The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 6th July 2026

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00:00:18.240 british summertime on monday the sixth of july july in the year of our lord 2026

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00:00:52.660 Monday, Monday

00:00:55.260 hey another day another dollar another chance to put right what once went wrong as always i am

00:00:59.820 joined by my producer little harry how are you this morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good

00:01:06.060 are you are you in the uk and you're tired from staying up all night or getting up here

00:01:11.580 insanely early to watch the football i'm not i went to bed at a normal time got up at a normal

00:01:17.900 time it all happened while i was asleep used to be a massive football fan but just

00:01:23.020 if we get to the semi-final or the final i'll watch it all and get proper excited and everything

00:01:27.740 i'll warn you this i know the glorious band of shows for you don't like football

00:01:31.080 but if england do win the world cup i'll talk about it at least for five ten minutes that day

00:01:35.780 or the day after rather be warned i'll keep it to a minimum today is a bit of a football day because

00:01:41.080 we just had a game it's all in the legacy couple of mainstream i mean look look look

00:01:46.080 Well, the headlines in the actual papers

00:01:50.740 Hangover of God, I'll explain that in a moment

00:01:53.340 But look, the main websites

00:01:54.580 It was too late to go to print

00:01:55.720 It's not in any of the front pages

00:01:57.040 Because they went to print long before it actually happened

00:01:59.460 But look, all the news

00:02:01.460 It's all the news, it's all football

00:02:02.760 It's all football

00:02:03.840 So should we get it out of the way first?

00:02:05.640 Just a few moments

00:02:06.460 Honestly, just a few moments

00:02:07.720 Because it is the main thing in the news cycle today

00:02:10.440 England played Mexico in the last 16

00:02:12.580 And they won 3-2

00:02:16.080 jude benningham scored two in quick succession then uh and then they scored one then we got a

00:02:23.840 penalty then they got a penalty there was a red card it was an exciting game by all accounts again

00:02:28.560 i didn't watch it but we won three two and it was in that stadium in mexico where if you're old enough

00:02:37.200 to remember and or like football in 1986 maradona the argentine legend who's now passed away

00:02:46.080 Did a handball against Peter Shilton.

00:02:48.680 Yeah, well, Harry wouldn't know.

00:02:51.360 In 1986, in a quarterfinal, England lost to Argentina.

00:02:56.480 Maradona jumped up with the goalkeeper to do a header.

00:02:58.800 And just to get ahead of the header, he hit it with his hand.

00:03:02.920 And it went in, handball, completely legal.

00:03:04.380 But the ref didn't see it, apparently.

00:03:05.900 And the goal stood, and we lost the game and got knocked out of the World Cup.

00:03:08.300 The hand of God, Maradona's little hand of God.

00:03:10.540 His little Jeremy Beedle's a tiny man winning Maradona.

00:03:12.840 it was in that stadium the hand of god so now it's the hangover of god

00:03:20.360 it's clever isn't it it's clever what they've done there the hangover of god because hangover

00:03:25.020 is very very very close to the word hand and hangover so anyway they're saying one of the

00:03:35.540 big stories is and i'll move on after this don't worry about it is that because it was

00:03:38.860 we're supposed to start at 1 a.m our time we actually start at 2 a.m because there was thunder

00:03:43.820 and lightning they can't let them play these days if there's thunder and lightning health and safety

00:03:48.380 so it didn't start till two so i only finished a few hours ago anyway that's it that's it england

00:03:55.740 through to the quarterfinals we'll play norway norway beat brazil norway beat brazil that harland

00:04:02.860 he he's really good he can't stop him scoring goals that harland fella

00:04:06.300 son of Alfinger Haaland who Roy Keane ended his career by breaking his leg deliberately

00:04:10.980 remember that anyone no we've got to play Norway next we could beat them but then probably Argentina

00:04:17.540 and then probably France in the final so still a long way to go still a big ask all right that's

00:04:24.000 it that's it it's on the front pages but we'll I'll skip over it I've done it I've done it now

00:04:27.460 it's out of the way all right the express it's a good paper you can read your express now

00:04:33.380 yeah a lot of the pages go with the farage story today um particularly some of the

00:04:39.300 the more sloppy tabloids okay so here we go reform leader defiant after claims of financial

00:04:46.560 links to a convicted criminal farage this is a hit job i've done nothing wrong oh it's a hit

00:04:53.600 job is it yeah welcome to the club welcome to the club hypnotode like it's anything new to

00:05:00.200 raj to be the subject of a hit job well i said it before and i'll say it again this is either

00:05:06.680 all these things about nigel's personal finances a bit of a thorn in his side

00:05:17.000 because that's his limited company isn't it all in the side limited or something that's

00:05:21.080 his company anyway begins to be a bit of a thorn in nigel's side his personal finances

00:05:25.320 it's either a complete nothing burger and he really has done nothing wrong

00:05:28.040 which is totally possible as well i mean it could well just end in that it's just nothing

00:05:32.540 or this does destroy him his political career we'll have to see we'll just have to that's all

00:05:38.440 i can say just have to see i completely reserve judgment until the investigation is done and even

00:05:43.520 then even when you've been investigated by someone whatever the police whatever sometimes

00:05:46.960 still stitch up job isn't it anyway the latest thing is like the third or fourth thing for nigel

00:05:52.980 Is someone called George Cottrell 0.97

00:05:55.900 Posh George, they're calling him

00:05:57.340 A youngish dude, dude in his thirties

00:05:59.600 Some sort of multi-multi-millionaire

00:06:01.320 And he is a convicted criminal in the US

00:06:05.640 He, it was like money laundering

00:06:09.780 Or wire fraud, they call it in the US

00:06:11.960 Don't they, wire fraud

00:06:12.880 Well it was, nowadays I think he

00:06:16.120 Some sort of betting website

00:06:18.260 But he's been involved in all sorts of businesses

00:06:20.920 at some point a few years back some FBI agents I believe this is a story if I get any of these

00:06:26.900 details I've said slightly wrong apologies but this is what I read it's what I can recall from

00:06:30.580 reading it yesterday um some FBI agents undercover went to him and said can basically basically said

00:06:38.440 can you launder money for us we'll give you a bunch of money you run it through your accounts

00:06:42.820 and your businesses and then give it back to us or most of it back to us and he which is just

00:06:48.080 completely legal money laundering like you know layering whatever and um and he said yes

00:06:54.080 and they were like right gotcha we're the fbi

00:06:56.240 and that dude's a close friend quite a close friend of nigel i mean really quite close

00:07:02.240 like on the night of the um brexit result he's like literally standing next to farage and

00:07:08.240 loads and loads of times there's pictures of nigel out you know out and about and this guy

00:07:14.140 posgeorge is next to him and uh what else he apparently he rented a house near buckingham

00:07:20.020 palace and nigel stayed there a couple of times not since he's been an mp but nonetheless a couple

00:07:24.740 times this same guy posgeorge gave nigel or gave reform some money at one time he gave him nine

00:07:30.200 grand and then another time he gave him like 14 grand or 15 grand but nothing necessarily illegal

00:07:35.860 about any of this might be kind of bad optics that nigel stayed in the house of a fraudster

00:07:40.960 Accepted relatively small amounts of money

00:07:43.440 From a fraudster

00:07:44.120 Convicted criminal

00:07:45.040 I mean he went to prison for 8 months

00:07:46.520 In America

00:07:48.020 They wanted to put him on

00:07:49.520 Charge him with like 10 or 20 crimes

00:07:52.020 Financial crimes

00:07:52.680 But he made some sort of plea

00:07:53.780 And could go to prison for 20 years

00:07:55.100 Made some sort of plea deal

00:07:56.300 And went to prison for 8 months

00:07:59.240 Okay

00:08:00.820 You are allowed to be friends

00:08:03.840 With someone that has been convicted

00:08:06.060 Of like wire fraud

00:08:07.080 It's allowed

00:08:07.780 There's nothing illegal in that is there

00:08:09.020 The question is like 1.00

00:08:10.580 all the like all the rest of nigel's the thorny nigel side is really the crux of it is did nigel 1.00

00:08:18.540 declare all the right things in the right time in the right way it's more about that 0.84

00:08:23.340 not that you're not allowed to be his friend it's that should nigel have declared the bits of money

00:08:30.560 and things he got from this guy and was there anything expected in return don't know i'll wait

00:08:36.580 for the investigation i'm not prepared to just completely start saying nigel did xyz nigel

00:08:41.340 just wait and see i'd say but a lot of the papers are going with it look the express

00:08:47.980 the metro the metro the metro uh look crack down on party donors amid row over posh george

00:08:55.900 look there's posh george

00:08:57.220 the guardian crack down on donations as farage faces a new gift row

00:09:04.120 that half haitian half japanese woman beat the number one seed in tennis

00:09:09.320 which might go on to win wimbledon you might think women's wimbledon um the mirror the mirror 0.99

00:09:15.340 they hate nights aren't they real bad real bad i mean i'm not a fan but i'll give him the benefit

00:09:19.620 of the doubt and stuff but they don't they don't yet more questions for raj and cons cash convict

00:09:27.060 convicts cash there's pos george's mugshot

00:09:30.380 Okay

00:09:33.180 Okay, alright, so

00:09:36.720 So there you go, so that's basically

00:09:39.340 That's basically that story

00:09:40.420 They willed out Robert Jenrick

00:09:45.540 Yesterday on Sunday morning

00:09:47.160 In Britain, Sunday morning there's a lot of political shows

00:09:49.500 Aren't there, like Laura Koenigsberg or Trevor Phillips

00:09:51.720 Or whatever, they willed out Jenrick

00:09:53.600 To go, nothing, no rules have been broken

00:09:56.080 Nigel's done nothing wrong

00:09:57.460 Da da da da da

00:09:58.060 it comes down to i think it's fair to say i suppose it boils down to one of the rules is that

00:10:05.040 you're supposed to declare anything even 12 months before you become an mp and so quite

00:10:12.740 often reforms seem to be saying nigel wasn't even an mp and it's like yeah yeah we know

00:10:17.960 because the rules are 12 months beforehand as well though

00:10:21.000 I just think wait until the actual parliamentary standards investigation

00:10:29.460 Whatever it is, comes to some sort of conclusion

00:10:32.120 Again, it'll either be a complete nothing burger

00:10:37.580 It is simply nothing more than a hit piece from his political enemies

00:10:41.520 Or it's a full-blown scandal and Nigel might have to face a by-election in Crackton

00:10:47.120 Or just stand down and slink away and go off and live in America

00:10:50.420 and make loads more money like he's always wanted to

00:10:52.860 we'll see

00:10:55.500 we shall see

00:10:58.100 on that

00:10:59.620 alright

00:11:00.300 hangover of God

00:11:02.940 apparently loads of people in Britain

00:11:04.620 aren't going to turn up to work today

00:11:06.180 because they were up all night

00:11:07.560 watching the footy ball

00:11:11.160 oh look there's Maradona's hand of God

00:11:12.880 look can you see that

00:11:13.660 there's Peter Shilton, 1986

00:11:15.300 1986 World Cup

00:11:16.620 Peter Shilton, England goalie

00:11:19.420 Just about to save it

00:11:20.660 Maradona goes up for a header

00:11:22.200 He's obviously not going to get there

00:11:23.640 Shorten's going to get there first 0.99

00:11:24.760 So Maradona puts his dirty little cheek 1.00

00:11:26.960 Puts his hand up there and handballs it in 0.99

00:11:29.100 The hand of God

00:11:29.980 The hangover of God

00:11:31.860 Right you get it

00:11:32.820 The son

00:11:33.660 How's the hangover

00:11:36.060 Right okay

00:11:36.840 Because the result hadn't happened when they went to print

00:11:39.640 Alright here's another proper story

00:11:41.240 Let's get back to the actual story

00:11:42.340 Financial Times

00:11:43.540 Ayatollah's funeral

00:11:44.700 Vast crowds mourn late Iran leader

00:11:47.120 But successor stays out of sight

00:11:49.020 So it's just

00:11:50.160 The old Ayatollah Khomeini

00:11:53.800 Finally

00:11:55.380 His remains

00:11:56.680 Is there anything really left? I don't know

00:11:58.420 I sort of got the impression he was blown to smithereens

00:12:02.080 Maybe not

00:12:03.620 Anyway you can have a coffee

00:12:05.640 Even if there's not really anything in it

00:12:06.840 Can't you

00:12:07.200 There's like a tiny charred bit of

00:12:12.520 A hunk of flesh

00:12:13.440 Like a bit of brisket

00:12:14.840 Okay so

00:12:18.360 they had that and um yeah his successor his son wasn't there he's either he's either dead himself

00:12:28.820 or crazily wounded otherwise they would have trotted him out by now some said he lost a leg

00:12:35.920 maybe both legs certainly one leg it seems like and that maybe his face there was reports on there

00:12:40.860 his face is all burnt up or that he's he's lost his lips was one report so

00:12:50.620 he probably looks terrible he probably looks like a if he's even alive probably looks like

00:12:56.460 a terrible terrible burns victim like missing limbs and stuff so obviously the optics of that

00:13:01.340 are terrible aren't they so they you say they they just don't ever ever show him

00:13:05.820 If he's even alive

00:13:08.060 Alright

00:13:08.360 That's in the news today

00:13:09.520 The Ayatollah's funeral

00:13:10.620 The old Ayatollah 0.99

00:13:11.820 Okay

00:13:13.040 The Telegraph

00:13:13.960 The Daily Telegraph

00:13:14.740 Thing about football

00:13:15.500 Alright

00:13:15.860 Trump threatens NATO over defence

00:13:17.840 Okay it's a big

00:13:19.180 NATO summit this week

00:13:20.900 In Ankara I believe

00:13:22.860 In Turkey of course

00:13:25.320 In the middle of Turkey 0.86

00:13:25.960 Starmer's there

00:13:30.380 One of the stories coming out this morning

00:13:31.660 Or last night

00:13:32.280 Was that he's just basically

00:13:34.420 Sidelined

00:13:35.420 like everyone there knows that he's only going to be prime minister for another like two weeks

00:13:40.520 is it if that on a bang on about two weeks so his power his authority is already over really isn't

00:13:47.780 it basically i mean he can still do stuff technically he can still ring up an admiral

00:13:53.840 or the captain of a nuclear sub and tell him to fire a nuke technically but yeah in reality

00:14:01.060 power has ebbed away from him and everyone knows that and so at the NATO summit there's just people

00:14:09.900 saying that he's a sideline people not interested in sitting down having a working lunch with him

00:14:14.020 or anything if he says anything in a in a committee or a meeting people are like okay mate yeah all

00:14:18.060 right pipe down we're just waiting for your successor now uh okay President Warren's allies

00:14:25.020 must spend more or face consequences on eve of summit I mean that is what the Americans and Trump

00:14:29.720 been saying the whole time haven't they so they're not changing their tune on that

00:14:36.520 i mean if the ball is really in the united states is caught on all of this isn't it

00:14:43.320 they can only sort of cajole the european nations the european members of nato so far and if the

00:14:49.480 european nations just simply refuse to spend the amount of money the united states want

00:14:54.680 what can you do you can sort of pour scorn someone like trump or rubio or whatever

00:15:00.500 can pour scorn on them or they can actually you know do something profound you know like

00:15:06.580 pull out of nato entirely or they'll just say right if you don't spend much money we won't

00:15:11.260 spend much money then don't you like that anyway it's just an ongoing thing is it it's always been

00:15:16.660 the case i have been reading recently or on and off for quite a few weeks actually about the

00:15:21.820 clement attley government on the state of politics i'm going to do a video all about the attley years

00:15:26.760 and um in that in the late 40s i.e nato's really new or the early 50s rather the early 50s the

00:15:34.580 korean war clement attley decided he was going to get involved in the korean war even though we

00:15:39.320 couldn't really fold it our own country's bankrupt and there was ration cards and everything true

00:15:43.640 austerity he still decided britain needs to be involved in the korean war loads of british troops

00:15:48.740 fought and died in korea in the 50s um even then even then from inception the united states are

00:15:57.700 complaining i mean rightly so from their point of view from their point of view

00:16:01.300 complaining that all the other nato countries aren't spending enough

00:16:07.460 it's been the story of nato the whole time the whole time america saying you guys have

00:16:13.300 got to spend more spend more spend more we we can't just prop you up but then

00:16:18.740 what 70 years later 80 odd years later 70 knocking 80 still the same old story still the same old

00:16:27.400 story so okay Tories offer PM solution to to deport a Rochdale ringleader I mean not really

00:16:37.600 not really police must stop engaging in woke culture wars reports said yeah good one

00:16:44.100 I wonder if 0.74

00:16:49.040 The Dame Lawrence

00:16:51.120 Stephen Lawrence's mother

00:16:55.360 I wonder if she's happy now

00:16:56.760 Happy now Mrs Lawrence

00:17:01.020 The police are completely anti-racist

00:17:04.760 To the point of just arresting white people

00:17:06.960 Even if they're the one getting beaten up 0.99

00:17:08.740 Happy now?

00:17:11.960 Of course she won't be

00:17:12.740 Never enough

00:17:13.700 Nothing's ever enough

00:17:14.540 Until we're wiped

00:17:15.700 From the face of the earth

00:17:16.640 Nothing is ever enough

00:17:17.480 The times

00:17:18.480 The venerable times

00:17:20.980 Inside Taylor Swift's

00:17:22.800 Uber webbing 1.00

00:17:23.400 Don't care 1.00

00:17:23.880 Wedding 0.95

00:17:24.220 Don't care

00:17:24.680 Don't care

00:17:25.120 Don't care one bit

00:17:26.140 Want an eco-friendly home

00:17:28.600 It'll take 25 years

00:17:29.640 To cover the costs

00:17:30.280 Don't care

00:17:30.760 No I don't want an eco home

00:17:31.780 No

00:17:32.000 Because the whole narrative

00:17:33.740 Is nonsense

00:17:34.420 PM facing NATO rebuke

00:17:36.360 From Trump at summit

00:17:37.520 One of the last things

00:17:40.440 Well the last thing 0.95

00:17:41.360 Really Slime's going to do

00:17:42.160 On the world stage

00:17:42.760 Is this summit

00:17:43.340 and he's just going to get basically balled out by trump and ignored by everyone else

00:17:47.540 there's a lot about his his premiership doesn't it that's what it is a failure

00:17:54.640 starmer to be sidelined after defense funding row he's going to have to go there saying uh yeah we

00:18:02.540 said we would increase our defense budget by 15 billion but actually we're not we haven't i haven't

00:18:09.340 got any money

00:18:12.620 it's not going to go down well with the donald is it

00:18:16.620 england's bunk off after staying up for cup

00:18:19.660 you know as far as i don't know bunk off just means like skipping school

00:18:22.620 like you bunked school we bunked work calling in a fake city or whatever

00:18:29.340 loads of people gonna bunk off work because they're up all night

00:18:32.940 Or perhaps even drinking

00:18:33.960 Okay

00:18:37.180 The mail

00:18:38.680 Oh Adele's been seen in public

00:18:42.000 Adele rarely goes out in public 0.97

00:18:44.880 But she has done

00:18:46.340 Hello Adele in rare public appearance 0.91

00:18:49.660 At Silverstone

00:18:50.420 Who cares

00:18:55.060 Silverstone, I know there was the British Grand Prix

00:18:57.400 On Sunday

00:18:58.440 Charles Leclerc won it

00:19:01.160 A Frenchman for Ferrari

00:19:02.400 Lewis Hamilton came third

00:19:04.640 On the podium again

00:19:08.420 Alright, you guys don't care about F1

00:19:09.760 NHS threats

00:19:11.760 NHS treats

00:19:14.760 Dementia patients as

00:19:16.420 Second class citizens 1.00

00:19:17.660 They treat everyone as a second class citizen 1.00

00:19:19.520 They treat everyone as an exercise in getting you

00:19:22.780 Gone, getting you off their list

00:19:24.220 That's how they treat everyone 0.76

00:19:25.420 Furious Alzheimer's society boss

00:19:28.540 Who says families are sent home with just a leaflet 1.00

00:19:30.880 Sounds about right, yeah

00:19:32.400 you're going there with nearly any ailment unless you're actually like bleeding out

00:19:37.820 you're going there like oh well did i go anyway go home

00:19:41.580 it's utterly broken it's uh the nhs is crazily broke considering how much money we spend on it

00:19:50.540 if it was one of those things where it was insanely underfunded it would make a bit more

00:19:55.560 sense why it's so terribly broken why the outcome and i'm not just not just saying that right we

00:20:00.400 know the data's in that the health outcomes are really really bad on the hs one of the worst in

00:20:08.560 the world in the developed first world at least now if it was crazily underfunded that would be

00:20:15.980 one thing that would make sense but it's not crazily underfunded we're ruining our economy

00:20:21.300 in order to fund it quite a high level and yet still it just doesn't work properly at all for

00:20:27.160 Most people, most of the time

00:20:29.620 The number of people that have had botched operations or even died

00:20:32.760 Is mad

00:20:36.400 They keep saying, oh this hospital here has done some failings

00:20:40.680 This hospital there one time has done some failings

00:20:42.540 No, it's nearly all of it, all the time

00:20:44.160 Remember just the other day there was a hospital

00:20:47.320 Where was it, in the Midlands or Nottingham or something

00:20:49.240 Somewhere like 500 people had died, they found

00:20:52.180 500?

00:20:54.800 Isn't that like a killing machine then

00:20:58.600 500, not 5

00:20:59.940 Not 50

00:21:01.800 50 would be mental wouldn't it

00:21:03.960 500, 500

00:21:05.360 There's some sort of death machine

00:21:07.860 Doing the exact opposite

00:21:10.400 Of helping people and saving people

00:21:12.660 Latest one

00:21:14.720 Dementia patients apparently

00:21:16.220 Alright the eye paper

00:21:19.460 They go with something slightly different

00:21:20.520 Or they've got Farage on there

00:21:21.560 Farage faces another sleaze investigation

00:21:23.360 Okay

00:21:24.200 He may or may not have done anything wrong

00:21:26.160 He may not have done

00:21:27.760 He's a bit suspicious though

00:21:30.800 Remember when it was in the news

00:21:32.080 At the end of last week

00:21:35.240 There was a few headlines wasn't there

00:21:37.280 That rumours out of the Nigel camp

00:21:39.540 A source close to Mr Farage says

00:21:41.600 All that stuff

00:21:42.180 But he does fear that he might have to face a by-election

00:21:46.340 I.e. that these investigations into him

00:21:48.880 Will come back negatively from his point of view

00:21:50.720 I hold judgement

00:21:53.400 Alright

00:21:53.760 weight loss pills from chemists but not on the nhs until 2028 i won't even bother reading the blurb

00:22:00.520 that's really all it is there's loads of there's new weight loss drugs they're calling this new

00:22:04.000 one what is it wega v not heard of that until today until this morning these wega v drugs

00:22:10.300 and some of them a lot of them are for legit reasons like people with diabetes

00:22:15.420 like you need to lose weight asap because you've got diabetes or you've got insane really really

00:22:21.220 bad heart disease you're gonna have a stroke or a heart attack imminently unless you lose loads of

00:22:25.200 weight that for those people right okay fine good even right i mean you shouldn't have eaten yourself

00:22:30.640 into that sort of state but whatever legit legit medicines that they worry that it will just be

00:22:36.620 used for um cosmetic reasons on the nhs people just go in and they're like they're not actually

00:22:42.940 insanely unhealthy they've not got terrible heart disease or diabetes or anything they're just like

00:22:47.300 i want to be a bit slimmer but i can't stop eating cake and pie can you give me drugs for that

00:22:53.140 just stop eating cake and pie and biscuits all the time do a bit of exercise

00:23:04.760 all right they're the front pages they're the front pages there you go do you have a look at

00:23:10.660 our poll we usually do a look at our poll today i don't even know what it was because this morning

00:23:13.840 um me and harry just asked the uh you guys in the chat getting more and more interactive with

00:23:20.560 anything um we asked you guys in the chat we've done that two or three times before haven't we

00:23:25.520 what would you like the poll to be today because quite often i have noticed the chat aren't happy

00:23:30.940 with the poll like what slop poll is this what dumb question that was oh how your poll doesn't

00:23:36.600 even make sense or whatever all right so we asked you guys so i don't know what it's going to be 0.63

00:23:41.860 I really don't know what it's going to be

00:23:43.740 So this is new to me

00:23:44.580 I'm reading it in real time for the first time

00:23:46.060 Here we go

00:23:46.620 Do you think this is a hit job on Farage?

00:23:54.260 Okay

00:23:54.520 72% of you say yes

00:23:57.860 Okay, so the eyes have it

00:23:59.500 28% say no

00:24:00.860 It does feel like that

00:24:02.540 I mean, if it does turn out that it's all

00:24:04.720 It is proper corruption

00:24:05.880 These people

00:24:06.580 Or that it was George Cottrell

00:24:07.900 Or that Christopher Harbaugh

00:24:08.820 Expected something in return

00:24:10.480 But at the moment

00:24:14.080 It does just look a bit like

00:24:15.200 Doesn't it

00:24:15.940 Various elements

00:24:18.380 Various people

00:24:18.940 Don't want Farage

00:24:20.260 Even though he is still

00:24:21.120 Part of the WEF containment machine

00:24:22.560 He's not enough of one

00:24:23.920 For them 1.00

00:24:24.780 So he must be destroyed 0.92

00:24:26.160 Does feel a bit like a hit job 0.69

00:24:32.440 But

00:24:32.720 But

00:24:34.980 There you go

00:24:36.160 That's the game

00:24:36.580 That's what everything

00:24:37.200 Everyone has a hit job

00:24:38.160 Done against them

00:24:38.700 Everyone

00:24:39.060 Right

00:24:41.040 From the lowliest person

00:24:42.760 Right

00:24:43.820 Even me

00:24:45.080 I'll take something out of context

00:24:47.000 I said about bloody

00:24:48.140 Edward Longshanks

00:24:51.800 And he'll be the front of some

00:24:53.660 Front page of some socialist rag in Scotland

00:24:56.120 Even me

00:24:57.780 So of course Farage

00:24:58.780 People gunning for him big time

00:25:01.580 Of course

00:25:01.920 I mean I remember

00:25:04.880 When I was back in reform

00:25:07.240 when I was the candidate for Swindon South 0.99

00:25:09.540 there was another lady

00:25:11.660 who was the candidate for somewhere else in Wiltshire

00:25:15.940 nearby, one of the neighbouring

00:25:17.300 might even have been Swindon North

00:25:18.740 and she'd done really nothing

00:25:22.800 at least I had penned a really spicy opinion

00:25:25.960 and I've been all over the internet saying spicy stuff

00:25:29.440 so fair enough

00:25:30.320 if that was too spicy for Richard Tice's palate

00:25:34.040 it is what it is, fair enough

00:25:35.720 but she's done like she's done i think she liked a tommy robinson tweet or maybe i can't remember

00:25:41.480 the exact details maybe she'd replied under a tommy tweet going yeah i agree with tommy something like

00:25:46.360 that it was the absolute minimal minimal minimal thing ever she got deselected

00:25:54.040 without being rude to her i don't mean this to be rude to her but she's a nobody really 0.83

00:25:57.400 right so yeah they'll do it they'll do it to nobody's absolute nobodies so yeah nigel's the 0.84

00:26:07.560 the target of of hit pieces yeah all right should we move on then what else have we got in the news 0.70

00:26:16.520 there was one thing at least one thing i thought was of interest uh we have to scroll past the

00:26:22.760 the footy ball as it is the top of all the things oh just real quick to say where brazil got knocked

00:26:30.200 out today later today spain and portugal play each other in the knockout round so one of them

00:26:35.340 will be out as well one of the other big hitters will be out as well that's all that's all here we

00:26:42.060 go look marine le pen appeal verdict why this moment matters a little bit of french politics

00:26:49.060 could be pivotal thing for france um so she was convicted of i think the actual conviction was

00:26:58.180 like a type of fraud and the story is well i'll just i'll just i'll just uh paraphrase it for you

00:27:05.380 i'll just pass it for you um over a number of years quite a few number of years she spent money

00:27:12.820 whether it was her or just she greenlit other people to do it she greenlit money on on the um 0.94

00:27:19.860 the wages of parliamentary french parliamentary aids so that they then became effectively full-blown

00:27:27.620 partisans for national rally her party and like that's not allowed so it's not like she embezzled

00:27:34.820 the money and put it in her own pocket and bought a motor home with it and went on holiday with it

00:27:38.500 But none left

00:27:39.520 And a lot of her to track to say

00:27:41.320 That was all trumped up anyway

00:27:42.980 That was completely unfair

00:27:44.840 But anyway

00:27:47.460 Well you know in France

00:27:49.660 You know in France

00:27:50.620 Their law affair

00:27:52.580 A lot of the French establishment

00:27:55.560 Despise the Le Pens

00:27:58.080 And the national rally 0.99

00:27:59.620 You know like loads of people in Germany

00:28:02.120 Hate the AFD

00:28:03.220 Those people hate Nigel and Rupert

00:28:05.300 And all that of course

00:28:05.940 The left, the left

00:28:06.920 Tried to destroy her

00:28:09.300 Anyway

00:28:09.660 Eventually it went through the courts

00:28:11.660 And she was found guilty

00:28:12.900 And she was given like

00:28:14.660 A four years imprisonment

00:28:16.100 But

00:28:16.700 Three of those years

00:28:18.580 Are suspended

00:28:19.160 And one of them 1.00

00:28:19.860 Shoney has to wear 0.82

00:28:20.540 An electronic tag 0.98

00:28:21.440 On her ankle 0.62

00:28:22.480 And barred from office

00:28:24.440 High office

00:28:25.060 For like ten years

00:28:26.220 Or something

00:28:26.640 That does feel like

00:28:29.060 A massive stitch up job

00:28:30.080 Doesn't it

00:28:30.520 But okay

00:28:32.140 That happened

00:28:33.140 But she has an appeal

00:28:34.200 Right

00:28:35.360 you get a right to appeal because if you say the the trial the original trial wasn't fair

00:28:42.600 the judge was biased you know you get an appeal so now i think on i think tomorrow

00:28:48.200 that appeals process comes to an end and we'll probably have the result for you guys on wednesday

00:28:53.100 morning i imagine and it's just simply whether her career or her aspirations to be not her career

00:28:59.460 sorry her aspirations to actually run for and be president of france it just completely hangs on

00:29:04.460 that if the appeals judge says no i uphold the original thing of the trial and you're barred

00:29:12.720 legally barred from holding office for 10 years odd um then she cannot will not be able to run

00:29:19.220 for it next time i mean if that happens her deputy will jordan bardella you'll be someone

00:29:27.180 called jordan bardella if the appeals judge says no um it was a it was a bad fake terrible

00:29:37.260 injustice type trial and i overturn it or whatever or at least rescind part of the sentence that

00:29:43.660 says you can't hold high office or the electronic tag apparently marine le pen just said if i have

00:29:48.460 to wear an electronic tag even um um it's over well at least for this election is over i'm not

00:29:55.180 not going to actually run for president because for various reasons so possibly probably the exact

00:30:05.780 future of french politics stands in the balance a bit certainly as far as the marine le pen is

00:30:16.700 concerned all right do you have anything else the football the football that's that harland

00:30:22.860 fella you can't stop him scoring goals you can't he's too big and powerful and good

00:30:30.540 you know one of those people when they're in their prime like ronaldo not cristiano

00:30:33.500 ronaldo the brazilian ronaldo or also cristiano ronaldo some people you just can't stop him 0.79

00:30:38.700 scoring goals he's one of those oh look there's where nigel got egged one time 0.67

00:30:45.260 or milkshakes whatever it was there's pos george standing next to him okay

00:30:53.500 all right what else we got oh um sky news sky news i don't think is they've actually reported

00:30:59.660 it much but is in this in the news at the moment that sky news are gonna buy or have bought by tv

00:31:05.980 news all of itv news or their news outlets and their uh their streaming services new streaming

00:31:14.780 services have been bought by sky news that's sort of a big thing relatively kind of for the landscape

00:31:20.540 the legacy corporate mainstream media sky news is owned by uh what is it nbc

00:31:26.780 it used to be rupert murdoch didn't it but it's now owned by nbc

00:31:32.060 so nbc obviously american uh will have loads more control over british news

00:31:42.780 i mean that's a story you know i think mildly important okay harry kane taking that penalty

00:31:48.460 alright

00:31:49.900 England's Azteca epic

00:31:52.740 alright

00:31:54.000 alright

00:31:55.480 Nigel deniers breaking rules after receiving

00:31:59.000 financial benefits from convicted criminal

00:32:00.740 I mean of course he would

00:32:02.200 Harry's coming over but without Meghan

00:32:04.160 sans Meghan

00:32:05.060 sorry was that an audible slurp

00:32:11.180 sorry I do try to keep it to a minimum

00:32:12.420 Harry and Meghan

00:32:16.900 were set to come over

00:32:18.460 sort of trying to come back into the fold of the royal family to some extent but now the story is

00:32:24.840 that um megan's going to stay away some people really really care about the royals don't they

00:32:32.700 the royal story like every tiny little twist and turn of sort of the royal saga i don't care that

00:32:40.700 much at all really maybe the royals that are in the direct line of succession but harry and megan

00:32:48.320 And their children aren't are they

00:32:49.740 So I find it even harder

00:32:52.100 If it's something about Wills

00:32:54.560 Or Wills' son

00:32:57.540 Or the king

00:32:58.700 I'll at least be mildly interested

00:33:01.320 If it's about the radiant Kate

00:33:05.680 But something about Harry

00:33:08.760 Could not care less than he's 1.00

00:33:10.120 He's a horrible little rat of a man 1.00

00:33:13.080 So okay 1.00

00:33:14.360 Young Royals

00:33:17.700 I was going to talk about

00:33:18.480 Harry's son

00:33:20.400 The next king

00:33:21.000 Well not the next king

00:33:21.980 Next in line after Wills

00:33:23.420 George

00:33:25.200 Is that

00:33:28.100 Is that George

00:33:29.180 Is he that tall now

00:33:30.320 He had a growth spurt

00:33:32.700 If that's him

00:33:33.300 If that is him

00:33:35.920 I'm not sure

00:33:36.500 Yes he is

00:33:37.480 He had a growth spurt

00:33:39.280 He'll be king one day

00:33:40.380 Assuming

00:33:42.720 Am I going to say this

00:33:45.460 Assuming he lives

00:33:46.280 There's no reason why

00:33:47.000 He wouldn't live

00:33:47.400 But history is littered with people

00:33:50.780 That were heirs to the throne

00:33:52.100 That don't get there for one reason or another

00:33:54.200 Young girls, George, Charlotte and Louis

00:33:57.820 Embrace mother Kate

00:33:58.940 I guess it is him

00:33:59.680 As she completes her three peaks challenge

00:34:02.260 In a heartwarming new photo

00:34:03.500 To show the Princess of Wales

00:34:04.580 Being supported by her family

00:34:06.100 At the finish line

00:34:07.060 Yeah we reported that the other day

00:34:08.260 That's old news isn't it

00:34:09.100 Wasn't that like quite a few days ago

00:34:10.260 Last week 1.00

00:34:11.420 Kate walked up

00:34:14.560 Snowden

00:34:17.040 Scarfell Pike and Ben Nevis in one day or one 24-hour period

00:34:21.020 all right what else have we got off the express got in oh yeah that was slightly thing um

00:34:33.520 Jordan Henderson one of our players apparently after the game when this though after the game

00:34:38.540 they're celebrating they run around the pitch and they go into the crowd and kiss their wives

00:34:42.660 and girlfriends and they get flags and they run around the pitch and stuff he like broke his leg

00:34:48.080 in that it broke his leg oh well got a freak injury he injured himself in some sort of freak

00:34:55.520 i don't even know what the details are some sort of freak incident where he's badly injured himself

00:34:59.440 doing that running around celebrating it'd be a shame wouldn't it imagine that's how your world

00:35:05.580 cup ends you ever see people in ufc occasionally win a fight and their celebrations are over the

00:35:12.760 top they injure themselves or knock themselves out they're trying to do a backflip or something

00:35:16.080 climb up on the top of the oxygon and do a backflip knock themselves out

00:35:19.940 it happens things like that okay okay the sun if we've got any slop of any interest

00:35:30.100 in the sun

00:35:31.300 Taylor Swift's wedding

00:35:34.620 we don't care do we

00:35:36.720 the glorious band the chosen few

00:35:38.260 we don't care about Taylor Swift's wedding

00:35:41.380 remotely do we

00:35:42.340 alright let's just move on then

00:35:44.520 I need to finish relatively soon

00:35:47.880 so I'll start doing the history bit

00:35:50.140 if you don't mind

00:35:50.900 because it has come to my attention

00:35:52.680 that increasingly

00:35:53.460 the history section and the YouTube chats

00:35:56.240 and rumble rants take

00:35:57.160 Almost as long as the show itself sometimes

00:36:00.200 So let's just move on to

00:36:01.760 On this day in history

00:36:03.400 I like doing that bit

00:36:04.200 You guys seem to like doing that bit

00:36:05.400 On this day down through the centuries

00:36:09.580 What happened of note

00:36:10.340 It is July the 6th we're talking about

00:36:12.700 Okay

00:36:14.460 In the year 1348

00:36:17.660 If anyone knows their history

00:36:19.460 At least in Britain

00:36:20.760 1448 and 149

00:36:22.320 1348 and 149

00:36:23.780 the world changed profoundly perhaps the most profound change that's ever happened in sort 0.98

00:36:31.960 of a one two year period in human civilization happened in that year those years the black 0.85

00:36:41.400 death it's earlier in europe in places like italy in central europe and eastern europe it was sort

00:36:46.500 more like 1437 but over 1348 or 149 something crazy like a third maybe as much as a half of

00:37:00.240 all people died depending on where you are some communities utterly wiped out some towns and

00:37:08.640 villages 99% or 100% death rate. The world before the Black Death and the world after 0.79

00:37:17.460 are completely different. I've talked about it a number of times on Epoch. A number of

00:37:23.800 times in passing, especially when I'm talking about that period. What was it? Edward, is

00:37:28.460 it Edward III was king? Wasn't he? Is that right? Yeah. The Black Death. Papal Bull

00:37:38.160 You know, like a declaration

00:37:41.340 A papal bull

00:37:42.040 Of Pope Clement VI

00:37:44.660 Issued during the Black Death 1.00

00:37:46.380 States, Jews are not to be blamed

00:37:48.840 And encourages their protection

00:37:51.060 Why would Jews be blamed though?

00:37:54.600 Why would that?

00:37:56.860 Why would they?

00:37:58.220 What's the problem?

00:38:00.860 How could they be? 1.00

00:38:02.640 How could Jews be responsible for it? 1.00

00:38:05.940 Don't shoot the messenger 1.00

00:38:07.180 I'm just telling you the history

00:38:08.640 But people at the time accused them

00:38:12.320 Of deliberately spreading it

00:38:13.540 That's the accusation

00:38:17.100 Deliberately like putting 0.98

00:38:20.660 Black death victims 1.00

00:38:22.420 Throwing them down the well 1.00

00:38:24.000 Of another town or village

00:38:25.820 To poison that well

00:38:26.780 Infect another place

00:38:28.060 Stuff like that

00:38:30.940 Don't shoot the messenger

00:38:34.040 I'm just telling you what the history is

00:38:37.180 all right on this day in 1775 congress congress u.s congress issues the declaration of the causes

00:38:47.580 and necessity of taking up arms against the english look 1775 so one year before

00:38:54.700 full-blown the declaration of independence and full-blown hostilities break out

00:38:59.140 they had already been firing and fighting and things in places like massachusetts

00:39:02.700 Written by Thomas Jefferson

00:39:04.200 Oh no it's not on there

00:39:07.700 It's on

00:39:08.060 On my history channel

00:39:14.340 History Bro

00:39:14.820 Which is free

00:39:15.600 It's not behind the paywall

00:39:16.500 In conversation with

00:39:17.280 Benjamin Boyce

00:39:17.840 The great Boise

00:39:18.620 Long film content

00:39:20.080 Me

00:39:20.580 Talking a couple of hours

00:39:21.520 At least

00:39:21.900 Talking all about

00:39:22.720 The life and career

00:39:23.380 Of Thomas Jefferson

00:39:24.160 Quite a lot of detail there

00:39:25.680 Thomas Jefferson

00:39:26.740 One of the most

00:39:27.860 Most important

00:39:28.440 I would argue

00:39:29.260 Probably

00:39:29.760 Probably

00:39:30.380 The most pivotal

00:39:31.160 Founding father

00:39:31.840 Thomas Jefferson

00:39:32.400 a year before it all basically kicks off he's one of the people that penned this

00:39:40.780 a declaration by the representatives of the united colonies of north america

00:39:46.520 now met in general congress at philadelphia setting forth the causes and necessity of

00:39:52.280 they're taking up arms there you go so it didn't just start on the 4th of July 1776 it's been a

00:40:04.560 long time in the been brewing away bubbling away for a long long long time many many many years in

00:40:10.440 fact all right then well just say about the 4th of July happy birthday America I know it's belated

00:40:20.780 now we didn't have a beau show on saturday did we when it was your birthday your 250th birthday

00:40:27.020 belated there you go happy birthday okay on this day in 1785 u.s congress unanimously

00:40:36.240 resolves to name the u.s currency the dollar and adopts a decimal coinage and that's quite long

00:40:42.360 after independence and really winning the war of independence the revolutionary war rather

00:40:49.740 whatever you want to call it I mean wasn't it until if memory serves and apologies if I get

00:40:54.720 this ever so slightly wrong I don't think it was until 1789 was it 1787 or 1789 before the British

00:41:06.140 finally sort of accepted ratified and accepted and acknowledged the United States as a thing

00:41:12.260 and their last garrisons I think in New York I think even maybe on Manhattan Island their last

00:41:17.000 garrisons left it was many many years after 1776 i mean the revolutionary war the war of

00:41:25.120 independence lasted for a few years but not that many years which has just been over four years

00:41:29.940 already before britain sort of formally accepted it i mean yorktown was quite a few years before

00:41:36.860 that right it's just interesting to note i think i think when you look at the more you look at the

00:41:44.740 details of the war of independence the more you're sort of shocked or surprised by the details of it

00:41:50.400 oh that happened in that order was it or that didn't happen till then or that happened much

00:41:54.020 earlier than i would have thought or well there was a massive reversal one way or another and

00:41:59.260 it just doesn't really play out the way you probably think it does if you've got a low

00:42:02.820 resolution view of it in loads and loads of different ways it doesn't play out how you

00:42:09.440 would suspect it would it did all right what we got here on this day in 1885 louis pasteur

00:42:18.240 successfully gives an anti-rabies vaccine to a nine to a nine-year-old joseph meister saving his

00:42:24.400 life yeah louis pasteur one of the all-time greats right revolutionized our world in all sorts of

00:42:29.680 ways he was the master he was one of the very early proponents of the germ theory of disease

00:42:34.800 late 19th century late 19th century and there's still debate about the well mid 19th century

00:42:42.080 the debate about the germ theory of disease are germs real are microscopic things real

00:42:49.080 it's as late as that

00:42:51.640 i always find that remarkable when i'm when i'm reminded of that in the american civil war the

00:42:58.540 1860s it still hadn't really been adopted properly doctors still have dirty hands and stuff because

00:43:05.380 they a lot of people didn't believe in like bacteria and germs well louis pasteur see frenchman

00:43:15.380 um one of the greatest earliest proponents of vaccines various different types of vaccines

00:43:24.360 And that the germ theory of disease is correct, basically

00:43:29.240 And how many millions of lives has he saved?

00:43:39.640 Millions and millions

00:43:40.960 He's made humanity a nicer thing, a better thing

00:43:45.740 In the days before that

00:43:48.700 How many children died in infancy of preventable diseases?

00:43:54.360 A lot, that's how many.

00:43:56.760 Even in the mid, even the late 19th century,

00:43:59.280 infant mortality was insanely higher compared to what it is today.

00:44:04.480 How many people just got an infection of something or other,

00:44:07.480 one way or another,

00:44:10.720 and died of it because they had no concept of the germ theory of disease?

00:44:14.100 You have to keep a wound clean, all that sort of stuff.

00:44:17.220 Louis Pasteur is responsible for saving millions and millions and millions of lives

00:44:25.280 A remarkable thing

00:44:27.880 Okay, on this day in 1923

00:44:29.600 The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union

00:44:33.140 Accepts the Treaty of Union signed in Moscow in December 1922

00:44:36.980 And the Russian Empire

00:44:38.900 The Tsarist Russian Empire

00:44:41.080 Becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

00:44:45.600 You know, turning point in history, isn't it?

00:44:48.440 I mean, the Bolshevik Revolution is in October, November, depending on which calendar you go by.

00:44:53.460 Is it back in 1917?

00:44:54.940 But nonetheless, it's sort of formally, sort of, all ratified and legally done.

00:44:59.460 There's the document there.

00:45:02.420 One of the more important documents. 0.67

00:45:03.860 Of course, it was only ever, the Soviet project was only ever an experiment, really. 0.71

00:45:08.160 And it ended in tears, didn't it? 0.72

00:45:10.040 Why?

00:45:10.260 Because leftist economic theory is nonsense

00:45:13.440 And never ever works

00:45:14.780 And always ends in abject failure

00:45:18.180 That's all leftist economic theory by the way

00:45:24.640 Not just the communist model

00:45:27.600 The Russian Soviet communist model

00:45:29.720 All the models 0.89

00:45:31.920 All the models

00:45:33.780 On this day in 1967 1.00

00:45:36.000 Nigerian civil war erupts

00:45:37.420 As Nigeria forces invade

00:45:39.580 The cessationist state of Bafra 0.99

00:45:42.500 Oh well 0.99

00:45:42.880 On this day in 1970

00:45:45.520 California passes the first

00:45:47.720 No fault divorce law in the United States

00:45:50.240 Okay, that's it

00:45:53.540 Okay, fine, alright

00:45:55.600 Fair enough

00:45:57.440 Alright, that's it

00:45:58.700 Shall we have a look at our Rumble Rants and Superchats

00:46:00.640 Shall we do that

00:46:01.180 Will global church history be in at number one?

00:46:05.180 First name global, middle name church

00:46:06.700 Surname history, that's his name

00:46:08.220 Mr. Church History

00:46:10.740 double-barreled second name

00:46:11.860 Mr. Church History

00:46:13.360 is he in at number one?

00:46:14.640 yes he is

00:46:15.160 it's a good day

00:46:15.900 Harry if you get rid of that for us

00:46:18.300 there you go

00:46:19.740 cheers

00:46:19.920 right Global Church History

00:46:23.280 usually gives us two facts

00:46:24.260 doesn't he?

00:46:25.580 usually really good ones as well

00:46:26.580 okay

00:46:27.400 what have we got here?

00:46:29.320 in at number one

00:46:29.780 Global Church History says

00:46:30.540 on this day in 640 AD

00:46:32.660 the Muslims took to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis 1.00

00:46:35.800 Turning the tide in the Muslims favour 0.98

00:46:39.200 That's interesting to note isn't it 1.00

00:46:41.260 460 AD

00:46:43.080 Very soon after the death of Muhammad himself 0.94

00:46:45.900 Very soon 0.99

00:46:46.720 Straight away 1.00

00:46:47.740 Like he's the next generation isn't it 1.00

00:46:49.740 That's the thing to note 0.99

00:46:51.620 If you ever look at a map

00:46:53.020 Have you ever seen like a

00:46:54.560 Time lapse map of how empires

00:46:57.200 Expand and shrink over time

00:46:59.340 You look at how the Roman Empire expanded

00:47:01.400 And then shrunk and stuff

00:47:02.500 Alexander's Empire, the British Empire 1.00

00:47:04.160 Look at the Muslim one 1.00

00:47:05.800 basically expanding out from sort of mecca and medina in the arabian peninsula and then 0.78

00:47:12.260 right at the beginning of it the first two three four generations after muhammad's life boom

00:47:16.740 massive explosion massive well right away they're taking egypt heliopolis egypt 0.54

00:47:24.120 conquered egypt the bread basket of sort of the near east um it wasn't actually the pharaohs

00:47:32.380 they didn't have pharaohs by that point it's roman controlled also by zanta eastern roman

00:47:37.740 byzantine controlled the eastern roman empire um the thing that hasn't been lost on a lot of

00:47:44.640 historians is that the eastern roman empire the byzantine empire was a very very very low ebb

00:47:51.120 at that point in history very very very weak and so it's sort of perfect set of conditions a perfect

00:47:57.000 storm for another big invading army to run amok. And after they'd taken Egypt, they could 0.82

00:48:03.080 sweep across most of North Africa relatively easily. All the way up to modern-day Morocco 0.97

00:48:08.640 and stuff. And then, well, it's just a short hop across the Straits of Gibraltar, isn't

00:48:13.480 it? And then you're into Spain, you're into Europe. It took them a long time, another

00:48:19.120 800-odd years or so, wasn't it? 900-odd years before they could actually take Constantinople

00:48:24.860 itself. Anyway, all right, there you go. The Muslim expansion in the generations after

00:48:30.940 Mohammed himself. Interesting. And the second one you've got here is, in 1189, Richard the 0.97

00:48:37.640 Lionheart was crowned. Oh, the Coeur de Lyon. Do you think behind the paywall on my history

00:48:45.160 thing show, Baudet's Epochs, do consider sign up on otc.com as little as £5 a month

00:48:48.780 for the membership. Do you think I've got long-form content, multiple parts, talking

00:48:52.120 about the life and career of richard the lion heart richard the first richard plantagenet the 0.99

00:48:56.840 coeur de lion richard the lion hearted oh yeah you bet your sweet ass it's there 0.83

00:49:05.240 sometimes in conversation with mr cole benjamin oh yeah we did i think there's at least a three 0.95

00:49:10.600 part series all about richard and i think in passing i've talked about him a number of other

00:49:15.400 times i've done content on john his younger brother content on his father henry the second

00:49:19.880 Content on

00:49:21.660 Eloran of Aquitaine

00:49:24.840 His mother

00:49:25.360 Content on Thomas Beckett

00:49:28.340 The troublesome monk

00:49:29.720 Talk all about Richard

00:49:31.740 A great deal of time

00:49:33.020 If you're interested in that

00:49:33.720 If you want to hear me

00:49:34.500 Talking for hours about Richard

00:49:37.900 It's there

00:49:40.040 Okay

00:49:40.840 And on this day in 1189

00:49:42.040 He was crowned

00:49:43.140 Okay thanks Global Church History

00:49:44.720 Appreciate it buddy

00:49:45.500 Cheers

00:49:46.060 Alright the next one is

00:49:48.280 dragon lady chris is now a monthly supporter oh thank you oh that's kind

00:49:51.980 yeah brilliant brilliant welcome aboard

00:49:53.740 i mean the inner sanctum of the glorious band the chosen few

00:50:00.040 there's an inner sort of um cadre of of uh what did alexander call is like

00:50:08.480 inner sanctum of uh companions and the inner sanctum of companions

00:50:13.040 well done dragon lady chris brilliant thank you and then you send a super chat which says

00:50:19.580 barack obama has been good friends with bill eyers and uh bernadette dawn liberal terrorists

00:50:27.600 for decades i bet the bbc has no problem with that

00:50:31.260 those names don't really ring much for bell to me perhaps i've heard the name bill eyers before i

00:50:39.300 don't know Bernadette Dorn I don't even know how you pronounce it I'll have to look that up

00:50:44.700 it's a little bit of a blind spot for me interesting I will look that up

00:50:47.400 should know more about that I suppose then yeah the BBC will have no problem with that right well

00:50:53.120 yeah the way the BBC reports on have has always for decades and decades and decades

00:51:02.900 the extremely lenient or just omit to talk about ever leftist terrorists

00:51:11.300 it's the tiniest amount of anything on the other side of the aisle it's the worst thing ever yeah

00:51:21.860 that's the way the bbc have always operated fallen firebird says i haven't been able to

00:51:28.060 do much exercise at all for months due to a back neck injury oh sorry to hear that

00:51:32.900 I've got a little bit of a weak lower back sometimes, and it's no joke, just a tiny bit of it, just muscular, it's not my actual spine, but having a bad back or neck is, no joke, sorry to hear that, but you say, but I haven't become a fat, obese, house Harnikin baron, because I don't gorge myself like a pig, really isn't hard.

00:51:53.980 a little bit of tough love for fatties i think unless you've got a genuine thing like if you've

00:52:01.440 got a thyroid problem or you've got a genuine hormone imbalance or there's something actually

00:52:06.260 physiologically wrong with you making you obese those people get a pass sure of course of course

00:52:12.320 they do if you're just eating too much cake though i haven't really got much sympathy i myself are

00:52:22.680 putting on a bit of weight tiny bit of weight in the last few years completely my fault i'm not

00:52:28.400 going to start asking to get my stomach stapled i'm not going to start taking pills i just need

00:52:34.240 to stop eating less junk i'll stop eating less in general really do a bit do a bit of cardio

00:52:40.880 not rocket science but a lot of people they'll do anything other than a bit of cardio

00:52:47.520 They'll do anything other than to stop cramming their face with cake

00:52:52.900 Alright, what have we got here?

00:52:56.180 Oh, Human17 is now a monthly supporter

00:52:58.500 Oh, thank you, sir

00:52:59.140 Welcome aboard

00:53:00.000 In the inner sanctum of companions

00:53:03.280 Lovely, great

00:53:06.180 Thank you, thank you

00:53:08.800 Pigdog5150 says

00:53:11.280 Elizabeth II, the Silent Queen

00:53:13.360 Yeah, I called her Elizabeth the Absent

00:53:15.080 Said and did nothing 1.00

00:53:17.740 While hundreds of thousands of her girls 1.00

00:53:19.640 Were raped over 70 years 1.00

00:53:21.240 Yeah 0.61

00:53:22.100 She was particularly silent about that

00:53:24.740 Said nothing as her country was invaded 0.93

00:53:26.800 Yeah not a dicky bird 1.00

00:53:27.900 Her son the traitor king 0.99

00:53:30.820 Question mark 0.99

00:53:31.580 Stuff the royals

00:53:35.000 You say

00:53:35.480 I mean to be fair

00:53:39.480 It is their constitutional role at this point

00:53:45.240 To not get involved in government

00:53:46.720 But they can and do still make political statements

00:53:49.520 Don't they?

00:53:51.140 Don't they?

00:53:52.080 And not a word about that

00:53:53.220 I never heard a word from Elizabeth II

00:53:57.280 Or Charles III

00:53:58.260 Never heard a word from them

00:54:00.180 About the industrial levels of rape

00:54:02.560 That have gone on in this country

00:54:04.140 Against specifically white English girls 0.99

00:54:06.820 At the hands of largely Pakistani Muslims

00:54:09.120 Not a word 1.00

00:54:12.620 If that's not a dereliction of duty

00:54:18.360 I don't know what is

00:54:19.260 At least quarter of a million

00:54:21.360 Probably way more

00:54:22.880 Probably way more

00:54:23.920 Probably like a million

00:54:24.720 Who knows

00:54:26.860 Certainly in the hundreds of thousands

00:54:29.340 And not a word

00:54:30.660 What is that

00:54:32.160 What kind of 0.63

00:54:33.240 Filth

00:54:35.560 Okay the last rumble we're at

00:54:39.080 Rumble around for today. Dragon Lady Chris says, Ayers and Dawn, Ayers' wife, were the leaders of

00:54:45.660 the Weather Underground. Oh, okay, that's them, right, okay, I know about the Weather Underground,

00:54:49.160 okay, okay, yeah, the Weather Underground, leftist, leftist terrorists, truly, yeah. Oh, that's who

00:54:54.340 they were, okay. I'd forgotten. That was their names. Fair enough, and you're saying Obama has

00:55:00.460 been friends with them for decades, is that right? Is that what you said? Obama has been good friends

00:55:04.980 With them for decades

00:55:07.140 Oh it's not surprising

00:55:09.000 Is it in a way I didn't know that

00:55:10.840 But it's not surprising

00:55:13.360 I mean I wonder how close of a

00:55:16.960 Friend he was it's like the way someone like

00:55:18.880 George Galloway or Jeremy Corbyn

00:55:21.380 Is friends quote unquote friends

00:55:23.120 With the IRA

00:55:24.880 Hamas whatever 0.94

00:55:26.160 Anyone that undermines the 1.00

00:55:29.000 West in our country 1.00

00:55:30.320 They'll be friends with them 0.99

00:55:34.980 fifth columnists enemies of the state and the people obama 0.84

00:55:42.780 what a wrong turn that was although you remember when he first ran it was against

00:55:49.680 um who was it against it was against that uh guy that's dead now oh god what was his name

00:55:55.620 i can't remember um someone in the chat harry put the chat up for me someone in the chat who did

00:56:01.540 Obama run against the first time what was his name it's on the tip of my tongue very very famous

00:56:08.020 very very famous politician he was uh in um he's in a concentration

00:56:12.100 oh not concentration camp sorry a prisoner of war camp in vietnam um

00:56:17.780 no not bush god it's embarrassing i can't remember his name he's really really

00:56:21.300 anyway i'll just move on shall i

00:56:22.580 mccain there we go well done a gold star to angelic detective 86 john mccain yeah right

00:56:30.800 right john mccain was never going to be obama was he john mccain how could i forget john mccain

00:56:35.540 titan of u.s political history um yeah john mccain

00:56:39.620 obama wasn't probably never going to lose to mccain was he

00:56:45.980 It was like

00:56:48.600 If anyone remembers

00:56:49.800 Remember it

00:56:50.600 It was like a

00:56:51.520 Tired wave of optimism

00:56:53.000 Wasn't it Obama

00:56:54.360 Change is coming

00:56:56.060 It was like when 0.87

00:56:56.640 They let Nelson Mandela

00:56:58.060 Finally run for president

00:56:59.440 It was like

00:57:01.120 He would get 1.00

00:57:01.900 The ethnic vote 1.00

00:57:02.760 The black vote

00:57:03.900 Nearly 100%

00:57:05.280 He sort of can't lose

00:57:07.240 Like this is our first chance

00:57:09.080 To have a black man

00:57:09.880 As president 1.00

00:57:10.360 They all vote along racial 0.94

00:57:12.320 Yeah 0.93

00:57:12.740 All vote along racial

00:57:14.180 And ethnic lines 0.99

00:57:15.020 Tribal lines 0.99

00:57:15.580 Of course they do 0.95

00:57:16.160 McCain was never going to beat Obama

00:57:19.180 Unless in hindsight now

00:57:20.980 Doesn't it looks like a terrible wrong turn

00:57:23.700 For US politics

00:57:24.580 I blame Obama 0.99

00:57:26.280 He's going to hell 0.99

00:57:30.800 Alright 0.99

00:57:34.700 Let's do the YouTube super chat

00:57:37.860 Principal uncertainty

00:57:41.480 Says

00:57:42.240 The establishment

00:57:44.480 had decided to use Farage

00:57:46.860 but now they see light of the end of the tunnel

00:57:49.000 with Burnham

00:57:50.360 so now they are

00:57:52.920 using the scandal to remove him

00:57:54.540 from the board

00:57:55.860 it's his own fault in my opinion

00:57:58.140 could well be

00:58:00.000 it's an interesting

00:58:02.720 take that they would

00:58:04.320 they felt it was

00:58:06.840 in their interest at some point to promote

00:58:08.880 Farage and now they've decided

00:58:10.240 who's they

00:58:12.320 the cabal of people that actually

00:58:14.340 run the world i don't know i don't believe that by the way i've said that a number of times so

00:58:18.500 there isn't one cabal is there anyway perhaps the most powerful ones in the west at least

00:58:27.060 what have decided the establishment the blob the unelected deep state whatever it is you know

00:58:35.540 i've decided they don't want or need fraud anymore so they're going to try and scandal him

00:58:39.060 into oblivion yeah maybe maybe maybe they can sort of ruin anyone they want if they try hard

00:58:45.540 enough usually can't they okay emily for restore says baroness lawrence still not happy nor her

00:58:52.860 alma mater greenwich uni which is now organizing to decolonize and diversify all blue light

00:59:00.720 services yeah it will never be enough until our society is completely crime ridden until the

00:59:06.640 The ability for the police to do anything

00:59:09.000 Is completely and utterly destroyed

00:59:10.440 And our country becomes

00:59:12.320 As lawless as somewhere like South Africa 0.93

00:59:15.380 Someone like Baroness Lawrence won't be happy 0.99

00:59:19.740 Will never be happy 1.00

00:59:21.260 She hates us 1.00

00:59:23.460 Of course she does

00:59:25.080 Daniel D. King says

00:59:27.460 I got the name wrong the other day

00:59:29.280 Face King George VII, please

00:59:31.840 Right

00:59:36.640 Or is that Will's son, George

00:59:39.200 Who will go on to be George VII

00:59:40.760 Yeah

00:59:43.980 Because George VI was the Queen's father, wasn't it?

00:59:47.800 The one with the stutter

00:59:48.540 So the next one, he'll be George VII

00:59:51.380 Right, yeah, yeah

00:59:52.120 It doesn't look like Will's is going to be

00:59:54.940 Will be William V, won't he?

00:59:58.060 Yeah, he'll be William V

00:59:59.020 He doesn't look like he's going to be based in any way, shape or form, does he?

01:00:02.460 He's pretty woke, isn't he?

01:00:03.420 Like his father, basically

01:00:04.440 so the hope is gen alpha george the seventh little georgie or not so little now he's as

01:00:12.660 tall as kate wasn't he okay robbia i just called robbia says hiya bo hiya love the show oh thanks

01:00:23.140 cheers thank you i was a libtard until i got red peeled hard after my mum showed me the

01:00:29.920 trigonometry interview with tommy robinson back in august last year you are my fave and then a

01:00:35.620 smiley face thing oh thank you that's very kind that's very kind yeah we need something a little

01:00:43.360 bit harder line than the trigonometry chaps and tommy in my opinion in my opinion it's a bit too 0.99

01:00:50.100 sieve naturally a bit too milquetoast it doesn't actually save us from demographic destruction

01:00:54.240 the sort of things that trigonometry and tommy talk about still lead just become uh becoming

01:01:01.920 and hated and despised and marginalized minority in our own ancestral homeland doesn't it we need

01:01:08.300 something a bit better than that in my opinion okay tatum 2733 says did you see how lame the

01:01:16.260 us 250 fare was ashamed exclamation mark i didn't see that over the weekend from friday evening

01:01:22.900 Until Sunday afternoon

01:01:24.700 I was completely off the internet

01:01:25.960 I like to do that a bit more these days

01:01:27.620 At least take the Saturday

01:01:29.180 Or a big chunk of the weekend

01:01:30.880 Just detox from Twitter entirely

01:01:34.400 Detox from the news cycle entirely

01:01:35.880 If you do it 24-7

01:01:38.080 For week after week after week

01:01:39.460 It wears you down

01:01:40.420 So I didn't see any of that

01:01:42.920 I'm afraid, basically

01:01:44.380 I'll look some up today though

01:01:45.880 But I didn't see it

01:01:47.100 You're saying it was lame

01:01:49.200 And you're ashamed of it

01:01:50.600 Was it that bad?

01:01:51.880 I'll look at it today

01:01:52.680 Was it that bad?

01:01:55.980 Okay

01:01:56.500 Alright, well

01:01:57.200 Sorry to hear that

01:01:58.320 Okay, and the last two

01:02:01.820 We've got here

01:02:02.820 Savrix

01:02:04.560 Somebody just called Savrix

01:02:05.920 Says

01:02:06.440 The guilt and compassion part of wokeness

01:02:09.480 Acts as a bypass mechanism

01:02:11.160 Over someone's self-preservation

01:02:13.140 It all increases the probability of negative tension

01:02:17.760 Yeah, no, absolutely, yeah

01:02:18.740 The guilt and compassion part is weaponised against us

01:02:21.860 You're a good person aren't you

01:02:23.740 You don't want bad things to happen to innocent people

01:02:26.460 Do you

01:02:26.940 You've got compassion in your heart don't you 1.00

01:02:29.180 And then weaponise that to make you a minority 0.97

01:02:31.420 In your own ancestral homeland and ultimately wiped out

01:02:33.340 How cynical

01:02:35.340 How sickening 0.98

01:02:37.020 You'll weaponise your own good nature 0.99

01:02:40.400 Against you

01:02:41.160 Your own ability to empathise with others

01:02:44.480 That that's weaponised against you

01:02:46.740 The cynicism of that

01:02:51.860 turns my stomach you're quite right savericks absolutely right absolutely right

01:02:58.580 charms 65 hello sir he's a based welshman make him up in makefield brilliant chap how are you

01:03:04.980 you said love josh churchill stuff yesterday afternoon

01:03:09.300 or for anyone doesn't know on um go to the stain cam harry

01:03:12.500 On my other channel with Nate Mr H Reviews called State of Politics

01:03:20.980 State of Politics

01:03:21.640 I released a video talking about the 1945 general election

01:03:26.520 Where Churchill lost straight after World War II

01:03:29.320 Lost the election to Clement Attlee and Labour 1.00

01:03:31.320 It's a good video I think

01:03:33.220 It's only 15 odd minutes, 16 odd minutes long

01:03:35.900 Check it out

01:03:36.720 It was an absolute turning point in British history

01:03:41.160 Political history

01:03:42.500 A pivotal, pivotal moment

01:03:44.760 That 1945 election

01:03:46.160 Some elections are much more pivotal than others

01:03:48.220 That was a doozy

01:03:49.320 Anyway, check that out

01:03:51.860 In the state of politics 0.99

01:03:52.500 Charms says

01:03:54.000 He loved my Churchill stuff yesterday afternoon

01:03:56.500 In my town in 1926

01:03:58.560 The whole town went to jail for fighting police

01:04:01.800 And the colliery closed

01:04:03.180 Oh, in Wales, in Wales

01:04:05.540 It would be

01:04:06.320 The whole town went to jail for fighting the police 0.98

01:04:10.340 I mean, a bit based

01:04:12.500 and they closed the mine oh god where was that i don't need like your exact address i don't need

01:04:19.320 a postcode i don't want you to dock yourself feel free just not to reply but where was that

01:04:23.260 i'd be interested to know maybe dm me or something okay all right well that's the last one that's

01:04:30.280 the show you know it's good to finish a little bit early today if you don't mind it's already

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01:05:01.080 can carpe diem seize the day the most valuable thing you will ever have is your time far more

01:05:05.960 Valuable than any gold or gems

01:05:07.880 Or properties or anything

01:05:09.460 You will ever own

01:05:10.760 You've got a finite amount of time on this earth

01:05:13.840 You won't have this day

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01:05:20.580 If you can, do something valuable

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 06, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 6th July 2026

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