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I don't even live in the UK, but I really enjoy these pubcasts. I wish every country had something similar : young, informed people able to comment on current events, and critique, draw conclusions and give underlying reasons for bad behaviour on the part of their representatives. And it's so engaging. Well done team !

Why doesn't someone use their parliamentary privilege to read out the names of all the elected MP's and party employees who have been accused to bullying and sexual harassment (just to name two) while working there ?

So the question we all want answering, did Ava get her Swifty tickets?

You’re on to something really special with this podcast - Keep up the good work team!

Oli: "I'm not gonna riff on this by myself" Also Oli: gets a lbc gig by himself without the golden boy or the only serious journalist

That thumbnail is incredible 😂😂

I'm more interested in Boris Johnson's Whatsapp messages tbh. Shame the media's going OTT on the BBC thing instead. Good day to bury bad news?

​it just struck me, do you think osborne might have hired the confetti thrower to overshadow the news of the email?

Were you all drinking non-alcoholic drinks to reduce the chance of saying a name by accident? Or is the weekend still hurting?

Brilliant show with all the discrepancies. Ava has a twinkle in her eye before dropping the boys into hot water.

Had this on with youtube's captions and the line "So Matt Smith is dating an animal?" was an unexpected miscaption...

Thanks for posting.

Very good and some very good points raised!

What parent faced with an abuse of a child, reports it to the BBC and Sun but not the police? The "victim" has said the parent is not telling the truth! Why in the opening did the presenters think this a funny topic?

This podcast is consistently entertaining, highly unusual

0:47 And Matthew Wright Who should never of had a TV career for essentially ruining and destroying John Leslie's life and career.

Insane to hear the guy from the LBC clip using the "gateway drug" argument about weed. So crazy to hear people still bring that up in 2023, it was debunked like 20 years ago.

I wouldn't have this podcast any other way than as a "hot mess", Oli. Also, it's not a pubcast if you're all drinking water.

best uk politics banter podcast

if weed is a gateway drug why doesn't Amsterdam have the one of the worst drug problems in the world?

At 38 I started dating a 21 year old woman. The relationship lasted 4 years but by the end it was so clear to me that she was too young for me. It was a mistake in all honesty, but I don't regret it.

Absolutely agree with Eva, I am 40 and being single I obviously can't find a connection with someone around my age who has the same level of life experience so for me to date someone at 20 would be me lowering my expectation of a relation and also to a degree taking advantage of the younger woman's lack of life experience. I would also say it is a two way street and there are a section of women in their 20's (and probably men) who seek out more financially stable, older partners to fulfil their economic desires rather than anything else.

The big issue is that people decide an allegation is true even after said allegation is "proven" untrue. It sticks.

The law didn't change in relation to Cliff Richard, he won at court under existing law, but that set a precedent that affected future behaviour by papers and broadcasters.

Love the thumbnail

Not only that, Nicky Campbell, (after Wheel of Fortune), made a good career for himself on good honest respectable journalism.

I understood the standard ‘age weirdness’ formula was it’s weird to date under (age/2)+7. It captures that intuitive point that wider age gaps are ok between older adults - so for a 50 year old that comes out at 32 (an age gap of 18 years) but for a 25 year old it comes out at 20 (only a 5 year age gap).

link to the Scottish documentary?

If I had to guess I'd say it's Mr Blobby, I often wondered why they took him off-air but it all makes sense now.

Oil’s point regarding the glasgow alleyway reminds me of the David Simon book ‘the corner’ which proves what he says to be true

One of the questions is why it its taken the BBC so long to carry out any investigation internally or suspending the presenter until they know whether there are legal implications or not and laws were broken.

there's no discrepancy - a child of 16 can consent to sex but remains protected from humiliating sexual exploitation until they reach adulthood at 18 - good , decent law

Honestly, I’m with the Gen Z. Big age difference in relationships creeps me out. And usually ends in tears.

I lived in UK for a while, and still keep an interest in your politics but I always forget about how crazy your media landscape is.

Oil got a great voice for radio talk show and I hope he continues and gets the confidence he needs to control the calls better because that guy was talking some nonesense about gateway drug which oil should have challenged. But it's obvious he's first ever time doing it and it's 4am the fact he can speak is impressive with cocaine :D

What a delightful couple 😂

In case anyones looking for the video theyre talking about RE scotland, the full title of it on youtube is " On the streets of Scotland's suicide and drug deaths crisis."

How many times has this happened now. Unbelievable for the BBC! What a mess.

The email is on pastebin links all over Twitter

what happened at the end there?! hahahha

I think olli is a low-key genius. There’s just something about his eyes that screams I’ve got a bigger plan here!

When I was growing up (back in Europe), and I was 14-15, pretty much 75% of girls at school were dating older guys, and the usual age of them was 19-23. Thinking back it is horrifying, but it was so common it didn't even shock me. And those weren't "romantic, innocent courtship", I have literally heard them discussing, in no uncertain means, what kind of sex they prefer. And even aside the obvious (I hope) problem here there was also the effect of that on the boys - you could forget of having a gf if you weren't 18+, with a license and a car. (Or at least such was the prevailing sentiment)

Lol that Oli is using a deeper voice on LBC than when he speaks on the Pubcast

I'm still wondering what the '49' stuff is all about... 🤠💜

15:06 - I could be wrong but if I remember rightly it was Giggs' affair with Imogen Thomas which was the affair under super-injunction but then later his affair with his brother's wife was also released to the public

So are we not going to address Ava whooping at the start.

That got weird.

These days I see a lot of young school kids snorting nitrous gas! Chris Hedges calls it Anomie in his books. 😟 worrying times.

No young person ever employed the “honey trap” manoeuvre to take advantage of an older person for their own selfish motives! They would never play on their gullibility by tricking them into believing they found their wrinkley old body attractive for personal gain. And they would never burst into tears and blame the wrinkley when found out. Of course they wouldn’t! 🙄

Love politics hate nonces merch when?????

Everyone knows it’s half your age plus 7 is allowed

Glimpses of the new Matt Stadlen. A glittering future at GB News beckons.

Even the BBC have outed him.

Erm...

17:55 "95% certain I would say" Anyone fancy lending Oli a dictionary to research the definition of the word 'certain'? 😉

The guy who said that weed is a gateway isnt completely wrong but not all weed users want to chase the high and use it to calm them down, pain relief stress relief which is what i used it for, my adhd and anxiety is often interfering with my life, and contributes to my insomnia. Yes some go on to others but making legal or illegal wont stop people it means if someone od or is a adict they wont be affraid to get help. We need to look at holland. We need to solve the causes of addiction and destigmatise addiction rather than blame be sympathetic. Im certain more have died due to alcohol ie liver failure, drunk driving killing others and themselves, damage to property. Same with tabcco smoking. The part about why people do or dont get addicted is a combo of social factors (ie class) but there is a genetic element. The war on drugs targets the poor, same with crime, white collar crime is ignored and arguably hurts more. The same can be said for white collar drug uses why should hedge funder doing white lines not be shamed the same way a crack head on the street is?

If you're in your 40s and you're dating someone in their 20s, why doesn't anyone your age like you? THAT is the red flag question no one asks.

love podcasts hate nonsense it's the politics joke podcast ladies and gentlemen

What was Giles Coren accused of?

Oh come on it’s never for the money or the body, it’s always for the mind! ? Isn’t it, how about 28 female to 59 male?

Children of Josh Widdecombe

Drugs are already legal anyway as it's always been out there so why not allow them to be sold in a better manner so people can get it from a clean source than random people selling it. Also, I don't really think that allowing cannabis will make people want other drugs just the same as people who drink beer or wine don't just start wanting higher abv alcoholic drinks, do they. Not to forget cannabis is already legal for medical use when getting it private for certain reasons since 2018 Also, yeah I am with you on that too. No person who is an alcoholic or drug addict is wanting to do it for the sake of it. If people knew about addiction more then they'd not see it like that not to forget that some people have DNA that makes them already more likely to be addicted to drugs or alcohol. I do wish people could see addictions even smoking a caring and respectful view.

Youngest one times 5, divide by 9 and add 7. Or something.

The collective term for a group of paedophiles is "a corporation of nonces" 3:04

But wasn’t their a story long before this of him breaking his girlfriends nose in a nightclub???

More Beard Ollie

Did Ava get those tix tho?!?

I don't think Matt Smith's current girlfriend is 24. I believe she's in her early 30's.

Let yourselves down on this one. Opening using the the nonce term is akin to using a picture of Rylan next to an article. Leave it alone until you have the facts or treat it with the sensitivity it deserves. Also don't use the Sun as any kind of source.

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I would argue that people under 18 shouldnt go out with people above 18, people 18-15 shouldnt date above 25, 25+ free game but it is about power and influence not age. I say this as yes people do develop mentally and physically at different rates however given we know the brain doesnt fully develop until 25 and those younger than that make decions ruled by the area which commands emotion not the area which rules reason. Also as a 22 year old i still feel very young despite going to uni etc but feel old enough to know to not date an 18 year old. I have now business dating a teen, likewise i do not have anything in common with 40 year olds. Its weird to me, and the argument of 'preference' or 'type' doesn't fly. Look at leonardo dicaprio, he is pushing 50 and could likely pull any woman he wanted older or younger but chooses to date under 25 which to me reads no one his age wants him and that he wants women too young who have still developing brains and he can have power over them.

That intro is going to prove awkward if it turns out one of the PJ team is a nonce

awful bunch .

How is Harry Potter on this podcast?

People get real mad when you bring up Bowie being a nonce, i suppose it's ok if you write a few songs people like. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My wife's 20 years younger, cash back

Ava is a fucking dream.

Huw could it be?

You need to issue an apology for that dumb ‘nonce’ statement. Given that the police have stated there was no illegal behaviour here, your opinion that a non heterosexual male looking at images of another male of legal age makes them a nonce is just wrong. There are 1000’s of young gay men in relationships with much older men who would vociferously disagree with your opinion of their chosen relationship.

yous should be drinking next time.

Half your age + 7

Please can you change the intro, its hard to watch

It's very responsible for you drinking water doing a podcast on MDMA and cocaine ;p

Does it have to be sex talk every time? 🙄

On addiction - great expeiment in the 70s underscoring the issue of envirnoment and addiction search "Rat Park: How a rat paradise changed the narrative of addiction"

She is just amazingly BEAUTIFUL, EVERY THING ABOUT HER IS ANGELIC , INTELLLIGENT , CARRIES HERSELF WITH SUCH CLASS. I WANT HER , TRULY BEAUTIFUL♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Link to the LBC show bros?