The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 30th October 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning! Wait, is it that one? Or that one? It's that one. Is it? Little Harry?

00:00:07.920 Yeah. That one. Okay. Okay, it's that one. Morning, you alright?

00:00:17.520 Lovely cup of tea. So it's Friday. Thank F it's Friday. I'm back. I'm slightly better. I was a bit

00:00:22.560 ill. Wednesday was bad. Wednesday I was coughing so much I just couldn't do a show. I was physically

00:00:27.720 able to get up come into the studio but I was just constantly coughing so you can't do that

00:00:32.600 in a live show you can't do it it would be horrible it'd be ridiculous people just be

00:00:36.420 complaining and then yesterday Dan offered because Dan's the resident economist isn't he

00:00:40.820 he offered to do like the budget show yesterday was like the budget show so there was that gave

00:00:46.020 me an extra day off which was nice I took it you know happy to take it but now I'm back not quite

00:00:51.020 fighting fit I'll probably cough a little bit apologies for that but much much better than I

00:00:54.920 was. How are you? You alright? Are you? Hope you are. It's now one minute past eight in

00:01:01.960 the a.m. Greenwich meantime on Friday 30th October in the year of our Lord 2026. Who

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00:01:21.660 wouldn't you be and hit ye olde bell you get that on because you want to be you want to be told

00:01:27.460 when there's stuff hitting the channel don't you yeah all right why am i sitting in this seat why

00:01:32.420 is it a different camera to usual because i'm joined by a guest a very special guest

00:01:35.780 marcus furious how are you sir morning all aka what the iron age agriculturalist as well on

00:01:42.520 twitter we'll stick with marcus okay just marcus okay and otherwise we're just going to take up

00:01:47.740 too much like time with the with the segments okay we could be elongating it so let people know who

00:01:52.620 you are because there'll be some people lots of people here will know who you are because they're

00:01:56.600 in the know but a fair few people might not might not know so you've been around for ages you make

00:02:01.420 we've made loads of content over years now haven't we you're more of a history nerd first a few epoch

00:02:06.500 episodes i suppose yes and stuff with um uh other history channels predominantly uh apostolic majesty

00:02:14.040 i'd say yeah apostolic majesty the great apostolic majesty indeed a very good friend of ours a good

00:02:18.640 friend of the channel um yeah probably co-hosted with him for the better part of three years until

00:02:23.100 the time difference got a bit the better of me yeah because you're i couldn't hear a twang you

00:02:27.500 you are an aussie yeah g'day good morning oh yeah how good yeah exactly um yes and obviously being

00:02:34.300 here in in britain for or in england for a few weeks and it's lovely to be in the studio because

00:02:39.980 obviously we've done stuff remotely yeah actually in fact most of our epochs have in fact been in

00:02:44.220 studio so it's actually nice to do something sort of a bit different today because you've come here

00:02:48.240 is this like the third time you've been on in low seat and you're going to be on the podcast later

00:02:52.440 so check that out you're on the main podcast later and you've already recorded a couple of

00:02:56.060 other bits of pre-recorded content with me and carl yeah so and there's one out with dan from

00:03:00.260 last week oh yeah that's right yeah you're on with dan last week so people should know who you are

00:03:04.160 yes every now and again when someone new comes on there will be someone saying who's this i don't

00:03:07.840 Yes, and contrary to a rumor, I'm not Cornelia Sulla.

00:03:12.020 All right, so today what I'm going to do is I'm going to whip through,

00:03:16.500 I'm going to do like the normal show, basically, whip through the British print media,

00:03:20.860 what's in the news today on Fleet Street, but do that relatively quickly

00:03:24.880 and then talk about a bit of Aussie politics.

00:03:28.160 We've got a few Aussie papers here in my links,

00:03:31.760 and I'd like you to help us navigate sort of the Australian political landscape

00:03:36.900 because tell us as though we're five years old so we know nothing like about a little bit about

00:03:41.060 albanese whether people like him or hate him and what's going on with labor with that woman who got

00:03:44.900 her legs run over all sorts of things so is that cool absolutely all right well let's get straight

00:03:48.740 into it then that's enough laughing about isn't it that's quite enough fannying about one morning

00:03:51.540 let's get straight into it what's that cabal of evil quite frankly evil fleet street editors

00:03:54.980 talking about this morning all right in the british in the british print media that is

00:03:58.740 we've got no welfare cuts before election because they um denied about that already straight away

00:04:04.500 the budget was only wednesday wasn't it and already they're like we're gonna cut the budget

00:04:09.140 before the election they're like no we're not no we're not actually do a u-turn already indeed

00:04:15.060 probably with the pressure from their own backbenchers and police probe epstein's

00:04:19.300 bowel moral state i thought they've been doing that for like bloody four or five years already

00:04:24.340 what do you mean there but they probe the bowel i thought how are you not how is this new that

00:04:29.460 they have insufficient evidence at this point there's no you know there's an actual photo

00:04:34.820 isn't it quite a famous photo it's been there you go it's been doing the rounds for yonks

00:04:39.060 this is jeff and gilane at balmoral that background that cabin there it's apparently

00:04:43.940 on the balmoral estate this is a well-known photo it's been around for years isn't it isn't there

00:04:48.100 unless i'm mistaken a similar photo in fact with the queen sitting in the same seat yes yeah yeah

00:04:53.300 yeah yeah it's like yeah almost you know incontrovertible evidence oh yeah it's definitely

00:04:57.860 It's definitely some sort of cabin on the Balmoral Center.

00:05:00.280 I mean, 100%.

00:05:01.360 Yeah.

00:05:03.040 What do you mean they're probing it?

00:05:04.620 How haven't they been already?

00:05:07.280 Well, they must have been already.

00:05:08.660 Anyway, all right, let's go through the papers in the right order.

00:05:12.040 So let's start.

00:05:12.800 All right, well, straight off the bat, Sir Patrick's dead.

00:05:15.440 Patrick Stewart.

00:05:16.400 Yes.

00:05:17.020 I don't want to be glib about it.

00:05:18.020 I was a fan.

00:05:19.260 He was a bit of a lefty, wasn't he?

00:05:20.500 A little bit, but nonetheless.

00:05:22.920 But sometimes they are likeable if you're a person who enjoys certain shows.

00:05:25.620 I mean, I was never a Trekkie, for instance, but I mean, he was absolutely unmistakable as Picard.

00:05:31.740 And also, as you might appreciate with someone like myself or even our friend, Apostolic Majesty, we know him from Fall of Eagles.

00:05:38.200 And he was a very, very, very convincing Vladimir Lenin.

00:05:41.220 Yes.

00:05:42.160 Last night I tweeted, because I only found out about it last night, and I tweeted, you know, RIP Patrick Stewart.

00:05:48.240 And I actually said that.

00:05:49.220 I said he was great as, what did I say?

00:05:52.060 Have you seen I, Claudius?

00:05:53.480 The 70s I, Claudius with Derek Jacobi?

00:05:54.980 A long time ago, but yes.

00:05:56.160 He plays Sejanus.

00:05:57.620 He does.

00:05:58.520 He's Tiberius's henchman, isn't he?

00:06:00.600 He's Praetorian Prefect, yes.

00:06:01.900 Yeah, yeah.

00:06:02.440 He's Tiberius's killer.

00:06:04.100 If Tiberius wants someone wiped out, he goes send Sejanus to do it.

00:06:07.260 Patrick Stewart did.

00:06:08.160 The Pujo of the Emperor, you might say.

00:06:10.060 Yeah, yeah.

00:06:11.360 Patrick Stewart played that.

00:06:12.620 And yeah, as Lenin in Fall of Eagles.

00:06:14.340 If anyone hasn't seen Fall of Eagles, it's completely free on YouTube.

00:06:17.260 Yes, it is.

00:06:17.860 Check that out.

00:06:18.740 It's brilliant.

00:06:19.500 It's old, low-budget BBC drama, but it's written brilliantly.

00:06:23.920 but back when bbc did quality production back before woke way before woke the writing is

00:06:28.400 brilliant and the acting is brilliant and anyway patrick stewart plays lenin and it's just masterful

00:06:35.600 it's mild it's so believable it is and even insofar as he's you know like his physiology and

00:06:41.040 his mannerisms like you could imagine that's how lenin would have been in real life you know if you

00:06:46.080 sort of didn't know it's patrick stewart you think oh my goodness like it's actually like you know

00:06:49.280 potentially footage of lenin it's that convincing yeah yeah they've done him up to look just like

00:06:53.840 like him as well, with the bald head.

00:06:56.580 Nothing wrong with baldness, is there, mate?

00:06:58.940 This is the bald breakfast show, you know?

00:07:02.040 The special, bald special.

00:07:04.080 In honor of Sir Patrick.

00:07:06.080 Right, yeah.

00:07:06.900 I need to get my shame, actually.

00:07:08.160 Anyway, so yeah, a shame.

00:07:09.540 Patrick Stewart has passed away.

00:07:11.160 Apparently he had a brief,

00:07:12.680 briefly had like old timers or something,

00:07:14.920 but now he's died.

00:07:15.980 And there's a film coming out in December,

00:07:18.040 like another X-Man film that he's in.

00:07:20.780 So he must've gone downhill real fast

00:07:23.220 still shooting not that long ago I believe he had the similar physical

00:07:27.480 ailment that was his name the American comedian when it's all side something is

00:07:35.760 the name I did Aladdin and and Patch Adams I'm trying to think Rob Williams

00:07:40.140 he had the physical aspect of Alzheimer's where they like lose control

00:07:43.860 their body yeah right I just read that in the article I think is one that you

00:07:47.220 said you said and that's actually very tragic that um you know for someone to

00:07:50.220 physically and mentally mentally decline rapidly like that because once you have the two things

00:07:54.460 side by side it's just it's a it's for the for that person and their loved ones it's a very very

00:07:59.480 difficult thing of course yeah i mean it's a terrifying horrifying thing um so well i mean

00:08:06.080 small mercies apparently it was quick he went downhill super quick so it's it's a small mercy

00:08:12.660 isn't it really in a way but 86 i mean it's not a bad innings it's not a bad innings and he will

00:08:18.160 be remembered won't he all right let's move on no welfare cuts before election as britain's faced

00:08:23.860 worst decade for pay growth chancellor admits uh he cannot guarantee cuts to britain's welfare bill

00:08:31.280 in this parliament amid predictions it will jump by almost 30 percent to 431 billion that's with a

00:08:38.200 billion by 2032 a completely unsustainable number we're in the hole to the tune of three trillion

00:08:44.100 already the budget the deficit getting worse by the tune of 120 billion every year on top of that

00:08:50.420 so it's going to go up 30 okay cool john higley faces criticism over budget delay in tackling

00:08:56.840 spending cuts as andy burnham says he wants to reduce benefits bill as soon as we possibly can

00:09:03.400 well that's a lie well that's not true because you're not doing that whoever does that to be

00:09:08.260 honest i hate it when they just lie straight to your face like that saying the exact opposite of

00:09:13.300 what's true right to your face like why would you say you don't have to say that you'd be so proud

00:09:18.600 well of the of the sheer you know brashness of it you know yeah the chutzpah exactly right

00:09:23.220 like there's one thing to just when like you don't have to lie like that we're gonna reduce

00:09:30.760 it as soon as we possibly can we just had an opportunity to do it and haven't and one day

00:09:34.660 later you say we're gonna reduce it as soon as we possibly can why are you lying but if anything

00:09:38.840 sort of this these kind of tactics uh firstly make for good press at the at the time at the

00:09:43.160 moment and it serves i suppose it serves the purpose of pacifying soft critics meanwhile

00:09:49.400 your your true devotees know that you're not going to follow through so it kind of actually

00:09:53.960 doesn't matter and the people who were criticized don't really have the power to do anything about

00:09:57.240 it so yeah you know no you're absolutely right in fact it is probably cynical but yeah it is an

00:10:03.360 exercise in um to be honest if we're honest it is an exercise in sort of manipulating opinion

00:10:10.740 a perception manipulating the news cycle in some ways and not it's kind of divorced from reality

00:10:16.820 yeah and they must know that but still for those of us that are interested in reality and truth

00:10:21.720 and not lying uh it's just frustrating isn't it just trying to think of the sort of verbiage

00:10:26.300 sort of like so-called elite well not so-called but our you know elite theorist friends would say

00:10:29.980 sort of manufacturing consent in essence yeah yeah and that's a great example of it using sort

00:10:34.540 of propaganda tactics to manufacture the consent yeah they're not my friends institute of fiscal

00:10:40.620 institute of fiscal studies reveals uk suffering worst decade for household income since records

00:10:46.620 began warning quote uh no temporary packages will fix this end quote one thing before we discuss that

00:10:53.980 um i watched the show yesterday when dan dan tub did it and he was really struggling with his eyes

00:10:59.660 it makes me feel not too bad have you got 2020 yeah i'm close to a year why is that is that

00:11:05.980 writing under there is that easily legible to you from this distance or is that actually a little

00:11:10.380 bit it actually is to me it is it a struggle at all for you no oh okay

00:11:17.420 okay sorry i might need do you want me to take over for now

00:11:21.420 that's fine you are in fact about six foot closer to it than i actually that's true as well yeah

00:11:25.100 but um yeah dan was really struggling with it yesterday so i feel like maybe

00:11:28.620 I should bring my monocle I should bring my monocle although it isn't

00:11:32.300 prescription so it doesn't actually it makes things blurrier if anything okay

00:11:36.180 but yeah so the Institute for Fiscal Studies is saying no temporary packages

00:11:41.040 will fix this right so Britain is economically screwed our economy is a

00:11:47.100 house of cards that is mid collapsing it's not like it's going to collapse it

00:11:51.300 is collapsing somewhat say up the proverbial creek without the proverbial

00:11:54.420 paddle right yeah because it because in the end it's a case of oh no temporary

00:11:57.500 packages will fix it it's like well i mean what do we do restructure the entire pound sterling and

00:12:01.440 you know somehow recover the dollar value back to what it was in the 60s or 50s or you know pre-world

00:12:06.920 war ii i mean how do we sort of untangle this this gaudian knot of economic mess well what it

00:12:13.440 requires is less spending it's quite simple but that is politically very very very unpopular i

00:12:21.020 mean the labor party backbenchers would not allow it they're not allowing it no um but that is what's

00:12:26.980 required you have to reduce spending so that our deficit so we don't have a deficit and then start

00:12:33.600 to scrabble out of the giant hole we're in but that would require real austerity i mean not david

00:12:39.940 cameron style austerity i mean real austerity as in like 1930s soup kitchens in baltimore austerity

00:12:46.900 almost something like that um and this is the thing too is the problem with austerity is that

00:12:51.960 it's you know what do you do it's the case of it's politically impossible from a standpoint of

00:12:57.320 liberal democracy like who's going to vote for for for a skinnier plate whoever votes for half

00:13:03.700 rations it doesn't doesn't ever happen you know and there we go you know yeah i know it is a

00:13:08.880 problem it is a problem when democracy is based around gibbs exactly and in the end we rightly

00:13:14.300 criticize because in the end both your country mine we both have a labor party alp labor party

00:13:19.000 and we both have Tories, quote-unquote.

00:13:21.480 But in the end, we sort of rightly threw shade on the leftist parties

00:13:24.880 for being the party of largesse, but let's face it,

00:13:27.220 the centre-right are not much better these days.

00:13:30.160 Oh, no, no, no, the Tories, I'm sure the Tories

00:13:33.060 wouldn't do anything much different.

00:13:35.880 Well, they've had 14 years to do something different

00:13:38.500 and chose not to every single day.

00:13:40.680 That's right.

00:13:41.140 A deliberate policy decision not to.

00:13:42.980 Well, so, when Burnham, no, Stern and Burnham,

00:13:47.740 was running to be an MP, stroke the Prime Minister,

00:13:52.880 he was running, he was saying various things.

00:13:55.300 I don't know how closely you followed that.

00:13:56.980 I mean, do you follow British politics particularly closely?

00:13:59.760 Arguably as much as Australian politics.

00:14:01.300 I actually find it more interesting than Australian politics.

00:14:02.880 Oh, right. Okay.

00:14:04.020 Well, you might remember then, he was talking about

00:14:06.020 that it was going to be a radical shake-up.

00:14:09.280 He was going to do politics differently.

00:14:10.740 He was going to change the game.

00:14:11.900 I'm paraphrasing slightly, but he said things like

00:14:13.840 it's going to be the most radical government to change Whitehall,

00:14:16.920 To change Westminster for 40 years

00:14:19.000 Or since the war and stuff

00:14:20.280 None of that is happening

00:14:22.420 Wasn't there a promise of like 10 Downing Street North

00:14:24.900 Basically

00:14:25.620 Radical

00:14:27.740 Radical

00:14:29.080 So I mean to the point where

00:14:31.340 Let me just find one of the headlines

00:14:32.760 Prepare for a decade of pain

00:14:36.140 Wounds the Institute of Fiscal Studies

00:14:38.140 Healy accused of quote

00:14:39.580 Unhelpful fiddling

00:14:41.200 After ducking welfare changes in budget

00:14:44.360 So a lot of people have noticed

00:14:46.180 that this budget is

00:14:48.300 just twiddling, fiddling around the

00:14:50.300 edges of things. I've said it

00:14:52.320 most days on this show.

00:14:54.480 It's rearranging the deck chairs

00:14:56.300 on the Titanic.

00:14:58.720 But not even rearranging,

00:15:00.340 just moving them like a tiny fraction,

00:15:02.640 like a quarter of a mil.

00:15:04.980 And, well,

00:15:07.020 that take does seem to, I mean,

00:15:08.400 it's a bit obvious, it's not like a massively profound

00:15:10.400 insight, but other people are

00:15:12.280 noticing now that it's

00:15:14.420 just also headlines like this like what the thing that jumps out at me is you know i love the fact

00:15:19.960 that it's intentionally stark prepare for decade of pain but pain for whom you know um are the

00:15:26.440 parliamentarians sitting on the benches of the commons going to suffer pain no be their

00:15:30.660 constituents who suffer the pain do you think it'll be their friends who attend conferences no

00:15:34.200 you know it'll be the farmers and the workers and you know people who work in private business and

00:15:38.980 you know yada yada yada the poorest among us and dare say people even in the lower class who are

00:15:43.380 sort of more dependent on, you know, services and, and on, you know, small and medium level

00:15:47.180 enterprise. They're the ones who suffer. So that's always the case. Yeah, always the

00:15:50.180 case. Whenever there's some sort of global financial crisis, it's the poorest people

00:15:53.840 in the third world that suffer first and the most. And then in the first world, same, same

00:15:59.240 trend, the poorest among us suffer the fastest and the most. You're looking at the chat and

00:16:04.480 smiling. Honestly, they're on fire today. It's brilliant. Oh, really? I've got to say,

00:16:08.900 i love the way about three baldies on the screen at once yeah we go full bore bald man this morning

00:16:15.140 this is the patrick stewart you know devote um you know uh what do you call it um morning

00:16:19.860 appreciation show yeah yeah um i actually can't look at the chat very much it's one of those

00:16:25.700 things like um playing guitar and singing at the same time or playing piano and singing at the same

00:16:30.180 time could never do that i can't like do a live stream yeah and without like loads and loads of

00:16:36.340 of pauses yeah and look at the stream and read the stream i can't do it so i'm just not capable

00:16:43.000 like zen like discipline that i need to cultivate plus sometimes they say something that's a really

00:16:49.000 good point and i want to talk about that and then it's a tangent and i've lost five minutes

00:16:52.060 or they say something really infuriating and annoying i lose my temper a bit which isn't a

00:16:55.760 cool look i just it's just it's just best if i don't really look at the chat all that much to

00:17:00.280 be quite honest but no you feel free you feel free okay so healy look he's having a good time

00:17:05.520 laugh it up clown apparently he downed that pint in a pub after the budget yeah brilliant yeah have

00:17:11.800 a good time cool good for you okay met police london police snubbed uh megan markle's oh sorry

00:17:18.800 thomas markle's megan markle's father ex-wife's offer to help with child abuse claims i'm like

00:17:25.420 why would they i wonder why indeed pardon me okay yeah the met uh he she tried to sort of blow the

00:17:34.720 whistle in some way and some on some level and they were like yeah and pass

00:17:37.660 no thanks okay why would Jimmy Savile's friends help in that regard ooh shots

00:17:44.380 fired the good question though pertinent question apparently brand Russell brand

00:17:49.780 struggled with monogamy says his own wife it's not much of a surprise is it

00:17:57.700 no wasn't he like shagger of the year and that's some sort of official well

00:18:01.780 unofficial like a walled he was known as a a womanizer wasn't he yes a man a man who'd like

00:18:08.960 the ladies yeah the interesting thing is though is and i mean we can always you know it's often a

00:18:14.460 bit of a fool's errand to sort of talk about leftist hypocrisy but for the longest time the

00:18:18.960 brand was a leftist celebrity no one cared about this and now that he's sort of doing this sort of

00:18:24.240 you know whether it's sincere or not this sort of like turn to jesus moment all of a sudden he's

00:18:29.420 the worst person on the planet mind you all this stuff happened whilst he's a leftist that makes

00:18:33.360 really gets the noggin joggin doesn't it yeah you know remember when he said for years don't vote

00:18:37.560 voting is lame voting is no there's no point and then the last minute it's like no vote ed milliband

00:18:41.780 yeah you know and like you know ignore nigel fry just a pound was a pound shop enoch powell you

00:18:46.940 know yada yada yada oh yeah that yeah yeah on was a question time whatever was yeah

00:18:50.840 uh russell brand i made a video on state of politics state of politics where uh we did a

00:18:58.280 video about brand like about three four days five days into his trial his ongoing trial for multiple

00:19:03.400 sex crimes if anyone's not aware just real quick because it's a bit celebrity slot but real quick

00:19:07.880 he's on trial for nine charges three of like i think full-blown rape three of like some sort of

00:19:12.680 very serious sexual assault and three of minor sexual misconduct type thing if he's found guilty

00:19:18.040 of all of those he could be looking at a long long jail term i mean i think he's 50 odd years old now

00:19:22.440 maybe a little older so he could go to prison for like if he's found guilty of all of those he could

00:19:28.120 go to prison for like 20 plus years. I was gonna say that's kind of like

00:19:32.440 that kind of a sentencing you'd imagine and it'd be probably harsh if it was to

00:19:35.800 actually go for like the full course of it

00:19:38.040 there's no way he's getting parole before sort of 15 years at like minimum.

00:19:41.800 If he's found guilty. If he's found guilty. But I'm just saying like that's a cavalcade of charges of

00:19:45.800 very serious nature. Six different women over many many years over

00:19:49.320 10 years or so. One thing I'll say in that video I did on

00:19:52.360 state policy I tried to be really I tried to be as sort of

00:19:55.880 fair-handed as possible saying these are just the facts of the case so far i'm going to reserve

00:20:02.120 judgment on whether he did or didn't do it that is really for the court to decide i wasn't there

00:20:06.440 during any of those incidents i don't know the man personally um so i'll just reserve judgment

00:20:11.720 or true for all present of course yeah yeah i'll reserve judgment of whether he's guilty i'll let

00:20:15.940 the the court decide but these are the facts that are coming out in the case so far and here's a

00:20:20.980 little bit of rumor that has always swelled around russell brand and i left it at that yeah and in

00:20:25.400 the comments i must admit it was quite interesting to say and to see that there was both there's a

00:20:31.120 backlash on both sides saying one he's obviously he's like come on he's obviously a sex criminal

00:20:37.200 wrong and why are you defending him and then the other side saying this is obviously uh made up by

00:20:42.020 women or like women have never made up things and they're obviously just trying to take down

00:20:46.060 a rich man yeah yeah yeah brand's just being me too these are obviously the women are obviously

00:20:50.340 liars both those sides uh were saying that and i was like i was a little bit like chances are

00:20:56.980 like you know as it often happens in life two things can be simultaneously true that's all i'll

00:21:02.020 say well yeah we should say apparently the trial is set to last for ages like a few more weeks

00:21:07.060 even all right um what else have we got the gherkin thing that's just nonsense it's not

00:21:11.540 right the times the venerable times patrick stewart has died uh defense to benefit from

00:21:17.700 off-the-book spending this is a bit of an odd story oh they take are they taking the root of

00:21:22.360 the rice field of having like you know development and and rearmament on off the books are they

00:21:26.700 something like that i mean i know it's just a way of diddling the numbers isn't it

00:21:33.540 it's just it seems like government is more and more a case of an exercise in that yeah just

00:21:40.880 fiddling the numbers you know dan made a good example the other day where they needed to

00:21:45.300 it's appear as though they're increasing the spending on defence so what they did just one

00:21:49.620 little example is take the pensions from mi5 and moved it from basically a home office ledger to

00:21:56.100 a defence ledger and say look we're spending more oh wow we're spending more on defence see and it's

00:22:00.780 like you just that's you're cheating liars sons of bitches don't we all love bean counters and

00:22:07.800 you know accountants and shuffling money around and pretending things are different if we just

00:22:12.000 count things in a different way meanwhile what how much of the royal navy is in dry dock being

00:22:17.200 repaired with insufficient um you know personnel nearly all of it the vast majority of like kistama

00:22:23.360 basically said to trump's like oh we can't help because we don't have enough ships you know yeah

00:22:27.680 those two aircraft carriers we've got

00:22:33.360 ah either get rid of them because there's no point having an aircraft carrier on its own right you

00:22:38.480 you need to carry a group because aircraft carrier on its own is just a giant target

00:22:43.300 will get blown up quite quickly quite easily it's a very expensive mess hall yeah basically

00:22:49.220 yeah that's a good way of putting it you need to carry a group and we can't put that together so

00:22:53.940 you have increased spending massively on the navy so that you can create a carrier group or get rid

00:22:59.560 of that aircraft carrier one of the two what do one of the two come on guys it's pretty straightforward

00:23:04.240 and not to quibble but when we say carry or when you use the phraseology carrier group it's not just

00:23:09.040 okay that aircraft carrier requires a full personnel to operate correctly and the necessary

00:23:14.800 aircraft and pilots in order to operate as an aircraft carrier but also that requires escorts

00:23:19.760 and screens and support ships that's what i'm talking about yeah okay no just for the audience

00:23:23.600 better you might not know what we're talking about and all those ships require sufficient

00:23:26.960 personnel to operate effectively and a combat you know effectiveness and that requires a lot

00:23:31.520 lot of effort and money and resources and logistics and supply to make work yeah and that is all

00:23:36.900 horribly expensive and as we know government's not spending money quite there for those reasons

00:23:40.840 yeah yeah so a carrier group the aircraft carrier will be the center of sort of a swarm of ships

00:23:45.420 you're gonna need realistically 8 12 15 ideally more ideally other ships cruisers destroyers

00:23:53.980 mine sweepers all sorts of stuff exactly um in order for this carrier group to go anywhere

00:23:58.780 And in the Falklands in 82, they sent down two aircraft carriers for contingency.

00:24:05.380 In case the Arges sunk one of them, you've got a second one.

00:24:10.100 So really, really, you kind of want to, if you're going to have an aircraft carrier at all,

00:24:17.280 you really want two for a contingency so you can go and do some sort of expedition like the Falklands War.

00:24:24.100 And then so the spending on the Royal Navy is just nowhere near enough to have two carrier groups.

00:24:28.940 And that's, again, like a history lesson, but as the Western Allies observed, say, in the Pacific War,

00:24:35.380 multiple aircraft carriers is useful because one can cover the other if the other's refitting aircraft,

00:24:41.800 much as the Japanese discovered much of the discomfort at both Midway and Coral Sea.

00:24:47.100 So you can have airplanes in the air at all times while one...

00:24:49.920 Because what would happen is like the Japanese would sort of launch their big wave attacks and then the Americans would sort of counterattack with their torpedo bombers and their dive bombers and it's like, oh, well, there's no Japanese zeros in the sky. Let's just sort of, you know, go and hit the Akagi. And that's exactly what they did.

00:25:03.680 Yeah. Yeah. So having one aircraft carrier, even as a fully functional, fully armed and operational carrier group, is kind of not good enough. You would always want to.

00:25:15.400 so i mean the rgs never had that kind of offensive power but it's the idea that you

00:25:19.160 know if you're an able commander you want that contingency at hand yeah okay the daily mail

00:25:25.400 the daily fail oh look fergie's back look at the state of it now g'day fergie she looks how are you

00:25:30.600 love she looks like one of those demons from the fire gang in labyrinth chilly down with fire gang

00:25:39.720 yeah you're only allowed to throw your own head yeah she's been in hiding look look who's back

00:25:44.600 After a year in hiding over Epstein's shame, Fergie finally breaks cover in London.

00:25:49.720 Did you see the amount of letters and emails and cards and things she sent Epstein over the years?

00:25:56.180 I didn't actually see it per se, but I heard about it and it was kind of disconcerting.

00:26:00.540 If anyone's wondering, who's Fergie? What are you talking about, Fergie?

00:26:03.060 Well, she's Andrew's ex-wife. She was married to Prince Andrew four years in years.

00:26:06.000 They got two daughters, correct?

00:26:07.220 Yeah, yeah, Eugenie and...

00:26:09.600 Charlotte?

00:26:10.320 Is that right? Anyway.

00:26:11.340 they're often on the front page of the sun and today they're not okay uh so she obviously

00:26:18.500 Andrew had a relationship or connection should we say through Ghislaine to Jeff Epstein um but

00:26:25.360 she so you're like okay well that's a thing and they socialize extensively together as we know

00:26:29.500 dodgy prince Andrew was friends with Epstein okay wonder what his wife thought about that

00:26:34.540 she couldn't have been best pleased no oh no she loved Jeff Epstein she sent she sent him emails

00:26:40.840 and things that said you're like the brother i never had she's like she tried to get epstein to

00:26:46.280 set her daughters up the princesses with men and stuff really weird like sending him letters on

00:26:52.600 his birthday happy birthday jeff gonna say all sorts of like really i'm sure uncle uncle jeff

00:26:58.520 epstein would have been a great matchmaker for the girls yeah it's just weird i don't perfect

00:27:05.320 to conceive even my closest friends and fat my closest closest friends and families

00:27:10.520 i don't correspond with anywhere near as much as fergie corresponded with jeffrey epstein

00:27:17.080 like really yeah my best friend in the world my own brother she spoke to and contacted epstein

00:27:23.800 orders of magnitude more than that she's constantly in correspondence with him

00:27:29.480 why it does make wonder how this sort of if i may use the word class of people interact with

00:27:34.920 each other it's actually quite unnerving yeah it is yeah and i'm not only just in contact with him

00:27:40.840 all the time but sort of hyper sycophantic towards him you're the best jeff you're so great thank

00:27:46.360 you for everything you do yeah so sycophant as well great yeah weird okay humiliation for healy

00:27:54.120 chancellor falls to into screeching u-turn not just a u-turn according to the mail they've

00:27:58.120 characterized it as a screeching u-turn just hours after promising to cut welfare bill before next

00:28:02.840 election you can only imagine his backbenchers have just been john oh no you don't sign a word

00:28:08.520 in your shell like brother yeah no you don't you're not doing that no we're sending britain

00:28:13.960 over the edge of a fiscal cliff through welfare payments and that's what's happening yeah end of

00:28:18.520 story bro i paraphrase but there's something like that obviously happened all right the express

00:28:24.440 there's a picture of gill lane convicted a sex criminal and uh jeffrey epstein now dead convicted

00:28:31.160 sex criminal on the Balmoral estate at the behest of Prince Andrew an unconvicted sex criminal oh

00:28:38.440 can I say that allegedly allegedly it's alleged that perhaps potentially potentially did say

00:28:44.600 unconvicted correct okay okay the sun no lies detected yeah the sun uh okay there's that again

00:28:54.920 and Patrick Stewart has passed away okay the metro ooh gross this is weird look at the state of this

00:28:59.560 the metro

00:29:00.080 toxic male forums

00:29:02.720 now a health problem

00:29:04.500 an actual health problem

00:29:05.860 Manosphere

00:29:06.680 as bad as smoking

00:29:08.660 and they've got a picture

00:29:09.720 of Andrew Tate

00:29:10.560 with a cigar

00:29:11.140 make any of that

00:29:13.320 make sense

00:29:13.900 Britain must use

00:29:15.180 same approach

00:29:15.940 to stop harm

00:29:16.820 to boys

00:29:17.600 and young men

00:29:18.560 and save women's lives

00:29:20.720 yes

00:29:22.460 okay

00:29:22.940 okay

00:29:24.220 we must longhouse the boys

00:29:25.540 according to the

00:29:26.440 British media

00:29:27.180 yeah

00:29:28.580 um insane karens don't like men being men or talking to each other don't you know that a

00:29:36.160 six-pack is a microaggression boat is it really apparently so according to the according to these

00:29:41.380 creatures in the media lucky i haven't had one for quite a few years well that makes two of us

00:29:46.420 but maybe bald heads might be next on the list of microaggressions yeah you can't have an excess

00:29:53.160 of testosterone leading to male pattern baldness you can't have it sorry you can't have it your

00:29:57.240 chins too big we have to like chisel the back yeah the exact dimensions of your chin are too

00:30:03.240 chad like yeah you must have an operation to fix that you must be a little cuck yeah so it's mad

00:30:09.960 isn't it it's the um yeah just men being men and rejecting sort of the feminization of society

00:30:15.820 i mean i'm not a fan of andrew tate at all so let's not talk about andrew tate i'm not

00:30:20.840 defending or standing for andrew tate i don't like andrew tate i think he's a weird grifter

00:30:25.480 an idiot, actually. His turn to Islam makes me sick to my stomach. I think he's a twat.

00:30:34.640 So, not including Andrew Tate, but in general, the manosphere and men just talking to each

00:30:39.840 other and rejecting feminisation and feminism, that that's a public health problem now and

00:30:46.320 in some bizarre level is as bad as smoking. What nonsense.

00:30:51.680 just to draw a distinction between you know there's healthy pursuits of traditional masculinity

00:30:55.640 which are you know good and noble and worth worth doing and you know there are those who sort of

00:30:59.520 gone down like this sort of tate avenue of something that's a bit more superficial a bit

00:31:02.740 more kind of you know materialistic and you know it you know push it aside it is what it is but it

00:31:08.100 is sort of telling that you know any kind of instance of a public figure emphasizing the

00:31:14.540 importance of being authentically male and actually possessing you might say old school

00:31:18.300 masculine virtues which civilization in fact requires in order to function you just persistently

00:31:23.200 demonize and just constantly battered down by you know the quote-unquote longhouse you know and it's

00:31:29.120 just like saying they're just not willing to give up you know it's like no no you will you will get

00:31:32.300 your your your son and you'll like inject the soy direct into his veins yeah and unless everyone is

00:31:37.300 like that they're not going to be happy so stop pleasing people who hate you there's a good start

00:31:42.060 frankly yeah you know i mean i just i just refuse to be nagged or browbeaten by some karen ever

00:31:48.700 it's just not gonna happen no so i'm just not having it all right it's quite as simple as that

00:31:54.780 reject karenism all right the guardian gross netanyahu there's an ideology on support

00:32:00.380 netanyahu accused of smearing arab voters to hold on to power so it's the israeli general election

00:32:07.320 the other day was it wednesday i think and the results are largely in i don't think all

00:32:11.620 the votes are counted but it looks like he's gonna hold on there well he will um in there

00:32:18.300 connect it or whatever it's called i think he got like 53 seats something like that and the

00:32:23.180 next biggest party was like 48 or something so uh netty old bibby will hold on for another term

00:32:29.380 it looks like indeed how does he do it that being said for me to suggest there's any sort of

00:32:36.520 corruption no no all these all these elections are fair and um uncorrupt right but what it's

00:32:42.140 worth saying that it was interesting here and i think it was i think it was on the daily show

00:32:46.000 that was discussed yesterday with the the lads that it's interesting how the sort of israeli

00:32:52.440 sort of you know the jewish israeli turnout was um suppressed in the right way but was you know

00:32:57.260 there was less enthusiasm amongst them as a voting bloc and yet the enthusiasm in the sort

00:33:01.620 of arab voting bloc was much higher and the turnout was you know was substantially greater

00:33:07.240 than other elections it makes you sort of wonder if there's a political dynamic that's sort of

00:33:10.600 changing in sort of the politics of israel you know in the aftermath of these events if you sort

00:33:14.980 of draw a line from say even if you go back to like before october 7 even sort of you know the

00:33:20.520 last sort of 15 years or 20 years has been sort of this trajectory that sort of led to this sort

00:33:24.860 of change in the dynamic in israel you know it's kind of interesting how that's sort of playing out

00:33:28.660 Yeah, definitely, definitely there is a change. I think there's a change all over the world, perhaps not every single country, you know, well, it won't be every single country, but in a lot of countries in the world, there's a sea change happening, sort of a change in the dynamic in all sorts of places.

00:33:47.300 and Israel is no different.

00:33:50.960 Okay, what else have we got?

00:33:52.380 Patrick Stewart has passed away.

00:33:53.860 Okay, that Lagarde from the European Central Bank

00:33:57.740 is to leave early.

00:33:58.940 We sort of knew that was going to happen anyway.

00:34:00.840 That's a different photo that I saw from yesterday,

00:34:03.160 but you see when she gave her press conference,

00:34:04.540 she had a bandage across her face.

00:34:06.260 I didn't see that, no.

00:34:06.900 Yeah, she looks like she'd either had an accident

00:34:08.760 or maybe some kind of surgery.

00:34:10.100 And it's like, this is kind of weird

00:34:11.020 that you're announcing that you're leaving early

00:34:12.700 whilst you've just had your nails redone

00:34:15.720 and you've got this massive bandage across your face.

00:34:17.560 I don't know if they can pull up another photo.

00:34:20.000 Harry, do that.

00:34:21.700 Put in Lagarde Google Images.

00:34:24.260 Christine Lagarde, yeah, Christine Lagarde.

00:34:26.660 Face bandage or something.

00:34:27.800 She had a bandage across her face.

00:34:29.200 Yeah, it was really odd.

00:34:30.340 It kind of looked like she'd been wheeled out of the hospital

00:34:32.720 and just tried to, you know,

00:34:34.900 it's like, oh, you're leaving now, goodbye.

00:34:37.560 The thing is, usually when you need bandages,

00:34:40.540 it's usually a relatively severe thing.

00:34:43.760 not even like a neat kind of surgical dressing it was just like kind of like just like you went to

00:34:48.160 sickbay and just got like the the little like sports bandage on your on your cross you know

00:34:51.520 it's like really really odd but it sounds like um yeah that's the one that's the one area yeah

00:34:56.080 yeah so it's like christine lagarde face bandage or something because it was only yesterday it

00:35:01.280 sounds like a larping like something from a fancy dress i'm picturing something that's almost like

00:35:06.400 a fancy dress thing but um it was just really weird okay don't worry about it don't worry about

00:35:12.160 it too much you've got to move on i'm afraid uh okay alphabet shares battered as cash burn

00:35:17.040 deepens investor fears over ai returns so alphabet who they control youtube don't they alphabet

00:35:24.160 don't they they're the youtube people aren't they i'm not too sure i believe i believe they are

00:35:29.360 um okay anyway they're um they're not in the best financial situation but the ai thing is

00:35:34.960 interesting i mean without sort of getting into it per se um there is something to be said that it is

00:35:39.920 arguably going to be an enormous bubble. You know, anyone who sort of has any understanding or

00:35:44.880 knowledge of the tech sphere, AI is consuming an ungodly amount of computer parts and a huge

00:35:51.600 amount of energy. To the point where countries are building sort of micro power plants to fuel

00:35:57.920 these data centers and these companies are just not getting the returns that they're promising

00:36:03.680 their investors. And for what? So a small tiny clique of people that control those companies

00:36:08.240 can be masters of the world something like that yeah you know i think i think future historians

00:36:14.400 may well look back at all the entire ai project after we've had to dismantle it as one giant folly

00:36:22.720 one of the greatest follies in human civilization yes i think so the art the i really do the return

00:36:29.920 on investment for what ai has sort of accomplished i mean yes it makes sort of like some day-to-day

00:36:34.400 task less arduous and a bit less painstaking but for the sheer quantity of resources that

00:36:39.360 it's requiring in terms of like say both componentry and energy and for what for what

00:36:44.480 end if it was some sort of an unbelievably brilliant thing where like i don't know like

00:36:49.200 zero point energy if there was some sort of global push global financial investment to push for like

00:36:54.640 zero point energy uh technology and then we'd have endless energy for nothing going forward

00:37:00.800 and that's obviously a boon for human civilization they're all good the nicholas the nicholas

00:37:05.120 dream coming true yeah something like that yeah but no this is so a tiny clique of people that

00:37:09.600 control ai companies can basically be our our overlords so sam altman is by another mention

00:37:15.680 you know so sam altman and elon musk can be like like i don't know i don't know what um

00:37:24.080 Um, okay, okay, but yet you still get loads of people just in this chat, just on the comments

00:37:30.760 to this video on YouTube will be like, oh, you don't understand, it's a great thing.

00:37:34.960 Is it? Is it?

00:37:38.600 Okay, the Mirror, Labour Party propaganda organ, obscene greed, they're annoyed that

00:37:44.280 Shell makes loads of money whilst normal people have to pay at the pump, which is fair,

00:37:49.020 actually fair enough a bit yeah they made apparently shell just shell made 8.2 uh billion

00:37:56.260 pounds in profit in the last three months which is the equivalent of like 16 000 pounds a minute

00:38:02.800 sorry 60 000 pounds a minute but the government's jealous yeah the treasury is like we want a bit of

00:38:12.240 that yeah um gives me that profit please i mean it is obscene i obviously everyone knows i'm not

00:38:18.720 a leftist and i rail against leftist economic theory all the time i'm the furthest thing from

00:38:23.460 a marxist marxist theory of value all that sort of thing um i'm a capitalist really but not

00:38:29.540 but not sort of endlessly so i mean that is sort of obscene isn't it yeah 60 000 pounds a minute

00:38:37.280 whilst everyone else and giving themselves millions and million pounds of bonuses the guys

00:38:41.360 at the top and everyone else can't afford to get to work or whatever is it worth saying both that

00:38:46.300 You're not a Bolshevik, but you're not a stand for the Vanderbilts either.

00:38:50.820 You sort of sit in the middle, in the happy medium.

00:38:52.960 Something like that, yeah.

00:38:54.220 Yeah.

00:38:55.140 The Vanderbilts.

00:38:56.420 That's going back a bit.

00:38:57.680 It is.

00:38:58.500 Anyone remember the Vanderbilts?

00:39:00.080 Anybody?

00:39:00.720 Bueller?

00:39:01.440 Bueller?

00:39:02.360 All right.

00:39:02.940 The Sun.

00:39:03.360 Westinghouse, take your pick.

00:39:05.220 The Sun.

00:39:06.460 They're interested in the TV show, The Celebrity Traitors,

00:39:08.760 and we're not interested in that whatsoever.

00:39:10.380 So that's it.

00:39:11.300 They're the headlines.

00:39:12.920 Before we talk about Aussie stuff, let's have a quick look at our poll.

00:39:15.520 Harry can you bring that up for me

00:39:16.960 Our poll today we asked you guys

00:39:19.540 Will you miss Sir Patrick Stewart

00:39:23.900 Only 71% of you said yes

00:39:25.860 The eyes do have it

00:39:26.840 But 29% of you have said no

00:39:29.860 You heartless sons

00:39:34.020 I'll miss Patrick Stewart more than I'll miss Lewis Hamilton

00:39:36.540 Lewis Hamilton

00:39:38.180 He hasn't died has he

00:39:39.960 No no he hasn't

00:39:40.520 There are people that you don't like

00:39:43.920 who you'll still appreciate for who they are.

00:39:46.200 And Patrick Stewart's one of those people who's like,

00:39:47.220 yes, insufferable leftist twat,

00:39:49.040 but fabulous, fabulous performer and master of his craft.

00:39:52.360 Yeah.

00:39:52.940 I'm prepared to give people credit for what they do outside of politics,

00:39:57.220 even if I don't agree with their politics.

00:39:59.160 Great example, Robert De Niro.

00:40:01.620 Completely insufferable libtard.

00:40:04.280 Although has had a massive tail-off in his career.

00:40:08.240 Yeah, well, that's fair.

00:40:09.120 Like, his last 15 years have not been good.

00:40:10.880 A completely deranged Trump syndrome.

00:40:14.180 Trump deranged Trump syndrome.

00:40:15.260 Like TDS.

00:40:15.800 Way off the chart.

00:40:17.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:40:17.440 But a great actor.

00:40:19.060 You can't deny she's a great actor.

00:40:20.880 Loads of examples like that.

00:40:22.400 You know, like Dolly Parton was a little bit,

00:40:24.520 she was sort of almost apolitical.

00:40:27.740 But whenever she did voice her politics,

00:40:29.440 it was liberal, it was left of centre.

00:40:32.280 But she did have some great songs.

00:40:34.200 You know, so like someone like might be,

00:40:37.480 I don't know, like Stan Collymore or Paul Gascoigne.

00:40:40.880 might be horrible men in their private lives but you can't deny they're good at football you know

00:40:46.000 right so patrick stewart a little bit of a lefty but was a great actor all right but 29 of you

00:40:53.040 won't miss him all right well fair enough fair enough all right seeing as we've got a real life

00:40:57.920 bona fide aussie on the show g'day how good how are you love oh yeah go for your life do people

00:41:05.520 actually say that does people say go for your life much uh it actually used to be more common than

00:41:10.000 what it presently is oh yeah i thought we could talk a little bit about australian politics is

00:41:15.360 harry going to get me a beer no it's all right i'm joking you get a foster's would you drink

00:41:20.720 foster forex because i can't smell beer so all right what do most aussies drink is it forex no

00:41:26.480 no that's just queensland that's just our friend our buddy chris guard no no um no no uh there's

00:41:31.600 all sorts probably like probably like australians are just big lager drinkers you know you know

00:41:35.360 carton draft swan draft that sort of thing okay yeah because especially with our climate because

00:41:39.120 it's warmer we sort of like crisp refreshing beers nothing too heavy i mean i literally haven't drunk

00:41:43.520 a beer in 10 years but all right yeah yeah i don't drink beer i very rarely have a beer even when i

00:41:48.080 go out to the pub which is relatively rare when i do go i rarely have lager or ale uh yeah a beer

00:41:55.760 i don't know it just doesn't i don't know it doesn't sit right with me i'm old enough i'm

00:41:59.360 comfortable enough in and off myself where there's no pressure people like you're not having a beer

00:42:03.040 and i'm like no i'm not having a beer no yes no thank you pass isn't it amazing sometimes like

00:42:07.360 you're peer pressured about this it's like no i'm not going to have beer i'd rather not sort of be

00:42:10.560 bloated and you know have terrible breath and you know hate myself the next day yeah yeah you want

00:42:14.720 me to put multiple pints worth of liquid of fermented hops in my style and barley no thank

00:42:21.360 you yeah no no no thanks you know give me a cider instead actually i like rum i usually drink rum

00:42:27.120 yeah rum and coke will do me i could pack those away all night long don't touch the bunderberg

00:42:31.600 you'll you'll uh you'll end up in a boxing match that's from queensland as well yeah anyway okay

00:42:38.800 i just i i love queensland i'm not i'm not i'm not hating on queensland i'm just having a laugh

00:42:43.360 so you're for you you live in western australia we don't need your postcode i don't know anything

00:42:47.040 but you're you see you don't live in sydney or anything no no okay right you couldn't pay me

00:42:51.280 enough money to live in sydney i would if you gave me if you gave me 10 million dollars we'll live

00:42:55.040 in sydney is it really is it suck is it horrible oh it's just it's just a hard place to live and

00:43:00.400 it's just like a very labyrinthine city and it's also very sprawling and very diverse for instance

00:43:06.900 like melbourne is comparatively diverse but melbourne is actually a interesting and is

00:43:10.820 kind of pleasant in places if you discount the weather because melbourne weather is much like

00:43:15.680 sort of english weather like yeah especially in the winter it's actually very reminiscent of you

00:43:20.000 know going through you know the london streets in melbourne it's actually quite eerily similar

00:43:24.300 whereas places such as say you know the west coast you know so like perth up the west coast

00:43:29.060 and sort of basically anywhere north of Sydney heading up towards Brisbane.

00:43:32.260 Queensland can get a bit on the muggy side

00:43:33.920 because it's sort of subtropical or, you know, semi-tropical.

00:43:37.840 But, you know, Adelaide, Perth, very pleasant place to live

00:43:41.000 if you wanted like a sort of a Mediterranean moderate sort of type climate.

00:43:44.760 Is Darwin right up in the north?

00:43:46.200 Yes.

00:43:46.660 And that could be bakingly hot, right?

00:43:49.120 Like dangerously, you could get some stroke like that hot.

00:43:51.920 Well, I've got a couple of buddies who live up there.

00:43:54.000 But one of my school teachers, I think, was up there for a few years

00:43:56.700 and he said that what they used to actually do is he used to shower utilizing his hot water system

00:44:02.300 but would actually turn like the heating element off because it was contained in like insulation

00:44:06.140 it would stay colder than the water that was actually in the the scheme system in the piping

00:44:10.660 and that if you actually just turned on the cold water in the height of summer in Darwin you

00:44:14.700 basically just like have like a hot shower or like a warm shower so you actually have to use the

00:44:18.740 insulated water in the in the boiler but turn the boiler off and that's how hospitable it was yeah

00:44:23.680 and they just go like

00:44:25.880 say like

00:44:26.760 anywhere on the

00:44:27.320 like in the west coast

00:44:28.080 like the Kimberleys

00:44:28.700 or the Gascoyne

00:44:29.360 and it's just hot and dry

00:44:30.400 like if you don't have water

00:44:31.660 for 12 hours

00:44:32.560 you're

00:44:33.080 you're probably

00:44:34.000 dying just goes up

00:44:35.340 exponentially

00:44:36.380 yeah yeah

00:44:36.980 it's horrible

00:44:37.380 jeez

00:44:37.700 I'm such a

00:44:38.720 it's beautiful

00:44:39.200 but it's harsh

00:44:40.120 because I'm such an angler

00:44:41.860 I'm such like a

00:44:42.420 northwest European

00:44:43.360 an Atlantic man

00:44:44.960 really

00:44:45.400 that I can deal with

00:44:46.780 the coldness

00:44:47.480 really quite well

00:44:48.140 I don't mind cold

00:44:49.840 really cold

00:44:50.860 snowy arctic conditions

00:44:51.820 you can tolerate a bit of a chill

00:44:52.560 but hot

00:44:53.640 like hyper super hot yeah i don't do very well well for a start in the direct sunlight i just burn

00:44:58.760 i just burn and peel and under the peel i'm a milky bar kid again i never i've never tanned

00:45:04.240 now you're lucky you've got a bit of like italian blood in you where you can actually tan i imagine

00:45:08.020 i have some olive complexion yes whereas i so i've been i've never been to australia but i've

00:45:13.540 been to southeast asia i've been to some very very hot places even jungles and things yeah

00:45:17.100 and uh yeah i don't i don't fare that well so up in darwin or somewhere in the outback just like

00:45:23.820 yeah it's not for me if i if i give you like a tiny anecdote i remember um visiting a friend of

00:45:28.000 mine uh up near a place called broom which is like we're on the sort of north northwest coast

00:45:31.940 and we'll stupidly decide to go camping it's like with me my 20s when i was sort of a lot

00:45:37.000 less wise and i remember just waking up at quarter past six because it was intensely hot

00:45:42.920 and i actually couldn't go back to sleep like 6 30 in the morning or quarter by six in the morning

00:45:47.680 you're just hot the heat wakes you up and you can't go back to sleep yeah and it just gets worse

00:45:52.500 i mean also like the humidity i'm not too bad with humidity like i've been to i went to cambodia

00:45:59.160 once in the jungle actual jungles of cambodia in summertime and it was like truly like a sauna

00:46:04.940 it was it was a sauna but as long as i've got enough water i'm okay with that but it's the

00:46:11.580 direct sunlight when it's beating down in the uv i just feel myself crisping up and burning like

00:46:16.400 i'm in an oven i can't handle it what what is what is what is the whole thing with like the

00:46:20.240 the british empire and like wanting to venture around these parts i want to say these parts

00:46:24.520 like you know southeast asia and australasia and oceania the british has loved going that

00:46:28.980 direction didn't they yeah yeah it's like oh where there's humidity and dry heat let's just

00:46:32.480 have more of it please mad dogs and englishmen only mad dogs and englishmen will go out in the

00:46:36.900 midday sun yeah yeah well if we've got a decent pith helmet nothing wrong with it old boy stiff

00:46:41.380 up a lip stop stop whinging stop complaining although he's always accused Brits of whining

00:46:46.880 that's right been whinging yeah I should be right Lance Corporal we'll dig in and fight back the

00:46:53.780 Japanese you know we got it we got it oh yeah she'll be right she'll be right okay let's talk

00:46:59.720 about the Australian news so the Australian politics so yeah tell us as though we're five

00:47:04.660 years old as though people don't know anything about like the Australian political landscape

00:47:08.560 So you've got Anthony Albanese, who's Labour, right, and you've got like 150 odd seats and like 90 plus of them are Labour.

00:47:18.260 Okay, go.

00:47:19.500 So Labour is in its own majority at the moment, much like what you guys have had here.

00:47:25.140 And kind of, because I had a chat with Carl about sort of like the state of politics, you know, between our countries, between us and even like our friends writ large.

00:47:34.980 but um one thing i was i did reflect on was the similarity in terms of um historically speaking

00:47:43.180 our sort of if i may use i mean we have the liberal party in australia but they're basically

00:47:48.860 the tories so don't get the the technology mixed up sort of the british tories and australian

00:47:53.820 tories are quite similar in terms of their electoral success um whereas labor has had

00:47:59.680 difficulty winning government but when they have won government they've usually sort of stuck around

00:48:03.120 for a little bit. For instance, you have Gough Whitlam one in the sort of early mid 70s from

00:48:10.980 early 70s from Menzies and Gough Whitlam was kind of in some ways a combination of our

00:48:19.300 FDR, LBJ and Attlee in terms of establishing basically the big civil society, the big welfare

00:48:26.700 state and aspects of it and really bringing you might say this sort of egalitarian fever dream

00:48:31.960 to the forefront of australia it was sort of at that time where the uh you know the commonly known

00:48:37.340 white australia policy was like finally dismantled and also under whitlam is when we uh pulled the

00:48:43.360 plug on our involvement in vietnam because obviously unlike britain australia supported

00:48:47.860 the usa in vietnam and obviously given our geography it was more of a present threat to us

00:48:52.920 the whole domino philosophy regarding communism um and then the unpopularity of the world well in

00:48:59.260 fact there was a quite a controversy in Australia where this where the

00:49:04.540 governor-general supported a motion to block supply so I think at that time the

00:49:08.920 Liberal Party and the war the coalition had controlled the Senate so essentially

00:49:12.880 they prevented the government from spending money and Gough Whitlam famously

00:49:16.780 quipped to the media may God save the Queen because nothing will save the

00:49:21.180 governor-general when his government when was this roughly oh coming when the

00:49:25.240 actual collapse happened it might have been like 75 76 something like that um and then of course

00:49:30.080 you know fraser was an ex-liberal party politician and like a true tory he was a um a supporter of

00:49:35.020 um mugabe and zanupia um and left um and left ian smith to dry in uh rhodesia so you know that

00:49:43.160 that's something to be immensely proud of and then um then we have another sort of extensive

00:49:47.800 labor period under hawk and keating who won power from menzies in the sort of early 80s and hawk was

00:49:53.300 actually quite a much even though he was a quite a terrible person in private he was actually very

00:49:57.880 like infectiously um popular um i think it was like i think i remember what year it was we had

00:50:03.040 the american cup in uh in australia in australia i think it was actually freemandle which is on

00:50:07.040 the west coast so freemandles like perth's port basically and he said something along the lines

00:50:10.900 of that if uh if your boss doesn't give you a day off and he's a bum you know like and he's

00:50:15.260 and like the whole of the of the public like cheered him on you know because it's like yeah

00:50:18.760 if you if you have a skin full of beer one afternoon your boss will give you the day off

00:50:22.020 the next day um and also um i was actually showing uh i think it was luke one of the boys

00:50:27.320 here yesterday that um bob pork was the only australian prime minister that ever had a world

00:50:31.800 record and he had a world record for the he consumed the quickest yard glass whilst he was

00:50:37.000 a road scholar at oxford so he basically came along and said yeah fellas hold my beer i'll show

00:50:41.740 you how to drink and drink drink do you know what a yard glass is yeah a glass that you get a yard

00:50:46.700 of beer yeah yeah really long yeah he had the world record for it and he did it at oxford

00:50:51.420 that's weird i've always thought it's a suspicious talent for a man yeah to be able to just open up

00:50:57.180 his gullet and pour a whole pint down it's like why have you learned that why have you learned

00:51:01.660 that trick anyway um so so hawking keating actually surprisingly for a sort of left of

00:51:07.020 center government brought in a lot of degree deregulation in australian sort of economics

00:51:11.740 for instance it took us from a like a a pegged uh currency to a sort of free-floating currency

00:51:17.820 um although they did sort of obviously take the typical labor route of you know ir laws etc you

00:51:23.180 know pro-union that sort of thing um and then howard came in how did balance the budget but

00:51:27.900 they also sold a lot of assets a lot of our railroad started getting closed into like the

00:51:32.860 2000s which is why we have terrible highways in australia because we have these massive

00:51:37.100 you have you ever heard do you know what a road train is yeah it's just a very very very long

00:51:40.460 lorry trailers yeah yes they're remarkable things oh they are you know you see like this what i mean

00:51:45.180 to use your terminology a sort of lorry a prime mover you know would have like six seven hundred

00:51:49.100 horsepower and it's like it's got its its its own designated trailer and then it has like two or

00:51:53.500 three attached to the back of it and its payload could be sort of 200 plus tons of cargo it's

00:51:58.620 it's actually monumental they're very dangerous to pass though so be very careful if you see one

00:52:02.700 on australian road you can't drive them around a city or any turns but well in fact most major well

00:52:07.660 all major cities basically every entry point into the city whether it's you know sydney

00:52:11.500 malvern perth adelaide whatever darwin they have these depots and you said you have to uncouple

00:52:16.620 all your trailers i think the maximum amount of trailers you can take into cities too so like the

00:52:20.700 the one that's on the rig plus one and then all the others you have to leave behind because they

00:52:25.340 you just can't drive them around like a roundabout it's impossible so how would we talk about the

00:52:29.100 90s into the 2000s yes john howard yes i remember him yeah so john howard uh he was sort of notable

00:52:35.180 for our involvement in the independence movement in East Timor

00:52:39.540 and being peacekeepers against Indonesia,

00:52:41.400 which is a bit of this own kind of little topic,

00:52:44.360 involved us, as did Blair, with Gulf War II, 9-11, Afghanistan, etc.

00:52:51.360 You know, true believers in that regard.

00:52:53.740 And then, funnily enough, what sort of happened is,

00:52:56.760 I remember Howard made a quip about how America would be weaker

00:52:59.720 under Barack Obama and how, in a strange way,

00:53:02.620 he would end up being right.

00:53:03.420 um not probably in ways that we would realize but and not long after obama's victory in the usa you

00:53:10.340 know seven kevin rudd won power in 2007 as well the latter part of the exact memorable summertime

00:53:16.080 is that when australia went from being really based and protecting their own borders like pretty

00:53:23.260 damn based and protecting their own borders to really weak listed and liberal and like with

00:53:29.000 the covid stuff they were worse than here in some way yeah yeah when did that happen well that that

00:53:33.840 first happened under rub because rud disassembled our sort of offshore processing policy the thing

00:53:38.860 with how it is is that how it is probably responsible for like the the i wouldn't say

00:53:43.240 the floodgates opening but you might say the the the cracking of of the of the seawall basically

00:53:47.740 where a lot of legal migration came in we had an incident called the tampa incident which i think

00:53:53.340 i was a primary school when it happened but the tamper incident was some incident where like a

00:53:56.940 baby was thrown overboard so that the parents could like get on the australian's rescue vessel

00:54:01.120 it was it was it was actually quite the hoo-ha and howard around that time gave a speech somewhere

00:54:07.540 and the um like the lefty side of turkey literally turned their back on him and he basically then

00:54:12.720 doubled down and said we will choose who comes to this country and the circumstances under which

00:54:16.400 they come which is a pretty basic to say in the like late 90s yeah you know i mean no like no u.s

00:54:21.480 president ever said anything like that until sort of trump came along um but then you know labor

00:54:25.920 gets in in 2007 open the floodgates the largest gets wound up to 11. this is also during the gfc

00:54:31.040 as well so rudd had also a policy where he gave stimulus checks to the australian public and i

00:54:36.720 mean i had friends of mine who were studying at the time and received between you know being

00:54:40.640 renters and being students received like four stimulus checks and australia's budget has been

00:54:45.520 a shambles ever since and we went from under like okay say what you want about sort of tory

00:54:50.800 neoliberal economics but from actually having no sovereign debt um we we ended up absolutely in the

00:54:58.400 hole from which we never recovered and now we uh you know i mean i remember a lot of who how was

00:55:03.280 made that hawk and keating carried over a deficit of like a couple of hundred or maybe like a hundred

00:55:08.960 or so billion or nearly 100 billion and now we're five times that and we did it in a fraction of

00:55:15.040 of the time we did in like two decades so it's a horror show for albanese is he elbow is that what

00:55:22.300 people call him yeah elbow bloody alba and the worst thing is the people hate his gut so is he

00:55:27.080 actually popular okay he's like sycophants and he's sort of because he's he's one of those people

00:55:32.200 who came from like the old sort of not not bullshit but like the old socialist labor movement

00:55:38.680 you know i definitely would have been to say like an athlete type i suppose if you get what i mean

00:55:42.860 um but he's one of those people who as a leftist tries to go around australia wearing a kubra

00:55:47.220 drinking beer thinking he's an ocker and he's not like what's an ocker an ocker's like an aussie

00:55:51.860 bloke okay you know like you know one of the boys you know they go in the pub have a beer

00:55:54.940 watch a footy that's all right right he rules footy yeah yeah right real footy um and and so

00:56:02.140 he sort of puts on this act about acting like an aussie whereas really he's just sort of this

00:56:06.200 this student activist you know spineless feeble jellyfish of a of a creature right and um well

00:56:13.560 for instance a lot of people don't know this actually um because he's he's he's taken on the

00:56:17.080 surname albanese and he actually did it because back in the day having an ethnic surname gave you

00:56:22.280 sort of you know points in leftist social movements but he was um he was actually a

00:56:28.520 essentially well not quite an orphan but he's um his mom and dad had a fling on a cruise ship and

00:56:32.760 then his dad abandoned his mother so he always had like a chip on his shoulder regarding that

00:56:36.840 but he kept his dad's even though he never really met or had anything to do with his father he kept

00:56:40.440 his dad's surname because it was like politically expedient and i and the other thing is too a lot

00:56:45.320 of people don't pick up on this is that i mean albanese is it's a etymologically or linguistically

00:56:50.680 an italian surname but basically it means albanian oh that makes sense yeah i believe albanese

00:56:56.200 so if he's like if he's like a weak jellyfish nothing type man then a bit like starmer then

00:57:02.120 do you think or or even bernard but at least starmer if he like kind of looks like a chad

00:57:06.840 like with that big head of his his square head like alba is a squirmy weakling of a thing like

00:57:11.880 you can just like just like some mash him together like play-doh he's a he's a he's a worm and the

00:57:17.080 thing is too is that he's always had like these sort of middling jobs in any ministries he's been

00:57:21.240 because he was a part of the latter part of the the Keating governments in the 90s and was actually

00:57:27.160 not really particularly trusted by the Labour grandees of the day people such as Graham Richardson

00:57:31.240 and even Hawke himself they liked his enthusiasm but thought that he was useless and he is useless

00:57:36.360 in terms of talent and ability and then he was kind of like one of Rudd's most enthusiastic

00:57:42.040 underlings and then when Rudd was cooed by Gillard who was also Labour but there was like an internal

00:57:47.320 coup with the labor party which is where i think british labor got inspired from because australia

00:57:51.720 started doing this before you guys actually um he was sort of one of the worms he sort of managed

00:57:56.920 to survive both you might say regimes of labor party and then when they reinstalled rudd to

00:58:02.520 so-called quote-unquote save the furniture in the same way that you might you might say that um um

00:58:08.120 burnham was brought in to save the furniture from starmer had starmer gone to an election

00:58:12.360 like Albo survived all of them and then ended up becoming so um it's a bit of a last man standing

00:58:18.840 syndrome basically yeah well in this case last jellyfish floating might be a better allegory but

00:58:23.960 what um and just to push on that point ever so slightly is that in 2019 so just before COVID

00:58:29.960 it was really heavily tipped that Labour were going to win because the Liberal Party had been

00:58:34.300 stalling really badly I mean Abbott won power from Gillard in I want to say 2014-2015 thereabouts

00:58:39.560 after taking her to an absolute deadlock in 2010 and two rural seats in new south wales were

00:58:46.260 betrayed one p was it peter windsor and something oak shot i can't remember his first name basically

00:58:53.160 sided with labor despite sitting in constituencies that had voted national country party for like

00:58:58.420 over 100 years right um they just got basically bribed by gibbs and pork barreling and so um

00:59:04.820 So Abbott won power, you know, in the next election cycle, but then Abbott was sort of internally cooed by, oh God, what's his name? Malcolm Turnbull, who was of, I want to say, not Lehman Brothers, the other one, Sachs.

00:59:21.300 Goldman Sachs?

00:59:21.880 Goldman Sachs. He was a Goldman Sachs man. And in fact, he was rejected by the Labour Party because he was considered untrustworthy. So he made the perfect Tory, in other words, and then he was unpopular.

00:59:31.120 and so then he got internally couped by um morrison who led the party up until the 2019

00:59:37.080 election and it was very unfancied that he would win which is why i put a couple hundred dollars

00:59:42.300 on it and they ended up uh it was quite a shock victory for the liberal party for the tories

00:59:48.940 and that and at the time labor was led by bill shorton who made himself very famous because he

00:59:54.660 got himself involved with some um there was a mining accident i can't remember it was victoria

00:59:58.560 tasmania a couple of guys got stuck down a coal mine took them like days near like over a week to

01:00:03.040 get them out and they survived they got them out and he became like this sort of labor like union

01:00:07.600 heavy that got involved in the party in the labor party after this event this is like 2006 or so i

01:00:11.760 think or 2005 and then he eventually climbed the sort of the the greasy pole up to the top

01:00:17.680 after gillard and rod walked away and he contested the 2019 election as labor alp you know leader

01:00:24.720 labour leader but then he lost the election so then they went to a ballot then albanese finally

01:00:30.560 wins the leadership of the party he'd been like he'd been literally a member of since the you know

01:00:35.600 like 20 odd years and was the last jelly jelly jelly floating and that's how we ended up with

01:00:40.880 albo so despite my my my difficulty with brevity i hope i as much as i could yeah no that's great

01:00:47.760 and it will uh we should stop two of australian politics oh yes sorry the comment sorry just

01:00:51.520 comment beaconsfield goldmine that's the one sorry was beaconsfield goldmine is correct

01:00:55.200 thank you down in tassie it i can't remember if it's tazzle vic but it's down there somewhere

01:00:59.760 you know okay in the colder part of the country yeah both faking being interested nonsense

01:01:05.680 nonsense that was interesting can't please can't please yeah plebs no that was interesting yeah

01:01:12.400 how we got to bloody elbow yeah oh okay so do you think next time uh where where labor um are like

01:01:20.800 dominated got a big majority like they've got like 94 or odd i think seats out of 150 odd

01:01:26.640 and like the next part like the liberals have only got they're a really low ebb haven't they

01:01:30.080 only got like 30 seats of 17 and particularly in particularly in victoria and western australia

01:01:37.920 well actually they've they've won power in south australia for quite some time even if they do have

01:01:42.080 it they do have a strength like something of a of a mass in south australia but in western

01:01:46.720 australia and victoria they are historically unpopular so when is the next general election

01:01:50.880 likely to happen if an early one isn't called is it not for years or is it like i've got a feeling

01:01:54.960 it's i've got a feeling well there's a potential potentially that albo could call an early election

01:01:59.840 and they think that could happen as early as may next year but even if that happens it sounds like

01:02:04.160 because they've got such a big majority that even if they do really badly in the polls they'll

01:02:08.560 probably still be the next government anyway because often you have the power well they you

01:02:12.000 know well that's what they call it the power of incumbency yeah um but that hasn't always worked

01:02:16.080 in australia if you actually get a massive swing yeah yeah okay but but also in australia so we

01:02:21.520 have this knack also of hating or how can i put it of one-time governments thinking oh we have

01:02:27.520 the power of incumbency and the voters go yeah hold my beer actually happens in queensland if

01:02:31.200 you look what happened with campbell newman he won power from um well it was originally peter

01:02:36.800 beaty's government and then when was this when all this is well peter beating was premier of

01:02:40.960 queensland in the 90s okay and i can't remember the lady that succeeded him but then she sort

01:02:45.200 of stepped out of politics because she uh contracted cancer um but um he then stood for the

01:02:51.760 seat of i think it was ashby you know in uh in queensland and then won his seat and won the

01:02:57.680 election and campbell newman was a one-term premier and then they tossed him out and put

01:03:01.440 labor back in and queensland has this knack of sort of being bit schizophrenic about the state

01:03:05.840 governments which is ironic so one last thing i want to talk about before we have to move on

01:03:09.600 because it's already gone nine um in australia the the the the right beyond the liberal stroke

01:03:18.400 tory party so haven't there's an equivalent party a movement of like reform or restore something

01:03:24.240 like that or like the afd national rally and what's the australian equivalent pauline hansen's

01:03:29.680 one nation party right yeah yeah are they good or are they a joke well i was having this conversation

01:03:35.360 with Carl when we spoke about you know the condition of right you know online politics

01:03:39.320 or the you know right politics yesterday is that the thing is is this I want to I want to

01:03:45.780 like Pauline and in fact I've seen her in a positive light in so far that

01:03:51.560 deep down I think if like the chips are down Pauline is probably something of a and I hate

01:03:57.180 to use the word because I know it's a bit tripe but she's something of a of a patriot I think

01:04:00.820 pauline hansen actually sincerely loves australia the country that was and the country that australia

01:04:06.420 could be but the problem is and i said this as much to to uh to the boys in the office is that

01:04:12.820 she's trying to prosecute something that is very difficult to prosecute it is an argument that

01:04:16.980 sunk someone like enoch powell you know a lot of a lot of politicians struggle to speak from a

01:04:24.180 nativist patriotic position and not be torpedoed by the establishment by academia by you know the

01:04:30.980 the news media you know goliath right and so in some ways pauline has been a political survivor

01:04:39.740 because a lot of people don't actually know this that she started out in politics in the liberal

01:04:44.520 party i think it was the queensland seat of oxley she won in 96 when um howard won power from paul

01:04:50.480 keating against the alp um and then she was a bit too how can i say forceful in her rhetoric

01:04:57.560 regarding australia potentially being swamped by you know parts of southeast asia shall i say

01:05:04.660 because this is the aftermath of the fact that australia had taken in you know like a large

01:05:07.860 number of say refugees from vietnam after the vietnam war and a large number of china so she

01:05:12.280 sounds based like inherently so but what i feel like there's a but coming what yeah there's a

01:05:17.720 But Pauline, sadly, I think struggles with picking good people around her because in many ways there was actually a fracture.

01:05:24.280 I think it was in the early 2000s within One Nation, which sort of made the party, sort of turned the party into a fringe party,

01:05:30.360 despite having some very, very promising initial momentum.

01:05:34.440 And this is where I, this was actually one of my first sort of, I suppose, quote unquote red pills about disliking Tories,

01:05:40.300 was that in order to protect his right and because trump uh trump howard did actually in some ways

01:05:46.160 kind of predate trump in you know you might say pushing right to take the the the that those

01:05:51.520 voter shares into his own coalition was that you know he used that tamper rhetoric of you know we

01:05:55.820 will choose who comes to this country in the circumstances in which they come but you can't

01:05:58.980 have one nation sitting on the right flank hoovering up those votes so he basically and this

01:06:03.400 is where like we all talk about like based uh base tony abbott you know like base tone because

01:06:08.840 you know catholic road scholar boxer you know he was like tony abby in some ways is quite like a

01:06:13.320 person but also was had deep political deficiencies but when he served in the howard ministry he was

01:06:20.600 sort of seen as like an attack dog of sorts and essentially under sort of abbott's task was

01:06:27.280 essentially to discredit pauline hansen in the sort of 2000s or early early mid-2000s and

01:06:32.340 eventually due to some I hate to say it but like a cooked up situation Pauline Hanson ends up in

01:06:39.500 prison or she ends up with a prison sentence which he serves a small part of it but it destroys her

01:06:44.780 reputation and basically makes One Nation a enormous non-entity of a party and One Nation

01:06:51.180 has only become sort of re-energized in a sort of post-COVID post-mass migration era where

01:07:01.140 australians are waking up to these things but as pauline suffers from a similar deficiency of the

01:07:06.980 say farage and the the reform people do in that they always have to couch their positions tying

01:07:13.060 themselves to other people who have group preference if that makes sense right you know

01:07:17.940 you know like being a sivnat pretending being a sivnat and you're like oh you know you know how

01:07:24.220 sivnattery well you know how sort of some like take your take a friend of the show you know

01:07:29.600 connor's instance of where he says you know we just want what that country in the middle east has

01:07:32.800 before ourselves you know yeah basically that's the prism it's always a reference to other groups

01:07:38.160 and what they have and it's like no can we just exert ourselves as australians as australians

01:07:42.800 without having to make sort of external third-party references to you know we should be able to sort of

01:07:49.120 you know want what we want unapologetically and this is true for britain it's true for usa true

01:07:53.840 for any country so for you she's not quite strong enough she should be a bit more forthright just uh

01:07:58.960 well unapologetically which is how she is how she used to be okay much more so uh and the other

01:08:05.840 thing is too is that dynamically and again a point i often mention to my my english and british

01:08:13.600 friends is that you guys here are fortunate you still have a hinterland you know when you leave

01:08:18.320 the big cities when you leave places like you know london and leeds and birmingham etc manchester

01:08:22.720 you still have a very sort of native countryside australia really doesn't have that i mean you

01:08:29.520 drive two three hours out of any australian city i mean there's more population on the east coast

01:08:34.540 just by nature of them being more developed as you know provinces of the empire back back in the

01:08:38.820 day but you know we don't have much of a hinterland and so there's a lot there's a a hugely

01:08:44.160 disproportional amount of electoral power in the cities and that's where a lot of the mass

01:08:47.920 immigration has gone to and that's where a lot of the demographic displacement of dare i say

01:08:52.260 foundation sort of legacy stock australians you know let's just say pre-65 pre-civil right

01:08:58.260 australians if we can put it that way um who sort of built the modern nation of australia

01:09:03.240 and to whom australia um feels a sense of patrimony to and belonging and instead well

01:09:09.580 we've gone the route of the usa and you know the the blairite agenda of of bringing in you know

01:09:14.920 quote-unquote new australians yeah you know and sadly without the hinterland it's hard for us to

01:09:20.140 you know, electorally fight back.

01:09:21.980 Yeah, and Britain hasn't got the problem of the, like,

01:09:24.940 the Aborigines have to deal with, sort of,

01:09:27.640 have to walk through modern civilisation.

01:09:31.540 OK, all right, we'll have to move.

01:09:33.320 That was great, thanks for that.

01:09:34.920 We'll have to...

01:09:36.120 You've done more content with Carl about these sorts of things.

01:09:39.180 Yeah.

01:09:39.500 And that's pre-recorded, and that will go out on later season.

01:09:41.580 The conversation with Carl is probably tangential

01:09:43.920 to this part of the conversation,

01:09:45.700 so watch the two if you want some insight into Aussie politics.

01:09:48.300 OK, we've got to move on now,

01:09:49.660 because it's already 10 past nine on this show when i start to wind down i do a segment on this

01:09:54.620 day in history just have a quick look at what happened down through the centuries nay the

01:09:57.680 millennia on this day in history and you're a big history fan so uh let's do it real quick

01:10:02.820 october the 30th what happened on this day in 1340 ad the battle of rio salado where king

01:10:09.640 alfonso the fourth of portugal and king alfonso the 11th of castile defeat sultan abu al hassan

01:10:15.760 ali of morocco and yusuf the first of granada in the last marinated invasion of the iberian

01:10:21.520 peninsula basically starting to fully win the reconquista basically portugal and and uh spain

01:10:27.960 pushing back the muslim hordes in spain the last islamic counter offensive in al andalus as they

01:10:34.200 call it yeah nice that's it will there be will there have to be a new a neo-reconquista on the

01:10:42.940 iberian peninsula well i was going to say they they got to do something about it so it's not

01:10:47.180 looking good but uh the spanish should uh consider revenge for guadalete but that's a story for

01:10:52.420 another day but just how long the reconquista took centuries and centuries and centuries because it

01:10:56.880 was not over at this point beginning to truly win it at this point but but but sort of 1340

01:11:02.820 in terms of the reconquist is kind of like 1944 in the eastern front it's not it's not over but

01:11:09.620 it's looking pretty grim for the side that's on the back foot, if that makes sense.

01:11:13.160 You could say the Reconquista starts, what, in, I don't know, maybe the 8th century, you

01:11:16.820 could say, the higher watermark of the Muslim incursions into Spain, and even into France,

01:11:22.720 the Battle of Tours with Charles Martel, Charles the Hammer, that's the 8th century, isn't

01:11:27.360 it?

01:11:27.480 Yeah, yeah.

01:11:28.140 So from the 8th century to the 14th century, it's a long process, is what I'm trying to

01:11:32.660 say.

01:11:32.800 Once the crowns of Leon and Castile basically take the central Spanish cities of Toledo

01:11:38.140 and I'm trying to think of the other one that's close by Toledo and I suppose what becomes Madrid

01:11:44.500 and Guadalajara and these sort of cities on the central Spanish plateau it's not it's obviously

01:11:50.080 not decided then but it makes the rest of the process a lot easier because prior to that I

01:11:54.480 was sort of confined to the mountain the northern mountains of Cantabria and Asturias and Galicia

01:11:59.600 and it's hard to like create a prosperous kingdom in the cold mountains of the north you know I've

01:12:05.300 got long-form content all about the peninsula war than the uh uh napoleon era peninsula war

01:12:11.200 um downfall of generals you know i've got long-form content about the spanish civil war

01:12:15.860 franco as well uh talks about spain a fair bit over the years on epochs they like and in various

01:12:21.600 ways and they're like a medical ham in in the in the lotus eater's office just the high spanish

01:12:27.320 plateau if you want to control the coastal regions it's best really to control the middle

01:12:33.640 Madrid is right in the middle,

01:12:35.040 but Madrid's much newer than the 14th century.

01:12:37.820 Okay, on this day in 1899, the Battle of Ladysmith.

01:12:41.320 Boars defeat the British,

01:12:42.700 leading to the siege of Ladysmith in the Tau.

01:12:45.360 I know all about that in great detail.

01:12:47.160 I've spent a great deal of time reading about the Boars.

01:12:49.460 They've put a spin on that there.

01:12:51.920 The Battle of Ladysmith.

01:12:53.200 It was barely a battle.

01:12:54.780 Was it a skirmish?

01:12:55.700 The Boars did some sort of sucker punch on us,

01:12:58.980 because Ladysmith was right near the Boar borders.

01:13:01.080 they do a sucker punch

01:13:03.000 try and take Ladysmith, the town of Ladysmith

01:13:05.520 fail to do so

01:13:07.380 so there's just a long siege

01:13:09.160 which we eventually relieve

01:13:10.900 the famous relief of Ladysmith

01:13:12.580 so to characterise it as the Boers

01:13:14.860 defeat the British, er, well

01:13:16.880 they didn't, why are you saying that

01:13:18.820 they didn't? So I was going to say essentially

01:13:20.800 they initiated a siege that they didn't win

01:13:22.840 and then withdraw

01:13:23.900 I was going to say that's almost

01:13:27.080 that's almost

01:13:27.920 Emil von Lecher Vorbeck tactics of crossing the border

01:13:31.000 for supplies like same kind of manoeuvre yeah yeah so so this bloody anti-british website

01:13:37.040 the boars defeat the british well just no all right bloody subversives yeah next thing on this

01:13:43.840 day 1905 the russians are nicholas ii old nicky grant civil liberties and accepts the first duma

01:13:49.380 a type of parliament in the october manifesto so this is after the 1905 revolution where the whole

01:13:55.100 monarchy very very very nearly very nearly collapsed at that point what happened in 1917

01:14:00.520 very very nearly could have happened in 1905 got long form content all about it of course this is

01:14:05.340 very much a both a precedent and a portent of what was to come for the czar unfortunately

01:14:09.800 he went from an absolute monarch to a constitutional monarch at this point indeed when you look back

01:14:15.560 at the sweep of history historians say it was over for him on a number of levels at that point

01:14:21.780 probably his abdication even if there wasn't world war one probably would have been hard

01:14:26.820 baked in at some later point in his life

01:14:28.640 but who knows, who knows

01:14:29.580 World War 1 certainly sort of ushered it more

01:14:31.620 It's a big thing, if you want to know about the Russian Revolution

01:14:34.940 and the Bolsheviks, you have to look at 1905

01:14:37.060 at some point, don't you?

01:14:38.200 Okay, and then the last one

01:14:40.880 here, on this day in 1973, the Bosphorus

01:14:42.860 Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completing

01:14:44.720 connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the

01:14:46.780 Bosphorus for the first time, we've done long form content

01:14:48.860 all about Constantinople, Istanbul

01:14:51.120 the 4th Crusade

01:14:52.580 we've done all sorts of stuff, haven't we?

01:14:54.220 I have indeed

01:14:55.120 and I've been there once

01:14:57.640 I went to Istanbul

01:14:58.560 well Constantinople

01:14:59.400 once in my life

01:15:00.180 Have you crossed the bridge?

01:15:01.060 I don't think

01:15:01.760 I didn't ever go

01:15:03.460 to the Asian side

01:15:04.200 no

01:15:04.400 because I was only there

01:15:05.040 for like three days

01:15:06.100 was it four days

01:15:07.340 and everything you want to see

01:15:09.200 is on the European side

01:15:10.180 really

01:15:10.660 there are some

01:15:11.560 interesting things

01:15:12.240 on the Asian side

01:15:12.980 but when you've only got

01:15:13.920 a limited amount of time

01:15:14.880 there's no point

01:15:15.780 so I never did

01:15:16.620 no I never crossed over

01:15:17.440 I mean I spent

01:15:18.400 I was in Istanbul

01:15:19.960 for a total of ten days

01:15:20.960 and I felt like

01:15:21.620 I didn't see everything

01:15:22.200 I wanted to see

01:15:22.800 oh yeah

01:15:23.480 it's that big of a city and i actually am talking about the european side specifically but because

01:15:27.720 i actually was in the country for over a month it would have been about five weeks or so i i did a

01:15:33.800 tour and obviously to get to ankara and the you know the anatolian side i actually did cross a

01:15:38.840 bridge i was actually i mean i knew it was a big bridge anyway but when you actually travel across

01:15:42.280 it you marvel at its sheer sheer scale and the fact that i mean you can see it in the photo

01:15:46.280 here there's curvature on the bridge sort of almost follows the curtain like the curvature

01:15:49.480 the earth in a way and it's just the beauty and to the credit it's a beautifully designed bridge

01:15:53.400 harry bring up the picture so people could you can see what it's all there you go yeah yeah there

01:15:57.720 you go it's it's an absolute marvel and i mean that's an old i mean go down the photos from the

01:16:02.040 70s istanbul is much more developed now you sort of see you see because unless i'm mistaken that's

01:16:06.760 the asiatic side you're looking at there is hardly any greenery anymore but it's just cityscape and

01:16:12.840 suburbs i mean istanbul's are one of the true megalopolis of the world now you know it's a

01:16:17.720 a huge place there wasn't there was settlement there before byzantine wasn't there a settlement

01:16:22.840 on the asian side does he took chalcedon the city of the blind that's it well done city of the blind

01:16:27.580 yeah there you go you know you know about the oracle delphi right yeah yeah when the foundation

01:16:30.860 of the city it's just like um when the magaran sailors departed greece the they were they

01:16:35.800 consulted the oracle the oracle said you will found the city across the water from the city

01:16:39.880 of the blind and that is such an ambiguous statement like what the hell does that mean

01:16:43.280 and eventually they boarded their ships their triremes and sort of sailed up north to the

01:16:46.400 eugene and into the dardanelles and through the sea of marmora and quite literally when well this

01:16:51.520 is i mean an apophical story but when they encountered the golden horn immediately the

01:16:57.980 founder you know who byzantean is named after by i think his name was bizas or whatever something

01:17:04.220 with that effect um immediately identified this wonderful place to found the settlement and

01:17:09.780 realized that these twats on the other side of the water put a city across the best part in the

01:17:16.120 worst part and they were the blind that found a calcadon right so calcadon which which i think

01:17:21.600 the turks now call uskidar um and then you have they founded like the original settlement the

01:17:27.740 greek settlement of byzantion on the golden horn because it's such a brilliantly an obviously

01:17:31.880 brilliant defensible position on the golden you must be blind to have missed that why would you

01:17:36.380 make a settlement not there correct right yeah it is like the ideal place for a city yeah and

01:17:41.560 in the end too even before it became a big place under constantine who consecrated as a new capital

01:17:45.620 of new rome like even as a relatively small greek and roman city it was a very prosperous and

01:17:50.380 wealthy one through sea trade and fishing it was like it was a lucrative spot and an easily

01:17:54.440 defensible spot i mean it was a great oh yeah oh perfect yeah if you've got enough walls if

01:17:58.580 there's a well in there which there is you've got enough food provisions and when you've got the

01:18:03.420 walls of theodosius let's say then you basically can't get inside yes you basically can't get

01:18:09.980 inside okay all right brilliant we've got to move on um with this point in the show we start doing

01:18:14.160 the rumble rants and super chats uh oh i always do rumble rants first so

01:18:17.760 hurry is my oh there he is okay all right rumble rants god there's loads of rumble rants so i'll

01:18:23.560 whip through them a bit okay first of all we've got that's their name it says morning mates in

01:18:27.060 spite of a bone on homes taking an extra 100 pounds off 100 pound weight off i'm down a stone

01:18:33.820 in about three weeks since leaving blighty on the tuesday i'll be heading to okazaki castle where

01:18:41.880 uh tokugawa layatsu was born i know tokugawa is one of the greatest sort of warlords in japanese

01:18:49.400 history have you been to japan do you know i sadly haven't very well i i actually did study japanese

01:18:54.200 at school and i am familiar with japanese history in terms of particularly the uh the the sengoku

01:18:58.520 jidai uh actually i am and i've done a bit of content on that um but no it's a very interesting

01:19:03.720 period of japanese history i'm fascinated to go i actually love japan um and as you know i'm

01:19:07.560 predisposed to japanese vehicles so yeah i've never been it's a top of my bucket well egypt

01:19:12.680 the gaza plateau giza plateau and japan are top of my bucket list uh but yeah the tokugawa era

01:19:20.120 is fascinating it's actually one of the few bits i know in a fair bit of detail i have got long

01:19:25.160 full content about 19th century japan he was a man for re-establishing the shogunate right

01:19:30.760 right yeah okay that's their name again says also i hope mf enjoyed the basket weavers event

01:19:37.560 yes yes uh aim and i gave it a talk at the last event so we had a they decided to double up on

01:19:44.920 the pasta posse so all right it's a shame i couldn't go real shame i couldn't go it's something

01:19:49.880 i would have absolutely would have liked to have they could have done the three they could have

01:19:53.080 had like the history the history trio with yes there yeah next time yeah the dream team you me

01:19:58.040 and apostolic magic and if am's out there g'day mate lovely to catch up with you again yeah yeah

01:20:02.520 yeah i need am needs to come back on here and do more content with me about we need we need like

01:20:06.040 a four-hour window in the studio with us three but anyway yeah and then you put uh the next one

01:20:10.920 is on saturday the 21st of november with not so obvious speaking just put luma vv12 zob six i

01:20:18.360 don't know what on earth that it means okay but not so obvious he's a he's a good chap as well

01:20:25.320 yeah he's been on he's a friend of the show he's been on here a couple times getting back on yeah

01:20:29.800 come back on mark all right uh pig dog says welcome back bow hope you're better yeah not

01:20:35.240 100 but but a lot better thanks uh my chest hurts my throat is i was gonna say throws like razors

01:20:40.840 i was gonna say my reinforcement was timely for the studio yeah yeah they put glorious sunny day

01:20:46.760 here in the most southern part of the british isles fyi i'm not an american not english either

01:20:51.640 norman breton german ancestry okay not the worst but i'm gonna say he embodies the spirit he embodies

01:21:00.040 the spirit of both invasions both the anglo-saxons and the normans have you ever done your dna like

01:21:05.160 ancestry.com i don't know it's fascinating i actually want to though because it'd be fascinating

01:21:09.080 considering i'm as you know i'm half roman half sicilian so god knows what kind of so one of your

01:21:13.400 parents is sicilian like a full bore full-blown sicilian and then your dad's italian my dad's from

01:21:20.920 just out of rome latio so it would be interesting and an agrarian too so like not an urban eye but

01:21:26.360 like people who would have lived in the valleys for like centuries yeah it'd be interesting to

01:21:30.360 to see i don't know i'll be interested to see your dna okay uh dragon lady chris says uh bald

01:21:35.460 adjective brackets adjective when a man's brain is so grand that his skull is forced to grow up

01:21:40.680 through his hair big brain owls here on the breakfast show male pattern baldness is largely

01:21:46.160 nearly always due to an excess of testosterone isn't it just too much tea it is a high tea status

01:21:51.600 just too much tea what can you say okay tom rat 247 says regarding so profits bow industry margins

01:21:58.820 are about 19%.

01:22:00.720 Would you be prepared to do what

01:22:02.760 ESO does for £19 in £100

01:22:04.900 collected, 49%

01:22:06.800 of which goes to the government?

01:22:09.340 I'm Randian on this

01:22:10.900 to be honest. Ah, well.

01:22:13.340 I would be Randian on it insofar

01:22:15.140 that they weren't shilling for, like, the

01:22:16.760 green energy agenda. Why Randian?

01:22:18.800 Do you just mean sort of laissez-faire, let the markets

01:22:20.940 do, let companies do whatever

01:22:22.740 they want? Like Milton Friedman's

01:22:24.700 Chicago School of Economics, as I brought up, assuming

01:22:26.580 that means. Just let it happen.

01:22:27.720 yeah um i don't know i wouldn't be prepared to do what it wasn't so wasn't it uh shell or shell is

01:22:33.640 so it used to be no no different companies as shell is dutch shell petroleum and so is based

01:22:39.800 i don't remember where so is based but anyway anyway i'm i'm largely sort of um libertarian

01:22:47.400 when it comes to economic policy largely very largely yeah but there is a certain point where

01:22:53.320 it seems just simply um um it just we sound like a lefty it's unfair but yeah at some point it does

01:23:00.600 become grotesque i feel like at some point um i'm sort of i'm sort of random with with these

01:23:05.640 companies with it with an asterisk it's like yes just don't be subversive in fact support us or

01:23:09.640 else yeah you know don't actually like destroy like don't actually don't be global shields anyway

01:23:14.440 yeah yeah yeah right yeah that globalism okay luke street st luke luke stuart 91 he's an aussie

01:23:20.120 actually fellow was he g'day he's put g'day i don't think uh we the west can say what we want

01:23:28.900 until the boomers are dead and the stains of world war ii are gone and we can finally be free to

01:23:33.580 speak our minds well i think i dare say we'll probably struggle to be free to speak our minds

01:23:40.200 irrespective of the status of the boomers being alive or dead actually because there are people

01:23:43.600 who embody the spirit of the boomer without in fact being boomers good point fair point and

01:23:48.100 And they're often the ones who control leavers of power.

01:23:52.220 You know, they're the ones, you know, I mean, like, for instance,

01:23:54.700 what was the name of the lady that used to control YouTube?

01:23:57.340 Auntie Susie Wojcicki, whatever her name was.

01:23:59.800 Yeah, Susan, she died, didn't she?

01:24:01.180 Yeah, she had cancer, yeah.

01:24:02.220 I mean, she wasn't a boomer, but she had her sort of finger

01:24:04.320 on the big red button, delete button in YouTube.

01:24:06.600 So that's the thing.

01:24:07.240 It's like there's a multitude of people like that, sadly.

01:24:10.240 Yeah, it's a sad reality, but I think, well, you are right.

01:24:13.260 You are right.

01:24:14.660 Unfortunately.

01:24:15.320 I would rather be wrong, but alas.

01:24:16.640 uh penultimate one here that's their name says while a lot of the rural areas in the uk are

01:24:21.500 still british i noticed whenever i drive a bunch of new builds scattered about this includes warwick

01:24:26.820 uh near this year's whitton and near bedford yeah they're just continuously growing on the

01:24:33.380 green belt when i was making my way to whitton i noticed the same thing actually oh you went

01:24:36.960 particularly in that area so i spoke at the whitton yeah and i i noticed the same thing it

01:24:41.720 was it was quite i don't know disconcerting is the right word but definitely eyebrow raising for

01:24:45.740 someone who didn't think that that kind of thing happened in rural england the open borders crew

01:24:50.740 would have britain completely paved over like a coruscant just one giant suburbia one giant

01:24:57.020 cityscape like mega city one like no nice patrick green you have there pity there's an apartment

01:25:02.600 condominium on it you know i mean was the name of the guy that did that on twitter like a few

01:25:07.280 years ago tom harwood whatever it was is that his name he's like oh you know you say britain's

01:25:11.220 overpopulated what's his like this farmland it's like yeah that's where the food grows that you

01:25:14.020 eat twat you know tom harwood like oh okay maybe we can just drink soil in for the rest of your

01:25:19.620 life but i want my steak what a sickening weeb cypher yeah okay uh and luke stewart final one

01:25:28.340 says uh i just find it ironic you complain about pauline hanson softening her rhetoric

01:25:35.060 when it was her rhetoric that got her in trouble in trouble jail in the first place even when the

01:25:40.500 boomers are gone we'll be free i'll tell you something i will take that on the chin that's

01:25:44.200 actually true that's a good point no no no you know a good point's a good point what i will say

01:25:49.200 though is what i kind of more meant was like what we see with rupert and restore and i mean carl

01:25:56.980 emphasizes this in our chat is that you know he doesn't throw people on the bus he doesn't relent

01:26:00.700 and i suppose maybe rupert's a different person with a different background like he has his own

01:26:04.380 resources he knows people in high places and he's at more i bet able to entrench himself i guess

01:26:09.600 what i'm saying is that and this is why i made the point about standing for pauline a little bit

01:26:12.840 that like at her heart i do believe she's an australian patriot but i think the situation

01:26:18.200 is more difficult for australia writ large and i think it's more difficult for pauline herself

01:26:21.880 and i think pauline isn't helped by the fact that she has a tendency to bring in bad people for

01:26:28.260 advice and also she um maybe isn't the best decision maker and she does struggle with rhetoric

01:26:35.480 but that doesn't take away from the fact that I do believe at her heart she's a like a decent Aussie

01:26:40.900 I just think that it's more difficult for her and she's probably less able to make headway so

01:26:45.700 but but on that but on that sense I'm like Luke 100% I will take that on the chin okay and then

01:26:52.600 so over to our YouTube ones you need to get through those Pig Dog snuck in one oh one more

01:26:57.080 Pig Dog he said he said his ancestry let me read the thing he said before he said he was

01:27:01.580 breton didn't he yeah norman breton and german ancestry and then he's just come in again and

01:27:06.800 said my ancestry is allied axis and occupied yes so i was gonna say i was gonna say so he's um

01:27:13.960 he's he's he's manstein he's de gaulle and he's um petan all in one all in one all in one okay

01:27:21.200 then he's put a number of crying stroke smiling emojis for mayo uh okay uh moving over to the

01:27:27.360 super chats the youtube ones james lee pevenhole in at number one and still or is it new he's

01:27:32.480 often in at first james lee pevenhole he says today uh wednesday the 28th a super chat from me

01:27:37.920 dot dot dot um i i can't go i can't go back to him i don't think little harry are they lost for all

01:27:44.220 time now the wednesday super chats so is there some sort of screen you can pull those up uh yeah

01:27:48.820 i can try and get have a look have a look if you can we'll try and get to it james lee james lee

01:27:53.400 heaven hall um okay next one fenlander 1665 says i'm almost admit it's almost a mirror image what

01:27:59.960 me and marcus should i go tash should i shave everything off but leave a tash we might have

01:28:05.560 to do this more often by the sounds of it at some point i'm considering at some point i will shave

01:28:10.280 at some point i will do something different i was considering just shaving the beard and just having

01:28:15.000 a handle bar mustache to sideburn lamb chop combo but no beard there but like for a laugh basically

01:28:20.920 i was gonna say this is kind of like the site they would have seen um when like caesar's first

01:28:24.280 invasion it's like you have the legionnaire and the the woad warrior and cast of alanus you know

01:28:29.000 with your chariot your spear like yeah i like it i like it there is something a little bit viking

01:28:34.040 about it which i don't mind um okay or you need some blue paint you know and yeah a bit of woad

01:28:38.840 yeah i've got ai images people have generated ai images of me with woad um okay mr gently benevolent

01:28:44.360 says uh pastor aussie how did he escape the penal colony do aussies genuinely take offense when

01:28:52.440 other people say oh you're all descended from uh from often we joke right okay well i mean i'm

01:28:57.640 putting this way there are legacy australians that sometimes take exceptions that if they're

01:29:01.240 descended from actual settlers but i mean usually i mean as australians do we look those of us who

01:29:05.800 aren't like insufferable you know libs um we've actually got a good sense of humor yeah we joke

01:29:11.160 Most Aussies, I think nearly every Aussie

01:29:13.380 I've ever met has had a firm sense of humour

01:29:15.720 Yeah, that's right

01:29:16.700 Yeah, okay

01:29:18.620 We attack ourselves a lot, Lee

01:29:19.600 Yeah, yeah, which is good

01:29:21.380 Mr. Gently Benevolent says

01:29:24.220 I've been a long time fan

01:29:27.720 Of Pastor Aussie

01:29:28.700 Since the OU days

01:29:30.380 What is that, the AA Unpopular Opinion days

01:29:32.740 But Bo is the only bald man

01:29:34.840 I can trust this stream leaves me

01:29:36.780 Conflicted

01:29:37.320 Okay

01:29:41.000 Get out of here.

01:29:42.200 Get out of here.

01:29:43.600 What are you doing?

01:29:44.780 Forget about it.

01:29:46.180 Daniel D. King says,

01:29:48.220 Top Shagger goes to jail for years for top shagging.

01:29:52.960 Talk about Russell Brand, I guess, there.

01:29:54.780 Foreign sex criminal suspended sentence.

01:29:57.460 FML, yeah.

01:29:59.040 Yeah.

01:29:59.420 Yeah.

01:30:00.720 It's not about what you know, it's about who you know.

01:30:03.600 Yeah.

01:30:04.140 And what you know about them.

01:30:05.260 And you're quite right, it is suspicious about Russell Brand.

01:30:08.040 Again, I'm not saying I know whether he did it or not.

01:30:10.100 that is for the court to decide and i'm not saying that just to sit on the fence unnecessarily

01:30:14.480 that is a prudent take in his past conduct in his past conduct irrespective but it is suspicious

01:30:20.860 that when he was a lefty there was no investigations and when he became an anti-globalist basically an

01:30:25.800 anti-globalist suddenly he's in trouble okay my and people knew that that was the thing i said

01:30:31.420 about on that video i did with uh state of politics the rumors around russell brand of

01:30:39.100 years everyone heard everyone knew russell brand's gonna get me too at some point that's right yeah

01:30:45.980 everyone knew it okay anyway midas touch 2022 really good guest today beau glad you're back

01:30:51.500 thank you okay uh double a batteries 2001 says almost halloween uh what are your favorite horrors

01:31:01.420 horrors or do you think do you think horror films that's kind of what's been implied isn't it

01:31:06.780 Well, I don't know about horror films so much.

01:31:08.700 I can't think of, I'm not a giant fan of the horror genre,

01:31:11.780 although there are some great ones.

01:31:12.560 I remember being petrified by the first time I watched Final Destination.

01:31:16.800 Really?

01:31:17.360 Yeah.

01:31:17.980 The whole thing, like, I literally can't drive on the motorway or the highway now,

01:31:21.280 like, seeing logs on the back of a truck without having nightmares.

01:31:25.140 Or I see the police officer's like, oh, no, I don't want to do that.

01:31:27.480 Oh, you're younger than me, though, so I was already, um...

01:31:30.600 Sorry, how old are you?

01:31:32.560 Nearly 40.

01:31:33.660 Oh, so you're not that much younger.

01:31:34.960 Okay, you're not that much younger.

01:31:36.000 I'm not quite so geriatric

01:31:38.240 but nearly there

01:31:38.920 I remember watching the film

01:31:41.280 what is it

01:31:43.800 Poltergeist

01:31:45.020 Poltergeist 1

01:31:46.320 and I was a kid

01:31:47.780 I was a bit too young

01:31:48.620 I was probably like

01:31:49.160 only 8 or 9 or 10 or something

01:31:51.680 and being absolutely terrified of it

01:31:53.880 absolutely terrified

01:31:55.040 and then years later

01:31:55.940 in my 20s

01:31:56.780 watching it again

01:31:57.420 and being like

01:31:57.800 oh this is a super scary film

01:31:59.200 watching it and being like

01:32:00.020 yeah this is silly

01:32:01.900 this is nothing

01:32:02.440 this isn't scary

01:32:03.120 but it was because

01:32:03.920 I was a little kid

01:32:04.740 yeah yeah exactly

01:32:05.520 So I mean these days

01:32:06.360 Once you're grown up

01:32:07.020 Nothing's really scary is it

01:32:08.260 They might do a jump scare

01:32:09.600 When suddenly something

01:32:10.740 Really loud happens

01:32:11.640 But to be actually scared

01:32:13.260 Of a horror film

01:32:14.040 Although that being said

01:32:14.960 It's kind of like

01:32:15.520 Kind of eerie though

01:32:16.300 Re-watching Terminator

01:32:17.140 It's like

01:32:17.600 We're actually really close

01:32:18.680 To this bit

01:32:19.080 It's half real

01:32:20.340 And I hate Skynet still

01:32:21.500 Yeah

01:32:22.240 But you kind of

01:32:23.380 Skynet was unbelievable

01:32:24.320 In 1995

01:32:25.120 Whereas now you're just like

01:32:26.080 Sam Altman

01:32:27.160 Yeah

01:32:27.740 Yeah

01:32:28.560 It was a couple of decades

01:32:30.400 Early on the prediction

01:32:31.500 But it's coming

01:32:32.400 Exactly

01:32:32.780 Yeah

01:32:33.020 Okay

01:32:34.380 me Luca and Big Harry

01:32:37.680 did some long form content about

01:32:39.440 who did

01:32:41.580 the great horror

01:32:43.460 stories about

01:32:44.680 Cthulhu and stuff

01:32:46.500 who is it

01:32:49.560 Harry bring up the chat

01:32:51.180 someone in the chat is going to say it any second

01:32:52.760 the one who had the cat

01:32:55.060 Lovecraft

01:32:57.120 that's it

01:32:57.960 I've read loads of Lovecraft

01:33:01.140 and listened to loads more on audiobook of Lovecraft

01:33:03.540 And me and Harry, Big Harry and Luca was it, did a long form bit of content probably about six months ago, maybe a year ago on that.

01:33:11.540 And that was great. Lovecraft is great. Genuinely unsettling. I wouldn't say scary, but genuinely unsettling.

01:33:18.900 And Lovecraft, that's about the closest thing I get to in terms of horrors.

01:33:23.480 OK, there's still tons here. Let's whip through them a bit then, I'm afraid.

01:33:28.080 Double A Battery says, also hope you're feeling better, Bo. Salute guy.

01:33:32.040 thank you very much

01:33:32.880 really really appreciate that

01:33:34.280 Jebus Milk

01:33:36.660 says

01:33:37.640 ah a Perth boy

01:33:38.860 should have given you

01:33:40.320 my copy of Islander

01:33:41.600 to get signed

01:33:42.380 this guy's from Perth then

01:33:44.000 it sounds like

01:33:44.540 if you go to Witton next year

01:33:45.660 I'll gladly do so

01:33:46.500 make yourself known

01:33:47.380 there you go

01:33:48.760 there you go

01:33:49.400 you have to come

01:33:50.480 halfway across the globe

01:33:51.520 to do the Witton though

01:33:52.820 no no no

01:33:53.740 if there's one

01:33:55.780 again

01:33:56.260 because we had one

01:33:56.900 in Australia last year

01:33:57.540 oh wait

01:33:57.700 you can meet up in Perth

01:33:58.840 he gives you his Islanders

01:33:59.700 you take it to Britain

01:34:00.560 get it signed

01:34:01.140 and bring it back to you

01:34:01.500 no no no

01:34:01.900 as in like we had a witan last year in australia and chances are we're going to another one this

01:34:05.660 year oh i did not encouraging that person to go oh okay and if he goes i'll sign it there you go

01:34:11.100 okay he wants it signed by the likes of carl and me though so that's what you know well i'll tell

01:34:15.100 you if he does want me to do that though i will bring with me to england next time i come

01:34:20.700 there's a promise for you if you attend the aussie event okay james lee pevenhole says uh northwest

01:34:26.220 europe is belgium the island beyond there is albion all right fair for dora tipping point

01:34:33.340 there fair enough even further is hyperborea uh greek explorers named these separate from europe

01:34:39.660 yeah i did a long form bit of concept one of the very first um epochs i ever did was on uh

01:34:44.940 pythias the greek who's supposed to have gone all the way up to like shetland and stuff maybe

01:34:50.700 gone as far as iceland almost certainly not though but definitely sailed and if not iceland around

01:34:55.340 northern europe i was gonna say feasibly like orkney or even the pharaoh islands that would

01:34:59.060 be you know completely implausible if you believe the accounts he did that in classical times but

01:35:04.020 james lee we have something to tell you caesar said famously in his book gallia divide it in

01:35:08.460 tres partes what's that saying what gold is a divide into three parts right yeah okay showing

01:35:14.700 off your latin there i've got almost zero latin well done okay mr gently benevolent says elbow

01:35:20.280 is a miss is is a misshapen lisping worm creature literally that is such a great description tell us

01:35:29.240 how you really feel uh because elbow talks like dish oh does he yes oh yeah it's like it's it's

01:35:35.480 so it's hard to laugh at him i've rarely actually listened to him but you're you're right now you

01:35:40.040 say it and i don't say that's an offensive thing to people with lisp it's just that elbow is

01:35:44.120 just shouldn't be where he is like elbow should be a clerk at a store you know anyway middle

01:35:48.920 manager at best yeah he discussed on a level even starmer doesn't true starmer you can hate and

01:35:54.120 respect and respect elbow can't achieve that low bar yeah we're all australians

01:35:59.800 okay uh tom rixon 7232 says that was very interesting you soapless pom

01:36:11.380 Soapless

01:36:14.020 I was going to say me or you

01:36:18.340 POM is British isn't it

01:36:21.020 So I don't know what that's exactly in reference to

01:36:23.980 I'll take the very interesting

01:36:25.760 And I'll take POM

01:36:26.700 But soapless

01:36:27.560 What do you mean like dirty or snelly

01:36:29.440 That's a bit harsh

01:36:31.680 I'm always well turned out and clean

01:36:34.900 I was going to say this entire office is well cultivated

01:36:36.640 And clean

01:36:37.760 Soapless

01:36:39.020 Anyway, thanks for the two bucks.

01:36:40.360 I mean, the Roman hasn't cast any harsh terms for you guys.

01:36:47.000 Thanks for the two bucks anyway, brother.

01:36:50.060 Pants Hader, this person's called themselves, or Pants Hader.

01:36:54.760 Pants Hader, yeah.

01:36:55.880 What, does that mean something?

01:36:56.720 I don't know.

01:36:57.300 All right.

01:36:58.040 They say, spit shine, Miss Slaphead Governor.

01:37:03.920 Cheers, Governor.

01:37:04.880 I need to get it shaved.

01:37:07.060 I need to get it shaved.

01:37:07.880 I will do.

01:37:08.480 over the weekend uh yeah cheers gov all right uh foamage says big up gch uh global church history

01:37:18.880 that's just uh the the the um the super channel yeah where is he he hasn't yeah he hasn't super

01:37:25.400 yeah and he's uh what our um a mod in the chat as well yeah and he's a fan he's a great guy

01:37:32.640 and everyone else in this little community seem to really like him as well because he's a nice

01:37:37.760 guy because back home i usually catch this show for example you sort of go live around the time

01:37:41.520 i sort of get home from work so it's like you know three four o'clock whack the coffee machine

01:37:44.960 on and like tune into the bow show so yeah i often see uh grab the church history and he's actually

01:37:51.520 often he super chat something interesting stuff so i love when he does do so so keep it up yeah

01:37:56.160 what the show when he used to do a couple of factoids every morning it was great it added to

01:38:00.000 the on this day in history segment really well um so he's much missed although he's not gone

01:38:04.960 He's still here

01:38:06.440 Yeah, anyway

01:38:08.020 Foamage says, big up, global church history

01:38:11.120 Yep, okay

01:38:11.820 Jebus Milk again comes in with 40 Aussie bucks

01:38:15.660 Oh, well, appreciate that

01:38:16.900 That's a few dollary-dos

01:38:17.880 He says

01:38:19.740 It was the Liberals

01:38:22.240 That the welcome to the country

01:38:25.360 Started under, same with the three flags

01:38:27.540 Pointing out the hypocrisy

01:38:29.040 Of how we have racial flags

01:38:31.300 For the Aboriginals

01:38:32.900 and how and how always has been always will be is blood and soil rhetoric actually that's a very

01:38:39.640 good uh point i mean not the full-blown welcome to country ceremony as we understand it today

01:38:45.200 but elements of it were encouraged as a reconciliation tool that was used to sort

01:38:50.000 of soften the racist image of the center right and also i remember and i mean this is going to

01:38:56.220 go back to early days when i was in primary school in high school was that we sort of initially had

01:39:00.900 reconciliation day and then ricky reconciliation day sort of morphed into nadoc week and then just

01:39:06.020 sort of like it was more and more and more and more and the three flags that he's referencing

01:39:08.980 is that we have obviously the australian flag you know the union jack and the southern cross

01:39:12.260 we have the aboriginal flag which is the the black the red the gold and there's also the flag for the

01:39:17.540 torres strait islands and essentially at almost any building if in fact if you go to australia

01:39:22.400 house in london you'll see the three flags plus a ukrainian flag yeah great yeah globalism

01:39:29.780 Disgusting

01:39:31.000 Because everyone remembers the great Australian province of Donbass

01:39:34.060 But anyway

01:39:34.480 Yeah right

01:39:35.060 Yeah

01:39:35.320 Aussie young men must go over and fight and die for the Donbass

01:39:39.200 Nonsense

01:39:40.460 Dude

01:39:41.120 Okay

01:39:42.200 Jebus Milk again says

01:39:44.000 Is a good way to shift the normies away from labour

01:39:47.400 Yeah

01:39:48.420 I mean in essence that's true

01:39:49.960 So cynical

01:39:51.200 At the expense of Australia

01:39:53.460 Yeah

01:39:54.220 Gross

01:39:55.480 I do envy the fact that you guys have Restore

01:39:57.780 I know Restore is not a perfect vehicle

01:39:59.300 and in the end

01:40:00.040 anything could be

01:40:00.980 sort of criticised

01:40:02.000 to a point

01:40:02.420 but at least

01:40:03.020 it is a vehicle

01:40:03.860 that is

01:40:04.500 unapologetically

01:40:05.320 nativist

01:40:05.920 aim high

01:40:06.680 vote low

01:40:06.980 millions must go

01:40:07.720 zoomers to boomers

01:40:09.540 yeah yeah

01:40:10.640 low B1 Kenobi

01:40:12.000 aim high

01:40:13.060 aim high

01:40:13.800 vote bow

01:40:14.420 I told you

01:40:15.740 I was going to say that

01:40:16.620 Foamage says

01:40:18.720 raining

01:40:19.420 defending

01:40:20.320 and

01:40:22.180 still

01:40:22.840 I do that every morning

01:40:24.420 don't I

01:40:24.900 nearly every morning

01:40:25.480 nearly every morning

01:40:26.020 it's a rip off

01:40:27.220 of Bruce Buffer

01:40:27.980 I love that

01:40:29.100 announcer by the way he's so good is it bruce buffer or the other buffer buffer brother anyway

01:40:32.980 champion of the world rocky there's two buffers aren't there the one who does let's go ready to

01:40:40.780 not him the other one the ufc one yeah and still okay tatum 2733 says ah bo what if a bird the

01:40:48.020 size of a car this is what he's done this with a number of people ask this question what if a bird

01:40:51.740 the size of a car i don't know did something grabbed that guy next to you i'm so sleepy let

01:40:57.060 just he always asks this question what if the ceiling was smashed open there was a giant bird

01:41:02.820 the size of an airplane picked you up and flew off with you what would you do well i having grown

01:41:07.940 up in the bush in western australia have actually seen a wedge-tailed eagle do that with a sheep

01:41:12.820 a sheep yes a ewe surely a young sheep like a young one like still that's remarkable a hogget

01:41:21.140 is something which is basically older than a lamb but not quite a full-grown year and i've seen a

01:41:27.140 fully grown massive wedge-tailed eagle lift one up off the ground and take it with it wow

01:41:32.260 and i like this before cameras you just don't get stuff like that in britain yes you just don't get

01:41:37.140 anything like even the birds will kill you yeah yeah we don't get anything like that we've got

01:41:41.780 like a little uh sparrow hook or something it's kind of funny how americans love their hawks but

01:41:46.500 like the american bald eagle is actually not a particularly large thing like the australian

01:41:51.380 wedge tail is a huge bird yeah i've seen giant birds of prey in in um in um zoos and things like

01:41:57.860 a giant buzzard or something and they do look terrified but their claws do look like yeah that

01:42:02.580 would that would a wedge tail a wedge tail eagle's tail on will fill your eye socket i can imagine

01:42:09.140 yeah yeah yeah okay and don't hit one because it will destroy your windshield as well yeah not me

01:42:15.540 it didn't happen to me but it happened a friend of mine like it actually caved in the windshield

01:42:18.500 other than their talons and their beaks though birds are very flimsy yeah because they're because

01:42:25.280 they're well they have to be yeah for elevation lift exactly so they don't weigh a great but for

01:42:30.500 a bird they're quite substantive like in fact even like the skeletal structure i mean they're

01:42:34.260 not heavy set but i mean like they're much more substantive than say you know like a magpie or

01:42:40.320 something oh yeah yeah or even like a big raven okay generico 301 says i will not tolerate such

01:42:47.140 baseless queenland such as baseless queenland disrespecting from this uppity westy i've actually

01:42:54.800 i've actually had a beverage of jericho he's a very very good man and by the way your rum was

01:42:58.920 delicious thank you generico oh cool you actually know them yeah he's a good guy actually and and

01:43:03.800 when i'm when i'm saying what i'm saying about queensland i say with love i just because i

01:43:08.300 I actually do love

01:43:09.000 I love Queensland

01:43:09.660 Queensland and West Aussie

01:43:11.140 are probably like

01:43:11.520 the most closely related

01:43:12.800 in terms of each other

01:43:13.780 but so like both

01:43:14.420 you can consider us

01:43:16.000 basically Australia's

01:43:16.820 equivalent of Oklahoma

01:43:17.520 and Texas

01:43:18.120 in that sense

01:43:18.960 I was going to say

01:43:19.480 I was not aware of any

01:43:20.620 sort of even

01:43:21.480 jovial rivalry

01:43:23.120 between like Queensland

01:43:24.820 and Western Australia

01:43:25.840 there isn't

01:43:26.460 oh right okay

01:43:27.020 we just don't like

01:43:28.100 the open nights down south

01:43:29.060 it's like oh you're from Melbourne

01:43:30.160 oh you know

01:43:30.740 West Aussie's Queensland

01:43:31.660 yeah we hate the city folk

01:43:32.960 down south you know

01:43:33.740 let us keep our guns you know

01:43:35.900 yeehaw

01:43:36.420 that's the thing yeah

01:43:37.440 Okay, Jarthak says, hate to burst your bobble, like bubble, but bobble, but David Farley has been interviewed by Topher Field, would be a good Aussie correspondent for you guys, and categorically denied any link with Labour or any other party.

01:43:54.620 I don't know, I don't know David Farley or Topher Field.

01:43:58.660 David Farley, actually he was on Monday, he had this newspaper up, he was a candidate for One Nation, yeah.

01:44:04.780 there we go yeah little harry bring that up so people can see this is on aussie news today this

01:44:09.660 is like today's thing so farley addresses labor defection rumors with one word answer can we just

01:44:15.020 keep this up for a moment yeah so for instance on the left hand side you got barnaby joyce

01:44:19.260 who used to be a nationals mp and has since joined one nation and he's just one of those examples

01:44:23.900 where again i think probably barnaby someone who quite sincerely loves australia but is so trapped

01:44:29.100 in the boomer mentality right and like the you know the the post-war sort of narrative and also

01:44:34.700 one of these people who like throw stones it's like you know he loves to cast himself as like

01:44:39.400 the the aussie farmer type but then just does things that are opposite to the belief system

01:44:44.740 if that makes sense and just makes trying to appeal to an aussie traditional lifestyle and a

01:44:50.300 way of life difficult and leftists will go oh well he's a hypocrite so all these voters are

01:44:54.200 hypocrites and it's like oh why are you making it hard for us barnaby you know anyway yeah

01:44:58.860 unfortunately there are similar parallels by the way there's similar parallels in in britain aren't

01:45:05.480 there where there's people where you feel like if they were truly untethered they would be based

01:45:09.280 they would admit that there is a racial and ethnic element to our national identity but

01:45:14.560 they're too much wrapped up in the liberal boomer mindset where they're they're still terrified to

01:45:19.100 just say it tabula rust or bust um i was gonna say it's a bit like um i remember a criticism of

01:45:23.380 john major being like oh we're sort of english and you know old school and have you know family

01:45:27.140 old school family morals and i mean he was was he shagging secretary or something it's like oh

01:45:30.500 that's convincing john major well done yeah yeah yeah let's go back to victoria values meanwhile

01:45:35.140 he's banging what was it edwina curry or something i don't like that yeah i can't remember i was a

01:45:39.700 bit young for that but i just remember it happening edwina curry i think it was okay next one from

01:45:45.300 lance llewellyn who says g'day fellas um i've always said pauline has the right argument but

01:45:50.500 he's always the wrong person to make it looking forward to more content cheers it was exactly

01:45:54.740 what you were saying wasn't it well what almost what almost pauline needs is like a series of

01:45:59.860 sort of maybe underlings of the wrong word but you know how for instance you know people like

01:46:04.040 you know lewis and harrison and charlie i mean in the end rupert is more than able to articulate

01:46:09.140 his point he's obviously an intelligent gentlemanly fellow but he has these younger

01:46:12.760 guys who are sort of more tuned into the rhetoric and the you know are very erudite in their own

01:46:17.160 way pauline needs that but basically the people around her don't let her do that and anyone who

01:46:22.620 tries just gets kiboshed immediately and just sort of thrust to the side and thrown under the bus

01:46:26.700 which is something i do admire about rupert and it's the point that carl emphasized in our chat

01:46:30.220 is that rupert doesn't throw people on the bus and that is that should be honestly one of the

01:46:34.220 great litmus testers of anyone on the right is do not throw under the bus and do not apologize to

01:46:38.300 your enemies absolutely absolutely could not agree more absolutely okay luke stewart says

01:46:45.500 thanks for taking it on the chin when i called you out about pauline hope you guys have a wonderful

01:46:49.100 weekend thank you and mr gently benevolent says shave and do the infamous 1940s painter look bow

01:46:56.060 i can't do that i could do it and then claim it's chaplin it's an homage to charlie chaplin yeah

01:47:01.740 it's it's a it's a it's a mugabe moustache yes it's a mugabe isn't it well maybe i can give

01:47:08.100 okay uh jebus milk just said deal that's what they've just said deal i guess that was in

01:47:18.020 reference to something we was talking about earlier because he's had a few super chats today

01:47:21.020 so i guess that's in reference to that i can't remember exactly what we said but he said deal

01:47:25.320 so okay good uh luke steward again says i'm a bit disappointed with you beau thought you were

01:47:29.980 going to dress up as a sand person for halloween and do your impression of you brother you i don't

01:47:35.420 know what that means sand person not a java from star wars or something else sand people

01:47:41.040 or the Tuscan Raiders or whatever

01:47:43.440 too accurate for sand people

01:47:45.640 oh right

01:47:47.600 that's Obi-Wan that's right yeah

01:47:49.140 I said

01:47:51.680 I said I'd do

01:47:53.300 dress up as Nosferatu

01:47:55.820 for Halloween but unfortunately Halloween

01:47:57.660 falls on a Saturday so I can't do that

01:47:59.660 oh well

01:48:00.780 last few here Generico says

01:48:03.060 when you come back to Australia I'll remember to welcome

01:48:05.580 you to the country

01:48:06.780 oh well Generico actually can because he's more of a

01:48:09.660 heritage than me so i'll take that on the chin as well and then he also says much love furious

01:48:13.540 and luke stewart says now tell bo about the true monster of australia and uh the cassowary i know

01:48:20.380 about the cassowary that big giant bird it can kick you right and kick you pretty hard yes it

01:48:25.800 could break your leg they say you could if it got you in the groin you might be in trouble

01:48:29.760 you're not gonna have a good day i was gonna say don't let it don't let it whack your jacks

01:48:33.780 crackers yeah okay the penultimate one here from tatum says when i rule the world we'll have daily

01:48:40.920 nap time oh so you gotta become a med a med nice well done yeah there's a word for that isn't it

01:48:45.440 it's uh siesta yeah i was gonna say siesta for all global siestas yeah that's right make siestas

01:48:49.560 great again around the world it's like let's have like let's have let's have like british

01:48:53.220 organization german ingenuity and productivity with mediterranean nap time great let's do it

01:48:59.620 okay the last one here is from cg man who i've noticed hasn't done a chat in a while they used

01:49:04.220 to do loads rhetoric is all good we need answers to indian corporate dominance like adani in

01:49:10.820 australia and tartar in the uk they're only gaining more power i mean that does seem true

01:49:15.760 i'm gonna take the marino line that if i if i'm allowed to speak i'll be a big drama

01:49:20.320 is there a big problem in us with indian-owned industry put this way between me and sort of my

01:49:26.900 circles or concentric circles of say like friends and acquaintances back home we know about 30

01:49:33.960 relatively well-frequented main you know businesses sort of shops whatever that have all changed hands

01:49:39.900 and all but one went to indians in the last four years four last four years so so real quick so

01:49:46.960 29 out of 30 this side of covid 29 out of 30 businesses that we know of have basically become

01:49:53.020 you know owned being you know owned by indians essentially so worry it's a concern it's something

01:50:02.400 must be done about it on an institutional level a very aggressive commercial acquisition that is

01:50:07.760 disconcerting okay on that bombshell it is now 50 minutes past nine in the am uh greenwich mean

01:50:15.320 time on friday the 30th of october in the year of our law 2026 thank you for joining me

01:50:19.300 that you guys

01:50:20.800 it isn't a thing

01:50:21.440 Marcus

01:50:22.200 thank you very very much

01:50:23.840 for coming here

01:50:24.500 one more point if I may

01:50:25.320 of course please

01:50:26.080 there may be a new world record

01:50:27.160 this weekend

01:50:27.760 what's that?

01:50:30.500 future youngest world champion ever

01:50:32.160 oh

01:50:32.720 oh yes

01:50:33.580 we said

01:50:33.840 a quick few minutes about that

01:50:35.520 Anthony

01:50:35.860 most people

01:50:36.680 a lot of people

01:50:37.220 don't care about F1 here

01:50:38.120 we're going to talk about it

01:50:38.720 for a couple minutes

01:50:39.180 we've got a sports boy you

01:50:40.020 so hate us all you want

01:50:41.460 Kimi Antonelli

01:50:43.760 might become

01:50:44.960 the youngest ever

01:50:45.820 Formula 1 world champion

01:50:46.580 what is he 20 years old?

01:50:48.140 yeah in fact

01:50:48.820 in fact when he when he won the us grand prix last weekend he was it was uh he was not allowed

01:50:53.540 to drink the champagne because you know 21. yeah yeah and uh yes he might break that record and

01:50:58.420 in fact the vessel had the old was the youngest right correct yeah and prior to that it was

01:51:02.420 fernando and then probably it was michael i think max must have been a very young world champion

01:51:07.060 himself no no no because he didn't win his first until his mid-20s all right because he was plugging

01:51:11.860 away you know for years building building good car so in essence the guy the toyota wolf uh

01:51:16.740 pushed aside lewis hamilton for is going to win in his second season remarkable he could go on to be

01:51:22.100 he could go on to have a better record than lewis or schumacher couldn't he or even max if he keeps

01:51:26.900 it up moreover he's the first italian world champion since alberto oscarri in 1953.

01:51:32.500 he was one of the first formula one champions of all time wasn't it scurry so the first so

01:51:38.260 one so giuseppe farina was the first one in 1950 quite right vangio 51. that's right and then

01:51:43.140 And then Ascari won back-to-back 52, 53,

01:51:45.600 and then Ascari died in an accident in 54

01:51:47.920 and then Fangio won four on the trot.

01:51:50.180 I've actually got a long-form epochs episode

01:51:52.380 all about the...

01:51:53.460 Next time I'm here, we'll have to do one.

01:51:54.940 Yeah, we'll do it again, yeah.

01:51:56.260 I did it with Thomas Dowling.

01:51:57.620 I thought he was one of my most enjoyable epochs

01:51:59.880 to research and record.

01:52:01.780 But, okay, so Kimi Antonelli,

01:52:03.340 well, on Sunday in Mexico,

01:52:05.420 might become the youngest Formula 1 champion

01:52:07.180 of all time.

01:52:08.240 He requires two points.

01:52:09.260 So he probably will.

01:52:10.500 He almost certainly will.

01:52:11.440 Unless he retires all DNFs or something.

01:52:12.900 but yeah he needs two points

01:52:13.820 to win the championship

01:52:14.280 and we'll have a new world record

01:52:15.600 and I'll be a young little Italian man

01:52:17.060 imagine being 20 years old

01:52:19.020 and being Formula 1 world champion

01:52:20.200 can you imagine

01:52:21.020 no I can't

01:52:22.160 I'm jealous but I can't

01:52:23.020 oh I was super jealous

01:52:24.340 can I swap lives with him

01:52:26.000 ok alright

01:52:27.260 that is it

01:52:27.920 we're going to end the show here

01:52:28.800 52 minutes past 9 in the end

01:52:30.120 thank you for joining me

01:52:30.980 try and make the best of the day

01:52:32.240 if you can

01:52:32.700 Marcus thank you very much

01:52:34.220 my pleasure

01:52:35.040 and thank you to everyone in the chat

01:52:36.080 everyone watching

01:52:36.620 thank you very much

01:52:37.120 and watch tune in for the main podcast later

01:52:39.560 you're going to be on that as well

01:52:40.720 yes

01:52:41.060 you guys getting maximum usage

01:52:42.560 you out of the day ago today yeah you came over all the way from the other side of the world

01:52:47.000 it's in everyone's interest to use you as much as possible okay thank you so much once again

01:52:51.420 thank you to you guys out there try make the best of the day head if you can carpe diem

01:52:55.620 until tomorrow until monday morning take care

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 30, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 30th October 2026

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