Latest Toby young Podcast Episodes
Where Were We?
London Calling - October 09, 2023 21:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsNow, where were we? Oh, yes. Time to catch up with old (and we mean old!) friends. Toby has a health scare and James is having more than a few regrets about missed opportunities and the loss of weekly get togethers. But, of course, if there was always one thing we all could agree one it was goo...
Just One of Those Things
London Calling - August 14, 2023 20:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn 1935 Cole Porter penned a tune called "Just One of Those Things" about a love affair "too hot not to cool down." And so it goes. What started out as a podcast critiquing Game Of Thrones relaunched as London Calling on Nov. 6, 2015. We've been around for five Prime Ministers, three US Presiden...
Getting Old
London Calling - August 07, 2023 19:13 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsEveryone is a little miserable this week, fueled by the rainy summer England has had this year. Or maybe because we're all getting a little bit older. James "celebrated" #58 this past weekend and Toby isn't looking forward to #60 due this October. Toby tells James about having lunch with Sean La...
The Fab 2
London Calling - July 31, 2023 19:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week James and Toby open the discussion with James’ recent gig in Dorset and the division in towns like Bridport and Totnes between the woke and the awake, particularly over traffic calming measures like LTNs, Ulez schemes and 15-minute cities. They go on to talk about Yuval Harari’s callin...
Pull a Whitey
London Calling - July 24, 2023 20:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIt's hot in the Mediterranean and James and Toby discuss the recent forest fires in Greece and whether climate change or arsonists are to blame. This triggers an argument (From these two? Really?) about whether there are enough honest journalists left to expose such wrongdoing and that, in turn, ...
A Question of Degree
London Calling - July 17, 2023 18:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratings"The best laid plans of mice and men," said Rabbie Burns, "often go awry." And so it is as Toby tells James about how his travel plans have gone over the past fortnight, even though he’s in Majorca with his wife and four children. Better to be on holiday in Spain than to be in England with a hac...
It's In Our DNA
London Calling - July 10, 2023 18:41 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsToby is in Ibiza and James is in a funk as the diet he's on fails to really kick in and that leads to a discussion on DNA, genetically altered mosquitos, Bill Gates, lost friends and cocaine. Yep, it's quite the journey. On a serious note the lads take on the immigration crisis taking place all ...
Revolutionary Thoughts on Free Speech
London Calling - July 03, 2023 20:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsAfter the usual chit-chat about the week gone by, Toby and James have a substantive talk about the limits of free speech and what constitutes "crossing the line." It's all spurred on by the revelation last week that former UKIP party boss - and now GBNews personality - Nigel Farage has been "de-b...
Titanic (or Olympic) Sized Episode
London Calling - June 26, 2023 21:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week Toby tells James about his event-filled diary last week, the climax of which was bumping into Boris Johnson at a party and explaining to him why Tobes was so disappointed by his decision to tell us all to stay in our homes three years ago; a close second was attending a one-day conferen...
Scofflaws and Sceptics
London Calling - June 19, 2023 21:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsJames began the week attending a "speed awareness" course, having been nicked going a wee bit too fast on the way to an appointment. Early on in the programme James thinks that he has finally... FINALLY... brought Toby over to Team James, only to have his hopes dashed later in the show. Yes, mum...
Reversals of Fortune
London Calling - June 12, 2023 20:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsLess than three years ago they were flying high and now they've been subjected to major setbacks. And, no, we're not talking about our intrepid duo. In the last week former President Donald Trump has been put under federal indictment, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been run out of Parlia...
Town Mouse and Country Mouse
London Calling - June 05, 2023 21:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsWe begin this week with James and Toby debating a truly burning issue - Is it better to live in the city or live in the country? After some time in the country this past week, Toby isn't sure the Youngs would last very long living the Delipngpole life. In the news we talk about independent journ...
The Never Ending Culture Corner
London Calling - May 29, 2023 20:01 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsUsually Culture Corner comes at the end of the programme but this week it sorts of flows through the entire show. We talk the bank holiday in the UK (It's Memorial Day in the USA), grocery stores, eye glass frames and proper English pronunciations. Somehow James and Toby come around to Ron DiSant...
The Last Great Moment in British History
London Calling - May 15, 2023 19:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsEverybody dance now! We're gonna make you sweat as Toby and James bust a few moves and take to the dance floor. After the terpsichorean trip down memory lane they talk Donald Trump's CNN town hall and, closer to home, Rev. Calvin Robinson's GBNews monologue on Ukraine (available here) and author ...
Coronation Street
London Calling - May 08, 2023 22:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsOh, to be in England now that Spring is here! When republicans and royalists are in full bloom! James and Toby clash on the official coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. Another chapter in our long Island story or just a distraction? Say, who's in charge around here. We wrap up James' tri...
May Day! May Day!
London Calling - May 01, 2023 18:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsWhat better way to observe May Day than to discuss another US bank failure? But before we get to the collapse of First Republic (Is this another case of "Get Woke, Go Broke" and what does it means for the future of ESG and "Stakeholder Capitalism?"), we talk about James’ adventures in the Far Eas...
We Cover the Earth
London Calling - April 25, 2023 15:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsTwo thirds of the earth is covered in water, the rest is covered by London Calling. But this week we've left London behind as James and Toby find themselves on opposite sides of the world – Toby in Canada, James in Hong Kong – and whether jet lag gets worse as you get older. James says Hong Kong...
Green Around the Gills
London Calling - April 17, 2023 20:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week James has a good walk in Shropshire spoiled by the "bird-blending, bat-chomping eco-crucifixes" and Toby debates animal "rights" around the dinner table because of the deaths of three horses at this past weekend's Grand National. ("Save the Sheep!") That leads us to the name change of ...
A God-Sized Hole
London Calling - April 10, 2023 22:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week James and Toby contemplate the spiritual - from the game of "sermon bingo" James and his family played when they went to church this Sunday (betting on which progressive talking points the vicar would include in the service) to Justin Welby’s pledge to set aside £100 million for the Chu...
Replacing Your Overton Window
London Calling - April 03, 2023 20:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week James buys a second-hand car while Toby has a mundane weekend and contemplates masculinity, which prompts a discussion on the release of Andrew Tate from jail and why he’s acquired cult status among adolescent males (in spite of being a less than stellar advert for masculinity) and Jame...
Diagnosing Delingpole
London Calling - March 27, 2023 19:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week, James and Toby discuss James’s profound sense of loss now that the hunting season is over and Toby’s concern that James’s pessimism about the future is making him mentally ill. Among the news items covered: Whether Bill Gates really is an evil mastermind, the inevitability of ’15 minu...
All the Baubles
London Calling - March 20, 2023 21:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThe lads are depressed. For James it’s the end of the hunting season, for Toby it’s QPR (11-19-18, 19th in the league table) and his football hopes are dashed in more ways than one. After a mutual therapy session it’s on to the news of the week: Donald Trump is facing Stormy seas in NY as a DA th...
Match of the Week
London Calling - March 13, 2023 20:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsToby and James begin the week talking about James’s health (not good), Toby’s failure to make it across London using public transport (which James thinks is all part of the plan to keep us locked in our homes), and the Gary Lineker scandal (which James thinks was cooked up to distract people from...
Springing a Leak
London Calling - March 07, 2023 16:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsOn this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James start by talking about James’ health (he has a cold), then segue into discussing what James says is the best hunting experience of his life. Toby then tells James about his week (hangover and all), which included appearing on Jacob Rees-Mog...
James Mozart and Toby Beethoven
London Calling - February 27, 2023 20:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss last Saturday’s live recording of The Delingpod, in which James interviewed Neil Oliver in front of a paying audience of 900; Toby worries about whether his live recording of The Weekly Sceptic on 1st April in the same venue (the Em...
James and the Giant Hunt
London Calling - February 20, 2023 20:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsWe’re all over the politically correct spectrum this week. On one hand, James had his epic hunting adventure last weekend, while on the other hand, Toby is struggling to adjust to his new role as “Mr. Mom” now that an empowered Caroline has left for a two week holiday in Barbados. Meanwhile, ther...
We're Not Saying It's Aliens But…
London Calling - February 13, 2023 21:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss James’ rock star status among the readers of TCW Defending Freedom, the shooting down of three “UFOs” over North American airspace and whether that’s a nice way to treat visitors from another galaxy, the spat between Mark Steyn and ...
Runnin’ With the Devil
London Calling - February 06, 2023 21:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsAs is our Monday ritual, Toby and James discuss their weekend exploits (James went hunting, Toby watched a musical based on Come Dine With Me) before getting on to the news of the day: Robert Kennedy Jr’s lawsuit against the Trusted Media Initiative, Sam Smith’s feeble attempts to imitate Mick Ja...
Spied On Like Us
London Calling - January 30, 2023 21:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week James and Toby discuss how different the last three years would have been if James, and not Chris Whitty, had been the Chief Medical Officer and the fact that during the pandemic it seems Toby was spied upon by the 77th Brigade, a unit of the British Army, as revealed in a new report fr...
What Would YOU Do?
London Calling - January 23, 2023 22:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsAn interesting mix this week (and sometimes with just TOO much information) as James and Toby discuss whether 2022 saw higher-than average mortality in Britain and elsewhere and, if it did, whether the mRNA vaccines are responsible; Charles III’s forthcoming coronation (which the King intends to ...
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