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Episode Date: March 16, 2026

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I'm still with Horatio Gould. Hello. And this is part three of our Ediamine series. Yes. Steak and eggs for the listeners. Yeah. One of the craziest dictators there's ever been. He's charmed us.

For sure. He's charmed me. Yeah. The biggest dictator, the strongest dictator. Big. He's jacked. Yeah. He's huge.

And in this episode, we're dealing mainly with his foreign policy. Right. Which brings us to an old friend of the pod. Yeah. My friend and yours, Muammar Gaddafi. Yeah. Well, it seems to be a characteristic of these sort of African dictatorships that you can make just a big splash with foreign policy,

even though you don't have nooks, you don't have ways of effect to things, but you can just go at the UN and start slagging people off. In many ways, Trump is acting like an African dictator, except he's got the power of the US, and that's what's terrifying about him. Yeah. It's like, fuck it.

Yeah, because it's kind of cute when, you know, It's like when you hear a child swear, right? Yeah. It's cute. When you hear an adult swear, it's not cute at all. Wow. It's also, when you hear a Uganda man go, why are you gay? It's funny.

When you hear Trump go, why are you gay? Why are you gay? You gay? China's gay. You're gay. It's actually still funny, to be fair. But he's in a half, Trump is an African dictation. You see that Trump a moment where he's like, I think he's in Texas at like a golf club.

And he goes, I love the gays. You're gay. He goes, he's not gay. No, you're gay. I like the one where he comes out of the car and he just points at the camera like that. Anyway, Ediamine, he's fucked off all the Asians.

He's had a dream. I have a dream that you should all fuck off. And over the course of his reign, his foreign policy shifts dramatically. Initially, he's on side with the Brits and the Israelis. Yeah. Uneasy bedfellows. You know, he's taunting the West a lot, I think.

Many people would say that he's, yeah, he's kind of a, ooh, ooh, ha. Many people would say that he, you know, was sort of a clown, buffoon. I think he knows what he's doing. I think he's... It's more of a Kaufmanesque routine then. I wouldn't go as far as Kaufmanesque, but I'd say he's on that spectrum.

Right. You know, certainly on some spectrums. No one, you know, there's nothing people hate more than someone who's more intelligent than them. So what an intelligent person would do is try and seem less intelligent to disarm them. It's all right. Louis Theroux would do. Right. There's a version of that going on with EDME and I think.

Yes. but then it's hard to read it at what level of intelligence is it and when does the actual stupidity come in? Yes, that's a fair criticism. You can't know. When you're looking at his... Is he a genius doing this amazing act

or at what point is he pretending to be stupid? When you're looking at his second wife and her arms have been stitched to her legs and her legs on her arms, you're thinking, am I... Is this a bit? Am I not getting this? This is very above my paper.

I think it's gone over my head this. It's gone under hers. So he sends Richard Nixon a get well soon card after Watergate. That's funny. That is funny. Now, again, is that teasing, or does he not understand what Watergate is? Does he think he's ill?

Because I guess if you are smart, and you meant that as a joke, that is very funny. Yeah. Watergate, the biggest crisis of the year saying get well soon. And also, for a man who's, you know, incredibly corrupt, the most, you know,

a slight bit of corruption from the Americans, get well soon. Get well soon. I mean, where did he get this card from? Like Clintons? Get well soon. Or did he just misunderstand Watergate that Nixon was ill? Well, that's the thing. You don't know whether he's being clever or whether he thinks Richard Nixon's got like a bladder infection or something.

That's what Watergate was. He wished him a speedy recovery. Right. Again, it does, yeah. It's hard to know. I guess he never came out and revealed the bit. That's why he's so, you know, interesting. Intoxicated.

He didn't come out and say it was all a joke. From 1972, Amin starts to turn away from the Brit. and the Israelis and he turns towards the Soviets. And this is all in the context of the oil crisis. I think he starts to realize where power lies really in the world. So in February 972, he visits a friend of the pod, Colonel Gaddafi, in Libya. And after, you know, it's amazing that with one conversation, he immediately comes back and he starts being incredibly anti-Western, anti-Colonists, and anti-Semitic.

Much like people have, you know, 10 minutes in agreement with me, they start saying some absolutely insane shit. Yeah, you encourage it. I bring it out in people. I bring it out in people, so I'm for sure. People come up to me and say, well, hang on. What are you about to show me? I mean, you're not wrong. We're not in public.

So Gaddafi. I ran into someone who spot me from the pod in Liverpool Street Station and you're just very sincerely said, keep doing what you're doing. It's important. I was like, well, don't say that. No, it's not. Don't say that.

People say that to me. They keep doing what you do. No, it's good for the... I bumped into on the tube the weekend. There's some drunk Millwall fans who would so... It's so funny seeing... Millwall fans go weak at the knees

because of a podcast. They're like, oh my God, keep doing what you're doing. Honestly, don't start. Don't stop. Is this the good fight? No one's ever told me to keep doing what I'm doing. No, that's because you say you're a paedophile.

Stop what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing, mate. I love what you're doing, Charlie. Keep fighting a good fight. Yeah. Yeah. I can't say it publicly, but just know that I support you. Just know that I, yeah.

I like what you're doing. I mean, again, is Charlie, you know, is he saying that like Edia mean saying, he's a bit of a, dictator Charlie is. He is, definitely is. Yeah. So Gaddafi gives him Ediamin millions of dollars in aid, and in return, Ediamine says he would convert at least 70% of the Ugandan population to Islam, which is a strange promise. I'll stop trusting his word, though. I feel... Well, it's a bit like, I'll convert everyone to Islam, 70%. That's a good deal. He's giving himself,

you know, he's giving himself to remove. He goes to Mecca, so Saudi Arabia give him private jet and millions in aid. We got any pictures of Edie in Mecca? Let's have a look at Edie. Eidi with a, with a, with some get in the get up what's he wearing is he in the full newcastle fan get up um it's because of all the oil crisis the 70s britain's obviously in the toilet at this point yeah uh but edian mehs i die and mecca beast idian mecca that's good fun so uh sadly raba give him a private jet and uh after the 70s and the oil crisis the OPEC thing he's like do know what i'm going in with the naughty boys fuck it um boys at the back of the bus it This is, Gaddafi and Amin are at the back of the bus.

And crucially, the bus is running because there's petrol. In 1976, Britain severed diplomatic relations. Now, at this point, we should say that he has started a Save Britain fund. Which is very nice of him, to be honest. People say that he doesn't care about other people. He lacks empathy, but it's very kind of him. And this is very, we talked about this in the, I think, the Ted Heath episode. Things are so bad in Britain that Edomene personally says he's going to pledge £600.

Of his own money, of his own money. His pocket money. 600 pounds of his own money. He's broke his piggy bank. Yeah. And he's counted all the points. Do you know what? This should go to Ted Heath.

And he's, and then he gets a bunch of vegetables that they've grown. And he says, they're in our plane. We'll send them to you. It's a reverse comment relief. Yeah. It's a fucking fantastic bit.

It's a great bit, but it's a bit that he also commits to. Yeah. He actually had the plane for the fruit of veg. And he calls the cabinet office every day saying, when are you going to pick up this plane? They're rotting. Yeah, they're rotting now.

I'm trying to save you. Can you imagine us doing that to comic relief? Come on then. The point is we're meant to send the clothes to them. Come and pick it up. Well, I can't. Yeah, it's a great inversion. Yeah.

Now, in June 76, Britain several's diplomatic relations with him. And so he awards himself CBE. Congratulations. Conqueror of the British Empire. He starts asking British journalists if they feel nervous interviewing him. He then there's a great photo. Can you find it, Charlie, where British diplomats,

he summons them all to his front lawn and they all have to bend the... they'll just take the knee. This is before, yeah, there we go, as we're looking at it now. So he, they're all, we're working at a photo, they're all raising their hand,

pledging allegiance to him. Imagine a press conference if you'll just get on the fucking, get on the ground. If you want to, you want to go on a, he then also makes white people carry him around on a,

like a sedan chair. But is it, this is the comedic, it's an inversion. It's an inversion. Yeah. He knows he's being funny. Yeah. And he's,

you know, that's a fair, that's a great bit. It's a great bit. He's, look, he's got, He's even got like a white man in a suit as a punca waller holding an umbrella over.

I mean, it's phenomenal bit. That's good. It's good. So he also forces all British workers in Uganda as a second pay cut. He offers to broker peace in Northern Ireland. And he also writes many love letters to Queen Elizabeth the second. Which, uh, now have we, did you find any of them? Yeah, yeah, I've got, I've got one here, actually.

A lot of you up DMs, sort of late night stuff. Hello you. I'm set up mind thinking of you. Can you do it in the accent? Hello. I am sat at mine thinking of you and your tidy ass you look so naughty on all the

notes I'd like to print loads and hyperinflate your funny Charlie this is funny Did you pitchish pound you in half in a good way Did you write this? You are so gorgeous Charlie but more importantly You are a kind lady Charlie yours always

Edy Did you write this? No This is not real Is it? Did you write that before we got in? No that's real what date was it sent 21st of June 967 or something

right I mean it is it does have like brown tea stain paper Zoom in on that Zoom in on that Zoom in on that Have you

yeah you've typed that on some tea stains No I haven't I mean it looks quite authentic to you there because it looks oldy time What did you say

You want to British pound you in half Hyperinflate your fanny Hyperinflate your fanny You think that's what he'd been wrote. I don't know that's what it says, yeah. So in June 1997, he says that he's going to drop in on the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations. And this causes, I mean, it's quite a funny response for Britain. This is like,

I mean, I don't think we cover ourselves of glory here in the sense that he says he's going to drop in and then apparently it takes a whole department in the civil service six months of their time to try and plan to make sure they could stop him coming. And he doesn't even turn up. There's a whole, like, the government bandwidth at this point is taken up with stop. This is what happens if he arrives on a plane. This is what happens if he arrives on a private plane? Is it any more British than this kind of like trying to avoid social embarrassment or like the awkwardness? My God, he can't come.

He can't come. He can't come. He can't be too rude. I don't know of another world leader who just drops in. Yeah. Like the idea of like you're meant to, you're called to a summit. My diary is intensely planned. Oh, fuck it.

I'm going to swing by. Let's see what happens. But the entire department, like, it's costing millions of pounds just to prevent him for coming. There's also, I think, is it Jim Callahan, who's foreign minister, or there's a minister in the foreign office who admits that basically, at one point, quote, I did raise the issue of assassination, and it was not just frowned on, but looked on as an outrageous suggestion. But I'm not ashamed of considering it because his regime goes down on the scale of Pol Pot as one of the worst of all. So they were genuinely talking about assassinating him just because he was so annoying. So the main dispute, the reason they sever diplomatic relations, I think, is because Edia Mien in 1975, he targets a British man named Dennis Hills who had worked as an English lecturer at a university in Uganda since the 60s. This man was, he was 60 years old. He was a war hero, he's an intelligence official.

But he wrote a book called The White Pumpkin, and it was not yet published. But supposedly Amin heard that he criticized his regime and called him. him quote black Nero. So he bangs him up and the queen appeals to Ediamine, which you know, it is humiliated. I mean, I guess that they're already, you know, they're already sending news to each other.

I guess they're sending nudes via plane. Yeah. Is that what? I mean, you couldn't just send a... Yeah, you had to do it in a cargo drop. But Ediamine's definitely sending... If he was alive today, he'd be sending dickpicks to world leaders. Yeah.

For 100%. That's what he'd be doing. You'd see someone on the news talking and he would just send an envoy with a dick carrying an envoy. Presidential car with flags on it. A penis envoy, yeah. Yeah.

So a man called Sir Chandos Blair. So is he not any relation to Tony? I doubt it. Sir Chandos. What a name that is. I'd like to call my son Sir Chandos. He does feel like a diplomat Chandos Blair. You want to send in Chandos Blair sort of like the wolf.

Sir Chandos. He flies to Campaill to negotiate for Dennis Hill's release. Ediamine takes Sir Chandos to the Uganda National Museum, parades topless dancers in front of him. Sort of like a page three distraction, like, oh, look at all this, look at some tears. Get him erect. Takes him to a tribal hut in his home region.

On live TV, Ediamine wears a sombrero and plays a small guitar, then hands the guitar to Chandos Blair, still refusing to talk about Dennis Hills. Can we get a photo of him up wearing a sombrero? Why is he wearing a sombrero? I mean, he's a master of distraction, isn't he? It's phenomenal.

Tits out. I'm doing little Mexican. When he's like, why the tits here? Whoa, look at this. Whoa. There he is. We're seeing a photo of him now. Massive sombrero.

He's basically, it's basically on a one-man stagged. It's great. So then Jim Callahan. No, please. We have a lot of business. Please, sorry. La-la-la-la-la.

Hey, look, de bobbies. La-la-la-la-la-la-la. Only when the Foreign Secretary Jim Callahan flies to Kampala Did Edie a mean actually go, okay That's a big deal how the Foreign Secretary fly out that far just for this For one bloke called Dennis who's written a book about pumpkin So basically, do you reckon Jim Callahan's first thing he says is Can you put the sombrero down?

This is a hostage crisis I mean imagine you know the guards are hostage crisis If they're asking for release La la la la la la la please where are the hostages look at the booby So he says Edie Amin after Jim Callahan arrives Because of my respect for the Queen

I've decided to postpone the execution They only then get rid of him Because Britain agreed to send fucking foreign aid And military equipment I mean is this Well he's playing UK like a fiddle to be fair He's shoving he's fucking shoving his hand up I'm making a squeal

I don't think we've dealt with him well No I think we've like gone We've fallen for everything Every body faint It's broken our ankles basically Hooked Lion Sinker. I tell you what we are.

He's messy and we're that right back that you know when he just ends up like that and his legs apart. I can't remember who that is. Yeah. Or do Messi versus James Milner.

Yeah. That's... Eidiamine. Illymean. This is the British government. Oh dear. On the floor. That makes.

So after 102 days in prison, Dennis Hills returns to the UK but only after Ede Amin has forced him to make a grovelling apology on live television. He's completely dominating the Brits at this point

To be fair, he is the conqueror of the British Empire Yeah, CBE I mean he's earned his CBE Now, so in July 75 Amina assumes chairmanship of the organisation of African unity Should we place 1975 Sure

Our listeners are very thick They're lost Many of them live underground In warrants that they call command centres Yeah They are qualified only to prepare Slushing machines in regional bowling Alley's.

Ninety-five, I reckon that is... Is it after the prawn cocktail before the Russela burger? You're speaking their language. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Prawn cocktail. Charlie? I like a proxail. I bet you do.

Late 19th century. Wow. So it is after the prawn cocktail. Yeah. Is it before... Disappointing, I thought. Russel's burgers. We need to know when the first Russel of burger is invented.

1999. Okay, there's quite a wide berth there, but it's still pretty good. He placed it beautifully. What's better? Russell's burgers or Ginsters? Ginsters. I don't have a Rustler's burger. I've never had a Russell.

We know, do you know, we had it once? Do you remember? Oh. When we did a... It wasn't that bad, was it? No, it was bad. I forgot. Microwaveable bread.

No. Yeah. And how does it preserve? God forbid what's been put in there. Yeah. To keep it going. No. That's surviving a nuclear high cost.

Yeah, exactly. It's going to be the exact same condition in a thing. thousand years. Aliens are going to come down and there'll be no trace of humanity apart from a pile of Rustler's burgers and some fleshlights. And they'll be like, what the fuck? What's this? I guess, I guess if you can't find your fleshlight, a Russler's burger wouldn't be a

bad substitute. I'm surprised we haven't got sponsored by Russellers. We were just talking about how we're struggling to get sponsored because of the nature of the show. Russellers, I mean, we're talking direct to their demo. Microwaveable beef. And if we could like maybe, if I'm trying to do like a madman advertising pitch, sell Russisburger as a pair.

in the way that fish and chips. Do you know what I mean? Finn versus history and rustlers. Rustlers and flashlight. It's like, you sell it as a pair. We need a quick shot launch, masturbator, but for rustlers. Yes.

Where it heats it up and then it just puts it into your face. Or you got two at the same time. Yes, you've got the quick shot here, and then you've got one here. You're being banked off, and then someone's force-feeding you're rustlers. But it feels like these people don't have many places to be. Why are they trying to do it?

Is it for the business? busy pinn by the street listener. Yeah, who doesn't have time to order a burger. So they have to microwave one because they're so busy masturbating. But they're not even masturbating. They're outsourcing that to technology. I don't know what they get. They're saving a lot of time.

They've got age of vampires two to complete. They've got Warhammer models to paint. They don't have time. They need a microwaveful burger. Nought to taste in 60 seconds. this episode is not sponsored by Russell's but I would like it to be Come on.

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You know, we know, we know. Flamed T-shirts. We know all the people who run our lives digitally. You know, we know Zuckerberg.

We know Elon Musk. Who is the Elon Musk of Ruslars? It must stink in there. Obviously it stinks. Yeah. Let's have a look. Let's have a look. Rustler's owner.

Yeah. bald white guys. Yeah. Makes sense. I mean, they don't look bad. They do look bad. They do look bad.

Have you ever, but you know, you peel the, you know, like the bag, the same kind of packaging you keep like raw chicken in. They have a cooked burger.

Yeah, that is crazy, but that doesn't look aesthetically, that is a burger. It's owned, it's a fake picture. It's owned by the Kepak group.

It's an Irish-based family. It's, uh, Rustlers produces a range of microwaveable hamburgers and hot snacks. So it's an Irish invention. I thought it was American. Of course it's Irish.

Yeah, it makes sense. Oh, would you put the burger in the oven? It started as a butcher's shop in Dublin. Founded by Noel Keating. Any relation to Ronan? Come on. Come on.

Come on. If we have cracked open that Keating is the Rustler's Nepo baby. Give that man a knighthood. Are they relating? Are they related? There is no evidence that Noel Keating is related. We can't know. We can't know.

Life is a Rustler's burger. You just got a wrong. it. But it's interesting that like I'd love to know the Russell's butchers. What were they selling? So it was just a normal butcher

that you go to. And then one of one genius put a burger, a fully cooked burger in the microwave and found out that you could make it wet and then people who can't who struggle to swallow. I imagine there's someone who like

he wanted to eat his burger later so he put it in his pocket and he goes like it's hard to put a burger in your pocket. Yeah. And then they had to make that big jump. Anyway. We're talking about the organization of African unity, which is an organization designed to promote solidarity amongst the African states. And Kampala hosts the annual summit that year.

Now, he issues conspiratorial warnings about the West. Charlie, find a photo of this. This is absolutely hilarious. He gets a scale mock-up of Cape Town and had Ugandan Air Force planes destroy it in a bombing display as a sort of watch out like about apartheid. apartheid, right. So he makes a little sort of fake. It basically bombs a fucking airfix model. So he made an island.

So what scale is the model of Cape Town? We're watching it now. All right. Edie, smiling, in fatigues. Yeah. Everyone looking great. I mean, these must have been so much fun though, because if everyone's like a dictator of a failed state,

yeah. Like it's so much fun to hang around. You're all killing it. killing it? Yeah. You're all, this country's on its knees, but this part is great.

But this is why you do it, isn't it? Look, Yasser Arafat's there. Yeah, it's fucking... I mean, this is brilliant. Here we go. So he gets the Ugandan Air Force to just bomb an island.

We're watching it now. And this is a mock-up... Now, how much has he mocked up Cape Town? That looks like he just bombed a forest. Because it looks like he's just gone that forest's Cape Town. Fuck it. Bomb it.

There's no better... I mean, there's no better boys trip than if you're all African dictators. So imagine how good it is to see each other? Imagine just going a spoon with President of Bonjo. What's going on? What's going on?

Imagine the stories you both have. Yeah, same. Same. So... This is brilliant, isn't it? I'll be keep going... This is fucking great. This is fucking...

Nice new medal. We're fucking killing it. We're fucking killing it. So at the summit, he also decides to host his own wedding to a 19-year-old go-go dancer from the suicide revolutionary jazz band, his own in-house jazz band. Amina's 50 at this point. Yeah, he's doing Loroni Biggs. It's all about bored.

He is doing the Ronnie Biggs. And now, she, Sarah Kiyobala, is engaged to another man. Amin gets around this by claiming her baby as his own and beheading the fiancé. Yeah, that's fair enough. Fair enough. Yeah. He's politically deft. Yes.

He manages to, you think you've got him in a corner and he managed to wriggle out. Well, chop his head off and that's my kid. Done. The wedding costs two million pounds. Now, with, he sort of, I think this is basically like a sort of improvised wedding. and he basically organizes an African summit around his own wedding. Right. To a 19 year old.

There they are. Look at the photo of them there. The happy couple. The happy couple. And he basically forces the leader of the PLO, Yasser Arafat, to serve as his best man. How close are they? Because he's woke. It's like trying to...

Yeah, I mean, that does give him some woke points, though. Yeah. He's trying to impress a 19-year-old. roll with blue hair. Yeah. He's my best man. Yasser Arafah? Leader of the PLO, actually.

So I'm right wing. Well, I wouldn't think so. My best man's Yasser Arafat. Exactly. Yeah. Two weeks later, the couple goes on to meet the Pope. And then Sarah eventually escapes to London after him he was deposed and worked as a hairdresser in Tottenham.

Which is interesting. Very interesting. You know Jacob Hawley owns a barbers in Tottenham. I do know that. Yeah. Are you saying there's... I don't know. Idiot means...

I mean, he owns maybe two barbershops in Tottenham, so he at least must know about the hair shopping, hair dressing community in Tottenham. Very ironic he had a hair transplant. It is ironic. Didn't need one either. Why does he own barbershops in Tottenham? He's a wheeler dealer, he's a businessman.

He's working class. He's got a big shiny gold watch. He doesn't know what to do with his money. All my money is in the Caribbean. Yeah. That's where the patron money goes. Class. and the only thing I spend it on

is Nazi memorabilia because that's what these people want me to spend it on yeah well that's what you wanted to spend it I'm a cipher that's what the people want me to spend it on I'm a cipher I am living they live vicariously through me right they pay me three pounds a month

you've got the spirit of woden so that I can they pay me three pounds a month so that I can buy a luga in all seriousness I have bought a German military watch from the 40s anyway

German military watch don't say which era From the 40s. German military watch from the 40s. Anyway, you know, these people, these fat fucks are subscribed, they can't buy Nazi memorabilia.

So you need to do it for them? I need to do it for them. Right. Your Honor. So it's sort of in the way that when you watch the satisfaction of watching a muckbang, you watch someone eat as much food as possible.

Is that what's called a muckbang? You know what a bang is? I think you did a lot of muckbang. Just the camera wasn't on. Get a muckbang up. You must know about muckbang. It's Korean thing. So it's like you basically live stream

I thought it was just a Korean dish No, look, here we go So I imagine you muck banged Quite hard But yeah these guys were doing it for lots of money And it's, you know, it's content But I think you just never turn the camera on Well yeah, I'm muck banged a dish and mince pies

I suppose you would say You did, that was a muck-bonged See, if you'd film that That would be great content Yes, I guess so Man eats 23 mix Like 32 mince pies 24

24 spicy soup. It's just a woman eating an entire side of salmon. This is deranged. Yeah, it's still, you know, there's something to it as far as content. So often it'll be hot skinny girls eating an unbelievable amount. Yeah. And are people finding this sexy or just... Some people, yeah, for sure. See, I'd rather watch a fat woman not eat something than watch a skinny girl eat loads of food. What resists the temptation? Yeah. So have it all out in front of her? Yeah. Yeah.

And watch her sort of struggle. They don't swallow, apparently. Who do you mean? Is that part of the Macbang? What, like tasting wine? Where do they put it? Where does it go? Where's it all vomit up the next door?

Sorry, I research this is like incredibly stupid, I think. Sorry, you're saying that all these people have eating disorders? Yeah, they have eaten disorders. I don't believe that for a second. Oh, they edit out and, oh, sorry. I thought what people would imply is because, oh, no, I thought he said they don't chew. That was me being stupid. I thought it'd just swallow it all whole.

Yeah, there's this fat guy. He's the famous one Yeah But people pissed off him Because he lost weight Nicardo Yeah because what happened is He'd like

In the way that we batch Cook this podcast Stupid name Excuse me He's one of those famous Muckbangers in the world Give him some respect Nicardo

He's conqueror the British Empire With a name like that You'd have to fucking Film yourself eating I don't know if he was on his birth certificate Muckbang's a great slur though I'd like to bring that in Yeah

You fucking MuckBankin Because what he'd done is he, in the way that we batch record these, I think he batch recorded loads of muckbangs for like six months. Yeah. So he's just fat, fat, fat. And the next week he's like, I'm not fat.

Anyway, we need to get to the 1974 documentary film that Ediamine commissions by a French director. It's hard to get a film funded though. It is. It's called Ediamine Dada, a self-portrait. And it follows him through official events and it's a very carefully choreograph thing. Amin provides his own.

What I do in a day? Basically, yeah. You know, is it. Who, I'm kidding a day. Amin provides music for the film. It gets a credit. It comes out at Cam, and he's humiliated. He provides music for the film.

Yes, there's a accordion, or a sombrero. Okay. He scores it. But it's a polymath. It's premiered at Cam, right, in 19704. This is very French in the 70s, though. They're so obsessed with being subversive. You know, this is around the time that the fucking Ayatollahs in the suburbs,

and people are saying, this guy's a great hippie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, they're just anything like this. Grumping dins. It's empty Western anti-imperial. Yeah, yeah. They think is like, you know, you know, high art. This is post-structuralist.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the edge of consent. What even is the edge of consent? Yeah. So Amin gets embarrassed by the film because it shows the Ugandan elite parachute regiment training, which is just coming down a playground slide. It's a Zambian space program. And there's also footage of Amin berating his foreign minister, Michael,

on Donga, two weeks after the premiere, Ondonga Sporti turns up floating in the Nile. So he's embarrassed? He's embarrassed by it and he orders a re-edit, right, that depicts him positively, and he holds 200 French citizens hostage in Uganda until the filmmaker agrees. So he does.

Yeah, and then he shows the Ugandan editor, the director's cut on Ugandan television repeatedly. Yeah, there's not much else on the UN. You said, what is it? There's this documentary. There's some live executions. There's a live execution. There's a lot of it.

And there's a guy asking you, you are transgender? You are ESPN? That's it, basically. what is it Charlie? I watched a I was in a club the other day and they were playing this like really old French film and it was like

1960s anal in a garage there was this like guy who came Anal? Yeah it was like a really amazing film I don't know who the director is but I think he's quite big and it was just him this like guy in a mask came out and he there's this woman there with a bum out It was the club? It's called Lost

Are you talking about the case of the village that raped a woman? No. What? The fucking what's her name? What's her name? What is the problem in the room? Go on love, what's her name?

Go on. Stop pretending. The thing you have nightmares about. What's the name? What's the name? No. The French. Remember what's the name?

Gilles. It's so funny. He's calling her what's the name? It's so funny. There's like the French, Giselle. Pellico. No, it was like a garage.

Jaselle Pelico, the only thing I'll say about what was obviously it's absolutely horrible what happened to her but it is biggest part of all time it is funny how she how he didn't have to go very far to find that many men french frenchmen french men yeah he was in rural france yeah and it was getting hundreds of men to sexually assault his wife it's not like he put it something out and read it and people flew in no it was the butcher it was the bagel he's like his head out of door oh guys anyway it's the most french together that he literally down his street there's only a hundred people

We live in his village and every single man. Without a doubt. There's community in France, isn't it? You said anal in the garage? Yeah, so there's this guy who comes out and he's in like a sort of fox mask or like a bear mask. Okay. He's going to, oh, oh! And then there's this woman with like her bum out and then he's kind of being restrained and she's sort of there on this kind of...

Taunting him. On a kind of girder. And then he comes in and then they let, they put a condom on him and then he... So it's porn. This is a clown. I don't know if it's a respect to the director then. I don't know this is Goddard. No, and the credits were rolling

and there was like wreaths and stuff. Reiths. Oh, what you mean like best film? It looked really like, you can just do that though, can't you? I was trying to find the director, but I haven't been able to find him. And he like, he fucks her

and he has a black condom on. Are you tearing up? And it's just like amazing how they did it. Well, is this, what? So was this the night out you went on like last Friday? Yeah. Where you spent 410, pounds.

Yeah. But not on porn. The porn was free. Right. Lost. It was really good. So you went to a porn cinema? Yes.

No, no, wait. So it's a club, but there's a club, but there's porn in the cinema and then they got like, there's one, one porny one.

It's in the old odium on Shaftbury Avenue. Christ, this country's this fucking pits. Is that all the club you went to? Lost. Was there any sexy stuff going on that? No.

No. But apparently there are sexy areas, but I would. that club. So what's got sort of a sex club? Sexy club. Right. With a bunch of guys watching Paul. It's not a sex club. It's the opposite of a sex club. Fucking whank club.

It's like when you went to that Portuguese sex festival and you went to the sex tent and it was just four like old Portuguese guys smoking. Smoking and wanking. Right. So Amin gets a French guy to make a film with him. And it's very similar to when we did the patron about Gaddafi's children. He watched back the edit and it's just someone getting fucked. It's just a- Hang on. Why have we done this?

Why have you done this? Oh, I shouldn't have got a French man to make the film. No, it says another truth about the human spirit. You ought to read between the lines. It's similar to when Gaddafi's son beat up a hotel bellboy in Switzerland. And then as a response, Gaddafi stopped all flights out of Libya and then petitioned the UN to abolish the country of Switzerland. It's a similar vibe and go, right, re-edited.

That's a great petition. It is great. Yeah. I would like to sign that, actually, to abolish Switzerland. What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it as a country? Yeah. Roger Federer, five languages. You're there. You're in the middle of Europe and you duck out World War II. Come on. Are you French? Are you German? Pick aside. Yeah. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything. Like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I remember 988. Canada's suicide crisis helpline. It's good to know, just in case. Anyone can call or text for free confidential support from a train responder anytime. 988 suicide crisis helpline is funded by the government in Canada.

So, we get to probably the most, probably the biggest thing in his reign, really, do you mean? This is the Intebi Airport hijack crisis. Yeah, for so many reasons. Now, Israel's involved, potted history of Israel and you. Uganda. A long relationship. At the start of the 20th century, Zionists floated Uganda as a potential site for a new

Israel. Britain said, oh yeah, maybe we'll do that. Amin obviously had been in bed with the Israelis at the start. They trained and equipped parts of his force. Now, obviously he then goes and gets turned by our friend Gaddafi, who's like, I don't like them. He's like, I'll just go with you, brother. So once he's in Ganafi's side, he forces all Israelis out of Uganda,

closed the embassy, breaks diplomatic relations. I don't know that. He told Israeli Prime Minister Golda Mayer to quote pack her knickers. He's funny. He's a funny guy. He embraces anti-Semitic language. He goes on his Hitler rants. So on the 27th...

Golda meir's a tough bitch. Golda mare? She's the Israeli prime minister. So she was the one who was in charge after the Munich. And so she's... A lot of these very daring assaults have been like inspired by her. She's a real tough broad. So this is in the context of the Munich athletes.

Yeah, yeah. Where the Israelis had tried to... Which has got a great film Munich directed by Spielbo. Unbelievable film. The Israelis had tried to save the athletes and they'd fucked it and all the athletes got shot. Yeah. So that's... Why is that funny, Charlie?

So obviously they... Obviously, Israelis foreign operations. Just laughing at Israeli athletes getting shot. I was so just... So unnerving. Obviously, you know, Israel had successfully extracted Eichmann. That was an incredible feat of logistics. Yeah.

They'd fuck the Munich terrorist attack. So on the 27th of June, 1976, an Air France airbus. Did they fuck it or did the Germans fuck it? The Munich one. Because I think it might have been a German. No, but do you not remember that it was the, it ended. We did it in the Gaddafi series. They ended at the airport.

Yeah. And the Israelis were going to, like, go in and then they just killed everyone. And then they just shot everyone. Mainly Jewish and Israeli passengers are on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. And then the popular front of the liberation of Palestine, they seized the flight during a stopover in Athens. Obviously, nothing.

They don't do anything. Sleep over in Athens. A nap over in Athens. They have a quick nap in Athens, when in Rome. And they divert to Libya. And then they go further down to Uganda. These are dream countries right now. countries. Yeah. I'm on a gap year. I'm going Libya, Uganda. They heard passengers into an old

hall in a disused part of the terminal in Tebe Airport in Uganda. They separate the Jewish passengers. They release the rest. So they have 106 hostages. They demand $5 million in cash and the release of 53 Palestinians that are held in Israel. And they say that within three days, we're going to start executing hostages if nobody meets the demands. Do we know if this is coming from the top? Is Arafat involved or we don't really know? Or is this just a... I don't know. I don't Anyway, so Amin did not plan this hijacking, but he gives the terrorists protection. I mean, Arafat was his best man. He's his best man.

He's his best man. Yeah, you got a... You know what? Lad, I'm in a bind. Me, Casso, O'Soucassah. Yeah, exactly. Scratch your back, scratch mine. Yeah.

Amin then basically, like, loves the attention, because the world's attention is on... He's an attention seat card. Yeah, so he starts just sort of rocking up. He goes and visits the hostages daily. He's like, hey, how you doing? Yeah, yeah. Cracking jokes. That's the thing.

This is the Trumpian. aspect of this is why Trump should be an African dictator. All they want is attention. But then Trump's got it all the time at every point. So if you don't have it, you're just desperate to find any way to get back into the media. Amin's just cracking jokes with the hostages. Now, Israel are planning

a rescue. Now, while this is happening, there is a what's the old lady called? There's a woman called Dora Block, I think, who's a Jewish old lady. Yeah. Who Chokes on a chicken bone, right? Chokes on a chicken bone and goes to hospital. So she gets released as well.

the only Jewish hostage gets released. Because they don't want her dying. No. Just from choking on a chicken bone. But it means like you go to hospital, you know, whatever. It's quite, I suppose it's quite... You're a hostage in choking a chicken bite. That feels...

Well, it's quite a Jewish thing to do, isn't it? Oh, shucks. I'm a hostage and I choke in a fucking chicken bone. You know, it's quite Woody Allen, isn't it? Sure. Sure. Yeah. What a schmuck I am.

Only me would get on a hostage, Christ, and I'd choke of a fucking chicken bone. I don't know if she's from New York on it. Anyway, seven days after the hijacking, Israel initiate Operation Thunderbolt. Israel is really mad. Israeli bad. Yeah. Israel israeli mad. Yeah.

They initiate Operation Thunderbolt. Now, what no one seems to realize is that Israel had built the airport. So they have all the engineers and blueprints at home. so the Israeli commandos used Hercules aircraft they fly undetected through Central Africa for hours and then they carry men

and they've got armoured vehicles and one of the vehicles they have in the plane is disguised as Ediamine's black Mercedes so when they get out which is he's been driving to the airport to see the ostrichs with so they then storm the terminal

they're shouting instructions in Hebrew and English pretending to be Idiomene pretending to be Idiomene Jean-Jacques Memoni, who's a 19-year-old French immigrant to Israel, he stood up in joy at being rescued.

Oh, brilliant! He's mistaken for a hijacker and shot instantly. That's really bad. That's really bad. Israeli bad. Again, quite a sort of schmucky... Oh, my...

Hey! Oh, just my luck! Ugandan officers assigned to guard hostages were drinking at a nearby hotel. Idi Amines out the country at this point is somewhere else. It's a very... Because he drops in

unannounced. The fact that it means cars turning up, they think it's probably he did a mean. Yeah, exactly. Because he doesn't have a schedule. It's not suspicious because he could pop in at any time. Yeah. But this is a very stereotypical terrorist attack. Yes. In that the African guards

are drinking. The Jews are like dying even though they're being saved. The operation takes 53 minutes. All the hijackers are killed as well as 45 Ugandan soldiers. 25 percent of Uganda's military air force is destroyed.

I mean... I mean, they killed it. They go above and beyond. They smashed it. Not like Israel. Not like Israel to go above and beyond, is it? Yeah. The operation rescues 102 of the hostages.

Now, Israel suffers one fatality. Yonatan Netanyahu. Bibi's brother. Not your... Not my baby. Not your baby. Not your Bibi Netanyahu. Benjamin Netanyahu, who is at this point a...

secret service he's in the special figure and hero because this the Intebi raid is like is such a key part of Israel's national consciousness and he's like the martyr

because this is the sort of this is payback for the hostage the Munich Olympics thing now when Amin hears about this he's very very annoyed he's humiliated he'd been in Mauritius at a summit he's been caught with his pants down

yeah exactly he's been Peter Mandelson's Yeah, which those photos are only topped by Hugh Edwards in terms of old man in the shirt with pants down. Yeah, yeah. The Mandelson stuff's mental. Yeah. Anyway. So Amin comes back and he says the 14, he labels a random 14 soldiers, traitors, shoots 12 of them personally.

Yeah. And then he retaliates. The elderly Jewish hostages. I mean, this is pretty brutal. This is fucked. The elderly Jewish hostage who had choked to the chicken by just my luck. I choked with a chicken. about and is in the hospital she saved her life she's recovering hospital they then they then

beat her to death supposedly he maybe shot her himself he killed all the medical staff he kills the medical staff that are treated her uh he then he then he then orders she's an old woman yeah he's choked some chicken about she's just recovered yeah oh finally i get oh my god i don't believe it well what a schmuck i am yeah it's Yeah, no. Is this the most Woody Allen death has ever been?

I think this is the most... It's so unlucky to be kidnapped, be a hostage. Choking a chicken bag. Save your life and then dragged out of bed, been to death

and shot by the and everyone else has been freed. Everyone else has been freed. Yeah. I think she might be the most Jewish women of all time. She's like the peak

like the archetype. Oh my God. You won't believe it. I don't believe it. How was your trip, Dora? Oh my God. The airport facilities were cherished. She doesn't even mention that bit.

She's just like, the price of this. I got beaten to death. You see how much sandwiches cost in the airport? I was beat to death. They piqued me to death. I choked the chicken bone. But the worst thing was to markup on the cans of Coca-Cola. I could not believe it.

Daylight robbery. Anyway. So, no. He is tragically murdered. Christ. Christ. A media mean also discovered that Kenya had assisted in allowing safe passage

for the plane. So he then orders the army to kill everyone who's Kenyan in Uganda. He acts immediately with these sort of things. He's got to be robust. He's robust against Dora Block. He was robust against Kenyans. 245 Kenyans are killed.

3,000 are exiled. Displaced. And then Libya, as ever, Gaddafi's got his bros back. he protests the raid of the UN he says this is an infringement of Ugandan sovereigns I think it is.

It is. You can't be doing that. You can't be doing that. Just as Eichmann... I do love these sort of debates though when people are like, well, you can't... It's like you can't...

They've stolen Israeli people. It's like, well, you can't come into... It's like the Eichmann thing almost. Yeah, it is the same as Eichmann. Sorry, you're not allowed to cross my border. You've got... You've fucking... Yeah, that's our policy.

Yeah. Our domestic policy is to hold Nazi Walker of course. So in Tebber makes Amin famous. But I think this is the start of the world cutting on to how bad he is. Yes. 76. And also humiliation.

I think that probably affects some of his aura. Yeah. And I think it's kind of beginning at the end for his regime. But in Israel, they obviously, this is like a foundational... Yeah. They love it.

Yeah. They... We don't fight with the Israelis. Israeli, really bad. Israeli bad. Oh, because the Intebbe airport and the Intabia Airport crisis is what Last King of Scotland

plays off. Yes. Where they say James McAvoy was there and they got strung up with fish hooks in a duty free. They forced Gump James McAvoy into history. Which we talked about on the patron. We did a deep dive on the Last King of Scotland. But this is the main sort of damage that Edia mean. I mean, obviously the West

are already like, you're looking at, you're with Gaddafi, you're with the Soviets. And do the Soviets pull out after this as well? He starts to get more and more diplomatically isolated The Soviets pull away It's also for such a macho man It's humiliating Yeah, he's been debacked

Yeah, what is it, Charlie? Is he an insecure man or is he just a nutter? I think he's, I don't think he's insecure I think he's a, I think he's a male I think he's a male role model I love him But like what, sorry, sorry, I love him You don't think he's at all

No, I think he's a positive male role model Yeah, I genuinely do. And of all the, of all the, no, I generally do. And, you know, he gets his hands dirty, which a lot of dictators, you know. Is that a good, that's a good lesson. I'm just saying that he mucks in, he muckbangs in. Right. He kills as many people as he can.

Sure. But he, you know, when. Can I clear the plates? You know, he stands up, you know. I'm just saying that he, you know, a lot of dictators, they hide their killing. He gets involved. He does it himself. Let me have a go on the canon.

Bang, bang, bang. Is there anyone else that does that ever? Well, you know, Pol Pot's kind of very hard to love. Yeah, yeah, there's not a lot of charisma there. No. Papadoc was sort of a similar to Pol Pot and it was just a kind of bloke in a suit, small bloke who said, I mean, he did all the voodos. Papua, it was more voodoo stuff, but it was less fun.

Papa Doc, I felt had less of a good sense of humour. This is, I think Gaddafi had a brilliant personality, but ultimately it was trying to be taken seriously. Yeah. You're laughing at Gaddafi. Here, you're laughing with him. You're laughing with E.D. You're laughing with him.

He's the only one on the cannons as well. Hey? No one else is getting on the cannons. That's what I mean. He's like, let me have a go. And do you know what? I would have more respect for Trump if he had been on the operation to kidnap the Venezuelan president. Yeah.

He was like, I want to go. Yeah. Let me fly the helicopter and it immediately crashed. Do you know what I mean? There's something. Yeah. There's something Trump, there's something E.D.ish in Trump. Yeah.

And I think Trump could lead. more into that. If he stopped trying to be an American politician. I think Trump should make himself an army man, a fake army man. Yeah. Lots of medals. Yeah. Exactly.

This sort of get up. He should just bang medals on himself. I don't know why he hasn't. He basically has. He's got FIFA to award him the Peace Prize. Yeah, but why isn't that a physical thing that he's wearing all the time? He should have like a big sword. Yeah.

Anyway, in our next episode, we will deal with the downfall of this glorious man. And it's, what I will say, though, is I think it's probably the happiest ending a dictator's ever had. Yeah, it's a bit of a, I think story-wise, it's a little... I disagree. I think it's a happy ending. I think it's obviously... Sunset.

I think it is the sunset. It is. Ediamine goes laughing into the night. And it's not, listen, it's not the... A rare ending for a dictator. It is a rare ending for a dictator. But it's, listen, I will say now, it's not the homoerotic thrill of Gaddafi getting sodomized with a bayonet.

It's not that. No. You're not leaving the cinema going fucking hell. What was that at the end? You know, you're not Charlie in that club in Sharsbury Avenue.

Fucking watching a guy anal gape. Well, you imagine it goes up and then the credits roll. Ding! It's Looney Tunes. That's all, folks.

And then it's the Curbion enthusiasm unit. Dadaffi's been bent over a barrel. Didhaffi's been bent over a barrel. Did it. Ding. I reckon the Gaffee Gdafi films opens with that and it opens with a thing and then it pauses and he goes

you're probably wondering how I got it. No, the Ediamine finale there's a lot of great stuff in it but he does ride into the sunset. Anyway, that episode's already on the Patreon along with our bonus episodes on Last King of Scotland we're doing history of cannibalism

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