The Politics of King Charles' First Speech, Plus Is Suella Trying To Get Sacked? | Pod Save The Uk

[@--Dan-]

"The gold hat is a very big part of this", is a really good introduction to a lot of British history.

[@seabich]

News Hat: Top news stories News Belt: Middling news stores. News Socks: The lighter side.

[@runawayshay6409]

😂

[@eastvandb]

Or, almost the reverse: News Hat: Light fair off the top News Belt: Restrained stuff mid-show News Socks: the dark, smelly side of news.

[@homohawk]

Brilliant

[@trancedoutkid]

As an American, this is like finding out all the weird stuff your parents get up to after you've moved out...

[@mahoganyk]

I moved to the UK recently (also american) and its like finding out the weird things your parents get up to you after you've moved back home

[@Ryan-gx3hs]

Yep, same @@mahoganyk

[@Lina_unchained]

This woman really walked into a room after somebody shouted "black rod"...she's dressed in what basically looks to me like "Little Boy Blue in mourning" chic, carrying a fancy f*ckin stick and trailing a black man behind her who doesn't really look all that much like he wants to be there. Like WHAT IS HAPPENING OVER THERE?! 😂😂😂

[@aread420]

Moved out....lol. More like after we were all in bed. I had f*ckin weird parents. I'm Canadian, and we're part of the commonwealth; even, this shit is weird to us. I didn't know we have a black rod as well. We still have to get the King's approval on some of our bills of parliament. Also, if you want to know more about the UK there are a number of funny shows that can help. Have I Got News For You has been going since the early 90's. The Mash Report, Frankie Boyle's New World Order, and Mock the Week have all been axed by the BBC; however, most episodes are on KZbin. QI is good for general & strange information of all kinds. 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown is great if you enjoy comedy, but are a fan of math/word puzzles.Discovering British TV was the best part of the pandemic for me. Sometimes, it's just nice to know that we're all f*cked lol

[@aread420]

I haven't seen enough openings to know if having a black man there is part of some weird Victorian tradition, or an unfortunate part of his position as an MP. If you want to see something really effed up you should google Dutch Santa - Sinter Klaas @@Lina_unchained

[@Timmayytoo]

News Hat: your producer picks a handful of weird stories for you to talk about at the end of each episode and puts them in a crazy hat for you to pick one randomly.

[@homohawk]

I would watch this

[@theeviljames]

Surely, "news hat" is a trilby with a card that reads "Press" stuck in it at a jaunty angle

[@Surax]

I accidentally had Closed Caption on for part of this episode. Apparently KZbin thinks the Gunpowder Plot was put on by "Guy Forks."

[@cecilytubbs3766]

The US has something similar to the black rod thing but less flamboyant. The President has to knock and be invited in to give the State of the union every year. It's the Sergeant at Arms that does it I believe. And also someone from the cabinet has to stay behind in case the capitol gets destroyed and they have to continue the government. Just as ridiculous but no one does it to the level of the UK.

[@homohawk]

Good thing we haven't had any efforts to destroy our capital...oh wait.

[@BeccaAl]

“Listen to the political ramblings of two geriatric millennials as we complain about the Fast and Furious franchise and compare notes on how to sit down” 49:59 Fcking love you two, funny Fckers.

[@jwebster126]

A hat is the last piece of clothing your putting on as you head out the door. A news hat is obviously the last story of the program to leave on a happy note.

[@kathrynmceachern9503]

Coco, I hear you 100% about the "news hat" tangent. My mind instantly agreed with you, "You definitely need to match your news belt and news hat, otherwise, people might make jokes..."

[@sallynewey9675]

I'm old enough to remember when the 11th wasn't marked at all and remembrance Sunday was the day and even then nearly everyone ignored it. It wasn't a thing, it started to become a thing again because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And now the hysteria about it is becoming ridiculous, especially the marketisation.

[@alicemerray]

Agreed. Obviously, most years 11th isn't either a Sunday or a Saturday, but I have NO memory of ever stopping for a silence either at school or work (I'm now retired). Neither has my OH. It was always all about Remembrance Sunday, the nearest Sunday to 11th. Individuals or some groups may have marked the actual Armistice, and I have zero problem with that, but it was very much a choice (so is marking RS, but YKWIM). In recent days we have seen one 'newspaper' describe this coming couple of days as 'our sacred weekend', when it's nothing of the sort. I for one believe most of those who fought and died for our freedoms would be appalled by this feverish nonsense. I also wonder if charitable organisations are the ones actually benefiting from all the poppy 'merch' that exists now?

[@mightyone3737]

In Canada we have Remembrance Day, which is very much not a holiday and is mostly observed by children, children that generally have no idea what war actually entails, or that most of the soldiers that died died for mindbogglingly stupid reasons, with a shocking number of dead soldiers killed over the pride of their ruler. I still have a lot of respect for soldiers (because someone has to do that job ultimately), but most wars are extremely stupid and unnecessary. At least we don't let the rich buy positions in the army (officially) anymore, in those days the average grunt knew more about tactics than the average general, yet the generals got to make all the (disastrous) decisions, most of which were blind charges against fortified positions. It got so bad that when the Light Brigade was given an openly suicidal mission (by mistake) during the Crimean War they assumed that it was just another stupid plan and actually charged. I guess some guy wrote a poem about it or something? Anyways, their is a reason a disproportionate number of soldiers throughout history did not serve willingly.

[@NessNayii]

Yes, I remember the time before all of this became so utterly damn shrill and fevered too. As mentioned, it was always remembrance Sunday, with no real pressure or expectation on anyone even then. Silence was not broadly observed, and certainly wasn't all but compulsory in schools and work places. I also remember that Americans were considered somewhat weird for sticking flags in their gardens and elsewhere, now we've started banging them up everywhere too. They were reserved for sandcastles and jubilee parties when I was a kid. The insincere virtue signalling that's often involved in all of this - and of course the resulting pressure exerted by it - does indeed border on hysteria, or manipulation.

[@franciscasepulveda4370]

As an American, I'm so happy you explained what a black rod was 😂😂😂

[@--Dan-]

Because you definitely weren't going to google it

[@franciscasepulveda4370]

@@--Dan- Absolutely not! Lol

[@EdwardLindon]

It's not a black rod. It's Black Rod.

[@Lina_unchained]

It is somehow worse than what I was expecting to be honest 😂

[@toadeepants]

News cummerbund.

[@bitchenboutique6953]

Great in Sherlock.

[@windlessoriginals1150]

Suella would fit in with maga perfectly 🤮.

[@Gill280]

The monarchy is *so fucking weird* 😂

[@kathrynmceachern9503]

"BRING ME THE BIG GOLDEN NEWS HAT" declared The King, "I'm going to go tell these people a thing or two about themselves."

[@jenniferbaker4434]

Excellent show and great guest. Thanks for spotlighting Joe “Mummy” Lycett’s brilliant work for Crisis.

[@niamhperreault4844]

News hat is actually pretty solid Coco. Like the receptacle where the snippets of news are stored.

[@buzzymclaughlin]

Please post the school newspaper interview somewhere where we can read it!

[@duckweedy]

War crimes cannot be ignored because otherwise we have a leader who is prepared to aid and abet war crimes depending on the person's religion and colour of skin. Which is why African countries & even Ukraine are backing Palestine. They see it as a colonial power attacking the people they have stolen land from.

[@mightyone3737]

Technically that's exactly what's happening, I guess we should be happy that the Americans aren't technically hypocrites on this one thing, they actually are in favor of someone else doing the bad things they do/did? It'd be refreshing if it wasn't such an awful position for them to take.

[@PetaloudesTouYialou]

I haven't pedicabbed, but now I MUST! I'll pick a flat route though, coz i'm not light!😂

[@khi-jonchua985]

Unfortunate that King Charles doesn't share Queen Elizabeth's unspoken opinion about the matter :(

[@bitchenboutique6953]

“Scourge” seems like an incredibly strong word for a discussion of pedicabs, no matter how annoyed one might be.

[@EdwardLindon]

Unbridled hysteria is a key part of the Nu Right ethos.

[@constancebay1612]

​L😅

[@Ryan-gx3hs]

If Coco Khan was an animal, she'd be a silly goose Also, you should make a news hat merch

[@kathrynmceachern9503]

Agree to both of your points, and would love nothing more than to wear a news hat Tshirt... Or hat, or bracelet or belt....

[@jgray2718]

I think a hat with an inside-out umbrella just to the left of the word "News" would sell pretty will to pod listeners.

[@HFEpro]

what i don't understand is how a procedure where a royal official goes to a government gathering and says "the king is here, come attend to him," and then all the politicians follow the official is supposed to demonstrate that the monarchy is separate from the politicians :/ on an unrelated note, you mentioned that antisemitism was trendy in the labour party. it'd be interesting and informative to have a jewish guest go over that, and to talk about the harms such rhetoric did (and continues to do) to jewish people in real life. i'd also love an episode dedicated to the histories of the labour and tory parties in general. how they came about, how they chose their names, major scandals, etc.

[@morriford]

My like on this video was completely for approval for the you can leave your news hat on line

[@alicemerray]

You missed a couple of elements of the King's Speech performance out. The way the doors of the Commons are deliberately slammed shut at the last moment in Black Rod's face and the performatively rowdy way the MPs make their way up to the Lords chamber. It's all supposed to symbolise how the Commons is really in charge and they're going to listen to the King under protest.

[@shantz123]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 As if there was a black man behind him when he shouted black rod

[@JoLU2DGames]

Really enjoy the show but the sweetness and charm of Nish and Coco in response to a school journo's question? Adorable, especially as they could have just not bothered.

[@jsrodman]

As a US based listener, it feels deeply weird for this podcast to adread for us focused communications. I don't mind it of coure, but I do hope you can find adreads with more uk relevance.

[@jbtpa895]

When it was Queen Elizabeth it was kinda, she's old, she's done her job for a long time, okay. Charles is just slimy for not knowing how to treat family and never seemed to grow up, too self centered. This is so pretentious and weird.

[@Vulcanerd]

Whatever News Hat is, I demand that Coco wear it in the next episode!

[@andreasheld2362]

Hats up to the news! 😀

[@jpsinister01]

American here. Have I been mispronouncing Potpourri this whole time? I like it, but people here will ask me if I'm speaking about a new pot hybrid Pot-pourri.

[@Lina_unchained]

Sometimes I wonder if British people actually hear the words that they're saying when they say them. Like, Im sorry "yeoman of the guard"..."golden jubilee state carriage" "THE USHER OF THE BLACK ROD"?! ARE YOU JOKING?! Bro, I get that this stuff is important to some of y'all and it has a lot of history and culture behind it, but do you hear how you sound when you talk about it? The level of seriousness some people feel about it is completely at odds with all of the terminology involved in it 😂😂

[@MaryBaney]

pedi cabs...we have them in NYC. I imagine there are bigger issues to worry about?

[@geraldmcmullon2465]

Whilst questioning the cost of maintaining the Monarchy the alternative of American Presidential elections are not the improvement needed. In spite of the wealth and the history of the UK monarchy they are restricted and not considered to have a strong influence in the world compared to the influence of the most wealthy families {Walton, Rothschild, Koch, The House of Saud, Slim, Mars, Al Nahyan, Ambani, Dumas, Wertheimer, Quandt, Cargill-MacMillan, Lee, Ortegra, Albrecht } who fund pollical parties and leaders and whose reach is largely hidden, not generally known and do affect our daily lives.

[@kittybluett8887]

Watched some of Queen’s coffin driven through Scotland, interested to see what Scottish thought of her. One guy yelled out to Prince Andrew “you dirty old man”. He was hustled away by police. Another guy yelled out to Charles “who voted you in”. I think there was one other incident. It was funny. Following from New Zealand, love your show. About the divide between rich and poor, it’s getting worse bc of right wing policies. Unfortunately for us in New Zealand the right wing parties have got back in saying “ we will fix everything “ and dumb people voted for them. I know they’ll do what every right wing government does make the rich, richer with their ‘ trickle down theory’, only helps them. I know our Labour government was not perfect, they made mistakes and they may have over promised. At least they kept most of us alive during covid. They also had to try and fix what the previous right wing party had done, balanced the books by not spending on infrastructure. God help us and I don’t believe, only hope this right wing government will be a one term government. They haven’t got off to a great start bc they have had to bring the extreme right wing party and they are nut jobs.

[@mikebirty]

Idea for a reality TV show. Matt Hancock is taken and dropped in the middle of the Jungle. And... That's about that

[@MRTransportVideos]

News Hat - a magical device that automatically decides what stories you will talk about, based on how kind/evil you are... therefore, welcome to "Hufflepuff Save the UK".

[@USBBenson]

If you like Christmas, you should look up the outfits of the members of the Canadian Supreme Court. Ho Ho Ho!

[@finnjones9979]

I'm not a royalist anyway t, but since the Queen's passing the magic has definitely disappeared and everything looks objectively ridiculous and a little like cosplay. Can't take Charles and his side piece seriously

[@mightyone3737]

Yeah, but none of this explains why black rod is so popular in American porn movies, related or unrelated? Trying to argue that people being brutally fucked over by society is a 'lifestyle choice' is a real take? That someone said out loud and on the record? It's like rich people finally admitting they want to own poor people, we all know it's true, but if we don't actually hear it we can keep on pretending otherwise.

[@BoschSC]

Alright, but… have y’all considered naming Santa Klaus ruler? It can’t be worse, he also has a great hat… plus “free” toys 🎅🏼 (Great show as always)

[@shadebug]

I only watched bits of the opening of parliament in the background and I saw the dude with the gold staff and was hoping there was a new Black Rod and he’s actually black. I’m still hoping that guy’s apprenticing to take over and that his name’s Roderick

[@TheStrangeBloke]

Really great advice on podcasting. I will be sure to get Jon Favreau to send me some money.

[@Teramin1]

I do have to say, without the history the entire royal getup looks like a majestically camp parody of a king's outfit from a bad 70's movie. Maybe it would be better without all the fur but at the moment I just can't look past the massive pelt and fur lined hat. They need to hire whoever dresses the Scandanavian royals, and maybe pick up some tips on how to run a functional country while they're around.

[@alicemerray]

I think it looks much worse on Charles, or any man, because he looks like a character from a light opera about a tinpot Ruritanian country, or worse, like a dictator in the style of Idi Amin or Quaddafi - one of those who has awarded himself a ton of medals. The Queen, on the other hand, was basically wearing an evening dress of the type (if not the style) a lot of women still wear quite often. Not at lunchtime perhaps, but occasionally during daylight hours if the occasion calls for it. He looks like a loony, she just looked over-dressed.

[@tamask2172]

In the spirit of Kill Bill, i can kind of imagine that bloke carrying the golden mace to be thinking "i should be f*** black rod"

[@joejones1306]

I think you were right to have this guy on, & you handled it relatively well, but let’s face it, a lot of what he had to say & his opinion was utter rubbish, at one point he tried to excuse Isreal by saying what injustices had been committed in the past, American Indians, the aborigines for example, the Vietnam war, as though there was no protests against that. The left are sympathetic towards the Jihadism, most couldn’t even explain what the word mean let alone support it, they just don’t like unjustifiable mass killing, I shan’t go on, but most of the time he was talking utter bollox!

[@mikemorton954]

Blackrod banging in the door gives me a Three Little Pigs vibe: "Let me in, Let me in..."

[@OhDearOhDear69]

Should I be concerned that the opening advert was for Fortnum & Mason?

[@DanielleA2023]

Charlie's speech was another demonstration of right wing vileness

[@annemoncrieff3875]

This is not charlies speech or thoughts. He is actually against these thoughts but the tory party, or whichever party in power, who writes the speech. He has no chance to comnent on it.

[@eastvandb]

Being in my 60s, a news hat is clearly a hat folded from a newspaper.

[@phierle]

Nish gave the right definition and pronunciation of "potpourri", in which, the being of French origin ("pot-pourri", or literally "rotten pot"), the T is a silent letter. For more : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potpourri

[@carolstomberg9189]

Laughter is such a balm in these fraught times…thanks from the US😘😘😘

[@TomorrowByStorm]

Your "News Hat" is the hero/villian of the week! It's what you put on to top it all off!

[@clairekane4157]

The Pedicab issue reminds me of 1970s Charles. Life is so very interesting ✌️💜

[@1midnightfish]

I wouldn't bank on Labour winning the next election... I don't vote myself (EU citizen with settled status) but I keep hearing from people who've been voting Labour for years in the desperate hope of unseating the Tories, and now they're saying they couldn't bring themselves to give Starmer their vote. Obviously people like this aren't going to vote Conservative, but they may stay at home, or vote Green or LibDem and split the Labour vote. And I can't blame them, because as badly as I want the Tories out, I wouldn't vote for Labour either with Starmer the helm. Let's not forget that we've had this long run of fantastically incompetent Tory governments mostly because Labour managed to lose people's trust and can't seem to know how to get it back.

[@1midnightfish]

So I posted the above while still listening, then I got to the end and heard you reference my past comment about fancying politicians 😂 Thank you Nish and Coco, that was one of the high points of my year! And since I strive for honesty in all my KZbin comments, I must add that no crush I could ever have on Angela Rayner and/or Humza Yousef compares on the crush I most definitely have on the two of you 😍 Keep up the good work ☺

[@manhattan92]

Question: can the monarch vote? can they be partisan in any way?

[@curtisdush5686]

The news hat….I love it…😂😂

[@Tiggs84]

Without Dennis Skinner there is no point to the Black Rod.

[@Snugggg]

News hat must be made from a copy of any of that days news paper.

[@jaketaylor3901]

Entrance of the black rod? Say no more

[@jgray2718]

A "news hat" is clearly the top story.

[@nobody5769]

General election 🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂

[@NoSacredCowFla]

Cariuma for people with skinny feet.

[@NoSacredCowFla]

And while we're on feet, pedicabs should offer nail clipping.😉

[@Meridie]

The news hat should be a fez

[@kittybluett8887]

They represent the rich

[@philmckay9973]

nish has a niche that's why he is tres riche

[@Kelly-dt6co]

Nicely done

[@duckweedy]

Black Rod. I almost expect her to slap her thigh and ask for Widow Twanky

[@judithhirschhorn7249]

Can’t wait for this week’s episode- so much happening!

[@Gildedmuse]

I'm now holding all their integrity toed upin doing this school paper interview.

[@robertlawrence4827]

Nmk

[@lyledal]

Ah! Pedi-cabs, not Petty-cabs.

[@stanleybeckett7705]

I liked the joke!

[@chrisbfreelance]

Nish you trying desperately to be funny on Pointless, bottom of the barrel attempts at humour.

[@wPatrickSF]

At least you guys have a somewhat functioning government. Across the pond, we are in total chaos.

[@GoldnDusty]

Not functioning, or actively trying to destroy the state... not sure this is an "at least" situation for any of us.

[@MargaretPinard]

"deeply awkward small talk"

[@NotThatTomBrady]

I've been trying to get into this from week one, it's tragic Nish has come to this.

[@bitchenboutique6953]

When I saw “New Hat chat” I swear I thought Charles got some fancy new lid and although I’m not normally interested I was like ALL RIGHT LET’S SEE THE NEW HAT. Imagine my disappointment. 😂