Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 4th May 2026 ｜ w⧸ Radical Liberation
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In this episode of the Radical Liberation Podcast, I catch up with one of the most prominent dissidents in the UK, and discuss his return to the country after 4 years, his views on the current state of the country, and what's going on in the world as a whole.
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radlib for short radical liberation is my channel yeah yeah cool thanks for coming in
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just to let people know it is monday the 4th of may in the year of our law 2026 and it's been
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been about four years since i was in england so it's really good to be back yeah okay cool yeah
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i once saw you you're you're you're recalling that you'd met me when i was here last yeah you
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spoke at a witton or shieldings once you was the only person to get a standing ovation i remember
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yep yeah i was kind of amazed remarkable no it was great it was a really really interesting talk
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It was arguably, I would say, the best talking.
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So if people might not have heard of you, you're sort of one of the more,
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I would say, one of the more eminent people, like the dissident rat.
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I've just been around, I think, as part of it.
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Tell us about a bit of your background, who you are,
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Yeah, so I got interested in political matters 30 years ago
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A friend got me interested in libertarian ideas,
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and then i i just kind of kept digging from there reading history reading political philosophy legal
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philosophy i mean all kinds of stuff right and then eventually and i was writing articles back
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then but then i had eight children that's the thing everybody needs to know about me eight
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eight yes sir you didn't pronounce like the eight it's eight i was just in italy ocho
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okay um right so so we had eight children so i kind of dropped out for a while so i feel like
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my political life has had two phases you know one i was writing basically 20 years ago or whatever
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and then i came back you know the children got to the point where they weren't all babies
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and i started to think about getting re-engaged and i was like oh youtube's pretty interesting i
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saw carl benjamin for example etc uh and i was like oh there's a really interesting conversation
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going on there so i started a little channel with the help of academic agent right he had me on as
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a guest enough that people knew me so that when i started a channel i solved the major problem with
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having a youtube channel which is having more than five followers right right yeah getting off the
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ground is the hardest bit of it anyone out there wants to do a channel i'm going to do a channel
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one day right yeah good luck getting to like the first thousand exactly first five thousand i got
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my first thousand like instantly right cool cool so so i i have a small channel and i um in fact
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since you're kind of the history guy right i should say i a lot of what i do really is history
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at this point um it's more recent history sometimes uh for example a recent series on
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my channel was about the us and israel relationship which it turns out now was very timely because
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everybody's thinking about it but we'll get we'll get to that later yeah okay cool cool so okay what
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i usually do on the show is talk about the the front pages in the british print media fleet
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street uh but because you're american you're from somewhere in middle america i understand
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st louis missouri that's right okay go rams no wait no i think battle hawks i think you're right
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no rams sounds right was it i'm not much into sports but i believe it's right i think they
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went back to la anyway i'm only joking i barely follow american football but uh missouri from
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missouri so uh right right in the middle of the country so hopefully some of your opinions and
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takes and your knowledge of what the feeling is in america is not just the coastal the coastal
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elite view but what real americans think it's not the coastal elite view that's for sure okay good
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great interesting i don't represent that brilliant so what i think is we'll whip through a little bit
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of the of the british uh print media yeah uh but mainly i want to ask you about more americans mr
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trump and his wine iran and all sorts of things like this rudy giuliani's been taken to hospital
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so things like this you didn't hear that yeah yeah and i and i have to say um of any country
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in the world besides america uh britain is what i would know the most about simply because
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through youtube i have friends and i kind of keep up a little bit okay i'm not totally coming in
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with nothing okay on this cool so we'll whip through just the front pages because also as
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well today it's not a fantastically interesting day uh so the among the headlines are no money
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for new weapons that's just a british military we underspend in fact most people in the world
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underspend on their military the united states is an outlier in so far as that they spend tons and
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tons and tons of money oh yeah most of the world don't i've seen that and even comparisons to like
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a country like china which probably people think of as like heavily militarized american spending
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is like 10x it's right it's way more yeah way more per capita or however you want to measure it
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Do normal Americans, or do you, are you sort of really proud by that?
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Well, I myself am very anti-American empire and have been for decades.
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There was a place called McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing, that employs a lot of people in my field in St. Louis.
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and so everyone i work with or a lot of people i work with have worked in the defense industry
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right okay it's just part of everything you know but you i mean it's in other words it's not so
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much for most of us it's not how we feel about it it's just there all right you know there's not any
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real concern of like you know giant black budgets for example we're like what are they spending
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those hundreds of billions every year on i i would say there's a general sense that there's
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wasteful expenditure all right there was the whole 500 hammer scandal back when i was a kid
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they found that the military was paying ridiculous amounts for common everyday things
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when you somehow when you look over and you see countries most other countries but you know
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somewhere somewhere like sweden or france or germany or united kingdom where we're paying
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very very minimal on defense do you guys look at that and sort of tuck with school
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or or do you just or you're like we get it we get it they're not super rich countries like we are
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uh i don't know i i can't speak for anyone else i would just say that for myself
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it seems nice i i don't want spending all this money for no purpose okay right fair enough okay
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so in britain no money for new weapons apparently we won't be able to buy new weapons until the
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2030s says one of these headlines and the cost of a pint of beer uh hits 10 pounds in london
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that seems um well the thing is oh look there's some there's some gals enjoying a brew a bevy
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10 pounds thing is i've paid way more than 10 pounds for a pint of beer in london before
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years ago depends where you go no so it's not like the first time ever look cost a pint hits
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10 pounds in london for the first time no no they may might mean on average or something yeah i
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guess so yeah i remember going to some some stupidly expensive place in like hoxton or
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something and they wanted like 18 pounds for a beer years ago anyway anyway stupid you were
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paying for the atmosphere yeah it's stupid money okay uh welfare pays more than work for 600 000
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households that's true everywhere in the united states there's a debate around live on welfare
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right there is an endless debate of just why are we paying people just to scrounge off the state
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essentially yeah right all right yeah okay well so we'll whip through this uh zendaya there for
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some reason they've decided she's the most beautiful woman in the world she's not britain
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talks pay one billion pound a year to eu after reset i don't know if you watch aa stuff up or
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down from i'm confused what's that so so that's more than britain would have been paying into the
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eu oh yeah loads more loads more yeah because we were we were when we were in the eu before the
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the referendum uh we were a net contributor and paid loads and loads and then when we came out
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part of the idea was that we don't pay them anything anymore i would think that we still
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do and anyway the current labor government want us to be closer or a reset with europe
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and part of that is europe now asking for and just another billion pounds so it's a soft on
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brexit yeah but there's been a lot of that yeah of kind of unwinding the of the brexit thing yeah
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oh yeah yeah and of course people here with that on load seaters and our sort of uh end of the
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spectrum yeah hate all that you know yeah we were arch leavers so any sort of reset or any sort of
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getting closer to europe again is just frustrating and annoying to us it was the opposite of what we
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wanted what we voted for yeah um the other thing is the the state pensions in britain going forward
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almost certainly won't be able to afford it i won't bore you with what the triple lock means but
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basically pensioners might not well in decades to come anyway probably won't get as much as they
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thought they would is there much problem with state pensions in the united states is that
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a political football that comes up perennially or is it not much of a talking point
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normal americans wouldn't have a state pension really not at all okay i'm sorry i'm sorry
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social security okay we have this thing called social security and and we're constantly being
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told that it's a pyramid scheme it is and it's not gonna it's just you know fiscally it's just
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not gonna work out right eventually there's just not gonna be enough young people paying into it
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because the original idea was oh it's like you're investing in a retirement fund and the money you
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put in grows and then you get it back well that's not how it works at all they just spend it all
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constantly and get more money out of the young workers and hand it to the old people which is
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fine when the young people outnumber the old people right but when it flips you get the
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inverse triangle population triangle right right uh then then uh population pyramid then then uh
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suddenly it doesn't work out so well so it sounds like a really similar sort of debate as here
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shrinking populations everywhere right yeah that's what we're headed towards certainly certainly in
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the west yeah and we're just not going to be able to afford it almost certainly okay so the guardian
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you may or may not be aware of sort of one of the most left-leaning yeah like horrible horrible
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thing they're saying something about ai facial recognition systems but we're not all that
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interested in that this morning uh the again the the triple lock pension thing yeah let's just move
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on from it there was a big explosion yesterday where two people died and a couple two or three
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other people were wounded uh but we don't the details of it the police called it suspicious
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but not a terrorist incident okay some sort of domestic i don't know it's weird whatever that
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is i guess maybe we'll find out about what really happened there in the coming days but
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some sort of weird explosion happened there um yeah park of it's not it's not a fantastically
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interesting down the front of the paper there we go talking about parking fines that labor
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obviously being socialists just want to squeeze the kulaks for every last penny they possibly
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can this will really help them in the upcoming local elections right stance right right exactly
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people are going to be really excited to vote for that they're going to get they are going to get
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do regular folks vote in the local elections the turnout's usually really bad i was going to say
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yeah the turnout's usually sort of pathetically low which means it's easy to win if you can just
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get a few more people to turn out than the other guy right yeah yeah yeah quite often i mean i
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I think this time round will be a bit different
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that a few more people are going to turn out just to...
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or you get like a local residential committee type person
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and they just happen to genuinely be a personality
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People know who they are and they get a few hundred votes
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that's not unheard of at all so why would labor be so unpopular that you'd vote against your local
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guy that you know in the labor oh well local labor guy in your town yeah well just because
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labor since they've been in what nearly two is it two years 18 months now just nearly everything
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they've done nearly everything they've done seems to have been at odds with the interests of the
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nation and the people they're just deeply deeply unpopular um keir starmer is the least popular
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prime minister of all time oh really of all time like going back to terms of polling yeah yeah
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right so a good couple of hundred years worth of p.m. but but but would this be the first time that
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that poll on popularity would be demonstrated at the polls you know in the voting yeah i mean not
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the first time i mean i know there's been little by elections or whatever right but this would be
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the first major time yeah yeah you could really see it yeah yeah yeah we did have that one by
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election where it was supposed to be a labor in galton denton it was supposed to be a labor safe
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seat super safe seat and labor i think i think they came third yeah it was close to run between
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the greens and reform and the greens won it right but that that's that doesn't necessarily it's
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indicative but doesn't necessarily tell you what's coming up in a week i guess no true yeah people
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always always massively over exaggerate the the importance of a single by-election they think oh
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this pattern is going to play out across the country at the next general election or the next
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local elections yes not usually the case at all having said that you wouldn't be totally stunned
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if starmer gets a bit of a slap in the face in the local elections yeah and labor turns to him
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and says you're screwing this up for all of us right right yeah it's expected some people are
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saying that he's a dead man walking particularly um that all the polls are showing that they're
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going to get really badly trounced on thursday um sort of an historic all-time trouncing right
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lose maybe something like 75 percent of all their councillors get completely wiped out um you know
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maybe 17 18 1900 councillors and the vast majority of those flip straight to reform the only issue
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is that the storm bob will not care well that's the next thing when that happens i think that's
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baked in now that's sort of certainly going to happen right the next real thing next we'll talk
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about is what happens then will starmer actually get stabbed in the back or the front by his own
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people right and we get a new prime minister or does he just march robotically on yeah if it was
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up to him he will do that of course it's just a question of whether there's enough big beasts in
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the party and enough enough um enough support coalesces around the right person uh but yeah
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we've got the the bench isn't all that deep yeah there isn't an obvious heir apparent right yeah
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exactly that they're two or three people and none none of them are like particularly charismatic or
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a brilliant mind or or anything at all or got the vast majority who is brilliant and charismatic
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is what you were saying right right um you know sometimes someone doesn't have to be brilliant
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and charismatic look at gordon brown who took over from um tony blair but what gordon brown
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did have was just a giant giant support of the parliamentary party and the membership of the
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party so when tony blair finally stepped down he was quote-unquote coronated in he was just he
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really was just the designated heir apparent and there was no question no one tried to yeah but
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he really had the support within the party yeah and that allowed him to govern right yeah yeah
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yeah whereas where now there isn't a single person like that yeah they could they could put someone
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up there but the party might just be fractured afterwards yeah perhaps the front runner i think
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the book is at the moment saying the front rungler is a woman called angela rayner i've heard that
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but there's a big chunk of people within at least the parliamentary labor party that are talking
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about anyone but rayner so you get the you get it's a fact it's a fractured thing but okay back
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to the papers in the mirror this is pure slop now this is the tabloids um you even do the tabloids
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on breakfast with them yeah just all right just a quick look anyway broad-minded um yeah so the
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old manchester united football coach was taken ill so that's big news there you go now what does
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this mean reform and new race race rail yeah so that's aaron banks who's been a big friend of
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nigel for years like all through the brexit and the ukip years okay so this is the game where they
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rich man he gives him millions of pounds from time to time not trying to be pro-reform or anything
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but just anti the other the other people this is the thing where they are wanting to tear you down
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and so they find something you said once years ago or or whatever yeah and then make a big deal out
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of it yeah i mean this one is one of those kinds of things exactly this is one of those things
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where it's it's not even that long ago aaron bank said something which i think is completely
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reasonable and normal but some people think it's racist yeah and so it makes the front page of the
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mirror yeah he said something so reform put the story is real quick say reform put forward some
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candidate or other who's black in wales oh no plied cumbry the the the welsh probably
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mispronouncing that sorry um the welsh nationalist party although they're not nationalists but
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anyway they put forward some black candidate and aaron bank said welsh lad question mark
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never said yeah yeah and now there's a new race row oh my goodness
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i mean you can't be black and welsh you just can't you can have a bit of paper saying that
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but you're not actually welsh are you right right because of you know reality heritage and just just
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with the headline you would think like he used the n-word or something oh no he just said welsh
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yeah yeah that's it welsh lad question what is he you know and yeah and so that's a race row now
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that's sad reformer embroiled in a brand new race row because aaron banks noticed reality
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all right the financial times not much on there really well there are interesting things but
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but he was one of the most successful football managers of all time,
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We have a friend who talks about football managers.
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When I was young, when I was a kid, a teenager in my 20s,
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football was massive it was like my whole life I just it was yeah I just loved football but
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into my 30s and now 40s I don't really pay all that much attention but back in the 90s Man
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United in the 1990s I won't talk about this much because my audience are not really into sports
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ball yeah but anyway just to say this chap here won the Champions League and loads and loads of
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Premier League titles with Manchester United in the 1990s and now he's really old and was taken
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hospital yesterday so i'm sorry just asking about the audience here bo yeah so how do you know
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they're not into it we asked them if you talk more than 30 to 60 seconds yeah tell you to shut up they
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start doing yawning emojis they move on no we did a poll one time and i said as we do a poll every
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day and a couple of times i've said do you care about football at all like and they're like no
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like do you care about any like slop celebrity news no you care about formula one no boxing no
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So we'll move on from The Sun that has got a story about how people that make footballs
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for the World Cup only get like 26 pounds a week because it's like some sort of sweatshop
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type thing and FIFA, but FIFA make millions out of it.
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Let's talk about, let's talk about things that are a bit more, a bit more serious.
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or on this show i quite often look at the price of oil so real quick just check in with that
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it's down from the last few days but still kind of high so west texas is just over a hundred
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dollars a barrel and brent is at 107 dollars a barrel so you know expensive the trick is to look
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at the sixth month or the year and and see how it right right um yeah i mean let's do that there
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go so volatile is the is the word i mean what period is that that's a year that's a year yeah
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oh it doesn't seem up that's three months it's it's it's uh i thought it would be more up because
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the war yeah it looks like it's about what it was a year ago well it's higher but it's not
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fantastically higher i say that every morning like not every morning but um so when the war started
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it was roughly about 78 79 a barrel and now it's like what 100 or 107 in and around that ballpark
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Yeah, but you look at the year view and it's about what it was a year ago.
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So the thing is, though, isn't it, that doesn't translate into how much people actually pay at a petrol station to fill up their car.
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Oh, no, I'm saying, yeah, of course it has an impact on it.
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But you pay more at the petrol pump than what crude has gone up.
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it has an outsized effect yes if crude goes up 20 percent price of the pump goes up 30 percent
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right yeah or way more or even yeah yeah okay is is gas expensive in the united states at the moment
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it's a little bit more i mean i feel it because we have a big family and so we have bigger cars
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right are not fuel efficient right right so yeah so instead of filling up for 50 i've been filling
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up for like 80 right so that's not fun yeah right but it's not apocalyptic right if you follow me
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that's sort of the angle i take some people talk like you know the world is coming down around
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their ears it's like yeah not yet that's the angle i've been saying a lot on this is that it's more
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yeah but it's not sort of apocalyptic more having said that though it's all relative isn't it if you
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can afford it if an extra 30 doesn't mean a great deal to you okay but for some people a lot of
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people 30 is a be on end all that means things don't add up anymore and i can't eat now yeah
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yeah you know so they're really pinched yeah yeah so i've got a lot of sympathy for obviously of
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course for people like that where they're already on the bread line right and now you have to pay
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extra 30 every few days it's like oh right that's all my money yeah that's it that's all my money
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now right so yeah worrying okay let's have a we got a poll harry we did a poll
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okay if you bring that up we'll do that now let's have a quick look at what we what we asked oh we
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asked do you like rudy giuliani and i see one or two people in the um in the chat saying who's
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rudy giuliani so we'll get into that in a moment but just to say the poll says 40 said yes 30 said
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no and 31 said a little bit so if we add the little bit to yes to be generous that sort of
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So for one or two people who might not have ever heard of him,
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Yeah, I lived in New York briefly before he was mayor,
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if I'm remembering correctly, and it was a bit rough.
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And he evidently did a good job of cleaning it up.
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and he was mayor during 9-11 wasn't he that's the that's the reason he would be famous about it
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so there you go anyone involved with anyone involved with 9-11 in terms of the the firemen
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and the policemen and you know because so many died and yeah in the towers and stuff there's a
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certain uh civil religion sacredness around those people and i guess he got he got a bit of that
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himself yeah so a bit of his story was that before he was mayor he was like a prosecutor
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and he was fairly fearlessly went after the mafia that's true in new york because all through
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obviously going back to the 50s and 60s and 70s new york crime families but even into the 80s it
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was still there like john gotti and john gotti jr and stuff there's still right there's still
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mafia in new york and he went after them fairly fearlessly and so people liked him for that and
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as you say cleaned it up there's just new york in the 80s and even 90s was a lot more rough than it
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is now although it's getting worse now but right and so people liked him for doing that being tough
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on crime basically law and order law and order team and his career both as a prosecutor and then
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as a mayor and then went on to be mayor through 9-11 and then also in the trump when the when
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trump lost to biden in inverted commas in 2020 trump brought him in trump brought him in to try
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and get to the bottom of things and try and prosecute and try and investigate all the
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all the shenanigans i don't really know where any of that went that may or may yeah right yeah
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kind of died with a whimper but now he's old now he's like 81 and last year apparently he was in a
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car crash quite a bad car crash oh i mean look he's wearing some sort of like back brace thing
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there oh my goodness and like he was quite a bad car crash um when you're in your 80s that's going
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to be no joke yeah and so now like over the weekend yesterday or something he was taken to
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hospital with an undiagnosed illness and people even trump are just saying sort of i'm paraphrasing
00:24:46.720
but like pray for rudy so he might be they might discharge him later today or he might be
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really really dying we don't know but okay he was rushed so okay that's in the news today
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just thought i'd since we've got an american here i thought we'd uh just throw that one in for the
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poll um but there okay so let's have a let's have a quick let's talk about let's talk about trump
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and Iran and the Straits of Hormuz and all that sort of thing.
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So, first of all then, what's your thoughts and feelings
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and people that you know and speak to in the United States?
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IRL, how do you feel about Trump and the war in Iran and everything?
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Well, it's an extraordinary moment for me because I've been, as I mentioned,
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opposed to the US empire, opposed to the neocons for a long time.
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I predicted 9-11 did you know that did you I did yeah really yeah the day it was happening one of
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my co-workers said you said something like this was going to happen you and Tom Clancy did he
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well kind of okay he wrote a story where an airplane was thrown flown into the Capitol
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building yeah no it wasn't anything like that it was more just that I could I could feel that
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something was coming and an attack was coming and a friend reminded me of that I'm glad he did I
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might not have remembered I said it um so I foresaw 9-11 and so I had a very different
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reaction afterwards because I had a sense of why it had happened had to do with the U.S. empire
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and the neocons and what they were doing abroad and just horrible things they were doing and
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backlash to that and so I had a very different view so I was not excited about going into Iraq
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in 2003 I was opposed to it and this was uh very tense with my family who were totally caught up in
00:26:31.360
the sort of frenzied patriotism of the day you know um you know my family of origin um
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and then uh so you know i'm used to being this outlier the radical outlier whereas right now
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the ones who are aligned are like me and the normal guy so our we have a daughter who works
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at a restaurant the guys in the back of the house the cooks and so forth right they're all like oh
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yeah israel controls u.s foreign policy this is the normal man on the street view at this point
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okay so that is what i thought of as like edgy like i wonder if i'll get fired for this opinion
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like everyone says this now right so okay i don't have to be particularly brave to have the views
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that i've had all these decades anymore because i'm i'm aligned with the man on the street at
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this point and that surely is a shift in the i hesitate to say the overton window but a shift
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in public perception because as you say back in 2003 2001 2002 2003 that would have been much
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less so wouldn't it i was very alone back then right yeah i had a lot of static from people at
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church people in my family you know that is conservative socially theologically conservative
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type people around me were all on board for what the u.s was u.s empire was doing because you're
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you're christian to make that clear if anyone doesn't know yeah my father was a pastor so
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very involved with the church um and uh so i was really an outlier back then and felt it
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and my wife remembers this you know some of the hostile comments we got uh whereas now i'm not
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an outlier now i'm normal and the people who are all for this are the ones who are kind of weird
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right okay because well i suppose if i ask you a question about for me yeah right yeah finally
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yeah finally only took 25 years vindication yeah um but so like the specifically though then the
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MAGA movement and Donald Trump himself um the people you know people you talk to is that sort
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of waned I feel like I feel like after the Epstein stuff and some of the other things Trump has done
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and especially this war that the the real hardline MAGA people do they seem on the way
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Do you hear many voices of people saying, I used to like Trump a lot more than I do now, or not?
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So first of all, you know, personnel is policy, right?
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So one way to look at it is, well, it's Trump and whatever he does is MAGA, right?
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Another way to look at it is there were all these people who were never Trumpers,
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who were very, very opposed to Trump in 2016 and so forth, right?
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And the people who had been his big supporters, who really took the hits for being pro-Trump when that was considered quite controversial, they're out.
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You know, Marjorie Taylor Greene, people like this, they're kicked out and they're at war.
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So Trump, for example, wasn't Marco Rubio and never Trump to begin with?
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If you only look at Trump, you see a continuity.
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but if you look at who's around him you see this massive shift and a lot of people have noticed
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this right so so um again drawing from my daughter's work man on the street view uh he uh the
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boss there he he had been very mega and trump and then just within the last month he he said i'm
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out all right it's over i think in the last month i hate him yeah all right yeah okay i i would say
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that the genocide in gaza had some people shifting uh over you know over that that trump continued to
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support that but really this attack on iran has been a turning point you say that so many people
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were like again you know i mean we had the war in iraq the war in afghanistan remember the withdrawal
00:30:20.460
from afghanistan just humiliating yeah right yeah i mean i mean and now and i trump had said we're
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not going to do that under me and now here we go yeah now here we are and people are like come on
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just to say real quick just uh you mentioned that the genocide in gaza just to say to characterize
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it that way you're not pro israel and netanyahu right so yeah i i grew up in a christian zionist
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church um my father was a missionary to the jews that was why he came to st louis originally um and
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and then uh over time that became very aligned with israel and stuff um but myself being influenced
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by libertarian ideas and various other things i moved away from that many many decades decades
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ago you reject that very very heavily yeah now i'm now i'm you know anti-zionist number one right
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right there you go based okay yeah so i mean all right so yeah with this war
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than the never forever war guy that whole angle yeah um i mean so i was i was sorry quick comment
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about sure americans have generally been anti-empire and anti-war whenever they were
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given an opportunity to indicate it um this is not well remembered but uh woodrow wilson fdr
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they both ran on anti-war platforms and then got the us into world war one world war two
00:31:44.980
respectively anyway right well this keeps happening right they they rhetorically say
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what americans want to hear which at least tells you where americans are americans do want to hear
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that right um and then they get into office and they do the bidding of the military industrial
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complex or or israel or whatever you want to think it is but but somehow some way for a century now
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americans vote against war and we get war anyway yeah yeah there's a there's the old thing i think
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it was um john quincy adams not john adams john quincy adams said america shouldn't go seeking
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abroad seeking monsters to destroy there you go we all know that quote we don't want to fight in
00:32:25.880
european wars for or against european wars and all that sort of thing stay out of it um but then you
00:32:30.820
look at like and just think about it practically the united states is massive just massive massive
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natural resources we literally don't need to be involved yeah just practically speaking the
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united states could just be the united states and not have troops all over the world and bases all
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over the world and we'd be fine so we're not doing it because the american people need it
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it's other reasons if you look at woodrow wilson in 1917 and world war one um that's something
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different let's not go down that rabbit hole but when we look at fdr and world war ii yeah i'm no
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fan of fdr i think a lot of people i imagine you're not no um however when you look at it in
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detail um it would i feel like it would have been almost impossible for the united states to stay
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i mean pearl harbor it would have been very very difficult for them to stay out at a certain point
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another way to put it not that i want to play defense on behalf of fdr but the way i would put
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it is that um the the largest anti-war movement of all time was the america first movement
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opposed to entry into world war ii and it took pearl harbor right to get americans to support it
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and and as we now know uh the book called uh day of deceit by dennett uh documented that fdr knew
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that that attack was coming let it happen because he needed he needed something like that to get
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into the yeah maybe i feel like some of that history is a little shaky i mean i know for a
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fact that the british were aware that something was afoot whether it was that giant whether it
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was actually that giant japanese uh armada specifically at pearl i think a lot of people
00:34:10.460
thought maybe something would happen at midway but not probably anyway let's not get into that
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just real quick note on that real quick note on that dennis book day of deceit he's actually pro
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fdr right and he says yeah fdr knew and the reason he's pro how does he justify being pro fdr with
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that is he says well you the u.s needed to be pushed into the war and so it was okay for him
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to do that deceitful thing yeah so that is this is a fan of fdr looking at the evidence and saying
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yeah he knew yeah well i did a long form piece of content on my history themed show epox behind the
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paywall consider joining for as little as five pound a month for honesty membership on there i
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did a very very long form bit of content and i just called it the road to pearl harbor yeah and
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it was talking about japan from the 19th century through to december 7th 1941 how they got there
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and um there was a fair bit of intelligence flying around yeah i'm still not entire i'm not entirely
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I'm just not entirely convinced FDR knew that exactly that was going to happen.
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He was trying to provoke Germany, and they wouldn't do it.
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I think what actually happened on that morning at Pearl Harbor in December 1941,
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the scale of it was a real shock genuine shock to him though he didn't realize that was going to
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happen anyway anyway i hear you let's move on from that so back to back to trump on the straits of
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homies so the latest thing is he's saying there was as you can see the head down there trump says
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u.s military will guide stranded ships out of straits of homies because if anyone who might
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not know they've been stuck there the whole time in the persian gulf yeah hundreds i think maybe
00:36:03.260
thousands of ships have just been just been sitting there and some of the crews have like
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haven't been able to leave their ships for weeks and weeks and weeks right so it's like a little
00:36:11.140
bit of uh well some of the conditions on board must be terrible but right um so now he's saying
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that's the latest thing in this news cycle that the u.s navy will and and uh air force
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will escort them out calling it project project freedom oh geez i mean sorry just project freedom
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what's your thoughts and feelings on that bit of news?
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And then, you know, he says, in three days, this will happen.
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You know, it just seems like it's been that for months.
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He just says stuff, but it doesn't result in action that aligns with what he says.
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Which is, I wouldn't put much weight on those words.
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Because he says lots of things about this conflict.
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In fact, there's no real way to disagree with that take.
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is that he does actually also sometimes do stuff
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that a lot of other presidents wouldn't have done.
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No other president had the chutzpah to do that.
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you know, officially put this out in a clean break in 1996.
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so that's 30 years ago that netanyahu was one had iran on a list it's been his dream hasn't it and
00:38:04.280
and and uh the one by one he's knocked off countries off that list like libya for example
00:38:10.280
qaddafi's libya right done regime change syria recently um and iran's the last one on the list
00:38:16.760
right yeah and and he they they they weren't wanting them to be the last one it's just no
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other president would do what we now see as foolish to do which is put yourself in a position where
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where Iran controls the strait and has a stranglehold on world economy.
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I feel like Trump is, I think a lot of people that criticize Trump
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and you can't really tell what he might do or say next.
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I can never really tell whether when Trump says something,
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or whether in like 24 hours some big stuff is going to go down.
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mm-hmm that was something unprecedented that's something no other president in my lifetime would
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have you know maybe someone like fdr or truman might have done something like that just said
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yeah go try it do it but it certainly in my lifetime no president would have had the the
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guts to sort of give that the green light right um so but but yet you're also true you make a good
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you make a good point i was talking more about after the invasion of iran he's made a lot of
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statements about you know it's true yeah he's gonna like control the situation and he clearly
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doesn't control the situation i think three four maybe even is it five times he said i'm going to
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unleash hell yeah in like 24 hours yeah and then he's back down from that yeah it's gonna be very
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sad the end of a civilization right remember all that yeah it's definitely just a statement of fact
00:39:45.080
to say that that has happened yeah um now whether one of these times he threatens that and then
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actually does it right there's evidence that he could do something extreme yeah yeah i feel like
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at some point maybe if it's the sixth or seventh the twelfth time he threatens will be the time
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when he does actually blow up all their bridges right but my point is you know the the headline
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we just saw i'm just not i'm just going to wait and see what he does right okay where with other
00:40:10.280
people if they said something you'd be like okay buckle up here we go yeah right now trump says
00:40:15.080
something and you're like we'll see i feel like he's checking check in again in a week right yeah
00:40:19.780
i do feel like he's playing the the the game just in public if you like this stuff might have gone
00:40:26.820
on uh behind closed doors a lot more in the past but trump just his style of government his style
00:40:32.720
of leadership is that he'll just do a truth social about it he won't just tell the state
00:40:36.600
department to to warn these the iranian equivalent of their state department their foreign office
00:40:41.880
he'll just he'll just do a true social about it yeah so everyone the whole world just reads that
00:40:46.180
and it's like okay this is happening now right right but but that's not really a government
00:40:49.960
action that's just a trump tweet yeah right yeah so and so that is sort of a new way of doing it
00:40:56.340
isn't it that's a new sort of a new paradigm of government yeah but presidents have had times
00:41:02.640
where they just have rhetoric that has nothing to do with what's happening right yeah that's just
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standard politics yeah true you just say stuff meanwhile something else is happening yeah true
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it's the old uh it's the old uh you know look at my distraction over here while i'm really doing
00:41:17.920
something over here yeah yeah and maybe i mean when you look at the venezuela maduro stuff
00:41:23.900
yeah and the broader question of who controls crude oil and then you look at this iran war
00:41:31.520
thing and sort of nominally and i believe it at least from the israeli point of view it's about
00:41:35.660
uranium enrichment but actually it's much more i would have thought in the american mind
00:41:41.940
about oil who controls oil and things and then there's other stuff going on in southeast asia
00:41:49.300
about blockades in uh i just feel like trump and greenland the resources of greenland i feel like
00:41:55.640
trump or the people around trump perhaps are just thinking much more about maybe i'm wrong maybe i'm
00:42:01.340
giving them too much credit but thinking more about decades into the future about securing oil
00:42:05.680
for themselves ultimately that's very generous of you my own take is not so generous okay um as i
00:42:12.280
said there is a long-term plan here but it's netanyahu's look out look up a clean break from
00:42:17.400
1996 he gave a list of countries they've been working their way through the list iran's literally
00:42:22.500
the last one on the list that they haven't done a regime change on and and what what is the point
00:42:27.280
of the list, it has to do with Israel being completely dominant in its area. So it's
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geostrategic dominance within the Middle East. Iran is an independent power, as we can all see
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now, with its own arsenal, its own idea of what should be happening. And Israel doesn't like that.
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It wants everyone around it to be subservient to it. They're almost there. Syria now is
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subservient to israel after this assad is out um well they want the same with iran they want it to
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be in chaos and civil war or they want a palavi puppet who uh you know says he's the king of iran
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or whatever the shah but in fact is just serving israel right yeah so that's what they want that's
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the real reason for the war and all the talk of oil and geostrategic stuff i think is a post hoc
00:43:18.100
justification or rationalization okay that's my view i mean what even clearly this has not been
00:43:24.660
good for uh oil control of oil by the u.s iran is controlling things not the u.s right now so at
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least in the short term it's not working out if that was the plan i completely accept everything
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you're saying in the middle east but then if you look at like the greenland thing and the
00:43:40.360
venezuelan thing surely that's uh a bit about the oil angle on venezuela well just in the whole
00:43:47.360
world the whole world if they if there are planners and strategists at the white house or
00:43:52.680
the state department or the pentagon and they're looking at the whole world right and of course
00:43:57.140
the middle east is you know absolutely pivotal thing and what israel want is a pivotal thing
00:44:00.940
in their minds yeah yeah but it's a whole world they're playing a game globally right so there
00:44:08.480
there was this doctrine of full spectrum dominance i don't know if you've yeah yeah right and and
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And that is that the U.S. should be the dominant power in all regions of the world, right?
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Effectively, the U.S. was the dominant power globally.
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Well, that's the project for the new American century.
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China is clearly an independent power that calls the shots in its sphere to a greater,
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very patient um russia is clearly acting independently now iran is acting independently
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it could be that the us empire will want to have one final uh power mode burst or something right
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and and and dominate over iran china and russia but my own take is it's going to be a long slow
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crumble of global dominance we're already on the way the us does not call the shots with china
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russia and iran oh no that i mean that's fair to say yeah no that's no no that's absolutely fair
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to say the ccp china absolutely doesn't answer yeah let me put it yeah let me put it one way
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china russia and iran are not puppets of the us government you know i accept that i believe that
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yeah and i don't think they're going to be puppets anytime soon yeah well well we'll see about if the
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iran regime crumbles or not but no i absolutely accept that um the uh the kremlin and beijing
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don't have to do anything that Washington says.
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personally, I don't see it particularly crumbling anytime soon.
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Light at a time and slowly, you know, I mean, some people thought that if there was any
00:46:10.260
geostrategic significance to Venezuela, the Maduro thing, it's that somebody in Washington
00:46:17.480
realizes that they are losing global dominance.
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And so they're thinking, well, at least our own backyard should be secured, namely the
00:46:27.640
Do you think there's lots of chatter that Trump's or the U.S. military is going to do
00:46:31.700
something in cuba next that that's next on the list as far as like the state department and the
00:46:37.740
pentagon are concerned yeah now i'm sorry who is the rubio rubio's cuban right am i getting him
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mixed him personally his descent i believe he's got is he he's got something like that i might be
00:46:49.140
mixing him up with another figure but so there's someone who they're all about cuba right in the
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administration because of their own background sorry fact check me chat please uh uh it's rubio
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or another guy um anyway they they uh there's someone in the administration that is totally
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everything you hear from them is about cuba right so they might get their way okay because some
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people some um uh people who fled after castro took over have been wanting to you know regime
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change all that time and that's the 60s right yeah well late very late 50s i'm sorry it was
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late 50s thank you yeah i think so yeah the end of batista i think i think so yeah um so look
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here's the thing trump in the in the washington post threatens retaliation iran threatens
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retaliation after trump says u.s will guide ships and straight of homies whether they win or not
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Look, Trump's disapproval rating reaches a new higher, the post-ABC and Ipsos poll
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You talked about Starmer being historically unpopular.
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I haven't seen it compared to all presidents ever or whatever, but he's pretty unpopular
00:48:10.320
Including with, as I said, with a lot of the people who were the diehard Trump supporters.
00:48:15.560
especially since the attack on iran they're like okay yeah that's not what we wanted that's not
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what we thought this was about for me personally just for me personally his handling of the epstein
00:48:27.180
various epstein things that came up uh changed my mind quite a lot that's interesting and then
00:48:33.540
this iran thing as well seems to me he jumped when israel told him to yeah but yeah my sense
00:48:42.620
for Americans is that for the Trump supporters, the ones who are really there for Trump in his
00:48:48.240
first term and everything. Well, in the three elections, right? They were supporting him three
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times, right? And the Epstein thing raised question marks. And then the attack on Iran
00:48:59.940
sent a lot of people over the edge. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like that.
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Epstein thing kind of softened support up, but I don't think he had lost the support.
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but with the attack on iran he's people started being like okay i'm out okay yeah all right well
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we've already got to almost 10 too so at the end of the show i like to do a little segment on this
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day in history just have a quick chat about a quick look at things down through the centuries
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or even occasionally the millennia of note that happened on this day um so let's do that real
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quick what happened on the 4th of may well it was the battle of tewksbury um only two i think it's
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only two weeks ago again on my history theme show behind the paywall epochs i've been doing a long
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very very long form set of series all about the english monarchy and i was up to the i'm up to
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the wars of the roses edward the fourth and his little brother richard the third and all that
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sort of thing and only two weeks ago i covered the battle of cheeksbury there and uh 1470 on this day
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in 1471 is in gloucestershire the final battle between the house of lancaster and york sees the
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prince of wales edward of westminster uh who was the mad king henry the the sixth uh henry the
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fourth's um son he was killed and edward the fourth sorry henry the sixth son edward and edward
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the fourth uh becomes sort of undisputed king at that point so this is the end of the war of the
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roses yeah or some people say the wars of roses don't truly end until uh 1485 at the back of
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bosworth field but a lot of people say it ended there you could argue it ended there because at
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least the house of lancaster was finally defeated at tewkesbury um so it's just a really really big
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pivotal battle for english history is the battle of tewkesbury and if you want to hear about it in
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long form detail by yours truly that is behind the paywall for this was five pound a month okay
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on this day in 1493 spanish pope alexander the sixth decrees in the papal bull inter caetera
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100 leagues west of any of the islands of the Azores
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or the Cape Verde Islands belong to Castile, Spain,
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or quite often it's called the uh treaty of uh torticillias it's where the pope didn't know
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didn't he thought he's drawing a line right down the middle of the atlantic turns out a big chunk
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of brazil sticks out and and the rest was yeah so so we talk about latin america um uh because
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it's mostly spanish speaking and then uh brazil is portuguese speaking yeah right it's because of
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that it's because the pope thought that he was granting more or less everything to spain
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turns out a massive chunk of brazil was it wasn't including that and portugal said okay we'll
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colonize there then so why they speak brazilian portuguese to this day there and of course the
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rest of europe all the big players holland the dutch uh the british the french we're like we're
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going to ignore that anyway well you're saying we can't sail across the atlantic nonsense we're
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going through anyway okay on this day in uh 1814 king ferdinand the 7th of spain signs uh signs
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the decree of the 4th of may returning spain to absolutism so that was after the napoleonic era
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there's a thing of um do you know the napoleonic era at all very well i'm pretty weak on it in
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1808 there's the thing the the abdications of bayonne is basically where napoleon lured the
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king of spain and his heir to have a treaty and then just arrested them took them to france he
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said the monarchy of spain's just over now it's mine i'm in fact i'm putting my brother on the
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on the throne um so that was in 1808 and by 1814 um the duke of wellington sir arthur wellesley
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had booted the french entirely out of spain and so they brought the monarchy back and that's what
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that is there okay on this day in 1904 the united states begins construction of the panama canal
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what are your thoughts about teddy roosevelt and the panama canal issue what what did most
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americans think about it are they even aware of it is it too too long ago now we we know that
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we know that it's important because north america and south america if not for the panama canal
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create a huge barrier between one side of the world and the other right right yeah a huge land
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barrier sure and so the panama canal let it lets you get ships through so we know it's important
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for commerce who controls the panama canal you know it got shifted under reagan they they like
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gave it to the government of panama yeah well reagan took it back didn't he or after they
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after they tried to after noriega noriega but that was later okay you're talking earlier than
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that i'm wondering because by the way one of my most amusing you know there's always the hitler
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of the day you know the guy who gets called hitler right um and uh noriego was briefly the hit all
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right yeah i like bringing that up yeah he's the most evil man like two days he you know noriego's
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gonna like take the world over which was absurd yeah i mean look at panama on the map yeah he's
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the most evil man of all time he must be stopped at any cost yeah yeah yeah um so i wonder if uh
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like teddy roosevelt in the turn of the 20th century where it was sort of it was basically
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sort of an imperial project to just take well he in fact said a famous quote i took panama
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and that's sort of in an imperial sense yeah i wonder if americans are just sort of
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generally if they know of it at all whether they're sort of proud of that and it's like yeah
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cool like we're or they're like oh that's a bit that is a bit it's pretty i'm very aware i i did
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a whole series on my channel called the road to empire where i led up to 1898 the spanish-american
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war right yeah right yeah where you first have concentration camps run by the u.s government in
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the philippines and and all kinds of bad things and taking foreign colonies like the philippines
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right uh well spanish rule just collapsed well with a little help from the u.s um and and the
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u.s started having foreign territories under its control yeah and there were a lot of y
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there were a lot of americans and i'm sort of ideologically descended from them uh who started
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like the anti-imperialist league mark twain people like this uh who opposed it at the time
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and they said this is not what america was supposed to be about we we left an empire
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we just wanted to be an independent country and do our thing you guys have some big project for
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some reason that doesn't even make sense to us so there and i would say that as you can see now
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that impulse that anti-imperialist impulse has always been strong right but again to play devil's
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advocate there is the argument of um like it's difficult not to do these things for example the
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spanish-american war seeing spain's remaining overseas territories collapsing um wasn't there
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a big movement in the philippines wanting america to take them over effectively i don't know they
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always make it sound like we're coming to because people want us to be there and uh i'm skeptical
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Okay, fair enough. All right. And on this day in 1979, Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected prime minister of the United Kingdom. Old Maggie there. So yeah, ushering in, of course, the boom period of the 1980s. What do people think of Thatcher in the United States? Do they look back on her fondly? Do they not even know who she is?
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I don't think most Americans would know that much about Thatcher,
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And that they were buddies, that they saw eye to eye on a lot of things.
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Yeah, that they were largely collaborative, right?
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Well, let's do our Rumble Rants and Super Chats for a few minutes,
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So the first Rumble Rant we've got, who do you think it is?
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He says something here, which is too obscure for me.
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i don't really know anything about it but i'll read it out anyway he says on this day in 1113
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the year 1113 ad you say buried turkerman jihadists under zahir al-din toghetkin
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of damascus massacre the monk monks of mount tabor i've not i don't know about that i'm afraid i'm
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sorry i just quite most of the time i would say 95 percent of the time maybe he'll say something
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i'm like oh yeah i know that and and make a few points but i don't know about that so
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these would be eastern orthodox monks i don't know but it's it's to the east if it's in damascus
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near damascus um yeah and the other thing he said is that on this day jesus was left in jerusalem as
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a 12 year old boy and you say you know about that bit from the gospels that's in the gospels uh his
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family accidentally leave him behind because they're part of a big you know group that's gone
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to jerusalem for a high holy day they leave him behind they realize oh no where's jesus they come
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back and he's debating with the the pharisees as a 12 year old he's meant to be he's intelligent
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beyond no no knowing beyond his ears yeah sort of uh the point of the point of it yeah yeah right
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okay great and for tim barber says morning all right yeah i'm all right you're right i'm all
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right unbrexit unbrexit is a fantastic way to say exactly what they've done since minute one
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yeah reform talk about new migrant centers shows they don't want to do the job that restore do
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Yeah, I don't believe that reform are going to get the job done, i.e. deporting millions of people.
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That's what we want, not just a few more migrant centres.
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i just finished his blood mandarin um sorry sorry quite right blood meridian a semi-historical
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novel on on the glanton glanton gangs scalping campaign and the u.s mech's border amazing read
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i haven't i haven't read that have you read i don't know cormac mccarthy but my good friend
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christopher sandbatch is a huge cormac mccarthy proponent and he's one of the smartest literary
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guys i know so yes if you want to read something good give cormac mccarthy a try he comes highly
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recommended was Cormac McCarthy did he do the road uh yes old country for I'm sorry country
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no country for old men right yeah yeah I've not read no country for old men but I've seen the
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film really liked it I have actually read the road oh okay and seen the film and it's good
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but it's one of the most unremittingly dark novels I've ever read there's like not a glimmer of hope
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or positivity at all yeah at the end you're thinking oh maybe the end of it there'll be
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except no no no it's just horribly dark from start to finish but it was well written it was good
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i haven't read blood meridian i'm afraid um glanton gangs it's not oh no it's kind of i do
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not know about the glanton gang sorry that's interesting i'm not um there was the ones that
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um that doc holiday and wire up for yeah it's not there weren't they the clanton gang well anyway
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anyway all right thanks for that anyway joseph blackhall uh wooten19f says we cannot wait for
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the politicians to save us everyone is mixing every single day by then we won't be european
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anymore waiting and voting will condemn us all to extinction we have to do it ourselves a little bit
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of a fed post i know but also i mean really let's get the channel deleted can't really let's say we
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wanted to run with it i mean what what would you exactly do right yeah what do you want what is
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the plan i'm open to ideas but you know what wooten you're gonna form a militia are you
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you're gonna form a paramilitary are you they're gonna shut that down right i mean yeah what is a
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feasible plan is is my point yeah uh the next one is the same person no political solution wake up
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well you got you wake up you do it first yeah great bro show us how to do it yeah fed posting
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all right mr gently benevolent says of mine great to see you getting the moon king on by
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yeah so i'm i i it's a joke i made on my channel years ago i i said i'm the self-declared king of
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the moon and it's meant to uh lampoon the things the governments do like the u.s government that
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um i don't know if you know this there's huge portions of the west of the united states that
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are controlled by just owned by the federal government and no one can build there no one
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can do anything like teddy reservoir teddy roosevelt some of those mess no no i don't even
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mean i don't mean like national parks all right i don't mean national park we all love the national
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park there are millions of acres of those but not that okay no no no all this other land okay
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that's just there's states that are the vast majority of the land in some of those states
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is owned by the federal government so it just like i declare myself king of the moon they just
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declare themselves to own all this territory that they've never done anything with in what
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sense do they own it you know like massive chunks of nevada and new mexico and arizona places like
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that yeah if you look at a map of land federal land ownership the western part of the country
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is just when i say this giant chunk of nevada just you're not allowed to go there anymore don't
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worry about what we're doing there or not doing yeah right just we own it so right okay next one
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is wutan again says it gives us another fed post all right and uh thundercork2028 says uh we love
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the american empire actually right of reply i don't know who we are right we americans don't
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how about that how about that all right um kick you in the throat says america first that would
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be nice it doesn't ever we hear the words but it doesn't ever actually happen uh same person
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kick you in the throat says unite the anglosphere okay i'll comment on that real quick though okay
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So I think that what you see online with sort of Europeans versus Americans type shit talking
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back and forth, I don't think that that is authentic.
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I'm not saying there's no Americans that feel that way or no Brits that feel that way.
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But I just think that this is a psyop, particularly recently having to do with the perception
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on board as they'd like it to be with attacking
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enthusiastically as the Zionists would like
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i'll just speak for myself i certainly don't i think that europeans looking at it globally
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are really a small percentage of the population of the world right all right and and i think we
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better figure out how to stick together pretty pretty darn quick that would be nice yeah unite
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the anglosphere yes please the people i mean yeah yeah no i like that sentiment just unite the
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anglosphere yeah yeah okay the last one king philip 1861 says how about spam fritters never
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that's completely random okay but i'll share a random fact inspired by that a friend of mine
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is uh likes to go to hawaii for vacation okay and uh during world war ii you know certain things
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came out of world war ii because of rationing uh nutella is a world war ii thing it was like a
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way to make chocolate by using hazelnuts right um well with hawaii it was spam and spam hawaii is
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like the spam capital of the world i did not know that really i didn't know that 50 flavors of spam
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really yeah yeah well i did not know that they love spam in hawaii i thought it was a british
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thing i guess not i guess not how many do you have 50 flavors of spam on the no there's one
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yeah well go to hawaii you'll you'll learn because anyone who might not know spam is just like a
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really really really processed type of meat you get in a tin like a hand in a can yeah it's like
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yeah pork yeah yeah and it's massively massively processed it's slop it's slop meat but but i
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kind of salty yeah yeah yeah but i like it i grew up poor you like it i grew up poor as hell
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and so we would sometimes have spam okay and sometimes we'd have chips beans and spam for
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dinner i'm sorry you would have you would have spam if you were lucky right yeah yeah if we were
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lucky if you were lucky so i quite like spam but um i know like some people think it's disgusting
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interesting like but i don't mind it but spam fritters i could happily give it a try no problem
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yeah all right well that's the show thank you very much steve for joining you will be on the
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podcast later the main podcast today i hear i will yeah yeah i'm here for the day to to shoot
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things right and and uh yeah you're going to record something with dan and maybe hopefully
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me as well for later for premium content as well watch out watch out for radlib showing up on
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lotus eaters all right over the next week or two yeah yeah yeah we've got you all day brilliant
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thank you so much for coming in and sharing your thoughts and feelings and opinions and everything
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really really appreciate it yeah okay that is the show you've been uh the glorious band the chosen
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