The Dumb Ages

As you’ll know - if you’ve seen my previous video or listened to the final Dumb Ages episode - for various reasons, mostly financial, I’m moving to creating a solo podcast. This gives me the opportunity to clean off Jack’s desk here at the Dumb Ages complex - there’s a years worth of empty Stella Artois cans alone! - and have a rebrand. I love a rebrand! So the title and the branding is going to c...

It’s the final episode of The Dumb Ages in this incarnation and for this special episode, Jack and Dennis Kavanagh join me to talk about the Conversion Practices Bill currently going through pre-legislative scrutiny in the Houses of Parliament. An excellent discussion ensues about the perils this bill presents to family life, to freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. I’m putting it out free...

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I’m on my own again this week because Jack has a pressing prior engagement with Dame Stella Artois. This week, as part Ye Olde Dumb Ages - a new thread demonstrating that people throughout history have been swept up in utter nonsense - I’m talking about The Pendle Witch Trials of 1612. At this point, Jack would be permitted to insert a horrifyingly ageist joke about me knowing all about it because...

He talked about Vinicius Junior possibly being taken away by aliens and would you believe it - our Jack has got HIMSELF abducted! The aliens were very nice about it and popped a note through my door saying he’d be back once he’d been fully probed and chipped. So, I’m flying solo this week, bringing you further discussion of the sad case of Maura Murray. For any listeners who might be heavily invol...

In part one of a new series, Jack looks at the “mysterious” “disappearance of Brazilian footballer Vinicius Junior. It’s a trip to crazy town! And I introduce us to another, actual appearance that’s been an internet obsession for two decades - Maura Murray. Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! If you’d like to get the show earlier, take out a PAID subscription...

In part two of our Rapture series, Jack and I discuss the impact of Rapture beliefs on individuals, culture and politics.  For free subscribers, I explain what happened to part one, and I’m trying to fix it! Hope you enjoy it! Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earlier, take out a PAID subscript...

In part one of a new two-part episode, Jack and I get eschatological as we talk about the End Times. This time, we’re discussing The Rapture - not an 80s synth pop band but a niche belief, mainly in evangelical Christian circles, about a mass vanishing that’s going to happen before the end of the world. Hope you enjoy it! Barbara Rossing's "The Rapture Exposed" can be bought here. Th...

In part two of our look at the menace of internet sleuths, Jack tells us all about a case that’s been rumbling along in the USA - the case of Nolan Wells. Another (most likely) accidental drowning that some people are desperate to believe was actually a murder. Jack’s done a cracking job on this, so get your ears round it! I’m releasing this to everyone as a one off special freebie, to try and get...

I’m going solo this week, for reasons I explain in the episode and I’m looking at internet sleuths, a modern menace, prone to insane hot takes and conspiracy theories. I explain what they are, who they are and how they interfered with an investigation into a disappearance here in the UK in 2023. Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! If you’re listening on Wedne...

In the second part of our two-part episode, Jack and I continue to ask the question: Are we in our “Decline and Fall” era? Usual digressions along the way, including memories of 9/11. Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earlier, take out a PAID subscription by upgrading to paid or clicking the li...

Jack and I are doing something different this week. We ask the question: Are we in our “Decline and Fall” era?  This is just part one - part two to come next week!   Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earlier, take out a PAID subscription by upgrading to paid or clicking the link below.   SUBSCR...

We pay tribute to Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, followed by an exploration of the tribulations of Pride, left wing authoritarianism associated with “gender affirmation” beliefs and the downfall of Craig Guildford, former West Midlands Chief Constable Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earlier, tak...

Dumb-agers react to the death of Professor Jason Arday, and it isn’t big or clever. Plus, the government’s latest stupid stunt. And no, that’s not Cockney rhyming slang Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earlier, take out a PAID subscription by upgrading to paid or clicking the link below: SUBSC...

We are back, back, back again and raring to go. Farage’s damp squib of a victory in Clacton and how it’s likely to have to happen all over again in a few months’ time, prison release schemes that please nobody, migration policies that have the same effect and the brave, beautiful, stunning trans women of colour seeking to enter the WNBA – we discuss it all over a three course brunch prepared by ou...

Announcement

Another packed week, so packed we’ve had to curatejust a selection of the news stories that have crossed our desk. From Islamist attacks in Berlin to the new Green Hackney mayor waging her own personal intifada,Jack and I chew the fat while nibbling hors d’oeuvres in the rooftop restaurant here at Dumb Ages Towers  Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! If you’r...

Fellow Brits - can you feel the hope? Are you getting the breathing space you need? Is there power in your postcode? Our Dear Leader has promised it, so it all should be heading your way any day now. For the meantime, Jack and I talk about our first week under the rule of Andrew, First of His Name, Ruler of the Four Kingdoms and his shiny new Iron Throne in Manchester. We also talk about Ann Widde...

The killing of Ann Widdecombe, Andy Burnham’scoronation, miffed men in dresses and stupid Brits abroad. Jack and I sip mocktails on the lanai and discuss it all. If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earlier, take out a PAID subscription by upgrading to paid or clicking the link below. SUBSCRIBE Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible!

If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earlier, take out a PAID subscriptionby upgrading to paid or clicking the link below. ⁠ SUBSCRIBE ⁠ Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers for making this show possible! ------- On another sweltering weekend, Jack and I gather by the Olympic-sized swimming pool at Castle Dumb Ages to discuss the clown show that is British politic...

Two stories have caused an absolute meltdown among The Trahn – and all this in the Holy Month of Pride! Plus the Manchester Messiah and migration madness. Jack and I discuss them all from the orangery atCastle Dumb Ages. If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like toget the show earlier, take out a PAID subscription by upgrading to paid or clicking the link below.   SUBSCRIBE  Thank you to our...

If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like toget the show earlier, take out a PAID subscription by upgrading to paid or clicking the link below.  ⁠ SUBSCRIBE ⁠  Thank you to our legendary paid subscribers formaking this show possible! For the last show of the Holy Month of Pride - or Tranadan as it’s known for short – we bring you a bumper gender edition, after some chit chat about the arriva...

A byelection up north that changes everything…possibly; the assisted suicide bill brought back from the dead, alas; the Ukrainian “rent boys” story turns out not to be what some people thought it was and Oxfordshire County Council go to war against flags. If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earlier, take out a PAID subscription by upgrading to paid or clicking the link...

A brief discussion of the conviction of the murderer of Henry Nowak, the alleged attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie and the associated unrest that accompanied them is followed by news of “trans rights” activist/ ally shenanigans during the early weeks of the Holy Month of Pride. All from the luxurious Dumb Ages gite in Provence. If you’re listening on Wednesday and you’d like to get the show earl...

See you all on June 14th