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Dick, you're unenthusiastic and I can understand why because I've spent 15 minutes or longer keeping you waiting.
What, 20, oh, 20, yeah, well, 19.
Let's go.
I'm sorry, Dick.
I know you get cross of me.
Do you like my Moscow Sun Tan?
I was wondering about that.
I was gearing up to make some sort of comment about how you've been on holiday, but you're not even remotely brown and you've ruined it.
So could you explain that for a start?
Because I thought you'd been on your sellout Putin shill tour of Russia.
I have.
I've been selling out Schilling for Putnam.
Putna, sorry.
I forgot to use his proper name.
Yeah, yeah.
And he is the most evil man in the world.
And I am.
Do you know what I am?
I'm the equivalent of Lincoln Steffens, who I think was a New York Times journalist, who was an American journalist, who went out to the Soviet Union, just as kind of Bolshevism was really kicking off, and wrote this piece called I've Seen the Future, and it works.
And he reported on...
Well, that should have been the title of your Spectator article.
It should have been.
I'm quite impressed that they ran an article at all saying Russia was really great.
And I think I wrote it, well, partly because it's always amusing to work out what you can actually still get published in the mainstream media.
But partly I did it really as a trolling exercise because my old audience, they either think I've disappeared or they think I've gone mad.
And so when I report from Russia, which they know is an evil place, and the cues for the empty shelves in the supermarkets and people are starving.
And they're all barbarous butchers, of course.
I noticed that in your report, in the pictures you'd sent to the family, that they'd taken you to a special fake full supermarket where the shelves were bursting, there were no queues, there were lovely cuts of meat hanging up in the butchery area and eggs and all sorts of spices and just all laid out just for you.
This is one of the things I was not expecting.
So for those who don't know, I have been to Moscow for a week, courtesy of the Moscow Patriarch.
The Patriarchate, so the equivalent of the Church of England or the Catholic Church or whatever, so the Orthodox Church in Russia.
And I was on this trip to see monasteries and churches and find out more about saints and things like that.
And obviously to shill for evil putler.
I'd never been to Moscow before, nor actually had I had any desire.
It wasn't that I want to go to Tokyo.
There are places I want to go to more than I wanted to go to Moscow.
But this opportunity came up and I thought, well, I like Tolstoy.
I like Dostoevsky.
And Moscow does appear quite a lot.
And I mean, obviously, St. Petersburg more in Dostoevsky.
But Moscow does crop up occasionally.
And I love the Russian authors.
And I've just quite liked to go and see.
And I really wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was.
And you just gave an example then.
So I was taken by this chap who lives in Moscow, an American, but he lives half the year in Moscow and half the year.
He's got a Russian wife.
In fact, I'm doing a podcast with him maybe after this one, maybe next week.
And he takes me to this indoor farmer's market near his home.
And there are a few of these dotted around Moscow.
So it wasn't like the official farmer's market of Moscow.
They've got these dotted all wrap.
And it was a covered market, but a sort of permanent thing, not a sort of within thing.
And what you saw for yourself, it was the super abundance of fantastically good ingredients.
It did not look like a farmer's market.
It looked like Fortnum and Mason.
But like Fortnum and Mason, if it drank Carlsberg or whatever, whatever, haven't we?
It's the fruit, the fruit section had these punnets of raspberries, which are almost like mutant sort of Chernobyl raspberries.
There could be a good reason for that.
The punnet was so huge and the raspberries were so perfect.
And then there was next door, I bought this, and it was quite expensive, actually.
I could never work out 2,000 rubles, which was quite a lot, I think, a glass of pomegranate juice from probably the pomegranates came from one of the stands.
Because the thing you realize about Russia, I mean, not that this is exactly a secret, Russia is bloody huge.
And so if you want fish, they've got fish of plenty from their northern fisheries.
If you want sort of Mediterranean climate stuff, they've got the Crimea, haven't they?
If you want stuff from, or they've got access to places like Georgia, Georgian food is the best of that region.
If you want to go to a restaurant, go to a Georgian restaurant.
No, we used to have one back in Hackney.
Amazing.
Amazing.
And so they've got stuff way, way, way to the east.
So they've got all the mushrooms in Siberia and they, well, they've got, I think, huge chunks of Russia are basically birch forest.
And you can imagine how many mushrooms there are in the birch.
I wanted to go on a mushrooming expedition just so I could see how many mushrooms there were.
I didn't, because there wasn't time.
I also wanted to go to a banya, one of those steam baths.
That was another thing.
In fact, there were quite a lot of Russian experiences I missed out on.
But anyway, this farmer's market, whatever it was, I got some raw milk from it.
And you know, you've tried raw milk in England and it's nice and it's creamy and stuff.
But this was like the milkiest, rawest milk you've ever drunk.
It was just like so good.
It was a pleasure to drink.
It just sort of caressed the tongue.
Their ingredients, I think, are less adulterated than ours.
I mean, most people, the normists who sort of poo-pooed my spectator article in praise of Russia will not be aware about things like this.
They won't care about raw milk.
They won't care about adulterated foods.
They don't know about it.
They don't know about chemtrails.
They lined up to take the death jabs and now they're lining up dutifully to condemn evil putler.
They haven't a clue about anything.
So I kind of don't really care that I didn't win them over.
But I think that for our audience, the audience of this show will totally get how wonderful it is going to a country where you can go into the capital and you can go into farmers markets and you can get food that hasn't been poisoned, that is absolutely nutritious and delicious and amazing.
And there's lots of it.
It's not like they're not, the economy isn't tanking, despite what we read in the business sections and in the Russian propaganda.
The economy is not tanking.
They're doing okay.
The restaurants are full.
Even during the week.
They're all full.
And it's great.
Well, it does answer the question, where are we all moving to?
I thought about this, Dick.
Yeah.
So I was thinking, in many ways, yeah, we would all like to move to Russia in that low taxes, tax rate 13%, flat tax.
And the reason that they can do this is because they tax all their utilities, all the big energy companies and things.
They bear the brunt of the tax burden.
Which means that you're much more free to earn your living in Russia than you are in the West.
tax man does not rape you um and because the thing is somebody pointed out to me if you're russia and you're you've got your ruble it's not like in the west where um whenever there's a kind of fiscal crisis they just print more money they haven't got a federal reserve they've got to they've got to get their bookkeeping right so it's a much more it's a much more
sound economy than we have in the rest it's not it's much less less corrupted so they've got to they've got to get things right so they're not they're not they're not as indebted as we are and they're not as owned by central banks as we i don't think they're anyway that could be wrong there so
tell you what else is really good in in russia um tell me the reenactment scene oh is it i've friends from my group and this was before i joined unfortunately we're the 1914 21 group and uh they call 21 rather than 18 because they cover the continuation war between poland and russia at the end of the first world war they mostly cover the war in the east
and so they were prime targets for being invited over for a big show in in moscow a few years ago and they said they'd never been to a reenactment like it they obviously couldn't bring their own guns but on arrival they said look we've got all our uniforms we've got no weapons oh it's not a problem that truck over there and open up the back help yourself they opened up the back of the thing and there were just guns everywhere everything you could imagine for their period
and not even in period and sort of they they just helped themselves and just they filled their pockets with blanks and they took part in the battle and the battle was like being on a war movie set you know there were ground charges going off everywhere really health and safety nowhere to be seen but all the better for it you know drones were filming it and uh it was absolutely nuts i'll have to put the footage to you sometime but
it looked like the most incredible visceral change of underwear please type reenactment you can imagine and of course russia comes out victorious every time but you know to be part of something like that so there's me thinking yeah but the things i'd miss if i move to russia i couldn't do my reenactment oh but hang on it'll only be four times better and where's my latest uniform come from hmm a
franco-russian company so uh yeah it's it's kind of like the the reasons the reasons to move are few and far between you you you you you you I suppose one of them is our wives wouldn't be all that keen.
Our wives wouldn't have it.
They wouldn't.
Wives, eh?
They just don't let us do the nice things.
We'd be forced to remarry but nevertheless slightly cold.
Cold, but in a really hot way.
Cold, but in a really hot way.
And that would be a trial we have to bear, Dick.
We have to factor that into our considerations.
What would happen, I think, is travelling would be a real bugger because you'd be given the third degree every time you tried to come home to see family.
You'd probably be stopped at the airport.
Not a bit like what it is for a journalist who is slightly dissenting today then.
Yeah, exactly.
I know.
Yeah, that was my big worry when I came back.
I thought they were going to Section 7 me or Section 3 me, which is what happened.
So...
George Galloway, who'd been on a trip to Russia about the same time as me.
I mean, I didn't see him there, but he and his wife got held for five hours at the airport.
And it's extraordinary the powers that they have arrogated for themselves.
First of all, the 2000 Terrorism Act, which I think was probably a Blair, it must have been a Blair era creation, mustn't it?
And then there was a sort of an update more recently.
And this legislation is so draconian.
And the only way they got away with it, the only way that we're supposed to be this country where we believe in the rule of law and happiest corpus and all this stuff.
And you think about under normal circumstances what the security services would have to do to get hold of your data communications.
They'd have to seek a court order.
And the judge would go, okay, well, what's your reasoning for wanting to get the data to communications of, say, James Stellingpole?
And they'd go, well, Hope Not Hate has described him as a right-wing influencer.
And he's been on a trip to Moscow.
And the judge would go, well, that's it.
And you're trying to get him under what?
Well, he's a potential terrorist.
The judge would laugh this request out of court.
Well, the old judges would.
Well, the old judges would.
I think even one of the lefty judges, I think they have a different...
It is amazing what we put up with to travel, because you really do throw all of that out the window.
And you know you're doing it just for that hour or two that you're in the airport and passing through the security system.
You are...
Um...
You know that you're suspending all your liberties and they can do anything to you.
They could stick their finger up your bum if they wanted.
They could make you undress.
They can make you go through a radioactive scanner.
They can take everything off you and not give it you back.
They can lock you up.
They can do any of these things.
They can ask the most intrusive questions.
They can go through everything you're carrying.
And you put up with it because you want to go on holiday to, I don't know, France or whatever.
And it's just got worse and worse on the frog boiling principle.
But this is the thing they're going to do for the whole fingerprint scanning and things like that that they're now introducing.
They haven't even needed to introduce it as a law through Parliament.
They just do it, don't they?
Yeah, they do.
So George Galloway and his wife.
I mean, it's not like I'm the world's biggest Galloway fan, but he's not a terrorist.
And the police were able to confiscate his mobile phone, his computer, and they keep it for two or three weeks.
And so they can retrieve whatever information they want.
All this just like personal stuff.
And it seems to me quite wrong that this legislation was ever passed.
But of course, that's what our MPs are like.
They just nod through this legislation and the public are persuaded that it's necessary because it's about terrorists and terrorists are everywhere, especially Islamic terrorists, apparently.
Except the definition of terrorism now seems to apply to anyone who's slightly edgy on the internet.
It's anyone who doesn't think that the security state is a really great thing.
And they can do it.
They can absolutely fuck you over for five hours.
Imagine what it's like after a long flight.
Galloway and his wife come in from Dubai.
Well, that's quite a whore.
You don't want to be held for five hours.
Or even worse if you're on a connecting flight.
Yeah, oh, well, well, that's it.
They'll do it for long enough to guarantee you're going to miss your flight.
But this is the sort of stuff.
And it also goes back to what you were saying about Russia.
That 30, 40 years ago, well, let's go 30 because we'd have been very young 40 years ago.
But we'd have thought, oh, yeah, imagine the sort of stuff you have to go through in Russia.
They'd be really intrusive on the security front.
And the food you'd get would be all poisoned, I should imagine.
And now this conversation has been the great unpoisoned food you can get in Russia and the terrible lack of freedom in the UK.
It's just turned on its head, hasn't it?
The thing I have been planning to write in my spectator article and didn't in the end.
I mean, it would have been a bravura trolling exercise on the readership, but it would have been true.
Which is that when you and I were growing up, there was the Iron Curtain.
And behind the Iron Curtain were all these miserable people in their miserable countries being told by their lying governments, you don't want to go to the West.
Things are really bad.
It's so decadent and crime-ridden and awful.
You're so much better off in the security of this.
You get health care and you get looked after and you're much better off in the communist bloc.
And obviously they didn't believe it totally, but to a degree, that was the line they were being fed.
Now the position has been reversed, where we are the ones who are living in complete shitholes.
And we are being told by our governments, you don't want to have a look at, don't go and look at Russia.
We're going to stop you looking at Russia if you wanted to go and look.
We're going to make it really, really hard.
We're going to cancel all the direct flights.
So you can't fly from Europe, from the European Union to Moscow.
We're going to possibly stop you at the border when you come back and interrogate you with a new KGB.
We're going to make your life miserable.
And you're going to take it.
And people in the West do not realize that Russia, in 10 years' time, maybe 20 years' time, the standard of living in Russia will be better than it is in the West.
That's where they're going and that's where we're going.
We are going downhill fast.
And they are not.
Yeah, it's funny, isn't it?
It's almost like a sort of an ironic lesson for us and sort of like, don't be so cocky about the wonderful free west that you think you live in.
I'd be out there in a flash.
Do you think about how much brainwashing we get?
That we are a beacon of freedom.
That America is apparently the leader of the free world.
We live in the free world, apparently, where you can't say stuff on Twitter without getting...
Well, obviously, we don't buy into that woman who is a lifetime actor, whatever her name is, Lucy Fakery.
Lucy Connolly.
Yeah, sorry, that's the no.
But, yeah, we get...
I was sitting on the...
I was talking to some people at the airport, and I said, you know, on my flight back from Greece, because I stopped off at Greece on the way back.
Thus the tan.
Yeah, I was talking to these people, and I was saying, you know, I'll tell you what, it's possible I'm going to get stopped at the airport when I get back.
So I'm really not looking forward.
They said, why is that?
I said, well, I've just been to Moscow.
And their faces sort of, they suddenly got very serious.
I said, well, I suppose you must have had your reasons for going there.
Yeah, I did.
And they were, they were like, it was as if I had, as if I were, I'd suddenly whipped out of my bag a, my, my Nazi party membership badge and started doing Har Hitlers.
That was their, their, it was like Pavlov's dogs.
Suddenly, they hear Russia and they start drooling.
They start salivating.
Well, they're growling, actually, because that's what they've been trained to do.
And I said earlier that these are the people who queued up to take their safe and effective jabs, and now they are queuing up to defend, to condemn the evil putback.
And it's not just in this country.
We met a Norwegian woman, and she was so incensed by the evilness of evil Putler and evil Russia that she could barely bring herself to mention the name.
I can't remember how the conversation came up.
In fact, it came up in a conversation about Svalbard.
I said, oh, I've been polar bear hunting in Svalbard.
And she said, yes.
Not literally hunting.
No, not literally hunting.
Well, I should have said that.
And she said, yes, there's another country which has territory in that part of the world.
Well, I knew what it was.
It was Russia because you could see all the old Russian settlements there.
And she couldn't actually bring herself to mention the name.
She was seething about it.
These people, they've been...
This is what frightens me, Dick.
These people have been programmed for war.
Just like in the run-up to the First World War, people were programmed.
They were keyed up to such a pitch of hatred for Germans that by the time the war broke out, they were killing Daxons in the streets.
Do you know about this?
They were chucking stones, stoning little Dakshins to death because Germans were so evil.
And this is how easily manipulated people are.
People don't have any idea how propagandized we are in the West against Russia.
And it goes deep.
Those Ukraine flags everywhere, all the stories about how people put in, all the stories mocking him.
And that's why one of the reasons they don't want you to go there.
They don't want you to see that actually it's really okay over there.
The people are actually quite nice.
They're a lot more cultured than we are.
The streets are safe and clean.
You don't get your mobile phone nicked by enriching immigrants.
They haven't got much enrichment at all, have they?
They have, actually.
They do.
They have.
Yeah, they've got the people from the Stan.
So all the cab drivers and stuff, and all the sort of that.
Yeah, the Muslim Chechnya, for example, is a real problem.
So you'll see, for example, a car driving down the streets with its lights flashing and its sort of music pumping out sort of rap or whatever.
And the actual Russians really don't like this.
They're quite reserved and dignified and cultured and they don't.
It's what we mistake for unfriendliness.
I mean, they're not effusive like the Westerners are.
And they don't like their peace being disturbed by these people.
It will always be people from Chechnya or one of the Muslim states.
So they've definitely got a problem.
But it's, I mean, everywhere's got a problem, but I'd say they're not so their government is not so blatant about letting it happen.
Right, so they're like us maybe sort of 15, 20 years ago in that respect.
Yeah, I suppose what I'm you know, on the theme of would we like to go to Russia, it's not as simple as, yeah, Russia is so totally based, it's great, it's got low taxes, they haven't got net zero.
I mean, that's another thing, by the way.
They can afford to heat their homes and drive cars because they're energy abundant.
And in the West, we've sort of been encouraged to kind of mock the fact that they're so dependent on petrol and stuff and gas.
But it's quite useful having loads and loads of natural resources that you can make you give you energy independence and you can export to people who actually need it.
And you can charge them what you want.
It's ever so depressing.
It is depressing.
What do they think of us, by the way?
Well, it's quite interesting.
So, as you can imagine, Western tourists are a real novelty right now.
Which makes it quite a good time to go.
I think that there's a sort of mix of feelings.
They think that they too have been propagandised or well, actually, not even propagandized, because they know.
Let me take a step back.
I got this briefing from this quite senior Russian minister.
And I said that I was concerned that I liked what I'd seen of Russia, and I like the Russian people, I like their literature and stuff.
And I really didn't want to see my people at war with their people.
It just seems absolutely absurd.
We're all Christians.
We're all.
We should be uniting, not fighting one another.
And I said, I'm concerned that certainly the deep state in the West, and possibly elements in the Russian as well, find it convenient to have this forever war over Ukraine.
And I wondered what his thoughts were on that, and also on the degree of Western involvement in this war.
And he got quite sort of arsenic with me.
He said, yes, you may like our literature, but we cannot be friends.
There would be no peace between Russia and the West for at least the next 10 years.
He said, it's getting worse.
And he said, as for Western involvement, he said, who do you think it is that's running all the kind of the missile systems and controlling all the kind of giving all the satellite information and all the intelligence and stuff?
He said, of course, American and British and French and German and Canadian, whatever, troops are already actively fighting, not just in the sort of the mercenary units, not the volunteer units, but actually much higher than that.
He said, you will occasionally read the obituaries in the newspaper of this American or British general who has died in a skiing accident.
He said, that's not how he died.
I don't know whether actual general level officers have been killed, but yeah, we are already at war with Russia and it's just unstated.
No one ever consulted us.
No one ever said, do you mind our armed forces being used to go and fight this country with whom we have no particular beef?
We have no territorial rivalry.
Are you happy with that?
to go and send our soldiers out there and maybe subsequently your sons when it escalates.
It makes me very...
I'm not surprised he felt like that at all.
I'd feel the same way about us.
I hate us with an equal measure, and it's not an easy place to be.
It's a deep state or whatever.
And also, I mean, not to be hated to quite the same degree, but to be despised somewhat, I suppose, the people who buy into this ship, the people who fall for the manipulation and the Ukraine flags on the side and Zelensky.
Do you know that Rory Stewart, who's got to be a spook, by the way?
I don't think anyone doubts that.
No, no, no.
Apparently, he recently did a podcast on heroes.
And guess what it went?
Heroes from Achilles to Zelensky.
Oh, God.
I hate to say how cringy.
It is actually quite brave, hitting a piano keyboard with your penis when you're coached off your face.
Yeah, that's almost career-ending stuff.
He'll never get anywhere in politics if he's done that.
He won't.
So, yeah, so but anyway, we were saying to this guy, look, you get a really bad press.
Russia gets a really bad press in the West.
And you really need to up your game in communicating your facts.
Because most people in the West imagine, because they've been told by our lying mainstream media, that Russia just gratuitously went in to attack this sovereign state of Ukraine and that These plucky little freedom fighters were overwhelmed and then fought back by these evil Russian forces.
And it's all presented as a kind of graduate expansionism by the dictator Putin.
And don't forget, we're next.
He definitely wants to invade us.
That's one of the things you know.
Why would ever Russia need to expand to yeah, why would he want to come?
They've got enough land.
They don't need to...
They haven't got enough people to...
So the population is 120 million, I think.
And they've got...
A lot of land.
So much land.
More land than you could shake a stick at.
They don't need to expand their territory.
They just need to protect their borders, and that's what they're very keen on.
There is no Russian word for Lebensraum.
That's an interesting fact.
That's probably true.
True.
So we'll explain to this guy, look, you've got to get your messaging across better.
You don't have to make stuff up, because you've got a perfectly reasonable case that the colour revolution happened in 2014.
And he said, I have tried to make this case.
I've spoken to British politicians.
I've spoken to American senators.
And I said, hello?
You expected to get through to British politicians and American senators.
They're all puppets of the deep state.
They're all owned by...
Well, the American senators were owned by Israel.
The British politicians were owned by whoever, by Bilderberg or whatever.
Why on earth do you think you're going to change the mind of people whose job it is not to have their minds changed?
You need to be reaching people on a much lower level, through the internet and through blogs and podcasts and stuff.
Yeah, politics being downstream of culture.
And do you know what he said to me?
And this was kind of depressing.
What's that?
Let me tell you a Russian joke.
I'm depressed already.
Two Russian tank commanders entering Kiev.
One says to the other, what a shame we lost the information war.
I think you're going to be Russian to get it.
It's just one of those Russian jokes.
Yeah, exactly.
But what he's saying is, well, what's the information war to us?
We're going to win the fighting war anyway.
Right.
And it's annoying because I sort of...
When I was looking at the comments, I mean, I suppose I shouldn't have done, but I'm a sort of masochist.
I was reading the comments at the Spectator below.
And we're talking about...
So these will be Spectator subscribers.
And as we know, probably a lot of the people of our persuasion, the sort of intelligent people, the free-thinking people, will have given up their Spectator subscribers years ago about the time of the pandemic.
They'll have bailed.
They'll have seen that the magazine was just basically working for the deep state and shilling for the vaccines and stuff.
And they'll have hated Fraser Nelson.
Boom, quite rightly so.
But so it's a kind of...
It's a self-selecting audience of people who are going to be antipathetical to the kind of views that we might have and our listeners might have.
And also, we have to remember that comment sections are now heavily populated by 77th.
But it's...
Because you think about how the propaganda system works, it's very important that 77th Brigade, etc., infiltrate the comment section in order to give a false impression to the general reader that particular viewpoints are more representative than they are.
So there were a lot of very, very anti-James Stirling Pole.
How can he be shilling?
Look at all the Ukrainians that Evil Putner has murdered and etc, etc.
And I wasn't sure reading these comments how many of them were just 77th, MI6, MI5.
Quite a lot of them, I would say.
And how many people from just really dumb people who've just had their brains removed?
And I can't work out which is.
I can't believe you're encountering dumb people who've had their brains removed on Twitter.
No, we're talking about the spectator comment.
Oh, right.
Okay.
Well, 77th is all over Twitter as well, though.
These are people who I imagine would think of themselves as being informed, worldly, urban, well-travelled.
Or at least that was the kind of the impression they sought to give in the comments.
But I just got the impression of people who've been whipped up into this frenzy of ignorance and prejudice by a lying media.
So where are you on orthodoxy now?
Dick.
If I could show you the beards I saw, they make you that you just feel like when you compare yourself to King Dong John Holmes.
What a lovely comparison.
Well, they were just like the beard.
One man said, you've got the most amazing beard.
I cannot believe how you expend your beard is.
And he has a twin brother who's got a similar beard.
So the beards are good.
What about the chanting and the icons and the icons and the chanting are something else.
So you go into these churches and there's a service on pretty much all the time.
And you can just wander in.
I get the impression you can do that.
It's like a sort of wander in, wander out, and it doesn't really matter.
Yeah, you wander in, wander out, get your fix.
Kiss an icon, light a candle.
That's what they do.
Cross yourself a lot.
You get bored, you sort of, well, they don't even get bored, I think.
You get transported.
It's like, so there were moments where it was like that feeling you get when you're eat up at a rave, but you're not, you haven't taken any pills or anything.
You're just being transported by the ecstasy.
You're feeling the grace.
It is absolutely extraordinary.
And you quite often have a choir on one side and a choir on the other side.
So you have this.
They're equivalent of the altar, or rather, probably the root screen in front of the altar.
Instead of that, they've got this wall of icons, which is called the iconostasis.
And it screens this off from the back section of the church.
Ortho brothers and sisters will probably correct me.
I'm probably getting details wrong.
But essentially, this represents The barrier between the spiritual world and the material world.
So, the congregation are all standing at the front in the material world, and the priests will come in and out of doors in the icomostasis at points in the service representing this sort of intermingling of the spiritual and the material world.
And you'll have the choir coming in and out, the most beautiful singing you've ever heard, the sung liturgy, and they'll be singing the psalms.
Well, you don't know what they're singing because it's all in Russian.
But it is so, so I could just, it's like going to a gig that's free and it transports you to somewhere far more beautiful than ever Nick Cave could take.
I sometimes sort of think that way about just doing even song on a Sunday at Worcester Cathedral or Matins at Hereford Cathedral.
But, you know, you're thinking, this is a fantastic venue, really great music.
And although I will be giving some money to the collection plate, it's effectively free.
But if you're saying it's that times 20, 40, 100, then I might have to give serious consideration to Orthodoxy.
There's actually an Orthodox church really close to here, and there's not one for miles beyond that.
And I think they do a service something like once every two weeks.
And a friend has recently started attending, and they're very welcoming.
And, you know, they help you with all the background information on the saints and what you've got to know about that.
But with the new Archbishop of Canterbury just being installed, it sort of like makes you think the church really has gone.
The church went ages ago, but the church is not really about the administrators, is it?
I know people say that.
Why should it matter to you who is Archbishop of Canterbury?
But it just shows that the rot is continuing.
They haven't slammed into reverse to get back out of this.
No, and they're not going to because that's because they're Satanists.
You've got to remember that.
I think people who don't understand and rather remind themselves daily that the world is run by Satanists who want to do evil and they want to affront God in every way possible.
To be continually surprised by what the Pope does or what the Church of England does, it's like, hello, this is what Satan does.
Here's something I think a lot of you are going to be interested in if you live anywhere near Bradford in the north of England.
It's UK Book Fest, it's being called.
And basically, it is a massive second-hand book sale from one of my followers.
So there's going to be all sorts of interesting stuff.
He's got 100,000 books, 100,000 books for sale, including 40,000 children's books.
But you know why this is important?
They're trying to destroy all the printed word and replace it with erasable e-books.
This is your chance to get your hands on the real thing.
They've got maps, antiquarian books, foreign language books.
They are priced.
£3 a book on Thursday and Friday, £2 a book on Saturday and Sunday, £1 a book on Monday, and £10 a bag on the Tuesday.
So your best selection is going to be right at the beginning, obviously, when books are slightly more expensive.
But it sounds like if I lived anywhere near Bradford, I would go.
It's on the 23rd to the 28th of October.
So the first date is 23rd of October, which is a Thursday.
It's at Biz Space Business Centre, Knowles Lane, Bradford, BD4, 9SW.
I'll put the details below.
But it sounds like a really good deal.
And I think, so, that's why I don't get, I thought it was a good bit of trolling by the Church of England.
I thought, yeah, it's a respect.
Somebody pointed out, it's like Doctor Who.
So we've got the female one now.
Next, we're going to get the black, gay one.
We've had lesbian dinosaurs.
Yeah.
It's going to happen.
don't let it get to you so when I go to well you know I've got I think there are six churches in our parish all of them 13th century or earlier and I think why should they be I do a pretty good reading on a Sunday
Why should they be denied me and my presence in the pews just because the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury is an annoying woman?
And why should the tradition carries on despite the organisation?
That said, so that's my defence of sticking with the C of E. The other thing is we get a lot of latitude.
When you orthodoxy is fantastic, it's got all it's particularly attracting young men, by the way.
The people who are really joining the Orthodox Church are young men, because they want rigour, they want the kind of discipline, they like the fasting.
There's lots of fasting involved, lots of things you can't do.
But also, and we might find this more tricky, things you can't believe.
They lay down the line on what the Orthodox position is on stuff.
And most things will be in total agreement.
Like the psalms are great and saints, they've got so many saints.
I love all their saints.
But I'll tell you about my saint experience.
Go on.
Well, several actually.
So I went to venerate several of their saints.
So I wrote in the piece I went to visit Saint Matrona.
And Saint Matrona was she came from this peasant family and she had visionary powers and she was sort of became a you know an adult in revolutionary times where it wasn't wasn't a good time to be a to be a Christian.
But she's venerated throughout Moscow for her healing powers and so you see you you go and see her bones and you get a choice.
get two lines there's either the line to the queue to see the uh to venerate the the icon of her on the wall of the church dedicated to her or there's the the much longer longer queue the um hour maybe to go and venerate her her her bones um and uh but i went to i went to some more i went to the i went to the the sort of the boss monastery
outside outside moscow the most the most important just just like where i can't remember i can remember the name of it it was all in russian we were driven driven outside of these monasteries and and and it was it was it was all great but I didn't chop down the names.
And there are these churches which have got greatest hits collections of bones.
So, of relics.
So you'll get this glass case and in it, in one bit will be, say, this box containing a fragment of the true cross, a stone from, a bit of stone from Golgotha,
St. Stephen's arm, and a few other saints that you never, but you quite often get apostles and all sorts of things, but the true cross and you get something from the Virgin Mary and etc.
And if you read your Bernard Cornwell books, you will find scorn being poured on all these things.
You know, like if you could add all the fragments of the true cross together, you'd get a forest and stuff.
So in the in the West, we're invited to force scorn on.
Well, I mean, particularly in the sort of the post-Reformation West, aren't we?
Protestants are supposed to scorn saints.
When you think about it, before the break with Rome, they were part of our Christian heritage, too.
And so I went to what you do is you you I was taught by this babushka to that's the other thing, Dick, they all wear.
They all wear headscarves.
And it's so cool.
It's just so cool.
All the women wear head scarves and it's great.
So you get the beautiful singing and the incense and the women in their headscarves and some of the voices of those women.
So anyway...
When you cross yourself, by the way, is it left shoulder or right shoulder first?
Ah, well, you see, this is the thing.
So I don't know how the Catholics do it, but I know they have the Orthodox do it now.
So you get your fingers like that.
I think three fingers.
And it's forehead, belly button, somebody button, right, left.
And somebody told me that they, on Mount Athos, they were taught, do it like you mean it.
So and you bow.
You do it again.
And then you go forward and you kiss the relics.
You kiss the glass mostly.
Although in one case, with St. Matrona, this was freaky.
I was expecting to kiss the glass and they lifted up.
They lifted up the glass.
So that I was kissing the actual kind of the cushion and this sort of lovely smell came out of it.
It's one of the tests for their saints.
The bodies don't smell, the bodies don't rot.
It's one of the saints' tests they do.
So what they tend to do is they exhume the bones after a period to see what the colour is and what the spell is.
Anyway.
Right.
So I was I did various of these these saints boxes and I came to one containing It had a bit of St. Paul in it.
Right.
So we're talking a bit of St. Paul, a bit of the bit of the true cross, and a few Russian local saints as well.
Kind of pick and mix.
And I was thinking, well, you know, St. Paul, I have these arguments, but better go in.
Anyway, I did this.
Maybe it wasn't St. Paul, maybe it was somebody else in the box, I don't know.
But whatever.
I got this incredibly like, I was transported.
And this tear appeared in my eye.
And the guy I was with, who's an orthobroke called Conrad.
I did the podcast with him.
He witnessed this.
And he takes his Orthodoxy very seriously.
said that's a gift from god um you you you get these special gifts when when you you i mean it was it was it was mind-blowing actually It was a really, really amazing experience.
It was something that I've never, or very rarely had.
It was, it was, it was, I felt amazing afterwards.
It was a really beautiful thing.
So where's your nearest Orthodox church where you are?
Oh, my.
Oh!
Yes, share in the ceiling.
Sorry, David's going to look at the scene to see when...
Hi there, David.
How are you?
Are you not making tea?
I've got this name, isn't there?
Showing David man.
It's tea time.
It won't be shooting.
Soon I'll make the tea.
Thank you.
This is what we get the big bucks for.
Did that sound soon enough?
what sound like it was that a kind of genuinely reassuring soon or was that a kind of well look we're on the um 51 minute mark And you know, my attention span doesn't go much beyond an hour.
So you'll get your tea soon.
Yeah, yeah.
But like the tea during the podcast, that's all.
Anyway, so no, I've got non-dimini.
Because apparently, although our local one, which is my side of the river in Worcester, it's in Brantford, but the place where it all happens on a higher level, so if you want to go and get confirmed into orthodoxy, it's Shrewsbury.
Apparently, he's our biggie locally.
But yeah, I'm definitely going to look further into it.
It sounds like a very delingpole thing.
Yeah, it would make me very unpopular at home, but I agree.
It's quite tempting.
Well, there's no harm in dabbling, is there?
It's not like it's a one or the other.
It's still a belief in God and Jesus and of all of that stuff.
There's a very good monastery in Essex where you can go as a kind of, you know, like a, what's it called when you go and stay in a monastery?
Sleepover.
Sleepover.
Where they have these two hours.
Retreat.
They have these retreat.
Sleepover sounds cool though.
No, the sleepover is great.
Let's go with sleepover.
So they do two-hour sessions of the Jesus Prayer.
Right.
You see, I mean, to be honest, I'm kind of on the way there already.
Because I do the Psalms all day, which is they're very big on the Psalms.
And I do the Jesus Prayer a lot.
So you do the Jesus Prayer 150 times a day as part of your basic.
It's like Orthodox boot camp.
So they do the Jesus Prayer, which is, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
They do it for two hours.
Just that, with candles.
And I mean, it sounds pretty cool.
It's pretty amazing.
Because do you know about the way of a pilgrim?
The way of the pilgrim?
No.
I would give you this, but I feel like the crack dealer outside the school gates.
Pushing at an open door.
Yeah, I know.
So this was the massive bestseller in Russia in the late 19th century.
And it was written by Anonymous, and it's about the way of a pilgrim, and he's Orthodox.
But he's a Hesychast.
And you kind of want to be a Hesychast because Hesychasts are the ones who...
There's a bit in...
In...
I think St. Paul tells us that we should pray without ceasing in the epistles.
And so the Orthodox have interpreted that to mean, well, they talk about this in the book.
How do you pray without ceasing?
Because obviously you've got things like feeding the cat and stuff and walking the dog.
you can get a bit of praying in while you're doing those things but but but how do you pray without ceasing and the aim of becoming a hezacast is to is to you repeat the jesus prayer so often that it it's like your body carries on carries on um speaking it even after you whatever you're doing the prayer is always with you and that's what do you know the funniest thing that it's almost i wanted to talk about this thing that i kind of experienced this morning
and i thought i'd hit you with it as a complete sort of uh apropos of nothing but this fits in see what you think you know i do psalm 91 every day whilst lifting my feet slightly off the ground while i'm on my back i'm not standing at the time that would be a levitation which i haven't quite achieved both feet yeah um but i now say i've been doing this for over a year so
my psalm 91 game is very strong and i can completely think other thoughts while reciting it out loud yeah to the point at which i was thinking would it be possible to think psalm one say whilst saying psalm 91 i don't know what that would achieve but i'm almost at the level where i can faultlessly recite one psalm whilst thinking through another in my
mind yeah i wonder if that's a thing
it it could be a thing if it's not it should be it could be it could be a thing it could be yeah but you must have got to that level where you you're so comfortable with the reciting it's the equivalent of muscle memory to actually recite it yes and yes i i have got to that although i i i still doubt myself and often my the sort of the the subconscious part of my brain carries on while my conscious part is trying to work out is stumbling over over the
yeah yeah definitely yeah there's kind of like little demonic elements that are trying to wrong foot you yes what we used to call monkey thoughts yeah yeah yeah yeah So there is a orthosis friend, Izzy, has just been in Greece visiting ortho places and getting blessings for her prayer beads and stuff.
And I think she's going to bring some of her prayer beads, which could be good for going through my Jesus Prayer.
And she came upon this monk, I mean, old monk, one of the saints, who made a list of all the psalms and their function.
So he worked out that they have another function beside their formal function.
So he had a psalm for, I don't know, when you're in danger and traveling, or a psalm for snake bites, a psalm for when you're worried about your family, a psalm for kidney problems.
And is it obvious or is it sort of like a hidden extra meaning?
A hidden extra meaning.
Right.
But he'd found them very effective.
And so I was thinking, I must remember that list and make sure that you got the numbering right because, of course, they number their psalms differently.
They supposedly have 151 psalms instead of 150, I was told.
But I do like their reverencing of their saints because they've got a lot of holy people who live lives which are kind of inspirational.
I mean, one of my favourites being, I didn't realize he'd been made a saint, Saint Pasios of Mount Athos.
He was a good one.
Before we move on from Psalms altogether, by the way, did you know that Psalm 91 is the official psalm of the US Navy SEALs?
Funnily enough, I've heard this from American Special Forces people.
Guess what?
What?
I met this guy who's fought with special forces in the Donbass.
Right.
And I said to him, when you go into combat, do you recite Psalm 91?
And he said, yeah, of course.
Of course.
Yeah, it's the Psalm that we use.
Well, thou shalt not be afraid of the arrows by night.
I can't pick it up in the middle.
There's me saying, I've noticed this.
I find it very hard to put them up in the middle.
And also, tell me what else I've found.
What's that?
When I do my morning exercises, my sort of Philasses exercises or my gym exercises, ones I've been given by my osteopath or whatever, I find that it's much easier to remember the beginning of the psalm when you start doing the exercise.
So I associate psalms with certain exercises.
That's probably what I've got now.
Yeah, and different points of the dog walk.
I know exactly when I will do Psalm 137.
It's just when I get to the gate that leads to the walled garden.
And then Psalm 19 is when I've gone the other side of the gate.
And that takes me through the avenue of apple trees before it's just like.
People think we're a bit mad, but in a good way.
Yeah.
It's, I mean, obviously, we're not going to get half the things we should be talking about done in this one podcast.
We can always come back to it.
But is there anything else you want to know about Russia?
Yeah, loads and loads.
Our audience might not realize that I've been champing at the bit to speak to you about Russia, but you haven't allowed me any information because you wanted to do it here.
So what our audience yet again is getting is authenticity.
This is the first time getting to hear about any of this, apart from the odd message to the family group chat.
Do you want some war stuff?
Well, yeah, but that's a whole other...
We're not going to get anywhere with that in the time available.
Well, I'll tell you a bit because it's quite interesting.
So I spoke to this young guy.
I mean, he was 30, and I think he'd gone out there at the beginning, and he'd been with a drone unit.
And, I mean, it was like one of us.
He was sort of, I'd say, upper middle class.
So it was like you or me going to, and it sounds pretty, his best mate was killed.
He said that one day the Ukrainians hated them so much because they were having such success with their drones that they sent in a tank especially to take out their unit.
And they were hiding in this basement while this tank shelled their building.
But somebody else told me, I said, well, has the war changed since the beginning?
He said, absolutely.
Tactics have changed completely.
So drones have become so important now, that's so ubiquitous, that tanks, you kind of knew this, have been rendered obsolete.
In that the only way a tank can advance now is with a massive drone screen and preparation of the enemy position before it advances.
Because there are drone operators on both sides.
And the drones, by the way, are supplied by the Chinese.
we're talking hundreds of thousands of drones it's like um so so all the infantry now carries shotguns to shoot down the drones before they come and grenade them or explode in their faces whatever and And so they've got to be quite good at good shots.
And say a tank appears on the scene.
Instantly, all the drone crews will be going, let's get this tank.
I want a medal for taking out a tank.
But there's a competition to take out the tank.
And they just do.
It's like armor is pretty much obsolete now.
But it's utterly terrifying.
This chap told me that when he hears a lawn being mowed now, he gets PTSD.
All you're thinking about is the noise of these drones.
It must be so horrible.
And I was thinking, this is really the last thing we want to be sending our sons, even daughters out to.
This is where the Satanists who run the world want us to end up.
They want to murder our children in the trenches and the no man's land.
The grey zone is now 30 miles wide.
They said in the early days you could see the enemy soldiers like two miles away.
Now it's 30 miles away.
And there's a sort of dead zone in the middle which is owned by the drone operators.
And they don't, you can't advance in units of more than three people because it's too much of a risk that you'll instantly get targeted.
So they might leave you alone.
There's only three of you.
But if there's four or five, you'll get taken out.
And now they advance using electric motorbikes.
So like scramblers.
imagine warfare 400 years ago it was very much you were definitely face to face with your enemy uh And the introduction of musketry meant that you could kill a man at 50 yards.
And they found that utterly horrific.
The idea that, you know, you haven't, you know, of course a crossbow will do the same.
So will archery.
But then with the rifle, you're talking 200 yards and more.
And then you get to the point where the terrifying prospect of being able to be killed by an enemy that you can't even see.
And now we're into the territory of literally miles and you've got the control as if you're in the same room as your weapon.
And it's equally terrifying.
Each stage, it just gets that much more detached from, you know, you are a video gamer killing a real person.
Mind-numbingly horrific.
And perhaps the majority of the population in the West, the ones who are jabbed up to the hilt, they are of a mind that actually it would be a good and desirable thing for us to go to commit to this kind of war.
Yeah, because they're not the people who are going to have to go, are they?
But it will be their kids.
But it's right, because of course, all Putler wants to do is he wants to take over the world.
I think people are...
They've been trained by every...
All of us deserve it.
I mean, we don't deserve it.
But look at these people.
Look at the average person.
But every November, we all dutifully go to these services and talk about the glorious dead.
We've been brainwashed from an early age to think of the whole thing as being rather glorious and splendid and desirable.
And it's ongoing.
So you've got a population that's never experienced war, but thinks it's a great thing and is eagerly taking sides in whatever conflict is going on, be it Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, you name it.
And yeah, everyone's so sure of their righteousness.
And, you know, they're so detached from it.
I wanted to say, if I thought it was worth engaging with these people, which it's not, because A, you don't know whether they're not intelligent services.
And B, why would you engage with them anyway?
Because they wouldn't get it.
But the people who were sort of demanding, you were decrying me for engaging with Russia because of Evil Putler.
And I was thinking, well, okay, now do Israel.
Presumably if I'd been on holiday to Eilat or somewhere, I wouldn't be getting the same condemnation.
But what's the difference between...
Well, you were criticising the Russians for not having their PR game sorted out.
I think Israel has probably got stolen the march on that one.
Their PR game has been a lot stronger.
They're good at their.
Not least, to conflate, in everyone's mind, Israel from the Bible with Israel on the modern map.
That was a top move.
I tell you one thing I noticed that you don't have conversations where the Russians are going, yay, Putin, he's our guy.
They're just as cynical about their politicians as anyone.
It's not like they're super fans.
No, they're not super fans.
They think some of his stuff is good and some of it's bad.
But I think they're probably happy that they've got a guy who's, well, fighting their corner, defending their corner.
Because otherwise, the West would be walking all over them.
It's sad being on the side that you're not actually rooting for, isn't it?
It is.
It is.
It's like being a conscientious objector or worse during the First World War.
I think that's what I'd be now.
Suffragettes giving you white feathers for you don't want to participate in their satanic blood sacrifice.
Yeah.
Talking of which, I'm putting my 1940 French uniform on tomorrow to go to Avoncroft to take part in a 1940s weekend.
It's a slightly more hollow experience, my reenactment, since I woke up to history being a lie.
Do you think there'll be old radios playing in the mood?
Oh, undoubtedly.
And there will be girls wearing that red lipstick and hair done up and all of that.
The thing I tell myself, though, is whether I am reenacting a lie or not doesn't actually matter.
What I'm actually doing is dressing up as one of the poor sods who was flung into this for whatever reason.
I've never been necessarily reenacting the history.
It's always been about walking a few miles in the shoes of one of our forebears.
So I think that's still valid.
Oh, sorry, I just remembered Veryshargin.
What do you think of him?
Veryshargin.
What's that?
Russian war artist that I sent you a picture.
Oh, gosh, those are rather good, though.
How much do you like him?
I love them.
Amazing.
He was a.
Vasily Veryshargin was a painter, obviously, a war artist, a traveller.
So he travelled in the Caucasus and sort of traveled to the east.
i was blown away by his stuff i just think he's really he was a he was a a nihilist as well um but So he wasn't exactly sort of gung-ho for war.
I think that his sympathies were with the ordinary soldiers like yours.
That's the only place to be.
Yeah.
But anyone watching this, have a look.
Look at the pictures of Vasily Veryshagin.
They're amazing.
Particularly the one I sent you of the soldiers in that fortress somewhere in the desert.
They looked like a sort of Russian Foreign Legion.
They did, didn't they?
Yeah.
And they're all waiting.
The gates are about to be stormed by the enemy, whoever the enemy are.
They look like the forlorn hope or whatever.
Yeah.
Powerful pictures.
Maybe Dick and James do Israel has now become Dick and James do Moscow.
It would be so good.
And we could do the galleries and the churches and the farmers' markets, the restaurants, just the culture.
That's what we're into, isn't it?
They'd Dick they'd probably take part in a reenactment.
They'd probably love it.
I just, if we can get there before the West provokes the war they want with.
Because I think the West is really hot for war right now with Russia.
I mean, I think actually the West is always hot for war.
Yeah.
Just that they have to leave a sort of decent amount of space before they start the next one.
Yeah.
Anyway, Russians, we and by the way, Ukrainians, we don't want you to die in this forever war either.
Well, that's another thing that's a problem, isn't it?
At the moment, you're remotely sort of complimentary in any way about Russia.
Oh, you must hate Ukraine.
We've just got to end.
We're just with the ordinary people who don't want war.
And Christians, that's the other thing, too.
Oh.
The thing that I got you.
Right.
Yeah, well, I'm looking forward to that.
Yeah, the thing I got you is so good.
Good.
But the people I spoke to see this as the battle between the final battle.
But they're Orthodox Christians and they get it.
And they see it with the Battle of Forces of Evil.
And they totally get that we shouldn't be fighting Christians.
They totally get the importance of the family.
They're into having big families and they're not into kind of the moral corruption and the squalor that we've allowed to take over the West.
Listen, you had me at raw milk.
I know.
There's no need to sell it any further.
By the way, another thing.
Your horrible nephew, the other.
You're familiar with him.
Yeah.
When I was in Greece, he said, Dad, do you want to do you want this?
It's the last hard-boiled egg.
And I said, or shall I have it?
I said, no, I think I should have it.
So I had it sitting on my plate and had my Greek salad and thought, oh, I'll have my egg now.
And I cracked it.
And it was a joke.
Or a yoke, as he insisted on calling it.
And it hadn't been cooked at all.
And the stuff started coming.
I said, you bastard, you bloody idiot.
I went to the market in Kalamata to get those eggs.
And they're really good eggs.
And your joke is stupid.
And I thought, I know how I'm going to get my revenge.
I'm going to eat the egg raw.
So I went and got a cup and put it into the cup.
Cracked the egg into the cup and stood over the edge of the balcony in case I vomited as I did it.
And I drank down the egg.
And it was really fine.
Yeah?
Yeah.
It's the thing you should do.
I think you'd want to do it on kind of artisanal eggs rather than bog standard.
I find this story quite distressing.
No, it's good.
It's good that they're good for you.
Yeah, raw milk, raw eggs.
Right.
And raw meat.
Yes.
The person who gave me your thing.
Yeah.
Do you want me to...
Don't do it now.
Okay.
The person who gave me your thing, he's called Vlad.
Alright.
All the best ones are.
And the worst ones.
He's about six foot five.
He comes from Siberia, where apparently they're all like that.
And the first I saw of him was a video that somebody posted of him wrestling a bear.
He was play wrestling, this bear.
And he was giving a good account of himself with this bear.
And he towered above me.
I mean, I don't really know.
I'm not six foot five.
And he also has, guess what, a pet.
Borzoi.
No.
Think more Siberian than that.
Wolf.
Yeah.
He's got a pet wolf.
A wolf, not a wolf hound.
Which he adopted as a puppy.
And what kind of, what, what colour is the wolf?
Is it white?
No.
Grey.
No.
Black.
Yeah, it's a black wolf.
Right.
So he wrestles grizzly bears and he's got a black wolf.
And he comes from Siberia.
And I said to him, I said, Vlad.
I really don't want my sons to be fighting your sons.
Because this is just ridiculous.
But it wouldn't last very long, would it?
And we did that, no, it wouldn't last very long.
And we did that thing where there's a sort of fantastic Russian manhug.
They really like manhugs.
It's great.
I'd love it.
Yeah, there's so much love about Russia.
I'm there.
Tell him there.
Yeah, I think.
Even though I would have to give up my wife for a colder, yet hotter, younger.
Chicken James go to Russia would be a jolly fine thing.
It really would.
We do it so well.
How are we sponsored by Gazprom?
And cats.
Now, actually, we couldn't be supported by the Russian mainstream media, because, I mean, it's not like, as I said before, it's not as though there aren't normies in Russia as well.
Most of the Russians are normers.
They only get certain elements of this stuff.
might as well get money thrown at us because people are going to say this has already happened with you anyway yeah exactly i'll give you an example of um when i was out there i met ian um And Ian is a sharkling.
And he's gone out to live in Belarus with his mum.
His mum was awake long before we were.
And during COVID, his mum went, I've had enough.
I'm going to go and live in Belarus.
So he bought her a house in a village outside Minsk.
And his mother's very happy.
With her dogs and cats or whatever.
Anyway, so we went to this restaurant.
And Ian explained to me, he said, the Russian waiters, they don't do this.
And can I tell you about that menu today?
And they don't do the effusive stuff.
They don't chat.
They didn't do the chat.
They just formally, they're much more formal.
But I've seen this misrepresented as like the Russians are horrible and cold.
Surly.
And it's not that.
I mean, I did actually have a Russian in a restaurant called Tchaikovsky where I had my best dish, apart from the one that's in the Georgian restaurant.
I had black dumplings with cod and shrimp.
And what was amazing about it was the black dumplings were nice.
It's like for some sort of pastory thing.
But the sauce was one of the best sauces I've ever had.
I thought it had been made with wild mushrooms, but it hadn't.
It must have been some kind of seafood reduction, which had that sort of umami quality of mushrooms.
And it was just like amazing.
Anyway, my point was about generally, apart from the chap in that restaurant, Tchaikovsky, who told me, by the way, that dish is so legendary that people come from St. Petersburg, which is like a four-hour train journey away, just to that restaurant, just to have that dish.
They generally don't do the chat.
It's just not the tradition.
They're there to kind of take your order and bring it to you.
And that's it.
Well, listen, we've got to do more of this because we're overdue for this one anyway.
But I'm going now.
You want a cup of tea.
I'm probably almost at beer time, it being a Friday.
And I've got to get my shit together for tomorrow.
So I'll have to do more.
And yes, we have Dick and I have been deliberately starving ourselves of any conversation.
The only communication was, Are you ready to do a podcast?
And you said, duh.
Duh.
Yeah.
But you said net.
I didn't say that.
Because you had to fiddle with your settings.
I said niet.
I said, yes, I did.
Do you know what a wolf is in Russian?
No.
Volk.
Volk.
And do you know what a horse is in Russian?
It's something counterintuitive, isn't it?
Just like dog or something, right?
Loshut.
What does that translate as?
Horse.
Yeah, but what does it sound like?
Loshet.
Right.
No, not getting Russian.
No, it's it's it's quite although there were some there are some helpful words there were there was the lots of false friends in that the the the thing that looks like an like an n is um an i and the and the thing that looks like an h is a ya i do like the fact that it's got a different alphabet that that's very much in its favor yeah anyway look i'm gonna go we'll get we'll get into another
thing well thanks everybody for for watching and listening and don't forget to support me um i like you need more support apart from putla yeah exactly this this show is now sponsored by
gazprom and i'll have to i'll get a new uniform if it is that's the thing that's i suppose i was trying to explain to these these russians like if you're going to spend money on propaganda why not just get a bunch of sort of halfway sympathetic podcasts and bloggers to come over to to pay for their expensive flights and just let them don't feed them any information just let them loose and let them find out for themselves and report back they're happy to do it enough for reenactors
they get treated like royalty out there i really do want to get out there and do one i you one one final thing you should have been there when just before we left i went into a russian um cigarette shop the shop was called um tabac and pivo which means tobacco and beer right and we've just ordered a representative selection of russian cigarettes and
this massive queue sort of built up because we were while we're delaying everybody and the excitement that was caused by by english tourists in moscow you know there was a woman in the queue trying out her rudimentary english there was somebody else being shocked that i was buying tobacco for my daughter right but they were nice they're nice they're i like the russians
uh nothing um yes so support me on on on substat jake was lying i'm not i'm not supported by by i'm not i didn't get sponsorship from the russians um so if you can i like it when you buy me coffee and send me little sweet messages and you when you subscribe it i makes a difference thank you there's great great Okay, well we'll speak soon, I hope.
Sooner than this recent gap anyway.
You won't, you still don't know what the thing I've got.
No, no, well I'm gonna have to come and see you soon, aren't I?
I want to do uh I want to do horse riding with you again and and bring my and bring my incumbent wife.
You can do that, yeah.
I want it to be a surprise for her because uh I know how much she'll love it, but um I want her to experience the joy that I experienced when I came along with you and I said, look, be okay as long as we don't gallop, then we're galloping.
I'll be okay as long as they don't make me jump and then we're jumping.
So I want her to do that.
This will go out actually, this is a call out.
I'm doing another of my riding days where we do a bit of jumping and stuff.
And the last one was fantastic.
It was inevitably, it was almost all women.
And even those who didn't, who came initially not wanting to jump, they ended up jumping.
It's the best.
It might only be a half barrel, but this is a different place.
So this is okay.
We do this at a cross-country course and we have lunch.
If you want to come, I think there might be two or three places, not more, but if you want to be surrounded by lovely women, mainly, Simpatico, and on great horses, and it's on October the October the 20th.
There's lunch as well.
But so contact me by hook or by crook.
Seriously, you're going to love it if the space is.
So do try.
October the 20th.
Horses.
You've got to be a sort of like, you know, not total beginner, but yeah.
Anyway, thanks, Dick.
I'm going to have to go.
Okay, brother.
We'll speak soon.
Enjoy your tea and love the family.
Yeah.
All right.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
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