The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 22, 2026


Breakfast With Beau | Thursday 22nd January 2026


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 6 minutes

Words per Minute

154.25214

Word Count

10,317

Sentence Count

10

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

Trump's trip to Davos is all the news today and it's all about the greenland deal! Plus we talk about why my friends do not leak stories about me and why I don't read a book.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 just sorting out my hair just get the center parting just right
00:00:13.140 sorted
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:32:32.880 nine years baker a bake-off judge nigella's a shoe in a shoe pastry she's a shoe in
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
01:05:03.840 one day old sullivan ordinance which banned women from smoking in public and she's fined five dollars
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
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