First Sea Lord

So integrity goes out of the window.

I wonder what your view is on that sort of business and the First Sea Lords comment about how that old style of leadership had this toxicity that it was always about sucking up to your boss.

You may not have that view.

I wondered what your view

And Russia threatens them, he believes, as never before.

The First Sealord is in the process of creating a larger, more lethal, crude and uncrude hybrid navy to counter these new threats.

But that takes time, and the government is still dithering about spending more on defence.

General Jenkins has been allocated £1.4 billion to develop his hybrid navy.

The royal family are, uh, uh, are up in arms against each other.

And the First Sea Lord, the man who is responsible for making sure that we're okay, uh, freely admits that if we don't strengthen our war fighting capabilities and rebuild the Royal Navy, uh, we're basically dire consequences could follow.

So if you don't starve to death or you get overrun by migrants, we'll be shot to death 'cause nobody can... [laughs] It's not looking great.

So we thought, we thought the only way to deal with this is to have a bit of fun in the first hour.

Yes, absolutely.

Fantastic.

Um, the First Sea Lord overnight-

Oh, yes

what is a fecking hedge fund and how can I get a job as a manager

because it sounds great yeah I think you have to go to Cambridge or Oxford it seems and be a number cruncher no I was just carrying the bags don't worry about that look right place right time I ended up working for the First Sea Lord that's not a made up name that's real so the First Sea Lord is the head of the Royal Navy basically carrying his bags around following him around like a bad

smell Winston Churchill was the First Sea Lord yeah

he was yeah And basically I bumped into this guy on a night out in London at an event in Whitehall.

He needed a new chief of staff at the fund and I got badly injured and I was leaving the Marines.

All right.

So in all of this, all these things that are going on, all this political stuff, there's a First Sea Lord Fisher, like, his last name's Fisher, a guy in the British Navy.

I don't know what a First Sea Lord is, but I kinda wanna be one.

He said this about diesel: "It is vital for the British Fleet, and for no other fleet, to have the diesel oil engine.

That's the strange thing, and if only the Germans knew, they'd shoot their Dr. Diesel like a dog." Bro.

In the interwar years, Moscow worked very hard to export communism to other countries, particularly in Western Europe, and Moscow became the coordinating center for international communism through the Comintern or Communist International, an organization that by the 1930s was completely under Stalin's control.

Winston Churchill, long-time British politician, Member of Parliament, First Sea Lord and Prime Minister of the UK during the Second World War, was a vociferous opponent of communism.

He called it, among other things, baboonery.

Another opponent of communism was a certain Austrian-born politician named Adolf Hitler.

Well, it's worse than that.

So in terms of what we could deploy, in terms of what we could deploy now would be a carrier, two destroyers, and five frigates, and the First Sea Lord, uh, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, I suspect he might be Welsh, has stated that the Royal Navy is not ready for war.

So, uh, that's one side.

On the other hand, I also got Venice AI to tell me the Argentinian numbers, and this is where it gets really comical.

You received the news and what it meant to you.

yeah it was it was quite a surreal moment because i got a i got a a message that the first sea lord wanted to um talk to me uh and was i available to take a call on wednesday afternoon so it was wednesday um as it subsequently transpired that the honors list then is issued on the saturday morning and i had no no idea why why he wanted to speak to me to be honest you know i was um Uh, I don't work directly for him.

So the fact that he wanted to speak to me was a slightly odd message in the first place.

And I thought, well, either, you know, I'm leaving the Navy in three, three or four months time.

Yeah, I mean, so when I got the CB in 21, that was a moment of comparable sort of, what? You're kidding me.

And that one was, I was two star at the time, I was given, I was awarded the CB for my role in the COVID pandemic, um, and, um, work we'd been doing, um, from the out there all the way through, um, and, uh, and beyond.

Um, and, and that was, um, another of those moments where I literally got suddenly told, Oh, can you go up and see Tony Radikin in his office, please? Um, and we were doing lots of, you know, he was first sea Lord and we'd be doing lots of work on, on all kinds of things, um, at the time.

So it was, it was a much more, um, understandable summons, um, But again, I got up there and he showed me a piece, he gave me a piece of paper and said, read that.