The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 1st October 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning.

00:00:03.720 You alright?

00:00:07.920 Are you though?

00:00:10.500 I hope you are. I sincerely hope you are.

00:00:15.120 My glorious band, the chosen few.

00:00:18.060 My band of brothers.

00:00:21.200 We few.

00:00:23.920 We happy few.

00:00:26.120 wee band of brothers

00:00:30.200 that's my henry v there all right it's now one minute past eight we're slightly late this morning

00:00:38.200 and it's my fault the first time in 10 months basically i spill about that much of tea

00:00:44.560 everywhere just before like about 40 seconds before we're meant to go live i knocked it

00:00:50.540 with my hand and it went everywhere i had to run out clean it up with some some tissue and now

00:00:56.020 we're good that's why we're a little bit late i said i think yesterday i've said it more than

00:00:59.940 once i think even yesterday i said maybe it was tuesday that's going to happen at some point

00:01:04.320 some point i'm going to do the whole cup so that's why we're a little bit late apologies

00:01:09.140 entirely my fault entirely my fault all right it's now one minute two minutes past eight in the am

00:01:14.880 on uh it's thursday now isn't it yeah yeah thursday the first of october in the year of

00:01:22.540 our lord 2026 as always nearly always i'm joined by my producer little harry how are you this

00:01:27.220 morning good sir morning yeah we're good nice the disembodied voice of little harry he's not

00:01:33.620 real it's a soundboard i control it with my foot he's laughing it's no he's a real human being trust

00:01:41.960 me uh all right is that enough faffing about though for one morning it's quite enough fannying

00:01:48.400 about for one morning isn't it with the spilt tea and everything um all right what's the legacy

00:01:54.480 corporate lamestream media banging on about this morning what's that cabal of quite frankly evil

00:01:59.600 fleet street editors lying to us about by omission let's have a look that's what this show is

00:02:05.700 supposed to be uh what's in the news cycle on any given day to keep you guys up to date

00:02:10.420 You can turtle up and pretend that you don't care

00:02:14.280 And it doesn't matter

00:02:14.900 Unfortunately it does matter

00:02:16.300 Millions of normies, the vast majority of people

00:02:18.880 Still get their news from the lamestream media

00:02:21.460 So it's better to know, isn't it?

00:02:23.560 Better to know than not know

00:02:25.060 That's a very old philosophical question 0.99

00:02:27.660 Going back to the pre-Socratics 0.77

00:02:28.940 I think I've got long-form content about the pre-Socratics 0.99

00:02:31.020 Oh yeah 1.00

00:02:31.380 Is it better to know things and be unhappy

00:02:38.000 Than the bliss of ignorance 1.00

00:02:41.160 Most men with any sense

00:02:45.500 Say the former

00:02:47.080 Being blissfully ignorant in the final reckoning

00:02:51.000 Is not the better of those two options 0.90

00:02:52.640 Alright, let's have a look

00:02:53.740 What have we got?

00:02:55.460 Israel's 9-11 stopped 0.56

00:02:57.320 Israel's 9-11 stopped

00:03:05.800 And, what was it?

00:03:10.160 And

00:03:10.600 That was a great life 0.93

00:03:13.020 Esther Ransom's died 0.99

00:03:14.140 Alright, they're the main two things

00:03:18.300 In the news cycle today

00:03:19.800 Largely

00:03:20.840 Shall we jump straight into it then

00:03:22.480 The Daily Telegraph 1.00

00:03:23.600 German old Zionist slop 1.00

00:03:25.960 They care much, much more 1.00

00:03:32.780 About the demographic security of Israel

00:03:35.780 than they do of Britain. 0.92

00:03:37.580 How mad is that?

00:03:40.560 In fact, they don't care about the demographic security of Britain at all.

00:03:42.900 In fact, they proactively try and rip down and destroy anyone

00:03:45.800 that does advocate for that.

00:03:47.620 That's the Daily Telegraph.

00:03:48.720 That's who they are. 0.94

00:03:49.700 Hero who stopped Israel's 9-11. 0.92

00:03:51.860 Was it, though? 0.92

00:03:53.060 Was it?

00:03:53.780 Isn't there a story here already?

00:03:56.160 It's too early to say what motive the Dubai Tel Aviv flight attacker was.

00:04:01.920 Israeli Prime Minister says.

00:04:03.440 Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:04:04.420 Bibi.

00:04:04.620 That's also Bibi, apparently

00:04:07.520 Hugging one of the people that thwarted the attack

00:04:12.960 Alright, so first of all, just the details of it

00:04:15.880 There was an aeroplane flying with like 170 plus people on it

00:04:20.520 Was it like Air Dubai, is it called, or something like that?

00:04:24.480 A Dubai plane from Dubai to Tel Aviv, to Israel

00:04:28.820 And the story is, apparently, we're supposed to believe

00:04:33.540 that um the co-pilot who's from oman apparently just stabbed the pilot in mid-air at like 34 000

00:04:46.560 feet didn't kill him though stabbed him and then was supposed to take control of the airplane and

00:04:54.460 then who knows who knows what who knows what he was going to do next whether he meant to fly do

00:04:59.680 9-11 style attack fly it at full speed into an israeli city who knows because he never got the

00:05:09.120 chance to do anything like that because and apparently the passengers stormed the cockpit

00:05:17.200 one particular guy sort of apprehended him may have got hurt in the process

00:05:23.120 um and they sort of subdued him

00:05:27.280 flyer dubai sorry that's the name of the airline flyer dubai

00:05:32.220 okay and they they subdued him and that's it i mean it plummeted like 17 000 feet in two minutes

00:05:42.540 apparently um and a lot of the news is about that woman who didn't die we'll talk about that later

00:05:49.760 okay stick with this um yeah implanted but they managed to take control one bit of news i read

00:05:56.700 said that there was uh off-duty pilots on the plane or ex-pilots on the plane that were able

00:06:03.100 to control it and bring it in for a safe landing another report said the guy himself

00:06:08.340 look at this headline look flight terror from the sun so but flight terror

00:06:15.720 hero israeli plumber who controlled plane after co-pilot stabbed captain during hijack learned to

00:06:22.660 fly from tv show did he that's not a thing you don't do that that's not real i know a little

00:06:28.420 bit about flying actually and you don't just learn how to land a plane from watching a tv show no you

00:06:32.840 don't the most difficult bit of flying by far is landing all right taking off is real relatively

00:06:40.620 straightforward if you know all the controls already you need to know all the controls

00:06:43.380 You need to be familiar with that aeroplane

00:06:45.540 Taking off

00:06:47.540 You're just pointing it in a straight direction

00:06:49.280 And gunning the engine

00:06:50.200 It's a bit more than that of course

00:06:53.200 But it's relatively straightforward

00:06:54.480 Flying around once you're up there is another thing

00:06:56.860 But landing is a precision exercise

00:07:00.360 You need to know really exactly what you're doing

00:07:03.380 To land a plane

00:07:04.300 It's the hardest part by far

00:07:07.100 You don't just learn that from watching TV

00:07:08.600 You don't

00:07:09.120 Okay, alright

00:07:13.380 It stopped to 9-11. I mean, did it?

00:07:19.180 Passenger grabs the controls after pilot's stabbed at 34,000 feet.

00:07:23.740 Hijacker may have been trying to crash plane into Tel Aviv.

00:07:27.100 He may not have been, though. We don't know. We have no idea.

00:07:32.540 OK.

00:07:33.460 Second Brexit referendum is on the card, says Burnham. 1.00

00:07:36.860 You scumbag. 1.00

00:07:39.400 You absolute filthy scumbag. 1.00

00:07:43.380 It's all bluster though I think 1.00

00:07:46.480 There was some

00:07:48.340 I watched a bit of news yesterday

00:07:51.400 There was some good

00:07:52.780 Good commentary by a couple of people I saw actually

00:07:55.780 For once

00:07:56.280 They're saying that Burnham's speech

00:07:59.020 At the conference yesterday

00:08:00.700 Sorry the day before was it Tuesday actually

00:08:03.220 He delivered the speech

00:08:03.960 It's all sort of bluster

00:08:07.820 It's all talking about the future

00:08:09.380 It's not what he's going to do right now

00:08:10.940 It's not what he's going to do in the next

00:08:12.440 The next few weeks in Parliament

00:08:16.020 It's all about the future, the future

00:08:17.780 After 2029, after 2030

00:08:20.800 After another election, basically

00:08:24.700 Another referendum is on the cards

00:08:28.960 Not before another general election, it won't be

00:08:30.900 So we'll see

00:08:33.180 So we'll see about all of this, Andy

00:08:36.140 No sternum burnum

00:08:38.000 King bum ham

00:08:40.140 He's Guy Liner

00:08:42.840 Right

00:08:48.900 The second Brexit referendum is on the cards

00:08:52.000 It would be funny if there was a second Brexit referendum

00:08:54.960 And it won the leave

00:08:58.040 Or staying left

00:09:00.460 Staying out of the EU vote

00:09:03.260 Won in an even bigger win than last time

00:09:07.020 That would be funny

00:09:08.240 Okay

00:09:10.360 Burnham backs Man City owners after cheating round

00:09:13.660 Why? Why would he do that? That's weird

00:09:15.540 Remember yesterday, I know you guys don't like sports ball

00:09:17.800 But yesterday we talked all about the Man City fiasco

00:09:22.580 And that their owners, Dubai, or sorry Abu Dhabi owners 0.89

00:09:26.880 Just cheating, just corrupt

00:09:30.000 Just think the rules of the world don't apply to them

00:09:33.020 Andy Burnham backs them

00:09:35.520 Weird

00:09:37.340 Weird

00:09:38.660 Okay

00:09:41.220 Abuse victim flees UK

00:09:43.400 As her ex is freed early 1.00

00:09:45.620 Yeah, today is one of the days

00:09:47.520 One of the tranches

00:09:48.620 Of early releases

00:09:51.380 From prisons

00:09:52.540 That's what we're doing now in this country

00:09:54.320 That's what we're doing now

00:09:56.320 What an embarrassment

00:09:57.900 What a fail

00:09:58.940 As a society

00:10:01.060 As a government

00:10:02.040 That that's happening

00:10:03.300 Not building more prisons

00:10:04.420 Not deporting the thousands of foreign nationals 1.00

00:10:07.160 We've got in our prisons 1.00

00:10:10.540 Just letting them out early

00:10:12.740 Even quite violent people

00:10:15.620 Not just people that were convicted for tax fraud 0.98

00:10:18.020 A little old lady who didn't pay her licence fee 0.62

00:10:20.340 No, actual violent criminals 0.98

00:10:23.260 There's something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?

00:10:32.720 Terribly wrong

00:10:33.600 So much so that some of their victims

00:10:36.860 Just flee in the country

00:10:38.560 There's other reports in some of the other

00:10:40.360 Front pages

00:10:41.440 What a horrible thing

00:10:46.460 Okay

00:10:46.920 No tax rises to fund care plan

00:10:50.140 Val's PM

00:10:51.140 See it's all bluster, it's all nonsense

00:10:53.020 You may as well be in opposition

00:10:54.300 What you talking about mate 0.75

00:10:56.940 If you want to do that care plan

00:10:59.400 That NHS style care plan

00:11:01.320 Of course you'll have to raise taxes

00:11:03.680 You've already talked loads about it

00:11:05.880 And now you're saying no, no tax raises

00:11:07.640 Just trying to fiddle

00:11:09.680 Just trying to balance the news cycle on any given day 1.00

00:11:12.060 Pathetic, absolutely pathetic 1.00

00:11:13.800 It's not real leadership is it 1.00

00:11:15.260 You may as well be in opposition

00:11:17.640 I.e. you can just say what you want

00:11:19.500 Because you'll never have to do it

00:11:20.860 Or not imminently, not anytime soon

00:11:23.600 Would you have to actually do it

00:11:24.700 So you can sort of say whatever you want

00:11:26.360 Within reason

00:11:27.600 That's how he's conducting government it seems to me

00:11:31.060 at this stage just not believing really hardly anything he's saying at this point

00:11:35.700 or that he's got the ability to carry it out and get it done in time

00:11:41.940 just like in america or any country you get somewhere near you get a leader near the end of

00:11:46.420 their tenure they start talking big about big plans that take years and years and years it's like well

00:11:53.780 really

00:11:54.180 you don't have time for that you don't have the money or the time

00:12:00.620 okay diesel hits two pound a litre as refinery shuts down it's just a story of one particular

00:12:07.820 refinery in in hampshire i believe it was which is being closed down for like 10 weeks for

00:12:13.500 maintenance it's like scheduled maintenance but it's just not helping the price of diesel at all

00:12:19.800 Shall we check in with the price of oil actually

00:12:25.220 We usually do that after we do the front pages

00:12:27.480 But let's have a look

00:12:28.180 It's down again

00:12:30.640 Brent crude has dipped under $100

00:12:33.900 Touch over $97 a barrel for crude

00:12:38.840 Brent crude at the moment

00:12:40.000 West Texas, a shade under $90 a barrel

00:12:43.800 A fantastic amount more than when the war in Iran started

00:12:49.800 okay you're still paying all-time hires for diesel at the pump though aren't you

00:12:57.560 particularly diesel

00:12:59.700 all right the times the venerable times

00:13:05.240 pretty sloppy to be honest still burnham raises prospect of second referendum on brexit

00:13:13.040 see how that works out we'll see how that works out for him i don't think he's got

00:13:18.180 The time and the political capital

00:13:20.080 To do that

00:13:20.960 I really don't

00:13:22.080 I would love it if it came back

00:13:27.240 Way more than the last time

00:13:28.800 Love it

00:13:29.960 Alright this story about the Israeli 0.85

00:13:33.280 9-11 thing that's thwarted

00:13:35.200 Passenger stormed cockpit 0.84

00:13:36.820 To head off Israel's 9-11

00:13:38.980 What happened on the 9th of November 0.54

00:13:43.320 I don't know

00:13:44.380 Bad Jake

00:13:45.960 Terrorism

00:13:47.700 Terrorism suspected after co-pilot attacked Captain Netanyahu

00:13:53.080 He arose saved many lives

00:13:55.060 Okay

00:13:58.060 I think that's the pilot that got stabbed

00:14:01.380 And that's the attacker dude 1.00

00:14:03.500 From Oman

00:14:05.780 Apparently they're saying already in some other reports

00:14:09.180 What they know of him so far

00:14:11.340 You can believe anything that's being told to you these days really

00:14:15.700 That he's a religious extremist 1.00

00:14:18.500 Muslim of course 1.00

00:14:19.180 And 1.00

00:14:20.340 He like refuses to shake hands with women 1.00

00:14:23.400 That's very common 1.00

00:14:24.240 In the Islamic world 0.70

00:14:25.460 Very very common 1.00

00:14:26.400 Don't look at women 1.00

00:14:28.360 Won't meet their eye 1.00

00:14:29.220 Certainly wouldn't shake their hand

00:14:30.640 Or clap them on the shoulder

00:14:31.980 Or anything like that

00:14:33.000 Wouldn't dream of it

00:14:34.360 That's very very very common

00:14:36.940 That doesn't necessarily mean

00:14:38.140 You're an Islamic extremist 0.99

00:14:40.360 Just means you're 1.00

00:14:42.020 You're Islamic really 1.00

00:14:43.980 Make their women folk walk behind them 1.00

00:14:49.000 When they're walking down the street 1.00

00:14:50.160 The father and the sons walking ahead 1.00

00:14:54.160 The veiled women pushing the pram behind

00:14:58.180 Iran believed to be involved in Fairford Plot

00:15:07.700 PM says

00:15:08.700 Why have they been released on bail then

00:15:10.580 If that's the case

00:15:11.380 Riddle me that Batman

00:15:13.920 Why are they being released on bail then?

00:15:18.600 So

00:15:18.920 The curious case of the RAF Fairford

00:15:23.440 Bomb plot

00:15:24.780 Even though there wasn't a bomb apparently

00:15:26.500 There were barrels of petrol

00:15:28.020 Nate, Mr H Reviews did a segment

00:15:31.800 On the main podcast of Lotus Eaters yesterday

00:15:33.420 And then we recorded a very very similar

00:15:35.580 Almost identical segment for

00:15:37.540 State of Politics

00:15:38.580 Yesterday evening

00:15:40.980 And it will go up I suppose today

00:15:43.920 The details about the Fairford Clot get more and more strange, more and more odd.

00:16:02.060 You know, Trump's come out two, maybe even three times saying, yeah, these were bad men.

00:16:06.160 We, the Americans, have been watching them for a while.

00:16:08.560 We know all about them

00:16:09.420 When they were going to step in

00:16:12.400 And thwart any sort of plot

00:16:14.140 Who knows

00:16:14.960 But Trump said

00:16:17.840 They're aware of them

00:16:18.620 They're bad people 1.00

00:16:19.400 They're connected to Iran 1.00

00:16:20.920 Oh no actually

00:16:21.980 I don't think he explicitly said that

00:16:23.300 But Rubio came out and said

00:16:24.400 They're connected to foreign actors

00:16:26.120 Basically

00:16:27.280 Without explicitly saying it

00:16:28.940 Iran

00:16:29.380 And that

00:16:32.880 Rubio's saying

00:16:34.080 And Rubio should know

00:16:34.980 I mean head of the State Department

00:16:36.140 Right

00:16:37.420 should know well will know

00:16:39.860 and then now even burnham sort of falling in line with that a bit saying that it seems he's used

00:16:49.500 words like it seems he believes that there's a strong indication of etc etc that sort of language

00:16:54.540 connected to iran iran have said but i suppose they would one way or another they've said oh

00:17:00.340 this is nothing to do with us this is like a is a salacious lies or whatever it's nothing to do

00:17:05.860 us but they would say that one way or another okay our guys are saying increasingly saying

00:17:12.580 it was to do with iran whether it was proxies they paid actual british people a small amount

00:17:19.140 of money to do something like this yet the guys are we got the we've got the detail yesterday

00:17:26.420 didn't mean that one of one of them is supposed to have called the police even before that female

00:17:32.260 farmer woman coming back from a party late at night lives in that small village right near

00:17:38.140 Fairford. She would know everyone and everything that goes on in that village. Three weird vans 0.67

00:17:43.660 between five and ten, maybe as much as eight or ten guys, young fighting age black dudes milling 0.69

00:17:52.680 around these three suspicious vans. About an hour before she called in, one of them called the

00:17:58.960 police. Did he? The timeline doesn't add up. We were told she did that at about 1am, quarter

00:18:05.280 to 1, half past 12 at night, quarter to 1 in the morning. And then the news said he did

00:18:09.920 it at quarter to 1 in the morning, but that was an hour before she did. Wait, get your

00:18:13.440 story straight. Get your story straight. It's not adding up. And you, the police, their

00:18:19.920 normal Dostashire Constabulary, arrested them under bomb charges, but there was no bomb.

00:18:25.160 then they were re-arrested under

00:18:28.700 terrorism charges by the Met Police

00:18:31.500 but you're saying then there was no bomb

00:18:34.540 you released them on bail

00:18:37.480 quickly as well, quite quickly

00:18:39.500 within 48 hours or something, wasn't it?

00:18:41.920 of their original arrest

00:18:43.020 they're released on bail

00:18:44.080 but they are connected to Iran

00:18:47.100 what?

00:18:49.080 what? it's not making sense

00:18:50.260 it's not making any sense

00:18:52.100 is it?

00:18:53.880 this

00:18:54.200 extremely odd and the woman that female woman insisted didn't she that she saw more than five

00:19:01.580 between eight and ten she's insisting on that apparently the police haven't contacted her

00:19:06.040 the main witness the material witness they haven't contacted her

00:19:10.980 hmm beard strokey time now hmm very very odd apparently she called this there's some sort of

00:19:23.740 Special Fairford base hotline

00:19:25.220 If you see anything suspicious

00:19:26.280 See it, say it sorted

00:19:28.180 Sort of a thing

00:19:30.100 For an RAF base

00:19:31.260 She rang them

00:19:32.160 No one picked up

00:19:32.960 She rang the local police

00:19:35.040 No one picked up

00:19:35.960 Then she rang just the normal national 999

00:19:39.440 And then someone picked up

00:19:40.860 Hmm

00:19:41.720 Apparently the people in that village

00:19:43.840 Had been warned the day before

00:19:45.280 The day before that happened

00:19:47.520 That be on higher alert

00:19:49.120 We've got chatter

00:19:50.240 That something might go down

00:19:51.980 Be on high alert

00:19:52.780 so be on high alert because they think something might happen but then when you actually try and

00:19:59.860 ring the base or the local police no one picks up hmm and then the police haven't questioned

00:20:05.960 her or interviewed her in any way taking a statement from her apparently

00:20:08.400 doesn't really make any sense unless

00:20:13.240 unless you view it through the lens that it was some sort of failed false flag

00:20:23.680 it was either a dry run for or an actual false flag attempt that was foiled this this little

00:20:31.440 old lady i don't know if she's that old actually the woman the farmer woman she that wasn't part 0.98

00:20:36.800 of the plan that she would see them and call the normal police and the normal police would turn up

00:20:40.040 with with their smgs that wasn't part of the plan of it if you view it through that lens

00:20:49.080 it makes some sense it makes a little bit of sense if you take just the normal narrative

00:20:55.320 that we've been given so far doesn't doesn't make any sense doesn't add up

00:21:01.640 it's all kinds of weird weird okay pm criticized the ipaper pm criticized for his defense of man

00:21:15.760 city owners yeah why would you the fa and the and uefa have said the the the power brokers the money

00:21:24.740 men at man city have broken the rules to the tune of nearly a billion pounds i saw someone in the

00:21:31.400 chat yesterday, sorry, in the comments, say, what are you talking about? They're allowed

00:21:35.260 to spend their money. No, they're not. There's rules. There's rules. There's a cap on how

00:21:39.900 much you're allowed to spend. And they broke those rules. They're like, Lamel, you think

00:21:44.540 it's bad for people to spend legitimately got money on something they own? Yeah, there's

00:21:50.940 rules about it. The Abu Dhabi, these Arabs just didn't think the rules applied to them. 1.00

00:21:57.180 They'll just get around it in some other way. Well, no. So, but the Prime Minister's come 1.00

00:22:01.180 out and defended them. Why not? Why not? Okay. Hero passengers storm cockpit to save Israeli

00:22:17.280 flight from disaster. Do they? The Metro. This guy. We got him. Did you? Did you? The Guardian.

00:22:26.180 All right, Esther Ransom. Esther Ransom's died. She was in her 80s, right? Yeah, mid-80s.

00:22:33.420 And she's a national treasure. I mean, was she? She's very good friends with Jimmy Savile

00:22:37.820 and downplayed his crimes.

00:22:43.660 She advocated for the ability for the state to end your life early.

00:22:49.620 Esther Ranson

00:22:55.660 The son

00:22:57.760 Esther Ranson again

00:22:58.660 Looking young there

00:22:59.720 That was a great life Esther

00:23:02.080 If you don't know

00:23:02.860 There was a show in the 1970s

00:23:04.420 Before my time even

00:23:05.500 Called That's Life 0.98

00:23:06.680 Look she's got a clipboard

00:23:07.780 With That's Life on it

00:23:08.760 Look how long ago this was

00:23:10.880 The actual 70s

00:23:12.560 That was a great life Esther

00:23:16.200 As long as you weren't

00:23:17.040 One of Savile's victims

00:23:17.960 Yeah

00:23:18.260 The star

00:23:20.420 She was our sunshine

00:23:22.520 Was she?

00:23:25.760 The Express

00:23:26.180 It's a good paper

00:23:26.960 You can read your Express now

00:23:28.180 Esther gave us

00:23:29.160 Endless capacity for joy

00:23:30.540 If you say so

00:23:31.920 The mirror

00:23:33.280 Esther

00:23:33.980 See you on the other side

00:23:35.240 Yeah

00:23:35.540 It's a real shame

00:23:36.260 Yeah

00:23:36.520 Okay

00:23:37.400 The Financial Times

00:23:39.960 Hijack alarm

00:23:42.400 Passengers arrive in Israel 1.00

00:23:44.020 Look they're all safe and sound

00:23:45.220 Israeli 9-11 was

00:23:47.500 was thwarted strong indications that's a quote strong indications iran was involved in fairford

00:23:56.700 instant warns burnham you probably want to pick them up then if they're out on bail probably want

00:24:01.580 to pick them up then don't you re-arrest them re-re-arrest them then why are you saying that

00:24:06.960 if that's not true why are you saying it if it is true surely you want them in custody

00:24:12.080 For further questioning

00:24:15.180 You couldn't have questioned them that much

00:24:17.360 In the first instance

00:24:19.480 Why are they out?

00:24:20.700 If that's true

00:24:21.460 Why are they out?

00:24:25.360 It's a pretty straightforward question isn't it?

00:24:30.000 PM echoes Rubio claim

00:24:31.840 It does now yeah

00:24:32.840 Suspicion rises of proxy attack

00:24:36.640 Poxy attack

00:24:39.060 Tehran decries malicious speculation

00:24:44.040 There's something so weird about this Fairford thing

00:24:58.800 PM open to rejoining EU

00:25:03.160 Oh good for him, I'm glad he is

00:25:04.820 As summit avoids risk of made-in-Europe clash

00:25:09.100 Imagine we rejoined Europe just before France and Germany left it

00:25:14.440 Imagine that

00:25:15.240 Because the AFD, they're in the ascendancy in France, aren't they?

00:25:20.080 Alternative for Deutschland

00:25:21.320 They're in the ascendancy in France

00:25:24.320 Whether they'll be the government, sorry, in Germany

00:25:26.840 They'll be the government, sorry

00:25:29.420 They may or may not be the full government of Germany 1.00

00:25:32.360 with that woman leader they've got as the Chancellor of Germany 1.00

00:25:35.700 in the next, what, three years? 0.99

00:25:37.880 I think they don't have full elections for who's the Chancellor and Leader of Germany

00:25:41.000 for another three years, or maybe he's in four years, anyway.

00:25:44.000 They are in the ascendancy, and it's their policy

00:25:46.020 to very, very, very seriously look at leaving the entire European project.

00:25:51.440 National rally in France, Marine Le Pen,

00:25:55.020 she will be president after Macron, what, early next year,

00:25:58.540 almost certainly, unless there's some sort of insane scandal,

00:26:01.160 Some insane set of events

00:26:03.240 All the polls show she'll win it quite easily 1.00

00:26:06.300 It's her policy

00:26:09.140 Not to necessarily just unilaterally leave the European project

00:26:12.900 But to stop giving it tonnes and tonnes of money

00:26:15.880 Because all the bigger, richer countries are net contributors to it

00:26:19.740 Britain was, wasn't it?

00:26:20.600 They give way more money to it than they take out

00:26:23.960 And that she said she's just going to stop doing that

00:26:26.840 She's just going to stop doing that

00:26:30.120 that weakens Europe massively massively both the main parties the European project really is always

00:26:39.120 has been always was France and Germany that's what it is that's what it always was it was a

00:26:46.160 club for them by them and both of them have got massively cold feet or the political parties that

00:26:54.840 in the ascendancy i've got massive cold feet about it imagine if we rejoined just before they

00:27:01.800 decided to just back away slowly like homer into the hedge

00:27:07.800 and then we rejoined it at that point bizarre andy burnham's he's really really has got

00:27:18.360 some sort of arrested development his mind his political acumen if if you can even call it hasn't

00:27:24.440 got any political acumen, has he? He's got a mind stuck in anti-Thatcher 1980s, an anti-Thatcher

00:27:31.840 1980s paradigm. His mind's just stuck into that. I honestly believe it feels like on

00:27:37.680 every level, I've said this before, I've probably said it loads more times, that at some point

00:27:41.780 when he was probably about 15 or 16, maybe a little younger, someone just said, the Tories

00:27:47.700 are bad, Mrs Thatcher is bad, privatisation is bad, capitalism is bad, socialism is good,

00:27:53.560 the Labour Party is good, being a red is good, nationalisation of things is good 0.99

00:27:59.700 and his little mind just went click, yep that's it 0.99

00:28:03.880 that's my politics for the rest of my life

00:28:08.500 I don't need to know anything else or learn anything else or understand the world

00:28:12.200 in any more nuance than that

00:28:14.000 being part of a European project is good

00:28:17.600 That's Andy Burnham

00:28:22.660 That's who he is

00:28:23.820 A child

00:28:27.040 A child LARPing 0.64

00:28:29.520 As a grown man and a leader of men

00:28:31.520 He's not a leader of men is he 0.96

00:28:33.220 He's a claymation turtle 0.98

00:28:39.920 With eyeliner on

00:28:40.940 Alright the Daily Mail

00:28:42.700 Esther Rance has passed away

00:28:43.800 Oh dear 1.00

00:28:45.000 Kemi to stop school leavers going straight on the dole.

00:28:49.560 Olukemi Badenok, Olukemi Olufentu Badenok, the Nigerian anchor baby, 0.91

00:28:53.440 whose mum came here just to take advantage of the NHS 0.99

00:28:55.940 and then anchor herself to this country and become a parasite, 0.99

00:28:59.800 who really should go back to Nigeria and get involved in Nigerian politics, 1.00

00:29:03.260 the land of her forefathers.

00:29:04.620 What she's doing here, LARPing as the leader of the opposition, is bizarre.

00:29:09.020 Olukemi Olufentu Badenok, the Nigerian woman,

00:29:12.220 says she'll stop school leavers going straight on the dole.

00:29:16.220 As Burnham lurches further left and talks of second Brexit referendum,

00:29:21.220 Tories launch bid to stop young lives being wasted.

00:29:25.220 Don't care what the Tories do or say.

00:29:30.220 Not interested at all in their policies, their plan for government.

00:29:36.220 Not interested. Don't like them, don't trust them.

00:29:42.220 I'm not interested anymore, they had their chance, they've ruined this country since the war, since World War II.

00:29:49.540 If you look back at all the lists of Prime Ministers on the state of politics, over the previous few months,

00:29:56.400 I've been doing one video a week on Sundays, looking at each Prime Minister since Attlee, since the end of World War II.

00:30:02.880 Anyway, if you look at that list, it's largely Tory governments with a few blips of Labour in between.

00:30:09.340 Mostly Tories, really.

00:30:12.220 And if you look at it through that lens, zoom out a bit, the Toys have basically ruined

00:30:19.180 this country, ruined our industry, ruined the economy, ruined our demographic, ruined 1.00

00:30:27.060 the fabric of our society, and they still want to be in government with some Nigerian 1.00

00:30:33.220 woman now, who was gloating not that long ago about all the foreign student visas, the 1.00

00:30:40.180 The more foreign people she was able to cram into this country 0.89

00:30:43.180 Only a few short years ago when she was in government 1.00

00:30:47.180 Gloating about that in parliament

00:30:50.180 When she thought that's how the political winds were going

00:30:54.180 And now, now she's really based

00:30:56.180 Now she really cares about young people

00:31:00.180 And about the immigration crisis 1.00

00:31:02.180 Don't believe it 1.00

00:31:03.180 Not for a second

00:31:05.180 Not for a second

00:31:07.180 The Tory party

00:31:10.180 are enemies of the people.

00:31:12.200 I mean, look at Gove or Rhys-Mogg.

00:31:16.180 They're true colours.

00:31:18.180 They're true colours. 0.88

00:31:20.160 They want us demographically replaced.

00:31:23.200 They seem to want that.

00:31:27.640 Evil.

00:31:28.920 Enemies of the people. 1.00

00:31:30.760 The native people. 1.00

00:31:34.060 Okay. 1.00

00:31:36.620 Meh.

00:31:37.700 C'est la guerre.

00:31:39.140 They're the front pages for today. Increasingly absurd and frustrating front pages.

00:31:46.100 All right, let's see what other stories we've got. Was there anything of interest? Oh yeah,

00:31:50.420 this woman. So this woman in America murdered another woman years ago. Like in the 1990s, 0.99

00:31:56.660 she murdered one of her friends. Well, friends. She murdered someone, another woman, back in the

00:32:03.380 90s she's finally and she's sentenced to death they kept on death row for yonks and then was

00:32:10.820 finally given in that particular state it was a lethal injection and they did a lethal injection

00:32:18.020 it didn't work they gave her another one it didn't work and at that point sort of her lawyers i think

00:32:25.540 stepped in was like this is a botched execution stop stop everything so i guess they've got a

00:32:31.620 a legal right at that point or something so they take her away to a hospital and try and revive her

00:32:36.940 and stuff i mean okay it's a bit morbid i know but interested in executions being a history nerd

00:32:48.120 some point you're going to get interested in executions there's a great podcast actually

00:32:52.340 brilliant podcast by dan carling the podfather called uh pain for attainment like a long-form

00:32:58.180 thing two three four hours i once did a conversation with dan carling the dan carling of hardcore

00:33:04.260 history fame it's on it's like an hour and 40 odd minutes me chatting with dan the dan carlin it's

00:33:09.860 on history bro my channel there it's not behind a paywall it's just there on youtube right now

00:33:15.780 well an hour and 40 minutes of me chatting with dan carlin about all sorts of things

00:33:20.900 yes um he did a brilliant podcast once called painful entertainment about the history

00:33:25.540 of executions particularly public executions and public torture and stuff anyway i know a little

00:33:31.060 bit about the lethal injection and um it seems odd it's not like they couldn't there's certain

00:33:39.140 drugs aren't there certain chemicals if you inject it into you you would lose consciousness

00:33:43.700 consciousness very quickly and die very very quickly that sort of thing exists that's not

00:33:48.740 what they do it's like a combination of different injections and um like to numb you up and to

00:33:55.540 to uh paralyze your diaphragm so you stop breathing and it's just it seems a little

00:34:02.120 bit over complicated to me the exact details of a lethal injection execution in one or two states

00:34:08.660 in the united states um because different states have got different rules right in a lot of states

00:34:14.400 there is no execution in some it's all different things like is there any state i should know this

00:34:20.260 off the top of my head. They still do the electric chair in some states. They still

00:34:24.540 have the gas chamber. Didn't California have the gas chamber? They still got that. Anyway,

00:34:31.120 some states are, some of these shot you, they shoot you. Some are hanging, are they? Anyway,

00:34:39.340 in that state, it was lethal injection. It just didn't work. Oh, didn't work. Watched.

00:34:47.240 Anyway, there's a fair bit in the news about that today on the website.

00:34:51.080 Look, there you go.

00:34:52.200 Same story. 1.00

00:34:57.180 There she is, that woman. 1.00

00:34:59.940 Yeah, the cops are complaining, rightly.

00:35:02.740 There's just not enough cops on the road with officers as prisoners set to be freed early.

00:35:08.980 Yeah, there's just not enough cops here.

00:35:10.740 What are you doing releasing loads and loads of prisoners early? 0.91

00:35:14.900 Mad. 1.00

00:35:15.320 That woman, an older picture 1.00

00:35:17.060 Satanist killer Christina Pike 0.92

00:35:20.080 Survives two lethal injections 0.68

00:35:22.020 In boxed execution

00:35:23.400 And is rushed to hospital

00:35:25.160 To receive medical care 1.00

00:35:26.740 And that was the woman she killed 0.86

00:35:29.660 Girl she killed

00:35:32.080 Alright, that's in the news circle today

00:35:38.040 Sorry about Harry and Meghan

00:35:40.440 Don't care

00:35:41.160 Alright, let's move on to

00:35:42.640 On this day in history

00:35:43.560 Oh, we did a poll though

00:35:44.840 we do our poll don't we oh harry's taking them over the mouse have you okay let me just quickly

00:35:52.160 move to on this day in history though because most mornings just to let you know my sort of routine

00:35:57.960 most mornings i don't look at on this day in history i'm just reacting to it in real time

00:36:05.860 occasionally i do sometimes i have a quick glance before before the show goes up but anyway this

00:36:15.040 morning was one of those mornings i had a quick glance and uh i saw there was it looked like a

00:36:19.580 good day for me in terms of the the factoids they've got and i mentioned both alexander and

00:36:26.620 napoleon um and that's a classic history nerds question to ask the thing the question if you

00:36:34.160 could go back in time and have a conversation sit down have a drink with or a meal with and talk to

00:36:39.940 anyone from history who would it be don't worry about that you can't speak the same language

00:36:43.640 assume you've just got a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy little fish in your ear and you can

00:36:47.380 all understand each other just assume that um who would it be i've often said my go-to answer

00:36:56.940 might be alexander but um so on the poll today we thought we'd do something a little bit different

00:37:03.840 rather than just ask you about, did you like Esther Ransom?

00:37:07.340 Have you even heard of Esther Ransom?

00:37:09.100 Are you young and or foreign?

00:37:10.600 And of course you've never even heard of Esther Ransom.

00:37:15.380 Okay, so I just thought I'd ask you a history one.

00:37:18.440 All right, nearly 900 odd votes.

00:37:19.920 We asked you, would you rather have a conversation with

00:37:22.040 Alexander the Great or Napoleon Bonaparte?

00:37:25.120 And Secunda, Alexander wins easily, 75% to 25%.

00:37:31.400 Yeah.

00:37:31.680 i think i would have i would well i would have clicked alexander had that been me if i've been

00:37:36.280 taking that poll yeah he might be my first pick if i could pick anyone

00:37:39.960 okay so that's the poll all right now on this day in history let's have a look

00:37:46.820 down through the centuries they nay the millennia on this day what happened of note the 1st of

00:37:52.620 october okay well on this day in 331 bc alexander the great defeats darius the third of persia in

00:38:00.660 the Battle of Gorgamela, one of the all-time pivotal battles, Gorgamela. You want a short

00:38:14.540 audio book length account of me and Carl Benjamin chatting about the life and times of Alexander

00:38:21.060 the Great. You want that? About five hours. Not exaggerating that. About five hours, short

00:38:26.900 audiobook level, me quoting from the original sources, Arian, Curtius, Deodorus, Plutarch,

00:38:37.320 oh yeah, oh yeah, quote heavily from Arian and Plutarch in that one, do you want that,

00:38:46.520 it's on that channel, History Bro, there, it's not behind the paywall, five hours, me

00:38:50.480 and Carl, chatting about Alexander the Great, okay, Alexander the Great, one of my all-time

00:38:56.040 favourite figures is one of the first people in history I became obsessed with as a child,

00:39:01.940 obsessed, it's a bit strong, a bit strong, but just when I heard about it, I don't know about

00:39:07.560 you guys if you're a history fan from a young age, you hear about someone from history and it's like

00:39:12.500 oh wow, tell me everything about that. I remember being told there was once a man in ancient times

00:39:19.200 before the Romans, not actually before the Romans, but before the Roman Republic was gigantic anyway,

00:39:24.500 who conquered the world he didn't conquer the world he just conquered a big chunk of

00:39:30.460 the known world anyway he conquered the world alexander nothing and no one could stand in his

00:39:37.160 way he's an unstoppable force he's one of the greatest generals ever to have lived

00:39:42.280 and then he died young the romance of that like john lennon or heath ledger

00:39:48.600 tell me more tell me more what happened what are the details of that how did he do that

00:39:54.960 he's only about 19 when he started his campaigns what tell me more about that okay

00:40:02.320 5331 bc well he's already he's already gone down through the levant he's already conquered

00:40:10.540 like the near the the the mediterranean coast of the near east he's already done his siege of

00:40:17.200 Tyre famous siege of Tyre he's already conquered Egypt thank you very much he's already had the

00:40:23.140 battle of Issus where he defeated Darius III and the Persian army the great Persian army

00:40:27.880 one time but Darius got away got away he's already done all of that he's actually had

00:40:35.480 another battle before that where he'd beaten him so this is the third of the three and final

00:40:40.460 and pivotal last of the three great battles that Alexander had with the Persians and it's deep in

00:40:46.900 Into Mesopotamia

00:40:48.360 I mean he's

00:40:48.800 He's crossed the Euphrates

00:40:50.220 And the Tigris

00:40:51.200 Yeah it's on the eastern side

00:40:52.980 Of the Tigris 0.97

00:40:53.880 So he's deep inside Babylon

00:40:57.180 Babylon 0.59

00:40:57.880 Mesopotamia

00:40:58.880 Modern day Iraq

00:41:00.300 The Persian Empire

00:41:02.660 The ancient Persian Empire

00:41:03.580 And he's outnumbered

00:41:05.940 Alexander's outnumbered

00:41:06.980 Of course

00:41:07.440 Comes up against

00:41:11.600 Darius III

00:41:13.140 At the pivotal time

00:41:14.820 The wings attack each other

00:41:17.920 It's touch and go

00:41:20.960 Alexander decides to make it look like

00:41:25.720 There's a weakness in his centre

00:41:27.660 Darius does a good push 1.00

00:41:30.460 On the Macedonian centre 1.00

00:41:32.560 But it doesn't work, it was a trap 1.00

00:41:34.200 It was a clever ploy 1.00

00:41:36.460 Alexander sees that in the Persian centre 0.98

00:41:40.420 the

00:41:42.340 the king himself

00:41:45.080 the emperor Darius III

00:41:47.180 not emperor

00:41:47.580 the king

00:41:48.220 the great king

00:41:48.940 Darius III himself

00:41:50.260 is in a slightly weakened position

00:41:52.780 in the centre

00:41:54.020 so Alexander

00:41:55.380 and his companion cavalry

00:41:57.500 with his bronze sword

00:42:01.420 and his golden crown

00:42:02.560 leads a cavalry charge

00:42:05.160 straight at Darius' centre

00:42:08.020 and at Darius himself

00:42:09.440 Alexander at the point

00:42:13.460 Of a cavalry charge 0.93

00:42:15.920 The hegemon of all Greece 0.53

00:42:19.960 The king of Macedon 0.55

00:42:21.340 The pharaoh of Egypt 0.76

00:42:24.620 The master of the Near East

00:42:26.280 Personally leading a cavalry charge

00:42:28.720 What? Really?

00:42:33.600 Well, if you believe the accounts of

00:42:35.500 Arian, Curtius and Plutarch

00:42:37.440 Yeah

00:42:37.940 But Alexander got himself cut down in that

00:42:42.980 He was killed because it was too impetuous

00:42:45.100 It was too brave

00:42:45.740 Oh no wait, that's not wrong

00:42:46.900 It was a brilliant success and he won the battle

00:42:48.680 What?

00:42:52.360 You can expect the person that's at the front of a cavalry charge

00:42:55.000 To get killed

00:42:55.940 Sort of like a forlorn hope thing 0.99

00:42:59.400 You can expect to get cut down 0.72

00:43:01.080 Not Alexander

00:43:03.560 The god of war, Mars, oh sorry, Ares

00:43:06.480 Was with him

00:43:07.660 That day 1.00

00:43:10.020 Okay, and the Persian centre breaks and flees 1.00

00:43:15.840 Darius himself actually gets away 0.99

00:43:18.760 He does get away again

00:43:20.320 But the Persian army is completely routed

00:43:24.060 And there's no more big battles 0.95

00:43:28.220 They can't raise another big army to

00:43:30.660 Defeat the Macedonian, the Greek Macedonian Coalition army

00:43:34.640 so alexander wins the persian empire basically he does have to spend another few years chasing

00:43:41.520 darius all across the middle east eventually he chases him up into bactria which is like modern

00:43:49.180 day afghanistan really all the way across modern persia he gets to persephalus their capital burns

00:43:55.000 it down of course he does gets drunk that night and his mates say why don't we just burn this 0.76

00:44:01.580 place down and he's like yeah go on then yeah all right i wasn't getting but all right now you've

00:44:05.820 said it he's getting them back for what xerxes did to athens like 150 years earlier

00:44:20.540 all right he does eventually track down darius

00:44:25.420 in the vastnesses of bacteria

00:44:27.420 And gets him

00:44:30.640 I think Darius was in the last

00:44:32.620 In the last reckoning

00:44:33.680 Was murdered wasn't he

00:44:35.500 By one of his own

00:44:36.620 By someone up in Bactria

00:44:38.620 Just before Alexander got to him

00:44:40.020 Alexander never caught him alive

00:44:41.800 Or anything

00:44:43.100 Alright

00:44:45.600 The Battle of Gorgamela

00:44:46.720 I've talked about that for maybe a bit too long

00:44:49.880 Absolute pivotal point

00:44:52.900 In the whole ancient world

00:44:54.020 Perhaps the history of man

00:44:55.320 How different, like the whole Hellenisation of the East would have been different

00:45:01.220 The whole history

00:45:02.940 History would have been different

00:45:05.540 Had that battle gone differently, I think

00:45:08.140 Alright, what else have we got?

00:45:12.720 On this day in 1688, Prince William of Orange accepts the invitation to take up the British crown

00:45:18.580 He accepts the invitation, that's a funny way of putting it

00:45:21.180 God, there's so much here, isn't there?

00:45:23.200 These are very rich factoids today

00:45:25.740 Well, it's all part of the story of what, James II

00:45:28.820 And the Glorious Revolution

00:45:30.400 And all that jazz

00:45:31.860 James II

00:45:34.140 The brother of Charles II

00:45:36.380 He was a Catholic, wasn't he?

00:45:42.140 By the late 17th century

00:45:43.800 We didn't really like Catholics in this country anymore 1.00

00:45:46.160 We'd had the reformation of Henry VIII 1.00

00:45:51.060 And Edward VI

00:45:52.520 and Queen Elizabeth, we'd had the Puritan, we'd had a civil war, hadn't we? We'd had

00:46:00.460 a civil war, we had the Puritan Age. By the late 17th century, we're not interested much 0.97

00:46:09.240 in having a Catholic king. James II was massively unpopular, just massively unpopular. Rebellion

00:46:17.720 in scotland rebellion in england eventually parliament there's so much more to this story

00:46:23.000 it's a massive massive massive rabbit hole really really really deep rabbit hole but

00:46:26.760 eventually parliament was like we don't want you i'm doing very broad strokes of the brush here

00:46:32.600 eventually a small actually relatively small clique in parliament lords was like

00:46:38.520 should we conduct a coup de tar against this guy

00:46:40.760 And they did

00:46:43.600 Anyway they did

00:46:44.280 The Glorious Revolution

00:46:45.320 They say Mary, his daughter

00:46:47.980 And her husband, William of Orange 0.90

00:46:50.540 A Dutchman of course

00:46:51.580 You can be monarchs next

00:46:54.520 But you do have to sign these things

00:46:56.660 In this order

00:46:57.500 Saying that ultimate power

00:47:01.000 Lies in parliament

00:47:03.060 Not in the crown 0.95

00:47:04.180 Ultimate, ultimate, ultimate power

00:47:05.620 You're not going to be absolute monarchs

00:47:10.760 you're going to have a constitutional monarchy

00:47:15.480 and william and uh mary were like yeah okay okay then

00:47:23.240 well william of orange leads an army across the across the narrow seas and james doesn't even try

00:47:31.400 and raise an army to fight it he just flees change a second

00:47:35.320 and then and then he's butthurt about that for the rest of his life and even his son

00:47:43.940 the young pretender the story goes on and on and on where do you end um but william of orange yeah

00:47:50.480 becomes king basically king of england is not it you know like you can have the duke of edinburgh

00:47:57.220 the queen elizabeth ii's husband he wasn't king was he he was merely the duke of edinburgh he was

00:48:02.580 Merely a royal consul

00:48:03.720 He wasn't king

00:48:04.540 Well there was some

00:48:07.260 Who are about

00:48:07.780 Whether William of Orange

00:48:08.560 Should be king

00:48:09.120 Whether he should just be

00:48:09.860 The royal consul

00:48:11.040 Mary's

00:48:11.800 Merely Mary's 0.98

00:48:13.380 Husband 0.78

00:48:14.000 Or whether he should be king

00:48:15.220 But he was made king

00:48:16.140 He was a king

00:48:16.700 Alright

00:48:20.940 Alright there's so much more

00:48:23.240 That can be said

00:48:23.680 Famously fell off his horse

00:48:25.860 And died didn't he

00:48:26.580 Well that's the story

00:48:28.400 Is it apocryphal

00:48:29.220 His horse tripped

00:48:30.860 On a molehill

00:48:31.740 And threw him

00:48:33.100 And it wounded him

00:48:34.300 And he didn't get better from it and died

00:48:36.400 There's so much more

00:48:39.640 To that story

00:48:41.760 Okay what else have we got

00:48:42.880 On this day in 1814

00:48:44.020 The Congress of Vienna opens

00:48:45.380 To redraw Europe's political map

00:48:47.620 After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

00:48:49.500 The first defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

00:48:52.160 Do you think I've got long form content

00:48:53.400 All about Napoleon

00:48:54.140 You know I have

00:48:55.120 If you watch the Bo Show

00:48:56.020 Harry

00:48:57.120 Oh

00:48:58.760 if you go over to lotusseaters.com our website

00:49:04.980 and you became a member there subscription there the lowest tier is five pound a month

00:49:12.120 but for that on that tier you get access to everything that's behind the paywall

00:49:16.100 it's a ridiculous tiering system to be honest it's insanely generous

00:49:20.400 the lowest tier and you get everything behind the paywall

00:49:23.480 Well, as far as it was £5 a month

00:49:26.560 I've got hundreds of hours

00:49:28.380 Without exaggeration

00:49:29.220 Quite literally without exaggeration

00:49:30.560 Hundreds of hours of history themed content

00:49:32.220 On my history themed show

00:49:33.960 Bodade's Epochs

00:49:35.080 Body of work built up over more than five years

00:49:37.700 A long form series

00:49:42.460 Like a nine part series about Napoleon

00:49:44.380 Well, after he was defeated

00:49:48.220 For the first time

00:49:49.480 After the Battle of Waterloo

00:49:50.980 Oh sorry, sorry

00:49:51.760 No, not after the Battle of Waterloo

00:49:52.780 Sorry

00:49:53.020 He was defeated for the first time, retreated from the Russians

00:49:55.840 All the way to Paris and was forced to abdicate

00:49:58.460 And put on the Isle of Elba

00:50:01.900 As a prisoner 0.96

00:50:03.140 Made emperor of the Isle of Elba

00:50:05.620 Then all the winning powers

00:50:09.300 Mainly the Prussians, the Russians and the British

00:50:12.300 Got together at the Congress of Vienna

00:50:14.240 To decide how to

00:50:16.140 Exactly that, redraw the map of Europe

00:50:18.420 What to do with Napoleon's empire

00:50:21.600 And it took months and months and months

00:50:24.600 To wrangle all of that

00:50:26.060 Like a Treaty of Versailles

00:50:27.440 100 years before

00:50:28.780 More than 100 years before

00:50:29.920 Whilst that was going on

00:50:32.500 Napoleon escaped

00:50:34.980 And had his famous 100 days

00:50:37.200 Of fighting his way back up through France

00:50:40.180 Building a new army

00:50:42.580 And confronting the armies

00:50:45.100 That were already there in Europe

00:50:46.300 And then he was defeated

00:50:49.740 At the Battle of Waterloo

00:50:51.600 and then sent off to St Helena and he never came back and that was the end of that.

00:50:56.080 So they actually basically just interrupted the Congress of Vienna in order to beat Napoleon again,

00:51:03.040 then after he was defeated again for the second time they went back to the Congress of Vienna

00:51:08.480 and continued, picked up where they'd left off. Anyway, Congress of Vienna is really important

00:51:15.200 for European history, 19th century European history. I mean it even has an impact on like

00:51:19.600 the whole story of bismarck and even the whole story of world war one and all sorts of things

00:51:24.240 it's an important thing the congress of vienna it really is i think i've got long

00:51:30.000 form content on it talking with apostolic majesty have i i don't even know there's so

00:51:37.200 much content now i can't even remember all of it it's a humble brag didn't mean it to me

00:51:43.440 genuinely can't remember it all okay on this day in 1867 karl marx

00:51:51.600 publishes das kapital in berlin describing the capitalist system its instability and its

00:51:57.360 tendency towards self-destruction in his opinion sorry on this day in history shouldn't you have

00:52:01.680 added in marx's opinion there i'm one of the few people you might meet who's actually read big bits

00:52:10.320 of Das Kapital.

00:52:12.400 I've never read it cover from cover.

00:52:13.840 I own a copy.

00:52:14.460 It's really thick.

00:52:15.060 It's like that thick.

00:52:15.880 It's like a doorstop.

00:52:16.920 It's like a...

00:52:17.920 It's a giant brick of a book.

00:52:21.740 A real tome.

00:52:23.780 Lots of people claim to have read it.

00:52:25.660 Not many people have.

00:52:27.320 Lots of people claim to have read Hegel.

00:52:29.880 Doubt that you have.

00:52:34.920 I actually have read big chunks of Das Kapital.

00:52:38.360 But again, not cover to cover.

00:52:40.320 Look when he's writing it though

00:52:43.300 In the mid-19th century

00:52:44.760 Or just after the

00:52:45.940 Halfway point roughly of the 19th century

00:52:48.320 He's been working on it for years

00:52:49.520 Years and years and years

00:52:50.760 Very lazy man actually, Karl Marx

00:52:52.860 Despite the fact that he did come out with a massive tome

00:52:55.740 It's just wrong, in my opinion

00:52:59.340 It's just all sorts of wrong

00:53:00.760 His analysis, his view of history is wrong

00:53:03.900 His view of economy is incorrect

00:53:06.940 It was almost out of date by the time he's writing it

00:53:10.180 It certainly doesn't map on or make sense

00:53:13.020 For the 20th century, let alone the 21st century

00:53:15.800 It certainly doesn't map on to 0.97

00:53:18.620 A non-industrialised country like China

00:53:21.660 Like 20th century China, early 20th century China 0.99

00:53:24.720 Or a Russia

00:53:27.440 Which is barely industrialised 0.83

00:53:29.820 Or not properly industrialised

00:53:31.020 He was talking about countries like Germany and Britain and France

00:53:33.920 Even then it was out of date by the mid-19th century

00:53:37.760 His view

00:53:38.340 His concept of value

00:53:42.980 It's just wrong

00:53:44.620 It's just straight up wrong

00:53:46.040 It doesn't make sense

00:53:47.160 Once a twice

00:53:52.780 Sometimes

00:53:53.820 It was ages ago

00:53:54.960 Months ago

00:53:55.460 Sometimes you get crazy people

00:53:56.960 In the chat

00:53:57.480 Crazy crazy rightoids 0.85

00:54:00.460 That will even accuse me 0.97

00:54:02.340 Of being like a leftist

00:54:03.460 Or something

00:54:03.880 Once a twice

00:54:06.220 I saw someone said

00:54:06.840 Bo's a Marxist

00:54:08.200 So I said, no mate, no, no

00:54:12.160 I don't know where they would get that from

00:54:14.100 I don't know what could even give them the impression

00:54:16.000 That that might be the case

00:54:17.600 But no, I did a Masters in Politics

00:54:21.700 Masters degree in Political Philosophy

00:54:24.360 Political Economy, Political Sociology

00:54:26.680 That sort of thing

00:54:27.920 Government Policy and Politics

00:54:30.160 Looking at Public Policy, all sorts of things

00:54:31.960 Had to read big chunks of Das Kapital

00:54:34.700 And other things Marx had wrote, the Communist Manifesto

00:54:36.760 I had to look at Max Weber, who criticised Marx at the time, or shortly after.

00:54:41.820 Max Weber's criticism of Marx is very, very good.

00:54:45.840 No, I'm not a Marxist.

00:54:48.260 Marx was profoundly wrong within his own lifetime.

00:54:54.040 All right, could bang on and on and on about how wrong-headed Marx is,

00:55:00.040 his view of history.

00:55:04.200 All right.

00:55:04.880 on this day in 1809 henry ford introduces the model t car priced at 825 dollars it's quite a

00:55:13.020 lot money isn't it for 1908 it'd have to be quite well to do to afford a model t although look at

00:55:20.200 that a horseless carriage the creme de la creme of the brand new horseless carriage and you can

00:55:26.140 have it in any color you like as long as it's black

00:55:28.980 That was one of his lines

00:55:36.300 Get it in any colour you like 1.00

00:55:39.360 As long as it's black 0.99

00:55:40.100 I talked about 0.78

00:55:40.760 I talked briefly

00:55:41.300 Didn't I about Henry Ford

00:55:42.200 The other day

00:55:42.680 Very very interesting man

00:55:43.840 Not a very nice man

00:55:44.940 Interpersonally

00:55:46.120 I wouldn't necessarily

00:55:47.260 Want to sit down

00:55:47.860 And have a conversation with him

00:55:48.780 But

00:55:49.000 An interesting life

00:55:51.260 Certainly

00:55:52.280 Okay

00:55:53.600 On this day in 1918 0.99

00:55:54.960 A combined Arab

00:55:56.260 And British force

00:55:57.120 Including Lawrence of Arabia

00:55:58.520 T.E. Lawrence

00:55:59.440 captures Damascus 0.69

00:56:01.040 from the Ottoman Empire

00:56:02.440 during World War I

00:56:03.520 Do you think there's long form content

00:56:10.920 of me and Luca

00:56:11.600 Luca Johnson of Lotus Eater's fame

00:56:14.480 me and him sitting down

00:56:16.340 I think three or is it four

00:56:17.480 possibly five

00:56:18.420 certainly four parts

00:56:19.680 so again a small audio book level

00:56:22.260 of detail

00:56:23.280 me and Luca talking about

00:56:24.760 the life and times and adventures

00:56:26.560 of Lawrence of Arabia

00:56:27.540 T.E. Lawrence

00:56:28.280 Quoting heavily from his memoir

00:56:31.360 Seven Pillars of Wisdom

00:56:32.780 Yeah

00:56:36.160 Have I read Seven Pillars of Wisdom

00:56:38.500 Like what, four times?

00:56:39.980 Listened to it on audiobook another two or three times?

00:56:43.220 I know the story of Lawrence of Arabia

00:56:45.520 Absolutely inside out

00:56:46.960 Yeah, I even did a bit of content

00:56:48.880 Did I with

00:56:49.600 Is it with Morgoth?

00:56:55.160 I can't remember

00:56:55.900 I had another long-form conversation with someone else about Lawrence of Arabia as well one time.

00:57:02.000 I can't remember if it was Morgoth.

00:57:03.060 Was it Morgoth?

00:57:03.800 Anyway.

00:57:07.760 I've only been on with Morgoth once.

00:57:09.580 We talked about something.

00:57:10.620 I can't remember what it was.

00:57:11.420 God, see.

00:57:12.240 Memory's failing me.

00:57:14.000 You know.

00:57:17.000 Great story.

00:57:18.680 The story of the war in the East.

00:57:19.980 World War I in the East.

00:57:21.280 basically the story of the ottomans versus the british and the french the ottomans pushing into

00:57:29.520 egypt and then us pushing them back pushing them up out of arabia king hussein of the hijaz

00:57:38.020 and his sons including faisal and the bedouin armies pushing the turks out of arabia 0.83

00:57:45.460 The attack on Aqaba 0.99

00:57:48.120 Masterminded and led by Lawrence of Arabia 1.00

00:57:51.440 This remarkable pipsqueak of a man

00:57:55.100 That's what he's called, that's what someone called it

00:57:56.640 I'm not making that up

00:57:57.760 The little man, he's a relatively short man

00:58:00.980 Absolutely fearless

00:58:03.300 An endless amount of personal physical endurance

00:58:08.260 Gay as Paris in the springtime

00:58:13.400 That's neither here nor there 1.00

00:58:15.200 Got together a band of cutthroat desperados 1.00

00:58:18.960 That even the other Arab Bedouins were a bit wary of 1.00

00:58:21.400 He only went all the way to Jerusalem 0.79

00:58:24.600 Him and Allenby, the Field Marshal Allenby

00:58:26.720 Took Jerusalem 1.00

00:58:28.080 Liberated it from the Ottoman scourge 1.00

00:58:31.840 You're welcome 1.00

00:58:32.280 Only went all the way to Damascus, didn't they? 1.00

00:58:36.200 Pretty much collapsing the entire Ottoman Empire 1.00

00:58:39.000 Lovely stuff 1.00

00:58:41.500 Alright, on this day in 1988

00:58:44.940 Mikhail Gorbachev

00:58:46.840 Becomes chairman of the

00:58:48.400 Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

00:58:51.460 Effectively head of the Soviet Union

00:58:53.660 And he was a reformer

00:58:55.620 Wasn't he Gorbachev

00:58:56.780 Glasnost

00:58:59.660 And all that stuff

00:59:00.720 Wasn't long really

00:59:03.280 Was it what two years

00:59:04.440 Two and a bit years 0.51

00:59:05.440 Before there is no more Soviet Union 0.97

00:59:07.560 The second he allowed a little bit of 0.91

00:59:10.380 He allowed some of the Soviet 0.88

00:59:12.360 Satellite states like Poland

00:59:14.700 for example i think poland were first weren't they to have a vote over their own sort of national

00:59:21.400 self-determination do you still want to be part of the soviet union and poland are like thanks for

00:59:25.780 the vote and it's a no that's a hard no thanks bye-bye and then lots of the other countries are

00:59:30.580 like we're gonna get a vote right and gulbachev's like uh yeah and they nearly all say yeah we want

00:59:36.040 to leave thanks it's been a nightmare yeah the experiment the 70 what 80 year long um 70 year 0.80

00:59:44.260 long bolshevik communist experiment marxist leninist experiment has been a nightmare 0.71

00:59:50.580 a complete failure a horror almost from start to finish yeah we're out we're out thanks

01:00:03.940 is that an incorrect reading of history or is that not exactly how it went

01:00:07.060 All right

01:00:11.880 That's on this day in history 1.00

01:00:14.420 Let's look at our Rubble Rants and Super Chats 0.83

01:00:15.820 I'm on the podcast today

01:00:17.400 So I've got to get going relatively soon

01:00:20.000 I'm on the main podcast

01:00:21.500 So I've got to go and put a segment together for that

01:00:23.960 All right, let's look at our Rumble Rants

01:00:27.220 Is global church history going to

01:00:32.780 Samson's

01:00:33.300 Okay, sorry

01:00:34.500 Samson's moved the thing around

01:00:35.960 It's technically a bit different

01:00:36.940 all right no global church history again thoughts and prayers hashtag pray for global church 1.00

01:00:42.860 histories rumble account instead then we've got belgians are evil trust me who says 1.00

01:00:47.980 on what we discussed yesterday we chamberlain and munich noticed that so many more young women 1.00

01:00:55.680 are keen on uh ukraine russia involvement than young men especially when it gets social media

01:01:01.740 attention delusional yeah because they'll never have to fight will they they'll never ever have

01:01:06.620 to fight yeah it's easy to be a hawk isn't it a war hawk when you know you know that you'll never

01:01:19.800 face the danger it's much easier then isn't it can hand out white feathers to other men and call

01:01:26.120 them cowards because you'll never have to fight you'll never face bullets whizzing past your head

01:01:31.320 the thump and crump of incoming artillery and i have to know that so it's easy just to egg other 0.99

01:01:42.020 people on isn't it i say easy also evil right buzz algin says my favorite esther ransom moment 0.96

01:01:51.160 was when bernard manning made her look a fool on parkinson he later said he made her look like a

01:01:57.640 c word i don't know that i don't know that moment it's probably on youtube isn't it 0.53

01:02:03.500 bernard manning a comedian quite funny quite funny comedian actually

01:02:08.460 he made her look a real fool on parkinson did he okay i feel like that's a famous tv moment

01:02:15.700 but i just don't recall it i wonder what he did i'll have to look it up i'll try and look it up 0.93

01:02:20.960 later okay next one 14 barber says morning mate all right yeah i'm all right mate cheers buddy

01:02:27.960 you all right i hope you are sincerely hope you are you've put i've had a night especially me i

01:02:35.120 suppose you mean idea but you've put i've had an ideal i guess that's just a typo um if we end up

01:02:41.540 back in the eu with germany and france out let's rename it the british empire 2.0 move the parliament

01:02:47.640 to london what do you reckon that would be funny wouldn't it we rejoin the eu just as france and

01:02:53.060 germany leave it we become by far the most powerful single nation in it to the point where

01:02:58.060 we can dominate it in some way yeah move it from brussels and strasburg all to london it's our new

01:03:03.500 empire more hassle than it's worth though we want to be like the hegemon over like greece or

01:03:12.760 something in spain we've got to try and corral cats like like spain and denmark and greece and

01:03:19.700 stuff no no you sort yourselves out we've got enough problems for our own it's a funny idea

01:03:28.420 though which is empire 2.0 funny idea all right and the last rumble around today is from belgians

01:03:34.460 we will trust me again he says i love alexander and he was certainly talented and daring but i

01:03:39.980 I really do admire great men like Enoch Powell from humble origins who went against political grain.

01:03:45.720 Alexander equals great, but also a literal Nepo baby. 1.00

01:03:50.040 Well, that's true. Alexander was a Nepo baby, yeah. 1.00

01:03:52.780 His father, Philip II of Macedon, set everything up for him. 0.84

01:03:56.800 So he just inherited a badass army, Alexander.

01:04:01.700 At the age of 18, 19, his father was assassinated.

01:04:06.700 Whether with the connivance of his mum, who knows.

01:04:09.980 The best accounts for that are in Diodorus.

01:04:13.380 And Plutarch, actually.

01:04:15.540 His father had already been, for a generation, had been conquering Greece.

01:04:20.040 And his army was like this highly honed, razor-sharp veteran army.

01:04:26.260 And he had already been planning to invade Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey, the Persian Empire.

01:04:32.440 Everything was already set up, already just literally ready to rock and roll.

01:04:36.340 And then he's assassinated and Alexander inherits it all. 1.00

01:04:39.060 I mean, that is a Nepo baby, isn't it? 1.00

01:04:42.560 He was very lucky.

01:04:43.460 I've said this before.

01:04:44.280 You have to be lucky in your time and place.

01:04:45.580 If you're going to go down in history, he's a great man of history.

01:04:47.860 Apart from anything else, you have to be lucky in your time.

01:04:51.460 All the dominoes have to be set up just right for you to just knock them down.

01:04:55.700 It's very rare you get someone like Genghis Khan who built everything from scratch.

01:05:00.600 That's very, very, very rare. 0.94

01:05:04.000 Anyway, Alexander was basically a Nepo baby, yeah. 0.99

01:05:07.180 He did well with it, though, didn't he?

01:05:08.660 did very well with it what's the other thing you said there um enoch powell yeah um

01:05:16.340 harry go to that one

01:05:19.780 do you think on state of politics say politics i've got a long-form conversation well i

01:05:24.740 but good i think it's about half hour 40 minutes 40 50 minutes maybe

01:05:28.820 of me chatting with nate about the life and times and adventures of enoch powell

01:05:33.460 Yeah, there's no paywall there either

01:05:38.400 State of politics

01:05:39.800 Alright

01:05:40.640 That's the last Rumble rant

01:05:43.560 Let's have a look at our YouTube ones

01:05:46.720 There's about 20 odd

01:05:47.620 So let's get through them

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01:06:58.620 Lorik Project

01:07:01.440 loric project he says good to see you this morning gents always great to hear the news

01:07:08.580 from the last hour of my shift here on the west coast of the u.s oh west coast

01:07:12.880 the west coast is the best coast

01:07:18.040 that's what dre tells me i don't know if it's actually true no it is true the west coast is

01:07:25.800 west coast i've got loads of family on the west coast have i mentioned my dad is american born

01:07:33.240 and raised in the great state of oregon go ducks i've been to oregon i've been to the west coast

01:07:39.160 i've been to california northern california never went to la or cisco but it's a giant redwoods up

01:07:46.680 in northern california that was cool are all the east coast people going to be annoyed that i've

01:07:55.000 said the west coast is the best coast it's all right it's just a lyric from a silly song i'm

01:07:58.920 joking okay you're watching all from the west coast of america i always find that odd and weird in a

01:08:03.720 good way when people say oh i'm watching you from wherever in the world could be anywhere in the

01:08:08.920 world the west coast is literally the other side of the globe where i'm sitting in wiltshire in the

01:08:16.840 West Country of England. I'm glad you enjoy it. I really am. My band of brothers. And

01:08:27.220 sisters, Sam Against Goat Lovers says, that's what they've called themselves, at Sam Against

01:08:33.280 Goat Lovers says, make everyone laugh, Bo, describe Zach Polanski. Oh, disgusting, truly 0.90

01:08:40.640 disgusting just dysgenic freak there's something profoundly wrong with him at like a cellular level 1.00

01:08:48.820 isn't there that's Zach Polanski real name Dovid Paulden there's something something profoundly 0.94

01:08:53.500 wrong with him when he was made they found something wrong with him they threw him away

01:08:57.500 like a piece of rubbish into an old dark storeroom where'd that come from deep down in my memory

01:09:05.160 banks the opening monologue to Super Ted there's something wrong with Zach Polanski isn't there

01:09:10.640 Well, what is going on with that?

01:09:13.460 What's a freak?

01:09:15.040 Sort of an at-a-glance freak.

01:09:18.000 Like Ed Miliband.

01:09:19.520 All right. 1.00

01:09:21.860 Chinky Ink Nails. 0.98

01:09:23.200 Oh, sorry.

01:09:23.820 Oh, that's a bit racist.

01:09:25.460 I misread that.

01:09:26.060 It's Kinky Ink Nails.

01:09:29.020 Kinky Ink Nails, not Chinky Ink Nails, says, 0.97

01:09:32.800 You guys need a Velvet Revolution, 0.96

01:09:35.840 otherwise it will inevitably be on.

01:09:38.480 Love and best wishes from Oz.

01:09:40.180 Oh right

01:09:40.660 Oz 0.74

01:09:40.960 See

01:09:41.720 Again

01:09:42.220 The other side of the world

01:09:43.040 Going the other way

01:09:43.740 Will I get anyone

01:09:45.880 From the Pacific Islands 1.00

01:09:47.000 From like the

01:09:47.760 The Micronesian Islands

01:09:49.340 The Melanesian Islands

01:09:50.260 From sort of

01:09:50.900 Hawaii

01:09:51.360 Hawaii

01:09:52.280 Will I get anyone

01:09:54.540 Watching from like

01:09:55.440 Christmas Island

01:09:56.400 Or something

01:09:56.860 The Pit Cairns

01:09:58.500 Or Antarctica

01:10:00.020 It would be nice

01:10:01.280 To have a

01:10:01.960 Bo Show fan

01:10:02.820 On Antarctica

01:10:04.400 But no

01:10:06.600 Thanks for watching

01:10:07.340 From Oz

01:10:08.280 Appreciate it

01:10:09.200 Okay

01:10:10.940 James Lee Parenthall says

01:10:12.220 Mary the second

01:10:13.240 Charlotte Fitzroy's cousin

01:10:14.920 Lady Lee

01:10:17.000 Countess of Litchfield

01:10:18.320 Lady

01:10:19.600 Lady companion of the Garter

01:10:21.680 Hey Lee

01:10:22.960 That's my surname

01:10:23.860 Yes

01:10:24.380 Okay

01:10:28.280 Okay yeah

01:10:31.860 So Charlotte Fitzroy

01:10:33.100 Was she

01:10:33.580 Was she the one whose

01:10:35.240 Husband is John Churchill

01:10:37.780 the original the og churchill who won the battle of blenheim that's her wasn't it if i'm not mistaken

01:10:45.380 queen mary's bezzy mate i think they actually fell out in the end didn't they didn't they

01:10:54.100 anyway okay classic stuff i'm only up to bloody mary this sunday's epochs is about bloody mary

01:11:01.620 mary the first and after that of course i'll go straight on to elizabeth the first good queen

01:11:05.540 best but it won't be long before i'm up to before i'm up to sort of the the civil war and then

01:11:13.080 onwards through to the likes of mary the second queen anne and then you get all the georgies

01:11:19.800 okay will i ever get up to modern times yeah should do will do in fact okay unless i'm hit

01:11:28.600 by a bus or struck by lightning heaven forbid okay mank monk he's an act he's got he's taken

01:11:37.520 monastic orders and he's from manchester mank monk says chip in a hundred pounds and save a

01:11:46.040 few uk churches everyone that's not a bad idea not a bad idea oh there is that thing called um

01:11:51.880 Oh, God, the Pendragon Foundation?

01:11:58.140 Well, it's not churches, it's castles.

01:12:00.880 But that's a good thing.

01:12:04.140 I've only ever shilled on behalf of other people

01:12:06.440 actually asking for money for one or two things, ever.

01:12:09.360 That's one of them.

01:12:12.340 The Pendragon Foundation.

01:12:13.720 Is it foundation or society?

01:12:17.860 Yeah.

01:12:19.760 That's a good thing to do,

01:12:20.900 To try and save our history

01:12:23.000 Our heritage physically

01:12:24.360 Okay

01:12:27.520 Clifford Randall says

01:12:30.760 Please ask Carl to have Asmongold 1.00

01:12:33.340 On Lotus Eaters 1.00

01:12:34.460 He loves UK

01:12:36.720 Yeah do you know what

01:12:38.900 Do you know what I did ask Carl once

01:12:41.340 I said

01:12:41.760 I said to him something like

01:12:44.080 Do you reckon you could get in touch with 1.00

01:12:47.120 Asmongold

01:12:48.080 Do you know Asmongold

01:12:48.960 Because Carl knows so many people

01:12:50.320 so many people he's been around for yonks any carl he's a real nexus of people and he was like

01:12:58.220 yeah asmongold follows me sure on twitter i could dm him sure i was like why don't you dm him and

01:13:05.760 get him on ask him if he'd come on those seasons because i was like yeah maybe that was it it's

01:13:11.300 very very blase about it personally i'd love to have asmongold on i'd love to have a chat with

01:13:17.020 asmongold you know i'll ask karl again in like five ten minutes if he's in today i'm not sure

01:13:22.800 if he's in today if he is i'll mention it again you're not the first person to ask i've seen

01:13:27.660 loads of people ask get asmongold on asmongold asmongold asmongold yeah it'd be good it'd be

01:13:32.580 good for lotus leaders wouldn't it he's got such a giant following gigantic following asmongold

01:13:37.420 yeah i'd love to chat to him he's based he's really based if you don't follow him you probably

01:13:41.860 don't think he's all that based oh he's just some commentator dude who like he's on tiktok and he

01:13:46.520 talks about computer games okay yeah also when he does get political and talk about stuff

01:13:51.340 he's ultra based yeah really really based and he did that time didn't he proper kudos for this

01:14:00.720 he read out the restore britain uh rape inquiry in its entirety took him like an hour or two or

01:14:07.760 three he read the whole thing verbatim unabridged what a chat

01:14:12.200 brilliant what thank you asmongold just sincerely

01:14:18.040 he's not a bad lad that asmongold that's my opinion all right

01:14:24.840 callum brooks g5t says just just joined the bronze tier and making my way through epochs

01:14:34.140 well done you know it makes sense it is very very good thank you that's very kind

01:14:39.640 i'm using it to detox from social media christ is king vote restore love it well done love it

01:14:46.380 thank you i can't ask for any more than that watching the bow show live getting involved in

01:14:51.820 the chat sending a super chat coming to bronze team member watching my epochs

01:14:56.900 Heartwarming, thank you

01:15:03.020 Callum Brooks

01:15:05.900 What a lad

01:15:07.500 Okay, Mr Pastry

01:15:10.260 2010 says

01:15:11.460 Would you wear pink shirt for Alexander

01:15:14.180 Interview

01:15:14.880 I don't know 1.00

01:15:17.380 In their world, maybe pink was

01:15:19.200 Had completely different connotations

01:15:22.220 To what it does for us

01:15:23.480 In the 21st century

01:15:26.900 they will be that for them pink was like a an extremely rare and rich royal hue i don't think

01:15:33.520 it was but who knows okay aristotle luton says all right bo yeah i'm all right you're right

01:15:40.280 says is there any news on a lotus eaters app have a good weekend sir i thought we've got an app

01:15:47.940 little harry haven't we got an app i'm pretty sure we do yeah yeah i think we do i'm sure

01:15:54.140 i haven't got it i must admit on my phone but my handset is well old i'm such a boomer

01:15:59.140 my handset is like some old samsung it's like an eight year old maybe more handset

01:16:04.500 it's really really old and i just haven't got many apps on it like hardly any i use it for

01:16:10.960 telephone calls and text messages and like what like whatsapp and that's about it i don't go on

01:16:17.580 my phone all the time with loads of different apps so i don't know i haven't got lotus but i

01:16:22.100 believe there is a Lotus Eaters app. I believe that exists in the world. But being technically

01:16:31.880 not very proficient, I couldn't tell you for sure. I think we've got one. Okay. Still quite a few here,

01:16:40.240 half a dozen or more. Tatum2733 says, yes, Bo, I was on US National TV Daily Show. Oh yeah,

01:16:46.980 yesterday you said oh have you ever been on national tv i have tatum saying i have and i

01:16:53.000 was like no i've never been on national tv look i can't recall no uh no he put yes bo i was on

01:17:01.860 us national tv the daily show as a kid for a political youtube channel i had all right

01:17:08.400 you had a political youtube channel as a kid so you're not that old as well i take it okay

01:17:15.940 I was like 13 and the other kid was awkward and unfunny

01:17:20.640 cool have you still got that channel

01:17:24.720 let us know

01:17:27.660 okay

01:17:28.240 Sean's Infield

01:17:34.080 or Sean Sinfield

01:17:37.240 says hi Bo

01:17:39.500 I don't know if anyone's ever told you this before

01:17:42.080 but you're a magnificent man 1.00

01:17:43.720 he has no homo 0.99

01:17:45.940 Harry, go to that one. 1.00

01:17:55.740 A magnificent man.

01:17:57.060 Thank you.

01:17:57.440 That's very kind.

01:17:58.020 That's not...

01:17:58.580 I haven't paid him to say that.

01:18:01.020 That's not an alt account, none, secretly.

01:18:03.220 Just under here typing away.

01:18:04.520 Bo, you're so magnificent.

01:18:06.160 Send.

01:18:07.060 No, it's real.

01:18:08.680 Somebody in the real world decided to put that without being coerced.

01:18:13.940 Thank you.

01:18:14.780 That's very kind of you.

01:18:15.660 It's flattering.

01:18:16.400 It really is flattering.

01:18:18.480 Okay.

01:18:20.940 Barton Bella.

01:18:23.300 Barton Bella, 3131, says,

01:18:26.440 What if the attack was meant to drive a wedge between US and UK?

01:18:31.020 You're talking about the Fairford one, I guess.

01:18:33.760 To drive a wedge between the US and UK,

01:18:35.980 newcomers could say it's too dangerous to remain allies

01:18:39.220 and vote to kick out the US.

01:18:41.600 Interesting angle.

01:18:42.420 i mean i doubt it but possibly it's an interesting angle it's quite a long shot though

01:18:50.260 extremely unlikely to work interesting angle though i hadn't really thought about it from

01:18:56.700 that point of view okay kinky ink nails again says do you think it's possible they let the

01:19:05.960 five terrorists go to keep tabs on their contacts yeah well that was one of the things i said i

01:19:10.540 think yesterday or maybe it was tuesday um to give the police and our intelligence services i suppose

01:19:17.200 mi5 to give them credit they don't deserve any credit if you're going to be if you're going to

01:19:23.220 give them some credit you might say you might argue that it's not a bad tactic you let them go

01:19:30.860 but you keep 100 24 hours surveillance on them and you see who they contact or rather who contacts

01:19:37.220 them and then you've got more branches to your investigation got more little fishes coming into

01:19:45.880 your net maybe yeah maybe that's if you give the police and the authorities any credit for actually

01:19:55.320 trying to get to the bottom of this but maybe okay the penultimate one here this morning is

01:20:00.880 from jamesley heaven hold again who said charlotte fitzroy's mum was barbara villiers

01:20:11.120 was that john churchill's wife i got a bit confused i uh i've done long form content about

01:20:17.920 the battle of blenheim and john churchill long form content yeah and uh i actually went to

01:20:25.360 Blenheim Palace not that long ago in the summer just gone a couple of months ago read about it

01:20:31.500 over and over and over again I can't remember Charlotte was Churchill's wife wasn't she

01:20:37.520 anyway okay and the last one here moving on last one from Tatum again says I'm 22 now ah

01:20:47.240 spring chicken ah to be 22 again i'm jealous i'm proper jealous you put i'm 22 now still have it

01:20:57.720 1k plus subs and want to start posting again for the first time in years do you think i should

01:21:03.420 my old videos are privated lol well that's a decision you've got to make for yourself

01:21:09.120 one thing i would say all i would say to you is the way youtube works now is that it's an

01:21:16.280 exercise in feeding the algo it's no good just making a video every now and again and posting it

01:21:23.080 youtube will sort of ignore not ignore it but it won't promote your channel and your video and

01:21:30.760 show it to people so your channel will grow very very slowly if at all you've got to constantly

01:21:37.340 feed it which means you're on a treadmill of making content now if that's what you want and

01:21:43.160 you enjoy that, you're going to have to really want that and actually enjoy it. Because if you

01:21:47.360 don't enjoy it, it'll become a millstone around your neck real quick. It'll become a chore real

01:21:52.900 quick. So that's it. That's what I would say. If you really want to do it and you've got the time

01:21:58.200 and the energy and you actually enjoy it, fine, go for your life. If not, it's almost certainly

01:22:04.780 not worth the hassle. That's what I would say. That's just the reality of it. YouTube's not what

01:22:11.160 it used to be really isn't all right that's the last one and that's the show it's now 23 minutes

01:22:16.920 past nine in the a.m. British summertime on Thursday the 1st of October in the year of our

01:22:21.560 law 2026 you've been the glorious band that chose a few my band of brothers and sisters thank you

01:22:26.080 for joining me try and make the best of the day ahead carpe diem seize the day it's the most

01:22:31.660 valuable thing you'll ever have is your time a finite number of days on this earth doesn't feel

01:22:40.300 like it when you're young but it's true it's a harsh reality we've got a finite amount of days

01:22:46.920 if you can try and make them count try and do something valuable with your time

01:22:51.820 if you can all right i won't get too preachy about it you do you until tomorrow morning guys

01:22:55.620 and gals take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 01, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 1st October 2026

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