The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 27, 2026


Breakfast With Beau | Friday 27th March 2026


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Trump extends the deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz by a further 10 days, Little Harry and Little Harry discuss the latest in the Iran crisis and much, much more. Plus the usual nonsense.

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00:00:00.000 moon in your right i hope you are
00:00:08.880 me yeah i'm spiffing thank f it's friday
00:00:16.520 tfi friday tgi friday thank heavens i hope you're looking forward to the to the weekend ahead
00:00:26.140 It has just ticked 8 in the a.m. Greenwich Mean Time on Friday the 27th of March in the year of our Lord 2026.
00:00:34.180 As ever, I'm joined by my producer, none other than Little Harry. How are you this morning, good sir?
00:00:39.240 Morning, yeah, I'm all good.
00:00:41.200 You guys, you know the glorious band, the chosen few. My band of brothers, the best among us.
00:00:46.660 If you tuned in live, 8 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time. Amazing, brilliant, brilliant.
00:00:52.840 i don't really get to see the chat whilst uh whilst we're live live but sometimes just a
00:01:01.380 quick few minutes just before 8 a.m i do see it sometimes see someone asking if i've got tea or
00:01:07.060 coffee in here tea come on don't take coffee i drink too much i'm an englishman come on
00:01:15.380 No, it's tea. Always tea.
00:01:17.400 Love a cup of tea, me.
00:01:21.620 Try and make it just before I come on air
00:01:24.080 so it stays warm for as long as humanly possible.
00:01:27.260 Don't mind coffee.
00:01:29.620 But there's a tea option.
00:01:32.420 I'm taking the tea.
00:01:36.060 Alright, shall we just jump straight into it
00:01:37.900 without any further ado?
00:01:40.800 Right, what's the corporate mainstream media
00:01:42.680 banging on about this morning?
00:01:43.760 They're telling us that Trump extends Hormuz deadline
00:01:47.980 By a further 10 days
00:01:49.900 Again, not that the war's over or anything
00:01:52.400 Just that he won't bomb all of Iran's power stations
00:01:56.740 For another 10 days
00:01:58.780 To try and get them to open the Straits of Hormuz 0.92
00:02:02.900 And one hour of screen a day
00:02:06.020 That's just in reference to that the government thinks
00:02:08.880 that under fives
00:02:09.820 should only have
00:02:12.120 one hour of screen time a day
00:02:13.780 on a tablet or a phone or whatever
00:02:15.920 alright let's get into it
00:02:18.180 The Guardian
00:02:19.100 oh they do it again
00:02:19.980 straight off the bat
00:02:20.600 with The Guardian
00:02:21.060 oh
00:02:21.500 bad taste in my mouth
00:02:25.480 gotta wash it out
00:02:26.580 with some lovely tea
00:02:28.180 The Guardian
00:02:35.120 oh look it was the Mobos yesterday
00:02:36.820 for anyone who doesn't know
00:02:38.200 Music of black origin
00:02:40.000 That's what that stands for isn't it
00:02:41.260 A music award ceremony just for black people
00:02:44.160 Really inclusive
00:02:47.820 Yeah yeah
00:02:48.660 Nothing racist about that fundamentally
00:02:51.440 Just black people 0.98
00:02:52.860 Imagine if it was the other way round 0.97
00:02:54.140 I know that's a lame thing to do
00:02:56.820 Imagine the other way round
00:02:58.940 That cliche but
00:02:59.740 We're going to have white music awards 0.98
00:03:02.700 No brown people allowed 1.00
00:03:05.000 Imagine that 0.99
00:03:06.980 Okay, the mobos though
00:03:11.660 Perfectly fine
00:03:14.680 This guy, I want to give that R&B rock star energy
00:03:20.680 Says Leon Thomas 0.99
00:03:22.200 Don't know who that is, don't care, looks like a retard 1.00
00:03:24.520 Right 0.99
00:03:25.500 Trump extends Khomou's deadline
00:03:28.780 Claiming Iran talks going very well
00:03:30.980 Going very well
00:03:31.840 They're still sort of saying we're not in talks
00:03:34.860 but we discussed yesterday didn't we we had a look at how possibly in iran that the political
00:03:41.860 leadership can't be seen to be doing talks with the us or israel for political reasons or because
00:03:48.120 the actual individuals involved might get killed by their own security services so there might be
00:03:54.140 a reason why iran saying there aren't even any talks no that's not even happening
00:03:57.600 but trump says there is and there sort of must be on some level
00:04:02.180 We've got indications, data points here
00:04:05.120 Suggesting that there must be
00:04:07.720 So, okay
00:04:08.960 Trump says they're going very well
00:04:10.740 You know, Iran will come out and say
00:04:12.860 You're negotiating with yourself, that's nonsense bro
00:04:14.680 But, alright
00:04:15.600 He's extended his window
00:04:18.860 For another ten days
00:04:21.020 Before he claims he'll start
00:04:24.620 Blowing up their power stations
00:04:26.520 Which could, would
00:04:30.760 probably cause real like a terrible suffering misery among the Iranian people. Like more than 1.00
00:04:40.740 they're already suffering of course. US president says threat to attack power plants paused for
00:04:46.600 10 more days. So it's not like the war's over. It's not like he's pausing all war efforts for
00:04:53.540 10 days. Now they're still launching all sorts of stuff all over the place just not at power
00:04:57.640 stations. For example it seems that they killed the head of the Iranian Navy just
00:05:03.940 what in the last 24 hours at some point in the last 24 hours. He got got.
00:05:10.640 There's still loads going on and of course Israel within reason doing 1.00
00:05:16.060 whatever they want. I mean earlier was it right at the beginning of the week or
00:05:19.320 last weekend NETI had bombed some Iranian oil fields. Trump said don't do
00:05:26.460 that and they said all right i won't do it anymore then um at some point netty will start doing
00:05:36.000 exactly as he pleases i would have thought um okay bank boss loses job over 470 million
00:05:43.140 pound savings scandal that's the ns and i bank that i believe is controlled by the government
00:05:49.780 or the treasury in large part to some large degree if not entirely um so part of the story coming out
00:05:57.780 is that the treasury knew about this scandal for a while it's only just now in the news but it
00:06:05.040 happened the actual original events happened a while ago like a year ago or something the treasury
00:06:10.480 knew about it and just kept stum just kept mum about it for for ages because it's just an
00:06:15.580 embarrassment and they'd already the boss of nsni they'd already said you're not getting a bonus
00:06:20.740 this year bro but now it's broken in the mainstream media it's on front pages and things
00:06:26.200 they've now pushed him out he's now fired
00:06:28.840 oh well
00:06:33.340 i mean that is what happens when you're at the top when you're the chief executive or something or
00:06:41.240 it's almost certainly not his fault right
00:06:44.320 personally I mean
00:06:46.060 probably
00:06:47.820 he's just out playing golf
00:06:49.740 having lunches
00:06:50.940 with other extremely important people
00:06:53.720 someone else somewhere dropped the ball
00:06:55.960 but nonetheless the buck stops with you
00:06:58.360 right when you're at the top of something
00:06:59.580 the ultimate responsibility for everything that happens
00:07:01.680 under you does ultimately rest with you
00:07:04.320 so
00:07:04.580 alright I mean
00:07:07.040 I'm not going to lose any sleep out of the
00:07:09.380 the boss of
00:07:11.780 NS&I are getting fired 0.99
00:07:13.460 ok the times the venerable times
00:07:15.880 Mandelson not asked for
00:07:21.820 messages from personal phone
00:07:23.620 hmm
00:07:24.520 I suggested didn't I earlier in the week
00:07:29.940 that the investigation
00:07:31.480 into Mandy and Andy
00:07:33.100 and various other people
00:07:34.400 connected to the Epstein affair
00:07:36.760 Might not be as thorough
00:07:39.540 As normal investigations into normal people
00:07:43.540 Yeah
00:07:44.840 Like they'll follow up every single lead tenaciously
00:07:51.180 Find out exactly what's going on
00:07:53.320 The real, real, real truth
00:07:54.440 The real unvarnished truth
00:07:55.900 And everyone that was involved in it
00:07:58.000 No, no
00:07:58.640 Come on
00:07:59.860 Of course not
00:08:00.500 going to ask Ehud Barak to testify
00:08:08.080 the way the US are asking Andy to come over to the United States to testify
00:08:12.000 we're going to ask Ehud Barak
00:08:13.520 we're going to ask
00:08:15.980 is the 5th Baron Rothschild going to be asked any questions
00:08:19.680 I'm not seeing George Osborne's name mentioned very much here
00:08:24.300 at all in fact
00:08:27.840 They didn't even ask for Mandelson's phone
00:08:32.020 He had two phones
00:08:35.660 Probably got more than two
00:08:36.460 But he at least had two phones
00:08:37.860 His work phone
00:08:38.540 And his personal Percy
00:08:40.860 His own phone
00:08:42.000 His real own phone
00:08:42.860 So when he was fired from his job
00:08:45.780 You have to give your work phone back
00:08:46.920 You can imagine
00:08:47.420 That all makes sense
00:08:48.440 And that happened
00:08:49.120 Fine
00:08:49.660 Then even though the police investigation
00:08:53.480 Has been going on for quite a while now
00:08:54.860 He was arrested
00:08:57.660 wasn't he taken into questioning what like it was just before this war start so about a month ago
00:09:03.000 five weeks ago he was brought in for questioning spent a whole day in an interview room a few quite
00:09:08.900 a few hours didn't ask for his phone there's also a cabinet office investigation isn't there
00:09:16.580 a number 10 investigation an internal government investigation separate to
00:09:20.600 the police, they didn't, they haven't asked for it
00:09:24.060 and with the Morgan McSweeney phone theft
00:09:29.400 I think, oh well, okay, Morgan McSweeney's phone's gone now
00:09:34.900 we can still get the other half of the conversation, or still get the whole conversation
00:09:38.680 from the other side, i.e. Mandy's phone, they haven't asked for it
00:09:42.520 looks like they might do now, might, they might do now
00:09:50.600 enough time to sort of wipe stuff there isn't it i mean i don't know if you really can
00:09:53.560 wouldn't if it's whatsapp let's say it's whatsapp telegram whatsapp whatever it is
00:09:57.480 facebook messenger i don't know whatever it is don't these companies keep it backed up somewhere
00:10:02.480 i don't know i'm a bit technically inept really myself don't ask me these questions but
00:10:08.180 you would have thought you would have thought that the police or the cabinet office would
00:10:12.440 have asked for mandy's personal phone at some point just for full transparency to do an
00:10:18.940 investigation
00:10:19.460 but no
00:10:20.300 and remember his
00:10:23.920 advisory company
00:10:25.640 his sort of
00:10:26.160 lobbying company
00:10:27.160 Mandy had
00:10:27.860 and all their
00:10:29.680 servers
00:10:30.300 or all their
00:10:31.040 email backup
00:10:32.640 like over a million
00:10:33.740 messages over a decade
00:10:34.940 were there
00:10:36.020 they were lost
00:10:36.640 just disappeared
00:10:38.020 when the police
00:10:39.220 turned up
00:10:39.680 and asked for that
00:10:40.260 they were like
00:10:40.620 errr
00:10:41.180 they've all been
00:10:41.680 it's gone
00:10:42.860 and it's gone
00:10:45.400 a million messages or emails over 10 years or so from that gone oops
00:10:57.780 then the police or the cabinet office can just go oh well it's gone then that's it that's the end
00:11:05.120 of story won't look into that who's responsible for that or the ramifications of how that happened
00:11:10.540 The Epstein thing
00:11:16.900 Goes so deep doesn't it
00:11:19.940 So deep
00:11:20.680 It's a bit more than frustrating isn't it
00:11:26.980 Okay
00:11:28.540 Trump gives Iranians 10 more days to open straight 0.99
00:11:31.220 Hexith claims Tehran could strike London
00:11:34.880 Hey, dude
00:11:39.580 they're not buying it i mean technically they could i think technically before i go any further
00:11:47.560 with that technically their longest range missile if it was maxed out completely maxed out and the
00:11:54.020 warhead on top of it was tiny didn't weigh very much at all because that's the the heavier the
00:12:01.340 warhead is the shorter range it is if it was the absolute maximum range i believe it could but
00:12:07.740 it's not happening, we're not scared
00:12:10.820 it's not likely, it's extremely
00:12:13.100 unlikely
00:12:13.640 everything Tehran would want to spend
00:12:16.780 those missiles on 0.64
00:12:18.880 because they'll be expensive and they haven't got
00:12:20.840 a vast arsenal
00:12:23.060 of them, they're not going to be firing it
00:12:24.940 at London, are they? Come on
00:12:27.280 Oh but Hegseth gets a call
00:12:33.120 from Bibby
00:12:33.660 tell them they could hit London
00:12:36.680 say that
00:12:37.360 yeah alright mate, alright Pete
00:12:40.360 warning of
00:12:44.360 diesel shortage by mid April
00:12:46.660 probably not
00:12:49.740 probably not, I mean I might be wrong about that
00:12:52.480 but I sort of doubt it
00:12:54.660 the metro
00:12:56.000 the metro
00:12:59.780 it's the last time I have to look at this for
00:13:02.160 a few days, it's the one saving grace
00:13:04.620 petulant prayers tells uk uh calls uk ships play things yeah he did trump throws our toys out of
00:13:16.560 pram yeah yesterday again he uh i mean it's calling petulant in this case in this context
00:13:25.980 isn't too far from the market again yesterday he was asked somehow it came up and he reiterated
00:13:31.800 that thing about he had asked for right at the beginning of this thing he'd asked for the UK to
00:13:35.960 send both their aircraft carriers to the Gulf region and Starmer had said no really and Trump
00:13:45.140 again said oh we don't need them anyway then and they're only toys they're toy things they're tiny
00:13:51.940 little silly throwaway toys compared to our aircraft carriers yeah a bit yeah no fair enough
00:13:58.620 all right the uh what is it the gerald r ford class of aircraft carrier is gigantic there's the
00:14:07.820 there's the gerald r ford aircraft carrier the first one of that class there's a whole
00:14:12.780 class of carriers called that because america's got loads i can't remember how many they've got
00:14:17.300 15 20 carriers and there's like eight or ten at sea at any given moment something like that
00:14:24.680 something in that ballpark and yeah compared to what we've got our little carriers because our
00:14:31.200 ones there's a picture of one of them there it's got that you might be able to just about to see
00:14:35.040 there's like a little slope there at the end of the runway because the because the runway itself
00:14:40.720 is so short well there's various reasons for that slope but in other words if you put one of our
00:14:47.280 aircraft carriers was it the prince of wales and the and the queen elizabeth are they if you put
00:14:52.580 our aircraft carrier
00:14:54.260 next to their biggest aircraft carrier
00:14:58.540 it's tiny, it's like half the size of it or something
00:15:03.180 in comparison it's like a toy
00:15:06.620 okay, fair enough
00:15:10.260 we haven't got an insanely big budget
00:15:13.420 we're not a continent sized country
00:15:18.140 with a global empire
00:15:19.820 And endless natural resources
00:15:22.940 So yeah
00:15:25.840 We haven't got a giant carrier fleet
00:15:28.280 And the carriers we have got aren't as big as yours
00:15:30.680 Alright mate
00:15:32.220 Don't ask them then if you don't want them
00:15:36.060 If you think they're just toy things you don't need them anyway
00:15:37.740 What do you ask for them in the first place then bro?
00:15:41.180 Cheeky past
00:15:41.940 By the way I am pro US essentially
00:15:45.940 I'm much more on board with Trump than with the Dems
00:15:49.660 But still, come on
00:15:53.400 Just as a Brit, just as an Englishman 0.95
00:15:55.780 He's a bit petulant from him
00:15:59.620 I think
00:16:01.100 Keeps calling Keir Starmer no Churchill, yes
00:16:09.420 I mean, that's funny, he's right, he's not wrong, is he?
00:16:16.140 Alright
00:16:16.620 I mean, the Donald's no Roosevelt, is he?
00:16:19.160 but would you want to be a lot of americans don't like roosevelt certainly right-leaning americans
00:16:26.680 they're probably right to won't go down that route it's not a history show well not entirely
00:16:34.100 all right the financial times well iran mourns tehran's navy chief killed
00:16:40.620 Yeah
00:16:43.740 Energy shock to hurt UK growth
00:16:47.140 Most among G20 economies
00:16:49.180 Yeah there's a fair bit in the news today
00:16:52.580 About the UK economy being hit
00:16:54.040 By sort of a triple shock of
00:16:56.160 You know
00:16:57.740 Energy hikes
00:16:58.960 Inflation
00:16:59.700 Inflation jump
00:17:03.280 Steepest behind the US
00:17:05.420 Setback for Starmer's agenda
00:17:07.180 The Bank of England faces dilemma on rates
00:17:09.640 okay the eye paper should we read the blurb on the eye paper
00:17:14.040 UK faces triple shock of inflation weak growth and energy crunch
00:17:19.400 global economists downgrade UK growth to just 0.7 percent that's not bad over the last year
00:17:27.460 or more it's been like 0.2 percent 0.3 percent one type one quarter I think it was 0.1 percent
00:17:32.520 to have it reduced to 0.7 for us actually isn't all that bad still not good though is it it's
00:17:41.820 barely growing really barely pretty much flat pretty much stagnant 0.7 in 2026 and worn of
00:17:50.180 recession risk yeah if you measure it a slightly different way we are in recession that's like
00:17:56.580 that 0.7 or sometimes you hear like 0.2 0.1 whatever that's with like the most rosy possible
00:18:02.400 tint on it
00:18:03.680 that's like
00:18:06.260 that's giving you numbers that are
00:18:10.900 the best possible thing not to say that we are in fact already in a recession
00:18:16.120 feels like we're in a recession
00:18:23.280 okay inflation forecast rises to four percent
00:18:28.980 double bank bank of england's target
00:18:32.140 And would be second highest in G7
00:18:34.780 And they wanted to get it down to 2%
00:18:36.800 And it looks like they were getting closer
00:18:37.820 Or did get closer to it
00:18:38.560 And now it's going to go up to 4%
00:18:39.680 Which is
00:18:40.680 I've talked about inflation a number of times haven't I
00:18:42.880 It's still really bad
00:18:43.540 It's like we've had really high inflation for a long time
00:18:46.800 Mr Biden's inflation
00:18:48.020 Was up to 7 or over 7
00:18:50.060 At some point for a while
00:18:51.260 A year or two back
00:18:52.460 So to still have inflation at all
00:18:55.300 Is bad
00:18:56.140 It'd be nice to see a little bit of deflation wouldn't it
00:18:59.440 Not in wages
00:19:00.860 for the prices to come down on anything so even inflation at two percent it's like so
00:19:06.880 the amount all the prices have been hiked over the last few years
00:19:09.840 it's still chicken up from there just much more slowly great great
00:19:16.480 so four percent just everything's going to keep getting more expensive and now slightly quicker
00:19:26.700 than they thought it was going to.
00:19:28.620 No question of things going down in price again.
00:19:31.060 No question of that.
00:19:35.220 But the government's committed to cost-of-living crisis.
00:19:41.000 Maybe cut the welfare and NHS bill by deporting millions of people. 0.97
00:19:45.400 Maybe that.
00:19:46.580 No, can't do that.
00:19:47.940 More safe than legal routes, if anything.
00:19:50.140 Don't be racist.
00:19:51.060 Just accept hundreds of thousands of people more a year.
00:19:54.400 Net.
00:19:55.080 Or a million people a year.
00:19:56.700 just accept that
00:19:59.920 and not building any more houses
00:20:03.360 and endless NHS housing bills
00:20:07.380 they're mismanaging the whole thing insanely aren't they?
00:20:12.520 okay
00:20:13.300 Reeves faces 10 billion pound headache
00:20:16.020 on finances even if America's war with Iran ends next month
00:20:19.780 and energy damage in the Gulf is fixed quickly
00:20:23.680 the repercussions of this thing will last a long time
00:20:26.020 Well, it will echo through history, won't it?
00:20:28.100 One way or another.
00:20:29.920 Impact likely to be felt on unemployment, wage growth, fuel prices and home energy costs.
00:20:35.920 Great.
00:20:37.380 The old price this morning, by the way, if you're interested.
00:20:40.760 Or like an hour ago.
00:20:42.900 An hour and 20 minutes ago, roughly.
00:20:45.120 What, Brent?
00:20:46.140 Brent crude was at like 109.
00:20:49.960 West Texas was at like 92 or something, 93.
00:20:56.020 so there you go still not astronomically higher that is higher when the war
00:21:03.740 started it was at like I think Brent was at like 78 79 dollars when the war
00:21:08.840 started so they go put it in some perspective it is higher higher than it
00:21:14.580 was of course but still but still not astronomically higher I would still say
00:21:21.780 there's no way to deny it's not higher
00:21:24.300 but
00:21:24.660 West Texas at
00:21:28.260 $92, $93
00:21:29.200 it's not insane
00:21:31.640 alright, alright
00:21:33.620 I labour that point don't I
00:21:36.400 perhaps a bit too much, nearly every day
00:21:38.000 ok, it will keep going
00:21:40.460 higher though, I would have thought
00:21:41.360 what else we got, Trump
00:21:44.200 mocks the US quote, toy quote, Navy
00:21:46.420 it's a bit, compared to theirs, I mean it is a bit
00:21:50.300 I'm not denying that
00:21:51.380 and number 10
00:21:53.440 offered to eventually send ships
00:21:57.080 and Trump said
00:21:58.340 I said don't bother
00:22:00.280 alright well we won't then
00:22:03.420 that's the thing I'm not
00:22:04.440 any Americans out there
00:22:06.640 don't get too butthurt with my takes on this
00:22:08.960 but just see from an English point of view
00:22:11.640 British point of view
00:22:13.140 someone demands something of you
00:22:15.820 just in normal life
00:22:16.980 just in human interaction between two people
00:22:18.920 someone walks up to you and demands something from you
00:22:21.020 and you say well no and they're like oh we didn't need it anyway you get lost you're nothing anyway
00:22:26.980 it's like oh all right could you be more insulting the two interactions you just had with me there
00:22:33.820 were both really insulting okay Israel says it has killed Iran naval commander responsible for
00:22:44.120 blockading the Strait of Hormuz all right the Iranians upset by that their naval commander
00:22:50.680 The Independent
00:22:54.540 Trump's pens
00:23:01.960 Pauline's pens
00:23:04.140 Trump's pens
00:23:08.660 He did an analogy with pens
00:23:11.940 Don't worry about it
00:23:12.780 Britain's economy is the worst hit
00:23:16.080 By Trump's Iran war
00:23:16.980 The mail trying to pretend it's slop
00:23:19.660 when it is just complete slop look at this look at this after 40 years blissful after 40 blissful
00:23:27.800 years my husband had a stroke so I divorced him oh nice nice quite often in the papers
00:23:41.260 sometimes quite often most days I don't bother reading it out because it's just complete slop
00:23:45.560 But most days they're like, there's something like that
00:23:48.600 Particularly more on the tabloids
00:23:50.660 Like, wives, leave your husbands, one way or another 1.00
00:23:55.740 Wives, make sure your husband isn't cheating 1.00
00:23:58.620 Meanwhile, you can cheat, or something
00:24:00.640 Or, if you want to cheat, this is how to get away with it
00:24:04.040 Loads of things like this
00:24:06.320 Women, don't put up with your husband if he's not everything you want in life 1.00
00:24:09.980 Sort of thing
00:24:10.500 Various forms of that all the time
00:24:13.140 All the time
00:24:13.840 It's weird, isn't it?
00:24:15.560 really weird really subversive like they're trying to destroy the families well it's not
00:24:21.920 like they're trying to destroy families is it it is that trying to undermine the very concept of
00:24:28.620 having a a neat a nice healthy family unit in any way well you're married to your husband
00:24:35.600 for 40 years he now needs you more than ever nah divorce him walk away try and get a toy boy instead
00:24:43.500 Could that be any more disgusting really 0.95
00:24:48.580 Okay
00:24:50.760 Thanks for the mail
00:24:52.000 Thanks for that daily mail
00:24:53.160 Mail group
00:24:54.100 Art of slop 1.00
00:24:57.240 Look at this scumbag 1.00
00:24:58.580 This is a doctor 1.00
00:25:00.820 Or was a doctor on the NHS
00:25:03.300 Who just openly had loads of support for Hamas
00:25:07.020 Oh great
00:25:08.400 Again chill out
00:25:12.400 i'm not pro israeli i'm not pro benjamin netanyahu's government i'm not pro hamas
00:25:20.960 though all right doctor pro hamas yeah look at it state of it what a mug
00:25:28.720 all right i think she's been struck off or where i'm fired
00:25:34.960 rama aladwan yeah good one why can't we train our own doctors aren't there enough
00:25:40.400 Indigenous, native
00:25:42.860 White, young people 1.00
00:25:44.500 That want to become doctors
00:25:45.620 Nah, got to import them from the Middle East 0.99
00:25:48.420 To the Third World or whatever 0.78
00:25:49.380 Do we? Do we?
00:25:53.340 Okay, headline is
00:25:54.520 With typical sanctimony
00:25:57.200 Our tax-hungry
00:25:58.880 Chancellor accused fuel giants
00:26:00.960 Of cashing in on soaring
00:26:02.500 Pump prices, but truth is
00:26:04.960 Reeves is
00:26:06.860 The real petrol profiteer
00:26:08.580 Say the Daily Mail
00:26:11.060 Alright, it's Rachel Thieves 0.93
00:26:13.520 Maybe I'll be right as well
00:26:14.440 Rachel Thieves, Rachel from Account
00:26:16.260 The weird, know-nothing Karen
00:26:18.260 Who's hand-picked to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer of all things
00:26:21.880 Someone who'd be under-qualified
00:26:25.100 To manage
00:26:26.500 A suburban Asda
00:26:29.600 Is the Chancellor of the Exchequer
00:26:33.380 She's gouging people at the petrol pump 1.00
00:26:36.560 Okay, the mirror
00:26:37.620 Paul McCartney's coming out with a new album
00:26:39.580 He's 83
00:26:41.420 I've got nothing against Paul McCartney
00:26:44.440 Among the greatest singer-songwriters of all time
00:26:50.080 But you're 83, dude
00:26:51.460 How many millions do you need?
00:26:55.180 I mean, have a rest
00:26:56.560 Have a rest, I'd say
00:26:58.780 Is that out of order?
00:27:02.240 Harry, do a second poll
00:27:03.300 Is Bo's take
00:27:05.240 On Paul McCartney
00:27:07.400 should just give it a rest
00:27:08.860 is that take out of order
00:27:11.520 no you don't have to really
00:27:12.780 well you can do if you want
00:27:14.000 I'll leave it up to you
00:27:14.560 but I mean
00:27:15.420 I never understand people
00:27:16.840 that are multi multi millionaires
00:27:18.120 world famous
00:27:18.840 their legacy is cast in stone
00:27:25.660 and they're still working
00:27:28.740 at 83 really
00:27:30.460 I guess he's addicted to it
00:27:32.340 I guess he can't stop
00:27:33.320 maybe
00:27:33.900 anyway
00:27:36.020 I mean, will it be any good?
00:27:39.540 Oh, right, OK.
00:27:40.600 We'll move on.
00:27:41.180 We'll move on from Sir Paul.
00:27:44.620 New official guidance.
00:27:46.240 One hour of screen a day for kids, little toddlers, babies, under fives.
00:27:52.440 It's not law.
00:27:53.620 It's just advice from the government.
00:27:56.560 Yeah, cheers, government.
00:27:57.580 I think I'll live my life and raise our kids how we want.
00:27:59.900 Parents of under fives told
00:28:05.960 To cut back on TV and tech
00:28:08.080 To aid development
00:28:09.500 I mean, they may actually be right
00:28:11.480 In all seriousness
00:28:12.860 Probably it's best not to
00:28:15.680 Let a small child
00:28:18.360 Like most of what it sees
00:28:20.620 Is a screen, okay
00:28:21.680 Alright, but I just don't think
00:28:25.120 It's the government's place to tell people
00:28:26.760 Really
00:28:28.080 a doctor maybe
00:28:30.060 but
00:28:30.440 a panel of experts
00:28:32.900 who've come to some
00:28:33.920 sort of august
00:28:36.000 conclusion about it
00:28:37.540 but just the government
00:28:38.800 just the government
00:28:39.360 just says that now
00:28:40.400 I don't know
00:28:44.460 you could probably
00:28:44.900 probably learn a lot
00:28:46.800 if all your life now
00:28:48.740 this is the way now
00:28:49.480 because it wasn't the way
00:28:50.000 when I was a kid
00:28:50.500 in the 80s
00:28:51.200 there was no touch screens
00:28:52.660 there was no tablets
00:28:53.480 there was no computers at all
00:28:54.920 well there were but
00:28:55.600 you get a few minutes
00:28:57.260 a week
00:28:57.780 maybe at school on an old BBC computer most young people don't even know what BBC was
00:29:04.180 there just wasn't that many screens you had your TV screen in your living room at home that was it
00:29:08.700 there's no other screens no phones no phones no phone no mobile phones at all let alone
00:29:14.600 touchscreen ones all right so I grew up in a world where that just did not exist but
00:29:21.240 kids these days little kids that will be their whole life won't it it'll be their whole life
00:29:25.720 So why not let
00:29:28.160 Quite young children get used to it
00:29:31.220 But I suppose
00:29:32.820 Still I do see the argument for very small children
00:29:35.380 I do see the argument
00:29:36.240 I'm not crazy
00:29:37.620 That for very small children
00:29:39.620 You get square eyes
00:29:41.720 Again younger people 1.00
00:29:42.840 Younger people probably never heard that
00:29:46.900 When I was a kid if you watched too much TV
00:29:50.080 Older people would say 0.99
00:29:51.300 You'll get square eyes watching too much TV
00:29:53.660 making myself sound and look very old here aren't i very very old
00:30:00.140 all right the sun
00:30:04.180 sheen's a traitor i'll be michael sheen won't it obviously they're talking about there's a 0.84
00:30:10.700 show traitor but i think he's also a traitor actually because he's so woke all his opinions 0.90
00:30:16.140 are insanely woke so that's a funny double meaning to me 0.98
00:30:23.660 He is a traitor. 0.99
00:30:26.220 Great actor. 0.98
00:30:27.800 I think he's a superb actor, isn't he?
00:30:30.660 A really good, undeniably brilliant actor.
00:30:33.920 His personal politics are mental, like Robert De Niro.
00:30:36.860 Robert De Niro, brilliant actor.
00:30:38.800 No one would deny it.
00:30:40.120 Brilliant. 0.99
00:30:41.820 His own politics are insane, insufferable and insane. 0.93
00:30:45.840 Okay, Michael Sheen is the same as that. 0.87
00:30:48.040 Executive, oh sorry, exclusive, call to parents.
00:30:51.860 Limit screen time for under fires.
00:30:53.660 1pm
00:30:55.260 1 hour is your lot, Tots
00:30:57.620 Maybe they're right 0.67
00:31:00.900 Maybe they're right 0.67
00:31:01.620 I don't know
00:31:02.440 I think little kids could definitely have too much screen time
00:31:06.980 I think that's certainly possible
00:31:08.100 If you just sit your kid down all day, every day
00:31:10.560 With a screen
00:31:11.120 That's probably unhealthy
00:31:12.760 Depends what's on the screen though, doesn't it?
00:31:14.420 If it's things that are helping their mind grow
00:31:16.900 That's the thing I always said
00:31:18.900 I always thought, even when I was young
00:31:20.040 Don't watch too much TV
00:31:21.060 well what if I'm watching David Attenborough uh documentaries all the time what if I'm watching
00:31:27.060 like the open university what if I'm watching educational stuff that is building my general
00:31:32.340 knowledge and making me a better person what why is it bad then same with a screen for little kids
00:31:40.200 if everything they're doing on there is helping their mind grow helping them learn
00:31:45.340 Alright
00:31:48.720 If it doesn't actually hurt their eyes
00:31:53.220 And what they're watching is
00:31:56.740 Good and helpful
00:31:58.080 Helping them learn numbers
00:31:59.340 Or whatever
00:32:00.060 Helping them learn the alphabet and things
00:32:03.560 I don't see a problem with it
00:32:06.940 They could have too much screen time
00:32:08.540 I'm going on about this a bit too much
00:32:10.580 Who cares really
00:32:11.220 Well, parents do care
00:32:13.220 Of course
00:32:14.500 all right there's that disgusting fifth columnist shouldn't really be in the country i wouldn't
00:32:21.740 have thought nhs doctor charged with backing hamas mcsweeney phone claims don't add up says
00:32:31.260 odukemi badenok the nigerian woman that somehow the leader of the opposition 0.98
00:32:35.020 yeah she's right though it doesn't add up and it's an iron boss fired amid cover-up claims oh
00:32:40.120 yeah not that just there was a mistake made but also that they tried to cover it up
00:32:43.260 Okay, yeah
00:32:45.580 Okay
00:32:47.320 Treasury knew about saving scandal
00:32:49.460 Last year and had already cut back
00:32:52.760 Bank's chief's bonus
00:32:54.880 Get it out, okay
00:32:56.280 Trump delays obliteration of Iran's power plants
00:33:00.940 For ten more days, alright
00:33:02.020 The Express, it's good paper
00:33:04.320 That actress they seem obsessed with now
00:33:07.380 Okay
00:33:08.400 Labour's bad choices causing lost jobs
00:33:11.820 Yeah, that's leftist economic theory for you
00:33:14.280 Yeah, it tanks economies and loses jobs
00:33:18.240 Giving free reign will end in complete implosion and disaster and famine
00:33:24.320 Yeah, that's leftist economic theory for you
00:33:27.420 Lewis Hamilton dressed up as some nonsense with a sword
00:33:32.500 There you go 0.65
00:33:34.660 Danger of fake footy kit
00:33:38.280 Danger
00:33:41.820 Again, we're talking about the England football kit.
00:33:46.500 It doesn't matter, does it?
00:33:47.740 All right, that's the papers.
00:33:49.460 That's the papers.
00:33:51.360 Shall we have a look at our poll?
00:33:53.200 What did we say in our poll today?
00:33:56.660 Harry, could you bring that up for us?
00:33:58.240 Oh, it was there.
00:33:59.680 Okay.
00:34:01.240 All right, we asked you guys.
00:34:05.120 I mean.
00:34:07.220 Will the US Marine Corps storm Carg Island?
00:34:09.740 not whether you want it to but just do you think they will what did we get 42 percent of you said
00:34:18.140 yes 23 percent of you said no and 36 percent of you said maybe so yeah when there's a big chunk
00:34:27.880 of maybe over a third of you said maybe that says it all doesn't it but don't know so today's poll
00:34:34.960 was one where
00:34:35.640 we're not just teeing you up for a slam dunk
00:34:38.200 it's like this thing hangs in the balance
00:34:40.900 what do you think
00:34:41.500 I think
00:34:43.560 the 36% maybe says it all
00:34:46.800 who knows
00:34:48.520 it does look like they're gearing up for something like that
00:34:50.760 doesn't it
00:34:51.200 well let's have a look at the
00:34:56.960 websites
00:34:57.660 and
00:35:00.620 in fact instead of just starting with the BBC
00:35:03.140 like I do every day
00:35:03.980 There was an interesting thing on the mail
00:35:06.880 Which I thought
00:35:07.660 Oh yeah straight away there you go
00:35:08.700 Let's talk about this
00:35:09.580 Off the back of our
00:35:11.200 Off the back of our
00:35:12.940 Thing there
00:35:14.760 Our poll
00:35:15.240 I thought this was an interesting story
00:35:18.400 Or an interesting
00:35:19.780 Bit of opinion
00:35:21.360 A bloody hellfire of missiles
00:35:23.960 Rockets and drones
00:35:25.000 Unleashed by fanatical defenders
00:35:27.140 Mark Allman
00:35:28.860 Not the Mark Allman
00:35:31.580 Like the singer
00:35:32.720 Someone else, a journalist called Mark Ormond
00:35:35.560 Wounds of the trap
00:35:38.860 That could await thousands of US troops
00:35:41.140 Invading Iranian oil hub
00:35:42.940 That is that Carg Island
00:35:45.180 Here's a
00:35:46.100 If anyone's only listening to this
00:35:48.540 There's a map, a picture of it
00:35:51.120 An aerial view of it
00:35:52.280 And the mail
00:35:54.180 Saying various things about what could happen
00:35:56.780 And the headline says
00:35:57.540 Can Trump seize Forbidden Island?
00:36:02.720 I thought we could just talk about this a bit, because it sort of piqued my interest.
00:36:07.660 They talk about how the US strike force is thought to include 3,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne,
00:36:18.300 and 2,200 odd Marines aboard the USS Tripoli,
00:36:24.320 and 3,000 backup Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, plus air power, right?
00:36:31.160 The US controlled the skies 0.87
00:36:34.000 Basically
00:36:34.700 And backed up by Israel, the UAE 0.99
00:36:42.240 And Saudi Arabia
00:36:43.080 And that the Americans
00:36:46.500 May well
00:36:47.920 Storm this island
00:36:49.700 It's not a very big island
00:36:50.720 It's like half the size of Manhattan
00:36:52.360 It's not that big at all
00:36:54.500 It talks about how US Marines
00:36:57.520 From the 31st Marine
00:37:00.020 expeditionary force
00:37:02.020 expeditionary unit
00:37:03.140 as well as the 82nd
00:37:06.440 airborne
00:37:06.760 and how the forces, the marines
00:37:12.160 and the paratroopers
00:37:13.700 will move quickly inland to secure
00:37:16.100 strong points, choke points
00:37:18.580 tactical
00:37:21.000 the tactics, the actual
00:37:23.280 battlefield tactics of it a bit
00:37:25.820 I find all that interesting
00:37:27.400 could they do it? I would have thought
00:37:29.980 so yeah I would have thought so yeah because that's one thing that the United States can
00:37:38.080 and do do well dominating a battle space yeah for anyone out there that is super anti-US
00:37:51.500 take it on board
00:37:56.920 the US might not be the greatest
00:38:00.340 diplomacy and winning the peace
00:38:02.120 and the hearts of minds
00:38:03.100 and fighting insurgency guerrilla warfare
00:38:06.260 over many many years
00:38:07.280 it's almost impossible for anyone to do anyway
00:38:09.280 but just a set piece battle
00:38:12.340 they will dominate it
00:38:16.560 probably very easily
00:38:17.980 if I was garrisoned
00:38:19.720 if I was an Iranian
00:38:20.840 soldier, one way or another, garrisoned on Karg Island, I would be extremely worried right now.
00:38:31.040 Extremely, extremely worried. Because when the US Marine Corps go in, or the 82nd Airball go in,
00:38:39.480 they're not messing about. They're not looking to sort of particularly take you prisoner.
00:38:44.260 They're looking to eliminate you
00:38:48.780 They're looking to dominate the battlefield
00:38:52.120 Which means hopefully you as an Iranian soldier 0.97
00:38:57.420 Is killed long before you even see them 0.98
00:39:07.200 And you think the Americans haven't got experience
00:39:10.520 Of something exactly like this
00:39:12.420 oh it's been a while since they've done it no all the officer um all the officer corps
00:39:20.600 will be at west point will be trained in the history of things like this
00:39:27.680 well amphibious assaults the americans doing amphibious assaults oh yeah yeah
00:39:31.420 yeah not only do they do dominating a battle space very well but this type
00:39:38.620 done very very well
00:39:41.240 I mean going back to the war
00:39:42.940 during the war
00:39:44.920 World War 2
00:39:45.860 we look at Sicily
00:39:47.300 Italy
00:39:48.540 Normandy
00:39:50.340 right
00:39:52.220 the war in the Pacific
00:39:53.520 the Americans taking islands 0.88
00:39:57.020 exactly like this
00:39:58.860 loads
00:40:00.560 loads
00:40:01.720 people know of Okinawa and Iwo Jima
00:40:04.020 I mean Okinawa is a big island
00:40:05.220 Iwo Jima is a tiny
00:40:06.480 Iwo Jima is tiny really
00:40:08.300 But loads
00:40:11.360 It was like
00:40:12.900 Terawa
00:40:14.360 There's like the Marshall Islands
00:40:19.140 The Gilbert Islands
00:40:20.540 The Mariana Islands
00:40:22.120 Endless Islands in the Philippines
00:40:24.380 What like Saipan
00:40:28.400 Guam, Tinian
00:40:30.740 Pelelu, just Pelelu
00:40:32.760 Just that, just Pelelu
00:40:34.440 The other week, a few weeks ago
00:40:36.720 A month or two ago
00:40:37.320 I read a long account
00:40:38.840 Assault into hell
00:40:41.560 By the famous
00:40:43.880 Famous marine
00:40:44.700 Eugene Sledge
00:40:46.840 The Sledgehammer
00:40:47.900 His account of the assault on Peleli
00:40:51.320 One most people never even heard of right
00:40:53.140 Unless you spent a fair amount of time
00:40:55.900 Researching and reading about
00:40:57.240 The war in the Pacific
00:40:58.260 Most people never heard of Peleli
00:41:00.160 But yeah just that one little thing
00:41:02.220 Footnote almost
00:41:03.520 Footnote in history
00:41:04.380 Insane
00:41:07.140 Insane combat and fighting going on there
00:41:09.960 And yeah, at West Point
00:41:12.280 The officers
00:41:13.680 They will know it inside out
00:41:17.160 All the mistakes that were made
00:41:18.700 The modern US Army
00:41:24.080 Armed Forces
00:41:25.180 I would have thought
00:41:28.080 Would be able to take that island
00:41:32.080 Relatively easily
00:41:34.340 Especially since they've got almost complete air superiority
00:41:39.120 Right, so
00:41:44.520 The idea that you talk about
00:41:46.940 It's like an Iranian trap 1.00
00:41:48.780 Doubt it
00:41:50.540 Even if they try and make it a trap
00:41:52.640 The Marine Corps and the 82nd Airborne
00:41:57.480 And whoever else they send in
00:41:58.820 Imagine there'll be loads of other special forces
00:42:00.640 Right
00:42:02.340 SEAL teams
00:42:04.380 Rangers
00:42:04.840 whatever
00:42:05.380 whatever
00:42:06.200 loads
00:42:06.700 America's got
00:42:08.240 pretty much 0.99
00:42:10.000 an insane
00:42:10.720 armed forces 0.86
00:42:12.340 they're insane
00:42:13.400 like they can do 0.98
00:42:14.480 there's so much
00:42:15.880 there's so much
00:42:17.860 they've got
00:42:18.340 they wanted to
00:42:19.900 alright
00:42:21.760 I thought that was
00:42:22.260 worth talking about
00:42:23.600 for a few minutes
00:42:24.260 because it may well happen
00:42:25.840 I think it may well
00:42:27.840 it may well happen
00:42:28.880 so
00:42:31.020 again a little bit of history repeating not exactly repeating but rhyming or um echoes of
00:42:38.420 the past the u.s marine corps storming a tiny little island that's happened before
00:42:46.040 okay okay all right well it's nearly quarter two so should we have a quick look at some of the
00:42:55.360 other headlines what else we got did we have something i thought we had something in the
00:42:58.120 express oh yeah just eat among five five firms facing probe in faker misleading reviews i mean
00:43:05.400 that's the least of problems with just eat just employing illegals just eat and deliveroo i would 1.00
00:43:12.800 close down in both britain i'd get a bit authoritarian about it i would weather the
00:43:17.860 slings and arrows from the likes of the guardian and the metro and the mail he's acting as a
00:43:26.240 dictator he thinks his king is just unilaterally shut down just eat yeah yeah and delivery yeah
00:43:33.900 sue me you probably would you would try it yeah sue the home office then
00:43:39.820 we'll change the law so you can't sue us in some way yeah disgusting they just for anyone who's 0.90
00:43:48.940 foreign. There's these companies that employ illegal foreign people to ride their silly 0.99
00:43:57.020 little bikes, their silly little electric bikes to deliver fat and lazy people their 1.00
00:44:02.660 food. And it's a blight on our society. It's disgusting. It's absolutely revolting. Okay, 0.99
00:44:15.120 this is the measure of the sun for you the sun this morning go this is the top story just a
00:44:21.260 terrible look never heard of who's ever heard of this before this poor person before goodbye
00:44:26.880 noelia it says paralyzed gang rape victim noelia castillo ramos 25 dies by euthanasia after mum's
00:44:36.940 final goodbye oh that's top story oh thanks for bringing me that thanks for thanks for piercing
00:44:42.760 my consciousness with that the son that's like world news that's important next thing up one
00:44:50.140 guy punched another guy in the street killed him that happens isn't it one punch can kill someone
00:44:55.040 if you knock someone out on their feet and they're like unconscious before they even hit the ground
00:44:59.220 you've properly you've properly uh knocked them out and they're unconscious before they hit the
00:45:07.280 ground and their head just hits the ground and that's enough pressure to some sort of terrible
00:45:11.400 Skull injury
00:45:12.740 And they die
00:45:13.140 That happens a fair bit
00:45:15.960 Street fights can be
00:45:20.100 Deadly
00:45:21.440 Even if you didn't meet it
00:45:22.280 One drunk guy
00:45:23.100 Went up to another guy
00:45:24.140 In the street
00:45:24.820 Threw a punch
00:45:26.020 Dead
00:45:27.260 Right
00:45:28.600 But it's not
00:45:29.100 And terrible as that is
00:45:30.000 Of course
00:45:30.340 Terrible
00:45:30.780 Tragedy
00:45:31.720 That's not really like
00:45:33.700 National news is it
00:45:34.940 Well it's not national news
00:45:35.880 But that's what the sun offers up
00:45:37.820 That's what the sun gives us
00:45:38.820 Thanks for that
00:45:40.060 Having a little pop
00:45:41.380 at the Donald some guy stole a cat this delivery geezer just steals that cat
00:45:48.700 that's news that's news put that in at number three
00:45:54.300 there's something about cruises Jimmy Savile had a little house out in rural
00:45:58.900 Scotland and now it's finally been demolished I mean it's just pure slop
00:46:02.440 isn't it just absolute pure slop let's move on let's do this day in history I
00:46:07.880 I like doing that, you guys seem to like that.
00:46:10.880 On this day in history, down through the centuries, what happened of note?
00:46:14.880 March 27th.
00:46:16.880 Alright, on this day, in 1513,
00:46:19.880 Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon
00:46:23.880 and his expedition, First Sight Florida.
00:46:27.880 So you go, that's really early on, isn't it?
00:46:31.880 I mean, Columbus sails the ocean blue in 1492.
00:46:36.880 So you would have thought, maybe, that mainland United States was, quote-unquote, discovered by Europeans earlier than 1513. Some people think that Columbus discovered America. Well, no, in the first instance, he went to the Caribbean, wasn't it?
00:46:57.660 It wasn't until Juan de Leon in 1513
00:47:03.580 But it's still early on isn't it
00:47:04.800 It's still relatively early on 1513
00:47:06.480 He's one of the very very early
00:47:10.120 Would you call him a conquistador?
00:47:14.400 Probably not technically but anyway
00:47:16.200 Interesting, very very interesting
00:47:20.260 If you go into that corner of history
00:47:23.180 Beyond Christopher Columbus himself
00:47:25.720 You'll very, very soon
00:47:27.220 Discover the person of Juan de Leon
00:47:30.740 And, yeah, interesting
00:47:33.840 Very, very interesting life
00:47:34.900 As they all are
00:47:35.560 I shall have to do content
00:47:37.200 All that sort of stuff soon
00:47:38.400 I've been threatening to do
00:47:41.260 Conquistador stuff for quite a while
00:47:43.280 Okay, on this day in 1625
00:47:45.420 Charles I, Charles Stuart
00:47:46.880 King of England, Scotland and Ireland
00:47:49.520 Ascends the English throne 0.87
00:47:51.500 There you go
00:47:53.700 He was the one who, of course, ultimately got his head chopped off by Oliver Cromwell.
00:48:02.620 Not personally by Oliver Cromwell, but by the parliamentarians and the Puritans.
00:48:09.740 He lost the civil war.
00:48:11.900 The man of blood, they called him.
00:48:15.500 That he waged war on his own people, they said.
00:48:19.680 Sort of did.
00:48:20.140 Sort of felt like he was forced to
00:48:24.080 In the end tried to raise a Catholic army from Ireland
00:48:29.220 To fight Protestant Englishmen 0.99
00:48:31.620 Oliver Cromwell didn't like that
00:48:35.060 You've got to go bro 0.96
00:48:35.900 We didn't want to cut your head off
00:48:37.120 We tried everything we could not to really 0.53
00:48:39.220 But you wouldn't stop
00:48:41.760 And then we only needed you to sign a bit of paper
00:48:45.460 And we wouldn't
00:48:46.560 But you wouldn't do that either
00:48:47.660 So you've got
00:48:48.160 You've got to go
00:48:49.760 that was Oliver Cromwell's calculation anyway
00:48:53.800 ultimately
00:48:54.880 on this day
00:48:56.360 pardon me
00:48:58.080 in 1794
00:48:59.800 the Naval Act of 1794
00:49:02.420 is signed by President George Washington
00:49:04.980 authorising the building of six frigates
00:49:07.360 and establishing a permanent US Navy
00:49:09.440 so there's all sorts of
00:49:14.920 in the age of Washington
00:49:17.160 and long after
00:49:20.180 there was all sorts of debates
00:49:22.140 and political debates
00:49:23.040 about whether the United States
00:49:24.960 should have a permanent standing army
00:49:27.160 and navy or not.
00:49:30.000 People like Alexander Hamilton
00:49:31.540 insisted that they should lead to.
00:49:34.700 Someone like Thomas Jefferson
00:49:35.760 not so much.
00:49:39.640 But George Washington
00:49:40.280 General George Washington
00:49:41.560 who's a general first and foremost
00:49:42.740 decided that we really need a navy. 0.65
00:49:46.500 There's no way we can protect ourselves from Britain and France 1.00
00:49:50.460 without a permanent navy of some description.
00:49:55.680 I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong, you know.
00:49:59.380 In the first few years, first few decades of the United States,
00:50:02.560 at various points, they look like they may go to war
00:50:04.780 with both France and Britain at different times.
00:50:09.200 Well, in the end, War of 1812, we did go to war with,
00:50:13.920 The Britain did go back to war with the United States, didn't it?
00:50:19.360 Alright.
00:50:20.440 On this day in 1914, first successful non-direct blood transfusion
00:50:24.580 is performed by Dr Albert Husting in Brussels.
00:50:28.640 Again, fairly important moment in the history of medicine.
00:50:36.280 Because once you can do blood transfusions,
00:50:38.920 there's lots of things you can do to help people.
00:50:42.740 Lots.
00:50:43.900 Okay, on this day, 1958, Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier
00:50:48.520 as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party.
00:50:53.340 That's interesting.
00:50:54.740 Khrushchev is a very, very, very interesting person.
00:50:58.580 Very, very, a fascinating person.
00:51:01.800 I went through a bit of a Khrushchev kick, probably about ten years ago. 0.57
00:51:05.720 Decided I wanted to know everything about Khrushchev.
00:51:08.320 But notice that date, though, 1958.
00:51:10.140 Wait, Stalin died in what, 1952, or was it 53?
00:51:14.900 I think it was 1953, 52 or 53.
00:51:19.080 And what, Khrushchev doesn't become the leader until 58.
00:51:22.020 It's like, wait, what?
00:51:23.580 I thought it went Stalin-Khrushchev.
00:51:25.440 No, no, no.
00:51:27.260 No, no, there was a whole period there.
00:51:28.760 Well, five odd years more after Stalin died,
00:51:32.680 where the whole Soviet edifice is like,
00:51:36.320 what are we doing now?
00:51:37.520 What's going on?
00:51:38.160 It's like, Melenkov was the nominal leader during that time, mainly, I think, well it was
00:51:44.820 But they had to deal with all the old Soviet state apparatus of terror and things
00:51:56.260 And Khrushchev negotiates that masterfully
00:52:02.780 The life of Khrushchev is incredible, because he was a peasant 1.00
00:52:05.940 truly a peasant growing up as a child and a young man and worked his way up to become like
00:52:14.320 effectively effectively the head of the moscow soviet wasn't it like a bit like mayor of moscow
00:52:21.020 a bit more than that but anyway then just just about gets into starling's inner sanctum
00:52:27.360 again walking a tightrope the whole time the whole time survives all of that
00:52:33.800 And then the chaos after Stalin 0.79
00:52:37.720 He emerges as the leader
00:52:40.480 But like years later, a few years later
00:52:42.340 And the story of how he finally did away with the last of Stalin's henchmen
00:52:47.600 In order to clear the path for himself
00:52:49.480 And Melenkov and everything
00:52:50.820 Remarkable, remarkable thing
00:52:52.460 Remarkable thing, Khrushchev
00:52:54.700 There's that film
00:52:56.200 I need to re-watch actually, it was quite funny
00:52:59.340 There's a comedy film, The Death of Stalin
00:53:01.980 And they have Khrushchev played by Steve Buscemi
00:53:07.140 Of all people
00:53:09.300 He does it really well
00:53:10.260 It's really good
00:53:10.820 It's funny
00:53:11.240 My first thought wouldn't be to cast Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev
00:53:16.860 Anyway, it works
00:53:19.120 It's a funny film
00:53:19.720 Somehow make a comedy out of The Death of Starloo
00:53:22.960 But they did it
00:53:24.340 Anyway
00:53:25.220 Alright, we'll move on
00:53:27.120 If you're interested in 20th century history
00:53:29.280 Post-war, post-World War II history
00:53:31.260 khrushchev if you're interested in the cold war check out khrushchev watch a documentary or two
00:53:36.440 okay the tenerife air disaster on this day in 1977 583 people die in aviation's worst ever disaster
00:53:44.240 when two boeing 747s collide at tenerife airport in spain now i had a little book i had a book as
00:53:50.940 a kid just called disasters just a kid's book it's only like 30 pages and each page was a double
00:53:59.900 page spread of different disasters throughout history right one of them was this so I remember
00:54:06.020 reading about this when I was a little kid and it was terrible two planes one was trying to
00:54:11.360 take off going at speed somehow they had they had a head-on collision it was just a complete
00:54:16.760 breakdown in communications complete error two planes full of people completely destroyed yeah
00:54:22.640 man. It's kind of reef.
00:54:29.180 Yeah.
00:54:29.880 Well, it says there. The worst disaster
00:54:31.780 in aviation history.
00:54:35.440 Alright, alright. There we go.
00:54:37.200 Oh, that's a bit of a bum note to end on on a Friday morning, isn't it?
00:54:40.360 But, alright. Let's have a look at the Rumble Rants
00:54:42.620 and Super Chats.
00:54:45.120 Alright, what have we got here? Let's have a look at the Rumble Rants.
00:54:50.540 Real Dan Eck. 0.84
00:54:52.640 It says, I wish the mainstream media would report on the poor girl who was gang-raped by North Africans.
00:54:59.160 Well, I think that was the one on the Sun.
00:55:01.780 But you obviously sent that in early.
00:55:03.900 Yeah, you sent that in at ten past eight.
00:55:07.060 Well, he did. The Sun did report it.
00:55:13.040 He said, this is what happens when the West abandons Christianity.
00:55:16.460 Lord, have mercy on us all.
00:55:17.720 yeah i mean the sun did report it but i mean their sentiment isn't wrong i don't think
00:55:26.040 14 barber good morning sir says queen elizabeth class is 932 feet and a gerald r ford class is
00:55:36.380 1106 feet so not so not genuinely much in it when they put next to each other the rise of restore
00:55:46.260 in the new polls is amazing we will win right lovely well one thing i'll say about maybe the
00:55:53.560 exact length i'm surprised there's that much is as close as that but i have seen them literally
00:56:00.940 next to each other and what it what i mean it does dwarf it the american ones do dwarf it
00:56:06.420 they're higher in the water they're longer they're much wider it's just a much bigger ship
00:56:13.060 But I'm surprised it's as little as
00:56:15.620 200 odd feet though
00:56:18.260 Knocking 200 feet longer
00:56:20.180 But still, the point you make
00:56:23.360 Yeah, it's not as much as I thought
00:56:25.540 But you can see them alongside each other
00:56:28.980 Much bigger
00:56:32.060 But anyway
00:56:32.460 Yeah, restoring the poles 1.00
00:56:35.240 Yeah, restoring the pole in at about 8% I saw yesterday
00:56:40.040 That's what one pole said anyway
00:56:41.500 Take it or leave it
00:56:42.300 It's only one pole, but...
00:56:44.780 Yeah, 8%.
00:56:45.500 Nice.
00:56:46.620 That means it's broken through that sort of 2%, 3%.
00:56:50.300 Busted through that 2%, 3% ceiling.
00:56:55.980 A lot of parties, most parties, small parties,
00:57:00.940 struggle to get 1%, 2%, 3%.
00:57:04.060 But once you do, once you get 5%, 6%, whatever,
00:57:09.940 then...
00:57:12.300 Then you can grow and build on that.
00:57:14.140 So to already be at 8%
00:57:16.100 bodes well
00:57:18.240 because it's still sort of brand new isn't it?
00:57:20.260 Effectively, almost, very nearly
00:57:22.020 brand new. 120,000
00:57:24.420 members by some
00:57:26.220 metrics the fastest growing political party of all time
00:57:28.500 in Britain at least.
00:57:32.140 Getting the ground game
00:57:33.460 off the ground.
00:57:36.180 The ground game off the ground.
00:57:38.180 Starting to happen.
00:57:38.880 I don't think this thing will implode in a few weeks
00:57:43.680 I think it's worth more than
00:57:45.660 150 votes at the ballot box
00:57:47.540 okay
00:57:50.100 yes we will win
00:57:52.980 aim high vote low millions must go from zoomers to boomers 0.60
00:57:55.400 Rick TWGP
00:58:00.320 says
00:58:01.360 it's more likely to turn into a Gallipoli
00:58:05.440 or Operation Market Garden
00:58:07.240 than it is any of the Pacific landings, mate.
00:58:10.580 I don't know why you'd say that.
00:58:12.160 It may or may not do.
00:58:13.520 It may or may not do.
00:58:14.200 I mean, many of the Pacific landings were disasters.
00:58:18.640 So, yeah, it may or may not.
00:58:20.260 I mean,
00:58:21.320 I don't know why you would say that,
00:58:26.160 particularly.
00:58:27.920 I mean, not that I'm saying you're definitely wrong to say that,
00:58:31.200 but I don't know why you'd err on the side of pessimism.
00:58:36.760 Okay.
00:58:37.240 Fair enough, if that's how you feel, if that's what you think.
00:58:39.500 Again, you may be proven correct.
00:58:45.080 We'll see.
00:58:46.320 Okay, St Luke, Luke Street 91, Luke Stewart says,
00:58:53.280 G'day Bo, this whole issue with Iran is like a mate who had a lump in his side,
00:58:59.560 didn't bother getting it checked and ended up with a harder stage three
00:59:03.820 instead of dealing with stage one.
00:59:07.240 right are you saying that iran should have been confronted years ago is that what you mean is
00:59:12.400 that what you're saying that's what i gathered from what you're saying there your overall meta
00:59:19.240 point could be taken a number of different ways with what you've written there but i think that's
00:59:22.680 what you're saying and i suppose you're right i suppose you're right but then preemptive wars
00:59:31.160 are always difficult to sell to the public aren't they like the other side hasn't essentially done 0.99
00:59:37.820 anything in the immediate and you say we're just attacking you it's like but perhaps you're right 0.74
00:59:44.880 I mean probably are right probably Iran would have been I mean would it have been best I've 1.00
00:59:50.120 heard someone else say this I think even on one of my super chats a few days ago a week ago would
00:59:54.820 have been best to go to war, full-blown regime war, full-blown land invasion with Iran in
01:00:02.660 1979. America could have tried to rescue all the people from their embassy in Tehran in
01:00:11.160 1979 or 1980. Jimmy Carter was never going to do something like that, was he? Never.
01:00:16.000 even reagan even reagan he wasn't scared of pulling the trigger on stuff
01:00:23.480 even he wasn't prepared to do that so and now here we are all right all right i mean
01:00:30.560 fair enough we got the youtube super chats harry you'll have to do that for me okay there they are
01:00:37.680 all right let's scroll up what have we got global church in history in at number one
01:00:43.200 Still at number one
01:00:44.800 You say
01:00:45.400 Today in 196 BC
01:00:47.460 Ptolemy V erects the Rosetta Stone
01:00:49.740 Interesting
01:00:50.660 Interesting
01:00:51.800 The Rosetta Stone
01:00:52.620 In the British Museum
01:00:53.760 Seen it with my own two eyeballs
01:00:55.780 Hundreds of times
01:00:57.260 Must be dozens of times
01:00:59.100 Maybe 100
01:01:00.640 It's right there in the middle of the Egyptian gallery
01:01:02.520 I think it might be a replica though
01:01:07.300 And the real, real one
01:01:08.480 Is down in a vault somewhere
01:01:09.720 Because it's just too valuable
01:01:10.580 It's absolutely priceless
01:01:11.480 Not sure about that
01:01:12.840 I think I've heard that said.
01:01:13.920 I'm not sure if that's true.
01:01:14.720 Anyway, the Rosetta Stone.
01:01:16.360 For anyone who doesn't know,
01:01:17.140 a tablet that was found by a Frenchman, Champollion,
01:01:21.200 when Napoleon invaded Egypt,
01:01:24.400 one of his archaeologists found a tablet
01:01:27.480 and it had the same bit of writing copied out three times.
01:01:31.260 Same, like, decree,
01:01:32.900 which says stuff like,
01:01:35.020 I, Ptolemy V, decree, the X, Y, Z, da, da, da, da, da.
01:01:38.460 And it's written in, what is it?
01:01:40.420 it's written in greek uh some other language aramaic or something i can't remember the other
01:01:47.680 language and egyptian hieroglyphs and we already know ancient greek we can already read ancient
01:01:53.720 greek we worked out very quickly almost immediately that it's the same bit of text
01:01:58.180 so it's like oh we can read that ancient greek now we can read the hieroglyphs because until
01:02:05.480 that point no one could read hieroglyphs it was entirely lost loads of people tried to decipher
01:02:12.120 hieroglyphs and couldn't it was too complicated we just it was the knowledge of it was lost
01:02:16.040 we didn't even really understand if it was sort of phonetic or whether it was pictorial
01:02:20.600 glyphs or we didn't we didn't get it no one no one could read hieroglyphs then after that the
01:02:26.340 rosetta stone like oh we can begin to read hieroglyphs and once you've got the thread of
01:02:31.740 things like this once you've got a fair few bits to start and go on and then geniuses
01:02:36.860 linguistic geniuses can work it all out brilliant fascinating the story of champollion and the
01:02:44.060 rosetta stone brilliant okay and global church history tells us that it was on this day
01:02:50.020 that ptolemy the fifth a couple hundred years before christ
01:02:54.320 had the thing erected in the first place.
01:03:00.960 Interesting, cool, okay.
01:03:04.540 Dem Tatties says,
01:03:06.940 Dem Tatties says,
01:03:10.800 will anyone from Lotus be attending Chesterfield Restore Meeting next week?
01:03:15.360 Oh, I don't know, I couldn't tell you.
01:03:17.080 I don't know if I'll be able to, I wouldn't mind to, I would like to.
01:03:20.680 But not as far as I'm aware.
01:03:22.320 Chesterfield
01:03:23.340 Where's Chesterfield?
01:03:26.100 I don't know where Chester is
01:03:27.200 It's Chesterfield
01:03:28.080 A completely different place
01:03:29.060 I don't
01:03:29.500 I'm not even sure
01:03:30.180 Exactly where Chesterfield is
01:03:31.140 I'm afraid
01:03:31.500 If I can
01:03:33.160 I'll try and make it
01:03:34.020 There's been a number of
01:03:35.040 Places
01:03:35.780 Nearby
01:03:36.460 I might
01:03:36.720 We go to the Hereford one
01:03:38.060 And one right down south
01:03:41.620 And then there'll be ones in Swindon
01:03:43.900 I don't know
01:03:45.260 I'm afraid mate
01:03:45.880 But if we can
01:03:47.520 If someone can
01:03:48.200 We will
01:03:48.640 But
01:03:48.980 We'll see
01:03:51.040 all right principled uncertainty says um trump you have 48 hours so like trump saying you have
01:04:02.460 48 hours and then principled uncertainty says then declares unilateral five-day ceasefire
01:04:08.560 now he finds another 10 days what a great negotiator the art of the deal folks
01:04:13.920 i think principled uncertainty is being sarcastic there
01:04:18.580 yeah i mean yeah all right two reasonably big ones in a row from the same person
01:04:34.080 brendan lucas 9732 thanks for the money there two in a row for half decent amount you first say
01:04:43.580 Trump has a point, the UK carriers are actually quite comp in length
01:04:49.540 Oh, the UK carriers are actually quite comparable in length to a Ford
01:04:57.580 But also two thirds of the displacement, right, so two thirds of the displacement
01:05:03.280 So, significantly smaller
01:05:05.800 The crucial aspect is the lack of catapults and the woeful speed
01:05:11.940 would put American escorts in danger.
01:05:15.440 Yeah, I mean, fair points, all fair points.
01:05:17.560 Yeah, all fair points.
01:05:21.940 The American aircraft carriers are a bit bigger
01:05:24.440 and more sophisticated,
01:05:26.260 able to do more in every sense, really.
01:05:31.000 Just the amount of fast jets
01:05:33.060 you can get off and on of the runway on it,
01:05:36.320 the deck on it,
01:05:38.300 which is the whole point of a carrier.
01:05:39.620 how many airplanes can you launch off of it how quickly that's the whole point of it and the
01:05:46.740 american ones are just so much better at it because if even if you're only one third bigger 0.99
01:05:52.260 or you're only 200 foot longer you're only like 54 or 100 foot wider that's massive that's a
01:05:58.540 massive difference a whole world of difference so you're quite quite right there brandon lucas
01:06:03.220 And the second one you said, the lack of catapults means, crucially, F-35 combat range is small and their loadout is dire, meaning that the Queen Elizabeth class carrier, i.e. the British ones, would actually struggle against Charles de Gaulle, a French fleet carrier half its size.
01:06:26.020 Maybe, yeah, I mean, maybe.
01:06:28.120 You seem to absolutely know your stuff there,
01:06:29.780 and you're not saying anything there that jumps out at me is wrong.
01:06:35.800 Yeah.
01:06:37.380 Nothing you've said there.
01:06:38.360 I'm like, hmm, don't think that's right.
01:06:39.740 I think you've confused.
01:06:41.040 I think you've misunderstood something.
01:06:42.200 No, yeah, you're right.
01:06:44.640 Yeah.
01:06:49.080 Still, one thing I would say.
01:06:51.360 Very few countries in the whole world have got any aircraft carriers.
01:06:55.540 even to have two relatively cruddy ones still puts you in what the top 10
01:07:02.620 certainly the top 15 countries in the whole world
01:07:05.440 well is there only I don't even know but I think it's something like 10 or 15
01:07:09.580 countries in the whole world have got an aircraft carrier and most of those
01:07:12.400 is some crappy ex-soviet one or something 0.62
01:07:14.960 is some really old french one from the 70s or something
01:07:18.360 or an old american one like brazil's got one or two
01:07:22.760 and they're really old, they didn't build them themselves or anything
01:07:25.000 they're like really old, anyway
01:07:26.100 even to have a pretty
01:07:29.120 small subpar carrier is still
01:07:31.120 doesn't compete with the United States
01:07:34.980 nothing competes with the United States Navy
01:07:37.220 I don't know why
01:07:39.140 we're trying, or anyone, even Trump
01:07:41.060 why would you compare the British Navy
01:07:43.160 to the US Navy
01:07:44.280 no one, nothing compares to the US Navy
01:07:47.240 nothing comes close
01:07:49.220 I bet if you got
01:07:51.440 all the world's navies
01:07:53.060 everyone, everyone in the whole world
01:07:55.820 versus the US Navy
01:07:57.160 some giant naval engagement
01:07:59.880 the US Navy would win that
01:08:01.960 I would have thought
01:08:04.340 well it would, it would
01:08:05.840 so yeah, yeah
01:08:08.620 the British Navy doesn't
01:08:11.060 doesn't measure up to the US Navy
01:08:14.040 yeah
01:08:14.480 pardon me
01:08:17.940 alright
01:08:18.720 there's a dupes 149 thanks thanks buddy you you uh do super checks most day thank you for that
01:08:26.820 you've said
01:08:29.940 imagine if the tories had started building nuclear plants in 2010 yeah it would be nice
01:08:38.340 how could a party be relevant if they can't plan longer than five years into the future
01:08:45.340 A very good question, yeah.
01:08:47.380 But, yeah.
01:08:52.780 Because David Cameron, Teflon Dave,
01:08:56.880 wasn't a great statesman or a politician or a visionary in any way.
01:09:00.120 He liked to think of himself as he was, but he wasn't.
01:09:03.260 He miscalculated Brexit, didn't he, from his point of view.
01:09:08.880 He was like a TV advert man.
01:09:11.580 That's what David Cameron was, really.
01:09:13.060 not a visionary
01:09:15.200 he didn't have a great vision for Britain
01:09:16.820 in any way did he
01:09:17.680 and of course Boris
01:09:20.020 the likes of Boris and
01:09:22.500 Theresa May
01:09:24.100 Rishi Sunak
01:09:25.080 they were looking to undermine
01:09:28.820 and destroy our country if anything 0.88
01:09:30.540 not do great things with a long term plan
01:09:32.980 okay
01:09:35.840 LJMV says
01:09:38.020 in a world full of fake conservatives
01:09:40.800 Trump Farage 0.99
01:09:42.580 Kosher stooges 0.96
01:09:46.360 Your words 1.00
01:09:48.680 And gay race communists 0.99
01:09:52.040 Starmer Macron etc 1.00
01:09:53.460 Be like low
01:09:55.520 Just be a normal
01:09:59.180 Just be a proper
01:10:00.280 Nativist, patriot
01:10:02.060 Normal English person
01:10:03.860 Nationalist
01:10:05.600 Nothing wrong with any of those things
01:10:07.700 Have an in-group preference
01:10:09.500 Which is your own people
01:10:11.360 It's not too much to ask
01:10:12.540 Oh, it's racist, oh no, I'm going to touch my pearls
01:10:17.640 Racism
01:10:20.360 No, it's called being normal
01:10:23.300 It's called not being suicidal
01:10:26.320 To have an out-group preference 0.54
01:10:28.780 For people that despise you, want to annihilate you 0.99
01:10:31.600 That's mad 0.59
01:10:32.700 It'd be a far-right fantasist to have any other sort of view though, wouldn't it?
01:10:42.540 okay King Philip 1861 says how many more modern Americans would have been loyalists during the
01:10:52.260 revolution I don't know loyalist meaning loyal to the mother country England okay okay during
01:11:01.140 the revolution it was quite at the beginning anyway it was it was truly split a lot of people
01:11:07.980 in the 13 colonies, as it were,
01:11:11.860 considered themselves loyalists.
01:11:13.800 I mean, a lot of people that became founding fathers
01:11:16.120 right up until the conflict started
01:11:18.940 considered themselves loyalists.
01:11:21.340 Loads of them.
01:11:23.320 Loads of them.
01:11:24.700 So who knows?
01:11:25.460 Who knows?
01:11:25.840 Interesting question, though.
01:11:27.260 Interesting history question
01:11:28.340 that a history nerd can sit down in the pub
01:11:30.600 and chat about for all evening.
01:11:32.660 Another half-decent amount of money
01:11:34.020 from Brandon Lucas says,
01:11:36.040 the reason the americans somewhat act like an abusive partner around the uk carriers 0.98
01:11:42.080 and then this is in quotes saying i want you but you are ugly and no one will have you 0.99
01:11:47.860 an abusive partner yeah it's because they're quite big they're quite big on camera and are 0.92
01:11:54.560 very useful diplomatic assets interesting fair point fair point all right fair few to get through
01:12:02.320 i'll just quickly whip through a few i'm afraid i've got two today i'm on the podcast today by
01:12:06.680 the way the main podcast of load seaters 1pm greenwich meantime so you'll see me again today
01:12:13.580 if you watch that if you tune in for that um shug scotland shug scotland said uh start digging for
01:12:24.620 coal oil and gas again rule britannia yeah in both britain i would i would totally allow them
01:12:31.860 to do oil rigs offshore and sea, as much as you want, go for your life, yeah, get it done.
01:12:36.740 Build some, two, three, four, half a dozen nuclear power stations, yeah, start that,
01:12:42.780 of course, why not? Open up coal-fired, coal-fired stuff, yeah, do that, fine, yeah, go for your
01:12:51.340 life, yeah, produce loads more jobs in Wales again, yeah, I don't care, yeah, I don't buy
01:13:01.860 The man-made CO2 thing is driving climate change, and going to bring about a catastrophic rise in sea levels.
01:13:09.860 I don't believe that's true.
01:13:11.860 So yeah, use coal again and drill baby drill. 0.96
01:13:14.860 And nuclear, whatever we need.
01:13:17.860 All the climate people, I'll pass a bit of legislation where no more oil type protester people 1.00
01:13:25.860 get very, very, very severe custodial sentences. 1.00
01:13:31.860 Little idiots 1.00
01:13:33.940 Don't know what they're doing or talking about 1.00
01:13:38.140 Just performative nonsense
01:13:40.620 Lock them up
01:13:43.200 Damaging real things of real value
01:13:46.840 Or damaging the Magna Carta or Stonehenge
01:13:50.620 Or whatever
01:13:51.700 Running onto the track, a Formula 1 track
01:13:54.500 While there's race cars going round
01:13:55.800 Jumping on a snooker table in the middle of a snooker tournament
01:14:00.060 they're mental mental lock them up so i say okay krish 281 says you can see the narrative
01:14:12.760 they are spinning the reason the uk economy is a mess is not because of decades of mismanagement
01:14:17.340 by our political class it's because of evil uh trumpler and pootler yeah yeah you can see it 0.77
01:14:24.980 It's not us guys
01:14:29.380 It's external threats
01:14:32.340 Yeah, no, you've mismanaged this country
01:14:34.540 Insanely, both Labour and Tory
01:14:36.420 Okay, Principal Dunserti says
01:14:38.660 Bo, have you seen, have you heard
01:14:40.480 Two men arrested for ambulance gate
01:14:43.600 I did see a headline just yesterday
01:14:45.540 Yeah, I didn't read the details
01:14:46.900 But, yeah
01:14:48.600 Two men arrested for ambulance gate
01:14:50.980 But all they said was that they are British
01:14:55.840 Narrative most effective
01:14:57.780 Yeah, I wonder if they are the guys
01:15:03.380 If they prove to be the guys that did it
01:15:05.240 I wonder who they are and what their motivation was
01:15:07.960 Okay, breaking story I guess
01:15:12.900 Maybe, quite possibly bring you an update on that on Monday I suppose
01:15:17.020 Maybe, probably 0.72
01:15:17.720 Okay, someone here called GWFFTheCock says, in the morning, Bo, what's your teabag of choice?
01:15:30.820 Oh, well, even though Yorkshire Tea is a company, I won't.
01:15:35.560 Don't mind Yorkshire Tea, don't mind PG Tips.
01:15:39.640 What's the other one? There's a few different types of Yorkshire Tea, aren't there?
01:15:42.980 Don't mind Tetley's.
01:15:44.060 the normal tea I like normal teas I don't like anything weird herbal fruity I just like normal
01:15:51.060 straight up normal working class cup of tea that's all I want actually at the moment there's
01:15:56.940 in the office we've got some the most I'll go outside the window of normality is there's some
01:16:03.740 tea that's like a malted you might have seen I think it's Yorkshire tea still but it's
01:16:09.180 a malted biscuit flavoured tea it tastes pretty much like normal tea but that's what's in the
01:16:17.140 office kitchen at the moment and it's quite nice I think that's what that was but I just like normal
01:16:22.500 tea nothing special breakfast tea I don't like I don't really drink green tea or any sort of herbal
01:16:32.560 tea or anything like that there you go okay uh there's still a few more to get through
01:16:42.320 mr dickie bingo not dinky bingo mr dickie bingo says i see you on the 11th bud cheers yeah cool
01:16:52.180 approach me and say hello yeah it'd be nice to meet you um the 11th is the lotus eaters live
01:16:59.960 show the 11th of april in swindon you'd have to travel to swindon bit of an ask i know but no do
01:17:05.960 it buy a ticket i don't think it's sold out yet i think i believe i have nothing to do with this
01:17:13.000 side of things but i believe the sales are going very well but isn't entirely sold out yet that
01:17:17.640 might be wrong we might have sold out i'm not sure um so if you want to do that if you're prepared
01:17:24.360 to come to wiltshire on the 11th april the 11th on the evening of april 11th there'll be everyone
01:17:31.720 will be there all the presenters we're gonna do like basically like a live podcast some sort of
01:17:39.000 something some other discussion about something else in the middle and then basically like a
01:17:42.520 lads hour thing where the questions of in lads hour are ones that you guys have sent in
01:17:47.080 texted in or emailed in or something so like three hours odd of of the show something like that
01:17:54.680 and if you want to pay more for a vip ticket there's some sort of vip area or bar or something
01:18:01.640 i don't know i really don't know but something like that apparently well you can go in there
01:18:05.960 and have a drink with the presenters and stuff um i don't know go on the website and have a look
01:18:11.840 see what it's all about all right uh ljnv again says bo you magnificent man not drinking tonight
01:18:23.540 uh due to the man flu flu sucks uh here's my support for you the uh super chat thank you very
01:18:31.960 much ps playing playing ace 4 go japanese or mongols i don't know ace 4
01:18:42.660 oh aoe 4 sorry aoe 4 0.97
01:18:48.300 i don't know what this sorry i know civ 4 sid my sid myers civilization 4 i don't know what aoe 4
01:18:58.580 is harry do you know what aoe what that is uh i do not but i'm searching it okay okay enjoy
01:19:08.180 yourself though buddy get well soon if you can plenty of fluids it's self-hydrated it's what
01:19:14.900 sorry say again it's age of empires oh age of empires right oh okay age of empires that's fair
01:19:21.860 Fair enough, fair enough.
01:19:22.660 Yeah, enjoy.
01:19:23.860 Get rest.
01:19:24.880 Keep hydrated.
01:19:27.200 Okay, Azzy0161 says,
01:19:29.420 Just wanted to say thanks for all your work on Epochs.
01:19:31.940 Oh no, cheers.
01:19:33.620 Epochs fans.
01:19:36.740 The very, very best among us Epochs fans.
01:19:40.420 Hundreds of hours of content behind that paywall.
01:19:42.420 Hundreds and hundreds of hours.
01:19:44.440 Like over 250 episodes.
01:19:49.920 Everything from the Sumerians.
01:19:51.860 from Gobekli Tepe through to
01:19:55.340 what like Vietnam stuff tons and tons of history
01:20:00.140 thank you thank you for saying thank you for my work on Epochs
01:20:04.140 I love listening to them when walking my dog
01:20:07.380 have a good weekend mate you too you too
01:20:10.180 it's always very flattering when people say stuff like that
01:20:14.900 very very flattering okay last couple
01:20:18.540 Sheeper Awesome
01:20:21.520 Says 0.93
01:20:22.160 We cannot wait for
01:20:23.780 I think you said
01:20:25.060 The exact same thing
01:20:26.040 Yesterday
01:20:26.380 We cannot wait for
01:20:27.500 Politicians to save us 0.68
01:20:28.560 Everyone is mixing
01:20:29.480 In every single day
01:20:31.240 By then
01:20:32.220 We won't be European anymore 0.98
01:20:33.600 Demographics are destiny 1.00
01:20:35.440 Yeah and then
01:20:40.240 A thing that
01:20:40.820 Unfortunately
01:20:41.500 I can't read out
01:20:42.780 Because YouTube
01:20:43.460 Terms and conditions
01:20:44.280 Would consider it
01:20:45.100 Too spicy
01:20:45.940 But
01:20:47.320 between you and me, you're not wrong
01:20:49.500 you finish it by saying
01:20:53.380 ok, ok, thanks for sending that in though
01:20:57.860 oh and the very last one, Global Church History, rounding it out
01:21:02.420 says
01:21:03.800 real BBC is big enough to get feds
01:21:08.240 saying rise up, Bo's Breakfast Club
01:21:11.820 hashtag the real BBC
01:21:13.840 yeah okay all right that's the show thank you for joining me my band of brothers and sisters
01:21:22.980 glorious band the chosen few thanks for joining me it means the world it means everything without
01:21:30.960 you it isn't a thing it's now 21 minutes past nine in the am greenwich meantime on friday
01:21:35.820 the 27th of march in the year of our lord 2026 i hope you enjoy the weekend try and do something
01:21:40.940 valuable with your time, if you've got any free time.
01:21:45.420 Harpe Diem, seize those days. 0.50
01:21:48.580 Seize them by the lapels and do something valuable
01:21:50.880 with your time.
01:21:52.740 It's the most valuable thing you've got is your time.
01:21:55.680 Try and make it count.
01:21:57.280 Okay, enjoy the weekend.
01:21:58.400 Until Monday morning, take care.
01:22:10.940 I'll see you next time.