The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 9th April 2026

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00:00:12.240 okay it has just ticked past eight in the a.m. British summertime on Thursday the 9th of April

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00:00:52.580 as every morning i am joined by my producer little harry how are you this morning good sir

00:00:57.880 morning yeah i'm all good good good okay i've got the chat here for once it says loud and clear okay

00:01:06.900 good good all right should we just go straight on with it should we get straight into it this morning

00:01:12.620 what is the legacy corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning

00:01:17.360 What are they trying to lie to you about by omission, if nothing else?

00:01:21.380 That evil cabal of Fleet Street editors.

00:01:23.700 Okay, it's more or less wall-to-wall Iran, more or less. 1.00

00:01:28.200 Little bits and bobs here or there. 0.92

00:01:29.800 I think the star still talking about the Grand National.

00:01:33.500 Okay, what have we got?

00:01:35.180 Fragile Ceasefire at Risk and Putin mocks Starmer.

00:01:39.420 Only one of the papers goes with that, but there you go.

00:01:42.920 Yeah, Fragile Ceasefire at Risk, that's probably the biggest thing.

00:01:45.100 That's the biggest story, isn't it, really?

00:01:46.560 that the ceasefire that was brokered Tuesday night, early Wednesday morning, our time.

00:01:54.220 It's not really holding yesterday.

00:01:55.360 I said I didn't want to be a Debbie Downer about it, didn't I?

00:01:58.020 I said I didn't want to be a pessimist about it,

00:01:59.800 but I find it difficult to see if it will last beyond two weeks.

00:02:03.980 It didn't last at all.

00:02:05.680 Basically, it didn't last at all.

00:02:08.340 I mean, before we get into the British print media headlines,

00:02:12.580 let's just a quick look at, I think it was the Washington Post says it all.

00:02:15.660 yeah okay the washington post airstrikes turmoil in strait of hormuz in peril ceasefire with iran

00:02:22.140 iran accuses the us and israel of violating the truce and threatened to withdraw from negotiations

00:02:28.300 israeli attacks in lebanon were a major point of dispute and iran conducts

00:02:33.020 strikes in persian gulf and in retaliation so they're still just

00:02:39.260 missiles and bombs flying around all over the place just still

00:02:41.660 maybe not a huge giant exchange between the united states and iran but

00:02:48.660 there's no real ceasefire neti wasn't involved in the ceasefire deal apparently trump didn't

00:02:58.840 sort of ask him or anything or involve him just expected him to completely fall in line

00:03:02.800 and so he's continuing bombing lebanon southern lebanon trying to take out hamas sorry hezbollah

00:03:10.240 And that was one of Iran's points they wanted for that to stop

00:03:16.960 That's not stopped

00:03:18.480 Whether the Straits of Hormuz is truly open

00:03:22.580 Remember in Trump's Truth Social post he said

00:03:24.780 It needs to be complete and immediate and sort of without condition the strait open

00:03:29.460 Well it's not Iran said it's under conditions, our conditions

00:03:34.060 some talk maybe of iran even trying to take money off individual tankers before they're let through

00:03:40.440 but either way iran in iran's mind collective mind governmental mind they uh they think they

00:03:47.220 well they do still control it and it's going to remain that way and that's not what the u.s

00:03:51.580 thought the deal would be i mean it was pretty obvious wasn't it straight away that the u.s

00:03:57.840 whether it's the state department or in donald trump's mind himself and what the iranians are

00:04:02.440 saying and doing they don't line up do they they don't marry up okay and and there's more reasons

00:04:09.940 and there's more reasons i guess we'll get into it over the hour or so there's even more reasons

00:04:13.460 why it's not it's not working fragile ceasefire at risk yeah really fragile it's not really

00:04:19.780 well in lots of senses it's not a ceasefire as i say bombs and missiles are still flying

00:04:25.480 all over the show

00:04:27.480 and Putin mocked Starmer

00:04:30.460 OK, The Guardian

00:04:31.200 The Guardian

00:04:36.120 Something about Jack Whitehall

00:04:39.180 don't care 1.00

00:04:40.020 Idiot goon 1.00

00:04:42.200 Idiot establishment shield 1.00

00:04:47.220 Jack Whitehall, don't care, not funny 1.00

00:04:49.080 Fragile ceasefire at risk

00:04:51.060 as Israel bombards Lebanon

00:04:52.720 There you go, so I mean that's the

00:04:54.080 there's a big picture of an explosion in process going on in a nervous laugh there nervous laugh

00:05:01.260 that yeah um israel is not stopping they're not stopping but again trump did this the thing like

00:05:13.320 he did right at the beginning of the war there's a parallel there isn't it just thinking that what

00:05:16.680 he says or what he and rubio and hegseth say the whole world will just immediately fall in line

00:05:21.240 with that now no you're not actual god emperor i'm afraid like he wants to start the war with

00:05:29.680 israel just expects all of nato britain france germany to just immediately be on board 100%

00:05:35.180 and just get behind it without no questions asked uh no he wants to make peace with iran

00:05:41.120 immediately expects israel to just 100% get in line no questions asked uh no

00:05:46.020 the whole world isn't his play thing is it all the people in the world aren't his to direct

00:05:55.240 around a chessboard is it so okay at least 254 people killed in massive wave of airstrikes

00:06:02.780 that level buildings in beirut lebanon um in the news there's various numbers that's the highest

00:06:10.860 one i saw but a lot of them say 180 well over 100 people killed in just like the last day or so in

00:06:18.660 lebanon okay i mean netanyahu said we'll see there's various things coming out various different

00:06:29.380 bits of reporting coming about about about israel and netanyahu one says that he's like cautiously

00:06:34.560 cautiously backs trump's peace plan but he's obviously not actually stopping bobbing lebanon

00:06:40.680 at least he cautiously backs it another report i saw said that netanyahu had said um we will get

00:06:48.940 that enriched uranium we israel we will get that enriched uranium out of iran one way or another

00:06:56.120 a statement like that like it's going to happen whether we negotiate something with them and get

00:07:02.040 them to dig it out and hand it over to us unlikely or we israel unilaterally go in like israeli

00:07:09.840 troops in in iran digging it out that was a sort of statement he made now like a sort of categorical

00:07:16.860 this will happen sort of thing i think regardless of what the white house want or think

00:07:23.540 so but then another report is that he's cautiously backing mr trump's peace proposal you know so

00:07:30.780 it's not entirely clear okay the guardian continues by saying a differing versions

00:07:37.160 of agreement leave confusion and fear in middle east yeah basically it's as simple as this isn't

00:07:42.840 it the iranian 10 point plan things they want insist upon are not in line with what the us

00:07:51.400 and israel want demand it's kind of as simple as that isn't it okay the financial times

00:07:59.960 Israeli hit on Lebanon

00:08:02.420 threatens truce

00:08:03.540 makes a mockery of it basically

00:08:06.160 at least in Iran's mind makes a mockery of it 0.82

00:08:08.480 Iran's like oh right

00:08:09.200 that was one of our points, it's immediately been broken 1.00

00:08:12.340 so

00:08:12.880 that's that, you can imagine

00:08:16.080 in the minds of whoever's leading

00:08:18.100 in Iran, still haven't seen the Ayatollah

00:08:20.300 have we, pretty sure we haven't, I haven't seen any

00:08:22.280 reports of, that he's actually

00:08:24.340 come out, even just on

00:08:25.960 a recording, let alone live

00:08:28.220 Okay

00:08:30.580 Is there an Ayatollah? 1.00

00:08:33.400 That report the Iranians

00:08:34.600 That statement the Iranians released on

00:08:36.880 What was it?

00:08:37.260 Tuesday night, Wednesday morning

00:08:38.220 Saying we will do a ceasefire

00:08:40.060 If you do a ceasefire

00:08:40.860 That was released

00:08:42.420 In the name of their foreign minister

00:08:45.020 Wasn't it?

00:08:46.820 So

00:08:47.060 The equivalent of Marco Rubio

00:08:48.640 Or Yvette Cooper

00:08:49.640 Yvette Cooper

00:08:51.820 Mrs. Ed Balls

00:08:53.720 Okay

00:08:54.860 No one's listening to her are they?

00:08:56.600 Was it in the

00:08:57.180 was it in the BBC was it it was somewhere yeah look on Sky News for example Yvette Cooper there

00:09:04.940 does anyone in this thing the real players in this thing real players at the heart of power

00:09:11.420 in Iran Israel United States Saudi Arabia whatever Russia China does anyone care what Yvette Cooper

00:09:19.340 says. Ed Balls' wife. Foreign Secretary, UK Foreign Secretary, calls for Straits of Hormuz 1.00

00:09:29.560 to reopen. Does she? Does she? And she rules out tolls on shipping. Does she? Does she?

00:09:42.160 That is laughable, isn't it? Do you know what it reminds me of a little bit? Have you ever

00:09:48.060 seen a mass brawl in a bar or on the street late at night like 10 15 blokes one big maelstrom of

00:09:56.000 fighting a big brawl and there's someone's girlfriend in the middle someone's like five 0.96

00:10:00.960 foot three 110 pound girl in the middle screeching going no don't it's not worth it don't no one's 1.00

00:10:07.400 listening to her are they no one no one's no one's even recognizing that she's there

00:10:13.220 that's what that's what i feel like your vet keeper is like all right get back to the papers

00:10:21.580 okay israel hit on lebanon threatens trace tehran halts uh straight traffic after attack on hezbollah

00:10:30.240 yeah so okay the key question is the straits of hormuz open sort of the way the americans want

00:10:36.500 the way trump wanted it just complete and utter immediately 100 like it was the day before this

00:10:42.720 war started no it's not no it's not and even if iran are letting certain ships through under

00:10:49.820 certain conditions which they are so it's open to some extent some degree if they're letting

00:10:56.220 some ships through it's a whole different question i think i said it yesterday it's a

00:11:00.180 whole different issue isn't it to those individual shipping companies and the actual crew of those

00:11:07.880 ships feeling that they're safe and that the insurance companies companies like Lloyds of

00:11:13.660 London although there are many others them being comfortable with insuring ships to go through

00:11:19.420 there that's something entirely different isn't it so even though the strait is nominally open to a

00:11:26.420 degree at the moment the actual shipping going through there is minimal it's not nothing but

00:11:32.060 it's minimal so so so did Trump get what he wanted what was supposed to be his line in the

00:11:39.360 sand a completely open straight from his no he hasn't he didn't so it's this two week ceasefire

00:11:48.640 double-sided ceasefire is it going to last even two weeks well no well it already hasn't has it

00:11:55.100 come on this ceasefire thing is uh uh kind of shown to be a bit of a farce now i think already

00:12:03.020 right i mean well hexes came out yesterday i believe it was yesterday

00:12:10.620 did a presser did a press conference came out and said it was a just it was just declared victory

00:12:19.340 he said like uh in emphatic terms as well just said it's a a complete and utter victory a victory

00:12:24.060 with a capital V

00:12:25.180 that's what he said

00:12:26.320 if I was ever in government

00:12:31.380 during a war time

00:12:33.080 in one way or another

00:12:33.720 I would reserve declaring victory

00:12:36.660 formally declaring victory

00:12:38.000 until it was absolutely

00:12:40.020 a thousand percent

00:12:41.980 obviously the reality

00:12:44.100 I wouldn't do it until then

00:12:45.560 there's a classic thing isn't there

00:12:46.920 of George Bush Jr

00:12:47.700 George W

00:12:48.320 declaring victory in Iraq

00:12:50.580 and although they thought

00:12:55.060 as far as they were concerned

00:12:57.240 it was operationally

00:12:59.300 a military victory

00:13:00.880 the actual thing, the actual campaign

00:13:03.580 was nowhere near finished

00:13:05.280 there was years and years and years more of it 0.98

00:13:07.080 and a whole sectarian bloodbath yet to go 0.98

00:13:09.800 and so people

00:13:11.180 his political enemies can point back at that clip

00:13:13.960 of him standing on an aircraft carrier

00:13:16.120 or a destroyer or whatever it was

00:13:17.900 with a big banner behind him

00:13:19.100 mission accomplished

00:13:20.100 And him saying

00:13:21.540 Mission accomplished

00:13:22.180 With one

00:13:22.600 It's all finished

00:13:23.240 They can point to that

00:13:24.280 And say

00:13:24.600 What an embarrassment

00:13:25.800 How sad

00:13:28.300 Like

00:13:29.000 This is

00:13:30.740 So they can do a bit

00:13:32.420 They can already

00:13:33.180 Already

00:13:33.680 One day later

00:13:34.480 Do that with that 1.00

00:13:35.140 Hegsif clip 1.00

00:13:35.840 Can't they

00:13:36.320 Capital V

00:13:37.820 Victory

00:13:39.000 Don't call victory

00:13:44.360 Too soon

00:13:44.840 I would say

00:13:46.060 Don't count your chickens

00:13:48.120 Till they're hatched

00:13:50.100 All right. Move comes one day after Trump announces ceasefire.

00:13:54.920 US and Islamic Republic poised for talks tomorrow.

00:13:59.060 Apparently J.D. Vance, Kushner and Wyckoff are going to go over, I think, to Pakistan,

00:14:05.920 sit down with some Iranian officials and try and hash something out.

00:14:10.400 I haven't got any real confidence that that will come to anything.

00:14:12.880 They've tried that a number of times, haven't they?

00:14:15.020 They've tried that a number of times.

00:14:16.100 I would say both sides

00:14:19.120 particularly the Iranian side 0.95

00:14:20.620 but both sides really

00:14:22.440 use that as just

00:14:26.480 a bargaining tool to

00:14:27.960 buy time

00:14:29.700 and

00:14:30.360 to try to bamboozle

00:14:34.460 their opponent politically in various ways

00:14:36.340 I don't think either side

00:14:38.340 are serious about

00:14:39.240 actually just getting

00:14:42.280 a full piece

00:14:43.260 at this stage at this stage i mean markets register gains after advances in diplomacy

00:14:50.740 so it's already a little bit out of date because markets have dropped again since then

00:14:55.000 equities commodities currencies bonds as for the oil price you ever look at the oil price in real

00:15:01.240 time we do that don't we on the bow show let's have a quick look what we got just shy of a hundred

00:15:07.660 dollars a barrel still so a little bit higher than yesterday but not a fantastic amount about

00:15:12.320 the same as yesterday a couple of dollars more west texas 97 brent just shy of 97

00:15:22.640 okay all the greens though going up but not going up sharply it's a little somehow it's

00:15:29.440 a little bit less volatile than it has been over the last three four weeks five weeks

00:15:35.360 at the moment just at the moment because it dipped loads yesterday off the back of this ceasefire

00:15:41.920 announcement dipped quite a lot it's like one of among the all-time biggest dips in one day

00:15:48.800 yesterday and it's gone up a tad since then but it hasn't shot through the roof again has it

00:15:55.040 at this point at this point and what all that means for how much you actually pay for gasoline

00:15:59.920 or diesel at the petrol pump in real life that's something else entirely isn't it

00:16:05.600 okay that's the financial times uh the normal times the normal venerable times

00:16:13.460 um what have we got airstrikes risk blowing fragile ceasefire apart

00:16:18.080 fragile ceasefire apart um so that is the main story today it's what they're all going with

00:16:24.700 deal under strain let's put in it mildly isn't it the deal is under strain as israel bombs lebanon

00:16:30.680 Trump to discuss pulling US out of NATO

00:16:34.520 That's the other big thing

00:16:35.740 Mark Rutger

00:16:36.460 You know, the head of NATO

00:16:40.540 He went to the White House yesterday

00:16:42.960 He had like a meeting with the Donald

00:16:45.780 Behind closed doors though

00:16:49.200 It was entirely private

00:16:50.140 He was in the White House for about two hours

00:16:54.480 We don't know if the majority of that two hours

00:16:56.820 Was sitting down with Trump himself

00:16:59.480 But he was in and out of the White House within about two hours

00:17:02.380 He came out and he just said

00:17:04.040 Obviously he doesn't give away everything they're saying

00:17:05.840 I mean it's sensitive military stuff ultimately isn't it

00:17:08.040 But he said they had a very frank conversation

00:17:11.400 And Donald Trump himself talking about

00:17:17.920 Again making noises about how he wants to

00:17:20.480 Maywell is looking at thinking about leaving NATO

00:17:25.800 well i'm one of those people i'm sure everyone watching this won't agree with me even lots of

00:17:31.380 people in the chat today won't agree with me i think a fair few would but not everyone will

00:17:36.000 agree with the take i'm about to say but i i don't care i would like america to leave nato

00:17:42.240 and the whole thing to fall apart i don't i think nato destabilizes the world and europe in various

00:17:47.880 ways. There you go. I mean, countries like Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Belarus,

00:17:56.620 maybe, most affected. From my point of view, it's just a tool for US hegemony, and it destabilises

00:18:06.680 things

00:18:08.220 I feel like it's a relic of the Cold War

00:18:12.820 NATO 0.97

00:18:13.200 I feel like it made sense

00:18:18.920 in 1946 or whatever

00:18:20.860 it made sense all through the 50s

00:18:22.800 and even the 60s

00:18:23.860 but by

00:18:26.580 the 1990s

00:18:28.180 even

00:18:29.560 after the fall of the Berlin Wall let's say that

00:18:32.440 in 1989

00:18:33.200 doesn't make sense, why we've still got NATO in like

00:18:36.520 Year 2005

00:18:37.640 Why have you still got it today?

00:18:39.020 Don't know

00:18:39.800 If there was

00:18:46.020 If there was some sort of

00:18:47.600 I really don't see it happening

00:18:49.040 But if Putin decided he was going to invade Belarus

00:18:52.380 Or Poland

00:18:52.980 Or the plains of eastern Germany

00:18:55.320 Well then there would be an effort made at that point

00:18:59.100 Wouldn't there?

00:19:00.660 I mean it's taken him years to barely take 0.96

00:19:03.320 A third of Ukraine

00:19:05.320 Or the Donbass region

00:19:06.240 I don't see him, Soviet-style, 1950s Soviet-style, trying to invade Eastern and Central Europe.

00:19:13.700 But if he did, there would be a whole diplomatic and military thing at that point, wouldn't there?

00:19:20.660 Why do you have to have NATO sitting there the whole time?

00:19:23.440 Alright, I don't know.

00:19:25.160 I'm personally just not worried or scared about the United States pulling out of NATO,

00:19:29.420 and then NATO probably almost essentially collapsing.

00:19:32.100 Either entirely collapsing

00:19:33.920 Or

00:19:34.520 Just becoming a tiny

00:19:35.880 Tiny shadow

00:19:36.520 Of what it once was

00:19:37.520 It's okay

00:19:39.100 It reworked

00:19:39.940 The balance of power

00:19:40.940 Sometimes

00:19:41.520 You don't have to have

00:19:42.680 The status quo

00:19:43.440 As it existed

00:19:44.060 In 1945

00:19:44.620 Forever

00:19:45.340 Right

00:19:47.220 US bases in Germany

00:19:49.860 Just forever now

00:19:50.960 Really

00:19:51.480 Do we

00:19:51.860 I don't know

00:19:52.300 The FDA have come out

00:19:54.340 And said they don't want

00:19:55.020 American bases in

00:19:55.960 In Germany anymore

00:19:57.000 It was like 70

00:19:58.900 80 years ago now

00:20:00.420 all right all right the mirror let's have a look at the mirror again with the grand national

00:20:11.540 cracks in ceasefire deal got a screenshot of trump pulling a slightly odd face

00:20:20.100 tds it's mad isn't it okay this is a picture from beirut i believe is it yeah

00:20:30.420 A few hundred people killed in Beirut, or within 10, apparently something in the order of 100 Israeli missiles

00:20:36.940 hit Beirut in the window of 10 minutes yesterday.

00:20:43.000 And still it goes on, that's the headline, that's the headline from the Mirror.

00:20:46.820 Cracks in ceasefire deal and still it goes on.

00:20:49.680 Iran's threat over the Strait of Hormuz after brutal new Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

00:20:55.600 Some are saying that the Iranians are going to want payment from individual ships.

00:21:00.420 At first, I saw yesterday saying they want a million dollars per ship.

00:21:03.900 Now they're saying two million dollars per ship.

00:21:09.680 And they're saying, oh, you can pay in cryptocurrency.

00:21:13.460 That sort of says to me that they're not entirely serious about...

00:21:16.680 Because some big, massive companies will be able to afford that, at least for a while.

00:21:22.280 Many won't, many can't, many.

00:21:23.820 That effectively means it's still shut to them.

00:21:25.900 right it's not like every single oil tanker an oil tanker company has got

00:21:30.960 endless resources right they've got a bottom line like everyone else if you

00:21:36.520 have to pay two million dollars per ship every time well very very very

00:21:41.280 quickly if not immediately becomes not doable so it's effectively closed in

00:21:50.580 that sense then the daily mail they go okay iran emboldened straight hormuz still shut with tehran

00:22:01.340 demanding tolls they characterize it as it's shut it is just still shut more attacks on gulf states

00:22:07.020 and lebanon despite all trump's crowing the world mocks a bizarre kind of victory that's the headline

00:22:16.040 A bizarre kind of victory

00:22:17.640 That's what I was saying

00:22:18.680 When Hexist went out and said

00:22:20.180 Victory with a capital V 1.00

00:22:21.780 But yet, like the male group 1.00

00:22:25.160 Without diverting too far from reality

00:22:29.220 Are able to characterise it as

00:22:30.980 A bizarre kind of victory

00:22:32.560 I mean

00:22:36.500 If America's war aim

00:22:38.840 Or aims

00:22:39.980 Was to

00:22:40.560 One, remove the regime 0.68

00:22:42.440 Actually, not just kill everyone at the top

00:22:44.880 And they're replaced by new people

00:22:45.900 but fully, fully change that regime, well, they haven't done that.

00:22:52.740 If it was to get all the enriched uranium, they haven't done that.

00:23:00.360 If it was then, during this war, to have the Straits of Hormuz opened,

00:23:06.440 they haven't achieved that.

00:23:07.580 I mean, again, you can characterise it in a few different ways,

00:23:10.060 but the mail says that the strait just isn't open.

00:23:13.900 Still shut, sorry, they say.

00:23:15.900 so how is it a victory exactly

00:23:18.520 Pete

00:23:19.720 exit

00:23:20.680 okay

00:23:23.080 like he said in his press conference yesterday

00:23:25.560 I watched it

00:23:26.120 saying we've decimated their military

00:23:29.980 I mean decimation is only 1 in 10 1.00

00:23:32.160 but he probably meant it

00:23:34.500 almost destroyed I think is what he meant

00:23:37.560 by that word

00:23:38.460 you've pretty much destroyed their air force

00:23:42.260 they didn't have much to begin with anyway

00:23:43.760 but you've destroyed that

00:23:44.720 And sent nearly all their navy to the bottom of the sea

00:23:47.620 Okay

00:23:47.900 We've destroyed their ability to launch missiles

00:23:50.440 To an extent

00:23:51.980 Because they are still launching them

00:23:53.340 But okay, you've taken loads of those out

00:23:55.120 I can believe that

00:23:55.840 Sure 0.99

00:23:56.540 You've blown up, killed, murdered 0.99

00:23:59.540 Loads of their leadership 0.98

00:24:00.600 Loads of them

00:24:01.320 Yeah, okay

00:24:01.900 Okay, yep

00:24:02.940 Done that

00:24:03.540 What else though?

00:24:08.600 That's it though, isn't it?

00:24:09.620 Really

00:24:09.820 Okay

00:24:11.320 If someone said to me

00:24:17.540 You have to characterise it as either

00:24:19.060 A complete victory with a capital V

00:24:20.660 Or a bizarre kind of victory

00:24:22.820 And it's a binary choice

00:24:24.100 You can only pick one of those two things

00:24:25.780 I would say, yeah

00:24:27.680 It's more of a bizarre kind of victory

00:24:29.100 Than it is just a total, total win

00:24:31.720 The way Pete Hexith

00:24:33.480 Described it

00:24:34.920 Alright

00:24:36.580 This guy, this kid

00:24:39.040 Well I'll say kid, he's 21

00:24:40.020 it seems to be very very middle class kid living in primrose hill a very expensive nice

00:24:46.100 part of london um on a nice sunny day yesterday went up to primrose hill went up to the park

00:24:53.300 there lovely spot in london absolutely lovely spot um just to take some photos it's just a 21

00:24:59.000 year old trying out his camera somehow got in a fight with a bunch of black kids and they stabbed

00:25:05.580 him to death there you go that's blair's britain great that's cameron's britain for you the

00:25:17.340 independent oh what's that some iranian people burning an israeli flag us iran quote begged

00:25:26.220 quote for truce and must dig up hidden uranium see there you go in a nutshell right that's what

00:25:33.700 the USA that's what they want Iran are not going to do that they're not going to do that are they

00:25:38.680 well if they do dig it up they're not just going to immediately hand it over to the IAEA

00:25:42.700 or some Navy SEALs that are going to blackhawk it out of the country no no I doubt it I highly 0.64

00:25:49.500 doubt it Iran begs for truce and must dig up hidden uranium White House declares capital fee 0.70

00:25:56.780 for military victory with two weeks ceasefire any new peace deal will require Tehran to hand

00:26:03.620 over buried nuclear material i don't see that happening i really don't trump claims he's

00:26:11.000 agreed joint uh quote joint venture quote with iran to reopen strait of hormuz can you see the

00:26:18.480 divergence between what what trump wants and thinks and what iran wants and thinks i don't

00:26:23.680 think iran have got any intention of doing any sort of joint venture well let's see over the

00:26:27.680 course of today or the next day or week it might emerge that in fact something some deal like that

00:26:32.200 is in place. At the moment, we don't know the future, do we? It's not yet written. At

00:26:37.420 the moment, as of the morning of the 9th, Thursday the 9th, it doesn't look like that's

00:26:41.560 a realistic thing, does it? Israel says the deal doesn't include Lebanon. Iran says it

00:26:48.360 does, though. Iran wants it too, though. And launches huge deadly strikes. Okay, you get

00:27:00.620 How many times can I labour?

00:27:01.720 I don't need to labour the point really much anymore, do I?

00:27:03.540 This ceasefire isn't really much of a ceasefire.

00:27:07.860 The Metro.

00:27:11.220 The Metro.

00:27:15.300 So weary.

00:27:16.080 I've got Metro fatigue.

00:27:20.320 After 40 years of chaos, is it really peace?

00:27:24.200 They ask.

00:27:26.540 This headline this morning, I had to read it two or three times

00:27:29.140 where i could even gather what they were trying to get at but oil over bar the shouting

00:27:37.540 oil over bar the shouting well there was a comma there and you realize it's a pun it should be all

00:27:44.900 because oil and all rhyme don't they that should be all over comma bar the shouting all over

00:27:54.820 bar the shouting but they've just written oil over bar the shouting

00:27:58.900 okay good one good one good headline

00:28:06.640 trump's war chief pete hexeth boasts of a victory with capital v after iran begged

00:28:17.540 for a ceasefire okay energy prices fall see when they go to print on these things energy prices

00:28:23.840 fall as world becomes as world welcomes deal but tehran threatens ships and israel fights on

00:28:31.500 i think it's going to be the case that whatever trump and ruby and hicks want or demand

00:28:38.140 israel and iran are going to keep doing what they want what they think are in their best

00:28:44.800 interests and maybe maybe a lot of the other countries as well like saudi or something

00:28:48.400 A lot of the other countries

00:28:49.820 They're going to keep doing

00:28:52.800 What they want

00:28:54.400 I would have thought largely 1.00

00:28:56.280 Certainly Iran 0.96

00:28:58.020 At some point 1.00

00:29:00.860 With enough pressure and talking 0.99

00:29:03.460 The United States might get Israel 0.92

00:29:05.680 To fall in line with exactly what it wants 0.96

00:29:07.620 Maybe, maybe, eventually 0.99

00:29:09.300 Not Iran though

00:29:12.680 Okay, the sun

00:29:14.560 Fleecing our time

00:29:18.360 get it because fleece and peace do kind of rhyme don't they fleecing our time fleecing someone

00:29:25.040 stealing from someone to fleece them fleecing our time iran opens shipping toll booths

00:29:33.600 in peace deal quote peace deal that's the story that you're saying that the ayatollah

00:29:38.660 if he's even alive if he's in a coma the ayatollah or rather just the iranians

00:29:44.020 Some reports

00:29:46.200 Want up to 2 million dollars per ship

00:29:48.380 Again effectively closing it

00:29:50.940 To a lot of shipping

00:29:52.160 One way or another

00:29:53.260 Fleece in our time

00:29:56.000 Brits face

00:29:58.720 Months of higher bills 1.00

00:30:00.120 And pumps hell

00:30:01.860 Petrol pumps

00:30:02.880 Yeah

00:30:05.000 Whether this fleece

00:30:07.920 Will be a joint US venture

00:30:09.720 Trump says he wants it to be

00:30:12.520 like a joint US venture

00:30:14.300 but

00:30:14.560 it's not clear is it

00:30:17.020 it's all a bit up in the air

00:30:17.940 isn't it

00:30:18.240 there's nothing

00:30:18.700 there's nothing clear

00:30:19.740 about all of this

00:30:20.620 particularly is there

00:30:21.500 alright the eye paper

00:30:22.720 what have we got in the eye paper

00:30:23.740 UK mine hunter drones

00:30:26.980 to protect oil in Hormuz

00:30:28.800 are they

00:30:29.500 are they now

00:30:31.400 but fuel bills

00:30:33.860 set to stay higher

00:30:34.900 I'll quickly read the blurb

00:30:36.080 because it's more about

00:30:37.360 Britain

00:30:38.200 and the British government

00:30:39.440 Prime Minister

00:30:41.160 stepping up work on reopening gulf again like i said earlier about yvette cooper

00:30:47.740 same applies for keir starmer doesn't it really keir starmer is going to start working really

00:30:53.280 hard is going to step up efforts to make any difference actually physically in the straits

00:30:59.680 of four moves but okay prime minister quote stepping up quote work on reopening gulf

00:31:04.520 oil and gas shipping route after us and iran agree fragile ceasefire in bid to offset further

00:31:11.400 shock to world energy markets he's not going to do jack is he not going to achieve jack we're

00:31:18.880 going to send mine hunter drones are we are we i believe it when i see it and when we do it'll be

00:31:24.760 a very very small token effort won't it okay starmer faces warnings that the that the uk is

00:31:32.720 still at risk of economic turmoil with think tank calling for a plan to help

00:31:37.120 britain's ration energy and fuel as suppliers continue to be choked great

00:31:41.120 great oh good fuel rationing in britain in the 2020s

00:31:50.440 because of operation apac fury

00:31:55.760 two week truce in doubt

00:32:04.100 as Israel unleashes heaviest attack of war so far in Lebanon

00:32:07.720 and Iran halts oil tankers

00:32:09.860 and threatens retaliation over alleged ceasefire breach

00:32:13.320 Iran war has exposed new Royal Navy

00:32:17.260 Iran war has exposed how Royal Navy has been

00:32:21.540 quote cut beyond the bone

00:32:24.480 quote experts say yeah sorry the right is so small there that's right at the limit of my

00:32:31.120 of my increasingly dwindling 2020 i haven't got 2020 anymore probably should get lenses or

00:32:38.640 glasses at some point soon it's only a shade off of what it always used to be but it's definitely

00:32:44.480 all right anyway that's my problem isn't it all right the daily telegraph daily torograph this

00:32:50.700 is that story about how Putin's mocking Starmer oh sorry it's right there is it Putin mocks

00:32:56.540 Starmer in channel and that's that he's sending through Russian tankers oil tankers or even

00:33:04.140 ghost ones that's what they call them don't they or zombie Russian zombie tankers Russian

00:33:09.280 ghost tankers and sometimes we or a few times we've boarded them we've sent Royal Marines

00:33:13.940 or the SBS to just board them and take them this is like in the North Sea and in the English

00:33:18.200 channel and stuff so now they're escorting it with an actual russian warship to stop us doing

00:33:25.920 that so if we wanted to do that again we'd probably have to engage that warship and then

00:33:29.680 and then what and then we're at war with russia 0.59

00:33:31.640 a couple of things go wrong there it's a nuclear holocaust

00:33:38.600 a bit worrying isn't it makes you think if the uh the bellicose war hawks the

00:33:48.320 the massively anti-russian war hawks in the british establishment

00:33:52.500 will they actually get what they want or what they seem to want a war with russia

00:33:58.280 because if they wanted to at this point right if they wanted to they could engage that ship

00:34:04.260 and balled this ship

00:34:06.140 and then the bulls

00:34:08.740 back in the Kremlin's court

00:34:10.000 what now?

00:34:11.540 what are you going to do now?

00:34:13.660 all that

00:34:13.920 like

00:34:14.260 really?

00:34:15.660 really are you going to start a war with Russia?

00:34:20.880 um 0.98

00:34:21.360 I have still got the biggest

00:34:23.660 nuclear arsenal in the world

00:34:25.560 tens of thousands of nukes

00:34:29.720 and we've got nukes

00:34:33.120 as well

00:34:33.660 bit worrying okay billionaire expat moves back home to hand four million pounds to reform yeah

00:34:42.860 this is a story of a guy what's his name ben something self-made billionaire apparently

00:34:47.300 i've never heard of him before but he's moved back to britain and he's going to give reform

00:34:50.920 four million quid for their war chest there you go good well not great but because i'm a restore

00:34:58.360 person but good for them good for them you know still despite being a restore partisan

00:35:04.680 i would rather reform do well than the lib dems or labor or conservative of course

00:35:12.660 ideally i'd like to see ideally i mean i know it's a bit police guy thinking but

00:35:18.040 like to see restore as the government and reform as the opposition

00:35:23.960 Lib Dem, Labour, Tory are just a couple of guys up in the corner

00:35:30.380 where the independents sit

00:35:32.620 with a couple of SNP dudes up there

00:35:35.280 and no one really listens to them

00:35:37.060 that would be ideal, wouldn't it?

00:35:39.420 that would be the type of parliament I'd like to see

00:35:41.120 alright

00:35:42.480 Iran threatens to restart war over Lebanon bombardment

00:35:48.400 oh, both sides have threatened to restart the war

00:35:50.340 Trump has said a whole bunch of times

00:35:52.240 already

00:35:53.680 oh we're keeping all our military and navy in place

00:35:57.240 like this is just a two week ceasefire at the moment

00:36:00.560 it's not like

00:36:01.300 it's not like we're just leaving the region

00:36:03.540 everything's going to stay in place

00:36:05.040 absolutely everything

00:36:07.680 and he said

00:36:09.320 he also said explicitly

00:36:10.420 if Iran

00:36:12.460 as far as he's concerned

00:36:14.040 cross any red lines

00:36:15.220 it's straight on immediately

00:36:16.540 straight back on immediately 0.95

00:36:17.960 and Iran threatening the same thing 0.98

00:36:21.420 I don't see this thing 1.00

00:36:24.140 lasting very long

00:36:25.040 the ceasefire I mean

00:36:26.820 don't see that

00:36:27.520 lasting very long

00:36:28.440 the express

00:36:31.820 it's a good paper

00:36:33.140 being ironic there

00:36:36.280 for anyone who's watching

00:36:37.040 the Bo show for the first time

00:36:37.880 it's not a good paper

00:36:38.600 that's an Alan Partridge quote 0.99

00:36:39.980 it's a ridiculous rag 0.99

00:36:41.560 look at this picture 0.99

00:36:44.260 this is so infuriating

00:36:46.240 to any sort of

00:36:49.060 patriot

00:36:49.520 anyone who doesn't want

00:36:50.320 their country

00:36:50.840 and society to be ripped apart what an infuriating thing that's a beach in france 1.00

00:36:57.580 just across the channel there's a whole bunch of foreign invaders economic migrants 1.00

00:37:04.460 unvetted fighting age men god knows who they are what their past is what's in their hearts and 0.99

00:37:09.980 minds no one knows no one no idea all he knows that they're trying to break the law by getting

00:37:14.500 into Britain illegally. We've paid the French authorities hundreds and hundreds of millions

00:37:22.800 of pounds over years to do something, to do anything to stop them, to even lower the numbers

00:37:33.160 a bit, anything. No, they just stand there, look, there you go, just standing there, just

00:37:36.780 watching them do it right headline is destination El Dorado UK El Dorado a fabled city of gold

00:37:49.580 it's a destination for these people because they'll get far more benefits they'll get treated

00:37:54.080 far better in the UK than anywhere else in Europe they'll just be given loads and loads

00:37:59.740 and loads of things at least of all a roof over their head and almost certainly not deported

00:38:05.720 Almost certainly

00:38:07.020 Not certainly, but

00:38:08.240 So it's the best place to get to

00:38:12.700 Is the UK

00:38:14.800 It's not enough 0.75

00:38:16.360 Say they've come from, well, say they've come from wherever 0.91

00:38:18.320 Say they've come from Vietnam 0.92

00:38:20.640 As far away as Vietnam 1.00

00:38:22.200 Bangladesh, Pakistan

00:38:26.400 Iraq, Iran, Syria, Nigeria

00:38:30.680 Anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa 0.73

00:38:31.980 Wherever they've come from 1.00

00:38:33.040 The place where they can get the most gibs 1.00

00:38:36.120 Is the UK 1.00

00:38:37.380 So it's not good enough that they're in France 0.99

00:38:39.460 It's not good enough for them

00:38:40.320 They're already in France 0.99

00:38:41.720 They need to get across the channel

00:38:45.060 And the French police just watch them

00:38:47.360 Just stand there and watch them 0.81

00:38:48.460 It's infuriating

00:38:52.720 And we've tried to do a new deal

00:38:54.740 Shabana Mahmood, our Home Secretary

00:38:56.480 Who I don't believe for an instant

00:38:58.420 Has got any intention of truly stopping

00:39:00.620 Or wanting to

00:39:03.040 He's tried to make some sort of new deal 1.00

00:39:06.160 Slightly stronger deal with the French

00:39:08.700 And the French have rejected that 0.98

00:39:10.660 Even rejected that

00:39:11.580 So

00:39:11.940 The star

00:39:15.320 Something about the

00:39:16.400 Something about the

00:39:18.080 The Grand National

00:39:18.780 Don't even care

00:39:19.420 Don't care 1.00

00:39:20.920 Red Roma 1.00

00:39:21.520 Very very famous

00:39:22.800 Racehorse winner

00:39:24.040 It's trainer

00:39:25.700 His grandson is now a jockey

00:39:28.720 Gonna be in the Grand National on Saturday

00:39:30.060 Okay don't care

00:39:30.660 Let's move on

00:39:31.360 Let's move on

00:39:32.140 the BBC goes all with the oh no let's do the poll we do the poll at this point

00:39:36.240 don't we we do the poll Harry can you bring that up

00:39:39.720 from my screen for me so we asked you guys to show I have 1200 votes we asked

00:39:44.880 you guys

00:39:45.560 do you think the ceasefire will hold

00:39:48.900 6% of you say yes

00:39:52.560 80% say no

00:39:57.120 and 14% say maybe

00:40:00.040 All I know is my gut says maybe

00:40:04.680 80% though

00:40:07.840 That's a stonking win effectively isn't it

00:40:10.040 It doesn't seem likely

00:40:11.600 Or it just already has fallen apart isn't it

00:40:15.480 6 or 7

00:40:16.280 The yes just ticked up to 7% there 1.00

00:40:18.640 Contrarians and trolls to a man I imagine 0.97

00:40:22.460 Don't go 1.00

00:40:24.360 Don't leave me I didn't mean it

00:40:25.520 Okay let's have a look at the websites

00:40:29.600 let's have a look at the websites uh okay the bbc just goes with all all iran things here you can

00:40:36.660 see a quick snapshot of everything they're going with trump says u.s forces will stay in region

00:40:42.480 until iran fully complies with quote real agreement quote the real agreement in their mind

00:40:47.320 and they're not going to they haven't already and they're not going to are they

00:40:50.940 realistically so everything stays in place there you go jeremy bowen a bbc correspondent famous

00:41:02.080 one ceasefire means respite for civilians but it might not last long trump criticizes nato as

00:41:09.980 alliance chief describes meeting as very frank negotiators face huge tasks to close gaps in

00:41:19.220 rival Iran peace proposals. Huge gaps. Giants chasms. Even if Iran war ends now, farmers'

00:41:26.700 costs will have to be passed on. Iran warning adds to shipping uncertainty.

00:41:31.900 All right. There you go. That's a bit of a snapshot of it.

00:41:35.640 In the ITV news, there was, I believe there was one, oh yeah, there we go. There you go.

00:41:41.960 The Israeli angle real quick. Netanyahu cautiously supports Iran's ceasefire as criticisms within

00:41:48.920 israel grow um but as i say other reports have said he's just completely adamant that iran won't

00:41:58.200 be able to retain its currently buried enriched uranium and he would have been aware wouldn't he

00:42:07.720 you would have thought that it was one of iran's red lines to stop bombing lebanon which he stepped

00:42:16.200 up if anything in the last 24 hours didn't he we had a report a moment ago saying it was the largest

00:42:23.000 bombardment of missiles of ordnance into lebanon from israel since the war started so

00:42:32.280 so netanyahu in one sense cautiously supports iran's ceasefire

00:42:37.000 and in another sense absolutely doesn't in any way shape or form okay

00:42:41.080 Sky News and we had a quick look

00:42:44.540 Yvette Cooper 1.00

00:42:45.140 Completely impotent Yvette Cooper 0.99

00:42:47.980 Screaming into the void

00:42:49.260 Oh there's a story of that

00:42:53.660 That 21 year old who just got stabbed in a park

00:42:56.700 Do you think he started it?

00:43:00.800 He started the knife fight

00:43:01.820 Finbar

00:43:05.540 Finbar Sullivan

00:43:06.700 Of Primrose Hill

00:43:08.080 I doubt it

00:43:12.360 I don't know the details of that fight, of course

00:43:14.840 Because they haven't been reported on

00:43:16.620 You know how it goes, don't you?

00:43:21.120 They're really, really, really aggressive

00:43:23.180 Really aggressive

00:43:24.480 And one way or another, over nothing

00:43:26.720 Over nothing

00:43:27.340 Force your hand to say or do anything back

00:43:31.060 Suddenly you're in a fight now

00:43:32.320 Suddenly you're just in a fight over nothing

00:43:34.900 Try and fight back

00:43:38.220 Oops, you just got stabbed

00:43:39.200 May or may not be a fatal stabbing

00:43:42.260 On Primrose Hill

00:43:45.560 Thanks Blair

00:43:48.200 Thanks Cameron

00:43:48.900 Thanks Boris

00:43:49.600 Thanks Rishi

00:43:50.760 Thanks Starmer

00:43:53.400 That's our Britain now

00:43:55.120 Brilliant

00:43:57.280 Trump warns of bigger and stronger strikes on Iran

00:44:01.000 Unless a deal agreement is reached

00:44:02.760 See, it's all

00:44:04.240 It's still on isn't it

00:44:06.220 As Tehran insists

00:44:08.040 Israeli attacks on Lebanon

00:44:09.460 Must end

00:44:10.300 They're not going 1.00

00:44:10.720 Israel are not going to do that 1.00

00:44:11.600 I don't think

00:44:12.280 They might do

00:44:13.340 But I don't think so

00:44:14.840 I don't think so

00:44:17.440 Alright

00:44:19.000 Another report there

00:44:20.600 Niger gets a

00:44:21.440 Bunch more money 1.00

00:44:22.280 For his war chest

00:44:23.100 Okay

00:44:24.400 Trump promises to destroy Iran

00:44:32.280 In furious statement

00:44:33.680 A ceasefire falls apart in 24 hours

00:44:36.140 See, so they're prepared to describe it as it's just

00:44:39.540 It has fallen apart

00:44:41.080 Starmer's small boat crisis deepens 1.00

00:44:45.760 As 2026 migrants 1.00

00:44:48.080 As this year's migrants

00:44:49.760 Crossings top 5,000 1.00

00:44:51.700 Look at this 1.00

00:44:54.660 These are not like refugees, are they?

00:45:00.260 That are fleeing persecution from their countries

00:45:02.760 Some of them may be

00:45:03.780 Most of

00:45:05.740 The vast majority of them

00:45:07.000 Won't be

00:45:07.520 Will they

00:45:07.920 The vast majority of them 1.00

00:45:10.020 Are economic migrants 1.00

00:45:11.060 Are chancers 1.00

00:45:11.920 And unvetted 1.00

00:45:15.080 That's sort of the most terrifying thing

00:45:17.020 Isn't it

00:45:17.300 Unvetted

00:45:17.880 Coming here for Gibbs

00:45:20.920 And to commit theft 0.75

00:45:22.760 And or sex crime

00:45:23.680 Or even worse

00:45:24.980 Violent crime

00:45:25.620 Murders

00:45:26.480 Whatever

00:45:26.880 His name was Wayne Broadcast

00:45:28.440 Could be stopped in an afternoon

00:45:34.080 Deploy a 4-2 commando

00:45:37.180 Could be stopped basically immediately

00:45:39.940 Within one day

00:45:40.600 Stopped, dead

00:45:41.500 Not one more

00:45:43.140 Not one man more

00:45:44.620 Making the decision every day

00:45:48.020 To not do that, aren't they?

00:45:49.100 Every single day

00:45:49.840 The decision is taken to not act

00:45:53.440 What other conclusion can you come to

00:45:58.520 Than they want it

00:45:59.900 Our government want this

00:46:01.980 What other conclusion can you come to

00:46:06.180 They could stop it immediately

00:46:07.760 Almost immediately

00:46:08.860 Stop it dead in its tracks

00:46:10.860 Alright, a little bit about

00:46:13.940 I was nearly caught to you

00:46:14.900 A little bit about Artemis

00:46:17.740 They should be coming back in what

00:46:19.640 The next two days is it

00:46:21.040 Next two days

00:46:21.860 And as I said before

00:46:23.980 And as everyone says

00:46:24.840 Who knows anything about it

00:46:25.680 It's the most dangerous part of the mission by far

00:46:28.820 Is re-entering to Earth's atmosphere

00:46:31.440 How on Earth

00:46:35.140 Inside Artemis' perilous 16-minute plunge

00:46:38.560 Back to Earth

00:46:39.260 Where astronauts face

00:46:40.640 2,760 degrees Celsius

00:46:44.320 Heat

00:46:46.200 With just a 3-inch shield

00:46:48.320 2760 degrees 25 000 miles per hour not kilometers now miles per hour there we go look

00:47:00.720 orion and european service module the esm separate traveling at just shy of 25 000 a miles per hour

00:47:11.160 it's difficult to fathom how fast that is

00:47:16.080 that's difficult to fathom that

00:47:19.800 like 1000 miles per hour is slower than

00:47:24.300 like a bullet like a 9mm pistol bullet

00:47:27.640 I think even like a decent rifle

00:47:30.700 I think I've watched a fair few videos before about

00:47:34.620 loads of videos actually before about ballistics I think a very very good

00:47:38.700 rifle like a 308 or a 50k or something, I think that bullet will go faster than

00:47:42.680 1,000 miles per hour, or is it 1,000 feet per second? They usually measure it in feet per second

00:47:48.780 actually, they don't know. Anyway, 25,000 miles per hour is way, way, way, way, way faster than

00:47:54.360 any rifle bullet. I mean, many times, many times faster. It's an insane speed, 25,000 miles per

00:47:59.640 hour. It's sort of insane. It's sort of very, very difficult to comprehend. Okay, and they'll

00:48:05.580 into earth's atmosphere at that speed um and then uh orion the little module thing that the

00:48:13.600 the four people are in that four people will be inside that um it fires thrusters turning its

00:48:19.280 heat shield the bottom bit towards the atmosphere and then you just sit tight and hope you don't

00:48:25.740 burn up break apart burn up and just the atmosphere itself will break it down to 300

00:48:33.580 miles per hour then they shoot their then they fire their shoots the drogue parachutes um

00:48:41.620 slow them down to about 30 20 30 mile per hour and then they drop in the ocean and are picked up

00:48:48.840 it floats and they're picked up if you believe any of this is real and it's not all just a sound

00:48:54.340 stage in texas somewhere or california which i think you would be mad to think that i honestly

00:49:01.880 You do think, like, failing to understand reality properly

00:49:05.560 if you think all of NASA and space is just phony and fake.

00:49:13.620 It's just me? All right, that's just me.

00:49:16.040 New York Times, more about Iran.

00:49:17.460 Okay, we've done that a bit.

00:49:19.520 I do like to just check in with Le Monde most mornings,

00:49:22.960 just to check in. 0.96

00:49:25.340 Yep, Lebanon's secretary intentions rise.

00:49:27.700 We must stand united.

00:49:29.360 or we are heading for civil war, Lebanon 1.00

00:49:33.400 that's what happens if you let a giant Muslim majority into your country 1.00

00:49:40.740 it ends in complete civil war and chaos 1.00

00:49:44.780 destabilisation

00:49:46.360 misery, death, etc, etc, etc, etc

00:49:51.100 it's absolutely insane and suicidal 0.99

00:49:56.780 to let millions of Muslims come to Western, non-Muslim countries. 1.00

00:50:02.020 A sectarian nightmare. 1.00

00:50:03.960 It's not just...

00:50:05.320 It's not just a far-right fantasy. 0.95

00:50:07.880 It's not just some sort of crazy right-wing racist bigot thing to think or say. 0.88

00:50:13.940 It's obviously true. 0.69

00:50:15.540 It's obviously reality.

00:50:17.200 How many times does it have to play out in the world? 1.00

00:50:23.840 You have a non-Muslim country and you let enough Muslims in 1.00

00:50:26.740 It becomes a nightmare sectarian situation 1.00

00:50:30.260 Once there's enough of them 1.00

00:50:35.660 Because it's a proselytizing religion 0.99

00:50:39.760 Conquering religion 1.00

00:50:40.680 It wants you to submit 1.00

00:50:43.160 Islam at its core

00:50:45.360 Wants you, whoever you are, everyone 1.00

00:50:47.920 To submit to it

00:50:49.880 Demands submission

00:50:53.800 And is prepared to fight for it

00:50:56.140 So either submit or be prepared to fight back

00:51:00.760 It's one of those two things

00:51:01.860 I mean we know Nigel Al-Faraj

00:51:06.220 Nigel Al-Faraj

00:51:07.800 We know he does want to capitulate to it effectively, right?

00:51:11.640 Didn't he say, quote

00:51:12.600 If we alienate Islam, we lose 0.53

00:51:15.360 We lose, quote

00:51:16.820 No? Did he not say that?

00:51:20.980 That's defeatist, that's slave talk as far as I'm concerned 0.96

00:51:23.340 That's disgusting, that's not what I want 0.91

00:51:24.980 That's not what we need in government 0.97

00:51:26.720 That's terrible

00:51:27.820 That's moral and political cowardice

00:51:31.620 Nothing more

00:51:32.540 He's terrified

00:51:34.700 Not good enough

00:51:36.600 I won't submit, I will not submit

00:51:38.560 Alright, shall we have a look at

00:51:43.440 This day in history

00:51:44.860 Shall we have a quick look at that

00:51:46.140 I like doing that segment at the end of the show

00:51:47.680 You guys seem to like it

00:51:49.380 Down through the centuries on this day, the 9th of April

00:51:52.080 What happened of note

00:51:53.680 Let's take a look

00:51:55.680 Alright, on this day, the 9th of April

00:51:58.680 In the year 1483

00:51:59.760 Edward V, a child

00:52:02.620 So it says that

00:52:04.780 Age 12, succeeds his father

00:52:06.860 Edward IV

00:52:07.780 This son of York

00:52:09.860 Edward IV, the eldest son of

00:52:12.660 Richard Duke of York

00:52:13.840 Who won the Wars of the Roses

00:52:16.360 He succeeds his father

00:52:19.380 Who just died of natural causes

00:52:20.660 He was a bit corpulent

00:52:22.180 And he died relatively young

00:52:24.080 So his dad

00:52:26.820 Edward IV dies

00:52:28.500 And even though he's aged 12

00:52:29.920 He immediately becomes the king

00:52:31.620 That's how that works

00:52:32.860 Your coronation is just a rubber stamp

00:52:34.800 The moment the old king is dead

00:52:37.540 The next in line is the king

00:52:39.040 So Edward V

00:52:41.340 A 12 year old is now king

00:52:43.100 But he is never crowned

00:52:45.860 And he disappears

00:52:48.000 Never seen from again

00:52:50.540 Presumed murdered

00:52:52.020 after being incarcerated in the Tower of London

00:52:55.760 along with his younger brother, Richard.

00:52:59.520 The two princes in the Tower.

00:53:02.140 So, actually, on Epochs, Harry, at the moment, Harry,

00:53:06.040 on my history theme show, Epochs, Behind the Paywall,

00:53:10.100 consider going over to lotusethes.com for as little as £5 a month

00:53:12.580 to become a Bronze Team membership.

00:53:13.780 On that show, I'm going through a series of the Wars of the Roses

00:53:17.600 at the moment, the entire Wars of the Roses.

00:53:19.400 at the moment we're just up to the bit where the king before edward the fourth henry the sixth

00:53:26.320 lancastrian has just been murdered making edward the fourth's reign safe effectively that's where

00:53:34.060 we are in the story and this is in the next episode or two i'll be talking all about this

00:53:38.520 but of course it's a very very famous bit of english history the prince is in the tower

00:53:42.880 many say that edward the 12 year old edward the fourth edward the fifth and his little brother

00:53:51.940 richard were put in the tower by their own uncle evil uncle richard the third

00:53:58.320 we don't know exactly it's sort of a mystery i don't think it's much of a mystery when you look

00:54:04.280 at the actual accounts from the time it's not really a mystery but people like to make out

00:54:08.240 it's a mystery it's not really but what you can say for 100% sure 100% historical fact

00:54:13.740 they went into that tower apparently for their own good called into Uncle Richard

00:54:18.460 and were just never seen again

00:54:20.620 it's a story as old as time extra princes quite often

00:54:28.080 find themselves in an early grave whether Richard himself personally murdered them

00:54:35.000 smothered them or something probably not but we don't know we just don't know

00:54:37.760 what we know for sure is that they were never seen again after a certain point they were in

00:54:43.200 the tower sometimes people would see them playing around and frolicking on the green

00:54:48.140 they're still alive and then at a certain point just sit they're gone they're gone and they're 0.99

00:54:54.080 gone leaving the throne open for uncle richard who then got his ass handed to him by henry tudor 0.99

00:55:04.060 at Bosworth Field 1.00

00:55:06.820 and himself killed

00:55:08.400 ok, we'll get into all that on Epochs

00:55:11.320 over the coming few weeks

00:55:12.320 if you're interested in that

00:55:13.780 great story, alright

00:55:15.600 on this day in 1731

00:55:17.180 British mariner Robert Jenkins

00:55:19.560 Robert Jenkins' ear 0.98

00:55:21.720 is cut off by a Spaniard in the Caribbean 1.00

00:55:24.240 and it's a catalyst for a later war

00:55:26.520 between Britain and Spain

00:55:27.460 that's how we used to roll 1.00

00:55:29.520 you mutilate 0.88

00:55:32.400 one of our sailors, that's it

00:55:34.040 war there's much more to it than that politics we were we were sort of global rivals britain and

00:55:40.060 spain of course in the early 18th century and after so it's really just a casaspella a reason

00:55:47.160 to go to war but there's the whole the whole war of jenkins here if you're interested there'll be

00:55:51.960 youtube videos there's a wiki page the war of jenkins here we wanted to go to war with spain

00:55:57.840 so we're looking for any little anything they might do where we can go that's it that's war

00:56:03.680 now and this happened to be what it was the war of jenkins ear there we go on this day in 1768

00:56:10.200 john hancock the first signature on the declaration of independence john hancock an american refuses

00:56:19.080 to allow two british customs agents to go below the deck of his ship considered by some to be the

00:56:24.060 first act of physical resistance to british authority in the colonies the 13 us colonies

00:56:30.960 days John Hancock look at the date there 1768 so 1776 is the beginning of the war so many many

00:56:38.240 years before that people don't say it much anymore but people used to say well some people know that

00:56:45.980 your John Hancock is shorthand for your signature someone might give you a bit of paper to sign

00:56:52.760 they say go and put your John Hancock there why do they do that it's because as I said John Hancock

00:56:58.320 is the first signature before George Washington before John Adams for Thomas Jefferson John

00:57:04.140 Hancock was like I'll sign it and let me sign it first I hate the English the most

00:57:08.220 John Hancock if you're an American because I'm an Anglo-American basically my father's an

00:57:14.740 American full-blown American tons of cousins in America um if you're an American John Hancock's 0.65

00:57:21.100 he's great isn't he he's one of your boys love it as an englishman an arch traitor

00:57:28.440 all right um okay on this day in 1865 confederate general granny lee bobby e lee

00:57:39.300 granny by the way isn't a criticism before you get worried about it that's what they called him

00:57:44.880 and he liked being called that because he looked after them like a grandmother he loved his own

00:57:48.320 men so much. He's like this white-haired, grandmotherly figure. He will look after you.

00:57:54.780 He will try and keep you alive with everything he's got. Granny Lee. It's not a criticism. 0.99

00:58:01.700 Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in the US

00:58:07.540 to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War in Northern Virginia.

00:58:13.580 Most people say that that's the end of the Civil War, and it largely was, but not entirely.

00:58:18.320 There was some sporadic fighting still for a while after that

00:58:21.200 But in essence, essentially that's the end of the American Civil War

00:58:24.800 General Lee realised that he could go on fighting to the last man

00:58:32.180 But there's just absolutely no point in that

00:58:34.440 The Yankees had gotten them effectively surrounded

00:58:37.980 There was no point, there's literally no strategic or tactical point

00:58:43.120 Trying to fight on any longer

00:58:45.180 um do you think i've got long-form content about that sort of thing

00:58:53.160 it's actually not on epochs it's on my own channel history bro

00:58:59.060 did a very very long form bit of content with benjamin boyce the great benjamin boyce

00:59:04.400 all about the entire life and career of ulysses s grant

00:59:08.440 not just his war career but his early life his war career and then he went on to be

00:59:15.000 president didn't he and then his life after being president the whole thing long form bit of content

00:59:19.960 i think it's i think it's is it in the three hour ballpark or more oh anyway got a very very long

00:59:27.400 video on ulysses s grant if you want to hear me talking about ulysses s grant and of course the

00:59:33.580 civil war in loads of quite a lot of detail check it out it's all free over at history bro nothing's

00:59:39.580 behind a paywall there. Benjamin Boyce, great dude. Great dude, isn't he? A great listener.

00:59:47.020 A great spirit. Okay, on this day in 1869, Hudson's Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada.

00:59:54.060 I've mentioned Hudson's Bay Company before, haven't I? I think I have. People think there's

00:59:58.900 like the Honourable East India Company. It was one of the only type of these 18th, 19th century

01:00:04.020 companies that go around the world effectively doing conquest. Well, there's loads. All different

01:00:09.100 countries all different types south sea company anyway hudson's bay company finally in the end

01:00:14.140 i'll just give everything over to canada the story though the story of the hudson bay company is is

01:00:21.040 interesting okay in 1992 john major is elected prime minister of the united kingdom after his

01:00:29.460 conservative party wins the most votes in british electoral history which is funny and interesting

01:00:34.780 because he didn't get a big majority it's often ways in it or not often but quite it can be the

01:00:40.920 way not just in the in the united kingdom in any vote that you can win sort of the popular vote

01:00:48.120 just the sheer number of votes you get from people and yet that doesn't necessarily translate into

01:00:53.540 a very very strong government so he had a very small majority i believe in 1992 very small

01:01:01.280 Very very small

01:01:04.000 Everyone thought

01:01:05.600 No one thought John Major would take over from Margaret Thatcher

01:01:08.720 Did they

01:01:09.200 He wasn't sort of

01:01:11.940 They thought it would be Michael Heseltine didn't they

01:01:14.640 Including Michael Heseltine

01:01:16.680 Everyone thought that if and when 0.83

01:01:18.500 Maggie is ousted or loses

01:01:20.660 Michael Heseltine is the heir apparent 0.88

01:01:23.180 It's going to be Heseltine

01:01:24.280 Well when it came down to it

01:01:26.360 John Major had a bigger

01:01:28.880 Faction in the party

01:01:30.080 And took over

01:01:32.040 Didn't call a general election right away 1.00

01:01:34.440 The way Theresa May did 0.98

01:01:36.820 But didn't call it right away

01:01:38.220 Like Rishi did

01:01:39.120 When there was finally an election

01:01:41.240 Everyone thought

01:01:42.580 Everyone thought Neil Kinnock

01:01:43.500 Could win in 1992

01:01:44.480 There's no way John Major

01:01:45.900 Is going to beat Neil Kinnock in 1992

01:01:48.700 After what

01:01:50.120 12 years

01:01:52.740 13 years of

01:01:53.520 Tory government

01:01:54.620 Or something like that

01:01:55.360 John Major only bloody won it

01:01:57.700 In 1992

01:01:58.800 Anyway

01:02:00.060 So on the first elections I really remember properly

01:02:04.740 I must say

01:02:05.340 I was like 12 years old or something

01:02:07.520 I remember it relatively clearly

01:02:09.980 Okay

01:02:11.620 On this day in 2003

01:02:13.400 Baghdad falls to US forces

01:02:15.940 Ctesiphon

01:02:16.720 It's not Ctesiphon

01:02:19.000 The ancient city of Ctesiphon is

01:02:20.400 Just outside of modern day Baghdad

01:02:23.120 Some of the suburbs overlap I believe

01:02:25.540 Anyway

01:02:25.940 George W Bush's

01:02:30.040 Mesopotamian adventure

01:02:31.840 on this day in 2003

01:02:33.340 Baghdad falls to US forces

01:02:34.960 ending the invasion of Iraq

01:02:37.960 ending just the first phase of it

01:02:40.000 resulting in widespread looting

01:02:43.280 and a years long secretarian nightmare

01:02:47.620 lest we forget

01:02:55.420 Tony Blair and George Bush insisted it made the world safer

01:02:58.300 it didn't

01:02:59.420 It didn't, did it?

01:03:04.060 Alright.

01:03:05.820 Those are...

01:03:07.380 That is the news.

01:03:08.060 That's the show.

01:03:08.940 Let's do the Rumble Rants and Super Chats, shall we? 0.98

01:03:12.540 Close the show out with that.

01:03:14.340 Alright, let's do this so I can see the left side of my screen properly for the Rumble Rants.

01:03:18.820 Alright, we've got...

01:03:20.700 Who do you reckon is in at number one with the first Rumble Rant this morning?

01:03:24.260 Who do you reckon?

01:03:27.240 It's only global church history.

01:03:28.680 and still

01:03:30.380 he says

01:03:32.280 on this day in 1626

01:03:35.160 Francis Bacon died

01:03:36.940 I very nearly

01:03:40.800 I came within a whisker

01:03:42.420 of doing an epox on Francis Bacon

01:03:45.040 in fact I probably still will at some point

01:03:46.640 Francis Bacon if anyone doesn't know

01:03:48.740 not to be confused with the 20th century

01:03:50.300 artist Francis Bacon

01:03:51.860 not that Francis Bacon

01:03:52.880 there's a 17th century Francis Bacon

01:03:56.300 who's like a philosopher and a statesman

01:03:57.860 He was like Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of Britain

01:04:01.120 Under what, James I, would it be?

01:04:05.060 Just an important figure from English history

01:04:07.160 Really quite important, right?

01:04:09.420 An empiricist

01:04:10.200 Let's do science a bit more

01:04:13.020 Let's conduct ourselves by what we really know and can prove is true

01:04:17.500 Rather than witchcraft or whatever

01:04:21.720 Okay?

01:04:25.320 Francis Bacon, very, very interesting person

01:04:27.000 his career ended in complete ignominy by the way but all right on this day which i didn't know he

01:04:31.840 died in the year 1626 uh you say in 1784 on this day king george ratified the treaty of paris

01:04:40.120 with the u.s so that'd be king george iii wouldn't it the madness of king george that king george

01:04:44.640 and the treaty of paris is where we finally finally agree that the united states is the

01:04:54.020 united states and not our colonies anymore i mean the issue was settled long before that wasn't it

01:04:58.740 the issue was settled years before that but it took it took years for a final final final

01:05:05.620 peace treaty to be agreed upon and finally ratified many years isn't it 1784

01:05:14.980 all right um and on this day in the year 2021 prince philip duke of edinburgh died

01:05:20.980 I never really liked Jeef anymore

01:05:25.440 I didn't hate him I think but

01:05:27.040 Seemed like a

01:05:28.780 He said funny based

01:05:31.720 Things didn't he

01:05:33.220 He said

01:05:35.780 I probably actually can't say some of the things

01:05:38.400 That he said

01:05:39.060 Because

01:05:40.540 We'd get copyright struck

01:05:43.860 Or yeeted

01:05:45.140 To some of the terms he would use to describe

01:05:48.260 Minorities

01:05:49.760 or indigenous ethnic people from around the world.

01:05:54.640 Old-fashioned words.

01:05:59.700 Okay, all right.

01:06:02.460 H. Weldon says,

01:06:04.460 after mentioning the Mardist Wars yesterday,

01:06:07.440 the River War, the reconquest of the Sudan,

01:06:09.980 would you ever do more content on General Goulden?

01:06:13.400 There is a good book on his private diary

01:06:15.740 of his exploits in China

01:06:18.580 By Samuel Mossman

01:06:20.320 Okay, so if anyone doesn't know

01:06:22.240 On Epochs I've got a very long form

01:06:27.140 Bit of content

01:06:28.100 All about Goulden

01:06:29.900 Goulden of Khartoum

01:06:31.940 Before he was known as Goulden of Khartoum

01:06:35.060 He was known as Goulden of China

01:06:36.840 So he's like a late Victorian general and statesman

01:06:42.440 He was sent round the world in various ways

01:06:44.760 To troubleshoot

01:06:45.640 And

01:06:48.160 Just a very, very, very influential

01:06:50.760 Very, very interesting life

01:06:52.920 And

01:06:54.880 Eventually

01:06:57.440 Was killed in that Mardis war 0.94

01:07:00.380 Murdered 1.00

01:07:02.060 By Muslims

01:07:03.720 In, I can't remember if it was southern Egypt

01:07:06.780 Or in Sudan itself, anyway

01:07:08.080 That's what made us, the British Empire 1.00

01:07:10.700 Decide, right, okay, that's the final straw

01:07:12.720 That was one of our heroes

01:07:14.020 we're gonna we're gonna go and send a full expedition military expedition go all the way

01:07:20.280 to cartoon gunships the whole nine yards lancer divisions etc um would i do more content on him

01:07:28.580 already got a long form piece but when i do more i mean maybe one day but probably not because

01:07:32.940 there's so many things i want to do an epoch so many things people have requested for me to do

01:07:36.940 on epochs that to return to something it's it's difficult in my mind to just return to something

01:07:43.260 i've already covered unless and i have done it a few times unless i really really want to or need

01:07:47.700 to in some way for example i've talked about henry v or like the back of action corps a couple of

01:07:51.840 times i've talked about pompey a couple of times i try not to return to things because there's just

01:07:59.640 so many things i could talk about seems like a waste like it seems like going back on holiday

01:08:04.620 to the same place you've already been it's a bit of a what if i feel like it's a little bit of a

01:08:08.520 you could should go somewhere else to get as much in as you can so i might return to gordon at some

01:08:15.940 point but if i if i do not anytime soon but thanks for the interest in it though

01:08:22.500 he's a vet is a very very interesting life least of all the reconquest of the sudan bit of it

01:08:28.980 fascinating life he's one of those people a bit like flashman or sharp but real in the sense that

01:08:35.160 He was at the heart of events

01:08:36.800 For loads and loads and loads of years

01:08:38.500 Anything that went on

01:08:40.320 Not anything

01:08:41.460 But a lot of stuff that went on

01:08:42.980 He was there

01:08:44.580 He was Johnny on the spot

01:08:45.600 He was involved in it one way or another

01:08:46.900 I think fascinating

01:08:50.340 General Gordon

01:08:52.900 Alright

01:08:53.260 Fortin Barber says

01:08:55.660 Morning alright

01:08:56.720 Yeah I'm alright thanks

01:08:58.380 Cheers for asking

01:08:59.040 Hope you're alright Fortin Barber

01:09:00.400 And you said

01:09:02.220 Giampiero Gambiasi

01:09:05.720 has reportedly left Red Bull Racing

01:09:09.960 oh right

01:09:10.360 this is Formula 1

01:09:11.840 talking about Formula 1

01:09:12.880 Gambiasi has reportedly left Red Bull

01:09:16.280 for McLaren

01:09:17.080 a sign that Max is leaving maybe

01:09:19.380 quite possibly

01:09:20.360 Max isn't happy

01:09:21.760 anyone doesn't know

01:09:22.960 Max Verstappen

01:09:23.660 wants to leave Red Bull

01:09:26.940 he's not happy

01:09:27.400 because the Red Bull isn't that competitive this year

01:09:29.540 NATO is old hat 0.92

01:09:31.760 Can Zuck should be the move for us

01:09:34.140 We should let NATO go

01:09:35.840 I mean, yeah

01:09:38.080 Sure

01:09:39.260 We don't need

01:09:41.240 Well, Britain certainly doesn't need NATO

01:09:43.840 It's not really in anyone's interest

01:09:48.140 Other than some of those countries

01:09:50.200 Like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

01:09:52.600 And to some degree

01:09:53.720 Or Finland maybe, Belarus 0.67

01:09:55.140 To everyone else in the world 1.00

01:09:58.960 It's a pain

01:10:00.380 isn't it including the americans now if it's not going to do what it's told what's the point of it

01:10:06.420 that's trump's point isn't it that's where trump's coming from and again purely from the u.s perspective

01:10:11.160 yeah you can't blame them right this was supposed to be our a tool that we can use to do things and

01:10:18.880 it's not it doesn't work it's broken we can't use it so what's the point in it now as far as we're

01:10:25.520 concerned the united states why would we yeah okay tom rat 247 says i don't fully understand

01:10:33.740 what is happening with the iran deal i don't think anyone really does uh but what i do know

01:10:39.400 is if i wanted to screw over bibi it would look something like this

01:10:45.060 i never thought about it exactly from that point of view but i mean you're not really wrong

01:10:53.840 are you i don't think it is what trump and rubio and hicks want or are trying to do

01:10:59.520 but if it were yeah it would look something like this wouldn't it you can imagine bb's not happy

01:11:07.160 about it you can imagine bb's like wait what we're just we're almost there he would argue i

01:11:12.520 would have thought what we've all the regime could collapse any moment we need to get the

01:11:15.840 iranian nuclear material i haven't finished in lebanon bro yeah you can't imagine neti is all

01:11:22.980 that happy about it. Okay, that was the last rumble rant. Let's have a look at the YouTube

01:11:26.420 superchats. Harry, you have to do that for me, don't you? If you could do that. Engage.

01:11:31.440 Okay, great. Here they are. Here they are. All right. There's a fair few higher value

01:11:36.960 ones as well. Nice. I'm seeing a wall of orange there. Lovely. All right. Brandon Lucas says,

01:11:46.120 Crucially, why are Iran directly claiming southern Lebanon as sovereign territory that's

01:11:51.500 being attacked the lebanese government is not in alliance with iran i mean good point formally of

01:11:57.820 course you're absolutely right yeah it's just that that hezbollah are proxies kind of undeniably i

01:12:04.660 don't think anyone would deny it that hezbollah are a proxy paramilitary organization controlled

01:12:12.600 from iran well at least to some extent some large extent so so hezbollah and the lebanese government

01:12:21.020 Are very different things

01:12:22.280 In fact the Lebanese government

01:12:23.520 Would like to, some of them 1.00

01:12:25.860 Get rid of Hezbollah 1.00

01:12:27.280 Almost as much as Israel would

01:12:29.780 They see Hezbollah as just a terrorist organisation

01:12:31.940 You know like a Christian Lebanese person

01:12:34.520 Like Faraz for example 1.00

01:12:35.420 Would hate, despise Hezbollah 1.00

01:12:37.380 Hezbollah is ruining my country 1.00

01:12:39.820 Lebanon 1.00

01:12:40.420 So 0.96

01:12:41.240 But it's to do with Hezbollah isn't it

01:12:44.460 Not the Lebanese government

01:12:45.500 But yeah it does just look odd doesn't it 0.79

01:12:49.280 You know

01:12:49.900 It does just look odd

01:12:50.940 why is why is Iran sort of claiming what goes on in Lebanon should be a red

01:12:57.080 line for them in all sorts of ways well it says brother Brendan Lucas again

01:13:01.480 says Israel agree Israel's agreement with the US is that it concedes its

01:13:08.100 foreign poll foreign foreign policy and other elements in exchange for a

01:13:17.060 A quoll military edge

01:13:19.420 A quoll military edge?

01:13:23.460 Quality?

01:13:24.540 Qualitative?

01:13:25.780 Qualified?

01:13:27.340 Military edge?

01:13:28.340 I get what you're saying anyway

01:13:29.420 An aid device

01:13:32.460 Makes any edge meaningless 0.99

01:13:35.220 So Israel can always act 0.98

01:13:37.080 On a pre-Yon Kippur war basis 0.99

01:13:39.520 I mean there's a lot to unpack there

01:13:41.140 But I mean, sure

01:13:42.180 Aid device, okay

01:13:45.240 I mean yeah

01:13:45.940 i mean the overall point there is i suppose the meta point is will benjamin netanyahu

01:13:59.020 do what trump and rubio ask him to do if they say we we really want you we need you now to just stop

01:14:08.760 Will he

01:14:09.920 He was making noises yesterday that he wouldn't

01:14:14.640 Again, that statement I mentioned

01:14:16.280 He said, we, Israel

01:14:18.220 Will get that nuclear material 0.84

01:14:21.420 From Iran 0.91

01:14:23.340 One way or another 1.00

01:14:24.440 That is going to happen

01:14:26.680 So

01:14:26.860 We'll see how it plays out 0.77

01:14:29.920 Anime Chad Party

01:14:31.880 Always like that name, it's so funny

01:14:33.140 I don't know why it's so funny to me

01:14:34.380 Objectively, it's mildly amusing

01:14:37.980 i find it more than mildly amusing anime chud party what what anyway cheers for the super chat

01:14:46.560 you say trump being a to a toucan puppet has been blackpilled

01:14:54.160 i don't know what toucan puppet exactly means but i gather i get your i get your

01:15:02.460 the gist of what you're saying yeah i mean people accuse trump don't they of being unpredictable

01:15:09.740 like people with tds they will say he's so unpredictable he's the most unpredictable

01:15:12.700 president ever he's pretty unpredictable

01:15:15.540 he's pretty unpredictable

01:15:18.940 other than him other than him not going full bannon on remigration and the epstein of the

01:15:27.180 Epstein thing. Other than that, I broadly support Trump and MAGA, certainly over, broadly

01:15:33.120 speaking, certainly over the Dems, the likes of Biden or Kamala, of course, no question,

01:15:38.060 100%, a thousand times yes. He's unpredictable. So I don't think I've just got, this is just

01:15:44.240 my TDS showing. He is unpredictable. I've said before, that's not necessarily a bad

01:15:50.600 thing for a president to be unpredictable. It's best if you keep the rest of the world

01:15:54.580 on their toes your enemies on their toes you don't know what you're going to do next you're a bit of 0.93

01:15:58.540 a madman i mean that's what that's what nixon and kissinger would very very deliberately cultivate

01:16:05.640 is that you don't know what nixon's going to do next so watch out all right that's that's a good 0.75

01:16:12.780 play for a president to be like that so we don't know we don't know what he'll do next exactly

01:16:19.220 no one really knows you know look at the maduro thing came out of nowhere well not nowhere but

01:16:26.220 they put an aircraft carrier there for a while but no one knew that raid was going to happen 0.63

01:16:31.260 no one knew this war was going to start that saturday morning when they blew up the ayatollah

01:16:34.900 nobody knew obviously other than a small number of people in the planning inside the planning

01:16:42.180 bubble number everyone in the world just was like oh wow okay trump's done that now

01:16:47.000 So there's a fair few more

01:16:50.320 All for decent money

01:16:52.040 From Brandon Lucas

01:16:53.200 Thank you Brandon Lucas

01:16:54.340 Thank you very much

01:16:55.160 Okay two of them

01:16:59.560 It's one of two

01:17:00.220 I'll read them both in one go

01:17:02.500 You've put

01:17:03.360 Murmurings in the State Department

01:17:06.920 Again if anyone doesn't know

01:17:08.240 It's the US equivalent of the Foreign Office

01:17:10.100 Murmurings in the State Department

01:17:12.000 Not typical Trump fans

01:17:15.740 are enraged by the position the UK took during the war which I think you might say is a good thing

01:17:23.780 crucial thing here is what if we are attacked then you say the white paper in 2025 mentioned

01:17:34.080 we have a problem with this country with people actually willing to fight for it yeah not many

01:17:39.080 people want to join the british armed forces uh not recruiting not lack of platforms

01:17:45.640 society cohesion is so poor that this is a that this is a written issue

01:17:53.820 okay i'm not sure 100% what you mean by that last bit because you put the word written in

01:17:59.440 stars as well but um overall though the overall point i get what you're saying

01:18:03.060 Yeah, I think the British, well, me as a nationalist essentially, as a patriot, I don't want to be led around with a leash by the State Department.

01:18:21.220 No, we should have our own foreign policy. We'll have our own foreign policy, thank you, if it were up to me.

01:18:26.820 We'll make our own decision if we want to get involved in your war or not. Thanks.

01:18:33.060 That's what I think, yeah

01:18:35.540 And of course it would be nice, wouldn't it, to build a society

01:18:39.100 Which isn't completely breaking apart

01:18:43.240 Where you go up to Primrose Hill just to take a photo or two on a nice day and get murdered 1.00

01:18:48.320 Where your women folk can go out at night 0.98

01:18:52.540 And you're not terrified they're going to be sexually assaulted or raped

01:18:56.920 Build a society which is good

01:19:00.560 on some level

01:19:02.620 and then perhaps, just perhaps

01:19:04.980 young men might consider

01:19:07.500 fighting for it again 1.00

01:19:08.920 I'm calling that crazy 0.99

01:19:14.660 nationalism is terrible, nationalism is evil 1.00

01:19:16.640 evil Nazi 1.00

01:19:17.880 I just don't want my country and people 0.95

01:19:23.780 to be annihilated, is that too much to ask?

01:19:26.340 alright, and Brendan Lucas says

01:19:28.140 to the geniuses in the chat who say i haven't seen the chat other than the first one minute

01:19:33.800 of this show so god knows what you're about to say here you put to the geniuses in the chat who

01:19:39.680 say who will attack us have there ever been more fateful words throughout history george orwell

01:19:46.940 said we sleep we sleep soundly at night because there are people ready to do violence on our

01:19:53.960 behalf i mean interesting yeah um i think of um jack nicholson in um in that tom cruise movie

01:20:04.660 he says we stand on the wall protecting you you need us there you want us there

01:20:10.000 i mean it's true you're allowed to be sort of soft and weak because your country is defended

01:20:17.020 by strong men morally and physically and if they're not look out is the lesson of history

01:20:23.880 Yeah, it's a lesson of history

01:20:25.580 I mean, sure

01:20:26.340 The question of whether

01:20:29.660 Is Iran actually a threat to Britain 0.96

01:20:32.320 In the main sense 0.99

01:20:35.280 In the broadest

01:20:38.540 International sense, no

01:20:40.440 But

01:20:40.960 There are terrorist cells

01:20:44.200 Just last year, in 2024

01:20:46.500 There were

01:20:48.700 Multiple cells of Iranian people

01:20:50.980 Iranian nationals, multiple cells

01:20:52.800 of them, terrorist cells, planning 0.98

01:20:54.560 bombing mass casualty events

01:20:56.660 in Britain, and they were foiled 0.70

01:20:58.620 luckily, last

01:21:00.800 year, last year, including one in

01:21:02.660 Swindon

01:21:03.100 in Swindon, just outside Costa Coffee

01:21:06.700 opposite the Greggs, near Asland

01:21:08.480 oh yeah, could it get more real

01:21:10.700 than that, could it get more coming to your doorstep

01:21:12.920 than that, so I'm agreeing with your

01:21:14.740 point here Brendan

01:21:15.380 in a normal town

01:21:18.860 in the west country of southern England

01:21:20.580 the police

01:21:22.520 anti-terror police swooped to arrest an iranian terrorist put bags over his hands and stuff to

01:21:31.000 preserve the explosive materials that would have been on his hands so they can convict him

01:21:37.000 does it get more real than that that is that they are actually who's going to attack us

01:21:40.520 those people are going to attack us so the people in the chat that were asking that those people

01:21:47.880 all right but is iran going to like send their longest range ballistic missile to fall on london

01:21:52.360 randomly in London

01:21:53.180 like a doodlebug

01:21:53.920 no

01:21:54.440 no

01:21:55.860 I bet everything I own

01:21:57.500 they don't do that

01:21:58.260 do they want to export

01:22:00.660 terror abroad

01:22:01.600 including to

01:22:02.640 Britain

01:22:03.340 including like

01:22:04.440 Wiltshire

01:22:04.980 yeah

01:22:05.560 I think it's a matter of

01:22:06.980 record isn't it

01:22:07.680 as a matter of fact

01:22:08.280 I don't think that was

01:22:09.420 I don't think that was

01:22:10.260 a complete made up

01:22:11.080 psyop

01:22:11.480 alright

01:22:13.700 so there you go

01:22:14.700 situation is nuanced

01:22:16.440 to some degree

01:22:17.940 alright

01:22:20.320 anime Chad Party

01:22:22.140 chimes in again here saying

01:22:23.540 epic fury sounds like an attack

01:22:25.580 from

01:22:26.400 a crappy

01:22:28.700 used a more 0.57

01:22:29.780 a more blue word than crappy 0.82

01:22:33.140 from a crappy anime

01:22:35.160 epic fury

01:22:37.480 oh

01:22:38.680 okay

01:22:42.080 ljnv says

01:22:44.240 bow you magnificent man

01:22:46.200 Harry cut to camera 2

01:22:52.140 magnificent man

01:22:55.200 thank you

01:22:56.980 Aussie here 0.99

01:22:59.580 do you think Anglo-Celts Aussies 1.00

01:23:01.740 could have a right to return 1.00

01:23:05.460 to boost your native population

01:23:06.900 since others are kicked out of the UK

01:23:09.120 Melbourne is now just India and China 0.98

01:23:11.580 and then you put screw and an Israeli flag 0.96

01:23:16.000 personally

01:23:20.340 personally

01:23:21.700 yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't have any problem with uh people from the anglosphere coming back

01:23:28.420 to help the the the the mother country's demographic or help even fight any in any

01:23:37.040 sort of sectarian or civil war type boogaloo situation should that arise happily accept

01:23:43.600 expats come back anglo aussies and canadians and americans they want to come back and help

01:23:50.840 sure that's my opinion got a mass program of remigration and it doesn't go it's not pretty 0.99

01:24:00.320 and there's a sectarian nightmare and yeah i would accept your help

01:24:06.620 mr pastry 2010 says chuck norris epoch episode of epochs history theme show all about chuck

01:24:15.760 Norris he may even take a break from the afterlife to do an interview in person he once threw a

01:24:24.360 grenade at 50 men they all died and then the explosion went off brilliant I love Chuck Norris

01:24:31.120 jokes like that I love the fact that Chuck Norris loved those Chuck Norris jokes

01:24:36.520 These are so ridiculously 0.54

01:24:40.100 Badass 0.86

01:24:42.600 Like comically so

01:24:44.340 They're funny yeah

01:24:45.220 Under Chuck Norris' beard

01:24:49.080 Is just another roundhouse kick

01:24:50.840 Or whatever

01:24:52.360 Or like the second Chuck Norris was born

01:24:57.540 He roundhouse kicked his own mother

01:24:59.040 Unconscious or something

01:24:59.820 There's a million of these jokes aren't there

01:25:01.720 Yeah they're great

01:25:03.240 I almost certainly won't do an epochs on Chuck Norris, I'm afraid

01:25:07.020 Because I'll try and make it sort of real

01:25:09.380 Well, not that Chuck Norris wasn't real

01:25:11.580 But try and make it proper, solid history

01:25:13.740 I rarely do anything post-World War II

01:25:16.180 I have done a few times

01:25:17.200 A lot of it's ancient history and medieval history

01:25:20.520 World War I, World War II

01:25:21.660 Don't often do things post-World War II

01:25:24.780 So probably won't ever do a Chuck Norris one, I'm afraid

01:25:28.180 Well, that would be funny

01:25:29.980 Okay

01:25:30.760 Cheryl Hanrahan 0.97

01:25:35.980 Yep, says

01:25:37.700 I believe that

01:25:39.720 Lady Margaret Bothal

01:25:41.560 Oh, this is right in my wheelhouse

01:25:42.580 Lady Margaret Bothal ordered the deaths of the two princes

01:25:46.000 Okay, you've got another thing

01:25:50.620 I'll have to join

01:25:51.900 So I can read your review on it

01:25:54.340 Fascinating topic

01:25:55.620 I don't think she, I don't think so. She wouldn't have had, so anyway who doesn't know, Margaret

01:26:09.000 Beaufort was Henry Tudor's mother. She goes on to become the Queen Mother, effectively, after

01:26:15.100 Bosworth. Would she have had, it may well have been in, well it would have been in her interests,

01:26:22.220 Certainly wouldn't it

01:26:23.120 If she wants her son 0.93

01:26:24.040 Henry Tudor

01:26:25.020 To become king one day

01:26:26.060 It's in her interest 0.99

01:26:27.220 That those two princes die 0.99

01:26:28.300 Sure

01:26:28.720 Granted there 1.00

01:26:29.940 Would she have had the power 1.00

01:26:31.280 And influence

01:26:32.300 The ability to order that though

01:26:35.740 I don't think so

01:26:39.180 I mean who knows

01:26:41.520 No one knows

01:26:41.980 It is a mystery in that sense

01:26:43.520 Exactly the details

01:26:45.060 Of who ordered it

01:26:45.880 And when exactly

01:26:47.020 And how it went down

01:26:47.840 I don't think so

01:26:49.940 I think it was Uncle Richard

01:26:51.720 Uncle Richard was like

01:26:53.480 These two boys

01:26:54.180 Even though they're my nephews

01:26:55.240 He argued they were illegitimate

01:26:57.760 That Edward IV's marriage

01:26:59.500 To Elizabeth Woodfield

01:27:00.340 Was illegitimate

01:27:01.060 So they're not princes at all 1.00

01:27:02.380 They're bastards 1.00

01:27:04.080 In the literal sense of that 1.00

01:27:06.980 Either way

01:27:09.140 They're standing between me

01:27:10.480 Richard

01:27:10.880 And power

01:27:13.100 So they've got to go

01:27:15.360 They've got to go

01:27:17.360 I think it was Richard

01:27:18.640 Personally

01:27:19.280 But I have heard that

01:27:21.200 I have heard that said before,

01:27:22.140 but I don't think she had that sort of power and influence

01:27:25.100 at that moment in time.

01:27:27.840 She's not like a puppet master.

01:27:29.220 She didn't control the Tower of London. 0.67

01:27:31.760 She didn't control Richard in any way, shape or form.

01:27:36.640 Anyway, interesting nonetheless.

01:27:38.200 I hope you do sign up and watch my Epochs.

01:27:43.200 I'll be doing the Princess of the Tower

01:27:44.500 either the next, not this Sunday,

01:27:48.920 because I'm doing Battle of Tewksbury and stuff this Sunday.

01:27:51.200 It'll be the following Sunday, maybe the Sunday after that.

01:27:53.280 I'll get to that.

01:27:55.000 Okay.

01:27:56.800 Little Tesla says, I'm getting better at reading compound words, compound names.

01:28:02.780 I always used to struggle a bit with that.

01:28:05.140 Okay, one long word. 0.60

01:28:06.060 Little Tesla, 9733 says, thank you, Bosif, Boski, Uncle Bo Selector, the Bo Listic Missile.

01:28:15.800 Over the years on Twitter

01:28:18.060 Mainly on Twitter

01:28:18.980 People have given me

01:28:19.820 Tons of different names like that

01:28:21.640 But I don't know

01:28:24.820 I sort of

01:28:25.460 I like them more

01:28:25.960 I think they're funny

01:28:26.460 They're really interesting

01:28:27.280 Boseph

01:28:30.360 A very good friend of mine

01:28:31.340 I don't speak too much anymore

01:28:33.920 I'm very upset about

01:28:36.100 Used to call me Boseph

01:28:38.240 Boseki

01:28:40.920 Uncle Boselector

01:28:42.580 My niece and nephew

01:28:43.440 Always used to call me Bosey

01:28:44.680 Uncle Bosey

01:28:45.360 When they were little 0.98

01:28:46.480 Okay

01:28:48.740 Brendan Lucas again says

01:28:52.780 Says 0.95

01:28:53.920 Happy to enrich Lotus Eaters 0.97

01:28:57.140 Through my chicken little proclamations 0.63

01:28:59.500 Thank you

01:29:01.120 Thank you very much

01:29:02.160 Been very very generous this morning

01:29:04.240 Fair bit of money you've given us there 0.93

01:29:07.280 So bloody hell 0.57

01:29:09.080 Thank you very much 0.86

01:29:09.840 Honestly

01:29:10.380 Great

01:29:11.500 Love it

01:29:13.140 Cheers

01:29:13.560 Can't thank you enough really

01:29:14.580 You know

01:29:15.260 Can't really thank you enough

01:29:17.320 Appreciate it

01:29:18.280 And it looks like the last one for today

01:29:21.560 Is it?

01:29:22.280 Yep, very last one

01:29:23.120 Someone called himself

01:29:25.640 Sex Twister

01:29:26.960 Sex Twister says

01:29:30.700 I'm glad to see your morning show

01:29:34.280 Is doing so well

01:29:34.980 Thank you, yeah, cheers

01:29:36.520 It's only because of you guys

01:29:39.320 The glorious band, the chosen few

01:29:40.800 That is nothing

01:29:43.900 You say

01:29:44.500 I'm a two-time Trump voter 0.88

01:29:47.360 And this Iran war is the first time

01:29:49.780 I truly feel betrayed by Trump

01:29:51.620 Yeah

01:29:54.560 A lot of MAGA

01:29:56.100 I'm sorry to hear that by the way 0.99

01:29:57.080 Sex twister 0.88

01:29:58.100 I'm sorry to hear that 0.58

01:29:59.280 And thanks for the money as well

01:30:00.200 I've got a decent amount of money

01:30:01.360 I appreciate it

01:30:02.160 Yeah

01:30:04.700 If I was a MAGA person

01:30:08.560 Like a full-blown MAGA person

01:30:09.960 I was a citizen of the United States

01:30:12.920 And I was born and raised there

01:30:13.880 and I'd voted MAGA, I would feel quite, personally, this is just me,

01:30:18.980 I would feel quite badly betrayed that he didn't go full Bannon

01:30:22.640 on the re-migration thing.

01:30:25.960 I'd feel hurt and betrayed by that.

01:30:28.440 The Epstein stuff, I would have stopped being MAGA, basically.

01:30:33.060 I'd still support him nominally, still through dint of

01:30:37.940 I can't have the Democrats, we'd still vote Republican, probably.

01:30:40.800 But I wouldn't really be supporting him

01:30:43.580 Not properly

01:30:43.960 And then now this

01:30:44.800 Yeah, and now this

01:30:47.660 Because Trump has done loads

01:30:50.720 Quite a lot of good stuff

01:30:52.200 Loads of those executive orders

01:30:54.180 He'd done on that first day

01:30:55.340 Amazing stuff 1.00

01:30:57.000 Just banning trans people 1.00

01:30:58.620 From female sports and things 1.00

01:31:00.420 Loads and loads 1.00

01:31:00.980 Many, many, many things

01:31:02.000 Trump has done

01:31:02.500 That has been great

01:31:03.220 Reversed loads of stuff

01:31:04.740 That Biden did

01:31:05.500 Which was insane

01:31:06.560 But this

01:31:08.620 If you're one of those people

01:31:09.640 that hated the forever war thing and he'd always been the not forever war guy it explicitly made

01:31:18.820 statements many times that he wouldn't he wouldn't recreate uh a middle eastern quagmire like jules

01:31:27.040 w bush did and now he does this and now he does this it might not be it might not turn out to be

01:31:32.800 an iraq style forever war he might be he might be able to get an off-ramp and finish it in a few

01:31:37.480 weeks or something doesn't really look like it though this one does it it doesn't look great

01:31:40.640 so yeah to be a two-time trump voter and it's the first time you truly feel betrayed i mean yeah

01:31:48.240 i feel sorry for you do feel sorry for you i mean our government's worse and weaker and more 0.93

01:31:55.840 pathetic and more traitorous though still isn't it much more oh okay all right well that's the 0.88

01:32:06.280 show for today it's now what you've got oh you've got 90 minutes got an hour and a half out of me 0.98

01:32:11.400 this morning don't sound not generous supposed to be normally an hour long show try and do a bit

01:32:15.760 more don't know my stays in fact we'll try and do more like an hour and a half going forward

01:32:19.280 that was the one things we sat down with carl and a few of the other people the other day

01:32:23.360 try and make it more like an hour and a half than an hour most days i'll try and do somewhere in

01:32:28.720 between if not closer to an hour and a half this day today you got 92 minutes it has now ticked

01:32:33.760 32 minutes past 9 in the a.m. British summertime on Thursday the 9th of April in the year of our

01:32:39.400 Lord 2026. Thank you for joining me on The Beau Show, formerly Breakfast with Beau, proper name,

01:32:45.560 Breakfast with Beau. The Beau Show. Thank you very much. I mean, really, without you, it's not

01:32:53.440 anything. It's just me blathering into the void. So thank you. I appreciate it. I do hope you join

01:33:00.140 me tomorrow morning try and make the best of the day ahead if you can it's not always possible

01:33:03.380 is it when you've got a normal adult life and loads and loads of responsibilities you've got

01:33:06.860 to go to work if you haven't if you've got any free time of your own try and make it count car

01:33:11.740 pay diem seize the day the most valuable thing you've got is your time you'll never get it back

01:33:16.580 you'll never get this day back again try and let that sink in you'll never have this time again

01:33:21.900 it's finite your time on this earth it's finite you've probably got fewer days than you think

01:33:27.860 you've got try and make it count all right without getting too preachy until tomorrow morning take

01:33:35.200 care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 09, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 9th April 2026

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