The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 19th March 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning, you alright?

00:00:02.000 Are you? Are you there?

00:00:05.000 Hope you are, sincerely hope you are

00:00:07.000 Me? Yeah, I'm alright

00:00:13.000 Got me morning cup of tea?

00:00:15.000 Everything's fine

00:00:19.000 Who are you though?

00:00:21.000 You know who you are

00:00:22.000 You're the glorious band, the chosen few

00:00:24.000 My band of brothers and sisters

00:00:26.000 Thank you for joining me

00:00:27.000 Without you it's nothing

00:00:28.000 Without you it's really nothing

00:00:30.000 Thank you

00:00:31.000 Thank you for people typing stuff in the chat

00:00:33.000 All of it, love it

00:00:34.000 Thank you

00:00:35.000 Brilliant

00:00:36.000 It has just ticked one minute past eight

00:00:38.000 In the a.m. Greenwich Mean Time of course

00:00:41.000 On Thursday

00:00:43.000 We're now on Thursday the 19th of March

00:00:45.000 In the year of our Lord, 2026

00:00:47.000 And as always I'm joined by my producer Little Harry

00:00:51.000 How are you this morning, good sir?

00:00:53.000 Morning, yeah I'm all good

00:00:54.000 Hopefully we got rid of that echo

00:00:56.000 You don't sound like you're at the bottom of the world today

00:00:58.000 Hopefully

00:00:59.000 Yeah, I got a ladder

00:01:00.000 I think I found my way out

00:01:04.000 Brilliant

00:01:05.000 Alright

00:01:06.000 Shall we jump straight into it then

00:01:07.000 With no further ado

00:01:09.000 With no further faff

00:01:10.000 Shall we see what the

00:01:12.000 The corporate, the legacy corporate mainstream media

00:01:15.000 Is banging on about this morning

00:01:18.000 Alright, it's a bit about meningitis

00:01:20.000 Iran of course 0.96

00:01:21.000 And Labour's migrant plan 0.54

00:01:25.000 As a nothing burger as it was going to be

00:01:28.000 As weak wristed

00:01:30.000 As it was going to be

00:01:32.000 Looks like Sir Queer Starling 0.99

00:01:34.000 Can't even hack that

00:01:35.000 He might U-turn on that

00:01:37.000 What like his 17th

00:01:38.000 His 18th U-turn in government

00:01:41.000 Alright, corporate mainstream media

00:01:42.000 Let's have a look at the front pages

00:01:44.000 The Fleet Street

00:01:47.000 Fleet Street

00:01:48.000 UK print media

00:01:49.000 What are the front pages saying?

00:01:50.000 Ok

00:01:51.000 Labour migrant plan

00:01:52.000 Under scrutiny

00:01:53.000 Under scrutiny

00:01:54.000 Well Angela Rayner

00:01:55.000 Said it was un-British

00:01:56.000 And now Starmer's

00:01:58.000 Going to soil his pants

00:02:00.000 And do another U-turn

00:02:01.000 Great, ok

00:02:04.000 Labour migrant plans

00:02:05.000 Under scrutiny

00:02:06.000 And Iran gas field targeted

00:02:09.000 I mean that was a big thing

00:02:10.000 On the Iran front

00:02:14.000 Both sides are now

00:02:16.000 Sort of dialling it up if anything

00:02:18.000 To destroy each other's 0.95

00:02:21.000 Oil and gas infrastructure

00:02:24.000 Iran keeps 1.00

00:02:26.000 Smashing all it's neighbours

00:02:28.000 Oil fields and gas fields

00:02:31.000 And looks like

00:02:33.000 The US and Israel 0.95

00:02:34.000 Are just going to do the same back

00:02:35.000 Doesn't it

00:02:37.000 So the oil war

00:02:38.000 It's the oil war

00:02:41.000 Ok

00:02:42.000 Daily Telegraph

00:02:43.000 Daily Toregraph

00:02:45.000 There's the Princess of Wales

00:02:46.000 Looking radiant as ever

00:02:48.000 Some lavish

00:02:50.000 Dew

00:02:51.000 They put on at the palace

00:02:52.000 For Nigerians

00:02:54.000 Starmer signals migrant U-turn 1.00

00:02:57.000 1.6 million

00:02:59.000 Invaders

00:03:01.000 1.6 million

00:03:03.000 Invaders

00:03:04.000 Wynne Wright

00:03:05.000 To stay

00:03:06.000 As PM backs off

00:03:07.000 Tougher line

00:03:08.000 After pressure from Rayner

00:03:09.000 Pressure from Rayner

00:03:10.000 She's not

00:03:11.000 Why does

00:03:12.000 Why would he

00:03:13.000 Why does he feel

00:03:14.000 Any pressure

00:03:15.000 From a personage

00:03:16.000 Like Angela

00:03:17.000 The Fridge Rayner

00:03:18.000 She should be

00:03:20.000 She should be nothing to him 1.00

00:03:21.000 She should be nothing to him 1.00

00:03:24.000 If he was a real leader

00:03:26.000 If he had a vision

00:03:28.000 And a set of policies

00:03:30.000 Of how to run his government

00:03:32.000 It wouldn't matter that

00:03:33.000 Rayner did some speech somewhere

00:03:35.000 And going

00:03:37.000 That wouldn't make a dent in his thinking

00:03:38.000 He's thinking

00:03:39.000 But no he's gonna

00:03:40.000 Well or

00:03:41.000 Right

00:03:42.000 It's what he actually wanted all along

00:03:44.000 He throws her out there

00:03:45.000 And now he gives himself an excuse to do a U-turn

00:03:48.000 So that another 1.6 million people can stay 0.98

00:03:53.000 Another 1.6 million

00:03:55.000 That's mad

00:03:57.000 The numbers are mad aren't they

00:03:59.000 Since 1997

00:04:00.000 What something in the order of maybe

00:04:01.000 Nobody knows the real number

00:04:02.000 Maybe something as much as

00:04:04.000 20 odd million people

00:04:06.000 Since 1997

00:04:10.000 That's the thing I said in my article

00:04:11.000 Which was

00:04:13.000 Briefly published on

00:04:14.000 The Mallard

00:04:15.000 Before they

00:04:16.000 Almost immediately crumpled

00:04:17.000 To a tiny amount of pressure

00:04:19.000 From Hope Not Hate

00:04:21.000 Before they took it down off their website

00:04:23.000 But

00:04:24.000 Hope Not Hate

00:04:26.000 Thankfully

00:04:27.000 Archived it

00:04:29.000 It's good it's still out there

00:04:30.000 It's on an archive website

00:04:32.000 I stand by every word

00:04:33.000 I stand by every word

00:04:35.000 In that

00:04:36.000 I said

00:04:37.000 We need to go back at least

00:04:38.000 At least

00:04:39.000 To 1997 levels

00:04:41.000 At least

00:04:42.000 Those 20 odd million people

00:04:47.000 And their dependents

00:04:48.000 Don't want to break up families

00:04:49.000 Can all go home

00:04:52.000 I want my country back

00:04:54.000 I don't want it to descend into a sectarian nightmare 1.00

00:04:57.000 I don't want to become a hated

00:04:59.000 And marginalised minority

00:05:00.000 In my own ancestral homeland

00:05:03.000 But no

00:05:05.000 Another 1.6

00:05:06.000 Another 1.6 million people

00:05:07.000 Could say

00:05:08.000 Because Angela Rayner

00:05:09.000 Said some words

00:05:11.000 There are dark times ahead

00:05:16.000 If re-migration doesn't happen 0.99

00:05:18.000 And then

00:05:20.000 And then it will have to happen anyway

00:05:21.000 That's why it's inevitable

00:05:22.000 One way or another

00:05:23.000 One way or another

00:05:26.000 NHS staff told to wear masks

00:05:28.000 When treating meningitis

00:05:33.000 Masks

00:05:34.000 Unless it's a proper mask

00:05:35.000 With like a vacuum seal

00:05:37.000 You know like they were in Breaking Bad

00:05:39.000 The proper vacuum seal

00:05:41.000 Around your whole nose and mouth

00:05:42.000 With two or one

00:05:43.000 Ventilation

00:05:44.000 Proper ventilation thing

00:05:45.000 Unless it's that sort of mask

00:05:47.000 Doesn't do anything

00:05:49.000 That little paper thin nappy thing

00:05:51.000 That you put over your ears

00:05:52.000 With a little bit of elastic

00:05:53.000 That's not

00:05:54.000 That doesn't do anything

00:05:55.000 That doesn't help you or anyone else

00:05:56.000 Masks

00:06:05.000 Middle East situation

00:06:06.000 Too fluid

00:06:07.000 For a Royal Navy

00:06:08.000 To send it's warships

00:06:12.000 Too fluid

00:06:13.000 You mean

00:06:14.000 Iran can still fire missiles and drones 0.97

00:06:17.000 More or less at will

00:06:18.000 Right

00:06:24.000 Come on Hexith

00:06:25.000 Have you had this done?

00:06:26.000 Come on

00:06:27.000 We're waiting

00:06:28.000 We're waiting

00:06:29.000 I thought you had this sorted out

00:06:30.000 I thought you'd won the war already 0.85

00:06:31.000 No?

00:06:32.000 No?

00:06:33.000 Alright

00:06:37.000 The Express

00:06:38.000 It's a good paper

00:06:40.000 Labour chaos

00:06:41.000 As number 10

00:06:42.000 Fails to confirm

00:06:43.000 Tough rules will be introduced

00:06:47.000 New row over a weaker migrant plan

00:06:51.000 Again if you remember yesterday

00:06:52.000 Or you weren't watching yesterday

00:06:53.000 I'll remind you

00:06:55.000 Part of the plan

00:06:58.000 Was

00:06:59.000 That it takes 10 years

00:07:00.000 To

00:07:01.000 You can come here

00:07:02.000 Even illegally

00:07:03.000 And if you stay here for 10 years

00:07:04.000 You then get permanent

00:07:05.000 Right to remain

00:07:07.000 Permanent settlement

00:07:08.000 You'll be able to stay

00:07:09.000 Forever and ever

00:07:11.000 Have kids

00:07:12.000 Chain migration

00:07:13.000 Get your family over as well

00:07:15.000 If you stay here

00:07:16.000 Sorry if you stay here for 5 years

00:07:17.000 That's the case

00:07:18.000 They wanted to make it 10 years

00:07:21.000 That doesn't really achieve anything

00:07:22.000 Does it?

00:07:23.000 It kicks the can 0.97

00:07:24.000 In a very very limited sense

00:07:26.000 Down the road

00:07:27.000 A little bit

00:07:29.000 So that's no good

00:07:30.000 That doesn't save us from demographic replacement

00:07:31.000 Or a sectarian nightmare 0.93

00:07:32.000 At all

00:07:33.000 At all

00:07:34.000 Even that was too much

00:07:37.000 Even that was too much

00:07:38.000 For Sir Queer 1.00

00:07:40.000 One of the weakest politicians

00:07:41.000 I've ever

00:07:42.000 Ever seen

00:07:47.000 Makes someone like

00:07:48.000 John Redwood

00:07:49.000 Seem like

00:07:51.000 Kubla Khan

00:07:52.000 Ok

00:07:56.000 The Princess of Wales there

00:07:57.000 Same exact same picture

00:07:59.000 Looking radiant

00:08:00.000 The times

00:08:01.000 The venerable times

00:08:02.000 Strict to migrant rules 1.00

00:08:03.000 May be watered down

00:08:04.000 After Rayner criticism

00:08:07.000 This is the government we've got

00:08:08.000 This is the government

00:08:11.000 Trump saying that

00:08:12.000 Starmer is no Churchill

00:08:13.000 Yeah

00:08:14.000 Yeah

00:08:18.000 He's so 0.97

00:08:19.000 Weak 1.00

00:08:22.000 Pathetic 1.00

00:08:23.000 Pathetic 1.00

00:08:24.000 Nothing man 1.00

00:08:25.000 Just an absolute cretin 1.00

00:08:30.000 Oh Harry 0.99

00:08:31.000 Have we got a poll?

00:08:32.000 Did we do a poll?

00:08:34.000 Yeah

00:08:35.000 I'm literally

00:08:36.000 Just putting it out now

00:08:38.000 Ok

00:08:39.000 Ok

00:08:40.000 I've let Harry decide

00:08:41.000 What it's going to be

00:08:42.000 This morning

00:08:43.000 We had a quick brainstorm

00:08:44.000 Couldn't think of anything

00:08:45.000 And time ran out

00:08:46.000 So whatever it is today

00:08:47.000 It's entirely Harry's creation

00:08:49.000 I shall see it in real time

00:08:52.000 In 20 minutes

00:08:53.000 Or half hour or so

00:08:54.000 Myself

00:08:55.000 Ok

00:08:57.000 Alright

00:08:58.000 What else have we got here?

00:09:01.000 British military to help

00:09:02.000 US form plan

00:09:03.000 To reopen straight

00:09:05.000 Really?

00:09:07.000 They're like the two stars

00:09:08.000 And above

00:09:09.000 At the Pentagon

00:09:10.000 Really need

00:09:11.000 The input of like

00:09:12.000 British generals really

00:09:13.000 One way or another

00:09:16.000 Maybe they do

00:09:17.000 Maybe they do

00:09:18.000 I'm not privy to exactly

00:09:19.000 What's going on there

00:09:20.000 But

00:09:23.000 I would have thought

00:09:24.000 They'd just really resent

00:09:25.000 Having to

00:09:26.000 Ask anyone else

00:09:27.000 What they should do next

00:09:28.000 Oil price surges

00:09:30.000 As Iran vows to hit 0.98

00:09:31.000 Gulf plants

00:09:32.000 Yeah the oil price is up

00:09:33.000 A little bit again

00:09:34.000 Something like 4%

00:09:36.000 So

00:09:38.000 Still nowhere near

00:09:39.000 All time highs

00:09:40.000 But it is expensive

00:09:41.000 It is getting more and more expensive

00:09:43.000 No doubt about that

00:09:46.000 Trump's intelligence chief

00:09:47.000 Deniers

00:09:48.000 Nuclear claims

00:09:49.000 Alright

00:09:50.000 The Guardian

00:09:52.000 The Guardian

00:09:53.000 Oh

00:09:57.000 Oh sorry

00:09:59.000 The Guardian

00:10:00.000 Sorry

00:10:01.000 He got me there

00:10:02.000 He was ahead of me for a while

00:10:04.000 Ok

00:10:05.000 The Guardian goes with

00:10:06.000 A dangerous escalation

00:10:07.000 Israel strikes world's largest gas field

00:10:10.000 So

00:10:11.000 So

00:10:12.000 So yeah

00:10:14.000 There's been attacks from both sides

00:10:16.000 Continuing on

00:10:17.000 Oil infrastructure

00:10:18.000 Obviously Iran 1.00

00:10:19.000 Attacking

00:10:20.000 Well

00:10:21.000 Everyone

00:10:22.000 The Saudis 0.93

00:10:23.000 The Iraqis 0.80

00:10:24.000 The Kuwaitis 0.74

00:10:25.000 Bahrain

00:10:26.000 Qatar

00:10:27.000 UAE of course

00:10:28.000 UAE

00:10:29.000 Saw one thing yesterday

00:10:30.000 UAE has taken

00:10:31.000 The hardest

00:10:33.000 Amount of

00:10:34.000 Iranian strikes

00:10:35.000 Out of them all

00:10:36.000 2,000

00:10:37.000 Something in the order of

00:10:38.000 2,000 different

00:10:39.000 Things

00:10:40.000 Whether missiles or drones

00:10:41.000 Have hit the UAE 0.96

00:10:42.000 Over the last

00:10:43.000 What

00:10:44.000 Two and a half weeks

00:10:45.000 Whatever it is

00:10:48.000 Andrew Tate

00:10:49.000 Andrew Tate's

00:10:50.000 Reputation for having a good take

00:10:52.000 Most affected

00:10:55.000 Ok

00:10:56.000 I shan't mention Andrew Tate anymore

00:10:57.000 He's not worth mentioning is he

00:10:59.000 Number 10

00:11:00.000 Considers easing immigration changes

00:11:02.000 Right

00:11:03.000 Ex Google executive

00:11:04.000 To be named as BBC boss

00:11:05.000 Yeah that says it all doesn't it?

00:11:06.000 That tells you

00:11:07.000 Sort of what you need to know

00:11:09.000 Google

00:11:10.000 Obviously arch

00:11:11.000 Arch

00:11:12.000 Sort of globalists

00:11:13.000 Google

00:11:15.000 Whole thing ultimately

00:11:16.000 Ultimately

00:11:17.000 Sergey Brin

00:11:18.000 And the original Google guys

00:11:22.000 Intelligence services

00:11:23.000 CIA

00:11:27.000 Now he's the head of the BBC

00:11:29.000 Right yeah yeah

00:11:30.000 It's a big club

00:11:31.000 We're not in it

00:11:35.000 The BBC

00:11:36.000 The BBC

00:11:41.000 When I talk about that the BBC should be destroyed by the way

00:11:43.000 I'm not talking about

00:11:45.000 Destroying its entire archive

00:11:49.000 Of everything it ever made

00:11:52.000 Try and find every copy of

00:11:55.000 Blue Planet by David Attenborough and Black Adam and destroy all of those 0.93

00:12:02.000 No

00:12:03.000 I'm not talking about destroying the archive of everything the BBC ever did

00:12:06.000 Just the organisation as it exists today

00:12:08.000 Why?

00:12:09.000 Because it's evil

00:12:13.000 So

00:12:14.000 Ex Google executive to be named as BBC boss

00:12:16.000 Right got it

00:12:17.000 Yeah

00:12:18.000 Makes sense

00:12:19.000 That makes perfect sense

00:12:20.000 Yeah

00:12:23.000 Make sure it still keeps functioning as a propaganda organ

00:12:27.000 For people that despise the natives

00:12:31.000 Yeah 0.98

00:12:33.000 Aunty is an evil extortionist 0.99

00:12:35.000 It means to undermine our way of life 0.96

00:12:40.000 Bizarrely

00:12:42.000 Almost bizarrely

00:12:45.000 Why so many middle aged women 1.00

00:12:47.000 Are repulsed by husbands

00:12:49.000 They once adored

00:12:50.000 Don't care

00:12:51.000 Don't care 0.90

00:12:52.000 What nonsense

00:12:53.000 Fears of $200 a barrel oil

00:12:55.000 As Tehran targets Saudi and Qatar 0.79

00:12:57.000 That's what a few places

00:12:59.000 A few headlines are going with

00:13:02.000 They fear

00:13:03.000 It's going to rise to $200 a barrel

00:13:06.000 I mean that would be an all-time high I believe

00:13:08.000 I believe like an all-time all-time high

00:13:10.000 Is something in the order of $150 a barrel is it?

00:13:12.000 Or certainly in recent times anyway

00:13:13.000 Certainly within the last like 10-15 years

00:13:16.000 20 years odd

00:13:18.000 I think something like $200 a barrel

00:13:20.000 Would be sort of an all-time high by some margin

00:13:23.000 But it's just fears of

00:13:24.000 I'm not saying it won't get there

00:13:27.000 It could well get there

00:13:28.000 It could well do that

00:13:29.000 That could well happen

00:13:30.000 It could go higher, who knows?

00:13:32.000 But that's not what it is at the moment

00:13:33.000 But that's a classic, you know, headline thing

00:13:37.000 Fears of $200 a barrel

00:13:40.000 It isn't yet and probably won't

00:13:43.000 But it might go to $200 a barrel

00:13:46.000 I mean

00:13:49.000 Or some analyst somewhere

00:13:51.000 That may or may not

00:13:52.000 Not benefit from the price going higher

00:13:57.000 Stoke in fears of it going that high

00:14:00.000 It's a different thing to actually being that, isn't it?

00:14:03.000 Very different

00:14:05.000 Entirely different

00:14:07.000 Iran wages quote

00:14:09.000 Full-scale economic war

00:14:11.000 On the West

00:14:12.000 The whole West

00:14:13.000 Not just Dubai

00:14:15.000 Not just Qatar

00:14:17.000 On the West

00:14:18.000 Whether they'll send agents out to try and

00:14:28.000 Sabotage things

00:14:30.000 Actually in Europe and the United States

00:14:32.000 Mainland United States

00:14:34.000 There's one suggestion

00:14:35.000 Well, I mean, let's quickly have a look at

00:14:37.000 What was it?

00:14:38.000 Was it Washington Post again?

00:14:40.000 Yeah, suggestions that

00:14:42.000 Well, the headline here from the Washington Post says

00:14:43.000 Drones over army base where Rubio and Hegseth live

00:14:48.000 Raise security concerns

00:14:50.000 Lockdowns at several domestic bases

00:14:54.000 United States domestic bases

00:14:56.000 And a global security alert

00:14:58.000 Underscore the possibility

00:15:02.000 That Iranian retaliation could extend to officials on American soil

00:15:07.000 The military is monitoring potential threats more closely

00:15:09.000 Maybe that's just complete scaremongering

00:15:12.000 Maybe not

00:15:14.000 Who knows?

00:15:16.000 Who knows?

00:15:17.000 It's not like Iran 0.99

00:15:19.000 Aren't capable of such things theoretically

00:15:24.000 It's not like they haven't exported terror cells abroad 0.83

00:15:27.000 Loads

00:15:29.000 Didn't we find a whole bunch of terror cells in Britain last May?

00:15:32.000 Yeah, we did, yeah

00:15:34.000 One's in Swindon, in Wiltshire

00:15:35.000 In Wiltshire

00:15:36.000 An Iranian terror cell

00:15:39.000 In the west country of England

00:15:41.000 In Wiltshire

00:15:52.000 Now, that's their own words I believe

00:15:54.000 Full scale economic war on the west

00:15:56.000 That's Iran's words 0.85

00:15:58.000 That's not just like some Israeli intelligence analyst

00:16:01.000 That's their words

00:16:02.000 Okay

00:16:06.000 Netflix's brutal purge of the Sussexes

00:16:09.000 Yeah, I mentioned it yesterday so I won't mention it here

00:16:13.000 I just didn't use a little bit though, apparently

00:16:15.000 Megan

00:16:16.000 Can you believe this? Can you believe this?

00:16:18.000 Okay?

00:16:19.000 Megan was difficult to work with 1.00

00:16:28.000 Who knew?

00:16:29.000 Who could have suspected, who could have guessed

00:16:33.000 That she acted like a child

00:16:35.000 That was a summer, I've quickly read one of the articles on one of the other websites

00:16:39.000 She was really childish when she didn't get her way in a meeting

00:16:41.000 She would just sort of flounce out of the meeting, stuff like that 0.91

00:16:44.000 Various, various things like that

00:16:47.000 Who could have, who could have suspected that that was the type of character she has

00:16:52.000 Okay, the eye paper

00:16:55.000 Energy costs climb as Iran strike hits huge gas plant in Gulf

00:17:00.000 The little blurb says

00:17:02.000 Myers, Myers are going, I'm getting old

00:17:05.000 I actually might need glasses

00:17:08.000 I've always, I've always had 20-20 my whole life

00:17:11.000 I don't think I have any more

00:17:13.000 Well I haven't, any more

00:17:15.000 Perhaps I need glasses

00:17:16.000 Okay, it says

00:17:19.000 Iran inflicts, quote, extensive damage, quote

00:17:22.000 On world's largest liquid natural gas facility in Qatar

00:17:26.000 So that's one of the big points

00:17:28.000 The thing here is liquid natural gas

00:17:30.000 Light natural gas, LNG

00:17:32.000 Is obviously something entirely different to crude oil

00:17:35.000 And a gigantic amount of LNG came out of the Gulf, out of Qatar mainly

00:17:43.000 And some countries really badly rely on it

00:17:48.000 I think a lot of Asian countries, countries like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan

00:17:55.000 Right, all joking aside about, you know

00:17:58.000 Andrew Tate most affected, Putin most affected, Cyprus most affected

00:18:02.000 Most affected really is some of those countries, their economy

00:18:05.000 Like places like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan

00:18:07.000 Like apparently Taiwan, I was just listening this morning

00:18:10.000 But their strategic reserves of LNG, which they use loads

00:18:16.000 Loads, is like 12 days or 15 days or something like that

00:18:21.000 In other words, they don't start getting LNG real quick

00:18:25.000 It doesn't look like they're going to

00:18:27.000 They're in trouble, they're in trouble a little bit

00:18:29.000 They might have to have blackouts and things

00:18:31.000 Some countries in South East Asia, some of the smaller countries, you know

00:18:33.000 Like Vietnam or whatever, some of them 0.67

00:18:37.000 Singapore, like Indonesia, all sorts of countries

00:18:42.000 You've got to start thinking about

00:18:44.000 Maybe having a 4 day week and stuff

00:18:46.000 And like societal level campaigns to turn your lights off and things

00:18:52.000 Start using as little power as possible

00:18:55.000 Because they're going to run out

00:18:57.000 Properly run out

00:18:58.000 NNG is a big part of all of that

00:19:04.000 So, Asian, Far East Asian, South East Asian countries most affected

00:19:11.000 Is sort of really true, kind of

00:19:13.000 Well, other than Iran 0.98

00:19:15.000 Well, other than the states in the Persian Gulf, of course

00:19:18.000 They're the most affected

00:19:20.000 Or the knock-on effects, most affected

00:19:22.000 Um

00:19:25.000 Okay, so

00:19:27.000 Extensive damage

00:19:29.000 On the natural gas facility in Qatar

00:19:32.000 Responsible for one-fifth of global suppliers of LNG

00:19:35.000 After Tehran vows to attack Gulf energy plants

00:19:38.000 In retaliation for Israel's attack on its major gas field

00:19:42.000 So, both sides, it's a tip for tat

00:19:44.000 The real is that the oil war

00:19:47.000 The LNG war 0.92

00:19:49.000 The crude war

00:19:50.000 Crude war

00:19:52.000 Um

00:19:55.000 Yeah, so

00:19:57.000 Do you remember

00:19:59.000 I suppose it was a bit weaker

00:20:00.000 Or two weekends ago, I think

00:20:02.000 The Iranian president came out

00:20:05.000 And said

00:20:07.000 He apologised

00:20:08.000 Do you remember that?

00:20:09.000 I reported it here, definitely, I'm pretty sure

00:20:11.000 He apologised to all the other states they'd been bombing

00:20:14.000 Saying we

00:20:15.000 I'd like to apologise for my

00:20:16.000 On behalf of myself and the whole of Iran

00:20:19.000 For attacking you

00:20:21.000 The UAE

00:20:22.000 Bahrain, Qatar

00:20:24.000 Kuwait, Saudi, Iraq

00:20:26.000 Whatever

00:20:27.000 And as long as

00:20:29.000 Things, you know, aerial assets

00:20:32.000 Don't come from your countries 1.00

00:20:34.000 We won't attack you anymore

00:20:38.000 Within the same day they were still doing it

00:20:40.000 And now they're still doing it

00:20:42.000 They're really, really 0.93

00:20:45.000 Really, the Iranians really screwing with Qatar 0.95

00:20:49.000 Supposed to be an ally

00:20:50.000 Supposed to be

00:20:52.000 Friends, they're supposed to be on the same side effectively

00:20:57.000 And Iran have said

00:20:59.000 We won't attack you anymore as long as

00:21:01.000 American and Israeli

00:21:03.000 Missiles and or Farshets or whatever

00:21:06.000 Don't come out from you

00:21:08.000 They haven't

00:21:10.000 Qatar at no point allowed Israel or the United States to

00:21:12.000 Fly stuff from there, I believe

00:21:15.000 So

00:21:21.000 The gloves are off as far as Iran is concerned 0.81

00:21:24.000 And I mean

00:21:26.000 Again, purely from their point of view

00:21:27.000 I don't want to be an apologist for them

00:21:29.000 I'm not an apologist for them

00:21:31.000 But just look at it purely from their point of view

00:21:33.000 They're in an existential crisis, aren't they?

00:21:36.000 They've got nothing to lose

00:21:38.000 It's all or nothing for them, isn't it?

00:21:42.000 Not that that justifies it or excuses it

00:21:45.000 But there is a rationale there

00:21:48.000 You know, a horrible one as far as I'm concerned

00:21:52.000 To be clear, of course

00:21:54.000 Again, not trying to be an apologist for them

00:21:55.000 But from their point of view

00:21:58.000 It's like we've got nothing to lose

00:22:00.000 It's this or nothing, isn't it?

00:22:02.000 From their point of view

00:22:04.000 Alright

00:22:06.000 It says

00:22:08.000 UK is taking a

00:22:10.000 Is taking at face value

00:22:12.000 Trump's assertion that he could end war in a fortnight

00:22:15.000 After major blitz

00:22:17.000 But is concerned that Israel may then go on alone

00:22:21.000 May then go it alone

00:22:22.000 So even if the Donald does find an off-ramp

00:22:27.000 However ignominious it is

00:22:29.000 Israel may well not stop 1.00

00:22:30.000 Probably wouldn't, I don't know

00:22:32.000 I doubt it

00:22:34.000 It's Nettie's dream, isn't it?

00:22:36.000 To destabilise Iran 0.98

00:22:37.000 I was going to say regime change

00:22:38.000 But just destabilise it

00:22:41.000 Just

00:22:42.000 So chaos

00:22:44.000 There

00:22:45.000 Forever

00:22:46.000 I don't know

00:22:47.000 I don't know what his actual true

00:22:48.000 True goal and dream is

00:22:51.000 Chaos, I think

00:22:53.000 Alright

00:22:55.000 It says

00:22:56.000 6%

00:22:57.000 Other places are reporting 4

00:22:59.000 It's so volatile that both those things will be true

00:23:01.000 Depending on exactly when they went to print

00:23:03.000 Oil prices are up 6%

00:23:05.000 As rest of the world

00:23:07.000 Counts cost of US and Israeli war with Iran

00:23:10.000 Yeah

00:23:12.000 The Financial Times

00:23:13.000 Fed signals bid to cut rates on track despite oil price surge

00:23:19.000 So yeah, Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Fed

00:23:24.000 Said they're going to keep

00:23:27.000 US interest rates

00:23:29.000 The same

00:23:30.000 And I think a lot of other countries

00:23:32.000 Most of the other really big countries like Japan and the UK and things

00:23:36.000 The European Bank is set to do the same thing

00:23:39.000 IE

00:23:41.000 Before this war started

00:23:43.000 They were looking like they were going to lower interest rates

00:23:48.000 And now they're not going to lower interest rates

00:23:50.000 They're going to keep them the same

00:23:51.000 And we can expect

00:23:53.000 Especially if this war goes on

00:23:54.000 Them to go up

00:23:58.000 Okay, we had hoped we might expect they would go down

00:24:01.000 But they're keeping them the same

00:24:03.000 So, sounds like a true nothing burger

00:24:05.000 Like literally nothing's happened

00:24:07.000 Which is the case

00:24:08.000 But also

00:24:09.000 That is a thing

00:24:11.000 Right, that is a data point

00:24:13.000 To keep them the same

00:24:15.000 It's still

00:24:17.000 It's still news

00:24:19.000 Okay, Iran strikes at Qatar after a critical gas facility hit

00:24:23.000 Alright, we get it

00:24:25.000 UAE hints at leniency over tax rules for fleeing expats as Tehran wired and strikes 0.81

00:24:32.000 Yeah, so for Dubai, well Abu Dhabi and Dubai

00:24:35.000 They're the main two emirates 0.90

00:24:36.000 They're the main two emirates 0.90

00:24:37.000 Or the other five emirates

00:24:38.000 Or the other five emirates

00:24:39.000 Tiny little things

00:24:41.000 They do really really honestly badly rely on tourism

00:24:46.000 Don't they?

00:24:47.000 Other people from all over the world turning up and spending all their money there

00:24:59.000 Well if it's a war zone

00:25:00.000 It's not going to be

00:25:01.000 It's not going to be

00:25:05.000 That appealing is it?

00:25:07.000 Simple as that

00:25:08.000 The metro

00:25:09.000 What is this?

00:25:10.000 The big fat bird from Gavin and Stacey said something, don't care

00:25:26.000 Three vaccine campaigns ignored

00:25:31.000 Three, sorry three, not free

00:25:33.000 Three

00:25:34.000 This is a German three 0.99

00:25:36.000 Three vaccine campaigns ignored

00:25:39.000 We, the metro

00:25:41.000 The metro says we warned of meningitis outbreak hell

00:25:44.000 Oh did you? Great, well done

00:25:46.000 Well it didn't really help did it?

00:25:48.000 Didn't make any difference did it, the metro

00:25:50.000 Gloating about something that failed

00:25:53.000 Trying to gloat about something that failed

00:25:57.000 We were harbingers of doom first

00:26:00.000 Were you? Well done

00:26:02.000 Okay, the Daily Mirror

00:26:04.000 Or it's Comic Relief Day coming up

00:26:06.000 Don't care

00:26:08.000 That's been completely subverted and perverted like everything else in our society isn't it?

00:26:12.000 Red Nose Day

00:26:14.000 What about people in our country that are suffering?

00:26:16.000 That live in penury?

00:26:18.000 What about that?

00:26:20.000 I've got to keep giving money to Africa do we? Why? 0.92

00:26:24.000 Red Nose Day

00:26:26.000 Police chiefs demand, that's a UK police chief

00:26:32.000 Demand

00:26:34.000 Brit cops sex crime review of Epstein files

00:26:37.000 Why write like that? Why are you writing in that way?

00:26:40.000 With that cadence?

00:26:42.000 Brit cops' sex crime review of Epstein files

00:26:45.000 There's got to be a better way to express yourself than that, isn't there?

00:26:49.000 Okay, it's the thing that we reported on it the other day, didn't we?

00:26:53.000 That British police, Met police

00:26:56.000 London Metropolitan Police

00:26:58.000 Have gone to the United States

00:27:00.000 And asked to see all the files in the

00:27:02.000 DOJ Epstein dump

00:27:05.000 Because they're investigating people like Andrew and Mandy and others

00:27:08.000 It says

00:27:09.000 Top officer to US officials

00:27:13.000 Let us examine full unedited papers

00:27:17.000 Documents may also contain Andrew misconduct evidence

00:27:20.000 So yeah

00:27:22.000 It's funny, they sort of, they did know about at least Andrew for years and years and years

00:27:30.000 Decided not to investigate, didn't they? For years

00:27:33.000 But now, because the legacy corporate mainstream media kick up such a stink about it

00:27:38.000 Now they're investigating, are they?

00:27:42.000 Bet they're doing a really thorough investigation as well

00:27:46.000 Bet they're really getting to the bottom of things and following up all the leads

00:27:51.000 Leads

00:27:58.000 Are they going to bring in the 5th Baron Rothschild for questioning at all?

00:28:02.000 No?

00:28:04.000 I doubt it

00:28:06.000 I highly doubt that

00:28:08.000 The Sun

00:28:10.000 There's the Princess of Wales

00:28:13.000 Catherine Middleton

00:28:15.000 Looking radiant as ever

00:28:17.000 She's the Queen of Diamonds now 1.00

00:28:19.000 She's the Queen of Diamonds 0.61

00:28:21.000 Also

00:28:23.000 Gary Glitter's probably going to die soon

00:28:26.000 Poppedo

00:28:28.000 They're calling him

00:28:30.000 Some of the other papers

00:28:31.000 He's, he's, he's poppedo

00:28:34.000 Gary Glitter

00:28:36.000 If anyone's foreign or not old enough 0.92

00:28:38.000 Gary Glitter made some pop songs like in the 70s

00:28:41.000 He's now like in his 80s

00:28:43.000 And he's a convicted paedophile

00:28:46.000 I mean he is a full blown wrong one

00:28:49.000 He's currently in prison

00:28:51.000 And uh, he's, he's 81

00:28:54.000 And um, and he's, he's on his last legs

00:28:57.000 And he's probably going to die soon

00:28:58.000 Whack that on the front page 0.63

00:29:00.000 Whack that on the front page

00:29:06.000 Not that all the world's natural gas and oil fields

00:29:10.000 Not all of them, but a lot of them are being

00:29:13.000 systematically annihilated in a war of

00:29:16.000 Brutal, brutal economic attrition

00:29:19.000 In the Middle East

00:29:20.000 Not that

00:29:22.000 Gary Glitter might die soon

00:29:23.000 That's the sun

00:29:26.000 That's the level of journalism you're going to get

00:29:30.000 From the sun

00:29:33.000 Not even that he's dead

00:29:35.000 He just might die soon

00:29:37.000 Gary Glitter

00:29:39.000 That anyone under like 50

00:29:42.000 Doesn't really remember in real time

00:29:43.000 Like I'm in my mid 40s

00:29:45.000 Like I'm in my mid 40s

00:29:47.000 His career, his music career was already over

00:29:49.000 By the time my memories kick in

00:29:53.000 Gary Glitter

00:29:55.000 Alright the star, an even more absurd

00:29:57.000 Front page from the star

00:29:59.000 Truly absurd this one

00:30:01.000 Bots get the chop 0.98

00:30:03.000 Tech that

00:30:06.000 The star stops big tech nicking fave paper

00:30:09.000 To train AI

00:30:10.000 Now even after I read the tiny little bit of blurb

00:30:12.000 They've got there

00:30:14.000 Still don't understand what they're talking about

00:30:16.000 I won't even bother telling you any more about it 0.68

00:30:17.000 It's nonsense 0.93

00:30:19.000 It's just nonsense

00:30:21.000 It's like it doesn't make any sense

00:30:23.000 It's not a thing

00:30:25.000 It's not news

00:30:26.000 In any way

00:30:28.000 That's the start

00:30:29.000 Alright, they're the front pages

00:30:31.000 Okay, they're the front pages

00:30:33.000 Getting increasingly weird

00:30:35.000 Increasingly divorced from actual news

00:30:38.000 The tabloids

00:30:40.000 Alright, shall we have a look?

00:30:41.000 Harry, what was our poll?

00:30:42.000 Bring it up

00:30:43.000 Let's have a look at what you did

00:30:44.000 What did you do?

00:30:46.000 Okay, you put

00:30:48.000 You put

00:30:49.000 How many U-turns will Starmer make as PM?

00:30:52.000 Brackets, currently it's at 13

00:30:54.000 And then you could choose from 13 to 15

00:30:57.000 16 to 20

00:30:59.000 21 to 30

00:31:00.000 Or too many to count

00:31:02.000 Which is winning

00:31:04.000 Healthily with 59%

00:31:05.000 59% of you say

00:31:07.000 Too many to count

00:31:11.000 And it goes back into sending order from

00:31:13.000 From those numbers

00:31:15.000 Okay

00:31:17.000 Thanks for doing that Harry

00:31:19.000 Cheers for sorting that out

00:31:22.000 Yeah, they called him

00:31:24.000 A couple of articles or things have called him

00:31:26.000 Sir U-turn

00:31:28.000 Like that's his nickname, Sir U-turn

00:31:30.000 That's how many U-turns he does

00:31:32.000 Again

00:31:34.000 It's sort of

00:31:36.000 It's one of your priorities in government

00:31:38.000 In the broadest sense

00:31:40.000 To try

00:31:42.000 And do as few U-turns as possible

00:31:44.000 Isn't it?

00:31:46.000 Because every single U-turn you do 1.00

00:31:47.000 Just makes you look weak and stupid 1.00

00:31:49.000 And you didn't know what you were doing in the first instance 1.00

00:31:51.000 Doesn't it?

00:31:53.000 So ideally

00:31:55.000 Have as few U-turns as possible

00:31:57.000 Even if you're Prime Minister for like 5 years

00:31:59.000 Even 10 years

00:32:01.000 You'd want

00:32:03.000 1 or 2, 3, 4, 5 U-turns

00:32:04.000 That whole time

00:32:06.000 Like every single one is like a real fail

00:32:08.000 Like a real

00:32:09.000 Oh, we dropped the ball there

00:32:11.000 We've got to go back and look at our procedures

00:32:13.000 And make sure that doesn't happen again

00:32:15.000 But he's just constantly doing them, isn't he?

00:32:17.000 Starmer, he's just sort of

00:32:19.000 Kind of constantly

00:32:21.000 It speaks of incompetence, doesn't it?

00:32:24.000 Weakness and incompetence

00:32:25.000 That

00:32:27.000 That special mix

00:32:29.000 Of 1.00

00:32:30.000 Being incompetent, stupid 1.00

00:32:32.000 Having no real judgement 1.00

00:32:35.000 And weakness

00:32:36.000 Like it's one thing to have bad judgement

00:32:38.000 But you stick by it through thick and thin

00:32:40.000 Bull-headedly

00:32:42.000 But no, not even that

00:32:44.000 Not even that

00:32:45.000 All right

00:32:47.000 Keir Starmer

00:32:48.000 What a joke

00:32:49.000 The Labour government of Great Britain

00:32:50.000 What an embarrassment

00:32:52.000 Where's my mouse?

00:32:53.000 Oh, there it is

00:32:55.000 Okay, so

00:32:56.000 I thought

00:32:57.000 The Rishi government was embarrassing

00:32:59.000 Properly embarrassing

00:33:01.000 But this is so much worse

00:33:04.000 At least he had a veneer of semi-competence

00:33:08.000 Like Rishi, wasn't it?

00:33:10.000 There was a veneer there that

00:33:12.000 He was still holding it together

00:33:15.000 It was still sort of

00:33:17.000 Well, you get it

00:33:19.000 I don't have any of that feeling

00:33:20.000 With this Labour government

00:33:22.000 That Rachel Reeves

00:33:23.000 Obviously doesn't know what she's doing 0.81

00:33:24.000 Does she?

00:33:25.000 All right

00:33:26.000 Trump says

00:33:27.000 US will quote

00:33:28.000 Massively blow up

00:33:29.000 Major Iranian gas field 0.72

00:33:30.000 If it attacks Qatar again

00:33:32.000 Not blow it up 1.00

00:33:33.000 Massively blow it up 0.94

00:33:35.000 Blow it up bigly 0.69

00:33:39.000 Blow it up the most

00:33:42.000 Okay

00:33:45.000 US aircraft carrier

00:33:46.000 This is the Abraham Lincoln

00:33:47.000 I believe

00:33:49.000 Is set to sail for Crete

00:33:51.000 From the Red Sea

00:33:53.000 After fire on board

00:33:58.000 There's been a fire on board

00:34:00.000 The Abraham Lincoln

00:34:02.000 And it's got to retire from theatre

00:34:05.000 To get refitted in Crete

00:34:06.000 Now my first impression as soon as I read that

00:34:07.000 I was like

00:34:08.000 Oh

00:34:09.000 Did it get hit by a drone or a missile?

00:34:10.000 And they're just saying

00:34:11.000 There was a fire on board

00:34:12.000 Which may be the case

00:34:13.000 But I don't think so

00:34:14.000 When you read the details

00:34:15.000 Unless it's all complete

00:34:16.000 It really is a complete lie

00:34:17.000 From top to bottom

00:34:18.000 It seems that there was a fire on board

00:34:19.000 Which may be the case

00:34:20.000 But I don't think so

00:34:21.000 When you read the details

00:34:22.000 Unless it's all complete

00:34:24.000 It really is a complete lie

00:34:25.000 From top to bottom

00:34:26.000 It seems that there was

00:34:27.000 Legitimately like

00:34:28.000 A fire

00:34:29.000 An accidental fire

00:34:30.000 In the

00:34:31.000 Like the laundry room

00:34:33.000 In the laundry room

00:34:34.000 No one was killed

00:34:35.000 No one was killed or anything

00:34:36.000 A few of these sailors

00:34:37.000 Suffered from smoke inhalation

00:34:38.000 But are effectively fine

00:34:41.000 The carrier itself

00:34:43.000 Is completely operational still

00:34:45.000 It's not like it's listing

00:34:47.000 Or anything

00:34:48.000 It doesn't look

00:34:49.000 It doesn't look like it was hit

00:34:50.000 By anything Iranian

00:34:52.000 But there was a fire on board

00:34:55.000 It's supposed to be cutting edge

00:34:57.000 And yeah

00:34:58.000 In the laundry room that broke out

00:35:00.000 And it took like a few hours

00:35:01.000 For them to contain the blaze

00:35:04.000 Uh

00:35:05.000 Okay

00:35:07.000 You look

00:35:08.000 The damage was

00:35:10.000 Smoke damage spread to sleeping quarters

00:35:12.000 Leaving more than a hundred beds

00:35:13.000 Unusable

00:35:15.000 According to the authorities

00:35:16.000 Replacement cots have been arranged

00:35:17.000 And additional mattresses and clothing

00:35:19.000 Were sent to the ship

00:35:20.000 After it's laundry facilities

00:35:22.000 Were wiped out

00:35:24.000 So

00:35:26.000 Okay

00:35:27.000 I mean that happened

00:35:29.000 That has happened

00:35:33.000 Make of it what you will

00:35:35.000 I bet the

00:35:37.000 The surviving leadership in Tehran

00:35:39.000 Think that's funny though

00:35:40.000 Surely they would be like

00:35:43.000 Surely they would be

00:35:44.000 Inwardly

00:35:45.000 If nothing else

00:35:46.000 Gloating about that

00:35:47.000 Okay

00:35:48.000 Set to remain warm in Britain

00:35:49.000 Yesterday was a nice day

00:35:50.000 Probably like half warm yesterday

00:35:53.000 That good weather's set to continue through to the weekend

00:35:56.000 Lovely jubbly

00:35:58.000 Okay

00:36:00.000 What else have we got

00:36:01.000 Uh...

00:36:04.000 Okay

00:36:05.000 Let's have a look

00:36:06.000 On the uh...

00:36:07.000 The uh...

00:36:08.000 The Sky News

00:36:10.000 Um...

00:36:11.000 What was it here

00:36:12.000 Oh yeah

00:36:13.000 Remember that Nottingham attack 0.99

00:36:15.000 Where some completely deranged foreign black man murdered three people in the street 1.00

00:36:20.000 For no reason 0.99

00:36:21.000 For no reason

00:36:22.000 And claimed

00:36:23.000 Successfully claimed

00:36:24.000 In court

00:36:25.000 That they weren't murders

00:36:27.000 It was manslaughter

00:36:28.000 With diminished responsibility

00:36:29.000 Because he's so mad

00:36:32.000 He was having an episode

00:36:34.000 You know

00:36:35.000 Psychic break

00:36:36.000 Psychological break in some way

00:36:37.000 So they weren't murders

00:36:39.000 They...

00:36:40.000 It was just manslaughter

00:36:41.000 Which the court accepted

00:36:43.000 I mean he was given a sentence of

00:36:45.000 To be put in like a mental asylum

00:36:48.000 A true sort of

00:36:50.000 You know

00:36:51.000 For the criminally insane 0.51

00:36:52.000 Secure hospital type thing

00:36:56.000 But nonetheless

00:36:57.000 Formally

00:36:58.000 They weren't murders

00:36:59.000 They were manslaughters

00:37:00.000 And there's an inquiry about it going on

00:37:02.000 At the moment

00:37:03.000 It's been ongoing

00:37:05.000 And um...

00:37:06.000 The parents of

00:37:07.000 The two younger people at least 0.50

00:37:09.000 One of the mothers of one of these younger victims

00:37:11.000 Has always said

00:37:13.000 What a travesty that is

00:37:14.000 Of course

00:37:15.000 They were murders

00:37:16.000 Of course

00:37:17.000 They were murders

00:37:19.000 And anyway

00:37:20.000 In the inquiry

00:37:21.000 The police

00:37:22.000 The actual police

00:37:23.000 Because it's not the police that prosecute

00:37:24.000 Is it?

00:37:25.000 It's the CPS that prosecute

00:37:27.000 The Crown Prosecution Service

00:37:29.000 In America a DA

00:37:30.000 Right?

00:37:31.000 It's not the police that prosecute

00:37:32.000 It'd be a DA

00:37:33.000 Well okay

00:37:34.000 So the police

00:37:35.000 The police

00:37:36.000 Have said

00:37:37.000 In this inquiry

00:37:38.000 That yeah they think

00:37:39.000 They were murders

00:37:41.000 Yeah

00:37:42.000 Of course they were murders

00:37:46.000 Okay this is rich

00:37:48.000 Get a load of this

00:37:49.000 We just

00:37:50.000 We're constantly

00:37:51.000 Having the absolute mickey taken out of us

00:37:54.000 Remember that Rwanda plan?

00:37:55.000 Anyone remember that?

00:37:56.000 The Tories

00:37:57.000 Under like Preeti Patel and Suella Brevman and stuff 0.96

00:38:01.000 Had a ridiculous idea 0.97

00:38:03.000 To send some of our illegal immigrants 1.00

00:38:07.000 And people that we wanted to try and deport to Rwanda 1.00

00:38:09.000 By the way it was only ever an exchange program

00:38:12.000 We'd send them our people 1.00

00:38:13.000 And they'd send us Rwandans 1.00

00:38:15.000 So we actually weren't getting rid of any numbers

00:38:20.000 Net

00:38:21.000 We were replacing 1.00

00:38:22.000 Some of our illegals with Rwandan people

00:38:28.000 So always a madness

00:38:31.000 Always a madness

00:38:32.000 Always an exercise

00:38:33.000 In wasting time

00:38:34.000 While we're further invaded

00:38:35.000 It was always an exercise

00:38:37.000 In trying to throw out red meat 1.00

00:38:39.000 To half brain dead normies

00:38:45.000 Don't accept that Suella Brevman was based in any way

00:38:47.000 Or had our interests at heart

00:38:49.000 No no no

00:38:50.000 She wanted

00:38:51.000 She wanted us to send like

00:38:52.000 Albanians and Syrians

00:38:55.000 To Rwanda

00:38:56.000 So we could have more Rwandans 1.00

00:38:58.000 That was her plan

00:38:59.000 We spent 700 million pounds on that

00:39:02.000 We sent 700 million pounds to Rwanda

00:39:07.000 To start doing that program

00:39:09.000 Ended up we only ever sent four people there

00:39:12.000 As a test

00:39:14.000 As the very first test of it

00:39:15.000 Then Labour got in and scrapped the whole thing

00:39:19.000 What an incredible waste of money and time

00:39:22.000 Meanwhile over those years

00:39:24.000 Over those years

00:39:26.000 Multiple years

00:39:28.000 We were just invaded by hundreds of thousands of more people

00:39:30.000 Year on year

00:39:32.000 Well

00:39:36.000 Current data point on that story

00:39:39.000 Rwanda demands more than 100 million pounds

00:39:42.000 More

00:39:43.000 100 million pounds more

00:39:44.000 From UK over failed migrant deportation deal

00:39:51.000 Wow

00:39:53.000 Is that not an insult?

00:39:54.000 Is that not a slap in the face?

00:39:56.000 Well you already sent them

00:39:58.000 700 million

00:39:59.000 For nothing

00:40:00.000 For basically nothing

00:40:01.000 They ended up getting four people

00:40:06.000 Look

00:40:07.000 By the time of the 2024 general election

00:40:10.000 When Labour scrapped the whole thing

00:40:12.000 The Tory government had already spent 700 million pounds

00:40:15.000 On its flagship immigration policy 0.84

00:40:17.000 Under which immigrants who arrived in the UK by boat from France

00:40:19.000 Would be sent to Kigali 1.00

00:40:22.000 Would be sent to Kigali 1.00

00:40:24.000 In a bid to deter channel crossings

00:40:27.000 Four people were sent

00:40:29.000 700 million pounds

00:40:31.000 How did...

00:40:32.000 How is it not the case that Suella Breverman and Preeti Patel and the other... 0.98

00:40:36.000 What James Cleverley, the other Home Secretaries

00:40:37.000 Home Secretaries

00:40:38.000 How is it not the case that they effectively wasted 700 million pounds

00:40:45.000 And years of time that led to hundreds of thousands of more immigrants coming here

00:40:50.000 Are they not guilty of that?

00:40:52.000 They are guilty of that, aren't they?

00:40:53.000 Anyway

00:40:54.000 Rwanda

00:40:56.000 Cheeky

00:40:58.000 So and so's

00:41:00.000 They want another 100 million pounds

00:41:03.000 Still though

00:41:07.000 Europe is going to decide on it

00:41:09.000 The Hague

00:41:10.000 Which is obviously in Holland isn't it?

00:41:12.000 The Hague

00:41:13.000 The population there is going to decide

00:41:17.000 And they almost certainly

00:41:18.000 Have they not already said

00:41:20.000 Or have they claimed

00:41:21.000 That we still owe them another 100 million pounds

00:41:25.000 100 million pounds?

00:41:28.000 For what?

00:41:29.000 How? Why?

00:41:31.000 100 million pounds

00:41:32.000 More?

00:41:33.000 I mean I just

00:41:37.000 When are we going to stop letting the rest of the world

00:41:40.000 Take the complete mickey out of us?

00:41:44.000 We just need a government

00:41:46.000 With guts

00:41:48.000 We just need a government

00:41:49.000 That is just going to

00:41:51.000 Say no to all these things

00:41:52.000 Just say no

00:41:54.000 It's not happening, there's a line in the sand

00:41:55.000 No

00:41:56.000 What sort of legal convention forces us to do these things?

00:41:59.000 Right, well we'll scrap that then

00:42:00.000 We're not in that now

00:42:02.000 Unilaterally, no

00:42:04.000 No, just stop, no

00:42:05.000 We're just going to stop the whole rest of the world

00:42:07.000 Taking advantage

00:42:08.000 Okay, the mail

00:42:09.000 The mail

00:42:10.000 The mail online

00:42:11.000 Who owns the mail group?

00:42:12.000 Don't look into that

00:42:14.000 $200 a barrel, okay

00:42:16.000 Oh, that guy, Joe Kent

00:42:17.000 Do you remember him from yesterday?

00:42:18.000 Joseph Kent

00:42:19.000 He's been investigated by the FBI now

00:42:21.000 He went on Tucker last night I believe

00:42:22.000 I haven't watched that yet

00:42:23.000 I'll watch that today

00:42:24.000 I will watch that today

00:42:25.000 I will watch that today

00:42:26.000 He went on Tucker

00:42:27.000 And anyway, the story is

00:42:28.000 He's been investigated by the FBI now

00:42:29.000 For allegedly, possibly

00:42:31.000 What, leaking classified information?

00:42:33.000 Did see a fair few comments on my segment yesterday

00:42:36.000 On the main podcast of The Lotus Eater

00:42:38.000 Saying the various people, they're just YouTube comments

00:42:39.000 So take them or leave them, you know

00:42:40.000 But a fair few of them saying

00:42:41.000 There's a lot more to this guy's back story

00:42:42.000 I said it yesterday, didn't I?

00:42:43.000 I said it yesterday, didn't I?

00:42:44.000 So, you know, full transparency from your host

00:42:47.000 I said it yesterday, didn't I?

00:42:49.000 So, you know

00:42:50.000 I said it yesterday, I said it yesterday, I said it yesterday

00:42:53.000 I said it yesterday, didn't I?

00:42:54.000 So, you know

00:42:55.000 Full transparency from your host

00:42:58.000 There's just YouTube comments, so take them or leave them, you know, but a fair few of them saying.

00:43:02.840 There's a lot more to this guy's backstory.

00:43:06.200 I said it yesterday, didn't I?

00:43:08.160 So, you know, full transparency from your host.

00:43:13.820 I'd never heard of him before, like, two days ago.

00:43:19.980 Yeah, but apparently he was, like, he's flip-flopped massively.

00:43:23.500 He was really pro-Iran at one point, pro-the-Iran conflict at one point, and he's flip-flopped.

00:43:30.720 This Joe Kent, I don't know any of that.

00:43:33.360 I haven't looked into that, so I'm just telling you what the mainstream media is saying.

00:43:37.880 All right, but he went on Tucker yesterday.

00:43:40.420 There's a clip of it.

00:43:42.220 Yeah, there is.

00:43:42.840 Look, there is on Tucker.

00:43:45.620 Tucker's really anti-the war, I believe, isn't he?

00:43:48.780 So we have a quick, super quick list.

00:43:50.160 It's one minute.

00:43:50.780 To the broader issue, who's in charge of our policy in the Middle East?

00:43:55.160 Who's in charge of when we decide to go to war or not?

00:43:57.380 In this case, with what the Secretary described, and later on the President, the Speaker of the House, and the way the events played out,

00:44:04.460 the Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which we knew would set off a series of events, meaning the Iranians would retaliate. 0.81

00:44:14.400 Now, I think there's a potential there where we could have done several different things.

00:44:17.580 We could have simply said to the Israelis, no, you will not, and if you do, then we will take something away from you. 1.00

00:44:23.880 I think that it's fine that we offer defense to Israel, but when we're providing the means for their defense, 0.99

00:44:32.100 we get to dictate the terms of when they go on the offensive, otherwise they stand to lose that relationship.

00:44:37.980 And the Israelis felt and bolded that no matter what they did, no matter what situation they put us in, 0.81

00:44:43.240 that they could go ahead and take this action, and we would just have to do that.

00:44:48.340 So that speaks to that relationship.

00:44:50.640 Also, it just shows that there was a lobby pushing for us to go to war.

00:44:54.360 So I think in this scenario, even if the Israelis told us, we're going to strike on this date at this time,

00:45:00.220 and we didn't try to negotiate with the Israelis and say, hey, we'll take something away from them,

00:45:04.500 I think we still could have backchanneled to the Iranians and said, hey, if something happens here in the next couple of days,

00:45:09.560 it's not us, we're still serious about negotiations, and we don't want to escalate this.

00:45:15.900 What you don't see, what's going on is...

00:45:18.440 Okay, so that's that.

00:45:21.660 There you go.

00:45:22.360 He's under investigation.

00:45:23.740 The sun, was there a tiny bit of slop?

00:45:25.140 Look, Gary Glitter, slightly younger looking Gary Glitter there.

00:45:28.160 Poppedo, near death.

00:45:29.440 Prince Andrew and Epstein there.

00:45:34.940 Okay.

00:45:37.160 Everyone bowing to the pressure from the political behemoth that is Angela the Fridge Rayner.

00:45:44.380 What she says, she's a master of policy.

00:45:46.180 What she says, the whole government jumps whenever Angela Rayner raises an eyebrow.

00:45:53.320 Angela Rayner narrows her eyes and the whole government changes its position.

00:45:56.740 All right, all right.

00:46:03.320 Actually, it's nearly caught too.

00:46:04.780 It's nearly caught too.

00:46:05.740 Oh, you know they made a drama with Martin Clunes about Hugh Edwards.

00:46:11.760 Edwards exposed, after reading Hugh's sick texts, I knew drama had to be made.

00:46:21.280 Really? Why?

00:46:23.920 Why?

00:46:24.440 Weirdos, weirdos and freaks.

00:46:28.860 I saw this picture.

00:46:29.960 I can't be bothered to read it, but...

00:46:33.220 That's a Photoshop, is it?

00:46:34.260 How's that not a...

00:46:35.640 Is that Peter Shilton?

00:46:38.440 Is that Peter Shilton on Gary Lineker's shoulders with Bobby Robson holding the World Cup?

00:46:44.340 And someone doing a Nazi slip?

00:46:48.180 Okay.

00:46:48.700 I can't be bothered.

00:46:49.280 I'm not interested in actually finding out exactly what that story's about.

00:46:51.800 All right.

00:46:52.080 On this day in history...

00:46:53.020 Should we do a little bit of on this day in history?

00:46:54.340 You like that?

00:46:54.800 I like that.

00:46:56.280 Down through the centuries, what happened on the 19th of March of note?

00:47:01.240 Okay.

00:47:01.560 On this day in the year 1279 AD would be, Mongolian victory at the Battle of Yemen ends the Song Dynasty in China.

00:47:10.400 So that's an interesting one.

00:47:12.160 That's a great one.

00:47:12.860 I've been threatening for ages, almost since day one, to do a long-form series of videos about the Mongols.

00:47:21.480 I will do it at some point.

00:47:22.880 I will do it.

00:47:23.400 I'm fascinated by the story of the rise and collapse of the Mongol empires.

00:47:30.400 Fascinating stuff.

00:47:31.020 So that would be, that is, what, that's Kublai Khan, wouldn't it be?

00:47:34.660 That would be Kublai Khan.

00:47:36.680 The great Genghis's grandson, one of his grandsons, in the East who stayed in China.

00:47:43.860 And, yeah, eventually they defeated the Song Dynasty. 0.86

00:47:48.120 You know, like, Genghis himself in, what, like 1215 or something, much earlier in the century, took Beijing.

00:47:53.980 But it wasn't for, like, two generations later, 50 years later or whatever, more, before they finally, basically, the Mongols finally, basically, defeat China. 0.65

00:48:05.820 But it's a story of the Chinese-ification of the Mongols, though.

00:48:10.420 It's not like the Mongols took China and turned China Mongol.

00:48:15.120 It was that China turned the Mongols Chinese, really. 0.98

00:48:19.080 I mean, fascinating story, though.

00:48:22.300 So, at that battle, that was, Kublai Khan and the Mongols were outnumbered, like, ten to one.

00:48:28.940 There's a classic thing, isn't there?

00:48:30.980 What was that?

00:48:32.000 What was that history channel that was Crash Course History?

00:48:35.860 If anyone remembers that?

00:48:37.580 No?

00:48:38.000 There is or was a YouTube channel, like, millions of views, Crash Course History.

00:48:42.820 And the guy would always talk about how there's certain patterns throughout history.

00:48:49.700 Many, many patterns.

00:48:50.700 But they don't apply to the Mongols.

00:48:54.620 But this and this happened, and which would mean that would happen, unless you're the Mongols. 0.97

00:48:59.760 Or, except for the Mongols. 0.89

00:49:02.620 So, yeah.

00:49:04.180 Entering a naval engagement where you're outnumbered ten to one will mean almost certain defeat, unless you're the Mongols. 1.00

00:49:10.660 Anyway, Kublai Khan.

00:49:13.660 Kublai Khan.

00:49:14.680 Probably the most fascinating grandson of Genghis Khan.

00:49:21.220 Arguably.

00:49:22.640 All right.

00:49:23.960 On this day in 1644, 200 members of the Peking imperial family and cult commit suicide out of loyalty to the last Ming emperor, Chongzhen.

00:49:33.220 Chongzhen had more than one name.

00:49:34.440 But, yeah, so they were, they were, what, they were being invaded by Manchus.

00:49:40.740 Again, Chinese history isn't, isn't really my wheelhouse properly.

00:49:44.600 There's bits I know and bits I don't know.

00:49:47.240 I know a little bit about this, but I don't know in fantastic detail.

00:49:49.700 But, I believe Manchu, there was a Manchu invasion from the north, and he couldn't escape, committed suicide, and most of his family and cult decided to join him in that. 0.99

00:50:04.260 Okay.

00:50:04.720 On this day in 1863, Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana is destroyed on her maiden voyage from Scotland.

00:50:13.320 It was built in Scotland.

00:50:15.260 The Confederate cruiser, this is going to be probably their most powerful ship.

00:50:19.700 A steel hold.

00:50:23.420 It was destroyed on its maiden voyage off the coast of the United States, or in the Carolinas, off the coast of the Carolinas, I believe.

00:50:29.800 With a cargo of munitions and medicines valued at over a million dollars, the wreck is discovered exactly 102 years later by a teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist, E. Lee Spence.

00:50:41.920 So yeah, 1863, the Confederacy really needed those, those medicines particularly, really needed them.

00:50:53.500 So that was a big blow to the Confederacy.

00:50:56.500 So that was a big blow to the Confederacy.

00:50:58.500 Yeah, there you go.

00:51:05.340 Britain did help out the Confederacy in very, in a few various ways.

00:51:11.840 We paid reparations.

00:51:12.980 The United Kingdom, the British Empire, paid reparations to the Union after the Civil War.

00:51:20.420 It was our calculation.

00:51:25.840 Not that we were pro-slavery.

00:51:26.980 We'd already abolished slavery.

00:51:28.140 Thank you very much.

00:51:29.560 Our calculation was we could try and bring the war to an end quicker. 0.85

00:51:34.220 But that was an incorrect calculation.

00:51:36.620 Mr. Lincoln was all in. 0.64

00:51:37.640 Oh, so there you go.

00:51:40.480 All right.

00:51:41.680 On this day in 1920, the U.S. Senate, there's a big painting there of Treaty of Versailles.

00:51:48.740 If you don't know, let's click on the painting.

00:51:50.200 Look, if you don't know.

00:51:51.800 Look, there's Woodrow Wilson there.

00:51:54.480 That's Clemenceau, isn't it?

00:51:56.040 Clemenceau.

00:51:56.900 Lloyd George.

00:51:59.000 Various other people.

00:51:59.800 If you knew all the other people, they're all sort of real people.

00:52:02.180 What is that like?

00:52:02.800 Field Marshal Allenby, is it?

00:52:04.240 Anyway.

00:52:05.360 On this day in 1920, the U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles, even though it was like Woodrow's baby in many ways.

00:52:15.100 But the Senate didn't ratify it for the second time and refusing to ratify the League of Nations covenant and maintaining a policy of isolation.

00:52:23.480 The League of Nations was always going to be ultimately a failure, like much, much worse than the UN, because the United States didn't get involved in it.

00:52:35.280 Even though, again, it was largely Woodrow Wilson's idea.

00:52:42.080 Well, he pushed for it really hard.

00:52:43.640 Anyway, there you go.

00:52:44.720 That's history.

00:52:45.220 That's the way it went.

00:52:45.940 Okay.

00:52:46.080 On this day in 1932, Sydney Harbour Bridge opens in Sydney.

00:52:51.280 It's a cool bridge, isn't it?

00:52:52.580 No doubt in that.

00:52:53.820 On this day in 2003, airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signalling the beginning of the invasion of Iraq.

00:53:02.700 Shock and awe.

00:53:03.260 Without UN, without the United Nations support and its defiance of world opinion, there was a coalition of the willing, a fair amount.

00:53:12.060 I'm not going to try and defend the war in Iraq, but just what this website on this day says there isn't really accurate.

00:53:19.980 But we've caught them doing that a few times, haven't we?

00:53:25.040 Misrepresenting things.

00:53:26.520 We've caught them doing that a number of times, haven't we?

00:53:28.340 They've obviously got a leftist bent, haven't they?

00:53:30.320 In defiance of world opinion.

00:53:34.060 Well, no, there's a coalition of the winning.

00:53:35.400 Lots of the world were on board with it.

00:53:37.680 I mean, I would say the majority weren't, but a lot of the world were.

00:53:43.680 Without United Nations support.

00:53:45.360 Well, they did have United Nations support, if anyone remembers.

00:53:52.780 George Bush Jr., George W. Bush, and Colin Powell.

00:53:58.100 I'm not calling him Colon Powell.

00:54:00.320 Colin Powell went to the UN to get a resolution, and they got one.

00:54:09.220 But in that resolution, the wording wasn't perfectly, explicitly, 100%.

00:54:15.660 We give you the green light to go and do whatever you want in Mesopotamia.

00:54:23.120 And so a few people in Britain, actually, a few people in the Blair government were a bit squeamish about it,

00:54:27.960 saying, oh, you've got a resolution, but it's not perfect.

00:54:31.700 It's not as watertight as we would like.

00:54:34.840 George Bush didn't care, really, did he?

00:54:36.920 Donald Trump, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perl, they don't care.

00:54:42.100 But Blair and the Brits were like, can we go back?

00:54:45.040 Look, you know, come on.

00:54:46.740 Come on, George.

00:54:47.860 Can we go back to the UN and get a better title resolution that's like everything's...

00:54:53.260 All the T's are crossed and all the I's are dotted.

00:54:55.480 So George Bush, obviously against his better judgment, was like, okay.

00:54:58.500 They went back to the UN to get an even better resolution, and that's what they didn't get.

00:55:02.840 They'd say they didn't have the support of the UN.

00:55:08.100 Well, they did, just not to a degree that they wanted, exactly.

00:55:13.680 Complicated story.

00:55:14.460 A little bit of an interesting, complicated story.

00:55:17.520 You know, I'm sure Jack Straw would disagree.

00:55:21.640 Or Jeff Hoon.

00:55:23.120 Anyone remember these people? Anybody?

00:55:24.940 Jack Straw, Jeff Hoon?

00:55:26.120 They would probably disagree with the statement that the United Nations didn't support the war in Iraq.

00:55:31.400 They would argue, to their dying day, I imagine.

00:55:34.500 To their last breath, that they did have the United Nations support.

00:55:38.740 All right, make of it what you will.

00:55:40.480 All right, that's on this day in history.

00:55:42.980 That's on this day in history.

00:55:43.960 Shall we have a look at the Rumble Rants and the Super Chats?

00:55:47.700 What we got?

00:55:48.600 What we got?

00:55:49.240 Okay.

00:55:50.180 Let me do that so I can actually see this screen properly.

00:55:52.920 Rumble Rants, here we go.

00:55:54.980 Fortean Barber.

00:55:56.980 Fortean Barber says...

00:55:58.400 Morning, Beau!

00:56:00.460 Exclamation mark.

00:56:01.360 Morning, mate.

00:56:02.260 You all right?

00:56:03.780 Morning, Beau!

00:56:05.640 That's with an exclamation mark.

00:56:06.560 Not just loud, but with a...

00:56:08.440 Morning!

00:56:10.020 This government...

00:56:11.180 This...

00:56:11.680 This government nonsense gets me closer and closer to being a Cornish separatist.

00:56:18.860 Cornish separatism for the win.

00:56:20.300 I'm not because of obvious economic reasons and globalist implications.

00:56:32.560 Yeah, cool.

00:56:33.300 I'm good, yeah.

00:56:36.760 We'll go and build a based utopia in Cornwall. 0.60

00:56:44.180 Okay.

00:56:45.740 Let's devolve Cornwall.

00:56:46.900 Calergi says... 0.99

00:56:50.540 No longer following any ridiculous based feminists. 0.99

00:56:55.560 Yeah, never follow any feminists ever. 1.00

00:56:57.420 Never listen to anything they've got to say.

00:56:59.080 Ever.

00:56:59.620 Why would you?

00:57:01.260 It's wrong-headed. 1.00

00:57:03.980 It's born out of a chip on your shoulder that you were born without a dick. 1.00

00:57:08.960 Not interested in it. 1.00

00:57:10.000 I'll take my toothless English brother tyrannised by the state over a championed economic parasite 0.98

00:57:20.700 with no loyalty to my country all day, any day. 0.98

00:57:25.580 Yeah, good.

00:57:26.380 Yeah, sure.

00:57:27.680 Is that a reference to Liam Tufts and Posey Parker?

00:57:29.740 I don't know, I think.

00:57:31.400 All right.

00:57:32.920 Morning, Beau!

00:57:33.580 No, any interest covering Afro man winning his court case?

00:57:37.560 No.

00:57:38.140 No.

00:57:39.460 Is that that black rapper or Afro? 0.86

00:57:41.180 Is that the one that's like, 0.51

00:57:43.220 I was gonna go to school and then I go high?

00:57:46.700 That dude.

00:57:48.100 Don't care about him and his life and what he does and says and what's happening to him.

00:57:51.640 No, I don't.

00:57:52.040 Sorry.

00:57:53.780 It's a Sligglestone 17. 0.80

00:57:56.320 Hi, Sligglestone, by the way.

00:57:58.240 I like Sligglestone.

00:57:59.520 He's funny on Twitter and stuff.

00:58:01.340 He's a good guy.

00:58:02.120 But sorry, no, I could not be less interested in Afro man.

00:58:07.020 But you go and say,

00:58:07.640 He's a musician and country sheriff raided his home on false pretenses,

00:58:14.860 stole money and sued him for making a music video about it.

00:58:18.640 Sounds quite funny, actually.

00:58:23.000 The whole thing sounds absurd.

00:58:27.580 Afro man.

00:58:29.220 Exactly the sort of person and artist I do not care about.

00:58:36.440 I just do not care about it.

00:58:38.260 And then Sligglestone's got one other, says,

00:58:40.700 The Confederacy still invented combat submarines and sunk a Union ship.

00:58:45.440 Yeah, they were on the cutting edge, weren't they, if you could call it that?

00:58:49.360 Submarine warfare, weren't they?

00:58:50.520 Yeah.

00:58:51.000 Yeah, they did have one, didn't they?

00:58:53.220 They were the first to use, were they the first to use an ironclad as well?

00:58:57.960 Both sides got them quite quickly.

00:59:00.720 I think, I might be wrong,

00:59:01.900 I think the Confederacy built the first ironclad.

00:59:06.080 Okay.

00:59:07.300 Yeah, but you're right about the submarine thing too.

00:59:09.720 Alright, we've got YouTube here.

00:59:11.940 The YouTube Super Chats.

00:59:13.300 Oh, Global Church History, someone beat you to the punch this morning.

00:59:20.140 We've got,

00:59:21.740 Likeabot12336, says,

00:59:24.720 Says,

00:59:26.600 Hey Bo, a yank here.

00:59:28.980 I watch the show every day, but can't usually catch it live.

00:59:32.560 Do you think you'll ever do any videos about the history of maths?

00:59:36.060 Or science, I suppose.

00:59:37.720 Cheers.

00:59:38.020 Yeah, I would love to.

00:59:40.740 What, like on my, on Epochs?

00:59:43.400 Yeah, I really should.

00:59:44.200 I mean to do, have I done any yet?

00:59:46.920 Have I done any yet?

00:59:48.740 On the history of science, or maths?

00:59:51.120 Uh, I can't remember now.

00:59:54.400 I must have done one or two about one of the more famous.

00:59:57.040 I've done a thing on Newton.

00:59:58.860 Like the life of Newton.

01:00:00.180 If I haven't, I will.

01:00:02.980 I love the, or very, very interested in the life and events of the life of Johannes Kepler.

01:00:10.480 And of Isaac Newton, someone like that.

01:00:13.160 I could and would, yeah.

01:00:14.900 A video on the actual, of actual science though.

01:00:18.860 I mean, could do, would do.

01:00:22.140 I'm not a scientist, so it would only ever be like a historian's take on the narrative.

01:00:27.680 Not an actual deep dive into the science itself.

01:00:32.020 So I've got double GCSE maths.

01:00:36.660 Sorry, double GCSE science and GCSE maths.

01:00:41.300 That's it.

01:00:41.980 At A level, I just was straight up humanities.

01:00:44.760 English and history and stuff.

01:00:45.880 So I'm not a scientist in any way.

01:00:49.800 Although I'm a big fan of it.

01:00:51.580 Big fan of it.

01:00:52.820 Okay, global church history, in at number two.

01:00:55.880 Says, uh, today, 721 BC.

01:01:00.940 Nineveh sees first recorded lunar eclipse.

01:01:03.900 That's very interesting.

01:01:06.100 Nineveh, so that is the Assyrians, right? 0.66

01:01:08.640 Nineveh.

01:01:09.040 That would be the ancient Assyrians, won't it? 0.91

01:01:13.460 Interesting.

01:01:13.960 Very, very interesting.

01:01:15.320 I guess we found that out on a piece of, like, cuneiform tablet or something.

01:01:20.920 721 BC.

01:01:22.060 God.

01:01:23.920 It's a ways back, isn't it?

01:01:25.860 721 BC.

01:01:28.000 There's a great, uh, great podcast, uh, called The Fall of Civilisations.

01:01:35.600 Fall of Civilisations podcast, it's called.

01:01:37.880 Yeah.

01:01:39.360 They're great.

01:01:40.560 They're really great.

01:01:41.680 Long form.

01:01:42.920 You know, two, three, sometimes even more, four, five hours.

01:01:46.260 Their one on the Mongols is brilliant.

01:01:48.180 Their one on the Assyrians is brilliant.

01:01:49.500 In fact, all of their ones are brilliant.

01:01:51.400 There's not that many.

01:01:52.400 They're so high quality and so good, they only make, like, a few a year.

01:01:55.400 So the whole Fall of Civilisations podcast is only 30 odd.

01:01:59.880 I mean, each one's very long, but anyway.

01:02:02.800 Fall of Civilisations podcast.

01:02:03.980 Couldn't recommend it enough.

01:02:06.140 Their one on the Assyrians is very, very, very good.

01:02:09.020 Okay.

01:02:09.460 Principled Uncertainty says,

01:02:10.960 Bo, UK-Iranian attacks, zero.

01:02:14.900 Well, because they were thwarted.

01:02:17.580 Interrupted plots of varying seriousness, zero.

01:02:21.060 Not true.

01:02:21.520 Their proxies focus on Sunni targets and our ally, Israel, I take it you're saying. 0.84

01:02:29.240 The Sharia suffered more than anyone under ISIS.

01:02:32.920 I mean, that's true.

01:02:33.820 That is true. 0.89

01:02:34.260 The Saudis export terror. 1.00

01:02:37.500 That's also true.

01:02:39.540 So some things there I don't agree are true, and some things there are definitely true.

01:02:45.320 I'm sorry.

01:02:47.100 Interrupted plots of varying seriousness in the UK, zero.

01:02:50.120 That's just not true.

01:02:51.920 I'm sorry.

01:02:53.280 Most of the other things you said, though, are certainly true, though.

01:02:57.680 The Shia suffered more than anyone under ISIS, yeah.

01:03:00.960 The Saudis, quote, export terror. 1.00

01:03:04.520 Yeah, yeah.

01:03:06.020 Yeah.

01:03:08.240 Their type of Islam.

01:03:12.120 Yeah.

01:03:15.840 Yeah.

01:03:17.040 Okay.

01:03:17.500 Principled Uncertainty says,

01:03:20.920 Oh, you've corrected yourself.

01:03:22.840 Brilliant.

01:03:23.320 Cool.

01:03:23.820 Cool.

01:03:23.980 You've interrupted attacks, 20, not zero.

01:03:27.560 Sticky keys.

01:03:28.880 Fine.

01:03:29.320 Good.

01:03:30.040 Okay.

01:03:30.960 Right.

01:03:34.020 Okay.

01:03:34.520 Right.

01:03:34.840 Right.

01:03:35.680 20.

01:03:38.420 But that's cool.

01:03:39.080 You corrected yourself.

01:03:41.740 Brilliant.

01:03:42.220 Well done.

01:03:43.420 And we're not locking horns over that data point.

01:03:49.960 Yeah.

01:03:53.880 Okay.

01:03:55.660 Half a dozen more or so, or four more.

01:03:57.680 We've got Ribeye Rob.

01:04:01.080 Don't necessarily remember you before, so thank you for your super chat there.

01:04:04.000 You've put Bo.

01:04:05.860 You need to get a monocle and gold pocket watch to complete your awesome look.

01:04:10.000 Cheers, buddy.

01:04:10.680 Yeah.

01:04:11.580 Do you know what?

01:04:12.220 I've considered, I've considered, and may well start wearing waistcoats, at least from time

01:04:16.600 to time, probably not every single day, but start wearing a waistcoat sometimes.

01:04:21.580 And I've got a pocket watch and chain and fob.

01:04:24.360 I already own that.

01:04:25.040 I've owned that for years and years and years.

01:04:26.180 Someone got it for me for Christmas, yonks ago.

01:04:28.060 So, if and when I start wearing waistcoats, I probably will wear a pocket watch and chain

01:04:35.220 and fob.

01:04:37.440 Monocle, monocle's a bit much.

01:04:39.740 I'm going to have to draw the line at monocle, I'm afraid.

01:04:42.400 Thanks for the comment, though.

01:04:43.320 I appreciate it.

01:04:43.740 It's funny.

01:04:44.560 But I'm not wearing a monocle.

01:04:47.020 Am I?

01:04:47.420 It's a little bit Monopoly guy, isn't it?

01:04:54.780 It's a little bit Rommel.

01:04:59.000 Was it Rommel?

01:05:00.720 Or was it Yodel?

01:05:04.360 More than one very, very senior Nazi Wehrmacht officer would wear a monocle, right?

01:05:11.840 It wasn't Yodel, it was...

01:05:14.480 Anyway, anyway.

01:05:15.560 Okay, I'm not going to do a monocle.

01:05:18.000 Sorry.

01:05:19.940 May well do pocket watch.

01:05:21.580 Okay, Chris281 says,

01:05:23.520 Main podcast yesterday was awesome.

01:05:25.880 Well, cheers, buddy.

01:05:26.540 Cheers.

01:05:27.000 I thought it was a good one.

01:05:28.360 I honestly thought it was a very good one.

01:05:30.320 All that in-depth flying and military talk gave me a bit of...

01:05:34.520 Excited you, to be honest, you say.

01:05:39.200 I've paraphrased slightly there.

01:05:40.640 Yeah, Tim Davies,

01:05:42.920 ex-RAF fast jet pilot Tim Davies,

01:05:45.520 squadron leader, retired,

01:05:47.420 is a font of fascinating knowledge.

01:05:51.340 Behind the paywall.

01:05:52.280 Actually, well, I've talked to him a couple of times on History Bro, my old channel, my channel History Bro.

01:06:00.520 And then two or even three times on the Lotus Eaters.

01:06:04.200 I think one is an interview, so it's free.

01:06:08.480 I think one is an epox, so it is behind the paywall.

01:06:11.000 And, yeah, I'm picking his brain all about military and civil aviation, just for like an hour and a half, two hours straight.

01:06:18.640 So, again, brilliant content, I think.

01:06:22.180 Get an actual GR4 Tornado and Hawk T-1, T-2 pilot.

01:06:30.020 Get an actual Top Gun, well, not Top Gun, because that's American, but, you know. 0.65

01:06:36.820 An actual fighter ace, bomber fighter.

01:06:40.320 Get his take on loads and loads and loads of things about civil and military aviation, the history of it.

01:06:45.940 Brilliant.

01:06:46.200 Consider signing up, so it's £5 a month, gold team membership, bronze team membership.

01:06:51.120 LotusEasers.com

01:06:51.940 There is, you know I'm going to say this because I'm an employee.

01:06:59.080 There is loads of brilliant content behind that paywall.

01:07:02.200 Not just epochs.

01:07:04.220 All sorts of philosophy from Stelios.

01:07:07.020 An actual Greek philosopher, PhD in philosophy.

01:07:11.640 Hours and hours of him talking about philosophy.

01:07:14.180 Quality.

01:07:14.660 Dan Tom talking about economics.

01:07:18.400 For us talking about geopolitics.

01:07:20.800 Loads of stuff.

01:07:22.360 Just talking about psychology and a million and one other things.

01:07:25.720 It's all there.

01:07:26.680 It's all there.

01:07:27.300 £5 a month.

01:07:28.260 It's a good deal.

01:07:30.220 Alright.

01:07:31.700 What have we got here?

01:07:36.360 Real Mr Bra says, crash course history was John Green.

01:07:42.560 Yeah, did I say it wrong?

01:07:43.540 Did I?

01:07:44.660 Did I say it wrong?

01:07:46.320 Yeah, sorry.

01:07:46.840 You're right.

01:07:47.120 That was what I was talking about.

01:07:48.620 You got it.

01:07:49.320 You understood.

01:07:50.200 Did I call it something slightly different today?

01:07:51.840 Crash course history.

01:07:53.900 Yeah.

01:07:54.440 And it was that guy, John Green.

01:07:56.120 Except the Mongols. 0.94

01:07:57.420 Yeah.

01:07:58.020 Yeah.

01:07:58.040 Yeah.

01:08:01.000 Yeah.

01:08:01.040 John Green, crash course history.

01:08:04.240 Good stuff.

01:08:05.240 Alright.

01:08:05.600 And last of all then, Principal Uncertainty again says,

01:08:10.020 Life is one endless black pill binge right now.

01:08:13.240 I get you.

01:08:15.800 I hear you, buddy.

01:08:17.820 But having a good laugh, first thing, makes it almost bearable.

01:08:21.200 Thanks, lads.

01:08:22.400 Mainly Harry the lesser.

01:08:23.660 So you're not little Harry anymore.

01:08:25.880 You're Harry the lesser.

01:08:27.980 I'm honoured.

01:08:31.200 The elusive lesser spotted Harry.

01:08:33.980 Sorry.

01:08:36.400 Okay.

01:08:37.220 Oh, one more's just ticked in.

01:08:39.620 Principal Uncertainty again says,

01:08:41.280 House of Glucksburg, Czarnik King George, Bo.

01:08:49.740 Czarnik King George, Bo.

01:08:53.260 Okay.

01:08:55.000 Sorry, I'm not entirely sure what you're referencing there, but

01:08:58.480 Czarnik, Czarnik, the second, and King George.

01:09:01.420 I think George was the fifth.

01:09:06.220 Okay.

01:09:06.880 Alright.

01:09:07.160 Well, thanks anyway.

01:09:08.480 Thanks anyway.

01:09:09.520 And I'm glad we cleared that up about where you said there was zero

01:09:12.820 interrupted and then you're like,

01:09:14.100 Oh, no, sorry.

01:09:14.640 I meant 20.

01:09:15.260 There's 20.

01:09:17.700 That's good.

01:09:18.440 Alright.

01:09:18.780 Good stuff.

01:09:19.340 Okay.

01:09:19.560 Well, that's the show.

01:09:20.680 It's now nine minutes past nine in the a.m.

01:09:23.080 Greenwich Mean Time on Thursday the 19th of March in the year of our

01:09:26.720 Lord.

01:09:27.600 2026.

01:09:28.480 You've been.

01:09:29.040 The Glorious Band of Chosen Few 0.99

01:09:35.380 My band of brothers and sisters.

01:09:41.380 Thanks for watching.

01:09:43.440 Without you, the Glorious Band of Chosen Few, it's not a thing. 0.91

01:09:46.160 It really isn't.

01:09:47.240 You make it.

01:09:48.960 It's you guys.

01:09:49.860 It's you guys.

01:09:51.460 I could sit here and talk into a camera every morning that's switched off.

01:09:54.600 What is that?

01:09:55.040 That's nothing.

01:09:55.400 It's you that makes it.

01:09:59.560 Alright.

01:10:00.100 Well, until tomorrow morning.

01:10:01.040 I'll be back tomorrow morning.

01:10:01.960 First thing.

01:10:03.280 8 a.m.

01:10:03.780 Greenwich Mean Time.

01:10:05.620 Try and make the most of the day ahead.

01:10:07.340 You know, it's another day.

01:10:08.180 Another chance to make a difference.

01:10:09.900 To do something valuable with your time.

01:10:12.460 You'll never get it back.

01:10:14.100 You'll never get this time back again.

01:10:16.700 I know that's hard to take in, especially if you're young.

01:10:18.960 Very hard.

01:10:19.600 No, no, I've got endless time.

01:10:22.440 You haven't.

01:10:24.300 You haven't.

01:10:25.460 Try and make it count.

01:10:26.860 Alright then.

01:10:27.740 Till tomorrow.

01:10:29.100 Take care.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 19, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 19th March 2026

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