Smashing The Glass Floor As Well As The Ceiling | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 1/6)

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1:58Well, here we are. We're back. The series that no one wanted is carrying on. It's Christmas. Who else could it be time for? It's Mummy for Christmas. Welcome back to our most controversial series. Thatcher Thatcher the Cumsnatcher. Post-war British Prime Ministers. And listen, this is the start of an epic six-parter on Thatcher and the Falklands. You can accuse us of many things. Sure. What you cannot accuse us of is of not providing any context for this. Okay, yeah. There's been a long road to Thatcher. There was a 10-part algorithm-destroying series in the summer that you can have before this to make sense of why on earth we elect a woman as prime minister.

2:43You can see the YouTube views. It's sort of like the economy during COVID and Brexit. Yes. It just went like this. And the economy during the 70s, actually. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, that's why Thatcher comes into it. I think Douglas Alec Hume, the Titanic figure. Yes. Very much that comes out of Hume's shadow. Yes, exactly. Everyone thought no one would be able to do it, and out of nowhere, this woman comes. It took Thatcher to displace Alec Douglas Hume. Alec, what's his name again? I don't know. I always say Hume Douglas Alec. Alec Douglas Hume. Today, we are dealing with Mummy, Mummy's early life.

3:17Yes. Look at her there, resplendent in a Sunday best. I mean, my goodness. Wow. She really, if we talk about aura of post-war British Prime Ministers, she must be up there. She cleans up? Yes. She's the most... The longest-serving Prime Minister this country has had since the war. Yep. The most controversial? For sure, I'd say so. The most divisive? We're still living in Thatcher's Britain. We are Thatcher's children. Thatcher, this country is Attlee's child. Attlee is its dad. And then in 1979, Margaret Thatcher puts a strap on and fucks Attlee up the arse. Yeah. And that's who we are today. is we are at least Britain who's been pegged.

3:54Cut, dad, bitch, mum. The bitch is back and it's time for mummy. We are in 1979. As always, we need to find out what people were calling tits in the 80s. So this is pretty bleak. This is almost as bleak as it gets. But the 80s is, you know, Thatcher ushers in the dawn of new money. Yeah. She unleashes new money. Yeah, she unleashes my dad. Your dad is Thatcher's actual child. and so we need this is the start of new new money tits yeah so fake tits start in the 80s i'd say any of that sort of wartime decorum is now being eroded you can you walk down the street in the 80s and you don't know whose tits are fake and whose aren't because of thatcher big hair fake teeth big tits so if we could just uh let's get chat gpt up charlie and if you could just tell us what a slang for boobs in the 80s we've got jugs and knockers which i guess are like classic ones that I guess we just thought were always around.

4:52But it's interesting to know. It's interesting to know a world before jugs or knockers. Here we go. 80s is tits. We're in the tits now. I guess, were they not called tits before? No. That's interesting. Fun Bags starts. Bristol's, Baps, Norks. I think Fun Bags defines the age quite a bit. Chesticles, Hooters, Melons, Cans. Because it was a lot of it. It was a concentrated area of London, the Southeast, just honking on Fun Bags. while the mines were closing. Yes. You know, it's an era of contrasts. And Charlie, just to give some contrast, has just Googled what Mongolian euphemisms for tits in the 80s were.

5:29Breast button. Push my breast buttons, please. Is that next to your trouser button? Yes, in the phrenology heads. Women are born with a breast button. And you push that and their breasts get bigger. So Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Roberts, she's born. Yep. Hilda. Yep. Again. Is she white? Yes, she's white, isn't she? She's about as white as it gets. Yeah, it's probably... She's the original white woman. Margaret Hilda Roberts, that is... It's a white name. That's not been cut with anything. Well, you say that. Hilda gives a... There's a bit of... There's a bit of Southern... Hilda! Hilda! Shit, yeah.

6:02Get in here, Hilda! There's a bit of... There's no way Hilda doesn't have massive jugs. Do you know what I mean? Well... Well, she... I don't know what Thatcher's the fun bags are saying. Fucking Thatcher's got puppies. Listen, in the 1970s, Britain is the sick man of Europe. Sure. And what else does a sick man need but a fucking sexy nurse? yes maggie gives the sick man yeah his medicine the milk that brings her back to life exactly yeah she get mummy gives medicine take your cow Paul Britain now Margaret Hilda Roberts is born on the 13th of October 1925 in Grantham which is a hole have you been there I've been to Grantham what are you doing in Grantham I did a spiky mic gig in Grantham about 15 years ago absolute drivel right there's a promoter called spiky mike whose full name is spiky michael yeah um he dresses does he run a spiky mike running run that gong show in derby right he's got the east midlands sewn up yeah yeah he's like a local baron right he is he's like his fiefdom he's an open mic baron who dresses like guy fieri flame bandana and hawaiian shirts yeah and compares you can't really get he's like the mafia around there you can't really gig without him at least know about or giving it the okay.

7:17The open mic stand-up circuit in this country has five families, right? Spiegel Michael runs the East Midlands. Yeah. Then you've got mirth control, Jeff Whiting and his wife, Marley. They got the South, the Southeast sewn up. Sown up, yeah. Sown up. The West Country, there was a woman, what was she called? Joss Jones got the West Country sewn up. Yeah, what's that one in the Northeast that they do gigs in like Darlington? Oh, Hilarity Bites. Hilarity Bites. Neil Jolly. Neil Jolly, you've got to pay your respects to Neil Jolly. If you want to gig in a bowling alley in North Allerton, you've got to pay your dues to Neil Jolly.

7:47I did, yeah, Hilarity Bites. I was Hilarity Bites' new comedian of the year finalist. Wait, finalist. I want to say 2017, 2018. And I had to, because I had to get my train back. I had to leave after my set. So I went on first. Died on my fucking hole. You imagine you in Darlington. Irrendous. Died. Get on the train. I fucked it. I came second. Wow. So I was like, how badly did, like, how badly was everyone else after me? But you know why that was so hard for you? Why? Thatcher. Right, okay. The divides, you know, the seeping wounds that Thatcher leaves means it's very hard for you to do well in Darlington.

8:25Sure, sure. But not so badly that you can't come second because there's no fun up there at all. Even the best comedian from Darlington is finishing fourth in that because she took everything away from her. Yes. So Margaret Hilda Roberts, Grantham, what a hole. Now, she grew up above her parents' greengrocer's shop. And the family, the Roberts family, are staunch Methodists. And that's quite important. This is crucial. Yeah, because she's as Protestant as it gets, really. Well, it's interesting, or it's not, but I was going into the different denominations of Protestantism this morning. Right. Because I was sort of thinking, what is Methodism?

9:02Yes, it gets thrown around a lot. Yeah, and we're now getting into some pretty highly boring stuff on the different denominations of Protestantism. The thing about Protestantism, Catholicism, there's a more collective tradition, right? Protestantism is like, you can be as fucking nuts as you like. Yeah. You can go as hard as you want because you just make a new denomination. That's what I mean. It seems like there's a massive, there's a tree in Protestantism. You can keep just going, well, you're not fucking hardcore enough. I'm going to be even more boring. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to get up an hour earlier than you and I'm going to get a new denomination.

9:32It's like, it's bro podcasts getting up an hour earlier every time. Catholic is just like, we're sloppy, we nap in the day, we suck each other off and there's a paedophilia crisis. And Prostent's like, I'm getting up at 4am. I'm getting up at 3am. Bed, 3pm. Bed at 3pm. Well, you know. Separate beds. Separate beds. That's my new denomination, separate bedism. So Methodism is essentially, from what I can understand, it's that everyone has a chance of grace, but it's up to them to do it. It stresses free will. Pull yourself up by your robe straps. basically it's like you so whereas presbyterianism which is calvinist would say that everything's fucked well calvin is it is presbyterian is a branch of calvinism but calvinism is fucking hardcore isn't it yes calvin's like it's already everything's gonna that's gonna happen it's gonna always happen right everything's fucked it's predestined it's predestined yeah everything's fucked so so there's no point having fun because it's fucked yeah it's predestined you're predestined to not have fun and presbyterianism comes out of that but what's funny about calvinism is that it's everything's predestined but they don't use that opportunity to be like yolo fuck it yeah it's like it's all predestined so we're going to be really conservative it's sad yolo it's all predestined so let's just keep money tight what's your spending if you if you if you were loose with money that was predestined as well no so it's kind of confused i don't really understand but methodism stresses that it's all about free will and that grace is there for anyone if they choose to enact it.

11:02A lot of central beliefs in America are Methodists, right? Yes. And it makes sense, the American attitude, that sort of Protestant desire, American dream is quite, I think. Yeah, so what this essentially means is that Thatcher grows up in an environment where her religious upbringing tells her that being poor is a moral failing. Sure. Because everyone has the ability to get out of poverty. Yeah. Which, there may be some truth in that, but it completely... Got quite emotional there. sorry there's some truth i believe that i watch she's got emotional talking about how it's poor people's it's their fault sorry i've never she just articulates my belief so clearly poor people's fault that it's their fault sorry i'm sorry have you just gone up early some people are born so thick and stupid that they're smelly that it's their fault they're poor she just she just articulates my belief so strongly you know she's not the hero we wanted but she's the one that we need um she her point is is that you know i agree that i think anyone can work so hard to not be poor but her belief system completely discounts anything like structural or or like what we end up seeing is that her opinion of how the state what the state can offer yeah it's like just get out of the way and let it's up to you it's up to you do it yeah i'm gonna close that Like you fucking get on with it.

12:23And if you don't get on with it, it's your fault. Exactly. And it means you were never going to get on with it because you're a bad, lazy sicko. And you're not ever at the whims of bigger forces than yourself. No. Yeah. You know. She's a big, she's big into that Ayn Rand book. Yeah, of course. Atlas Shrugged, I think. She's written quite a few. The libertarian, like the Bible. That's like, yeah, ultra libertarian, which is basically just no state whatsoever. Nah, get out of the way. Yeah. Like no traffic lights. You work it out. Yeah. Seatbelts, nah. Motorway. Do you know what? We're not even going to put an arrow saying you're driving this way.

12:54You guys work it out between you. Build your own roads. Why not? Yeah. If you need them. Why do you need the States? If you need a road, where are you going? We'll build the road as you drive. Where are we putting our bins? I don't know. Fuck it. Just throw rubbish in your neighbours. Let him deal with it. It's his fault if he's got a garden full of rubbish. It's his moral veiling. So, for example, this is how religious, her religion kind of falters in her youth. She calculates that for angels to be able to fly, they would need a six foot breastbone. to support their wings. So she's a killjoy quite early on, I guess.

13:27I know it's all. Yes, I think she does become head girl of us. Chronic migraine is 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more. Botox, onabotulinum toxin A, prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they start. It's not for those with 14 or fewer headache days a month. It prevents on average eight to nine headache days a month versus six to seven for placebo. Prescription Botox is injected by your doctor. Effects of Botox may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. Allerge your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be signs of a life-threatening condition.

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15:40Do you? Yeah. i'm not getting that no yeah she was she's into some absolute filth you know she is look at it look at that fucking knowing smile absolute minx really i'm trying to work love oh look at her there look at christ chowing down the snake fucking hell so that's muriel thatcher older sister i'm at work can we stop showing pornography please now muriel thatcher had a jewish pen pal in vienna who escaped austria after the anchless now i don't know why you did why you know again we are it's a great policy angeles makes perfect sense of all hitler's policies that was the one to keep potentially it's maybe the fact she's jewish maybe i don't know but that's not the point the point is is that germany it's irrelevant she's jewish yes at this point it's irrelevant germany and austria are the same country okay yeah they the angeles i don't know why you're leaving after the angeles yeah i'm sure yeah he hasn't done anything yet angeles makes sense anyway so the Roberts family take her in and hearing about the treatment of the pen pals family by the Nazis Thatcher becomes vocally anti-Nazi so you know I get off the Thatcher train quite early actually you know she's not all good is what you're saying I think people are like oh what she did in the 80s what she did in the 30s was unconscionable you know she reportedly shouts at a man in her local chippy for complimenting Hitler you want to meet the man can i shake your hand can i can i can i put sorry can i just pay for his fish supper how do you can chip for me and get yourself one as well the gentleman at the back's paid for this

17:18i'll get those it's so funny to send to send someone some greasy chips across a bar that's not me what's interesting about thatcher's dad though is that he was a so he's a member of the rotary club he's a big part of the community right and he's taken a refugee in he's actually got quite in some ways progressive liberal politics well another big thing about methodism is is like social justice yeah but thatcher almost doesn't see that because it's all about the moral failure is up to you yeah and if you you should do it oh so brilliant i'm not helping with that but yeah yeah but but i think her dad is obviously uh much more into the social but it's interesting how he seems to be like quite altruistic yeah as a father and she looks like and also thatcher let's if we're going more into psychoanalysis the biggest daddy's girl in the world right she can't she can't stand her mom yeah because you can define people with what relationship they have which one's the the parent they're more defined by you know and she's so clearly yeah one of those women who loves the dad she said that after the age 15 she had nothing to say to her mother okay i mean that's fair enough yeah you've run out of things well i'm mummy so there's not enough room for two moments what on earth do we have to talk about now?

18:28Get out and fuck off. I'm done now. What should we have run out of things to say to my mum? That's not the point. Yeah. There's only so many things you say to say to your mum. Yeah. That's not how your relationship with your mum works. Milk. Wipe my ass. What are you still doing here? Fuck off. Fuck off. I'm done now. But she added it. She did a keen interest in science. And she accidentally created chlorine gas and gassed the science block while she was at Grantham girls school. In 1943, she attends the University of Oxford to study chemistry. She graduates with second class honours. She applied to work in imperial chemical industries, but was rejected after the recruiters found her to be, quote, headstrong, obstinate, and dangerously self-opinionated.

19:13I mean, in the 40s, having a woman like that. Dangerously self-opinionated. In the 49s, she was named as the Tory candidate for the Labour safe seat, Dartford. Now, during this time, she meets one of the great characters of the series, Dennis Thatcher. right margaret was like his woke puppet in a way that was the acceptable face of the marriage right well what's so funny yeah is that thatcher is the you know dennis thatcher is his opinions are like backbench stuff yeah and when you see how extreme margaret is yeah you're like okay dennis rain it rain it she's coming back home and to dennis yeah basically doubling down they had to not he was only allowed to smile and like nod yes he's a sweet man because he had he was pro uh whites in Rhodesia.

19:53He was pro-Apartheid. He, at one point in the 80s during an election campaign, she gets questioned a lot about the Falklands. Yeah. And he then says that we were stitched up by BBC puffs and trots. So he's addicted to being on the right side of history. Yeah. Yeah. BBC puffs and trots. Puffs and trots. To be fair. I mean, that's how you describe it. That's how I describe it. Full of puffs and trots. Puffs and trots. There's trots guy puffs at the beep.

20:22She describes Dennis as, quote, not a very attractive creature, but very reserved. Dennis was a divorcee, and she falls out with her dad over her love for him. Because of the divorcee thing. I guess so. I don't really know. Maybe also because Dennis was probably quite a salty dinner conversationalist. These are Africans. What are they doing? I've been to this. So you've got a Jew in your attic, right? So in the 50s, Thatcher was working for Jay Lyons & Co., which is a confectionery thing. and there's a big myth there's an urban myth that she basically made soft serve ice cream Mr Whippy but it's interesting how potentially it was done by leftists to get her but it sounds it seems like a compliment that she'd come up with something that long lasting the whole idea was basically that it's taking putting air into actual ice cream and making it more profitable I mean leftist jokes aren't that funny are they because you made the quality of the ice cream less just like you've done with the trains bunch of trotskis puffs say that again you trotskis puff that's what dennis is saying let's check in with whatever dennis is saying throughout the series um now uh she she enters politics in sort of the 50s in 1953 she gives birth to twins carol and mark obviously she's already got a pair of puppies up top they are born prematurely and we will discuss uh what dennis does during the birth on the Patreon when we talk about Thatcher's children.

21:48But she decides to not run in the 55 election because she just had the kids. In 59, she runs for candidacy in Finchley and she wins. So she's in the House of Commons in the 50s. She's in. She's in. The floodgates are open now. From this point on, it's just women everywhere. Yeah, how many women are in the House of Commons at this point? In the 50s. In 59. Let's have a look. I think Attlee got a couple of birds in. Let the dog see the rabbit. There were 25 women MPs out of... So 4%. 4%. And what is it now, Charlie? I don't even want to see. I don't even. We've gone 40. Christ. Tenfold. Tenfold.

22:26Dangerous. The West has fallen. Now, in 1961, she goes against the Tory government of the day to vote in favour of restoring Birching as corporal punishment. Caning. Birchers. Not Birchers, Birching. Thank you, Charlie. She definitely was not restoring Birchers. Now, Macmillan promotes her to the front bench as Secretary of the Ministry of Pensions. It makes sense. That she's on the bench. That she's on the bench. Christ. It makes sense that Macmillan, you know, the first cuck prime minister, elects a strong woman. He loves it. He loves it. That's his mortal failing, right? It's his love of strong women who wear strap-ons.

23:04Exactly. She's the first woman in history to hold the post. 66, she's promoted to the Shadow Treasury team. now 68 uh she draws criticism for her response to enoch powell's um rivers of blood speech where she basically says the type of faming with much blood which she basically says i agree with the sentiment but he used his poor choice of words uh which is not the criticism i think you're meant to make no i don't think so yeah you're meant to say what a beautifully articulated bad idea because he actually articulated very well yeah to be honest yeah it's poetry it's undeniably well written it's just very racist poetry he shouldn't be like yeah i just think he could have ordered i would have said i reckon you could be a bit more blunt you know i didn't really understand what you meant but i i don't so throughout the whole her whole career accusations of racism kind of dog her yes now in 1970 thatcher becomes education secretary in edward heath the goat government and this position was seen as a quote safe department for a woman to run yeah uh heath would only have one woman in the cabinet of course no one hates women more than heath heath is the goat he doesn't see women what are you who's around the cabinet table right the first thing we need to actually get someone to be education secretary yeah and he's yeah and he's like everyone's like well margaret's there he's like there's an empty there's an empty chair next to the energy where's our secretary she supports the continued running of grammar schools which was a big thing at this point.

24:32And this is where we get her first nickname. She's a woman of many nicknames. Well, grammar schools are very Thatcher, right? Because they sort of pull yourself up by your brain straps. By your what? By your brain straps. Yeah, pull yourself up by your brain. Margaret Thatcher, as Education Secretary, she abolishes free school milk for children aged 7 to 11, brackets, except in case of disability. Well, how far is the disability going? I don't think it's ADHD. Right. Nowadays, obviously, everyone's got milk. a bloated state now everyone's got milk can we just see what were the parameters of disability to still get milk and Thatcher I want to know is Thatcher taking milk away from quadriplegic I mean this is a big, this is her first big controversy with the nation right she breaks through everyone hates her for this, I think the image of having the most powerful woman in the country at the time right, she's the only cabinet the imagery of her taking milk away it's so far removed from what a woman should be doing yes which is giving milk it's attendance at a special school yep so you would have been fine yep yep and you still get milk we give you milk every record i love milk yeah but we don't pay him though no i get paid in milk you get paid in whole milk you need a certificate you need to go to a special school so it's basically like she is in she's kind of the opposite of marcus rashford yeah she's get those kids off the milk but it was a huge backlash thatcher thatcher the milk snatcher that was the the big and it's very you know it's um people would say it's a misogynist there's a huge element of that though yeah in the same way that people go it's just not how anyone had viewed women before no getting into power to take milk away it's just so there's something so like almost freudian about you can't be throughout our whole career i think thatcher symbolically represents so much there's there's a weird sexual tension between her and scargill i feel oh yeah there's just the fact that a woman's doing this to like traditionally masculine parts of the country I'm sorry, you can't be that fit walking around with those airbags and taking milk away.

26:32Is it airbags? People call them fun bags, what do you mean? Whatever, whatever they are. Airbags. Yeah, because I want to just slam my head into it. I want to slam on the brakes and just poof. I want to get a big powdery face. I want to hit a lamppost and smash my face into Thatcher's airbags. And you can quote me on that. I'll stand by that, your honour. so she gets called Thatcher the milk snatcher and it's a huge like the press go mad with it for weeks and it almost makes her sorry I'm choking up almost makes her almost makes her really important turning into Jordan Peterson it's just a tragedy sorry of all the series we've done these young men of all the series we've done this is the one I want this is the one I don't I care the most about yeah of course almost think we shouldn't really be making fun of it it's mummy it's mother mother dearest the public backlash almost made her leave politics and she says this is crucial this is kind of her origin myth she learns a valuable lesson quote i had incurred the maximum of political odium for the minimum of political benefit okay but basically that's how people spoke about that basically means fuck it yeah uh she becomes entrenched but what i think is interesting is that the way that the left deal with people on the right who they don't like is attacking them so much and trying to destroy their character but a lot of time that entrenches them right that would jk rowling right yes they could put a head above the parapet the left made such an attack on her that she became mentaler and mentaler yeah and i think a lot of people think if you just keep trying to attack someone it will wear them down but a lot of the time these type of people it just entrenches them and makes them what go way more radical and she's now she seems to thrive in uh in a conflict yes so she's constantly looking for an enemy to have conflict with now 1975 thatcher beats heath for the tory leadership which uh forces him to go on the longest sulk in history which we talked about on our in our heath episode yeah we should place this really shouldn't we should we place her becoming leader 75 25 so 1975 this is um it's before the berlin wall uh falls down and it is after the bottom walls put up fine no lovely stuff let's get on with it um that's a that's a great placing it's bang in the middle bang in the middle take all the fun out of the game we've got too much history to cover the the burly it's halfway through the burly maul's life um i wonder if that was powder jelly invented i wonder if that woman has married the burly wall yeah you know there's a woman who married the burly wall i didn't know that uh there's a woman who married yeah are they still together i think she's lost her husband 1979 just before okay just before she married the burden wall anyway so uh she beats uh she beats heath now she's supported mainly by right-wing tories and southern english members yeah she becomes the opposition during wilson uh wilson's second term uh you can hear our take on that in our episode of course stop pegging granddad which is kind of that that's the gist of it yeah So she's one of the few conservative MPs who vote in favour of decriminalising homosexuality in 1966.

29:40Which people thought was woke. But you're looking back at it, you're like, oh. Yeah. But... She comes back with a vengeance in the 80s. But she's actually trying to do it. She still thinks it's a moral sin. Yes. So she's not doing it from like a woke angle. I think she's doing it just as a practicality. Oh, so she wants to decriminalise homosexuality because they don't need prison. So they can send to the doctors. They need to go to the doctors to get conversion therapy. Right, right, right. So yeah, even though she... Yeah. she does it in the least woke way possible it's that thing where whenever you ask someone the second question you go oh right okay yeah I don't think they should be banged up oh that's why you can't just look at voting records you just have to dig a little deeper because they don't need prison because they'd love that because they'll just fuck everyone they need actual they need therapy every time oh drop the soap again no slippery hands these guys anyway we'll talk more about section 28 obviously when we get to it she legalizes abortion she bans hair coursing she likes to retain capital punishment um she's against scottish devolution yeah now in 1976 she gives a speech called brisson awake warning of socialism and communism because she fucking hates the commies yeah i mean this is the height of the cold war yeah yeah this is the height of the cold war she claims the ussr is bent on world domination she calls on prison to wake from a long sleep of state socialism mummy is trying to shake us awake from our big nap yeah wake us up we've Got school in the morning.

31:00Daddy's a socialist and she hates dad. Hit a gong. We had a gong at the bottom of our stairs that my mum would hit because I was in the attic. Hit the gong to get me up. Or children of divorce, you'll know the way that your mother will talk about your father. She gets a couple of glasses down her. Oh, I lost years to that man. That's what she's saying about Attlee, right? And his socialism, you know? And then what's his dad saying about, what's Attlee saying about Thatcher? Well, this, Attlee, because he's a cuck dad, is constantly trying to see both sides of the story right and this is why he's getting fucked yeah you know uh so she calls on britain to wake up and in response uh i think it's a soviet uh newspaper report that calls her the iron lady trying to slack her off yeah and it's like that's one of the worst ever it's badass yeah and it sticks slaps this before she even made it to power she gets called the iron lady she's in opposition yeah so if you're if you're at this point what is it callaghan yeah or wilson yeah and she called her the ironing lady that would have that would have been a lot more damaging.

31:57Maybe it was Chinese whispers. That lady needs for ironing. What is it, Charlie? So if she's the iron lady, I could be like the lead boy and you can be... You're the lead poisoning boy. You've got lead poisoning. And you're the aluminium man. Is this the... Uncle Zinc. I'm Teflon. Uncle Zinc. Uncle Zinc. Do you want to explain that? No, I can't explain it. You're meant to take Zinc, isn't it? It's good for... It stops getting cold. Uncle Zinc. Friendly Uncle Zinc. He's always there. He's always there for you. he's always there Uncle Zink so we get to the winter of discontent which we covered again I shouldn't have to keep reminding you there is 10 hours of painful almost like like a sort of defensive snooker match of a series that you can listen to but the winter of discontent labour strikes grave diggers on strike corpses rotting grave digger what grave digger please no not having any of that he's not having any of that.

32:58These grave diggers be tripping. Yeah? No, he's not having it. He's got all red. In 79... Is that about shagging dead people? Sorry? No. It's implying the N-word, Charlie. Lead poisoning boy. Shagging dead people. Savile at this time is shagging dead people. That's a very good point. What's Savile up to in 79? During the grave digger crisis. Uh-oh. Not crisis for Jimmy. No. Christmas came early for Jimmy. Otherwise, winter of discontent. I thought it was Savile's Christmas. Oh, you can't leave him out like that. Oh, what if you're going to leave? You're going to finish that? Fucking hell. And we're going to fuck that?

33:39And we're going to fuck that? I'm only human. I'm just flesh and blood. These guys aren't me. I'm only a pedo. What's Savile doing in 79, Charlie? He's up to no good, I reckon. Sure. No, not Jimmy. No, no, no. He's a knight of the realm. Yeah, he's a, yeah. The charity work. Simultaneously. under an extensive prolific and widespread for his prolific widespread sexual abuse. Right. Allegedly. Yeah. We must say that. Jim will fix it starts in 75. We don't want to get it round that, you know, because we don't know if he did any of that stuff, right? We can't know. All we'll say is that the rumours about Sir James Savile begin.

34:15Anyway. I just don't believe that this guy could have done any of that. Look at him. Look at him. There's no way that that guy did any of that stuff. No, come on. He's a charity worker. He's a knight of the realm. He's like a friendly granddad. Why has he got such a regal haircut if he's a super nice? Are you telling me this guy's a paedophile? No. You're having a laugh. Look, his eyes are perfectly normally close together. He's got a very lovely endearing smile. He dresses like, he doesn't dress like a paedophile at all. No, no. He dresses like a cartoon of an upstanding citizen. Anyway, I reckon he had an absolute field day during the winter discontent.

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