Never really post anything too personal, but this podcast has been a weekly ray of sunshine in months of blackness for me, genuinely looking forward to it every week

Idk what's changed with the lighting and colour but this episode is giving Voldemort orphanage flashback and I'm here for it

Ooooo…love the golf clap start. Classy.

You guys do make the British political situation somewhat bearable

Re Eds hair, its been my personal cannon that he simply wishes to emulate Michael Walker.

Ed, you just set a 20 second timer on my HomePod.

The way that Oli and Ed act like they don't know the rules for going to the kink club, we all know that you both go it's fine.

The kidney stone urinal had me rolling LOL

So 5 minutes in and you set a 20 second timer on my HomePod. Thanks team 😂

Not sure about the theory that PolJoe uses a green screen, but something green is reflecting off Ava’s hair in literally every episode.

They are not rushing to vote Labour because Labour is not promising any changes to austerity etc.

ed is so sexy

If Staunton is inaccurate then prove it by compensating the SPMs & admonish the lot of them. Also Fujitsu should should be pledging at least the same as the Govt (public money). Any compensation should be paid out of the Fujitsu fund first until zero funds left then move onto public funds.

The sound level is very low this week guys.

It might not have been appropriate for Ava to announce her running for the leader of the Reform party on the Podcast. But her mandatory smoking and vaping policies are certainly interesting.

"I love a great smash cut" - ironically has one when Ava starts with "I was sexti-" *cut* 🤣

The phone ban feels odd to me as a mate who works in a school was telling me only last week that his school was planning on enforcing multifactor authentication for students. Dunno if this is a call from the education minister, but it certainly doesnt make much sense if banning phones aswell. Wouldnt be the most idiotic thing theyve ever come out with, but its still pretty stupid

We absolutely need proper media literacy education. Ideally throughout secondary education so that by the time a kid gets to the age of 13, when they meet the requirements to join up to most of these social media websites, they have already had 2 years of relevant media literacy education.

Oli - Tor is an acronym for "The Onion Router".

Keir Starmer, a human rights lawyer who never saw a war crime he didn't feel should possibly stop in several months time. Except that one time when he was in favour of it.

It still sounds to me like you are saying "Love podcasts. Hate nonces." - which is fair.

5:07 Cory Doctorow’s article about “enshittification” [platform decay] in the _Financial Times_ is well worth a read. (The concept has been around for over a year-Doctorow first wrote about it on his blog, later republished in _Wired,_ concerning TikTok in January, 2023.)

We had two spoons in our city at the time and my wife and I went too see how many drinks we could get from one "substantial" meal, we got 8 pints in from one spoons and then got told we had had enough for one meal and had to leave and we went to the other one for some pudding and got another 8 pints there😅

1:14:30 Stoicism? Really? 🙄

By far the best politcal commentary available. Facts and real debate tinged with utter contemp of the melts that polute Westminster. Ed better be a Celtic fan!!!🍀💚

To describe the contrast from Ed's interview back to the main podcast as jarring would be an understatement. Intriguing interview then WHAM back to farting paint

Major deja vu with the eds haircut chat.

Also please sort out the Gate on the mics, sometimes the sound is to quiet but today it was obviously the gate was to high so they kept cutting out. Love your podcast so much but only issue is always the sound.

41:06 _cavolo nero_ Italian kale _A loose-leafed cabbage from Tuscany, Italy. The leaves are a very dark green, almost black, hence its name, which translates as 'black cabbage'. It has a pleasantly tangy, bitter flavour, with a sweet aftertaste._

Transmaxxing, is this an April foolmaxxing thing?

For the Berghein question, big coat is always the way to go

When is immediate not immediate? Is now not immediate? We are always in all ways nowhere, now here! How soon is now? Well there's a song in that somewhere.

i do think these by elections do show that Refoms national polling is over inflated. As Ed said, nationally they are polling roughly 10% averaged over the whole country. But that means that in some constituencies they will get close to nothing, if they even bothered standing a candidate. And in other more naturally rightwing, brexit voting, anti immigration seats they would get well above 10%. Like 15%-20%. If they're only getting 13% in one of their target seats like Wellingborough then they're not going to average 10% across the whole country. Its not like they aren't doing well for a small party. But they arent doing as well as their national polling, which means their national poll numbers are over inflated. And since the tories are using those national poll numbers to constantly scare themselves about the impact reform will have at the general election it might well be that they are jumping at shaddows

Bob Ross could fart paint.

Twisting in the wind.

"If one farted pain, what would one piss?" - clearly anguish :P

@PoliticsJOE : your intro clip audio volume is far too loud, compared to your stream audio - is this intended to be some kind of alarm?

Doctorow would be a good guest plugging one of his books

Is it me, or is the volume really low on this one? Usually I have my PC volume at 20m, I needed to push it up to 40 here.

The transmaxxing manifesto is on a par with the unibombers for the levels on unhinged garbage in it. With quotes like "how to induce gender dysphoria" and "i still love guys cause men are awesome" it's such a hilarious read

59:00 had me properly crying in laughter.

If you're growing marigolds on the allotment, why not grow the mexican marigold, Tagetes minuta, which is also a culinary herb? 🙂

How many examples do we have of this government's policies being formed by the right-wing media.

27:13 - anyone got a link?

This transmaxxing thing completely ignored feminine males, femboys love looking feminine but being male, my facial structure is much more flattering as a feminine looking male, it has NOTHING to do with being trans.

Poltics is the only profession you cant change your mind as events change

Tor is literally called the "the onion router"

yes

Crazy, didn't expect Ava to be a Reform girly

19:50 And then there's Cuba. Boycotts and pressure has done nothing but hurt the Cubans.

love podcast hate nonsense the politics Jo podcast ladies and gentlemen

When will you cover the SEZ / Freeports disaster?

Ordering a triple scotch, double shot of scotch and a lovely scotch egg wash it down

According to the police man who came to my school once, sexting as someone or between people under 18 is illegal regardless of the consent law. Like he said even if you have your own picture on your phone thats also illegal... according to him but that one might have been bs

Whoever is colour-grading this episode has absolutely done Oli and Ed here. Milk bottle, oatmeal, dulux, creme fraiche looking MFs.

Get some Hostas. The slugs will be very busy eating those and might ignore your other plants.

Samsung Galaxy Watch has it all....

I say this as a social worker who works with sex offenders. The legality of sexting a 17 yo depends on the nature of the sexting. If it includes pictures, then it breaks underage porn laws. Otherwise it's just creapy and legally grey.

No Kale for Comrade Dugmore. It’s for the plebs 😜

@10:25 - Keir meant that he would back an immediate ceasefire after the the Israeli army have finished with their genocide of the Palestinians

I watched that podcast Ollie, I'm not denying the former black hat is on a crusade, but his politics and who he now works with are very suspect.

It should be raised to 18 but have romeo juliet laws to protect teenagers

34 minute in you discuss Simon Danczuk and his disgraceful sexting a teenager. Firstly would we have this discussion if he had done this as a teacher rather than an MP? The same rules to teachers, etc should apply to all adults. Especially people elected to public office Secondly there is the whole issue of Danczuk exposing Cyril Smith. The Liberal MP who was a beast of man in the 1970s and 1980s. He even wrote a book about him. Thirdly he was MP for Rochadle during the exposing and trail of grooming gangs. Fourthly Simon Danczuk ex-wife, and married to him at the time, was a victim of child abuse/similar grooming he was caught doing. Danczuk sexting a teenager is a form of grooming. By the way the "anti-grooming" candidate Ava was trying to contact is probably some ex-BNPer, etc. Hence why you can't contact!

The transmaxxing documentary was disgusting and that dude who presented it was also vile.

Has anybody noticed oli in the new maryland cookies advert, shilling for the man.

I want the yelling back :(

incredibly green

'Cavolo Nero' is a cultivar of kale.

Schools use Google classroom ..also kids use phones to research

If it's not a green screen why is everything green?

Correct: we have (pretty much) no place or power in the world stage. What reason would either sides in this conflict have to listen to what we think? Calling for a ceasefire now, while it obviously can’t happen, weakens our voice later when it becomes possible to have one.

E D I N B I O

good - no screaming. well done

I only watch for the bum content

Is it my set up or are skin tones washed out?

I love Oli until he comes out with his boomer takes lol Banning phones at school won't do anything and as pointed out its just another way to say its not our issue it's theirs.

Starmer needs to just shut up and say nothing.

Wenger out

I get that this podcast is supposed to have a "matey informal " vibe but the inane chatter at the start just sounds like a bunch of people in their early twenties chatting on a train. Can we get to the actual point of the podcast please?

Ughhh I love the commentary but I hate the banter 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Ed give your mate Ollie a brotherly handy. Is Ava single? Screw it. Give him a handy. #makeolliescream

ROFL....I come here for the news...the assless chaps news :DDDDD

Oli please stop saying 'Ginormous' you're a great guy but it's either enormous or giant. Fuck.

Get a chicken 🐔

Don't get the comment on X or what it is based on it is so much better than twitter was not that i really used twitter. At least now you get two sides of a debate and there is lots of good spaces content! Why do you think it has lost its function??

1:13:30 to answer your question from someone who falls into looksmaxxing but who isn’t an incel: It’s basically because women have a much greater value than men in dating in the modern day. So going from tinder stats the vast majority of all “likes” given from women to men are skewed in the top 5% of male profiles whereas male to female likes are normally distributed. So although tinder is not the end and be all it shows that “higher value” men empirically can have multiple sexual partners whereas the “average man” may only get some in their lifetime and “below average” will not get any. So therefore if you want to have sexual partners you need to compete with other men, hence “maxxing” to try to get into or near enough the top 5% But what if you’re the 20th or 10th percentile in terms of attractiveness? These are incels (trucels -> true incels) as opposed to mentalcels (mental illness, neurodivergence) or ethniccels (Indians etc, who on average struggle with dating in western society) There’s also lookism which correlates with this: more attractive people tend to be treated better than unattractive people. So if you are an “ugly” “short” “weak jawed” “neurodivergent” man there’s little chance you will get laid and it’s not your fault…

The Gary Stevenson interview was great , sitting through your small talk , not so much . Good work .

This ongoing saga about Gaza is just tedious now. Starmer could have called for a ceasefire on the first day of hostilities, and the exact same number of people would be dead.

9.13 mins of indulgent shiite

Twitter is way better now

What a clown show.

You lot of got a lot to learn about having a popular podcast and the first thing is not to talk about bullshit smells for two minutes at the beginning of the video! The last time I watched your stuff you annoyed me and just as I was thinking about giving you another chance you've done it again. Your amount of likes should tell you something. 💯

Switched after 5 minutes, strikes me as rather juvenile

"Israel should call a ceasefire" - what follows from this exactly? Is Israel going to get criticised if Hamas continues firing missiles and then Israel attacks again? Will the same "yeah but after the atrocities of Israel, you can't blame Palestinians for being angry".

Im not voting. Waste of time.

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