The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 18th June 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning!

00:00:05.020 You alright?

00:00:07.180 How are you this morning?

00:00:08.960 All good I hope?

00:00:12.860 Yeah, not too bad.

00:00:14.800 Happy

00:00:15.260 Makerfield Day.

00:00:18.920 It's the big day.

00:00:21.260 It's election, it's the polling day.

00:00:24.000 Happy Waterloo Day

00:00:25.380 actually.

00:00:27.040 More importantly, more significantly.

00:00:28.400 it's the anniversary of waterloo day i'm sure we'll talk about that on uh at the end of the

00:00:32.980 show okay it's just gone one minute past eight in the a.m which is summertime on thursday the

00:00:39.060 18th of june in the year of our law 2026 you're the glorious band the chosen for you my band of

00:00:43.280 brothers and sisters thank you for joining me without you isn't a thing as always i'm joined

00:00:48.240 by my producer little harry how are you this morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good

00:00:52.100 okay a tiny bit of housekeeping before we dive straight into it uh because it's uh an election

00:00:58.520 day a polling day the papers for some reason well there's a legitimate reason but the

00:01:05.520 mainstream media that's regulated by Ofcom won't show the front pages of the papers

00:01:11.540 this is like an Ofcom rule in this country so usually where I've got like the BBC that show us

00:01:17.000 a digital image of all the front pages you don't have that so i've got

00:01:21.480 physically got all the papers there not the guardian

00:01:24.600 giving the guardian any money uh but all the other ones got them there so i'll sort of just

00:01:30.160 hold them up for you and we'll talk about them that way we've done that before didn't we worked

00:01:34.860 out fine sometimes they do that on an actual tv don't they physically have the paper there

00:01:39.340 so we'll do that another small point i don't usually look at my chat well i can't really

00:01:46.660 look at my chat in real time very much other than the odd glance during a show i don't know how

00:01:51.000 other people do that like asmongold or lots and lots of creators do that they somehow monologue

00:01:55.980 without really any dead time and are reading their chat even a really quick chat somehow they read it

00:02:01.220 and i i'm not capable of that i can't play guitar and sing i can't play piano and sing at the same

00:02:07.660 time i'm just not capable of it so okay but i did have a little bit look a little bit of a look at

00:02:13.200 my chat yesterday after the show and there was a few people in there saying like i can't believe

00:02:19.380 bo still reads the mainstream media but he buys or he believes all the mainstream media

00:02:24.720 i make a joke don't i sometimes this isn't the joke this isn't the show for you get out

00:02:31.480 i didn't mean it i still love you baby we can make this work i do that joke a fair bit don't

00:02:35.700 i but if you really think that this isn't the show for you this show is about what is in the

00:02:42.620 news cycle in the mainstream media every day that's what this show is if you don't like that

00:02:47.400 then legitimately this isn't the show for you what can i say why are you talking about this

00:02:54.420 why are you talking about what's in the mainstream media because that's what this show is that's

00:02:58.380 what the concept of the show is so i don't know what else to tell people all right a few people

00:03:06.580 annoyed i wasn't immediately talking about rupert lowe's rape gang inquiry again i'm going to talk

00:03:12.840 about what i want to talk about in the order i'm going to talk about it in i'm going to be dictated

00:03:19.180 to or bullied by my own chat as if although having said that a little note about the uh

00:03:27.280 rape gang inquiry because it isn't it isn't again the corporate mainstream media are ignoring it

00:03:32.360 basically certainly the papers are memory holding it as soon as possible i read a fair bit a chunk

00:03:38.600 of it yesterday and last night um but what when i bring it to you guys when i talk about it

00:03:44.160 i want to be able to talk about it in its entirety and i haven't finished reading it as i say it's

00:03:49.460 219 pages long so i'm going to finish it over the weekend i'll talk to you all about it in detail

00:03:56.380 on monday regardless of whether the legacy corporate mainstream media will talk about it

00:04:00.780 which they almost certainly won't be.

00:04:03.300 I didn't want to talk about it really in any depth

00:04:05.540 until I finished it.

00:04:07.440 Okay, we'll do that.

00:04:08.660 I will do that.

00:04:10.760 Somebody in the chat yesterday said,

00:04:12.180 Bo's being paid to not talk about it.

00:04:17.620 You insult me, sir.

00:04:21.380 You disgrace yourself with such a baseless claim.

00:04:27.700 Why would I be paid not to talk about it? 0.98

00:04:29.740 What nonsense.

00:04:30.780 all right okay with all that said should we get into it what's in the papers today what's the

00:04:36.720 legacy corporate mainstream media banging on about all right we'll start with the eye paper

00:04:40.220 it's up to me i'd always start with the eye paper it's usually the best stuff i don't know we're

00:04:44.480 going to hold it up to the disdain cam harry or we're going to hold it up to the other one

00:04:48.160 what do you reckon that one's probably a bit closer isn't it people can see that d-day for

00:04:53.680 prime minister as maker field voters shape future of uk there you go and as you can see at the very

00:04:59.120 top England once just very very quickly then because I know you guys don't really care about

00:05:03.060 it England did play their opening match against Croatia and won 4-2 there you go that's all I'll

00:05:06.680 say about it although it is on the front of nearly all the papers one way or another Harry Kane scored

00:05:11.180 two didn't he so okay all right the blurb says Starmer said to be sulfurous

00:05:19.100 he said to be sulfurous towards challenges Burnham and Streeting as Labour leadership

00:05:26.160 battle turns personal ahead of crucial by-election so yesterday um

00:05:33.600 keir starmer sat down with sky news beth rigby

00:05:39.280 she's weird isn't she beth rigby i think she's weird

00:05:44.880 um sat down with her and he said i hope andy burnham wins the by-election

00:05:49.760 i've got very good relationship with andy burnham i hope he wins and if he does uh he

00:05:56.160 I will make sure he enjoys an important place

00:05:58.700 At the centre of government

00:05:59.840 At the top of government

00:06:00.760 That's pure cope isn't it really

00:06:04.280 Pure cope

00:06:08.180 As if

00:06:10.480 Keir Starmer hopes Andy Burnham wins

00:06:13.580 Because if Andy Burnham wins

00:06:15.400 That's probably

00:06:16.940 Probably the end of Keir Starmer's political career

00:06:19.260 Isn't it

00:06:19.680 Because they're definitely going to launch

00:06:23.100 A leadership election

00:06:23.940 And if and when it comes down to the final two

00:06:26.220 If and when

00:06:27.200 When everything shakes out

00:06:28.820 It's Burnham versus Starmer

00:06:30.560 Burnham wins that

00:06:31.420 Burnham's much more popular among

00:06:33.420 The parliamentary party

00:06:34.960 The general membership

00:06:37.380 Of the Labour party

00:06:38.640 And the unions

00:06:40.020 So if and when it boils down to the last two

00:06:42.180 Burnham wins

00:06:42.940 So

00:06:43.260 Starmer's saying

00:06:46.700 Oh I wish him all the best

00:06:49.440 He's a great guy

00:06:50.220 But inside are saying

00:06:52.200 He's actually sulfurous towards them

00:06:53.760 That's the quote, sulfurous

00:06:54.900 Starmer has pledged to offer Burnham a

00:06:57.960 Big job in his cabinet

00:07:00.360 If he, Andy Burnham

00:07:01.820 Wins the by-election

00:07:03.060 But allies believe Manchester Mayor would not serve under him

00:07:06.240 Again, that's another thing Starmer said yesterday

00:07:07.920 It's almost like a bit of a bribe

00:07:10.580 Or a little bit of a political gambit

00:07:12.900 Of if Burnham wins

00:07:14.540 He could, instead of ousting me

00:07:16.640 For the leadership of the party and the country

00:07:18.900 I'll just give him a

00:07:20.820 Plum job

00:07:21.920 you know as a secretary of state or something the inside is saying that was that's sort of fake

00:07:28.000 that's phony and king bumham himself no sternum burnham king of the north and his guyliner said

00:07:36.900 he wouldn't accept that anyway he's not interested in that anyway it's all or nothing for him for

00:07:40.820 bumham okay returning from g7 summit prime minister insists he is not bitter or angry

00:07:47.840 About his predicament

00:07:49.300 But vows

00:07:49.900 I'm not going to walk away

00:07:51.420 I am going to fight

00:07:52.400 It's one of those things isn't it

00:07:56.180 Not always

00:07:57.260 But very often

00:07:58.000 If you have to say

00:07:59.140 You're not bitter or angry

00:08:00.540 You probably are

00:08:02.680 If you have to tell other people

00:08:04.620 You're cool

00:08:05.260 You're probably not cool

00:08:06.840 Right

00:08:07.580 Usually

00:08:08.860 Not always

00:08:10.020 Not always

00:08:10.340 But often

00:08:11.140 In this case I think that's true

00:08:12.760 I'm not bitter

00:08:14.100 That I'm going to get

00:08:15.860 Politically assassinated

00:08:17.120 i'm not bitter about it okay just be honest again why'd you have to do that robot politician thing

00:08:23.980 me and andy have a good relationship he is great why just be honest just be like no

00:08:31.460 i'll fight tooth in now because i'm the right guy and he isn't screw him effectively no we're all

00:08:37.840 good friends nonsense nonsense farage's reform faces a battle to beat burnham with restore

00:08:45.840 vying for votes still merely vying for votes we'll see how well they do we'll see how well they do

00:08:57.920 of course we're hoping they will do better than the polling saying a bit better seven or eight

00:09:02.320 percent we'll see all right of course i'm going up there again i told you guys yesterday tomorrow

00:09:11.520 morning it will be dan tubb doing the bow show because i'm going to be up in makerfield from

00:09:19.380 later today all through tonight and into the wee hours of friday for the result and um one of the

00:09:27.740 lotus eaters cameramen's going with me and we'll get vox pops and interview a few people etc try

00:09:33.200 and get a little bit of content or lotus eaters website and things on youtube so anyway dan tubb

00:09:39.620 will be doing the bow show tomorrow not me all right there we go what about the times the venerable

00:09:45.300 times i should just think there you go it's harry kane football player there change is coming says

00:09:58.300 burnham in snub to p.m so that was the story again that um his time effectively sort of tried

00:10:06.960 to offer him a political bribe of a type i'll give you a really good job and andy burnham more in a

00:10:12.480 straight way or the andy burnham camp comes out and says no we're not interested in that no thanks

00:10:17.200 you said instead instead he's saying change is coming i'm gunning for you bro i'm coming for

00:10:22.000 your job yeah i'm interested in being your home secretary or something or even that doesn't okay

00:10:28.880 yacht couple accuse mod ministry of defense of taking russia's side

00:10:37.440 i read this article and to be fair i don't care what two random people that own a yacht

00:10:44.520 think to be perfectly honest

00:10:47.000 okay caitlin moran's celebrity watch could not care less how is caitlin moran still a thing

00:10:56.000 How is she still published

00:10:57.180 Why does anyone care what she has to say about anything ever

00:11:00.240 Caitlin Moran

00:11:01.920 Oh gross

00:11:03.100 Do better the times 0.93

00:11:04.780 Be better than publishing what Caitlin Moran's got to say about anything

00:11:08.360 Okay

00:11:09.420 Iran peace deal lifts sanctions

00:11:11.980 And creates a $300 billion building fund

00:11:15.540 Shook a bit about that

00:11:18.320 It's one of the main things in the news today

00:11:20.020 The

00:11:22.460 What do they call it

00:11:24.100 The memorandum of understanding

00:11:27.040 Okay

00:11:29.440 Shall we have a look at it in some detail

00:11:31.360 Because it is one of the main news stories today

00:11:32.920 In the papers

00:11:35.040 Or in the whole

00:11:36.780 Corporate legacy mainstream media world

00:11:39.340 Look

00:11:40.400 So Trump actually signed it

00:11:42.320 Yesterday at Versailles

00:11:43.740 Can you move the

00:11:48.240 Harry can you move the camera up a little

00:11:50.240 So

00:11:50.460 US and Iran signed deal

00:11:53.960 to end war with both sides committing to further talks over next 60 days so again it's not a final

00:11:59.420 peace peace deal it's just a memorandum of understanding giving themselves an extra 60

00:12:05.900 days possibly more but should we have a look in the detail of what it really is what we're talking

00:12:10.820 about um here we go here we go we've got it here all right point one and enter conflict on all

00:12:21.360 fronts is 14 points by the way is it 14 yeah 14 points like Woodrow Wilson's 14 points and end to

00:12:28.980 conflict on all fronts basically just saying that both sides will stop well all sides will stop

00:12:35.280 fighting each other and that includes Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon so right away the very first

00:12:43.980 point is sticky isn't it because i mean people accuse israel of constantly like not stopping

00:12:54.140 the war but it is hezbollah quite often actually it's israel responding perhaps disproportionately

00:13:03.500 but responding to hezbollah then if you look at it from hezbollah's point of view um not that i

00:13:09.900 I am sympathetic to Hezbollah

00:13:11.280 But 1.00

00:13:11.600 If you look at it from their point of view

00:13:13.120 Their country

00:13:15.140 Southern Lebanon at least

00:13:16.180 Is occupied by a foreign force 1.00

00:13:17.760 It's difficult right

00:13:20.040 If Trump needs 0.98

00:13:22.880 Hezbollah and Israel 0.93

00:13:24.560 To stop firing things at each other 1.00

00:13:26.660 It's a big

00:13:29.320 Just that

00:13:30.200 Just the first point

00:13:31.140 It's a big ask

00:13:32.060 Isn't it

00:13:34.140 A really big ask 1.00

00:13:35.000 Can anyone trust Hezbollah 1.00

00:13:38.160 Not to just fire something off 1.00

00:13:39.480 Whenever they want to 0.97

00:13:40.260 And then Israel to sort of go berserk 0.96

00:13:42.560 In response to that 0.99

00:13:43.820 Can you rely on that

00:13:48.400 No

00:13:49.620 Historically you can't

00:13:51.660 It's like that's the linchpin of it all 1.00

00:13:53.860 Make sure Hezbollah 1.00

00:13:59.100 Never do anything aggressive ever again 1.00

00:14:01.540 Or Israel never do anything

00:14:04.020 Aggressive ever again

00:14:05.020 In southern Lebanon

00:14:06.320 It's all pinned around that 0.92

00:14:09.480 Both Hezbollah and Israel sort of do what they want, don't they? 0.84

00:14:16.520 Okay, but that's point one

00:14:18.300 Point two, respect for internal affairs

00:14:23.100 That's where the US and Iran

00:14:25.440 Pledge that they won't interfere with each other's sovereignty

00:14:29.900 Look, respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity

00:14:33.600 Both sides might claim that and sign a bit of paper saying that

00:14:39.080 But I doubt they'll do it

00:14:40.040 Both sides got their intelligence services in various ways

00:14:42.980 Again

00:14:46.860 I don't see that

00:14:48.620 Actually happening

00:14:50.060 Both sides might claim they're doing it

00:14:51.500 But whether they really are

00:14:52.560 Will the US intelligence services

00:14:54.940 Never ever ever interfere

00:14:57.480 In Iranian affairs ever again

00:14:59.600 It's pretty doubtful 0.99

00:15:02.100 Will Iran 1.00

00:15:04.140 And their various tentacles 0.98

00:15:05.260 Their intelligence services

00:15:06.820 never ever ever do anything in the united states ever again

00:15:10.320 not likely is it okay but at least both at least that's all at least that one

00:15:17.140 both sides can pretend that they're abiding by it and then both sides no they're not but still

00:15:24.060 again keep up the pretext that they are both abiding by right spy goes okay that's not

00:15:30.700 completely insanely intractable first one real sticking point second one shaky all right

00:15:37.700 third one an extendable 60-day timeline so they say they'll give themselves

00:15:42.800 a maximum of 60 days although that timeline can be extended with mutual consent so it's

00:15:48.380 not a maximum of 60 days okay all right point four is that the u.s will end its blockade of

00:15:58.420 the straits of hormuz and as soon as iran starts doing what they're told some of the u.s wording

00:16:03.880 is that iran needs to behave if iran behaves sufficiently enough the as far as the u.s are

00:16:11.280 concerned the u.s will end their blockade and then point five is iran ending its blockade

00:16:17.860 letting normal tankers and shipping through the straits of hormuz without

00:16:23.040 Without trying to extort them from money

00:16:25.940 Any sort of toll

00:16:27.340 With no charge

00:16:29.080 So point four and five is that both sides

00:16:31.260 Will sort of stop their blockade

00:16:32.540 Of the Straits of Hormuz 0.53

00:16:33.980 Number six

00:16:35.560 Money for Iranian reconstruction

00:16:38.300 So yeah, talking about $300 billion

00:16:40.800 Now the Americans are insistent

00:16:47.480 Trump's making a big

00:16:48.600 And Rubio making a big song and dance

00:16:50.560 About how none of that money will come from the United States

00:16:52.960 Because the amount of time that Trump poured cold water and scorn on the fact that Obama, the Obama administration, back in 2015-odd, gave the Iranians loads and loads of money, billions of dollars of money. 0.99

00:17:06.500 Trump said that was always bad and stupid and short-sighted and just wrong on many levels. 0.98

00:17:11.260 But now, in this deal, Iran is going to get $300 billion. 1.00

00:17:15.260 Well, the Americans are saying

00:17:16.740 Let's be perfectly clear

00:17:19.080 None of that money, not a cent of that money

00:17:21.160 That's a quote as well

00:17:23.000 Not a cent of money to Iran

00:17:25.600 Will come from the United States

00:17:27.540 So who is paying for it? 1.00

00:17:30.980 Largely other emirates 1.00

00:17:32.440 The neighbours of Iran 1.00

00:17:34.080 Again, it's a contingent on 0.99

00:17:37.120 Iran doing the right thing

00:17:40.260 What did they say? 0.99

00:17:42.400 It's like performance based

00:17:43.440 Once Iran shows it's complying

00:17:46.280 And being a good boy 0.63

00:17:47.220 Then some of the other

00:17:49.520 It's neighbours, it's rich neighbours

00:17:51.300 Like UAE, Bahrain or whatever

00:17:53.700 They'll like invest in Iran

00:17:57.260 To rebuild it

00:17:58.560 To the tune of 300 billion dollars

00:18:01.020 Sanctions to end 1.00

00:18:07.500 This is the one that Iran 1.00

00:18:09.460 Were most interested in 0.94

00:18:11.860 Let me just read it

00:18:13.720 The US will terminate all economic sanctions against Iran 1.00

00:18:16.540 Including those

00:18:17.480 Including those included in UN Security Council resolutions

00:18:21.480 And those implemented unilaterally

00:18:24.640 By the US

00:18:25.540 The timeline however is unclear

00:18:27.540 Maybe that will get hammered out in the actual full peace deal

00:18:32.300 If there is ever a full peace deal

00:18:33.900 That's one of the main ones the Iranians wanted 0.99

00:18:39.700 Needed really

00:18:40.900 not to be economically strangled back into the stone age okay iran has been hard hit by sanctions

00:18:49.160 and a u.s campaign operation economic fury has sought to cut tehran off from the global financial

00:18:56.340 system even when i was first working in banking and asset management back in the very very early

00:19:01.240 2000s. Even back then there were all sorts of sanctions against Iran. Okay number eight the

00:19:11.200 big point the big one as far as the US are concerned anyway no nuclear weapons. Iran has

00:19:16.700 agreed to not procure or buy a nuclear weapon and both sides have agreed to deal with the enriched

00:19:22.440 uranium Tehran already has. The method to manage the material is unclear. The document notes that

00:19:29.940 the mechanism quote will be mutually agreed upon in subsequent talks but that at a minimum this is

00:19:35.880 sort of perhaps the key the key point of the key point at a minimum it will be down blended quote

00:19:45.380 down blended in place i.e still in iran i.e americans don't get their hands on the nuclear

00:19:53.140 dust in place under the supervision of the international atomic energy agency the iaea

00:20:03.700 okay well they've got highly enriched uranium weapons grade uranium some and it will be down

00:20:09.140 blended just mix it in with other stuff so it's not weapons grade anymore i suppose

00:20:15.940 and iran will let the iaea supervise that or even perhaps do that i don't know okay

00:20:23.140 i'd be surprised if the iranians let the iaea into their country like ever maybe they will

00:20:29.720 maybe they will maybe iran has finally sort of blinked here i don't know i feel like call me

00:20:37.560 cynical maybe i'm wrong maybe i'll be proven wrong and call me cynical but i feel like all of this

00:20:43.980 is just one more exercise as far as the iranians are concerned of playing for time

00:20:47.680 just saying yeah yeah we'll do yeah we'll play along when the moment comes when the crunch time

00:20:53.640 comes they'll be like no and the moment comes okay we're gonna let the IAEA in then yeah

00:20:59.800 they're like no and there's some other reason why we can't or won't

00:21:06.000 is that crazily cynical I don't know

00:21:08.520 okay a senior US official described this as a minimum standard the down blending of their

00:21:16.900 nuclear dust 90 weapons grade uranium that's a minimum standard and a major win for the us

00:21:24.180 not that major okay you can call it a win if you insist that major is it okay trump has said

00:21:33.860 that preventing iran from having a nuclear weapon was 99 of what he wanted by launching

00:21:38.860 operation apac fury earlier this year sorry operation epic fury earlier this year

00:21:44.680 Why did you come out on day one

00:21:48.100 And say it was about regime change then

00:21:49.460 Because the US has described the deal

00:21:53.460 As performance based

00:21:54.520 The sanctions relief specified in 0.7

00:21:57.500 Is tied to Iran complying with 0.8

00:22:00.440 Alright

00:22:02.400 If the whole point

00:22:03.540 If the main thing was really

00:22:04.960 That Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon

00:22:07.460 And all this sticks and holds

00:22:11.260 They're two big ifs

00:22:14.420 but okay if that is true then well he did get he did get it then didn't he if the iranians let the

00:22:22.380 iaea in to confirm that they haven't got any weapons grade uranium now because it's been

00:22:28.420 down blended well okay then iran don't have and won't get a nuclear weapon will they so in that

00:22:37.000 sense if if all of that is true and given then true okay that's sort of the main 1.8 the other

00:22:44.400 are like um nine and ten are about a status quo that they'll go basically go back to like an

00:22:50.000 antebellum type situation before everything that was going on before the war started we'll go back

00:22:55.620 to that mainly the u.s pulling back like its aircraft carriers and massive deployments of men

00:23:02.980 in the persian region in the persian gulf go back to what it was before the war started

00:23:08.560 2011 the big one for iran the frozen funds america's frozen billions and billions of dollars

00:23:15.240 of iranian funds haven't they and iran want those unfrozen and america basically said again

00:23:22.780 in like a performance-based basis if and when iran is seen to be complying then we'll start

00:23:30.620 unfreezing the funds okay and the last two are just sort of crossing the t's and dotting the

00:23:37.340 type stuff about exactly how it will all physically logistically work

00:23:42.500 okay apparently the uh iranians have um have we got the poll up harry um apparently

00:23:53.360 the iranians have agreed to this and trump as you as you saw signed it we got the picture of it

00:24:00.320 was it is that at the top of you know apparently trump signed it at versailles and there might be

00:24:04.820 even another sort of formal signing of it in switzerland later although there might not be

00:24:12.420 that's what the reports are saying there may or may not be that

00:24:16.340 but all right that's uh what's going on in the persian war at the moment what else we got the

00:24:24.420 express so it's a good paper the daily express you can read your daily express now 10 years to

00:24:30.900 save britain and our brexit says nigel just saying that you know you've got to vote him in

00:24:39.220 you've got to vote for for reform you've got to vote for uh his vanity project and uh containment 0.58

00:24:46.260 2.0 the tilt or you've got to vote for that otherwise brexit will never get done it never

00:24:50.820 really got properly done that's true um and so now you've got to vote for him

00:24:55.700 nah pass okay the mail the daily mail there we go the mail group again england scoring some goals

00:25:09.900 it's actually quite good to say that actually scoring four is not bad at all

00:25:15.180 croatia aren't one of the best teams going but they're all right

00:25:18.060 so okay milliband set to trigger cabinet coup right so that is that both west streeting

00:25:27.660 and ed milliband have finally got a little bit punchy

00:25:33.820 harry can you go back to the main camera please thank you

00:25:40.880 Miliband and Streeting have both said

00:25:45.660 that whatever happens tonight

00:25:48.000 or in the wee hours with regard to Makerfield

00:25:50.620 and Andy Bumham, no Stern and Burnham

00:25:52.580 whether he wins or loses

00:25:54.240 Streeting is going to launch a leadership bid on Monday

00:25:58.260 and Miliband is going to quit the cabinet

00:26:01.820 so Starmer's position is

00:26:07.500 really tenuous one way or another isn't it

00:26:10.720 i mean again he almost certainly won't be gone literally gone from office on monday or anything

00:26:16.960 well i wouldn't have thought so uh it's really really in the mail now isn't it

00:26:26.400 the walls are closing in the walls are closing in the walls are closing in are the walls closing

00:26:29.600 in on starma the walls are closing on starma okay yeah ed milliband he apparently he's uh

00:26:36.800 set to get a plum job in any sort of burnham government maybe even chancellor of the exchequer

00:26:42.480 which is better than energy secretary isn't it slightly more prestigious so he's prepared to

00:26:49.120 stab his leader in the back he's prepared to throw his own party and country into chaos 1.00

00:26:55.360 so he can have a slightly better job what a scumbag okay the mirror 1.00

00:27:00.400 The Mirror 1.00

00:27:02.560 Pure globalists

00:27:04.620 Some of the worst containment globalist slop in The Mirror

00:27:07.220 Kate Hospital Records for sale

00:27:09.660 They go for something completely different

00:27:10.820 Apparently somewhere 0.99

00:27:12.820 The Princess of Wales had cancer, didn't she?

00:27:18.340 The radiant Catherine Middleton 0.98

00:27:19.980 Did have cancer like a couple of years ago 0.98

00:27:22.600 She got better

00:27:24.000 She did get better

00:27:25.500 And yeah, the story is that

00:27:29.180 Clinic worker sacked after bid to flog princesses' private medical files

00:27:34.600 A member of hospital staff tried to sell the Princess of Wales' medical records

00:27:39.600 The worker is believed to have...

00:27:41.160 You get it

00:27:41.680 No shame

00:27:46.580 That happens a fair few times

00:27:49.300 Particularly with the royals

00:27:50.920 Anyone that's super famous and an A-lister

00:27:53.080 That can and does happen

00:27:54.200 But particularly for the royals for some reason

00:27:56.460 I've known it to happen half a dozen times maybe in my lifetime

00:28:00.320 It's that one of the royals

00:28:01.860 Like often the Queen Mother it used to be

00:28:04.080 Or the Duke of Edinburgh

00:28:04.960 They're in hospital for some reason

00:28:06.820 Because they're old

00:28:08.820 And they don't die

00:28:11.640 But then their record

00:28:14.420 And it's all

00:28:14.880 The palace hushes it up

00:28:16.740 And doesn't release a statement beyond simply

00:28:18.560 That they're okay

00:28:20.080 And they're going to be out of hospital at a certain point 0.99

00:28:21.820 And then some scumbag at the hospital 0.99

00:28:23.960 Leaks it to the son or something 0.99

00:28:26.080 or the mirror okay the sun talking of the sun sun they go just they're just football

00:28:38.080 texas canesaw massacre that's actually not bad as a pun that's actually not too bad is it

00:28:44.000 you get it texas chainsaw massacre and that guy there's called harry kane his surname is kane

00:28:50.080 texas canesaw massacre oh sorry oh sorry it's even better that texas cane score massacre sorry

00:28:56.080 They got two puns, you got two for one, you got a two for there, Texas Cane score massacre, that's not bad, that's actually not bad, I think, give them credit, I mean it's still treating you like a little child isn't it, but none the less.

00:29:13.680 Harry, Jude and Rash sink old foe

00:29:18.520 Old foe

00:29:20.040 Croatia once knocked us out of the World Cup

00:29:24.000 Like what 20 years ago or something

00:29:25.320 Not really exactly an old foe

00:29:29.700 But alright

00:29:30.120 The star we're getting down to it now

00:29:32.620 Pure slop now

00:29:33.360 The star

00:29:33.840 The star

00:29:35.400 What does the star go with?

00:29:37.160 The joy of Texas

00:29:38.300 It's not as good is it?

00:29:41.000 The word play is not as clever

00:29:42.740 is it joy of texas all right i told you the front pages would be dominated by

00:29:50.340 the football particularly a day after an england game when we're another

00:29:53.800 all right what's going on on and on about it i know you guys don't like football

00:29:58.900 oh and the swindon advertiser oh no wait that's complete absurd slot forget it no one cares no

00:30:07.320 one reads it or buys it or cares what they say about anything ever do they so nor shall we

00:30:11.800 all right there's something wrong with the screen here harry my main screen

00:30:17.300 at least one oh there you go thank you i just need to know what time it is okay it's half past

00:30:23.040 shall we have a look at one or two other stories i told you on days where it's dominated by football

00:30:28.680 we'll actually get time to talk about some other stories there's one i thought was interesting

00:30:33.040 Here we go, look, here we go

00:30:36.040 Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found

00:30:39.840 Three miles from famous site

00:30:41.520 That's right, up my alley

00:30:43.020 That's the sort of story I'm interested in

00:30:45.220 Because where I'm sitting here in Swindon

00:30:48.040 Is in Wiltshire, very near Amesbury and Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge

00:30:51.540 Very near

00:30:53.820 So let's read a tiny bit of this story

00:30:57.500 Archaeologists believe they have discovered an earlier

00:31:00.500 Even earlier

00:31:01.680 much simpler version of Stonehenge about three miles away from the prehistoric monument which

00:31:07.520 isn't far at all I mean Salisbury Plain is massive three miles is basically next to it really isn't

00:31:12.080 it all that remains of the older structure is two holes in the ground you might think what really

00:31:19.580 that's insanely unimpressive actually no when you're looking at prehistory that's actually

00:31:25.820 A fair amount to go on

00:31:27.340 But the team says

00:31:30.740 They held wooden posts

00:31:32.020 That lined up with the sun

00:31:33.580 On the summer and winter solstices

00:31:35.220 The longest and shortest days of the year

00:31:37.340 In the same way as Stonehenge

00:31:38.820 They've got a quick little picture here

00:31:40.140 Look, there you go

00:31:42.080 That's Stonehenge

00:31:43.220 There's like the solstice

00:31:44.700 Winter and summer solstice

00:31:46.200 And if you stand right in the middle

00:31:47.500 Well this is like the same thing

00:31:50.880 So they only found two little holes

00:31:52.520 But actually they line up

00:31:53.720 Actually you can deduce that

00:31:55.820 It would have been something like a calendar, a very, very, very primitive early calendar.

00:32:03.220 The site has been dated to about 5,000 years old, which predates Stonehenge by 500 years.

00:32:09.140 Of course, Stonehenge is as many layers of building and rebuilding and reconstruction that went on at Stonehenge over a long period.

00:32:16.780 But the earliest archaeology at Stonehenge is 500 years older than that.

00:32:22.320 Artifacts were also found at the site including pottery, flint tools and animal bone

00:32:26.520 Suggesting prehistoric people held gatherings there

00:32:29.120 Phil Harding, Professor Phil Harding from Wessex Archaeology

00:32:34.720 Who led the excavation said it was one of the best finds of his long career

00:32:39.160 Two post pits tell me more about the people 5,000 years ago, he said

00:32:46.600 This tells me about the whole community

00:32:48.620 This tells me about how they were thinking

00:32:51.560 how they were behaving

00:32:53.000 how they were revering the Evans

00:32:55.340 that's exactly how

00:32:57.960 Professor Harding speaks by the way

00:32:59.620 okay

00:33:02.800 the huge stones at Stonehenge

00:33:04.980 I'm a big fan

00:33:05.780 I'm not taking a piss

00:33:06.800 Phil Arden

00:33:07.740 he's brilliant

00:33:08.580 he was on Time Team wasn't he

00:33:09.600 anyone who's watched Time Team

00:33:10.900 he was like the best thing about it basically

00:33:13.480 and he's from the West Country 0.99

00:33:16.000 a great stone napper

00:33:20.600 There's a master at working stone, napping

00:33:24.280 Wish I could do that, that was a skill I wish I had

00:33:27.620 The huge stones at Stonehenge are precisely placed to line up with the sun

00:33:34.180 If you stand in the middle of the circle at sunrise

00:33:36.900 On the summer solstice

00:33:38.440 You'll see the sun come up over the stone called the hillstone

00:33:42.280 To the northeast of the circle

00:33:44.200 On midwinter, if standing in the centre of the circle

00:33:47.120 you'll see the sunset over the altar stone to the southwest of the site there you go we've got one

00:33:53.200 more quote from phil hardin i got my pencil and ruler and i joined them up and i was aware that

00:34:01.440 they were kind of pointing in the general direction of the sunrise on midsummer he said

00:34:08.240 i'll stop doing that i'll stop i'll stop doing a phil hardy impression anyway i thought okay i'll

00:34:12.480 I'll move on from that but I thought that was fascinating

00:34:14.680 There's even older things

00:34:15.840 The landscape of Wiltshire

00:34:18.260 The south west of England

00:34:20.520 It's always been playing

00:34:21.300 Truly truly ancient landscape

00:34:24.080 I mean that predates the pyramids

00:34:26.120 The Great Pyramids of Giza

00:34:27.760 What was the oldest things like 0.89

00:34:30.480 Quebecly Tepe

00:34:31.900 Or Karen Tepe

00:34:33.300 But nonetheless truly truly ancient

00:34:36.600 What civilisations

00:34:38.500 What was their culture

00:34:41.900 What was their religion

00:34:42.720 What has been lost

00:34:44.160 Okay

00:34:45.320 It's polling day

00:34:47.140 It's the big day

00:34:47.700 It's the big day

00:34:48.660 We'll see what happens

00:34:51.240 I can't wait till tonight

00:34:53.420 To see what happens

00:34:54.160 Alright

00:34:55.740 Again just to manage expectations

00:34:57.640 A solid third for Restore

00:34:59.660 Is still a good result

00:35:02.100 I'm hoping for more of course

00:35:03.840 If we can trounce the Tories

00:35:06.820 And the Lib Dems

00:35:07.500 And the Greens

00:35:07.960 And all the other Rands

00:35:09.200 There's like 14

00:35:10.240 I think something like 14

00:35:11.660 is it 14 people entering it yeah 14 candidates now a lot of them are sort of nonsense ones like

00:35:19.360 count binface count binface himself is running for the count binface party

00:35:25.780 and the libertarian party the climate party an independent or two

00:35:32.740 rejoin eu parties that's still the rejoin eu party oh gross

00:35:40.520 gravy monster loonies are there gravy monster loonies are there

00:35:45.360 lord hope howling lord hope okay if if restore come a respectable solid third

00:35:54.900 that's quite a good result i would say let's hope for more all right channel four what did

00:36:01.840 we have oh yeah just a quick thing talking about the iran deal mr trump's iran memorandum of

00:36:08.420 understanding of course people from the obama administration era coming out and saying it's

00:36:14.660 terrible but this guy who is one of obama's globalist shields says trump has lost the war he

00:36:23.540 started

00:36:24.140 I'll let you guys make up your own decision

00:36:29.580 on that, we spoke to Alan

00:36:31.420 Eyre who was a core

00:36:33.620 member of the team that negotiated the

00:36:35.560 2015 nuclear deal between the US

00:36:37.480 and Iran, I mean you did just

00:36:39.600 give them loads of money and then they didn't

00:36:41.560 do anything you asked them to do

00:36:42.800 so even

00:36:45.640 if Trump hasn't

00:36:47.500 like achieved all his war

00:36:49.700 aims 100% he's still done a lot better

00:36:51.680 than you guys did surely that's the case you guys just gave terrorists tons and tons of money 1.00

00:36:59.120 and they didn't do anything you asked them to well pathetic pathetic 1.00

00:37:07.360 people in the chat oh why are you calling iran terrorists you've swallowed all the propaganda 1.00

00:37:11.440 bro get real get real no that regime is a bad terroristic regime and try and tell me

00:37:21.440 otherwise okay a couple of stories a little bit sloppy a couple of more stories i thought that

00:37:28.880 were worth mentioning today sort of and also stories in the mail let's get a load of this

00:37:35.480 judge granted jamaican paedophile the right to enter britain as barring him would quote

00:37:41.340 Breach his human rights

00:37:42.800 Alright 0.99

00:37:44.120 We need to overhaul

00:37:47.780 All of that

00:37:50.080 Any human rights legislation

00:37:52.360 That allows that to happen

00:37:53.660 The judges 1.00

00:37:55.700 Madeline Reeds

00:37:57.700 And Nathan Moxon

00:37:59.100 What do you think you're doing? 0.94

00:38:03.020 You're letting a convicted Jamaican paedophile 1.00

00:38:05.540 Into the country

00:38:06.800 Because it's about his human rights 1.00

00:38:08.480 You're insane 1.00

00:38:09.560 You're mad 1.00

00:38:10.740 That's treasonous 0.83

00:38:12.180 Madeleine Reeds and Nathan Moxon

00:38:14.220 You should never ever be allowed

00:38:16.680 To judge anything ever again

00:38:18.100 You've got no judgement

00:38:19.060 That's mad

00:38:20.580 Why do you want our women and children to be in danger

00:38:23.960 Judge Reeds and Moxon

00:38:26.100 Why are you siding with a convicted paedophile

00:38:30.660 A foreign convicted paedophile

00:38:33.500 Why are you doing that 1.00

00:38:34.200 Disgusting filth 0.99

00:38:36.920 Judge Reeds and Moxon 1.00

00:38:39.720 Gross

00:38:41.280 You'd be disbarred in Bowes Britain 0.97

00:38:43.660 Immediately

00:38:44.600 Stripped of your pension if possible

00:38:46.840 Revolting

00:38:48.880 Unbelievable isn't it

00:38:51.680 Unbelievable

00:38:52.300 Now here's a slightly interesting story

00:38:55.120 Andy Burnham bombshell

00:38:57.920 As he's reported to police

00:38:59.740 On eve of Key Makerfield by-election

00:39:02.020 What?

00:39:03.740 He's been arrested

00:39:04.500 He's done something criminal now

00:39:05.920 No

00:39:08.720 what it is well i'll quickly quickly read a bit of it the labor leadership challenger

00:39:14.040 um has described the allegations over covid lockdown breaches as desperate yeah well it

00:39:19.420 was reform people apparently reform people um you know um bitchy catty very often 0.98

00:39:27.500 super pro reform cards complete partisans very very catty and bitchy very very 13 year old 0.96

00:39:38.520 girl type vindictive small-minded types

00:39:44.080 apparently they reported andy burnham to the police like yesterday at the manchester police

00:39:52.780 because of in 2021 he may have flouted lockdown restrictions by having some sort of gathering

00:40:01.560 allegedly having some sort of gathering in 2021 but the police apparently the police immediately

00:40:06.640 Said well even if he did it's outside

00:40:08.480 The statute of limitations anyway

00:40:09.780 So that's it there's nothing to investigate

00:40:12.420 End of story

00:40:14.420 And you would have thought the

00:40:18.140 Reform people that did this would have

00:40:20.320 Known that as well so it's purely

00:40:22.600 A political stunt

00:40:24.220 To generate a headline like that

00:40:26.360 Andy Burnham has been reported to the

00:40:28.500 Police

00:40:28.940 Completely contrived nonsense

00:40:32.300 What it is

00:40:36.640 And King Bumham himself

00:40:38.860 And his guy liner 0.91

00:40:40.220 And his double chins 0.56

00:40:41.460 No Stone and Burnham

00:40:44.000 Calls it desperate

00:40:45.160 Yeah it is

00:40:45.600 To be fair

00:40:46.260 A bit desperate 1.00

00:40:46.800 A bit pathetic 0.99

00:40:48.040 Actually 0.97

00:40:48.900 Alright

00:40:51.660 Shall we have a look at

00:40:53.440 On this day in history stuff

00:40:55.240 Oh one last thing in the sun

00:40:56.640 Texas Hold'em

00:40:58.800 After England won their game

00:41:01.840 Against Croatia

00:41:02.520 A lot of the players

00:41:03.360 Went up into the stands

00:41:04.640 Where their wives and girlfriends were 1.00

00:41:05.920 Where the wags were, wives and girlfriends 1.00

00:41:07.700 And some of them kissed their wives and girlfriends 1.00

00:41:10.760 That's the top of the sun

00:41:13.240 That's the most important thing as far as the website of the sun is concerned

00:41:18.140 Texas Hold'em

00:41:19.360 Alright

00:41:21.120 Okay, the sun, if you say so

00:41:24.660 Alright, let's have a look at on this day in history

00:41:26.400 What have we got?

00:41:27.160 Down through the centuries on this day, the 18th of June

00:41:29.320 What happened of note?

00:41:32.960 Alright

00:41:33.280 on this day in 618 ad coronation of chinese governor li yuan as emperor giao zu of tang

00:41:41.000 and the new emperor as the new emperor of china initiating three centuries of tang dynasty rule

00:41:46.660 over china as i've said a number of times unfortunately it's not really my wheelhouse

00:41:50.000 i know a bit about it but not a fantastic amount of detail so i move on what i do know about on

00:41:55.440 this day in 1812 the war of 1812 begins when the u.s declares war against britain uh harry if you

00:42:02.680 go to what this camera yeah on my channel history bro oh actually it's also it's also on um

00:42:15.280 epoch's got a long form bit of content to with in conversation with benjamin boyce the great

00:42:21.380 boyce all about the war of 1812 in fact i think it was our first conversation we had together

00:42:26.720 all about the war of 1812 if you want a long form bit of content of me talking

00:42:30.840 telling the story of the war of 1812 it's on lotusetis.com it might even be a freemium one

00:42:38.060 where it's not behind the paywall you don't have to spend as little as five pound a month for

00:42:42.660 bronze team membership i'm not sure anyway me and benjamin boys mainly me talking about

00:42:48.600 the war of 1812 that was where if you don't know basically the united states tried to invade canada

00:42:54.860 Three times

00:42:55.980 They tried to invade Canada three times and failed

00:43:01.260 The United States Army in 1812

00:43:04.620 Wasn't sort of a giant, all-powerful, all-dominating army

00:43:07.660 Like they've got these days

00:43:08.580 It was

00:43:10.040 It was ragtag thrown together

00:43:12.340 Not great

00:43:14.460 Not particularly professional

00:43:15.920 And of course Canada belonged to Great Britain

00:43:19.060 I mean it's still part of the Commonwealth to this day

00:43:22.120 The Queen is still on their money to this day

00:43:24.660 So they were repulsed

00:43:28.580 From their attempts to invade Canada

00:43:30.340 And then 0.64

00:43:32.600 And the war went on

00:43:34.720 For a few years

00:43:35.540 Two years later in 1814

00:43:38.120 Britain decided to get their own back

00:43:40.360 By sort of invading

00:43:41.520 By attacking Washington DC

00:43:43.980 And fairly famously burning the White House down

00:43:47.020 Okay

00:43:51.080 But historians always always argue

00:43:53.640 who won and who lost the war of 1812 basically the real answer is there weren't any great winners

00:44:00.760 the united states didn't get its war aims of trying to annex canada and britain didn't get

00:44:06.680 its war aims of trying to sort of reverse all the losses of the revolutionary war or anything like

00:44:12.120 that nobody really won it was a little bit of humiliation all round in the end apart from the

00:44:20.360 canadians the canadians love the war of 1812 they love it because they're like you know do you

00:44:27.820 remember that time americans remember that time dear the u.s remember that time you tried to 0.96

00:44:32.360 invade us and we handed your asses to you do you remember that so canadians love it but as far as 0.85

00:44:38.760 the u.s and britain are concerned it's a little bit like we won't talk about that very often shall 0.99

00:44:42.960 we probably best if we don't we're supposed to be brothers and friends and cousins aren't we

00:44:46.880 So we won't talk about that very often

00:44:48.300 Okay

00:44:50.700 On this day in 1815 is

00:44:52.900 Waterloo

00:44:53.380 The day at Waterloo

00:44:56.760 As I said at the top of the show

00:44:58.220 It's Waterloo Day, Happy Waterloo Day

00:45:00.020 Napoleon Bonaparte and France are defeated by

00:45:02.840 The British forces under Arthur Wellesley

00:45:04.780 The Duke of Wellington

00:45:05.520 And Prussian troops under Field Marshal von Blücher

00:45:09.020 I can't often pronounce that wrong

00:45:11.320 On those ones

00:45:12.760 However you pronounce it, some will say

00:45:14.280 Oh no you don't pronounce it like that

00:45:15.400 anyway, Blucher, Blucher, whatever, there's a great film, 1970 film just called Waterloo

00:45:22.760 with Rod Steiger as Napoleon and Christopher Plummer as Wellington, one of the very earliest

00:45:31.500 epochs, like one of the first five epochs, I'm in conversation with Critical Drinker,

00:45:35.720 The Critical Drinker, all about that, so that's there, O'Day's Epochs, and also I've got a

00:45:44.340 series about napoleon later a couple years later where i'll talk about it again and then also a

00:45:50.400 couple years after that i've got long form content all about wellington where i talk about it again

00:45:55.780 in some detail so three times you can have me talking about waterway i won't go into it here

00:46:01.700 but um yeah very very interesting uh very very interesting and pivotal battle okay on this day

00:46:09.260 In 1928, American aviator Amelia Earhart

00:46:12.380 Becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

00:46:14.880 Landing in Buryport, Wales

00:46:17.560 Good for her, well done

00:46:20.040 That sounds really sarcastic, I didn't mean that

00:46:22.380 Yeah, well done, quite brave

00:46:24.360 Those early planes

00:46:26.040 1928 era aeroplane

00:46:31.100 Not that reliable, basically

00:46:33.100 There's a half decent chance you'll just come down in the ocean

00:46:36.920 And never ever be found

00:46:38.140 They're quite brave

00:46:39.960 Okay, and on this day in 1940

00:46:42.620 Winston Churchill gives his

00:46:45.240 This was their finest hour speech

00:46:48.160 To the House of Commons

00:46:49.520 Urging perseverance in the war

00:46:51.500 After the Dunkirk evacuation

00:46:52.940 And the fall of France

00:46:54.180 Yeah, classic bit of history isn't it

00:46:56.700 The Battle of France is over

00:46:59.220 The Battle of Britain

00:47:01.080 Is to begin

00:47:02.680 Yeah, I mean imagine that these days

00:47:05.760 It's a classic thing, you should listen to it

00:47:07.760 It's just on YouTube or whatever, where is this? 0.88

00:47:09.680 You know, we're staring down the barrel of being invaded by Mr. Hitler 0.88

00:47:14.580 and the Nazi panzer divisions, and, like, prepare yourself. 0.88

00:47:21.400 Imagine that if our prime minister came on.

00:47:23.300 Imagine Keir Starmer coming on the TV going, 0.82

00:47:25.460 we're probably going to get invaded by Russia, so prepare yourself. 0.89

00:47:28.540 And, you know, even if we're wiped out for a thousand years, 0.83

00:47:33.340 we'll, you know, we'll still come back.

00:47:35.500 They'll still be Englishmen and England will still exist 0.99

00:47:37.820 Even if the Russians occupy us for a thousand years 1.00

00:47:40.560 Oh, okay 1.00

00:47:42.420 Oh, alright

00:47:44.180 Even if they completely defeat us 1.00

00:47:48.120 We'll get the Australians and the Americans

00:47:50.400 To ultimately save us 0.99

00:47:52.860 Oh

00:47:54.440 Oh, okay

00:47:56.880 Alright then

00:47:59.100 And this will be our finest hour, is it?

00:48:02.920 Okay

00:48:03.240 I mean

00:48:04.420 yeah i mean yeah there's a number of churchill speeches which in hindsight in hindsight are sort

00:48:14.880 of you know very sort of uh galvanizing and um you can see how they were a great morale boost

00:48:23.300 but try and imagine at the time you know the sort of we'll fight them on the beaches thing

00:48:28.280 try and imagine if it was actually your country's being invaded

00:48:31.540 or they're trying to get air superiority over your country so that they can invade you

00:48:36.680 and if they do invade you if you lose that air battle you're done their arm is far more superior

00:48:42.620 to yours you will be successfully invaded if you don't win this air battle which is 50 50

00:48:48.740 absolutely hanging in the balance and your leader comes on the tv or the radio and they say your

00:48:55.720 leader says to you to you you're not going to surrender we're not surrendering you're not

00:49:00.940 surrendering i'm asking you to basically if when they invade fight them on the beaches

00:49:05.700 and then if that doesn't work because we can't repel them on the beaches we'll fight them

00:49:10.280 running battles through every town and city and then in the hills and then after that

00:49:16.160 we'll fight them in the hills what really are we so we're doing that oh okay and even then when we

00:49:24.120 lose we'll still if you can escape to canada or the united states or something and we'll continue

00:49:28.860 fighting on from there if anything oh okay okay

00:49:36.940 okay i mean it's what it's what uh when you're in a situation of total war it is what's required

00:49:42.460 isn't it that sort of steel that sort of spirit but um okay all right i know a lot of people in

00:49:51.660 this sphere despise church and everything he ever said never said never did and i've said a number

00:49:57.020 of times haven't I, I'm not a fan of Churchill the politician particularly

00:50:03.080 if you look at the focus and various various elements that may have

00:50:10.460 influenced him and his policy

00:50:16.180 okay let's have a look at our rumble rents and super chats okay

00:50:24.520 What have we got here

00:50:27.020 I wonder if Global Church History

00:50:28.880 Will be in at number one

00:50:29.680 He is, he is

00:50:30.440 Reigning, defending and still

00:50:32.060 Global Church History

00:50:33.940 What have we got here

00:50:35.140 He says

00:50:35.680 On this day in 1264

00:50:37.440 AD

00:50:38.180 The first parliament of the lordship of Ireland

00:50:41.200 Met at

00:50:42.180 Castle Dermont

00:50:44.520 In County Kildare

00:50:45.740 Right so what would that be

00:50:47.820 That would be

00:50:48.480 1264

00:50:49.540 That's

00:50:50.580 That's got to be

00:50:52.240 Henry III

00:50:52.900 Doesn't it

00:50:53.680 That would be Henry III

00:50:55.300 So still really sort of Normans 0.85

00:50:59.340 Norman Kings

00:51:00.540 Or Angevin

00:51:02.100 You know he's King

00:51:03.920 He's King John

00:51:05.300 King John's son isn't he

00:51:07.200 Little baby

00:51:08.840 Little kid

00:51:10.060 No not a baby a kid

00:51:11.540 A child came to the throne

00:51:13.580 Lived to be quite long

00:51:14.680 Ruled for a lot of 60

00:51:16.440 Not in 70 years or whatever

00:51:18.260 Very pivotal time

00:51:20.040 I think I've got long form content

00:51:22.880 all about henry iii oh yeah it's all there it's all there all right and your other factor this

00:51:29.360 morning is that in 1542 the parliament of the lordship of ireland voted to make henry the eighth

00:51:36.000 king yeah henry ii was lucky in his time in all sorts of ways i'm currently doing henry

00:51:44.000 the eighth i know i'm up to sort of part four of henry the eighth there'll probably at least six

00:51:48.000 episodes on that. Henry VIII was lucky in his time, a generation or two before, very,

00:51:58.560 very tumultuous. A generation or two after, again, really quite tumultuous. In his time,

00:52:08.200 he got to rule as much as he liked. The Scottish were quelled, 0.99

00:52:13.360 and the irish were well largely

00:52:20.680 okay all right let's move on pig dog 5150 says read the inquiry when rupert is prime minister i

00:52:30.380 truly hope he he brings judgment on all those who covered it up and facilitated local business

00:52:35.780 owners to the police lawyers judges mps royals yes absolutely couldn't agree more he's done some

00:52:41.480 tweets that are saying things like people will be held to account for their crimes

00:52:47.520 yeah

00:52:49.980 yeah that would be great that would be great i would love it a true reckoning for all those

00:53:01.660 involved who facilitated or allowed or even turned a blind eye when they knew people men

00:53:09.560 and women were being raped when children were being gang raped yeah yeah retribution for that

00:53:18.100 justice actual justice for that any councillor any politician any policeman any of these care 0.99

00:53:26.820 home workers the care homes that seemed to effectively work as brothels for muslim pakistani

00:53:33.920 men to turn up have a pick of their child the care home workers working as effectively as madams 0.99

00:53:40.240 or pimps yeah justice against those people i can't agree with you more pig dog it's one of the 0.88

00:53:50.160 reasons why i'm one of the reasons why i'm going to vote restore to the hilt okay jeffrey farnell

00:53:57.040 says says i have a book recommendation the cloister and the hearth by charles reed oh i haven't heard

00:54:05.040 of that one it's a it's a theoretical life of the parents of erasmus set across medieval europe

00:54:13.180 the parents of erasmus that sounds interesting conan doyle said it was his favorite book

00:54:19.360 arthur conan doyle so what is it a 19th century or very early 20th century book is it

00:54:23.660 The Cloister and the Hearth

00:54:24.880 Okay, never heard of it

00:54:26.160 That sounds good though

00:54:27.000 I'll check it out

00:54:27.580 Erasmus, of course

00:54:28.680 If anyone doesn't know

00:54:29.420 One of the most famous thinkers and authors

00:54:31.640 Of, what, the early 16th century

00:54:36.140 A fictional story about his parents

00:54:41.780 Wow

00:54:43.420 What an interesting concept

00:54:45.700 Thanks for that book recommendation

00:54:47.500 Okay

00:54:48.940 Forteen Barber says

00:54:51.360 Morning, alright

00:54:52.220 I'm alright, how are you, sir?

00:54:53.660 uh remember on star trek when picard was replaced for two episodes by a jellico

00:55:00.120 that's just the star trek next generation vaguely remember i didn't watch every single

00:55:05.320 episode of next generation

00:55:06.340 okay there's a fire in the building

00:55:22.900 we do uh fire drills all the time it's never usually at this time of day and it lasts about

00:55:28.420 two three maybe four seconds that's not what this is is it yeah all the producers are just saying

00:55:35.640 wrap it up okay there may or may not be a real fire in this building probably isn't a real one

00:55:41.040 but i guess we're going to wrap it up there make the best of the day ahead if you can

00:55:44.440 and i'll see you on monday because dan's doing the show on friday tomorrow all right then we'll

00:55:50.240 end it there. Cheers guys.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 18, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 18th June 2026

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