The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 morning you're right how are you doing it is Monday the 12th of January in the

00:00:06.840 year of our law 2026 it has just struck 8 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time and how are

00:00:14.100 you on this fine Monday morning Monday Monday I'm joined by little Harry once

00:00:19.140 again how are you Harry what's up good morning you're right yeah good good okay

00:00:24.720 well let's just let's just dive straight in no need for unnecessary preamble so

00:00:29.940 today's not a particularly slow news day again not a particularly slow news day

00:00:35.760 the big the big story today is Iran everything's Iran wall-to-wall Iran this

00:00:40.400 morning okay let's just jump straight in then so BBC News leads with The Guardian

00:00:46.180 okay deep breath The Guardian Iran warns US not to attack as

00:00:59.900 protester death toll soars and as you'll see that is the story on a lot of these a

00:01:06.080 lot of these papers Harry you might want to check with the cameras perfectly in

00:01:12.660 focus on the main one I'll carry on okay US Iran will Iran warns US not to attack

00:01:19.800 as protester death toll soars so okay a lot of reports are saying that well so for a

00:01:27.900 start there are lots and lots of protests going on up and down the length and

00:01:31.520 breadth of Iran that is not in question that is not in doubt it's just a 0.98

00:01:36.420 question of how bad they are how bad the the death toll how big the death toll is

00:01:41.940 there we go perfectly in focus there do not adjust your sets because some reports

00:01:49.980 are saying a lot of the mainstream corporate mainstream media are saying that

00:01:53.580 the death toll is massive you know hundreds and hundreds you know one report

00:01:59.040 here will say it's 180 odd people some say it's more the crown prince of Iran the

00:02:06.260 son of the old char said it's like two in two thousand odd or something I thought I

00:02:10.280 see him say on Fox News last night other people are saying that that's all that's

00:02:16.580 all the psyop that's not real that's all propaganda that's all sort of American or

00:02:21.240 Israeli regime change propaganda and it's not as bad as it's nowhere near as bad

00:02:26.180 as that I don't know I'm not on the ground you know I've got no idea one way

00:02:31.940 the other but the mainstream mainstream media is sort of in lockstep I mean take

00:02:37.680 from that what you will you know you could argue that that suggests that there is

00:02:42.220 something to it or equally you could argue that exactly that suggests that it is

00:02:48.240 sort of fake but nonetheless there we go

00:02:51.800 they're saying there are lots and lots of deaths in these protests

00:02:58.620 okay what we got Mandelson declines to say sorry for Epstein friendship

00:03:03.540 yeah this is weird one last ditch Hail Mary attempt to defend himself from Mandy

00:03:10.500 former UK ambassador says he knew nothing of the disgraced financial sex life

00:03:15.700 uh well after his actual conviction for sex crime there's no way he couldn't have known 0.92

00:03:22.280 uh and this is Mandy's words maybe because I was gay

00:03:26.220 I was I was kept separate maybe because I was that's his defense I was I couldn't possibly know

00:03:32.680 about all underage girls I am gay that might get clipped isn't it whenever you say something like

00:03:38.140 in the first person like that but yeah so that's Mandy's defense because he's a gayman 0.99

00:03:44.920 a practicing homosexualist he couldn't possibly have known anything about Epstein I mean it's just 0.96

00:03:53.140 obviously obvious nonsense isn't it because if anyone doesn't know or remember that Mandy was

00:03:59.340 not just sort of an acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein he was a full-blown sort of like the best friend

00:04:06.920 like they emailed each other hundreds and hundreds of times weirdly my best friends in the world

00:04:14.160 like my half a dozen closest friends in the world I haven't emailed them hundreds of times

00:04:18.400 ever in my whole life that's weird that's closer than a best friend in a way or to me maybe I'm not a big

00:04:24.620 email I guess but like they'll send each other birthday cards and stuff and best wishes all the

00:04:30.620 time weird like a weird weird weird close relationship between Peter Mandelson of all people and Jeffrey

00:04:38.800 Epstein but apparently according to Mandy he didn't know he just kept separate for everything he had

00:04:45.740 no idea we couldn't didn't know anything because he's gay I mean come on please please all right

00:04:53.940 slashing jury trials could quote clear backlog in a decade quote yeah that's David Lammy deputy

00:05:00.640 prime minister and like justice secretary isn't he um urged Labour MPs yesterday to back judge only

00:05:07.400 trials in thousands of criminal cases well you know I'm completely against that most uh most

00:05:13.180 normal English people are completely against it it's sort of a glorious tradition of jury trials going 0.99

00:05:18.820 back centuries and centuries and uh some complete moron possibly literally a clinical retard possibly 0.99

00:05:31.140 in David Lammy wants to do away with hundreds and hundreds of years of tradition uh don't like that 0.98

00:05:37.280 don't want that okay the FT what's the FT going with EU demands farage clause in talks over Brexit

00:05:45.820 reset so what this is says there financial penalty if reform pulls out brussels seeks long-term agreement

00:05:52.420 so this story is that Sir Quir Starmer and his government are trying to do um it seems well they

00:06:01.560 not seems they definitely are in talks to do some sort of deal with the EU bloc to bring them closer

00:06:09.140 closer closer together uh not necessarily fully fully rejoining the EU the way we used to but

00:06:16.720 some sort of deal one way or another and well actually we don't know the full details I couldn't

00:06:21.920 tell you the full details if I wanted to uh because no one knows them at this point it's just they're just

00:06:27.160 in talks with them well from the EU side they're saying they want some sort of clause in that deal

00:06:33.540 that agreement where if either side pulls out of it afterwards then they've got to pay the other

00:06:42.460 party a load of money and you could call that or some have already dubbed that a farage clause in other

00:06:49.560 words imagine Keir Starmer and his government have got fairly far down the line of um drawing up this

00:06:59.060 this new this new uh deal with brussels with Europe and then Nigel just wins the next general election

00:07:05.280 which he's probably going to do and then Nigel just scraps all of that it's just like no

00:07:09.760 because if I suppose if there's one quote-unquote based thing you could expect Nigel to do it is to

00:07:15.340 take a hopefully anyway come on hopefully take a reasonably hard line against Europe and on

00:07:22.440 the Brexit reset any sort of Brexit reset that might be ongoing at that point you know I don't

00:07:29.240 hold out much hope for Nigel to be all that uh hard line and you know populist or or nationalist or

00:07:36.280 patriotic in loads of ways but you would hope at least on some sort of Brexit reset he would

00:07:42.580 you could bank on him to abandon that at least

00:07:47.160 so they're saying let's draw into it the Europe is saying let's join to it if one side or the other

00:07:53.740 obviously the British side of that equation uh pulls out then you have to pay loads of money

00:07:58.320 um classic classic Europe right that seems to me that's a classic European Union sort of way of

00:08:07.060 thinking and acting is that they'll just immediately like an overzealous mother or teacher or something 0.96

00:08:15.660 um draw up ways to try and punish you and to try and just get loads of get money out of Britain

00:08:22.860 by hell or high water um brilliant classic they haven't changed their stripes at all have they

00:08:30.520 uh there's a picture of some protests allegedly in in Iran uh challenged to Tehran regime warns Trump

00:08:39.080 against interfering as a protests mount in Iran

00:08:42.140 okay private equities uh dash dash offshore triggers concern over transparency of funds okay

00:08:51.740 right so Iran we're not ready to bomb Iran yet says US generals all right so on Friday was it

00:08:59.320 I think it was Friday Friday afternoon um Trump sits down does a long press conference like an hour

00:09:04.480 hour and a half press conference including loads of questions uh with Rubio and JD Vance and a lot

00:09:10.080 and and in there he talks all about Venezuela and Greenland and all sorts of things there's loads

00:09:14.720 and loads of questions of course Iran comes up and Trump continued his line his position which was if

00:09:24.740 the mullahs and the ayatollah in Iran kill loads and loads of people then America stands ready to help 0.99

00:09:33.400 and it's it's always a bit vague I mean it probably was always going to be a bit vague

00:09:38.300 um you know he's not going to explicitly tell you the actual military plans but still his position would

00:09:45.400 be that if loads and loads of people get killed massacred you know in large numbers then the United

00:09:50.600 States will step up and and do something who knows really what that means whether it's

00:09:55.280 you know just just bombing of regime buildings or whether it's you know a Maduro style special

00:10:04.820 forces raid whether it's some sort of full-blown invasion you know it wouldn't be a full-blown

00:10:09.280 invasion because you need months and months and months to build up to that if anyone remembers the

00:10:14.940 the Gulf the second Gulf War in 2003 with George George Bush Jr taking out Saddam it took months

00:10:24.460 honestly like quite a few months to build up in like uh in the the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf and

00:10:30.540 all that sort of thing get all your bases in places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar Doha and all that sort of

00:10:36.900 thing and um so the United States isn't in a position to and I don't think they want it well they're not

00:10:43.680 going to just do a full-blown Iraq 2003 invasion but nonetheless who knows what they might do sort

00:10:48.220 of short of that um some of the details were things like um they'll just do like cyber attacks in Iran

00:10:56.980 possibly well let's see what's there the eye paper says Trump considers airstrikes against regime as

00:11:03.580 Iran protesters defy a deadly crackdown despite internet blackout by the Iranian regime I'll talk

00:11:09.720 about that in a sec uh evidence grows that demonstrators are being slaughtered cost of

00:11:15.420 living uh cost of living protests are morphing into wider anger at the ayatollah and his 36 year

00:11:23.140 rule U.S. commanders say they need time to prepare military strikes given that retaliation is likely

00:11:31.060 this is very small I haven't got 2020 anymore I'm knocking my mid-40s I used to have 2020 I guess

00:11:36.320 I haven't anymore that writing is pretty small for me Tehran vows revenge attacks against American 0.93

00:11:42.460 bases ships and allies Harry's making it bigger for me is it okay thanks Tehran vows vows revenge 0.86

00:11:51.000 revenge attacks against American bases ships and allies in the Middle East

00:11:54.980 okay so some of the details are that um in over the weekend seems like things did escalate over the

00:12:03.080 weekend um I think there's no way to avoid saying that one way or another um uh and and the Iranian 0.98

00:12:12.420 regime have shut down the sort of the outside internet as I understand it that there's the there

00:12:18.440 isn't like the full-blown completely free and open internet that we enjoy in the west in Iran anyway

00:12:25.440 but what little there was they shut down and they've got some type of internal intranet style thing going

00:12:33.280 on fair few countries in the world do that you know like North Korea and things do that um and then also

00:12:39.680 but there is the possibility of Skylink isn't there Elon's Elon's um Elon's satellite array and uh apparently

00:12:50.400 the Iranians the regime uh sort of scrambled that or jammed that um nonetheless it's still possible

00:13:00.500 one way or another here and there for things to get out you know so people that are actually on the

00:13:04.900 ground can film things on their phone and then one way or another it's possible to get the odd bit of

00:13:11.480 information out here or there so there are videos um circulating around which do seem to be from the

00:13:20.240 weekend um so somehow some videos are getting out um so I mean to say a little bit more about Iran

00:13:28.480 because it is the main story today it's basically the main story

00:13:31.300 just to tell you sort of personally where I am what my thoughts and feelings on it and then I'll go

00:13:39.680 through a bit more of the sort of the spectrum of opinion my opinion is that uh well I'm certainly

00:13:45.500 not pro the Islamic theocracy regime that's there I'd like to see as few or none know Islamic theocracies 0.99

00:13:55.260 in the world that would be nice I'd like to see that if it is really the case that the vast majority

00:14:00.140 of Iranian people don't like that regime and would rather uh the Shah's son the crown prince come back

00:14:07.600 if that if that is the case then good I'd rather see that then that's my position on it you know I

00:14:16.980 don't best of luck to the Iranian people you know um I care about it mostly in the sense or through

00:14:25.980 the lens of how it affects Britain you know because we had a but we don't know if anyone remembers but

00:14:32.180 maybe how long ago is it maybe six months ago or a year ago or so there's a bunch of raids across

00:14:36.740 Britain including in Swindon including in um there's like a cafe Nero around near Iceland

00:14:46.360 in the middle of Swindon there was a raid there and they were like all Iranian people there's like 1.00

00:14:53.100 multiple Iranian terrorist cells operating in Britain and the police the anti-terror police in

00:14:59.500 Britain swooped on them all at once all on one morning five four or five or six different

00:15:04.520 places across Britain um and one of one of them was actually in Swindon in a place we walk past all

00:15:11.500 the time if um like you couldn't be you know it's really close to home sort of a thing there's a thing

00:15:16.920 where the the the uh ununiformed police sweep down on them and put a bag over their head and put bags

00:15:22.960 over their hands I guess it's to preserve evidence of bomb bomb making particles on their hands something

00:15:31.040 like that and it is true isn't it it is a fact it's not just Pentagon propaganda or not just Israeli

00:15:39.320 propaganda that Iran does have proxies all over the Middle East or in some places in some senses all

00:15:45.720 over the world um doing terroristic things I think that's a matter of record that's not just pure

00:15:52.940 nonsense that is that is the case or was the case um so I would like to see a a better regime

00:16:03.580 in Iran but when it affects Britain so there was a couple of a couple of videos came out from over

00:16:10.580 the weekend where the Iranian embassy in London in Prince's Gate interestingly only a couple of weeks

00:16:17.260 ago I did uh an epochs video I did an epochs video on uh on lotusseaters.com talking about the history of

00:16:28.380 the 1980 Iranian embassy siege in London where the SAS went in and and sort of put a shaped charge against

00:16:38.160 the first first story window and sort of blew up the balcony a bit that same balcony that very same

00:16:44.100 one because the same building to this day is used as the Iranian embassy um some guys climbing up

00:16:49.280 there's protests anti the ayatollah's regime protests in London outside the Iranian embassy

00:16:55.680 in Kensington and some guy climbed up scaled up the outside of the building

00:17:00.400 and uh tried tried or did half ripped down the the Iranian flag and try and put a new honor and then the next

00:17:08.120 day was it just on Sunday uh someone did it again um and they're all chanting there's loads of chanting

00:17:15.200 like bring back the the prince and things like this now I think that's gross I don't want to see that

00:17:24.400 not because I'm pro the ayatollah's it's just like ugh that's my thoughts and feelings as a as an Englishman

00:17:32.360 like ugh get out of my country so all of them yeah maybe the ayatollah's can fall and all those 1.00

00:17:40.020 Iranians can go go back there that's my feeling about it um so but the range of opinion right you've

00:17:47.520 got someone at one end of the spectrum like Maya Tusi right who's really really really and for example

00:17:53.740 just an example Maya Tusi you know uh Tusi TV uh really really really anti the regime right really

00:18:04.880 really really pro bring the king back and anything that helps damage the the regime of the ayatollahs

00:18:13.380 he's all in favor of right up to and including you know uh standing for Israel you know or Tommy

00:18:21.720 Robinson perhaps you know anything that wounds the Islamic world he's sort of really for and I'm 1.00

00:18:29.740 not condemning them for this particularly you know so it's further than I it's further than than my

00:18:35.420 position but they're welcome to their position um right and then you've got a lot of the world that

00:18:41.660 are just in general anti the ayatollahs take for example um JK Rowling you know coming out and just

00:18:50.260 saying isn't it great that hopefully a lot of people women uh will be more liberated under a 1.00

00:18:56.480 less theocratic autocratic regime

00:18:58.400 and got loads of people like you know like Israel for example obviously Israel

00:19:03.960 right at that end of the spectrum anything that wounds Iran

00:19:08.160 um they're they're in favor of right and then you've got perhaps the the Trump administration a

00:19:15.380 little bit closer to the center than that but not much basically on the same page right and then

00:19:21.000 you've got a whole swathe of opinion um and then you've got people at the other end of the spectrum

00:19:25.560 even some of those on the right

00:19:27.940 um that are against it if you can believe this is sort of some of the mental gymnastics required

00:19:36.200 for this but replacing the regime in Iran would be replacing it with sort of uh you know the the

00:19:47.060 gae the global american empire which is zionist adjacent or zionist captured something like that

00:19:55.580 it's like it's all black rock that's funding it it's all like the insane liberal of like

00:20:03.340 transgenderism and all the worst bits of of the west that's what would be replacing a solid 1.00

00:20:10.820 conservative regime so unbelievable not unbelievably it's crazy it's not unbelievable but some people

00:20:18.720 even on on the right um are not in favor of this and think it and again think that most of the news

00:20:26.000 that come out of on the mainstream media is just sort of

00:20:28.960 israeli propaganda or u.s propaganda so that's the full spectrum of thoughts and feelings on this

00:20:38.140 as i say i come down on the side of ultimately if it's a binary choice do you want the

00:20:43.300 it doesn't have to be a binary choice by the way but if it is if it were to be

00:20:48.040 do you want the ayatollah's regime in Iran to be replaced with one like some sort of provisional

00:20:55.840 government some sort of interim provision provisional government with the crown prince in charge which

00:21:01.900 after that leads to uh some form of democracy some sort of vote where the average iranian person

00:21:09.980 gets to vote right if it's a choice between that or or the ayatollah well i i choose i choose the crown

00:21:19.460 prince and uh and the and the voting side of that of that binary choice

00:21:26.520 there you go that's that's my opinion um but yeah i mean we shall see what we shall see what happens

00:21:34.580 i mean i can't i can't i really can't go down the route of

00:21:38.900 defending or standing for the ayatollahs i i just i can't i can't really force myself to do that um

00:21:49.600 you know even you talk about the letter of two evils aren't we so i guess i guess the ayatollahs is

00:21:57.480 the worst of the two evils in my mind that's that's me um i feel like uh if you're if you find

00:22:06.780 yourself defending the iranian regime because you hate america so much feel like you've probably

00:22:13.860 lost some perspective a little bit you know if you hate if you hate zionism israel so much

00:22:23.840 that you find yourself upset that maduro a communist dictator was removed from power

00:22:28.820 feel like you've lost you've lost perspective somewhat

00:22:31.500 all right the independent what does the independent say yeah iran pledges to hit us

00:22:41.020 military targets if trump strikes so where trump has said you know for days and days now a week or

00:22:45.980 two now that um he's prepared to help the protesters in iran even up to including some some form of

00:22:54.060 military intervention he's been saying that for a while now well iran has said now openly if you do

00:22:59.440 that we're prepared to strike back we know iran's got missiles some missiles you know in their limited

00:23:07.620 war with israel last year they showed they've got missiles um america's got bases all over the

00:23:14.560 middle east of course haven't they places like uh doha and in saudi arabia and assets in the

00:23:22.420 persian gulf and the mediterranean sea and on and on and on right so yeah iran has said if you

00:23:29.400 hit us we'll hit you back i mean okay but the us will have a bigger arsenal though right so

00:23:41.900 i mean good luck with that you know it's a classic thing you know probably don't i mean a classic 0.83

00:23:48.680 classic thing going back to the ancient world or going back to i don't know someone like um

00:23:54.920 von klausmitz or something springs to mind

00:23:57.240 or even machiavelli various people various strategists throughout military strategists

00:24:05.800 throughout history have said one way or another in various forms don't start a war you're pretty

00:24:11.880 confident you can't win that's not a good strategy right iran striking the u.s or preemptively striking

00:24:23.020 the u.s or anything it's not a great strategy because you'll probably lose right i suppose you

00:24:30.980 know it's like hamas um attacking israel well it's like the israeli military

00:24:36.920 is stronger than hamas's paramilitary efforts it will be stronger so it's just not a good idea

00:24:46.500 if you want to win on the battlefield that is you know hearts and minds are something else

00:24:53.640 of course but just purely in military terms purely purely military terms the u.s is

00:25:00.820 more powerful than iran i mean need it be really said the independent says under there as violent

00:25:07.000 protests grow even bigger across iran tensions ramps up in the middle east with israel and the

00:25:12.220 u.s discussing intervention after hundreds of demonstrators fear dead in brutal regime crackdown

00:25:17.560 okay the daily mail says shot dead robina oh so this is what the the media often do don't they

00:25:27.140 especially sort of tabloids is they'll pick like one person they do that don't they they often pick

00:25:33.820 an example of one person you know one particular child drowns at the in the in the rio grande or

00:25:42.840 the mediterranean immigrant trying to cross a body of water they pick the example of one person 0.99

00:25:49.100 the tragedy of it so that's what i've done here with this iranian this iranian woman shot dead

00:25:55.580 robina 23 a victim of the mullah's death squads 500 protesters reported killed as kemi back's

00:26:03.940 military action does she while hand-wringing labor calls for calm

00:26:09.180 it's not funny is it um but yeah the way they've the way they've framed it is what's funny to me

00:26:19.260 really okay the torograph i gave a picture of the same woman you know i said that last week

00:26:24.880 way sometimes papers go with not just the same story or the same editorial angle the same take but

00:26:31.160 the same image look it's the exact same image it's funny i thought the telegraph and the mail were

00:26:39.220 um completely different newspapers but otherwise it's an odd coincidence isn't it all right uh ban

00:26:46.800 the irgc starma is urged that's the um irgc is the iranian military or the revolutionary guard the

00:26:56.060 islamic revolutionary guard corps shorthand for basically sort of the iranian military or the

00:27:02.600 security services ban them starma is urged calls for iran security force to be prescribed

00:27:09.480 after hundreds of protesters are killed okay so again the iranian story the iranian thing sort of

00:27:17.260 splits uh splits opinion quite heavily doesn't it you know you see all the lefties and the pro-islamic 0.51

00:27:24.100 people are sort of you know essentially find themselves and a few on the right find themselves

00:27:31.880 arguing in favor of the ayatollah's regime and then pretty much everyone else is like no they've

00:27:40.300 been in for like what 46 years 47 47 years and they've been like really quite oppressive

00:27:47.600 and murderous i mean that's a matter of record over the decades i mean um be better for the people of

00:27:54.340 iran would it not if they had something a bit better a little bit better than an islamic 1.00

00:28:00.300 a shiite islamic theocracy would it not 1.00

00:28:04.360 manderson i did not know of epstein abuses because i'm gay 0.91

00:28:10.620 don't believe you mandy mandy bro not buying that don't believe you no no don't buy it

00:28:24.580 toddler's ability to speak is damaged by screen time study finds yeah probably

00:28:29.580 yeah probably

00:28:31.640 the metro

00:28:36.340 harry

00:28:40.540 the worst of the worst arguably 0.99

00:28:47.820 the bloody metro i hate the metro he's the worst it's the pits 0.83

00:28:55.540 fire and fury as iran revolts there's a picture this has done rounds wasn't it on twitter a bit 0.95

00:29:00.820 i've already seen it like um clipped and memed um a woman got a picture of the ayatollah

00:29:07.340 ali khomeini there and it's on fire and she's lighting a cigarette from it in defiance

00:29:13.700 um yeah brave brave women fuel new uprising but desperate ayatollah threatens death to trump 1.00

00:29:24.960 quote vandals quote

00:29:26.320 okay so the regime itself obviously are saying all of this all of this is just like uh foreign

00:29:34.100 foreign agent provocateurs and let me just be clear they may be right or largely right i really don't

00:29:43.940 know um it seems it seems to me if i had to put money on it if i had to put 50 quid on what's real

00:29:49.860 what's the reality going on here i would say that it really is a real grassroots uh protest and

00:29:56.900 uprising by the people and there's an element of like foreign agent provocateurs whether it's israeli

00:30:04.260 or us or whatever you know intelligence services also stoking things i would imagine

00:30:12.020 there is an element of that i would find it hard to believe there isn't an element of that

00:30:17.940 right is mossad involved in you know stoking up the protest a bit yeah probably i would have thought

00:30:23.860 so yeah in fact is is that not even already sort of known to be the case um but also

00:30:32.180 but also i think i think probably the the majority of it though is is actually just

00:30:39.540 true iranian people rising up because they've done it many many times since like the year 2000 since

00:30:45.620 1999 or it's happened many many times even like last year or there was a big one in 2022 wasn't there

00:30:52.340 there was a big one in 2022 when some people like you know in in america in in the pentagon and the

00:30:58.020 state department hoped that the the ayatollah's regime might be toppled at that point in 2022

00:31:04.740 but the iranian powers that be killed a bunch of protesters what was it a few dozen or a few

00:31:12.980 hundred at that point and arrested something on the order of 20 000 and was able to stamp it out

00:31:19.700 in 2022 and there's those examples before as well um will they do that again here i wouldn't be

00:31:27.300 surprised uh if i had again if i had to put 50 quid on whether the the regime would be toppled this

00:31:35.700 time next week i'd say no probably not you know there's been so many false starts full storms on this

00:31:42.900 thing um i'll sort of believe it when i see it but we'll see i mean some of the some of the clips out

00:31:49.940 of iran if you believe them do show the big chunk if you believe it big chunks of tehran are now under

00:31:57.060 the control of of of the people i mean they've the the the irgc basically the the police the military

00:32:05.060 police the security services however you want to frame that have sort of fled the area it looks like

00:32:10.660 they really have um they're not they're not coming out in force uh you know creating big barriers of

00:32:18.500 like riot looking police with guns um and forcing protesters back seems like big big big parts of

00:32:26.900 other cities in iran seem to be controlled by well controlled by nobody not controlled by the regime

00:32:36.660 at least that like the second biggest city and loads of other cities seems like maybe the iranian

00:32:42.340 people have have learned the harsh lesson of you don't do one massive rally like a tommy rally you

00:32:49.060 don't or bigger much bigger you don't do one massive rally in tehran they've tried that a number of times

00:32:54.420 and you just get sort of penned in and kettled and taken out what they needed to do is rise up all over

00:33:01.700 iran all at the same time and it seems like that is something like that is going on seems to me 0.84

00:33:09.060 might be proven to be wrong in the coming days and weeks that it all was just sort of us and israeli

00:33:16.500 propaganda and it wasn't really wasn't really really happening

00:33:21.380 but from what i've seen it does look it does sort of seem that it is it does seem that it is so

00:33:32.420 all right the times mps to urge sacking of police chief in fans ban parliament misled over israeli

00:33:40.420 supporters so that's the story um i'll only briefly say because i think i talked about it last week we've

00:33:48.020 definitely done segments on it off for the main legacy channel before uh where there was the maccabee

00:33:53.860 tel aviv football club had come to birmingham to play aston villa birmingham a heavily islamic

00:34:03.300 city in britain demographically the center of the center of birmingham is uh lots of muslim people live

00:34:12.420 there and the the council the town council has got lots and lots of muslim counselors and um they got

00:34:19.860 the police one way or another is it west midlands police got them to ban the fans the maccabee tel aviv

00:34:26.580 fans who are apparently well are they are very poorly behaved fans and the police said they've banned

00:34:34.500 they've banned the maccabee fans because they had intelligence that the maccabee fans were going to start

00:34:39.060 smashing things up and making trouble when in fact now it seems evidence is that it was the other

00:34:45.860 other way around it was the muslim denizens of birmingham who had threatened to just go berserk on 1.00

00:34:54.580 the maccabee fans and and so mps are urging the second of the police chief the police chief that basically

00:35:02.420 it seems just folded to the muslim pressure he himself isn't a muslim or anything he folded to

00:35:10.660 the pressure inside birmingham to do this all right my girl was shot i saw hundreds more bodies

00:35:18.900 says somebody in iran again they got that same picture of that woman they found a sort of slightly

00:35:25.780 photogenic woman that's been killed murdered and uh you know slap her face up there front and center 1.00

00:35:35.780 the daily express pharmacies in crisis after labor's tax raid they decide they've decided that's the

00:35:43.700 front page news today the express and that's just about the yeah labor's labor's uh rates or taxes

00:35:50.580 hike for the high streets it was affected loads and loads of pharmacies that like if i remember yeah

00:35:58.420 650 odd pharmacies have closed in recent times in the last year um so yeah i suppose that's not ideal

00:36:09.300 is it i mean as long as there are some pharmacies still left open that's not the way to think about

00:36:13.780 it though is it as long as there's one left as long as you've still got one boots boots the chemist

00:36:18.580 as long as i can still get some of my prescription drugs um yeah so loads of chemists have closed down

00:36:28.260 because of labor um the mirror what's the mirror say mandelson's sorry excuse again we're front page

00:36:36.660 with mandy anger after peer refuses sorry the lord mandelson that's that's quite right sorry the lord

00:36:42.340 mandelson uh anger after peer refuses uh to apologize to monsters victims for his friendship yes in some

00:36:51.860 sort of interview i think he was asked to apologize are you sorry and uh he sort of basically refused to

00:37:00.580 say sorry he just said well i didn't know it i didn't know anything about it though it is a sorry excuse 0.97

00:37:05.300 isn't it you've got to be a fool he must think we're foolish to buy that like who's going to buy 0.99

00:37:12.500 that or that he's hiding behind the gay card i'm playing the gay card you can't really question me 1.00

00:37:18.740 you can't really notice the absurdity of my argument because i'm gay really doing that mandy really 0.97

00:37:25.620 all right all right the daily star

00:37:32.660 trump you're off 10 stars from brit clubs red carded this is a story about in fact i'm not even 0.76

00:37:40.100 going to bother giving it any it's just nonsense it's pure slop isn't it just pure slop forget about

00:37:46.820 it forget about it we'll move on the bbc the bbc news website uh right so that their top story is is

00:37:57.060 the iran stuff trump considers action and says iran wants meeting after hundreds of protesters reported

00:38:03.380 killed yeah i mean there's certainly something going on isn't there even if these even if these images are

00:38:10.500 of two or three days old even if that is the case there are a fair few amount of images out there

00:38:19.140 that show sort of undeniably right that there is civil unrest in iran anyone that's sort of claiming

00:38:26.580 it's entirely you know israeli propaganda or something american propaganda uh well that that

00:38:36.420 just doesn't add up to me that doesn't make sense you can't it can't be tea's gone cold yuck

00:38:45.300 okay have to resort simply to water

00:38:51.140 all right what else have they got revolutionary eye injection saved my sight says first ever patient

00:38:58.340 good for you i don't mean that sarcastically but okay guantanamo detainee paid substantial

00:39:05.140 compensation by uk to set a torture complicity case brilliant brilliant why not chamelay beats

00:39:14.340 dicaprio to golden globe glory couldn't care less

00:39:19.940 star glamour on the golden globes red carpet wow i don't care wow i don't care about the golden

00:39:25.860 globes and who was wearing what vets under increasing pressure to make money for corporate owners bbc told

00:39:34.580 all right u.s justice department opens criminal probe into fed chair jerome powell oh that might

00:39:41.940 that probably be an interesting story if that if that develops in coming days into something bigger

00:39:47.220 that's the first time seeing of that this morning um yeah if in coming days that becomes any sort of

00:39:53.460 story i'll i'll read all about that read all about it i'll read all up about that and bring you that one

00:40:00.180 if that becomes a thing all right the quote vicious cycle quote that means the nhs still

00:40:04.740 waste billions on patients who don't need to be in hospital the nhs in britain what a car crash

00:40:12.260 what a dumpster fire of a thing terrible the budget on that is so insane how on earth you they think

00:40:19.540 you can have endless open borders literally quite literally uncapped migration and free health care for

00:40:28.020 everybody

00:40:31.620 just common sense is that car that's unsustainable the amount of money the bill the nhs bill

00:40:39.060 to the state to to everyone all taxpayers is gigantic

00:40:42.980 that now there's some sort of vicious cycle which means we keep paying billions

00:40:47.780 to people that don't need to be in hospital i mean it's just just endless stories isn't it about the nhs

00:40:54.820 that whole house of cards is gonna collapse at some point

00:41:00.580 four killed and five injured in head-on crash was it

00:41:04.020 patients of under fives to be offered screen time guidance sorry sorry parents parents of under fives

00:41:14.180 to be offered screen time guidance

00:41:18.340 if you're a parent and you're letting your under five watch so much

00:41:22.340 have so much screen time that you need intervention from a third party to tell you to chill out on it

00:41:28.180 that's a bit worrying isn't it i know it's i know it's it's easy and i don't blame parents if uh

00:41:36.820 you've got a a bawling screaming shouting crying child and if you give them a tablet they will just sort of

00:41:43.780 kind of suddenly almost magically sit down and be quiet i get that i get it that you would want to do that

00:41:52.980 but maybe quite possibly it can go too far especially for the very very young

00:41:58.180 um okay uk can legally stop shadow fleet tankers ministers believe

00:42:08.820 well i guess it's how close to our waters do they actually come i mean it'd be difficult to make that

00:42:14.100 argument in like the marshall islands in the pacific wouldn't it in in the gilbert islands

00:42:21.860 around but if it's like just off of grimsby it's like one mile off of york

00:42:32.500 then um then that argument makes much more sense doesn't it huge roman villa uncovered under popular

00:42:38.500 park in an amazing discovery oh let's click on that i like a bit of love me a bit of history news

00:42:44.260 a huge roman villa discovered okay cool i'm reading this looking at this for literally for the first

00:42:51.700 time with you guys live in real time the scans reveal a villa within a defensive enclosure and an

00:42:57.860 isled building possibly used as a barn or meeting hall okay that does look like quite extensive uh quite

00:43:07.460 extensive archaeology there cool archaeologists have discovered the largest roman villa ever found in

00:43:13.860 wales wow in an quote amazing discovery quote which they say has the potential to be pork talbot's pompeii

00:43:24.660 pork talbot okay pork talbot's pompeii wow okay i shall read up about this uh today at some point and uh

00:43:32.100 uh hopefully it will be in the news even tangentially tomorrow or some later date and i'll talk all about

00:43:38.740 it in a bit more detail in the future all right we're already nearly quarter to nine so we'll whip through

00:43:46.420 a few of these itv goes with iran protest trump considering quote very strong military options who knows what

00:43:55.220 what that really means would it just be tom would be cruise missiles drone strikes or just sort of

00:44:05.860 you know screwing with them on in a cyber warfare type way who knows really at this point we'll have

00:44:13.220 to see we'll have to we're all waiting with bated breath to see what happens in iran over the coming

00:44:17.700 what two or three days a week or something it hangs in the balance i think channel four

00:44:38.100 channel four channel four news do we really need to go through channel four iran protests thousands

00:44:43.380 arrested by regime as death toll rises so even channel four who would do everything they would

00:44:48.020 could to discredit and undermine any sort of narrative coming out of the white house

00:44:55.460 or israel or something even they seem to be convinced that there are giant protests and the

00:45:01.460 the death toll rises iran seeing revolution not unrest says iranian american activist iran regime

00:45:10.660 uh must have nowhere to run says former uk security minister health concerns grow for palestine action

00:45:19.860 hunger hunger strikers don't care about them 1.00

00:45:25.220 don't care about them sky news sky news victims of bolton crash which killed three teenagers named locally

00:45:33.300 sad isn't it again i've said it before i'll say it again i'll probably say it dozens of times on this

00:45:38.180 show over the weeks or even months the individual stories like that sad as they are uh in my opinion are not

00:45:47.380 national news unless there's a specific angle to it which makes it like a national story but like that's

00:45:55.220 terrible for those people killed those teenagers killed and their families is it a national story i i don't

00:46:03.540 think so but there you go news agencies do often often go with like you know an individual event like that

00:46:12.580 all right the daily mail the mail online golden age glam kylie jenner and jennifer lawrence

00:46:22.260 bring old hollywood glamour to the golden globes alongside leonardo dicaprio

00:46:26.180 and kate hudson could not care less how is that new get real get real get real the golden globes

00:46:39.940 and what jennifer lawrence is wearing give me a break all right daily express uh the express online

00:46:48.020 andrew just wiped 30 million pounds off eugenie and beatrice's inheritance his downfalls complete

00:46:56.500 so his daughters princess eugenie and princess beatrice um

00:47:03.220 yeah i mean they unfortunately have to deal with the uh at least tangentially at least uh by proxy

00:47:10.980 with the disgrace of their father prince andrew oh sorry the once prince andrew now he's just

00:47:18.340 andrew mount baton isn't he or andrew windsor do they call him andrew windsor oh no that is yeah

00:47:23.620 andrew mount baton windsor that's his name now not prince andrew he's not hrh he's not a prince

00:47:28.900 he's not a prince so you know obviously they have to

00:47:31.700 still live in the shadow of his disgrace oh well oh well all right what's the sun gone with what

00:47:41.700 do you reckon it'll be what do you oh the golden globes is there j-lo is that j-lo who cares really

00:47:48.020 really who cares i'm asking that i'm asking the question who cares who cares about what someone

00:47:53.460 like jennifer lawrence and leo and j-lo war to the golden globes it's not even the oscars

00:48:01.700 the new york slimes federal prosecutors open investigation into fed chair powell the

00:48:07.060 investigation which is said to center on the renovations renovations yeah of the federal

00:48:12.740 reserves headquarters escalates uh headquarters uh escalates president trump's long-running feud with

00:48:20.660 the chair okay so well i really hope that will become a a big enough story that it lasts into another

00:48:27.380 day it looks like it probably will do actually um it'll give me time to read up about all the

00:48:32.980 details all the backstory of it and we'll talk about it in detail another time as it is already

00:48:37.700 gone quarter two let's whip through a couple more of these then what have we got the washington post

00:48:44.100 justice department opens a criminal investigation of fed chair okay so as we can see the new york

00:48:49.220 new york slimes and the washington post are both leading with that story so in the american press

00:48:54.340 it's a biggie uh the los angeles times everything that happened at the 2026 golden globe golden globes

00:49:05.380 yeah the los angeles times is much more sort of tabloidy isn't it everyone must agree with me on

00:49:11.780 that one it's compared to the new york times uh or the washington post which aren't averse to a bit of

00:49:19.060 slop are they but it seems like the la times is more more down that road all right sky news australia

00:49:26.980 sky news australia i said i would do it um because they're often quite basic we've got lots of aussies

00:49:32.660 in the uh in the audience so shout out to all the aussies oh yeah oh yeah 0.98

00:49:40.260 go for your life mate you bloody aussies right activist kathy wilcox snubs smh what is that that's 0.98

00:49:52.740 the sydney morning herald uh activist kathy wilcox snubs the sydney morning herald after controversial 0.98

00:49:59.780 cartoon sparks fury activist cartoonist kathy wilcox has snubbed her own newspaper after the 0.61

00:50:06.500 sydney morning herald issued a groveling apology for publishing a quote highly distressing quote

00:50:12.020 cartoon which offended the jewish community with anti-semitic tropes there you go that's what

00:50:18.820 sky news australia is leading with this morning a cartoonist did an anti an anti-semitic cartoon

00:50:31.060 pm recalls parliament for next week to introduce sweeping anti-hate laws

00:50:36.500 the poor aussies you know if you asked me when i was younger like in the 1990s or something or even

00:50:43.460 the very early 2000s would places like canada and australia be among the most

00:50:49.540 progress progressive would they go sort of kind of hard left censorship canada and australia i would

00:50:56.660 have said no no way really canada australia no no no if anything they'll be particularly australia

00:51:02.180 even they'd be bastions against that sort of thing no no not really in many ways they're

00:51:10.820 they're ahead of us in some senses in some senses and i feel for them the aussie my aussie cousins

00:51:18.500 coalition quote deeply skeptical quote of anthony albanese's anti-extremism bill may well been

00:51:26.260 pronouncing that surname albanese all right they also got a story about iran and a muslim leader and

00:51:35.460 wife violently assaulted in alleged hate crime oh heaven forbid heaven for fend all right japan let's

00:51:46.340 go across so go up to japan the kyodo news what have they got is this the latest kyodo news digest

00:51:56.260 singapore try to improve conditions for low paid migrants okay do they chimpanzee ai or a is that the

00:52:06.260 name a known for high literary skills dies in japan a chimp has died in japan a chimp has died in japan

00:52:15.540 stop the presses

00:52:23.780 okay the jinhu network goes with ji replies to letter from teacher from teachers students of u.s

00:52:32.100 youth education exchange delegation bit dry isn't it sometimes it's very the chinese it's always seems a bit 1.00

00:52:38.500 drier doesn't it uh what else have we got chinese presidents a chinese president appoints new ambassadors

00:52:45.700 okay china maintains strong momentum in anti-corruption drive chinese always trying to or seemingly 0.96

00:52:53.780 want to be seen to at least be always trying to drive out corruption nothing wrong with that

00:52:58.820 nothing wrong with that i'd love to for most countries to get rid of all their political

00:53:04.660 corruption if i was lord protector of britain if i suddenly found myself pm or absolute monarch king

00:53:14.500 something like that any any one of those things i would i would come down hard on any and all

00:53:20.980 corruption i found at every level winkle it out it would be very close to top priority the whole time

00:53:28.100 i was in power yeah chinese astronauts conduct key training experiments on space station oh cool do

00:53:35.700 they all righty well if the rusk is saying t-a-s-s is it do you say t-a-s-s or just say test i've got no

00:53:42.900 idea i need to find that out but a russian news agency run with at the top of their at the top of their

00:53:48.660 website uh trump open to meeting with iranians on nuclear program says white house press pool

00:53:54.900 okay so maybe you know trump's going to try and make a deal with the iranians you you know maybe

00:54:02.500 it's a we won't drone you into oblivion we won't tomahawk you into the next world but you have got to

00:54:10.340 completely comply with the the destructive the annihilation and dismantling of your nuclear 0.95

00:54:17.060 program maybe something like that is that what that news story is aiming at saying what else have

00:54:21.540 they got russian armed forces liberate six settlements during the new new year holidays

00:54:27.140 so the russians with a little bit of pro-russian war war front news

00:54:33.940 can't blame them really i mean it's you know part of the course isn't it i suppose

00:54:38.740 iran announces arrest of two mossad affiliated organizers of protest well there you go so yeah

00:54:44.020 earlier i said it seems to be the case i wouldn't be surprised if mossad were involved in some level

00:54:49.460 um it it may already be a case that it's a documented fact there you go so it took the

00:54:54.900 russians nothing in the british press or the us press about it not that i went into any real depth

00:55:00.020 on the us press but they go the russians just openly going with the story of it there so there you go

00:55:05.860 yeah thousands of new yorkers protest against trump trump administration's policies right so just a

00:55:13.380 russian anti-trump story there i did see lots and lots of um iranian anti-ayatollah regime protests

00:55:23.220 in a few different places there was like a big one in canada there was one in la i think did someone

00:55:30.100 drive a vehicle very late last night i saw someone and i may get the details of this wrong but someone

00:55:36.820 drove a big u-haul vehicle through a crowd it's uh that sort of thing is um horrible but uh not all

00:55:50.420 that uncommon anymore isn't it build the germans and let's skip them for today uh they're very sloppy

00:55:57.780 build aren't they lemond let's also skip them all right what's happening on twitter what's happening on

00:56:03.940 twitter uh italian police are introducing an african an african illegal refugee to the law oh some

00:56:13.460 italian police detain uh an african migrant there you go anti-islam graffiti was seen on the wall of

00:56:24.260 an islamic center in essex oh essex boys keeping it real 0.86

00:56:34.500 what's this pakistani mia brothers raped two seven-year-old boys in a mosque 0.95

00:56:43.140 they drugged and prostituted 30 underage school girls they cut off the toes of two girls who tried 0.80

00:56:49.220 to escape the court found a total 62 crimes this happened in leeds uk illegal illegal immigration

00:56:56.660 continues to destroy the uk it's not just illegal is it legal immigration as well it's destroying uk

00:57:03.380 mad bet that i bet this story barely registers in the mainstream media like tomorrow whatever we'll see

00:57:09.780 tomorrow bet the bbc or most of the mainstream media won't sort of make that a big deal

00:57:16.180 all right well quickly then to end out the uh end out the show on this day in history on january

00:57:23.380 the 12th what's what's happened let's see in 1528 gustaf the first of sweden is crowned king of sweden

00:57:30.420 and rules for 37 years and becomes known as the father of the nation gustaf the first there you go

00:57:38.100 what else have we got in 1948 mahatma gandhi begins his final fast

00:57:42.500 i always think that's funny when you look at these day in history things it'll be it'll be like

00:57:48.820 someone big from history you know like napoleon or alexander the great it's like on this day in

00:57:53.860 history napoleon and it's like not not was born or died or won his greatest victory or anything it's

00:58:00.900 just on this day in history napoleon used the potty for the first time

00:58:06.020 or something that's a bit like that isn't it mahatma gandhi began his final fast is that really

00:58:14.660 like a date in history you know to be to be remembered last year on this day in history

00:58:20.660 last year gavin newsom says the california wildfire fires will be one of the worst natural disasters in

00:58:26.900 u.s history yeah turns out it wasn't a natural disaster was it gav it was a case of arson multiple

00:58:38.020 cases of arson actually was it not gav

00:58:44.260 all right that's the show with a couple of minutes remaining we shall read some uh super

00:58:48.820 chats and some rumble rents all right over on rumble rents we've got evon 626 says the iranian

00:58:54.820 state is based and the protesters need to stufu and everybody says i love you okay um i completely

00:59:05.300 disagree with that i wouldn't call the iranian state based

00:59:12.580 there you go i don't agree with you there evan 626 but thanks for the five bucks nonetheless

00:59:17.060 um thick take fictagious says faraj drew up a contract for the us to not do deals with the uk

00:59:27.300 forever add a massive fine if broken then tire the contract to the next government question mark um

00:59:36.180 it's the president's being laid down by labor and the eu

00:59:38.820 you yeah okay what else have we got we've got a fair few on from youtube so i'll quickly

00:59:45.780 try and get through them reverend north says beau buccaneers band is again about

00:59:54.180 beau's buccaneers band is about again

00:59:59.300 well thank you for that 44 magnum north says

01:00:03.300 my favorite biscuit with gravy breakfast with beau la mal

01:00:07.940 thank you for the 10 bucks there soup dragon 3377 says

01:00:12.100 beau breakfast show forever you are the breakfast club

01:00:21.060 breakfast with beau you are the breakfast club

01:00:24.420 making it happen the beau show the beau show

01:00:28.340 right 44 magnum north uh yeah again second comment from them says

01:00:33.140 the reason i love the show is that beau explains what i was thinking about the previous night

01:00:37.300 like an inquisitor

01:00:40.660 i'd like to think of myself as sort of some sort of lord inquisitor should the time come

01:00:47.220 some sort of completely implacable inquisitor lord

01:00:51.620 who will brook no opposition

01:00:55.060 okay um soros tampur says

01:00:59.700 understand that iranians are fervent fervently anti-islam more than you

01:01:05.540 just know that we will be on your side the same way tommy what has been with us okay

01:01:12.820 okay i mean yeah there's been some a fair amount of reports of some mosques burning down in iran in

01:01:18.100 tehran and stuff and i've seen again wildly different takes from either end of the spectrum

01:01:23.220 some saying like like that comment some saying look look how the iranian people were genuinely

01:01:29.940 um fed up with

01:01:32.980 um the regime the islamic regime and how mosques are used as bases for the security services

01:01:39.300 and then another side of the other end of the spectrum people saying no muslim would ever burn

01:01:44.420 down a mosque this must be uh foreign agent provocateurs 0.96

01:01:49.940 i'm not there so i can't tell you for sure which one it is but anyway thank you for the five quid

01:01:55.540 there soros tampur what else we got mdgh367 says i don't see russia and china just letting the iranian

01:02:05.380 regime fall yeah there is that as well isn't there we talk about um agent provocateurs and outside

01:02:10.020 influence from the us and israel yeah but what of china and russia what what machinations might they

01:02:15.620 be playing with and dealing with as well they really showed their hand i don't think china's i 0.91

01:02:21.700 wouldn't have thought china would be prepared to do all that much because iran is an ally of china and

01:02:28.580 russia but only to extent only to an extent you know like um but china isn't shiite muslims are they 0.94

01:02:38.020 not nor is nor is the kremlin right they're the the allies of convenience

01:02:44.980 um you know iran's in russia's column by default that it's so not in america's column all these

01:02:51.140 sorts of things i don't think i i personally and i might be wrong uh i think that um beijing and uh

01:03:00.420 moscow uh view tyran as something of a sort of a pesky annoyance something something that i doubt

01:03:10.580 there is the hill they're prepared to die on in many senses i would have thought but nonetheless but

01:03:14.820 nonetheless it's a valid point you've made there um let's see what they're you know let's see how far

01:03:20.900 they're prepared to sort of try and back it up all right uh zoo csgo i don't know how you say that

01:03:31.300 it says manderson using a gay card because gays have never been known for being involved in any

01:03:37.140 degenerate activity certainly never been known as bad as saying he's he's a movie producer

01:03:43.940 yeah i mean yeah uh and finally

01:03:52.980 jank us the great 9233 says um i going to be a history history professor soon cool cool beans

01:04:04.900 all right that's the show we are now four minutes past the hour so you got you got your uh you got

01:04:10.580 your feel this morning um hope you enjoyed the show let me know let me know let me know in the

01:04:15.220 comments um today is the first day of the rest of your life so try and make it count carpe diem seize

01:04:22.100 the day you know you'll only have this day one time you got one shot at it try and make it count

01:04:29.220 all right until tomorrow morning take care

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