The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 171 ｜ Modern Scottish Warrior Goes 'BRAVEHEART' on Elites ｜ Neil Oliver ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 Last week, global elites sauntered in with their private keys and flocked to Davos, Switzerland,

00:00:05.800 and to blame the rest of us for climate change.

00:00:10.080 Then their media lackeys attacked anyone who dared to call them out.

00:00:14.280 With a tone of disgust, the Associated Press announced,

00:00:18.820 as the elites arrive in Davos, conspiracy theories thrive online.

00:00:24.100 CBS reported that, quote,

00:00:25.820 as elites gather in Davos, conspiracy theories gain traction online.

00:00:31.380 Then there was CNN that warned Davos conspiracy theories used to live in fringe corners of the Internet.

00:00:38.840 Now they've gone mainstream.

00:00:41.320 Wow.

00:00:43.120 I mean, one would say it was almost like they were getting marching orders in a memo.

00:00:49.520 The words of the German philosopher ring true here.

00:00:54.140 The power of an ideology is not only measured by the answers it could provide,

00:00:59.840 but by the questions that it is able to suppress, end quote.

00:01:04.700 Today's guest takes that as a challenge.

00:01:08.100 This is an amazing, amazing man from Scotland.

00:01:12.660 He has undergone quite a metamorphosis over the last couple of years.

00:01:17.900 He realizes that the people promising solutions are really the same people responsible for the problems.

00:01:27.240 As Einstein said, the people who created the problems cannot fix the problem.

00:01:33.100 He called the lockdowns the biggest mistake in world history.

00:01:37.680 And this man happens to know history.

00:01:39.960 He's a history enthusiast.

00:01:41.800 He once described Klaus Schwab as a ludicrous parody of a movie villain.

00:01:48.500 I mean, I think this guy is like a brother because I've said Klaus Schwab is just a white kitty cat away from a Bond villain.

00:01:57.040 Same thing.

00:01:58.280 Before becoming a political lightning rod, he was an archaeologist.

00:02:03.220 He was a historian, an author, and a TV presenter.

00:02:05.900 He did all kinds of documentaries, I think, over in England.

00:02:12.920 I think it's for the BBC because don't they do all of it over there?

00:02:16.220 He did programs about Cleopatra and Vikings and battlefields and Scottish history.

00:02:22.720 What changed is when he spoke up against COVID and lockdowns and vaccines.

00:02:31.280 It's cost him a lot, even friends.

00:02:33.820 But he's a Scot.

00:02:36.360 He's outspoken about the erosion of rights.

00:02:39.600 As he said in a recent monologue, merely to live is not enough, not nearly.

00:02:45.900 What matters is to live in freedom.

00:02:49.220 He even told one of our producers that he believes he and I are brothers from another mother.

00:02:54.120 You'll have to decide for yourself.

00:02:56.660 Please welcome Neil Oliver.

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00:04:55.240 Neil, how are you?

00:04:57.100 Hello, Glenn Beck.

00:04:58.140 I am fine.

00:04:59.000 Thank you for asking.

00:04:59.980 How are you?

00:05:00.560 I'm very good.

00:05:01.580 I don't know if you sent the memo or I sent the memo, but we seem to be dressed almost.

00:05:06.040 And I thought, I thought we're kind of like brothers from different mothers in some ways.

00:05:13.780 Mothers.

00:05:14.280 Yeah.

00:05:16.020 Well, we're in tune, certainly.

00:05:18.100 Yeah.

00:05:18.640 I will tell you that I am, I'm fascinated by you.

00:05:22.260 I love people who, and it's very rare.

00:05:25.740 I love people who are strong in their opinion and they know what their opinion is.

00:05:31.120 And then new information comes along and they're like, well, I have to reevaluate.

00:05:35.380 That does not happen in today's society, but it's happening more and more.

00:05:40.700 And, you know, in America, you're maybe not as well known as you are over in the UK, but you are an archaeologist.

00:05:52.440 You are a very logical man.

00:05:55.500 And you are now, you've gone from, you know, stability and the man to, I think he might be crazy.

00:06:04.600 Hey, what happened?

00:06:07.060 Yes.

00:06:08.600 It's a good question that will take a bit of unpacking and answering.

00:06:13.500 Yeah, I am.

00:06:15.080 I went to university in the 80s.

00:06:17.400 I've got a degree in archaeology.

00:06:19.040 I worked in that field for a while.

00:06:20.940 Then I retrained as a journalist working in newspapers, local newspapers, local weekly newspapers for a few years.

00:06:26.640 Long story short, I stumbled into television in the early 2000s and I made, from that time onwards, for about 15 years, quite soft documentaries about archaeology, about history, celebrating landscape, meeting interesting people along the way.

00:06:47.840 Nice, soft, celebratory television.

00:06:50.660 And then I did go through an evolution, I suppose, around the start of, or even before COVID's advent and the lockdowns and all the rest of the madness.

00:07:06.100 I think I put my head above the parapet a few times.

00:07:09.980 Back in 2014, there was a referendum held in Scotland to decide whether or not Scotland would remain part of the union of the United Kingdom or strike out as an independent country.

00:07:24.420 I put my head above the parapet in favour of maintaining the union.

00:07:28.000 I like Britain and said so, which made me a lightning rod for all kinds of criticism from the other side, those who fervently wanted Scottish independence.

00:07:39.380 Hold on just a second, but it wasn't really Scottish independence.

00:07:44.080 The choice was England or stay with the EU, which is worse, I think, right?

00:07:51.280 Well, yes, you raise a good point, because amongst the arguments I subsequently went on to make, and I wasn't alone in doing this,

00:07:58.120 because it seemed to me that the analogy would be, if you wanted to get divorced from your overbearing partner, might it not make sense to just be on your own, at least for a while?

00:08:10.680 Where what was being proposed by the Scottish National Party was a quickie divorce and then scuttled down the aisle as fast as possible to marry Europe. 1.00

00:08:21.300 An even more overbearing partner, because having broken with the rest of the UK, Scotland would have been out of the European Union in every way,

00:08:33.060 and would have had to reapply and would have been seeking to rejoin as an independent country,

00:08:38.260 which would have been bedevilled by problems, not least the fact that countries like Spain,

00:08:43.300 with the Basque separatists and Catalonia and the rest,

00:08:49.500 were not likely to be receptive to a separatist, secessionist country joining,

00:08:55.220 because it would set a precedent that might have been uncomfortable.

00:08:57.400 Anyway, long story short, yes, it didn't make sense to me that you would break one marriage only to get married again

00:09:05.260 into even more repressive circumstances, even less independence.

00:09:11.720 And more distant.

00:09:12.560 It didn't strike me as independence at all.

00:09:14.420 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:09:15.060 I mean, if you don't like being told what to do by a distant and overbearing partner,

00:09:20.220 why on earth would you swap London for the European Union?

00:09:24.620 It didn't make any sense to me.

00:09:25.940 Yes. So that was the first time I put my head up and I remained in trouble ever after

00:09:32.260 because that debate never went away.

00:09:36.100 You know, the referendum settled it.

00:09:37.680 The union was maintained by a vote of 55 percent to 45 percent.

00:09:43.320 But that said, the call for another referendum has never gone away.

00:09:47.480 Then I was still in the public eye, I suppose.

00:09:50.860 But as nothing really compared to what happened subsequently, I put my head up again around the time of the Black Lives Matter protests,

00:10:01.520 which started with you guys and then eventually went everywhere.

00:10:04.480 And here in Britain, it manifests itself in, well, statues being pulled down and calls for other statues to be torn down.

00:10:14.860 There was also a wholesale attack on our heritage, culture, rewriting history,

00:10:21.020 portraying Britain, the British Empire as only and always something bad.

00:10:25.100 And I was quite outspoken in defence of Britain and against the tactics and really the politics of BLM. 0.84

00:10:35.720 And so that attracted, I was controversial again at that point.

00:10:42.360 And then I was doing that on a radio show.

00:10:45.180 A friend of mine who has a radio show had me as a weekly guest and we would chew the fat for half an hour about the issues of the day.

00:10:52.900 But it started with BLM and then it moved on to freedom of speech, protection of heritage,

00:10:58.720 the rewriting of history and all sorts of topics.

00:11:00.520 Then along came COVID and lockdown, which obviously changed everybody's lives.

00:11:07.040 In the midst of that, I was approached by a new startup television channel in the UK called GB News.

00:11:15.560 Britain's news channel is its kind of subtitle.

00:11:19.160 And I was invited to become one of its original lineup of presenters.

00:11:24.380 And I said yes.

00:11:25.720 And I've been doing that ever since.

00:11:27.040 That's been up and running for nearly two years now.

00:11:29.300 Or it'll be two years in the spring.

00:11:32.840 And I've been, again, cast as controversial.

00:11:36.320 GB News was cast as a far right, extremist, home of swivel-eyed, tin hat-wearing loons.

00:11:45.440 Even before a frame of its output had gone on television.

00:11:50.460 None of which is true, I think, as anyone would admit if they bothered to watch any of the content.

00:11:55.960 Anyway, that's a matter of opinion that people can agree or disagree upon.

00:11:59.300 Yes, you started out by saying that I've become someone who's characterized as one of the people who have, let's say, extreme views.

00:12:10.440 I don't buy that for a second.

00:12:12.260 I think I stayed in place and the world slipped out from under my feet and went to my place.

00:12:18.240 100%.

00:12:19.240 I'm where I always was.

00:12:23.060 Yeah.

00:12:23.460 I was never political.

00:12:25.600 I've never been a member of a political party.

00:12:28.020 For the whole of my life, I have treated politics and politicians with, well, almost contempt, really.

00:12:34.780 I'm very suspicious and cynical about the political class.

00:12:38.000 Every time a general election came around, I would have to sort of hold my nose and find someone to vote for.

00:12:44.040 But there was never anyone that I liked.

00:12:45.620 I always just was in a position of having to pick the person that I disliked least.

00:12:49.300 Right.

00:12:49.640 So I'm not I'm not a card carrying political supporter of the left, of the right or of the centre.

00:12:57.260 I always I just mean, I suppose I was a centrist, but only because I didn't feel pulled to either extreme.

00:13:03.500 I think I've always held quite rational middle of the road, perhaps traditionally liberal with a small L views.

00:13:12.980 I just believe in freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to protest, freedom to get on with your life with minimum government, actually, is what I believe in.

00:13:22.920 And if that makes me a contrarian and an extremist, then so be it.

00:13:26.140 Yeah, I have to tell you, we're having the argument that it's, you know, Republicans, Democrats, it's this party, that party, back and forth.

00:13:33.500 I've really come to the conclusion that is only a distraction.

00:13:39.560 It really is because it's happening all over.

00:13:43.320 It's happening all over the world.

00:13:45.600 People are standing up because they're not being listened to by their government.

00:13:51.080 They're being ruled over.

00:13:53.300 They're not.

00:13:54.000 It's not a government of the people, by the people, for the people in America.

00:13:58.360 And it's not happening in any country.

00:14:01.000 You've got farmers being told what they can and cannot farm.

00:14:03.840 You're destroying the Dutch farmer, which is kind of important. 1.00

00:14:09.500 You're destroying the industry of oil and gas.

00:14:13.940 I mean, how do you survive in England without oil or gas or coal?

00:14:19.600 So people are standing up and we're we have to find a way to wake people up to it's not we're not fighting with each other.

00:14:30.520 They're making us believe that our fight is between each other.

00:14:34.300 It's actually the people versus the elites.

00:14:37.120 Oh, yes, I don't just match you shirt for shirt.

00:14:44.380 I agree with everything that you said there in that brief summary of the problem.

00:14:48.740 I have an adage that I cling to all of the time, which is it's never about what they say it's about.

00:14:53.920 Yes.

00:14:54.940 We're being thrown one worth.

00:14:56.760 We're being you know when you sometimes people play with a cat by by with a torch and they shine a light on the floor and they just move around.

00:15:03.640 And the cat springs from where the bright patches to the next place where the bright patches.

00:15:08.060 Hold on just a second.

00:15:09.200 Just for the American audience, I want you to know, even though I hate cats and I might play with a cat with a torch.

00:15:15.840 That's the English word for flashlight.

00:15:18.020 But go ahead.

00:15:19.000 A flashlight.

00:15:20.040 Yes, of course.

00:15:20.820 Yes.

00:15:21.160 Not a blowtorch.

00:15:22.980 I'm not talking about playing with a naked flame and a living animal.

00:15:27.660 No, a flashlight.

00:15:29.540 Yes.

00:15:30.060 And I think we're being distracted with one thing after another.

00:15:32.540 COVID worked very well for that that elite group to get everybody looking over there.

00:15:37.860 Look over there.

00:15:38.660 COVID.

00:15:39.580 And then it has never stopped.

00:15:41.040 Then it's, you know, it's a climate crisis.

00:15:43.240 Look at the climate.

00:15:43.980 We're burning the planet to a crisp.

00:15:45.960 It will shortly be a ball of charcoal falling through infinity, leaving a trail of smoke behind us.

00:15:50.960 If you listen to the to the the prophets of doom, the war in Ukraine, the war in Ukraine is not about saving democracy.

00:15:58.580 I'm not really going to say what I think the war in Ukraine is about, but it's not about saving democracy.

00:16:03.580 So that's that's that's another useful distraction.

00:16:06.360 May I suggest I was just on the air today and I said something that it puts me into a category that I'm uncomfortable being in because I'm a guy like you.

00:16:21.080 I trusted institutions.

00:16:23.940 I trusted my government.

00:16:25.760 I believed in it enough.

00:16:27.900 You know, same with politicians, but enough to go.

00:16:31.200 You know, we make mistakes, but we generally try to do the right thing.

00:16:35.260 I believe our government, the United States government and most Western governments are so far off the rails.

00:16:43.660 I truly believe that this is all about the Great Reset.

00:16:48.820 And we are we watch our president and it is like we're itching for war.

00:16:53.960 Why would you send not defensive weapons, but offensive weapons that, you know, are going to be used in the Crimea, which Putin will never do it.

00:17:05.780 And even today, day number one, they're in Russia saying they're declaring war on us.

00:17:13.360 Joe Biden, a year ago, said if we send tanks and airplanes that listen, folks, no joke, it'll be World War three.

00:17:23.540 I think they are trying to collapse our economies.

00:17:27.960 They're trying to collapse the social order so they can reset it all closer, as your Fabian socialist said, closer to their heart's desire.

00:17:38.480 Yes, I think so.

00:17:39.660 So, I mean, am I not right in saying that when Joe Biden pulled America out of Afghanistan, he said it was in part to do with bringing to an end America being involved in forever wars?

00:17:49.320 Yes.

00:17:50.200 I and I don't think you want to.

00:17:52.500 I think that was partly to give the Air Force base Bagram.

00:17:57.140 You were part of that.

00:17:58.600 Your your country was part of that.

00:18:00.800 We didn't consult anyone.

00:18:02.280 We just gave it.

00:18:04.280 It's insane.

00:18:05.480 Yes.

00:18:05.660 So we pulled out or America pulled out of a forever war and now it would appear as straight into another forever war.

00:18:14.000 American politics is not my area.

00:18:16.000 Of course, it isn't.

00:18:16.960 I wouldn't presume.

00:18:18.280 So I would just say that my suspicion is that a lot of what's happening in in Ukraine has to do with with with the U.S.

00:18:26.320 seeking to reestablish itself as the predominant, a predominant world power.

00:18:32.160 It's a great.

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00:18:34.420 Yeah, what a great dog.

00:18:35.960 I don't think you can live in Scotland without that kind of dog.

00:18:39.260 Can you?

00:18:40.120 This is this is this is one of my Irish wolf finds.

00:18:43.080 Glenn, give me a sec.

00:18:43.980 I'm just going to put her out of this room. 1.00

00:18:45.500 Give me one sec.

00:18:46.180 I'll be straight back.

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00:20:19.860 Can we talk a little bit about and I'm leading someplace with this.

00:20:23.940 I work with a guy who is Scottish and, you know, when I first met him, everything Scotland, you know, built the moon.

00:20:36.080 Everything was Scottish.

00:20:37.680 And I started doing my homework mainly because I wanted to put we we rip on each other hard.

00:20:43.000 And and so I read a book by one of my favorite historians called I think it's how the Scottish saved the Western world or something like that.

00:20:55.000 And I was astounded by how much of our founding, the stock and the strength came from the Scottish.

00:21:06.000 I want you to talk about that for just a bit.

00:21:11.040 What did Scotland contribute to the world of freedom?

00:21:15.240 And I have some follow ups.

00:21:16.940 I'm going someplace.

00:21:18.940 It's a big, interesting question.

00:21:20.460 Scotland was was as well is a small country, small population by comparison.

00:21:29.900 It's small in every way in terms of geography and population and indeed wealth when compared to England.

00:21:37.420 And it always always a testy relationship with between the two.

00:21:43.740 You know, they were always like, I don't know, big brother, little brother or whatever analogy you might want to make.

00:21:48.440 Then finally, the crowns came together in 1603.

00:21:52.660 Elizabeth the first died.

00:21:53.960 She was succeeded by James the sixth and first.

00:21:56.760 He was a Scot, Scottish king.

00:21:58.580 He became the king of England and Scotland.

00:22:00.300 Then in 1707, the parliaments, the both the English and the Scottish parliament were dissolved.

00:22:05.700 And a separate parliament of a united parliament was created in 1707.

00:22:12.180 That was very controversial at the time.

00:22:14.840 And when the when the when the Scottish parliament was dissolved and the ink was drying on the paper that had dissolved that parliament, the bells in the in the in St.

00:22:24.880 Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh played.

00:22:26.500 Why am I so sad on this?

00:22:28.040 My wedding day, which is an old Scottish tune, which kind of summed up the mood of the of the people.

00:22:33.060 There was a lot of why?

00:22:33.940 Why on earth are we getting married to our old enemy?

00:22:35.980 It was the theme in a way.

00:22:38.200 However, that said, it became the best thing that had ever happened to either Scotland or England.

00:22:44.900 Scotland and England together became much greater than the sum of the parts.

00:22:49.980 And it opened the world to Scotland at that point.

00:22:53.960 England effectively had an empire of a sort.

00:22:57.160 It certainly had more contacts overseas than Scotland had had independently.

00:23:01.340 And by wedding with England, all of those doors were opened. 0.65

00:23:05.600 You know, what's mine is yours.

00:23:06.760 What's yours is mine.

00:23:07.980 You know, to continue that marriage analogy.

00:23:11.640 And Scotland took that opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

00:23:16.180 And the Scots became really preeminent, disproportionately represented in what became the British Empire.

00:23:25.140 Everywhere the British Empire went, be it to India or into Africa or anywhere else, Scots, often a disproportionately large number of Scots were at the forefront of it, wherever it went.

00:23:40.660 Great organisers, great administrators, great bureaucrats, great engineers, great fighting men.

00:23:48.420 So Scots and then that bridgehead having been established by the soldiers and the engineers and the administrators, the rest of the population really saw the opportunity as well.

00:24:04.600 And so in short order, Scots were everywhere on the planet. 1.00

00:24:10.520 They were there and in many, in most instances, they were there helping to improve places, often by just of being there and being hardworking and industrious.

00:24:23.380 And so the Scots began to reap the rewards of the British Empire every bit as enthusiastically as any English person did.

00:24:31.260 And we now find ourselves in a situation where I think it's reasonable to estimate that there's perhaps, well, there are about five million Scots in Scotland, but there's estimated to be 50 million people of Scottish descent scattered around the globe.

00:24:47.940 You know, that's that's the extent to which we made that impact.

00:24:50.800 And so really, I think in answer to your question, I think the opportunity of that 18th century union opened the world to Scotland and the Scots by nature, by inclination, were ready, were ready for the off.

00:25:05.940 There's an interesting bit of background as well.

00:25:08.720 Now, before the union, before any of that happened, the reformation that happened all across Europe, where people broke away from the traditional Catholic church and became Protestant in all various different sects and forms of the Protestant faith.

00:25:26.580 In Scotland, very much the leader of the reformation in Scotland, the man that came to the fore was John Knox, you'll know, obviously.

00:25:33.620 And he insisted, amongst other things, that every parish really in Scotland should have a school.

00:25:40.800 Up until that point, education had been harder to come by.

00:25:44.060 It was really the preserve of, you know, the great and the good.

00:25:46.740 Rich men's sons were educated and not so much for the rest.

00:25:51.480 John Knox and the reformation meant that what he wanted everyone, every man, woman and child to read the Bible in English for themselves, you know,

00:26:00.580 get away from bishops and the hierarchy of the church, establish this personal relationship with God.

00:26:06.480 And to do that, you needed to be able to read so that you could read your Bible.

00:26:10.740 And the collateral benefit of all of that was that everyone learned to read and write.

00:26:17.480 And in short order, in the century following the reformation, Scotland became the most literate population in Europe.

00:26:27.540 A larger proportion of Scots, of all classes, rich and poor, male and female, could read and write competently than any other population that you might want to point a finger at.

00:26:39.320 And that was, that was, that was, that was incredibly important as well, because when you then subsequently got the union, when Scotland and England came together and the world opened up, you had all these educated people.

00:26:50.000 Right.

00:26:50.560 You had all, and the thoughts, the thoughts from these educated people made their way to America and our founders used a lot of these new thoughts and really well argued thoughts to create our nation.

00:27:08.940 So here's, and every time I look, I brought something, I have a incredible history museum.

00:27:16.740 And one of the things we collect are, are any tales from the, the Western culture.

00:27:25.500 So this is, this is one of our new acquisitions.

00:27:29.460 This is the sort of Braveheart from the Mel Gibson movie.

00:27:34.700 When we think.

00:27:35.480 It is not.

00:27:36.100 It is.

00:27:36.740 Wow.

00:27:37.120 Yeah, it is.

00:27:37.820 Um, uh, when you come over, I'll let you put it on.

00:27:41.320 Uh, but, uh, but, uh, but when we think of the Scots, we think of people, at least in America, people who fought to be free, fought to be free, fought against the Kings, fought against all of this stuff and knew who they were proud in heritage.

00:28:00.520 And now the Scots are, I mean, no offense, but it's like you're sheep now.

00:28:08.520 What happened?

00:28:09.260 The Scottish National Party happened when I was growing up and becoming aware of things political, let's say, you know, when I knew what was going on, the Scottish National Party was very small.

00:28:24.580 It was a fringe movement, it was a fringe movement, really, uh, often regarded as quite an eccentric bunch, uh, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a succession of, of competent politicians, it began to grow.

00:28:44.860 And then, and then famously under Alex Salmond, it reached a high watermark by achieving this long dreamt of referendum that would have, that was to decide whether or not Scotland remained part of the union or left, as previously discussed.

00:28:57.200 And then that didn't happen. Alex Salmond then stepped away and was replaced by Nicola Sturgeon, who is the first minister and has been ever since.

00:29:05.340 And I'll be, I'll be honest with you, the, the Scottish National Party and Nicola Sturgeon have run Scotland into the ground.

00:29:11.740 Uh, they are incompetent would be the fairest way to describe what's been going on.

00:29:16.920 Everything they touch turns to, well, yeah, everything they touch turns to something you wouldn't want to touch or smell.

00:29:23.260 And, uh, the infrastructure, uh, the National Health Service in Scotland, education.

00:29:30.600 But it's not.

00:29:31.320 Having a Scottish education.

00:29:32.960 It's not just.

00:29:34.460 Used to be.

00:29:34.940 Go ahead, go ahead.

00:29:37.020 Having a Scottish education used to be something you bragged about.

00:29:41.080 You know, anywhere in the world, if you had been educated at school in Scotland and then at a Scottish university, that was a badge of, that was a badge of honour.

00:29:50.300 And you could sort of hold your head high anywhere when people learned that you'd been educated in Scotland.

00:29:54.660 That meant something.

00:29:56.080 It really meant something.

00:29:57.840 Now, education standards have fallen so far in Scotland that Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP government have taken Scotland off of the international league tables because it's too embarrassing now to have Scotland compared with other nations because we fall so far down the league.

00:30:13.840 Wow.

00:30:14.000 Okay.

00:30:14.220 You know, so in every, in every way, so that's, that is what happened.

00:30:17.620 That's what has happened to Scotland.

00:30:18.800 And it's very important, I would say, Glenn, it's very important for your, for your audience to hear that the portrayal of Scotland that comes from the SNP and the Scottish government does not speak for the majority of Scots.

00:30:31.960 They've never been a majority.

00:30:33.120 They have a majority.

00:30:33.820 They have control of the Scottish government, but they're still a majority party, a minority party.

00:30:38.080 They are still a minority party in the Scottish parliament.

00:30:40.820 They're, they're given decision-making ability by an unholy alliance with the Greens, the Green Party.

00:30:46.720 However, but they don't speak.

00:30:49.260 And I think people in England, certainly, and perhaps people in North America, they might get the idea that when they hear Nicola Sturgeon's voice, that's Scotland speaking.

00:30:57.200 It's not.

00:30:57.820 It's the Scottish nationalists speaking.

00:31:00.520 And the majority of Scots are, are, are of the sort of Scots you're still talking about.

00:31:05.300 The people who want good education for their children.

00:31:08.560 They want to be, you know, part of the wider world.

00:31:11.200 You know, they're, they are welcoming to any and all, including the English.

00:31:15.180 I mean, the old animosity with England is the stuff of ancient history.

00:31:18.720 There's a bit of, there's a bit of rough and tumble around an international soccer game or an international rugby game.

00:31:25.180 And it's, and it's quite fun, but it's a 90 minute, it's a 90 minute situation.

00:31:29.740 It's for the duration of the game.

00:31:31.860 So it's important that in my opinion, if you want to take my word for it, that the Scots are still what they always were.

00:31:38.320 You just don't hear them so much.

00:31:39.460 We are watching the collapse of our most trusted institutions.

00:31:44.600 And I think you can, you can hear it in this podcast.

00:31:48.140 Everything is changing.

00:31:49.600 Everything is collapsing.

00:31:51.060 Everywhere you look, the wheels are falling off.

00:31:54.460 That's why I would urge you to invest now in emergency food before it's too late.

00:31:59.660 I'm talking about the, the farmers in, in Holland.

00:32:03.700 These are, these are some of the most important farms in, uh, on the continent of Europe because they provide, they're the second, um, most prosperous, uh, or productive farmers in the world.

00:32:19.300 And the government's just shutting them down.

00:32:21.680 What are you going to do when there's no food?

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00:32:50.180 Explain to me, um, something is this what I was driving at?

00:32:54.640 Um, your COVID lockdown was probably only second to, uh, Australia or New Zealand.

00:33:02.720 Um, it, it, it, and, and it, it instituted all of these tracking devices.

00:33:10.360 And now you've just declared a new national emergency, as I understand it with global warming.

00:33:17.280 And now you're being restricted on how many miles you can drive, or at least they're tracking all of it.

00:33:23.080 Can you explain what's happening and how, how is Scotland putting up with this?

00:33:31.400 Well, as previously mentioned, it's never about what they say it's about.

00:33:37.600 COVID enabled, uh, politicians to take for themselves an inordinate amount of power, the like of which they had never previously had.

00:33:47.040 They've been drunk on that power ever since.

00:33:50.800 And in the way of politicians having shortened the leash around the people's necks, they are completely disinclined to give us any slack.

00:33:58.560 So having been able to take away people's liberties in all manner of ways, they are disinclined to give them back to us as if they were ever theirs to give us in the first place.

00:34:08.560 I mean, those rights are, are born rights.

00:34:11.240 You know, they are rights instituted by the universe and God or, or, or whoever it is that you take your, that you take your transcendental orders from.

00:34:18.800 But having got those powers, they want to hold onto them.

00:34:22.160 COVID has run out of steam and now the climate crisis, so-called, which I don't buy into at all.

00:34:28.320 I believe that the climate changes in the same way that I believe the climate has been changing for billions of years.

00:34:34.260 For as long as there's been an atmosphere on planet earth, there's been a climate.

00:34:37.700 The climate changes.

00:34:39.240 Subject to our relationship with the sun, we live in a solar system.

00:34:42.560 That's the important word.

00:34:43.920 We are driven by the sun.

00:34:45.380 And sometimes we go through, depending on our relationship with the sun, the angle of the tilt of the planet, the shape of our orbit from, from steep oval to more of a circle dictates periods of warm and periods of cold and they alternate.

00:35:01.520 And even in the, within living memory, within recorded memory, there have been very hot periods followed by cold periods.

00:35:08.080 I grew up in a time when we were being told in the UK that look out, there's a new ice age coming.

00:35:12.500 Oh yeah, me too.

00:35:13.080 There were, there were, there were, there were mock-ups on the front pages of daily newspapers showing icebergs floating down the Thames and polar bears.

00:35:20.100 In one of the, and now it's, and now it's.

00:35:22.460 Time magazine did a story in 1972, I think, talking about the ways to solve it.

00:35:28.920 And one seriously discussed solution was to put soot on the polar ice cap.

00:35:36.760 I mean, their, their, their suggestions now are just as ridiculous, except the governments are run with these private partner, you know, public private partnerships, the banks, the central banks who are just looking for power and money.

00:35:54.880 And they know what they've built is collapsing.

00:35:58.880 So they're just building framework that will catch them.

00:36:01.600 We'll all fall into the, in, into the bottom.

00:36:04.940 They'll be fine.

00:36:06.760 And, and they're doing it without even, they're doing it in spite of us, in spite of us saying, don't, no, don't do that.

00:36:16.500 And, yes, so your, your question to me was, you know, how, how we are, how we're responding to it.

00:36:26.740 I, I, I speak to people, people come up to me and I'm quite, I live in a small town.

00:36:31.240 I live in Stirling in Scotland.

00:36:32.620 It's a small town, 60,000 people or something.

00:36:35.660 And I'm quite recognizable.

00:36:37.340 And people, I talk to people all the time.

00:36:39.640 I get, I get letters from people all over the world.

00:36:42.320 People, people write, I don't have any of them to hand at the moment, but I get letters every day.

00:36:46.980 Addressed, they don't even have my address.

00:36:49.140 They come to, they're addressed to Neil Oliver, the guy off the telly.

00:36:54.080 Or there'll be a, or there'll be a picture of me, sometimes drawn by hand and an arrow saying this guy.

00:37:00.440 And the postman delivers all these letters to me.

00:37:02.940 And so I get, I, I'm able to take quite a good straw poll of what's out there in the, in the wider population.

00:37:08.380 And people are not happy.

00:37:10.160 They don't get to voice, they don't get to air their opinions in the way that I do.

00:37:14.140 You know, I'm very, you and I are very fortunate in that we have platforms and we're able to get the word out about what we're saying.

00:37:19.360 But there's, there's a huge groundswell of, of population out there who know, who have awoken at different times in their own time, in the same way that I did.

00:37:28.480 We're all operating on different internal clocks and different things trigger different people and make them aware.

00:37:33.660 There's all these people out there, too many.

00:37:35.580 I think that, that lump of the population now that is awake, has tuned into what's going on and doesn't like it, is more and more numerous.

00:37:44.060 And I think that the, the elite, the powers that be in whatever, I think they have a real problem.

00:37:49.080 I think they have a tiger by the tail now.

00:37:51.260 You know, you talk about these public-private partnerships, the World Economic Forum, you know, operating out of Switzerland, Klaus Schwab being its boss.

00:38:00.580 You know, he talks and has been talking since the 1970s about stakeholder capitalism.

00:38:04.660 Correct.

00:38:04.900 Which, when you boil it, when you boil it down, it basically means giving the boards of huge transnational corporations the decision-making power in lieu of national governments.

00:38:14.540 So instead of...

00:38:15.580 The government is actually kind of in charge.

00:38:18.400 It's more fascistic.

00:38:20.060 I mean, isn't this the definition of fascism?

00:38:23.640 The public-private partnership?

00:38:26.500 Yes, it's a, it's a tyranny.

00:38:28.700 Right.

00:38:28.960 I, I come up, a couple of things.

00:38:30.900 You mentioned the impact that Scots had had in North America, and obviously I would echo that. 1.00

00:38:37.740 I'm very aware of, of a, of a man, a character, Francis Hutchison, who in the latter part of the 18th century, so the 1700s, 1770s something, he held the chair.

00:38:49.460 He was the professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow University.

00:38:52.260 And he, he taught, he preached almost, that rather than being manna from heaven, falling randomly onto the, onto the heads of the blessed, happiness, happiness was something that ought to be worked for.

00:39:09.980 And he, furthermore, he suggested that to make yourself happy, the best way to do that was to work with all of the strength of your body and spirit to improve the lot and the lives of others.

00:39:23.220 Yes.

00:39:23.520 And that the collateral benefit thereby would be your happiness.

00:39:26.940 You would make yourself happy almost by accident.

00:39:29.120 Correct.

00:39:29.520 By making other people's lives better.

00:39:31.640 Now, one of the people that he, that picked up that lesson in his classrooms was John Witherspoon.

00:39:38.420 John Witherspoon was eventually invited to be the second president of what became Princeton University.

00:39:44.880 He became the second president.

00:39:46.780 He's also, of course, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

00:39:49.860 And there's good reason for speculating that the very idea of life, life, love and the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of happiness might be an echo of Witherspoon, that happiness was to be earnestly pursued.

00:40:09.760 It wasn't a gift.

00:40:11.640 It didn't just happen to lucky people.

00:40:13.520 It was the obligation, the responsibility of each one of us to pursue, with all the fibre in our beings, happiness.

00:40:21.320 And by that pursuit, we would make the people around us, the communities, the families, we would make those people happier as well.

00:40:27.980 So there was something fundamental and profound that came out of the Enlightenment, the Scottish Enlightenment, that went around the world.

00:40:36.620 And there's certainly a good reason for thinking.

00:40:38.760 It certainly had an influence on that gathering that was working out and talking about what the nature of the new country of the United States of America was going to be.

00:40:50.740 And I also come back all the time to Magna Carta, 1215.

00:40:56.420 That was a grand charter that was sealed.

00:41:00.720 The King John couldn't, didn't sign it.

00:41:02.620 He sealed it with a seal into wax.

00:41:04.960 He was made to acknowledge a document that can be summarised as saying, even the king is subject to the law.

00:41:12.780 Even the king is subject to the law.

00:41:15.440 You don't just get to do what you want because you're powerful and because your dad was the king as well.

00:41:19.900 That's not how it works.

00:41:21.380 You're subject to the law.

00:41:23.460 And Magna Carta enshrines something else which is fundamental, which is that even if you're told that government has power, it doesn't.

00:41:33.780 The only entity that is sovereign is the people.

00:41:40.100 The people are sovereign.

00:41:42.060 And all of the power rests with the people.

00:41:44.200 And people need to be re-educated in the fundamental concept that we lend our power to our elected representatives.

00:41:52.600 And when their time in office comes to an end, they hand that power back to the people to then redistribute it again.

00:41:59.600 And all of this nonsense that's going on at the moment, this public partnership, stakeholder capitalism, this is just a ruse by a narrow elite of people that want to centralise power.

00:42:11.900 They want to take control of energy.

00:42:13.700 They want to take control of the food. 0.69

00:42:15.800 They want to take control of our currencies, our finances.

00:42:19.420 They want control of everything.

00:42:21.100 They want centralised, top-down power.

00:42:23.800 And we're being distracted left and right by COVID, a pandemic, another pandemic in two years' time, climate crisis, war in Ukraine.

00:42:32.140 And in the background, all of these pieces on the chessboard are being moved without us noticing it to enable the kind of tyranny that you're describing.

00:42:40.740 And people need to waken up to something quite simple, which is that they, we, the people, there's eight billion of us and there's a few thousand elite.

00:42:49.220 We have the power and we are not to be told what to do.

00:42:54.200 On the contrary, we tell them what to do.

00:42:56.800 And the sooner the mass of the populations remember that inalienable right, then the happier we'll all be.

00:43:03.980 I just read something that was done on American radio in 1937.

00:43:13.200 I think it's called The Fall of the City.

00:43:15.860 And it's profound.

00:43:17.280 And it, it talks about how the city or the empire falls.

00:43:24.480 And it is the people that just give up their freedom.

00:43:29.620 They are so afraid of something else that when the conqueror comes, and in this case, the armor is completely empty.

00:43:38.180 There's nothing there.

00:43:39.380 That the people cheer and, and say, thank God we got rid of freedom.

00:43:47.160 It was corrupting us.

00:43:49.080 All of these things.

00:43:50.980 That's exactly what's happening right now.

00:43:53.920 And I, I, I, you know, I've struggled with this for a while.

00:43:57.740 And I'm this, one of the reasons I love talking to you is I love to see people who woke up and what woke them up.

00:44:05.100 Because we don't make it, if they build this whole system, it's going to be harder to get out once this whole, you know, China is the model kind of system. 0.66

00:44:17.220 How do we wake people up?

00:44:20.640 What, what has to be said to people?

00:44:22.540 What do they need to see to, to realize, for instance, the World Economic Forum, that's not a conspiracy theory.

00:44:31.580 It's a conspiracy fact.

00:44:33.600 And it's all out in the open.

00:44:36.420 Yeah, well, conspiracy theories get a bad rap.

00:44:39.400 Right.

00:44:39.880 For a start.

00:44:40.800 Right.

00:44:41.100 I mean, let's agree on that point.

00:44:42.300 I mean, conspire literally means to breathe together.

00:44:46.900 You know, it's, it's where your heads are close enough together that you can, that you're sharing each other's breath while you're talking to one another.

00:44:53.180 That's conspiring.

00:44:54.600 And, you know, that's what has been going on for a lot of people who have awoken that while they were locked down in their homes.

00:45:00.300 I love how that prison parlance became, you know, the common speak of the, of the free people.

00:45:05.760 Lockdown, excuse me.

00:45:07.420 But in lockdown, people conspired because they were in their homes together and they started to talk.

00:45:12.340 And thank God for the Internet.

00:45:13.940 You know, people were able to conspire online and share ideas and reassure one another that they were not alone.

00:45:19.080 And they hadn't gone mad that there were, that there were thousands and then tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of people who believe and think the same thing.

00:45:27.780 So conspiracy gets a bad rap.

00:45:30.320 Thank goodness for conspiracy, to be quite honest with you.

00:45:32.640 That's why some of us are where we are today, by sharing breath.

00:45:37.540 How do we get out of it?

00:45:38.700 I think people need to be reminded of that which they know to be true.

00:45:44.260 You know, when you take it all the way back to, you know, what's known in, well, and certainly in, in historically in Britain as common law.

00:45:50.480 But if you take it even further back to natural law, everyone knows right from wrong.

00:45:55.720 You know, that's the, that's the premise of, of natural law.

00:46:00.280 Everyone knows right and wrong.

00:46:01.940 Whether they choose to choose the right or the wrong is, that's personal.

00:46:06.000 But everyone knows the difference between.

00:46:08.540 And people, because of that, are more than capable of, of governing themselves.

00:46:14.360 That's, you're talking about government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

00:46:20.920 What's being instituted at the moment, certainly here, but all across the West, is a, is a, is a framework within which, and it's been there for a long time, where governments legislate, they, they make up law.

00:46:37.960 That's what legislation is, they conjure up laws out of nowhere, and they then retain to themselves the power to enforce those laws, and also to punish those who break the laws.

00:46:50.460 That is the definition of tyranny.

00:46:53.560 If your governing body makes the laws, imposes the laws, and punishes, breaches of that law, that means they're holding all the levers of power.

00:47:03.060 Common law, which is there in Magna Carta, but it's much older than Magna Carta, it's a, it's a thousands of years old principle, really enshrines within it the power of the jury.

00:47:14.660 You know, we get trial by jury.

00:47:17.000 Well, people have forgotten what that really means.

00:47:20.880 In, in the original iteration, trial by jury was manifesting the democracy of the people.

00:47:30.140 It was, it was manifesting the power of the people.

00:47:33.060 Because when a, when someone was brought for trial before a jury of their peers, of people just like them, that jury of 12 people in England, or 15 people in Scotland, was empowered, actually obliged, not just to decide the guilt or innocence of the accused, but to judge the justice of the law.

00:47:54.760 And it meant that even if the evidence demonstrated that a person had broken the law, had broken the legislation, it didn't automatically mean that they had to be convicted.

00:48:07.560 The jury had the power to say, yes, I know the law, and I've heard the evidence, and we as a majority still think that person should be acquitted.

00:48:18.060 And furthermore, we're setting aside that law as, as not good.

00:48:23.800 That was called nullification by, by jury.

00:48:28.660 You were nullifying the law.

00:48:30.580 And it meant that government could set the law, but the people ultimately had the power to say, no, not good enough.

00:48:38.940 That person goes free.

00:48:41.600 In a true jury trial, you only need one person.

00:48:44.100 You only needed one person to say, I don't, I'm not persuaded of that person's guilt.

00:48:48.140 And the verdict of that jury was then not guilty.

00:48:50.900 Even though 11 people had said that that person was.

00:48:54.100 You only needed one.

00:48:54.760 Okay, the power in the jury, the jury, as it properly was instituted, is the most powerful manifestation of the power of the people to make sure that we, and not our rulers, decide on the justice of the law itself.

00:49:13.180 And people need to be reminded of some of these fundamentals.

00:49:16.920 The government is here today and gone tomorrow, or should be.

00:49:20.620 But the people are sovereign and are always here.

00:49:25.580 And the power is always ours.

00:49:28.340 And that's what people really need to be reminded of.

00:49:31.100 People fundamentally need to be reminded of the sacrosanct, the absolute untouchable, the inviolability of the right, the born right of the human being.

00:49:43.700 We are not governed by others.

00:49:47.400 Because we govern ourselves.

00:49:51.140 Our rights are not given to us by the powerful.

00:49:55.560 You're not given your freedom by the police or by the government.

00:49:59.440 You are born free.

00:50:01.860 You are a free individual.

00:50:03.900 And people need to be, if people remember those fundamentals, instead of being cowed in the face of a legislation that says, go to your homes and stay there until we let you out.

00:50:14.360 The next time anyone tries to do that, the people have to be, have the confidence to say, no, you can't do that to me.

00:50:22.400 I am free and you do not have the power to take that freedom from me.

00:50:26.520 I've heard you.

00:50:27.620 In answer to your question, people need to get back to fundamentals.

00:50:30.860 You know it's bad when you get something like your credit card stolen.

00:50:34.920 You have to go through all of the hassle of getting it replaced, plus working with your credit card company to clear the fraudulent charges.

00:50:42.320 You can't go out and use your credit card until they send you a new one.

00:50:47.160 Imagine how much worse it would be if the thing that was stolen was your actual home.

00:50:53.600 Here's somebody who used to actually do that.

00:50:56.080 Nobody thinks that I can take their house and borrow against the house.

00:50:59.020 Oh, no, I have title insurance for that.

00:51:01.160 No, it's in my name.

00:51:02.500 Or he would have to get some special document.

00:51:04.760 They would call me.

00:51:06.140 You know, what, he's calling you?

00:51:07.740 After I've stolen the title, borrowed against it, or sold the property, or done whatever I've done with it,

00:51:12.660 it's 60 to 90 days to even figure out that they're the victim of this crime.

00:51:16.520 You know, by that point, you start getting foreclosure notices, and you realize you've got four mortgages on your house.

00:51:22.020 Not only that, you don't even own your home anymore.

00:51:24.040 It's not even in your name.

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00:52:00.600 I heard an essay that you delivered that was,

00:52:08.260 I wonder what would happen if we all just stopped paying taxes.

00:52:13.460 If we all said, you know, and you went through a hundred different ideas.

00:52:20.500 And that's a, it's a great idea, but it only works if we all would do it.

00:52:25.980 Right?

00:52:27.180 Yeah.

00:52:27.560 We all have to be on the same page.

00:52:29.400 And when I listened to you, to me, everything rings true.

00:52:34.560 I know history.

00:52:35.840 I've thought this out for 30 years.

00:52:39.580 And I know who the people are.

00:52:42.160 I know where the money comes from.

00:52:43.660 I know how the system works that they're playing.

00:52:45.900 But if you, if you listen to you and you're not awake yet, you sound incredibly dangerous.

00:52:57.500 Well, it's, it's only about, I'm not, I'm a, I just can, I'm not the best.

00:53:05.340 I've never been the best at anything.

00:53:06.660 I'm not, I'm just a reasonable guy.

00:53:09.000 I'm just, I'm interested.

00:53:10.480 But reason, reason and common sense are not part of the ruling class lingo anymore.

00:53:20.840 You know, you mentioned that when I said, what would happen if we, if we didn't pay attention.

00:53:26.000 You mentioned fascism actually, which is, I mean, you'll know this, but it's always interesting.

00:53:29.640 It's always useful to be reminded that the word comes from, the root is fasci, F-A-S-C-I, I think.

00:53:36.460 And it's, it goes all the way back to Rome and it describes, it's a bundle of sticks bound together because a single twig is easily snapped, but a bundle of sticks is almost impossible.

00:53:48.880 You can't put that over your knee and break it.

00:53:50.920 So that is an, it's a reminder that people singly are vulnerable, but together are indomitable.

00:53:56.880 So, and that is, it's important.

00:53:59.900 It's important to remember the power of, of people backing one another up.

00:54:04.080 As you say, if they get you on your own, you've had it.

00:54:07.260 But if people just come together, then they are absolutely indomitable.

00:54:11.100 And when I, when I talked about, you know, not paying taxes or, I suggest, you know, imagine if we all just stopped paying our mortgages all at once and our rents, you stop.

00:54:21.340 There's not enough jails in the world to put everybody in mortgage jail.

00:54:26.220 So actions like that.

00:54:27.560 And I, I also say that I think it's time to think the unthinkable when it comes to some elements.

00:54:32.540 I think they've got us into so much debt that the debts need to be written off.

00:54:38.880 You know, if you go back into history and you'll know this as well, Jubilee.

00:54:43.500 I mean, we just had before her late majesty passed, died.

00:54:47.900 We had her platinum Jubilee and the Jubilee is an ancient tradition.

00:54:52.660 You know this.

00:54:53.320 Yes.

00:54:53.540 Whereby every, every 50 years or so, typically, it was on the, it was the seventh, seven times seven, 49, seven Sabbaths after seven Sabbaths.

00:55:02.160 All debts were cancelled.

00:55:03.420 And all the people who were enslaved in an ancient kingdom, who were enslaved by their debt, were set free and allowed to go home.

00:55:12.400 It was like the end of a game of Monopoly.

00:55:14.340 Because you know how a game of Monopoly works.

00:55:15.940 Eventually, one person's got everything.

00:55:17.760 Right.

00:55:17.940 And everybody else has got nothing.

00:55:19.420 So that's it.

00:55:20.520 There's no more fun to be had.

00:55:21.960 Right.

00:55:22.140 And all the money goes back into the bank, to the dealer.

00:55:24.940 And you'll start again.

00:55:25.920 Well, Jubilee had that.

00:55:27.140 It was supposed to have that effect.

00:55:29.060 And it was, it was canny thinking by the kings because the last thing a king wanted was for any or some of his aristocrats to have amassed so much power in the form of the debt of people beholding to them that they might be able to use those people as an army to overthrow the king.

00:55:44.880 And so it was always in the king's interest every 50 years in a kingdom for the king to say, right, they blew, it was a jublo, the horns, a ram's horn was the jublo.

00:55:55.200 They blew the horn.

00:55:56.280 That's it.

00:55:56.860 Everyone go home.

00:55:57.900 All debts are cancelled.

00:56:00.800 That's unthinkable because people will tell you all the reasons why you can't do that.

00:56:03.760 Oh, you know, people's pensions will collapse and, you know, there'll be chaos and carnage and all the rest of it.

00:56:07.820 And, you know, that's probably true.

00:56:09.000 However, some form of that has to be faced up to because we have been indebted deliberately by, you know, fractional reserve banking and all the rest of the insanity that ensued in the U.S.

00:56:21.420 from the from the Fed was created in 1913 when everybody was on holiday for Christmas and they slipped through the ability for these people to, you know, to make money out of nothing and lend and lend and lend and lend and lend everybody into debt.

00:56:33.800 Hold it just a second.

00:56:34.960 Will you please tell the story because I had never heard of it.

00:56:37.920 The English, the the Bank of England is printing money, debt.

00:56:44.060 It's all, you know, people are starting to say, I want my silver or gold from the Bank of England.

00:56:49.760 And and the British government issued some kind of note.

00:56:54.940 I've never heard this before.

00:56:56.460 Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:56:59.420 Yeah, it was on the eve of the First World War.

00:57:02.320 So it was in 1914 and everyone knew war was coming, but it hadn't quite happened.

00:57:08.360 Britain declared war in August.

00:57:10.460 I think it was May, June.

00:57:11.620 People could see you could see the storm clouds building.

00:57:14.160 And as people always do when a war's coming, they want to get tangible wealth, you know, get hold of whatever you've got.

00:57:20.660 So in those days, it always said on the old fold out, you know, the huge bank notes are like a map.

00:57:26.160 They're so big.

00:57:27.040 It said on them, promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of one pound, 10 pound, 50 pounds, whatever.

00:57:34.320 You could literally go to the bank, hand over your bit of paper and be given that amount of gold back.

00:57:39.860 That's what we had with the Federal Reserve.

00:57:42.060 Yes.

00:57:42.680 Right.

00:57:43.020 And so so the banks immediately realized we've got a run here.

00:57:48.000 This is going to this is going to run.

00:57:49.360 This is going to be a run on the banks and everything will go.

00:57:52.420 And we won't be able to and the government won't be able to pay for the war.

00:57:55.140 You won't be able to buy any tanks or guns or uniforms.

00:57:57.820 So they went crying to the government at that point and said, you're going to have to.

00:58:02.020 So they shut the banks on the Friday night.

00:58:04.820 It was a bank holiday coming.

00:58:06.260 So they shut the banks.

00:58:07.200 And what was it, what was issued, what was very quickly agreed and a bill was put through

00:58:11.960 parliament to make all of this a reality.

00:58:15.740 A bill was put through parliament to create not notes from not bank, not bank notes from

00:58:22.480 the bank, but treasury notes, because obviously the government has a treasury from, you know,

00:58:29.000 from the days of kings, there's a treasury and they were they were issued as treasury notes

00:58:34.780 and they were backed by the government.

00:58:38.700 OK, they're not backed by the bank.

00:58:41.040 They were backed by the government.

00:58:42.300 And if you like, they were written against the value of the country.

00:58:47.700 The country itself as an as an entity was valued at some billions of pounds in 1913.

00:58:54.360 And also, even more importantly, it was the it was the potential of the people, the energy,

00:59:01.080 the creativity, the just the will of the people was also had a value put on it.

00:59:06.260 And that was underwriting these these treasury notes.

00:59:09.780 The signature that was on them was from the was from the chief secretary to the treasury

00:59:15.160 at that time was a guy called John Bradbury.

00:59:17.260 Bradbury, I think it's John, it's definitely Bradbury.

00:59:20.320 And the people accepted them as Bradbury pounds.

00:59:24.440 And he was really respected or he had a lot of credibility?

00:59:28.640 Just because his name was his name was his name was there.

00:59:30.820 So people were handed these and they said Bradbury.

00:59:33.180 So they started calling them Bradbury pounds and they've gone down in history as the Bradbury

00:59:36.600 pound.

00:59:37.280 And so the banks reopened on a on a Monday morning or whatever.

00:59:41.280 I think they stayed closed rather than a one day bank holiday.

00:59:43.620 The bank stayed closed for about three or four days while this was hustled through.

00:59:47.680 The Bradbury pounds were issued and the people took them.

00:59:50.520 And the people back in 1913 had faith in the country, were patriotic and they believed

00:59:56.300 in each other.

00:59:56.900 They believed, yes, as you know, the millions of us here and the natural wealth of the country,

01:00:03.520 this is underscoring this.

01:00:04.800 And so they didn't go to the bank and demand their gold.

01:00:07.160 So it stopped the run on the there was no run on the pound.

01:00:10.720 There was no run on the currency.

01:00:12.220 And it got it got the banks out of that terrible hole.

01:00:17.740 The interesting, tragic, really corollary is within a few months, the banks realised, well,

01:00:23.660 they knew right away we're not having this because these these Bradbury pounds were debt

01:00:28.900 free.

01:00:29.600 We're not sorry.

01:00:30.540 We're interest free.

01:00:31.540 They weren't being you didn't if you if you were if you took out 10 Bradbury pounds

01:00:36.620 and you had to repay it, you only repaid 10.

01:00:40.080 There was no interest on them.

01:00:41.520 Imagine that.

01:00:42.300 Imagine no interest on a loan.

01:00:43.880 You borrow a thousand pounds to buy a car.

01:00:47.680 You pay a thousand pounds back.

01:00:50.020 OK, there was no interest on them.

01:00:51.640 And the banks took one look at these Treasury notes and said, enough, we're not going to

01:00:56.520 make any money out of this war.

01:00:58.240 It was a there was a killing to be made in the war, literally and metaphorically.

01:01:02.340 But only if the banks got back to issuing bank notes and they did.

01:01:07.300 And the bank, the interest rate that the banks established when the Bradbury pounds were

01:01:11.620 withdrawn, bank notes came back in and the interest on them, the interest on loans or

01:01:17.700 the interest rate that was set at that time was about three and a half percent.

01:01:21.740 And four years later, after the war, everyone had made a lot of money, not people like you

01:01:27.060 and me, but the arms manufacturers and the already wealthy that had stakes in all of this,

01:01:33.100 as is the case in every war.

01:01:34.840 For every war there's ever been, a handful of people get very, very rich off the back

01:01:39.420 of it.

01:01:40.220 And so the banks stepped in in still in 1914 and said, right, enough of the Bradbury

01:01:45.380 pound that got people out of that temporary loss of loss of confidence.

01:01:49.480 Now, confidence has been reinstated, restored by the Bradbury pound.

01:01:53.260 Let's get back to business as usual.

01:01:54.700 Three and a half percent, please.

01:01:55.980 Let's all get rich.

01:01:57.640 Let me let me take you back to covid for a second.

01:02:00.440 What do you what do you make of the.

01:02:05.780 Is there such a thing as excess deaths?

01:02:09.240 Is there something or we just you know, when you buy a car and you're looking at a white 1.00

01:02:13.500 car, all of a sudden you start to see that white, you know, Ford everywhere.

01:02:17.160 Are we just noticing or is there something going on?

01:02:23.300 Because I don't believe anybody.

01:02:25.440 I don't believe anybody.

01:02:27.240 Yeah.

01:02:28.600 As well as it's never about what they say it's about.

01:02:32.340 I also live by once you see it, you can't unsee it.

01:02:36.200 Correct.

01:02:36.480 So as you say, once you once you notice, you remember those 3D pictures that were a

01:02:42.220 craze for a while that you at first glance, they look like just fuzz.

01:02:45.800 Yeah.

01:02:45.980 But then if you kind of squinted at them, you could make an image step forward in 3D.

01:02:50.040 And once it was there, you couldn't make it go away.

01:02:52.920 But, you know, it was just, oh, how did I not see the car or the stag or whatever?

01:02:57.340 Once you see this nonsense, it's there in three dimensions and you can't not see it.

01:03:04.160 COVID, excess deaths.

01:03:08.200 Yes.

01:03:08.580 At the moment, I'm seeing figures at the moment.

01:03:10.900 I'm paying a lot of attention to this at the moment.

01:03:12.600 There's a fantastic guy that I've spoken to throughout this, a guy called Dr. John Campbell.

01:03:18.040 I don't know if you've run across any of his content on YouTube.

01:03:22.080 And he follows the stats.

01:03:23.460 Very good.

01:03:24.240 I've spoken to him online and offline and whatever.

01:03:28.100 He's at the moment, but just before Christmas, the excess deaths, which is to say,

01:03:34.160 people dying of things other than COVID, we're running at about two and a half thousand a week.

01:03:42.200 At the moment, it's about three thousand excess deaths a week in England.

01:03:48.060 The Scottish figures are kept separately by Nicola Sturgeon for our own reasons.

01:03:52.120 And I'm not sure of the figures, the latest figures, but it's running at about three thousand a week, I think, in England.

01:04:01.080 And a very worrying, I mean, it's a worrying number anyway, but a proportion of those are people who are dying at home.

01:04:07.720 You know, they're dying those kind of deaths that people aren't aware of until the milk bottles and the mail starts building up outside the front door.

01:04:17.340 And people think, where's where's Janet?

01:04:20.020 Where's John?

01:04:21.080 And then the police come and they break in and they find someone dead in their seat or dead in their bed.

01:04:27.220 People who weren't old, weren't ill.

01:04:30.560 They weren't being treated for anything.

01:04:31.920 They didn't have cancer or chronic heart disease.

01:04:35.540 They just died.

01:04:37.580 And by definition, dying at home means you're not worried about anything.

01:04:40.820 You're not at the doctors.

01:04:41.960 You're not in the emergency room at a hospital.

01:04:44.760 You're at home going about your business and you stop being alive for no reason anybody saw coming.

01:04:52.260 These these kinds of deaths are worrying and inappropriate.

01:04:55.900 And that's why they're called excess.

01:04:58.380 And so there's all sorts of reasons being bandied about.

01:05:00.760 I mean, obviously, two years of lockdown, a lot of us from early on were saying this will be catastrophic.

01:05:06.720 Locking people in their homes, stopping social contact is going to affect people's immune systems.

01:05:11.400 It's going to stop people getting access to health. 1.00

01:05:14.000 They can't get to the doctors.

01:05:15.540 People that were a wee bit worried about mental health, mental health alone, mental health.

01:05:20.460 And so so what we're seeing now, I mean, a tsunami built up, you know, the great the water pools out.

01:05:26.460 That's what happened during lockdown.

01:05:27.660 The tide disappeared.

01:05:29.380 And now the wave, the great big wave is coming back in and we're starting to see it in the form of these excess deaths.

01:05:36.820 So so people are dying of of untreated conditions.

01:05:40.160 As you say, mental health was damaged, all sorts of things.

01:05:43.600 And then, of course, there's all the unasked.

01:05:45.740 The questions you're not supposed to ask.

01:05:47.280 And even if you ask them, you don't get answers about the vaccines.

01:05:50.960 You know, more and more people are coming forward.

01:05:53.120 We know that the vaccines or that I don't even call them vaccines.

01:05:55.840 The products sold as vaccines, those medical products, those gene therapies have definitely caused people's deaths and have caused people's long term hurt.

01:06:05.580 But, you know, vaccines are not being offered to under 50s in the UK all of a sudden.

01:06:13.260 And you say, well, we've been told for two and a half years that they're safe and effective.

01:06:16.760 Why can't the why can't the under 50s have them anymore? 1.00

01:06:21.840 And if they're only safe and only effective and if they've saved millions of lives, can we ask some questions maybe about all these excess deaths?

01:06:31.780 We know that we know that people have died and been and been permanently injured on account of the products sold as vaccines.

01:06:38.400 That's showing up on coroner's reports.

01:06:40.800 We know that for a fact.

01:06:42.040 But if you ask the question, when some young footballer face plants in the middle of a game, age 25, fit as a butcher's dog, why did that?

01:06:53.520 Was that could that have anything to do with the vaccine?

01:06:56.220 Then that question is shouted down, even though it's always legitimate to ask why a young, otherwise healthy person has died.

01:07:03.680 So it's a complicated one.

01:07:05.700 And the nature of the censorship and the silencing means that we're not able to have a proper grown up conversation and face up to the fact that thousands of people, more than would have died at this time of year, last year, have died at this time this year.

01:07:18.840 And they haven't died of COVID.

01:07:20.340 Can we please have a proper drains up investigation into exactly what is going on?

01:07:25.840 You try having that conversation with the people in power and you get brushed aside pretty quickly.

01:07:31.100 I want to I've said so much more to ask you about.

01:07:36.720 But, Neil, I think I want to end this conversation here.

01:07:40.460 You're an archaeologist, a real highly educated man.

01:07:45.700 You've studied history.

01:07:49.000 And I know it would be a pure guess.

01:07:53.220 But where are we on the scale of civilizations?

01:07:58.100 What if you went out a hundred years?

01:08:02.960 What do you see that you think we might find a hundred years from now about this time period and about the next 10 or 20 years?

01:08:14.180 Where are we headed?

01:08:16.720 I well, I think this ought to go down as a time of madness.

01:08:23.520 Yes.

01:08:23.720 This is a time in which we have become unmoored from much of the wisdom that we acquired during the last several hundred, if not several thousand years.

01:08:35.740 We have lost the plot or we haven't.

01:08:39.320 But we are being encouraged to drift into a place of madness.

01:08:42.840 We are told we are told to dismiss everything that became culture building and and common sense over five thousand years.

01:08:56.480 Throw it all out.

01:08:57.540 To me, it's it's it's it's readily summarized by the fact that here in Britain, front rank politicians, including the leader of the opposition party, Keir Starmer of the Labour Party, the leader of the Labour Party, a prime minister in waiting, if you like, can't or won't define what a woman is.

01:09:20.320 When asked the question, what is a woman, he obfuscates and dodges the question.

01:09:27.780 We have a Supreme Court justice that was asked the same question and and and was asked in an open hearing to to confirm her spot on the Supreme Court. 0.93

01:09:40.900 She couldn't define.

01:09:42.080 She said, I'm not a scientist.

01:09:44.540 Yeah, so that for me is shorthand for the fact that we have become unmoored from reality, sanity and reason.

01:09:54.540 Kenneth Clark's a historian, an art critic, really.

01:09:57.380 But he made a very a landmark television series in the 70s called Civilization.

01:10:03.120 And there's a book that went with it, which I have on my shelf over there.

01:10:06.860 And he he speculated about where civilization comes from and where it goes.

01:10:11.240 And he said that in essence, civilizations don't collapse because of pressure from without from outside barbarians, whatever they collapse from within.

01:10:22.800 And why do they collapse from within?

01:10:24.940 You mentioned that idea of people that for whom freedom becomes too onerous, too much of a responsibility.

01:10:31.100 There's another wonderful book by Eric Hoffer, True Believer, where he describes how popular mass movements evolve.

01:10:37.720 And there's there's always there's always an extent to which people are persuaded that the past is bad.

01:10:47.100 The present's pretty lousy and only the future is worth having.

01:10:50.800 And that's always an easy argument to make because the future doesn't exist.

01:10:54.000 And so nothing's gone wrong with it yet.

01:10:55.800 So you sell people in the future and you make them distance themselves from the past.

01:10:59.740 But in civilization, Kenneth Clark said that people become exhausted and they get the they have because it was many generations ago that the civilization was established.

01:11:11.900 Every succeeding generation takes it for granted a little bit more.

01:11:15.620 Yes.

01:11:15.860 Until eventually you get people, you get a generation of people who too many of them think that order and the kind of life we have is just in the natural order of things.

01:11:26.280 Yes.

01:11:27.000 When, of course, you've only got to look out at the wider world to see what the natural order of things actually gives you.

01:11:32.400 And it's chaos and it's mob rule and it's violence.

01:11:35.900 But too many people get too distanced from the hard work of creating civilization and think that civilization just happens and they become lazy and complacent and they become bored with it.

01:11:45.620 Hannah Arendt, when she talked about the banality of evil, she also suggested that people take their present circumstances for granted and they just want something else, anything else.

01:11:56.900 I think that's the period that we're moving through.

01:11:59.580 And of course, you know, at any point from the future, people will look back and you can always you can always suggest that anacyclosis has a role to play.

01:12:08.280 Now, that's a way of looking at the evolution of civilization by Polybius, who was a Greek historian and thinker thousands of years ago.

01:12:17.700 He said that you've got a turning wheel, a rotation, a revolution.

01:12:23.180 You start with a good king who appears out of chaos and creates peace, like a kind of King Arthur who creates a Camelot and everything's great.

01:12:33.760 But then his son didn't have to fight for Camelot.

01:12:37.540 So he's not as he doesn't he doesn't he doesn't care as much.

01:12:41.480 And then his son is even worse.

01:12:43.560 And around him grows powerful men, aristocrats.

01:12:48.000 They eventually overthrow a weak prince and you've got aristocracy rather than monarchy.

01:12:55.340 The first band of aristocrats are all right as well.

01:12:59.260 They've they've got they've got ideas that degenerates as well.

01:13:02.900 They pass the power to their sons and daughters and eventually it degenerates into oligarchy, which is the rule of rich men who are only in power because they're wealthy.

01:13:13.180 That's where we are.

01:13:13.780 Eventually, the people eventually the people get tired of the oligarchs and they overthrow them.

01:13:20.000 And that means you've got democracy.

01:13:21.940 You've got people power.

01:13:23.500 And the first democracy is good because people had to fight for it and struggle and achieve it and overthrow the oligarchs.

01:13:29.900 But again, a few generations down, it degenerates and you've got people taking democracy for granted, which is where we are now.

01:13:36.680 And that degenerates into mob rule.

01:13:40.000 And we all know about mob rule.

01:13:41.840 We see it in third world countries and all the rest of it.

01:13:44.220 It's chaos.

01:13:45.980 Out of the out of the mob rule rises a demagogue, a charismatic figure who says, follow me and I'll take you to the the sunlit uplands again.

01:13:55.980 And the demagogue is false. 0.98

01:13:59.460 He's a straw man. 1.00

01:14:00.660 He's hollow.

01:14:02.180 The demagogue is eventually overthrown by the good king.

01:14:05.500 And where are we now?

01:14:06.440 Then you're back at midnight again.

01:14:09.000 You're back at the top of the clock.

01:14:10.720 And then the whole process starts again.

01:14:12.840 In answer to your question, I think we're at that point now where people are taking it all for granted.

01:14:19.680 It's the democracy that people have become bored with.

01:14:23.240 They think that you just have peace on the streets, law and order, equality before the law, safety to walk the streets at night.

01:14:32.460 All of this magic.

01:14:33.800 You turn up at a bus stop and a bus comes.

01:14:36.120 You go to an ATM and you put your card in and money comes out.

01:14:39.480 People think that these things just happen.

01:14:41.820 But we've now entered into the period where too many, too large a proportion of the population are taking all of that for granted.

01:14:48.140 And they think anything would be better than this.

01:14:50.720 And the problem we've got is that there are people out there like the WEF, like the WHO, the World Health Organization, like all these transnational corporations, like BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street, who are more than happy to step in and offer people that something else.

01:15:05.840 But what the people don't appreciate is that that something else is going to end up being something they really don't like.

01:15:11.240 And tragically, I think for too many of them, it will only be when they've got it, when they're in that digital cage made of central bank digital currencies and digital IDs and social credit systems, a la the Chinese Communist Party, that model.

01:15:25.500 Only when that gate, that cage door slams shut, click, will people see, how did this happen?

01:15:31.880 Well, this is how that happens.

01:15:37.060 All right.

01:15:37.520 Well, I don't want to leave us on that.

01:15:40.000 Let me ask one more thing.

01:15:41.780 I don't want to leave that. 1.00

01:15:42.560 I'm a miserable bastard, Glenn. 1.00

01:15:44.380 I know. 1.00

01:15:44.900 I know.

01:15:46.320 I'm not invited to a lot of parties because that's usually the way where I am, too.

01:15:51.180 I can be up.

01:15:52.000 I can lift it.

01:15:52.960 I can lift it.

01:15:53.460 But, you know, I am optimistic.

01:15:55.220 I make myself be optimistic.

01:15:57.340 I am.

01:15:57.700 I'm married.

01:15:59.400 I've been married a long time.

01:16:00.460 My wife is a much more positive force than I am.

01:16:04.180 So we're in that yin and yang thing.

01:16:06.740 Yeah, yeah.

01:16:07.100 You know, that's how it's lightened up.

01:16:10.020 She takes me by the throat and lifts me up.

01:16:13.980 Right.

01:16:14.580 And so I take, but she makes, I become, I obtain optimism from her biosmosis.

01:16:20.660 If I stand close enough to my wife, it seeps into me.

01:16:24.460 It is so, I'm telling you, we are brothers.

01:16:26.720 I said to my wife at one point, I'm stealing light from you.

01:16:31.860 I just, cause I felt like a black hole. 0.91

01:16:33.880 And it's like, I should tell you, I'm just sucking all the goodness and light out of you.

01:16:38.380 I do all the time.

01:16:39.560 Some people radiate energy and the rest of us are sponges for it.

01:16:42.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:16:43.360 Well, but, but, but so when I'm in my, when I'm fully charged, when I've stood close enough to her battery to get back up to 65, 70%, I remind myself that plenty of people have learned this as well.

01:16:57.320 So, you know, that bit in Lord of the Rings in, when, when, when Frodo is talking to Gandalf, they're in the mines, Moria.

01:17:05.240 It's all dark.

01:17:06.260 It's just at the start of the Fellowship of the Ring.

01:17:08.280 And in the darkness, Frodo says to Gandalf, I wish this hadn't happened to me.

01:17:12.340 I love this.

01:17:13.340 I wish I didn't have to do it.

01:17:14.580 And Gandalf says, I'm paraphrasing.

01:17:17.560 Yeah.

01:17:17.760 Nobody that finds themselves in a situation like this wants it to happen to them.

01:17:21.980 Right.

01:17:22.360 We don't get to choose the time that we are in.

01:17:25.680 We only get to decide what to do with the time that we have.

01:17:30.760 And that is fundamentally true.

01:17:33.880 At any minute, you can make the worst of things or the best of things.

01:17:38.120 Both of those things, it's like Schrodinger's cat.

01:17:41.080 You can have success and failure are in the box all at the same time.

01:17:45.340 And you don't know what you're going to get till you open the box.

01:17:47.980 And plenty of people over the last couple of years have actually benefited from this experience because it's been dark.

01:17:53.480 But it's also been a slap in the face.

01:17:56.840 You there sleeping.

01:17:58.260 Wake up.

01:17:59.220 Yeah.

01:17:59.460 And a lot of people have, that was sore.

01:18:01.640 What?

01:18:01.840 And people are awake.

01:18:03.920 And it's not everybody.

01:18:05.420 It's possibly not even the majority.

01:18:07.140 But you don't need the majority.

01:18:08.640 You just need a very active, awake, aware, reasoned, thinking group of people acting in concert, acting together.

01:18:17.500 And we can turn this ship around.

01:18:19.220 And that's the way to end it.

01:18:23.260 Thank you very much, Neil.

01:18:24.760 Really appreciate it.

01:18:26.180 I hope to talk to you again.

01:18:27.640 I see.

01:18:27.960 I've done all the talking.

01:18:29.120 I've done all the talking.

01:18:30.040 Well, you are the guest.

01:18:31.720 Rambling on and on and on.

01:18:35.220 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0.98

01:18:37.340 Big stink. 0.96

01:18:38.460 Blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:18:40.380 Oh, that's funny.

01:18:41.280 Neil, I wanted to talk to you, and we just didn't get around to it, about Jeremy Clarkson.

01:18:48.640 Is he going to survive this?

01:18:51.440 Oh, I tell you what, Glenn.

01:18:53.800 I, I've been reading Jeremy Clarkson columns and books for years.

01:18:59.300 I love him.

01:19:00.620 Love him.

01:19:01.240 Top Gear, the Grand Tour, his latest thing, The Farm, you know, where he's, he's, he's

01:19:07.160 exposed the reality of what it is to farm with all the regulations and all the rest of it.

01:19:11.140 He's brilliant.

01:19:12.020 Brilliant.

01:19:12.660 And why people decide, well, why anyone just took, was suddenly surprised that he's taken

01:19:18.460 a pause.

01:19:18.880 He said something about, about, about Meghan Markle.

01:19:21.540 Okay.

01:19:22.160 And, but he's been saying some pretty offensive stuff about all sorts of, his whole life.

01:19:28.760 That's his shtick.

01:19:30.240 That's his shtick.

01:19:31.240 You know, he, he zones in on somebody and he rips them a new one.

01:19:34.460 That is, that is what he does. 0.99

01:19:35.740 And he makes people look silly. 0.99

01:19:37.280 That's what he does. 0.79

01:19:38.540 And, you know, it's always somebody's turn to, to get it from Jeremy, but he's a supremely

01:19:43.380 clever writer and a supremely clever broadcaster.

01:19:46.500 Oh yeah.

01:19:46.820 You don't get many people with, with that set of, that skill set.

01:19:49.620 Oh, I agree.

01:19:49.980 And you certainly don't throw them away when you find one.

01:19:53.040 But what he, what he demonstrates in living color, Vista Vision, is you cannot appease

01:20:00.240 the mob.

01:20:01.680 Yep.

01:20:03.260 Well, I've had it.

01:20:04.360 You've, I'm sure you've had it.

01:20:05.720 You know, I've, I did, I did things years, whatever.

01:20:09.100 And people said to me, you're going to have to take down that tweet, or you're going to

01:20:11.820 have to apologize for that.

01:20:13.280 And I've never done either.

01:20:14.560 Jeremy's mistake was he apologized.

01:20:19.160 And these people don't want an apology.

01:20:22.140 No, they want a skin.

01:20:23.040 They want you to expose, they want you to expose your throat so that they can rip it out.

01:20:27.960 Yep.

01:20:28.160 And the moment Jeremy Clarkson started to say, I shouldn't have said that, and I wish I

01:20:33.380 hadn't, that was it.

01:20:35.080 His throat was exposed, and they went for him. 0.77

01:20:38.480 And if, if they can, if that happens to someone as big, metaphorically and literally, he's

01:20:44.500 but six and a half feet tall.

01:20:46.100 Yeah.

01:20:46.800 And, and he, he bestrides the world of broadcasting like a silverback in the, in the jungle. 0.99

01:20:52.360 Yeah.

01:20:52.640 If that can happen to him, well, watch, because that means that can happen to anybody.

01:20:57.040 Meghan Markle did it to Piers Morgan as well. 0.93

01:20:59.360 He was another big beast in the, in the broadcast jungle.

01:21:02.700 She, she, you know, she brought him down too.

01:21:04.520 And so the, the lesson there, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, is don't try to appease

01:21:10.860 the mob.

01:21:12.080 You stand firm and you say, I said what I said, take it or leave it.

01:21:17.100 Yeah.

01:21:17.880 You know, and here in America, nobody's going to affect my life by saying, I think, I think

01:21:23.900 she's the worst thing. 0.67

01:21:24.940 I don't really like the Royal family at all, but she, I think is one of the worst things 0.97

01:21:29.440 to happen to the Royal family since, well, King Charles.

01:21:33.680 So.

01:21:34.420 It's certainly, it's certainly looking that way, Glenn.

01:21:37.020 Yeah.

01:21:37.260 I mean, I'm not, I'm pretty ambivalent.

01:21:38.800 The Royal family for me are just there a bit like the Cairngorham mountain range or

01:21:43.020 red pillar boxes or, or, or whatever, or, or Buckingham Palace.

01:21:47.240 They're just there.

01:21:48.140 Yeah.

01:21:48.820 I don't, and I, in the same way that I don't like statues getting torn down, I just say

01:21:53.200 they're all, they're just there.

01:21:54.360 Just let them get on with it.

01:21:56.220 You know, they're, they're fun to watch.

01:21:58.140 They're like the Simpsons, but not yellow.

01:22:00.100 Just, just watch them because, you know, they do stuff just as bonkers as Bart and Homer.

01:22:05.020 Just watch.

01:22:08.800 Just a reminder.

01:22:13.920 I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend so it

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01:22:19.560 I would say.

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The Glenn Beck Program - January 28, 2023

Ep 171 ｜ Modern Scottish Warrior Goes 'BRAVEHEART' on Elites ｜ Neil Oliver ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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