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Welcome to the Deling Pod.
Not special guest Dick.
Does only seem like yesterday that I was sat here with you, but I think the weeks are flying by so quickly that I actually lose track of the fact that there are many more weeks than I think in between our appearances together.
Time? Look, I think we ought to do many more.
I understand your busy schedule.
You can't do it.
I'm still worried about...
Your lighting is much better than mine.
I am sat right in front of you, you know, I'm in my my bougie shit Yeah, so I've got full daylight and four windows coming straight at me I'm just worried that people might look at you and think that's Lucifer and look at me and think that's Satan Because there's this sort of the light in the dark.
Do you think that's the two options?
Well, I don't want you to be Jesus in this option in this.
Okay. Well, I could be just an angel, you know Possibly an archangel.
But I'm a demon!
Well, that's your lot.
Which demon am I?
Not a very terrifying one.
No, exactly.
I'm in love.
A friendly demon.
One of the good ones.
One of the good ones.
One of the better ones.
Listen, you find me a bit discombobulated at the moment because I'm off to see Tung in Bristol tonight.
My favourite band.
And I've realised I don't have tickets.
I do have tickets, but In this modern age, you don't have them in an envelope.
They're somewhere in the ether.
You inject them into your skin, don't you?
I understand.
Something like that.
You have them, you know, on your forehead.
Dicky, bugger off!
Just, it's not, it's not time.
It's the dog hassling you already.
It's hassling me already.
That doesn't bode well.
Do you know what, Dick?
I've been treating it recently.
I've worked out belatedly.
The dogs get very upset if you leave them on their own for any length of time.
They do things like piss on the floor.
They piss on the floor, but they do other things.
When you get back, they do things like they go and get your shoe and take it outside, put it in the garden to show that they're not happy with what you've done.
And so I've started taking the dog riding with me.
No, not literally.
It doesn't go on horse.
No, I was going to say, how do you find a horse for a dog?
You don't.
I've yet to find that horse.
But what I mean is, I let her play around the yard for a bit.
And what normally happens is she goes, I don't like this.
There's horses everywhere.
And so I have to put her back in the car.
But the point is, at least she gets to go in the car and she loves car journeys.
I mean, more.
Well, because they hold the promise of adventure.
And, you know, it's like when I have to take when I take mine to the pub thinking they are so keen to come to the pub and then we get to the pub and it's like, well, when are we going home?
So we just arrived.
They are kids.
Yeah. And you can't give them a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps and leave them in the car.
Well, you can, but it's not good.
I think that they think of cars as like magical portals that you could end up anywhere.
Well, I suppose they're correct.
They are exactly right in that.
I mean, how are they not that?
And that is why they are trying to take them away from us.
Not the dogs, of course, but the powers that be.
They're taking away our magical portals to anywhere.
They don't like our magical portals.
They don't.
Somebody said this on Substat the other day.
It was either Mike Heaton saying it himself or Mike quoting somebody else saying it.
But all these roadworks, they're not really...
they don't give a toss about repairing the road.
They love potholes because potholes take out our suspensions and cause us hundreds of pounds...
I'm quite convinced.
There's someone on the council, probably a Green councillor, saying, right, next week we've got the schedule out here.
Can we have something on that main road because it's been clear for months now, it doesn't really matter what it is, but we'll have some temporary traffic lights there and a contraflow I think somewhere just at rush hour.
I'm absolutely convinced that's the way they work it.
I do actually have a friend, a Viking re-enactor, whose job is gang leader in one of these road fixing crews.
And the amount of power they wield.
They can shove up a traffic light anywhere for as long as they like, it seems, and it's sort of like...
Maybe they're adjusting a paving slab or something like that.
They'll close the whole road because, of course, far be it from pedestrians to have to walk around an object.
They will give over the whole road to the pedestrians before they put them into any inconvenience.
But the cars?
Oh, they can just bloody wait.
They're cars.
They're evil.
They're horrible, polluting monsters.
Well, I thought reenactors were nice people.
He doesn't sound very nice.
Tricky one, that, isn't it?
I was explaining to someone the other day how my world is very segmented, and it's kind of like I'm not the Dick Dillingpole that my followers on Twitter and watchers of the Dillingpod would know.
I'm unpolitical when I'm in my kit.
Only because, who cares?
I haven't got time for it.
But I think if I got into political debate with half of my Re-enactment friends.
They'd be horrible lefties.
In the old-fashioned way, when left and right used to mean something.
But to be fair to you, this viking sounds a particularly horrible individual.
I think he just possibly enjoys the power that he has.
Yes. Little tostard.
He does, doesn't he?
He just...
I don't want to give too much away in case it gets back to him and he works out it's him.
Is he called Thor or Olaf?
Something like that.
Yeah. They all do have Viking names that they adopt during...
At least I've never fallen to that level of having a French name when I'm reenacting, like, Marcel or something like that.
That would be a silly name, wouldn't it?
Yeah. It'd be a bit cringe as well, though, wouldn't it?
Do you think French people are still called Marcel, or do you think it's one of those names like Nancy, which is of an era?
I don't know.
I'm sure it must go the same with our names, where all the old names are coming back in cycles.
I mean, there are two grandmothers, Nancy and Ethel.
I mean, you couldn't get more of their time names.
And then Arnold and Kenneth for our grandfathers.
I can see all those names coming back.
I mean, Arnold had an attempt, didn't it, in 1968 with Arnold Lane?
Schwarzenegger laughs laughs laughs Yeah. I don't know why we're laughing at Schwarzenegger.
He's just like...
But there are so many enemies around, aren't there?
Yeah. Well, this is why we don't do Yes No Game anymore, because they're all resounding no's.
It should just be different levels of no.
I wanted to tell you about my Awful moment of shame, well actually moments of shame.
I've been doing things so shameful that I really shouldn't be confessing.
OK, well let's just fill the listener in briefly on the fact that I'm not allowed to phone you lately and have a conversation because you keep saying, no, we're saving this, we're saving this for the poddy.
So I genuinely get to find out about what you've been up to in front of several million other people.
So hit me with this story.
I hadn't been preparing this for you, but this was an insight that I had last night, and actually is...
I've had it a few nights.
The wife and I have recently been watching.
We've been plummeting the depths of TV watching.
I mean, almost like dick levels on a bad day.
Dick levels, I can't believe that.
Have you ever watched Reacher?
We love Reacher.
Of course you love him.
I was watching it last night.
Were you?
Which episode?
The last one?
Reacher beats up some bad guys and gets the girl.
That one, yeah?
Reacher changes...
Oh, and he gets his shirt off.
That episode.
I know.
This is...
Okay, so...
Sorry to all the old people watching this who...
I don't know what Reacher is, normally TV, and don't watch TV, and you're right, you are absolutely right, and you don't deserve this section being wasted on you.
But I was watching Reacher and hating myself, hating every moment, because have you noticed how, although we're now in our third Reacher series, The trajectory is the same in every case.
There's always, in each season, there's at least one moment where the good guys go to look inside a warehouse, but some other good guys discover that the baddies are on their way to the warehouse, and they have to forewarn them in some way before they get killed by the baddies.
And they hadn't got a signal.
I think I was possibly watching the same episode last night.
Yeah, but I'm sure I've seen that scene in season one.
Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
So, I used to feel happy that somebody from Birmingham...
Is Reacher from Birmingham?
I think so.
What? What's he called?
Not Reacher.
Not Reacher.
Reacher? No, no, no, no.
Where's he from?
West Brom.
West Bromley?
I don't know.
What's his...
The bloke that writes the books?
Oh really?
Is he from...
I think so.
I could be making it up.
But anyway, I used to feel pleased that an Englishman was writing this airport fiction for for dumb middle america and just making a fortune uh and apparently he's a pothead as well which which i would hitherto have considered a kind of yeah he's a pothead he like he's one of us and now i'm trying to get who wrote reacher by the way quietly i'm no one will know that i'm on the internet i deconstruct
what is going on wearing my awake hat Right.
And what all the Reacher books do is endorse, for the benefit of middle America, the military-industrial complex.
And they want you to think it's bloody great.
And there is no finer honour than to serve this system, which essentially thrives on gun running, drug running, and adrenochrome.
It's designed to distract Americans from this truth and make them go, yeah!
Semper Fi, or...
And to revere the three-letter agencies, so the ATS.
Yeah, they're great, they're good.
And there's always a hot chick.
There's a really...
She's sexy, but she's strong, and she's feminine, and yet kind of masculine when it counts.
Hey, do you suppose that Reach is gonna get it on with this season's hot chick?
It's a real will they, won't they, isn't it?
Will they, won't they?
I find...
I mean, okay, I'm not gay.
But even were I gay, I'm not sure I would find Reacher...
Sexually attractive.
He's just...
there was too much muscle there.
I can't bear the scenes where Reacher takes off his rancid t-shirt.
We're told he never has a change of clothes.
No, he doesn't like new clothes.
No, doesn't like new clothes.
He takes off his shirt, reveals this ripped body.
I'm thinking, I don't like your ripped body.
It's not sexy.
And even if I were a woman, I wouldn't find it sexy.
It's horrid.
You know he's a Christian.
Is he?
The actor.
Is he?
Hmm. Is he one of those Christians, though, who thinks that, of the 20 million Christians who think that Israel is just ace?
I've never seen him interviewed about Israel, but he is quite, in many ways, quite morally up to date.
Anyway, it's James.
He's Lee Child.
Lee Child?
Choiled. Choiled?
Child? Lee?
He's just a child!
Leave him alone, he's just a child!
I'm now going to click on Lee Child to see where he's from.
He's primarily, he's a British author, writes thrillers.
He's Jack Reacher novel series.
Doesn't say where he's from.
Oh, he was born in Coventry.
That's near you.
That's the hospital you go to when you have accidents and shit.
When I have equestrian accidents.
Oh, what have I done?
We may have to talk about my equestrian adventures.
I know you don't like talking about it.
We may have to.
But I want to just talk a bit more about Reacher.
So, there was a scene in last night's episode, which you may have seen, where, you know the lesbian one?
He's lesbian sidekick.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
He's really cool and she's a lesbian.
I mean obviously she's cool because she's like she's a lesbian and she's like she's like a man.
Is she definitely an established lesbian?
I think she is.
She's she's dikey, but is she?
I'm guessing she is.
I can't remember.
I can't remember.
Every TV series on cable TV has a lesbian character in it very prominently.
It's the rule.
Them's the rules.
So I wouldn't be surprised if she is a lesbian.
And so, the killers...
Sorry, spoiler alert, if you're going to...
If I spoil it for you, you bloody deserve it, because you shouldn't be watching this shit anyway.
So, lesbian woman is in her apartment, and yet again, some killers, some ruthless killers are going to come to kill her.
But she sees their flickery shadow or their reflection in the window or something, so she's ready for them.
and before they come she's about to have some food and this is important and we'll come back to this and she anyway she dispatches the killers and then she continues having her food and what's she having?
lesbian food she's having cereal right breakfast cereal yeah out of the fridge and she makes a cup of tea Oh, coffee.
Yeah, coffee.
She's American.
In... how does she make it?
In the microwave.
In the microwave, exactly.
So, this is how TV works.
It manipulates people.
It establishes norms, doesn't it?
What it is telling the billions...
millions of Middle Americans is the best way to heat up your TV, heat up your coffee, is a method that Irradiates your your drink makes it really unhealthy to drink and sends out microwaves all through your body and And actually cooks you um, but but no, it's okay because the lesbian on TV is doing it So it's it's and you like her and she's cool.
She kills baddies.
So it's great and she eats breakfast cereal as a snack when nobody ate breakfast cereal until about the 1900s when evil Seventh-day Adventist Kellogg, who is an absolute wanker, as they all are.
Wank is an interesting word to use for Kellogg, when he was dedicating his life to stop masturbation.
That was his mission, wasn't it?
Is that right?
Is that right?
Although, he might have been on to something there.
Have you gone down the...
...
masturbation enables demons to harvest your energies rabbit hole?
You've touched on it, so to speak, briefly in conversation with me, but...
No, but it makes a lot of sense.
I tell you, it's put me off wanking.
It really has.
I do not like the idea.
I mean, it's a sordid enough of a business anyway, isn't it?
You know, turning Japanese and sort of tossing yourself off to some...
Dim memory that you've tried to trawl up from your wank bank of memories or whatever.
I mean Or looking at Paul which is controlled by the evil ones You know that that's one of the first things one should ditch as a Christian.
So it's sort of like what porn or wanking porn Yeah, and yeah, oh the porn I do The idea of looking at porn now It wouldn't even...
No, it's definitely an anathema.
It's vile.
And the further away from it you get, the more horrific you can look back at it and go, you know what?
Utterly demonic and wrong in every possible way.
And then you can look at things like this Bonnie Blue thing.
Is that the one who has sex with lots of men?
Yeah, and she's just been given a Ferrari, all in blue, with the number plate porn.
And she's utterly delighted at this, and it's just...
Where did she come from?
Who's sponsoring her?
Who put her there?
And why isn't anyone asking these questions?
Did she even...
I mean, not that I'd like to find out, but did she even have sex with these men?
Was that part of the sign-off?
Either that or it's CGI, because she's made the money out of, supposedly, the footage of this gangbang going on.
And I don't know how they did it, or anything like that, or what form it took, but it's all pretty...
Not pretty, it's all utterly sordid.
I think...
I think I'd just like to...
A misconception I'd like to correct.
If there are any kind of people who are not Christians watching this, It's that when you become a Christian, it's not like you suddenly go, oh, I'm a Christian now.
I must shun things like pornography, which are the work of the devil.
It's not like that, is it Dick?
It's rather more nuanced than that, isn't it?
It's more nuanced than that.
It's a bit like waking up politically and Coming to the point where you no longer vote.
It's not like saying, I'm now an awake individual, therefore I'm not allowed to vote.
It's kind of, you don't want to vote anymore.
No. Because you've seen the pointlessness of it.
So it's kind of like one of those, one of the contributing factors that makes you a Christian, I suppose.
Yeah. Yeah, but yes, it isn't it isn't I must now force myself to it's like a you really don't yeah It's not like I'm gagging to watch porn.
Yeah, but but Jesus says I can't so I suppose I mustn't Damn you Jesus Yeah, no, it's just you realize that hmm Um, anyway, uh, how did we get on from breacher to porn?
Oh, I can reach his body and Briefly.
Yeah. Finish off the Reacher thread.
Yeah. Reacher...
It's the purest brainwashing.
There's a reason why Lee Child...
He sells so many books.
The reason why he's probably got houses in the Hamptons and, I don't know, Martinique and probably Smethwick.
One of the nicer parts of Smethwick.
Coventry. I mean, actually, there are some nice bits of Coventry.
I go riding near Coventry.
Right. I do.
Very near Coventry, actually.
Maybe he's got a house in Leamington Spa.
Here's something else about him.
His Northern Irish father, who was born in Belfast, was a civil servant who lived in the house where the singer Van Morrison was later born.
You wonder about the backstories of these people.
So, how did Lee Child get to sell in the quantities he does?
I don't think anyone who...
I mean, obviously, Murray's right.
If you know their name, they're in the game.
People don't achieve success on that scale without...
through talent alone.
They're given a helping hand.
Now, it's clear, knowing what we know now, that the reason that the publishing industry, which is controlled by the enemy, they want lots of people reading Jack Reacher books, because Supports breakfast cereals, the military industrial concept, microwaving your food.
Three letter agencies are heroes, they're your friends, they're just wonderful people.
All they want to do is save you from the bad guys and kill the bad guys.
And killing the bad guys is not a...
there's nothing wrong with summary execution.
This is the other aspect.
Because they're baddies.
They deserved it.
Yeah. Summary execution is fine.
There's no due process at all.
It's like Judge Dredd, but without the sort of subtle humour.
I think Reach is meant to have subtle humour.
Well, he sort of does, but his jokes are kind of single, aren't they?
Like the joke about the coffee that came out of the cat's ass.
Oh, I didn't see that one.
Well you did, they made a big deal of it.
He gets given, somebody serves him some coffee made from the poo that civet cats poo out.
Oh, civet coffee, right.
You must be an episode on because I didn't see the lesbian sidekick action scene.
I'm doing some great service to you, Dick, by making it impossible for you to watch the next episode.
Maybe never.
You know what?
It won't make any difference because it's kind of like, it's just chewing gum for the Half-asleep mind.
I watch TV for an hour before I go to bed, and it's probably just as well it doesn't make me think too much.
Now the other things I'm watching, I'm watching Silo, which you dismissed after an episode or two.
No, I wouldn't mind, actually, if you could tell me now what's happened.
Well, I'm enjoying that one for the same reasons that you are dismissing Reacher, because I can see the Mind control elements to it.
It's basically Plato's cave.
They're a population that are being kept completely in the dark as to their origins, what's going on above ground, and that they are slaves to a system which they think they have some sort of control over, but don't.
So what's the purpose of the silos?
In the plot, we assume there's some sort of post-nuclear situation where the population has had to retreat to underground bunkers.
And it's generations later and they've forgotten why they're there, but all they know is that they can't go up.
They can't go up and out.
But there are these completely self-sustaining silos with their own power and food production facilities.
And they've lived there for generations and generations.
And they have their own bible as to the founding fathers of the silo.
They're proud of the fact they don't know why they're there.
And that one day they hope to be able to leave the silo.
But they know until right now it's not safe.
And safety is everything.
So there's so many little pointers to today's world that it's one of the more obvious social engineering-y type messages.
So I enjoy it on that level, and I also enjoy it on the switch your brain off and enjoy the fantasy thing, the science fiction element of it.
Yes, you've described the setup very well, but you see, my problem with it is I feel we ought to have been told by now.
What what's really going on who's making the uber decisions, you know about about because you've got in the first season you had one silo and and everyone was told in the silo if you make the walk out of the silo you die and they had fake video footage of people dying as soon as they took the war.
Yeah in season two thingy girl hero girl escapes and goes into another silo and And lots of sort of Lara Croft moments where she sort of constructs bridges and...
Yep. It is almost like a video game.
So many things are.
And I was thinking, oh just get on with it.
I wanted to watch it on fast forward so I could see what the denouement was.
So can you just cut to the chase?
Apparently they have set it to three seasons only or something.
Have they?
Maybe four but...
It's not going to be like Lost, where it just...
there's a hatch and there's a tunnel and then it doesn't really matter that there's a hatch because there's a polar bear and...
Apparently they are going to finish this one, but...
I enjoy it for what it is.
It's kind of a Brave New World-y type thing.
It's another piece to the whole dystopia jigsaw.
As is the other thing I watch, Severance.
I watch Severance.
It's very stylish and I like very clever because it's stylish as you say it's it's it's sort of it's playful Even though you know, who's the guy who directs it comedy guy?
Oh? Stiller yeah, yeah every time I look at that.
I think oh god.
Yeah, it's him I mean we We remember a time when we looked at those films with Ben Stiller and the other guy who was in Ben Stiller films, and we thought, these are great, it's so funny.
Like, was he in Blades of Glory?
Oh, and Zoolander.
Zoolander, and all these films, which are still really funny.
Oh, Revelation of the Method as well.
I mean, Zoolander is totally, totally.
But the comedians, I mean, they are top dogs in the Hollywood hierarchy and therefore, presumably, top dogs in the hierarchy of top wolves, I suppose they'd be, or top...
What's a nasty dog?
Oh, um...
Jackal. Jackal?
Hyena. Um...
What's the dogs have you got again?
Beautiful dogs.
Lovely. Gently nibble your fingertips when you come home dogs.
Yeah, exactly.
Those. What was I saying?
Yeah, I don't trust the comedians.
And so anything directed by a comedian has got to be deeply suspect.
Even Ricky Gervais, who's almost certainly limited Hangout.
How could he not be?
He's a lad too far in.
Yeah, I mean...
Those award ceremony speeches where he gets to...
Eviscerates his fellow comedians.
He accuses them of being pedos, basically.
Shock, horror.
And I suppose that this is...
What's known in their trade as a humiliation ritual, isn't it?
On a kind of mass scale.
Yeah, but put them in a room where they've got no chance to feed back and put them in their best suits and make them squirm.
But yes, it's a humiliation ritual.
I was thinking the other day how horrible it must be to be a millionaire rock star I mean,
okay, so in theory they can get everything they want, but because they can get sex on a plate, their tastes become ever more recherche and recondite and kind of pervy, until they reach the point where nothing can really satisfy them except probably, you know, two-year-old boys or something.
So there are these perverted creeps living this life where they have to pretend to be wholesome and good-natured guys and fun and stuff.
And they're controlled by this hideously evil machine which, if they step out of line, for example in Gene Hackman's case, they will get bumped off.
Give me the Gene Hackman background.
Oh, so Gene Hackman.
You know who Gene Hackman is?
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, he was in, what was he in?
French Connection, I suppose, was his best one.
I'm not sure how recent it was.
I mean, let's say in the last two or three years, he gave this conference in which he said, look, they're trying to kill me.
They won't let me keep my money.
I've made 40 million in my movie career, and the lawyers and the Hollywood shysters want to take my money off me, and they want to belittle me, and I'm not having it, and I'm probably going to die.
So, when Hackman and his wife, And his dogs are killed or die in mysterious circumstances which nobody can solve.
And the police come in and rule out foul play.
I read the report in The Telegraph, for example, just because it's the one the wife gets.
I'm quite interested to see how Normie World covers things.
And at no point in the long article, which quotes the police obviously saying, nothing to see here, at no point does the article reference this kind of key press conference that Hackman has given, which is readily available on the internet, it's not like I had to be a top scoop to find this stuff, where he says, they're going to come and kill me, and here's why they're going to come and kill me.
It just gets ignored.
So it's like police rule out foul play in...
What you have uncovered is pure coincidence.
You know that.
And this is to be dismissed as just conspiracy theorist fantasy.
So he wanted out.
He wanted out of the system, basically.
I think, like a lot of them, I mean, like Bob Dylan.
He sort of yeah, it was tired of all this and But you you you can't You know, you can never leave.
Well, they say Britney Spears is another example of someone who whose programming is breaking down or wants to get out and they Medicate them or do whatever it is.
Do they do they do to them to the point where they are virtually insane and Start living in a particularly weird way Kanye as well.
They have controllers.
They have controllers who know the special words, like lion tamers.
They know the magic lion taming code that can...
There's a magic lion taming code?
This is huge if true.
But you know what I mean.
The lion tamers can soothe the savage beast.
Maybe I could try it on Lemmy.
Stop him biting my hand.
Well you can!
If you watch those...
Lemmy, get off!
Stop it!
You'll get my dog excited if you say it.
Luckily he can't hear you.
But if you watch those Cesar videos...
Cesar? Is he called Cesar?
Caesar? The dog handler.
No. Jim!
Your internet experience is very different to mine.
Jim, the rat, when he was at home being bored, just watched all the Cesar videos.
Cesar dog training series.
Yeah, and he can do this on dogs on on he can just like calm them because And puts his fingers like like there Right.
There's a point on the and it works and the dog is subdued.
You've got to show them who's boss.
All right Anyway, it's a bit like that with Hollywood actors.
And the other thing is yeah, have you?
I don't know how...
I love introducing to new rabbit holes.
Well, I hope this is kind of new-ish to you.
They all have wives who are not wives, but are blokes.
So, I was doing a...
Apart from Jamie Lee Curtis.
Who is...
She doesn't have...
He doesn't have a wife, does he?
He doesn't.
No, Jamie.
As if one male name wasn't enough.
In our wanking days, how many times would you say, we've cracked one off to, over somebody who was A bloke.
I thought you were going to say Jamie Lee Curtis and I was going to put my hand on my heart and say never, but yes, I'm sure there must have been some that we now realise were blokes.
Meg Ryan?
Is he a bloke?
I don't know, but his surname is a bloke's name.
And often there are clues.
What sort of clues does that give them?
I think, I think, look, I think one has to reassess everything.
When you go down the rabbit hole, you have to reassess absolutely everything.
I think your first reaction should be, well that's a lie, now let me think about what I've just been told.
My latest rabbit hole, it was a mini rabbit hole, but it's probably quite controversial and you've probably been on it for ages and ages, but it's basically a...
Do we really think that The very first biro in Europe fell into the hands of a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands behind a bricked up wall.
So I'm trying to talk my way around it because I don't want to be banned or hanged as a raging Nazi.
I think one of the reasons the diary became so famous was because they could read it clearly because it wasn't written in faded Pencil.
Imagine if she'd had a 5H pencil all available to her.
Or even worse, 6B, and it smudged all the time.
Or she was forced to write with pigeon feathers and turned into makeshift quills.
Using beetroot juice as ink.
But no, she managed to get hold of one of the first Ballpoint pens to arrive in Europe at the time So I found myself for the first time actually going on to chat GPT to argue with it to find out how likely these things were and so when you ask it things like How widespread was the use of ballpoint pens in?
occupied Europe in the mid-1940s Forties and it's sort of like well, they were fleetingly rare obviously and then it was like asking whether this individual Was likely to have had one.
He said yes, she mentions it in her diaries.
Oh, well, it must be true then.
Oh Yeah Well that settles it then.
Yeah, well, there's no There's no argument.
No clearly not It's awful, though, and of course it's one of the things you're not allowed to have an opinion on, because the science is settled on this one.
But it's...
I think there is more, yet more damning evidence than the stuff you've come up with.
Oh, I know there is, because someone gave me access to...
What's his name?
Substack. A historian.
Nazi apologist, so-called, but clearly not.
What's his name?
Great historian.
What, David Irving?
Yes, someone gave me access to...
Does he do that one?
There's a short essay in which he answers a student letter asking him about this, and he very cleverly says look I'm not discounting the dreadful death of this person etc etc but here are the facts as I know them and the reticence of the owner of the diaries to let them be examined by scientists etc etc and yeah it covers it quite nicely but it just made me ask even more questions
because you can get sued quite badly for claiming that they're they're fake the diaries.
I tell you what I'm very grateful Four.
When I was 20, my second year at Oxford, and I went on a trip to Amsterdam with my mate James Ferguson, I'm very glad that we concentrated on getting completely off our faces at the Bulldog Cafe and didn't waste any time going to any fake This is part of the problem,
because it's such an industry in itself.
It protects itself.
There was a time when it might have been disprovable, but once it becomes...
I mean, it would be like Disproving the existence of chocolate and trying to tell Cadbury's that chocolate doesn't exist and it's sort of like well They would surely they would surely fight that It's it's an industry.
It's a visitor center.
It's it's a thing in its own, right?
Are you trying to tell me subtly without obviously getting sued by the chocolate industry that chocolate doesn't actually exist Well chocolate is another whole Issue, but it's not quite as obvious as that.
I worked for the aforementioned Purple chocolate people and I lost my job there when craft took over So I'm not particularly well disposed towards them, but well when you look at one of those charts That shows you About ownership of all the different individual food manufacturing companies And it's about seven, isn't it, I think?
Craft is one of them.
Nestle, I think, is another one, probably.
And Unilever and...
It's like a big octopus of a chart, isn't it?
All ending up in Blackrock and Vanguard.
Yeah, exactly that.
That octopus.
Craft. Nestle.
Heinz. All the other shit you eat.
Yeah. They put, as I understand it, at least according to Jesse Zobota, they even put bits of, not craft, I mean not specifying particular companies, but generally the processed food industry, put ground up bodies of the children that they've used for adrenochrome and stuff.
What? Into chocolate?
No, not necessarily into chocolate, but into our food.
How? Why?
Because to taint us, to mock us, to get rid of the evidence, for a number of reasons.
They want to bring us to their level, don't they?
I put out a tweet, you must have noticed it, on water.
Do you drink tap water?
That's a rabbit hole in itself.
Now, we all know how popular water filters are becoming, but it's a very emotive subject.
And as you know, I go and get my spring water from the side of the Malvern Hills every week, and I pretty much just drink that.
I still cook with tap water, which a lot of people don't, and I know you filter your water, but it's a massive thing, and it's one of those tiny little routes to waking up and All the talk about what the fluoride does to your pineal gland and how it's another method of controlling us.
So, what easier way of poisoning the entire population, of just putting shit in our water that we all drink?
It's a biggie.
People really starting to care about it now.
Yes. You wonder why they bother with chemtrails when it's so much easier just to Oh, but it's every which way, isn't it?
If they can't do the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe, I mean, they've got it all covered.
What we watch, even what we hear.
I mean, the music I have to listen to at work now, because of all the bloody millennials who work, it's nearly always rap.
And I'm thinking, that was a psyop.
That was, you know, destroying our perfectly good musical culture by introducing this absolutely unlistenable rap bollocks.
I mean, not saying all rap is appallingly bad.
Some of it I quite like, but most of it is complete trash.
Ah, well, you must have discovered that rabbit hole.
The one about the ANR conference in the 80s?
Yes, yeah.
When they decided what we were going to be listening to.
What we were going to be listening to, and...
What would encourage criminality.
And by the way, we've bought lots of private prisons, so we're ready to benefit from this.
Yeah. Yeah.
Meanwhile, I have to listen to that crap at work.
I know, it's really, really upsetting having to listen to modern music.
I mean, I know it's a cliché to say, turn that racket down.
Oh, I'm just Grandad in our office.
It's a little, oh God, Grandad's off on one again.
And I'm trying to put on stuff that's vaguely melodic that everyone can listen to.
It's not like 1940s swing bands are in it.
Well, not all the time.
But, you know, I struggle.
In the end I just put my headphones on and either listen to another Deling pod, which I'm still way behind on, or put on some music of my own.
But that just means I'm there isolated from From the banter that goes on around me, but just soul-destroying.
Are you going to Prague?
Yes, I'm going to Prague next week.
I'm so glad that you could get in a podcast before, because it was getting ridiculous, wasn't it?
I mean, you weren't exaggerating when you described how it's impossible to talk to me because I won't talk to you.
In case you say something interesting.
Or funny.
Or funny!
Yeah, funny.
Funny is more important than interesting.
Yeah, exactly.
I just, I thought of something but I can't remember what it was.
Why did you ask about Prague?
I wanted to know why you were going to go to Prague.
Because I haven't ticked it off my list of places I want to go yet.
Yeah. It's just been on the list for a while and I'd like to go away around about my birthday in the springtime.
Four days city break type thing.
Cheap as chips.
With the wife.
Who doesn't like sunny beaches, but then who does?
They can wear a bit thin after a while.
And yeah, we did Verona last year, which I completely recommend.
And we're doing Prague this year.
It's not going to be quite as warm, but yeah.
Well, what does one do in Prague?
Well, maybe we should talk about this when you get back.
Yeah, but I mean, I would tell you what I'm anticipating is lots of sitting around in cafes, drinking coffee, watching the world go by and thinking, oh, let's walk to that castle and seeing what's in between the cafe and the castle, that sort of thing.
And drinking Budvar.
Well, I should imagine I'll be doing a bit of that, but it's not exactly going to be a lad sort of stag party weekend, which is what we're going to do.
A lot of Prague is associated with, or used to be.
This is what I've noticed, that one does get very boring as one gets older.
Have you given up anything for Lent?
I kind of have, and I've forgotten what it is, so it can't be that onerous.
I very nearly gave up sugar, refined sugar, but then I thought, I'm going to Prague.
I'm going to want to sit and eat cake.
I just didn't want to make myself miserable.
Can I say I'm so happy about this?
Because I always worry that you're going to be a better Christian than me.
Not least because you went to get the Ash Cross on Ash Wednesday.
I went twice that day.
Did you?
I went in the evening and I was the only person who rocked up in the cathedral with an already ashed forehead.
And I felt very unchristian because I was showing pride.
You are so not...
And pride apparently is the worst of the sins.
Oh, it's awful.
It's devil's sin.
It's Lucifer's sin.
Also, I did completely fast that day.
Yeah, no food for the entire day.
So a better Christian, hands down.
I might have fasted had I, A, remembered, but B...
You hated it last time you tried it.
You got all grumpy and miserable.
I did get grumpy and miserable, but luckily Izzy, Izzy who is a nutritionist who I met at a A thing, after I almost shat myself because I was having the suppositories, the cannabis suppositories.
But I met her after that, luckily, not before.
And anyway, she's been sort of putting me on this, on herbal tinctures and stuff.
And one of the things she's been, I'm trying to heal my gut.
And one of the things I'm doing is, I've gone gluten-free.
For a period because apparently this is one of the main things that takes out your gut.
It's not the wheat itself so much as the glyphosate they routinely use on wheat which kills your gut flora and blah blah blah.
Anyway, I asked her about fasting and she said to me, well, you might not necessarily want to give your body that much of a shock.
You know, you're trying to work with it rather than kind of I'm paraphrasing.
Rather than browbeat it into behaviour.
And also, she said...
Oh yeah, she said winter.
Winter's not really the time when you should be fasting anyway.
So I thought, well that gets me off.
Anyway, I went to church last Sunday.
It's my favorite.
I think she's probably a lay preacher.
I don't see how she could have been...
I don't think she could have been ordained as a woman priest.
How long have women priests been around now?
More than 10 years.
Yeah, okay.
Maybe she's actually ordained.
I don't know.
But the reason I love her is...
Earlier this year, I was coming back from hunting.
It was Second Horses.
If you're very rich, you pick up your second horse.
So you have the meat, and then you hunt for about three hours, and then you have Second Horses.
As I came into Second Horses, there was this woman standing in the entrance.
I recognized her as my vicar, or my lay preacher, or whatever.
She must be the soundest, the most hunting-sounding priest.
I think you told me about this.
You actually went up to her after the service the other day and congratulated her on it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She didn't recognize me on a horse, but she recognized me in the service.
Anyway, you can see the light of God shining through her.
She's just got that thing.
And her sermons are never rubbish.
They stick to the point.
They stick to scripture.
She never mentions Ukraine.
And so it was the first Sunday after Lent.
And she said, is anyone here giving up chocolate?
Put your hands up if you're giving up chocolate.
And a few people put up their hands.
And then she told this story about her friend who every Lent Puts her tins of biscuits away and doesn't.
And then she said to me, with music to my ears, she said, but I don't think you really need to give up chocolate for Lent.
She said, I just think you need to think about Jesus and think about what his life means.
And I thought, yes, because I do that all the time anyway.
I'm always, yeah, I'm always beating myself up and thinking about, whether I'm doing my psalms or doing the Jesus prayer or throughout my day, I'm thinking, am I doing the right thing?
Am I on the right path?
Am I pleasing God?
And I'm thinking, and you can hear I'm making excuses, but at the same time I'm thinking, so Who made this rule about, or who started this tradition about giving up chocolate or, in my case, cigarettes for Lent?
Did Jesus mention this?
I think the point is meant to be that while you are suffering because of the lack of the thing you've given up, you're meant to be contemplating Jesus's suffering.
Well, I did think about this, and actually there has been a voice in my head which has been going, 40 days and 40 nights thou wast fasting in the wild.
So that's enough, is it?
Well, no, I don't know.
I mean, I can see that I'm bad.
I copped out.
What I've been doing is essentially I've been missing out the cigarette I most enjoy, which is my morning one with my coffee.
And I've been denying myself that.
I think that's something.
You've given that moment up, and that's a moment, as long as while you're suffering, you are remembering why you're doing it.
And here's the key, and it's in the readings on Ash Wednesday, that I think from From Matthew, isn't it?
Saying that you've got to do it with a good spirit and with a smile on your face.
You're not even allowed to pull a face.
That's right.
You have to kind of make your face red or something like that.
It is in Matthew.
Yeah, you do it with a cheerful spirit.
You can't go in and go, oh, everyone, everyone, I haven't had any breakfast today.
I haven't had my morning fag.
I haven't had my morning fag.
So, yeah, you're not allowed to do that, which I think is a nice rule.
You've got to do it.
So I managed to stay cheerful for the whole day.
Come the next day, I could have carried on.
That's what they say.
When you reach that point in fasting, you can just roll it on.
You've broken the habit of eating.
Oh! You definitely can.
Yeah, yeah.
I know, I know that...
I've got people, friends who totally swear, totally swear by fasting.
For me it was a 50-50 thing.
It was 50% Christian, 50% health.
It's meant to be a good reset for your body, you know, you're meant to go through that autophagy stage and you absorb all the cancerous cells and all that sort of stuff, supposedly.
No, I think you do.
It's, you know, what have you got to lose?
My friend John Lysak Green, who is John Betjeman's great-nephew?
Maybe his grandson, I can't remember which.
Anyway, he's always fasting and he's absolutely Absolutely swears by it.
I think if you if you can do it, it's well the prayer and fasting.
It's what the Bible says, isn't it?
Yeah But you know, I think giving up that that morning fag is it's pretty good Yes, yes.
Oh, I've got to The book you are totally going to love and I will lend it to you It was actually lent to me by the aforementioned Izzy person and it's about Um, Father Pezos on Mount Athos.
Um, who is, hang on, what's it called?
Elder, Elder Pezos, and what's it called?
Uh... Um, a Father Pezos book and, hang on, um, Indian gurus.
Let's see, what's that?
Yes! Okay.
It's called The Gurus, the Young Man and Elder Paisios.
The Gurus, the Young Man and Elder Paisios.
And it's by a Greek bloke called Dionysios Phariseotis.
Right. Why is this a must-read?
Okay, so Dionysios was clearly the sort of young man that you and I would have found most objectionable.
He was an absolute godless lefty in the 1970s and he was reading all the books by the philosophers that we would absolutely loathe.
All the kind of People who informed the new age and all the sort of leftist philosophies and stuff like this.
And he was obviously highly sexed and just treating women like shit and just getting too much sex for being a lefty and really annoying.
But he was clearly on a mission to find his spiritual vocation.
He wanted to understand the world on a spiritual level.
Long story short, he goes to Mount Athos and meets this living saint called Elder Paisios, who is this incredibly wise and wonderful man.
I'd love to have met him.
He basically lives the life of a hermit and receives visitors and People can see God in him and he's wise and he's brilliant.
But ungrateful for his experiences with Elder Paisios, he then decides to put Christianity to the test by going east.
So he goes to India and goes to visit various Indian gurus, ashrams, and Compares the experience and I don't think I'm really spoiling it for you when it emerges very clearly that the gods being Worshipped by the gurus in India are
Demons and that the the sort of the powers that they harness These gurus, and sometimes unleash on their followers, sometimes use it to impress their followers,
but often use it to just control and suppress them, are demonic forces and completely antithetical to God and Jesus and so forth.
You come away from this book more certain than ever that this line that is pushed that yeah basically all religions are the same that which is a lie heavily pushed by the Indian gurus you know they're all they're all ultimately they're all about the same truth now it just ain't the case that there are goodies and baddies in this and and the Christian God is is the right one.
You'll feel Okay, so it's on the list.
I've got to finish Our Friends Beneath the Sand, first of all.
Is that about worms?
No. Have a think about what that might be.
our friends It's quite blurred.
Oh! Oh, dick.
What do you think it might be about?
I like your kepi.
It's THE book about the French Foreign Legion.
Is it?
It's the must-read.
It covers from its inception to all the...
1870 to 1935, the French Foreign Legion in France's colonial conquest.
It's a massive tome.
Would you like to have been in La Légion Etrangère?
No. It would have been torture.
It would have been sheer hell.
Your French might have been improved, though.
Yeah, you're forced to learn it in a very particular way.
But, um...
Oui! Oui!
Commando! It would have toughened me up, definitely.
I'd definitely be a harder man than I am.
But that's a very low bar.
But you'd get to get that...
wear that hat.
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, and I'd get to spend the rest of my life boring people about my time in the Legion.
You would.
You absolutely would.
Which has got to be worth it.
I'm just going to get the white cover.
going to get the white cover.
Oh, you've got the white cover!
Oh! No, no, go away, dog!
No, no, no, it's so boring!
It actually buttons in a lot better than that, but that's what it initially was.
You can see where the buttons and everything is.
It wasn't initially a white kepi, it was a white cover over the standard issue 1882 kepi.
Is that canvas?
It's kind of like a coarse cotton.
Right. Like a linen.
And is it realistic having it that white?
It just looks whiter on this screen because of the light coming in, but it is very white and it's going to be sun bleached as well.
Yeah. So, yeah.
I wonder if the Arabs could pick you out with that white?
I don't think there was any attempt at camouflage being made at that point.
Probably not, probably not.
Especially in the early days they were still with the chassepot, which made a lot of smoke when they fired it.
It wasn't until the Lebel came in at the end of the century that they were able to fire without smoke.
But when you consider they were wearing blue greatcoats, okay, white trousers over their red trousers, or instead of, but By and large, they weren't exactly in desert camouflage as we would know it.
But I suppose they were in forts, weren't they?
Hm? Weren't they in forts?
Yeah, but you know, they had famous long marches, didn't they?
They did?
Yeah. Were there any famous...
I mean, Dien Bien Phu, I imagine the French Foreign Legion appeared, but yes, of course they did, because they even had XSS.
They famously got massacred in...
The early occupation of Vietnam by the Japanese and they were all beheaded and horrific battles and Tonkin and all sorts of stuff in the Far East.
Their song, Le Boudin, talks about their great, not victories so much as great moments of battle.
When they got really trashed?
Yeah. But, you know, we're talking about one Frenchman for every 30 Japs, so we're talking, you know, like they held their own before they got overwhelmed and the Japanese were so furious that they didn't surrender that they beheaded every one of them, or bayoneted them.
It would have been a horrific life, you know, not very comfortable and then a nasty death.
Yes, exactly.
But glorious, of course.
Yeah, if one still believes in, sort of, um...
Well, this is it.
Hang on one moment.
...
the old lie.
Part of the problem for my reenactment hobby is I now have to live even more of a lie than I thought I was.
I used to be pretending to do something that I thought would be amazing, and now I'm pretending to do something that I know was pretending as well.
Yes, exactly.
All wars are rich man's tricks, aren't they?
Yeah. I think, probably without exception, there would be no need for war.
Wars wouldn't happen.
Nope. And, you know, my interest in reenactment is not necessarily in the historical engagement.
It's always been about the kit and the men and the, you know, what they would have had to go through for whatever reason.
You know, it's a whether or not they are doing it a part of a lie And whether or not they were they had a righteous cause it's just Fascinating.
Yeah, and it always will be I've got two more tips for you.
Yeah one French Foreign Legion related.
Yeah a film 1999 it was made called bon travail Right.
Beau Travail by a woman director called Claire Denis.
And it's about the French Polynesian in Djibouti.
Right. It's sort of homoerotic without being gay.
You're not there going, why does he have to be so gay?
You're just thinking this is a homoerotic film.
But it's quite good.
Okay. It's based on Billy Budd.
Um, if you know what that is.
Anyway, there's that.
And the other thing, which I'm only halfway through, because I got interrupted, because I'm now reading The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lamperzusa, which is another good book.
Um, um, have you read that one?
Have I what?
Um, Murakami.
What's this, a book of film?
Haruki Murakami.
He's just this Japanese author that I think you might like.
He writes like you wouldn't expect a Japanese author that you haven't heard of before to write.
You'd think, oh, blimey, it's going to be arthouse and difficult and kind of obscure.
I mean, it's odd, but he's got a very, very...
I mean, obviously, I haven't read it in Japanese, but I'm assuming the translation is representative of his style.
Very, very, very digestible and interesting.
Just charming.
And the reason I mention him is because the first of his books I've read, I'm only halfway through, is called The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
And there are lots of scenes, or quite a few scenes, from World War II featuring Japanese soldiers On fronts that you never thought about before, like fighting the Russians in Siberia, Manchuria. Yeah, that's a whole rich source of obscure reenactment for my group.
They want to do the Russo-Chinese wars.
That would be good, wouldn't it?
No, you can guarantee you'll be the only person turning up to the event in that uniform.
But I'll tell you what it does.
It completely shifts your perspective on...
because we've been reared to think of the Japanese being just devils, evil, just wipe them all out because they never surrender.
You know, even when they're almost dead, they've got a grenade underneath them to take you with them and they're horrid and they're just fighting, dying for the Emperor, going Banzai and...
Exactly, and torturing prisoners and then killing them and etc etc.
And you think about it, you watch like Midnight Diner.
Have you ever seen Midnight Diner?
Nope. Oh, Midnight Diner, the charming, you can find it on Netflix, a charming series about a man who runs a midnight diner, which only opens at midnight, and it caters to all the kind of the Tokyo characters who like their noodles, you know, in the small hours of the morning or whatever, and all that, and it's gentle.
And you think, well, how could the country that produced this and these people and this behavior, how do you reconcile that with...
Yeah, it is a tough one, that, isn't it?
And you realize that maybe...
I'm sure there was a lot of truth, and the Japanese were horrible to fight, and they were fanatical and stuff, but at the same time, when you read Murakami's account, you realize that...
They were humans Just like us remember the discipline was worse, you know, whoever it's very it's a very interesting Experience reading about the Japanese fighting man in World War two from the Japanese perspective.
Mm-hmm No, I'd like that.
I Think you'd like it.
It's also about it's about other things as well It's about apparently Murakami is obsessed with lost cats.
All his books have lost cats in them and wells Being stuck down wells and what it's like being inside a well and Random Yeah, yeah, it's it's I mean it is quite Japanese, but it but it's readable So those are my tips right that's good.
Hmm Well, that's that's my next year's reading sewn up.
Yeah, I'm doing just Get get the the elder pays us pay pays us One.
I think you'll love it.
Right. This is on top of my still plowing through the Bible for the second time in a much more readable version.
Oh! Today I had Deuteronomy 20 and 21 which is the really hardcore bit about how to conduct warfare and what to do with unruly children.
Basically you have them stoned.
I don't remember that!
You know, Deuteronomy essentially is a rehash of Leviticus, isn't it?
It's kind of like laying down the law.
Certainly the middle section is.
But the bit that says about if you are going to war with the territories which I will give you, and you've killed all the men, obviously, and then maybe you see a woman that you like the look of, these are the rules if you want to take her as your wife.
She must shave her head, then she can live with you for a fortnight, mourning her parents, which presumably you've killed, and then you may go in unto her, And make her your wife.
But if you're not satisfied, you've got to turf her out, there and then.
But, you're not allowed to sell her as a slave, because you've defiled her.
Now that's like...
that's a pretty barbaric rule.
I mean, I know it's making it all very clear what you can and can't do, but it's just so harsh.
This is...
obviously this is a subject of...
Whole other series of podcasts with somebody knows what they're talking.
Yeah. I know I realize it's what that it's what the non-christians It's I know it's what they use against us.
They do Like a laser they focus on these But missing the point that we're not all about the Old Testament That's why we had a New Testament to believe us of all this yeah this stuff I think yes Somebody did explain to me once Why all this happens?
It's an interesting subject.
How God behaves.
He's sometimes quite...
Uncompromising? Yeah, he's quite uncompromising.
And you think, what?
Come on, that's not fair.
Or nice.
If you're supposed to be...
A loving, forgiving God.
If you're just.
Is this really just...
But... I think this is one of the difficult things people don't quite accept in this universalist world.
Is that the word I'm looking for?
God has favourites.
He does.
You read the Bible...
He is not who people think he is or want him to be in almost any way.
Which is why you always get thrown curved balls.
He never lets me win the lottery, but he might let me have little wins in life.
And if I ever do win the lottery, it's because I'm ready to give the whole thing away the moment I win it.
Which is not where I am just yet.
I'll tell you who he doesn't like.
Go on.
He doesn't like Edomites.
No! Or any of that lot.
What are the other tribes around the Edomites, the Canaanites?
The Canaanites, yeah, all of them.
He's got no time for them.
He's completely had it with them, in fact.
There's the line in Psalm 137, which people have great difficulties with.
children of Edom wasted with misery um how did I go um um Something like blessed are on the spot now blessed are they that It's about dashing that dashing their children ahead the children's heads against the stones.
Mm-hmm And then it and the psalm seems to suggest that it's a An okay thing to do.
Yeah, and you're thinking how the Psalms that's what like Their children.
Yeah It's a tough one.
No one said this thing was going to be easy.
I'll take up Christianity.
It's a breeze.
Really easy.
But it makes you think about who are the descendants of the children of Edom.
That's a rabbit hole.
I mean, I think it's possible that one of the things that the Edomites became is the Phoenicians.
Right. And also, I think the Khazarians as well, possibly, quite likely to be Edomites.
So what we're saying here is a whole massive problem could have been avoided had God's Word been obeyed in the first time round.
Well, I think that is kind of, yeah, that's the counterfactual, isn't it?
That maybe God knew what he was doing.
Maybe. It's a bit like getting rid of the Nephilim and, you know, sort of making sure they were completely wiped off the face of the earth, but never quite worked out.
No, no.
So what it means is we've got a whole heap of misery and suffering ahead of us.
I mean, you know, setting aside the fact that the hunting season is over, which is difficult enough to bear, Right.
But I think there's going to be a lot worse.
A lot worse than that to come!
Even worse than that, yeah.
Well, on that happy note, I've got to now find out if I can work out where my tickets for this I don't like this modern world.
I prefer the time when we have tickets.
It's so long ago since I listened to music.
Yeah? I've forgotten what our favourite tongue tracks are.
Bullets. We're catching bullets in our teeth.
Hard to do, but they taste sweet.
That's possibly the standout track, but I've got lots and lots that I...
But that album, there's lots of good tracks on it.
Yeah, yeah, that's possibly the standout album.
But their new stuff's great.
I love it.
And I'm looking forward to transporting myself back just for a few hours.
Do you think they're down the rubber hole?
No. I doubt it very much.
Hardly anybody is.
I'll tell you who is.
Yeah? Headflux.
Do you ever listen to Headflux?
I'm really glad he's down the rabbit hole, but I haven't heard of him.
No, well you might.
Electronic music, but okay.
Go to headflux.co.uk or.com.
Anyway, I had him on the podcast the other day.
All right.
Has that gone out yet?
No, it hasn't.
You're really going to like it.
So I'll just tell you quickly the amusing story before we go.
Go on.
So, um, I, I have my little helpers, um, Venetia and Andrew, and they find me, you know, they sometimes book, Venetia books me my characters for my, for my next podcast.
And I'm very last minute, as you know, so I'll look, and I, who's this guy that I'm doing today?
Stephen Young.
And, um, Andrew.
He said, oh, he's called Head Flux and it gives me his website.
And so I go to Head Flux's website and I listen to the music.
I think this is great.
Yeah. Maybe he's going to talk to me about 440 versus 432 and stuff like that.
So that's good.
And then I found an essay he'd written about sine waves and I thought, yeah, we can talk about sine waves and 432.
Anyway, I start the podcast and I say, yes, Stephen.
I really love your music.
I think in my career as a music critic, I must have got off my face, off my tits, on E, listening to your music.
Maybe I even saw you.
And he looks at me and he goes, oh, you want to talk to me about my music, do you?
He said, most people who do podcasts with me want to talk to me about my book.
And I go, oh, you've written a book, have you?
And it turns out that he's a guy I've been, people have been raving about him and I just, and I've wanted him on for a very long time.
He was a theoretical physicist.
He was doing his PhD in putting numbers into a computer and then two weeks later another number would come out and it's all sort of, you know.
And he suddenly realized during the pandemic or whatever, That what if everything I've been learning is bollocks?
What if what if all that Schrodinger's cat is bollocks?
What if Einstein is bollocks?
What if and he realized that it is bollocks and so His the foundations of his of his old world collapsed as he embraced the new world So he talks about this and he talks about the moon landings and and space and flat earth From the perspective of somebody who absolutely knows all the stuff about Newton's,
you know, third law or whatever, and Einstein, and what E equals MC squared actually means, and he can describe what Schrödinger's cat is and how it works, or how it doesn't work, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
But he's one of us.
He's changed sides.
Well, that's definitely one to look forward to.
Really good.
On the music front, before we go, if our listeners are considering, and they should, going to the Stand in the Light festival in Cumbria, they can get a 10% discount, which reflects very well personally on me, because it goes towards us getting some sort of fee.
Unregistered chickens are playing there, and they can get discounted tickets for an already Cheapest chips festival at 80 quid for like four or five days by using the code chickens 10 You get your 10% discount for that.
So you should definitely look into the stand in the light festival it's a fantastic festival full of very awake people and lots of homeschooling and raw milk and honey remedies and all sorts of weird esoteric stuff and Yeah, you should do that And a chance to see us and our new stuff.
We're really coming on.
We've got some fantastic songs now, brother.
We've got a good new one called Semi-Skimmed People, which is just a great title in itself.
Do they have original tunes and stuff?
Who? Are the songs set to tunes that we know already?
No, all our stuff's original, except for the one Dylan song we do.
That's really good.
I think you should cut out the Dylan song because it is a psyop.
Right, maybe that's our hook to get people in.
Anyway, it's staying in for the time being.
I'm really glad that you were able to advertise your gig.
I'm really glad I remembered to do it just at the last minute.
Really good.
When is the festival?
You'll have to look it up.
Just look up, stand in the light.
It's this side of summer and it's in the Lake District.
It's an absolutely beautiful part of the country.
This side of summer?
You know how Christmas comes racing towards you?
After the summer?
Summer comes racing towards you after you emerge from the winter, doesn't it?
No, it all happens way too quickly.
OK, I've got it written down.
The weekend of the 23rd, 24th, 25th of May.
And 26, because it's a May bank holiday, basically.
That's not so far away.
It's scarily far away when you need a few more rehearsals, but yeah, it's still time to book.
You will not regret coming along, even if it wasn't for unregistered chickens.
It is a bloody fantastic festival, really, really good people.
Can you imagine the cafe only does raw milk?
You know, for your tea and coffee.
That's fantastic.
That little factoid alone almost makes it worth its while.
It does.
No, I agree.
I agree.
And last year we had, I don't know if he's coming again, Danny Rampling was headlining.
So, can't go wrong with that.
So, it only remains for me to say thank you, Dick.
And if you like this podcast, really, how could you not?
Because it's the best.
Why don't you support me?
I mean, some of you do, but not enough.
I keep trying to vary my message in case different ways work.
Do, please, consider supporting me on Substack or on Locals.
If you can't dig into your pocket for that, and it's not very much, buy me a coffee.
Support my sponsors.
But anyway, thank you for listening and tell your friends about how wonderful it is and how How sad it is that James Dellingpole used to be interesting and part of the system and has now gone away with the fairies.
That's really sad.
Thank you, Dick.
Again. And get your tickets for Dick's Festival.
Well, not Dick's, but Unregistered Chickens.
Bye. Bye.
Bye.
Global warming is a massive con.
There is no evidence whatsoever that man-made climate change is a problem, that it's 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 the well 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, okay, 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 Go to my website and look for it.
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 it's a disaster, we must amend our ways and appease the gods, appease Mother Gaia.
