kind of ignored in the United States or

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such that he's granted any attention at all. People act

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like it was some like weird crank or like some

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or some or some like insignificant personage like George Lincoln Rockwell,

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like they don't understand, they don't understand, like where he

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was speaking from. The guy had tens of thousands of followers,

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and for uh, for somebody after U after the the

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kind of modern House of Commons after eighteen thirty two,

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like after the reformats, for a for a true like

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uh kind of revolutionary party like upstart party to get

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like forty or fifty thousand members and for clarity, these

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are like dudes paying members. Like the UK has actual parties.

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It doesn't just have brandings. It's not like the Republican Party,

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which is at the actual party, you know. And before

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mostly these these schismatic uh you know, kind of self

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declared fascists and national socialists. They'd clock uh at peak,

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like four or five hundred dues paying members like most

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of you. Was a serious guy and there's a reason why,

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you know, he was targeted the way he was and

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there's a reason why. Uh, you know, he he got

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an audience with uh, with Gurbles and and some of

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these other third personages. He wasn't a joker, but you know,

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and also too, like I it's not most of these counterfactuals.

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There wasn't jumping around it. But I'll get into the

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a more kind of coherent narrative in a moment. But

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a lot of these kind of factual speculat relations about

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what would have happened, and you know, if Edward the

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eighth hadn't advocated, and if the War Party hadn't prevailed

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in the UK, or alternatively, if Sea Lion had actually

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been a serious, we devised mission to conquer the United Kingdom,

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you know, by by force of arms by the German Reich.

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Like like Mosley absolutely like would have been the man

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that the Reich looked to the you know, to act

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as as kind of like a proxy regime, you know,

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in no small measure because Mosley he wasn't really a

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fringe figure, you know, like he was he was like

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a very respectable guy. You know, like he became something

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of a fringe figure, particularly after the War Party was

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able to you know, kind of shut down any all opposition,

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you know, in the House of Commons as well as

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in in the national media and everywhere else. But you

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know what, but mostly was dangerous to the War Party

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precisely because he he wasn't like this fringe character, you know,

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and he wasn't and he was he wasn't just like

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the scion of of like a respectable family who went

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on some crazy lark, you know, like Rockwell or something like.

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He was a serious fascist. It wasn't. It wasn't a

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you know, some kind of some kind of theatrical protus posture.

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But like the background of fascism in Britain is strange.

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The first true like self identified like British Fascist Party

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was literally like the British FASCISTI who then became the

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British Fascists and then in twenty three like they they

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they incorporated after the Muslims march on her own. It

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was a lady who formed the organization. It was Rotha

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interned Ormon. Very strange lady, very much, I mean to

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be crashed very much, kind of like a butcher lesbian.

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I mean, it's just like a fact she'd volunteered in

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World War One as an ambulance driver and she was

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under a pretty heavy fire. You know. She was like

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a serious person, but she was like this weird eccentric

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and she was uh. She was born to uh, an

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officer who had stood with the Essex Regiment, who was

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kind of like the Essex Regiment was kind of the

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pride of like the British Army infantry for a long time,

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you know, and her uh, her mom was Blamed Simmons,

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who was another aristocrat. Her maternal grandfather had been a

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field marshal. You know, these people were extraordinarily wealthy, okay,

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and she was kind of like the strange like lesbian daughter.

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She was like she actually was one of the founders

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for all practical purposes or like the scouting movement, like

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the boy and Girl Scouts in Britain they call it

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something different. I think they call it like the girl Guides.

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of like one of these. She was kind of just

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like rich kid aristocrat, you know, and like aristocrats do,

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like you know, she she was all about national service

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when the Great War came, but then she developed a

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hero worship of Mussolini, which for context, you know, really

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up through the Four Powers packed you know really in

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until the late nineteen thirties, like Mussolini was viewed as

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like this kind of heroic personage in the UK, and

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it's considered less kind of like moderating influence contra Germany,

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you know who uh really after after Disraeli's tenure, you know,

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like we got into in our World War two series.

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You know, the Germans were cast as as in in

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the most like in the blacks colors imaginable, but uh,

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Mussolini wasn't colored the same way in British media quite

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the contrary, and the people like wrote the Ormond, they

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they basically admired Mussolini for his anti communism, like she

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was not a sophisticated person in any sense, you know,

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which seems in congruous maybe, But there's something to the

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cliche of you know, it's almost like any python, like

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like these British aristocrats who actually aren't cultured and aren't educated.

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something that you know, the middle classes like to kind

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of hold out is as as some it's there's some

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kind of you know, slam on on people who they

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resent for for posturing as their betters. You know, the

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she was not She was not an educated nor intelligent

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person in real sense, and so like her her like

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fascist outfit, it was basically just like this kind of

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like Tory. It was basically like this Mussolini fan club

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of like aristocratic Tories, you know. And uh, she literally

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established this British fascist outfit. She placed an ad in

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uh what was then kind of like the dominant like

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The Patriot, you know. She said she was like looking

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for anti communist partisans who wanted to you know, basically

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basically constituted a pressure group, you know, to force some

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more serious uh posture against the Soviet Union, which uh

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in early on that was like a big rallying point

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of the Tories is that like, well, you know, labor

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is gonna they're they're they're too soft on Sovietism and

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this is like a fifth column and in the empire

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and you know, all this all this kind of stuff.

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you know, like a decade subsequent the most of the

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male membership of the British Fascists defected the b u F.

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context they I think it's relevant the uh and famously

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UH mostly said UH mostly referred early on to the

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British Fascist just quote three old ladies and a couple

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of office boys and uh, which wasn't the really inaccurate

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the success of organization not It wasn't a successive organization.

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same ideological persuasion or head membership in common. The The

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kind of subsequent iteration of a national socialist or fascist

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tendency in the UK was the Imperial Fascist League. It

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was found y Arnold Leise in nineteen twenty nine. People

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are familiar with like our lineage, our lineage being people

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of the right. They probably know Les because like it's

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an elderly guy like in the fifties, and he made

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a habit of slandering Francis Perker Yaki in right wing

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press despite having never met him. By that point, Lease

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was a total nobody. And Yaqui. Famously, he used to

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go on claiming that, like Yaqui was Jewish, then he

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claimed that Yaqui was part black. Then he claimed that

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he was an Indian, like an American Indian, and Yaki

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Yaki fantasy said like, I don't know who this camel

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doctor is. What's his name? Laos and Leeds literally was

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a camel doctor, like he was a veterinarian and his

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specialty was diseases afflicting cammels, like I'm not kidding. And

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his claim to fame was that he'd met Julius Striker

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during some lark to Germany, and Striker was a crude

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guy with Striker also was like a cutting satirist and

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like a skilled artist, and just like a tough bastard,

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even though he was something of a vulgarian and a

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dummy otherwise, like Lea said, none of those skills and

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he had none of that insight, like he was just

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a fucking idiot, you know. So Lesa's whole thing was well,

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because I know how campmebls breed, and I know how

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you know, traits are inhritable, you know, in camel populations,

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but to extrapolate like zoological principles like human populations, so

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the Jews are just like evil race, you know, And

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they have you know, bad racial characteristics, and you know

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we need to breed the right kind of race, you know,

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just like abject, abject, objectly moronic bullshit, you know, reducing

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politics to the principles of animal husbandry. Well, the Imperial

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fans this league. They're like lasting legacy. They had an

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incredibly dope, like heraldic standard. It was like the Union

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jack with like a hack and crewis like in the

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center in black. It like looks incredibly cool. But other

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than that, it was, uh, it was like an embarrassment

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the b UF famously. Uh. They shut them down through

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a lot of ledgered Man and through direct action. And

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one of the things Mosley did, Uh, Mosley hit a

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very gang to a streak. You have black shirts. They

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dress up as communists, and then when the Imperial Fascist

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League and hold meetings, they'd assault and like beat the

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fuck out of everybody and then like LEAs to grow

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on saying like this was mostly and like mostly be

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like what are you an insane person? You got you

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got moved on by the Reds. You gotta you gotta,

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you know, provide better security for yourself. What's the matter

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with you? What kind of outfit are you? Which is

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kind of brilliant and it's uh in in in and

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it's gaslighting. But that was that was Uh. The Imperial

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Fascist League had like an outsized profile in those small

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part because people like the Board of Jewish Deputies and

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and and some of these left wing UH newspaper types.

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You know, they'd say they they'd hold them out as

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an exam but I mean very much like today, you know,

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they hold them. I was like, Oh, we're being subverted

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from abroad. You know, this is this is this is

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the Germans, this is the Hunts trying to you know,

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undermine and meddle in our in our affairs. You know,

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the UH during a moment of uh, I guess amicability

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in nineteen thirty two when the BUF and we haven't

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gotten there yet but we will in a minute, when

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the BUF was very much ascendant, they'd made something of

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a peace offering to the Imperial Fascist League by like

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allowing their members essentially patch over, you know, the Imperial

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Fascist League like turn this down, and so mostly returned

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to like having his people's like like smash them, you know,

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like it was leaves then and and and later in

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his later in his life. And I'm not going to

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dignify it by calling it a courier. But he as

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this typically today with like right wing schismatics, he had

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like delusions of his own significance. You know, It's like

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this guy had a couple hundred members like the b

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U f Atars with tens of thousand strong, you know,

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like Moseley in a moment of you know again like

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in in a moment of a charitable impulse like offered

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him you know, uh a chance that it kind of

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cloud and respectability, and of course, like what would he do,

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like leaves turns it down owing to some delusion that

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you know, he was actually a relevant personage. But but lease,

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like I said, the reason why like he uh when

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when Yaqui went to Europe, you know, and Yaki famously

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approached Moseley himself and they didn't get along at all,

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and and mostly very much was a cold warrior by

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that point. And I think there was some degree of

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jealousy and of Yaki and his intellect, but also resentment

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at the fact that you know, we THINKU the hell

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is an American trying to dictate, you know, the European scene,

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how how we should do things and conceptualize you know,

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theory and policy and praxis. But you know, Lise, uh,

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Lise was still kind of like floating around the fringes

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of of the you know, of of the right wing resistance.

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You know, because even even then, you know, like, uh,

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some of these marginal figures could kind of carve out

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some sort of niche and that's exactly what he did.

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But getting to Mosely, the kind of the fortunes of

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the Moseley family, it began with Nicholas Mosey. Really he

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was born in or near Manchester. It's not clear, but

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Manchester became the like the ancestral home of the Mosleys,

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like when they when they acquired their their aristocratic cedigree.

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I'll gett into how that developed in a moment. But

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Nicholas Moseley was born on fifteen twenty seven, and uh,

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for a brief period he was a Lord Mayor of London,

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which is different than the Mayor of London. Like the

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Lord Mayor it still exists, although now it's large like

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a ceremonial office. The Lord Mayor of the City of

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London is like the administrator like of you know, what's

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now the financial district of you know, the City of

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London in those days it had a directly military obligation

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and Nicholas Moseley during that time Britain's main adversary was Spain,

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and this was kind of the beginning of the Mosely

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families involvement with affairs revolving around the security of the

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British Isles. And this endured for centuries and in eighteen

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one of the reasons why the left hated Oswald Mosey

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so much during eighteenth during the Chartist riots in eighteen

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forty eight, his great grandfather and his great grandfather's brother,

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they'd organized the these strike breaking attacks like on the

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Chartists and on like the eighteen forty eight revolutionaries, you know,

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like the Mosey family, they like literally like way went

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back centuries of them like crushing like left wing radicals.

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You know. It's became like their role, you know, and

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that started really with Nicholas Mosey's role as Lord Mayor,

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you know. And again in those days, this wasn't just

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a ceremonial office Lord Mayor of London, you know, he baans.

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He was responsible for planning and organizing you know, what

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amount of like a civil defense, a civil defense schema

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in anticipation of you know, possible like invasion from the continet. Okay,

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the Moseleys became very very rich. Manchester was a center

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of uh the world trade and manufacture. Nicholas Moseley became

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a very wealthy merchant, and UH he became a member

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of the Worshipful Company of Cloth Workers, which was basically

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like a guild and like a corporatist UH firm that

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UH set prices and established standards for the industry. You know.

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So he was very much like uh like he was

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very much like a self made capitalist. Okay. And what

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he did with some of that money is for thirty

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five hundred pounds in fifteen ninety six he purchased a

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lordship and scenery of Manchester. And this was easy to

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come by if he greased the right poems because Manchester

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it was basically an unimportant market town. I mean it

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was important, became important economically because I'm monopoly on the

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wool trade. But in terms of the way aristocrats and

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this was still this was before the Reform Acts that

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you know, kind of transformed the House that Commons into

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like a normal parliament like in those days. This was

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the this was these are the days where he still

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had like you had like literally empty burrow was it

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were like, you know, some aristocrat like you know, dating

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back to like the eleven hundreds or something like, he

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was able to monopolize, you know, an entire voting block

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and the House of Commons you know, like based on

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some ancient charter of some like then worthless land. So

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I mean there was no relationship between you know, the

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the productivity of of a territory and its representation in Parliament.

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So if a guy like Nicholas Modley, who's like just

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like some rich guy, is like, yeah, I want to

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buy like a lordship in Manchester, like a house of lord,

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would be like go ahead, you know, like whatever turns

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you want, you know. Butlins Noodly was smart a lot

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of the things, Like with this great wealth he had accumulated,

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not only did he like basically buy himself into a lordship,

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he hired Inigo Jones, who was at the time, I'm

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like the top architect in England, and uh he hired

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him to build and design and build. His is a

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manor house, which is hawf End Hall. Okay, now I

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think it's an art museum. It still exists, Okay, but

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that was like that was like Mosley Manner essentially in

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Ago Jones. He was the first. Uh he was He

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wasn't just like this this top architect in England, but

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he was the first. He was the first architect of

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the modern era to like employ uh the conventions of

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Classical Roman and Italian Renaissance architecture like in Britain. You know,

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since it was a big deal and it was no

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small matter to like have him design your manor house,

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you know, like this this conferred a lot of clout

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for context. The uh. The Queen's house, well, you to

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be one of the royal residences. It's in Greenwich, London.

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It's been repurposed a bunch of times, and it's obviously

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historic building and like it's it's no longer like a

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royal residence, but at the time it was, and he

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designed that, Okay, so I mean this was this is

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a big deal. The uh. He also he'd been involved

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in like designing stuff for the stage, and he was

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buddied with Ben Jonson and Johnson was uh. He's considered

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basically the most significant playwright other than Shakespeare. Probably his

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most notable works are every Man in his Humor, the

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alchemist Bartholomew Bartholomew Fair. So you know this this is

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a kind of company that knew as Moses was keeping,

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you know, and not I mean very deliberately too. Like

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when Nicholas Mosely got married, he got married in the

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city of London. You know, he was obviously trying to

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like establish some kind of you know, familial presence there.

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It didn't take because the Moss ended up basically after

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his sinecure, like the Moses were once again like relegated

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in Manchester. But you know, the aside, like their great wealth,

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the family managed to kind of skate on the cloud,

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captured by the you know, the great patriarch Nicholas for

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a very long time. The uh and yeah he uh.

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Owing to his uh service as Lord Mayor, he was

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knighted by Queen Elizabeth the First and subsequent to his

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knighthood he was the High Sheriff of Lancashire. So he

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was an accomplished guy. And there's a significant too, because

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again this dude was an upstart capitalist, you know, like

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he wasn't really a noble and like that didn't really

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happen in those days. You know, he was one of

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the first to essentially like make that jump so again

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when you read uh, when he when you read some

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of these like left wing histories that deal with Moseley

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produced in the UK, I mean like they talk about

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him like he's bas least some like lesser version of

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King Charles or something. Who oh, he became a fascist

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because he lost his noble type. That like that's nonsense,

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Like it's not what he was at all. And frankly,

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a man like that, like such as the caricature is

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painted like, wouldn't have been attracted to fascism in the

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first place. I don't think like it wouldn't it wouldn't

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track with anything but the uh, like I mentioned uh

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a minute ago, the the the Chartist and the Peterloo massac,

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the Chartist Rise, the Peterloo massacre, these were and aren't

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gonna held out as like the great sins like the

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Moseley family the peterlu massacre. On August sixteenth, eighteen nineteen,

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there was this mass demonstration uh, demanding parliamentary representation. Okay,

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it was basically a precursor to like the Chartist movement

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that kind of peaked in eighteen thirties, and it's and

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it's kind of final. It's kind of final. Zenith was

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eighteen forty eight. But there's this crowd of uh like

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tens of thousands of people. Obviously, the UH the crown

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was terrified to some kind of some kind of Jacob

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and style revolt. Cavalry assembled as well as uh you know,

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chartered UH men under arms. This armed element assaulted the crowd,

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including like a recharged like dead into the center of it.

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A couple of dozen people died, several hundred were injured.

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The uh Moseley family played a direct role in organizing,

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UH the forces that suppressed this UH mass protest and

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even into the UH like even into the late nineteen

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fifties when uh Moseley was staging his comeback. You know,

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this was uh Moses mostly is the descendant of, you know,

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00:37:43,639 --> 00:37:47,039
the the brutes of the Peter Low massacre. It's it's

472
00:37:47,079 --> 00:37:53,000
really strange, but that's UH, I mean that that's that's

473
00:37:53,079 --> 00:38:05,159
kind of the way the UK is. The UH. The

474
00:38:05,199 --> 00:38:10,480
Mosleys started to lose, Interestingly, they started to lose their

475
00:38:10,679 --> 00:38:28,800
h influence in Manchester after the after the reform of

476
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:36,920
Parliament really from like eighteen thirty two to like the

477
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:46,639
eighteen fifties. You know, the Moseley family was in a

478
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,159
strange positions. On the one hand, they made their fortune

479
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:58,760
through industry, but they purchased noble title. So in Manchester,

480
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,079
local merchants and industrialists they had to pay what was

481
00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:07,719
called the tolladge to the Moseley estate and amount of

482
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,920
kind of tax not just on goods entering the municipality,

483
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:15,079
but if you want to make use of a stall

484
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,800
or a market space like you you you would you

485
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:22,480
would literally like pay rent to the House of Mosley,

486
00:39:22,519 --> 00:39:30,360
you know. Leading the charge against this system were u

487
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:38,360
with a contingent of Jewish merchants in Manchester. Mosley's grandfather

488
00:39:38,599 --> 00:39:44,880
very much. This kind of like very very hostile situation

489
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:50,039
developed between like the House of Moseley and the Manchester

490
00:39:50,119 --> 00:39:57,639
Jewish community, which is really interesting, you know, and that

491
00:39:57,639 --> 00:40:02,840
that that endured, you know it uh And because the

492
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:08,239
Moslees weren't and when they appealed to when they when

493
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,440
they appealed to the House of Lords, you know again

494
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:18,559
until uh, until the mid nineteenth century, Manchester didn't even

495
00:40:18,599 --> 00:40:21,159
have representation in the House of Commons. And then after

496
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:26,840
it did, you know, basically like the true aristocracy there

497
00:40:27,119 --> 00:40:29,079
their view was like we don't care about you, Like,

498
00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:33,360
what what is the Manchester? Who are the Mosles? You know,

499
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:41,320
so they couldn't count any support from London. Their fellow

500
00:40:41,639 --> 00:40:45,920
industrialists resented them because to them locally they were like

501
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:51,880
this aristocratic clan that taxed people. So the Molees basically

502
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,480
their allies became the Church of England and like the

503
00:40:55,519 --> 00:41:00,559
local military contingent. Yeah, which again completely tracks with how

504
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:07,679
you know Oswald mostly viewed the world. You know, this

505
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,079
is like a constantly like middle class problem. You know,

506
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,199
it doesn't matter that there's like a kind of the

507
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,119
near of like nobility like hung on it, you know.

508
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:21,679
And uh, I'm not somebody who resourced a class analyses

509
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:27,320
to describe fascism, but uh, there is an aspect of that,

510
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,760
you know, particularly in a place like England, you know,

511
00:41:32,039 --> 00:41:36,280
that can't be denied. So it's kind of like this

512
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,719
perfect storm of shit, you know, kind of like conspiring

513
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:47,880
to design like how the life of Oswald Mosley would develop,

514
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,559
you know, particularly when you consider that you know, he

515
00:41:50,639 --> 00:41:54,280
was born, he was of the Lost Generation who fought

516
00:41:54,280 --> 00:42:00,119
World War One. You know, he he didn't live in

517
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,440
real poverty in the inner war years. But he wasn't

518
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,760
exactly well off. He was like suffering like everybody else was.

519
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:15,559
You know. His family quite literally like had like this

520
00:42:15,679 --> 00:42:19,880
running vendetta and vice versa with like the local Jewish community.

521
00:42:20,039 --> 00:42:28,280
I mean it's it's like multiple like faded, like take

522
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,400
the path that he did, you know. And there's something

523
00:42:34,039 --> 00:42:40,239
I uh and the big fan of see Us Lewis,

524
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,679
Like I'm not into like total kind and stuff like that,

525
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,119
Like I like Somerset mom, and I like see Us Lewis.

526
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,960
And not to go too off track, but something both

527
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,199
of them right about, you know, reading between the lines.

528
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:00,599
It's about how like if you're English, like specifically English,

529
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:07,079
you know like these these kinds of like liminal and uh,

530
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:10,679
historical phenomena like dictate your life and like you can't

531
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,719
like escape from it. And I think that's really true,

532
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,920
you know, like it's not really like that in America.

533
00:43:17,559 --> 00:43:21,760
I mean yeah, like you can't like familial tragedies of

534
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,760
a way of like reaching out across generations and the

535
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,519
past is a way of insinuating himself into the present,

536
00:43:30,159 --> 00:43:32,639
like especially if you're from like a prestigious family. But

537
00:43:32,639 --> 00:43:37,079
it's not quite the same, you know, like in like

538
00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:42,360
in England. So like the whole issue with Mosley and uh,

539
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:47,039
going back literally centuries, his family's reputation as kind of

540
00:43:47,079 --> 00:43:50,280
like enforcers of the ancient regime like people in the

541
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,639
twentieth century. To them, that might have well have been yesterday,

542
00:43:53,079 --> 00:43:54,920
and they're like, you know, look at this son of

543
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,679
a bitch. He's you know, he's he's he's responsible for

544
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,639
the Peterle massacre in those two century ago. It doesn't

545
00:44:00,639 --> 00:44:03,679
matter only it might be a little bit yesterday. And

546
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:08,960
other societies, even you know, even even other like ancient

547
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,320
European culture is like they're not like that. You know,

548
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:20,599
there's something there's something peculiar about England and that that

549
00:44:20,599 --> 00:44:24,360
that really can't be denied, you know, I don't think

550
00:44:24,639 --> 00:44:35,599
but that uh yeah mostly was uh you know. And

551
00:44:35,639 --> 00:44:38,559
so this was they like the family kind of became

552
00:44:38,679 --> 00:44:44,519
this uh, they came very committed to kind of like

553
00:44:44,599 --> 00:44:53,039
traditional like English sensibilities, you know, like uh, they were

554
00:44:53,079 --> 00:44:57,199
cut off like despite this, despite being this family that

555
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:02,039
made their fortune an industry, like, uh, they were in

556
00:45:02,079 --> 00:45:05,719
this weird like market town. They weren't in like industrial

557
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:10,719
London or something, you know. They uh And again, like

558
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,559
the the the true aristocrats at Westminster, like wanted nothing

559
00:45:15,599 --> 00:45:19,159
to do with them. You know, in three hundred years

560
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:24,320
only two Mosleys were elected to Parliament. You know they

561
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:30,440
they didn't contribute anybody from their ranks to academia, Like

562
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,519
they weren't any Moseles who were like artists or architects.

563
00:45:34,559 --> 00:45:41,280
Like basically they they were a family of uh, of soldiers,

564
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:48,199
of parsons of uh you know, businessman who had good

565
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,400
hustle and we're been at making money. You know, this

566
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,440
very much like the middle class like backbone of England.

567
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:06,559
You know it's uh Moseley himself. That's not good, okay.

568
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:16,400
Mosey was born in November sixteenth, eighteen ninety six. His

569
00:46:16,559 --> 00:46:22,039
mom was twenty one year old Catherine Heathcote, known as Mud.

570
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,480
It was a very difficult birth. It was eighteen hours

571
00:46:26,559 --> 00:46:31,480
and it almost killed as it almost killed Maud his mother.

572
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:39,880
His dad was Oswald Ernald Moseley. He was basically a

573
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,000
functioning alcoholic. He was a kid. He was a gambler,

574
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,840
a womanizer. He was known for having a filthy mouth

575
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,800
and being something of a hooligan, like even even in

576
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,440
the middle age, like he'd get in trouble for brawling

577
00:46:56,559 --> 00:47:00,360
and just for you know, kind of crazy annex you

578
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,000
know that you'd associate with some kind of unhinged frat boy.

579
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:12,280
When Oswald Mosley was born, his father telegrammed basically everybody

580
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:18,119
he knew, you know, and you know, he seemed to

581
00:47:18,159 --> 00:47:21,360
be incredibly proud of the fact his wife had born

582
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:27,679
him his son. And in Maud's diary she expressed with relief,

583
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,159
you know that it was a boy, because obviously the

584
00:47:30,559 --> 00:47:33,960
kind of the purpose of the of the pregnancy it

585
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,800
was to produce in error. But other than the fact

586
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,159
that Wald Moley was happy that he had a son,

587
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,239
he seemed basically uninterested in his family, you know. And

588
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,679
like Oswald Moseley later he talked about his family, I

589
00:47:46,679 --> 00:47:51,000
mean not so much an idealized terms, but he'd insists

590
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,840
that he had this like happy home life, which it

591
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,719
seemed to be anything but the case. You know, like

592
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:01,280
he like his mom doted on him by all accounts,

593
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,840
but you know, he had this his parents from this

594
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:07,239
like loveless marriage. His dad again, it was like this cattish,

595
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,079
kind of mean guy who like didn't really have any

596
00:48:10,079 --> 00:48:15,320
interest in his kids, you know it. His father has

597
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,000
been a boxer too, like he Uh, he was an

598
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:25,559
accomplished featherweight boxer, you know, reputation is kind of a bully,

599
00:48:26,119 --> 00:48:32,000
you know, like not not a happy upbring. Mosley was

600
00:48:32,039 --> 00:48:37,320
known as Tom or Tommy by his whole family, presumably

601
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:45,760
to distinguish himself from his father. Eventually, the uh the

602
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:53,280
parents separated without uh formula again to formally seeking divorce.

603
00:48:54,559 --> 00:48:56,800
And it was understood pretty much by everybody that it

604
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:01,800
was it was well Moseley's compulse of promiscuity that led

605
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,800
to it. I guess Wald mose like any reasonably attractive woman,

606
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,039
like under a certain age, like he tried to nail her,

607
00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:10,679
you know, I mean that uh, you know, like I

608
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:17,320
said it, it seems it seems like a very unhappy home.

609
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,199
And Oswald Moseley himself, he was something of a compulsive

610
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,719
woman ezer too, uh, I mean mental of an inherent

611
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:31,760
inherit the sins of the father. Moseley's kids liked him.

612
00:49:32,039 --> 00:49:35,559
Oswald Moseley's kids and and and he seemed to be

613
00:49:35,599 --> 00:49:39,039
like an engaged father. But it unlike his dad. But

614
00:49:39,119 --> 00:49:44,760
he he he had similar problems with you know, improperly

615
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:53,760
you know, pursuing these kinds of extramarital affairs, you know.

616
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:06,559
And this uh like Mosley's mom, whatever her shortcomings, she

617
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,519
did like live by kind of like the values of

618
00:50:09,559 --> 00:50:15,000
the family. Like she was she was very much like

619
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:20,320
a churchgoer, very much a believer, you know, uh, very

620
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:25,280
much kind of discussed by the infidelities of her of

621
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,079
her husband that that had to be a weird environment

622
00:50:29,159 --> 00:50:34,599
to grow up in. I mean, frankly, I mean, I

623
00:50:34,639 --> 00:50:36,400
mean that that kind of that kind of infidelity is

624
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,760
gonna is gonna be hard on kids anyway. But frankly,

625
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:44,199
like most most guys who grew up with with a

626
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,800
father like that, like the mother just kind of tolerates it,

627
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,760
you know, and she doesn't really care that much because

628
00:50:50,559 --> 00:50:53,000
you know, she's somebody like Lady Bird Johnson was, and

629
00:50:53,039 --> 00:50:55,360
it's like, well that you know, I've got mine, so

630
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:56,960
what do I care? Like, you know, I got a

631
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,920
good life, and I got I got a husband with

632
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,960
a prestigious role. Like it's got to be very strange

633
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,440
to have a father who's a true cat and a

634
00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:07,840
mom who's like, you know, like a church going basically

635
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:12,440
like modest, you know, proper lady like I I'm sure

636
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:24,320
that lad some screwy psychological vagaries. But where are we at? Yeah?

637
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,480
I really don't like going fifty minutes, but I'm not

638
00:51:26,559 --> 00:51:30,920
feeling great. And before I get into most of these

639
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:32,960
wars service and stuff like, I kind of want to

640
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,840
save that for the second episode. Again, I'm sorry to

641
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,800
be abrupt. I'm just I'm not feeling well today. No problem,

642
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:39,760
not a problem at all.

643
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's uh do some plugs and we'll.

644
00:51:43,639 --> 00:51:46,199
Speaker 2: Get out of here. Yeah yeah, no again, forgive me man,

645
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:52,599
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