The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 8th January 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning! You alright? How you doing? I hope that wasn't too much of a jump scare.

00:00:07.420 It is just gone 8am Greenwich Mean Time on Thursday the 8th of January in the year of

00:00:13.800 our Lord 2026. I'm your host Bo Dade and you are the glorious few, the chosen band.

00:00:23.960 It's Breakfast with Bo, the Bo Show, Bo's Breakfast Club. You are the Breakfast Club,

00:00:29.480 the Lotus Eaters Breakfast Club. So welcome aboard. We'll get into it imminently. Just one

00:00:34.300 tiny bit of housekeeping this morning. Yesterday, if you was watching yesterday, I was reading

00:00:39.160 Super Chats all the way through and like loads of the hour was taken up with Super Chats. I actually

00:00:43.980 really enjoyed that. That was fun for me. But we've decided, a couple of serious conversations we had

00:00:51.020 yesterday, we decided we can't do that again because it would just become a Q&A with Bo every

00:00:55.360 morning. It would just become pay one pound to get Bo to read something out show. That's not what it's

00:01:01.340 supposed to be. So half cynical, half pragmatic. The idea is if something comes through for like loads

00:01:07.100 of money, I'll read that out. But otherwise, I'll just read a few at the end and not necessarily all

00:01:13.540 of them. If there's tons, you know, five minutes at the end, try and read a bunch at the end. So

00:01:20.080 that was what was decided. I'm joined by Harry, of course. Young Harry, how are you, sir?

00:01:27.040 Yeah, I'm good.

00:01:28.160 Good, good, good. Still freezing outside, isn't it? All right, let's jump straight into it. Here we go.

00:01:35.320 The top of the papers today are all talking about the raid on that tanker. Have you seen this? Have you

00:01:43.080 heard about this? The raid on the tanker. So they go with the overall sort of amalgam of all the

00:01:50.580 headlines are splash and grab. A reference to that raid on the tanker, splash and grab, shake and bake.

00:01:57.860 And UK ready to seize more of Putin's ships. So basically the same story. This is the big thing

00:02:03.520 in the news today. All right, so let's get into it. Well, actually what it was. First of all, the Metro,

00:02:08.660 the absolute pits.

00:02:13.080 The Metro, they go with, they actually have splash and grab as their top thing. So Trump

00:02:18.360 seizes tankers in new show of force. We've got, we've got Trump doing the, is that how

00:02:24.980 he does it? Is this the Trump dance? Someone's going to clip that, aren't they? So, so what

00:02:31.840 it is, just to let you know, there's this tanker. It was called like the, it used to be, not

00:02:36.980 that long ago, like in December last year, it was called something else. It was called like

00:02:40.320 the Bella one or something. It changed its name to the Marinara. And it's a weird thing.

00:02:45.600 When you look at the actual details, I've got my tea here, but I've also got water just

00:02:48.900 for throat clearing purposes.

00:02:54.360 This tanker, a bit of a funny story. So when you first read the news, the first sort of

00:02:59.460 line or two, it will say about it is that it's a Russian flagged tanker. It's not really

00:03:04.900 a Russian tanker when you look at it. I mean, so, so its history is that it went back in like

00:03:11.780 summer last year. It was tethered up in Iranian waters. It's sort of essentially, essentially

00:03:19.420 an Iranian ship, oil tanker. And then all last late summer and autumn and into the winter,

00:03:27.500 it sailed all the way around, all the way around Arabia, up through the Suez Canal, through

00:03:32.460 the Med, out into the Atlantic, towards Venezuela. And it got to Venezuela in, I think, December

00:03:37.460 time, roughly. All these dates are rough. And at that point, already the US Navy is blockading

00:03:45.260 the Venezuelan coast. So it's obviously meant to go to Venezuela. Okay. So the thing is,

00:03:52.140 is that it's all about sort of illegal oil. I say illegal, illegal as far as sort of the

00:03:57.520 Western powers, as far as Europe and America are concerned. It's sort of illegit illegal

00:04:03.520 oil because they've put sanctions on places like Iran and Russia and Venezuela, haven't

00:04:07.840 they? So we don't want them trading oil with each other. You know, an Iranian ship going 1.00

00:04:14.700 to Venezuela, getting Venezuelan oil and coming back and selling it to God knows who, the 0.95

00:04:18.500 Chinese or whatever. Countries like America and Europe don't want that. They view that

00:04:26.120 as illegal. So, okay. It's this essentially Iranian ship. It gets to the Venezuelan coast,

00:04:31.660 realises it's not going to, its mission to pick up Venezuelan oil is not going to happen.

00:04:36.820 So it turns around. Apparently the United States tried to board it or at least monitored it

00:04:42.380 at that point, but didn't board it. It turns around. And then it obviously realises it's

00:04:48.640 like in some deep S as far as America just seizing it or something. Because the US has seized

00:04:56.240 oil tankers before. This isn't the first time. Nowhere near the first time. And it might be

00:04:59.680 the last, I imagine. It's the sort of thing they do. Sort of bread and butter in a way for

00:05:05.540 them. So it turns around, like it turns its responders off. It's like monitoring GPS,

00:05:12.920 whatever. It turns all that off. Changes its name. But it's definitely dodgy behaviour.

00:05:18.680 It's not a normal, completely legit ship. That's fair to say. Changes its name from the

00:05:25.840 bellowan to like the marinara. And then it like, while still at sea, like re, I don't

00:05:31.700 know, I don't know the exact details about how all this really works, but it rechanged

00:05:35.280 its like designation to be Russian at that point, i.e. not very long ago, just a few weeks

00:05:40.380 ago. It's like, we're Russian now. It's a Russian ship now. That's why in the news you'll

00:05:45.840 see like quite specific wording that it's a Russian flagged ship. Not Russian built, not

00:05:51.720 Russian owned, not really Russian like operated, but Russian flagged. Anyway, all right. So

00:06:00.260 it's, okay, it's a Russian ship. And it hasn't got any oil on board. It's not like full of

00:06:05.520 like millions of tons of oil or thousands, thousands of tons of oil. It hasn't got, it hasn't got

00:06:09.780 oil on board. And then it starts running. It starts fleeing in the Atlantic, north and

00:06:16.360 east. And, uh, yeah. And just yesterday, eventually, uh, the United States and Britain

00:06:23.700 caught up with it, caught it and boarded it. Um, so it was when they got it, it was somewhere,

00:06:29.040 it was like halfway between the top of Scotland and Iceland. It was halfway between Iceland and

00:06:34.420 Scotland when they finally got it. And, um, yeah, I mean, not a million miles away from

00:06:40.940 Greenland waters. Um, and although it was the US that actually boarded it, apparently

00:06:47.600 they were like, uh, coast guard chaps, I guess, fairly specialist coast guard chaps, but it

00:06:54.600 wasn't like, it wasn't Delta Force or, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't sort of crack, crack

00:06:59.880 special forces. As I understand, that was one thing I read. Anyway, I might be wrong. Correct

00:07:03.180 to me about that if more details come out today. Oh, lovely cup of tea. Nothing better

00:07:11.000 than a cup of tea. I'm a tea drinker, not a coffee man. Um, so splash and grab. There

00:07:18.020 we go. Uh, apparently UK assets were involved. There was at least one RAF aircraft involved,

00:07:23.620 at least one Royal Navy support ship involved. Because it's sort of, not exactly in our waters,

00:07:29.900 but it's in our, certainly in our region, you know, just off of Scotland. I mean, I say

00:07:34.180 just off of Scotland. It's quite a long way from Scotland. Halfway between Scotland and

00:07:38.220 Iceland is a massive stretch of water. But still, it's in our region, shall we say. Uh,

00:07:45.160 so yeah, there was, our Defence Secretary did a little, uh, statement to Parliament saying

00:07:50.080 everything we done was completely legit. You know, it's all legit. Basically, it's what

00:07:55.060 you're saying. Make of that what you will. Okay, so this is the big story today. This is

00:07:59.820 the big one. All right, the eye paper says, UK ready to see more of Putin's shadow ships

00:08:04.800 as grey war grows. So that's what I've seen a lot of papers and news saying this morning.

00:08:10.520 They're calling it a grey war. I've not really heard that expression much before. Um, often

00:08:18.200 it's like people talk about a cold war or a hot war. A hot war obviously being actually

00:08:23.100 bullets and missiles and things flying around and a cold war being everything short of that.

00:08:28.420 They talk about a grey war. Um, so okay, I mean it does seem the case. I think it is the 0.98

00:08:36.300 case, isn't it? That, um, with all these sanctions and things flying around, that the other countries

00:08:43.820 that are being sanctioned by us, by the West, by Europe and the United States, um, they still,

00:08:50.920 they still carry on their business, just in a slightly more covert way. Um, and so there's

00:08:59.920 a war against that in various ways. There is loads and loads of, uh, basically illegal,

00:09:06.660 again, as far as we're concerned, illegal shipping going all around the world all the time.

00:09:10.540 Right. So it just seems like Trump and Hegseth have decided that they're going to just be a bit

00:09:19.540 more aggressive about it, a bit more. Like I say, this isn't in, this isn't unprecedented,

00:09:23.940 the seizing of a tanker like this. Far from, in fact, far from unprecedented. Um, but today,

00:09:31.000 for whatever reason, it's the way the news cycle goes. It's sort of, um, front and center,

00:09:35.940 you know, on some other days, I've definitely seen days when something very, very similar,

00:09:41.580 if not identical to this happens. And it's like barely registers in the news cycle. I've seen that

00:09:48.260 a number of times, but today, for whatever reason, they decided, I suppose, because it's

00:09:52.300 near Greenland and because it's all part of the same news cycle thing of Trump being more aggressive,

00:09:59.360 that it just makes sense from an editorial point of view to put this thing front and center.

00:10:03.160 Because it does seem quite, um, sensationalist, doesn't it? If you, if you don't necessarily

00:10:08.880 realize that it's kind of common, um, common's probably a bit of an exaggeration to call it

00:10:13.740 common, but it's not like a crazy thing that Trump's suddenly doing something mad now. Um,

00:10:20.760 that's all, that's all I would say. Put it in some perspective. Uh, uh, nonetheless, I mean,

00:10:26.860 Russia and Iran can't be happy about it, can they? 0.56

00:10:33.160 Okay. Okay. The Financial Times, the FT goes with,

00:10:38.740 US seizes tanker and aims to control Venezuelan crude sales indefinitely. Uh, well, yeah, I mean,

00:10:46.140 that's the whole point, isn't it? Uh, yeah, I mean, Trump's been pretty honest about that since,

00:10:51.460 not that he excuses it, but at least, at the very least, he's been completely honest about it.

00:10:55.640 Um, from day one, literally day one, saying, yeah, we're going to take over their oil industry.

00:11:01.600 I mean, we built it for them in the first place. That is also true, essentially. Not that that's

00:11:07.700 fair. Me and Dan Tubb of Lotus Eaters fame, uh, did a cool, I think a really interesting bit of

00:11:14.600 content. I think, I can't remember if it was an Epochs My History show or whether it was for

00:11:19.400 Brokonomics, his, his show. I think it was a Brokonomics. We did a very interesting bit of content about,

00:11:24.320 uh, a kind of famous, certainly very interesting book called Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

00:11:30.780 Quite famous book. And it's about a guy and his career is more in the sixties and seventies.

00:11:36.960 And it was all about how America has built its empire, sort of dollar imperialism. Um, instead

00:11:45.940 of going around the world and put, and having wars and putting boots on the ground, like sort

00:11:49.940 of Mongol style, British empire style. Um, instead you just do it through money because in the Korean 1.00

00:11:57.880 war, if nothing else, certainly in Vietnam, America realized it's just, uh, it's not a good idea. It's

00:12:03.440 not an economical use of force and power and influence and leverage to just send in cycle through

00:12:10.220 400,000 soldiers through a country for 10 years. And then at the end of it all, it doesn't really

00:12:15.520 work anyway. So another way of doing it is you say to a country, a poor country that you want on

00:12:22.380 yourself, or a poorer country than you, which is nearly all the countries in the world, say

00:12:26.460 something along the lines of, you want loads of infrastructure, don't you? You want loads of

00:12:31.960 brand new motorways and airports and, and, and ports and, uh, power stations and bridges. You want

00:12:38.540 all of that, don't you? We'll do that all for you. We'll pay for all of that for you. We'll do it all

00:12:43.180 for you. Um, and we'll lend, we'll basically lend you the money to do it and you get a brilliant

00:12:48.980 country out of it. And all we want in return is there's the VIG. We want interest. We will take

00:12:56.040 interest, but also probably we want some sort of military base. And in the Cold War context,

00:13:02.300 you'll be on our side, right? Something like that. And, uh, and, you know, sort of, if you don't take

00:13:11.600 that carrot, the stick is that the CIA might murder your leader. And then if you still don't

00:13:19.680 fall in line, maybe then we'll send in troops. The carrot and the stick. But, um, okay. So

00:13:28.240 for Venezuela, it got to the point where no carrots were working, right? They'd already done the

00:13:33.680 carrot, building them, their own oil industry, essentially. And then when Chavez just nationalizes

00:13:40.300 that, that's ours now. And, and of course, Maduro going further, if anything. Well, now

00:13:48.620 Trump's done this and, uh, you know, Hegseth and Rubio and Trump are all saying we, we run

00:13:55.400 Venezuela now. Uh, yeah, they're taking over the, all the entire oil industry indefinitely.

00:14:00.880 Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. The FT says Trump bets on reshaping oil markets. But yeah, it will

00:14:09.780 reshape the oil market, won't it? I mean, of course. Authority of OPEC challenged. Yeah.

00:14:16.200 So OPEC, the, uh, sort of the Middle Eastern oil producing countries. I mean, we're mainly

00:14:22.380 talking about, you know, like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, like countries like that, uh, where

00:14:28.000 they've got, had for a long time in, in a sense, in, to a limited degree, people can argue

00:14:33.600 with me all about this one. People do argue about it. How powerful OPEC really is in terms

00:14:39.060 of its ability to control the entire world's oil supplies and price. But if Trump gets his

00:14:49.480 hands on, well, hands, isn't he? But when he gets his hands on a thriving Venezuelan oil

00:14:55.840 producing, um, industry, well, OPEC's power over the United States and the whole world's

00:15:04.600 oil prices and things, uh, will be diminished, won't it? Um, personally, I think that's for

00:15:14.340 a good thing. It is sort of out of the frying pan into, into the fire for everyone else.

00:15:18.120 But do I really want, like, the House of Al Saud dominating oil? Not really. No. Is it 0.96

00:15:29.520 any better that it's the United States are doing it, you know, from an Englishman's point

00:15:32.820 of view, say? I mean, marginally. Maybe. Well, there you go. Uh, what else have they

00:15:39.400 got here? Octopus's flair for camouflage inspires synthetic skin that can disguise robots. 0.57

00:15:44.280 Sounds terrifying? Doesn't it? That sounds terrifying. But okay. This is the future we're going

00:15:58.000 to. The Times says, UK joins in pursuit of Putin's shadow fleet. Yeah, we were involved. Yeah.

00:16:04.780 Well, Starmer, Sir Queer finally got a call on the old blower from the Don. Um, they finally 0.99

00:16:14.600 had a phone call between each other and apparently they discussed, as I understand it, and we don't

00:16:20.920 get a great deal of information. We certainly don't get a transcript of what it is. But the

00:16:25.420 number 10 does release a statement saying that we've definitely, the Prime Minister has definitely

00:16:30.960 had a conversation with the President. And, um, just two or three lines of saying, yes, we

00:16:35.740 spoke. Yes, we spoke about Venezuela, Greenland, and this effectively joint military operation

00:16:42.300 that's just taken place. And that's it. There's no details of what they actually said. Which

00:16:46.000 is fair enough. Sort of. I mean, you know, the outside world, we, normal people, the chattering

00:16:52.820 classes, would, uh, would like to know exactly what was said, but they don't have to. So we

00:17:00.160 just know that they did speak. And, um, yeah, we were definitely, the RAF and the, uh, Royal

00:17:06.200 Navy were certainly involved on some level with this. British spire planes and a Royal Navy

00:17:11.200 support ship helped US forces seize blockade-breaking oil tanker. There you go. I don't know why

00:17:18.120 papers have to talk like that, in that sort of cadence, in that sort of, you know, newspaper

00:17:24.320 tone. They don't have to do that, do they? But they, they do, don't they? Okay. The Guardian.

00:17:35.920 The Guardian. What have they say today? US seizes a Russian-flagged tanker in higher stakes

00:17:41.180 disatlantic operation, yeah. High drama on the higher seas.

00:17:50.900 I don't think it was massively dramatic in the sense that, like, the tanker tried to put

00:17:55.320 up any defence or anything. But still, I suppose any, any operation like this, you know, boarding

00:18:01.160 a ship at sea is sort of quite exciting, isn't it? I think, you know, reasonably. But, um,

00:18:09.080 I don't think it was particularly high stakes. You know, if that tanker had, like, SAM missiles

00:18:15.000 on it, or it had security forces that were firing at the incoming choppers, might have

00:18:21.000 been a bit more high stakes. But there you go, okay. You've got, they've got to sell papers,

00:18:23.820 haven't they? We've got to make it sort of eye-catching, make you want to read it. Uh, Reeves criticizes

00:18:29.480 Farage for benefit cap division. Uh, this is the story about the benefits cap in Britain. Um, you

00:18:37.460 know, whether you get welfare, various types of welfare, child support, um, if you've got loads of

00:18:46.220 kids. So, in the last government, the Tory government said, if you have more than two kids, you don't get

00:18:53.120 welfare support for them. In other words, if you're really poor, if you're living basically

00:18:57.860 in poverty or on the breadline, um, we don't encourage you to have six kids. Uh, I thought

00:19:06.580 that's reasonable, really. If you can't really afford to raise kids, if you're going to keep

00:19:10.380 having kids and you can't afford to buy them shoes or put food on the table for them, probably

00:19:16.180 not a great idea to keep having kids then. Well, the Labour government came in and said all

00:19:20.800 of that is sort of inhuman or in whatever way. It's like evil to do that. Like you want

00:19:24.740 kids to be in poverty. Not really. And so, of course, Nigel Farage is sort of of the more

00:19:33.580 Tory thinking, you know, the more reasonable, actually, the more reasonable thinking way

00:19:38.540 of looking at this. And Labour are of the more, let's have endless welfare. Let's tax more 0.61

00:19:46.760 for more welfare because anything other than the redistribution of wealth from hard

00:19:50.780 working people to scroungers is anything other than that is sort of wrong. There you go.

00:19:58.040 That's classic. That's the, that's the, that's Labour for you. Socialists, pinkos. Uh, what 0.86

00:20:04.600 else we got? Serial rapists kept Met jobs, Met police, London police. Serial rapists kept

00:20:10.600 London police jobs after vetting failure. Brilliant. Brilliant. I mean, what can you say with stories

00:20:20.460 like that? Just absurd. Living in a crazy, crazy, so there's a headline later on on one

00:20:26.220 of the websites we'll see. Um, it was a black dude. Does that matter? I mean, one of the 0.98

00:20:32.100 headlines we'll see, I think, hopefully, that it was, that their excuse is that it was for

00:20:37.020 DEI, it was for diversity quotas that they kept this black dude and failed to vet him that 0.99

00:20:45.100 he was a serial rapist. I think even a, I can't remember, we'll have a look later, but I think 0.97

00:20:50.420 it might have been child sex crime, even. I mean, what are we doing here, people?

00:20:58.460 The Independent. The Independent goes with, Kremlin fury as UK helps US to seize Russian

00:21:08.820 oil tanker. The Kremlin's furious. Well, it wasn't even their ship till like two weeks ago

00:21:16.020 or three, three weeks ago or something. But still, again, you can, if you try and look

00:21:20.980 at the world just from purely, say, Putin's point of view. I was trying to do this on the

00:21:24.680 podcast yesterday. Try and look at the Greenland thing purely from like Hegseth's point of view

00:21:29.720 or the US point of view. Things do look different, don't they, to like the rest of the world. If

00:21:34.440 you look at this from purely, just for a moment, look at it purely from the Kremlin's point of

00:21:39.320 view, it would be annoying and frustrating, wouldn't it? There's no two ways about that.

00:21:44.700 It's like, this is something that was working in our interest for our interests and you've just

00:21:50.880 nabbed it off the board. Yeah. Okay, the Independent says, aided by RAF, US captures

00:21:57.840 sanction-busting ghost ship, quote, ghost ship. In seas north of Britain, after a dramatic race

00:22:06.500 with Putin's navy, Estama is urged to take on thieving Trump over Greenland. So they're mixing

00:22:11.800 up all the stories, all the narratives here, really. Because this tanker hasn't really got anything

00:22:17.440 to do with Greenland or the State Department's policy on Greenland. I mean, I suppose it has

00:22:22.600 tangentially, or a bit, hasn't it? They overlap a bit. But here, the Independent's just really,

00:22:27.180 really merging all those stories. Okay, the Telegraph, the Toregraph, going with,

00:22:32.600 Badenoch blueprint to save our pubs.

00:22:36.980 Kemi Badenoch, the Nigerian woman who's the head of the Tory party,

00:22:39.760 wants to save our pubs now, apparently.

00:22:51.620 Don't believe a word that woman says or does. I don't believe a word any of the Toreists say

00:22:57.140 or do. People like Suella Breverman or James Cleverley or Preeti Patel, none of them. Now,

00:23:02.540 they had their shot. They had years and years to be in power and do stuff. And they screwed

00:23:06.700 it all up and acted against our interests repeatedly. Kind of doomed us to a sectarian 0.89

00:23:13.860 nightmare, demographically. But now they really care about our pubs, do they? Do they?

00:23:19.780 Wasn't Kemi Badenoch not that long ago gloating in Parliament about how she got loads more foreign

00:23:25.660 people to come in on, like, student visas and stuff, when she thought that was the politically

00:23:30.280 advantageous thing for her and her career to do, to gloat about, to do that and gloat about it.

00:23:34.960 But now it's all about, there's too many immigrants and we must save our pubs and Englishness and 1.00

00:23:40.420 Britishness is at the top of her priorities and all that stuff. Don't buy it. I don't buy it. 0.99

00:23:49.400 I'd deport her. She's a Nigerian person. She's a cuckoo in the nest. She's a fifth columnist. 1.00

00:23:57.900 What's she doing here? What's she even doing here, let alone an MP? Let alone the leader of the 1.00

00:24:05.680 opposition? Are you kidding me? What a perverse thing. What an absolutely disgusting and perverse

00:24:11.040 thing. Okay. British forces helped Trump seize Russian oil tanker. Met police hired black child 0.98

00:24:17.580 rapists to boost diversity credentials. Mad. Mad. If that reporting is right, if that is exactly what 1.00

00:24:27.460 happened and went down. Mad. Mad. An embarrassment. The whole country, not just the Met Police. An

00:24:37.700 embarrassment to us as a people that we've allowed things to, like that, to happen, to be possible

00:24:45.240 to happen. To boost diversity credentials, you'll hire a black child rapist. That's the headline. 1.00

00:24:57.900 That's the headline. The bottom. Met police hired black child rapists to boost diversity credentials. 0.99

00:25:03.700 Can you think of anything more sickening? Well, actually there are lots more, but still. 1.00

00:25:07.840 Okay. Daily Express. What do they go with? Don't run down clock on safe right to die law.

00:25:25.000 Okay. Yeah. This is about the piece of legislation going through parliament about, you know, the

00:25:31.920 right to, the right to die. Yeah. To, to take your life early if you want to. We've talked about this

00:25:39.220 on the podcast before. I've had it before. My position is, um, I'm not a hundred percent against

00:25:45.940 it because there certainly are cases when you're, someone is dying, definitely dying. They're just in

00:25:53.060 palliative care. There's nothing that can be done for them. No drugs, no operations, nothing. It's

00:26:00.380 simply a case of lying in a hospital bed with a morphine drip until you die. And that might take

00:26:06.240 weeks, months. And even the drugs don't work anymore. The painkillers don't work much or properly

00:26:14.960 anymore. And you want to die. I think someone like that should be allowed to die. Okay.

00:26:22.300 Because some people say never, ever, ever. Only God, uh, should, life is sacred and only God

00:26:28.200 should decide when you die. So I don't agree with that. I think some people should be allowed

00:26:34.060 to die of their own if they choose. Problem is, of course, obviously, isn't it? Is that it will,

00:26:41.000 it's a slippery slope. It will be immediately taken to like people that, you know, people that

00:26:47.640 are just a bit depressed. The doctor says, we can make you die if you want to. And they're so depressed. 0.98

00:26:53.700 They go, yeah, go on then. And then it happens. And that's, that's not right. That's not good.

00:26:58.120 Right. It will, doctors will be like, instead of trying to save your life, they'll just end

00:27:01.620 your life. It could, it could end up with all sorts of abuses to that. A bit like, a bit

00:27:09.340 like abortion. I'm one of those people who thinks in some extreme cases, abortion should

00:27:13.640 be okay. Like for, say, a rape victim. Or if you know the child is sort of terribly, terribly,

00:27:21.760 terribly, uh, um, ill or diseased, it's going to have a very, very short, painful life. Maybe

00:27:29.000 in those circumstances, uh, abortion is the best for everyone involved. So I'm not one of

00:27:35.720 those people who's like, never, ever, ever an abortion ever under any circumstances. But

00:27:39.520 it is like, for me, very, very rare. Okay. But then it's taken to, immediately taken to

00:27:45.020 extreme lengths, isn't it? Any woman that just doesn't want a baby for any reason, just 1.00

00:27:49.540 abort it. All the way up to, like, six, seven, eight months, nine months pregnant. That's

00:27:55.400 obviously the, the worry, isn't it? That it just goes, it just goes, it just isn't sort of

00:27:59.900 quite quickly, almost immediately. The idea of it, the concept of it is abused.

00:28:04.500 So anyway, all right, anyway. It's going through the House of the, uh, Parliament as, uh, the

00:28:12.500 House of Commons has passed it, and it's gone to the House of Lords, um, and the House of

00:28:16.520 Lords are sort of resisting it. And, um, other people, mainly Labour, um, members of Parliament

00:28:25.160 of the House of Commons, are just sort of putting pressure on the Lords, calling and saying that

00:28:30.160 they'll do their own reputation significant harm if they don't pass this bill. Thing is,

00:28:35.600 I think I said yesterday, was it, or the day before, um, that ultimately the House of Lords

00:28:39.420 can't block legislation indefinitely anyway. So one way or another, the Commons are going 0.98

00:28:44.100 to get what, what they want. So, there you go. The, uh, the Express thinks that's front

00:28:53.640 page news. The Daily Mail, they go with, uh, you need to be on fat jabs for life. Oxford

00:29:02.940 study shows patients coming off the drugs, uh, coming off the drugs, pile pounds back on

00:29:08.640 within two years. Well, yeah, if you go back to eating loads of cakes and pies and drinking

00:29:14.100 loads of beer or whatever, yeah, you'll pile the pounds back on, yeah. I've got very, I've

00:29:19.620 got very little sympathy for, um, very fat people, morbidly obese people. Right, it is

00:29:28.680 true, isn't it, that some people genuinely, genuinely got like a thyroid problem or some

00:29:33.940 sort of, some sort of real physiological problem which makes them morbidly obese and makes them

00:29:39.860 very, very fat. Um, that's actually quite rare. Most fat people are just eating too much

00:29:45.900 and doing no work, leading a sedentary life, choosing to lead a sedentary life and choosing

00:29:50.320 to eat loads. So, I've got very little sympathy for them, really. I mean, yeah, if you, if

00:30:00.100 you have to take drugs, you won't, you won't stop eating loads of cake and pies. So, I'll

00:30:04.780 just take drugs to make sure I don't get really, really fat. Already, that's a bit weird to

00:30:09.600 me, but it's not a good idea. It's not great, is it? Um, and then when you stop taking those

00:30:13.680 drugs, you get fat again. Yeah, yeah, probably, yeah. Why don't you change your lifestyle?

00:30:17.540 Why don't you change your diet? Why don't you stop being such a pig? I think fat shaming 1.00

00:30:23.000 should be a thing. Yeah, stop eating loads. It's pretty straightforward. Is that harsh?

00:30:32.880 Am I being way, way, way ridiculously harsh?

00:30:40.620 All right, let's see. The Sun. What's The Sun got going on?

00:30:45.300 TV drama on Sun Investigation. Look who's Hugh. So, Martin Clunes. Okay, so The Sun thinks

00:30:52.780 this is front page news today, that there's going to be a TV drama all about Hugh Edwards,

00:30:57.040 and Hugh Edwards is going to be played by Martin Clunes. There you go. Front page news, The

00:31:03.000 Sun. Boom.

00:31:06.180 If anyone doesn't remember, there was a TV. Anyone who's British would know. Anyone who's

00:31:12.140 not British probably wouldn't know. Just let everyone out there know that the, like, something

00:31:17.420 like two-thirds of the audience here, something like that, are British. About a third is US,

00:31:25.920 and then the next one, or roughly, these are rough figures, and then like five percent or

00:31:31.140 so, something like in that ballpark, are Australian. So, in fact, I've got to put on, I've got to 0.86

00:31:37.660 put Australian news. I haven't got it this morning, but going forward, I'll try and put like an

00:31:42.380 Australian news channel thing on there, because we have got a fair bunch of Aussies watching.

00:31:49.440 Hugh Edwards was a BBC news presenter, a staple for years. It was like a household name, basically.

00:31:56.380 Everyone would have known his face. He was a newsreader, really, really, one of the most famous

00:32:01.380 newsreaders. Turns out he was a little bit of a wrong-un. I'm saying a little bit. I mean,

00:32:09.380 it wasn't like he was going around Epstein in people, but apparently he had on his phone or his

00:32:15.980 laptop or something, like, really dodgy pictures. I think they were pedo pictures. He, like, 0.57

00:32:22.720 shared them around or just accepted them, and oh, he took pictures of his own butt. 0.99

00:32:29.520 Took pictures of his own butt and was sending them around. So, you know, dodgy as hell, like, 0.99

00:32:37.520 pretty bad. He was convicted. He went to trial, fully convicted. All this is a matter of record.

00:32:42.220 I can't be done for any sort of defamation or libel or anything. It's all a matter of record.

00:32:48.720 And, well, The Sun has taken credit for some of the investigation into all of that,

00:32:52.920 sort of breaking the story and things. And now there's going to be a TV drama about it.

00:32:57.880 Martin Clunes gets the lead role, and that is front-page news, according to The Sun.

00:33:03.660 All righty. The Mirror, even worse slop. I mean, that was kind of sloppy, wasn't it? That's a bit,

00:33:11.220 that's slop adjacent. The Mirror, even more slop. They're going with, for some reason,

00:33:16.720 they're really interested in that little mix singer and the really sad story of her children,

00:33:25.060 of her disabled children. And they went with it earlier in the week, didn't they? I think on Monday,

00:33:29.480 even, they went with her story. And they're still going with it. The editor there, or the editorial

00:33:35.780 team, whoever it is, have decided it's important. They say, as singer tells of checks that could

00:33:43.120 have helped twins, we join calls for Jessie tests. Jessie tests now. Again, I'm not saying it's not

00:33:54.380 unimportant, or I haven't got sympathy for her, or other families that have suffered with the same

00:34:00.060 thing. But is it the most important thing going on in the world? Because, you know, if you're the

00:34:08.660 editor of a newspaper, an actual, you know, nationwide newspaper, you can choose anything in the world to

00:34:17.280 report on, to put on your front page. And they choose this. I mean, it's just not that serious,

00:34:23.620 is it? They're not being particularly serious. Talking about not being serious. The Daily Star,

00:34:29.220 as Trump nabs oil ship. This guy saying, you can take our greens, but not our land. Apparently,

00:34:37.960 there's a place in Britain, or is it even in Scotland, or is it in the UK, that's also called

00:34:45.020 Greenland? Right? Okay, let's establish that. And that the people there were saying,

00:34:51.860 Mr. Trump, hands off our land. I mean, it's the sludge at the bottom of the slop barrel,

00:35:00.420 isn't it? I mean, so much so, it's funny. It's sort of funny. I guess that, I mean,

00:35:05.700 that is the point. Sort of not trying, not even trying to be serious. Right?

00:35:11.680 Braveheart Scots tell golf nut Don to skedaddle. Yeah, all right then. All right, the star. All

00:35:18.520 right, if you say so. All right, let's move on to, let's move on to just the websites. All right,

00:35:24.740 so this is a, this is a story from the, coming out of the US, which is all over even our news.

00:35:30.200 US immigration agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis. So what it was, I did see a clip

00:35:36.920 of it. Some ICE agent stopped a car. They were going to, I think, I think they were going to

00:35:45.020 detain the woman. So maybe she was, I don't know all the details, because it only just happened

00:35:49.160 basically. But maybe she was facing deportation or something. And she just drives away. Just goes

00:35:57.600 to drive away. And, and it's not like she was imminently going to drive straight through an

00:36:05.260 ICE agent or a policeman, a sheriff, whatever it is. But they did have to sort of, I think,

00:36:09.500 sort of jink out of the way. But as sort of, as that happens, he fires a shot sort of through

00:36:16.200 the windscreen, I believe. And it hit her and killed her. And the car crashes just a few

00:36:20.780 yards up the road. So that happened. My feelings on that are, from just seeing the clip once,

00:36:31.080 and, you know, if you rewatch it in slow-mo and all sorts of things, you might come to

00:36:34.820 a different decision. My opinion is this. That officer didn't really need to shoot. I don't

00:36:43.460 think he was sort of incomplete. Like, if he didn't shoot, he still wouldn't have got run

00:36:47.560 over. So there's that angle. The other angle is, don't evade arrest. Like, if the cops are

00:37:01.240 arresting you, or trying to arrest you, or told you that you're under arrest now, don't

00:37:06.740 resist it. Certainly don't run away. Certainly don't drive a vehicle towards them in any way,

00:37:12.200 shape or form. And that goes even for, in Britain, where most cops don't have guns. We do have armed

00:37:18.420 response officers, of course, but the average beat cop in Britain doesn't even have a gun.

00:37:22.960 If you're in America, where every single cop's got a gun, I think you've got to be mad.

00:37:29.600 You must be absolutely mad to be resisting arrest, be fighting with them, to just drive away from

00:37:36.480 them, to drive remotely towards them. Like, don't, don't do that. It's crazy. That's crazy.

00:37:44.980 Or like, you know, and so the argument is going on straight away, isn't it? On one side is saying,

00:37:52.640 well, this was just a police murder. The murder, the police just murdered this woman.

00:37:56.980 And the other side of the argument is saying, well, she got herself killed, basically. If she

00:38:01.600 hadn't have done what she just did, she'd still be alive. Well, watch the clip for yourself, I suppose.

00:38:11.880 I mean, she did get herself killed, but that cop didn't have to shoot, right? He didn't have to.

00:38:21.320 But then it would have been a car chase, wouldn't it? Then it would have, the cops were obliged to

00:38:26.900 then chase her down. So, which could have been worse. She could have crashed into other people,

00:38:33.980 hit pedestrians, God knows what. Cops could have got injured or killed in that. So, don't ever,

00:38:43.000 don't, pretty much don't ever run from the cops. And if you're in America, or if you're in any

00:38:49.400 country where all the cops are armed, really don't run from the cops. It's not gonna, it's almost

00:38:53.960 certainly not gonna end well for you. That's my feeling about that. There you go. What else have

00:39:01.160 we got? Storm Goretti, that's in the UK, set to hit UK with heavy snowfall and strong winds. Yeah,

00:39:07.100 they were saying yesterday that it was meant to hit yesterday, and now they're saying it's gonna hit

00:39:11.500 today. So, okay, there's that. Andrew, that's Prince Andrew, or ex-Prince Andrew. He's now just

00:39:18.280 Andrew Mountbatten, isn't he? Or Andrew Windsor. Um, he's not Prince Andrew. He's just, he's just

00:39:24.300 Andrew. Andrew was paid millions for mansion by oligarch with funds from firm linked to bribery

00:39:31.400 scheme. Andrew is just can't, can't catch a break, can he? Not that I care. I've always hated Andrew,

00:39:41.560 even before, even before, I say hate. Hate's a bit strong. I've always disliked Andrew, even before

00:39:47.900 everyone knew about all of his Epstein connections and all that sort of thing. Um, Andrew and Fergie,

00:39:55.720 his wife, Sarah Ferguson, uh, were always sort of, uh, annoying and obnoxious and arrogant and, on, 0.98

00:40:03.440 and all those sorts of things. Um, so to see his sort of disastrous fall from grace and sort of

00:40:10.560 endless scandal and things, um, yeah, sort of funny. He can't, he, he, he's truly disgraced for

00:40:20.880 all time. I mean, he will go down in history as a disgrace, right? There's no way back for him in any,

00:40:28.080 in any real way, is there? Um, okay. What else have we got? People who come off slimming jabs,

00:40:33.980 regain weight four times faster than dieters. I mean,

00:40:39.800 Sean, it depends what your diet is though, doesn't it? Well, they just, they just can't help putting

00:40:45.720 on weight four times faster. You can, you can. Inside the sub-zero layer of the world's most

00:40:53.600 powerful computer. That's sort of interesting to me. If I had endless time, I'd probably go into

00:40:57.980 that article and read all about it. Read all about it. Um, that sort of thing is, uh, hopefully

00:41:03.920 today, if I can, I'll get to some science stuff. In fact, let's do that. Let's, uh, in, on the first

00:41:08.640 show, I told you I'd have, like, if there was ever time, I'd get to sort of science and space news,

00:41:14.080 and I haven't done it yet because, um, we've just talked about normal news, but maybe today we'll get

00:41:18.600 to a bit of it. In fact, let's just, uh, move on then. ITV News website, what have we got? Oh,

00:41:22.940 they go with the ice, uh, Minneapolis shooting. Um, millions in Britain at risk of nasal spray,

00:41:30.680 quote, addiction, ITV News survey suggests. I had sinusitis once, an infection of the sinus.

00:41:39.220 Actually, it was an upper sinus I had. And it was, it was terrible. It's some of the worst pain I've

00:41:43.740 ever had. It was really, really bad. It was, it felt like there was, like, some sort of creature

00:41:49.760 in my skull trying to burrow its way out of my skull. For a while, I was like, have I got a

00:41:54.620 brain tumour? Is this it? Am I going to die? It was just sinusitis. It was just an infection

00:41:59.000 of the sinus. But it was excruciating pain. Like, worse than, like, migraine. Like, terrible

00:42:05.540 migraine. If anyone's had a migraine, like, really bad migraine before, you know that it's

00:42:09.520 no joke. It's really no joke. But, yeah, to get addicted to nasal sprays, and I had to have

00:42:14.740 all sorts of nasal sprays for this thing. So, to get addicted to it, not good. U.S. forces

00:42:20.580 involved in the seizure of the Russian flagship. Okay. Let's see. What's Channel 4 going with?

00:42:27.600 Channel 4. Okay. They go with just, just all the same things. Trump, Trump bad on every single

00:42:40.540 level. Everything about the Venezuela, everything Trump does or says absolutely ever, on every

00:42:45.400 level, is evil and bad. So, there you go. That's sort of all you need to know. You don't

00:42:48.900 really need to read what they say. You know what their angle is. Sky News, going with the

00:42:55.660 terrible weather. All right. Oh, look. Police wrongly employed serial rapists. Oh, look.

00:43:01.280 It's serial. It's rapists, plural. They employed serial rapists after vetting relaxed to meet 0.98

00:43:09.060 recruitment targets. Right. So, you completely failed in your charge of serving the public

00:43:18.300 trust, protecting the innocent, and upholding the law. Completely failed in that, just so

00:43:22.780 you can say, look, we've got black officers. Bizarre. Disgustingly bizarre. Okay. The Daily 1.00

00:43:33.900 Mail. The ICE victim named. Oh, there you go. Did I say it was a black woman earlier? I don't

00:43:44.780 know if I did. I hope I didn't. Anyway, it's poet Rene Nicole Good, 37, was named as the

00:43:53.020 woman shot by ICE agents as video captures grieving wife at the scene. Oh, is that

00:43:59.780 maybe? Woman shot dead by immigration customers. Okay. Well, don't just try and drive away from 0.95

00:44:07.920 armed police. I mean, I'm sorry. Don't do that. Should be 101. Should be the things they really

00:44:18.900 teach you in school? There's things they don't teach you in school that they really should,

00:44:22.460 right? They should teach you how to fill out a form correctly. Teach you how to open a bank

00:44:28.080 account. Drill into you not to run from armed police. Can we do that? Can that be a thing?

00:44:35.600 Can that be on the national curriculum? I fear Greenland is on the brink of civil war. Families

00:44:42.040 are torn apart as locals express their anger at both Denmark and Trump. All right.

00:44:48.900 I want to try and get to some of the science or this day in history type news. Let's go

00:44:53.920 over. Oh, let's just skip the express and the sun or the sun. Let's have a quick look.

00:44:58.440 Barmageddon. It's Barmageddon. Happy now. Outraged pub bosses threatened to go on strike

00:45:06.400 and change opening hours in protest at budget tax grab by government. It's Barmageddon.

00:45:11.980 The New York Slimes. When it comes to Russia, Trump navigates conflicting goals. Yeah. President

00:45:22.200 Trump's effort to court President Vladimir Putin of Russia are rife with contradictions

00:45:26.460 about stability and displays of American power. I mean, yeah, it's a difficult tightrope to walk,

00:45:32.340 isn't it? Both from the Russian point of view, dealing with the United States and from the United

00:45:36.200 States point of view, having to deal with Russia. It's a difficult tightrope, isn't it?

00:45:39.720 There's no two ways about that. There probably will be some contradictions. I haven't got

00:45:45.860 time to talk about that in any real depth today. The Washington Post. Local officials dispute

00:45:52.260 Gnome's claims. I guess that's Christie Gnome's claims after a woman fatally shot by ICE officers

00:45:59.660 in Minneapolis. Okay, they go leading with the Minneapolis shooting. What's this? Oh, we've

00:46:07.480 gone across the Pacific over to Japan. The Kyoto News. They're saying, Japan's government

00:46:13.200 hunters confront rising bear encounters.

00:46:20.540 So the Japanese are talking about bear encounters in the wild, I suppose. There's too many bears

00:46:30.680 wild in Japan. Interesting. It was news to me. I didn't really know that was a thing.

00:46:36.720 What have we got here? The Xinhua News Network from China. What are they leading with? What are

00:46:44.180 they actually saying? China aims for secure, reliable supply of AI core tech by 2027. China solves

00:46:53.580 258,000 telecom online fraud cases in 2025. China's railway passengers trips exceed 4.5

00:47:02.680 billion in 2025. China admits to fostering peace, friendship, cooperation in South China Sea,

00:47:09.380 says spokesman. Yeah, all right. Okay. China's central bank to conduct 1.1 trillion yuan outright reverse

00:47:18.360 repo operation. All right. China surpasses U.S. as Vietnam's largest shrimp market.

00:47:26.920 Okay. Feature. Italian firm bullish on China's winter sports market. China's foreign exchange

00:47:34.860 reserves rise in December 2025. So as you can see there, as I say most days, China, the Xinhua network,

00:47:42.700 just kind of almost uniformly talks about how good China is and how well it's doing.

00:47:51.000 Interesting scene, nonetheless. What's this? India. Yeah. Okay. Don't care. Don't care. 1.00

00:47:56.720 Got to take that tab off there. Really don't care about it. All right. TASS or TASS, Russian news

00:48:02.540 agency, say, U.S. to file criminal charges against marinara ship crew, says attorney general.

00:48:09.600 So America's even, according to the Russians, the U.S. is even going to go further and try

00:48:18.160 and prosecute the ship's crew and or the captain. So some things that they've, they're going

00:48:23.840 to try and prosecute the captain. White House to get undecided on whether it will seek elections

00:48:28.720 in Venezuela this year. Again, this is the Russian saying this. Minneapolis protester shot dead

00:48:35.020 by U.S. immigration officer. Okay. All right. Quick look at build. The Germans. I must say 1.00

00:48:45.440 the Germans is usually, usually quite sloppy on the scale, on the spectrum of seriousness 1.00

00:48:52.580 and slop. They're usually much more towards the slop end. Have they even got anything particularly

00:48:58.340 new or interesting? How Berlin is turning the power back on. If anyone didn't see this

00:49:03.300 story, in Berlin, the other day, a few days ago, some left-wing, and I believe it is a

00:49:08.940 matter of record, some left-wing or even far left-wing organisation, terrorist organisation,

00:49:16.360 they, like, did some, like, quite extreme destruction of, like, power stations or sub-power stations,

00:49:23.340 something like this. I should look at the details properly, but from what I remember from two

00:49:27.320 or three days ago, should have reported it then. And they, they destroyed something or

00:49:31.560 other in Berlin, and it made, they gave power outages for a big chunk of Berlin. And I believe

00:49:39.100 there was fires, fire crews had to come out and put fires out and stuff. And it's only days

00:49:43.360 later that they're sort of sorting it all out and getting power back to loads of Berlin.

00:49:48.220 And, yeah, it was like a left-wing group that did that, or far left even, I saw it reported.

00:49:58.320 Interesting, isn't it, that the rest of the world, in Britain or in the US, not a peep,

00:50:02.380 not a dicky bird about that. And even in the German news, it's sort of, it's not top of,

00:50:07.500 it's not top of the agenda. I know it's a classic thing and almost a cliche, an annoying

00:50:15.560 cliche to say, imagine if it was the other way around. Imagine if it was a right-wing

00:50:19.580 group that did something like this, the outrage that would come from the corporate mainstream

00:50:23.600 media, legacy media. But sometimes it is worth pointing that out, saying that, I think.

00:50:29.380 And this case, I mean, imagine if that, imagine if it was an actual neo-Nazi group or something

00:50:34.280 or other, or just, or not even that, just like a hardline patriotic group or anything

00:50:39.560 that did that, blew up stuff, destroyed loads of stuff that gave power outages to a major

00:50:46.920 capital city. The outrage that would cause, it would go down in history, they'd be talking

00:50:51.620 about it years later, like Cable Street or something. They'd be talking about it 50 years

00:50:56.380 later. Whereas this, just sweep it under the carpet, just, well, yeah, something, something

00:51:01.840 happened, but don't worry about really who did it or why or anything like that. It's just,

00:51:05.580 anyway, move on next. There you go. That's the corporate mainstream media for you, even

00:51:11.100 in Germany, particularly in Germany. Right, Le Monde, the French, they say, and this is

00:51:20.360 a quote from someone, they tried to erase our history, end quote. Sudan's national heritage

00:51:24.880 is threatened by war. What, a Sudanese war? In Khartoum, the faces of a martyred capital,

00:51:33.420 war cannot kill ideas, nor love.

00:51:38.980 All right, so the French are interested in a conflict going on in the Sudan. That's what

00:51:44.420 Le Monde thinks should be front and centre. French judges alarmed by rumours of potential

00:51:51.020 US sanctions. All right, that Trump might even sanction France. All right. Okay, let's

00:51:59.220 have a look, a little bit of Twitter news. Let's skip that for today. I want to try and see

00:52:02.800 if there's any science or space news. Oh yes, this was the thing. A bit of space news to end

00:52:08.360 the show on, because we're getting towards the top of the hour. This, NASA continues to work

00:52:15.240 towards February launch of Artemis 2. So the Artemis missions, if anyone doesn't know, we're

00:52:22.920 going back to the moon, or NASA is. Humankind are going back to the moon with manned missions,

00:52:30.720 apparently. Might get a load of comments saying we've never been to the moon, and that all this

00:52:35.680 is fake. You can't go to the moon. You can't leave Earth low orbit, otherwise you'll sort of

00:52:40.700 immediately die of cancer or something. Anyway, I'm one of those peoples that believe the Apollo

00:52:46.540 missions did go to the moon. Maybe not Apollo 11. But I think certainly like Apollo 14 and 15 and

00:52:53.160 stuff definitely went to the moon, as far as I can tell. And I've spent years looking about it,

00:52:58.820 reading about it, and love space stuff and moon stuff and all that sort of thing. So yeah,

00:53:05.880 the Artemis missions, is NASA going to go back to the moon? I believe, and I might be wrong about

00:53:11.140 this, I believe Artemis 2, and there's the crew. You can see a picture of the crew.

00:53:13.980 This guy's the captain, I believe, or commander. I believe Artemis 2, they're going to go to the

00:53:22.900 moon, slingshot around it and come back, just to prove they can do it. Like Apollo 10, or is it

00:53:29.900 Apollo 9? Either Apollo 9 or Apollo 10. They went to the moon, slingshot around it, didn't land on the

00:53:36.460 moon and came back, just to prove they could do that. And then Apollo 11 actually goes and lands.

00:53:40.900 I think Apollo 10, if I'm right, or Apollo 9, they came really close to landing, like within just 100

00:53:47.320 miles of the surface or something like that, or less even. So I think Artemis 2 is they're going to

00:53:52.900 do that, and then Artemis 3 is they're actually going to land on the moon. So human boots back on

00:54:00.460 the lunar surface. That'll be cool. Really cool. Hopefully they'll be able to prove beyond any shadow

00:54:07.980 of a doubt that they've done it for real, and that it's real. Hopefully. And, you know, put the

00:54:12.780 moon landing conspiracy people that say it never happened, quiet them down. But yeah, so it's

00:54:20.720 apparently set for February. Artemis 2, set for February. Yeah, in fact it says there, NASA says

00:54:27.960 it is continuing to prepare for a possible Artemis 2 launch as soon as February, but with remarkably

00:54:33.980 little publicity for the historic mission. Yeah, most people, because I follow space stuff,

00:54:40.780 I know about the Artemis program. But most people, I think, I think I did a podcast of the

00:54:45.640 Lotus Eater segment on it, like last year at some point. Most people don't seem to have

00:54:50.820 ever heard of it still. In fact, I'm sure a lot of people watching this now will, it'll

00:54:56.640 be sort of the first they've ever heard of it, maybe. So we'll see. It'll be one of those

00:55:02.060 things, probably still the majority of normies will have never heard of it when Artemis 3 lands

00:55:08.060 boots on the moon. And you just wake up one morning, and it's like, oh, there's people on

00:55:11.940 the moon again. Oh, I didn't know that was happening, or we were doing that, or billions

00:55:16.620 of dollars and years have been spent making that a reality. But it is, it's happening.

00:55:21.200 Artemis, the Artemis missions. Check it out if you're interested. All right, with only

00:55:26.380 five minutes left to go, let's have a super quick look at On This Day in History. All

00:55:31.480 right, so in 1655, the oldest surviving commercial newspaper, which still runs today, begins its

00:55:39.280 publication. And that was in Harlem in the Netherlands. In 1790, the first US President,

00:55:45.440 George Washington, delivers the first State of the Union address. That was on the 8th of

00:55:50.140 January, 1790. There you go. In 1835, the 8th of January, 1835, US national debt reaches

00:55:58.160 zero for the first and only time in history. Interesting, isn't it? I think so. In 1926,

00:56:08.880 Abdul Al-Aziz Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia, becomes king of Nej and Hijaz, which

00:56:17.160 is in like the western, the Hijaz is in the western half of Saudi Arabia. He becomes king.

00:56:25.180 Yeah, he had a civil war with the other major warlord in Arabia at the time, the one that

00:56:34.340 Lawrence of Arabia backed. The father of... Anyway, the house of Al Saud starts, basically, 0.88

00:56:44.180 in 1926 on This Day. All right, so let's read a few of the super chats and end the hour on

00:56:51.220 there. What have we got here then? So, Rumble Rants, first of all. Figterius says,

00:56:56.100 there was a copper in front of the vehicle which hit him. Oh, okay. Okay. So, she did hit a copper,

00:57:04.100 according to this super chat, this Rumble Rant. So, if that's the case, I mean, you know, it does.

00:57:09.620 I did only see the clip once and briefly. So, if she hit a copper, I mean...

00:57:15.100 All right, if that's what that is. TomRat247 says, adjustable negative income tax fixes all this.

00:57:31.900 Transferable tax allowances from your kids and spouse as a solution to this which stops abuses.

00:57:38.100 Okay, interesting. All right, some of the YouTube super chats. What have we got here?

00:57:44.300 44 Magnum Norse says, we love breakfast with Bo. We also love communists being removed from office.

00:57:51.260 Boom. I like that. I like that. Breakfast with Bo. Bo Show. The Glorious Few.

00:58:02.940 Bo's Breakfast Club. What's his... I can't even read this person's name, I'm afraid.

00:58:09.340 So, Saul... Saul... Saulivus Vectorius 526 says, unironically, this is a best show Lotus Eaters made.

00:58:21.260 Fast on point doesn't take all your time. Thank you, Bo. No, thank you.

00:58:24.380 Thank you for watching. It's you guys that make the Bo Show. You make it... You make it happen.

00:58:34.540 If it weren't for you.

00:58:36.540 Okay, Psycho Hobo says, if it makes you all feel any better, you all are being replaced by slaves of the eventual NWO.

00:58:44.500 Oh. All right.

00:58:49.300 Thanks for the five bucks, though, I suppose.

00:58:52.020 Zeitgeist 3208 says, maybe the Sydney Morning Herald, or even the more based Sky News Australia, but definitely not the age.

00:59:00.260 Melbourne is Australia's socialist cesspit.

00:59:02.260 Okay, yes. So, going forward then, perhaps even from tomorrow, I'll put in some Australian news.

00:59:11.700 And, yeah, I know that Sky News Australia is based. I do watch a bit of Sky News Australia.

00:59:17.460 I know that they quite often have based takes.

00:59:20.860 Yeah, so we'll try and do that going forward.

00:59:26.420 Yes.

00:59:27.160 Psycho Hobo says, globalists.

00:59:30.160 And then we'll just put, uh, Sabbatean Frankists, Jesuits, Masons. 1.00

00:59:38.400 Cool story.

00:59:39.560 Okay. Mason Royce says,

00:59:41.520 will be interesting to see if Minnesota will be willing to riot over a white liberal woman. 1.00

00:59:47.240 Glad to hear some Aussies getting a shout in the future.

00:59:49.960 Okay. Yeah.

00:59:51.380 We'll try and do it.

00:59:52.140 Finally, Psycho Hobo.

00:59:53.400 What's he going to say here?

00:59:54.960 Uh, I'm not even going to read that out.

00:59:57.640 Okay. Thanks, Psycho Hobo, for the two dollars there.

01:00:00.740 Um, all right.

01:00:01.680 So, we're basically at the top of the hour.

01:00:04.680 Um, uh, I shall see you tomorrow morning.

01:00:09.080 Um, remember today is the first day of the rest of your life.

01:00:13.920 Try and make it count.

01:00:15.040 You know, carpe diem.

01:00:15.900 Save the day if you can.

01:00:17.520 I know it's not possible every single day.

01:00:18.920 Uh, but do try and make it count.

01:00:22.200 Let those around you that you love, let them know that you love them,

01:00:25.520 if you haven't said it recently.

01:00:27.380 Can make a big, can make a big difference.

01:00:29.700 Um, but all right, well, then, until tomorrow,

01:00:33.280 it's just gone nine, so,

01:00:35.100 we'll leave it there.

01:00:36.740 Take care.

01:00:37.460 One, two, three,nic is the team.

01:00:38.060 One, two, three,nic is the team.

01:00:39.320 And once I was Gopo, two, three,nic is the team.

01:00:39.800 One, two, three,nic is the team member.

01:00:40.900 One, two, three,nic is the team member.

01:00:41.780 We're ready.

01:00:43.460 And then, um, and then, uh, one, two, disproportionate people.

01:00:45.460 One, two, four, five years ago.

01:00:46.280 One, two.

01:00:59.440 The team member, four, six years.

01:01:00.080 One, two, three,nic is the team member.

01:01:01.700 One, two, three,nic, are the team member.

01:01:02.540 One, one, two, three, mr.

01:01:03.060 One is the team member.

01:01:03.420 One, three, five, three.

01:01:04.280 One, three, three, three, five.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 08, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 8th January 2026

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