Every Führer Needs A Fat Best Friend | Hermann Göring & The Luftwaffe (Part 1)

26:45Fin:Einstein. Einstein. Because as soon as you say Stein, it feels like... Stein. It's something a bit like, it makes you feel uncomfortable when someone leans into the Stein. It's weird that a German for pint is Stein, isn't it? can i have a pint and stein something's going on something's going on there oh look at that charlie's got a photo up of the boys look at that and now this is a bit later but it looks looking quite dashing actually why are you saying that surprise no i just you don't normally see him uh kind of on a hole with a holiday sort of suit on no even when he's a suit even when he's up in the eagles nest or uh the band where where does he holiday that's just garden yeah he's still uniform but you don't see him dressed like the man from Havana.

27:28Fin:Look at his pleated pants. And then this is quite a good photo that we're looking at now. This is obviously a bit later because Herman's very, very, very fat at this point. He's dressed in... He's leaning on his own fatness. He's dressed in plus two. He's got a hunting dagger and he's got a big waistcoat and he's jolly. And Hitler's obviously the romantic lead. Yes. He's the action hero. Yeah, he's Humphrey Bogart in Classe Blanca. Yeah, and Hergurin's like James Corden just hanging out of the back. he's John Candy you know if it's if the Nazis are bridesmaids he's Melinda McCarthy yeah yeah yeah Melissa McCarthy what was the name yeah Hitler's custom wig yeah Hitler's custom wig Hitler's the dashing romantic lead and then so Goering meets Hitler at a Nazi party rally in 22 and obviously Hitler's a kind of this is this wild card you know he's this he doesn't have a lot of clout failed painter with a tiny dick allegedly but Goering is an actual war hero He's a flying ace.

28:25Fin:And so when he joins the Nazi party, he gives the Nazis a lot of legitimacy. Suddenly they're not just these mad fuckers. These incels, yeah. You've got... They've got an Alpha Chad. You've got an Alpha Chad, right? So Goering gets appointed to lead the SA, which is Hitler's paramilitary organisation. And then we get to the Beer Hall Putsch, 1923, where Hitler, inspired by Mussolini's march on Rome, tries to overthrow the Weimar government. We talked about this in our Rise of the Nazi series, which you can find on Patreon, along with a lot of Nazi content. Yes, and memorabilia. Memorabilia. I have just bought a, well, it's a World War II watch.

28:59Do you want to show us?

29:01Fin:Shout out to the Patreons. One of the Patreons is a watch dealer and he found this and he said, do you want it? And I said, yes, and I bought it off. So that's a, explain what that watch is. It's a German World War II Navy watch. Okay. It's a standard issue. Yeah. There's no insignia or symbols on it, so you can relax. Okay, but we don't know who wore, we have no idea who wore that watch during the war. I've got a fair idea who wore it. It's a historical artifact. If you would, the patron is a marketplace for ideas and Nazi memorabilia. So if you've got anything you'd like to exchange, swap, all good prices on there.

29:38Fin:It's a sort of crackling black market for Nazi memorabilia. You know, it's more than just bonus podcasts. It's a community. Of like-minded individuals. It's a community of traders. You know, they've got Pokemon cards. They've got Nazi watches. You know, whatever. whatever you want well quite specific well you have to want something very specific anyway I'm going to a wedding on Saturday and the groom is South African white South African so I figure it'll give me something to talk about with his relatives what do you mean by that is that you basically saying if they say something super racist you can check this out you could be like all about this yeah give me your trump card my trump card my ace in the hole yeah well they try and big dick you with how racist they are I'm like fucking sit down I've got an artsy to watch what's the time yeah nazi time um anyway so hitler uh and goering and his allies they have this plan to seize power in bavaria and march on berlin so they burst into a beer hall in munich and they fire a pistol into the ceiling declare revolution no one really everyone's like yeah all right mate we're just we're just having some beers and they march 9th of november they march through munich and they reached the Feldenhala, which I've been to.

30:49Fin:It's an amazing town square. Anyway. And it was on an organised tour. Yeah. Were you leading the tour? No. You make it sound like I've gone on some kind of hajj to Munich. No, you make it sound like you've been on some sort of hajj to Munich. Seeing as every night at this place, you're like, yes, I've been there. It's a lovely spot for lunch just outside there. There is. There is a nice spot for lunch. can we go um can we do muslims crying when seeing harj for the first time can we get video that please this is me this is you at the birds the eagle's nest right yeah it is um this is you seeing the spot of hitler's bunker

31:33this has been uh going to the spot where hitler's bunker was yep i'm holding my my um my nazi prayer beads i'm in my i'm in my clobber um i'm taking time

31:46Fin:off work you gotta do you gotta do it once in your life really you gotta the five pillars five pillars of being a history fan um it's a very emotional moment i guess it is anyway they reach feldenhaler the police open fire 14 nazis are killed hitler is knocked over desiccates his shoulder. The putsch collapses. Hitler's imprisoned. Goering gets shot in the groin. Devastating. Oh, my God. The amount this man's been through. A direct hit to the fupa. Right. He then escapes and goes to Austria. And so this is where, in recovering from his fupa bullet wound, which is not a slang for vagina, he develops a lifelong addiction to morphine, which will only end when the Nuremberg trial trial makes him go clean right which is why he's so slim in the trial footage oh right he's kicked the morphine habit okay so it's like rehab yeah exactly rehab where you get killed at the end that's why yeah yeah it's not really rehab it's not trial for war crimes it's anyway so he leaves hospital uh christmas eve 23 moves to italy meets mussolini um you know there's just some ideas is bouncing around.

32:58Fin:They're just chewing the fat. Anyway. The great minds of the age. In terms of the Reistag fire, when the Nazis come to power, the Goering, I think, obviously there's a Dutch communist called Marius van der Luber. We've talked about Looby. Old Looby Looby Looby. We've talked Looby Loobieson, but he gets blamed for the fire. But there's a point in Nuremberg where Goering says, well, yeah, I started the fire. So there's kind of a, no one ever really knows how involved he is. It's quite clear the Nazis did it, so it could have been Goring. Yeah. I think it was Herman Eppenstein yeah I think he's behind everybody yeah it all rose back to Eppenstein yeah anyway this obviously transforms Germany into dictatorship and so Goering is then appointed minister for pork polio in Hitler's first cabinet Goering creates the Gestapo and this is where Goering really starts to you know his personality starts to come out yeah he is he's the fun Nazi he's the high living you know he liked to call himself the Eisen the Iron Man, but he steadily gains weight, gluttony, fueled by a morphine addiction, which is not, you know, morphine's not...

34:02Yeah, heroin addicts are normally pretty rock star bars.

34:05Fin:Yeah, so what's going on with getting fat on morphine? Because I've always thought at some point morphine's my out. Right, if you ever get too big. If I'm getting too guring, I'm going to get addicted to something else. Get a smack and I'm out. So why it slows metabolism, increases cravings for high fat and sugary foods? Maybe I'm already on morphine though. Yeah, maybe. And reduced discrepancy. Maybe you've been microdosing morphine your whole life. Anyway, he does start to look like a capital D. But he also... He didn't mind jokes about himself. Which is not very Nazi, is he? It's not very Nazi.

34:37Fin:No, he's got a sense of humour about himself. Yeah, that's why it's easier to kind of get in with this guy. And you just, you know, just to give our thick listeners a sort of vivid portrait of the... Imagine you're all the boys are all there, you know. You're all in your uniforms. The girl comes up and he just... Starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times. Your to-do list may feel endless with new tasks, and lists can easily begin to overrun your life. So finding the right tool that not only helps you out, but simplifies everything as a built-in business partner can be a game changer.

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37:40eligibility vary by state. Just pat on his belly. And he's loving it.

37:44Fin:Oh, hello! Oh, you be careful, sir! Oh, bad day to be a beer! Order Joe! Yes, there's always a... The joke does always stop at some point. He's a flamboyant hedonist, he drinks, eats, and now he collects art, which we'll get into on the Patreon. So he's got taste and class as well as being a fat pig. Yes. There's no need to call Herman Goering a fat pig. Sorry. He was bullied as a child. I don't know why I'm bringing this stuff up for him stop bullying this podcast is anti-bullying nazis nazis and convicted uh pedophile financiers um if you if you're going to hang them out to dry at least give them a compliment sandwich yeah you know you dressed very well you're a disgusting pedophile yeah but i do you know your your vacation homes look lovely yeah you had a great property portfolio yeah do you know what is it that hard is it that hard for the sake of a man's mental health to give him a compliment now uh the fat pig's uh wife karen dies young and he names his estate karen hall in her memory karen hall will be the place where a band of brothers easy company finds which has got all his wine cells and it's just kind of mystical uh it's on a lake it's this mad sort of mansion so all the stolen art goes there yeah it's very high it's all now in 1935 Wine collection, is that all?

39:03Yeah, huge wine collection. That's what we talked about with the GLB episode, right? Yeah.

39:06Fin:Now in 1935, Going remarries an actress called Emmy Zonneman in a spectacular, you know, state-style ceremony in Berlin. Who's his best man? Hitler. Hitler's best... Hitler's your best man. The best man speech. Blunt! I'm going to get started and I'm going to get started! And all the guests are there like... Who was your best man? My mate Leo from university. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I'm sure it was great, but... It was great. it was great you know but it wasn't it could have been amazing i could have got like a hologram like a two-pack hologram but it's hitler doing the speech hitler's your best man it's your best man you're you know the best man's speech is he telling stories about what you were like back in the day like how funny is hitler's best man speech i think it i think it's hard to think of him is he cracking jokes but then he's relaxed it's not it this is with amongst friends yeah is he still going on is he still doing hankery cranky yeah does Hitler have the comedy in him can you type in was Hitler considered funny by anyone based on historical analysis Hitler was not known for having a humorous personality but rather for being intense paranoid and prone to explosive for ages alright AI overview maybe he makes that way where he's like he's really annoyed because the wife is so gorgeous he's like fuming do you know what I love is that when so I've done you always have to say if you're at a wedding someone always has to say and don't the bridesmaids look lovely today?

40:33Fin:And the idea that...

40:39Fin:Someone always has to say it and it's normally the best man because if the groom says it, it's a bit... I had to say it at my wedding because my best man forgot. Right. But then I had to lean into how sort of pervy it sounds because... Yeah. I mean, how do you... Because you're there talking about how much you love your wife and how they look good. Fuck it. Fuck it. Look at the bridesmaids. My God, they dressed up nice. Yeah. anyway and also one of my wife bridesmaids I had when my wife and I were friends and not together she'd like pushed her her one of her friends in front of me as kind of a human shield so I'd I'd go on a date with her right so you've got to be careful you've got to be quick and don't the bridesmaids look lovely you can't be like don't the bridesmaids look lovely

41:24woo

41:25Fin:look at the bridesmaids yeah fucking hell what are we talking about Where are we? Where are we? You can't be like Cat Williams. Brat shit. Brat's mates be looking fine. Looking fine. Look at these fine motherfucking brats mates. Shit. Yeah, you can't. You can't. Damn. You can't. Jesus. Anyway. Lordy, Lord. You should be going, Lord, give me strength. The brats mates. And then you just sit down and go, anyway, here's to the wife. Anyway, right. So, but Hitler is, yes, you have to say the bridesmaids look lovely. Yeah. So imagine Hitler said that. Yeah. You normally have to thank people for coming.

42:08Fin:You don't guess who've come a long way. Do we know any other big guests? Well, I imagine it was all the Nazis. It was all the boys. Yeah, it was the boys. And then obviously Hitler had to organize the stag do. Yeah, I mean, God, what are they doing? Paintballing? Yeah, do you want Hitler organizing it? He's not the organizing guy. Who do you want being the guy who does the stag do? Axe throwing at Jews? I mean, what's the Nazi stag do? So when picking your best man, how much are you thinking about the organisation of the stag do? Because I feel a lot of the time there's the clear best man, but it's not always the perfect man to organise the stag do, right?

42:42But then that's just something you have to accept. You have to play it as it lies.

42:46Fin:Charlie's got Eichmann up. I mean, in many ways, Eichmann is Goering's polar opposite. You know, Eichmann is a boring, drab functionary who, yeah, you're right, is logistics. He makes it work. Goering is all vibes and Goering's Goering's driving to Calais to get the wine for the wedding yeah he's doing a jolly but is Eichmann going to organise a statue with enough wow factor no but you want an element of Goering's booking the strippers right Eichmann's booking the pub Eichmann's letting them know there's going to be strippers so just calm down yeah Eichmann's putting the deposit down in his name sure Goering's made it go in Eichmann's name so if anything fucks up it's his name that does it yeah they're the boys yeah so he's known for overeating and drinking heavily um meals at karen hall would last for hours uh he prefers traditional german aristocratic cuisine charlie can we just google what that is i'm surprised you haven't and a pronounced sweet you ask what everyone eats yeah um several accounts mentioned him snacking on chocolates between meals i mean this is this is what does go and eat right because it's like it's the most stereotypically fat german is to have a meal and then to just chocolate like just like my personal love of chocolate genuinely i don't want it too complicated i like lint milk chocolate i like it to feel like a nazi is teasing me that what chocolate would they get out if they're like and so if you want to tell me the information would you like a piece of chocolate you know what would he pull out it'd be like a plain bar of milk chocolate wouldn't it yes you know what i mean you know what i mean like that that is the the german chocolate is kind of what i like the most uh so his favorite dish supposedly was uh vietnamese schnitzel um his favorite restaurant horror is that still let's book it now christmas party they later moved to madrid interesting but chocolates in between meals.

44:43Fin:He alternates between, he obviously balloons up and down. Is Hawke, they're still there? Yeah, still there. It's still there. 4.6 out of 5. Top jaw. Let's see how it's gone. Let's go on images. That's where I'm going. If top jaw, if I ever do a top jaw interview, I'm like, yeah, you've got to check this place out. Go to the next favorite restaurant. Looks lovely. Yeah, you can see this sort of, yeah. Yeah, it's table side, silver service, white tablecloths. You know, I always, even if I'm not drinking, I have to have chocolate after a meal you got to not after a meal that's mad at the end of the day not after every meal breakfast chocolate yeah see like the one kebab with Augustus Clute that's what I've that's going yeah so he's obviously massively into art which we'll get into on the Patreon now his clothing is phenomenal because he promotes himself to Rice Marshall in 1940 a rank created specifically for him and what he likes about this is he gets to design his own uniform um so all the fucking medals yeah uh sashes germans or head of the army had like a baton which is quite it's quite a gay thing to i've got a little stick which means i'm the head of the whatever but he would he'd walk around waving his little stick and he'd customize it himself with like jewels what like like when you put widgets and crocs you know there's like yeah it is like that it is um he would uh or have ornamental cloaks capes uh he's a big fan of fancy dress, silk dressing gowns, velvet embroidery.

46:11Fin:You know, you see the photo of Epstein and Harvey Weinstein and Ghislaine. It's a good time. It's a pass. Fucking, it's a good time. It's a good time. You know, is that criminal now, ladies? No one's being judgmental there, are they? Nah. Look at this. Yeah, come on. You can say some pretty loose things with this lot. Nah, I'm having a great time with this lot. I'm having a great time. Weinstein's in a tux. Epstein's got the Gaddafi sailor suit on. Ghislaine's got a big old fucking - Venetian mask. Venetian mask. you know they're having a laugh yeah I mean I think small talk would be fun with them you know yeah you're skipping small talk you know space is there come on can a man not have mates anyway so there's photos of him in like a medieval hunting costume the Italian foreign minister once noted Gering was wearing a fur coat that looked like what a high grade prostitute would wear that's funny he changed costumes several times throughout the evenings that's okay so he's like a it's like a chick basically but goering is a kind of if you know as a nazi archetype i think is the sort of the intelligent highly intelligent yeah pleasure loving cunning evil genius yeah that's that's that's goering you know the other ones hitler is obviously cranky shranky shnanky yeah and then himler is like a sort of snotty little swat also he's probably neurotypical wasn't he and the rest they all seem to have something cooking yes there's a lot of adhd do there's a lot of autism he seems to be one of the only people who's cooking clean in that sense not in actual sense he's cooking with a lot of butter i imagine um so now for uh the crucial thing in charlie what have you just googled down syndrome nazis did you find anything um no right we'll keep looking we'll keep looking don't worry breaking news breaking news we found a down syndrome nazi um anyway uh now It doesn't really work, though.

48:04Fin:No, it doesn't. Because they're nice. Also, Nazis famously exterminated Down Syndrome. I think it's more the other way around. Yeah. Yeah. But not Down Syndrome people. The question would be, did any Down Syndrome person in Nazi Germany trying to avoid being killed manage to sneak in and blend in? That's the real question. Did one of them slip through the cracks? He looks like he could be Down Syndrome. A Down Syndrome Nazi just at the end of the line, like this. just eating ice cream.

48:36Fin:Yeah. We can't know. We can't know, but we can hazard a guess. So we need to, for the sake of the rest of this series, we need to get to the Luftwaffe because this is the crucial, the crucial thing Göring does is that he is put in charge of the initially secret rearmament program. So in the Treaty of Versailles, no planes are allowed, which is why they start producing rockets. which we dealt with in our space race series. V1 and V2 ended up coming out. So in 1935, the Luftwaffe has been started secretly, but it's now publicly acknowledged with Goering as the Reich Aviation Minister. Yeah. I think as everyone's getting ready for war, they're like, the next war's going to be fought in the air big time.

49:21Fin:World War I, there have been Zeppelin raids and dropping bombs from Zeppelins. Quite a lot of bombs on London in World War I that I didn't realise. Yeah. Now, the whole point of the Luftwaffe is that it's speed and it's meant to secure air superiority that allows the Blitzkrieg to happen. So it will attack enemy forces, infrastructure, industry. The Luftwaffe, also the bombers, are part of the Luftwaffe as well, right? Yeah, the Luftwaffe just means the air force. At the start of the war, Germany has just over 4 ,000 aircraft. They've got the bombers, they've got the fighters, the Messerschmitts, they've got the dive bombers the Stuckers we'll get into all this with Al Murray who I will warn you now the Stuckers in World War 1 no I don't think so he knows a lot about machinery women hold onto your pants in the next episode it might be too much for us even they're flying off it might be like maybe I'm gayer than I thought I was yeah we might we might come out as non-binary Al Murray was going to outstrait us and I'm worried that I might be a bit bi actually because even for me, the amount that he knows about World War II machinery is too much.

50:34Fin:So I don't want to, I'm just putting a trigger warning out there now alongside the bullying contained in this discussion. Have some sort of moistening agent to make sure that you don't have a permanently dry vagina. For life. For life. Terminal dry vag. You're going to have to be constantly moisturizing down there because I think you can actually damage it. Yeah, it could fully close up with the amount of machinery that's going to be discussed in the next part. Against my will, I will say. I will do my best to try and get Al onto the narrative and the characters. I only put loads of salt on an oyster.

51:07Fin:It's like killing a slug.

51:11Fin:Anyway, so the loved vaffa is Goering's baby. And Goering and Hitler, you know, Ant and Deck, fish and chips, strawberries and cream. yeah they're the boys yeah they're best mates yeah right and crouch and defo and crouch big man little man um so uh the invasion of poland begins on the first september 39 as we know that day hitler names goering his official successor so he is number two he's number two yeah and i guess that's how important the air force is that the head of the air force is number two and the whole system. Well I think the Air Force is the most Nazi part of the army. Because they're like eagles it's like you know it just feels very like they're clueless guys.

52:00Fin:Because they're Goering's guys. Right so I think this is another thing I said to my wife to justify the watch in terms of the sort of passionate Nazis Air Force was the most then the army then the actual navy who weren't that bothered. Navy's a bit gay. Yes, exactly. Do you know what I mean? It's a gay watch. Yes. Yeah. So. You're like an ally. This is LGBT, isn't it? Me at Gay Pride. Yeah, look. I like you lot. I like you lot. I love the culture. I got a Creed's ring watch. It's a Nazi Navy watch. It's a Nazi watch, but it's from the Navy. You know. You know what they say? In the Navy. Exactly.

52:42Fin:Yeah. So, the Luftwaffe is one of the world's most advanced air forces by 39 uh the stucker dive bomber which uh is terrifying the sound of it it's where the tie fighter from star wars noise comes from terrifying uh terrifying this would basically just go into a full dive and bomb at a very low um altitude and the luftfaffer operations are decisive in uh poland and norway and belgium in particular um there's uh what are these two missions in particular that oh scary do you know what the way back from my gig last night oh yeah yeah oh that is scary i mean i mean women's drying up on my ass is tingling at that loosening that's you know that's like me when um uh when i see a curry menu that's the noise my stomach's making

53:42Fin:there are these two operations at the start of the war that are um very very terrifying for the allies uh not the gay allies yes we should say in world war ii there are call yourself an ally yeah where's your flag can i be part of the axis can we make that thing what is the opposite of the opposite of the allies you already are finn yeah like i did in my in my bio right i'm axis axis yeah um anyway so uh there are these two particular victories uh now there's the uh the one in norway where the german paratroopers or in german they basically just fall out the sky and seize these airfields uh which means that they that's the reason why they're able to take norway despite the massive British Navy.

54:29Fin:Because we did this in the Dunkirk series. Superiority. Yeah, they just drop troops behind all the mountainous terrain and take the airfields. Then they control Norway, which kind of cuts out the middle man with the Navy. There's also this impregnable fort in Belgium, which I guess is, it sounds like a tautology, but Fort Eben-Email. Sounds like a big chocolate cake. Massive stack of profiteroles or something. Anyway, this one, they, again, the paratroopers fall from the sky at night and then they they all have special bombs depth charges or whatever and they blow all the guns out of the fort and then when the infantry arrive it's kind of unprotected and they can take it but this is the first time that that like they're showing that you don't have to just do a siege yes even in World War I like the siege of Verdun it was all very traditional 4-4-2 yes you know two banks of four so this is 4-3-3 this is more fluid this is kind of Dutch this is going this is total football it's total warfare it's flying the right back in and suddenly the right back's through in front of goal and I think in Poland I don't know which maybe it was Warsaw that they like levelled with bombs from the air and that was basically the first time that had really happened like that that was a complete annihilation of a city and no one had ever seen anything quite like it in any war that level of destruction so the Luftwaffe is you know Goering's loving it he's a culture man he's loving it the Luftwaffe is his thing yeah and i think he sees the luftwaffe as the main reason for all the early success um because they're you know there's infighting between the three the nazis uh the navy the air force and the army yeah they're never they're never they're all vying for hitler's attention and attention and going like well you i made you my best man yeah so um so for the spring 1940 campaigns uh You know, the fall of France is the kind of peak of Luftwaffe's prestige.

56:25Fin:In six weeks, Germany shatters Europe's strongest land army. We dealt with this in Dunkirk. The French were mainly underground eating cheese and drinking wine. But the Luftwaffe made that blitzkrieg possible because it destroys all the bridges and rail hubs. It disrupts communications. It basically strafes positions so that then this quick mechanized vehicles can come through. and so this is where Goering starts to get very high on his own supply he's also on morphine he's high on a supply of morphine and cream and pork but their role in collapsing France feeds this belief that air power alone can break any opponent what is it Charlie?

57:09Fin:if you're on morphine while doing a war because you know it makes you feel like very euphoric morphine yeah morphine what is that would it not make you kind of think I should fuck off the war should stop no it's not MDMA yeah it's not I love you like me I fucking love you it's not Nazism on MDMA let's just chill I hate you I hate you I'm gonna kill you man yeah no you're not bayoneting your entire race man if the Nazis were all on MDMA then I would imagine they'd just I'm gonna stop the war they'd just played football well yeah but that's what that guy that historian who wrote Blitz yeah says Norman what's his name Mela yeah he basically says that if they had all been on a different, he says that you should really frame World War II, the start of it, as speed versus red wine.

57:55Yeah.

57:56Fin:And speed, like rock, paper, scissors, speed will always be red wine. Right. But I guess to take that to a logical extension, yeah, if the Auschwitz guy had been on MDMA, then the camp would have been like somewhere you go on a Saturday. So by June 1940, it's the, you know, it's the montage. Hitler's in Paris. Yeah. Memories. We'll always have Paris. it doesn't get better than this the boys are looking around Paris Hitler hates Paris you know one of many things not today see eye to eye with him on yeah he's knocking about they love Paris this is a Paris you could get behind hey Paris for me lost its charm when it was liberated in 1944 no not N-Words in Paris well I guess it is N-Words in Paris it is so this is Goering and Hitler Jay-Z and Kanye West Nazis in Paris Pottle of the fuck is going to fire me Nazis in Paris Yes, it is.

58:50Fin:It's the original M words in Paris. Goering and Hitler. That shit, great. So it's July 1940. Now, Britain stands alone. Now, we talked about Operation Sea Lion, which is the possible invasion of Britain. But in order for this to actually happen, the Royal Air Force would have to be destroyed. and so the Luftwaffe sees itself and Goering sees himself now as the main character in the war he's like he tells Hitler he goes I'm going to sort this out for you my boy you're my best man I got your back main character even more than Hitler you think he see militarily he's like it's the Luftwaffe that's doing all this we're the reason the army and the navy can do what they're going to do if you want to invade Britain I'm going to do it for you so he sort of thinks he thinks Operation Sea Line might not happen but remember at this point the Nazis are basically like if we can knock Britain out then they'll come to terms and they've been on the form of their life it's win win win yeah they're on a hot streak so Goering convinces Hitler that he could destroy the RAF by the middle of September he says he said I'll do it in a week mate yeah right and he says that no bomber can reach Germany and he says if an enemy bomber reaches the roar then my name is not gering you may call me meyer um is that just another person's name that's another german name right yeah um i was a jewish jewish last night so they were funny yeah they were that's funny stuff that's kind of that has anti-semitic connotations well now it does yeah but at the time you know you've got to remember that comedy is a product of its time and 1939 I don't know I just think that implies something that I don't like I think you're taking it out of context okay fine I think you're taking it out of context you know it's comedy yeah you know stop reading into it sorry words aren't bullets yes they can sometimes be followed by bullets very quickly he says no enemy bomber can reach the roar and if it reaches the roar I'm not Goring I'm Maya I'm a Jew and everyone goes ha ha ha ha I mean his mum was shagging a Jew as well you know his godfather was Jeffrey Epstein or whatever.

1:01:12So maybe he, that was his way of saying, I'm Jewish. I'm yeah. It's a pullback and reveal. So now that's funny.

1:01:18Fin:Yeah. That's comedy. That's comedy. That is funny. Uh, in our next episode, we will be joined by ladies start, start the lubrication. Now joined by Al Murray, the governor, the landlord, an actual historian. He of gold hanger stable. the Ewoks are finally attacking the Death Star that episode and the next episode about the Blitz are already on the Patreon we have three pounds a month you too can offer to sell me Nazi memorabilia I will only accept it from Patreons that's my pitch for this week if you've got Nazi memorabilia if you want to sell to Finn you must join the Patreon first I will only accept as part of your getting your trading license it is a trading license I don't care if you've got a massive Nazi eagle in your attic, join the Patreon to open up communications with me.

1:02:09There's a way these things are done, right? Yes, you need a license to sell up. You just follow proper, you know. There's protocol. Protocol.

1:02:14Fin:That's all on the Patreon, and Al will stick around. We'll do a bonus episode with him. It's a big week for dads. Ladies, I apologize for what's about to happen. It's going to get technical. We'll see you on Thursday, if not, for the Battle of Britain with Al Murray. Goodbye. Goodbye.

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