The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 29, 2026


Breakfast With Beau | Monday 29th June 2026

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US and Iran agree to stand down after strikes on each other's forces in the Strait of Hormuz, Princess Diana in peak condition and Wimbledon starts today, plus all the rest of the news from the day.

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00:00:00 Morning, you alright?
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00:01:04 faffing about what's what's the point of all that fannying around let's just get on with it
00:01:07 let's get on with the show that's what you're here for all right what's in the legacy corporate
00:01:10 mainstream media this morning what's the front pages of the uh fleet street the print media
00:01:14 talking about in britain today let's have a look all right we've got burnham's 10-year mission
00:01:20 andy bumham king of the north no stern and burnham wants 10 years in power
00:01:25 Okay bro
00:01:28 He's going to need 10 years to
00:01:30 Fulfill his mission
00:01:32 To destabilise and undermine our society
00:01:35 Needs 10 years for that
00:01:37 Okay
00:01:37 Might be nice to call a general election straight away then
00:01:41 To actually have a mandate
00:01:42 Maybe
00:01:43 Alright
00:01:45 And princess in peaks condition
00:01:48 Princess of Wales
00:01:50 Is in peak condition now
00:01:52 Because she got over cancer
00:01:53 She beat cancer
00:01:54 And she's climbed three of the highest peaks in Britain
00:01:57 So princess in peaks condition
00:01:59 We'll get to it, we'll get to it
00:02:01 A little bit of sport today, I'm afraid, can't avoid it
00:02:03 A little bit of football, it is in the front pages
00:02:05 I'll keep it to an absolute minimum
00:02:06 You know me, I try to be a river to my people
00:02:08 I know you guys don't care about it
00:02:10 It's also Wimbledon, Wimbledon starts today
00:02:11 So again, very very briefly, just because it's on the front pages
00:02:14 Alright, let's start then, let's get straight into it
00:02:17 The Financial Times
00:02:17 Golf strikes, US and Iran in peril truce
00:02:24 again so if you remember they signed that memorandum of understanding which gave themselves
00:02:31 60 days to come to full-blown proper proper peace deal
00:02:38 well over the weekend last few days uh iran and the us exchanged strikes again
00:02:45 so iran fired things at u.s bases in kuwait and bahrain apparently none of them hit any of the
00:02:55 targets no one was killed and nothing was damaged like the drones or missiles or whatever were shot
00:03:00 out of the sky before they hit anything nonetheless the americans say they did the
00:03:05 iranians did that and then the americans hit back on targets inside southern iran
00:03:10 you know with fast jets and stuff but then they've both decided to stop that or iran also
00:03:18 fired something or other a cargo ship in the straits of hormuz
00:03:22 according according to reports i wasn't there i haven't seen any of this with my own two
00:03:28 eyeballs lotus eaters has not verified i'm just telling you what's in the news in fact
00:03:34 should we have a before we go on should we have a quick look at that a touch more detail
00:03:38 let's have a look yeah look um u.s says it has agreed with iran to stand down after trading
00:03:46 strikes reports say just a quick update i think a lot of people a lot of people are getting um
00:03:53 like burnt out with the iran thing they don't seem to care a great deal at this point i mean
00:04:01 as oil let's have a look at oil actually west texas just shy of 70 dollars a barrel 69.6 dollars a
00:04:09 barrel rent rent crude down 72 dollars and lower significantly or well certainly lower than it was
00:04:20 at the start of the war all right uh the us and iran have agreed to stand down following an exchange
00:04:29 strikes over the past few days media reports say citing a u.s official it comes after several
00:04:33 attacks in and around the straits of hormuz culminating both nations accusing each other
00:04:37 of violating the ceasefire isn't that the story of the last at least the latter part of this war
00:04:43 both sides accusing each other of violating their ceasefire
00:04:49 how many times have we had that play out now quite a few isn't it
00:04:51 Quite a few
00:04:55 But Iran hasn't just walked away from the negotiating table entirely
00:04:59 Nor has the US
00:05:01 Okay
00:05:04 It goes on to say basically what I already told you
00:05:09 Over the weekend the US retaliated with a series of strikes on Iran
00:05:14 Hitting multiple targets in what the US Central Command, CENTCOM
00:05:17 called a direct response to the quote continued aggression against commercial shipping there you
00:05:23 go all right that's that's sort of the update on that the 60-day thing is still ongoing about two
00:05:31 weeks into it now they exchanged fire or i suppose the other element to it is hezbollah and israel
00:05:39 like hezbollah said they're just not going to stop you know it's part of iran's one of iran's
00:05:46 red lines in the sand is that they're going to need Israel to stop attacking Hezbollah
00:05:51 in order for Israel to stop attacking Hezbollah. Even the hope, the outside scant hope of that
00:05:58 happening means that Hezbollah has to stop attacking Israel. Because whenever Hezbollah 0.98
00:06:05 attack Israel, Israel are going to respond. The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group
00:06:13 has rejected the agreement and accused the beirut government of undermining lebanon lebanon
00:06:18 sovereignty also due to ongoing fighting between israel forces and the iranian backed hezbollah
00:06:23 in southern lebanon that's ceasefire also looked shaky so yet on sunday yesterday two days after
00:06:32 the agreement was signed uh the israeli army said it had struck a 200 meter long tunnel used by
00:06:37 hezbollah in southern lebanon which you said contained hundreds of weapons so basically
00:06:41 the us and iran need israel hezbollah to stop fighting each other and neither of those two
00:06:47 parties are prepared to do that it seems at this point in time okay all right that's where we are
00:06:59 with that can anyone stop either hezbollah or israel doing within reason whatever they like
00:07:08 Or whenever they like
00:07:09 Can Tehran or Washington do that?
00:07:15 Not very likely is it
00:07:16 Alright, let's move on
00:07:18 There was that giant earthquake in Venezuela as well
00:07:21 We'll talk about that in a bit
00:07:22 Burnham sets out a 10 year mission
00:07:25 To raise living standards nationwide
00:07:28 Okay, what's his plan?
00:07:31 So one thing I'll say about this is that he's set to do a speech
00:07:33 His first big sort of keynote speech all about policy today
00:07:36 so everything that's being reported about today is we expect burnham to say it's thought that
00:07:42 mr burnham will say xyz he hasn't said it yet he's going to today so probably tomorrow it'll
00:07:49 be all over the front pages again another burnham day of what he actually said so yeah again this
00:07:56 morning it's just this is what we think this is what has been leaked policy pitched by a pm in
00:08:02 waiting to happen later today echoes of starmer and johnson bid to balance uh northern emphasis
00:08:10 echoes of starmer and johnson is just like you know when a leader comes into power they promise
00:08:16 the earth don't they i am going to do xyz it's going to be all singing all dancing
00:08:21 and everything's going to be better it's a new dawn
00:08:23 And then they get into power
00:08:30 And their own party and quangos
00:08:32 And the markets don't behave exactly how they want them
00:08:34 And need them to
00:08:35 Yeah so part of Burnham's
00:08:38 Idea is more devolution
00:08:40 Even more devolution
00:08:43 Taking more and more powers away from Westminster
00:08:46 And putting them in the hands of local authorities
00:08:49 And according to Burnham
00:08:54 What Burnham's expected to say
00:08:56 His Manchester model
00:08:57 That's better for the country
00:09:00 They'll be able to cut
00:09:02 Welfare spending
00:09:04 More easily that way
00:09:06 You sure about that?
00:09:11 You sure about that?
00:09:14 And in loads of different ways
00:09:16 It'll just be better
00:09:17 A better way of
00:09:18 better form of governance according to no stern and burnham
00:09:21 hasn't worked so so it hasn't worked very well so far has it the devolution experiment ever
00:09:29 since the blair years i wouldn't say
00:09:32 in both britain we've reversed nearly all probably all devolution it just makes us weaker
00:09:40 simply makes us weaker in my opinion all right what else have we got here
00:09:47 The Toregraph, the Daily Telegraph
00:09:49 Oh, as I say, Wimbledon starts today
00:09:54 There's that British ace 0.99
00:09:56 Emma Raducanu
00:09:58 Sorry, Raducanu
00:10:00 I always say Raducanu, don't I?
00:10:01 He was a football player from the 90s, early 2000s
00:10:03 Raducanu
00:10:04 The half Chinese, half Romanian, Canadian-born girl
00:10:08 That is apparently British now 0.73
00:10:10 And she's a bit pretty 1.00
00:10:12 So they always often put her on the front pages of the paper 0.99
00:10:15 Or in the paper
00:10:15 she's actually quite um she's a really average player well she's not even going to be in
00:10:20 wimbledon because she's injured she's got a stress fracture there you go i'll play through the pain
00:10:25 that's out of date all the other uh all the other papers are saying no she's she's out she's just
00:10:30 injured she's not going to do it at all all right bum ham give me 10 years to fix britain yeah right
00:10:36 bro sure incoming prime minister sets out his stall to boost economy through devolution to me
00:10:44 That feels like a contradiction
00:10:45 I'm going to boost economy through devolution
00:10:48 Really?
00:10:52 Really?
00:10:53 Apparently there's no real talk of
00:10:55 Sort of cutting taxes for the high street and things
00:10:58 If anything there's all sorts of talk of
00:10:59 Taxing the middle classes more 1.00
00:11:02 People that might own small businesses 1.00
00:11:05 Type of people
00:11:05 Tax them more if anything
00:11:07 You're going to boost the economy 1.00
00:11:09 You're going to talk about remigration 1.00
00:11:11 You're going to get rid of the 10 million plus people here 1.00
00:11:13 That are a sponge on our society 1.00
00:11:15 No
00:11:15 I'm not going to boost the economy that way
00:11:18 Oh
00:11:18 Oh, okay
00:11:20 They're going to radically cut taxes
00:11:25 And spending
00:11:26 Of course not
00:11:30 He's a leftist
00:11:31 Ben Stokes, tiny bit more sport
00:11:33 I'll keep it very minimal
00:11:34 Ben Stokes, who was until fairly recently
00:11:37 The captain of the England cricket team
00:11:39 He's not resigned
00:11:42 He's retired from the sport
00:11:43 He says, mid-game as well
00:11:45 That's weird, never heard of that before in my life
00:11:47 He had an innings
00:11:49 Got out
00:11:50 And then while the match was still going on, announced his retirement
00:11:53 Okay, that's all I'll say
00:11:55 Trump fears new PM
00:11:57 Will fall short on defence
00:11:59 Yeah
00:11:59 Trump's obviously been briefed about no Stern and Burnham
00:12:03 That he's just a Keir 2.0
00:12:05 Just the same man
00:12:07 As Keir Starmer, basically
00:12:08 Perhaps with slightly more
00:12:13 charisma and but slightly more to the left but all intents and purposes as far as someone like
00:12:19 the donald is concerned it's like the same guy
00:12:21 and burnham was already signaled hasn't he that he's not going to spend tons more on defense if
00:12:29 any more at all the government finally came to the conclusion that although the army desperately
00:12:34 needs absolute minimum something like or a navy needs something like 18 billion he's like no we'll
00:12:39 Gave you 13.5 billion
00:12:40 Bumham has already said
00:12:43 Yeah we're going to stick with that
00:12:44 That's good
00:12:45 Stand with that
00:12:46 So that doesn't make the White House happy does it
00:12:50 Yeah the few things
00:12:53 A few comments Trump has made about Burnham
00:12:56 Are like
00:12:56 Things like
00:12:58 Isn't he just the mayor of some city
00:13:00 Something like that
00:13:01 Like quite very
00:13:01 Well I say quite very dismissive
00:13:03 Of him
00:13:03 He's just the mayor of some city somewhere right
00:13:05 Who is he
00:13:09 who is he um sort of a sort of a comment almost 20 000 from foreign criminals avoid deportation
00:13:18 okay okay
00:13:23 this argument that labor is actually based in some way because the immigration figures came
00:13:28 down slightly from the peak of the boris wave of the rishi years they're somehow based no
00:13:35 Nope
00:13:36 That was always a pretty subversive take
00:13:40 In my opinion
00:13:41 That was always bananas
00:13:45 Of course not
00:13:47 Of course not
00:13:48 There we go
00:13:51 Shabana Mahmood
00:13:52 Shabana Mahmood
00:13:56 A cuckoo in the nest 1.00
00:13:58 A foreigner 1.00
00:13:58 A foreign person
00:14:01 By ethnic origin
00:14:04 Let's 20,000 criminals avoid deportation 1.00
00:14:09 Talking about foreign criminals
00:14:14 One bit that's in the news, some news today
00:14:17 Well, not really in the corporate mainstream media news very much
00:14:21 Certainly not front and centre
00:14:23 But people are concerned about
00:14:27 Is this story, a classic case of
00:14:29 The rest of the world is interested in a certain story
00:14:32 But the legacy corporate mainstream media
00:14:33 Try and either completely ignore it
00:14:36 Or report it
00:14:37 And then try and memory hold it
00:14:38 As quickly as humanly possible
00:14:40 Man charged with rape and murder
00:14:45 After girl's death
00:14:46 Just a man murdered a girl
00:14:48 So it's a man murdered a girl 0.99
00:14:52 A Somali man raped and murdered a two year old 0.99
00:14:58 Is what happened 0.99
00:14:59 In England
00:15:00 Oh no wait 0.83
00:15:05 Was he Somali or wasn't 0.97
00:15:06 He was Congo 1.00
00:15:07 Come on and do the Congo 1.00
00:15:09 We'll get to that in a minute 0.99
00:15:11 I haven't just made that
00:15:11 I'm not just being flippant
00:15:12 For the sake of it
00:15:12 We'll get to that
00:15:13 That's on the front pages
00:15:14 We'll get to it
00:15:17 We'll get to it
00:15:17 I think he's from the Congo
00:15:19 And he was 0.99
00:15:20 Yeah that's right
00:15:21 Central African Republic
00:15:23 Is where he's born
00:15:23 But he's a French national
00:15:24 But he's in England 1.00
00:15:26 In Surrey 0.99
00:15:27 Where he raped and murdered 0.98
00:15:29 A two year old 0.97
00:15:29 Right
00:15:31 Okay
00:15:34 Is there anything more barbaric than that
00:15:37 Other than multiple two year olds
00:15:39 Or it being a one year old
00:15:41 Is there anything
00:15:42 Is there anything more barbaric than that 1.00
00:15:44 What was this Congolese French person 1.00
00:15:47 Doing here
00:15:49 And if I saw one report
00:15:54 Hopefully I'm not getting this wrong
00:15:55 I saw one report briefly earlier this morning
00:15:57 Saying that he was
00:15:58 is also going to be charged with another rape of like a 13 year old or something 0.97
00:16:02 it's just an utter monster a monster
00:16:07 but the headline is just man charged with rape and murder after girl's death 0.92
00:16:14 all right hey guys all the fleet street editors that cabal of evil fleet hey guys
00:16:20 On the front pages, yeah 0.71
00:16:23 Don't mention the Congo guy 1.00
00:16:27 That raped and murdered a two year old, right 0.63
00:16:29 We're just going to skip over that, yeah 0.98
00:16:30 We're going to try and memory halt that, right
00:16:32 And remember guys, yeah
00:16:33 As like every day, don't mention
00:16:35 Les Wexner, or Ehud Barak
00:16:38 Or the Fifth Battle of Rothschild
00:16:40 Or George Osborne
00:16:41 And that yacht, and what Jeffrey Epstein actually was
00:16:44 His giant blackmailing machine
00:16:46 Don't mention that, yeah, got it, cool
00:16:47 a daily mail pure subversive filth globalist filth trying to pretend it's something other 0.88
00:17:05 than that there's that raducanu who's injured heartbreak for injured emma as she pulls out 0.99
00:17:15 wimbledon okay she's never going to do very well in it because she's not that good at tennis 0.96
00:17:22 that's too harsh i mean she's good enough to uh be placed in it to even be able to enter it
00:17:28 she wouldn't win it you know nowhere near she's slightly pretty so all right messiah without a
00:17:35 mandate remember that's andy burnham isn't it because he wore sandals that one time and someone
00:17:41 yelled at him you're not the messiah he's now the messiah without a mandate that's his name now
00:17:47 tax raids on middle classes in burnham's 10-year plan would be pm to unveil left-wing mission
00:17:53 well that is a left-wing mission isn't it
00:17:58 to destroy rich people and then once they're all destroyed or have fled
00:18:04 you then move on the eye of sauron no stone and burnham's eye of sauron moves on to middle class 0.97
00:18:09 people and once they're destroyed it will be working class people that have anything and then 0.95
00:18:16 then well then you'll be working in a you'll be living in a workers utopia at that point 0.98
00:18:21 once everyone has nothing that's utopia isn't it
00:18:29 the means of production are in the hands of the workers except it isn't and it never is ever
00:18:39 tax raids on middle classes, yeah of course, of course
00:18:43 any middle class Labour voters
00:18:47 well done, well done, then a lot of them are
00:18:51 self-loathing aren't they, a chip on their shoulder, oh no I'm slightly middle class and I get to go
00:18:55 on holiday 3 or 4 times a year, oh no, I won't actually give up any of my
00:18:59 money though, I'll just virtue signal
00:19:03 by voting Labour
00:19:07 Alright, The Guardian
00:19:09 The Guardian
00:19:15 Are you kidding me?
00:19:18 Is this a joke?
00:19:19 Is this some sort of bad joke?
00:19:21 The Guardian
00:19:22 Okay
00:19:27 Ben Stokes retired from cricket
00:19:29 Alright
00:19:29 Alarm raised over growing role of private equity firms
00:19:33 Exclusive
00:19:34 Governments 24.4 billion pounds
00:19:37 contract part of financial pandemic
00:19:40 Burnham set to promise growth in all postcodes
00:19:47 US and Iran strikes threatened fragile peace
00:19:52 The times, the venerable times
00:19:55 Wimbledon begins today
00:19:56 They've got an essential guide for you
00:19:58 If you've never heard of tennis
00:20:00 Anyone for tennis?
00:20:04 Public to decide asylum appeals
00:20:06 As Mahmood Jettison's judges
00:20:08 Yeah this is
00:20:08 I mean
00:20:09 So it's not set to come in until the end of the year
00:20:13 So hopefully Andy Burnham will come in
00:20:16 And change this
00:20:16 Whether we will or not
00:20:17 God knows
00:20:18 But the Home Secretary
00:20:19 The Cooker in the Ness
00:20:20 The fifth columnist
00:20:21 Home Secretary we've got
00:20:23 Shamana Mahmood
00:20:24 Says that the appeals system
00:20:27 For failed asylum seekers
00:20:29 So you get told
00:20:29 No your asylum claim has failed
00:20:32 You can appeal it
00:20:33 There's an appeals board
00:20:34 Type of appeals board 1.00
00:20:36 She wants to overhaul that 0.99
00:20:37 So instead of actual judges
00:20:39 It'll be done by basically normal people 1.00
00:20:41 She's trying to recruit hundreds of normal people 1.00
00:20:43 Is that completely insane 0.95
00:20:47 Or is there actually
00:20:49 Some sort of method to the madness of that
00:20:52 Well a lot of local magistrates
00:20:55 Are normal people
00:20:56 They're not necessarily people that have been
00:20:58 Barristers or solicitors
00:20:59 And then they've been trained to be a judge
00:21:02 A lot of local magistrates
00:21:03 Not sort of crown courts
00:21:04 But local magistrates are normal people basically volunteers
00:21:07 There's an argument to be made
00:21:11 You know, because some people
00:21:12 Some judges that have spent a lifetime in the law
00:21:15 Make terrible decisions, don't they?
00:21:18 Absolutely insane decisions
00:21:19 Like letting convicted rapists leave the court
00:21:22 Without a custodial sentence and things
00:21:24 Whether the asylum appeals body 0.94
00:21:31 Would be better or worse served 0.99
00:21:33 By essentially normal people staffing it
00:21:36 I don't know, it depends what the people are like, doesn't it? 0.98
00:21:40 Depends if they've got like tribal
00:21:43 Ethnic and religious allegiances of their own 0.86
00:21:46 If they bring that to the table or not, doesn't it?
00:21:53 How they're selected will be the key to it all, won't it?
00:21:56 Like a jury, like a jury trial
00:21:57 Well, often the key to a jury trial
00:22:00 Is in the jury selection, isn't it?
00:22:03 We'll see, on the face of it, it doesn't sound good
00:22:07 It doesn't bode well
00:22:08 But who knows
00:22:10 Alright
00:22:12 King Bumham
00:22:15 I want mayors to help cut benefits bills
00:22:18 Bill, will they? 0.99
00:22:19 No
00:22:19 PM in waiting will vow to lift Britain back up
00:22:23 Really?
00:22:24 Really?
00:22:25 By not addressing the demographic decline
00:22:27 And our open borders though
00:22:28 By not really, well not at all 0.99
00:22:33 Addressing the slippery slope we're on towards a sectarian nightmare 1.00
00:22:38 We're going to lift Britain back up 1.00
00:22:40 By devolving more power away from Westminster
00:22:43 How does that make sense?
00:22:48 Church told its ableism is harmful to meek priests
00:22:52 Okay 0.91
00:22:56 The first paragraph of this is
00:23:01 Sort of bizarre
00:23:03 Tells you where we are as a country, as a society
00:23:06 The pressure on vicars to be loud and proud
00:23:12 Are you not meek?
00:23:17 Didn't Jesus Christ say that the meek will inherit the earth?
00:23:19 The pressure on vicars to be loud and proud 1.00
00:23:21 Is making life difficult for neurodivergent priests
00:23:26 The Church of England has been told
00:23:31 Neurodivergent
00:23:33 Priests 0.97
00:23:34 Sometimes it does feel like living in
00:23:45 Idiocracy, the film Idiocracy
00:23:47 Where everything is bizarre
00:23:50 And absurd
00:23:52 Okay, the eye paper
00:23:55 Let's just read this
00:23:57 Vernon vows to lift Britain back up with biggest ever power transfer
00:24:01 Making us weaker, in my opinion
00:24:04 In key leadership speech today
00:24:07 He warns it will take 10 years to reset UK
00:24:10 Yeah, right, they all say that
00:24:11 That's sort of the holy grail of power, isn't it?
00:24:15 To become, first of all, to become Prime Minister
00:24:17 The slippery pole to the very, very top
00:24:21 And then stay there for something like 10 years
00:24:23 Tony Blair, Maggie Thatcher style
00:24:25 that's what they all want isn't it so that your name is really cemented into the annals of history
00:24:31 will burnham survive the next general election doubt it highly doubt it all right it says
00:24:41 labour front runner to replace starmer says there must be a change in how britain is governed
00:24:47 and wants power pushed out of of whitehall to regions and local communities i mean obviously
00:24:54 I rail against Whitehall all the time, don't I?
00:24:57 The civil service, it's not that they're perfect, far from it.
00:25:01 But will it be better if even less, even less competent civil servants run things?
00:25:11 Burnham sets out vision of good growth in every postcode,
00:25:14 driven by his Manchester model,
00:25:17 and reforms in education and business partnership that focus on British jobs.
00:25:21 we'll see we'll see about that business partnerships
00:25:27 is there any better example of a marriage made in hell than public private partnerships 0.89
00:25:36 the worst of both worlds in my opinion mayors may be given power to reduce benefits dependence
00:25:46 and cut surging welfare bill right but will they okay you can give them the power
00:25:51 but then once they've got the power will they do that though or will there not be like councils
00:25:58 and mayors that are just like no my tribal allegiance is to my people whatever they be
00:26:02 bangladesh is in tower hamlets or whatever pakistan is in manchester or whatever in birmingham
00:26:08 they'll be like all right thanks for giving us all that power yeah we're just going to spend it 0.95
00:26:13 on us is ultimately ultimately this isn't our country we don't care if it goes to pot
00:26:22 will that dynamic play out or will king bumham the first vision work perfectly
00:26:34 don't know poll for the eye paper reveals voters trust him more on economy
00:26:40 than starma or farage really really okay don't believe that like how they'll do a poll is 90
00:26:52 of parents uh want censorship for their kids for the whole country do they i trust that do i trust
00:26:59 that poll okay according to the eye paper he will trust burnham on the economy more than starma or
00:27:06 Farage
00:27:07 But they want him to deliver on
00:27:10 Suggested tax cut
00:27:11 And take utilities into public
00:27:14 Control
00:27:15 They want a return to the 40s
00:27:18 Or 70s
00:27:19 Of labour nationalising things
00:27:22 What happened there
00:27:23 Let's see if we can recall
00:27:26 What was the ultimate
00:27:27 Ultimate results of those
00:27:29 The net result of all those things
00:27:30 Oh complete disaster basically
00:27:32 Complete disaster
00:27:36 Look how Attlee
00:27:38 When he nationalises like steel
00:27:40 And coal
00:27:42 The coal bald
00:27:42 The steel bald
00:27:44 All those sorts of things
00:27:45 We haven't got much of
00:27:48 Or any of a coal or steel industry anymore
00:27:50 Have we?
00:27:54 We'll nationalise the railways
00:27:56 Aren't our railways
00:27:58 A laughing stock around the world?
00:28:04 Okay
00:28:05 They trust to burn him on the economy
00:28:08 But they want him to cut taxes
00:28:11 That's exactly what he won't do
00:28:16 Isn't it?
00:28:20 That's the last thing he'll do
00:28:21 Because he's tax big, spend big
00:28:25 Lefty, classic lefty
00:28:27 If you want your taxes to be cut
00:28:30 Don't vote for the left
00:28:31 almost speechless almost all right the metro
00:28:40 what's that what's that gross thing
00:28:52 Number 10 1.00
00:28:57 A bigger navy
00:28:59 We need more drones 1.00
00:29:01 All hands on deck
00:29:02 Replacement warships are axed from defence plan
00:29:06 As tactics evolve
00:29:07 Billions to be spent on high tech kit 0.73
00:29:09 To combat Moscow threat
00:29:11 Apparently what they're saying
00:29:13 According to this report
00:29:14 Is that our frigates
00:29:17 The Type 42 or 45 are they?
00:29:20 Frigates, they cost a billion pounds a piece
00:29:22 and then of course constant refurbishment and maintenance and everything but a billion pound a
00:29:29 pop and for what they are they're good they're cutting edge what they are but that's too
00:29:36 expensive that's too expensive um so they're gonna make budget versions they're gonna make
00:29:43 much much much cheaper versions i suppose a bit like it's not a great parallel but
00:29:50 america made the f-22 raptor didn't they like the best fighters best best fast check going
00:29:56 they were just insanely expensive weren't they like a billion dollars each or something i don't
00:30:01 know maybe not quite that much but they're insanely expensive so they sort of made the f-35
00:30:06 it's like a cheaper version of it so they can have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them
00:30:12 or thousands of them instead of just a few dozen anyway all right so apparently we're going to make
00:30:17 Design and make budget versions of them
00:30:19 And the money that's saved
00:30:22 Spends more on drones and drone technology
00:30:24 Because that's the future according to them
00:30:25 Might not necessarily be insane
00:30:29 That might prove to be a sort of strategic
00:30:31 Like correct call
00:30:34 Maybe, who knows
00:30:35 Because they were saying
00:30:37 We need to focus on Russia
00:30:39 We need to gear everything that our military is 0.95
00:30:42 Army and Navy and Air Force 0.98
00:30:43 Gear it all towards a possible conflict with Russia 0.98
00:30:47 bit of a throwback isn't it if he stopped poking Putin in the eye with a dirty stick
00:30:53 constantly then why would we need to worry about Russia particularly
00:30:59 there you go for some reason the blob the establishment the deep state
00:31:05 is hell-bent on antagonizing Russia because he's got his eyes set on conquering Belarus and Poland
00:31:13 and estonia latvia lithuania maybe finland has he though has he 0.54
00:31:20 because you're saying that is just true we must constantly antagonize russia and gear all of our
00:31:30 military towards possibly going to war with them all based on the assumption that putin is like
00:31:36 stalin or khrushchev and is just waiting to invade eastern and central europe and and the
00:31:42 baltic states yeah but is he though but is that right though is that true is that a correct
00:31:47 assessment because if it's not if it's not it might be i don't know what's in putin's mind
00:31:54 but if it's not then don't all the other calculations downstream of that look like nonsense
00:32:00 okay the star here we go the princess princess in peaks condition she's both in peak condition
00:32:13 having beaten cancer and she's in the peaks so there's a thing called the um the three peak
00:32:20 challenge i think it is where the idea is within 24 hours you go to snowdon in wales north wales
00:32:27 the biggest mountain in Wales you climb that you walk up that and then you drive quickly to
00:32:33 Scarfell Pike in northern England the highest peak in England climb that and then you drive to
00:32:40 Scotland you drive to Ben Nevis the Ben and walk up that you do all of that within 24 hours
00:32:47 and you've completed the three-peak challenge
00:32:50 all right and uh catherine middleton princess of wales to be queen of england
00:32:58 does she look radiant even at the top of she's at the top of ben there the ben
00:33:03 at the top of ben nevis it's windswept and rainy but still she's looking radiant
00:33:09 this is quite literally the sun and quite literally put like an angelic halo around her
00:33:17 royal highness kate completes three peaks challenge to help hospitals where she was
00:33:24 treated for cancer and explore life beyond diagnosis so she did it for charity to raise
00:33:29 money for charity like literally glowing with some sort of like a divine radiance
00:33:36 all righty all righty a little bit of football i'll keep it to uh i'll keep it to an absolute
00:33:45 minimum because i know the glorious band the chosen for you don't care about a sports ball
00:33:48 three lines do do do come on and do the congo
00:33:53 for anyone who might not know i don't know if black lace is global there was a song from the
00:34:01 80s by a band called black lace and it's called come on come on and do the conga
00:34:06 yeah anyone who's british will know this
00:34:10 You form a conga line
00:34:13 You put your hands on the hips of the person in front
00:34:15 Someone behind you puts their hands on your hips
00:34:17 And you form a long train of people
00:34:19 And you dance around the dance floor
00:34:21 At a wedding or a birthday bash or whatever
00:34:23 And the song goes
00:34:26 Come on and do the conga
00:34:28 You form a conga line
00:34:29 Okay
00:34:30 Many foreign people might not know that
00:34:32 Might not have heard of that
00:34:33 Everyone in Britain will be aware of that I'm sure
00:34:35 Come on and do the conga though
00:34:39 you see the clever wordplay clever very clever there uh because we're gonna play congo in the
00:34:47 in the sports ball at the world cup england won their last game 2-0 and in the next round
00:34:54 we're gonna play congo that's it that's it i'll move on that's all it is come on and do the congo
00:34:59 all right the mirror you know ben stokes has retired um apparently barcelona might want to
00:35:07 sign harry kane all right the radiant princess of wales at the top of ben nevis there you go
00:35:12 my chance to give something back emotional message after three peaks charity trek all right the sun
00:35:19 jude jude jude one of our prayers called jude benningham jude jude jude come on and do the
00:35:27 congo the same that's odd isn't it the sun and who was it the sun and the star decide to do
00:35:34 the exact same wordplay
00:35:37 well not the exact same one
00:35:39 that the sun have added to it
00:35:41 isn't it funny
00:35:47 isn't it really really clever
00:35:49 what they've done there
00:35:50 okay
00:35:51 okay 0.99
00:35:52 is this not treating you like you're a buffoon 0.99
00:35:57 could report on anything 0.98
00:36:00 and in any way they like
00:36:02 and they're choosing to be sort of, I was going to say lowbrow.
00:36:11 It's not exactly lowbrow, is it?
00:36:15 Just be as vapid as possible.
00:36:17 How can we dial up how vapid we are?
00:36:22 How hollow, how sort of paper thin we are?
00:36:29 Don't be serious.
00:36:31 Don't use it.
00:36:31 No gravity.
00:36:32 To it
00:36:33 Don't talk about the invasion
00:36:37 That we're being invaded
00:36:38 Or have been invaded
00:36:39 Don't talk about the endless crimes
00:36:41 Going on against us
00:36:43 And our demographic decline
00:36:44 And what would need to be done
00:36:46 Don't talk about any of that
00:36:47 Do a black lace pun about football
00:36:51 Okay
00:36:53 Okay
00:36:54 The Daily Express
00:36:58 Or
00:36:58 It's a good paper
00:37:00 You can read your Daily Express now
00:37:03 There's the Princess of Wales
00:37:06 At the top of Ben Nevis again
00:37:07 They've got a slightly different story here
00:37:09 Failing NHS Trust blew fortune 1.00
00:37:11 Defending right of transmedic 0.99
00:37:14 To share female nurses changing room 0.95
00:37:16 Maddening 1.00
00:37:17 Is the quote
00:37:18 A peer
00:37:21 A female peer 1.00
00:37:22 Described it as maddening 0.99
00:37:24 That £1.25 million was a waste of taxpayers money
00:37:28 Where 1.00
00:37:28 There was a male to female transgender person
00:37:32 Working in, where was it?
00:37:33 It was in Durham, County Durham
00:37:35 Up north
00:37:36 A man 0.99
00:37:39 Who wanted to use 1.00
00:37:42 The female changing rooms 1.00
00:37:44 Nurses female changing rooms
00:37:45 And
00:37:47 The NHS themselves
00:37:49 Spent £1.25 million
00:37:51 Trying to make that happen
00:37:58 that obviously to say that money could have should have been spent on health care for people
00:38:05 that are unwell shouldn't it have been yeah what a disgrace all right
00:38:13 that tea's done i'll move up to my backup water people the other day saying why are you drinking
00:38:19 water out of a mug or a cup rather than a glass like what a barbaric thing that is
00:38:24 um fair point i suppose but not the end of the world doesn't really matter does it
00:38:33 i just got the logo on it so
00:38:39 buy these mugs if you want off the merch store all right they're the front pages there you go
00:38:44 that's today's news should we have a look at our poll today we usually have a quick look at our
00:38:49 poll at this point of the show don't we harry can you bring that up for me what did we do what did
00:38:54 we say right we asked you guys over a thousand votes in here we asked you guys is devolving
00:39:00 power away from Westminster in Britain's interest I made it clear didn't I on the show today that I
00:39:06 think no and the no's have it 66 just ticked down from 67 66% of you say no and 34% if you say yes
00:39:15 so not an absolute overwhelming stonking win but a win nonetheless if that was a national
00:39:20 referendum you would claim a mandate for all time off the back of that wouldn't you two to one
00:39:25 34% of you though say yes very very different idea of what makes a strong country then I suppose
00:39:37 what else can I say so the city has just ticked up to 67% 67% of you well done that's the correct
00:39:44 answer in my opinion all right all right let's have a look at what else have we got in uh stories
00:39:54 of note before we move on to the history section the rumble ramps and the super chats we've got
00:40:00 what was there oh i thought this was interesting there you go pakistan launches oh the old
00:40:07 headline said, Pakistan launches deadly strikes along Afghan border, Pakistani strikes kill
00:40:15 dozens in Afghanistan, so this is one of those things in the world that's going on in the world
00:40:21 that largely gets ignored or overlooked, actually is of reasonable import as far as I'm concerned,
00:40:29 the war between Afghanistan and Pakistan, of course they share a big long border, you might
00:40:35 think oh pakistan's sort of a firmly staunchly islamic country and the taliban in afghanistan
00:40:41 are sort of you know hyper islamic in various ways surely they're like uh obvious brothers
00:40:48 in arms obviously they would they would work together and pull in the same direction against 0.86
00:40:53 their myriad enemies in the world nope they hate each other they absolutely despise each other at
00:41:00 the end of last year or towards the end of last year they were doing all sorts of strikes against
00:41:04 each other both accusing the other side of being the aggressor and things
00:41:09 that pakistan will strike because pakistan is much stronger
00:41:14 bigger population got industry got nuclear bombs if you believe that 0.89
00:41:19 and uh they're much much more sophisticated bigger military um sometimes pakistan will
00:41:26 launch something into afghanistan and do some damage and when afghanistan say this unprovoked
00:41:32 aggression will not stand man and all sorts of stuff like that and pakistan's like no no you 0.91
00:41:36 you the afghanis you're training terrorists and sending them into pakistan and blowing stuff up 0.78
00:41:40 so we're responding to that and afghanistan's saying no no you started it if that's happening 0.99
00:41:45 at all it's not even happening but if it is happening it's not us you know sort of it in
00:41:51 a nutshell basically anyway they've uh had a truce for the last few months a few months they've
00:41:57 stopped attacking each other but it started again at the weekend
00:42:02 there you go it's saying at least 100 people have been killed or wounded including civilians
00:42:08 the taliban said pakistan's information minister said 29 militants were killed in strikes
00:42:17 so you go i just think it's worth remembering that there is that war going on as well
00:42:21 okay
00:42:24 a lot of it's about bum ham
00:42:28 his double chins
00:42:31 his moobs and his guy liner 0.75
00:42:33 his man scara he wears
00:42:36 he goes jogging a lot though don't you know
00:42:39 yeah right
00:42:41 that's not the cheekbones and jawline of a man
00:42:45 that does cardio regularly
00:42:47 believe me
00:42:49 You know, the Venezuela thing
00:42:52 A few thousand, at least
00:42:54 A few thousand are dead
00:42:56 Loads, loads more wounded
00:42:58 And homeless
00:42:59 And when stuff like this happens
00:43:02 You've got a few days
00:43:03 To try and rescue people that might be stuck in
00:43:06 A pocket
00:43:07 Underneath a building
00:43:11 But you die through lack of water
00:43:14 Quite quickly, two, three days
00:43:16 A human has got
00:43:17 don't have water within about three days you die it's kind of simple as that so
00:43:23 they might be able to have pulled out a few people a small number of people but three four five six
00:43:32 days go by a week goes by there will not be any survivors basically unless there's like the odd
00:43:37 case where someone is trapped in under a building and there's like somehow a trickle of water near
00:43:43 them from a burst pipe and they're able to get a bit of liquid and they can survive for longer but
00:43:47 Other than
00:43:49 Outlier cases like that
00:43:51 Four or five days go by
00:43:53 That's it, you won't get any more survivors really
00:43:56 Okay, and it happened on Wednesday
00:43:59 So
00:44:00 We're already, it's sort of in that place
00:44:03 That window
00:44:05 Yeah, but Sky decides to go with this as their top story
00:44:09 Number of killed in Venezuela earthquakes nears 1500
00:44:13 As time runs out to find survivors
00:44:15 rim horrible isn't it um look there we go uk to replace fleet of destroyers with
00:44:23 quote budget warships great great
00:44:28 okay prince harry let's not even talk about prince harry don't care about prince harry
00:44:36 and his his obnoxious wife and the fallout he's had with his own father and brother
00:44:41 I really don't care 0.85
00:44:43 Alright
00:44:43 Oh this was one thing I'll quickly talk about
00:44:45 Did we talk about it on the Beau show?
00:44:47 Sometimes I forget what I've talked about on the Beau show
00:44:51 And what I've talked about on the state of politics
00:44:53 But there was this guy
00:44:55 Geoffrey
00:44:56 What was his name?
00:44:57 Geoffrey
00:44:57 Donaldson
00:44:59 Was the head of the DUP
00:45:01 The Unionists in Northern Ireland
00:45:03 And he was convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault
00:45:09 He was convicted last week of 18 sexual offences
00:45:12 Including one count of rape against two women when they were children
00:45:16 He's convicted of that
00:45:19 He hasn't had his actual sentence yet
00:45:20 But he was convicted of that
00:45:21 And this story just says that
00:45:23 Of course, being Northern Irish Unionist
00:45:25 He would be very, very, very staunchly
00:45:27 I mean, Protestant 0.84
00:45:29 Staunch 0.88
00:45:30 Christian
00:45:32 And it was saying that
00:45:35 He described homosexuality as sinful
00:45:39 But at the same time, literally like the same time
00:45:44 Or within a week or something 0.99
00:45:45 He went to like a gay massage parlour 1.00
00:45:48 Okay 0.99
00:45:52 The BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight documentary
00:45:56 Due to air tonight will reveal how Donaldson
00:45:58 Was observed by two former policemen
00:46:01 Entering Chariot's sauna
00:46:03 Near the Houses of Parliament in 2006 0.97
00:46:05 Which apparently is a gay sauna 1.00
00:46:08 Okay 0.99
00:46:12 Alright
00:46:14 Let's do on this day in history shall we
00:46:19 I quite like doing that
00:46:24 You like doing that
00:46:24 It's already quarter two
00:46:25 Shall we have a look down through the centuries
00:46:26 On this day in history
00:46:28 What happened of note
00:46:29 Have a quick look
00:46:31 June the 29th
00:46:32 What have we got?
00:46:34 Oh, Globe Theatre Fire.
00:46:35 Yeah, so on this day in 1613,
00:46:39 Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the South Bank in London
00:46:43 burns down during a performance of Henry VIII,
00:46:46 which is one of Shakespeare's last plays.
00:46:48 And I remember when the Globe Theatre was rebuilt.
00:46:52 It was rebuilt, what, in like the 1990s?
00:46:58 Was it Zoe Wanamaker or Zoe Wanamaker's father involved in it?
00:47:01 Anyway, when I was born and when I was a kid
00:47:03 There was no Globe Theatre
00:47:04 There wasn't one
00:47:06 The one that stands there today is just a replica
00:47:08 Apparently it's a very, very authentic replica
00:47:14 It was only rebuilt at the end of the 20th century
00:47:18 Or was it even finished in the early 21st century?
00:47:20 Anyway
00:47:20 The original one burnt down in a fire
00:47:23 And that happened on this day in 1613
00:47:25 Okay
00:47:28 on this day in 1900 the imperial chinese court issues what is essentially a declaration of war
00:47:34 against foreigners in china blaming them for hostilities and giving license to the boxers
00:47:38 for even greater ferocity i've threatened to do a thing all about the boxer rebellion before
00:47:44 the boxer rebellion big thing it's like this is the last few years of imperial china
00:47:48 there's not long left before the chinese imperial royal family is deposed by nationalists in the
00:47:56 first instance the communists didn't get into mao until after world war ii but the uh the
00:48:01 nationalists got in long before that um the boxer rebellion a massive thing loads and loads and
00:48:07 loads and loads of people died in the boxer rebellion and they were just chinese people
00:48:13 that called themselves the boxers something to do with actual queensby rules 50 cuffs uh called
00:48:19 themselves the boxers and um one of the things that they said was that exactly as it says there
00:48:25 that foreign people are the problem all sorts of people japanese brits germans french portuguese
00:48:35 anyone that's foreign americans they're destabilizing and subverting our country 0.81
00:48:42 there's an element of it's more there's more than an element of truth to that 0.97
00:48:47 at the very end of the 19th century early 20th century china was in
00:48:52 real danger of just being broken up and just just broken up there won't be one massive country of
00:48:59 china which would be broken up in taken into all the other more powerful countries mainly the west
00:49:06 and japan would break it up and um have it as their colonies like big chunks of africa like 0.50
00:49:13 the race for africa will be a race for china anyway boxers said uh we're not going to have that
00:49:18 And one of the first things we'll do 0.99
00:49:19 Is physically hunt down any foreigner and murder them 1.00
00:49:24 Which they did do, attempt to do 0.99
00:49:34 Based on this day in 1939
00:49:37 Ford introduces the revolutionary Ford Ferguson 9N tractor
00:49:41 Incorporating Harry Ferguson's three-point hitch system
00:49:44 Don't know anything about that
00:49:45 I don't know about the history of tractors, I'm afraid
00:49:47 Or the technical side of tractors
00:49:50 That's a funny little factoid for them to include here
00:49:53 I couldn't tell you any more detail about that
00:49:55 Other than apparently that happened
00:49:57 Okay
00:49:58 On this day in 1941
00:50:00 6,000 Jews are murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania
00:50:03 That's a shame
00:50:04 On this day in 1964
00:50:06 Civil Rights Act 1964
00:50:08 Passes the US Senate
00:50:09 After 600 working day filibuster
00:50:12 By southern senators
00:50:14 Yeah, quite a lot of problems in the United States
00:50:17 You could argue and some do
00:50:19 Stem from the Civil Rights Act
00:50:21 On this day in 1966
00:50:22 US planes bomb North Vietnam's capital
00:50:25 Hanoi and the port city of
00:50:27 Hai Phong
00:50:28 For the first time in the Vietnam War 0.94
00:50:32 I mean that's very close to the beginning
00:50:33 1966
00:50:34 That's right near the beginning of the Vietnam War
00:50:36 The formal part of it anyway
00:50:38 And yeah as I understand it
00:50:41 They bombed Hanoi badly in that
00:50:43 Not just a few bombs scattered
00:50:45 But like
00:50:47 Kind of flattened it, or at least over the coming months.
00:50:52 Really sort of raised Hanoi. 0.64
00:50:56 It only galvanised the communists, really.
00:51:01 Made the guerrilla war more intense, if anything.
00:51:06 Okay, on this day, 1994, U.S. reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.
00:51:13 You know, Gitmo Bay.
00:51:14 Of course we all know that after 9-11 in 2001
00:51:18 It was used to house a lot of alleged terrorists
00:51:24 Special renditions, all that sort of thing
00:51:27 Things you might not be able to get away with
00:51:28 On the mainland of the United States
00:51:30 Because of a little thing called the Bill of Rights
00:51:32 And the Constitution 1.00
00:51:33 Well, if you just do it on foreign soil somewhere
00:51:39 Like Guantanamo Bay on Cuba
00:51:42 It's on Cuba if you don't know
00:51:43 Maybe you can just do
00:51:45 Things there
00:51:48 That the Constitution
00:51:50 Wouldn't allow
00:51:51 Alright
00:51:51 Let's have a look at our Rumble Rants and Super Chats
00:51:55 Let me do this with my mic so I can see
00:51:57 The left hand side of my screen for the Rumble Rants
00:51:59 We do the Rumble Rants first, is Global Church History
00:52:01 Going to be in at number one
00:52:02 And he is, okay
00:52:05 It's a good day
00:52:06 Global Church History usually gives us a couple of fact words
00:52:09 We've got here
00:52:11 On this day in 66 AD 1.00
00:52:14 The Persians and their Avar allies 1.00
00:52:16 Besieged Constantinople 1.00
00:52:18 Alright yeah so 0.82
00:52:20 626 AD
00:52:22 So
00:52:23 That's just before the 1.00
00:52:26 Islamic 1.00
00:52:27 So Muhammad 0.95
00:52:28 That's during the age of Muhammad himself 1.00
00:52:30 But the Islamic hordes are still in Arabia 1.00
00:52:34 They haven't pushed up as far as
00:52:36 Modern day Turkey
00:52:39 Anatolia, Constantinople
00:52:40 the bosphorus and all that so this is pre that these will be persians and avars yeah right
00:52:47 so but the walls of theodosius were already built they were built in like the fifth century weren't
00:52:52 they the walls of theodosius almost impenetrable not quite in the end ultimately but for a thousand
00:53:00 years were impenetrable so the persians and the avars failed to do that and the other one
00:53:08 Global church history gives us says
00:53:10 And on this day in 1644
00:53:12 King Charles the Martyr
00:53:14 Won the battle of
00:53:16 Cro-Preddy Bridge
00:53:17 Oh King Charles
00:53:19 Charles I, Charles Stewart
00:53:21 You called him King Charles the Martyr
00:53:23 King Charles I, yeah if I recall
00:53:26 Gosh
00:53:26 There's the big famous battles aren't there
00:53:29 Of the civil war, the English civil war
00:53:32 But if you actually look at a list of all of them
00:53:34 There's loads, isn't that the one
00:53:36 i think that's the one where king charles had made his wartime capital in oxford because the
00:53:43 parliament controlled london so he made a secondary capital in oxford which actually
00:53:48 the scheme of things isn't very far from london um they tried to capture him so william waller
00:53:55 tried to capture him at oxford and failed if that battle had gone differently perhaps the civil war
00:54:00 would have ended a lot sooner and there would have been less problems in general but
00:54:05 The Royalists won that one
00:54:07 Yeah, yeah, won the battle of it
00:54:10 Yeah
00:54:11 Okay, there we go
00:54:13 At some point
00:54:13 Once I've finished
00:54:15 Once I do Henry VIII
00:54:16 And get on to all the Tudor successors 0.97
00:54:19 And then the Stuarts
00:54:20 Eventually
00:54:22 Hopefully later this year I suppose
00:54:23 Perhaps early next year at the latest
00:54:25 We'll start talking all about the Civil War 1.00
00:54:27 And I plan to do that
00:54:28 In lots and lots and lots of detail
00:54:30 Silly detail 0.74
00:54:31 There's a few things on Epochs I've done in silly detail 0.60
00:54:33 Like the life and career of
00:54:35 julius caesar one about henry the fifth one about napoleon one about the voyage of magellan
00:54:41 decided to do it in granular detail almost as much as i possibly can i think i want to do that
00:54:46 about charles charles the first and oliver cronwell and the civil war period i think that's
00:54:52 what i might do i make it a 10 20 30 40 part thing i think that's what i'm gonna do it's worth
00:54:59 it i think okay thanks global church history all right the next one gwff said says
00:55:05 ladies and gentlemen in the blue corner hailing from every oh ladies and gentlemen boys and
00:55:10 girls children of all ages in the blue corner hailing from every nation and century the number
00:55:17 one undisputed heavyweight champion of faith and history of the world global church history history
00:55:26 yeah first name global christian name global first middle name church surname history
00:55:34 okay great thanks gwff jeffrey farno says hello bo happy monday oh happy monday to you
00:55:45 i'm not going to start singing a happy monday song come on there's enough of singing for one
00:55:50 day where do you stand on the michael jackson debate oh do you think he did it or do you think
00:55:58 he was set up. Hmm. I think he did it. Maybe not everything he's accused of, but had this
00:56:07 out with Conor, Conor Tomlinson once. Well, a little bit anyway. Conor Tomlinson insists
00:56:12 that Michael Jackson didn't do anything wrong and he was all set up and stuff. When you
00:56:17 look at the details, remember, I'm old enough to have lived through this stuff in real time.
00:56:21 When you look at the details
00:56:22 At the very least
00:56:26 You can say it's weird and suspicious
00:56:28 At the very least
00:56:28 Because there was that first kid in the 90s
00:56:30 Was it Jordan something
00:56:31 Jordan Chandler Bing
00:56:33 Not Bing
00:56:34 Jordan Chandler
00:56:35 You know
00:56:39 Maybe
00:56:39 It's weird
00:56:40 It's certainly weird
00:56:41 And then
00:56:42 But the other one
00:56:43 The second one
00:56:44 That he went on trial for
00:56:44 And was found not guilty
00:56:46 Gavin something
00:56:48 Gavin Avizo
00:56:49 If you look at the actual details of that
00:56:52 What came out in court
00:56:54 Really
00:56:56 Look at it, read it
00:56:57 Why would you say
00:57:01 There's nothing there
00:57:02 Why would you say it's a set up
00:57:03 They seemed to have been in a relationship
00:57:08 Whether it was fully consummated
00:57:10 Or not
00:57:11 Kevin Avizo says it was
00:57:13 He was like 13, he's not like a little kid
00:57:15 He's not like 7, he's like 13
00:57:16 And he said yeah
00:57:18 we were we were in a relationship a sexual relationship yeah and there's loads loads
00:57:26 and loads of other evidence largely circumstantial but still evidence that they were together
00:57:34 all right he was found innocent in that trial
00:57:38 but there's just loads of loads of other evidence just like
00:57:41 loads of the bashing like michael jackson just admit to stuff like you know like sharing his
00:57:46 bed with boys it's like no don't be ignorant there's nothing there's nothing weird about that
00:57:51 um it's the it's the best thing you can do to share your bed with someone yeah but why boys
00:57:56 though why pre-pubescent or just pubescent boys are you doing that with you're not sharing your
00:58:02 bed with a 60 60 year old tramp are you michael who knows who knows i suspect there's no smoke
00:58:14 without firing that with michael jackson but who knows some people a lot of people insist it was 0.93
00:58:23 all fake and phony and set up to destroy him it may be it may be i don't know but that my feeling
00:58:29 is he's a wrong one on some level but perhaps not all right let's move on luke stewart st luke
00:58:38 LukeStreet91 says, G'day Bo, ah, g'day mate, and everyone, g'day Bo and everyone, hope you all
00:58:44 had a lovely weekend, you too, dumb question, what's wrong with devolved government, you mean
00:58:52 sort of, um, devolved, devolved government, what's wrong with it, you hate, I'm kind of a fan of the 0.91
00:58:57 city-state model, left power in, left power in the central government, um, there's a number,
00:59:05 There's a number of problems with it. The city-state thing barely worked in the second century BC.
00:59:12 You're dealing with a modern state that's larger than one city and a few kilometers around it,
00:59:21 then that model doesn't work. Again, it was sort of out-of-date, outmoded in antiquity.
00:59:26 there's a number of things wrong with devolved government in my opinion loads and maybe i
00:59:37 should make long-form content about it okay it's like a fundamental thing we'd have to spend ages
00:59:44 talking about it to give it justice okay next one says again from luke says any word on the
00:59:51 scottish stabber haven't heard anything about it for a while now as quickly as he can he sort of
00:59:57 disappeared because he was because he was white and you think they'd be parading him around town
01:00:03 going yee oh is that the the the white scottish stabber yeah i don't know they've decided haven't
01:00:11 they've decided to memory hold that largely as well perhaps if i'm being kind as they need for
01:00:17 me to be perhaps perhaps they don't want to prejudice any case against him by rampant um
01:00:23 speculation or like like everything else they're just scared of any backlash i would have thought
01:00:29 it's probably that they don't want to give anyone any ideas so they'll just memory hold it probably
01:00:36 that isn't it we'll see oh we've got a second one from global church history today says uh most
01:00:42 Priests I've met
01:00:44 Are somewhat
01:00:44 On the autistic
01:00:45 Spectrum
01:00:46 Usually quite
01:00:47 Significantly so
01:00:48 That's why
01:00:49 They catalogue
01:00:50 So many bugs
01:00:51 In the 19th century
01:00:52 Pure autism
01:00:53 Oh right
01:00:53 Okay yeah
01:00:54 Quite often you get
01:00:55 Sort of a priest
01:00:55 Scientist 0.77
01:00:56 In like the
01:00:57 17th, 18th
01:00:58 19th century
01:00:59 Don't you
01:00:59 Yeah that's quite right
01:01:00 Yeah
01:01:00 The one or two
01:01:01 Priests or vicars
01:01:02 Anglican vicars
01:01:03 I've met
01:01:04 And never spoke to
01:01:05 Have been weirdos
01:01:06 Yeah
01:01:06 You say autism 0.87
01:01:08 I'll just say weirdos 0.87
01:01:09 Yeah
01:01:10 Odd that isn't it
01:01:12 It's just my lived experience
01:01:16 Okay, Luke again says
01:01:19 I beem loud
01:01:23 If you've misspelled something
01:01:25 I beem loud
01:01:27 And proud minister
01:01:30 Is causing half of problems in the church 0.99
01:01:33 You know the neurodivergent priest
01:01:35 They follow the word of the bible
01:01:37 And the current ministers we have
01:01:39 Okay just
01:01:43 Maybe you're supposed to put
01:01:45 I blame loud and proud ministers
01:01:47 For causing half the problems the church have these days
01:01:50 Yeah I mean
01:01:50 It's just completely infected isn't it
01:01:53 By the woke mind virus
01:01:55 And that you'll get 1.00
01:01:57 Female priests 0.97
01:01:59 Wearing rainbow coloured things 0.99
01:02:01 And holding up a sign saying we're all Muslim
01:02:03 Yeah 0.97
01:02:09 Come and invite an Eid celebration
01:02:12 In their cathedral
01:02:14 Yeah
01:02:15 Weird
01:02:16 Right Fortien Barber
01:02:19 Next to a Fortien Barber
01:02:20 You say
01:02:21 Morning sir you alright
01:02:22 I'm alright thanks
01:02:23 Hope you're alright
01:02:23 You put
01:02:24 Max was definitely the best part
01:02:26 Of the Austrian go yesterday
01:02:29 You must be talking about
01:02:30 Max Verstappen
01:02:31 At the Austrian Grand Prix
01:02:33 Which
01:02:34 Jules Russell for Mercedes won didn't he
01:02:38 It should be funny if he managed to win the title this year
01:02:41 Hope you have a good week ahead
01:02:43 Thank you sir
01:02:43 Yeah I think one of the mercs are going to win it
01:02:46 Aren't they
01:02:46 Probably
01:02:47 Probably Antonelli
01:02:49 Okay it would be interesting though
01:02:52 I've had enough of Max
01:02:53 I've got Max
01:02:54 What's the word
01:02:56 When you're just sick of them
01:02:59 Like I'm sick of Schumacher winning everything
01:03:02 Sick of Lewis winning everything
01:03:04 I'm sick of Max winning everything
01:03:05 When you're sick of Vettel winning everything
01:03:07 I'd like to see someone else with it
01:03:09 Okay
01:03:09 14 Barber says
01:03:11 I don't really want mayors and devolutions
01:03:13 But I'm actually up for Devon and Cornwall being
01:03:16 Being a desperate country
01:03:19 Probably is that
01:03:20 Probably meant separate country
01:03:22 But you've put being a desperate country
01:03:23 From the UK at the moment 1.00
01:03:25 Bring the based in
01:03:26 And let all the lefties go 0.94
01:03:27 To the UK
01:03:29 Right make a 0.63
01:03:30 Make a based
01:03:31 Cessation thing in
01:03:33 In Devon and Cornwall
01:03:34 i'm a cornish man actually i know my dna came back i was more cornish than anything else by
01:03:41 quite a long way so um yeah all right the next whole few are luke again i'll read them out in
01:03:49 one go if you like because it's already gone nine you've said to be honest most of the destruction
01:03:54 done to manufacturing steelworks and the like is because of free trade the hell can be complete
01:04:02 against countries that use child labor and no environmental laws i mean that's a part of it
01:04:09 isn't it yeah like globalization again globalization which is much much much much much much much
01:04:13 much cheaper to import manufactured goods from somewhere in the world where it costs pennies on
01:04:18 the pound to make rather than make it here true but that's all it's all part of it isn't it
01:04:27 that we knew that in the 40s 50s 60s and 70s that that's part of it rather than trying to address
01:04:33 that do something about it work around it in some ways no just do it just get rid of all of our
01:04:39 manufacturing could have been handled a different way could have been you can says wait harry had an
01:04:46 argument with James Hewitt. Oh, Harry, Prince Harry. And James Hewitt, because there was
01:04:58 a suggestion that Harry's father isn't King Charles III.
01:05:07 there's suggestion isn't there
01:05:12 that Major Hewitt was a captain Hewitt the polo player gentleman actually bedded Lady Dyer
01:05:25 Harry's mother Lady D and he is in fact he's passed away now isn't he Hewitt
01:05:33 um he's actually harry's father who knows they won't do a dna test okay luke said
01:05:42 i wish we could edit edit super chats bloody autocorrects autocorrect likes to to stuff them
01:05:50 up i think that was fun i think that was deliberate obviously meant to hate likes likes to stuff them
01:05:55 up yeah autocorrect yeah just double check what you're right before you press send i guess
01:05:58 next one also Luke says I mean to say less power not left power in central government
01:06:05 that's okay all right and the last one here Fallen Firebird says in the modern managerial state
01:06:12 devolution is just another excuse like the quangos for the central government not to do
01:06:17 what the actual British people want yeah that's true good take definitely true oh we can't like
01:06:23 quite oh we can't that's a devolved power yeah right yeah we tried to do something about it but
01:06:28 The devolved power won't let us do it
01:06:31 We tried to do something about it 0.85
01:06:32 But the quango, the courts 1.00
01:06:33 You control the 0.99
01:06:35 Ultimately if you want to 0.99
01:06:37 If you want to control the quangos 1.00
01:06:39 And the devolved bodies
01:06:40 And the courts
01:06:41 If you really wanted to
01:06:42 If you had the political will to do it
01:06:44 You take those powers back
01:06:46 Or pass Acts of Parliament
01:06:48 To control them properly
01:06:50 But you don't want to
01:06:50 Again it's as Fallen Firebird says
01:06:53 It's a very convenient excuse
01:06:55 Oh we can't
01:06:56 Our hands are tied now
01:06:57 You tied your own hands
01:07:00 I think we didn't realise
01:07:03 I think we can't see
01:07:04 I think we don't have any memory 1.00
01:07:06 I think we're just idiot children 1.00
01:07:08 Alright 1.00
01:07:10 That's the last one we're at
01:07:11 Let's have a look at the superchats
01:07:12 Harry you need to bring up the YouTube superchats for me if you could
01:07:15 Could you make it so
01:07:16 Engaged
01:07:18 There they are
01:07:18 Okay good
01:07:19 Alright
01:07:20 There's a
01:07:21 Ten or a dozen or so
01:07:22 Let's see what we've got
01:07:24 Tatum2733 says
01:07:26 part of the ceasefire is israel leaving lebanon so if hezbollah keeps shooting it's not a violation
01:07:32 the idf is in violation by still invading yeah you can look at it that way sure yeah
01:07:38 well i want to play defense on behalf of israel benjamin netanyahu in the idf but
01:07:48 just you know obviously well you already know but they would just use the argument that we have to
01:07:52 invade for our own safety we have to invade southern lebanon because because of hezbollah's
01:07:57 aggression yeah i mean yeah you're yeah what can you do what can you say you're right 0.95
01:08:07 but then hezbollah will say well you're you're attacking us we need to respond
01:08:14 okay david betts 1180 says
01:08:18 Had first fleeing
01:08:21 Venezuelan families arriving here 0.94
01:08:23 In
01:08:24 Bucaramanga
01:08:27 Colombia, sorry if I'm mispronouncing that
01:08:29 Bucaramanga
01:08:33 Bucaramanga
01:08:34 In Colombia this weekend
01:08:35 Been heartbreaking speaking to them
01:08:38 While giving out food and water
01:08:39 Give your loved ones a hug and be grateful
01:08:41 Yeah
01:08:43 That's a good sentiment
01:08:45 You never know
01:08:47 What's going to happen
01:08:48 There's someone out there
01:08:53 You hold dear and love
01:08:55 And you haven't let them know in a while
01:08:56 Do let them know
01:08:57 Because you never know what can happen
01:08:59 Life can change on a dime
01:09:02 And often does
01:09:05 Out of clear blue sky
01:09:07 Very often does
01:09:08 Tatum again says
01:09:09 Jesus Christ chased people with a whip
01:09:12 That's what you said there 0.68
01:09:15 Is that in the temple
01:09:17 Turning over the money lenders thing in the temple
01:09:19 Is that that bit, if I recall
01:09:21 Is there any other bit in the Gospels
01:09:23 Where you could be referring to
01:09:24 Okay
01:09:28 Mr Dickie Bingo, how are you sir?
01:09:31 Super fan, says 1.00
01:09:32 Bumham will lift Britain up 1.00
01:09:36 Apart from taxpayers 1.00
01:09:37 Right, yeah
01:09:38 You're going to lift Britain up
01:09:42 Unless you own anything
01:09:43 Or got any savings, in which case we're coming for you
01:09:46 Yeah 1.00
01:09:47 You lift the foreign invading class up 1.00
01:09:52 Yeah 1.00
01:09:53 F Google 2
01:09:58 It's more explicit than F
01:10:00 But they just say F Google 2
01:10:01 They said
01:10:02 Devolution will harden tribal behaviour 1.00
01:10:05 Yeah I believe so 0.58
01:10:06 I fear so
01:10:07 Mayor's councils will grab more resources
01:10:10 Since it is in their interest
01:10:12 And they can adult patronage
01:10:15 Chicago
01:10:16 Yeah
01:10:18 You'll get mayors and councillors
01:10:20 That have got their own racial, religious
01:10:22 And tribal and ethnic
01:10:24 Allegiances 0.58
01:10:26 Which aren't to those of the native British white people 1.00
01:10:29 And they'll rinse the system 1.00
01:10:31 For as much as they possibly can
01:10:32 Yeah
01:10:34 Is that making every postcode more prosperous
01:10:39 Is that lifting Britain up, is it
01:10:40 F Google
01:10:44 2 again says
01:10:45 Why are so many politicians
01:10:47 Light in the loafers
01:10:49 Are you suggesting that
01:10:52 Mr Burnham is a bit
01:10:53 Fruity, a bit musical
01:10:55 Of the musical persuasion
01:10:57 Okay, is he married
01:11:03 Or in a relationship with a woman
01:11:08 That we know of, I don't know, I don't even know
01:11:09 You never really see him
01:11:11 With a wife or a partner, do you
01:11:14 i don't know we don't know is he light in the loafers
01:11:20 psycho hobo says we need to see who the three presidents of the eu are connected to
01:11:26 and who is funding the kalergi plan
01:11:30 the three presidents of the eu which three presidents do you mean i'm not sure exactly
01:11:36 what you mean there yeah but no who's funding it all yeah yeah who's funding it all very good
01:11:43 question pertinent question salient oh harry my super chats just disappeared from the screen
01:11:49 i don't know if i click something or you click something or something can you bring them back
01:11:53 one second second people hold tight oh they're okay they're back all right we've got three more
01:11:59 just three more today uh pope john edgar the fourth that's their name at pope john edgar
01:12:06 the fourth says mj didn't die he just changed color again he's actually on a double-decker bus
01:12:18 on the far side of the moon with elvis and bruce lee he's still alive and the real paul mccartney
01:12:26 okay amazing disgrace 9-1-1 i i like that i like that name always like that name amazing disgrace
01:12:32 it says history is useless without original source material the difference is crucial a very good
01:12:38 point oh absolutely very good point i mean my undergrad was nominally in ancient history that
01:12:43 was the name of the degree just ancient history but what it really was the bulk of it was
01:12:48 historiography really was looking at the nature of history itself you had to read a lot of the
01:12:54 history and sometimes do essays about what happened in history but largely it's looking
01:12:58 At the sources, looking at primary
01:13:00 Sources, talking about primary and secondary
01:13:02 Sources, historiography, the nature
01:13:04 Of what history is itself
01:13:06 You're quite right, history is useless
01:13:08 Without original source material, yeah
01:13:10 I don't know what that was in reference to
01:13:12 Exactly, but you're quite right
01:13:14 Of course then you have to
01:13:16 Scrutinise primary source
01:13:18 Material as well though
01:13:19 Of course they would have had their biases
01:13:22 And things, but yeah
01:13:24 To never ever return to primary
01:13:26 Source material is wrong
01:13:28 Isn't it
01:13:29 That's what I say to people
01:13:30 Often
01:13:30 Quite often
01:13:31 People say
01:13:32 Have you got any book recommendations
01:13:33 I'm interested in ancient Rome
01:13:34 Or something
01:13:35 What do you recommend
01:13:35 I don't usually recommend
01:13:38 I do often say Gibbon actually
01:13:40 Don't I Edward Gibbon
01:13:40 I don't usually recommend
01:13:42 A modern book
01:13:44 I will say
01:13:45 Go back and read
01:13:46 Some of the lives of Plutarch
01:13:47 Go back and read Tacitus
01:13:48 Or Suetonius or something
01:13:50 Maybe read an essay about
01:13:53 Tacitus and Suetonius as well
01:13:55 Or Plutarch
01:13:56 Or whatever
01:13:56 Yeah, read the original source material
01:14:00 Do you want to know about Alexander the Great?
01:14:05 Read Arian 1.00
01:14:06 Don't read Michael Wood 1.00
01:14:09 Or do both, do whatever you like
01:14:11 I don't like to preach to people and tell them what to do or not to do
01:14:15 But yeah, the original sources, you can't beat it
01:14:17 I was having a conversation with someone at Makerfield
01:14:19 And they were talking about Arthur, King Arthur
01:14:21 And they had all sorts of kind of odd ideas about it
01:14:26 And I said, well, wait, what about the original, where are you getting that idea from,
01:14:31 that odd idea, apart from the Arthurian legend?
01:14:33 Why don't you go back to the original source material?
01:14:36 You know what the original sources are, right?
01:14:41 Jeffrey, someone like Jeffrey of Monmouth, or Christiane de Troyes, or something.
01:14:47 They didn't know.
01:14:49 They just heard of, or read, or someone else had read, and told them about some secondary material they'd read.
01:14:55 And it's just Chinese whispers at that point 0.99
01:14:58 I go back to the horse's mouth 0.83
01:15:00 And then come talk to me
01:15:01 And then we can have a proper conversation about it
01:15:02 Okay
01:15:04 Okay
01:15:07 What have we got here
01:15:08 The penultimate one, because one more has just ticked in
01:15:10 Is from
01:15:12 Fidei Defensor UK
01:15:15 Fidei Defensor UK
01:15:18 Says
01:15:18 Will citizen vigilante cause issues on the street 0.90
01:15:22 Probably not
01:15:23 Doubt it
01:15:24 Right
01:15:25 Maybe, who knows, I doubt it
01:15:29 We've got a whole generation of completely de-resonated men, haven't we?
01:15:41 Unfortunately
01:15:42 Alright, and the last one here today from Tatum again says
01:15:44 I was saying Jesus chased people with a whip in response to the bit about meek pastors
01:15:50 What would Jesus do? Includes a lot, lol 1.00
01:15:53 oh right okay fair enough yeah oh one more just sitting why not read it while we're here
01:15:59 emily for restore says um why are we defending a terrorist org am i was i hezbollah has destroyed 0.53
01:16:09 lebanon yeah i'm not defend i'm not defending hezbollah why would i hezbollah pure evil sorry
01:16:17 Gave anyone the impression 0.77
01:16:19 I would defend Hezbollah 1.00
01:16:21 No, no, no 0.85
01:16:22 Why are we defending terrorism?
01:16:24 I'm not
01:16:25 Jihadi Hezbollah has destroyed Lebanon
01:16:28 Yeah, yeah 1.00
01:16:29 A formerly Christian country 1.00
01:16:32 Same Islamists, different place 1.00
01:16:34 Yeah, well, Emily of Restore 0.99
01:16:36 Sorry, Emily for Restore 0.91
01:16:38 Or anyone else that might have thought I was defending Hezbollah
01:16:40 No 0.92
01:16:41 Here's a statement of fact 1.00
01:16:45 Hezbollah is pure, malevolent filth 1.00
01:16:47 Is that clear enough? 0.99
01:16:49 Is that clear enough for you?
01:16:51 Yeah?
01:16:51 Okay, good
01:16:52 Alright
01:16:54 Oh, no, I'll be accused of being
01:16:57 Zio now 1.00
01:16:59 Why do you love Israel
01:17:02 And Benjamin Netanyahu so hard, Bo?
01:17:05 That's what this is
01:17:06 You say anything against Russia
01:17:08 You get accused of being pro-Ukraine
01:17:10 You say anything against Ukraine
01:17:11 You get accused of being a Kremlin shill
01:17:13 all right okay all right that's the show it's now 17 minutes past nine in the a.m. British
01:17:22 summertime on Monday the 29th of June in the year of our Lord 2026 you've been the glorious band the
01:17:28 chosen few my band of brothers and sisters thank you for joining me without you it really isn't
01:17:33 a thing try making the best of the day ahead a carpe diem seize the day the most valuable thing
01:17:38 you will ever have is your time i only have this day once in history once it's gone it's gone you'll
01:17:46 never get it back your time is the most valuable if you can i know it's not always easy when you've
01:17:50 got a job and a life and kids etc etc it's not always easy to do something truly valuable with
01:17:55 your time most of it is robbed from you against your will i know that but if you can if you're
01:17:59 in a position to try and make the best of it all right then without being too preachy until tomorrow
01:18:04 morning
01:18:08 We'll be right back.