Panenka-Assassinations and A Mid Range Hotel | Idi Amin (Part 4/4)

19 Mar 2026 · 54 min · 25 chapters

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In short

This episode (Part 4/4) covers Idi Amin’s late-1970s collapse and final years. It argues Amin’s policies—expelling Uganda’s Asian middle class, seizing businesses, and mismanaging the economy—helped trigger infrastructure breakdown, hyperinflation, and a collapse in coffee exports. Key claims include: the US trade embargo (1978) stopped buying Ugandan coffee while oil supply stopped too; Amin funded the military by printing money; and his army’s incompetence and internal corruption caused industry decline and looting.

Notable examples

Archbishop Janani Luwum’s 1977 critique led to a forced televised confession and his staged “car crash” death; multiple assassination attempts and the “Operation Mafutamingi” coup attempt; and Amin’s 1978 invasion of Tanzania, where tanks broke down and Ugandan forces committed atrocities as they collapsed. The episode ends with Amin’s 2003 death in Saudi Arabia, living for decades in a Novotel suite on a government stipend.

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none mentioned; it’s just the hosts (Charlie and Finn).

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The Decline of Idi Amin's Rule

0:49 to 1:24

Discussion on the growing unpopularity and issues during Idi Amin's regime.

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The Decline of Idi Amin's Rule

1:52 to 3:20

Discussion on the growing unpopularity and issues during Idi Amin's regime.

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Amin's Economic Policies

3:20 to 4:32

Analysis of Idi Amin's economic decisions and their impact on Uganda.

“Now, just to recap, Idi Amin had a dream telling him to get rid of everyone who's Asian, and he acted on it and expelled the entire middle class.”

International Relations and Economic Collapse

4:32 to 5:45

Exploration of Amin's diplomatic relations and the resulting economic downturn.

“is it well I don't know it's what everyone says he's doing but he's doing it to whites yes everyone's saying that everyone's going to Dubai and therefore the tax base is going, right?”

The Impact of Coffee on Uganda's Economy

5:45 to 7:25

How coffee export dynamics influenced Uganda's financial situation under Amin.

“You can get from one end to the other in 20 minutes.”

Amin's Spending Habits

7:25 to 8:07

Discussion on Amin's prioritization of military spending and luxury goods.

“Anyway, in 1978, the US imposes a trade embargo where they stop buying Ugandan coffee.”

Economic Mismanagement and Inflation

8:07 to 9:20

A look at hyperinflation and mismanagement during Amin's rule.

“Burundi and Rwanda and Central Africa is all very...”

The Consequences of Amin's Policies

9:20 to 14:09

Final reflections on the impact of Amin's policies on Uganda by 1978.

“So Ugandan coffee was able to still have a bit of a boom.”

The Consequences of Amin's Policies

14:13 to 14:36

Final reflections on the impact of Amin's policies on Uganda by 1978.

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The Downfall of Idi Amin

14:36 to 19:51

Explore the crises leading to Idi Amin's downfall and the consequences of his regime.

“So suddenly, all the Ugandans that run shops are like, one, two, three, four, here we are.”
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Archbishop Luwum's Assassination

19:51 to 22:36

Discuss the assassination of Archbishop Luwum and its impact on public perception of Amin.

“Anyway, in 1977, this is actually very dark.”

Failed Coup Attempts

22:36 to 28:00

Examine the multiple assassination and coup attempts against Idi Amin and his paranoia.

“same tribe that he does it starts to be a bit icky i guess uh he he then supposedly boys club Supposedly, he's now, he's mainly getting drunk on creme de cacao.”

Amin's Assassination Attempts

28:00 to 28:23

Learn about Idi Amin's survival through numerous assassination attempts and a coup.

Amin's War with Tanzania

28:23 to 29:09

Explore Amin's perspective on initiating a war with Tanzania to regain support.

The Role of Julius Nyerere

29:09 to 30:07

Discuss the significance of Julius Nyerere in the context of Amin's reign.

“The president of Tanzania is called Julius Nayareri.”

Amin's Feud with Nyerere

30:07 to 31:28

Delve into the tensions between Amin and Nyerere, including a boxing challenge.

The Complexity of Multiple Marriages

31:28 to 32:59

Understand how Amin's multiple marriages influenced his leadership and decision-making.

“This, again, in, I don't know when this is, at some point in the 70s, he challenges Nayareri to a boxing match.”

The Complexity of Multiple Marriages

33:00 to 34:16

Understand how Amin's multiple marriages influenced his leadership and decision-making.

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Amin's Military Campaign

34:25 to 37:10

Analyze the shortcomings of Amin's military during the invasion of Tanzania.

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Aftermath of the Invasion

37:10 to 40:20

Learn about the chaos in Uganda following the Tanzanian invasion and Amin's downfall.

“Penenka assassination is to fire into the air and then time it so that when they walk, it goes, pfft.”

Amin's Exile in Saudi Arabia

40:20 to 42:00

Discover Amin's life in exile and his experiences in Saudi Arabia.

“It's kind of like the same sort of arguments, right?”

The Retirement of Idi Amin

42:00 to 46:45

Learn about Idi Amin's unexpected retirement and his peaceful life afterward.

“Because he could go anywhere and they're just like, yeah, we like your vibe.”

The Legacy of Ugandan Dictators

46:45 to 48:54

Discover the complexities of Uganda's leadership following Amin's rule.

“Okay, Uganda does not have a happy ending.”

A Unique Perspective on Dictators

48:54 to 53:28

Explore the presenters' unconventional views on dictators and their end stories.

“funny African dictator, Idi Amin has become the kind of archetype of an African dictator, even though people came after him were way more brutal.”

A Unique Perspective on Dictators

54:31 to 55:15

Explore the presenters' unconventional views on dictators and their end stories.

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1:24welcome back to finn versus history it's part four of the edmin story charlie just want to tell everyone what you've just eaten in the break uh five chocolate coins two gold bars and two vine leaves dolmadas dolmadas yeah two day-old dolmadas you were just saying how well you've done to resist the temptation of the cheap gold coins phoebe's put chocolate coins in our med and cheap chocolate coins there's one of my crypt i have several kryptonites and phoebe gave me some bread to the point where it's no longer a kryptonite isn't it because it isn't i wonder How many kryptonite you can have? Yeah, that's true.

1:51That's true. Is kryptonite just meant for your Achilles heel? Does it count if it's across your whole body? I have eight legs, so I have eight heels. Right. The heel's the only safe part of your body. The rest is the Achilles' rest of the body. Yeah, that's true, actually. It's easy to say that I have an Achilles finger, an Achilles head, an Achilles neck, an Achilles belly. Yeah. But no, cheap chocolate with expensive wanky coffee is one of my all-time combinations. I think expensive chocolate is work nonsense. It's similar to craft beer. Fuck off. I completely agree. Apart from straight rum with a bit of...

2:28Calm down. With a bit of nice dark chocolate is actually very nice. I live in Bethnal Green. I'm having straight rum with the honeys. Yeah. I'm drinking Henny and having lint. Yeah. I'm eating chocolate coins. Anyway. You're like a cash machine. I am. speaking of men who probably did eat chocolate coins part four of the idiom in tale uh and listen our boy's on the ropes uh he's been a great laugh yeah but people have starting to not find him as funny now yeah the joke is getting tired yeah uh the kaufman-esque you know playing on the racial stereotypes yeah of central africa you know it's starting to be like are you actually just mad yeah So in the late 70s in Uganda, it's a pretty fruity time.

3:18The economy's in the toilet. Is fruit a big part of the economy? Sorry? Is fruit part of the economy? I don't know, actually. I think it's mainly coffee. Right. Now, just to recap, Idi Amin had a dream telling him to get rid of everyone who's Asian, and he acted on it and expelled the entire middle class. Yeah. Done. Gone. That's the long road to Priti Patel. That's worked out quite well for us. But they also accounted for 90 % of his tax revenue. Right. I tax you more. Yeah. I get more money. Yes. You've seen that? That's the chancellor. The same guy that we talked about. Another, another. Listen, I tax you more.

3:52I get more money. So what is the context for him saying this? Money moving in the air. This is him, just the chancellor explaining. He's been accused of corruption. He's just explaining. Charlie did economics at UCL. Yeah. So this is a Ugandan chancellor. Just play this clip. Businesses expand. You people, you earn more money. I tax you more so because I tax you more I get more money so that's the kind of that's the Ugandan that's the true law of economics businesses expand you make more money I tax you more I get more money if I send everyone who runs a business away there's no money right which is what Idi Amin has done it's what Starmer's doing is it well I don't know it's what everyone says he's doing but he's doing it to whites yes everyone's saying that everyone's going to Dubai and therefore the tax base is going, right?

4:43Yeah. Because it's too hard to be rich. I guess you don't want to just judge the quality of a country on its tax base because the people that move to Dubai are to a man cunts. I don't want anything to do with them. Yeah, if they're like, I'd rather move to Dubai to evade tax. I'd rather pay more tax and not have to talk to anyone who wants to go to Dubai. How important is the economy? It's one aspect of life. Yeah. I would rather pay more money. Fuck the NHS. I'd rather pay more money to not have to hang out with 30 % of the population. I'd go private. Yeah. To not hang out. To private friends.

5:16I don't want these nationalized people on a Saturday night hanging around. Turkey teeth. Fucking Dubai's brilliant. Well, yeah, for you. Yeah. It's a culture as vacuum built by slaves. Of course you fucking love it. It's a skyscraper in a desert. Anyway. Real thick people shit. Real thick people. Mark Antony Fitness. What is it, Charlie? What's the thing that they're building in Dubai or they've given up building that big, that was Saudi Arabia wasn't it that's the tunnel oh the tunnel it's the line the long city HS3 HS3 of course they've given it up which is amazing because they you just can't do something where you you talk about something that's genuinely unbelievable and get everyone's like that's amazing that we can do that and say no we can't no actually it's ridiculous impossible you can't do that much branding about it and like get that no it's too hard of course it's too hard but then don't pitch anything like remotely like that it was what was it it was like meant to be 200 kilometers of a line city in the desert, perfectly air conditioned.

6:14You can get from one end to the other in 20 minutes. They start, then there was the pictures of the diggers. So I saw the beginning bit where they dug like a trench, which was about 500 meters long. And I was like, maybe like it's starting to, and then they went, maybe they dug another trench and they're like, it's going to take ages. It's going to take fucking ages. Nah. Nah. Why don't we just build a normal city rather than one line? Because actually, they didn't just cancel it immediately. They said, we've changed it, actually. We've been a bit too ambitious. So they've changed it from 200 kilometers to one kilometer city.

6:46And then they said, nah, just fuck it. Fuck it off. Fuck it off. Fuck it off. So Idi Amin's infrastructure begins to collapse. So he seizes properties and businesses, hands them out as rewards to his army officers. They then don't have any skills to run the businesses, which means industry declines, widespread looting, nothing works. The UK severs diplomatic relations in 1976. That's after Idi Amin has personally killed the most Jewish woman of all time in the Intibi air raid. Yeah, by overcharging her for a coffee. She takes her own life because she sees the prices of the sandwiches in the airport.

7:25Very sad story. Anyway, in 1978, the US imposes a trade embargo where they stop buying Ugandan coffee. And in return, they stop supplying oil. Coffee's big in Uganda. because it's a very, it's a wet. Do we have a lot of Ugandan coffee here? Wanky coffee shops, I guess. I prefer South American. I like Colombian the best in general. I don't know. It's slightly fruitier. And I mean that in the actual sense of the word fruity. I know that for me, fruity can mean gay, racist, you know, genocidal or fruity. And in this instance, I prefer Colombian coffee. Can you chat if you see the most respected coffee range in the world?

8:05Let's just see. Is there like a... Burundi and Rwanda and Central Africa is all very... Yeah, Kenya. East Africa, that's all, yeah. What have we got? Most respected coffee areas in the world. What's the kind of general... Ethiopia. Ethiopia's birthplace. Yeah, okay. Yeah, Colombia. But Georgia's the birthplace of wine. The gold standard. No nonsense ranking, that's what I want. Ethiopia number one. Undisputed goat. Then Panama. Panama, fuck off. Can we make our own coffee? Like, if I have a coffee plant, can I make my own coffee in the garden? Yeah, you need to roast the beans. Roast the beans.

8:36Would it be nice? And then you can then grind them and then you put them through a coffee machine. So I can have my own coffee. Yeah, you can do that. Charlie, you could do anything. Yeah. No, sorry. You can do something. You can't do anything. You can do some things. You can't do anything. No, you can't do anything. You can't do it. No, so that's what you meant. Sorry. You can't do anything. I meant you can't do anything. That's what I meant. I meant you're a fucking idiot and you can't do anything. You can't do anything. Sorry. I minced my words there. There's nothing you can do. No.

9:02So the US stops buying Ugandan coffee uh but there was also wasn't there a thing where due to some kind of some crisis it meant that even though the u.s stopped supplying stopped buying coffee stopped buying the coffee coffee still boomed i think so there was there was still moments of like where they could international uh conditions meant that the ugandan economy sort of similar to like thatcher privatizing everything but because of north sea oil we were sort of oh they found like a windfall there was oh that's it there was a massive global supply shortage because of a frost that destroyed the Brazilian coffee crop in the 70s.

9:39Right. So Ugandan coffee was able to still have a bit of a boom. However, by 78, that had sort of corrected. So anyway, so the US has stopped buying Ugandan coffee. There is hyperinflation. God, it's terribly sad. He's printing money to fund the military. Very sad. The cost of living for low-income workers goes up 531 % by 1977. Amin just spends all the money in the army. He does whiskey runs to bring in Scotch whiskey, stereos and watches for offices. A vast amount of foreign currency is basically spent on luxury goods and weapons for the army. But he's basically spending all the money on his army, who, by the way, he's killed a lot of, and the army's just his maids, which will become crucial later on in the story.

10:31What is it, Charlie? If he didn't tell anyone, and he just printed loads of money and then had spies going to different shops and spend the money but it didn't mean anything but nobody knows it doesn't mean anything apart from him and his team you did do economics then um you have a bachelor's no I know but if he did that then why could he not just make the economy fine again if he didn't tell anyone that he was printing loads of money because no one would know I don't actually know but I feel that's like the first thing you learn in economics is why you can't print money yeah do you know it's just fundamentals do I know to be fair to charlie you don't know i the printing money thing it doesn't quite make sense because i do also sometimes think what if you don't tell anyone how do they know right so if you print money secretly and don't tell anyone no one knows no one knows like is that tenner so like your granddad going your parents got spidey senses here's a tenner don't tell your dad he's a tenner but he's printed that tenner yeah he's printed it he's printed it right so he's doing that but that tenner's never existed it's counterfeits your granddad's giving you a counterfeit no you have to go and spend it on that it's not counterfeit it's official but no one the treasury the reserves don't know you have to go buy that mango with it you have to no because you have to because that means the mango guy gets money as well then we're all getting that's cleaning it that's laundering no it's not yeah it is I don't know so you don't know I don't know so if you print money but don't tell anyone then it's fine then it's fine so when it's like oh this country's broke we can't print money because everyone will find out about it There's so much of it on the fly.

12:02Yeah. Two extra billion that you found somewhere else. Does that immediately devalue all money? How do they know? Well, that's it. It's like, yeah, it is. If I get two billion, I put it in my attic. No one knows about it. That doesn't mean, that doesn't cause inflation. It's only when I start taking it out. That's because what you're meant to do when you get money is take it out of the economy. Go to Cain Islands. That's why the Caribbean exists. You're meant to just say, yeah. Take it out of the economy so they can't spend it on the fucking health service. This is everyone in the private members club.

12:29they thought like they had a stroke yeah that's right if you talk about money talk about the K-9 be a non-dom in the UK don't pay tax here exactly up to 90 days no I don't I don't know why Idi Amin's economy collapses but to my head it makes more sense that he just kicks out all the Asians and the economy goes through the floor because Asians are good at maths alright happy happy you've made Finn be racist he doesn't want to be you forced him to turn to racial stereotypes which he hates to do I hate that he's going to be beating himself up in the shower this evening. For fuck's sake. I can't believe Charlie made me say that.

13:03He's got a degree in economics and he's made me say... He brought me down to a level of... Oh, fine. Resorting to just buy the numbers stereotype. To be fair, my theory makes as much sense as what he says. Yeah. You get rid of the Asians, suddenly no one can count anymore. That's not really a theory. That's the truth. Thank you. That is literally the truth. Propel Fitness Water with Gatorade electrolytes, zero sugar and vitamins. Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolytes. Fall has never looked or tasted this good.

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14:22Bundling, just another way to save with the personal price plan. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state. Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state. So suddenly, all the Ugandans that run shops are like, one, two, three, four, here we are. They can't count. So the economy's in the toilet. Okay. Idi Amin is on the ropes. All his army officers have massive gold watches. They don't have class. Yeah. There are several crises in the late 1970s that undoes Idi Amin. This is probably the most brutal. In February 1977, let's replace this.

15:02This is just before Star Wars. Or is it? Ooh, Star Wars might be 77. No, it is 77. But what month does Star Wars come out? May. Oh, lovely. It's just before Star Wars. Is it just after? No, I think that's later. Is it just after England didn't qualify for the World Cup in 1974? No, fuck, I know it. I know it. Sorry. It's just before Star Wars and it's after the first ever Penenka penalty. Okay, let's have a look. Which I believe is 76. Oh, that is nice. An army of unemployed men have just come in their pants. What a placing that is. The first ever Penenka, which is pretty amazing because everyone's just like, what the fuck, you can do that?

15:50It's a life well lived if you have something like that named after you. Yes, that's true. People won't even know it's a guy. Penenka will become, in a hundred years, people will still call it Penenka. Yeah. And not even know it's a guy. But it makes sense calling it Penenka. Something that surprised me recently, do you know Pilates is named after a guy? You're joking. John Pilates. John Pilates. Type in Pilates. Sorry? Anthony Gangbang as well. No.

16:14how do you come up with that hang on is that nominal determinism which which one of which one of them would you name after a gangbang because if a gangbang is more than one yeah but the ringleader yeah the guy who's i've never had a gangbang like campbell smith and gangbang i'll be like well let's use your surname i've never had a gangbang look at that joseph pilates are you joking it's a bloke joey pilates yeah yeah yeah yeah wait so joseph pilates so it's it's a sort of madman era 50s stuff right he uh politely started with the reformer machine that he invented and it's to get women fit on a but he's a bit of a creep like he's all just got these look at him tiny wife and look at him holding this woman's thighs look at that he's just grabbing her ass this is this is nonsense helping himself to arse.

17:03Right, so my wife does reformer Pilates. She took me to a class once and I thought it was mad. It's on this huge, it looks like a sort of sex machine. Medieval torture device. But this makes so much sense that it was a German bloke in the 50s going, I reckon I'm going to hold your legs like that. Right, Joseph Pilates, World War II. Let's come on. A German of this era. Come on. Is Pilates tainted by the Nazis? Is Pilates Nazi? Is it Nazi yoga? That's what I want to know. Joseph Pilates was not a Nazi. He chose to leave Germany in 20... Traitor! He left in 25. He's unhappy with the country's political direction.

17:40Creep. Traitor turncoat. To be fair, he has come... That's pretty good to leave in 20... Leaving in 25 is pretty nuts. Do you know what? I feel disgusting that I went to Palazzo. I'm a yoga guy. Is yoga Nazi? No, I don't think so. Charlie, why are you Googling Bukkake? Is it named after someone? Maybe it's Brian Bukkake. No, it would be Japanese, surely. Jordan Bukkake. Hideyoshi Bukkake. It probably is. Gordon. Gordon Bukkake. Gordon Bukkake. And Ian Buttstuff. And Ian Buttstuff. Right. So yeah, Joseph Pilates, shout out. Anyway, what's great about Penenka is that it's a vibe. Like you can use the term, should we Penenka these sandwiches?

18:25And it's like... What would you do? you go to look like yeah that's what I mean you go to look like you're about to eat it really disgustingly and then you actually eat it really politely

18:43yeah what were you going to say yeah I was going to say that yeah you could go on Charlie I think it's when you like talk up how good you are at canalingus but you actually don't know what you're doing there's going to be nothing left when I'm feeling Yeah, there you go.

19:01Yeah, no. No, I tell you what penankering pussy is. It's when men are like, I'm gonna fuck you all night long. And then you have sex with 30 seconds, you go, I'm so tired, I'm gonna go to bed. And you just fall. Yeah. But then it's not our fault. You say I'm gonna fuck you so hard, then while just geeing yourself up, you come in the condom. Before, oh, you're gonna have the night. Oh! Oh, fuck, oh, no. There's something very funny about a man perpetually ejaculating and immediately falling asleep. Oh no, it doesn't happen. Just so peaceful and happy. It's not our fault that the come button is the same as the sleep button in my head.

19:42You're going to have the night of your life. Wake up, wake up. Eight hours. Best sleep I've ever had. Came in my pants last night. I had the night of my life. Best night of my life. What a sleep. Came in my pants. Don't know who she was. Eight hours. Just trousers around your ankles. Bosh. Best match I've ever had. Anyway, in 1977, this is actually very dark. Sorry. Archbishop Janui Luwum, who I imagine is like, are we talking Archbishop Tutu vibes? Lovely smile. He is the Archbishop for, I think, Rwanda and Burundi, as well as Central African Archbishop. It's like a diocese that encompasses more than just Uganda.

20:22So is he C of E? Well, Church of Uganda is Anglican. Church of Africa. Right. So... He's got a very kind face. He writes this blunt, very eloquent critique of Idi Amin's rule and publishes it in February 1977. What's it saying? I don't know what it says. But it's blunt and eloquent. It was blunt and eloquent. He writes this critique of Amin's rule and Amin responds with treason charges and brands him and others agents of Milton Abote, who's still knocking about in Tanzania. Yeah, Abote is still about. He drags them to the Nile Hotel, where there are 2 ,000 soldiers and TV cameras. He stages a forced confession, which is broadcast to Uganda.

21:04And then the next day, Ugandan TV announces that, coincidentally, the Archbishop had died in a car crash. That's a mad question. Which is such a shame. It is such a shame. Who would have thought? But apparently, when they find the body, the body was also clearly beaten to death as well. And had gunshot wounds. but you know but you don't know yeah you don't know how the car wrapped around the tree you know had the car crashed into a gun maybe the tree shot the yeah i mean the tree clearly shot the the archbishop uh reports say that admi maybe shot the archbishop himself but this is this is kind of like beyond the pale for a lot of the people who at this point a lot of black africans a lot of ugandans are still supporting him yeah they because they love his vibe and a lot of the deaths have been like we don't blame him we love his i love his vibe yeah you know if i'm in uganda in the 70s i'm like yeah he's laugh yeah i guess beating an archbishop archbishop to death it's not like i mean riddling an archbishop with bullets yeah i mean i guess it's sort of like a monty python sort of sketch a little bit a bit a bit yeah like kind of making fun of me you know citizens of power maybe yeah maybe i guess if you're if you're the head of the power though that's not yeah can you do that yeah i guess i think that's when you punch down in comedy yes you need to punch up yeah uh so but the woman's death galvanizes opposition and sort of takes any remaining legitimacy he had kind of away from him uh and so a lot of the corruption inside the army starts to show uh and the fact that 60 of the army's top ranks come from the same tribe that he does it starts to be a bit icky i guess uh he he then supposedly boys club Supposedly, he's now, he's mainly getting drunk on creme de cacao.

22:48What's that? Is that like... That's like chocolate milkshake booze. Bailey's? Can you Google it, Charlie? Creme de cacao is a sweet chocolate favourite liqueur. It's like Cafe Patron. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Do you like that? It's fine. It's fine. It's a bit rich. Drinking it heavily is mental. Getting drunk off creme de cacao. Having a shot at Christmas makes sense. Oh, that's quite nice. But that being your like go-to. It's African Bailey's. I'll have the usual, and it'll be in a crimson cow as fuck as that. Why are you Bailey's? So he gets gout. He might have had syphilis. Yeah.

23:25Throughout his descent, there are many assassination attempts on him, which make him more paranoid. In June 1976, three grenades are thrown at his car. Now, that's also around the time of the first Penenka. So they might have gone like this. They might have gone like, oh, I'm throwing a grenade. Oh, they could have just done it with the foot, could have just chipped the grenade. June 77, there's a coup attempt called Operation Mafutamingi. Mafutamingi, who's that? That sounds like... Don't talk about Mafutamingi like that. Put your Mafutamingi away. Come on. We're talking about words for, you know, your daughter's front twat.

24:02Yes, yes. A Mafutamingi. A Mafutamingi. You can't go to school with your Mafutamingi sharing. What do Africans call vagina? Yeah, I mean, they must have that on lot. They must have some great names for it. African Ugandan slang for vagina. Operation Mafutu Minji, which is Swahili for too much cooking oil. What is? Mafutu Minji. Sorry, guava. Tonga. Guava is slang term for vagina. That's a fruit. Tonga, that's a bit unfair, calling a whole country. Pum Pum. That's West African, is it? Well, there you go. I like guava. Guava's a nice name. Now, the coup attempt, Mafutu Minji, is when dissident soldiers and pilots aim to eliminate Amin at Entebbe Airport, but he escapes to Kampala.

24:48He supposedly goes into hiding, and the State Research Bureau, his secret police with the quiz show contestant who iron shirts on, they then do a joyride of a body double through Kampala to show that he's still in control and unhurt. He gets into body doubles by the end of the day, I think. He's got loads of just massive black guys who's like, yeah, that's my body double. he then goes on a honeymoon with his new wife it would be great to have a body double that gets assassinated how smug would you feel? you would feel smug actually everyone thinks that you're dead and then you're like do you know what that's what Priti Patel's smile is that's her body double I've just had sex with her body double and she's like because you just you let them have it for a bit so that you know they're going to celebrate they think you got them and then you just do excuse me Lewis make pieces of his name Charlie's just googled Horatio Gould dwarf lookalike get him up Lewis it's very funny to have a body double that's just let's get the goat no I am a ratio type in Lewis Makepeace I wonder if people would know this wasn't me I hope so we should get him on the sofa one I mean from a distance a sniper they might not be able to tell his height it's like a kind of fuck boy fuck boy I don't know if he's a fuck boy we've got him up on this we're looking at him now it's a good it's a good moment to switch the video if you're listening because it does look it does look a lot like him but I'm just saying if I'm an African dictator I don't know if you'd have to be a sniper far far away to fall for this body double, I feel.

26:10Yes, you would. I mean, I guess if I made sure that all my bodyguards are the same height, so it seems in perspective, and it's a tiny car as well. Finn. Then maybe through it. Who's that? That's you. Charlie. Charlie's just got a hideous orc up and there's an attempt to razz Finn. And he's now laughing hysterically behind the microphone. He's got the ugliest orc he could find and said, Finn, that's you. That's not even close to me, though, is it? Dwarven and orc. Yeah, that would be your body double, mate. Right, brilliant. I mean, brilliant. You're ugly, mate. What is this? I'm married you go on Saturday night you go and watch Paul on St.

26:43Charlesbury Avenue yeah I'm going to meet the love of my life there really yes how did you meet we watched black and white French film where someone anal gaped in a garage it was Technicolor actually was it yeah are you sure it was from the 60s it wasn't gaping either you just got owned yeah you're right I did I take it back it wasn't gaping no you're right you are going to you are going to you are going to you are going to get a mortgage one day you're right wasn't gay piatchas just had her ass out yeah fucking idiot what's that loan denied

27:21anyway uh because when you get in a mortgage you have to show that what your expenses are you have to tell you have to tell the bank what you spend money on and is there a big thing about racial uh bias when it comes to sorry like loan denial it favors white people does it not I wouldn't know but I'm just saying Charlie I think squandered all of that privilege yeah totally totally because you go to a bank and you say this is what I did you have to show your bank statement from that weekend I go oh all right what do you do here I watched the French you spent 410 pounds on the Friday didn't you yeah got massive Turkish went to a porn cinema spent about 200 quid on cheap drugs that fucked you up for four days and they just be like yeah we're not giving you sorry you're not you need to buy this outright because we're not going to give you a mortgage anyway uh idi amin survives 13 assassination and coup attempts in the first six years there is a mutiny within the ugandan army in october 78 he they ambush him at his lodge and he escapes with his family by helicopter this is an ambush that's what i'll be saying you know when people just drop that into conversation get your hands off my penis that's what i'd say yeah to set up the final the final scene of Amin's reign he's always this is the entire time he's been he's been looking for a fight with Tanzania yeah similar to me I'm always looking for a fight with them fuck them fuck them fuck you they're smug you are smug with that huge mountain we get it we get it you've got a big mountain what else have you done Tanzania yeah what else have you done so Amin thinks that a war with Tanzania would rejuvenate his failing domestic support.

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29:04This is kind of a classic move, right? Yep. Problems at home, start of war. Start of war. It's diversion. Trump with the Epstein things. Genuinely. Just yoink, Venezuelan. Yoink, yoink. Whoops, I love that. The president of Tanzania is called Julius Nayareri. It's a very hard word to say. Nayarero. Nayarero. It's a bit like banana. You don't know how long it goes for. Nayarero. Nayarero. Banana. Nayarero. Julius Nayarero. Anyway, he's first prime minister of Tanzania. He's one of Africa's sort of best known post-colonial leaders. He's a pan-African. Well, the fact that we've never thought about doing an episode on him means he probably was quite good.

29:43Yeah. Boring. Boring. You know, he believed in African self-reliance. Boo, boo. But he has a Hitler mustache. Get that photo up. That's not bad. My God, I'm confused. Why am I Hitler? Look at him. My mind. Now, there's a lot. telling me no but my body he's telling me yeah now this is the era now again it's the 60s and he's got a fucking full Hitler tash too soon Mugabe had it not soon enough Mugabe had a Hitler tash you know Abote had a Hitler tash in Africa in the 60s Hitler tashes were not who was the one the Guatemalan guy oh yeah Arbenz Arbenz yeah he had a Hitler tash and that was in the 50s I think yeah south america as well yeah it feels like not malala no she doesn't have hitler tash julio arbenz guatemala not guatemala lala but my point is in the 60s you could in africa they're not they're not fucking worried about you could wear a hitler tash freely well clearly hitler does one war two doesn't really mean the same thing the same thing there's a namibian guy called adolf there's a namibian politician to this day yeah quite successful local counselor it seems crazy anyway Julius Nyeri has got an exquisite Hitler tash I might just say now Nyeri thinks that Amin is an embarrassment Amin's feud with Tanzania begins when Obote is given safe harbour there and Amin never really forgives Nyeri for offering him refuge and then there's a moment quite early in Amin's reign where Nyeri supports a failed invasion of Uganda by some exiles.

31:27Yeah. And this angers Amin even more. This, again, in, I don't know when this is, at some point in the 70s, he challenges Nayareri to a boxing match. This is straight out of the Amin playbook. With Muhammad Ali as referee. So this is, I mean, can we find out what year this is? Because at what point has Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman? Rumble in the jungle. When's that? 74. Okay, so Ali's probably probably retired maybe by that i want to assure you that i love you very much and if you had been a woman i would have considered marrying you although your head is full of gray hair but as you're a man that possibility does not arise so you also kind of like love bomb him yeah there's a weird psychosexual thing what's going on um anyway there are tutorial disputes over a region like a border region in october 78 he just sends in troops yeah uh then some of his gaddafi's Libyan mates.

32:19Do you think part of the reason that I'm in some of this is when you have multiple wives, there's no one actually checking on you. He's got a complete... Very good point. Because I think the wife, as a thing, it's someone to check on you in older age. And a man needs to be checked on. Yes. But you have too many wives. One wife thinks you're being checked on by the other, but you're not being checked on by anyone. So we talked about this in an earlier episode in this series about the dream of having so many wives that you can homer Simpson away from the kids. The flip side of that coin is that all the wives think you're being checked on by another wife.

32:48You're not getting checked on. So you're sending, you're starting a war with the prime minister of fucking Tanzania and sending him love letters. You're doing weird stuff. What are you being weird? You're not on messaging. What are you doing? It's late at night. You're being odd. 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. For millions of businesses, that tool is Shopify.

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35:22However, within a few miles of going over the border, Idi Amin's World War II era tanks break down, run out of fuel, crews just walk away and leave them stuck in the mud. They then also, the true nature of the military is exposed here because he's killed everyone in the military. that was any good. And so now a lot of the Ugandans just start drinking. They start killing each other. They start killing just random civilians. Thanks, bro. Should we kill each other? Yeah, fuck it. I was promised to fight, but my car's broken down. They're wearing a mixture of uniforms and stolen shoes. Jeans. You know when you see someone at the gym in jeans?

36:02I'm always just like, what? RFK Jr. Yeah. He works out, topless. Every now and then in the gym, you're like, Did you not plan on coming here today? Why are you wearing jeans? Well, you see someone going for a run in denim. But it's similar to the African goalkeeper, the archetype of the African goalkeeper in trousers. There's the African, the Ugandan soldier wearing tracksuit bottoms and football boots. Anyway, I guess maybe this is after comic relief has started. Right. So they're getting a lot of old football shirts. I see. Who knows? Yeah. They kill around 1 ,500 civilians. they just fire weapons into the air they run out of bullets by the time that the Tanzanians turn up I always think that when you fire bullets in the air you go fuck we need them how expensive ammunition must be they must come down they must come down yeah has anyone died from falling bullets many people have died from falling bullets a phenomenon commonly associated with celebratory gunfire they can travel over a mile and return to earth a sufficient force to penetrate a human skull many people it'd be quite a good way of killing someone like there's a legal grey area it's because it's not murder it's manslaughter If you shoot someone, it's murder.

37:08Are you penenka-ing it into them? This is penenka. Penenka assassination is to fire into the air and then time it so that when they walk, it goes, pfft. And you penenka killed him. Because if you shoot them. And you just put a hard hat on. And you just do it. You go, ah! And the bullet goes, ooh. Yeah. Like the same way the ball does. Yeah. Phew! Yeah. Because if you shoot them face on, that's murder. Yeah. Shoot in the air and then the bullet gets them, that's manslaughter. It's true. You never hear what happens to the bullets. Anyway, so Tanzania then attack Uganda. They declare war and they push Amin's troops back.

37:47The Ugandan army starts to collapse. The Soviet Union, they pull out. All the Libyan and Arafat's boys, they all fuck off. They're like, do you know what? It's not worth it. And then Nairi makes the decision to go, do you know what? Fuck it. Fuck Idi Amin. Let's go into Uganda and get rid of this clown. Yeah, fair enough. And they then, that's when they then find that all the Ugandan forces have committed atrocities. They've just basically started executing each other. They shot wounded comrades rather than slowing down. What's going on here? You're just going in, what? Again, they're wearing track two bottoms.

38:17They're wearing like a 1996 Chelsea shirt. Yeah, it's going to an afters and then you walk in immediately saying, I shouldn't, I shouldn't have gone to the next location. I shouldn't, I should have gone home. I really should have gone home. Five of the worst people I've ever seen and a Yui boom quietly going. You know, never leave a man behind. yeah i just shoot him then shoot him and go on i guess always shoot a man always shoot your own men so tanzanian forces enter kampala on the 10th of april 1979 a mean had to be held back by his guards because he wants to die in battle well it's kind of interesting because he feels like he should die in battle yeah it feels like that's how the story should end in blades of glory uh but he doesn't uh but also remember he says that he that's he knew when he was gonna die yeah so maybe he thinks it's it's this day interesting anyway so he then uh escapes to the sudan by helicopter or it's a border town called ginger uh which is uh where maybe the home of the air fryer it's in uganda then uh the ginger air fryer he uh delivers radio speeches saying that he's still in control uh he also says that there's although there's a state of emergency all ugandan housewives will be very happy because their husbands will get to spend time with them okay silver linings yeah so which is a bit like when there was a three-day week in britain and the government said why don't you explore your sexuality yeah they didn't say explore sexuality they said explore sex like sex positions on the 23rd of april libyan aircraft gaddafi flies i mean to tripoli yeah uh and the regime collapses as soon as he left yeah so by 1980 ugandan now it must be said that we'll deal with uh idiom means the rest of his life but uganda doesn't doesn't really improve ever no uh it's the long road to joseph coney yeah and um allegedly his use of child soldiers yes allegedly they might have loved doing it so he hangs out with gaddafi and tripoli because it coney was like a sort of like a military pedo where it's like the age of consent for like being in the army.

40:22Yes. It's kind of like the same sort of arguments, right? Yes, he wasn't. They were asking for it. No, I don't think that's what pedo's saying. Is that what pedo's saying? Look what he's wearing. I think he's just wearing a school uniform. But he's an army pedo. He's wearing a school uniform. Yeah, getting a 10-year-old to fight, you know. Right, yeah. What is the age they could consent to? I think, do you know what? I think we need a new word. Yeah, probably. for um we could make it now child soldiers yeah for hiring like you know pedophilia is is a separate thing pedophite pedophiter i think pedo is the problem so it needs to be child soldier what's the latin for child for child soldier so pedo mille pedo mille file pedo millefile no because that means that means fighting children you want to fuck mini mini mini mini mini mini meleophile right anyway we'll get back to it we'll put a pin in it so he hangs out with gaddafi in tripoli but quite quickly it's like this place is pretty pooey actually i'll get out of it yeah so he goes to saudi arabia and this is where we enter the final chapter of idiamine's life which i said in the last episode is him going to the sunset he gets given the top two floors of the novatel hotel in jeddah and him and his sixth wife and 25 of his kids 25 live on the top floor of a Novotel for the next 20 years like fucking Alan Partridge.

41:49It's Partridge after the divorce. It is Partridge after the divorce. He's just living in a travel tavern and he's given a$30 ,000, is it a month, stipend by the Saudi government to keep quiet and stay out of politics. I don't know. I don't know what's in it. They're paying him to shut up. But what's in it for them? Because he could go anywhere and they're just like, yeah, we like your vibe. I guess they like to see themselves as like a bit of a negotiator for the region they've got lots of money yeah so they can keep iddy out i feel that's like good for everyone involved i guess so and they're trying to look for stability in the region i guess and he is he's muslim i suppose as well uh so anyway he uh he lives on the top floor of a hotel and for the next 25 years it seems he just you know it's dad on holiday 25 years he goes mosque he swims um spent time in supermarkets you know he's running into iddy in the supermarket he's I bet he's doing a lot of this, just holding up oranges, going, just feeding them.

42:45Supposedly, this is when he becomes a fruitarian, right? So, which is not a slur. That is a good slur, though. A fruitarian. A bit of a fruitarian, you know what I mean? He only eats fruit, if you get me. And this is when he supposedly lives off just 40 oranges a day and he gets the nickname Uncle Jaffa. But yeah, he just... Fascinating. he fucking that's so rare that never happened he genuinely retires for a man who loved attention that much for a man who kept putting himself in the spotlight he felt like he'd done everything but like also he had a relatively short reign as well eight years eight years this is what I mean it's a happy ending yeah look at what look at what happened to Gaddafi even Pol Pot is then put under house arrest he carries on the fight you know Mao Mao has a stroke Saddam Hussein fucking gets hung Saddam Hussein is hung hiding in a hole i mean lives on the top floor of a fucking three-star hotel right goes to the gym fucking bonnie goes mosque eats oranges for 20 he just watches sport do you know i mean he's like he's like a granddad what happened to idy amin's kids uh they're all they all have normal jobs because he has so many of them they can't nearly 60 kids one of them got arrested for I think being part of an armed robbery in Britain maybe but a lot of them just are sort of pretty yeah he just he generally just retires and has a retirement and you know spends time with his kids and on top of an overtail and then he gets like a 15 bed house at some point in Saudi and just sort of bobs about and I just think that what a lovely end to the story Do you think he feels any guilt or or reflect at all on what he's done?

44:33No. No. What's going on there? Well, just fuck it. I did it. The thing is, is that dictators, their great curse is that they, you know, you can't, once you're doing that, there's only one way that you're getting out, which is bang. Thing up the arse. Or up the arse, right. Those are the two genders for how a dictator is deposed. Bang. Right. Now, with Amin, he genuinely seems to be able to say to himself, do you know what? I did it. I enjoyed it. It ended. And now I'm in a new phase of life where I'm eating oranges and salad and hanging out with my kids. Do you know what? And I think that's a beautiful end to the story.

45:12It is. He dies in 2003. You know, so he lives along. He dies in his late 70s, probably, although no one knows how old he is. So the lesson, if you're a dictator, once you're ousted, don't go back for more. Don't go back for seconds. Just accept. Accept the lovely portion is what it is. Be in the moment. Enjoy it while it lasts. You know, you retire to another country, retire abroad with your kids. You're on the top floor. You've got the top two floors of an overtail, right? Which is better than an Ibis. Yeah. And he just watches sport in his tracksuits and goes mosques and goes to the supermarket, hangs out in the supermarket.

45:46Imagine just hanging out. Well, in Saudi Arabia, I think that's what most people do, right? That's the culture, isn't it? Go to the shopping malls. Try and cool down because there's refrigerators. Stand by the chest freezers. So he just watches rugby. He eats oranges. He faces no prosecution. There's no calls for, you know, he offers no remorse. I still don't really understand what the Saudis are getting out of this. Is he maybe teaching them how to choppy choppy briefcase? Is that where they get that idea from? Or is it just like having a kind of superhero in your country? Like he's just like a big icon.

46:19Is it like a kind of clouty to have it? Or is it like, you know how when people handcuff the Wheelstone Raider to themselves? Yeah, on Staggers. Maybe it's a bit like that. They've got him for clout. yeah they got a clap chasing big john so the first i do yeah it's fucking eddie

46:35but my point is is that edie amin has the final chapter that we all wish hitler did he goes brazil he's on the beach all right he's muslim so he's not drinking but he's eating he's doing as close as you can get to ronnie biggs in brazil hitler in brazil well what you you know in the last Batman when in the Chris Fanola ones when Christian Bale is does that nod to Michael Caine yeah that's what you want with Hitler everyone thinks you know that scene Christian Bale nods Michael Caine yeah yeah your dream yeah is that everyone thinks that he killed everyone thinks that he died and this is just you yeah you know you're just in some random restaurant in Italy yeah and then you just see I'm just having a little snack you're in Brazil you're in a round of restaurant in Brazil and then you see through the crowd of people Hitler Brut and I'm just raising a glass and I'm like oh you know what he got out I like that yeah but that's what Idi Amin does is that he genuinely has the final chapter and he dies peacefully which I mean that just never happens with dictators it never happens yeah and I you know So, sue me.

47:56I think that's a happy ending. So, what happens to Uganda? Okay, Uganda does not have a happy ending. Uganda has a bush war and the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kermit, child soldiers. But it now has, as we started this series, the funniest chance for the exchequer in the world. Cryptocurrency. Money in the air. The economy. Oh, the economy doing very well. Woo. But Milton Abote comes back. And what I heard this morning. Also, how did Abote survive? He went to Tanzania. I know, but it's amazing how these figures are surviving. Normally you do these stories, they get killed and it gets refreshed.

48:31These figures... So what I listened to, the podcast I listened to this morning, said that Abote comes back and he then kills maybe even more Ugandans than Idi Amin ever did. But because Abote wears a suit and has got a PhD and he's not the Western caricature of the loud, smiling... funny African dictator, Idi Amin has become the kind of archetype of an African dictator, even though people came after him were way more brutal. Which is why... So you're an idiot truther? I'm an idiot apologist. All right? Yeah. I'm not going to apologize anymore for being an idiot apologist. No, do you know what?

49:13You can fuck off. I like the guy. I like the guy.

49:21Yeah. He's got something about him. And he has bestowed me the funniest reels I've ever seen. Yeah. Which is the present day Central African political culture. Yeah. What have you done? Before you judge him, what the fuck have you done? What have you done? You know? That's a good point. Anyway, so Idi Amin dies in 2003 of kidney failure. Was that the day that he dreamt of? We don't know. Probably not. Dies in a hotel, top floor of a Novotel in Saudi Arabia. I mean, it's pretty funny, as dictators go. When we get to the scores on the doors, his eight-year reign is said to have resulted in the deaths between 300 ,000 to 500 ,000 people.

50:09You know, in the numbers game. It's nowhere near Pol Pot. Pol Pot's fucking big numbers. It's nowhere near the big European guns, but I suppose the reason he's so remembered is because of the fact, well in fact he probably ate a lot of them and that he killed them himself he was at alter apt do you know what i mean it was like it great the streets will never forget yeah there's a lot of skills the highlight reel but like his goals and assists don't really stand ultimately he played for qpr and so he's never going to be remembered get alter apt highlights up but this is can you have them playing this is kind of idiom yeah i guess it you know when you when you stitch them together it's unbelievable but when you actually when you break to the underlying numbers yeah he's not really yeah what charlie what are you doing i tried to find his name you had it it's really this is it's a deceptively hard keyboard to use right trust me horatio asked for adult highlights i then saw you trying to buy a qpr membership okay so i don't know what goes through your brain when we ask you to do something you go like four steps and also it's so hard to do podcasts when the maddest stuff is happening yeah i'm like why is charlie buying tickets for qpr next week it's like you're five steps ahead of us in a conversation we're not having but yeah this is this is the idea i mean it looks great but ultimately qpr a lot of the stuff he was in the championship yeah he didn't fulfill his potential in some ways uh so his family chooses to disconnect his life support while he's in a coma so he's assassinated he's killed by his family blood blood sucking leeches uganda does not get much uh does not really improve child soldiers bush war um more more misery on the ugandans but as i say this has been the long road to why are you gay and uh you are transgender yep you are which is a big part of this podcast which is a big part of my life my this podcast yeah um and for that i owe he did mean a great day he's a true friend of the pod he's a true friend of the pods uh were he alive today i would shake his hand and what a handshake it would be big can i can you imagine there's no dictator i'd like to hug more than iddy i mean i will to just he must give one the the best i just want i want to smell his chest because i bet he you know he'll have a real must to him and he'll definitely wear a Smelt amazing.

52:37Yeah. Him and Gaddafi walk into a room. Yeah. That room smells amazing. Yeah. Gaddafi smelled good. I think Gaddafi wore expensive perfume. I think Iddy actually genuinely smelled good. Iddy smelled like home. You know? So yeah, there's no dictator I'd rather have a big hug at the end of the day than Iddy Amin. I like to be my boyfriend and I like to wear his oversized shirts. Yeah. I want to go to sleep with all his medals. I want him to be I want to be the small spoon and he's the big spoon oh yeah he's the big spoon of all dictated he's the biggest spoon anyway this has been our EDM means series tomorrow on the Patreon we'll be dealing with the history of cannibalism for ye of strong stomach yeah our researcher struggled our vegetarian researcher I did not have a fun time researching that anyway that's on the Patreon but it's sort of implied that if you eat meat it's like oh it's just that's just another bit just a meat I don't like yeah might as well be another history of fucking goat yeah for all i care anyway that's on the patreon along with instant access to next week's episodes uh but if not we'll see you next time for a new topic on fin versus history goodbye goodbye

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