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

00:00:00.000 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

00:00:04.180 Go on in

00:00:17.900 Oh

00:00:22.040 It's too hot

00:00:24.180 You alright?

00:00:30.000 I hope you are. I hope you are. Me? Yeah, I'm fine. Yeah, all good. Yeah.

00:00:34.080 Go to a wedding later.

00:00:36.640 No, I'm not. I'm not.

00:00:39.420 Okay.

00:00:40.620 Best man. No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm joking. I'm joking.

00:00:42.780 I'm joined by not my usual producer, Little Harry.

00:00:45.580 I'm joined by Jack this morning. Jack, how are you, sir?

00:00:48.220 Hello, hello. How are you doing, Bo? I'm doing good, thanks.

00:00:51.060 Great.

00:00:52.160 Hope you're doing well, the glorious band, the chosen few, my band of brothers and sisters.

00:00:55.140 Thank you for joining me. Without you, it's in a thing.

00:00:56.700 Thank F. It's Friday, though.

00:00:58.020 Looks like a bit of a long week to me

00:01:00.120 I don't know about you guys

00:01:00.960 TGI Friday

00:01:04.300 It's now one minute past eight

00:01:07.000 In the a.m. British Summer Time

00:01:08.600 On Friday the 14th of August

00:01:10.480 In the year of our Lord

00:01:11.940 2026

00:01:13.720 There's quite enough fapping about there isn't it 1.00

00:01:16.760 There's no need for that amount of fannying around 1.00

00:01:19.140 The shit volume of fannying around there 1.00

00:01:20.700 Was off the charts 1.00

00:01:21.360 Let's just get straight into it

00:01:22.440 What's the legacy corporate lamestream media

00:01:25.480 Banging on about this morning

00:01:26.420 What's that cabal of evil

00:01:27.300 quite frankly, evil Fleet Street editors

00:01:29.080 lying to us about bio-mission, if by nothing else.

00:01:32.420 They're trying to cram into our eyeballs and brain box 0.82

00:01:34.560 against our will.

00:01:37.340 Not necessarily against you, isn't it?

00:01:38.740 You don't have to pay attention.

00:01:41.040 Well, one thing to say, the big news of the day, isn't it,

00:01:43.480 of the actual full news cycle for today, the 14th,

00:01:48.000 will be the collective result.

00:01:49.080 NIAG's reforms, collective result.

00:01:51.480 But that was too late for the papers,

00:01:53.240 when the papers go to print yesterday.

00:01:55.180 this it's relatively early in the night they go to print usually about 10 depending depending but

00:02:01.180 anyway the result wasn't in at that point so it's not on the front pages but it is the main story

00:02:05.260 and i want to get to it and talk all about it so we'll just whip through the front pages a bit

00:02:10.300 slightly quicker than usual also the the front pages today are yeah so so right we've got houses

00:02:19.900 burn and train derails on hottest day and britain on fire it's just sort of wall to wall it's hot

00:02:25.180 and there's been more wildfires although an actual part of a town burnt down a bit

00:02:29.260 and a train derailed no one was killed two people seriously injured injured a few people anyway the

00:02:34.460 front pages are just nowhere near as important or interesting as the cax and stuff so let's whip

00:02:40.380 through it a bit the times the venerable times something about nicole kid when at 59 don't care

00:02:45.340 burn and bypassing villagers opposed to new asylum sites this is part of the ongoing story

00:02:51.100 operation smear as i called it operation scatter they don't want to just keep invaders let's not

00:02:58.300 call them migrants or certainly not asylum seekers or refugees not even migrants invaders they don't

00:03:03.820 want to keep them necessarily in hotels because people don't like that and that's a bit of a

00:03:07.660 political hot potato so to fix that they'll smear them out into every corner of britain 1.00

00:03:14.300 the tiny little villages and hamlets suddenly you've got a dozen afghans living next year 1.00

00:03:21.100 all right okay or there'll be for example a specific example tiny little village in like 0.92

00:03:26.380 oxfordshire or whatever of like 400 people or less suddenly there's 12 000 young foreign men

00:03:34.060 just men all young living right on the outskirts of your village 0.97

00:03:42.940 isn't that mad isn't that truly evil isn't that the final act in a string of evil events

00:03:51.100 met chief and prosecutor clash over levy failings there was a murderer called levy his surname

00:03:57.840 was levy murdered two women and raped a third and was sort of allowed to get away with his

00:04:02.800 crimes for longer than he really should have done and the police the london police met police

00:04:08.440 blaming the cps for failings there's a police saying it's not us we did our job essentially

00:04:16.180 it was your job the crime prosecution service for not locking him up earlier

00:04:19.660 We just investigate the crimes

00:04:22.240 The only one's actually got to put him in prison

00:04:23.720 CPS hitting back over that

00:04:27.140 Saying that's not fair

00:04:28.480 That's not good characterisation

00:04:29.920 You guys dropped the ball as well though 0.99

00:04:31.700 All that crap 1.00

00:04:32.560 Someone who shouldn't have ever been in this country 1.00

00:04:36.200 Black dude 1.00

00:04:39.240 Houses burn 1.00

00:04:43.860 And train derails on hottest day

00:04:46.420 Too seriously hurt in rail accident near Luz

00:04:48.780 wildfires destroy homes in west midland so there's a picture a lot of the papers go the

00:04:53.620 exact same picture and you might think when i first saw this this morning i thought

00:04:57.200 it's just a house like well two house fires it could have happened on any day of the year what's

00:05:02.880 this really got to do with wildfires but when you see other pictures other images zoomed out like

00:05:08.160 helicopter or drone footage with like a much broader view it's actually really quite extensive

00:05:12.900 look you can see there that's another one but there's loads of buildings burnt out it looks

00:05:16.540 like there was a wildfire on the edge of town right on the edge of town you know where the

00:05:19.200 houses stop and fields start started there and then it just sort of somehow swept through

00:05:23.980 this town a bit a fair bit quite a lot of buildings destroyed i say somehow they're

00:05:29.960 saying that like hot ash was raining down and if your roof is you know tinder dry and like you

00:05:37.980 know tight it wouldn't set a lot to tiles but if you've got other types of roofing maybe the eaves

00:05:44.280 are made of wood seemed to dry wood anyway the damage was quite extensive my first gut feeling

00:05:50.600 of it's just a house fire or two somehow no it seems quite bad that's quite bad

00:05:58.200 all right still don't put it down to global warming caused by man-made co2 in the atmosphere

00:06:08.040 there's the train that derailed and some of the carriages flipped over

00:06:10.600 Is that to do with it was so hot

00:06:14.280 That the rails warped

00:06:16.220 And caused that

00:06:17.040 I don't know

00:06:17.900 They're not saying that exactly

00:06:19.700 One of the papers is asking that question

00:06:22.180 But it's not saying that exactly

00:06:23.380 Would be a bit of a coincidence

00:06:25.780 Considering it was on a super hot day yesterday

00:06:27.780 Yesterday was super hot

00:06:29.120 Last night was a very very close muggy night

00:06:32.600 I think I'd have got a fan

00:06:35.080 Otherwise it would have been unbearable

00:06:36.360 Really really warm

00:06:39.500 Alright, a daily mail

00:06:42.200 Pure globalist slop

00:06:44.400 Occasionally pretending to be patriotic

00:06:47.540 Inferno on hottest day of year

00:06:51.280 Rampant wildfires in gulf streets

00:06:53.200 Family homes

00:06:54.500 Yeah, streets

00:06:55.300 Yeah

00:06:56.020 Quite a lot, look, there's all burnt out houses there

00:06:58.360 Maybe later on one of the other pages

00:07:01.160 You might see a bit more of a zoomed out one

00:07:02.500 And there's quite a lot of buildings

00:07:03.880 Alright, alright

00:07:06.560 Okay, we'll move on

00:07:08.440 We want to get to Nigel Clacton, don't we?

00:07:10.720 The Mirror

00:07:11.060 Completely insane socialist Fabian Labour slop

00:07:15.800 Heatwave devastation

00:07:18.640 Homes destroyed as blazes rage in bone-dry conditions around country

00:07:23.180 Meanwhile, train crash horror

00:07:24.720 Terror, sorry

00:07:27.000 And rail chaos on Hottest Avenue

00:07:29.000 They're all going with the same two stories

00:07:31.260 Of the train derailment and this fire in this little place

00:07:34.180 Britain on fire

00:07:36.380 Well done, well done

00:07:40.820 I hope you get a load of clicks

00:07:42.500 And sell a load of papers off of that

00:07:43.920 Well done

00:07:44.320 Yeah, brilliant

00:07:45.980 The star

00:07:47.060 Serious injuries after train derails

00:07:50.460 On Totches Day of the Year

00:07:51.500 Horror on the 224

00:07:53.700 There you go, there's a picture of it

00:07:57.940 What else is there to say really?

00:08:02.220 Alright, we'll crack on

00:08:03.040 We'll crack on

00:08:03.620 That's Horeograph 0.97

00:08:05.380 It's an interesting image

00:08:08.440 Obviously

00:08:08.860 I'm opening the doors

00:08:10.420 And people have got out

00:08:11.160 He's not just climbing on it for fun

00:08:12.720 He's obviously just

00:08:13.620 Just got out

00:08:14.440 This is a mildly interesting story

00:08:16.800 Well quite interesting story

00:08:17.660 China funding

00:08:19.180 Palestine marches 0.92

00:08:21.060 You 1.00

00:08:21.940 Get

00:08:22.300 Get this

00:08:23.960 US committee

00:08:25.120 Claims Beijing

00:08:26.880 Is supporting

00:08:28.200 Anti-Israel protests

00:08:29.780 On British streets

00:08:31.440 So we need the US to tell us 0.80

00:08:36.760 That China are supporting Palestine in Britain 0.97

00:08:39.380 I can believe it, there's another story 0.76

00:08:42.440 Probably won't get to it, so I'll mention it now

00:08:44.820 Another story in the news today and yesterday

00:08:46.720 That these super dinghies

00:08:48.680 Remember those super dinghies now?

00:08:51.460 Sort of all of a sudden, kind of

00:08:52.880 It's not all of a sudden, but it wasn't two years ago

00:08:55.560 Super dinghies

00:08:56.660 Remember me saying there's one that's like

00:08:58.260 Is it like 10 metres long?

00:09:00.940 15 meters long, 40 foot long, whatever, you can get, if you really try, get 200 plus people

00:09:06.300 on them. It's like the size of a bouncy castle nearly. Massive, massive inflatable dinghy.

00:09:12.160 But they're manufactured in China. They've got to be sent 6,000 miles from China.

00:09:20.860 I'm not saying the Chinese government necessarily funded that and facilitated all of that,

00:09:24.600 then look nonetheless Chinese and there's another story as well we might get to it

00:09:35.340 where Vodafone the Vodafone company have given care for Calais thousands of sim

00:09:45.180 cards just to give out for free with six months worth of data on it to our

00:09:48.900 invaders

00:09:52.060 you invade our country from the part of Calais illegally crossing the channel

00:09:56.460 without a visa or a passport or anything if not deliberately throwing your

00:09:59.420 passport in the ocean filming yourself doing it on your phone and gloating

00:10:02.860 about it when you get to the other side

00:10:06.500 care for Calais courtesy of Vodafone will just give you a free sim card for

00:10:10.800 with six months data on it

00:10:14.360 should we close every single one of those types of loopholes yes of course it's crazy well thanks 0.51

00:10:20.840 Vodafone thanks for that appreciate that all right anyway back to China China pro-Palestine

00:10:26.380 marches China do seem like they spend a fair amount of time and energy destabilizing Britain

00:10:33.460 don't they is it me am I being paranoid have I got just some sort of crazy anti-Chinese bias for 1.00

00:10:40.380 no real reason or is it a totally totally legit concern you can make your

00:10:51.740 own minds up on that oh there is sorry right there free Vodafone sim cards 0.95

00:10:57.480 handed out small boat migrants 0.99

00:11:02.180 okay

00:11:04.820 Lammy's eco project ordered to pay 400,000 dollars sorry 400,000 pounds over half a million dollars

00:11:11.360 I read that story thinking oh a little bit of dirt on Lammy I'll read that I've got a few seconds in

00:11:16.540 my life to read that but there's not much to it some organization he was just like a he did like

00:11:22.740 some free work for once that has done something quite bad in Central America or South America

00:11:28.420 They took the mickey 0.90

00:11:30.540 They were out of some woman 0.98

00:11:32.560 By using her properties 0.98

00:11:34.260 Or property

00:11:34.980 They're not paying her for it

00:11:36.440 And it is like bad

00:11:38.260 And out of order

00:11:38.800 But it's not like

00:11:40.800 It's David Lammy's company or anything

00:11:42.480 He just sort of once

00:11:43.640 Did some work for them

00:11:45.640 For free or something

00:11:46.460 So it's like

00:11:46.960 I don't think that's much of a story

00:11:52.100 The Metro

00:11:52.940 The Metro

00:11:53.920 I'm sick

00:12:01.340 Terrible

00:12:05.100 Terrible stank coating the back of my throat

00:12:09.820 The temperature soils past 38 degrees

00:12:19.060 Record 2.5 million trips to A&E

00:12:23.040 Not just yesterday

00:12:23.700 It wasn't 2.5 million trips to A&E

00:12:25.980 Just yesterday

00:12:26.620 But

00:12:26.900 3,000 patients a day

00:12:29.880 Cared for in corridors

00:12:31.240 Nurses collapsing

00:12:35.300 A stifling heat takes its toll

00:12:37.100 Yeah

00:12:38.040 Will 0.99

00:12:38.300 Ms. Balls 1.00

00:12:40.740 Mrs. Ed Balls

00:12:42.000 A.K.A. Yvette Cooper

00:12:43.240 As the new health secretary

00:12:45.500 Will she be able to turn the NHS around

00:12:48.480 Make the NHS efficient and good 0.91

00:12:50.760 And have like

00:12:51.560 Look, the positive health outcomes for more people

00:12:55.020 Probably not

00:12:56.760 Now if you keep flooding us with hundreds of thousands 1.00

00:13:01.400 Nepped hundreds of thousands, if not millions

00:13:03.840 Of new people every year, year on year

00:13:06.040 The NHS wasn't designed for that

00:13:08.380 Cannot, it's not so stable 1.00

00:13:10.140 Cannot deal with that

00:13:11.200 3,000 patients a day cared for in corridors

00:13:14.680 But no limit on migration, no 0.99

00:13:16.660 Just cram more and more and more people in 1.00

00:13:19.900 Into a saturation point

00:13:20.820 got labor mps in the past talking about they want to get to saturation point

00:13:25.380 what's it matter of 20 000 30 000 more people turn up so what literally they say that

00:13:30.500 so what so the waiting list is slightly longer so your classroom size is slightly bigger who cares

00:13:34.900 so what most important thing is that we give the the poor and oppressed people of the world a place

00:13:40.980 to live 3 000 patients a day cared for in corridors and when anyone brings up migration even just

00:13:49.060 putting a cap on more migration into this country even that not really migration just any number

00:13:55.700 any cap on the number no you get hit with the argument of more we need more safe and legal

00:14:01.300 routes if anything can't have both things you can't cram more and more and more people into

00:14:08.180 this country and expect the nhs to work expect school sizes to not the classroom sizes not to be 0.93

00:14:15.300 Ridiculous 0.70

00:14:16.100 Expect there not to be a housing crisis 0.92

00:14:19.320 You end up with loads and loads of tent cities

00:14:21.360 In the end shanty cities 1.00

00:14:23.540 Exactly like the third world 1.00

00:14:25.400 But then that's what the people 0.99

00:14:27.640 That insist on cramming us up to

00:14:29.140 Cramming them in up to saturation point

00:14:31.720 That's what they want though isn't it

00:14:33.340 Surely what other explanation is it

00:14:35.300 They must want that

00:14:36.120 An NHS that's broken 1.00

00:14:38.420 Shanty towns 1.00

00:14:39.860 Oh and of course 1.00

00:14:41.380 Endless sex crime and organised crime

00:14:45.280 violent crime, mass casualty events

00:14:47.680 they must want that

00:14:49.060 because it's the obvious cause and effect

00:14:51.400 isn't it, it's one step down the

00:14:52.940 down the chain

00:14:54.240 are all those consequences 1.00

00:14:56.200 of cramming in millions of more foreign people 1.00

00:14:59.000 every year, year on year 1.00

00:15:00.360 they must want that

00:15:03.380 then, mustn't they

00:15:04.180 it's alright

00:15:06.780 it's alright, we've got Mrs. Ed Balls

00:15:09.160 she'll sort it out 0.95

00:15:10.180 will she?

00:15:13.360 will she?

00:15:15.280 The Guardian 0.97

00:15:17.640 Smells like poop 0.99

00:15:21.500 Actual poop 0.92

00:15:25.440 Gross

00:15:30.140 Something about Sam Smith

00:15:32.120 Don't care, is he still a thing?

00:15:33.540 How is he still a thing? He's not still a thing

00:15:34.980 Gross and weirdo degenerate freak 0.97

00:15:37.920 Universities fear financial turmoil 0.99

00:15:41.180 Amid slumping overseas students

00:15:42.720 Oh well

00:15:43.340 Wish I had my tiny violin

00:15:45.040 It was a perfect example to 1.00

00:15:46.160 She got my tiny violin

00:15:47.280 I physically got a tiny violin 1.00

00:15:49.080 Someone sent one in to me for her life 1.00

00:15:50.700 Should have brought it 1.00

00:15:51.760 That was perfect for that

00:15:52.640 Didn't bring it on me, sorry

00:15:53.940 Oh well

00:15:55.940 Universities fear financial turmoil

00:15:58.580 Good, if anything

00:16:00.900 Good

00:16:01.760 A lot of universities are just

00:16:04.180 A hive of leftism

00:16:06.300 And globalism

00:16:09.300 Just a place where 0.86

00:16:12.080 Often foreign terrorists can just sit there

00:16:16.120 They just harbour foreign terrorists often 0.99

00:16:18.640 Yeah 1.00

00:16:20.880 Again invaders by another name 1.00

00:16:25.120 Come here as a foreign student 1.00

00:16:28.360 They finish their course 1.00

00:16:30.980 Their nonsense course

00:16:33.140 Some polytechnic somewhere

00:16:35.320 I mean it's barely university

00:16:37.280 And then they refuse to leave

00:16:39.420 Their visa runs out and they just refuse to leave

00:16:41.140 And then they get legal support, free

00:16:45.220 Paid for by the state 0.98

00:16:46.320 In order to argue that they can't go back to their country of origin

00:16:49.800 Because of the ECHR, because of human rights

00:16:52.720 Then they can stay 0.98

00:16:55.380 And then they can bring over their family 1.00

00:16:58.580 Chain migration 1.00

00:16:59.620 The chain migration off the back of foreign students 1.00

00:17:02.420 That have refused to leave after their course 0.99

00:17:04.040 Is big, really big

00:17:05.800 So, oh well

00:17:07.280 Universities might face turmoil amid a slump in overseas students

00:17:14.340 Good, good

00:17:15.020 There's too many universities

00:17:17.460 They're completely devalued what a degree is

00:17:21.240 What it's worth

00:17:22.300 And just one more vehicle to get us invaded 0.99

00:17:25.640 By racial, ethnic, tribal and religious enemies 1.00

00:17:30.940 So good 1.00

00:17:33.300 I'm supposed to care about the leftoid academy

00:17:39.600 The universities that for decades and decades and decades

00:17:43.680 Have really done not much more

00:17:45.900 Other than try and subvert our way of life

00:17:48.160 Good

00:17:51.460 Let them

00:17:53.000 Let them go through turmoil

00:17:55.480 Let loads of them close

00:17:57.100 He am angry as water firms add £3.4 billion to bills

00:18:06.660 One of the stories today in the news cycle

00:18:09.680 Across the big suppliers, there's a few ahead, half a dozen

00:18:14.640 Well, there's more, but half a dozen or ten big, big water suppliers in this country

00:18:18.580 Between them, lose billions of litres of water a day

00:18:22.980 A billion litres of water a day

00:18:27.100 And the bills just keep going up.

00:18:28.600 They keep giving themselves, the senior people in those companies,

00:18:31.520 bigger and bigger bonuses.

00:18:33.780 The service is worse and worse and worse.

00:18:37.580 And now the, what is it?

00:18:41.220 The equivalent of Ofcom, like the water-regulating body,

00:18:44.640 I don't remember what it's called,

00:18:46.160 just giving them the green light sort of legally

00:18:48.040 to just increase people's bills massively.

00:18:51.200 It's already locked in that they were going to increase massively

00:18:53.440 between now and 2030,

00:18:54.840 And they've given them the green light

00:18:56.400 To increase them even more

00:18:58.040 From 2030 onwards

00:18:59.680 Even more

00:19:00.340 The Prime Minister's angry about that

00:19:02.900 Because you know

00:19:03.240 No Stern and Burnham's listening

00:19:04.540 Yeah, he's a great listener

00:19:05.700 He hears you

00:19:06.840 He hears your concerns

00:19:07.920 He's interested in listening to the problems

00:19:10.420 Not just insisting people bring him solutions

00:19:12.800 He's listening to the problems

00:19:13.920 He's listening to you

00:19:15.060 And he's angry

00:19:15.980 He's angry about it

00:19:18.180 Is he really going to do anything about it profoundly?

00:19:22.780 No

00:19:23.000 He's just going to say some words

00:19:25.860 Yeah

00:19:27.060 So you're going to move the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic

00:19:29.580 Quarter of a mil

00:19:30.860 Maybe at best

00:19:32.760 No, Sterling Burnham 0.98

00:19:35.400 He hasn't got the balls to do anything big 0.97

00:19:38.180 To make any big moves 1.00

00:19:39.320 Right, the IPA

00:19:44.060 It's probably about the best you're going to get

00:19:45.420 From Fleet Street on any given day

00:19:46.640 What are they going with?

00:19:49.280 24 million people face paying even more

00:19:51.440 higher water bills to firms losing 1.2 billion litres a day from leaks. If it was 1.2 million

00:19:58.260 litres a day, that would be concerning. 1.2 billion litres. I know when you measure vast

00:20:04.300 amounts of water in litres, it sort of gives a slightly off impression of the scale of

00:20:12.060 it. But still, but still, 1.2 billion litres a day? But we're in a drought, aren't we?

00:20:18.180 Or you're not allowed to feel a kid is swimming pool in the garden

00:20:21.660 You're not allowed to water your lawn

00:20:23.920 Because there's a hosepipe ban

00:20:25.200 1.2 billion litres a day

00:20:28.300 Feels like it's barely functioning right

00:20:31.440 The water regulator is set to give five suppliers

00:20:35.540 The green light to increase bills

00:20:37.280 By an additional 3.4 billion pounds

00:20:39.660 Between them in the coming years

00:20:41.680 Off what?

00:20:43.560 That's it, that's the regulator

00:20:45.060 Off what?

00:20:48.180 has already given firms permission to charge customers 36% more

00:20:54.260 for their services between 2025 and 2030.

00:20:58.820 But PM warns against a blank cheque.

00:21:00.940 He says, you can't think of the taxpaying great British public

00:21:05.000 as just a blank cheque.

00:21:06.320 What are you going to do about it then, Andy?

00:21:08.860 You're going to bring in a raft of legislation.

00:21:12.240 There's no talk of that.

00:21:14.680 There's no talk of that.

00:21:15.460 You're going to start prosecuting the people

00:21:18.140 That have obviously mismanaged it over decades

00:21:20.140 No, no talk of that

00:21:21.620 An inquiry into exactly what's gone wrong

00:21:27.480 And what needs to happen

00:21:28.300 No

00:21:28.560 He's just going to say

00:21:30.440 Don't treat us like a blank check

00:21:32.120 Well thanks Andy

00:21:33.100 Cheers for sticking up for us

00:21:34.300 Appreciate you

00:21:35.060 I'm glad you're angry about it

00:21:36.580 I'm really thankful for your performative anger

00:21:39.400 For one news cycle

00:21:40.660 Thanks

00:21:41.840 36 percent between 2025 and 2030 when i moved out and started paying bills for myself it was

00:21:51.420 almost straight after uni i was in my early 20s water water bills were very very minimal

00:21:56.540 but you had to pay thames water i've always paid thames water because i used to live in the

00:22:00.480 southeast and even in southwest it's still thames water so every bill i've ever paid for water rates

00:22:07.260 has been to thames water it used to be and i'm talking like 50 20 years ago

00:22:11.720 very very minimal very very minimal now it's it's it's not minimal it's not a giant amount

00:22:20.260 compared to electricity and gas but it's significant now we'll up it by a third again

00:22:26.660 over the next few years and then after 2030 even more this is going to keep sticking up more and

00:22:33.620 and more and the quality of service you get it goes down and down and down this is a crumbling

00:22:38.400 civilization isn't it we need real men in leadership to force things to turn around

00:22:47.120 we don't need people like no sternum burnham or keir starmer nothing men weak weak men not

00:22:53.080 prepared to really act we look how governments used to behave i'm talking about before the war

00:23:00.540 World War II

00:23:01.220 The governments straight after the war

00:23:04.340 Attlee, Churchill

00:23:06.100 Eden, Macmillan

00:23:08.140 Even Harold Wilson

00:23:09.640 To some extent Ted Heath

00:23:11.920 They used to make big moves

00:23:13.600 If there was something like this going on

00:23:14.660 They would make big moves

00:23:15.980 They would bring in a raft of legislation

00:23:19.900 A whole raft of Acts

00:23:21.220 Of Parliament

00:23:22.240 To change the situation

00:23:25.200 And fix it, try and fix it

00:23:27.240 they would bring in draconian measures what today we would probably consider 0.67

00:23:32.560 what the corporate lamestream media the soy boy media would consider draconian like beyond the

00:23:39.460 pale like government overreach they just acted in the interest of the country very often doing big 0.67

00:23:46.000 things now again we again we've just got governments that slightly adjust the deck

00:23:52.140 chairs a bit on a sinking ship so it's the best we got isn't it we need real leaders real leaders

00:23:59.660 not afraid of the media of what the next day's headline is going to be

00:24:07.820 the daily express okay it's a good paper you can read your express now

00:24:13.900 but they've gone with those fires and that train derailment

00:24:16.540 You're telling me there's not a cabal of the senior editors or owners

00:24:21.900 Of course there is

00:24:24.200 Hey guys

00:24:26.160 Don't talk about David Lammy's finances

00:24:29.760 Don't talk about who George Osborne is friends with

00:24:32.820 Don't talk about Andy Burnham's past in any real detail

00:24:39.340 Don't talk about any of that

00:24:40.640 Just talk about that a train was derailed and that there was a fire

00:24:45.680 Definitely don't talk about Epstein's connections to Ehud Barak

00:24:54.820 Okay

00:24:59.680 Furious 13 Walter Company is allowed to raise bills again

00:25:04.840 Despite poor performance

00:25:06.160 Don't hand out rewards for their failure

00:25:08.880 Fair enough isn't it 1.00

00:25:12.320 Something about Nicole Kidman again 1.00

00:25:14.120 Don't care

00:25:14.720 the ft the financial times harvey nichols has been bought by someone else don't care

00:25:20.520 anthropic investors bet on record two trillion dollar ipo valuation autumn listing planned for

00:25:27.600 startup anthropic appetite for ai boom to be tested the anthropic is gonna float its ipo

00:25:37.060 in a few months in the autumn whenever that is right it might be valued at two trillion dollars

00:25:45.040 surely that's overvalued surely that's overvalued

00:25:51.360 i mean i think spacex was a bit i was talking all about spacex wasn't i before

00:26:00.620 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

00:26:06.440 initial after all the initial hype it floats it goes up a bit because everyone wants someone

00:26:13.140 buys it because of the hype then it dips massively but then it sort of starts climbing back up and

00:26:18.240 it started it's real value i stand by i stand by all that take that spacex was a good buy

00:26:24.820 um anthropic that seems sort of even even more wildly over overpriced

00:26:34.420 who knows who knows right maybe companies like anthropic really are the future

00:26:41.420 they'll end up dominating one way or another even by proxy loads of other industries they

00:26:48.920 end up dominating the world in a sense and to have the tiniest slither of stock in them

00:26:54.440 Is just liquid gold

00:26:56.080 Who knows

00:26:56.660 Who knows

00:26:57.180 If I was going to buy Anthropic

00:27:00.420 Which I'm not going to

00:27:01.120 I've got no intention of doing so

00:27:02.140 I would at least wait for

00:27:04.100 The first little spike

00:27:05.820 And then the drop off

00:27:07.640 And if you're going to buy

00:27:08.860 If you're going to buy

00:27:10.400 Probably buy then

00:27:11.120 Who knows

00:27:14.340 Could be an all time dud

00:27:16.600 Who knows

00:27:18.340 Could be a dog

00:27:18.980 I don't know

00:27:20.080 Alright

00:27:20.460 Okay they're the papers

00:27:21.980 They're the increasingly absurd

00:27:23.340 and infuriating front pages

00:27:25.740 Alright, should we have a look at our poll

00:27:29.400 before we get into Nigel and Clacton

00:27:30.700 We did a poll today

00:27:32.920 Jack, if you bring that for me

00:27:35.360 One second, people

00:27:39.640 Oh, there we go, here he is

00:27:41.360 We asked you guys

00:27:42.760 Do you think

00:27:45.960 to show over 900 votes

00:27:47.960 Do you think Nigel Farage

00:27:50.180 will have to face

00:27:51.560 another by-election in Claxon, after this one, meaning.

00:27:55.800 We gave you the options of yes, no, and maybe. The IAs have it.

00:27:59.380 47% of you say yes, and the rest of you are quite split

00:28:03.660 between no and maybe. 27% say maybe, and 26% say no.

00:28:08.980 Okay. If I was taking that poll, I would

00:28:11.860 click yes. Of course, we just don't know what that standards commissioner

00:28:16.020 will, what conclusion he'll come to, and then if and when, I think when,

00:28:19.720 he passes it to like the standards committee what they will decide who knows it's entirely up to

00:28:25.340 the answer to that question is in their hands who knows what they'll decide but it's only a poll

00:28:33.120 we're just asking you if i was taking that poem would have clicked yes so 57% of you the eyes

00:28:40.700 have it, alright then, shall we get into the main event, the main event, ladies and gentlemen,

00:28:50.140 boys and girls, children of all ages, right, Nige, Nige had his by-election, won it handily,

00:28:58.460 of course he did, of course he did, a couple of things to note though, I think, there's

00:29:04.720 the stage there with uh most of the candidates look there's kaya i see he was there um where's

00:29:12.960 lozza lawrence fox i'm not seeing him in that particular image anyway uh there's been face of

00:29:17.380 course i can't miss the good count um nigel's not there though i just not there he didn't turn up

00:29:26.540 to his own count we'll talk about that in a moment a couple of data points on that uh but just the

00:29:33.540 result first of all so 91 everyone knew he would win of course of course he was gonna win just by

00:29:38.820 what margin really even that isn't like vastly important i'm sure they showed the there we go

00:29:46.180 here we go here we go all right so first thing i'll say turn out 44.4 percent lame lame i mean

00:29:54.740 by elections are usually lower than a general election but 44.4 percent it's not really galvanizing

00:30:03.540 People really isn't

00:30:04.960 More than half the people

00:30:07.420 Just not bothered who their MP is

00:30:09.900 Quick word about turnout

00:30:14.360 Participation

00:30:16.340 Read a whole book

00:30:18.820 And bits of other books

00:30:19.920 About political participation

00:30:21.360 When I was doing my post-grad

00:30:22.660 In government policy and politics

00:30:23.880 And wrote an essay all about participation

00:30:25.920 That's what actual political scientists call it

00:30:30.540 Turnout

00:30:33.540 it's actually vital in a democracy absolutely vital when you see that

00:30:38.540 turn out like at the mayor election Manchester mayor election which is a bit

00:30:41.700 different system that was super low super low like 25% quite often in general

00:30:46.980 elections we get like 50% 55 60% something like that it's really bad that

00:30:52.800 speaks to me that that the data points we get about turnout it's not just like

00:30:57.060 oh who cares what matter no it really matters it's of absolute

00:31:02.280 fundamental importance if nothing else it speaks of um speaks of like a a malaise

00:31:09.080 in our society it speaks of uh a deep-seated very very deep-seated deep-rooted disaffection

00:31:18.840 a cynicism real deep a real deep cynicism people feel so disenfranchised so ignored

00:31:29.640 but then won't even bother to turn out all right it's quite easy to vote there'll probably be a

00:31:38.300 polling station relatively near you and you go in there and the actual act itself once you've got

00:31:42.640 there the actual act itself takes like one minute or three minutes at most it's the only real

00:31:51.420 inconvenience is getting to the polling station and there's usually loads of them unless you live

00:31:56.120 a really really rural area if you live in any town or city it will be almost certainly within

00:32:01.400 walking distance and it takes you like two minutes three minutes to do it and people

00:32:06.280 can't won't even do that not even interested in that they've just turned their back on it

00:32:12.520 turned their back on the whole process that's

00:32:16.840 that's a deep deep deep worrying concern for me

00:32:21.720 real deep let's talk about that in a lot more detail but i won't

00:32:26.120 it's already gone half past but okay i also got up um a web page showing the results in clacton

00:32:32.920 for the last general election 2024 let's um so quick look at that shall we here we go let's

00:32:38.440 first of all let's have a look at the turnout on it so the turnout then was 58.4 percent i mean

00:32:43.240 by elections are usually lower than a general election but still nearly 60 percent turned up

00:32:50.360 then this time 44 I mean it is like most people even the people of Clacton know this was all a

00:32:58.180 bit of a charade a little bit of just a political gambit by Nigel a little bit of a bit of theatre

00:33:06.600 he was always going to win it it's not it's not a real proper by-election in in in that sense

00:33:12.720 in that limited sense it is a real by-election of course but you know the other party is deciding

00:33:17.740 to boycott it effectively nige versus bin face you can imagine the average voter in 0.91

00:33:26.140 action just like what what is this i'm not even gonna bother turning out to vote for that 0.87

00:33:34.940 all right so nigel got last night nigel got 63.3 of the vote a bit lower than a lot of the exit

00:33:43.180 polls or a lot of the polls i saw then he was likely to get more like 70 75 two or three polls

00:33:49.840 i saw put him on at 72 73 so slightly underperformed on that however however this whole by

00:33:58.120 election is a bit of a farce isn't it a little bit i'm loathe to agree with labor and lib dems

00:34:03.940 and all those but you know it is a bit so he got he got slightly more votes overall i think he got

00:34:11.340 like about 22 000 votes this time last time he got like 21 000 yeah this is from the 2024 election

00:34:19.980 so he got slightly more got an increased percentage

00:34:25.820 bin face got um he outperformed labor last time i can't remember but bin face got i think 9 000

00:34:34.460 odd votes 10 000 odd votes so he beat labor's offering last time he got about the same percentage

00:34:43.500 share as the conservatives well last time the conservatives got 27.9 this time been been

00:34:48.860 faced got what 26 26.9 so in facing the same ballpark as the conservatives but again oh look

00:34:59.900 Look, Lawrence Fox, he got 1%.

00:35:01.140 Give it up, mate.

00:35:03.060 Give it up, mate.

00:35:03.640 People don't want you.

00:35:04.520 They're not interested in you.

00:35:06.740 You're not a leader of men, are you?

00:35:08.880 You're a theatre kid. 1.00

00:35:11.220 You're a Nepo baby theatre kid, mate. 1.00

00:35:14.140 Give it a rest. 1.00

00:35:19.240 And an obnoxious Sivnat to boot. 1.00

00:35:22.480 All right, anyway. 0.99

00:35:25.160 Nigel didn't turn up, though.

00:35:27.620 Now.

00:35:29.900 Why is that?

00:35:31.780 It's very, very, very, very rare

00:35:33.520 For someone to not, well, for the winner

00:35:35.940 Of an election

00:35:37.080 Parliamentary election not to turn up

00:35:39.940 An interesting

00:35:41.400 Interesting

00:35:43.140 Data point

00:35:44.820 I saw someone say on the news this morning on the TV

00:35:47.280 On the real TV

00:35:48.020 The last time

00:35:51.780 A winner of a parliamentary

00:35:53.940 Election didn't turn up was

00:35:55.660 Bobby Sands in the early 80s

00:35:57.940 Ever heard of Bobby Sands?

00:35:59.900 an ira terrorist who was in prison he was running for election in prison one remarkably perhaps not

00:36:09.700 remarkably one and obviously couldn't turn up to the vote because he was in prison that was the

00:36:14.260 last time that happened so it's very rare sometimes if someone uh doesn't win they're

00:36:19.220 expected to win and they find out they're not going to win then they throw their toys out the

00:36:23.540 pram and don't bother turning up george galloway did that the other year he wanted to win he was 1.00

00:36:29.720 clear he wasn't going to from early indications so he just went home like a petulant bitch 0.99

00:36:37.280 george galloway i despise george galloway uh wrong and every his entire world view is wrong 0.99

00:36:47.060 anyway george galloway nigel didn't turn up now nigel said it was because of threats

00:36:55.320 Or reforming, Nigel said

00:36:57.380 It was because of threats, they had credible threats

00:36:59.420 So, okay, if that's true, fine, good

00:37:02.520 Yeah, I don't want Nigel to be hurt

00:37:03.940 Not a hair on his head

00:37:04.900 And I really mean that

00:37:06.280 His person should be inviolate

00:37:08.660 I've said that a number of times, haven't I?

00:37:11.840 The Tribune of the People in Ancient Rome

00:37:13.820 Absolutely sacrosanct his person

00:37:18.160 So he said there's threats

00:37:19.600 Then Essex Police said

00:37:21.700 There's no threats

00:37:22.660 There's been no threats that we know of

00:37:25.100 has like reform got better intelligence than the police i mean that's not inconceivable i doubt it

00:37:39.260 but it's not inconceivable it's not inconceivable is it what's more likely though isn't it it's a

00:37:45.040 bit more likely is that nigel didn't want to stand there and be in this picture

00:37:48.640 The optics of it 1.00

00:37:51.500 He didn't want to have to stand next to Binface 1.00

00:37:54.140 And Loza 1.00

00:37:55.440 And Kai

00:37:56.400 Because there would then be a photo of that for all time 0.97

00:37:59.600 And make him look a bit silly

00:38:01.040 There'd be photos of him sort of standing face to face 1.00

00:38:04.520 More or less with Binface 0.95

00:38:05.480 Maybe even sort of forced to shake hands with Binface 0.99

00:38:08.020 And I'd just have to put a brave face on it 1.00

00:38:09.880 And pretend it's funny

00:38:10.620 And laugh his head off

00:38:11.840 That's not ideal optics

00:38:13.440 He's trying to be super serious isn't he

00:38:15.180 Nigel's super serial as an MP and a politician 0.95

00:38:18.560 isn't that more likely if reform said nigel hasn't turned up because of a credible threat

00:38:25.720 and the police say anything even remotely like yeah like there's an outside possibility that 0.91

00:38:30.800 maybe that's a real thing that's true then fine then fine but the police have just said no no

00:38:36.260 so if the police are telling the truth

00:38:40.840 they might not be but on this instance in this why wouldn't they be anyway if that's true

00:38:48.540 Then it's almost certainly Nigel just didn't want to stand there

00:38:51.460 Who's treating the people of Clacton with contempt now? 1.00

00:39:02.660 Won't even turn up because of the optics of standing near Binface 0.96

00:39:06.540 And of course Nigel making the argument and Reform making the argument 0.94

00:39:11.340 That this was a win for him against the establishment

00:39:18.500 Yeah, it was Nigel versus the establishment

00:39:22.960 And he's come out on top

00:39:24.240 Is it, this is the establishment, is it

00:39:27.320 I mean there's the argument, let's get into that a little bit 0.81

00:39:30.980 There's the argument that Binface sort of is the establishment 0.94

00:39:33.080 Okay, to a degree, I accept that 0.99

00:39:35.660 Because the real guy, I can't remember his Christian name

00:39:38.560 It's Harvey, something Harvey, isn't it

00:39:39.940 He is sort of, in a sense, in a real sense

00:39:44.100 Sort of, the establishment

00:39:45.220 like he's a he's been a writer or a runner or to do with the writing of various bbc comedy things

00:39:51.780 isn't he wasn't he on the right for have i got news for you and various things like that

00:39:55.860 stuff like that so in that sense he's sort of he is a an establishment bbc type

00:40:02.580 containment globalist lefty leftoid douchebag really the real man behind the bin

00:40:11.000 So in that sense 0.80

00:40:14.120 You can make a legit argument 1.00

00:40:15.820 That Binface 1.00

00:40:17.220 On some level 1.00

00:40:19.140 Is the establishment

00:40:20.400 But that's it

00:40:21.840 That's as far as that goes though

00:40:22.820 So I

00:40:25.540 Not that far

00:40:26.680 If Reformer making

00:40:29.320 And Nigel making the argument

00:40:30.500 It was him

00:40:31.980 Versus the establishment

00:40:33.560 And he won

00:40:34.260 So okay I'll give you 5%

00:40:36.240 Of that being a credible

00:40:38.460 Decent

00:40:38.980 Solid argument

00:40:39.780 It's not 0%

00:40:40.860 It's not complete fiction and nonsense

00:40:43.740 But I'll give you 5%

00:40:45.200 I.e. 95% 0.58

00:40:47.820 Nah, I'm not buying that 1.00

00:40:48.840 Bin face is ultimately 1.00

00:40:51.700 Despite the man behind the bin 0.91

00:40:53.660 Is ultimately a novelty candidate

00:40:56.380 A joke

00:40:58.480 A joke, ultimately

00:41:00.000 And all the other candidates

00:41:04.040 Were never realistic, were they?

00:41:07.940 Poor Kai

00:41:08.320 Good for standing there and doing it though, mate

00:41:10.160 Kai Stevens

00:41:11.240 Well done

00:41:11.880 Well done

00:41:13.960 For giving it a go

00:41:15.280 It does take a bit of 0.98

00:41:16.940 A bit of balls 0.97

00:41:18.480 To do that 0.94

00:41:19.100 Even when you know 0.76

00:41:19.980 You're going to be a paper candidate

00:41:20.940 You know you'll probably lose

00:41:22.240 Your

00:41:22.520 Your

00:41:24.080 Deposit

00:41:25.820 You have to go through

00:41:27.240 The whole thing anyway

00:41:28.020 You have to get up

00:41:28.680 And stand there

00:41:29.420 And you have to

00:41:31.280 And you go through the

00:41:32.280 The spotlight of it all

00:41:34.360 That takes a bit of guts

00:41:36.040 Most people haven't got the guts

00:41:37.040 To do that

00:41:37.400 With your real name

00:41:38.060 Your real face

00:41:38.680 The whole nine yards

00:41:39.480 front and center chest out chin up that takes a bit of gut so well done well done 1.00

00:41:45.680 nonetheless this is not the establishment really it really really isn't because that's what nigel

00:41:52.860 wanted wasn't he wanted to call this election and all the big parties would stand then he'd beat

00:41:57.860 them which he probably would probably will if there's another by-election i would i had to put

00:42:01.460 a tenner on it i put nigel to win it again probably i would yeah um then you could make the argument

00:42:06.960 I'd flip it around

00:42:08.140 I'd say it's 95%

00:42:09.380 That yeah

00:42:10.540 The argument that you've beaten

00:42:12.140 Taken on the establishment

00:42:13.220 And won

00:42:14.760 Yeah fine good

00:42:16.000 That makes sense

00:42:17.060 This doesn't make sense

00:42:18.580 This doesn't make sense

00:42:19.760 You're not really beating the establishment

00:42:21.740 But yeah he's come out

00:42:22.840 And he said that

00:42:24.220 Making that argument

00:42:25.020 The argument he would have made anyway

00:42:26.460 Even if the Tories and Labour and everyone

00:42:28.280 Were stood against him

00:42:29.380 Hmm

00:42:31.280 Falling a bit flat

00:42:33.100 That argument falls a bit flat

00:42:34.940 It doesn't really

00:42:35.820 like a deflated whoopee cushion mate doesn't ring true it rings hollow and here we go straight away

00:42:44.440 the very morning of nigel's victory bbc go with farage's by-election victory won't stop questions

00:42:51.940 about finances yeah if that was the purpose of it that was that was the strategy that was the

00:42:59.700 gambit of course that was never going to work that's one of the things bin face said how did

00:43:05.460 How do the strategists and Nigel not know that wouldn't work?

00:43:11.520 Straight away, just straight back into it.

00:43:14.020 Straight back into the frying pan.

00:43:16.560 Nigel's five million pounds.

00:43:20.020 Christopher Harbourn.

00:43:22.300 Posh George, the convicted fraudster.

00:43:24.140 And on and on and on.

00:43:26.360 Ticey Ticey, Richard Ticey is embroiled in it all as well.

00:43:30.740 Nothing stops, nothing is over.

00:43:32.780 Should we hear from

00:43:35.700 There's a couple of videos here

00:43:36.720 I thought were

00:43:37.320 Were interesting

00:43:39.580 Wasn't it on

00:43:40.220 Sorry I thought it was on the mail

00:43:41.260 They had

00:43:43.020 A couple of videos

00:43:45.620 Oh no sorry

00:43:46.660 Oh no sorry

00:43:47.540 It's Sky

00:43:47.840 Sorry

00:43:48.180 Sky

00:43:48.800 Should we hear from

00:43:51.660 Should we hear from 1.00

00:43:53.960 Nige 1.00

00:43:54.400 And Binface 1.00

00:43:55.360 Should we hear from them 1.00

00:43:56.200 Let them speak for themselves

00:43:57.320 Here we go

00:43:58.480 Let's listen to Nigel

00:44:00.080 Again this

00:44:01.180 This was somewhere else

00:44:02.620 This was like a Reform HQ somewhere.

00:44:05.120 I don't think it was. 0.89

00:44:06.120 It certainly wasn't at the count.

00:44:08.940 33 years ago.

00:44:12.140 It is now 33 years since I first stood in a parliamentary by-election.

00:44:19.580 That was Eastleigh back in 1994.

00:44:26.740 They're a funny old lot from Hampshire, aren't they?

00:44:32.480 And over the intervening years, I've stood in many elections, general elections, European

00:44:42.800 elections, and now a second, by election. And every time, I've really enjoyed going

00:44:53.900 to the Count. It's exciting. It's dramatic. You're on the stage. It's something to be

00:45:01.200 And I'm sad to say that after 33 years of being a candidate in active politics,

00:45:08.200 I've been advised tonight by Essex Police that there is an organised campaign

00:45:14.200 to disrupt and degrade the result that will take place in a few hours' time.

00:45:24.200 But he said there wasn't.

00:45:25.200 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.

00:45:55.200 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.

00:46:18.320 And I will not, sadly, be attending the count

00:46:21.100 Which means

00:46:22.040 Which means

00:46:24.580 I'm going to be here all night

00:46:26.720 Yay

00:46:31.100 Yay

00:46:32.360 Well

00:46:34.740 I mean, there you go

00:46:37.460 What can you say?

00:46:39.360 The police said there wasn't any

00:46:41.740 Any threats

00:46:43.460 But it may well have been

00:46:44.600 You know, it might not have been like a full-blown

00:46:48.020 sort of death threats or bomb threats or whatever but it might have just been they knew that people

00:46:53.880 were going to turn up with milkshakes might just be something like that or just people that were

00:46:58.280 just like play super loud white noise over nigel's acceptance speech or something i don't know like

00:47:04.340 who knows who knows maybe the police are wrong or the reporting i've seen this morning that 0.60

00:47:10.360 the police said that that's wrong and in fact what nigel said there is absolutely correct

00:47:13.840 i'm not ruling that out

00:47:15.120 let's hear from bin face though the runner-up you mentioned uh makerfield i i got a 0.2 percent

00:47:26.800 in that election and uh let's just say uh speculate that i managed to keep my deposit

00:47:32.720 which would be a nice start five percent i make that a two and a half thousand percent swing

00:47:39.160 to bin face in two months i think that's the greatest swing in british political history

00:47:45.040 but you probably know better than me.

00:47:47.040 I'm not sure about that.

00:47:48.180 You just said at the beginning of this interview

00:47:49.840 that Nigel Farage is claiming victory.

00:47:52.700 He is.

00:47:53.520 Well, in that case, it's going to be a two-legged match,

00:47:56.320 like the Carabao Cup or the Cold War,

00:47:58.800 because we're going to be back again in a few weeks, aren't we?

00:48:01.240 Hold on to your popcorn, everyone,

00:48:03.160 because the second leg in Clacton, which I prophesied,

00:48:06.780 I said to the people of Clacton, 1.00

00:48:09.440 vote Binface, and you would save approximately 350 grand 1.00

00:48:13.580 on a second by-election. 0.99

00:48:15.600 So I reckon, how about this?

00:48:17.500 He said reform would pay for the second one.

00:48:19.700 Maybe Nigel could pay for it out of his five million.

00:48:22.420 That'd be nice.

00:48:23.560 Mr Farage has said this week that if there was a second by-election,

00:48:27.080 that would be silly. 1.00

00:48:28.500 And tonight, he said it would be stupid. 1.00

00:48:30.600 What do you think about that? 0.99

00:48:31.680 Well, I'm glad he's not saying that this by-election's silly,

00:48:34.380 which, of course, it isn't.

00:48:35.640 It's a very fair and positive campaign

00:48:37.680 between two rival candidates to rule the country.

00:48:41.200 What do you think about the fact that he's got this inquiry by the Standards Commissioner and then the Standards Committee?

00:48:47.900 Well, the thing which makes me curious, and I'm interested to get a journalist's view on this,

00:48:52.320 is that there was a report in one of the papers, I believe, a speculation,

00:48:57.900 that the Reform UK strategists believed that by calling this by-election pre-emptively,

00:49:05.080 it would avert the need for a by-election

00:49:08.200 after the result of the Parliamentary Standards Committee.

00:49:12.140 Now, I'm a space warrior from Sigma-9

00:49:14.560 with a fixation for CFAX and Lovejoy.

00:49:17.580 But even I knew...

00:49:18.580 Lovejoy, that's going back a bit.

00:49:19.940 Exactly. But even I knew...

00:49:21.480 Dennis McShane.

00:49:22.320 Lovely.

00:49:22.840 No, not Dennis McShane.

00:49:24.240 He was the MP, wasn't he?

00:49:25.400 Ian McShane.

00:49:26.300 Come on, John.

00:49:27.880 It's actually a university challenge.

00:49:29.460 So, you know, what I'm saying is that even if I knew

00:49:32.520 that that wouldn't work,

00:49:33.980 How would a putative government-in-waiting not know how Parliament works?

00:49:38.640 I find that fascinating.

00:49:39.820 One vote is beautiful.

00:49:42.180 I would take that, you know? 1.00

00:49:43.400 Okay, that's enough from Binface. 1.00

00:49:45.520 He is a bit of a dick, isn't he? 1.00

00:49:47.000 The real guy behind the thing, behind the bin. 1.00

00:49:49.800 So, all right.

00:49:51.400 But that was a fair point, wasn't it?

00:49:54.940 If the strategy from reform was to put all the scandal to bed,

00:50:03.980 it's just not gonna that it's not a thing it doesn't work so nigel thinks the next by 1.00

00:50:12.020 election should there be one that will be stupid and silly not this one the next one 1.00

00:50:17.620 that would be stupid and silly right not not this 1.00

00:50:23.520 okay well okay this isn't stupid and silly no 1.00

00:50:32.240 when Nigel's not even there 0.96

00:50:34.800 okay all right all right well okay

00:50:39.740 it's already 10-2 so that's that's the main story Nigel is back in parliament but all the questions

00:50:48.940 Around finances

00:50:50.220 Whether they're legit or not

00:50:51.380 Whether it's a giant

00:50:52.260 Giant stitch up

00:50:53.640 Which it may well be

00:50:54.780 I don't know

00:50:55.240 All of that will just start again now

00:50:58.420 He just bought himself

00:51:00.280 A month of extra time

00:51:01.740 That's all this really was

00:51:03.840 Buying himself a month of extra time

00:51:06.620 Unless the standards committee

00:51:09.900 Commissioner and committee

00:51:10.900 Conclude that

00:51:14.420 Reform have done absolutely nothing wrong

00:51:16.720 But I feel like

00:51:18.800 Because I don't know one way or another

00:51:20.660 I've said that a number of times right

00:51:22.320 So let's make that perfectly clear

00:51:23.440 That's why I'm sort of sit on the fence

00:51:25.540 That's why I'm prepared to give the benefit of the doubt

00:51:27.080 Until the conclusion

00:51:27.660 But it feels like a lot of people in the know

00:51:29.960 In the actual Westminster bubble

00:51:32.840 It feels like a lot of those people

00:51:36.480 If not the vast majority of them

00:51:38.360 They know that the Standards Commission

00:51:43.480 Will come back and say

00:51:44.500 Reform have done something wrong

00:51:47.060 And Nigel has broken the rules

00:51:49.840 We shall see

00:51:53.120 Alright then

00:51:54.140 Let's have a look

00:51:55.320 On this day in history

00:51:56.440 You guys seem to like that bit

00:51:58.240 I enjoy doing that bit

00:51:59.280 Down through the centuries

00:52:01.400 Near millennia

00:52:02.000 On this day

00:52:02.780 The 14th of August

00:52:03.560 What happened of note

00:52:05.080 Let's have a look

00:52:05.600 What have we got

00:52:06.100 Okay

00:52:06.660 In the year 1281

00:52:09.280 During Kublai Khan's 0.60

00:52:10.860 This Genghis Khan's grant

00:52:11.940 One of Genghis Khan's

00:52:12.980 Many grandchildren

00:52:13.660 When Kublai Khan's 0.98

00:52:15.180 Second Mongol invasion of Japan 0.93

00:52:16.780 His invading Chinese fleet, well, Mongolian Chinese fleet

00:52:20.560 Of 3,500 vessels

00:52:22.700 Disappeared in a typhoon near the Japanese coast

00:52:25.780 Yeah, say disappeared 1.00

00:52:27.420 The Japanese kamikazed it into oblivion 1.00

00:52:30.760 The late 13th century Japanese flew their zeros 1.00

00:52:34.820 Nose first, straight into the Mongolian fleet 1.00

00:52:37.780 And blew it out of the water 1.00

00:52:38.720 Kamikaze 1.00

00:52:39.880 Of course, of course they didn't 0.91

00:52:43.980 It was kamikaze, but it wasn't aeroplanes

00:52:46.240 Kamikaze means

00:52:47.880 Oh what does it mean 0.58

00:52:49.980 Like a

00:52:50.980 Furious wind

00:52:54.060 Or something like that doesn't it

00:52:55.500 Something like that anyway

00:52:57.400 In fact Harry can you google

00:52:59.780 The exact translation of kamikaze for me

00:53:02.120 In fact probably someone in the chat

00:53:03.860 Is already saying it probably immediately

00:53:05.160 It's like a furious winds

00:53:07.560 Or winds of fury or something like that isn't it

00:53:09.160 Probably translate it more than one way

00:53:10.620 Divine wind

00:53:14.280 Sorry or spirit wind

00:53:16.880 divine wind or spirit wind okay all right

00:53:20.800 divine okay all right yeah because there was a there's a big storm there was a big storm

00:53:28.480 it rises like like

00:53:33.040 like a storm

00:53:36.000 and it took out kublai khan's uh invasion fleet largely a kamikaze an actual storm

00:53:41.440 okay so the mongols never did invade japan properly i mean they tried they landed a bit

00:53:47.960 but it was not successful could have been if it wasn't for that big storm that one time in 1281

00:53:54.020 okay all right because kubla khan wasn't happy with the japanese trading with the southern song

00:54:02.500 his chinese enemies there's a lot to it if you're interested in that in great detail i still haven't

00:54:08.380 done an epochs on it yet or series of epochs on the mongols i've been threatening to for five

00:54:13.040 years just haven't done if you want to know fall of civilizations podcast that's what it's called

00:54:19.400 fall of civilizations podcast they're free on youtube unabridged

00:54:25.420 you want a fair few hours of that or dan carlin has also got a very long series hours and hours

00:54:32.840 and hours and hours worth on the mongols both of those are excellent excellent it's worth knowing

00:54:37.860 about the mongols brilliant stories in and of themselves and world changing absolutely world

00:54:44.220 changing okay let's move on on this day in 1842 us army colonel worth declares the second seminole

00:54:50.980 war over after nearly seven years over 3 000 surviving members of the seminole nation are

00:54:56.920 forcibly relocated from florida to oklahoma with only about 300 permitted to remain 0.74

00:55:03.020 Yeah, they're in

00:55:05.060 Yeah, Florida, yeah

00:55:06.680 My ancestor, so I've got American ancestors

00:55:09.220 Of European descent, of course

00:55:11.280 My DNA shows

00:55:13.340 I'm sort of British

00:55:14.720 Almost entirely British, over 90%

00:55:16.960 90% odd British

00:55:18.320 Entirely Northwest European

00:55:23.300 Well 0.97

00:55:24.940 The possible exception of a tiny bit

00:55:27.440 Maybe of

00:55:29.720 I need like 1.8% or something of 0.93

00:55:33.660 Basque

00:55:36.400 Well actually my results for ancestry

00:55:38.800 And living DNA were slightly different

00:55:40.740 Might have a tiny tiny amount of

00:55:43.180 What was it? Mohawk

00:55:45.360 In there, that would have come from my father's side 0.94

00:55:47.620 If it's real, if it's not just noise in the DNA

00:55:49.840 Tom Rosell survived the jive

00:55:51.960 Says anything as low as 1%, 2%

00:55:54.060 Might just be noise and it might not really be there

00:55:56.060 But anyway, one of my American ancestors

00:55:58.780 Francis Langhorne Dade

00:56:00.840 Major Francis Langhorne Dade

00:56:03.540 He fought in the first Seminole War

00:56:06.040 I believe

00:56:06.620 He got himself and all his men killed

00:56:10.340 Anyway

00:56:13.900 By the sort of mid 19th century

00:56:16.460 Native American Indian peoples 1.00

00:56:19.140 Can't put up any real proper fight 1.00

00:56:21.700 Against the US Army and Cavalry

00:56:24.780 Like once in a blue moon

00:56:26.260 They might get a win

00:56:27.100 Like the Battle of Little Bighall or something

00:56:28.820 But ultimately

00:56:29.540 On the grand stage

00:56:32.780 Tactically

00:56:34.780 Strategically

00:56:36.140 There's no

00:56:37.220 No contest

00:56:39.400 Alright, on this day in 1945

00:56:43.180 It's VJ Day 0.83

00:56:44.700 Victory in Japan Day 0.51

00:56:45.940 The end, the final end of World War II 0.95

00:56:47.960 There you go

00:56:51.580 And there's a returning sailor kissing a young lady

00:56:53.940 Perhaps against her will

00:56:56.240 It just doesn't look particularly into it, does she?

00:56:59.120 But anyway, let's not speculate on that

00:57:01.920 We won the war

00:57:05.740 The Allies finally won the war 0.99

00:57:08.720 Nuked Japan into oblivion 0.99

00:57:10.840 Alright 0.98

00:57:11.420 VJ Day 0.94

00:57:13.280 The Empire of Japan surrenders unconditionally to Allies

00:57:15.860 Are you sure about that?

00:57:17.180 Was it unconditional?

00:57:17.940 It wasn't unconditional, wasn't it?

00:57:18.920 Hirohito got to remain Emperor, didn't it?

00:57:20.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah

00:57:21.060 They say that, don't they?

00:57:22.540 That's history for you

00:57:23.560 There's certain tropes, certain things people say

00:57:25.620 Like the accepted armchair version of history

00:57:27.460 You just scratch the surface and it's wrong

00:57:29.500 We talked about it yesterday, didn't we?

00:57:32.320 Or on Wednesday or something?

00:57:35.040 That's the classic thing

00:57:35.800 America insisted on 0.51

00:57:37.940 The Allies insisted on unconditional surrender 0.96

00:57:41.380 And we did 0.96

00:57:45.060 We won an unconditional surrender

00:57:47.040 Yeah, but we wasn't though, wasn't it?

00:57:48.960 Not that it really matters ultimately in the scheme of things

00:57:51.160 Hirohito got to remain Emperor of Japan

00:57:55.620 that was one of the lines in the sand that Roosevelt and Churchill and then Truman had

00:57:59.740 like no no we're good you don't get to be emperor anymore that's our conditions are that and we

00:58:05.500 insist on an unconditional surrender and in the end even after they'd nuked them and firebombed 0.95

00:58:10.900 Tokyo into cinders the Japanese were still like no we insist on if nothing else and it really was 0.95

00:58:17.720 nothing else if nothing else Hirohita gets to remain emperor of the Japanese and in the end 0.95

00:58:22.220 Truman's like, OK, all right.

00:58:24.940 OK, let's just put an end to this, please.

00:58:27.300 Can we?

00:58:28.000 Can we?

00:58:28.960 OK.

00:58:30.220 Your little old emperor dude gets to still remain nominally the emperor.

00:58:33.640 OK.

00:58:34.860 We'll make MacArthur and the US the actual rulers of Japan for an interim period.

00:58:39.980 OK.

00:58:41.580 Nominally, your emperor can still be emperor.

00:58:43.400 All right.

00:58:44.040 Can we end this now?

00:58:46.120 It's not unconditional.

00:58:47.220 Don't say it's unconditional.

00:58:48.200 It wasn't unconditional. 0.95

00:58:49.360 The Japanese had a condition and the Americans accepted it. 0.56

00:58:52.220 maybe it's a tiny point of history

00:58:54.760 but there you go, people

00:58:57.020 they lie about it to this day

00:58:58.600 I mean lies, that's a bit strong, just incorrect isn't it 0.94

00:59:01.440 Japan surrenders

00:59:03.640 unconditionally to allies, no

00:59:05.180 it wasn't

00:59:06.620 ending world war 2, in Japan

00:59:09.080 it was actually the 15th of August

00:59:10.400 because of the time zones

00:59:11.780 on this day in 1947

00:59:15.160 Pakistan gains independence from the

00:59:17.200 United Kingdom 0.97

00:59:17.860 Jinnah isn't it

00:59:21.180 Muhammad Ali Jinnah insisted that the Muslims need their own land, their own country

00:59:27.300 Because we're giving up India, the British Raj

00:59:31.060 The British controlled India would be given back to the native peoples

00:59:36.620 So they can have home rule and be completely independent and rule themselves

00:59:39.980 Okay

00:59:40.840 Well and good

00:59:43.500 The millstone around our neck and had been the whole time really 1.00

00:59:51.180 But then the Muslims and the Hindus 1.00

00:59:54.780 Are like immediately like 1.00

00:59:56.260 We probably can't live together really properly

01:00:00.960 In any sort of actual peace

01:00:02.540 Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi

01:00:04.580 And a lot of the Hindus

01:00:06.740 And the Indian nationalist types

01:00:08.760 No, let's all stay together as one big country 0.98

01:00:11.780 And the Muslims, largely under 1.00

01:00:13.980 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

01:00:16.540 Say no, we insist we have our own country

01:00:19.300 Eastern West Pakistan

01:00:21.460 East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh

01:00:25.100 Eventually, later 1.00

01:00:26.700 But, okay

01:00:27.900 And then partition 0.99

01:00:28.600 And the Hindus and Muslims 1.00

01:00:31.360 Just start butchering each other wholesale 1.00

01:00:33.260 Oh, okay

01:00:36.660 So British rule had been preventing that all along

01:00:40.420 The second we leave

01:00:42.920 They revert to that

01:00:44.240 Oh, okay

01:00:46.320 Well done

01:00:49.300 I showed their true colours

01:00:53.300 I see your true colours shining through

01:00:58.300 Okay, on this day in 1969, British Army deploys on the streets of Northern Ireland beginning Operation Banner

01:01:04.300 Just evil Brits, just evil Englishmen just want to invade Northern Ireland for no reason 0.97

01:01:09.300 Just because they love shooting up Irish people 1.00

01:01:12.300 There's no reason for it, other than just being evil Brits 0.98

01:01:16.300 Or was it to try and protect Protestants from Catholic terrorism, essentially? 0.90

01:01:22.520 Ooh, might get in a bit of trouble for that one. 0.96

01:01:25.160 Shame, it's the truth.

01:01:27.200 On this day in 1980, 17,000 workers strike at the Lenin ship guard in Gdansk, Poland,

01:01:34.880 beginning the Solidarity movement.

01:01:36.820 Interesting.

01:01:37.460 It's a long time before the final, well, 10, 11 years before the final collapse of the Soviet project. 0.96

01:01:42.560 Poland were the first. 0.98

01:01:43.680 I'm pretty sure they were the first 1.00

01:01:45.580 To break away

01:01:46.640 Literally as soon as Gorbachev said

01:01:49.460 The satellite peoples and

01:01:53.380 Would-be nations of the Soviet bloc

01:01:56.260 If you want to have an independence vote for yourself 0.99

01:01:59.200 We'll allow it 1.00

01:02:00.860 Poland's like, yes, we'll take that, yes 1.00

01:02:02.160 And we vote overwhelmingly for it, thank you

01:02:03.960 Poland

01:02:06.400 Good on them, good on them 1.00

01:02:07.920 Alright

01:02:08.860 Let's have a look at our Rumble Rants and Superchats

01:02:12.640 I'd like to do the Rumble Rants first.

01:02:14.080 Do you think Global Church History will be in at number one?

01:02:15.720 Is it going to be a good day?

01:02:16.980 What have we got?

01:02:21.020 No.

01:02:21.720 He's not.

01:02:22.520 I thought he was.

01:02:23.980 Is he first in on the...

01:02:26.200 He's not first in on the...

01:02:28.280 Oh, he is first in.

01:02:30.540 Sorry.

01:02:31.280 He was first...

01:02:31.780 Sorry, I'll have to explain it slightly.

01:02:34.520 Because Jack, it's not Little Harry's Jack today.

01:02:38.160 He's done it ever so slightly differently.

01:02:40.400 And it confused me.

01:02:41.200 usually i have my rumble rants on the left hand side and the youtube on the right hand side

01:02:48.260 and without actually looking at what i'm looking at i've assumed he's done it the same as usual

01:02:53.280 but he's flipped them over so the tiniest difference completely bamboozled me all right

01:02:59.980 let's have a look at our rumble rants that are on the right hand side of my screen this morning and

01:03:04.440 global church history is in a number one good fine phew everything's all right there's balance

01:03:08.740 in the universe again global church history number one and still reigning defending

01:03:15.860 mr global church history christian name global middle name church surname history says

01:03:20.180 today in 70 bc hortense abandons varies as cicero's case against him was too strong

01:03:27.220 we talked about that before i think global church history likes that story of cicero

01:03:31.220 it definitely came up before didn't it um so 70 ad it's after the age of sulla

01:03:36.020 so there's dies in like 78 AD or something we're counting down when it's BC so that 70 AD is after

01:03:43.560 78 AD um yeah one of those great great uh set piece cases where Cicero the great orator the

01:03:51.260 great statesman and barrister the equivalent of a barrister lawyer argues in court that uh

01:04:00.060 particularly corrupt governor varies was protected from up on hire was in fact guilty

01:04:05.860 Of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanours

01:04:08.340 What today we'd probably call

01:04:10.040 Like embezzlement or whatever

01:04:11.800 Good, yeah, Cicero

01:04:13.660 Do you think I've got long-form content all about the life and career

01:04:16.080 And adventures of Marcus Tullius Cicero

01:04:18.240 Tully to his friends

01:04:19.300 Do you think that's there?

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01:06:02.620 Global church history's second factoid of the morning is

01:06:06.720 What have we got?

01:06:07.640 You say

01:06:07.960 On this day in 1040 AD

01:06:10.280 Macbeth killed King Duncan

01:06:12.200 At Pitt Gaveney

01:06:15.280 Pitt Gaveney

01:06:16.420 Well

01:06:17.420 Macbeth was a real historical figure

01:06:19.700 That's true

01:06:21.180 You know

01:06:21.920 But

01:06:22.460 The events

01:06:23.840 And the dialogue

01:06:25.700 And various things in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth

01:06:28.820 Are just

01:06:30.300 It's just Shakespeare, it's just Shakespeare's fancy

01:06:33.160 But nonetheless Macbeth was a real

01:06:36.260 A real historical figure

01:06:38.160 A bit like that Mel Gibson film

01:06:41.200 With Braveheart

01:06:41.880 You know, like William Wallace was a real person

01:06:44.500 And he did get eventually caught

01:06:46.960 And executed by the English

01:06:48.080 But most of the details of that film

01:06:50.980 And the Macbeth play

01:06:53.240 By Shakespeare is not, it's not real

01:06:54.960 It's a screenwriter's fancy

01:06:58.880 Unless, interesting though, Macbeth was real

01:07:01.340 Okay

01:07:01.720 Next two, three

01:07:04.540 The next three are all Geoffrey Farnall

01:07:07.080 I think they're connected at a glance

01:07:09.240 So I'll just read them all in one go

01:07:10.560 You've put a little contextual factoid

01:07:13.660 Oh, I like factoids

01:07:14.620 You've put, after the Battle of Omdaman

01:07:17.160 Oh, I know a lot about this

01:07:18.340 I wonder where you're going with this

01:07:19.240 Let's see where he's going with this

01:07:20.460 After the Battle of Omdaman

01:07:21.780 Kitchener, General Kitchener

01:07:24.500 The English British commander

01:07:26.240 uh kitchener was widely criticized included by queen victoria for ordering the killing of the

01:07:32.780 wounded however if you read gordon's journal gordon of cartoon gordon of china do you think

01:07:39.480 i've got content all about that um during the earlier siege which kitchener will surely have

01:07:44.260 done as he was part of the relief expedition uh he i guess gordon explicitly advises in favor of

01:07:50.940 this because the wounded mardists will attack anyone who tries to help them doesn't it show

01:07:57.460 how something which at first seems needlessly brutal is actually understandable with a bit

01:08:01.940 of context yeah quite often yeah like richard i's slaughter of a load of captives when you look at

01:08:10.900 the detail of it i mean it's super brutal but he sort of didn't have much choice

01:08:14.840 A sort of de rigueur for the day

01:08:17.880 And he didn't have much choice

01:08:18.900 Okay

01:08:19.940 The Battle of Omdurman

01:08:21.760 Love it 1.00

01:08:22.920 That's the reconquest of the Sudan 1.00

01:08:26.440 Churchill was there 0.99

01:08:27.880 A young Churchill

01:08:28.840 Young man in the Lancers 1.00

01:08:30.760 Even rigged down a couple of Sudanese Mardists 1.00

01:08:34.880 With his lance and killed him 1.00

01:08:36.260 He was really happy about it 0.99

01:08:37.720 Really proud of it

01:08:38.420 Yeah he wrote a great book about it

01:08:41.880 A great book about it

01:08:42.820 Called The River War

01:08:44.840 I'm not a big fan of Churchill the politician

01:08:48.600 the 1930s 40s era politician but as a writer his prose is very very very good

01:08:55.140 very good the river I'm pretty sure it's on audiobook unabridged on YouTube

01:08:59.960 check it out it's worth your time

01:09:02.840 the story is there was Mardists Islamic fundamentalist rebels in Sudan or the 0.96

01:09:12.220 bit of land we now call the Sudan pushing up into Egypt causing all sorts of problems

01:09:17.660 for Egypt we kind the British kind of controlled in a de facto sense Egypt it's not like we

01:09:24.580 had a viceroy of Egypt exactly but the Khedive of Egypt the leader of Egypt was sort of did

01:09:30.620 as he was told by the British essentially more or less we're talking the late 19th century

01:09:34.600 here as well, like Omdaman, the Battle of Omdaman is like 1898, 1899, 1898, and the Egyptians

01:09:43.980 just kept saying to us, help us, help us, we've got this giant rebellion on our southern

01:09:47.400 borders, help us, and the British are like Gladstone and stuff, are like, no, like, we've 0.54

01:09:52.060 already got far too many colonial commitments, we're already insanely thinly stretched all

01:09:57.420 around the whole world, like, no, no, it's your problem, deal with it, like, you keep

01:10:01.520 moaning about how we've got too much influence over you already but now you want us to fight

01:10:06.500 your war for you as well like no and they just it got worse and worse and worse they kept insisting

01:10:11.580 help us help us send an army over here a relief force an expedition force come and save us we

01:10:16.980 can't save ourselves we need you to and in the end the british right really reluctantly like

01:10:23.480 Okay, alright

01:10:24.600 Okay, we'll send an expedition force to

01:10:28.140 To do a reconquest of the Sudan on your behalf, nominally

01:10:32.480 Okay

01:10:33.900 So we did, we sent over that with General Goulden

01:10:36.660 Goulden of China

01:10:37.360 To become Goulden of Cartoon

01:10:39.140 And it failed, and he got himself killed

01:10:41.040 General Goulden

01:10:43.080 And then that

01:10:45.520 That made the British public annoyed, you see

01:10:48.600 We were annoyed at that point

01:10:50.320 How dare they kill one of our great men

01:10:51.780 One of our great statesmen

01:10:53.080 With a well known household name 1.00

01:10:55.720 But he just got murdered by the Sudanese 1.00

01:10:57.840 We can't have that 1.00

01:11:00.360 Good God

01:11:01.160 So he sent over a bigger army

01:11:02.780 And did then completely do a reconquest of the Sudan 1.00

01:11:05.220 Wiped out the Mardists and their Mardi 1.00

01:11:07.300 And did a quick siege on Omdaman 1.00

01:11:10.660 Their capital, the city of Omdaman 0.70

01:11:12.160 And beat them 1.00

01:11:14.280 Because we had gunboats and rifles and machine guns

01:11:17.200 And they had like spears and bows and arrows 1.00

01:11:19.220 Here you go, the reconquist of the Sudan 1.00

01:11:23.640 Back in 98, I think it was 0.99

01:11:31.660 Was it?

01:11:37.040 It was then

01:11:37.820 I was awarded the Victoria Cross

01:11:40.900 For bravery above and beyond the call of duty

01:11:45.120 those were the days

01:11:51.200 discipline, you see

01:11:54.000 discipline was the thing

01:11:55.920 I had Bill's character and all that

01:11:59.280 what, don't you know

01:12:00.580 the esprit de corps

01:12:03.820 anyway, anyway

01:12:08.880 I could talk all about

01:12:10.960 Battle of Omdermann 0.99

01:12:12.480 Cousin Bertie called a blighty one

01:12:15.820 An omberman actually

01:12:16.960 Called a spear right in the leg 1.00

01:12:19.900 One of the bloody fuzzy wuzzies 1.00

01:12:22.800 Almost ripped the damn thing off 1.00

01:12:25.620 Rightful injury it was 0.98

01:12:28.100 Rightful

01:12:28.520 Okay

01:12:32.100 Let's move on

01:12:34.880 Fool and Firebird says

01:12:36.780 Thin face is absolutely 1.00

01:12:39.580 100% a libtard 0.64

01:12:41.240 lefty establishment weapon yeah i mean yeah i agree i understand yeah all right you're not wrong 0.84

01:12:45.380 that's not wrong he would never stand like this against a true leftist well well i don't know

01:12:53.840 about that his job isn't to win is to make a farce well that's true so that's true though absolutely

01:12:58.980 farage is still an enemy though yeah that sounds so true the only thing you've said there which i

01:13:05.160 won't completely 100 agree with is that being faced would never stand like this against a true

01:13:10.520 leftist i think he would wherever there's going to be uh some sort of by-election or election

01:13:15.880 where there's going to be loads of cameras there and the papers might write about it he will go

01:13:19.320 there but anyway i still understand what you're saying and everything else you've said there 100

01:13:28.040 100 yeah chango 98 says lotus eaters lotus eaters tribute act when

01:13:36.920 and then you've got uh like uh the musical note emoji sign thing the first picture of you the

01:13:45.920 first picture of summer i feel like they're quote that's like you're quoting from a real life song

01:13:50.000 but i don't know those lyrics don't ring a bell to me let's see so those seasons tribute act when

01:13:54.940 the first picture of you the first picture of summer all i can think of is pictures of you by

01:13:59.960 the cure i love that song but those are not the lyrics of it so if they're lyrics to another song

01:14:05.340 sorry i don't know i'm not ringing about it's not ringing about me thanks for the super chat

01:14:08.780 anyway all right dragon lady chris says i got the bobby sands cookbook it's really to die for

01:14:13.580 oh that's in bad taste oh dragon lady chris i probably should have read that first before i

01:14:19.100 read it out oh it's quite funny though bobby sands mentioned earlier the ira you know cooking up

01:14:28.460 bombs that it's to die for 0.52

01:14:30.780 okay i've said it now it's happened now it's live it's live on the internet what are you gonna do

01:14:38.940 all right hick dog 5150 says read the leaky water a rough estimate is to irrigate irrigate a wheat

01:14:47.680 field you need uh about 400 000 to 600 000 liters per acre is that right you're a farmer you should

01:14:54.500 know is that right that sounds like a lot to me i wouldn't have thought it was anywhere near that

01:14:57.780 I'm sure you're right though, I'm not questioning you

01:15:00.240 Gives an idea of what could be done with that wasted water

01:15:04.020 Yeah, yeah

01:15:04.780 Is it that much?

01:15:07.000 400,000 to 600,000 litres per acre

01:15:10.340 Per acre

01:15:12.280 Is that for a whole summer or is that

01:15:14.340 It's not for like one day

01:15:16.480 Is that for like a whole season?

01:15:20.000 Still, even if it's for the whole season

01:15:21.840 That's basically half a million litres

01:15:25.360 okay well did not notice that much all right moving on math you see how are you sir

01:15:32.240 enjoyed to meet you at the live event the other day the other week you say

01:15:36.540 faraj and bin face two faces of the establishment presenting themselves as outsiders yes yes right

01:15:44.320 yeah two people claiming to be outside of the the establishment norm containment machine

01:15:53.820 when in fact they're both integral cogs to it yeah i think you're quite right there 0.94

01:15:59.580 yeah good take i agree with you okay last one here last rumble rant from pig dog

01:16:04.320 5.150 says bin face is a bad joke and yet he mogs farage shows how much of an even worse joke farage

01:16:11.960 has become yeah reform overall in the polling do seem to be keep slipping slipping slipping

01:16:19.840 like Nigel Farage could own

01:16:22.120 a key data point there is

01:16:23.780 Nigel Farage could only really get

01:16:25.540 44.8 or what was it

01:16:28.040 44.4% of people in Clacton

01:16:30.120 to bother turning out for him

01:16:31.540 it's not great

01:16:33.620 it doesn't suggest

01:16:35.680 a true true ground

01:16:37.920 swell support from

01:16:40.180 the grass roots of just the everyday people

01:16:42.120 genuinely sort of love

01:16:44.180 him in any real way

01:16:46.300 if there is another by-election clactin that will be very very interesting how that plays out what

01:16:55.940 the final numbers are that will be very very interesting this is a bit of a this really is

01:17:00.940 silly isn't it a silly exercise all right let's look at our youtube ones now i have to do this

01:17:08.260 so i can see the left hand side of my screen the youtube ones right what we got what we got what 0.50

01:17:12.860 we got stu sutton 1977 is in at number one very often is half the time or so he is so well done

01:17:19.040 and new he wasn't first thing yesterday i don't think so and new stu says anagram of amon holmes

01:17:27.300 omen manholes there you go there you go and then he just put in then after that he just put in all

01:17:33.340 capitals just evil all joking aside get well soon ames this is just a crazy in joke

01:17:42.680 Based on a good faith error of mine

01:17:44.860 Months ago

01:17:45.800 Get well soon

01:17:47.440 Okay

01:17:51.700 Divine Sheep 3505 says

01:17:54.600 In 1972 I was born

01:17:56.500 As a bidet present for my mum

01:17:59.380 Oh so it's your birthday today

01:18:00.640 Happy birthday

01:18:01.400 1972

01:18:03.240 So what you're 54

01:18:06.060 Is that right? Quick maths

01:18:07.280 54

01:18:09.820 Happy 54th

01:18:12.680 that's right my maths isn't off well done well done for making it that far well done for not

01:18:19.500 being dead yet no uh sometimes how it feels though isn't it when you get middle-aged and

01:18:23.360 you have a birthday like yay and what i'm really celebrating here is that i haven't died yet that's

01:18:29.320 the real celebration i can imagine birthdays when you're really old like your 95th birthday say

01:18:39.820 it really it really is that at that point isn't it i've got one more will i get another

01:18:45.240 genuinely will i see another

01:18:47.620 all right anyway happy birthday

01:18:52.420 tatum2733 says you talk about man-made versus uh the natural change of earth's temp i ask does it

01:19:02.680 matter if it's hotter it's hotter and that matters imagine times 10 migration um i think

01:19:09.520 it does absolutely matter yeah if that's the argument being made it absolutely matters i'm

01:19:14.420 not sure quite if it's at the end you put imagine times 10 migration i'm not exactly sure the point

01:19:21.740 you're making there sorry um feels like a bit of a non-secretary but i'm not trying to have a go at

01:19:28.480 you by the way thanks for the super chat and you often do superchats appreciate it but i think it

01:19:32.640 does matter yeah i mean ultimately if it gets hotter it gets hotter you've got to deal with

01:19:38.320 reality yeah i mean that's that's true but if they're making the argument that it's man-made

01:19:44.520 change to the amount of co2 in the atmosphere something like something between 400 and 470

01:19:52.000 parts per million and maybe maybe half of that is man-made in the last century or so

01:19:56.700 but they see if they're using the argument that that's why we can't burn fossil fuels

01:20:03.540 that's why they're going to put up tax on loads and loads of different things that's why they're

01:20:08.040 going to fundamentally change our way of life our economies our politics on the strength of that

01:20:14.660 argument then yes it matters absolutely it matters yeah does it matter to the overall temperature

01:20:19.480 well no that's fair to say but it matters yeah i would say that's my feeling all right jordan

01:20:27.480 godfrey doesn't say anything it just gives 199 appreciate that thank you very much uh calzetti

01:20:32.720 He says, Corbyn said nationalised banks

01:20:35.380 Based in hindsight

01:20:36.780 No, it's not based, that's not based

01:20:38.040 That's not based

01:20:39.200 That's communism

01:20:40.400 It's a terrible idea

01:20:41.880 It's a terrible idea, sorry

01:20:43.500 I don't know what you mean

01:20:45.380 Explain yourself, sir

01:20:46.380 How is that based?

01:20:50.800 There's also different types of bank as well

01:20:52.620 It's not just your high street bank

01:20:54.720 There's all sorts of banks

01:20:57.640 Banks of international settlement

01:20:59.860 National banks

01:21:02.100 There's just investment banks

01:21:04.160 Asset management firms

01:21:06.380 It's not just your high street bank

01:21:08.100 There's a whole swathe of different types

01:21:11.200 Different stripes of banking

01:21:13.020 If you nationalise them

01:21:16.760 You are then communist

01:21:17.900 You have a command economy then

01:21:21.900 That doesn't work

01:21:23.960 I don't know why you would say that was based

01:21:25.280 Sorry

01:21:26.380 Maybe I'm profoundly

01:21:29.060 Misunderstanding what you're saying there

01:21:31.040 But that's just what you've said

01:21:32.200 Corbyn said

01:21:33.280 Nationalised banks

01:21:34.000 Full stop

01:21:34.540 Based in hindsight

01:21:35.520 End of super chat

01:21:36.740 Disagree

01:21:38.360 Alright

01:21:38.800 Carmichael

01:21:40.460 Cookie Dough Footjob

01:21:41.220 Says

01:21:41.460 It is I

01:21:42.160 Thaddeus Bungo

01:21:43.160 McTick Pop

01:21:43.800 Exclamation mark

01:21:44.520 I found another 1.00

01:21:45.580 Old rich babe 1.00

01:21:46.640 And she's the only 1.00

01:21:48.300 Female human

01:21:49.100 I've met 1.00

01:21:50.140 Who's a huge

01:21:50.900 Warhammer fan

01:21:51.740 I am conflicted

01:21:53.800 I must admit

01:21:55.960 I don't know

01:21:58.100 I'm not sure

01:21:58.520 If I've ever met 0.52

01:21:59.400 A female

01:22:00.020 Warhammer fan

01:22:00.940 There's a few things in this world aren't there

01:22:04.880 That are almost exclusively 1.00

01:22:07.140 Either a man thing or a woman thing 1.00

01:22:10.200 Right 1.00

01:22:10.760 There are a few things like that

01:22:12.580 Warhammer's one of them

01:22:14.720 Not many men

01:22:17.480 Not many men are into sort of like needlework

01:22:20.240 Like crochet 0.99

01:22:22.080 Some are

01:22:23.480 I'm not saying there's not one in the whole world

01:22:24.920 But not really

01:22:25.760 Like tricking out clothes

01:22:30.740 To be more sparkly 1.00

01:22:32.160 Some gay men perhaps 1.00

01:22:35.000 But most men, no

01:22:36.340 Formula One

01:22:38.680 It's very, very rare to find a woman

01:22:40.660 That's into Formula One 1.00

01:22:41.760 Not that they don't exist

01:22:43.560 I mean, genuinely love it

01:22:44.960 Not that they don't exist, but they're rare

01:22:46.920 Warhammer

01:22:47.720 Once in a blue moon, you might go into a games workshop 1.00

01:22:50.980 And there'll be a younger girl

01:22:52.840 Like a 15-year-old or 17-year-old 1.00

01:22:54.720 that's there

01:22:55.800 it's probably for a boy 1.00

01:22:58.300 a lot of women that pretend they like football 0.99

01:23:01.980 it's for men to be more engaging for men 0.90

01:23:05.520 it's a deliberate ploy, cynical even 1.00

01:23:07.100 not that there aren't genuine female football fans 0.99

01:23:10.420 Warhammer's one of those ones 1.00

01:23:13.200 right at the end of that spectrum 1.00

01:23:14.680 there's no women like it 1.00

01:23:16.540 really hardly any women 1.00

01:23:18.560 have got any time for Warhammer on any level 0.98

01:23:21.360 but you found one, a posh one at that

01:23:24.720 according to you and you say i'm conflicted why do you not like warhammer then because i know

01:23:33.640 you've been saying you want a posh rich babe that's your words your words but you found out

01:23:40.720 she's into warhammer and now you're conflicted so you're not a warhammer fan i take it

01:23:44.080 okay mqsss says x rant elon wants to buy the uk thoughts

01:23:52.920 Well

01:23:54.860 We're not for sale

01:23:56.200 And never shall be

01:23:57.160 England

01:24:00.580 Never never never

01:24:01.600 Shall be slaves

01:24:03.200 But if we were to be ruled 0.86

01:24:05.440 By somebody else

01:24:06.360 Whether it's the State Department

01:24:10.060 Or the Kremlin

01:24:10.980 Or just Elon

01:24:13.680 You could do worse

01:24:15.380 Couldn't you?

01:24:16.480 Could do worse than being ruled

01:24:17.680 By Elon

01:24:18.180 He'd probably sort a few things out

01:24:21.660 Wouldn't he?

01:24:22.920 He'd almost certainly do a better job than no sternum burnum, wouldn't he?

01:24:32.920 X-Rant, do you say, are you saying you want me to do an X-Rant about it,

01:24:36.620 or Elon Musk has already done an X-Rant about it?

01:24:39.760 That's interesting, I wonder what you, or you're going to,

01:24:42.120 or there's been more than one on there already.

01:24:44.180 I don't know, you have to let me know.

01:24:46.560 Okay.

01:24:48.420 Carmichael cookie dough foot job again says, that's his name by the way,

01:24:51.280 Carmichael underscore.

01:24:52.920 cookie dough underscore foot job says they are both mid fiddies hey the women i think he's

01:25:01.080 talking about here the posh the posh babes i mean they're mid 50s but he's written fiddies

01:25:06.920 they're in their mid fiddies and i will be 37. are you looking for a mrs robinson type deal are you

01:25:12.840 i see i'm saying a surrogate mother figure is it i think we're with that by the way if that's your

01:25:20.680 bag you say I am too old for am I too old for older women should I grow up and

01:25:31.320 get a wife before it's too late or just move up to granny's I mean do you make

01:25:36.040 your own decisions right I can't tell you what to do if there's a rich sort of 1.00

01:25:44.680 good-looking a posh woman in her mid-fifties she probably wants a true 1.00

01:25:48.520 toy boy doesn't she she probably wants a 22 year old who's got an eight pack probably doesn't she 1.00

01:25:53.880 but who knows i guess can't be choosers depends how good looking you are how much money you've

01:25:58.600 got how interesting or charismatic you are as well doesn't it aren't all these factors

01:26:03.560 whether you should get a wife of your own or just move up to granny's i couldn't say mate

01:26:07.000 it's up to you you make your own life decisions

01:26:12.760 probably try and get a normal healthy relationship though if you can it's probably the best

01:26:18.520 someone about your own age with all the same interests

01:26:22.260 that's probably the most ideal

01:26:26.360 best advice I could give

01:26:28.140 how many more have we got

01:26:32.640 we've got another half a dozen or more

01:26:34.600 that's it we've got

01:26:36.360 James Lee Pevenhole says MP's safety

01:26:40.160 killed, wiki 0.60

01:26:41.820 Spencer Percival was first

01:26:45.680 he was a prime minister that was assassinated

01:26:48.120 Inside the Palace of Westminster

01:26:49.620 In the 19th century

01:26:51.880 And you say no

01:26:53.160 Spencer Percival was first

01:26:54.580 No

01:26:55.080 There was a Robert Parkington

01:26:58.120 Oh yeah I think he might have mentioned it

01:26:59.700 Someone mentioned it before

01:27:00.420 But it was probably you

01:27:01.160 Mentioned this before

01:27:02.100 That in 1536

01:27:04.200 I.e. right in the middle of Henry VIII

01:27:07.420 Well towards the end of Henry VIII

01:27:08.620 But in the middle of like

01:27:09.800 The most important part of Henry VIII's reign

01:27:11.460 Do you think I've got long film content

01:27:12.740 Talking about Henry VIII

01:27:13.660 Hours and hours and hours

01:27:14.500 Many episodes talking about Henry VIII

01:27:15.800 Yeah

01:27:16.080 1536 is right in the middle of

01:27:18.880 His reformation

01:27:20.240 And the dissolution of the monasteries

01:27:23.220 And all that

01:27:23.620 And Robert Parkington in 1536

01:27:26.320 Was killed with a gun

01:27:27.920 Benedict Lee 0.98

01:27:29.380 11 times GGF married his daughter

01:27:33.280 Don't know what you're saying there

01:27:37.160 I'm going to move on

01:27:37.880 Thomas Glover92 says

01:27:40.820 What are your favourite British institutions

01:27:43.260 Mine are National Trust and Wetherspoons

01:27:45.580 Both preserve our historic buildings

01:27:47.660 Well I used to be a massive fan of the National Trust and English Heritage

01:27:51.340 And still am I suppose

01:27:52.660 But they've gone woke like everything else

01:27:54.480 They've gone woke

01:27:55.060 So they're among the best institutions I would say

01:27:59.940 I would like to see them completely unwoker-fired

01:28:04.460 That would be great 0.99

01:28:06.160 Stop moaning about the transatlantic slave trade at every opportunity

01:28:11.640 And never mentioning, hardly ever mentioning

01:28:13.900 The

01:28:15.120 The emancipation

01:28:18.960 Movement, the abolitionist movement

01:28:21.080 But yeah, the National Trust and English Heritage

01:28:24.620 Great, yeah

01:28:25.560 In Bozeman and I would give them more resources if anything

01:28:28.680 Yeah, so I make sure our crumbling

01:28:31.040 Buildings

01:28:31.700 Don't completely fall into dust

01:28:34.600 Okay

01:28:35.920 NPC

01:28:38.760 BS3PM

01:28:41.080 I don't know if that second word

01:28:42.820 you want to be read as a word but anyway npc i'll just call you npc says i wear suits i'm wondering

01:28:49.300 what where where do you buy yours all over the place i've basically collected suits over the

01:28:54.300 years where i've worked in london for years for 18 odd years i you just you sort of collect suits

01:29:00.320 one way or another i bought them from all sorts of different places um what's this i remember

01:29:07.620 i've got some relatively cheap ones and got one or two very very expensive tailored ones just

01:29:14.620 yeah there's not like one place i go to buy them the last one i bought was i think that

01:29:20.460 charles hewitt is that what it's called you will probably know it's quite a well-known chain

01:29:24.900 place but charles thwaite to charles weight thing you probably know what i'm talking about

01:29:29.960 that's the last one i bought but um just all over the place all over the place okay

01:29:35.240 Emily Forrestore says

01:29:38.760 Should still

01:29:40.800 Should still be the way we do

01:29:43.220 Warfare, none of this suicidal

01:29:45.060 Empathy

01:29:46.100 Balls

01:29:48.340 Bollocks

01:29:50.000 P.S. General Goulden is my daughter's

01:29:52.980 Direct ancestor, alright so you're talking about

01:29:55.180 That was in reference to the reconquest

01:29:57.240 Of the Sudan

01:29:57.860 Bomberman

01:30:00.000 Bomberman

01:30:01.840 Yeah

01:30:03.260 Okay, you're saying your daughter's direct ancestor

01:30:09.040 So not yours though, so what, through her father

01:30:11.440 Interesting, interesting

01:30:13.420 Okay, James Lee Pevenhall says

01:30:16.140 9.2 billion litres per day, flow of the River Severn

01:30:20.260 That puts it in perspective, doesn't it?

01:30:27.440 9.2 billion litres per day

01:30:29.360 So that's a lot more than 1.2, but still

01:30:31.240 It's like 1 8th, 1 7th or whatever

01:30:35.240 Can't do the maths

01:30:36.100 Of the River 7

01:30:38.240 If anyone doesn't know

01:30:39.560 That's a giant, giant river

01:30:41.220 It's a giant

01:30:42.020 Okay, remarkable

01:30:47.180 Tatum2733 says

01:30:49.320 If it gets hotter 1.00

01:30:50.540 Third world immigration balloons 1.00

01:30:52.840 Because they just feel more at home here 1.00

01:30:56.620 You live in sub-Saharan Africa 1.00

01:30:58.980 And you wouldn't move here

01:31:00.120 Because it's all cold and rainy

01:31:01.140 Sleet and snow

01:31:03.220 But now it's not

01:31:04.840 Now it's really hot all the time

01:31:05.900 You're more likely to come here

01:31:07.200 Is that what you're saying?

01:31:07.860 Yeah, I mean

01:31:08.340 God knows, maybe

01:31:10.160 Okay

01:31:12.340 The last four now

01:31:14.780 We've got 0.95

01:31:15.280 Caroline Taylor

01:31:16.560 5598

01:31:17.360 5594

01:31:18.500 Says

01:31:19.140 Hi Bo

01:31:20.060 Love you guys from Australia

01:31:21.360 Oh yeah

01:31:22.060 How good

01:31:23.320 Oh

01:31:24.200 Mate

01:31:24.820 Go for your life

01:31:26.060 Oh yeah

01:31:26.940 I've had some people say

01:31:31.340 My Australian accent isn't too bad

01:31:32.960 And some say it's laughably poor

01:31:34.360 I think it's funny

01:31:36.900 That's the main thing

01:31:37.600 Thank you from Australia

01:31:38.740 All the way from down under

01:31:40.040 Thank you

01:31:41.160 Appreciate it Caroline

01:31:42.060 You do

01:31:42.800 Thanks for joining us

01:31:43.900 The first band that shows

01:31:44.600 A few of my band of brothers

01:31:45.480 And sisters

01:31:47.080 Okay

01:31:48.420 Kiefer Brown 1337 says

01:31:50.000 Which Lotus Eaters

01:31:51.460 Is the best worst arm wrestler

01:31:53.540 Oh I don't want to throw

01:31:54.880 Any shade at people but

01:31:56.000 I don't want to say it

01:32:00.920 Probably Luca's

01:32:05.280 Not going to be the best

01:32:06.720 Why would I

01:32:08.380 I love the kid

01:32:10.280 He's a great guy

01:32:12.100 I love the kid

01:32:12.620 He's probably not

01:32:13.660 He's probably the worst

01:32:14.560 I would have thought

01:32:15.140 And I would have imagined

01:32:17.020 Big Harry's going to be the best one

01:32:18.660 Because he's the biggest

01:32:20.040 And the strongest

01:32:21.460 Pretty sure

01:32:22.660 Yeah

01:32:25.460 i guess that's the answer straight up big harry he's like a giant all right

01:32:32.480 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

01:32:38.140 normal dude might go to gym occasionally now he goes to gym all the time he's like proper

01:32:42.680 he's actually proper hench so yeah him all right sorry luca sorry if you watch this if you hear

01:32:51.440 about this that's a tough question making me i mean put me in a tough spot there i should have

01:32:59.360 just said harry's the strongest one left it that shouldn't i okay all right field marshall dawn

01:33:08.580 browning quite doesn't say anything and just gives 10 australian dollars and a dancing maraca emoji

01:33:14.100 thing, thanks Dawn, cheers love

01:33:16.040 appreciate it, really do, honestly

01:33:18.100 do, and

01:33:19.940 shout out to Chris Dangerfield

01:33:21.760 as well for naming her the Field Marshal

01:33:24.200 and saluting her and going

01:33:25.800 quet

01:33:26.060 she's written that into her name, her name is

01:33:30.080 at Field Marshal

01:33:32.140 Dawn Browning

01:33:32.880 hyphen quet

01:33:34.880 so

01:33:35.880 okay

01:33:39.300 Ninja Noodle

01:33:41.600 0944 says, do you not want

01:33:44.080 nationalized banks look at china for crying out loud no i don't no don't point at china and say

01:33:52.340 look how good they are how great that is don't we want that no thank you pass i don't want an

01:33:59.080 a command economy it's built on foundations of sand and nonsense

01:34:03.200 no pass okay tatum2733 says what no no it's too hot where they'd be coming from

01:34:14.920 in relation to an early one yeah in the early one where you said

01:34:20.460 if it gets hotter third world migration balloons oh no oh you're saying if it gets hotter where 0.66

01:34:26.440 they are in their third world country it gets too hot for them there right i say it's right i 0.87

01:34:31.660 see what you say, I see what you say. It's just too hot there now. They've got to come

01:34:36.060 to slightly cooler climes. Yeah, quite possibly. I see what you mean. I get it. Okay. And the

01:34:44.340 last one here today is from CarmichaelCookieDoughfootjob again, who says, he chimes in saying, what

01:34:49.840 do you say? You say, okay, this one is the last granny, then it's wife time, thanks. Okay.

01:35:00.420 okay

01:35:02.320 oh one more's just popped in

01:35:04.520 and uh it's from

01:35:06.520 as he says zero zero ones

01:35:08.640 he says you versus Carl

01:35:10.460 in an MMA fight what happens

01:35:12.140 I'll destroy him no I don't know 0.99

01:35:14.520 well 0.99

01:35:16.640 I don't know I feel like I'll probably have

01:35:22.500 better cardio although Carl goes

01:35:24.620 to the gym now and

01:35:25.620 if he did

01:35:28.600 like loads and loads of low leg kicks 0.54

01:35:30.420 I've got like normal sized human man legs

01:35:33.600 Carl's legs, his calves are like tree trunks

01:35:36.020 They really are

01:35:36.940 We've been climbing a few times

01:35:37.980 I've seen him in shorts

01:35:38.960 If he was doing loads of leg kicks

01:35:41.400 Over and over again

01:35:42.540 On me 0.94

01:35:43.620 He'd break my legs 0.59

01:35:45.700 I feel like I'm faster

01:35:47.060 I would be faster

01:35:48.560 I think my cardio's better

01:35:50.000 It's much more about speed and aggression

01:35:52.620 He weighs more

01:35:55.180 I don't mean that as a diss

01:35:56.340 But like if you weigh more

01:35:57.500 That's an advantage

01:35:58.320 He weighs more, he's probably stronger

01:36:01.000 He's almost certainly stronger

01:36:02.020 But I would have speed

01:36:03.840 I would have speed

01:36:05.100 And probably a bit of skill

01:36:06.700 I've done a little bit

01:36:07.940 I did tanks who do when I was a kid

01:36:09.560 Got halfway through

01:36:10.440 Almost halfway to black belt

01:36:12.320 Tanks who do

01:36:12.900 I've done a little bit of MMA training

01:36:16.020 A little bit, a little bit

01:36:17.300 A little bit of karate in my time

01:36:20.280 I've got a little bit of training

01:36:23.300 I've watched thousands

01:36:24.740 Quite literally without exaggeration

01:36:25.880 Thousands and thousands of fights

01:36:27.380 Boxing, jiu-jitsu, MMA

01:36:30.520 Valetudo

01:36:32.480 Loads and loads of stuff

01:36:33.520 Kind of know a little bit about one day

01:36:36.480 I feel like I probably know a little bit more

01:36:37.960 What to do than Carl

01:36:39.440 Would have the speed

01:36:41.380 The cardio

01:36:42.840 He weighs more, that's an advantage

01:36:45.200 And he's almost certainly stronger

01:36:47.000 So, don't know

01:36:48.540 Probably boil down to who wanted it more

01:36:51.580 Speed is a big thing though

01:36:55.720 It really is

01:36:57.380 when someone's just got...

01:36:59.660 I've probably got...

01:37:00.380 I would have thought I've got a slightly longer reach as well.

01:37:02.840 Maybe not, but I would have thought so.

01:37:05.460 Might be a really close fight. 0.89

01:37:07.060 If he got a giant haymaker in on me,

01:37:09.620 it would be over, wouldn't it?

01:37:12.020 Like, I know a little bit of ground game.

01:37:13.640 I know a little bit about grappling.

01:37:15.720 I don't think Kyle does.

01:37:18.140 He's never ever said he might do,

01:37:19.200 but he's never ever said anything about...

01:37:20.940 about jiu-jitsu.

01:37:25.780 Because I know the rudiments.

01:37:28.360 That might make all the difference, something like that.

01:37:31.980 I've never really been truly tested.

01:37:33.720 I don't know if I've got a glass drawer or not.

01:37:35.220 I probably have. I don't know. I really don't know.

01:37:37.480 A massive Cole Benjamin right-hand, over-handed haymaker

01:37:41.680 landing right on my temple probably knocked me out cold.

01:37:46.220 I don't know.

01:37:47.640 Might be a really good fight.

01:37:49.660 Might be brilliant.

01:37:52.360 Anyway, that's the show.

01:37:54.320 That's the show.

01:37:54.960 um it's now 37 minutes past nine 38 minutes past nine in the am british summertime on friday the

01:38:02.160 14th of august in the year of our lord 2026 2026 thank f it's friday that's what i say

01:38:07.580 try make the best of the day nay the weekend ahead try make it count if you can your time

01:38:13.520 is the most valuable thing you will ever own you will ever have the only thing you have

01:38:18.820 Of value

01:38:19.800 Any real value

01:38:20.940 Is your time

01:38:22.060 Gold and gems

01:38:23.180 And houses and cars

01:38:24.220 You can't take any of that with you

01:38:25.760 Ultimately

01:38:27.340 It's of no

01:38:28.440 True value

01:38:29.680 Your time is

01:38:30.440 And it's finite

01:38:31.680 It's finite

01:38:33.980 Try and use it wisely

01:38:36.720 If you can

01:38:37.120 Alright I don't want to get too preachy about it

01:38:38.400 You do you

01:38:38.840 You live your life

01:38:39.420 You where you want to

01:38:39.860 But just be reminded

01:38:40.640 So use the day

01:38:42.740 Alright then

01:38:43.920 Until Monday morning

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 14, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 14th August 2026

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