The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 8th May 2026

00:00:00.240 Morning, you alright?

00:00:04.200 Are you? I hope you are.

00:00:05.940 I genuinely hope you are.

00:00:08.600 Me?

00:00:09.920 I'm a little bit bleary-eyed, to be perfectly honest.

00:00:12.760 A little bit tired.

00:00:14.560 I've been up essentially

00:00:15.900 for something like

00:00:18.480 26 hours at this point.

00:00:23.320 I stayed up more or less all night.

00:00:24.560 Tiny, tiny, tiny bit of sleep.

00:00:26.800 I was down at Great Yarmouth

00:00:30.180 I'll tell you all about that later

00:00:31.280 But yeah, if I'm ever so slightly

00:00:34.180 Tired, visibly tired

00:00:38.260 It's because I am

00:00:39.260 Alright, with that said, let's crack on

00:00:42.140 As always, I'm joined by my producer, Little Harry

00:00:44.300 How are you this morning, good sir?

00:00:45.620 Morning, yeah, I'm all good

00:00:46.800 The disembodied voice of the god-like Little Harry

00:00:49.860 There you go

00:00:50.320 It is just ticked one minute past eight

00:00:52.640 In the a.m. British summertime on Friday

00:00:54.560 It's now Friday already

00:00:55.540 the 8th of May in the year of our Lord

00:00:57.800 2026. Who are you? You know who you are.

00:01:01.320 One of the glorious

00:01:01.840 bands, the chosen few.

00:01:03.640 My band of brothers. People watching this live.

00:01:06.480 Pretty much the best people on earth.

00:01:08.800 Getting involved in the chat.

00:01:10.180 Getting involved in our poll. We got a poll this morning, haven't we Harry?

00:01:13.140 Yes.

00:01:13.940 Good. Tuned in to

00:01:15.400 Breakfast with Bo.

00:01:21.120 Formerly known as

00:01:21.780 Breakfast with Bo, colloquially the Bo Show

00:01:24.020 or beau's breakfast club hashtag the real bbc i've got to be careful about using that

00:01:29.240 other people use that the real bbc but like um as and and them not you know like mauler and stuff

00:01:39.400 i didn't nick it off them but genuinely someone said beau's breakfast club hashtag the real bbc

00:01:47.500 real bbc i was like that's good i'm gonna use that they're already saying that ages before that

00:01:52.120 it looks like i nicked it off them i didn't but i want to say on record that i do recognize

00:01:58.500 that they were already using that ages ago so

00:02:01.440 more than one person can say it calm down

00:02:06.300 the load seaters breakfast club hashtag the real lbc we're gonna tune into lbc when you can watch

00:02:14.020 the real lbc you're gonna watch my gram why would you why would anybody crazy thing to

00:02:22.100 do

00:02:22.700 Jeremy Kyle

00:02:24.440 that's gross

00:02:28.260 don't be gross

00:02:29.820 you're here 0.91

00:02:32.660 you're watching

00:02:33.100 shall we get on with it

00:02:33.980 shall we stop faffing about 0.58

00:02:35.260 just stop fannying about now Bo

00:02:40.220 and get on with

00:02:41.200 what's in the corporate

00:02:41.920 legacy mainstream media today

00:02:43.300 well

00:02:44.180 the big story of course

00:02:45.880 is the local elections

00:02:47.040 yesterday was the

00:02:49.800 the voting day

00:02:50.880 the polling day

00:02:51.580 a lot of the results aren't in yet still they'll trickle in all day today some are in what like a

00:02:59.640 fifth not even a fifth something like that are in at the moment so mostly still not in although

00:03:04.980 we've got the trends we can see the way it's going we'll talk all about it on the show today

00:03:09.460 of course uh but it won't be till breakfast we bow on monday morning that we'll well be able to

00:03:15.600 the full unabridged picture and the front pages of uh the print media fleet street they went to

00:03:23.520 print last night so they won't have any results on them so what i'll do is because it's the biggest

00:03:30.640 story of the day the results that are in and the patterns they reveal i'll talk about that sort of

00:03:37.440 first i suppose and then go back to the actual front pages but before that even just the overall

00:03:44.560 the overall picture that the uh front page is saying is officially exposed to chinese spire

00:03:55.040 just more chinese spies full-blown ones not sort of allegations over we think maybe or there's

00:04:00.640 gonna have to be a trial no full-blown definite definite chinese spies in britain in border

00:04:07.040 force in sort of our oh and time for starmer to stand aside because of course already with the

00:04:15.080 results not even fully in the knives are out politically metaphorically to stab starmer in

00:04:23.040 the back and or the front all right so that's that's the overview as i say the front pages

00:04:33.200 have it so let's just jump straight to sort of you know real time up to date show some of the

00:04:39.920 results that have come in so here we go here we go there you go it's all there it's all right there

00:04:46.560 you see this is how many counselors each party has got and then the number underneath is how

00:04:50.800 many they've gone up or down right at a glance you can see labor down 248 counselors reform up

00:05:00.880 339 it's ve day victory in england day for reform uk it is actually ve day but of course that's

00:05:08.640 victory in europe isn't it 1945 but

00:05:14.160 okay victory for reform day

00:05:19.040 and the libnems up a bit not insignificant plus 35 at this point again with only a fraction of

00:05:26.480 the results in but this will be the trade this will be the trend conservatives down significantly

00:05:33.280 130 down brings up a bit and it's close to not it's not insignificant is it but it's not giant

00:05:44.160 and independence at least at the moment down a bit i thought some people thought that maybe

00:05:49.040 they'd be they'd be up a bit by the end of all the results coming in maybe they will be

00:05:52.960 By the end of all the results coming in

00:05:57.580 Maybe some of these trends won't be quite

00:06:00.280 Exactly as they appear now

00:06:01.640 But they'll almost certainly be roughly like that

00:06:03.300 The main story is

00:06:04.680 Voters flooding away from Labour

00:06:07.460 That's the big story

00:06:09.360 And Conservative

00:06:11.520 Largely to reform

00:06:13.440 Little bit to Lib Dem

00:06:16.260 Little bit to Greens

00:06:17.040 That's the story

00:06:17.640 So a reworking of the political map

00:06:22.960 to some degree

00:06:26.800 in terms of councillors and various forms of

00:06:31.520 local governance there's even a few mayoral elections aren't there and the

00:06:36.560 welsh and scottish devolved parliaments

00:06:42.160 one thing to say behind this which just the sheer number

00:06:46.720 of councillors doesn't necessarily tell you right off the bat

00:06:50.240 it's how many actual councils each of these parties control but if you can imagine a council

00:06:56.480 is much like a very very very small in microcosm parliament or congress something like that where

00:07:04.800 there's a whole different number of very very varying numbers of councillors and only if

00:07:11.440 you've got the majority in your party do you quote unquote control the council right so there's one

00:07:19.120 thing to have the most councillors in any given council it's another thing to actually fully

00:07:25.600 control it i.e if things come down when things come down to votes if everyone turns up and votes

00:07:30.960 the right way you get what you want so reform could take hundreds and hundreds hundreds even

00:07:38.400 over a thousand even knocking two thousand off of labor that doesn't necessarily mean

00:07:44.320 That they will end up actually controlling

00:07:46.680 Loads and loads of councils

00:07:49.140 They will end up controlling quite a few

00:07:50.820 There's no doubt about that

00:07:52.320 But it seems like from sort of

00:07:55.320 You know, early polling, early suggestions

00:07:56.800 That Labour, as well as losing

00:07:59.260 Just

00:07:59.620 An untold number

00:08:02.000 Not untold, that's an exaggeration

00:08:04.180 Maybe as many as 2,000, 1,500

00:08:07.060 1,700, 1,800

00:08:08.420 Counsellors, they will lose control of loads of governments

00:08:11.700 Governments, loads of councils

00:08:13.780 reform will pick up most of the vast majority of those councils but won't necessarily pick up

00:08:22.220 control of those councils it's a sort of a key thing really like what is the actual reality

00:08:28.240 nature of power after all this thing after all of this shakes out there'll be reform much more

00:08:35.100 powerful on the ground labor much less powerful but not like the majority of councils up and down

00:08:42.900 country controlled by reform that's just something to take into account i think well it is nonetheless

00:08:50.020 it is sort of a fairly seismic change um you know reform have already done reasonably well

00:08:57.540 for a relatively new relatively small party in local affairs but now well they're the

00:09:02.820 dominant player aren't they absolutely no question about that all reform people and

00:09:09.460 Nigel Farage came rightly legitimately enjoy their win no doubt about it

00:09:16.420 one other thing to say then is about one small corner of East Anglia of Norfolk in Great Yarmouth

00:09:27.620 where Great Yarmouth first Rupert Lowe's organisation stood in all those nine walls

00:09:34.660 um well i was down there literally down there yesterday yesterday evening and

00:09:43.160 word on the street was that they're set to win at least six or seven of those if not all nine

00:09:50.560 there's only a small there's only really it's only you know one small little corner of england

00:09:59.400 because that was all that was physically kind of logistically possible for restore at that moment

00:10:08.600 in this at this moment in time because they are so new it was just never realistic for a restore

00:10:15.580 to sort of stood all over the country to vet enough people to do that next time there's more

00:10:23.800 next year more local elections next year so next year we'll see but so a little almost like an

00:10:28.960 experiment in rupert lowe's backyard you know he is the mp for great yarmouth the honorable member

00:10:35.900 for great yarmouth and yeah word on the street is that um it seems they'll do very well there

00:10:44.200 will that can that play out across the country even at a general election

00:10:49.120 does the message resonate with people we should see we can only see right we'll only have to wait

00:10:55.540 see um all right so that's sort of the main thing that's going on live it's still live going on we

00:11:06.740 are live early english council results show reform gains and labor losses as counting yet to begin

00:11:12.660 even yet to begin in scotland and wells and a number of other places i think in great yarmouth

00:11:16.740 the counting wasn't set to begin until about now i heard about 8 a.m so and the numbers aren't

00:11:23.700 gigantic like in general elections quite often it will be tens of thousands of votes that need to

00:11:29.460 be counted here it will be it's more like a couple of thousand in most worlds sometimes less even so

00:11:36.500 the cat the actual physical process of counting will be a lot quicker but nonetheless there's

00:11:43.140 still loads of results yet to yet to come in all right okay and then the next thing though as the

00:11:52.340 front pages show look time for starmer to stand aside so already immediately then the knives are

00:11:58.580 out i mean on rtv news labor suffer losses and reform make gains in early election results

00:12:06.100 the email yeah starmer's nightmare comes true as labor takes a local election battering

00:12:12.580 from reform in heartlands as farage uh boasts it proves he will still number 10. no it doesn't

00:12:19.700 It doesn't prove that at all

00:12:22.820 I'm afraid

00:12:27.460 It's a good indication

00:12:29.760 I mean, there's no doubt about that

00:12:30.920 It's a good bellwether and such things

00:12:33.020 But general elections and local elections

00:12:36.100 Are very, very different beasts

00:12:37.460 To be perfectly honest

00:12:38.440 It's not just like restore, cope

00:12:40.640 Coming from me there

00:12:41.660 They really are

00:12:42.560 Different parties perform very, very differently

00:12:46.160 At a general election and at local elections

00:12:49.180 a lot will change in the next two and a half three years before the next general election

00:12:53.640 if starmer doesn't call an early general election which isn't completely unfeasible

00:12:58.820 um people always also read too much into by elections and local elections

00:13:07.180 people always make the argument that whatever happened in that last by election or that last

00:13:12.540 round of local elections that is what exactly what's going to play out a general election

00:13:17.840 Not always the case, quite often not the case

00:13:20.560 But nonetheless, you can see why, for political reasons

00:13:24.140 You can see why reform and Nigel would say this

00:13:26.520 Why not? Why not try to capitalise on the good news, the momentum, all that sort of thing

00:13:32.000 Don't blame them, don't blame them, anyone would

00:13:33.820 That's party politics, isn't it?

00:13:36.720 It proves he will storm to number 10? No, it doesn't prove it

00:13:40.580 Okay, here's nightmare comes true

00:13:44.200 And here's just another graph

00:13:46.840 Maybe slightly more

00:13:48.480 Easy to see

00:13:49.860 The Tories as well

00:13:50.780 I think that's great

00:13:51.900 Olukemi Badenoch 0.86

00:13:55.320 The Nigerian woman 1.00

00:13:56.300 Somehow finds herself 1.00

00:13:59.300 LARPing as the leader

00:14:00.100 Of the opposition

00:14:00.760 The Tories

00:14:04.080 Are not doing well

00:14:05.520 Like she hasn't

00:14:06.340 She hasn't

00:14:08.760 Galvanised support 0.89

00:14:10.040 Does she 0.95

00:14:10.880 She's not like 0.97

00:14:11.820 She's not the answer

00:14:13.020 of the Tory party needed after that terrible 14 years and the complete car crash that was 0.57

00:14:18.780 the Boris wave Liz trust into Regnum and then the Rishi debacle. They needed something new and

00:14:29.140 amazing really. I don't know what they would need. They did something amazing sort of come back from

00:14:33.020 that. She doesn't seem to be it does she? Doesn't seem to be it. Most people I think other than

00:14:42.320 actual Tory party apparatchiks. They're not dying to see Kemi Badnock as the Prime Minister,

00:14:48.620 are they? No one's like, give us Kemi Badnock, we must have her to lead our country forward

00:14:54.220 into a new life. It was crazy after everything, after Rishi, that the Conservative party chose

00:15:09.000 or lukemi bad enough weird independence down as i say down a bit more and greens some people were

00:15:16.140 thinking that greens might do really well that there's people flooding away from labor and

00:15:22.080 they're flooding away from labor to the left and the right some people were saying you know green

00:15:28.240 people were hoping saying that yeah sure loads of the labor voters and conservative voters

00:15:33.520 were flooding away to the right i.e. to reform reform isn't right is it it's the same uni party

00:15:41.640 globalist containment nonsense nonetheless as far as the normie paradigm goes they're moving to the

00:15:50.560 right if they start voting to reform or reform some thought that maybe a lot of them would

00:15:55.560 would leave to the left i.e. greens basically not so much a bit a bit but not so much

00:16:03.520 if this trend plays out, which it probably will.

00:16:07.800 The idea that loads and loads of Labour supporters,

00:16:10.800 if they've had enough with Labour, for whatever reason,

00:16:14.480 that their natural home will just be somewhere to the left.

00:16:19.880 Whether it is Lib Dem, Green,

00:16:21.840 or one of the other much, much smaller lefty parties,

00:16:27.280 Socialist Workers' Party or something.

00:16:28.860 Well, it doesn't seem to be playing out

00:16:31.880 On any particular scale there, does it?

00:16:36.900 Yeah, a little Lib Dem picked up a bit

00:16:38.480 Green picked up a bit

00:16:40.840 But, you know, there were some fears

00:16:42.780 Sometimes you were able to see fear mongers even

00:16:45.500 Before today 0.63

00:16:47.140 Saying, like, you know, the Greens are like some sort of giant steamroller

00:16:51.800 Some behemoth 0.80

00:16:52.680 That Zach Polanski, real name David Porden

00:16:56.100 Will become Prime Minister next time

00:16:58.700 is there like an unstoppable force all the all the young people what see him as like the new hope

00:17:04.900 or something no not really not really it's mostly the story is just mostly a move from labour

00:17:16.180 straight to reform now i think that bodes well for restore really ultimately if you sort of zoom

00:17:23.780 out as a bit of a meta point that people if they are going to leave the center not that the current

00:17:29.620 labor party is centrist they are lefty they have left is nothing but if the general trend the

00:17:34.980 general movement is away from the so-called center it's largely to the so-called right

00:17:45.300 now it's not even particularly split down the middle it's almost entirely to the

00:17:49.140 quote unquote right well that bodes well for restore or any any parties on the right

00:17:55.300 to the right of the conservatives to the right of labor lib dem if that's the direction of travel

00:18:01.380 put it that way that's a turn of phrase gets used a lot doesn't it that's the direction of travel

00:18:05.780 well then good it's just the most general general overarching kind of a point good thank heaven

00:18:13.220 Alright

00:18:18.380 Then the knives

00:18:20.860 The knives are out

00:18:21.640 What was it in

00:18:22.320 Let's have a look

00:18:22.800 I think in the express

00:18:23.700 They had all sorts on this

00:18:24.920 Yeah look at the express

00:18:25.940 Reforms Nadim Zuhari 0.79

00:18:28.600 A complete Tory traitor 0.59

00:18:30.580 That Nigel somehow 0.90

00:18:31.880 For some reason

00:18:32.620 Opened with

00:18:33.320 Welcomed with open arms

00:18:35.340 Into reform

00:18:36.020 Nadim Zuhari

00:18:37.500 Reveals two things

00:18:38.660 That must happen next

00:18:39.920 To get rid of Keir Starmer

00:18:41.060 Everyone's just talking about

00:18:42.220 What happens next

00:18:43.200 to Sakir

00:18:43.860 Starmer bombshell

00:18:47.600 was Miliband

00:18:48.280 already quote

00:18:49.020 in secret talks

00:18:49.940 with PM to resign

00:18:50.840 quote

00:18:51.200 David Lammy

00:18:55.300 ridiculed over

00:18:56.080 car crash

00:18:56.560 Starmer analogy

00:18:57.360 I wish he hadn't

00:18:59.200 said that

00:18:59.660 let's just take that

00:19:00.520 let's just take this one thing

00:19:01.380 I said yesterday

00:19:02.960 didn't I

00:19:03.340 and it's an old

00:19:03.980 cliche

00:19:04.360 an old adage

00:19:04.920 you don't

00:19:06.020 change horse

00:19:06.880 mid stream

00:19:07.840 you're riding a horse

00:19:11.700 through a deep river

00:19:12.580 don't change horse in the middle of that that's that's crazy that'd be suicidal

00:19:16.660 well he used the analogy you don't change pilot mid-flight

00:19:20.600 exactly the same thing isn't it and john mcdonald

00:19:25.620 god i hate john mcdonald he was going to be corbyn's chancellor of the exchequer he's now

00:19:32.240 just a backbencher a proper true commie you know i call people commies a lot but that aren't

00:19:39.700 necessarily comes they're just lefties they're just socialists or something but john mcdonald was

00:19:43.020 truly is truly some sort of actual communist he said he this is his quote i wish he lammy hadn't

00:19:51.640 said that he makes a point sometimes you do want to change the pilot mid-flight though sometimes

00:19:57.160 you will need to the planes falling out of the sky and those diving or something might be best to

00:20:02.240 put someone at the controls that can fly an airplane i mean it's just quibbling over

00:20:07.520 analogies but basically the knives are out for starmer but burnham isn't an mp

00:20:15.280 angela the fridge rainer big bird is still embroiled with her hmrc stuff i believe i believe

00:20:22.520 you know ed milliband's had a shot he's had a his chance he's he's been the leader of the

00:20:29.580 Labour Party and failed, categorically, to win a general election, right, West Streeting

00:20:37.080 doesn't seem up to it, and will lose his seat at the next general election, definitely,

00:20:41.560 almost definitely, no one's really talking about Yvette Cooper, are they, no one's really

00:20:50.060 genuinely talking about Shibana Mahmood, there's certainly no obvious heir apparent,

00:20:59.580 to starmer so despite all the uh wranglings all the rumblings behind the scenes are these rumblings

00:21:07.900 um there's no obvious person to to him out of power and take over from him

00:21:14.620 we'll see how it plays out so it plays out whether whether the labor party the parliamentary

00:21:18.860 labor party anyway goes into some sort of full-blown meltdown over this or not or whether

00:21:25.580 they just kind of keep it together enough for the next few days week or two and starma although

00:21:32.780 heavily wounded again just holds on just through dint of there's no one else realistically no one

00:21:41.740 else all right should we head back to the paper to see what else is in the news cycle this morning

00:21:51.180 what else have we got that spy so the daily mail pure globalist slop trying to pretend it's 0.95

00:21:56.540 something other than leftist anti-western anti-white slop and that's exactly what it is

00:22:03.980 home office immigration official exposed a chinese spy 0.83

00:22:12.700 yep yep

00:22:14.060 He's one of two men guilty of surveilling dissidents for Beijing after a landmark trial

00:22:24.760 A Chinese spy ring has been convicted

00:22:29.840 So the trial's done, they're convicted

00:22:32.220 It's not just alleged that

00:22:35.260 They're convicted of running

00:22:38.620 Quote, shadow policing, quote

00:22:40.920 Operations on British soil

00:22:43.220 Cheeky isn't it 0.77

00:22:46.980 That's very cheeky of them

00:22:50.220 Espionage treason

00:22:56.900 In an unprecedented case

00:23:00.460 That goes to the heart of the civil service

00:23:03.340 UK border force officer

00:23:07.420 Peter Wei

00:23:08.300 His real name is like some long Chinese name

00:23:11.040 And he's put the word name Peter in there as well

00:23:13.940 I often get that

00:23:15.000 A Chinese person living in the West

00:23:17.900 In Britain and they've called themselves 1.00

00:23:19.140 Jeffrey or something

00:23:21.360 It's not their name, it's not their real name

00:23:23.580 They call themselves James

00:23:24.800 No, they call themselves Peter

00:23:27.120 No, their real name is a Chinese name

00:23:28.720 They just take on a Western name 0.85

00:23:32.040 To seem less foreign and alien

00:23:34.340 Peter

00:23:35.360 Peter Wei

00:23:36.820 And retired

00:23:39.680 and a hired hong kong police officer bill bill yuen spied on chinese dissidents living in the uk

00:23:50.720 and senior mps who supported them just reporting back to the chinese intelligence services in a

00:23:59.180 shocking breach of national security is it that shocking because we know this sort of stuff goes

00:24:02.900 on all the time, but okay, the mail decided to pretend they're shocked. In a shocking

00:24:09.720 breach of national security, Wei used his privileged access to home office databases 0.88

00:24:15.580 to supply intelligence to the Chinese. That's what they do. That's what they're doing massively 1.00

00:24:23.680 on dozens of different levels all over the country all the time.

00:24:27.880 Don't try and tell me that it's not a worry

00:24:33.020 They're not a threat

00:24:33.720 Oh the CCP doesn't affect me

00:24:38.520 Why are you telling me that they're a threat

00:24:40.820 When they don't affect me in any way

00:24:42.180 Get real

00:24:44.820 Of course they do

00:24:46.360 Of course they do

00:24:47.800 Okay

00:24:50.000 This little story down the side 1.00

00:24:52.620 This woman

00:24:53.840 Her estranged husband

00:24:56.940 Who took her two little dogs

00:25:00.100 And had them put down 0.89

00:25:00.960 So she stabbed him 0.99

00:25:05.460 Jailed 1.00

00:25:08.580 Waifu snapped when husband put her dashons down

00:25:11.160 That's in the news a bit today 0.91

00:25:16.660 That story, a few different places

00:25:17.940 I always think it's weird

00:25:20.180 If I was an editor

00:25:20.780 I just wouldn't go with

00:25:22.100 Hardly ever

00:25:23.940 An individual story like that

00:25:26.940 just to generate a few clicks, sell a few papers

00:25:31.640 it's horrible, salacious, mildly interesting, but it's not national news is it?

00:25:35.540 it's just not

00:25:37.900 The Telegraph, the Toregraph

00:25:40.380 and Dave Attenborough

00:25:43.040 is now a hundred years old 1.00

00:25:45.740 there's a queer styling with his Jewish wife 1.00

00:25:49.480 pretending everything's alright, she's laughing it up, she's having a good time 1.00

00:25:53.000 China exploited work from home to spy on UK 0.97

00:25:56.200 Apparently that was part of the element of the whole thing. 0.93

00:26:00.540 Because people work from home, work remotely,

00:26:05.120 it was easier for them to sort of electronically spy on them

00:26:08.300 exactly what they're doing and stuff.

00:26:10.320 As I understand, a lot of it is to do with Hong Kong.

00:26:14.060 Civil servant used remote working policy

00:26:16.080 to track Hong Kong dissidents in Britain.

00:26:19.360 If anyone doesn't know,

00:26:20.540 please don't be patronised if you do know all this.

00:26:22.700 And this is just 101.

00:26:23.940 How doesn't anyone know this, but

00:26:26.200 Hong Kong is, you know, a little island just off the Chinese coast

00:26:29.780 And it belonged to Britain until, what, 1997, 1999

00:26:35.800 When we had to give it back

00:26:38.100 Which we did

00:26:39.780 Chris Patton, Lord Patton

00:26:42.880 It was a whole little ceremony 1.00

00:26:44.900 Where we handed it back to the Chinese 1.00

00:26:46.440 It's now Chinese 0.96

00:26:49.880 It's now just fully a Chinese thing, Hong Kong

00:26:51.680 They had some sort of independent government, didn't they?

00:26:54.720 Semi-autonomous government and things

00:26:56.120 But over the years ever since then

00:26:57.940 And increasingly so 1.00

00:26:58.880 The Chinese crack down more and more on Hong Kong 0.57

00:27:01.820 Trying to bring it completely in line with mainland China 0.80

00:27:06.000 I.e. that the CCP have just absolute political

00:27:10.040 Absolute 100% political dominance there

00:27:12.100 Part of that is

00:27:14.460 Conflict with Hong Kong dissidents

00:27:19.720 Even if they're abroad, right?

00:27:22.680 that's the thing for a repressive communist government like in the soviet era if you've got

00:27:29.080 russia russian expats living abroad that are critics of the soviet regime

00:27:34.920 the soviets might send people to those countries wherever they are to spy on you and perhaps even

00:27:42.860 try to kill you it's not even in the soviet era just in the modern russian era all different 0.93

00:27:48.220 countries do all different stuff like this so the chinese are doing it with regard to hong kong 0.92

00:27:53.980 and that spills over on into our island right great

00:28:05.900 yeah open borders people or like boris will say britain should just accept

00:28:13.820 hundreds of thousands maybe millions of people from hong kong it's just sort of our duty now to 1.00

00:28:18.220 save them in some way in the ccp i don't think so

00:28:23.520 i don't think if there's anyone from hong kong here that is some sort of

00:28:29.580 worry for our safety and security and our civil society send them back anything

00:28:34.560 all right andrew threatened by a man in balaclava that's a story on a few front of these a few of

00:28:46.660 these front pages. We'll get to that.

00:28:48.600 Someone chased

00:28:49.640 Andrew Mountbatten.

00:28:52.560 Andrew Sexton, Kobo Gotha.

00:28:55.320 Prince Andy with a gun.

00:28:56.600 Didn't shoot him or hurt him in any way, but

00:28:58.180 we'll get to some of the details of this.

00:29:01.200 The Guardian.

00:29:01.640 Oh.

00:29:05.000 I'm too tired for that.

00:29:08.160 My stomach's too empty for that.

00:29:11.620 Criminals using photos

00:29:12.880 on school websites to create abuse imagery.

00:29:16.660 Headteachers advise to remove pupils pictures after blackmail attempt

00:29:25.660 There's more or less the same picture of Starmer and his missus

00:29:34.660 Two men guilty of spying for China, ok we've covered that haven't we

00:29:39.660 The Daily Express, oh it's a good paper

00:29:43.660 You can read your Daily Express now

00:29:47.500 I'm being sarcastic, it's not a good paper, that's an Alan Partridge quote

00:29:52.180 It's as much globalist slop as all the rest

00:29:55.600 The Express

00:29:56.980 Former shadow cabinet colleague calls for PM to go after local elections disaster

00:30:02.980 It is time for Starmer to stand aside

00:30:06.840 Proclaims

00:30:09.600 Barry Gardner

00:30:13.660 Barry Gardner who was in

00:30:17.040 I believe it said somewhere else

00:30:18.220 maybe somewhere else I read

00:30:19.140 he was a shadow

00:30:21.280 under the Corbyn

00:30:23.960 opposition

00:30:25.480 he was like a shadow

00:30:27.320 international trade secretary

00:30:29.020 so he's been in shadow cabinet

00:30:31.480 with Starmer before

00:30:32.760 ok

00:30:34.860 the papers have

00:30:35.960 they found one particular MP

00:30:37.660 who's prepared to stand up

00:30:38.860 and just explicitly say

00:30:39.780 to yell from the rooftops

00:30:42.800 It's time for someone to stand aside

00:30:44.380 So they just print that

00:30:45.260 Front and centre

00:30:46.000 Fair enough

00:30:48.080 Fair enough

00:30:49.740 That's what they think

00:30:50.960 The times

00:30:52.620 The venerable times

00:30:53.980 Greg Davis lost loads of weight

00:30:56.840 With that

00:30:57.720 With that drug

00:30:58.900 Or Zempick

00:31:00.960 Okay 0.99

00:31:01.380 Muslims open letter

00:31:04.540 Calls for solidarity

00:31:05.660 To curb anti-semitism

00:31:07.360 Okay

00:31:11.060 PM urged by Miliband

00:31:13.360 To set timeline for leaving

00:31:15.340 Bid to avoid Labour civil war

00:31:17.660 After local elections

00:31:18.760 It's this thing

00:31:20.200 I think I've mentioned it before

00:31:21.200 It's

00:31:21.600 Harking back to what happened

00:31:24.660 When Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

00:31:26.240 The transition of power

00:31:27.140 Between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

00:31:28.440 That was a very different time

00:31:31.120 A very different

00:31:31.700 At least a very very different relationship

00:31:33.660 Between

00:31:34.580 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

00:31:36.720 And

00:31:37.180 Starmer

00:31:38.080 And whoever's going to take over from it

00:31:39.320 It's just a completely different set of circumstances

00:31:40.780 Tony Blair had always promised Gordon Brown

00:31:43.680 At some point he would stand aside as Prime Minister

00:31:46.280 And let Gordon Brown be Prime Minister

00:31:48.180 That was some sort of pact or deal

00:31:50.380 They had with themselves

00:31:51.680 Before 1997

00:31:53.120 And in the end

00:31:55.800 Gordon Brown and Gordon Brown's people

00:31:57.240 Painted Tony Blair and Tony Blair's people

00:31:59.760 Into a corner

00:32:00.680 It took him like 10 years to do it

00:32:02.100 Painted him into a corner bit by bit

00:32:04.340 Over a decade

00:32:05.280 To the point where Tony Blair had to say

00:32:07.240 Alright

00:32:07.560 There is going to be a day

00:32:09.780 as a specific day when i step aside as prime minister they're sort of saying that well

00:32:16.720 miliband wants to do some and others want to do pull some similar trick on starmer but

00:32:21.500 there isn't an heir apparent and he never promised anyone he would do that it's just it's just not

00:32:26.800 it's just not the same thing all right david atonborough's 100 chinese shadow police guilty

00:32:35.520 of spying in UK okay we've done that the eye paper David Attenborough is 100 right we got it we got

00:32:40.340 it okay the front the blurb on the front page of the eye paper it's usually about the best thing

00:32:45.940 you get out of Fleet Street on any given day isn't it secret meeting hits Rayna Hope of of becoming

00:32:51.580 Prime Minister they're saying now she's not the front runner if the bookies you'd want to get

00:32:56.740 odds from a bookie she was sort of odds on favourite not anymore or the odds of Shortland

00:33:02.480 at least it says Angela Rayner met key power broker in Sheffield two weeks ago to canvas support

00:33:09.420 but left city empty-handed you're trying to drum up obviously anyone wants to be leader you need a

00:33:16.140 big a big chunk of the parliamentary party to be behind you like at least what is it 70 or 90 at

00:33:23.920 least to sort of start triggering things and realistically you would want well as many as

00:33:28.740 possible to then be a shoo-in to win it probably want 150 you want loads you want as many as

00:33:35.780 possibly can angela the fridge doesn't seem big bird doesn't seem to be able to muster quite that

00:33:43.100 many as many as she she would hope it says support of 100 labour mps in soft left quote tribune

00:33:50.680 group

00:33:51.460 a Bauer block

00:33:55.000 within the Labour Party

00:33:56.500 the Tribune group

00:33:57.840 will be crucial to any leadership

00:34:01.240 candidate with Mayor of Manchester

00:34:03.440 Andy Burnham now considered

00:34:05.280 front runner, that's weird he's not an MP

00:34:07.200 no one's even stepped aside to trigger

00:34:11.300 a by-election

00:34:13.840 for him

00:34:14.280 and there's no credible

00:34:17.540 evidence that the

00:34:19.000 the nec committee in labor would select him

00:34:23.320 and then is there any such thing as a labor safe seat at the moment

00:34:28.980 really that he's a shoo-in just to win that by election

00:34:32.800 so he's the front runner even though there's at least three things

00:34:37.160 three significant things standing between him

00:34:40.320 but he's the front runner now well that just shows doesn't it that just tells you

00:34:46.180 How sort of chaotic things are

00:34:49.260 How Keir Starmer is benefiting

00:34:52.900 From a dearth of talent

00:34:54.960 In the Labour Party

00:34:56.540 Some have said, and I think it's a correct take

00:35:00.160 That that's the main reason why he's still Prime Minister

00:35:02.580 Is there's no deep bench below him

00:35:06.840 Of talent in the Labour Party

00:35:08.780 If there was anyone that was sort of

00:35:10.700 Charismatic and well liked in the party

00:35:13.240 And the nation at large

00:35:14.540 sort of anyone then he would be in trouble would have been in trouble perhaps long before now

00:35:21.060 but there it just isn't what lammy or rainer or wes streeting or weirdo freakazoid ed milliband

00:35:29.440 there just isn't anyone is there all right you get it the financial times

00:35:33.540 there's keir starmer and his wife battle stations starmer faces voters verdict

00:35:40.360 all right and obviously something not obviously but something all about stocks and financial

00:35:44.860 fragility from the financial times the sort of thing you can expect the sun sunday with something

00:35:48.980 completely different kim kardashian's boobs the sun if you're only listening to this 0.82

00:35:55.200 the sun's headline is quote kim's boobs sprayed by car shop in kent that's their headline

00:36:04.220 and even though it's like a few days ago now they've got a picture of her at the met gala 0.62

00:36:09.120 wearing some crazy outfit.

00:36:14.140 There you go. 1.00

00:36:15.940 She's got like those 1.00

00:36:16.800 extremely pointy 1950s, 1.00

00:36:19.680 perhaps like Madonna,

00:36:21.780 late 80s, early 90s,

00:36:23.120 Madonna era, 0.99

00:36:23.820 really pointy boobs. 0.99

00:36:26.560 There you go. 0.99

00:36:27.600 That's the front page of The Sun.

00:36:30.360 Oh yeah, and here's the other story.

00:36:32.180 Armed threat to Andrew.

00:36:33.920 So the story is,

00:36:34.780 somewhere outside,

00:36:35.620 I think it was Sandringham,

00:36:37.060 the Sandringham Royal Estate.

00:36:39.120 like at the front of it i believe from what i gathered from what i've read this morning

00:36:43.640 at the front of that andrew was getting out of his car or something some other guy pulled up

00:36:49.360 wearing a balaclava and had a gun and he like shouted abuse at andrew and chased him a bit

00:36:56.440 but like security guards and or police very quickly apprehended him he never shot at andrew he never

00:37:01.740 I don't think he ever

00:37:02.620 touched Andrew or anything

00:37:03.740 but that happened

00:37:09.120 Andrew's completely

00:37:10.740 unscathed physically

00:37:11.980 and the guy that did it

00:37:14.820 has been arrested on

00:37:15.780 from what I gather

00:37:17.440 from this morning anyway

00:37:18.260 relatively minor charges

00:37:19.420 nothing like

00:37:19.980 attempted murder

00:37:21.900 or anything like that

00:37:22.480 but you know

00:37:23.220 it's like

00:37:23.720 brandishing a weapon

00:37:26.160 or something like that

00:37:26.720 I can't even remember

00:37:27.220 the exact charges

00:37:27.900 being threatening

00:37:29.060 that sort of

00:37:30.220 those sorts of charges

00:37:31.060 relatively i was about to say it's a relatively minor thing maybe it's not

00:37:35.920 that could have been a guy with real murderous intent couldn't it

00:37:41.020 anyway that happened that happened the metro oh god

00:37:46.380 don't please don't they've gone with something very different first of all something about

00:37:55.600 women's football don't care about women's football this is beneath contempt women's 0.82

00:38:00.880 football. It's not good. Don't tell me it's any good. It's not. The level of skill is 1.00

00:38:09.840 minimal. Anyway, on the front page, they go with, very dark thing, out of left field.

00:38:17.440 On the day of local elections, sort of seismic local elections, they've decided to go with,

00:38:23.480 Pride of limb transplants

00:38:25.840 Doner's mum

00:38:26.820 I touched the hand

00:38:28.680 That used to be my daughters

00:38:29.980 I mean

00:38:35.160 Interesting

00:38:36.060 Remarkable advances

00:38:37.260 In medical science

00:38:38.380 But

00:38:38.820 A bit relentlessly grim

00:38:43.580 Isn't it

00:38:44.000 Out of anything

00:38:44.820 In the entire world

00:38:45.640 You could report on

00:38:46.400 Anything

00:38:47.420 From Mr Trump's war

00:38:50.420 In the Straits of Hormuz

00:38:51.380 To

00:38:51.920 Sort of

00:38:53.420 A change in British politics

00:38:55.780 Like once in a century level

00:38:57.840 Seismic change in British politics

00:38:59.160 No 1.00

00:38:59.420 I guess this woman's daughter

00:39:03.180 Died 0.98

00:39:04.920 And they transplanted

00:39:07.780 Her hand or arm 0.99

00:39:09.400 Onto this woman

00:39:10.520 And now she's met her and touched her hand

00:39:13.680 I mean

00:39:14.080 Okay that's the news is it

00:39:15.660 Okay thanks Metro

00:39:16.360 I mean

00:39:17.760 The medical science part of it is remarkable

00:39:20.800 So that's good

00:39:23.420 could report on anything in the world though

00:39:25.720 bring him in that

00:39:27.560 alright

00:39:28.200 the Daily Mirror are to slop

00:39:30.300 some of the worst slop

00:39:32.460 in recent times

00:39:33.640 coming from the Mirror

00:39:34.480 up there with the star

00:39:36.920 they decide

00:39:38.300 anyway

00:39:38.500 they decide to go with

00:39:39.540 the Andrew Saxe-Cobo Gotha story

00:39:42.900 weapon threat to ex-Prince

00:39:44.980 Andrew in masked man terror

00:39:46.980 he's yelled at

00:39:48.700 and chased back to his car

00:39:50.060 after

00:39:50.500 after walk near Sandringham home

00:39:52.540 i've told you the essential details of that all right the star later you go with the sandringham

00:40:01.180 threat andrew chased by man in balaclava again some small credit just to reiterate

00:40:08.940 none of the results for the local elections were out when all this went to print

00:40:13.100 there's a reason why they're not actually going with any of that although they could

00:40:17.500 they could have of course reported on predictions of it but all right there you go they're the front

00:40:23.540 pages today they're the front pages we had a poll didn't we harry um all right i'm sorry i'll let

00:40:30.300 you bring that up for me okay we asked you guys is it time for for keir starmer to stand aside

00:40:38.220 You remember

00:40:40.440 That was like sort of the

00:40:43.040 Of the key things this morning

00:40:46.120 Bring that up Harry

00:40:47.940 Just so people

00:40:48.500 Time for Starmer to stand aside

00:40:50.840 So we asked you

00:40:51.440 We just took that straight to the people

00:40:53.020 The glorious band, the chosen few

00:40:55.320 The best among us

00:40:56.700 Oh, very good

00:40:59.380 Very good turnout

00:41:01.340 Just shy of 2,300 votes

00:41:05.800 In fact it's just ticked over

00:41:08.220 oh it's just ticked out it's just ticked over 2 300 votes not bad not a bad cross-section of

00:41:13.480 people there good good right we asked you is it time for Keir Starmer to stand down the eyes have

00:41:20.300 it 78% of you say yes 22% say no so I mean if I was taken out I would have clicked yes whether

00:41:30.740 he will is a different story we just said is it time for that we asked you is it time for that

00:41:36.500 It is, isn't it?

00:41:39.120 70%.

00:41:39.600 And the eyes have it.

00:41:40.960 There you go.

00:41:41.900 Good.

00:41:42.240 Thanks for voting.

00:41:43.000 Thanks for being in the chat.

00:41:44.980 Thanks for watching.

00:41:46.340 Oh, it's the 100th show today.

00:41:47.180 I didn't say that.

00:41:47.720 I was supposed to say that at the top of the show.

00:41:49.820 This is show number 100.

00:41:55.340 Of the Bo Show.

00:41:57.460 100 episodes.

00:41:58.400 That went quick, didn't it?

00:42:00.780 How's that possible?

00:42:02.900 Yeah, this is the 100th show.

00:42:04.840 So, there you go.

00:42:06.100 nice turn out there for it and um oh i'm supposed to mention

00:42:12.820 super super quick shill there's some more breakfast with bow merch sort of in celebration

00:42:19.780 of it in some way if you're interested in that okay okay i'm not spending too much time

00:42:24.660 i'm not particularly comfortable shilling it's part of my job but

00:42:30.580 oh like and subscribe as well i never really say that do i

00:42:32.820 you're watching this on you on the youtubes consider liking and subscribing get that bell

00:42:40.780 on smash the bell

00:42:43.620 we appreciate it though if you do do any of those things we would we would appreciate it does help

00:42:50.400 the algo all right have we got any other stories let's have a look at a quick few other stories

00:42:55.600 oh here's one it's just another story for the day mark hamill remember years ago

00:43:02.800 over 40 years ago

00:43:04.700 who played Luke Skywalker

00:43:05.720 his politics are mad

00:43:08.240 he's got TDS

00:43:09.760 that's that classic thing

00:43:11.480 if you criticise Trump in any way you've got TDS

00:43:14.080 if you back him up in any way 0.78

00:43:15.700 you're like pro-Israel 0.92

00:43:18.800 well anyway

00:43:22.960 or you can just call it how you see it

00:43:25.480 criticise him sometimes and back him up sometimes

00:43:27.520 but Mark Hamill's got

00:43:29.360 really got TDS

00:43:30.400 acute TDS

00:43:32.500 like a bad a bad terminal case of it okay the the headline says white house calls mark hamill

00:43:39.660 sick individual for trump grave post so this is what he did they've got it here here we go look

00:43:46.840 look mark hamill i don't know if he personally generated this ai image but again if you're

00:43:53.720 only listening to this there's an ai image of trump with his eyes closed you can only imagine

00:44:00.360 dead because his head is a gravestone that says donald j trump 1946 to 2024 that's weird that

00:44:07.040 you mentioned for but okay all right well with daisies pushing pushing up daisies it's obviously

00:44:13.440 supposed to be a dead trump and then so mark hamill mediocre actor he's not a bad actor is he

00:44:21.560 not a terrible actor he can carry a film just about he's not a brilliant actor

00:44:26.320 I re-watched A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi

00:44:30.500 Not too long ago

00:44:31.760 Six weeks ago, a month ago or something

00:44:34.280 He's not that great

00:44:35.860 He's not an amazing actor

00:44:38.300 Anyway

00:44:38.560 He posted on Blue Sky

00:44:41.080 It was on Blue Sky

00:44:41.900 That tells you quite a lot, doesn't it, already

00:44:44.820 So over the top of the picture of an AI generated picture of a dead Trump

00:44:49.240 Pushing up daisies

00:44:49.960 He put, if only

00:44:50.780 Then he wrote

00:44:52.900 He should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss in the midterms

00:44:59.400 Be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption

00:45:04.320 Impeached, convicted and humiliated for his countless crimes

00:45:08.320 Long enough to realise he'll be disgraced in the history books forevermore

00:45:12.760 Hashtag Don the Con

00:45:14.560 Mark Hamill, ladies and gentlemen

00:45:18.600 Mark Hamill

00:45:19.480 Bit tedious, isn't it?

00:45:22.900 a little bit rampant tds

00:45:26.440 i'm i'm less of a fan of donald j trump than i used to be but that's sort of mad at it like

00:45:37.380 example i despise keir starmer right obviously if you watch the bow show you know that despise

00:45:43.920 him an enemy of the state an enemy of the people traitor i still wouldn't make it i still wouldn't

00:45:51.560 do a post like that you're in a in fact i'll probably go to might go to prison in britain

00:45:55.000 for dinner but i still wouldn't like generate an ai picture of keir starmer pushing up daisies and

00:46:01.700 then write something like that all right so anyway mark hamill did that and um the white house

00:46:09.380 themselves basically anyway white house say mark hamill is one sick individual

00:46:16.260 They make the fair point, I think 0.85

00:46:19.140 Absolutely reasonable and fair point 0.96

00:46:21.000 They say, these radical left lunatics 0.97

00:46:23.160 Just can't help themselves 0.99

00:46:24.280 Pardon me 0.99

00:46:27.020 Radical left lunatics 0.99

00:46:33.380 Can't help themselves, this kind of rhetoric 0.99

00:46:35.060 Is exactly what

00:46:37.460 Has inspired three assassination

00:46:39.380 Attempts in two years against our

00:46:41.460 President, yeah, where's the lie in that

00:46:43.460 It is, isn't it

00:46:46.260 All right, that's just one story

00:46:48.460 One other story that's not

00:46:50.180 The local elections

00:46:51.960 This morning 0.99

00:46:52.960 And the Chinese spies

00:46:55.000 There is more going on in the Straits of Hormuz as well

00:46:58.380 I mean, it's gone before too

00:47:00.880 But there is more going on

00:47:02.640 In the Straits of Hormuz

00:47:04.140 In fact 1.00

00:47:04.840 The Iranians 0.57

00:47:07.160 The Iranians and the Americans 0.73

00:47:09.640 Exchanged fire 0.73

00:47:11.220 In the Straits of Hormuz

00:47:13.340 It seems

00:47:15.880 according to accounts the iranians did fire missiles and drones at u.s warships the u.s

00:47:22.400 shot everything out of the sky before it hit any of their ships

00:47:25.400 and then and then the americans what they they blew up a they fly back a bit beyond that they

00:47:34.180 they blew up some jetty or um they blew up some stuff on one of those islands right in the streets 0.57

00:47:40.520 of homus and trump called it a love tap he said you better make a deal fast we're trying to make 0.87

00:47:45.620 a deal here make it fast more saber rattling and things so all that's still going on well that's

00:47:51.900 still going on just for britain the local elections is the much bigger thing in the news cycle at the

00:47:57.880 moment all right let's move on then should we do on this day in history well look if you didn't

00:48:08.180 No, by the way, before we do that, Prince William, the Prince of Wales, will be king,

00:48:17.100 supports Villa, Aston Villa, Birmingham Football Club.

00:48:20.400 And they won a match, which means they'll get to the final of the Europa League.

00:48:26.760 Not bad for Villa, to be honest.

00:48:28.860 There we go, look, he's actually a human being, he celebrates football a bit.

00:48:33.040 That's news.

00:48:33.680 right on this day in history down through the centuries or even the millennia on this day in

00:48:40.240 history the 8th of may what happened of note should we have a quick five minutes of that at

00:48:44.020 the end of the show you guys seem to like that i like it okay on the 8th of may in the year 1660

00:48:50.080 english parliament proclaims charles ii king of england and invites him to return

00:48:57.120 So the restoration of the monarchy

00:49:00.240 Basically

00:49:00.780 After the interregnum

00:49:02.380 Of

00:49:03.540 Oliver Cromwell

00:49:05.680 And then Richard Cromwell

00:49:07.680 Queen Dick

00:49:08.320 And then General Monk

00:49:09.420 And then

00:49:11.800 Charles II

00:49:12.680 The restoration

00:49:14.100 I've got some content

00:49:15.940 Talking all about that

00:49:16.860 Sorry

00:49:17.820 I did

00:49:20.700 A while ago

00:49:22.540 I did a conversation

00:49:23.880 All about

00:49:24.680 Well largely about the restoration

00:49:26.700 Certainly when I get up to it

00:49:28.820 In my epoch series

00:49:29.520 All about the monarchy

00:49:30.200 I'm still only on

00:49:33.240 Henry VII

00:49:34.120 Henry Tudor at the moment

00:49:35.220 I'll do it all in

00:49:37.740 Fantastic detail at some point

00:49:39.000 Don't you worry about that

00:49:40.400 On this day

00:49:41.040 In 1835

00:49:42.000 First installment

00:49:44.100 Of Hans Christian Andersen's

00:49:46.620 Fairy tales

00:49:47.400 Is published in Copenhagen

00:49:49.540 In Denmark

00:49:50.100 Yeah of course

00:49:50.900 Staple of

00:49:52.860 Staple of

00:49:54.860 Childhood stories

00:49:55.920 Hans Christian Anderson

00:49:56.780 On this day in 1895

00:49:59.360 China cedes Taiwan to Japan

00:50:01.480 Formosa

00:50:03.140 Now called Taiwan 0.60

00:50:04.920 To Japan

00:50:06.140 Under the Treaty of 0.71

00:50:09.140 Shimonesseki

00:50:10.240 I'm probably pronouncing that incorrectly

00:50:12.480 But yeah the story of

00:50:15.520 Sort of the

00:50:16.160 Second half

00:50:18.160 Last quarter of the 19th century

00:50:20.640 And of course all of the 20th century

00:50:22.680 The story of the tensions

00:50:24.380 And various wars

00:50:25.760 Between China and Japan

00:50:27.720 Haven't got time to go into it all here 0.83

00:50:30.660 But of course

00:50:31.100 Find the paywall

00:50:32.880 Notices.com for as little as £5 a month

00:50:35.000 If you consider signing up

00:50:35.960 I've got at least one very long form piece of content

00:50:40.340 All about, I called it

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00:50:44.820 Quite a deep dive into 0.99

00:50:47.620 A look at Japan

00:50:48.660 Through the 19th century

00:50:50.640 All the way up to December 7th 1941

00:50:52.540 In Pearl Harbour 0.99

00:50:53.340 Of course I'm going to talk about their relationship with China

00:50:55.360 It's a key part of it

00:50:56.980 If you want a couple of hours of me

00:50:59.140 Talking about that or more

00:51:00.120 It's there, it's on the website

00:51:02.420 £5 a month

00:51:05.000 Over 260 episodes of Epochs now

00:51:08.000 Hundreds and hundreds of hours

00:51:10.660 Of me talking about history

00:51:11.840 It's not a bad deal

00:51:14.160 As well as hundreds of hours of other content as well

00:51:16.900 Alright, on this day, 1902

00:51:18.460 Mount Pelley

00:51:20.580 Am I pronouncing that correctly?

00:51:23.600 Probably not

00:51:24.320 on the French overseas island of Martinique erupts

00:51:27.940 wiping out the city of Saint-Pierre

00:51:31.120 killing 30,000 people

00:51:33.060 and leaving only two survivors

00:51:35.240 bad one, isn't it?

00:51:37.980 bad one

00:51:38.520 Martinique

00:51:40.400 I know it's glib and easy to say but

00:51:42.500 probably don't live on the slopes of an active volcano

00:51:47.860 words for the wires

00:51:50.500 if I could give advice

00:51:53.420 do you live on the slopes of an active volcano consider moving

00:51:58.500 all right on this day 1945 ve day it is via victory in europe day

00:52:04.340 world war ii ends in europe after germany's general wilhelm keitel formally signs unconditional

00:52:11.760 surrender to the allies represented by the united states the uk france and soviet union in berlin

00:52:17.700 germany signs an unconditional surrender i think i said yesterday because they went with

00:52:21.220 The surrender of the Germans 0.68

00:52:22.640 Just in the West yesterday

00:52:24.660 Under Yodel

00:52:25.600 I said yesterday

00:52:27.940 Wasn't it Admiral Dönitz

00:52:29.600 That signed the unconditional surrender

00:52:31.440 I thought it was

00:52:32.840 But they're saying it was Keitel there

00:52:34.220 It might have been both

00:52:35.160 But either way

00:52:35.960 Either way

00:52:36.900 The end of the war in Europe 0.74

00:52:40.820 Victory in Europe 0.65

00:52:41.880 VE Day

00:52:42.480 8th of May

00:52:43.160 On this day in 1980

00:52:44.740 World Health Organisation

00:52:46.520 Announces smallpox has been eradicated

00:52:49.000 Which is great 0.96

00:52:50.620 Smallpox 0.99

00:52:51.220 All throughout human history

00:52:53.520 The pox

00:52:54.100 Various types of pox

00:52:54.920 But largely smallpox

00:52:55.840 Has been an absolute horror

00:52:58.640 Untold numbers of people have died

00:53:02.780 In terrible, terrible misery

00:53:04.820 And pain

00:53:05.920 From smallpox

00:53:07.640 From the pox

00:53:08.620 Down through the millennia

00:53:11.960 It was almost or largely eradicated

00:53:16.020 It's not actually 100% eradicated is it?

00:53:19.220 Largely

00:53:20.720 Almost entirely eradicated

00:53:22.300 Great thing

00:53:25.020 Great thing

00:53:26.080 That we don't live in a world where that's

00:53:28.860 Something particularly you need to worry about

00:53:31.000 Alright

00:53:32.500 On this day in 2007

00:53:33.560 A new Northern Ireland executive is formed with

00:53:36.360 Ian Paisley

00:53:37.080 And Martin McGuinness

00:53:38.880 As Deputy

00:53:41.860 As Deputy First Minister

00:53:42.800 So yeah

00:53:44.540 Hopefully bringing a close to

00:53:46.760 You know

00:53:47.340 Ian Paisley

00:53:49.000 Arch

00:53:49.400 Arch Unionist

00:53:50.340 Mike McGuinness

00:53:51.120 Arch

00:53:51.700 Nationalist

00:53:52.500 Sinn Féin

00:53:52.920 Arch Republican

00:53:54.160 Hasn't really worked out brilliantly

00:53:57.600 I mean it's largely stopped the violence

00:53:59.260 Isn't it

00:53:59.780 Almost entirely

00:54:01.280 Though not entirely

00:54:01.880 There was a car bomb

00:54:02.640 Just the other day

00:54:03.180 Wasn't there

00:54:03.500 In Northern Ireland

00:54:04.140 It hasn't been

00:54:07.960 That government

00:54:11.000 That Northern Irish executive

00:54:13.660 Not

00:54:15.700 doesn't function that well does it if at all quite often okay and on this day last year 2025

00:54:23.460 that american cardinal became the 267th pope hopefully oh the 14th there you go that happened

00:54:31.480 this one year ago today all right let's have a look at our rumble rants and super chats

00:54:38.140 okay first of all then the rumble rants global church history and number one of course he is

00:54:45.700 you can't stop him you've got to get up real early in the morning literally

00:54:51.300 to get in before global church history

00:54:54.740 cheers brady appreciate the dedication absolutely love it thank you true super fan you say on this

00:55:03.160 day in 589 ad king saint record of the iberian visigoths convened convened the third council

00:55:13.500 of toledo to enter communion with rome and the wider nicene church when i see in church

00:55:21.340 i don't know a fantastic amount about that but i am aware of that that sort of thing the iberian

00:55:26.620 visigoths in the the late sixth century i don't i know about it but i don't know about it in

00:55:31.900 fantastic detail but obviously it's important for it being catholic is important for all the

00:55:42.700 centuries to come right with the conquests of the islamic hordes and then the reconquesta

00:55:49.180 and everything else the second second uh little on this day in history you give

00:55:55.260 and i've a great deal more about you say on this day in 1450 jack cage rebellion began cage rebellion

00:56:07.020 i'll talk about that in fantastic detail yeah

00:56:10.060 in fact i've just finished the wars of the roses the last handful of epochs

00:56:16.560 the last half a dozen maybe more has been about the reigns of

00:56:21.760 richard iii edward the fourth henry the sixth the wars of the roses

00:56:26.940 and jack cage rebellion is right at the beginning of that when henry the sixth is still undisputed

00:56:35.560 king and although Jack Cade he marched on London he had a very very small army 200 odd knights or

00:56:41.720 something so barely an army but arms retainers marched on London entered London didn't really

00:56:47.080 mean to start ransacking it and pillaging it and looting it but his men just did eventually the

00:56:52.820 people of London rose up and kicked him out but anyway point is and he wasn't 100% a Yorkist he

00:56:58.540 wasn't sort of explicitly like a Yorkist partisan but it was essentially an action that completely

00:57:07.640 benefited the Yorkists the King Henry VI was a Lancastrian so it's sort of a precursor and sort

00:57:14.460 of an opening an opening scene in the Wars of the Roses before the Wars of the Roses had really

00:57:21.160 kicked off.

00:57:23.280 Cade Rebellion, again, talk all about it

00:57:25.180 in detail on Epochs.

00:57:27.740 If you're so inclined

00:57:29.160 to pay £5 a month

00:57:31.180 to get behind that paywall.

00:57:32.980 Alright, thank you Global Church History.

00:57:35.780 Next, for Tim Barber, another superfan.

00:57:37.420 Thank you, sir. You say,

00:57:39.040 good morning, mate. Morning.

00:57:40.900 What a day!

00:57:42.580 The USA is supposed to be disclosing

00:57:44.920 aliens at 8am Eastern.

00:57:49.240 I'll be looking out for that.

00:57:51.160 what's that you like say is it seven i never remember oh i should know this after my head by

00:57:56.460 now seven or eight hours ahead so this afternoon uk time okay i will be keeping my my my bdi on

00:58:04.980 that one you should say labor rook a tank oh you must be labor took a tanking great yama first

00:58:15.300 May have done the job

00:58:16.520 In the elections

00:58:17.280 What a time to be alive

00:58:18.860 Yeah

00:58:19.100 Also of course

00:58:20.920 Waiting for the results

00:58:21.940 Coming in Great Yarmouth

00:58:22.920 To see

00:58:23.360 If

00:58:24.780 They got a clean sweep

00:58:26.160 Of all nine

00:58:26.620 Or if they got none

00:58:28.440 It's unlikely

00:58:30.400 It looks like

00:58:30.940 That does seem

00:58:32.000 Very unlikely

00:58:32.560 But we'll see

00:58:33.480 Those results are yet to come in

00:58:34.960 Okay

00:58:36.380 Thanks for team Barber

00:58:37.300 Tomrat247 says

00:58:38.940 Prediction

00:58:39.580 Starmer will only leave

00:58:41.380 When he's achieved

00:58:42.360 Whatever objectives

00:58:43.240 He had to get

00:58:45.300 his sign occurs from the Davos network my guess is EU rule-taking at the Whitehall level

00:58:52.980 possibly quite possibly if that's exactly what happens and what plays out I wouldn't be surprised

00:59:01.440 yeah who knows of course exactly but that's a believable scenario isn't it yeah Matthew C

00:59:12.460 another super fan cheers matthew cheers matthew you the last two are you of the rumble rants you

00:59:19.160 say held my nose and voted reform having decided to go against my accelerationist instincts 0.52

00:59:25.640 if nigel is still doing cameos might ask him for a shout out to big chungus yeah

00:59:31.740 number of funny things there yeah me and also nate on our other channel were asked like what 0.97

00:59:38.180 would we do we said either spoil your ballot abstain or vote reform because it's still the

00:59:45.140 best of the rest and reform councillors might somewhere over the next two and a half three

00:59:48.960 years flip to restore so worth it for that so i don't blame you at all and uh yeah apparently

00:59:57.360 nige isn't doing cameos anymore shame there's a moment in time end of an era 0.92

01:00:02.540 yeah i saw i saw actually this morning where he took remember he took five million pounds

01:00:08.560 it's just a gift from a crypto millionaire or billionaire even just took five million

01:00:13.560 pounds as a gift apparently there's nothing wrong with that richard dicey dicey saying

01:00:19.200 nigel can't be bought he could be bought for 70 quid on cameo so what you're talking about 0.95

01:00:25.340 Of course he can

01:00:25.800 Of course

01:00:27.500 Nigel's above any of that sort of thing

01:00:31.060 Doubt it

01:00:32.900 Okay

01:00:33.580 Nigel C also says

01:00:34.780 The video of Keitel signing the surrender is on YouTube

01:00:38.780 His face noticeably drops

01:00:40.620 Halfway through

01:00:42.420 When he realises he won't be allowed to go home

01:00:45.220 Having surrendered like a quote

01:00:46.980 Surrendered like a gentleman quote

01:00:48.540 Yeah

01:00:49.500 Yeah

01:00:52.600 Gonna have to be put on trial

01:00:53.660 for that you lost so well does curtis lemay go on trial nope barman harris nope

01:01:02.560 that's how it works that's just how it works all right should we uh can you harry can you bring

01:01:09.940 me youtube uh ones for me there you go oh it's quite a few today it's quite a few today

01:01:15.620 and a big turnout in the uh in the poll we've got is it quite a good day for viewers harry

01:01:22.020 oh it is yeah sweet people tuning in perhaps to see the results maybe even the great yarmouth

01:01:28.260 results afraid we haven't got them yet i'll be talking all about it on monday morning though

01:01:32.660 don't you worry about that all right here we go let's whip through them a little bit

01:01:37.060 mr dicky bingo another super fan how are you this morning sir 0.83

01:01:40.980 not mr dicky bingo no it is mr dicky bingo not mr dinky bingo dicky bingo get it right bo come on

01:01:50.320 you say there just happy 100th lads cheers buddy cheers it's our 100th birthday the c note

01:01:58.300 all right thanks mr dickie bingo cheers the next one uh the k-man live says went to my first

01:02:09.740 restore branch meeting great vibes everyone normal sensible and aligned gives real hope

01:02:15.160 Love Bo's Breakfast Club

01:02:16.620 The Real BBC

01:02:17.180 Who needs Mike Graham

01:02:19.580 Or Jez Kyle

01:02:20.360 Quiet

01:02:20.860 And then an emoji

01:02:22.060 Of someone being sick

01:02:23.440 Yeah

01:02:25.260 I concur with

01:02:27.680 Everything you've said there

01:02:28.720 And all the sentiments

01:02:29.400 Yeah

01:02:29.680 People

01:02:32.100 For example

01:02:32.640 The people in

01:02:33.320 Great Yarmouth

01:02:34.560 The restore people

01:02:36.600 Yeah

01:02:37.600 Really normal

01:02:38.640 Sensible people 0.91

01:02:39.400 Just don't want to see 1.00

01:02:41.620 Their country utterly

01:02:42.560 Destroyed

01:02:43.340 By leftists and communists 0.99

01:02:45.020 and traitors and fifth colonists. That's all. They just don't accept that they must have 0.95

01:02:50.920 an out-group preference only. Not evil. In the years to come, they will try and paint

01:02:58.160 us as evil, Nazis, bigots, all that stuff. No. We're just British people, English people

01:03:03.760 that don't want to be demographically replaced, ultimately annihilated in our one and only

01:03:08.760 ancestral homeland, become a hated and marginalised minority in our own land, and then ultimately 0.92

01:03:13.900 wiped out entirely i want to see england britain turned into a yugoslavian nightmare that's too 0.55

01:03:20.940 much to ask apparently it is but you love beau's breakfast class like beau's breakfast club

01:03:27.020 of course you do it's not to love it's brilliant it's the most based breakfast show isn't it i mean

01:03:33.020 that's not even just me mucking about and playing around with hyperbole and

01:03:37.020 very much it's a matter it's a statement of fact

01:03:39.500 that this is the most base takes you'll get at breakfast time fairly easily isn't it

01:03:47.580 i don't have to try to outbase mike graham or jeremy kyle they're milquetoast weaklings aren't

01:03:57.800 they they're nothing they're sort of nothing in terms of base takes not in terms of the scales

01:04:09.320 ac1d helm says said no to poll as restore needs uh the three years to build

01:04:17.780 what exactly was our poll again harry can you bring it up for me

01:04:21.880 didn't we ask about keir starmer is it time for starmer to stand aside okay i see what you mean

01:04:29.200 doesn't necessarily i see what you're saying i see exactly what you're saying but starmer standing

01:04:33.280 aside doesn't necessarily mean a general election it might mean that he has i think he has threatened

01:04:39.060 at least behind closed doors to call a snap general election in which case what you've said

01:04:42.980 there ac1d helm is exactly right but it may just be he stands aside so that someone else in labour

01:04:49.920 becomes a leader and there's not actually a general election but fair point anyway if he did

01:04:53.860 call a if he did call a snap general election it's too early for restore isn't it you're making that

01:05:00.380 point which is a perfectly valid point all right thank you something wickedly says no id required

01:05:08.180 in scotland to vote no idea is it

01:05:15.380 oh is that shona thanks shona um yeah no idea is it so all the bomb aliens that have

01:05:21.620 been allowed in up there they get a vote

01:05:26.660 great okay ezek 86 says are the great yarmouth results in yet no i'm afraid not

01:05:34.420 also unironic no vote on starmer standing down he needs to absolutely destroy a public opinion

01:05:40.860 on labor and become the last elected labor mp as a fair little bit of accelerationism there

01:05:46.440 i totally understand your point i said before i'm not a defeatist i i reject i deny defeatism

01:05:53.280 a little bit of acceleration i'm largely not an accelerationist either but a little bit

01:05:58.460 my accelerationism is at like a two out of 10 or out of 11 i'm at a two i don't completely

01:06:07.160 reject some of it is possibly necessary still isn't it so i see your point and you may well

01:06:12.800 be right you may well you may well be perfectly right you know never interrupt an enemy when

01:06:21.220 they're making a mistake it does come at the cost of our country though but yeah maybe you're right

01:06:28.320 though. Maybe you're right. That is the grander strategic thinking. Yeah. You may well be

01:06:33.960 right. Okay. Something Wickedly again says, would you rather be sticky or itchy? I don't

01:06:46.440 know about that. I don't know if there's any sort of subtext there, but if there's not,

01:06:54.980 sticky being itchy is horrible isn't it it's almost like torture okay

01:07:02.400 faux hammers spelt with all different letters and numbers in there i think it's like faux

01:07:09.080 hammers says done my part in wales voted the heritage party oh fair enough was that as um

01:07:16.580 david curtain isn't it heritage party i thought they were still i didn't i wasn't sure they're

01:07:22.580 even still going but um one of the much much more smaller right of center parties there heritage

01:07:29.100 they're enough good if that's what your heart said for you to do well done okay no name jack

01:07:36.260 401 for a decent for half decent amount of money there thank you very much sir says

01:07:40.240 my grandparents were from the uk it was my dream to have dual citizenship but i'm not brown so it

01:07:47.620 wouldn't be easy and i'd be arrested already and it's dollars is that american dollars or aussie

01:07:53.700 dollars i think u.s dollars and you say um at least you're heading in the right direction

01:07:58.920 oh cheers from phoenix arizona cheers buddy appreciate that phoenix arizona is that one

01:08:05.820 of the hottest places on earth phoenix arizona isn't phoenix arizona statistically one of the

01:08:11.340 hottest large cities in the world amazing anyway amazing thanks for watching it still does blow my

01:08:17.860 mind when people say i'm watching from somewhere a long long way from wiltshire

01:08:23.280 somewhere on the other side of the world from the west country of england i appreciate it thank you

01:08:31.760 thank you sir thank you for the money we really do appreciate it keeps the lights on makes a

01:08:37.860 difference thank you christian 3698 says says i like turtles and a little turtle emoji picture

01:08:47.720 thing thank you did i do it right did i do the voice right i like turtles turtles okay

01:09:00.640 yogi big house one says what's happening with rupert i'm from australia so i don't know

01:09:08.880 well he's hoping well you're great yama first hoping to win the council there

01:09:15.120 that's what's happening with him didn't actually get to see him yesterday in person but saw all

01:09:20.620 the other pretty much all the other main players um in the party that rupert himself was uh because

01:09:26.540 tonight really will be hopefully anyway the celebration night

01:09:30.700 so that's what's going on with him at the moment hoping to get a local victory something wickedly

01:09:40.420 again says rupert will get yarmouth kemi should go home fair fair point her ancestral homeland

01:09:48.400 you mean nigeria yeah something wickedly again says all labor women look like rose west

01:09:55.280 There's a touch of the Rose West 1.00

01:09:58.200 About loads of 1.00

01:10:00.120 Labour female MPs 1.00

01:10:02.080 Aren't there 1.00

01:10:02.360 Whether it's the hair

01:10:04.860 Or whether it's the psychosis in the eyes

01:10:07.100 There's something isn't it

01:10:10.460 You're right

01:10:10.980 Okay

01:10:13.200 Jack Stretch Jones

01:10:14.780 1430

01:10:15.740 Doesn't say anything and just gives 2 quid

01:10:18.340 So thanks for that

01:10:19.100 There's still a fair few more here

01:10:23.200 Quite a few more

01:10:23.720 So I have to whip through them a bit

01:10:25.480 Because I'm on the podcast as well today

01:10:26.780 I'm supposed to be on the afternoon podcast

01:10:28.040 So I've got to sort my segment out for that

01:10:30.100 So there's quite a few more

01:10:31.240 Let me whip through them unfortunately a bit

01:10:33.040 Gavin Ziggler says

01:10:34.080 In Wales

01:10:35.060 Plaid are going to do well

01:10:37.640 Plaid, however you pronounce that

01:10:39.260 I can read

01:10:39.800 Strange though 0.53

01:10:41.840 Nationalists who believe in open borders

01:10:43.940 Obsessed with both culture, retention and erosion

01:10:47.480 Yeah, it's weird isn't it?

01:10:48.580 Yeah

01:10:48.720 How the Scottish Nationalist Party

01:10:51.040 Aren't nationalists

01:10:51.660 They're open borders

01:10:52.300 The Welsh nationalists are open borders

01:10:55.400 The Irish nationalists are open borders

01:10:58.300 Weird

01:11:00.080 It's weird

01:11:01.660 You know, they really want to protect their own culture

01:11:04.020 And languages and stuff 1.00

01:11:05.720 And import an uncapped number of people 0.98

01:11:08.820 Uncapped 0.98

01:11:09.400 From anywhere in the world

01:11:11.320 Weird

01:11:12.800 Okay, Yogi House Warren again says

01:11:15.760 Is that Keir

01:11:17.880 If that Keir Starmer gets booted from office

01:11:20.600 i buy some timothy taylor pale owl mark my words and celebrate beer like 12 dollars in australia

01:11:29.920 okay good yeah have a beer celebrate it break open a bottle of champers yeah do

01:11:37.140 the mma guru doesn't say anything and just gives 10 quid thank you very much sir

01:11:42.960 thank you very much the mma guru something wickedly again says the fridge stopped wearing

01:11:50.440 my gran's curtains yeah angela the fridge rainer big birds dress sense is

01:11:57.800 i mean some people might say my ensemble is a bit much

01:12:05.240 harry go to the other there you go

01:12:11.320 some people might criticize my dress sense many more people criticize angela rayner's dress sense

01:12:16.520 Shona thinks she looks like she's wearing her gran's curtains

01:12:19.760 Yeah

01:12:20.100 Dodgy shoes

01:12:23.100 Mr Dickie Bingo says

01:12:25.620 Nice merch but for tea

01:12:28.660 The inner colour of a cup must be white

01:12:30.980 Noted

01:12:32.700 Have a good kip later Bo

01:12:36.360 Yeah I'm tired

01:12:37.460 I'm going to go to bed early tonight

01:12:39.740 Shattered

01:12:40.480 Looking forward to tea shop coverage of the circus next week

01:12:44.580 Thank you

01:12:45.020 Stay in politics

01:12:46.180 Yeah, thank you very much.

01:12:48.680 It's the Tiki Bingo.

01:12:50.800 Cheers, sir.

01:12:56.100 LittleTesla9733 says,

01:12:57.280 Happy 100 show, my Bosef,

01:13:00.700 from your favourite day one, smiley face.

01:13:04.200 Thank you.

01:13:05.120 Appreciate that.

01:13:07.000 It did go quickly, didn't it?

01:13:07.900 100.

01:13:08.600 Harry, how do you feel?

01:13:09.440 You've been there since the beginning?

01:13:11.740 Yeah, it's great.

01:13:13.080 It's a bit of an achievement, isn't it?

01:13:14.340 a bit of a body of work already yeah it's crazy when you do something every day that's that up

01:13:18.760 quick don't they 100 and he's to 100 more a thousand more why not why not 10 000 more

01:13:27.500 it's not getting carried away all right great but thank you very much there

01:13:33.280 double o stefan says morning would you do a podcast or interview with neil oliver i would

01:13:39.880 love to i'm a massive new oliver fan over the years like over the previous five years or so

01:13:46.100 i've been in contact with him on and off i think he follows me on twitter i certainly follow him

01:13:49.660 and i think he does we've had either dm exchange or email exchanges and he said he would come on

01:13:55.780 once or twice and then it just hasn't happened and i i don't know there's a few people like

01:14:01.960 david starkey and a few others jeremy from the quartering was gonna have them on and for whatever

01:14:06.560 reason just didn't happen it's not always it's actually not always easy but um i would love to

01:14:12.140 chat to neil oliver proper fan honestly there's not that many people in the world i would just

01:14:19.840 fanboy over right a dozen at most in the whole world neil oliver's one of them i think he's great

01:14:26.060 I really do

01:14:26.760 Some of his rants

01:14:29.220 Are

01:14:30.720 Pure quality

01:14:32.900 Pure quality

01:14:34.960 A man of substance

01:14:36.420 And integrity

01:14:37.340 Neil Oliver

01:14:39.340 Let's do it

01:14:41.680 Okay

01:14:44.700 Lone Wolf and Cub

01:14:50.280 668 says

01:14:51.180 Hadrian did nothing wrong

01:14:53.180 You can only

01:14:55.960 You can only possibly

01:14:56.700 Be talking about

01:14:57.380 Making a wall

01:14:58.700 In the north of England

01:14:59.980 That's what

01:15:00.520 You're referring to that

01:15:02.580 Those who know know

01:15:11.480 Phil Marshall

01:15:12.800 Don Brennan

01:15:13.220 Doesn't say anything

01:15:14.160 But 10 Aussie bucks

01:15:15.580 Cheers

01:15:15.900 And a thumbs up emoji

01:15:17.400 Thank you Don

01:15:19.080 Thank you love

01:15:20.100 Appreciate it

01:15:20.860 Another super fan there

01:15:21.860 Brilliant stuff

01:15:22.780 Okay, and we've got three more

01:15:26.860 Aristotle Luton says

01:15:29.940 Thoughts on John Terry

01:15:31.480 Football has gone wokey

01:15:34.480 I'm aware that he's said some mildly based things recently, isn't he?

01:15:38.660 I think

01:15:39.040 I might be wrong about that

01:15:40.000 I don't follow John Terry at all

01:15:42.660 But I'm aware of that

01:15:43.580 As for a footballer

01:15:45.100 He was really good, wasn't he?

01:15:46.140 He was great

01:15:46.420 He was great

01:15:47.840 He captained Chelsea through some of their best times

01:15:50.700 And England captained

01:15:52.020 Not so great as the England captain

01:15:54.500 But still good

01:15:55.060 He was a very, very, very, very, very good footballer

01:15:58.120 Wasn't he?

01:15:59.800 But as for his politics

01:16:00.640 I believe, isn't he sort of

01:16:03.380 A bit like

01:16:03.920 Matt Letizia

01:16:05.640 Where he's based

01:16:06.760 I think

01:16:07.380 Am I wrong about that?

01:16:08.520 I don't follow him closely

01:16:09.460 I reckon I've got a long form interview

01:16:12.080 With Matt Letizia

01:16:12.880 Talking all about

01:16:13.660 Late 80s and 1990s football

01:16:16.080 With football legend

01:16:19.900 Matthew Letizia

01:16:21.240 One of the greatest, if not arguably

01:16:23.780 Statistically the greatest penalty taker

01:16:25.760 Of all time

01:16:27.040 Of all time, Matt Letizia

01:16:29.160 He's better than

01:16:31.600 Better than Messi, better than Cristiano Ronaldo

01:16:33.940 Statistically at taking penalties

01:16:36.280 Southampton and England's Matt Letizia

01:16:42.000 Do you think he's got a long-form

01:16:43.220 Conversation with me and him?

01:16:45.220 Oh yeah, oh yeah

01:16:46.500 Oh yeah, it's there

01:16:48.800 I wouldn't mind having a conversation with John Terry

01:16:51.320 That'd be cool

01:16:51.880 I doubt he'd come on, but who knows

01:16:54.000 John Terry, if you see this

01:16:56.140 The invite's open

01:16:57.940 Come talk to me about politics 1.00

01:17:00.220 About how crap women's football is, yeah 1.00

01:17:03.240 We'll listen to you here 1.00

01:17:04.680 We'll give you a fair hearing here

01:17:06.080 In fact, I'll heartily agree with you

01:17:07.920 If that's one of your takes, I don't even know

01:17:10.340 Alright, let's move on

01:17:11.360 Alright, last two

01:17:13.000 VicksGB says

01:17:16.120 Congratulations on your 100th

01:17:18.540 Bow and Harry

01:17:19.080 Thank you

01:17:19.700 Thank you

01:17:20.200 Appreciate it

01:17:21.120 Based

01:17:22.200 Based entertaining

01:17:24.380 And informative way

01:17:25.460 To start the morning

01:17:26.360 Yeah

01:17:27.140 Isn't it

01:17:27.660 Brilliant

01:17:27.840 Thank you

01:17:28.680 It is

01:17:30.380 You won't find

01:17:31.580 Based takes

01:17:32.600 In the morning

01:17:33.560 You won't

01:17:34.960 And the final one

01:17:38.380 Oh

01:17:38.880 Field Marshal

01:17:41.760 Dawn Browning

01:17:42.600 Has sent

01:17:44.460 100 Aussie dollars

01:17:46.100 thank you i think that's a record isn't it harry we haven't had anything bigger than that we

01:17:53.080 yeah by far wow yeah dawn dawn oh thank you thank you wow and you say 100th

01:18:06.640 with like smiley party faces and stuff 100th well done bo get that other chap a nice guitar pick

01:18:16.100 is that is that you or should be big harry because big harry plays guitar doesn't he famously he's

01:18:21.100 an actual guitarist he's really good big harry i mean genuinely can shred professionally good

01:18:26.780 he's that good maybe dawn's talking about get him a guitar pick but don't hundred aussie dollars

01:18:32.840 well thank you very much what what and that's the last one what a way to end the 100th bow show

01:18:39.240 what a hire to end it on thank you thank you so much god really appreciate it

01:18:46.100 lovely i'm flattered i really am flattered all right that's the show is 19 minutes past nine

01:18:51.620 in the am british summer time on friday the 8th of may in the year of our law 2026.

01:18:56.820 you've been a very very great audience a big audience today and everything interacting all

01:19:02.020 over the show love it you're the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters

01:19:08.740 Without you it's nothing

01:19:11.000 Nothing without you

01:19:13.480 So thank you

01:19:15.340 From the bottom of my heart

01:19:16.200 Try and make the best of the day ahead

01:19:18.240 And indeed the weekend ahead

01:19:19.160 If you can

01:19:19.620 It's not always easy

01:19:20.620 When you're grown up

01:19:21.900 You've got loads of responsibilities

01:19:23.080 If you have got any free time

01:19:25.500 Try and make the best of it

01:19:27.840 Carpe diem

01:19:28.660 Seize the day

01:19:29.120 It's the most valuable thing

01:19:30.320 You will ever have

01:19:31.220 By far

01:19:32.640 By far

01:19:34.000 Try and make it count

01:19:35.360 If you can

01:19:35.960 Alright I don't want to get too preachy

01:19:37.060 Until Monday morning then

01:19:38.220 Take care.

01:20:08.220 We'll see you next time.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 08, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 8th May 2026

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