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I know I always say I'm excited about this week's special guest, but as you can see, I'm not.
I'm not at all excited.
Why?
Because it's not a special guest.
It's...
It's Dick.
And do you know why?
The gold price has been going up again.
Why am I not surprised?
I'm not a financial advisor, thank goodness.
But I think at this time, in these dark times, you'd be mad not to have at least some physical gold and maybe some physical silver too in what you might describe as, if you're ambitious, your portfolio.
Gold and silver, if you'd bought them when I first started talking about them, you'd have made a tidy profit by now.
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I'm not pushing their product because I think it's dodgy.
I own gold.
I own silver.
And in the form of bullion, I think you'd be mad not to have them.
I don't know where you...
It's quite difficult storing them at home.
I tend to go for the vault option.
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It's Dick.
And do you know why, dear viewer, I am smirking?
Because we cut ourselves off.
Because we realise...
We realised long ago that we can't pre-chat because we do all the good shit before we've even kicked off.
But you were just saying you were so terrified of being late for a pre-arranged podcast and you've just driven up from London and you must have come straight out of the car to the camera.
And you said, I haven't even had time to make a cup of tea.
And I was saying, well, you know how nice it is when I'm watching your podcast and you're drinking a cup of tea and I'm thinking, oh, I could really do with a cup of tea.
So I thought I'd make myself one.
I've got Adam's Ale.
And I have to say, Adam's Ale does not have the same impact that a cup of tea does.
If only Adam knew that.
Wouldn't have got into the sort of trouble that he got us all into, would he?
It was Eve.
It wasn't Adam.
It was that woman.
Yeah, I suppose.
It was.
Adam would have been fine.
He would have been fine.
He was not interested in talking to that snake.
And you know what?
I don't think he was that interested in sex until his eyes were opened.
He was just like, yep, that's Eve.
She doesn't wear clothes or anything like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Except, did you know that T... Particularly attracts...
What is it?
Not...
Not chlorine.
Something worse than chlorine.
What's worse than chlorine?
The thing that one doesn't want?
Bromine?
Bromine?
No, I'm just thinking of things that sound like chlorine but aren't chlorine.
What's the thing that...
Fluoride.
Fluoride.
How can it attract fluoride?
I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I know I'm right.
I'm right.
I am right.
It does.
It sort of concentrates in the tea leaves and then you...
Oh, I did hear about that thing.
Yes.
Yes.
Do you want to hear a story about my crapness?
Always.
It relates to this podcast, actually.
I've been in London.
I'll give you the roundabout route to this.
I've been in London to see somebody called Izzy Seedon.
And Izzy is one of those, she does natural health.
So we've done kinesiology.
You ever done that?
No.
It's really cool.
Is that when you move things with your mind?
Well, kind of.
That's telekinesis, but almost.
It's very similar.
So you lie there, or whatever, and you put your arm against your hand against your thigh, and then she says, right, just resist my hand or something.
She puts a pressure on you, and you've got to sort of fight back against it.
And sometimes your arm jerks out, and sometimes it doesn't.
And it depends on whether you're...
It does sound very familiar.
Either I've done it or I've seen it being done.
It's kind of weird.
It's like witchcraft.
In fact, it's kind of good witchcraft, I'd say.
So I was doing all this stuff.
Izzy is orthodox.
She's an ortho-cist.
Oh, right.
Or maybe she's a catatumon, I don't know.
I'll have to ask her next time.
Not orthopedic.
Anyway, she gave me this really interesting book by this Greek guy who'd dabbled with the occult in the 1970s and then his life had been transformed by going to Mount Athos to see...
Somebody called Father Pesos, who was this amazing, amazing man that one would like to have met.
And so I was reading this on the train on the way back, rather than looking at my phone, which is the bad thing I sometimes do.
But like you, I think I've really tried to cut down, because the phones are evil.
They just, I mean, apart from being literally evil, they also, it's the EMF, isn't it?
So I've been reading this book and reading about all these miracles and things happening, and then on the way back, I saw this man walking on the road, on this quite busy road, and he was carrying these two huge laundry bag type things, you know, those bags that are really hard to carry.
And I thought, I really should have stopped for that man and given him a lift, because it's the right thing to do.
It's what God wants.
And I zoomed past, and I thought, well, you can't go back now, because he's...
Because you've got to do a podcast with Dick and you're not going to have time to make up a tea or anything.
And then the other voice said, yeah, but look, God wants you to go and he could be an angel.
How do you know this guy's not an angel?
This is meant to be, this encounter.
About a mile on, I turned the car around.
That is so you.
A mile of internal debate.
And I'm going to give this guy a lift.
And I think, you know, he's going to think I'm mad.
And I'm going to stop there.
And I'm going to say, look, I don't know why God told me to give you a lift.
That's always a good intro.
Actually, I might not have said that to him.
I might not have mentioned that.
Sorry, mate, I saw you were struggling.
And I just thought, anyway, I go back.
And he's nowhere to be seen.
And then...
I look to the left and I see he's gone down this side road.
So he made the journey knowing that it was doable.
He wasn't making this journey thinking I was never going to make this unless God intervened and gave me a lift.
And so I realised that the voices in my head weren't God at all.
They were probably demons.
Just trying to mess me up.
Mess up the podcast.
There might be a little bit more of a message in that whole experience though.
Good, tell me.
It might be a positive thing in that not everyone will always need your help, but it might make you more willing to offer it immediately without considering.
Because he'd have just said, oh, it's all right, mate, I'm just down here.
Yes, that's true.
And it would have been fine.
So God was saying, get your reactions better.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get your act together.
Don't think about it for a mile, you idiot.
I also think...
That was God speaking, by the way.
I was going to do...
I got halfway through writing a sub-stack about this, about God's sense of humour.
And this was the penultimate time I went hunting.
And the thing that you want more than anything after you've been hunting is...
A drink?
No, bath.
You've done enough drinking while you're hunting.
It's the bath.
All you can think about is the hot...
You can't go for a sauna, that's crap.
You want a bath.
Ideally with some bath salts in it.
I'd been thinking about this, and all through the last part of the hunt, and as I drove home, I was envisioning the bath, and its warmth, and it's a huge bath that I have it in.
And I was thinking, oh, it's going to be great, and maybe you can do a few psalms of gratitude while you're in the bath.
And I got home, and...
Now, can I guess, one of your horrible children had used all the hot water?
That would be good.
No, God had decided that the hot water wasn't going to work.
It was just, just absolutely, it was just, it was just piss warm.
It was just, that's all you could get out of it.
And I've tried, I've tried the method where, have you ever tried...
Filling a bath with a kettle, with boiling water.
Yeah, I think you only ever do that once.
It's just, the bath goes cold more quickly than you are able to heat up with the kettle.
It's extraordinary.
Anyway, I think it's evidence of God's sense of humour.
I think he does these things.
Definitely.
So much has happened to us.
We tried to do this last week, didn't we?
But what was I doing?
Oh, I was going off with one of my swimming chums.
Oh, yeah.
One of the old boys I swim with.
Now, when I started swimming in Worcester 20 years ago, there were...
Three or four old boys, as there always are at our swimming pools, and we always get on with them, don't we, wherever we are.
Happened back in London.
And these old boys, I thought, oh, there's some old boys, just like when I was back in London.
Twenty years on, I am now the age that those old boys were when I first arrived, and they are now in their 80s, okay, or approaching 80s.
Anyway, I took one of these chums, Nick, Who is a very nice chap.
He's got an Aston Martin DB4. He's a very interesting, very artsy chap.
Big Bob Dylan fan.
And I'd been to see the Dylan movie, Complete Unknown, and loved it and was absolutely raving about it to him.
His brother...
I'd also been to see it three times, and he was boring him to tears about it, and he really wanted to go and see it.
So last Friday was my opportunity to go with Nick to see Complete Unknown, for me the second time around.
And I absolutely loved that film.
So just to stop you there, the reason we couldn't do the podcast was because you were going to see a film you'd already seen.
Yeah.
That is...
Hang on.
That's up there with my going back to the man with the bags.
It's crapness.
Yes, but we hadn't committed to the podcast.
I suppose that's true.
And I had already committed a week ago to going to see...
I did a good thing for a friend.
You did.
And we had a lovely pint afterwards and we were talking about it.
But Dick...
Yeah?
You don't want to get too fanboyish about Dylan.
What with the...
You've seen the Chief Commander, haven't you?
The Chief Commander video.
No.
Well, I know the famous one when he talks about having made the deal.
Yes.
That's the Chief Commander.
For sure, yeah.
And it's what everyone talks about.
And there were people, when I posted how much I liked the film on Twitter, saying, yeah, but I can't stand the actor who plays him.
Timothee Chalamet.
He's good.
Well, apparently he's a bit of a wokester or what have you.
They all are.
Yeah, I know.
So, you know, what are you going to do?
Never see another film.
It's like saying you can't like Michelle Obama because he's a man.
I mean, he may be horrible, but not because he's a man.
He can't help being a man.
He can't help being a man.
Yeah, so anyway, you actually enjoyed the film, didn't you?
I did enjoy it.
You said if you had a normie head on you.
I put on it.
You have to enjoy most of our modern culture with your normie head on.
Otherwise, all you're doing is looking for signs.
Yes, you are.
No, I was watching that film.
I'm completely making myself forget that he was probably inserted into the folk scene by the Illuminati to destroy it.
I mean, Robert Zimmerman.
He's a lifetime actor.
He was probably inserted there to derail the folk scene and its kind of protest against...
The injustice of America.
See, I hadn't even thought along those lines.
It just goes to show how being a conspiracy theorist ruins everything for you.
I love to keep one foot in normie land.
It gives you a layer.
Just enjoy it on a normie basis.
I'll tell you what.
What?
Timothee Chalamet sings the songs a lot better than Dylan did.
This is the thing, isn't it?
He was so good at Dylan, he actually became a better version of Dylan.
He was better looking, more likeable, sang better, and also the Joan Baez character.
Who again, Joan Baez came from an intelligence background.
They all did.
They're all lifetime actors.
It's like the whole of the...
The Laurel Canyon scene.
Yeah, yeah.
But this predated the Laurel Canyon scene.
Yeah, yeah, by quite a way, yeah.
Well, not that much, but yeah.
They infiltrated every turn, but it doesn't mean that one can't enjoy the movies.
Although, having said that, having said that, I was, coincidentally, about the time you were watching that film, I was in a pub, unusually.
Wow.
A pub I'm going to take you to.
Not least because...
The decorations include moustaches, because it turns out that the proprietor has a moustache like yours.
Okay.
Did you meet said proprietor?
I didn't talk to him.
Oh, right.
But it was a lovely pub, and it had an atmosphere.
It was by a river.
Where was it?
In Whedon, I think.
Whedon?
Was it near you?
Was it in Whedon?
Where are the canals?
Yeah, near me.
Okay.
And there's a good cider brewery there as well.
No, Napton.
Napton, that's it.
I've seen it on the maps.
Napton.
Haven't you taken this for a drink in Napton one time?
Yes, but not this particular pub.
Okay, right.
And there was a really good atmosphere.
It was one of those rooms where you go for lunch and everyone on the different tables starts talking to each other and overhearing each other's conversations and commenting on them and it all becomes like one big room where you all know each other.
And there was...
Johnny Cash was playing on the music system, whatever it's called, and I overheard this woman saying to her partner, husband, whatever, is this Johnny Cash?
And I said, yes, it is Johnny Cash, it's his American recordings with Rick Rubin, blah, blah, blah.
There was probably more information that she needed.
And she said, I like Johnny Cash, but I prefer Dylan.
Of course I do, you know, because of our generation.
And I was thinking, actually, that is a sad boast.
This is how controlled we are.
We are proud that we have been brainwashed and become these creatures of our decade, of our era.
Characters like Dylan are there to set you up and to lead you astray.
It doesn't mean one can't enjoy the music, but she was proud of having been corralled into the Dylan pen, and she felt it was something she should be boasting about, and that one should admire.
And I was thinking, that is normiedom.
That is how we are controlled.
We are...
We're brainwashed, we're put in our holding pens, and then we boast about it.
Oh, isn't it great?
I'm in my holding pen.
Well, I think it's accepted that you are either supposed to like Dylan, or understand that you're simply not bright enough.
Yes, and I hate that!
You don't like Dylan?
Oh, man.
I mean, I've kind of done this to other people.
Oh, but he's got this horrible nasal voice.
And I've had to stop myself because I'm saying, yeah, but it's not about his voice.
It's about the poetry.
And I was like, oh, God, you're doing that.
You did that?
No, not quite.
But it kind of is.
Okay, so take...
Hard Rain's Gonna Fall.
Now, you and I would both probably have first been exposed to that, the Roxy Music version.
Yeah.
Yeah?
When you hear Dylan singing it, you think, bloody hell, who's this completely arsing up Hard Rain's Gonna Fall?
I mean, for goodness sake, what's he doing to it?
And actually, it's a really quite dark...
Piece of lyrical work.
I'm trying to avoid saying poetry.
Is it about Agent Orange or is it about bullets?
What's the heart or is it about, is it shrapnel?
It's more surreal.
It's kind of like, it puts me in mind of Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
It's kind of like weird goings on in the apocalypse.
Yeah.
And visions.
Not fun.
No, it's dark as hell.
But it's amazingly good.
And you only really get to listen to the words when Dylan is singing it.
Because when you're listening to Roxy Music doing it, you're admiring the pomposity and the style.
You're not paying any attention to the lyrics.
So that's what I would say for the way Dylan does stuff.
You do listen to his words a lot more.
He ruins it for your improvement.
You're relentless, aren't you?
No, I'm not relentless.
I love him too.
He does poetry.
Through his nose.
Yeah, through his nose.
Well, we weren't Dylan fans, were we?
We weren't, no.
I've got to admit, I am now.
I've been playing a lot of his stuff.
Have you?
Yeah.
You'll be selling your soul soon, Dick.
Well, no, because he's relented.
If you believe him, he's relented and he's hoping to somehow dig himself out of the hole he dug for himself.
When I was at my last meet at Second Horses, who should I see as I rode in but the woman vicar.
The one who likes...
She's not a vicar.
I think she's what's known as a lay preacher.
Right, yeah.
A Catholic friend of ours said to me the other day, he said, do you share my distaste for women priests?
And I said, yeah, well, on principle, but I have to say that the two soundest vicars we've got at the minute in our churches are both women.
And one of them, this woman in her sermon, talked about how much she loved the sound of hounds speaking.
And she's just mad about it.
And so I wrote up to her and I said, hello.
And she said, I'm afraid you've got the better of me.
She's even got a country accent.
She has.
Oh, she has.
Yeah, yeah, she has.
You've got the better of me.
She is the vicar of Dibley that vicar of Dibley should have been.
I said, ah, well, I've seen you in church.
Ah, great.
And I said, I love the fact that you mentioned hunting in your sermons.
And she said, That does sometimes get me into trouble.
And I said, Johnny Wall shouldn't do around these parts.
Quite right.
Anyway, it was nice to see her from the vantage point of a horse and to help make her feel even more welcome in the hunting community than she was already.
Does she wear a dog collar?
In her role in the church.
I wouldn't have expected her to be hunting with it.
I think I have seen her in the dog.
Because I don't think lay preachers do, do they?
Oh, okay.
Well, maybe she's an ex.
No, what could she be?
I don't know about this.
What does Johnny Woodrow wear?
No, because he's quite low church, isn't he?
No, he wears a pink jumpsuit.
You should go to his.
He doesn't wear a pink jumpsuit.
And it's got a kind of...
Rainbows on it.
Yes!
It has!
It has!
Methodist or something?
He's Baptist.
Reformed Baptist.
Okay.
It should have been the Rainbow that gave that away.
Rainbow is more Methodist, isn't it?
They love their gay flags.
Yeah, they do now.
If you see gay flags outside a church, chances are it's Methodist.
I've got a Methodist friend who doesn't like it one bit.
He thinks it's a bit off.
Because they used not to be like that.
Yeah, well, they were the first to fall, I think.
A bit like Lucifer.
Is this going to get us into trouble with our Methodist friends?
I did a podcast this week, which is going out soon.
Maybe we'll have gone out by the time we did this, with Alex Thompson and his dad.
Oh, right.
And his dad, apart from being incredibly erudite.
He was studied at St. Andrews under the preeminent Greek scholar of his generation.
And he was the star pupil, I think, of the preeminent Greek scholars.
So he knows his Septuagint, or Septuagint, as I believe I'm meant to pronounce it.
I don't know.
And it turns out, at the end, he dropped this sort of semi-bombshell where he didn't think that Jesus was...
He didn't believe in the Trinity.
He thinks that Jesus is kind of like somewhere, I think, as I understood it, somewhere between us, you know, and that Jesus was definitely human, but he wasn't literally God as well.
Oh, that's a biggie.
We had someone effectively leave Thursday's circle because of declaring similar views.
Oh?
He decided suddenly that Jesus wasn't actually the Son of God.
Right.
But he's probably the best person who ever lived.
Yeah.
And I was thinking, well, does that, I mean, I didn't kick him out of the group or anything, but it was like a bit of a bombshell as a Christian to declare that.
But interesting, if you've got someone as highbrow as that, declaring that, that isn't just to be dismissed.
You've got to give it consideration and hear him out.
That's the thing.
I was, my response was, well, look, come on, you know your shit.
And you've studied this stuff and you've got lots of evidence.
And he provided the evidence for his way of thinking.
I was thinking, don't necessarily share your view.
But I said to Alex, the problem is there's nobody I can go to for kind of independent confirmation or guidance on this.
You can't go to...
Your Catholic bishop or your Baptist minister, because they're all going to come up with different...
I would like to go and see Father Pesos.
I bet Father Pesos would know, but unfortunately he's dead.
What, the one on Mount Athos?
Yeah.
Just imagine, you could have accidentally bumped into him during your trip to Mount Athos.
I wonder whether I did.
You might have been turned much earlier.
I might have.
Imagine that.
I... I think, my theory on this, is that God has given us quite a bit of leeway.
I think he's quite indulgent.
I don't think that he's going to...
Like, suppose Alex's dad is wrong, and that Jesus actually is God.
I don't think he's going to torment Alex's dad in eternal hellfire.
I just don't.
Um...
Do you...
Well, he'll probably find out sooner than us.
Well, exactly.
Talking of your podcasts, I'm always way behind because I don't get enough time to actually watch them and sometimes I just don't want to.
But the other day I was watching Johnny Cerucci.
Yes, who loves you.
Well, this is the thing.
He wants to be your boyfriend.
I'm watching this thing, and this American chap, ex-military, chatting away.
And then he suddenly goes, and I love your brother, Dick.
And he's like, what?
You've pulled.
Reenacting.
That's the way to do military.
None of that shit about taking orders.
And, you know, you just get to go home afterwards.
And I'm like, breaking the...
Third wall, fourth wall, whatever it is.
I had to stop the whole thing, take my headphones off and look around and kind of pinch myself.
It's really quite frightening when your podcast starts talking to you.
And I know we talk about our special friend, but this was literally talking about me.
And I wasn't even aware that I'd have ever come up on this guy's radar.
So, yeah.
Thank you.
It's Johnny.
And look, all the things I'll be wearing next week.
Well, some of the things I'll be wearing next weekend.
That one, for instance.
Got my big show next weekend.
Yes, well, I still think that for Pa's funeral, we should all wear pickle halber.
We've got his 90th birthday coming up.
We've got to get through that first.
He's going to be watching this and he's going to be rolling his eyes.
Well, I think I get special elder son privilege that I can say tasteless things because I've been around longest.
Right.
And I think the other five...
How many children?
Four.
Four more apart from you.
The other four sort of feel a bit awkward about this special relationship where I can crack jokes about him dying more than you can.
Right.
But we were talking about what he wants.
He had a health scare recently and luckily it's over now.
Or I hope it is.
We're hoping it is.
We're checking up on him on a daily basis.
I'm the one that lives closest to him, so I'm the one that will have to drive off and pick him up if he's fallen over or what have you.
What I realised was that when somebody's in the immediate aftermath of their health care, that's not the time to speak to them about what they want.
Yeah, but this is why I thought when he's in cheerful mode, where he's not going to die in the immediate future.
Again, you're cheerful.
That's when you don't want to be talking about your funeral.
It's a difficult one.
Yeah, but he doesn't want rubbish hymns played at his...
He doesn't seem to know some of the goodies, though.
Is he going to have Jerusalem or not?
I can talk to him about it, but I did give him this book called The Death Book, where you fill in all these questions, like, where's all my paperwork?
Do I want to be buried or cremated?
What do I want people to wear at my funeral?
What hymns do I want playing?
What sort of funeral do I want?
All of these things.
Have we done the...
Is cremation what God wants?
I've been worrying about this one.
It's kind of like a...
I'm pretty sure they invented cremation as a way of messing around with the Day of Judgment.
Yes, yes.
How are you going to crawl out of your grave if you just dust?
I mean, I think God can do it, but I think it's more of a hassle for him.
Yeah.
Somehow.
I don't think we're making it easy for him.
No.
I'm sure that...
I think when you look at the history of cremation, like you look at the history of any of these new things that came in that became fashionable, like vaccination would be the obvious one, or pasteurised milk, you realise that it's demonic in its origins.
I mean, death is essentially meant to be like...
Waiting room for Judgment Day, isn't it?
It's kind of like a sort of held in suspense sort of thing.
Your spirit is elsewhere, but it'll probably rejoin your body, well, floating around.
What's it doing?
I'll tell you what.
This almost brings us on to something I wanted to talk to you about.
I'm reading a book at the moment.
I was in my favourite charity bookshop, and...
This book, from a random section, I think it was biography, sprang out at me.
I read the spine, and I thought, that could be interesting.
And I bought it, because it was only a couple of quid.
And it's mind-blowing.
I want to show you the spine, first of all.
Okay.
Psychic warrior, David Morehouse.
Yep, yep.
So, it's absolutely...
I'm that far through it.
A 1980s US Army infantry officer receives a bullet wound to the head during a training exercise in Saudi Arabia.
And it knocks him out and he gets visions.
And he sees angels and he sees his dead friend and all this sort of stuff.
When he comes back round, he's got raging headaches and terrible nightmares.
Little by little, he ends up being shunted towards the army's psychic warfare department, and he ends up as a remote viewer.
And it turns out this bullet wound has permanently opened his ability to astrally project, or whatever it is they do when they're doing remote viewing.
Now, what did you think remote viewing amounted to?
Sitting in a room...
And concentrating really hard and going into enemy sort of bases and spying on their documents and things.
That's pretty much it.
And you can go anywhere in the world or outside the world.
They often work in pairs as a monitor and the person doing it.
I thought it would be kind of like a bit hokey and they maybe get a rough idea what's going on.
From what he's saying, they are effectively in spirit form in these various rooms.
They're on boats.
They're underwater.
They're up in space.
They can be anywhere.
In space.
Be careful there.
You lost me there.
Well, this is where it's leading.
I mean, he's got other races from other planets going on.
You see, this is why he's allowed to do it.
Oh no, the whole thing is about them trying to track him down and shut him down and how he broke away.
No, what I mean is, remote viewing is real.
They can, I think, go into enemy bases and look at documents and stuff, but it's limited hangout.
In order for him to be allowed to reveal this information, which is legit, he has to...
Poison the wells, whatever the phrase is.
There's a phrase where you shove in lots of disinformation, misinformation, in with the good stuff.
Somebody will put in the comments, I'm sure, what the actual technical term is.
Yeah, this is what I'm thinking.
The moment I mention this, a lot of people will be saying, oh, no, he's been entirely debunked.
He's still around and doing podcasts and what have you.
I'd like to do a podcast with him.
He's become a bit of a celeb in the alternative community, and he trains people to do remote viewing.
He said once you've learned how to do it, you can train anyone to do it, but he's naturally very good at it because of his condition.
And it messed up his life and he ruined his marriage.
And he was originally a Mormon.
Is he?
Hang on.
Wait a second.
I can hear my...
I think the phone is back.
I'm just going to call you.
Maybe you should come.
It wouldn't be a podcast without this sort of interruption.
And I know that he is not going to edit it out because I have sat in your position, viewer, and I've sat nervously going, what is he doing?
While the guests sat there looking nervous.
So I will carry on talking to you, even though I hadn't prepared any particular speech.
Although by now I should have done, knowing that this goes on.
But here he is.
He's back.
Did you hear that?
No, what happened?
I sort of got snapped at slightly.
Oh.
Only slightly, because she hasn't made the fish pie yet as well.
Right.
Well, you should be snapping at her.
Oh no, I did a terrible thing, Dick.
I did a terrible thing.
What?
I think I unplugged the chest freezer when I was...
Unfortunately, when I'm making bone broths, the plug, the thing where I put the slow cooker on, is on top of one of the washing machines, and next door to it is the plug for the slow cooker.
And I think what was happening, I think on a particular day, I was hoovering my...
Hunt coat.
You're so James!
And I think in my haste, I may have unplugged the freezer.
And I only noticed it today.
How long do you think it's been defrosting?
You know, somewhere I don't want to go.
Oh, you'd rather eat rotten food than...
Than face the reality of admitting that you've wasted several hundred pounds worth of food.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's all been a bit intense today.
I've just...
Yeah.
It's why I haven't had time to do a podcast.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to get in trouble tonight because my dear wife has just come back from work and has now got a cook as well.
I would have been over there in the house.
Obviously, I'm in my shed at the moment.
I would have been there at least chopping an onion, looking like I want to help, whether there's onions in the supper or not.
This is the thing, but I was thinking we couldn't...
We had to do it now.
I've got too much on.
I'm going to bath tomorrow.
Next weekend I've got my big living history show in Worcester.
Do come along, viewer.
I think that makes it...
What weekend does that make it?
Next weekend?
Look at my diary.
What is it today?
It's the 14th today.
Valentine's Day.
15th.
22nd and 23rd of February in Worcester at the Commandery.
Come and see me.
It would be very nice.
People will come and see you, Dick, because you are a celebrity.
People do.
I get noticed.
And it does my reputation among my re-enactor friends, the world of good, because they simply don't believe I'm famous.
No matter how much I tell them.
Yeah, it's a weird kind of fame we've got.
Limited.
Limited.
Deeply limited.
Limited and dedicated.
It's what you want.
I don't want to be walking down the street and accosted by every other person.
No, you only get it in certain very refined situations.
Like I get it at third Wednesdays and things like that.
Well, you would get it at third.
Yeah, that's what I mean about refined situations.
But there's still people who don't realise that's my thing.
There's people who come along to them and don't realise I'm associated with it.
I think your person should come back.
What person?
The one who sort of suicided themselves because they didn't think that Jesus was definitely the Son of God.
No, he did come back, but it's kind of like he...
A ghost of himself.
I don't know, maybe he will.
He's an old boy.
He's very learned.
He knows his stuff.
But, you know, leave it till you're 80s to decide that that is the case.
It's just a bit of a bombshell.
Do you think that...
I don't think...
If Jesus was human, would he have got the resurrection treatment?
Would the children's shroud have worked?
You could intellectualise it to death, couldn't you?
At some point, you've got to kind of use what Paul, love him or hate him, says and take it as read.
No, I don't see Paul as my authority.
I think he's good.
He's most of the New Testament.
He's not my favourite bits of the New Testament, but he is most of it.
Yeah.
When I talk about Paul, it gets me into trouble anyway.
Right.
Gavin gets really cross.
Gavin?
I was watching something with him the other day, and he was...
Which Gavin?
Ashenden.
Oh, no, there were too many Gavins.
Oh, right.
There's Gavin on my Telegram group.
He's quite frightening on the subject of Paul.
We had a falling out over this.
All right.
Not Gavin Ashenden.
There's another...
Gavin Ashenden.
You see, I love Gavin Ashenden.
Well, I love both Gavins, actually.
But Gavin's gone a bit...
Muslims are our enemies, and I think he's got it wrong.
That's a controversial one.
What, that Muslims aren't our enemies?
Yeah.
I think that the war between Christianity and Islam has been engineered by the rulers of the darkness of this world.
Right.
I don't see Muslims as a threat.
I really don't.
Especially when you realise that all the terror incidents are false flag incidents.
Yeah.
I mean, I say all, most of them.
I wonder which ones weren't.
I'd love this to be true, because, you know, to have common cause with them would be quite nice, wouldn't it?
I mean, I think they'd agree with your 80-something bloke in the third...
Yeah, that's the problem.
They don't do Trinity very much either.
Well, they think he's just another...
But then neither do a lot of Christian sects, like the JWs.
I know they're not technically Christians as far as Christians are concerned.
They were terrible during the pandemic, the JWs.
Yeah.
They've all been...
There's no point going on this one.
Every...
Every sect has been hijacked.
They're infiltrated.
They're all compromised.
The Mormons, wrong-uns.
The Catholics, wrong-uns.
But I'm talking about the leadership.
I'm not talking about the individual members.
And that's who we are.
We're with the people.
We're not with the...
And as we know, the people is the church.
Have you been...
You've missed...
I don't even want to escalate it, actually, by talking about it.
The people who've been getting at me.
Do you follow this at all?
No.
We won't get that.
Anyway, what were you saying?
I do a little bit of preparation for these things, just in case we ever reach a moment.
I haven't got a yes-no game or anything like that, but I jot down the things that I do want to talk about, because one of the things that was the reason we couldn't do the podcast last week, apart from me doing Dylan, was You were accused of being a coward for not enlisting.
Very big coward by the amount of feathers that were there.
And there was a missing chicken.
I'd taken to letting them out of their coop because they really love scratching and pecking around the garden.
They absolutely love their freedom, chickens do.
The more space, the better.
But also, Mr Fox...
With freedom comes danger.
There's a little lesson there for all chickens everywhere.
The moment we saw it, it was like, you know, your heart lurching.
Oh, no.
And there was poor...
Well, Mallow was the red one.
She was the survivor.
And it was...
No, sorry.
Mallow was the white one.
She was the one that had gone.
Myrtle, the red one, was still clucking around.
It's unusual.
It must have only just happened because it's unusual for a fox to take one but leave the other.
And so Lydia immediately went on the lookout to see if she could find the body, and sure enough, she went behind the shed, in fact, behind that window there, and there's a laurel hedge, and in this hedge was the pretty much intact but headless body of Mallow, and her head had been eaten off, she'd been ripped open, her guts had been eaten, but inside her you could see...
Two unformed eggs.
It was, like, simultaneously horrific and fascinating and heartbreaking.
And disappointing, because those two eggs could have been your breakfast the next day.
Well, they didn't have shells on yet.
You could just see the yolks.
One was small, one was quite big.
And it made you realise what an egg production factory chickens are.
And while they're laying one, there's more further up inside them, ready to pop out in a day or two.
No, she was a lovely chicken.
She was very friendly.
R.I.P. Mallow.
So, we took the decision the next day to spend bloody 600 quid on a walk-in run.
Now, they've been absolutely massacring our garden, as chickens do, as everyone who's ever owned a chicken will tell you.
They don't leave a blade of grass standing.
So we've got this.
It's the size of a king-size bed in footprint, but it's six foot high, and you can walk into it, and you can put bars across it that the chickens can jump on, and you spread hay around it.
We built it.
We spent all Sunday building it, and it is chicken heaven.
They absolutely love it.
We had to buy another chicken.
Now, they won't sell you single chickens.
They will only sell you pairs of chickens because chickens are social creatures.
They don't want people buying single chickens.
So we've now got three.
And they're called Heidi and Iris.
One's black.
The other is blue.
And then there's the existing one that's red.
And they're lovely.
And they're living in an absolute palace.
But that was another reason we couldn't do the...
We had too much going on.
Then I found a rat had eaten through my Ethernet cable that runs from my shed to the house, enabling us to do this.
I wouldn't be able to do this without a direct wire connection to the house.
So I had to dig a trench and install a new cable.
You couldn't do that, could you?
No, I couldn't do any of this stuff, Dick.
You wouldn't even know what an Ethernet cable was, would you?
Maybe.
No.
No.
It's the one that goes from your computer to your router.
There you go.
Nothing there.
I don't think it's right that I should know about these things, Dick.
Alright, I suppose so.
As long as you've got someone around who knows about these things.
Yeah, I just think it damages my creativity.
You don't have to forget something else to learn new things.
I don't know.
Where there's enough space.
Because I've got all these pulsing genius.
Pulsing.
It doesn't like any of the other stuff.
Do you not think you should get more chickens?
No.
I've got a 30 metre garden, as you know.
No, but you said this place sounds like a huge...
Five-storey gym type thing.
Yeah, I don't want to turn it into a squat.
It'll go from a palace to a squat very quickly if it's absolutely rammed with chicken.
I get the impression that...
Have you seen...
I watched this Polish film the other day and there was a scene set in a...
A Polish gypsy house, which was like a sort of concrete bunker.
And it was one big living room filled with gypsies, basically.
They seemed to like hanging out together.
When is this set?
Like now, almost.
And there's another series called, I think, Sabura, which again, the gypsies in Rome are like that.
They seem to be very, very convivial.
And they like hanging out together, all generations, in the same room, all the time.
Is this what you're saying?
Yes.
Gypsies are like chickens.
Well, I don't know whether the English and Irish ones are, but certainly the Polish and Italian ones are, so I don't see why the other ones shouldn't be similar.
So, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, just because you find it distasteful.
You might find the chickens were very happy and they wouldn't be going, oh, I don't live in a palace now because there's five of us here instead of three.
I don't think they're like that.
Well, this way madness lies.
It's like having two dogs and you go, well, why not three?
What I will say, actually, to any viewers and listeners out there who are still anti-hunting, you...
Are partly responsible for the death of Mallow.
Mallow had her head bitten off because of you.
When I put this on Twitter, the amount of people who immediately said, you want to get your brother around with his hunt?
Yeah.
Dick, I know you've been resisting asking me more questions about my hunting.
I seem to have recovered from my...
Concussion temporarily.
You never told me about the last fall.
Every bloody time you go out, you seem to compound a previous injury.
Do you know what the annoying thing was?
Neither of my falls was when I was hunting.
When you're hunting, your blood's up and you kind of expect it.
What were you doing when you had the falls?
Just riding?
Yeah, just riding.
Just got tossed off.
That sounds exciting.
Yeah, once I was doing a row of practice hedges, and the horse, I was just turning it round to come back, and the horse put in a little fly buck and had me off.
I was unbalanced.
And the second time, it was a connemara, and it just went...
They're little buggers.
They just had me off.
They just tossed me...
Sort of dropped its shoulder and threw me off.
But here's the terrible thing.
This is the really bad thing.
One of the effects that concussion can have on you is that it affects your ability to drink.
You're not meant to drink after concussion.
And I didn't know I was concussed, so the first thing I did was have a drink after I went to the pub.
There seems to have been some bad effect.
The result was that whenever I had a drink...
You're not a big drinker anyway.
I never drink.
I only drink very occasionally socially.
I started to work out that there was a connection between...
I was feeling sort of like trembly.
And just not right when I drank.
There was no warm glow of sort of bonhomie and jollity and stuff.
I just like this.
Even after a small amount.
And the worst thing was, we got invited to some friend's house for drinks and dinner.
And I said, well, I'd better be careful.
I'm not sure whether alcohol agrees with me at the moment.
And they said, well, have a cider.
Have a Naptun cider.
So they poured me this delicious glass of Naptuns.
And I had about that much, no more.
And I went, I can't drink anymore.
I'm feeling awful.
I'm feeling, like, anxious.
I'm feeling, like, not interested in conversation.
I feel withdrawn.
I feel...
And it got worse and worse and worse.
And that evening, as I lay in bed...
And I prayed for, you know, Jesus, please come and save me out of this.
This is horrible.
And instead of answering me and going, yeah, I'll make it all right, it was like he wasn't there.
I felt cut off from God.
It was the weirdest, bleakest, most horrible, horrible, horrible sensation.
Can you imagine?
It was awful.
It was absolutely hideous.
Did you know about...
The drinking and concussion thing?
Yes.
Is it a well-known thing?
It is a thing.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
It is a thing, but I kind of didn't believe it until it happened to me.
Right.
Well, let that be a lesson to all our viewers, stroke listeners.
Don't drink while concussed.
Yeah, I didn't know I was concussed.
Yeah, sure.
Because I didn't bang my head or anything.
That's the problem.
You don't necessarily know you're...
I thought it had to be like a blow to the head.
No, not at all.
No, I didn't whack my head at all.
And so I went on holiday to see my baby granddaughter.
No, baby.
She's five now.
Went to Thailand.
And...
It wasn't as hot as I wanted it to be.
Right.
And it was a bit overcast.
I suspect probably they chemtrailed as much in Thailand as they do anywhere else.
And love the ties.
Love the massage.
You can get a really good massage for, well, I gave them a tip, so £12.50.
Right.
500 baht.
Your niece is out there at the moment.
Is she?
Yeah, she and her friends.
She's fed up of everyone else in the world going to Thailand and not her.
Which bit she's going to?
She started off in Bangkok and now she's island hopping.
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what I learned.
If I were going to do it again, I would not go to Koh Samui.
Right.
Koh Samui has...
The time to have gone to Koh Samui would have been in the 90s.
And it's just kind of, like, the Thais are great, and the cuisine is good, although it's quite hit and miss whether you get a good, you know, version of it.
But it's not unspoiled, put it that way.
It's not unspoiled.
Anyway, the point of this anecdote, apart from telling you I've been to Thailand, was I couldn't have a beer.
Right.
That time in the evening where you want a beer and a bag, And I couldn't.
And do you know what they were all doing, all my family?
They were saying, yeah, let's go for a cocktail.
Let's go for a cocktail on the beach.
And so I was going to the cocktail bar and having to drink mocktails.
And it's quite interesting when you can't drink alcohol and you realise how much everyone else, how other people are imprisoned by alcohol.
Because everyone else, you know, they had to go and have a cocktail because they were on holiday and they wanted their cocktail to go with their evening fag, whatever.
Yeah, but it's kind of a prison you want to be in, isn't it?
It is a prison you want to be in.
It's an expensive prison, though.
Yeah?
Like...
If you're carrying on with your life and you're still going to pubs, it's no cheaper to not drink than it is to drink.
I tried doing dry January.
Not because I wanted to do what all the normies do, but I forget what the reason was.
Yeah, I'm trying to shake this cold I've had for months and months and months.
Oh, that one.
The sort of snivelly sniffiness, which is almost certainly more down to chemtrails than it is to anything that I've got myself.
But it's...
I thought...
Go alcohol-free.
Give it the best chance you've got to try and shake it this January.
So, it lasted three weeks.
And discover the joy of Guinness Zero.
I don't know if you've ever tried that.
Yeah, right.
It's nice.
Is it?
Yeah.
Has it got a lovely creamy head?
Yeah.
It's got everything except the alcohol.
Honestly, don't knock it until you've tried it.
Okay.
Fair enough.
It was an absolute lifesaver, because if you're having a good conversation in a pub, actually just having the drink there, you're almost fooling yourself that you're drinking.
I don't drink for the drunkenness.
I drink for the enabling of conversation.
So it was good, but I wasn't necessarily saving any money.
What I didn't miss was drinking at home.
That was easy to give up.
But the social aspect of being out in pubs, as you say, when you're with your family and they're all having cocktails, it's kind of like, yeah, it's a prison, but it's a bloody good prison.
I was very happy to return to booze.
I'll tell you what was really scaring me.
The thought of going hunting sober.
Right.
So I tried it.
And I got to the meet and it was a meet which is famous for its generosity with its port.
Right.
The previous meet there, there'd been fog and they hadn't been able to set off.
And they kept being given these huge tumblers of port so that by the time the fog cleared they could barely stay on their horses.
Anyway, there wasn't fog that day, but there were these, it was on a farm, and there were all these farm workers, young men in their overalls, coming round with these huge, huge glasses of fog.
And I kept saying, no thank you, no thank you, no thank you, and I felt so left out.
Because you're thinking, oh, I've got to do really scary things soon, like jumping over...
Fences and things.
I'm frightened.
You don't want to do that with your wits about you.
No, you don't.
Thank you for understanding, Dick.
And I was on a new horse.
A girl horse.
And I'd got on with a riding in practice sessions.
But then...
I started mentioning it on my Telegram channel and the horse expert started telling me things.
They said, you realise that a mare is like a stallion.
She hasn't been gelded.
She hasn't had a hysterectomy or whatever.
She hasn't been sterilised.
So she's subject to all the kind of...
The advantages and disadvantages of a woman.
So when she's great, she's great.
But then she can go all moody on you.
I was going to say bloody women.
And of course, it's exactly this.
I had to correct you, though.
A female horse, I think, is called a bitch.
I think that's the technical term.
But, Dick, I had this good...
She wants to jump.
Right.
Because there was this good moment where there was this kind of quite sticky rail.
The mud in front of it was quite sticky and the rail was quite tall.
And the people in front of me, the first horse refused.
And then of course the horse that follows sees the first horse refusing and goes, oh, something wrong with this fence.
That horse refused it.
I'm not going to jump it either.
And the third horse comes behind and says, oh, two horses have refused now.
I'm not going to do that.
So you then get in this mess where everyone's sort of waiting to see who's going to jump.
Jump the fence and give the horses their confidence back.
And it was my girl.
She went and just, yeah, I'll do it.
Which is always a nice feeling when you're a crap rider, when you've got a horse that can do it for you.
So she jumped it and shouted, gay!
And all the other horses.
She was just like, yeah, whatever.
I'm a girl.
And then later on in the hunt, I gingerly felt for my slow gin in my saddle flask.
Right.
And had a sip.
And it didn't cut me off from God.
Okay.
So I felt that I was probably okay again.
Right.
So that's good, isn't it?
So you're definitely over the concussion now?
Yeah, I think so.
Is it just a matter of time?
Or did you have Michelle help?
Well, obviously it helps having Michelle.
It's like being an Olympic champion, having your team doctor on call.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm probably too old for this stuff, but then I was never very responsible, was I?
No, but I think we're all doing things now that technically we should have been doing in our youth.
I mean, as you know, I've just taken up an instrument and joined a band.
And, you know, we're doing gigs and stuff.
And it's sort of like this is the sort of thing that you do in your 20s, not in your 50s.
But it's bloody brilliant.
And I'm not going to be told I can't do it because I'm in my 50s.
Yes.
And is the bass your instrument?
Are you happy with that?
Yeah.
It's...
I don't think it would have been calling to me had it not been the thing for me.
And I don't know if I said it in the last podcast, but the thing about the bass is it's not an instrument anyone wants to listen to on its own.
So you don't turn up at a party like some people do with normal guitars and, oh, do play us a tune.
It's like you don't walk in with your bass, which requires amplification for a start.
So you need an amp.
And they go, let me play you this.
Boom, boom, boom.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
It's rubbish.
It's got to be part of a team effort.
And with the team effort, you are only, hopefully, enhancing something.
It's a lovely team thing.
You're with others.
And I get a great deal of joy from that.
Do you find, I get that, do you find that when you listen to music now, you're listening for the bass line?
Absolutely.
It's all I can hear.
And there's good and bad to that.
I'm revisiting a lot of my favourite New Order stuff, and I'm just thinking what a genius Peter Hook is.
I want to be hooky, because he was completely self-taught, as a lot of bassists are.
No one told him he meant to do it all down on the low strings.
He nearly entirely plays up on the high strings, very high up the fretboard.
In fact, a lot of the stuff, he's on the very highest fret, on the very highest string.
And I've been watching his stuff and breaking down what he does.
The one to listen to is Regret.
It's one of their later songs, but there's a lot of Peter Hook solo stuff in it.
I say no one wants to hear bass, but they are the exception that proves the rule, because Peter Hook has pretty much turned it into a solo instrument.
Okay, tell me how the bass line goes on that then.
The first bit sounded a bit like smoke on the water, I have to say.
The song, you'll recognise it.
It's...
I would like a place I can call my own.
Have a conversation on the telephone.
Yeah.
Wake up every day, I would be a star.
And there's a bit where Barney stops singing and then Hooky does a solo.
And it's way up high.
Way up high on the top string.
It's just beautiful.
But I don't think...
Many people would listen to that thinking it was anything other than a guitar solo, but it's actually a bass solo.
So I've made it my mission to learn that.
Now do the bass for Perfect Kiss.
Um...
So it's the same as the melody line?
A lot of the time it is.
A lot of the time it kind of leads.
Yeah, well, that's part of the problem with bass.
You're either stealing the best bits from the guitar or you're mimicking the vocals.
The best bass does its own thing.
It does something unique within the range of instruments you've got going.
Have you been listening to John Paul Jones's?
No, I haven't.
I was never as big a Led Zepp fan as you, but I will be venturing.
There never has been a bigger Led Zepp fan than me, do you?
No, clearly.
They're wrong-ins as well.
Yeah, well, they probably are, I would suspect.
But, yeah, I mean, it's really hard, isn't it?
It's like I was having this conversation with...
What's-his-face from...
You know, the...
A chat from UK column thingy.
His name I've forgotten.
Brian Gerrish.
No, I was having this conversation about Brian Gerrish, about how he can no longer listen to Pink Floyd.
Actually, Pink Floyd's another one I've been trying to emulate, because that's another...
One of the things I found out is bands like The Pixies, really, really easy.
I mean, it's sort of like four notes just repeating in the same order.
And it's like, I'm thinking, yeah, she's up on stage.
Is it Kim Gordon?
She's a girl.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I shouldn't say it's easy because it's a girlie.
But if you want to get a girlie on stage, teach her a few notes on the bass and she can just add the sex appeal to your band.
And she does.
And this will have bass players everywhere howling, going, how can you say that?
You really can make a lot of enemies very quickly by saying bass is easy.
Oh, I think, look, but you can say it now, Dick.
You've earned it.
Well, I've been playing for less than a year, so possibly not.
That's probably not the same as most bass players.
The time I've put in, I've probably done more than them, but certainly the tips of my fingers have lost any sensitivity.
After this, you can go and make cheeses.
Yes, that is my long-term plan.
Artisanal cheeses.
It'd be great.
I do think you ought to consider some of the bass lines on Led Zeppelin, which are probably...
Oh no, they're meant to be more of a drummer's band, aren't they?
Especially when the levee breaks.
We're currently looking for a drummer for unregistered chickens.
Can you teach yourself drums?
How do you think that would go down with the misses?
I've got rhythm.
I'd love to have you drumming for us.
How good would that be?
But you know what our criteria is?
I've got to have some chickens unregistered.
No, no, you've got to...
This is Andy's diktat.
Leader of the band has said...
There's a questionnaire, pretty much.
And two and three are, can you drum and do you have your own drums?
And question number one is, do you realise the moon landings were fake?
Oh.
Because we don't want anyone in the band who believes in the moon landings.
That is such a good criterion.
Isn't it great?
As you were saying that, I was having a flashback there.
Do you remember at our prep school, Hillstone, that in order to join the choir, you had to do that horrible, horrible jump off that parapet?
Yes, it was terrifying though.
It was like you had to be hardcore to be in the choir.
I don't know who invented that rule, but it was really nasty because it was a sort of parapet and then you had to jump into a rockery.
Yeah.
And just the right spot, otherwise you'd have broken your ankles.
Exactly!
I'm amazed that it wasn't discovered and stopped.
Only the best made it into the choir.
We were both in the choir there, weren't we?
You were in the choir.
I wasn't in the choir.
I was in the choir.
We went on tour to Berlin and we made an album.
I came with you to Berlin.
I remember.
Because I was feeling left out.
Yeah.
We got to go through Checkpoint Charlie because it was pre-wall coming down.
We did a tour of East Berlin on a bus and it was the most grey, miserable, depressing place I've ever been to.
And we did actually see on the U-Bahn, we did actually see when you went under the wall into the East German side, we did see East German guards on the platforms, didn't we, with their machine guns and stuff.
That was very exciting.
We had American machine guns pointed at us and then...
Russian machine guns pointed at us, all within a few minutes of each other.
Of course, Dick, now that we know that the Cold War was just a fabrication.
Hmm.
Another lie agreed upon.
Yeah, but these soldiers wouldn't have known that.
They wouldn't have known that.
They wouldn't have been in on the game.
No.
Not the humble border guard.
No!
Well, that's it.
I mean, nor would all the thousands of people who got...
I mean, when the Gloucesters were...
We're facing the Chinese hordes, the bugle-blowing hordes at the Imjin River.
I'm sure they weren't aware that this was just sort of...
I can just imagine Captain Dellingpole in the foxhole saying, it's all right, lads, it's all just a psyop.
It's all right, Captain Dellingpole says it's just a...
I think it might have steadied the nerves there.
I can just imagine you got a faggot going, no, don't worry, just let him run past.
It's not happening, all right?
And you'd have bloody survived as well.
Somehow.
I like to think so.
Yeah.
So, have we...
I can happily talk, but I'm worried about you.
Oh, no, look, we've done an hour and ten.
That's good, and it didn't feel like an hour and ten.
I've got to go in, and you know what?
It's Valentine's Day today, and I know we don't normally look at that look of horror that's passed across your face.
It's horror, because when I went into town today, it was requested that I bring back a present, and so I did.
But I don't know whether I've done the right thing.
It's so hard.
I got a sort of chocolatey, cakey type thing and it went down very well.
Oh, okay.
I'm good.
I got a wild fig-scented candle.
Sort of thing chicks like?
I hope so.
Well, good luck with that.
I know.
You just don't know.
You don't.
It's like with...
That female horse.
You don't know whether it's going to jump the fence or...
Or buck you off.
Buck you off.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well...
On that note, we should probably leave it.
Yeah, and next time we talk, which I think the gap should be shorter, we can catch up with all the things we should have said on this one, but didn't remember to.
We'll always be playing catch-up in that respect.
Yeah, yeah.
We've got to keep it real, though.
Keep it real.
Keep it real.
That's our motto.
Yeah, we do.
Okay.
Right.
Bye-bye, brother.
Bye.
Bye.
Global warming is a massive con.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Man-made climate change is a problem that is going to kill us, that we need to amend our lifestyle in order to deal with it.
It's a non-existent problem.
But how do you explain this stuff to your normie friends?
Well, I've just brought out the revised edition to my 2012 classic book, Watermelons, which captures the story of how some really nasty people Decided to invent the global warming scare in order to fleece you, to take away your freedoms, to take away your land.
It's a shocking story.
I wrote it, as I say, in 2011 actually.
The first edition came out.
And it's a snapshot of a particular era.
The era when the people behind the climate change scan got caught red-handed, tinkering with the data.
Torturing till it screamed in a scandal that I helped christen Climategate.
So I give you the background to the skullduggery that went on in these seats of learning where these supposed experts were informing us.
We've got to act now.
I rumbled their scan.
I then asked the question, OK, if it is a scan, who's doing this and why?
It's a good story.
I've kept the original book pretty much as is, but I've written two new chapters, one at the beginning and one at the end, explaining how it's even worse than we thought.
I think it still stands up.
I think it's a good read.
Obviously, I'm biased, but I'd recommend it.
You can buy it from jamesdellingpole.co.uk forward slash shop.
You'll probably find that one.
Just go to my website and look for it, jamesdellingpole.co.uk.
And I hope it helps keep you informed and gives you the material you need to bring round all those people who are still persuaded that, oh, it's a disaster, we must amend our ways and appease the gods, appease Mother God.
