The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 23rd July 2026

00:00:00.080 Morning you

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00:00:14.840 It is 8 in the a.m. British summer time

00:00:18.400 On Thursday the 23rd of July

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00:00:33.600 Brilliant.

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00:00:35.600 As always, I'm joined by my producer, Little Harry.

00:00:38.480 How are you this morning, good sir?

00:00:39.620 Morning, I'm all good.

00:00:42.020 The omnipresent disembodied voice of the producer there.

00:00:46.240 Okay, what's the legacy corporate lamestream media banging on about this morning?

00:00:50.620 What are they lying to us about by omission, if nothing else?

00:00:53.660 Are they trying to pretend is important or not?

00:00:57.420 Let's have a look.

00:00:58.160 let's stop faffing about let's just get straight into it okay row over early prison release that's

00:01:04.160 still the big story that's the biggest story fleet street have decided to go with this morning

00:01:07.820 so all over the front pages and gary's back of the net tax that's gary lineker 0.54

00:01:15.520 weirdo idiot gary lineker tottenham hotspur and england football legend gary lineker who thinks 0.51

00:01:24.960 he knows about anything other than football who told Gary Lineker that he's qualified to talk 0.99

00:01:30.060 about anything other than football who told him that doesn't know what he's talking about does

00:01:34.800 he about anything okay well Gary Lineker as a millionaire multi-millionaire of course

00:01:39.020 he was uh obviously paid handsomely as a football player not as much as they are these days but also

00:01:46.020 was one of the the highest paying BBC TV anchors for a while wasn't he so he's got millions of

00:01:52.040 He said, oh no, tax us harder, Daddy

00:01:55.040 Mr Burnham, please tax me harder

00:01:56.720 Dear the Labour Party

00:01:58.260 Dear parlour room pinkos, socialist wannabes

00:02:01.580 Please tax me harder, Daddy

00:02:03.800 That's what Gary Lineker says 1.00

00:02:06.180 What a buffoon 1.00

00:02:07.720 Complete buffoon 1.00

00:02:10.780 We'll get into it 0.99

00:02:12.320 Today's one of those days

00:02:13.640 Where probably most of the main stories

00:02:17.280 Most interesting stories

00:02:18.560 Aren't actually on the front pages

00:02:20.240 Sometimes it happens, right?

00:02:21.720 sometimes often like yesterday the main stories are on the front pages in that news cycle at least

00:02:26.460 in the morning time of that day and other days for whatever reason stuff happened too late last

00:02:30.920 night for it to get onto the front pages or fleet street just decided to not really go with it

00:02:35.420 and a lot of the more interesting stories today i think are actually on the front pages

00:02:39.620 maybe i'll whip through the front pages a little quicker than usual quicker than yesterday

00:02:43.660 and we'll look at some other stories because they nearly all go with the prison row thing

00:02:48.440 We talked about that yesterday

00:02:51.340 Didn't we

00:02:51.720 That

00:02:51.960 In general

00:02:54.060 The general

00:02:54.660 Story

00:02:55.500 Is

00:02:56.800 Isn't it

00:02:57.360 That the Labour Party

00:02:58.400 Are just letting out

00:02:59.360 Loads of more people

00:03:00.460 From prison

00:03:00.940 Early

00:03:02.920 Sometimes including killers 0.98

00:03:04.280 Filophiles 0.99

00:03:05.960 Rapists 0.98

00:03:06.780 Because they say

00:03:08.280 The prisons are full

00:03:09.140 You could stop

00:03:10.720 Importing

00:03:11.340 Hundreds of thousands

00:03:12.020 Of new people

00:03:12.580 Every single year

00:03:13.200 Year on year

00:03:13.780 Could do that

00:03:15.160 Could build more prisons

00:03:16.300 No

00:03:17.240 Just let criminals out early

00:03:18.880 And laugh about it

00:03:22.000 Remember that we talked about yesterday didn't we

00:03:23.820 I believe

00:03:25.100 If not

00:03:26.000 Just quickly to recap

00:03:27.440 Wes Streeting and Shibana Mahmood

00:03:31.120 And a couple of others were caught on hot mic

00:03:33.180 Laughing

00:03:33.920 Maniacally cackling

00:03:36.880 I would characterise it as

00:03:38.960 At the prospect of loads of prisoners

00:03:41.340 Being let out early

00:03:42.380 And one of those

00:03:45.780 Two of the people that may be let out early

00:03:48.220 Were those two young kids

00:03:50.140 I think they were only 17 at the time

00:03:51.580 Were part of

00:03:53.440 The incident that dragged a cop

00:03:56.220 Along the road

00:03:57.080 Killing him horribly, horribly

00:04:00.000 They only got 13 years 0.93

00:04:02.540 For that and they may well be let out

00:04:04.040 After 6 because of this

00:04:05.240 Andy Burnham

00:04:07.600 His widow says it's

00:04:10.260 Deplorable or despicable or something

00:04:11.900 And Andy Burnham says he'll look at all the new cases

00:04:14.420 and look at look at that policy that's what nearly all the front pages go with it all right let's

00:04:19.140 whip through it then the guardian ew ew the guardian what's that stench it smells like

00:04:27.780 fetid bog water oh yeah that's the guardian that's what that stench is the guardian

00:04:33.300 okay burnham steps in to order a review in row over early prisoner release see

00:04:37.860 France had 5,700 excess deaths

00:04:45.740 Excess deaths

00:04:47.240 In June heat

00:04:48.480 Heatwave

00:04:49.380 Yeah

00:04:51.680 That is always what happened

00:04:53.480 You know, it's one of those things

00:04:55.040 Every single year without fail

00:04:56.380 Around autumn time or into winter

00:04:58.680 Lots and lots of people

00:04:59.880 Usually older people 1.00

00:05:01.340 Usually people that are already terribly infirmed

00:05:03.460 Will get the flu and die of the flu 1.00

00:05:05.360 it's the same with heat waves usually it's very very old people people that are already 1.00

00:05:10.740 at death's door for whatever other reason the heat wave tips them over the edge so it's too 0.94

00:05:17.520 much for their system so when you see news like that you see stories numbers like that

00:05:24.660 like what 5700 perfectly healthy people died of what like heat stroke no it's not it's not

00:05:32.380 really what happened some might have but the vast majority of that will be people that are already

00:05:37.120 very very nearly dead it's horrible to say but okay every year that will happen

00:05:43.260 right a little story there a bit odd well not odd but lobbyist pays for flattering news pieces

00:05:52.660 it's just a little story that there was some sort of lobbying company that's run that was

00:05:56.860 founded by David Cameron and Boris Johnson and that it paid it paid journalists to write

00:06:06.940 flattering pieces about it story as old as time well not as old as time that's very sort of a

00:06:14.720 common thing though really you're rich and powerful and you know people in the print media

00:06:19.140 I mean Boris Johnson

00:06:20.380 Well both of those

00:06:21.640 Gentlemen

00:06:23.280 Are very plugged in

00:06:25.080 With

00:06:26.560 The news

00:06:28.000 And print media

00:06:29.120 And journalists

00:06:30.180 Very very plugged in

00:06:31.500 I mean

00:06:33.900 Where you just

00:06:35.400 Again you're having dinner with them 0.99

00:06:36.840 At White's 0.99

00:06:38.620 A gentleman's club or something 0.92

00:06:40.940 At a hotel

00:06:41.900 And just say

00:06:43.320 Or even to their boss

00:06:44.400 Just say

00:06:45.140 Oh

00:06:45.380 Don't suppose you could do us a favour old boy

00:06:47.900 Don't suppose you could write

00:06:51.320 Or you could get one of your underlings

00:06:52.780 To write a favourable piece

00:06:54.200 Could you?

00:06:56.340 I mean like of course

00:06:57.120 Of course we could old boy

00:06:58.260 That's the way the world goes round

00:07:01.760 Not fair is it? 0.99

00:07:06.200 Because everyone outside of that little clique

00:07:07.500 That little bubble doesn't get that privilege

00:07:09.020 That's the way the world works

00:07:12.560 The times, the venerable times

00:07:14.680 Joan Collins says something about

00:07:17.460 93

00:07:18.680 I've said it a couple of times

00:07:20.260 There's a kind of a joke

00:07:21.040 Have I

00:07:21.240 About various people

00:07:21.940 Are they still alive?

00:07:24.240 I honestly didn't know

00:07:25.140 Joan Collins was still alive

00:07:26.120 I thought she'd died

00:07:26.860 Apparently not

00:07:28.400 Okay

00:07:29.600 Got nothing against

00:07:30.600 Joan Collins particularly

00:07:31.380 But

00:07:31.660 Just saying

00:07:33.740 Joan Collins is still going

00:07:34.660 No shade

00:07:36.080 Just saying

00:07:37.040 Who knew?

00:07:39.900 Prison chaos

00:07:40.500 As Burnham calls halt

00:07:41.700 To easy release

00:07:42.660 We'll see

00:07:44.700 PM intervenes 0.97

00:07:45.820 After plea by widow

00:07:46.900 of pc harper that was the guy dragged along the road

00:07:49.220 okay the pm intervenes burnham's on the case don't worry don't panic don't panic burnham's

00:07:57.420 on the case burnham the great white hope

00:08:02.020 giving hope to every household

00:08:06.560 water boss charged over fake sewage plant data this is i think interesting that sir that prince

00:08:16.300 george by the way wills his boy probably be king one day he's turned 13 it was his 13th birthday

00:08:21.260 the water boss and a number of others it was southern water not thames water

00:08:29.180 anyway one of the other big big water companies apparently the he was like the ex-ceo or the ex

00:08:37.140 sort of manager of the whole company along with a bunch of others in the company were actually

00:08:43.140 fully on trial so it's not like they're just being investigated they're actually on trial for

00:08:51.940 a type of a type of fraud really well not fraud what is it they the story is

00:08:58.660 these companies have to give uh samples to outside third camp third party companies to test how dirty

00:09:07.620 the water is and things and if it's too dirty they can get fined like massive fines millions

00:09:13.700 millions of pounds right they could you know be in real real trouble potentially you know it's a

00:09:19.060 type of thing that could destroy their company could get them up on charges of being incompetent

00:09:24.980 and whatever so they cheated it apparently that's the allegations they're the allegations

00:09:29.780 apparently they they cheated it on a large scale like the judge or not the judge i think maybe the

00:09:34.900 prosecutor i saw a couple of lines from the prosecutor saying that it was on a vast scale

00:09:41.220 something like i'm paraphrasing slightly but it was on a vast scale over many many many years

00:09:45.060 they were sort of just cheating the system

00:09:51.460 that is really gross to me obviously i think a few things are sort of more vitally important are they

00:09:59.780 Then the water you get out of your tap in your home

00:10:03.180 Is clean enough

00:10:04.560 Perfectly clean

00:10:06.040 You and your children are certainly not going to get ill from it

00:10:08.940 Or whatever

00:10:09.380 To be cutting corners on that

00:10:14.100 And doing dodgy nefarious things

00:10:16.260 When that is at stake

00:10:17.740 Apparently they could face

00:10:20.160 As much as 10 years in jail

00:10:21.820 For it

00:10:22.680 In Bowes Britain there will be harsher

00:10:27.860 Repercussions

00:10:29.320 punishments, something like that. But you could have poisoned millions of people.

00:10:38.320 Ten years is not enough. Okay, the Tory graph. It's deplorable that freeing

00:10:44.320 prisoners early is acceptable, says that murdered policeman's wife.

00:10:51.320 They'd only been married a month or whatever, they were newlyweds.

00:10:56.320 PC Harper's widow attacks Labour's release scheme

00:11:01.500 After it is revealed that two of his killers

00:11:04.140 Could be put back on streets

00:11:05.640 I find it a bit of a worrying concerning trend

00:11:09.740 That the government

00:11:12.400 The very top of government as well

00:11:14.760 For quite a few years now

00:11:17.240 10-15 years

00:11:19.300 And this trend I'm about to talk about

00:11:22.180 Is only increasing it seems

00:11:23.520 The actual government will act

00:11:25.920 and be seen to acting on something

00:11:27.920 only if and when it gets traction in the media.

00:11:32.820 Sometimes it doesn't have to be the actual

00:11:34.240 corporate legacy lamestream media.

00:11:36.040 It can just be on Twitter or something.

00:11:37.240 But if it gets enough traction,

00:11:38.520 then they take notice of it and act on it

00:11:40.680 or pretend like they're acting on it.

00:11:45.340 Well, it's worrying, isn't it?

00:11:46.680 Because what if your story, your tale, your injustice

00:11:50.900 just doesn't make it to those dizzying heights

00:11:54.180 of being noticed on front pages or elon retweets it and it gets seen 100 million times

00:12:00.340 what if your case and it probably won't reach that level oh well you just don't that's it

00:12:06.180 you don't get anything you're ignored forever then

00:12:09.420 that's how the government reacts that's how starma seemed to react to everything wasn't it

00:12:17.780 they're just bumbling stumbling from day to day oh what's in the papers what's on the on the main

00:12:22.820 news websites that I need to react to. Faffing around like a headless chicken. I mentioned 0.81

00:12:31.760 the Battle of Salamanca yesterday, didn't I? Didn't we? Was it Global Church History

00:12:37.340 or was it on this day in history? Anyway, I think it was Global Church History. There's

00:12:42.380 a bit, I think it was a Battle of Salamanca, certainly a Wellington quote where maybe it

00:12:47.520 was on, actually I think it was on the Day of Waterloo actually. At one point the French

00:12:51.800 are like moving one of their wings out and around as though they're gonna look like they might flank

00:12:56.320 him and some of his senior staff officers have said sir sir look look it's uh or my lord my lord

00:13:02.400 look look that's happening well we should do something right we should move our battalions

00:13:05.700 or something and he's like no i've got i've got no intention of running around like a headless

00:13:09.140 chicken i know my plan i know what i'm doing i don't need to react to every little thing thank 0.86

00:13:14.740 you reacting to every little thing is for losers for people who don't know what they're doing

00:13:19.200 People that are scared, scared of their own shadow

00:13:21.540 Should be the same in government

00:13:24.280 Are you doing it right?

00:13:26.660 Are you acting competently and doing things correctly or not?

00:13:29.540 Are you just waiting for the next headline to fall on you

00:13:33.320 That you then react to?

00:13:37.220 That's what this feels like

00:13:38.240 The policy is going to be that we're going to release prisoners early

00:13:41.380 Oh wait, the media have poured a lot of spotlight

00:13:45.560 on this one particular horrible killing and the the voice of his widow so now so now we'll look

00:13:54.200 at the whole policy now we'll review everything you see that's a dodgy way of doing it right of

00:13:59.380 conducting government dodgy dodgy weak weak way of doing government Andy Burnham he's got no

00:14:08.120 sternum, has he? He's got no sternum, that Andy Burnham. All right, here you go, look, 0.73

00:14:15.660 Southern Water Boss Faces Criminal Charges. Could get up to 10 years. Fat jabs increase

00:14:22.740 risk of losing your hair. I didn't worry then. Okay. Yeah, this is, I thought it was mildly 1.00

00:14:33.260 interesting this morning when I read this

00:14:34.420 Cairns refuses to

00:14:37.380 join a Burnham government, that's Al

00:14:39.220 Cairns, or Cairns, Cairns

00:14:41.060 he was at the

00:14:43.380 he was under John Healy

00:14:45.180 at the Department of Defence, right

00:14:46.820 and he was touted

00:14:49.380 in some circles

00:14:51.580 as possibly

00:14:53.660 launching some sort of

00:14:55.480 leadership contest

00:14:57.400 against Burnham, for the sake of it

00:14:59.360 really, for the debate, not that he was ever realistically

00:15:01.360 going to win

00:15:03.260 He's like one of the top dogs in Labour

00:15:08.300 Well, maybe second tier

00:15:09.920 Still up there

00:15:10.940 Top 10, top 15 names in Labour

00:15:14.240 I would say, top 20 maybe

00:15:15.980 Something like that

00:15:16.840 He's not a complete nobody

00:15:18.300 People said he might have enough MPs in his faction, his block

00:15:24.500 To launch a leadership contest

00:15:29.120 So he's not a nobody

00:15:30.700 He's not just a backbencher

00:15:33.260 a bit more than that, and says he's refused to join Burnham's government.

00:15:38.940 That's interesting. I wonder why.

00:15:40.720 The article doesn't say, it doesn't really give any proper detail about why.

00:15:44.580 I wonder what Mr. Kearns MP's rationale or reasoning was on that.

00:15:51.240 Interesting to know.

00:15:51.940 I wonder if he calculates that the Burnham government is sort of doomed,

00:15:58.120 doomed to repeat basically all the mistakes of the Starmer government

00:16:03.580 and be undermined from every angle by the left

00:16:07.860 to the point where it basically implodes

00:16:12.060 Andy Burnham becomes a laughing stock, a joke

00:16:15.620 as unpopular as Starmer if not more

00:16:18.040 the whole country hate him

00:16:19.960 if Al Kearns, if that was his thinking

00:16:24.880 why would I join that?

00:16:28.120 why would i hop aboard a sinking ship well you're already a labor mp

00:16:33.720 so you're already on board that sinking ship aren't you al

00:16:37.800 okay trump agrees nuclear deal with saudis that's interesting it's one of the stories that is um

00:16:48.380 i was going to get to a bit later with um with the websites but yeah so that story is um well

00:16:57.740 give the Saudis have wanted

00:17:03.500 have wanted to be able to

00:17:08.020 have both nuclear reactors

00:17:11.620 and the ability to build their own

00:17:15.960 nuclear reactors and process their own nuclear fuel

00:17:20.460 etc etc etc and the US

00:17:24.420 and the global community if you like whatever that means

00:17:27.740 I've always said, no, not really.

00:17:29.900 We're not really particularly happy with that.

00:17:31.500 We'd rather you don't.

00:17:35.120 Here's all sorts of carrots to prevent you from banging on about it. 0.98

00:17:40.700 Look how we treated South Africa. 0.99

00:17:43.920 Look how we treated Iraq. 0.99

00:17:45.620 Look how we treated North Korea before they got it done. 0.99

00:17:48.380 Look how we're treating Iran. 0.88

00:17:49.620 Look how we treat countries that insist on this stuff. 1.00

00:17:53.220 just pipe down about it and we'll give you all sorts of carrots in order to just back away from

00:18:00.760 that and the Saudis have always basically kind of always played ball with that but Trump now

00:18:05.000 overnight it emerged or yesterday really it emerged that he will do some sort of deal a bit

00:18:10.520 of deal on the table for years where Trump had said formally recognize Israel I thought the

00:18:15.900 Saudis had formally recognized Israel I guess not I thought they had I thought that was part of those

00:18:21.600 Accords that Kushner got done

00:18:23.320 I guess not

00:18:27.140 The deal had been 0.62

00:18:29.720 From Trump to the Saudis 0.99

00:18:31.380 Recognise Israel and will let you 1.00

00:18:33.160 Will even invest in you

00:18:35.020 And let you do all sorts of

00:18:37.140 Nuclear research and stuff

00:18:38.820 Well, it seems now

00:18:41.380 Trump's dropped that part of it

00:18:43.180 About recognising Israel 1.00

00:18:44.360 And he's just letting the Saudis 1.00

00:18:46.560 Basically have their own domestic 0.88

00:18:48.860 Nuclear industry

00:18:50.660 Now some are saying 1.00

00:18:53.360 This will lead to the Saudis

00:18:55.480 Having a bomb 1.00

00:18:57.420 I don't think so

00:19:00.520 I think

00:19:03.260 Well everything I know about it

00:19:05.220 Which is a fair bit

00:19:06.520 I've read a few books

00:19:07.420 And watched documentaries

00:19:08.700 And been interested in this type of thing

00:19:11.220 For years and years and years

00:19:12.840 Everything I know about it

00:19:14.640 In order to enrich uranium

00:19:17.440 Up to sort of 90% plus

00:19:20.060 Purity, i.e. weapons grade

00:19:22.780 Weapons grade

00:19:25.220 That is a whole different ball game to

00:19:28.680 Nuclear fuel

00:19:30.660 Which is nowhere near 90%

00:19:33.160 What is it? It's more in the region of

00:19:35.560 40, 60% isn't it? Something like that

00:19:38.100 Or not even that, sometimes it all depends

00:19:39.660 It all depends on what reactor

00:19:40.760 But basically nowhere near weapons grade purity

00:19:44.100 That's a whole

00:19:46.680 Another thing

00:19:47.400 so in the news a bit today i've seen talking about this deal and they're like saudis america's

00:19:54.960 allowed saudis to have a nuke no no the way the mainstream media catastrophize things quite a lot

00:20:02.420 right this morning i saw i saw uh some of the tv i i usually pop sky news on or bbc news 24 on the

00:20:10.440 tv for the first sort of half hour when i wake up bottering around a real quick shower maybe

00:20:16.260 trying a bit to eat have the tv on in the background the news in the background on there

00:20:19.700 they were saying honestly with that with a straight face they're saying um uh oil prices

00:20:26.980 are an all-time high as high as they ever were at any point during this war just not true

00:20:32.900 look there you go bring that up harry west texas just over 88 dollars and brent nearly 96 which is

00:20:40.420 a lot but i'm not saying it's not a lot i'm not saying it hasn't gone up recently

00:20:43.220 but it's it's not at the highest point since this war began do you remember it went up to

00:20:48.280 over 115 or brent did 117 was it did it even knock over 120 dollars a barrel

00:20:54.940 it's not like 96 is cheap is it and yet they were on the news just saying it's the highest 0.83

00:21:03.380 just liars just straight up liars same thing here the saudis are going to get a nuke mr trump just 0.77

00:21:11.440 let the Saudis build a nuke. No, that's just not what's going on here at all. Okay, okay. 0.98

00:21:26.260 What else have we got? The Express, it's a good paper. You can read your Express now.

00:21:33.860 As Andy Burnham vows to review early release scheme that could allow killers of PC Harper

00:21:38.240 To go free

00:21:38.800 His widow brands the situation

00:21:40.320 Deplorable

00:21:41.160 My Andrew and every victim

00:21:42.940 Deserves better

00:21:43.720 Yeah

00:21:43.960 I can't disagree

00:21:46.740 That's a solid take, love

00:21:47.920 That's a solid take

00:21:51.040 Yeah, the victims deserve better

00:21:53.180 Why our society now

00:21:58.940 Our government

00:21:59.480 Seems to err on the side

00:22:02.600 Of what's best for

00:22:03.660 The criminal

00:22:05.180 It's an inverted

00:22:10.540 Perverted 0.97

00:22:12.100 Subverted culture

00:22:13.880 And politics

00:22:15.200 Gary Lineker

00:22:17.660 A football player remember

00:22:20.240 A football player

00:22:21.520 He's going to tell us about macroeconomics

00:22:24.880 Lineker leads British millionaires

00:22:27.000 Telling Burnham

00:22:27.860 We really should pay more tax 1.00

00:22:29.860 You're not an economist gal 1.00

00:22:34.520 Gaza 0.99

00:22:36.220 Shut up mate 1.00

00:22:39.580 Embarrassing yourself 1.00

00:22:41.480 Embarrassing yourself

00:22:46.320 Anyone remember when Gary Lineker

00:22:50.260 Crapped himself on TV

00:22:52.120 Yeah

00:22:52.640 Oh that was real yeah

00:22:55.880 In a football game

00:22:57.100 On the pitch

00:22:59.020 Gary Lineker pooed his pants

00:23:04.520 I think I'm making that up, no, it's true, it's caught on TV, okay, let's get serious,

00:23:18.060 sorry, serious, PM pledges review as Widow says PC killer's release is deplorable, all 0.96

00:23:24.760 right, the male, pure globalist, anti-white, anti-British schlop, trying to pretend it 0.90

00:23:30.080 isn't wearing the skin suit of something that's patriotic and on your side it's not it's not 0.98

00:23:36.720 the daily mail is filth you want to talk about re-migration if you want to save this country 1.00

00:23:43.760 they will try and destroy you try and assassinate your character 0.99

00:23:47.620 that's who they are a wolf in sheep's clothing

00:23:53.300 If you're at PC Harper's Widow

00:24:00.840 Sparks a fresh look at Scheme

00:24:03.660 Burn and Force to review early prison release

00:24:05.880 Right, got it

00:24:06.660 This little story is in the news cycle today

00:24:09.220 This woman 1.00

00:24:09.860 Had like a big expensive house in the Dordogne 1.00

00:24:13.520 Murder in Dordogne

00:24:15.900 In France

00:24:17.020 Nice bit of South France

00:24:18.360 She got murdered 1.00

00:24:23.300 i love rival

00:24:27.460 that's it there's nothing deeper more important to it than that just that but for some reason

00:24:31.220 for some reason that one murder they've decided should be in their news cycle

00:24:35.700 prince george he's 13 he's cool bro

00:24:41.540 they're telling you he's cool is he doubt it he's a 13 year old kid i doubt he's cool in any way

00:24:47.220 Moral millionaires tell PM

00:24:52.820 Make us pay more tax 1.00

00:24:54.380 What an idiot 1.00

00:24:56.920 Gary, go 1.00

00:24:59.080 Let's get real

00:25:00.940 That's a false economy

00:25:03.620 Do you know what that means?

00:25:04.800 Mr. Lineker, do you know what that means?

00:25:06.400 It's a false economy

00:25:07.320 That they might raise a little bit of money

00:25:12.360 But ultimately

00:25:14.740 Less money

00:25:16.100 Than they would otherwise raise

00:25:18.160 Without a wealth tax

00:25:20.500 Do you understand that?

00:25:23.260 Do you understand that it's a false economy?

00:25:26.720 No?

00:25:27.640 No

00:25:27.900 You're just virtue signalling aren't you?

00:25:30.360 If you really

00:25:30.800 Gary

00:25:31.160 Mr Lineker

00:25:32.360 If you really cared about the plight 1.00

00:25:34.380 Of non-millionaire people 1.00

00:25:36.220 Poor people 0.94

00:25:37.220 You're at liberty

00:25:39.540 To start doing philanthropic things aren't you?

00:25:43.260 You're at liberty to start your own charity

00:25:44.700 Just go out and spend your own money

00:25:47.420 Just directly 0.87

00:25:48.340 On poor people 1.00

00:25:49.540 If that's what you care about 1.00

00:25:50.500 No?

00:25:52.220 You don't want to do that?

00:25:52.840 No

00:25:52.960 Okay 1.00

00:25:53.600 He's a scumbag 1.00

00:25:56.380 Gary 1.00

00:25:56.640 Again

00:25:57.800 I can't get past the question

00:26:02.020 Who told him

00:26:03.680 That his value

00:26:04.920 His opinion is of any value

00:26:06.780 Because they pointed a camera at you

00:26:12.000 In a studio a bunch of times

00:26:13.680 And you talked about football

00:26:15.920 And you scored a few goals

00:26:17.740 You've got no training, no background in it

00:26:22.700 I mean, I'm only in a studio with a camera

00:26:24.500 But at least I've done quite a lot of reading

00:26:26.320 I have studied political economy

00:26:28.980 Has Gary Lineker studied political economy?

00:26:33.780 Let's ask Gary about, I don't know

00:26:36.500 Harry Dexter White

00:26:38.880 Let's ask him about John Maynard Keynes and Bretton Woods

00:26:42.320 Do you think Gary knows anything about Bretton Woods, for example?

00:26:45.680 Anything at all?

00:26:49.160 I doubt it.

00:26:51.100 I doubt Gary Lineker knows anything about economics.

00:26:55.160 He just realises it's the virtue signaling thing to do,

00:26:58.280 probably angling for a peerage.

00:27:02.940 It's the virtue signaling thing to do,

00:27:06.420 the champagne socialist thing to do, to say no.

00:27:09.900 I am prepared to pay more.

00:27:11.580 I've got a chip on my shoulder about being a millionaire

00:27:14.000 Don't you know

00:27:14.660 I'm not actually going to give my money away

00:27:16.460 And actually help poor people

00:27:17.520 Just virtue signal about it

00:27:19.200 That's Gary Lineker

00:27:20.640 Let's ask Gary Lineker some simple 101 questions about economics

00:27:27.440 See what he knows

00:27:30.280 Star Lineker proud to stand with the people who want a fairer Britain

00:27:36.140 What are you talking about?

00:27:37.080 How is it fairer?

00:27:38.580 Look the next thing

00:27:39.100 Group claims he's in some little group of millionaires

00:27:41.340 group claims two percent duty on wealth of super rich could raise 24 billion pounds right

00:27:47.120 do you understand about a false economy okay you raise you might raise 24 billion pounds

00:27:54.420 in the longer run though zoom out scroll out on that graph

00:27:59.060 yeah gary stay with me now

00:28:03.080 and the amount of wealth that will flee the country

00:28:08.500 over years would add up to orders of magnitude more than that 24 billion pounds

00:28:16.220 you see that so you raise a little bit to begin with but ultimately lose out a lot more

00:28:23.380 because of wealth flat

00:28:28.040 can you understand that garylinica that it's more than just what we're talking about here

00:28:36.420 Is bigger than just your desire to virtue signal

00:28:39.660 No, I guess not

00:28:42.440 What am I on?

00:28:47.140 Stick to talking about football

00:28:48.980 Don't know what you're talking about

00:28:53.680 Okay

00:28:54.320 The star

00:28:55.560 You're a slot

00:28:56.960 Lineker, Brian Eno

00:28:58.620 Oh, Brian Eno

00:28:59.560 Oh

00:29:01.100 Wait

00:29:04.180 We need to understand the problems inherent in the entire world's macroeconomic outlook.

00:29:15.020 Let's get Brian Eno on the phone.

00:29:18.780 What's Brian Eno's take?

00:29:23.000 And 120 other millionaires, they're proud to pay.

00:29:26.720 Just do it then

00:29:31.840 If you really care 1.00

00:29:32.880 About the plight of poor people 0.53

00:29:34.920 Or something

00:29:35.380 Just spend your millions directly

00:29:38.280 On helping them

00:29:39.200 No you don't want to do that

00:29:43.760 Gary's back of the net tax

00:29:47.780 Back of the net

00:29:48.420 Jurassic Park 0.94

00:29:51.600 footy host says paying fair share a basic british value now shut up mate now now you 0.92

00:30:02.160 gotta just shut your mouth basic british value what do you mean it's a basic british value to 0.90

00:30:08.640 be taxed more than hard any people have been in all of human history is that right that's 0.97

00:30:13.460 a british value that's a basic british value is it what are you chatting about

00:30:17.540 Don't tell me that it's a basic British value

00:30:23.200 To be taxed into oblivion

00:30:25.400 Don't tell me that

00:30:27.340 The Metro

00:30:31.480 The Metro

00:30:40.020 I think this is a story

00:30:41.940 Look, it's the banner

00:30:43.140 It's not the headline

00:30:43.740 It's only the banner

00:30:44.420 I know

00:30:47.480 i know i've seen the comments of the chats before oh beau thinks the banner is the headline i know

00:30:52.400 it's not the headline still comment on it though can't i strange odyssey plot twist as musk woos

00:30:59.940 mel and i'm not 100 sure but i think this is something i saw on twitter late last night

00:31:05.100 some twitter account said like added elon musk and said what if you gave mel gibson who's famously

00:31:12.680 based if you gave someone like mel gibson 100 million dollars and they can do the odyssey

00:31:18.720 remake the odyssey again and they'll do it properly yeah they'll do it with good costumes

00:31:25.020 and they won't work off of some weird woke translation feminist translation and they'll

00:31:31.480 make it all like really really historically authentic and be true to homer's original text

00:31:36.960 someone just tweeted that and added elon musk thousands of people at elon musk with um with

00:31:44.320 their hopes and dreams and desires all the time don't they myself included mr musk why don't you

00:31:50.740 fund a probe to europa or whatever mr musk why don't you come on load seaters please sir

00:31:57.060 all that sort of thing you must be inundated by it but elon responded and i think he just said

00:32:02.500 I'm up for it

00:32:03.340 Or I'm game

00:32:04.060 Or something

00:32:04.560 Or I'm down

00:32:05.580 I think he said

00:32:06.280 If that's what this banner is referring to

00:32:10.640 Which I think it is

00:32:11.360 That was just last night

00:32:13.180 The writers and editors at Metro

00:32:15.840 Must have seen that

00:32:16.660 And thought

00:32:17.020 Oh

00:32:17.220 Interesting

00:32:18.920 We can make that a banner

00:32:19.840 That'd be funny

00:32:21.380 Wouldn't it be funny

00:32:22.220 If Elon gave

00:32:23.020 Mel Gibson

00:32:23.980 100 million dollars

00:32:25.480 And he made a good version of the Odyssey

00:32:27.100 That'd be cool

00:32:29.740 I'd probably go and see it

00:32:30.740 I'd almost certainly go and see it

00:32:32.280 Okay. What is this? If anyone's not old enough or British won't know this.

00:32:39.080 This is an old cartoon. Andy Capp. It's really old.

00:32:43.840 I think it first came out in the 50s or the 60s. Andy Capp.

00:32:50.900 And they're just some stupid... Can I even be bothered to explain it any further? 1.00

00:32:57.220 Well, there's not much more to explain. Andy Tapp, they're saying. 1.00

00:32:59.960 Because his name's Andy isn't it

00:33:01.200 Andy Burnham's name's Andy

00:33:02.400 There's this cartoon of someone called Andy

00:33:05.740 Bus fare's capped

00:33:12.640 At £2

00:33:14.820 To help amid cost of living crisis

00:33:17.040 Then Burnham calls for joined up system

00:33:19.740 A joined up system of transport would be nice

00:33:21.540 Some countries you go to

00:33:23.080 They have to be really good countries don't they

00:33:24.720 Like Switzerland or Japan or something

00:33:26.660 Their transport system will be joined up

00:33:31.040 So you get off a train

00:33:32.500 And say, for example

00:33:34.760 You get off a train

00:33:35.520 And you have to get a connecting bus

00:33:37.360 And the bus will be waiting there

00:33:39.660 For exactly that

00:33:41.900 It's all joined up

00:33:44.500 Whereas in this country

00:33:47.700 You know, you get a connecting train

00:33:50.300 Or a connecting bus

00:33:51.140 And it's just

00:33:52.160 They're not communicating with each other in any way

00:33:54.900 and you might just have to stand there for 40 minutes

00:33:56.520 till the next one comes along or something.

00:34:00.960 Not the end of the world, is it?

00:34:02.300 But it's nicer, it'd be nicer to do it the other way around.

00:34:05.120 Putting a cap on fares, it's like putting a cap on prices

00:34:07.980 at the supermarkets.

00:34:09.160 It's just, it doesn't work.

00:34:11.020 It just doesn't work

00:34:11.860 because it all still has to be paid for in another way then.

00:34:15.940 So the treasury and therefore our taxes

00:34:17.400 will have to pay for the shortfall in the money.

00:34:21.360 Again, no such thing as a free lunch.

00:34:22.780 It's not like bus companies are charging extortionate prices

00:34:30.660 Just so the owners and senior management can have giant amounts of money

00:34:36.840 If that was what was going on then something like this would make some sense

00:34:41.760 But that's not what's going on

00:34:43.100 So the money that they don't get from no longer getting from capped fares

00:34:48.660 Will have to be found somewhere else

00:34:51.500 But Andy, King of the North

00:34:55.900 Gets to say

00:34:58.080 That he's helping out normal people

00:35:00.840 With their cost of living

00:35:01.960 Again, in the short term

00:35:04.520 Very short term sense

00:35:05.900 But ultimately

00:35:07.940 We will still all be having to pay for it anyway

00:35:11.000 Alright

00:35:17.040 Okay

00:35:18.360 The sun

00:35:20.680 Here's a story

00:35:22.300 Do you remember

00:35:23.380 Remember the cricket player

00:35:25.280 Freddie Flintoff

00:35:26.280 That dude

00:35:27.620 He was England captain wasn't he for a while

00:35:30.100 He was an all-rounder

00:35:31.220 He was a bowler and a batsman

00:35:32.420 And do you remember a few years ago

00:35:34.300 He also became a Top Gear host

00:35:35.980 After Clarkson

00:35:39.100 And Richard the Hamster Hammond

00:35:43.460 And the other one

00:35:45.500 James May

00:35:46.180 After they stopped doing Top Gear

00:35:47.620 They still did Top Gear

00:35:49.040 Didn't they

00:35:49.780 With other hosts

00:35:50.800 It wasn't Joey from Friends in it

00:35:52.880 I don't know

00:35:53.740 Anyway

00:35:53.920 I never really watched it

00:35:54.840 After

00:35:55.160 I can't

00:35:55.940 Never really watched it

00:35:57.400 Freddy Flintoff was one

00:35:58.440 And he had a really big crash

00:35:59.720 And it mangled his face

00:36:02.360 Real bad

00:36:02.840 Didn't it

00:36:03.260 Like really bad

00:36:09.980 And Freddy Flintoff

00:36:12.140 Like

00:36:12.440 Like psychologically

00:36:13.840 Screwed with him

00:36:19.040 top gear driver on the stig the stig was there as well

00:36:22.120 paul that's the stig his name's paul reese i think there's been more than one stig over

00:36:28.160 the years but anyway the stig at that point paul reese he was he drew he was in like formula

00:36:33.620 two and uh paul super cup he was like a good more than half decent actual race driver

00:36:40.280 his name's paul he was sitting in the car next to flintoff in that

00:36:47.940 in that crash and it broke his back he sues the beeb for a hundred thousand pounds because the

00:36:55.120 safety health and safety there wasn't really any that freddy flintoff wasn't wearing a crash helmet

00:37:00.820 okay stig i nearly died in freddy crash let's go on here real quick to give you a bit more detail so

00:37:10.280 Look, there's, it was a three-wheeler Morgan thing.

00:37:14.860 So, why is we not, oh, here we go.

00:37:16.840 Look, that's, that's the car.

00:37:18.400 Car, it's a three-wheeler.

00:37:20.960 Can we get a better picture of the car?

00:37:24.540 The odd car.

00:37:25.640 There, look.

00:37:26.700 I guess there's three-wheeler.

00:37:29.680 There's only one wheel at the back there.

00:37:31.820 Inherently really unstable.

00:37:34.000 I guess it's after the crash.

00:37:34.860 It must be after the crash.

00:37:36.420 Can we get a better picture of it?

00:37:39.460 I think there was.

00:37:40.280 um i guess not um so they're driving it around the the racetrack and yeah it flips it flips on its

00:37:47.240 side and look like they weren't they weren't wearing a crash helmet i think that is paul

00:37:52.640 it's just like goggles and apparently the producers on top gear was like no it'll be all right

00:37:59.340 you've got a you've got a roll cage don't need not roll cage like uh those things look those

00:38:06.320 things if it flips upside down or anything it's okay your head won't be scraped into oblivion by

00:38:11.920 the tarmac because that was these things will save you problem is if you sit in that car and

00:38:20.880 you're taller than like what five six or something your head pokes up above that

00:38:25.660 therefore rendering it kind of useless or nearly useless freddy flintoff isn't a small man 0.97

00:38:32.820 It's quite a tall big man

00:38:34.720 Lo and behold

00:38:39.180 They did flip it

00:38:40.900 And yeah like Freddy Flintoff

00:38:45.500 Well this guy broke his back

00:38:46.940 It wasn't a terrible broken back

00:38:48.400 Where like he's paralysed from the waist down or anything

00:38:50.240 But he did break his back

00:38:52.540 Look Freddy Flintoff's injuries

00:38:54.540 Like that to reconstruct his nose a bit

00:38:56.380 All sorts of

00:38:57.860 Yeah I mean the Stig said

00:39:00.620 When they first came to a halt

00:39:02.800 And he looked at Freddy

00:39:03.900 He said he thought he was dead

00:39:05.420 And he thought it was just

00:39:08.760 Some of the worst facial injuries he'd ever seen

00:39:11.020 And stuff

00:39:12.180 Look

00:39:13.460 Scar tissue all over Flintoff's face

00:39:16.920 It's a sort of rebuild big chunk of his face a bit

00:39:19.500 Poor Freddy Flintoff

00:39:24.960 Yeah now the Stig is suing the Beeb

00:39:29.240 They're actually suing him

00:39:30.160 Suing it for the 100 grand

00:39:31.780 because basically the the the directors and the producers on top gear at that time

00:39:39.400 were just like oh no you don't you don't need to wear a crash helmet no it'll be fine just go faster

00:39:43.640 just go faster through that corner make it look make it look good make it go fast don't worry

00:39:48.540 about it just do it just do it just do it probably stick could say it was saying look neither of us

00:39:53.640 know how to drive a three-wheeler properly at race speeds it's crazy that's like a proper proper skill

00:39:58.960 like yeah i may be maybe like a formula 2 guy like an open seat single seat

00:40:05.460 race driver and being competitive in porsches but this is but despite that this is a different

00:40:13.580 thing it's a completely different thing i don't know and freddy flintoff isn't a race driver

00:40:18.420 and it's freddy flintoff driving it he asked us to do something really really quite dangerous

00:40:24.120 without crash helmets this could end terribly and it did

00:40:31.720 all right won't go on about it the eye paper something about zendaya don't

00:40:38.360 care

00:40:41.080 little bit about the uh the the the water story again

00:40:45.080 water execs face criminal charges accused of major conspiracy to fake

00:40:49.560 sewage test major conspiracy the eye paper has been calling for

00:40:53.400 prosecutions for illegal sewage dumping in our Save Britain's Rivers campaign.

00:40:58.700 Southern Water's former chief exec Matthew Wright and three others are charged with conspiring

00:41:06.080 to defraud regulators for allegedly faking sewage data.

00:41:11.660 Judge says, quote, very serious allegations state there was extensive fraud at a high

00:41:18.500 level in the company and on a large scale with a view of covering up pollution

00:41:26.660 that's not a minor thing in my book i think in most people's

00:41:29.860 anyone is reasonable that's not a minor thing that's the sort of thing i feel if true

00:41:35.700 if shown to be true beyond all doubt in open court i would want to see those people punished

00:41:42.260 Severely

00:41:45.980 Most I can get is 10 years

00:41:47.380 Says it here

00:41:48.060 Landmark for environmental accountability

00:41:50.820 As individual executives go to trial

00:41:53.400 Maximum prison sentence

00:41:55.040 On conviction for conspiracy to defraud

00:41:57.660 Is 10 years

00:41:58.600 Right, quote

00:41:59.740 Deniers all wrongdoing, quote

00:42:01.380 Southern Walter faces multiple other charges

00:42:04.340 You're trying to play God

00:42:14.440 With the health and safety of the nation

00:42:16.460 For what?

00:42:20.380 Just so your company doesn't have to

00:42:21.760 Work harder or spend more money

00:42:30.360 I'm guilty

00:42:31.440 In my world

00:42:32.880 They would be

00:42:35.900 Punished

00:42:37.660 In a draconian manner

00:42:39.540 For something like that

00:42:40.800 Giant crime as far as I'm concerned

00:42:43.700 10 years, nowhere near good enough

00:42:45.280 Financial times

00:42:48.120 Fear for winter suppliers

00:42:53.200 Drives gas prices near Iran war peak

00:42:57.260 It's not near the peak

00:42:58.200 See?

00:42:59.500 See what I said earlier?

00:43:01.540 It's not near the peak

00:43:02.140 It's nowhere near, really, in the scheme of things.

00:43:04.100 It's not even over $100.

00:43:07.000 Flare-up of missiles and fast jets in the Persian Gulf.

00:43:12.240 Flare-up sparks 50% surge in Europe.

00:43:15.900 Traders fret over Hormuz disruption.

00:43:19.740 Okay. Okay.

00:43:21.260 Acts of war.

00:43:22.080 Zelensky moves to defuse protests by replacing Ukrainian forces' senior commander.

00:43:26.820 It's a bit of a story that's been rumbling on for quite a while, actually.

00:43:29.340 It was in the news cycle the last couple of days, a bit more

00:43:32.540 Didn't ever really get to it, but why not quickly talk about it now

00:43:35.240 In the Zelensky government

00:43:38.120 Some sort of power struggle

00:43:40.820 I can't bother to describe all the details

00:43:43.060 But some sort of power struggle between

00:43:46.000 The civilian ministers for war and the actual military generals

00:43:50.560 Zelensky picked aside, fired some dudes

00:43:55.120 The people themselves, the good people of Ukraine

00:43:58.600 Didn't like that

00:44:00.020 Been out protesting about it

00:44:01.380 So Zelensky has done

00:44:03.180 A bit of a U-turn on it

00:44:04.580 Sacked the military

00:44:06.840 He originally sided with

00:44:09.080 The civilian politician dude

00:44:11.000 In this power struggle

00:44:12.320 Now he's sacked the military side as well

00:44:16.620 Got someone else in

00:44:17.300 Alright

00:44:19.120 Okay

00:44:20.760 America's still holding on to

00:44:23.700 13 billion dollars worth

00:44:25.440 Of Venezuelan oil revenues

00:44:26.760 There may or may not be a good reason for that

00:44:30.760 I don't really know

00:44:31.760 Alright, that's the papers

00:44:33.860 That's the increasingly absurd papers

00:44:35.760 Have a look at our poll today

00:44:37.340 This is about the time of the show we do our poll

00:44:39.020 Let's have a look, what did we ask?

00:44:43.560 Over 1,100 votes

00:44:44.720 We asked you guys

00:44:45.680 Do you think AI is dangerous?

00:44:50.360 I've given my views on that before

00:44:51.840 Haven't I? More than once

00:44:52.980 Do you think AI is dangerous?

00:44:55.800 Well

00:44:56.060 Before I read out the poem

00:44:58.960 Give a few people an opportunity

00:45:00.280 To change their minds on that

00:45:02.000 Here's a story

00:45:04.580 Here we go

00:45:05.440 In the mail online

00:45:07.580 That's Sam Altman isn't it

00:45:11.040 Looking gormless 1.00

00:45:12.540 Looking a bit retarded actually 1.00

00:45:16.760 Okay 0.86

00:45:17.500 As AI escapes

00:45:19.720 Quote unquote escapes

00:45:20.940 And causes havoc on the internet

00:45:23.600 Humanity is no longer in control

00:45:25.420 of its most awesome creation since the atom bomb says someone called connor at the mail group

00:45:33.420 no longer in control so this is a story i thought is actually quite interesting

00:45:37.500 did a video about it yesterday on state of politics politics probably come out today

00:45:41.420 recorded it yesterday probably come out today i think this is interesting because i've been

00:45:46.060 i've been banging the drum a bit over the last year or two haven't i about the potential dangers

00:45:51.980 of ai you say bro you don't understand there's only large language models it's only a glorified

00:45:58.380 google search that gives the impression that it's talking like a human it's not actually intelligent

00:46:02.860 it's not actually dangerous in any way you don't know what you're talking about well ai is more

00:46:08.860 than large language models isn't it it's more than just chat gbt it's more than grok that's

00:46:13.260 just one tiny element of what ai could be isn't it that large language models

00:46:18.140 ai has got the potential or is so much more than that there's one tiny little thing

00:46:24.620 oh don't be a luddite it's such a boomer you don't know what you're talking about there's

00:46:29.360 no problem there's nothing to worry about really really oh you're confusing reality with skynet

00:46:36.380 from the terminator franchise it's never going to go live you're confusing sci-fi with real life

00:46:43.120 It's perfectly safe

00:46:44.800 It couldn't possibly

00:46:46.220 It can only do whatever the original coder said it could do

00:46:50.760 It's not dangerous

00:46:51.480 Don't worry about it

00:46:52.060 It can't be dangerous

00:46:52.900 Get real

00:46:54.580 Get real

00:46:55.880 This is just one story here

00:46:57.440 Just one little story

00:46:58.400 Where they were working on some sort of AI model

00:47:04.440 Which is meant for hacking

00:47:05.880 That's what it is

00:47:07.600 It was meant for hacking

00:47:08.440 And it was supposed to exist within what they were calling

00:47:11.660 um what like a a secure sandbox environment right but it somehow got out like quite literally like

00:47:21.900 a virus it somehow escaped from this supposedly secure sandbox environment it got onto the actual

00:47:29.840 internet just the internet and started hacking all over the place because that's what it was

00:47:34.820 supposed to do that's what it was its job no one programmed it to do that to find a way out of the

00:47:40.920 sandbox to hack its way out of its own sandbox but it did because okay i'll concede ai isn't

00:47:48.060 actually intelligent truly intelligent in sort of the human sense okay in that sense it's a

00:47:54.280 misnomer isn't it in that sense it's sort of misnamed isn't it artificial intelligence it's

00:47:58.540 not actually intelligent but it can act autonomously though can't it that is part of it

00:48:03.740 is that it's self-replicating and self-improving right that's sort of the nature of it isn't it

00:48:09.880 watched a great video the other day where they some i think some swedish couple some swedish

00:48:13.900 company they were trying to design rocket engines they're going to i don't know if it's cad

00:48:18.640 computer-aided design or some version equivalent of cad something like that they make an ai model

00:48:23.120 and they say just design more and more efficient jet engines for us and it just does it 13 generations

00:48:31.000 later 13 iterations later which created something the human mind could never almost certainly would

00:48:37.100 never have dreamt up it certainly wasn't programmed in by the original person that wrote the code for

00:48:42.620 that ai model certainly not so okay we don't want to call that intelligent okay i'll grant that

00:48:47.820 that's not necessarily intelligent but it is autonomous on some level isn't it is acting

00:48:52.300 on its own initiative in some way again that's not really the right word is it but you get what

00:48:57.260 i'm saying well that's what this did this thing it hacked its way out of its own secure invite

00:49:03.260 environment got onto the internet and started hacking stuff and the experts are saying yeah

00:49:12.960 that's a worry isn't it yeah yeah we didn't think that would happen it's sort of uh but it did

00:49:18.000 and what we're going to get when something like that happens well what will we get

00:49:22.180 just get a gormless sam altman and i didn't realize oh oh i thought ai was perfectly safe

00:49:30.560 did you did you why did you think that

00:49:32.980 why would you think that oh oh sorry when something like this and i'm gonna say when

00:49:42.620 when something terrible happens with ai say that all the world's biggest banks some of the world's

00:49:50.400 biggest banks huge investment firms or whatever even central banks they hand over loads of their

00:49:57.920 infrastructure and moment-to-moment management to ai models and something goes wrong

00:50:05.440 whole economies collapse real quick currency markets collapse or something whatever it could

00:50:10.640 be anything so i'm saying it could be anything couldn't it or power or the infrastructure

00:50:18.640 digital infrastructure which makes power work correctly across the world somehow something

00:50:25.920 it goes wrong with the ai that they've allowed to manage all of that

00:50:29.120 when something like that happens i'm saying when not if when what we'll get they'll try

00:50:38.700 out someone like sam altman and his gormless face oh oh we didn't know oh we didn't see

00:50:45.400 that coming it shouldn't it shouldn't have happened i'm telling you everything i know

00:50:53.760 About the human nature

00:50:55.280 The human psychology

00:50:56.320 Everything I know about history

00:51:01.700 All my intuition says

00:51:03.720 This is dangerous

00:51:04.500 This is a bit like

00:51:07.480 Playing with fire

00:51:09.160 The headline says

00:51:10.600 Most awesome creation since the atom bomb

00:51:13.180 Yeah

00:51:13.460 It's like research into

00:51:18.080 More and more dangerous polymers

00:51:19.880 More and more dangerous nerve agents

00:51:21.500 Chemical agents

00:51:22.680 More and more and more

00:51:23.740 create bigger and bigger and bigger atomic bombs create tritium bombs create a doomsday device

00:51:29.540 you tell me it's not dangerous you're wrong you're wrong all right all that said let's

00:51:36.760 have a look at our poll over 1200 votes 79 percent of you say yes it is dangerous and the eyes have

00:51:41.720 it my people yeah my people the most dangerous thing about it is that we can't even guess

00:51:51.240 what it might do in the future can't even guess what it might become only a very very few short

00:51:58.080 years into the ai experiment aren't we if we don't destroy ourselves one way or another human

00:52:04.740 civilization could should no reason why it won't go on for tens of thousands of years hundreds of

00:52:09.280 thousands of years even millions of years we won't really look much like this anymore in millions of

00:52:15.440 years but what will ai be in 50 years what will it be in 10 000 years ask yourself that what will

00:52:25.580 ai be and what will it be capable of in 10 000 years you're telling me there's nothing dangerous

00:52:32.500 there's nothing to worry about it's not there's no there's no concern you're wrong you're wrong

00:52:39.160 nonetheless 21% of you said no do you think ai is dangerous 21% of you said no

00:52:43.780 I think you're mistaken

00:52:47.620 Don't go though, don't leave me

00:52:50.600 We don't have to agree on everything, do we?

00:52:53.300 We don't have to agree on everything

00:52:54.560 Still, 79% of you

00:52:57.180 Called it right

00:52:59.640 Is the correct answer

00:53:02.160 Alright

00:53:03.060 Alright, it's nearly 10-2

00:53:05.740 We've gone 10-2

00:53:06.680 So let's move on to On This Day in History

00:53:08.580 I quite like doing that bit

00:53:09.860 You guys like doing that bit?

00:53:11.540 Quite like that

00:53:12.000 Let's do that

00:53:12.780 Down through the centuries on this day

00:53:14.540 What happened of note? July the 23rd

00:53:16.600 On July the 23rd in the year 1777

00:53:18.760 King Louis the 16th of France

00:53:20.500 That is the last king of France

00:53:22.540 Who got his

00:53:23.360 Got his head tripped off

00:53:25.380 At the guillotine 0.77

00:53:26.980 And his foreign minister

00:53:29.620 Clandestinely agreed to supply the United States

00:53:32.840 With munitions

00:53:34.440 Ammo

00:53:35.800 During the American Revolution

00:53:37.820 Yeah of course

00:53:39.420 Anything that undermines or hurts the British

00:53:41.760 The French will be there

00:53:43.260 Anywhere in the world

00:53:44.480 This is what in between the Seven Years' War

00:53:50.200 And the French Revolution isn't it

00:53:51.640 So 0.61

00:53:51.820 The same went the other way around

00:53:54.580 If France was getting in trouble in like southern India 0.99

00:53:58.200 The English will be there to help out their enemies 1.00

00:54:00.140 So 1.00

00:54:00.440 Actually the French 1.00

00:54:02.020 Nearly bankrupted themselves 1.00

00:54:04.400 Giving the United States so much help

00:54:06.540 In the Revolutionary War

00:54:07.980 American War of Independence

00:54:09.180 It was one of the factors

00:54:11.620 One of the factors

00:54:13.080 That led to the financial crisis

00:54:15.200 Or crises

00:54:16.100 Which kicked off the French Revolution

00:54:19.220 The French had spent so much money 0.75

00:54:22.120 Helping the Americans defeat the British 0.99

00:54:24.320 Alright 0.94

00:54:26.320 On this day in 1829

00:54:28.680 William August Burt

00:54:30.040 Patterns America's first typewriter

00:54:33.140 The typographer

00:54:34.600 Really massively interesting to me

00:54:38.260 But there he goes

00:54:39.340 Quite early isn't it

00:54:40.260 1829, if you'd asked me a few moments ago

00:54:43.840 When did I think was the first typewriter

00:54:46.220 I wouldn't have said that early

00:54:47.520 I would have said much later in the 19th century

00:54:49.440 There you go

00:54:50.940 On this day in 1840, Union Act passed by the British Parliament

00:54:54.720 Uniting Upper and Lower Canada

00:54:56.540 If you're Canadian, that's of interest to you

00:55:00.080 We don't talk about that all that much

00:55:02.080 That particular Act of Union

00:55:03.460 Again, if you'd asked me

00:55:06.060 I would have thought it would be earlier than that, if anything

00:55:08.560 or would have thought it'd be at the end of the 18th century even but there you go that was in

00:55:14.280 1840 on this day also on this day in 1944 Bretons I mentioned Bretons that's why it must have been

00:55:19.120 in my head on this day 1944 the Bretton Woods conference ends establishing the International

00:55:25.720 Bank of Reconstruction and Development later part of the World Bank and the International Monetary

00:55:30.580 Fund Bretton Woods if anyone doesn't know about that do look it up it's really important it's

00:55:36.180 really really important watch a documentary about it or something it's really really it's like uh

00:55:41.340 well 1944 so the war's still going on but the allies know we're going to win the war right

00:55:46.740 stalingrad's already happened the nazis are on a strategic retreat across eastern europe

00:55:53.640 you know d-day's happened and hasn't been a catastrophe

00:55:59.200 mr hitler and his nazi hordes are almost certainly going to lose in europe

00:56:05.060 And they've had Midway

00:56:08.600 They've had the Battle of the Guadalcanal 1.00

00:56:11.340 The Japanese are almost certainly going to lose

00:56:13.420 Even before the world knew there was nukes

00:56:15.420 By summer of 1944

00:56:18.620 The Allies knew they would win World War II

00:56:20.520 So the money men

00:56:23.100 Decide that we need to

00:56:26.620 We need to have a new world order

00:56:29.260 In the monetary and the fiscal sense

00:56:32.140 They get together at a particular hotel

00:56:35.680 In Bretton Woods

00:56:38.220 Which is in what, New Hampshire is it?

00:56:40.200 I think it's in New Hampshire

00:56:41.040 All the most important finance ministers

00:56:44.080 And economists in the world

00:56:45.740 Get together and have this conference

00:56:47.720 It's super, super important

00:56:48.880 And they set up like the

00:56:50.420 Sort of the post-war

00:56:51.820 Post-war economic consensus

00:56:54.800 The post-war financial world 0.78

00:56:57.880 Is set up

00:56:58.560 Mainly that things are tied to the dollar

00:57:01.140 Because if anyone came out of World War II

00:57:04.220 As a true true winner

00:57:05.520 Without their country annihilated

00:57:07.220 And their economy destroyed

00:57:08.820 It's the United States of course right

00:57:10.300 So they come up with things

00:57:14.620 Well not exactly the World Bank

00:57:16.560 But the precursor to the World Bank

00:57:17.980 And the International Monetary Fund

00:57:19.340 And that all the world's currencies

00:57:21.560 Will be pegged to the dollar

00:57:24.620 And all sorts of things

00:57:25.540 They're thinking

00:57:26.400 A lot of their thinking

00:57:27.100 Was that World War II

00:57:30.980 A big reason why World War II happened 0.90

00:57:32.980 Why people would vote for somebody like Hitler 0.76

00:57:35.940 Was because of the Depression

00:57:37.400 When people lose hope

00:57:40.300 And they're very very poor

00:57:41.380 And are starving to death

00:57:42.480 It's then that people like

00:57:44.140 Like Hitler or Stalin or Mao or whatever

00:57:47.440 Would

00:57:47.820 Can

00:57:48.380 Get traction

00:57:50.040 If we could just

00:57:52.340 Make the whole world richer

00:57:54.940 Just raise the bar for everyone

00:57:56.660 You won't get extremists in politics

00:57:59.160 And hopefully no more world wars

00:58:00.700 Sort of broadly speaking the idea

00:58:02.700 Anyway, anyway

00:58:03.280 If you're interested in why the world is the way it is

00:58:06.260 Of course Nixon took everyone off of the gold standard

00:58:08.320 In like 1971 or 1973

00:58:10.160 Wherever it was

00:58:11.480 But still

00:58:13.660 The reason why the world looks the way it does today

00:58:17.000 And behaves the way it does today

00:58:18.600 In all sorts of senses

00:58:19.680 Is born out of that conference

00:58:22.740 In 1944 at Bretton Woods

00:58:24.380 Very, very important

00:58:26.220 Check it out

00:58:26.820 Read up about it in your own time

00:58:29.340 I would say

00:58:30.000 okay on this day 1995 comet halibop is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a

00:58:38.580 year later i love my comets me don't i is that is that is that the one that oh no no i was gonna

00:58:49.440 say i was about to say was that the one that crashed into jupiter but that wasn't was it that

00:58:53.020 was shoemaker levy 9 wasn't it anyway love my comets watch a video or two by like um astrum

00:59:01.640 or something talking about uh talking about all sorts of comets and remember that one that passed

00:59:09.420 through our solar system the other yes last year and people thought it might be like an alien ship

00:59:14.260 and it just wasn't remember that i should do more um you should do a little bit more space themed

00:59:20.480 content okay let's have a look at our rumble rats and super chats let's see what we got that's about

00:59:26.660 the time of the show global church history in the number one do do do do do do do do do do do do

00:59:33.800 raining defending and still global church history says today in 1579 ad drake sailed from california

00:59:42.800 into the pacific oh harry i've got like a seven or is it eight or is it nine part series all about

00:59:52.080 sir francis drake on my history theme channel history bro hours so hours and hours if you

00:59:58.500 want to know all about the life career and adventures of sir francis drake the second

01:00:03.800 person ever and the first englishman to circumnavigate the globe and also fight an

01:00:10.640 incredible encounter at cadiz also fight an incredible encounter in the spanish armada

01:00:16.800 and also do half a dozen other incredible things stealing spanish warships filled with gold

01:00:22.800 loads and loads of adventures to francis drake if you want to hear all about that

01:00:27.760 go to strait it's not behind the paywall it's all free global church history telling us in 1579

01:00:34.000 drake sailed from california into the pacific so yeah go across the atlantic all the way down

01:00:38.720 South America

01:00:39.440 He didn't actually go through the Straits of Vigella

01:00:42.960 And he went all the way round Tierra del Fuego

01:00:44.940 All the way round

01:00:45.600 All the way up South America

01:00:47.660 All the way up the west coast of America

01:00:49.360 North America

01:00:50.500 All the way up

01:00:51.460 So far up that it got cold and arctic

01:00:54.240 The account goes

01:00:55.300 The rigging froze

01:00:57.000 And then they head out into the Pacific

01:00:59.200 Crazy 0.98

01:01:01.100 The amount of balls required to do that 0.98

01:01:03.580 In the 16th century

01:01:05.400 you've not really got any idea how big the pacific is not really you've heard the accounts of some

01:01:13.060 of the survivors from magellan but no real concept of what you're heading into

01:01:18.200 crazy one of the great explorers of all time drake okay he also said uh bonnie prince charlie

01:01:27.760 landed in scotland to begin the final major jacobite rebellion yeah cool i haven't got to

01:01:33.400 that yet on epochs that period yet i'm still only on edward the sixth i'll do all that in great

01:01:39.080 amount of detail yeah bonnie prince charlie the young pretender anyone who doesn't know what is

01:01:44.920 he's the grandson of the deposed james ii the parliament and william of orange well more than

01:01:53.080 parliament deposes james ii the rightful stewart king really because he was too catholic didn't

01:01:59.080 want a Catholic, being too Catholic

01:02:00.580 but he survives, he's not killed or assassinated

01:02:03.200 or executed or anything, goes and lives in France

01:02:05.080 he has a son, another James, the old

01:02:07.220 pretender, hoping

01:02:09.220 at some point 0.63

01:02:10.020 like Charles II he could come back

01:02:12.960 hoping there's political turmoil in England and he could come back

01:02:15.280 never had happened, then the old

01:02:17.220 pretender has a son

01:02:18.380 Charles, another Charles Stewart

01:02:21.360 the young pretender 0.78

01:02:24.360 Bonnie Prince Charlie

01:02:26.000 Whose grandfather was James II 0.78

01:02:29.700 I believe all that's correct 0.99

01:02:30.740 Body Prince Charlie, Catholic

01:02:33.160 Thinks he can go to Scotland 0.98

01:02:36.620 Lead an army down through Scotland

01:02:39.840 All the way down through England

01:02:41.100 To London and win

01:02:42.400 And get rid of the Parliament

01:02:44.280 Or that particular Parliament

01:02:45.420 And install himself as the King

01:02:46.760 The rightful House of Stuart coming back

01:02:48.680 Didn't work though

01:02:51.220 Although he did get as far as Derby

01:02:56.000 in the Midlands.

01:02:57.260 Remarkable, really.

01:02:59.160 He got past Preston.

01:03:00.260 He got past Manchester.

01:03:02.360 He's only leading 5,000 or 6,000 guys, I think.

01:03:05.380 Something like that.

01:03:05.820 Not a giant army.

01:03:08.280 All the way to Derby.

01:03:09.880 He meant to march on London and conquer us.

01:03:14.080 Failed, though.

01:03:15.620 Eventually, London and the Parliament

01:03:17.880 raised a big enough army and shooed him away.

01:03:22.280 Still, a bit cheeky, isn't it?

01:03:24.820 Raising an army.

01:03:26.000 getting as far as derby cheeky all right thanks global church history dragon lady chris says i

01:03:37.520 guarantee i know a lot more about economics than any sports ball guy i watch brokonomics yeah

01:03:44.960 i'd love to see dan sort of quiz gary lineker

01:03:50.000 what do you really know why do you think you know what you're talking about

01:03:53.920 Thanks Dragon Lady Chris

01:03:57.080 TomRat247 says

01:03:59.280 Before Gary Lineker and his ilk

01:04:01.260 I used to think that Iron Rand's

01:04:03.220 Villains were a little contrived

01:04:05.500 And I was delusional

01:04:09.600 And I'm delusional

01:04:10.500 Don't we see?

01:04:12.240 Yeah

01:04:12.480 I'm not a big fan of Iron Rand

01:04:16.420 To be perfectly honest

01:04:17.600 I know Rupert Lowe is but I'm not

01:04:23.920 Okay

01:04:27.360 The YouTube ones

01:04:30.160 That was the last rumble rant

01:04:31.000 So YouTube

01:04:31.500 What have we got?

01:04:32.100 We've got 20 odd or so

01:04:33.520 Something like that

01:04:34.020 Let's get through them

01:04:35.700 Zeitgeist2308 says

01:04:38.560 GCH usurped

01:04:41.640 Global church history usurped 0.84

01:04:43.600 No, you've seen it at number one 0.99

01:04:45.780 Oh 0.59

01:04:46.840 If you want to usurp global church history

01:04:50.200 It's on the rumble rant

01:04:51.040 It's not on the YouTube super chats

01:04:52.380 You'd have to get up very

01:04:55.420 Quite literally get up early in the morning

01:04:57.220 You're unlikely to beat him

01:05:00.380 If you do maybe once

01:05:01.440 You won't be able to keep it up

01:05:02.880 The dedication

01:05:04.100 The dedication shown by Global Church History

01:05:08.260 The commitment

01:05:09.340 It's hard to beat

01:05:11.500 Okay

01:05:14.000 Rod Knee

01:05:16.040 At Rod underscore Knee

01:05:17.660 Says

01:05:18.080 I believe that Labour intends to outlaw their political opponents

01:05:21.640 before the next election, I'd love to be wrong. Maybe, probably. Well, not probably, sorry.

01:05:26.720 Maybe. I don't know about that. I actually outlaw their opponents. I don't think no

01:05:32.400 sternum burnham has got the sternum for it. I don't think he has. I think he's sort of

01:05:39.580 a weak, cowardly man, ultimately. Morally, politically cowardly. That would take guts, 1.00

01:05:47.580 Gumption wouldn't it

01:05:48.960 That would take

01:05:49.620 That would take real trousers

01:05:51.520 To do that

01:05:52.280 I don't think he's got it in him

01:05:54.080 He might do that

01:05:55.440 He might do

01:05:55.820 Might turn out

01:05:56.560 To be like 0.97

01:05:57.680 Have

01:06:00.100 Have the

01:06:01.040 The guts

01:06:03.480 Of a Stalin figure

01:06:05.780 I doubt it

01:06:06.520 I really doubt it

01:06:07.540 Hope not

01:06:09.360 Anyway

01:06:09.620 Aristotle Luton

01:06:11.980 Says

01:06:12.520 Saw the Odyssey last night

01:06:13.940 Uh

01:06:14.360 Seen it yet Bo

01:06:15.480 Yeah I've seen it

01:06:16.100 Yeah

01:06:16.280 Yeah

01:06:16.960 yeah some of the shots were good that's the best thing i can say about it some of the shots were

01:06:24.420 like good look the cinematography was good some a bit that's it that's about the best i can say

01:06:29.120 about it everything else kind of sucked it ruined the story actual original because i've read i

01:06:35.200 studied in fact the odyssey um in fact critical just let you know critical drinker is doing a

01:06:40.580 stream tonight what an open bar yours truly should be on it i believe there's going to be quite a few

01:06:46.120 guests though so i might not be able no one's going to be able to say a great deal but

01:06:50.340 hopefully i will be on it i think mr kyle benjamin might be as well we'll break it down there we may

01:06:56.220 even do we may i may may or may not do a breakdown long form breakdown of it on lotus eaters probably

01:07:01.340 be behind the paywall if we do do that but anyway yeah i've studied the odyssey know it inside out

01:07:07.860 basically read it all the way through a couple of times listened to the audiobook a couple more times

01:07:12.580 Yeah, the film was poor

01:07:15.260 Some of the single photography was good

01:07:16.820 Other than that, yeah, really bad

01:07:18.040 They bugger about with the story and the narrative

01:07:20.480 And the characters quite a lot

01:07:22.020 Yeah

01:07:23.840 Yeah

01:07:26.640 Miss out whole bits

01:07:28.160 I mean, even though the film was really long

01:07:30.060 Was it two hours, 40, two hours, 45

01:07:32.260 It's a really long film

01:07:33.520 You still would probably have to cut out some bits

01:07:37.240 From the book

01:07:38.340 From the poem, rather

01:07:40.360 um yeah i wasn't impressed yeah it was it was as sort of lame and woke and subversive as you 0.71

01:07:46.520 think it would probably be yeah making helen of troy a sub-saharan african woman why making

01:07:53.840 athena a brown woman why making one of odysseus's warriors a tiny little transgender woman thing 0.88

01:08:00.860 What? 0.98

01:08:03.140 Weird 1.00

01:08:03.940 The film opens with like that black rapper dude 1.00

01:08:08.560 As one of the suitors in Ithaca

01:08:11.500 Why?

01:08:13.440 Why have you done that?

01:08:14.920 What am I watching?

01:08:17.400 What is this? 1.00

01:08:19.920 Yeah, it sucks 0.99

01:08:21.280 Okay, Erwin Romulus says 0.97

01:08:25.020 Hey Gary, HMRC accept voluntary overpayments

01:08:29.960 put your money where your mouth is yeah right yeah if Gary thinks it's uh it's the right thing

01:08:36.380 to do the morally right thing to do to help out those in more need than himself then he can just

01:08:41.880 do it can't he but no I don't want to do that yeah people might not notice this way you can virtue

01:08:48.660 Signal

01:08:49.060 Double O Stefan

01:08:54.600 Says

01:08:55.920 Is anarcho-tyranny the best description

01:08:58.800 Of Britain today or does another

01:09:00.540 Historical parallel fit better

01:09:02.120 Good question

01:09:02.940 I'm sure there's probably something that is a bit more

01:09:05.960 Apt

01:09:06.960 A bit more apropos 0.84

01:09:09.440 But anarcho-tyranny isn't

01:09:12.500 Too far from the map

01:09:13.720 I mean

01:09:15.060 It's not exactly escaped from New York yet 0.98

01:09:18.660 but it's getting there isn't it elements of what's going on i would i would call a narco tyranny yeah 0.86

01:09:24.940 yeah you know whatever you see and there's loads of clips of this if you ever want to

01:09:29.760 search for actively search for it tons of clips like this where in the street

01:09:34.800 someone is being anti-social or even a bit violent or just being a complete nuisance one way or

01:09:42.180 another and someone's trying to stop them or prevent them or standing up to try and help a

01:09:46.880 woman out or something the police come along and arrest that person there's loads of clips like

01:09:53.240 that that not anarcho-tyranny something like that well it's not truly anarchy because there's the

01:10:01.160 police but yeah anarcho-tyranny i mean we're not in a true anarcho-tyranny situation yet but

01:10:11.140 there's elements of it aren't there there are elements of it

01:10:13.400 Yeah, I'm thinking of those fly-tipping spots

01:10:19.620 Where people have just been allowed to tip hundreds and hundreds

01:10:24.260 Maybe thousands of tonnes of waste

01:10:26.880 It's a big question

01:10:32.360 That's a really big question you've answered there

01:10:34.380 Could do a whole deep dive into it

01:10:36.440 Maybe that would be a good question for Dan and Carl to do on their politics chats

01:10:40.640 Okay

01:10:41.380 Lance Llewellyn says Andy Capp has a statue Burnham does not Andy Capp's got a statue

01:10:50.940 doesn't he that's interesting Harry while I'm reading the rest out type into Google

01:10:55.920 Andy Capp statue I'd like to see that okay Field Marshal Dawn Browning

01:11:03.700 says john carter is that the like the mars martian sci-fi character um you say john

01:11:15.480 carter then quotes i want elon musk to give mel gibson 100 million dollars to film an odyssey

01:11:20.240 adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships armor weapons and casting the

01:11:27.960 next one down and casting with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in

01:11:34.740 Homeric Greek Elon I'm down John Carter holy s-word was that the person who originally it's not the

01:11:43.080 fictional John Carter from the 1950s sci-fi books and the Disney remake film that was that the

01:11:50.060 original guy on Twitter called John Carter I can't remember who it was but it would be good wouldn't

01:11:56.060 it. That would be good. I would like it. That's Andy Cap. Oh yeah, oh yeah, so it is. So

01:12:07.820 it is. There is a statue. Quickly put it up on the screen so people can see. Can you

01:12:11.620 do that? Make that happen? There you go. Andy Cap. Can't see what's going on. This

01:12:20.280 is like a flat cap and that's his nose. You can't really see his eyes. That'll be like

01:12:25.000 the outline of his jaw that's like his nose peeking out from under his flat cap okay who

01:12:30.680 knew all right next thing oh thanks for that uh for mushroom browning yeah wouldn't it be good

01:12:35.580 wouldn't it be good if um elon funded mel gibson to make a brilliant super-based odyssey all right

01:12:46.000 rodney again says open ai not understanding the concept of an air gap does not bode well

01:12:55.000 does not does not bode well for their control of their agents yeah that's what they called them in

01:13:00.180 the in the uh in the article agents like it is a bit like something from sci-fi isn't it

01:13:06.680 the agent program you know like agent smith or whatever sort of it's hard not to imagine it

01:13:13.640 as some sort of free roaming virus thing it's like malevolent and can they call it they call

01:13:19.520 it an agent don't they yeah yeah open ai not understanding the concept of an air gap does not

01:13:27.180 bode well for their control of their agent yeah how was it i said it was a controlled sandbox

01:13:32.600 environment well it wasn't it wasn't it absolutely wasn't controlled though

01:13:38.620 Do better, I guess

01:13:42.360 Please, please

01:13:43.520 Be better

01:13:45.680 Okay 0.55

01:13:47.820 Thaddeus Bungo McTitpop

01:13:51.280 Says

01:13:54.000 Thaddeus Bungo McTitpop

01:14:00.360 Writes 1.00

01:14:01.580 In 10,000 years, Aya will usher in the Dark Age 1.00

01:14:05.380 And the Golden Emperor will have to save us all 0.97

01:14:07.320 yeah i have to sacrifice what a million souls a day to the god emperor's throne to keep him alive

01:14:16.680 yeah i do think ai should be regulated the way nuclear bombs are or nerve agent research is i

01:14:23.880 really do i think potentially it's amazing right potentially it's amazing medical research

01:14:30.600 particularly math problems maths problems potentially very very dangerous as well though

01:14:39.520 it seems obvious to me maybe maybe i'm wrong maybe history will prove me wrong and over

01:14:45.380 the coming centuries and millennia will never ever do anything that's bad

01:14:49.740 okay tatum 2733 says i appreciate the confidence but you overblow our u.s military i watched a

01:14:59.820 podcast segment about iran it wouldn't be iraq no thunder runs in iran well it's all academic

01:15:07.420 anyway isn't it because the pentagon the white house and the state department are all saying

01:15:11.000 there's no appetite for boots on the ground in iran at all so it's all academic maybe you're

01:15:18.440 right maybe you're not if anyone didn't watch the podcast yesterday me and dan tub argued slightly

01:15:23.220 about if just if hypothetically america did put boots on the ground armored tank divisions rolling

01:15:29.040 across the plains of persia how successful how many casualties might the americans suffer i was

01:15:35.520 saying very few if you look at what they achieved in iraq in 2003 of the most incredible

01:15:43.900 armored advances in human history actually gunships versus guys with ak's like

01:15:52.440 dan said it would be terrible they'd lose loads and loads some people in the comments agreeing

01:15:57.600 With him, some agreeing with me

01:15:59.320 Tatum there seems to be more

01:16:01.580 Agreeing with

01:16:02.320 Dan, but

01:16:04.620 Who knows, it's all academic anyway, it's almost certainly

01:16:07.540 Not going to happen, is it

01:16:08.380 I'll just say it one more time

01:16:12.360 It's not that America is particularly great at winning hearts and minds

01:16:15.480 Or fighting guerrilla wars

01:16:16.900 Which is very, very difficult

01:16:18.720 But in dominating a single

01:16:21.120 Battle space

01:16:22.180 For a few hours

01:16:25.460 Or a day or whatever

01:16:26.240 there's no one better at it no one finer they've got it down to a fine art a fine fine art

01:16:32.900 that is the one thing the u.s military does amazingly well spectacularly well

01:16:38.980 there's men or material in front of them that needs to be destroyed

01:16:43.840 so that an armored column or infantry can move into it they can make that happen oh they can

01:16:52.580 make that happen but i don't know maybe i am overestimating it all right tatum again said

01:16:56.640 f-35s have been hit apaches are vulnerable iran is a natural fortress and they can take losses

01:17:03.840 they lose 10 000 guys and say inshallah lol yeah f-35s have been hit yeah they've got f-22s they've

01:17:13.980 got i don't know why people have a downer on the u.s military in order in terms of dominating a

01:17:20.080 battle space. I don't know where this comes from. Self-loathing or something. Apaches

01:17:24.840 are vulnerable. Not very vulnerable. Not really. A bit, of course. Anything's vulnerable.

01:17:31.200 Anything can be here. Iran is a natural fortress. Well, there's the Zagros Mountains. Beyond 1.00

01:17:39.140 that, yeah, they'll be difficult. But America's got loads and loads of mountain specialist

01:17:44.360 Troops

01:17:45.120 All special forces that are trained in mountain warfare 0.99

01:17:48.680 Iran's a natural force is only a bit

01:17:52.200 That's what Dan was saying 1.00

01:17:53.480 The whole thing is mountainous, impassable terrain

01:17:55.680 No it isn't

01:17:56.240 There's the Zagros Mountains on the Iranian rock border

01:17:58.920 Beyond that it's then

01:17:59.940 It's not as mountainous

01:18:03.320 Beyond that

01:18:03.840 They can take losses

01:18:06.760 That's certainly true

01:18:07.560 That's certainly true

01:18:09.220 America's, the US's appetite 0.97

01:18:12.720 for taking battlefield casualties is very low certainly compared to iran yeah you look how many

01:18:21.720 men the u.s lost in um gulf war one and two in the original in the first waves of the attacks

01:18:29.100 very very very few right rodney again says drake is in his hammock and a thousand miles away

01:18:36.480 i've seen quotes so i don't know is that someone's that famous quote from something

01:18:40.660 a famous song or something i'm not sure i've heard that drake is in his hammock and a thousand miles

01:18:46.160 away okay thanks for sending that in keifer brown 1337 says on this day in 1930 it's another amen

01:18:55.260 homes joke on this day in 1930 the uh the erpina earthquake struck italy killing 1400 people

01:19:04.980 One day prior, locals reported citing Eamon Holmes near the epicentre

01:19:10.020 Anyone doesn't get it

01:19:15.460 Most people will get the joke now

01:19:18.540 I once accidentally, completely, truly by accident, in good faith

01:19:24.440 Mistook Eamon Holmes, accused Eamon Holmes of committing crimes he didn't commit

01:19:29.000 I just got the name wrong, I meant to say Hugh Edwards

01:19:31.000 I said Eamon Holmes

01:19:31.960 So now it's an in-joke on the Bo Show

01:19:33.880 to accuse Eamon Holmes of things

01:19:35.960 of terrible crimes he didn't actually do

01:19:37.820 I hope Eamon Holmes

01:19:40.740 in all seriousness now

01:19:41.900 I hope Eamon Holmes is alright

01:19:44.040 because wasn't he in hospital for

01:19:45.880 a heart attack or a stroke or something

01:19:47.640 like a few weeks back or a month or two back

01:19:50.360 so in all seriousness

01:19:52.100 in all honesty

01:19:52.840 get well soon Eamon

01:19:54.620 it seems like my chat

01:19:58.160 are hell bent on the joke of

01:20:00.220 accusing you

01:20:02.060 of doing historically

01:20:03.780 Terrible things

01:20:05.400 Up to and including

01:20:06.180 Being responsible for earthquakes

01:20:07.300 And things

01:20:07.780 The sacking of Ctesiphon

01:20:17.180 In the 13th century

01:20:19.240 Eamon Holmes

01:20:21.160 Yeah

01:20:24.140 Okay

01:20:28.620 We'll move on

01:20:29.900 We'll move on

01:20:30.580 Okay

01:20:32.080 So, StuKHP says,

01:20:36.780 Bo, you beautiful man.

01:20:37.940 Keep up the good work.

01:20:38.780 Thumbs up.

01:20:45.220 Thank you, sir.

01:20:46.500 Thank you very much.

01:20:47.260 I appreciate it. 1.00

01:20:52.480 Belgians are evil, trust me. 1.00

01:20:54.080 That's their name. 1.00

01:20:54.800 At Belgians are evil, trust me, says, 1.00

01:20:56.760 Birmingham female cop arresting Cody needs jail.

01:21:00.380 i'm not sure if i'm aware of that one oh was that there's so many clips is that i'm not sure which 0.80

01:21:07.320 one that is 100 cody was that the one where he's getting he gets jumped by a gang of black lads

01:21:14.020 he tries to swing a punch back not knowing where he is or what's going on and sort of clips the top

01:21:18.960 of the policewoman's hat and then they arrest him is that is that that one i can't remember

01:21:26.600 There's so many similar type clips, aren't there

01:21:28.740 But yeah, the cops should answer for that

01:21:31.080 They did absolutely the wrong thing 1.00

01:21:32.420 Just let the black boys just walk away 1.00

01:21:35.060 You're arresting the victim 1.00

01:21:37.680 Again, you're arresting the victim

01:21:39.120 And just quite literally ignoring the perpetrators

01:21:43.620 Ignoring them

01:21:44.900 Okay, if that was the one you're talking about there

01:21:50.000 I don't know exactly who Cody is

01:21:51.780 Was that that kid's name?

01:21:52.880 Alright, user4491 says

01:21:54.540 Today in 1988, The Undertaker threw Eamon Holmes off Hell in a Cell

01:21:58.460 and plummeted 16 feet through the announcer's table.

01:22:03.160 Oh my God, that is a riot. Somebody get in there.

01:22:12.800 The Undertaker chokeslamming Eamon Holmes off a Hell in a Cell

01:22:16.460 onto the Spanish announcer's table that collapses.

01:22:20.000 okay um daniel punier says uh which audible book did you choose bow

01:22:32.300 i don't know what you mean

01:22:35.540 i'm not sure what you mean i've got i have got an audible account well i don't pay for it anymore

01:22:44.880 but i've have had an audible account for many years and got that little library thing with

01:22:48.700 loads and loads of books in it i don't know exactly what you're referring to which audible

01:22:53.080 book did you choose i've got loads of audible books

01:22:56.460 harry you about to say something yeah i think a couple of days ago or maybe weeks ago to be

01:23:04.200 honest you might have mentioned that you were starting a new book possibly

01:23:09.160 i don't know i can't remember sorry

01:23:13.080 sorry about that

01:23:18.700 thanks for the super chat but i'm afraid i don't know exactly what you're referring to so

01:23:22.100 okay uh rodney the final one here today rodney says um i was quoting the poem drake's drum

01:23:30.360 by henry newbolt we sang a variant in high school oh interesting i've never heard of that

01:23:35.680 i'm sorry just never heard of that interestingly cool thanks for letting me know all right that's

01:23:41.440 the uh that's the show it is now 23 minutes past nine in the air in british summertime on thursday

01:23:45.680 23rd of july and the event all 2026 thank you for joining me really thank you without without you

01:23:50.880 guys it isn't a thing try and make the best of their head if you can carpe diem seize the day

01:23:56.800 the most valuable thing you will ever have is your time by orders of magnitude more valuable

01:24:04.160 than any gold or gems any property you might own you can't take that with you

01:24:10.080 Can you

01:24:12.000 The most valuable thing you have is your time

01:24:15.020 And it's finite

01:24:15.860 You've only got a finite number of days on this earth

01:24:18.880 If you're at liberty today

01:24:20.220 To do something with your time

01:24:22.420 That you're not obliged to do

01:24:24.500 You're not contracted to do

01:24:26.140 It's yours to do with as you wish

01:24:27.940 Try and make it count please

01:24:29.740 Try and do something valuable with it

01:24:31.420 Okay I won't get too preachy

01:24:33.700 Until tomorrow morning then

01:24:35.120 Take care

01:24:40.080 Bye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 23, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 23rd July 2026

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