The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 19th January 2026

00:00:00.560 Epochs! Sorry, wrong show. I mean, morning! How are you doing? I hope you're all well

00:00:08.160 on this fine morning, chilly morning a bit, in Britain. It has just struck eight in the

00:00:14.840 a.m. and it is Monday, Monday, the 19th of January in the year of our Lord, 2026. You

00:00:23.920 are watching Breakfast with Beau, the Beau show, Beau's Breakfast Club, the BBC, the

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00:00:32.740 this doesn't happen. So thank you for tuning in. I'm joined by my producer, Harry. Little

00:00:36.920 Harry, how are you, Harry? Yeah, I'm good. Great, great. Raring to go on this Monday

00:00:43.620 morning? Yeah, yeah. It's going to be great. That's a classic Monday morning feeling, isn't

00:00:51.820 it? Okay, let's do it again. Okay. Now, wake up. It's going to be glorious. This week is

00:00:58.660 the first week of the rest of your life. Let's do it. Let's jump straight in. Okay,

00:01:01.860 the news. What's in the news? What's the world talking about this morning? Okay. The EU weighs

00:01:09.280 up 93 billion euro retaliation and Raducanu's fine start. Raducanu, a tennis player. All right,

00:01:17.240 let's see. The Guardian. The Guardian. Damn them. Damn them. All right. The Guardian still

00:01:35.240 exists, unfortunately. It runs with. The EU weighs up 93 billion euro retaliation for Trump's

00:01:39.920 Greenland, quote, blackmail, quote. So it's wall to wall Greenland this morning. It's almost

00:01:44.520 entirely Greenland on the front pages anyway. You know, on the actual websites, there's

00:01:48.400 more stories. But for the front pages, it's wall to wall Greenland. Okay, the powers that

00:01:53.760 be. The cabal of newspaper editors have decided that Greenland is the most important thing pretty

00:02:00.000 much in the world going on. Targeting NATO allies is wrong, Starmer tells President in

00:02:05.440 phone call. That's basically the story. That's basically the story. That Europe is annoyed

00:02:11.140 that Trump is threatening to put tariffs on EU countries for essentially not just going

00:02:19.600 along with his plan of annexing Greenland. We'll talk about that in a bit of detail later

00:02:27.180 on. It is basically every front page. All right. The Times. PM warns of a downward spiral

00:02:34.900 in US tariffs row. Okay, let's just get into it. So Trump has said, obviously, he's made

00:02:39.580 it very clear for a long time as well, actually, to be fair. He has made it clear for a long

00:02:43.120 time that he would like Greenland. He thinks it's in the US's national interest to control

00:02:50.060 and own Greenland, particularly the waters off of Greenland. And all the natural resources

00:02:54.820 that are there. Ostensibly, it's about the waters, controlling the waters around Greenland.

00:02:59.780 But it's only in the lot, isn't it? It's only in the last few weeks, last few months, or

00:03:05.220 since his new administration, that he's actually getting really quite tough on it. Everyone's

00:03:11.780 sort of taking him at his word that he really means it. Now, over the weekend, or was it

00:03:16.220 right at the end of last week, various EU countries, or NATO countries, sent all sorts of troops

00:03:22.780 and helicopters and things over to Greenland for exercises. Now, that's a classic thing,

00:03:29.960 military exercises are sort of politically charged, aren't they? You know, like when

00:03:33.260 South Korea do military and the US do military exercises right up to North Korean waters, right

00:03:40.660 up to North Korean airspace. Or the other way around, North Korea does exercises right up 0.51

00:03:46.580 to the limit. Russia do exercises right up to the limit of their neighbour's space, airspace 0.70

00:03:53.760 and borders and things. It's a classic, it's all over the world, it happens all the time.

00:03:58.820 Right, so it just sends a message, doesn't it? Or when the big countries, the nuclear armed

00:04:03.860 countries doing nuclear tests at a particular moment. That's a classic thing as well. Doesn't

00:04:09.620 happen much anymore. Doesn't happen much anymore. Because nuclear testing is almost a thing of

00:04:16.340 the past. But it used to be there would be like a, you know, back in the 60s, I'm talking

00:04:20.640 the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, there'd be some sort of big meeting between powers and they'd

00:04:27.060 sort of test a nuclear weapon the day before. Just, you know, it's a message. Remember, we've

00:04:31.540 got nukes, sort of thing. The French used to test nukes quite a lot, deep into the 90s.

00:04:36.560 Anyway, so yeah, NATO countries sent a bunch of military forces to Greenland to do exercises

00:04:45.400 there. You know, against Trump's wishes. Britain, Britain's contingent, because we got involved,

00:04:54.600 even Britain was involved in that. It was all countries like France, Germany, Finland,

00:04:59.400 a number of them, six or seven or eight of them. Britain sent one guy.

00:05:04.520 We sent one soldier. Obviously, a complete token. Bit of a joke, really. But still, just

00:05:13.300 to, again, just to send the message. We are on that side of the ledger. We don't like

00:05:19.380 Mr. Trump having designs on Greenland. We're lining up with Denmark against the US. It's

00:05:25.720 not really an expedient thing to do. But anyway, our government always seems to act not in our

00:05:30.880 best interests. Okay, so that happened. Trump sees it, obviously. And he's like, right,

00:05:38.360 anyone that does that, 10% tariff. Straight away, 10% tariff for that. That's the punishment

00:05:44.560 for that. And if you keep doing it, or if you don't change your tune in the next few weeks,

00:05:48.820 in the next couple of months, there's going to be a 25% tariff. So, some people are calling

00:05:54.040 that blackmail. I mean, kind of, a little bit. You could describe it like that, I suppose.

00:06:03.420 I wouldn't. It's not really blackmail in the truest sort of clean sense of the word blackmail.

00:06:09.460 But you could describe it like that. It's not a ridiculous take. But it's just leverage,

00:06:15.920 isn't it? I would call it just like leverage. It's just playing politics, isn't it? But there

00:06:21.680 you go. So, Keir Starmer apparently had another phone call with the Donald. I bet the Donald

00:06:28.260 couldn't wait for that one. He was on tenterhooks for that one. He was shaking in his boots.

00:06:34.500 Apparently, in that phone call, Starmer says, had chastised the President that it's wrong.

00:06:41.520 It's wrong to sort of make conflict, economically or otherwise, with European partners and NATO

00:06:49.360 partners, allies, people that are all supposed to be allies. I think I said it on the main

00:06:55.000 Lotus Eaters podcast at one point. Just try and imagine it. And this isn't me playing defense

00:07:01.640 necessarily for the US. But I'm just saying, imagine it purely from the point of view of

00:07:09.500 someone like Pete Hegseth. He would probably argue, I would think, the thinking sort of in

00:07:15.720 the Pentagon and in the State Department, Marco Rubio and stuff, that they would be thinking,

00:07:20.100 you know, is Denmark really much of an ally? Hasn't the US been telling them for over 20

00:07:26.880 years to sort themselves out in Greenland to start defending Greenland's waters properly?

00:07:33.700 Because if they can't do it, someone else will need to. Haven't we been telling them that for 20

00:07:37.300 years and have just ignored it, just fobbed it off? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right,

00:07:41.040 we'll do it. And they don't do anything. So just for a moment, just for a moment, look

00:07:47.420 at it from that point of view. Someone like Keir Starman now ringing Trump up and saying,

00:07:53.400 you're wrong. Can you imagine Trump being, you're all right. You're all right, mate. Whatever.

00:08:01.100 Like the special relationship is on the line, is it? Was there ever really much of a special

00:08:05.780 relationship after 1945? Or ever, really? For anyone who doesn't know what that is,

00:08:11.880 just real quickly, just to say. During the war, I've shaved my sideburns off, so I'm a little

00:08:19.060 less Uncle Albert today. But during the war, World War II, I mean, there was a so-called

00:08:24.620 special relationship between the US and Britain. We'll forget that Roosevelt just watched during the

00:08:34.240 Battle of Britain during 1940 and just watched that happen. Roosevelt was all like, let's see

00:08:39.260 where he's going with this. Before they decided to truly, properly get involved. There was a special

00:08:46.320 relationship because Winston Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill, was actually half American, like my

00:08:50.840 good self, actually. Churchill's mum was an American woman, if you didn't know that. So Churchill was like

00:08:57.960 half American. And anyway, Churchill knew, he calculated that if he was to, if the Allies, if Britain

00:09:05.400 and the Allies were to win the war, really needed the United States to come in on our side. You know,

00:09:14.700 well, they didn't, didn't they, until Pearl Harbor. In fact, a bit more detail on that. They actually were

00:09:21.000 sending loads and loads of help, sort of, with the merchant navy and sorts of, and all that sort

00:09:26.320 of thing before Pearl Harbor. They were actually helping out quite a lot before Pearl Harbor, but

00:09:30.540 they hadn't, they weren't formally in the war. They weren't formally at war with Mr. Hitler's Germany

00:09:34.580 until, until the Japanese attacked them. And then Hitler declared war on the America, actually. But

00:09:40.620 anyway, the point is, there's a special relationship, at least in Churchill's mind, during

00:09:44.440 the war. Ever since then, literally ever since then, people talk about the special relationship

00:09:53.300 between the US and the UK. You know, all the way up to, sort of, the Blair years, and after, you know,

00:09:59.140 during the Iraq war with George Bush Jr. and Tony Blair. It's always like the special relationship.

00:10:03.740 We are, Britain is America's first ally. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the US. Whatever the US does

00:10:08.800 will be their little mini-me, like, goading them on from behind their shoulder. Yeah,

00:10:14.420 go on, get them. And to this day, people still talk about the special relationship, don't

00:10:20.800 they? It's a cliche now. That one, that time in the first Trump administration, when he

00:10:26.100 went and visited North Korea, Trump said, and it's sort of tongue-in-cheek, but he said,

00:10:32.140 we now have a special relationship with North Korea. Anyway, the idea now that there's something,

00:10:37.660 like, these days, 2026, that there is any kind of real special relationship.

00:10:45.280 Just doesn't ring true anymore. I don't think it has for years and years. I mean, even if you go

00:10:49.120 back to the 1950s, you could argue the way the US left us in the lurch in the Suez crisis in the 1950s,

00:10:57.040 the way the US tried to screw the British over about when Britain tried to get its own nuclear

00:11:02.040 weapons in the 50s. You could say the special relationship died relatively soon after World

00:11:08.120 War II. You could make that argument. You could also make the argument that, you know, who is,

00:11:14.740 who is a closer ally to the US, if not the UK, though? You could also look at it through that

00:11:18.840 lens, if you wanted to. Point is, I think, Trump and Starmer, there's nothing special there,

00:11:28.020 is there? I don't think Trump gives a fig what Sir Keir says and thinks about anything, really.

00:11:36.720 He just doesn't care. Trump's completely his own man. Trump knows his own power. He knows the power

00:11:42.400 of the US military. He doesn't need Keir for anything. He doesn't need his advice for anything.

00:11:49.300 He could do without it. And yet Keir will ring him up and say, you're wrong to do XYZ.

00:11:54.860 I'm going to send one man to Greenland. That'll show you. All right, let's move on a little bit.

00:12:02.120 I will talk about it more. Baroness Cass, a nobody. Backspan on social media for under-16s. 0.99

00:12:11.140 Is that government overreach? Probably, yeah. And there's Emma Radachoyou. It's not Radachoyou.

00:12:22.160 Her relative was a 90s football player. Radachoyou. Emma Radachoyou, who apparently is a British

00:12:27.400 woman. I mean, her dad's Romanian, her mum's Chinese, and she was born in Canada. But OK,

00:12:32.820 she's the British number one. She's a British tennis player now. OK, if you say so. It's

00:12:38.000 pretty mediocre, as I understand it, at tennis, I mean. But she's kind of pretty, so all the 0.98

00:12:46.480 papers will simp over her. Bit like Anna Kornikova. Harry, do you remember Anna Kornikova? Is she

00:12:53.880 before your time? Yeah, I think she's a little bit before my time. OK. There was a tennis

00:13:00.420 player, Anna Thornikova, and she was really pretty. Pretty mediocre at tennis, though. 0.99

00:13:07.540 I don't think she ever won a Grand Slam or anything. She was competitive, obviously, but

00:13:13.280 didn't set the world to light in terms of actually winning tennis matches. But she was

00:13:18.380 really pretty, so she was always on the front pages in the headlines, and Anna Kornikova,

00:13:22.720 Anna Kornikova. It's a bit like this with this Radachane. Like, she's won her opening match 0.95

00:13:27.720 at the Australian Open. What? Who cares? Who cares? But there you go. She's quite pretty,

00:13:37.700 so they'll make her a star. I'll make her a star, baby. All right, the Financial Times,

00:13:44.200 the FT. Going with Greenland. Oh, yeah. EU primes for 93 billion euro retaliatory tariffs

00:13:52.800 to parry Trump's Greenland threats. Leverage for meeting at Davos. Davos is happening soon,

00:13:58.380 by the way. That's a thing. The WEF Davos conference. Hopes for White House climb down,

00:14:06.180 NATO relationship at risk. So, yeah, where Donald Trump says, I'm going to slap 10% tariffs on

00:14:13.320 you, and if you don't back down, it'll be 25% tariffs. The EU, as a bloc, have said,

00:14:17.640 you don't tariff us. We'll tariff you, if anything. We'll slap tariffs on you to the tune

00:14:26.400 of 93 billion euros, or something like 80 billion pounds, that is. Again, does that really make

00:14:36.640 any sense? Is that in the interests of the average European person? Does Trump care particularly

00:14:43.160 about that? Isn't he the more powerful partner in that relationship? I mean, he's obviously the

00:14:50.480 more powerful partner in the US-UK relationship. They're the more powerful partner in the US-EU

00:14:57.320 relationship. So, I think it's funny, even when the EU puts tariffs or sanctions, economic sanctions,

00:15:07.280 against Russia, even just Russia on its own. His economy isn't gigantic. I've heard people say

00:15:13.700 that I think, like, the economy of California is bigger than all of Russia, or the economy of,

00:15:17.940 like, just Texas is bigger than all of Russia, things like that. The Russian economy isn't

00:15:22.020 a powerhouse. And even so, when I see the Europeans say, you know, we're going to sanction Russia,

00:15:31.200 Russia's like, are you? Okay, I mean, we've got more resources than you. We've got a big enough

00:15:39.560 population and a sophisticated enough sort of society and political system that, I mean, sure,

00:15:47.280 it'll hurt you just as much as that hurts us. Don't you need our gas? Aren't you dependent on us for

00:15:53.600 energy in various ways? But you're going to sanction us. Okay, good luck with that. I feel like something

00:15:59.020 similar, similar sort of dynamic is going on when the EU's going to put tariffs on the US. It's like,

00:16:04.500 doesn't that just hurt you? Don't you import loads of American things? All right. Cutting your nose off

00:16:12.260 to spite your face a bit, I think. Maybe not, maybe not. Okay, yeah, but NATO, the NATO relationships, 0.99

00:16:19.440 all the relationships are at risk. Yeah, I don't care. I don't like NATO. This is just me, just my take now,

00:16:25.600 for a minute or two, about NATO. I don't like NATO. I don't want it. In Beau's Britain, if I was Prime

00:16:31.020 Minister, I would, at first, scale back all NATO responsibilities and monies we give to NATO,

00:16:41.700 scale that back, and when they got all pissed off about it, no doubt the US would get all pissed

00:16:45.380 off about it. I'd be, all right, we're going to leave it then. How about that? How'd you like that?

00:16:49.340 It's a thing of the past, in my opinion, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's a thing

00:16:55.640 of the past. It's a Cold War thing. It's a post-World War II thing. It was to prevent Stalin from

00:17:02.500 taking West Germany. Ultimately, that's what it was, right? Because at the end of the war, 0.68

00:17:07.760 the war, at the end of the war, you know, the Red Forces had occupied all of Eastern Europe,

00:17:15.200 you know, and East Germany and everything. And so we feared that the next war, World War III,

00:17:21.080 would be in West Germany, when the Reds invaded West Germany. Like, that was just going to happen 0.99

00:17:27.320 at some point. And so we needed to be ready for it. Everyone needed to gang together and just be

00:17:31.360 ready for it at all moments. Like, you know, the second Russian tanks spill over into West Germany,

00:17:37.420 we've got to be ready for World War III at that instant.

00:17:39.340 That's what NATO was originally for. We don't live in that world anymore, do we? We don't live in that

00:17:48.040 world. I wouldn't care if NATO ceased to exist. I really wouldn't. There's a lot of Estonians

00:18:01.260 out there all pissed off. Oh, you can't say that. I don't care. It's just another tool in America's

00:18:12.480 arsenal to sort of dominate things. I don't see... NATO, come on. NATO goes around the world now,

00:18:25.080 sort of trying to bully people, bully its way around the world, destabilising the world, if anything.

00:18:33.400 Right? People are pro-NATO, people would argue. It's NATO that keeps the peace in Europe, is it?

00:18:38.120 Or is it NATO that's endlessly poked the Russian bear in the eyeball with a dirty stick?

00:18:47.940 Okay.

00:18:48.380 China seizes on wavering US influence to pour record sums into Belt and Road. Yeah, China. 0.57

00:18:57.620 China's the bigger thing now, I would say. I'd agree with Steve Bannon on that. 0.94

00:19:01.960 It's not the threat of Russia invading, like, Bonn in West Germany. That's not really the worry

00:19:07.760 anymore, is it? It's more like the Chinese trying to dominate vast parts of Asia and Africa, 0.89

00:19:15.540 anywhere else they possibly can. Stop thinking about NATO and start thinking about some sort

00:19:24.920 of global organisation that all ally together against Chinese influence. Doesn't that make 0.93

00:19:30.940 more sense in 2026? I don't know. I don't know. Okay, the Independent. Raducanu. Raducanu's

00:19:40.380 won an opening match. Europe delivers a warning to Trump after tariffs threat. EU plan 93 billion

00:19:48.920 euro retaliatory tariffs. Sir Keir Starmer tells the President punitive new levies to force

00:19:54.960 the sale of Greenland would be wrong. It's the wrong thing to do. Is Keir Starmer thinking

00:20:02.140 about US interests or just the interests of the entire North American continent? No, he's

00:20:11.040 not. He's just thinking it's virtue signally to be anti-Trump. That's what he's thinking,

00:20:17.880 surely. Is it anything more than that? That it's like modish or cool to be anti-Trump? That

00:20:24.960 all his EU partners are anti-Trump. So he's going to just jump on that bandwagon. Because

00:20:31.900 it's a reasonable argument, I think. I think it is sort of reasonable that the United States

00:20:38.020 want to be able to completely control and dominate the waters around Greenland at the expense of

00:20:42.920 Russia and China. I'm not sure if that argument is complete nonsense. It's just some insane

00:20:48.740 thing Trump dreamed up out of nowhere. I don't think so. But okay. The Express, it's a good

00:20:58.740 paper. Fears Trump's tariffs threat will rip NATO apart. Yeah, rip it apart. Okay. It's basically

00:21:06.140 America anyway, isn't it? NATO, really. It's basically all their money and their hardware

00:21:10.380 anyway. I mean, if you're someone super hardline, like, say, Hexeth, you might even think, ugh,

00:21:21.200 like, NATO's just an annoying thing to us now. We just want to be able to act unilaterally

00:21:25.720 wherever we want, whenever we want. How is NATO, like, not just getting in the way of that

00:21:31.780 at this point? From his point of view, I mean. Oh, lovely, lovely cup of tea. Okay, what else

00:21:43.600 we got? The Mail, the Daily Mail, NATO now, quote, heading for disaster, quote, in Trump

00:21:49.540 row. I mean, maybe. I suspect, one little take, one, again, little personal take. I suspect

00:21:55.920 NATO won't be ripped apart and torn apart and sort of ceased to be a thing because America

00:22:00.160 doesn't, still doesn't want it to be. So it won't be. So, you know, like, that's it,

00:22:06.140 like, you know, like, power, when it really boils down to just power. NATO still wants,

00:22:12.460 sorry, America still wants NATO to be a thing, so it will be. Right? Even if the individual

00:22:18.100 NATO countries are sort of unruly or don't do exactly as they're told. Like, America has 0.56

00:22:25.980 so many bases all over Europe, so many bases, like, giant, giant bases in Germany, still,

00:22:31.540 left over from World War II, giant bases in Germany. All over Britain are US Air Force

00:22:37.920 bases, all over the place, scattered all over the place. If NATO, if all the European NATO

00:22:45.180 countries suddenly decided, right, we're going to, we hate Donald Trump so much, and we hate

00:22:51.460 his designs on Greenland so much that we're going to sort of back out and leave NATO because 0.91

00:22:59.280 screw him, what would that actually look like? I don't think they've got the political capital,

00:23:06.520 the political will to really do that because it would mean completely realigning themselves

00:23:12.040 on a load of different levels with the US. It would obviously put them badly in the US

00:23:19.740 naughty book, but then there would just be the logistics of it, the reality of it.

00:23:26.960 You know, imagine a country like Germany, let's take Germany, for example, or Britain, Germany or

00:23:30.660 Britain. If we just said, we're annoyed with you, Mr. Trump, and so you're sort of, we're going to

00:23:37.760 have to back out of NATO. Well, and expel all those, all those military personnel that are there

00:23:47.060 and close down the giant US bases, air force bases and things, and incur the ire of the US

00:23:54.460 on multiple levels. I don't think any of those governments have got the balls to do something 0.92

00:24:02.660 like that, and we don't think they have. Right, Kistama sent one guy, that's the level of his balls, 0.99

00:24:09.200 his political guts to make big moves, sending one guy to Greenland. He hasn't got, he hasn't got the 0.80

00:24:16.440 guts to just tell America you're closing all your bases now. All your bases are ours now. I don't,

00:24:25.120 I don't see that. I don't see that. All this is just headline stuff, I think. Greenland is a storm

00:24:31.280 in a teacup, at the minute anyway. I think, a bit of a storm in a teacup. UK officials warning the EU

00:24:37.960 aims 81 billion pound trade bazooka at America. We're aiming a trade bazooka at America. That's 0.85

00:24:44.720 what's happening, according to the papers. It's a trade bazooka. Give me a break. In-call,

00:24:55.940 Starmer tells President he's wrong over tariff war threat. The eye paper. Trade war looms with

00:25:03.580 America as UK and EU unite against Trump's Greenland threat. I mean, what can they really,

00:25:08.780 really do? Right, what are the sub-headlines? So Keir Starmer is in an 11th hour scramble to save

00:25:16.860 the UK-US's relationship, special relationship, following Donald Trump's threat to hit countries

00:25:24.720 who oppose him taking control of Greenland with 10% tariffs. In the biggest crisis to hit the

00:25:30.600 special relationship in decades, and the greatest threat to NATO, the PM, is aligning with the EU,

00:25:37.240 which is preparing to launch 80 billion pounds worth of retaliatory trade bazooka. Number 10 said,

00:25:42.620 Starmer spoke to Trump to stress the importance of the transatlantic partnership, telling him,

00:25:47.380 applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO is wrong.

00:25:53.840 Like Trump's like, I'll tell you what's right and wrong. I'll tell you what NATO thinks and is going

00:25:59.440 to do. I'll tell you that, not the other way around. I imagine. He probably didn't say that, but that is

00:26:05.660 the reality of it. But the PM is being urged to cancel the King's US visit in April to mark the 250th

00:26:12.600 anniversary of American independence. And he warned that the tariffs risks, risks, a quote,

00:26:18.720 dangerous downward spiral, quote. Okay. Again, like that really matters. Storming a teacup stuff,

00:26:26.240 right? Oh, King Charles might not visit the US in April. Again, in the scheme of things,

00:26:34.700 it doesn't matter. It's not a big deal. Why we send the King over for the 250th anniversary

00:26:40.460 anyway is a bit funny. I don't know why I'd be going anyway. If I was, if I was the King,

00:26:50.820 like a real King, like an actual monarch, a real sovereign who had power, if I was King of England

00:26:56.580 and it was the 250th anniversary of the American independence, because Charles can't do what he

00:27:03.200 wants. He does what the government tells him to do. The government says, you're going over a visit

00:27:06.980 in America now, or you're not going over to visit America now. King Charles just has to go, okay,

00:27:11.240 okay. Like the King or Queen hasn't got very much power. Hardly any, really. They get their little

00:27:17.360 red boxes like a government minister. They get told what to do. They literally get given a speech.

00:27:22.280 Like here's a speech you're reading out now. That's the level of the power of the King.

00:27:27.200 But if I was King, you know, with real power, I'd be like, no, I'm not going to America

00:27:30.340 for the 200th or 50th. Really? That was an embarrassment to us. That was a diminishing

00:27:35.980 of our power and influence and authority. Why would we be go over there and, okay. So

00:27:44.200 Keir may tell the King to cancel his US visit. Big news. Big news, everybody.

00:27:51.280 All right. The Daily Mirror. There we go. It's blackmail. Blackmail. Biggest possible

00:28:00.980 headline. Blackmail. Trump's Greenland madness. It's madness. It's mad that he would try and

00:28:09.440 act in the interests of his own nation. It's madness. It's blackmail that he's trying to

00:28:15.340 defend US water, US adjacent waters from a Russian or Chinese influence. That's a madness. Is it?

00:28:25.240 Is it? Are the planners in the Pentagon just completely mad to think that and want that

00:28:31.360 and covet the waters because Denmark isn't doing anything? A picture of one Denmark ship there.

00:28:37.440 I'm sure the Chinese Navy are terrified.

00:28:39.740 Is the Chinese and Russian Navy terrified of the Danish Navy?

00:28:48.120 No, they're not.

00:28:50.820 They're not.

00:28:52.120 Is even the Russian or Chinese merchant fleet terrified of the Danish Navy?

00:28:58.960 No.

00:29:00.000 Will they do anything the Danish Navy asked them to do? Probably not.

00:29:03.580 Would they even come across the Danish Navy?

00:29:07.440 Practically never.

00:29:09.740 So is it mad

00:29:12.540 for the planners at the Pentagon and the State Department to covet those waters?

00:29:18.720 Is it really just

00:29:19.720 that Donald

00:29:21.700 is high on power?

00:29:23.740 He's gone mad on power.

00:29:25.240 No, I don't think so.

00:29:26.660 Anyway,

00:29:27.400 Fury over tariff threat as PM tells President he's wrong.

00:29:31.760 UK united with Denmark.

00:29:34.040 Oh yeah, they'll try out someone like Lisa Nandy. 1.00

00:29:37.380 Complete moron cretin. 1.00

00:29:39.000 Lisa Nandy. 1.00

00:29:40.500 Open borders globalist

00:29:41.920 Runnymede trust Lisa Nandy. 1.00

00:29:43.940 They'll try out that moron 1.00

00:29:45.140 and say, 1.00

00:29:46.060 we stand shoulder to shoulder with Denmark.

00:29:47.880 Only Denmark 0.73

00:29:48.560 should be able to control the destiny and future of Greenland.

00:29:51.740 Can you imagine what the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon think when they see Lisa Nandy?

00:30:00.340 They probably don't even see it.

00:30:01.420 But if they did, imagine the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, the most senior generals

00:30:07.000 and admirals of the US military, the army, the navy, the air force, the marines.

00:30:11.640 They're sitting around a table and Lisa Nandy comes on their screens saying,

00:30:17.820 only Denmark, only the Kingdom of Denmark should be able to dictate the future of Greenland.

00:30:24.020 They'd be like...

00:30:31.020 They would just...

00:30:32.060 It's like you barely register.

00:30:36.060 It'd be laughable to them, I imagine.

00:30:38.060 Okay, the Metro.

00:30:43.660 Really?

00:30:45.680 Really, Metro?

00:30:47.040 You're a thing?

00:30:49.120 You're still a thing?

00:30:53.020 Right.

00:30:53.840 The Metro.

00:30:54.700 One of the worst rags.

00:30:55.600 Arguably the worst.

00:30:56.320 I would say perhaps the worst.

00:30:59.300 Reclaiming the tea break.

00:31:00.540 Ooh, they're talking about tea.

00:31:03.420 Again, not serious.

00:31:04.240 It's not serious paper.

00:31:05.140 Okay.

00:31:08.060 That's going to be cold.

00:31:11.100 Yeah.

00:31:13.180 I have to revert just to simply water to wet the whistle.

00:31:19.500 All right, it's a story they think is the front page.

00:31:23.040 The Britons, apparently, are taking less tea breaks whilst at work.

00:31:31.080 People used to take more tea breaks and now they take less tea breaks.

00:31:37.480 Brilliant.

00:31:38.060 The Star.

00:31:38.580 What slop have we got on The Star?

00:31:42.220 Ah, Bez. 0.99

00:31:43.020 Good old Bez. 0.98

00:31:44.740 You won't know the Happy Mondays, will you, Harry?

00:31:46.500 You don't know who Bez is, do you?

00:31:47.900 Or do you?

00:31:48.920 I...

00:31:49.280 He looks very friendly.

00:31:51.180 Can't hear you, sorry.

00:31:53.540 I'm not sure.

00:31:54.900 Your mic's not working, but I can hear him and he's saying he doesn't know.

00:31:57.120 He's not sure.

00:31:58.280 Okay.

00:31:58.520 There was a band years ago, 30, 35 years ago, the Happy Mondays, and that guy called Bez,

00:32:07.220 I like Bez, by the way, let's be clear.

00:32:09.500 I'm a Bez fan.

00:32:11.100 I'm not throwing shade at good old Bez. 0.89

00:32:13.100 And Bez was in the Happy Mondays, and he wasn't even, like, he didn't even play an instrument.

00:32:20.600 He would, his job was to go there, and while the Happy Mondays played, he would just dance

00:32:26.800 around on the stage.

00:32:27.820 That was it.

00:32:30.560 Sometimes visibly high on drugs.

00:32:33.780 That got a laugh out of Harry.

00:32:35.820 Sometimes he'd play the maracas.

00:32:38.100 Sometimes he'd have the maracas going.

00:32:40.740 Good old Bez. 0.98

00:32:43.320 So, the news is, is that the Happy Mondays are doing a 35-year anniversary tour.

00:32:50.780 Like, that's it.

00:32:54.660 Don't worry, Bez happy, is the headline.

00:32:56.820 It's like, don't worry, be happy.

00:33:00.600 And the headline is, it's Blue Monday, you know, Bez cheers you up every day of the week.

00:33:08.040 Because he was relentlessly happy.

00:33:09.820 That's what Bez is.

00:33:11.240 He's sort of relentlessly upbeat and optimistic and dancing around, possibly on an E.

00:33:21.000 So, Bez, there you go.

00:33:23.300 He brightens up your Monday morning.

00:33:25.020 He brightens up your Monday morning with septuagenarian Bez. 0.98

00:33:31.120 I don't know how old he is, actually.

00:33:32.560 He's got to be knocking on, though, hasn't he?

00:33:34.480 35 years ago.

00:33:36.320 I mean, the 35-year anniversary tour of the Happy Mondays.

00:33:40.640 That's some great songs.

00:33:42.080 That's some great songs, Happy Mondays.

00:33:44.020 Again, I'm a fan of the Happy Mondays.

00:33:46.000 And Bez.

00:33:46.480 But, is that the front page?

00:33:50.200 Is that the most important thing going on in the world?

00:33:53.680 No, The Sun.

00:33:57.300 Oh, The Sun.

00:33:58.760 Again, The Sun's going with that story of that Jessie, that little mix, Jessie Nelson.

00:34:06.420 That she's got two babies.

00:34:08.280 She's got twins. 0.75

00:34:08.940 And they're sort of terribly ill.

00:34:10.200 They've got some sort of terrible disease.

00:34:11.540 For some reason, The Sun are obsessed with this story.

00:34:15.840 Put it on their front pages.

00:34:17.460 What, this is the third time in two weeks?

00:34:19.700 Is it?

00:34:20.940 Jessie loves split after twins' agony. 1.00

00:34:24.340 Her engagement is off to focus on the sick twins.

00:34:28.100 So, there's her partner there.

00:34:29.160 I don't know if you can see that.

00:34:29.980 It's quite small.

00:34:31.320 He's left her now.

00:34:36.460 I would have thought, if the babies are terribly ill, that's the time you should stay by your spouse or partner even more.

00:34:48.860 That's the time when they need you the most, isn't it?

00:34:51.520 Nope, according to that guy, whose name is Zion.

00:34:54.400 Zion Foster.

00:34:55.800 Mr. Foster.

00:34:57.580 There.

00:34:58.580 Has decided to leave her.

00:35:00.620 No further comment.

00:35:09.240 Okay, let's have a look at the actual websites.

00:35:13.880 Oh, yes, there's a big train crash in Spain.

00:35:17.300 Various death tolls I've seen.

00:35:19.100 This one says 21.

00:35:20.540 I've seen one of the 28 or 29 people.

00:35:24.120 Apparently, one train derailed and was hit by another at high speed.

00:35:30.620 Horrible.

00:35:31.840 Train crashes can be, like, nightmarish.

00:35:36.120 All people twisted up and mangled up.

00:35:37.780 I won't dwell on it, but terrible train crash in Spain.

00:35:40.600 There you go.

00:35:42.780 Terrible train crash in Spain.

00:35:45.380 Okay, here's a story.

00:35:47.720 There's been another defection to reform of a sitting MP.

00:35:53.260 Right, so now they're up to, what, seven?

00:35:54.720 So now reform have got seven MPs.

00:35:59.260 And one thing I was reading, it said that that puts them on the same number as Sinn Féin.

00:36:05.240 Not that Sinn Féin send their MPs to Westminster.

00:36:08.160 But so now reform have got the same number as Sinn Féin.

00:36:13.960 It's only the big parties and the SNP that have got more.

00:36:17.240 If reform get two more, they will have the same number as the SNP.

00:36:25.440 If they get one more than that, then they'll be, like, the fourth biggest party in the whole of Parliament.

00:36:31.480 After the big ones.

00:36:32.800 After the Labour-Tory Lib Dem.

00:36:35.300 So seven.

00:36:36.300 Seven MPs.

00:36:37.400 It's ticking up.

00:36:38.020 You might wonder, why isn't this, the Honourable Andrew Rosendale MP, why isn't his defection on the front page of any of the papers?

00:36:51.260 Because nobody cares about Andrew Rosendale.

00:36:54.180 That's why.

00:36:56.120 I mean, it is important.

00:36:56.920 It is kind of important news, I think.

00:36:59.640 Right, every time an actual MP, sitting MP, defects to reform.

00:37:03.940 That's quite big news.

00:37:05.300 It's quite important, I think, relatively speaking.

00:37:08.360 But this didn't get on the front page of anything.

00:37:11.820 Why exactly?

00:37:12.940 It's because Andrew Rosendale MP is a complete nothing man.

00:37:19.020 Sure, it ticks up reform's number by one.

00:37:21.760 Ticks the Tories down by one.

00:37:23.520 But Rosendale the man is a nothing burger.

00:37:27.600 He's a complete nothing burger of a man.

00:37:30.820 I happen to know Andrew Rosendale.

00:37:32.800 Not like he's a mate.

00:37:35.360 Not that I've got his number in my phone.

00:37:37.940 But he's the MP for Rumpford.

00:37:40.760 Now, I was born and raised in Rumpford.

00:37:45.600 Actually, not in Rumpford.

00:37:46.620 In the constituency of Rumpford.

00:37:48.240 But I was actually born and raised and went to school and everything.

00:37:50.920 In a little satellite town next to Rumpford.

00:37:54.100 Rumpford was like the big town nearby.

00:37:57.880 Right?

00:37:58.040 So, it's in East London or Havering.

00:38:01.620 The London Borough of Havering.

00:38:02.860 It's in Essex.

00:38:03.760 Where London peters out to the east and becomes Essex.

00:38:07.960 Havering.

00:38:08.540 That's where Rumpford is.

00:38:09.700 Okay.

00:38:10.140 So, he's been my MP my whole adult life.

00:38:12.340 I became an MP in the year 2001.

00:38:16.020 Right?

00:38:16.160 So, basically, my entire adult life.

00:38:18.280 He was my MP.

00:38:20.080 Andrew Rosendale.

00:38:20.460 I've met him a number of times.

00:38:21.900 I've met him, like, I don't know, five, six times.

00:38:24.700 Maybe more.

00:38:25.840 You walk around Rumpford.

00:38:27.540 Sometimes you just see him out there.

00:38:28.940 You know, have a little rosette on.

00:38:29.960 A little table.

00:38:32.100 You know, canvassing around election times.

00:38:34.440 Sometimes outside Rumpford Station or Gideon Park Station.

00:38:37.040 He might just be there occasionally.

00:38:38.280 Around election times.

00:38:40.180 Go to a school fete.

00:38:41.240 He might be there.

00:38:42.200 You know.

00:38:42.700 I've shook his hand, like, five or six times.

00:38:44.940 You know, I've met him.

00:38:45.620 One time, in fact, years ago.

00:38:47.820 Ten years ago.

00:38:48.420 Fifteen years ago.

00:38:49.820 I sent him a letter saying, when I was interested in politics.

00:38:53.080 When I was doing my master's degree in politics.

00:38:55.760 I said, as my MP, can I sort of meet you.

00:39:00.160 And sit down and talk to you a bit about all various things.

00:39:03.240 He blanked it for like a year or two.

00:39:04.720 And eventually said, yeah, go on then.

00:39:05.900 All right then.

00:39:06.540 So, I met him in Portculley's house in Parliament in Westminster.

00:39:09.640 We sat down.

00:39:10.160 We had lunch together.

00:39:10.720 And I talked to him for like a couple of hours.

00:39:13.900 So, I actually have met and know Andrew Rosendale a little bit.

00:39:17.220 Right.

00:39:17.440 Again, he's not a mate.

00:39:18.680 But I know him.

00:39:20.460 I've spoke to him for quite a while.

00:39:21.660 Had a long conversation with him.

00:39:24.340 Okay.

00:39:25.980 Now, it's a pretty safe Tory seat.

00:39:28.600 As I say, he's been the MP since 2001.

00:39:31.180 He used to enjoy a very, very big majority.

00:39:33.800 Very big majority.

00:39:34.680 Among, like, top ten, top twenty majorities.

00:39:37.760 Super safe seat.

00:39:38.500 Romford, Tories, super safe Tory seat.

00:39:41.660 Like, his majority used to be, it was always like, 17,000, 21,000, whatever, in that ballpark.

00:39:47.940 You know, he's definitely, definitely going to win every time.

00:39:50.720 At the last election, it went down to 1,400.

00:39:52.700 So, it's not a safe Tory seat anymore.

00:39:59.140 Why, you ask?

00:40:00.480 Well, one, because of the Tory treason of the previous 14 years, of course.

00:40:06.460 But also, the demographic of Romford has utterly, utterly changed.

00:40:10.540 Wherein, like, even in 2010, 2014, it was much the same as it had always been.

00:40:15.780 Basically, white, you know, Tory voting, white Essex.

00:40:20.280 Now, it's a foreign area. 0.99

00:40:22.780 I mean, really.

00:40:24.760 They're trying to build mosques all over the place.

00:40:26.740 You walk down the high street. 0.86

00:40:28.040 It's mainly black and brown faces.

00:40:31.840 I mean, really.

00:40:32.640 Completely changed in the space of five years, six, seven years.

00:40:37.060 Utterly, utterly changed.

00:40:38.460 A story that has played out up and down the length and breadth of this country.

00:40:43.400 Well, now, Rosendale has obviously made the calculation that he's more likely to get re-elected if he joins reform.

00:40:51.260 There you go.

00:40:52.480 But the man himself, I mean, an empty shirt.

00:40:56.760 A man without a chest. 0.80

00:40:58.840 You know, just a career politician.

00:41:00.760 Just a nothing man. 0.97

00:41:03.000 Right, Romford's rotten egg.

00:41:06.280 It was good on Europe, though.

00:41:10.240 He was always a staunch lever.

00:41:11.740 He's considered on the right of the Conservative Party.

00:41:15.300 He's one of the right-wingers of the Conservative Party.

00:41:18.160 Not that he's right-wing at all.

00:41:19.460 Not that he's got any real political, proper moral convictions or anything.

00:41:25.100 Or not that he's prepared to sort of...

00:41:26.740 Not that he's prepared to sort of shout from the rafters.

00:41:30.980 But he was always a staunch lever.

00:41:32.660 Give him that.

00:41:33.620 Right?

00:41:33.940 Little bit of credit where a little bit of credit is due.

00:41:36.480 He was always a staunch lever.

00:41:37.480 But he was always a backbencher, really.

00:41:39.740 I mean, in that picture, there he is.

00:41:40.940 He's standing at the back.

00:41:41.600 He's a backbencher.

00:41:43.260 I think he was like some sort of very, very minor shadow undersecretary or something like that.

00:41:47.660 But essentially a backbencher.

00:41:49.040 You've never seen Andrew Rosendale in cabinet on the front benches.

00:41:52.880 All throughout the Cameron years, May, the May years, Boris years, Rishi, whatever.

00:41:59.200 Because even the Tory party are like, Andrew Rosendale.

00:42:02.500 The Tory party win an election.

00:42:04.840 They're going to pick from all their MPs who they're going to make senior ministers and be in cabinet.

00:42:09.280 Andrew Rosendale doesn't get a look in.

00:42:11.200 Because he's an empty shirt. 0.94

00:42:13.560 He's a nothing man. 0.97

00:42:14.680 He's a joke, really.

00:42:15.940 I mean, when this happened, there was one quote from the Conservative Party, HQ.

00:42:19.220 And they said, oh, you're welcome to him.

00:42:20.320 That was literally the line.

00:42:21.220 That was literally the quote.

00:42:22.020 Oh, you're welcome to him. 0.51

00:42:23.120 He's an annoyance to them, an embarrassment to them.

00:42:25.120 He's just an and finally guy.

00:42:26.780 He's just a, oh yeah, Rumpford, Andrew Rosendale.

00:42:31.000 We don't care what he thinks and does about anything, really.

00:42:33.380 He's not, he's not like one of us almost.

00:42:36.040 He's like, he's like, oh, just be quiet and sit on the backbencher, Andrew.

00:42:42.600 He's a classic backbencher, in other words.

00:42:46.140 Right?

00:42:46.340 He doesn't write important, interesting opinion pieces for the Telegraph or anything.

00:42:52.020 He doesn't do firebrand speeches where he actually stands on his conviction in Parliament.

00:42:56.600 I remember one time, the only time I ever remember him standing up and making a speech, he's probably done more, but the only one I can recall, and this just gives you a measure of it, is that he once, a few years back, decided in a more or less empty chamber to do a little speech about the cruelty of animals in circuses.

00:43:16.800 Right, fair point, I don't want animals in circuses to be treated cruelly, but, like, really?

00:43:24.880 That's what you're going to do?

00:43:25.920 That's like, that's your level, is it?

00:43:30.060 Talking about that.

00:43:30.840 And even people in the Tory party are just sitting there, like, with their heads in their hands, like, tutting, like, oh, get on with it, Andrew, let's just get, let's get through this.

00:43:39.800 Who let Andrew Rosendale speak?

00:43:44.360 That's Andrew Rosendale.

00:43:45.460 Okay.

00:43:45.720 But he is considered on the right of the Tory party, again, nothing right about it, he's a massive fan of Thatcher, Lady Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher, massive, massive fan, like a classic Tory boy, he's living out his childhood dream of being a Tory boy, but even that is, now his majority is 1400, he's decided that NIAGE is what's needed to save the country. 0.91

00:44:15.720 Andrew Rosendale, Rotford's Rotten Egg.

00:44:19.900 Okay, what else have we got?

00:44:21.500 Credit score company encouraged me to borrow again when I was, when I was nearly debt free.

00:44:27.660 Little word on debt, someone out there is in debt.

00:44:31.420 Struggling with debt.

00:44:33.080 Thinking about getting a credit card, thinking about taking out a loan.

00:44:37.460 Don't do it if you can possibly, possibly do it.

00:44:39.680 If you're already in debt, make that your life's priority, to get out of debt.

00:44:45.720 Like, if you haven't got any debt or big borrowings, or you haven't got a credit card, and you think, oh, I'll just get a credit card so that I can afford a car or a holiday, that's mad.

00:45:01.460 Don't live beyond your means if you can possibly help it.

00:45:03.820 I mean, it sounds really obvious to say, but, because credit card companies will try and offer you credit, won't they?

00:45:15.940 Particularly if you're not already in credit, or you've only got a small amount of debt.

00:45:19.300 Have money, have this.

00:45:21.120 It's all a trap, it's all designed to get you, so they can get the interest.

00:45:29.280 If you're in debt, make it your life's priority to get out of debt as quickly as possible.

00:45:34.320 It's easier said than done, I know, I know.

00:45:36.460 I don't want to get all preachy, so I'll move on, but...

00:45:40.120 Debt is a terrible, terrible thing.

00:45:42.280 Try not to be in debt.

00:45:46.260 If Uncle Bozy can give you any life advice, try not to be, as I say, preachy, tell people what to do and how to live their lives.

00:45:53.380 I don't actually like doing that, but I think this is sound advice.

00:45:57.840 Get out of debt as quickly as possible.

00:46:00.300 Don't allow yourself to go into debt.

00:46:02.460 Alright.

00:46:03.500 US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief tells BBC.

00:46:08.260 Well, yeah, they would, wouldn't they?

00:46:12.280 It does, doesn't it?

00:46:15.060 Again, I don't want to be a cheerleader for the State Department and the Pentagon.

00:46:19.480 It's just reality.

00:46:21.460 Isn't it?

00:46:22.760 Isn't that just reality?

00:46:24.040 Of course the UN's going to be annoyed.

00:46:26.240 The UN, like the NATO, is like, oh, but we control the world.

00:46:29.440 We tell people what they can and can't do and think and say, don't we?

00:46:33.120 No, not really.

00:46:35.600 Not really.

00:46:36.780 No.

00:46:39.320 Beijing and Washington have the power.

00:46:41.160 And Moscow, a bit.

00:46:44.540 They've got the power.

00:46:47.060 Not the UN building in New York.

00:46:50.500 Okay, let's move on.

00:46:52.640 ITV News.

00:46:54.020 Almost already called to two.

00:46:54.960 Let's whip through a bit then, because it's mainly the same stuff.

00:46:58.360 Starmer and Trump had a conversation.

00:47:01.100 Look, Andrew Rosendale there. 1.00

00:47:02.200 Oh, he's also a bit of a moron as well. 1.00

00:47:09.000 As an intellect. 1.00

00:47:11.340 As a political mind.

00:47:13.540 There's nothing there.

00:47:15.500 There's really, really nothing there.

00:47:18.880 Okay.

00:47:19.720 Prince Harry to face Daily Mail's.

00:47:22.060 Publishers in court.

00:47:23.140 What you need to know.

00:47:23.960 I don't need to know.

00:47:24.900 Don't need to know anything about that.

00:47:26.120 Don't care.

00:47:27.360 Harry suing various papers over...

00:47:29.760 Channel 4.

00:47:32.960 Let's not even look at Channel 4.

00:47:34.740 They're an absurd organ.

00:47:38.200 Sky News.

00:47:39.180 That terrible Spanish train crash.

00:47:41.640 See, yeah, that one says there's 39 people have been killed.

00:47:45.480 Looks rough.

00:47:46.560 Looks rough.

00:47:47.120 The Mail.

00:47:50.640 The Mail Online.

00:47:52.220 Trump says he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace

00:47:55.820 after being refused Nobel Peace Prize in Extraordinary Greenland Letter.

00:48:01.180 Yeah, Trump has always wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.

00:48:03.060 Thinks he deserves one.

00:48:04.120 Thinks he's owed one.

00:48:05.340 I mean, whether you agree with that or not,

00:48:08.860 I would say it's a bit old school, the old dynamic boomer world view

00:48:13.460 that a Nobel Peace Prize means anything, really.

00:48:17.120 Who cares what that committee, the Nobel Prize Committee, thinks?

00:48:21.900 Why would you care what they really...

00:48:23.940 What they think, particularly?

00:48:27.800 Worry about what the Court of History will think of you.

00:48:33.280 Nobel Peace Prize.

00:48:35.160 It's not the 70s.

00:48:36.140 Why would you care about that, really?

00:48:39.620 Newly-weared couple.

00:48:40.760 Okay, don't care about new...

00:48:42.140 Individual stories about...

00:48:44.280 Okay, a royal family thing.

00:48:45.780 Fergie just made her first smart choice in months.

00:48:49.040 One royal can heave a sigh of relief.

00:48:51.980 Sarah Ferguson.

00:48:54.000 Do we care what Prince Andrew...

00:48:56.720 Disgraced ex-Prince Andrew...

00:48:59.100 Now just Andrew, Mountbatten, Windsor...

00:49:01.940 What his ex-wife does and thinks about things...

00:49:05.100 That no one cared about anyway.

00:49:07.560 That was a butt of jokes anyway.

00:49:09.860 Sarah Ferguson.

00:49:10.580 Fergie.

00:49:12.540 Europe can weaponise US bases against Trump's Greenland takeover in major NATO split.

00:49:17.080 Yeah, that was something I was saying earlier about all the US bases that are in...

00:49:20.800 That are in Europe. 0.50

00:49:22.140 Like, if they decided...

00:49:25.280 Again, I said I don't think they will.

00:49:26.960 They haven't got the guts to do it.

00:49:29.100 But if the European countries decided...

00:49:30.920 Like, we're going to sort of unilaterally just take all your hardware that's in our country.

00:49:36.820 Like, all the American fast jets that are in Germany.

00:49:40.260 Like, if there's, like, F-22s or F-35s or whatever.

00:49:45.740 Dozens of them, maybe, in Germany or in the UK.

00:49:47.780 And the UK or German government just said, they're ours now. 0.97

00:49:53.560 Again, they wouldn't have the balls to do that, I don't think. 0.93

00:49:57.980 Alright, what's the son doing? 0.99

00:49:59.380 What's the son saying?

00:50:00.100 Oh, yeah.

00:50:01.640 Yeah.

00:50:03.600 Poor Jesse Nelson's partner has decided to run away.

00:50:10.640 Good guy.

00:50:13.480 Seems like a nice guy.

00:50:17.780 Alright, the New York slimes.

00:50:19.580 China's birth rate plunges to lowest level since 1949.

00:50:22.780 The country's birth rate fell to the lowest level since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

00:50:26.840 As policy makers failed to slow a demographic crisis.

00:50:32.080 Still the most populous country in the world, isn't it, China?

00:50:34.400 Like, easily.

00:50:35.620 Or did India overtake them in recent years, perhaps?

00:50:38.180 But still, I don't think China needs to worry at this point about not having enough people.

00:50:45.040 Real estate crash weighs on China's economic growth.

00:50:50.740 Okay, the New York Times going with all sorts of Chinese things this morning.

00:50:54.800 Can Vietnam's Communist Party supercharge its economy with private enterprise?

00:50:59.840 I don't know, can it?

00:51:01.940 Why the New York Times is interested in all these sorts of things.

00:51:05.500 EU leans towards negotiating, not retaliating over Trump's tariff threat.

00:51:09.700 If you say so, New York Times.

00:51:14.300 The Washington Post.

00:51:15.120 European nations weigh retaliation after Trump's greenland threats.

00:51:18.500 Okay.

00:51:19.040 FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting.

00:51:22.140 None exists now, Justice Department says.

00:51:26.580 Yeah, from what I read last week,

00:51:29.960 that individual police officer or ICE agent

00:51:33.700 that shot that woman through the windscreen

00:51:35.960 was not going to face any charges for that.

00:51:40.640 So I thought that was old news by this point.

00:51:43.300 But, so there is no FBI probe into it anymore.

00:51:46.380 Yeah, I think they had a look at it and decided,

00:51:49.660 at the very least, they decided,

00:51:51.360 if this went to court, we would lose.

00:51:54.480 So, we're not even going to take it to court.

00:51:56.740 That's often the way the powers that be go,

00:52:00.900 whether it's the Justice Department

00:52:02.120 or the Crown Prosecution Service, the British equivalent.

00:52:05.480 They look at a case, and if they think,

00:52:08.680 if they're confident they would lose in court,

00:52:11.980 they just don't take it any further.

00:52:15.580 Because it's always embarrassing for them,

00:52:17.500 for the Crown or for the DOJ.

00:52:20.520 It's embarrassing to lose.

00:52:22.780 So, you just don't...

00:52:24.020 OK, the Los Angeles Slimes, it really is bad.

00:52:27.540 I might take the Los Angeles Times off of this.

00:52:30.080 What do you think, people? Let me know.

00:52:32.360 The LA Times just does seem pretty crap. 0.97

00:52:37.080 State and LA initiatives seek to tax wealthiest. 0.98

00:52:41.760 Classic socialist stuff.

00:52:43.680 Lawmakers split over calls to abolish ICE.

00:52:46.800 The story about American football.

00:52:50.140 Does the Bose Show care about American football particularly?

00:52:52.600 Are there enough American football fans,

00:52:54.760 gridiron fans out there watching this,

00:52:57.180 or they want me to update you on something like

00:52:59.360 that the Rams overcome Caleb Williams' insane

00:53:02.960 tying touchdown pass to beat Bears in overtime?

00:53:08.220 Let me know if that's the sort of story you're interested in.

00:53:12.740 I suspect...

00:53:13.700 I suspect not.

00:53:15.100 Not particularly.

00:53:15.860 There'll be a few football fans out there,

00:53:17.340 won't they, watching this,

00:53:18.080 but I doubt it's very many.

00:53:19.400 All right, let's go over to Down Under.

00:53:22.900 So the Aussies. 0.99

00:53:24.680 Are ye?

00:53:26.380 Not here to prop them up.

00:53:28.160 Pauline Henson.

00:53:29.500 Pauline Henson's eyes government as support rises.

00:53:32.980 That's the One Nation leader,

00:53:35.300 Pauline Hanson.

00:53:36.240 His eye in government after a new poll revealed

00:53:38.260 support for her party has snowballed to a huge 22%.

00:53:41.740 Interesting for Australian politics,

00:53:46.760 if that is the case.

00:53:48.440 In these day and age,

00:53:50.340 perhaps 22% is enough to,

00:53:52.120 if not win government,

00:53:54.780 to at least be a big, big player

00:53:56.680 on the scene.

00:53:59.660 Albanese avoids naming radical Islam

00:54:03.780 as he's urged to apologise to Jewish communities.

00:54:06.540 Again, Australia, 0.76

00:54:07.660 that's a story Australia trying to put through

00:54:09.200 more laws to sort of curtail hate and hate speech

00:54:13.440 in the actual wording of the legislation,

00:54:17.000 as I understand it.

00:54:18.280 No mention of radical Islam. 0.92

00:54:23.420 Mad, isn't it? 0.99

00:54:24.260 Mad.

00:54:24.500 Mad. 0.98

00:54:26.360 These people. 0.99

00:54:28.320 They must be mad. 0.98

00:54:29.520 Literally mad.

00:54:32.260 All right, let's move on.

00:54:33.540 What are the Japanese looking at 1.00

00:54:34.640 and talking about this morning?

00:54:35.640 Oh, I've only got five minutes left.

00:54:36.700 Let's have just a quick look.

00:54:38.500 A snowboarding story.

00:54:40.440 A story about wedding dresses.

00:54:43.580 Story about taekwondo.

00:54:45.400 All right.

00:54:46.240 Let's just move on.

00:54:47.440 With only five minutes to go,

00:54:48.840 let's have a quick look at what's happened

00:54:50.720 on this day in history.

00:54:51.520 I like this segment.

00:54:53.340 I like this segment.

00:54:54.200 So on the 19th of January,

00:54:56.700 in the year 379 AD,

00:54:59.500 Theodosius,

00:55:01.080 one of the great Roman emperors,

00:55:03.600 Eastern Roman emperors,

00:55:04.520 Theodosius I,

00:55:07.280 sort of saved,

00:55:08.460 at least the Eastern Roman Empire

00:55:09.840 from sort of Gothic and Vandalic invasions.

00:55:14.800 In the year 379,

00:55:16.100 Theodosius was installed as co-emperor

00:55:17.880 of the Eastern Roman Empire

00:55:18.940 by Emperor Gracian,

00:55:21.100 charged with repelling the Goths.

00:55:23.260 Yeah.

00:55:24.400 That's one of the points in history,

00:55:25.880 just to let you know,

00:55:27.080 where the sauces fall off a cliff.

00:55:30.120 Before that point,

00:55:30.920 we've got a fair few sauces,

00:55:32.900 ancient sauces,

00:55:33.660 people writing in the ancient world,

00:55:35.140 telling us what happened

00:55:36.060 and in what order

00:55:36.740 and how things happened.

00:55:38.280 Around that time,

00:55:39.060 around the age of Theodosius,

00:55:40.440 that falls off a cliff.

00:55:42.080 We fall into something of a dark age,

00:55:44.640 just in terms,

00:55:45.360 purely in terms of source material,

00:55:48.620 before anyone gets all eggy about it.

00:55:50.120 It's not a dark age,

00:55:50.880 it was never a dark age.

00:55:52.420 Talking about in terms of sauces,

00:55:55.120 first-hand primary sauces.

00:55:57.340 They sort of fall off a cliff at that point,

00:55:58.680 and so the story,

00:56:00.780 our view of history gets darker.

00:56:03.100 The light of history is turned down.

00:56:04.900 The Bunsen burner of the light of history

00:56:07.400 is turned down at that point.

00:56:08.400 Okay, in the year 1812,

00:56:11.500 in the Peninsular War, this is,

00:56:13.200 after a 10-day siege,

00:56:14.660 Arthur Wellesley,

00:56:16.020 better known as the First Duke of Wellington,

00:56:18.340 orders British soldiers

00:56:19.360 of the Light and Third Division

00:56:21.820 to storm Ciudad Rodrigo

00:56:24.400 during the Peninsular War.

00:56:25.620 I've got all sorts of content,

00:56:28.380 history-themed content,

00:56:30.320 behind the paint wall on lotteseegers.com

00:56:32.100 for my show, Epochs.

00:56:34.640 There it is, Epochs.

00:56:37.140 I've got all sorts of content,

00:56:38.140 talking about the Peninsular War

00:56:39.260 and the life and career of Arthur Wellesley,

00:56:41.840 the Duke of Wellington.

00:56:43.640 Fascinated by the Peninsular War.

00:56:46.060 Read tons and tons about it

00:56:47.500 for years and years and years on end.

00:56:48.900 That ended in a terrible...

00:56:50.260 We eventually took Ciudad Rodrigo,

00:56:53.100 but a terrible cost,

00:56:55.200 a terrible price.

00:56:56.860 Blast a breach in the wall

00:56:58.040 and just send a forlorn hope in

00:57:00.120 waves of men that got mowed down.

00:57:03.760 Terrible bloodbath,

00:57:05.200 the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo.

00:57:06.760 Lots and lots of very brave men

00:57:09.780 got slaughtered there.

00:57:12.260 If memory serves,

00:57:13.000 that was the one where

00:57:13.640 Arthur Wellesley actually shed a tear

00:57:15.520 afterwards.

00:57:17.660 The Iron Duke,

00:57:18.500 not the sort of man to shed a tear.

00:57:20.840 But on that one he did,

00:57:21.780 because it was so sort of

00:57:22.860 hellacious.

00:57:25.500 All right, we're very near the top of the hour,

00:57:27.180 so let's read a few

00:57:28.240 YouTube superchats.

00:57:32.520 What have we got here?

00:57:34.000 Neglectful Sausage says, 0.97

00:57:35.760 as a dirty Mercian, 0.97

00:57:37.260 sort of the Midlands, 0.99

00:57:38.220 as a dirty Mercian, 0.97

00:57:39.960 I want Trump to tariff the EU countries

00:57:42.060 for not closing borders

00:57:44.280 and six foot roping the rest. 0.89

00:57:48.140 Oh, six foot roping, okay.

00:57:48.920 Yeah, right, yeah, fair enough.

00:57:53.660 Kind of agree with you there, yeah, yeah.

00:57:56.200 Yeah, Mr. Trump

00:57:57.320 is within his rights

00:57:59.980 to sort of

00:58:01.680 get serious with EU countries

00:58:04.160 that are trying to mess with

00:58:05.100 his programme

00:58:05.940 re-Greenland.

00:58:07.500 Okay, same person,

00:58:11.780 Neglectful Sausage,

00:58:12.980 thank you for another five bucks,

00:58:14.400 says,

00:58:15.540 decolonise the USA and EU 0.88

00:58:17.560 of any global southerners.

00:58:20.540 Yeah, clear them out.

00:58:22.160 We've got to clear them out.

00:58:24.920 Get rid of them. 0.70

00:58:27.800 Mass deportations, 0.96

00:58:28.900 mass re-migration

00:58:29.600 is an inevitability.

00:58:33.180 The Chronicles of Chris 942 says,

00:58:36.580 why does no one ask

00:58:38.240 the people living in Greenland?

00:58:40.160 Well, I mean,

00:58:40.700 I think they do,

00:58:41.780 they have to an extent.

00:58:43.840 Every now and again

00:58:44.700 they'll be mentioned.

00:58:46.040 I mean,

00:58:46.760 there's not very many of them.

00:58:48.660 The entire population of Greenland

00:58:49.920 is something like

00:58:50.680 56,000, 57,000 people.

00:58:52.440 A lot of those

00:58:52.960 are basically Danish people.

00:58:55.700 So like the actual,

00:58:57.220 truly sort of

00:58:58.800 native,

00:59:00.640 Inuit,

00:59:01.940 descended people of Greenland.

00:59:03.540 There's not a very big population.

00:59:05.280 There's certainly not

00:59:05.640 a giant population.

00:59:08.680 And so both

00:59:09.760 the Kingdom of Denmark

00:59:11.600 and the United States of America

00:59:13.380 are just such big powers.

00:59:17.060 You know,

00:59:17.400 they'll do a token effort.

00:59:18.640 What do you think?

00:59:19.360 We'll do a little poll.

00:59:20.480 And they nearly always say,

00:59:21.280 we want to be our own thing,

00:59:22.380 if anything.

00:59:24.160 But neither Denmark 0.98

00:59:25.420 nor the US

00:59:26.000 want to hear that.

00:59:28.540 Right?

00:59:29.160 Those Inuit people 1.00

00:59:30.240 of Greenland,

00:59:31.440 I think,

00:59:32.040 for a long, long time,

00:59:33.360 have said,

00:59:33.620 we'd rather not even

00:59:35.260 be ruled by Denmark.

00:59:36.100 If anything,

00:59:36.680 we should be our own thing,

00:59:37.820 couldn't we?

00:59:38.240 Shouldn't we?

00:59:39.240 And Denmark,

00:59:39.680 I go,

00:59:40.020 well,

00:59:40.300 anyway,

00:59:41.320 move on.

00:59:42.380 So if Denmark

00:59:42.960 aren't interested in that,

00:59:44.780 the United States

00:59:45.640 aren't going to be.

00:59:46.560 And yet,

00:59:46.780 they still do pay

00:59:47.540 some lip service to it.

00:59:48.720 You know,

00:59:48.900 when J.D. Vance

00:59:49.480 went over there

00:59:50.000 the other year,

00:59:51.580 he talked to those people

00:59:53.260 and said,

00:59:53.700 we're on your side.

00:59:54.820 If you let us control you,

00:59:56.200 Greenland,

00:59:56.780 you'll have so much more wealth.

00:59:58.460 We'll invest so much more

00:59:59.260 than Denmark ever did.

01:00:00.960 It'll blow your mind

01:00:02.080 how amazing Greenland will be

01:00:03.400 if you let the United States

01:00:04.400 control you.

01:00:07.680 Probably not wrong as well.

01:00:08.800 The U.S. probably will invest

01:00:10.760 way more money

01:00:12.760 than Denmark ever could.

01:00:14.780 That's probably not

01:00:15.440 just an empty liar, 0.78

01:00:16.980 I would have thought. 0.96

01:00:19.800 Okay.

01:00:22.140 Zajut 149

01:00:23.980 says,

01:00:24.140 the Nobel Prize

01:00:25.480 has been handed out

01:00:26.680 to war criminals

01:00:27.400 and human traffickers.

01:00:28.300 Right, yeah.

01:00:29.480 Trump will only have

01:00:30.540 his legacy tainted

01:00:31.500 by getting it.

01:00:32.780 Yeah,

01:00:33.320 it's not a bad thing to say.

01:00:35.860 Fair point.

01:00:36.340 Absolutely fair point.

01:00:39.800 Yeah,

01:00:40.220 I don't know why

01:00:40.780 you would,

01:00:41.460 any person

01:00:42.260 that's like a

01:00:43.060 straddling history,

01:00:44.600 anyone that's like

01:00:45.120 the President

01:00:45.620 of the United States,

01:00:46.840 somebody on that level,

01:00:49.700 why you would still

01:00:50.740 cover a Nobel Prize.

01:00:54.140 Yeah,

01:00:55.560 because they've been

01:00:56.060 handed out to some

01:00:56.840 bad people in the past.

01:00:59.880 I wouldn't.

01:01:01.280 If I was President

01:01:01.860 of the United States,

01:01:02.520 I wouldn't give a moment's

01:01:03.440 thought about whether

01:01:04.020 or not I was going to

01:01:05.200 win or not win

01:01:06.200 a Nobel Peace Prize.

01:01:07.580 I just wouldn't,

01:01:08.140 I just wouldn't register

01:01:08.900 on my things to care about.

01:01:11.040 But Trump seems to

01:01:11.820 really care about it.

01:01:12.640 Okay,

01:01:13.120 we are the top of the hour.

01:01:14.100 It has just struck

01:01:14.880 one minute past nine

01:01:15.780 in the a.m.

01:01:18.280 On Monday,

01:01:19.280 the 19th of January,

01:01:20.640 2026.

01:01:21.800 Thank you for watching.

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01:01:31.380 Thank you for tuning in.

01:01:33.120 Today is the first day

01:01:33.980 of the rest of your life.

01:01:34.800 Try and make it count.

01:01:35.700 You'll only have this day once.

01:01:37.580 Once it's gone,

01:01:38.200 it's gone.

01:01:39.260 Carpe diem.

01:01:39.940 Seize the day,

01:01:40.660 if you can.

01:01:41.300 I know it's not always possible.

01:01:43.220 But if you can,

01:01:44.000 attempt to seize the day.

01:01:45.380 All right,

01:01:45.660 well,

01:01:46.140 until tomorrow then,

01:01:47.560 take care.

01:01:48.000 See you next time.

01:01:49.380 Bye.

01:01:50.740 Bye.

01:01:51.240 Cheers.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 19, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 19th January 2026

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