The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 7th May 2026

00:00:00.000 morning you're right i hope you are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed rocking in room for the day ahead

00:00:11.800 you know wakey wakey eggs and bakey all that good stuff

00:00:16.100 the day's half over come on guys come on guys get with it all right it's just ticked eight

00:00:26.240 past eight in the a.m. British summertime on Thursday the 7th of May in the year of

00:00:31.560 our Lord 2026 it's election day thanks for joining me you're the glorious band

00:00:37.600 the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters you don't need to be told who

00:00:40.760 you are as always I'm joined by my producer little Harry how are you this

00:00:43.860 morning good sir morning yeah we're good the disembodied voice of little Harry

00:00:48.700 coming out of the heavens um okay so yeah it's election day

00:00:56.240 something a tiny bit different than today uh because if you were so inclined if you went on

00:01:03.480 the bbc website or a fair few different websites like sky news that show the front pages

00:01:08.000 you will find i don't really have them in fact here's the here's the web page

00:01:13.680 then web page we use nearly every morning and uh it's just got a picture of that virus boat

00:01:20.360 remember me telling yesterday about that cruise boat where three people have died

00:01:24.280 With like some rat virus thing

00:01:27.740 It's just got a picture of that

00:01:30.320 It tells you

00:01:31.100 Cruise ship rat virus

00:01:34.020 And deal or will bomb you to hell

00:01:36.300 Says the Donald

00:01:37.000 And beyond that, nothing

00:01:38.840 Because

00:01:40.900 In Britain

00:01:43.320 We've got Ofcom, haven't we?

00:01:45.240 I believe it will all be because of Ofcom

00:01:46.740 Maybe even laws beyond Ofcom about it

00:01:49.020 But on the actual day of election

00:01:51.120 The BBC at least

00:01:52.780 Can't show

00:01:56.240 Partisan political support

00:01:58.360 It's lip service isn't it

00:02:00.100 The rest of the time they're entirely partisan

00:02:02.220 Pretending that they're not

00:02:03.760 Of course they are

00:02:05.120 They'll have on actual communists

00:02:07.860 But not have someone like

00:02:09.160 Tommy Robinson or Carl Benjamin or anything

00:02:11.500 Massively, massively left leaning

00:02:14.120 Just pretending to be impartial when they're absolutely not

00:02:16.380 However, on election day

00:02:17.960 If the front pages of the newspaper

00:02:20.180 Says something just explicitly

00:02:21.620 party political you know like vote lib dem today guys they can't show it or don't show it

00:02:29.640 so all right with that being said i bought a whole bunch of papers this morning

00:02:37.000 that physically bought them with real money

00:02:40.680 so we go through that way because lotus teachers.com we're just on the internet right

00:02:46.620 so we can talk about it no blue-haired karen psycho ofcom can tell me not to show you what

00:02:54.640 the front pages say for now unless the goddamn commie government gets its way and completely

00:03:05.380 regulates the internet all right should we just have a look then some of them are sort of political

00:03:13.820 Many of them, but not all of them

00:03:15.520 Shall we start then? The Times

00:03:17.660 Shall we go to the other

00:03:19.300 There we go, look

00:03:19.800 We've got the other cameras set up for you and everything

00:03:21.740 How about that?

00:03:24.480 No expense spared

00:03:25.680 At the Lotus Eaters

00:03:27.080 Right, The Times, The Venerable Times

00:03:28.200 There's a picture of Catherine Middleton

00:03:30.600 The Princess of Wales

00:03:32.560 Looking radiant as always

00:03:33.840 And the Donald says

00:03:36.080 Deal or we'll bomb you to hell

00:03:38.280 Again, he said that again

00:03:41.200 Apparently there might be a deal in the offing

00:03:45.320 David Attenborough has reached 100

00:03:49.620 Still going at 100

00:03:52.020 PM seeks to stamp his authority by backing closer ties with EU

00:03:57.320 Some people on the left of his party want that

00:04:03.520 Not really anyone else

00:04:06.480 the majority of the country if brexit is to go anything to go by i don't want that

00:04:13.200 there you go that's what he's doing it also says polanski faces fresh scrutiny over tax after

00:04:20.080 laundry claim

00:04:21.280 they're going for a lot a lot of the papers in the news organs today are gunning for the greens

00:04:29.120 i mean trying to criticize them taken down by that um loads of different things about

00:04:35.040 Zach Polanski today um um one of the things I think that's I don't know about the laundry claim

00:04:41.780 but the tax thing apparently he's lived on a boat some sort of canal boat long boat thing or some of

00:04:49.540 the time he does which means you don't have to pay much council tax or any council tax if it's

00:04:55.560 not your permanent residence you do but if you live on it sometimes you don't something like

00:04:59.200 that I don't even know all the details I've never lived on a boat or a long boat I've got no intention

00:05:02.540 for ever doing so so i don't know the rules about that but some are saying i don't even know if

00:05:06.660 it's true but some are saying he's got dodgy council tax questions to answer but not paying

00:05:13.620 it classic i mean he's a scumbag isn't he he's a scumbag who doesn't say anything that he thinks

00:05:18.320 in his interest at any given moment so that's exactly sort of behavior i would expect to be

00:05:23.160 perfectly honest just a total scumbag at every possible turn all right the eye paper next one

00:05:32.080 up I decided would be the iPaper, Starmer set to signal that UK is on path to a softer

00:05:38.580 Brexit. Brilliant. Nobody wants that other than a few socialists in Labour. The front

00:05:50.180 of it says, cabinet discussions now underway about a closer future relationship with the

00:05:55.480 EU, the iPaper understands. Keir Starmer is poised to make a major speech on the EU within

00:06:01.380 weeks he might not be at pm within weeks okay this is like it might be might be the last gasp

00:06:07.640 of his time in power and this is what he's doing with it what a filthy wretch okay make a big eu

00:06:18.520 speech within weeks and expected to explain the compromises britain would need to make in order

00:06:23.580 to deepen access to the single market we don't need to compromise with them we don't need to

00:06:29.460 That's what it's all about

00:06:30.400 That's what the whole thing is about

00:06:31.880 That we were done compromising

00:06:34.080 We were done just endlessly bending over

00:06:35.860 Doing as we're told by people we don't get to vote for

00:06:37.740 Endlessly giving them money

00:06:39.360 That we see no return for

00:06:41.100 Other than a flood of more people

00:06:44.160 What?

00:06:46.240 This man

00:06:47.080 Okay

00:06:47.660 Big, expensive, ambitious conversations

00:06:51.820 That's a quote

00:06:52.660 Big, expensive, ambitious conversations

00:06:55.560 On a new relationship

00:06:57.140 Are taking place at heart of the UK government

00:06:59.840 Reveal cabinet source

00:07:01.360 I'm just completely undermining the will of the people

00:07:03.880 At the Brexit referendum I'm talking about there

00:07:06.140 Completely

00:07:06.860 They never wanted it

00:07:08.600 The Tories never wanted it

00:07:10.500 Of course Labour

00:07:12.980 Of course

00:07:15.680 Of course

00:07:16.440 Starmer will stick to his quote

00:07:18.560 Red lines quote

00:07:19.720 Red lines that weren't in his manifesto

00:07:23.320 He never made any promises about them

00:07:25.200 on the run-up to the last general election suddenly he's got loads of red lines that are important

00:07:33.840 it's got red lines that uk will not rejoin single market or customs union

00:07:39.360 or return to free movement of people

00:07:44.320 also they're those types of headlines fair enough don't believe him anyway

00:07:48.480 i believe him anyway he'd just give everything away

00:07:50.480 i'm sure he would he wants to proactively wants to give away the chagos islands

00:07:57.020 for no apparent reason other than it undermines us

00:08:01.960 of course he'd concede almost anything to the eu i would have thought

00:08:06.900 some allies uh want to trade boost and a plan to excite labor voters right so

00:08:14.000 that is the point isn't it is to try and excite the left left-leaning labor voters

00:08:19.820 Forget about what's in the national interest

00:08:22.100 That's the other thing he kept saying

00:08:23.500 When he was in Armenia or somewhere the other day

00:08:26.940 At that EU summit

00:08:28.020 He kept saying

00:08:28.900 Without giving any real detail of what he meant

00:08:31.200 He just kept saying

00:08:32.000 It's in the national interest

00:08:33.420 To have closer ties to the EU

00:08:35.200 It's in the national interest

00:08:36.680 It's in the national interest

00:08:37.500 Just kept banging that drum

00:08:38.580 He's not saying how it is

00:08:40.160 It's obviously not, is it?

00:08:43.340 It's just to appeal to the left of Labour

00:08:45.800 Within the party and potential voters

00:08:49.340 that's gonna

00:08:51.580 even though it's at odds with what the country

00:08:54.540 wants and our interests

00:08:55.900 it's

00:08:58.660 traitors isn't it

00:08:59.460 seditious

00:09:02.580 the leader of your government

00:09:04.780 is seditious

00:09:05.960 crazy isn't it

00:09:08.100 and the final little thing

00:09:10.280 says

00:09:10.920 but business secretary Peter Kyle

00:09:13.940 tells the eye paper

00:09:15.780 quote

00:09:16.180 Brexiteers blamed every problem on the EU

00:09:19.960 We should not fall into the same trap

00:09:22.280 And think all our problems will be solved

00:09:24.440 By rejoining the EU

00:09:25.920 Fair point, right?

00:09:32.160 Most Brexiteers didn't think that

00:09:34.160 Blamed every problem on the EU

00:09:37.460 That's the other thing Ramonas always go on

00:09:42.380 They think that Brexiteers

00:09:44.120 Thought

00:09:45.500 that it was a coverall win

00:09:48.080 of course not, it's just one of the many

00:09:50.340 many problems the country faces

00:09:51.800 and that's rich isn't it

00:09:57.680 where they think

00:09:59.480 Ramoners

00:10:00.800 Remainers

00:10:02.960 that every single problem

00:10:06.000 particularly economic

00:10:06.840 that has happened since then

00:10:08.900 is all because of Brexit

00:10:10.740 of course it's not, our economic problems would be much

00:10:13.400 much worse I would have thought

00:10:15.500 all right the express it's a good paper you can read your express now feel free to read your

00:10:22.860 express now taxi for starma time surely actually put a comma in it there

00:10:28.960 don't usually bother with that do they taxi for starma time surely olukemi badenok the nigerian

00:10:39.040 woman that is somehow able to laugh

00:10:41.060 as the leader of the opposition

00:10:42.280 has been saying

00:10:44.480 has been attacking the PM for

00:10:46.900 hiding, quote, hiding

00:10:48.120 ahead of the local elections, going

00:10:50.860 quote, backwards on Brexit, quote

00:10:52.980 and she fully commits the Tories

00:10:55.120 to pensions triple lock, brilliant

00:10:57.000 brilliant

00:10:59.500 You're going to keep gloating about all the foreign

00:11:04.960 students you've got into this country, Kemi?

00:11:07.060 Oh, you've given up on that one

00:11:09.040 Yeah, you're not doing that anymore.

00:11:12.940 Olukemi Badenoch.

00:11:15.280 Obvious example of a cuckoo in the nest.

00:11:19.560 Go back to the land of your ancestors and be a politician in Nigeria.

00:11:24.480 Disgusting.

00:11:25.440 What a crazy thing that the Tories.

00:11:28.340 Not that I'm a fan of Robert Jenrick,

00:11:29.680 but they basically had a choice between Robert Jenrick and Olukemi Badenoch,

00:11:33.760 and they went for her.

00:11:34.500 That party deserves to be put in the dustbin of history

00:11:39.320 Absolute filth

00:11:41.440 Alright what have we got next

00:11:42.400 The male

00:11:43.560 Absolute globalist slop

00:11:45.400 Trying to pretend it's not complete globalist slop

00:11:49.440 Remember the other day

00:11:50.760 I talk about quite often they put some sort of headline

00:11:52.920 Some sort of thing that's just anti-family

00:11:55.060 Anti-relationship

00:11:56.300 Anti-children

00:11:56.980 What's that one

00:11:58.100 That woman there

00:12:00.660 Telling us she's totally gone off sex

00:12:03.880 So should I let my pilot husband have an affair

00:12:06.500 What

00:12:06.720 How is that

00:12:08.500 You're going to put that at the top of the front page

00:12:13.060 And nearly every day

00:12:14.680 It's something like that

00:12:16.020 Wives thinking about cheating on your husband

00:12:18.340 Here's how you can do it

00:12:19.580 Wives do you suspect your husband of cheating

00:12:22.060 Just leave him

00:12:22.820 On and on and on

00:12:24.120 Like that

00:12:24.860 Why I didn't have children and I'm happy about it

00:12:28.380 In my 60s

00:12:29.580 Or something

00:12:29.940 It's so subversive

00:12:33.620 It's so disgusting

00:12:35.060 Alright, anyway

00:12:35.780 Front page, what does it say?

00:12:37.240 Harry, go to the other cam

00:12:38.340 So I can read it

00:12:39.340 Day that will decide Starmer's fate

00:12:42.480 And Britain's

00:12:43.640 I mean

00:12:43.920 It won't exactly decide Britain's fate, will it?

00:12:49.240 Okay, I get it

00:12:49.980 They've got Keir Starmer on the phone

00:12:51.460 Saying

00:12:51.960 Think I'm bad

00:12:53.640 Wait till you get Andy or Ange

00:12:55.960 Good front page

00:13:01.700 The Daily Mail

00:13:03.860 Is

00:13:05.620 People think, a lot of people in Britain

00:13:07.160 Think that the Daily Mail

00:13:09.420 Is in some way

00:13:11.020 Patriotic

00:13:14.000 Right leaning

00:13:15.540 Conservative with a small c

00:13:17.500 Those sorts of things, not at all

00:13:19.760 Not at all, they're just

00:13:21.680 As subversive and globalist

00:13:23.680 And sloppy

00:13:26.160 As all the others

00:13:28.160 The male group

00:13:33.000 Who owns them?

00:13:38.560 The sun

00:13:39.240 The sun there

00:13:42.560 Sydney Sweeney and her boobs

00:13:45.760 How Sid boobs went out of fashion

00:13:48.900 They didn't, they haven't

00:13:50.520 They won't

00:13:54.080 The sun

00:13:56.800 boobs are out of fashion now are they are they anyway they go they they go with this the cruise

00:14:03.560 ship thing cruise brits racked bug hell all right just locked just absolute slot all right

00:14:09.700 the mirror the mirror's getting more and more deranged lefty deranged and this is exactly the

00:14:16.500 sort of front page that the bbc can't put on its on its website the mirror again the mirror has had

00:14:23.080 a reputation over the years of being not exactly lefty, they would vacillate between being

00:14:30.960 sort of, well, the people that own them, tell them what their political views are going

00:14:36.500 to be, vacillate between being sort of pro-Blair, pro-Conservative in the 80s, pro-Conservative

00:14:43.140 in the Cameron years, pro-Labor during the Blazers, okay, but now, it seems, they got

00:14:50.800 the memo about going woke being lefty they hate nige they really hate nige

00:14:57.080 uni party a weak toast weak toast milk toast weak sauce nige they hate him look

00:15:08.920 there you go a reformed britain would cut care i don't think so rip away our rights doubt it

00:15:15.600 And send Bill Soaring

00:15:17.180 Not more than any other party

00:15:18.380 So we say to Farage and his mates

00:15:20.760 Sorry, the Mirror

00:15:22.660 Did we ask for your view?

00:15:25.160 No, just report the news

00:15:26.300 So this is just the view of the people

00:15:29.240 That write and edit the Mirror

00:15:30.820 They've decided they're the arbiters

00:15:33.220 Of what's right

00:15:35.940 What you should do with your vote

00:15:37.640 They say, just the Mirror say

00:15:40.160 No care, no clue, no thanks

00:15:42.580 oh, alright, well

00:15:46.560 if you say so, the mirror

00:15:49.740 the mirror more or less constantly embroiled in

00:15:55.440 legal battles for being scum

00:15:59.040 for acting scummy

00:16:01.660 filth

00:16:05.380 disgusting

00:16:07.700 sickening filth

00:16:12.580 Even Nigel Farage and reform is beyond the pale for them

00:16:17.280 Crazy

00:16:21.620 In Bose Britain I'd probably

00:16:25.380 I'd probably unilaterally close the mirror down

00:16:30.880 Just pass some sort of emergency law

00:16:36.600 Saying that there's seditious media organs in this country

00:16:40.820 let's close them down everyone in that building now hasn't got a job closing the building

00:16:48.920 yes you're seditious filth yeah so

00:16:54.420 all right the star we're getting to the bottom of the barrel now the star

00:17:01.320 right there's kate middleton looking uh radiant they go with that ship again rat bug victims in

00:17:09.420 uk all right just filth just gross oh one last one i've got the swindon advertiser

00:17:17.740 oh no sorry this show is about actual news and journalism so no point talking about that

00:17:25.020 all right should we check in on the oil price we do that don't we on the bow show every morning

00:17:30.460 breakfast with bow the oil price it's down there we go west texas 95 bucks a barrel

00:17:39.420 Brent, a shade over a hundred bucks a barrel, there you go, it's down a bit

00:17:50.920 still not astronomically higher than before the war with Iran started but not

00:17:54.900 cheap, pretty volatile though, you know look at that, pretty volatile over the last month

00:18:04.980 that's a volatile graph there last three months the last three months that is

00:18:10.740 that just speaks of volatility doesn't it all right so the price is down a bit why might that

00:18:16.960 be well trump's talking about making a deal actually go to the u.s ones real quick because

00:18:24.800 they've probably got so trump just keeps saying at the moment over the last 24 or 36 hours just

00:18:32.920 keep saying and iran is sort of agreeing with it we're close to making a deal we're close to making

00:18:37.080 a deal they keep talking about this one page memorandum that's the turn of phrase that keeps

00:18:42.040 getting bandied around there's a one page memorandum which could end the war just end it

00:18:52.360 that was why he put project freedom on pause remember project freedom remember that like one

00:18:59.960 day ago, two days ago. Do you remember back to the heady days of Project Freedom when

00:19:07.280 he was going to escort the thousands of ships that are trapped in the Persian Gulf? But

00:19:13.180 he put that on pause because he was close to making a deal. Well, over the last 24 hours

00:19:20.020 there's been a, well that is volatile as well isn't it? At one point Trump on TruthSocial

00:19:24.440 was like, we're really close to making a deal and then he's saying, oh maybe not, we've

00:19:29.260 to the last minute before and iran have sort of reneged or backed away so i'm not counting my

00:19:35.020 chickens till they hatched and then but the markets both sort of equities markets particularly

00:19:40.380 in asia and things as well as the price of crude um have decided it's sort of good news on some

00:19:47.180 level good news everybody because the price of oil has gone down a bit the price of equities

00:19:58.540 it's gone up a bit you know those traders is their job it's literally their job moment to

00:20:05.260 moment to sort of manage risk it's the ultimate job of a trader really is that they've decided

00:20:12.140 it seems broadly that it's good news that there may well be a deal struck at some point

00:20:21.020 okay and there you go there hasn't yet it hasn't yet i mean i still see how it's difficult to see

00:20:27.420 how they could because the sticking point is probably the biggest stick but the main sticking

00:20:32.380 point isn't it is about whether iran will truly abandon its ambitions to enrich uranium for itself

00:20:44.860 in fact was that not what our poll was do we have we had a poll this morning didn't we has

00:20:47.740 hair we got one yeah cool all right what did we put we did yeah can iran abandon its nuclear

00:20:58.120 ambitions i deliberately asked for that not will it can it we didn't give you a maybe we gave you

00:21:05.080 a binary yes or no can iran abandon its nuclear ambitions and the no's have it yeah i suspect no

00:21:13.160 I would click no if I took that

00:21:15.560 61% of you say no

00:21:17.660 39% say yes

00:21:21.040 I mean they might do

00:21:23.340 They might do, mightn't they?

00:21:25.400 I don't know

00:21:25.840 I suspect not

00:21:28.140 I would have clicked no on that

00:21:29.260 Yeah, it's not will they, can they

00:21:32.320 Are they not just committed politically

00:21:34.340 Ideologically, politically, ideologically

00:21:38.200 Not religiously, ideologically

00:21:39.320 Can they?

00:21:40.320 Are they not just

00:21:41.120 they just not sort of locked in on that it's that or nothing

00:21:44.640 give us a domestic uranium enrichment project or give us death say the iranian regime

00:21:53.380 so far unless when we see this one-page memorandum this is something different on

00:22:05.700 that one-page memorandum so far they've shown no signs of saying that it's what is always comes

00:22:10.280 back to the sticking point America tried to give them a number of ways to abandon it and every

00:22:17.920 time they're like no yes to everything almost within reason or yes to a lot of stuff but on

00:22:22.980 that no maybe they'll change their mind finally I don't you know I feel it's unlikely they would

00:22:33.920 rather rule over a country of rubble with no economy people starving to death and stuff

00:22:43.600 then and no ability to actually enrich the uranium because that gets blown up

00:22:50.640 but they're still in theory on paper got you know retained the right to do it

00:22:56.720 Is that worth it

00:23:01.140 Is that worth it

00:23:03.440 Okay

00:23:04.260 Alright

00:23:05.420 So then those have it

00:23:07.120 There you go

00:23:09.080 Alright back to the news

00:23:11.960 What else have we got

00:23:14.740 This morning

00:23:16.340 There's a few stories I thought were of interest

00:23:18.300 Oh look here's one at the BBC

00:23:20.280 Serving Met Officer

00:23:21.760 And four ex-officers

00:23:23.800 Investigated for handling

00:23:25.320 Of Al-Fayed allegations

00:23:27.480 Harry

00:23:29.480 Do you know Mohammed Al-Fayed

00:23:31.140 Have you ever heard of him

00:23:32.100 Do you know who he is

00:23:33.040 I don't know

00:23:34.060 Okay so I'll explain it for the Zoomers

00:23:36.380 Or foreign people

00:23:37.660 This is an Egyptian sex criminal

00:23:40.400 He's dead now

00:23:41.860 He died of natural causes

00:23:43.360 In like 2023 or something

00:23:44.920 He's very very very rich

00:23:47.020 Don't ask how he made his fortune

00:23:48.900 And he used to own Harrods

00:23:55.320 Very, very rich. His name's Mohammed. Was Mohammed.

00:24:00.820 Mohammed Al-Fayed. Friends with all sorts of politicians and rich people and stuff while he lived.

00:24:05.880 He was just like a name of one of the super rich people in London.

00:24:11.240 His son. He had a son called Dodi.

00:24:15.260 Dodi Al-Fayed.

00:24:16.140 who was in some sort of relationship with princess diana when they were both killed in a car crash

00:24:25.120 in paris that time that was that was his son don't if i had anyway muhammad al-fayed harazona

00:24:32.780 ex-harazona turns out a bit like jimmy savile the moment he died loads of allegations even

00:24:41.040 though everyone sort of there was rumors there was rumblings oh yeah there was rumblings for years

00:24:44.740 But he never got investigated or charged with anything

00:24:47.980 As soon as he died

00:24:49.420 Suddenly the world seemed to wake up

00:24:52.300 And realise he was like a serial

00:24:54.240 Sex criminal

00:24:55.100 At least 21 women

00:25:00.340 Came forward and said yeah

00:25:01.580 Sex assaults and full rapes

00:25:04.180 And everything over years and years and years

00:25:05.480 You'd get pretty young women to work for Harrods

00:25:10.140 And then he'd just groom them and or sexually assault them

00:25:12.360 Or whatever

00:25:12.660 Loads

00:25:13.980 21 and you know that that's only the 21 bravest of those women there would have been many many

00:25:22.720 more of course so there you go and now now they're saying that and it's sort of definitely the case

00:25:28.940 it seems to be it's not just sort of rumor he definitely sort of definitely was now even some

00:25:34.840 police officers are in trouble historically for handling it i.e you know read between the lines

00:25:41.780 Basically

00:25:42.340 They knew

00:25:44.000 Everyone knew

00:25:44.640 But he was a super rich

00:25:46.040 Super rich dude

00:25:48.520 Who just

00:25:49.340 The police

00:25:50.160 I'm just like

00:25:51.760 No

00:25:52.040 We're just not gonna

00:25:52.680 No he's rich

00:25:55.080 So he can get away with it

00:25:56.160 Effectively

00:25:56.920 Something like that

00:25:57.780 He's powerful

00:25:59.040 He's powerful and rich

00:26:00.860 So

00:26:01.200 It's disgusting isn't it

00:26:07.760 Mohammed Al-Fayed

00:26:10.280 total total wrong and all right

00:26:15.640 that everyone knew as well like jimmy savile sort of people knew

00:26:22.360 here's a little story i thought was quite interesting if you've ever looked at a map

00:26:26.760 korea north and south korea north korea has got a big border with china hasn't it but it's also

00:26:32.840 got a tiny little border with russia it's a little bit of russia that comes around in an arc

00:26:39.240 and sort of claw around and just a tiny bit of it just touches north korea

00:26:46.120 on the map but they build a bridge they built a bridge key bridge linking north korea and russia

00:26:50.360 almost finished satellite images show bbc verifier the ultimate arbiter of truth tells us there you

00:26:57.480 go i just thought it was quite reasonably interesting i didn't even know they were building a bridge

00:27:02.840 there because again if anyone doesn't know north korea is famously sort of some sort of isolationist

00:27:10.200 hermit nearly said kingdom then that's not kingdom is it sort of a isolationist hermit communist state

00:27:23.080 all the wranglings over the decades of any sort of to and fro with the south koreans

00:27:28.520 you know at various points when it thaws out north korea will actually let south korean

00:27:35.360 businesses and people go just just across the border a performative thing and then things get

00:27:44.040 hotter or colder rather in their cold war and the north koreans say no no that one factory we allowed

00:27:50.880 you to build half a mile across the border even that's too much go back stop stop stop and that

00:27:55.960 vacillates and as for stuff with china well if you're north korean and you try and flee into

00:28:01.120 china and you get caught that's an executionable offense or at least hard labor for a long long

00:28:09.940 time north koreans are basically prisoners in their own country anyway so the idea that they're

00:28:18.960 building a bridge or have in fact have built a bridge to russia is interesting in all sorts of

00:28:24.620 ways you know least of all how is that really in russia's interest particularly anyway maybe a

00:28:32.140 slight sign that north korea is opening up a little bit even if it's only one bridge

00:28:38.200 i don't know i don't know no one really knows really what goes on in the mind of that

00:28:46.080 that big fat psycho communist dude who runs their country

00:28:49.960 all right i just thought it was a mildly interesting story

00:28:54.480 all right what else have we got on the itv news there was one oh look cnn founder ted turner has

00:29:02.280 died at age 87 well i was always told if you can't say anything nice nice don't say anything at all

00:29:11.240 so next here's a funny story i don't believe that by the way i'm very rude and um

00:29:19.460 Dismissive to people, aren't I?

00:29:21.520 All the time

00:29:22.020 Yeah, the axiom

00:29:24.460 If you can't say anything nice

00:29:25.560 Don't say anything at all

00:29:26.340 Yeah, I don't live by that

00:29:27.540 Ted Turner was a complete douchebag

00:29:30.700 Alright

00:29:32.280 Here's an interesting story

00:29:34.580 I thought it was a very interesting story

00:29:35.780 On Sky News this morning

00:29:36.940 Very, very interesting story

00:29:39.380 It's all about

00:29:40.180 Oil

00:29:42.280 Oil makes the world go round, doesn't it?

00:29:45.900 The headline is

00:29:46.420 An extraordinary watershed moment

00:29:48.700 Passed below the radar

00:29:50.140 And helped make Trump's war possible

00:29:52.540 An energy boom is helping to power

00:29:55.980 American aggression in Iran

00:29:57.680 But those hoping the US would come to the rescue

00:30:00.420 As Europe and Asia face an energy shock

00:30:02.600 Might find themselves seriously disappointed

00:30:05.420 Anyway, it's quite a long article

00:30:07.600 And I read it this morning

00:30:09.160 I thought it was very, very interesting

00:30:11.460 Made a number of interesting points

00:30:13.460 And a couple of things I hadn't thought of before

00:30:15.320 I hadn't heard of before

00:30:18.700 The broadest points I was aware of, but a few of the details I hadn't.

00:30:25.560 So anyway, it's basically largely about fracking,

00:30:30.780 hydraulic fracturing, you know, fracking.

00:30:34.660 And it starts with saying, look, what's this?

00:30:36.820 This is a bit of Texas. This is in West Texas.

00:30:39.020 What is that?

00:30:40.000 Harry, you might want to put the image up.

00:30:41.900 There you go.

00:30:43.360 What's that?

00:30:43.880 That's an aerial view of a little bit of West Texas.

00:30:46.520 and into like new mexico as well a giant area giant giant area what's all that going on

00:30:52.160 oh it's drilling and fracking

00:30:56.840 to a massive extent look there's a bit of a more close-up for you where you can see look there's

00:31:04.320 little it's like the pump jacks they call them don't they all over the place stretching into

00:31:08.960 the horizon hundreds and hundreds kilometers in every direction

00:31:11.940 you get natural gas and crude oil that way it's not the same as

00:31:19.040 it's not the same it really isn't the same as sort of normal crude oil extraction now like some

00:31:25.980 places in the world it's just crude oil is just literally bubbling out of the ground that's what

00:31:30.220 they say about baku or used to be the case baku in azerbaijan it's just bubbling out of the ground

00:31:35.780 you know some places in kuwait and saudi various places around the world actually

00:31:41.200 some places in canada crude oil is just almost bubbling out of the ground if it's not that it's

00:31:45.800 really close to the surface sometimes you have to drill deep but there's just there's just a

00:31:52.140 reservoir of crude oil all you need do is pump it out well that's that's not what fracking is

00:31:58.060 fracking something entirely entirely different isn't it you have to like use drills all over

00:32:03.260 the place and you have to pump water in and get shale and there's a whole process before you get

00:32:08.360 the natural gas and the crude and all that sort of stuff however which makes it more expensive but

00:32:12.880 if you had an area of land that geologically

00:32:19.000 is good for fracking which west texas is and parts of new mexico and

00:32:27.140 And you decided to invest

00:32:29.860 A crazy amount of money

00:32:31.680 In getting it out

00:32:32.700 Like the United States has

00:32:36.260 For the last decade or more

00:32:38.200 Then suddenly

00:32:41.400 Kind of suddenly

00:32:42.340 It's not exactly suddenly is it

00:32:43.540 Then

00:32:44.520 You've got more oil and gas

00:32:47.640 Than you know what to do with

00:32:48.440 Quite literally more

00:32:49.420 Than they know what to do with

00:32:51.660 And the natural gas element of it

00:32:57.140 A lot of it, this article was saying

00:32:59.980 A lot of it, they're just burning off into the air

00:33:01.960 Because they can't get rid of it fast enough

00:33:04.280 Not funny really, but

00:33:07.700 Yeah, so

00:33:10.800 All sorts of points of note in this article

00:33:14.720 I thought were interesting

00:33:15.740 Look, that

00:33:16.700 Just hundreds and hundreds of square miles

00:33:19.360 One of those every

00:33:21.080 A few hundred yards or whatever

00:33:22.960 And that ever since the oil crisis of the 70s

00:33:27.440 I think I mentioned the oil crisis of the 70s

00:33:29.500 In the Nixon years, didn't I, the other day?

00:33:31.380 I mentioned it in passing anyway

00:33:32.520 Where OPEC would just sort of decide

00:33:36.020 They're going to reduce production

00:33:39.520 Just to screw, just play power games

00:33:43.580 Just to screw with people, particularly the West

00:33:45.380 Particularly the United States

00:33:46.800 Ever since then, ever since the 1970s

00:33:50.400 It's sort of a fairly grand strategic

00:33:53.060 Aim of the United States

00:33:56.780 To never let itself be in that situation again

00:33:59.160 Where OPEC, Saudi Arabia

00:34:02.440 Can just hold them ransom

00:34:04.860 In a sense

00:34:06.580 But fracking

00:34:09.560 And America has got large

00:34:11.320 Massive, massive natural resources

00:34:13.620 I mean it's a continent sized country isn't it

00:34:16.080 It's going to have

00:34:16.840 And Canada has as well

00:34:18.460 canada sits on and in a crazy amount of oil anyway um through the 80s and the 90s

00:34:27.420 fracking was a thing i think like the technology the concept has been around since the 40s or 50s

00:34:34.000 it was just it was just difficult technically physically difficult logistically it was just

00:34:40.900 too expensive basically the economy of it just didn't add up you could you could sort of do it

00:34:46.400 but it was basic and it just it was way more expensive than than made it worthwhile but then

00:34:51.920 in the early 2000s there were various breakthroughs various things least of all like drill bits

00:34:58.560 the actual drill that drills into the ground and the ability to like drill at angles and

00:35:04.000 horizontally you know things like that i won't bore you with the details but the point is it

00:35:08.400 became economically viable if you did it on a large rough scale anyway and so the united states did

00:35:15.840 Drill baby, drill

00:35:17.160 Particularly under the first

00:35:19.640 I think it was ramped up, I think it was dialled up massively

00:35:22.200 Under the first Trump administration

00:35:23.600 And now, you know, like a decade later

00:35:26.820 Now, America produces more gas and oil than Saudi

00:35:34.200 More than its own domestic needs

00:35:36.880 It's a net exporter

00:35:38.380 Yeah, there's this place in West Texas

00:35:42.000 They call it the Permian Basin

00:35:43.620 that's interesting like there's like the slightly interesting the permian period of

00:35:50.060 ancient history like truly prehistoric history the permian period was like pre-dinosaurs

00:35:56.180 right like you've got the the permian triassic mass extinction event i wonder if it's named

00:36:05.520 after that it must be mustn't it anyway the permian basin in west texas just a giant area

00:36:11.100 as well in like european terms what we're used to a giant giant area

00:36:17.260 and they have drilled baby drill they have done it

00:36:23.980 and anyway the other thing this article goes on to say is that

00:36:29.820 loads of the world's oil and shipping companies loads of them are

00:36:37.180 sending their ships the ones that aren't trapped in the persian gulf

00:36:41.100 Sending them to the Gulf of Mexico

00:36:42.820 Because most of this

00:36:43.680 Most of all the gas and oil that comes from

00:36:47.140 The Permian Basin

00:36:48.880 Finds its way out into the Persian Gulf

00:36:52.880 Into like Houston

00:36:53.880 Or Corpus Christi in Houston

00:36:56.920 Not into the water

00:36:59.220 Onto ships hopefully

00:37:02.100 So loads of the ships that would

00:37:03.680 In the before times

00:37:06.140 Before this war with Iran started

00:37:08.720 Would have been heading to the Strait of Hormuz

00:37:10.680 and the persian gulf they're all just going to the gulf of mexico now apparently according to

00:37:15.960 this article just a giant armada from all places in the world just going there oh we can't get oil

00:37:25.080 from the gulf where can we get it from not venezuela right

00:37:33.160 but the united states want to sell it to us want to and we need to buy it so all the ships go to

00:37:39.480 the gulf of mexico now go to corpus christi in houston pick it up

00:37:47.880 interesting is it but and one final element that this article is talking about i found

00:37:51.720 that was interesting was it was saying that it might not necessarily be just as simple as

00:37:57.000 all that and as easy as all that um that the united states or the powers that be in west texas

00:38:05.320 for various reasons

00:38:08.940 might not want to dial up production

00:38:12.440 all the countries

00:38:14.420 that want to buy

00:38:16.280 a shed load of oil

00:38:18.460 from Houston

00:38:20.400 they want more than

00:38:24.500 the Americans are currently producing

00:38:27.060 even more than that

00:38:27.960 sort of an insatiable demand for it

00:38:30.300 so the Americans could just dial up their production

00:38:33.500 But for various reasons I won't bore you with

00:38:35.740 They don't really want to do that

00:38:37.100 So it might still

00:38:39.720 Might still be

00:38:41.200 Despite everything

00:38:42.160 There will be some sorts of shortages

00:38:46.400 It might not

00:38:49.580 Anyway I thought that was

00:38:51.900 Because I'm interested in oil

00:38:53.140 The world of oil and energy

00:38:56.880 It's quite literally what makes the world go round

00:38:59.260 Isn't it these days

00:38:59.920 I thought that was interesting

00:39:01.980 I thought I'd bring that to you

00:39:03.860 Alright it's already 22

00:39:05.460 What else have we got

00:39:06.880 Oh here's a story

00:39:08.620 The mail particularly dunking

00:39:11.360 Trying to dunk on the Greens

00:39:13.200 Massively today

00:39:15.320 Look

00:39:17.020 Polanski says Palestine on the ballot

00:39:19.960 As he returns to sectarian tactics

00:39:22.200 In desperate bid to win over voters

00:39:24.060 Think things are bad now

00:39:27.620 Vote Green if you want to make it worse

00:39:29.400 Still thinking of voting Green

00:39:31.540 For the Green Party today

00:39:33.920 Here is a list of their daft and dangerous policies

00:39:36.600 So I'm not a fan of the Greens

00:39:38.840 However, they lead with this story

00:39:41.000 Which is so retarded that it's funny to me

00:39:45.440 This idiot woman here called Rosie something or other

00:39:51.680 Wrote this article

00:39:53.240 And it's

00:39:54.920 Roll your eyes all you like

00:39:56.740 But we're young, ambitious and proud

00:39:59.000 To be voting Green today

00:40:00.820 Are you

00:40:01.600 Are you

00:40:03.120 Young and voting green

00:40:07.260 And it's a piece all about how women

00:40:10.340 Young women

00:40:11.000 Are going to vote green

00:40:13.240 Regardless of like reality

00:40:14.620 Look at the state of it

00:40:21.500 Do you have a quick read

00:40:22.600 It's so mad

00:40:24.360 That it's funny to me

00:40:26.200 Rosie Beveridge

00:40:30.300 who's like 25

00:40:31.760 says

00:41:00.300 political divide or rather chasm that that splits down both generational and gender lines

00:41:06.860 anyway the article goes on to say that it's about hope it's about a fairer society voting for the

00:41:16.060 greens is about it's just it's just about hope and you know a reduction in misogyny

00:41:22.100 and having a fairer society.

00:41:26.020 Not really much about environmentalism.

00:41:29.220 Nothing at all about the dangers of open borders.

00:41:34.620 I mean, it's mad.

00:41:35.280 She moans about how there's no prospects for her,

00:41:39.720 a young woman, not enough jobs.

00:41:40.900 It doesn't address...

00:41:45.540 The Greens' policies are to flood us with more and more people,

00:41:49.080 making the job market much, much more difficult.

00:41:52.100 don't say anything about the tsunami of sex crimes and rapes at the hands of foreign invaders not

00:41:57.300 a word about that not a word about islam not a single word actually i only scanned the last

00:42:03.940 third of it she might have done there but i doubt it i doubt it all right look at this look at these

00:42:09.780 idiot children think they know what they're talking about look at the state of that this

00:42:16.180 This is an 18-year-old.

00:42:18.560 Who thinks she knows about the world and what's going on.

00:42:22.000 What's her name?

00:42:22.440 Was it Cicely?

00:42:23.860 Cicely.

00:42:25.840 Anyone who might not know.

00:42:27.300 American or something.

00:42:28.480 That's a really, really middle-class name.

00:42:31.700 Cicely.

00:42:33.760 Doesn't know her arse from her elbow.

00:42:35.900 18-year-old, so technically an adult.

00:42:38.620 But just a child, really.

00:42:40.800 A know-nothing child.

00:42:41.960 She thinks the Greens

00:42:45.460 Will bring in a more hopeful society

00:42:49.020 Madness isn't it

00:42:53.920 Madness

00:42:55.840 Look at trying to be a girl boss

00:42:57.960 Look at the stance

00:42:59.200 Look at this look

00:43:00.920 Oh she knows what Britain needs

00:43:03.780 She's got a great vision

00:43:05.020 Great concept of history and stuff

00:43:07.220 Yeah

00:43:10.940 Look at the state of that

00:43:12.580 What's her name?

00:43:15.940 Hannah Rahman, 18

00:43:17.340 She's going to tell you

00:43:18.880 About the Greens

00:43:20.640 And what Britain needs

00:43:21.860 Hannah Rahman, 18 year old

00:43:24.140 If you don't like the country

00:43:28.960 Miss Rahman, feel free to go back to the land of your ancestors

00:43:31.600 Actually

00:43:32.180 Rosie, the author of this

00:43:36.680 The mad eyes

00:43:37.780 It always gives it away

00:43:38.520 Doesn't it

00:43:38.720 The mad

00:43:39.480 The madness in the eyes

00:43:41.220 You can

00:43:43.500 You can almost sort of

00:43:44.620 See the

00:43:45.560 Insanity

00:43:46.560 Yeah

00:43:50.080 I mean

00:43:50.580 Look

00:43:50.860 She says

00:43:51.360 For all the young women

00:43:54.620 I spoke to

00:43:55.340 Immigration was not a concern

00:43:56.860 Oh

00:43:57.340 Alright

00:43:58.780 That's it

00:43:59.380 That's it as well

00:43:59.900 Just that

00:44:00.360 Immigration is not a concern

00:44:02.200 Huh

00:44:04.740 Okay

00:44:06.540 Of course it is the number one thing

00:44:10.000 That changes

00:44:10.800 The very destiny of a nation

00:44:13.980 It's the number one thing really

00:44:17.580 From which nearly all other policy

00:44:19.280 Is downstream from

00:44:21.080 Everything from the NHS to housing to schools

00:44:25.360 The economy

00:44:26.360 But no, immigration is not a concern

00:44:28.320 That's it

00:44:28.740 That's it

00:44:31.080 She's worried much more about misogyny

00:44:33.860 And that the Greens will tackle that

00:44:36.540 No, they're importing misogynists

00:44:39.020 They would have open borders

00:44:41.740 Increasing misogyny

00:44:44.600 Increasing

00:44:45.720 Making it less safe for women

00:44:48.400 How do you not get it?

00:44:51.880 How do you not understand, Rosie?

00:44:55.340 What kind of mania are you suffering from?

00:44:59.440 At one point she says, call me naive

00:45:01.060 No, I will, yeah, I will call you naive

00:45:02.380 Catastrophically naive

00:45:04.100 Suicidally naive

00:45:05.820 You don't understand what's going on

00:45:09.600 Clearly, obviously you don't

00:45:11.400 What you're dealing with

00:45:13.340 With Zach Polanski and the Green Party

00:45:14.900 You're failing to understand

00:45:17.160 But look, she's got her hands on her hips there

00:45:23.160 She's serious

00:45:23.840 She's a serious person

00:45:25.340 Who writes for the mail

00:45:26.580 Turkey's voting for Christmas

00:45:32.360 Insane

00:45:34.720 all right let's see what else have we got the express something about zach palanski is

00:45:41.140 humiliated as fresh fresh questions over mystery living arrangements emerge

00:45:46.200 he had another pop at the cops as well he doubled tripled down on his criticism

00:45:52.180 of the uh gold as green cops that were trying to arrest a terrorist

00:46:00.660 He's on the side of the

00:46:03.340 Terrorist

00:46:04.500 Dave Pauldin

00:46:07.640 David Pauldin

00:46:09.080 Is on the side of the terrorists

00:46:10.660 What do you say to that Rosie

00:46:13.880 Is that a more hopeful society

00:46:16.300 Is it

00:46:17.360 Crushing blow for Polanski

00:46:26.300 As his approval ratings spiral out of control

00:46:28.780 Amid scandal

00:46:29.680 should read scandals

00:46:31.600 yeah apparently his

00:46:34.080 personal popularity

00:46:36.140 rating

00:46:37.960 has gone down massively

00:46:42.520 in the last week or two

00:46:43.380 most people don't have sympathy for terrorists

00:46:46.540 if there's a terrorist on the ground

00:46:51.760 that's still holding a knife

00:46:53.120 and refusing to let go of the knife

00:46:55.520 even if the taser is making his hand

00:46:58.080 hold on to it

00:46:58.580 Most people don't mind if the cop

00:47:00.060 Give him a little tap in the head

00:47:01.340 The vast majority of people

00:47:03.400 As well as everything else

00:47:08.940 Like he said he was a

00:47:10.400 He said he was a

00:47:12.400 Red cross spokesman he wasn't

00:47:14.940 He said he was a hypnotherapist

00:47:16.620 He wasn't

00:47:17.500 He's just a complete chancer isn't he

00:47:21.060 He didn't say anything

00:47:22.380 He didn't say anything

00:47:24.100 The sort of person that would claim to live on a canal boat

00:47:26.560 To avoid

00:47:27.180 Council tax

00:47:29.100 A revolting, a revolting person

00:47:34.820 Nigel Farage effigy

00:47:42.500 Stabbed, strangled and hanged

00:47:44.300 In sickening video, I didn't see that this morning

00:47:46.020 This is the first time I've seen that one

00:47:47.600 Okay, that's not completely unhinged

00:47:50.660 Sure

00:47:52.340 Alright, look, the sun

00:47:54.300 A lot of people, a lot of the papers

00:47:55.700 going after the greens i'm here for it corbin in disguise polanski compared to corbin as he

00:48:04.800 blast cops again over gold is green a corbin being shorthand for pro-terrorist basically

00:48:12.100 anyone or anything that was at war or at odds with britain or had their interests contrary

00:48:19.780 to british interests jeremy corbyn would be in favor for always for decades that's what corbyn

00:48:26.820 is that's who corbyn is has always been look they're saying zach polanski is just the same it's

00:48:31.780 the same and is well you've got a terrorist at large with a knife in his hand think about him

00:48:41.220 Think about his well-being.

00:48:48.100 The Green Party's not about environmentalism, is it?

00:48:52.220 It's about destroying the fabric of our society.

00:48:54.780 It's about extreme left-wing politics and Islamism.

00:49:02.520 Get a clue.

00:49:06.180 Really, get a clue.

00:49:07.460 all right well it's now about 10 2 so i should be off to great yarmouth later today

00:49:16.000 i'll be back for tomorrow morning um so i need to would like to try and round the show out before

00:49:24.580 not too much past nine so let's just have a look at on this day in history you like that segment

00:49:29.780 don't you i quite like doing that segment every day five five minutes on this day the 7th of may

00:49:34.560 down through the centuries what happened of note it's the 7th of may in the year 1429

00:49:40.560 the english siege of orleans or broke by jean d'arc and the french army or joan of arc in orleans if

00:49:47.920 you prefer harry do you reckon on my history themed show epochs bodade's epochs behind the

00:50:00.800 the paywall on lotusseaters.com consider joining for as little as five pound a month

00:50:04.620 for a season membership do you think i've got long-form content talking about the siege of

00:50:08.380 orleans and the career of joan of arc yeah yeah i have in fact it's one of the few things

00:50:14.920 henry v the age of henry v the campaigns of henry v uh pompey pompey the great

00:50:22.280 there's a couple of things i've returned to more than once and anyway henry v is one of those so

00:50:30.160 I've got a whole episode

00:50:30.940 just about Joan of Arc

00:50:32.040 but then

00:50:33.120 I've got a long

00:50:34.720 really really long series

00:50:36.480 I can't remember how long it was

00:50:37.800 12, 13, 15 part series

00:50:39.480 all about Henry V

00:50:40.240 where again

00:50:42.220 I go into

00:50:42.980 I mean Joan of Arc

00:50:43.680 is just after Henry V really

00:50:45.460 but I go into it again there

00:50:49.020 if you want

00:50:51.080 a few hours worth of me

00:50:53.100 talking about Joan of Arc

00:50:54.180 at least for the Siege of Orléans

00:50:56.020 it's there

00:50:58.520 there's it to sign it up

00:51:00.160 Fascinating character, Jane of Arc

00:51:02.460 Sort of almost unbelievable

00:51:04.080 I'm not saying it didn't happen or anything

00:51:05.880 I believe the accounts, largely

00:51:07.680 Almost unbelievable

00:51:09.940 She's sort of, to begin with

00:51:11.940 An illiterate

00:51:13.960 17 year old peasant girl

00:51:15.660 And she led men into battle

00:51:19.240 And they followed her

00:51:20.540 She would tell the King of France

00:51:23.980 Things and he would

00:51:25.160 Believe her, what sort of force of character

00:51:27.900 What sort of personality was that

00:51:30.160 Incredible. She thought she was being spoken to by angels, maybe even God. Was it St. Michael? Anyway, I believe she believed it. Was she clinically insane in some way? Don't know, who knows, no way of knowing.

00:51:47.620 Nonetheless, she personally led charges on English redoubts at Orléans, at 17, 18, little

00:51:59.500 slip of a girl, crazy, amazing, amazing, absolutely amazing person.

00:52:07.860 In the end we capture her and burn her alive.

00:52:10.160 Okay, on this day in 1867, Swedish chemist Alfred Noble patents dynamite in England for

00:52:17.220 and the first of three patents he receives for the explosive material.

00:52:22.240 Alfred Nobel there.

00:52:24.380 He was so sort of guilt-ridden by it,

00:52:25.800 because, of course, it wasn't just used for mining.

00:52:27.820 They started using it for warfare quite quickly.

00:52:30.100 He felt so bad about that that he started the Peace Prize,

00:52:33.680 the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:52:34.880 Same person, Alfred Nobel.

00:52:38.080 Before that, they had nitroglycerin, an explosive,

00:52:41.920 but that was, like, really volatile.

00:52:43.540 If you accidentally dropped it, you'd get blown up.

00:52:45.420 dynamite's much much more stable isn't it anyway alfred nobel interesting person interesting life

00:52:52.480 very very interesting on this day in 1812 columbia university approves plans to award the pulitzer

00:52:59.100 prize in several categories after establishment by joseph pulitzer yeah of course now like nearly

00:53:07.080 everything else utterly utterly woke can't dream of winning a pulitzer prize really unless you're

00:53:12.500 like they decide you're pulling pulling towing the line on sort of globalism and socialism and

00:53:20.760 stuff pull it surprise like a lot of things used to be of value used to be good used to mean

00:53:28.360 something now just a race to the bottom pull it surprise used to wear it as a badge of honor now

00:53:35.500 it's i would consider an embarrassment if anything okay on this day in 1915 the lusitania

00:53:43.980 is sunk by a german submarine off the southern coast of ireland with 1198 lives lost yeah

00:53:50.860 people talk about the titanic as for one time the all-time greatest most interesting

00:53:58.860 ship sinkings the lusitania is one of those absolutely oh and it's the story about how

00:54:03.980 A hero millionaire saves Lusitania children

00:54:06.740 Because not everyone died on it

00:54:08.860 A few hundred survived

00:54:10.040 I think there's closer to 2,000 people on board

00:54:12.400 So more than half of them did die

00:54:14.160 Really the broader story is about

00:54:16.900 Unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans

00:54:19.240 In World War I

00:54:20.280 The Lusitania had come from

00:54:23.440 Or was it going to New York

00:54:25.100 So it involved the Americans as well

00:54:27.160 In a way

00:54:28.880 Well it did

00:54:29.880 The Americans of course didn't come into the war

00:54:33.280 World War I

00:54:33.900 for another couple of years but it turned public opinion in the united states much more anti-german

00:54:40.760 a big moment in history the lusitania look into it if you're interested on this day in 1945

00:54:47.600 the germans third reich marshal yodel alfred yodel signs documents with his monocle there

00:54:55.680 so i think i might not wear a monocle people say my eyesight's going a bit people say wear

00:55:00.360 a monocle get a monocle it's a bit yodel

00:55:04.260 okay yodel signs documents to surrender to the allies at rem in france the soviet union refuses

00:55:14.540 to recognize it though yeah because ve day is tomorrow isn't it it's the 8th of may isn't it

00:55:20.620 ve day surrendering in the west ever so slightly different to surrendering in the east was it um

00:55:29.800 Durnitz, Admiral Durnitz

00:55:33.020 had to surrender

00:55:35.000 to the Soviets

00:55:36.920 to completely end the war in Europe, right?

00:55:40.900 That's right, isn't it?

00:55:42.140 Durnitz, yeah.

00:55:44.960 Quite a funny sketch, actually.

00:55:46.980 Mitchell and Webb.

00:55:48.780 They're like

00:55:49.020 some political or military...

00:55:53.100 It's a comedy sketch.

00:55:54.620 Some military adjutants come to Durnitz

00:55:57.160 and say, Admiral,

00:55:58.700 the the Fuhrer is dead in his in his Fuhrer bunker you you are the new leader of the third

00:56:05.140 Reich and then it's like great I've got great visions for like an education program and I'm

00:56:11.060 going to build greater roads than ever before and I've got this whole program for government oh wow

00:56:15.840 like history has chosen me to be a leader of men they're like no we just need you to sign the

00:56:21.280 surrender document. We need someone to sign the surrender document. There you go. I thought

00:56:28.920 it was quite a funny sketch. Okay, on this day in 1952, the concept of the integrated

00:56:35.040 circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Jeffrey Dummer. I didn't

00:56:42.020 know. I didn't know it was as early as that, 1952. There you go, interesting. And on this

00:56:49.780 in 2017 Emmanuel Macron wins France's presidential election defeating Marine

00:56:55.780 Le Pen. Marine Le Pen went on to have a little dance on the dance floor if you

00:56:59.440 remember that. Pretending she's not absolutely gutted. Emmanuel Macron how's

00:57:03.820 that worked out for you France? Great, great. Enjoying all your Algerians are you?

00:57:11.260 And all the murders and rapes they do are you? Well done, well done. Alright let's

00:57:17.980 Let's have a look at our Rumble Rents and Super Chats.

00:57:21.540 Let's do that, Harry.

00:57:22.860 All right, let me just do this with my mic boom

00:57:24.580 so I can see the left-hand side of my screen properly.

00:57:28.900 That does need a bit of WD-40, doesn't it?

00:57:33.540 Seriously, actually, I'll have a word with Samson later.

00:57:37.780 Get a bit of oil on that.

00:57:40.180 Okay, what?

00:57:41.980 There's no global church history.

00:57:43.060 Are you all right, bro?

00:57:44.780 I hope you're all right.

00:57:46.460 There's not a global church history in at number one.

00:57:51.140 Hashtag pray for global church history.

00:57:54.000 He must be incapacitated.

00:57:55.280 There's no other explanation.

00:57:57.740 His internet's gone down.

00:58:00.660 All right.

00:58:03.180 Dragon Lady Chris says,

00:58:04.680 On this day in history...

00:58:05.760 Oh, she's gone in with it.

00:58:07.180 She probably saw that global church history is not here today.

00:58:10.760 She'd pick up the reins.

00:58:12.980 Thank you, Dragon Lady Chris.

00:58:14.940 you say on this day in history uh you put our queen of history nerds was born all right okay

00:58:24.000 so oh so it's your birthday oh happy birthday happy birthday a mob you say i queen of history

00:58:32.580 nerds was born a marvelous boon to america and indeed to the world at large my birthday wish

00:58:38.820 is to see britain restored oh thank you what a lovely sentiment

00:58:41.860 well honestly lovely sentiment thank you for that and happy birthday many happy returns

00:58:47.180 and many more all right 40 and barber says good morning bow morning sir

00:58:56.340 to the people of great yarmouth i just want to say good luck we're all counting on you i don't

00:59:03.320 really i don't really have a doubt that we'll win hopefully your travels will be free of issue

00:59:08.900 Oh thank you very much

00:59:10.080 Yeah it's quite a long drive actually

00:59:11.540 From the west country all the way to the almost eastern extreme

00:59:15.200 Yeah if you're living in Great Yarmouth

00:59:19.080 Get out there and vote for Restore Britain

00:59:23.280 Please

00:59:25.540 Please do

00:59:27.720 You live in Great Yarmouth

00:59:32.960 Do it, you're doing it

00:59:35.380 Make it soon

00:59:37.800 Alright

00:59:38.260 let's have a look at the uh youtube super chats oh what do you know global church history they're

00:59:46.180 in at number one he's he switched he always used to be youtube then he switched to rumble rants

00:59:53.020 he's just back on youtube that's all it is so he was still in at number one

00:59:57.560 the reigning defending undisputed champion

01:00:01.480 i'm glad you're all right i was a bit worried about you there for a minute mate

01:00:07.360 But you're alright

01:00:08.420 Good

01:00:08.640 Brilliant

01:00:09.060 You've said

01:00:10.900 And in at number one

01:00:11.920 As well

01:00:12.360 Right and early

01:00:14.020 Get up early in the morning

01:00:17.660 To out

01:00:19.440 Super chat

01:00:20.400 Global churches

01:00:21.060 He says

01:00:21.880 Today in 1104

01:00:23.140 Baldwin II

01:00:23.960 Was captured at Horan

01:00:25.780 Making Tancred

01:00:27.240 Regent of Edessa

01:00:28.260 And you've got another one

01:00:29.880 But so

01:00:30.140 Tancred

01:00:30.960 God

01:00:31.240 Okay

01:00:31.560 Baldwin and Tancred

01:00:32.560 Oh

01:00:32.780 do you think i've got long-form content talking all about the first crusade

01:00:41.520 in loads and loads of detail i reckon i've got that yeah yeah i have yeah

01:00:47.880 tankard one of my all-time favorite first crusade crusaders was tankard

01:00:54.020 he's just an absolute badass one of those people in history that just goes around doing what he

01:01:01.400 wants at all times quite often really insanely violent things crazy things for our for our world

01:01:08.500 you know morality but you got respect to it just going to say and do whatever he wants at all times

01:01:15.520 i love a bit of tank grid it's so mad it's funny sort of thing okay you also say

01:01:25.260 in 1487 the battle of malaga the first to use ambulances began hmm i don't know that what sort

01:01:35.100 of what sort of campaign or war would that be 1487 at malaga

01:01:41.140 hmm perhaps i should know that more about that off the top of my head i don't

01:01:47.340 Okay, cool

01:01:51.880 You've out-history-bro'd me there, bro

01:01:53.980 Cool, well done

01:01:56.820 You should know more about it

01:01:58.500 I might Google it in a minute

01:01:59.540 Okay

01:02:01.740 Christian3698

01:02:04.700 Doesn't say anything, it just gives four euros

01:02:06.720 Thank you, sir

01:02:07.400 Thank you very much, appreciate that

01:02:09.920 Opening Doors1 says

01:02:11.520 Hi Bo, do you think Kim Jong-un likes pizza?

01:02:14.560 I don't know exactly what that's in reference to

01:02:18.180 Are you just saying that he's fat

01:02:19.140 That he must like pizza because he's fat

01:02:21.940 I don't know

01:02:22.760 Is there a bigger, a wider, broader reference there

01:02:26.240 I don't know about

01:02:26.780 But he probably does

01:02:28.480 I think he likes his grub, doesn't he?

01:02:30.000 He likes food

01:02:30.680 He's not skipping meals, is he?

01:02:36.140 Plus who doesn't like pizza, really?

01:02:39.400 I love pizza

01:02:40.280 There's something wrong with you if you don't

01:02:42.900 Kind of

01:02:43.840 Okay

01:02:44.520 AC1D Helm

01:02:48.520 Says

01:02:49.720 Says

01:02:53.460 My area has no good parties

01:02:55.440 Just voting against SNP

01:02:57.780 Oh fair enough

01:02:58.380 Yeah no good

01:02:59.240 Fine

01:02:59.620 Yeah do that

01:03:00.520 If you're in Scotland then

01:03:01.920 Scottish National Party

01:03:03.640 I take it you're in Scotland

01:03:04.580 Anything

01:03:06.060 But

01:03:07.080 SNP

01:03:07.820 Yeah

01:03:08.660 No fair enough

01:03:10.400 Fair tactic

01:03:11.160 Fair tactic

01:03:12.400 Good luck

01:03:13.920 The SNP are

01:03:14.740 A filth

01:03:16.200 They're

01:03:16.660 It's weird that they've got the word nationalist in their

01:03:19.360 In their name

01:03:20.600 Because they're not nationalist

01:03:21.560 Other than the fact that they want independence

01:03:23.660 Beyond that

01:03:24.300 They act against the interests of

01:03:26.680 The nation of Scotland all the time

01:03:29.120 Don't they

01:03:30.260 They want to rejoin the EU

01:03:32.580 They want more and more refugees

01:03:35.040 Specifically militant Garzan ones

01:03:38.380 Anything and everything

01:03:39.860 It's horrible

01:03:40.840 They're not nationalist

01:03:41.820 beyond wanting independence beyond that they're terrible they're terrible

01:03:45.740 the smp are filth real filth subversive traitors okay bill wilson 1225 says drainage

01:03:56.840 just that all capital letters exclamation mark drainage

01:04:03.920 not sure quite what you're referring to there bill something about fracking

01:04:09.680 quite often people will send in a super chat in response to something i'm saying

01:04:15.440 and then i don't read it out for like another 20 minutes 40 minutes

01:04:19.840 and then i don't know and you don't make it clear what you're referencing

01:04:23.140 and i don't know what you're referencing

01:04:25.040 drainage drainage of the swamp i don't okay but thank you anyway thank you anyway all right and

01:04:33.540 last one this morning brandon warsfold says restore brighton's branch meeting got pulled

01:04:42.100 at the last minute by a traitorous venue hosts hold us in your prayers restore brighton exclamation

01:04:51.940 mark yeah gotta be careful about that so sorry to hear that that's a shame isn't it really annoying

01:04:56.340 yeah you've got to be really careful about getting a venue that aren't just going to

01:05:03.500 soil themselves at the first bit of pressure from crazy lefties

01:05:09.240 easy said and done though i say just do that just make sure you do that easy said and done

01:05:14.460 it's a shame hopefully you'll find really hopefully fingers crossed everything crossed

01:05:20.320 you'll find another venue a better venue

01:05:22.660 all right that's it that's the show it is now five minutes past nine in the a.m. British

01:05:30.700 summertime on Thursday the 7th of May in the year of our law 2026 thank you for joining me

01:05:35.180 you've been the the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters thank you for

01:05:46.780 joining me without you it's not a thing try make the best of the day ahead if you can if you're in

01:05:51.100 great yarmouth get out there and vote for a restored britain councillor if you're anywhere

01:05:59.340 else do consider voting if there's one in your area it's not the entire country

01:06:05.700 if not failing all of that you've got spare time try and make the best of it carpe diem seize the

01:06:12.740 day you'll never have this day again the most valuable thing you will ever have is your time

01:06:19.660 And it's finite

01:06:20.620 Try and make it count

01:06:22.660 Okay then, until tomorrow morning

01:06:23.840 Take care

01:06:49.660 We'll see you next time.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 07, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 7th May 2026

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