The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 14th August 2026

00:00:00 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

00:00:04 Go on in

00:00:17 Oh

00:00:22 It's too hot

00:00:24 You alright?

00:00:30 I hope you are. I hope you are. Me? Yeah, I'm fine. Yeah, all good. Yeah.

00:00:34 Go to a wedding later.

00:00:36 No, I'm not. I'm not.

00:00:39 Okay.

00:00:40 Best man. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm joking. I'm joking.

00:00:42 I'm joined by not my usual producer, Little Harry.

00:00:45 I'm joined by Jack this morning. Jack, how are you, sir?

00:00:48 Hello, hello. How are you doing, Bo? I'm doing good, thanks.

00:00:51 Great.

00:00:52 Hope you're doing well, the glorious band, the chosen few, my band of brothers and sisters.

00:00:55 Thank you for joining me. Without you, it's in a thing.

00:00:56 Thank F. It's Friday, though.

00:00:58 Looks like a bit of a long week to me

00:01:00 I don't know about you guys

00:01:00 TGI Friday

00:01:04 It's now one minute past eight

00:01:07 In the a.m. British Summer Time

00:01:08 On Friday the 14th of August

00:01:10 In the year of our Lord

00:01:11 2026

00:01:13 There's quite enough fapping about there isn't it 1.00

00:01:16 There's no need for that amount of fannying around 1.00

00:01:19 The shit volume of fannying around there 1.00

00:01:20 Was off the charts 1.00

00:01:21 Let's just get straight into it

00:01:22 What's the legacy corporate lamestream media

00:01:25 Banging on about this morning

00:01:26 What's that cabal of evil

00:01:27 quite frankly, evil Fleet Street editors

00:01:29 lying to us about bio-mission, if by nothing else.

00:01:32 They're trying to cram into our eyeballs and brain box 0.82

00:01:34 against our will.

00:01:37 Not necessarily against you, isn't it?

00:01:38 You don't have to pay attention.

00:01:41 Well, one thing to say, the big news of the day, isn't it,

00:01:43 of the actual full news cycle for today, the 14th,

00:01:48 will be the collective result.

00:01:49 NIAG's reforms, collective result.

00:01:51 But that was too late for the papers,

00:01:53 when the papers go to print yesterday.

00:01:55 this it's relatively early in the night they go to print usually about 10 depending depending but

00:02:01 anyway the result wasn't in at that point so it's not on the front pages but it is the main story

00:02:05 and i want to get to it and talk all about it so we'll just whip through the front pages a bit

00:02:10 slightly quicker than usual also the the front pages today are yeah so so right we've got houses

00:02:19 burn and train derails on hottest day and britain on fire it's just sort of wall to wall it's hot

00:02:25 and there's been more wildfires although an actual part of a town burnt down a bit

00:02:29 and a train derailed no one was killed two people seriously injured injured a few people anyway the

00:02:34 front pages are just nowhere near as important or interesting as the cax and stuff so let's whip

00:02:40 through it a bit the times the venerable times something about nicole kid when at 59 don't care

00:02:45 burn and bypassing villagers opposed to new asylum sites this is part of the ongoing story

00:02:51 operation smear as i called it operation scatter they don't want to just keep invaders let's not

00:02:58 call them migrants or certainly not asylum seekers or refugees not even migrants invaders they don't

00:03:03 want to keep them necessarily in hotels because people don't like that and that's a bit of a

00:03:07 political hot potato so to fix that they'll smear them out into every corner of britain 1.00

00:03:14 the tiny little villages and hamlets suddenly you've got a dozen afghans living next year 1.00

00:03:21 all right okay or there'll be for example a specific example tiny little village in like 0.92

00:03:26 oxfordshire or whatever of like 400 people or less suddenly there's 12 000 young foreign men

00:03:34 just men all young living right on the outskirts of your village 0.97

00:03:42 isn't that mad isn't that truly evil isn't that the final act in a string of evil events

00:03:51 met chief and prosecutor clash over levy failings there was a murderer called levy his surname

00:03:57 was levy murdered two women and raped a third and was sort of allowed to get away with his

00:04:02 crimes for longer than he really should have done and the police the london police met police

00:04:08 blaming the cps for failings there's a police saying it's not us we did our job essentially

00:04:16 it was your job the crime prosecution service for not locking him up earlier

00:04:19 We just investigate the crimes

00:04:22 The only one's actually got to put him in prison

00:04:23 CPS hitting back over that

00:04:27 Saying that's not fair

00:04:28 That's not good characterisation

00:04:29 You guys dropped the ball as well though 0.99

00:04:31 All that crap 1.00

00:04:32 Someone who shouldn't have ever been in this country 1.00

00:04:36 Black dude 1.00

00:04:39 Houses burn 1.00

00:04:43 And train derails on hottest day

00:04:46 Too seriously hurt in rail accident near Luz

00:04:48 wildfires destroy homes in west midland so there's a picture a lot of the papers go the

00:04:53 exact same picture and you might think when i first saw this this morning i thought

00:04:57 it's just a house like well two house fires it could have happened on any day of the year what's

00:05:02 this really got to do with wildfires but when you see other pictures other images zoomed out like

00:05:08 helicopter or drone footage with like a much broader view it's actually really quite extensive

00:05:12 look you can see there that's another one but there's loads of buildings burnt out it looks

00:05:16 like there was a wildfire on the edge of town right on the edge of town you know where the

00:05:19 houses stop and fields start started there and then it just sort of somehow swept through

00:05:23 this town a bit a fair bit quite a lot of buildings destroyed i say somehow they're

00:05:29 saying that like hot ash was raining down and if your roof is you know tinder dry and like you

00:05:37 know tight it wouldn't set a lot to tiles but if you've got other types of roofing maybe the eaves

00:05:44 are made of wood seemed to dry wood anyway the damage was quite extensive my first gut feeling

00:05:50 of it's just a house fire or two somehow no it seems quite bad that's quite bad

00:05:58 all right still don't put it down to global warming caused by man-made co2 in the atmosphere

00:06:08 there's the train that derailed and some of the carriages flipped over

00:06:10 Is that to do with it was so hot

00:06:14 That the rails warped

00:06:16 And caused that

00:06:17 I don't know

00:06:17 They're not saying that exactly

00:06:19 One of the papers is asking that question

00:06:22 But it's not saying that exactly

00:06:23 Would be a bit of a coincidence

00:06:25 Considering it was on a super hot day yesterday

00:06:27 Yesterday was super hot

00:06:29 Last night was a very very close muggy night

00:06:32 I think I'd have got a fan

00:06:35 Otherwise it would have been unbearable

00:06:36 Really really warm

00:06:39 Alright, a daily mail

00:06:42 Pure globalist slop

00:06:44 Occasionally pretending to be patriotic

00:06:47 Inferno on hottest day of year

00:06:51 Rampant wildfires in gulf streets

00:06:53 Family homes

00:06:54 Yeah, streets

00:06:55 Yeah

00:06:56 Quite a lot, look, there's all burnt out houses there

00:06:58 Maybe later on one of the other pages

00:07:01 You might see a bit more of a zoomed out one

00:07:02 And there's quite a lot of buildings

00:07:03 Alright, alright

00:07:06 Okay, we'll move on

00:07:08 We want to get to Nigel Clacton, don't we?

00:07:10 The Mirror

00:07:11 Completely insane socialist Fabian Labour slop

00:07:15 Heatwave devastation

00:07:18 Homes destroyed as blazes rage in bone-dry conditions around country

00:07:23 Meanwhile, train crash horror

00:07:24 Terror, sorry

00:07:27 And rail chaos on Hottest Avenue

00:07:29 They're all going with the same two stories

00:07:31 Of the train derailment and this fire in this little place

00:07:34 Britain on fire

00:07:36 Well done, well done

00:07:40 I hope you get a load of clicks

00:07:42 And sell a load of papers off of that

00:07:43 Well done

00:07:44 Yeah, brilliant

00:07:45 The star

00:07:47 Serious injuries after train derails

00:07:50 On Totches Day of the Year

00:07:51 Horror on the 224

00:07:53 There you go, there's a picture of it

00:07:57 What else is there to say really?

00:08:02 Alright, we'll crack on

00:08:03 We'll crack on

00:08:03 That's Horeograph 0.97

00:08:05 It's an interesting image

00:08:08 Obviously

00:08:08 I'm opening the doors

00:08:10 And people have got out

00:08:11 He's not just climbing on it for fun

00:08:12 He's obviously just

00:08:13 Just got out

00:08:14 This is a mildly interesting story

00:08:16 Well quite interesting story

00:08:17 China funding

00:08:19 Palestine marches 0.92

00:08:21 You 1.00

00:08:21 Get

00:08:22 Get this

00:08:23 US committee

00:08:25 Claims Beijing

00:08:26 Is supporting

00:08:28 Anti-Israel protests

00:08:29 On British streets

00:08:31 So we need the US to tell us 0.80

00:08:36 That China are supporting Palestine in Britain 0.97

00:08:39 I can believe it, there's another story 0.76

00:08:42 Probably won't get to it, so I'll mention it now

00:08:44 Another story in the news today and yesterday

00:08:46 That these super dinghies

00:08:48 Remember those super dinghies now?

00:08:51 Sort of all of a sudden, kind of

00:08:52 It's not all of a sudden, but it wasn't two years ago

00:08:55 Super dinghies

00:08:56 Remember me saying there's one that's like

00:08:58 Is it like 10 metres long?

00:09:00 15 meters long, 40 foot long, whatever, you can get, if you really try, get 200 plus people

00:09:06 on them. It's like the size of a bouncy castle nearly. Massive, massive inflatable dinghy.

00:09:12 But they're manufactured in China. They've got to be sent 6,000 miles from China.

00:09:20 I'm not saying the Chinese government necessarily funded that and facilitated all of that,

00:09:24 then look nonetheless Chinese and there's another story as well we might get to it

00:09:35 where Vodafone the Vodafone company have given care for Calais thousands of sim

00:09:45 cards just to give out for free with six months worth of data on it to our

00:09:48 invaders

00:09:52 you invade our country from the part of Calais illegally crossing the channel

00:09:56 without a visa or a passport or anything if not deliberately throwing your

00:09:59 passport in the ocean filming yourself doing it on your phone and gloating

00:10:02 about it when you get to the other side

00:10:06 care for Calais courtesy of Vodafone will just give you a free sim card for

00:10:10 with six months data on it

00:10:14 should we close every single one of those types of loopholes yes of course it's crazy well thanks 0.51

00:10:20 Vodafone thanks for that appreciate that all right anyway back to China China pro-Palestine

00:10:26 marches China do seem like they spend a fair amount of time and energy destabilizing Britain

00:10:33 don't they is it me am I being paranoid have I got just some sort of crazy anti-Chinese bias for 1.00

00:10:40 no real reason or is it a totally totally legit concern you can make your

00:10:51 own minds up on that oh there is sorry right there free Vodafone sim cards 0.95

00:10:57 handed out small boat migrants 0.99

00:11:02 okay

00:11:04 Lammy's eco project ordered to pay 400,000 dollars sorry 400,000 pounds over half a million dollars

00:11:11 I read that story thinking oh a little bit of dirt on Lammy I'll read that I've got a few seconds in

00:11:16 my life to read that but there's not much to it some organization he was just like a he did like

00:11:22 some free work for once that has done something quite bad in Central America or South America

00:11:28 They took the mickey 0.90

00:11:30 They were out of some woman 0.98

00:11:32 By using her properties 0.98

00:11:34 Or property

00:11:34 They're not paying her for it

00:11:36 And it is like bad

00:11:38 And out of order

00:11:38 But it's not like

00:11:40 It's David Lammy's company or anything

00:11:42 He just sort of once

00:11:43 Did some work for them

00:11:45 For free or something

00:11:46 So it's like

00:11:46 I don't think that's much of a story

00:11:52 The Metro

00:11:53 I'm sick

00:12:01 Terrible

00:12:05 Terrible stank coating the back of my throat

00:12:09 The temperature soils past 38 degrees

00:12:19 Record 2.5 million trips to A&E

00:12:23 Not just yesterday

00:12:23 It wasn't 2.5 million trips to A&E

00:12:25 Just yesterday

00:12:26 But

00:12:26 3,000 patients a day

00:12:29 Cared for in corridors

00:12:31 Nurses collapsing

00:12:35 A stifling heat takes its toll

00:12:37 Yeah

00:12:38 Will 0.99

00:12:38 Ms. Balls 1.00

00:12:40 Mrs. Ed Balls

00:12:42 A.K.A. Yvette Cooper

00:12:43 As the new health secretary

00:12:45 Will she be able to turn the NHS around

00:12:48 Make the NHS efficient and good 0.91

00:12:50 And have like

00:12:51 Look, the positive health outcomes for more people

00:12:55 Probably not

00:12:56 Now if you keep flooding us with hundreds of thousands 1.00

00:13:01 Nepped hundreds of thousands, if not millions

00:13:03 Of new people every year, year on year

00:13:06 The NHS wasn't designed for that

00:13:08 Cannot, it's not so stable 1.00

00:13:10 Cannot deal with that

00:13:11 3,000 patients a day cared for in corridors

00:13:14 But no limit on migration, no 0.99

00:13:16 Just cram more and more and more people in 1.00

00:13:19 Into a saturation point

00:13:20 got labor mps in the past talking about they want to get to saturation point

00:13:25 what's it matter of 20 000 30 000 more people turn up so what literally they say that

00:13:30 so what so the waiting list is slightly longer so your classroom size is slightly bigger who cares

00:13:34 so what most important thing is that we give the the poor and oppressed people of the world a place

00:13:40 to live 3 000 patients a day cared for in corridors and when anyone brings up migration even just

00:13:49 putting a cap on more migration into this country even that not really migration just any number

00:13:55 any cap on the number no you get hit with the argument of more we need more safe and legal

00:14:01 routes if anything can't have both things you can't cram more and more and more people into

00:14:08 this country and expect the nhs to work expect school sizes to not the classroom sizes not to be 0.93

00:14:15 Ridiculous 0.70

00:14:16 Expect there not to be a housing crisis 0.92

00:14:19 You end up with loads and loads of tent cities

00:14:21 In the end shanty cities 1.00

00:14:23 Exactly like the third world 1.00

00:14:25 But then that's what the people 0.99

00:14:27 That insist on cramming us up to

00:14:29 Cramming them in up to saturation point

00:14:31 That's what they want though isn't it

00:14:33 Surely what other explanation is it

00:14:35 They must want that

00:14:36 An NHS that's broken 1.00

00:14:38 Shanty towns 1.00

00:14:39 Oh and of course 1.00

00:14:41 Endless sex crime and organised crime

00:14:45 violent crime, mass casualty events

00:14:47 they must want that

00:14:49 because it's the obvious cause and effect

00:14:51 isn't it, it's one step down the

00:14:52 down the chain

00:14:54 are all those consequences 1.00

00:14:56 of cramming in millions of more foreign people 1.00

00:14:59 every year, year on year 1.00

00:15:00 they must want that

00:15:03 then, mustn't they

00:15:04 it's alright

00:15:06 it's alright, we've got Mrs. Ed Balls

00:15:09 she'll sort it out 0.95

00:15:10 will she?

00:15:13 will she?

00:15:15 The Guardian 0.97

00:15:17 Smells like poop 0.99

00:15:21 Actual poop 0.92

00:15:25 Gross

00:15:30 Something about Sam Smith

00:15:32 Don't care, is he still a thing?

00:15:33 How is he still a thing? He's not still a thing

00:15:34 Gross and weirdo degenerate freak 0.97

00:15:37 Universities fear financial turmoil 0.99

00:15:41 Amid slumping overseas students

00:15:42 Oh well

00:15:43 Wish I had my tiny violin

00:15:45 It was a perfect example to 1.00

00:15:46 She got my tiny violin

00:15:47 I physically got a tiny violin 1.00

00:15:49 Someone sent one in to me for her life 1.00

00:15:50 Should have brought it 1.00

00:15:51 That was perfect for that

00:15:52 Didn't bring it on me, sorry

00:15:53 Oh well

00:15:55 Universities fear financial turmoil

00:15:58 Good, if anything

00:16:00 Good

00:16:01 A lot of universities are just

00:16:04 A hive of leftism

00:16:06 And globalism

00:16:09 Just a place where 0.86

00:16:12 Often foreign terrorists can just sit there

00:16:16 They just harbour foreign terrorists often 0.99

00:16:18 Yeah 1.00

00:16:20 Again invaders by another name 1.00

00:16:25 Come here as a foreign student 1.00

00:16:28 They finish their course 1.00

00:16:30 Their nonsense course

00:16:33 Some polytechnic somewhere

00:16:35 I mean it's barely university

00:16:37 And then they refuse to leave

00:16:39 Their visa runs out and they just refuse to leave

00:16:41 And then they get legal support, free

00:16:45 Paid for by the state 0.98

00:16:46 In order to argue that they can't go back to their country of origin

00:16:49 Because of the ECHR, because of human rights

00:16:52 Then they can stay 0.98

00:16:55 And then they can bring over their family 1.00

00:16:58 Chain migration 1.00

00:16:59 The chain migration off the back of foreign students 1.00

00:17:02 That have refused to leave after their course 0.99

00:17:04 Is big, really big

00:17:05 So, oh well

00:17:07 Universities might face turmoil amid a slump in overseas students

00:17:14 Good, good

00:17:15 There's too many universities

00:17:17 They're completely devalued what a degree is

00:17:21 What it's worth

00:17:22 And just one more vehicle to get us invaded 0.99

00:17:25 By racial, ethnic, tribal and religious enemies 1.00

00:17:30 So good 1.00

00:17:33 I'm supposed to care about the leftoid academy

00:17:39 The universities that for decades and decades and decades

00:17:43 Have really done not much more

00:17:45 Other than try and subvert our way of life

00:17:48 Good

00:17:51 Let them

00:17:53 Let them go through turmoil

00:17:55 Let loads of them close

00:17:57 He am angry as water firms add £3.4 billion to bills

00:18:06 One of the stories today in the news cycle

00:18:09 Across the big suppliers, there's a few ahead, half a dozen

00:18:14 Well, there's more, but half a dozen or ten big, big water suppliers in this country

00:18:18 Between them, lose billions of litres of water a day

00:18:22 A billion litres of water a day

00:18:27 And the bills just keep going up.

00:18:28 They keep giving themselves, the senior people in those companies,

00:18:31 bigger and bigger bonuses.

00:18:33 The service is worse and worse and worse.

00:18:37 And now the, what is it?

00:18:41 The equivalent of Ofcom, like the water-regulating body,

00:18:44 I don't remember what it's called,

00:18:46 just giving them the green light sort of legally

00:18:48 to just increase people's bills massively.

00:18:51 It's already locked in that they were going to increase massively

00:18:53 between now and 2030,

00:18:54 And they've given them the green light

00:18:56 To increase them even more

00:18:58 From 2030 onwards

00:18:59 Even more

00:19:00 The Prime Minister's angry about that

00:19:02 Because you know

00:19:03 No Stern and Burnham's listening

00:19:04 Yeah, he's a great listener

00:19:05 He hears you

00:19:06 He hears your concerns

00:19:07 He's interested in listening to the problems

00:19:10 Not just insisting people bring him solutions

00:19:12 He's listening to the problems

00:19:13 He's listening to you

00:19:15 And he's angry

00:19:15 He's angry about it

00:19:18 Is he really going to do anything about it profoundly?

00:19:22 No

00:19:23 He's just going to say some words

00:19:25 Yeah

00:19:27 So you're going to move the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic

00:19:29 Quarter of a mil

00:19:30 Maybe at best

00:19:32 No, Sterling Burnham 0.98

00:19:35 He hasn't got the balls to do anything big 0.97

00:19:38 To make any big moves 1.00

00:19:39 Right, the IPA

00:19:44 It's probably about the best you're going to get

00:19:45 From Fleet Street on any given day

00:19:46 What are they going with?

00:19:49 24 million people face paying even more

00:19:51 higher water bills to firms losing 1.2 billion litres a day from leaks. If it was 1.2 million

00:19:58 litres a day, that would be concerning. 1.2 billion litres. I know when you measure vast

00:20:04 amounts of water in litres, it sort of gives a slightly off impression of the scale of

00:20:12 it. But still, but still, 1.2 billion litres a day? But we're in a drought, aren't we?

00:20:18 Or you're not allowed to feel a kid is swimming pool in the garden

00:20:21 You're not allowed to water your lawn

00:20:23 Because there's a hosepipe ban

00:20:25 1.2 billion litres a day

00:20:28 Feels like it's barely functioning right

00:20:31 The water regulator is set to give five suppliers

00:20:35 The green light to increase bills

00:20:37 By an additional 3.4 billion pounds

00:20:39 Between them in the coming years

00:20:41 Off what?

00:20:43 That's it, that's the regulator

00:20:45 Off what?

00:20:48 has already given firms permission to charge customers 36% more

00:20:54 for their services between 2025 and 2030.

00:20:58 But PM warns against a blank cheque.

00:21:00 He says, you can't think of the taxpaying great British public

00:21:05 as just a blank cheque.

00:21:06 What are you going to do about it then, Andy?

00:21:08 You're going to bring in a raft of legislation.

00:21:12 There's no talk of that.

00:21:14 There's no talk of that.

00:21:15 You're going to start prosecuting the people

00:21:18 That have obviously mismanaged it over decades

00:21:20 No, no talk of that

00:21:21 An inquiry into exactly what's gone wrong

00:21:27 And what needs to happen

00:21:28 No

00:21:28 He's just going to say

00:21:30 Don't treat us like a blank check

00:21:32 Well thanks Andy

00:21:33 Cheers for sticking up for us

00:21:34 Appreciate you

00:21:35 I'm glad you're angry about it

00:21:36 I'm really thankful for your performative anger

00:21:39 For one news cycle

00:21:40 Thanks

00:21:41 36 percent between 2025 and 2030 when i moved out and started paying bills for myself it was

00:21:51 almost straight after uni i was in my early 20s water water bills were very very minimal

00:21:56 but you had to pay thames water i've always paid thames water because i used to live in the

00:22:00 southeast and even in southwest it's still thames water so every bill i've ever paid for water rates

00:22:07 has been to thames water it used to be and i'm talking like 50 20 years ago

00:22:11 very very minimal very very minimal now it's it's it's not minimal it's not a giant amount

00:22:20 compared to electricity and gas but it's significant now we'll up it by a third again

00:22:26 over the next few years and then after 2030 even more this is going to keep sticking up more and

00:22:33 and more and the quality of service you get it goes down and down and down this is a crumbling

00:22:38 civilization isn't it we need real men in leadership to force things to turn around

00:22:47 we don't need people like no sternum burnham or keir starmer nothing men weak weak men not

00:22:53 prepared to really act we look how governments used to behave i'm talking about before the war

00:23:00 World War II

00:23:01 The governments straight after the war

00:23:04 Attlee, Churchill

00:23:06 Eden, Macmillan

00:23:08 Even Harold Wilson

00:23:09 To some extent Ted Heath

00:23:11 They used to make big moves

00:23:13 If there was something like this going on

00:23:14 They would make big moves

00:23:15 They would bring in a raft of legislation

00:23:19 A whole raft of Acts

00:23:21 Of Parliament

00:23:22 To change the situation

00:23:25 And fix it, try and fix it

00:23:27 they would bring in draconian measures what today we would probably consider 0.67

00:23:32 what the corporate lamestream media the soy boy media would consider draconian like beyond the

00:23:39 pale like government overreach they just acted in the interest of the country very often doing big 0.67

00:23:46 things now again we again we've just got governments that slightly adjust the deck

00:23:52 chairs a bit on a sinking ship so it's the best we got isn't it we need real leaders real leaders

00:23:59 not afraid of the media of what the next day's headline is going to be

00:24:07 the daily express okay it's a good paper you can read your express now

00:24:13 but they've gone with those fires and that train derailment

00:24:16 You're telling me there's not a cabal of the senior editors or owners

00:24:21 Of course there is

00:24:24 Hey guys

00:24:26 Don't talk about David Lammy's finances

00:24:29 Don't talk about who George Osborne is friends with

00:24:32 Don't talk about Andy Burnham's past in any real detail

00:24:39 Don't talk about any of that

00:24:40 Just talk about that a train was derailed and that there was a fire

00:24:45 Definitely don't talk about Epstein's connections to Ehud Barak

00:24:54 Okay

00:24:59 Furious 13 Walter Company is allowed to raise bills again

00:25:04 Despite poor performance

00:25:06 Don't hand out rewards for their failure

00:25:08 Fair enough isn't it 1.00

00:25:12 Something about Nicole Kidman again 1.00

00:25:14 Don't care

00:25:14 the ft the financial times harvey nichols has been bought by someone else don't care

00:25:20 anthropic investors bet on record two trillion dollar ipo valuation autumn listing planned for

00:25:27 startup anthropic appetite for ai boom to be tested the anthropic is gonna float its ipo

00:25:37 in a few months in the autumn whenever that is right it might be valued at two trillion dollars

00:25:45 surely that's overvalued surely that's overvalued

00:25:51 i mean i think spacex was a bit i was talking all about spacex wasn't i before

00:26:00 and i was saying it's a steal it's a good it's a good buyer and don't worry it all dip after the

00:26:06 initial after all the initial hype it floats it goes up a bit because everyone wants someone

00:26:13 buys it because of the hype then it dips massively but then it sort of starts climbing back up and

00:26:18 it started it's real value i stand by i stand by all that take that spacex was a good buy

00:26:24 um anthropic that seems sort of even even more wildly over overpriced

00:26:34 who knows who knows right maybe companies like anthropic really are the future

00:26:41 they'll end up dominating one way or another even by proxy loads of other industries they

00:26:48 end up dominating the world in a sense and to have the tiniest slither of stock in them

00:26:54 Is just liquid gold

00:26:56 Who knows

00:26:57 If I was going to buy Anthropic

00:27:00 Which I'm not going to

00:27:01 I've got no intention of doing so

00:27:02 I would at least wait for

00:27:04 The first little spike

00:27:05 And then the drop off

00:27:07 And if you're going to buy

00:27:08 If you're going to buy

00:27:10 Probably buy then

00:27:11 Who knows

00:27:14 Could be an all time dud

00:27:16 Who knows

00:27:18 Could be a dog

00:27:18 I don't know

00:27:20 Alright

00:27:20 Okay they're the papers

00:27:21 They're the increasingly absurd

00:27:23 and infuriating front pages

00:27:25 Alright, should we have a look at our poll

00:27:29 before we get into Nigel and Clacton

00:27:30 We did a poll today

00:27:32 Jack, if you bring that for me

00:27:35 One second, people

00:27:39 Oh, there we go, here he is

00:27:41 We asked you guys

00:27:42 Do you think

00:27:45 to show over 900 votes

00:27:47 Do you think Nigel Farage

00:27:50 will have to face

00:27:51 another by-election in Claxon, after this one, meaning.

00:27:55 We gave you the options of yes, no, and maybe. The IAs have it.

00:27:59 47% of you say yes, and the rest of you are quite split

00:28:03 between no and maybe. 27% say maybe, and 26% say no.

00:28:08 Okay. If I was taking that poll, I would

00:28:11 click yes. Of course, we just don't know what that standards commissioner

00:28:16 will, what conclusion he'll come to, and then if and when, I think when,

00:28:19 he passes it to like the standards committee what they will decide who knows it's entirely up to

00:28:25 the answer to that question is in their hands who knows what they'll decide but it's only a poll

00:28:33 we're just asking you if i was taking that poem would have clicked yes so 57% of you the eyes

00:28:40 have it, alright then, shall we get into the main event, the main event, ladies and gentlemen,

00:28:50 boys and girls, children of all ages, right, Nige, Nige had his by-election, won it handily,

00:28:58 of course he did, of course he did, a couple of things to note though, I think, there's

00:29:04 the stage there with uh most of the candidates look there's kaya i see he was there um where's

00:29:12 lozza lawrence fox i'm not seeing him in that particular image anyway uh there's been face of

00:29:17 course i can't miss the good count um nigel's not there though i just not there he didn't turn up

00:29:26 to his own count we'll talk about that in a moment a couple of data points on that uh but just the

00:29:33 result first of all so 91 everyone knew he would win of course of course he was gonna win just by

00:29:38 what margin really even that isn't like vastly important i'm sure they showed the there we go

00:29:46 here we go here we go all right so first thing i'll say turn out 44.4 percent lame lame i mean

00:29:54 by elections are usually lower than a general election but 44.4 percent it's not really galvanizing

00:30:03 People really isn't

00:30:04 More than half the people

00:30:07 Just not bothered who their MP is

00:30:09 Quick word about turnout

00:30:14 Participation

00:30:16 Read a whole book

00:30:18 And bits of other books

00:30:19 About political participation

00:30:21 When I was doing my post-grad

00:30:22 In government policy and politics

00:30:23 And wrote an essay all about participation

00:30:25 That's what actual political scientists call it

00:30:30 Turnout

00:30:33 it's actually vital in a democracy absolutely vital when you see that

00:30:38 turn out like at the mayor election Manchester mayor election which is a bit

00:30:41 different system that was super low super low like 25% quite often in general

00:30:46 elections we get like 50% 55 60% something like that it's really bad that

00:30:52 speaks to me that that the data points we get about turnout it's not just like

00:30:57 oh who cares what matter no it really matters it's of absolute

00:31:02 fundamental importance if nothing else it speaks of um speaks of like a a malaise

00:31:09 in our society it speaks of uh a deep-seated very very deep-seated deep-rooted disaffection

00:31:18 a cynicism real deep a real deep cynicism people feel so disenfranchised so ignored

00:31:29 but then won't even bother to turn out all right it's quite easy to vote there'll probably be a

00:31:38 polling station relatively near you and you go in there and the actual act itself once you've got

00:31:42 there the actual act itself takes like one minute or three minutes at most it's the only real

00:31:51 inconvenience is getting to the polling station and there's usually loads of them unless you live

00:31:56 a really really rural area if you live in any town or city it will be almost certainly within

00:32:01 walking distance and it takes you like two minutes three minutes to do it and people

00:32:06 can't won't even do that not even interested in that they've just turned their back on it

00:32:12 turned their back on the whole process that's

00:32:16 that's a deep deep deep worrying concern for me

00:32:21 real deep let's talk about that in a lot more detail but i won't

00:32:26 it's already gone half past but okay i also got up um a web page showing the results in clacton

00:32:32 for the last general election 2024 let's um so quick look at that shall we here we go let's

00:32:38 first of all let's have a look at the turnout on it so the turnout then was 58.4 percent i mean

00:32:43 by elections are usually lower than a general election but still nearly 60 percent turned up

00:32:50 then this time 44 I mean it is like most people even the people of Clacton know this was all a

00:32:58 bit of a charade a little bit of just a political gambit by Nigel a little bit of a bit of theatre

00:33:06 he was always going to win it it's not it's not a real proper by-election in in in that sense

00:33:12 in that limited sense it is a real by-election of course but you know the other party is deciding

00:33:17 to boycott it effectively nige versus bin face you can imagine the average voter in 0.91

00:33:26 action just like what what is this i'm not even gonna bother turning out to vote for that 0.87

00:33:34 all right so nigel got last night nigel got 63.3 of the vote a bit lower than a lot of the exit

00:33:43 polls or a lot of the polls i saw then he was likely to get more like 70 75 two or three polls

00:33:49 i saw put him on at 72 73 so slightly underperformed on that however however this whole by

00:33:58 election is a bit of a farce isn't it a little bit i'm loathe to agree with labor and lib dems

00:34:03 and all those but you know it is a bit so he got he got slightly more votes overall i think he got

00:34:11 like about 22 000 votes this time last time he got like 21 000 yeah this is from the 2024 election

00:34:19 so he got slightly more got an increased percentage

00:34:25 bin face got um he outperformed labor last time i can't remember but bin face got i think 9 000

00:34:34 odd votes 10 000 odd votes so he beat labor's offering last time he got about the same percentage

00:34:43 share as the conservatives well last time the conservatives got 27.9 this time been been

00:34:48 faced got what 26 26.9 so in facing the same ballpark as the conservatives but again oh look

00:34:59 Look, Lawrence Fox, he got 1%.

00:35:01 Give it up, mate.

00:35:03 Give it up, mate.

00:35:03 People don't want you.

00:35:04 They're not interested in you.

00:35:06 You're not a leader of men, are you?

00:35:08 You're a theatre kid. 1.00

00:35:11 You're a Nepo baby theatre kid, mate. 1.00

00:35:14 Give it a rest. 1.00

00:35:19 And an obnoxious Sivnat to boot. 1.00

00:35:22 All right, anyway. 0.99

00:35:25 Nigel didn't turn up, though.

00:35:27 Now.

00:35:29 Why is that?

00:35:31 It's very, very, very, very rare

00:35:33 For someone to not, well, for the winner

00:35:35 Of an election

00:35:37 Parliamentary election not to turn up

00:35:39 An interesting

00:35:41 Interesting

00:35:43 Data point

00:35:44 I saw someone say on the news this morning on the TV

00:35:47 On the real TV

00:35:48 The last time

00:35:51 A winner of a parliamentary

00:35:53 Election didn't turn up was

00:35:55 Bobby Sands in the early 80s

00:35:57 Ever heard of Bobby Sands?

00:35:59 an ira terrorist who was in prison he was running for election in prison one remarkably perhaps not

00:36:09 remarkably one and obviously couldn't turn up to the vote because he was in prison that was the

00:36:14 last time that happened so it's very rare sometimes if someone uh doesn't win they're

00:36:19 expected to win and they find out they're not going to win then they throw their toys out the

00:36:23 pram and don't bother turning up george galloway did that the other year he wanted to win he was 1.00

00:36:29 clear he wasn't going to from early indications so he just went home like a petulant bitch 0.99

00:36:37 george galloway i despise george galloway uh wrong and every his entire world view is wrong 0.99

00:36:47 anyway george galloway nigel didn't turn up now nigel said it was because of threats

00:36:55 Or reforming, Nigel said

00:36:57 It was because of threats, they had credible threats

00:36:59 So, okay, if that's true, fine, good

00:37:02 Yeah, I don't want Nigel to be hurt

00:37:03 Not a hair on his head

00:37:04 And I really mean that

00:37:06 His person should be inviolate

00:37:08 I've said that a number of times, haven't I?

00:37:11 The Tribune of the People in Ancient Rome

00:37:13 Absolutely sacrosanct his person

00:37:18 So he said there's threats

00:37:19 Then Essex Police said

00:37:21 There's no threats

00:37:22 There's been no threats that we know of

00:37:25 has like reform got better intelligence than the police i mean that's not inconceivable i doubt it

00:37:39 but it's not inconceivable it's not inconceivable is it what's more likely though isn't it it's a

00:37:45 bit more likely is that nigel didn't want to stand there and be in this picture

00:37:48 The optics of it 1.00

00:37:51 He didn't want to have to stand next to Binface 1.00

00:37:54 And Loza 1.00

00:37:55 And Kai

00:37:56 Because there would then be a photo of that for all time 0.97

00:37:59 And make him look a bit silly

00:38:01 There'd be photos of him sort of standing face to face 1.00

00:38:04 More or less with Binface 0.95

00:38:05 Maybe even sort of forced to shake hands with Binface 0.99

00:38:08 And I'd just have to put a brave face on it 1.00

00:38:09 And pretend it's funny

00:38:10 And laugh his head off

00:38:11 That's not ideal optics

00:38:13 He's trying to be super serious isn't he

00:38:15 Nigel's super serial as an MP and a politician 0.95

00:38:18 isn't that more likely if reform said nigel hasn't turned up because of a credible threat

00:38:25 and the police say anything even remotely like yeah like there's an outside possibility that 0.91

00:38:30 maybe that's a real thing that's true then fine then fine but the police have just said no no

00:38:36 so if the police are telling the truth

00:38:40 they might not be but on this instance in this why wouldn't they be anyway if that's true

00:38:48 Then it's almost certainly Nigel just didn't want to stand there

00:38:51 Who's treating the people of Clacton with contempt now? 1.00

00:39:02 Won't even turn up because of the optics of standing near Binface 0.96

00:39:06 And of course Nigel making the argument and Reform making the argument 0.94

00:39:11 That this was a win for him against the establishment

00:39:18 Yeah, it was Nigel versus the establishment

00:39:22 And he's come out on top

00:39:24 Is it, this is the establishment, is it

00:39:27 I mean there's the argument, let's get into that a little bit 0.81

00:39:30 There's the argument that Binface sort of is the establishment 0.94

00:39:33 Okay, to a degree, I accept that 0.99

00:39:35 Because the real guy, I can't remember his Christian name

00:39:38 It's Harvey, something Harvey, isn't it

00:39:39 He is sort of, in a sense, in a real sense

00:39:44 Sort of, the establishment

00:39:45 like he's a he's been a writer or a runner or to do with the writing of various bbc comedy things

00:39:51 isn't he wasn't he on the right for have i got news for you and various things like that

00:39:55 stuff like that so in that sense he's sort of he is a an establishment bbc type

00:40:02 containment globalist lefty leftoid douchebag really the real man behind the bin

00:40:11 So in that sense 0.80

00:40:14 You can make a legit argument 1.00

00:40:15 That Binface 1.00

00:40:17 On some level 1.00

00:40:19 Is the establishment

00:40:20 But that's it

00:40:21 That's as far as that goes though

00:40:22 So I

00:40:25 Not that far

00:40:26 If Reformer making

00:40:29 And Nigel making the argument

00:40:30 It was him

00:40:31 Versus the establishment

00:40:33 And he won

00:40:34 So okay I'll give you 5%

00:40:36 Of that being a credible

00:40:38 Decent

00:40:38 Solid argument

00:40:39 It's not 0%

00:40:40 It's not complete fiction and nonsense

00:40:43 But I'll give you 5%

00:40:45 I.e. 95% 0.58

00:40:47 Nah, I'm not buying that 1.00

00:40:48 Bin face is ultimately 1.00

00:40:51 Despite the man behind the bin 0.91

00:40:53 Is ultimately a novelty candidate

00:40:56 A joke

00:40:58 A joke, ultimately

00:41:00 And all the other candidates

00:41:04 Were never realistic, were they?

00:41:07 Poor Kai

00:41:08 Good for standing there and doing it though, mate

00:41:10 Kai Stevens

00:41:11 Well done

00:41:13 For giving it a go

00:41:15 It does take a bit of 0.98

00:41:16 A bit of balls 0.97

00:41:18 To do that 0.94

00:41:19 Even when you know 0.76

00:41:19 You're going to be a paper candidate

00:41:20 You know you'll probably lose

00:41:22 Your

00:41:24 Deposit

00:41:25 You have to go through

00:41:27 The whole thing anyway

00:41:28 You have to get up

00:41:28 And stand there

00:41:29 And you have to

00:41:31 And you go through the

00:41:32 The spotlight of it all

00:41:34 That takes a bit of guts

00:41:36 Most people haven't got the guts

00:41:37 To do that

00:41:37 With your real name

00:41:38 Your real face

00:41:38 The whole nine yards

00:41:39 front and center chest out chin up that takes a bit of gut so well done well done 1.00

00:41:45 nonetheless this is not the establishment really it really really isn't because that's what nigel

00:41:52 wanted wasn't he wanted to call this election and all the big parties would stand then he'd beat

00:41:57 them which he probably would probably will if there's another by-election i would i had to put

00:42:01 a tenner on it i put nigel to win it again probably i would yeah um then you could make the argument

00:42:06 I'd flip it around

00:42:08 I'd say it's 95%

00:42:09 That yeah

00:42:10 The argument that you've beaten

00:42:12 Taken on the establishment

00:42:13 And won

00:42:14 Yeah fine good

00:42:16 That makes sense

00:42:17 This doesn't make sense

00:42:18 This doesn't make sense

00:42:19 You're not really beating the establishment

00:42:21 But yeah he's come out

00:42:22 And he said that

00:42:24 Making that argument

00:42:25 The argument he would have made anyway

00:42:26 Even if the Tories and Labour and everyone

00:42:28 Were stood against him

00:42:29 Hmm

00:42:31 Falling a bit flat

00:42:33 That argument falls a bit flat

00:42:34 It doesn't really

00:42:35 like a deflated whoopee cushion mate doesn't ring true it rings hollow and here we go straight away

00:42:44 the very morning of nigel's victory bbc go with farage's by-election victory won't stop questions

00:42:51 about finances yeah if that was the purpose of it that was that was the strategy that was the

00:42:59 gambit of course that was never going to work that's one of the things bin face said how did

00:43:05 How do the strategists and Nigel not know that wouldn't work?

00:43:11 Straight away, just straight back into it.

00:43:14 Straight back into the frying pan.

00:43:16 Nigel's five million pounds.

00:43:20 Christopher Harbourn.

00:43:22 Posh George, the convicted fraudster.

00:43:24 And on and on and on.

00:43:26 Ticey Ticey, Richard Ticey is embroiled in it all as well.

00:43:30 Nothing stops, nothing is over.

00:43:32 Should we hear from

00:43:35 There's a couple of videos here

00:43:36 I thought were

00:43:37 Were interesting

00:43:39 Wasn't it on

00:43:40 Sorry I thought it was on the mail

00:43:41 They had

00:43:43 A couple of videos

00:43:45 Oh no sorry

00:43:46 Oh no sorry

00:43:47 It's Sky

00:43:47 Sorry

00:43:48 Sky

00:43:48 Should we hear from

00:43:51 Should we hear from 1.00

00:43:53 Nige 1.00

00:43:54 And Binface 1.00

00:43:55 Should we hear from them 1.00

00:43:56 Let them speak for themselves

00:43:57 Here we go

00:43:58 Let's listen to Nigel

00:44:00 Again this

00:44:01 This was somewhere else

00:44:02 This was like a Reform HQ somewhere.

00:44:05 I don't think it was. 0.89

00:44:06 It certainly wasn't at the count.

00:44:08 33 years ago.

00:44:12 It is now 33 years since I first stood in a parliamentary by-election.

00:44:19 That was Eastleigh back in 1994.

00:44:26 They're a funny old lot from Hampshire, aren't they?

00:44:32 And over the intervening years, I've stood in many elections, general elections, European

00:44:42 elections, and now a second, by election. And every time, I've really enjoyed going

00:44:53 to the Count. It's exciting. It's dramatic. You're on the stage. It's something to be

00:45:01 And I'm sad to say that after 33 years of being a candidate in active politics,

00:45:08 I've been advised tonight by Essex Police that there is an organised campaign

00:45:14 to disrupt and degrade the result that will take place in a few hours' time.

00:45:24 But he said there wasn't.

00:45:25 And once again it shows you the sheer intolerance, the sheer loss of fundamental democratic principles that those that went before us fought in world wars to fight for and preserve and this shows you why the battle that we're engaged upon in this great party, in this great movement of ours is to get this country back to the values that it needs to be.

00:45:55 And so I regret to say, and by the way, I'm not scared of these people, far from it, but I'm damned if I'm going to stand on a stage having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement of all that I've tried to fight for and you've tried to fight for and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies.

00:46:18 And I will not, sadly, be attending the count

00:46:21 Which means

00:46:22 Which means

00:46:24 I'm going to be here all night

00:46:26 Yay

00:46:31 Yay

00:46:32 Well

00:46:34 I mean, there you go

00:46:37 What can you say?

00:46:39 The police said there wasn't any

00:46:41 Any threats

00:46:43 But it may well have been

00:46:44 You know, it might not have been like a full-blown

00:46:48 sort of death threats or bomb threats or whatever but it might have just been they knew that people

00:46:53 were going to turn up with milkshakes might just be something like that or just people that were

00:46:58 just like play super loud white noise over nigel's acceptance speech or something i don't know like

00:47:04 who knows who knows maybe the police are wrong or the reporting i've seen this morning that 0.60

00:47:10 the police said that that's wrong and in fact what nigel said there is absolutely correct

00:47:13 i'm not ruling that out

00:47:15 let's hear from bin face though the runner-up you mentioned uh makerfield i i got a 0.2 percent

00:47:26 in that election and uh let's just say uh speculate that i managed to keep my deposit

00:47:32 which would be a nice start five percent i make that a two and a half thousand percent swing

00:47:39 to bin face in two months i think that's the greatest swing in british political history

00:47:45 but you probably know better than me.

00:47:47 I'm not sure about that.

00:47:48 You just said at the beginning of this interview

00:47:49 that Nigel Farage is claiming victory.

00:47:52 He is.

00:47:53 Well, in that case, it's going to be a two-legged match,

00:47:56 like the Carabao Cup or the Cold War,

00:47:58 because we're going to be back again in a few weeks, aren't we?

00:48:01 Hold on to your popcorn, everyone,

00:48:03 because the second leg in Clacton, which I prophesied,

00:48:06 I said to the people of Clacton, 1.00

00:48:09 vote Binface, and you would save approximately 350 grand 1.00

00:48:13 on a second by-election. 0.99

00:48:15 So I reckon, how about this?

00:48:17 He said reform would pay for the second one.

00:48:19 Maybe Nigel could pay for it out of his five million.

00:48:22 That'd be nice.

00:48:23 Mr Farage has said this week that if there was a second by-election,

00:48:27 that would be silly. 1.00

00:48:28 And tonight, he said it would be stupid. 1.00

00:48:30 What do you think about that? 0.99

00:48:31 Well, I'm glad he's not saying that this by-election's silly,

00:48:34 which, of course, it isn't.

00:48:35 It's a very fair and positive campaign

00:48:37 between two rival candidates to rule the country.

00:48:41 What do you think about the fact that he's got this inquiry by the Standards Commissioner and then the Standards Committee?

00:48:47 Well, the thing which makes me curious, and I'm interested to get a journalist's view on this,

00:48:52 is that there was a report in one of the papers, I believe, a speculation,

00:48:57 that the Reform UK strategists believed that by calling this by-election pre-emptively,

00:49:05 it would avert the need for a by-election

00:49:08 after the result of the Parliamentary Standards Committee.

00:49:12 Now, I'm a space warrior from Sigma-9

00:49:14 with a fixation for CFAX and Lovejoy.

00:49:17 But even I knew...

00:49:18 Lovejoy, that's going back a bit.

00:49:19 Exactly. But even I knew...

00:49:21 Dennis McShane.

00:49:22 Lovely.

00:49:22 No, not Dennis McShane.

00:49:24 He was the MP, wasn't he?

00:49:25 Ian McShane.

00:49:26 Come on, John.

00:49:27 It's actually a university challenge.

00:49:29 So, you know, what I'm saying is that even if I knew

00:49:32 that that wouldn't work,

00:49:33 How would a putative government-in-waiting not know how Parliament works?

00:49:38 I find that fascinating.

00:49:39 One vote is beautiful.

00:49:42 I would take that, you know? 1.00

00:49:43 Okay, that's enough from Binface. 1.00

00:49:45 He is a bit of a dick, isn't he? 1.00

00:49:47 The real guy behind the thing, behind the bin. 1.00

00:49:49 So, all right.

00:49:51 But that was a fair point, wasn't it?

00:49:54 If the strategy from reform was to put all the scandal to bed,

00:50:03 it's just not gonna that it's not a thing it doesn't work so nigel thinks the next by 1.00

00:50:12 election should there be one that will be stupid and silly not this one the next one 1.00

00:50:17 that would be stupid and silly right not not this 1.00

00:50:23 okay well okay this isn't stupid and silly no 1.00

00:50:32 when Nigel's not even there 0.96

00:50:34 okay all right all right well okay

00:50:39 it's already 10-2 so that's that's the main story Nigel is back in parliament but all the questions

00:50:48 Around finances

00:50:50 Whether they're legit or not

00:50:51 Whether it's a giant

00:50:52 Giant stitch up

00:50:53 Which it may well be

00:50:54 I don't know

00:50:55 All of that will just start again now

00:50:58 He just bought himself

00:51:00 A month of extra time

00:51:01 That's all this really was

00:51:03 Buying himself a month of extra time

00:51:06 Unless the standards committee

00:51:09 Commissioner and committee

00:51:10 Conclude that

00:51:14 Reform have done absolutely nothing wrong

00:51:16 But I feel like

00:51:18 Because I don't know one way or another

00:51:20 I've said that a number of times right

00:51:22 So let's make that perfectly clear

00:51:23 That's why I'm sort of sit on the fence

00:51:25 That's why I'm prepared to give the benefit of the doubt

00:51:27 Until the conclusion

00:51:27 But it feels like a lot of people in the know

00:51:29 In the actual Westminster bubble

00:51:32 It feels like a lot of those people

00:51:36 If not the vast majority of them

00:51:38 They know that the Standards Commission

00:51:43 Will come back and say

00:51:44 Reform have done something wrong

00:51:47 And Nigel has broken the rules

00:51:49 We shall see

00:51:53 Alright then

00:51:54 Let's have a look

00:51:55 On this day in history

00:51:56 You guys seem to like that bit

00:51:58 I enjoy doing that bit

00:51:59 Down through the centuries

00:52:01 Near millennia

00:52:02 On this day

00:52:02 The 14th of August

00:52:03 What happened of note

00:52:05 Let's have a look

00:52:05 What have we got

00:52:06 Okay

00:52:06 In the year 1281

00:52:09 During Kublai Khan's 0.60

00:52:10 This Genghis Khan's grant

00:52:11 One of Genghis Khan's

00:52:12 Many grandchildren

00:52:13 When Kublai Khan's 0.98

00:52:15 Second Mongol invasion of Japan 0.93

00:52:16 His invading Chinese fleet, well, Mongolian Chinese fleet

00:52:20 Of 3,500 vessels

00:52:22 Disappeared in a typhoon near the Japanese coast

00:52:25 Yeah, say disappeared 1.00

00:52:27 The Japanese kamikazed it into oblivion 1.00

00:52:30 The late 13th century Japanese flew their zeros 1.00

00:52:34 Nose first, straight into the Mongolian fleet 1.00

00:52:37 And blew it out of the water 1.00

00:52:38 Kamikaze 1.00

00:52:39 Of course, of course they didn't 0.91

00:52:43 It was kamikaze, but it wasn't aeroplanes

00:52:46 Kamikaze means

00:52:47 Oh what does it mean 0.58

00:52:49 Like a

00:52:50 Furious wind

00:52:54 Or something like that doesn't it

00:52:55 Something like that anyway

00:52:57 In fact Harry can you google

00:52:59 The exact translation of kamikaze for me

00:53:02 In fact probably someone in the chat

00:53:03 Is already saying it probably immediately

00:53:05 It's like a furious winds

00:53:07 Or winds of fury or something like that isn't it

00:53:09 Probably translate it more than one way

00:53:10 Divine wind

00:53:14 Sorry or spirit wind

00:53:16 divine wind or spirit wind okay all right

00:53:20 divine okay all right yeah because there was a there's a big storm there was a big storm

00:53:28 it rises like like

00:53:33 like a storm

00:53:36 and it took out kublai khan's uh invasion fleet largely a kamikaze an actual storm

00:53:41 okay so the mongols never did invade japan properly i mean they tried they landed a bit

00:53:47 but it was not successful could have been if it wasn't for that big storm that one time in 1281

00:53:54 okay all right because kubla khan wasn't happy with the japanese trading with the southern song

00:54:02 his chinese enemies there's a lot to it if you're interested in that in great detail i still haven't

00:54:08 done an epochs on it yet or series of epochs on the mongols i've been threatening to for five

00:54:13 years just haven't done if you want to know fall of civilizations podcast that's what it's called

00:54:19 fall of civilizations podcast they're free on youtube unabridged

00:54:25 you want a fair few hours of that or dan carlin has also got a very long series hours and hours

00:54:32 and hours and hours worth on the mongols both of those are excellent excellent it's worth knowing

00:54:37 about the mongols brilliant stories in and of themselves and world changing absolutely world

00:54:44 changing okay let's move on on this day in 1842 us army colonel worth declares the second seminole

00:54:50 war over after nearly seven years over 3 000 surviving members of the seminole nation are

00:54:56 forcibly relocated from florida to oklahoma with only about 300 permitted to remain 0.74

00:55:03 Yeah, they're in

00:55:05 Yeah, Florida, yeah

00:55:06 My ancestor, so I've got American ancestors

00:55:09 Of European descent, of course

00:55:11 My DNA shows

00:55:13 I'm sort of British

00:55:14 Almost entirely British, over 90%

00:55:16 90% odd British

00:55:18 Entirely Northwest European

00:55:23 Well 0.97

00:55:24 The possible exception of a tiny bit

00:55:27 Maybe of

00:55:29 I need like 1.8% or something of 0.93

00:55:33 Basque

00:55:36 Well actually my results for ancestry

00:55:38 And living DNA were slightly different

00:55:40 Might have a tiny tiny amount of

00:55:43 What was it? Mohawk

00:55:45 In there, that would have come from my father's side 0.94

00:55:47 If it's real, if it's not just noise in the DNA

00:55:49 Tom Rosell survived the jive

00:55:51 Says anything as low as 1%, 2%

00:55:54 Might just be noise and it might not really be there

00:55:56 But anyway, one of my American ancestors

00:55:58 Francis Langhorne Dade

00:56:00 Major Francis Langhorne Dade

00:56:03 He fought in the first Seminole War

00:56:06 I believe

00:56:06 He got himself and all his men killed

00:56:10 Anyway

00:56:13 By the sort of mid 19th century

00:56:16 Native American Indian peoples 1.00

00:56:19 Can't put up any real proper fight 1.00

00:56:21 Against the US Army and Cavalry

00:56:24 Like once in a blue moon

00:56:26 They might get a win

00:56:27 Like the Battle of Little Bighall or something

00:56:28 But ultimately

00:56:29 On the grand stage

00:56:32 Tactically

00:56:34 Strategically

00:56:36 There's no

00:56:37 No contest

00:56:39 Alright, on this day in 1945

00:56:43 It's VJ Day 0.83

00:56:44 Victory in Japan Day 0.51

00:56:45 The end, the final end of World War II 0.95

00:56:47 There you go

00:56:51 And there's a returning sailor kissing a young lady

00:56:53 Perhaps against her will

00:56:56 It just doesn't look particularly into it, does she?

00:56:59 But anyway, let's not speculate on that

00:57:01 We won the war

00:57:05 The Allies finally won the war 0.99

00:57:08 Nuked Japan into oblivion 0.99

00:57:10 Alright 0.98

00:57:11 VJ Day 0.94

00:57:13 The Empire of Japan surrenders unconditionally to Allies

00:57:15 Are you sure about that?

00:57:17 Was it unconditional?

00:57:17 It wasn't unconditional, wasn't it?

00:57:18 Hirohito got to remain Emperor, didn't it?

00:57:20 Yeah, yeah, yeah

00:57:21 They say that, don't they?

00:57:22 That's history for you

00:57:23 There's certain tropes, certain things people say

00:57:25 Like the accepted armchair version of history

00:57:27 You just scratch the surface and it's wrong

00:57:29 We talked about it yesterday, didn't we?

00:57:32 Or on Wednesday or something?

00:57:35 That's the classic thing

00:57:35 America insisted on 0.51

00:57:37 The Allies insisted on unconditional surrender 0.96

00:57:41 And we did 0.96

00:57:45 We won an unconditional surrender

00:57:47 Yeah, but we wasn't though, wasn't it?

00:57:48 Not that it really matters ultimately in the scheme of things

00:57:51 Hirohito got to remain Emperor of Japan

00:57:55 that was one of the lines in the sand that Roosevelt and Churchill and then Truman had

00:57:59 like no no we're good you don't get to be emperor anymore that's our conditions are that and we

00:58:05 insist on an unconditional surrender and in the end even after they'd nuked them and firebombed 0.95

00:58:10 Tokyo into cinders the Japanese were still like no we insist on if nothing else and it really was 0.95

00:58:17 nothing else if nothing else Hirohita gets to remain emperor of the Japanese and in the end 0.95

00:58:22 Truman's like, OK, all right.

00:58:24 OK, let's just put an end to this, please.

00:58:27 Can we?

00:58:28 Can we?

00:58:28 OK.

00:58:30 Your little old emperor dude gets to still remain nominally the emperor.

00:58:33 OK.

00:58:34 We'll make MacArthur and the US the actual rulers of Japan for an interim period.

00:58:39 OK.

00:58:41 Nominally, your emperor can still be emperor.

00:58:43 All right.

00:58:44 Can we end this now?

00:58:46 It's not unconditional.

00:58:47 Don't say it's unconditional.

00:58:48 It wasn't unconditional. 0.95

00:58:49 The Japanese had a condition and the Americans accepted it. 0.56

00:58:52 maybe it's a tiny point of history

00:58:54 but there you go, people

00:58:57 they lie about it to this day

00:58:58 I mean lies, that's a bit strong, just incorrect isn't it 0.94

00:59:01 Japan surrenders

00:59:03 unconditionally to allies, no

00:59:05 it wasn't

00:59:06 ending world war 2, in Japan

00:59:09 it was actually the 15th of August

00:59:10 because of the time zones

00:59:11 on this day in 1947

00:59:15 Pakistan gains independence from the

00:59:17 United Kingdom 0.97

00:59:17 Jinnah isn't it

00:59:21 Muhammad Ali Jinnah insisted that the Muslims need their own land, their own country

00:59:27 Because we're giving up India, the British Raj

00:59:31 The British controlled India would be given back to the native peoples

00:59:36 So they can have home rule and be completely independent and rule themselves

00:59:39 Okay

00:59:40 Well and good

00:59:43 The millstone around our neck and had been the whole time really 1.00

00:59:51 But then the Muslims and the Hindus 1.00

00:59:54 Are like immediately like 1.00

00:59:56 We probably can't live together really properly

01:00:00 In any sort of actual peace

01:00:02 Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi

01:00:04 And a lot of the Hindus

01:00:06 And the Indian nationalist types

01:00:08 No, let's all stay together as one big country 0.98

01:00:11 And the Muslims, largely under 1.00

01:00:13 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

01:00:16 Say no, we insist we have our own country

01:00:19 Eastern West Pakistan

01:00:21 East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh

01:00:25 Eventually, later 1.00

01:00:26 But, okay

01:00:27 And then partition 0.99

01:00:28 And the Hindus and Muslims 1.00

01:00:31 Just start butchering each other wholesale 1.00

01:00:33 Oh, okay

01:00:36 So British rule had been preventing that all along

01:00:40 The second we leave

01:00:42 They revert to that

01:00:44 Oh, okay

01:00:46 Well done

01:00:49 I showed their true colours

01:00:53 I see your true colours shining through

01:00:58 Okay, on this day in 1969, British Army deploys on the streets of Northern Ireland beginning Operation Banner

01:01:04 Just evil Brits, just evil Englishmen just want to invade Northern Ireland for no reason 0.97

01:01:09 Just because they love shooting up Irish people 1.00

01:01:12 There's no reason for it, other than just being evil Brits 0.98

01:01:16 Or was it to try and protect Protestants from Catholic terrorism, essentially? 0.90

01:01:22 Ooh, might get in a bit of trouble for that one. 0.96

01:01:25 Shame, it's the truth.

01:01:27 On this day in 1980, 17,000 workers strike at the Lenin ship guard in Gdansk, Poland,

01:01:34 beginning the Solidarity movement.

01:01:36 Interesting.

01:01:37 It's a long time before the final, well, 10, 11 years before the final collapse of the Soviet project. 0.96

01:01:42 Poland were the first. 0.98

01:01:43 I'm pretty sure they were the first 1.00

01:01:45 To break away

01:01:46 Literally as soon as Gorbachev said

01:01:49 The satellite peoples and

01:01:53 Would-be nations of the Soviet bloc

01:01:56 If you want to have an independence vote for yourself 0.99

01:01:59 We'll allow it 1.00

01:02:00 Poland's like, yes, we'll take that, yes 1.00

01:02:02 And we vote overwhelmingly for it, thank you

01:02:03 Poland

01:02:06 Good on them, good on them 1.00

01:02:07 Alright

01:02:08 Let's have a look at our Rumble Rants and Superchats

01:02:12 I'd like to do the Rumble Rants first.

01:02:14 Do you think Global Church History will be in at number one?

01:02:15 Is it going to be a good day?

01:02:16 What have we got?

01:02:21 No.

01:02:21 He's not.

01:02:22 I thought he was.

01:02:23 Is he first in on the...

01:02:26 He's not first in on the...

01:02:28 Oh, he is first in.

01:02:30 Sorry.

01:02:31 He was first...

01:02:31 Sorry, I'll have to explain it slightly.

01:02:34 Because Jack, it's not Little Harry's Jack today.

01:02:38 He's done it ever so slightly differently.

01:02:40 And it confused me.

01:02:41 usually i have my rumble rants on the left hand side and the youtube on the right hand side

01:02:48 and without actually looking at what i'm looking at i've assumed he's done it the same as usual

01:02:53 but he's flipped them over so the tiniest difference completely bamboozled me all right

01:02:59 let's have a look at our rumble rants that are on the right hand side of my screen this morning and

01:03:04 global church history is in a number one good fine phew everything's all right there's balance

01:03:08 in the universe again global church history number one and still reigning defending

01:03:15 mr global church history christian name global middle name church surname history says

01:03:20 today in 70 bc hortense abandons varies as cicero's case against him was too strong

01:03:27 we talked about that before i think global church history likes that story of cicero

01:03:31 it definitely came up before didn't it um so 70 ad it's after the age of sulla

01:03:36 so there's dies in like 78 AD or something we're counting down when it's BC so that 70 AD is after

01:03:43 78 AD um yeah one of those great great uh set piece cases where Cicero the great orator the

01:03:51 great statesman and barrister the equivalent of a barrister lawyer argues in court that uh

01:04:00 particularly corrupt governor varies was protected from up on hire was in fact guilty

01:04:05 Of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanours

01:04:08 What today we'd probably call

01:04:10 Like embezzlement or whatever

01:04:11 Good, yeah, Cicero

01:04:13 Do you think I've got long-form content all about the life and career

01:04:16 And adventures of Marcus Tullius Cicero

01:04:18 Tully to his friends

01:04:19 Do you think that's there?

01:04:21 Oh yeah, it's there

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01:06:02 Global church history's second factoid of the morning is

01:06:06 What have we got?

01:06:07 You say

01:06:07 On this day in 1040 AD

01:06:10 Macbeth killed King Duncan

01:06:12 At Pitt Gaveney

01:06:15 Pitt Gaveney

01:06:16 Well

01:06:17 Macbeth was a real historical figure

01:06:19 That's true

01:06:21 You know

01:06:21 But

01:06:22 The events

01:06:23 And the dialogue

01:06:25 And various things in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth

01:06:28 Are just

01:06:30 It's just Shakespeare, it's just Shakespeare's fancy

01:06:33 But nonetheless Macbeth was a real

01:06:36 A real historical figure

01:06:38 A bit like that Mel Gibson film

01:06:41 With Braveheart

01:06:41 You know, like William Wallace was a real person

01:06:44 And he did get eventually caught

01:06:46 And executed by the English

01:06:48 But most of the details of that film

01:06:50 And the Macbeth play

01:06:53 By Shakespeare is not, it's not real

01:06:54 It's a screenwriter's fancy

01:06:58 Unless, interesting though, Macbeth was real

01:07:01 Okay

01:07:01 Next two, three

01:07:04 The next three are all Geoffrey Farnall

01:07:07 I think they're connected at a glance

01:07:09 So I'll just read them all in one go

01:07:10 You've put a little contextual factoid

01:07:13 Oh, I like factoids

01:07:14 You've put, after the Battle of Omdaman

01:07:17 Oh, I know a lot about this

01:07:18 I wonder where you're going with this

01:07:19 Let's see where he's going with this

01:07:20 After the Battle of Omdaman

01:07:21 Kitchener, General Kitchener

01:07:24 The English British commander

01:07:26 uh kitchener was widely criticized included by queen victoria for ordering the killing of the

01:07:32 wounded however if you read gordon's journal gordon of cartoon gordon of china do you think

01:07:39 i've got content all about that um during the earlier siege which kitchener will surely have

01:07:44 done as he was part of the relief expedition uh he i guess gordon explicitly advises in favor of

01:07:50 this because the wounded mardists will attack anyone who tries to help them doesn't it show

01:07:57 how something which at first seems needlessly brutal is actually understandable with a bit

01:08:01 of context yeah quite often yeah like richard i's slaughter of a load of captives when you look at

01:08:10 the detail of it i mean it's super brutal but he sort of didn't have much choice

01:08:14 A sort of de rigueur for the day

01:08:17 And he didn't have much choice

01:08:18 Okay

01:08:19 The Battle of Omdurman

01:08:21 Love it 1.00

01:08:22 That's the reconquest of the Sudan 1.00

01:08:26 Churchill was there 0.99

01:08:27 A young Churchill

01:08:28 Young man in the Lancers 1.00

01:08:30 Even rigged down a couple of Sudanese Mardists 1.00

01:08:34 With his lance and killed him 1.00

01:08:36 He was really happy about it 0.99

01:08:37 Really proud of it

01:08:38 Yeah he wrote a great book about it

01:08:41 A great book about it

01:08:42 Called The River War

01:08:44 I'm not a big fan of Churchill the politician

01:08:48 the 1930s 40s era politician but as a writer his prose is very very very good

01:08:55 very good the river I'm pretty sure it's on audiobook unabridged on YouTube

01:08:59 check it out it's worth your time

01:09:02 the story is there was Mardists Islamic fundamentalist rebels in Sudan or the 0.96

01:09:12 bit of land we now call the Sudan pushing up into Egypt causing all sorts of problems

01:09:17 for Egypt we kind the British kind of controlled in a de facto sense Egypt it's not like we

01:09:24 had a viceroy of Egypt exactly but the Khedive of Egypt the leader of Egypt was sort of did

01:09:30 as he was told by the British essentially more or less we're talking the late 19th century

01:09:34 here as well, like Omdaman, the Battle of Omdaman is like 1898, 1899, 1898, and the Egyptians

01:09:43 just kept saying to us, help us, help us, we've got this giant rebellion on our southern

01:09:47 borders, help us, and the British are like Gladstone and stuff, are like, no, like, we've 0.54

01:09:52 already got far too many colonial commitments, we're already insanely thinly stretched all

01:09:57 around the whole world, like, no, no, it's your problem, deal with it, like, you keep

01:10:01 moaning about how we've got too much influence over you already but now you want us to fight

01:10:06 your war for you as well like no and they just it got worse and worse and worse they kept insisting

01:10:11 help us help us send an army over here a relief force an expedition force come and save us we

01:10:16 can't save ourselves we need you to and in the end the british right really reluctantly like

01:10:23 Okay, alright

01:10:24 Okay, we'll send an expedition force to

01:10:28 To do a reconquest of the Sudan on your behalf, nominally

01:10:32 Okay

01:10:33 So we did, we sent over that with General Goulden

01:10:36 Goulden of China

01:10:37 To become Goulden of Cartoon

01:10:39 And it failed, and he got himself killed

01:10:41 General Goulden

01:10:43 And then that

01:10:45 That made the British public annoyed, you see

01:10:48 We were annoyed at that point

01:10:50 How dare they kill one of our great men

01:10:51 One of our great statesmen

01:10:53 With a well known household name 1.00

01:10:55 But he just got murdered by the Sudanese 1.00

01:10:57 We can't have that 1.00

01:11:00 Good God

01:11:01 So he sent over a bigger army

01:11:02 And did then completely do a reconquest of the Sudan 1.00

01:11:05 Wiped out the Mardists and their Mardi 1.00

01:11:07 And did a quick siege on Omdaman 1.00

01:11:10 Their capital, the city of Omdaman 0.70

01:11:12 And beat them 1.00

01:11:14 Because we had gunboats and rifles and machine guns

01:11:17 And they had like spears and bows and arrows 1.00

01:11:19 Here you go, the reconquist of the Sudan 1.00

01:11:23 Back in 98, I think it was 0.99

01:11:31 Was it?

01:11:37 It was then

01:11:37 I was awarded the Victoria Cross

01:11:40 For bravery above and beyond the call of duty

01:11:45 those were the days

01:11:51 discipline, you see

01:11:54 discipline was the thing

01:11:55 I had Bill's character and all that

01:11:59 what, don't you know

01:12:00 the esprit de corps

01:12:03 anyway, anyway

01:12:08 I could talk all about

01:12:10 Battle of Omdermann 0.99

01:12:12 Cousin Bertie called a blighty one

01:12:15 An omberman actually

01:12:16 Called a spear right in the leg 1.00

01:12:19 One of the bloody fuzzy wuzzies 1.00

01:12:22 Almost ripped the damn thing off 1.00

01:12:25 Rightful injury it was 0.98

01:12:28 Rightful

01:12:28 Okay

01:12:32 Let's move on

01:12:34 Fool and Firebird says

01:12:36 Thin face is absolutely 1.00

01:12:39 100% a libtard 0.64

01:12:41 lefty establishment weapon yeah i mean yeah i agree i understand yeah all right you're not wrong 0.84

01:12:45 that's not wrong he would never stand like this against a true leftist well well i don't know

01:12:53 about that his job isn't to win is to make a farce well that's true so that's true though absolutely

01:12:58 farage is still an enemy though yeah that sounds so true the only thing you've said there which i

01:13:05 won't completely 100 agree with is that being faced would never stand like this against a true

01:13:10 leftist i think he would wherever there's going to be uh some sort of by-election or election

01:13:15 where there's going to be loads of cameras there and the papers might write about it he will go

01:13:19 there but anyway i still understand what you're saying and everything else you've said there 100

01:13:28 100 yeah chango 98 says lotus eaters lotus eaters tribute act when

01:13:36 and then you've got uh like uh the musical note emoji sign thing the first picture of you the

01:13:45 first picture of summer i feel like they're quote that's like you're quoting from a real life song

01:13:50 but i don't know those lyrics don't ring a bell to me let's see so those seasons tribute act when

01:13:54 the first picture of you the first picture of summer all i can think of is pictures of you by

01:13:59 the cure i love that song but those are not the lyrics of it so if they're lyrics to another song

01:14:05 sorry i don't know i'm not ringing about it's not ringing about me thanks for the super chat

01:14:08 anyway all right dragon lady chris says i got the bobby sands cookbook it's really to die for

01:14:13 oh that's in bad taste oh dragon lady chris i probably should have read that first before i

01:14:19 read it out oh it's quite funny though bobby sands mentioned earlier the ira you know cooking up

01:14:28 bombs that it's to die for 0.52

01:14:30 okay i've said it now it's happened now it's live it's live on the internet what are you gonna do

01:14:38 all right hick dog 5150 says read the leaky water a rough estimate is to irrigate irrigate a wheat

01:14:47 field you need uh about 400 000 to 600 000 liters per acre is that right you're a farmer you should

01:14:54 know is that right that sounds like a lot to me i wouldn't have thought it was anywhere near that

01:14:57 I'm sure you're right though, I'm not questioning you

01:15:00 Gives an idea of what could be done with that wasted water

01:15:04 Yeah, yeah

01:15:04 Is it that much?

01:15:07 400,000 to 600,000 litres per acre

01:15:10 Per acre

01:15:12 Is that for a whole summer or is that

01:15:14 It's not for like one day

01:15:16 Is that for like a whole season?

01:15:20 Still, even if it's for the whole season

01:15:21 That's basically half a million litres

01:15:25 okay well did not notice that much all right moving on math you see how are you sir

01:15:32 enjoyed to meet you at the live event the other day the other week you say

01:15:36 faraj and bin face two faces of the establishment presenting themselves as outsiders yes yes right

01:15:44 yeah two people claiming to be outside of the the establishment norm containment machine

01:15:53 when in fact they're both integral cogs to it yeah i think you're quite right there 0.94

01:15:59 yeah good take i agree with you okay last one here last rumble rant from pig dog

01:16:04 5.150 says bin face is a bad joke and yet he mogs farage shows how much of an even worse joke farage

01:16:11 has become yeah reform overall in the polling do seem to be keep slipping slipping slipping

01:16:19 like Nigel Farage could own

01:16:22 a key data point there is

01:16:23 Nigel Farage could only really get

01:16:25 44.8 or what was it

01:16:28 44.4% of people in Clacton

01:16:30 to bother turning out for him

01:16:31 it's not great

01:16:33 it doesn't suggest

01:16:35 a true true ground

01:16:37 swell support from

01:16:40 the grass roots of just the everyday people

01:16:42 genuinely sort of love

01:16:44 him in any real way

01:16:46 if there is another by-election clactin that will be very very interesting how that plays out what

01:16:55 the final numbers are that will be very very interesting this is a bit of a this really is

01:17:00 silly isn't it a silly exercise all right let's look at our youtube ones now i have to do this

01:17:08 so i can see the left hand side of my screen the youtube ones right what we got what we got what 0.50

01:17:12 we got stu sutton 1977 is in at number one very often is half the time or so he is so well done

01:17:19 and new he wasn't first thing yesterday i don't think so and new stu says anagram of amon holmes

01:17:27 omen manholes there you go there you go and then he just put in then after that he just put in all

01:17:33 capitals just evil all joking aside get well soon ames this is just a crazy in joke

01:17:42 Based on a good faith error of mine

01:17:44 Months ago

01:17:45 Get well soon

01:17:47 Okay

01:17:51 Divine Sheep 3505 says

01:17:54 In 1972 I was born

01:17:56 As a bidet present for my mum

01:17:59 Oh so it's your birthday today

01:18:00 Happy birthday

01:18:01 1972

01:18:03 So what you're 54

01:18:06 Is that right? Quick maths

01:18:07 54

01:18:09 Happy 54th

01:18:12 that's right my maths isn't off well done well done for making it that far well done for not

01:18:19 being dead yet no uh sometimes how it feels though isn't it when you get middle-aged and

01:18:23 you have a birthday like yay and what i'm really celebrating here is that i haven't died yet that's

01:18:29 the real celebration i can imagine birthdays when you're really old like your 95th birthday say

01:18:39 it really it really is that at that point isn't it i've got one more will i get another

01:18:45 genuinely will i see another

01:18:47 all right anyway happy birthday

01:18:52 tatum2733 says you talk about man-made versus uh the natural change of earth's temp i ask does it

01:19:02 matter if it's hotter it's hotter and that matters imagine times 10 migration um i think

01:19:09 it does absolutely matter yeah if that's the argument being made it absolutely matters i'm

01:19:14 not sure quite if it's at the end you put imagine times 10 migration i'm not exactly sure the point

01:19:21 you're making there sorry um feels like a bit of a non-secretary but i'm not trying to have a go at

01:19:28 you by the way thanks for the super chat and you often do superchats appreciate it but i think it

01:19:32 does matter yeah i mean ultimately if it gets hotter it gets hotter you've got to deal with

01:19:38 reality yeah i mean that's that's true but if they're making the argument that it's man-made

01:19:44 change to the amount of co2 in the atmosphere something like something between 400 and 470

01:19:52 parts per million and maybe maybe half of that is man-made in the last century or so

01:19:56 but they see if they're using the argument that that's why we can't burn fossil fuels

01:20:03 that's why they're going to put up tax on loads and loads of different things that's why they're

01:20:08 going to fundamentally change our way of life our economies our politics on the strength of that

01:20:14 argument then yes it matters absolutely it matters yeah does it matter to the overall temperature

01:20:19 well no that's fair to say but it matters yeah i would say that's my feeling all right jordan

01:20:27 godfrey doesn't say anything it just gives 199 appreciate that thank you very much uh calzetti

01:20:32 He says, Corbyn said nationalised banks

01:20:35 Based in hindsight

01:20:36 No, it's not based, that's not based

01:20:38 That's not based

01:20:39 That's communism

01:20:40 It's a terrible idea

01:20:41 It's a terrible idea, sorry

01:20:43 I don't know what you mean

01:20:45 Explain yourself, sir

01:20:46 How is that based?

01:20:50 There's also different types of bank as well

01:20:52 It's not just your high street bank

01:20:54 There's all sorts of banks

01:20:57 Banks of international settlement

01:20:59 National banks

01:21:02 There's just investment banks

01:21:04 Asset management firms

01:21:06 It's not just your high street bank

01:21:08 There's a whole swathe of different types

01:21:11 Different stripes of banking

01:21:13 If you nationalise them

01:21:16 You are then communist

01:21:17 You have a command economy then

01:21:21 That doesn't work

01:21:23 I don't know why you would say that was based

01:21:25 Sorry

01:21:26 Maybe I'm profoundly

01:21:29 Misunderstanding what you're saying there

01:21:31 But that's just what you've said

01:21:32 Corbyn said

01:21:33 Nationalised banks

01:21:34 Full stop

01:21:34 Based in hindsight

01:21:35 End of super chat

01:21:36 Disagree

01:21:38 Alright

01:21:38 Carmichael

01:21:40 Cookie Dough Footjob

01:21:41 Says

01:21:41 It is I

01:21:42 Thaddeus Bungo

01:21:43 McTick Pop

01:21:43 Exclamation mark

01:21:44 I found another 1.00

01:21:45 Old rich babe 1.00

01:21:46 And she's the only 1.00

01:21:48 Female human

01:21:49 I've met 1.00

01:21:50 Who's a huge

01:21:50 Warhammer fan

01:21:51 I am conflicted

01:21:53 I must admit

01:21:55 I don't know

01:21:58 I'm not sure

01:21:58 If I've ever met 0.52

01:21:59 A female

01:22:00 Warhammer fan

01:22:00 There's a few things in this world aren't there

01:22:04 That are almost exclusively 1.00

01:22:07 Either a man thing or a woman thing 1.00

01:22:10 Right 1.00

01:22:10 There are a few things like that

01:22:12 Warhammer's one of them

01:22:14 Not many men

01:22:17 Not many men are into sort of like needlework

01:22:20 Like crochet 0.99

01:22:22 Some are

01:22:23 I'm not saying there's not one in the whole world

01:22:24 But not really

01:22:25 Like tricking out clothes

01:22:30 To be more sparkly 1.00

01:22:32 Some gay men perhaps 1.00

01:22:35 But most men, no

01:22:36 Formula One

01:22:38 It's very, very rare to find a woman

01:22:40 That's into Formula One 1.00

01:22:41 Not that they don't exist

01:22:43 I mean, genuinely love it

01:22:44 Not that they don't exist, but they're rare

01:22:46 Warhammer

01:22:47 Once in a blue moon, you might go into a games workshop 1.00

01:22:50 And there'll be a younger girl

01:22:52 Like a 15-year-old or 17-year-old 1.00

01:22:54 that's there

01:22:55 it's probably for a boy 1.00

01:22:58 a lot of women that pretend they like football 0.99

01:23:01 it's for men to be more engaging for men 0.90

01:23:05 it's a deliberate ploy, cynical even 1.00

01:23:07 not that there aren't genuine female football fans 0.99

01:23:10 Warhammer's one of those ones 1.00

01:23:13 right at the end of that spectrum 1.00

01:23:14 there's no women like it 1.00

01:23:16 really hardly any women 1.00

01:23:18 have got any time for Warhammer on any level 0.98

01:23:21 but you found one, a posh one at that

01:23:24 according to you and you say i'm conflicted why do you not like warhammer then because i know

01:23:33 you've been saying you want a posh rich babe that's your words your words but you found out

01:23:40 she's into warhammer and now you're conflicted so you're not a warhammer fan i take it

01:23:44 okay mqsss says x rant elon wants to buy the uk thoughts

01:23:52 Well

01:23:54 We're not for sale

01:23:56 And never shall be

01:23:57 England

01:24:00 Never never never

01:24:01 Shall be slaves

01:24:03 But if we were to be ruled 0.86

01:24:05 By somebody else

01:24:06 Whether it's the State Department

01:24:10 Or the Kremlin

01:24:10 Or just Elon

01:24:13 You could do worse

01:24:15 Couldn't you?

01:24:16 Could do worse than being ruled

01:24:17 By Elon

01:24:18 He'd probably sort a few things out

01:24:21 Wouldn't he?

01:24:22 He'd almost certainly do a better job than no sternum burnum, wouldn't he?

01:24:32 X-Rant, do you say, are you saying you want me to do an X-Rant about it,

01:24:36 or Elon Musk has already done an X-Rant about it?

01:24:39 That's interesting, I wonder what you, or you're going to,

01:24:42 or there's been more than one on there already.

01:24:44 I don't know, you have to let me know.

01:24:46 Okay.

01:24:48 Carmichael cookie dough foot job again says, that's his name by the way,

01:24:51 Carmichael underscore.

01:24:52 cookie dough underscore foot job says they are both mid fiddies hey the women i think he's

01:25:01 talking about here the posh the posh babes i mean they're mid 50s but he's written fiddies

01:25:06 they're in their mid fiddies and i will be 37. are you looking for a mrs robinson type deal are you

01:25:12 i see i'm saying a surrogate mother figure is it i think we're with that by the way if that's your

01:25:20 bag you say I am too old for am I too old for older women should I grow up and

01:25:31 get a wife before it's too late or just move up to granny's I mean do you make

01:25:36 your own decisions right I can't tell you what to do if there's a rich sort of 1.00

01:25:44 good-looking a posh woman in her mid-fifties she probably wants a true 1.00

01:25:48 toy boy doesn't she she probably wants a 22 year old who's got an eight pack probably doesn't she 1.00

01:25:53 but who knows i guess can't be choosers depends how good looking you are how much money you've

01:25:58 got how interesting or charismatic you are as well doesn't it aren't all these factors

01:26:03 whether you should get a wife of your own or just move up to granny's i couldn't say mate

01:26:07 it's up to you you make your own life decisions

01:26:12 probably try and get a normal healthy relationship though if you can it's probably the best

01:26:18 someone about your own age with all the same interests

01:26:22 that's probably the most ideal

01:26:26 best advice I could give

01:26:28 how many more have we got

01:26:32 we've got another half a dozen or more

01:26:34 that's it we've got

01:26:36 James Lee Pevenhole says MP's safety

01:26:40 killed, wiki 0.60

01:26:41 Spencer Percival was first

01:26:45 he was a prime minister that was assassinated

01:26:48 Inside the Palace of Westminster

01:26:49 In the 19th century

01:26:51 And you say no

01:26:53 Spencer Percival was first

01:26:54 No

01:26:55 There was a Robert Parkington

01:26:58 Oh yeah I think he might have mentioned it

01:26:59 Someone mentioned it before

01:27:00 But it was probably you

01:27:01 Mentioned this before

01:27:02 That in 1536

01:27:04 I.e. right in the middle of Henry VIII

01:27:07 Well towards the end of Henry VIII

01:27:08 But in the middle of like

01:27:09 The most important part of Henry VIII's reign

01:27:11 Do you think I've got long film content

01:27:12 Talking about Henry VIII

01:27:13 Hours and hours and hours

01:27:14 Many episodes talking about Henry VIII

01:27:15 Yeah

01:27:16 1536 is right in the middle of

01:27:18 His reformation

01:27:20 And the dissolution of the monasteries

01:27:23 And all that

01:27:23 And Robert Parkington in 1536

01:27:26 Was killed with a gun

01:27:27 Benedict Lee 0.98

01:27:29 11 times GGF married his daughter

01:27:33 Don't know what you're saying there

01:27:37 I'm going to move on

01:27:37 Thomas Glover92 says

01:27:40 What are your favourite British institutions

01:27:43 Mine are National Trust and Wetherspoons

01:27:45 Both preserve our historic buildings

01:27:47 Well I used to be a massive fan of the National Trust and English Heritage

01:27:51 And still am I suppose

01:27:52 But they've gone woke like everything else

01:27:54 They've gone woke

01:27:55 So they're among the best institutions I would say

01:27:59 I would like to see them completely unwoker-fired

01:28:04 That would be great 0.99

01:28:06 Stop moaning about the transatlantic slave trade at every opportunity

01:28:11 And never mentioning, hardly ever mentioning

01:28:13 The

01:28:15 The emancipation

01:28:18 Movement, the abolitionist movement

01:28:21 But yeah, the National Trust and English Heritage

01:28:24 Great, yeah

01:28:25 In Bozeman and I would give them more resources if anything

01:28:28 Yeah, so I make sure our crumbling

01:28:31 Buildings

01:28:31 Don't completely fall into dust

01:28:34 Okay

01:28:35 NPC

01:28:38 BS3PM

01:28:41 I don't know if that second word

01:28:42 you want to be read as a word but anyway npc i'll just call you npc says i wear suits i'm wondering

01:28:49 what where where do you buy yours all over the place i've basically collected suits over the

01:28:54 years where i've worked in london for years for 18 odd years i you just you sort of collect suits

01:29:00 one way or another i bought them from all sorts of different places um what's this i remember

01:29:07 i've got some relatively cheap ones and got one or two very very expensive tailored ones just

01:29:14 yeah there's not like one place i go to buy them the last one i bought was i think that

01:29:20 charles hewitt is that what it's called you will probably know it's quite a well-known chain

01:29:24 place but charles thwaite to charles weight thing you probably know what i'm talking about

01:29:29 that's the last one i bought but um just all over the place all over the place okay

01:29:35 Emily Forrestore says

01:29:38 Should still

01:29:40 Should still be the way we do

01:29:43 Warfare, none of this suicidal

01:29:45 Empathy

01:29:46 Balls

01:29:48 Bollocks

01:29:50 P.S. General Goulden is my daughter's

01:29:52 Direct ancestor, alright so you're talking about

01:29:55 That was in reference to the reconquest

01:29:57 Of the Sudan

01:29:57 Bomberman

01:30:00 Bomberman

01:30:01 Yeah

01:30:03 Okay, you're saying your daughter's direct ancestor

01:30:09 So not yours though, so what, through her father

01:30:11 Interesting, interesting

01:30:13 Okay, James Lee Pevenhall says

01:30:16 9.2 billion litres per day, flow of the River Severn

01:30:20 That puts it in perspective, doesn't it?

01:30:27 9.2 billion litres per day

01:30:29 So that's a lot more than 1.2, but still

01:30:31 It's like 1 8th, 1 7th or whatever

01:30:35 Can't do the maths

01:30:36 Of the River 7

01:30:38 If anyone doesn't know

01:30:39 That's a giant, giant river

01:30:41 It's a giant

01:30:42 Okay, remarkable

01:30:47 Tatum2733 says

01:30:49 If it gets hotter 1.00

01:30:50 Third world immigration balloons 1.00

01:30:52 Because they just feel more at home here 1.00

01:30:56 You live in sub-Saharan Africa 1.00

01:30:58 And you wouldn't move here

01:31:00 Because it's all cold and rainy

01:31:01 Sleet and snow

01:31:03 But now it's not

01:31:04 Now it's really hot all the time

01:31:05 You're more likely to come here

01:31:07 Is that what you're saying?

01:31:07 Yeah, I mean

01:31:08 God knows, maybe

01:31:10 Okay

01:31:12 The last four now

01:31:14 We've got 0.95

01:31:15 Caroline Taylor

01:31:16 5598

01:31:17 5594

01:31:18 Says

01:31:19 Hi Bo

01:31:20 Love you guys from Australia

01:31:21 Oh yeah

01:31:22 How good

01:31:23 Oh

01:31:24 Mate

01:31:24 Go for your life

01:31:26 Oh yeah

01:31:26 I've had some people say

01:31:31 My Australian accent isn't too bad

01:31:32 And some say it's laughably poor

01:31:34 I think it's funny

01:31:36 That's the main thing

01:31:37 Thank you from Australia

01:31:38 All the way from down under

01:31:40 Thank you

01:31:41 Appreciate it Caroline

01:31:42 You do

01:31:42 Thanks for joining us

01:31:43 The first band that shows

01:31:44 A few of my band of brothers

01:31:45 And sisters

01:31:47 Okay

01:31:48 Kiefer Brown 1337 says

01:31:50 Which Lotus Eaters

01:31:51 Is the best worst arm wrestler

01:31:53 Oh I don't want to throw

01:31:54 Any shade at people but

01:31:56 I don't want to say it

01:32:00 Probably Luca's

01:32:05 Not going to be the best

01:32:06 Why would I

01:32:08 I love the kid

01:32:10 He's a great guy

01:32:12 I love the kid

01:32:12 He's probably not

01:32:13 He's probably the worst

01:32:14 I would have thought

01:32:15 And I would have imagined

01:32:17 Big Harry's going to be the best one

01:32:18 Because he's the biggest

01:32:20 And the strongest

01:32:21 Pretty sure

01:32:22 Yeah

01:32:25 i guess that's the answer straight up big harry he's like a giant all right

01:32:32 and goes to the gym he's a gym bro now he didn't used to be when he first started he was just a

01:32:38 normal dude might go to gym occasionally now he goes to gym all the time he's like proper

01:32:42 he's actually proper hench so yeah him all right sorry luca sorry if you watch this if you hear

01:32:51 about this that's a tough question making me i mean put me in a tough spot there i should have

01:32:59 just said harry's the strongest one left it that shouldn't i okay all right field marshall dawn

01:33:08 browning quite doesn't say anything and just gives 10 australian dollars and a dancing maraca emoji

01:33:14 thing, thanks Dawn, cheers love

01:33:16 appreciate it, really do, honestly

01:33:18 do, and

01:33:19 shout out to Chris Dangerfield

01:33:21 as well for naming her the Field Marshal

01:33:24 and saluting her and going

01:33:25 quet

01:33:26 she's written that into her name, her name is

01:33:30 at Field Marshal

01:33:32 Dawn Browning

01:33:32 hyphen quet

01:33:34 so

01:33:35 okay

01:33:39 Ninja Noodle

01:33:41 0944 says, do you not want

01:33:44 nationalized banks look at china for crying out loud no i don't no don't point at china and say

01:33:52 look how good they are how great that is don't we want that no thank you pass i don't want an

01:33:59 a command economy it's built on foundations of sand and nonsense

01:34:03 no pass okay tatum2733 says what no no it's too hot where they'd be coming from

01:34:14 in relation to an early one yeah in the early one where you said

01:34:20 if it gets hotter third world migration balloons oh no oh you're saying if it gets hotter where 0.66

01:34:26 they are in their third world country it gets too hot for them there right i say it's right i 0.87

01:34:31 see what you say, I see what you say. It's just too hot there now. They've got to come

01:34:36 to slightly cooler climes. Yeah, quite possibly. I see what you mean. I get it. Okay. And the

01:34:44 last one here today is from CarmichaelCookieDoughfootjob again, who says, he chimes in saying, what

01:34:49 do you say? You say, okay, this one is the last granny, then it's wife time, thanks. Okay.

01:35:00 okay

01:35:02 oh one more's just popped in

01:35:04 and uh it's from

01:35:06 as he says zero zero ones

01:35:08 he says you versus Carl

01:35:10 in an MMA fight what happens

01:35:12 I'll destroy him no I don't know 0.99

01:35:14 well 0.99

01:35:16 I don't know I feel like I'll probably have

01:35:22 better cardio although Carl goes

01:35:24 to the gym now and

01:35:25 if he did

01:35:28 like loads and loads of low leg kicks 0.54

01:35:30 I've got like normal sized human man legs

01:35:33 Carl's legs, his calves are like tree trunks

01:35:36 They really are

01:35:36 We've been climbing a few times

01:35:37 I've seen him in shorts

01:35:38 If he was doing loads of leg kicks

01:35:41 Over and over again

01:35:42 On me 0.94

01:35:43 He'd break my legs 0.59

01:35:45 I feel like I'm faster

01:35:47 I would be faster

01:35:48 I think my cardio's better

01:35:50 It's much more about speed and aggression

01:35:52 He weighs more

01:35:55 I don't mean that as a diss

01:35:56 But like if you weigh more

01:35:57 That's an advantage

01:35:58 He weighs more, he's probably stronger

01:36:01 He's almost certainly stronger

01:36:02 But I would have speed

01:36:03 I would have speed

01:36:05 And probably a bit of skill

01:36:06 I've done a little bit

01:36:07 I did tanks who do when I was a kid

01:36:09 Got halfway through

01:36:10 Almost halfway to black belt

01:36:12 Tanks who do

01:36:12 I've done a little bit of MMA training

01:36:16 A little bit, a little bit

01:36:17 A little bit of karate in my time

01:36:20 I've got a little bit of training

01:36:23 I've watched thousands

01:36:24 Quite literally without exaggeration

01:36:25 Thousands and thousands of fights

01:36:27 Boxing, jiu-jitsu, MMA

01:36:30 Valetudo

01:36:32 Loads and loads of stuff

01:36:33 Kind of know a little bit about one day

01:36:36 I feel like I probably know a little bit more

01:36:37 What to do than Carl

01:36:39 Would have the speed

01:36:41 The cardio

01:36:42 He weighs more, that's an advantage

01:36:45 And he's almost certainly stronger

01:36:47 So, don't know

01:36:48 Probably boil down to who wanted it more

01:36:51 Speed is a big thing though

01:36:55 It really is

01:36:57 when someone's just got...

01:36:59 I've probably got...

01:37:00 I would have thought I've got a slightly longer reach as well.

01:37:02 Maybe not, but I would have thought so.

01:37:05 Might be a really close fight. 0.89

01:37:07 If he got a giant haymaker in on me,

01:37:09 it would be over, wouldn't it?

01:37:12 Like, I know a little bit of ground game.

01:37:13 I know a little bit about grappling.

01:37:15 I don't think Kyle does.

01:37:18 He's never ever said he might do,

01:37:19 but he's never ever said anything about...

01:37:20 about jiu-jitsu.

01:37:25 Because I know the rudiments.

01:37:28 That might make all the difference, something like that.

01:37:31 I've never really been truly tested.

01:37:33 I don't know if I've got a glass drawer or not.

01:37:35 I probably have. I don't know. I really don't know.

01:37:37 A massive Cole Benjamin right-hand, over-handed haymaker

01:37:41 landing right on my temple probably knocked me out cold.

01:37:46 I don't know.

01:37:47 Might be a really good fight.

01:37:49 Might be brilliant.

01:37:52 Anyway, that's the show.

01:37:54 That's the show.

01:37:54 um it's now 37 minutes past nine 38 minutes past nine in the am british summertime on friday the

01:38:02 14th of august in the year of our lord 2026 2026 thank f it's friday that's what i say

01:38:07 try make the best of the day nay the weekend ahead try make it count if you can your time

01:38:13 is the most valuable thing you will ever own you will ever have the only thing you have

01:38:18 Of value

01:38:19 Any real value

01:38:20 Is your time

01:38:22 Gold and gems

01:38:23 And houses and cars

01:38:24 You can't take any of that with you

01:38:25 Ultimately

01:38:27 It's of no

01:38:28 True value

01:38:29 Your time is

01:38:30 And it's finite

01:38:31 It's finite

01:38:33 Try and use it wisely

01:38:36 If you can

01:38:37 Alright I don't want to get too preachy about it

01:38:38 You do you

01:38:38 You live your life

01:38:39 You where you want to

01:38:39 But just be reminded

01:38:40 So use the day

01:38:42 Alright then

01:38:43 Until Monday morning

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 14, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 14th August 2026

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