The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 16th July 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning you

00:00:00.640 You alright?

00:00:08.560 I do hope you are

00:00:09.520 Not too disappointed if you are a football fan

00:00:13.080 I do hope you are

00:00:13.600 Me? Yeah, I'm fine, yeah

00:00:14.620 Of course

00:00:15.360 It's just ticked past 8 in the AM

00:00:18.440 British summer time on Thursday the 16th of July

00:00:20.420 In the year of our law, 2026

00:00:21.440 You're the glorious band of chosen for you

00:00:22.700 My band of brothers

00:00:23.600 And sisters

00:00:25.160 Thank you for joining me

00:00:27.120 Without you guys, it's not a thing, is it?

00:00:30.000 It's nothing without you guys. I appreciate it.

00:00:33.000 Someone in the chat I saw the other day, I sometimes go back afterwards.

00:00:36.000 Can't really look at the chat in real time, other than just an odd glance.

00:00:39.000 Someone said I always got contempt for his audience.

00:00:44.000 What? I feel like the absolute opposite.

00:00:50.000 I love you guys. People that aren't hate watching it.

00:00:53.000 Weirdo lefties and reformed tards. 1.00

00:00:56.000 If you're not that, I love you guys. You're my people. 1.00

00:01:00.240 As always, I'm joined by Harry, my producer.

00:01:02.100 How are you this morning, good sir?

00:01:03.340 Morning.

00:01:03.880 Yeah, I'm all good.

00:01:05.080 This embodied voice of the all-powerful producer there.

00:01:08.540 Shall we get straight into it?

00:01:10.620 There's no need for all that fanning about, is there?

00:01:12.600 Let's stop faffing about and just get straight into it.

00:01:15.520 All right.

00:01:15.940 Oh, well, it's football.

00:01:16.900 Football.

00:01:17.720 Football, football, football.

00:01:19.940 World Cup dream over and Mahmood for Chancellor.

00:01:24.080 They've gone straight back to talking about Burnham and Nottage,

00:01:27.280 Nigel's finances and the impending Burnham government

00:01:31.420 But the big story, it's on all of the front pages

00:01:34.420 I warned you, didn't I?

00:01:35.620 Did you warn you that today would be the day

00:01:38.440 Whether we win or lose

00:01:39.500 It's every single front page

00:01:40.700 Apart from the Financial Times, I believe

00:01:43.400 So don't worry

00:01:44.900 I still won't do all that much detail on it

00:01:47.580 But we'll talk about it a little bit

00:01:50.480 Because this is sort of the zenith of it, isn't it?

00:01:54.120 This is the high watermark of football talk in the news

00:01:56.800 on british news anyway this is this is the apex of it the apogee it's all downhill from here on

00:02:04.640 monday i'll mention that either argentina or spain actually won it i'll just mention it on

00:02:08.720 monday and that's it and it's all over and it's gone right so but just a couple of minutes on it

00:02:13.900 i mean if you really really despise football you can't bring yourself to listen to it i mean what 0.74

00:02:19.000 can i tell you suck it up buttercup gonna do a couple of minutes on it all right we lost 2-1

00:02:25.940 to Argentina. That's it. That's it. Went one new up. Do you know what, though? England's 0.90

00:02:30.740 World Cup dream is over. Hey, now. Hey, now. Dream it's over. Do you know what it feels

00:02:43.240 like to me? Well, I've been a football fan my whole life. But over in the last 15, 20

00:02:50.960 years or so just stopped caring about it basically so I've been burnt too many times too many times

00:02:57.080 being a West Ham fan yo-yoing getting relegated going back up failing to get promoted again going

00:03:01.760 down again supporting England get your hopes up every two years for the Euros and the World Cup

00:03:08.020 just to have your hopes and dreams dashed to pieces on the rocks of reality over and over

00:03:15.700 and over and over and over and over again so yesterday when England went one nil up

00:03:20.740 one nil up in the world cup semi-final against the Argers I started to dare to dream just a bit

00:03:27.560 I mean I didn't even celebrate I'm watching it at home and they score a goal and I just sit there

00:03:31.640 almost in passive just like oh yeah like the 15 year old me would be going berserk when that goal

00:03:38.600 scored berserk I'd be sitting there on tenterhooks for the rest of the game

00:03:43.000 And then when Argentina get the equaliser

00:03:47.280 I'm like

00:03:47.580 And when they score the winning goal

00:03:52.000 I'm like

00:03:52.300 That's it

00:03:53.800 Again the 15 year old me

00:03:55.140 16 year old me

00:03:55.860 Would be inconsolable

00:03:57.000 For days

00:03:59.280 Be gutted for weeks

00:04:00.460 Or gutted for the rest of my life in a way

00:04:01.860 Take it that seriously

00:04:04.020 I'm done with it

00:04:05.880 I've been done with all of that

00:04:07.120 For many a year now

00:04:08.360 It's a harsh mistress

00:04:11.260 Football is a harsh mistress

00:04:13.140 It really is

00:04:14.680 So I never get my hopes up anymore

00:04:18.040 I just don't

00:04:18.700 It doesn't seem worth it

00:04:19.620 And do you know what it feels like to me?

00:04:21.060 This will be the last I've said it

00:04:22.140 And then we'll move on

00:04:22.780 And then there's no more football talk

00:04:24.640 I'll say this

00:04:26.520 It felt like to me

00:04:27.640 Have you ever had this experience?

00:04:31.700 Where you've been in a long term relationship

00:04:33.580 And it gets bad

00:04:37.180 It goes bitter

00:04:38.100 Maybe you're married

00:04:38.820 And then you're divorced

00:04:39.860 And the relationship gets dark

00:04:41.240 It gets bitter

00:04:41.800 It gets competitive

00:04:42.600 It's horrible

00:04:43.920 And you end up

00:04:44.520 Someone you loved

00:04:45.380 Someone you deeply loved

00:04:46.660 You end up hating them

00:04:47.740 And they hate you

00:04:48.940 Right

00:04:50.180 You ever had that

00:04:51.320 Then you break up

00:04:52.320 You divorce

00:04:52.760 Whatever

00:04:53.140 Years go by

00:04:54.640 Years and years go by

00:04:56.260 Time heals

00:04:57.400 Some of those wounds

00:04:58.460 And

00:04:59.820 You attempt to just

00:05:00.940 Reach out to them

00:05:01.780 Just one more time

00:05:02.380 One tiny

00:05:02.940 Text or email

00:05:04.060 Or something

00:05:04.580 Just a tiny bit of

00:05:06.660 Tiny fig leaf

00:05:08.200 Because you shared a life together

00:05:09.320 And you loved them

00:05:11.000 And you do one tiny little gesture of

00:05:14.040 Hey, how you doing?

00:05:16.460 Something like that

00:05:17.340 Just for old time, literally for old time's sake

00:05:19.640 And they throw it back in your face 0.94

00:05:21.500 And they're just horrible and mean

00:05:25.520 And then it's just, you know, at that point, surely

00:05:30.120 It's completely, completely, completely dead

00:05:32.240 You'll never contact them again

00:05:33.380 They may as well be dead to you

00:05:34.460 They're just someone you used to know

00:05:36.040 Just a memory, nothing else

00:05:37.920 You'll never see or speak to them ever again

00:05:39.760 It's finished, it's done

00:05:40.760 That's what this game felt like to me with football

00:05:44.280 But you got my hopes up one more last time

00:05:49.800 As cynical as I am and broken as I am about football

00:05:53.160 You got me again

00:05:55.600 30 minutes there in the second half of that game

00:05:58.840 You got me, you drew me in again

00:06:00.180 I started to, started to hope

00:06:02.940 Started to dream and then you shattered it

00:06:06.240 Again

00:06:07.460 Again

00:06:08.820 It's really what it feels like

00:06:12.080 To me

00:06:12.560 Okay that's it

00:06:14.040 That's really it

00:06:15.880 No more football now

00:06:17.240 Other than just scrolling through the front pages

00:06:21.480 That's it

00:06:23.740 If you hate football

00:06:24.720 No more

00:06:26.200 Other than briefly mentioning on Monday

00:06:28.000 Who actually won the thing

00:06:29.360 Alright so the Telegraph

00:06:31.240 England's World Cup dream is over

00:06:33.160 Right

00:06:33.520 Andy Bumham, King of the North

00:06:38.940 No, Stern and Burnham

00:06:41.040 Says, I'm ready to ask for a little more

00:06:43.580 From taxpayers, says Burnham

00:06:45.460 More? Please, sir

00:06:47.080 Can I have some more? More?

00:06:50.040 We're being taxed more than we've

00:06:51.460 Ever been taxed in all of history

00:06:53.280 But Burnham wants more

00:06:55.580 Again, it's a classic socialist thing, isn't it?

00:06:58.860 Classic socialist thing

00:07:00.100 Don't tell me you haven't got money

00:07:03.220 Prol, Kulak 0.89

00:07:05.700 Tell me you haven't got money

00:07:08.300 I'm going to squeeze you

00:07:10.500 And squeeze you

00:07:11.160 And squeeze you

00:07:11.840 Until you're starving to death

00:07:13.920 Cut spending

00:07:18.240 No

00:07:18.700 No no

00:07:20.100 They've got to pay for 0.90

00:07:23.740 Our invasion haven't they

00:07:25.080 They've got to pay endless amounts of benefits 0.58

00:07:27.320 To the people that are invading us

00:07:29.000 In fact 0.99

00:07:32.280 Here's a little story

00:07:34.500 Let me see if I can find

00:07:38.400 Here we go, in the mail

00:07:39.380 And he wants to tax us more

00:07:44.580 More

00:07:45.580 In the mail, here's a story

00:07:47.780 Family of 18 from Gaza

00:07:51.080 Wins Human Rights Challenge 0.99

00:07:53.420 To allow them to come to Britain

00:07:54.920 In major blow for Labour

00:07:56.060 Bear in mind, I'll read a bit of this

00:07:58.580 Bear this in mind

00:07:59.420 The government

00:08:01.380 From whichever party it is

00:08:03.660 They wanted to

00:08:05.820 Could leave the ECHR

00:08:09.060 And could do any sort of act of parliament

00:08:12.580 To prevent this from happening

00:08:15.400 Exactly this sort of thing from happening

00:08:17.180 Parliament is sovereign

00:08:19.880 If they want to change the law

00:08:24.260 However they want to do it

00:08:25.440 And they can get it through

00:08:26.960 That's it, it's law

00:08:28.420 The royal sign off on the end of it

00:08:34.000 Is just crossing the T's and dotting the I's

00:08:38.180 House of Lords can't do anything ultimately

00:08:42.100 So if the government wanted to prevent this sort of thing from happening

00:08:46.520 They've had years to get all their ducks in a row

00:08:50.020 To stop it from happening

00:08:50.920 But they don't want to do that do they?

00:08:54.060 A family of 18 from Gaza

00:08:55.840 Just listen to some of the facts of this

00:08:57.240 A family of 18 from Gaza has won the right to come to Britain 0.80

00:09:00.520 After launching a human rights challenge in the British courts 1.00

00:09:02.780 Already, right away, what on earth

00:09:07.120 So, actually I won't bother reading it, I'll just tell you the details

00:09:10.120 There's this one woman came over from Gaza and got British citizenship

00:09:14.680 A Gazan-born mother of three

00:09:17.380 Came over from Gaza as a refugee a few years ago

00:09:22.280 And she's now a British citizen 1.00

00:09:25.040 That's already a travesty 1.00

00:09:27.240 Why?

00:09:30.000 Okay 1.00

00:09:30.560 And she asked to bring over her entire extended family 1.00

00:09:34.220 That's both her parents 0.60

00:09:35.840 A brother and his wife and their four children

00:09:38.400 A sister and her four children

00:09:40.360 And another sister and her husband

00:09:42.140 That also have three more children 0.98

00:09:43.800 She wanted to bring over 18 more people

00:09:48.140 None of them can speak English

00:09:49.480 She can barely speak English 1.00

00:09:51.240 The original anchor woman 1.00

00:09:53.100 All the others can't speak English

00:09:54.680 They obviously haven't got jobs or anything 0.95

00:09:57.080 are they militant islamists don't know the adult ones anyway don't know we don't ask that sort of

00:10:05.760 thing that would be racist wouldn't it that would be big that wouldn't be british that

00:10:10.760 wouldn't be in line with british values to even ask right so she wants to bring over 18 of her 0.99

00:10:18.060 relatives who are obviously going to be a drain on our society obviously she's got to find housing 0.98

00:10:25.920 for them got to find school places for all the kids don't worry about how massive classrooms 1.00

00:10:29.840 are anymore got to find spots for them at dentists and on the nhs and everything endless

00:10:35.780 doubt they'll find good jobs and be net contributors to the treasury anytime soon

00:10:43.180 right so the home office actually in the first instance said no

00:10:48.480 They blocked the attempt

00:10:51.620 In the first instance

00:10:53.240 And then

00:10:55.000 This, the original mother of three

00:10:57.800 The original anchor 0.90

00:10:58.860 Woman 0.99

00:11:00.100 Then 1.00

00:11:01.580 Takes the home office to court over it

00:11:05.500 Appeals the decision

00:11:07.880 And there's one

00:11:09.980 There's one

00:11:11.640 Going through a couple of different tribunals 0.98

00:11:14.260 And it's one

00:11:15.380 The judge, let's find the judge's name

00:11:18.040 Who is the judge in this?

00:11:21.500 Judge Gemma Loughran

00:11:23.020 Loughran

00:11:24.500 Loughran? Loughran?

00:11:27.720 She decided

00:11:28.880 That the Home Office was in the wrong

00:11:31.820 And because of the ECHR

00:11:33.540 The right to family life

00:11:35.940 Under the European Convention on Human Rights

00:11:39.280 And under Section 6 of that Act

00:11:42.560 Sets out how it is

00:11:43.960 Unlawful for a public authority

00:11:46.040 To act in a way which is incompatible

00:11:49.020 With a convention right

00:11:51.040 Alright

00:11:52.380 Don't worry about Britain 0.99

00:11:54.800 And the native people

00:11:55.740 And the quality of our society 1.00

00:11:57.940 How much it costs us

00:11:59.840 Whether it's in our interests

00:12:01.960 Don't worry about that

00:12:02.900 The most important thing is

00:12:05.720 Their right to a family life 1.00

00:12:07.220 She could have gone home 0.75

00:12:09.120 Too dangerous 0.97

00:12:16.020 Too dangerous 0.91

00:12:17.060 All 18 of them have got to come here 0.74

00:12:18.980 And that's it

00:12:23.800 The Home Office can't do anything about it

00:12:25.960 The only thing that could be done

00:12:27.560 And this wouldn't happen quickly of course

00:12:30.120 Is that the government passed

00:12:31.560 A bunch of legislation, Acts of Parliament

00:12:34.320 Probably need more than one, who knows

00:12:36.060 Repeal something here, add something there

00:12:38.160 To change all of this

00:12:39.260 To leave the ECHR

00:12:41.580 And make sure judges' hands are bound

00:12:44.020 To do this sort of thing to us

00:12:46.020 But in a case like this

00:12:48.320 It's just a slam dunk rubber stamp

00:12:50.280 No

00:12:50.760 Of course not

00:12:52.820 You're going to take the home office

00:12:54.720 Imagine that

00:12:57.460 Imagine that

00:12:59.300 You go to another country

00:13:00.620 You go and live in another country 1.00

00:13:03.120 And then you want to bring over 0.99

00:13:05.700 18 of your relatives 0.98

00:13:06.720 And that country doesn't want it

00:13:08.440 And you take them to court over it

00:13:16.020 Filth

00:13:19.780 Absolute filth 0.90

00:13:22.280 I'll just throw it on the pile 1.00

00:13:23.840 Another 18 Garzans 1.00

00:13:25.140 Just throw it on the pile 1.00

00:13:26.380 Don't worry about who they really are

00:13:30.720 Or what's in their heart and soul

00:13:32.980 Don't worry about any of that

00:13:35.600 Whether they're militant islamists or anything

00:13:39.380 Nope, just come over 1.00

00:13:41.320 Start claiming benefits

00:13:46.020 And he wants to tax us more

00:13:50.440 Police arrest man over threat to 0.95

00:13:59.680 Shoot Farage in the head 0.96

00:14:01.560 Good 1.00

00:14:04.380 Apparently some dude, youngish dude

00:14:08.520 Said on social media somewhere

00:14:11.680 If Nigel wins

00:14:13.260 I can't remember if it was whether he wins this by-election that's coming up

00:14:16.160 Or whether he wins at the last election in 2024 0.99

00:14:19.340 He said, if you win, I'll shoot you in the head 0.99

00:14:21.380 Describes himself as a terrorist, apparently 1.00

00:14:24.440 That's what was in that article

00:14:26.300 Nigel gets loads of...

00:14:30.680 Nigel's not the only one, of course

00:14:31.780 But he will be sort of a lightning rod for this sort of stuff

00:14:34.880 Gets threats all the time

00:14:37.940 Like that, proper, proper death threat

00:14:40.360 And until now

00:14:43.120 According to them

00:14:43.900 And I can believe it

00:14:44.760 According to reforming Nigel

00:14:46.240 And I believe it

00:14:47.140 Until now the police have just never done anything about it

00:14:49.700 Ever

00:14:49.920 You can report it

00:14:51.340 You can tell the police

00:14:52.100 And they're like 1.00

00:14:52.720 We'll bang up Lucy Connolly

00:14:58.360 Or Sam Melia

00:15:01.260 But these people

00:15:02.420 What can you do 1.00

00:15:04.460 Get over it Nige 1.00

00:15:06.580 Stop being such a snowflake 1.00

00:15:08.240 The police will say

00:15:09.360 until this one so this is the first one in fact we've got a um let me find an article

00:15:14.640 yeah here we go in ITV News a little bit more detail on it man arrested over social media

00:15:21.020 post threatening to shoot Nigel Farage a man in his 20s has been arrested over an alleged threat

00:15:26.500 to shoot reform UK leader Nigel Farage made in a post on X the suspect was arrested on Tuesday

00:15:31.400 over the social media entry from May ahead of the local elections oh it's over the local election 0.99

00:15:36.060 stuff and said i am going to shoot you in the head if you win according to the telegraph uh 0.58

00:15:40.780 faraj formally resigned from parliament last week but okay statement on wednesday metropolitan police 0.98

00:15:46.940 let me just read this bit after receiving the report detectives submitted an application

00:15:51.740 to social media platform to gain access to gain access to the user's account information following

00:15:57.500 the initial report the suspect was arrested at an address in south london and has since been bailed

00:16:02.380 Pending further inquiries.

00:16:04.740 Here's the thing.

00:16:05.420 Nigel told the Telegraph he has faced multiple threats on social media, quote, four years.

00:16:10.400 Yeah.

00:16:13.360 Once again, I've said it.

00:16:14.340 Maybe this is the third, maybe the fourth time I've said this.

00:16:17.300 I disagree profoundly with Nigel politically.

00:16:21.020 In fact, not all that profoundly.

00:16:22.980 A lot of things I agree with.

00:16:25.440 On the key, key things about demographics and things.

00:16:28.400 Disagree with him.

00:16:30.740 And yet, this is outrageous.

00:16:32.380 Don't want a hair on his head harmed. Of course, of course, his person should be sacrosanct.

00:16:42.720 Of course it should. He said, Nigel said, this is the first time the police have ever proactively

00:16:48.000 acted on a social media post. The first time. And I hope they're looking at the other three

00:16:53.620 or 400 similar posts from this year alone they've basically the establishment the police

00:17:07.620 whatever you want to say they've basically left anyone on the right out to dry haven't they 0.98

00:17:15.460 left our asses swinging in the breeze 0.94

00:17:18.020 They're responsible in a very direct sense 0.99

00:17:25.440 For Anne Whittacombe's death, aren't they, in some ways

00:17:27.120 Of course the actual murderer is ultimately responsible, isn't he

00:17:30.540 Like the vast majority of the responsibilities is with him

00:17:35.520 Nonetheless

00:17:36.160 You know what I'm talking about

00:17:37.820 Anne Whittacombe could have been protected, couldn't she

00:17:41.120 A lot more 0.65

00:17:42.420 The state could have done something

00:17:44.880 Anything, anything

00:17:46.180 So her home and her person

00:17:49.840 Was entirely unprotected

00:17:51.980 Entirely

00:17:53.820 Could she have been more vulnerable?

00:17:58.920 No

00:17:59.100 Not really

00:18:00.240 No

00:18:00.700 Well

00:18:10.720 Hopefully things will change a bit

00:18:15.500 There's been talk around Westminster

00:18:19.760 In the halls of power

00:18:21.700 That they are going to look at giving every single MP

00:18:26.140 And in fact people that are ex-MPs

00:18:29.000 Some level of protection

00:18:32.180 The issue with that is

00:18:39.660 It doesn't really

00:18:41.280 It's good, I welcome that of course, why not

00:18:43.640 Doesn't really address the crux of the matter

00:18:48.020 Does it?

00:18:49.640 I.e. they've created a society

00:18:51.840 Where left-wing terrorists feel

00:18:53.800 They're on the right side of history

00:18:55.620 And are morally correct in doing anything

00:18:59.000 Almost anything

00:18:59.820 Remember this person from, I think it was yesterday

00:19:06.320 This fella

00:19:07.640 This dude

00:19:09.500 Who hoped Anne Whittacombe died in pain 0.99

00:19:13.580 While trans troll who wished 1.00

00:19:19.100 Extremely painful death on Anne Whittacombe 1.00

00:19:21.200 Is just tip of iceberg for a nasty 1.00

00:19:23.480 Green party 0.50

00:19:24.280 This article just happens to sort of

00:19:26.560 Shine a light on it again

00:19:28.260 And also say that

00:19:29.440 I think they're a failed Labour council

00:19:32.180 Candidate

00:19:33.900 And now they're in the Greens

00:19:35.200 Now they're in the Green party, this dude

00:19:37.400 Just making the point that

00:19:40.560 Over on Blue Sky

00:19:42.400 because i can't hack x over on blue sky um just like a pit of like left-wing vitriol and bile

00:19:52.740 that they double down this fella doubled down when called out on it he sneered i'm done with 0.99

00:19:59.040 being a nice to pieces of human garbage like her right so giving each mp a bit even xmp is a little 1.00

00:20:06.580 bit of protection it doesn't address that does it people like this horrid heather this article 0.93

00:20:11.880 decides to call him horrid heather um it doesn't address that does it

00:20:19.720 and in reality even if you've got like one bodyguard dude even if he's pretty competent

00:20:29.060 at what he's doing it's like an ex-police security dude or an ex-military dude even

00:20:35.380 Ex-Special Forces

00:20:36.240 If someone really wants to get you 0.99

00:20:41.800 And kill you

00:20:42.680 And they're even prepared to sacrifice their own life 1.00

00:20:45.540 Then they can do it

00:20:48.500 Have you ever seen the film

00:20:52.340 In the Line of Fire

00:20:53.280 With Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich

00:20:54.920 I quoted Michael Corleone

00:21:00.780 From Godfather Part 2

00:21:02.500 On Twitter the other day

00:21:03.420 Where Michael says

00:21:05.080 They want to get Hyman Roth, don't they

00:21:07.120 Tom Hogan says 0.69

00:21:09.000 You can't kill him 0.99

00:21:10.300 It would be like trying to kill the President 0.99

00:21:11.440 You can't get to him, you can't do it 0.98

00:21:12.580 Michael says

00:21:13.840 If anything is certain in this life

00:21:16.360 If history has taught us anything 0.80

00:21:17.700 You can kill anyone

00:21:19.100 References to super high profile assassinations

00:21:24.580 Through the centuries

00:21:25.980 From Julius Caesar to John Kennedy

00:21:28.120 So giving MPs a little bit of protection

00:21:34.900 It doesn't address the malaise in our society

00:21:42.140 That left-wing people think they're morally perfect

00:21:45.740 And will justify

00:21:47.320 Horror

00:21:50.720 Horror has a face

00:21:54.020 Horror 1.00

00:22:00.900 We used to have, not that long ago, a homogenous society

00:22:08.860 Where political assassinations were essentially unknown

00:22:11.940 Second half of the 20th century

00:22:14.920 You can go back, you can look at earlier centuries

00:22:18.420 When there was one or two, right?

00:22:20.660 Spencer Percival, or whatever, one or two

00:22:22.940 For decades and decades and decades in this country

00:22:26.720 Effectively unheard of, essentially unheard of

00:22:30.180 until recent times. What changed? What's changed? Something happened in 1997 that began to change

00:22:41.420 that balance, that paradigm. Something happened. Okay. Victims warned of sex attackers early

00:22:57.480 release great well done thanks sama thanks david lammy thanks the labor party thanks the fabian 0.58

00:23:04.360 society cheers for that brilliant well done well done yep your goal of ruining our civil society

00:23:12.120 good job you're doing a good job at that

00:23:20.360 if that was your goal you're achieving it quite efficiently

00:23:23.560 Okay The Sun

00:23:27.940 We lost the football game

00:23:29.440 60 more years of hurt

00:23:31.000 Wonderball

00:23:35.000 Harry Kane

00:23:36.240 Shed a tear or tear

00:23:37.220 A lot of them did

00:23:37.740 Of course

00:23:38.180 Crying

00:23:40.080 Balling

00:23:40.740 Wonderball

00:23:42.640 Hmm

00:23:44.100 It's a bit of a stretch

00:23:45.780 The Daily Star

00:23:48.200 Again

00:23:48.860 Football

00:23:49.640 Caned by Messi

00:23:52.260 he's still proud of our lions all right starmer had his last pmqs yesterday and it was a relatively

00:24:04.620 civil affair quite often they do that when it's someone's last pmq prime minister's last pmqs

00:24:10.300 it's usually quite civil and they're sort of kind to them remember tony blair's last one

00:24:15.560 I remember Gordon Brown's last one

00:24:17.580 Cameron's last one

00:24:19.600 They usually

00:24:20.920 The other side

00:24:22.060 They usually sort of

00:24:23.500 Clap them out

00:24:24.160 With a little bit of dignity

00:24:25.380 If Starmer's got any left

00:24:29.060 It's the shortest serving

00:24:30.800 Labour Prime Minister

00:24:31.840 I heard this morning

00:24:33.180 Can that be right?

00:24:34.480 I suppose it is

00:24:35.060 The ones in the 20s

00:24:38.860 Would have lasted more than

00:24:39.940 Like 18 months

00:24:40.800 Or however long he's been in

00:24:42.020 One of the last things he said

00:24:44.260 Was

00:24:45.180 The people of Clacton should vote for 1.00

00:24:50.040 Count Bimface 1.00

00:24:50.820 Or at the Metro 1.00

00:24:54.460 Gross

00:24:56.620 Stomach turning

00:25:00.860 Squash slug 0.59

00:25:03.400 Don't need to see that

00:25:05.220 Nothing of any import

00:25:10.000 Whatsoever as usual

00:25:11.180 Just the football

00:25:12.100 There's the moment England's World Cup dream comes to an end

00:25:16.120 Oh well

00:25:16.480 The Mirror

00:25:18.320 We lost the football

00:25:19.860 We're shattered

00:25:20.640 Shattered

00:25:21.640 Okay

00:25:22.060 The Daily Mail

00:25:23.460 The football

00:25:25.040 Night Owl Dream finally died

00:25:27.620 Okay

00:25:28.060 The Express

00:25:29.400 What do you reckon it is?

00:25:30.740 Any guesses?

00:25:32.040 Football

00:25:32.440 Agony

00:25:34.260 As our wait goes on

00:25:36.260 Harry Kane

00:25:37.680 Oh

00:25:38.200 He's struck down with agony

00:25:40.360 It's only a game of football

00:25:43.940 Get it in perspective

00:25:44.900 Get it in some perspective

00:25:47.040 Right

00:25:48.100 As much as I like football

00:25:49.680 And I've spent a big chunk of my life being a football fan

00:25:51.760 When I was younger

00:25:53.160 It was my whole life

00:25:53.980 All I cared about was playing football

00:25:55.980 Watching football

00:25:57.420 And talking about football

00:25:58.280 But at some point you realise

00:26:00.560 Just a bunch of millionaires

00:26:03.560 Kicking around a bit of leather

00:26:04.620 Right

00:26:06.960 Imagine England did win the World Cup

00:26:09.060 Then what?

00:26:09.540 then what what changes nothing nothing you get to feel a bit of sort of vicarious pride in your

00:26:16.060 national side that's it the world goes on nothing's actually changed agony struck down by agony

00:26:24.060 yeah it's not that bad calm down all right what's this um the guardian guardian pretending it even

00:26:35.540 cares remotely. Make sure we get a picture of some diverse fans. Farage told backers

00:26:44.000 I need a million a year to stand as MP. So they're straight back to it, right? They're

00:26:51.540 straight back to it. Bernard Mahmood and Farage's finances. Farage's strategy of calling this

00:27:00.520 by-election it's not it's not gonna work and you can draw a line under it there's no more questions

00:27:06.400 to be asked or answered about it all no dude no that investigation like the actual parliamentary

00:27:14.600 standards investigation into it is on hold for the time being but it will start again if you win

00:27:19.660 that by-election which he will now in face will beat him highly highly highly doubt that um it

00:27:26.500 start again as soon as he's returned as the right honorable member also the honorable member 0.52

00:27:31.620 for clacton investigation just starts again remember the day nigel called it some people

00:27:38.180 on twitter said oh no that's all over now no no you're mistaken in that okay so this is uh

00:27:45.060 an article an allegation or a story sort of mirroring some of the things ben habib had said

00:27:51.540 that behind the scenes effectively you know like over lunch where it's not being recorded and no

00:27:58.720 minutes are being taken it's not a matter of record over lunch or whatever over brandy and

00:28:05.180 balloon glasses and cigars at a gentleman's club whatever it was Nigel said to the super rich

00:28:10.200 people whether it's Christopher Harbourn or whoever said I'll come back to frontline politics

00:28:15.900 To be an MP

00:28:16.400 But I'm going to need

00:28:17.380 A million a year

00:28:18.220 To do it

00:28:18.840 Because I'm making

00:28:20.080 Decent bucks

00:28:21.880 Outside of parliament

00:28:22.920 Like

00:28:24.260 GB News alone

00:28:26.260 Were paying him

00:28:26.940 A million

00:28:27.560 Or over

00:28:28.200 Just over a million a year

00:28:29.360 So

00:28:31.680 If nothing else

00:28:33.260 If nothing else

00:28:33.960 I'm going to want

00:28:34.940 A million a year

00:28:35.840 To do it

00:28:36.500 Because the

00:28:37.360 MP's

00:28:38.360 Salary

00:28:39.760 Is nowhere near that

00:28:40.920 It's actually not bad

00:28:41.760 What is it

00:28:42.420 90 grand

00:28:43.220 100 grand a year

00:28:44.640 To be an MP

00:28:45.300 Something like that

00:28:45.900 It's not peanuts, but it's not really sort of life-changing money.

00:28:51.420 It's not sort of F.U. money, is it?

00:28:54.960 It's still quite a lot, actually, I think. 1.00

00:28:57.340 Nige wanted a mil a year. 0.94

00:29:01.680 It's just the allegations. 0.97

00:29:03.520 Again, it's not a matter of record in any way.

00:29:06.920 But that's the sort of thing, similar to its adjacent to the sort of things

00:29:10.160 that Ben Habib had alleged.

00:29:12.740 And that you've got someone that's like a billionaire

00:29:15.720 Like Christopher Harbaugh

00:29:16.880 Somebody like Christopher Harbaugh

00:29:18.420 Goes we could do that

00:29:19.760 Million a year, five years

00:29:22.800 Five mil

00:29:24.080 I can find that

00:29:25.940 That's pocket change to a man like me

00:29:28.880 Yeah, no problem

00:29:31.120 We could change British politics

00:29:34.480 And you, our boy, Nigel

00:29:36.420 Will be in number ten

00:29:37.700 And we've got your ear

00:29:39.020 For five mil, that's a steal

00:29:41.620 Yeah yeah I'll go yeah 5 mil

00:29:43.320 I make 5 crystal hardball

00:29:46.080 I make 5 mil a day in interest

00:29:48.220 On my billions

00:29:49.240 I don't know if he does exactly but you know

00:29:51.880 You're a billionaire

00:29:53.600 5 million is not too much of a problem is it

00:29:56.020 You can stretch to it

00:29:57.140 Anyway so

00:29:59.380 Early allegations whether they're true or not

00:30:01.680 And then

00:30:04.040 The real real question after all of that

00:30:06.240 Is is there actually anything

00:30:08.160 Illegal in that

00:30:09.600 Is there actually anything wrong with that

00:30:11.620 because you can just give people a gift it isn't illegal for crystal harbour just to have given

00:30:17.120 nigel five million pounds that's not illegal they're trying to get him on a technicality

00:30:22.740 really aren't they should he have declared it and perhaps even more salient than that

00:30:29.380 as i say was there quid pro quo was harbourn or whoever expecting more from nigel once he was in

00:30:38.460 power would nigel start changing legislation and things that would benefit harble and his cadre

00:30:53.340 if so then that is bad then that is sort of corruption but we don't know that do we

00:30:56.940 we don't know that's why we should really wait for uh the investigation to finish

00:31:03.660 whether you can even trust that whether that's not an entire stitch up

00:31:07.100 to try and ruin nigel regardless which it may well be that's not beyond the realms possibility

00:31:12.140 is it whatsoever that's what the reformed people are saying the whole thing's a stitch up it's 0.50

00:31:16.460 conducted by people that hate nigel and want to thwart nigel at any cost yeah probably yeah it's

00:31:23.980 not fair is it it's really really really not fair they'll try and do something they'll try

00:31:27.900 and do something similar to rupert i'm sure and anyone around rupert for when they genuinely fear

00:31:33.580 them and they'll do something similar yeah they genuinely feared corbyn didn't they

00:31:40.820 what can we do what can we get him on oh he's pretty pro-palestine pretty pro-islam

00:31:48.280 let's paint him as an absolute anti-semite destroy him that way 1.00

00:31:58.060 well on the next one up the next person we need to destroy because he's not globo homo enough 1.00

00:32:01.680 he's not subversive enough 0.97

00:32:04.320 what can we get Nigel

00:32:05.240 people do seem to like him

00:32:07.300 his policies are actually quite reasonable 0.55

00:32:10.340 we've tried painting him as a racist and a Nazi

00:32:13.980 doesn't seem to be sticking

00:32:15.400 what about his finances

00:32:19.120 yes, yes, yes, yes

00:32:21.160 there's something slightly irregular there

00:32:22.720 or could be

00:32:23.460 let's pack out some sort of standards committee

00:32:30.040 with people that are sure to condemn him yeah yeah that'll work hey guys

00:32:38.440 the angle is the strategy is a billionaire once gave nigel five million quid

00:32:44.840 we might be able to spin that to absolutely ruin him let's all attack from that exact same vector

00:32:52.840 okay yeah got it

00:32:53.640 Meanwhile don't talk about anything

00:32:59.540 George Osborne ever did

00:33:00.840 Don't talk about Lammy

00:33:03.380 And all the people that give him loads of money

00:33:04.740 And who they are

00:33:05.360 And what they might have expected in return for that

00:33:07.320 Don't mention that

00:33:08.280 Just lie by omission about that every single day

00:33:10.640 The Financial Times

00:33:16.600 Here we go

00:33:17.060 No football in the Financial Times

00:33:18.400 Look at this

00:33:21.760 What is that? 0.88

00:33:23.640 She's going to be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer apparently 0.92

00:33:27.700 City relieved as bum-hand poised to choose Mahmoud as his Chancellor 0.82

00:33:33.520 This thing 1.00

00:33:35.760 Does she know anything about macroeconomics, political economy 1.00

00:33:38.820 Does she? Does she?

00:33:40.020 I'd like to know that

00:33:40.860 I don't think she does

00:33:41.680 I doubt she does

00:33:42.340 Ask her about Adam Smith

00:33:46.500 Ask her about the wealth of nations

00:33:48.200 Ask her about John Maynard King

00:33:49.800 Ask her about Bretton Woods

00:33:50.960 Ask her about anything

00:33:51.860 Ask her about anything

00:33:52.700 Does she know?

00:33:53.640 Doesn't really seem to matter does it 1.00

00:33:59.340 She's their token brown woman 1.00

00:34:01.200 That's it 1.00

00:34:02.260 That's her credentials 0.92

00:34:04.500 To be the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom 1.00

00:34:07.420 Is that she's their token brown woman 1.00

00:34:11.080 Muslim 1.00

00:34:13.200 Pakistani descent Muslim 0.99

00:34:15.580 That's her qualifications 1.00

00:34:17.580 Not whether she knows about economics 0.99

00:34:20.680 Mad

00:34:21.760 We must be mad

00:34:23.200 Literally mad

00:34:24.940 Thanks Labour voters

00:34:28.060 Thanks for that

00:34:29.060 Well done

00:34:29.640 Brilliant

00:34:30.140 Well done

00:34:33.280 The Times

00:34:38.320 Look we lost a football game

00:34:39.820 Kane hugging Messi

00:34:41.280 Right

00:34:41.680 Okay

00:34:42.280 Burnham keeps wealth tax in play

00:34:45.720 I heard one or two rumours

00:34:47.820 No idea if they're true

00:34:48.780 Just make that clear

00:34:49.560 No idea if one about to say true

00:34:50.740 Just rumours

00:34:51.380 Just scuttled butt

00:34:52.600 That maybe that Gary Stevens

00:34:55.800 Is it Stevens or Stevenson?

00:34:57.320 I can't even remember his name

00:34:58.060 That Gary fella 0.63

00:34:58.860 Who seems to be a recovering drug addict

00:35:01.100 Will turn up to a proper interview on TV

00:35:04.220 In shorts and a t-shirt 0.77

00:35:05.500 That weirdo

00:35:06.760 Who also seems to know nothing

00:35:10.500 About political economy

00:35:13.040 Really nothing

00:35:14.180 Rumour was that he might be in Burnham's team

00:35:19.520 God knows if that's true

00:35:22.040 God knows

00:35:22.800 Obviously not as a Secretary of State or anything like that

00:35:26.800 I mean he's not an elected official

00:35:27.860 But you can just get people to be a financial advisor

00:35:31.560 You can just put them

00:35:33.000 You can just give them a job as some sort of advisor at the Treasury or whatever

00:35:36.160 You can just give them a job in number 10

00:35:41.180 But they get to be

00:35:43.800 Their voice is powerful

00:35:45.740 I don't know if that's true

00:35:46.640 Just heard that man man

00:35:47.820 State of public finances may require people to

00:35:51.160 quote pay a little more quote you're not going to cut spending though no that wouldn't do would it

00:35:59.640 that wouldn't do the left wing of your own party andy would eviscerate you if you even start

00:36:06.260 talking about that let alone doing it but of course that's what's required

00:36:10.600 it's bad say we would have to get we will have to go through a period of austerity

00:36:16.200 True austerity, World War II level

00:36:18.560 Clement Attlee, late 40s level

00:36:22.040 Austerity

00:36:22.900 Because we're bankrupting ourselves

00:36:26.920 Further and further and further

00:36:28.420 By spending beyond our means

00:36:30.020 Drastically spending beyond our means

00:36:33.220 No, you won't address that

00:36:36.540 You just tax people more

00:36:37.940 Until what?

00:36:38.860 Until there's nothing left

00:36:39.640 A wealth tax

00:36:41.740 So you're going to cause a tsunami 0.62

00:36:44.320 Of the super wealthy

00:36:45.880 Just fleeing the country

00:36:47.140 That hurts the bottom line

00:36:51.600 Even more doesn't it

00:36:53.840 Doesn't it

00:36:55.320 It does

00:36:56.300 Of course it does

00:36:57.800 Incoming PM will not shy away

00:37:02.360 From tough decisions

00:37:03.460 Oh Andy Burnham's tough is he

00:37:06.220 Andy Burnham's a tough politician

00:37:09.620 Is he

00:37:10.880 He seems super weak to me

00:37:14.320 Seems like a doughboy, Dillsbury Doughboy, not a World War I American soldier doughboy.

00:37:25.060 Probably is quite tough.

00:37:26.260 Well, they were tough, weren't they?

00:37:27.540 Not that.

00:37:28.580 A man made of dough, is what I mean.

00:37:35.100 Soft, nothing, empty shirt man, Andy Burnham.

00:37:40.340 He's going to be, we won't shy away from tough decisions.

00:37:44.320 sure

00:37:46.480 Andy Burnham's a man of steel

00:37:49.920 is he

00:37:50.640 he's super weak 1.00

00:37:54.580 he's a total pussy 1.00

00:37:56.040 I'm sorry 1.00

00:37:57.720 shouldn't swear on the bow show

00:37:59.960 I do apologise

00:38:00.520 although is that really a swear word

00:38:01.900 borderline isn't it

00:38:05.540 hit blue

00:38:06.600 alright the eye paper

00:38:07.760 England lost a football game

00:38:09.380 remember

00:38:09.820 okay

00:38:11.360 care workers to get NHS style

00:38:13.560 annual pay rise social care workers will receive pay rises every year as government tries to bring

00:38:19.640 their wages closer to nhs employees and tackle staffing crisis new negotiation negotiating body

00:38:25.860 includes unions and employers and will determine pay england moving towards a national care service

00:38:32.200 uh care minister tells the eye paper all right all right they're the front pages they're the

00:38:39.120 front pages that's fleet street for today should we have a look at our poll we usually have a look

00:38:43.060 at our poll at this time of the show don't we okay all right we asked you guys is the british

00:38:50.060 government right to nationalize the steel industry oh that was something that didn't come up i did

00:38:55.020 find uh a story i thought it was an interesting story um is it uh where was it here we go on the

00:39:05.700 bbc government brings british steel under public ownership crazy really that's not in on the front

00:39:10.560 pages even below the football. Big deal, really big deal. Okay, British Steel has come under

00:39:19.780 public ownership, fully nationalised, after the government moved to, quote, protect UK

00:39:25.060 steel making. There's a particularly massive steel works in Scunthorpe, one of the last

00:39:34.620 Major sites in Britain

00:39:36.820 And it was under the control

00:39:39.020 Of a Chinese company

00:39:40.560 Jingai

00:39:41.860 No idea if I'm pronouncing that right 1.00

00:39:44.120 Jingai 0.99

00:39:45.280 I'm going to say Jingai 0.98

00:39:48.200 Because

00:39:48.540 It's my birthright to just 0.99

00:39:50.920 Anglicise foreign words 1.00

00:39:52.360 Shamelessly 0.89

00:39:54.220 It's what we do

00:39:55.340 Is anything British English people do best 1.00

00:39:58.700 It's shamelessly 1.00

00:40:01.400 Anglicising foreign words

00:40:02.880 um okay this thing's not letting me show but basically i suppose in a nutshell basically what

00:40:10.460 it is that big works in um the scunthorpe was sold off to a chinese company because it was

00:40:19.100 they say it was losing something like 700 000 pounds a day and the the previous owners just

00:40:27.640 Couldn't afford it

00:40:28.920 It was just unsustainable

00:40:30.600 So if we sold it to a massive Chinese corporation

00:40:34.280 Jingai

00:40:35.820 Jingai

00:40:36.660 Perhaps they would be able to

00:40:39.660 Pump in loads of investment

00:40:41.600 And make it profitable again

00:40:43.160 No, no, no

00:40:44.960 They seem to have just cancelled loads of the contracts

00:40:47.660 Very quickly, very, very quickly

00:40:49.320 Started talking about laying people off

00:40:51.220 Started talking about closing it down entirely

00:40:53.120 Oh, right

00:40:54.400 Oh, okay

00:40:57.640 so then this we're talking about a bigger thing now here we're talking about sort of

00:41:01.920 using broader strokes of the brush let's talk briefly just five minutes or so about

00:41:08.140 nationalization versus privatization now you know me we should do

00:41:14.800 i'm right of center i've got one or two views that are just flat out centrist but usually right

00:41:23.220 of centre, that's my world view. And nationalising things is a classic sort of lefty, lefty thing

00:41:32.780 to do. Look at the Attlee government on the state of politics the other day, state of

00:41:37.660 politics, did a video all about the Attlee government, I might do a longer form epochs

00:41:41.940 in much more detail instead of 20 minutes, I'll do like an hour and a half talking about

00:41:45.340 Attlee. Classic lefty thing, communist thing to do, socially sensitively, to nationalise

00:41:50.340 as much as you possibly can i.e the government control it not private enterprise private industry

00:41:54.820 so there's that of course it's not perfect it's not perfect to privatize things because what if

00:42:05.160 the people that own those companies what if they don't have the best interest of that company or

00:42:12.960 that country at heart right what if you privatize your railways but it's a french company that

00:42:21.460 buys them or an italian company they don't care if this ultimately really ultimately don't care

00:42:28.000 it's just one part of their their giant corporate holdings and they're looking to make as much money

00:42:34.120 out of it as they can and if that fails oh well it's failed it was only like three percent of our

00:42:39.620 Of our overall

00:42:41.840 Ownership of things

00:42:44.300 Across the world

00:42:44.980 What then

00:42:48.260 What if you sold your steel industry

00:42:50.880 To India

00:42:52.300 Or the Chinese 1.00

00:42:53.940 And they don't care 1.00

00:42:56.820 In fact

00:42:57.380 Ultimately on the grand strategic level

00:43:01.140 They would rather Britain doesn't produce any steel

00:43:03.060 That weakens us

00:43:04.040 That's in their interest

00:43:05.200 Ultimately

00:43:06.320 What about then

00:43:08.320 So, in other words, what I'm trying to say is

00:43:11.480 A bit of a balancing act

00:43:12.760 It's not as simple as

00:43:13.620 Nationalising thing is a lefty thing to do

00:43:15.820 And it's always best to privatise everything

00:43:17.660 Otherwise you're some sort of commie

00:43:19.420 It's not as simple as that, is it?

00:43:21.720 It's a bit of a balancing act, isn't there?

00:43:24.480 Sometimes it must be in our interest

00:43:27.060 To nationalise something

00:43:28.140 Would it not be?

00:43:30.680 Either nationalise something

00:43:31.740 Which is a bit red in nature 1.00

00:43:34.480 Or it gets completely annihilated by the Chinese 1.00

00:43:38.000 Or the French 0.96

00:43:38.760 Or the Italians 0.99

00:43:39.560 Or the Americans 0.99

00:43:40.820 Or the Indians 1.00

00:43:42.320 Hmm 1.00

00:43:43.760 Well then that's a no-brainer

00:43:45.900 Don't do that

00:43:46.780 Don't do that

00:43:48.100 And it's not like we're talking about

00:43:49.260 Britain's tofu industry, is it?

00:43:53.500 We're talking about steel

00:43:54.780 If you can't produce your own steel

00:43:57.920 High-quality steel

00:43:58.860 You're in real trouble

00:44:01.700 You are then completely reliant on other countries 0.93

00:44:05.140 That you buy it off of

00:44:06.160 And if for some reason they decide

00:44:07.880 they don't want to sell to you anymore for political reasons or economic reasons and then

00:44:13.840 you're done then you've got no steel and you can't build things whether it's girders for just normal

00:44:18.940 buildings or whether it's to build ships or artillery pieces or whatever if you cannot

00:44:25.780 produce your own steel you're not really a player in the world at all you just won't be

00:44:32.600 You will be second tier

00:44:34.960 100% 1.00

00:44:35.660 You'll be somebody else's 1.00

00:44:39.680 Bitch 1.00

00:44:40.220 Again, should I say that? 1.00

00:44:42.720 Borderline swear word 0.99

00:44:43.720 You'll be someone else's 1.00

00:44:46.800 Prison bitch 1.00

00:44:48.600 If you don't produce your own steel 1.00

00:44:51.220 Okay, so the British government

00:44:55.700 I would say in this instance

00:44:57.600 Because it's steel

00:44:58.440 Because it's steel

00:44:59.700 It's not a nothing industry

00:45:03.260 It's a hyper important one

00:45:06.260 Hyper, hyper important

00:45:07.960 Then it was a good, in my opinion

00:45:10.640 And this isn't coming from a place of leftist economic world view

00:45:15.320 It isn't coming from a place of Marxist theory

00:45:19.960 It's coming from a place of what's in the interest of England, Britain 1.00

00:45:25.240 Well, in this case, in my opinion, it was best to nationalise it because that Chinese 1.00

00:45:31.680 company meant to destroy it. 0.99

00:45:33.740 From where or another, they were running it into the ground, whether deliberately or not.

00:45:38.260 Far be it from me to suggest that it was completely deliberate, that that was always their plan.

00:45:43.340 Who knows?

00:45:47.340 In this instance, I guess it was best.

00:45:51.860 The government have said

00:45:52.680 They intend to

00:45:53.880 Keep it open

00:45:55.080 Save the

00:45:56.840 3,000 jobs

00:45:57.580 2,700 jobs

00:45:58.680 And keep it open

00:46:00.040 Because it's in the national interest

00:46:01.380 To do so

00:46:01.860 Yes

00:46:02.320 Yes

00:46:02.820 Finally

00:46:03.860 Finally

00:46:04.940 One

00:46:05.480 It was that one thing

00:46:06.760 Keir Starmer did

00:46:07.540 Perhaps keep us out of

00:46:09.760 The Persian war 0.99

00:46:10.840 Largely 0.96

00:46:11.640 It wasn't so good

00:46:12.480 Okay

00:46:14.880 With all that said

00:46:15.660 On our poll today

00:46:17.960 Knocking up towards

00:46:19.000 1,000 votes

00:46:19.780 We asked you guys

00:46:21.400 Is the British government right to nationalise the steel industry 1.00

00:46:24.800 And the IAs have it

00:46:25.900 68% of you say yes

00:46:29.200 And 32% of you say no

00:46:32.040 So two thirds of you say yes, roughly, nearly, basically

00:46:35.840 Just over

00:46:37.700 Yeah

00:46:39.000 I think so

00:46:41.760 I think so

00:46:43.460 I have to put aside the sort of grand ideological view

00:46:47.060 That nationalising things is just nearly always wrong

00:46:49.780 No, it's not always wrong, is it?

00:46:52.300 It's not always the incorrect thing

00:46:53.940 The incorrect path, not always

00:46:55.800 Again, I've said before, haven't I?

00:46:59.760 That I'm not against unions

00:47:01.240 In principle

00:47:03.020 It's a classic lefty thing

00:47:05.020 As long as they're not subverted by communists

00:47:08.380 And socialists

00:47:09.580 The principle, the concept of a union

00:47:11.560 Isn't terrible, isn't bad

00:47:13.340 It's like this, the principle, the concept of nationalisation

00:47:16.520 Isn't inherently wrong

00:47:19.400 Okay, alright, the eyes have it

00:47:22.800 The eyes have it at least, there you go

00:47:24.500 Me and at least two thirds of the

00:47:27.100 Glorious Band, The Chosen Few

00:47:28.120 In unison

00:47:29.780 You're my people, and I'm your boy

00:47:32.900 Good stuff, alright

00:47:37.760 It is already

00:47:40.500 Gone quarter to two, so

00:47:42.240 Shall we move on to the

00:47:43.880 On This Day in History bit

00:47:45.620 Oh, one other little story I thought was of

00:47:49.400 interest jd vance went on joe rogan and uh the other day i haven't watched it yet but i read

00:47:56.200 this article which um sums it up summarizes it um and he admitted that they the the trump

00:48:04.360 administration screwed up the release of the epstein files in in a very sense you're saying

00:48:09.720 pan bond is a good person she didn't she wasn't doing anything nefarious and wasn't deliberately

00:48:13.880 um like screwing it up but nonetheless it was sort of basically screwed up we absolutely

00:48:18.680 screwed up the comms that's the quote that's what he said

00:48:23.320 but it wasn't because they were trying to trying to hide something

00:48:29.320 sure about that all right i don't really believe that but all right on this day in history let's

00:48:36.760 have a look at that you guys quite like that bit i quite like doing that bit on this day the 16th

00:48:42.040 of july down through the centuries what happened on it in the year 622 an important year the islamic

00:48:48.120 era begins muhammad the prophet muhammad and his followers begin migration from mecca to medina

00:48:57.400 the hijra was a hijra hijra they flee from mecca because him and his family and his followers were 0.92

00:49:04.920 from mecca weren't they they have to flee mecca don't worry about what they've done to instigate 0.67

00:49:10.120 that to medina story is goes on to form armies retakes returns to mecca taking it and so on

00:49:21.480 this isn't a history show so i won't go on and on about that it's a long story

00:49:25.480 interesting story right i think so maybe fictional or largely fictional tom holland

00:49:31.960 in the shadow of the sword talks about how it may just be fiction

00:49:35.480 The original sources are shaky

00:49:40.560 Okay, on this day in 1054

00:49:47.180 The Great Schism between Western and Eastern Churches begins

00:49:49.940 When Roman Cardinal Hubert issues a ball of excommunication

00:49:54.720 Against the Patriarch of Constantinople

00:49:57.440 On the altar of the High Sophia in Constantinople 0.75

00:50:00.580 Yeah, the Great Schism there 0.98

00:50:02.060 Starting Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Roman Catholicism 0.93

00:50:06.220 Again, so much could be said about that

00:50:09.600 I could do a couple of hours talking about that

00:50:11.260 I'm just not going to today

00:50:14.700 Well, two hours

00:50:17.120 I'm not even going to spend five or ten minutes on this today

00:50:19.700 Because I need to get going before too long

00:50:22.820 I've got a recording today

00:50:23.820 Not on the podcast, but other recording I've got to do

00:50:26.760 Just a big thing though 0.97

00:50:27.840 The Great Schism

00:50:29.340 It was always sort of likely to happen 0.85

00:50:33.100 Ever since, well centuries before that

00:50:35.440 It was in the making really 0.98

00:50:37.140 The Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Catholicism

00:50:42.100 Profoundly disagreed on more than one

00:50:45.980 Important point

00:50:48.400 Okay

00:50:50.340 On this day in 1519

00:50:52.300 Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian John Eck

00:50:55.980 At a castle in Leipzig

00:50:58.640 During which Luther deniers the divine right of the Pope

00:51:01.980 That sort of thing gets you taken to a dungeon in Rome

00:51:09.500 And you're never seen from again

00:51:11.600 But not in this case

00:51:13.960 Martin Luther was ultimately protected by German lords

00:51:21.720 And was never taken to Rome

00:51:25.140 Or executed or anything

00:51:28.020 For his heresy 0.87

00:51:29.320 Again

00:51:31.520 Talked all about it

00:51:32.960 A number of times

00:51:34.640 On Epochs

00:51:35.400 More than once

00:51:38.360 Talking about

00:51:39.520 Those popes

00:51:41.020 And 0.88

00:51:41.720 The reformation

00:51:42.900 And also

00:51:43.260 In fact

00:51:44.040 Even some of the last

00:51:45.240 Few last episodes

00:51:46.300 I've been doing about

00:51:46.760 Henry VIII

00:51:47.260 This is in the age

00:51:48.980 Of Henry VIII

00:51:49.480 I didn't talk a fantastic amount

00:51:52.460 About Martin Luther himself

00:51:53.560 And his trial

00:51:54.220 But

00:51:55.600 Are talking all about

00:51:57.540 the break with rome in the early 16th century okay on this day in 1809 la paz in bolivia uh

00:52:06.340 declares its independence from the spanish crown and forms its own its own junta it's the first

00:52:11.540 independent government in spanish america bolivia i uh threatened to do an epoch talking about simon

00:52:19.860 bolivar maybe a mini series all about simon bolivar i will do that at some point it's relatively near

00:52:24.420 the top of the list for sure okay on this day in 1940 hitler orders preparations for the invasion

00:52:30.740 of britain operation sea lion there was a period there in 1940 after the battle of france after

00:52:36.180 dunkirk before during the battle of britain where the nazi high command

00:52:44.980 were thinking about doing a full-blown invasion of the british isles in the end hitler decides

00:52:52.260 Depression Barbarossa is more important

00:52:55.520 I.e. the invasion of the Soviet Union 0.88

00:52:56.900 It must come first 1.00

00:52:58.420 First one thing though

00:53:01.300 They did draw up relatively detailed

00:53:03.620 Plans for Sea Lion 0.76

00:53:06.440 Hitler couldn't do both at the same time 0.57

00:53:10.680 And he decided 0.79

00:53:12.180 The more pressing threat

00:53:14.520 To his Reich

00:53:16.760 Was from Joe Stalin 0.89

00:53:19.420 And the 0.93

00:53:20.800 the reds okay on this day in 1945 first test detonation of the atomic bomb at

00:53:27.760 trinity site new mexico as part of the u.s manhattan project fascinated by that

00:53:33.680 it did uh did a bit of content just the other day didn't i about was it i was on the state of

00:53:37.680 politics actually harry go to stay in cam

00:53:44.480 say politics did a video all about the british bomb where i also talked a little bit about

00:53:50.480 the manhattan project fascinated by the manhattan project

00:53:53.520 uh might do an epochs about that in long form detail full

00:53:56.880 hour hour and a half two hour long we have content all about the manhattan

00:54:00.320 project fascinating yeah and trinity was the first test

00:54:03.760 the very very first one

00:54:08.000 where oppenheimer says

00:54:11.280 i'm the destroyer of worlds he's become death

00:54:15.680 the destroyer of worlds quoting from the bhagavad-gita

00:54:19.920 uh okay all right turning point in history there was one world before trinity wasn't

00:54:25.360 there the pre-atomic age and then we're in a whole new world after that moment

00:54:32.400 okay let's have a look at our rumble runs and super chats let me do this with my mic so i can

00:54:35.840 see left hand side my screen properly is global church history going to be in at number one

00:54:41.040 suspense is he going to be in at number one yes and or still

00:54:44.960 And still

00:54:48.960 First name global, middle name church, last name history

00:54:52.660 Mr History tells us today, gives us two factoids

00:54:55.820 Today in 1377 AD

00:54:59.220 Richard II was crowned

00:55:03.280 Oh, okay

00:55:03.720 You want long form content of me talking all about Richard II?

00:55:10.800 One of the boy kings of the middle ages

00:55:14.100 He was only like nine or ten when he became king

00:55:17.280 He was Edward III's grandson

00:55:21.540 Edward III lived to be too old

00:55:23.220 Old king syndrome, he lived too old 0.72

00:55:24.780 He outlived his own son, the black prince 0.96

00:55:26.440 He should have been the king 0.91

00:55:28.140 Would have been Edward IV, the black prince

00:55:30.640 But he died of natural causes in like middle age

00:55:33.380 And when Edward III finally dies

00:55:36.440 He has to pass to his grandson

00:55:37.980 He was only like nine years old

00:55:39.360 Well that's Richard II

00:55:41.520 Not a great king 0.95

00:55:44.580 It's considered like a foolish 0.98

00:55:46.200 Definitely one of the worst two or three 0.95

00:55:49.140 Or four

00:55:50.600 He had some favourites didn't he

00:55:54.960 I thought

00:55:55.680 He had some favourites

00:55:58.300 Piers Gaveston

00:56:00.520 Oh no wait

00:56:01.040 No Piers Gaveston was Edward II

00:56:03.900 There's a lot of parallels though

00:56:05.560 Between Edward II and Richard II

00:56:07.400 Lots and lots of parallels

00:56:08.860 Interestingly

00:56:09.840 A couple of generations apart

00:56:11.720 Was it the Earl of Oxford

00:56:14.660 Robert De Vere

00:56:16.980 Robert De Vere was Richard II's favourite

00:56:19.240 Just mismanaged everything

00:56:24.660 Richard II

00:56:25.600 The only good thing

00:56:27.680 He just mismanaged everything

00:56:30.400 Ended up getting himself

00:56:33.200 Deposed, arrested

00:56:34.760 Thrown in a castle

00:56:36.920 Under arrest and then never seen alive again

00:56:39.840 Probably starved to death

00:56:42.320 Was it Pontefract Castle?

00:56:45.780 It's all there

00:56:46.580 On lotocetus.com

00:56:49.520 Do consider to sign up for as little as

00:56:51.480 £5 a month Protestant membership

00:56:52.620 Hundreds and hundreds of hours without exaggeration

00:56:55.760 Of me talking about history

00:56:56.760 If you're so inclined

00:56:58.380 Alright, and the second factoid

00:57:01.180 Global Church History gives us is

00:57:02.920 Jack Cartier returned home safely

00:57:05.160 From his voyage

00:57:06.060 Are you Canadian? I've asked you that before

00:57:08.500 You're interested in those

00:57:10.760 Jack Cartier, the French explorer

00:57:13.200 Again in the

00:57:15.320 16th century

00:57:17.040 He sort of

00:57:19.080 Discovered, not discovered, he mapped 0.94

00:57:20.640 Four Europeans at the Gulf of

00:57:23.040 St Lawrence, St Lawrence River 1.00

00:57:24.300 I feel like

00:57:27.840 You've mentioned him more than once

00:57:30.060 And probably only a Canadian would do that 0.99

00:57:33.220 Or a Frenchman, I don't think you're a Frenchman 1.00

00:57:35.360 I'm not going to besmirch 1.00

00:57:37.400 your good name by saying such a thing all right thanks for that next one pig dog pig dog 5150

00:57:43.580 says morning missed the show two days ago listened after you mentioned you liked roy albison the big

00:57:49.300 o he's all right uh he was a brilliant songwriter very creative great voice one of my favorites

00:57:55.720 yeah roy albison was really good yeah a lot of people in the industry say he was one of the

00:58:02.420 all-time greats got some really good songs got some really good songs but for sad life as well 0.60

00:58:08.100 after a few tragedies in his life well okay uh next one's also pig dog you say

00:58:14.820 it rained we had rain exclamation mark planting planting in soil that is like

00:58:21.580 talcum powder because it's so dry is quite an experience the u.s dust bowl must have been

00:58:26.940 horrendous yeah the dust bowl talked about that once and twice during the great depression the

00:58:30.360 dust bowl yeah we needed a bit of rain didn't we it's getting a bit getting a bit um like actual

00:58:38.240 drought conditions all the grass has been sort of seared yellow yeah we've had a bit of rain though

00:58:44.720 good they're saying the heat wave is largely over now probably at least for a while who knows

00:58:49.920 you might have an indian summer all right and the last one around today acid helm says hi everyone

00:58:56.000 Hope all are well in the studio

00:58:57.900 And of course within the loyal band

00:59:00.000 The Chosen Few

00:59:02.580 Been enjoying my week off 0.94

00:59:04.660 Went away for a couple of days with my partner

00:59:06.880 And I proposed

00:59:07.780 She said yes

00:59:08.740 Smiley face

00:59:09.520 Well done sir

00:59:10.280 Congratulations

00:59:11.280 Well done

00:59:12.720 Brilliant

00:59:13.100 Well done

00:59:15.940 Love it

00:59:16.380 Good for you

00:59:17.200 Really

00:59:19.300 Genuinely

00:59:19.800 Good for you

00:59:20.840 Acid Hell

00:59:21.400 Keeping it real

00:59:22.140 Living the dream

00:59:23.160 Wonderful

00:59:25.180 wonderful okay the youtube super chats hurry if you could do that for me could you make it so

00:59:31.500 engage there they are okay great we've got a dozen or 20 odd first one quite a decent amount

00:59:41.340 of money there that's very generous thank you from quite blackpilled that's their name act

00:59:45.440 quite blackpilled says if humanity ever faced a global threat and we had to muster every great

00:59:51.720 warrior straight man of our history it is easy as a westerner for me to think of our contribution

00:59:58.000 alexander leonidas pattern cornwall grant lee etc oh yeah oh god our history is filled with great

01:00:06.860 men yeah hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of names you could throw out yeah there was one

01:00:16.020 Great struggle

01:00:16.800 Who would you want as overall CO

01:00:19.860 Someone like Alexander

01:00:22.280 Or Caesar or something

01:00:23.160 Probably want someone who knows about modern warfare

01:00:25.160 So it'd have to be someone from relatively modern times

01:00:27.200 Would you want Ike

01:00:28.760 Eisenhower, who was a good manager

01:00:30.960 Wasn't he? Can't deny that

01:00:33.320 Would you want someone more like Patton

01:00:35.220 Would Patton's

01:00:38.860 Military

01:00:40.520 Skills be outdated

01:00:43.260 In the 21st century

01:00:44.640 who knows maybe not maybe you wouldn't maybe you would want someone who was a true master and just

01:00:50.880 bring them up to speed with modern tactics and weaponry someone like belazarus or alexander

01:00:58.960 just give them a few weeks to get them to learn about modern war but ultimately you still want

01:01:04.640 someone like that i don't know interesting though isn't it interesting it talks about that with uh

01:01:09.680 dan carlin i once did a long form interview with dan carling the dan carlin of hardcore history

01:01:14.400 fame i asked him a question along those lines if you're interested on on history bro

01:01:23.520 my channel history bro there's no payable there everything's free on that one history bro again

01:01:30.640 hours of me talking about history if you if you want that okay uh quite black people again they 0.78

01:01:36.240 They said, oh, the next quite three are all the same, from quite blackpilled. 0.74

01:01:41.880 They say, as a historian, what of the East, Saladin, Genghis, Attila, any more you could give me?

01:01:49.740 I'm sure the Japanese have a lot of venerable men.

01:01:53.620 Yeah, of course they do, yeah, yeah, listed, the history's listed with it.

01:01:56.900 From the East, oh God, there's so many, so many sort of Persian kings, Parthian kings.

01:02:01.820 Yeah, many, many more Mongol leaders of various Mongol hordes.

01:02:06.240 I mean, Tamerlane, for example

01:02:09.620 I like referencing Tamerlane, don't I?

01:02:12.280 Timur, Timur the lame

01:02:14.320 There's so many

01:02:16.480 Just like in the West

01:02:18.240 There will be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of names

01:02:20.380 You can pick from

01:02:21.760 Okay, next one

01:02:23.420 Also from Quite Blackpool says

01:02:25.960 Sorry for the two-parter

01:02:27.520 No apologies

01:02:29.180 No apologies necessary

01:02:30.560 And next one again

01:02:31.980 For the honourable gentleman who lands the moderator job 1.00

01:02:35.080 for a beau's breakfast club hashtag real bbc try to leave some women for the rest of us

01:02:40.780 yeah we've got to sort that out we've got to sort that out again i can only at best glance down at

01:02:46.920 the chat once or twice during a show at best so i have i don't i don't have anything to do with it

01:02:54.400 basically but it has become apparent that sometimes there's real douchebags in there

01:02:59.740 like all chats are if your chat is more than like eight people there's probably someone being a 0.65

01:03:04.900 dick in there we'll try and see what we can do to sort of moderate it a bit um yeah i'll need to

01:03:11.420 talk to a couple people cameron after the show actually see if we can make that happen sooner

01:03:16.940 rather than later okay the last half a dozen oh no more have come in so there's still 10 or more

01:03:21.920 to go mqss or mqs says south africa has deported 53 499 foreign nationals over five weeks in an

01:03:33.620 ongoing operation financed by building their respective embassies directly thoughts yes great

01:03:38.560 yeah just goes to show in south africa it just goes to show so in south africa they've the

01:03:47.380 government thinks they've had too many other black people from more northern parts of africa come to

01:03:54.780 south africa and they don't want them there they don't want loads of people from the other countries 1.00

01:03:59.880 That ball to South Africa and beyond 1.00

01:04:01.880 South Africa for the South Africans 0.84

01:04:04.740 The South Africans say 0.89

01:04:05.940 And if you're there 1.00

01:04:09.140 And they want to deport all those people

01:04:10.760 And they're doing it

01:04:12.800 So it's paid to the lie that you can't do it

01:04:15.560 It can't be done

01:04:17.140 Yes it can be done

01:04:17.880 The examples throughout history

01:04:22.120 Are many

01:04:23.420 And they're still going on to this day

01:04:26.620 Russia deport loads and loads and loads of people

01:04:29.940 Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Africa

01:04:34.080 If you've got a government with the will to do it 0.98

01:04:37.420 You can do a mass program of forced remigration

01:04:40.620 That liar, someone like, I don't know, or any of our enemies

01:04:46.820 Anyone that writes for The Guardian or whatever will say 0.92

01:04:49.500 You can't do it, it's a fait accompli

01:04:51.980 Britain must just accept its future of demographic decline

01:04:55.480 And there's nothing, they're here now 1.00

01:04:57.420 They're our problem now 1.00

01:04:58.620 These millions of foreign invaders 1.00

01:05:00.780 10, 20 million since 1997 0.95

01:05:03.520 Who knows how many, but it's in the millions

01:05:05.360 You cannot deport them, nonsense

01:05:07.560 Nonsense 0.78

01:05:09.240 Of course we can, it just requires a government

01:05:11.560 With the will to do it

01:05:12.720 Of course we can deport them

01:05:15.440 History is littered with examples of that 1.00

01:05:19.340 Look at the way India, Bangladesh and Pakistan 1.00

01:05:23.820 Deported all the white people 1.00

01:05:26.400 They didn't want there anymore 1.00

01:05:27.580 Oh they can do it, alright

01:05:29.100 South Africa can do it

01:05:30.680 But we can't, nonsense, of course we can

01:05:33.400 Of course we can, and we will have to

01:05:35.480 It's inevitable

01:05:36.700 Because it's that or demographic destruction 1.00

01:05:39.580 You can't deport all these people 1.00

01:05:44.660 Yeah, we can 0.98

01:05:47.160 Yeah, we can

01:05:48.840 We're gonna

01:05:50.120 Millions must go

01:05:53.820 aim high vote low okay tiger says just bought a 2022 cupra formenta and wanted to flex

01:06:05.000 don't know what that is i'll now have emissions i was a type of car missions equal to 10 bus

01:06:11.800 riding vegans and cap get wrecked harry you know a bit about cars is it that do you think

01:06:20.680 that's the type of is it meant to be a supra i can't hear you oh yeah i think it's a cupra

01:06:28.660 a cupra formentor yeah give me a second yeah google it google image it mate for me and bring

01:06:35.920 it up so i can see what that is okay thanks for the super chat though in a moment i will have a

01:06:40.600 look at the what you're talking about there okay next one strong strong and co says

01:06:49.640 did you feel it the disturbance in the force it happens once every four years for one glorious

01:06:55.840 moment they stopped rubbing our noses in diversity yeah for one moment you're allowed you might be

01:07:01.960 allowed to wave a st george's cross and then go back to no only nazis would do that okay harry's

01:07:12.100 bringing up oh okay that's not a bad motor he's just brought up a picture of that car you've

01:07:16.600 mentioned there, Tiger. Yeah, not bad. Not bad at all. Yeah, nice. Yeah. Would you like

01:07:27.680 to own that car? Oh, I couldn't. I couldn't. Bring it up on the screen so people can see

01:07:35.960 real quick. Why not? Can you do that? You make it so. Okay, and there you go. Boom.

01:07:46.600 Not bad, not bad

01:07:52.360 Okay

01:07:54.880 Alright

01:07:56.360 Let me have the mouse back

01:07:58.620 What else have we got

01:08:00.160 David Betts, 1180

01:08:02.600 says, UK Steel

01:08:04.240 rebuild HMS Warspite

01:08:06.420 send to Falklands 1.00

01:08:08.220 Yeah, the Argentina players

01:08:12.480 that was one story which I didn't bother going into

01:08:14.100 because you don't like football and don't care

01:08:15.400 But one of the stories is after the game

01:08:17.640 Where they're all celebrating

01:08:18.520 They brought out a flag that said

01:08:20.340 Like Los Malvinas

01:08:22.720 They're our islands basically

01:08:25.920 FIFA have got very specific rules

01:08:29.780 About you can't do political stuff like that

01:08:31.480 But they did it anyway

01:08:32.600 They're not your islands

01:08:37.600 They're not your islands

01:08:38.920 We've been there hundreds of years

01:08:41.060 Before your country existed 1.00

01:08:42.340 Or the indigenous people of Argentina 1.00

01:08:45.840 Did they go there in the Middle Ages

01:08:48.080 Or during the ancient world and settle it?

01:08:50.420 No, no they didn't 0.87

01:08:51.720 No they didn't

01:08:52.680 Have you got a government that's badass enough

01:08:57.820 Like the Gautieri government

01:08:59.540 To go and take it from us?

01:09:00.680 No you haven't

01:09:01.700 So stop going on about it

01:09:02.840 They're our islands

01:09:03.760 windswept little islands in the south atlantic

01:09:13.480 all right it's a matter of principle at this point

01:09:18.160 all right you've put the next one is

01:09:23.940 from strong and co again next time the sports ballers think they want the england team

01:09:31.920 sorry one moment okay next harry can you somehow make sure there you go okay sorry for me sorry

01:09:39.660 the slight thing kept popping up it's gone now uh strong and co says next time the sports ballers

01:09:45.720 think they want the england team to win just close your eyes and imagine james o'brien monologue the

01:09:50.660 next day james o'brien what a disgusting freak is he an alcoholic usually you only really get 0.60

01:09:59.340 that complexion sort of coloring if you've got a drink problem no idea if 0.96

01:10:05.580 he has just asking the question bro just asking a question over here does he

01:10:13.380 struggle with the old the old booze it looks like he does it's painted all over

01:10:19.380 his face that he does don't know if he does that might just be high blood

01:10:22.060 pressure or something he's a bit ruddy isn't he James O'Brien

01:10:27.140 He's a bit of a mental subversive, isn't he, James O'Brien? 0.97

01:10:31.460 Mental, mental. 0.98

01:10:32.700 Historians will look back at people like him

01:10:35.700 and say he helped cause a sectarian nightmare,

01:10:40.820 a bloodbath in this country, if and when it comes to it. 1.00

01:10:46.660 People like him that argued for a society

01:10:49.740 that leads directly to a Yugoslavia-style bloodbath.

01:10:53.980 Horror piled upon horror

01:10:57.960 Because of the arguments that James O'Brien

01:11:00.840 Has spent his entire life advocating for 0.99

01:11:03.720 What a disgusting freak 0.99

01:11:05.980 Okay 0.99

01:11:12.180 Larry Waterwitt says

01:11:16.580 Hello from Philadelphia

01:11:17.880 Oh, Philly

01:11:18.460 Flip, flip, flip-a-delphia

01:11:22.440 Flip, flip

01:11:23.160 I'm really from New York City

01:11:25.400 And I'll admit I'm a progressive

01:11:27.160 Progressive lib

01:11:28.560 But I'm a big fan

01:11:30.280 Oh well, welcome aboard

01:11:31.160 Hope you're doing well

01:11:34.280 Stay strong and positive

01:11:35.460 Thank you sir

01:11:36.040 Thank you sir

01:11:36.960 If you're a progressive lib

01:11:39.820 But you're watching the Bo Show

01:11:41.080 You'll come over to us soon enough

01:11:44.660 One of us

01:11:46.960 One of us

01:11:48.200 At some point

01:11:51.420 It's almost to the point of

01:11:53.100 cliche isn't it that people when they're young are progressive and liberal or even left-leaning

01:11:57.460 and as they get older and older and older and they get a family they start owning property

01:12:01.820 they just learn more about the world and reality how the world and why the world goes around why

01:12:06.720 the way they learn about history they realize oh yeah some of my thinking was a bit off off the

01:12:12.220 main beam actually at the very very least conservatism with a small c is better for nearly

01:12:20.520 all humans at all times. You'll join us. Self-proclaimed progressive lib, but watches the

01:12:29.560 bow show, watches Lotus Eaters. You'll join us properly. Anyway, welcome aboard. You are

01:12:40.200 welcome, sir. Okay, the next one, Tiger says, steel nationalisation is simply a question

01:12:46.760 Of national communism versus global communism

01:12:49.540 The lesser of two evils, as it were

01:12:52.200 I don't want to just leave dead air

01:13:03.800 Just mulling that over

01:13:04.980 The cardinal sin is dead air, isn't it?

01:13:08.760 So I don't want to do that

01:13:09.460 National communism

01:13:15.880 What is that? Is that a thing? National communism? What do you mean? What is that?

01:13:23.000 I guess you're just...

01:13:25.380 Okay, you'd have to unpack that for me a bit more

01:13:27.740 for it to make any real sense in my mind

01:13:30.940 What you mean? I think I know... I mean, I think I know what you're getting at

01:13:35.540 Anyway, we're playing with quite a big concept there

01:13:37.640 I haven't really got time to unpack that all and give you 5-10 minutes about that

01:13:41.660 Interesting though

01:13:43.820 National communism

01:13:46.520 Alright

01:13:46.800 Well

01:13:47.300 Just communism you mean

01:13:49.120 Alright

01:13:50.880 Okay

01:13:51.300 Marcos 588 says

01:13:54.380 Food, money, factories and resources

01:13:56.600 Equals independence

01:13:57.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah

01:13:58.360 If you can't grow your own food

01:14:00.280 You don't control your own money supplier

01:14:02.860 You don't build or manufacture anything

01:14:05.660 And you don't have any natural resources

01:14:07.400 You don't have access to resources

01:14:10.620 Then you won't be independent

01:14:13.200 Yeah

01:14:13.480 to be honest there's only a small number of countries in the whole world where that truly

01:14:20.440 applies to right the united states russia and china maybe one or two others india brazil

01:14:27.720 where they've got everything they might need if the entire world cut them off and made them a

01:14:34.060 complete 100 pariah would all their people starve and they'd have no heavy industry

01:14:39.320 There's only a few countries that could deal with that

01:14:42.040 For a start you need to be a giant country

01:14:44.300 Don't you have to be resource rich

01:14:45.940 China, Russia

01:14:48.080 America, India, Brazil

01:14:49.760 There's no way

01:14:52.160 England could

01:14:52.700 Britain does not have the natural resources

01:14:56.400 Everything we would ever possibly need

01:14:58.220 To continue to be

01:15:00.340 A player on the world stage

01:15:01.540 We're a tiny little island really

01:15:02.980 Tiny little island of course

01:15:05.280 But you're right

01:15:07.200 You're quite right

01:15:09.320 Food, money, factories and resources equals independence, yeah.

01:15:13.520 You have to be one of those almost continent-sized countries, though.

01:15:20.580 Okay.

01:15:22.000 Quite black-pilled again. 0.95

01:15:23.600 Says, congrats, Acid Helm. 0.96

01:15:25.480 Remember, three kids is the minimum.

01:15:28.780 Yeah, Acid Helm. 0.98

01:15:30.340 Congratulations on getting hitched or getting engaged. 1.00

01:15:35.260 Now have a massive family.

01:15:38.480 Okay.

01:15:39.320 tatum2733 says this is the penultimate one as well says i work at a theater and the odyssey

01:15:47.880 is opening uh tomorrow stroke today i'm us it's 4am not looking forward to it but we'll be reading

01:15:54.440 it behind the counter lol oh yeah no do read it or listen to an audio book just on youtube there's

01:16:01.960 more than one video of it being read for you on a bridge listen to it while you're doing other

01:16:08.080 stuff pottering around the house or whatever playing a game i do that i listen to audio books

01:16:13.120 a lot while i'm just doing other stuff whatever i'm doing i'm doing that on autopilot and i'm

01:16:17.980 listening and concentrating on the audio book yeah the odyssey is is great i read it for the first

01:16:23.400 time when i had to for a level read it again at undergrad and i've listened to an audio book a

01:16:30.140 couple more times since then later in adulthood in fact re-listened to it not that long ago a

01:16:34.820 week or two ago because I knew all this was coming up. It's a great story, your classic

01:16:40.240 homecoming story. There's only a few stories, the archetype of a story. There's only like

01:16:45.440 10, 12. One of them is the homecoming and the Odyssey is the example part excellence

01:16:56.260 of that, right? Odysseus, Ulysses returning to his wife Penelope and all the trials and

01:17:03.600 tribulations in order to get there classic okay another one is coming so now the penultimate one

01:17:11.120 is from max robe who says falklands for the frisians says that is it the same person who

01:17:17.000 says that the frisians everything frisian power in fact was it max robe in the comments the other

01:17:27.240 who said, Bo's contempt for his audience is astounding.

01:17:31.240 I hope you were joking. I hope that was, like, ironic.

01:17:35.240 Or something.

01:17:43.240 Okay, and the last one today is from James Lee Pevenhole,

01:17:47.240 who says, earliest reference to football I can find.

01:17:51.240 1339, I thought it was much. I don't think it was anywhere near that old, but okay.

01:17:55.240 If you say, 1339, Darnhall villagers playing football with Abbot Peter's head.

01:18:02.700 Okay, I don't know anything about that.

01:18:04.580 I've never heard anything about that.

01:18:05.820 That's interesting.

01:18:06.620 It's like in The Man Who Would Be King, where they're playing polo with the head of Uttar the Terrible.

01:18:14.300 What dictates the size of the ball is the size of the guy's head.

01:18:18.240 okay i don't know anything about the apparently murdered abbott peter in in darn hall in 1339

01:18:26.740 interesting interesting i wonder if that is the genesis of football

01:18:31.820 okay one more is coming i will read it it's from tiger again they say industry in the hands of

01:18:38.660 commies in your home country is bad but in my opinion is the hands of uh globo commies is 0.55

01:18:44.780 is arguably even worse oh yeah oh definitely right i mean i see what you're saying i suppose

01:18:48.300 yeah i get it yeah of course it is yeah of course it is yeah they really really don't care if the

01:18:56.420 thing fails if not if not they're actively trying to make it fail yeah all right that's the show

01:19:03.160 it's now 19 minutes past nine in the a.m british summer time on thursday 16th of july on the

01:19:07.320 year 2026 thank you for joining me really really appreciate it without you guys it isn't a thing

01:19:14.500 try and make the best of the day ahead carpe diem seize the day most valuable thing you will ever

01:19:19.220 have is your time you've only got it once once this day in history is gone it's gone if you're

01:19:24.600 in the position to make it count to do something valuable with your time do try to all right i

01:19:28.860 don't get too preachy about it until tomorrow morning then take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 16, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 16th July 2026

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