The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 26th March 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning. You alright? Oh, that's piping hot. Straight from the kettle. Too hot for the

00:00:15.460 moment. Scold myself. How are you? Are you alright? It's just ticked 8 in the a.m. Greenwich

00:00:21.940 meantime, of course, on Thursday. It's now Thursday, Thursday already. The 26th of March

00:00:26.020 in the year of our lord 2026 you are the very best among us watching the bow show live my band of

00:00:33.840 brothers the glorious band the chosen few i am joined as always by my producer little harry how

00:00:40.160 are you this morning good sir yeah i'm all good good great and i really do hope all you guys are

00:00:47.540 all right and thanks for watching breakfast with Bo

00:00:54.100 it's only bloody breakfast with Bo time

00:00:58.220 party time excellent

00:01:01.380 Bo's Breakfast Club hashtag real BBC

00:01:04.660 the Lotus Seaters Breakfast Club hashtag

00:01:07.400 the real LBC let's get straight into it what is the corporate mainstream media

00:01:11.400 banging on about this morning what they trying to tell you is important and what

00:01:14.260 isn't

00:01:15.260 What are they leaving out?

00:01:16.180 What are they lying to you about by omission?

00:01:18.440 All right, we've got Iran rejects peace plan 0.61

00:01:20.880 and £400 million cost of saving scandal.

00:01:26.860 This is to do with a bank who lost a load of money

00:01:28.860 and the Treasury is going to bail them out probably, almost certainly.

00:01:34.460 Bank error not in your favour.

00:01:37.580 All right, The Guardian, straight off the bat, The Guardian.

00:01:43.040 Really?

00:01:43.480 one minute past eight and we're looking at the Guardian

00:01:46.720 it's unnecessary isn't it

00:01:48.920 it's unnecessary

00:01:50.620 why do we do that

00:01:51.420 the Guardian

00:01:53.200 complete socialist

00:01:56.340 rag, Iran rejects 0.92

00:01:58.560 US ceasefire proposal amid

00:02:00.440 attempts to keep talks alive

00:02:02.440 so that's the thing

00:02:04.640 one of the biggest things, at least on the front

00:02:06.720 pages or in all the news this morning

00:02:08.680 the legacy corporate mainstream media

00:02:10.220 is whether peace talks

00:02:12.720 with Iran are sort of real or not one thing Iran said yesterday is that the US is having peace

00:02:19.720 talks with itself i.e they've got nothing to do with it they sort of insist that there's been no

00:02:27.440 peace talks but also as I said yesterday also though there must have been some dialogue on

00:02:34.860 some level you know Tehran counters with own plan and vows to continue fighting so Trump or the

00:02:41.860 trump administration put together a 15-part plan maybe it went through pakistani intermediaries

00:02:48.020 but one way or another iran has rejected that so even to reject a plan formally officially

00:02:55.160 means that there's some sort of dialogue going on well not necessarily that could all be done

00:02:59.480 through the media couldn't it anyway iran have rejected that plan and come up with their own one

00:03:04.460 and their own one is as you can imagine as unreasonable as any israeli or american one

00:03:10.400 would be just these are all our this is our dream list of things take it or leave it you know not

00:03:17.640 really a properly reasonable set of demands but there you go okay they'll just continue fighting

00:03:24.680 i mean that is the thing on the grand strategic level is iran doesn't have to stop if he doesn't

00:03:32.280 want to i mean it's to me it seems crazy they wouldn't stop as soon as they could you know

00:03:37.080 attacking Saudi Arabia and stuff

00:03:39.140 but they don't have to stop do they

00:03:41.060 if Trump and the United States decide

00:03:43.200 they're going to stop

00:03:44.040 which it doesn't look like

00:03:45.400 they're moving more troops to the region if anything

00:03:47.100 Iran doesn't have to stop do they 1.00

00:03:50.400 I don't think Israel will stop

00:03:51.600 if the United States stopped that is

00:03:53.220 I don't think Israel will stop

00:03:55.220 I don't think Iran will stop 1.00

00:03:56.400 so

00:03:57.840 it's a hornet's nest isn't it really

00:04:01.240 but that's what everyone said would happen

00:04:03.180 years before

00:04:04.100 I wrote an article like in 2021 or 2022

00:04:06.820 years ago

00:04:09.040 talk about how one day

00:04:11.800 I was talking about Israel not the United States

00:04:13.880 but I say one day

00:04:15.060 Israel will send like a giant salty 1.00

00:04:17.840 you know I didn't imagine

00:04:19.820 it perfectly but there you go

00:04:21.060 one day Israel might send a massive salty 0.69

00:04:23.680 of like a hundred fast jets

00:04:25.200 over the

00:04:27.060 Zagros mountains

00:04:29.240 perhaps over the Gidrosian wastes

00:04:31.380 and do massive bombing raids on Iran 0.77

00:04:33.640 but

00:04:35.860 But that would unleash just an ongoing conflagration.

00:04:41.840 That would only be the opening salver of it.

00:04:44.380 That would only be the beginning.

00:04:45.640 It wouldn't end with that, would it?

00:04:48.400 But okay, Iran rejects US ceasefire proposal.

00:04:51.640 That annoyed the Donald, as you can imagine.

00:04:53.780 I mean, he doesn't like being rebuffed, does he?

00:04:57.560 He does.

00:04:59.200 But, you know, the Donald particularly doesn't take kindly to that sort of thing, does he?

00:05:05.860 He said he'd unleash hell.

00:05:12.860 Well he thinks he's Russell Crowe doesn't he?

00:05:15.860 Thinks he's Maximus Deximus Meridius,

00:05:18.860 Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions.

00:05:22.860 Donald Ironus Trumponius Maximus.

00:05:28.860 Add my signal, unleash hell.

00:05:31.860 I shouldn't joke really, it's not funny, people, people getting killed, it's the frost, sometimes it makes the blade stick.

00:05:47.860 Ok, YouTube and Meta lose pivotal court case, yeah so this is the thing all about, it was in America, I think it was in Los Angeles,

00:05:54.860 One particular young lady

00:05:57.500 I think she's like quite young

00:06:00.040 I think she's like 20 or something

00:06:01.000 And she accused

00:06:02.980 Meta

00:06:04.840 Because Meta owns loads of stuff doesn't it

00:06:06.920 The Zuck

00:06:07.620 He owns loads of things

00:06:11.160 Like you know Facebook and

00:06:13.180 WhatsApp and

00:06:14.440 Other big stuff

00:06:16.460 And she said that they were responsible

00:06:19.460 For even YouTube

00:06:20.580 YouTube were involved in the case

00:06:22.300 They were responsible for her addiction to social media

00:06:27.220 And the court decided in her favour

00:06:31.280 And said yeah

00:06:31.800 I think they awarded her like 6 million bucks or something

00:06:34.200 Which of course is an absolute drop in the ocean

00:06:37.960 To Meta

00:06:39.660 Or ABC or whatever

00:06:41.280 Alphabet sorry

00:06:42.600 Not ABC

00:06:43.120 Alphabet

00:06:43.740 Who owns YouTube don't they

00:06:46.640 So 6 million quid is a complete drop in the ocean

00:06:49.360 But the point is

00:06:50.400 it's sort of um sets a precedent doesn't it the legal precedent that other people can now

00:06:57.080 bring a very very similar case and that might well in the end cost loads and loads and loads

00:07:04.200 of money and probably also make social media platforms have to change the way they do things

00:07:10.480 people saying it's like the the social media tobacco moment right when big tobacco lost a

00:07:16.920 number of cases and were forced to profoundly change the way they do business right back when

00:07:23.480 I was a kid or even a teenager you'd have tobacco advertisements everywhere for example Formula One

00:07:31.220 I know 89% of you don't like Formula One but I'm not going to talk about racing just as an example

00:07:36.200 in racing there would be tobacco advertisements all over the cars all over the billboards and

00:07:42.620 they had to change all of that it just became sort of illegal because the world decided or

00:07:47.940 courts decided that it was just uh it was wrong to let particularly kids or young people just see

00:07:56.920 cigarette advertising all the place all over the place and then on the actual packet of the

00:08:01.180 cigarettes you know half the packet or more of the than the whole packet nearly the whole front

00:08:07.200 and back of the packet is just a big thing that says smoking kills that never used to be the case

00:08:11.860 anyway anyway just an example social media's sort of tobacco moment where they might have

00:08:18.480 to change profoundly the way they operate and do things or face paying out millions and millions

00:08:24.540 and millions and millions of pounds all the time to anyone that claims they got addicted to it and

00:08:28.340 harmed by it now far be it from me to stan for giant multi-national multi-billion international

00:08:41.440 corporations and things. That's a cliche, isn't it? Like some weird lefty soy boy clutching 0.89

00:08:49.280 his pearls saying, you leave the multi-billion corporation alone. However, just in the interests

00:08:57.160 of fairness, if I was a judge in that case, I probably wouldn't have ruled in favour of

00:09:01.920 the plaintiff. I'm of the opinion that if you're addicted to something, it's sort of

00:09:07.960 on you most of the time maybe not always well definitely not always but most of the time

00:09:14.080 like you get addicted to drinking monster energy drinks red bull that's on you isn't it

00:09:20.800 it's not great that those things exist but

00:09:24.380 like if you get addicted to meth it's sort of on you isn't it you know the dealer doesn't

00:09:32.340 help the situation, sure, but ultimately it's up to you, isn't it? Like you get addicted

00:09:39.880 to cake. It's not the cake manufacturer's fault, is it? Really. That's how I feel about

00:09:48.140 it. You know, I know not everyone would agree with that. I feel the same with this. If you

00:09:53.840 got addicted to scrolling through Facebook or watching YouTube, you got addicted to watching

00:09:59.920 youtube videos to the point where it harmed you uh it's sort of on you to sort that out

00:10:07.460 take responsibility for your own actions and your own life a bit

00:10:11.660 almost entirely is that just me am i being really harsh am i missing something here

00:10:17.640 all right all right so here we go meta and youtube are responsible for people watching

00:10:24.500 too much of their stuff all right reform hit by reform uk hit by new ban on crypto donations

00:10:33.600 well it's not just reform is it and it hasn't i don't think it's actually happened yet it's just

00:10:38.960 the government talking about they want to do that i think that's the case yeah i think it's just that

00:10:43.680 starmer and the government want to do that or say they're going to do that donations to a political

00:10:49.320 party through cryptocurrency i mean i believe reform might be hardest hit because to their

00:10:56.920 credit last i saw what a few days ago a week ago they got the most donations out of any party

00:11:02.520 any party all the big parties get a few million a year from people just donating to them

00:11:10.980 and reform got the most i think i think comfortably as well um so something like

00:11:17.980 that crypto donations that they would be probably hardest hit but it won't be them alone and

00:11:27.240 if people really want to donate to a political party they can still do it just not through

00:11:34.440 crypto if the government gets its way I mean it's a bit much anyway okay all right this

00:11:40.520 This is the new establishment globalist shill

00:11:47.520 They've got to run the BBC

00:11:50.520 There you go

00:11:52.520 They used to run Google

00:11:54.520 Great

00:11:56.520 The times, the venerable times

00:12:00.520 There's the new Archbishop of Canterbury

00:12:02.520 Looks like Tubbs from League of Gentlemen

00:12:04.520 this is a local church for local people

00:12:09.720 okay same thing

00:12:14.260 metaface avalanche of claims after court ruling

00:12:16.400 yeah so anyone now really

00:12:17.680 at least if you find a sympathetic

00:12:19.780 court in Los Angeles at the very least

00:12:21.780 you can say oh my life

00:12:24.140 has been damaged because I just

00:12:25.360 spent too long on Facebook

00:12:26.800 YouTube

00:12:29.660 was too good at its job

00:12:32.020 making you want to click another video

00:12:33.900 6 million quid please

00:12:37.020 Trump fly us into rage as Iran rejects peace deal

00:12:43.120 President threatens to unleash hell over snub

00:12:46.840 There you go 0.99

00:12:47.780 Unleash hell

00:12:49.620 I mean

00:12:50.820 As I said yesterday, they're sending

00:12:54.500 Something like 5,000 marines

00:12:57.760 And the 82nd airborne

00:12:59.940 Or some of the 82nd airborne

00:13:01.100 To the region

00:13:01.900 But there's already something like 50,000 service people in the region anyway.

00:13:06.080 All of those are not infantry combat soldiers, are they?

00:13:08.800 But still, there's tens of thousands of soldiers, one way or another, in the region, US ones.

00:13:17.620 So, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised at all if, you know, over the weekend or next week at some point,

00:13:24.820 there is some sort of limited ground action.

00:13:28.840 and so

00:13:31.980 and so

00:13:34.220 Iran having said that that's what they suspect

00:13:36.440 even like two days ago

00:13:37.860 would prove to be true

00:13:39.560 that this whole talk of a

00:13:41.720 of a window of peace or

00:13:43.660 a peace plan proposal is always

00:13:45.960 just a gambit

00:13:48.140 we'll see

00:13:49.900 maybe not

00:13:50.320 we'll see

00:13:51.160 just have to watch this space

00:13:53.500 alright the eye paper

00:13:54.480 Royal Navy forced to borrow warship from Germany

00:13:57.500 Embarrassing

00:14:00.300 Deepening fears of UK

00:14:03.720 On UK defences

00:14:05.140 I'll quickly read the blurb

00:14:06.340 Because it's about the best thing you get from Fleet Street

00:14:07.980 The blurb on the front of the iPaper

00:14:09.260 It says

00:14:09.600 Britain unable to meet NATO commitments next month

00:14:13.820 Because it has no warships available

00:14:16.040 In quote national embarrassment

00:14:18.120 Quote

00:14:18.560 Yeah a bit

00:14:19.900 A bit

00:14:21.640 Well not a bit very much so

00:14:24.980 Sorry very much so

00:14:27.500 not one not one frigate okay UK will still be in command of military task

00:14:35.480 force in Atlantic and Baltic but will be doing so aboard a German frigate King

00:14:45.860 George V would be turning in his grave and Kaiser Bill be laughing his head off

00:14:54.120 in his grave

00:14:55.560 Germany, we finally did it

00:14:59.120 we finally got naval

00:15:00.100 superiority over

00:15:01.920 the Brits

00:15:03.680 we finally did it

00:15:05.340 a quote here

00:15:07.740 it puts us in peril, all the cuts have come home to roost

00:15:11.200 says Lord West, former head of the Navy

00:15:13.340 a sentiment echoed by

00:15:15.140 MPs

00:15:15.840 Iran rejects America's terms for peace talks

00:15:18.720 and accuses, quote, enemies

00:15:20.580 of preparing to invade

00:15:22.900 strategic island that would be that Karg Island won't it or various other small

00:15:28.040 islands in the Straits of Hormuz specifically as you know you've got on

00:15:33.560 the map you've got the Straits of Hormuz themselves and then the bigger wider

00:15:36.240 Persian Gulf but yeah might be various islands who knows and finally Trump will

00:15:43.540 quote unleash hell quote if regime fails to accept defeat well they're not

00:15:50.080 except in defeat, are they?

00:15:57.980 The Financial Times, Danish upset 0.99

00:16:01.700 election leaves PM weakened

00:16:04.220 I suppose a quick thing to say

00:16:05.940 Danish politics isn't a massive thing although I know we have got a few Danes

00:16:08.920 that watch

00:16:10.520 just real quick to say they've had elections

00:16:12.140 they've been ruled by lefty governments for quite a long time, well

00:16:14.620 they have coalition governments nearly all the time

00:16:19.120 with the lefties being the most

00:16:22.880 uh... powerful

00:16:25.880 block within that

00:16:27.620 and uh... now they're still got the most after this new section of still got the

00:16:31.460 biggest number of

00:16:33.100 equivalent of mps

00:16:34.960 within of congressmen

00:16:37.640 uh... but the right-leaning parties have done much much better

00:16:41.620 they're only a little bit behind now rather than a long way behind

00:16:46.160 I believe that's the situation. Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:16:48.780 Okay.

00:16:49.680 Kremlin bolsters Iran's war effort by shipping drones, medicines and food.

00:16:55.020 Yeah, so that does seem to be sort of a true, you know, accurate piece of reporting.

00:17:00.820 It's not just like one analyst said Putin has done this now and don't ask us for any evidence.

00:17:06.720 It's not that. No, it seems like that's really happening.

00:17:08.760 So, what I mean.

00:17:13.680 Western officials detect suppliers.

00:17:16.160 First evidence of lethal support

00:17:18.880 Hmm

00:17:20.320 Trains

00:17:21.040 Tehran rejects a Trump deal claim

00:17:24.520 Yeah, okay

00:17:25.120 The Meta and Google liable for children's mental health in landmark years ruling

00:17:28.860 Okay, we talked about that, didn't we?

00:17:30.720 Alright, now the Telegraph, the Daily Toregraph

00:17:33.100 There's the Archbishop of Canterbury

00:17:36.800 What a joke

00:17:38.900 We've got someone like David Lammy

00:17:42.980 As a defence

00:17:44.280 What is he not defence?

00:17:45.920 Justice Secretary. Someone like David Lammy as Justice Secretary. Someone like Andrew the Fridge

00:17:51.300 Rainer in the sidelines hoping to be Prime Minister. Some complete moral and political

00:17:55.960 weakling idiot like Keir Starmer as the leader. Some cuckoo in the nest like Olukemi Badenoch 1.00

00:18:04.260 as the leader of the opposition. Some weird globalist traitor sausage fingers man as king. 0.99

00:18:11.180 And that 0.98

00:18:13.000 As the Archbishop of Canterbury

00:18:14.780 It's not just that she looks like Tubb

00:18:17.980 She is really weird

00:18:19.020 And like really super woke

00:18:20.840 And lefty 0.92

00:18:23.200 And global homo and all that stuff 1.00

00:18:24.400 As you can imagine, I mean look at it 0.93

00:18:26.880 That's the Archbishop of Canterbury

00:18:29.600 Archbishop Cramner

00:18:34.440 Of 16th century fame

00:18:37.920 Would be turning in his grave

00:18:41.060 Unbelievable

00:18:46.120 Unbelievable

00:18:47.780 What's the point in having a church?

00:18:50.980 What's the point in having a national religion 0.98

00:18:53.620 When the creed of that religion is 0.96

00:18:56.320 Anyone can be anything

00:18:58.440 You ever see a picture of that vicar lady

00:19:02.160 Holding up a sign that says

00:19:03.500 We are all Muslims

00:19:04.540 Yeah, you've seen that?

00:19:06.540 Have you ever seen that?

00:19:07.080 Right, that's not an Eastern Orthodox priest, is it?

00:19:13.260 That's not going to be a Catholic priest doing that, right, is it?

00:19:16.220 It's not an Evangelical doing that, saying that, thinking that, is it? 0.96

00:19:20.600 That'll be an Anglican 1.00

00:19:21.880 Where anyone can be anything

00:19:27.180 That whole world view

00:19:29.160 A man can be a woman

00:19:32.700 A man, born a man 0.99

00:19:34.600 With male genitalia, whatever 0.98

00:19:36.920 just is a woman 1.00

00:19:38.300 a Bangladeshi, a Nigerian, an Iraqi

00:19:43.780 comes to England 0.85

00:19:44.760 and the second they set foot on it

00:19:46.520 they are English

00:19:47.580 all that

00:19:50.560 all that

00:19:51.500 there you go

00:19:54.500 there you go

00:19:55.880 you end up with Tubbs

00:19:57.620 as the Archbishop of Canterbury

00:19:58.840 £400 million cost of savings scandal

00:20:02.600 taxpayer expected to foot the bill

00:20:05.660 after NS&I misplaces cash from 37,000 customers.

00:20:13.460 Oopsie.

00:20:15.660 Bit of an error, isn't it?

00:20:18.120 A little bit of an error.

00:20:21.060 You misplaced the money.

00:20:24.400 Did you?

00:20:26.800 Actually, more to that story than you accidentally misplaced it.

00:20:31.100 Someone accidentally highlighted a few numbers in an Excel spreadsheet

00:20:36.980 And accidentally pressed delete and that's it

00:20:39.320 No, there'll be much more to it than that won't there, much much more

00:20:42.500 Nevertheless that's all you need to know, proles

00:20:48.820 We just misplaced it, now pay up, £400 million please, HM Treasury

00:20:54.300 Number 10

00:21:02.240 Never tried to find McSweeney's phone

00:21:04.480 Yeah I bet they didn't

00:21:05.360 Yeah I bet they didn't

00:21:06.200 Because of course it's in their interest not to

00:21:08.040 Isn't it

00:21:08.700 Yeah of course they didn't

00:21:12.680 Oh it'd be really really convenient

00:21:16.200 McSweeney

00:21:18.020 If you just lost your phone right now

00:21:20.680 Oh lo and behold

00:21:21.780 You did get it stolen out of your hand in London one day

00:21:24.220 okay great that is very very very convenient Trump vows to unleash hell

00:21:33.980 after Iran rejects his deal gonna unleash hell we got great hell the best 0.70

00:21:42.400 Hell. American Hell. Okay. The Metro. Metro. Don't want. Former Tory Blunts. His name's 0.99

00:21:59.200 Crispin Blunt. Former Tory Blunts shock court claims. Crystal Meth MPs, Chemsex parties. 0.86

00:22:07.400 Tory MPs having chem sex parties 0.97

00:22:10.460 Who would have thought 0.97

00:22:11.620 Heaven forfend

00:22:12.860 No one would have thought that

00:22:14.880 No one saw that coming

00:22:15.800 That's never happened before

00:22:17.020 Alright

00:22:19.640 This guy

00:22:20.520 Crispin Blunt

00:22:22.280 Used to be a minister at Justice

00:22:24.280 I believe wasn't he Justice

00:22:25.880 Yeah

00:22:27.120 Yeah

00:22:28.120 And now

00:22:31.840 Recently there was found

00:22:33.540 Look there's a

00:22:34.480 bong to rights they've written

00:22:38.840 bong to rights 0.62

00:22:40.360 there's a bong there

00:22:41.980 crisping blunt

00:22:45.440 smoking blunts

00:22:46.560 and taking hits from a bong

00:22:47.900 insane in the membrane

00:22:50.500 oh yeah crystal meth

00:22:53.800 cannabis

00:22:54.820 and other drugs

00:22:58.820 all sorts of paraphernalia

00:23:00.260 for chem sex parties

00:23:01.960 he's pleaded guilty

00:23:03.160 but he said

00:23:04.460 And it was to help me understand drug culture as my role at justice.

00:23:12.080 It was to help me to understand the reality of illegal drug use and things.

00:23:20.800 All right, mate.

00:23:22.220 Sure it was.

00:23:23.640 Sure it was.

00:23:27.160 Yeah.

00:23:27.800 and and the the sex party element to it as well was that just to understand

00:23:35.620 just so you need to understand that properly

00:23:37.860 there's various uh those people there was a guy that was in the thick of it was it

00:23:45.040 and pete townsend from the who both got caught with like child underage child images they're

00:23:52.300 It's for research! I'm going to write a book about it. I'm researching it.

00:24:04.300 Where's the book, Pete?

00:24:07.300 Did Pete Townshend ever publish a book about it?

00:24:10.300 I don't believe he did.

00:24:16.300 The Daily Mail, the mail group, complete slop, trying to pretend it's not a complete slop.

00:24:20.300 A very convenient theft. Yeah, it is, yeah. Guy Adams, that's a Daily Mail dude, investigates

00:24:26.040 curious case of number 10 chief, his WhatsApps to Mandelson and the handily timed disappearance

00:24:31.760 of his phone. Yeah, very handy, wasn't it? Now, this is a horrible story. There's the

00:24:38.080 Princess of Wales, Catherine Middleton, looking radiant as ever. This story, AI bot told

00:24:43.500 teen to use a hammer to kill his mother yeah this guy was like 18 kid guy well 18 you're a grown-up

00:24:50.860 aren't you legally an adult this man young man young man this young man killed his own mum 0.97

00:24:58.940 i think he like he tortured her and eventually bludgeoned her to death with a hammer

00:25:04.940 and his saying and various other people saying that he was talked into it by a chat bot some sort

00:25:10.380 sort of chatbot.

00:25:15.940 Probably wasn't the main factor, I wouldn't have thought, like he was completely well

00:25:20.260 balanced and happy,

00:25:21.940 had a healthy relationship with his mother, then

00:25:25.200 a chatbot, without being prompted, said 0.98

00:25:28.200 kill her with a hammer now, and he went oh yeah, and then just did it.

00:25:31.780 I doubt that, right? 1.00

00:25:33.460 Misogynistic son bludgeoned her to death following chilling online chat.

00:25:38.700 like it's the chatbots for 0.94

00:25:40.380 these chatbots, these L&Ms

00:25:42.400 like Grok or whatever, I mean

00:25:43.960 they reflect

00:25:46.240 how you use them more than anything

00:25:48.660 right, they're not intelligent in any

00:25:50.620 real sense

00:25:51.300 right, it's just like a language

00:25:54.620 model, it's just like a very

00:25:56.640 sophisticated cut and paste tool

00:25:58.720 it's not much more than that, it's not really intelligent

00:26:00.620 certainly not benevolent, is it

00:26:02.560 really, really

00:26:03.520 like the chatbots

00:26:06.740 sitting there going, hmm, we'll manipulate 0.99

00:26:08.380 this young man into killing his mum. No, he didn't think anything, did he? He would have 0.97

00:26:14.660 been interacting with it in such a way that he ended up saying that.

00:26:22.040 The Daily Express, it's a good paper.

00:26:28.520 Statement of fact, it's a good paper, full stop.

00:26:30.600 Kemi, Odukemi Badenoch

00:26:35.300 Vows to, quote, make it explicit

00:26:37.380 In law that biological sex matters 0.94

00:26:39.320 Quote, yeah good, yeah straightforward

00:26:41.360 Simple, 101, you shouldn't be

00:26:43.200 Particularly

00:26:44.060 Proud of that, it should just be absolutely

00:26:47.200 De rigue

00:26:48.000 Shouldn't it, it should be absolutely

00:26:51.040 Without question, obviously that's

00:26:52.820 Just a normal and sane thing to do

00:26:54.440 I'm going to stand up for women

00:26:57.480 And argue that they exist, yeah

00:26:59.100 Yeah, yeah. Give yourself a pat on the back.

00:27:04.100 I will protect safe spaces for women. 0.99

00:27:07.100 Yeah, good. It would be insane not to.

00:27:10.100 I know Labour don't. I know Starmer had trouble defining a woman, didn't he?

00:27:16.100 Didn't David Lammy argue that a man can have a cervix?

00:27:20.100 Okay, alright

00:27:26.920 The sun, what nonsense has the sun gone with today

00:27:30.060 And they're talking about Hugh Edwards

00:27:32.280 Why isn't Hugh in jail?

00:27:34.860 Yeah, we asked that question, everyone asked that question at the time

00:27:37.380 How did he get away without a custodial sentence?

00:27:41.100 How?

00:27:42.560 Because loads and loads of judges in this country

00:27:44.840 Are extremely lenient on paedophilia

00:27:47.620 Extremely

00:27:48.420 crazily so

00:27:53.760 often

00:27:54.600 to a crazy degree

00:27:56.100 pedo drama

00:27:59.640 reignites soft sentence fury

00:28:01.780 yeah

00:28:03.800 he got away with this suspended sentence

00:28:05.840 and a fine wasn't it

00:28:06.760 something like that

00:28:07.860 ok

00:28:13.140 the independent

00:28:14.100 the deadly minds at the heart of minds

00:28:17.440 as in like coal mines iron ore mines not like sea mines or land mines the deadly mines at the heart

00:28:25.720 of trump's bid to profit from africa for only five pound a day workers risk their lives in a war zone

00:28:33.340 extracting minerals world affairs editors sam kiley reports from the democratic republic of

00:28:39.080 the congo and what the u.s president's brazen commercial interests actually means

00:28:43.900 Yeah that's a shame

00:28:46.740 It's not exactly just Donald Trump though

00:28:50.040 For example

00:28:53.300 Let's have a look at

00:28:54.960 What was we going to have a look at

00:28:57.080 Was it, I think it was on the sun

00:28:58.440 Today, today as well

00:29:00.160 I didn't dig this up from ages ago

00:29:02.640 Today

00:29:03.300 Vlad's slave empire 0.73

00:29:06.620 Horrors of Russia's £10 a month

00:29:09.400 North Korean slave workers 0.81

00:29:10.920 Who get one shower a year

00:29:12.680 They're living in bug-riddled containers.

00:29:17.040 So, the reality is, isn't it,

00:29:19.720 lots and lots and lots of people in the world are terribly exploited,

00:29:23.880 whether it's in the Congo or North Korea or a million and one places.

00:29:30.180 And responsibility for that can be widely shared, can't it?

00:29:35.300 From someone like Xi Jinping.

00:29:37.000 You think China's not involved in all this.

00:29:39.260 Big time, big time.

00:29:40.660 for responsibility from Xi Jinping to Putin to Trump to the British government to all of

00:29:45.880 everyone in the world that sees it and doesn't actively do something about it right but what

00:29:51.640 about the government of the Congo itself is that not responsible for like the well-being of its

00:29:59.540 workers in some way what these five pound a day workers that Trump is exploiting what they're all 0.78

00:30:05.700 directly got contracts with the US companies if they know no it won't be that will it it won't

00:30:11.460 be that it'll be that a US something like a US or Russian or Chinese companies got a deal with

00:30:17.340 the country or with companies in the country just they bid they get I won't even go into it

00:30:26.960 it's a sad reality though isn't it it's a sad reality that lots and lots of people are forced

00:30:33.560 of one way or another to basically work for very very little money doing very very hard work

00:30:38.440 to just say it's just trump though it it's trump's fault that

00:30:47.400 just trump

00:30:56.120 it's an entire web an entire world of injustice

00:31:03.560 But it's Mr. Trump's brazen commercial interests that are the problem with it

00:31:10.560 I mean

00:31:10.960 It's painting a very very certain particular picture for you isn't it

00:31:18.540 That's why I talk about Fleet Street

00:31:22.180 What they're trying to beam into your head

00:31:25.380 Make you think isn't isn't reality

00:31:27.280 What isn't isn't important

00:31:28.460 What they're going to lie to you about by omission

00:31:30.560 Mr. Trump

00:31:31.420 Don't talk about the Chinese though 1.00

00:31:32.860 What about Chinese brazen commercial interests in Africa 0.97

00:31:38.660 No

00:31:40.440 What about that Sam Kiley

00:31:42.660 No you're not going to talk about that

00:31:44.820 No

00:31:45.260 Alright

00:31:46.040 Okay

00:31:46.900 Thanks for the completely unbiased

00:31:50.280 Reporting there then

00:31:51.980 Okay the mirror

00:31:53.620 The mirror

00:31:55.180 One of the other Beckham's son

00:31:56.720 Was it Cruz Beckham

00:31:57.980 Sung a song about

00:31:59.960 About

00:32:01.280 his older brother's

00:32:03.660 family rift

00:32:04.940 in front of David and Posh

00:32:07.220 Beckham's heartache

00:32:11.420 as Cruise sings a family rift

00:32:13.320 he fancies himself as a musician

00:32:14.660 he's obviously told he can do anything he wants

00:32:17.520 in life, doesn't matter how much talent

00:32:19.400 you've really got, but he's a singer-songwriter

00:32:21.620 now, Cruise Beckham

00:32:22.860 oh yeah

00:32:23.780 he only penned a song about

00:32:26.520 the family rift

00:32:28.700 That's front news, put that on the front page of the mirror

00:32:31.340 Front and centre

00:32:32.560 Sure

00:32:34.120 Exclusive, call to Andrew

00:32:37.400 Do your duty

00:32:38.360 This congressman

00:32:40.900 This congressman there

00:32:42.000 Raskin, congressman

00:32:44.480 Jamie Raskin

00:32:45.760 He says, Andrew, it's Andrew's duty

00:32:49.500 To come to America 0.99

00:32:51.780 And answer questions about Epstein

00:32:53.540 I mean it's not

00:32:57.480 but it would be nice if he did it would be the right thing to do wouldn't it

00:33:03.280 new demand for shamed former prince to give evidence in america i i would like him to don't

00:33:09.480 get me wrong that would be great he won't i highly highly doubt he will highly doubt

00:33:15.360 top u.s democrat says he andrew uh should see epstein testimony as a service

00:33:23.820 yeah it's his duty or it's like his service so national service he should he should do it

00:33:29.580 technically it's not but it is though isn't it colloquially like it is it would be

00:33:37.020 he should right it'd be sort of ethically morally the right thing to do for him to

00:33:42.960 do that i really doubt he will he doesn't have to by law so he won't because that's how he's

00:33:48.660 played it all along all the way along the whole thing is if he's not actually fully 100% legally

00:33:55.840 compelled to do or say anything about it he won't so i mean jamie raskin if you want to get sort of

00:34:06.220 a full-blown interpol arrest warrant for him and an extradition to the united states

00:34:14.180 or come and capture him

00:34:19.000 Maduro style

00:34:19.900 it's not funny

00:34:22.180 it's quite funny

00:34:23.420 and compel him

00:34:25.880 give him a truth serum

00:34:27.740 otherwise it's not going to happen

00:34:30.600 otherwise I highly doubt it will happen

00:34:31.900 alright the Daily Star

00:34:34.040 the Daily Star

00:34:36.280 what have we got

00:34:37.080 we've got

00:34:42.080 That darts dude

00:34:45.220 What's his name? Luke Littler

00:34:47.240 This very young man

00:34:49.000 Is he still even a teenager?

00:34:50.920 He's like the best darts player in the world

00:34:52.480 He's like

00:34:55.140 Some sort of child

00:34:57.240 Prodigy at darts

00:34:59.020 Luke Littler

00:35:00.540 And

00:35:02.120 He's posing with an England shirt

00:35:05.580 The New England shirt

00:35:06.400 Game of throw-ins

00:35:10.360 Let's hope England Newcombe in World Cup

00:35:13.820 That's it, that's the front page

00:35:15.760 That's the front page

00:35:18.340 Oh, look at that

00:35:19.500 That actually looks like Toad of Toad Hall in that one

00:35:22.840 The Archbishop of Cain

00:35:25.580 Looks like Toad of Toad 0.89

00:35:26.200 Poop, poop

00:35:27.240 Okay

00:35:28.260 Okay, they're the front pages

00:35:29.920 That's it

00:35:30.360 That's it, that's the front pages for this morning

00:35:32.040 Shall we have a look at our poll?

00:35:33.060 What poll did we do today, Harry?

00:35:34.320 Bring it up on my screen for me, would you?

00:35:37.060 Engage

00:35:37.460 Alright, we put

00:35:39.320 We put

00:35:40.660 Will Trump unleash hell on Iran?

00:35:44.320 That's what we asked you

00:35:45.320 And

00:35:46.940 37, oh it's completely split

00:35:48.980 It's completely split

00:35:50.440 37% with a narrow win say yes

00:35:53.340 Yes Trump will unleash

00:35:55.020 We didn't ask whether you'd like it or not

00:35:57.140 Whether you wanted to, we just say will he

00:35:58.960 37%

00:36:01.380 Say yes

00:36:02.080 33% say no

00:36:04.420 And a big chunk, 30% say maybe

00:36:06.960 All I know is my gut says maybe

00:36:10.960 Alright that's gone cold now

00:36:15.500 Alright well that's almost

00:36:18.520 Close to as split as it could be

00:36:21.400 A narrow win for yes

00:36:22.980 I mean

00:36:25.100 That Levitt lady 1.00

00:36:27.720 The press secretary

00:36:28.800 She said and I've seen Rubio

00:36:31.520 And Hexiff say it as well 0.99

00:36:32.840 And I believe it's true

00:36:33.740 That President Trump doesn't bluff

00:36:35.860 That's pretty much true, isn't it?

00:36:40.480 I mean

00:36:40.840 He exaggerates a bit, doesn't he?

00:36:43.700 Obviously

00:36:43.980 All politicians do

00:36:45.500 He spins a bit

00:36:48.300 All politicians do

00:36:49.400 But on massive, massive things

00:36:52.420 Right, he doesn't usually just completely bluff

00:36:54.400 You know, if he says he's going to do something

00:37:00.400 Usually

00:37:01.820 Does

00:37:04.520 I wouldn't bet on him not doing it

00:37:06.780 So if he says he's going to unleash hell

00:37:08.260 37% of you

00:37:15.060 Very narrow win

00:37:16.220 Say yes he will

00:37:17.420 I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't

00:37:20.480 Really what is the definition of unleashing hell

00:37:22.900 Some people say well

00:37:23.780 Unless it's a full blown

00:37:25.560 Nuking

00:37:27.200 That doesn't constitute unleashing hell

00:37:29.760 But

00:37:30.260 Well we'll see

00:37:33.000 won't we we'll see what happens uh let's have a look at the websites then what we've got on

00:37:37.660 websites today trump unleashing hell it says the iranians are afraid to admit that they're talking

00:37:44.740 to him that may well be true might not be true might not but it could be true that they've got

00:37:49.920 their own domestic audience to think about and even if they are talking to him they can't be

00:37:55.260 they can't admit that they are they will be true i saw a report yesterday again don't know if it's

00:38:01.680 It was just a report saying that really, really hard-liners within Iran,

00:38:07.580 particularly within their military-industrial complex, what's left of it,

00:38:12.300 if they get wind of anyone, any of the political leadership

00:38:17.220 talking to the United States or Israel, if they hear of that

00:38:19.660 and find out and get evidence of that,

00:38:21.360 they, the Iranian internal security forces, 0.99

00:38:25.420 they'll just kill them as traitors or something. 0.98

00:38:29.800 just a report, take it or leave it 0.99

00:38:32.800 but I could believe it

00:38:34.140 I'm not saying it's 100% true

00:38:36.180 but I could certainly believe it

00:38:37.700 so maybe what Trump says there isn't wrong

00:38:42.720 that Iran are afraid to admit 0.99

00:38:45.180 that they're even talking

00:38:46.160 having dialogue with him

00:38:48.360 alright, there was something on the ITV News

00:38:54.460 for once, usually ITV News

00:38:56.400 very very heavily mirrors the EBC

00:38:58.560 and is even weaker source than the BBC if anything

00:39:01.060 so I don't usually go to them very much anymore

00:39:02.800 but do you remember this story?

00:39:04.320 I talked about this story

00:39:05.420 I think it was just before this war started

00:39:09.260 so knocking four weeks ago

00:39:11.000 this couple, British couple

00:39:13.900 were just hiking through Iran

00:39:15.420 on a biking bicycle holiday through Iran

00:39:19.780 and then were just arrested and accused of being spies

00:39:21.880 and I don't know of course

00:39:26.240 of course I don't know

00:39:27.140 they may or may not be

00:39:28.360 you know i would thought they're probably not but they might be i talked about the other time

00:39:33.860 didn't i how there's shades of gray it's not that you're literally an employee of mi6

00:39:38.480 you're not literally on their books as an intelligence officer or anything like that

00:39:47.900 but you are they are in communication with you in some limited sense even through someone that you

00:39:55.100 don't even know is in my6 and they say to you something like if you're going to go here in

00:40:00.980 iran if you're going on a genuine legit cycling holiday through persia which is crazy anyway but

00:40:08.500 it doesn't have to be persia could be anywhere you're going on a holiday to greece and there's

00:40:12.300 this one place there that we're interested in like a particular hangar in an airport a commercial

00:40:19.120 airport or anything one particular facility that's way out in rural areas if you happen to cycle

00:40:24.820 past that or hike past that take a couple of a few pictures of it for us

00:40:30.180 and then when you come back give us those pictures and it's just that so you're like

00:40:37.800 you're not in mi6 you're not a spy but you're doing a tiny amount of espionage and spying work

00:40:45.040 on their behalf and you may they may engineer it so you don't even really know that's what you're

00:40:50.160 doing it's dirt isn't it's like the dirty world of intelligence and counterintelligence and

00:40:56.860 espionage and stuff i would suspect that either there's nothing to it and these two people are

00:41:01.640 completely innocent or it's something like what i just described that there's a very small

00:41:06.740 connection with between them and the intelligence services and they barely knew what they were

00:41:12.960 involved in that or they're completely innocent i would have thought you know it might turn out

00:41:18.920 they're totally

00:41:19.600 MI6

00:41:22.100 or whatever

00:41:22.680 who knows

00:41:25.060 who knows

00:41:25.700 feel sorry for them

00:41:26.840 though of course

00:41:27.320 of course

00:41:28.860 Trump will hit Iran

00:41:31.520 harder than ever

00:41:32.500 if they fail

00:41:33.760 to accept defeat

00:41:34.740 well

00:41:35.560 go on then

00:41:37.360 they are

00:41:37.680 refusing to accept defeat

00:41:39.640 aren't they

00:41:40.320 Nigel Farage

00:41:42.740 tops lists

00:41:43.620 of PM's

00:41:44.740 outside earnings

00:41:45.740 making 43 grand

00:41:47.600 and

00:41:48.920 from cameos

00:41:55.600 Nigel earns loads of money he's a very very rich man

00:41:59.340 43 grand from cameos I think that's just in the last

00:42:02.560 year I think

00:42:07.180 he earned 81 grand

00:42:10.360 the year before

00:42:11.640 he makes 1.3 million pounds from GB News

00:42:15.020 the salary for being an MP alone isn't too shabby

00:42:18.840 There'll be loads of other, you'll have loads of other income streams, I would imagine.

00:42:22.740 Fair few other, you can only imagine.

00:42:26.820 Farage had previously apologised for failing to report outside earnings within the required time frame

00:42:31.640 after the Parliamentary Standards Watchdog found he had breached the MP's Code of Conduct 17 times

00:42:37.860 by failing to register £384,000 in earnings.

00:42:44.540 Meanwhile Rupert Lowe

00:42:49.180 Gives all his

00:42:50.260 All his MPs pay

00:42:53.580 Away to a charity

00:42:55.060 Every single month

00:42:55.880 Because he is also independently very very rich

00:42:59.380 Ah there you go

00:43:01.560 Alright let's have a look at

00:43:04.840 Was there something on Sky News

00:43:06.640 Some deeper meaningful

00:43:09.160 Insight from Beth Rigby

00:43:10.860 Look how serious she's on

00:43:12.140 What a serious political commentator

00:43:13.800 all right all right love uh there's something on the mail online there usually is actually

00:43:20.580 usually is something of mild interest oh yeah trump slaps down bibby

00:43:27.060 apparently netty had said again that the iranian people should rise up and take control of their

00:43:36.360 country and things and trump said why the hell would would i do like you wanted trump to do that 0.57

00:43:42.260 as well. And Trump said, why the hell would I do that? They'll just get moaned down.

00:43:48.220 Trump, Trump in furious break with Netanyahu as he slaps down Israel's plan to topple Tehran

00:43:52.880 regime. So yeah, just quickly said, why the hell should we take, this is Trump's words,

00:43:59.720 why the hell should we tell people to take to the streets when they'll just get moaned down?

00:44:06.620 Yeah, I mean, that's a reasonable assessment of it, isn't it? I think,

00:44:10.460 because the iranian regime has still got loads of

00:44:13.900 armed police and security services of various straps

00:44:18.140 out on the streets and checkpoints everywhere with machine guns even heavy machine guns on

00:44:25.940 the back of like toyotas and stuff you know so so what trump said there seems like a reasonable 0.66

00:44:30.280 whereas bibi just like go on go on go on iranian people get yourself killed 1.00

00:44:37.500 Trump said no don't do that 0.90

00:44:40.520 That would be crazy

00:44:42.160 Alright

00:44:46.120 There's that kid

00:44:48.040 That 0.68

00:44:49.360 Killed his own mum with a hammer

00:44:51.860 And somehow it's

00:44:54.140 A large language model's fault

00:44:56.520 Not that he's a

00:44:59.080 A maniac

00:45:00.500 Alright

00:45:03.100 What really happened to Iran's 0.75

00:45:07.000 supreme leader and the shadowy firebrand who may now be the best bet for peace yeah still haven't

00:45:14.020 seen the ayatollah the new ayatollah still haven't seen him if he was um you know if he was terribly

00:45:19.960 wounded maimed in that initial attack and or is in a coma what a crazy decision it was to name him

00:45:31.440 as the next ayatollah then crazy because that's what people were saying at the time when it was

00:45:36.100 coming out i think maybe principled uncertainty or someone said but that's crazy isn't it

00:45:40.980 why would they pick him surely they surely he isn't or not surely but you know questioning

00:45:47.220 it wouldn't it wouldn't add up it wouldn't make sense if he was in a coma or terribly wounded

00:45:51.440 because why why on earth would you pick him

00:45:54.400 but that does it is looking now though that that's exactly what happened

00:45:59.860 odd decision making isn't it odd decision making

00:46:07.240 all right should we have a look at uh was there anything in the express i think there was one

00:46:13.840 mild thing of mild interest in the express oh look they're trying to make out like there's

00:46:17.520 there's no foods in the shop anymore not true at all urgent food shortage warning issued in event

00:46:23.880 that will make COVID look like a tea party.

00:46:27.040 It's not true.

00:46:29.340 Pure scaremongering.

00:46:31.300 Go into any supermarket right now

00:46:32.900 on the morning of Thursday the 26th of March

00:46:36.020 in Great Britain.

00:46:37.640 No food shortages.

00:46:40.560 You know, some normies might see that

00:46:43.980 and panic and go to the shop

00:46:46.820 and buy as many tins of food as they can

00:46:50.400 and beef jerky.

00:46:53.880 things that will last pickled gherkins whatever they'll just buy all the fresh fruit and veg rather

00:47:00.440 not just things that will last they'll buy all the fresh fruit and veg that's there all the toilet

00:47:03.560 paper that's available panic because they're not thinking for themselves they're not they're not

00:47:09.080 really perceiving reality properly express online will tell them a liar and they'll just buy it

00:47:16.120 completely wholesale and then start making big big decisions in their life based on that

00:47:20.280 it's mad

00:47:22.040 we've got to get past that

00:47:24.100 people like that are of a worry

00:47:25.500 oh here's the thing on the express

00:47:26.860 you know how I say

00:47:28.820 have said a number of times

00:47:32.000 that in order to stop the boats

00:47:34.480 in order to solve the channel crisis

00:47:37.500 all you need is a few

00:47:39.780 half a dozen, ten maybe

00:47:41.380 speed boats full of Royal Marines

00:47:43.780 or the SBS

00:47:44.880 to guard the channel

00:47:47.480 and we tow these little dinghies

00:47:49.840 back to french waters well in the news today you're wondering what does that look like is that

00:47:56.480 a thing is that really a thing yeah look exactly that this half a dozen or ten of these in the

00:48:04.220 channel problem solved end of story end of story oh we've got them oh we've got them oh yeah

00:48:10.480 the story is here though more in the north sea the sea between britain and you know belgium and

00:48:19.240 holland and denmark that bit where russian ships go sbs cleared to raid russian shadow fleet

00:48:26.320 as dithering starmer u-turns again oh so we can deploy speedboats full of special boat service

00:48:33.100 dudes against russian tankers that we can do and are going to do have done in the past that we can

00:48:42.020 do, but the invasion at the Channel between Calais and Dover, where we're being flooded

00:48:48.660 by foreign criminals, many of whom are just pure economic migrants, a drain on our country 1.00

00:48:54.800 and or sex criminals and or murderers, we can't do that. 0.98

00:49:03.660 It's crazy, isn't it?

00:49:04.940 The government's got the political will

00:49:08.100 To board Russian ships 0.66

00:49:10.580 Provoking the Russian bear

00:49:14.500 We can do that 0.99

00:49:16.540 Put the murderers and rapists in the channel 0.81

00:49:21.080 Right

00:49:24.120 Every single day making a political decision

00:49:27.100 Not to do that

00:49:27.980 This

00:49:28.740 Half a dozen, ten maybe

00:49:30.680 A dozen at most of this

00:49:32.140 Of these

00:49:33.700 these dudes and we're towing you back to french waters it's not nobody needs to get hurt or

00:49:42.020 killed or anything it's just we're forcibly doing it though if you try and resist you might get hurt

00:49:47.840 so just don't resist while we tow you back to french waters do that for a few days a few weeks

00:49:54.000 maybe the smugglers will probably get the the i get the picture get the picture

00:50:01.020 and then we'll keep like two or three of them in Dover to prevent it ever happening again

00:50:08.500 if there's a chancer who tries their luck on a sunny day 0.83

00:50:11.100 it's not it's not difficult it wouldn't cost a huge amount or anything

00:50:16.340 operation clear them out

00:50:26.960 all right the sun did we have anything else in the sun other than just to mention the

00:50:36.580 yeah look red october brick commandos will board and seize putin's sanctioned dodging

00:50:44.980 shadow fleet ships if they pass through uk waters yeah look again we've got we've got

00:50:49.620 Royal Marines and special operators who are trained to do something far more serious than

00:50:57.840 towing a dinghy back to the waters at Calais Beach. Highly trained.

00:51:08.020 Right, oh, it's 10-2. It's 10-2 already. Shall we have a look at this day in history before we do the

00:51:11.800 super checks and rumble rents? What happened on this day in history? I like doing that. You seem

00:51:15.500 to like me doing that. On the 26th of March, down through the centuries, what happened of note?

00:51:19.620 In the year 1027, Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Salian dynasty.

00:51:29.240 Yeah, I know a little bit about that, not a fantastic amount.

00:51:32.580 Conrad II, he's most famous really for being sort of, what, like an administrator type dude, like, among other things.

00:51:40.700 But like Charlemagne or Henry II of England

00:51:44.880 Sort of thought of as someone that brought in

00:51:47.480 Made the state less ancient

00:51:51.900 More medieval, more centralised

00:51:54.280 Made the state more centralised in various ways

00:51:57.780 Reformed things, it was a reformer

00:52:00.880 There you go, it's not the most fantastically interesting

00:52:05.760 Holy Roman Emperor that ever lived, but there you go

00:52:08.200 On this day in 1812

00:52:10.320 Earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale

00:52:13.300 Destroys 90% of Caracas

00:52:16.240 In Venezuela

00:52:17.840 And kills an estimated 15 to 20,000 people

00:52:21.200 Yeah

00:52:23.620 Right during the middle of the Peninsula War really isn't it 1812

00:52:27.260 Or we've got like the Battle of Salamanca or something going on in Spain

00:52:32.400 Or was it like they just had

00:52:36.600 Ciudad Rodrigo and

00:52:39.000 Baddy-yos 0.99

00:52:40.760 Okay

00:52:43.580 On this day in 1871

00:52:46.940 Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris

00:52:50.940 Who formed the short-lived Paris Commune government

00:52:54.060 Shouldn't laugh

00:52:56.780 Yeah, it's the

00:53:02.620 The fallout from the War of 18, 1871

00:53:05.380 If I don't know

00:53:06.000 Napoleon III

00:53:07.200 went to war with Otto von Bismarck 0.99

00:53:11.900 and got his ass handed to him 0.99

00:53:15.980 predictably. 0.99

00:53:20.420 Germany and France had a war before World War I.

00:53:22.500 Full-blown proper war, 1870-1871. The Germans win 1.00

00:53:25.520 fairly easily. Big battle at Sudan. The Germans march all the way to Paris 0.97

00:53:30.200 forced the French to sign a humiliating

00:53:34.540 peace treaty at Versailles.

00:53:37.200 Politically the French melt down 1.00

00:53:42.360 Absolutely melt down

00:53:44.440 Like just complete collapse of government after government and things

00:53:48.520 They don't know what to do in Paris

00:53:50.140 They're going crazy

00:53:51.080 They fear that the Germans might enter Paris and ransack it 1.00

00:53:54.040 And sack it and kill everyone 0.79

00:53:56.880 They didn't, the Germans didn't do that 1.00

00:53:58.220 That's not what Bismarck was all about

00:54:03.820 But

00:54:06.840 There's just complete political turmoil in France

00:54:09.680 Complete

00:54:10.200 Sort of

00:54:12.320 Can't blame them a bit

00:54:13.880 But anyway

00:54:14.280 As I said there

00:54:15.640 At that point there was a short-lived Paris Commune

00:54:17.740 The communists

00:54:18.260 Some of the hardline leftist communists

00:54:20.080 Marxists

00:54:20.700 Decided

00:54:22.280 Well it's a long story

00:54:25.400 It's actually a long story

00:54:26.300 And

00:54:26.900 They thought they

00:54:28.800 Well

00:54:29.120 There's a short-lived Paris Commune

00:54:31.060 There's a whole thing to it

00:54:32.440 This isn't a history show

00:54:33.700 so won't go into it here but um they tried to set up all sorts of barricades that they could defend

00:54:39.940 paris all right look into it watch a youtube video if you're it is an interesting it's a very very

00:54:45.540 interesting story the war of 1870 to 1871 the franco-prussian war one side effect of which was

00:54:55.320 the parish commune all right oh and commies and leftists and reds to this day talk about the

00:55:02.600 Paris Commune

00:55:03.360 like the Cable Street riots or something

00:55:06.680 like it's some wonderful brilliant thing

00:55:08.680 bit of an embarrassment

00:55:11.840 if I was a lefty

00:55:13.280 I wouldn't bring up the Paris Commune of 1871

00:55:16.860 very often

00:55:17.440 if you look at the details of it, it's embarrassing

00:55:19.700 it's like a lefty bringing up

00:55:22.420 the Great Leap Forward

00:55:24.660 or something

00:55:25.060 makes you guys look bad

00:55:28.580 bro, really

00:55:29.360 still they do

00:55:31.500 they lie about the history of it

00:55:33.420 make it like it's some brilliant thing

00:55:34.740 like Cable Street

00:55:35.480 like it's some brilliant thing

00:55:36.880 no

00:55:37.200 it's a stain on you if anything

00:55:39.360 you lie and twist the history

00:55:42.340 make it out to be something brilliant

00:55:43.660 alright

00:55:44.860 on this day in 1909

00:55:46.380 Russian military forces invade

00:55:48.500 northern Persia

00:55:49.800 to support Muhammad Ali Shah's coup d'etat

00:55:52.140 against the constitutional government in Persia

00:55:54.300 and relieve the siege of Tabrits

00:55:56.460 yeah

00:55:57.400 not the last time the Russians invaded 0.97

00:56:00.860 Persia

00:56:02.500 Didn't they do it again in like 1943

00:56:08.780 In the middle of the war, World War II

00:56:10.640 And the Brits

00:56:11.980 Joint Russian-Brit thing 0.89

00:56:14.400 Right, am I not wrong, am I right

00:56:16.460 1943 I believe

00:56:18.260 1942 or 1943

00:56:23.080 It's one thing you can say about

00:56:24.740 Persia or the Russian 0.92

00:56:26.320 Persia or the Iranians 1.00

00:56:28.100 Whatever you want to call them

00:56:28.960 and not just the current islamic regime all of them that they are suspicious of their neighbors

00:56:37.400 and the big powers russia the uk france the united states that they're suspicious of them

00:56:43.560 yeah because we have dicked around with them quite a lot over the years

00:56:51.420 Can't deny it

00:56:54.020 In 1942, the first Eichmann transport to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps

00:56:59.560 There's the trial of Eichmann there in Israel

00:57:04.420 In 1953, Dr Jonas Salk announces that he has successfully tested a vaccine to prevent polio

00:57:17.300 Clinical trials begin the following year

00:57:19.580 yeah great polio is a terrible scourge on humanity good okay oh what else we got sorry 1.00

00:57:28.520 in 1966 66 large-scale anti-vietnam war protests take place in the united states

00:57:33.940 including in new york washington dc and chicago yes quite early on 1966 i mean the war only kicked

00:57:39.460 off big time in 1965 i mean there were it goes back further than that i mean there were u.s

00:57:46.460 military advisors in there, back in the Kennedy days even, but largely kicked off, escalated

00:57:54.580 massively in 1965, and already then, by 1966, large-scale protests against it, that carried

00:58:02.160 on. By the Nixon years, the White House was almost barricaded in by protesters, constant

00:58:08.980 protesting. In 1971, Bangladesh, formerly known as East Pakistan, under Sheikh Rahman,

00:58:20.300 declares independence from Pakistan. Anyone who doesn't know, there used to be East and

00:58:26.460 West Pakistan. Bangladesh was just East Pakistan. And it was like one political entity, basically.

00:58:33.040 and in the end

00:58:34.240 and that was like

00:58:35.140 in the late 40s

00:58:36.200 right

00:58:36.420 partition is the

00:58:38.320 late 40s

00:58:38.960 isn't it

00:58:39.700 and

00:58:41.140 until 1971

00:58:43.040 when Bangladesh

00:58:44.960 started operating

00:58:48.940 as its own

00:58:49.560 sovereign

00:58:50.000 independent

00:58:50.540 country

00:58:51.580 alright

00:58:53.020 there you have it

00:58:53.820 it's very nearly

00:58:54.460 nine o'clock

00:58:55.000 so let's have a look

00:58:55.720 at our rumble rants

00:58:56.640 and super chats

00:58:58.200 two rumble rants

00:59:00.620 this morning

00:59:01.080 for T and Barber

00:59:01.840 in at number one

00:59:02.580 says the idea of the donald negotiating with himself seems like dark helmet from space balls 0.87

00:59:09.440 with his toys what you went over my helmet love space balls i haven't thought about space balls

00:59:18.520 in years but i've seen it like 20 times when i was a kid used to love space balls had it on vhs so

00:59:25.140 you say uh starmer said he couldn't green light the drilling new oil fields

00:59:30.960 so who runs the country now oh yeah that was a story i meant to talk about this morning maybe

00:59:34.460 i'll talk about it tomorrow next week or whenever it comes up again our prime minister said he

00:59:38.580 doesn't control whether we drill oil in the north sea or not he's delegated all of that the entire

00:59:44.520 decision making process and the final green light to the energy secretary red ed milliband who's a

00:59:50.400 crazy environmentalist weirdo real weirdo so the prime minister's just completely absented himself

00:59:57.260 from that entire process which is crazy shouldn't shouldn't do he hasn't the 0.76

01:00:01.520 fight the buck stops with him something as big as that but no that's just up to

01:00:05.760 red Ed Miliband a crypto communist

01:00:11.260 you would see our country bankrupted and destroyed

01:00:16.780 without power

01:00:19.900 mad

01:00:21.480 okay, Cookieboy23 says

01:00:24.560 wouldn't Mandy's phone have a record of his convos with McSweeney

01:00:29.420 yeah, I thought this

01:00:30.400 now, I've told you guys before 0.66

01:00:32.260 I'm technically very, very inept

01:00:34.100 but still, I thought it was the case

01:00:36.720 and has it not been in the case

01:00:38.440 in other previous criminal investigations and things

01:00:40.980 that even if you destroy your phone

01:00:43.000 you drop your whole phone and the SIM card in acid

01:00:45.640 and it dissolves away to nothing

01:00:46.900 don't the phone companies or whatsapp itself still hold remember what was said somehow somewhere

01:00:54.800 no yeah and if they've got the other half of the conversation i.e mandy's phone

01:01:00.920 it doesn't quite add up it doesn't it feels to me like the idea that mcsweeney whoops now he's

01:01:07.540 lost his phone it's just gone and it's gone uh that that's not the end of the story i feel like

01:01:11.980 i might be wrong i am so technically inept i don't really know about these things at all so

01:01:16.880 But yeah, it's a good question, Cookie Boy

01:01:19.640 Good question, yeah

01:01:22.000 Alright, the Super Chats

01:01:24.120 There's a few

01:01:25.580 So let's just whip through them

01:01:27.220 Global Church History, good man, straight in

01:01:29.700 At the top

01:01:30.720 Number one, still at number one

01:01:33.040 Today, in 1196 AD

01:01:36.560 Saladin becomes 0.76

01:01:39.400 Emir of Egypt 0.86

01:01:40.740 Salahuddin

01:01:42.440 On epochs

01:01:46.880 I've got a multi-part series all about the Coeur de Lyon, Richard I, King Richard I, and of course he went on the Third Crusade, in Ultramar in the Crusader Kingdoms, modern day Lebanon, Jerusalem, Egypt, and he had a crusade against Saladin, Salahuddin,

01:02:10.680 so yeah if you want

01:02:12.820 a few hours

01:02:14.720 me talking about that

01:02:15.540 with Carl actually

01:02:16.200 Carl

01:02:16.540 that one's in conversation with Carl

01:02:18.860 so check that out

01:02:20.060 yeah

01:02:20.300 Saladin becomes the Emir of Egypt

01:02:22.180 didn't realise though

01:02:23.640 it was on this day

01:02:24.420 in 1169

01:02:25.180 there you go

01:02:26.540 okay very interesting

01:02:27.280 thank you Global Church History

01:02:28.580 Walder Zacharolic 0.56

01:02:34.080 says

01:02:35.560 good morning Bo and Harry

01:02:36.860 first time catching

01:02:38.060 catching alive

01:02:39.320 because it's 4am

01:02:40.440 keep up the good work thank you sir thank you 4am so what are you on the what would that be

01:02:48.000 would you on the east coast of the united states or in the midwest is it even the west coast i

01:02:53.900 don't know but thank you for tuning in anyway appreciate it welcome aboard welcome to the

01:02:59.160 glorious band, the chosen few. My band of brothers. Zef317 says, good morning, brother

01:03:11.140 Bo. No, good morning to you. Good morning. Good morning, good morning. The Fenlander,

01:03:17.300 1665 says, you can always turn the phone computer off. Yeah. Well, yeah. For a half

01:03:29.140 decent bit of money there is sheep are awesome says we cannot wait for the politicians to save 0.84

01:03:38.000 us or is this going to be a doom one we cannot wait for the politicians to save us everyone is

01:03:43.180 mixing in every single day by then we won't be european anymore demographics are destiny 0.92

01:03:50.160 waiting and voting will condemn us all to extinction we have to do it ourselves and now

01:03:57.820 Well

01:03:59.300 Even if I might agree with the sentiment

01:04:01.660 I can't really add much

01:04:04.120 To that without

01:04:05.980 Getting yeeted

01:04:07.820 So okay thanks for the super chat

01:04:12.180 Demographics are destiny 1.00

01:04:13.580 I do still believe that it's

01:04:16.120 Possible to

01:04:17.020 Right the wrongs

01:04:19.580 At the ballot box

01:04:21.740 If you get a government

01:04:22.700 If you get a government with enough balls

01:04:25.740 And the right policies

01:04:26.680 Mass remigration 0.98

01:04:28.220 Largely everything can be reversed

01:04:31.580 Largely

01:04:32.200 It's not over

01:04:34.960 It ain't over till it's over

01:04:37.080 Barely just begun

01:04:39.680 We've only just begun

01:04:41.580 Dreadnought Logan says

01:04:45.040 At long last I was able to watch you live

01:04:48.020 1am car

01:04:49.600 Is that California?

01:04:51.160 1am in California

01:04:52.040 Okay cheers

01:04:55.180 Great

01:04:55.400 Great. Dreadnought Logan.

01:04:58.100 Boom. You guys make this happen.

01:04:59.280 It's all about you guys, really. Without you guys

01:05:01.480 it's nothing. It really isn't anything.

01:05:04.140 Okay.

01:05:06.540 Cruelly,

01:05:07.220 with some zeros in it, says

01:05:08.960 Andrew would

01:05:11.320 have to clear it with Nathaniel.

01:05:13.220 Ooh.

01:05:15.360 Spicy.

01:05:18.920 He rings up the fifth baron,

01:05:20.780 Rothschild, Nathaniel Rothschild.

01:05:23.500 Alright, Nath.

01:05:24.140 i'm thinking that it's probably the right thing to do to go to america and and uh testify about

01:05:30.160 epsi stuff oh it's a no is it okay got it cheers yeah no definitely no i'll do whatever you say

01:05:34.420 no absolutely yeah yeah i i do whatever you say you know that bro all right cheers see you see you

01:05:39.420 okay real mr bra says what's the intro song's name also why did you guys stop streaming the

01:05:53.080 main podcast here okay so the second question uh that's nothing to do with me that was a business

01:06:01.840 decision I don't make really hardly any business decisions Carl and various few other people in

01:06:07.180 the background and I don't know their thinking I don't know I don't know really their decision

01:06:11.940 making process of why they decided to do that but there would have been there would have been

01:06:16.360 reasons there were there are reasons to do with I don't know like maximizing there's all sorts of

01:06:23.080 it's a little bit of a dark art of trying to game the algorithm trying to do what's best for a given

01:06:29.200 channel like whether it's best to stream there or not or cut things into bits or not whether it

01:06:35.880 should be long how many shorts you do endlessly tweaking thumbnails there would have been a whole

01:06:41.140 reason why they did it but i can't tell you about it i don't really know much about that even on my

01:06:45.540 own channel state of politics state of politics i leave all that stuff up to nate mr h reviews

01:06:50.280 i don't know about it and despite this being my job i'm not inclined to learn about it either

01:06:57.580 i'll leave that to other people so there will be a reason but i couldn't really tell you in detail

01:07:02.740 why and then what's the intro song's name harry has it even got a name i'm not sure it's even got

01:07:07.680 a name is it it's just like a bit of music that was just has it got a name yes i did say i'd do

01:07:14.200 this yesterday but i forgot so i'll find out what the name is okay yeah find out some detail about

01:07:20.000 it and maybe tomorrow morning or next week or something at some point maybe at the top of the

01:07:23.920 show i'll tell everyone i'll go i'll say we've had a few people asking about this bit of music what's

01:07:30.160 it called and where they can get it and then i'll tell you about it so is that all right we'll do

01:07:34.800 that all right and the very last one today is krish cheers krish a regular super chatter krish

01:07:42.240 281 says

01:07:43.280 I'm a bit tinfoil on this one

01:07:46.740 But for me, Shadowfleet

01:07:48.360 Not insured by Lloyds of London

01:07:50.480 Right, yeah

01:07:51.100 Yeah

01:07:53.160 Yeah, fair point

01:07:56.680 If it's not ours

01:07:58.580 If it's not insured by Lloyds of London

01:08:01.080 It's just a danger and we should

01:08:03.020 Yeah, anyway

01:08:04.460 Good point, fair point

01:08:06.100 Alright then, that's the show

01:08:08.060 It's now 7 minutes past 9 in the AM

01:08:10.440 Greenwich Mean Time

01:08:11.400 on thursday the 26th of march in year of our lord 2026 you've been the glorious band the chosen few

01:08:17.280 my band of brothers and sisters the very best among us try and make the best of the day ahead

01:08:21.380 if you can i can't always but if you can copy diem seize the day you only have it once you've

01:08:29.320 got free time today you're at liberty to do with it as you wish try and do something valuable with

01:08:34.400 your time if you can all right i don't want to be too preachy it's up to you but bear in mind

01:08:38.320 You haven't got endless days

01:08:40.140 Alright then

01:08:40.580 Until tomorrow morning

01:08:42.300 Take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 26, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 26th March 2026

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