Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 26th June 2026
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1 hour and 39 minutes
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14
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Summary
It's a hot one this morning, and it's not just because of the heat, but also because the power has been out for a while, and there's a fire alarm going off at 7.30am, and we can't get into the building because of technical difficulties, so we're faffing about in the shade in the early hours of the morning, trying to figure out what to do about it.
Transcript
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We're here, we're here, we're live. It's on. Don't worry. Relax. We've got this.
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Technical difficulties this morning. Apologies. Well, not even technical difficulties. It wasn't
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our fault in any way. A little bit of housekeeping then. There was a fire alarm. Do you remember
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the other day, to end the stream early, because there was a fire alarm. I turn up this morning.
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I usually get to the building about seven-ish. All the alarms are going off. We can't go
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into the building my producer chaps just already sitting there they're getting even earlier than
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i do just had to wait till the building managers turn up and turn off there's no fire we just
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couldn't get into the building and so we're sitting there for ages in the uh in the shade at least
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and uh so anyway we only got into the building about 15 minutes ago or so so there you go these
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things happen effectively like an act of god as far as we're concerned there's nothing we could
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do about it we're gonna we'll bring you the show anyway it's a bit late apologies for that but
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there you go this building has been a pain in the uh in the behind nearly the whole time
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Lotus Seaters have been here so if anyone watches Lotus Seaters religiously you'll know
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that at least twice in the middle of the main podcast there was just the power outage
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we had a power outage it we had a power outage the other day didn't we the whole show we had
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Alright we'll keep the housekeeping to a minimum then
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Okay, I'm joined by my producer Thomas this morning
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I'm doing good now we've got the stream working
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i think i've told people a little bit about it before it's basically an exercise in cramming
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like cramming for an exam where i've got like a couple of hours to just cram as much in to my
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mind as possible and then talk about it well a good half of that i do some at home put bbc 24
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on or sky news on the telly while i potter about in the morning um get my laptop on and then i do
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another 45 minutes maybe even as much an hour sitting here looking at and reading stuff so i
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haven't been able to do any of that so my prep for this morning is basically half what it usually is
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a bit less than half of what it usually is so with that in mind so it might be one or two stories i
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might click on later where i'm reading it for the first time we can read the news together in real
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time how about that might click on le monde see what the french are talking about and it will be
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new to me as it is to you live in real time all right that is plenty of fannying about for one
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morning isn't it should we just get straight into it here we go then we've got the buck stops here
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and prickly heat okay so again it was really hot yesterday and it's going to be really hot again
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today it is i'm warm right now warm i don't know why i'm wearing this really really hot blazer
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Have decided that one of the main stories today
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Is going to be about the king's finances and taxes
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Which is just like a really big mansion on the mall
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The mall is the street that runs up to Buckingham Palace
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buckingham palace is more like a show palace you know like a big national trust or english
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heritage like a big country house and maybe there's a few rooms where the aristocratic
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family who aren't that rich anymore still live in it or in fact they still own it but it's
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basically just open to the public and you pay a bit of money to get in and look around just like
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a normal person to us that's what buckingham palace is like these days not that many years
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ago a few years ago what 10 maybe 20 years ago you no one ever got to go into buckingham house
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ever and then i remember maybe it was 15 20 years ago it was first like oh for a few months in the
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summer they're going to open up a bit of buckingham palace and you can pay money and go in and look
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around well over the years they've just extended that more and more and more i mean until now
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it looks like it's just going to be almost entirely given over to that
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Because the king doesn't even want to live there
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Out of everything that's happening in the world
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Yeah, let's talk about King Charles and Buckingham Palace, yeah
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yeah don't talk about les weckner okay got it good right the buck stops here and prickly heat
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england i said i'd keep football to a minimum england are playing their third game later today
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germany got beaten by ecuador 2-1 that's a turn up for the books
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all right that's it that's it that's all i'll say okay they start with the daily star today
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Usually they only put the daily style last or near last
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Charles paid 30 million taxes since becoming king
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Has got loads of money, loads and loads of money
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I've made hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours
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quite literally so i know more about it than the average person
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i'm a lukewarm one because the institution itself
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i think is uh worthwhile and valuable and it would be a terrible shame to annihilate it and
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destroy it and throw it out but the individual people and do they really need to be funded
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if their estates and their businesses are worth hundreds of millions if not in the low billions
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Why is the state giving them another £100 million
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Why does the state need to give them another £99 million a year
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Yeah, but the tourists don't get to actually see
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or meet the royal family themselves they might go to buckingham palace for example pay their 50
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quid or whatever it is to get in and look around they don't i don't get to meet them do they
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i remember once going on holiday to uh the united states i've told you before i've got
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i'm half american my dad was born and raised in oregon got lots of family over there i remember
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going over there once and my auntie saying have you met the queen what's she like
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go round for tea it's warming here i've got a sheen of sweat on me gross
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um yeah no i've never sat down for for finger sandwiches with liz
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all right they've got loads of estates what they got just off the top of my head what they got
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like Balmoral up in Scotland they got Highgrove out in the west country they got they got one
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in Northern Ireland what is it Hillsborough Castle not to be confused with Sheffield Wednesday's
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ground Hillsborough not that another thing they got Windsor Castle of course Buckhouse
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Buckingham Palace they got St James's Palace also in London they got Clarence House they got
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Shan't think I'll live in Buckingham Palace anymore
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Because Elon posted it on Twitter the other day
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Sex scene that's got nothing to do with it in it
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It was alright, it was a bit slow to begin with
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Because you've flooded the country with new people
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It's some sort of societal suicide type thing, isn't it?
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It's very hard to describe it in any other terms
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Than that they're actively, proactively, deliberately
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Harvest at risk as crop peaks early in heatwave
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You still have to pay for it and pay taxes on it
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Buckingham Palace has been going through a refurb
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it's it's it's for tourists going there isn't it really now that's what it is billionaire
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uh william is richer than his dad i told you that didn't i yeah all the different estates
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they've got and the revenues you can get from their states yeah that's where i read that's
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where it said the king himself 640 million he's worth wills is worth 1.2 bill and the
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Could that not still be done anyway even if the state
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Let them pay for their own palaces if they're so rich
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They need some refurb doing on high growth house or something
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you can read your express now there you go look same story i won't bother going into it again
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a palace not fit for a king okay all right again same story remarkable isn't it out of everything
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that's going on in the world they've nearly all gone with the exact same story that's
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that's a co-inkidink isn't it what a coincidence king and queen to quit palace he never lived there
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See, Channel 4 says that they fear that it's thousands
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Hundreds killed and around 50,000 reported missing
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Like a day later or 48 hours later or however long it's been
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Even tens of thousands of people have died in that
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it's gonna be bad gonna have a bad day okay look all the all the websites and everything
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king charles's tax okay so maybe tens of thousands of people are dead in venezuela
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a wealth tax won't work advisors tell burnham in that little article i did read that when they
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said um the classic stuff like stop being a commie it doesn't work if you try and tax rich
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people just simply for being rich they leave it's as simple as that they leave
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and there's 101 ways to get around it you just move your money somewhere else you put it all
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in investment funds that are held in luxembourg or jersey or guernsey or the isle of man or the
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cayman islands or anywhere anywhere else that's what they'll do that's what they always do
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Look, public funding for royals will double in three years
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Don't worry about the rest of the country's crumbling
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Just make sure Sausage Fingers gets an extra 200ml
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Has to have loads more money than he possibly needs
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It's like a horrible taste in the back of your throat
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Who's repeatedly claimed there's no grooming gangs in London
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Well, not even a traitor because he was never loyal
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Has said that London needs to be better at handling heat
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I think it's the hottest city in the United States
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built in the middle of the desert basically isn't it and then look look the clever clever brilliant
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brilliant people at the metro they've put the london skyline with the background of phoenix
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arizona i believe that is like that's what it looks like isn't it in phoenix these are london
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buildings you see there's the shard there you go the barks is building a number of these buildings
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and then what is it the uh the walkie-talkie is it perhaps perhaps the walkie-talkie one
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somebody put that together somebody put that together at the at the metro look look what i've
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done look what the photoshop i did look i did in after effects and we can call it prickly heat
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If anyone's foreign doesn't know what that means
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Just got a massive chip on his shoulder about being a Northerner
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Quite a few Northerners hate Southerners don't they
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where the leftist project wants to undermine us and destroy us at all times anyway
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throw on top of that his sort of northerner's chip on the shoulder and there you go just more
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and more regional powers just giving it all away heatwave uk 50 year record broken again
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so what like on wednesday the record was broken then yesterday thursday it was broken again
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They say it will probably be broken again today
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On busiest day for London Ambulance Service emergency call-outs
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as temperature hits 36.7 degrees in Somerset extreme weather warnings extended to third day
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for the first time and hosepipe ban imposed in Kent again foreign people might be like
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Americans whatever might be like hosepipe ban what's that what are you talking about
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yeah whenever it gets hot here the authorities say oh our reservoir like literally within a day
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or even a day before they think it's going to get hot they say oh our reservoirs are at
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critically low level so uh don't use your hose pipe don't use your hose in the garden
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ridiculous is it despite the fact that all year round
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it's a very very rainy waterlogged wet country this the second they think it's going to get hot
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let alone actually being hot for an extended period they're like oh no you can't you can't
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water your lawn or if you have a paddling pool don't make it more than six inches deep
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like we're in world war ii or something you're gonna have a bath don't have a really deep bath
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meanwhile we'll still charge you the exact same amount for your water rates of course
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the water infrastructure in this country along with everything else
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so frustratingly broken so broken that's been the case as well my whole life i come in my
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early mid 40s and my whole life there's been like oh it's a bit hot can we have a paddling pool mum
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can we do the paddling pool they're like maybe there's a hosepipe ban should we just do it
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anyway maybe there was a hosepipe ban my whole life that's been the case uh all right wales
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reaches 35.9 degrees and northern ireland 30.8 and set new national hires for the for the month
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red alert europe heat wave continues to grip continent with weather-related deaths climbing
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yeah people just die don't they you're like really old if you're already sort of if you're
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already dying it's just a case of you're lying in bed or at home and you're on like palliative care
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and you're just sort of waiting to die it's just a matter of when your heart stops
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i'd be devastated it's like losing a member of the family when your dog dies
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i'd be devastated i wouldn't immediately just post a picture and go so long next
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weirdo all right financial times quake deaths devastation in venezuela right yeah it's bad
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burnham must simplify complex tax code to boost growth says holdane ex bank of england expert
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on economy team get the right people in please don't let red ed miliband be the chance of the
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exchequer spending cuts and pension shift urged business friendly policy plea of course like
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the bank of england and business the world of investment would say that of course they would
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and i agree with them i'm on their side let's not have uh let's not have a socialist economy
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because they never work they never work the guardian oh
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by the guardian this is a story this is one of those stories i didn't get to read about
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on a normal day i would absolutely have read into this but i haven't had the chance this morning
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so i can't really i can't really uh tell you the headline just says degrading how did a u.s
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pilot avoid uk trial after strangling a woman in england and i don't know the detail about that
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quite often military stuff like they've got like their own cults haven't they and if he was
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they didn't realize it was him until he'd gone back to america or something i don't know the
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details but according to this a us pilot is that an f-35 you know sometimes with these things they
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put a picture in it's not actually the type of fast jet he flew don't even know if he's a fast
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jet pilot but anyway what if ferris bueller could get away with it
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you know ferris bueller killed a couple of people in ireland and just
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and then just fled just went back to the united states and there's never never actually uh
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never actually had to it's not funny it's horrible it's really horrible
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never brought to justice about that at all in fact years later he actually just issued a formal
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apology but Matthew Broderick by the way sorry just calling Ferris Bueller Matthew Broderick
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the actor was in Ireland sort of forgot what he was doing forgot where he was and was driving on
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the wrong side of the road I think down country lanes but anyway he was driving on the wrong side
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the road had a head-on collision with another car that had a mum and a grown-up daughter in it
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an older lady and her adult daughter they both died and he and his girlfriend at the time were
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I think they got bruises and scratches but were basically fine what did he do just fled the
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and that the family and like ireland for years ever since have been like oh no you need to come
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back and face justice for that like you it's obviously not a murder you didn't set out that
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morning to kill those two people but it is manslaughter or sort of some sort of second
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or third degree killing or whatever you want to call it you should face justice for that
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no i'm matthew broderick i'm in films in los angeles and stuff no i'm above the law effectively
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oh i'm all right there was another case wasn't there not too long ago or a year or two or three
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ago where again it was a diplomat wasn't it the wife of a diplomat u.s diplomat she killed someone
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on the roads was that in ireland as well i can't remember she's like again not murder didn't
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She didn't deliberately do it, but nonetheless, she hit someone or something, she hit some kid, some teenager or something, some young man, killed him
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and again, just fled back to the United States before the police could get her.
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Are we going to extradite you back to the UK so you can face justice for that, no?
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Maybe he'll get in trouble in the United States
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relatively very very quickly the other way around now
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that's nice isn't it doesn't doesn't really matter who you are you could be the head of state in
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venezuela but a court in new york wants to wants to put you on trial for something
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be the head of state of panama but a court in new york wants to put you on trial for something
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Let's wait for Roman Polanski to actually turn up on US soil.
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I will come to you and kill you on a rooftop.
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I haven't particularly in the grand scheme of things.
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I've got a problem with it either in the grand, grand scheme of things.
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They are the most powerful country in the world
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But for a long time it hasn't been a complete secret
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Labour to free waves of killers and rapists early
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Will now be released just halfway through their sentences
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Sort of one of those things you'll never ever forget or forgive
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i just looked down at the chat so i'm just put beyond contempt yeah
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all right well they're the front pages they were the front pages today
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should we have a quick look at the price of oil we usually do that at this point in the show don't
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we just a quick check in with it west texas 70 brent 73
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less than what it was before the war with persia began remarkable remarkable we did a poll should
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we have a look at our poll thomas you have to bring it up for me if you don't mind what did
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we ask you guys this morning was it something about the monarchy i seem to recall oh yeah
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yeah i mean whenever there's been votes on this sort of thing in places like uh australia or did
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i have they had one in canada i think they might have done they certainly have in australia i
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think more than once whenever polling comes out in britain it's usually something like that
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it's basically lukewarm often you've got lots of people particularly lefties who hate the monarchy
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that's a classic thing if you're a lefty you're a socialist or a commie you despise monarchy
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Kulaks, working class people that own anything are the problem
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So of course royal families and their privilege
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Put in a cellar of a house of special purpose
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Well that's exactly what the Bolsheviks did
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That's one of the reasons why I'm a bit less lukewarm about the monarchy
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It's like, oh, well, I'll like them a bit more than I would otherwise
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I don't think we should really be giving them tons and tons of money
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and i could abolish the monarchy as he did i wouldn't i think i'd make sure the state
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didn't give them a single penny if you're already extremely wealthy with incomes you're not going
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to become poor anytime soon the state's not going to give you a single penny i wouldn't abolish the
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institution. Anyway, that's me. 57% of you say no. 43% say yes. There'll be some staunch
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monarchists that see this or are in the chat. They're like annoyed with me for not being
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more pro-monarchy. Have spent hours and hours and hours and hours making content about it.
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Have spent a big chunk of my life reading about it. I am very, very interested in the
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history of it and everything but this guy this guy this weird sausage fingered half greek half
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german fella who seems to have a fetish for islam and is out of his mind in terms of
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environmentalism a pro-islamic environmentalist that's a classic tradition though isn't it
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For Englishmen to dislike their own monarch
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You say what about these concerns about the papacy
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Is that you've got serious if not grave concerns
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through the centuries i'm talking about okay all right i'll move on we'll move on we'll move on
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okay um boy 14 charged with murder after body found in search for girl in south wales
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just a boy 14 so many of these stories every single day this rapist here that rapist there
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this rapist this rapist surgeon there was one was it it's just particularly if you go on like
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the mail or the express something like that every single day there may even be more than one story
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and these are obviously just the tip of the iceberg the ones that make it into like the express or
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something it's like this migrant did this this foreigner did this sex crimes murders organized
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crime there's one story i saw it was just um yeah a surgeon foreign foreign surgeon bangladeshi i
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think was it i can't remember anyway raped two people one was lucky at least one was a little
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charlie downs the other day wasn't he was asked on was it lbc or something would you accept a
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like a decrease in gdp or something you know off the back of your our ideas about remigration
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would you accept that charlie brilliantly just say no hesitation yes yeah me too yeah
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oh but the gdp might go down so be it i don't want my country flooded with enemies rapists
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and murderers organized criminals does that mean the gdp might go down the treasury revenues might
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go down okay good fine don't care about that i will go back to a true austerity i'll go back
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to ration cards if it meant our women and children stop getting raped my god
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All right, it's too hot to be getting all het up, isn't it?
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I was trying to look for that particular story of
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There's a particular story, but I can't find it
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But the last couple of days has asked me if I've seen a very specific story
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Who's actually an environmentalist type barrister dude
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Who might get in trouble with the law for trying to clean up a lake
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For a couple of days I was like, oh no, I will do that, I haven't yet, I will do it, sorry
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I got off the show, moved on, had to move on to do a couple of other things
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By mid-morning, forgotten about it, it's out of my head again
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It is an interesting story, it's quite a small story really
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It's in London, we're in Greater London, barking
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a little bit of suburbia but mainly like city i didn't realize there were any green spaces beyond
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maybe like a park but at least the river rodding roding i think it's rodding i didn't know there
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was one in places like where i actually grew up there's like the river rom running through
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romford my whole life it's just been a tiny trickle tiny muddy contaminated trickle not a river really
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in any real sense i guess barking has got something like that i guess it's a tributary
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was once a tributary of the Thames or something like that anyway who knows if you'd ask me there
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are actual green river areas in Barking I would say no Barking no but there are there is so all
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right let's read a little bit about this Paul Paulsland hope I'm pronouncing that right Paulsland
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40 and a group of volunteers filled over 200 bags of rubbish from the river Rodding in Barking
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East London at their own expense by the way you're in trouble for that have you got a license for
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that quite literally if you've got a license for that that's the story a barrister this guy Paul
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is facing prosecution by the Environment Agency how dare they how dare they for pulling rubbish
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out of a local river in Bowes Britain I would cut red tape radically if I was going to be radical
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type of thing. The state should have a very, very, very minimal, the lightest of light touch on
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people's lives, in my opinion. And I'm not an actual full libertarian. I've got libertarian
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type leanings. I'd like a very, very small state, very, very small government. I'd like it to touch
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people's lives as least as possible, a small amount as possible. The idea that the environment
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If anything of their powers to do something like that
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And the state tries to put you in prison for it
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Paul received a letter from the Environment Agency
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You need a license to clear rubbish out of a river?
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You must live in squalor unless we let you not live in squalor.
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what if you want to do anything about it we'll take you to court
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it's just completely wrong isn't it the offense carries a maximum punishment of two years in
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prison and he could also lose his job as an environmental lawyer despite this Paul who
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lives on a houseboat on the river has pledged to press on good man yeah good man don't let him get
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you down urging the environmental agency to collaborate with him rather than pursue legal
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action just trying to he said this guy paul he said this river will be restored uh they now have
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a clear choice they can fight me and all the other amazing volunteers doing the work or they can get
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on board and help us and become the good guys in this yeah i don't think they're going to win this
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in the court of public opinion quite right good point fair point hope so fight us or come on board
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with us paul and fellow volunteers from his grassroots charity the river rodding trust
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descended on a side channel of the river in march to remove rubbish and invasive species
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in a bid to restore the waterway to for wildlife pulling out over 200 bags of waste and spending
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£1,000 on hiring a digger to assist with the effort. However, just days after completing the
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restoration work, before Paul had even announced the results publicly, he received an email from
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the government watchdog informing him that he was under investigation. He said, I hadn't even
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posted about the works publicly, only in our private Facebook group, so it seems like there's
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environmental agency spires in our Facebook group, spying on local people restoring a river.
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it's Orwellian isn't it I don't I don't see how else they would have known there's no other way
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they could have known imagine that you work for the environment agency and they're like oh we've
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heard there's whispers there's rumblings oh hey there's rumblings that someone's trying to clean
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something up quick scour the internet for any sort of Facebook group use open source tools
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Can't have people clearing things up on their own
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try and clean up needles from a riverbank.
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The barrister says he wants the agency's environment
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priorities directed elsewhere urging urging the volunteers shouldn't have to dip into their own
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pockets and navigate a regulatory red tape simply to give up their time simply to give up their time
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to clean up the local environment he highlights the thames water sewage out there roughly 200
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meters upstream from the restored alders brook site which he claims is routinely spewing sewage
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sewage into the river water company maintains that its outlet operates within the bounds of
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the law oh right well oh well the law says you can just pump sewage into a river so don't worry
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about it move on who said the group's cleanup efforts have resulted in the waterway quote
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coming back to life just about just about it doesn't still don't look great does it he said
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um we've got we've got irises and reed beds coming back i saw fish in there for the first time
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a couple of weeks ago dragonflies and herons returning it's wholesome isn't it he's doing a
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good wholesome thing and they're like not without a license you're not bruv
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oh you want to clean up a river i don't think so mate here's a court order which can spy on you
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brighter better England okay he said oh no I've read that bit sorry I want to I want to quickly
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read what the they said they said they just said basically it might there might be flooding if he
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like this is that bit of the river supposed to be silted up but it wasn't it hasn't historically
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been or anything they said it might cause unintended harm
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what to the needles you might harm the discarded needles that's just nonsense
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all right it's already nearly quarter past as we started for an hour late didn't we this morning
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so let's move on then to on this day in history i like doing that bit you guys seem to like me
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doing that bit all right on this day in 363 ad it would be roman emperor julian that is julian
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the apostate again is killed during retreat from the sassanid empire general jovian is proclaimed
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emperor by troops on the battlefield i did a poll on my twitter a few days ago was it at the weekend
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or something and i just did a little poll the first few things that popped into my head what
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would you like me to do on epochs i can't remember i said like the siege of vienna 16th century
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siege of vienna is it the manhattan project i remember something else and um or julian the
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apostate or isaac newton i said isaac newton or julian the apostate julian the apostate lost it
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came last i believe a few hundred votes on it great story though i'll probably do it at some
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point anyway. Yeah, Julian Apostate. I talked about him before, didn't I? Where he burnt
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his, sailed up the Tigris, burnt his own ships to Ctesiphon, which is sort of modern-day
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Baghdad, kind of, not exactly, but. And then on the battlefield, some little, there was
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some little skirmish, some little, it wasn't a giant battle or anything. It was retreating
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westwards. There was some little skirmish, some little ambush. They got the emperor himself,
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julian apostate one of the greats very very interesting story okay on this day in 1794
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battle of fleurus i don't know if i'm pronouncing that right i think where i did on uh thomas
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Hanover and the Dutch Republic and the Habsburgs
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with the first use of a reconnaissance balloon i didn't know that that that that's news to me
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that's interesting first use of a reconnaissance must be very early on in one of those extremely
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early balloons there you go great britain hanover the dutch and the habsburgs all teamed up to take
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out the french revolution the armies of the french revolution and failed okay on this day in 1857
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The first 62 recipients received the Victoria Cross for valour
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It's been a while since I did any sort of deep dive or reading on the Crimean War
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I guess that would have been after the Siege of Sebastopol
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I don't know if those very, very, very earliest ones were
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anyway anyway on this day 1945 the united nations charter is signed by 50 nations in san francisco
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right here it's always meant to be a tool for the united states to
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reject its power abroad one way or another wasn't it okay interesting these days that
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As he walks up there to the lectern to start a speech
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Most of the UN's funding comes from the United States
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We won't give you loads and loads of money anymore
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Why should we give you loads and loads and loads of money
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to project your socialism around the world your weirdo anti-white anti-human subversion
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around the world yeah perhaps we won't give you loads of money after all yeah good well done trump
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that's one of the things you know i cast shade at trump for a number of things he's handling the
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epstein affair this persian war i'm not a particular fan of i think it's been mismanaged
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But he has done loads of good things as well, though
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If Ed Davey starts doing things I like, I'll say so
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Panama Canal's third set of locks opens to commercial traffic
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Will global church history be in at number one?
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You've got to get up early in the morning, literally
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First name global, middle name church, surname history
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Yeah, yeah, that's the period I was talking about yesterday, wasn't it?
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Where you've got at one point, at one window of time
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But you've certainly for a while you've got three popes
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There's the one in Rome, one in Pisa and one in Avignon
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Each one of them saying, I am the legit pope
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first name anna middle name church surname history um or is it double barreled your surname
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is church history double barreled um you say your sister anna is a big f1 fan oh good girl good girl
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love it brilliant love f1 me so i thought i should mention it all right okay 1906 all that's early
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because officially grand prix didn't start to formally nowadays the 50s
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i've got i've got a bit of um a long-form bit of content in conversation in conversation with
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that thomas thomas dowling um all about the history of racing everyone 1906 those would be
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those would be those beer gold like chitty chitty bang bang looking cars like massive massive ones
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and then anyway also director and i don't know how you pronounce this director your bowl
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follows me on twitter oh cool oh cool yeah he he must be based because i didn't did notice at the
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beginning that he sort of said written directed and produced or something i think it was certainly
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written and directed by the same guy i'd never heard of him before but you you you ball
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i suspect he's scandinavian even though it's arnie hammer and he's like an american speaks
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american and the the film is english language a lot of it is set somewhere in europe it feels
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like scandinavia somewhere i don't know anyway elon posted it 50 million odd views last night
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probably loads more now check it out your country almost certainly has banned it doesn't want you
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watch it you can see it on twitter it's right there unabridged fully you have to have to sign
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in or anything it's just there just click on it okay 14 barber says morning mate all right yeah
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i'm all right you're all right i hope you are i saw some amazing lightning last night i heard someone
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in the distance um i was wondering if starmer is going to resign as an mp2 not immediately that's
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It'd be better than hanging around like a backbench ghost anyways.
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It's funny, different Prime Ministers do things differently.
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So John Major, for example, remained an MP for quite a while.
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Like Gordon Brown, textured like son, remained an MP for a long time.
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Tony Blair stepped down, stepped aside entirely
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So he could be Foreign Secretary from the Lords
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You've completed the story mode of British politics
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You've done it you're probably not going to be Prime Minister again
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You're probably not going to be Prime Minister again
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But we really need to be singing from the same hymn sheet
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I didn't think that was a big deal to be honest
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Scott Rupert even though he poured scorn on multiculturalism in no uncertain terms he talked
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about Islam and demographic replacement there was another bit in that interview where he said
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what did he say he said like multiculturalism is okay if they integrate there's probably a
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slip of the tongue he probably meant multiracialism because integration and multiculturalism don't
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But anyway, he basically said something that on the face of it
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One, he really was setting up, making an argument of,
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Because you're a detriment to us and our society
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Be aware that they're trying to cause division
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impulse like oh Rupert's done something of hate wait let's just double check what exactly really
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was he saying what did he say exactly though what's really going on here don't just immediately
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take their 20 second clip about all right that's it I'm out Rupert's Rupert's actually like
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no better than a Lib Dem oh I'm out then be a bit better than that okay need you to be a bit
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better than that, to be perfectly honest. Alright. TomRat247 says, Tenacious B. I can't like
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that. I've been called tons of different things. The ballistic missile. I'm not always nice.
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Tenacious B. I'm a pretty hardline Republican, but to still man the money issue the Royal
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family is getting they are getting a higher uh proportion of their estate profits that otherwise
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goes to government are they i don't know if that's true if you say that's true i'm not saying
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you've made that up or you're lying or anything i just don't know if that's definitely true
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but okay if you say so the for the royal family they're getting a higher proportion of their
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of state profits than otherwise goes to government okay okay sorry i can't really comment on that
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with any real um any real insight okay um luke stewart here luke street st luke 91 says
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g'day bow oh yeah g'day mate how good and everyone and everyone thanks to paul
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g'daybo and everyone oh thanks for getting to paul oh talking about it was luke it was you
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wasn't it yeah talking about that environmentalist dude might go to prison for two years you probably
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won't but might go to prison for two years for um trying to clean up a river i've just finished
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work for the day oh lucky you in the weekend ahead you can relax open a tinny
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i like ozies i don't i don't mean any of that to be uh you get it you get it i i like ozies
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Most Aussies I've ever met have been great people
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But I do know they don't like the Barbie thing
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I've spoken to at least two or three Australians
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There's something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?
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Something seems to be more useful to project China's influence
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UN seems to be more useful to project China's influence
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Or they'll put Saudi Arabia as the lead on human rights abuses
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Yeah, or China or Russia in the UN Security Council
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They'll veto everything that's not in their interest
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What is the difference between prawn and shrimp?
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jet lag says the socialists in the environment i guess you meant environment agency were probably
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butthurt that they couldn't get paid for all the bureaucracy they would do uh that they would do
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to plan to plan cleaning that river right yeah our guy paul uh robbed them of their if their
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need to do that all right what have we got max robe says you need a test card f with a bow and
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gonk in middle do you remember the test are you too young times you're in your late twins aren't
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you thomas uh i've actually just turned 32 today oh did you yeah today yes my birthday
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happy birthday mate i didn't know that god happy birthday you're 32nd 32 years young today our
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producer thomas wish him a happy birthday in the chat i insist i insist happy birthday oh
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sorry about i didn't know all right well if i'd known i would have baked a cake i wouldn't have
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done i would buy one i'm not gonna bake a cake oh well happy birthday 32 i thought you were younger
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than that slightly younger than that but okay all right great do you remember now back to the
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rumble the super chat do you remember the test card like maybe on late night bbc2 like the
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telly just stops at like midnight and there's just this test card thing on the screen do you
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remember that i i don't remember it but if you've seen the tv series uh life on mars i think they
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featured it in that and i've seen that bbc one yeah bbc yeah yeah i think channel 4 had their
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version but um we could do a parody of that a comedy parody of that where it's me it's me
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sitting there with a weird gonk or a weird like gollywog doll or something maybe not that that's
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racist these days and like a chalkboard anyway the old test card but it's me
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that would actually be funny i would like to do that okay not not not a gollywog though
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I think the punishment for murder and rape
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Yeah, me too, my exact experience over the last few days.
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There's no air con, and it's like, it's similar to an actual sauna.
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And I've got a fan, and it helps, and it's still really quite uncomfortable.
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Without the fan, it would be, it would be hellacious.
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It would be, honestly, I don't know what to do.
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but yeah so my my um my experience exactly even with a flat a fan difficult to sleep at night
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okay marcos 588 says abolish the monarchy question mark n abolish this monarchy question mark wire
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oh i see what you mean you don't want to abolish the monarchy per se but this one
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yeah yeah i don't know about abolish monarchy just depose charles somehow
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yeah i don't think wills is much better he's slightly less deranged when it comes to islam
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and environmentalism i believe slightly less like fully deranged he's still a sort of a
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Completely homogenous, almost entirely homogenous
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okay well thank you very much i'm not sure what you mean by a pickup it's got more than one meaning
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isn't it okay marcos 588 again says aim high vote bow our lovely rivers must flow yeah yeah
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yeah it would be the last thing i would do is to try and punish someone for cleaning up the
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environment on their own time on their own dollar their own pound
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okay lewis clark doesn't say anything and just gives a little bit of money there so thank you
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for that i appreciate that marcos again says liquidate the assets of this environmental
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agency imprison its leadership give said resources to the volunteers and kindly reward them at
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accordingly. Yeah, yeah, that's sort of my sentiment, yeah. Who's doing that at the
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Environmental Agency? Sorry, who exactly is doing this? You're fired. No pension for
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you. What do you think you're doing? What on earth do you think you're doing? Scumbags.
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Yeah, it's annoying that they'll behave like that, dare to behave like that. I'm going
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to spy on you because you haven't got a license. We didn't say you could clean up needles.
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oh right isaac kirkwood smith 5182 says the other week you interpreted me saying
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crimea is rightfully anglo as referencing the crimean war when i was clearly talking about
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settlement by displaced anglos after 1066 okay some historian you are oof shot was fired okay
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sorry so it's like the varangian guard you're talking about well not even that um okay no
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fair enough sorry i didn't make the i didn't make the connection i thought you're okay
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yeah there is that connection there isn't there there is that connection um
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because you can get from there's you can get from scandinavia you can get from northern europe down
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to the crimea through the river systems of europe like that's how the kiev and rus got from
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scandinavia all the way to modern-day ukraine yeah so sorry about that isaac kirkwood smith
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what can i say i didn't get i didn't make the connection okay as he 0161 says have a good
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weekend you beautiful bald man smiling face is that even a saluting face i can't quite see because
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of the glare okay thank you sir thank you i appreciate it appreciate it i'm not actually
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bald this is a bald cap i've got a giant blonde afro under this uh gigahom or gilgahom gilgahom
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Or loads of scorn on the Americans all the time
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okay and the last one here from st luke again luke stewart 6155 says i told dan one of the
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good things about the monarchy is we know who their replacement is it's a lot easier done with
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your current government what their replacement being just a lord protector things about the
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monarch is we know who their replacement is or rather you mean any given monarch you know you
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know who the heir will be is that what you mean like we know that when king charles dies it will
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be william and then after him it will be his son that that you mean that at least you know what
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you're going to get rather than just sort of some sort of lottery every four or five years
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right yeah okay the last one just came in is from field marshal dawn brunning who doesn't say
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anything and just gives 10 Aussie dollars and a big uh thank you smiling laughing emoji of a fox
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saying thank you thank you Dawn cheers love really appreciate it as always really appreciate super
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fan Dawn Browning the field marshal sorry use her correct rank field marshal Dawn Browning
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with her field marshals baton and one more just popped in why not read it um Daniel D. King said
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a based king archie please or is that like harry and megan's kid archie
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he's a tiny little kid and he he knows if he's based or not just hoping that he is based
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and loads of other people that are before him in the line of succession somehow disappear
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one more just popped in it's for five pounds may as well read it
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Because this is the house of Hanover isn't it basically
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Go back see if you can find someone that's the actual
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or Tudor, or the House of York, or the House of Lancaster, or the full-blown House of Wessex,
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find someone that's the actual heir from, like, Edward the Confessor, or something.
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Yeah, King Ralph. Okay, all right, that's the show. We did start a quarter of an hour late,
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didn't we? Apologies for that once again, but we're now at 52 minutes past nine in the a.m.,
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british summertime on friday 26th of june in the year of our law 2026 so i've done more than the
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hour don't say i'm not generous i am a river to my people who are those people you guys the glorious
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band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters try and make the best of the day ahead
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if you can seize the day carpe diem the most valuable thing you will ever have is your time
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try and stay cool if you can heat stroke is a real thing don't jump in a really really cold
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river or lake or reservoir if you're not if you're not ready for it do a massive intake of breath
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when you're underwater involuntarily and then just drown don't do that not a good idea don't sit in
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the sun so long that you get heat stroke keep cool other than that i won't get too preachy about it
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you're not children you're not idiots stay safe try and make the best of the day until monday morning
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