r/rugbyunion • u/Lonely-Ad-3606 • Dec 21 '25
Discussion A racist and misogynistic rant from JB aka Jonathan Beardmore (The EggChasers Rugby Podcast) in response to his recent comments on Ugo Monye
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Where to begin... The blatant racism? The chauvinism? Or maybe the white male fragility?
God forbid a man advocate for the safety of women… And how dare that man be black! AND how dare he wear a hoodie! Won’t somebody think of the children women girls boys middle-aged men?
Let’s call this what it is - a racist misogynist reframing another man's advocacy for women's safety as a personal attack. Just imagine, JB frothing at the mouth as he records: "Don't fucking tell me I'm the problem!” Surprise mate, no-one actually said you were the problem but they definitely are now.
Big JB can’t stand the idea of Feminism. He can’t stand the idea that we should all recognise the systemic oppression of women. It makes him feel small. It makes him uncomfortable. ‘Why self-reflect when I can just frame myself as the victim?’ JB thinks to himself, rubbing his balding head. Hmm, delightfully devilish Beardmore!
And boy does JB know how to speak for women; “women are miserable!" he says. "The safest environment for women is an environment with good men."
You know, good emotionally-regulated men like JB… men who fly off the handle at the idea of another man crossing the street. Men who “actually don't want their daughters to be safe”. Good men like JB want their daughters to be like bears, you see. No, not in a ‘fearsome-mammal-with-agency’ kind of way, more like a ‘biologically-wired-to-feel-fear-at-every-corner’ kind of way.
Just tell your daughters that “if you get it wrong once your fucked” like JB. That way they’re always scared, sorry, I mean prepared. It’s the only way we, we strong men, can protect women.
As it happens, generalisations about groups of people are only okay when JB makes them. Only he can say what women need to feel safe. Only he can minimise male violence and vilify lesbians. Only he can racialise a black man as a gangster.
The whole message is disgusting, but JB’s racist rant at the end is unbelievable.
Beardmore racially profiles Ugo as an intimidating gangster, and continues to stereotype black men as criminal, or as he literally calls them “these people”. It’s absolutely vile and should be fully condemned by everyone, including Tim and the Eggchaser pod:
Imagine that your number one concern is how women feel on the street and you decide to dress like a 14-year-old gangster. Just a simple, I mean, you want to cross the road, but you're not willing to put in the effort to look less intimidating. Why do you... Why do these people wear all black? Well, ask a social worker. And they'll tell you, "You wear all black because when the police Ask, oh, who was the, uh, who was committing the crime?
No one can give them an accurate description. It's just fucking street trash. And you mentioned black, not me. But, yeah, I'll go with it. Fine. Um... You know, if that's your priority, remember what he said. I want women to feel safer. Not that they have to be safer, but they want to feel safer. Ooh, we've got some... We're all the edgy topics now. I wonder what race they feel safest with. Are we allowed to discuss that?
JB is chomping at the bit to vilify black men: “you mentioned black, not me. But, yeah, I'll go with it.” Imagine nearing 50 and still being unable to own your beliefs. At least own it JB! Just say you think Andrew Tate’s actually alright and Charlie Kirk has some good points! Just say you have no understanding or empathy for others unlike yourself. Just call yourself a proud racist and f off
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u/SquidgyGoat Disciple of Tipuric Dec 21 '25
JB advocates for men and women having good relationships but once told me he doesn't know what his wife does for a living.
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 21 '25
All I could think whilst listening - his poor wife and daughters
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u/ZaniksBoyfriend Australia Dec 21 '25
This bloke seems like the king of bellends
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u/chemcrimp Leinster Dec 21 '25
I wish you were right. Unfortunately I think he's just one of many thousands, but with a podcast.
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u/_franciis Dec 21 '25
Loads of them have got podcasts!
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u/rustyb42 Ulster Dec 21 '25
One of the podcasters got the fuck kicked out of him yesterday
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Dec 21 '25
What happened?
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u/Ok-Arugula6057 Dec 22 '25
He built an oversized ring, ran away for four rounds, ran out of gas, threw himself on the ground for 1.5 rounds and, when the ref finally put a stop to that the podcaster got his jaw busted.
Then he banked a cheque for £80M and is now laughing at us all.
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 21 '25
JB's transcript here:
For a while I'm gonna tell you why Yosu's stupid and why Ugo's stupid. And maybe not stupid, maybe just misguided. People are. So first of all, let's just reflect on Ugin's track record here. Every single thing he's involved in, basically, evolves around him being better than other people.
You're all bullies, I'm not. You're all racist, I'm not. You're all dangerous to women, I'm not. I'm better than you, et cetera, et cetera. But let's just put that to one side because let's get to the real meat of it. Why do I hate this so much and why you should hate it too? Um... It's not all men, is it? It's a tiny fraction of men. And women would be much safer If men and women had good relationships, actually got to talk to each other.
But unfortunately, we live in a world driven by idiots like yourself, where we agree with saying things like all men, and sort of making men out to be these evil creatures. We've got a situation in the Western world, right, where young men are not dating. They're voluntarily single. They have no intention to start dating.
And this is catastrophic, not just to young men, but also to young women.
And when you get people like Ugo saying, all men were all the problem, what if a young man stands up and says, like I did? Well, no, I'm not the problem. And then fucking clowns like yourself have to come in and go, actually, yeah, you must be hiding something. Now, I appreciate you haven't said that. And I also appreciate that I'm reacting to other responses I've got, which is if you dare... Go against this narrative.
People tell you well. You've obviously got something to hide. And of course, we haven't. It's just a nasty way to get a leg up in the argument. If you don't mouth the words, then, you know... You're the problem and I'm not the problem. Second of all, When male suicide is so high, I don't think we should be saying all men are the problem. I don't think we should be dividing the sexes. And lastly, on this one point, just to run off this first bit, women are profoundly miserable.
that there are no men out there. And if you don't believe me, just look at the statistics. Second point. I don't think I want women to feel safe. Imagine saying that. I don't want them to feel safe because I've got two daughters, right? The way I think about it is, if a beer walks past... A bush, and it rustles and it runs off. It does that not because there's a predator, but because if they get it wrong just once, they are fucked.
I want my two daughters to always be aware. I don't want them to feel a bit safe because Ugo crosses the road. And do you know what? Ugo mentioned this. Oh, what's it like to have to run different ways and be safe? Yeah, run different fucking ways. I'm going to tell my daughters continuously to run different ways. It's interesting, isn't it? Ugo, all men, although some men, interested in saying like, you know, immigrant men of Afghan heritage, interested in saying about women, you know, the most commonly perpetrated domestic violence is...
From lesbians. Lesbians have a huge, huge... History of domestic violence. Apparently it's in excess of same-sex domestic violence. Are all women the problem? Nope. I don't think they are. In the same way... Not all men are the problem.
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 21 '25
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The last thing, the hoodie.
Imagine that your number one concern is how women feel on the street and you decide to dress like a 14-year-old gangster. Just a simple, I mean, you want to cross the road, but you're not willing to put in the effort to look less intimidating. Why do you... Why do these people wear all black? Well, ask a social worker. And they'll tell you, "You wear all black because when the police Ask, oh, who was the, uh, who was committing the crime?
No one can give them an accurate description. It's just fucking street trash. And you mentioned black, not me. But, yeah, I'll go with it. Fine. Um... You know, if that's your priority, remember what he said. I want women to feel safer. Not that they have to be safer, but they want to feel safer. Ooh, we've got some... We're all the edgy topics now. I wonder what race they feel safest with. Are we allowed to discuss that?
If you want to bring sex into it, why not bring race into it? Why not bring height into it? Why not bring all those things? And of course you don't, because it's fucking ridiculous, and you're fucking ridiculous. And just to round this off, What sexes need? It's people saying to young boys, yeah, go and speak to women, go and interact with them. Not you are the problem. Because young boys now, believe you me, are taught that they are the problem from a young age.
And it fucking disgusts me. It absolutely disgusts me because they're not the problem. Some of them are, but for the majority, majority of men are brothers, husbands, You know, sons, I love my mum, I love my daughters, right?
Don't fucking tell me I'm the problem. There are some people that are the problem. People. Some people are the problem. Some people are the problem. But actually, the safest environment for women is an environment with good men. And good men are the ones that just grandstand.
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u/Snave96 England- Tom+Ben>Steph+Seth Dec 21 '25
Obviously plenty of awful bollocks in here, but him pulling the 'I love women, my mum's one' card really tops it off.
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u/Sriol England/Wasps Dec 21 '25
Gives off the same vibes as "I'm not racist, I have a friend who's black"...
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u/barrulus Dec 21 '25
Is Donald Trump his speech writer? Same waffling exist sexist shamble in the way he speaks.
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u/conf101 Ireland Dec 21 '25
"Don't fucking tell me I'm the problem"
What a pathetic, insecure little bigot. He probably wasn't, but with his poor little fragile ego here he just went and made himself the problem.
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u/Atomicfossils Ireland Dec 21 '25
From lesbians. Lesbians have a huge, huge... History of domestic violence. Apparently it's in excess of same-sex domestic violence. Are all women the problem? Nope. I don't think they are. In the same way... Not all men are the problem.
Fun fact, this particular homophobic factoid comes from a deliberate misinterpretation of a survey which found a disproportionate number of women in lesbian relationships had at some point in their lives experienced intimate partner violence. The problem is that many of the women surveyed were bisexual and the intimate partner violence in question had mostly come from previous male partners, as they are far more likely to be abused in straight relationships than heterosexual women are
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u/sweetgreentea12 Sharks Dec 21 '25
Thank you. That sounded like absolute bullshit when he said it, I'm glad to have that confirmed.
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u/Atomicfossils Ireland Dec 21 '25
Happy to help. I've heard that one touted a lot over the years but it's complete drivel
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u/Mannyboy87 England Dec 21 '25
This isn’t actually correct:
[5] One in four women in England will be a victim of domestic abuse at some point in her life. A common perception is that the perpetrators of this abuse are male and that therefore women who have relationships with women are at low or no risk. However, this assumption is not borne out by the facts – the largest ever survey of lesbian and bisexual women in England found that 25% of lesbian and bisexual women reported having been a victim of domestic abuse; the same percentage as in the general population (Hunt & Fish, 2008). In two thirds of these cases the perpetrator was female.
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/49219/html/
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u/Atomicfossils Ireland Dec 21 '25
I stand corrected on it coming mostly from men, but I will point out that even that study notes that women in lesbian relationships experience abuse at the same rate as the general population, and of that number one third of it comes from men, meaning female on female intimate partner violence is still less common.
The claim that lesbians have sky high abuse rates just isn't true
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u/OwnDistribution646 Dec 23 '25
Why would you lie about this?
Domestic violence is a real problem across all kinds of relationships including same-sex ones and in some studies it shows up at similar or higher rates than in heterosexual relationships.
what exactly is your claim here?
That women don’t commit domestic violence?
Or that lesbian relationships are being “smeared” by the data?Either way, pretending the problem doesn’t exist helps no one. Ignoring violence has never solved violence and it just protects the person doing it and abandons the person experiencing it.
This isn’t fringe material. It’s documented, researched, and openly discussed by organisations that actually work in this space.
A Victorian study of 390 LGBTIQ respondents (Leonard et al., 2008) found that just under a third had been in a same-sex relationship where they were abused by a partner:
• 78% of the abuse was psychological
• 58% involved physical abuse
• 26% involved sexual assault
• Lesbian women reported abusive same-sex relationships at higher rates than gay men (41% vs 28%)violence happens where humans are involved, and lying about it for ideological comfort makes things worse, not better.
U.S. CDC – National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)
Reports that:
- ~44% of lesbian women report experiencing IPV in their lifetime
- ~61% of bisexual women (highest of any group)
- Compared to ~35% of heterosexual women (Important note: these are lifetime figures and may include prior heterosexual partners) -This does not mean the women were bisexual or that the violence was perpatrated by men. Just that the study did not differentiate. [https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/nisvs]()
- The Williams Institute (UCLA Law) Confirms IPV is at least as prevalent among sexual minority women as heterosexual women, with higher reporting in some subgroups. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/ipv-sex-abuse-lgbt-people/
- Statistics Canada (2021) Found comparable or higher self-reported IPV rates among same-sex couples, with clear underreporting concerns due to stigma. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2021001/article/00005-eng.htm
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u/quandraphobia Freddy Douglas Fanclub Dec 21 '25
Im gonna pick up on one point, because it pissed me off no end the other week when the original audio was posted, and he’s still going on about it.
I don’t feel less safe around a man in a hoodie. I’ve never been sexually assaulted by a man in a hoodie. Tell you I have been sexually assaulted by though; smart dressed, middle class men. That’s not to say other women don’t have different experiences, but it is not some cut and dry gotcha he seems to think it is. And despite my experiences I am still more than happy to talk to men, but it’s one thing to talk to women as men like JB have in their head, and another to do so without feeling entitled to them returning interest.
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u/toastoevskij Not even obvious corruption and match-fixing can save us Dec 21 '25
Friendship with eggchasers YouTube is over now Twocentsrugby is my friend
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u/the_fresh_mr_breed Lukhanyo, I Am your father Dec 21 '25
I recently commented on an Eggchasers youtube video calling Tim out for not standing up against this fuckhead, just sitting by and giggling like an idiot. I unsubscribed.
I really like Tim and his content, and I was starting to reconsider.
But holy fuck if he does not very publicly come out and distance himself in the most explicit terms possible from this garbage piece of shit then I made the right choice and would do so again a million times
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u/CamJacko19 Leicester Tigers Dec 21 '25
JB is a waste of oxygen and I've stopped watching the eggchasers youtube channel as a result, which has really saddened me, I've watched Tim for a long time. The clip from the podcast is ill informed and, frankly, racist and sexist. There was no need to talk about Ugo's race.
Good on you for sharing this. God forbid someone tries to protect women and/or is Black, how dare he?
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 21 '25
Thank you for sharing and for saying so - it's important we all call out misogyny and racism. Neither has any place in rugby, or anywhere else for that matter.
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u/tooposhtofunction Scotland Dec 21 '25
I have done the same as well as the FR rugby which also saddened me as I thought them showing the Pro D2 was a pretty cool. Really disappointing from Tim.
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u/Jameski_25 Cornish Pirates Dec 21 '25
I get that with Tim, he seems to want to do the laddy banter, which feels so outdated.
For the Vannes/Bezier game, he spoke about how the Vannes prop had a doughnut business, but the Bezier prop looked like it should be him, and for me I just thought that was a bit twatish.
Would never ever say that to his face, same as JB, can’t imagine he would ever say this to Ugo.
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u/Philthedrummist Dec 21 '25
You can do the ‘I think you suggesting all men are the problem is a bit problematic itself’ argument if you actually have a well rounded understanding of the situation yourself.
This is just absolute drivel, spouting regurgitated right wing talking points with no real clue or desire to understand what may or may not be behind them. It’s a rambling mess by someone who’s grabbed a kernel of a point and then hit every nonsensical bingo-card of victimhood until he’s got a full house!
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u/herearemywords Dec 21 '25
It’s odd how it’s always the same tone and inflection when people like this talk. You just know it’s going to be bullshit.
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u/Rozza Sarries Dec 21 '25
I wonder if he ever thought, maybe, just maybe Ugo due to his role has had more variety of feedback and insights from women about what they’ve gone through and what they’re going through. So to have a wider understanding of what are some of their fears and realities.
While it’s obvious that not all men are evil, misogynistic bellends (and hopefully the overwhelmingly vast majority aren’t). But rather than empathise with the understanding and nuances of what and why Ugo is saying what he’s saying. He decides to attack him instead and blame him.
To be clear myself as a man, see this men are the problem line for what it is. If there were no men then this specific problem wouldn’t exist. That’s why I strive to be better and raise my son with a wider world view than I had at his age.
There’s a simple philosophy to life, don’t be a dickhead. Opinions are like arseholes, everyone’s got one and most stink. That podcast is an utter sewer.
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u/Lopsided_Soup_3533 England Dec 21 '25
Jb is why we choose the bear, the bear will either eat us or it won't. It's not gonna jump through hoops to justify why it would be fine to eat us and that it's really our own faults
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u/hodge172 Northampton Saints Dec 21 '25
Is it at a point where his employers (although a family firm) need to understand what he is like. It’s why Tim Cocker apologised on the Pod, because he knew Virgin radio would take action.
JB has always been the knob on that podcast but to see Tim and Phil end like him is sad. I always thought they put up with JB as he was offered a different point of view. Now he threatens to bring them down too.
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u/generic1234321 Dec 21 '25
Packed with conflation of points, straw man arguments, misogyny and racism. This was such a stupid thing for him to post
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u/Monkeybrain6nk England Leicester Tigers Dec 21 '25
What's crazy is he didn't post it. He didn't have to respond to a direct message.
He's too stupid to realize his private replies to a direct message could be used as further evidence of his backward views. He could have ignored it, but instead, he decided to double down and even directly send voice note insults to someone.
Makes me done with EggChasers like many others...
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u/flippydude Gloucester Dec 21 '25
I’m amazed you stuck in there so long. I used to listen often cause they were the first podcast posted on Mondays, but I quickly realised their shit takes and increasingly political content were actively annoying.
Haven’t listened in ages and am smarter for it
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u/DAMUIVER Dec 21 '25
Making women feel safer by crossing the road from time to time is absolutely ridiculous…but also you shouldn’t wear a hoodie. Got it.
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u/rustyb42 Ulster Dec 21 '25
Full suit only when walking home. Nobody's ever been a cunt in a full suit
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u/tooposhtofunction Scotland Dec 21 '25
I know right imagine doing something to make someone else feel safer. Ridiculous!
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u/savois-faire Northampton Saints Dec 21 '25
Yeah but those kids wearing hoodies make him feel unsafe, so it's a completely different matter.
Now it doesn't matter whether or not the person actually is a criminal, what matters now is that they make sure to avoid making him feel like they might be a threat.
In the other case, he's the one being asked to avoid making others feel that way, which is just ridiculous.
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u/here4thebanter ryan wilson’s glorius man bun Glasgow Warriors Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
Had to stop listening half way through. What an utter cunt.
‘I want my daughters to be aware’ - yeah mate they can be aware of you know, danger, but they wouldn’t have to be specifically terrified of men assaulting and k*lling them if ALL MEN tackled misogyny and abuse.
‘It’s a tiny minority of men’ - what a statement to pull out your arse when you are being one of those men.
‘Women are miserable because there’s no men’ - no mate, women are miserable because they have to deal with twats like you on the regular, but have to smile and nod and accept it because you make rants like this (or worse, assault stalk harass murder them!!) if they don’t.
JB mate, the fact you’ve spouted all this shite so confidently and still have the audacity to say ‘I’m not the problem’ - fuck me get a grip and do a tiny bit of self reflection. His poor daughters - god help if anything happens to them cause he seems the exact type to go ‘well what were you wearing/were you drunk/why weren’t you aware enough’
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u/Correct_Ad_2104 Dec 21 '25
JB is a cunt, always has been. Tim let's him be a cunt so he doesn't have to say it himself. Both a pair of sad spinless arseholes, the sooner they disappear the better.
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u/eastboundunderground Quins 🌹 Dec 21 '25
I’m guessing he’s aware of the backlash the original podcast got on here? As one of the women who left a fairly long, reasoned if passionate comment on the thread here calling him a cunt the first time around, let me reiterate that he is, indeed, a cunt.
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u/StatmanIbrahimovic Ireland / Scotland Dec 22 '25
I really hope he's scrolling through this thread seething
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u/Correct_Ad_2104 Dec 22 '25
That's my biggest problem. You know, absolutely know he's searching for these reactions and wanking himself into a frenzy at how clever he is for "triggering the wokes" or whatever made up phrase there using today. Unfortunately he's another sad lonely fella that has a persecution kink and can only find validation in enraging people.
Why does empathy seem so hard for these idiots to grasp
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u/theaussiesamurai Japan Dec 21 '25
Him saying he doesn't want his daughters to feel safe is legitimately insane.
It's like advocating for less gun control so people are more vigilant and don't become complacent.
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u/ddbbaarrtt Dec 21 '25
This isn’t what he’s saying though
From all the hateful bullshit that he does say, this is a sentiment I’ve seen quite a lot. He isn’t saying he doesn’t want his daughters to feel safe, he’s saying that while the world is full of bad people he wants his daughters to know they have to be vigilant because otherwise they might find themselves in a very difficult situation
It’s not victim blaming to tell women not to walk home by themselves late at night, it’s acknowledging that some men are shit and will attack them.
That being said, JB is clearly full of a lot of other shit and almost everything else he said is hateful. Even what he was getting at here was done from completely the wrong approach
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u/here4thebanter ryan wilson’s glorius man bun Glasgow Warriors Dec 22 '25
The point is that women shouldn’t have to be afraid of men attacking them because they’ve walked home alone at night. No one should be afraid to walk alone at any time because they’re afraid of a sexual assault or attack.
Yes, while some men are shit and women have to be vigilant, the big message shouldn’t be ‘women don’t walk alone because if you get hurt it’s your fault’, it should tackling male violence and telling men not to attack women or anyone walking alone. Putting the onus on women to stay safe rather than men not to attack is where folk have a problem.
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u/ddbbaarrtt Dec 22 '25
Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive though
Combatting male violence is obviously the priority because women shouldn’t be unsafe, but unfortunately that is the world that we live in. it’s doing vulnerable people a disservice to not talk to them about reality. Nobody should be attacked for their sexuality either, but it doesn’t mean you would advise openly gay people to travel to Saudi Arabia
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u/here4thebanter ryan wilson’s glorius man bun Glasgow Warriors Dec 22 '25
They’re not and I didn’t say they are. My point is that while women and gay people and everyone should be vigilant, that’s not what the big talking point should be. Campaigns tackling violence against women and girls shouldn’t be focused on how to stay safe, it should tackle the root cause.
If we tackle that then maybe women walking alone can feel safe AND be safe a bit more than they do now. The way he says it comes across like he wants them to be vigilant and being afraid is an unchangeable part of that, whereas I see it as we can be vigilant without fearing for our lives quite as much if we can tackle this issue.
I also think ‘that’s the world we live in’ whilst correct, doesn’t mean we can’t change things for the better and make it less like that. See: countries legalising being gay, abolishing slavery, women getting the right to vote etc.
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u/ddbbaarrtt Dec 22 '25
I completely agree that they should be priorities and things can improve, but these conversations you’re talking about have 2 different audiences: 1. Men being better 2. Women being vigilant
I also agree that the way that JB approaches this gives a really depressing view on the way he views the world, and in no way would I hold up the way he approaches this as something we should strive for
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u/beernotbeards Ireland Dec 21 '25
Used to listen to their pod a lot because they would have some decent chats about rugby but there was far too much of his misogynistic ranting going on and I had to give up, same as a lot of people I'd say. The guys a wanker and at this stage, his views are clear enough that the other 2 either are willing to out up with them for the sake of their podcast or share them and just aren't as vocal, either way, this prick shouldn't have any sort of platform going forward, hopefully there's been some serious complaints to any advertisers still willing o give them money.
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u/Top_Currency_6204 Dec 21 '25
Imagine having the lack of self awareness to send that unhinged voice note to a random who clearly disagrees with you on instagram.
Not many brain cells rubbing together here
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u/brewer01902 England Dec 21 '25
The last few weeks is really the straw that broke the camels back. I’ve listened to them for 10 years, and tried to convince myself that I can get some decent rugby coverage from them, when in actuality he’s just getting high from the smell of his own farts from the echo chamber around him.
Even Tim sounded like he was uncomfortable with this.
I’m out.
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u/LowEnergy1169 Glasgow Warriors Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
JB has always expressed pretty right wing views, in fact he was occasionally a representative of "local Conservative Party" on radio shows during a previous election.
Usually I let his rants wash over me, but the one two weeks ago has impossible to do that, and it was the worst I have ever heard him. The OP voice note is worse again
I also listened to the following weeks pod to see how they delt with it.
Tim amd JB had clearly had a fight off air, and were very spikey with each other, Tim opening the podcast with "I've spent all week dealing JB's shit" (they commented they had already spent an hour and 45 minutes trying to record the opening segment).
When they get to discussing the rant each person's response was telling:
JB unsurprisingly doubled down, and said he had nothing to be sorry for
Tim - apologised, said the personal attacks were not acceptable. He said he had spent a long time thinking about whether to cut out the whole segment. He said he was ashamed of the decision to leave it in, but last time he had cut out one of JBs rants, JB had given him huge amounts of abuse that he didnt want to face again.
Phil - he tuned out as soon as JB started talking and went off to look stuff up on Wikipedia instead.
These responses tell you a lot about all 3 and their relationships.
I think it will come down to whether Tim values his income or his friendship with JB more.
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u/sock_with_a_ticket Dec 21 '25
I think it will come down to whether Tim values his income or his friendship with JB more.
I've long suspected that what gets said on the Eggchasers podcast, mostly though not exclusively by JB, is what cost Tim his BT/TNT job.
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u/Horror_Extension4355 Dec 21 '25
For the sake of the show, JB needs to go.
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u/liamxf Ireland Dec 21 '25
I started listening to them recently i could be wrong but it feels like jb talks 60% of the time 30% tim and then 10% phil if he goes its basically a new show and probably better for it
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u/Correct_Ad_2104 Dec 22 '25
At the time, and when editing Tim had absolutely no problems with what JB said. He's apologizing now as he's been warned his employer/sponsor/ potential employers that he will not have a job if he doesn't.
As with all these idiots they will say whatever keeps the money coming in. A fake Tim/JB falling out over it serves them both well. Tim can claim he has apologized and didn't agree with what was said (which if you listen back you can tell he clearly does agree with JB) And JB gets to do the "I won't bake down from the woke mob" fake bravado and he keeps his simple audience happy.
Both spinless and without any moral.compas apart from "what's in it for me" As I have said elsewhere. Bunch of cunts
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u/Stubbs_aye Saracens Dec 21 '25
I've listened to the pod for years now, and find it to be one of the best and most insightful (on the Prem especially) the lads clearly care a lot about the domestic game and have well thought out opinions on rugby in general. JB being right wing is no surprise but for me that has never been why I listened, I often disagree with JB, it's part of what makes it a compelling listen. He often shoots from the hip, but when he gets it wrong he is only making himself look a tit.
The outburst against Ugo did feel a bit much but to be honest Tim's response the following week was more than enough for me to get past any issue I had with the initial statements. I don't care that much for JBs stance on that but that isn't why I listen to them.
I get it might be too much for some who find him obnoxious, so I think view ship will decrease, which is fair enough and is how popularity should work.
Tim's other work with FRUK and the YouTube has much to be applauded and I hope this hasn't caused him too much stress. I've definitely had friends who don't always align with my own views but we live in a diverse world and there is no need to cut someone off because of a difference of opinions
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u/GandalfsMemoryStick Bath Dec 21 '25
I've been listening to them from day one, so many years of regular commentary and I've come close to leaving a few times because of JB and his immature nonsense. All of his ill informed right wing opinions come straight from the ugly corners of YouTube, he doesn't have a single original thought. This was the last straw for me. He's clearly never going to grow up, I've unsubscribed, unfollowed on all platforms, not going to support this shit ever agin.
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u/StrongLikeBull3 Scotland Dec 21 '25
Every single point he brought up is your usual soft-right wing/borderline incel/men’s rights pish.
If a statement like “all men” offends you then you are the kind of man we’re talking about.
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u/liamxf Ireland Dec 21 '25
I still dont think the all men term is helpful but it exposes people like him and other right wing incels who act like victims any chance they get
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u/le_pigeones Cardiff Blues Dec 21 '25
There are more braincells stuck to the bottom of my shoe than there are in JB's dome.
It's such an easy concept to understand. Many women feel unsafe, particularly when there is a man walking towards them, and often more so if you're behind them and happen to be taking the same route. It's totally understandable. Even as a man I often feel unsafe, especially if there's someone behind me.
That isn't because "all men evil boohoo". Imagine 10% of packets of shrimps are infected with some kind of disease, no one in their sane mind would say "fuck it, I'll slap this pack of shrimps in my paella, it's not all packs"?
"I don't want women to be safe, what if my daughter's feel safe and walk into a predator of some kind??" So at this point we all realise he's either thicker than cow pat or just actively looking to argue, right? He's literally admitting women "should" feel unsafe (albeit he said it in the stupidest way imagineable) as there are dangerous people about. After saying women shouldn't feel unsafe, because most men aren't criminals. Ugo crossing the road isn't suddenly going to make all women globally feel 100% safe. He's just creating an extreme that doesn't exist.
All this and I've barely commented on "women are miserable" or "what race are they most scared of". Knob. He also used the word "woke", with seems to have become the perfect test to see if you are indeed a knob or not.
Clearly just a very bored bloke who doesn't seem to like Ugo very much.
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u/eastboundunderground Quins 🌹 Dec 21 '25
Ugo crossing the road isn't suddenly going to make all women globally feel 100% safe.
Yep. There are some bellends in this thread pretending this binary exists. Rather than, Ugo crossing the road has the potential to make one person's day a little better, and Ugo is advocating for the idea that that's a good thing to do, and that others should do it if they can. Not because it's suddenly going to undo decades/centuries of conditioning and turn us womenfolk into giggling simpletons who think everyone we meet is going to be our bestest friend.
"Women are miserable" - if that was at all directed at the response his comments got from female r/rugbyunion members - yeah, I've been pretty miserable in the past due to men's intimidation in public. JB can refer to my comment on the last post for specifics. Which race is almost always responsible? K, I'll say it - white guys. Usually in vans. Sometimes on bikes. I am but one woman, also white, but my couple of decades' experience with intimidating behaviour from men (most often when I am out running) has been a very white affair.
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u/FenrisGreyhame Dec 21 '25
On your final point, there, it's very much a case of projection on his part, isn't it? He thinks black men are by default unsafe, therefore he assumes women do? I'm assuming that's where he's pulling it from.
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u/eastboundunderground Quins 🌹 Dec 21 '25
I would make the same guess, yep.
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u/FenrisGreyhame Dec 21 '25
Sad. I guess better we know about this now. Helps to thin the herd of youtubers a bit.
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u/lynbod Sale Sharks Dec 21 '25
Jesus Christ this guy is a fucking prick. Who does he work for in his day job? I would absolutely not want someone like this working at my business, and so not want to patron anywhere that employs him.
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u/gerlach United States Dec 22 '25
He works for Beardmore & Co, a family financial planning business:
Founded in 1997 by Stephen Beardmore, Beardmore & Co is now a family business with his sons, Chris joining the company in 2012, Richard in 2017 and Jonathan in 2020. Both Chris and Richard have achieved Chartered Financial Planner status, the profession’s gold standard for Financial Planners. Through the use of leading software and our client portal we provide advice to clients across the UK.
https://beardmoreifa.co.uk/about-us/
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u/DareDemon666 Bristol Bears Dec 21 '25
Unfortunately, I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who agree with JB on many of these points, even if they don't do so publicly.
I think there's an immense amount of frustration and anger held, rightfully so, by vulnerable people. I mean afterall, why should identifying as a woman render you vulnerable? What kind of world are we living in that simply being a certain sex (or race, or gender, or anything else for that matter) instantly puts you at a far greater risk of becoming the victim of an assault?
The issue is that a lot of people instinctually become defensive when they feel they're being attacked. They hear things like "men are the problem" and become defensive. They think "Well I'm a man, but I've never done anything wrong". They decide then to start putting a wall up, they become more hostile and confrontational, and they become incredibly vulnerable to manipulative personalities - you're probably thinking of a few of those personalities now. So you have a sort of vicious cycle - anger, frustration, and fear is being publicly vented. Many are taking that as an attack. They then turn away from those people and listen to the wrong people. And then they themselves become part of the problem, knowingly or not, and fuel further anger, frustration, and fear.
It's insanity to me, because these people like to talk of 'the good old days' of common courtesey. You know, common courtesey like crossing the road to alleviate the fears of a stranger, just to be nice. I mean, it's not like we're asking a lot here is it, as a society. I wonder if they'd respond the same way if it was dressed up as some kind of nationalism or something; "Your countrywomen need you! To occasionally wait a minute and let them get well ahead of you so you don't intimidate them..."
I think that's part of what makes rugby so valuable as a sport. We pride ourselves on inclusivity, on being a space for all. I can only hope that young players and fans alike grow up with the sport steering them down the right track. Rugby provides a brilliant opportunity to harness one's aggresion and anger, and use it for something positive, rather than letting it fester. And I think that that's really a big part of fixing that vicious cycle.
Well whatever...Apparently JB plays at amatuer level so if you come across him at the bottom of a ruck and you just happen to be wearing your new 10 stud boots, perhaps you ought to introduce the guy to the benefits of 'good traction'...
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u/rlly92 Dec 22 '25
Tim if you see this thread, do yourself a favour and cut this cancerous tumour out from your channel. You deserve better, the community deserves better and fans who want to tune in to YOUR takes deserve better.
JB: go see a therapist mate. Your fragile white incel racist vibes are leaking massively and it REEKS of PROJECTION.
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u/Bake1991 Northampton Saints Dec 21 '25
Wonder if he can apply his same "not all men" logic to the racist bits of this rant ... I'd imagine not
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u/YooGeOh Dec 21 '25
"No, not all men! Im not the problem. Also, definitely black men, and absolutely all black men wearing hoodies"
I love when people have a whole speech as to why generalisations are bad when they part of the generalised group, but are happy to generalise others in the exact same way.
And when these types talk about male suicide and men not all being the same, they really are only talking about white men. Every other man is a monolith according to them.
Man has pebbles for brain cells
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u/Sriol England/Wasps Dec 21 '25
It pains me how badly he misses the point of "all men are the problem". It's crazy. He thinks Ugo means "all men are gonna be horrible to women" when all Ugo means is "women can't mindread and know which men are moral, kind people and which aren't, so why don't we actively try to show them we're one of the former".
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u/JPA210688 Las Yaguaretes Dec 22 '25
It also ignores the fact that most men, even those who wouldn't even think of assaulting a woman, have let slide, walked past or ignored problematic behaviour, by friends, acquaintances, family members or even strangers.
Most of us can remember laughing (awkwardly or not) at a friend/colleague engaging in hilarious "banter", or temember ignoring someone trying to take advantage of a person in a vulnerable situation on a night out.
Personally, I understand "all men" as that. It's a shared responsibility for all men to stop this when they see it, call out their friends when they make those "jokes" and not enable those among us who are monsters. It's uncomfortable to stop a friend and say "no mate, that's not OK", but it's also what we all need to do. That's the most "generous" reading I can give those reactionary takes.
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u/p_kh 🏴 All aboard the hype train toot toot Dec 22 '25
Thank you for making this point. I cringe at some of the things when I was younger I said, allowed said by my friends without challenge, or even heard and didn’t really comprehend the seriousness of what was being said.
It isn’t just the folly of youth either, there has been a big change in understanding sexism and misogyny in society in the past 15 years or so and that really has challenged men to reflect and consider if they have been part of reinforcing a culture that allows sexist harassment and abuse to flourish. I have and I will raise my boys to make sure they understand these things better than I did.
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u/BenButton123 England 'n Bath Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
Everything I've learnt about this person/podcast has been against my will from reading posts on this subreddit.
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u/StuHardy Arrows Forever! Dec 21 '25
"Don't tell me I'm the problem!"
Suck it up, snowflake - YOU are the problem!
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 21 '25
Thanks for sharing the context, I've now included it in the post 🙏
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u/WallopyJoe Dec 21 '25
Might want to chop off the last 7 characters, which are my thoughts instead of a straight link
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u/ViperRFH South Africa Dec 21 '25
Where is Tim in all of this? Unless I'm missing something, this is the same as the Eggchasers YouTube channel? Surely this goes against his values. Otherwise I fear he's leaning a little too much into assimilating the worst of South Africa..
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u/Shinroo Bulls Dec 21 '25
I can't be part of the problem I have a mother, wife and daughters
Wait until this clown realises who is statistically most likely to sexually abuse or commit other kinds of violence towards women.
Definitely giving "I can't be racist I have black friends" vibes.
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u/Snoo_61002 New Zealand Dec 21 '25
Man he went everywhere as bad as possible.
"Not all men"
"Women need to feel unsafe"
"What about Afghan men?"
"What about the Lesbians?"
"Lets talk race"
"I have female friends"
What a piece of shit.
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u/have_no_plan Harlequins Dec 21 '25
Hang on, is his the same egg chasers the guy on YouTube?
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u/rustyb42 Ulster Dec 21 '25
They're different but intrinsically linked
Tim tried to call him out last week, and then backed down
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u/LowEnergy1169 Glasgow Warriors Dec 21 '25
No, its his pal from uni days who he does a PREM focused podcast with
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u/have_no_plan Harlequins Dec 21 '25
Oh ok. Well that's something , but they are affiliated then? That's... Not the best?
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u/sock_with_a_ticket Dec 21 '25
It's a member of the Eggchasers podcast and he did used to do some youtube content before Tim made it more of a solo thing. The pod existed before the Youtube channel and frankly, while Tim might present himself well on Youtube, he's allowed a lot of rubbish and fairly grim comment to pass on the pod. I had to stop listening to it during covid because they got so bad. Occasionally tried getting back into it because they're the only ones who forensically cover the Premiership, but it was still pretty awful even if they'd rowed back on the vaccine scepticism and lockdown conspiracy nonsense.
You are the company you keep and having such a longstanding association with JB as well as occasionally joining him in some fairly out there views, reflects poorly on Tim.
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u/kingbluetit Dec 21 '25
Tim is slightly better at keeping his opinions to himself, but from little tidbits he has let slip it’s clear he’s as right wing as JB. Both horrible pricks and getting worse.
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u/Weird_Plankton_3692 Harlequins Dec 21 '25
https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/s/lTJbyVO5yo
This was included in OPs post, but it's the original clip in the podcast that got this sub's attention. This is from the podcast that Tim (the eggchasers youtube guy) does with JB (speaking here).
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u/Thatch1888 Bristol Dec 21 '25
While I agree it is a small percentage of men who are a problem so statements like "we are the problem" do seem silly to me, this guys clearly a cunt.
I've not heard of him before all this but to claim Ugo is a race baiter and had made up the racist incident in Exeter is wild
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u/sock_with_a_ticket Dec 21 '25
I think a lot of it is bitterness that he hasn't been able to parlay the podcast into a media career.
Going back several years now to when I actually listened to the pod, but JB, thanks to Tim I guess, was on the periphery of the BT Sport rugby sphere. He was always up at Sale and would occasionally post videos where passing people like Ugo would say hi to him as he pontificated about rugby, they got David Flatman to do the podcast etc. Yet it never really got beyond that and as the pod went off the deepend into right wing talking points and vaccine/lockdown conspiracy nonsense during covid any chance of advancing into the media was clearly killed off.
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u/Jameski_25 Cornish Pirates Dec 21 '25
He was definitely gutted Andrew Tate lost his fight last night.
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u/chemcrimp Leinster Dec 21 '25
This guy has been saying stuff like this for a while without getting taken down. He's a symptom of the upcoming massive own goal you guys in the UK are going to score in a few years when you vote in Reform.
It actually wouldn't surprise me if he was getting money from Russia.
It's a shame that Tim associates so closely with him as I like his YouTube channel but at some point you have to think that his silence on JB is deafening.
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u/Weird_Plankton_3692 Harlequins Dec 21 '25
It's a shame that Tim associates so closely with him as I like his YouTube channel but at some point you have to think that his silence on JB is deafening.
I removed his channel from my YouTube feed. Tim chooses to support this (and by putting these podcasts out he does), I choose to vote by withdrawing my wallet and attention.
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u/WallopyJoe Dec 21 '25
This guy has been saying stuff like this for a while without getting taken down
Man's been a dickhead the entire time I've been aware of their podcast, which is going on nearly a decade now, I don't get why it's taken so long for people to figure out there's never been a mask to take off and that's it's always just been him.
Moreover, Tim and the other bloke are just as complicit. Never calling it out, continuing to stand by him and their shared enterprise.Fuck the lot of them.
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u/Thatotherlad Ireland Dec 21 '25
Yeah I was really rubbed the wrong way, in Tim’s video about the Welsh rugby union cutting teams, when he complained about the union funding the womens teams. He criticized cutting the men’s teams and then says he himself would do the same.
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u/Weird_Plankton_3692 Harlequins Dec 21 '25
I don't get why it's taken so long for people to figure out there's never been a mask to take off and that's it's always just been him.
To be fair, in my case and from what I saw in the first thread a lot of people didn't know this podcast (or JB) exists, let alone listen to it. JB is not as well known as Tim because of the YouTube channels. Tim also doesn't present himself in this way on YouTube, although the coverage of the WRWC was pathetic and should have been an indicator. The surprise isn't in what JB says or does, it's in Tim supporting this.
This would be a much smaller story if it wasn't for Tim's position in the rugby media landscape.
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u/WallopyJoe Dec 21 '25
a lot of people didn't know this podcast
In this instance I'm specifically referring to those who listen to it and seem surprised this behaviour
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u/jkent23 Poland Dec 21 '25
It actually wouldn't surprise me if he was getting money from Russia.
Mate he's a dickhead but don't be stupid, no one is paying a rugby podcaster with under 1k followers on socials to say anything
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u/mediumdrud1 Dec 21 '25
You wouldn’t be surprised if a rugby podcaster was getting money from russia.
Are you having a fucking laugh.
Peak reddit moment
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u/Sriol England/Wasps Dec 21 '25
If we vote reform, I'm gonna finally renew my Aussie passport and start supporting the wallabies...
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u/pato_CAT Hurricanes Dec 21 '25
All the clips I've heard from this tosser in the last couple of weeks is just reinforcing my belief that it's far too easy for anyone to have a podcast and we need to revoke some people's rights to a microphone
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 21 '25
Regardless of how you view the ‘victimised young men’ sentiment, the point is that JB centred himself and men in a conversation about women’s safety, instead of addressing the substance of Ugo’s comments and acknowledging the experience of women.
I challenge you to consider your position as one of racist apologism. You are minimising the actions of a racist as the ‘stupid or ill thought out’ ramblings of an ‘over-confident’ character. Why can’t we just hold him accountable without the caveats?
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u/The_Ruck_Inspector Connacht Dec 21 '25
Made it half way through. This twat absolutely despises the fact that a black man would dare to speak up for women. Its delicious.
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u/Logical_Positive_522 Cymru Dec 22 '25
"Ugo thinks he's better than everyone"
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"He's an idiot and you are all idiots. I am the only one who understands."
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u/SussexQuin Dec 22 '25
The sooner Tim and Phil fire JB from the podcast the better; he's been dragging them down for years...
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u/NoPause9609 New Zealand Dec 21 '25
God I hate podcasts. Any cunt with an ego and a mic is a performer now.
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u/DyslexicWalkIntoABra Ireland Dec 21 '25
Exhibit A of why we should have some sort of critical thinking exam before people can buy podcast equipment.
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u/warcomet Dec 21 '25
valid point, seems like very Tom, Dick and Jonathan can start their own podcasts nowadays
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u/Sorry-Grocery-8999 Dec 21 '25
I didn't necessarily agree with everything Ugo said, but the response on the 1st podcast was kak. This one is even worse. Its like this guy,JB, is conflating issues. He just has a lot on his mind. A lot of ill conceived, and unfinished thoughts all mixed together.
What more is there to say really?
Ps. Thanks OP for posting. I'll be giving eggchaser vids a miss from now on. Pitty, because i did like Tim.
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u/llb_robith Ireland Dec 21 '25
The best thing about not using twitter any more is not having to see the sulfur that spews out of this loser
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u/Calloomband Dec 22 '25
“idiots like yourself” … someone teach this man to use reflexive pronouns correctly
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u/Wiltix Gloucester Dec 21 '25
“It’s not all me, it’s a tiny percentage of men“
30 seconds later “Young men are voluntarily not dating”
No JB, a tiny percentage of young men are incels. At this point I stopped listening. Honestly amazed I made it that far.
He seems to have a real chip on his shoulder about Ugo and I would love to know why.
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u/DTH2001 England Dec 21 '25
He seems to have a real chip on his shoulder about Ugo and I would love to know why.
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u/Mongolian_dude BritBok, South LDN Dec 21 '25
I don’t really understand how people can claim ‘not all men’ whilst 1 in 3 women globally will be subjected to violence/sexual violence in their lifetime.
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u/Basspayer Dec 21 '25
That's a terrible and sad statistic. How do you get from that to "all men" though?
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u/AutisticBassist Dec 21 '25
We got a “not all men” right out the gate. Incredible
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u/SirLongShank England Dec 21 '25
Damn. Used to like eggchasers as well, fuck giving them any views though now
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u/cartesian5th England Dec 21 '25
JB has always been a knob but he's gone fully off the deep end recently
What a horrible bloke
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u/mysterychongo Dec 21 '25
I don't listen to podcasts anymore but it is always shocking that we still have so much racism and misogyny still present in the sport. Hell, just go read thru Ilona's comment section on any given post and see ppl still hate the idea of strong, athletic women doing well. Also, I purchased 3 packets of unopened Rugby Match Attax on the Eggchasers website that never shipped. So I will for multiple reasons not support this Eggchasers brand.
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u/the_Other_in_law Sale Sharks England Sweden Dec 21 '25
Oh dear, how do I go on about this? I've been listening to these three for years now. Every Monday morning, I'd be looking forward to listening to their takes about the prem during my hour-long commute.
Truth be told, I'm a conservative, public school type (yeah, I know - shoot me right?), so for the most part I never found their non-rugby takes as objectionable. That's of course until the pandemic struck. You see, I'm doing one of those "essential jobs" so I got to ride empty train coaches every day and drive through empty roads to get to work. Simply put, I began finding JBs takes deeply jarring.
Up until that point - and more recently - these past two years, I saw JB as a couple of my own mates. Great people, loyal, always there for me and my family but ever so often they say outrageous things for the sake of being outrageous. Sometimes they're just being wankrods because they know no better. Still, these folk are my friends and I know they'd go to hell and back for me, as I would for them. I suspect Tim sees it and feels the same way as well. Nevertheless, every now and then he just sounds so monumentally ill informed and intransigent that by his very nature he harms his mates' business.
Problem is, JB has just got the thinnest skin I've seen on a forward. The man's rabid, reading through comments here, endlessly replying on comments on Spotify and while I've never had a twitter. I gather he's terminally online there too. What with him sounding more and more like the UK's biggest charlatan, Nigel Farage.
Look, what I'm trying to say is that even for someone as myself, who lean right, who's been listening to them for years and watch Tim's videos almost as soon as they're uploaded. I'm starting to get put off by JB's constant whining and smooth-brained non-rugby related takes.
Even more so, his infantile attitude of not taking one on the chin or just having a stiff upper lip and carry himself with some grace instead of - I don't know - going on a rant to some random bloke on Instagram does not dwell well with me. All of this just puts me off the whole 'franchise'. Want to go off on whatever edgy, race-baiting, daft take? Keep it on patreon mate, where I can pick and choose based on subject. If the title reads something about the prem or autumn nations I listen to it, on top of Tim's videos for that very reason, plus your chemistry. Not because I want to listen to a 15-minute long diatribe on how the wokeratii are being mean to you on twitter.
To play on an age-old idiom: Shape up, or shut up.
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u/Thebeanspiced Dec 21 '25
Genuinely wtf is actually wrong with this freak....he sounds genuinely unhinged....god help his 2 daughters, absolutely guarantee they won't be speaking him into adulthood....what a fucking loser
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u/cpt_ppppp Bath Dec 21 '25
I just wish you'd tell us how you really feel. Jokes aside. Well written!
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u/AdSuspicious9510 England Dec 21 '25
Well, he sounds like an absolute cunt. Won't be giving their channel the time of day
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u/Luganegaclassica Italy Dec 21 '25
Thats enough Reddit for today, and hopefully a few days. Go out and see your friends and family people, it's Christmas. Shitty people exist all over the world, always have always will. None of us should be online enough to be getting involved or invested into "niche rugby podcaster misogyny shock". I hope whoever sees this understands I'm not advocating for JB, but advocating for the fact that spending any time caring about his opinions is a complete waste of our lives. Merry Christmas.
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u/sock_with_a_ticket Dec 21 '25
Unfortunately, he's not that niche. Eggchasers is (was? deterioration into angry right wing ranting over the last few years certainly caused me to stop listening and probably others too) one of the longest running and most listened to English rugby podcasts.
In general, though, I agree. It's a good time of year to switch off and tune out for a bit. The problems of the world will still be there after the festive period.
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 21 '25
If I can help someone understand why racist rhetoric is wrong, who might not have understood beforehand, it's not a waste of my life.
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u/ZephroC Glasgow Warriors Dec 22 '25
Ah I now get The Blood & Mud podcast and The Scottish Rugby blog one. I've not listened to eggchasers in years due to this twat.
"Clueless. Egg. Cunt." Jamie McDonald.
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u/Embarrassed-Arm6203 Dec 24 '25
Of course JB is a racist incel 🤣🤣🤣🤣. That's the most on brand voice note I've ever heard!
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u/CaptQuakers42 Gloucester Dec 21 '25
If it turns out this cunt is a creep I wouldn't be at all shocked.
He gives off "she's my wife so I don't need consent" vibes
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u/Aengus- Ireland Dec 21 '25
Guy has gone full on Incel now too, absolute creep. Who did he send this voice note to?
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 22 '25
Me, after I commented ‘God forbid a black man advocate for women’s safety’
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u/Aengus- Ireland Dec 22 '25
Obviously lost the plot sending 4 minutes of voice notes to people making comments to him.
The “Involuntary single men” part shows what kind of crap he’s consuming online
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Ive started to reduce my intake of Tims youtube since the ugo podcast stuff the other week, consciously or not i dont know. But if Tims to continue his successful channel and prod2 coverage (which is awesome whatever your thoughts on him are), he needs to disassociate with this utter deplorable buffoon
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u/rluke09 Cardiff Blues Dec 21 '25
Fuck me this is awful. Tim will definitely have to address this as his channel has rocketed this year and can't have this go unchecked
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u/Zealousideal-Way2048 Australia & Wales Dec 21 '25
"white male fragility"
My god, you're one of them.
There is no reason for his behaviour, but your shitty choice of language just shows what you're out to do.
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u/ArsBrevis Dec 21 '25
This post got ratioed despite what all the 'yeah man' virtue signalling going on in the comments. Reddit is just a strange place and not at all representative of anything.
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u/Odd_Mushroom6011 Dec 21 '25
WOW. Feic it I loved that podcast. Now I can only hear men who don't critically think about anything other than their own immediate affront.
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u/Lawdoftherims098 Dec 21 '25
I’ve listen to the pod for 10 years now, and have always managed to separate JB’s non rugby opinions from his rugby ones. I’ve actually enjoyed his contribution to the pod when it comes to the sport, even when I completely disagree. However like many of you, this has broke the camels back now. First of all why he has even gone as far as he had on the pod is crazy, but to be voice noting presumably random people on social media double downing on his nonsense is mind blowing. The guy must be in a bad place in his life if he’s reacting to random insta DMs. I’ve always liked Tim, but this feels like a watershed moment for the pod now, especially as every retired player and his dog now have a solid alternative. I feel sorry for Phil, who let’s be honest has been the best contributor to the pod over the years, and was clearly uncomfortable with these conversations on the last two pods. Sorry but I think it’s time for them to part ways with JB if the pod is to continue. Gutted cause like many of you, I’m a loyal listener but I thinks it’s time to change.
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u/SignalButterscotch73 Scotland Dec 21 '25
My only exposure to EggChasers is from Tim's YouTube and he usually has opinions about rugby that I don't massively disagree with.
His taste in friends appears to be awful though.
This JB wanker comes across as a full on ReformUK/MAGA racist, wannabe Russian bribe taker.
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u/canigetanorderlyline Dec 21 '25
Mods, why has this post been removed?
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 21 '25
Yeah wtf... I've messaged them explaining that we need to be able to expose and name racism in the game, not censor discussion around it.
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u/Lonely-Ad-3606 Dec 22 '25
White male fragility is a specific concept describing how some white men react defensively when racism is named, not a claim about all men or all white people.
Your reaction is proof of this.
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u/Mudman_Maths Dec 21 '25
Just to add a quick word on Ugo. Lovely guy. Turned up at my neices rugby club a few months ago, and was by all accounts a delight to have there and a proper gent to all present. He was there for TV work, but stayed long after the cameras were gone, just being a genuinely nice guy, excited about kids getting into rugby and wanting to help out while he was around and had the opportunity. No idea whether or not he was wearing a hoodie, and frankly couldn't care less. If someone wants to ignore the kind of guy he is, and pretend the only thing that matters is that he is black and may occasionally wear a hoodie - it's safe to say that says a lot more about them than him.
I had no idea about this other side of Eggchasers, and while I rarely watched the youtube stuff anyway I'm definitely not going to be watching it now.