The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 morning

00:00:06.640 you all right all good i hope fighting fit raring to go bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

00:00:15.900 it's monday morning monday another week another chance to make a difference in the world in

00:00:22.480 your own life i'm joined by a little harry how are you sir morning i'm good good good

00:00:29.340 good and you are the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers thank you for joining

00:00:34.860 me on the bow show formerly known as breakfast with bow see that on the mark you can buy these

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00:00:51.380 or breakfast with bow bow's breakfast club the bbc or the loadseaters breakfast club lbc

00:01:00.800 hashtag the real lbc all right i hope you've all had a great weekend um some things changed and

00:01:06.980 things happened over the weekend so we've got to dive into it let's get into it what is the world

00:01:10.900 world world world talking about this morning what is the corporate legacy mainstream media

00:01:15.620 spinning into your eyeballs this morning let's have a look pm's aid quits and how long can pm cling

00:01:23.400 on it really is across the board that story entirely across the board every single paper every

00:01:28.520 single front page oh i think maybe the star is gone with something different stars decided to talk

00:01:34.680 about madonna other than that it's across the board uh so much so that they've even gone with the

00:01:40.420 same picture i see that picture there there loads of them are using that exact same picture again

00:01:45.820 begs the question doesn't it to what extent are the cabal of senior editors in the print media in

00:01:51.120 flea street just one single entity effectively but an actual cabal they could use any picture any image

00:01:59.880 and they use the exact same one all right all right you get it you get it anyone that isn't a

00:02:04.460 complete child would get it they're all part of the same mainstream media slop machine

00:02:11.920 effectively all right let's dive into it pm's top aid quits over support for manderson so

00:02:19.860 morgan mcsweeney has gone that's morgan mcsweeney there if you didn't know and he was the chief of

00:02:29.080 staff at number 10 he was uh starmer's most important aid um he's very very important in the

00:02:36.400 party as a whole some say that even when there was the last leadership election when keir starmer

00:02:42.360 became leader it was morgan mcsweeney that sort of lobbied for or wanted secure and sort of got his

00:02:50.260 way obviously he's not like he doesn't rule the labor party like a like an autocrat or anything like

00:02:55.540 that but he's just extremely powerful within the party and then he's also credited with some say

00:02:59.900 masterminding the whole last general election although it didn't require a mastermind really

00:03:05.800 because the toys were so unpopular and anyone any opposition party would have beat the toys at the

00:03:11.780 last election rishi was so bad nevertheless he's credited with that um and so yeah just a really

00:03:19.600 really important part of keir starmer's sort of power structure now for me this has very much

00:03:28.260 changed like the odds of things if i was running a book on how long starmer had left in power i would

00:03:34.680 change all my odds after this the news broke uh yesterday afternoon well i don't know 2 p.m or

00:03:39.700 something like that 1 p.m that he was gonna step down oh yeah resign uh so yeah that changes all the

00:03:46.480 odds where i had said before last week on the bow show that i thought keir starmer would make it at

00:03:51.880 least to the the by-election in manchester which is what only i think three weeks away or something

00:03:57.020 like that is it i can't remember the exact date of when that's supposed to be something in that

00:04:00.600 ballpark i thought i said keir starmer would certainly almost certainly last till then and then

00:04:06.280 maybe by may he'd be gone or after may he'd be gone well i'd have to change all my odds as a bookie

00:04:12.840 i now put it personally just my personal take is that those people saying starmer's got days left

00:04:19.700 they seem less and less extreme they seem less and less unlikely now maybe he has got those maybe

00:04:25.520 this will be his last monday in number 10 i don't know uh of course i don't know but i i i've shortened

00:04:33.840 the odds certainly put it that way uh because there's not much left now really between him and being

00:04:40.960 forced to resign keir starmer that is making now gun directly for him really it's a classic thing

00:04:48.660 going back here throughout history actually isn't it that um there's a leader one way or another who's

00:04:54.080 unpopular done lots of unpopular things for whatever reason and either people that are staunch allies of

00:05:01.220 them or people that are willing to give the benefit of the doubt will say and this is going back

00:05:06.320 centuries even to the ancient world this this paradigm has gone on i said the leader the great

00:05:11.120 leader himself it's not his fault it's the people around him he's been badly advised it's not his

00:05:16.780 fault himself if only he knew how bad things were he wouldn't have done it you know and so if and when

00:05:25.560 those advisors are then removed and the leader still is bad and doing the same bad things then there's

00:05:33.380 no argument left to be made it was them all along it was them making terrible bad decisions all along

00:05:39.060 and then so it's something like that is going on once mcsweeney's gone and people are still deeply

00:05:44.980 deeply unhappy there's no there's really no one else left to blame um particularly so anyway anyway

00:05:52.340 something like that so it's the same on all the papers so should we whip through the front pages a bit

00:05:57.800 because they are so similar concern over exchanges with ex-ambassador number 10 denies starmer is

00:06:04.700 considering own position it's a classic he come out right at the end of the week didn't he starmer and

00:06:10.320 said or uh i think towards the end of last week say i still have full support mr mcsweeney enjoys the

00:06:16.460 full support of the prime minister you know you're on dodgy ground when that happens

00:06:20.480 it's such a cliche it's so it happens so often has for many many years that um you're very very

00:06:29.780 close to being fired if the prime minister is forced to make a statement saying that you still enjoy his

00:06:36.220 support exactly that happened to mcsweeney so okay he's gone should we quickly read the blurb because

00:06:43.120 it sort of says it all monday's papers are dominated by news of the resignation of the prime minister's

00:06:47.560 chief of staff morgan mcsweeney chief of staff full stop morgan mcsweeney said he did not oversee the

00:06:53.320 vetting process for lord manderson but wanted to take quote full responsibility you can't take full

00:06:58.120 responsibility prime ministerial patronage is the responsibility responsibility for that has to

00:07:03.960 stop with the prime minister themselves okay you want to take full responsibility oh at least for

00:07:08.440 advising sir kia starmer to appoint him despite the peers relationship with convicted sex offender

00:07:13.480 jeffrey epstein being publicly known about at the time yeah even in 2024 everyone knew obviously not

00:07:19.480 the extent of it everyone knew that mandy and old jeff have been very very close for many many many many

00:07:27.080 many years the time says sir kia starmer has quote sacrificed his closest political ally quote yeah

00:07:35.640 not a sacrificial lamb really the last card um quote to appease labor mps and save his premiership

00:07:45.080 the bbc understands lord mandelson's view is that he answered questions about his relationship with

00:07:50.200 epstein in the vetting process accurately so now mandy hasn't exactly broken cover and broken his silence

00:07:57.400 but bbc says he understands that's mandelson's view i'm not quite sure exactly how but all right anyway

00:08:03.080 so then though now that is he said he said he said she said ball plop situation isn't it

00:08:11.240 that so kia starmer and mandy both just have a different story and who do you believe i mean i don't

00:08:19.880 believe either of them i mean certainly don't believe madison but i can't really necessarily believe

00:08:27.160 here either anyway one man just says i didn't lie and mandy and uh kia starmer has said he lied you

00:08:37.800 know a number of times he just lied to us he explicitly said it using those using those exact words

00:08:43.320 not like half-truths or we're not sure of the veracity of his statements no he lied

00:08:48.040 kia starmer says mandy lied to us lied to my face now mandy's just saying no i didn't 0.81

00:08:57.720 a bit unedified isn't it a bit unedified let's move on the daily tory graph starmer plays his last

00:09:07.160 card as mcsweeney leaves number 10 pm's right hand man quits after backlash over his role in appointing

00:09:13.880 the lord manderson as a as ambassador to the us yes as a modern man the pm must realize this scandal is

00:09:22.120 all on him this tim stanley seems crap god who is he who is he all right uh the mirror the daily mirror 0.77

00:09:34.120 are always esther ranson is she is she dying she's talking about assisted dying bills i don't have 0.98

00:09:40.920 long esther ranson okay i didn't know she was ill i don't follow esther ranson closely i must admit

00:09:50.360 um all right it's not funny labor leadership crisis

00:09:55.400 kia starmer's top aide quits after taking quote full responsibility quote for the manderson debacle 0.98

00:10:00.440 but pressure's still on pm blame me yeah so he's the the it is obviously a very very deliberate

00:10:06.760 exercise in that limit damage control isn't it you know it's the only thing left

00:10:13.800 that kia starmer could do to try and appease labor backbenchers but also a number of things so like the

00:10:19.640 the unions various unions that are affiliated to the labor party are like quite powerful relatively

00:10:24.920 powerful can bring pressure to bear one of them one of the big ones the fire brigades unions

00:10:31.480 because of course all you not all unions actually i was about to make a sweeping statement but a lot of

00:10:35.880 unions usually should we say are left-leaning have been infiltrated and subverted by leftism one way or

00:10:45.640 another it doesn't have to be that way by the way anyway the fire brigade unions or or an amalgam of many

00:10:53.560 fire brigade unions they came out and so they've got a fair bit a bit of power really a bit of sway

00:10:57.880 within labor circles their leader came out and said kia starmer has to go he should really go

00:11:05.400 his political career is over let someone else take over he's a failure as a leader

00:11:10.600 all sorts of pressure then from all sorts of angles you know at least of all the papers

00:11:14.920 least of all podcasts like this or whatever um

00:11:18.760 um so the only thing left to so many people calling for particularly labor mps calling for

00:11:25.240 mcsweeney to go and he obviously felt like by sunday afternoon felt like there was no

00:11:30.360 well the decision would have been made earlier than that wouldn't it felt like he had to do it

00:11:35.400 and so the the the lion has to be doesn't it the whole point of it they have to make out is

00:11:42.680 that you're a sacrificial lamb that you have to take all the responsibility it was his fault it was

00:11:49.080 morgan mcsweeney's fault blame him he's to blame and now he's gone and i so kiss armor and clean as a

00:11:55.880 whistle again does anyone buy that really you know isn't that just nonsense

00:12:06.120 well there you go that's what they're attempting that's the last ditch attempt the metro uh

00:12:14.600 harry disdain can one harry

00:12:19.240 pm's top aide resigns over madison catastrophe yes same picture the exact same image why they

00:12:25.240 do that wasn't weird something weird fleet street are you doing that okay the independent

00:12:31.960 china is urged to end the barbaric detention of hong kong activist and uk citizen jimmy lay

00:12:39.320 liar i don't know how to pronounce that maybe we'll talk about that in a bit

00:12:43.640 i think it's that important people that are really pro chinese

00:12:47.720 sorry really uh um pro-globalist sort of for that guy but anyway we'll talk about it in a bit

00:12:56.520 because it comes up later in when we look at the actual websites

00:12:59.080 oh a ski legend lindsey von in horror crash whilst racing with a ruptured acl so she was injured 0.84

00:13:07.000 yeah so the winter olympics are started uh female i think she's american is she anyway female skier 1.00

00:13:13.720 uh yeah sorry american ski she's doing a downhill you know really fast and she took a tumble 0.99

00:13:19.080 had to be airlifted to hospital there you go it was a pretty bad spiel face planted a bit like the

00:13:29.640 second tumble was a face but anyway all right starma's chief of staff quits over madison scandal

00:13:35.960 morgan mc sweeney masterminded labor's 2024 victory um and was key in peter madison's appointment as

00:13:42.920 u.s ambassador now his departure leaves the pm without his strategic right hand man

00:13:48.920 yeah okay the eye paper operation save starma number 10 chief forced out to buy p.m time

00:13:55.160 yeah it really is that's why i would shorten the odds if i was doing a book on it because it's

00:13:59.720 difficult not to come to the conclusion that the clock is very much ticking for keir starma now

00:14:08.040 very very much ticking you know if you remember last week if you watched the bow show last week

00:14:12.920 you're part of the glorious band the chosen few if you are one of those superb individuals thank

00:14:18.520 you thank you for watching breakfast with bow

00:14:24.040 breakfast with bow you'll remember that last week i was uh going with a note of caution about how quickly

00:14:32.120 he would go um but now even with that same level of caution it's like it's in the mail it's got it's got

00:14:41.960 to be in the mail at some point even if he lasts till may surely he if he lasted till may which seems

00:14:51.320 increasingly unlikely but if he did surely he would have to resign after those local elections because

00:14:56.680 they're going to get trounced in that so with the best will in the world with real caution this is

00:15:03.480 a take ultra cautious take surely keir starma won't be here by the end of may

00:15:12.520 surely all right operation save starma code name a clever code name morgan mcsweeney takes full

00:15:22.520 responsibility he can't uh for telling pm to appoint peter manderson as uk's ambassador to the us despite his

00:15:28.920 links to paedophile jeffrey epstein right hand man exits exit quote uh jointly agreed yeah right yeah

00:15:36.680 yeah jointly agreed as starma fights to survive toxic political fallout from the scandal the eye paper

00:15:42.840 reported last week that miss sweet mcsweeney was touted as a sacrificial lamb as pm would remain in job 0.99

00:15:49.800 resignation resignation calms nerves as some labor mps who were demanding change in number 10 but others

00:15:57.160 describe starma as quote fatally wounded a dead man walking quote dead man walking we got a dead man

00:16:04.440 walking here have you ever seen the green mile harry tell me you've seen the green mile no

00:16:13.240 kids these days kids these days haven't even seen green mile

00:16:16.440 and not to worry i'm only joking don't worry about it it's not that great anyway

00:16:27.400 the daily mail

00:16:31.080 slop pretending not to be complete slop there you go the daily mail while wire childs must now apologize 0.98

00:16:39.240 to epstein's victims maybe you should apologize to jimmy savile's victims first how about that

00:16:50.120 sakia chief of staff resigns over manson scandal again kemi pm quote never takes responsibility for

00:16:55.560 terrible choices end quote again true you know i hate and despise kemi and would deport her back to 0.86

00:17:00.600 nigeria the land of her uh her her ancestral homeland but that's right though isn't it that's true he does

00:17:07.000 never take responsibility for terrible choices i'll be a man

00:17:14.680 that's what part of being a grown-up man is all about isn't it taking responsibility for what you do

00:17:18.600 and say like at all times essentially and the bigger your choices are the bigger things you say

00:17:26.680 the more you should take to take responsibility for them

00:17:31.240 i always think it's liberating to take responsibility for times you've you've buggered up

00:17:36.600 one way or another if if you ever are found to be lying embarrassing as it is or you've just made

00:17:43.320 an error like a good faith error just fess up to it that's liberating that feels good

00:17:54.680 like cleaning out the cupboards doing a deep clean deep spring clean it's annoying and you'd rather not

00:18:01.320 but when you do do it it feels good come on yeah kim starmer's a weak weak weak man isn't he weak man

00:18:07.480 how long can starmer cling on that's the question it's a fair question oh and look there's uh there's 0.99

00:18:14.520 a disgusting moron angela rayner mp she's got a new hairdo and look who's ready for her close-up on steps of 1.00

00:18:22.200 number 10 disgusting witch angela rayner 1.00

00:18:28.920 wicked witch of the north she'll start calling her that the wicked witch of the north 1.00

00:18:35.000 all right uh the express so it's a good paper 0.91

00:18:41.160 they say number 10 chief of staff morgan mcsweeney admits madison mistakes

00:18:45.320 are starmer's days numbered as key aide resign so well kind of certainly same picture again exact

00:18:52.200 same picture and if the photo the photojournalist ever took that is uh laughing all the way to the

00:18:59.160 bank right i imagine so kia starmer's future at number 10 was more uncertain than ever as his

00:19:05.000 right-hand man resigns over the lord manderson row okay we get it the guardian

00:19:14.840 the guardian starmer fights to regain control over party after mcsweeney exit yes yes yes mahmoud

00:19:25.160 pulling up drawbridge on refugees on the poor refugees who aren't refugees the poor refugee is 0.91

00:19:31.000 the lord dobbs looking to the lord dobbs if she can be bothered he said you know it's really out of

00:19:39.720 order that the home secretary is pulling up the drawbridge on refugees one she's not really doing that

00:19:45.160 two what's wrong with that three screw you lord dubs you're one of the people i would rip that peerage 0.65

00:19:53.400 away from lost 0.90

00:20:01.320 do an investigation into all the people that gave you that peerage in the first place

00:20:04.440 dobs does i say dobs very different people sorry little dobs and little dubs to video this is this is

00:20:14.440 little dubs okay the sun the sun emailed to pedo pal and he leaked envoy docs to epstein so this is

00:20:25.480 actually a little bit of a different angle that we haven't seen so far have we on the front pages this

00:20:29.320 morning um that andrew now

00:20:36.280 not just prolific uh sexual activity with the ladies

00:20:43.720 but also now suggestions that he did things that sort of rise to a truly truly criminal uh beyond

00:20:50.280 soliciting prostitution or something but much much worse crimes that he leaked sensitive information to

00:20:56.520 epstein himself just like mandy so it's difficult for the police not not to get involved if that's

00:21:02.840 true right well it says that okay it's very small for me but i'll try and read it for you

00:21:09.640 disgraced andrew saxco bergotha uh leaked in fact sorry little harry can you make this image just

00:21:19.400 bigger just sort of sorry one moment while we do that because the writing is so small for me

00:21:28.120 i used to have 2020 it's still pretty good i don't need glasses but it's not perfect yeah can you make that

00:21:33.480 even bigger can we okay don't worry about it don't worry about it that's as big as it goes apparently

00:21:41.160 okay all right all right well i read it earlier i have to paraphrase for for you he went back in like

00:21:47.320 uh over 10 years ago 15 years ago back in like 2010 he had this job which i mentioned last week didn't i

00:21:53.880 um as like a trade envoy some sort of very very high level trade business czar for the government he'd go

00:22:01.800 around the world and you get it put people together try and make business deals further down the line

00:22:07.800 for on behalf of britain and in that role he would have had access to government information that no

00:22:14.680 one else would have had no normal people no journalists and things would have had access to

00:22:20.040 um how sensitive they really were is something else but and apparently he leaked it did seem that in this

00:22:26.200 doj dump that at least three or four times he just emailed them on or passed them on to epstein one

00:22:33.400 way or another

00:22:36.360 if true and if what was contained in those documents was you know properly sensitive

00:22:43.960 market sensitive or whatever or just or just secret

00:22:48.760 then then that is bad then surely again he'll be in the same

00:22:52.520 he'll be in the same position as mandy himself ie an actual police sort of met police investigation

00:22:59.080 gonna look at possibly having a word with the cps to get you charged with a criminal offense um

00:23:07.800 who knows it's all still this is just news that only broke what a day ago or so

00:23:13.240 so looks like it may well just get worse for andrew will he end up in a jail cell

00:23:17.560 i don't know maybe if that's true you know doesn't look good okay you have zoomed in lows but not on

00:23:28.920 okay okay all right the financial times japan victory takiachi's poll bet poll bet pays off so yeah this

00:23:37.480 is a big story maybe i'll talk about it well we'll talk about it a bit more when we get to sort of japan

00:23:41.240 when we go around the world world but yeah there was a snap election general election in japan and that

00:23:47.880 lady is it sat santa santa takiachi the the female leader of the japanese government uh one they're 0.99

00:23:57.320 calling it a landslide well it is a landslide there you go so just real briefly to say it's the lib dem

00:24:03.480 party the ldp nothing like the british liberal democrat party but nonetheless they're called the liberal

00:24:08.760 democrat party one way or another have been ruling for decades and uh sometimes they switch out their

00:24:14.440 own leader for somebody else a different faction within the party so anyway a few months back a few

00:24:20.120 months back their leader stepped down they elected themselves a new leader because that new leader

00:24:25.320 although legit legally um hasn't got a proper mandate from the people have they so she decided

00:24:32.440 and the party was kind of split between her supporters and other factions in the party so she

00:24:37.640 realized she wasn't going to be able to get much done in the government so she called a snap election

00:24:41.880 a bit of a gamble isn't it because you never know which way the chips might fall

00:24:46.760 anyway paid off as it says there it pays off for her so she and her faction her part within the party

00:24:52.840 uh got a landslide like a super majority in the lower house so they can actually do what they want

00:24:58.200 basically the uh opposition parties because japan has got like some sort of version of nigel farage or

00:25:04.120 rupert lowe or donald trump so some sort of even more right just to the right type person that was

00:25:10.360 got like an insurgency reform type party uh he was wiped out well not wiped out he just didn't they

00:25:16.120 didn't do great and the ldp and her faction particularly takiyachi's faction have done very

00:25:23.080 very well they've got a super majority in the lower house so they can even change the japanese constitution

00:25:26.920 with that if they wanted to so she's gone from sort of a quite a weak leader to a very strong powerful 0.96

00:25:32.120 leader now she's powerful now she can get what she wants done there you go okay we'll talk about

00:25:37.480 more a bit later starma battles to save premiership after top aide mcsweeney steps down manderson

00:25:43.480 protege quits bid to take blame in epstein rowell security of pm's oh scrutiny of pm's judgment mount

00:25:52.440 scrutiny of pm's judgment yeah it's still right uh the star yeah so the star despite despite all the

00:26:05.800 problems in our in our political sphere right now and the government may be on the brink of collapsing

00:26:15.880 the star decided to go with the fact that madonna there's madonna there barely looks like madonna does

00:26:23.800 she

00:26:26.520 shouldn't madonna just look like an old madonna instead of a completely different face 0.97

00:26:33.080 all right that's madonna there there you see and then these are her two daughters 0.96

00:26:37.560 they're madonna's daughters apparently of course adopted or whatever madonna's got a weird fetish of 0.99

00:26:48.040 adopting brown and black children for virtue signaling purposes surely so there you go and they're on the 1.00

00:26:57.240 books for tottenham totten girls obviously like whatever they are like under 15s or something i don't know how

00:27:05.640 old they are but a young tottenham academy for girls tottenham hotspur north london football team

00:27:13.800 and they had a match and madonna turned up to it that's the front page of the star

00:27:22.120 magi's material goals it's trying to be a pun on material girl isn't it material to you heard the

00:27:30.520 song material girl by madonna harry yes okay okay okay okay material goals that's pushing it though

00:27:39.560 don't you think really that's a pun that's like really okay tenuous okay

00:27:50.440 who's that girl they tried another pun didn't let's not even bother it's just pure slop it's just

00:27:54.360 pure slop let's not give it the time of day all right let's move on we did a poll didn't we

00:27:58.040 we did a poll and i and i um sorry can i find the mouse back sorry real quick

00:28:05.400 oh there we go uh and i at first i wanted to do a poll just saying do you think here starmer will

00:28:10.760 last sorry harry while we look at that can you reduce the size and there you go um i wanted to

00:28:17.160 do a poll this morning i thought i'll just ask will starmer last till may but then

00:28:22.280 nearly everyone i thought probably is going to say no

00:28:25.320 and then that's my take and i can just go look i'm in complete

00:28:28.760 in unison with my fans again but i thought that was too that's too easy i don't want to do that i

00:28:33.000 actually want to know what people think i don't just want to i don't just want to finesse it so

00:28:37.320 it always agrees with me so harry came up with a good idea why don't we say give people an option

00:28:41.800 do you think you'll get there till may it'll last till may or it'll be before or after the next

00:28:48.120 by-election that by-election in manchester or even before then so we phrased it more like that

00:28:53.720 and i've given you my take already haven't i i feel like it probably won't last till may you'll

00:28:58.120 be lucky to last till that that that by-election and it might be as soon as this week at some

00:29:03.960 point so that's my take now let's have a look at the results see if you guys agree with me so

00:29:08.760 let's have a look then right we said what was the actual wording when do you think starmer will lose

00:29:13.880 power after the next by-election before next by-election or by may and not sure so okay it's

00:29:19.640 completely split it's utterly it's about split as it could be they're not shores are 22 the after

00:29:27.080 the next by-election is 24 before the next by-election which which is like the closest

00:29:33.000 possible option we gave you that's 26 and by may is 28 so opinion completely split there

00:29:41.160 interesting good that's better isn't it than having just a 98 say yes he'll be gone by may

00:29:45.960 or whatever it wouldn't have come out like that you get it you get it yeah interesting people have

00:29:52.920 got all different well what that suggests isn't it is that it just does hanging the balance

00:29:58.120 the chips are up in the air aren't they they could fall anywhere sort of thing who knows what will

00:30:05.640 will happen that's interesting it is sort of about a split as it could get couldn't it yeah isn't it

00:30:11.000 so all right um all right well fair enough let's move on from that then nearly a thousand people voted in

00:30:19.480 that or it's just about about a thousand people voted in that so um interesting right it's not

00:30:26.040 just like 12 people voted yeah that's cool that's actually pretty cool to me that we can have we can

00:30:33.080 call on a thousand odd sometimes a few less sometimes a few more a thousand people to vote on something

00:30:38.360 every morning that's like a that is a decent cross-section a decent number to have a to form

00:30:45.560 what people think real polls sometimes are as few as that real ones proper professional ones

00:30:53.640 all right let's have a look at the websites then starting with the bbc and we'll we'll we'll skip over

00:31:00.040 the McSweeney stuff because we've done that oh it was super bowl sunday yesterday super bowl sunday the

00:31:05.240 seahawks dominate the pats in the super bowl gives me chills anyone who's followed me

00:31:14.520 knows that i've talked about two or three times that years ago like 2015 or something

00:31:20.440 or whatever it was i can't remember but quite a few years ago i bet on the seahawks i bet quite a lot of

00:31:25.800 money on the seahawks to win the super bowl they were defending champions and they looked super strong

00:31:31.480 that season they got to the final against the pats the patriots the new england patriots and lost in

00:31:38.040 the final seconds they were it was like it was honestly like they had like i think it was honestly

00:31:45.080 like one or two yards from the goal line

00:31:50.120 like fourth and go and there's seconds to go and they lost it got intercepted

00:31:56.760 and i'd bet like something in the order of two or three hundred pounds and it was a spread bet over

00:32:04.680 a bunch of other bets a bunch of other american football games and some ufc fights and i'd won

00:32:08.760 them all and this was the last thing and i stood to win 1200 odd quid or something on one play it came

00:32:15.800 down to one play with like seven seconds to go or something i can't remember the exact details but it

00:32:20.120 was intercepted so it's the end of the game that's it lost i think i stood to win 11 12 1300 quid

00:32:27.640 something like that so to see the seahawks play the pats in the super bowl again and win

00:32:34.840 just gives me shivers remembering the trauma

00:32:40.680 but i did the seattle seahawks i'm sort of a fan of the seattle seahawks i have i won't say i'm a fan

00:32:46.200 of one particular american football team but if it was anything it'd probably be the seahawks

00:32:50.840 me my father's from the west coast so you probably i got a soft spot soft spot for the seahawks

00:32:58.120 and the pats this would probably lose me a bunch of american uh fans uh watchers the pats seem 0.97

00:33:05.880 seem arrogant to me

00:33:09.400 i know how good they are put it that way

00:33:12.600 fair enough all right enough of american football i think a lot of uh

00:33:17.160 people watching this aren't particularly into american football so should we just move on

00:33:20.360 all right oh one other thing to say about the super bowl is that the halftime show bad bunny

00:33:27.880 the very very important recording artist bad bunny

00:33:33.160 uh we did the halftime show and he made it all about

00:33:37.160 um sort of the spanish language and puerto rico and various things puerto rican a patriotism

00:33:46.520 that's what you need don't you the super bowl halftime between new england and seattle

00:33:53.080 make it about puerto rico

00:33:56.440 weird why is the halftime show always really really woke well we know why don't we the nfl is really 0.90

00:34:02.280 really really woke making people take the knee and all that sort of crap

00:34:09.160 all right trump's psyche the age-driving presidential president's most controversial policies so i think

00:34:15.480 that's the thing all about stephen miller isn't it yeah steve miller there

00:34:20.520 men all screens the gray the gray matter behind the throne some say k-pop demon hunters sequel in

00:34:27.160 progress anyone that's got little kids little girls particularly there's going to be a sequel to

00:34:31.960 k-pop demon hunters so look out for that universities told to report uh foreign interference on campus 0.62

00:34:38.600 by mi5 interesting story relatively that um yeah chinese officials and visiting lectures it's less the

00:34:45.880 actual undergrad students but visiting lecturers and things at uk universities chinese ones

00:34:53.880 try and pile on pressure in uk universities to like you know not talk about the uyghur massacres and to

00:34:59.800 not dunk on chinese history not don't make out that the the ccp is you know essentially really an evil 1.00

00:35:06.120 thing of course the chinese will come out and say that's all nonsense there's nothing true about

00:35:11.000 that that that's that's just slander and liars and mi5 going no it isn't 0.97

00:35:18.120 there you go that's the chinese for you when sometimes we had a super chat i can't remember who it 0.80

00:35:22.440 was the other week saying why am i supposed to worry about the chinese what's wrong with the chinese 0.98

00:35:26.360 they've never hurt me wake up wake up sorry don't be naive okay itv news morgan mcsweeney's moon face

00:35:40.920 there got a bit of a five head ain't he that made harry sneaker yeah morgan mcsweeney the mastermind

00:35:51.960 the mega mind morgan mcsweeney all right was there anything particularly interesting

00:36:01.080 andrew invited epstein and a quote very cute quote romanian woman to dinner at buckingham palace

00:36:06.840 yeah apparently it was just loads apparently it's just loads there's stories coming out

00:36:11.320 that um because the royal senior royals anyway they have like a full time um like police

00:36:19.320 protection squad right that's what one of the things harry prince harry uh is always moaning about

00:36:25.800 isn't it that when he decided to sort of absent himself from the royal family one way or another

00:36:31.160 so he could go off and live in america with that frightful american woman markle um that he was 0.98

00:36:38.040 stripped of his permanent police protection detail anyway andrew's got one of course i mean it's a

00:36:44.680 senior royal right it's the king's brother um and apparently for years and years and years

00:36:51.640 they just had to turn a blind eye to prostitutes 1.00

00:36:54.760 that you if you go into one of the palaces like you know balmoral sandringham buckingham palace

00:37:01.720 whatever they've got quite a few palaces royal homes anyone it's supposed to be that anyone that gets

00:37:07.800 inside those gated palaces that the police protection detail would need to know exactly who you are need

00:37:15.320 to know your name who like who you're there with or for exactly who you are and why just that's the rules

00:37:24.840 but it sort of didn't apply to andrew and sometimes often often there's just some

00:37:32.680 stripper dancer a very cute romanian girl just walking around the palace like some of them don't

00:37:38.760 even know english like russian whatever um don't even know english very well or at all

00:37:44.680 they're just just walking around the palace on their own

00:37:47.000 and it's just it's just like the place it's just that's one of andrew's girls

00:37:53.720 just let it happen just turn a blind eye to it we all know what andrew is what he does how he behaves

00:37:58.440 just it's not good i mean it's really for years for years

00:38:06.760 imagine that you're just walking around buckingham palace and everything's squared

00:38:11.160 away and as it should be and everything's in its place and correct but there is one russian

00:38:17.720 pole dancer just tottering around on her heels randomly in the state rooms 1.00

00:38:24.680 because that because because andrew

00:38:28.360 all right all right let's move on let's move on to what the the sky sky the exact same image again

00:38:36.120 same image all right and some really insightful analysis

00:38:44.440 let's talk a little bit about jimmy lay i think it's pronounced lay

00:38:48.040 so he's like a very very rich person a tycoon like a media type tycoon and investor and all sorts of

00:38:53.720 things and in hong kong have i got time to go into it all really well the british used to control hong

00:38:59.560 kong didn't we back from the 18th century or very early 19th century turn of the 18th 19th

00:39:06.040 century and we we gave it back it's a little island off the coast of

00:39:10.280 china and we gave it back in i think 1999 chris pattern if anyone's old enough to remember that

00:39:17.880 harry i won't ask you if you remember chris pattern giving back hong kong

00:39:21.000 oh you weren't born it was probably about six years before you were even born um that's not fair

00:39:26.360 uh so we gave we gave hong kong back and it was sort of um you sort of both

00:39:31.320 uh governed it for a while in a handover type process for a few years anyway now and for the

00:39:37.720 last few years it's just been entirely chinese again doesn't it just it's just just 100 a part

00:39:45.320 of china hong kong now anyway they arrested this guy called jimmy lay apparently for like sedition

00:39:54.040 you know the chinese government has got quite a low bar as far as we're concerned for our sensibilities 1.00

00:39:59.320 quite a low bar for what constitutes sedition but anyway they put him up for sedition and he's found

00:40:04.920 guilty and he's been sentenced to 20 years he's old man he's an old man he's like 78 or something

00:40:09.640 so 20 years probably will die in prison but he's a briton he's a british person

00:40:18.040 is he of course he's not of course he's not there's a difference isn't there between having a british

00:40:23.400 citizenship being the proud owner of a uk passport and actually being british right just because you've

00:40:32.760 got a british passport british citizenship doesn't mean you're genetically ethnically in any way british

00:40:40.120 does it anyway jimmy lay is one of those you know his country of origin isn't england nonetheless

00:40:50.600 because he's british we're supposed to care about it like more than other more than other cases

00:41:00.120 all the stuff that chinese are trying to do the ccp do all the sort of oppression and repression they do 1.00

00:41:06.680 i think from face recognition to full-blown you know stuff like tibet or the uyghurs or whatever

00:41:13.880 but jimmy lay we're supposed to care about jimmy lay because he's british it's all just nonsense

00:41:19.960 isn't it come on all right japan win that landslide victory there you go so there's japan's iron lady 1.00

00:41:26.120 good japan needs an iron lady don't you think she's supposed to be very conservative relatively 1.00

00:41:33.560 conservative i've seen her see i've seen her say one or two sort of globalist things

00:41:37.720 but in general she's pretty conservative with a small c you know she's for sort of um

00:41:44.360 normal heterosexual marriages and for sort of a normal family unit that's nice isn't it

00:41:51.400 and she's for a strong japan she's like a japanese nationalist basically um she's for a strong japan

00:41:57.640 and that japan should stand up for itself and not bow down she's like hawkish on the chinese taiwan thing 1.00

00:42:02.760 you know so even though i have seen her say the odd globalist thing she's pretty good she's better

00:42:09.720 she's much much better than the way the ldp japanese ldp uh was going which was full globalist

00:42:17.080 open border stuff so japan taking a right turn there good or a right dog leg should we say if not a full

00:42:26.120 right angle good good for japan yeah and as i say she got like an overwhelming

00:42:32.680 victory they're calling it a landslide uh she'll have the power now to get through whatever she 1.00

00:42:41.080 wants within reason of course within reason so good for the japanese they are very conservative again

00:42:46.920 with the small c the electorate yeah happy forum genuinely happy forum all right here's a little

00:42:55.400 interesting story um that it was in croatia they would do some archaeology was happening in croatia

00:43:02.600 and they found a body there and the uh like the the pathologist is that the right word i don't know

00:43:09.080 the archaeologists that look at bones paleo archaeologists found that this one body

00:43:15.480 had uh been exhumed after it had been buried and then it's had its head cut off at that point

00:43:20.920 sort of long after death and then re-buried again with its face down

00:43:24.520 and they're calling it a vampire i mean that's that's uh sloppy sensationalist nonsense well

00:43:30.440 maybe not but whatever just interesting that um they found a very very interesting body in croatia

00:43:36.520 and what happened to it what people used to think and do with certain bodies that they thought were

00:43:41.880 like evil or cursed or all those sorts of things i know just a little bit of interesting a little bit of

00:43:46.760 an interesting sort of and finally story all right let's move on to the daily mail look there's bad

00:43:53.080 bunny very very important recording artist bad bunny and his half-time show apparently lady gaga

00:44:01.960 made an appearance there you go trump didn't like it trump called it a slap in the face

00:44:07.080 i didn't watch it by the way so i've got no intention of watching it but here we go president

00:44:11.800 trump has gone scorched earth on bad bunny the donald goes scorched earth on bad bunny 0.79

00:44:18.040 and labeled his super bowl half-time show as a slap in the face to america the puerto rican rapper

00:44:24.760 split fans with his spanish only performance at the midway point of the seahawks patriots game

00:44:31.800 again new england and seattle you're going with a spanish only performance

00:44:36.920 promoting puerto rican culture and language and stuff why why would you

00:44:42.360 anyone who doesn't know new england and seattle

00:44:48.120 are both at the very top of the north of america a long a long way from puerto rico

00:44:54.440 no connection with puerto rico all right there you go uh and trump was uh certainly not sitting on the

00:45:01.480 fence when he took to truth social for his review and his words say the super bowl half-time show is is

00:45:08.360 absolutely terrible i won't i won't do a trump voice but he the super bowl half-time show is absolutely

00:45:13.720 terrible one of the worst ever it makes no sense in an affront to the greatness of america and doesn't

00:45:22.040 represent our standards of success creativity or excellence yeah sounds good if this image is anything

00:45:29.560 to go by and fifth columnist bad bunny don't know anything about him absolutely happy to call him a

00:45:35.480 fifth columnist that is anything to go by yeah sounds like trump's on the money with that one

00:45:42.920 okay a.n wilson is saying something don't care about in wilson all right shall we move on some women 0.99

00:45:52.520 in bras there lovely all right the express andrew just found out how ordinary his new life is he's

00:46:00.600 going to hate every minute slightly interesting sorry just a few seconds on it and that prince andrew

00:46:07.000 used to have 28 servants until very very recently until a few days ago a week ago however he had 28

00:46:13.320 servants waiting on him now it's three it's gone down to three

00:46:22.200 gutted gut rot

00:46:25.240 guttment anyway three is still plenty isn't it anyone that hasn't got any servants nearly

00:46:33.320 everyone in the world knows if you've got one or even two people that help you out like a

00:46:39.400 maid that comes around once a week or something like that makes all the difference in the world 1.00

00:46:43.960 if you've got three this is a german three if you've got three servants that wait on you all the time

00:46:51.640 that's plenty you still don't have to do anything he's still not doing any laundry is he still not

00:46:55.560 cleaning any toilets right he's not doing his own ironing i wouldn't have thought is he

00:47:01.960 28 is insanely excessive three is still plenty for a normal person individual person

00:47:08.920 he's still not going to be doing any chores i wouldn't have thought

00:47:12.680 all right andrew marr it's over for keir starmer says andrew marr andrew marr terrible terrible

00:47:23.240 journalist and person really really really subversive pretending pretending that he's like

00:47:31.080 an important voice for political analysis and history when he's utterly utterly subversive 0.99

00:47:36.520 will i go so far as to call andrew marr scum yes i will yeah yeah it's a scumbag don't trust anything 0.99

00:47:45.240 that comes out of that snake's mouth you're wrong the mud andrew marr okay the sun the sun lead with 0.99

00:47:57.880 the sun lead with um sir lewis hamilton seven time formula one world champion

00:48:02.200 and current ferrari f1 driver they're leading with him um now formally dating kim kardassian of ray j fame

00:48:14.200 that they came out and uh you ever heard of ray j harry you know the recording artist ray j yeah yeah

00:48:21.400 you do yeah really i was expecting a no there you know ray j okay okay um

00:48:32.760 yeah lewis hamilton and kim k were openly seen watching the super bowl yesterday

00:48:39.000 big news that's the biggest story on in the sun website today

00:48:42.760 that it's official all right think about andrew and the the the possibility that he actually

00:48:52.840 sent epstein proper action sensitive information we've done that one brooklyn beckham and his inner

00:48:59.080 circle of friends he's turned his back on a bunch of his own friends brooklyn beckham has now

00:49:04.360 important stuff very very important stuff a non-league football club football there was a fight 0.97

00:49:12.760 uh katie price aka jordan um knows what she's doing she's a grown woman and not stupid so leave her 1.00

00:49:22.600 alone she's a grown woman sure she's knocking on a bit of anything but she but she says i'm not stupid 1.00

00:49:31.240 you are stupid you're very stupid catastrophically stupid i thought we'd keep scrolling through the 1.00

00:49:40.920 sun because i wanted to get to this one they've got a story about how kurt cobain didn't commit suicide 1.00

00:49:46.600 that he was killed i've always been mildly interested in that conspiracy conspiracy theory

00:49:54.600 i've already always been mildly there's always been rumors ever since it happened

00:49:59.160 um that he didn't kill himself there was something more sinister going on but who knows

00:50:05.560 this person here says i've battled for years to prove kurt cobain didn't kill himself bombshell dossier

00:50:14.280 now shows i'm right i don't know what the dossier is maybe i'll look at about it and read up about it

00:50:21.480 today maybe not if anyone's interested in that let me know in the chat so let me know on twitter if you

00:50:29.240 think that's of any real interest or if it's just pure slop all right uh hopping across the pond then to

00:50:37.880 um the united states the new york slimes hong kong court sentences jimmy late 20 years so they go with

00:50:45.400 that one lay sentence follows a china playbook for punishing critics yeah yeah you can't criticize the ccp 0.99

00:50:53.240 if they can get you and shut you up in a dungeon and oubliette forever for criticizing them they will

00:51:04.520 so don't ask me about why you should worry about china that's why that's why for no other reason

00:51:12.120 if they could they will shut you down for daring to notice there's any sort of problem with them

00:51:17.880 for daring to criticize them you think winnie the pooh looks like this nice happy-go-lucky guy

00:51:24.440 he's like he's not all that bad don't be fooled don't be fooled come on

00:51:30.360 all right the washington post a new kind of violent extremism is on the rise rooted in 19th

00:51:37.960 century philosophy a nonsense story not absolute nonsense from the washington post no wonder they 1.00

00:51:42.360 had to fire a third of their people and their ceo the other day and they're dying on their ass no wonder 0.99

00:51:48.680 trump plans to keep democrat democratic governors out of tradition traditionally bipartisan meeting 1.00

00:51:54.600 again no big deal it's not a big deal like trump some sort of evil fascist dictator he's not it isn't

00:52:00.520 just nonsense all right let's go to down under oh yeah how good how good liberals openly revolt

00:52:08.200 against lay's leadership ahead of spill so it says multiple liberal senators have publicly questioned

00:52:15.160 the leadership of susan lay as the opposition braces for a spill motion before the end of this week

00:52:21.320 so a bit more turmoil in the opposition ranks in australia was there anything else in aussie this

00:52:27.800 morning pro-palestine protesters lose 11th hour legal battle as demonstrators amass in in sydney so that

00:52:34.680 was where the president of israel herzog isaac herzog he was going to visit i think still i think he's

00:52:43.800 still going to visit the bond the scene of the bondi beach massacre and just loads of pro-palestine

00:52:49.320 protesters that's a nice way of phrasing isn't it pro-palestine protester something worse than that

00:52:56.440 isn't it much much worse than that apparently they've lost their 11th hour legal battle to sort of

00:53:04.040 i guess i think block herzog from even going there all right in japan so as you can it's not wall to 0.98

00:53:13.240 wall their election madly i mean there is a story there of course there's a story about it but it's

00:53:18.520 not like every single story or anything not even close um but no that is the biggest story isn't it

00:53:24.920 surely out of japan this morning and that she's won over two-thirds of the lower house which is 0.98

00:53:31.080 like a super majority so if all her um mps equivalent of mps equivalent of congressmen

00:53:41.640 and women if they all vote along the line she wants if they do the equivalent of a three-line whip 1.00

00:53:48.040 she can do whatever she wants again up to and including changing the japanese constitution 0.84

00:53:52.920 so yeah now now a powerful powerful lady in japan all right the chinese just quickly 1.00

00:54:00.680 xi visits it innovation park in beijing yeah

00:54:05.480 china issues action plan to revitalize theatrical arts yay go china china's hosting of apex meeting

00:54:13.640 to boost regional cooperation global growth yeah china's so good they're so great

00:54:18.680 jimmy lay sentenced for 20 years in prison at least they did

00:54:22.600 say that that's happening japan's ruling coalition secures lower house majority in election okay

00:54:29.880 there you go that's the japanese news for what it's worth the ruskies what are the uh what are the old

00:54:37.080 ruskies saying today dimitriyev draws attention to check pm's words about britain's disruption

00:54:42.760 of ukraine's of ukraine talks yeah interesting interesting that we're still putting our ore in a

00:54:50.360 bit um like when boris remember when the new when that war was relatively fresh um zelensky and the

00:54:57.640 ukrainians were looking at talking about making noises about just making a deal with russia because even at

00:55:03.080 that point it was clear relatively clear that the ukrainians couldn't stop the red army again not 0.91

00:55:09.640 the red army just the russian army from taking parts of the donbass but boris went over there

00:55:15.560 no don't do that don't do that why that would be near the top of the list of uh questions

00:55:23.560 boris needs to answer really

00:55:28.840 among many why did you do that he who told you to do that where'd that come from why'd you do that

00:55:34.600 weirdo starmer may resign next week says bloomberg and the russian news is reporting that yeah

00:55:46.200 could be could be let's see if the poll has changed all that much we've now got nearly 14 just shy of

00:55:52.520 1400 votes but the numbers are pretty much stagnant staying more or less stagnant at 25 odd a piece on our

00:56:01.000 poll opinion i mean opinion completely split all right so even the ruskies have noticed that secure

00:56:09.480 starmer's in a bit of bother a bit of hot water zelensky wants to meet with putin to mislead ukrainians

00:56:17.880 a russian mp says

00:56:19.160 when you're going to hold elections again vladimir you ever going to hold elections ever again no

00:56:31.080 all right russia not going to attack europe but ready to retaliate says lavrov

00:56:38.920 that's sort of always been their position has it that's been their position since 1945 isn't it

00:56:44.440 basically well actually that's not fair that's not true okay that's not that's not true

00:56:50.120 still it's been their position for a long time certainly you could say ever since 1991 that's

00:56:54.840 been their position isn't it i don't want to attack europe and invade bloody belarus and poland and

00:57:01.240 what was the old east germany but if you attack us russia saying if you attack us we're going to

00:57:07.560 retaliate you know don't think we're done don't think we're nothing don't just walk all over us but

00:57:12.600 anyway so just reiterating that again all right the germans what's the germans talking about this

00:57:21.240 morning um we're near the top of the hour should we rush to it it's pure slop pierce up from the

00:57:26.600 build from build as always just an individual person getting sentenced there uh a chicken trick to tiger

00:57:35.720 chicken trick to tiger there you go germans don't worry about everything else going on in your country

00:57:40.200 don't worry about any of that a chicken trick to tiger

00:57:46.440 mad mad um but the wrong ice cream destroys the donor heart for a little boy

00:57:55.480 obviously a terrible story but not important is it for germany

00:58:00.600 all right lamond what are the froggies banging on about this morning how donald trump is rewriting

00:58:05.880 u.s history oh no or pearl clutching lamond pearl clutching and tds i've had a flare-up of tds

00:58:15.160 the blurb says as the country marks america uh marks its 250th anniversary this year the

00:58:21.240 the american president who returned to the white house on january the 10th 2025 has worked to shape

00:58:26.520 a revised historical narrative revealing signs of megalomania no

00:58:36.360 it's tds isn't it megalomania

00:58:41.720 and i don't understand stand for trump too much he's gone down in my opinion quite a lot

00:58:47.560 but come on megalomania it's just not he works entirely within the law doesn't he

00:58:58.200 well making a few noises about the it's in america's interest to own greenland that's

00:59:03.080 megalomania is it is that we're talking about moving a you the uss abraham lincoln carrier group

00:59:09.800 to the persian gulf that's megalomania is it just crazy trump shares racist video depicting the obamas

00:59:18.840 as monkeys leaving white house scrambling yeah it's very nearly nine i've got a few more bits to go

00:59:25.320 through so i won't go into that in any detail maybe if it's in the news tomorrow or something we'll talk

00:59:29.160 about but yeah there was a just a a silly video and silly sort of meme internet video where the obamas

00:59:36.840 are depicted as as monkeys or apes and some uh and someone posted it i think i think originally they

00:59:44.360 posted it on like trump's true social when he reposted it it's not like trump made it not like trump

00:59:50.600 sitting there on after effects putting the obama faces on on cartoon monkeys or anything

00:59:59.240 anyway trump re uh reposted it retweeted it or whatever and um yeah people saying it's super

01:00:05.880 racist this shows how racist trump is storming a teacup just absolutely nothing all right as we

01:00:12.280 haven't got much time left should we have a quick look at space there's one or two stories that was

01:00:16.760 interested in space there's a problem with the falcon 9 but that's been sorted out now

01:00:21.480 um spacex ipo you know going on the stock market uh uh may drive investor interest in other space

01:00:27.320 companies yeah probably will yeah probably will was there one other story that i thought was of any real

01:00:32.520 interest china launches reusable space plane on fourth secretive orbital mission there we go

01:00:41.160 do we need to worry about what the chinese are doing in space well a bit late wait for that their 0.92

01:00:46.920 space program is quite advanced all right let's quickly do this day in history just to finish out the

01:00:53.160 show i like doing that and you guys seem to like it too so what happened on this day the 9th of february

01:00:59.560 history in history in 1775 the british the british parliament declares massachusetts colony in rebellion

01:01:07.480 it was the massachusetts men that were sort of first effectively first they argue a bit about that

01:01:13.800 stuff in virginia went down a little earlier but it was the massachusetts men that really first sort of

01:01:17.800 took up arms basically against the british

01:01:20.120 that's john adams neck of the woods isn't it john adams the john adams there's a great hbo

01:01:28.600 show with paul giamatti as john adams a few years old but it's a good one very good pretty damn accurate

01:01:35.800 as far as i'm aware i've read around the war of independence for many a year so all of that

01:01:41.160 seems pretty accurate i think they i think the screenwriters of that have got a good handle on john

01:01:45.320 adams and and the events so maybe check that out in 1897 the invasion of benin city by a british

01:01:53.080 expeditionary force the city was burned and looted ending the nigerian kingdom of benin formed in the

01:01:58.680 11th century yeah oh don't ask don't ask why why there was a british expeditionary force in there

01:02:08.360 don't ask what why we might have felt the need to burn and loot that don't ask about that don't ask who

01:02:13.800 massacred who first don't ask about that just evil british destroying the kingdom of benin for no 0.85

01:02:23.080 reason just some evil white guys in whitehall at some point sitting in whites one evening i know

01:02:29.480 let's just invade benin for no reason yeah right okay on this day in 1904 japanese torpedo boats launched

01:02:40.280 a surprise attack on russian ships at port arthur at the port arthur naval base in manchuria beginning

01:02:45.800 the russo japanese war japanese troops also land at inchon near seoul korea in three weeks they

01:02:53.720 advanced to the yellow river the border of manchuria so yeah the japanese um beating the russians at sea 0.91

01:03:01.560 so one of the fatal blows to the whole czarist regime really that that went on to lead to sort

01:03:09.800 of the 1905 set of revolts and things in russia the whole czarist regime very very nearly toppled

01:03:19.080 in 1904 1905 off the back of that yeah the russians irish regime never really recovered from when the

01:03:26.680 japanese handed their asses to them in that russo japanese war interesting very pivotal thing people

01:03:35.240 in the west and in europe probably don't know a great deal about it but it's a very very pivotal 0.98

01:03:40.040 thing that 1904 russo japanese war all right what else have we got in 1943 japanese troops evacuate

01:03:45.560 gradual canal ending the epic world war ii battle on the solomon islands in the pacific

01:03:49.880 again the the the battle of guadal canal absolutely fascinating important i'm love in in what way love

01:03:59.400 the battle in the pacific the war in the pacific in world war ii you know a lot of people say the battle

01:04:04.200 of midway was the turning point after and it is in a sense well definitely is in a sense one of them

01:04:11.000 guadal canal was probably the other one after guadal canal so one of the biggest naval engagements of all

01:04:16.040 time was at guadal canal i think of all time and the american navy smashed the japanese navy at

01:04:23.720 guadal canal smashed them japan was absolutely on the back foot from that point onwards it was like

01:04:31.000 their starling grad but at sea the americans were never going to lose the war in the pacific after

01:04:38.360 guadal canal basically people say historians say there you go so very important in 1972 the british

01:04:44.520 government declares a state of emergency after a a month-long coal miner strike could talk loads

01:04:51.560 about the coal mine strike just haven't got time here because we're overdone the last thing to say

01:04:55.720 then on this day in 1964 was the first appearance of the beatles on the ed sullivan show live from new

01:05:01.880 york and the broadcast draws an audience of 73.7 million wow the beatles there you go on the ed sullivan show

01:05:15.480 i think paul was probably my favorite

01:05:19.480 all right that's the show thank you for watching thank you for watching you are the glorious band

01:05:26.120 the chosen few yeah you are the glorious band the chosen few thank you for watching without you it

01:05:32.040 really isn't anything it really isn't anything so i genuinely honestly thanks thank you for watching

01:05:38.280 um oh i nearly just closed the show there but we've got to do super chats haven't we let's do the

01:05:44.120 super chats real quick why not we're in no rush um so we've got um one rumble rant from tomrat247 he

01:05:53.240 said okay i've got to ask bo can you get little harry to say one step beyond

01:06:00.840 one step beyond

01:06:04.280 it's a madness thing right i was gonna say yeah is that that's from madness yeah one step

01:06:09.720 beyond okay maybe because like the original it's like it got a bit of an echo and you come through

01:06:13.080 a bit echoey we've got to sort out the uh your mic to have it like not echoey and stuff but

01:06:18.200 yeah one step beyond do do do do okay tom rats a madness fan there good cool all right youtube

01:06:29.320 youtube super chats there's there's quite a few so maybe i'll just whip through them relatively

01:06:33.960 quickly rather than giving a comment on each one um global church history says uh we love the synth

01:06:40.920 song thanks little harry yeah i understand we got the synth song back synth wave song back on the

01:06:46.840 intro i was told we've got it back so good stuff i don't mind that song at all so great everyone's

01:06:53.640 happy dragon lady says it's not little harry it's fun size harry this might be an american thing a

01:07:02.440 reference to miniature candy bars yeah we have fun size chocolate bars fun size snickers whatever yeah

01:07:09.160 and just to reiterate not that harry seems to have any problem with it he's he's a man that's

01:07:13.880 comfortable in his own skin he's not that little he's like six foot he's a couple a good couple

01:07:19.400 inches taller than me but little harry it's just compared to harry robinson who is a giant global

01:07:30.520 church history says lammy for emperor proud member of the larmy yeah that is the problem isn't it that if

01:07:39.800 starmer goes it just automatically david lammy becomes the interim prime minister

01:07:48.600 what an embarrassment but surely uh well they will labor will have a a leadership race

01:07:54.680 which i would have thought lammy would put his throw his hat in the ring

01:07:59.240 but one way or another lammy will be the leader the head of government for a small period of time

01:08:04.600 um such an embarrassment um luke stewart 6155 says g'day speaking about the winter olympics

01:08:12.520 you should look at australia's first uh winter olympic gold medalist the great stephen bradley

01:08:18.360 okay i'm sorry i don't know who stephen bradley is i'm not aware but um i'll google him later maybe

01:08:24.520 sorry can't give any insight or tidbits on on that for you sorry okay uh marco zed if that's how you want

01:08:33.640 it or marcoz probably marcoz marcoz 588 says um it's not even that madonna barely looks like madonna

01:08:43.560 these days she hardly looks human yeah she should she could be a star wars or star trek extra sans makeup

01:08:52.440 lol yeah yeah that when you've had so much work done that your face is scarcely humanoid

01:09:03.960 yeah madonna i really don't like madonna she's got a few decent songs back from the 80s or the 90s i'll

01:09:09.960 give her that i don't hate all every single song she ever put out she's got a couple good songs holiday 0.80

01:09:15.800 holiday's a good song but madonna herself as a woman as an individual oh terrible revolting a freak 1.00

01:09:25.160 absolute absolute absolute weirdo degenerate revolting freak anyway um where's my mouse okay let's move

01:09:36.680 on uh castellan rds i may have read that incorrectly but apologies if so castellan rds says bow is my spirit 0.59

01:09:50.040 animal yeah i had one or two people say that before

01:09:59.400 thank you i appreciate it it's a high compliment

01:10:01.000 okay before i get if i get too drunk on the compliments let's move on um

01:10:10.200 um mr dicky bingo dicky bingo not dinky bingo mr dicky bingo says andy gets uh totty into the

01:10:21.400 palace but his old man's best mate was savile yeah yeah yeah i reckon they're all wrong ones yeah

01:10:26.680 oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah looking to king charles the third's connections

01:10:35.480 to jimmy savile one of the most prolific pedophiles and necrophiles ever 0.79

01:10:43.800 yeah the palace doesn't want to talk about that very much today

01:10:47.880 but yeah i reckon they're all wrong ones yeah i reckon so yeah perfectly accurate take there

01:10:56.520 from mr dicky bingo uh luke stewart 6155 again says um and apparently uh apparently she

01:11:06.040 bucked the trend of trump ruining her chance of getting elected the right just have to stick to 0.90

01:11:12.200 its guns and not be soft cucks i'm going to choose to believe it was cucks um so what are you talking

01:11:23.160 about there apparently she bucked the trend of trump ruining her chances of getting elected 1.00

01:11:29.880 so what would that be in reference to harry i'm not sure i can't remember i can't remember even what

01:11:33.160 i've talked about today anyway anyway it sounds right it sounds it sounds like a correct take

01:11:39.880 um so apologies for that um but yeah sounds right uh rogue thought one says good luck to you sir

01:11:51.640 god help your country resist well no thank you thank you i like that sentiment i appreciate that

01:11:56.760 and thanks for a little bit of money good luck to you cheers marcos 588 says after hearing all this

01:12:05.080 super bowl talk i'd love to see a show about its to show about its cars and motorsport with the likes

01:12:11.080 of beau jay burden furious and alex masters yeah yeah yeah yeah i'd love if and when um furious furious

01:12:18.840 pertinax uh marcus comes back to the uk um which he does periodically every year or two at the least

01:12:26.600 because he's a massive petrol head i'll try and do a bit of content all about cars and things i have

01:12:31.000 done it once before um i did one epochs about the history formula one once um but yeah i'd love to

01:12:37.560 do that talk all about cars and motorsport i know it's not everyone's thing but um companies have one

01:12:42.920 all the time but yeah no good cool yeah that would be great and the same person marcos 588 says courtney

01:12:49.800 love always insisted that kurt was killed yeah courtney love was with kurt cobain at the time right and she

01:12:56.600 yeah yeah you're right i think she has always insisted that it wasn't a suicide most people

01:13:01.320 just dismiss her as a scatterbrained harebrained freak which she is she may well be right on that 1.00

01:13:08.920 who knows there has always been rumblings there's been oh there's been rumblings about some of the

01:13:15.560 suspicious circumstances surrounding kurt's death but we shall see okay that was the last super chat so

01:13:21.560 we are at now 13 minutes past nine in the am greenwich meantime on monday the 9th of february

01:13:26.440 in the year of our law 2026 you've been the glorious band the chosen few thank you for watching

01:13:31.800 really appreciate it um so that's the let's say try and make the most of the day ahead if you can

01:13:37.080 carpe diem seize the day i know you can't always it's not always possible is it when you've got

01:13:41.640 responsibilities in life but if you can try and seize the day try and make it count you've only got so

01:13:47.800 many all right until tomorrow morning then take care

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 9th February 2026

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