The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 12th of July 2024 and I'm very

00:00:14.200 pleased to be joined by Godfrey Bloom and Lewis Brackfell back both back by popular demand

00:00:19.400 actually and we saw lots of positive comments in the audience when we announced that you'd

00:00:23.700 be appearing together so it's going to be a fun one I think and today we're going to be talking

00:00:28.300 about reform conforming in that they have replaced Ben Habib who has been a loyal party man

00:00:35.460 who worked quite hard as I understand it to campaign for reform with Zaire Youssef who

00:00:41.020 sort of parachuted in donated lots of money to the party and now has taken his position

00:00:45.560 as well as Lewis is going to be telling us about his freedom of information requests to the UK

00:00:52.000 government about geoengineering I suppose and then finally we're going to end off on a lighter note

00:00:58.840 and we're going to be looking at some of the articles talking about Keir Starmer being sexy

00:01:03.360 which I after covering the Hunter Biden laptop story is probably the second worst thing I've had to

00:01:10.440 look at since working here for the past four years and yes please please pray for me

00:01:17.800 there are some things you just can't unsee but anyway I do have an announcement to make before

00:01:24.500 we get started we're going to play all of the video comments next week because Samson is on his

00:01:28.840 own we have both of our video editors on holiday and he's been running the shop and Carl will also be

00:01:36.180 back from America next week so you'll get to send them to the big man rather than me who you're

00:01:39.980 probably sick of because this is my fourth time this week I've been on the podcast which is actually

00:01:45.000 the busiest week I've ever had working here also of course we're doing the rumble rants so if you

00:01:51.700 want to send in questions for our guests or just comment generally on the stories we're covering we're

00:01:57.700 going to read them after we actually cover them which is something new that we're doing as well as

00:02:02.660 we do have lads hour this afternoon where we're going to be talking about rejected YouTube video

00:02:09.360 ideas it's going to be a silly one we're going to have a bit of fun as it's Friday and I suppose I

00:02:14.800 may as well get into it nice so there was this story back at sort of June time I believe that Muslim

00:02:23.380 millionaire gives major donation to Reform UK and this Muslim millionaire goes by the name of Zaya

00:02:29.980 Yusuf and he is a tech entrepreneur and he donated 200,000 pounds as I'm aware you know it's always

00:02:39.060 difficult to tell but I did a little bit of digging and I think that's the amount he donated which is

00:02:43.260 not exactly a small amount particularly to a budding party this is the first election as with Nigel at the

00:02:51.340 helm of Reform UK that has happened and so they needed that money I think I think that's fair to say

00:02:58.680 and Mr Yusuf actually said the party leadership feel very strongly that we should protect British

00:03:06.920 values and put British people of all religions and creeds first and this you know somewhat 0.91

00:03:13.380 uncontroversial statement did set off some alarm bells because it was wrapped up in the language of

00:03:19.700 multiculturalism and of course I don't believe in the the law discriminating against people of course

00:03:25.900 however when someone wraps up language in that way it seems to suggest that perhaps your dedication to

00:03:35.160 ending things like mass immigration for example is not as strong as someone else and it is worth also

00:03:42.360 mentioning as well that in the Reform Manifesto it's an oft overlooked part but Beau Dade a former

00:03:49.060 Reform candidate that was one of the purged candidates our very own Beau put me onto the fact that

00:03:55.360 there was a part in there that said ban Sharia law not sure how that was going to happen but seems

00:04:02.160 like a little bit of a juxtaposition when you have a Muslim coming in although I don't necessarily think

00:04:07.060 he's you know joining the Mujahideen or ISIS anytime soon I don't think he's that kind of Muslim 1.00

00:04:11.820 to his credit I suppose but they have mopped up a fair amount of money leading up to the election

00:04:19.700 this story I believe was from three days ago and they got about 600,000 pounds in one week's donations

00:04:28.300 which is quite good really for a party of their size but I was somewhat disappointed by this this is

00:04:36.540 what led me to cover this really I saw Ben Habib share on Twitter this message and I'll read it and

00:04:42.880 then we'll talk about what we actually think of it I've just been informed by Nigel Farage that Richard

00:04:47.100 Tice is taking over as deputy leader of the party consequently I no longer hold that position

00:04:51.700 I'm considering my position more generally in light of this change I have long held concerns

00:04:57.580 about the control of the party and the decision making process I'll reflect on all of this the

00:05:02.400 key for me is that Reform UK stays true to the promises made to the British people the movement

00:05:07.240 we have created does not belong to us it belongs to the people we are obliged and indebted to the

00:05:12.640 British people so first of all most um Godfrey what do you make of this well uh there's an awful 1.00

00:05:21.420 lot of stuff I don't know there's a lot of there's a there's a lot I don't know uh so I need to flag

00:05:27.260 that up straight away I'm not in the know I'm not behind the scenes on this at all of course and

00:05:32.120 neither am I for that matter but I would say uh as a almost found a member of UKIP years ago

00:05:40.660 this surprises me not Ben Habib is now a member of a very big club and if you remember UKIP started

00:05:50.380 with um in 2004 I think it was with something like 11 MEPs and when they finished that session

00:05:56.800 it went down to five MEPs and then the next session started in 2009 I think it was and the UKIP members

00:06:02.940 were or MEPs were 14 uh and finished with five um Nigel does he's very articulate uh and he's a good

00:06:15.680 platform performer uh and he has a lot of political nous but every now and again drops the pass and I

00:06:24.100 fancy this is a dropped pass it's a problem uh that we saw in UKIP and it looks like it might go

00:06:32.600 the same way Nigel's idea of of management uh is based on Stalin Joseph Stalin management and if

00:06:43.240 anybody sort of gets in your way um it's the gulag for you and I suspect there's probably more to this

00:06:50.400 than meets the eye because Ben Habib is an articulate intellectual well-read individual

00:06:56.540 and Joe Stalin would have certainly got rid of him on that basis alone uh you know you don't want

00:07:02.220 people and it reminds me of Julius Caesar a little bit uh if you remember I'm I'm going from uh my

00:07:09.520 Shakespeare interpretation of Julius Caesar um when he complained that he was surrounded by thin men and

00:07:16.160 he wanted fat men around him he trusted fat men he didn't trust thin men and I think we've got a

00:07:21.440 sort of a game here that uh there's a lack of trust in somebody who's looking a bit too clever a bit too

00:07:28.540 sharp a bit too erudite a bit too articulate uh and maybe he might take the spotlight of the leadership

00:07:36.580 and that was very much the UKIP game that's how it happened it could be that because taking him up on

00:07:43.100 the point of the 200,000 pound uh donation to reform by modern standards that really isn't very much

00:07:51.000 I mean I could write a check for 200,000 or it wouldn't please my my wife she would want to spend 1.00

00:07:56.500 it on booze and horses uh but um it's not a big sum by modern standards really not really I suppose so

00:08:04.320 and my my concern is that um as we're going to get on to later that it's almost like a return to the

00:08:10.780 19th century of of you know buying commissions uh in the military yes buying commissions and if you

00:08:18.700 actually study your military history which I have of course I'm a military historian um you didn't

00:08:24.840 get particularly many bigger dummies whether they bought it or they didn't I mean of course

00:08:28.600 there was no buying more commissions and the generals we got broadly speaking the first war were 0.93

00:08:32.980 pretty rubbish yes and so on and so forth so it doesn't always necessarily follow uh but I think

00:08:38.280 back to nearer analogy here would be lloyd george's uh sale of honors uh lord lloyd george the overt sale

00:08:47.280 of honors I mean it's always been going on that sort of thing but lloyd george didn't even bother to

00:08:51.140 hide it and I think that's really what we're dealing with um but 200,000 I don't know has reform

00:08:57.240 sold its soul for a mess of pottage seems like it may have actually it's uh certainly ben habib is

00:09:05.440 no mark anthony is he lewis what do you think yeah I mean echoing um what godfrey said about ben habib

00:09:14.280 being very articulate uh he's very popular as well I mean this post has generated 3.3 million views

00:09:20.440 alone 7.7 thousand likes as well um ben habib has always been I think one of the favorites within

00:09:29.600 reform just as a candidate as someone who can get his point across very eloquently very straight to

00:09:36.880 the point so I'm sensing a kind of it's stealing the limelight a bit off of certain few whether it

00:09:46.200 be a candidate or whether it be a leader of this particular party so like I said I think we don't

00:09:52.540 know the behind the scenes of what's going on I'm I'm very disappointed actually uh is the honest

00:09:58.440 truth I'm disappointed that a ben habib wasn't elected which is gutting because I think he would 1.00

00:10:05.520 be a fantastic um uh candidate and leader so I guess there's the looming threat there um and on top of

00:10:13.780 that I'm gutted that that they've decided to demote him just on the basis that he's he what I believe he

00:10:24.000 wasn't elected and and that's probably the decision that they decided to make because he's not he's not

00:10:29.980 within parliament he's not got that limelight the rest of them do with with lee anderson and this new

00:10:35.960 guy as well that was elected in uh ashfield was it ashfield and the new guy the one oh yeah basildon

00:10:44.140 basildon that's the one um that's the one yeah I've got a mate that lives there actually oh there

00:10:50.680 we are that echoes that yeah um so yeah yeah I'm gutted for him personally but I'm sure that there

00:10:58.400 is more to this than meets the eye and I'm sure we're going to hear a bit more very soon I would

00:11:02.880 imagine so yes and um as you were saying you know he's he's well regarded amongst reform voters and I

00:11:10.440 think that we need only look across the Atlantic to one of Nigel Farage's friends I suppose you can

00:11:16.820 call him Donald Trump and he takes a very similar line of he he likes to have people under him that

00:11:23.620 are quite understated that um will not outshine yeah yeah so he likes people who um you know not

00:11:32.000 necessarily are the most articulate speakers because he likes to um hold that position for himself and it

00:11:38.080 might be in fact he's been talking to Trump and then exchanging political strategies with him

00:11:43.660 because of course he's been over there and helping him campaign at some point um and this is one of

00:11:49.480 the things that Trump might have suggested he do yeah I think it's a very big mistake um I was just

00:11:54.320 telling Lewis before we went on air when I was in the army uh which is a long time ago bows and arrows

00:12:01.480 and stuff like that but uh I used to surround when I was a squadron commander or a platoon commander

00:12:09.660 whatever the rank I happened to get to eventually the reason I managed to get to field rank eventually

00:12:15.680 was because because I picked the best corporals and the best sergeants I could possibly get hold of to 0.92

00:12:21.120 cover my ass and you need if you're going to be a team you need the most you need the best people 0.98

00:12:28.060 around you it doesn't detract from you at all it actually enhances you as the leader gosh he knows 0.99

00:12:34.500 how to pick good men and we had a general inspection once general learman uh well-known general at the

00:12:39.980 time inspected my training squadron and he said um he said this is one of the best training squadrons

00:12:45.400 I've ever seen I said well it's nothing really to do with me better meet my sergeant major

00:12:48.760 introduced my sergeant major and of course people think there are officers and managers who think that

00:12:55.320 detracts from your situation it doesn't because general learman got in the car and when he went

00:13:00.460 back to uh command headquarters wherever he went back to he wants people who know how to pick good

00:13:07.760 people yeah that's the key uh and I think if you do that you move forward uh very quickly uh and we had

00:13:15.620 this problem in uh UKIP where uh Nigel insisted that you could not be a spokesman for UKIP on tv or

00:13:23.760 anywhere else basically unless uh you were an MEP an elected MEP well first time around our MEPs were

00:13:31.220 fairly van ordinaire to be frank hearts in the right place good people uh but we had recently

00:13:37.740 retired naval captains very recently retired who could have spoken on defense we had a a keen UKIP who

00:13:43.620 was a surgeon young surgeon in Edinburgh uh and so on we had some really tough but they weren't

00:13:48.820 elected MEPs they were just very good people and we should have fielded them but again um

00:13:55.240 always reminds me years ago of the evening standard cartoon and you won't have anybody watching this

00:14:01.480 who will remember that it goes back quite a long way and there was uh JJ that the the column was JJ

00:14:07.520 and he was a fat cigar smoking businessman CEO and his secretary was called Miss Finch and he had a

00:14:13.860 uh you know all those little buzz throughs and he flicked through and he said Miss Finch he said I

00:14:18.620 want you to trawl through the organization and find somebody who's bright attractive competent

00:14:23.960 somebody who's capable of taking my place and sack him

00:14:29.720 and that's what I smell that's what I smell fair play yeah so um we have actually spoke to Ben

00:14:40.740 Habib before he spoke to Beau while he was still a candidate for reform uh before Tice purged him

00:14:47.040 thanks to hope not hate um and so if you want to hear him speak for himself this is a good place to

00:14:53.160 go it is free you don't have to pay for it it is a full interview and uh I feel like it's certainly

00:14:58.080 worth watching but Carl um you know my boss um posted a video in support of Ben Habib um in which Ben

00:15:06.660 Habib uh thanked Carl oh that's nice which I think is nice because Carl basically said much the same

00:15:12.800 as we've said uh he's worked hard and you know he doesn't necessarily deserve to be treated in this

00:15:19.540 way because he's well regarded by um reform voters and it seems a little bit unfair um he's the one he's

00:15:27.940 the one you want he's the one you want surrounding everyone he's the I'm a bit biased but he's the

00:15:34.740 most articulate out of all of them so he's he's like the the gold dust from from all of these guys

00:15:42.020 you need he's the one that you would pick to have as either an advisor or someone to to lead in in that

00:15:50.800 regard so I he's also understand he's better than he's not just the best that a reform can offer

00:15:56.740 I would argue that he's the best any political party can offer at this moment I agree and you

00:16:02.160 can't do every tv every question time every any questions you've got to spread it around or what

00:16:07.800 will happen and this happened uh last time in 2014 uh you can't go into a national election without a

00:16:15.120 shadow cabinet or suggested shadow cabinet which is what you could do in 2014 when I was uh after I'd

00:16:21.860 left and I explained to Andrew Neil and it's on my website that you can't being a protest group is

00:16:27.320 one thing and Nigel's extremely good at being a protest vote you know bang bang banging the drum

00:16:31.960 and all that kind of thing that's very good but in four or five years it's not impossible that reform

00:16:37.200 could be looking to be uh HM opposition I would yes perhaps and the first question is going to be

00:16:43.960 where's your shadow cabinet and the answer is nowhere you know it's bang bang bang let's all go to the pub

00:16:50.240 that works in you know in in certain types of part it worked in european first uh politics uh which

00:16:57.120 was uh um proportional representation it doesn't work when you go to the country it's very true and

00:17:02.620 it looks to me possibly like this is a lesson that hasn't been learned i agree and i think that this

00:17:08.560 decision has um if the national is to be believed here um potentially distanced habib from the party

00:17:15.140 understandably i certainly don't blame him for potentially considering resigning and um there's

00:17:21.540 a part in here i can't quite remember where it was but um yes they're talking about the criticism

00:17:26.560 and and things like that um but obviously we still need to wait and see what he actually has to say for

00:17:32.820 himself in greater detail i was going to say this that part shines the most the key for me is that

00:17:39.600 reform uk stays true to the promises made to the british people um the movement we have created does

00:17:45.960 not belong to us it belongs to the people we are obliged and indebted to the british people

00:17:52.580 and i think we need to hear more of that and yeah that habib has just outright said that

00:17:59.520 i think it speaks volumes to character and and you know intention because trust i mean i'm very cynical

00:18:07.340 as it is with regards to politics or politicians so actually at my age see how cynical you are

00:18:14.820 yeah it's only going to increase um so to actually hear that is extremely refreshing and we need more

00:18:21.860 of that so i i i can't wrap my head around this i'm i'm sorry i can't wrap i can't do it yeah so

00:18:29.300 we we look at yusuf's post here it is an honor to be appointed chairman of reform uk against all odds

00:18:35.120 under nigel farajny talks about their electoral successes um this is just the beginning an

00:18:41.020 important work of professionalizing the party which i think is an interesting word there

00:18:45.060 um building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun i will bring

00:18:51.560 all my expertise energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning great

00:18:56.720 britain to greatness and um yes if you if you look beneath this you can see lots of people rather

00:19:04.460 upset about this decision um there's one person there saying you are such a gentleman to be to give

00:19:11.120 him his credit um and yes people are giving him a hard time which is very different to what you might

00:19:20.720 get for ben habib's post where people are actually uh being quite supportive and i think that this

00:19:25.620 is a great way to alienate your potential base really when we when we uh i remember the

00:19:31.140 professionalization of ukip which actually meant dumping the grassroots that was that was a euphemism

00:19:38.360 for dumping the grassroots which was the whole strength of the party was grassroots

00:19:43.460 professionalize it and what we did we got people wannabes who couldn't make it in the

00:19:48.500 conservative party who came in parachuted in uh we got people who were sort of gurus of this

00:19:54.760 that and the other on 50 grand a year or whatever it was and i'm trying to get 10 quid out of old

00:19:59.320 age pensioners in yorkshire and the next time you go where's old so-and-so gone no he's gone he was 0.99

00:20:04.100 an idiot he's gone i'm gonna do it suddenly gone professionalizing a political party in my view 0.99

00:20:10.680 is a bad thing it's a bad thing we have too many professional bloody parties all over the place with 1.00

00:20:16.140 their hand in the till taking no notice of the electorate i wouldn't professionalize it but i

00:20:20.840 wouldn't make you know what i think perceived mistakes uh such as this one very quick thing if

00:20:25.700 you i must say i feel i must say i had a a first generation pakistani commanding officer regimental

00:20:33.640 commanding officer he was absolutely fantastic uh and you know he he had the union jack on his 0.78

00:20:41.620 bloody underpants he was he was so he was a really patriotic straight guy uh so i'm quite sure that

00:20:48.660 this guy's straight i just think it's it's not been done right i think just the idea of just buying your

00:20:53.980 way into the into the chairman the appointed chairman is just i don't know i think it kind of shows

00:21:01.920 i don't know a bit of light on how things operate there well the thing is though because ben habib

00:21:08.280 himself is is half pakistani and so you know if if faraj were trying to counter the the accusations

00:21:16.040 you get from bbc types of you know is your party racist are the people that belong to your party

00:21:20.940 racist well this decision wouldn't necessarily make sense because you know ben habib is already there

00:21:26.540 and well regarded yeah it doesn't make sense and so the only interpretation i can really come up with

00:21:31.820 unless there's something a bit more complicated internal um you know i'm not privy to everything

00:21:35.920 is that this was uh you know a cynical move as a reward for donation exactly and i your enemies are

00:21:43.980 always going to call you ists and phobes and isms you can't do that you can't get away don't play that

00:21:49.920 don't play that race card with me exactly exactly and the tory party and the labor party are essentially

00:21:56.520 the same party with the same crux of identity politics esg dei you want to stray away from that

00:22:03.660 if someone they're always going to call you the ists and isms so why are you playing the same game

00:22:10.100 i just i don't understand it well it's defending yourself on their home turf really isn't it and you

00:22:15.920 shouldn't concede the the framing you know if you defend yourself via their paradigm you've already

00:22:20.780 conceded too much ground exactly exactly but um you also have the same effect here where the reform

00:22:27.700 party announced um zaya yusuf as chairman and yeah one of the top comments complete betrayal 0.98

00:22:33.540 embarrassing um we've a lady with a palestinian flag saying we want to kick the muslims out which 0.99

00:22:40.860 dear dear that's a bit of a contradiction there um but there we go um and then finally i did want to 0.94

00:22:49.180 mention that um he did give a speech at a rally for reform on the 30th of june and his speech did go

00:22:56.700 down well with the base it roused the crowd a bit and he's clearly a good speaker at least and i

00:23:03.420 agreed with some of his points but i feel like some of the framing of what he was saying was slightly

00:23:09.360 off i think that uh he was talking very much in the abstract about british values but not very much

00:23:15.120 about the british people and i think that many of the people in reform concerned about the british

00:23:19.680 people um because you know you you get british values by having the british people that is um

00:23:26.400 sort of indisputable really and so i i think that it causes some reason to be a little bit cautious

00:23:35.300 about this because i think that it could be a potential means in which reform's stance on things

00:23:41.540 like immigration could be softened because it's wrapped up in values and and of course he talks about

00:23:46.340 people of any culture of any religion and things like that and that to me sounds like something out

00:23:52.040 of the conservative party if i'm being completely honest and it is not why people voted reform it's

00:23:56.500 not why i voted reform um begrudgingly albeit um and it's quite frustrating really very yeah i just

00:24:07.040 hit the nail on the head i've got nothing else to add to that sure so i believe you're going to be

00:24:12.960 telling us all about geoengineering which is something i don't actually know anything about

00:24:17.060 uh other than that they were doing it in dubai they were very proud of their ability to to change

00:24:23.180 the weather which to be fair if you lived in a desert and you can make it rain um that is the stuff

00:24:27.800 of gods in bygone eras oh absolutely i i must preface this subject can get a bit prickly and you can

00:24:35.700 easily steer off and go off down the rabbit hole as we all do at times when we're really interested

00:24:42.320 into a subject um so i want to make sure that during this segment i'm only dealing with facts

00:24:48.620 what what they what they are saying and not any opinions or anything like that sure and not to stray

00:24:56.120 off but geoengineering is the act of man-made climate intervention so purposely changing the climate to suit a

00:25:05.800 particular agenda which it might be to thwart global warming or you know all these types of things and

00:25:12.620 using various techniques such as solar radiation management which will get into stratospheric aerosol

00:25:19.740 injection and all this now i didn't believe that this was happening i'll be honest with you i just

00:25:25.600 didn't believe it at all but then this story popped up not too long ago so this was back in april

00:25:32.100 and this was over in america where it says geoengineering test quietly launches salt crystals

00:25:38.940 into the atmosphere where an experiment in san francisco could lead to brighter clouds that reflect

00:25:45.920 sunlight however they didn't tell the public about it because they were afraid that people might protest

00:25:54.440 and stop this particular act because it's quite well it's very controversial the act of actually doing

00:26:02.980 this i don't know if you guys have heard of geoengineering before if you've heard of cases

00:26:07.140 yeah like you i was a bit skeptical i'm becoming less skeptical i'm very much interested in what you've

00:26:12.940 got to say believe me brilliant so i decided let's start with a little bit of history um so this is one of

00:26:20.360 the most famous um cases of i guess geoengineering that is in the uk called raf rainmakers which was

00:26:28.480 back in 1952 this is a guardian article that was published in august 2001 so this is also known as

00:26:37.940 project cumulus where the raf conducted weather modification experiments including the dispersal of

00:26:45.160 salt dry ice or silver iodide particles into clouds uh which tragically resulted in a flash flood in

00:26:53.880 the village of lynmouth devon lovely village it's uh not too far from uh you know my neck of the woods

00:26:59.160 oh really i've never been i'd like to go we had to pack up our uh toys i remember quite vividly we

00:27:07.220 packed up our toys and sent them to lynmouth and the uh oh really yeah one of my one of my first

00:27:12.280 memories oh wow okay um yeah and unfortunately this experiment claimed over 35 lives and survivors

00:27:22.300 demand demanded an investigation into this but uh their calls were sadly unanswered and then it was

00:27:28.680 later later declassified decades later um another one was project storm fury this is one in america

00:27:38.080 between 1962 to 1983 could have guessed from the name there couldn't you that it was an american one

00:27:43.580 yeah so they sought to weaken tropical cyclones so that was the the main idea of it and to suppress

00:27:52.900 hurricanes using silver iodide another common element fidel castro even accused the american

00:27:59.420 government government of weaponizing hurricanes apparently that was i remember um reading about that

00:28:05.600 and i just thought he'd sort of lost the plot of the plot yeah um it however it was eventually

00:28:11.080 determined that most hurricanes lack sufficient supercooled water for cloud seeding to be effective

00:28:16.160 leading to the project's closure uh later on uh another one is operation popeye uh which is

00:28:24.500 uh this was back in 67 to 72 where a weather modification program aimed at increasing rainfall over selected

00:28:34.180 areas in vietnam to hinder enemy movement and this highly classified program allegedly sponsored by

00:28:42.900 the secretary of state henry kissin kissinger at the time and the cia um without the secretary of

00:28:50.520 defense's authorization involved cloud seeding to disrupt uh transportation routes um now if you look into

00:29:00.640 zero um to uh the media now in modern times you would think that this was called a crackpot conspiracy

00:29:09.020 theory but no the media are saying and if we if we could play this of course for the viewers

00:29:15.360 i can't wait for you thank you very much uh they're saying it's pretty much safe they anticipate at least

00:29:21.960 another 200 ground cloud seeding machines to be put in before next season ginger this is such a cool

00:29:27.780 concept but is it too good to be true i mean how do we know that the chemicals that they're spraying

00:29:32.660 from the air aren't bad for us or the planet the good news is we've been doing this since the 1940s

00:29:37.140 and 50s other countries do it and there have been a lot of research projects that have shown that the

00:29:41.300 silver iodide for example is not found it's negligible once it gets down to ground level so again i don't

00:29:47.580 want to be too skeptical but is there anything wrong with manipulating nature like this i think

00:29:51.900 that's the question we should have asked when we built every single parking lot and every rooftop we

00:29:56.300 have been manipulating weather with our us for a very long time i do think that looking at and

00:30:02.740 continuing research on when these programs get bigger if it will affect people downstream that needs

00:30:08.140 to be watched at least we're manipulating it now to help the planet so there you go manipulation of

00:30:14.860 the weather to help the planet is the uh silver iodine is safe and effective yeah no and we've heard

00:30:20.420 that before that phrase we'll get in trouble if we say where we heard that yeah exactly true any thoughts

00:30:27.500 so far gents so my initial you know i'm a psychologist i'm not a meteorologist or you know a climate

00:30:36.860 scientist thankfully um but my understanding is that we still don't have a complete understanding of the

00:30:44.060 climate and thus by interfering with it we uh to my sort of lay perspective and this is just my sort

00:30:51.400 of gut feeling here we stand to potentially do more harm than good um because of course um we can

00:30:58.760 only seek to really emulate nature but it's very difficult to surpass it in my in my understanding of

00:31:06.040 the world i totally agree i we have a small holding up in east yorkshire uh you know with just a few

00:31:12.760 you know horses and a few chickens and maybe fattening beasts and all that kind of stuff it's only a few

00:31:19.260 acres um but we are in the country and we've had that small holding i don't know look 40 years or

00:31:27.600 something like that and when you live in the country you do tend to look skywards you know you've got

00:31:33.080 a few plants you maybe got a few strawberries you've got a bit of this and a bit of that and you're

00:31:36.640 small holding so we tend to make much we take make much more of weather than your city dweller

00:31:43.680 mm-hmm um i'm no longer a city slicker i'm a country pumpkin i've switched uh i've gone the

00:31:50.480 other way so well my my wife is total bumpkin uh you know so uh but we look up and we were walking 1.00

00:31:58.620 the dogs the other day and it was a beautiful clear sky and this is not the first time this

00:32:02.160 happened a beautiful quiet beautiful i said to a neighbor a village and we were just walking

00:32:05.680 past this cottage and i said what a beautiful evening you know it's a really beautiful summer's

00:32:10.260 evening and then we saw two or three almost immediately two or three trails and now i don't

00:32:18.600 know what the trails were and two or three aeroplanes quite high i would say 25 000 feet up and and

00:32:24.860 crisscross and we're not on a flight path now that also doesn't mean necessarily anything

00:32:29.480 um but yet again yet again uh there was this white white out with the sun disappearing and just

00:32:38.520 trying to fight its way through a white muslin tablecloth kind of thing and it's happened for me

00:32:44.180 just too many times for me to believe that this is all coincidence and on my channel um i have lots

00:32:52.440 of people sending stuff uh and they send it this is the sky this morning over chelmsford or this is the

00:32:57.760 sky this morning over chippenham or so where it is and it looks to me weird uh and then i've got

00:33:06.260 skeptics who say oh well basically where are the logistics you know where are the pilots where's

00:33:10.920 this and they take it from that point of view not that it's not happening they say oh well

00:33:13.900 it we it couldn't be kept a secret this kind of thing um but i know when i look up and so do my

00:33:20.600 bigger farming bigger landowning you know proper landowning friends not smallholders but they look up

00:33:25.500 there's something not right there's something not right and we don't know what it is i think it's

00:33:30.380 definitely worth i think it's it's it's i i would never ever turn my nose down or nobody should be

00:33:38.480 turning their nose down to to others who who are questioning this sort of thing i mean like i said

00:33:44.200 it it's a prickly subject because you can easily come to conclusions very quickly people can just throw

00:33:51.720 all sorts of things um but i think it's i think it's one of those things that i i think it's a

00:33:57.480 legitimate question to be asking um with regards to silver iodide after them saying it's completely

00:34:03.560 safe and effective well i had a little look and there are journals about the possible effects of

00:34:10.320 silver iodide and many other uh chemicals that have been used for cloud seeding and its possible effects

00:34:16.920 and it's not good i'll be honest uh here's one uh it's jstor uh i can't i can't remember how you

00:34:25.840 properly say it but this is a store j store i believe me i'm very well oh you weren't very well

00:34:31.160 equipped unfortunately i should have looked up how you how you properly say that one um but there's

00:34:36.560 plenty including the national library of medicine saying the potential risk risk of acute toxicity

00:34:43.480 uh using this sort of stuff so i don't know i think it's a bit risky to be using silver iodide

00:34:50.200 for too long and of course um this has been happening since the 50s maybe even possibly the 40s

00:34:56.800 um so the fact that the media now in this era are saying no no it's completely fine don't worry about it

00:35:05.040 but there are still uh publications coming out saying no no this is really really bad so i don't know

00:35:12.000 who's lying is is my question from that um so then i decided after all of this i'm going to send off

00:35:19.280 some freedom of information requests to the uk government the met office the ukri which is

00:35:24.520 the research body or the research council um and i if we could show the met office funding screenshot

00:35:32.800 that i got so this is what i received back uh so the met office with britain's forecaster

00:35:40.020 disclosed receiving funding for their involvement in geoengineering research over the past five years

00:35:47.000 they received 152 046 pounds from the met office hadley center climate program all to do with geoengineering

00:35:55.740 so that's climate intervention using srm or stratospheric aerosol injection as well

00:36:02.220 and they also received 200 000 us dollars from a ngo called silver lining and i thought who are they

00:36:11.340 i've never heard of these guys before so i did a bit of digging uh and this is their website that you

00:36:17.220 can go and see silver lining i mean it's a big giveaway with the title i wonder what they do yeah yeah

00:36:23.780 and it's all to do with you know equity there's also i don't know if i can have a look have a look

00:36:30.300 there um in fact no if we just keep going i looked into who has been bankrolling uh silver lining and

00:36:37.740 it's a particular family okay that says not that's gone okay that's strange oh we might be able to

00:36:46.500 refresh it oh that's a bit strange it's gone that's really weird well um i've already refresh i've had

00:36:56.560 the screenshot for a previous video uh on my youtube channel about this but i've got all the information

00:37:04.060 here silver lining recently announced the 20.5 million dollar in funding to advance its governance

00:37:10.480 and equity initiatives on near-term climate risk and climate intervention moreover they have ties to

00:37:18.180 the wealthy pritzker family in the u.s who contribute to the ngo through the pritzker innovation fund

00:37:25.100 and they are ranked sixth in oh it's not there for some weird reason um but they ranked sixth

00:37:31.700 in um by forbes among the wealthiest uh in the u.s family um in the u.s so a substantial donor and

00:37:40.080 they had an article in their website announcing this big 20.5 million dollars so i don't know why

00:37:46.880 that's gone i don't know why they've deleted that that's news to me i wasn't expecting that

00:37:52.020 um but they also have ties right here with the united states this is the con this is congress

00:37:59.460 uh where they have mandated a research plan and research government framework in relation to

00:38:06.320 solar radiation management and this framework includes scenarios for solar radiation modification

00:38:13.540 international cooperation um and frameworks for physical aspects of solar radiation modification

00:38:21.880 and there is a particular if i can find it um there is a particular graphic that they use

00:38:29.800 i'm going to try and find it now in in real time but it's a graphic that they've shown in this document

00:38:36.880 that shows all the different types of s here it is srm climate intervention so you've got space-based

00:38:43.960 methods which includes putting a giant disc into space like a solar mirror is that i i know that that's

00:38:52.600 something that's been considered i don't know whether that's actually uh something else and i just

00:38:57.240 remembered that term and i'm misapplying it i'll quickly have a look but then you also have other

00:39:02.320 methods here increasing the amount of s s ai which is obviously stratospheric aerosol that you can see

00:39:08.440 here marine cloud brightening which is another one that's like the san francisco story we heard earlier

00:39:14.220 by putting in salt crystals to increase the brightness of clouds in order to reflect sunlight

00:39:19.760 um and increasing i think it's to do with re it's

00:39:27.240 it's sort of uh like when a volcanic eruption happens and all the ash clouds like it's sort of

00:39:33.800 replicating that and that can be certainly what it looks like from my from our farm yeah and that's uh

00:39:39.880 that's kind of their their sort of way of doing it the director of this silver lining

00:39:45.920 actually commented on a particular man and of course he's cropped up uh bill gates where this executive

00:39:54.320 director of this ngo gave a good review on his book uh climate intervention how to avoid a climate

00:40:03.140 disaster where she says in this article we are grateful for gates's support of our field and we need

00:40:10.460 more individuals organizations and governments who are concerned about our escalating climate emergency

00:40:17.020 to support and invest in our field of study research is key to solving the issues of feasibility

00:40:23.240 impact and governance that currently exists in our field and no group can achieve that research without

00:40:29.920 the investment and support required to make it possible we at silver lining hope that bill gates's

00:40:35.700 recognition of our critical work encourages others um to regardless of background or prior knowledge of

00:40:42.900 climate intervention to do more of their own research to better understand the potential of

00:40:47.820 climate intervention um she also quite often another one and i'm sorry to go real down uh the rabbit

00:40:56.240 hole i guess but the more you find i wonder if this company this uh silver lining company has a goal for

00:41:03.360 2030 by yes uh well and yes they do uh they co-wrote that she co-wrote an article called can we geoengineer

00:41:12.740 our way out of climate change this was published back in 2017 to which it reads during the agricultural

00:41:19.220 industrial and digital revolutions of the past 150 years we have arguably been accidentally engineering the

00:41:27.560 earth system we lit the planet where it was dark we transplanted species paved forests emitted carbon moved

00:41:35.500 rivers and changed the earth's chemistry could we now apply the same could we now apply the advances of

00:41:42.140 the fourth industrial revolution to protect the natural systems we rely on and this entire article goes

00:41:50.180 through that um that vision which also shows this graphic how do the people who are sponsoring in big

00:41:59.180 money uh solar panels feel about this i mean they're covering yorkshire with solar panels and they're trying

00:42:05.460 to block out the sun exactly who's doing what to whom and why i mean it's all why would you put solar

00:42:12.600 panels in and then sponsor people blocking out the sun and california without sun i mean their vineyards

00:42:21.560 their market gardens biodiversity their whole thing yeah it would thwart you because we all know don't 0.98

00:42:27.640 we we we're trying to rationalize this aren't we yeah how stupid is that us i mean who know i mean what 1.00

00:42:33.400 are we talking about we know exactly what's going on don't we they're malthusians they're crooks uh 1.00

00:42:38.600 they're gangsters yeah and this is about political control it's about making money this is all about 0.76

00:42:43.580 making money yeah it's about money it's a climate mafia yeah what it is because it's a trillion dollar

00:42:48.660 industry even more um so if they can get more grants sponsorships if they could put their hands in other

00:42:55.500 people's pockets to uh move some things around get some things because of course um governments grant

00:43:01.620 lots of exceptions to green technology because they want um the innovations to progress which means that

00:43:07.740 there's a very strong incentive to invest in these industries however fruitful or fruitless they

00:43:13.100 might be uh pun intended um and it's it's just uh this weird symbiotic relationship between governments

00:43:22.840 because i we've been seeing lots and lots of green money if you will yes um coming into politics again

00:43:30.120 and one would only conclude from that that they're trying to influence politics even further in their favor

00:43:35.160 to get um these tax breaks even more favorable treatment um from the state to allow them to make

00:43:43.020 even more money from it than they would otherwise well my landowning friends and i complain i'm trying to

00:43:48.600 explain them that these great wind turbines don't work they just don't work do the numbers it's ridiculous

00:43:53.800 they have to bury the blades as well i know yeah they have to bury them in the desert don't get any of this

00:43:58.920 but the the general response is godfrey uh they say how would i afford the school fees if i didn't

00:44:05.620 have these things on my land you know they pay me a hundred or two hundred thousand pounds a year for

00:44:10.580 these three these i suppose i put three kids through you know through school yeah and university

00:44:15.900 that's right everybody's got their hand of the till annoyingly except me where's my i want my hand in

00:44:23.240 the till i never seem to make it work yeah even when it's an m.e.p where you can put a shovel into

00:44:28.820 the kitty i didn't do that either there's something wrong with me i think it's got nothing to do with

00:44:33.240 the climate it's to do with yeah um funding but this is a screenshot from my other freedom of

00:44:40.000 information request to do with the ukri that's united kingdoms research initiative um according to the

00:44:48.080 ukri they do hold relevant information with regards to funding geoengineering projects in the uk uh but

00:44:56.420 they point out that it's already quote reasonably accessible to the public which is a bit of a lie

00:45:03.900 which means it's not um via their gateway research platform uh they recommended specific searches like

00:45:11.320 geoengineering solar radiation management earth radiation management greenhouse gas removal and carbon

00:45:17.180 dioxide removal these searches yielded details of 327 projects that have been funded in the uk with

00:45:26.540 an additional seven if you type in stratospheric aerosol injection and here is the website that you can

00:45:33.080 go to to have a little look for yourself on the side there you can see the amount of money that has

00:45:38.680 been pumped through and the dates and it gives you a bit more um it gives you a bit more details when

00:45:44.980 you click on them um they stress that these are hypothetical projects so using climate modeling systems so

00:45:53.340 they're not real experimentations however i did send another request to ask about real experimentations

00:46:00.840 and they replied saying that um out of all these 327 projects there may be some physical experimentation

00:46:12.280 hidden within so there's a lot to go through still and there's a lot of money being poured in i reckon

00:46:18.000 over at least 10 million uh being put in or or around that sort of ballpark figure that's all really

00:46:25.180 interesting and some great work you've done there i'm really funnily enough my producer said to me on

00:46:30.460 out of my channel um he said we've got to get into this now because this is you know we were bang on

00:46:36.860 early when it came to uh covid we were really early with the first in saying you know that this

00:46:42.880 isn't that and this isn't all this is fake uh and i want to keep my record on my channel and my

00:46:48.580 websites going with this and he said find somebody who really knows their stuff we can interview on

00:46:53.180 our channel you are that manly i will deal with you after we go off air and i will make you come on

00:46:58.760 my channel oh brilliant and uh because this is a pleasure we need to get this out to everybody don't

00:47:04.180 we uh yeah i i made i made a video on this and put that out on on x and youtube it's it's gotten

00:47:10.760 some good views but i think it needs to go yeah we need more of us need to put our shoulder behind it

00:47:15.960 because i don't want to be breathing in silver iodine no what are it bloody well called i asked

00:47:22.100 about uh consent so the public awareness and consent because if there are projects to do with

00:47:27.780 climate intervention the public needs to know about this and they replied the natural environment

00:47:33.080 research council replied saying well there has been there was a public dialogue and consent

00:47:39.060 um there was a meeting done the met office responded that they have no information regarding awareness

00:47:47.380 and consent but these guys said that there was a public dialogue on geoengineering in 2011

00:47:53.980 to which oh no that's not it sorry i need to go back apologies go back uh to which 85 participants

00:48:03.200 turned up including 74 experts and stakeholders and according to this report back in 2010 or 2011

00:48:12.160 participants felt heard and appreciated during the discussions with scientists however it's worth

00:48:19.620 noting that the only media coverage of this event emerged three years later and it was on bbc radio

00:48:27.080 four's today program in 2014 that's their idea of public awareness and consent with this

00:48:34.320 so nothing really and i don't know about you there's a lot more to this than what i've found this is what

00:48:42.120 they're i hate to i hate to say it like this but this is what they're telling me

00:48:46.200 so there's obviously a lot more information oh heap of stuff they're not telling yeah so this

00:48:51.540 investigation is still ongoing i'm committed to to finding out more uh and you know i can't do it

00:48:58.720 by myself so if anyone wants to you know come on board and help more than welcome to so one thing i

00:49:04.700 will say about this is that from my time in academic research you couldn't you know get anything past an

00:49:11.680 ethics committee at least in psychology at least you know they questioned everything to a degree which

00:49:17.160 took me you know i knew about research ethics i was doing a research focused masters at the time

00:49:22.980 at one point at least and even then there were things that they're picking up on that i never would

00:49:28.960 have thought would would have mattered like um things like oh will the the link be able to be

00:49:35.760 accessed on multiple different devices other than just a web page can you use a mobile phone

00:49:40.620 and that was the consideration of an ethics committee for psychological research so you

00:49:47.720 you look at something like this which has the potential to affect hundreds of thousands of

00:49:52.660 people potentially if not millions depending on where they do it i would imagine they probably do

00:49:56.440 it in a rural area they're at least trying to be responsible but my worry is that with an

00:50:04.000 experiment like this the ethical clearance may well be you know just get get us results this this is a

00:50:11.220 very important thing that we need to develop and therefore don't worry about that um because i don't

00:50:17.340 know how um this sort of research would ever pass the ethical standards that i had to uphold when conducting

00:50:23.140 research and there's a sort of potential here just you know as a as a general researcher of unintended

00:50:32.600 consequences because it's dealing with something that we don't fully understand exactly and and they

00:50:37.660 all say it on that silver lining i don't know if we could quickly go back to the silver lining let me

00:50:43.460 should be able to yeah oh sorry that's my fault um there is a on on if we go on the about

00:50:51.320 about us there is a quote that the i'm gonna try and find this apologies i should i've just remembered

00:51:02.380 um save climate initiative there is a quote here it is so this is the director of silver lining saying

00:51:11.180 this climate change is here we are experiencing its devastating effects in recent extreme events

00:51:17.680 the safe the safe climate research initiative support supports research on promising means of

00:51:23.580 reducing warming rapidly to help people safe and to help keep safe and natural systems stable we do not

00:51:31.540 have enough information to know whether climate interventions are viable or can be undertaken safely

00:51:38.420 the work of these groundbreaking research teams will help ensure we have science to inform decisions

00:51:44.900 in this critical area so they're openly admitting that we they don't know they don't have enough

00:51:50.280 information and they don't have they don't know whether it can be undertaken safely yet there's money

00:51:55.940 being thrown around and there's more of it yeah so the the sums of money that i at least saw on screen

00:52:02.240 of you know a hundred thousand to a million these are the sorts of sums that you do see in um you know

00:52:08.880 a hundred thousand perhaps a small scale research project a million for a slightly larger scale one

00:52:14.500 those do indicate they are conducting research it's not you know covertly funding anything necessarily

00:52:21.460 yeah fair point and um so i i would say that perhaps if if there is something like that going on

00:52:28.340 i don't know personally um it's not necessarily going through these research means that you've

00:52:33.540 got here but those do seem to be sort of uh pilot studies if you pardon the pun yeah um and and and

00:52:40.980 and further research on this sort of thing and although i do support research i think that perhaps the

00:52:48.080 the urgency of the tone of this statement suggests that they're going to um overlook some of the ethical

00:52:55.820 considerations and some of the the potential for the people that might be affected by these um

00:53:01.260 you know practical

00:53:02.460 um research i suppose um that they're going to overlook their concerns

00:53:08.740 do we risk this as possible potential rabbit hole i'm afraid um how many people are you know are actually

00:53:16.640 buying into all this kind of ludicrous nonsense i mean with the met office we look a clip from the

00:53:22.740 met office turn as we had the hottest may for years and years and years yeah we i'm for york 0.97

00:53:27.580 froze to death we've you know bloody ridiculous yeah we've all got our west and heavy woolies on

00:53:33.220 again and all the rest of it uh we have a small swimming pool which we've been in once 0.82

00:53:37.620 up to now uh july's been uh june was no better and the one thing but british people were

00:53:46.420 most people i suppose were conned easily because viruses and immunology people go well i can't see it's a

00:53:52.340 bug i've got this bug i'm gonna die kind of rubbish but we all i mean the british do weather

00:53:57.600 yeah yeah exactly every time you meet somebody if you're walking down the country lane oh it's 0.92

00:54:02.140 brightened up isn't it yeah yeah when is it going to come to people and say bug bugger me they're at

00:54:07.420 it again aren't they and you know this is this sooner or later you can't fool the englishman on weather

00:54:14.240 no you can't that's all he does that's all he thinks about it's true well uh yeah i as much as

00:54:21.260 it's a dark horrible subject and i'm really disagree with it it's it's i i've kind of taken

00:54:27.560 quite a liking into researching into this particular topic because i don't feel insane talking about it

00:54:33.880 that way but that's what i have uh there's a lot more information but of course time constraints

00:54:39.400 um but yeah hopefully we'll get some more information soon and like i said if anyone

00:54:45.080 wants to reach out and help i can't do this by myself yeah well i'll certainly come and i'll be

00:54:50.240 doing the same thing i'll say can anybody because i've got so much economic and other stuff but i've

00:54:54.820 got actually one of the things with having a sort of a semi boutique following if you will but for

00:55:00.060 bigger or for better or for worse or smaller is that an awful bit like the local pub somebody

00:55:06.360 somewhere will know how to do that yeah if you go to the pub somebody will know you need who knows

00:55:11.420 how to grow chrysanthemums you know yeah yeah there's about two guys said i don't know but there's

00:55:16.520 an allotment he knows how to do it and i said i've got a morris minor 1000 sort of classic car thing

00:55:22.660 and i don't think about cars and i wanted to find somebody bashing with the mallet there's somebody in

00:55:26.260 the college i've been restoring those for years and i think you've got that kind of following

00:55:31.100 you'll find people who will say yeah yeah i know how to do that and again i could do that or i could

00:55:39.060 that or what bit of that is a big subject what bit i could do with that bit yeah exactly yeah we could

00:55:43.840 i think a lot of people would like to become involved in that cool yeah i hope they do so we've

00:55:49.080 got some comments sent in so um hewitt 76 says josh buy yourself a pint for all your hard work over

00:55:57.340 the last week well thank you um chaos is fun interesting name there i'm disappointed in you

00:56:03.380 not shilling uh carl and connor's trek across the pond to reclaim the colonies appear on the culture

00:56:08.820 war on tenant media after the podcast well i was going to leave it up to them actually um because i

00:56:15.340 don't want to you know steal their thunder they're probably going to have a lot to say what was that

00:56:18.540 sorry samson says they'll probably go for it next week and then a name i can't pronounce says

00:56:27.000 follow uh will to power with a zero for an o and ones for i um l's on tiktok for bold maga content

00:56:37.520 exposing cognitive dissonance and tds join daily live debates okay i'm reading someone's shell here

00:56:42.720 um engaged in political discussions and stay informed we all defeat harry the fairy what who's that

00:56:49.820 you don't mean northern harry do you oh well or harry um but anyway time time to lower the tone even

00:56:58.360 further now um after reading that um with some of the absurd articles about keir starmer being sexy

00:57:07.240 and uh i never thought i'd say those words i was gonna say is that your opinion or no no i'm not

00:57:14.720 into um 60 year old men um despite the speculation um and here is an article this was on the times

00:57:24.560 by so-called comedian caitlin moran um keir starmer has turbocharged my arousal levels i feel fruity

00:57:32.960 please don't clip this um so every middle-aged woman i know feels right now kind of fruity turned on 1.00

00:57:43.900 as erotic as a british woman can feel during a wet summer i'm sorry godfrey for this um on the

00:57:50.820 morning after the election buckets i feel like i would like a new way of cloud seeding

00:57:56.960 on the morning after the election one of my friends whatsapped and i realized

00:58:01.620 and this is a direct quote here i realized i got up and shaved my legs put on a face mask and blow

00:58:07.480 dried my hair like i was subconsciously preparing for a date and whom was that date with as we spent

00:58:13.880 an enjoyable hour analyzing her subconscious we concluded it wasn't specifically with keir starmer

00:58:19.440 or even a new labor government but with competency oh that is cringe it is yeah so this uh comedy

00:58:27.960 article is actually just a vehicle for saying the labor party is competent and uh the funny thing is

00:58:37.740 and uh this isn't some sort of snobby comment um because i went to a comprehensive school as well

00:58:44.060 they were boasting about how we're you know we're the least privately educated um we have the least

00:58:51.420 privately educated cabinet um in british history which seems to me not to be a brag personally everyone

00:58:58.320 knows that you know usually speaking private education is better otherwise what are you paying for

00:59:03.460 it's true um so yes i'm not you know looking down my nose i went to one um so i wish i did i'm

00:59:10.380 insulting myself but comprehensive no no no oh private i didn't go private oh right oh sorry

00:59:15.900 um i wish i had though yeah same um but yes within the same breath they're also being called the most

00:59:24.540 competent and you know you have people like david lammy as foreign secretary who uh his his venture on

00:59:31.620 to mastermind where he didn't get any questions right on his specialist subject and then even

00:59:38.820 questions that children could have got in the general knowledge section he got wrong which quite frankly

00:59:44.440 is embarrassing and is that online for um foreign governments to watch when they anticipate his

00:59:50.860 visit the thing that totally stunned me one of the questions it was sent to me by uh my producer guy

00:59:56.780 and he said hey look at this and said uh what uh what cheese do you normally associate with port

01:00:04.280 and he didn't know and that for me i couldn't possibly vote for a man who didn't know about 0.93

01:00:10.940 stilton i mean the guy is a great ass as i'm concerned i mean dear oh dear oh dear but they are 0.95

01:00:17.400 if it is a competent labor government it will be the first in history let's put it that way 0.98

01:00:22.420 um but uh of course as i say another rabbit hole who cares who you vote for these days it's all

01:00:29.080 world economic forum so and of course at least starmer's honesty the honesty of starmer he did when

01:00:35.740 he was uh uh when he was interviewed by emily no mates uh he uh she said was it parliament or is it uh

01:00:44.180 davos davos and then we're like oh god i've got to vote for him then but labor i mean dear oh dear

01:00:51.080 oh dear yeah apparently isn't that chap we were talking about earlier a w e f young leader or

01:00:57.160 something like that that was which one somebody told me the uh the reform guy the new reform chairman

01:01:03.260 oh um dear youssef yeah dwef i don't know somebody told me and i'm just saying you know well i can i

01:01:11.560 google that right now well that would be a revelation although i can understand at my age

01:01:17.260 the sexiness of keir starmer because he looks one of my really favorite dishes is steak and kidney

01:01:23.580 pudding and he does look like steak and kidney pudding i mean he's got that suety sort of look

01:01:29.740 and so yes yum yum yum yum so it carries on to say there is nothing more erotic to a middle-aged

01:01:36.780 woman than competency i mean there might be something to that um i'm not a middle-aged

01:01:42.700 get a hold of my competency it is the quality we value above all others as we age our preferred

01:01:50.060 language of love shifts from i would die for you to i will stay alive and do your vat return for you

01:01:56.280 and uh the single most sexual phrase we can hear is i'll take care of that

01:02:00.560 and so that part did actually kind of make me laugh um i'll admit i yeah i'm very guilty about

01:02:08.380 that and so however it pans out at the beginning of this new government the fact that they seem

01:02:13.320 at the outset incredibly competent is making women of a certain age very frisky i i don't know about 0.96

01:02:18.300 this um sure about that so this this last part i'm going to read it in full because it's uh

01:02:22.960 you're going to have to pinch yourself look who turned up to form a new cabinet walking down

01:02:27.580 downing street last friday not the familiar parade of pink public school boys all seemingly in the 0.83

01:02:32.360 same suit exuding a palpable worcesterish air of what ho i guess i'll be minister for housing in 18

01:02:38.140 months could be fun don't know anything about it why not give it a shot instead a new minister for

01:02:43.460 leveling up angela rayner is someone who has actually leveled up from a single mother in a

01:02:47.520 council house to deputy prime minister don't know whether that's anything to brag about um the new

01:02:52.500 minister for prisons james timpson i expected it to follow and say he was a prisoner but no

01:02:57.320 has spent the last 20 years finding jobs for former prisoners uh the new minister for transport

01:03:01.980 um is that louise hay um has the kind of red emo hair dye that suggests she frequently jumped the 1.00

01:03:09.600 barriers at the tube on her way to a green day gig which is not what you want really uh from a

01:03:15.280 government minister no i don't know what it means well i wish i could be you um all my friends were

01:03:22.520 watching these arrivals as if we were watching magic mike live i i'm not going to read that last

01:03:27.440 part but they said something about rubbing a certain area um it's almost as if keir starmer has hired

01:03:33.360 the best people for the job rather than just someone's wife or a mate from school but the thing

01:03:37.800 is i've had 14 years after power to sort out their shadow cabinet eventually they're going to find

01:03:43.500 people to fill it you know when you have the dregs of the conservative party they've cycled it around so

01:03:49.260 many times that you know they're running out of people that are willing to take the job i'm surprised

01:03:54.240 they didn't ask people passing by downing street uh if they wanted to come in and become i don't know

01:03:58.760 the minister for leveling up which is a silly title anyway i didn't even know there was a minister

01:04:03.940 it's an absurd that's what we need more government departments but to to help keep your lunch down i'm

01:04:12.720 going to move on to the next one which is even worse uh the starmers are sexy uh um really i don't know

01:04:21.440 what what about this uh brilliant but uh this is the spectator once highly regarded now um 0.96

01:04:30.920 starmer in that it looks like he's just had sex only somebody's taking him from the south 0.58

01:04:36.580 so it reads as follows now we have new leadership and with it a new paradigm of attractiveness david

01:04:48.600 lammy the new foreign secretary is even less handsome than dave meaning david cameron but for

01:04:53.660 different and therefore revitalizing reasons elsewhere in the cabinet though things hot up

01:04:58.640 with the cheek bony luscious locked angela rayner and rachel reeves of the world my goodness me

01:05:04.760 i don't know i suppose i don't know what to say about i suppose the spectator have been uh you

01:05:10.820 know recruiting from you know the dei textbook here and hired a blind writer um but for me they have the

01:05:18.580 wrong they are the wrong sex to ogle and thus to the very top starmer himself politically i'm as

01:05:24.600 lukewarm about the new prime minister as the next north london free marketeer why are you writing this

01:05:30.920 then but as i did what i always do when a new leader is elected googled the leader young i found

01:05:37.820 that he has a form um he has form sorry as a beefcake one picture sees the prime minister as a

01:05:44.400 lead student lying on his front on the floor with his mates an impressive array of biceps visible

01:05:49.260 downright saucy pinup face cheekbones to die for nice mouth um full mouth enough of hair i beg

01:05:56.680 i'm sorry um and it carries on to say while he is no longer a fat fitty 0.94

01:06:04.440 oh no he's 60 yes he's still a relatively fine figure of a man over the weekend jane garvey wrote

01:06:12.920 in the times that starmer was unlikely to prompt many erotic dreams which i think is where this trend

01:06:17.540 has originated maybe that's a good thing i see it differently starmer is the first prime minister

01:06:23.460 since tony blair in brackets sorry you should be sorry uh you know a demonic man um with whom i

01:06:31.220 would happily consider a saucy affair who would write this why would you this is the worst 50 shades

01:06:38.280 of gray like political ripoff i've ever heard in my life the thing is i willingly chose to cover this

01:06:45.460 i wonder if the women years ago 120 years ago felt the same about lord salisbury

01:06:51.420 an interesting concept isn't it i love his bushy beard but i particularly like his house yeah yeah

01:06:59.660 fair enough yeah yeah yeah that starmer is a beefcake adjacent is a good thing he looks like he could

01:07:06.760 actually take someone on in a fight oh could he not me couldn't by the way i'm gonna cut to something

01:07:13.860 in a minute that completely demolishes that he looks like um if furious he could be dangerous he

01:07:19.900 looks in short i know what you're gonna like what one used to think men ought to look like i know what

01:07:24.740 you're gonna play i knew it i knew you were gonna play this so here we are here is keir starmer have

01:07:30.260 you seen this godfrey no oh we have some boxing gloves on just try and whack it yes this is good

01:07:35.500 this is he's punching like the the london lawyer that he is there with his labor gloves on i'm gonna

01:07:45.140 do that just one more time this is the man that has got middle uh middle-aged women hot in the loins 0.56

01:07:51.420 um for some reason it's not playing probably to save us all i'll leave it to you samson

01:07:57.620 i i i used to box a bit in the army years ago and i'm an old man now admittedly

01:08:03.860 he wouldn't go two minutes in a round with me now i don't think he could win a fight with a child

01:08:09.500 could he look at this oh dear what i could do to him in two minutes i know me and harry um one of our

01:08:15.720 other presenters we used to go boxing together for quite some time that is that would be embarrassing

01:08:21.480 for the first five minutes of your first session why he recorded this why he did this i do not know

01:08:28.680 but i am horrified i've still got my gloves

01:08:31.960 that's the match i'd like to see i know i know who my money is on yeah and uh as if that was not

01:08:40.880 enough um let's get rid of this horrible video shall we there is more um forget dishy rishi here's

01:08:49.320 why people think kia is the new downing street daddy yeah these words have come up enough now i am sorry

01:08:56.660 to everyone involved but unfortunately that british politics has has really gone downhill you know

01:09:04.680 in the past 140 years or so um to be crowned a daddy by the internet is a rare yet esteemed honor

01:09:12.200 um idris elba david harbour george clooney and of course pedro pascal have all made the exclusive list

01:09:19.580 but now there's a new daddy in town and you'll find him in the most unlikely of places i think we can

01:09:25.360 all agree that residents of downing street have never really got us monitoring for a fumble under

01:09:30.480 the back benches i can't believe i read that this is the metro by the way um so it's obviously not a

01:09:36.160 highbrow sorry i i zoned out yeah i wish i could um sure a young just call me tony wasn't awful to

01:09:44.480 look at here it is again uh it's the obsession with tony blair he was in his 40s i suppose when he

01:09:51.440 is hang around lavatures i wouldn't be surprised there there have been accusations he was up before the

01:10:00.120 beak about it yeah and he went under the name of something whatever oh i did hear about yes yeah

01:10:05.720 yes i have to say it doesn't lavatory cowboy and um sure um as tony wasn't awful to look at and

01:10:18.800 cameron brushed up well in a suit one metro writer who shall understandably remain nameless

01:10:23.720 yeah i wonder why that is even admitted to thinking churchill had a certain something

01:10:28.640 uh maybe it was the uh i don't know the whiskey nose perhaps i i'm did i'm lost for words um but

01:10:39.780 it's our new prime minister keir starmer that's finally seems to turning up the heat in westminster

01:10:44.060 his appeal is no doubt helped by the fact there's long been speculation that secure was the inspiration

01:10:48.900 between behind sorry i can't even get the words up mark darcy the dashing human rights lawyer that

01:10:55.220 bridget jones falls in love with these are all women writing this right i would hope so but i am not

01:11:01.960 entirely certain okay um it is worth mentioning keir starmer's record as a lawyer you know oh yeah

01:11:09.460 prosecutor of a particular case yeah wasn't it jimmy savile oh that's the one yep um also the grooming

01:11:17.780 gangs yep uh not a good track record a bit dodgy isn't it yeah just a little not exactly the kind

01:11:26.480 of cases you want to be taking in a rom-com is it was that a picture of him as the prosecutor the

01:11:32.900 chief was that him back then i think so oh dear he's not got gray hair there yeah i can i can understand

01:11:38.880 it at least a little bit more in his younger days perhaps but now it's getting a little bit desperate

01:11:43.920 isn't it uh but it carries on to say um his appeal is no doubt helped by oh no no um while author helen

01:11:51.580 fielding has since quashed the rumors she has said keir is really sexy and there are similarities

01:11:56.480 between the two the internet seems to be in agreement is keir starmer our hottest prime minister in 0.76

01:12:01.440 history as tiktok creator the boldest bitch which is actually a man by the way um i don't know why you 1.00

01:12:07.700 would go by that pseudonym online in a now viral video comparing keir to the likes of liz trust

01:12:12.720 and this is a quote gordy b meaning gordon brown and t blair i don't know why they've got hip-hop names

01:12:20.080 all of a sudden harold wilson and winston churchill sexy starmer came out on top this is the level of

01:12:27.280 journalism now labor is in power shut down the mainstream media for good now it's time to shut

01:12:32.660 down my brain reading this he's stunning like a fine wine reads one comment i'm so glad someone has

01:12:38.500 said this said another right i'm done with the starmer stuff now my goodness i feel like i need

01:12:44.100 that i need a cold shower or something um but the torture is not quite over yet because i'm going to

01:12:50.780 remind people um with the tony blair years here is an article from 2014 tony blair packed number 10

01:12:58.140 with very beautiful girls who were half in love with him andrew marr claims and uh i can't help but think

01:13:04.880 that there's a touch of envy from andrew marr there um but uh yes how do you think the the how do you

01:13:12.540 think the media would have would have reported this if it wasn't tony blair and it was a conservative

01:13:16.840 prime minister and they packed much like belasconi i imagine in it's in italy right they would try and

01:13:23.480 you know make it out to be that he's a misogynist and predator or something yeah we couldn't get invited

01:13:29.560 to his parties nigel and i used to keep writing we keep emailing him in the old european parliament saying

01:13:34.580 oh you know we're free too next weekend never got an invite i imagine no oh oh oh dear but i don't

01:13:44.960 funny um just saying uh because um when you are in office that attracts a certain kind of political

01:13:53.220 groupie and then in the european parliament uh it attracts uh there's lots and lots of pretty girls 0.99

01:14:00.180 there who interpreters or they do this they do that or then research things for various parties

01:14:04.280 uh and it was good to be seen i mean i'm i was an old guy then i'm nearly dead now but i was sitting

01:14:10.120 in the plaster luxembourg having a sherbet and uh this blonde bird bounced up and said is it all right 0.99

01:14:15.140 if i can i sit with you because my friends will be coming out you know he's blonde girl you know

01:14:20.540 rather nice sits there can i sit with you bloody well can i'm not a liberal democrat

01:14:24.180 um she sits down and we have a sherbet i buy a sherbet um and her friends now come up and wave

01:14:32.020 and the rest of it and she wanted that and that's how john prescott got his name when he was an mp

01:14:38.960 john two shags presto he's came later two jacks because he had two jacks but uh he was a neighbor

01:14:46.720 buying john prescott by the by constantly gustily man and um yeah it's it's the attraction of office

01:14:53.720 so all these girls with uh knickers around their ankles presumably uh are attracted by the fact 0.96

01:14:59.960 he's in number 10 downing street not that he looks like a suet pud

01:15:03.040 who knows but the female mind who knows it's mystery to us i'll be married 40 years and she's 0.89

01:15:11.080 younger than me gordon knows where that came from i really don't it could have been my coots gold card

01:15:15.000 it does help yeah i think it probably was

01:15:18.140 on a similar note actually has anyone noticed uh anyone who's seen clarkson's farm noticed the

01:15:26.720 difference between jeremy clarkson and his his wife well i'm not entirely sure that his partner

01:15:32.340 a partner yeah there's quite the difference uh let's just say that it's amazing what a very large

01:15:38.120 amount of land and a successful career as a tv presenter can can get you isn't it what first

01:15:44.060 attracted you to multi-millionaire yeah his personality obviously yes um and then we have

01:15:51.240 this as well which i thought was interesting uh wendy deng reportedly wrote a letter praising tony

01:15:56.600 blair's body but she'd hardly be the first to go weak at the knees wendy deng is important because

01:16:02.240 she is the the wife of rupert murdoch of you know fox news yeah fame and sky news right

01:16:13.600 that's uh a bit unfortunate for him it might explain why the daily mail um were were so keen to support

01:16:21.180 tony when he had it in the ear from his missus that she would run off with tony perhaps if if he

01:16:27.540 didn't report on him favorably um i hate to be ungallant but you have to consider mrs blair's legs

01:16:35.960 only to just imagine how talented blair must be in the sack to actually manage to do it to that 1.00

01:16:41.900 the images in my head are now horrific thank you very much and um you had this even from the

01:16:55.880 telegraph uh linda kelsey here in 2010 tony blair a pretty sexy kind of guy and uh of course it's worth

01:17:04.000 mentioning as well the film love actually made by a bunch of tony blair's mates um you know the tony

01:17:10.500 blair figure played by hugh grant um interesting it doesn't particularly resemble tony blair so much

01:17:17.840 does he he's uh looks a bit different a bit different really i think that they were trying

01:17:23.080 to portray him favorably and also at the end of the film he you know sticks up to the nasty u.s president

01:17:28.380 which of course blair was criticized of yeah so it's almost like there was an ulterior motive behind

01:17:36.160 the film even though uh we have actually run a segment on lotus eaters when people were attacking

01:17:40.680 it for being too white oh yes what love actually yeah i think it's quite a good film yeah i hear that

01:17:48.020 a lot actually yeah i think it's quite good um no comment no comment no but um i'm gonna get

01:17:55.040 slaughtered for that one so you are yeah get quiet but um one final thing um as now judging by

01:18:01.280 appearance is uh back on the cards now labor in for some reason um starmer has praised the diversity

01:18:08.260 among new mps in his first speech to parliament every government does he says uh the most diverse

01:18:13.720 by race and gender this country has ever seen and he said it's the largest cohort of lgbtq plus mps

01:18:19.180 of any parliament in the world so yes we have the gayest parliament uh going there is a par there's a

01:18:25.700 completely parallel article that i read this morning and it's also the most godless i heard

01:18:32.340 that yeah yeah the most godless so that fits and i would suggest least meritocratic yes that too but

01:18:39.160 i i would like to employ you to have a look at this um if if we can open up this image

01:18:46.540 what is the first thing you notice about i'm sorry it's a bit of a small picture

01:18:50.600 white yeah if we had humza yusuf here we would be able to to wrong spectacles i'm afraid but um

01:18:57.840 to describe it to you it it looks very different from the tory benches that's that's for sure

01:19:04.180 there's a lot of uh you've got every diverse spectrum of white middle class person 0.97

01:19:09.660 angela rainer right at the front that's true um samson is circling a few um diverse faces but the

01:19:18.440 point being that the diversity is not actually in labor um it's a cheap shot um but it is worth

01:19:24.880 pointing out you know it's like a where's wally uh game here that's got out of hand you you can just

01:19:31.260 about spot david lammy there and that's second from front oh yeah you'd have thought they'd have

01:19:34.720 moved him out the front wouldn't they i thought that as well foreign secretary relegated to the

01:19:38.700 second row it's a bit of an insult really um but yes as we're able to comment on appearances now

01:19:45.860 according to journalists it's no longer objectifying well here we are um commenting on the

01:19:50.960 labor um bench actually got quite a few english people in it um which is uh different to the

01:19:56.220 tories i suppose but i i believe we have a bunch of written comments now anyway um now i've lowered

01:20:03.400 the tone enough it's been pleasant mate it's been funny sam weston says i'm pleased to see that both

01:20:10.940 godfrey bloom and lewis brackpool have returned for today's episode of the podcast josh godfrey and lewis

01:20:15.340 is a magnificent lineup to start the weekend all my very best wishes to you gentlemen and thank you

01:20:20.780 for everything that you do that's very kind sam and you very much thank you um annie moss says

01:20:26.800 really happy to experience the week josh great job and while it was a lot of work for josh i

01:20:33.000 wouldn't mind seeing him in this rotation more often well thank you very much oh you sacked

01:20:37.880 chris king says good work this week josh and samson uh busy week all round many uh great recurring

01:20:46.140 guests congratulations to stelios on his wedding he's not here at the minute but uh want our um

01:20:50.720 you might remember stelios my best wishes to him yeah he's uh in greece at the minute and uh

01:20:57.380 if you're watching stelios sorry i can't be there great wedding that'll be uh smashing plates

01:21:01.760 yeah good time to invest in crockery um yeah yeah rue the day says absolutely love these two

01:21:08.800 fellas and they work great together um i feel a bit called out but that's very nice of you um

01:21:14.620 annie moss again says really enjoying lotus uses having godfrey on today he's always has pithy

01:21:20.140 things to say and all around great guests there we go this is nice this is very complimentary

01:21:25.680 and uh for the reform conform segment uh warlord woo to tie presumably not a real warlord um to echo

01:21:36.400 godfrey's statement on the professionalization on reform surely the professional politicians are

01:21:40.800 exactly what people are cynical and mistrustful of and to which reform has been seen as the antidote

01:21:46.120 i entirely agree with that i couldn't have put it better myself really

01:21:49.920 so um omar awad says uh doesn't professional just sound so sterile nobody voting for the outlier

01:21:59.080 party is looking forward to politicians by committee reform must keep its pro-anglo character or crumble

01:22:04.780 into obscurity i don't disagree no kevin fox says since ben is no longer an mp it was fairly hard for

01:22:13.320 him to stay as deputy leader however why did they not make him party chairman instead of some

01:22:19.000 johnny come lately with deep pockets who will most likely alienate many of reform's followers

01:22:24.220 exactly my sentiment and that was my motivation for actually covering it so yes of course i agree

01:22:29.740 and um northant's knight says this restructuring reform does have the hallmarks of a red flag

01:22:37.800 i would certainly say so yes um i was already suspicious of them to begin with um and now i'm

01:22:43.360 very suspicious of them suspicious of them sorry um what what do we think um what are our general

01:22:51.000 thoughts on reform more generally well i voted i haven't voted for years and i voted reform this

01:22:57.160 time because i made a very public promise and i've made it for many many years that i would vote for

01:23:03.360 the first genuine artisan that stood for parliament uh and he was a he was a brickie he was a bricklayer

01:23:11.960 okay got a successful business going but he started life leaving school at 15 as a brickie 0.98

01:23:16.920 that's where i drink at the wheat sheaf public house in howden uh it's full of artisans who turn

01:23:23.000 up at 4 30 finishing work and you'll get more common sense from them than you will from any of my

01:23:28.000 oxford educated dinner party guests they know how many beans make five i call it the sergeant's mess

01:23:33.980 uh you know where you get common sense commitment loyalty and that's what we want don't professionalize

01:23:40.220 it because what will happen then the suits will bring in somebody the suited and booted will then 0.72

01:23:45.320 come in and they won't want brickies i know how well that's what professionalism is and it will be

01:23:49.260 another anodyne ghastly mess and that's what happened to ukip they took away all the good people

01:23:55.020 and i could smell the wind a bit on that one where they were canceling people what they might

01:23:59.580 have tweeted last year well you know if it's that kind of party uh when tice was in charge

01:24:05.220 well our very own i mean is he a sexy one too i'm just wondering

01:24:11.160 our very own beau dade um got dropped as a candidate for writing out reform party manifesto in a an article

01:24:19.560 for the mallard and that was what got him dropped in the end yeah as well as um some

01:24:24.940 joking comments about scotland that that is gonna scupper reform yeah because that's what they call

01:24:32.640 they'll have a professional share with a professional this professional that and everybody

01:24:36.280 just like everybody else i didn't think it's another bungled opportunity like ukip ukip got

01:24:42.140 four million got just as many votes as reform in 2014 if you check your numbers uh with again no seats

01:24:48.900 because that's but that's another rabbit hole of how the system works um but this professionalization

01:24:55.180 things you get you lose your grassroots i mean talking of foreign sector excuse me just dragging

01:25:02.060 on a little bit this what my father used to say and my father knew how many beans made five i can tell

01:25:06.760 you he said the best foreign secretary we ever had was ernie bevin he was bloody good ernie bevin

01:25:13.240 working class guy and he stood up to the soviets he didn't take any nonsense he didn't take any

01:25:18.220 nonsense from anybody you need some working class people in parliament because they're real people

01:25:25.080 and totally unrepresented your working man now your brickie your cabbie your joiner your sparky

01:25:30.820 is totally and utterly unrepresented in parliament and has been for decades now and that's the

01:25:36.340 problem and professionalization is going to kick them out absolutely should we move to some

01:25:42.500 comments on your segment lewis yep okay um so someone online says can the government stop

01:25:48.500 being mr burns and trying to put out the sun for five minutes that's uh from the simpsons if you

01:25:54.480 yeah oh no i'm a simpsons fan oh good man um omar says the problem with playing god is it almost

01:26:02.040 always comes with unintended consequences the only reason i say almost is because i'm not sure which ones

01:26:08.760 are unintended that's a good comment roman observer says geoengineering stages are something like

01:26:16.060 number one it's not happening it's a conspiracy theory number two it's happening but why do you care

01:26:21.160 number three it's happening whether you want it or not and number four it's happening and it's a good

01:26:26.700 thing very true that is the uh the formula for most um political changes in in this day and age

01:26:34.020 yeah afraid so it all emanated from uh europe of course it was the eu uh they did that because you

01:26:40.040 know people nobody could spot it it came in it was there's no um debate in parliament about it

01:26:46.800 two thousand regulations a year which became law a year and a year uh and nobody suddenly why

01:26:53.120 we got instead of sort of one six of a jill why have we got you know two mils and why have we got

01:26:58.320 this and why have we got all those little uh 30 mile an hour signs or 40 mile an hour suddenly how

01:27:02.840 many millions did that cost to change every single sign so it was the same size yeah as you know most

01:27:08.780 people haven't a clue i knew farmers and landowners who thought defra made up the rules defra is just an

01:27:14.780 enforcement agency for the european union and they haven't rescinded a damn thing what happened to

01:27:19.920 brexit didn't happen yeah exactly rue the day says wonder if we're going to see that british.gov

01:27:27.340 article where they say quote we have the technology to sunshield we must but we would never not without

01:27:34.520 consulting the public we promise on the same note i've noticed that summers in ireland have gone

01:27:40.320 peculiar over the last few years it's actually been warmer at night interesting observation yeah that's um

01:27:46.820 that's like people are beginning to see something something's not right yeah yeah somewhere uh and

01:27:52.980 that's that's sort of the key exactly you know um they were saying it was the hottest june and it

01:27:58.200 rained the whole of june yeah part of the reason for that is that um it was really hot at night time

01:28:04.320 and that changed the averages so it was much hotter than average of an evening at least by the

01:28:10.280 measurements if they're to be believed and so that just wasn't communicated and everyone was like well

01:28:15.140 it was raining the whole time what are you on about but yeah that's the way averages work i suppose

01:28:19.260 yeah uh kevin fox says bill gates is so into this geoengineering two things number one how do they

01:28:26.320 expect all these solar farms to work if they keep making clouds number two has he not watched

01:28:31.700 highlander 2 conor mcleod did geoengineering and it didn't go well for the planet or him i've not seen

01:28:36.800 highlander 2 so i'm going to read some from the final segment because we've only got two minutes left

01:28:41.120 sorry um that's okay um face tape says it's almost like women get turned on by powerful and wealthy 1.00

01:28:48.160 men it's almost like when you're rich and famous women will just let you i'm not reading that is it

01:28:54.200 it's a famous quote by donald trump grab them by the something but i'm not having that clipped and put

01:29:00.380 out on the internet uh it's bad enough for trump um um marik boss i think there we go i tried um

01:29:11.120 it's simply the hypergamy women love a man with status more than anything um oh that's a good 0.79

01:29:18.560 comment the middle one okay by eloise eloise um says kia starmer shrivels up my ovaries no thank you

01:29:25.780 and then i suppose to to end us off um hector x says thank you so much for having lewis and mr bloom

01:29:37.200 on absolutely chuffed and what a lovely lovely way to uh thank you end the show so um i've had a lot

01:29:43.500 of fun i've i've enjoyed learning about um all of the geoengineering and uh i haven't enjoyed

01:29:50.600 torturing you both those articles about kia starmer but um our broadcasting's not over quite yet

01:29:57.920 because we'll be going to lads hour and we'll be having a bit of fun a couple of beers to end the

01:30:02.340 the uh the week off and uh make sure to tune in in half an hour thank you very much for watching and

01:30:08.420 thank you very much to both of these fine gentlemen for coming in and goodbye thank you thank you

01:30:20.600 you

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