Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 30th January 2026
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Summary
It's Friday 30th Jan, 2026 and there's not much to talk about in the news this morning. Not much iran, not much european, and not much china. The corporate mainstream media have got bored of iran. The cabal of editors, like the arbiters of truth for you telling you what is and isn't important, they've decided you're not going to talk much about iran today, today it's china today. capitulation in Beijing and revolt over cancelled elections, the financial times, the royal tapestry and much more.
Transcript
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how are you this morning extra loud slurp straight into the mic
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directly into the mic after the poll yesterday where 65 percent of you said you didn't mind
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hearing tea slurps there you go apologies to the other 35 percent all right it has just struck
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one minute past eight in the a.m greenwich meantime on friday the 30th of january in the year of our
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lord 2026 it's friday harry i'm joined by my producer little harry how are you sir morning
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good good and you are the glorious band the chosen few watching the beau show breakfast with beau
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formally colloquially the beau show beau's breakfast club the bbc
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we few we chosen few we band of brothers now what is the world talking about today what is the
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corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning let's have a look shall we we just jump
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straight in all right so it's a fairly china heavy day today not much iran they got bored of iran the
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cabal of editors the actors like the arbiters of truth for you telling you what is and isn't
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important they've decided you're not going to talk much about iran today it's china today
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and revolt over cancelled elections all right so the financial times the ft
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says red carpet starmer starmer works to heal zhi ties
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uh yeah so he's there he's not there for all that long i think he's only there for a few days
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he's off to shanghai later i believe today um uh the ft also says companies scooped 22 billion
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dollars in contracts from trump's immigration agencies yeah good i will
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there's been many many companies have made tons and tons of money out of open borders
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so i don't care about the good good in fact i think good
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planeteer pretty evil and delight benefit donor's gravel business reaps six billion dollars
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ice outlay doubles since july so they're spending money on it trying to get it done
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bannon will be happy not going far and deep enough for him or me
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all right what else have we got the daily telegraph
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revolt over cancelled elections and we've talked about this a number of times haven't we
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we've talked about this a number of times haven't we the story of
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various cancelled local elections and the story is that more and more
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uh good for them good for them good for you so you should be really well
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no but good for you actually standing on your principles having a conscience
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and having like a political backbone and a line in the sand and all that sort of thing good for you
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although maybe some of them are doing it cynically because they know they're gonna
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jump in before they're pushed who knows bayou tapestry arrival could be scuppered by potholes
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yeah the bayou tapestry um i've never actually i've studied the bayou tapestry in quite a lot of detail
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i've studied the 11th century the age of the conquest the norman conquest lots and lots of quite a lot of
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uh long-form content both on epochs and on history bro from me all about that there's hours of me
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talking about pre-conquest the conquest the life and career of william and all his successors
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loads hours and hours of it but i've never and i've and i've studied the bayou tapestry in
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detail quite close detail i've never seen it with my own two eyeballs
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if and when it comes if it comes to britain i shall have to make a special effort to go and see it
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okay what else have we got uh let's move on the daily mail
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daily mail goes with capitulation in beijing that sequest darling is capitulated what a surprise
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to be honest actually just to cut to a chase and all that there hasn't been a massive amount of
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uh details like brand new deals coming out there's a bit like this talk of reduced uh taxes on whiskies
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for example you know not a giant thing um some talk about changing visas visa rules obviously to make
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it easier for chinese people to come here there's not that many brits that are dying to go and live in
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in china i don't know a single brit who's it's his life goal to go and live in hunan province
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but of course loads of them would want to come here okay capitulation in beijing
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sir kowtow starmer it's quite it's not bad sir kowtow starmer gave the go-ahead to china's nest of
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spires embassy yeah remember that of course then flew 5 000 miles to suck up to them yeah yesterday he
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announced he announced he announced deals so underwhelming critics responded is that it
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yeah we they'd hoped you know some people had hoped that him going there would be like the harbinger
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or like the final handshake on a whole number of deals that might have been going on behind scenes
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for months or years or whatever no no no it's just sort of a vanity project thing essentially for him
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well for both of them actually watching videos and reading around it and all the commentary around
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it the general consensus is that it's just sort of not much more than an extremely glorified photo op
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for both men of course starmer's starstruck by someone like xi like an actual titan of socialism
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of a man far more powerful than him so of course starmer's awestruck by that but it's actually in china's
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interest to be seen they really want it to be seen to be um cozying up to like the more old school more
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legit nations of the world like great britain that that's actually something they've they've wanted
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for decades and decades and decades right to be except truly accepted into like the old boys club
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sort of so to speak you get it both men both men really want that photo of them shaking hands
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but as for big deep you know new deals between them and stuff despite all the words there's not
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really a great deal there yet i mean who knows at the end of the at the end of the tour maybe we'll
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get more but so far so far hasn't been a giant amount all right let's see the guardian
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oh it's so revolting starmer opens door to uk visit by a xi as china relationship is reset quite reset
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yeah brilliant brilliant i mean let's take a minute or two out to talk about the new world order
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shall we why not it's friday we've got time there's this idea isn't there a sort of a
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a monopolar world where there's one hyper power the united states some have
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described the world after sort of the fall of the berlin war
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in 1989 and the collapse of the soviet union in like 1990 1991 that from then
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until not too long ago some might say as far back as the iraq war but a period there where there
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it was sort of a mono polar world there's one hyper power the united states of course before that deep
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in the cold war sort of a bipolar world you know two two real seats of power
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moscow and washington and now that and before that right before world war ii there was um you know
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just a multi-polar world there's many many great powers certainly before world war one many many great
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powers and going back through history of course and that now we're moving into a world which is no longer
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monopolar it's no longer just the united states is the only great hegemon of the world but that
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it's at least a biopolar world again but with china as the other pole
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and that perhaps we're moving probably aren't we i think moving into a world where it's just a multi
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multi-polar world where like the russians although their economy isn't
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is like not great they have still got the world's biggest amount of nukes they've still got an insane
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amount of resources right they've got a very very strong political system so if there was a top top
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tier it would be the united states and china vying for who is the top dog they're sort of on a some
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sort of par aren't they although the united states of course still it's got sort of like the default
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currency and the biggest military and all that sort of stuff but it's china and america are the top
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dogs right and then you could almost certainly say russia and then and then there's really sort of what
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they call like the middling powers middle powers you know countries like germany france uk india you
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know and some might even throw a bunch of other countries that are coming up that might not quite
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be middle powers yet but almost certainly will be places like maybe brazil you know maybe indonesia i'm
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talking maybe years years ahead here but there's there's no real reason why brazil or indonesia countries
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like that couldn't become sort of firmly mid-tier wouldn't say they are yet it all depends how you
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measure these things doesn't it all depends how you measure these things it's all very trite what i'm
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saying here lots of what i say people would disagree with i imagine they can make arguments against the
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stuff i'm saying but anyway the idea that like the the sort of top middling countries countries like
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the way we've been very very very heavily tied to the united states all throughout the cold war
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and that there's a realignment of that going on
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i mean i think people i think a lot of the the chattering classes a lot of the the papers
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people talk about this sort of thing overestimating it a bit in my opinion for example you can find
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editorials and things at the moment after this visit with uh starmer and winnie the pooh
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they'll say like the old the old world order has got it's a new world order there's a realignment of
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like all world powers and things not really a little bit very slowly i'll concede that i'll give you that but
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it's not like loads of these loads of the loads of the world's
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the middling powers are just like flipping allegiance wholesale over to china or anything like that
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that's not happening is it although if it were if it were britain sort of would be leading that charge
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but if it is happening it's happening like quite slowly quite subtly
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like you know i think when you look at the sweep of history i like to do that that's my thing
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looking at the sweep of history i feel like uh what's happening now i.e going from a a monopolar
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world to a bipolar world to a multipolar world um it's not that terrifying or scary or seismic or sort
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of unthinkable all those sorts of things it's just sort of half the course we go through various
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cycles of these things many times in the past there's been a time when there's sort of a one
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hyper power of the world reading a very very interesting novel i'm a big fan of frederick
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forsyth the novelist frederick forsyth um and he said something that was very interesting just in
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one of his novels but you know they're they're quite high brow relatively novels they're interesting
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he said something about making an observation about the sweep of history that when the romans
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the roman empire when they were sort of the only hyper power in the world the ancient mediterranean
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world um and when their power was beginning beginning to be questioned right and people their
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allies one way or another were beginning to desert them and things beginning to realize their own power
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perhaps we don't need rome all that sort of thing again a process that played out over hundreds of
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years actually rome responded to that with not always but usually responded to that with sort of
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an overwhelming military force often we'll just stamp on you if you try and break away from us
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we'll stamp on your neck we'll take some of your cities and kill every man woman and child every man
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and all the women children are sold in slavery that's how the romans would react to it again not always
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but often when it was the british in the 19th century or 20th century really when the empire fell apart
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the british responded to it this is how frederick forsyth characterized it responded to that with
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sort of a languid indifference that's what he said was sort of like oh you want to leave well okay
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and so they're two two ends of the spectrum how will you the united states respond
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right so far it's not it's not the roman style is it they're certainly not they don't despite all their
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belligerence and despite all the right saber rattling and despite all the all the interventions around the
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world and things and despite you know all the coercion through things like the imf and the
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the world bank and and the un and nato all various tools to project america's power and influence
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around the world they're no they're not like the roman empire are they right america's biggest
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detractors can't possibly claim that that they truly go around like sort of an ancient world barbaric
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sense oppressing people directly like that but they're you know at least under trump they're not
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quite it isn't really quite a languid indifference is it though either like you know the maduro raid
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for example or how trump's dealing with talks about greenland and things it's it's not indifference
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so there you go i just think it's interesting to certainly i think it's fascinating really to see
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the way sort of the world order is going and i think the reality of it certainly get used to this
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if you're a brit you probably are already used to it is sort of know your place as a as a middle power
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you know because some argue that the middle powers are actually at least if they club together things
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like the most powerful ones like say germany france britain or the european union as a block
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or um the african union as a block so some of the biggest powers below the main superpowers
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if they work together club together and and if they're sort of play their cards right they can
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have a big influence and a big say in what the the hyper powers do and how they react all that sort
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of thing and others say no that's naive that's you know beijing and washington will do whatever they
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want basically and you're just along for the ride two ways of looking at it i mean there's arguments
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to be made both ways for that isn't there um but certainly america it's fair to say isn't it
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isn't like it is absolutely all-time highest of like the 1990s and the early 2000s let's say between
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1991 the fall of the soviet union and 9 11 that 10 years the 1990s basically
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the united states is all-time higher on the stock market of ruling the world
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we don't live in that world now do we don't live in that world anymore
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so we'll see how it goes i mean it is it is a more destabilized world when china if you look at
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taiwan china russia ukraine and the united states all over the place they'll start acting and doing
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more things but they don't care about the un really like trump uh leaving the world health organization
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and other things other connected organizations of the un and um you know i don't think the united states
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is going to leave the un or you know leave the the imf or world banks but china and russia and the united
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states and even even powers like the united kingdom if we really wanted to just ignore the un right like
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in the falklands you're like no we're gonna we're doing this screw you so we're moving into a world where
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like the the old international rules look what arbitrary and made up anyway will will matter less
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and less and that bigger powers people start throwing their weight around a bit more a bit more dynamic
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get used to it that's the world we're living in now isn't it all right
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let's uh what else have we got sussex pair quote handling apt data hand handing apt data to iran regime
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so there's a a pair two people in sussex who are doing espionage on behalf of iran
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okay interesting i wonder what their names are are they're foreign names right got it great cool
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children's limb surgeon harmed 94 patients yeah that's a terrible story this is a horrible terrible
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story there was a a a surgeon at great allman street the most famous london children's hospital
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um a completely completely foreign dude i can't remember his name it's just a completely foreign
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name he's a foreigner and somehow got to be a sir oh yasser jabbar yasser jabbar and he botched
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basically a quarter of all his surgeries he did on children and at least 94 of them badly really badly
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like left them in pain forever needing loads more surgeries some amputations required after he's
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botched surgery horrible really really horrible how on earth like doing operations without the
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parents consent not filling in all the right forms and just being a complete incompetent terrible is
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it he's fled the country he's not here anymore great when they say we need to bring doctors and nurses
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over from the third world because the nhs wouldn't work without them and yet there are quite a lot of
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stories quite a lot of the time of completely incompetent doctors and nurses third world ones
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is insane and disastrous and is not a strength let alone our greatest strength it's not a strength at all
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people who might not know the word gunner has got two meanings
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the old meaning just means you're a an arsenal fan the gunners a gunner you support arsenal football
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zoomers have decided it's got another meaning these days which i shan't go into on the breakfast show
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but still it seems like this daily star aren't aware of that one or maybe they are
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gooners say you turnip addressing addressing starma there and it said the headline is a great ball of
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china very very funny pun isn't it great wall of china great ball of china because starma gifted
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xi a football it was a football that was used in a premier league game between man united and arsenal
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the other day some got it and he's gifted it to xi who supports man united apparently glory hunter
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they're not much for glory hunter they're crap and they these days man united as if she really
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supports man united come on really okay the times the venerable times pm vows to build quote more
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sophisticated quote relationship with china what does that really mean they get to exploit us more
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most certainly that's what that means their ability to take the mickey out of us on multiple levels
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will be increased that's what that means almost certainly
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iranian guard corps to be treated as terrorists by terrorists by uk good yeah
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there was a massive i mentioned this a week or two ago on the bow show if you remember if you've
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watched it where there was a few months back last year um anti-terrorist cops did swoops all over the
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country on a whole bunch of different terrorist cells made a bunch of arrests they're all iranian
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people like iranian nationals full-blown iranian nationals so there's terrorist cells in britain
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do you remember that harry do you remember that was you paying attention at that point you remember
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still can't hear okay i'll move on from that but yeah there was it was um
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um yeah so yeah make the iranian guard corps uh treat them as terrorists in the uk yes please yeah
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that would be nice britain follows brussels with law banning ayatollah's praetorian guard
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after protesters deaths there's no downside to that for me
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in bows britain i'd be prescribing loads more organizations and things and people loads more
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because i'd put i'd put the interests i put the safety of the british natives first
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so there'd be loads of organizations that uh would be banned
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yeah the iranian the iranian guard corps yeah yeah why would we want any of those people here
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really under almost any circumstances how is that in our interest ever okay the eye paper uk
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set to deport asylum seekers yeah right to war-torn syria in migrant crackdown don't believe it
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don't believe it for a second it's just an attempt at red meat
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don't believe them home secretary comes out a labor home secretary
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yeah we're going to deport more people there's going to be a crackdown sure sure there will
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home office to set up deportation plan despite concerns within government about violence and
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deteriorating conditions in syria yeah they won't or they'll make a half-assed effort that they know
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will get beaten in court and not pass any legislation to prevent it getting beaten in court so they
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could say look we tried we tried we could but the judiciary which we also ultimately control
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stopped us been playing that gang for years and years and years and years
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nonsense the eye paper understands home secretary shabana mahmood wants to push ahead after promising
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enforced returns no she doesn't again lies spin lies no she doesn't she'll say she will
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say that's what she wants to do make efforts and moves knowing that it will never happen never work
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look at the rwanda plan as an example look we're trying really hard we're doing loads of stuff we're
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even spending money on it we're spending loads of political capital and time and energy on it
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oh it didn't work and the net result is we've got way more people here now if anything
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what they do that's the plan it's pretty straightforward put you out there in the open
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it's not that sophisticated is it it's not that difficult to understand
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asylum asylum reforms have been inspired by hardline danish policies as ministers seek to tackle small
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boats crisis and the rise of reform uk yeah they won't do it though yeah we love the way the way the
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danish are doing it we're going to do that no you're not you're not though are you you seek to tackle the
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no you're not if you wanted to tackle the small boat crisis
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you say something like uh we we're calling a state of emergency you might not even need to do that but
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do that there's a state of emergency we're calling in the royal navy and we're deploying
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a few hundred guys from the royal marines 4-2 commando or something or other the sbs
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to sit in the channel in like small boats of their own like a small a cruiser or something with a
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bunch of speed boats with sbs guys royal marine commandos and all any small dinghy boat that's
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trying to come across we tow it back to french waters do that for a few weeks or a few months until
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they get the picture or keep a deployment there permanently semi-permanently
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if the french want to get all out of their pram diplomatically about that so bring that on we'll
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have that discussion might have to have a summit in paris to hash it out but that's what we're doing
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small boat crisis solved but they don't want to do that they won't do that they won't dream of doing
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that because they're our enemies they want us flooded with foreign criminals essentially every
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single one person that comes across on that one of those boats is by definition a criminal
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it's illegal to do that so you're a criminal if you do that
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all right what's the other thing it says middle east ministers raised concerns this week over
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violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels and effect on civilians yes there you go already
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it's like we wanted to put more people to syria and immediately they're like no you can't it's a
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war-torn country so it'll never happen all right the sun what's the sun serving up to us today what
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sloppy joe have they got for us gang raids maya and rubens four million pound pad why do you have
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to say it like that right normally there's mama jammer and her football football player husband
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when they went away on holiday burglars broke into their house and stole loads of jewelry and stuff
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happens loads that particularly to footballers but all sorts of rich and famous people
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you know organized criminals watch their mansion watch their home wait till they go on holiday
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abroad and rich and famous people obviously spend a lot of time abroad traveling around and they're like
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right it's empty like in home alone like joe pesci in home alone it's empty we just go in just it'll
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that mamma jamma maya sorry maya jamma not mamma jamma maya jamal god knows how you pronounce it
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isn't she an insufferable leftist isn't she like an insufferable race communist wokest open borders
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fifth columnist am i confused with someone else i think she is though so shan't shed a tear for her no doubt
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completely insured jewelry having been stolen but there's loads of organized crime in this country
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there you go all right the mirror aj's tears for his friends
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oh yeah i'm not going to be sarcastic about that i've lost my brothers i mean i don't like aj he's
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i think it comes out when he when he box with a nigerian flag he's got nigerian descent
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has made loads of comments about don't shop in white owned businesses
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an anti-white racist an anti-white racist is what he is let's call it what it is
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um but yeah it's not nice though is it that two of his best mates were killed in that car crash there
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you go the daily express oh it's a good paper terminally ill against terminally your mum calls
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on shameless peers to stop blocking assisted dying law sophie's plea don't snatch hope away from us
00:30:20.240
so yeah that's the ongoing story of legislation about assisted dying but gone into it before so
00:30:26.720
i won't again the metro i'll just stay in cam cut to the same cam one
00:30:39.360
metro gross misconduct ruling upheld bust bust snatch hero sacked so this is a story an individual one
00:30:50.560
the individual story is weird but all right this guy he's a bus driver there was a thief someone
00:30:56.240
nicked someone's purse he chased them down and knocked them out
00:31:02.400
good i mean what's the problem he was found to have done nothing wrong in terms of actual
00:31:08.560
like the law but yet the company the bus company still sacked him for it
00:31:15.360
there you go driver chases raider to retrieve passengers necklace sorry it's a necklace not a purse
00:31:22.240
a necklace then knocks thief out when he returns police find he used reasonable force but he still
00:31:29.760
lose his job after dispute over who struck first that's front page news according to the metro there
00:31:38.800
you go all right so um we've had a poll i think i instructed harry to do a poll around about china
00:31:45.920
around china so we'll see what that what the results of that was
00:31:53.920
okay all right so i wanted um it to be about china and i did think a bit about how exactly to phrase it
00:32:00.880
it you know like is it good to have a strategic alliance with china is trump right to um you know
00:32:08.560
rebuke starmer for getting close to china anyway i decided to make it sort of as personal as possible
00:32:13.600
um we we phrased it do you want closer ties with china and it's come back 87 no
00:32:28.080
six percent yes and seven percent not sure who the six percent who here i want names
00:32:34.880
no again a resounding win for breakfast with beau in complete harmony with my own audience
00:32:41.120
you are my people i'm a river a river of takes to my people
00:32:48.640
no great 87 absolute resounding win isn't it yeah why would it why would anyone really want in the
00:32:54.080
west in britain in britain why would you want closer ties with china what do they
00:33:00.320
what do we get out of here how is it good for us in any real way
00:33:05.280
there's big enough markets closer to us for us to sell things to
00:33:08.320
we should manufacture and make more things for ourselves and if not there's still other places
00:33:13.360
much better and closer and less politically um enemies of ours that we can buy from we don't need
00:33:20.960
to buy and sell things to china britain we don't need to so beyond that beyond the economic bit
00:33:29.840
what else how else is it in our interest like to have loads and loads of like chinese students here
00:33:34.800
whatever it's not is it and then politically the chinese communist party
00:33:44.240
how is having any tie with them let alone closer ties in our interests again thinking broadly
00:33:51.200
strategically it's simply not is it and i'm glad 87 of you agree with me on that one all right let's
00:33:57.840
move on then let's have a look at the main websites so with the bbc trump says it's very dangerous for
00:34:03.600
uk to deal with china well yeah i agree with the donald i mean it's an interesting use of words
00:34:10.400
isn't it very dangerous he said that about canada as well he said it's very dangerous for canada to
00:34:15.280
have closer ties with china wonder if there's a little bit of veiled language like it's not exactly
00:34:20.400
a threat is it well it's not a threat directly but still an interesting use of words
00:34:25.040
dangerous dangerous okay two officers to face court martial over handling of a jesslie beck sexual
00:34:33.520
assault case so yeah this poor girl 19 year old girl joined the army got sexually assaulted and then
00:34:39.600
took her own life the guy that did it got actually did the sexual assault got caught and convicted but
00:34:48.240
then a couple other officers now are looking at court martial for just dealing with the whole thing
00:34:52.720
poorly horrible isn't it millions to get 150 pound off energy bills uh for further five years thanks
00:35:04.160
150 quid off energy bills a year it's not that much especially if you've got a big household that costs
00:35:11.680
more than the other small flat to heat you know who doesn't want 150 pound back right but still
00:35:20.480
it's not much we're paying a few grand in energy bills with the best win in the world if not a lot more
00:35:36.160
you've made it so that our energy bills are massive in all sorts of different ways in loads and loads of
00:35:41.200
different ways energy for lots and lots of different reasons energy costs a lot in the uk
00:35:47.040
grand reasons world-spanning reasons but still our government is responsible for
00:35:55.600
them being as high as they are i haven't got any time to go into all of that but
00:36:00.640
so to give us 150 pound rebate or 150 pound off in some ways like what an insult really it's a bit of
00:36:07.280
an insult again it's like a thief steals 100 quid off of you and just before he runs away he gives
00:36:15.760
you 15 quid back and expects you to be happy especially to walk away whistling dixie because
00:36:24.960
you've got 15 quid back no no no i'm still extremely annoyed and bitter and uh
00:36:31.440
there you go government think we're like little children's pocket money let's go off and buy an
00:36:45.520
syria's defiant curds vow to quote fight until last breath quote despite government push
00:36:54.080
so yeah there is all sorts of ongoing stuff going on in in syria i mean that's another thing that the
00:36:58.960
our mainstream media very rarely talk about these days is syria don't they very rarely after the fall
00:37:07.360
of asad asad the younger and the most mostly complete destruction of isis in syria and that that new
00:37:16.400
fella got in can't even remember his name um since then it sort of dropped off the radar as far as
00:37:21.760
mainstream media is concerned but in fact it is still a pretty volatile situation there oh there you go
00:37:28.400
the kurds the kurdis faction in syria vowed to fight until the last breath
00:37:38.160
that part of the world there's certain parts of the world i've said this a number of times i've said it
00:37:40.800
loads of times on epochs certain places in the world where there's sort of been conflict on and off
00:37:50.240
since the dawn of human civilization that's one of the places in the world the deserts of syria
00:37:56.480
modern day syria um all through the ancient world i mean and to this day it's just it's just
00:38:06.240
water oh here's an interesting cool story for me secret warehouse guards lost world of treasures found
00:38:13.680
on hs2 root let's have a quick read of this i think it's a little bit of a friday white pill little bit of a
00:38:19.920
friday sort of nice good story i think um hs2 for anyone who might not know no one in britain wouldn't
00:38:26.720
know but people abroad watching hs2 is a a program to build a brand new high speed rail line in britain
00:38:36.640
so that involves digging up lots of stuff for miles and miles and miles on end doing digging and when
00:38:42.480
that's happened there all sorts of archaeology has been found because britain is a ancient landscape
00:38:49.280
and whenever you dig under the surface you'll eventually find archaeological treasures
00:38:55.520
and so they found those here so let's see it's a treasures unearthed by hundreds of archaeologists
00:39:01.120
so far during work on the controversial planned hs2 train line have been shown exclusively to the bbc the
00:39:08.000
450 000 objects which are being held in a secret warehouse include a possible roman gladiators tag
00:39:16.000
a hand axe which may be more than 40 000 years old and 19th century golden dentures
00:39:24.880
it is a quote unprecedented quote amount and array of items which will yield new insights into britain's
00:39:30.880
past says the center for british archaeology major building developments in the uk need land to be
00:39:36.320
accessed by archaeologists as part of the planning process to protect heritage sites since 2019
00:39:44.320
around 1000 archaeologists have been involved in 60 digs along the route hs2 is set to take between
00:39:50.160
london and birmingham that's just between london and birmingham bit of it as well
00:39:55.440
anyway i thought that was cool that's interesting yeah you dig under the surface and you find everything
00:40:02.000
from victorian stuff to roman stuff to neolithic stuff and everything in between cool all right
00:40:10.400
let's see the itv did they have yeah they're talking about the many patients dying corridors in the nhs
00:40:18.320
um was there anything else yeah that great almond street guy all right let's let's move on sky news goes
00:40:28.000
with um yeah the whiskey tariffs visa free travel china and britain this is visa free travel and cuts to
00:40:35.520
whiskey tariffs um all right let's have a look at the daily mail i think they had a bunch of slop yeah
00:40:44.400
it's the mega oscars is it is it melania trump stuns at her movie premiere alongside donald in dc
00:40:53.280
as they are joined by new cheerleader in chief nikki minaj are they
00:41:01.360
no further comment it's just slop i said i'd keep slop to a minimum on the beau show i shall try to do so
00:41:10.080
wherever possible it can't be entirely avoided like that headline for example
00:41:15.600
oh some royal slop tiny bit of royal slop here for you and you just disrespected 370 years of british
00:41:21.200
military heroes does he not care the story is even in his exile and disgrace the paparazzi still take
00:41:30.240
pictures of him so he hasn't gone anywhere or tried to do anything he's just driving he's driving
00:41:35.360
somewhere trying to keep himself to himself not that i've got any sympathy for him but you know
00:41:41.680
he's trying to keep himself to himself and he's just wearing a jumper there
00:41:44.480
a sweater with the uh emblem of uh a military emblem what is it the grenadier guards i think it's
00:41:52.080
the grenadier guards i mean he used to be in the military he flew helicopters in the falklands and
00:41:59.200
of course as a senior royal is like given an honorary i think i think i think he was like an honorary
00:42:04.960
colonel or something so you've been in the military and as a senior role you're very very closely linked
00:42:10.000
to the military so the idea that he might have an old grenadier guards jumper and he wore it out he
00:42:16.720
wore it in his own car and a paparazzi long view lens caught the image of it and now he was disrespecting
00:42:28.320
again i've got no sympathy for andrew but that's not fair is it that's not really fair
00:42:31.840
there you go that's the story that's a slop that's the royal slop for you today in the express
00:42:40.000
all right the sun um mayor jammers burglary hell prince andrew some weird looking girl
00:42:50.720
yeah the rise of flash daddy girls gangsters who hide drug empires behind tanning salons
00:42:55.840
you see let me aj crying uh the x-files the ultimate betrayal that ripped apart love islands
00:43:05.120
lucinda and chloe as pals reveal devastating impact on millie don't kill wow i don't care wow
00:43:13.280
the degree to which i don't care about that i don't know any of those people's names i don't
00:43:17.120
you've got a laugh you've got a laugh right the new york slimes here's a proper story trump is
00:43:26.080
expected to announce kevin wash as a new federal reserve chair because trump's had all sorts of
00:43:33.200
run-ins with the current federal reserve chair and doesn't like him thinks he should be lowering
00:43:38.320
interest rates a lot faster than he is so trump's trying to sort of kick him upstairs kick him aside
00:43:43.920
elbow him out and get a new guy in it's kevin wash or that looks like it's expected to be
00:43:52.480
okay did trump really give nikki minaj a one million dollar gold card visa
00:44:10.000
democrats and trump strike government funding deal as shutdown looms so here's another sort of
00:44:20.320
from what i understand from everything i understand which i have read a fair bit around
00:44:23.440
it and followed it for followed shutdowns for years begun for years now isn't it
00:44:28.320
this one does seem to me i've got to try not to be completely blinded by my sort of
00:44:33.680
republican leaning but it does seem that it's largely the democrats sort of making shutdowns happen at
00:44:43.920
this point in this time around anyway like it's schumer playing games it's chucky boy old chuck schumer
00:44:52.800
playing games thinking that if he gets the if he manipulates events so that the federal government
00:44:57.520
shut down they can just scream from the rafters that it's trump's fault didn't really work that well
00:45:02.560
last time it looks like they make a deal they're making a deal and that's what the headline is they
00:45:08.880
strike a deal to keep funding things including homeland security yeah the president and and senate democrats
00:45:17.520
say they have agreed a separate dhs department of homeland security funding for a larger spending
00:45:24.400
package after the killing of alex pretty so even chuck in the republic even the democrats and chuck
00:45:32.320
are like well we'll give dhs more money if anything
00:45:38.800
there you go interesting isn't it um all right hop across the old pacific ocean to down under how good
00:45:49.040
andrew hasty bows out of liberal leadership race i must admit i don't know andrew hasty maybe i've
00:45:55.920
heard the name before but i certainly don't know much about him in any real detail but there you go
00:45:59.840
for you're an aussie that's breaking news for you um valence speaks out after song tied to pauline hansen
00:46:08.240
film pulled from apple music holly valence still gorgeous used to be in neighbors had a big crush on
00:46:18.960
holly valence back in the day who didn't she's flawless but look look at this the way this is
00:46:24.480
framed holly valence has broken her silence after a controversial song i didn't know
00:46:29.600
she's what a scoop holly valence has broken her silence over a nothing burger
00:46:41.520
all right family four including pets found dead in suspected murder suicide sounds grisly
00:46:52.480
uh there wasn't much in japan this morning china actually are finally reporting that starma's even there
00:47:00.560
china and britain agreed to develop long-term consistent comprehensive strategic partnership
00:47:07.120
in g starma meeting so it has at least permeated their their state media organ that is actually even
00:47:16.640
there there you go all right times are starting to run out so let's have a look at what the rooskies
00:47:26.240
the ye olde rooskies are talking about this morning uh europe grows critical of von der lion says a
00:47:32.240
senior russian diplomat yeah good i hope so someone did it might have been lucas somebody did a segment
00:47:37.360
on the main podcast of late season the other day just looking at how the von der lion
00:47:43.120
um it's just happy to just basically open the borders european borders even more even wider to indians
00:47:49.920
i wonder what the average bavarian what the average basque
00:48:00.480
what the average eye attire thinks about that oh thanks yeah that's what we really needed millions more
00:48:11.040
to lower wages to put more pressure on everything from housing to health
00:48:15.840
yeah that's what we want cheers van der lion cheers for that that's what we really needed
00:48:21.600
trump signs order allowing us to impose tariffs on countries supplying oil to cuba
00:48:26.000
yeah i wanted to mention that earlier actually i think there was a there was an article in the
00:48:29.440
of the slimes or the post that i was going to say about yeah
00:48:33.280
trump signed a bunch of things yesterday i believe putting slapping more tariffs on so i think with
00:48:38.080
immediate effect i think on countries that buy or sell oil with cuba or have any real like massive
00:48:46.880
tires economically to cuba and that does make me think that well obviously it's not an incredible
00:48:57.040
insight does make anyone really think that cuba's like not is probably next on their
00:49:05.040
on like the maduro list if they're going to pull something else like maduro
00:49:10.400
obviously iran is its own thing a whole different kettle of fish but they're going to do something
00:49:13.840
like what they did to venezuela whether people have wondered whether sort of colombia is next on that
00:49:20.000
list or stuff in mexico not doing a maduro to the mexican president but you know just intervening
00:49:25.520
just doing special forces raids into mexico or colombia or cuba cuba
00:49:33.680
that does suggest doesn't it that cuba's next on the list for special attention from rubio hegseth
00:49:44.160
i'd be slightly worried if i was the in the the ruler or the in the ruling cabal in cuba
00:49:52.160
there you go all right there's nothing really of massive interest in germany as usual or in the german
00:49:58.560
news rather build goes with loads of things something about a mole
00:50:06.640
slop isn't it they need always have something about a car crash
00:50:10.640
on the weather and things some some boats were destroyed in like a some sort of storm or something
00:50:15.680
or other by accident accidentally 20 small boats were broken all right the french like the french for
00:50:23.520
for some reason le monde this morning is talking all about russia and russian histories actually
00:50:28.880
reasonably interesting their top story is yuri demetriyev the russian historian in prison for
00:50:35.040
denouncing kremlin attempts to rewrite history and the little blurb says detained in a penal colony in
00:50:40.160
mordovia the 70 year old historian who specializes in the starling regime's crimes is one of russia's
00:50:46.400
oldest political prisoners his crime refusing to accept historical falsifications that the kremlin
00:50:51.600
aims to impose on public opinion interesting proper story a bit of real meat on that one right
00:50:59.440
it's a bit better than three women that were on love island falling out with each other or something
00:51:07.520
or may a jammer's house getting burgled a growing number of teenagers in russia are being sentenced for
00:51:13.920
terrorism french researcher held in russia freed in prisoner swap yeah so for some reason for whatever
00:51:20.960
reason the le monde uh talking all about russia and russian stuff today all right we've got less
00:51:30.320
than 10 minutes left although here at the beau show we're not constrained to finish at the stroke of 9am
00:51:36.720
was there any particular space uh space news i think there was one story i saw that was reasonably
00:51:43.440
interesting um uh china eyes space resources space tourism and on orbit digital infrastructure
00:51:55.920
yeah the chinese space agency um is not a joke anymore it used to be when i was younger when i was
00:52:04.320
growing up nasa completely dominated everything and beyond that you know like bike or like the the
00:52:11.120
the russian program was not to be sniffed at of course right they had mir and all the soyuz and
00:52:19.520
they launched all the time and all sorts of stuff it was the again the americans and the russians
00:52:23.600
absolutely dominated everything and even like even 10 years ago even 15 years ago the chinese space
00:52:30.400
program was a little bit laughable like they'd have accidents more than once like a
00:52:36.160
uh and they had some terrible disasters where rockets would blow up on the pad or blow up shortly
00:52:41.840
after launch and there's one where it landed on a town a village and killed loads of people hundreds
00:52:47.840
and hundreds of people the chinese the chinese program was not good well now in 2026
00:52:59.680
it's very very good they've got landers on the moon and all all sorts of stuff send up rockets all the
00:53:07.200
time consistently consistently consistently so yeah now they're looking at they're eyeing space resources
00:53:16.560
i.e you know doing mining on on uh asteroids or the moon and space tourism i still do think
00:53:25.840
realistically space tourism is a long way off well you know you could take you take katie perry up
00:53:32.480
into low earth orbit for a couple of minutes but you know proper space real decent space tourism
00:53:39.120
whatever that is in your mind in your imagination still think we're probably quite a long way from
00:53:43.600
that years and years okay should we have a look on at this day in history to finish the show to finish
00:53:51.600
the week on january the 30th this day in history in 1661 oliver cromwell lord protector of the
00:54:01.040
commonwealth of england is uh ritually executed after having been dead for two years if anyone doesn't
00:54:08.880
know that funny little bit of history oliver cromwell dies of natural uh natural causes
00:54:13.680
and um and then there's the restoration of the monarchy right charles ii king charles ii comes
00:54:22.720
back and will restore the monarchy and uh and then they exhumed his body and then executed
00:54:30.000
the body did they put his head on traitor's gate or put his head on tower hill tower bridge
00:54:35.120
something or other yeah as though he's you know he's a traitor to the crown interesting little note
00:54:41.200
of history isn't it um okay in on this day in 1815 um the the burned us library of congress
00:54:53.200
don't ask how that burnt down or who burnt that down let's move swiftly on from that the uh the library
00:54:58.640
of congress which burnt down somehow is re-established with thomas jefferson's
00:55:04.400
six and a half thousand volumes his personal collection of books interesting is it on this
00:55:11.120
day in 1889 uh archduke crown prince rudolf of austria the heir to the austro-hungarian empire
00:55:19.600
he would have been one of the most powerful men in the world certainly in europe you know like during
00:55:27.120
or at least just after world war one had he lived on this day though in 1889 he was the heir to the
00:55:33.280
austro-hungarian crown he's found dead with his mistress baroness mary vesera in myeling in an
00:55:43.360
apparent suicide pact that's an interesting little interesting little moment in time as well
00:55:48.560
what went on there exactly what does it say it says a suspected
00:55:57.280
or an an apparent suicide pact yeah we don't really know what happened him and his mistress went to bed
00:56:02.880
one evening and in the next morning they're both shot dead i mean he obviously shot her and then he shot himself
00:56:12.400
it's not like someone broke in and murdered them but like why though what was going on there what exactly
00:56:17.120
why was he why was he so unhappy or what what was you know the real details about all of that is very
00:56:23.680
interesting because as i say he would have been that archduke crown prince rudolf he would have been
00:56:30.880
like in the top five most powerful men in europe right it's like if prince william today
00:56:37.120
murdered kate and then blew his own head off you'd be like what that'd be massive wouldn't it it'd be a
00:56:40.960
massive story that happened on this day in 1889 let's do one or two more real quick nearly 9am on
00:56:50.800
this day in 1902 britain and japan signed a treaty after months of negotiating uh which which commits
00:56:57.680
each sorry after months of negotiating should be a comment there which commits each country to
00:57:02.800
supporting an independent china and korea although it acknowledges japan's special interest in korea
00:57:08.640
yeah that's interesting so that sets the tone for imperial japan having a a half decent navy a
00:57:15.200
competitive navy that because in 1902 still the royal navy was all dominant essentially and the
00:57:22.320
japanese are like we need to modernize as quickly as possible we're just going to copy the british how
00:57:28.560
to how to build design and build ships and how to run a navy everything navy related we're just going to
00:57:34.240
copy the brits and the brits were like yeah okay happy to yeah so yeah that's that not long after is
00:57:45.040
it the japanese serve up the russians a humiliating naval defeat or two all right on this day in 1933
00:57:53.200
president paul von hindenburg appoints adolf hitler as a reich chancellor of germany who forms a government
00:58:00.960
with uh van papen france on this day on the same day 1939 hitler hitler threatens jews during his speech
00:58:09.360
to the german arshtag on this day in 1948 mahatma gandhi is assassinated in the garden of the new delhi
00:58:17.680
home he is visiting by hindu uh extremist natharam gods i don't know how you pronounce that i've never
00:58:25.520
known how you pronounce that but yeah if anyone didn't know mahatma gandhi didn't die peacefully in his bed
00:58:31.680
he was shot dead uh by hindu nationalists it's often the way actually fairly often the way
00:58:41.520
like with assassinations the hard line version of your own side kill you that's not uncommon
00:58:48.000
so the people that murdered gandhi he wasn't hard line enough indian
00:58:54.000
hindu nationalist type person he he wasn't enough for them
00:59:00.960
there you go often the way it's the hard line on your own side
00:59:05.760
all right let's have a look at the uh rumble rents and super chats rumble rents
00:59:10.720
evon 626 says you all got to i can't read that one out we got to have some sort of screening process
00:59:22.240
got to have some sort of screaming process really
00:59:25.440
nearly read out something bad um although the same person there said this show screams sex
00:59:32.560
all right uh gb jim says sat opposite a couple of metro journalists on a long train journey years ago
00:59:46.560
thick didn't begin to describe them oh yeah brilliant yeah that makes sense to me that rings true
00:59:57.360
i think the metro is the worst the worst of the rest okay uh rick w
01:00:02.480
twgp says says frederick paulus formally surrendered the the northern pocket of the stalingrad castle
01:00:11.600
today in 1943 that's interesting um the southern castle cauldron the southern bit of the of the
01:00:18.960
stalingrad pocket um held out until february the third remember the brave men of the sixth army
01:00:24.640
interesting to remember them yeah yeah yeah okay uh the um fascinating the battle of stalingrad
01:00:35.040
absolutely fascinating uh anthony beaver on stalingrad is very good uh so youtube super chats
01:00:45.120
midas touch 2022 says bo you're awesome enough said
01:01:01.040
mike dpu mike dpu says um you should have some vaporwave in the background
01:01:08.080
what's that harry vaporwave in the background it's uh it's like synthwave but cooler
01:01:16.720
i'm interested in making the show cooler i'll let you look into that you're the producer yeah okay
01:01:23.040
luke stewart 6155 says g'day bo you know what happens with china with the amount of factory fires
01:01:30.880
that have been happening and other issues that they've got who knows if they who knows if they
01:01:36.560
how long they can stay in the top four right yeah i mean yeah there's some people think china is sort of
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like completely massively unified and it's like some perfect uniform i think no china is an amalgam of
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all different like peoples and regions and stuff there's actually internally less
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coherent than russia or the united states that is true and you can make the argument josh firm of
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lotus eaters fame has made the argument a number of times that their economy big as it is and still
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growing as fast as it is is actually a little bit of a house of cards in various ways
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so don't take it for granted so good point don't take it for granted that china is like there's
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nothing that can stop them from becoming the completely undisputed powerhouse of the world in
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in every sense that that's just hard baked into history now no not necessarily not necessarily
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principle uncertainty uh principled uncertainty says why exact why exactly am i meant to fear china
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they don't need our land resources or population america has never been our friend okay historically
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america has been our friend in those different ways why are you supposed to fear china because they're
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communists and if they had their way they mean to spread communism to the whole world that is what
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communism is that the whole world moves towards socialism and then communism that includes you
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principled uncertainty that's why okay a name i can't really read out because it's got a swear word in it
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some something f google too let's say that f google too uh did you have a nice breakfast and i haven't
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had any breakfast yet this morning i've rarely actually eat breakfast there's a scoop for anyone that
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watches the bow show breakfast with bow bow himself almost certainly hasn't eaten breakfast
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um cup of tea i have a couple of cup of teas maybe a little snack mid-morning i usually just get by on
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cups of tea until lunchtime most mostly mostly breakfast is just like ashes in my mouth sometimes
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i wake up ravenous occasionally and have to have some decent food for breakfast but usually i don't
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usually it's just like me but that's just me that's just me that's just me so ducs 149 says
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remigration starts by stopping the money spending
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yep i mean not sure 100 what you mean there although i get also i also do get what you you're
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saying what you mean and yeah right yeah i think i understand principal dunserti again says
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a teacher at my old grammar school got jailed for having the kind of special relationship
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uh qw have with america this is stockholm syndrome
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don't agree with you okay uh 14 barber says if we get jackie chan in a deal fine if not no right
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yeah we'll take jackie chan we'll take we'll take jackie chan not interested in anything else
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all right uh luke stewart 6155 says i feel sorry for the heroic bus driver next time something like
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this happens no one's going to help anyone else yeah that's what it results in doesn't it um and
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the biggest danger of china um especially when you get chinese citizens china loves to use them for
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espionage yeah yeah yeah absolutely right everything you said there is yeah it's true i agree with yeah
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okay uh marcos marcos 6588 says still shocked when furious revealed to what degree china predates
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various aussie markets in his debut uh uo uh was that um unpopular opinions appearance um yeah um
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furious is great he's great yeah i'm privileged to call him a friend of mine um we ought to keep
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uncovering this yeah the way china screws screws around plays games with australia is is mad because
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it's a lot lot closer isn't it um okay global church history says happy feast of king charles the
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martyr thank you yeah interesting uh lofer sheffield hello lofer follows me on twitter good guy great guy
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he says uh gandhi was uh succeeded by my hat my coat oh my hat my coat all right
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dad joke there's always room for a dad joke right it's friday it's friday it's gone nine
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we'll allow ourselves a dad joke okay and then marcus 588 finally says
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the chat the tangent yesterday about justinian zeno and leo was great thank you um we uh also love
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the epochs you did with marcus from maurice to 1204 um hope to see more hope to see more air soon
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yeah byzantine history is fascinating yeah even people that are big fans of rome ancient rome
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classical rome western western rome even those people often don't know a great deal about
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eastern the eastern roman empire and the byzantine empire and certainly sort of the middle and late
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byzantine empire and so yeah thank you for that thank you for that marcus again furious same bloke
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very very interesting aussie dude um yeah do check that out um if you go to the lotusus.com
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one over an hour one or two might be slightly under an hour but many of them are well over an hour some
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of them knock in two hours so a few hundred hours of history themed content just straight up history
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themed content called epochs with me talking about history everything from gobekli tepi to
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um world war ii a lot of ancient history stuff i mean that is my original wheelhouse is the ancient
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world so consider checking that out okay it is now nine minutes past nine in the a.m greenwich mean
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time on friday the 30th of january in the year of our law 2026
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do try and make the most of the day ahead if you can and it's not always possible it really isn't
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always possible right quite often have to spend your time doing something necessary but extremely
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boring but if you can carpe dm seize the day if you can try and make it count you'll only have this day
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once all right then well on that note until monday take care