The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 21th August 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning

00:00:00.320 You alright?

00:00:06.140 I hope you are

00:00:06.820 I sincerely do hope you are

00:00:07.960 Did you have a nice Thursday evening?

00:00:10.800 Me? God, yeah, no, I'm alright

00:00:11.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't worry about me

00:00:13.060 I'm always good, yeah, yeah, yeah

00:00:14.260 Little Harry, I'm joined by

00:00:19.100 Producer Little Harry

00:00:19.900 As always, how are you this morning, good sir?

00:00:21.480 Morning, yeah, I'm all good

00:00:22.520 The omnipresent, all-powerful voice

00:00:26.080 of the disembodied producer there

00:00:27.940 It is now one minute past eight

00:00:29.200 in the am british summertime on friday thank f it's friday the 21st of august in the year of our

00:00:34.180 lord 2026 today i'm joined by a very special returning guest it's only one mr edward dutton

00:00:43.720 the lord dutton first viscount dutton how are you sir good morning uh yes yes i'm i'm i'm okay

00:00:50.700 yes yes yes good good hello hello can we get a can we get a you're not getting an echo are you

00:00:58.920 because i'm getting an echo i think we're at harry what's the echo like on the actual stream

00:01:03.440 that's the main thing uh yeah sounds fine i think did you hear that he says it sounds fine

00:01:08.940 all right fine um hello hello hello and welcome to the jolly poetic um this is uh i hope you're

00:01:18.280 enjoying your your breakfast and i hope you're having an english breakfast as well if you are

00:01:21.980 having breakfast not some kind of vegan nonsense or something involving yogurt i i hope you're

00:01:27.340 actually having breakfast and if you are having an english breakfast i hope it has fried bread in

00:01:31.840 it rather than these things called hash browns because i've noticed on when i've recently been

00:01:37.180 in the uk and i've had a breakfast of weatherspoons it doesn't involve hash uh fried bread it involves

00:01:44.400 these things called hash browns which are not part of a traditional English breakfast oh see I love

00:01:50.300 a bit of fried bread but I also really like hash browns do you not like cash browns at all or it's

00:01:55.980 just I don't particularly like them but if I if I were to have them I would expect to have them as

00:02:02.280 part of a mook breakfast at McDonald's that would be the appropriate place to have hash browns I

00:02:07.240 found now that if you want to have even in hotels I mean nice hotels if you want fried

00:02:14.260 bread in your breakfast you have to ask for it it's as if fried bread has has died out

00:02:20.740 um and i've always felt that fried bread is is a integral component of an english breakfast

00:02:26.540 no i love fried bread i really it's one of those things though isn't it as you're eating it you can

00:02:32.680 you can feel how unhealthy it is though right i mean it's delicious but you can just feel like

00:02:37.360 this isn't good for my heart almost certainly as you're eating it

00:02:40.540 well that's why i like to pretend i'd like as i'm eating it i like to fantasize that it's the 1980s

00:02:47.360 and i have a full-time job as a laborer on a building side and i need i need a hearty breakfast

00:02:55.340 i need i need a or even it's earlier it's the it's the 1940s and we're rebuilding after the war

00:03:02.180 and i and i stress that it's we that are rebuilding as well we english um and and so you

00:03:08.060 need some you need alongside your bacon and your sausage and you need fried bread i think it's

00:03:14.140 fundamental no i love a bit of fried bread yeah yeah absolutely all right so that's quite enough

00:03:20.800 faffing about though don't you think should we get straight into it the the uh the legacy

00:03:24.460 corporate lamestream media what what are they banging on about well today ed i've got to say

00:03:29.140 it's it's a quite a slow news day well in the sense at least on fleet street nearly all the

00:03:35.980 papers are going with a story about harry and megan and the royal family again now i don't know

00:03:41.100 about you before we dive in in the most general sense i find it difficult to care about the royal

00:03:47.500 family at all really particularly harry and megan broadly speaking what's your feeling on them

00:03:53.000 yeah i just i they've they've broken any any kind of we like princess anne in the uk

00:04:02.700 and we like princess anne because she's she's herself she's to use a megan markle term she's

00:04:09.660 true to herself but she actually is true to herself uh she's interested in horses and nothing else

00:04:16.500 uh she's blunt she's to the point she's posh and doesn't try to pretend she isn't posh uh she's

00:04:23.220 herself people like princess anne frankly it's a shame she's not queen and um she hasn't messed

00:04:31.100 about okay yeah there was the divorce but that was because her husband had an affair so kind of

00:04:35.320 fair enough really so it's prince and he used to be we used to like prince harry he used to be this

00:04:42.220 kind of lovable rogue not particularly intelligent but but but nevertheless sort of seemingly to be

00:04:48.840 reasonably socially skilled and funny and and witty and i'm told by people that knew him at

00:04:55.080 eton that in reality he wasn't a particularly pleasant person deep down but he could at least

00:05:00.900 come across as like that and be sort of likeable and fun and we liked him and then she got her

00:05:07.280 claws into him and she's much more intelligent than him and much more perceptive than him and

00:05:13.640 she made him woke and she made him confront his feelings and she probably forced him to induce

00:05:21.240 brought out of him all of these negative things which he had intel he had repressed and now we

00:05:27.040 have a not very intelligent person who has ghastly woke opinions uh who has messed everything up

00:05:35.020 who has who has betrayed the royal family really with that appalling book spare in which he reveals

00:05:41.940 the most intimate details of his family life and whatever which he absolutely shouldn't have done

00:05:48.740 it's quite appalling what he did to reveal all that try to destroy the magic of the royal family

00:05:54.040 and whatever it's a terrible thing to do and so very few people like him very few people like her

00:05:59.660 so it seems to be extraordinary to come back to the uk in in a context where you've left you

00:06:05.600 basically said bugger off to the british people and then you come back with your tail between

00:06:10.440 your legs like the prodigal son and um and and and uh except the prodigal son has been didn't

00:06:17.520 go to america obviously because it didn't exist but but you know what i mean prodigal son comes

00:06:22.600 back, and he should not expect

00:06:24.720 the father to kill the fatted calf

00:06:26.580 for him, and

00:06:28.220 other metaphors

00:06:30.520 for Christian conversion and so forth.

00:06:32.720 He really shouldn't. 0.99

00:06:34.520 Cannot understand why he's coming back at all.

00:06:37.400 Yeah, nice shout out

00:06:38.740 to Princess Anne, the Princess Royal there.

00:06:40.900 I appreciate that.

00:06:42.320 It's almost difficult to remember, it's not that

00:06:44.660 long ago, is it? But when Harry was really

00:06:46.740 quite liked, before all the

00:06:48.660 Meghan stuff, he was thought of as the one

00:06:50.640 with a sense of humour,

00:06:52.600 uh sort of self-deprecating charismatic even like not the sharpest tool in the box but

00:06:58.120 kind of like dressing up as a nazi whatever fun we loved that didn't we we loved that

00:07:04.320 fancy dress as a nazi yeah yeah yeah i had a friend at school that was like this i had a

00:07:10.580 friend at school that was like this he was he was a right he was a right laugh maybe he was a bit

00:07:14.760 overweight he was a right laugh he was a really heavy drinker and aged 18 and he was he was a

00:07:21.620 right laugh and he was such good fun and we all liked him and then he went to america for the

00:07:27.920 summer for something called camp america or something and then he came back and he didn't

00:07:34.580 drink anymore even on millennium eve he'd worked rather than come out and get drunk with us he

00:07:40.840 worked in a in a pub and and uh and he just his personality completely changed and he was this

00:07:46.860 preachy, boring, teetotal person.

00:07:52.080 How does America does that to people?

00:07:54.500 Yeah, she did seem to just change him utterly, profoundly.

00:07:57.840 Yeah, and like you say, that book, I never read it.

00:08:01.220 Did you actually read it or any of it?

00:08:02.940 Yes, I did read it.

00:08:04.840 And it was awful, the level of detail he went into

00:08:09.520 with regard to private things.

00:08:11.980 Oh, how his brother got a slightly bigger bed

00:08:14.560 because his brother was the heir and not the spare.

00:08:16.860 or that his father used to address them as a darling boy,

00:08:21.340 and he revealed that.

00:08:23.080 He's got no business revealing such things, that's all. 0.99

00:08:25.840 Or that he got frostbite on his cock, or whatever. 0.99

00:08:31.300 Absurd levels of detail. 0.99

00:08:34.020 Oh, and that Prince William had a terrible temper and attacks him,

00:08:38.560 and he fell over, and it caused him to break the dog food bowl

00:08:42.400 with his head, or whatever, these kinds of things.

00:08:44.720 Oh, yeah, I do remember an excerpt saying that, yeah.

00:08:46.860 I said I think it was either yesterday or earlier in the week

00:08:48.900 I said the only job a senior royal

00:08:50.860 Or any royal really

00:08:51.740 Their only real job

00:08:52.980 The only thing they actually are required to do

00:08:56.360 Everything else is window dressing with royal duties

00:08:59.120 The only thing they have to do is

00:09:00.220 Discretion is not talk about what goes on behind closed doors

00:09:03.620 That's the main job

00:09:05.240 And he sort of failed in that

00:09:08.040 So

00:09:08.380 Yeah no wonder he's sort of

00:09:10.660 He's worse than failing

00:09:11.700 It's not like he got drunk and blabbed 1.00

00:09:15.720 Is it

00:09:16.060 That's failing. He deliberately got hold of a ghostwriter and told that ghostwriter everything, including things that he probably shouldn't have said as well, such as that he had taken illegal drugs.

00:09:31.340 And this is despite the fact that when he would have got his visa to go to America, he would have had to.

00:09:37.120 We've all if you've been to the US, you've done this. You have to write a thing saying you have not taken illegal drugs.

00:09:43.840 and he revealed that he had taken illegal drugs. 0.91

00:09:48.220 I mean, really, really, really foolish things to do.

00:09:51.180 So, in fact, it's been speculated, I don't know if this is true,

00:09:54.120 but it's been suggested by a history debunked, you know,

00:09:57.760 Simon Webb, that that might be the reason why he,

00:10:03.820 what's going on is that he needs to renew his visa

00:10:06.580 and they won't let him renew his visa

00:10:08.720 because he lied on his original visa application

00:10:11.820 and therefore he it was put to him that you will be thrown out of the country

00:10:15.820 and so therefore he he um jumped before he was pushed because it would be so humiliating

00:10:21.640 for the king the king's son to be deported from the u.s it would be i wonder if that is true that

00:10:27.760 would be interesting i think it's maybe her acting career because one of the headlines says that she

00:10:32.080 wants to come back to britain to act part of it was that they'll put their children and they want

00:10:35.560 to put their children in the british schools she'll come back to act perhaps they've seen 0.83

00:10:38.880 headlines before in the previous weeks and months that her acting career in Hollywood 0.98

00:10:43.000 in the US is dead. So it might be something to do with that as well. I don't know.

00:10:48.120 Oh, I see. Because I was going to say, I mean, the centre of acting is California, isn't

00:10:52.520 it? It's Hollywood.

00:10:53.860 But she's difficult to work with, though, Ed. So... 0.97

00:10:57.880 Right. OK, but then presumably if you get a reputation as difficult to work with, like

00:11:01.940 that bird out of Knocked Up, that we don't really see anything anymore, she's got a reputation

00:11:06.220 as being difficult to act, something Hadle, something like that, 0.97

00:11:09.040 she's got a reputation for being difficult to work with, Catherine Hadle, 1.00

00:11:11.420 then you don't get work.

00:11:13.700 And if that reputation in an international age will go worldwide, 0.92

00:11:18.100 maybe she should get involved in Bollywood.

00:11:20.460 Maybe they wouldn't mind.

00:11:23.460 All right, let's have a bit of a whip through the actual papers then,

00:11:26.660 because I think all but two of them really do go with that.

00:11:30.540 So the times, we've got the venerable time.

00:11:32.200 King puts William first as Harry heads home.

00:11:34.920 Charles pleased that Second Son's planned return

00:11:38.080 But air and institution will remain his priority

00:11:41.820 How they've made such a long article just talking about that

00:11:44.800 Don't even know

00:11:46.080 Okay

00:11:47.360 The Daily Mail

00:11:48.960 Sussex's security could cost taxpayers £5 a year

00:11:52.880 So they're coming back

00:11:53.760 They've still got their titles, aren't they?

00:11:54.940 They are the Sussexes

00:11:55.700 He is a Duke

00:11:56.420 And he is going to come back

00:11:57.920 But they won't be working royals though, Ed

00:12:00.580 They won't be working royals

00:12:01.700 They won't have any proper royal duties

00:12:04.260 So there's that to it.

00:12:08.140 I find it difficult to care.

00:12:10.660 But they can certainly pay for their own £5 million a year security.

00:12:15.240 I mean, the king's estate, his personal wealth is something like £600,000,000,000,000,000,000 or something.

00:12:20.940 Wills, independently of that, is worth over a billion.

00:12:24.020 So they can pay.

00:12:25.400 We don't need the taxpayer to pay £5 million a year for their security, I don't think.

00:12:28.840 No, I didn't see how security

00:12:31.800 Could possibly cost £5 million a year

00:12:33.820 That seems to be an extraordinary amount of money

00:12:38.140 For a few security guards

00:12:40.640 Yeah, Bruce just millions

00:12:42.100 Like it's difficult to spend that amount

00:12:44.560 Or maybe they've got like 20 ex-SAS dudes

00:12:46.980 And each one costs quite a lot

00:12:48.760 But even so, yeah, even so

00:12:50.000 You're quite right, £5 million seems

00:12:51.780 A crazy number

00:12:53.620 Yeah, and also he's been in the army and stuff

00:12:56.320 Can't he look after himself

00:12:58.980 Yeah

00:12:59.680 Just give him a telescopic baton

00:13:03.280 And some pepper spray

00:13:04.100 He can look after himself

00:13:05.040 Yeah

00:13:05.380 I'm perfectly happy

00:13:07.280 Prince Harry should be armed

00:13:08.540 Prince Harry should have

00:13:09.580 A machine gun

00:13:10.820 Or whatever

00:13:11.400 And just carry

00:13:12.640 That'd be pretty base

00:13:14.400 That'd be pretty cool

00:13:15.180 If the royals just carried

00:13:16.820 Machine guns around

00:13:17.840 And if people

00:13:18.780 With weirdos got too close

00:13:20.280 And they just mowed them down

00:13:21.400 That'd be fine

00:13:22.040 Prince Harry packing

00:13:23.740 Two

00:13:24.480 Nickel plated

00:13:26.300 desert eagle 0.50's

00:13:28.320 he's got two of them shoulder holsters

00:13:30.120 at any given moment

00:13:31.280 one of the things he stated in his

00:13:33.740 autobiography was how many people he

00:13:36.180 killed in his life

00:13:37.480 which I thought was a bit weird

00:13:39.620 my experience of my grandfather

00:13:42.300 and indeed other people of that age

00:13:44.420 that were fought in the war

00:13:46.060 is they didn't tell you

00:13:47.240 they didn't go on about it

00:13:50.160 they didn't talk about things like that 0.99

00:13:52.560 that's very true

00:13:54.080 in yesteryear most combat vets

00:13:57.080 Not always, but usually really quite reticent to talk about it.

00:14:01.460 But he did fly helicopters in Afghanistan, didn't he?

00:14:04.060 He was in Hellmanned.

00:14:05.480 So I don't know if it's nonsense or not,

00:14:06.820 but it's believable that he could have...

00:14:08.360 It's not like he got up close and personal

00:14:10.100 and was slitting Taliban throats in trenches in the dead of night.

00:14:14.120 But it was in a helicopter from a distance.

00:14:17.520 But yeah, it's a little bit...

00:14:19.400 I think that's in bad taste. 0.96

00:14:21.220 I killed loads of guys, did you? 0.98

00:14:22.760 Well done. 0.99

00:14:23.460 Yeah, I was watching this documentary.

00:14:24.620 I was watching this documentary recently where they interviewed between 1992 and 2015 or something various men that fought in World War One.

00:14:37.620 And there was one of them, one particular guy who said, oh, yes, I was a very good shot.

00:14:44.220 I was a very good shot. I must have killed.

00:14:46.420 Once I got into the trench, I must have killed. 0.99

00:14:48.640 It must have been in the hundreds. 0.99

00:14:50.520 I was like, oh, shut up. 0.99

00:14:51.840 You did not kill over a hundred people in close-up combat 1.00

00:14:56.580 when you got into the German trench.

00:14:58.520 You are exaggerating.

00:15:01.040 That is not true.

00:15:02.660 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:03.660 Highly doubt.

00:15:04.740 Highly doubt.

00:15:05.400 Press X to doubt on that one.

00:15:06.980 Right.

00:15:07.240 Sussexes fly back to the UK without deal for taxpayer-funded security.

00:15:10.520 Oh, well, here's an actual story, a little bit of an actual story,

00:15:13.700 and it's not even a great amount of substance.

00:15:16.660 It's more like rumour.

00:15:17.980 He said, she said, sort of scuttlebutt around the Westminster bubble.

00:15:21.120 but it's more important more interesting rather than the sussexes the vicious reform power struggle

00:15:27.760 engulfing farage's top team so this has been in the news cycle for a couple of days now but um

00:15:35.600 i'm not leaning into it or getting excited or anything like that because it is still rumor but

00:15:40.240 there's there's this question what do you think about it ed of that zia yusuf is causing all

00:15:46.480 sorts of headaches for Nigel that he's fallen apparently he hates Jenrick fallen out with 1.00

00:15:52.460 Danny Kruger fallen out with that Tim Montgomery dude to the point where um Nigel's had to get rid

00:15:59.000 of him um uh obviously Rupert Lowe and Zia hated each other that called caused a ripple didn't it

00:16:06.520 for Nigel uh a little while ago he he threatened to leave the party a couple of times Zia um and

00:16:12.360 that he goes out and he just throws around policy ideas, 0.96

00:16:14.920 not necessarily signed off and greenlit by Nige himself. 0.90

00:16:17.800 And he goes on Twitter and he calls Tories traitors.

00:16:21.260 Nigel's not a big fan of that.

00:16:22.860 And that all of that might add up to an actual power struggle 1.00

00:16:26.440 between Zia and Nige. 1.00

00:16:28.680 What do you think? 0.99

00:16:32.320 Well, yeah, I think I've done quite a lot of research on this area,

00:16:37.520 that it's the kind of people, it's just a statement of facts,

00:16:41.900 in general that get end up in politics particularly at the top of politics tend to be

00:16:46.920 dark triad kind of people they tend to be high in psychopathy narcissism and obviously

00:16:52.420 machiavellianism being power hungry and so therefore they tend to be massive egos and so

00:16:59.040 they easily fall out and that's particularly the case on the far left because and that's associated

00:17:05.620 with mental instability and on as it were the far right because whatever you want to call it

00:17:10.460 the radical right because that's also associated with mental instability and so you easily end up

00:17:15.080 with in in that kind of context with these narcissistic types that create uh um cults of

00:17:21.500 personality around themselves someone like nigel farage and there's a degree to which anybody in

00:17:26.400 these kinds of movements at a high level is going to be a bit like that and so they're they're not

00:17:31.260 everybody obviously but it's it's a it's a strong tendency and so you're going to expect there to be

00:17:36.400 lots and lots of infighting between these kinds of people in a way that you wouldn't necessarily

00:17:40.240 get in just general conservatism no matter how cucked general conservatism is even there you'll

00:17:46.140 get it but it'll just be less pronounced so i'm not surprised to be honest i it does seem to me

00:17:51.340 to be rather silly if you're presenting yourself as the reform uk that we try to present yourself

00:17:57.820 as the party of the british people the put upon invaded british people uh it seems to be absurd 0.78

00:18:05.600 to have someone in such a significant position of power 1.00

00:18:08.640 who is that chap, because he is an immigrant.

00:18:14.840 And so...

00:18:15.640 A Sri Lankan man.

00:18:17.180 But not just a Sri Lankan, but it's a Muslim name.

00:18:21.220 It's a Muslim in a context in which it is Islam, 1.00

00:18:25.580 which is the key factor which has caused so many problems in the UK. 1.00

00:18:32.660 I don't think if you have neighbours who are Tamil or Sinhali, I get the impression that there's probably a strong degree to which they basically kind of keep themselves to themselves and integrate.

00:18:46.140 OK, they might build a temple down the road and put white things on their head and whatever, but there's no evidence that they engage in really nefarious activities like grooming gangs or anything like that.

00:19:00.540 so it does seem to be a really odd thing to do um to have the the this person is

00:19:06.980 also i just think it's the nature of him he just comes across to me as i don't mean to i don't

00:19:13.000 know him i've not met him but he just comes across to me as kind of smarmy you know when i've seen

00:19:18.780 him interviewed that's what he seems like to me just seems like a sort of a smarmy kind i just

00:19:22.520 don't think he's very likable whereas that's uh so that even even more so than the fact that he 1.00

00:19:27.700 may be raised Muslim or whatever

00:19:29.840 that's not really that important 1.00

00:19:31.220 he just seems smarmy

00:19:33.140 I don't like the cut of his jib

00:19:34.720 yeah I mean

00:19:36.840 I don't want him to be my

00:19:39.620 home secretary it's just as simple as that

00:19:41.320 it's just as simple as that I don't want

00:19:43.620 that

00:19:44.200 I was watching last night

00:19:47.160 I was watching Clarkson's Farm

00:19:49.940 which I rather

00:19:51.780 like I've just got into it

00:19:53.440 I've just discovered it a couple of weeks ago

00:19:54.920 and I know it was downloading

00:19:57.120 slowly or something like this so i just randomly on the internet and randomly what came up was the

00:20:02.800 result of the the bbc program on the results of the 1995 leadership contest between john major

00:20:09.700 and john redwood that's what randomly so so i just i just sort of put that on while i was doing

00:20:15.680 whatever i was doing and it was extraordinary to see everybody was british everybody was british

00:20:21.640 Everybody that they interviewed from the Conservative Party was British.

00:20:26.020 The Home Secretary was, okay, he was Jewish,

00:20:29.780 but he passed visually as British, as a native British. 0.69

00:20:34.660 It was Norman Fowler, but everyone was just British.

00:20:37.860 And that was only 30 years ago. 0.92

00:20:40.740 And now it would be at least half not British. 0.69

00:20:47.000 It's not that long ago, is it?

00:20:48.360 When people, sometimes on Twitter or whatever,

00:20:50.460 you'll see someone post a picture of London in the 50s

00:20:53.080 or London in the 60s.

00:20:53.900 They're like, look how non-diverse it is. 0.99

00:20:56.300 Look how white it is. 1.00

00:20:57.180 Look what they've taken from us.

00:20:58.240 It's like, you don't need to go back to the 50s or 60s.

00:21:01.160 You can go back to the late 90s, really.

00:21:04.660 Yeah, no, absolutely.

00:21:07.340 I mean, that is actually, perhaps how boring I am,

00:21:10.660 but that sounds actually like good watching.

00:21:12.220 I'd watch that.

00:21:13.300 The Redwood years, the Redwood scare.

00:21:15.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:21:16.120 Yeah. It was the high levels, high levels of things.

00:21:22.440 Politics. Politics was white and not just white, but male. 0.72

00:21:29.620 Overwhelmingly so. And it was and then this shift happened because of Cameron, I suppose, really quite recently.

00:21:36.440 It's like I have posed the question before. Will we ever have a white home secretary again? 0.76

00:21:41.700 Seems like for a long time now

00:21:44.420 Whoever it is

00:21:45.820 They will give us 1.00

00:21:46.780 Effectively a brown Home Secretary 1.00

00:21:49.220 It feels like that's the only way 1.00

00:21:51.500 They'll get away with any policy

00:21:53.840 Without the legacy couple of ranges

00:21:55.920 You know like Channel 4 News

00:21:57.400 Radio 4

00:21:59.200 Without them completely jumping down

00:22:01.920 The government's throat

00:22:02.720 Every single day 0.96

00:22:03.960 About the racist Home Secretary

00:22:05.500 So it's like 1.00

00:22:06.520 We're doomed to have a brown Home Secretary 1.00

00:22:08.620 Forever now are we? 1.00

00:22:09.760 but they do it even then though even if the home secretary is brown then they still find some way 0.99

00:22:17.440 to say oh this person is i know priti patel for example is i know is white aligned because she's

00:22:24.220 married to a white person or whatever or or if they're a black person or they're a coconut and

00:22:30.440 that's acceptable for them to say but if somebody else says it then that's racist so it doesn't 0.98

00:22:34.780 really matter they're so they're so manipulative and so machiavellian that they will um they will 0.92

00:22:39.640 they're perfectly happy to be hypocritical in a way that perhaps right-wing people aren't quite

00:22:44.580 so much they're perfectly happy to be inconsistent um because because power matters to them so much

00:22:51.380 more than truth than being reasonable so it doesn't matter you could appoint every single

00:22:55.380 member of the government without exception could be black and they'd find a way of saying that

00:23:01.460 they're racist somehow yeah yeah i remember like sorry someone like james cleverly or you said

00:23:10.680 preety patel or suela brevman it's like how are they being so racist to their own it you know

00:23:16.260 they'll go with that line that angle oh even though they're brown they're still being racist

00:23:20.880 against browns can you believe it yeah there's always there's always something that they will

00:23:26.840 they will come out with and so it's that's why there's no point doing it there's no point 0.85

00:23:31.300 pandering okay well if i just concede this to the left then they'll shut up and be reasonable no

00:23:37.960 they won't they will see your concession as a sign of weakness and therefore as evidence that

00:23:43.240 they should go in for the kill even more the solution is in the words of jonathan bowden

00:23:48.060 to just just just say i'm not sorry and and and and just and just go for it that's what we have

00:23:54.160 to do yeah you need to clear them out clear them out as well clear them out clear them out 0.64

00:24:00.140 down okay let's crack on with some headlines right the independent uh putin arrests russians

00:24:06.620 who complain as a fight breaks out in queues for fuel i mean i have a popper um zelensky and and

00:24:13.340 ukraine and all that stuff but i do like to also make it clear that putin putin is like a gangster

00:24:20.380 in the classic sense of the word a gangster and a killer i'm not not not pro-russian not pro-putin

00:24:27.020 whenever I throw shade at Zelensky and his corruption, 0.94

00:24:30.840 Putin is, I think that's almost a perfect description for him, 0.86

00:24:35.040 a gangster, essentially.

00:24:36.760 What's your broadest feelings on Mr. Putin, Ed?

00:24:40.360 Well, you could argue that, in a sense,

00:24:42.480 what a government is, is a protection racket.

00:24:46.160 That is what all government is.

00:24:48.320 It's a compulsory protection racket.

00:24:50.500 We extract money from you, we give you protection,

00:24:54.000 but it's compulsory that we we extract money from you it's compulsory otherwise you'll go to prison

00:24:59.260 so that's a yeah that's a protection racket all governments are a protection racket it's just that

00:25:04.440 with um our government and with other western governments they manage to hide the degree to

00:25:09.980 which they are a protection racket under a convincing superficially genteel kind of surface

00:25:16.100 with the the monarchy and the elections and all that all that sort of thing um if you take it to

00:25:23.100 another extreme someone like Robert Mugabe was a bit openly just a gangster where you you pay

00:25:30.120 fealty to him he's the daddy uh and if you're on his side and he'll corruptly ensure that you get

00:25:36.440 things you're not on his side and he'll kill you so it's much more it's much more open and clear

00:25:42.540 which in a way is you couldn't you argue that's kind of respect that it's a government is a

00:25:48.660 protection racket and it's a dishonest one because it dresses itself as something that isn't up as

00:25:53.980 something that isn't a protection racket oh it's somehow related to the divine via the monarchy

00:25:58.880 or it's somehow relate related to what the people think and feel and what they want via democracy

00:26:04.780 which is a sham so it's more honest i think to just be i am a gangster i'm a gangster i will

00:26:10.960 give you protection if you um if you you know stick with me and if you don't you will be sorry 0.58

00:26:16.240 Mr Putin is more authentically

00:26:23.100 gangster than someone like

00:26:24.900 Andy Byrne he's authentically

00:26:27.080 gangster I mean so his predecessor

00:26:28.600 was a gangster right Boris was a

00:26:30.820 gangster but

00:26:32.000 it's less

00:26:34.360 obviously so with Putin it's just clear

00:26:36.920 I'm in charge I'm the

00:26:38.880 big man this is a big man society

00:26:41.000 I'm in charge stick with

00:26:42.980 me and even

00:26:44.880 through the bad times and i will try to make sure things come well for you mess around with me and

00:26:50.700 i will refuel your airplane and then ensure that it crashes with uh that's that was crazy that

00:26:59.060 wasn't that guy his airplane sat on the tarmac for ages and it seemingly didn't occur to him

00:27:05.240 that something was awry or maybe he just maybe he did maybe he knew he crossed a line he was

00:27:10.400 going to be killed this was it and he might as well just accept it rather like those military

00:27:15.640 officers under communism where they would just put a put a gun on the table and say yeah there 0.97

00:27:20.000 you go let's let's not bother with any red tape shoot yourself and they and they would well so 0.73

00:27:25.500 the kremlin and putin do assassinate and murder people at a higher rate than somebody like 0.93

00:27:33.220 uh teresa may i mean let's be honest about that you know like political dissidents in russia

00:27:39.040 lots of journalists actual political opponents as well as as well as other unpopular leaders in in

00:27:46.140 the in the russian orbit i mean that is that is more cutthroat and killer and murderous than 1.00

00:27:51.740 somebody like rishi sunak isn't it though right it's more it's we're much more female as a society 0.74

00:27:58.400 so you don't you don't murder somebody that's your political opponent you just sort of try and ruin

00:28:03.200 their lives and don't invite them to the cool parties with the cool girls and and sort of

00:28:08.800 manipulate them into getting an eating disorder so that they die that's that's what you do you do 0.59

00:28:13.400 what girls do that's what we are with girl communism that's what that's what britain is 0.97

00:28:17.580 that's what the west is girl communism um girly girly thing to do um whereas what they do there's 0.94

00:28:23.480 no messing about it's just shoot them so there's a degree you know you know where you are i think 0.78

00:28:29.600 i think in russia that's the other thing with with girl world you don't know where you are

00:28:34.040 what's the socially acceptable word you can use it can change from day to day what's the what's

00:28:38.760 the thing that you have to behave like can change from day to day there's no clear rules that these

00:28:43.220 laws we have on free speech there's no clear rules you can get anything and say that it's oh it's

00:28:47.560 bad you've crossed a line like with these um clips of the police officers trying to arrest people for

00:28:52.260 this that and the other um because you've hurt someone's feelings that this kind of thing there's

00:28:56.140 none of that in russia um it's you know where you are you've got free speech if you criticize the

00:29:01.460 government you'll be killed you know where you are old school and with other things you can just say

00:29:08.120 what you like but but you don't criticize the government so that's old school yeah it is uh

00:29:14.560 it is interesting i think accurate that you sort of characterize it as the feminine like a feminine

00:29:19.580 and masculine sort of mode of government i suppose yeah i mean that's fair enough um here

00:29:25.880 here's gcse result yesterday it was um you have told me before but i do apologize ed are your

00:29:31.960 your your children sort of gcse age or they're a bit older they passed that now

00:29:37.320 well they don't have gcses in finland or the equivalent sorry well there isn't really an

00:29:41.400 equivalent but but but they um uh no my son is will be 15 in february all right so so that would

00:29:52.200 would be the first year of your GCSEs wouldn't it and my daughter is in the equivalent really of

00:29:57.220 sort of sixth form college okay at A levels you don't do you don't do three A levels like you do

00:30:03.400 in the UK you do six or seven subjects um and you have to do things like maths uh so so um it's not

00:30:11.860 quite the same as the UK I um I don't want to pry too much into your personal life but I will just 1.00

00:30:17.840 ask are your kids bilingual because i'm totally not bilingual i'm really jealous of people that

00:30:23.840 are like actually brought up to be bilingual i wish i'd had that in my house they are bilingual

00:30:28.580 which has which has a detrimental effect at least first on their native on their finish um but but

00:30:34.460 then ultimately by the time they get to teenage years then they just yeah they're very very good

00:30:38.440 at this their best subject at school is english um but um yeah yeah they are they are and they

00:30:44.560 they still code switch though because they know that i know finnish to some degree and so therefore

00:30:51.020 if they can't think of a word in an english conversation they'll just say it in finnish

00:30:54.660 and nine times out i will know what it means so their first language is finnish if you like yeah

00:31:00.000 so they'll say things like but dad i can't yaksa to do that and yaksa is a word in finnish that

00:31:06.160 means something like i haven't got the energy to do it i can't yaksa and so they'll just use it's

00:31:11.800 funny actually with um british friends of mine that live here in olu we end up doing it we end

00:31:18.440 up mixing english and finnish because there's some words in finnish like yaksa which which

00:31:23.480 which sum things up really well which we don't have the equivalent in english it would be oh i

00:31:27.780 don't have the energy to do it i don't i i can't yaksa it you can just say it much more quickly

00:31:32.980 and so you end you end up with your english being polluted by finnish even when speaking

00:31:37.320 to other English speakers.

00:31:39.900 I'm just jealous of people that were bilingual. 1.00

00:31:43.940 There was one kid I knew growing up whose mum, 1.00

00:31:46.940 I think it was his mum, was German,

00:31:48.480 and he was just raised to be able to just speak

00:31:50.760 absolutely fluent German.

00:31:52.280 Like no one else in my friendship group had anything like that.

00:31:54.540 We were all working class, poor Essex kids,

00:31:57.220 but he could speak perfect German. 0.98

00:31:59.320 I was always just a bit jealous of that.

00:32:00.560 I thought it was cool.

00:32:02.000 The Finnish word for jealous is mustersokainen,

00:32:04.320 which means black sock.

00:32:07.320 so if you're jealous you have the black sock i don't know what that comes from

00:32:13.000 it makes just as much sense as a green-eyed monster with a black sock green-eyed monster 0.98

00:32:23.720 okay the independent moaning about we might have to pay for megan and harry's bloody

00:32:27.640 security the telegraph the torograph the now completely zionist and anti-british telegraph

00:32:32.840 They're going with Harry. Harry's come back. Don't care. Don't care.

00:32:37.080 Here's a bit of a story. Israel says patronising Miliband is harming relations with Britain.

00:32:43.020 Apparently, Red Ed Miliband had criticised that Israel are currently either planning or actually are building a new giant settlement inside the West Bank.

00:32:54.800 And Ed Miliband has poured a little bit of cold water on that, just rhetorically, and Israel aren't happy with that and they think he's patronising.

00:33:00.920 what do you make of that story

00:33:02.840 I was thinking of something else

00:33:08.560 to be honest when you were talking

00:33:09.580 which is that one of the things

00:33:12.340 I was thinking, I thought Israel, I thought Jews

00:33:14.960 and then I thought of my colleague

00:33:16.740 Nathan Kofnus

00:33:17.740 who is the person that demonstrated the veracity

00:33:20.900 sorry, demonstrated the mendacity

00:33:22.840 of Jason Arday

00:33:23.920 colleague, do you know him?

00:33:26.180 I do know him, yeah

00:33:27.720 and he has now been

00:33:29.200 he has now been suspended by his university in belgium ghent university for i was corresponding

00:33:37.220 with him yesterday for a targeted campaign of professional elimination so they're trying to

00:33:44.500 get him fired basically he outed jason arday as a fantasist and a liar and all this kind of thing

00:33:49.640 and um then jason arday topped himself and so he is now being investigated by the university for

00:33:57.340 a discriminatory targeted campaign of professional elimination and and so this implies that as far

00:34:04.220 as i can work out it implies that black people are have it's like a are a noble class are an

00:34:11.500 aristocratic class that have that should be treated differently from white people and should be

00:34:17.780 treated with more kindness and consideration and um and and if you fail to do that i you hold them

00:34:25.100 to exactly the same standards you would white people then that isn't demonstrating academic

00:34:30.880 misconduct that is a campaign of professional elimination yeah stand up to racism will try and

00:34:38.900 ruin you yeah absolutely they must they must not be held they must have the right to essentially

00:34:46.600 commit what in academic terms are almost like crimes they must have that right and so it's

00:34:51.700 comparable to how in england in the 16th century or whatever there was the death penalty for all

00:34:58.520 felonies but the way you could get around that death penalty i you would be treated differently

00:35:04.260 was if you were part of the aristocracy in which case you could have you could of course plead the

00:35:10.360 clergy i.e you could read um and then and you just read a passage from the bible or something

00:35:17.740 and then you wouldn't get hanged that was the rules that you plead the clergy benefit of the

00:35:24.280 clergy it was sounds like you're describing some sort of two-tier system that was exactly that's

00:35:30.280 exactly what it was a two-tier system the very idea of it think of that you'd be hanged for murder

00:35:35.420 unless you could read i actually have an ancestor i'm directly descended from a guy um ralph dutton

00:35:41.740 of hatton who was knocking around in the 16th century again a gangster but what they called

00:35:47.380 them in those days these gangs was retinues and uh he murdered some people and so he pled benefit

00:35:54.820 of the clergy and so he was outlawed rather than hanged and when he died he was an outlaw and as

00:36:01.960 long as you've got the money of course if you're an outlaw you could afford to have people essentially

00:36:06.180 private security uh look after you so no one can get to you um and that's because you're an outlaw

00:36:13.620 you have that you don't have the protection of the law you can just be killed but as long as you can

00:36:17.340 afford people to look after you then you'll be all right well one data point i did see yesterday

00:36:22.060 about um your colleague in ghent university was apparently the the senior person i don't know if

00:36:27.880 it's the chancellor of ghent university or whatever apparently the person that has suspended him and

00:36:31.920 almost certainly going to have him fired was like used to be an actual member of like the belgian

00:36:37.500 green party or something was a counselor some sort of equivalent of a counselor for the green party

00:36:41.920 So you can only imagine a real leftist activist, someone with an out-group preference for brown people, I suppose.

00:36:50.120 But not just that, but she did a speech as Chancellor of the University, which she'd obviously used ChatGPT for or whatever, which had made up quotes in it.

00:37:01.620 Which had hallucinated made up quotes in her speech. 1.00

00:37:06.280 So that's the kind of standards that that woman conforms to.

00:37:11.000 it's absolutely you ed are a without being too sycophantic about it you're a prolific writer

00:37:17.240 and i've done a fair bit of writing in my time nowhere near as much as you but 0.96

00:37:20.820 it does seem to me and i'm sure you would agree that it's such a scumbag move to plagiarize 0.93

00:37:27.900 anything let alone get ai to generate words for you write your own words or don't bother doing it 0.71

00:37:33.780 surely that's my feeling on it yeah i do think you're increasingly getting this in academia is

00:37:39.000 the use of AI. It's it's a real it's a real problem because you've got you've got to write

00:37:43.960 it in English and the that's the language of academia. And so many people, obviously, it's

00:37:49.740 not their native language. So it's really, really, really hard work to have to write a paper in

00:37:54.020 English. So it's so tempting, therefore, to use AI. But the problem is that AI language is not

00:38:02.620 the same as normal english it has a different cadence to it it it it's not the same so that's

00:38:09.220 one thing that's investing it and yeah the idea he didn't just his phd thesis we're not talking

00:38:14.460 about some article or something in his doctoral thesis which is the right of passage by which you

00:38:19.980 are able these days anyway because you need to have a phd really to be an academic um to become

00:38:24.980 an academic only did he plagiarize over a hundred passages from this woman's doctoral thesis he even

00:38:31.180 the reason why there is

00:38:33.080 an apostrophe in the title

00:38:37.860 which should not be there

00:38:39.740 a punctuation error

00:38:41.000 is because he plagiarised the title

00:38:43.800 essentially plagiarised the title

00:38:46.040 of this woman's PhD thesis

00:38:47.660 but he didn't understand

00:38:49.940 how apostrophes work

00:38:52.020 and so therefore

00:38:53.200 he altered the title a little bit

00:38:55.540 but he left that apostrophe in

00:38:57.700 even the spastic i mean i i it's really it's me it's so it would be so embarrassing it would be

00:39:09.040 like saying you used to go out with someone that you didn't or used to play for some professional

00:39:13.860 football team that you didn't it would be so embarrassing to be caught in a lie like that

00:39:18.800 i wouldn't ever dream of doing it sorry go on yes he did say that he played for a professional

00:39:23.580 football team that he didn't yeah he did that was one of his lives wasn't it yeah i mean

00:39:28.780 christian palace 0.99

00:39:32.140 yeah right okay uh what a scumbag or a lying walter miti karl described in one of his videos as um 0.99

00:39:40.220 a confidence trickster yeah yeah it is it is it's it's worse than walter miti walter miti is just 0.99

00:39:45.740 some silly fantasist or whatever we compare him to that but it's not it is a better comparison 0.84

00:39:50.300 and a confidence trickster for example it's actually really quite nasty what he did for 0.90

00:39:54.860 example him saying oh i i was an autistic mute and i learned to speak when i was 11 which is

00:40:00.520 not true obviously um but but that's giving false hope to the parents of genuine autistic mutes

00:40:06.800 that maybe oh if only i could give my child more speech therapy if only i could be as 0.95

00:40:13.500 conscientious as jason all day's mum then maybe my child could speak that's a terrible thing to do

00:40:19.120 And then when someone inquires into his work, he sends the police over and accuses them of racial harassment. Or when a journalist inquires into his work, he uses Carter Ruck, this notorious lawyer, to threaten to sue them.

00:40:32.100 Or when this girl who normally gets 75% on her essays gets 70%

00:40:38.020 and she just asks,

00:40:38.940 would you mind telling me why he accuses her of white privilege

00:40:41.880 and gets really angry with her? 0.98

00:40:43.720 He was a nasty piece.

00:40:45.300 This idea that he was this innocent victim of other people. 0.99

00:40:48.460 No, no, he was clearly a nasty piece of work.

00:40:53.220 I mentioned you actually on mine and Nate's channel,

00:40:56.440 the State of Politics.

00:40:57.640 We made one video about Arde after he was found dead

00:41:01.120 because we weren't interested in the story before that we're not interested in it now we covered it

00:41:03.980 because it was in the news cycle so much but i sort of referenced you quoted you on that where

00:41:08.560 you were to where you you actually had called it ahead of time sort of perfectly very prophetically

00:41:13.660 saying this type of person this type of psychology if their narcissistic false self is completely

00:41:19.000 punctured that is sort of suicide level issues in their mind potentially and you said that before

00:41:26.520 it happened so credit there kudos there i mean i said it on the 4th of august all right 4th of

00:41:33.160 august um yeah i did i said it i did i did think that he would likely commit suicide and he did

00:41:39.400 and i was rung up on friday night and it was a bit complicated because me and mrs dutton have a lot

00:41:45.200 of white wine on a friday night um and so i was quite refreshed and i was rung up by a chap we

00:41:51.020 both know who said ed my god you called it you called us i called what what are you talking

00:41:54.260 about what because we we were i wasn't i didn't know this had happened yeah he's killed us no

00:41:59.020 and and um and then suddenly i was and then the next day i woke up and i had this vague dream or

00:42:05.420 memory that i've been on some kind of internet program or on the radio but i couldn't be sure

00:42:09.620 it wasn't a dream and then i looked through my messages and i i'd apparently been on a thing

00:42:13.960 called talk tv um to um to discuss this i was quite proud of myself because i must have been

00:42:19.800 very pissed but but but but but nevertheless i managed to it seems to put across an articulate

00:42:26.340 argument so refreshed um i'm afraid ed was very very drunk

00:42:32.660 i should have started by saying that so so um uh ed what could you tell us what what your views are

00:42:41.280 why did this happen today's not day i can yes but i'd like to start by saying that i have very very

00:42:47.280 drunk okay uh the daily express let's get through these back in the fold but not in the firm prince

00:43:01.840 harry and his annoying wife okay got it got it got it the mirror yeah prince harry fine the sun

00:43:06.800 prince harry got it uh the sloppy joe from the daily star oh look it's got it's harry it's almost 0.82

00:43:12.160 as if they're they're in cahoots this cabal of freak street editors it's almost if they talk to

00:43:15.840 each other it's not that important what are they trying to cover up what what should they be

00:43:20.120 reporting that they're not reporting i'll tell you what they should be reporting what's happened

00:43:23.940 to nathan coughness and they're not right that's what they should be reporting so that's the real

00:43:29.260 news that the this this this orwellian that he hadn't done anything that bad oh but then

00:43:37.840 then our day killed himself then suddenly what he'd done was bad it's either a bad thing that

00:43:43.640 he did by highlighting someone to be a fraud or isn't it doesn't become bad as a consequence of

00:43:50.420 due to consequences that occur um oh dear but so yeah yeah did you know that bridget philipson

00:44:01.180 is the is the absolute arbiter of everything we're allowed to say did you know that look

00:44:07.220 racism and sexism normalized in the uk says equalities minister did you know the equalities

00:44:12.580 minister is the arbiter of what is or isn't allowed to be said are you aware of that um yeah

00:44:19.220 i assume so because the new religion that's developed since the 1980s is more is is woke

00:44:24.580 and um so the um and woke qualities that's the same thing and so it follows that they she would

00:44:30.580 that the person the secretary of state in charge of that would be the ultimate arbiter of what we

00:44:34.900 kind of will be she's essentially the minister for heresy yeah all right which find a general type

00:44:41.060 well yeah well that was to be fair that was someone that just set himself up as that that

00:44:45.360 was the that was like the woke campaigner of his day although to be fair Matthew Hopkins 0.91

00:44:51.380 to be to be fair what he was doing was actually quite good because the kind of women that ended 0.73

00:44:56.920 up being accused of being witches as I've looked at in my brilliant book which is feminism and the

00:45:00.700 fall of the west were generally deeply anti-social unpleasant nasty women that everyone hated 1.00

00:45:07.020 who just caused discord 1.00

00:45:09.540 in the community 0.99

00:45:10.560 horrible, mentally unstable 1.00

00:45:13.480 nasty woman, that is who ended up being 1.00

00:45:15.680 it was basically a way 1.00

00:45:17.660 of eliminating

00:45:19.920 from society anti-social

00:45:21.920 people who hadn't otherwise

00:45:23.740 actually committed a crime that you could get them on

00:45:25.820 that's what it was a way

00:45:27.960 of doing, basically you have been

00:45:29.900 found guilty of being a deeply anti-social 0.98

00:45:31.880 unpleasant old woman 0.86

00:45:33.840 and 1.00

00:45:35.240 and and and so and so we're gonna hang you that was what that was what that was what witchcraft 0.92

00:45:39.720 was in other societies as well it's it's it's exactly the same a deeply unpleasant antisocial 0.60

00:45:46.760 old woman bridget phillipson yeah yeah yeah so ironically that's it the witches have now as i

00:45:53.320 argue in my brilliant book the witches have now taken over i mean the people that would have been 0.98

00:45:58.440 hang for witchcraft in the old days are anti-social nasty old women are now in government 0.81

00:46:04.480 we have a government of witches yeah absolutely yeah i i really can't wait for the day 0.97

00:46:12.160 when people exactly like this bridget phillipson and her whole work her whole world view

00:46:18.920 are roundly rejected roundly rejected and ridiculed i can't wait for a day if it ever

00:46:25.920 happens for a society for a dialogue where these people are are ostracized again and ridiculed

00:46:33.020 into into oblivion politically well it wouldn't be a dialogue uh would it be basically bo's monologue

00:46:40.180 where where you're you're in charge and you just say right you you right rope you

00:46:46.420 Jibbit, jibbit, rope, jibbit

00:46:50.200 Yeah, jibbit, rope

00:46:51.500 Yeah, no, I mean 1.00

00:46:54.060 Literally this Louise Hague woman, this criminal

00:46:56.580 This fraudster, Louise Hague

00:46:58.900 Is essentially the kind of deputy prime minister 1.00

00:47:01.440 And she dyes her hair red 1.00

00:47:03.120 Which only a mental will do 1.00

00:47:04.640 So that's aposemitism 0.70

00:47:07.600 It's saying that you're dangerous

00:47:09.860 And they see effectively the deputy prime minister

00:47:14.920 yeah he made her super powerful didn't he yeah only 30 years ago the deputy prime minister was

00:47:20.460 uh michael heseltine he's a sensible person the blonde man i'm not a fan of heseltine but i'll

00:47:27.440 take a heseltine figure over that lucy woman a thousand times over yeah um okay the financial

00:47:35.580 times uh there's not anything of massively interesting the metro uh just some weird 0.99

00:47:40.940 stupid look look this this brown person is a hero is he okay don't care all right they're the front 0.97

00:47:46.700 pages let's have a look at our poll at this time of the show every day ed we uh go with the results 1.00

00:47:51.780 of our poll i let little harry pick what it would be today or did he or did you or harry did you ask

00:47:57.040 the chat what the poll should be so this is from chat this is the chat to say what this should be

00:48:01.920 okay i'm looking at it now for real in real time for the first time oh we've asked who is the best

00:48:06.940 Harry, and your choices were Big Harry, that's Big Harry Robinson, of Lotus Eaters, of Lotus

00:48:12.140 Eaters fame, Little Harry, our Little Harry, or Prince Harry. There you go, and Little

00:48:21.180 Harry has won. He's literally throwing up double hairs in celebration. Little Harry

00:48:26.740 has won with 53% of the vote, Harry Robinson, sorry hair, only a mere 43%, and Prince Harry,

00:48:34.820 Prince, you know, Henry

00:48:36.780 Saxe-Coburg Gotha has only managed

00:48:38.980 to garner 3% of the vote

00:48:40.960 there, so okay

00:48:42.640 that was a bit of a thing, sometimes they're serious

00:48:44.840 Ed, sometimes they're really serious about like

00:48:46.560 the death penalty or war or something

00:48:48.720 sometimes they're just something about like

00:48:50.300 TV and films like the Teenage Mutant Ninja

00:48:52.800 Turtles or Indiana Jones or something

00:48:54.400 sometimes it's something like that

00:48:56.760 very frivolous, so okay

00:48:58.860 okay

00:49:00.060 I've already noticed it's already 10-2, would you stay

00:49:02.900 with me while we do on this day in history?

00:49:04.820 Will we do that bit? I like that bit. I like your takes on history. You're very well read.

00:49:12.220 So let's go through this. Down through the centuries, nay the millennia, on this day in history, the 21st of August, what happened of note?

00:49:19.480 What have we got here? On this day in 1703, the Idern incident, the Turkish army oust Sultan Mustafa II, replacing him with his brother, Ahmed III, reducing the power of the Sultan.

00:49:31.900 I must say I don't know a great deal about that

00:49:34.060 I have heard about it before 0.67

00:49:34.880 That was one of the Janissary revolts 0.96

00:49:36.520 One of the many, many Janissary results in Constantinople

00:49:39.740 Have you ever been to Istanbul, Ed?

00:49:43.300 Have you ever been there in real life?

00:49:45.100 No, I'm afraid not

00:49:46.400 I've merely been to Lanya

00:49:49.480 To southern Turkey

00:49:51.800 So I've been there

00:49:54.220 Which is very nice, by the way

00:49:55.240 I do recommend going

00:49:56.180 Lots of castles

00:49:57.720 And it's that exact sort of balance 1.00

00:50:01.560 between being foreign but not being too foreign that it's weird and scary so india which is our 0.90

00:50:09.540 previous holiday which is 07 that was weird and scary foreign that was crazy that was like you

00:50:14.720 don't feel safe right whereas whereas turkey you do feel safe uh it's kind of almost like being in

00:50:21.760 in spain but actually cleaner um and but but but it's interestingly foreign so i regard it as the

00:50:30.300 perfect holiday destination between you know being an anthropologist in swimming trunks and and just

00:50:37.420 being a person that is on the beach and swimming trunks it's that it's about that i know exactly

00:50:41.580 what you mean when you go some places in your in the world you're like this is everything here is

00:50:45.660 alien everything and they haven't even got the common decency to know simple english exactly 0.89

00:50:51.900 well they did know english in india but when we when um we got to delhi at night time and we took

00:50:58.540 a taxi to our bed and breakfast

00:51:00.480 that we were staying in and we looked out the window

00:51:02.460 and there's just cows wandering around in the street 0.60

00:51:04.420 and my wife

00:51:06.420 just turned to me and said, Ed, what have we done?

00:51:10.680 Why have you done this to the family, Ed?

00:51:13.000 Why did you?

00:51:14.640 Well, we didn't have kids back then.

00:51:16.780 It was 2007.

00:51:17.940 How did we take kids? Blimey.

00:51:19.920 It was not a place to take kids.

00:51:22.940 Yeah.

00:51:23.760 Okay, on this day in 1772,

00:51:25.780 King Gustav III of Sweden

00:51:27.760 completes a coup d'etat by adopting a new constitution

00:51:30.960 and installing himself as an enlightened despot

00:51:33.320 ending 50 years of parliamentary rule

00:51:35.180 I would say the main thing I know about Gustav III

00:51:37.840 is he had a war with Russia that really didn't go anywhere

00:51:40.140 ruled for quite a long time

00:51:41.560 and in the end got himself assassinated in a theatre

00:51:43.960 or just outside a theatre

00:51:44.860 do you know that one?

00:51:46.040 are you aware of that one?

00:51:48.660 embarrassingly in that I live in a country

00:51:50.220 that used to be part of Sweden

00:51:51.540 and was part of Sweden in 1772

00:51:53.580 I didn't know any of this stuff

00:51:56.180 no oh okay i think that's what gustav the third is probably most famous for is that eventually

00:52:01.900 because he he uh he sort of ostracized lots and lots of the aristocracy and eventually they

00:52:07.940 bumped him off um in sort of okay let's move on then this this factor is not all that interesting

00:52:13.780 on this day in 1888 american inventor william seawood burroughs patents patents an adding

00:52:20.020 a machine and there's a picture of it i'm sorry i can i can drill down into really quite granular

00:52:25.620 levels of history before i find it too dull but that's about my limit that's about my limit i

00:52:31.840 can't i can't get excited about that the 21st of august is just a day that not much happened

00:52:37.760 has august been silly season throughout all of history yeah yeah throughout all history everyone's

00:52:43.940 on holiday although here's an interesting one on this day in 1911 the mona lisa is stolen from the

00:52:50.880 louvre museum by italian decorator vincenzo perugia and it was recovered in 1919 i once

00:52:58.440 did a segment on the main podcast of the low seaters when a lot of the french crown jewels

00:53:02.640 were stolen remember that a year or two ago and i did a little segment talking about other extremely

00:53:06.740 famous heists so i'm a big fan of like real historical heists and that's one of the most

00:53:11.480 famous ones have you have you been to the louvre and seen the mona lisa yeah yeah a couple times

00:53:15.980 yeah isn't it disappointing it's really small yeah really small yeah really small i was expecting

00:53:21.400 sorry sorry no no you go sorry well i was expecting a significant like it was a big painting 0.99

00:53:27.220 and you go back when i went there there wasn't all chinese tourists and stuff so i got right

00:53:32.140 now it's not like there was a queue i mean i was right it was right there was nothing between me

00:53:35.460 the painting um and it was 1994 i saw it and it was it was just so small and and is that it is

00:53:44.260 that what we're talking about yeah yeah exactly maybe maybe yeah yeah yeah i mean okay yeah it's

00:53:51.620 all hyped up as the best painting ever and her her eyes follow you around the room and all that

00:53:56.500 stuff but no it's just it was it wouldn't have been difficult to steal that yeah i also got

00:54:03.780 got long-form content talking about the life and works and adventures of leonardo da vinci as well

00:54:08.840 if anyone's interested in that or like to see just.com behind the paywall consider sign up for

00:54:12.060 as little as five pounds a month bronze team membership and remember to do a thumbs up on

00:54:16.160 this stream and sub to the channel and click the bell get the bell on but this guy this guy all he

00:54:22.420 did he used to work at the louvre and he had the overalls of like a cleaner or worker and then he

00:54:28.680 just hid in a cupboard on a Sunday night, knowing that the museum was closed that Monday.

00:54:36.260 It was scheduled to be closed that Monday.

00:54:38.020 He just hid in a closet on a Sunday night and then got out of the closet and then just

00:54:46.440 literally just took it off the wall, took it out of the frame, rolled it up, under the

00:54:51.520 overalls, walked out the front door, got away with it scot-free.

00:54:54.920 They didn't know what had happened.

00:54:55.900 He just kept it in his house

00:54:58.020 In his flat

00:54:59.360 For like two years

00:55:00.800 Just sat on it

00:55:01.340 Didn't tell anyone

00:55:01.940 Didn't do anything with it

00:55:02.720 For two years 1.00

00:55:03.880 He was an Italian

00:55:05.140 Vincenzo Perugia

00:55:06.360 And because Leonardo was Italian

00:55:09.060 He thought it belonged to Italy

00:55:10.640 Rather than France

00:55:12.100 And then two years later

00:55:13.600 He tried to move it on and sell it

00:55:15.900 Or get rid of it to Italy

00:55:17.160 But as soon as he told anyone

00:55:19.200 They just squealed on him

00:55:20.060 And then he only got sentenced

00:55:21.480 To six months in prison as well

00:55:22.940 So anyway

00:55:23.740 That's that story

00:55:24.500 one of the things that seems to have happened on 21st of august was that these um the spanish took

00:55:30.980 um cueta or sweat or whatever as you pronounce it this place is going to cause us all manner of

00:55:36.160 problems yeah there's one of those in fact my one of my best super chatters um guy calling himself

00:55:42.080 global church history he's he does two factoids for me every morning and i've already seen that

00:55:45.760 that was one of the ones he said yeah yeah so that's uh henry the navigator isn't it that that

00:55:51.840 That problem of Spain having an enclave which it can't control

00:55:56.780 started on the 21st of August.

00:56:00.220 So actually it is quite a significant day

00:56:01.760 because we're going to have all kinds of problems in Europe

00:56:04.020 as a consequence of these people.

00:56:05.840 And they make out they've deported them.

00:56:07.880 They haven't. 0.70

00:56:08.900 There's loads of them still wandering around the territory.

00:56:11.620 Loads of them. 0.69

00:56:12.640 And they will be making their way to Europe, to proper Europe. 0.65

00:56:15.660 And that was early, early 15th century.

00:56:19.680 And he was Portuguese as well, Henry the Navigator.

00:56:21.700 So at some point it must have swapped hands

00:56:23.460 Between the Spanish and the Portuguese

00:56:24.820 Down through the centuries, God knows when exactly 1.00

00:56:26.960 But yeah, last two here then, real quick

00:56:29.900 In 1959, Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States

00:56:33.060 Now, when I read this this morning

00:56:34.740 I thought, that's much later than I thought

00:56:36.780 I thought that would be much earlier in the 19th century

00:56:40.620 Well, probably, I would have thought when America first 0.52

00:56:42.800 Took Hawaii and subverted the monarchy there 0.69

00:56:45.660 They took it as a territory

00:56:46.780 Because they've still got loads of territories, haven't they?

00:56:48.820 They've still got loads of things that are not states

00:56:50.960 like puerto rico whatever yeah puerto rico exactly so that there's others as well that they

00:56:56.400 the american samoa um are not states that are territories that are a bit like their equivalent

00:57:02.240 of guernsey or jersey or whatever so so they still they still have lots of those so yeah it doesn't

00:57:08.800 you know it was a late one i mean there's other ones as well that were quite late i mean

00:57:13.440 a lot of them only became states in the late 19th century before that they were just they

00:57:18.400 They were just territories.

00:57:19.860 Well, I always find it remarkable how late, in general,

00:57:23.660 the push westwards was by the United States.

00:57:26.600 I mean, even still in the age of the Civil War,

00:57:29.980 I mean, there is a California, and I'm talking like the 1860s,

00:57:33.160 there is a California and stuff, but it's hardly, hardly settled.

00:57:37.440 If you go back to the end of the 18th century,

00:57:41.180 there's still like some of the first expeditions

00:57:43.980 way out to the Pacific Northwest and stuff.

00:57:46.460 It seems to me, I mean, it is what it is

00:57:48.820 But whenever I'm reminded of that

00:57:50.420 I'm quite often surprised

00:57:52.860 How late it is in history

00:57:54.280 But okay, I mean

00:57:55.800 I suppose it is what it is

00:57:57.780 You'd have to go back more than 150 years

00:58:00.460 Before the United States is profoundly

00:58:02.620 Smaller and different than what it is today

00:58:04.440 Yeah

00:58:05.540 Okay, last one here is

00:58:08.080 I think interesting because I'm fascinated in this sort of thing

00:58:10.340 I think I asked you about Yeltsin last time he was on

00:58:12.660 On this day in 1991

00:58:13.840 the conservative coup in the soviet union is crushed by popular resistance led by boris yeltsin

00:58:19.460 in three days so that was when uh gorbachev was on holiday in the crimea in his holiday dasher

00:58:25.680 and there was some sort of coup back in moscow kind of led by boris yeltsin but not really was

00:58:31.520 it wasn't it and anyway it failed but but the soviet union collapses by december anyway i don't

00:58:39.840 think it was led by yeltsin i thought it was a communist coup well it was a hard-line communist

00:58:44.600 coup wasn't it i'm very wrong about this well well well that's the whole question about it isn't it

00:58:50.920 is because ultimately it was to get rid of gorbachev and perhaps perhaps install yeltsin

00:58:56.380 ultimately but then but then yeltsin was the main person that helped to sort of suppress it and stop

00:59:03.560 it though as well at the same time it was a complicated few days there ed i think you can

00:59:08.640 say. My understanding is it was a hardline communist coup. It was people that didn't

00:59:13.120 want change, that were invested in the current system and didn't want change, that were

00:59:18.760 communists. Whereas Gorbachev was a sort of liberal communist, as it were. And they feared

00:59:27.420 they were losing power, which they were. So there was this coup. That was my understanding

00:59:31.440 of it. Well, there's all the Glasnost and Perestroika and all that stuff of Gorbachev. 0.64

00:59:35.440 And it was Yeltsin that then made Gorbachev seem weak

00:59:39.560 because he was away from his desk, as it were.

00:59:42.300 And so then it was Yeltsin that sort of ended up in charge.

00:59:45.460 Well, the thing is, this August coup

00:59:48.040 is that there was just loads and loads of different factions

00:59:50.760 with different ideas and different goals.

00:59:53.000 It was sort of all going off at once, right?

00:59:55.280 And Boris Yeltsin is just completely in the middle

00:59:57.940 of the maelstrom of all of it.

01:00:00.340 And so everything you've said is true.

01:00:02.640 You haven't said anything that I think is factually incorrect at all.

01:00:05.440 But it's just, it was a complicated few days, should we put it that way.

01:00:09.960 But ultimately, ultimately, it did fail, didn't it?

01:00:12.720 Ultimately, the tank crews weren't going to start firing on people.

01:00:18.220 So, but the Soviet Union only lasts until December 1991 anyway.

01:00:23.800 So, the writing was on the wall for the Soviet project at that point, wasn't it, I think?

01:00:30.920 Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.

01:00:32.380 Okay, all right, Ed, thank you very much.

01:00:36.040 It's just gone nine in the a.m.

01:00:37.300 I really appreciate you.

01:00:38.440 Are you all right?

01:00:39.940 No, I'm just looking through people's birthdays,

01:00:42.480 who it is today, on 21st of August.

01:00:45.140 Are you looking at the same website as me?

01:00:47.040 I'm looking at just Wikipedia.

01:00:48.960 So it's Princess Margaret and Usain Bolt.

01:00:53.780 These are the people of note whose birthdays it is today.

01:00:57.240 So happy birthday.

01:00:58.500 Bugs Moran, the famous gangster,

01:01:00.460 The famous sort of

01:01:01.320 Prohibition era gangster

01:01:03.340 Bugs Moran

01:01:04.060 It was his birthday

01:01:04.780 His birthday

01:01:06.260 Yeah

01:01:06.660 So there's some

01:01:07.500 There's a few

01:01:08.760 A few things happened

01:01:09.840 There on August the 21st

01:01:10.780 Kenny Rogers

01:01:11.500 Of The Gambler

01:01:13.320 The Gambler

01:01:14.060 You know that song

01:01:14.700 That's alright isn't it

01:01:15.780 Doing a duo

01:01:16.940 With Dolly Parton

01:01:17.820 Kenny Rogers

01:01:18.620 No?

01:01:19.400 Anybody?

01:01:20.600 Oh yeah

01:01:21.140 Usain Bolt

01:01:21.760 Kim Cattrall

01:01:23.640 Of Big Troubling

01:01:25.040 Little China fame 1.00

01:01:25.960 Oh yeah

01:01:28.240 Oh yeah

01:01:29.040 Oh, yeah. It's Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippines, apparently.

01:01:33.260 What's that? Never heard of that.

01:01:35.480 I don't know. And it's World Senior Citizens Day as well today.

01:01:40.620 It's a national working hold day in the Philippines on the 21st of August,

01:01:43.220 commemorating the assassination of Senator Benigno Ninoy Aquino,

01:01:46.660 the husband of Cozaran Aquino, who later became the 11th Philippine president.

01:01:51.860 I hope you, dear Filipinos out there watching, do have a good day.

01:01:56.280 And also old people

01:01:58.800 And all old people around the world 0.97

01:02:01.520 Wherever you are 1.00

01:02:02.260 Alright once again

01:02:05.080 Ed thank you very much for your time

01:02:06.860 I really really appreciate it

01:02:08.200 You're a brilliant guest

01:02:09.260 We'll have you back another time soon

01:02:11.580 If you're willing

01:02:12.600 Pleasure to come along

01:02:14.580 I'm going to go do my wordle now

01:02:16.060 Cheers buddy

01:02:20.520 Bye bye

01:02:21.880 Alright take care

01:02:22.820 There you go Professor Dutton there

01:02:25.660 The good professor

01:02:27.080 They ennobled him

01:02:31.000 The Lord Dutton

01:02:32.300 First Viscount Dutton

01:02:33.240 Not making that up

01:02:34.220 He's a peer of the rem

01:02:35.880 I am making that up

01:02:36.900 Let's just be clear

01:02:37.620 I'm making that up

01:02:38.720 He's not actually

01:02:39.580 A lord

01:02:41.060 He is a professor though

01:02:42.680 Alright

01:02:43.260 Let's have a look at our

01:02:44.760 Rumble Rants and Super Chats

01:02:45.820 We do Rumble Rants first

01:02:49.460 Don't we on this show

01:02:50.200 In this house 0.99

01:02:51.300 We'll have Rumble Rants first 1.00

01:02:53.240 In this house 0.99

01:02:53.780 Is it going to be a good day

01:02:56.060 Global church history in at number one

01:02:57.740 No

01:02:59.560 Oh

01:03:00.320 He's got gazump there

01:03:02.940 Oh global church history

01:03:05.580 It's been pipped

01:03:06.900 Oh dear

01:03:09.420 And

01:03:11.560 No

01:03:12.880 Somebody else

01:03:15.560 Is the new champ

01:03:16.800 TF2 is better

01:03:19.580 They spent 10 US dollars

01:03:22.500 for the privilege of gazumping poor old global church history and they've just put first as well

01:03:29.640 it was blatantly just to do it 6 41 a.m they paid ten dollars to just write first

01:03:37.520 and they're ruining global church history's winning streak

01:03:41.240 i said before you've got to get up early in the morning literally to beat global church history

01:03:46.960 Well, TF2 is better

01:03:48.460 Did

01:03:49.060 He's called his bluff there

01:03:51.080 He's only gone and done it

01:03:52.420 Okay

01:03:55.020 Okay, second one then

01:03:57.780 Global church history

01:03:58.660 Our two factoids from Mr History

01:04:01.220 That's his real surname

01:04:02.380 Oh yeah, I already mentioned it

01:04:06.200 Yeah, yeah

01:04:06.640 Today in 1415

01:04:08.280 Blessed Henry the navigator

01:04:10.160 Conquered a suitor

01:04:13.080 And then you've written

01:04:14.140 Veuta in Spain

01:04:17.480 Ceuta in Portuguese

01:04:19.380 There you go

01:04:21.320 We talked about that a little bit already didn't we

01:04:23.200 With The Good Professor

01:04:23.880 Yeah Henry and the Everglades

01:04:26.820 Where I did my really really long series

01:04:30.120 All about Magellan

01:04:31.480 On my history theme show

01:04:34.060 Behind the Paywall

01:04:34.820 On notices.com

01:04:36.820 I talk all about

01:04:40.440 Because it's so long

01:04:41.640 It's really audio book level

01:04:43.280 15 hours or more

01:04:45.900 I talk all about some of the

01:04:48.900 Explorers that came before Magellan

01:04:51.340 There's two or three

01:04:53.040 Spanish and Portuguese ones of note

01:04:55.320 That Magellan would have known about

01:04:56.880 Would absolutely have known about

01:04:57.900 And read their accounts and things

01:04:59.920 Henry the Navigator is one of those

01:05:03.340 He was actually a prince

01:05:05.860 He was like the third son

01:05:07.260 So never going to inherit

01:05:08.380 Of one of the Portuguese kings

01:05:10.000 In the early 15th century

01:05:11.180 you know it's a good hundred years or so or more whatever before Magellan um he didn't go on many

01:05:16.620 of these explorations himself he just sort of financed them and a bit like a bit like Walter

01:05:22.520 Riley um but yeah so in the 15th century pressing further and further down the west coast of Africa

01:05:28.940 and on and on and on trying to trying to double the cape of Africa and all that stuff yeah just

01:05:35.880 just really important early explorer okay and the other factor we've got here from global church

01:05:41.520 history is you say on this day in 1652 saint kachakatur of armenian tigranocurt

01:05:50.200 was flayed for refusing to convert to islam well once again i shall have to concede that you've

01:05:58.220 out history history bro'd me there bro you've out you've out you've out bro'd me there i don't know

01:06:03.820 that at all, don't know anything about that

01:06:05.460 never heard of that person

01:06:06.700 but they're a martyr are they

01:06:09.860 a mid 17th century

01:06:11.480 Armenian martyr

01:06:12.620 who was killed for refusing to convert

01:06:15.660 to Islam

01:06:16.220 probably 1.00

01:06:19.560 the right choice isn't it

01:06:21.380 stand by your guns

01:06:25.360 matter of principle

01:06:27.620 I'm going to Thomas More

01:06:29.880 this thing, no all I have is

01:06:31.780 the ground I stand upon, do your worst

01:06:33.540 okay pigdog5150 says if a royal is allowed armed security then everyone should be allowed

01:06:42.140 armed security if you've got five million quid you can do it oh yeah you want to hire close

01:06:49.000 security not that i'm playing defense on behalf of the royals don't get me wrong

01:06:52.220 i'm saying if you've got the money anyone that has got the money can do it

01:06:55.660 i want two ex-sas guys to flank me at all times if you've got the money you could you could do it

01:07:03.540 I mean, you're right, I get the sentiment of what you're saying 0.95

01:07:06.520 It's not fair, it's not fair, is it?

01:07:08.040 Yeah, why?

01:07:12.660 Okay, Dragon Lady Chris says

01:07:14.380 My sister didn't believe me when I told her Prince Harry's name is actually Henry

01:07:19.240 Well, yeah, anyone called Harry is...

01:07:21.540 Well, actually, that's not true

01:07:22.360 That's not true

01:07:23.880 We'll ask little Harry in a moment

01:07:25.020 You put, his real name is Henry

01:07:27.160 She had to look it up, her jaw-dropping still amuses me

01:07:30.200 so i was about to say anyone that's called harry their real name is henry but that's not actually

01:07:34.820 true is it it's like anyone that's called ted their real name is edward but it's not true you

01:07:40.620 can just call your kid ted and it's not then it's not just an abbreviation of edward or whatever

01:07:46.000 isn't it same with harry but of course royal so it's going to be henry isn't it just like the

01:07:50.180 your family name is the colloquial name is harry but harry little harry producer yeah is your on

01:07:57.200 your birth certificate have you got henry or harry no it's just harry oh let's tell you okay

01:08:01.280 there you go there you go has anyone ever accidentally called you henry oh yeah many

01:08:08.320 times yeah did anyone call you hair yeah i've had it all oh really because there's always been like

01:08:15.460 many harrys in all my years so it's a really popular name these days isn't it it's really

01:08:21.360 quite popular people call you h yeah a lot of that i quite like that i wouldn't mind being called h

01:08:28.360 i don't mind when people call me b don't mind that one or two people on twitter have done

01:08:32.620 okay all right henry harry that's an interesting thing right pig dog 5150 says foreign religions 0.68

01:08:41.420 need to be banned and practicing persons deported should have to be three generations british to be 0.53

01:08:46.680 a politician or in the forces police judiciary etc i've got no problem with any of that 0.59

01:08:50.940 To be perfectly honest

01:08:51.960 Got no problem with any of that

01:08:55.280 To be frank

01:08:56.160 Yeah

01:08:59.600 Why not

01:09:01.380 Again Machiavelli would be saying

01:09:04.160 Yeah of course

01:09:04.860 Yeah

01:09:06.200 Anything other than that

01:09:09.100 Or something very similar to that

01:09:10.200 Would be mad

01:09:10.860 Yeah

01:09:11.600 Don't let your enemy

01:09:14.280 Control you politically

01:09:15.780 Yeah

01:09:16.360 Everything alright

01:09:19.260 The stream just on my screens

01:09:20.460 they went dark for a moment and froze is everything all right they're back okay well did the stream

01:09:25.440 just go down for a quick moment there or something no no that was my fault oh all right okay um let's

01:09:31.900 see what else we got then oh there's a fair few more uh rumble rants whip through them a little

01:09:37.460 bit then a fallen firebird says i was on a field trip in the arctic circle a swedish hiking guide

01:09:45.360 Told us that saying

01:09:46.660 Hedge

01:09:47.740 Hedge

01:09:48.340 I'll pronounce hey

01:09:49.080 So saying hey hey

01:09:50.620 Was a convenient combination of

01:09:53.020 Hello, good day, goodbye

01:09:54.340 Whilst passing someone

01:09:56.080 Hey hey

01:09:57.420 I do think it's interesting

01:10:01.660 What different languages have got

01:10:04.380 For like the general purpose greeting

01:10:06.240 Like in Italy you can say ciao

01:10:09.140 For hello and goodbye can't you

01:10:10.640 Usually we think ciao means goodbye

01:10:13.020 But they often say it as a

01:10:15.360 Or just a general purpose. In Italian it's like prego means a load of different things.

01:10:20.360 Please sit here or over there or you're welcome or it's just a one word, prego.

01:10:26.180 So let's say, what did you say in Swedish? Right, yeah.

01:10:31.420 I don't mind saying morning to people that you pass in the street in a silly accent. 0.95

01:10:37.120 Like in a really West country accent. It's not my real accent. 0.74

01:10:40.760 Now you walk past something street

01:10:42.780 And they might like nod

01:10:43.540 Just to

01:10:44.020 Recognise that you're there

01:10:46.580 Morning

01:10:48.400 Doing an Irish accent

01:10:51.820 Or a Scottish accent 0.85

01:10:52.460 Just for a laugh

01:10:53.560 Okay

01:10:56.520 Pigdog5150 again

01:10:57.900 The next two are from you

01:10:59.580 So I'll read them out

01:11:00.380 You put 0.99

01:11:00.700 In Brose Britain

01:11:01.660 My humble petition to government

01:11:03.120 Is graciously considered

01:11:04.740 Would be a requirement

01:11:05.860 For any position in government

01:11:07.300 Or local authority etc

01:11:08.800 To require

01:11:09.680 to require British citizenry back to 1500.

01:11:17.300 I feel like if you've got it back to like three generations ago,

01:11:20.860 you're probably going to have it back that far.

01:11:22.900 Likely to, statistically.

01:11:27.580 My father was born and raised in the United States,

01:11:30.200 but my DNA results do show that all of his ancestry

01:11:33.900 must surely have been from Britain.

01:11:35.440 So

01:11:36.640 In fact on State of Politics

01:11:40.660 State of Politics

01:11:41.320 On this Sunday

01:11:42.340 On our Sunday Sunday 0.81

01:11:43.400 T-Sup Sunday

01:11:44.140 Live stream

01:11:44.980 Me and Nate are going to go through

01:11:46.560 Our

01:11:46.840 Our Ancestry.com

01:11:48.880 Results

01:11:49.820 And

01:11:50.820 Ancestry.com

01:11:51.940 And

01:11:52.260 The other one

01:11:53.600 What's the other one

01:11:54.140 Can't remember the other one

01:11:54.880 I've got two different sets of results

01:11:57.660 And they show I am

01:11:59.380 Just in fact

01:12:00.080 Ethnically

01:12:00.880 On a DNA level

01:12:02.860 Entirely

01:12:05.240 entirely northwest european and almost entirely british 0.97

01:12:08.740 therefore i like that idea right pig dog again says foreigners vote for the benefit of foreigners 0.60

01:12:18.580 and for more foreigners yeah of course they do yeah to be allowed to vote would also require 0.60

01:12:24.360 ancestry back to 1500s and to be net positive taxpayers not even married in married in foreigners 0.88

01:12:29.960 We can look at that policy

01:12:34.340 We can look at all sorts of policy

01:12:36.020 Things like that

01:12:37.260 In both Britain

01:12:40.280 Just be a much much more restricted franchise

01:12:43.100 In all sorts of ways

01:12:44.040 I'll go full ancient Athenian

01:12:47.260 You've got to be 35 0.97

01:12:49.080 You've got to own property 1.00

01:12:50.320 You've got to have kids

01:12:51.280 And you've got to be a bloke

01:12:52.100 No I don't know

01:12:54.760 You must own a certain amount of slaves

01:12:59.040 before you're allowed to vote? Obviously, I'm joking. Hope not hate. Bodade of Lotus Eaters

01:13:07.180 says you have to own slaves before you're allowed to vote. All right. Matthew C says,

01:13:16.820 If you go to the Louvre

01:13:19.500 Don't look at it

01:13:22.200 Don't look as if Mona Lisa

01:13:24.700 Don't look at it if Mona Lisa

01:13:28.300 Look at the wedding feast

01:13:29.800 At Kana behind it

01:13:33.160 A truly incredible painting

01:13:34.640 Almost like it's placed there deliberately

01:13:36.540 The wedding feast

01:13:38.840 I don't know that off this in my head

01:13:40.780 Harry, could you do a quick Google

01:13:43.120 Of the wedding feast at the Louvre

01:13:46.580 you can cut and paste the words matthew c has put there the wedding is that another

01:13:52.900 is that another uh leonardo it doesn't ring a bell

01:13:55.980 maybe when i see it i'll be like oh that that extremely famous world famous painting i want

01:14:04.320 to know what you're talking about though matthew c i want to i want to i want to see what what

01:14:07.300 we're what we're dealing with here is that is that uh doesn't look necessarily like a leonardo

01:14:18.600 okay okay it's a cool painting that is a cool painting is it actually a leonardo

01:14:29.840 anyway oh yeah when i when i saw when i saw the mona lisa both times

01:14:37.300 i've been to the louvre i think well now i have been to louvre three times one of the times i

01:14:41.940 didn't even bother to go to the the wing of of it where the mona lisa is the other two times both

01:14:48.260 times ed said when he went didn't he just now ed said that he happened to go at a particular time

01:14:53.560 or maybe it was early in the 90s where it wasn't surrounded by like chinese tourists so he could

01:14:59.540 get relatively up close to it well when i was both times i went to see it it was exactly that

01:15:04.560 there was like so there's a cordon around it so you can't go right up to it and like actually

01:15:09.040 properly have a look there's already a cordon a barrier thing so you could only the best

01:15:14.860 you could only get within two meters of it meter and a half two meters of it at the best of times

01:15:20.500 but then there's like honestly like four five six ranks of people crowding around that barrier so

01:15:27.380 you just sort of have to crane over the top and now you're like five six meters away from it

01:15:32.520 five six meters away from it and it's not very big anyway it's honestly like about that big probably

01:15:39.340 and like so you just can't yeah you certainly can't stand there and just sort of contemplate

01:15:47.400 it for a while get relatively close to it you can see all the details see the brush marks

01:15:51.440 and just stand there and contemplate you can't do any of that

01:15:54.240 so yeah experience ruined harry whack up that picture there

01:16:00.440 so everyone can see it you know that's impressive isn't it

01:16:06.440 that's very impressive that's not a leonardo leonardo didn't do paintings like that

01:16:12.440 that big he just didn't impressive anyway okay what else we got here oh the last rumble rant

01:16:20.580 Fallen Firebird again says

01:16:21.660 It's ironic how

01:16:24.020 During eras of strength 1.00

01:16:25.660 Beachheads like Suta 0.99

01:16:27.580 Are an incredible strategic

01:16:30.340 Asset for the owner

01:16:31.440 Whereas during our current epoch

01:16:33.220 Of weakness and treason

01:16:34.740 It's an existential threat

01:16:36.400 Yeah, the irony

01:16:38.040 You're exactly right

01:16:38.840 You've called it ironic

01:16:39.680 Yeah

01:16:40.020 Yeah, exactly

01:16:42.940 There's another thing

01:16:46.600 Whenever the Spanish say

01:16:47.460 Give us back Gibraltar

01:16:48.640 We're like, well 1.00

01:16:49.440 You have got Souter haven't you

01:16:51.920 You're going to talk to us about exclaves

01:16:54.340 We've all but handed you brought it back anyway

01:16:59.920 De facto

01:17:01.000 Oh and the last one here from Matthew C

01:17:04.700 It just popped in and says

01:17:05.560 If you want to see the Mona Lisa

01:17:07.460 There's an alternative version in the Prado in Madrid

01:17:10.480 That you can walk right up to

01:17:11.980 Also no photos allowed in the Prado

01:17:13.940 Okay but it's not the original though is it

01:17:16.920 If I want to see

01:17:17.840 Yeah, no, not even a pop, Matthew.

01:17:20.020 I know you're a super fan.

01:17:20.840 I appreciate it.

01:17:21.460 Cheers, buddy.

01:17:22.920 But if I wanted to see a replica or a reproduction or something,

01:17:25.840 I'd probably just go on Google Images,

01:17:27.420 probably get the best,

01:17:28.020 because I'll zoom in on that.

01:17:31.660 It's got to be the original or nothing, isn't it?

01:17:35.720 Yeah, okay.

01:17:36.600 All right, let's do,

01:17:37.480 that's the last Rumble Rant.

01:17:38.280 Let's look at our Super Chats.

01:17:39.440 Harry's already brought them up,

01:17:40.340 the YouTube Super Chats.

01:17:41.580 There's a dozen or more,

01:17:42.680 20-odd or so.

01:17:43.740 Let's whip through them.

01:17:44.840 It's already nearly 20 past nine.

01:17:46.320 Okay, in at number one,

01:17:47.460 We've got Sam Jones, our team.

01:17:53.020 I do find it difficult to read one long concatenated word like that.

01:17:57.060 Sam Jones, our team says,

01:18:00.940 Hi Bo and H. Harry, coming back will end up with the...

01:18:05.460 Oh, I should have used a comment out.

01:18:09.700 Sorry to... I don't need...

01:18:11.340 I'll start again.

01:18:12.940 Hi Bo and H. Harry coming back will end up with the taxpayer

01:18:16.700 providing his income. He can't get a job, so back on benefits, just the taxpayer, not

01:18:23.620 universal credits. He should not be allowed back. Well, I don't think the state should

01:18:31.500 pay for anything, not one penny for him, if he's so scared that he needs around-the-clock

01:18:38.100 protection. Well, his family can pay for that then. They're not short of a couple of bob,

01:18:42.460 are they again the king himself private wealth private fortune hundreds of millions his brother

01:18:49.780 over a bill of a billion pounds he's got so five million a year to make sure your kid brother

01:18:57.720 doesn't get hurt

01:19:02.640 do it for him why should a taxpayer foot that okay mr gently benevolent says 0.64

01:19:12.400 Harry Windsor and the half-blood wife are even less interesting than sports ball bow 0.97

01:19:17.640 I mean yeah I agree I agree when it completely dominates the news cycle though that is what 1.00

01:19:23.620 this show is isn't it what's in the news cycle but I agree with you I completely agree with you

01:19:27.140 Harry also needs to accept um his three Homer Simpson style strands aren't fooling anyone

01:19:33.280 about the fact he's bald do you mean Harry Robinson

01:19:36.900 Oh no, sorry, you can't mean

01:19:41.180 Oh, you mean Prince Harry

01:19:43.040 Sorry, I was going to say

01:19:43.680 Sorry, of course you mean Prince Harry

01:19:46.040 Yeah

01:19:47.480 Harry Robinson's got a fine head of hair

01:19:50.160 Little Harry, even more

01:19:52.580 A mane of hair

01:19:54.580 Little Harry has got

01:19:55.520 A veritable mane of hair

01:19:58.900 No, Harry Windsor

01:20:00.800 Yeah, he's balding

01:20:02.200 All the Windsors have got

01:20:03.400 Male pattern baldness, haven't they

01:20:06.900 yeah yeah yeah it's homer simpson three strands of hair okay tiger t-y-g-r-h pronounced tiger

01:20:15.540 they want to pronounce tiger says um just cast my vote for big harry harold to the great little harry

01:20:24.020 might just boot me uh off the show forever sad face no you're welcome you're always welcome here

01:20:31.780 you're certainly part of the glorious band the chosen female band of brothers the bow show family

01:20:36.900 we wouldn't boot you out

01:20:39.300 alright 1.00

01:20:40.460 Belgians are evil trust me that's their name 1.00

01:20:43.660 at Belgians are evil trust me says 1.00

01:20:45.400 Nathan Kofnass 1.00

01:20:46.940 was being investigated

01:20:49.780 and later on yesterday

01:20:51.540 suspended yes I hate

01:20:53.660 Belgium but would never embellish

01:20:55.960 all my Belgian mates

01:20:57.840 all my Belgian

01:20:59.840 all my Belgium

01:21:01.680 hate 100% scientific

01:21:03.460 alright

01:21:03.820 That professor, Nathan Kofnass

01:21:09.960 At the University of Ghent in Belgium

01:21:11.940 At Belgium's Evil Trust Me

01:21:15.200 He was going to pipe up about it, wasn't he?

01:21:18.500 100% scientific though

01:21:19.860 It's good, solid reasoning

01:21:21.620 It's good, solid reasoning

01:21:23.440 It's not just blind hatred

01:21:24.840 On the next one, he's also 0.99

01:21:29.300 Belgium's Evil Trust Me

01:21:30.220 He said, Ed told me yesterday

01:21:32.140 About his exciting new research

01:21:33.740 Did you really? Are you in

01:21:36.340 Communication with the good professor 0.61

01:21:38.800 Half Dutch

01:21:40.240 Low Saxon Gronings 0.81

01:21:42.480 Males, born in Australia 1.00

01:21:44.700 Make the best partner

01:21:45.960 And have very high IQs

01:21:48.200 Is that you?

01:21:52.540 Are you a 0.98

01:21:54.440 Half Dutch Low Saxon male 0.75

01:21:56.480 From Gronings 0.99

01:21:57.840 That lives in Australia

01:22:00.300 Is that what that is?

01:22:02.680 is that what we're talking about here okay emily for restore says the real prof 0.97

01:22:09.000 vote restore for a native homesick yeah yeah

01:22:16.520 yes please be nice it would be nice

01:22:23.240 okay principled uncertainty says 2026 is a bad year in a terrible decade within a disturbing

01:22:29.960 and broken century oh my god these are these are good words yes absolutely yeah you can't say uh

01:22:37.800 but we do get professor ed in the mornings occasionally takes the edge off a little

01:22:43.880 yeah it's the clown decade where things will only get worse before they get better

01:22:52.200 yeah the good professor takes the edge off a little bit yeah he's good he's refreshing i love

01:22:57.480 talking to it there's a few people i just love to i i love it apostolic majesty that tom rosell aka

01:23:04.680 survive the jive godfrey bloom number of these people ed dunn professor ed dunn could just sit

01:23:11.240 there for hours and hours and hours just shooting the breeze so what do you think about that what

01:23:14.440 do you think about this oh yeah that's interesting that's interesting i've heard this what do you

01:23:17.400 think could just do that for hours and hours and hours with these people they've got almost limitless

01:23:22.040 well of knowledge

01:23:25.240 about almost everything

01:23:26.840 love it

01:23:28.200 love it

01:23:29.340 okay they've still got

01:23:31.180 half a dozen or more

01:23:32.400 they keep ticking in

01:23:33.560 alright let's see what else we've got

01:23:35.140 The Thing

01:23:36.920 says

01:23:38.840 help me Bo

01:23:40.620 just woke up

01:23:41.480 it's 1am

01:23:42.100 and the world is spinning

01:23:43.340 I drank too much absinthe

01:23:45.020 and have work in 4 hours

01:23:47.920 I'll catch this when I get up

01:23:49.780 oof

01:23:52.040 I've only ever once had a shot of absinthe in my whole life,

01:23:56.460 and it wasn't real absinthe.

01:23:58.560 Anyone who knows about it?

01:23:59.580 There's real, proper 19th century absinthe.

01:24:03.140 And then there's knock-off crappy modern absinthe. 0.59

01:24:07.000 I once had a shot of that, and it was gross.

01:24:10.260 I mean, I don't really like liquor much anyway.

01:24:12.860 I say that.

01:24:14.820 Rum is probably my favourite drink.

01:24:16.220 But I mean something like whiskey, brandy, vodka, anything like that.

01:24:21.680 It's a bit

01:24:22.120 Not really my bag

01:24:24.600 I once had a shot of absinthe

01:24:25.920 I found it disgusting

01:24:27.720 Absolutely disgusting

01:24:29.840 So if you're hungover on absinthe

01:24:32.720 Go to work in four hours

01:24:34.820 I don't know what to say

01:24:35.800 Drink loads of water

01:24:37.000 That's the best thing for a hangover

01:24:39.000 Everyone's got their little idea

01:24:40.840 About what to do

01:24:41.560 The correct answer for a hangover

01:24:44.340 Is loads of water

01:24:45.120 Isn't it

01:24:48.040 And some food if you can

01:24:49.400 Something stodgy

01:24:50.100 Soak it up

01:24:50.760 But definitely water

01:24:52.000 That's all you can do

01:24:54.220 The damage has been done, hasn't it?

01:24:56.920 If you want to be sick

01:24:57.900 Go to the hospital and insist

01:25:00.820 Go to a private hospital and pay for them

01:25:03.360 To pump your stomach

01:25:04.100 Don't do that, they'd be mad

01:25:07.300 But water 0.95

01:25:08.960 Just ingest tons of water

01:25:11.700 Not so much that your brain swells

01:25:14.040 And it kills you

01:25:14.640 But just have loads of water

01:25:16.700 That's what I'd say 1.00

01:25:17.960 belgians are evil trust me again says 1.00

01:25:21.180 Ed 1.00

01:25:21.860 looking to you for a great

01:25:24.200 theoretical framework

01:25:26.260 and

01:25:27.220 great feminisation

01:25:30.260 everyone knows it's happening 0.99

01:25:32.680 and ruinous but hard to explain

01:25:34.760 share with us

01:25:35.580 I don't know if Ed is still

01:25:38.480 watching the stream whether he'll hear that

01:25:41.060 he said he was going to do a wordle didn't he

01:25:42.840 A great theoretical framework about feminisation

01:25:49.160 He's probably written a book on it

01:25:52.440 I wasn't joking earlier when I said he's a prolific

01:25:54.640 He's published to a prolific, prolific degree

01:25:59.000 I can't remember how many, he's told me before

01:26:01.840 I can't remember how many books he's done

01:26:02.960 20, 30, 40

01:26:04.220 It's honestly in that ballpark

01:26:05.820 It's loads, loads

01:26:07.000 He can't stop writing and publishing books

01:26:09.520 He can't stop himself

01:26:11.280 Which is no criticism

01:26:14.080 I'm jealous

01:26:14.640 Brilliant, amazing

01:26:15.440 Principled uncertainty

01:26:19.700 For quite a bit of money there

01:26:21.180 Appreciate that sir

01:26:21.880 Appreciate that sir

01:26:22.940 You say

01:26:23.460 If Ed is still here

01:26:25.840 By the time this is read

01:26:26.840 Ah, sorry

01:26:27.680 Anyway, that's what you've put

01:26:29.600 Why do you think

01:26:30.960 The taking of Constantinople

01:26:32.340 Feels so personal

01:26:33.400 Yet we have

01:26:35.640 Almost no connection to it

01:26:37.040 Is there something more than

01:26:38.500 Just cultural meme survival

01:26:40.060 Going on

01:26:40.700 I'm afraid Ed isn't here to answer that

01:26:42.580 It's not a bad question, it's an interesting question

01:26:44.600 I don't know, it's a bit of a meme isn't it

01:26:51.280 That like 1.00

01:26:51.800 We'll retake back, like the Christian West 1.00

01:26:55.900 Will take back Constantinople at some point 0.96

01:26:59.020 But having actually made all sorts of content about the Fourth Crusade

01:27:06.180 And in fact the final fall of Constantinople in 1453

01:27:09.860 Where I've actually talked all about the history a number of times

01:27:12.980 I don't, personally as an Englishman

01:27:19.140 I don't feel it's all that personal

01:27:22.500 But a lot of people do feel that way, don't they?

01:27:28.440 Why stop at Constantinople?

01:27:32.500 Why not liberate the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?

01:27:39.860 That's even more off the cards, isn't it?

01:27:45.120 Okay.

01:27:47.580 Okay.

01:27:49.540 I'm not advocating with going to war with Israel, just to be clear.

01:27:54.500 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in Jerusalem.

01:27:57.480 The First Crusade? Anybody? Second Crusade? Nobody?

01:28:01.860 Nope. Okay. Alright.

01:28:04.260 Talk about it. Hours worth of talking about it if you did want to know what I'm banging on about there.

01:28:08.700 Right. Principal Dunsertzi says, if you feel bad now, I suppose you meant I feel bad now,

01:28:17.080 I would of course like to hear Bo's answer to my previous super chat. The elite theorists are

01:28:21.180 coming for you. What was the previous, oh, the thing about Constantinople. Yeah, I personally,

01:28:30.440 I just

01:28:30.880 I mean it was 0.95

01:28:32.660 After the Great Schism 0.96

01:28:34.020 In the 1050s 1.00

01:28:35.880 It was Eastern Orthodox Christianity anyway

01:28:40.180 And I'm not a practicing Christian

01:28:43.560 At all

01:28:44.840 So

01:28:47.140 I feel like it's more of a fight 0.83

01:28:50.240 Between Turks and Greeks if anything

01:28:52.160 I don't really feel like it's got anything to do

01:28:54.420 With Western Europe particularly

01:28:55.800 That's just my feeling

01:28:57.440 As an Englishman

01:29:01.400 Oh, the elite theorists are coming for you.

01:29:03.260 Oh, no.

01:29:05.020 I'm quaking in my boots. 1.00

01:29:09.720 Belgians are evil, trust me, says. 1.00

01:29:11.600 Anti-Dutch racism. 0.99

01:29:13.140 Ed not here for my super chats.

01:29:16.840 Ed not here to hear about the anti-Belgian hate on this channel.

01:29:23.940 And the fact that Ed isn't here to hear it is anti-Dutch racism.

01:29:30.440 fair dos

01:29:32.900 Tatum2733

01:29:35.020 what are your thoughts on IQ?

01:29:38.660 I think it's concrete

01:29:39.760 in the most general sense

01:29:43.840 it's interesting

01:29:44.480 my thoughts and feelings have vacillated over that

01:29:47.120 over the years when I read different things about it

01:29:49.300 so if anyone doesn't know

01:29:51.540 the sort of debate around it

01:29:52.460 on one level you can say

01:29:53.980 having a high IQ shows nothing

01:29:56.320 other than that you're good at taking IQ tests

01:29:58.660 and other people will say no that is true but also on top of that it's a very very strong

01:30:04.560 indication of your sort of cognitive abilities reasoning abilities uh also in all sorts of

01:30:09.740 other ways your actual general intelligence how good you are iq tests is a very good indication

01:30:15.480 of that people have argued both of those i'm not sure uh you know it's never been my

01:30:25.960 for I'm a history my undergrad is in ancient history and my postgrad is in government policy

01:30:31.800 and politics so they're the things I've studied studied are those things not like IQ so I'm not

01:30:41.160 qualified to give a proper proper answer on that but I did go through the world for a long time

01:30:46.700 most of my adulthood thinking saying and thinking high IQ only proves that you're good at IQ tests

01:30:54.240 because you could get a genius savant who's got an iq of 200 plus but can't hold a conversation

01:30:59.600 and can't really remember things so well done you've got a really high iq well done doesn't

01:31:05.580 really mean anything but i don't think that's that's not really the whole story although

01:31:09.700 sometimes like you can have a genius savant as i just said you can have that

01:31:13.620 showing that iq doesn't necessarily mean anything but they're they're an odd outlier thing i think

01:31:20.360 it is fair to say that the higher your IQ is it's a it's a fair indication of your general

01:31:26.380 intelligence which is a bit disappointing because my IQ is eminently average

01:31:33.080 last few IQ tests I did I've come out at like 115 115 120 odd at best it's not bad it's above

01:31:45.740 average but it's not much to write home about really in fact I think I've heard Professor

01:31:49.780 Dutton say that an IQ at that level you're firmly midwit but IQ tests if you ever done one a real

01:31:56.460 IQ test it's not about a real real real IQ test not some crappy free thing off Google all it is

01:32:04.900 is about pattern recognition that's all it is a real IQ test it's not about general knowledge

01:32:09.560 it's not really about it's not about logic or anything it's not about maths a train leaves a

01:32:15.280 station at this time and travels this many miles in this much time when does it arrive none of

01:32:18.680 none of that they give you four images and you pick out the odd one out that's sort of what an

01:32:25.400 iq test is that getting more and more and more difficult until finally it looks like all four

01:32:30.920 are different and how am i supposed to pick which one's the odd one out that's what real real iq

01:32:36.360 test is is that i've done a number of them i've done probably four three or four or five over the

01:32:42.600 the years i get to a certain point it's like looking at equations you know like difficult

01:32:48.060 actual uh equations a certain point my brain just goes no no i can't do that no that doesn't make

01:32:56.700 sense to me i don't know you could explain it all to me exactly what each one is and within a few

01:33:00.220 moments my brain just goes no the same with an iq test for me or like anyone at a certain point

01:33:06.140 your brain's looking at you're looking at it and you're like yeah i don't see i'm not seeing it

01:33:12.600 I don't see the pattern there.

01:33:15.020 I can't.

01:33:18.260 So, yeah.

01:33:20.780 I don't care.

01:33:21.400 I'm comfortable enough in my own skin to admit my IQ is 115, 120-odd.

01:33:27.200 I'm good at reading and remembering things.

01:33:29.280 A little bit of the gift of the gab.

01:33:31.400 Am I great at maths and physics and chemistry and stuff?

01:33:34.460 No, not really.

01:33:37.220 But problem solving, like in the top 1% of problem solvers,

01:33:42.600 Don't come to me.

01:33:43.460 I'm not going to be able to do it.

01:33:45.640 I could read up about the history of problem solving

01:33:47.980 and then talk to you for an hour about it,

01:33:50.280 but actually doing it myself, no.

01:33:56.360 I've talked about IQ for quite a while then.

01:33:58.100 I don't know what we're talking about.

01:34:01.380 Okay, what else have we got here?

01:34:03.940 Ruben J. Hansen says,

01:34:06.820 Charles, William and Harry are all members of the mail line

01:34:09.740 Of the Schleswig-Holstein

01:34:12.180 Sonderberg-Glucksberg family

01:34:16.120 Through Philip

01:34:16.800 I think you're exactly right there

01:34:20.060 I think that's right 0.97

01:34:20.640 That's through the male

01:34:22.380 Their father's line

01:34:23.380 Yeah

01:34:23.700 That should be the surname

01:34:26.640 Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

01:34:28.200 Is Queen Elizabeth's

01:34:29.700 Yeah, well, I mean

01:34:30.560 Yeah, if I'm going to talk about

01:34:33.440 Harry or

01:34:34.120 Or Wills 0.68

01:34:35.680 Yeah, fair

01:34:36.660 Fair thing to say

01:34:39.740 I mean, when you drill down into, yeah, I mean, you're right, you're right, you're absolutely

01:34:45.840 right, technically.

01:34:47.520 A little bit of a fedora tip there, actually, it's the house of Schlenswick-Holstein, but

01:34:52.100 I appreciate it, I appreciate it.

01:34:54.140 A good fedora tip is worth it.

01:34:59.740 I'm not beneath a fedora tip from time to time.

01:35:04.200 Okay, Martin3538 says,

01:35:07.040 Bo, has there been an event

01:35:09.560 That's happened in the last 10 years

01:35:11.180 That will be considered truly historic in the future

01:35:13.880 In the last 10 years

01:35:15.460 Yeah, well, it depends how you

01:35:19.460 Yeah, I mean

01:35:22.720 This war in Persia, the killing of the Ayatollah that day

01:35:26.560 That was quite big 1.00

01:35:27.720 I'd say that's quite big

01:35:29.000 Yeah, there's been a number

01:35:30.880 I tell you the thing that will go down in history

01:35:33.220 For centuries and centuries and centuries

01:35:36.100 It's not in the last 10 years

01:35:37.800 But

01:35:38.100 9-11

01:35:40.760 September the 11th

01:35:44.580 In the year 2001

01:35:45.620 I think in centuries

01:35:47.400 Maybe even millennia

01:35:48.740 People, historians

01:35:51.180 Will look back at that

01:35:52.040 And see that as a

01:35:53.320 As a moment in time

01:35:55.860 We're still a bit too close to it

01:35:57.960 See the wood for the trees

01:35:58.900 I think we're still a bit too close to it

01:36:00.440 It's still too harrowing

01:36:02.580 And raw of a thing

01:36:04.940 Still

01:36:05.340 I feel like that's the

01:36:09.480 That's the thing that happened in my lifetime

01:36:13.880 Where it felt like

01:36:15.660 There was a world before that happened

01:36:17.260 And a world after it happened

01:36:18.480 Like World War I people say

01:36:20.480 The pre-1914 world

01:36:22.460 Was a different world

01:36:23.820 To the world of late 1918, 1919

01:36:26.720 The world had changed

01:36:27.860 I feel like something on a smaller scale

01:36:30.640 Happened

01:36:31.380 On 9-11 with that

01:36:33.660 In the last 10 years

01:36:34.720 I mean it's a good question

01:36:36.300 It's a very interesting question

01:36:37.440 But who knows how

01:36:39.640 History is fickle

01:36:42.140 What it decides to remember and what it doesn't

01:36:43.760 And it changes its mind as well over the centuries

01:36:45.940 I think that's an interesting thing

01:36:47.800 To note what people say 50 years ago

01:36:49.900 100 years ago

01:36:50.680 What they thought was interesting history

01:36:53.320 Or what was household things people knew

01:36:56.340 And what we do now

01:36:58.200 That they're different

01:36:58.860 For example like 50 years ago

01:37:01.300 100 years ago

01:37:02.100 Someone like Goulden of Khartoum

01:37:04.020 Was a household name

01:37:05.260 Everyone knew

01:37:05.960 General Gordon

01:37:08.140 Everyone

01:37:08.600 Now most people don't

01:37:11.380 For example

01:37:11.920 Right

01:37:13.620 If you'd ask people

01:37:17.420 In the year 2000

01:37:18.560 Robbie Williams

01:37:20.220 Was the most famous man

01:37:21.380 In the world

01:37:21.680 The most important

01:37:22.380 Recording artist

01:37:23.160 For a thousand years

01:37:24.960 Robbie Williams

01:37:25.700 Now we don't

01:37:29.060 Know no one

01:37:29.760 History changes its mind

01:37:33.560 it's a fluid thing so it's impossible to say what happened in the last 10 years will go down in

01:37:40.260 history it's a good question very very interesting question mr gently benevolent says almost entirely

01:37:49.240 british how unclean as the best spice coal it is unfortunate i must reject you but as a mutant

01:37:56.220 You have to be rejected, Uncle Bo 0.94

01:37:58.140 Oh, fair enough

01:37:59.020 Yeah, I had a tiny bit of

01:38:01.820 Scandinavian

01:38:02.960 Tiny bit of French

01:38:04.080 So 0.89

01:38:06.340 Not perfectly

01:38:08.000 I mean, I'm on Steve Laws' list

01:38:10.520 Gotta go

01:38:12.880 Gotta get out

01:38:14.480 You're not welcome

01:38:15.760 They shade it, Steve

01:38:19.500 I'm joking

01:38:19.860 Okay

01:38:22.620 Emily for Restore

01:38:25.580 last three here it says uh either of you honeys b and h going to the witton

01:38:34.600 harry you going to the witton do you care about that no unless the big boss ships me off there

01:38:43.220 i don't think i'm going yeah i'm not gonna go i'm not going i went to one once two or three

01:38:48.620 no three years possibly four years ago three or four years ago i went to one and uh

01:38:54.140 i need to be diplomatic here slightly because big josh firm is hosting it and i think harry

01:39:01.580 robinson is speaking and loads and loads of other people in and around this sphere are going and

01:39:07.140 enjoy it and stuff so i have to be diplomatic but i'm not i won't be going to another one i don't

01:39:12.480 think i got a bite in my lip people be like what are you talking about why are you being so cryptic

01:39:22.940 I didn't particularly enjoy it

01:39:25.580 So there you go

01:39:26.300 It was alright

01:39:30.120 It was fine

01:39:31.080 It wasn't bad

01:39:31.560 I mean it was kind of fun actually

01:39:32.960 It was alright

01:39:33.660 It wasn't a chore to get through

01:39:36.120 But

01:39:36.420 I'm like

01:39:38.040 I don't know

01:39:39.880 I'll leave it there

01:39:41.120 There's nothing wrong with it

01:39:42.040 If you want to go

01:39:42.480 Go

01:39:42.700 But I'm not going

01:39:43.820 I think even if Carl

01:39:45.760 And the time I went

01:39:46.940 Carl just

01:39:47.360 Or Maven

01:39:48.700 Somehow

01:39:49.320 Somehow I didn't have to pay

01:39:50.260 I can't remember how it worked

01:39:51.060 Somehow I didn't have to pay

01:39:51.700 Even if they offered me a free ticket

01:39:53.680 I'd be like, pass

01:39:55.000 Thanks

01:39:57.040 I shouldn't play it down

01:40:00.280 Sorry, it's going to be great

01:40:01.060 It's going to be a great event

01:40:01.860 I'm going to move on

01:40:03.060 Emily for Restore again says

01:40:07.680 Constantinople was the heart of Christendom 0.97

01:40:10.960 Well, Eastern Christendom 0.98

01:40:12.160 Yeah, okay, fair enough

01:40:16.440 I mean, Rome, St. Peter's Basilica

01:40:19.960 Is the heart of Catholic Orthodoxy

01:40:22.120 Though isn't it

01:40:22.620 And the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

01:40:25.580 Is really sort of

01:40:27.280 Kind of

01:40:27.720 The heart of Christianity 0.92

01:40:31.580 Is it not 1.00

01:40:32.160 But if you're Eastern Orthodox 0.99

01:40:33.960 Sure 0.93

01:40:35.460 Emily for Restore again

01:40:39.560 Says

01:40:40.100 St George was Cappadocian Greek

01:40:43.420 Save Europe

01:40:44.160 Yeah yeah 1.00

01:40:46.060 He was a Romanised man

01:40:48.580 Romanised Greek man

01:40:50.920 Cappadocian

01:40:51.580 Yeah

01:40:51.840 Pretty sure I've done

01:40:54.840 I haven't got a full epochs on

01:40:57.020 St. George

01:40:58.360 Or did I?

01:40:59.740 Did I?

01:41:00.260 I can't remember

01:41:00.680 I've definitely

01:41:01.520 If nothing else

01:41:02.340 I've definitely done a whole

01:41:03.360 Main podcast segment

01:41:06.420 About the historical figure

01:41:08.220 Of St. George

01:41:09.700 Once

01:41:10.240 Definitely did that

01:41:11.120 Yeah

01:41:15.080 Okay 0.98

01:41:16.720 Last two there

01:41:17.760 They keep ticking in

01:41:18.480 mr gently benevolent there the penultimate one says come on cold cold gone pay your minions

01:41:25.360 to go on pd trips what's pd trips

01:41:32.480 again again it's one of those things it's really obvious i'm just talking about it

01:41:35.760 but already my brain's gone anyway yeah come on cole pay for your minions to go on trips yeah

01:41:43.120 there's been talk about this for a long time whether we'll go we'll go on uh well one time

01:41:49.740 we went to the british museum didn't we me and carl walked around the british museum talking

01:41:52.980 about stuff and we've had another a few times where we've gone out on location to film things

01:41:58.920 carl's done it himself big josh firm did it once or twice uh we've done we've done things like this

01:42:03.300 before there's always been talk of going somewhere further afield whether we'll go somewhere with

01:42:08.360 Stelios in Greece and record stuff

01:42:10.420 I'd love to go to

01:42:12.300 Rome itself and talk about stuff

01:42:13.960 It may well happen someday

01:42:17.280 Or all sorts of places

01:42:18.700 May well happen someday

01:42:21.140 Alright and the last one here

01:42:23.440 The very last one today is from

01:42:24.780 Emily Forrestore who says

01:42:26.200 9-11 should have been the West's wake up call 0.97

01:42:29.200 Yeah 0.99

01:42:29.660 Yeah

01:42:31.500 On a number of things

01:42:35.440 Hmm

01:42:37.220 I've written an article

01:42:40.240 Or is it two

01:42:40.880 On lotusseaters.com

01:42:42.160 Behind the paywall

01:42:44.340 Are they

01:42:44.620 I think they might be free

01:42:45.380 At least two articles

01:42:48.080 About 9-11

01:42:48.720 My thoughts and feelings

01:42:49.580 About 9-11

01:42:50.280 And I can't go into

01:42:53.280 Full detail

01:42:54.520 Can't go into

01:42:57.660 Full detail

01:42:58.600 C's and C's

01:43:02.760 Alright

01:43:03.700 That's the show

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01:43:35.620 if you're at liberty to use the time however you please try and do something valuable with it i

01:43:41.320 mean because your time on this earth is finite doesn't feel like that especially when you're

01:43:44.920 young you've got endless days you haven't it's probably later than you think try and make it

01:43:51.580 count it's the most valuable thing you will ever have is your time and it's finite all right i

01:43:57.440 don't get too preachy about it until monday morning then take

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 21, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 21th August 2026

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