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Views from the Sea #7 - Midterm Meltdown/ The Skinny/ Oasis Tribute Acts 2/ DRUGS/ Ed Sheeran/ TV Licensing/ Best Kebab & Air Traffic Control / JD Vance end times · You Call That Radio?

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  Speaker A: Happy Bonfire Night. Happy midterms day. Happy views from the sea. It's just after midnight on the 5th of November 2026 and this is Views from the Sea on. You call that radio? I'm very tired. It's been a long day. Didn't get much sleep because I was up when watching Republican tears all night and feeling quite positive that it might be the start of the end of fascist regimes in the usa. And that should have a knock on effect for Prexlet Farage. And you know, hope never lasts long. Well, let's just cling on to the hope for a little bit longer. This views from the Sea. I should have put this a couple weeks ago, but I'm glad, I'm glad that I get to share this moment with you. Trump had a shocker. The Republicans are greeting and the far right in the UK are crying too. It's just. It's just. It feels like quite a positive day. And yeah, we've had quite a lot going on. You call that radio in the real world? We've had quite a lot going on. We had the Apocalypse Theories album launch that we were happy to host and the Merrill Folk album launch as well. They were only a week apart. I recommend you check out both albums, Merrill Folk and Apocalypse Theaters. Great albums. One's alternative folk, one's alternative hip hop. Both former band members of myself and I'm not being biased, they're really good. So I hope you enjoy and check out those albums. I haven't been back home for about 10, 12 days or something because there was a storm in the middle. Storm Boleo, was it? Storm Boleo. I haven't seen it written down, but it meant that all travel was cancelled for me and then by the time it was fixed, there was no point in going home. So I've been a city dweller for a wee while. But I'm back. I'm back on the ale of Invercethki, the beautiful isle of Inverkithcay. But we've had quite a busy month with the. The podcast and stuff we've had. I had an interview with Attila the Stockbroker that you can. I think that's the previous episode. You can check that out. And I'll be doing a gig with Tilla, the stock broker in Rossi on 14 November alongside Callum Baird and the Craigmore Bowling Club. It's a matinee gig and then in the evening we'll be taking it to the anchor for Dr. Normal and Malky Stevenson. So hope you Guys, make it along to that if you fancy a wee day off the mainland. And before that, I spoke to Granny Annie and spoke to Jody Arc and I spoke to the Paisley School of Rock. You can find them all in the previous episodes on. You call that radio's audio podcast, which is what I'm speaking to you on just now. Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting the show. @patreon.com youcallthatradio Today, we're going to be discussing a few different things. We'll be discussing the. The skinny newspaper and other walled gardens of Scottish music, the return of Oasis tribute acts, the Scottish drug deaths, the Ed Sheeran scandal. That's a wee since a wee bit out of date now, doesn't it? But I haven't put it on. I've used it. TV licensing guys, air traffic control and best kebab protest. And a new drug craze sweeping the nation as well. And we might even finish with a new Jackal Trades tune. There's two new Jackal Trades tunes. One was a single, AIs with Kieran Mack and Ligo Rip, which is called Much Room. And another one which is with Apocalypse Theorists. It's the intro to their album called Proper Prepper. And I'm proud of them both. What I'm less proud about is the song I'm about to play, you know, which I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna freestyle a song about the midterm meltdowns. So I hope you enjoy it. If not, it only lasts two minutes. You go make a cup of tea or fast forward two minutes because this is, I'm going to try, called the midterm meltdown. Welcome to the mid term meltdown. God has walked. She woke up today, became a jihadist, turned America gay. The reflecting pool on reflection is all gay with all gay. And Al Gore is gay too, obviously. Ronald Reagan is dead gay. Hey, everybody speaks Arabic now in the US of A. Everyone's a Marxist communist. Snowflake. Donald Trump is trans now. Pronouns cunt and they. And the president is training for the Olympics. The first female dressing room Trump entered with permission. Elon Musk, the racist astronaut has a new space mission to plant an LGBT flag on the moon before his transition. The Republicans are Muslim and the borders are open. The Epstein files are leaked and the billionaires are broken. The price at the pump is pump lit. The polls red turning blue and the reddish strangle holes. Look what you've done. Joe Rogan is crying. Ice has melted into ISIS and the manosphere is dying. Bella
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  Speaker B: Joe,
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  Speaker A: Iran is laughing and Russia's phone is off. Baby and Israel were gonna have to buy more bots. The President posts. He knows the difference on a graph. The difference between a dog and a fucking giraffe. Jail the bastards and fly the flag half mast. Shove the tariffs on your war crimes up your ass before he's saying, I know the Democrats are shy too. I know the Democrats are shy too. I know the Democrats are shy too. What about Joe Biden? He shite too. What about Kamala Harris? She shite too. They're all shite. Bess is funny. Fuck it is funny. Funny. I woke up today and something felt different. And I bet you can feel it too. Something's different. Something's changed today. Was it the full moon last night? No. Is it summer turning into autumn? No. It happens every year. It's the energy of 5000 different shite oasis tribute acts, all getting the band back together this weekend to do it all again. My favorite genre of music right now is a shite Oasis tribute band. I don't want a good Oasis tribute band. If I wanted the good Oasis tribute band, I would spend 300 quid and go and watch it Celtic park, but I wouldn't spend that money. I would take a guess, but when you spend that, Ticketmaster have it. Nobody's going to see Champagne Supernova at Celtic Park. Nobody. Not one of yous anyway. Not me, not you. So just accept that and settle. Settle for the best. Which is the worst? You want a guy who works in accounts, who genuinely believes he is Liam Gallagher, but he's no. He's no Liam Gallagher, but he thinks he is, but he's shy. That's what you want. And you want a straight Oasis tribute banned. And I envy the fun that these guys are having. These are grown men cosplaying as Liam Gallagher and they are having the time of the life, the adrenaline, the money. You don't need to waste your time writing songs or even rehearsing because everybody knows there's in the band. If you join in a waist distributed band, you already know the songs. So you don't need to rehearse, you don't need to write. You just go straight onto a sold out crowd and you get paid for it. You actually make money for it. But the problem is this is always a catch with these things. If you do something, you really love this fun. Like I would like to start a shade away Distribute band. And I promise you I would be shy. I would never practice, I would never rehearse, I would just Turn up, sell it, sold it and be shite and have fun. But what the reason I. The reason I can't do it. Or I might not do it. I might do it. But I know what would happen. I would have so much fun. I would get paid. I would just be buzzing the crowd would be singing every word. I would want to date again and then I would accidentally start getting good at it, probably. And then you're in an average Oasis tribute band and that's mortifying. It's embarrassing. Either need to be good or shite. You can't be in the middle. So I think I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it Shite night. I will do an Oasis tribute. But anyone enjoy my waste, distribute band, give me a shout. Well, no rehearsing. We're just going to turn up, we're going to do it. We're going to be shaped, we're going to sell it. And then we retire. We retire forever. You call that Radio Skinny Music newspaper and how it died last a couple weeks ago, but now it's been saved and why it's going to sort of split people. It's divided opinion in the music industry. Some people were against the Skinny, some people are for the Skinny. So I'm just going to explain why that is. And I mean, I don't want to both sides. I don't want to edge shearing the Skinny situation.
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  Speaker C: You can Edge Shearing the Skinny situation.
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  Speaker A: You can. You can actually
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  Speaker D: Glasgow Central High Level.
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  Speaker A: You can. We're going to edge Sheeran the Skinny situation. To all the artists out there. I know what it's like to be ignored by the Skinny for decades. To all the Skinny journalists. I know what it's like to be hated because of ignored cunts. And that's the thing. The Skinny never ever mentioned me. I would submit all my albums. I think I've roasted about 10 albums in 18 years. I've performed that or organized well over a thousand, maybe two thousand shows in that time. Skinny never mentioned anything I've done. Once more, I say that they actually did call me a paranoid uncle or something once, and I think they said that it was memorable but amateurish. So obviously I was fine with the criticism. Absolutely fine with. So I don't feel bad about being critical of the Skinny. I'm glad the skin is not dead. I'm glad it has been saved. But hopefully some of this feedback can be taken on board. You know, Dan McGarvey says good riddance because it did not mention the. The drug Epidemic of Scotland, despite being an independent cultural magazine that did take on politics and did talk about the drug scene. What is the elephant graveyard? Talks about the
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  Speaker E: walled garden. Walled garden, Walled garden.
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  Speaker A: The walled garden. So if you're a musician, either if you're just starting out, or maybe you're an older musician who's just been ignored the whole time, it feels like there's this walled garden and that may be the skinny, that may be Radio Scotland. It could be sex music, it could be music magazines, it could be getting creative Scotland funding, even though you didn't apply yourself. You didn't apply yourself. But it always feels like there's this kind of sort of secret, hidden Illuminati making decisions and supporting things either that you've not heard of or you have no interest in. So for me that was the case. So I just created my own thing and just thought, right, I would send in my album for review. Never got a reply. But at the end of the day, just go on, mate. Realized that either they probably just thought it was shite and then you start to imagine you might be in some imaginary blacklist. I see imaginary. I might be on a blacklist. So it could be that you're shape, it could be that you're shy, it could be that they don't care, they don't listen. Or it could just be being overwhelmed because now that I've built my own we thing, because that's all you can do when you're just feel what you're constantly being ignored from the Illuminati behind the walled garden. Then you start to build your own walled garden. And before you know it, you're getting emails all the time with new music people wanting to come onto your podcast and chat. And if you don't respond quick enough, then they think that they're being excluded from the walled garden. Now, a lot of this stuff, this is why I've got a bit of sympathy for the skinny. Yeah, I've got sympathy for the skinny. How many submissions do you think they get? I know I get 10 or 20 some days new bands I've never heard. So it's a lot of time and effort to do that. 90% of what I do is free of charge. I help friends for free. The only income from you call that radio is the patrons who choose to generously support what it is that I do and that's their choice. And that's why I don't have any adverts on YouTube. There might be one advert at the start of YouTube. There could be one advert at the start of YouTube. And that's because they do that anyway. Whether I claim it or not, it's a right, I claim it. But there is no advertising on the YouTube channel or on the audio podcast. And it's. It's a struggle to make a living doing this when 90% of your hours is working for free. And nobody, really nobody, everyone expects you to work for free because it's something that you love. And that's what I think's going on here. If you're getting paid for the Skinny, you are going to write about things that excite you, things that you like. And if you're from a middle class background, you're already ready going to know people in the arts and in the music scenes and you're going invariably, like a moth to light bulb, go to these sort of middle class gatherings and you probably meet people that you like, you hear music that you like. So of course they're going to write about it. So it's not always the. It's not always as simple as the walled garden and there's a big clique going on sometimes it's just that people are writing about what they like and they happen to have been invited to these things early on. And then you write about something that you like or you promote something that you like and then you meet them in real life and it turns out you've got a lot in common and you become friends after the fact. That therefore it's an accidental click. Still a click, but an accidental click. A walled garden has started to be. There's a. The walled garden is building. There is not enough time or space in the day to write and play everything. So you're only going to listen to things that have been recommended to you by a curator or a close friend or family member. That's maybe where the Skinnies went wrong. I don't know the percentage of volunteers to paid people that work with the Skinny, but if you're getting. The reason you write about what you love is because otherwise, if you don't write about what you love, it starts to feel like a real job. If you're getting a salary, you should write about things that you don't necessarily like. You should write about things that you don't understand. I feel like a lot of working class artists have been overlooked in this publication and the music industry at large. And that's before we get at the whole Scottish thing, you know, let's not even think about how criminally overlooked all our culture is down south. It's good. I can't take any joy in any publication or any radio show being axed. I don't care. I never get played. I never get talked a bit. But I'll take no joy in any more jobs going because it seems like the industry's on its ass. There is no more music. Journalism is dying. Radio is dying. Podcasts are oversaturated. AI is coming in. We need to preserve our culture. And that means checking out bands with 12 listeners. I don't check how many listeners people have got before an interview. Someone. I've done over a thousand interviews and you call out radio. I don't get. I don't care. I want to know, is this music good? Does it make me feel something? Or do I think I could have a good conversation with this person? Hopefully both. Hopefully both. Would they work on a festival that I'm curating? Hopefully that as well. It's harder for working class artists. Nobody told us you could apply for funding. That's for the others. But if you go to a good school and you're surrounded by artists whose parents were artists, then you know all about the funding. We didn't get to a little bit funding. We just basically got a careers day with the army or a slaughterhouse factory. I'm not from the city. And when you're not from the city, that comes with his own disadvantages. It amazes me how many brilliant bands, how many incredible artists just get ignored. Unless you've got a manager or a radio plugger or somebody within the walled garden who's singing your praises, you've not got much chance. Or do you? Because there is success stories where people actually make it and do very well without the help of anyone within the walled garden. And when that happens, it's a bit earth look. And then people from within the walled garden will eventually come and pick you up. They'll start singing your praises once you've already made it. And the same way the record labels these days, they will sign you as soon as you've proved that you can do it on your own. The only time the Skinnies wrote anything positive about me was when interviewed Steve Mason from the Beta Band. And he said that he said nice things about us. Apart from that my bands were never ever mentioned in 18 years. Thousands of shows. And I'm not better because I get it. And even that one review where they slagged at me, I get it. I'm from the generation that read the nme. I find it quite funny. I find it quite funny when you get Slagged. But now, because I'm on the other side, I completely understand. There's not enough hours in the day. There is too many musicians and there is too many artists and how you're supposed to cover everybody. But we've now got a situation where it's going to just be rich kids and AI and what a bland future that will be. The way that the hip hop scene has been overlooked in Scotland as a disgrace. And that's one example. And at the time it's quite disheartening. It makes you feel. It makes you feel a bit of. And it's. I think that's why that sticks. And that's where a lot of the rage against the skinny is coming from. The rage is coming from. Bands are just sick of being ignored from within the walled garden. And now, having created my own mini version of a walled garden, I'm now getting people telling me that I'm ignoring them, I'm ignoring their emails. I've been blocked by people just because I didn't respond quick enough. You know, somebody's messaged me saying, can I come on your podcast? And because I didn't respond quick enough, they blocked me because they see the fact that I didn't respond quick enough as a sign that I hated them. I've been blocked by bands who are raging because I didn't book them for a festival slot. And it's just. It's not. I'm sure that in the cold light of day, they probably regret it and probably go, that was a wee bit over the top reaction for me, but I understand it because it's a straw that breaks the camel's back. You submit to every magazine, you submit to every radio show and nobody ever replies. And now we've got AI Music with the automated managers spamming people daily, then it's going to be even harder to stand it. So musicians, don't be disheartened. People want imperfect, imperfect music made with real soul and real heart. People who have struggled, people that have got a new way to look at the world. AI is just combining all the thoughts of the past. So stick to your guns. You can still make something unique, something that matters. The robots can't. And just do it, just do it off your own back, you know, Success is an eye of the beholder. It kind of worked. It kind of didn't. He does it matter? I wrote music because it was therapy. I wrote lyrics because it was therapeutic. I made songs because it was fun. We recorded them because it was interesting and we played them Live, because why the not? It was an experience. And if you're doing music for the right reasons, then you can just stick your fingers up to the Skinny. You can stick your fingers up to BBC, you can stick your fingers up to. You call that radio? Because at the end of the day, does it really fucking matter? Does it make a big difference? It's just nice to validate your existence from time to time. It's nice that somebody else validates your existence from time to time. We got that when Steve with Steve Mason. We got that when Alabama 3 shouted us out in the Evening Times. We got that when Paul Heaton shouted us out on. On sex music. And it's nice to get some of these little small victories on the way, but just do the hang because you want to do the hang. Do it because it's fun. But it's getting expensive to have fun. That's the problem in it. It's getting too expensive to have fun with music. So in conclusion, understand, understand why a lot of yous were glad that the Skinny was dead. And some of you are pissed off that it's no deed. I understand why a lot of you say the Skinny, but at the same time, I understand how important it is for the Skinny to survive. I think the Skinny can do a better job, but I understand how they've ended up in the little echo chamber. And I'll leave you with a thought. Have you ever actually peered into one of these walled gardens? When you do, the people within are frustratingly nice and disconcerting. Me, normal and average. It's annoying. Groucho Marx once said, I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. So don't celebrate the death of a wee club. Make your own wee club. And don't let them in if you don't want. Today's question for the comments is, would you rather have a bad review or be ignored? That's just to prove that you watched it to the end. And. And finally, independent journalism is at the behest of big tech fascists, fast food adverts, or government funding. And it's hard to have independent cultural journalism that can be critical of anything within those three options. So please consider supporting your call that radio's patron. We speak up on current affairs, underground music, and run events without walls. No adverts, no boss, no rules. Oh, I hate flying, man. And the worst bit is getting ready to take off. But I hear it. I hate it.
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  Speaker F: This is your pilot speaking. Sorry to announce that due to issues with traffic control, your flight has been delayed by nine hours. You cannot leave the plane. There will be no refreshments available and you cannot go to the toilet for health and safety reasons. Please remain seated with your seat belt fascinate. Stay calm, patient and don't blame Benjamin Netanyahu. Thank you for not flying with Ryanair.
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  Speaker A: Nine hours. Don't blame Benjamin. Oh, no, no, no, no. I can't do nine hours and no moving. No, no, no. Can I leave the plane? No, sorry, you've already boarded. It's against the rules. Oh man, I need to get chucked off. I can't handle this. I can't handle this. A fire extinguisher. Push that red button that you know what you press. Okay, done. Terrorism or something. I know. I will vape and I will vape and I will vape again. I will vape myself to the freedom of a police cell. Well, this is much better. No ideal, but better. Better than being in a reiner flight for niners. I think I've got 28 days here. What are you in for? I'm 94 years old and I have been jailed for five years for holding up a piece of cardboard. It's harsh. What you in here for? I got jailed for one night for protesting outside Best Kebab. The kebab shop. What are you protesting a kebab shop for? To protect our boulders and our women and that for Nigel. I'm surprised the kebab shop's still going. It's not. It's not the best. It's not the best. I don't think I'd protest outside the kebab shop, but. I'm in the jail for having a vape. You're in a jail for protesting a kebab shop and you're in the the jail for having a cardboard sign against genocide. We're all in the same boat. Stop the boats. Chat. I know I am very late to the Ed Sheeran saga. I was away and I don't like regurgitating the same talking points like every other channel and every other podcast, but actually do have something that nobody has thought about yet. Not once has anyone brought this up. Picture the scene. It's 2006. Ed Sheeran starting to take off. He was depending on who you ask, collaborating with the grime scene in London or was he ripping them off? We'll get to that later on. But I was living in a council estate with very thin walls and there was a guy next door to me. Can't remember his name. Lets just call him Ed for the sake of this conversation. And every day I would hear him play his music. All day, every day, he would play his music. And you know what that music was? It was a song called Better Off Alone by DJ Alice. It can have endless. You think you're better off alone. You think you're better off alone. You may have heard it. You sometimes still hear it. I heard it recently in a pub, and I immediately had to leave the pub for fresh air and ask myself, how is Ed doing now? I wonder what happened to that guy and why he felt the need to play DJ Alice. Better off alone, all day, every day. He ended up decapitating a goldfish. That's the last I heard from Ed. He was nothing to do with Ed Sheeran. The point is, that song got played so many times. That affects me, affects me, my physiology. I get a shudder when I hear that song. I have to immediately escape the venue, get fresh air and wonder what happened to that guy. And there's only one other song in the world that does that for me. Fast forward to Mexico 2023. I'm working, but there's a. It's an apartment block and there's a kind of bar area downstairs, and I'm working my laptop free. Call that radio. And every day from about 9am to 5pm, 6pm, I would hear. If you're not familiar, because I wasn't familiar. I didn't know what that was at that point. I just knew. I didn't like was on all the time. I used Shazam. I found out that the song is called Shape of youf by Ed Sheeran. Yes, that same Ed Sheeran. Not the one that decapitated the goldfish that lived next door to me, that played Better Off Alone, but the Ed Sheeran that is became the spineless coward Ed Sheeran, one of the most popular artists in the world. Most of the stream, most streamed songs in the world come from Ed Sheeran. And I successfully avoided most of his music. I knew it wasn't for me, it wasn't aimed at me. But I do find it hard to trust people that make such bad music so consistently. I've also made bad music consistently. Some people like it, some people don't. But when you're making bad music consistently and selling out stadiums, it makes you question, what have they done? Because I know some of the bad things that people done to sell a thousand tickets, never mind 60,000 tickets a night anywhere in the world. Music that's objectively bad, but music that is filtered through the radio on the hour, every fucking hour. When you walk through the supermarket is there. Even if you don't know it's there, it's always there. What has happened here? As this guy has tried his whole career to play it safe, play music for the mainstream. The children, the stupid parents. Sorry if there's any fancier, He's done something bad. Something bad has happened to him, one or the other. So I never really fell for the nice guy act. He wasn't doing me any harm. It's not like I was walking about going, I hate Ed Sheeran. There was no point because in my little bubble he never existed. In the same way that I've never heard a Justin Bieber song. Not knowingly. Not that I'm aware of. But I'm sure Justin Bieber exists. I just don't know. Couldn't name a song. Same with Taylor Swift. I have actually tried to listen to Taylor Swift because lots of my friends tell me that Taylor Swift is actually a good songwriter. I don't personally agree, but once again, I'm not the demographic and different people can like different music is my point. But to be that successful in that bland. Something bad has happened. Something bad's going on underneath the machinery. A billionaire stadium guy says, your support acts, no plane. You're Ed sheeran. You've got 500 million pound in the bank. You have the. Probably one maybe next to Eminem, maybe Taylor Swift. Top five most streamed artists of all time. Right. I've been freestyling this whole thing, but I've just went back to fact check myself just to see we according to the most streamed artists in Spotify. Which isn't. It's not. There's other platforms that are available, but it'll give us a rough vibe. He's actually the six most streamed artists of all time. Number one's Taylor Swift. Two Bad Bunny. Three Drake for the weekend five Ariane A Grande six. Ed Sheeran. Seven. Just a Bieber. Justin Bieber still never had one of those songs. Number eight, Bill Eilish. Number nine, Eminem. Number 10, Can Us. I was just fact checking myself there. According to Spotify, he's the sixth most streamed artist of all time and he's worth over 500 million. This guy has the power to say you. And then the other answer as well. He was going to get all the other billionaire stadium guys. Them too. Just them all play a bunch of smaller arenas. But he didn't. He sacked his pal, dropped him from the show. And then all the other support acts, they walk away because they want absolutely nothing to do with this stuff they lit. No, it's not worth it, Eddie boy, you're better off alone. His own backing band left him, which was even the biggest surprise because I thought he just used a loop pedal. But apparently he's a backing band who are Irish and they did the right thing. Fuck you, Eddie. We're no den it. And now, I don't know. The right wing has natures maybe Boy George will support or you get pop stars that will do anything for money. The idea of playing to everyone and trying to keep everyone happy these days are gone. Now there is genocides happening, there is billionaires trying to turn you against your neighbor. They are paying people to make you hate your neighbor. And it used to be the newspapers and now it's social media influencers, or as they're now calling themselves, anti immigration influencers. You can just play to thousands of people and talk about love, love, stop war, Stop war. And then not take a side. And don't say, don't bring politics into music. Politics is fucking music. I think it's quite good that it's been exposed because all your stadium bands, all your stadium bands don't want anything to do with this. They're all scared that they'll lose even more money. Is there nothing that Israel isn't willing to destroy? And my question is, to people like Ed Sheeran and people at Pink and multimillionaire people is how much money do you actually need? By all means, get yourself a couple of horses, get yourself a nice car, treat your family and friends right. But at what point does it become pure greed? And then there's the fact that the guy, the evil billionaire stadium owner, hid Ed Sheeran playing at his wedding. And this evil billionaire stadium owner, Robert Kraft, as in the Epstein files, remember the Epstein files? Which just makes you wonder, is it nice guy Eddie just randomly get caught in the middle of everything and went, oh, I don't, I don't do politics. I just want to play dong dong dong Dong Dong to 60,000 people every night. I don't want to talk about politics. Even though it has spoken about politics many times in the past, that picture of the Ukraine flag is not looking good. So it's almost like the Ukrainian lives matter more than the lives of the Palestinians and everybody who is suffering from the war games, from the megalomaniacs who are fighting over resources. And that's me done. Over 10 minutes and a one take. I just thought I would just say something about it. And in conclusion, I've still got that fucking better off Alone song in my head. You think you're better off alone. And I think the only way that Ed Sheeran can bring it back is by just starting his stadium tour. No support acts. Ed Sheeran just goes on stage and goes, you think you're better off alone? And then he goes into Don Dong, I'm in love with the shape of you. Done. No encore. Leave the stage saying, fuck you all, no refunds. And he does that in every single tour date. He might. He may get some support back because right now the only support he's got is for people like Tommy Robinson and people on the right who are saying, I never listened to Ed Sheeran's music now, but now I'm going to stream him. I support him 100%. How much hate in your heart do you have for Palestine? How much hate do you have? How much do you love to hate people that you would force yourself to stream in Ed Sheeran all day? Do you think you're better off alone? Play that audio every day instead you call that radio and the interrupt your scheduled doom scrolling on social media with an exclusive from the Daily Record about a new drug craze sweeping the nation. There is a new drug craze sweeping the nation and everyone needs to be on high alert. You join me live from our nation's capital of Edinburgh and we've got some shocking revelations for you today. Cannabis edibles. It appears that as of yesterday, people are eating marijuana. They're putting it in cakes, they're putting it in roasted cheese, they're even putting it in gummies. My God, this new drug craze sounds terrifying. It started yesterday. They started eating marijuana. What the government going to do to save us? Both Westminster and the Scottish government have came together to say this is the worst thing to have ever happened in the country of all time and everyone should be very scared, very fearful because they just won't stop eating marijuana. They're eating the wacky baggy. They're just eating it. They used to smoke it. They used to just smoke it, but now they're eating the cannabis. It's the new drug craze. It started yesterday. Beware, be safe. I'm going to go home to my family. Safe journey home. And thanks for that Daily Record exclusive that people yesterday started a new drug craze of eating Daily Record exclusive yester. Yes, it was a Daily Record exclusive. Thanks for the exclusive. Yappy, yappy. This is J from the CEO. You call it a week. I went to see John Cooper Clark at the Archies 10 years ago. Probably 15 years ago now. And he said something that always stuck with me. He was basically slagging the, the Grange Hill, just saying o anti drug song, you know, late 90s, some of you might remember it. And after, after slagging it for a few minutes, he went. But that's the thing about preventative measures. If it was, you don't know. You don't know. If it wasn't for that Green Chill song, things could be far, far worse. And we have a situation this week where Scotland, the Scottish government just announced the new. The annual figures for drug deaths and it's grim reading. It's up by 11%, which I believe takes the total to 11,000 drug deaths in the last decade, meaning that Scotland is top of, well, the worst. I'm saying we're top of the league is if won something, we are the worst country in Western Europe for drug deaths. And out of those 11,000 people, some of them are my friends and probably some of you watching this will have lost friends and family to this war on drugs that I think we can all agree on. Whatever's happening just now is not working. The war on drugs is not working, has never worked and it will never, ever work. So big changes need to be made. You've got people blaming Westminster, you've got people blaming the Scottish government. And I think both can take the blame for this one. And the first thing is, in my opinion, it needs. Drugs need to be decriminalized for a start. And there needs to be better testing so people know what it is they're taking. And we're not criminalizing people for choosing to put a substance into their body. We're not locking people up or putting a black mark next to their name. How can you rehabilitate people properly when the future opportunities are destroyed because of a possession charge? And a lot of people, they said yes, secondly, the education that that's on, that's on Scotland. I think, I think decriminalization is a Westminster issue. I think the testing issue is a Westminster issue. But I think the Scotland, the Scottish government could fight for that. To make sure that people can test, to make sure they're getting what, what they're track. They're not accidentally taking something or they're not accidentally taking too much of something. That stuff needs sorted out right away. That, that's, that's common sense. Now, obviously, the legalization of drugs, that is too controversial. It will never happen, not in my lifetime. I would maybe have agreed with that more strongly when I was younger, but I think anybody with a brain can agree that decriminalization needs to happen now. Testing kits need to be more widely available and, you know, things like festivals and nightclubs, drug testing should be permitted. And if you take. If possession is decriminalized, then there's some great charities out there that would love to do it. I know that the Loop used to do it down south and then they were banned from doing it. I remember seeing them at Lindis Farm and Boom Town and stuff like that. There is. There is people that can do that job and make sure that people can be safer, Harm reduction, whatever you want to call it. The things that the Scottish government have been criticized for is the consumption rooms. Now, when it comes to hard drugs like crack, heroin, stuff like that, I don't have much experience in that, so I'll let the experts speak in that. I find it quite fascinating that people from different recovery charities have very different opinions on it. On one hand, you've got people saying it saved, I think, off the top of my head, over a hundred lives since it was implemented as a consumption room in the East End of Glasgow, where people can go and take drugs safely, the resuscitated of the overdose. But obviously the locals aren't very happy about a consumption room being in their backyard. And there's also the argument that it encourages more drug use. And the main issue, I think the biggest concern people have with it is, is that we're copying some sort of model. I know people always say Scandinavian model or. But there's different countries in Scandinavia. I think it's actually Switzerland. So it's. Switzerland had a severe heroin problem and what they did was consumption rooms. But the consumption rooms came with a caveat of help. Help for people to. To kick their habit and offer them opportunities. Whether that was. Whether that was getting them off the street, whether that was offering them employment, education, just giving people a future. So, based on what I know, like I said, I'm not an expert on the consumption rooms. I don't want to say yeah or nay to them, but it seems quite apparent that you can't have the consumption room without a plan. You can't just let people just go in and take drugs. And it's just. That's it. There is not enough rehab facilities. So somebody goes in there, they should be handed. They should be handed the pamphlet. I think they probably are handed a pamphlet, but they should be offered rehab. And that is something that. Is something the Scottish government could do. Surely there's a budget there, funnel some of that money into helping these People kick their addictions and let them get back into society. It all comes down to. There was an interesting experiment where they gave rats morphine and there was two levers and one was like a theme park where other rats to hang about. We, you know, would take a bit of morphine, they would run in their little. The wheels or whatever. Basically they were living a good life. They had company, they'd connection and I. They would take away a wee drink of morphine from time to time, but occasionally almost like recreationally. But the rats that were left with morphine on their own disconnected. They just pushed that lever until they died. The other lever was offering water or food or whatever. Razzie. I don't know. The major issue is lack of connection. To rehabilitate people, they need. You need to offer them something else. And whether that is somewhere to live, whether that is education, whether that is a job opportunity, whether that is just somewhere to get away from the streets just for a bit. We do not have the facilities. It seems to be running consumption rooms, but I'm not expert in that. I know that the consumption rooms have varying opinions from people who know more about the harder drugs than I do. So I respect their opinions and based on what I've. But I do, I do listen to those opinions and that's the conclusion that I've came to. The other thing the Scottish government has done this split opinion as the. The minimum alcohol pricing, which I always thought at the time would encourage people either to just eat less, because that's something that I have experience with, has been very close to alcoholics. And just putting the price of alcohol up isn't going to stop them drinking, it's not going to stop them getting wasted. So my concern was that either they would look after, they would eat less, they would maybe cause more deprivation for their family, maybe their family would eat less and. Or they would move on to drugs. And that's just a theory with that I can't back up. But it's deprivation. At the end of the day, it's all coming down. So if you look at the areas of where people are addicted, where people are dying young, it's the poorest areas. And this comes back to austerity measures. In my opinion, the lack of connection from lockdown onwards, the world's just not went back to normal at all, is it? And we are being let down by our politicians. Westminster decriminalized things just. That needs to happen. It just needs to get decriminalized. Stop punishing people for having an addiction and Treat it like a health issue. That just needs to happen. Education. Stop telling people you smoke a joint, you ruin your life or you take one pill and you die. That needs to stop as well. Talk about the real dangers and the real reasons why people take things because they're going to grow up and see that they've been told a bunch of lies. If there's no trust in the education, if you sugarcoat the education, then the kids aren't going to believe any of the warrants at all. And the media, the media who have helped launch this war on drugs alongside the politicians, should be ashamed of themselves. They've got as much to blame as anyone else. And finally, it's just time to start listening to the experts. Why are the laws and harm reduction measures decided by very upper middle class politicians with people with no experience of the real world? It's time to get the best people who have went through these addictions and have came at the other end and listen to what worked for them and how they did it. And let's stop making them the exception to the rule. It's tragic. It's real people. It's 11,000 people that have died, our friends or family and we. Scotland, the worst in Western Europe is shameful. And that's on the Scottish government, it's on the Westminster government, it's on the media and it's on the justice system. Maybe things would be far, far worse without minimum alcohol pricing. Maybe things would be far, far worse without the Consumption room. Do better. Do better and listen to people who know what the they're talking about. And breaking news. We actually have Vice President J.D. vance in the studio. Don't boom. Don't boom. Just because we disagree on certain viewpoints. His views from the sea. Let's hear what he's got to say. He's about to become president. I think January 1st, in order for him to get a free extra term, he can't say that Trump's lost the plot until January 1st. So he's probably going to be the next president. So he's probably going to say something really positive, uplifting and ambitious and something that we can all get behind. So just hear him out.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker G: What I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now. And if that leads to the end times. Okay,
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  Speaker A: whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What? What you saying? Let's ignore the thing you're saying about doing God's work. Did God tell you to bomb a school of innocent children on day one of The Iran war, which isn't even a war because you didn't vote for a war. Let's ignore that. But what was the bit you said about the end times?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker G: No, and if that leads to the end times. Okay,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker A: see, I've got a big problem with that. I've got a big problem with you being okay with the end times. Now. Our entire life we've grown up with politicians promising the world and delivering nothing. And then you had the Starmer effect, where the Tories were so bad that Starmer promised nothing and delivered nothing. But now you're actually wanting to become president and basically saying, you know, what if we just destroy civilization and planet Earth as we know it, it's all right. Surely the bare minimum of any elected official is to try not and destroy the planet. And even if you're going to date, you're not supposed to say you're all right with it. You're supposed to say, oh, that was a mistake. Sorry for interrupting you. Let's hear what else you've got to say. This is Views from the Sea on. You call that radio like? And subscribe.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker G: God is coming.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker A: God is coming. He's tell you that? Cool.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker G: But we are commanded to try to, as much as possible, try to make the world the kind of world that God wants it to be. Right, so, and what I mean
• 1:05:28
  Speaker A: is, God want you to cause pointless wars in the Middle East? Is that what you're saying? Or are you trying to distance yourself from this war so that people will like you
• 1:05:44
  Speaker G: encouraged and able to live more virtuous lives where husbands are able to take care of wives and vice versa? And families are thriving.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker A: Families are thriving. So you mean like. And do you mean like your friends, Families are all rich anyway, or are you talking about families that can't afford the cost of living crisis? The families that can't afford to put petrol in their cars, they can't afford to eat. They're working three jobs just to keep a roof over the heat. Could you expand on what kind of families you want to thrive?
• 1:06:24
  Speaker G: And you know, people are sort of building a life not talking to a chatbot, but they're building a life talking to their. Their friends and their. And their family.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker A: Right, so you mean like. Sounds pretty good. Like people sort of meeting and chatting normally, like. So is that way maybe like invest in community centers, invest in places that people can meet up, you know, like the. Whether that's a music venue, a pub, the arts, they things kind of bring people together. Or is that communism? Are you being a communist Also, it's funny that you sort of slag chat bots when you get all your money for Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, all the people that are investing billions in chat bots and AI surveillance and putting data centers in front of our hooshies. Continue.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker G: So I tend to think like the while I wouldn't be shocked if we are living in the end times. What I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now. And if that leads to the end times, okay. And if that leads to, you know, us building a better world that thrives and survives for a very long time after I'm gone, that's great too.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker A: That's great too. Do you hear what this guy's saying? This is the first time I've actually heard someone, you know, if, you know, we could just have a nuclear war and everybody dies or all the patients die and all. As billionaires, we'll just sort of live in our underground bunkers. But if everyone dies, that is fine. But if it randomly turns out that robots don't take everyone's jobs and everyone starts to thrive, aye, so be it. Not ideal, but I can live with that. I can live with people thriving. I mean, it wouldn't be my first choice.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker G: I just think you've got to kind of try to have an attitude of the end times may be coming. In fact, they are coming. It's just a question of whether they're coming thousands of years down the road or a few months down the road.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker A: A few months? A few months. What does he know that we don't? A few months for the end times.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker G: And we've got a lot of work to do right now. I got to try to do the work I can right now.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker A: He's got to try to do the work that he can right now. Why don't you start bid releasing the Epstein files? Was that no what you were going to do? Were you not going to release the Epstein files? What happened to that? Was going to release Epstein files? You know, if the Epstein fails get released, so be it. Or nuclear war. Everybody's just released Epstein files. But it's 50, 50 rolls. Epsy feels or have a big war. He's fine. He's fine. But whatever happens, he's a pretty easy Aussie. Go with the flow, chappie. This guy is a rat, a snake, an all round fud. This is a guy. This is didn't trust Trump as far as he could throw him. He said Trump was a Nazi. And then we're about a Peter Thiel money. He started loving the guy. Sticking up for every mistake that Donald Trump has made. And there's been too many, too many mistakes, too many crimes against humanity to even keep count of. And the smart money is on January 1st, it'll get rid of Trump. They'll say he's lost the plot, they will give him a pardon and the guy will go away and play golf and retire. Hopefully. He'll fucking retire. He should be in jail. But wealthy people don't go to jail. That's the real two tier policing. And that's why you hear the media and all the bots and talking about two tier policing all the time. Because they want you to think about something else. When the real two tier policing is wealthy people never go to jail 99.9% of the time. And that's why Nigel Farage was caught on camera committing crimes by taking money illegally from. He talks about foreign invasions. What about the foreign invasion of Nigel Farage's bank account as they try to destroy the great British democracy? Build a data center on Buckingham Palace. Just go for it.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker G: The end times may be coming. They are coming. It's just a question of whether they're coming thousands of years down the road or a few months down the road.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker A: There's only a few months left of the intake, so it doesn't really matter. This is Fuse from See on. You call that radio like and subscribe. Oi. Oi, is that you on Instagram again?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker B: You've
• 1:12:49
  Speaker A: been watching something. It looks like. It looks like you're watching something. Watching that looks like you're watching. Watching social media live. You need a TV license. Have you paid? Your
• 1:12:58
  Speaker B: license? You need a TV license for that, matey. Have you paid? I bet you haven't. We're coming for you. We're TV detection specialists. We've got a van and everything. And a detector. We're coming for you. Got an aerial. We've got aerial. We know. We know you're watching this. We've got drones, We've got speedboats. We've got old things that you might need night vision. You can run but you can't hide. We've got heat detectors. We're going to see you sitting in your living room watching
• 1:13:26
  Speaker A: BBC One. And you haven't paid for, have you? I'm naughty. They're so very funny. Until we turn over your door. You might. You might think that we're zipped up the back, but we're not. We're not. Zipped up the back. No, no, no, no, no. We'll come around your door. Knock, knock, knock. Pay your license. Knock, knock, knock. Kick, kick, kick. Punch, punch, punch. You might say. I paid me license. I paid me license. We don't believe you. You're getting stabbed. Me?
• 1:13:59
  Speaker B: Probably not.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker A: I don't know. We won't stab you.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker B: He is nice. He can be
• 1:14:04
  Speaker A: nice, but roughly. Up a bit.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker B: Can't say that, mate.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker A: We can't say that.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker B: You can't exactly threaten them directly, apparently.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker A: Kick, kick, kick. Stab, Stab, Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, stab. We are coming to get you. Pay for your license@patreon.com forward slash. You call that radio?
• 1:14:28
  Speaker B: I'm a TV
• 1:14:29
  Speaker A: detection specialist. I drive around in a. In a van. That's just flakery system swindling. You're a bloody system swindler, mate. You flowered all the regulations. Yeah, you've just. You've just run amok. You
• 1:14:47
  Speaker B: have
• 1:14:49
  Speaker A: read the terms and conditions in your birth certificate and pay for your bloody TV license. That boat there's got. They're watching live television. We can tell from here,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker B: right? We've got a scanner. We've got a scanner here.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker A: This is the scanner.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker B: You've got a scanner.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker A: If any kind of smoke comes out here, that means that that boat's got a television in it. Live TV. Watch.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker B: They're only watching BBC1 and on there, aren't they? We better get out of there, mate.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker A: Get out of there. Live television,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker H: That's what see you right I promise that's what see you right Got a flashlight Boxing matches Travel late I promise promise that's what see you right, I promise promise this will see you right I promise, promise that's what see you right Count they flashlight box of matches Travel later I travel so light I'm faster than the speed of sound Like a tree I'm drawing strike with no one around I'm a proper prepper with peppered steak Plucking feathers out of thin air with the craft's cabin pressure buried gallons of cans in the earth and Benektor stolen milly wheelie bins from Tesco that's extra, actually. The end of the earth she fits me better the dawn of a new day and the death of de letters My metal detectors don't seem so redundant and my walls of pen ships ladies ask for my number they love it, you see I'm a bit of a catch Fishing RO In a batch of homemade tablet with security latch My freezer is bigger than all your captains F with name:59pm Rich like a bargains I'm the king of my own world the bunch in my own head awakened in my own view Walk up handcuffed to a wash my toe bed handcuffs to the hospital.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker A: Dormant on a cloud waiting for the sound of the so that signal. You better let me out, you better let me out now. You better let me out, you better let me out now. Promise, promise, promise promise we rain. Promise promise. Introducing the Apocalypse theorists. It.