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• 1:08Blindboy Boatclub?

  Crinkle the Piss Crisps, you innocent Vincent's. Welcome to the Blind Boy Podcast.

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  If this is your first episode, please consider listening to an earlier episode to familiarize yourself with the lore of this podcast. It's just approaching sunset here in my office as I await the starlings of Limerick City to do their murmuration. It's a lovely, clear evening out there. I hope to see them tonight. And if we don't see them, that means they're gone. That means they're gone for their winter roast. And the interesting thing about the winter roast for starlings is they'll all congregate in a flock that could be hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of starlings. We'll go to a dense forest or reed beds.

• 1:59Blindboy Boatclub?

  And those, the Limerick starlings are also going to be joined by international starlings. There'll be starlings coming from Northern Europe, trying to escape really, really cold winters there, and they'll be joining the flocks of starlings here. And they're going to go out the country into these gigantic roasts of hundreds of thousands of them. So we'll know it tonight. It's sunset right now. And if I don't see those starlings tonight, then they're gone, they're gone. And then the Bardshit district is no longer covered in shit until next summer. I'm mindfully embracing the onset of autumn and winter.

• 2:39Blindboy Boatclub?

  All the leaves are khaki, brownie-green geriatric leaves. They haven't started to fall off the trees en masse just yet. But I'm looking forward to those winter mornings. The ones with the chill and the clear skies. I'm noticing my first little cold or flu of the season as well. I've got a tickle in my throat that I need to watch. Unfortunately, it's popped up on podcast recording day, so I can't give my voice a little rest. But do excuse me if this week's podcast is slightly shorter than usual. I had a most magnificent weekend. I was in West Cork.

• 3:21Blindboy Boatclub?

  I was down in Garnish Island.

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  I told you about a month ago that I organised a very rapid emergency gig on Garnish Island. Ah, it was fucking class.

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  There was only about a hundred and fifty people, a very small gig.

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  And everyone had to access the island by boat. It felt a lot like that, that Bruce Lee film, Enter the Dragon. Except I was kicking people into the mind with ideas. And it was in Cork.

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  There was torrential rain. But it was so beautiful, it was absolutely gorgeous.

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  It was only about a fifteen minute journey by boat. Across the mouth of the Atlantic onto this tiny weird little

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  British island. That area of West Cork is so, it's so strange, it's, it's Edwardian Dubai. That, that is the only way I can describe it.

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  It's a little area of Ireland where a hundred and fifty years ago, two hundred years ago, this was the tourist destination for incredibly wealthy English colonists. And they constructed a strange little paradise for themselves. Not just on the island, on this tiny little Garnish Island, not just there, but in the surrounding village of Glengariff, there's this beautiful hotel called the Eccles Hotel. This building, this was constructed in seventeen forty-five. This is a hotel that's been there since seventeen forty-five.

• 5:11Blindboy Boatclub?

  Everything is so beautiful and strange and drenched in blood and misery. The wealthy, the wealthy English colonists, like the people who built, not built, but the people who started the gardens on Garnish Island, they were East India Company people. All of the money, stinking dirty manky empire money. Whether it be the fucking North Atlantic slave trade, India, China, the whole shebang. They took little trinkets of the empire and brought it back to this tiny little area

• 5:49Blindboy Boatclub?

  in West Cork and created a weird Disneyland, a weird little Disneyland of colonization, where in this small area of West Cork, you could visit each part of the empire. Like just across the way from the Eccles Hotel is the bamboo gardens, where there's full of Chinese bamboo. And then you, you make it across onto Garnish Island itself, which its natural state, its natural state is just rock and moss, that's it. And seals are supposed to be living there. But because this island, it's, it's in a natural harbor in Cork. So it's in the ocean, but there's this huge natural harbor and it's protected by mountains.

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  So it gets hit with the Gulf Stream, this warm band of water that comes all the way up from Mexico. And then it's sheltered from frost and wind by the mountains. So the English in, in the, the late seventeen hundreds or early eighteen hundreds basically noticed, this strange little island is quite hot. It's, this has got a weird climate right here. So they just started to grow plants from all around the empire. Plants from India, plants from New Zealand, plants from South America, from the Caribbean. And they all flourished on this island where they should, they're supposed to die. They're supposed to die from frost. They couldn't grow them in England, they couldn't grow them anywhere else, only on this little island.

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  And what it reminded me of is,

• 7:24Blindboy Boatclub?

  if you look at drawings of like lions, drawings of lions from, we'll say, the 14th century or the 15th century. All the drawings of lions are fucking shit. The lions look like weird dogs. And when you look at early medieval paintings that depict animals like lions, elephants, zebras. They all look nothing like the actual animal because no one who was drawing these animals had actually seen one. Instead, what they were doing is they were consulting these books called bestiaries, which were like gigantic encyclopedias that contained drawings of animals.

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  So if you were a Dutch painter or a fucking English painter and you, you needed to paint lions, you couldn't find a lion, couldn't see a lion. What you had to do is you had to consult the bestiary, you had to consult a book. The seagulls are gonna shit here, lads. Apologies if you can hear them. You had to go to a book that had drawings of lions in it. But the person who even drew that lion may never have seen a lion. They could have been speaking to someone who said that they saw a lion and that person could have been lying. So what you got was a simulacrum, a hyper-real simulacrum, a copy of a copy of a copy, to the point that it has lost all reference to the original. You know, I mentioned there, Edwardian.

• 8:48Blindboy Boatclub?

  The area around West Cork there is, it's, it's an Edwardian style, like the early, maybe eighteen ninety onwards. And the posh Brits that would have been walking around there, they'd have been wearing top hats and tails, the Edwardian style. But in the nineteen fifties, there was teddy boys. Teddy boys had greased hair and brothel creeper shoes and long tails and sometimes leather jackets, but they weren't posh, they were working class. But teddy boys were called teddy boys because teddy means Edward and teddy boys of the nineteen fifties were like an inverted class performance of posh Edwardian dandies of the nineteen tens.

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  But a teddy boy of the nineteen fifties had never seen an Edwardian dandy. They'd only had them described to them by older people, so teddy boys are a simulacrum. My dad used to tell me that there was a teddy boy contingent in Limerick City in the, the late fifties and early sixties. Now, this could be utter bullshit, but he told me how he met my mother is that he was gambling with teddy boys, he was playing cards with teddy boys and he lost a hand and couldn't pay for it, so he ran away and then the teddy, the teddy boys of Limerick used to have razor blades in their collars, according to my dad, and they chased him down Limerick City wielding razor blades with duck arse hair, he said, greased duck

• 10:17Blindboy Boatclub?

  arse hair and tails, chasing him with razor blades and he ran into a bingo hall and saw my man started dancing with her. Probably a lot of bullshit, but it's a great story. My weekend spent living amongst the colonial ghosts in West Cork also reminded me of brown sauce. Brown sauce is also a colonial simulacrum. Brown sauce, which was invented in the eighteen thirties, was invented in, in a shopkeeper in Leeds, Leeds over in England, because one of his customers had been to India once and tasted chutney, long, long ago. And he used to go into this shopkeeper and say, oh, my God, they had this shit in fucking India called chutney. And I can't stop thinking about it. I can't stop thinking about it.

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  I'm gonna gradually describe it to you and you're gonna try and make it. And that's where brown sauce came from. One daft English cunt trying to remember what chutney tasted like, describing it to a Yorkshireman. Yorkshire relish, Yorkshire relish, that's it. Brown sauce is just thickened Yorkshire relish. And Garnish Island in West Cork is a simulacrum. There's this gorgeous area called the Italian Garden. It's like, why the fuck is this called Italian? There's a vaguely Chinese looking pagoda thing there. It's dotted with little bonsai trees that are Japanese, ferns from the Caribbean.

• 11:40Blindboy Boatclub?

  And then statues and arches that are vaguely ancient Greek. And it was built by somebody who was fairly high up in the East India Company. And the whole place is like, an opium hazed Edwardian and Victorian argument, aesthetic argument, about what different parts of the empire looked like, based on memory or something they heard from someone else. And it's just there in the middle of West Cork. Utterly stunning, absolutely. Oh, there's the starlings.

• 12:13Blindboy Boatclub?

  All right, they have, not as many of them, but they haven't left. So the starlings are still doing their thing. So I did my gig on the fucking central lawn of the Italian Garden with the weird English fucking pagoda behind me.

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  Absolutely pissing rain in the most beautiful setting you can imagine. And this profound, this quietness and stillness on the island because it's so sheltered. And it just rains and the rain just drops. It doesn't, there's no breeze even, the rain just drops. And then you go back out onto the fucking boat and there's this big cold grey storm because you've left the microclimate. And the person I interviewed, my guest, because I did a live podcast under a tent, so everyone was nice and dry. Well, no, people were on a boat, they were soaked, but I think everybody enjoyed it. My guest was the head gardener, a fellow by the name of Glynn Sherrett, who has

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  this really strange job of being a gardener on this island where nothing is natural. Everything has been put there by humans and he has to try and make sure really that nothing escapes. And I saw seals and I saw Ireland's only white-tailed eagle, big massive bousy up in the sky. And she has two chicks and this, a fucking, a nest the size of a Ford Focus. The whole place is managed now by the Office of Public Works. And as I mentioned a month ago, the reason I did this gig.

• 13:49Blindboy Boatclub?

  I wanted to do it as a, an autotopographical performance piece, because my dad had told me a story that there was once a big colonial house on this island and that my great-granduncle, when he was in the anti-treaty IRA, that he was involved in burning down that colonial house on Garnish Island. And also the island was very special to my dad.

• 14:18Blindboy Boatclub?

  My dad would promise me when I was a little kid, I'm gonna take you to Garnish Island someday, I'm gonna take you there. And he described, because he was there. He was there when he was in his early twenties and I just think he had a great time there. And my ma told me there's a photograph of him sitting on the steps in the Italian garden. So for me, Garnish Island has always been a dream place. It's been a simulacrum for me. It's been a, a promise. It's been a promise that my dad couldn't keep to me because he died. So I returned there autotopographically, as a journey, as an adult without my dad.

• 14:59Blindboy Boatclub?

  With a bag on my head, with the awareness that my granduncle might have burnt down the big house on the fucking island. And then when I got there and I asked some questions to people working there, who people knew the, who knew the history of the place because it was their fucking job.

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  They said to me that the IRA didn't burn down any big house on this island. That didn't happen. And I'm like, are you fucking sure? My dad told me my grand uncle burnt down the fucking big house on this island, on Garnish Island. Burnt them out of it. And then someone else said, well, there's another Garnish Island. There's a second one. I'm like, what? There's a second Garnish Island? Where? They said down in Kerry, off the Bay of Kenmare, there's a second Garnish Island there. And the IRA did burn down a big house there. But my grand uncle was in the Cork IRA. He wasn't in the IRA in Kerry. And it would have been strange for him to have been down in Kerry, burning out a house in Kerry. Cause that wasn't his territory in the Ra.

• 15:59Blindboy Boatclub?

  So it slowly dawned on me that my autotopographical journey. But there was, there was no truth in it. There was no truth. I don't think my grand uncle burnt down the house on Garnish Island in Cork. Cause it never fucking happened and he definitely wasn't in Kerry. So some tall tales have been told and I was a bit disappointed. Cause I was like, what, what's the purpose of this journey now? Was the purpose of it to find out that it wasn't based in truth? I'd gone to the trouble of wearing my IRA trousers. I wore camouflage trousers and boots for my autotopographical performance piece. I know how stupid this is. And it was based on a lie, so I was disappointed.

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  So I was like, fucking anyway, I'm in West Cork. Well, if that story about my grand uncle burning down the big house on Garnish Island is bullshit. Well, at least I'm gonna, I'm gonna go to something that I know to be true. Something that I know is definitely true and I won't have wasted these IRA pants. So on the way back to Limerick, I called into the, the memorial site for the Kill Michael ambush, which my grand uncle and granddad definitely took part in. You see Cork is called the rebel county and West Cork in particular. In the 1920s, during the period you'd call the Irish War of Independence, West Cork was.

• 17:27Blindboy Boatclub?

  A serious area of fighting and violence. So you can go back to the 1500s in Ireland. There was a period known as the Desmond rebellions. Large scale colonization by Elizabeth the first. And she confiscated huge amounts of land in Munster and most of Cork. Then began what was called the Munster plantations. Elizabeth the first would have given all this new land in Cork. That was confiscated from from Irish people. She would have given it to very wealthy gentry, to very wealthy English people. These wealthy undertakers, as they were called.

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  They then populated the land with colonizers, with colonizers from England. So a very successful plantation. And then as the years passed, the wealth just grew and grew and grew. You had all this land being controlled by colonizers and there was. And the land was cleared and you had cattle, beef and butter and dairy. This is the 1700s, early 1800s. In particular, butter, you had the Cork butter exchange. Cork became. It it it became like the Wall Street of butter. It's the global price of butter was determined in Cork. And you also had salted meats being exported.

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  So Cork is on the effectively the westernmost part of the British Empire. Cause it's fucking colonized. And while Britain is engaging in in the slave trade and the colonization of the the West Indies, the Caribbean. Britain is feeding its colonizers in the Caribbean from the colony of Cork. Cause it's the westernmost part of the the British Empire now via the Atlantic. So Cork becomes incredibly wealthy.

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  You have all these wealthy Protestant settlers in their big houses. And then you have massive disparity of very wealthy Protestant colonizers, dark, poor peasant class of Irish Catholics, gentry, cousins of royals. West Cork becomes a holiday destination for the wealthiest people. So when you have that income disparity there now, you need a fuck ton of security to protect all that wealth and all those wealthy English people. So by the time the Irish War of Independence comes about, 1919,

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  very aggressive militarized presence, protecting wealth, protecting British wealth and colonizers in Cork. But West Cork is absolutely massive and it's rocky and hilly with winding roads. It's like the mountains of Afghanistan, which meant that the British forces, like the Black and Tans, the Auxiliaries, the RIC, the terrain really worked against them because they had all these winding roads and then the IRA could shoot at them from the hills and then disappear. And there was one IRA commander, General Tom Barry, and Tom Barry was,

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  he was a Cork lad who wasn't even that interested in the IRA. He was so uninterested in fighting the British that Tom Barry actually went and joined the British Army. He was in the British Army during World War One because he wanted to see the world. And he ended up in Mesopotamia, which would have been in the Ottoman Empire, fighting with the Brits as part of the British Army in Mesopotamia, which is Iraq now. And he was fighting there. And while he was in the British Army, his mother back home in West Cork used to send him parcels. And when she'd send him parcels, she would wrap it in local newspapers from back home.

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  And Tom Barry would open his parcels from his ma and he'd read about the 1916 Rising. Or he'd read about the violent murderous conduct of the British soldiers would have and the R I C would have against civilians, against Irish civilians. And then Tom Barry said, fuck this, what am I doing in the British Army? So he came back home to West Cork, but then used his, his time serving in the British Army as a professional soldier to then develop a completely new form of guerrilla warfare in the subterfuge of the West Cork fucking hills and mountains. IRA units, he called flying columns, that would continually live on the run,

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  hide in the hills, strike at British soldiers, Black and Tans auxiliaries, and then disappear. My grandad was a member of the Flying Columns and so was my grand uncle. And they were just, they weren't even mad rah heads. They were just nineteen, twenty years of age who found themselves in a situation where they were being ethnically cleansed by terroristic British forces. There's no other way to describe it. I've done podcasts about it before, but the auxiliaries in the Black and Tans in West Cork in the twenties, their job was to inflict terror, terror on civilians, the civilian population, the culture of human shields.

• 22:49Blindboy Boatclub?

  If the IRA targeted legitimate British military targets, then the Black and Tans and auxiliaries would then target civilians to give the message to the civilians that don't be supporting these IRA fellas, because if you support them, we're going to kill ye. So on 21st of November, 1920, British military intelligence officers were shot up in Dublin.

• 23:14Blindboy Boatclub?

  And then the response to that was British military forces, like fucking soldiers, went into Croke Park during the Gaelic football final. They went into a football stadium full of civilians, only civilians. And then they opened fired on the crowd. They opened fired on men, women, children, just for the crack as a reprisal and killed fourteen civilians as an act of terrorism, as an act of intimidation. This is what Winston Churchill wanted. So then eight days later, down in West Cork, at Kill Michael, Tom Barry's flying column,

• 23:56Blindboy Boatclub?

  the IRA ambushed a full convoy of auxies, auxiliaries. Now, auxiliaries were mercenaries. They were World War One veterans, officers, highly trained elite soldiers, British soldiers, who were also very posh and wealthy because they were officers. So the IRA ambushed them as retaliation for Bloody Sunday, the first Bloody Sunday up in Dublin. IRA ambushed them and killed seventeen auxiliaries. And this became known as the Kill Michael ambush. A very instrumental ambush in Irish history because it brought about the independence

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  of the twenty-six counties down south, not the entirety of Ireland. The six counties up north is still part of Britain, it's still occupied. So anyway, the other day, I'm at Kill Michael, I'm there. And I'm there because my dad used to take me there when I was a child. See, that's the thing. Like, my granddad took part in this, sort of my granduncle. And I think my other granduncle too, he was a spotter or something. And it's this incredible huge monument. And it has, I think it's a Patrick Pearce quote, it says, It says, "They shall be spoken of among their people. The generations shall remember them and call them blessed."

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  Which, that took my breath a little bit, because I was like, "Fuck, that's about my grandad." And then I walked all around the Kilmichael ambush site, which is just these bare fucking hills and rocks and heather and this winding road. And it's like the terrain, the terrain, I created this perfect ambush site where these elite British soldiers were killed. And what's fucking mad is, it's like a national monument and it says IRA everywhere. And I could be invited on the national radio and they'd be like, "Blind Boy, tell us about your time down in West Cork at the Kilmichael ambush site."

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  And I could talk about it and speak about them like they're heroes, national heroes. But then, because they're the good IRA, but then you've got something like the Warren Point ambush that happened in 1979 up north. Pretty much the exact same thing as the Kilmichael ambush, where the IRA, the provisional IRA took out a lot of SAS. Exact same thing. But if you went, you couldn't go on to Irish radio and say that, you'd be called a terrorist. Like even a few years ago, I was on Irish radio. Now, they didn't air this, they just went, "No way, we're not airing that." But I was called on to speak about the wolf tone saying, "Up the ra" at Electric Picnic.

• 26:52Blindboy Boatclub?

  And they interviewed me. "We've got Blind Boy on the line. Blind Boy, is it not just disgraceful, disgraceful stuff saying up the ra?" And I kept saying, "Up the ra" on the radio. And then I said, "Don't worry, it's about the good IRA. I'm saying up the ra, the good IRA." And the radio DJ couldn't form an argument. They were like, "It's not the same thing, it's not the same thing. Don't be ridiculous, it's not the same thing." And I said, "It is the same thing. It is because the Irish War of Independence started in 1919 and it started when IRA member Dan Breen during the Solohead ambush."

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  Walked up to two policemen and shot them into the head. And then I kept saying, up the ra, up the ra, I mean, the good IRA. I'm saying up the ra for the good IRA. And then I started listing out Irish presidents who were in the IRA and killed people. And then the, the interview got cut short and they didn't air it. But anyway, these are all the thoughts I was having when I was down in West Cork at the Kill Michael Ambush site. And I was walking around the different positions. And then I came across the, the little stone. It's, it's like an anti-colonial piece of art. It's something. It's an amazing thing to see.

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  It's this stone in the ground, like it looks like a headstone and it says, command post, West Cork Brigade, Flying Calum, IRA. And on this road too, died seventeen terrorist officers of the British forces. Which is just, to see that written down is crazy to see the British Army referred to as terrorists. Because you see, we live in a hyperreal simulacrum where narratives are defined, not by the truth, but by, by media and by solemnity and by ritual. And you can't possibly call the British Army terrorists because they're the British Army. They're a professional force. They, they have rituals, they have medals, they have, that's not terrorism, that's an army.

• 28:55Blindboy Boatclub?

  But no, they were terrorists in Ireland. They conducted themselves as terrorists. They performed acts of terror on civilians for the purpose of terrorism. And that stone, that monument, seeing it written down on stone is very jarring, very confrontational. It engages the, the critical part of your brain immediately. So I'm walking all around Kill Michael Ambush site. And I'm, it, it's, it's a fa- fucking family history thing for me. Because my dad used to take me there when I was a kid, when I was a little child. I was there with my dad and I do remember sitting down, eating chicken sandwiches, eating.

• 29:36Blindboy Boatclub?

  Eating chicken sandwiches at the IRA ambush site at about six or seven years of age, maybe a bit older, I don't remember, and my dad trying to explain to me the evils of empire. And I start to go, maybe this is what my my autotopographical journey is about. It wasn't Garnish Island. Maybe I had to I had to return to the site of the Kilmeikle ambush. And it's just about missing my dad and just being there now as a middle aged man. And I haven't seen my dad since my early twenties and I've forgotten.

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  I don't really even know what it's like to speak to my to speak to my dad as an adult. I don't really know what that's like, and that's really sad. So being at the Kilmeikle ambush site and trying to think, oh, I wish my dad was here. I wonder what we'd talk about, even that there is a simulacrum of sorts because I can't even trust my dad has gone so long that I can't really trust memories of him. And all of my memories of conversations with my dad are filtered through being a child or being a teenager. They're filtered through that lens and the emotions of that time. So the memories that I have of my dad, they're not too far off.

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  The unreliable colonial hotchpotch of pagodas and bonsai trees and Greek temples on Garnish Island are the distant description of chutney that might still exist in brown sauce. My memory of my dad has been described to me by a fucking child years ago. It's a simulacrum. And then I start going, fuck it, yeah, that's that's deep, that is. I feel a sense of completeness there. I feel a sense of completeness to my autotopographical journey.

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  That feels like I've learned something there via this site specific performance that I've just done there in West Cork. And then as I'm on.

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  The Kill Michael Ambush Site. My phone rings. And the reception is absolutely shit. Terrible reception, which I thought was fucking class, because I'm like, wow, this was the 1920s. And even if the auxiliaries had had mobile phones, they still wouldn't have worked. That's how good an ambush spot this is. So my phone's ringing, I'm answering it. I can't hear the person on the other end because the reception is so poor. But just as I walk a little bit up the road from the Kill Michael Ambush Site, now I've got reception. So I managed to answer the phone and it's someone who was working at the gig the night before. And they said to me, "Did you leave your ebook reader behind? Did you leave an ebook reader behind you on the island?" And like ebook reader, like a Kindle, I don't have a Kindle, but like a Kindle.

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  "Did you leave your ebook reader behind on the island?" And then I went, "Fuck, yeah, that's mine. I left my ebook reader behind on the fucking island." And then they say, "No problem, not a bother, we'll send it to you in the post." Alright, that's grand. So I'm relieved because I'm like, shit, yeah, all my books were on that. And I take my ebook reader with me to gigs so that I can read my short stories. And all of the books that I read are on this ebook reader. So I'm like, thank fuck, great, they're gonna send that in the post.

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  And then I went, "Oh, fuck."

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  What if they look at my ebook reader and see the last book that I was reading? See, I don't have a passcode on it. And the other thing as well is, I don't know, if you came across someone's Kindle or ebook reader.

• 33:31Blindboy Boatclub?

  It's not that big an invasion of privacy to look at someone's books on their e-reader. It's not like reading a person's emails or text messages, which is a clear invasion of privacy. But just taking a look at someone's e-reader and going, "Hmm, I wonder what books they're reading." It's not a huge invasion of someone's privacy. And especially if the person is well-known, they'd be like, "Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna look, I'm gonna look into Blind Boy's e-reader and see what books Blind Boy reads. Because, you know, he's a fucking writer, let's see what books he's reading." And normally I wouldn't give a fuck, like I even said before about three years ago. I was on a plane, I was on a plane to Portugal.

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  And someone sitting behind me on the plane, like obviously I don't wear my plastic bag on a plane. Someone sitting behind me on the fucking plane managed to correctly identify me as Blind Boy, based purely on the books that I was reading in my Kindle. And they tapped me on the shoulder on the plane and said, "You Blind Boy." And fair fucking play to that person for correctly guessing me, who I was, purely on, on the books on my Kindle. But anyway.

• 34:42Blindboy Boatclub?

  I'm at the fucking Kill Michael ambush site going, "Oh shit, I've left my Kindle on the island. I hope they don't open it and see the last books that I've been reading." Because the name of the last book that I've been reading is Morning Glory Milking Farm. Which is, if you're listening to this, if, if there are children listening, uh, now is the time to, children can't listen to this bit. Also, if my mother is listening, my mother listens every week. You don't want to hear any of this. You don't want to hear any of this at all. If you're listening to this in public, if you're listening to this in public and you don't want to be embarrassed, you don't want to play this bit in public, right? So the, the last fucking book on my e-reader is Morning Glory Milking Farm.

• 35:25Blindboy Boatclub?

  Which is erotic, it's, no, it's pornographic. It, it's erotic fiction about a woman who works in a, a minotaur milking farm. It's about a millennial woman who's in huge student debt. So she has to get a job at a clinic where minotaurs, which are like half bull, half man. She gets a job at a clinic where she masturbates minotaurs. Because their sperm is being collected to make Viagra for humans.

• 36:09Blindboy Boatclub?

  And then she falls in love with the minotaur. Now, first off.

• 36:16Blindboy Boatclub?

  I'm not in.

• 36:19Blindboy Boatclub?

  I'm not reading this because I'm into it. I'm reading it out of curiosity. Listen, if I was into books about mytor's being wanked off, I'd tell you. I'd say it. I'd say, this is what I love. I love books that contain very little plot and are focused around incredibly long, detailed, sexually explicit descriptions of half-men, half-bulls being masturbated. If that's what I was into, I'd let you know that. I'm not recommending that anyone reads Morning Glory, Milking Farm. It's not a good book. It's not a good book. It's like Fifty Shades of Grey.

• 37:03Blindboy Boatclub?

  It's Fifty Shades of Grey, except with fucking half-bull men. And when I compare it to Fifty Shades of Grey there, it's... So Fifty Shades of Grey, which again is...

• 37:18Blindboy Boatclub?

  I don't know if pornography is the right word. I mean, it is porn. It is porn. It's not just erotic. Fifty Shades of Grey, if you read it, is very, very sexually explicit writing. It's for the purposes of people read it for sexual arousal. And also Fifty Shades of Grey, it would not have existed... It wouldn't have been as big as it was if it weren't for e-readers. Okay? Because before e-readers, you had to have a physical book in your hand and nobody's gonna get on the bus or the train reading pornography. They're just not gonna do it.

• 37:58Blindboy Boatclub?

  But when Fifty Shades of Grey came out, it was people using Kindles, e-readers, Cobos. That's where it exploded. But in 2025, we're seeing this massive, massive popularity being driven by TikTok of...

• 38:15Blindboy Boatclub?

  Monster porn, fantasy porn, and it's being read by, it's being read by women and it's being written by women. It's coming out of the, the romanticy genre, but the roma- I don't, I'm not even sure what romanticy is. Half fantasy, half romance, a little bit erotic, but now we've got monster bait. Yeah, the book itself, Morning Glory, Milking Farm, it says a monster bait romance. So this is sexually explicit pornography about wanking off minor doors. So obviously I'm at the Kilmeikle ambush site going, fuck, I don't want someone to open up my, my ebook and see that. Then I said, fuck it, who cares?

• 38:59Blindboy Boatclub?

  And then I remembered, I'd act, I've actually written madder than that. Anyway, I have an erotic short story from my first, from my first collection of short stories. I have, I have a story called Arse Children, which is quite sexually explicit and it's about Eamonn De Valera. And it's actually connected a little bit with the Kilmeikle ambush. It's about Eamonn De Valera, he finds out that he's got Holy Mary's womb in his bowels and then Michael Collins has to have sex with him up the arse to get his bowels pregnant so that Eamonn De Valera can give birth to his arse children, which are a strange little

• 39:43Blindboy Boatclub?

  humanoid elite race of IRA soldiers. And the murders that they commit actually do lead to the Kilmeikle ambush. So it was a little bit of a full circle moment where I'm going, oh, okay, this is starting to make sense now. Right, okay. So the person at the Office of Public Works on Garnish Island who picked up my e-reader, opened it and saw, I wonder what Blind Boy's reading? And then the first thing you saw was Morning Glory, Milking Farm. Yes, I am reading a book about wanking off minor doors. Um, it's not for the purposes of sexual arousal. I know that this might look like damage limitations too. This might look like, he's after getting caught. He's after getting caught.

• 40:29Blindboy Boatclub?

  Minotaur wanking fucking material. And now he's trying to do damage limitations. Now he's, he's trying to, he's trying to do a podcast about it. Before the person at the office, office of public works decides to tell everybody. What I'm fascinated by is how this, so this monster porn genre, it's,

• 40:53Blindboy Boatclub?

  it's after getting really fucking popular.

• 40:56Blindboy Boatclub?

  And it's pissing off,

• 40:59Blindboy Boatclub?

  it's pissing off people who are into literature, but it's pissing, it's pissing off fascists. It's pissing off fascists because of who's reading it. It's being read by women. It's being read by a lot of women. Not just minotaur sex, but other

• 41:19Blindboy Boatclub?

  lizards, fucking claws, tails, grotesque sex creatures. Do I think these women want to have sex with a minotaur? No, I think what it is, is it's a form of erotic literature where a, a man isn't present. A human man, a hu, a human man is not present. Instead, what you have is exaggerated descriptions of erotic touch, taste, smell, everything you'd, you'd associate with the language of sex penetration, everything.

• 42:00Blindboy Boatclub?

  But a human man isn't present because this isn't necessarily like a niche genre of people who wanna have sex with bulls. It's, it's not that. It's, I don't fully know what it is, but it's capturing a zeitgeist of some description. And. The fascists, the right wingers that it's pissing off, the, these are men who hate women. These are men who hate feminists. These are men who are frightened of intelligent women. They're feeling very threatened by this, by this genre. They're being, they're feeling threatened by sex books where men have been removed.

• 42:42Blindboy Boatclub?

  And instead, there's dragons and minotirs, but also they're calling it degenerate literature. Degenerate, dumb, stupid, deprived, depraved. And degenerate, that's a Nazi term, the Nazis had degenerate art. In, in the online rise of fascism, there's this,

• 43:04Blindboy Boatclub?

  this fetishization of classical ideas, Greek, Roman, Western ideas. Often you'll see these accounts and they have like Roman statues and Greek statues. And all of their content is basically, weren't things great back then? And you scratch beneath the surface and it's quite, it's quite racist. What they mean is Western hegemony. What they mean is, wasn't it great then in the age of empire? In the age of when white Anglo-Saxon men were the only voices and nothing competed with it. And the men who get pissed off by books like Morning Glory, Milking Farm, about wanking off minotirs,

• 43:48Blindboy Boatclub?

  who would call it degenerate, who feel threatened because women are reading it, who would be misogynistic about it.

• 43:56Blindboy Boatclub?

  They'd fetishize Greek and Roman mythology. And the thing is, right, so, so also as well, I, I, I'm fascinated by how utterly hilarious it is. How fucking hilarious is it that there's a book where a woman gets a job in a minotaur farm, wanking them off? Like, it's absurd and ridiculous and funny. And yes, it's like sexually shocking and outrageous. But then you go and literally look at Greek mythology itself. And the story within Greek mythology, thousands of years old, of how the minotaur was conceived, is actually way more fucked up than Morning Glory, Milking Farm.

• 44:37Blindboy Boatclub?

  Like in Greek mythology, there was a woman called, there was a, actually, there was a king, there was a king called King Minos of Crete. And King Minos prayed for a beautiful white bull.

• 44:51Blindboy Boatclub?

  And the god of the sea Poseidon gave Ki- King Midas, or King Minas, this gorgeous white bull. The most incredible bull you've ever seen in your life, just perfect. But the custom was, in ancient Greece, if the gods gave you a gift, like, i- if Poseidon, the god of the sea, gives you a fucking gorgeous white bull, the custom is you must then sacrifice that bull to Poseidon. It's what you do. If the gods gave you a gift, you sacrifice the gift to the god to show thanks. But King Minas was like, no, I think I wanna keep this bull. I'm not gonna sacrifice it at all.

• 45:34Blindboy Boatclub?

  Instead, he got a different bull and sacrificed that to Poseidon. Tried to trick Poseidon and said, there's the bull. But then Poseidon was like, that's, that's not the fucking white bull, you cheeky cunt.

• 45:46Blindboy Boatclub?

  So Poseidon is mad annoyed because King Minas didn't sacrifice the bull, the white bull, and he also tried to trick him. So Poseidon is like, okay, I'm gonna get my revenge. So he puts a curse on King Minas's wife, Pasiphae. And the curse is, Pasiphae will no longer want to have sex with her husband, King Minas, because she's gonna become obsessed with fucking that white bull.

• 46:15Blindboy Boatclub?

  Morning, noon and night, she is enamored. Every part of her sexual desire, every thought that she has is about having sex with that fucking white bull, which is a bull. It's an animal. But she can't. She can't, no matter, because

• 46:34Blindboy Boatclub?

  the mechanics of it just doesn't work. How can she guess? How ca- how can she even convince that bull, a completely different species, to want to have sex with her, a human being? It just doesn't work. And her heart is broken because of this.

• 46:52Blindboy Boatclub?

  So then she goes to a fella called Daedalus. Daedalus is an inventor. She says to Daedalus, "Look, I need to have sex with that bull. It's all I can think of. I can't think of anything else. Please." And Daedalus then invents an utterly mad cow arse costume. So Daedalus makes a wooden cow's arse. And then Pasiphae sticks her human arse into the fake cow's arse. And then finally the bull comes over and her wish is granted. And the bull has regular sex with King Minus's wife through the fake cow arse. Then she gets pregnant and gives birth to a weird child.

• 47:35Blindboy Boatclub?

  A weird child that's half bull, half human, the Minotaur. And King Minus is then tormented with his weird, aggressive son. So King Minus doesn't want to kill his son, but is also horrified by it because it's half bull. And then King Minus banishes the Minotaur to an island to live on a labyrinth where he can't escape. So that's supremely fucked up, erotic, strange, weird literature from the Greeks. The Greeks, that's classical civilization. That is classical literature right there. That's from the Greeks.

• 48:14Blindboy Boatclub?

  And the only difference between that and Morning Glory, Milking Farm is it's a better story. It's a much better story. That story about Pasiphae and the bull, I'm like, what happens next? What happens next? Unfortunately, in no part of Morning Glory, Milking Farm, are you like, what happens next? Do you know what happens next? Every time. There's just descriptions of a bull's penis. I'll read you a quote. I'll read you a quote. Make sure there's no children around. "She quickly cupped his balls, feeling them pulse as they emptied in rhythmic spurts.

• 48:52Blindboy Boatclub?

  She began pulling them, squeezing as she did, milking them like others, the way the good little cows preferred, milking him dry." So you don't want to have to explain to someone why you're reading a book like that. But I'm fascinated by it because I'm trying to figure out what it's saying about a zeitgeist.

• 49:13Blindboy Boatclub?

  This genre of story where

• 49:19Blindboy Boatclub?

  women are marrying or having sex with animals or beasts. Like, this is present in folklore all along, all around the world.

• 49:30Blindboy Boatclub?

  Like, even within folklore, it's known as the, the animal as bridegroom genre. And every culture has these stories.

• 49:40Blindboy Boatclub?

  And one theory about their purpose historically is it was because of arranged marriages that these stories would. Where you've, like, let's just take the classic, the classic fucking Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast is from the seventeen hundreds. But before that, it, it was a European folk tale in, in many forms. Before we get into that, let's have a little Ocarina pause. I don't have an Ocarina. I do, I have so many Ocarinas, I have no Ocarina. In the same way that I just noticed today, I have so many fucking socks, I have no socks.

• 50:23Blindboy Boatclub?

  It's difficult to explain. I'm, I'm overwhelmed by Ocarinas and I'm overwhelmed by socks. And I need to categorize them and order them so they can have these things again. So I'm gonna blow into a plastic bottle and you're gonna hear some adverts for bullshit, alright?

• 50:40Blindboy Boatclub?

  Oh, that's tasty.

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• 54:21Blindboy Boatclub?

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• 55:00Blindboy Boatclub?

  If you are signing up, make sure you give me actual money rather than signing up as a free member. That, there's no benefit to that. You're just giving Patreon your data. And then the other thing is, don't sign up on the Apple app. Apple are greedy cunts. They'll take 30%. Then, look, this keeps the podcast independent. Like, this is, what are we dealing with this week? This is about the IRA and wanking off fucking mine at ours, all right? Advertisers aren't into that. Advertisers aren't into that. But no advertiser can come in here and say, "Don't do that podcast, do something different."

• 55:43Blindboy Boatclub?

  That can't happen here because we're listener funded. So we can have as many IRA wanking mine into our podcast as we want. And I don't think we should have it any other way. That's proper public broadcasting, that is. Okay, upcoming gigs.

• 55:59Blindboy Boatclub?

  23rd of September, wonderful Tuesday night, I have got a gig in Vicar Street. That gig is now sold out, but I'm gonna release the guest list tickets, okay? Because I won't be using them. So there's still a few tickets available for that gig, but very little. Come along to that. Don't miss my beautiful Vicar Street Tuesday night gigs, they're wonderful. Then Dairy, Dairy on the 27th, which is a Saturday night gig. Come on up to Dairy, come up to Dairy, I'm gonna have a cracking guest, alright? And then, I think the next one, I suppose, after that, Sligo is sold out. I'm up in Mead at the Poca Festival on Halloween night.

• 56:42Blindboy Boatclub?

  Looking forward to that. Okay, back to the weird sex stuff. Let's talk about Beauty and the Beast. There's a woman called Beauty and she, she lives in a family that has a few quid, a wealthy family. And then suddenly that family loses all its money.

• 57:01Blindboy Boatclub?

  And her dad effectively sells Beauty off, his beautiful daughter. He sells her off to be married. But the person that she's sold off to is the beast. This big, hairy, rotten, horrendous beast, who happens to be a very wealthy beast, who lives in a castle.

• 57:24Blindboy Boatclub?

  And against her will, Beauty, her dad's like, "Look, the family's fucked, we don't have any money anymore. You're my beautiful daughter, you're property, I have to sell you like property to this disgraceful, horrible, disgusting beast." And then if you do that, you get to live in a castle and we'll get a dowry and a few quid and the family would be saved. So do that. So she marries him, she goes to the castle.

• 57:49Blindboy Boatclub?

  And each night, the beast wants to have sex with beauty. And she's like, no fucking way, I can't do it. I can't do it. You're a weird animal thing. I'm not doing it. You're disgusting. But eventually she starts to realise that even though he's a big hairy, smelly horrible beast, his personality isn't like that. There's a kindness to him. There's a gentleness to him. And she warms to him slightly. But she dreams at night time, she dreams of a handsome prince, even though she's stuck with this big smelly beast. And then she starts to get really homesick. She starts to miss her family. And she goes to Beast and says, look, I'm here in the castle. I'm married to you.

• 58:34Blindboy Boatclub?

  I really want to see my fucking family. Please, I miss him. And because he's kind, he goes, okay. And he lets her off to visit her family. But then when she's with her family, she's like, I don't want to go back to that big fucking smelly beast. Oh God, I can't face it. He's disgusting. I don't want to go back to the castle. So she delays, she delays going back to the beast. She finally returns and she finds the beast in the castle and he's dying of grief. He's heartbroken because he thought beauty was gone forever. And she is so moved by how much she can see that he clearly loves her because he's heartbroken that she was gone. He's nearly dead because she was gone.

• 59:18Blindboy Boatclub?

  That she finally submits, she submits and accepts. Oh my God, I think I love this stinking fucking bastard. And she rides him. And then suddenly he turns into a handsome prince. So that's Beauty and the Beast. That was written down.

• 59:37Blindboy Boatclub?

  The first one that was formally written down is the 1700s by, oh, I can't think of her fucking name. Gabrielle de Villeneuve, who was an aristocratic, wealthy French woman, and she's the first one to write that story down. But clearly, like that story,

• 59:58Blindboy Boatclub?

  that reflects the zeitgeist, that's the anxieties of women being sold off for marriage. It's the anxieties of, like Beauty and the Beast is quite misogynistic because it doesn't feel liberating. It feels as if it's. Training women to just, you, you have no choice in this matter. You don't get to pick. Fuck love, forget about love, forget about the handsome prince. You're gonna get married to whoever the fuck because you're effectively property. And your dad's gonna choose who you're gonna get married to based on dowry. And you're gonna marry him and you have to now, you have to figure out a way to turn him into a handsome prince.

• 1:00:43Blindboy Boatclub?

  You're gonna have to do that because that's your role in society. And that's what those, that's my reading of those stories. Minotaur Milking Farm, or, or Morning Glory Milking Farm. What I find interesting about that is

• 1:01:01Blindboy Boatclub?

  the central character, I think her name is Violet.

• 1:01:06Blindboy Boatclub?

  She's got huge amounts of student debt. It's the millennial condition, massive, massive amounts of student debt. And also rent is high. She has the, the struggles of a fucking millennial, massive debt and inability to get a steady career. So like Beauty and Beauty and the Beast where she doesn't have a choice. Beauty and Beauty and the Beast, it's an arranged marriage. She is forced into a situation that she doesn't agree to because the conditions of society have decided this. In Morning Glory Milking Farm, the central protagonist is under duress.

• 1:01:48Blindboy Boatclub?

  She gets a job wanking off Minotaur's and then eventually

• 1:01:55Blindboy Boatclub?

  learns to really love it and becomes sexually aroused by it. So that, I find that very fascinating. I find that really interesting.

• 1:02:06Blindboy Boatclub?

  And I can't help but think about, uh, there's this saint called Saint Wilgefort, this.

• 1:02:13Blindboy Boatclub?

  I would have mentioned Wilgofortus on a podcast from maybe seven fucking years ago.

• 1:02:19Blindboy Boatclub?

  Wilgofortus is a very interesting saint. Wilgofortus is illegal. It's an illegal saint to worship in the Catholic Church. Wilgofortus, if you saw Wilgofortus, is

• 1:02:33Blindboy Boatclub?

  basically Christ up on the cross with a full beard and a pair of boobs. That's what Wilgofortus is. It's beardy Christ with a woman's body crucified. And Saint Wilgofortus is an illegal saint in the Catholic Church. And the cult of Wilgofortus. Wilgofortus was worshipped by women who were in abusive marriages.

• 1:03:00Blindboy Boatclub?

  The story is that there was a girl called, very similar to Beauty and the Beast. There was a girl called Wilgofortus, Germany or somewhere like that. There was a girl called Wilgofortus.

• 1:03:13Blindboy Boatclub?

  And she was beautiful. And her dad was like, "You're property. I'm gonna marry you off to a disgusting man. I'm going to marry you to a big, old, disgusting man. That's what I'm gonna do." So he did. And Wilgofortus was like, "Oh my God, I'm just a young girl and I have to marry this disgusting, old, horrible man tomorrow because this is how society is." So, so Wilgofortus is like, "I need to get out of this." So she prays and prays and prays to God and says, "Please intervene, please intervene. I do not want to marry this beast."

• 1:03:57Blindboy Boatclub?

  And the next morning she wakes up and she has a giant beard, a huge, big beard. And when she goes on her wedding day to get married, the beast, the big, smelly old man, who's gonna be her husband, who has a lot of money, he goes, "I'm not fucking marrying a woman with a beard", and rejects her. And then Wilgofortus is free. She's free of, of the marriage that she was coerced into, that she didn't agree to, that she didn't wanna do.

• 1:04:26Blindboy Boatclub?

  And then from that you got Saint Wilgofortus, which, I think it was throughout the 14th and 15th century, there was the cult of Saint Wilgofortus, this...

• 1:04:38Blindboy Boatclub?

  It's literally, it's Christ with a woman's body, nailed to a cross. A woman's body and a beard. And this saint was worshipped by women who were in marriages that they wanted to escape from, either because those marriages were arranged or abusive or whatever. And I just, I love Saint Wilga Fortis because she's an illegal saint. How cool is that? And the other thing, the other thing that I just got thinking about because of Morning Glory, Milking Farm. And how, on the surface, it's like, oh, this seems new, this seems unique. Oh my God, what's this explosion, monster porn, what's happening?

• 1:05:22Blindboy Boatclub?

  And it's like, no, this shit has been here all the time in different guises. It's always been here. And to take it back to the fascists. One of the most harmful readings of the Bible is known as the serpent seed theory. And the serpent seed theory is, I did my Old Testament podcast about two weeks ago. I spoke about the Garden of Eden in the fall. And I spoke about fucking Adam and Eve's sons, Cain and Abel. So there's one reading of the Bible, which is that in the Garden of Eden, Eve,

• 1:06:05Blindboy Boatclub?

  it wasn't that she ate an apple, like the devil come along, that the serpent came along and said to Eve, eat that apple there that God said you can't eat, the, the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent seed theory is that the serpent came into the Garden of Eden. This lizardy, weird, beastly creature, the devil.

• 1:06:28Blindboy Boatclub?

  And he seduced Eve. Eve, who was in a covenant with Adam, her husband. And the serpent seed theory is that Eve fucked the devil. And the devil got her pregnant. And she secretly carried this baby and didn't tell Adam. And she gave birth to two kids, twins. And these twins were Cain and Abel. And Abel had been fertilized by Adam's sperm. But Cain secretly was fertilized by the devil's sperm, by the serpent's sperm, the serpent's seed.

• 1:07:10Blindboy Boatclub?

  And then they get kicked out of the Garden of Eden because God knows, God is like, you fucked the devil. I'm not even gonna tell Adam, but you fucked the devil so you can get the fuck out. You're after doing the first ever sin, Eve. A woman should never cheat on her husband, especially not carry a baby. Even though that's what fucking God did with Mary, isn't it? But anyway, look at me bitching about God. Bitching about God. I genuinely tried to bitch about God. Anyway, look, fucking. She gives birth to Cain and Abel.

• 1:07:52Blindboy Boatclub?

  And in the serpent seed theory, Cain is the son of the devil. And Cain and Abel, as you know, right? Cain kills Abel. Cain kills his brother. The first ever murder is committed when Cain kills Abel. Evil is born into the world in that moment. But the serpent seed theory, and this is why it's so fucking dangerous. The serpent seed theory started to emerge with a group called the British Israelites. Fucking lunatics, the British Israelites. They would have came about around, again, 1890 would have been Edwardian.

• 1:08:38Blindboy Boatclub?

  And the British Israelites would have been antisemitic, racist. The British Israelites basically believed that British people, right, Anglo-Saxon white British people are descended from the twelve tribes of Israel, that British people are the true chosen people, the true Israelites in the Bible, right? They believed that Jewish people were the seed of the devil and they incorporated race science. So the serpent seed theory is dangerous because the British Israelites were like, well, you've got good people and bad people.

• 1:09:22Blindboy Boatclub?

  Bad people, such as black people, Irish people, Jewish people, anyone who's not white, basically. Those people are inferior and stupid and violent and savage. Do you know why? Because they're descended from Cain. You see, the devil went into the Garden of Eden and fucked Eve. So everyone who's bad and not white and perfect like us, those people are descended from Cain, but us, we're descended from Abel. Adam was his dad. We're good, we're pure. Everyone who isn't us deserves to die because they are the devil, they are Satan, they are Satan's seed.

• 1:10:05Blindboy Boatclub?

  These were white supremacists, uh, Christian white supremacists, and the British Israelites were very heavily active in Ireland.

• 1:10:17Blindboy Boatclub?

  In eighteen ninety-nine, they got it into their fucking heads, so they went reading Irish mythology. And in Ireland, we have the, the Hill of Tara, the Hill of Tara up in Meath. The Hill of Tara is a, it's a very significant site, it's a very significant archaeological site in Ireland, it's where- It's where kings were crowned, I suppose, the high kings of Ireland. And there's a stone on the hill of Tara called the Lea Fall, which in Irish mythology was said to be a stone that was brought by the Tuatha Dé Danann, which were a race of fairies brought from the other world. And new kings get made by the Lea Fall.

• 1:11:03Blindboy Boatclub?

  But because in Ireland, we were so good at preserving our mythology, these British Israelite colonizers started to read our mythology. And then they became convinced that the Lea Fall was the site of where God buried the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant is the Ten Commandments, the literal Ten Commandments in, in, in a, an ark, in, in a, in like a casket, an ornate casket. And the stone tablets that God gave to Moses of how humans should behave. The British Israelites became fucking convinced that the Ark of the Covenant was buried up in the hill of Tara.

• 1:11:44Blindboy Boatclub?

  So in the 1890s, these mad bastards went up to the hill of Tara and vandalized the fuck out of it. They tried to excavate the hill of Tara, a monument that's thousands of years old, trying to find the Ark of the fucking Covenant, trying to find the Ten Commandments. And I think WBA's and Douglas Hyde and a lot of them went up with hatchets and attacked the British Israelites to try and stop them from digging up the hill of Tara. But also what you see with the, with the British Israelites, these, these lunatics who thought that they were the original Jews,

• 1:12:20Blindboy Boatclub?

  they also start to fraternize with Ulster Unionists. And the British Israelites become the first kind of far right, right wing that you start to see in Ireland, especially around the time of the, the War of Independence. 1916 onwards, they start to bring like hardcore antisemitism. So.

• 1:12:47Blindboy Boatclub?

  These people would have fucking really hated Irish people. They would have believed Irish people to be inferior race. These two called Robert Knox and John Beddoe. They said that the Irish, the Irish were inclined to criminality and that this innate Irish criminality could be determined through an analysis of the shape of the skulls of Irishmen who had negro appearance. So in amongst like pseudoscience, like phrenology, the measuring of skulls, within race science, which is bullshit, they have this serpent seed theory in there that the different races exist because Eve fucked the serpent. That's

• 1:13:32Blindboy Boatclub?

  what, that's what you're seeing here. You've got pure white, perfect Anglo-Saxon people who descend from Adam, but then everybody else, that's because Eve fucked the devil. So everybody else is, isn't human and deserves to be killed. Now, I'm thinking about all of this while I'm on the fucking, well, I'm at the side of the Kilmeade ambush and worried about, oh God, what if they find out about that fucking Minotaur wanking book? So these are the thoughts that are going through my head. But around the time of the Kilmeade ambush, let's say 1920, the British Israelites, they start to get friendly with the Unionists

• 1:14:12Blindboy Boatclub?

  and they start to become terrified that what if Ireland gets independence? And one British Israelite, Princess Alice, the Countess of Athlone, right? So a planter in Athlone, she founds the British Israel World Foundation with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in America. So this is 1920 now.

• 1:14:40Blindboy Boatclub?

  So the colonizers in the big houses,

• 1:14:45Blindboy Boatclub?

  they start to realise, oh my god, our days might be numbered. Irish independence might be a fucking possibility. We've been here for 800 years, this might end. And in that sense of, the Paddy's are gonna beat the British?

• 1:15:03Blindboy Boatclub?

  There's 17 dead fucking auxiliaries down in Kilmichael? These were our elite soldiers, how did this happen? What you start to see amongst the British Israelites is, they start to believe that

• 1:15:17Blindboy Boatclub?

  the Irish are too stupid to do this on their own, it must be the Jews. So they become convinced that the 1916 Rising, Michael Collins, War of Independence, the Balfour Declaration, where you start to see the Zionist project in Palestine. They become convinced that this is all part of a global Jewish conspiracy, that there is no way possible, there's no way that there's someone called Tom Barry and, and a bunch of Paddy's who can take out 17 elite soldiers. No, no, no, this is the Jews who are somehow secretly funding this, or they're secretly behind it, the hidden hand.

• 1:15:57Blindboy Boatclub?

  So the British Israelites, they, you know, really friendly with the Ulster Unionists.

• 1:16:05Blindboy Boatclub?

  They're like nearly trying to hatch a plot that, in the event of Ireland getting independence, the south of Ireland, it does happen in 1922. They're just like, there is, there is no possi- these people are so stupid and so dumb and inferior that there is no possible way that they can self-govern. It can't happen. Paddy cannot self-govern because he's, he's an ape, effectively. He is a descendant of the Serpent Seed. So there's no way that Paddy can self-govern. And the British Israelites fizzled out a bit, but their ideas.

• 1:16:44Blindboy Boatclub?

  They travelled to America. I know that British Israelite ideas influenced Mormonism. And where you see it a lot now is the Christian identitarian movement. And this is a big American thing. And the fucking US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, he's got a tattoo that leads people to believe that he is involved in the Christian identitarian movement or the Christian identity movement. And this is the modern American iteration of the British Israelite movement today. It's an incredibly racist

• 1:17:23Blindboy Boatclub?

  view of the only true Christians can be white Anglo-Saxon or Germanic people. They believe fully in the serpent seed theory. So anyone who is not white skinned is effectively a descendant of the union of Eve and a lizard. And the most hardcore, dangerous fascists in America adhere to this this belief, the Ku Klux Klan. And then you've got a group called the Order. The Order were a neo-Nazi terrorist group who did bombings in the eighties. And in 2024, it was reported that ex-members of this neo-Nazi group,

• 1:18:07Blindboy Boatclub?

  this The Order, they were a terrorist neo-Nazi group. They're actually, one of them is active in Ireland and is mingling and advising members of the Irish far right. So it's gone full circle. So I hope that's a sufficient explanation to the person in the Office of Public Works on Garnish Island, who looked through my ebook reader, who looked through that reader and found a book called Morning Glory Milking Farm. I'm not into wanking off my natures. I'm using the book to parse the zeitgeist, to interrogate the book as a palimpsest of enduring anxieties about

• 1:18:51Blindboy Boatclub?

  sex, labour and power within the millennial condition and the global rise of fascism. All right. I don't know what the fuck that episode was about.

• 1:19:03Blindboy Boatclub?

  You know, some episodes are very robust hot takes. Other times I have phone calls. And every so often I have one of these. I have one of these ones. I suppose it's like a Minotaur of a podcast, isn't it? I feel like King Minus. When his wife just suddenly gave Bart to the weird cow child. That's what this episode is like. It's just like a squirming cow child. I don't know what to do with it. I don't know what to do with this episode or how to define it. But I love it. I'm not going to throw it into a maze. I love this episode unconditionally, like all my other podcasts. All right. I'll catch you next week.

• 1:19:47Blindboy Boatclub?

  Rub a dog, wink at a swan, wank off a Minotaur. Dog bless.

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