We Cover the Earth

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4 • 975 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Two thirds of the earth is covered in water, the rest is covered by London Calling. But this week we've left London behind as James and Toby find themselves on opposite sides of the world – Toby in Canada, James in Hong Kong – and whether jet lag gets worse as you get older.

James says Hong Kong may not be a democracy any longer, but then, neither is the UK, while Toby tells him how much he’s enjoying being in Canada, not least because there are plenty of conservatives in rural areas who have no time for their Prime Minister.

Then it's on to discuss the news of the hour – Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News – with James claiming it’s because he’s too Team James and Toby thinking it’s because the Murdochs were embarrassed about having to settle the Dominion law suit.

They aslo pay tribute to the late Barry Humphries, briefly discuss the candidacy of Robert Kennedy Jr, explore the pro-natalist movement (to which James is sympathetic, although he gets sidetracked into talking about his new theory that Greta Thunberg is a small, hairless man.)

In Culture Corner, they discuss The Playlist, The Night Agent, and The Whale. Falling off the bookshelf is Anna Karenina, which James is reading in Hong Kong, and Andrew Roberts’s magisterial Churchill biography, which Toby is listening to in Canada.

Opening sound this week is the Canadian Prime Minister rewriting history on the vaccine mandates.

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0:00.0	This is London Calling.
0:05.0	And therefore while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose to make sure that all the incentives and all the
0:16.8	protections were there to encourage Canadians to get vaccinated and that's
0:21.5	exactly what they did. We got vaccinated to a higher level
0:24.8	than just about any other of our peer countries and that's why we had a less deadly
0:29.6	pandemic than most other countries. Welcome to London Calling with me James Delling Paul and my very good friend Mr Toby Young.
0:44.3	Toves we're both traveling, aren't we?
0:47.2	We are.
0:48.2	I'm in Canada and you're in Hong Kong and incredibly that means that it's currently 8 PM where I am in Canada, which is in a city called
0:59.3	Kem loops, but it's 11 a.m. the following day where you are in Hong Kong I think isn't it James?
1:06.4	I so I can I'm in the position to tell you what Tuesday is like and you just don't know yet
1:11.5	do you have no clue you got all the
1:13.2	it's like it's like time travel I'm looking at the future well I can tell you
1:20.8	that Tuesday is it's it's drizzling and but but we haven't that the world hasn't ended
1:29.9	it's which is defying all my prediction so far. But yeah, we're
1:35.2	Tuesday's happened and yeah, you yeah, I've done the groundwork for you it's okay.
1:42.8	Is the simultaneous departure of Fox's leading news anchor and CNN's leading news anchor
1:51.9	on the same day as big a story on Tuesday as it is on
1:55.3	Monday night here in North America. Yeah it is we can talk about let's wrong. We ought to talk
2:00.7	about that travels first. I'm frankly amazed that you are more or less on time for this
2:06.7	podcast given you've been traveling on Canada's notoriously sluggardly railway system. So tell us about your train.
2:16.9	Is it fun? It is fun. Yeah, it's called the Rocky Mountaine something like, towards the west route, and it's called the,
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