Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 29th January 2026
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 15 minutes
Words per Minute
147.99599
Summary
The Daily Mail and the corporate legacy media are back talking about Iran again this morning, this time focusing on the Iranian situation and the latest in the Iran crisis, with all the latest news and reaction from the Middle East and North Asia.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
morning you all right hope you are doing well on this lovely morning it has just ticked past
00:00:12.240
eight in the am gmt on thursday the 29th of january in the year of our lord 2026 i'm joined
00:00:18.700
by harry my producer how are you this morning harry morning and you are
00:00:23.780
oh big harry's just appeared when harry's collide big harry and little harry both of whom are much
00:00:33.800
taller men than me okay um all right yeah you you have joined uh the beau show
00:00:39.980
breakfast with beau beau's breakfast club the bbc you are the glorious band the chosen few
00:00:50.940
we few we happy few we band of brothers now let's see what's going on this morning what's
00:01:00.140
the world talking about what is the corporate legacy mainstream media banging on about this
00:01:06.240
morning let's have a look oh there's a lot of iran this morning okay we're going to be talking about
00:01:09.920
iran again today okay brace yourself countdown to conflagration and restore high streets or lose
00:01:18.620
election so yeah it's quite a lot quite a lot of iran so again the cabal of editors have decided that
00:01:26.940
it's time to talk about iran today okay it really is as cynical as that the daily mail time running out
00:01:35.340
for tehran trump my armada is ready to strike with speed and violence iran our forces have fingers on
00:01:42.820
triggers and rule and will respond like never before countdown to conflagration
00:01:52.100
okay so yeah so this is this is sort of the big story i mean we talked about yesterday didn't we
00:01:59.020
briefly because it was in some news a little bit yesterday um that donald trump's moving a whole
00:02:05.100
they're calling it an armada but you know it's a carrier group moving it into the persian gulf
00:02:11.780
the gulf of oman where the straits of hormuz is and all there moving a big carrier group there also
00:02:20.100
we'll probably see reports of it later but also lots and lots of um air assets moving to
00:02:25.700
the various other bases in and around the region so like qatar has got a big air base isn't it really
00:02:36.580
the us to use its air bases for fast jets and bombers and stuff
00:02:44.020
um and yeah apparently america it's not just that carrier group the uss abraham lincoln
00:02:49.780
lots and lots of other war material has been and is being moved to the region
00:02:56.420
i mean it may just all be posturing to put pressure
00:03:00.420
on the ayatollah but it is what you would do if you were meant to do you know extended military
00:03:07.140
operations it gives trump and hexis and rubio it does give them the option if they do want to
00:03:13.700
actually do it i mean we'll have a poll going i asked harry to make the poll and it would be
00:03:18.980
something along the lines of you know should the us should trump intervene should they strike in um in
00:03:24.660
iran so we'll see what you guys is think um all right let's have a look at another paper the guardian
00:03:42.340
for the guardian all right it says timing's running out trump says a us armada trump says as us armada
00:03:49.140
heads towards iran and they go with that picture of ilhan omar getting squirted with
00:03:54.900
something um she done hurt by the way i don't let bullies win ilhan omar defiant after syringe attack
00:04:05.060
don't you i would love it if they somehow stripped her of her citizenship and sent her back to somalia
00:04:11.940
that would be hilarious starma meets xi in historic visit to beijing
00:04:19.380
yet so as i said yesterday he was on his way yesterday wasn't he he's there now he's there
00:04:32.740
yep and so it's a it's a historic visit i mean the last time a prime minister went to china was a while
00:04:38.100
ago like a good between five and ten years ago 2017 or 18. and of course it's probably the biggest
00:04:44.260
foreign visit maybe with the exception of going to washington that starma's done um yeah and as
00:04:50.980
you can imagine or at least in my opinion uh everything he's doing and saying out there is
00:04:55.460
sort of subservient to them but we're getting to some more of the headlines
00:05:00.260
labor told restore high streets or lose election well they're going to lose the election anyway
00:05:05.700
i can only imagine that's really the calculation from a lot of the people on the inside at number
00:05:09.860
10. they know they're going to lose anyway so they may as well just go full bore full steam ahead
00:05:15.620
with their policies regardless of how unpopular they are or how destructive they are they're just
00:05:19.380
going to do what they want because they're going to lose anyway
00:05:23.460
do you fear that is sort of their they're thinking their calculation on that all right the mirror
00:05:33.380
something about somebody's acts in coronation street don't care about that something about the beckons
00:05:39.380
don't care about that okay us engulfed standoff trump's war threat to iran president warns rogue state
00:05:46.580
time is running out for nuke talks and then there's a picture there of the uss abraham lincoln
00:05:53.780
absolute giant aircraft carrier the us aircraft carriers what are they the the ford class aircraft
00:06:01.780
carriers i'm not sure actually if that one is a ford class but i think it is anyway they're much
00:06:05.860
bigger than ours a few other countries have got aircraft carriers right like china china's got a
00:06:10.260
couple we've got a couple couple other countries i think spain's got one weirdly or like a few other
00:06:15.540
countries got old ones as well like i don't know like brazil has got an an old soviet one and stuff
00:06:20.740
the soviets have got one but the american ones not only have america got way more than anyone else
00:06:26.660
everyone else has got one or two or maybe three at most absolute most and that club's small it's a
00:06:31.860
small number of nations that have got any and america's got way more than anyone else and the ones
00:06:37.780
that they've got are the most sophisticated and biggest way bigger like the biggest
00:06:45.620
us aircraft carriers gigantic if you if you sailed our one next to it
00:06:52.580
their capacity for launching fast jets and stuff is much much bigger it's not just for show-off it's
00:06:59.300
not just you know the bigger it is the more airplanes you can get on it simple as that so
00:07:04.500
there you go we shall see what happens the eye paper same thing then the iran story nuclear ultimatum
00:07:17.380
abandoned weapons program or massive armada will bomb iran us threatens ayatollah trump warns of
00:07:22.820
bombardment from us fleet quote moving quickly float to region unless tehran swiftly agrees to
00:07:28.180
negotiate a deal so that's interesting isn't it that is change the narrative is sort of
00:07:34.500
well it has changed isn't it that a lot of what you'll see in the headlines today is that
00:07:39.060
trump and the administration u.s administration are talking a lot about um that iran needs to
00:07:45.780
disarm its its nuclear program of course it is still mentioning you're still saying about
00:07:51.540
the protests and the thousands whether it's low thousands or whether it's tens of thousands
00:07:57.860
all those killings that the iranian regime has done recently it's talking less about that there's less
00:08:02.980
emphasis on that and more emphasis on a nuclear that that iran needs to stop its nuclear program
00:08:13.300
entirely so it's back to that it's switched back to that
00:08:18.740
everyone's noticed of course right it's not like a clever sleight of hand that only the most savvy
00:08:24.500
could would have spotted no it's kind of obvious i mean trump's doing it
00:08:28.900
it's both isn't it i mean it's both things but it's like it's the the full spectrum of argument
00:08:34.980
being made um okay iranian iranians are fleeing capital the ipaper learns in anticipation of imminent
00:08:43.940
attack yeah i did see this morning i did see one or two clips coming out and it whether you can believe
00:08:49.060
them or not you don't even know what day that bit of footage was taken on but um you know it's difficult
00:08:56.500
to trust anything really at first at first blush that you see on the internet that you see on twitter
00:09:01.780
or something but if it's to if it is to be believed it does look like a fair few people are
00:09:12.740
because it's likely to be there's likely to be targets in tehran itself that the americans want
00:09:17.780
to strike if they are going if they are going to do such a thing
00:09:20.980
us president says strikes will be worse than the 2025 bombing of nuclear facilities yeah because that
00:09:26.260
was that was really quite a precision strike it seemed didn't it it was very very limited and quite
00:09:32.900
precise that wasn't it it was trying to take out they claimed the us claimed it did take out uh very
00:09:41.860
specific buildings or underground buildings and things it's not a case of just
00:09:47.380
should i take it like a whole barracks or an old a whole air field or just like
00:09:54.500
big buildings or complex of buildings in tehran so if they did something this time it would be
00:10:01.140
it would have to be a lot broader wouldn't it if they did iran's armed forces ready quote with fingers
00:10:08.180
on the trigger to powerfully respond to aggression says foreign minister iranian foreign minister
00:10:14.660
yeah so they've come out and as you can expect i mean what else can they do really but as you can
00:10:20.980
expect the iranian regime came out um you know belico's back thing if you do anything we'll strike you
00:10:27.860
back will you you the united states will reap a whirlwind if you attack us
00:10:37.380
i mean i know this always comes across as me standing for the united states and trump
00:10:45.140
um i've said it a number of times i say again i am broadly in favor with them of course
00:10:49.620
of course if it was a binary choice between washington dc and tehran i'm on board with the yanks right
00:11:01.460
having said all that i actually don't want to stand for them too much here i mean i'm very conflicted
00:11:09.300
about about this really if we're getting serious about it um because it's not it's not like a
00:11:16.260
venezuela thing okay let me tell you my thoughts and feelings where i'm standing on this
00:11:25.300
it is a difficult one it's much more difficult if you look at take for example if you take for example
00:11:30.260
um the idea of attacking um mexican drug cartels for me in my mind that's a pretty black and white issue
00:11:44.100
that need to be wiped off the face of the earth right for example if you look at what
00:11:58.740
um that's something very very different to what would have to be done in iran
00:12:03.140
it's something very very different venezuela as a country is not like an iraq or an iran
00:12:08.660
they've got a civil society it's unlikely that venezuela is gonna will just descend into some sort of
00:12:15.620
2004 2005 iraqi nightmare it's a different kettle of fish right whereas iran i feel like
00:12:26.820
it could possibly go terribly wrong like terribly terribly terribly wrong if trump did decide to
00:12:32.660
do all sorts of airstrikes and try and do a regime change
00:12:35.700
right it could go absolutely disastrously wrong it could end up with okay you topple the raising
00:12:44.660
regime okay one of your tom hawks or one of your smart bombs from an f-22 or something does kill the
00:12:50.820
ayatollah and loads of the mullahs and the military take over uh but then that's just as bad and then
00:12:58.260
they're toppled or whatever and it's just a complete chaos just complete chaos and
00:13:02.900
and a bloodbath for years and years and years on end
00:13:13.540
um islamic theocracies if i could just click my fingers and the the the regime of the ayatollahs
00:13:21.860
was replaced by a strong stable much more open government and society in iraq i would
00:13:29.700
but you can't guarantee that can you you might topple the regime in iran and it's replaced by
00:13:36.500
something much worse exactly like what happened in iraq when venezuela happened and people said
00:13:45.140
oh it's terrible it said it's going to be another iraq i thought i must immediate take was no it isn't
00:13:50.260
no it won't it almost certainly won't i mean it might it still might actually but i don't think
00:13:56.020
it will i don't think that's i don't i don't i don't think that's likely but iran though irani is
00:14:02.580
and always has been sort of some sort of some sort of melting pot of various types of types of people
00:14:11.060
different um different stripes of of religion even i mean obviously it's largely sia uh shia
00:14:18.340
certainly isn't it famously like the regime the regime of the other is shia right but it's not
00:14:25.940
that every single person in iran far from it is just like a like a fairly hardline shiite
00:14:34.020
that's not the case at all there's all sorts of different peoples with all sorts of different
00:14:37.220
interests with all sorts of different world views and a lot of a lot of them prepared to fight for
00:14:43.460
it like in iraq and it was satan like a strong leader strong man leader that kept a lid on it
00:14:49.380
all largely with repression i think something similar probably not quite as bad as iraq but something
00:14:56.260
similar ish is what you'd be looking at in iran i think i fear so it's not that so my my reticence for
00:15:05.860
trump and the us to get involved and do this is not for any sort of love for the ayatollah obviously
00:15:13.540
but it's the fear that what comes next is orders of magnitude worse right it's already pretty bad
00:15:20.820
right if if the uh iranian regime as bad as it is just in the recent few weeks have killed
00:15:28.180
two thousand three thousand protesters 17 000 protesters 30 000 whatever it is whatever it is
00:15:33.540
that's terrible isn't it but what if that number pales in comparison to the number of innocent people
00:15:43.780
that end up dying or or talk to terribly maimed and things should the us do a regime change
00:15:53.220
and ultimately it ends in anarchy it ends in a chaos
00:16:02.580
so that's why my take i hope it's not too much of a of a fence sitting thing i'm trying to be honest
00:16:08.740
with you because i'm not interested in i'm trying to give you a real take my real thoughts and feelings
00:16:13.140
what it's worth probably annoying people on both sides of the ledger there but what can you do i'm
00:16:17.540
trying to be honest with how i think what i think and how i feel about it with you for a few minutes
00:16:22.820
um because on one side it's interesting on one side of the scale you've got someone like maya tussi
00:16:28.180
who's extremely extremely anti and i'm not this is not a criticism on him or academic agent whom i'm
00:16:34.100
about to mention two ends of the spectrum one is my tussi is you know very much super super super
00:16:42.980
strongly against the regime and anything the us might do or israel might do to topple the regime
00:16:48.500
is welcome and and he's fanboying it 100 all the way again no criticism of him that's just his opinion
00:16:54.980
okay right that's how he feels on the other end of the spectrum we've got somebody perhaps like um
00:17:00.660
aa academic agent who you know thinks that any i don't want to speak for him too much but you know
00:17:06.820
who thinks that any uh military action things by the us is just all on behalf of of maybe israeli
00:17:14.500
interests and it's just not it's just not a good thing you know like what war you know war in general
00:17:19.220
is just like oh come on like how many times you have to go through this you know how it ends right
00:17:24.980
you know with some sort of terrible terrible outcome ultimately so two ends of the spectrum there
00:17:30.100
one pro intervention one not i can i can see i can see both i can see both i can see arguments for
00:17:37.860
and against both of their positions you know i certainly i'm certainly not in either of their
00:17:44.020
camps wholeheartedly so it's a fence i try not to be a fence sitter for it's certainly not for its own
00:17:50.740
sake it's a difficult one i wonder what the poll will come out as our poll both breakfast club poll
00:17:57.940
i feel like truly truly conflicted if only you had the the magic hindsight glasses we could see how
00:18:10.180
it works out because you know it might be it could be that the united states removes the regime
00:18:16.900
one way or another bombs it into submission and and the people of tehran and iran can just walk into
00:18:22.500
empty buildings and start a new provisional government for themselves one way or the other
00:18:27.540
or what's left of the iranian military to start a provisional government and it sort of it all works
00:18:34.260
out and silver the iran of the 1960s and 70s returns and it's all pretty relaxed and chilled out and
00:18:42.340
in hindsight it was a a great move or right it could end up in 2004 5 iraq and it's it was obviously the
00:18:51.700
wrong thing to do kind of obviously worse for average people for the entire region the entire region
00:19:11.700
the torograph the daily telegraph star star starmer he used the echr to investigate british
00:19:19.700
troops we talked about that story yesterday didn't we how a few years back when he was at the cps he
00:19:30.500
who largely if not entirely were ultimately shown to have done nothing wrong
00:19:41.700
that's the kind of man starmer is it's fake he's not it's so fake such a phony phony
00:19:51.380
former army chief calls into question pm's fitness for office after association with convicted fraudster
00:19:57.620
phil shiner yeah that's a rabbit hole if you want to look at phil shiner real rabbit hole that
00:20:06.580
the people secure has surrounded himself with and what they have done and said in the past
00:20:14.980
there he is he there's our head of government the first lord of the treasury there his majesty's
00:20:20.500
prime minister in china doing his best to pretend that he's not some sort of robot
00:20:30.340
it's a freak our armada is ready trump warns iran
00:20:35.700
oh yeah labor councils lent on to axe elections doesn't surprise me doesn't surprise me that whole
00:20:44.100
store that that whole story of local elections being um put off or suspended some i mean it's in
00:20:50.900
the order i think last time i heard last time i read in detail it was something like 29 or 30
00:20:55.940
councils up and down the country just simply won't have their elections in may it looks like that whole
00:21:05.140
i've suspected and that that article there seems to confirm is that it was a very very just a very very
00:21:12.420
deliberate thing from up on higher from westminster so like use this as an excuse say this and that
00:21:22.580
and uh and don't have your elections because labor particularly you just fear they'll just lose lose it to reform
00:21:32.580
so in order to prevent that we'll completely subvert democracy what little bit of democracy we've
00:21:38.020
still got left or just completely abandoned that effectively and for a little bit
00:21:45.140
so annoying and what worse than annoying infuriating worse than infuriating even it's
00:21:53.140
getting close to insufferable actually insufferable okay the times the venerable times make no deals with
00:22:02.500
china until jimmy lee freed jimmy lee's son says jimmy lee a chinese uh like a chinese businessman
00:22:19.140
this causes someone to say that i doubt keir starmer will put any pressure on z
00:22:34.740
because sir queer starlin is a complete coward on every level particularly politically
00:22:46.100
who will let winnie the pooh just bully him and browbeat him and dictate to him
00:22:54.100
and ask for nothing demand nothing in return because that's who he is just pure weakness
00:22:59.860
just she's puppet i mean puppy is a bit strong he's obviously not completely his puppet but
00:23:07.220
he's obviously in hock to him in some sense i mean kind of obviously isn't it when you look at all the
00:23:16.820
different things that starmer's done in his government all the different policies he's decided to run with
00:23:22.100
and they're there in china's interest and not ours
00:23:34.580
welfare reforms unlikely before next election as starmer seeks to avoid clash with his own mps
00:23:38.980
that's all starmer does now domestically is try to avoid clashes with his own backbenchers
00:23:44.740
that's the story of his government i mean it's the way it is when you've got a big majority
00:23:48.660
said it the other day didn't i doesn't really have to pay much attention to what ed davey or
00:24:04.340
but his own backbench mps can prevent him from winning but so so what they want and what they
00:24:09.060
say and what they demand he sort of has to listen to if he wants to win anything
00:24:17.460
so okay iran quote has its fingers on the trigger quote in face of us threats yeah i mean how much is it
00:24:25.220
how much is it worth you know could they would iran try and really really bomb and flatten like that
00:24:34.900
that air base near doha or would they have a concerted effort to sink any u.s warships
00:24:45.860
would they be able to be interesting to see if it plays out if america starts striking iran and iran
00:24:51.460
do everything they can to strike back what would that look like how effective would that be apparently
00:24:57.460
the air base the u.s air base um in qatar has got they've moved loads loads more anti-missile missile
00:25:10.180
it'd be interesting to see if iran's capability would add up to all that much
00:25:17.940
but then when when the united states decide they're gonna go
00:25:22.420
it is quite it is you know i don't want to seem like just a complete sycophant for them but
00:25:27.220
it is something fearsome like when they when they went into afghanistan in 2001
00:25:38.100
the amount of fury unleashed from the skies was remarkable the taliban
00:25:41.700
as a regime collapsed really quickly really really quickly um when they when they went into iraq in
00:25:49.940
2003 um it was sort of a master class in in dominating the battle space like winning the
00:25:58.740
piece afterwards is something else right not so good at that
00:26:06.020
but yeah becoming um gaining for yourself complete air dominance that's what the united states do that's
00:26:12.980
what they're that's what they're best at that's what tickets do best that's what they can do
00:26:16.340
uh you get you you win dominance of the skies first like iran's air force their their fleet of fast jets
00:26:28.740
against dozens or even hundreds of us fast jets f-22s or whatever f-35s all sorts of stuff
00:26:38.420
if america if they want to will gain control of the skies over persia and then that's it that's
00:26:47.700
sort of the ball game right there in terms of then dominating the battlefield
00:26:55.140
it's just a insurmountable advantage for iran to overcome
00:27:01.700
well we shall see i guess it does look like i do i do feel like if i had to make a prediction
00:27:10.580
i do feel like trump and the us will do something it won't it won't be a full 2003
00:27:17.220
invasion land invasion with armored divisions the big red one screaming up the length of iran to tehran
00:27:24.500
and doing thunder runs down the middle of tehran it won't be that it's not that
00:27:28.020
but whether it will be a you know like a big sustained air campaign something a bit like
00:27:34.340
afghanistan in 2001 something like that i don't know maybe it looks like they probably they are
00:27:40.260
gearing up to do something at least giving themselves the genuine option to do something like that it does
00:27:49.460
well again we shall see what what else we got in the papers the daily express it's a good paper
00:28:00.180
tory leader blasts reform defectors for having a quote a tantrum dressed up as politics quote
00:28:05.940
cope total cope kemi says my party is for serious people and not drama queens yeah right says the drama queen
00:28:24.580
i don't feel sorry for kemi but you know what it's like probably most people out there know what
00:28:30.100
it's like when you're in some sort of situation whether you're playing in sport you know you're
00:28:35.300
playing a game of football or basketball or something or even you're playing a board game you're playing a
00:28:39.780
game of risk maybe and the game is going away from you it's it's ebbing away from you you can
00:28:46.900
feel it inexorably that you're losing that all your momentum is draining away that the other side
00:28:53.940
their momentum's just building and building building and sort of you can sort of see that no matter what
00:28:58.580
you do no matter what play you've got in mind that's going to keep happening that trend is going
00:29:04.420
to keep happening everything's going away from you even in a relationship if you've ever had a
00:29:08.420
relationship fail over a long period of time or a friendship fall apart quite slowly and most people
00:29:16.260
out there must have had that and you feel the person or the people ebbing away from you
00:29:21.380
it doesn't really matter what you say or do the die is already cast it's just ebbing it doesn't
00:29:26.260
matter what you you feel it you can feel it just ebbing away that's what that's what kemi must have
00:29:37.780
with the tory party doesn't matter what she says or does at this point really
00:29:43.780
the conservative party is bleeding out it's just going to keep bleeding out there's no real way to
00:29:49.140
staunch the bleeding whether it's actual defectors to reform or not
00:29:56.500
you know at the next local elections the councils they do still hold they'll probably lose largely
00:30:01.220
not all of them i wouldn't have thought but a lot at the next general election if things stay as they
00:30:05.860
are i suspect the number of tory mps will go down a bit i mean i'd like zero seats perhaps see that
00:30:14.340
well not perhaps that isn't realistic but that actual zero seat but to have them go down i'm surprised
00:30:20.820
they got as many as they did at the last general election i'm surprised they got as many as they did
00:30:24.740
but um i suspect that the next general election it will go down further like to under 100 because
00:30:30.900
they've got over 100 still haven't they and um i suspect it'll go to under 100 maybe even
00:30:38.340
and it's all just ebbing away from from kemi yeah and she can have a little pop at the defectors
00:30:49.700
is it is that an accurate description of what's going on here it's just a tantrum from suella breverman
00:30:59.060
is it and robert jenrich they're just having a tantrum
00:31:10.900
that's not exactly what's going on here is it but hey tory party tory members who voted for kemi that's
00:31:22.180
she's not truly a leader is she i mean they've given her they've given her the title of leader
00:31:29.060
but is she as a person as a human being an inspirational leader of men
00:31:36.820
someone that your that your average normie can see strutting on the world stage as a prime minister
00:32:11.780
the ft the financial times trump uh threat us quote armada nearing iran yeah
00:32:24.660
miners boost value mining companies the boost value by 476 billion dollars after global tensions
00:32:31.460
drive up metal prices gold and silver surge copper at record higher investors ditched dollar
00:32:43.380
yeah again what i said the last few days the fact that precious metals particularly gold and silver
00:32:49.300
now well and copper copper at record high so gold silver and copper all at record highs
00:32:56.660
and keep hitting more and more record highs and if you can invest in anything it would be like
00:33:02.100
a company like rio tinto one of the world's biggest mining companies
00:33:07.540
it does suggest that there's not that much uh appetite for risk
00:33:21.940
if you've got any interesting if you've got any investments out there in something particularly
00:33:30.980
that's not financial advice when i used to work for asset management firms i never actually got
00:33:39.300
the like most people who work for i never actually got the qualification to be a full
00:33:43.060
fully legal financial advisor but people still ask for financial advice all the time and you
00:33:48.020
sort of do give financial advice all the time you just have to add the caveat
00:33:51.700
this isn't financial advice so if someone then goes and acts on it loses all their money they can then
00:33:56.900
sue you they told me to do it you go no i told you i wasn't actually a financial advisor didn't i remember
00:34:02.660
so anyway this isn't financial advice however probably think about moving your
00:34:17.780
unless you want to take a gamble take a big gamble you know if you think you can see into the future
00:34:35.460
um they're interested in putting their money in precious metals
00:34:45.220
what else we got the sun what slop of the sun got oh they go with let me lucy let me
00:34:50.100
um this cop who caught another uh killer nurse was it yeah he says
00:34:58.500
that the let be conviction isn't safe let be the greatest miscarriage of justice this century
00:35:03.860
yeah more and more voices more and more people were saying it's a complete miscarriage of justice
00:35:10.100
i can't bring myself to like spend a few hours or a day
00:35:13.860
reading and watching everything there is to know about the let be case really
00:35:19.940
oh i can't bring myself to be that interested in it
00:35:27.300
i mean she's convicted and um not that this doesn't mean she isn't innocent
00:35:31.700
but i'm saying she's convicted and i think all her appeals have gone through which she's lost
00:35:38.580
i think that's the case if that is the case um it's it's a it's a done deal
00:35:43.780
unless a home secretary i think the only way back from that i think is if the actual home secretary
00:35:51.620
maybe even the justice minister as well uh like personally get involved
00:35:56.340
and that's extremely extremely extremely rare you know in the current home secretary
00:36:04.420
spinal mood has never made any noises about she even considering doing any such thing so
00:36:10.980
for those that want lucy let me to be freed or or even face retrials or something or reinvestigation
00:36:16.980
or anything like that they've got a long road i'm not saying they're wrong i don't i really don't know
00:36:22.580
but there's a long uphill struggle ahead for that one
00:36:47.380
80 year old crime crime mastermind lotto winner set up 228 million pound drug empire
00:36:58.260
this old fella there that old chap he won like two two and a half million pounds on the lottery and uh
00:37:42.660
and the story is that brooklyn beckham and his wife
00:37:55.780
let's have a look at the website oh no let's go to our um the poll what does the poll say what do you
00:38:00.020
guys think about the us trump intervening in in uh iran oh well sort of mirrors my thoughts and feelings again
00:38:13.300
um keep it up again harry it was there and it's just gone okay so 53 only a mere 53 percent of you
00:38:23.780
26 of you say no and 21 of you say not sure that does sort of mirror my thoughts and feelings about like
00:38:31.700
conflicted in other words really quite conflicted
00:38:36.660
can understand and see and feel both sides of of the arguments here
00:38:47.300
what is the what's the best thing to do what's the best thing to do for the region for the people of iran for the world
00:39:00.340
and well that's what this that's what our poll also reflects doesn't it
00:39:05.540
although the majority of you though still just do say yes it's now up to 54 percent over a thousand votes
00:39:13.140
well over a thousand votes there so again it's not just like
00:39:16.900
20 people voted it's quite quite a few it's not a bad cross-section actually
00:39:25.700
i think real proper polls often only have a few thousand so we've got over a thousand there so yeah
00:39:46.900
it's funny when i saw that and it's very close to reflecting my thoughts of his
00:39:53.380
i was going to put a number on it but i thought that was a bit
00:39:55.700
trite but the number i had in mind was i'm 60 in favor of
00:39:59.700
the us doing some sort of intervention but a good solid chunk 40 no well that poll that is trite to
00:40:07.780
say though anyway um that poll reflects that very very closely again in harmony with my own audience
00:40:14.340
i like it the glorious band the chosen few my people
00:40:29.300
all right okay good well let's move on to the uh to the actual websites then
00:40:35.540
won't spend too much time on the big stories we've already covered see what else we've got see what else
00:40:39.460
the world is talking about okay us china yeah build more sophisticated relationship that's a big quote
00:40:44.660
coming out from um the the uh the starlin winnie the pooh conference is that they should build a
00:40:52.420
more sophisticated relationship yeah so that china's got a more sophisticated way to bend us to their will
00:41:03.940
what could happen if the us strikes iran here are seven scenarios let's look at this real one real
00:41:08.580
quick because it sort of talks about i won't spend too much time on it but it does sort of
00:41:13.140
lay out at least some of my concerns the 40 of me that says you know maybe don't don't attack iran
00:41:21.620
in any way uh okay the bbc just lay out seven different possibilities one is that there's targeted
00:41:28.740
surgical strikes minimal civilian casualties and a transition to democracy you know sort of the best
00:41:35.300
possible outcome i suppose okay or the regime survives but moderates its policies not that likely
00:41:44.900
that doesn't seem that doesn't seem very likely but you know who knows oh look they see a map an
00:41:50.420
interesting map look so the aircraft carriers the uss is going up here in the gulf of oman the straits of
00:41:55.860
hormuz there super important uh and this is qatar the land of qatar there and bahrain the little shiite
00:42:05.700
island of bahrain there there's a the us can use that as with port facilities giant air base in doha
00:42:13.540
there and jordan and you can see jordan airplanes they might need to refuel somewhere along the line
00:42:20.020
but they can strike into iran from jordan okay another option is that um the regime collapses and
00:42:25.940
is replaced by a military rule well that is quite like in fact this is look many think this is the
00:42:32.340
most likely possible outcome yeah i mean that seems like it wouldn't just suddenly be the the the mob of
00:42:40.820
tehran spontaneously form a government it'd probably be the military what was left of it anyway after
00:42:46.820
days or weeks or months of airstrikes from the us would they would form any sort of provisional
00:42:52.740
government and you know who knows whether they're any better right there's no guarantee that they
00:42:57.780
might just not be really repressive and murderous or or whatever who knows right oh another option is
00:43:04.740
iran retaliates by attacking us forces and neighbors you know the idea that they're that the iranian
00:43:10.500
response is actually fearsome and devastating and makes the makes the the chiefs of staff at the
00:43:16.580
pentagon rethink their plans they do sink an aircraft carrier or two and and wipe the us air base in
00:43:26.420
doha off the map maybe that could happen couldn't it i don't think it would but it could it we don't
00:43:32.820
know normal people like you or i haven't got access to military intelligence don't know exactly how many
00:43:38.660
missiles and how big iran have got all right another option iran retaliates by laying mines in the gulf uh yeah or
00:43:46.100
like the the gulf of aden the straits of humus there where loads and loads of oil shipping goes
00:43:50.660
through they could just mine at iran often threatens to do that we'll just completely saturate that
00:43:56.100
stretch of water with sea mines and sort of cripple the flow of oil and shipping through there
00:44:05.380
disrupting all sorts of things all around the world look you know the straits of humus there oh look
00:44:17.140
this is the the uae who are majority sunni they're no fans of iran it's funny that bahrain aren't either
00:44:25.940
even though they are shia but anyway anyway um this yeah this if anyone doesn't know this
00:44:31.540
stretch of water is strategically important and um yeah the the iranians could just completely
00:44:44.740
saturate it with sea mines okay uh the other option is that iran retaliates sinking a us warship and then
00:44:52.980
what does trump do then what does hexist do then at that point would they be looking at oh well we're
00:45:00.020
going to send out yeah mobile infantry we're going to send in the marine corps
00:45:06.980
we're going to start talking about dropping the big one they wouldn't do that i highly doubt they
00:45:13.460
would do that but then then maybe it does maybe they do decide well we're going to have to do a 2003 style
00:45:21.940
sadam regime change yeah with thousands and thousands of armored vehicles
00:45:27.700
rushing across the gedrosian wastes a full invasion alexander style of persia
00:45:40.340
abrams doing thunder runs down the the middle of table i don't know
00:45:47.540
i thought trump was supposed to be the anti-war president although it would be best if that
00:45:51.060
regime was removed all right the regime collapses replaced by chaos right that's the ultimate worry
00:45:57.140
isn't it right that's the worst case scenario isn't it isn't it surely nobody wants that
00:46:07.220
i mean i wonder what maya tussi would say if you see if you talk to him about that is that not a worry
00:46:11.220
for you you'd probably say of course it is don't be silly of course it is but like you know we're
00:46:17.380
talking how how likely is that that's the the risk management game isn't it how likely is that
00:46:27.300
all i would say is that it's not un terribly unlikely
00:46:31.220
it's not inconceivable is it that iran descends into an iraq style quagmire nightmare
00:46:43.140
all right let's just move on a bit shall we sky news what did they say oh yeah we with g and um
00:46:51.540
and sequir say we can stand the test of history g tells starma like some sort of let's have
00:47:01.060
a reset on our relationship whatever's come before including what was britain's gone to war with china
00:47:07.860
in the past more than once right even in the 1950s
00:47:16.980
british troops were exchanging fire with red chinese soldiers in korea but in the 19th century we
00:47:26.900
burnt down big parts of beijing if i seem to recall in the 19th century
00:47:38.100
you know the elgin marbles lord elgin one of his descendants whether it was his son or his grandson
00:47:42.820
i can't remember um yeah entered beijing and burnt down massive chunks of it sorry
00:47:50.180
i do apologize old boy let's uh let's have a reset we can stand the test of history they were obviously
00:48:00.740
alluding to various things like that in the past our involvement in the box rebellion the opium wars
00:48:07.380
the various opium wars in the 19th century um there were all sorts of allusions to that um saying you know
00:48:16.340
maybe we have had rocky relationships in the past one way or another but now let's work together right
00:48:22.020
let's be let's be best buddies like the chinese really forgot their century of humiliation and all
00:48:28.820
that thing all that sort of thing as if the chinese wouldn't as i said yesterday as if they wouldn't
00:48:35.540
bully us into complete submission on on on every front if they could of course they would of course they
00:48:42.740
would like they're somehow benevolent benevolent in any way they're not all right the daily mail
00:48:52.420
is trump losing it tom leonard whoever that is of the daily mail asks is donald trump showing the
00:48:58.980
first signs of losing his marbles you're right yeah all right good one good one tom great take
00:49:13.300
want to talk about or write about anything serious no don't know who that is all right big story about
00:49:22.740
brooklyn beckham still it's rumbling on in the bloody beckham story could not care less oh look alex
00:49:31.540
pretty runs at ice agents and screams in their faces before smashing feds tail light in new video as as
00:49:38.260
witness details distraught scene yeah i saw some other clips and footage where even like days
00:49:44.900
previously somewhere else um yeah smashing the tail lights of a nice car and even earlier that day he's
00:49:52.260
like screaming at them shoot me he's like he's an agitator i'm not saying he deserved to be executed in
00:49:57.860
the street i i'm not saying that and i don't think that but he was an agitator absolutely
00:50:03.860
doing as much as he possibly could to to agitate the situation
00:50:18.420
play silly games win silly prizes the express king charles just uh offered harry a huge olive branch
00:50:25.700
don't care starmer called the usage okay okay is there anything else something about megan could
00:50:32.340
not care less the sun let's see how sloppy the sun is today all right lucy let me not too sloppy oh
00:50:38.660
immediately immediately into slop something about a soap star i don't know and how the producers of
00:50:46.260
what is it coronation street asked her to appear just in underwear when she was 16. this guy cocaine
00:50:54.740
broke he went to prison and talked about what it was like in prison yep
00:51:02.980
an airplane crashed a small a light airplane crashed somewhere celebrities butts booty queens
00:51:20.900
the new york slimes as well as biggest busiest port china's unbalanced economy comes into view
00:51:29.140
uh in beijing british prime minister sees quote huge opportunities quote shooting after mouth leaves
00:51:35.140
homeland security department in turmoil trump and schumer chuck schumer uh move toward possible deal to
00:51:42.260
have a shutdown another shutdown all right not like not too sloppy from the new york slimes today the
00:51:51.140
washington post real bad look at this the latest on the washington post he says i love you but won't call
00:51:59.220
me his girlfriend are these just all just opinion pieces this is the latest i'm irked by strangers who want
00:52:08.500
to make small talk is that is this just uh just like the column okay all right the top stories like okay
00:52:19.620
sorry wrong tab i did think that was particularly vapid even for the washington post okay oh they talk about the ice ice stuff
00:52:29.380
fbi execute search warrant seeking uh seeking ballots from fulton county in the 2020 election
00:52:40.340
georgia interesting yeah i saw trump just the other day saying not that he's ever stopped saying it
00:52:46.260
particularly but i did see him saying the other day uh remember just do remember the 2020 election was
00:52:51.620
completely fraudulent and stolen from me despite various cases and things that have gone through and some
00:52:58.020
some have and some aren't but still the narrative personally i think there's something there the
00:53:05.620
narrative that there was still all sorts of shenanigans in various forms in various ways went on in 2020
00:53:15.380
i don't think i do not believe all the questions have been answered there
00:53:19.460
anyway let's move on china she calls on china on the china and britain to jointly advocate practice
00:53:36.020
really true multilateralism where we get a lot out of china for what we give them that
00:53:42.020
all ccp it's been a nonsense china's expanding trillion yuan gdp club highlights economic resilience china
00:53:53.220
expects record higher passenger trips during 2026 spring festival travel rush
00:54:00.420
chinese firms maintain steady momentum in outbound investment in 2025 says a survey our survey says
00:54:07.780
yep classic chinese stuff move on to the ruskies senior diplomat sees nato actually preparing for
00:54:15.860
conflict with russia it's worrying it's worrying it's really worrying i don't want to go with russia
00:54:24.500
russia already seeking recovery of losses from its frozen assets via arbitration court yeah that was
00:54:29.860
the time when the european nations got together and a lot of the assets held i believe in belgium was it
00:54:34.980
billions and billions um they just stole it effectively and then zelensky was all butthurt that they didn't
00:54:49.700
both these both russia and ukraine gross don't have anything to do with them
00:54:56.100
u.s to hand over or one of seized tankers to venezuela they said they would
00:55:00.660
it's like they're doing that urgodan proposes to trump to organize trilateral summit on iran
00:55:08.500
great don't care about hate urgodan don't trust him as far as i can throw him he's an enemy of western
00:55:14.180
europe and the west don't be fooled let's have a quick look at some space news was there anything of
00:55:21.220
particular interest um i did see one where was it one story was mildly interesting
00:55:27.540
um the u.s space command to bring commercial firms into classified war game on nuclear threats in
00:55:35.860
space interesting yeah just just quickly to say the the phenomenon the process of private space
00:55:45.300
companies becoming more and more involved increasingly involved in all things
00:55:51.780
space related and when you look at it i did a segment for the main notices podcast a while ago
00:55:57.060
now as much as six months ago if you look at a list if you google it i'll do a little bit of
00:56:02.020
research and reading the number of private space agencies there are obviously they're not all putting
00:56:07.300
up their own built and designed rockets like spacex but the number of um companies there are
00:56:13.540
involved in it is massive way more than you probably think dozens and dozens
00:56:17.300
you know some of them just make components for satellites nothing more than that others are in
00:56:24.740
like looking at doing whole programs and space wars and they just they they will use nasa or even
00:56:30.420
essa european space agency or the russians or the chinese to actually launch them like the actual rocket
00:56:38.100
the actual booster to get them into low earth orbit is done by one of the big old legacy national
00:56:43.700
um space agencies but everything else is done privately whether it's a like a lunar or a mars
00:56:53.940
orbiter or a lander or a satellite any myriad of different types of satellites it's just we've we've
00:57:00.820
firmly moved out of the realm of the companies like uh agencies like nasa have got a complete monopoly
00:57:09.380
on on it i mean we all know it's been a while since then but we are firmly firmly firmly out of that
00:57:16.100
now all right should we have a quick look at this day in history quick look on this day in history
00:57:21.860
which is the 29th 29th of january in the year 474 ad zeno is crowned co-emperor of the byzantine
00:57:29.300
empire with his son leo ii who was aged six or seven yeah interesting it's one of those periods in um
00:57:37.220
in eastern roman history byzantine history that most people probably don't know a great deal about
00:57:42.020
a great deal about so you know he's a fascinating emperor ruled for quite a long time on and off
00:57:49.220
14 15 odd years he reigned for um not uninterrupted it's a fascinating life it's like the generation or
00:57:56.340
two before justinian if anyone knows justinian the first and the nikki riots i've made content for
00:58:03.460
epochs of the lotus eaters in conversation with one mr mr karl benjamin all about the nikki riots and
00:58:11.540
the reign of justinian the first one of the highlights of the byzantine empire also made on
00:58:15.940
my own my own history theme channel history bro talked about justinian so zeno's in like the generation
00:58:22.260
before if you really want to know in detail all about justinian you need to go back to at least
00:58:26.340
looking at zeno um fascinating stuff could talk about it for ages but let's move on in the year 661
00:58:32.100
a.d the rashidun caliphate then the largest empire in history ends with the death of its leader ali
00:58:39.540
and is succeeded by the umayyad caliphate yeah so this is still right at the beginning of well relatively
00:58:48.580
well no yeah really close to the beginning of uh the muslim world the muslim empire all across
00:58:56.020
north africa the near east and way out further east so the umayyads last for a very very long time
00:59:03.620
fascinating stuff how quickly from the age and the death of muhammad himself the the sort of the
00:59:12.500
the armies of islam explode out across the world and many historians have said that the world was
00:59:17.380
sort of well the near eastern ancient world late antiquity um was ripe to be overrun it was already
00:59:27.620
that accounts for why the islamic armies were so successful in the 7th century and 8th century
00:59:38.580
there you go fascinating bit of history once again should really know about it if you want a sort of a full
00:59:43.700
view of of world history all right in 1595 william shakespeare's play romeo and juliet is thought to
00:59:50.660
have been first performed and but it wasn't officially published until 1597 two years later
00:59:57.620
so you go right at the end of the elizabethan age romeo and juliet um in 1850 senator henry clay
01:00:06.740
drafts the compromise of 1850 to diffuse tensions between slave states and free states over territories
01:00:13.380
won during the mexican-american war yeah interesting one knows the the actual the civil war is just about
01:00:21.220
ten years later so the compromise of 1850 sort of puts it off if you like um
01:00:31.220
which abraham lincoln famously said you know the house divided cannot stand or you know that
01:00:37.380
that one lincoln said one i'm paraphrasing now one way or another this thing is going to come to a head
01:00:44.260
he was talking quite a few years after 1850 but nonetheless he said one way or another
01:00:51.220
this needs to be sorted out even if it includes a civil war but the compromise henry clay's compromise
01:00:57.620
of 1850 sort of um puts puts that back a bit in innocence um interesting on this once again made quite
01:01:06.500
a lot of content about the civil war american civil war if you want to go out and try and find out in 1886
01:01:12.340
carl benz presents the benz patent motor war in carl's shoe germany the world's first automobile with an
01:01:26.180
yeah the story of um the story of how the first internal combustion engines were came about it's
01:01:32.900
very very interesting carl benz himself was a big part of that it's often the way how all sorts of
01:01:39.460
other inventions from all over the place come together and a great inventor is often someone
01:01:46.820
that just sees all different things and it's just like well if i put all those together i can make this
01:01:51.060
new brilliant thing it's not like carl benz invented everything from the carburetor on no he's put them
01:01:59.540
together and tweaked it and invented little thing anyway anyway fascinated by the story of the
01:02:05.460
how internal combustion engines came about okay 1892 the coca-cola company is incorporated in atlanta
01:02:11.460
georgia in 1896 american emil grubb is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
01:02:19.460
okay didn't know that that's interesting in 2002 us president george w bush in his state of the union
01:02:25.300
address describes regimes that sponsor terror as the axis of evil which includes iraq iran and north korea
01:02:34.580
so even back then iran was sort of high on the list it's been high on the list since 1979
01:02:47.620
get that regime literally since day one in 1979 you look at the hostage crisis
01:02:56.260
during the carter years right at the very beginning from day one all right so this time last year in
01:03:05.140
2025 on this day last year was that day when that that helicopter crash us army helicopter practicing
01:03:10.980
night vision flying crashes mid-air into commercial jet killing all 67 passengers including dozens of
01:03:16.500
figure skaters and crew members over the potomac river while approaching ronald reagan national airport
01:03:22.500
near washington dc that was a year ago today remember that one terrible all right well that
01:03:28.660
brings us to the end of the show oh before i wrap up must do the super chaps nearly forgot all right
01:03:33.700
so a couple of rumble rants steel fang says do you all trust any government should we trust any government
01:03:40.340
with a question mark yeah i mean it's a fair question is it it's a fair question i don't trust particularly
01:03:46.980
what i say if it was a binary choice between washington and tehran i pick washington yeah
01:03:54.180
but i'm not thrilled about it i'm not happy about it it's not that i'm not aware that they might just be
01:04:03.220
it's not i'm happy about it but when you when you're given a binary choice
01:04:06.900
it's like at the last election oh it's so cringe to have supported trump what you want kamala then
01:04:12.660
you had two options you had two options when you're given a binary choice like that you want to go for
01:04:18.980
the lesser of two evils right you think you're so cool that you that you're above that just abstain
01:04:28.500
yeah good one yeah that's good anyway still fang asked should you trust any government yeah no not
01:04:37.460
really at least be just you know highly suspicious be wary what else can you do really as a normal
01:04:44.980
person uh same person still fang says um it's two in the effing morning what are you doing jk i hope
01:04:54.260
you are doing well jk okay i don't know who that is okay oh okay fair enough
01:05:08.100
i thought he's trying to okay not jk rowling or jk from jamiro choir he's trying to get word out
01:05:15.780
to jk from jamiro choir now it's two in the morning wherever he is there um i hope you're joking hope
01:05:22.660
you're doing well thank you i hope you're doing well sir all right then the uh youtube super chats
01:05:28.180
what have we got noble johnny calley says no slurp holders sorry i forgot he's devastated
01:05:34.580
poor fellow harry make a note somehow we actually we have a slurp poll
01:05:40.180
really i did a slurp poll did you yeah after i saw this really have you got have we got the results
01:05:46.500
okay surely that it can't be that they want me to slurp
01:05:53.700
oh okay so the poll is in it says uh can you bring it up again uh slurp poll to slurp
01:06:01.140
65 percent not to slurp 35 they want me to slurp
01:06:08.660
65 to 35 it's not even that close is it really if it was a referendum
01:06:14.420
the 65 party would be claiming a resounding victory wouldn't they okay i can feel free to
01:06:20.260
slip i won't be deliberately massively slurping i won't be leaning into it but i just won't be worried
01:06:25.780
i won't be afraid to i'll just i'll just drink normally forget any comments anyone gets annoyed
01:06:32.740
about it i'll go 65 of my of my people of the glorious band the chosen few have signed off on
01:06:40.500
it they're cool with it you need to just start dealing with it if you don't like it no no no okay
01:06:48.900
all right that's funny though that's funny to me that's interesting
01:06:51.140
so uh where noble johnny caddy says he's devastated bro we've we've sorted you out
01:06:57.700
thank thank little harry for that one to slurp or not to slurp that is the question
01:07:09.300
semper fubar chile says uh been enjoying the show from chile keep up the good work
01:07:16.340
salute us thank you sir thank you sir it kind of always blows my mind when you sort of know as
01:07:21.860
might being a content creator on a channel where you get even any real views you know in the hundreds
01:07:26.900
or in the thousands even if you get that many there will be some people that are on the other side of
01:07:31.140
the world watching it but when you're actually making content you're in the moment you're doing
01:07:35.620
and you're talking you you don't think about that do you you don't well you don't you can't you
01:07:40.420
haven't really got capacity and then but and then there you go there's someone in chile
01:07:44.020
watching me listening to me great good cool okay the fenlander 1665 says hot take sydney sweeney is
01:07:54.180
average can't agree not going to go ahead and simp for her i don't think she's the most beautiful
01:08:01.460
woman in the world but she's not average surely she's above average
01:08:08.660
me again just trying to be realistic not trying to pander to anyone or anything just being honest with
01:08:13.700
how she's not the most beautiful woman ever to have lived right she's not average come on is she
01:08:22.660
is she maybe do a poll tomorrow is sydney sweeney average do that tomorrow i don't think so
01:08:31.860
if she came into the room most people and she's not sydney sweeney she's a normal woman but looks
01:08:36.100
exactly like sydney sweeney and she walks into any given room most people's heads will turn wouldn't
01:08:41.940
they that's not average how is that average i don't know if you was in a bar and she came up on
01:08:49.380
and hit on you you wouldn't be like i'm a bit indifferent to you love you wouldn't you'd be
01:08:54.340
like oh wow okay cool great let me buy you a drink surely i don't know i don't feel like she's average
01:09:01.060
although i don't simp for her either i don't get why she's like the hottest thing in the world like
01:09:06.660
she's she's shorthand for the most amazing sexiest woman in the world i don't think that either
01:09:13.380
spending too long talking about sydney sweeney aren't i let's move on jacob wolf 6288
01:09:20.900
what would your ideal intervention look like personally i think the protests have been cracked down upon
01:09:26.500
and i don't see the good in a strike i doubt a strike will change the ground situation fair take
01:09:32.260
fair take i mean you could argue the opposite that if strikes happen they would start up again
01:09:37.860
but yeah i mean it's a fair point you may well certainly be right it could possibly be right
01:09:42.500
what would my ideal intervention look like okay okay if we're saying then we're definitely doing an
01:09:47.780
intervention right that's that rubicon has been crossed that decision has been made we're definitely
01:09:53.300
doing some sort of intervention now what does it look like oh god i don't know god wow
01:10:03.700
i guess i guess if you're gonna do it go the whole hog and try to cut the the head off the snake
01:10:13.540
try and take out all the top people assassinate them
01:10:17.140
it's dirty isn't it it's dirty but anyway try and kill all of them take out obviously you'd have
01:10:25.940
to take out their their ability to have any any control of the sky so take out the list gets quite
01:10:36.580
long quite quickly doesn't it when you look at it because you have to take out their ability to launch
01:10:40.020
any sort of fast jets for for a start so it's all like their military and civil aviation you know all
01:10:46.980
their command and control towers all the airfields themselves all the planes themselves and then
01:10:53.060
and of course the missile capabilities all the silos again all the infrastructure goes towards the
01:10:59.620
targeting of and on and on and on and that's might want to need to take out like a lot of the military bases
01:11:07.620
the when you start doing it and looking at it the list quite quickly becomes very very very long of
01:11:15.700
all the stuff you've got to hit okay and you may you may well just be right there jacob wolf that
01:11:23.460
in the moment to have done it has passed but who knows maybe not maybe in these things there is no
01:11:31.780
perfect time there is never a perfect time okay baz the dark horse one says uh in the uk versus china
01:11:44.260
relationship starma is clearly the bottom very sad yeah not wrong are you baz baz is correct isn't he
01:11:52.500
in the weaker partner in that relationship and not prepared and not prepared to even try and stand up
01:11:58.660
for ourselves in what limited way we could under the leadership of keir starma okay
01:12:06.900
if china's much more popular there's much more resources uh much much more money everything
01:12:14.580
obviously yeah okay luke stewart 6155 says g'day bo all american need to all america need to do is
01:12:23.140
is drop the sun is that a reference to nukes maybe i suppose i'm not sure but yeah just carpet nuke the
01:12:31.780
whole of persia job done now of course that's insane that might get clipped right
01:12:43.780
okay lord three says why did you choose barbie pink for the set is it barbie pink is that barbie pink
01:12:54.100
harry did the wall i like it it's sort of um it's there's various shades of purple and pink there
01:13:00.900
i believe it's supposed to be sort of uh what is it like the the synth wave aesthetic type thing
01:13:07.140
like throwback 80s retro something like that i like it i think it's soothing actually pink
01:13:12.820
purpley pink isn't it quite soothing easy on the eye is it not easy on the eye
01:13:17.300
okay if you didn't like barbie pink rule three doesn't like the barbie pink harry
01:13:25.300
okay uh matthew hammond 9575 said james k polk a president and an ex-president died in office
01:13:33.300
didn't he um should have conquered mexico but they feared how poor mexicans were
01:13:38.820
they feared how poor mexicans were and did not want to add them to the us right yeah if i'm not
01:13:45.780
mistaken isn't polk is polk one of the presidents who died in office of natural causes he's like just
01:13:52.180
got pneumonia or something rather and died most people even you know about presidents of united
01:13:59.620
states sort of forget about polk a bit i think that's one of his the reputation a bit of him
01:14:04.900
it's like oh yeah god yeah and bulk forgot about him anyway an interesting point wanting to invade
01:14:10.020
mexico but realized it would just be they're so poor that we just endlessly be having to sort of
01:14:15.460
prop them up and give them money yeah maybe um and then hatel 275 says um
01:14:26.900
will not deprive an englishman of his tea yeah great thank you yeah
01:14:31.940
an englishman's cup of tea is his own private kingdom she'll defend it with his life
01:14:41.540
that one's gone cold though okay that's it that's it for today uh it is now 14 minutes past nine
01:14:48.980
in the am greenwich meantime on thursday 29th of january in the year of our law 2026 you have been
01:14:55.380
the glorious band the chosen few thank you for tuning in without you it isn't a thing it really isn't
01:15:01.540
try and make the best of the day ahead if you can i know it's not always easy
01:15:04.980
you know but if you can cup a dm seize the day you'll only have it once once it's gone it's gone