The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 9th October 2026

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00:00:31.660 it's now friday thank f it's friday right am i right uh the 9th of october in the year of our

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00:02:22.760 okay that really is it okay i promise that's it that's it we'll get into the news today

00:02:27.640 we'll get into the news now that's what uh this show is supposed to be what's in the news cycle

00:02:34.040 on any given morning to keep you up to date with what the normies are having rammed down their

00:02:38.680 throat by the legacy corporate lamestream media a cabal of evil quite frankly evil fleet street

00:02:44.280 editors not just the fleet street ones tv ones as well all right what have we got on this friday

00:02:51.160 morning this dreary and rainy friday morning in wiltshire all right we've got stark warning over

00:02:58.600 adhd again the stories about adhd and andrew wins legal fight probably only just bought himself

00:03:05.880 some time but anyway andrew wins a legal fight before we get into it the guardian the guardian

00:03:10.280 before we get into that though as happens some days the biggest news story of the day

00:03:16.760 is something that happened after the fleet street went to print so let's talk about that first it is

00:03:23.400 The biggest story in the news cycle

00:03:25.480 As of this morning

00:03:26.700 But it didn't happen until

00:03:29.360 What, half past two in the morning, three o'clock in the morning

00:03:31.460 It was only a few hours ago

00:03:33.280 Which was the result of that by-election

00:03:35.680 In Holborn and St Pancras

00:03:36.920 So it's not on any of the front pages

00:03:38.840 Because it just simply didn't happen yet

00:03:40.540 Okay

00:03:42.420 Well

00:03:44.020 This woman won, this Somalian woman

00:03:47.620 Won and Zak Polanski

00:03:49.460 Real name David Paulden

00:03:50.540 This dysgenic freak

00:03:53.040 He lost

00:03:54.760 So that is the biggest story

00:03:57.580 Look, it's BBC, front and centre BBC

00:03:59.260 ITV

00:04:01.020 Sky

00:04:02.760 The Mail

00:04:05.540 The Sun

00:04:08.540 Green with Envy

00:04:10.180 Okay, so that is the biggest story

00:04:12.440 So let's talk about that first

00:04:13.960 Alright, so

00:04:15.780 It was, if you remember

00:04:17.340 So queer styling, the styling bot

00:04:20.200 2.0's seat

00:04:21.860 it's always been Labour

00:04:23.840 well ever since they

00:04:25.600 last time they rejigged the boundaries

00:04:28.180 parliamentary boundaries

00:04:29.980 so it's always been Labour I believe

00:04:31.840 that's the case

00:04:32.380 I mean you wouldn't put the leader of your party

00:04:36.120 you wouldn't let him stand

00:04:37.660 if it wasn't an uber safe seat

00:04:39.740 ultra safe seat

00:04:41.540 so Labour were

00:04:43.840 always expected to win it

00:04:45.460 it was theirs to lose put it that way

00:04:47.620 but some of the polling

00:04:49.720 suggested that the Greens might well

00:04:51.600 do well you know if greens are going to take any seats it's almost certainly going to be off of

00:04:55.920 a labor or perhaps a lib dem uh incumbent so david paulden who bizarrely has decided to

00:05:04.000 call himself zach your name's david mate all his family probably did call him david

00:05:13.600 he grew up in a zionist household you see oh his words this morning talking about zionism

00:05:18.960 We'll get into that in a moment

00:05:19.920 He grew up in a Zionist household

00:05:22.200 That's his words this morning

00:05:24.120 He thought he might be able to nick it

00:05:27.420 And well

00:05:29.140 Depends how you want to

00:05:30.980 View it whether it was close or not

00:05:33.340 This Somalian woman

00:05:34.780 She was literally born in Somalia

00:05:36.960 And spent a big chunk of her childhood in Somalia

00:05:39.060 Before she came here

00:05:39.920 Somalian woman

00:05:41.640 Somalian refugee

00:05:44.840 She got I think the numbers are something like

00:05:47.800 12,000 and something votes 12,200 odd votes and he got just shy of 9,000 votes in the high 8,000s

00:05:56.040 so lost by 3,000 odd votes you could say that's reasonably close you could say that

00:06:04.380 if you wanted to if you wanted to be ungenerous you could say it's nowhere near

00:06:08.360 it's a gulf you could look at it two different ways couldn't you

00:06:13.920 You could also look at it two different ways

00:06:16.780 From the Green Party point of view

00:06:18.160 From Zach Polanski's point of view

00:06:20.880 You could say if you weren't going to be generous

00:06:23.220 That that's a massive political humiliation

00:06:26.220 And you really should step down as leader of the Green Party

00:06:29.700 It was a terrible miscalculation

00:06:31.620 You put everything on the line and you lost

00:06:33.980 You know the people have spoken

00:06:35.960 You're done for

00:06:37.460 That's it

00:06:38.620 Again political humiliation

00:06:41.380 You could say

00:06:42.780 You could also say

00:06:44.480 No, it's one of their best results ever

00:06:46.820 Other than that Gaunton and Denton one

00:06:48.660 Which they remarkably won

00:06:50.160 It's one of their very best results

00:06:53.240 They easily beat everyone else

00:06:56.280 Like the Tories and the Lib Dems

00:06:58.340 And Reform and Restore

00:06:59.420 Easily

00:07:00.340 It was absolutely a two-horse race

00:07:02.600 You could say that getting 9,000 votes

00:07:06.260 In a completely safe Labour seat

00:07:09.580 Is actually

00:07:10.560 A type of win

00:07:12.960 You know

00:07:13.280 That's actually reasonably impressive

00:07:14.620 I mean both those things

00:07:18.560 Are sort of true aren't they

00:07:19.840 So

00:07:20.840 Okay

00:07:21.520 Nonetheless

00:07:25.980 There are people calling

00:07:27.480 For him to step down

00:07:29.420 Like

00:07:29.640 The more Islamist types

00:07:32.320 In the party

00:07:33.200 The Green Party

00:07:33.880 They want a Muslim

00:07:36.280 Don't they

00:07:36.540 They want Muffin Ali

00:07:37.380 Is what they want

00:07:38.060 They don't want this gay Jewish man

00:07:41.760 You know because Muslims are

00:07:45.660 You can say can't you

00:07:47.020 Conservative with a small c

00:07:48.700 They're not into homosexuality

00:07:55.000 And having gay men dressed in leather

00:07:59.200 As though they've just come out of a gay club

00:08:01.080 Dancing on stage at a Green Party event

00:08:03.920 They didn't like that did they

00:08:05.020 Do you remember that happened in the summer

00:08:06.160 Last summer

00:08:06.900 That's what he had

00:08:08.140 Jimmy Summerfield music

00:08:11.080 And like gay men

00:08:12.280 Look like they've just come out

00:08:13.320 Of the Blue Oyster set

00:08:15.260 Of a Hollywood film

00:08:16.100 From the 80s

00:08:16.840 Dancing around on stage

00:08:18.480 In the middle of the day

00:08:19.260 In front of kids and stuff

00:08:20.220 The Muslim contingent

00:08:22.540 Of the Green Party

00:08:23.260 Weren't impressed by that

00:08:24.460 They didn't really like that

00:08:25.440 They're not completely thrilled

00:08:29.280 That he's Jewish at all

00:08:30.140 Even though he's sort of

00:08:31.320 An Islamophile

00:08:33.000 And he is

00:08:35.680 Because this morning he came out and he said

00:08:38.440 When people asked him inevitably

00:08:40.240 What about that

00:08:42.200 Motion that was passed at conference

00:08:44.560 Green party conference earlier in the week

00:08:46.220 That said

00:08:47.260 Explicitly said

00:08:49.100 Zionism is racism

00:08:51.660 What do you think about that

00:08:55.820 And he said

00:08:57.680 His answer was to first off

00:08:59.680 Remind everyone that he himself is Jewish

00:09:01.800 And he grew up in a Zionist household

00:09:03.460 But then to say

00:09:05.060 yeah no what's going on in gaza is some sort of genocide and uh that is racism what is that if

00:09:13.360 it isn't racism sort of thing i'm paraphrasing but that's what he said so okay that's that's

00:09:19.780 just still not going to be good enough for the islamists in the green party they won't want him

00:09:24.860 they want one of their own yeah because it's triable isn't it because all this stuff is along

00:09:30.760 Truly racial, religious

00:09:32.900 Ethnic and tribal lines

00:09:36.060 So they would want one of their own

00:09:37.560 Well, Mothin Alley

00:09:40.660 They don't want this guy really

00:09:44.660 So, okay

00:09:47.580 There we go, Chris Mason

00:09:49.800 The brilliantly insightful takes of Chris Mason

00:09:54.040 Of BBC fame

00:09:55.240 Polanski faces greatest crisis of his leadership so far

00:09:58.380 Yeah, what a great insight

00:10:00.360 Wow. I wonder how he came to that conclusion.

00:10:04.540 OK. All right. So Labour win Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

00:10:09.600 And Labour, the Labour Party have given us one more Somali woman in Parliament.

00:10:14.980 Great. Great. Well done. Well done.

00:10:20.420 All right. I suppose that's it.

00:10:22.720 What much else is there to say?

00:10:25.940 Let's get into the other news.

00:10:27.640 All right. The front page is The Guardian.

00:10:28.780 Ooh, the Guardian. Ooh. Ooh, what's that smell? Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

00:10:34.780 Oh, it smells like manky veg. It smells like some mouldering, liquefying veg. Ooh, that's...

00:10:41.780 Ooh.

00:10:51.780 Yeah, revolting. Absolutely revolting, the Guardian. It stinks. It stinks.

00:10:57.780 Stomach churning

00:10:59.340 Okay, ADHD

00:11:02.300 Blame it on the ADD, baby

00:11:06.740 Stark warning over rising demand for NHS Autism and ADHD care

00:11:14.060 The rise in mental health problems is real

00:11:20.420 And cannot be explained by greater awareness alone

00:11:24.500 On it?

00:11:27.780 okay this is one of the main stories people seeming to notice well it's two camps like a

00:11:35.380 lot of things on there's two camps saying that it's one that it's a massive massively real thing

00:11:42.180 and just loads more money and resources need to be thrown at it and there's no other option

00:11:46.980 another camp saying this is clearly being over diagnosed clearly obviously so something needs

00:11:53.860 to be done about that particularly the angle that you can get private a private diagnosis

00:12:00.260 and we had data points like was it last week or even the week before some reporting saying that

00:12:07.700 if you go to a to a private some sort of private clinic to get diagnosed they nearly always i mean

00:12:14.260 practically always confirm it and say yeah you've got you've got mild autism or adhd or whatever

00:12:20.180 or asperger's or something or other if you pay them not an nhs doctor but a private one they

00:12:26.260 will nearly always say yeah okay we'll talk about it more because it comes up more in the other

00:12:34.640 headlines do you remember this story horrible story these three girls they're all older this

00:12:41.360 is an old photo i think they're in their 30s or the youngest one was late 20s so this is obviously

00:12:46.100 an older photo they all drowned off brighton beach earlier this year in the summer or was it in the

00:12:52.620 spring this year all three of them walked into the sea late at night and drowned

00:12:58.980 well there's been an inquest it's just really horrible sad story there's not much to say about

00:13:06.300 it that's their father um it turns out now the inquest has been done and what it was their mum

00:13:12.920 Had died years ago

00:13:14.320 Like in 2010 or something

00:13:15.540 Had died

00:13:15.920 Of drowning

00:13:16.480 And they

00:13:19.720 It was a suicide

00:13:20.880 They decided to

00:13:22.060 They all got

00:13:24.040 And they got a cab

00:13:24.800 From London

00:13:25.540 To Brighton

00:13:26.660 And in the middle of the night

00:13:28.720 All deliberately

00:13:29.340 They couldn't swim

00:13:30.060 And they all deliberately

00:13:31.220 Went into the sea

00:13:32.180 To commit suicide

00:13:33.300 By drowning

00:13:33.960 Horrible

00:13:36.820 Just really really really horrible

00:13:38.300 But that's what that is

00:13:39.640 That's what happened there

00:13:42.920 All right, I mean, I'm not going to throw shade or be sarcastic about it.

00:13:48.760 It's just a horrible, horrible thing.

00:13:52.640 Some sort of suicide pact.

00:13:55.300 Right.

00:13:56.720 Police arrest two Latvians found inside RAF base.

00:14:00.400 Okay, that's an interesting story.

00:14:02.440 Very interesting story.

00:14:05.420 Broke yesterday.

00:14:08.020 Okay, so there's another RAF base, which is, in fact, a US Air Force base.

00:14:12.920 Was it Molesworth?

00:14:16.660 Yeah, RAF Molesworth, which is in Cambridgeshire,

00:14:19.460 right in the middle of England, right in the heart of England.

00:14:22.780 It's an RAF base that we've had for,

00:14:25.400 it's been around for decades and decades and decades,

00:14:27.460 predates World War II.

00:14:29.700 But there's no, as I understand it,

00:14:31.880 apologies if I get any of these details, I'm slightly wrong.

00:14:34.600 There's no airstrip there.

00:14:35.920 Aeroplanes don't land and take off from there.

00:14:39.380 Right?

00:14:39.560 So it's like a non-flying RAF base.

00:14:42.760 Again, it's only really nominally RAF.

00:14:45.300 It's actually really controlled by the US,

00:14:48.500 to all intents and purposes.

00:14:51.460 But you might think,

00:14:52.580 well, what's a US Air Force stroke RAF base doing

00:14:55.980 if they haven't got any sort of runway

00:14:58.620 and no aeroplanes land or take off?

00:15:00.320 What's that?

00:15:01.180 Well, some sorts of other things that they can do.

00:15:04.320 And in fact, that base,

00:15:06.740 that particular base,

00:15:09.800 Molesworth,

00:15:10.520 Was, or sorry, is

00:15:13.400 The centre of intelligence gathering

00:15:16.840 For like most of Europe

00:15:19.000 Really, really, really sensitive base

00:15:24.120 And it's sort of controlled, largely controlled

00:15:28.040 By the DIA

00:15:31.140 You know about the DIA, anybody?

00:15:34.460 Anybody heard of the DIA?

00:15:35.500 The Defence Intelligence Agency

00:15:37.360 Not the CIA, the DIA

00:15:38.940 so it's that's that's true military intelligence right and their base well the place where they

00:15:46.960 would correlate and do military and do uh intelligence analysis on things all correlate

00:15:52.560 there it was like the the place where what was it like the the joint center for european

00:15:58.920 intelligence analysis something like that so not just some random not just some random air force

00:16:04.920 space it's like super super duper sensitive right crazily so crazily so now you would think

00:16:16.720 wouldn't you somewhere like that would have extremely tight security around it

00:16:25.520 wouldn't you you would have thought there'd be like perhaps even like a double triple perimeter

00:16:37.200 fence men going around it patrolling it all the time with alsatians or something like uh guard

00:16:45.280 towers watching at all times spotlights at night i don't know even just like some um uh motion

00:16:53.000 sensors which make makes that make the lights flick on if anyone tries to approach the fence

00:16:57.960 turns out no none of that no not really it seems like we can only infer

00:17:05.640 that there was very very minimal security entirely because two latvians

00:17:13.080 what that really means we'll talk about in a moment what is that latvians okay two latvians

00:17:18.600 approached it at night they were 32 and 36 somehow got inside i think there's a single

00:17:25.080 perimeter chain link fence they like cut it or something like that we haven't got all the details

00:17:28.480 but something along those lines happened they just got into the base they weren't discovered

00:17:33.160 for quite a few hours quite a few hours because the story is only really just breaking yesterday

00:17:40.700 we haven't got loads and loads of details of what they did or didn't do what they did or didn't

00:17:44.860 achieve once they got in there. But they have been charged with, you know, proper sort of

00:17:49.680 espionage, not just like, you know, just two random guys, two ramblers who tried to take

00:17:55.020 a shortcut. No, they have been charged with proper spying espionage type under that sort

00:17:59.860 of legislation. Okay. Okay. I mean, if you believe any of this, some people, the more

00:18:09.000 cynical among us might say it's all this is all a psyop this is all fabricated this isn't real

00:18:15.780 none of this is real well okay you're entitled to that opinion i wouldn't rule it out entirely but

00:18:24.580 doesn't seem like that's it's made up entirely from whole cloth

00:18:30.120 okay two latvians now anyone knows the relationship between russia and latvia

00:18:39.000 You know, they're not the best of friends.

00:18:40.960 They're not exactly busy mates.

00:18:44.720 But then you can also make the argument that in those sort of ex-Soviet places,

00:18:51.260 you would also have some people that consider themselves more Russian than Latvian.

00:18:59.000 Just like in Ukraine, there's some parts of Ukraine, eastern Ukraine,

00:19:02.320 where a lot of the people do consider themselves more Russian than Ukrainian.

00:19:06.280 There'll be lots of people in all those Soviet satellite states.

00:19:09.640 Will there be some Latvians that are actually pro-Russian?

00:19:13.180 Yeah, there'll be some, yeah.

00:19:16.600 Well, anyway, or are they just Russians that are, like, travelling on Latvian passports?

00:19:23.520 Okay, on paper, they're nominally Latvian nationals, but...

00:19:29.020 Has it got nothing to do with Russia whatsoever?

00:19:31.180 i mean okay the details are still sketchy at this point and we don't know everything that's going on

00:19:36.620 but uh apparently that's what happened two people broke into one of the most sensitive intelligence

00:19:44.300 gathering nexuses in the whole of europe for the united states and weren't discovered for hours

00:19:53.020 all right okay you would think wouldn't you that even um you can buy like a little sensor

00:20:00.540 can't you just for like your garage or you can put it above your back door and if there's any

00:20:05.040 movement the light just flicks on like even if a fox or next door's cat walks across the beam

00:20:11.620 the light flicks on don't cost very much today you would think wouldn't you that maybe the

00:20:16.320 perimeter of RAF Molesworth would have that something like that didn't seem like the

00:20:23.580 all right the times let's move on the venerable times chief of defense staff

00:20:31.000 in britain insists uk bases are secure after arrests

00:20:34.700 okay mate if you say so they don't seem particularly particularly secure

00:20:43.280 let's be honest let's just be honest they don't seem particularly secure i mean you would say

00:20:52.480 that. Probably your job is on the line. Okay. ADHD label risks harm for life for youngsters.

00:21:00.780 Early diagnosis could close doors in adulthood. Yeah, there's this argument, the argument

00:21:06.760 that if you label a child with ADHD, or if you label a child with anything, they can

00:21:16.960 often fall into that label right if you keep telling a kid they're a bad kid

00:21:24.800 no i'm not saying adhd is bad i'm making a different slightly different point you tell

00:21:29.600 them they're a bad kid they'll eventually play up to it say the other way around to say you're

00:21:33.500 a really good kid you're an angelic kid and you never do anything wrong they're less likely to

00:21:38.120 start doing things wrong you know you get it simple psychology really yeah if you tell a kid

00:21:43.660 you've got uh you've got adhd you've got a you've got a syndrome you've got something that's wrong

00:21:50.000 with you and you need pills and medicines and and or therapy or whatever to deal with it

00:21:56.020 it's not necessarily the greatest thing for their psychology well especially if they haven't

00:22:01.420 actually got it that's the thing i said it yes they didn't know this over diagnosis of adhd and

00:22:06.740 autism and things and things the people most affected are those that have really got it

00:22:11.400 I don't know, because there's obviously always going to be a finite amount of money and resources and things

00:22:16.280 And they will inevitably be taken away from those that really genuinely need it

00:22:21.800 If there's some, any really, that don't need it and have been misdiagnosed

00:22:26.660 It seems to me that, you know, things like autism

00:22:32.140 Someone's a bit slightly awkward, a little bit of an introvert

00:22:36.700 Oh, you've got autism

00:22:38.340 No

00:22:41.620 A little boy that finds it difficult

00:22:45.060 To just sit down and be quiet

00:22:46.420 And be still for hours on end

00:22:47.860 An eight year old boy

00:22:49.720 Finds that difficult

00:22:51.020 Oh you've got ADD

00:22:52.200 You've got ADHD

00:22:53.780 Probably not

00:22:54.920 If it's just that

00:22:55.920 If it's just that

00:22:56.600 Probably not

00:22:57.560 Just being a normal kid

00:22:59.620 Filled with

00:23:00.520 Got far too much energy

00:23:02.220 And imagination

00:23:03.000 It just doesn't suit him

00:23:05.760 Even like a 12 year old

00:23:07.580 15 year old

00:23:08.220 It just doesn't suit him to sit down and be quiet and read

00:23:11.420 You've got a chemical imbalance

00:23:15.160 You've got to take medicine now

00:23:16.560 Yeah

00:23:20.100 What might that do to their psychology

00:23:23.520 Apart from anything else

00:23:24.600 They go through the rest of their life

00:23:26.620 Thinking that there's something wrong

00:23:28.900 There's something amiss

00:23:29.780 There's not at all

00:23:31.040 Okay

00:23:33.300 There's that to think about isn't there

00:23:35.380 There's that angle

00:23:36.180 Alright

00:23:37.020 Prince Andrew, Andrew Saxe-Coburg-Gothar

00:23:40.240 Andrew Mountbatten

00:23:41.640 Do you remember we talked about the story

00:23:45.720 that he took the police

00:23:48.240 to court

00:23:48.920 Thames Valley Police

00:23:51.320 where they'd questioned him

00:23:53.580 and they'd raided his home

00:23:55.000 more than one of his homes

00:23:56.560 but certainly one of his homes

00:23:57.860 was it the Sandringham Estate

00:24:00.100 one of his homes on the Sandringham Estate

00:24:02.320 anyway

00:24:02.620 he took them to court

00:24:05.100 To say that their search warrants

00:24:09.100 Were unlawful

00:24:10.540 And a judge yesterday ruled that

00:24:12.660 Yes, Andrew is correct

00:24:15.200 And the police, Thames Valley Police

00:24:16.760 It was unlawful

00:24:18.520 Look, police raids on Andrew Holmes ruled unlawful

00:24:21.060 There you go

00:24:21.900 One of the biggest stories in the news cycle this morning

00:24:24.300 Um, okay, what does that really mean?

00:24:28.540 What does that mean?

00:24:29.480 the boy's as crazy as a coconut he has really only just bought himself more time in fact one

00:24:40.540 of the headlines we'll see later says exactly that because the police have said it seems like

00:24:45.640 it from what i gather when i've read two or three or four of these articles this morning

00:24:48.860 it seems like it was more like something a bit more like an administrative error on the part

00:24:55.960 of the police seems like the judge said like you didn't fill out the right paperwork or you

00:25:01.940 filled out the slightly wrong type of um search warrant not that the whole thing sort of a

00:25:10.360 conceptual level was entirely wrong and all that sort of thing no it's just like you did it in the

00:25:16.860 slightly incorrect way you didn't cross all the t's and all the i's in perfectly the correct

00:25:21.280 manner it's more like that nonetheless andrew or andrew's camp will now be able to argue

00:25:27.360 that the you know they'll they'll blow that up if they can of course make the most out of it that

00:25:31.580 they can it was all illegal but the police have said uh well okay like sorry about that fair

00:25:38.620 enough if that's what the judge has said well sorry about that but we're not stopping the

00:25:42.180 investigation and the judge also said don't stop the investigation like the judge said despite this

00:25:50.300 ruling this isn't uh like an embargo or any sort of like legal veto on you continuing your

00:25:56.060 investigation into andrew so all of it's going here so and nothing really stops effectively for

00:26:02.380 andrew oh good good i mean there is the suggestion that any evidence they might have got out of those

00:26:12.420 raids if something ever came to court if there was ever a full trial of him um his defense lawyers

00:26:19.040 might be able to say or more certainly would argue that bit of evidence like that laptop or

00:26:24.680 something and everything that's on it it's it's not admissible because um it was taken in an

00:26:29.000 unlawful way will all that play out if there is ever if there is ever a trial of andrew sex k

00:26:36.060 burgother maybe maybe i always think i always do think it's really really lame but i suppose that's

00:26:43.500 the law when a defense relies upon something like that you've got slam dunk slam dunk evidence

00:26:49.840 against someone but there was some sort of administrative error that the police did or the

00:26:56.440 da or the cps and they didn't do the right paperwork in the right order but nonetheless

00:27:01.700 there is absolute slam dunk evidence against someone but you can't use it in court and the

00:27:06.820 person gets off because of it it's so lame but that's the law that's the way it is all right

00:27:12.840 the eye paper oh here's another interesting story uh uk on spy alert as royal navy sailor

00:27:20.340 held and intruders are caught at raf base so we've done the raf base thing molesworth what's this

00:27:26.920 other thing uk on spoiler as royal navy sailor held what's this in fact one of the other papers

00:27:32.620 has got it more front and center let's have a look let's have a look uh bear with me this one

00:27:40.000 the metro

00:27:41.080 ooh it's gross

00:27:41.760 but okay

00:27:42.400 this guy

00:27:43.780 this guy

00:27:46.240 I've made him look a bit

00:27:47.500 brown there

00:27:48.180 he's not brown

00:27:48.900 he's a normal white guy

00:27:50.340 I believe

00:27:50.660 he's only like 24

00:27:54.860 I believe

00:27:55.800 so he's a young man

00:27:56.980 and apparently

00:27:58.900 he came from

00:27:59.400 just sort of

00:27:59.800 a normal

00:28:00.420 well to do

00:28:01.280 sort of middle class

00:28:02.340 type family

00:28:03.020 and he's never been

00:28:04.460 in trouble before

00:28:05.300 and before he joined

00:28:06.760 the Royal Navy

00:28:07.340 he had some sort of job

00:28:08.500 at like a magistrate's

00:28:09.740 court apparently sort of according to the accounts he's sort of clean-cut good kid

00:28:15.820 apparently always had dreams of joining the royal navy to do service for king and country and all

00:28:21.760 that sort of thing and then he did he has joined the royal navy joined in like 2024

00:28:26.260 okay and he was he obviously had some sort of smarts about him because they put him in like

00:28:32.660 an intelligence corps actually serving on board some sort of ship for the intelligence corps

00:28:39.640 right and then apparently apparently he got access to sensitive data we don't know what

00:28:51.000 the sensitive data is probably will not ever find out that exactly but he got hold of some

00:28:55.460 sort of sensitive data and was trying to send it via the dark web um to russians to the russians

00:29:08.540 and this isn't just sort of an allegation he's actually in court he had his first day in court

00:29:16.060 yesterday westminster magistrates court so he's accused of that like full-blown spying but

00:29:22.460 when you read some of the details about it so i was interested in this sort of thing so i love

00:29:26.840 spy games espionage counter espionage all that sort of stuff um seems to me from what i gather

00:29:33.540 that this is more like a wannabe spy than sort of some sort of professional russian

00:29:39.720 moscow center mole because it seems more might more i'm sure will come out and maybe what i'm

00:29:47.220 about to say will prove to be wrong but at the moment at the moment we're being told that he

00:29:52.720 didn't actually have a russian handler or anything he didn't have like a gru or fsb handler ready to

00:29:58.880 rock and roll he was trying to reach out to the russians like cold from scratch i've got like

00:30:08.560 sensitive information here if you believe any of this again it'd just all be a sign up couldn't

00:30:12.060 it but if you believe any of this what they're telling us is that he was trying to reach out

00:30:17.540 to russian intelligence services a 24 year old he's just sort of just got on board ship and got

00:30:24.620 some sensitive information. If all that is correct, it doesn't speak of, you know, like

00:30:33.320 SMERSH. SMERSH doesn't exist anymore, but SMERSH, you know, the Russian military intelligence

00:30:41.620 doing some sort of, in the early James Bond books, his enemies are always SMERSH. Like

00:30:48.540 the GIU, Russian military intelligence services, that it was like a professional operation

00:30:54.280 by them and he's like some deep mole no he feels like he's some kid i'll say kid he's 24 years a

00:31:00.780 young man sort of playing larping try trying to make himself some sort of spy

00:31:06.420 well anyway a little bit odd to me

00:31:12.700 all right he's in a lot of trouble if any of that is true all right where did we

00:31:24.260 get to? Shall we go back? Where did we get to? We were on the iPaper, weren't we? Okay, the ADHD

00:31:30.300 thing again. ADHD and autism review calls for medication and benefits shake-up as diagnoses

00:31:36.040 surge. Landmark report into, remember those two ends of the spectrum here. Okay, landmark report

00:31:41.780 into mental health condition finds that they are not over-diagnosed at scale, but that people are

00:31:48.280 being incentivised to seek a diagnosis as the main gateway to support. Professor Peter

00:31:53.460 Fonagy warns of a, quote, increased risk of misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis. So you're

00:32:00.580 saying, on one level, you're saying it's not being over-diagnosed, and then straightway

00:32:03.960 you're saying, someone else saying it is being over-diagnosed, of young people amid concerns

00:32:08.620 over consistency and quality of private assessments. These private assessments be part of the issue

00:32:17.340 here authors of this report of this review want faster access to support a new approach

00:32:24.440 to disability benefits and for more people to be de-prescribed medication signaling move away

00:32:32.380 from long-term reliance on drugs yeah okay if you have got mild autism or adhd is it always

00:32:41.180 is the best thing to just take drugs now for the rest of your life pills in various ways okay

00:32:45.720 mobile phones and social media use said to be driving up anxiety among a generation of young

00:32:52.040 people with four million four million under 18s in england found to be in in quote serious mental

00:32:58.540 distress quote four million are they i mean i don't know one tiny bit of um anecdotal evidence

00:33:07.020 have you noticed some young people do seem to claim they're stressed out a lot a tiny bit of

00:33:14.120 anecdotal evidence i was in a shop the other day walking around walking around like a big shop

00:33:20.640 and there happened to be a little gaggle of um school age kids i don't know year 10 11 type

00:33:25.740 kids like 14 15 and they were trying to find something specific something or other

00:33:30.500 and that's to walk up and down an aisle once or twice to find the thing they wanted

00:33:35.300 no as i walk past you know you get a snippet of conversation as you walk past someone

00:33:41.300 The snippet of conversation I could hear

00:33:44.860 That they were all just babbling among themselves

00:33:47.160 Like saying

00:33:49.200 Oh I'm so stressed, this is so stressful

00:33:50.980 Oh this is doing my head in

00:33:52.200 It's like one of the least stressful things ever

00:33:57.000 You've got to walk up and down an aisle maybe twice

00:33:59.240 Before you find the specific product you want

00:34:01.740 And though it's only a tiny, tiny, tiny little bit of anecdotal evidence

00:34:06.060 I know, I know

00:34:06.780 But if you've dealt with Zoomers or young people

00:34:10.560 It does seem to me

00:34:11.840 I wasn't like that when I was young

00:34:13.700 In the 80s, 90s

00:34:14.860 You didn't claim at the first possible opportunity

00:34:17.900 That you were really stressed out

00:34:19.960 And it was doing your head in

00:34:21.020 And you couldn't handle it

00:34:22.000 The tiniest little thing

00:34:23.340 The tiniest thing

00:34:25.400 It's like

00:34:25.860 Alright, alright

00:34:33.940 Okay

00:34:35.020 It's only a tiny bit of anecdotal evidence

00:34:38.660 but okay let's move on the mail the daily fail the daily fail um push to diagnose autism can

00:34:51.500 damage children as rates are up to 40 fold major review wounds of toll on those wrongly given label

00:34:59.100 yeah right and there's a picture of megan markle and that that malalia they've gone for tea at

00:35:06.800 Claridge's. Claridge's is one of the best hotels in London. That's it. They've gone for tea in

00:35:13.500 carriages. Right, okay. Don't, do not care. The Independent. This definitely isn't performative.

00:35:19.700 Definitely not. There's Ed Miliband, the Foreign Secretary. He's gone to Ukraine and he's, he's,

00:35:27.180 he's hugging a Ukrainian child. Definitely not performative. Definitely not, like, got one eye

00:35:34.420 open. Is there a camera there? Let's make sure the camera gets it. Miliband condemns deplorable

00:35:45.440 Russian strikes in Kiev visit. You don't care about any of the Russian civilians that are

00:35:50.380 getting killed by Ukrainian strikes. Guess not. No, I guess not. That's not. That's how

00:35:54.560 that works. Yeah. That's definitely not performative. He really cares about the plight of Ukrainian

00:35:59.740 civilians really really cares about it look look oh oh his heart's broken

00:36:08.060 andrew wins legal fight over police raid on his home's high court rules significant error was

00:36:13.660 made in application you see it's not that it's just an error was made a significant error

00:36:18.780 was made in the application warrant search former duke's residences

00:36:23.180 oh it was just completely illegal on every level no there was a there was an error in

00:36:29.260 the application okay as battle looms on whether evidence seized can be used in prosecution that's

00:36:35.020 the bottom line isn't it that is andrew just trying to because he will have a team of lawyers won't he

00:36:43.020 i say look if we can cast doubt on the use of evidence if and when you come to trial andy

00:36:50.460 let's do that let's get out ahead of it if we can

00:36:54.460 very cynical all right something about the traitors do not care

00:36:59.260 Andy cops no sweat as judge says raids unlawful police admit warrant gaff but they vowel probe

00:37:08.760 goes on yeah so you can imagine at the sun how can we dumb this down the most how can we with

00:37:17.440 the fewest words the fewest letters even make it intelligible for the dumbest person how about

00:37:25.500 Andy cops, no sweat

00:37:27.580 We'll call them Andy cops

00:37:29.980 They think you're stupid

00:37:33.380 They really think you're stupid

00:37:36.400 That picture is horrible isn't it

00:37:38.400 You can sort of see up his nose a bit

00:37:39.800 Okay

00:37:41.840 The Daily Tory graph

00:37:44.700 German owned Zionist slop

00:37:46.420 Anti white, anti British, Zionist slop

00:37:48.800 Okay something about

00:37:50.320 What's his name, Richard E Grant on the traitors

00:37:52.900 Do not care

00:37:53.720 Bank chief, don't risk repeat of trust chaos. Bank of England chief. Bailey warns of damage to

00:38:02.020 British credibility from imprudent tax and spending plans. Well, you won't get anything

00:38:07.380 different from Fabian's socialist government. They cannot, they will not do anything different

00:38:16.180 than tax and spend that's all they know they would not be even if andy burnham somehow miraculously

00:38:24.600 had a different view of economics macroeconomics that was not tax and spend his own party would

00:38:32.320 not let him do anything else his own backbenchers would not allow it would they they would revolt

00:38:38.240 forever over that so you're going to get tax and spend you're going to that's what you're going to

00:38:43.460 get. All right, Badenoch on list at home of Widdicombe murder suspect. So the guy that

00:38:55.460 destroyed Anne Widdicombe's head with a hammer, broke into her home, also tried to burn down

00:39:04.980 Nigel Farage's house

00:39:06.220 Apparently had a list of

00:39:08.960 Of all sorts of people

00:39:10.120 And

00:39:11.860 Olukemi Olufanti Badenoch

00:39:14.680 Was apparently on that list

00:39:16.020 Like a true political psycho

00:39:20.780 It seems

00:39:24.080 If you believe that report

00:39:25.000 Okay

00:39:25.560 Andrew's fight back starts now

00:39:29.260 Friends say

00:39:30.140 Okay

00:39:31.020 ADHD claims

00:39:32.620 Okay we got it

00:39:33.560 Second break-in at American Air Base

00:39:37.460 PM, the Prime Minister, No Stern and Burnham

00:39:41.900 Oversaw loans to UAE-owned firms

00:39:45.160 You know, like the ones that got the controlling stake in Man City Football Club

00:39:49.840 His connection to them seems to be

00:39:54.700 Well, there is a big connection between him personally and them

00:39:59.340 at the moment they've only we only know that they've broken a load of fa football association

00:40:05.400 and uefa european football ruling body they've broken loads of their rules we know that for a

00:40:11.980 fact over 100 115 odd of their rules over nine years to the tune of 900 million pounds

00:40:19.600 next question though does it what other rules have they broken outside of the domain of football

00:40:26.860 if that's how they behaved when it came to football would they could they is it possible

00:40:34.140 they might have broken other rules and or laws just asking could they have

00:40:40.780 and is andy burnham just massively in bed with them politically financially

00:40:48.200 okay britain in danger of running out of gas yeah because i'm stockpiles

00:40:56.260 aren't fantastically huge and we're not really drilling for any in the North Sea are we

00:41:02.980 thanks to crazy environmentalists they want us all to live in the dark and the cold do they

00:41:09.240 because if you say okay all right no more drilling then okay well we'll open up we'll have to

00:41:15.060 start digging the massive seams of coal we've still got on this island no you can't do that

00:41:20.080 oh okay well well we should build some nuclear power stations no you can't do that

00:41:24.400 well what are you talking about then you want us to live in the cold and the dark

00:41:29.000 and have no industry whatsoever or business really is that what you want is that what you're saying

00:41:34.260 that is the effect of that the cause and effect yeah if we don't have any power we won't have

00:41:41.180 any economy and just the normal people will be cold and in the dark you want everyone just to

00:41:47.980 use candles once the sun goes down and be freezing in winter is that is that what you're saying

00:41:54.820 that's what you seem to be saying all right well we're talking about energy should we have a quick

00:42:01.740 check-in with the price of crude about the same as yesterday rent crude trading at just over

00:42:07.400 103 dollars a barrel west texas just shy of 91 dollars a barrel a touch higher tiny tiny touch

00:42:13.620 higher than yesterday more or less not not a great deal of movement all right the mirror real real

00:42:20.620 Labour Party propaganda organ okay look there's Ed Miliband clutching clutching a Ukrainian child

00:42:28.780 because he cares so much oh look there he is with that little goblin man Zelensky who doesn't have

00:42:34.080 elections anymore holding teddy bears that he turned up with teddy he turned up with a teddy

00:42:37.560 bear it's not performative that's definitely not performative or for the cameras

00:42:42.980 nope he just genuinely got so much sympathy in his heart for ukrainian civilians turn up with a teddy

00:42:50.460 bear it's weird isn't it so fake and phony so phony all right andrew it's not over all right

00:42:59.180 we got it russell myers of the mirror said all he's done is by himself time yeah it seems like

00:43:06.360 that's true yeah judge says investigation can go on okay yeah so he's only really bought himself

00:43:16.620 a little bit more time maybe a half decent argument or two if and when it comes to trial

00:43:22.660 that's it right the express it's a good paper you can read your express now

00:43:27.320 subversive globalist anti-white slop try and ruin anyone who talks about re-migration

00:43:33.400 Pretend they care about this country

00:43:35.540 You know, look, failed by a system that should protect you

00:43:39.080 Domestic abuse campaigners slam Labour's early release

00:43:43.560 With offenders back on the streets

00:43:45.380 Failed by a system that should protect you

00:43:48.200 Hey, The Express, why are you pretending to care about the safety of people in Britain?

00:43:54.260 Why are you pretending to do that today?

00:43:56.240 You obviously don't

00:43:57.480 You obviously don't really

00:43:59.400 or because otherwise why would you try and character assassinate and destroy anyone

00:44:06.360 that talks about our demographic security if you cared about the safety of the average person in

00:44:12.100 if you cared about this how and to what extent the system can protect you people anyone why

00:44:19.960 are you pretending to care about that now today you obviously don't so cynical subversive slop

00:44:28.240 the express disgusting in a way more disgusting than than the guardian or the metro or the standard

00:44:36.140 or the spectator the metro we've done that haven't we this guy trying to be a russian spire

00:44:42.860 it's the wrong way around to do it isn't it get sensitive intelligence information

00:44:48.220 then try and contact the ruskies that's not how you do it mate that's not how you do it bro

00:44:53.520 The FT, the Financial Times

00:44:58.600 Yeah, look, a bus in Ukraine got blown up by the Russians

00:45:01.620 Yeah, it's a war, yeah

00:45:02.460 They're blowing each other up all over the place

00:45:04.540 Something about a cut in funding to OpenAI

00:45:08.500 And US tech stocks tumble

00:45:10.900 Starbucks wanted to try and buy a Chipotle

00:45:15.160 For £41 billion

00:45:17.620 You know, some sort of mega deal

00:45:20.440 But they only explored it, who knows

00:45:22.260 Alright

00:45:22.620 the daily star pure slot real slot five seconds on this bond star dan

00:45:29.260 daniel craig right his name now is bond star dan bond star dan fires pub you only drink twice

00:45:41.940 a view to appeals like pills now view to a kill view to appeal view to appeals you only live

00:45:48.480 twice you only drink twice they say let's hope the beers aren't shaken and stirred you wouldn't

00:45:54.840 want a shaken up or stirred beer would you you have too much head on the beer if you did that

00:45:59.920 that's it he's bought a pub one of the worst sloppiest joes of the day probably the worst

00:46:07.200 the most sloppiest sloppy joe of the day goes to the goes to the daily star as it does most days

00:46:13.520 Most days

00:46:14.120 Alright, they're the headlines

00:46:15.580 They're the front pages

00:46:18.060 Increasingly absurd and infuriating front pages

00:46:22.140 Of the British print media today

00:46:23.580 Alright, it's already quarter two

00:46:25.000 Gone quarter two

00:46:25.860 Let's do on this day in history

00:46:27.240 Oh no, wait, we've got our poll

00:46:28.960 Do things in the right order

00:46:30.860 The completely arbitrary order that I've made up

00:46:34.060 Alright, we do our poll at about this time of the morning, don't we?

00:46:38.560 It's that time of the show

00:46:39.460 Okay, just shy of a thousand votes

00:46:42.720 Today we asked you guys, are you happy Zach Polanski, real name David Paulder, lost his by-election?

00:46:49.840 And the eyes have it, easily, to the tune of a cool 88%.

00:46:55.800 12% of you said no.

00:46:58.260 The vast majority of you, nearly 9 out of 10 of you, said you were happy Zach Polanski lost the election.

00:47:04.320 There is an argument, I would have clicked yes as well.

00:47:07.900 There is an argument to be made though, isn't there?

00:47:10.180 You can make the argument.

00:47:11.020 talked about it before on the state of politics

00:47:12.980 that if you're sort of

00:47:15.760 the accelerationist type view

00:47:17.100 might have been interesting to have him in parliament

00:47:20.060 so the more he talks

00:47:22.740 the more the average normie

00:47:24.240 the average floating voter

00:47:25.300 will realise how insane he and the Green Party is

00:47:28.520 there's a value in that

00:47:30.520 still

00:47:33.460 I just don't want him

00:47:34.540 and the alternative

00:47:36.820 you've got like a weird subversive

00:47:39.280 gay Jewish man

00:47:40.560 communist or a somalian refugee fabian they're not great choices are they either way one of those

00:47:47.760 was going to be sitting in parliament they're not great choices anyway there you go over a thousand

00:47:53.220 votes now 88 of you say yes you're happy david paulden lost his bid to become a member an honorable

00:48:02.320 member of parliament okay let's do on this day in history i quite like doing that bit you guys seem

00:48:09.260 to let me do that bit and start rounding out the show. On this day in history, the 9th of October,

00:48:15.020 down through the centuries and later the millennials, what happened of note? Let's

00:48:18.240 have a look. Okay, on this day in the year 768 AD, Charlemagne and his brother, Carlo Manne I,

00:48:25.760 are both crowned King of the Franks. Do you think I've got long-form content?

00:48:31.940 On lotusseaters.com, there's a show behind the paywall called Beaudet's Epochs, which is a

00:48:36.920 history theme show. My background is in history, first and foremost. Got an undergrad in classical

00:48:40.900 civilisations and a post-grad in government policy and politics. But my real love, first

00:48:46.500 and foremost, is history. Not a professional historian, I'm only an armchair historian,

00:48:50.560 I'm just a history fan with a mic. Nonetheless, spent all my adult life and more reading about

00:48:56.600 history. My undergrad is in history. Find the paywall on notices.com. I've got a body

00:49:01.240 of work built up over more than five years. Hundreds and hundreds of hours, literally

00:49:06.260 Without exaggeration

00:49:07.040 Hundreds and hundreds of hours

00:49:07.900 Of history themed content

00:49:08.920 Do you think there

00:49:10.840 If I talk about Charlemagne

00:49:13.140 And the Carolingians

00:49:15.880 The Mayor of Indians

00:49:17.100 And the Carolingians

00:49:18.400 The Frankish realms

00:49:20.880 In the Dark Ages

00:49:23.440 Sort of the late Dark Ages

00:49:24.700 The 8th century

00:49:25.640 8th and 9th century

00:49:26.600 Yeah

00:49:28.220 Check it out

00:49:29.120 Charlemagne

00:49:30.240 One of the all time greats

00:49:33.060 Alright

00:49:33.460 I've got one on

00:49:35.820 Charles Martel, Charles the Hammer

00:49:38.160 All sorts

00:49:39.500 On this day in the year 1000

00:49:42.460 Leif Erikson reaches Vinland

00:49:44.440 Which is possibly a part of Canada

00:49:46.520 Reputedly becoming the first European

00:49:48.520 To reach North America

00:49:50.000 Now I haven't actually ever done a bit of content

00:49:52.420 On Leif Erikson

00:49:54.720 I would like to, I could do

00:49:55.820 I've done content before on

00:49:58.380 Sir Francis Drake and on Magellan

00:50:00.620 So I am very interested

00:50:03.100 In that sort of thing

00:50:05.820 little harry do you think i should do a bit of content one day on on the the vikings their

00:50:12.240 their their their expansion and discovery of the new world yeah 100 harry liked the magellan ones

00:50:21.080 i think you said you're they're your favorite ones didn't you the magellan one should do that

00:50:25.880 at some point should do that at some point i've got a massive list though i've got the english

00:50:30.200 monarchy still to do that wasn't such a long project though that take years and years and

00:50:35.160 years with the best will in the world but I've got to do I've said so many times now that I've

00:50:38.660 now got to do it a series it would have to be a series all about the Yugoslavian wars after Tito

00:50:46.600 died and the Mongols got to do both those things because I've sort of promised it so much for so

00:50:53.220 long at some point I would like to do something on Leif Erikson and the the Vikings the Scandinavians

00:50:59.600 discovering in inverted commas the new world newfoundland greenland etc okay on this day in

00:51:10.640 1446 korean hangul alphabet is first uh published by king sejong the great i'm afraid i don't really

00:51:19.040 know anything about that i'm not going to pretend i do don't really know anything about that history

00:51:23.520 of the korean alphabet that's just outside my knowledge i'm afraid so moving on what is very

00:51:30.560 much inside my knowledge is the manhattan project spent a long time reading up about that long time

00:51:37.040 years years and years reading around the manhattan project both the science of it

00:51:43.280 and like the engineering of it the politics of it

00:51:47.920 they made that film didn't they not that long ago um oppenheimer that's not a bad film i thought

00:51:52.000 Not a bad film

00:51:53.980 A couple of things they got wrong in it

00:51:56.220 But anyway

00:51:57.720 The technical details, the reality

00:52:00.180 The real history of the Manhattan Project

00:52:01.660 I find fascinating

00:52:02.880 Absolutely fascinating

00:52:04.680 And anyway, on this day in 1941

00:52:06.360 US President FDR, Franklin Daniel Roosevelt

00:52:09.400 Approves an atomic program

00:52:11.340 That would become the Manhattan Project

00:52:13.380 Yeah

00:52:15.140 It was much, much more

00:52:18.060 Than just Los Alamos

00:52:20.140 there were loads and loads of different things

00:52:22.900 Oak Ridge, loads and loads of different

00:52:25.020 facilities all over the United States

00:52:26.380 one of the early

00:52:29.200 early sort of

00:52:30.880 office spaces they were used

00:52:32.560 the physicists just used to

00:52:34.240 talk about it and plan it and things

00:52:36.920 was in Manhattan

00:52:37.700 actually just in Manhattan

00:52:39.980 that's how it first got its name, the Manhattan Project

00:52:42.280 but yeah

00:52:43.940 fascinating, fascinating, can't go into it here

00:52:46.520 it's far too

00:52:47.920 gigantic of a story even to give an overview of

00:52:50.780 okay on this day in 2006

00:52:52.900 North Korea conducts its first

00:52:54.920 nuclear test with an

00:52:56.860 estimated yield of between 0.4 and

00:52:58.780 2 kilotons

00:52:59.740 well it cost them a lot didn't it

00:53:02.760 it did cost the North Koreans a lot

00:53:04.660 in order to achieve that

00:53:06.040 because any

00:53:07.920 nuclear weapons program

00:53:10.320 is a giant

00:53:12.840 giant engineering

00:53:14.900 project apart from anything else

00:53:17.920 For a relatively small

00:53:21.340 And certainly impoverished country

00:53:23.120 Like North Korea

00:53:24.040 They paid an incredible price

00:53:28.080 Well, a famine

00:53:30.580 There was a giant famine in the 1990s

00:53:33.580 To enrich uranium

00:53:38.580 Or plutonium

00:53:39.820 To a weapons grade

00:53:41.940 Takes an extraordinary effort

00:53:45.560 An extraordinary effort

00:53:47.240 For North Korea to achieve it at all

00:53:49.080 Is remarkable

00:53:50.460 Absolutely remarkable

00:53:51.340 Okay

00:53:53.220 Okay

00:53:54.780 They are now in the club

00:53:57.360 So it makes any sort of invasion

00:54:03.120 From the United States

00:54:06.000 Far, far, far less likely

00:54:08.940 That is true

00:54:10.300 The ultimate strategic calculation

00:54:12.740 Of the North Koreans

00:54:14.180 That if we get the bomb

00:54:16.520 it protects us

00:54:19.220 it actually is a deterrent

00:54:21.640 for somebody like

00:54:23.000 I don't know

00:54:23.500 the United States

00:54:24.260 wanting to ever invade you

00:54:26.020 that is actually true

00:54:28.600 that is a correct calculation

00:54:29.820 isn't it

00:54:31.000 alright

00:54:33.080 that's the last one

00:54:34.320 let's look

00:54:34.900 now we do our

00:54:35.800 Rumble Rants and Super Chats

00:54:36.680 next

00:54:37.020 don't we at this point

00:54:37.860 in the show

00:54:39.040 we've got

00:54:40.400 I believe I saw

00:54:41.440 I glanced down at one point

00:54:43.700 and there was loads

00:54:44.400 of Rumble Rants again

00:54:45.200 there was loads of Rumble Rants

00:54:46.000 yesterday

00:54:46.300 okay let's have a look yeah there's loads okay all right global church history still nowhere to

00:54:53.400 be seen hashtag pray for global church histories rumble account we want you back buddy okay the

00:55:01.960 first few are all somebody called anti-white uh end anti-whiteism the first four are all from

00:55:11.160 end anti-whitism so i'll read them all in one go if you don't mind you've put morning bo morning

00:55:16.860 morning you're right put we good people in the west need to call anti-white media government

00:55:24.200 policy corporate policy exactly what it is anti-white i.e stop calling it dei two-tier

00:55:31.180 and call it anti-white yeah yeah well said

00:55:34.780 No, I said, yeah

00:55:37.340 Yeah

00:55:38.760 Called it what it is, called a spade a spade

00:55:41.440 You also say, the only effective solution to someone calling us racist

00:55:46.980 Or white supremacists

00:55:48.440 Is to immediately call them anti-white

00:55:50.600 Or ask if they're anti-white

00:55:52.120 It's a literal hack or antidote that works every time

00:55:56.120 You've put every time in capital letters there

00:55:58.420 Yeah, that is a good comeback

00:56:01.320 Oh, it's white supremacy

00:56:03.940 Why are you being racist against whites?

00:56:05.820 Yeah, it's a good comeback

00:56:06.580 Yeah

00:56:09.120 You have anything other than

00:56:11.780 A complete out-group preference

00:56:14.400 You must be a racist

00:56:16.580 Our enemies would say

00:56:18.400 You don't want to have an out-group preference

00:56:21.640 For everyone

00:56:22.580 Other than your own

00:56:24.700 Kin

00:56:26.000 You must be racist then

00:56:27.940 You can counter by saying

00:56:33.160 Well why are you being anti-white

00:56:34.240 Why are you being racist against whites

00:56:35.380 What have you got against whites

00:56:36.680 Yeah

00:56:37.140 Okay next one you say

00:56:38.800 Feminism

00:56:39.680 You put in inverted commas

00:56:41.520 Feminism is a cute name for

00:56:43.240 One

00:56:43.600 Hatred of men

00:56:44.440 Two

00:56:44.980 Murder of our innocent babies

00:56:46.640 Three

00:56:47.260 Elimination of the natural order

00:56:49.120 Four

00:56:49.700 Attack on motherhood

00:56:50.760 Very easy to characterise it that way

00:56:53.800 If you wanted to

00:56:54.380 Another manipulation of words

00:56:56.240 By psychological warfare

00:56:57.880 Yeah

00:56:58.300 Yeah

00:57:00.040 And they perverted

00:57:02.100 any sort of genuine call for equality between women and men perverted that and subverted that

00:57:09.260 into attacks on on women actually attacks on motherhood attacks on the natural order

00:57:15.680 getting as many babies murdered as possible yeah and of course some misandry just a general hatred

00:57:23.820 of men yeah and the last one you put there here is imagine calling mentally deranged individuals

00:57:30.960 that hate their own group hate men support abortion and want open borders liberal that's

00:57:37.740 the name our enemies that's the name of our enemies choosing no they are anti-white yeah

00:57:42.560 it's not liberal is it i remember seeing i remember when this sort of clicked in my mind quite a few

00:57:48.360 years ago maybe like 2008 2009 2010 when obama would always describe himself as liberal he's

00:57:54.200 liberal. You're not liberal, mate. What, like a John Stuart Mill liberal? No. What you're

00:58:01.120 doing is not liberal. You're quite right. Yeah, not liberal. Far from liberal. It's

00:58:10.020 like the Liberal Democrats. They're not liberal. They're extreme. Extreme globalists and anti-white.

00:58:15.040 Yeah

00:58:15.640 Okay

00:58:18.400 The next two, three, four, five, six

00:58:21.680 The next six are all acid helms

00:58:24.740 So let's read through those

00:58:25.880 He says

00:58:27.220 Morning Bo, hope you enjoyed your holiday

00:58:30.680 Oh, hope you enjoy your holiday

00:58:32.840 Oh yeah, that's the thing

00:58:33.720 I'm on holiday as of next week

00:58:35.320 So this is the last you'll see of me on The Breakfast Show

00:58:38.780 Or indeed, even on the podcast

00:58:41.040 Until

00:58:41.860 Two Mondays time

00:58:43.800 Monday the 19th

00:58:45.120 I'm finally having a holiday

00:58:47.000 I haven't been abroad for years

00:58:48.760 I haven't had any sort of holiday this whole year

00:58:51.000 Stay at home, not even that

00:58:52.660 So I'm finally going on a holiday next week

00:58:55.000 Going to Italy

00:58:56.340 And it won't be back until Monday the 19th

00:58:59.460 Next week you'll get one of the

00:59:01.080 One of the different Lotus Eaters presenters each day

00:59:06.600 Cole, Farras, Luca

00:59:08.660 Big Harry

00:59:10.700 Dan Tub

00:59:12.080 I think

00:59:12.880 I enjoy

00:59:16.080 Each room will bring something slightly different to the table

00:59:19.520 Won't they? So yeah

00:59:20.960 You'll get a slightly different bow show

00:59:23.140 Each day next week

00:59:25.400 Okay you've put

00:59:26.800 Sorry Acid Helmer said

00:59:28.200 Hope you enjoy your holiday, yeah me too

00:59:30.760 Quite frankly well earned holiday

00:59:33.040 Oh cheers, yep that's what it is

00:59:35.160 A well earned holiday

00:59:36.120 Thank you, appreciate it

00:59:38.660 OK, right, I'm sure you...

00:59:40.140 This is what you've put.

00:59:41.240 OK, right, I'm sure you know what time it is.

00:59:43.860 Once again, I have some facts.

00:59:45.620 Brilliant, he's taken over from Global Church History with his factoids.

00:59:49.400 Thank you, sir, appreciate it.

00:59:51.080 Picked up the slack.

00:59:52.360 OK, you've put...

00:59:53.240 On the 9th of October 1963,

00:59:56.100 a massive landslide plunged into Italy's Vagionche Reservoir,

01:00:01.620 sending a devastating wave over the dam.

01:00:03.700 Around 2,000 people died, yet the dam itself largely survived.

01:00:08.260 I'm not sure I've even heard of that.

01:00:10.980 Oh, no way, I have.

01:00:12.720 Yeah, didn't they?

01:00:14.680 Yes, I believe they knew something like that could happen

01:00:18.340 or was even imminent

01:00:19.260 and didn't do anything about it,

01:00:22.680 if that's the one I'm recalling.

01:00:26.220 Like, geologists and things and engineers were like,

01:00:29.380 something like this could totally happen.

01:00:31.020 In fact, at some point, it almost certainly will.

01:00:32.900 And the Italian authorities were like,

01:00:34.220 yeah, well, until it does, like, well,

01:00:36.900 it's probably not going to, isn't it?

01:00:38.060 They were like that about it.

01:00:39.340 It would cost insane amounts of money to do something about that.

01:00:42.560 So, and then it did happen.

01:00:45.640 I think that's what that one was.

01:00:47.620 I didn't know it was as many as 2,000 people died.

01:00:49.940 I knew it was like in the high hundreds.

01:00:52.060 2,000.

01:00:56.140 Mad.

01:00:58.080 Okay, next one you say is,

01:00:59.160 on the 9th of October 1937,

01:01:02.400 nine European Catholic missionaries were murdered in Zhengding, China,

01:01:07.140 During the Japanese invasion

01:01:09.240 So murdered by the Japanese was it

01:01:11.480 They had been sheltering refugees

01:01:14.540 Including women and girls from the war

01:01:16.620 Yeah

01:01:18.540 Loads of things like that happened in China

01:01:22.460 During World War II

01:01:23.560 I mean China's war

01:01:25.900 China and Japan's war

01:01:27.060 World War II

01:01:27.980 Started earlier than Europe's didn't it

01:01:30.560 I talked about this before

01:01:32.280 How usually in the West

01:01:34.200 Or always in the West

01:01:35.120 They count World War II starting

01:01:36.940 As when

01:01:38.120 Germany invaded Poland

01:01:40.200 And then England declared war on Germany

01:01:42.340 That's the beginning of World War 2

01:01:44.120 But if you live in the East

01:01:45.260 World War 2 effectively started

01:01:47.880 Years before that

01:01:49.360 Okay

01:01:51.840 On this day

01:01:53.560 Another one, you've got another one

01:01:54.700 Another two, another three

01:01:56.400 Okay

01:01:56.780 Next one says

01:01:58.240 On the 9th of October 1940

01:01:59.800 Winston Churchill became leader of the Conservative Party

01:02:03.820 Succeeding Neville Chamberlain

01:02:05.380 Remarkably, Churchill had already been Britain's

01:02:07.880 World-time Prime Minister for five months

01:02:09.460 Yeah, that is an interesting point

01:02:10.660 Where Churchill became Prime Minister

01:02:14.200 In May 1940

01:02:16.040 Neville Chamberlain stepped down, stepped aside

01:02:18.220 But Neville Chamberlain didn't

01:02:20.180 Step down or step aside as leader of the party

01:02:22.800 Usually, nearly always

01:02:25.400 The Prime Minister is also the leader of that party

01:02:28.940 It would nearly always be the case

01:02:30.800 But Neville Chamberlain, for whatever reason

01:02:32.500 Didn't step aside, well I say for whatever reason

01:02:34.240 And Churchill said he didn't want that mantle.

01:02:36.540 Churchill put together sort of a coalition government,

01:02:39.320 a type of coalition government Churchill did during the war

01:02:41.720 for, like, a unity, the idea of unity.

01:02:45.760 And so he didn't want to be...

01:02:47.520 Churchill didn't want to be the leader of the Conservative Party.

01:02:50.300 He'd rather be the prime minister of some sort of coalition government.

01:02:54.660 But then Neville Chamberlain was very, very ill, you see.

01:02:57.760 Neville Chamberlain died of, like, was it cancer?

01:03:00.320 Was it bowel cancer?

01:03:01.520 in 1940 like right at the end of 1940 neville chamberlain died of cancer

01:03:06.880 i think in like november 1940 so he's very very ill so it's like only about a month from now

01:03:17.240 in 1940 he's dead of bowel cancer so he eventually did step down as leader of the party and churchill

01:03:24.140 took on that mantle because of course he would no one else would you know it's interesting to

01:03:27.860 note isn't it for months church was prime minister but not leader of the conservative party in world

01:03:33.100 war ii yes interesting footnote of history okay next one acid acid helm says on the 9th of october

01:03:38.620 1806 oh we're going back to the early 19th century here prussia declared war on napoleon's france

01:03:44.120 how'd that work out for you well good in the end ultimately but in the first in the first instance

01:03:50.580 You've put

01:03:53.080 Just five days later

01:03:54.800 Napoleon's armies

01:03:55.900 Devastated Prussian forces

01:03:57.380 At Jena

01:03:58.160 And Uldersted

01:04:00.740 Bringing Prussia

01:04:02.360 To the brink of collapse

01:04:03.560 Yeah the Battle of Jena

01:04:04.760 Most people

01:04:05.820 Even people that like

01:04:06.760 The Napoleonic war stuff

01:04:08.120 Don't know much about it

01:04:09.600 But it's absolutely decisive

01:04:10.820 In terms of

01:04:11.660 Beating Germany

01:04:12.980 Well there wasn't

01:04:13.640 A Germany as such

01:04:14.460 But beating Prussia

01:04:15.600 Because during the age of

01:04:18.740 Well Frederick the Great

01:04:19.660 And everything

01:04:19.940 Do you think I've got long-form content

01:04:21.320 All about Frederick the Great

01:04:22.240 Prussia was the

01:04:24.780 Hardest power

01:04:26.920 In Central Europe

01:04:28.160 Even Napoleon might struggle

01:04:31.480 Against the Prussian forces

01:04:33.380 Nope, swept him aside quite easily

01:04:34.900 Marched straight all the way to Berlin

01:04:37.340 And beyond

01:04:37.800 Yeah, that's how good

01:04:41.360 Napoleon was

01:04:42.180 Prussians, please

01:04:44.780 Okay

01:04:47.520 I've got another fact

01:04:49.220 what did you say on the 9th of October 768 Charlemagne was going oh we already did that

01:04:53.940 he said Charlemagne was crowned king of the Franks at Noyon he would go on to conquer much

01:05:00.000 of Western Europe and be crowned emperor in 800 becoming one of medieval Europe's greatest rulers

01:05:05.100 yeah absolutely we've got long form content about I've got long form content about that

01:05:08.380 um yeah absolutely right we've already talked about it a bit so I'll move on we've still got

01:05:12.800 quite a few here to get through there's still loads okay rumble rants going off in the last

01:05:18.160 couple of days all right next one is dragon lady chris next to a dragon lady chris you say good

01:05:22.780 morning all and it should be mentioned that charlemagne was crowned alongside his brother

01:05:27.920 uh carloman the first yeah yeah they sort of devalued the king kingship for a while there

01:05:33.360 it was an old frankish an old frankish uh tradition that a king would divide his kingdoms

01:05:39.780 up among his sons um not a good idea is it really unless they're completely singing from the same

01:05:47.020 In sheet

01:05:47.900 Which they often wouldn't

01:05:49.140 Wouldn't they

01:05:49.420 They'd often become

01:05:50.160 Rivals immediately

01:05:51.160 Yeah okay

01:05:52.400 Dragon Lady Chris again says

01:05:53.540 Hell

01:05:54.020 I would probably have been

01:05:55.200 Diagnosed as autistic

01:05:56.260 When I was a kid

01:05:56.980 If that had been a thing then

01:05:58.600 I just prefer the company

01:05:59.820 Of my books

01:06:00.360 Not other people

01:06:01.080 Yeah

01:06:01.740 I think it's really bad

01:06:03.000 To diagnose kids with

01:06:04.140 ADD

01:06:04.840 ADHD

01:06:05.340 Asperger's or anything

01:06:07.000 Or like

01:06:07.460 Or autism

01:06:08.060 Just because they're a bit

01:06:09.480 Awkward

01:06:10.060 And introverted

01:06:10.960 And quiet

01:06:11.540 A lot of kids

01:06:15.220 Most kids are

01:06:16.160 At some point

01:06:16.760 I mean, before you come out of your shell

01:06:18.940 Yeah

01:06:21.500 Okay, Acid Helm again says

01:06:23.400 I voted no

01:06:24.700 Okay, I voted no because watching him defend his

01:06:28.500 His bat-ess

01:06:30.720 That swear word beginning with S

01:06:32.180 Bat-ess policies

01:06:33.640 Would be effing hilarious

01:06:35.680 Yeah, I said that, didn't I?

01:06:37.780 Didn't I say that?

01:06:39.100 There would be a value to that

01:06:41.180 Though in saying that, the people voted Bojo in

01:06:44.720 Because, Boris Johnson

01:06:45.860 because he was the meme vote and look how that turned out right yeah good valid points

01:06:52.500 uh king chas the fourth king chas of the next two are from king chas the fourth

01:07:01.000 who says are there any books you can recommend to read on history with credible authors

01:07:07.860 right my thing's just okay it's back okay with credible authors i've begun reading about

01:07:13.460 roman britain recently i'm interested in all stages of history people ask me that a lot i say

01:07:21.380 there's a number of things it's good to start with

01:07:27.860 if you're up for it it's a bit of a struggle but it's good to start with

01:07:31.780 gilgamesh or the iliad or herodotus none of those things are particularly easy to read

01:07:38.260 You've got to get your eye in

01:07:40.080 You've got to get used to it

01:07:41.100 But they're the places to start

01:07:43.260 If you don't want to start there

01:07:44.320 Tacitus

01:07:45.260 The annals of Tacitus

01:07:46.960 Or the histories of Tacitus

01:07:48.280 Are brilliant

01:07:49.140 If you're interested in Roman history

01:07:50.380 Or Edward Gibbon

01:07:52.640 The decline and fall of the Roman Empire

01:07:54.340 By Edward Gibbon

01:07:55.260 Is

01:07:56.260 Gold standard in my opinion

01:07:59.180 Credible?

01:08:02.740 Yeah, credible

01:08:03.360 It's done all the reading

01:08:05.060 It depends

01:08:06.560 Do you want secondary reading?

01:08:07.640 a historian telling you about history or do you want to go back to the original source material

01:08:10.920 i want to go back to the original source material say rome polybius livy suetonius

01:08:17.760 plutarch the lives of plutarch brilliant and tacitus tacitus is the gold standard

01:08:23.500 all right there's so many i could mention all right the second one from uh king chas the fourth

01:08:29.140 says is there a correlation with both raf base cases and are we essentially under attack

01:08:34.780 i i've got no idea i've got no special insight doesn't seem to be a correlation does there

01:08:40.020 between the rf fairford thing and this new rf molesworth thing there may be there may well be

01:08:46.620 i don't know i'm i can i only can read what you guys read i've got no special insight into what's

01:08:53.420 happened are we essentially under attack well seem to be targeting us assets don't they

01:09:01.360 okay dragon lady chris dragon lady chris again says luca poor lad dealing with this crowd dot dot

01:09:11.760 smiley face he'll be fine he'll be fine he's highly competent okay

01:09:18.900 acid helm again says just run wondering since you're on holiday

01:09:25.280 since you're on holiday maybe this is a typo there but maybe put see you still here for

01:09:35.740 t-stop sunday or do you leave before then always a nice way to end the week with you and nate

01:09:40.780 state of politics so i'll be here for this coming sunday state of politics and then i fly on the

01:09:47.400 monday for a whole week so the following sunday i won't be like sunday the 18th of october there

01:09:54.440 won't be a tea stop sunday sunday sunday tea stop sunday lifetime unless they want to do it on his

01:10:00.100 own or with a guest i don't think he's going to i don't know actually but this sunday there will

01:10:05.820 be one definitely and then sunday the 18th there won't be one probably but might be that's the

01:10:13.140 answer to that okay matthew c how are you sir all right matty super fan met him in real life

01:10:19.360 Seems like a great guy

01:10:20.500 Says

01:10:21.120 Enjoy your holes Bo

01:10:22.620 Oh cheers

01:10:23.140 Where in Italy

01:10:24.600 Are you going to

01:10:25.320 Well we're flying to Rome

01:10:26.480 Going to stay in Rome

01:10:28.320 For a night or two

01:10:30.060 And then

01:10:31.180 I'm either going to go to

01:10:32.600 Florence or Vieto

01:10:34.160 I think

01:10:34.620 Maybe

01:10:38.320 A night in

01:10:39.580 Yeah probably

01:10:42.580 Probably that

01:10:43.260 And then come back

01:10:44.100 In the last few days

01:10:45.180 In Rome again

01:10:45.800 Probably

01:10:46.880 I haven't actually finalised

01:10:48.440 exactly exactly what we're gonna do but we're flying in and out of rome so so that okay

01:10:56.360 and the last rumble rant here from sausage monkey says there was a fallout at a meeting in bolton

01:11:03.800 on the 7th of october over muslim green party councillors requesting to fly the palestinian

01:11:09.320 flag over the library it's going up on the 15th of november then they've done a little emoji of a

01:11:14.600 a person doing that yeah someone on twitter um added me in a tweet that was about that yeah

01:11:23.300 there should be no palestinian why i want as many palestinian flags flying around britain

01:11:30.800 as i want israeli flags which is to say zero all right now let's do the su the youtube ones

01:11:42.320 Harry's already ahead of the game there

01:11:44.360 He's already got it up there on my screen for me

01:11:46.360 There's quite a few of these as well

01:11:48.040 20 odd I suppose, something like that

01:11:49.660 So let's start getting through them

01:11:51.540 Howltoza

01:11:54.420 Howltoza

01:11:55.820 Says, morning Boesky

01:11:57.720 Alright, yeah I'm alright buddy, how are you?

01:12:01.340 Back in March

01:12:02.200 I told you I was starting cancer treatment

01:12:04.160 And today I find out it worked

01:12:06.380 Wish me luck, oh brilliant

01:12:07.700 Bro

01:12:09.660 Brilliant, brilliant

01:12:18.100 Best of luck to you, that's wonderful news

01:12:23.820 That's wonderful news

01:12:26.140 Super, I'm stoked for you

01:12:29.860 Wonderful, wonderful

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01:13:10.120 Aristotle Luton says

01:13:14.400 Bo you alright

01:13:15.280 currently blitzing your Plantagenet epochs

01:13:18.220 well done good lad

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01:13:58.600 Oh, Henry V. I'm

01:14:00.400 Henry V man, myself.

01:14:03.880 If you

01:14:04.480 notice on there, Henry V

01:14:06.380 series. It was like, was it 10, 13, 15 episodes I did on Henry V? I decided to do it as much

01:14:13.280 justice as possible. Henry V is my favourite. Yeah. You're liking the Plantagenet epochs? Cool.

01:14:23.340 I'm loving that you're loving it. Okay. Tatum here. How are you, Tatum? Tatum says,

01:14:30.100 Bo, what do you think of calling the Byzantine Empire, the medieval Roman Empire? Unbroken

01:14:35.860 line of emperors till 1204 and then post 1261 is byzantine um well people argue about that

01:14:45.320 end historians and scholars argue about that endlessly is the byzantine empire really still

01:14:50.660 like the roman republic is it something entirely different

01:14:54.280 can't argue about that all the time is it they're more greek than roman aren't they

01:14:59.240 by the by the medieval period

01:15:01.500 hmm well i'd need long-form content to talk about that in any depth

01:15:09.880 there is long-form content with marcus furious pertin x aka

01:15:14.240 iron age agriculturalist we've talked all about that before

01:15:18.360 i tend to think

01:15:21.660 well whatever you argue there's a good counter argument for it that's the thing whatever you

01:15:28.560 Argue, someone else can say, ah, but

01:15:30.700 I find the Byzantine Empire

01:15:34.540 By the

01:15:35.380 By the

01:15:36.560 13th century

01:15:38.680 By the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th century

01:15:42.100 It's more Greek

01:15:44.660 Than it is Roman

01:15:45.460 They're speaking and writing Greek

01:15:48.040 And calling themselves Greek

01:15:49.980 But also calling themselves Roman

01:15:51.060 Also loads of their laws and institutions

01:15:54.420 Are Roman

01:15:55.080 Okay, it's a difficult question, can't go into it here

01:15:58.360 gotta move on okay the educated yobo says i made a few small bets on politics with the greens

01:16:06.820 getting between 30 and 35 percent all i need now is mothian alley to become leader and i'll be up

01:16:12.840 20 quid you'll probably win that i would have thought you'd win that not a bad bet what website

01:16:19.700 do you use to even bet something like that you can't just go in william hill and bet on that

01:16:23.040 can you, you'd have to go to a website or something

01:16:25.200 but you'll probably win that

01:16:26.300 I'd put 10 quid

01:16:28.620 on you winning that

01:16:29.940 okay, Emily for Restore

01:16:32.980 says, it's always a self

01:16:34.820 loathing, nerdy, middle class

01:16:36.980 wannabe Marxist, isn't it

01:16:38.820 yeah, it is, yeah

01:16:39.720 as for the genocide in

01:16:43.260 G, Gaza

01:16:44.960 I suppose, biggest takia

01:16:46.760 psyop in our lifetime

01:16:48.120 okay

01:16:50.220 okay

01:16:53.040 Yeah, in Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell talks about that type,

01:16:57.860 that self-loathing, nerdy, middle-class, wannabe Marxist.

01:17:01.900 Yeah.

01:17:03.240 Yeah, they're filth.

01:17:05.800 They are filth.

01:17:07.600 They really are.

01:17:09.120 They're the problem.

01:17:11.780 Sam Against Goat Lovers said,

01:17:14.020 thoughts of Miliband's fake constipated smile.

01:17:18.160 Yeah, he's a freak.

01:17:19.780 Why is he trying to pretend he's not a freak?

01:17:21.800 Everyone can see he's a freak.

01:17:23.040 freak

01:17:23.700 he's gross

01:17:26.760 he's gross

01:17:27.600 dysgenic weirdo

01:17:31.160 ok

01:17:32.760 kipper388 doesn't say anything

01:17:34.940 and just gives $10 well thank you very much

01:17:37.100 appreciate that

01:17:37.940 Tatum again says

01:17:39.380 policing anti-white sentiment with the

01:17:43.100 strictness of wokeness

01:17:44.280 will feel amazing

01:17:45.840 and will catch normies totally off guard when the pendulum

01:17:49.120 swings let's hope so

01:17:50.520 fingers crossed from that I'm up for that

01:17:52.360 lovely jubbly james lee pevenhole says andrew sacks coberg gotha really andrew brunswick

01:17:59.060 interesting interesting what uh andrew of uh what would you say andrew of hanover

01:18:09.180 yeah okay rose six three uh three six three one says second live show today i've been watching

01:18:18.020 daily since the show first started later on in the day as i work late have a good uh have a good

01:18:24.520 holiday next week oh thank you very much rose i appreciate that i should try to thank you i'm

01:18:29.560 gonna try and have a lie in most days that's sort of one of the main things not get out of bed at

01:18:35.260 like 10 past 6 every morning that'd be nice okay james lee pevenhole says history of england uh

01:18:43.700 W.H. Dolkin, 1897, a recommendation for a book, there you go, okay, James D. Pevenhole

01:18:51.600 again says, which day is Lord of the Rings Day? I don't know exactly what you mean, sorry,

01:19:01.600 I really don't know what you mean, are you saying we should have a national holiday,

01:19:03.880 Lord of the Rings Day, is that what you're saying? I'm not sure exactly what you're getting

01:19:08.100 out there, okay, and the last one, oh no, penultimate one now, another one just kicked

01:19:12.320 Penultimate from Tatum says,

01:19:14.300 Oh, will the other Lotus Eaters read Supers?

01:19:17.620 I think so. I hope so.

01:19:18.540 I think they will.

01:19:19.560 They should do, yeah.

01:19:21.420 Yeah.

01:19:23.380 Okay, and the last one today from VicksGB says,

01:19:27.400 let me read it.

01:19:29.160 It's got a glare on the screen.

01:19:30.620 Have a fantastic holiday, Bo.

01:19:32.280 Happy travels, smiley face and hearts.

01:19:34.960 Well, thank you very much.

01:19:36.640 Thank you very, very much.

01:19:37.420 I really appreciate that.

01:19:38.540 You're so kind of a band of brothers and sisters.

01:19:40.460 the glorious band the chosen few all right that's the show it's now 19 minutes past nine in the am

01:19:47.080 british summertime on friday the 9th of october in the year of our lord 2026 thank you for joining

01:19:51.660 me you've got impeccable taste just before you leave if you haven't already do the thumbs up

01:19:57.140 and w dozy make sure you sub to the channel i won't see you guys until monday the 19th then

01:20:04.020 try and make the best of the day ahead or the weekend ahead if you can the most valuable thing

01:20:09.980 you will have by orders of magnitude is your time it's the only thing thing of any true value you've

01:20:15.060 got isn't it money gold silver cars houses can't take any of that with you the final reckoning

01:20:22.580 it's of no actual value is it your time though your time's finite that's what's of value try and

01:20:30.580 make it count if you can i won't get too preachy about it it's up to you what you do but just be

01:20:33.920 reminded it's probably later than you think okay have a good day ahead and a weekend and i shall

01:20:39.100 see you on Monday the 19th. Until then, take care.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 09, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 9th October 2026

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