Team James v Team Toby

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4 • 975 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode begins on a sceptical note, namely the lads talking about the live recording of Toby's "other" podcast (The Weekly Sceptic) at the Emmanuel Centre on Saturday evening. When James organised a live recording of The Delingpod at the same venue, he sold out the 900-seat auditorium, but Tobes only managed to fill the 250-seater. The first question during the Q&A was from a fan who asked how much longer the London Calling can continue, given how acrimonious some of the exchanges between the hosts are getting and how they often seem to be talking past each other.

After we’ve got that out the way, they just about have time to pay tribute to two of their favourite writers, Martin Amis and Jeremy Clarke, who both died at the weekend.

Opening sound this week is the late Jeremy Clarke reading from his column Low Life: Dead cool (September 3, 2016) from The Spectator via Facebook.

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0:00.0	This is London Calling.
0:03.0	London Calling.
0:04.0	Pretended to be a corpse is the most difficult pose of all, according to yoga practitioners.
0:09.0	Lying on one's back, perfectly relaxed with an empty mind is, they say, virtually an unattainable
0:16.1	goal.
0:17.1	Personally, I find the corpse pose the easiest of the lot.
0:20.0	I have an innate talent for lying down. The banal content of my mind is easy to dismiss, and I'm looking forward to dying.
0:27.0	Welcome to London calling with me James Delling Pole and my very good friend Mr.
0:38.8	Toby Young.
0:39.8	Tobe Young, um, tobs, how's your week been?
0:41.8	Well, James, James, me and Nick Dixon and Will Jones had our first ever
0:48.9	live podcast recording on Saturday at the Emmanuel Centre. Unlike you, we did not sell out the 900-seater, but we did
0:59.3	sell out the 250-seater and it went pretty well I think the audience seemed happy and we had a kind of we
1:10.3	we were selling not just general admission tickets, but a hundred people bought VIP drinks tickets and that meant they went to this bar with us afterwards and we all had a drink together till about midnight.
1:21.0	But yeah, no, the people seemed pretty content. Quite a few
1:26.8	selfie requests, you know, got a lot of laughs and Nick Dixon who's you know a professional stand-up comedian was very funny
1:36.0	at one point he did an impression of Jordan Peterson which brought the house down to he
1:40.5	he left the stage and came back on as Dr Jordan Peterson wearing a blonde wig and a shirt and tie and a jacket and answered questions as as Dr.
1:50.9	Peterson is. Is Jordan Peterson blonde? Well he's blonder than Nick. He was a sort of sandy-haired wig, yeah.
1:58.0	I've forgotten that. Okay. He's got lightish brown hair. Anyway,, he was Nick's impression of Jordan Peterson is just supernaturally good. I mean, if you don't concentrate, you would think, if you don't listen carefully to what he's saying you would
2:13.0	think it was just you were just listening to Jordan Peterson.
2:15.1	People say that of my of my Jimmy several impersonation they say it's like having the
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