The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 16th March 2026

00:00:00.300 Morning.

00:00:03.020 You alright?

00:00:04.200 I hope you are.

00:00:05.460 It's Monday, Monday, Monday.

00:00:07.680 Another week, another day, another dollar.

00:00:10.060 Okay, it is Monday the 16th of March in the year of our Lord.

00:00:15.460 2026.

00:00:16.340 You are the glorious band, the chosen few.

00:00:18.160 You've tuned in to Breakfast with Bo.

00:00:22.280 It's only bloody Breakfast with Bo on a Monday morning.

00:00:26.740 Rise and shine.

00:00:27.400 Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey

00:00:30.020 Colloquially known as the Beau Show, of course

00:00:31.940 Or

00:00:33.700 Beau's Breakfast Club

00:00:35.200 Hashtag the real BBC

00:00:36.700 Or the Lotus Eaters Breakfast Club

00:00:38.700 Hashtag the real LBC

00:00:40.260 Either way, it's the best thing to

00:00:42.940 Have on in the morning, isn't it

00:00:44.160 When you're getting ready and having a bit of breakfast

00:00:45.580 Blatantly

00:00:46.580 I mean, come on

00:00:47.920 Are you going to watch Jeremy Kyle?

00:00:50.780 Get a clue

00:00:51.300 Gross

00:00:52.720 Sif 0.75

00:00:55.060 Sif 0.75

00:00:56.720 as always i'm as always i'm joined by my producer little harry how are you good this morning good

00:01:05.660 sir yeah morning i'm all good good great okay so we just dive straight into it let's bow

00:01:12.560 it's on what is the uh corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning what does that

00:01:19.420 cabal of evil fleet street editors want to try and beam directly into your eyeballs and then your

00:01:25.700 brain box. They're talking about help for energy bills. How are you going to re-center

00:01:32.380 me a bit there? That was off-center. You're supposed to have a higher production value

00:01:38.560 here according to Hope Not Hate. There you go. Brilliant. Professional. Help for energy

00:01:46.780 bills and PM resists Trump warship calls. So the mainstream media seems to have chilled

00:01:53.600 out a little bit on iran there's only so long they can keep up that tempo of just

00:01:57.540 constantly going berserk about iran so this morning now headlines are creeping in about

00:02:03.820 other stuff particularly like more like energy and our our economy all right let's have a look

00:02:10.400 at the eye paper oh it was the oscars last night as well so that's a bit of a thing on some of the

00:02:14.540 papers i could not care less about the oscars i could not care less about the oscars i think it's

00:02:21.660 gross

00:02:23.720 people that are already really really rich and famous paying themselves on the back even more 0.74

00:02:28.560 no thanks

00:02:30.700 actors 0.98

00:02:31.880 the ancient world thought of actors as little better than prostitutes 0.81

00:02:37.460 there was something profoundly dirty and wrong 0.66

00:02:41.040 and low

00:02:42.380 about being an actor

00:02:44.140 i think that's true

00:02:46.720 acting really

00:02:48.120 they're the royalty in our culture really actors

00:02:51.660 someone else dreams up a story and writes lines for them and they just read them out

00:02:56.500 good one all right anyway the oscars that happened uh on the front of the eye paper it says help on

00:03:03.800 waiting for uk energy bills as iran and us rule out talks the bit of the blurb because it usually

00:03:08.560 says it all doesn't it starma to unveil measures today including immediate support for those uh

00:03:14.820 using heating oil as minsters uh plan wider scheme for all households with no end in sight

00:03:20.660 in middle east conflict quick thing to say then to talk about you where you live i was born and

00:03:26.580 raised in the southeast of england in the sort of greater london metropolitan area essex and then

00:03:32.480 i've lived in wiltshire for a while and that was it and those places are hooked up to electricity

00:03:38.460 and gas grids so i've never had to use heating oil i've never lived in a place that had like

00:03:47.920 Some sort of

00:03:51.520 You know

00:03:53.320 Like an outhouse toilet

00:03:54.520 But loads of places

00:03:57.280 Even in Britain

00:03:57.820 Even today

00:03:58.480 Do use heating oil

00:04:01.260 Loads

00:04:03.440 Loads of places

00:04:03.940 I think a million

00:04:04.480 A few million people

00:04:05.400 Do use heating oil

00:04:06.600 They haven't got gas

00:04:07.740 Pumped directly into their home

00:04:09.460 So it's actually a big thing

00:04:13.540 For a lot of people

00:04:14.140 And apparently

00:04:17.400 the price of that heating oil

00:04:19.600 has gone through the roof a bit.

00:04:22.300 So, the government's going to help you out, they say.

00:04:28.680 Red Ed Miliband, the energy secretary,

00:04:31.080 is going to fight for you.

00:04:36.320 Royal Navy prepares to send

00:04:38.720 Minehunter drones, drone ships,

00:04:40.920 Minehunter drone ships,

00:04:42.700 to protect shipping and challenge

00:04:44.340 Iranian blockade of the Straits of Hormuz

00:04:46.340 after Trump calls on allies to send in support.

00:04:48.760 Oh, I thought you'd already won the war, though, Donald.

00:04:52.080 Is that what he said?

00:04:52.880 He doesn't need allies when they've already won the war.

00:04:56.580 Oh, no, he does.

00:04:58.420 Now he's calling on China, the UK and France

00:05:01.420 to send elements of their navy.

00:05:05.720 I thought you'd already won.

00:05:06.620 I thought you didn't need us.

00:05:09.260 Ed Miliband says, quote,

00:05:10.640 It is very important...

00:05:11.820 I saw this interview on the morning shows yesterday.

00:05:14.920 He said,

00:05:15.180 it is very important that we get the straight opened

00:05:17.880 a well done, great insight

00:05:18.900 after Navy places order for 20 uncrewed boats

00:05:24.680 drone boats

00:05:25.900 amid warnings that UK needs to quote

00:05:29.080 move rapidly quote into new technology

00:05:31.620 again an incredible insight

00:05:33.840 you need to be a professional politician

00:05:35.500 for half a lifetime before you come to those conclusions

00:05:38.340 British shoppers face rising prices on fresh food

00:05:44.240 Including grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers

00:05:46.640 Due to the ongoing conflict

00:05:48.160 Cutting supply routes

00:05:49.320 And rising haulage costs

00:05:53.080 Okay, there you go

00:05:55.840 Yeah, fresh fruit and veg

00:05:57.280 For a long time I've always thought that was funny

00:06:00.380 Not funny, haha, at all

00:06:01.820 The further thing from funny, haha

00:06:02.920 Funny, odd

00:06:04.120 Funny, interesting

00:06:04.840 That you can go to a supermarket

00:06:08.220 In Britain

00:06:09.360 You know, any of them

00:06:11.160 Tesco, Sainsbury's

00:06:13.960 Asda, Waitrose, Iceland, whatever.

00:06:18.880 And you can just buy fresh fruit and veg,

00:06:21.900 which must have been grown on the other side of the world.

00:06:25.740 Right, in the middle of winter,

00:06:27.420 you can go into Tesco's and buy strawberries.

00:06:30.160 Right.

00:06:32.000 So they must have been flown from somewhere in the southern hemisphere.

00:06:34.780 Right, they must have been.

00:06:36.540 And yet they're still...

00:06:38.720 affordable.

00:06:41.720 A remarkable feat.

00:06:43.960 that that's possible at all

00:06:47.960 bear that in mind, there's little things in the world that they just pass you by right

00:06:51.420 if you don't give them a second thought you don't think anything of it

00:06:54.140 but actually it represents sort of quite an incredible thing

00:06:58.200 you know in the pre-modern age

00:07:00.460 the idea of eating strawberries in the winter is just completely unthinkable

00:07:04.880 completely and utterly unthinkable

00:07:07.420 it just could not, would not happen

00:07:08.620 you get bananas that are essentially fresh

00:07:12.140 in the middle of winter in north-western Europe.

00:07:17.880 Crazy.

00:07:18.780 Anyway, the price of cucumbers and grapes and peppers

00:07:22.780 is a bit more expensive now.

00:07:27.980 Thanks, Bidenomics.

00:07:31.200 We're still in the wake of Mr Biden's inflationary era, aren't we, really?

00:07:38.140 It always annoys me when the news and economies say,

00:07:40.720 Oh, inflation's down to 3, 3.5%, 2.5%.

00:07:43.980 That's still really bad.

00:07:46.500 Well, on top of many, many years of having it way higher, like 7% or whatever it was.

00:07:51.680 What did it get up to? 7% or 9% or something, was it?

00:07:54.660 Anyway.

00:07:56.480 Things are getting more and more expensive still, just more slowly than they were.

00:08:00.500 Great. Great.

00:08:04.540 You go and buy food now, it's insane.

00:08:06.380 just go to like again like a Sainsbury's or Tesco's just do a little shop get a couple of

00:08:14.000 days worth of food 50 quid all right I haven't really bought anything there's no luxury items

00:08:19.160 here if I was very poor well I've been swimming in money but you know got enough um but if I was

00:08:33.340 poor like actually counting every single pound i'd be properly worrying i'd be really really worried

00:08:41.140 i was in debt say and i was trying to pay off my debt as quickly as possible

00:08:46.860 anyway my heart goes out to people that are out there that are struggling with money like really

00:08:54.700 struggling most of us are struggling one way or another right to various degrees but i mean

00:08:59.640 really struggling so i know what that's like i've been there a couple of times in my life

00:09:03.140 When not only are you counting the pounds

00:09:06.980 You haven't got anywhere near enough

00:09:08.460 You're getting more and more in debt all the time

00:09:11.340 Just to keep your head about this horrible feeling

00:09:13.380 It's a horrible thing

00:09:14.160 Alright, the Independent

00:09:17.440 Gina Miller, Westminster's finally woken up to the student loan scandal

00:09:23.140 This is how to make it fair

00:09:25.220 Okay, she's telling us how to

00:09:26.640 The student loan thing

00:09:28.460 Talks about it a bit, I think, on Friday

00:09:31.560 Or was it Thursday last week?

00:09:32.740 So, okay

00:09:34.000 There's a special report about the war in the Lebanon

00:09:37.500 How Israel is

00:09:38.600 Pounding the Lebanon 1.00

00:09:41.800 Southern Lebanon

00:09:45.240 But, um

00:09:47.560 They want to get rid of Hezbollah 1.00

00:09:51.320 And, uh, I don't blame them

00:09:53.460 I don't really want any part of it one way or another

00:09:55.760 Not that we have got any part of it one way or another

00:09:57.500 But

00:09:57.780 It's not that I've got any particular love for Bibi's government 0.96

00:10:01.920 But Hezbollah are insane 1.00

00:10:04.860 Like insane 0.98

00:10:06.740 Not just what they do

00:10:08.240 Their actual ideology

00:10:09.400 Alright

00:10:16.580 That's not great is it

00:10:18.720 On both sides

00:10:19.980 The headline is

00:10:21.160 Star much promise help for homes

00:10:22.940 Hit by soaring heating bills

00:10:24.520 PM says government will act to protect working people

00:10:27.320 From oil crisis

00:10:28.320 You haven't got much money though

00:10:30.120 It's not like the British government is just swimming in money

00:10:34.660 Is it? Our economy is pretty much flat

00:10:39.360 Like grows like 0.1% a quarter or something

00:10:43.640 Like hardly anything

00:10:44.500 Any little tiny thing could tip us into a recession

00:10:48.000 It's like barely growing

00:10:50.980 Basically isn't growing

00:10:52.380 Importantly net hundreds of thousands of more people every single year

00:10:57.100 That need housing

00:10:58.040 and benefits etc etc no cap on that certainly no talk of remigration that would be sort of

00:11:06.080 Rupert Lowe racism that would be that would be dog whistle to neo-nazis if you were to talk about

00:11:12.640 such a thing wouldn't it so definitely not forced mass remigration that's evil and nazi

00:11:19.960 what about just then a cap on migration no

00:11:22.920 Nope, the Stella Creases of this world

00:11:26.460 The Ed Davies of this world

00:11:27.860 The Lisa Nandies of this world

00:11:29.240 Nope, nope, you can't have a cap on it, any sort of cap

00:11:31.600 No, you must just accept

00:11:33.660 You must just crowbar in, cram in

00:11:35.820 Hundreds of thousands of new people every single year

00:11:38.000 Year on year

00:11:38.460 Oh

00:11:39.540 Oh, okay

00:11:42.220 That's not insane

00:11:47.020 Even reform

00:11:51.900 like net zero migration

00:11:53.780 one in one out

00:11:55.300 for everyone we deport 0.90

00:11:56.540 we'll let one more in

00:11:57.420 no

00:11:58.820 no

00:11:59.500 that's terrible

00:12:00.600 even if you deport

00:12:03.200 all the illegals

00:12:03.920 but still do net zero

00:12:05.320 one in one out

00:12:06.040 sort of

00:12:06.400 no no no no no

00:12:07.400 millions must go

00:12:09.440 millions

00:12:10.160 since 1997

00:12:11.440 millions of people

00:12:12.580 have come here

00:12:13.180 which they shouldn't have

00:12:14.840 and they need to be deported 0.52

00:12:15.900 well they've got you

00:12:18.020 they've got citizenship now

00:12:19.440 well we'll send that then

00:12:20.700 You can't deport people who've got UK passports, we'll strip them of the passport then. 1.00

00:12:27.700 Ask Douglas Carlswell about this stuff. 0.95

00:12:29.700 It's totally doable, just need a government with a pair of balls. 1.00

00:12:37.700 You can't deport people who've got a passport. 0.83

00:12:41.700 No, we won't deport people who've got passports.

00:12:44.700 We'll take those passports away first.

00:12:47.700 Don't want to break up families either, do we? Don't want to break up families.

00:12:51.380 The whole family group can go.

00:12:55.140 Shan't break up families, that would be wrong.

00:12:58.740 The times, the venerable times,

00:13:01.300 two dead and 11 seriously ill after a university meningitis outbreak.

00:13:05.160 And this is a story all over the news today.

00:13:07.120 In Kent, University of Canterbury, I believe, certainly in Kent,

00:13:12.860 there's a meningitis outbreak and like 30 people are ill and two died.

00:13:17.700 I'm not going to make fun of that anyway

00:13:21.500 that's bad isn't it

00:13:23.380 I think

00:13:25.240 dying of meningitis is pretty

00:13:27.400 horrific as well

00:13:29.020 okay 0.71

00:13:31.380 the Oscars, there's this Buckley woman 0.95

00:13:33.840 what's her name, Jessie Buckley is it?

00:13:35.980 I don't know, yeah Jessie Buckley

00:13:37.300 she's in some film I haven't seen

00:13:39.380 I've got no intention of seeing

00:13:40.660 she's the hottest thing now apparently 1.00

00:13:43.340 I've got to pay attention to what she

00:13:45.560 does and says and thinks

00:13:47.640 Actors

00:13:50.620 Actors, give me a break

00:13:53.640 Okay weirdo, stand on this spot

00:14:01.420 And read the line someone else has given you to read out

00:14:03.620 Well done, oh yeah, well done

00:14:05.440 Oh that was brilliant, have a golden statue

00:14:07.480 Actors, gross 0.99

00:14:12.680 PM resists Trump's call for warships in straight

00:14:16.340 Iran says it will decide who uses shipping lane

00:14:19.380 Okay, so this is probably like the biggest proper story

00:14:22.240 It's all about the Straits of Hormuz

00:14:24.640 And the closing of it

00:14:27.400 So I would have thought

00:14:29.560 With the amount of advanced firepower

00:14:31.820 That the United States and Israel have got at their disposal 0.99

00:14:34.300 And two weeks or more

00:14:37.400 Sorry, more

00:14:38.080 To do all this stuff

00:14:40.180 They would be able to keep the Straits open

00:14:44.440 like hasn't the united states want don't they want to deploy a big chunk of their

00:14:50.480 one of their many fleets to keep the straits open well they're not doing it yet

00:14:55.760 mainly because they can't guarantee that their own ships won't get hit by

00:15:00.080 iranian missiles and drones so iran is successfully blockading the straits of hormuz

00:15:07.080 Remarkably

00:15:09.600 I bet Hegseth

00:15:10.820 And the planners at the Pentagon

00:15:14.000 Are very annoyed by that

00:15:18.280 By their inability thus far

00:15:20.200 To just force the straits open

00:15:23.180 To just physically prevent Iran from doing that 0.98

00:15:26.900 Well

00:15:27.860 Here we are

00:15:31.640 Also over the weekend

00:15:33.600 Which isn't in the news much

00:15:34.760 But did happen

00:15:35.500 Trump and the Pentagon and Hegseth

00:15:39.940 Bombed that Karg Island 1.00

00:15:42.440 Remember we talked about it last week

00:15:44.040 Karg Island is right at the top of the Gulf

00:15:46.900 Near-ish

00:15:48.960 Kuwait, right at the top

00:15:50.100 Just off the coast of Iran

00:15:51.260 Where most of, is it 80 or 90%

00:15:55.280 Of all of Iran's oil exports

00:15:57.060 Go out from there

00:15:57.880 Because it's a deep water harbour thing

00:15:59.980 You can get a big tanker alongside

00:16:02.240 Karg Island

00:16:04.520 some little ironies 0.73

00:16:05.200 like half the size of Manhattan

00:16:06.240 and the Americans

00:16:08.480 carpet bombed it

00:16:10.540 not quite carpet bombed it

00:16:11.740 but

00:16:11.960 blew up everything

00:16:13.280 of importance there

00:16:14.160 apparently

00:16:14.540 over the weekend

00:16:15.680 was it on Saturday

00:16:18.040 or was it on Friday day

00:16:19.300 anyway

00:16:20.080 that's happened

00:16:20.880 so

00:16:21.680 the thinking is

00:16:23.780 like from the American side

00:16:25.600 I imagine 0.56

00:16:26.020 oh if Iran's going to screw 0.99

00:16:27.680 with the oil infrastructure

00:16:29.180 of everyone else

00:16:30.260 Saudi

00:16:31.080 UAE

00:16:32.900 Bahrain

00:16:33.300 Qatar

00:16:33.680 UAE

00:16:34.780 Well, we'll screw with your oil producing ability then as well. 0.93

00:16:38.640 How do you like us now?

00:16:39.680 Okay, it's a tit for tat, isn't it?

00:16:43.860 There you go.

00:16:45.960 Little headline here.

00:16:47.200 Met chief, Metropolitan Police, London police, British police chief,

00:16:52.060 in a US visit for Mandelson documents.

00:16:55.340 So he's gone to America to see if they can...

00:16:57.280 The British police have gone to America to see if they can get more evidence

00:17:00.520 to bang Mandy up. 1.00

00:17:02.640 whether we'll actually get custodial sentences, we don't know

00:17:05.880 the Telegraph, the Daily Toreograph, is that some other actress

00:17:12.000 yep, some other actress, Starman refusing to send world ships to Straits 0.99

00:17:16.300 yes, so Trump has asked now

00:17:19.600 even though I thought he didn't need us, particularly for China

00:17:23.940 France and the UK to send ships to the Gulf and the Straits

00:17:27.980 And at the moment

00:17:33.340 Starmer's sort of saying

00:17:35.900 No thanks

00:17:37.600 I don't entirely blame him

00:17:44.540 I've said this all the way along

00:17:45.920 Haven't I?

00:17:47.420 It's been my position all the way along

00:17:48.840 Kind of agreeing with Starmer

00:17:51.940 I would have done things a little bit differently

00:17:53.720 If I'd been Prime Minister

00:17:55.360 i probably would have let them use cyprus and chagos straight away but beyond that i would

00:18:03.000 have done largely largely what starman's done try and distance himself from it basically

00:18:08.880 definitely not send loads and loads of raf fighters all over the place and stuff let them 1.00

00:18:14.640 do their thing sort of just try and back away from it as much as possible um try and avoid

00:18:21.180 avoid the accusation of actively hampering them but beyond that don't really do anything so yeah

00:18:27.240 this is your war is this is bibi and donald's war it's not our war is it as bad as iran is 0.54

00:18:35.140 again i've said it all along as well haven't i if i could just press a button and the iranian

00:18:40.740 regime was removed and the people of persia got a decent government and civil society then i would

00:18:46.420 I would mash that button

00:18:47.580 Of course I would

00:18:48.480 But this

00:18:50.920 This isn't our war is it

00:18:54.280 Do I believe them

00:18:58.080 That Iran was 0.99

00:18:59.760 Weeks away from getting a nuke

00:19:02.380 That was one of the things I see Trump say I think last weekend

00:19:04.400 I think he said it since as well

00:19:05.860 That they were weeks away

00:19:07.820 From getting a nuke

00:19:10.160 That's funny I thought Midnight Hammer

00:19:12.000 Completely obliterated their ability

00:19:13.900 To do something like that

00:19:16.180 both those things can't be true

00:19:18.680 how could it be that Midnight Hammer

00:19:20.600 obliterated their ability to

00:19:22.580 make nukes

00:19:23.460 and they were a few weeks away from it

00:19:25.820 which one is it though, anyway

00:19:27.840 alright

00:19:36.440 EU threat to sink Brexit deal

00:19:38.420 over tuition fees, that's the other thing

00:19:39.900 the Remainers, the Ramoners 0.99

00:19:42.400 and the pro

00:19:44.420 rejoin europe people that's that's their latest sort of wedge they're trying to get in there

00:19:51.240 it's about tuition fees

00:19:52.440 nhs accused of throwing patients off waiting lists to hit targets yeah yeah is that news to

00:20:00.980 is that news to hardly anyone's ever used the the nhs if you're on some sort of waiting list

00:20:06.820 they'll do anything to get you off the waiting list short of seeing you anything it's like an

00:20:12.300 insurance company will do anything not to pay out find any reason any little detail any tiny caveat

00:20:17.660 uh this tiny little thing it means we can't pay out it's like the next uh this tiny little thing

00:20:25.000 means you're not on the list anymore yeah yeah of course that's what they do yeah yeah

00:20:29.840 tiny little story there cuban protesters start anti-communist blaze stuff's gonna go down in

00:20:37.340 Cuba I get I bet I bet you that I bet I bet you that I'm gonna start running a book no I'm not

00:20:45.140 of course not but um I reckon I'd put 200 quid on it that that's me saying I'm confident

00:20:54.140 I bet you in a year or so

00:21:01.440 Something like a year

00:21:07.800 Maybe less

00:21:08.780 The United States will do something in Cuba 0.78

00:21:12.500 Okay, The Guardian

00:21:15.300 Oh god, I'm lucky I've got an empty stomach 0.94

00:21:24.140 the Guardian so gross so gross Britain could send mine-sweeping drones drone

00:21:33.180 ships to help clear a vital oil route yeah because there's one there's two

00:21:39.380 things really aren't there there's one there's the threat from the skies from Iran 0.73

00:21:42.260 through the Straits of Hormones I'm talking about are you try and sail your

00:21:45.320 oil tanker through there or your frigate whatever it is it might get hit by a

00:21:51.580 missile or a drone from the skies. The other thing is sea mines. Hopefully the

00:21:57.500 Iranians have sort of peppered the area with sea mines. Now there are mine 1.00

00:22:10.340 clearing ships that's always been a thing. Well I say always. You know since

00:22:18.040 there's been sea mines there's been sort of countermeasures um something will have to be

00:22:23.740 done won't it if and if and when israel and the united states win true air superiority over the

00:22:30.280 straits completely clear there's like zero worry of any drones or missiles coming in from the

00:22:35.840 iranian side then some sort of clear-up effort will be have to be done won't it through that 0.74

00:22:41.560 that'll be sort of big thing whether that's sort of relatively straightforward and easy and just

00:22:46.020 takes a few days or that's something a process that lasts months or years i don't know

00:22:52.980 okay number 10 fears agreeing to u.s demand for warship could escalate crisis yeah i feel like

00:23:05.800 that's uh that's in the rearview mirror now it's it's it has escalated hasn't it

00:23:10.980 Iran is still just attacking the UAE and all over the place 1.00

00:23:16.380 Trump bombing Cargill Island flat over the weekend

00:23:22.880 It has escalated

00:23:25.000 So

00:23:25.680 Okay, that's number 10's calculation

00:23:30.900 I mean, Keir Starmer

00:23:33.100 Sorry, Sir Queer Starling 1.00

00:23:34.900 Real name Sir Queer Starling 0.68

00:23:36.440 He's a very timid man, isn't he?

00:23:40.980 He's quite a timid politician.

00:23:45.800 He's not like sort of a bellicose war leader, is he?

00:23:49.940 Not that that's what I particularly want in this situation.

00:23:53.960 Made it clear what I think, but he's sort of very timid, it seems to me.

00:24:00.340 Scared of his own power, almost.

00:24:06.040 EU reset threatened by a student fee standoff.

00:24:09.020 Yeah, that's the thing they're trying to make out.

00:24:10.460 is a big problem the financial times talks with iran yield results india says

00:24:16.140 so they're going with an angle here about india that apparently india have had talks with iran to

00:24:23.680 sort of let their tankers through the straits of hormuz if nothing else and iran seems to have

00:24:31.000 agreed to it on some level so the small amount of tankers that are getting through

00:24:35.880 uh like in indian ones it says negotiations secure safe passage for two gas tankers i believe

00:24:43.560 indian ones right so the iranians and the indians doing deals i wonder what the donald thinks about

00:24:55.280 that or what bibby thinks about that diplomacy seen as best way to open hormuz strait trump

00:25:02.960 calls on China, UK and France to send

00:25:04.940 warships, thought you'd already won 0.59

00:25:06.500 Tehran rebuffs US claims

00:25:09.080 it wants to pursue

00:25:10.820 ceasefire

00:25:11.400 so there was some talk over the weekend

00:25:14.960 of that America and Iran 0.66

00:25:17.120 are going to do a deal and both

00:25:19.120 sides came out and said no no

00:25:20.440 both said no no

00:25:22.460 not yet

00:25:23.980 both sides think

00:25:26.960 they're going to quote unquote

00:25:28.740 win don't they, the Donald

00:25:30.780 in the classic military political sense of a win,

00:25:34.580 and the Iranians in the sense that

00:25:36.040 they just don't get completely destroyed and annihilated,

00:25:40.020 that's a win for them.

00:25:41.880 And it sort of is, isn't it?

00:25:42.700 A strategic win.

00:25:44.180 Even if their country is in rubble,

00:25:46.400 completely in rubble,

00:25:47.940 but the regime survives,

00:25:51.860 they will claim that as a win.

00:25:53.940 And on the grandest strategic level, it is, isn't it?

00:25:56.600 Even if they then now rule a country of rubble

00:26:01.760 Well it's God's will as far as they're concerned isn't it in their world view

00:26:05.780 Oh that was God's will

00:26:06.980 That's how it's got to be, that's how it should be

00:26:10.420 So

00:26:10.760 Mad isn't it?

00:26:14.280 Mad

00:26:14.580 Okay

00:26:15.880 Something about Peter Till being into the Antichrist

00:26:19.740 Yeah

00:26:20.280 Peter Till

00:26:22.340 He's going to do a lecture in Rome about the Antichrist

00:26:26.820 Bruh

00:26:31.700 Okay

00:26:34.180 The Metro

00:26:35.460 The revolting Metro

00:26:38.340 Whoa

00:26:39.700 The Metro

00:26:43.820 Iran denies peace plea as oil crisis grows

00:26:46.580 Trump knows he's in trouble

00:26:51.400 Trump's in trouble and he knows it

00:26:53.700 Says John Bolton

00:26:56.320 So alright

00:26:58.060 Take that with a pinch of salt

00:26:59.380 Take that with a tablespoon heaped up with salt

00:27:02.420 John Bolton

00:27:05.120 I hate John Bolton 0.96

00:27:06.400 I hate John Bolton 0.85

00:27:08.300 Anyone who doesn't know 0.69

00:27:10.480 Harry do you know who John Bolton is?

00:27:13.480 I don't know

00:27:14.520 Okay so for any zoomers out there 1.00

00:27:16.000 Anyone who's young

00:27:16.580 This man there

00:27:18.840 With that white moustache

00:27:20.440 With the white soup strainer

00:27:21.840 That's a man called John Bolton 1.00

00:27:24.020 He is a total scumbag 1.00

00:27:26.560 He's been around 1.00

00:27:28.760 He's been around for yonks

00:27:29.920 Ages

00:27:31.840 He's been ambassador to the UN

00:27:33.520 All sorts of stuff

00:27:34.280 Back in the Trump 2 days

00:27:36.340 George W days

00:27:37.540 The Iraq war days 0.83

00:27:38.920 A total, total hulk

00:27:40.320 On top of everything 1.00

00:27:43.160 Just a dick 1.00

00:27:44.080 Just a dick 1.00

00:27:45.480 Anyway 1.00

00:27:46.000 In Trump's first term

00:27:47.680 He picked him

00:27:48.660 To be in his government

00:27:49.600 National Security Advisor or something rather

00:27:52.600 Something very senior

00:27:53.580 Because he was an old head, right

00:27:55.700 He's a known entity

00:27:56.900 He's sort of a named entity

00:28:00.380 But within a couple of years

00:28:02.520 They fell out because they've both got massive egos

00:28:05.180 Like John Bolton thinks he knows everything

00:28:09.620 He thinks he knows how the world works

00:28:11.740 And how all policy should be at all times

00:28:13.860 And there's only so long

00:28:17.920 Trump's going to put up with someone like that in his all bit

00:28:20.740 so anyway they fell out eventually

00:28:22.360 badly and now they just

00:28:24.540 sling mud at each other

00:28:26.320 rhetorically, constantly

00:28:28.640 in fact John Bolton might go to prison

00:28:31.020 for the rest of his life

00:28:31.740 if and when that story

00:28:34.980 comes up again, well when that story comes up again

00:28:36.780 I'll be covering it

00:28:37.540 he wrote a book

00:28:39.300 in the interim Biden years I believe

00:28:42.280 anyway, he wrote a book

00:28:43.400 there's some suggestion that, well the allegations are

00:28:46.780 That he released sensitive information in that

00:28:51.880 State secrets on some level in that book

00:28:53.820 And he's been indicted

00:28:56.760 He was arrested and indicted and questioned

00:28:58.940 And he's going to have a trial

00:29:01.380 He's going to trial as I understand

00:29:03.720 Just like Comey 0.99

00:29:05.580 And if he's found guilty

00:29:09.000 It's possible

00:29:10.480 He's sentenced like 20, 30 years or something

00:29:13.940 i suspect he'll either be found innocent or even if he's found guilty they'll give him a slap on

00:29:19.040 the wrist but it's possible he'll go to prison for the rest of his life because he's not young

00:29:23.460 is he anyway john bolton who hates trump hates his guts will take every opportunity every opportunity 0.61

00:29:31.300 to throw any shade at trump or trump's administration that's who john bolton is now

00:29:36.580 that's the 2026 version of john john bolton he says trump's in trouble and he knows it all right

00:29:44.100 john yeah all right john prez failed to explain why he launched iran war well he didn't

00:29:51.180 i'm not getting this angle from the mainstream media trump hasn't made the argument well he did

00:29:56.380 the arguments are well known have been well known for 40 years

00:30:00.560 the idea that nobody knows why it happened yeah we do we do they say it over and over and over

00:30:08.020 again how many times does rubio kegsson trump have to say it he failed to explain why he

00:30:13.820 launched iran war and now it's almost too late says john bolton all right bro all right pipe

00:30:20.680 down now worry about your trial john i'd worry about that the daily mail pure globalist slot

00:30:28.600 pretending it's not

00:30:29.500 Jessie Buckley laughing her head off there 1.00

00:30:32.320 two dead in university meningitis

00:30:36.680 meningitis outbreak alright okay we know about that we've heard about that

00:30:40.840 Britney Spears some saying Britney Spears should be

00:30:43.840 what's that thing a conservatorship when someone looks after her 0.99

00:30:48.620 like a parent but she's not legally allowed to look after 0.99

00:30:52.480 herself and her own estate people are saying

00:30:56.460 That should happen again to Brittany 1.00

00:30:58.160 Because for her own good

00:30:59.620 Remember a story like a week ago or so

00:31:02.420 Where she was arrested 0.86

00:31:04.360 For

00:31:05.220 Well potential DUI

00:31:08.700 It wasn't clear whether she was drunk

00:31:11.360 And or under the influence of drugs

00:31:13.100 But she was certainly weaving all over the road 1.00

00:31:15.220 Without taillights

00:31:17.020 Brittany

00:31:20.420 Alright

00:31:20.900 It was Mother's Day yesterday

00:31:22.740 There you go

00:31:23.740 There's Wills and his late mother

00:31:26.060 The Princess Diana

00:31:27.820 Lady

00:31:30.240 The Lady Diana Princess of Wales

00:31:34.900 NHS Dementia Care Shock

00:31:37.980 Crisis of our age

00:31:40.080 Reports say hospitals routinely

00:31:42.560 Restrain patients and sedate them

00:31:44.420 Quote

00:31:46.700 Containment culture

00:31:47.840 Reduces the chances of people ever going home

00:31:51.360 One of my aims in life now

00:31:56.440 And it should probably be yours if you're in Britain 1.00

00:31:58.860 Is to earn enough money during your life

00:32:03.420 So that if you get dementia when you're old

00:32:07.500 You can afford to not be cared for by the NHS in any capacity

00:32:14.000 Hopefully if you've got children or grandchildren

00:32:16.540 They can help in some way

00:32:17.920 But if they can't or won't

00:32:21.360 for whatever reason enough money to go into some sort of half-decent private

00:32:27.280 like care home

00:32:30.320 because the NHS will treat you like filth

00:32:35.840 be terrible rather jump off a building 1.00

00:32:39.360 Let some Nigerian nurse just abuse you and beat you up and stuff 1.00

00:32:51.320 Sedate you 1.00

00:32:52.360 Keep you prisoner in various ways

00:32:55.540 No, no, no, no, I'm not having that

00:32:57.240 No, I'll jump off the roof first

00:32:58.680 The Daily Star

00:33:01.920 The Road to Peace

00:33:04.360 Jezza 0.89

00:33:04.960 That's Jeremy Clarkson

00:33:06.800 make me iran's supreme leader the ayatollah clarkson can you imagine it of course it's

00:33:15.480 tongue-in-cheek surely it's tongue-in-cheek i haven't seen the actual clip of jezza saying this

00:33:21.580 or where he wrote it or anything but i did see this front page like an hour and a half ago whatever

00:33:27.160 jezza make me iran's supreme leader probably wouldn't do a bad job he probably managed their 0.93

00:33:33.240 well he would

00:33:34.100 manage their country

00:33:35.420 better than they are

00:33:36.420 wouldn't he

00:33:37.140 anyway

00:33:38.920 it must be tongue in cheek

00:33:39.840 it must be a joke

00:33:40.680 Jeremy Clarkson

00:33:44.220 I wonder how his world view

00:33:48.040 would go down

00:33:48.600 with sort of

00:33:49.100 the sheer faithful

00:33:50.080 whether Jezza 0.93

00:33:53.660 would have the

00:33:54.700 the iron will

00:33:56.860 to clamp down

00:33:59.180 on sheer extremism

00:34:01.800 after he became

00:34:02.980 The supreme leader

00:34:04.580 Doubt it actually

00:34:08.560 Doubt it

00:34:10.720 There's a thing isn't there

00:34:12.500 That you have to be

00:34:16.100 To be a leader

00:34:17.360 On some level you have to 0.97

00:34:21.280 Be prepared to kill loads of people 0.99

00:34:24.660 It's kind of as simple as that 0.99

00:34:27.360 One of my history

00:34:30.760 Heroes

00:34:32.100 dan carlin his politics are pretty lefty but in terms of history themed content he's great

00:34:40.020 i was actually lucky enough to do an interview with him once on my channel history bro

00:34:45.040 you oh what you want an hour and a half or more of me chatting to dan carling the history pod

00:34:52.980 father oh yeah that exists oh yeah go over here to history bro there's no paywall

00:34:58.060 me chatting to the Dan Carlin

00:35:01.480 for ages

00:35:02.000 anyway

00:35:03.040 he once said something

00:35:04.540 that's very very true

00:35:05.300 if you want to be

00:35:06.280 if you want to go down in history

00:35:07.520 as a great man

00:35:08.580 you know

00:35:09.460 in inverted commas great man

00:35:10.460 Alexander

00:35:11.200 Caesar

00:35:12.540 Napoleon

00:35:13.780 Washington

00:35:14.960 Lincoln

00:35:17.040 Churchill

00:35:18.340 you've got to be prepared

00:35:21.960 to pull the trigger

00:35:23.080 on something that might get

00:35:24.700 hundreds of thousands

00:35:26.060 tens of thousands

00:35:26.860 hundreds of thousands

00:35:27.300 Millions of people killed

00:35:28.780 If you're not prepared to do that

00:35:31.060 If you haven't got the will, the guts

00:35:32.820 To do that

00:35:34.200 Then you'll never go down in the history

00:35:36.700 As one of those people

00:35:37.960 It's the harsh reality of it

00:35:40.560 Could Jeremy Clarkson

00:35:42.800 As supreme leader of Iran

00:35:44.540 Would he have 0.99

00:35:46.580 The testicular

00:35:48.960 Fortitude 0.99

00:35:49.720 To order the killing 0.98

00:35:53.100 Of loads of his 0.98

00:35:54.240 Implacable enemies

00:35:56.140 probably not

00:36:02.360 probably best just stick to like

00:36:04.760 reviewing the new Lambo

00:36:06.080 alright the sun

00:36:08.600 the sun

00:36:10.900 doesn't go with

00:36:12.680 the war in Iran

00:36:14.520 or even the Oscars particularly

00:36:16.300 although there is obviously a picture of

00:36:17.840 that Jessie Bird

00:36:19.080 they go with

00:36:21.860 Brooklyn Beckham and David Beckham

00:36:24.300 and Posh Spice again 0.55

00:36:25.620 They're going with that this morning

00:36:26.840 Beckham Bombshell

00:36:28.100 Mother of all insults

00:36:30.320 Brooklyn snubs posh on Mother's Day

00:36:33.100 But praises mother-in-law

00:36:34.600 Oof

00:36:35.040 Oof

00:36:36.300 But that's not

00:36:38.000 That's the front page really

00:36:39.880 On Monday the 16th of March

00:36:42.860 Really?

00:36:44.360 Alright

00:36:44.640 The Daily Express

00:36:46.520 It's a good paper

00:36:50.140 Isn't it?

00:36:52.600 Is it?

00:36:53.200 A good paper?

00:36:54.000 the express

00:36:55.880 for anyone who doesn't know

00:37:00.420 when I say that every day

00:37:02.020 it's a good

00:37:02.480 that's an Alan Partridge reference

00:37:04.040 I imagine a lot of people

00:37:05.580 watching this get that

00:37:06.480 some might not

00:37:08.300 some may never have seen

00:37:09.280 Alan Partridge

00:37:09.920 and Partridge is obviously

00:37:11.320 sort of a parody

00:37:12.540 character type person

00:37:13.740 like in many ways 1.00

00:37:16.300 a complete dick 1.00

00:37:17.440 in many ways 1.00

00:37:18.160 I love Partridge by the way

00:37:19.260 I wouldn't be

00:37:19.900 think Partridge is brilliant

00:37:22.040 Partridge is the sort of person

00:37:24.700 That would think the Daily Express actually

00:37:26.600 Is a good paper, it's not a good paper is it

00:37:28.460 It's like the mail

00:37:30.420 It's pure slop

00:37:32.440 Globalist, leftist

00:37:34.720 Slop essentially, and every now and again

00:37:36.820 Will throw out a tiny bit of red meat

00:37:38.460 To make you think they're based, or that they're

00:37:40.780 Nativist or patriotic in some sort of way

00:37:42.920 No, no, no, they're completely captured

00:37:44.860 Completely captured

00:37:46.400 Okay, this story, something else entirely

00:37:51.020 Mum inspired by brave adopted son

00:37:53.640 Calls on ministers to close

00:37:55.600 Massive loophole

00:37:56.840 The massive loophole being

00:37:57.960 That violent thugs will be kept

00:37:59.940 Off child abuse register

00:38:01.380 So it's just a story where there's a child abuse register

00:38:06.620 And certain types of

00:38:08.260 Violent criminals won't be included

00:38:10.860 On it

00:38:11.420 And one particular mum

00:38:13.000 You know

00:38:15.840 Has got a problem with that

00:38:17.360 And she's right to of course

00:38:19.500 No problem but

00:38:20.480 you know she's not wrong i mean but um that's the front page is it all right all right the express

00:38:29.200 a ridiculous rag all right let's have a look at our poll what did we do for our poll harry

00:38:35.600 bring it up on my screen engage okay we asked you today over a thousand votes 0.93

00:38:43.940 should Jeremy Clarkson be the supreme leader of Iran

00:38:47.680 77% of you say yes

00:38:51.100 16% say no

00:38:53.620 and 7% say not sure

00:38:55.600 so a resounding win

00:38:59.280 for Jez

00:39:00.140 for Jezza 0.91

00:39:00.840 for JC

00:39:03.080 what would JC do

00:39:07.720 77% of you

00:39:10.140 with well over 1000 votes

00:39:12.360 So you would like to see Mr Clarkson

00:39:15.860 As the supreme leader of Iran

00:39:19.360 Well he would do a better job wouldn't he

00:39:21.740 Than those mullahs 1.00

00:39:22.900 That are obviously running it into the ground

00:39:25.100 Alright let's have a look at the

00:39:27.240 Let's have a look at the

00:39:29.200 Websites

00:39:30.440 The BBC is just all Oscars

00:39:33.780 Look is it me

00:39:38.880 Is it me or is something like this

00:39:42.320 gross

00:39:44.000 is it me

00:39:45.320 back patting

00:39:51.520 by A-listers and millionaires

00:39:54.100 giving themselves

00:39:55.840 an awards day

00:39:57.300 and like

00:39:58.800 is it not enough

00:40:00.800 that you're sort of culturally

00:40:02.800 some sort of de facto royalty

00:40:06.040 and extremely

00:40:08.020 extremely rich

00:40:09.100 famous throughout the world

00:40:10.940 That's not enough, you need another day

00:40:13.340 You need another set of

00:40:15.740 Ego boosting

00:40:19.420 If I was an actor

00:40:24.660 I'd be one of those actors that just refuse to attend these things

00:40:29.300 Sometimes they do, right?

00:40:31.920 Sometimes they're just not interested in it

00:40:33.780 Alright, so a film called One Battle After Another, is that it?

00:40:39.020 that won six Oscars, including Best Picture.

00:40:41.640 Great.

00:40:42.220 Who cares?

00:40:42.720 I don't care.

00:40:43.300 I don't care.

00:40:44.660 I really, really couldn't care less.

00:40:46.980 Look at these people.

00:40:47.800 Look.

00:40:51.840 I'm supposed to care about these people, am I?

00:40:56.080 Best Animated Film, K-Pop Demon Hunters.

00:40:59.180 one oscar was jointly won by two different films okay okay i'm just moving on i'm just moving on

00:41:12.420 i i can't i can't even

00:41:14.540 can i even no i can't even again oscars they really care about the oscars 0.71

00:41:22.020 gross 0.79

00:41:25.180 get out of my face 0.99

00:41:27.200 alright

00:41:28.340 yeah the meningitis thing

00:41:30.960 the outbreak

00:41:31.480 here's a story

00:41:33.360 it's in the news a bit

00:41:34.060 the British news

00:41:34.780 mother charged with murder

00:41:36.480 after newborn baby

00:41:37.940 dies in fall from building

00:41:39.640 43 year old woman

00:41:44.380 has been charged with murder

00:41:46.080 after a baby fell to its death

00:41:49.020 Zahira Bajayone

00:41:53.900 Okay

00:41:54.500 Okay

00:41:55.720 Fine

00:41:57.020 Just remember

00:42:01.960 A multicultural, multi-ethnic Britain

00:42:04.700 Is the best type of Britain

00:42:05.820 Diversity is a strength

00:42:08.020 Our greatest strength actually

00:42:09.300 Don't question that dogma

00:42:12.880 Otherwise

00:42:13.900 You're basically a Nazi 0.89

00:42:15.880 You're German 0.94

00:42:17.700 National Socialist, if you question that dogma.

00:42:23.700 If you think diversity isn't our greatest strength,

00:42:26.700 our greatest strength,

00:42:27.700 if you disagree that diversity built Britain,

00:42:32.700 there's morally no difference between you

00:42:35.700 and a guard from Belson.

00:42:44.700 That's what they want you to believe.

00:42:45.700 that's that's what they you know not exaggerating that am i timothy chamelay didn't win don't care

00:42:55.140 do not care isn't it slightly interesting thing uh whether the ayatollah the new ayatollah

00:43:00.920 khamenei ii is dead or not we talked about it before didn't we but um over the weekend trump

00:43:05.980 said when asked he said we're not sure we the americans we're not sure whether he's alive or

00:43:12.480 dead certainly no one's seen him which is true we haven't seen him we still haven't seen him

00:43:16.240 his first address was just read out by someone else he hasn't been seen

00:43:21.060 the israelis said we know where he is so it seems like a lot of the reporting now is that

00:43:29.300 it's a matter of fact that he was wounded in the that airstrike probably the first one on

00:43:36.340 the first saturday morning how badly he's he's injured or wounded is up for debate

00:43:42.300 but it's emerging that he's either terribly wounded or in fact already dead

00:43:47.780 it seems out of all the possibilities the fact that he's perfectly fine and just controlling

00:43:57.100 government that seems like increasingly the least likely option out of all the possible things

00:44:04.520 why they would pick him as the new ayatollah if he were in a coma or missing a leg or

00:44:09.800 that's very very odd isn't it why would they pick him that's very very odd maybe there's all sorts

00:44:17.020 of different power plays going on behind the scene because if your leader is in fact in a coma then

00:44:20.480 other people can control policy who knows what goes on all the machinations on the iranian side

00:44:27.800 of things who's really in control and pulling all the strings if the new ayatollah is indeed in a

00:44:33.240 coma or just terribly terribly wounded in one way not really able to do the business of government

00:44:39.200 who is then

00:44:40.700 all those things

00:44:43.260 Iran came out and said

00:44:45.000 no he's fine

00:44:45.500 Iran over the weekend said

00:44:46.760 no he's absolutely fine

00:44:48.200 that's what their angle is

00:44:49.800 and then there was a few different bits

00:44:53.280 of what must be

00:44:54.120 or I would have thought

00:44:54.980 are misinformation or disinformation

00:44:56.980 one that he's been smuggled out of Iran

00:44:59.520 and he's actually

00:45:00.220 in a private hospital in Moscow

00:45:02.700 probably nonsense right

00:45:06.680 there's another one that

00:45:07.840 Bibi's dead

00:45:08.520 i think that was iranian propaganda netanyahu's been wounded and or is dead

00:45:14.080 from an iranian stroke uh strike in some way

00:45:17.300 um

00:45:19.800 but see i that's almost certainly nonsense isn't it

00:45:24.960 it might be true but i doubt it this feels like iranian counter

00:45:28.860 counter propaganda oh you keep saying our leader is dead

00:45:32.800 we're going to put out a story that that your leader's dead

00:45:35.760 all right did you do another poll harry did i see that pop up uh yeah on occasion i'll do a second

00:45:46.020 poll okay how about that don't say harry's not generous we want engagement here let's do a bit

00:45:54.460 more engagement i'll leave it to the end okay all right what else have we got then because we're

00:45:59.900 Actually, yeah, it's knocking quarter two.

00:46:02.480 Shall we have a look at what else we've got?

00:46:03.920 Oh, there's talk that in Britain they're going to take historical people off of the banknotes

00:46:10.640 and replace it with wildlife images.

00:46:18.440 But it might be, some have said that it might be like rats and seagulls and pigeons.

00:46:25.960 so like not even good wildlife

00:46:30.260 at least make it like a

00:46:31.340 a kick-ass stag

00:46:33.240 a beautiful sort of fox or something

00:46:39.080 no a rat

00:46:39.720 and a seagull

00:46:41.680 and pigeons

00:46:44.140 pigeons are sort of like vermin aren't they really

00:46:46.540 like a flying rat almost

00:46:48.520 so okay

00:46:50.440 various people have said

00:46:52.440 including Nige saying that's crazy

00:46:53.960 or even Ed Davey said 0.91

00:46:55.420 Don't replace Churchill with like a rat 0.70

00:46:58.680 Right 0.84

00:47:02.680 A couple of bits of

00:47:06.260 Mildly interesting slop adjacent stuff

00:47:08.880 In the sun

00:47:09.380 Over the weekend there was both a pro-Iranian

00:47:12.780 And anti-Iranian

00:47:14.140 Protest in London

00:47:15.640 The police said you can do them on opposite sides

00:47:18.700 Of the river, the River Thames

00:47:19.840 It's not a terrible idea

00:47:22.080 If these people are insisting on doing this

00:47:24.140 I thought she'd close it down

00:47:26.860 I thought she'd just banned it entirely

00:47:28.420 I don't know, they're still well ahead

00:47:30.160 At least put the Thames between them

00:47:32.900 So they don't start fighting

00:47:34.340 This is why diversity in multicultural, multi-ethnic Britain

00:47:39.220 Isn't a strength

00:47:40.180 Because you then get this

00:47:42.000 A scene like this

00:47:43.180 Can you imagine the stench

00:47:48.040 Look at this guy

00:47:50.420 Look, why are you here, bro?

00:47:52.940 Why are you here? 1.00

00:47:54.140 Iran's useful idiots the sun goes with 1.00

00:47:59.880 Fuming MPs, savage pro-Iran hate march 1.00

00:48:04.800 Zealots as mad Muller's useful idiots 1.00

00:48:07.940 After a vile chance at London demo 1.00

00:48:09.620 Okay, is the idol alive or dead?

00:48:13.700 Alright

00:48:14.040 This guy who was in London's burning

00:48:17.400 And I think he might have been in Grain Chill

00:48:19.060 He was convicted of paedophile in some way

00:48:24.840 And then died in prison

00:48:26.060 Okay

00:48:30.060 Alright, what's that?

00:48:33.160 Whoa

00:48:33.360 There's any slop

00:48:35.240 Oh, this guy, this Sudanese guy 1.00

00:48:37.040 Abducted a five-year-old girl off the street 0.96

00:48:38.820 And tried to sexually assault her

00:48:40.540 Before neighbours bust in

00:48:43.120 And just about prevented it

00:48:49.060 Thanks Ronnie Mead Trust, thanks Hope Not Hate, thanks the dozens of different organisations

00:48:59.740 that for a couple of generations have been pushing open borders, multiculturalism, globalism,

00:49:08.180 thanks for that, should never have been in the country, this monster should never have

00:49:14.300 been anywhere near our island. What a monstrous crime. I was responsible for someone like

00:49:24.480 this being in the country. It's not just a Sudanese, it's a Sudanese man. Why is he 0.88

00:49:32.380 here? Why was he here? Thanks Blair. Thanks Brown. Thanks Cameron. Thanks Boris. Cheers.

00:49:44.300 Which is

00:49:45.920 Rishi

00:49:49.220 Okay they're now saying the Ayatollah's

00:49:54.100 London property empire

00:49:56.360 Is actually more like 200 million pounds

00:49:58.400 Worth

00:49:58.800 It should be just seized off of him

00:50:00.620 Yeah why not

00:50:01.140 If you're going to do that

00:50:03.500 If you already set a precedent for that

00:50:05.060 With Russians 0.99

00:50:06.600 Something like Roman Abramovich or whatever

00:50:08.700 Just take all their stuff

00:50:10.660 If you're going to do that

00:50:11.620 Here's something that's a bit nasty

00:50:14.560 Don't worry, these women are okay 1.00

00:50:16.440 This is from New York

00:50:22.540 Oh, don't worry about it

00:50:24.900 Two women got hit by a taxi

00:50:26.540 That was out of control in New York

00:50:27.720 But they're okay, so you can show it

00:50:29.580 They got smashed pretty bad by it

00:50:31.900 Alright

00:50:32.820 It's now got nearly 10-2

00:50:35.780 Shall we just have a look at On This Day in History

00:50:38.320 And then read out the Rumble Rancers

00:50:39.940 subjects we do that yeah last five minutes or so talk about on this day in history

00:50:44.660 you guys seem to like that i certainly like doing it all right so on the 16th of march

00:50:49.760 down through the centuries what happened of note all right in the year 597 bc

00:50:55.300 the babylonian empire captures jerusalem and installs zedekiah as king

00:51:03.300 on epochs harry on epochs

00:51:10.220 my history theme show behind the paywall on lotusseaters.com do consider subscribing for

00:51:19.080 as little as five pound a month bronze tier membership on there i've got hundreds and

00:51:22.320 hundreds of hours of me talking about history uh that is my first uh love my undergrad my

00:51:28.560 undergrad degree was in ancient history loads of content about the sumerians the babylonians the

00:51:34.560 assyrians loads hours and hours of it largely in conversation with karl benjamin anyway that would

00:51:41.500 have been what is that that's um that's nebuchadnezzar king nebuchadnezzar the second of

00:51:47.860 of babylon uh went to put down a revolt in judea uh and did and installs zedekiah

00:51:57.500 and leads loads of the the the the jewish elite into captivity 1.00

00:52:04.440 there you go that happened a few years later he had to return and actually like destroyed

00:52:15.900 Jerusalem largely, or destroyed the first temple anyway. The 590s and the 580s BC were a bad time

00:52:24.360 to be Jewish. It wasn't a good time for them. The first temple, Nebuchadnezzar II. Check it out. 0.98

00:52:37.480 Okay, on this day in 1521, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines,

00:52:43.880 landing on Homohon Island

00:52:47.560 after crossing the Pacific

00:52:49.800 on Lotus Eaters 1.00

00:52:51.800 there's something stupid 1.00

00:52:53.960 like 15 hours odd or more 0.99

00:52:56.480 of me talking about the career

00:52:58.600 and voyage of Ferdinand Magellan

00:53:00.420 if you want to know about

00:53:04.040 the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan

00:53:06.620 first managed to circumnavigate the globe

00:53:08.060 headed west around the bottom of South America

00:53:10.500 across the Pacific through the Spice Islands

00:53:12.640 the east indies all the way across the bottom of the indian ocean around the bottom of africa and

00:53:18.820 all the way up back to spain first man to go all the way around the world if you want to know about

00:53:25.080 that sort of audiobook level of detail five pound a month you get yours truly telling you all about

00:53:34.840 it incredible adventures can't even begin to go into it here the number of incredible adventures

00:53:42.060 And things they did and saw

00:53:43.400 Okay

00:53:45.760 On this day in 1660

00:53:48.260 The English Long Parliament disbands

00:53:50.280 So the Long Parliament

00:53:53.820 It's like from 1640

00:53:57.100 All the way through

00:53:58.020 In various incarnations

00:53:59.420 It's like the Rump Parliament 0.54

00:54:00.640 And the whole Civil War basically

00:54:02.620 And the Age of Cromwell as well 0.53

00:54:04.900 The Rule of Cromwell 0.81

00:54:07.060 You can sort of say

00:54:10.220 Just about

00:54:10.780 There was one long parliament that whole 20 years

00:54:14.640 It wasn't exactly

00:54:15.580 Got that pride's purge and all sorts of stuff went on

00:54:18.520 But you can sort of say

00:54:19.940 It was one long parliament

00:54:21.480 Until what?

00:54:22.780 Until General Monk finally ends it

00:54:26.200 And you get like sort of the restoration period

00:54:28.960 Charles II coming back

00:54:31.400 Because it lasted such a long time

00:54:35.280 They call it the long parliament

00:54:36.960 Okay there you go

00:54:38.120 the assassination of Gustav III

00:54:41.440 the Swedish

00:54:42.640 King Gustav III of Sweden

00:54:46.820 is shot by a guy

00:54:48.700 a masked bull

00:54:50.140 because he was largely hated

00:54:51.620 that Gustav III

00:54:52.820 the Swedish people hated him for being

00:54:55.000 too autocratic

00:54:56.160 and losing lots of

00:54:58.220 he lost a war against Russia

00:54:59.820 lost loads of territory

00:55:01.540 and they hated him

00:55:02.800 and they murdered him

00:55:04.160 Okay, on this day in 1867

00:55:08.380 Joseph Lister first outlines the discovery of antiseptic surgery

00:55:12.400 In an article, The Lancet

00:55:14.560 In an article in The Lancet

00:55:17.520 Okay, that's important, interesting, you know

00:55:21.580 History of medicine

00:55:22.960 I find the history of medicine very, very interesting

00:55:25.840 A classic history nerd thing

00:55:30.660 Like when was penicillin invented and stuff

00:55:32.980 when did they work out the germ theory of disease and all sorts of stuff okay what are medieval and

00:55:37.840 ancient doctors what do they think and say fascinating to me okay on this day in 1935

00:55:42.440 adolf hitler orders german rearmament in violation of the treaty of versailles there you go says

00:55:47.400 exactly what it says on the tin all right and finally on this day 1968 general motors produces

00:55:53.600 it's 100 millionth automobile and it was an old mobile tornado there you go all right that was on

00:56:03.480 this day in history let's have a look at the rumble rants and the super chats harry you'll have to

00:56:07.300 bring it up on my screen have we not oh there's should we have a quick look at the second poll

00:56:12.320 you did you did the second poll you said how do you feel about yesterday's f1 results you can

00:56:17.440 either say um happy i'm antonelli's number one fan because kimmy antonelli a 19 year old won it

00:56:24.080 in a in a mercedes remarkably his first win i believe it must have been yeah um you can either

00:56:29.440 say happy because you like antonelli or sad science deserved better or i don't care about f1

00:56:37.220 oh whoa just over 500 votes there i don't care about f1 89 yes it's a huge brutal brutal

00:56:49.720 all right well i'll keep f1 chat to only the super chats which i've done right in the main

00:56:55.760 body of the bow show i haven't done a segment about f1 yet have i people have asked in the

00:57:00.160 super chats but um all right the audience of the bow show don't care about formula one

00:57:06.340 All right, well, there you go.

00:57:07.360 Is there no rumble rants today?

00:57:09.740 No, no.

00:57:10.640 I can't hear you.

00:57:11.500 Oh, there you go.

00:57:12.460 There you go.

00:57:12.780 No.

00:57:12.980 Yeah.

00:57:13.620 There aren't any.

00:57:14.140 Okay.

00:57:14.620 So just super chats.

00:57:16.500 YouTube super chats.

00:57:17.720 Okay, there's only a few, half a dozen or so.

00:57:20.480 Global Church History, always first.

00:57:21.880 He's always first.

00:57:23.960 Love it.

00:57:24.500 Cheers.

00:57:25.540 Global Church History says,

00:57:27.180 Today in 496, Oduessa is killed by Theodoric in Ravenna.

00:57:32.960 Okay, so that would be 496 AD.

00:57:36.340 yeah i mean rome had already fallen to alaric before that hadn't it so this is sort of in

00:57:42.260 the generation after that um yeah okay ravenna much safer to be holed up in ravenna than in

00:57:51.580 rome isn't it much much safer opening doors one says i had no idea jeremy clarkson is persian

00:57:58.500 That's mad

00:57:59.120 Yeah

00:58:02.040 It's a joke

00:58:03.160 Because it's obviously not Persian

00:58:05.080 Whatsoever

00:58:06.340 Okay

00:58:07.480 Deportis

00:58:11.460 It

00:58:12.260 It

00:58:12.860 Deportis

00:58:16.100 Sorry I don't know how you want that read

00:58:19.320 But you say

00:58:20.300 Morning Bo

00:58:21.480 Loving the morning show

00:58:22.520 Oh cheers

00:58:22.980 No thank you

00:58:23.680 Thank you for being

00:58:25.200 For joining us

00:58:25.860 Being part of the glorious band

00:58:26.960 The Chosen Few 0.93

00:58:27.640 The best among us

00:58:29.680 Anyone watching this show

00:58:30.960 The best of men

00:58:35.260 And women

00:58:36.260 Alright

00:58:38.640 Oh which one RumbleRank came in

00:58:40.880 RickTWGP says

00:58:44.520 If I do one will you read it out

00:58:47.760 Question mark

00:58:48.180 Well yeah yeah there you go

00:58:49.140 Yes

00:58:49.860 Okay

00:58:51.540 Back to the super chat

00:58:53.460 Says 0.93

00:58:54.140 Jankus the Great

00:58:59.760 Says good morning

00:59:01.480 My 14 hour shift awaits me

00:59:03.600 14 hour shift

00:59:07.280 That might even be illegal in Europe

00:59:09.860 Well good luck with that

00:59:12.460 Hopefully you'll get a bit of overtime

00:59:14.380 A bit of bunts

00:59:16.320 For overtime

00:59:17.380 14 hour shift

00:59:19.540 I quite often do 10 12 hour days

00:59:22.760 Basically

00:59:23.280 i mean a lot of my job is sort of reading and writing a bit so it's not sort of like

00:59:30.760 a hod carrier it's not like i'm graft in a way but i often do very long days basically

00:59:35.480 but a 14 hour day 14 hour shift good luck good luck to you buddy

00:59:41.880 jankus the great good luck to you okay all right a few more they keep popping in here we go

00:59:52.580 possible pilot deviation

00:59:55.260 says, for a decent amount of money

00:59:57.540 there by the way as well, thanks, cheers

00:59:58.760 Bo, I never thought I'd catch

01:00:01.520 a live from Utah, Utah

01:00:03.160 nice, I once drove through the salt flats

01:00:05.560 of Utah, hello Nevada

01:00:06.780 anyway, I once drove across Utah in the

01:00:09.440 1990s

01:00:11.480 there you go, lovely bit of country

01:00:13.720 it's not all just featureless barren

01:00:17.440 desert is it, and even that

01:00:19.300 has got a beauty to it

01:00:20.880 Okay, you say, you'd never thought you'd live, watch a live stream from Utah, but I'm having to stay up with a sick dog, oh, oh, so here I am, anyways, after Cole, you are by far the best Lotus Eater, by far the best Lotus Eater, oh yeah, I mean, 1.00

01:00:41.820 lotus eaters is basically the bodade experience featuring karl benjamin

01:00:48.060 can i get away with that or i'm gonna get fired for that i won't i'm fine i'm joking i'm joking

01:00:53.600 yeah but i'm by far the best spice karl i know come on

01:01:00.380 he also say uh remember the 82nd airborne all the way yeah the 82nd great so i've got lots of

01:01:10.880 got a fair bit of content on operation market garden a few hours

01:01:17.240 of me talking about operation market garden that was the attempt to liberate nazi occupied holland

01:01:23.040 in 1944 where the 82nd airborne feature heavily in that a bridge too far yeah remember the 82nd

01:01:33.240 airborne and my granddad was in the 82nd he was was he in the 82nd or the 101st oh my god

01:01:42.100 i can't remember i think he was in the 82nd he was definitely a paratrooper in world war two

01:01:46.780 i think he was in the 82nd i'll have to double check with that anyway it was one or the other

01:01:53.940 um yeah oh you got a sick dog i'm sorry to hear that i love dogs me i love them

01:02:03.160 If I had endless money, didn't have to work, and just had a giant house or mansion, or palace or castle, and giant grounds, giant estates, acres and acres in all directions, I'd have loads of dogs.

01:02:18.940 I'd have like six dogs, ten dogs, maybe more.

01:02:23.300 Love dogs.

01:02:24.860 I'm sorry your good boy is sick.

01:02:28.780 Honestly, wishing him the best, or her, the best.

01:02:31.300 It breaks your heart when your dog's sick

01:02:34.640 Or dying or anything

01:02:35.880 It's a member of the family

01:02:38.180 It really is

01:02:39.180 Heartbreaking

01:02:41.540 I hope he's alright or she

01:02:42.840 Okay

01:02:45.500 Principal Dunsurfaces says

01:02:46.780 Maybe Holmany and BB 0.61

01:02:49.140 Have decided to settle it with a game of hide and seek

01:02:52.320 I suspect

01:02:57.540 In the next coming few days

01:03:01.020 could this this take i'm about to tell you could be shown to be utterly wrong but i suspect he is

01:03:07.940 in a terrible way either in a coma and or lost a leg and or had terrible abdominal stomach gut

01:03:13.880 injuries and he's in a bad way they probably would have shown him by now if that wasn't the case

01:03:18.320 i feel like they would have trotted him out at least just a record a recording of him at least

01:03:25.720 Wouldn't they

01:03:27.580 Again in the coming hours or days

01:03:31.280 That could just be shown to be completely wrong

01:03:32.840 I'll accept that

01:03:33.560 Of course

01:03:34.320 Alright two more

01:03:37.180 Field Marshal Dawn Browning

01:03:38.920 Doesn't say anything

01:03:41.140 Just gives 10 Aussie dollars

01:03:42.260 Thanks Dawn

01:03:42.840 Cheers Dawn

01:03:43.480 Appreciate it

01:03:44.800 Cheers love

01:03:45.520 Harry and finally

01:03:50.480 Harry Hobag says

01:03:51.840 I care about F1

01:03:53.560 F these haters

01:03:54.860 Yeah

01:03:55.220 okay yeah am I going to fall out disagree with my own audience 89% of my own audience

01:04:01.280 yeah you're wrong F1's great

01:04:03.900 oh I like racing I like all F1 but the thing with racing I found is it's sort of a bit of a

01:04:11.300 Marmite thing black and white you either like it you're really into it or you just could not care

01:04:15.140 less I'm just one of those people that do like racing not just F1 anything NASCAR IndyCar anything

01:04:22.080 like uh mini motos honestly anything i'd watch go-karting professional go-karting

01:04:30.940 yeah anything i love motorbike racing moto gp

01:04:34.160 okay a lot of people don't like it a lot of people don't like it all right then that's the

01:04:40.120 show but harry hobag's right that's the show it's now five minutes past nine in the a.m

01:04:46.140 Greenwich Mean Time on Monday

01:04:48.000 Monday Monday the 16th

01:04:50.440 of March in the year of our Lord

01:04:52.060 2026

01:04:53.180 you've been the

01:04:56.280 glorious band the chosen for you thanks for watching

01:04:58.220 without you it isn't a thing it honestly really

01:05:00.200 really isn't a thing so thank you for watching

01:05:02.360 I appreciate it

01:05:03.260 try and make the best of the day ahead if you can

01:05:06.160 it's a brand new day

01:05:07.160 a new dawn

01:05:08.960 try and make the best of it if you can

01:05:12.400 seize it

01:05:12.960 seize it by the little pals 1.00

01:05:15.300 If you can

01:05:16.560 Type a DM

01:05:17.740 I know it's not always easy

01:05:19.920 But if you can

01:05:20.720 Try to do something valuable

01:05:21.500 With your time

01:05:22.060 You really haven't got

01:05:23.060 Endless days

01:05:24.060 On this earth

01:05:24.800 Try and make it count

01:05:26.240 Until tomorrow morning

01:05:27.160 Take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 16, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 16th March 2026

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