The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 22nd January 2026

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00:00:17.180 good morning how are you it has just ticked up to 8 a.m

00:00:24.620 on thursday the 22nd of january in the year of our law 2026 thank you for joining me you are part

00:00:32.040 of the beau show beau's breakfast club the bbc the lotus seeds is breakfast club

00:00:37.860 so yeah thanks for joining us i'm joined by harry of course as always how are you

00:00:43.800 little harry you're right yeah all good have we got a poll up yes it's live good great brilliant

00:00:52.360 all right i hope everyone out there is uh bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

00:00:58.780 raring to uh raring to go on this morning let's just jump straight into it then so today is one

00:01:06.240 of those days where one story absolutely dominates absolutely i mean really water wall properly

00:01:12.420 water wall nothing else really and it's that trump did go to davos if you're watching yesterday

00:01:17.780 he's a loyal watcher of the beau show i told you that uh trump was due to speak

00:01:24.380 yesterday wednesday uh at davos and he did and now that's all the news that's all the news

00:01:31.700 you know not a peep about anything from venezuela or iran or anything just okay so here we go there

00:01:39.680 we go uh trump hails greenland deal and all i want is a piece of ice so the same story

00:01:44.980 and all the papers go with it so strap in for a whole bunch of trump news it's a trump day

00:01:52.100 okay it's trump's world we just live in it or whoever's the president of the united states

00:01:59.320 actually isn't it all right the times the venerable times one story other than the greenland thing uh

00:02:07.280 my friends do not leak stories about me prince harry tells court you don't know that

00:02:10.900 there's no way of knowing that

00:02:14.980 even your best friends that you might have had for years and years and years

00:02:18.860 might hopefully they wouldn't but might just leak stories about you or betray you in one way or

00:02:24.640 another you never know you can never really know people how many uh how many wives of serial killers

00:02:31.220 said i had no idea how many next door neighbors of terrorists and things like it's very quiet i

00:02:37.540 wouldn't have guessed your friends and family your own mom and dad your own brother never knew you had

00:02:43.640 this secret life

00:02:44.500 all right

00:02:47.200 trump hails greenland deal for all nato nations president vows not to use force which is that was

00:02:53.080 nice uh tariff threat is withdrawn yes that's good well it's good uh relief among allies and markets

00:03:01.080 great everyone's a winner everyone's a winner baby uh so he did a u-turn basically trump did do a bunch of

00:03:07.960 u-turns effectively saying that uh saying that he's going to withdraw all the tariff threats that's

00:03:14.920 that's certainly a u-turn the idea that he said because he's come out and he said he won't use

00:03:18.940 false it's not exactly u-turn because he never sort of promised he was going to he just sort of

00:03:23.340 hinted at it didn't he sort of threatened it he never explicitly said but anyway anyway it's nice to

00:03:28.280 hear from him so he did a speech like an hour long bit over an hour long speech yesterday i watched it all

00:03:33.360 on times two the donald on fast forward um i thought it was interesting it's worth listening

00:03:40.840 to if you're interested in the world news and what's going on and what the world's talking about

00:03:44.680 uh it's probably worth listening to um a lot of the papers are characterizing it as like a rant and

00:03:50.400 unhinged and delusional and all that sort of thing i didn't think so it was quite reasonable

00:03:53.520 there's one or two things in there as always with the donald where you're like

00:03:57.260 okay all right uh but most of it was perfectly reasonable i thought

00:04:02.640 but we'll get into it as we go as we go and we'll talk all about it uh one in four pupils

00:04:08.760 starting school cannot use a book

00:04:10.980 it's funny because i read a bit of that article i scanned it anyway and it's not like it's funny

00:04:17.260 the way it's phrased it's not that they can't read it's that they can't use a book what what are

00:04:24.280 you talking about they can't open a book i don't know okay yeah so the blurb underneath the bbc blurb

00:04:31.100 for the times which gives you the overall overall idea donald trump's announcement that he has

00:04:36.280 reached an agreement with nato allies on greenland dominates thursday's newspapers

00:04:39.760 other other people other opinion makers and headlines are saying that he hasn't reached any

00:04:46.500 sort of deal very idea that there ain't even a framework has been reached is kind of nonsense

00:04:51.240 another saying no there is a there is a framework in place we'll get into it

00:04:56.100 uh the times leads with the us president announcing a framework quote framework deal

00:05:01.120 quote has been reached after talks with nato secretary general mark rutker saying quote

00:05:06.120 it gives us everything we needed to get quote other people saying that's a stretch at best

00:05:13.360 so we'll see we'll see right the ft the financial times

00:05:18.240 trump calls off tariffs threat after greenland deal framework agreed

00:05:23.420 nato meeting yields progress europe tensions ease further talks planned cheer for markets

00:05:33.280 okay flushest boroughs suffer most in inner london house prices

00:05:41.140 as in all london house prices take a big tumble yeah loads and loads of properties particularly

00:05:48.640 higher end properties in london are massively inflated they're like insane prices insane

00:05:55.660 about time there was some sort of implosion in the housing market in britain so so normal

00:06:03.520 people could dream of affording house maybe one day rather than some silly little two-bedroom

00:06:10.340 bungalow is like 400 grand

00:06:12.560 i'm glad i'm just old enough to have got on the property ladder what i did

00:06:20.120 if i was young now if i was like 22 or 25 and making average money you would just look at

00:06:28.180 there's no way i can afford a house it'd take me so long it'd take me like 10 years to save up for

00:06:36.000 a deposit and then the mortgage would be crippling on a crappy little house or a bungalow or a flat or

00:06:42.520 something i get why young people are annoyed with boomers when boomers say we just worked really hard

00:06:49.440 one summer and saved up to buy a house like in 1971 the whole house cost 13 grand or something

00:06:59.840 we just knuckled under and worked harder it's not like that now is it it's not we're not in that

00:07:04.880 paradigm okay the guardian uh painful it's painful

00:07:19.040 i live in a country where the guardian exists trump claims that quote framework of future deal quote

00:07:26.560 on greenland agreed again we'll get to some of the same that's cope that's that's trump's cope

00:07:34.880 but okay president scraps tariff threat after meeting with nato chief rutker in davos speech

00:07:42.000 he earlier ruled out uh taking arctic territory by force yes okay so i watched it the whole thing

00:07:48.880 and he did just say explicitly said um i'm not i've got no intention of using false it's like i don't need

00:07:54.880 to use false i don't want to use false i'm not going to use false so it was nice to say that to hear that

00:08:00.240 right because i've said i think broadly it's in the interest of the united states and even all of the

00:08:06.160 atlantic even all of nato um that america defends those waters it's probably for the best

00:08:15.600 um but yeah i couldn't get behind i couldn't back i couldn't fanboy trump or the us if they just you know

00:08:23.360 unilaterally militarily invaded greenland well he's saying he's not going to do that so that's nice

00:08:32.880 whether that will defuse the tds

00:08:36.720 from the other european nato countries and the media not so much it also takes away um one again

00:08:46.880 i think it's a good thing but it takes away one of trump's sort of bargaining chips you know the

00:08:51.920 ultimate threat if you don't do what i want the f-22s are coming in or whatever the marine corps is

00:08:59.280 going to do amphibious landings in greenland saying i definitely won't do that that's off the table

00:09:04.560 that does remove obviously doesn't it removes one of his bargaining chips but still it was a great it

00:09:09.520 would have been a crazy bargaining chip anyway wouldn't it so so it's for the best that's good all right

00:09:13.360 and said so those are other things what else did he say he said quite a lot of things in that hour-long

00:09:16.960 speech um i didn't think it came across as a rant whatsoever other people later on we'll see more

00:09:22.800 in the tabloids calling it like a delusional rant and stuff seemed perfectly reasonable um

00:09:29.760 one or two but before i say what the good things in it there was one or two things i thought was

00:09:34.640 weird or odd at one point he said and a couple of papers pick up on it where he mentioned that the

00:09:40.080 united states won world war ii he the us won it on behalf of europe sort of thing and he said the

00:09:48.400 old cliche it's a cliche isn't it that you would be speaking german now if it wasn't for us right

00:09:56.000 and a couple of papers picked up on that and said you know what what crazy things say what stupid

00:10:01.840 like what a low resolution crappy crappy thing to say the thing is right he said it with like a

00:10:09.840 wry smile and it got a ripple of a laughter in in the in the in that chamber in that room wherever

00:10:15.760 it was held right it's it's a cliche he knows it's a cliche papers love to do that all sorts of things

00:10:23.120 all sorts of people like to do that like deliberately misrepresent someone's words there's the words as

00:10:28.320 they say verbatim on paper and then it's what they really meant in in context well

00:10:34.880 how'd it happen to me even when i was talking about edward the first and the scottish and flushing

00:10:43.360 turds deliberately taken out of context deliberately um you know misrepresented what you said

00:10:54.960 what can you do bad faith people are out there harry male tried to drive me to drink and drugs don't care

00:11:00.800 don't pay so much attention to him then harry how do they try and drive you to drink i don't care

00:11:08.480 all right still still the beckham story um still lingering like a bad smell okay trump i've struck

00:11:18.960 a big deal i've struck a deal for my big beautiful piece of ice yeah that was everything he said in

00:11:24.480 the street he called it it's a piece of ice which is kind of true isn't it it's mainly glacier isn't it

00:11:30.080 greenland so that's true um he made he made some interesting points that you know during the war

00:11:37.200 america sort of just took control or took responsibility for defending greenland

00:11:43.920 and then after the war like in 1951 is it they did a deal where the america did a deal where

00:11:49.680 they sort of formally handed it back to denmark it's yours to take care of again now

00:11:54.880 and he mentioned that um and that america was like did did a an unwise thing at that point they

00:12:03.680 may as well just have kept it um uh yeah he said he took loads of he talked up america i mean

00:12:10.960 trump is a braggart isn't he right i said before i'll say again i'm broadly on board with trump and mega

00:12:18.320 and usa first all that stuff but also i'll call it out um he is a braggart of a man 0.71

00:12:25.440 and just boastful very very boastful that's his style like if you haven't got used to it by now

00:12:31.920 i think it's funny most of the time it's funny most of the time it doesn't get my back up for

00:12:35.760 some people when they hear trump boasting like uh everyone hated me and now they love me i'm the

00:12:41.280 best it's the greatest america's the hottest country in the world i've done this i've done that

00:12:44.480 i've solved all these wars the economy is the best ever because of me if you've got trump

00:12:49.120 derangement syndrome i could see how that would really really bug you but to everyone else it's

00:12:56.960 just it's just what trump is it's just who trump is it's fine it's no problem what he's like a new

00:13:02.400 what he is first and foremost donald trump is like a new york real estate dude isn't he he's

00:13:07.600 like a rich kid kind of basically his dad was rich he grew up rich and he's like a realist

00:13:13.280 new york real estate guy so yeah like that's what it that's who he is however haven't you

00:13:17.040 how haven't you got used to that by this point and what's the problem anyway a statesman a leader

00:13:23.040 of a country is supposed to big up their country aren't they they're supposed to try and put a

00:13:27.040 rosy spin on things anyway what other things did he say he said all sorts of interesting things

00:13:35.120 um you know mentioned or touched upon that like the green hoax you're destroying countries that are 0.70

00:13:41.840 just buying loads and loads of windmills from china and china don't even use windmills very much

00:13:45.760 at all um you're like destroying all your own natural or just not using all your own natural

00:13:52.160 resources like britain the north sea oil reserves just not using them but that's crazy it's like

00:13:58.160 suicidal thing and how expensive all our fuel is our energy is because of that and that trump in america

00:14:08.320 you know like petrol gasoline is down to like two bucks a gallon or whatever so in that will pop um

00:14:16.240 and he's doing it all right and it i mean it's hard to disagree with some of the numbers i mean

00:14:20.160 inflation is way down right under mr mr biden's inflation biodynamics that worked out well didn't

00:14:26.880 it when inflation went up to like seven percent or over seven percent or something and now in the us

00:14:32.160 it's down to like two and a half 2.6 something in britain it's higher isn't it in britain it's like

00:14:36.880 three and a half 3.4 or something in that ballpark inflation is is really bad of course i'd like to

00:14:44.800 see inflation at well ideally zero any inflation at all means things are just getting more expensive

00:14:52.880 do you think oh inflation's down to merely two and a half three and a half oh that's good that's not

00:14:56.880 too bad we can move on forget about it no that's still they're still quite bad i mean in the scheme

00:15:01.360 of things i don't know like in like the reagan years or like 1980 or something around 1980 inflation

00:15:07.680 in the us anyway and all the rest of the world is downstream from the us more so back then even but

00:15:14.720 inflation was like like 13 percent and knocking 14 at one point in like 1980 so we've had much worse

00:15:22.400 times i'll quickly look this up just for a camera here what was the all-time worst inflation for the

00:15:28.400 us and it was like in 1920 so just after world war one basically and it was like over 20 it was like

00:15:35.040 23 or something that's obviously really really bad obviously so to have it at like seven percent

00:15:41.760 although it hurts you know you go to the grocery store go to the supermarket go to tesco's and

00:15:48.080 everything's really expensive or just try and buy a car or something well to have it down i suppose keep

00:15:55.760 all these things in perspective to have it down at two two and a half or three and a half percent

00:16:00.800 i'd like to sit on like i realistically even deflation we have a bit of deflation

00:16:09.040 no i'm joking i'm joking deflation is terrible terrible thing but

00:16:13.520 a little bit of deflation there so cheese isn't so expensive in sainsbury's

00:16:24.080 we get the price of a block of cheese to go down that would be nice all right let's carry on with

00:16:27.680 this trump and davos markets saw after president drops tariff threat as daily mail reveals he could

00:16:35.440 offer greenlanders one million dollars each yeah that's in the news a bit today that one of the

00:16:40.400 things apparently trump has said was being leaked out of the white house i can't remember exactly um

00:16:45.040 that you know as a sweetener

00:16:49.040 he could give every single person individual in greenland a million bucks a piece

00:16:57.920 all right there's 56 57 000 of them

00:17:02.320 so yeah fair few billion of course there well 57 billion

00:17:06.880 if you go by the us billion that's a thousand million not a million million there's two types

00:17:13.520 of billion isn't there the usual one though is a thousand million is a billion so 57 billion

00:17:21.760 america the us can totally afford something like that if they wanted to

00:17:26.560 no i wonder if that would make the individual greenlanders suddenly

00:17:31.440 be much more receptive to a us takeover

00:17:39.840 all right those poor tick tock kids that died and tick tock themselves not being very transparent

00:17:44.240 about exactly what happened and all that sort of stuff so sad story the daily star

00:17:48.960 man baby mayhem is it it's a don deal 0.68

00:18:00.480 man baby mayhem

00:18:03.600 i'll tell you who's the man baby

00:18:05.920 whoever the journalist who wrote that is and the editor that signed off on it you're being the man baby

00:18:11.680 you're the one suffering from tds really it's a don deal wow i wonder how long it took him to come

00:18:19.920 up with that one well that's zinger the eye paper give me greenland now trump's new ultimatum to europe

00:18:29.200 it's not really what he's saying if you listen to the watch the speech he's not

00:18:32.160 being bellicose like that he's not being aggressive like that it comes across reasonably saying look over

00:18:38.000 all the decades nato's done basically propped up nato for decades basically almost entirely until

00:18:46.080 fairly recently paid for the defense of europe we've never really asked for anything back that's

00:18:50.480 not true anyway you say we've never really asked for anything back and now we just want this small

00:18:55.520 thing this small thing greenland and it's in your interests it's in you it's all like that it was all

00:19:00.240 like that he's not just demanding give me greenland i demand greenland well the stealth bombers are going

00:19:07.440 to start blowing up what the nato building or something okay u.s president lays out his demand

00:19:15.200 for ireland and makes veiled threat to allies who refuse him well there was yeah he did say one

00:19:22.000 thing that was basically like a very very mild threat uh what was it i can't remember the exact

00:19:26.240 wording but it was like you know or you know gonna get it one way or another sort of a thing but he

00:19:32.640 ruled out any false he actually just did ruled it out those were his words i don't want to use false

00:19:38.880 i'm not going to use false

00:19:45.120 and that was another thing he's got a little bit of a sense of humor he's a bit more human than just

00:19:48.160 like a a politician bot right biden or starmer they're like a a politician robot aren't they coming

00:19:55.600 out standing there really woodenly saying the policy saying all the right things in the right order

00:20:00.080 uh he's not like that is he he shoots much more from the hip and um he's just being

00:20:05.040 you know when he said i'm not going to use false he suddenly just went a little bit off script saying

00:20:08.320 oh look everyone's happy with that oh yeah you can you can all breathe a sigh of relief

00:20:14.240 um okay trump claims framework of greenland deal is in place after meeting nato secretary general

00:20:20.240 um based on this understanding i will not be imposing the tariffs scheduled for february the first

00:20:26.160 that's a quote uh truth social post from the president uh uh last night also says quote this

00:20:33.840 solution is consummated yeah consummated will be a great one for the united states and america and all

00:20:42.240 nato nations senior nato's officials warn quote if we don't give greenland to the us they will stop

00:20:49.200 supporting ukraine quote okay so all sorts of wranglings and dealings going on behind the scenes

00:20:55.120 at davos and beyond um there's one take later where one opinion someone writing an opinion piece

00:21:03.360 i can't remember if it was in the the mail or somewhere we'll see it we'll get to it you're

00:21:08.080 saying that all this framework is just pure pure delusional cope from trump to try and as as an off

00:21:14.720 ramp as an escape route to climb down from his own threats on true social he says it's consummated

00:21:22.880 um and it you know that it's it is real it is a thing it has happened so we'll see i mean give a

00:21:29.040 day or two or you know a few weeks at most and we'll find out won't we one way or another would have

00:21:34.880 felt all right the telegraph daily toograph trump strikes greenland deal see a lot of the papers are

00:21:41.280 going with it is sort of real there is a deal president drops uk tariff threat uh as he agrees

00:21:51.120 framework with nato for his big beautiful piece of ice all right you'll be speaking german if it

00:22:00.000 wasn't for us yes he actually said that calm down mate

00:22:03.360 is that tim stanley

00:22:10.480 tim stanley at the tory graph

00:22:14.240 a little bit out of focus for me i think it says tim stanley never heard of him personally

00:22:18.160 and he quote he quotes trump who said you'll be speaking german if it wasn't for us yes he actually

00:22:23.200 said that oh oh no grow up honestly honestly grow up you're deliberately ignoring that it was a little

00:22:33.760 bit tongue-in-cheek that it was an a small almost an aside you're just gonna ignore all of that

00:22:42.400 because your tds has been has rotted your mind because you're because you've just got an agenda

00:22:48.000 uh an agenda an anti-trump agenda an anti-us agenda yes he actually said that shut up mug

00:22:56.160 what's a mug right the independent all i want is a piece of ice if you say no we will remember oh yeah

00:23:01.920 that was the vowed fair that was not even really a threat is it really he says if you say yes you'll

00:23:07.520 get loads of money we get what we want everyone's a winner nato's a winner the whole north atlantic

00:23:12.080 region the whole atlantic region will be winners if you say no we'll remember that's what he said

00:23:19.520 that's how we said it we'll remember we won't forget that if you say no

00:23:26.960 barely a threat i mean it's a little bit ominous we call it a little bit ominous right

00:23:32.320 but he's certainly not sort of a threat of force i mean he took the threat of force off the table

00:23:38.640 explicitly so tearful prince harry claims new pay newspapers made my wife's life an absolute

00:23:46.160 misery don't care next thing the mirror the mirror delusional president's rant daddy fall

00:23:55.200 all right the mirror again simmer down simmer down

00:23:58.320 daddy cool daddy fall

00:24:10.400 delusional president's rant it wasn't a rant and it wasn't it wasn't delusional so what are you talking

00:24:16.240 about again the delusion is from whoever penned that and the editor the green lit it to go to print

00:24:24.160 they're the ones suffering from a delusion me thinks okay trump i am loved by european leaders

00:24:33.360 you see there's the thing where trump yeah the odd thing he'll say you know it's like yeah i don't

00:24:37.920 think that's entirely accurate

00:24:41.760 like i'm loved by european leaders you know not really

00:24:46.480 let's not get carried on you know

00:24:47.680 you know he talks tough then you turns on tariff threat um yeah i suppose so yeah starmer i will

00:24:57.360 not yield over greenland don't get it doesn't really matter what starmer wants or thinks about

00:25:01.440 greenland really does it really and what's he gonna do again again what what britain's gonna go to or

00:25:11.680 britain under the um under the umbrella of nato is going to go to war with the pentagon is it

00:25:17.120 no it's not so all right the daily express it's a good paper our struggling pubs will face years of

00:25:22.880 tax rises yeah they go with a slightly different story that again about rachel reeves rachel thieves

00:25:28.960 rachel from account the complete incompetent who's the chancellor of the exchequer remarkably 1.00

00:25:34.320 um and they're continued that they're continued a war on the hospitality industry and pubs

00:25:41.200 saying that it's costing costing britain's jobs well yeah of course yeah definitely yeah

00:25:47.120 yeah look at the state of our high street it's not that's not all labor's thought of course there's

00:25:51.200 that 14 years of tories to blame largely for that but labor aren't reversing that trend are they in

00:25:56.960 any way shape or form look at our high streets it's all either not all but it's largely like poundlands

00:26:04.400 right places like gregg's and then like fake vape shops

00:26:11.440 fake hairdressers fake sweet shops the high street's been it really has been sort of ruined absolutely

00:26:17.680 ruined

00:26:18.080 largely as a result of government policy i would say not just like the internet remember in the

00:26:26.480 earlier days of the internet or like 10 years ago they would always say well you can buy things online

00:26:30.080 now and a lot of people do that means the death of the high street there won't there won't be shops in

00:26:34.640 the high street anymore that didn't really work out it's not really exactly why is it

00:26:39.440 um of course it has hurt actual high street retailers but i think the reason why so many

00:26:46.400 shops are just boarded up on high streets you know like you used to have a big debenhams or something

00:26:53.280 it's just it's just boarded up it's just closed down

00:26:58.080 yeah loads and loads of fake shops thanks government thanks tories thanks labor brilliant

00:27:05.040 just lower rates just lower rates you don't have to tax the country into oblivion

00:27:12.960 why are you doing that are you acting against our interests all the time

00:27:22.400 that piece of ice must be mine this is trump speaking now that piece of ice must be mine like

00:27:27.280 it's gonna purse like trump's gonna personally own it um but then trump does deal and drops threats

00:27:35.760 it is part of the art of the deal isn't it is that you you start tough

00:27:40.160 in negotiations you start really tough asking demanding way more than you realistically expect

00:27:47.120 to get at the end that's negotiating isn't it you start really tough scare your opponent one way or

00:27:55.680 another try and intimidate them scare them into dropping their position and then you meet in

00:28:01.120 and ultimately you meet in the middle somewhere

00:28:06.960 all right the metro

00:28:12.640 harry

00:28:12.960 we see you

00:28:21.920 the metro

00:28:24.640 we see you

00:28:25.280 i think they can just act with impunity forever the metro

00:28:37.120 i'd unilaterally shut down the metro again in both britain if i was prime minister

00:28:40.480 probably day one so don't bring me any legislation get the defense secretary in here 1.00

00:28:44.800 send like 50 guys from the parachute regiment right now right now to go to the building where the metro

00:28:56.480 is and shut it down get everyone out of that building

00:29:02.560 and close it down

00:29:10.720 that's what i do

00:29:16.960 hoods and plastic cuffs if need be

00:29:18.480 right

00:29:24.000 court hears recording of plea to cops yeah this is funny story they go with interesting

00:29:28.480 ish weird don't know why today of all days they've gone with this but

00:29:32.320 the headline is trump's boy baron baron trump trump's boy saved my life with 999 call during attack

00:29:40.240 baron 19 contacted uk police from us when he saw woman friend being hit after rape

00:29:48.480 so the story is baron was on some sort of facetime you know video conference call chat thing

00:29:56.320 with a female friend who was in the uk and like her own partner boyfriend at the time

00:30:03.760 uh it was like had sex assaulted her or raped her or something and then was and then was beating

00:30:09.120 her up something like this some horrific horrible horrible attack and like baron trump

00:30:14.800 he's like right there watching it seeing it so he just like calls up so he's like whoa and calls up 999

00:30:22.080 and the police come around and sort of save her

00:30:27.680 there you go there you go it's sort of interesting the sun

00:30:35.760 the sun they got they really are often really quite sloppy

00:30:39.680 they've decided the most important thing today to put on the front page of their newspaper

00:30:48.560 is a story about the bake-off the great british bake-off show

00:30:56.880 anyone who might not know anyone who's like american or foreign at all

00:31:00.400 there's a program long-running program in britain where people bake things

00:31:09.680 that's it that's it that's the show people come on and uh professional bakers say to them

00:31:19.200 make us some croissants or something make us some lady fingers do us a big birthday cake 1.00

00:31:25.920 make it as elaborate as you can that's it that's the show that's what it is and there's like a

00:31:29.760 celebrity version of it right i used to watch it a little bit years ago and then i got bored of it you

00:31:36.400 know i watched a dozen a dozen episodes of bake-off that's enough i get it i get it

00:31:40.080 i don't need to watch it anymore it's very very mildly entertaining very mild in my opinion in my

00:31:45.440 opinion i know loads of people love it millions of people love it

00:31:52.000 but yeah like a dozen episodes is just plenty for me i don't need to see it anymore anyway it's been

00:31:55.920 running for like 10 years longer i don't know

00:31:59.920 and uh i won't spend any more time on this because i know it's not exactly what the audience of the

00:32:03.920 bow show is interested in so i'll quickly round up one of the presenters of it is uh pru pru leith

00:32:12.320 that old lady there and she's decided to retire doesn't want to do it anymore she's had enough 1.00

00:32:20.240 and they're going to get nigella lawson

00:32:25.680 lovely adorable milf nigella lawson there she's going to take over there you go as pru quits after 1.00

00:32:32.880 nine years baker a bake-off judge nigella's a shoe in a shoe pastry she's a shoe in 0.98

00:32:43.840 you don't have to do puns every day the sun just you can stop all right let's move on then um

00:32:50.400 we had a poll we had a poll i think going forward usually after the headlines and before we we dive

00:32:57.040 into uh to the actual websites we'll have a look at the poll so what was the poll today um i asked harry

00:33:04.160 to make it about um starmer and china because we did one about greenland yesterday didn't we so

00:33:09.600 um but i left the wording up to harry keeper do you think starmer has been compromised by china

00:33:14.000 okay and 91 of you say yes

00:33:21.680 use the other nine percent no no but that's interesting that 91 of you say yeah it's hard

00:33:29.920 not to come to that conclusion i mean compromised what does that really mean there's obviously many

00:33:33.840 many many many degrees shades of gray of being compromised but even if it's only a little bit

00:33:40.320 that's still disastrous isn't it it's still terrible uh anyway yeah 91 so that's an overwhelming

00:33:47.920 anything over 90 to me in my mind is sort of an overwhelming thing

00:33:54.320 pardon me um so okay so yeah the prime minister of great britain is compromised by

00:34:00.960 the chinese communist party in our opinion great obviously being sarcastic there it's terrible 0.98

00:34:09.040 disastrous it's a that's a catastrophe isn't it it's a catastrophe

00:34:19.280 try not to actually slurp into the mic somebody said that to me on twitter yesterday and i was like

00:34:25.120 yeah good point fair point shouldn't do that if possible

00:34:28.880 try and keep audible slurping to a minimal minimum all right let's have a look at the actual uh

00:34:34.960 websites um and we'll pass over the greenland stuff as much as possible because we've talked about

00:34:39.120 that enough now there you go there's there's there's old mark rutka

00:34:46.080 shouldn't have a job

00:34:49.200 okay um oh so in new zealand um there's been some terrible weather and a landslide i think some kids are

00:34:57.360 missing from some sort of landslide in new zealand rescuers try to reach people missing in landslides

00:35:03.360 as rains wreak havoc in new zealand

00:35:07.760 lords back uh uk social media ban for under 16s do they the house of rules doesn't really matter

00:35:14.000 ultimately in the final reckoning

00:35:16.720 uh blockbusters battles and brits hollywood gears up for oscar nominations i won't spend any time on this

00:35:23.200 other than to say i really really don't care about golden globes and the oscars in fact i proactively

00:35:32.240 dislike it i'm not interested in millionaires and super famous a-listers patting themselves on the on

00:35:39.600 the back on the back self-congratulatory it's kind of disgusting to me so anyway at some point whenever

00:35:46.880 the oscars is relatively soon that will be in the papers the next day won't it the papers will be

00:35:53.440 probably dominated by what happened at the oscars the next day who wore what dress designed by whom

00:36:02.320 who designed particular suits that some of the men were wearing who won best actor who won best picture

00:36:09.040 who cares a gymnast had a baby and isn't retiring there you go that's interesting isn't it

00:36:19.520 oh actually here is a mildly interesting story ex-intelligence officer in austria's biggest

00:36:25.280 spy trial for years yeah it's a little bit of an interesting story for reals uh this guy

00:36:31.760 was an an intelligence officer in austria was it germany and anyway he was found a few years

00:36:38.640 back now like four or five years ago was found to have been passing loads of information to russia

00:36:44.160 and then he fled to russia and he's thought now to be living in moscow somewhere um and his trial

00:36:53.520 in absentia i imagine is going forward just to think say that austria or vienna has always been all the

00:37:01.520 way through the cold war was one of the places where lots and lots of espionage and counter espionage and

00:37:06.640 actual real life spy games played out sort of the center of it in many ways um london was the other

00:37:14.480 main one interestingly gillaine maxwell to testify before us congress in epstein probe interesting good

00:37:21.120 interested in that because during her trial a criminal trial the judge in that trial 0.98

00:37:27.680 was some hand-picked obama weirdo weirdo freak judge who allowed as little as possible to come out

00:37:41.040 as little as possible so

00:37:46.560 if gillaine does appear before congress hopefully fingers crossed there'll be at least one or two people

00:37:54.560 on that congressional panel one or two congress people men or women who actually are interested in

00:38:00.560 the truth and who will actually ask gillaine pertinent questions if that happens that will be great that

00:38:09.280 might that might break open some new things actually might

00:38:16.000 so if if they if she does testify oh there's another interesting story actually oh these cave paintings

00:38:20.960 of uh red claw hand could rewrite human creativity timeline yeah they found some new cave paintings

00:38:27.600 somewhere in southeast asia where was it indonesia malaysia somewhere like that somewhere in southeast

00:38:33.360 asia uh cave painted and they some people are saying archaeologists experts in the field are

00:38:40.080 saying they're some of the oldest ever because that's a thing in archaeology you know like what's the

00:38:46.480 oldest human settlement ever found what's the oldest midden pit like rubbish pit what's the

00:38:52.640 oldest rubbish pile ever found what's the oldest this what's the oldest that what's the record for

00:38:58.000 the oldest thing ever and of course cave paintings is one of those things and like whichever country

00:39:04.720 has it is sort of a badge of honor you know like the oldest cave paintings ever were found somewhere

00:39:10.320 in france so france french people can be all a bit all a bit a bit smug about that well it looks like 0.94

00:39:16.960 there's a bit been a new record set somewhere in southeast asia what's it indonesia let's have a

00:39:22.160 quick look let's have a quick look um does it say real quick just with a quick scan are we seeing saipan

00:39:31.840 oh no no sorry oh new guinea sorry it's not immediately clear to me so i won't waste time on that but

00:39:38.320 interesting nonetheless all right let's have a look at the itv news greenland of course starmer talking

00:39:46.000 tough that he won't back down he will refuse to back down from the demonic mr trump um all right

00:39:55.680 nothing else particularly interesting the brit awards could not care less about the brit awards really

00:40:03.440 profoundly disinterested sky news trump of course uh what else oh yeah this was the opinion piece

00:40:12.320 where the guy was saying the guy saying that trump finally realized in his own mind that his greenland

00:40:19.920 plan was just not gonna happen and he finally realized that yesterday and so did a whole bunch of u-turns

00:40:26.800 plans because his own plan is frankly mad and that trump himself has realized that is that what's going

00:40:34.160 on is that what's going he said he spoke to an insider who is this mark stone mark stone um he said he spoke

00:40:43.440 to some sort of insider and he asked him is this trump's off-ramp no actual framework uh of a deal yet

00:40:51.600 and the diplomat the unnamed diplomat the source said yes exactly yeah that is what's going on

00:40:57.440 mark stone calls him his trump whisperer do we trust that source or mark stone or sky news

00:41:04.160 at all i don't he might be right though i'm not saying it's i'm not saying he's wrong he might be right

00:41:09.760 but you know just everything we've got to go on at this point

00:41:11.840 is it just pure off-ramp cope from trump or is there going to be some sort of deal struck

00:41:20.000 seems like probably the latter probably would have felt um

00:41:28.800 here's a little story here about mcdonald's have you been in mcdonald's recently

00:41:33.440 have you been in mcdonald's recently and noticed that it's not cheap anymore

00:41:37.440 right mcdonald's always used to be cheap relatively that was the thing that was one of the great

00:41:43.520 selling points of mcdonald's it was quite cheap um not anymore it's just sort of normal if not mildly

00:41:51.280 expensive i went in there like about a week ago i went to get a a a double sausage egg mcmuffin delicious

00:41:59.040 yeah it was like nearly a fiver just for the muffin not the meal you want to go and get a big mac meal

00:42:07.440 seven quid eight quid whatever it is really used to be way cheaper than that not that long ago as well

00:42:14.720 well inflation um yeah some people noticed that like what is it for like one hash brown or a hash brown

00:42:21.120 or something or two hash browns or something it's like 199 now i.e not particularly cheap people have

00:42:27.200 noticed people have noticed the mcdonald's prices all right let's move on what have we got here

00:42:36.000 okay the daily mail nato stuff all right trump's reality check okay if you say so

00:42:42.720 um steal the beckhams yeah the new zealand landslide is that the moment when a

00:42:49.760 load of people including kids got crushed and killed oh horrible sad

00:42:57.840 here's a sort of story that i think any normal person an adult person would just

00:43:01.520 see as pure slop just want to point it out just real quick for anyone who's not necessarily all that

00:43:08.160 savvy or might be sort of fooled by something like this just there's a classic sort of story you might

00:43:13.840 see on the mail online or the express online or the sun's website or just all over the internet actually

00:43:19.360 story says nightmare of months of job hunting after losing my six figure salary at 48

00:43:26.640 um from screening calls to fake adverts my self-esteem was crushed then i found a trick

00:43:32.320 that got me six offers in a month don't waste your time and stuff like that it's like do you really

00:43:38.320 want to make money real quick these these three tips will help you make a million pounds in a year

00:43:44.080 this is how i made them five million pounds in a year if you follow what i tell you you too can do it

00:43:52.240 it's always just not so it's just uh nonsense all right let's move on channel four

00:44:01.520 oh no sorry the express sorry the express

00:44:05.120 king charles has a huge decision to make over trump not really it's not his decision anyway it's not a

00:44:09.600 huge decision and it's not charles's decision so it's whether he'll go and visit america for the

00:44:16.240 in the summer for the 250th anniversary

00:44:23.760 it's not up to him

00:44:27.280 okay what else have we got europe turns to uk to bolster nuclear arms help us

00:44:33.760 but we will do something crazy not even worth reading that really is it megan markle's got a

00:44:40.960 show that has flopped

00:44:44.880 i read a quick bit about this apparently she had a she had her own show on netflix it had a 0.81

00:44:49.840 whole season and it got like mediocre viewing for netflix like you got like five like the first

00:44:57.360 it like peaked at like five million or something viewers and then the numbers fell off a cliff

00:45:01.920 and then she's got given as i understand it might have some of these details wrong

00:45:05.680 then she's got a second series and that's completely flopped it's like barely registers

00:45:10.240 like oh like lower than the thousandth ranked show watched on netflix i.e no one's watching it

00:45:17.600 yeah no surprise she's an obnoxious vacuous nothing isn't she so why would you watch that all right 1.00

00:45:24.320 the sun sounds pretty sloppy today serving up you sloppy joes today is the sun so yeah they go with

00:45:36.400 uh nigella lawson taking over from prue that's that's the top story look here look at them 0.96

00:45:46.800 paul hollywood's not too bad actually all right he's not too bad

00:45:49.520 it's a reasonable normal bloke essentially

00:45:57.040 he's into racing he likes his cars he's a petrol head

00:46:00.640 okay uh the beckhams still the beckhams right let me and then andrew straight into just slop again

00:46:09.600 andrew there's loads of mole hills

00:46:11.920 in prince andrew's new cottage big cottage the front garden or the back garden is like infested

00:46:21.840 with moles i've got to call someone in to sort that out 0.99

00:46:28.720 fascinating stuff the sun fascinating lily allen went on holiday to italy

00:46:35.120 more beckham stuff okay just nonsense let's move on then the new york slimes as you can imagine uh

00:46:45.280 it's just all about trump it's all about trump so we'll keep going is there anything interesting

00:46:50.800 in the new york slimes i saw not particularly let's go with the uh the post um again did i see anything

00:46:59.840 out of the ordinary that was of any real interest no no it wasn't sky news australia how good

00:47:09.440 so the opposition uh their coalition there might be a coalition split days are numbered susan lay

00:47:18.240 staring down leadership spill after coalition split split liberal party figures have warned that

00:47:24.800 opposition leader susan lay's days are numbered after she failed to keep the coalition together

00:47:29.840 i really hope i really hope australia can vote in like a decent even remotely based party

00:47:40.640 even remotely they can get rid of like all the like the liberal psychos psychos that have and are

00:47:48.880 ruining that country please um light will win event to begin with a minute silence for slain bondi victims 0.66

00:48:00.480 okay but the legislation says nothing the anti-hate legislation in response it says nothing about

00:48:05.760 radical islam okay all right 11 minutes silence all right good stuff new south wales minister

00:48:11.440 responsible for shark management direct swimmers to app stands firm on no culling i mean

00:48:20.560 what can you do if a you know if a beach is known

00:48:22.960 you have shark infested waters i said yesterday you know and there is some sort of provision to tell

00:48:31.600 you that there's there's like an apps telling you about it is it is it really worth trying like trying

00:48:37.600 to cull all the sharks in the ocean doesn't seem right doesn't seem particularly fair probably our

00:48:43.840 responsibility not to go into their environment they're just doing what they were designed to do

00:48:53.040 right attack things that they think are food

00:48:55.200 it's probably on us to protect ourselves from shark attacks not to just cull all the sharks i feel like

00:49:05.840 am i a bit am i bleeding heart liberal for that harry do another poll real quick should australia cull the sharks

00:49:15.760 put that up right now we've only got a few minutes left 10 minutes left but we'll see what people say

00:49:22.320 keep the engagement we're gonna do we're gonna do engagement all right let's see quick look at japan

00:49:30.080 super quick look at japan what we got the japanese news is quite often like more frivolous things but

00:49:36.480 in a nicer way i don't know when i see the sun or the german paper do really frivolous things it sort

00:49:42.240 of irks me slightly when japan do it i don't know there's something i don't know something nice

00:49:47.680 about it oh yeah indonesia there they say they mentioned the indonesian handprints our oldest cave

00:49:52.400 art found yet so it's indonesia there you go um they got like a funny odd odd stories oh yeah the

00:49:59.760 guy that murdered shinzo abe remember that like two years ago three years ago it's a few years ago now

00:50:05.600 wasn't it that guy had like some sort of homemade shotgun

00:50:11.520 and on tv went up to ex-prime long-term long-term ex-prime minister abe and like blasted him a

00:50:19.680 point-blank range killed him he's finally had his trial and was found guilty obviously

00:50:27.520 it's caught on camera doing it um and yet he's been sentenced to a given a life term

00:50:35.600 i do believe they have the death sentence in japan so i'm surprised sort of surprised he only got life

00:50:40.880 and not execution we'll see he'll probably go through all sorts of appeals and maybe they'll

00:50:46.480 change that but um there you go the abe assassin got life imprisonment there we go story about sumo

00:50:55.840 sumo season um all right xinhua network in in china because it's pretty dry really whenever i've

00:51:07.040 gone to this it's always pretty dry stuff uh geconomics geconomics china's vision for an open

00:51:14.960 world economy in a turbulent era china allocates new batch of ultra long special treasury bonds for

00:51:21.600 equipment upgrades china china gains output china's grain output hits new high in 2025 so it's all

00:51:28.960 very sort of dry basically sort of economic stuff bigging themselves up china focus how china's high

00:51:34.400 speed rail confronts winter's bite with a black tech commentary u.s coercion in greenland reveals its

00:51:42.560 face of hegemony that's rich in it that's a bit rich coming from the chinese moaning about hegemony 1.00

00:51:49.200 yeah look at this uh cartoon they've done

00:51:57.920 china really cares about poor little greenland and how aggressive and coercive the united states is 0.84

00:52:05.280 towards greenland yeah all right don't trust you guys at all

00:52:11.600 at all at all not that i like not that i trust the pentagon and the state department right

00:52:20.000 don't pretend china we're like these warm-hearted goodies they're the goodies in this

00:52:28.960 all right let's have a quick look at the russians putin to meet with trump's special envoy

00:52:32.880 uh whitkoff today all right well we're getting towards the end so let's people like space little

00:52:39.920 little bit of space and or science news at the end of the hour so should we just move on to that

00:52:45.040 should we forget germany um how do you think that build i'm going to change the german one

00:52:51.600 because build although it's like the biggest newspaper in germany biggest news organ it's very

00:52:59.520 sort of sun like it's very the mirror i'm going to try and find sort of a more serious one even if it

00:53:05.600 hasn't got as big a readership because most days whenever i look at this or every day i look at it

00:53:12.160 most days when i bring it up it's all very tabloidy slop so i'll find about i'll find a better german

00:53:18.320 one for you if there's anyone out there let me know in the comments if you know of sort of a premier

00:53:23.280 quality german news organ we can use instead uh le monde okay let's go to science and stuff all right

00:53:31.040 science um ice age europeans imported tools from distant lands perhaps as souvenirs

00:53:42.000 in the ice age yeah i mean he's trying to discuss like how much how much and to what extent there was

00:53:50.640 movements of people in pre-modern times but during the ice age i mean that's that's really going back

00:53:56.320 like the last ice age like what 15 000 years ago or whatever 15 000 bc is that the last mini ice age

00:54:03.760 sort of times or are they talking even older like 25 000 years ago they're importing things anyway anyway

00:54:13.280 could talk about that's interesting to talk about stuff for that sort of stuff for a while in the age of

00:54:18.000 trump are u.s scientists bringing white papers to a gunfight get moaning about trump even the science thing

00:54:27.280 um these ancient handprints may represent some of the world's first rock art again that story

00:54:34.880 that story is fascinating can sort of rework a little bit our idea of of the human story

00:54:42.880 it's interesting so if you take the out of africa hypothesis which is only a hypothesis and many argue

00:54:50.400 isn't really exactly what happened even if the oldest australopithecus and some of the oldest of

00:54:58.240 our ancestors are from the east african rift valley that's what archaeology seems to show at this point

00:55:06.080 doesn't necessarily mean that all humans modern humans all come from one ancestor in east africa

00:55:13.680 looks like that probably isn't the case now it's a much much more complicated

00:55:18.000 story because if they all if every human modern human descended came out of africa

00:55:25.040 wouldn't it stand to reason or be most likely that the earliest rock art would also be in africa

00:55:33.520 or okay okay if not in africa then at least in somewhere like the near east

00:55:40.320 like the eastern mediterranean or mesopotamia or arabia somewhere like that maybe

00:55:48.560 no it's in indonesia it's a long way from the east african rift valley isn't it make that make sense

00:55:54.400 perhaps we didn't all come out of africa from one common ancestor

00:56:01.920 perhaps

00:56:04.960 okay all right we've made content about that before me and josh was it um on josh's show contemplations

00:56:13.120 we've talked all about all the various stories and narratives around the earliest humans all right

00:56:19.520 quick bit of space news what have we got blue origin um plans a bespoke high-speed starlink rival

00:56:28.720 so bezos wants to have a starlink rival okay interesting kind of interesting um there is a

00:56:35.760 worry that there's too much stuff in space in low earth orbit or medium earth orbit that there's so

00:56:41.280 much stuff out there that if there was some sort of disaster there could be a knock-on effect of space

00:56:46.480 trash and all the satellites get knocked out that might sound like just complete uh nonsense but

00:56:51.840 it's kind of there's an interesting um interesting video i watched just the other day from anton petrov

00:56:56.320 one of my all-time favorite space and science channels anton petrov if anyone watches that hello

00:57:02.240 wonderful person that's his catchphrase i love anton really great um he was saying all about reading an

00:57:09.840 actual white paper from proper scientists that study it saying that it's actually not that crazy that if

00:57:15.680 there was some sort of minor disaster in in particularly low earth orbit um like that film is that

00:57:22.160 that film gravity with with um cluny in it uh where all the satellites break up into little bits and they

00:57:30.720 it's a knock-on effect a domino effect and that's not implausible and the more stuff you put up there the

00:57:39.280 more likely it becomes that would be a worry wouldn't it if one day oh and it would happen quickly

00:57:45.760 as well if that domino effect started happening it would probably play out over the course of one day

00:57:50.880 or three days or something they think maybe this study showed imagine that it's just over the course of

00:57:56.480 like a few days there's no satellites anymore so there's no there's no gps and there's no loads loads

00:58:03.840 a lot of our modern world would just grind to a halt and it would be sort of near impossible to fix

00:58:12.400 we'd have to spend many many many many years sending various things up into low earth orbit

00:58:18.560 to clean it up before we could start again

00:58:23.360 the human civilization the human project would be set back profoundly should that happen

00:58:30.080 but bezos wants to send up loads more like 5 400 satellites just for bezos's starlink rival

00:58:40.960 i mean it's obviously a fantastic area isn't it low earth orbit it's giant but who knows anyway i

00:58:48.640 don't want to be too alarmist it might never happen might never happen um all right let's have a quick

00:58:54.720 look about this day in history before we round out the show okay so on this day the 22nd of january

00:59:02.240 what happened in 1689 prince william of orange william of orange the future king william iii of britain

00:59:09.600 summons the convention parliament to discuss ruling jointly with his wife mary the daughter of the exiled

00:59:14.960 king king james ii a steward yeah that's all that's all to do with the glorious revolution and all that

00:59:24.480 interesting bit of history certainly um if you're a catholic you don't like it because james ii was uh

00:59:31.360 well well he's a catholic crypto catholic uh catholic basically and um parliament didn't want that

00:59:39.360 they'd already fought uh a whole civil war against his father charles ii they're sort of puritans

00:59:48.080 really when james ii looked like or was going to reveal that he was just a full-blown catholic

00:59:53.920 parliament was like no no no no off you go out you get we'll bring over a protestant from holland if we need to

01:00:01.040 so catholics uh really feel sorry for james and hate william of orange and protestants like like

01:00:10.880 william of orange and think it was the right thing that james ii was ousted there you go

01:00:17.760 william of orange you finally his horse stumbled over a molehill he fell off his horse and

01:00:21.520 got injured and died famously that's one of those things isn't it and queen mary went on to rule

01:00:27.600 you know right for a while okay in 1879 the battle of rook's drift anyone seen zulu i've got a bit

01:00:35.200 of content on epochs just talking all about the film zulu and the real history of the battle of

01:00:40.720 rook's drift and the battle of sandalwana if anyone's out there who hasn't seen the film the michael

01:00:45.920 kane film zulu do watch it it's brilliant film brilliant sunday afternoon watching rainy sunday

01:00:53.440 afternoon watching brilliant stuff zulu sighted to the southwest thousands of them

01:01:02.400 love it brilliant film uh it's where as it says there the british garrison of about 150

01:01:08.320 redcoats hold off between three and four thousand zulu warriors 11 victoria crosses and several other

01:01:15.040 decorations are awarded to the defenders yeah quite a remarkable sort of last stand thing but last

01:01:20.480 stand where they won the zulus did retreat so it wasn't like an alamo type thing where all the 150

01:01:26.320 defenders were eventually wiped out no no no they held out a few of those victoria crosses weren't

01:01:31.680 posthumous remarkable another thing is there was a big battle of isandawana just before this

01:01:37.680 where the zulus won there's another there's another uh film from the 70s as well called that came out

01:01:44.080 not long around the same time as the film zulu called zulu dawn which talks about the battle that

01:01:50.960 happened before that called isandawana where the zulus did beat a company or so or was even only just half

01:01:57.920 a company of british soldiers um and then they pushed on after that victory to rooks drift three or four

01:02:06.240 thousand of them got turned back by 150 guys and then the the british army under uh who was it uh not

01:02:14.640 cardigan uh i can't remember that i can't remember the overall or the overall commander but we went on

01:02:23.280 to completely defeat the zulu nation yet they make out that the battle of isandawana was a really big thing

01:02:30.400 and they humbled us and they beat us and it's a great victory for them it was like it's like a company

01:02:35.920 or maybe it's more like three companies i can't remember it was a relatively minor victory and you

01:02:40.240 went on to get you zulus went on to completely lose that war so a bit of cope really bringing up

01:02:46.720 the sandawana all the time we'll move on in 1905 the russian revolution that's obviously not the 1917

01:02:55.280 russian revolution there was another one in 1905 which the czar the czar did put down it says there in

01:03:03.680 1905 a large demonstration of workers in st petersburg russia uh led by father gap on gap on

01:03:10.080 uh marches to the winter palace with a petition to the czar troops fire on the protesters in what

01:03:15.840 becomes known as bloody sunday it's pretty bad in history there's lots of bloody sundays if you're a

01:03:21.760 brit you probably think like there's only one bloody sunday and that was in northern ireland

01:03:26.560 in the 70s when the parachute regiment shot on irish people that's bloody sunday but no if you go on

01:03:34.720 wikipedia or just google it there's many bloody sundays in history whenever there's a massacre

01:03:41.360 nearly it ends up being called bloody sunday so this is just one other bloody sunday yeah the people

01:03:47.440 of russia in 1905 were um you know a lot of them were starving and freezing to death and living under

01:03:54.320 terribly harsh conditions and they just thought a bit naively that but surely if only the czar

01:04:01.600 the kindly lovely father czar if he just knew about it he would save us and do something about it all we

01:04:08.480 need to do is go to st petersburg and tell him and he will save us because he loves us he wouldn't allow

01:04:16.880 us to live in such penury and misery if only he knew so they decided to go there and do that and uh

01:04:24.800 yeah the czarist forces the cossacks and the soldiers uh just fired into the crowd and killed loads of

01:04:31.200 them there you go apparently nicholas himself so nicholas ii himself was a bit cut up about it he well he was

01:04:39.600 he didn't order that personally and when he found out about it was upset but it is what it is he he was

01:04:46.320 the autocrat of all the russians it's up to him to make sure something like that didn't happen anyway all right

01:04:54.400 1908 katie mulcahy mulcahy katie mulcahy is arrested for lighting a cigarette violating the 1.00

01:05:03.840 one day old sullivan ordinance which banned women from smoking in public and she's fined five dollars 1.00

01:05:12.720 probably a fair bit of money in 1908 appearing before the judge she states quote i've got as much

01:05:18.480 right to smoke as you have i never heard of this new law and i don't want to hear about it no man

01:05:23.440 shall dictate to me end quote yes yes very brave an important important landmark in history

01:05:34.800 in 1973 in a landmark decision the u.s supreme court legalizes most abortions that's roe versus

01:05:41.040 wade the roe versus wade decision writing the majority opinion a justice harry blackman

01:05:49.440 states that the criminalization of abortion does not have quote roots in the english common law

01:05:54.400 tradition quote there you go well it was overturned wasn't it in recent years what two years ago now

01:05:59.920 long goes it it was overturned so that was a moment in time roe versus wade really from 1973 to when

01:06:07.920 was it 2002 it's 22 to anyway it's been overturned now all right well that brings us to it's now six

01:06:16.240 minutes past nine in the am greenwich meantime on thursday the 22nd of january in the year of our lord

01:06:22.160 2026 thank you for joining me without you this doesn't happen you are the glorious band the chosen

01:06:28.800 few who have tuned in live to watch the bow show breakfast with bow do try and make the best of the

01:06:36.080 day you know first day of the rest of your life you only have this day once in history once it's gone

01:06:43.360 it's gone carpe diem seize the day if you can well then so until tomorrow morning take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 22, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 22nd January 2026

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