Fin vs History - Stagecoach W*anker (with James Buckley) | Dick Turpin & Highwaymen (Part 2)
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Welcome back to Finnverse History. I'm joined by Horatio Gould. Your money or your wife.
And, well, we have a guest, James Buckley. Look at this. Afternoon. A British icon in the studio. Look at this.
Thank you for wearing the suits. We always comment on our guest suits. This is Essex black tie, I believe.
It doesn't look court appearance
Like most people look court appearance
But this actually looks a bit more
Stolen money
Yeah, yeah
I don't mind to see
It's stolen money
Yeah, it's Brinks Matt
I'm not allowed to wear this suit very often
Because my wife said
And I did wear this
I bought this for a wedding
And I did wear a shirt and tie
I wore a burgundy tie
And my wife said
You look like Mr Bean
Yeah, that's fair
And it ruined it
I was like, how do I look
Yeah
And she just absolutely destroyed me
But you do a podcast with your wife
Which I find insane
Because I mean
I mean that's the opposite of
For me I do a podcast to
To not spend time
Yeah
Yeah
She's my favourite person
Yes well alright
You can be gay about it
But yeah
I'm sure she'd say the opposite
Yeah
Yeah
But um
Finn's wife's his least favourite person
No that's not fair
But she's in the top three
favourite people
But we're talking about Dick Turpin
Now do you
You were saying before that you
You've started a podcast with Joe
Thomas and near between us
Yeah
And he's a history guy
And you were hoping that he would come on with you.
We were supposed to both be on.
Right.
Right.
And he's also got a degree from Cambridge in history.
Yeah.
Really?
So I thought, oh, I'll just be able to kick back and just enjoy myself.
To be fair, we don't like degrees in this room.
No, we're anti, we're anti-intellectuals, to be honest.
I'm your guy.
I'm right out of your street.
This is history fan TV.
But I do know with the suits and stuff that you guys like to keep it classy.
Yeah.
So I got myself a little, just one of these.
Oh, that's nice.
That is very classy.
Do you know what?
I thought you'd like it.
So I got you guys one as well.
Are you joking?
I did, yeah.
They're brand new.
They're not been used or anything.
It's post-COVID.
So I got you one.
That's nice.
I kept it in its bag so that you knew that it's not.
Yeah.
I didn't just get it from a charity shop.
You got a pipe sheath.
Oh, that's very nice.
I've got one for you as well.
Slightly different vibe.
That's a lovely bit of business that.
That's a lovely bit of business.
Right.
You're not much of a crack pipe kind of guy.
I'm not a crack pipe.
guy no as pipes goes it's probably one of my lesser um but yeah it shows the difference in um
what a pipe can mean you know because you say like a pipe this is the the symbol of sophistication
in class yeah if harold wilson in the 60s is like talking to the sobies yeah it really changes
yeah it does change the vibe once you put crack crack crack in your pipe crack in front of anything
makes it bad baby crack whore whore's already it's already pretty fruity stack
I tell you so the press love the word crack.
Yeah.
It's some tabloid, you know.
You know that stuff that you can suck out of a balloon?
Alascrack.
Charlie's just Google ass crack.
Thank you.
Just to complete the crack riff.
I like that that one there is a box around the crack.
Have you seen John Lennon and Yoko Ono's arse?
Type it in.
This is phenomenal.
Have you seen this, James?
John Lennon and Yoko did a naked shoot,
and it's the greatest range in lengths of arces I've ever seen.
What the fuck?
Zoom in.
and zoom in, zoom in.
Crazy.
Look how long that crack goes on.
Wow.
And look how short...
Now, they need to split the difference.
She needs some of his ass to be my normal ass,
and he needs way less ass.
Look how big his ass is?
How are I just finding out about this now?
Isn't that?
Now, you think about when he...
Guys, go over to the video.
I don't normally say this,
but you have to see this.
When he wipes, he's doing...
He's going up half his back.
He gets through some papers.
He needs one of those window cleaners or skyscrapers.
He needs one of those...
Fucking give piece of charles.
Look at that.
And then her ass is way too small.
Way too small.
His ass is genuinely above his waist.
Fuck.
He could shit in a trough.
In the entirety of a trough.
The press love the word crack.
You know that balloon stuff?
Yes.
Laughing gas.
I used to do uni.
It's legal, right?
Hippy crack.
That's what the press call it.
No, no.
Is it not legal?
Well, it's legal for like hospitals.
Or whips cream.
Oh, I thought.
I don't think you don't get prescribed.
You can buy it.
And you can say, like, I just love making whipped cream.
But I think if you're doing it as in balloons, it's illegal.
It is illegal.
I just love how that's turned into hippie crack.
Yeah.
Watch out.
The new...
I think that's the only way that I would have a downfall is if I got caught
doing hippie crack and my audience would leave me,
I can't believe he's succumbed to hippie crack.
The footballers love it, don't they?
They're always doing it just before a big match and stuff.
Oh, they're always like, oh, this footballer was caught doing hippie crack last night.
All over East London, you have all the canisters.
People like drive with them.
People like go joyriding and do hippie crack and then do donuts.
Yeah.
Not me.
It's good stuff.
Well, I don't think Dick Turpin was on hippie crack.
Dick Turban.
Dick Turbin, maybe.
Before we knew you were doing this,
did you ever think about Dick Turpin at all?
Not much.
I do enjoy, I do like history.
And what was really weird was...
What do you like about it?
Sorry, that's interesting.
Really threatening?
What about then?
Go on then, mate.
Go on then, mate.
I improve it.
What'd you like?
It's quite interesting, isn't it?
Dick Turpin was around in the early 18th century.
He meets his end in 1739.
And what we like to do for us,
thick, many of listeners,
is place 1739 within the context of something either side of it.
You can choose any time.
So just say it was after this and before this.
1739.
I suppose it was before the Range Rover.
Yeah, it was before the Range Rover.
Comprehensive to smash that.
Let's get a date in there.
Let's make sure we're sure.
1970.
Wide birth, but let's go.
Lovely tour dee deeer cushion.
And after, I suppose, after chariots?
After chariots.
Okay, he's gone quite quite a range there.
I think that places it perfectly.
It's right in the middle there.
There's a good 4,000 years.
And you've, Dick Turpin, bang in the middle.
Bang in the middle.
So post chariots pre-range brother.
Do you think people in ancient Rome had a stigma around range
driver drivers.
No, I think, well, yeah, maybe show off.
What, in the way that the range rover driver?
Because nowadays in London, you can't insure a range rover.
I'm not even doing it here.
Because it's got such bad, um...
Get Nick's all the time.
Security gets the easiest ones to Nick, right?
I think it's just they're so attractive to Nick.
Right.
So I've got something, I've got quoted, I haven't got one, got a fucking cash guy,
but apparently it's like 30 grand just to insure it for a year.
Really?
Madness.
Woke nonsense.
So what is the,
stereotype of a range rover driver then?
I don't know, James, you must know some.
Is it like new money?
I've had a range rover.
There you go.
That's what I was getting at.
It's sort of, um,
flash?
Yeah,
a bit flash.
I think it's quite classy,
I thought.
I think it used to be classy.
Land Rover.
Your new money,
that's the problem.
It's true.
Land Rover.
It used to be classy when you, you know,
chuck the dogs in the back of the ranger and head off into the countryside or something.
I hated being a range rover owner.
Right.
Did you feel it?
It's so Route 1.
It's such a boring car.
That's it, isn't it?
It's you go, I've got money.
What's the car I need to have?
Mine was that I had kids.
Right.
And I was like, I want the biggest car that Britain has.
So if I have a crash, I'm still...
Women's bodies change when they're pregnant.
It makes sense.
It makes sense.
They get...
Their hands get fat.
Crazy.
Did you know that?
Hands get fat.
Madness.
Anyway, sorry.
So Dick Turpin was mainly stage coach.
Stagecoches.
Stage coach, I guess, would be.
the
That would be
a bit of fun
Yeah
You enjoying that
I think that's
where we got that
joke from
So now
in our previous episode
We dealt with
He was a butcher
And
he then turned to crime
He was fencing
Venison
Which is what
In Essex
They used to launder deer
That's right
Yeah
Did you run around
A lot of crime
You don't have to say
That's right
Like
What's that?
What's that?
That's right
That's right
Like you knew that
It's fine
Yeah that's right
Yeah I knew that
So the Essex
gang have collapsed.
Yeah.
So that's what we did in our last episode of the Essex?
The Gregory gang.
Now, do their name still haunt the streets of Dagenham?
We still talk about them.
Really?
Yeah.
Because there's been a lot of gang since.
Absolutely.
I don't know how much.
They're all just trying, because that's the problem, really.
The Gregory gang really sort of romanticised all that sort of thing.
And you get these young men in Essex now.
Yeah.
And they want to live up to that sort of.
Original kind of Andrew Tate stuff really.
Yeah.
The Gregory sphere.
Yeah.
They're very alpha male.
Is it possible?
up around a lot of crime.
A little, there was a little bit of crime.
There was always a little bit of crime.
There was one day where I was taking my young,
this is not, this isn't a completely true story.
There was one day where I was taking my,
you're using it backwards.
I'm middle class, James.
I don't know how to use.
My instant would be to shove this up my arse.
That's what I think it would do.
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No.
So the gang have been shattered.
Smash the gangs.
Starm will smash the gangs finally.
And so Turpin and his companion, is it Matthew, Rodden, Roudon, Thomas.
Turpin and his companion, Thomas Rowden, take to the roads.
And they rob travellers on, these are all areas that are like now in London, but they're all like villages.
Finchly common, Hounslow Heath, Epping Forest.
So Turpin gains notoriety.
because the reports suggest that his
ambushing is chaotic, opportunistic,
incompetent.
His ambushing is opportunistic.
That's interesting.
I mean,
that kind of goes without saying he's a highwayman.
Well,
I don't know how much opportunistic is.
I mean,
you're planning an ambush because you think
this is a good part of the road or whatever
to ambush.
As opposed to like an improv.
Oh,
fuck it.
Fuck it.
How much you got?
Yeah, go on.
I think he was a bit like that, though,
wouldn't he?
Because he was just an idiot.
Everything he did,
he managed to fuck up one way or another.
I mean, he survived quite a long time
for an idiot.
Yeah, I think he...
You're saying that when he poiled a kettle of boiling water over an old man
He was actually trying to make a cup of tea
It just got away from him
Oh shit, I'm really sorry, mate
He's trying to make a cup or in it
Is it back out first?
Old man or fuck, sorry
It's like a little naked gun film
Yeah
So apparently one report describes him as robbing a driver for only a few shillings
Is there quite a high risk to rob someone who's only got a, what's a shilling pence?
He's doing it for the love of the game though
And also, you don't know how much is in there.
No.
I guess it's quite exciting, isn't it?
I'm not knowing.
So the first report that links Turpin
and Rowden to Highway robbery
is July 1735.
Turpin thinks he recognises the man
they are trying to rob and then tries to kill him
but Rowland talks him out of it.
So he's clearly a hot head.
Yes.
However, the violent exchange is enough
to up the reward for their capture
to £100, equivalent to several years' wages.
Right.
So by October, 7035 is where he's on one.
He's fucking on one.
Yeah.
This is peak turpin.
This is peak turpin.
he's around like the northern bits of london what's now what the a1m or something
and he's um he's fucking everyone up right he's jumping out in front of them stand and deliver
but we don't have that he's getting cocky now he's getting cocky yeah he's also he's absolute
menace he's not the image we talked about last time the image is that he's like yeah there's a
no fielding fucking apple tv show coming out yeah it's all whimsy but he's you know he's pouring
he's making old man tea and shit and he's um well there's a lot of sexual assault to put it to put
it i don't think he did that though did he did he do that specific
Or was it the...
You was lawyer?
I don't think you can prove.
He was in the vicinity, but you need to...
Not all highway men.
So the pressure becomes too much for Rowden
and he goes to Gloucester to start counterfeiting again.
And he gets convicted of it
and then recognised the robber
but he avoids the noose and is sent to the colonies.
But again, the noose is tightening around Turpin.
in more ways than one
what you're suggesting
he's a spixie-wanking
I was trying to add drama to it
he's got an orange in the mouth
the noose is tightening
there's a plug up his ass
and a bag on his head
anyway
the police are after him
is my point
so this was funny
the podcast series I listen to
they say he goes to the Netherlands
for about a year and a half
and then he resurfaces
and they go
got no idea why
he's in a pub with his wife
we can't know
why he comes back.
Maybe you wanted to see his wife.
Maybe.
That can't, surely, that can't be why he came back.
No, you was trying to start a podcast with his wife.
Maybe.
Meet the Turpins.
You're going to meet the Turpins.
At home with the Turpins.
Is that what you're called?
I think it's just called the Buckley's.
The Buckleys.
It took quite a while to get the podcast now.
You really, you really search for that.
I don't know.
Considering it's my name.
It's not my finest moment.
Me and wife.
Do you turn the cameras off?
And then are you like, do you and your wife have a shtick on the pod?
No, it's all...
We turn the cameras off and I carry on making her angry.
Yeah.
Because what we were saying was great,
is because your wife doesn't even particularly seemingly want to be that famous.
She's kind of take it or leave it.
She sort of hates it.
She's genuinely quite annoyed.
That's probably why it's been so successful.
Basically, she married a successful actor.
Right.
At the time, making a load of money.
Yeah.
And she could just pot her about.
And she's the greatest mum.
in the world and she loves being a mum and stuff like that and then the old acting work dried
up and I was like I've roped her into sort of forging a podcast career yeah and I think she's
quite beer about it yeah I think she's quite nice because everyone's so desperate these days as you were
saying yeah everyone's so colloquially desperate for like any attention you mean you're not
you're not going to you're not going to your guests aren't going to guest on your pot
no no we've done we've actually made a point of making sure that because it's a seal once you
open that oh you can't because my kids are you
They're 12 and 14 and they're two boys.
And at that age right now, all kids want to be YouTubers.
I mean, me and my wife, Claire, have got a YouTube channel.
And they're always like, can we be on it and stuff?
And we're like, when you're old enough to decide whether you want to do, go down that road,
then I'm not going to put this on you now.
Well, this is a new conversation for parents, right?
It's the sit down.
Are you sure you want to become a YouTuber?
Dad, I'm a YouTuber.
No, you're not.
Get in the bin.
Christ.
He comes back from Amsterdam and he gets spotted and in.
and they're accosted.
It suggests someone's informing on him.
So he's famous at this point.
He's like, he's the thing held up in Parliament.
They're talking about, it's not knife crime.
It's not Asbo's, it's highwaymen.
You know, that's like the moral panic of the age.
Turpin escapes, heading 40 miles north to Cambridge.
His wife and friends are released, but the hunt for dick continues.
I bet you enjoyed writing that in the script, didn't you?
Filthy, filthy researcher.
It's disgusting.
Wash your mouth out with soap, Phoebe.
Disgrace.
You just made me say that on a podcast.
listened to
by millions of people
the hunt for dick
continues
what you're doing
your own time
Phoebe is not
should not come
into the
absolute disgrace
who do you think
I am
I'm a father of two
the hunt for dick
well you've been
caught
a couple of hunts for dicks
perhaps my dick
London Hudes
caught you're
to catch a dick
you know London Hughes
has a Netflix
special out
called to catch a dick
she caught
was a fin
she was just
I was flapping
I was flapping
and ill
luckily she threw
you back into the ocean
yes
yeah I was in Epping forest
found an Epping forest
in a net
London Hughes
is a dick trap
floundering and a net
yeah I took MDMA
once and then cheated on my then girlfriend
with London Hughes in the same room
yeah dick twirping
dick twerking
um anyway
Christ
so
my point is Phoebe you're fired for that sentence
the hunter dick
clean out your desk now
sorry night
it's just another euphemism
you haven't done MDMA since have you
no
because my dick was cool
that doesn't happen
Every time, you don't get caught.
I don't know that.
My data is telling me that I take drugs and my dick gets caught.
I don't, I'm not a drug person.
No.
Right?
Famously.
Yeah.
So I can't tell when the crack pipe in his stuff.
Famously, Charlie, I'm anti-drugs.
Anyway, so we're now in March 1737.
He's come back from Holland.
He's fleed up north to Cambridge and he forms a partnership with a guy called Matthew King.
So he's come up from.
from Hollande, he's probably got a very boring story about taking mushrooms to the Anne Frank
house, then going to a brothel. Now, the Anne Frank House was telling you as if he's the first
person to have done that. But he was probably there. An Frank house was there, but it wasn't called
the Anne Frank house. It was just the house. And Anne Frank wasn't even, it could have been like
Nigel Frank's house. Yeah. Because I don't know how long the Franks have been there.
Let's find out when the Anne Frank house was built. And when it got called the Anne Frank house, well,
I know when it got called the Anne Frank house, but when did it? Charlie, are you searching for
Anne Frank? No. I know, I can tell your face. You've Googled Anne Frank porn. Have you Googled
An Frank porn, haven't you?
No.
Yes, you have.
And I bet it exists
and actually I'd quite like to see it.
Yeah.
Charlie!
No, no, Charlie.
Charlie, Charlie, we've got a guess.
This is kind of anime Frank porn.
Don't, anime Frank porn.
An anime Frank porn.
Anime Frank.
Look, Phoebe's absolutely redeemed herself.
She's washed her mouth out with soap.
And she's come back and said,
the secret rear annex of Anne Frank House
was replaced with a large one in 1739,
the year the Dick Turpin dies.
Oh, the rhythms of history.
So Turpin orders this well-dressed traveller
I haven't even said what's happening
On the London to Cambridge Road
Right which I guess what's that M-11
I think the M-11 was a round
No I'm saying I'm trying to translate it
I'd say yeah I'd say something like that
What's the bit after the M-11 when the M-11
It goes to the A-1 don't it
And then M-1
Two dads chatting
It's like a Google and Alexa talking
A1 M-A-1M
A-1M yeah
It's a scotch corner
Yeah
Lovely bit of this
Not enough services on the M-11, though.
Doesn't drive.
So, on the London to Cambridge Road,
a lone well-dressed traveller rides towards town,
an easy target.
Dick Turpin's hanging in the trees.
He's been caught by hundreds of years.
Is he in the net?
To catch a Dick Turpin.
To catch a Dick Turpin.
That's my rebuttal.
A caught dick answers.
Oh, Christ.
I'm still holding a crack pipe.
Turpin orders the man to halt
and the traveller, unfazed, approaches calmly.
Now, Turpin threatens him and the man laughs.
Well, doggy, dog, come, brother Turpin.
If you don't know me, I know you
and should be glad of your company.
Because, you know, rapists were quite jolly back in this time.
Well, that's one of the pubs in this story.
The jolly rapist, of course, yeah.
Sorry, that's where they meant.
You have a quick half down the jolly rapist.
Quick half.
He's Matthew King, who is a successful highwayman
who's looking for a buddy.
Because it's like buddy cop.
It's like good cop, bad cop,
except they're both robbers.
Right.
Bad robber, bad robber.
Yeah, bad, yeah.
So Turpin prefers work.
It's easier to work in tandem, I guess.
Hmm.
Because, I don't know, numbers.
Lonely, otherwise, it's a lonely.
It's a lonely.
It's like being a stand-up comedian.
In many ways,
where you think the mental health of a highwayman is.
Thank you.
I'm glad you brought that up.
I think that's where we should, you know,
talk about our sponsor, Huel.
Yeah.
Or better help.
Better help, highwaymen.
Are they in anxious people, do you reckon?
I imagine they got quite like a stressful life
It's not like a
It's not a chilled lazy life
You have to go up and get quite angry
It's like people who work at service stations
I think where do you live
Do you know what I mean?
They stop existing
Yeah
It's like a sort of limbo land
No it's like they're like
NPCs in the game
Yeah they go press X
And then they come to life
And they talk
But once you're not looking at them
They don't exist
So they really
But then they've got a commute
Anomoto I mean that must be rough
You ever thought about that
I've not
I'm gonna think
You know, I'm going to think about it probably for the rest of my life now.
It must just be so bleak.
No, I reckon you get quite fond of your station.
Well, you'd love it.
Yeah.
You'd love anything.
You'd love anything.
Wasn't there a documentary years ago called, like, the service station or something like that?
About George Michael.
What's that?
He's saying that the...
His cottaging, famously, it was cottaging.
And that's the service station.
That's what careless whispers about.
Yeah.
The fatal mistake is that King and Turpins steal this racehorse called white stockings.
now horses at this point are named
quite sexy things
like white stockings as black best
it's sort of all you know
fires you up
it does fire me up a bit
the Lorraine Kelly
his horse easy now
easy now
oh shh
I am a Lorraine Kelly whisperer
the white stockings
the horse's owner reports the theft
to a landlord
who uses his contacts
to trace it to a pub
tracing a horse
that's a strange thing
isn't it like a credit card
again I just feel like
back in those days
there was only like a dozen people in the country.
Yeah.
So you knew what horse it was.
Yeah.
Oh, that's their horse.
Yeah, because there's 12.
And you knew if someone's wearing a certain jacket,
you'd be like, right, well, that's Dick Turpin.
Yeah.
So Dick Turpin's got a grey blue coat.
Yeah, because I guess there was no brands as well.
Yeah, you wouldn't have like North Face puffers.
No.
It'd be like your nan made your blazer.
So the horses, they traced this white horse to a pub,
and a mob then goes into Fine Turpin and Matthew King in the pub,
King's brother is found inside
blah blah they question him
but then they
at the sight of the mob
I don't really understand this bit
Turpin shoots King somehow
Martin Luther King
not Martin Luther King
no there was a
there was some confusion
wasn't there
and he went to shoot the guy
that was coming after him
but he shot his mate by accident
but he was shot twice
so it's sort of
but it's very hard to shoot someone twice
absolutely in these days
yeah especially with
that's where you got two guns though
yeah with those little pistols
Yeah.
Very inaccurate, right?
They were inaccurate, but to shoot him twice.
So it's been disputed.
It's always said that Dick Turpin killed his mate and then fled.
It went up north or something.
Yeah, yeah.
But a lot of people said it's nearly impossible.
To accidentally shoot him once is impossible.
To accidentally shoot him twice.
This is like a sort of 9-11 conspiracy theory.
Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.
The first one thing is an accident.
The second one, you knew it was a terrestrial.
Yeah.
When Turpin's second bullet hit, he'd go, right, well, he meant that.
He clearly meant that.
Um, so turpin flees, right, uh, King dies later, because in this day and age,
if you got shot with like, they're marbles, essentially, marbles and guns, you get shot by it
and then it, you basically die of sepsis.
Maybe he thought, you know, when you spill red wine and people put white wine on it.
Yeah.
Maybe that's what was trying to do after the accidental first shot.
Knock it through.
He was just like, oh, sorry, right.
Let me try and, you know, let's clean it up, maybe.
What, like those Newton's cradle, or you get a bullet, and you get another one to get it out.
Or you shoot that bullet out of you, fuck.
Sometimes if you've got a nail that you're trying to get rid of, so you just bash it
further in, and then it's gone. Then there's just the wall. Yeah. You go, right, well, that's just the
wall now. That's fine. Right. So then, then in May 37, Turpin's on the back foot now, I'd say.
Right, so is Robin Hood in. There's a Robin Hood in. He fears being recognized. He goes into a cave
in the woods, and he gets followed by Thomas Morris, who is a servant of the keeper of Epping
Forrest. He's armoured two pistols, and Turpin calls out, and then Morris, this is in nighttime.
He fires both pistols kind of wildly at the noise, but obviously misses, because I think he's
I think basically, pistols are around, but people have swords because it's just way more accurate.
Pistols are like EVs of today.
Yes, exactly.
They've got range anxiety about their pistols.
Absolutely.
It's not going to hit him.
Yeah.
I can't you.
My dad's got an electric car and he generally just doesn't drive anywhere.
Why?
He's just terrified.
He's got crippling range anxiety.
So he just can't get back again, yeah.
He just gets cabs.
It's crazy.
Diesel cups.
Explain it to me.
Well, it runs out, doesn't it?
It runs out of battery.
It's not a fuel.
Wouldn't that?
Wouldn't that be the same thing?
with a normal car.
No, because you're a petrol station
because it's very rare to have
a charging place.
And apparently only one in three
actually work.
Oh, right.
So there's a crippling
mental health crisis amongst
electric vehicle drivers.
I've got a lot of other stuff
going on if you're getting an electric vehicle.
Yeah.
Because it feels like they're worried
about everything.
Yes, they are.
Oh, no, something's going on
and fucking God knows where.
So,
it's great to be Jeremy Clarkson
who can't drive.
So Morris fires the pistols
wildly.
Turpin, skilled pistol marksman, one shot, one kill.
More than just dead, Turpin vanishes.
And now 200 pound reward is offered nearly 10 times
a skilled worker's annual wage.
Because you could just fucking disappear.
That was like 60 grand.
You could just disappear back in the day.
You can just fucking go.
Change your coat.
No one to know you are.
Genuinely.
Oh, is that a grey blue coat or no, it's blue grey.
Oh, right.
That's not Dick Tupper.
Is it?
Yeah.
I do miss that a bit, the idea that you could just fucking disappear.
Yeah, there's a feeling now.
If you get in trouble, there's nowhere to hide.
There really isn't.
You can't go anywhere.
Forensics has ruined the crime mystery, isn't it?
But you used to, I mean, people have started travelling now,
but if you go back 100 years before this, 200 years,
you just moved to the next village
and no one would ever know where you've gone.
Yeah, you put a different hat on.
And your wife's like, that's not yet.
We'd never have worn that.
Crazy.
You just grow your beard out.
Yeah.
You're done.
Done.
So Turpin supposedly flees to Yorkshire.
Now, there's an apocryphal tale of things.
him murdering someone in London
and then riding 200 miles
in like 20 minutes or something
his horse dies from exhaustion
apparently and it was to give him an alibi
right? Because back in the day you'd
because then he'd say hello to the guy and it was like when he was up here
if you make sure you're seen by the mayor of York
then he's like well he can't have he's here there he wasn't in London
but that must have taken I mean
how long is York to London if you're cycling that
20 hours so if you buy horseback
Horses are faster than bicycles?
Do you reckon?
What are they? About 40 miles an hour?
I don't know.
Not downhill, I reckon the bike's faster.
Horse versus bike.
Yeah, come on.
Horse versus bike.
This is what you're not.
That's what you want.
A bike is faster for long distances is, but a horse.
Requires less space for storage.
Thank you.
Out of you.
Yep.
Don't have a bike stable.
Hors is better traction on difficult terrain.
It's true.
And the roads weren't particularly good back then.
What's the top?
Go to the top speed.
Because if this is true, then it's not, he's not done it.
You can't do in 12 hours.
No.
Okay, fair enough.
Fair enough.
Yeah, 45 miles an hour.
Right.
Nowadays, it'd be absolutely fine going up the M1.
Yeah, yeah.
The amount of fucking smart cameras on that.
Yeah, any smart motorway stuff, he's just leaving it.
I just don't know what it is.
Don't even know.
Doesn't, can't relate to it.
It's a motorway, it's 50 mile an hour.
Pretty much all the way.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Absolutely killing my right foot.
Doesn't affect me.
You wanted to call me a slur just then, I feel.
I did.
I was searching for a slur.
I was searching for what is the slur for a straight man who can't drive.
I was just going through my roller decks.
my library of slurs.
It's a bus wanker.
It is.
It is.
It's right there.
How often do you get that, James?
Just whenever I leave the house.
Really?
Fine.
If I stay indoors, it's fine.
My kids only say it a couple of times.
Right, yeah.
You're not getting it.
But you have somebody...
Might get it from like Amazon delivery drivers, maybe.
If I set foot outside the house as soon as I...
But you need into it.
I think it's kind of a joy to...
You lead into it so much.
You know, it's really embarrassing.
I just still think it's funny.
Yeah.
But it is, though.
I watched it.
the other day before you, because we knew
we were coming on, because I watched in between us when it came
out. Of course, we all did. We all did. But then I
actually watched the scene again and I was like,
well, that is, I was like, oh, is that it?
That is funny. The scene where you just lean out of window, shout a bus
because I'll be waiting for a bus. Do it twice. And then that's
your life. It's very funny that that's caught on that much.
Have you ever had a day where you're just not in the mood and somebody does it
and have you ever snapped?
No. You know, you're a fucking wanker, actually.
I'm driving this bus. How do you find getting recognised?
It's weird.
It's really odd.
You need to be knowing it for a while.
Sorry.
Where did you get your ideas from?
Just with all these great questions for asking, James.
You know, I did a lot of research.
Yeah, no.
Sorry, go ahead, James.
No, it's fine.
Yeah.
But seriously, where do you get your ideas from?
Where the fuck do you get your ideas from?
When I'm on the Lou, that's when I do my good thinking.
So somehow he ends up in Yorkshire,
whether he goes out there over a night or not,
I doubt that
But I don't think that's even
I think it was just
That's myth
It was that bloke that wrote the book
Yeah
So what we haven't said actually yet
Thanks for bringing us on
Keeping this on track
James is that
A book gets written
In the 19th century
Called Rookwood
And that
That sort of turns
All these different
Highwaymen
Into Dick Turpin
And that's where the myth comes from
When actually he was a guy
Who probably raped people
And poor boiling water
Over a man
Over your gangman
And where are the police?
We send them
last episode, there are no police. Oh, so it's
lawless. They're informal police.
Is there anyone who's just like trying to help people out?
Yeah, the human cry. It's just, yeah,
it's all vigilant. Everyone's Batman.
Everyone is a pedos. Everyone is a pedos arresting
everyone. Everyone's a pedo hunter in a car park.
For a long time, the public were against
having a police false, weren't they? Yeah.
They were just... It was overreach.
Yeah, we can do it ourselves. Yeah.
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So after killing Thomas Morris, the servant of the keeper of Effing Forest, he flees north, gets to Yorkshire and he assumes the alias John Palmer.
Right.
Now, locals thought him eccentric, but not criminal, and he dresses well and blah, blah, blah, he joins hunting parties.
It's all like new money, alibi, whatever.
David Lloyd.
He's stealing...
Don't have a go, David Lloyd.
He's stealing horses from another county and...
Yes.
That's right.
Go on.
So, yeah, tell us about this.
That's the information.
That's as far as my brain goes.
I think what he does is he works on a farm and he is selling horses on that he's gone and stolen.
I think it, yeah, I think it's like Lancashire or something like that.
He goes to Lancashire, steal some horses, takes them back to Yorkshire and sells them.
Yeah.
And he poses as a horse trader.
Yeah.
And then in October 1738.
This is mental.
This is very funny.
This is what I was saying about how he's just an idiot.
Yeah.
Like every moment where he could have gone.
done, should I be an idiot or not?
Yeah.
He's like, oh, I'll shoot him.
Well, might as well shoot him again.
Yeah.
So, but he's fine now.
Yeah.
He's got a new name.
Yeah, he's sorted.
He's making good money.
He's done it.
Selling horses.
He's selling horses.
Knicking horses and selling them.
Yeah.
And he can always go back to being a butcher as well.
He's got a trade.
Anyway, in October 1738, his whole hidden identity collapses because...
Does it's not remind you of the Fettie Wap song?
What was it called again?
She my trap queen and is a track queen, Fettie Wap.
Because every time I'm reading this, I just hear it.
Do I look like someone who...
Do I look like someone...
I said, what's a whole word for me?
Fetty Wamp.
Play it, play it.
Tell me if you recognise this.
17-38.
It is a banger.
It's a banger, but I don't know.
I don't think...
Is he referencing this?
He is.
It's a Dick Turpin inspired piece.
Really?
38.
It feels like these guys are Americans.
There he is.
That's not Dick Turpin.
Turn that off.
Can you Google Americans what happened in 1738?
I imagine it's something to do.
Yes.
Wreffing cognac.
1738.
So maybe the cognac that a lot of trap rappers drink
was started in this very, very year.
We can't know.
That's the least tough thing to name your gang.
Cognac.
Cognac.
No, cognac now is, that's what they all drink Hennessy.
Caprican would be less hard.
Yeah, but you can make it hard if you were hard.
Sunny D.
Yeah.
Drink it like every scene.
Tango.
Yeah.
You know when you've been tango.
Ice blast.
Shock.
To be fair, those adverts did get banned.
Did they?
Those tango adverts.
You know when you've been tangoed?
Yeah, because when I was a kid in the playground, it became a thing.
Because it was a great big orange hand that would slap people.
Oh, of course it was.
These adverts.
Wasn't that Dom Jolly?
And we would go up to each other in the playground and just start slapping each other and go, you've been tangoed, go it.
Is that Dom Jolly?
That's no, that's Trigger Happy TV.
No, but is it Dom Jolly that...
Isn't that Don Jolly?
Is it?
That looks nothing like him.
No, that does look like Dom Jolly.
No, it doesn't.
That looks like Barry from EastEnders, painting an orange.
That's Barry from EastEnders
for Extinction Rebellion or whatever
Just up oil
Peter Greaves
Who played the orange man
It's just the orange man
It does
It does look like Dom Jolly though
I don't think it does
You are right
Is this even a podcast anymore
It's the spitting image of Dom Johnny
I don't think it is
I think you should not be encouraging him James
People say this is not real history podcast
Oh no it doesn't
Thank you
No it looks nothing like Don Dray
You're right
Mythbusters
I tried to help you out there
Although I appreciate it thank you
I wish I was doing that
I'm slightly closer in spitz
That's a complete
funny looking eye though
Yeah I guess
What's that expression
It's the only job he could have done really
Yeah I guess
When he got the call from Tango
They were like finally
Hank fuck
Let's see what he's doing now
He'd been pitching him
He's been pitching him over years
For ages
Imagine how much of a stink
You'd kick up if a white person
got that role
Because it's ridiculous
Having my people's stories
Being told
Clearly orange roles for orange actors
Do you reckon there's a white guy
He did orange up for him
It's like, oh, fucking hell, work nonsense.
The orange guy, went to the orange guy.
It should be, who's the best for the job?
It's called acting.
Do you reckon the impalumpas were white, and they orangeed up for it?
Yes.
Yeah, I mean, I guess it, I guess it, that kind of was pre-werexed in Palumper.
He hasn't worked since.
Oh, that guy next to, I'm obsessed with that guy.
The window, the safe style.
Yeah, who's that?
508, 507 now.
407 now.
I said, you bow on, you get one free.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You bow on, you get one free.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But what was Fappy Wuss then?
Did we get to the bottom of that?
Fappy Wuss.
Fetty Wap.
Fetty Wap.
Fettie Wap is basically a bussy.
It's a kind of caved in bussy
and it's covered in plasma.
Right.
Guys.
History, come on.
Come on.
These people are trying to follow the story
of Dick Turpin.
They're dandies.
They're thick.
They want to know what happens.
We're getting to the exciting bit.
So Turpin's fake.
He's called John Palmer.
He's living in Yorkshire.
nicking horses
and then he gets angry
and he shoots a game cock
which is a chicken
in the street after a bad die
dick shoots a cock
Dick shoots a cock
He couldn't write it
Couldn't make it up
Couldn't make it up
Imagine that though
What? A dick shooting a cock?
No but he's
He's got a clean slate
Yeah he's assumed a new identity
He's still on the nick a little bit
but he's getting away with it.
Unprovoked shooting of a chicken in the street.
Crazy, isn't it?
He loves it.
That's when the neighbour goes,
that's a bit odd.
Maybe we should look into this guy.
It's in the film.
It's the character,
you know,
he tries to escape the game,
but the game can't escape him.
You know what it is?
It's what I mean?
It's when you're,
they put me back in.
When you're playing GTA
and you're like, this is fine,
and then you're like,
oh, fuck it.
And then you just, you know,
you just run over people.
Old woman and a prostitute.
Yeah, exactly.
And then my cryptonite.
And then the police come on and you're like,
oh, I'm dead now.
Not fun, you know.
You caught, yeah.
Charlie, what, this is, this is fucking relevant.
It's not relevant.
It's a cutscene from my...
James mentioned GTA.
I think.
I didn't. I mentioned it.
Well, James, James requested porn.
No, he did.
James manager emailed in before.
James manager is watching in saying,
can we have more porn, please.
Can I stander and more porn, please.
Just get rid of love.
London Hughes. Why is she's still on the screen?
It's traumatic for him. His dick got caught by this woman.
I don't want to talk to a therapist. I don't know who London Hughes is either.
Count yourself lucky. Is it another porn star? No.
It's a lovely woman who... She's a dick catcher in chief.
I'm not up on my porn these days. I'm old school. I think porn's very lazy nowadays.
What do you like? It's just like you say... I've always said bonnie. It's just like
your body. Come on love. Make an effort.
No, but it is just like how many men... A thousand. What are you prude?
That's it. How many men can you do in the short space of time? Where's the cable guy?
Where's your pool cleaner?
Yeah.
It would be funny to be in the body boot queue
as dressed as a pizza
going, no, this is just a pizza.
I've heard there's a lot of blocs here
they must be hungry.
Deliveroo driver.
Yeah, it's a big bag on.
You must be starving.
I've seen what's going on.
I've got a round in.
Right, for fuck's sake, we'd be talking about this
for 20, he shoots a chicken in the street.
And then he threatens the bird's owner
because the bird's owner's like,
oh, that's my chicken.
And he's like, well, you fucking want,
some. Right. I was there. Yeah.
Really. And then
Turpin threatens to reload and shoot him
when the labour challenges him. Yeah.
So this then brings in
justice of the piece, which I guess
is like the early
early police, I suppose. He's threatened to reload.
Okay, it's like EVs. I'll reload. It will take me 45.
You give me 45 minutes, mate.
I'll race you. I'll be there.
You just wait here.
So keeping the piece is like a standard
legal measure. So basically, if
someone gets caught causing trouble, a magistrate could order them to either promise good behavior.
Promise.
Promise?
Do you promise?
Promise to put that gun down.
I wonder if anyone got out on that when they said, do you promise good behavior?
And he's like, I can't.
I can't promise.
Sorry.
You're going to have to take me in.
Hang me.
Hang me.
You know, I'm many things.
I'm a murder.
I'm rapist.
I'm not a liar.
I'm a lost cause.
I won't lie.
I've got some moral.
So you can put down money, which is called assurity, which means that it's like a deposit, I guess,
for being naughty, maybe.
To posse-wasi.
And then if they cause trouble again, then they forfeit the money.
And then if they can't do that, they're sent to a correction house.
Anyway, Turpin Palmer refuses to keep the peace.
And I think you need like a reference for renting a flat.
You need someone to be like, yeah, he's all right.
Right, yeah.
A guarantor.
Yeah.
Garantor, but he doesn't have one because he's obviously in Yorkshire.
And he's a good character, good moral standing sort of thing.
Yeah, he's got lovely coat, right?
He's got no other.
So he gets sent to a house of correction, which I guess is an early.
Bridgett Osmond show.
That's not House of Games.
Now, justices of the peace
begin digging into Palmer's finances
and inconsistency start to pile up.
You know, he's making
unexplained trips to across the Humbold.
You promised for good behaviour,
but then you've been doing bad behavior.
Yeah.
Something I'm right in.
Didn't he not promise?
Yeah.
Didn't he do what you just said?
No, I did that.
I'm not going to do that.
Yeah, false pinky.
You can't trust these highwaymen.
Fool me one, shame on me.
He had horses that he didn't have receipts for.
No one could say how he earned his money.
Suspicion starts to shift
Then he gets moved to York Castle
Which is for really naughty boys
Then
More Clues surface
The horse theft
Maybe he's nicking sheep as well
Anyway
John Palmer then gets wanted for sheep theft
Because that's another thing as well
He called himself John Palmer
When he was selling the horses
And he also called himself John Palmer
When he was nicking them as well
He's in the nick in York
And then he
What does he do?
He writes to his brother-in-law
Who's in Essex still
And he says...
But he signs it
John Palmer, right?
Yeah.
And this was during the time
where you didn't get your mail
through your door.
Yes.
You had to go and collect it
from the post office
and pay for it.
Crazy.
So it wasn't the sender
that paid for it.
It was the receiver.
Remember reverse call charge?
Yeah, 800 reverse.
Yeah.
Used to do that
and then you have to accept
the charge, then you pay for it.
Fucking out.
There's a lot of politics
going on there, I imagine.
I did try and read a little bit
about it and they wasn't sure
whether his brother-in-law just went,
I don't know, a John Palmer.
Yeah, so I'm not paying for this.
Yeah.
Or if he was like, oh, that's that fucking dick again.
Yeah.
No.
I'm not paying for that either.
So he refused to pay,
which means the letter is still there.
And then the letter gets diverted.
And this seems like crazy,
but this has actually really happened.
A bloke called James Smith,
who had taught Turpin at school,
finds the letter,
and then recognising his handwriting immediately.
Yeah.
And then goes, that's Dick Turpin.
His old teacher.
would become like a postmaster or something.
Fucking snitch.
Yeah,
grass him up.
Smith travels to York,
identifies Turpin,
and then he receives 200 quid.
And then basically,
they realised that John Palmer is
Dick Turpin.
And then there's this huge,
like, I don't really want to get into it.
It's quite boring,
but like Yorkshire and London
are arguing over who should get him.
Right, right.
Like what jurisdiction it is.
Yeah, it's like sort of when
Eileen Warnas got arrested
and she had to sort of,
she got about eight deaf sentences
Because it's all over.
Because every county wanted a piece.
Yeah.
And at one point it's like, yeah, yeah.
And she was just going, do I have to do it?
Can you not just kill me?
You're already killing me seven times.
Do we need to go to an eighth place?
Yeah.
I did it.
I admit it.
Anyway, so on one side, in the column for York, you've got multiple horse theft.
And then in the column for London, you've got multiple robberies and rapes.
Somehow York wins out.
I guess horses are pretty, they're held in high regard in this day and age.
And he gets tried.
in York for
nicking horses
which is a...
1739.
Which is a
that's an offence in itself.
That's not theft.
Horse theft is separate.
Like, grand theft horse.
Everyone knows he's Dick Turpin
but he still gets called John Palmer.
It's like what's quite funny
is it's like when people talk about
how crime's going up
because of like phone snatching.
Yes.
But more people are phones.
Yes.
It's like horse snatching
has gone way down.
It just depends which one you choose.
But also horse gnatches much harder
than phones that's like logistically.
Yeah, to snatch a horse.
You can't just.
If you're walking down the pavement
not looking at your horse on a lead
and someone just nicks it on a moped
and drags the horse
on behind the moped.
That's fucking crazy.
He sent us to death, right?
Because the jury takes minutes
to convict him.
And then, you know, he's cocky
the whole time.
He was like, yeah.
You should probably mention actually
that the reason he wrote
to his brother-in-law
was to get that good character reference.
Yes, sorry, he wanted the reference.
Yeah.
Because that's what they did in the trials
was like, I'm a good bloke, I promise.
Yes.
yeah um but he didn't have
anything and then he gets sentenced
to death pretty much immediately
he has a behaves with a strange
cheerfulness um
and then uh the jailer made a hundred pounds
selling drinks to visitors because a fucking tourist
attraction uh i guess yeah
it's a big big event and then he's
executed on the 7th of April 1739
where it's like a spectacle
right and you had to
there's a thing called dying game
you hear this no if you
they wanted to
it's when you riz up the the
person who's hanging you?
No, no, it's like, well, maybe.
He's got a dying game.
He's like, yeah, as you go down like that.
I don't mean it's more like flirting.
He's got good game.
No, it's dying in a way.
What are you doing after this?
Game for dying.
It's called die if you do be rough.
You're up for it.
If you die game, it means you put on a bit of a show as you die.
Yeah.
Because this is before the iPhone and stuff like that.
Yeah.
There wasn't really much to do.
There wasn't much entertainment.
This is the original brain rot.
Yeah.
is watching people get hands.
There'll be kids watching it
and the parents going...
I don't know if you should be watching this.
Yeah, no, this is going...
Can we put some filters on this?
You should be doing some reading or something,
surely.
And then in like the 1740s,
they blur it and you have to sign in
and then you can watch...
Anyway,
he climbs the ladder with apparent confidence
does turpin.
His left leg trembles
and then he stamped it down
defiantly provoking gasps.
She's just a boredy age, isn't it?
Right.
Yeah.
Now, it's like short drop execution,
which is where you...
It doesn't break your neck.
It's like...
Oh, wait, so he kills himself on, he just goes like, fuck it.
Without before the execution.
Yeah, so the noose is around his head.
And then they're going to say some bit of like drama, like,
oh, I'm the, I'm the dick and the hell.
And he says, fuck it and just do it live and just jumps.
That's pretty good.
Well, do it dead.
And just, just jumps off the thing.
Drogba!
Dragba!
Yeah.
Backstick, drogba hangs himself.
Yeah.
But he died after several minutes of choking.
Yeah, that takes away.
It does take away from the kind of bold, like.
He must, I bet he was, because he died thinking.
Fuck, I thought it was going to be so fucking bad ass.
Yeah, fuck you.
For ages, yeah, yeah.
Are the crowd like applauding?
What are the crowd doing?
Cheering, bane for blood?
No, they love it.
They love it.
They love it.
Seven minutes.
What's like, minute one's like, but surely after like.
Come on.
Seven.
Yeah, it gets awkward.
It definitely gets awkward.
Change the record.
Fucking out.
It depends how.
Yeah, boom.
It was like, you deserved it.
Get on with it.
Right in hell.
And then it's fucking.
It depends how I need to it.
Some of the guys are in the, you know, they could.
By seven minutes they could really
They could be going for it
What do you mean?
I was just wanking
Wanking
You know
Yeah
I could easily get the job done
Within seven minutes
Oh twice with a break
Yeah
And if you're
Two sessions
Two sessions
drinks
Morning and afternoon
Morning lunch and afternoon
Um
So
Just go over a little execution tug
Yeah brilliant
So
You've got a rope around your name
Exactly, yeah.
There's everyone on the gallows.
They're all waiting.
We're all right here with you.
Do you reckon people dressed up as him?
I don't know.
People do now.
Yeah, yeah.
So he gets buried the following day in Fishergate
and then body snatchers dig him up
for medical dissection,
which apparently is quite common.
Yeah.
And then a mob intervenes
gets the corpse back and buries it again.
Oh, really?
Interesting.
But basically, that's kind of the end of the actual man.
But then, as we've said, a guy writes...
So we've done the man.
What about the myth, the legend?
What about the myth?
t-shirt.
Yeah.
The man, the legend.
The man's done.
Now let's do the myth the legend.
Then the end of the highwayman era is sort of, comes in with the enclosure act of 1773,
which basically fences off open fields.
So the fence.
The fence.
The invention of the fence.
So this is before the fence.
Right.
So that's what the, the, the kryptonite of a highwayman is a fence.
It's a fence.
It's like they say how women's toilets, the sign, will stop people going in, wrong people.
Yeah.
I can't go in there.
Yeah, I can't go in.
It's like a vampire needs to be invited in.
I know I'm a sex pest who's transitioned in order to have a second,
but I can't go in there because it's a fucking sign saying women's toys.
If you draw a line with your finger around a chicken or something or an ant or something
like that, it doesn't leave the...
Really?
I think there's something like that.
You draw a line around a chicken, the chicken might be the line.
An imaginary line.
If you just sort of go like that round of chicken, it just sort of goes, oh, fucking hell, now what my...
Yeah, this, yeah, you could do that with, like, ants.
is that one is?
If you get like a felt tip
marker and nance
you can draw a thing
and then they'll
maybe not
Oh no no
it's chickens
Is it chicken
Is it?
Are you joking?
Oh yeah
That's it
It's a straight line
And then they just sort of go
Fuck
What the fuck is that
And they just
What like a drunk drive test
For chickens
No wait hold up
But I want to see them
What they'd be like
Without the line
Well you've seen chickens
They're just
Unable to move
I think it's
I think that Dick Turpin
Had seen one of these
TikTok videos
tried to do it on a chicken
Got angry
that it didn't work and shot it.
Shot the chicken.
That's how he got caught.
I don't understand that.
That's how you hypnotize a chicken.
Draw a line in front of it and he goes,
I don't know what's going on.
Yeah,
it thinks it's like a big wall maybe.
But that's how we get you as well.
Yeah, I can't leave the office.
So the highwayman,
the age of the highwayman is sort of over
by the 70s and 70s really.
And because of the fence.
Yeah.
That great invention.
A reminder about how lucky we are
to live in a world where there are walls.
Yeah.
I say build more walls, that's what I say.
There's not enough of them.
James, thank you so much for coming on the pod.
Thank you for having it.
Are you going to take around for our patron?
Yes.
That would be great.
We're going to be a patron episode with James Buckley.
Thank you so much.
Now, do you have some things to plug?
Yeah, you've got two podcasts.
I've got two podcasts.
One podcast I do with my wife called The Buckley's
and another podcast I do with Joe Thomas from the tweeners.
And what's the premise of that one?
Very loose.
It's very loose.
Because you have to, you're not allowed to just say,
oh, can me and my mate just talk.
Pollocks on a couch for a little while.
Absolutely not.
No, no.
You have to do a lot of research.
You have to go through a lot of research.
Our podcast is called Joe and James Facked Up.
And you're going on tour?
Me and Clara are going on tour.
Yeah, thank you very much.
Happy, cheers.
Yeah, we're doing a tour.
There's tickets for that as well.
We're going up and down the country.
Amazing.
Where are you going all over?
Yeah, everywhere.
Scotland, all of it.
All of it.
Link below.
Link below.
Oh, thanks, guys.
James, you gave us some gifts.
I'm going to give you a gift.
These are my Christmas crackers.
Look at this.
You can have at home.
I can't wait.
You know what?
14 year old boy, they'll love that.
They will.
Absolute rot in there.
Christmas crackers are on sale as well.
Links in there.
All your stuff's in there.
Thanks so much for watching.
Thanks for coming on, James.
Thank you for having me.
We'll see, if you're a patron subscriber, James will stick around.
We're going to talk about the Hatt and Garden Heist.
Lots of fun there.
And if not, we'll see you next time for a new topic.
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