Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 8th January 2026
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Summary
Bo and Harry discuss the raid on the Iranian oil tanker, the latest in a growing list of incidents involving Russian flagged oil tankers being seized by the UK Navy, and the latest on the sanctions against Iran and their oil exports to Venezuela.
Transcript
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Morning! You alright? How you doing? I hope that wasn't too much of a jump scare.
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It is just gone 8am Greenwich Mean Time on Thursday the 8th of January in the year of
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our Lord 2026. I'm your host Bo Dade and you are the glorious few, the chosen band.
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It's Breakfast with Bo, the Bo Show, Bo's Breakfast Club. You are the Breakfast Club,
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the Lotus Eaters Breakfast Club. So welcome aboard. We'll get into it imminently. Just one
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tiny bit of housekeeping this morning. Yesterday, if you was watching yesterday, I was reading
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Super Chats all the way through and like loads of the hour was taken up with Super Chats. I actually
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really enjoyed that. That was fun for me. But we've decided, a couple of serious conversations we had
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yesterday, we decided we can't do that again because it would just become a Q&A with Bo every
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morning. It would just become pay one pound to get Bo to read something out show. That's not what it's
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supposed to be. So half cynical, half pragmatic. The idea is if something comes through for like loads
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of money, I'll read that out. But otherwise, I'll just read a few at the end and not necessarily all
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of them. If there's tons, you know, five minutes at the end, try and read a bunch at the end. So
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that was what was decided. I'm joined by Harry, of course. Young Harry, how are you, sir?
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Good, good, good. Still freezing outside, isn't it? All right, let's jump straight into it. Here we go.
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The top of the papers today are all talking about the raid on that tanker. Have you seen this? Have you
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heard about this? The raid on the tanker. So they go with the overall sort of amalgam of all the
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headlines are splash and grab. A reference to that raid on the tanker, splash and grab, shake and bake.
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And UK ready to seize more of Putin's ships. So basically the same story. This is the big thing
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in the news today. All right, so let's get into it. Well, actually what it was. First of all, the Metro,
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The Metro, they go with, they actually have splash and grab as their top thing. So Trump
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seizes tankers in new show of force. We've got, we've got Trump doing the, is that how
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he does it? Is this the Trump dance? Someone's going to clip that, aren't they? So, so what
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it is, just to let you know, there's this tanker. It was called like the, it used to be, not
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that long ago, like in December last year, it was called something else. It was called like
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the Bella one or something. It changed its name to the Marinara. And it's a weird thing.
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When you look at the actual details, I've got my tea here, but I've also got water just
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This tanker, a bit of a funny story. So when you first read the news, the first sort of
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line or two, it will say about it is that it's a Russian flagged tanker. It's not really
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a Russian tanker when you look at it. I mean, so, so its history is that it went back in like
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summer last year. It was tethered up in Iranian waters. It's sort of essentially, essentially
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an Iranian ship, oil tanker. And then all last late summer and autumn and into the winter,
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it sailed all the way around, all the way around Arabia, up through the Suez Canal, through
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the Med, out into the Atlantic, towards Venezuela. And it got to Venezuela in, I think, December
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time, roughly. All these dates are rough. And at that point, already the US Navy is blockading
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the Venezuelan coast. So it's obviously meant to go to Venezuela. Okay. So the thing is,
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is that it's all about sort of illegal oil. I say illegal, illegal as far as sort of the
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Western powers, as far as Europe and America are concerned. It's sort of illegit illegal
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oil because they've put sanctions on places like Iran and Russia and Venezuela, haven't
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they? So we don't want them trading oil with each other. You know, an Iranian ship going
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to Venezuela, getting Venezuelan oil and coming back and selling it to God knows who, the
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Chinese or whatever. Countries like America and Europe don't want that. They view that
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as illegal. So, okay. It's this essentially Iranian ship. It gets to the Venezuelan coast,
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realises it's not going to, its mission to pick up Venezuelan oil is not going to happen.
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So it turns around. Apparently the United States tried to board it or at least monitored it
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at that point, but didn't board it. It turns around. And then it obviously realises it's
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like in some deep S as far as America just seizing it or something. Because the US has seized
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oil tankers before. This isn't the first time. Nowhere near the first time. And it might be
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the last, I imagine. It's the sort of thing they do. Sort of bread and butter in a way for
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them. So it turns around, like it turns its responders off. It's like monitoring GPS,
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whatever. It turns all that off. Changes its name. But it's definitely dodgy behaviour.
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It's not a normal, completely legit ship. That's fair to say. Changes its name from the
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bellowan to like the marinara. And then it like, while still at sea, like re, I don't
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know, I don't know the exact details about how all this really works, but it rechanged
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its like designation to be Russian at that point, i.e. not very long ago, just a few weeks
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ago. It's like, we're Russian now. It's a Russian ship now. That's why in the news you'll
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see like quite specific wording that it's a Russian flagged ship. Not Russian built, not
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Russian owned, not really Russian like operated, but Russian flagged. Anyway, all right. So
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it's, okay, it's a Russian ship. And it hasn't got any oil on board. It's not like full of
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like millions of tons of oil or thousands, thousands of tons of oil. It hasn't got, it hasn't got
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oil on board. And then it starts running. It starts fleeing in the Atlantic, north and
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east. And, uh, yeah. And just yesterday, eventually, uh, the United States and Britain
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caught up with it, caught it and boarded it. Um, so it was when they got it, it was somewhere,
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it was like halfway between the top of Scotland and Iceland. It was halfway between Iceland and
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Scotland when they finally got it. And, um, yeah, I mean, not a million miles away from
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Greenland waters. Um, and although it was the US that actually boarded it, apparently
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they were like, uh, coast guard chaps, I guess, fairly specialist coast guard chaps, but it
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wasn't like, it wasn't Delta Force or, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't sort of crack, crack
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special forces. As I understand, that was one thing I read. Anyway, I might be wrong. Correct
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to me about that if more details come out today. Oh, lovely cup of tea. Nothing better
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than a cup of tea. I'm a tea drinker, not a coffee man. Um, so splash and grab. There
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we go. Uh, apparently UK assets were involved. There was at least one RAF aircraft involved,
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at least one Royal Navy support ship involved. Because it's sort of, not exactly in our waters,
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but it's in our, certainly in our region, you know, just off of Scotland. I mean, I say
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just off of Scotland. It's quite a long way from Scotland. Halfway between Scotland and
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Iceland is a massive stretch of water. But still, it's in our region, shall we say. Uh,
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so yeah, there was, our Defence Secretary did a little, uh, statement to Parliament saying
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everything we done was completely legit. You know, it's all legit. Basically, it's what
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you're saying. Make of that what you will. Okay, so this is the big story today. This is
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the big one. All right, the eye paper says, UK ready to see more of Putin's shadow ships
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as grey war grows. So that's what I've seen a lot of papers and news saying this morning.
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They're calling it a grey war. I've not really heard that expression much before. Um, often
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it's like people talk about a cold war or a hot war. A hot war obviously being actually
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bullets and missiles and things flying around and a cold war being everything short of that.
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They talk about a grey war. Um, so okay, I mean it does seem the case. I think it is the
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case, isn't it? That, um, with all these sanctions and things flying around, that the other countries
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that are being sanctioned by us, by the West, by Europe and the United States, um, they still,
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they still carry on their business, just in a slightly more covert way. Um, and so there's
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a war against that in various ways. There is loads and loads of, uh, basically illegal,
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again, as far as we're concerned, illegal shipping going all around the world all the time.
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Right. So it just seems like Trump and Hegseth have decided that they're going to just be a bit
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more aggressive about it, a bit more. Like I say, this isn't in, this isn't unprecedented,
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the seizing of a tanker like this. Far from, in fact, far from unprecedented. Um, but today,
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for whatever reason, it's the way the news cycle goes. It's sort of, um, front and center,
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you know, on some other days, I've definitely seen days when something very, very similar,
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if not identical to this happens. And it's like barely registers in the news cycle. I've seen that
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a number of times, but today, for whatever reason, they decided, I suppose, because it's
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near Greenland and because it's all part of the same news cycle thing of Trump being more aggressive,
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that it just makes sense from an editorial point of view to put this thing front and center.
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Because it does seem quite, um, sensationalist, doesn't it? If you, if you don't necessarily
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realize that it's kind of common, um, common's probably a bit of an exaggeration to call it
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common, but it's not like a crazy thing that Trump's suddenly doing something mad now. Um,
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that's all, that's all I would say. Put it in some perspective. Uh, uh, nonetheless, I mean,
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Russia and Iran can't be happy about it, can they?
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Okay. Okay. The Financial Times, the FT goes with,
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US seizes tanker and aims to control Venezuelan crude sales indefinitely. Uh, well, yeah, I mean,
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that's the whole point, isn't it? Uh, yeah, I mean, Trump's been pretty honest about that since,
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not that he excuses it, but at least, at the very least, he's been completely honest about it.
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Um, from day one, literally day one, saying, yeah, we're going to take over their oil industry.
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I mean, we built it for them in the first place. That is also true, essentially. Not that that's
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fair. Me and Dan Tubb of Lotus Eaters fame, uh, did a cool, I think a really interesting bit of
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content. I think, I can't remember if it was an Epochs My History show or whether it was for
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Brokonomics, his, his show. I think it was a Brokonomics. We did a very interesting bit of content about,
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uh, a kind of famous, certainly very interesting book called Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
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Quite famous book. And it's about a guy and his career is more in the sixties and seventies.
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And it was all about how America has built its empire, sort of dollar imperialism. Um, instead
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of going around the world and put, and having wars and putting boots on the ground, like sort
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of Mongol style, British empire style. Um, instead you just do it through money because in the Korean
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war, if nothing else, certainly in Vietnam, America realized it's just, uh, it's not a good idea. It's
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not an economical use of force and power and influence and leverage to just send in cycle through
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400,000 soldiers through a country for 10 years. And then at the end of it all, it doesn't really
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work anyway. So another way of doing it is you say to a country, a poor country that you want on
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yourself, or a poorer country than you, which is nearly all the countries in the world, say
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something along the lines of, you want loads of infrastructure, don't you? You want loads of
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brand new motorways and airports and, and, and ports and, uh, power stations and bridges. You want
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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
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for you. Um, and we'll lend, we'll basically lend you the money to do it and you get a brilliant
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country out of it. And all we want in return is there's the VIG. We want interest. We will take
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interest, but also probably we want some sort of military base. And in the Cold War context,
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you'll be on our side, right? Something like that. And, uh, and, you know, sort of, if you don't take
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that carrot, the stick is that the CIA might murder your leader. And then if you still don't
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fall in line, maybe then we'll send in troops. The carrot and the stick. But, um, okay. So
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for Venezuela, it got to the point where no carrots were working, right? They'd already done the
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carrot, building them, their own oil industry, essentially. And then when Chavez just nationalizes
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that, that's ours now. And, and of course, Maduro going further, if anything. Well, now
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Trump's done this and, uh, you know, Hegseth and Rubio and Trump are all saying we, we run
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Venezuela now. Uh, yeah, they're taking over the, all the entire oil industry indefinitely.
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Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. The FT says Trump bets on reshaping oil markets. But yeah, it will
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reshape the oil market, won't it? I mean, of course. Authority of OPEC challenged. Yeah.
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So OPEC, the, uh, sort of the Middle Eastern oil producing countries. I mean, we're mainly
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talking about, you know, like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, like countries like that, uh, where
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they've got, had for a long time in, in a sense, in, to a limited degree, people can argue
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with me all about this one. People do argue about it. How powerful OPEC really is in terms
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of its ability to control the entire world's oil supplies and price. But if Trump gets his
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hands on, well, hands, isn't he? But when he gets his hands on a thriving Venezuelan oil
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producing, um, industry, well, OPEC's power over the United States and the whole world's
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oil prices and things, uh, will be diminished, won't it? Um, personally, I think that's for
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a good thing. It is sort of out of the frying pan into, into the fire for everyone else.
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But do I really want, like, the House of Al Saud dominating oil? Not really. No. Is it
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any better that it's the United States are doing it, you know, from an Englishman's point
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of view, say? I mean, marginally. Maybe. Well, there you go. Uh, what else have they
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got here? Octopus's flair for camouflage inspires synthetic skin that can disguise robots.
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Sounds terrifying? Doesn't it? That sounds terrifying. But okay. This is the future we're going
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to. The Times says, UK joins in pursuit of Putin's shadow fleet. Yeah, we were involved. Yeah.
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Well, Starmer, Sir Queer finally got a call on the old blower from the Don. Um, they finally
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had a phone call between each other and apparently they discussed, as I understand it, and we don't
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get a great deal of information. We certainly don't get a transcript of what it is. But the
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number 10 does release a statement saying that we've definitely, the Prime Minister has definitely
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had a conversation with the President. And, um, just two or three lines of saying, yes, we
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spoke. Yes, we spoke about Venezuela, Greenland, and this effectively joint military operation
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that's just taken place. And that's it. There's no details of what they actually said. Which
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is fair enough. Sort of. I mean, you know, the outside world, we, normal people, the chattering
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classes, would, uh, would like to know exactly what was said, but they don't have to. So we
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just know that they did speak. And, um, yeah, we were definitely, the RAF and the, uh, Royal
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Navy were certainly involved on some level with this. British spire planes and a Royal Navy
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support ship helped US forces seize blockade-breaking oil tanker. There you go. I don't know why
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papers have to talk like that, in that sort of cadence, in that sort of, you know, newspaper
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tone. They don't have to do that, do they? But they, they do, don't they? Okay. The Guardian.
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The Guardian. What have they say today? US seizes a Russian-flagged tanker in higher stakes
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disatlantic operation, yeah. High drama on the higher seas.
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I don't think it was massively dramatic in the sense that, like, the tanker tried to put
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up any defence or anything. But still, I suppose any, any operation like this, you know, boarding
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a ship at sea is sort of quite exciting, isn't it? I think, you know, reasonably. But, um,
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I don't think it was particularly high stakes. You know, if that tanker had, like, SAM missiles
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on it, or it had security forces that were firing at the incoming choppers, might have
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been a bit more high stakes. But there you go, okay. You've got, they've got to sell papers,
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haven't they? We've got to make it sort of eye-catching, make you want to read it. Uh, Reeves criticizes
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Farage for benefit cap division. Uh, this is the story about the benefits cap in Britain. Um, you
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know, whether you get welfare, various types of welfare, child support, um, if you've got loads of
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kids. So, in the last government, the Tory government said, if you have more than two kids, you don't get
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welfare support for them. In other words, if you're really poor, if you're living basically
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in poverty or on the breadline, um, we don't encourage you to have six kids. Uh, I thought
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that's reasonable, really. If you can't really afford to raise kids, if you're going to keep
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having kids and you can't afford to buy them shoes or put food on the table for them, probably
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not a great idea to keep having kids then. Well, the Labour government came in and said all
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of that is sort of inhuman or in whatever way. It's like evil to do that. Like you want
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kids to be in poverty. Not really. And so, of course, Nigel Farage is sort of of the more
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Tory thinking, you know, the more reasonable, actually, the more reasonable thinking way
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of looking at this. And Labour are of the more, let's have endless welfare. Let's tax more
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for more welfare because anything other than the redistribution of wealth from hard
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working people to scroungers is anything other than that is sort of wrong. There you go.
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That's classic. That's the, that's the, that's Labour for you. Socialists, pinkos. Uh, what
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else we got? Serial rapists kept Met jobs, Met police, London police. Serial rapists kept
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London police jobs after vetting failure. Brilliant. Brilliant. I mean, what can you say with stories
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like that? Just absurd. Living in a crazy, crazy, so there's a headline later on on one
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of the websites we'll see. Um, it was a black dude. Does that matter? I mean, one of the
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headlines we'll see, I think, hopefully, that it was, that their excuse is that it was for
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DEI, it was for diversity quotas that they kept this black dude and failed to vet him that
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he was a serial rapist. I think even a, I can't remember, we'll have a look later, but I think
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it might have been child sex crime, even. I mean, what are we doing here, people?
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The Independent. The Independent goes with, Kremlin fury as UK helps US to seize Russian
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oil tanker. The Kremlin's furious. Well, it wasn't even their ship till like two weeks ago
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or three, three weeks ago or something. But still, again, you can, if you try and look
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at the world just from purely, say, Putin's point of view. I was trying to do this on the
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podcast yesterday. Try and look at the Greenland thing purely from like Hegseth's point of view
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or the US point of view. Things do look different, don't they, to like the rest of the world. If
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you look at this from purely, just for a moment, look at it purely from the Kremlin's point of
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view, it would be annoying and frustrating, wouldn't it? There's no two ways about that.
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It's like, this is something that was working in our interest for our interests and you've just
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nabbed it off the board. Yeah. Okay, the Independent says, aided by RAF, US captures
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sanction-busting ghost ship, quote, ghost ship. In seas north of Britain, after a dramatic race
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with Putin's navy, Estama is urged to take on thieving Trump over Greenland. So they're mixing
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up all the stories, all the narratives here, really. Because this tanker hasn't really got anything
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to do with Greenland or the State Department's policy on Greenland. I mean, I suppose it has
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tangentially, or a bit, hasn't it? They overlap a bit. But here, the Independent's just really,
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really merging all those stories. Okay, the Telegraph, the Toregraph, going with,
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Kemi Badenoch, the Nigerian woman who's the head of the Tory party,
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Don't believe a word that woman says or does. I don't believe a word any of the Toreists say
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or do. People like Suella Breverman or James Cleverley or Preeti Patel, none of them. Now,
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they had their shot. They had years and years to be in power and do stuff. And they screwed
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it all up and acted against our interests repeatedly. Kind of doomed us to a sectarian
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nightmare, demographically. But now they really care about our pubs, do they? Do they?
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Wasn't Kemi Badenoch not that long ago gloating in Parliament about how she got loads more foreign
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people to come in on, like, student visas and stuff, when she thought that was the politically
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advantageous thing for her and her career to do, to gloat about, to do that and gloat about it.
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But now it's all about, there's too many immigrants and we must save our pubs and Englishness and
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Britishness is at the top of her priorities and all that stuff. Don't buy it. I don't buy it.
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I'd deport her. She's a Nigerian person. She's a cuckoo in the nest. She's a fifth columnist.
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What's she doing here? What's she even doing here, let alone an MP? Let alone the leader of the
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opposition? Are you kidding me? What a perverse thing. What an absolutely disgusting and perverse
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thing. Okay. British forces helped Trump seize Russian oil tanker. Met police hired black child
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rapists to boost diversity credentials. Mad. Mad. If that reporting is right, if that is exactly what
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happened and went down. Mad. Mad. An embarrassment. The whole country, not just the Met Police. An
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embarrassment to us as a people that we've allowed things to, like that, to happen, to be possible
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to happen. To boost diversity credentials, you'll hire a black child rapist. That's the headline.
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That's the headline. The bottom. Met police hired black child rapists to boost diversity credentials.
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Can you think of anything more sickening? Well, actually there are lots more, but still.
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Okay. Daily Express. What do they go with? Don't run down clock on safe right to die law.
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Okay. Yeah. This is about the piece of legislation going through parliament about, you know, the
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right to, the right to die. Yeah. To, to take your life early if you want to. We've talked about this
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on the podcast before. I've had it before. My position is, um, I'm not a hundred percent against
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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.
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
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
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
00:30:23.000
should be a thing. Yeah, stop eating loads. It's pretty straightforward. Is that 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
00:31:06.180
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
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,
00:32:22.720
shared them around or just accepted them, and oh, he took pictures of his own butt.
00:32:29.520
Took pictures of his own butt and was sending them around. So, you know, dodgy as hell, like,
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,
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
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
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
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
00:46:20.540
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.
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
00:48:45.440
the Germans is usually, usually quite sloppy on the scale, on the spectrum of seriousness
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,
00:51:38.980
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
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going back to the moon, or NASA is. Humankind are going back to the moon with manned missions,
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apparently. Might get a load of comments saying we've never been to the moon, and that all this
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is fake. You can't go to the moon. You can't leave Earth low orbit, otherwise you'll sort of
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immediately die of cancer or something. Anyway, I'm one of those peoples that believe the Apollo
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missions did go to the moon. Maybe not Apollo 11. But I think certainly like Apollo 14 and 15 and
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stuff definitely went to the moon, as far as I can tell. And I've spent years looking about it,
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reading about it, and love space stuff and moon stuff and all that sort of thing. So yeah,
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the Artemis missions, is NASA going to go back to the moon? I believe, and I might be wrong about
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this, I believe Artemis 2, and there's the crew. You can see a picture of the crew.
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This guy's the captain, I believe, or commander. I believe Artemis 2, they're going to go to the
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moon, slingshot around it and come back, just to prove they can do it. Like Apollo 10, or is it
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Apollo 9? Either Apollo 9 or Apollo 10. They went to the moon, slingshot around it, didn't land on the
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moon and came back, just to prove they could do that. And then Apollo 11 actually goes and lands.
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I think Apollo 10, if I'm right, or Apollo 9, they came really close to landing, like within just 100
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miles of the surface or something like that, or less even. So I think Artemis 2 is they're going to
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do that, and then Artemis 3 is they're actually going to land on the moon. So human boots back on
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the lunar surface. That'll be cool. Really cool. Hopefully they'll be able to prove beyond any shadow
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of a doubt that they've done it for real, and that it's real. Hopefully. And, you know, put the
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moon landing conspiracy people that say it never happened, quiet them down. But yeah, so it's
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apparently set for February. Artemis 2, set for February. Yeah, in fact it says there, NASA says
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it is continuing to prepare for a possible Artemis 2 launch as soon as February, but with remarkably
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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
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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
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be sort of the first they've ever heard of it, maybe. So we'll see. It'll be one of those
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things, probably still the majority of normies will have never heard of it when Artemis 3 lands
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boots on the moon. And you just wake up one morning, and it's like, oh, there's people on
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the moon again. Oh, I didn't know that was happening, or we were doing that, or billions
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of dollars and years have been spent making that a reality. But it is, it's happening.
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Artemis, the Artemis missions. Check it out if you're interested. All right, with only
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five minutes left to go, let's have a super quick look at On This Day in History. All
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right, so in 1655, the oldest surviving commercial newspaper, which still runs today, begins its
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publication. And that was in Harlem in the Netherlands. In 1790, the first US President,
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George Washington, delivers the first State of the Union address. That was on the 8th of
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January, 1790. There you go. In 1835, the 8th of January, 1835, US national debt reaches
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zero for the first and only time in history. Interesting, isn't it? I think so. In 1926,
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Abdul Al-Aziz Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia, becomes king of Nej and Hijaz, which
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is in like the western, the Hijaz is in the western half of Saudi Arabia. He becomes king.
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Yeah, he had a civil war with the other major warlord in Arabia at the time, the one that
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Lawrence of Arabia backed. The father of... Anyway, the house of Al Saud starts, basically,
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in 1926 on This Day. All right, so let's read a few of the super chats and end the hour on
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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.
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I did only see the clip once and briefly. So, if she hit a copper, I mean...
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All right, if that's what that is. TomRat247 says, adjustable negative income tax fixes all this.
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Transferable tax allowances from your kids and spouse as a solution to this which stops abuses.
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Okay, interesting. All right, some of the YouTube super chats. What have we got here?
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44 Magnum Norse says, we love breakfast with Bo. We also love communists being removed from office.
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Boom. I like that. I like that. Breakfast with Bo. Bo Show. The Glorious Few.
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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.
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Fast on point doesn't take all your time. Thank you, Bo. No, thank you.
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Thank you for watching. It's you guys that make the Bo Show. You make it... You make it happen.
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Okay, Psycho Hobo says, if it makes you all feel any better, you all are being replaced by slaves of the eventual NWO.
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Zeitgeist 3208 says, maybe the Sydney Morning Herald, or even the more based Sky News Australia, but definitely not the age.
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Okay, yes. So, going forward then, perhaps even from tomorrow, I'll put in some Australian news.
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And, yeah, I know that Sky News Australia is based. I do watch a bit of Sky News Australia.
00:59:30.160
And then we'll just put, uh, Sabbatean Frankists, Jesuits, Masons.
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will be interesting to see if Minnesota will be willing to riot over a white liberal woman.
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Glad to hear some Aussies getting a shout in the future.
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Okay. Thanks, Psycho Hobo, for the two dollars there.
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Um, remember today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Let those around you that you love, let them know that you love them,
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And once I was Gopo, two, three,nic is the team.
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And then, um, and then, uh, one, two, disproportionate people.