Absolute Mad Lads - Paddy Mayne

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The Second World War is overdone. This is obvious if you've tried to watch any war film made over the last 70 years. As despite the fact that it was obviously incredibly important and still sadly shapes the socopolitical paradigm that we find ourselves in, it's also become incredibly stale. After all, how many times are we going to watch the exact same movie about Guga Johnny Yank who is very bluntly lord dumped to be a Jew and or a Polish person malinger around the Western Front spout off some thinly veiled contemporary politics before partaking in a stupidly over-the-top power fantasy because GooGa Johnny Yang is a pretty cool guy that doesn't afraid of anything. Childish ranting about Hollywood aside, today we will be covering the exploits of a man who will need no introduction if you're a Nordi of the Paisley persuasion. A plucky patty who pounded Jerry German across North Africa and was one of the de facto founding fathers of contemporary special forces doctrine.

[00:01:08]Regionally legendary but officially speaking not widely recognized.

[00:01:15]The McMarau Paddyy Main.

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[00:02:01]Well, then you just might be a little bit silly. So, just hear what Jabron Tony Robbins has to say in this clip.

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[00:02:16]These certuins have a fuel that you probably heard of called NAD. So NAD is wonderful but NAD is a size molecule that as you probably know needs a precursor called NN to actually get into the bio. Two years top secret they have been working with our military with our special forces and about a month and a half ago in Boston. The commander got so excited he slipped the beans and it was just in the Daily Mail last week as well. He didn't tell all of it and I know more cuz I'm invested in the company I can't tell you exactly so I can tell you what was important. What's been important is the commander said these these are the strongest humans alive. both men and women and especially most of the people, right? Endurance has exploded. He said very much like the mice. He said secondly, muscle development has completely changed. From the same stimulus, like the same workout, they're getting more muscle.

[00:02:48]And then thirdly, the most important thing for them is cognition has gone through the roof. Cuz when you're exhausted and you're out there in special forces, the ability to use your head is almost more valuable than your body.

[00:02:54]>> Dog golly giz. Isn't that crazy? Well, David Sinclair's team first tested this compound in mice. And after just 14 days of NMN, the mice ran 200 to 300% more than even the youngest in the group.

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[00:04:10]>> Restoring NAD isn't about looking younger. It's about slowing the cellular decline that people accept as just normal aging. Lower energy, slower recovery, and a body that stops responding the way it used to. Europe banned NMN in 2022, not for safety, but because it works too well. Big Pharma is developing a $3,000 version of this. So, they're just trying to ban the cheaper version. Classic move, you know, price out everybody but the rich from reducing aging. The NMN that I use is Black Forest NMN. It's GMO free, made in the United States, and it includes biperine for around 30% better absorption. And the best part is that Black Forest just launched their biggest deal of the year, and it's absolutely insane. Buy one, get one completely free, available for 48 hours only. And yes, you heard that right. Buy one get one free on their flagship NMN supplement. And this deal ends in 48 hours. And when it's over, it's gone for good. We begin in Newtonard's Countyown, Kingdom of Ireland, United Kingdom, where on the 11th of January 1915, Robert Blair Maine was born as the third son of seven children.

[00:05:38]He was born into a family of landed Olster Scotsmen who were successful merchants and ragingly Presbyterian, owning a wine and grocery shop alongside a myriad of other businesses and establishments all across County Down.

[00:05:55]That is to say that he was never really wanting as a boy being sent to Newtonard's Academy, now the Regent House Grammar School. Like a true red-blooded Britain of the Lower Gentry, Blair, as he was known as at the time, was apparently a reserved and gangly child. Yet, he still picked up his fair share of physical recreation, partaking in such things like cricket, golf, marksmanship, even joining his local rifle club, and what he was undeniably the best at, rugby.

[00:06:33]After all, he is Irish. They are spiritually black and genetically reared for hard labor and group think. So, as a result, the Irish are absolutely [ __ ] cracked when it comes to rugby, which is very, very annoying as a Scotland fan. However, don't go get in the impression that he was some olster jock because upon passing through school, he found himself going to Queens University to pursue a law degree in the hopes of becoming a solicitor. Not exactly the expected life path for scrum lord and ballthrower Blair. However, just because he was learning to beat people with rhetoric in a legal sense, it doesn't mean that he wasn't without the ability to beat people physically either. because whilst he was in university, he decided to pick up boxing. Apparently managing to become the Irish University's heavyweight champion in August of 1936 and by managing to reach the finals in the British university's heavyweight championship. That is to say, the 6'3", 217 lbs McMmon could throw a mean right hook at you and could adequately defend himself in court afterwards.

[00:07:51]Not the type of guy that you would want to cross, but he wasn't one to fret because at least his golf career was also going quite well, managing to secure himself the Scrabble Golf Club President's Cup in 1937.

[00:08:07]Now, I have no idea at all if that's particularly good or not because I know [ __ ] all about golf. I know I'm a shake Scotsman in that regard. However, it is a great big cup, so I'm assuming that's at least somewhat prestigious. Then there's his rugby and there was a bit more going on there. He debuted against Wales in 1937, going on to gain enough caps to be selected for the 1938 British Isles Tour to South Africa. Being a forward lock and one of eight Patties to actually attend the event, he very quickly distinguished himself in the eyes of the South African press for being quote outstanding in a pack which gamely and untiringly stood up to the tremendous task.

[00:08:59]I know that is quite the compliment. It almost makes you think that Britain didn't lose that test against the mighty Springbach who are almost identical to the Irish except some of them actually are black.

[00:09:14]However, it's worth noting that Blair's competitive streak and can do attitude would supposedly mutate into something a little bit more boisterous and brutish, with him being known to just burst into teammates rooms in the dead of night hard enough to actually knock the doors right off of their hinges and then smash up their furniture because funny.

[00:09:40]And he was even linking up with other teammate Bunner Travers where they would get dressed up as sailors before popping down to the dockyards in Durban so that they could apparently just pick random fights with random long shoremen. This wanting hooliganism would escalate even further when apparently on one occasion they all went down near Ellis Park and noted some gentlemen who were erecting some stands. just what you would expect for a rugby stadium to do whilst it was hosting a tour. The thing was, however, that these gentlemen were apparently convicts, being essentially dragged out of their cells for a spot of good old-fashioned penal labor. And whilst they were snoozing under the scaffolding, the two goobers actually managed to befriend one of them. And it turns out that this criminal had actually been sentenced to prison for stealing some chickens.

[00:10:39]And as such, this prisoner was christened with the nickname Rooster.

[00:10:44]Blair and Bunner felt such deep sympathy for his cocking around by the South African penal system that they vowed to help free him. So they got him a bolt cutter and a change of clothes and actually helped the guy to escape.

[00:11:00]Yes, apparently this [ __ ] actually happened. But the escaped convict was caught just a day later, and it turned out that the jacket he was wearing had Blair's [ __ ] name stitched to the inside of the collar. So Rooster's miraculous escape was very quickly linked back to Blair and the tour management had to scramble to transfer and punish Blair before the South African government got any ideas about one of their players. So they shuffled him about and bunked him with fellow player and Presbyterian minister George Crommy in the hopes of not only getting him away from the presumed bad influence of Bunner, but also to hopefully make Blair find Presbyterian God and clean his [ __ ] act up. That did not happen.

[00:11:51]Instead, one night, Blair apparently just decided to sneak out of an official dinner to go on a hunting trip with some of the lads. Then he came back to their hotel room at 3:00 in the morning by kicking the door open with a dead antelope over his shoulders, telling the jump scared Crommy that he had, quote, just shot a spring box. And for those of you who don't get the joke, the spring box are the nickname for the South African rugby team. Upon being questioned, Paddyy claimed that Jimmy Unwin has been complaining that the meat here isn't as fresh as back home. Then he proceeds to drag the carcass to Unwin's room. kind of like a cat bringing you a dead bird into your room at 2:00 in the morning to make sure that you're wellfed and actually know how to hunt. So Paddyy dragged the carcass down the hall to his teammate's room, kicked the [ __ ] door in, charged over to his friend's bed, and then chucked the [ __ ] and then and then chucked the [ __ ] dead antelope right on top of him while he was sleeping. Unwin ended up scraping his leg off of the beast's horn, rendering him presumably unable to partake. in the next day's game. And what may have been a rather rash decision, Paddyy decided to dump the antelope's body right outside of the South African general manager's room with a note explaining that it was quote, "A gift of fresh meat from the British Isles touring team." To the surprise of absolutely [ __ ] no one, Blair was then sent back to the ship to wait until the tour was over before [ __ ] off back to Blighty with the rest of his team. Now, some of you may have noticed my rather heavy emphasis on apparently and supposedly, and that's because there is a very good chance that Blair was just running his mouth and making a bunch of [ __ ] up. But as we will come to see, this sort of behavior is hardly beyond the pale for him. Upon returning to Northern Iron, Blair found himself joining up with Malone RFC before going on to gain himself some additional praise for the three matches that he parttook in for Ireland in 1939.

[00:14:27]With one report saying Maine, whose quiet almost ruthless efficiency is in direct contrast to Laughlin's exuberance appears on the slow side, but he covers the ground at an extraordinary speed for a man of his build. As many, a threequarter and fullback have discovered.

[00:14:47]That is to say that as far as this reporter was concerned, Blair Mine was a genetic freak and not normal. In February of 1939, Blair would find himself in 4bn extra reserve Royal Oster Rifles based out of Newtonards before getting a commission to join up with the Royal Artillery. Because it turns out that concurrently with all his stupid sporting shenanigans and his law degree, which he actually achieved just that year, he also became an officer cadet for the QB contingent of the officer training corp.

[00:15:23]because of course he was a [ __ ] Robert. After initially being posted to the fifth light anti-aircraft battery and the eighth anti-aircraft regiment, Blair would then be transferred to the 66 light AA regiment because the ETH were assigned to do some service overseas because, you know, it was 1939 and some [ __ ] was kicking off and because Blair was a reservist, he had to stay on the aisles. Then the war got big enough for everyone to be mobilized. So he was then transferred back to the RUR.

[00:15:59]Then that great big hoo-ha in Dunkirk happened when Britain and France got absolutely mollywoped by the Germans.

[00:16:07]Literally just going around them. And then they only escaped because they had to drop all of their [ __ ] and pop in Baz's schooner across the channel. Oh, whilst the French were actually trying their best to hold the line, but they failed to hold the Germans back and got subsequently occupied. Yes, that fat old drunk Winston Churchill was understandably very upset by this outcome. So, he decided that Britain needed a new force to combat Jerry wherever he may be found and hopefully raise the morale of the black pilling Britain. small and scrappy, disciplined yet unpredictable.

[00:16:46]This would result in the formation of the commandos for which yes, the current day Royal Marines are the modern inheritors of despite it originally being an allbranch service alongside the Dutch and French outfits. But anyways, Blair joined up with them being embedded with number 11 Scottish commando then being secundied to the Cameroonians. He finally got to see some action in June of 1941 as a second lieutenant when 11 commando ptook in operation exporter when British and free French forces moved in to seize the currently vichy controlled territories of Syria and Lebanon. getting to successfully lead sections of men during the battle of Latani River. Once again, doing such a good job that he was actually mentioned in dispatches afterwards. Now, we couldn't figure out exactly where Patty's nickname of Paddyy came from, but we think it might possibly have been when he was embedded with 11 Commando.

[00:17:53]Since it was a Scottish unit and he had a funny Irish accent, they might have just started calling him Paddyy as a bit of a laugh or as a bit of a hazen.

[00:18:04]Although, since it was a Scottish unit, it was probably both. Paddyy seemingly invoked enough of a reputation in certain officer circles that his friend and fellow loyal Irishman, one Euan McGonagal, had gone to the effort of recommending Paddyy to one Scottish aristocrat turned Rupert by the name of Lieutenant Colonel David Sterling. You might have heard of him and his weird and quaint little parachuting unit.

[00:18:33]L Detachment Special Air Service Brigade.

[00:18:39]Yeah, he founded the SAS and Blair was just given the recommendation to join. You see, for context, the fledgling L detachment was from the outset quite the unorthodox outfit, going out of their way to recruit oddballs, rogues, eccentrics, and misfits. men who would not only come from all walks of life and were able to face down some really absurd operations, but also ones who were able and willing to think just a little smidge outside of the box when the situation demanded it.

[00:19:15]So, you'd imagine that the lawyer turned star athlete turned successful junior officer for the [ __ ] commandos, no less, would turn out to be quite the nice [ __ ] fit, if you could believe it. So when Paddyy was approached about the deal, he accepted. Now there's a little bit of a hubbub as to where he was when this proposition was posited.

[00:19:38]The main claim comes from the personal diary of Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Keys, who fun fact was the youngest acting Lieutenant Colonel in the entire empire at this point. being a spry 24 years old at the time of his death in November of 1941. He claims that Paddyy Boy was inside the officer's mess for 11 Commando in Salamus, Cyprus, where on the evening of June the 21st, 1941, Paddyy had apparently beaten one Major Beville Charles Napier to an absolute [ __ ] pulp because he was really, really pissed off at the latter's absence during the raid on the Latani River. And because, and I [ __ ] you not, apparently Napier had shot Patty's locally acquired pet dog when he was out on said raid. To which, you know what, big f true. And he also [ __ ] kind of deserved that if it's true. Regardless, there was no evidence to suggest that Paddyy Boy was arrested for this incident, though. He was squarely taken right out of 11 commando just in time to be parachuted into the newfound SES and to get to partake in their portion of the Western Desert campaign. So, what the [ __ ] did that entail? Well, the SCS's main mo at this point in history was essentially hopping in a pink panther with the fellas, rocking a full swave of firepower that would have even made the Yankees [ __ ] blush, smoo across the desert for a few days, taking in the sweet sight of absolutely utterly [ __ ] all, eventually rocking up to a German airfield to which you and your sandy companions would then shoot the place the [ __ ] up, destroying as much kit as you can, destroying as many aircraft as you could and even killing as many Germans as you possibly could before quickly whipping around and mosying your way back home. Sounds like a great laugh, doesn't it? Well, it turns out that this was actually quite serious business, and Paddyy treated it that way, having apparently racked up a personal tally of over 100 enemy aircraft destroyed or rendered inoperable, going so far as to follow enemy combatants into their hearts and then shooting them up whilst they slept, as well as ripping out components from enemy aircraft with his bare hands when they ran out of explosives.

[00:22:10]This managed to secure him a DSO and a promotion to lieutenant in December of 1941. Paddyy was the unquestioning lynchpin for many of the regiment's operations throughout the Second World War, leading many of their most successful raids personally and in the process garnering himself something of a growing legend amongst the men. This would cause something of an issue for Big Dave Sterling because he not only deeply disapproved of Patty's propensity to partake in the ungentlemanly act of shooting up enemy billet whilst they were eating and evidently unarmed or whilst they were [ __ ] sleeping, having gunned down upwards of 20 people, equating that to an execution rather than a valid good old British act of classic warfare.

[00:23:04]But Big Sterling also disliked the fact that the men liked Paddyy more than they liked him. Because as much of a genius as Davy Boy was, he was also a report that due to having founded the outfit had a few losses under his belt alongside some victories. Whilst Playboy Paddyy had a seemingly perfect win streak that would even manifest in the belief that men under his command would feel invincible.

[00:23:32]Also, around this point, Paddyy supposedly went on a drinking binge in Cairo that for whatever reason resulted in him trying to find and beat up BBC journalist Dick Demble.

[00:23:45]Yels of based aside, the reasoning for this is actually rather sad, though I'll explain that later. The unkillable perception of the unit would be exemplified on the 26th of July 1942 when the SES alongside free French forces successfully raided the CD Hanesh airfield in the dead of night, storming the place with 18 jeeps and successfully destroying 37 Luftwafa aircraft in just 15 minutes, losing only three jeeps and two men in the process. A stunning victory which both David and Paddyy led with the latter managing to add a tally to his kill count when he placed explosives in the engines of a part bomber before doing his best Pee-Wee Herman impression.

[00:24:40]This act of exemplary performance would end up having Paddyy Boy becoming the de facto second in command of the entire regiment, being actually made official when in January of 1943, David Sterling went and got himself captured by the Italians.

[00:25:00]The Italians.

[00:25:02]Embarrassing. And he was then sent to a P camp where he parttook in four escape attempts. landing himself a lodging in the quaint and apparently inescapable Culitz Castle. This paired with the regiment being reorganized into the special raiding squadron and boat section respectively meant that there would need to be a command presence. So therefore, Paddyy was designated as the commanding officer for the entire raiding squadron and in the process being given the rank of major. Paddyy would go on to lead his raidors on a tour of Italy, assisting the British forces in the region, as well as getting up to some shenanigans that resulted in him getting a bar added to his DSO. when on the 10th of July 1943, Paddyy successfully led the capture of multiple artillery batteries and the deaths of 200 to 300 Italian troops alongside capturing and holding the town of Augusta in Sicily and doing so via a naval landing in broad [ __ ] daylight.

[00:26:14]And I mean it doesn't take a genius to into it that that is incredibly [ __ ] risky.

[00:26:22]Yet they somehow still managed it. When Paddyy was in Sham Deise after the liberation of Paris, he apparently was sitting amongst a group of local civilians when he decided to play what is presumed to be a rather sick joke.

[00:26:39]Paddyy pulled out a [ __ ] grenade that he had secretly removed the detonator for. He removed the pen and then placed the grenade right on the table that they were all sitting at. And when the grenade started smoking, everybody understandably [ __ ] panicked and [ __ ] themselves and dove for cover.

[00:27:02]I'm only bringing this up because what the [ __ ] was his problem? Patty's legend would grow even further when in January of 1944 he was not only promoted yet again to lieutenant colonel but was also appointed as the commanding officer for the entire regimen which was now reformed into the first SAS regimen and Paddyy led the outfit throughout the remainder of the war including jaunts through the affforementioned France alongside Norway the Netherlands some madeup place called Belgium and even Germany itself, cementing the regimen and by extension himself as complete legends within the British military establishment, racking himself up three bars for his DSO. And after leading two armored jeep squadrons in operation Howard, rescuing the pend and wounded B squadron led by one Bond Dick Bond, Paddyy was officially cited by none other than Field Marshall Bernard Law Cromwell and Cork Montgomery himself and he was recommended for none other than a Victoria Cross. He never got it.

[00:28:20]Not because he died or anything. And I mean it was just procedure at the time to downgrade it into his third bar for his DSO.

[00:28:28]This will be brought up again later though. But with the wars end in 1945, Paddyy would partake in a side quest for the Faulland Islands Dependency Survey, being assigned as deputy expedition leader, catching seals, dog sledding, and presumably charting out and taking a look at the very, very many Southern Island dependencies under the command of Sergeant Captain Edward Bingham. Upon finishing up his South Atlantic shenanigans due to chronic back pain rendering him unable to go for a ymp, Paddyy would find himself back in Northern Iron, returning to Bangor.

[00:29:08]Yes, there is a Bangor there, not just in Wales and Maine. Then Paddyy went home to Newtonards where he got himself a house, settled down, and resumed his original calling in life. Another place where wars are fought and where lives are ruined.

[00:29:27]Law Paddyy ended up becoming the secretary for the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

[00:29:34]He would also have picked up rugby again, but the affforementioned back pain was so [ __ ] severe that Paddyy wasn't even able to attend matches as just a spectator, let alone actually play in one. Yeah. Come the war's end, Paddyy wasn't doing too hot. As amongst the affforementioned physical tolls, the fact that his father had died in 1943 and he wasn't able to attend the funeral due to him being quite literally integral to a not insubstantial amount of the campaigns that he found himself in. Unsurprisingly, this meant that as time marched on, Paddyy became more reserved. Retreating into the more literary arts, engrossing himself in books and poetry, seemingly leaving his British outbursts for the Germans, except for when he tried to beat up the BBC journalist Dick Bimblebe, which Paddyy tried to do because he was so griefstricken from his father dying.

[00:30:35]Regardless, when Paddyy got home, he for the most part just kept to himself. He didn't actually talk about what he got up to during the war because, fun fact, most actual special forces guys don't like talking about it. And if they do, there's a very good chance that they're Walter Mitty's or in non-British Army jargon, a tactical [ __ ] merchant. It seems as though Paddyy wasn't completely alone, however, as he managed to strike up a friendship with some fellas and he conveniently named Friendship Lodge.

[00:31:12]Because it turns out that our dear Patty boy was a [ __ ] Freemason come 1945, being initiated into Eclectic Lodge number 542 and Friendship Lodge number 447 and rising the ranks in mainly fashion to worshipful master come 1954.

[00:31:34]You know for an absolute fact that he was running that lodge like he was still in North Africa.

[00:31:42]or South Africa for that matter. But sadly, it was when Paddyy was returning from meeting up with a colleague in Bangor on the night of Tuesday the 13th of December 1955 that he was found dead in his roadar having collided with either a stationary lorry or a fence because it turns out that sources are quite unclear as to which it was. Either way, he was found at 4:00 a.m. with his skull split open on Mil Street in Newtonards, dead at the age of 40. A sudden and unceremonious end for a man with as much main character syndrome as him.

[00:32:26]Naturally, the aftermath of his death was very much a calamity for the locals of Newtonards with his funeral procession being subject to hundreds of people all coming out to pay their respects with the man himself being interred at Mavilla Abbey laid to rest alongside the rest of his family in the churchyard. Now obviously Paddyy Mane has become something of a legend within Norn Iron with Newtonards being host to a mighty bronze statue of Paddyy Mane alongside a group dedicated to getting the man his postumous Victoria Cross with people still pushing as of this video to get him that greatest honor.

[00:33:11]So, if you want to help out with that, I don't know, go write a [ __ ] letter or something. There's also a whole load of malarkey around a museum exhibit dedicated to Paddyy Mane. Turns out that government grants are riddled with red tape and are an incredible ballache to figure out, let alone successfully apply for. Regardless though, despite the best wishes of the Northern Ireland Museums Council, the men and women of Northern Iron still do their bit to remember this truly rogue hero.

[00:33:45]Oh yeah, and some of you probably know this story from that SCES historical drama that ran a few years ago, and it was actually rather good.

[00:33:55]Yeah, fun fact, Patty Mine was an actual guy. I know, crazy.

[00:34:00]But all of this is to say I don't think he actually shot a spring box.

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