The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 14th September 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning.

00:00:03.520 You alright?

00:00:08.780 I hope you are. Sincerely hope you are.

00:00:10.780 It's Monday, Monday, Monday.

00:00:13.280 Another day, another dollar. Another week, another dollar.

00:00:15.380 It's Monday the 14th of September in the year of our Lord.

00:00:18.560 2026 just turned 8 in the AM British summertime.

00:00:21.840 You're the gross band I've chosen for you, my band of brothers and sisters.

00:00:25.360 Thank you for joining me. You've got impeccable taste. 0.97

00:00:26.980 I can certainly say that.

00:00:28.320 are you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed are you rocking and rearing for the day nay the week

00:00:34.200 ahead i hope so i hope so as always nearly always i'm joined by my producer little harry how are

00:00:40.120 you this morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good this embodied voice of the all-powerful

00:00:45.460 all-knowing omnipresent omniscient producer there little harry okay should we just get into that's

00:00:51.780 enough faffing about isn't it it's more than a fannying about for one morning let's just get

00:00:56.340 straight into it this show is supposed to be about what is in the news cycle today the normie

00:01:01.700 the normie news cycle the legacy lamestream media what's that first of all then what's that cabal

00:01:06.260 of evil quite frankly evil fleet street editors banging on about what's on the front pages

00:01:10.420 in the british print media let's have a look have a little looksy shall we what have we got here

00:01:14.580 all right we've got compulsory lentils kids in schools if you have school dinners they have a

00:01:20.580 pack lunch you have school dinners the government wants to make sure you get lentils and chickpeas

00:01:28.420 and boris flees vlad drone blitz that's that i think that's literally one of the front page uh

00:01:35.940 the headlines on the front page might be the sun again that that way of writing that sort of cadence

00:01:41.780 boris please flees vlad drone blitz bit of a tongue twister actually isn't it 0.87

00:01:47.060 there you go he narrowly escaped being droned by the ruskies apparently all right let's get into

00:01:56.940 it what have we got here okay the telegraph german-owned zionist slop anti-british anti-nativist 0.92

00:02:04.380 you can't have a country of your own the jews can in israel but you can't if you're english 0.98

00:02:07.760 or british at all going to alistair heath he'd be an evil racist a nazi a bigot be un-british 0.99

00:02:14.680 If you want your own country 0.98

00:02:15.820 Wanted demographic security in your own country

00:02:18.300 You're one and only ancestral homeland 0.99

00:02:20.380 Wanted demographic security there 0.99

00:02:22.340 You've got to be some sort of Nazi haven't you 0.91

00:02:25.040 According to the Telegraph 0.91

00:02:27.020 That's what the Telegraph is now

00:02:28.420 Okay

00:02:29.000 Hospitality chiefs urge prime minister

00:02:32.920 To cut VAT

00:02:33.860 Look there's Burnham doing a selfie

00:02:35.780 At the great north run or some run he did

00:02:37.960 I mean

00:02:40.280 Why is he pulling that face?

00:02:44.680 what Harry's laughing at that yeah it's comical it's comical what are you doing mate although

00:02:51.340 to be fair sometimes when you take footage of someone I said this before I've never

00:02:54.020 sometimes when you take footage of someone or you've got one of those cameras that takes like

00:02:57.840 12 frames a second sometimes you're not actually really pulling a face you're just changing

00:03:03.700 expression but they catch you at a certain moment where it looks like you're pulling a certain face

00:03:09.740 but it's actually just a split second in time so I don't know maybe or maybe he's actually

00:03:13.700 pulling that face holding that expression and taking a selfie don't know are selfies at all

00:03:21.800 below a prime minister the first lord of the treasury

00:03:24.240 yeah i don't do selfies i've never done a selfie for its own sake very very occasionally i'm

00:03:34.020 standing some standing in front of something good and i want a picture full time i'll stand

00:03:38.020 in front the thing and do a turn the camera so it's pointing at me and take a picture but just

00:03:41.920 a selfie for its own sake. I never do that, I don't know. Some people are addicted to

00:03:48.240 it, aren't they? You ever see people on a train or a bus and they're not even doing

00:03:52.340 a selfie, they're just using their camera as a mirror, just looking at themselves. Usually

00:03:57.460 women, isn't it? I don't have to have a pop of women, but just look at themselves in their 1.00

00:04:03.040 camera gazing like narcissus in love with their own image fell in love with the reflection of

00:04:12.160 their own image mesmerized by it okay as a middle-aged bald man you don't suffer from such

00:04:18.640 things burnham told he must honor pledge to reduce levy on 10 and save thousands of jobs

00:04:26.880 right hospitality chiefs urge prime minister to cut vat right yeah be nice or not bringing that

00:04:32.480 new law that they were talking about, giving mayors sort of an unlimited ability to raise 0.65

00:04:37.540 taxes on hospitality stuff as well. I don't know why, I don't really know why out of all

00:04:45.260 the things, out of all the sectors, all the different corners of the economy you could

00:04:51.020 strangle, I don't know why the last few governments, not just Starmer, not just Burnham and Starmer,

00:04:57.800 but also the last few Tory governments

00:04:59.040 seem to want to go to war with hospitality so much

00:05:03.660 pubs, restaurants, hotels

00:05:05.780 seems like they're hell-bent on destroying them

00:05:09.060 them, first and foremost

00:05:10.880 like our own internal tourist industry type thing

00:05:14.900 well, and just pubs

00:05:16.780 I say I don't know

00:05:19.040 there's a number of reasons you could guess at, aren't there?

00:05:22.620 a number of reasons

00:05:23.260 not just pubs, not just sort of the

00:05:25.080 The general purpose meeting place of a pub

00:05:29.000 How it's the heart and soul of many, many small communities

00:05:31.880 Not even small communities

00:05:33.680 It's a place where people congregate and talk among themselves

00:05:36.900 Off the record

00:05:38.220 You know

00:05:39.840 There's no digital footprint of what they said to each other

00:05:42.980 Government, censorious governments don't like that in and of itself

00:05:46.500 Lefties don't really like drinking in general

00:05:51.160 But they're not just pubs

00:05:52.340 also restaurants and you know b&b's hotels you're trying to ring the last little bit of money out

00:05:58.860 of a country you're going to ring hardest at the choke point of the hospitality industry

00:06:05.880 horrible isn't it horrible really really horrible all right no ice cream and compulsory lentils no

00:06:18.980 ice cream should be a comma and compulsory lentils in school meals shake up yeah the government's

00:06:24.340 saying that if your kids go to school and have a school meal you know a meal provided by the

00:06:31.140 school by the state even you can't have ice cream anymore and they'll have like pulses and legumes

00:06:40.980 and things basically lentils and chickpeas certainly they're saying there you go i'm not

00:06:47.060 Not necessarily, if you're already in the hands of the state at your lunch, you've got to accept whatever they give you, really, haven't you?

00:06:59.680 I'm against all that sort of thing, you know, you know, you know Bo, you know Bo off the Bo Show, that Bo Dade fellow off the Lotus Eaters, you know him.

00:07:06.260 He's for small government, isn't he? Referring to yourself in the third person.

00:07:11.720 Even as a joke, you've got to be careful with that.

00:07:13.180 Bo thinks that

00:07:16.640 There should be a small government

00:07:18.840 And the state shouldn't be providing

00:07:21.120 Hardly anything ever

00:07:22.180 But if they're going to

00:07:26.900 Well then it's up to them isn't it

00:07:28.520 What they do really

00:07:29.940 So I remember when I went to school

00:07:32.920 And in secondary school

00:07:35.860 I didn't really bother with lunch

00:07:37.420 One way or the other

00:07:38.580 I went out and played football

00:07:39.720 From the moment you were allowed out on the field

00:07:41.760 or the playground if it was snowy

00:07:43.580 until the moment the bell rang

00:07:45.500 and maybe I'd sort of wolf down

00:07:47.880 a chocolate bar or something

00:07:49.200 just for a tiny bit of energy

00:07:50.700 I didn't really do

00:07:53.380 I don't remember having any lunch

00:07:55.500 at school very often at all

00:07:57.300 I really don't

00:07:59.720 oh other than sometimes

00:08:01.460 yeah you go in the canteen, the school canteen

00:08:03.420 and it wasn't provided by the state

00:08:05.200 it wasn't free, you wanted to buy something

00:08:07.220 you bought it with your own money

00:08:08.500 but yeah it was like burgers and chips

00:08:10.520 largely mostly burgers and chips we had like a few pence more you could get a chicken burger

00:08:17.160 which was better than a normal like hamburger anyway when it was it wasn't very healthy there

00:08:23.020 wasn't a healthy option there just wasn't a healthy option so and if there was i could only

00:08:31.460 imagine it would be terribly uncool to choose that so no one really would

00:08:36.240 okay if the state is providing you your meal you've got to take whatever they give you

00:08:43.580 that's the nature of that and no more ice cream well probably probably for the best then isn't

00:08:50.900 it i suppose i don't know they're all the fat kids on school dinners who are crying they won't get

00:08:58.380 free ice cream anymore off the state right here's a proper story reformer tax unions over two-tier

00:09:05.220 donation system big story today is all about reform getting loads of money loads of money

00:09:12.260 getting 72 million quid in a couple of days two different donations from two different

00:09:17.460 billionaires of 36 million quid a pop 72 million in the coffers boom

00:09:25.460 if no rules and no laws have been broken what can you do what you say good luck to him

00:09:30.420 Yeah, that's the game, isn't it?

00:09:35.580 To get money in as a political party for your funding

00:09:38.200 Well, they did a good job then

00:09:41.580 If no rules and no laws have been broken

00:09:43.420 But of course all the other parties

00:09:46.440 Going a bit ballistic about it

00:09:48.180 Well, that's a bit rich

00:09:55.980 Because at least the two main parties

00:09:57.840 At least if we just talk about Labour and Conservative

00:09:59.720 they get all sorts of money from all over the place and no one no one seemed to try and kick

00:10:05.740 up a massive hoo-ha about that the tories have got donations from all sorts of mega rich people

00:10:11.200 maybe not quite on that scale or not in such a big lump sum not in such a one go yeah they get

00:10:17.460 given a million quid here a million quid there seven million quid here or there by very rich

00:10:22.640 people yeah labor get given millions and millions of pounds all the time by unions or and just their

00:10:29.060 membership their membership they get millions of pounds that way like i read over the weekend or

00:10:35.320 at the end of last week that at the last general election in 2024 the unions gave labor two and a

00:10:41.860 half million something like that in the 2019 election they gave them like five million another

00:10:47.660 five million i read somewhere i'm not i'm not sure if this is true but i read it so take it or leave

00:10:53.180 bit. There's something in the order, the unions, just the unions, have given Labour

00:10:59.360 since 2010, so that is like 16 odd years, but still, something on the order of £140

00:11:06.640 million. You don't see all the other parties going absolutely ballistic over that and trying

00:11:15.420 to change the way everything's done, trying to change the nature of it so that that doesn't

00:11:20.200 happen anymore anymore it's completely unfair advantage for labor isn't it

00:11:25.240 but now reform we're lucky enough to get a whole bunch of money

00:11:31.600 now that now they're crying about it well reform attacks a reform hitting back attacks unions over

00:11:40.480 two-tier donation system fair point fair point isn't it here's another story badenok all who

00:11:47.600 came with Oliphantou Badenoch, the Nigerian anchor baby, somehow bizarrely finds herself

00:11:51.980 laughing as the leader of the opposition. Badenoch may do away with inheritance tax.

00:11:56.720 It will reform and restore. That's already their policy, isn't it? Already their policy.

00:12:03.240 Again, it's not right, is it? It's not fair, but that's just the way it is in politics,

00:12:07.820 party politics. When one party, even a tiny party, comes out with a policy and it sort of

00:12:16.560 goes down well sort of polling or um you know analysis suggests that the general public do like

00:12:23.460 that the other part is just nick it to straight up steal the idea well that's our policy now

00:12:29.640 oh you've come up with a thing and we were too scared to say it or push it but someone else has

00:12:34.640 and it goes down well people like it that's what we think now that's our policy now

00:12:39.680 It's not fair, is it?

00:12:43.260 Really?

00:12:44.460 But there you go

00:12:45.040 I mean, that's just how that works

00:12:47.120 That's always how that's worked 1.00

00:12:49.120 Badenoc suddenly deciding she's got a firm stance on inheritance tax 0.98

00:12:55.800 Really?

00:12:59.900 Suddenly realising how she feels about, like, the concept of inheritance tax

00:13:05.120 Yeah, okay

00:13:05.880 Sure

00:13:07.520 Alarm at NATO officers' affair with Russian spy

00:13:13.200 There's really not much to it

00:13:14.320 He's a NATO officer, but he's a Spaniard

00:13:16.600 I think he's on a British base, but he was actually a Spaniard

00:13:19.440 And he met some Russian, half British, half Russian woman on Tinder

00:13:23.740 That's it, that's all that is

00:13:25.680 Saudi Arabia, four days from oil running out, running dry

00:13:31.480 Concerning, for them

00:13:33.940 I thought they had vast reserves of their own

00:13:38.620 Entirely of their own

00:13:39.740 On their own peninsula

00:13:41.100 Maybe it's something to do with their oil refining capability

00:13:46.680 That has been hit by this war in Persia

00:13:50.020 In the Persian Gulf region

00:13:51.060 In fact, should we check in with the price of oil at this stage?

00:13:54.620 Because you might think if Saudi Arabia

00:13:56.320 Is a few days from running out of oil

00:13:59.840 surely that would send the oil price through the roof no not particularly it's about as high as it

00:14:08.520 was which is higher relatively higher i mean brent is at 106 just shy of 107 let's do a little

00:14:15.040 a little refresh a little reload just so we got the prices in real time oh 107 107.6 for brent

00:14:22.620 crude west texas 103 so that is higher you know not astronomically higher but it is higher you

00:14:29.040 know talked a few times haven't we about that the psychological barrier of a hundred dollars a

00:14:33.880 barrel so it's like anything over a hundred is expensive but not crazily crazily crazily

00:14:39.640 expensive you think the news of that saudi arabia might run out of oil that would make it shoot up

00:14:46.200 to 120 130 150 dollars a barrel all-time highs going up to 200 a barrel it's a proper proper

00:14:52.960 crisis no about the same as it hovering about the same as it was at the end of last week

00:14:59.040 okay okay Trump dismisses call for slowdown in AI it's interesting to me again if anyone

00:15:10.320 sort of follows my content they will know or just watches the show even

00:15:14.860 they will know I've got all sorts of concerns about AI and it's not just large language models

00:15:23.820 have to say that first while people say Bo large language models is just a glorified

00:15:28.560 search engine it's just like a google search but it gives the impression it just talks like a human

00:15:33.820 no large language models are just one tiny tiny tiny part of what ai is of what ai could be anyway

00:15:43.780 over the last few days all last week actually and over the weekend lots and lots of people that are

00:15:48.560 extremely important in the ai industry senior senior people in all the at least the three four

00:15:53.780 big AI companies they've all come out and there's a really senior people like head of development

00:15:59.060 stuff they come out and they say uh we're concerned about the speed at which AI is developing

00:16:05.220 sorry isn't it we're concerned at the speed at which we are developing AI

00:16:11.220 we need we want guard rails in place we want you the government the world the world's

00:16:15.780 governments we want you to stop us to rein us in to give us some sort of oversight and guard rails

00:16:23.780 it's getting out of control and it's dangerous could well be dangerous they're saying that loads

00:16:28.980 of them and trump was like nah trump was a golf tournament thing in ireland over the weekend

00:16:39.620 like as an honorary guest and i think like presenting the trophy at the end sort of thing

00:16:44.820 he likes golf didn't he trump big fan of golf um and he's asked a bunch of questions something

00:16:50.500 about northern ireland as well the reunification of ireland all sorts of different things as you

00:16:54.100 can imagine one of them was about ai mr president mr president are you concerned about ai and he's

00:16:59.460 like no not really no we're in a he said i paraphrase he's like we're in a a contest a war

00:17:06.580 of ai development with china and we're winning and so we should and it should be that way should

00:17:10.340 stay that way okay mate worrying though that's how you feel about it 0.70

00:17:18.500 In my opinion

00:17:20.920 In my opinion

00:17:21.780 I just think AI could get

00:17:25.340 Out of control real quick

00:17:27.220 I'm not the only one

00:17:29.720 It's not like some sort of weird

00:17:30.880 Hair brained take of mine

00:17:32.780 Right out on the fringes

00:17:34.620 I mean you're just such a boomer

00:17:36.960 A tech boomer

00:17:37.660 Doesn't understand things

00:17:38.760 It's not just that

00:17:39.680 It's them themselves

00:17:41.460 The senior development people

00:17:44.120 The senior executives

00:17:45.520 At these AI companies

00:17:46.500 Are saying it now

00:17:48.500 Sam Altman himself vacillates one way or another, but a lot of them, a lot of them are saying it's a concern.

00:17:54.160 Trump doesn't share their concern.

00:17:55.620 Okay, all right.

00:17:58.940 The Express, it's a good paper.

00:18:00.660 You can read the Express now.

00:18:07.140 It's not a good paper, I'm being sarcastic.

00:18:08.840 It's globalist slop.

00:18:10.640 What have we got here?

00:18:12.060 Oh, Celine Dion's back. 0.52

00:18:13.780 She took time out from singing because she had health issues and now she's back.

00:18:18.500 That's all, that's all that is.

00:18:19.840 Okay, the headline says,

00:18:22.220 Family businesses and staycation parents pay cost of benefits bill, say Tories.

00:18:28.420 Labour tourist tax will hammer seaside B&Bs.

00:18:31.340 Yeah.

00:18:32.600 Like, as I said earlier,

00:18:33.900 like you're trying to wring the last few coins out of the poor people.

00:18:40.120 Back in Disney's Robin Hood.

00:18:43.480 Sending around the Sheriff of Nottingham to take the little kiddies' last coin

00:18:46.960 he just got for his birthday.

00:18:48.500 And in that ringing process, we'll try and ring it out of B&Bs, family-run B&Bs.

00:18:55.500 Oh, okay.

00:18:57.500 Alright.

00:18:59.500 Pretty evil.

00:19:02.500 They want you to stay in your little box, don't they?

00:19:07.500 They don't want you really going abroad.

00:19:10.500 And even then, even after that, they don't really want you having a holiday even in the same country, really, do they?

00:19:15.500 They want you in a little box.

00:19:18.500 Eating what they tell you to eat

00:19:20.220 Seeing and viewing and thinking what they want you to see and view and think and hear

00:19:25.260 That's what they want

00:19:26.640 They don't want you going down a pub

00:19:29.920 They don't want you going on a holiday meeting new people, hearing new things

00:19:32.900 That's not good for a censorious socialist society, is it?

00:19:41.100 Never has been

00:19:41.900 All right, the sun, what sloppy joes, the sun got frustrated

00:19:45.360 What sloppy joe are they ladling straight into our face today

00:19:49.520 The sun

00:19:50.820 Oh yeah, Boris Flees Vlad Drone Blitz

00:19:54.300 Does he?

00:19:56.480 Well he did, he does

00:19:57.540 But

00:19:57.760 The writing

00:20:00.240 Boris Flees Vlad Drone Blitz 1.00

00:20:03.060 They think you're a moron, don't they? 1.00

00:20:05.840 They think you need to read things like that 1.00

00:20:08.720 You can't understand a normal sentence

00:20:12.020 Long words in a normal sentence

00:20:13.700 Boris flees Vlad drone blitz 1.00

00:20:19.200 It's retarded 1.00

00:20:20.160 The son is 1.00

00:20:23.080 And or thinks you are

00:20:24.460 Retarded 1.00

00:20:25.420 XPM's train line targeted 0.99

00:20:28.440 So his story is

00:20:29.240 Boris was out in Ukraine again

00:20:31.220 Oddly

00:20:32.060 Not even in

00:20:33.140 Not even in office anymore

00:20:34.440 Boris Johnson's relationship with Ukraine

00:20:39.220 And the Ukrainian conflict

00:20:40.480 It's so weird to me

00:20:42.220 God you're weird aren't you

00:20:43.600 He keeps going out there doesn't he

00:20:47.720 Even though he's not in politics anymore

00:20:49.940 He keeps going out there

00:20:50.780 Remember of course he scuppered that peace deal

00:20:54.320 Within the first year was it or so

00:20:55.740 Of the conflict 1.00

00:20:56.700 Looked like Ukrainians and the Russians were close to making

00:20:59.600 Some sort of deal to end that conflict

00:21:01.120 Saving hundreds of thousands

00:21:02.820 No probably millions of lives

00:21:04.240 But Boris put the kibosh on that

00:21:06.580 Went out there whispering in Zelensky's ear

00:21:08.760 Don't do a deal, don't do a deal

00:21:10.420 You won't be able to embezzle much money

00:21:13.980 That way

00:21:22.580 That tea's dead

00:21:23.340 Let's move on to my water

00:21:24.320 This is a backup water

00:21:25.840 Not a second cup of tea

00:21:26.900 So Boris still goes out there

00:21:29.800 Send me regularly

00:21:30.300 And he was out there

00:21:31.880 Just the other day

00:21:32.560 At the weekend or whatever

00:21:33.420 At the end of last week

00:21:34.400 And he was coming back via a train

00:21:37.320 He was getting a train from Ukraine

00:21:39.640 Through the night

00:21:40.520 A night train

00:21:41.280 Crossed the border into Poland

00:21:42.900 And shortly before

00:21:45.960 It crossed the border

00:21:47.440 The train directly behind his train

00:21:49.360 Got struck by a Russian drone

00:21:52.700 Oh and the train he was in 0.85

00:21:55.100 It wasn't just him

00:21:55.960 There was all sorts of

00:21:56.580 Foreign dignitaries and stuff

00:21:58.360 According to reports

00:21:59.400 According to reports

00:22:00.440 I mean this all just could be

00:22:01.680 Made up intelligence and stuff

00:22:02.860 But I assume it's not

00:22:04.880 I'm prepared to assume it's not

00:22:05.940 At this point

00:22:06.360 I wasn't there myself

00:22:07.340 The train directly behind his

00:22:09.560 and perhaps it was mistaken, perhaps the Russian drones were trying to target Boris's train

00:22:13.780 and all the other foreign dignitaries, pro-Ukrainian foreign dignitaries that were on that train.

00:22:18.240 Anyway, the one just behind here got blown up.

00:22:21.620 It done got blowed up.

00:22:24.520 And, well, it was a close escape, isn't it?

00:22:27.820 The great escape for Alexander Johnson.

00:22:33.160 That's basically it, that's the story.

00:22:34.820 Not much more to it than that.

00:22:35.880 Boris hit out and he said

00:22:38.000 I think it's on one of the front pages

00:22:39.120 We'll come to later

00:22:39.820 But he said something like

00:22:40.820 He said something like

00:22:42.260 Vladimir's twisted logic or something 0.98

00:22:45.920 Called him a rat 0.97

00:22:47.560 Something like that 0.95

00:22:49.020 I really don't want to stand up

00:22:51.760 For Vladimir Putin necessarily

00:22:53.840 I've said it a number of times

00:22:55.540 I keep saying it 0.99

00:22:56.300 He is a gangster 1.00

00:22:57.260 He's a murderous gangster, Putin 1.00

00:23:00.020 Because I criticise Ukraine 1.00

00:23:02.160 Doesn't mean I'm pro

00:23:03.100 The Kremlin

00:23:04.620 or pro-Vladimir Putin, not at all.

00:23:09.900 But Boris calling someone, saying,

00:23:11.720 suggesting somebody else has got a twisted logic, 0.98

00:23:13.920 that somebody else is a rat.

00:23:16.700 Boris Johnson saying that? 1.00

00:23:18.060 Big, fat, human, blonde rat, Boris Johnson? 1.00

00:23:20.800 Well, okay. 1.00

00:23:23.940 All right.

00:23:26.720 Stop calling Kettle Black.

00:23:28.420 The Daily Mail, again, globally slop,

00:23:31.580 trying to pretend it's right of centre,

00:23:33.160 Wearing the skin suit of something that's nativist or patriotic when it's not 0.82

00:23:36.440 It's pure globalist subversion 0.58

00:23:38.380 Alright

00:23:39.340 Oh this is the front page, straight there, straight away

00:23:42.660 Did Putin drone target Boris and top security officials?

00:23:47.040 Explosion at Ukraine border rail station was a

00:23:49.700 Mafia style message straight from the Kremlin

00:23:52.220 Says experts, Boris Johnson exclusive

00:23:55.100 In these train attacks we see the barred teeth of a cornered rat 0.98

00:24:01.220 Oh, it's Putin that's a cornered rat, is it? 1.00

00:24:09.460 Putin's the cornered rat 0.99

00:24:10.640 Not Boris Johnson on a train on the Polish border 0.63

00:24:13.940 If you had to characterise one of those two people

00:24:19.000 Vladimir Putin sitting in a palace

00:24:23.560 In St Petersburg or Moscow, wherever it was

00:24:26.600 Completely at liberty, calling the shots

00:24:29.760 And Boris Johnson

00:24:31.560 Cowering on a train

00:24:33.800 On the Polish border

00:24:37.780 With a little hard hat on

00:24:39.900 And a flak jacket

00:24:41.240 Which one of those two more

00:24:42.920 Looks more like a cornered rat 0.87

00:24:46.080 Alright

00:24:49.560 Danger zone

00:24:50.900 Boris Johnson is on the highway

00:24:53.780 To the danger zone

00:24:54.840 Welcome to the danger zone Boris Johnson

00:24:57.120 Um

00:24:58.220 Well there you go

00:25:00.460 That's the main

00:25:01.000 That's the main bits of the story

00:25:01.920 A train behind Boris Johnson

00:25:03.000 Was drone struck

00:25:03.860 It was thunderstruck

00:25:06.320 Is that it?

00:25:11.120 Okay

00:25:11.320 The eye paper

00:25:12.080 Reverse Brexit

00:25:14.480 And pledge to rejoin EU

00:25:16.220 Kinnock tells Burnham

00:25:17.480 I believe that would be

00:25:18.840 Neil Kinnock

00:25:19.420 Wouldn't it

00:25:19.740 Not Stephen Kinnock

00:25:20.500 Labour grandee

00:25:22.000 Urges Prime Minister

00:25:22.940 To make

00:25:23.860 Europe commitment

00:25:25.080 In next election manifesto

00:25:26.840 Yeah Neil Kinnock

00:25:27.540 It was always some sort of bizarre lefty

00:25:30.300 It was good that he was never Prime Minister, in my opinion

00:25:32.200 Neil Kinnock, the Lord Kinnock

00:25:33.980 Remember when Glynnis, his wife, pulled him over on a beach

00:25:42.440 And everyone laughed

00:25:45.640 And he lost the general election because of that

00:25:47.780 No other reason

00:25:48.600 I'm joking

00:25:51.120 That'll be before your time, Harry 0.98

00:25:53.600 Before all Zoomers time

00:25:55.120 back in like the early 80s or mid-80s, was it? 0.98

00:25:58.240 Was it even the 1992 election against John Major?

00:26:03.240 Anyway, there was a Labour Party conference in Brighton, I believe,

00:26:06.080 and Neil Kinnock, the leader of the Labour Party at the time,

00:26:08.340 and his wife, Glynis, were walking along the beach

00:26:11.020 where the surf comes up, you know,

00:26:14.280 walking along just where the waves hit the...

00:26:17.480 It was a pebbly beach, I think, hit the stones.

00:26:19.820 And then a slightly bigger wave comes in

00:26:21.620 and they're going to get their feet wet.

00:26:23.480 So they tried to stumble back up the beach, the inclined beach.

00:26:27.540 They're sort of middle-aged and not really athletic and not able to do it.

00:26:31.820 And Glynis, his wife, they both stumble in a bit.

00:26:35.800 All the cameras are watching them.

00:26:37.920 And he sort of stumbles and she sort of almost pulls him down.

00:26:40.960 He falls over.

00:26:42.360 He fell over.

00:26:44.020 As a politician, a senior politician, if you ever fall over,

00:26:48.320 it's bad optics, that. 1.00

00:26:49.520 you look like a complete idiot and well back in the day things like that seem to have more weight 1.00

00:26:56.380 than they do now if a senior politician fell over now it'd be in the news cycle for a day or two 1.00

00:27:01.240 and then maybe it'd be a meme or a gif forevermore but beyond that it doesn't sort of wreck your

00:27:05.940 career probably would it i think it would wreck your career or like you it might swing an election

00:27:10.420 against you well back then a little bit more so i'm joking of course when i'm saying that's what

00:27:16.340 lost him in the election, of course it wasn't, but the optics were real bad.

00:27:20.460 Neil Kinnock falling over on a beach. Yeah, he's an idiot. He's an idiot. And wrong-headed 1.00

00:27:26.620 on a whole number of things, Neil Kinnock. A Welshman with a chip on his shoulder. He

00:27:35.620 wants us to rejoin the EU. He wants Andy Bumham, no Stern and Burnham, King of the North, to

00:27:40.100 actually make a proper manifesto pledge to rejoin the EU. Psycho. Psycho. Absolute

00:27:46.720 psycho. All right. The main story of the day, probably. Reforms £72 million crypto bonanza 0.99

00:27:53.000 sparks Labour donations round. Look, Angela the Fridge Rayner, big bird, she's upset about

00:27:58.260 it. She's all upset about it. That's not fair. Only Labour should be allowed to take 0.65

00:28:03.900 tens and tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of pounds that no one else gets

00:28:07.340 access to. It's not fair. Okay, let's read the blurb. Ministers are facing pressure to

00:28:15.120 impose a cap on political donations after two billionaires gave Nigel Farage's party

00:28:20.380 £36 million each. Government risks wrath of Labour MPs, their own MPs, after rejecting

00:28:30.360 calls for stricter limits on funds from a single source earlier this month. Womp womp.

00:28:37.340 They could have sort of tied up that loophole

00:28:39.300 Not that long ago

00:28:41.780 But didn't

00:28:42.700 I guess they made the calculation at that point

00:28:46.300 That it wasn't in their interests

00:28:47.760 But now

00:28:48.740 I guess they weren't expecting 72 million quid

00:28:51.800 In 48 hours

00:28:53.020 To drop into Reform's coffers

00:28:55.000 Okay

00:28:57.520 Quote

00:28:59.620 We've shot ourselves in the face

00:29:01.740 Quote

00:29:02.180 A Labour MP tells the iPaper

00:29:04.140 Oh well

00:29:06.360 Oh well

00:29:09.100 Well good

00:29:11.620 Actually if anything

00:29:12.660 Right

00:29:13.160 Angela Rayner 0.82

00:29:14.200 Angela Rayner

00:29:15.900 In the fridge

00:29:17.060 You know she stands 1.00

00:29:19.580 Seven foot two inches tall 1.00

00:29:21.740 She weighs 500 pounds 0.99

00:29:23.680 Incredible 500 pounds 1.00

00:29:25.440 She's a giant unit

00:29:27.700 Angela the fridge Rayner 0.99

00:29:28.840 People call her Big Bird

00:29:30.220 Seven foot two 0.99

00:29:33.200 500 pounds

00:29:36.360 I'm joking. That's a joke, of course.

00:29:41.300 She's 6'3", 280. 1.00

00:29:43.300 Okay.

00:29:44.540 Angela Rayner hints that reform may be forced to hand back donations retrospectively

00:29:50.320 if any are found to break new rules.

00:29:54.080 That's harsh, isn't it?

00:29:56.760 Enforcing laws retrospectively.

00:30:00.840 Hmm.

00:30:01.960 That really is...

00:30:03.600 that's not the norm usually not the norm usually but i mean it's just stealing it out of their

00:30:13.240 pockets again isn't it if they were to do that the thing i feel about this 72 million pounds

00:30:18.340 obviously obviously cards on the table being a restore man myself it's like oh god reform got

00:30:25.100 72 million quid wish we had 72 million quid wish a couple of billionaires would give rupert and

00:30:29.300 restore 72 million quid but beyond that I'm like yeah beyond that I'm like well but okay it is what

00:30:34.880 it is good good for them good for reform I suppose I'm not going to get really really bitter about it

00:30:41.720 and twisted and be like oh you can't do that let's change the rules so we can take it off them

00:30:47.140 retrospectively but that is how they're reacting it's a bit of a game changer isn't it 72 million

00:30:58.340 quid? That's not peanuts, is it? That's not peanuts. That'll buy quite a few leaflets,

00:31:04.280 won't it? I feel this way about it. If no rules have been broken and no laws have been

00:31:12.560 broken, then it is just what it is. Suck it up. That's the parameters of this game. If 1.00

00:31:19.460 no rules have been broken, you've just got to roll with it. You've just got to deal with

00:31:23.560 it is what it is i mean if reforms policies and their their individuals running for office

00:31:32.040 if they're really really good and the people want to vote for them then that's then that's it they've

00:31:38.740 got a whole bunch of money behind them in order to pay for leaflets and campaigners and all sorts

00:31:43.340 of things, posters, adverts, all sorts of stuff, well then, again, it is what it is.

00:31:53.180 But no, they're just, the Labour particularly are massively butthurt by it.

00:32:00.580 It dents their power, doesn't it?

00:32:03.780 It's a massive dent in the type of, the rigged system that they've got where they get millions

00:32:09.100 and millions and millions from the unions and no one else gets that.

00:32:13.340 An unfair advantage. You might characterise that as an unfair advantage.

00:32:18.400 Those millions that Labour get from the unions.

00:32:21.100 140 odd millions since 2010 alone.

00:32:25.260 They need that unfair advantage, don't they, Labour?

00:32:28.660 So to have that kind of wiped out, or at least massively dented,

00:32:34.140 that's going to send them into a tailspin, into a real tizzy.

00:32:38.940 Angela the Fridge Rainer doesn't like it.

00:32:40.880 Good

00:32:43.200 Just fingers crossed

00:32:47.820 Somebody, some billionaire will give restore loads of money like that 0.97

00:32:52.460 Who knows, could happen

00:32:53.980 Alright

00:32:54.680 But reform is quote

00:32:57.840 100% confident donations won't ever have to be handed back

00:33:02.340 Quote

00:33:02.720 Accusing Labour of seeking to move the goalposts

00:33:08.940 Yeah well that's true isn't it

00:33:10.560 Just moving the goal posts

00:33:11.440 Again

00:33:14.240 Cheating is hard baked into leftism

00:33:17.240 Isn't it

00:33:17.680 Cheating and gaming the system

00:33:19.960 In any and every possible way

00:33:21.500 Shamelessly 1.00

00:33:22.300 And being a crier bully about it 0.65

00:33:26.220 When anyone else does it

00:33:27.280 Or tries to take advantage

00:33:28.760 Of the same things

00:33:29.680 That's what leftists do

00:33:31.880 That's all they do really

00:33:33.520 The metro

00:33:36.340 Oh the metro

00:33:37.480 Oh god 0.73

00:33:40.560 Sickening, absolutely sickening 0.97

00:33:48.300 Makes me want to puke 0.97

00:33:49.200 Pure sedition and subversion from the metro

00:33:51.740 Utter slop

00:33:54.640 Rainer's vow after

00:33:56.200 Vote own goal

00:33:57.860 Labour threat to reform

00:34:00.900 £72 million windfall

00:34:02.700 Yeah, it's just the same story

00:34:05.020 We've gone over it haven't we

00:34:05.860 Don't need to keep doing that

00:34:07.560 Nigel looking happy

00:34:09.080 Nigel's happy

00:34:10.760 Harry put that on the screen

00:34:12.240 Nigel's happy

00:34:15.020 As really would be

00:34:16.440 £72 million

00:34:18.380 It's not chump change

00:34:20.260 Alright the Mirror

00:34:21.860 Do you think the Mirror have got Reform Derangement Syndrome

00:34:25.220 Nigel Derangement Syndrome today

00:34:27.020 Do you think they'll let

00:34:28.740 Do you think they'll let their Nigel Derangement Syndrome

00:34:31.360 Show

00:34:31.880 Yeah

00:34:32.980 The Mirror is

00:34:36.740 Very very Labour isn't it

00:34:38.700 Almost really a Labour Party propaganda organ.

00:34:43.280 They hate Nigel the most, don't they?

00:34:46.960 On Fleet Street, it seems to me.

00:34:50.560 They're senior editors, they're senior editorial staff.

00:34:54.820 Nigel lives in their mind rent-free, doesn't he?

00:34:57.540 Quite badly.

00:34:59.020 All right.

00:35:01.380 Bitcoin.

00:35:01.780 Bitcoin.

00:35:03.060 Because I think those donors, at least one of them,

00:35:07.260 it was a bitcoin billionaire is it not both probably most billionaires hold a whole bunch

00:35:11.880 of bitcoin these days anyway 72 million pound donations fall out rayner claims reform could

00:35:17.940 face action over crypto billionaires cash lords will today the bitter and butthurt labour lords

00:35:23.820 will today debate stopping mega gifts to all parties as pressure grows questions intensify

00:35:30.540 over farage's attack on bank of england chief unions say workers will suffer and warn of a

00:35:36.380 Crisis for democracy, that's rich.

00:35:38.920 Bitcoin.

00:35:41.720 And then a picture of Nigel looking a bit funny.

00:35:46.680 Pulling a tiny bit of a funny face, a wide-eyed face.

00:35:52.120 There you go.

00:35:52.760 Someone came to the senior people at the Mirror and said,

00:35:56.080 this is a proposed mock-up of the front page on Monday.

00:35:59.520 That.

00:36:00.920 And they went, yes.

00:36:02.940 Print.

00:36:03.360 Go to print with that.

00:36:04.480 I like it.

00:36:05.580 Perfect.

00:36:06.380 That's what we want.

00:36:09.840 Bitcoin.

00:36:12.580 Good one.

00:36:13.660 Unions say workers will suffer and warn of crisis for democracy.

00:36:17.660 Is it? Will they?

00:36:20.620 Come on now.

00:36:23.180 It wasn't a crisis for democracy when the unions would give the Labour Party tens

00:36:27.720 or in the low hundreds of millions of pounds over years.

00:36:31.400 That wasn't a crisis for democracy.

00:36:34.060 But this is.

00:36:34.920 Yeah, right. 0.91

00:36:35.740 Lefty captured unions

00:36:39.960 In theory there's no reason why trade unions

00:36:42.720 And the unionist movement should be

00:36:44.500 Left leaning for all time

00:36:46.100 At a conceptual level

00:36:48.320 There's no reason why that has to be the case

00:36:50.060 It just is

00:36:51.940 Because when the left wants to do a march

00:36:54.700 Through the institutions

00:36:55.600 One of the first things they'll subvert and pervert

00:36:58.460 Is unions, trade unions

00:37:00.160 It doesn't have to be that way

00:37:03.000 You could have a trade union

00:37:06.460 Which is entirely not left wing

00:37:09.260 There's nothing in the laws of physics

00:37:12.240 Or in the laws of political philosophy

00:37:14.220 Preventing that

00:37:16.560 There you go, that's the thing

00:37:18.140 That's their stronghold

00:37:19.140 One of their bastions of leftism is the unions

00:37:21.420 So now somebody else has given

00:37:24.720 Somebody that isn't entirely lefty

00:37:27.820 Millions of millions, tens of millions of pounds

00:37:29.860 And now it's a crisis for democracy

00:37:31.960 unions say yeah right because it breaks their power as well doesn't it or damages it

00:37:37.140 doesn't break it damages it diminishes it and they don't like that

00:37:42.260 of course all right the guardian oh you

00:37:47.620 something something burning hair what is that smell that is absolutely repugnant that is 0.50

00:37:56.780 horrible what is that oh god that's revolting that stench it's the guardian that's what that's

00:38:05.620 what the guardian smells like something revolting revealed true scale of britain's involvement in 0.53

00:38:12.460 the slave trade really keep doing it they just keep doing this yeah there was a slave trade

00:38:19.060 from the late 16th century to the very early 19th century yeah

00:38:22.220 It's going on and on about it

00:38:26.340 Why we must have to give Caribbean countries gibs now 0.93

00:38:29.240 Millions and millions of pounds

00:38:30.280 Not a word about the abolitionist movement

00:38:33.960 Not a word about how many British people were enslaved over the centuries

00:38:38.320 By other people

00:38:39.140 By North African pirates 0.99

00:38:41.060 Nothing about that

00:38:42.260 Nope, nothing about the slave trade throughout all of history

00:38:45.300 All over the world

00:38:46.280 It's actually the norm throughout human civilisation 0.71

00:38:49.560 To have slaves

00:38:51.300 nothing about the slave trade that exists today in west africa sub-saharan africa parts of china

00:38:58.800 and india nothing about that no just britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade

00:39:04.180 between the late 16th century and the early 19th century just that just that right that's uniquely

00:39:09.980 evil and wrong again nothing about wilberforce or the abolitionist movement nope okay got it

00:39:16.700 understand the guardian understand you're putting that front and center got it got it

00:39:21.300 sure all right and there's the two guys two different billionaires who gave nige

00:39:27.540 shed loads of money all right i didn't don't like that either okay the times the venerable times

00:39:35.780 caitlin moran my quest for happiness don't care next benefit claimants may face softer sanctions

00:39:43.740 for first-time breaches sure why not why not throw that on top this is a story that um you

00:39:49.000 know, if you claim benefits, you'd actually have to turn up to the job centre every couple

00:39:52.660 of weeks or whatever, sign a bit of paper, sit there for five minutes and they say, are

00:39:57.360 you looking for a job? And you go, yeah, I am looking for a job. And they're like, yeah,

00:40:00.300 good, okay, fine, there's your money, tick. You do have to turn up to the job centre once

00:40:04.980 every two weeks or once a month or something. They say, can you show us proof that you're

00:40:09.400 looking for a job? And you show them a tiny bit of proof that you look for half a dozen

00:40:14.460 jobs that's it yeah okay there's your there's your effectively stolen money from the state that you

00:40:20.380 haven't worked for there you go well the government's now saying they haven't done it yet they're just

00:40:25.500 talking about it that the the policy direction they want to go down is going to be even softer

00:40:30.780 on that if you miss one you know if you miss if it's the first time first offense if you miss

00:40:37.260 one of those job center meetings you won't necessarily have your benefits cut immediately

00:40:44.460 making it easier for people to get gibbs

00:40:49.260 all right reform hits out a bid to stop record donations all right we've done

00:40:54.220 that there's the donald at a golf tournament

00:40:56.700 orange man bad there you go

00:41:01.500 orange man against the orangeman he talked about didn't he how the

00:41:06.140 unification of ireland will happen one day

00:41:08.860 you think it'd be a great thing

00:41:11.980 The Orange Men 1.00

00:41:14.140 You know, the Protestants 1.00

00:41:16.020 In Northern Ireland 1.00

00:41:16.980 The Orange Man 0.96

00:41:20.720 Is not lining up with the Orange Men

00:41:23.240 Alright, you get it, it's a bad joke

00:41:24.280 The Financial Times

00:41:25.680 France race, Le Pen opens

00:41:28.880 Election Drive 0.97

00:41:30.100 There you go, she will almost certainly be President 1.00

00:41:32.360 Unless there's some sort of giant scandal in the next few months 1.00

00:41:35.400 Marine Le Pen and National Rally

00:41:37.300 Will almost certainly be 0.99

00:41:38.280 She'll be the President of France 0.96

00:41:39.620 And they'll be the ruling party of France 1.00

00:41:42.340 That woman 1.00

00:41:43.360 AFD win as well 1.00

00:41:46.660 And you know

00:41:48.700 A right leaning right of centre party

00:41:50.340 Normally right of centre party gets in in Britain

00:41:52.280 Could be good

00:41:54.580 Could be a change of the wind

00:41:56.720 Overton window

00:41:59.400 Shifting

00:42:00.100 Right

00:42:02.440 Trump rejects industry calls for break on AI

00:42:05.780 Over fears of losing race to China

00:42:08.120 Yeah that's what he said

00:42:08.820 When asked about it, it's just like, no, we're in a race with China 1.00

00:42:11.380 And we must win

00:42:12.400 He said something like, it was so boiled down

00:42:15.840 It was so reductive, but he said

00:42:17.060 Whoever wins AI wins

00:42:19.680 He said something like that

00:42:20.700 I'm very, very, I'm basically not paraphrasing

00:42:23.980 I can't remember the exact words, but it's basically what he said

00:42:25.960 Whoever wins AI wins

00:42:28.240 Come on, we need a bit more nuance than that

00:42:33.220 We need a bit more of a better take than that

00:42:35.260 Whoever wins AI, what do you mean winning AI?

00:42:38.240 What do you mean?

00:42:40.200 Whoever wins, AI wins.

00:42:41.700 Wins what?

00:42:43.980 The ability to have the servers on your territory 0.84

00:42:46.720 that's dominating every human being on the earth.

00:42:48.740 Oh, well done. Great win.

00:42:49.900 That's a great win.

00:42:52.420 Great.

00:42:52.960 The AI servers sit on American soil 0.95

00:42:55.340 that dominate us all.

00:42:58.060 What a win.

00:43:00.560 Tech bosses are warnings dismissed by Trump.

00:43:05.800 President open to guardrails,

00:43:07.780 Kind of, not really, not particularly

00:43:09.740 Democrats urge decisive action

00:43:13.680 Stop the clock is right twice a day

00:43:17.640 I guess just because the Republicans and Trump are for unfettered AI

00:43:23.960 Just by default the Democrats are going to decide

00:43:26.680 Oh, we're not for that then

00:43:27.840 We need to put clear light between us and them in terms of policy

00:43:32.880 But, okay

00:43:34.000 russia strike hits ukraine rail line just after visit visiting johnson passes through all right

00:43:40.520 we've done that the daily star what's up and they decide to go out of everything that's going on in

00:43:43.720 the world graham soonest graham soonest this old man used to be a football player and a football

00:43:49.620 manager with no consequence really anymore graham soonest he played football back in like the 60s

00:43:56.380 70s was it certainly the 70s then he was a manager in like the 90s early 2000s now a nobody

00:44:04.520 But Reds hard man, I played for Liverpool, right?

00:44:07.380 The Reds, Liverpool.

00:44:08.700 Reds hard man, Graham, slams prem footy aces.

00:44:14.260 Soonest, Graham Soonest, this man.

00:44:16.540 Today's stars are big softies.

00:44:19.160 But Jasmine is very tough.

00:44:21.500 This is the front page.

00:44:22.540 Jasmine, just this little kid who's got some sort of illness.

00:44:25.440 And he's like, he says he's brought to tears by the plight of ill kids.

00:44:29.040 Fair enough.

00:44:29.700 All this is fair enough.

00:44:30.560 Graham Soonis thinking that football players today

00:44:33.840 Are a lot softer than they used to be

00:44:35.520 Which is fair enough

00:44:37.980 Because you see some of the tackles flying in

00:44:40.220 In the 70s

00:44:40.980 Watch old footage of 60s, 70s football

00:44:43.360 But how is that news really?

00:44:47.820 Graham Soonis thinks football players

00:44:49.960 Are a bit softer than they used to be

00:44:51.360 But he's also got a soft heart

00:44:53.460 When it comes to ill and or dying children

00:44:56.160 That's the front page is it?

00:44:58.240 From the Daily Star

00:44:58.860 Graham Soonis said something

00:45:01.460 Terrible 0.99

00:45:03.820 Ridiculous 1.00

00:45:04.340 There you go 0.99

00:45:04.880 There the increasingly absurd

00:45:07.780 Absurd

00:45:09.700 And infuriating front pages

00:45:11.140 From the print media today 0.91

00:45:12.900 Absolutely ridiculous 0.96

00:45:14.300 Alright 0.96

00:45:15.140 Get off the screen Harry

00:45:16.060 There you go

00:45:18.120 Alright

00:45:19.300 Let's do our poll

00:45:20.020 We look at our poll this time in the show

00:45:21.520 Don't we

00:45:21.920 What did we ask you guys today

00:45:23.680 There's so much glare on this screen

00:45:24.740 We're still working

00:45:25.360 Still tweaking some stuff

00:45:26.680 I'm going to have to do this

00:45:28.080 in order to read it over 1100 votes we asked you guys do you think reformers should be forced to

00:45:36.640 give it 72 million pounds from crypto donations back that's what we asked you guys well over

00:45:43.980 1100 votes 1160 votes plus okay and the result is no 77 percent of you say no reform shouldn't

00:45:53.900 have to give it back yeah i mean i all right if no rules and no laws have been broken i agree with

00:45:58.000 that nine percent said yes and 14 said not sure so if that was a national referendum and you've

00:46:06.440 got a mandate you've got a win of to the tune of 77 you'd claim a mandate for all time on that

00:46:13.160 yeah no i mean if no rules and no laws have been broken it's just being bitter and resentful isn't

00:46:21.980 if you insist they give it back so why don't you do better whoever you are you do better and you

00:46:26.980 get billionaires to give you money all right all right there you go i'm simply saying let's have a

00:46:36.600 look there wasn't that many other stories particularly on the main websites that we

00:46:42.380 haven't already looked at which were massively interesting today um i'm supposed to be on the

00:46:48.480 podcast later so i think i might just move straight on to look there's there's the train

00:46:52.880 the train near boris's train but not boris's train which got hit there it is again

00:46:59.340 the boris train blitz boris train blitz boris train blitz

00:47:07.400 that's a stretch okay something about megan and harry don't care and that train again all right

00:47:14.080 let's just move on to on this day in history i quite like doing that bit you guys seem to like

00:47:17.640 be doing that bit let's have a look here then what have we got down through the centuries of

00:47:20.760 note on this day in history what happened and through centuries nay in the millennia september

00:47:25.320 the 14th let's have a look see what we got okay on this day in 1752 ad britain and the british

00:47:31.720 empire including the american colonies adopt the gregorian calendar after skipping 11 days between

00:47:36.840 september the 3rd and september the 13th it talks about the the gregorian calendar once or twice

00:47:41.240 before haven't we it's an interesting thing as a history nerd i'm interested in um calendars and

00:47:49.000 dates all that sort of thing sometimes quite often when you're looking back through you're

00:47:55.240 reading history books sometimes they'll print two dates for the same event that happened on a single

00:47:58.920 day they might print two dates for it you know what's going on there how could it possibly be

00:48:03.480 on two dates well one's the old julian calendar it's back to julius caesar himself and one's the

00:48:10.040 new Gregorian calendar parts of the world didn't take up the Gregorian calendar till much later

00:48:16.920 like the Russians didn't take up till much later

00:48:22.280 and so even in like the 19th century or early 20th century sometimes in Russian history you'll

00:48:26.920 find two dates for things the date that they used at the time and the date that we would

00:48:32.200 now record it as now anyway anyway the Gregorian calendar and there's there's the Pope Gregory

00:48:40.040 All right. 1922, on this day, the burning of Smyrna. It wasn't just on one day, but it was

00:48:48.160 like 10 days or something. The burning of Smyrna. The Asia Minor Turkish catastrophe to Greeks.

00:48:54.500 Ottoman army expels Greeks. They're not Ottoman, are they? They're Turkish at that point. 0.90

00:49:00.940 Mustafa Kemal, the Ataturk, isn't it? It's not Ottoman. 1922. They won't be Ottoman anymore.

00:49:06.080 Anyway, alright 0.98

00:49:06.580 Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor

00:49:10.520 Basically Turkey

00:49:11.880 Destroying much of the port city of Smyrna 0.89

00:49:14.680 On August the 13th

00:49:16.440 Okay, yeah, well, I mean, after World War I

00:49:18.960 There was, and the fall of the Ottoman Empire

00:49:20.700 There was a Greek-Turkish war

00:49:24.540 The Greeks had had a couple of change of governments

00:49:28.120 And they sent over

00:49:28.920 Because that west coast of Asia Minor 0.98

00:49:32.620 Modern-day Turkey

00:49:33.600 That coast has been colonised by Greeks since the ancient world

00:49:39.020 Since the ancient world

00:49:39.840 Smyrna, they don't even call it Smyrna anymore, do they? 0.98

00:49:42.660 The Turks call it something else

00:49:43.560 Izmir, is it?

00:49:45.420 I don't know, it's got a completely different name

00:49:46.360 It's got a Turkish name nowadays

00:49:47.360 The Greeks sent over lots of people

00:49:50.780 On top of the centuries, nay millennia 1.00

00:49:53.440 Of sending Greeks over there

00:49:56.900 And Mustafa Kemal, the Ataturk, the leader of Turkey now 0.71

00:50:00.180 After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire

00:50:02.040 Decided 0.98

00:50:03.000 He's not going to have that 1.00

00:50:05.080 And he's going to push them all back to Greece 1.00

00:50:06.760 And not just Turks 1.00

00:50:08.700 Sorry, not just Greeks 1.00

00:50:10.000 Also other non-Turks

00:50:11.640 As it says there 1.00

00:50:12.300 And burn Smyrna down

00:50:14.380 An ancient city 0.99

00:50:15.980 Yeah 1.00

00:50:21.040 Yeah, that's the Turks for you 1.00

00:50:29.520 That's Sam Pica 0.98

00:50:30.360 Most affected 0.52

00:50:31.040 Hassan Chop

00:50:32.880 1936 on this day

00:50:35.300 First prefrontal lobotomy in America

00:50:37.940 Performed by Walter Freeman

00:50:39.940 And James W Watts

00:50:41.420 At George Washington University Hospital

00:50:43.260 In Washington DC

00:50:44.120 Prefrontal lobotomies

00:50:47.760 When they thought people

00:50:49.120 If you've got loads of different types

00:50:51.900 Of mental health issues

00:50:52.960 If you're really really depressed

00:50:54.700 Or split personality disorder 0.84

00:50:56.280 Or you're actually violent

00:50:58.460 Can't stop being violent

00:50:59.380 or all sorts of things from very, very serious, very, very real mental disorders

00:51:03.720 through to you're just a bit depressed. 0.97

00:51:07.120 They're like, well, we could put a spike in your head 0.99

00:51:09.540 and sever loads of bits of your brain on the inside 1.00

00:51:12.160 and then you'll just be happy.

00:51:15.440 That was sort of the argument.

00:51:16.600 You'll just be happy.

00:51:18.000 I mean, you'll lose loads and loads and loads of sort of cognitive abilities,

00:51:21.940 but you will just sit there and, like, you won't be really upset and unhappy

00:51:26.420 and have dark thoughts and even be violent anymore.

00:51:29.380 You'll just sit there sort of a little bit zoned out for the rest of your life.

00:51:38.060 They did it to that Rosemary Kennedy, didn't they?

00:51:42.420 John and Robert Kennedy had a sister.

00:51:44.160 They had loads of siblings, loads of them.

00:51:46.160 One of their sisters, Rosemary, she wasn't mentally ill.

00:51:50.100 Well, most people think she wasn't mentally ill. 0.84

00:51:54.480 She was just a bit of a tearaway. 0.98

00:51:55.740 She didn't really do what she was told. 0.98

00:51:57.860 She was like a bit of a good time gal.

00:51:59.380 Shall we say 0.69

00:51:59.900 She wanted to go off 0.89

00:52:01.200 And do what she wanted

00:52:01.880 Have fun

00:52:03.500 Go to parties

00:52:04.200 Drink quite a lot

00:52:05.080 Smoke

00:52:05.780 Have loads of boyfriends 1.00

00:52:07.480 And not do what her father

00:52:08.660 Told her to do

00:52:09.400 So they gave her

00:52:10.880 A free 0.97

00:52:12.080 Prefrontal lobotomy

00:52:13.440 And for the rest of her life

00:52:15.900 She couldn't speak

00:52:16.680 Or walk 1.00

00:52:17.260 Just sat in a wheelchair

00:52:18.120 Just zoned out

00:52:19.080 Nice isn't it

00:52:21.280 That's nice isn't it

00:52:22.620 If you don't do what

00:52:24.720 Joe Kennedy wants you to do 0.57

00:52:26.220 He'll get a lobotomy 0.99

00:52:28.300 Performed on you 0.99

00:52:29.200 Nice, nice guy

00:52:30.320 They don't do it anymore, of course

00:52:34.120 Well, hardly ever

00:52:36.200 Didn't always work

00:52:40.900 Well, anyway, alright

00:52:41.820 Lobotomy is terrible, really terrible

00:52:44.680 Alright, on this day in 1939

00:52:46.920 World's first practical helicopter

00:52:48.880 Is that earlier or later than you thought?

00:52:51.180 1939 for helicopters

00:52:52.440 The VS-300

00:52:54.560 Designed by Igor Sikorsky

00:52:56.560 Sikorsky

00:52:58.180 Takes a short tethered flight

00:53:00.340 At Stratford, Connecticut

00:53:01.980 It's interesting, you don't really see many

00:53:04.720 Helicopters

00:53:06.580 Or any really in World War 2

00:53:07.900 But by Korea, the Korean War in the 50s

00:53:11.040 There's helicopters all over the place

00:53:12.760 Aren't there? Certainly by Vietnam 1.00

00:53:14.240 In the 60s 0.96

00:53:16.480 All over the place aren't they?

00:53:18.480 Helicopters by that point

00:53:19.380 Helicopter technology came on leaps and bounds

00:53:22.540 Didn't it? After they first were able to do it

00:53:24.560 The first practical helicopter

00:53:26.180 In 1939

00:53:26.940 a bit later than you might think all right on this day 1949 india's constituent assembly

00:53:33.660 adopts hindi as an official language celebrated today as hindi day uh whoop-dee-doo yeah well

00:53:39.520 done good for you all right on this day in 1956 ibm introduces the ramac or ramac i don't know

00:53:46.040 how you pronounce that 305 the first commercial computer with a hard drive featuring a magnetic

00:53:52.180 disk storage, which weighs over a ton. Look, there's a picture of them. IBM supercomputers.

00:54:04.920 It had some RAM. Magnetic disk storage. There you go. On this day, 1960, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait,

00:54:20.540 Saudi Arabia and Venezuela

00:54:21.800 Formed the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

00:54:25.600 OPEC

00:54:26.260 It only took them a decade or so

00:54:30.680 Before they started, you know

00:54:32.220 Leveraging it and wielding it

00:54:34.000 Against the rest of the world

00:54:35.400 Didn't take too long, did it?

00:54:40.440 The early 70s

00:54:41.620 Oil crisis

00:54:42.660 Suddenly, or not suddenly

00:54:45.760 But they realised their power

00:54:47.460 We could just cut production

00:54:51.680 If we wanted to, couldn't we? 0.97

00:54:53.920 To screw everyone else that relies on the oil they buy from us

00:54:57.080 And then we've got the thumbscrews on them, haven't we?

00:55:00.680 The United States

00:55:01.740 United States, you think you're all big and bad

00:55:04.600 And you're the top dog on the block

00:55:05.940 Well, we could just 0.95

00:55:07.580 We could just screw you in terms of your oil supplier

00:55:12.040 They did, okay

00:55:15.040 Did that work out well?

00:55:16.300 did such things in the long run work out well for Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela. Saudi Arabia is

00:55:21.980 a different story. Although, just in the news today, they're running out of oil in four days.

00:55:30.540 Meanwhile, America is a net exporter.

00:55:35.820 Okay, on this day in 2020, astronomers report a possible sign of life on Venus

00:55:41.900 after detecting phosphine in the planet's atmosphere through a telescope.

00:55:49.000 There's no life on Venus that we know of.

00:55:52.860 It's a hell planet, Venus.

00:55:58.700 Temperatures on the surface are like hotter than an oven.

00:56:01.360 And the pressure, you'll be cooked and crushed to death instantly

00:56:07.580 if you quantum leaped to the surface of Venus.

00:56:11.560 although in the atmosphere is a bit different still quite a lot of quite a lot of sulfuric

00:56:15.860 acid in the atmosphere of Venus I don't know why Dan Tubb insists on it's a good idea to have

00:56:22.920 floating sky cities in the atmosphere above Venus

00:56:27.780 we're nowhere near able the engineering of that is we're nowhere near it as a species

00:56:35.220 All right. On this day in 2021, one in 500 Americans has died of COVID-19 as the...

00:56:43.260 Wait. Is it of COVID-19 or with COVID-19? This says of.

00:56:49.220 One in 500 Americans has died of COVID-19 as the nation's known death toll reaches 663,913, says John Hopkins Hospital.

00:57:00.900 yeah just simply don't believe those statistics or numbers that's what on this day in history

00:57:09.420 this website it is a bit normie isn't it it's a bit normie all right

00:57:15.820 let's have a look at our rumble rants and super chats let me do this with my mic boom so i can

00:57:22.100 see the left hand side of my screen we do the rumble rants first you think global church history

00:57:24.940 will be in our number one is it going to be a good day global church history super fan of the

00:57:28.920 Bo Show, Breakfast Info, Bo's Breakfast Club,

00:57:30.900 don't you forget about me, and mod,

00:57:33.280 head mod.

00:57:35.420 The lead mod, the chief mod

00:57:36.840 in the chat.

00:57:38.560 Is he going to be in at number one? He nearly always is.

00:57:42.000 Yes. Yes, he is.

00:57:43.080 Today's a good day.

00:57:45.540 Still in at number one.

00:57:47.640 And still.

00:57:49.520 Global Church History, the reigning

00:57:50.780 champ of Rumble Rants

00:57:52.840 on the Bo Show. He says this.

00:57:55.840 They say the BBC

00:57:57.040 interview went well. Oh, yes.

00:57:58.920 ah yes global church history was on bbc wales wasn't it over the weekend i wasn't able to catch

00:58:05.600 it myself mate sorry about that i didn't i didn't go on the internet at all over the weekend that's

00:58:10.600 what i do now i've decided i don't go on twitter or the internet at all not on a laptop not my

00:58:15.680 phone nothing for the whole weekend five days a week is enough for me i need to be able to touch

00:58:20.340 grass and like just completely absent myself from the news cycle for a couple of days

00:58:24.780 And I'm liking it, it's great

00:58:26.720 I like it, it's working out well for me

00:58:28.140 So I didn't listen, I certainly didn't listen to radio

00:58:30.480 Didn't put on the TV, nothing, nothing

00:58:32.020 Just live a normal life, like the old days

00:58:34.580 But you say it went well

00:58:38.560 Okay, send me a link, act me a link

00:58:40.960 We follow each other, don't we, on Twitter

00:58:42.240 Tweet at me with the link to it

00:58:45.200 And I'll retweet it

00:58:46.240 Yeah

00:58:47.460 There you go

00:58:49.240 My pleasure, sir

00:58:50.980 It usually gives us a couple of factoids

00:58:53.500 What have we got here?

00:58:54.780 You say, today in 81 AD, Domitian became emperor.

00:59:02.720 What's the reckoning that on my history theme show,

00:59:05.360 which is called Bodade's Epochs,

00:59:06.640 which is behind the paywall on lotusseaters.com,

00:59:08.600 again, that's lotusseaters.com,

00:59:10.480 do consider signing up for as little as £5 a month

00:59:12.560 bronze tier membership.

00:59:14.300 You get access to everything that's behind the paywall there,

00:59:16.720 not just my show, not just my history theme show,

00:59:18.880 a body of work built up over five years,

00:59:20.660 quite literally and without exaggeration,

00:59:21.900 hundreds of hours of history themed content.

00:59:24.780 Not just that, all the other paywalls, all of it, you get behind the paywall just for £5 a month.

00:59:29.900 Quite a good deal in terms of tier membership.

00:59:35.220 Do you think I've got a long-form bit of content talking all about the reign of Domitian,

00:59:38.520 the emperor Domitian, the son of Vespasian and the brother of Titus, one of the arch-baddies?

00:59:44.520 Domitian's up there with Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Caracalla.

00:59:51.540 Talked all about by Tacitus.

00:59:54.780 yes it is there don't bet against that just don't bother betting against it because

00:59:58.860 it is there it is real it's true it's true it's true okay good if you want to know all about that

01:00:06.860 let's see them checking out and the other factor you've got for us today you say

01:00:10.620 in 1141 queen matilda defeated empress matilda at winchester and captured robert of gloucester ah

01:00:18.460 on my own channel yeah on this channel here

01:00:21.100 mother my own history theme channel history bro this is a a a a mock-up i haven't really got

01:00:30.380 100 000 subs wish i did on that there's no paywall behind that there's no pay there's

01:00:37.020 no paywall there interested in that i've got long form content all about the anarchy what's

01:00:43.000 the anarchy bow it's a period in the 12th century where the king of england sorry

01:00:49.940 When the King of England

01:00:53.640 Henry I

01:00:55.360 Had died without a male issue

01:00:57.340 Or legitimate male heir

01:00:59.500 Because he did have a son

01:01:00.920 But he had died, he just drowned in a ship

01:01:03.540 A disaster, the white ship disaster 0.90

01:01:05.340 He was coming back from France

01:01:06.740 Ship hit some rocks, sunk, he died

01:01:08.800 The King of England

01:01:10.680 Henry I, William the Conqueror's son

01:01:12.720 Was going to die 0.97

01:01:16.320 And it had to be his daughter would take over next

01:01:19.820 matilda her name was matilda or mold depending on the accounts and if it's sort of the anglo-saxon

01:01:27.640 version she'd been married off to the holy roman emperor becoming an empress but then he died

01:01:34.160 quite soon after and she came back but she still styled herself an empress even though really

01:01:40.460 really technically she wasn't anymore she was the widow of an emperor a one-time empress but

01:01:47.600 well technically you are still allowed to style yourself that right like presidents this day even

01:01:53.900 if you've stopped being president you still called president right joe biden george bush jr whatever

01:02:00.160 they're still mr president it's just the way it is anyway she could call herself an emperor so did

01:02:04.980 but wasn't actually a reigning one she was supposed to be queen of england now

01:02:09.300 when her father died the powerful men of the age didn't like that they weren't prepared to put up

01:02:16.040 with that especially seeing as she was quite haughty so one of her relations was it a cousin

01:02:22.380 stephen of blois came over from france seized the treasury and installed himself as king in

01:02:28.420 westminster or winchester rather maybe both well that kicked off a civil war basically a basically

01:02:36.340 a civil war it's known to history as the anarchy but it's a long civil war as well lasted years

01:02:41.100 and years and years there's all sorts of famine it's terrible actually it's terrible

01:02:45.720 okay at one point there's a real ding dong back and forth as well for years it looks at one point

01:02:52.000 that one faction is going to win it but then they don't and then a few years later the other faction

01:02:55.380 look like they're just about to win it and then they don't at one point Stephen of Blois was had

01:03:01.160 been captured he had a wife who was also called Matilda Queen Matilda makes it a bit confusing

01:03:07.480 doesn't it but she had carried on the fight in his while he was in prison anyway she wins a big

01:03:14.880 battle and she captures robert duke of gloucester who is matilda's the empress matilda's half

01:03:22.340 brother and her main military man the leader of her armies she captures him and then they do a

01:03:28.020 they do a prisoner swap oh it's a great story the anarchy is a great story most people unless

01:03:33.240 you're a proper history nerd most people don't know about it never heard of it it's a great story

01:03:36.800 I think

01:03:37.480 It was among the first couple of dozen things

01:03:41.600 I've done on History Bro

01:03:42.340 Because I thought it was such a great story

01:03:44.000 Well it is such a great story

01:03:45.160 Finally ends with Henry Plantagenet

01:03:49.220 Henry II coming along

01:03:50.520 And being the winner of it all

01:03:52.360 Alright

01:03:55.000 What else have we got?

01:03:56.660 Rumble rants

01:03:57.140 We've got Fictagious

01:03:58.580 He says

01:03:59.040 He says

01:04:00.740 It's absolutely disgusting

01:04:02.000 That the government capitulate

01:04:03.360 To give prisoners more nutritious food

01:04:06.240 than school dinners for kids, for children. 0.93

01:04:09.300 Yeah, that's true.

01:04:09.860 That's a good point.

01:04:10.340 That's a fair point, isn't it?

01:04:11.100 Yeah.

01:04:12.180 Yeah.

01:04:13.960 And they care about the welfare of criminals

01:04:15.780 more than our children.

01:04:20.340 Good point, fair point.

01:04:21.740 Tom Rat 247 says,

01:04:22.920 I hope a big bird makes the exclusions

01:04:27.500 on party donations retroactive.

01:04:30.220 Want the precedent that legal

01:04:32.260 but morally questionable actions

01:04:33.720 can be prosecuted.

01:04:34.700 Blair Brown, Osbo the Clown

01:04:37.520 Osborne the Clown

01:04:39.660 And Boris for Jail

01:04:41.260 Yeah, Rupert Lowe has talked a bit about

01:04:43.140 Hasn't he recently tweeted about

01:04:44.620 Retroactively applying laws

01:04:48.060 About treason and sedition 0.88

01:04:50.240 People that have facilitated our invasion 0.63

01:04:53.200 Past laws stopping that

01:04:56.200 And applying them retroactively

01:04:57.600 Yeah, good

01:05:01.720 Fictagious again says

01:05:04.060 How do they know it was a Russian drone

01:05:07.840 Hmm 0.97

01:05:08.400 I mean good question

01:05:09.300 Valid question

01:05:09.960 Personally I don't know

01:05:13.220 I don't know

01:05:14.340 I'm just reporting what

01:05:15.340 I'm just telling you

01:05:16.120 What is being reported in the

01:05:17.360 Corporate mainstream media

01:05:18.380 How do they know

01:05:19.500 Good question

01:05:20.980 Fair and legit

01:05:22.860 Question to ask

01:05:24.220 Okay

01:05:24.900 Pigdog5150 says

01:05:28.300 Morning

01:05:28.700 Morning mate

01:05:29.280 You alright

01:05:29.620 Says

01:05:31.500 Hope all is well

01:05:32.500 Oh you too

01:05:32.960 Cheers

01:05:33.320 Appreciate that

01:05:33.920 yeah you too saw you and saw you and metatron good stuff oh thank you you like that one oh cool cool

01:05:41.120 cool yeah on low seat is actually it's not behind the paywall i don't think i think that's a freemium

01:05:47.160 one so you don't have to pay the five pound bronze team membership i think it's a freemium one

01:05:50.840 but me and metatron you know metatron don't you there's a massive history channel

01:05:54.240 italian guy sicilian guy great great bloke he knows more than me about history easily easily

01:05:59.780 I had a long-form conversation with him not too long ago

01:06:03.460 A couple of weeks ago

01:06:04.560 All about the history of Sicily

01:06:06.720 He was born and raised on Sicily

01:06:08.260 We talked all about from pre-history through to the modern

01:06:11.800 Through the ancient world, medieval world

01:06:13.640 And all up to World War II

01:06:14.660 Talking all about, even a little bit about the mafia

01:06:16.580 Check it out

01:06:19.320 I know my stuff, he knows way more

01:06:21.120 Want to know about the history of Sicily

01:06:23.780 Down through the ages

01:06:24.920 Check it out, I'm pretty sure it's not paywalled 0.79

01:06:26.980 Thanks pig dog, you liked that one did you? 0.74

01:06:29.780 Oh, good. Oh, it's also on Metatron's channel as well, and I've tweeted it, so you can find it. You should be able to find that one quite easily. Okay, Hugh Man 17, Hugh Man says, can we exchange Celine Dion and Graham Sue Ness for some real news? Fair point. I did move on quite quickly, didn't I?

01:06:50.780 i don't know if you're having a pop at me or the the actual print media for that but

01:06:55.000 i do try to spend a minimal amount of time on any slop if that's sort of aimed at me

01:07:00.100 yeah quite right yeah don't care about celine dion don't care about graham sooners

01:07:04.660 okay last couple here pig dog again says government let us use your hotels for new

01:07:12.880 arrivals hotels no we have concerns government brings in new tax government let us use your

01:07:18.860 empty hotels for new arrivals and round and round we go yeah could be this new tax is just to close

01:07:29.140 down hotels and b&b's and they sit empty now because as a normal business it's got to run

01:07:34.060 a profit just on its own merits that doesn't those numbers don't work out anymore suddenly

01:07:40.940 loads of hotels and b&b's left open empty hmm wonder what the government might do with those 0.97

01:07:46.500 It's a good point, actually, pig dog. 0.90

01:07:47.700 I hadn't necessarily thought about that. 0.62

01:07:50.180 Okay, the last rumble rant here is from Fortean Barber.

01:07:53.120 Morning, mate.

01:07:53.700 You're all right.

01:07:54.200 Yeah, I'm all right.

01:07:54.560 I hope you are.

01:07:55.460 You put, I'm still a bit grumpy about the attempt to break up the UK.

01:08:01.760 With dreadful globalist US senators, etc. 0.98

01:08:04.540 Getting involved in making me a bitter man should keep their fat noses out. 0.98

01:08:10.640 Apparently, they're supposed to be. 0.93

01:08:11.920 This is in reference to today, I believe.

01:08:14.540 On Monday the 14th

01:08:16.360 There's supposed to be some sort of summit or meeting

01:08:18.740 For the nationalist leaders of

01:08:20.980 The countries like Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

01:08:24.300 Getting together

01:08:26.800 Having some sort of meeting of minds

01:08:29.900 Put together a memorandum of understanding

01:08:32.340 About trying to force Westminster

01:08:34.280 To give them all referendums on their own sovereignty

01:08:36.740 Breaking up the UK effectively

01:08:40.000 And all sorts of people from all around the world 0.98

01:08:42.860 Including

01:08:43.260 Trump and other people

01:08:45.580 Sticking their oar in

01:08:48.000 Yeah, a bit frustrating

01:08:52.800 Alright

01:08:53.900 Although some arch-English nationalists

01:08:56.940 And I've got sympathy

01:08:57.960 I don't actually agree with them

01:08:59.000 I can't line up with them

01:08:59.860 But I've got massive sympathies for them

01:09:01.320 They say, maybe it is better if England goes alone

01:09:04.720 Maybe it is better actually

01:09:06.600 Something like Graham Moore

01:09:08.180 Like Graham Moore

01:09:09.940 I'm not mentioning him to like

01:09:11.300 Sing him out as wrong-headed or bad in any way

01:09:14.020 No, no, no, no

01:09:14.780 I've done content with him

01:09:15.860 Like the guy

01:09:16.620 Like the guy

01:09:17.100 Graham Moore

01:09:17.520 People like that say

01:09:19.120 No, it's best

01:09:19.840 It's absolutely for the best

01:09:21.680 If England goes it alone

01:09:22.880 The whole project of the United Kingdom

01:09:25.560 Was a mistake in the first place

01:09:27.040 Some do make that argument 0.57

01:09:28.920 That the other countries have just been nothing but a drain on England

01:09:34.940 okay let's do the super the uh youtube super chats we've got a dozen or so here today

01:09:48.540 thomas tyne is in at number one today thomas tyne well done sir getting in first

01:09:53.660 says all in capital says bono like government bow like free enterprise

01:10:01.140 Small government

01:10:04.960 I'm not a complete libertarian

01:10:06.400 Where I think there should be no state whatsoever

01:10:08.000 Not that

01:10:08.700 I don't think that would work

01:10:11.900 With the best will in the world

01:10:13.580 Yeah, as small a state as possible

01:10:16.160 Small a government as possible

01:10:17.420 Yeah

01:10:20.540 Mr Gentney Benevolent says

01:10:23.780 When is Calgon going to start

01:10:26.880 Force feeding you boys lentils

01:10:28.540 When you turn up at the office

01:10:29.760 I'll take a bowl of lentil

01:10:34.040 Free lentils for lunch occasionally

01:10:36.000 Not every day

01:10:37.040 Lentil soup

01:10:41.800 Ever had like

01:10:42.500 High-end cream of lentil soup

01:10:44.940 It was quite nice

01:10:45.560 A little bit of salt and pepper on it

01:10:47.120 Not bad

01:10:48.220 A little bit of buttered toast

01:10:49.780 Lovely

01:10:51.000 Alright

01:10:52.420 Daniel D. King says

01:10:55.080 Dinners?

01:10:55.660 10 Mayfair

01:10:58.860 £1.50 and 50p

01:11:00.680 bacon sarnie

01:11:01.520 for school dinners

01:11:08.580 year 10 your lunch is actually

01:11:10.740 10 Mayfair cigarettes

01:11:12.400 behind the bike sheds

01:11:13.740 and a 50p bacon sarnie

01:11:16.540 I didn't smoke

01:11:20.860 when I was at school

01:11:21.580 I suppose I did start smoking

01:11:24.780 in the year 11 but not at school at lunchtime and football just played football every single

01:11:31.840 break and lunchtime at school every single one almost without fail i'm like year eight onwards

01:11:36.500 okay calzetti says bow menthol filters yay or nay oh no no menthol no no no no no no

01:11:48.880 no don't like menthol cigarettes or menthol filters or anything like that not menthol no

01:11:53.380 I don't like menthol

01:11:54.940 I don't really like herbal tea

01:11:57.520 Or like mint tea

01:11:58.800 Or anything like that

01:11:59.640 So that's a nay from me on that one

01:12:03.620 On the record

01:12:05.000 Mr Gently Benevolent again says

01:12:06.880 Just make sure you say your litanies

01:12:10.700 To the 0.64

01:12:12.760 Ominicia

01:12:14.040 I'm not sure what that word is

01:12:15.520 I've got a relatively good vocabulary

01:12:17.520 But I've never seen that word before

01:12:18.960 Ominicia

01:12:21.180 I don't know what that means

01:12:22.300 And gets its favourite early bow

01:12:26.140 So you're on the safe side

01:12:27.760 When it does take over

01:12:28.960 Harry, while I'm continuing here

01:12:31.960 Little Harry, could you take that word there

01:12:34.640 That Mr Gently Benevolent said

01:12:35.980 The one I've just highlighted

01:12:37.080 Pop that in Google for us

01:12:39.720 I'm interested to know

01:12:41.980 I like learning new words

01:12:43.440 Omnisire, oh is it omnisire

01:12:48.360 Like all present messiah

01:12:49.920 Is that what it is?

01:12:52.300 Oh, it's a Warhammer 40k word.

01:12:54.860 Omnissire is a central deity of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

01:12:57.640 Oh, right, okay.

01:12:58.980 The Adeptus Mechanicus.

01:13:00.100 All right, on Mars.

01:13:02.000 I get it now.

01:13:02.820 Omnissire, like all-present messiah, something like that.

01:13:07.780 It's from Warhammer 40k lore.

01:13:09.780 All right, okay.

01:13:12.260 You don't know which side your bread's buttered, though, right?

01:13:14.880 are you gonna bow down to the the god emperor and his junior deities of the adeptus mechanicus or

01:13:24.760 not make up your mind to pick a team bro okay tatum 2733 says what oil troubles hmm could it

01:13:33.200 worsen oh all capitals tatum's got a vested interest now because we've made a little bet

01:13:39.460 hasn't he well he made the bet if there's a massive oil crisis which i always did say it's

01:13:45.060 possible quite possible which hasn't still haven't happened yet i'm not calling 107 dollars for a

01:13:51.420 barrel of brent a true crisis at this point um but he's waiting for it to happen so so he wins

01:13:58.420 and gets kudos from me and i've got to read at least one chapter of his book okay take him again

01:14:04.000 the next one says insane the saudi pipeline isn't front page news yeah right yeah graham suniz says 0.91

01:14:10.620 football players are a pussy willows now that's front page news not that saudi arabia might 0.74

01:14:17.060 imminently run out of crude oil i mean yeah mad isn't it yeah you call it insane it is kind of 0.99

01:14:23.560 insane isn't it okay last two here mr gently benevolent says to be fair though they stopped

01:14:30.760 Doing the brain spiking

01:14:32.760 For having loads of

01:14:34.120 BFFs

01:14:35.740 And smoking

01:14:37.060 And now they have TikTok harpies 0.81

01:14:39.460 Was stopping the right choice 0.98

01:14:42.800 Interesting point

01:14:45.900 Interesting point

01:14:47.980 Yeah 0.92

01:14:51.220 TikTok harpies

01:14:54.840 Is it any worse

01:14:57.280 Yeah

01:14:57.580 I mean

01:14:58.080 I mean

01:15:00.760 all right um my screen just flipped out a bit it's back okay it's back all right uh another

01:15:07.240 one has popped in uh so now the penultimate one is thunder cork 2028 says who are your top five

01:15:14.760 footballers of all time oh people don't really like football in this so i'll make it just super

01:15:19.480 quick off the top of my head matt leticia number one matt let's hearth oh i don't know of all time

01:15:27.460 Actually, Matt Latisse would be up there.

01:15:28.780 Statistically one of the greatest penalty taker of all time, Matt Latisse.

01:15:33.200 So Matt Latisse.

01:15:35.520 Pele.

01:15:36.700 George Best.

01:15:39.280 Who do I really, really rate?

01:15:43.860 Ronaldinho was pretty amazing, wasn't he?

01:15:46.820 That Ronaldinho.

01:15:47.760 He was well good.

01:15:53.460 And Tony Cotty.

01:15:55.640 Alright.

01:15:56.840 A really obscure West Ham player who's definitely not one of the best of all time.

01:16:01.280 And that was a joke.

01:16:02.340 But I'm picking Tony Cotty.

01:16:03.540 There you go.

01:16:05.700 Mr. Gently Benevolent says,

01:16:08.420 How are you still employed by Calgon with such poor 40k knowledge?

01:16:12.920 Sorry.

01:16:13.740 I played loads of 40k in my time.

01:16:16.660 I played loads of 40k in my time.

01:16:19.640 Between the age of 7 or 8 and up to the age of about 15 or 16,

01:16:23.140 I played loads of 40k.

01:16:24.100 Read loads of the lore.

01:16:26.140 Loads of it.

01:16:26.840 um i was just i was not aware of the data of the adeptus mechanicus when i was playing 40k

01:16:32.200 you could get like there was like one or two blister packs of adeptus mechanicus that was it

01:16:37.900 it was honestly without exaggerating three or four or five adeptus mechanicus figures that you could

01:16:42.980 possibly buy it wasn't much for a thing that's much more modern that adeptus mechanicus is a

01:16:48.300 whole thing and you can have an army of it anyway oh one last one harry's brought up a big thing on

01:16:52.960 my screen that for some reason hasn't come up on my screen no it hasn't come up on my screen

01:16:58.600 but harry's brought it up and it is a large donation super large donation where's my mouse

01:17:06.420 of 100 canadian dollars is that what that is ca 100 canadian dollars from dane ud2gm

01:17:17.380 so thank you for that it says hey bro here's some lunch money love my chips love the uk simple as

01:17:24.160 oh cool thanks dane brilliant really generous appreciate that thank you sir lovely stuff

01:17:32.340 and debbie dozy make sure everyone gives this uh gives this stream a thumbs up

01:17:37.980 make sure you sub to the channel whack the bell on that's free lovely jubbly all right and

01:17:45.320 i think we've got one more actual super chat one more super chat oh no a couple more they keep

01:17:52.560 coming in tatum says oh sweet bow we won't need any technicalities you'll know you'll know we're

01:18:02.720 in a crisis clear as day the world 365 days from now will be a totally different place

01:18:08.580 maybe harbinger of doom tatum 2733 could well be correct it might be hope not

01:18:18.320 okay and the last one here tatum again says mark my words now history is opening again

01:18:25.220 yeah history is the one who knocks history will tell us when it's done

01:18:30.640 and it will never be done okay all right that's the show it's now 18 minutes past nine in the a.m

01:18:37.340 On Monday the 14th of September

01:18:38.800 In the year of our Lord, 2026

01:18:39.920 You've been in the gross band

01:18:41.200 The Chosen For You, my band of brothers

01:18:42.320 Thank you for joining me

01:18:43.120 Without you, it isn't a thing

01:18:44.320 It really isn't

01:18:45.440 Can't thank you enough

01:18:46.840 It rings hollow after a while

01:18:48.280 When you keep saying it

01:18:49.000 Thank you guys, it's all about you

01:18:50.360 But it's so true, it's so true

01:18:52.240 You just can't really express it

01:18:53.760 With enough sincerity

01:18:54.620 Thank you guys, thank you

01:18:57.760 Alright then

01:18:59.380 Try and make the best of the day ahead

01:19:00.660 Carpe diem, seize the day

01:19:01.820 The most valuable thing you will ever have

01:19:03.260 Is your time

01:19:03.700 Far more valuable than any gold

01:19:04.900 Silver, gems

01:19:05.640 Houses or cars you might own

01:19:07.060 you can't take it with you can you you can't take it with you the only thing of true value

01:19:11.020 true true value that you will ever have is your time all right i'm not going to get too preachy

01:19:16.160 about it you do you but just be aware it's finite you've got a finite amount of time on this earth

01:19:21.440 try and make it count if you can all right then until tomorrow morning take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - September 14, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 14th September 2026

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