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

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00:01:07.540 harry how are this morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good good the disembodied voice

00:01:14.420 the all-powerful editor there should we stop fanning about let's stop faffing about let's just

00:01:19.540 get straight into it what's the legacy corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning

00:01:22.500 what does fleet street are they trying to tell you is important or what isn't

00:01:26.180 evil cabal of fleet street editors all right what have we got we've got iran war back on

00:01:32.340 and count bin face exclusive so it's uh trump iran nato day and more of nigel and bin face

00:01:40.780 the count being faced first baron bin face that is real name john

00:01:48.400 all right let's have a look the metro oh show off the bat with the metro

00:01:53.280 it's a bit early it's a bit warm and a bit early for that you know making my head swim

00:02:00.200 okay iran war back on after new airstrikes uh trump tears peace hopes into pieces so yeah right

00:02:09.300 so that's probably the biggest or second biggest story of the day trump uh and nato and iran so

00:02:15.480 there's this big nato meeting going on in ankara in turkey and everyone everyone in nato is there

00:02:23.140 of course the president is the top dog there by a long long margin and uh trump's been saying

00:02:32.420 various things uh interesting things one of the main things uh other than iran is about greenland

00:02:39.960 he's talking all about greenland again but this time not any sort of annexation or sort of military

00:02:45.560 incursion in any way just that he wants to buy it wants to buy it off of uh denmark did we talk

00:02:52.560 about this briefly yesterday do you remember harry i can't remember if we did because i talked about

00:02:57.900 it on the state of politics state of politics do you remember uh i don't think so okay well i'll

00:03:03.260 just briefly say because it's not the biggest element of this story of the various things

00:03:07.960 trump's been saying in ankara um so he wants to buy it it's a strategic importance to the united 0.96

00:03:13.740 states then mike can't defend those waters and uh oh make sure there's no one being a dick in the 0.98

00:03:23.340 chat i just i just glanced down someone says there's someone being a dick in the chat so 0.91

00:03:27.100 check that out harry ban them if needs be i ban people i block people on twitter and stuff i don't 0.99

00:03:31.260 care you're being a complete dick yeah man yeah okay um greenland he wants to buy a greenland 0.98

00:03:43.740 I could have sworn I talked about it 0.99

00:03:46.420 Yeah, it's a millstone

00:03:47.700 I did, I did

00:03:48.520 It's a millstone around Denmark's neck 0.99

00:03:50.720 For a lot of them 0.80

00:03:51.660 They can't afford to

00:03:52.720 So Trump wants to buy it 1.00

00:03:53.940 Another thing with Spain

00:03:54.940 He was saying about how Spain

00:03:56.240 Is just going to stop trading with Spain

00:03:57.660 Completely stop trading

00:03:59.660 He said to one of his advisors

00:04:02.080 Like on camera

00:04:02.780 He said don't even speak to Spain

00:04:04.580 Just stop trading with them entirely

00:04:06.040 That could be a real worry for Spain

00:04:08.780 Apparently Spain did come out

00:04:10.400 And say

00:04:11.000 No, as far as we're aware

00:04:12.340 Everything, all the deals we've got with the United States are still ongoing.

00:04:17.820 It'd be very, very difficult just to stop, just like that, just in one day, just boom,

00:04:21.900 anything coming in or going out from between the United States and Spain just stops.

00:04:25.700 That's not actually possible, is it?

00:04:29.720 Logistically, physically.

00:04:31.680 Anyway, Trump could certainly ramp it down if he wanted to.

00:04:34.640 But the big one is Iran. 0.96

00:04:36.860 So, it's all back on. 1.00

00:04:39.860 It's all back on.

00:04:40.800 Last night there was loads of

00:04:43.000 Firing again

00:04:44.340 There was something like

00:04:45.260 90 odd targets were hit in Iran

00:04:47.880 By the United States

00:04:48.780 Live

00:04:49.460 US launches strikes on Iran

00:04:51.520 For second night

00:04:52.360 As Tehran targets bases in Kuwait

00:04:54.420 Bahrain and Qatar

00:04:55.780 So

00:04:57.140 The ball's back on basically

00:04:59.740 And what Trump said

00:05:01.100 I mean

00:05:02.940 Trump said

00:05:04.680 Some funny thing

00:05:07.380 Well not funny ha ha

00:05:08.260 Sorry

00:05:09.460 Just funny

00:05:10.220 sort of odd well not odd that's not the right word funny and odd are not the right word he said some

00:05:16.400 interesting relatively bellicose things um he said that iran was a bunch of psychos basically 0.64

00:05:25.540 i paraphrase he said they were cuckoo what did this they're cuckoo uh they're a bunch oh look 1.00

00:05:31.340 they're scum that's it he said they're scum do you know what scum means they're scum that's what he 1.00

00:05:36.640 said they're sick of vicious violent people or their leaders are he said that about the people 1.00

00:05:42.420 and then when they're leaders you have to be careful not to like sort of tarnish the tens of

00:05:48.640 millions of people many of whom will be completely innocent normal people trying to get on with their 0.95

00:05:53.220 lives but at least their leaders are sick vicious violent people says donald trump as he promises 0.91

00:05:58.380 to hit regime hard he said you just can't deal with them you can't deal with them um 0.99

00:06:06.640 That they'll come out and they'll just lie

00:06:11.120 And they lie and they lie

00:06:12.040 He said, you know, I can have a conversation with Mark Rucker or someone

00:06:15.960 We can come to an agreement

00:06:17.360 And then when you go out into the wider world

00:06:19.880 And start talking to the press

00:06:21.040 You both talk about what you just agreed about 1.00

00:06:22.760 But you can't do that with the Iranians 1.00

00:06:24.220 You strike some sort of deal with them behind the closed doors 1.00

00:06:27.620 And then they'll immediately go out into the world

00:06:30.660 And talk to the press or something

00:06:31.900 And to say, no, no, none of that happened

00:06:36.640 I mean, I'm sure the United States aren't like particularly the fairest good faith partners of all time

00:06:44.380 No big nation is 1.00

00:06:45.740 But Iran seems to be, don't they, completely and utterly untrustworthy

00:06:51.960 But there you go, both sides, again, both sides are claiming that the other one is completely untrustworthy 0.53

00:06:58.860 Both sides saying this recent exchange of fire, that the other one started it

00:07:06.640 the reports from the western legacy mainstream media are that report that iran started it by

00:07:11.760 firing on some ships in the straits of homoos a couple days ago like a saudi one the qatari one

00:07:16.320 and one of the other arab neighbor ones if you think all western news is just complete propaganda 0.88

00:07:24.320 and never ever ever be trusted on anything ever i guess you take that with a pinch of salt but

00:07:28.720 otherwise the story the narrative is that iran fired first and then america retaliates and then

00:07:36.660 iran retaliates again and then america two nights now last night not last night just gone the night

00:07:41.760 before um america was supposed to have hit something like 70 targets inside iran and last

00:07:46.920 night more like 90 targets including loads of their small boats the iranian navy they haven't

00:07:51.660 got any big warships left have they but they've got speed boats those small attack boat things

00:07:56.760 Still got loads and loads of dozens

00:07:58.980 Maybe even in the low hundreds of those

00:08:00.900 And the Americans 1.00

00:08:03.060 Just blowing up dozens of those 1.00

00:08:04.680 Or scores of them in fact

00:08:06.760 Okay

00:08:10.000 So he said when asked

00:08:12.160 Trump when asked is the

00:08:13.980 Memorandum of understanding over

00:08:15.860 He just said he basically said yeah

00:08:17.240 In my mind yeah you can't trust them 0.99

00:08:19.620 They're crazy people 1.00

00:08:20.640 They're sick and violent 1.00

00:08:21.860 And vicious 1.00

00:08:23.500 and uh it's over

00:08:26.820 here's another little mini headline then president launches rents at nato allies and pledges economic

00:08:35.220 war on terrible spain he's got a real problem with spain apart from anything else spain didn't

00:08:43.560 uh allow the united states to use any of its air bases i believe when the war first started in

00:08:49.820 february or until now as well very very much annoyed the donald and uh they're refusing to

00:08:57.880 increase their nato spending just refusing to and their leader is their government is very very

00:09:02.860 left-wing i mean full full socialist really so there's nothing there for trump to like or warm

00:09:09.000 to is there and he just says they're terrible and he'll just cut all trade with them

00:09:13.640 whether he will or not whether that's a bit of bluster or not who knows but

00:09:19.820 There you go

00:09:22.260 Alright, the peace hopes are in pieces 0.52

00:09:24.780 The Iran war is back on 0.58

00:09:26.000 Still though, still 0.86

00:09:29.740 Without boots on the ground

00:09:33.900 Will that regime ever collapse?

00:09:41.580 It feels unlikely doesn't it

00:09:43.740 Okay, the Daily Star

00:09:45.580 The sloppiest of the slop, arguably 0.74

00:09:47.400 We've got Count Binface 0.75

00:09:49.520 here we go straight into it hashtag bin for the win hashtag inevitable

00:09:57.920 hashtag bin dependence day uh can't be in face exclusive what can i offer when i'm not farage

00:10:10.720 okay so a bit of the story a bit of uh all the the talk around it um i think some people need

00:10:18.080 to be reminded that count binface what's his real name john harvey is it i'll remember in a minute

00:10:25.680 i think it's harvey john harvey um remember the count binface is a joke the whole thing

00:10:34.800 is just an attempt at comedy whether you find it funny or something else

00:10:39.440 but it is an attempt to come he's a novelty candidate

00:10:42.000 i find it a little bit funny that some people sort of take it seriously what do what does 0.96

00:10:48.640 john harvey really think though what would his policies be no no no it's it's a silly it's a

00:10:57.820 silly thing you know like people in reform like what strategies are best to beat count binface

00:11:04.760 what what trying to destroy his character and stuff

00:11:09.740 it's a joke it's a joke have you lost sight of the fact that it's a comedy novelty candidate

00:11:19.700 i suppose one thing say before we go start going down that route and start talking about all of

00:11:24.100 that is there any possibility he beats nigel in my opinion no no no way right uh

00:11:31.940 no can't be faced will either get a tiny number of votes like you know 30 votes or if there's some

00:11:39.240 sort of big uh push and some sort of anti-nigel feeling in cacto and all that thing maybe he'll

00:11:45.480 get a couple of thousand votes maybe that's my that's my prediction and that's my sort of call

00:11:51.040 uh that maybe he gets like a couple of thousand votes at absolute most either way i feel like i

00:11:58.360 could be wrong when this all plays out i think in august just i think it's set to play out in august

00:12:03.720 maybe that'll it'll be a turn up of all time and bim face wins nigel it's not a it's not a zero

00:12:10.040 probability thing he could win nothing in the laws of physics in the universe to stop 0.87

00:12:14.920 bim face winning but it's not going to happen right nigel will still easily easily easily win 0.87

00:12:22.120 so so so all this stuff about you know trying to actually attack him trying to take it seriously 0.99

00:12:27.720 Nigel's trying to say this is a serious by-election.

00:12:29.520 No, it isn't.

00:12:30.540 No, it isn't.

00:12:33.500 No, I'm sorry, but no.

00:12:36.440 Although, talking about the odds,

00:12:38.440 I thought it was very interesting to see

00:12:40.440 if you just Google what the odds,

00:12:43.280 what the various bookies giving Binface,

00:12:47.380 sorry, the Count Binface, First Baron Binface,

00:12:49.920 go Binface, what are his odds? 0.99

00:12:52.380 I would have thought that they were like, 1.00

00:12:55.140 They'd be 500 to 1

00:12:57.280 10,000 to 1

00:12:58.620 They're not

00:12:59.320 They're not

00:13:00.280 I saw one bookie this morning

00:13:01.860 It was 5 to 1

00:13:02.960 5 to 1

00:13:05.100 That's remarkable to me

00:13:08.560 Yesterday Dan Tarby in the office

00:13:10.400 He got a bet

00:13:12.440 I think it was like 11 to 1 or something

00:13:14.180 And then later in the day

00:13:15.100 I saw again it was 7 to 1

00:13:16.620 And then this morning

00:13:17.580 Even on a couple of papers

00:13:18.660 It's reported

00:13:19.200 Something like 7 to 2 on

00:13:20.900 Or 5 to 1

00:13:22.240 I mean that still means

00:13:25.040 that Nigel's like 80%, 80, 90% probability to win.

00:13:30.280 In other words, he's going to win.

00:13:32.760 Almost certainly, unless there's some sort of big swing 1.00

00:13:36.000 in sentiment in Clacton towards the Count Bimface

00:13:39.960 versus Baron Bimface. 0.99

00:13:43.540 Which could happen, right?

00:13:44.600 It's not a zero probability thing, but it just... 1.00

00:13:48.060 I wouldn't put a penny on Bimface to win, 1.00

00:13:50.900 put it that way, personally, just personally. 1.00

00:13:52.320 It's a novelty

00:13:55.780 Candidate, the whole thing is

00:13:58.020 An absurdity

00:13:59.240 That's the point of it

00:14:01.840 He's not going to win

00:14:02.680 Alright, okay

00:14:03.820 Okay

00:14:07.300 So with all that said

00:14:09.520 There's some

00:14:12.340 Reports that Lawrence Fox

00:14:14.660 Tweeted that he was going to stand

00:14:16.740 I mean

00:14:20.600 why why are you doing that just don't do that it'd be so clear oh there's probably be a number

00:14:28.360 of small parties that will just refuse to accept the sort of poetic beauty of just

00:14:34.520 Nigel and Bimface on the on the ballot there's probably a number of like there's loads of small 0.98

00:14:39.120 parties aren't there like some sort of some sort of constitutional party or some sort of like 0.98

00:14:44.960 environment party or some sort of popular people communist popular people's front of

00:14:51.920 clacton type party you know you know the sort of thing there'll probably be a bunch that stand in

00:14:56.680 it actually but um it would it would be nice and clean wouldn't it if it was just in facing

00:15:01.360 the next thing i would say to talk about it is some there's some people like on twitter or in

00:15:07.820 the world in the sphere talking about it they think this whole thing is um in terribly bad

00:15:14.820 taste yeah it is yeah and that it's not funny it's not funny

00:15:21.260 and it's wrong-headed to sort of sort of back bin face because our country is facing such

00:15:31.900 existential crisis and the rape crisis and all of that and fundamentally unserious if you

00:15:40.100 Show any sort of support for bin face 0.74

00:15:43.160 All that sort of thing

00:15:44.040 I think those people

00:15:46.860 Are failing to understand

00:15:49.020 What's going on here

00:15:49.980 I really do

00:15:51.560 I think those people again have lost

00:15:54.680 Perspective or they don't again

00:15:56.400 Don't understand what

00:15:58.380 A by-election is, what this by-election is

00:16:01.040 You're fundamentally unserious 1.00

00:16:05.140 Stop ganging up on Nige 1.00

00:16:07.120 No 1.00

00:16:08.300 No

00:16:09.820 If this was a general election

00:16:13.240 And power was on the line

00:16:16.800 Who got to control government

00:16:18.540 Who got to set policy for the country

00:16:20.580 For the years ahead

00:16:21.840 Then it would be deadly serious

00:16:23.820 Every seat matters

00:16:24.880 It would be really quite deadly serious

00:16:27.300 I mean that's what Nigel's angle is

00:16:29.720 And reform's angle is

00:16:30.640 Despite the main party's not standing

00:16:33.080 This is a serious election

00:16:35.480 It's not a fake election

00:16:36.480 As Olukemi Badanocca said

00:16:37.660 It's real, it's serious

00:16:39.020 No it isn't, no it isn't

00:16:40.200 This was a political stunt

00:16:41.260 Power isn't on the line

00:16:42.680 Who controls government isn't on the line

00:16:45.500 This was a political stunt

00:16:48.460 A machination by Nigel

00:16:50.020 For Nigel

00:16:50.880 In aid of Nigel

00:16:51.940 None of our women folk are going to be saved

00:16:56.420 One way or the other 1.00

00:16:57.180 Depending on the result in this by-election in Clacton

00:16:59.280 So that argument is nonsense

00:17:01.900 But what about the existential crisis

00:17:04.100 Of the invaders

00:17:05.180 That's not what's on the line here

00:17:06.800 This is about Nigel trying to outmaneuver a parliamentary standards committee

00:17:13.100 It's not about government

00:17:14.440 Okay, so that argument's nonsense

00:17:20.000 Don't give me that argument

00:17:21.260 Then there's the whole question, isn't there?

00:17:24.500 Of the other parties not standing

00:17:26.660 Nigel and I see a few sort of reform orbiters on Twitter and stuff

00:17:30.920 Saying, oh, they're scared

00:17:32.380 Nigel's saying it

00:17:33.240 They're scared of Nigel

00:17:36.800 No, that's not, again, that's not really what's going on here

00:17:40.380 Even when there's a second referendum, referendum, by election

00:17:44.860 Then they will stand in it

00:17:46.060 It's not that they're so scared of Nigel

00:17:48.980 That they won't stand in it

00:17:52.140 Again, that's not the gambit here

00:17:53.820 That's not what's going on, is it?

00:17:54.900 That's not their calculation

00:17:55.800 It's that Nigel's pulled some sort of political stunt

00:17:59.700 And they're trying to undermine it by not even standing in it

00:18:02.780 That's a different thing, isn't it, to being scared

00:18:04.800 They're so scared of losing to Nigel

00:18:07.220 At the ballot box

00:18:08.820 There's another by-election

00:18:11.460 They'll stand in that

00:18:12.360 Or Nigel saying

00:18:14.740 The other parties are showing contempt

00:18:16.720 Like the people of Claxton

00:18:18.500 For the democratic process

00:18:19.880 No, I think you're showing contempt to them

00:18:22.980 To the process

00:18:23.780 By doing this

00:18:24.980 By resigning and triggering another by-election

00:18:30.000 Unnecessarily

00:18:31.020 So that you can play your games

00:18:33.520 with the Parliamentary Standards Committee stuff.

00:18:39.060 So you can try and do misdirection

00:18:41.080 about your finance problems.

00:18:43.640 I think that holds the people of Clacton in contempt, actually.

00:18:49.160 It's a classic thing, isn't it?

00:18:50.380 You do something bad and the person you hurt,

00:18:52.800 and you point the finger at the person you've hurt

00:18:55.180 and say, that was your fault. 0.94

00:18:57.420 Classic thing, a man beats his wife. 1.00

00:18:58.960 Now look what you made me do. 0.99

00:19:01.960 Really?

00:19:02.360 Really

00:19:03.580 Is the other party showing contempt for the people

00:19:06.360 No it isn't

00:19:07.060 This is a serious

00:19:11.720 A by-election Nigel's insisting

00:19:13.740 No it isn't, no it really isn't

00:19:16.360 Okay we'll talk about it more throughout the show I'm sure

00:19:21.520 King Arthur, here we go

00:19:23.220 A little bit of Wimbledon, I know you guys don't really like sports ball very much

00:19:25.880 I don't follow tennis particularly

00:19:27.800 I'd never heard of him until yesterday

00:19:29.160 He's an English dude I believe

00:19:31.260 23 it was only a wild card to get into wimbledon i.e only sort of scraped in

00:19:38.200 read somewhere this morning he's only ever won two grand slam matches ever before

00:19:43.900 so he's a young english dude and he's got to the semi-finals he won his quarter final

00:19:49.500 at wimbledon against like someone who's really quite good like number seven seed or something

00:19:54.760 like that something like that so not completely impossible he wins wimbledon well it'd be nice

00:20:00.480 to have an Englishman win Wimbledon because we haven't had that since god knows when really god

00:20:05.820 knows when a hundred years ago or something what would it be Fred Perry I don't know did Fred Perry

00:20:10.680 even ever win I don't know I don't follow tennis I don't know about the history of tennis enough

00:20:13.680 but we had Andy Murray won it in like what 2013 or something or 2014 or something Andy Murray but

00:20:23.720 scottish i'm not allowed to throw any shade at scots ever because uh the daily record will be

00:20:33.400 all butthurt about it if i say anything about scottish people 0.67

00:20:43.400 and they're smack problem um so he there we go he uh let's have another there we go look he's 0.99

00:20:50.600 He's on the front pages of a fair few of them.

00:20:53.680 Yeah, King Arthur.

00:20:55.060 He could win it.

00:20:55.860 He'll be the first Englishman in a long time if he did.

00:20:57.840 Probably won't.

00:20:59.900 Wimbledon fairy tale.

00:21:01.340 Oh, Arthur Ferry, that's his name.

00:21:03.220 It's a fairy tale.

00:21:05.040 Okay.

00:21:05.720 All right, that's all I'll say.

00:21:07.360 I don't particularly care about tennis,

00:21:09.380 and I don't think you do, really.

00:21:11.360 All right, what's next?

00:21:11.960 The Mirror. 0.65

00:21:12.600 Oh, The Mirror's Trump deranged... 0.62

00:21:14.360 Sorry.

00:21:15.320 Farage deranged between Jamie's.

00:21:18.080 Off the scale, isn't it?

00:21:18.980 Sleaze probe election farce

00:21:21.120 That was one thing I'll say

00:21:21.980 I keep using the word sleaze

00:21:25.420 As though it's a byword for any

00:21:29.760 Any sort of suggestion or hint of any sort of corruption

00:21:33.800 Funny how words, the usage of words change, isn't it?

00:21:38.260 It used to be, or it still is, isn't it, really?

00:21:40.420 The sleaze should be used in connection with something that's actually sleazy

00:21:46.140 i.e. probably sex-related scandal

00:21:49.500 but now it's being used, doesn't it, as just any scandal

00:21:55.340 a sleaze probe, there's no suggestion that Nigel's done anything sleazy

00:21:58.860 in the real usage of the word sleaze

00:22:01.900 is there, not like a

00:22:06.060 well, at least in this current iteration of scandals

00:22:10.580 there's nothing about his sex life or anything, is there

00:22:12.720 But they'll say that

00:22:14.180 Nigel's reform is under investigation by a sleaze watchdog

00:22:19.440 Sleaze probe election farce

00:22:27.820 Bin him off

00:22:28.740 Voters urged to teach Farage a lesson at the poll

00:22:32.360 Urged by who?

00:22:34.000 What do you mean?

00:22:34.740 By you?

00:22:36.140 By the mirror?

00:22:38.680 Reform boss mocked after quit stunt backfires

00:22:41.900 It's a bit of a stunt

00:22:43.180 And it is sort of backfiring

00:22:45.180 Okay, the Express

00:22:51.260 It's a good paper

00:22:52.020 You can read your Express now

00:22:56.460 Alright

00:23:00.180 Farage, Labour and Tories

00:23:03.500 Running scared

00:23:04.460 Yeah, right, that is cope

00:23:06.040 That's pure cope

00:23:07.060 They're scared

00:23:09.120 No

00:23:11.640 Particularly the Tories

00:23:13.860 Because I suppose in all honesty

00:23:16.180 In all seriousness the other party that's most

00:23:18.200 Likely to

00:23:19.280 To beat Nigel Farge would be

00:23:21.640 The Tories or

00:23:23.160 Reform, sorry

00:23:25.420 Restore

00:23:26.100 A number of times I say restore when I mean reform and vice versa

00:23:30.120 Because Clacton is 1.00

00:23:33.300 A sort of very very sort of white working class 1.00

00:23:35.480 Quite a, it's quite actually a poor town 0.97

00:23:37.700 Isn't it

00:23:38.080 It's really quite a poor

00:23:39.800 What's the words they use these days

00:23:43.180 Sort of

00:23:43.560 Underprivileged

00:23:45.120 Or

00:23:45.420 Deprived 1.00

00:23:47.340 Like loads and loads of white working class 1.00

00:23:51.240 That were forced out of East London

00:23:53.240 And Essex 1.00

00:23:54.680 By the invasion of foreign people 1.00

00:23:58.000 People that used to live in 1.00

00:24:01.060 The East End

00:24:02.540 Mullend

00:24:03.980 Probably by a bow

00:24:04.920 Plasto

00:24:05.680 Whatever 1.00

00:24:06.440 And now they're just purely Pakistani

00:24:09.980 Or Indian or Bangladeshi communities 1.00

00:24:11.860 They're forced out into Essex 0.68

00:24:14.260 And then further and further and further

00:24:16.080 East

00:24:16.660 Until places like Clacton 0.95

00:24:19.440 Are displaced white people 1.00

00:24:22.220 Displaced

00:24:23.100 In their own country, in their own ancestral homeland 1.00

00:24:25.620 So they're likely

00:24:27.820 Usually much more likely to vote to the right

00:24:30.400 So it will be Tories

00:24:31.860 And restore 1.00

00:24:34.540 um yeah nigel saying all the other parts are running scared surely no one's really believing 0.98

00:24:43.200 that unless you're an actual reform tard and you do or say you've got no shame and you do or say 0.88

00:24:48.900 anything you do or say or make any argument that's pro-reform and against reforms enemies 0.88

00:24:56.600 regardless of how obvious nonsense it is

00:25:03.160 running scared okay yeah yeah they're running scared sure

00:25:06.360 they're scared of you that's what's going on yeah right the daily mail pure

00:25:09.880 slot you're a globalist globalist slot trying to pretend it's not

00:25:14.520 virage being faced by election is deadly serious

00:25:23.240 sure about that

00:25:26.600 If the one thing it's not

00:25:29.880 Is that it's serious

00:25:31.220 Nothing serious about it

00:25:35.640 King Arthur roars into Wimbledon semi-finals

00:25:38.340 The once and future tennis player

00:25:40.720 Okay

00:25:45.520 The Guardian

00:25:46.560 Same dude

00:25:47.400 Revealed

00:25:49.920 More reform transactions worth millions

00:25:51.840 Oh it's the Guardian

00:25:53.640 The Guardian

00:26:02.340 Pen and inks

00:26:06.760 Stinks

00:26:09.560 The Guardian, right

00:26:10.760 So they've come with

00:26:11.880 They of course hate reform, don't they 1.00

00:26:14.840 They of course hate Nihage 1.00

00:26:16.000 From the left, obviously 1.00

00:26:18.720 They're talking about that there's

00:26:21.060 all sorts of other potential problems in the pipeline to do with money and funding bankers

00:26:28.020 raised potential money laundering concerns concerns involving senior party figures

00:26:36.500 there's another story later probably get to it later when we do the um the website the um

00:26:42.980 robert jenrich's got an issue it was actually it's been in the news before that one it was back when

00:26:48.500 he was still in the tories back when he was running to be leader of the tory party well

00:26:54.500 i suppose after it must have been that period when boris johnson got cooed out

00:27:00.580 or was it one after this trust got cooed out anyway

00:27:04.740 they happened very close to each other in time didn't they anyway there were generic old bobby

00:27:08.580 generic and uh jenrich's jihad is the afghans he and loads of afghans he allowed into the country

00:27:16.980 His name was Wayne Broadhurst, Robert

00:27:19.480 His name was Wayne Broadhurst

00:27:21.060 During that period when he was trying to become the leader of the Tory party

00:27:25.780 He took a donation

00:27:29.300 Of like £100,000

00:27:31.660 Big lump donation

00:27:33.260 £100,000

00:27:34.440 And it's alleged

00:27:36.820 I don't know, of course

00:27:38.940 I don't know one way or another

00:27:39.840 But the allegation is that a portion

00:27:42.260 Of that £100,000

00:27:44.280 like £37,500 of that £100,000

00:27:48.900 came from a foreign source

00:27:51.360 a foreign person

00:27:52.160 a foreign company

00:27:52.840 I don't even know exactly

00:27:53.660 but it was foreign in origin

00:27:54.880 that's the allegation

00:27:56.380 and that's not allowed

00:27:58.040 so that's it

00:28:02.060 that story's just been rumbling

00:28:03.580 again I'll hold

00:28:04.600 I have absolutely no judgement

00:28:05.760 I don't know one way or another

00:28:06.940 again it's one of those things

00:28:08.100 could be really bad

00:28:08.840 could be a scandal

00:28:09.460 could be it's just not true

00:28:11.240 and it's an absolute nothing burger

00:28:12.240 I don't know

00:28:13.180 so but

00:28:13.580 so that's one with jen old bobby jenrick and then there's another others they're saying

00:28:20.400 they're not really disclosing many of the details here and in the other words but they're saying

00:28:25.120 there's others and that the police themselves the met the metropolitan police the london police

00:28:30.380 or the serious crime you know like the the serious crime office is investigating it

00:28:37.500 All a bit of a worry

00:28:40.500 Now, I will say this to get some perspective

00:28:44.440 Obviously it's a pile-on, isn't it?

00:28:50.380 It's not wrong that it's the establishment that are trying to take reform down

00:28:56.500 Like the globalist, truly, truly anti-patriotic elements in our establishment

00:29:03.380 See even someone

00:29:05.560 Even someone as milk toast

00:29:07.460 And weak wristed

00:29:08.880 And containment 0.59

00:29:10.400 Globo homo as Nigel and Richard Tice 1.00

00:29:13.680 Even that is far too extreme for 1.00

00:29:17.180 That's far too right wing for them

00:29:19.020 All those types of elements

00:29:20.760 Right 1.00

00:29:22.820 I see some cretin like Richard Tice 1.00

00:29:27.460 And be like no, no 1.00

00:29:28.420 He's too much of a patriot

00:29:29.500 All those

00:29:31.580 It's not untrue that they're trying to gun for reform and take them all down, destroy them.

00:29:37.100 That is true, isn't it?

00:29:39.060 But if there's been any wrongdoing, investigate it and punish them.

00:29:46.020 I would also say this.

00:29:47.200 Now do everyone else.

00:29:49.820 I've got no problem with you investigating reform as hard as possible.

00:29:53.520 Good.

00:29:54.120 Now do David Lammy.

00:29:56.820 Now do all the other MPs in Parliament.

00:29:59.680 We're going to wash some laundry

00:30:01.740 Let's do everyone

00:30:02.600 But no

00:30:03.600 And I won't do that

00:30:05.620 Any investigations into David Lammy?

00:30:11.880 All the money he's taken 0.62

00:30:13.280 Silly amounts of money 0.93

00:30:15.000 David Lammy 0.97

00:30:15.660 Just him

00:30:16.120 Just that one guy

00:30:16.760 The Deputy Prime Minister

00:30:18.680 No?

00:30:21.020 No, you're going to leave him alone

00:30:21.880 Right

00:30:23.160 Right

00:30:24.200 So it is a stitch up

00:30:27.720 I mean it is a stitch up on some level

00:30:29.020 i have got a small amount of sympathy for like your average salt of the earth reform supporter

00:30:37.460 activist voter who just hasn't necessarily woken up to restore yet but they're a good person they're

00:30:45.240 trying to do the right thing for they think they still think that reform is the best vehicle and

00:30:51.100 they've put time and energy into it i've got sympathy for those people absolutely when i was

00:30:55.800 reform those type of people the grassroots activist people they nearly all were as i say

00:31:00.840 the salt of the earth they were great people their patriots really were they just see all the problems

00:31:06.600 in their country and they're trying to do something about it trying to stand up and say the right

00:31:13.280 thing do the right thing good people good people so you know i do feel sorry for them where all

00:31:19.860 this is playing out and it's it's just like sort of ruining the party a bit or attempting to rather

00:31:25.260 attempting to at this stage

00:31:26.440 and it is a fair argument from them

00:31:30.580 to say

00:31:32.820 well okay now do the Lib Dems

00:31:34.860 now do the Greens

00:31:36.240 now do the Tories

00:31:37.380 and Labour of course

00:31:40.280 all of them

00:31:40.800 let's do a full cleaning of the house

00:31:45.180 just David Lammy alone

00:31:49.920 George Brown

00:31:51.260 who's George Brown David

00:31:52.480 dear David Lammy

00:31:53.860 who's George Brown

00:31:54.460 who is he

00:31:54.920 Why did he give you loads of money

00:31:56.540 Was there any

00:31:58.540 Quid pro quo there

00:32:00.040 What were you expected to give him in return

00:32:02.960 For those tens and tens

00:32:04.900 And tens of thousands of pounds

00:32:06.000 Right, it's not fair

00:32:12.840 Yeah, welcome to the real world

00:32:15.400 Politics isn't fair, the world isn't fair

00:32:17.400 It's not even close to fair

00:32:19.400 Yeah

00:32:19.940 Sucks, don't

00:32:21.880 I don't mean that sarcastically, it does

00:32:25.340 It's not fair

00:32:26.520 Trump hits out at NATO

00:32:30.620 Then hails the love from its leaders

00:32:32.880 Okay

00:32:33.940 The iPaper

00:32:35.940 Police launch investigation into £37,500 donation to Robert Jenrick's campaign

00:32:40.400 Quickly then

00:32:41.680 Scotland Yard is now investigating a political donation made to Jenrick's campaign to become Conservative leader

00:32:46.840 The iPaper learns

00:32:47.840 Investigation centres on claims that £37,500

00:32:51.320 came from foreign donor uk election law forbids political donations from foreign sources however

00:32:56.960 jenrik has reportedly denied that he or campaign broke any electoral law and tells the ipaper

00:33:03.300 allegations are quote liars and quote entirely false he claims that uh establishment that the

00:33:09.520 establishment is determined to stop reform where he is now treasury spokesman and says police have

00:33:16.620 not contacted him. Met does not specify any individuals and confirms the investigation

00:33:21.820 into, quote, donations connected to a political party's leadership campaign, quote.

00:33:27.560 Xtrey, Xtrey, read all about it.

00:33:33.180 Could be very, very nefarious and like total corruption. Could be a complete nothing burger

00:33:41.020 and he's done nothing wrong.

00:33:41.840 The times, the venerable times

00:33:46.160 Harry, the Duke of Hazzard

00:33:47.720 Baraj faces new questions over timing of Tycoon's £5 million present

00:33:54.740 Just a little bit of detail, you know, the timing of it

00:33:58.180 Remember, if you remember, before the last year of election

00:34:00.460 Even as much as a month out, or maybe as much as six weeks

00:34:03.900 I can't remember, not very long before the election

00:34:06.020 Not very long at all

00:34:07.660 Nigel was still saying he's not going to stand

00:34:11.560 He's the honorary president of Reform UK

00:34:14.900 He's happy to stay in that role

00:34:17.100 He doesn't want a role in frontline politics anymore

00:34:22.000 His part in history was the Brexit referendum

00:34:28.080 And his best place was just an ambassador for the party role

00:34:34.900 Rather than actually as an MP

00:34:36.700 he was saying that quite close before the 2024 election then if you remember

00:34:44.360 just before was it a month before something a few weeks out he changed his mind he just said

00:34:52.240 oh no actually actually he didn't explicitly say this but oh actually because the polling

00:34:58.380 in Clapton looks like it's a slam dunk for us actually i'm gonna i'm gonna stand that's what

00:35:06.300 happened so it was only a few months before that that he received the five that five million pounds

00:35:13.600 then like two months or is it or three months before that in other words easily within the

00:35:21.400 12 month period before you become a sitting mp where you have to declare everything

00:35:26.740 now some people have said this is all allegations i should be careful to say

00:35:32.540 It's alleged that

00:35:33.740 The allegations are

00:35:34.760 Because otherwise it would be

00:35:36.900 Sort of

00:35:37.460 What libelous

00:35:38.060 The allegations are

00:35:40.860 Particularly from someone like Ben Habib

00:35:44.100 And I think

00:35:44.480 I think Nigel's

00:35:45.400 Threatened to take Ben Habib

00:35:47.480 To court over this

00:35:48.320 I'm not sure if he's going to

00:35:49.720 I haven't heard an update on that

00:35:50.920 Someone like Ben Habib

00:35:53.400 And one or two others

00:35:54.520 Have alleged

00:35:55.460 Alleged

00:35:57.020 That that money was more like

00:36:02.540 for something other than just his security it's to as a payoff for maybe maybe it's just the

00:36:11.600 allegations are a payoff for dumping the brexit party for to get back into politics so that

00:36:21.280 you're our man our as in like whoever christopher harbour or people behind him his group of friends

00:36:27.080 his cabal whatever his cadre of friends Nigel look the conversation over dinner at a gentleman's

00:36:35.380 club or something might have might have been something like look Nigel we know you don't want

00:36:40.340 to be don't want to get into front line politics anymore you've said that you've been clear about

00:36:45.080 that because it is sort of a real headache and it is a little bit dangerous even Joe Cox David

00:36:50.840 Amis is it is dangerous and it is very very hard work you'll have the spotlight on you again and

00:36:56.420 it's stressful we get you don't want to do it you could you'd much rather just sort of retire

00:37:00.300 and make tons and tons of money and stuff and be a globe trotter and things uh but we think

00:37:05.800 you could be powerful you could be you could become a you could become the prime minister

00:37:09.740 um and then and then because you're our friend we've then got we the very very rich people people

00:37:17.020 like crystal harbour our friend is in number 10 that's in our interest we want that you're saying

00:37:24.080 you don't want to do it what if we gave you five million pounds would you do it then

00:37:28.880 and no i just like done allegedly allegedly i'm just it's just a hypothetical scenario that's

00:37:35.520 all i'm saying that's a hypothetical scenario i don't know you know if that is that if that's

00:37:39.820 what's really how i'm just saying that's possible that's what people like ben habib have said you

00:37:45.940 know it's not just for security it's it's uh it was something like that

00:37:51.960 Who knows

00:37:54.920 You know

00:37:55.480 And when it's a

00:37:56.460 When it's a

00:37:57.060 Just a conversation

00:37:58.780 Just whispers

00:37:59.720 Over cigars

00:38:02.260 After the dinner

00:38:03.100 In one of the

00:38:04.700 In one of the lounges

00:38:06.440 In a gentleman's club

00:38:07.740 In London

00:38:08.160 Or whatever

00:38:08.620 I don't know

00:38:09.160 They're drinking their brandies

00:38:12.320 And got cigars

00:38:13.180 And there's no mics anywhere

00:38:15.100 And they can all be trusted 1.00

00:38:17.600 Basically to

00:38:18.600 Discretion

00:38:20.120 Over what they're talking about 1.00

00:38:21.300 Look, Nige 1.00

00:38:23.520 You don't want to do it, but 1.00

00:38:26.780 What if

00:38:29.940 Yeah

00:38:31.080 We give you a bit of money

00:38:33.280 What's your price, bro?

00:38:36.800 Nige, Nige, Nige, Nige, Nige

00:38:38.020 Everyone's got a price, dude

00:38:39.800 Everyone's got a price, what, a million?

00:38:41.500 What are we talking, a million? 0.96

00:38:42.400 Come on, let's talk Turkey

00:38:43.080 Come on, let's go

00:38:43.820 Two million

00:38:44.420 Five million

00:38:47.360 Sold, Crystal Harbour

00:38:50.600 sold and you're back in the game and we have a game

00:38:54.280 is that a scenario that played out

00:38:59.080 nobody knows i certainly don't know

00:39:05.760 right the remnant of that tea has gone a little bit cold so i'll move up to my backup water this

00:39:18.540 Water in this one

00:39:19.340 It's not

00:39:19.680 It's not a second cup of tea

00:39:21.080 Right

00:39:24.260 Burnham

00:39:25.000 I'll aim defence spending

00:39:28.220 At British firms

00:39:29.020 It's the way it always should be

00:39:30.800 Of course

00:39:31.080 Yeah

00:39:31.360 That's some sort of

00:39:33.500 Brilliant new policy

00:39:34.380 PM in waiting

00:39:36.840 Vows billions

00:39:37.620 For critical security

00:39:38.960 It's the way it should always

00:39:41.740 Be really

00:39:42.680 Isn't it

00:39:43.060 Government contracts

00:39:43.920 Going to

00:39:44.420 Largely anyway

00:39:45.700 Going to firms

00:39:46.700 In your own country

00:39:47.740 king arthur arthur ferry won a tennis game match sorry this match all right the financial times

00:39:57.400 uh trump lords nato summit yeah it's funny when the tabloid particularly tabloids they make

00:40:06.340 they make something out of absolutely nothing in some of the papers that trump snubs maloney

00:40:12.140 i don't know if you know this there's a little there's been a little bit of tension between

00:40:16.320 Trump and Maloney

00:40:17.720 Where on social media

00:40:20.380 One way or another

00:40:20.980 They've sort of thrown

00:40:22.000 A little bit of shade

00:40:23.080 At each other

00:40:23.720 Like he said 0.97

00:40:25.460 She

00:40:25.860 At one of the last

00:40:27.040 Big summits

00:40:28.060 G7 or whatever it was

00:40:29.120 One of them

00:40:29.720 He said

00:40:31.100 That she begged him

00:40:32.560 To have a photo op

00:40:34.120 Like she

00:40:35.760 Called him to Trump

00:40:36.860 She'd come to him 0.56

00:40:38.480 And said

00:40:38.700 Look please please please

00:40:39.580 Please

00:40:40.900 At one point

00:40:42.240 Over this weekend

00:40:43.320 Or whatever

00:40:43.840 Can we get a moment

00:40:45.280 Where it's just

00:40:45.780 you and me sitting down together on a couch or something and we're looking very serious we're

00:40:50.820 looking like serious statesmen or something like that or we're laughing it up like we're best

00:40:55.000 friends something like that in front of all the reporters and they can click click click click

00:40:58.420 and it'll be a great front page for italy and for me maloney apparently she begged him to do that

00:41:04.620 and he did and he said so on true social and she hit back going no that never happened as if i

00:41:11.300 would do that like what are you talking about um and then he was like no it did happen anyway there's

00:41:15.920 just tension and then this like yesterday i guess it was yesterday at one point they've got all the

00:41:22.300 all the nato leaders lined up on stage in one big like phalanx there like that and trump walks out

00:41:29.560 in front of them all sort of last and goes and stands in the middle and there you go that's that

00:41:34.100 image. The newspapers are like, Trump snubs Maloney. Trump walks straight by her without

00:41:41.320 even giving her a glance. It's like, yeah, as he did to all the other leaders on that

00:41:48.160 stage. It's not like he was greeting each one, putting a hand on their shoulder and shaking

00:41:52.700 hand of each one. And then when he gets to Maloney, he's just blanking her and moving

00:41:55.420 on. No, no, not that. No. He just walked out on the stage, effectively blanking them all.

00:42:01.960 It wasn't a case of recognising each one

00:42:05.460 It's like he was going up to each one

00:42:06.760 Doing a nod, doing a wink

00:42:07.840 But he's blanking Maloney

00:42:11.140 The Lexi Corporation review is so disingenuous 0.98

00:42:16.480 Such liars 0.98

00:42:18.140 Such liars 1.00

00:42:21.080 Okay 0.96

00:42:23.120 The Telegraph, the Telegraph

00:42:25.360 King Arthur won a tennis match

00:42:26.940 Rochdale rapist will be deported

00:42:29.020 Will he? Will he?

00:42:30.220 Mahmoud to change law

00:42:32.700 Will she 1.00

00:42:33.600 To change law to kick out gang leader 1.00

00:42:36.540 If UK can meet Pakistan's demands 1.00

00:42:38.980 You shouldn't have to meet any of their demands 0.99

00:42:43.300 This article saying

00:42:44.940 I read it saying

00:42:45.620 That on Monday

00:42:48.060 This coming Monday

00:42:49.040 She is set to go before the house

00:42:51.180 And 0.99

00:42:52.780 And tweak some of the law

00:42:55.660 From the Immigration Act of 1971 0.98

00:42:57.840 Whether we have to actually meet any of Pakistan's demands 1.00

00:43:03.640 I just wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't happen 0.99

00:43:08.600 Either it doesn't happen at all

00:43:10.120 Or when she does speak to the house on Monday

00:43:12.740 It's just, again, it's just not much

00:43:15.440 It's just paper thin, nothing

00:43:17.720 She's like, we're going to try to

00:43:19.240 We're going to look at the possibility of maybe

00:43:21.500 And then it just doesn't happen

00:43:23.120 Nothing ever happens

00:43:23.760 I wouldn't be surprised 1.00

00:43:27.680 Binface set to be Farage's main challenger

00:43:31.340 There was actually an article

00:43:33.660 Yeah

00:43:36.320 We'll talk about, what is that?

00:43:38.740 Is it Harvey, John Harvey

00:43:40.320 Yeah, that's right, John Harvey

00:43:41.720 In the mail, they do a little bit of a thing about him

00:43:45.920 Hooked on classic sitcoms

00:43:48.800 Haunted by family tragedies 0.96

00:43:50.560 The truth about the real comedian behind Count Binface

00:43:55.480 It's a bit of a shame really

00:43:58.860 To sort of

00:43:59.360 Dispel the mystique

00:44:01.760 But of course they're going to

00:44:04.860 There you go

00:44:08.720 That's the dude

00:44:09.200 That's the real guy

00:44:10.340 John

00:44:11.000 His name's John

00:44:12.100 He's just a comedian

00:44:14.140 He said in that article

00:44:15.840 He's worked for

00:44:16.820 Or on the show

00:44:18.440 Have I got news for you

00:44:20.460 And the thick of it

00:44:21.500 And to be honest

00:44:23.860 I think his actual politics

00:44:25.260 not that he's going to be the MP

00:44:27.300 I really don't think so

00:44:28.440 again I wouldn't put a penny on it

00:44:30.260 but

00:44:30.640 his actual politics

00:44:33.100 do seem to be sort of

00:44:34.000 lefty leaning and woke

00:44:35.520 a bit

00:44:36.600 a bit anyway

00:44:37.460 well if we worked on

00:44:38.720 if I got news for you

00:44:39.440 in the thick of it

00:44:40.040 I might

00:44:40.480 on Amanda Arnucci's 0.99

00:44:42.220 the thick of it

00:44:43.220 you get the idea don't you

00:44:44.960 they're like the Tories

00:44:47.000 are the baddies

00:44:47.780 sort of a thing

00:44:48.280 and of course

00:44:49.360 someone like reform or restore

00:44:50.460 they're even more evil

00:44:51.440 that sort of thing

00:44:52.600 but as

00:44:54.520 The Count Binface

00:44:56.280 First Baron Binface 1.00

00:44:57.060 Go Binface

00:44:57.700 His politics

00:44:59.880 Are not really

00:45:00.720 Aren't what it's about

00:45:02.080 It's again

00:45:02.640 It's a comedy character

00:45:04.200 It's a novelty

00:45:05.080 Candidate

00:45:06.420 So it's not like

00:45:08.860 He's actually going to

00:45:09.420 Push the agenda

00:45:10.360 For sort of

00:45:11.460 Globalism or anything

00:45:12.620 He'll say 0.98

00:45:13.740 Silly funny things 0.89

00:45:15.080 That's what the character is 0.86

00:45:16.380 Again I find it weird

00:45:19.700 I feel like people

00:45:20.220 Have lost perspective

00:45:20.840 When they're like

00:45:21.340 Oh but John Harvey 1.00

00:45:22.280 Okay Count Binface 1.00

00:45:23.140 Okay fine 0.79

00:45:23.600 Yeah there we go

00:45:23.940 but john harvey john harvey's politics are xyz you're missing the point if you start talking

00:45:31.220 like that and thinking about like that yeah so i think i think you might this is just my opinion

00:45:36.100 you've missed the point i don't think i might be proven wrong but i doubt at any point in this

00:45:42.500 campaign the count being faced first baron bin face is going to take that thing off and start

00:45:47.620 talking as John Harvey and start talking seriously about his worldview and politics and the things

00:45:53.860 he's going to do for Clackton should he be returned. He's playing a character. I honestly do

00:46:03.540 think it's weird when, one, Nigel's trying to claim this is a serious by-election. No, it is not.

00:46:09.540 Fundamentally, fundamentally it's not serious.

00:46:13.380 I heard he played

00:46:18.740 Lord Buckethead as well

00:46:20.840 If anyone doesn't know

00:46:21.660 Maybe there's some foreign people who don't know

00:46:23.420 In Britain we've actually got a long

00:46:26.160 A very long tradition of comedy

00:46:28.500 Like novelty

00:46:30.200 Political candidates 0.59

00:46:31.760 We've had the monster raving loony party 0.93

00:46:34.480 Four years

00:46:35.200 Again the people know they're going to lose their deposit

00:46:37.860 They know they're only going to get 10 votes

00:46:39.740 30, 40 votes

00:46:41.260 They know that

00:46:42.100 it's not about trying to win it's about lampooning the process

00:46:48.340 right that's why they nearly always stand in where there's a high profile person standing

00:46:54.440 if it's some little rural constituency that no one cares about and no one famous is standing in it

00:47:00.940 and no one standing is likely to be on the front benches or anything then comedy candidates like

00:47:07.260 this don't don't go there it's when you it's something like this and it's going to be on tv

00:47:12.020 it'll be like the leader of a party even if it's an opposition party you'll get comedy candidates

00:47:20.160 standing in in those and they there's all sorts right just normal independent people they'll 0.98

00:47:24.580 dress up in some stupid furry outfit some weird outfit we've got a long trip going back years and 0.98

00:47:30.820 years and years again the monster raving loony party even before that you would get people that 1.00

00:47:34.900 It was just essentially silly. 1.00

00:47:38.580 Anyway, before the Count Bimface, 0.98

00:47:41.300 First Baron Bimface gave Bimface, 0.97

00:47:42.880 we had Lord Buckethead. 1.00

00:47:46.060 A very, very similar thing. 0.96

00:47:49.860 Just silly. 0.98

00:47:51.060 It is just silly. 0.97

00:47:51.800 And it is to poke fun at the whole process.

00:47:57.060 So that Lord Buckethead was actually played

00:47:59.640 by more than one person.

00:48:01.740 I believe.

00:48:02.160 I believe this is all right.

00:48:03.520 No, like Duffman.

00:48:04.900 More than one actor will play Duffman.

00:48:08.980 Duffman can die, just the actors who play him.

00:48:13.760 More than one person had played Lord Buckethead,

00:48:16.460 and one of them was the same guy, John Harvey.

00:48:21.040 And then I don't know if he fell out with the creators of Lord Buckethead,

00:48:24.560 but for whatever reason, Lord Buckethead has been retired.

00:48:27.160 Maybe someone else will play Lord Buckethead.

00:48:29.160 Anyway, I guess this is John Harvey's...

00:48:31.640 It is sort of John Harvey's

00:48:34.220 Reimagining

00:48:35.560 Effectively

00:48:36.320 Of Lord Buckethead

00:48:37.320 I can't believe we're talking about it

00:48:40.960 Even really 1.00

00:48:41.640 Count Binface 0.96

00:48:44.020 Hashtag 0.98

00:48:45.800 Bin-Evitable

00:48:46.400 Hashtag 0.89

00:48:47.600 Bin-Dependence Day 0.96

00:48:49.860 Alright yeah

00:48:53.560 And in this article

00:48:54.040 It just says a little bit about

00:48:55.160 A little bit about

00:48:56.100 His life and stuff

00:48:57.320 So it's not a complete mystery

00:48:58.260 Seems a bit

00:48:59.020 A little bit of a shame to me

00:49:00.380 To sort of demystify the thing

00:49:01.620 but whatever the media were gonna do that unless you really tried to keep your anonymity like

00:49:10.120 banksy or something and not that i don't think john harvey ever has like genuinely

00:49:15.540 made big efforts to remain anonymous so it's not really much of a scoop but there you go

00:49:25.520 i think he should talk more about sort of intergalactic policy i think that would be funny

00:49:33.420 like what he would do for neighboring star systems and things

00:49:39.280 because the character is that he's like from space or whatever

00:49:42.340 oh look what's that what's that oh yeah there he is as lord buckethead

00:49:51.240 That's back in 2017

00:49:54.680 Let's see, that'll be Theresa May

00:49:59.060 That's the Prime Minister

00:50:01.180 The Right Honourable Theresa May

00:50:03.480 On the stage

00:50:04.820 And Lord Buckethead

00:50:06.660 In that one it looked like

00:50:08.200 John Cleese's The Black Knight from

00:50:11.280 The Holy Grail

00:50:13.200 Obviously exaggerated to

00:50:15.340 Comedic lengths

00:50:16.820 I think, just to reiterate

00:50:21.000 I think people that are, like, upset with the tone of it

00:50:27.000 Like, oh, it's profoundly unserious

00:50:30.460 And we're facing existential threats

00:50:32.180 It's not cool

00:50:34.200 You're unserious to

00:50:35.700 Yeah

00:50:36.440 Yeah

00:50:37.880 If you're getting het up about that

00:50:42.480 You're failing to understand what is going on here, really

00:50:45.700 I do think

00:50:46.260 Nigel triggered

00:50:51.280 A profoundly unserious thing

00:50:53.840 This by-election

00:50:55.280 I feel like he deserves

00:50:57.720 I feel like it's poetic justice

00:50:59.140 That he's going to face off against 1.00

00:51:02.280 The Count Binface 0.99

00:51:04.640 First Baron Binface 1.00

00:51:05.700 Go Binface 1.00

00:51:06.220 I think that's poetic justice 1.00

00:51:08.660 I think he's the perfect foil

00:51:10.480 To show up

00:51:12.020 The absurdity of the thing

00:51:14.400 my opinion that's just my opinion all right oh it's already 10 too to have a quick look at some

00:51:22.520 of the uh we did even finish all the front pages of the sun here we go my 12 million pound lotto

00:51:29.460 win bin yeah apparently this this woman did get a winning lottery ticket but some i couldn't even

00:51:34.880 be bothered to finish reading a few sentences about it sorry about the shopkeeper accidentally

00:51:40.220 put the lotto ticket in the bin or something i don't care classic tabloid slop so let's just

00:51:46.240 not spend a single moment on that all right they're the front pages let's have a look at our

00:51:50.440 um our poll what did we do in the poll today harry you have to bring that for me on my screen

00:51:55.060 here we go oh we put over a thousand votes knocking up 1100 1100 votes um oh we put have

00:52:02.920 you got Iran war fatigue? And the IELTS have it. 75% of you say yes, 25% of you say no.

00:52:11.800 I have noticed where I make content more or less every day, certainly including State

00:52:15.680 of Politics, that a few weeks ago, maybe as much as a month ago, six weeks ago, videos

00:52:22.980 about the Iran war, people stopped clicking on them to a noticeable extent. People stopped

00:52:31.320 care a lot of people like everyone of course stopped caring really stopped like i just okay

00:52:39.240 i'm saturated with the iran war news i'm just i can't it seems to be simmering away anyway

00:52:45.400 there's nothing sort of exciting happening you know like the 82nd airborne haven't parachuted

00:52:51.080 onto karg island so i don't care anymore that sort of thing right a u.s aircraft carrier hasn't sailed

00:52:58.120 through the straits of hormuz and been struck and there's incredible images of all that so

00:53:01.560 i don't care anymore have you got iran war fatigue three quarters of you say yes

00:53:10.120 i get it as well i get it i understand there's only so long you can keep a particular story

00:53:15.480 it's like a sort of a fever pitch isn't there even a big war in the middle east even that

00:53:20.120 all right super quick look at the price of crude it's gone up a little bit from yesterday but not

00:53:30.460 a giant amount but a little bit west texas at 73 brent just shy of 78 all right there we go so

00:53:39.020 creeping up a little bit is there one or two stories um one or two other stories of note

00:53:46.000 Oh, Al Kearns, Labour MP Al Kearns and junior minister

00:53:50.100 Wasn't he the second minister at defence?

00:53:54.040 Anyway, he was the last person, the last big beast

00:53:57.900 If you could even call him that

00:54:00.180 In the Labour Party that hadn't formally officially ruled out

00:54:03.720 Challenging Andy Burnham for the leadership

00:54:05.900 He was the last one

00:54:06.780 And yesterday he did confirm that he's not going to

00:54:10.980 He said, Al Kearns said

00:54:13.280 That he thought it was sort of in the party

00:54:17.220 And the country's interest

00:54:18.960 There he is, that's his face

00:54:20.160 He thought he was in the party

00:54:22.480 And the country's interest

00:54:24.120 To have a leadership contest

00:54:26.720 Even if he knew he was 100% going to lose

00:54:28.680 Because

00:54:29.420 It creates the debate

00:54:32.240 The country and the party get to have the debate

00:54:36.400 Get to shine a little bit of a spotlight

00:54:38.640 On Burnham's policies and views a bit more

00:54:41.320 Not a bad argument

00:54:42.180 Not a bad argument at all

00:54:44.120 But I guess

00:54:46.340 I don't know

00:54:47.040 I guess he's just been offered a sweet job

00:54:49.920 To just not do that

00:54:51.000 So Burnham can have a coronation

00:54:53.580 Quote unquote coronation

00:54:54.840 In like the next couple of weeks

00:54:56.980 Or the next week and a half or whatever it is

00:54:59.120 And he's obviously just crumbled to that

00:55:01.680 That was too tempting

00:55:03.620 For Mr Kearns

00:55:05.260 They care more about themselves

00:55:12.780 They all do

00:55:13.820 Than anything else

00:55:14.980 All about their career

00:55:16.980 What sweet job they can get in government

00:55:18.820 Okay

00:55:20.620 Alright

00:55:23.700 Was there any particular other stories

00:55:28.120 Oh there was one story that

00:55:29.220 A poll came out

00:55:31.620 Showing that Burnham is not

00:55:33.220 Already, he hasn't even started a job yet

00:55:35.540 He's already only fractionally more popular than Keir Starmer

00:55:40.500 In the country at large

00:55:44.420 Thanks for that the people of Makerfield, well done

00:55:52.180 Well done

00:55:53.020 Oh this guy, this is a big, little bit of a big 0.95

00:55:56.840 This guy, sexually assaulted and murdered 0.99

00:56:02.340 This black man 1.00

00:56:05.020 Sex assaulted and murdered 1.00

00:56:06.840 His white wife 1.00

00:56:07.840 And apparently even years before that 0.96

00:56:10.500 Was like deeply violent and abusive to her

00:56:13.040 Many such cases

00:56:17.080 Many such cases

00:56:19.440 Elon Musk calls

00:56:23.060 I'm reading this for real time here

00:56:24.800 Elon Musk calls historian Tom Holland

00:56:27.260 A cuck for wading into

00:56:29.540 A woke row over 0.99

00:56:30.900 Casting of black actress

00:56:32.700 What is it?

00:56:34.040 I can never pronounce her name

00:56:35.020 Lupita Ngongo

00:56:36.560 Ngongo

00:56:38.640 Lupita Ngongo

00:56:43.100 Ngongo as Helen of Troy in the Odyssey

00:56:48.820 Yeah, Tom Holland 0.95

00:56:50.060 Tom Holland

00:56:51.620 The historian, not the actor

00:56:53.580 Tom Holland

00:56:54.180 There's two Tom Hollands in the world

00:56:56.080 If you didn't know

00:56:56.560 Tom Hollands wrote a couple of good

00:56:59.940 very good books i believe um one was in the shadow of the sword about the real historical figure of

00:57:06.300 the prophet muhammad and the other ones rubicon all about roman history both of which very good

00:57:12.960 reads solid history okay but he also has got a podcast what is it the rest is history

00:57:19.520 and i've watched loads of that i've watched loads of that you might think oh what really

00:57:23.740 By watching woke history stuff

00:57:26.000 Because most of it

00:57:28.800 Is fine, good, solid history

00:57:30.600 Like the majority of it

00:57:32.040 And the other, the co-host is

00:57:33.880 An interesting dude

00:57:35.120 And they're good speakers

00:57:36.380 And they're interesting

00:57:37.060 Like a lot of this stuff

00:57:39.420 Like a lot of histories you might read

00:57:42.280 Most of it is fine

00:57:44.820 But then every now and again

00:57:46.320 They can't help themselves

00:57:47.900 But squeak in some super woke politics

00:57:52.400 They're talking about something like Lycurgus

00:57:56.920 The ancient king of Sparta or whatever

00:57:59.420 They talk about anything and suddenly go

00:58:03.880 Like Trump and Mr Evil Trump or something like that

00:58:07.160 If you can look past that

00:58:09.560 Or they'll be talking about

00:58:11.900 You get it, you can be talking about anything

00:58:14.380 They're talking about the French Revolution

00:58:15.620 Suddenly just say a few quick words about the patriarchy

00:58:18.980 And how bad it is 0.95

00:58:22.400 So anyway, Tom Holland is like an extremely weak man. 0.58

00:58:29.900 Extremely weak, and in every sense. 0.90

00:58:33.060 In every sense.

00:58:36.060 So painfully physically weak, obviously so. 0.99

00:58:40.720 Knock him over with a feather, type Poindexter. 0.94

00:58:46.000 Also, I would say politically, morally even, 0.99

00:58:49.200 very, very, very paper-thin weak man. 0.97

00:58:52.400 Weak, weak, weak man

00:58:53.640 I didn't even know he'd waded into the woke row over Lupita and Nyong'o's casting

00:59:01.520 Makes sense though, classic Tom Holland thing to do 1.00

00:59:05.320 You know, all the stupid arguments 1.00

00:59:07.420 Actually, he had only semi-fictional at best 1.00

00:59:09.580 And who knows if he was in the translation

00:59:13.080 Why can't you reimagine her as a sub-Saharan African? 1.00

00:59:16.320 I don't know what he said, but I'm sure it would be all crap like that 0.99

00:59:18.520 Elon Musk 0.98

00:59:22.400 King Musk the first 0.74

00:59:24.500 Calling him a cuck

00:59:26.620 Funny, interesting

00:59:30.540 I have to look that up later today

00:59:32.740 Exactly what the exchange was

00:59:34.280 Yeah, Tom Holland

00:59:36.820 Weak, weak, weak, weak, weak 1.00

00:59:37.840 Pathetic really 1.00

00:59:39.920 And yet 0.99

00:59:41.960 80, maybe even 90% of his history

00:59:44.600 Is solid

00:59:45.280 Very, very, very, very well researched

00:59:48.160 And fine, there's nothing wrong with it

00:59:52.400 It's exactly like someone like Andrew Roberts

00:59:57.260 Sorry, the Lord Roberts of Belgravia

01:00:01.360 Same thing, you buy an Andrew Roberts book

01:00:05.100 80, 90% of it plus, fine, perfect, no problem

01:00:09.040 Factually accurate

01:00:10.840 And on and on and on

01:00:13.240 But then there'll be a bit there

01:00:15.040 That'll just try and pervert your understanding of the world and reality

01:00:20.440 Just a little bit of the message

01:00:23.140 Thrown in there

01:00:24.220 Think they're being subtle

01:00:28.060 Think they're being clever

01:00:28.840 Think people don't notice or realise

01:00:30.840 Alright

01:00:34.440 Have a look

01:00:35.880 On the sun

01:00:38.620 Just one last bit of slop

01:00:39.600 Just for the day

01:00:40.260 Why not finish on a bit of sun slop

01:00:41.560 This guy 1.00

01:00:42.220 Is at a jewellers or whatever

01:00:44.160 It's like a diamond ring

01:00:45.740 Worth 35 grand

01:00:46.660 He just pops it in his mouth

01:00:47.480 And swallows it

01:00:48.180 Like in an attempt to steal it

01:00:51.400 But apparently 0.86

01:00:56.640 Staff confronted him and he put his fingers down his throat

01:00:59.580 Regurgitating the sparkler

01:01:01.240 And gave it back

01:01:02.220 That's not going to be comfortable is it

01:01:04.760 Swallowing a diamond ring and then regurgitating it up

01:01:07.560 A diamond

01:01:09.560 Cutting

01:01:10.240 Probably cutting you all the way 0.91

01:01:12.580 Oh

01:01:14.500 I won't fancy that

01:01:18.160 Alright, let's do on this day in history

01:01:19.800 You seem to like that, I seem to like that bit

01:01:24.160 Okay

01:01:24.640 On this day in history, day through the centuries

01:01:29.220 What happened over there?

01:01:30.140 On July the 9th, in 1401 1.00

01:01:32.780 The Turco-Mongo ruler 0.99

01:01:36.000 Tamerlane 1.00

01:01:37.040 Timur, Timur the lame 0.99

01:01:38.660 Tamerlane, it's all the same person 1.00

01:01:40.680 Destroyed Baghdad, killing 20,000 people 1.00

01:01:43.800 I've talked about Tamerlane

01:01:45.660 A couple of times, a few times

01:01:47.100 How his campaigns

01:01:48.780 Were some of the blood

01:01:50.140 Arguably the bloodiest military campaigns

01:01:53.000 Of all time

01:01:53.620 Just in terms of pure body count

01:01:55.940 Of dead 1.00

01:01:56.880 It's where the Mongols 1.00

01:02:03.240 Had interbred 1.00

01:02:04.280 Various Mongol hordes spread out from 0.97

01:02:07.000 The Central Asian steppe 0.99

01:02:09.660 Some of them basically become Chinese 1.00

01:02:11.420 Some of them sort of become 1.00

01:02:12.780 Not exactly Russian 1.00

01:02:14.900 But sort of

01:02:16.260 Siberian or something

01:02:17.860 Some of them become sort of Turkic 0.88

01:02:19.940 Interbreed with sort of Middle Eastern Turkic people 0.95

01:02:23.900 Turco 0.96

01:02:24.420 So anyway that's by the time

01:02:25.780 By the 15th century 0.75

01:02:27.660 Tamerlane's not like a pure blood

01:02:30.640 Genghis Khan Mongol

01:02:32.060 He's not that anymore but anyway

01:02:33.700 They say like his campaigns

01:02:35.760 Maybe as much as sort of 5% of the entire

01:02:38.400 World's population were killed

01:02:40.180 In the campaigns of Tamerlane

01:02:42.000 Of course the world's population is tiny

01:02:44.040 Compared to what it is today

01:02:45.000 Even in the early 15th century

01:02:46.720 Late 14th century

01:02:48.060 Far, far, far, far, far fewer people

01:02:51.400 By orders of magnitude 0.99

01:02:52.320 Especially after the Black Death 0.96

01:02:54.040 Unless 0.71

01:02:56.200 A good solid percentage

01:02:58.880 Of the entire world's population 1.00

01:03:00.840 Died under Tamerlane's

01:03:03.660 Campaigns are fascinating

01:03:05.400 On this day in 1790

01:03:07.880 King Gustav III

01:03:08.920 Leads Swedish naval forces to victory

01:03:10.980 Over the Russian Baltic fleet

01:03:12.160 During the Second Battle of

01:03:13.540 And I'm sure to mispronounce this

01:03:14.840 Svenskund 1.00

01:03:17.320 Destroying and capturing one third of the Russian ships

01:03:22.100 And ending the Russo-Swedish war

01:03:24.860 Yes, like, even by the end of the 18th century

01:03:27.780 Sweden was still a powerful country

01:03:29.680 One of the main players in Europe, absolutely

01:03:31.920 And that was one of the biggest battles of all time

01:03:36.600 Among the biggest naval engagements of all time

01:03:39.680 As much as maybe 275 ships apiece

01:03:42.860 The Russians lose 50, 60 ships, 10,000 men

01:03:47.840 Obviously nothing on the scale of stuff that went down in the Pacific War and World War II

01:03:53.280 But there's a few ancient sea battles that are bigger and stuff

01:03:57.700 But nonetheless, a giant pivotal naval battle

01:04:02.960 The biggest one ever to take place in the Baltic, I believe

01:04:05.280 Okay, if you're not Russian or Swedish, you've probably never heard of it

01:04:09.740 On this day in 1868, Louisiana and South Carolina are the last states to ratify the 14th Amendment

01:04:16.000 Of the United States Constitution, guaranteeing civil rights

01:04:20.040 As you can see, that's after the Civil War

01:04:22.060 This will be during the, I believe, that will be during the presidency of Grant, Ulysses S. Grant

01:04:29.720 Long-form content with Benjamin Boyce talking all about Ulysses S. Grant

01:04:39.100 Like over two hours

01:04:41.960 I think that was really quite a long one

01:04:43.380 You want to know all about

01:04:45.480 Ulysses S. Grant, both his early life

01:04:47.840 His military career and then his presidency

01:04:49.840 And later life after his presidency

01:04:51.620 Check it out

01:04:55.240 On this day in 1893

01:04:56.940 Surgeon Daniel Hale Williams performs the first

01:04:59.640 Successful open heart surgery

01:05:01.000 When he repairs the torn

01:05:03.180 Pericardium

01:05:05.120 Of knife wound patient

01:05:07.460 James Cornish without the use of

01:05:09.480 penicillin or blood transfusion

01:05:11.060 1893, that's early, isn't it?

01:05:18.280 He successfully

01:05:19.360 did it. Remarkable.

01:05:21.280 Remarkable what the human body can stand, isn't it?

01:05:25.200 Sometimes 0.87

01:05:25.680 if you're sort of youngish and

01:05:27.140 healthy, other than

01:05:29.060 having been

01:05:31.200 the victim of a knife wound.

01:05:33.120 Remarkable. It is.

01:05:37.080 Okay.

01:05:37.460 On this day in 1917, British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow

01:05:42.520 Obviously during World War I, isn't it?

01:05:46.120 Due to an internal explosion caused by a faulty cordite

01:05:49.580 Explosives in the shells

01:05:51.500 Killing 804 crew members

01:05:54.100 I've heard this before, I don't know about it in fantastic detail

01:05:57.380 But I have heard of it before

01:05:58.500 Yeah, terrible, of course, of course

01:06:03.180 Maybe its entire magazine went up

01:06:05.540 Rather than just like one

01:06:07.180 I can only imagine

01:06:08.100 The whole magazine blew up

01:06:10.020 804 people killed

01:06:12.420 Terrible

01:06:14.000 Is that a picture of the vanguard itself?

01:06:21.060 Okay

01:06:21.620 On this day in 1971

01:06:24.240 National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger

01:06:26.460 We are missing you

01:06:27.260 Secretly visits the People's Republic of China

01:06:30.180 To negotiate a detente

01:06:32.160 Between the US and China

01:06:33.440 Henry Kissinger only died a couple years ago didn't he

01:06:36.100 He lived to be over a hundred

01:06:37.460 Crazy old Kissinger

01:06:39.380 It's difficult to argue whether he was some sort of 1.00

01:06:45.520 Political genius or a complete scumbag 0.99

01:06:48.940 Christopher Hitchens wrote a book 1.00

01:06:50.140 About what a psycho scumbag he was 0.99

01:06:52.840 I think I'm inclined to that view 0.99

01:06:54.380 It's interesting nonetheless

01:06:55.940 You know when some people you hate them and what they did

01:06:58.040 But they're so interesting

01:06:59.560 That you can't help but sort of

01:07:01.540 Read more about them

01:07:03.240 Kissinger's one of those people for me

01:07:06.340 I don't like him

01:07:07.440 I wouldn't have done the things he did

01:07:08.980 And said in his life

01:07:09.860 Nonetheless, interesting

01:07:12.920 Yeah, that Nixon era

01:07:16.080 Entente, detente

01:07:19.000 With China 0.79

01:07:20.080 Obviously Maoist era

01:07:23.060 Communist China 0.55

01:07:23.720 Only a Nixon could have done such a thing 0.60

01:07:26.540 They said

01:07:28.160 Because Nixon was a classic

01:07:30.200 Cold warrior, really

01:07:32.300 He was, you know, all through the war, World War II, and his political career after World War II.

01:07:39.500 I mean, he was Eisenhower's VP.

01:07:42.840 And Nixon had been in and around American politics ever since the war, just after the war.

01:07:48.500 And his whole career, his whole political persona was he was like an ardent, staunch anti-communist.

01:07:54.980 You know, if there's any communists to be found in America

01:07:59.160 In the American political system

01:08:00.980 Nixon will be one of those senators

01:08:02.920 That will sit on a committee and try and get them

01:08:06.940 Staunchly, staunchly anti-communist Richard Nixon

01:08:10.340 So it's that type of person that might have the political capital

01:08:14.540 To actually have a detente with Mao

01:08:17.360 You can trust me that I'm not going over there

01:08:21.340 And giving anything away

01:08:22.760 Because I'm Nixon

01:08:24.560 Because I'm like the most anti-communist there can be, almost

01:08:29.320 And that sort of worked

01:08:33.280 It did sort of work

01:08:35.240 Nixon and Kissinger and Mao did sit down together

01:08:38.840 Later in the 70s

01:08:41.040 Because China at that point, US and China

01:08:44.640 Had been completely politically, diplomatically

01:08:48.080 Cut off from one another

01:08:49.060 so kissinger and nixon sort of began the process of a thaw between them

01:08:56.580 okay it's an interesting bit of history i think uh i'm fascinated by nixon

01:09:01.620 on my channel i've got a long series on history bro free there's no paywall there it's free

01:09:08.900 a long form a long series so many many hours of me talking about

01:09:13.660 nominally the watergate scandal where i'm actually talking about everything about nixon

01:09:18.440 All things Nixon

01:09:19.840 I can't remember how many parts it was

01:09:22.400 Five, eight, I don't know, quite a few hours of it

01:09:24.400 Very interesting in that, that's there

01:09:25.600 On this day in 2002, the African Union

01:09:28.700 Is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

01:09:30.800 As African leaders 0.99

01:09:32.100 Replace the Organisation of African Unity 1.00

01:09:34.500 South African

01:09:35.400 South African President

01:09:36.940 Fabo Mbeki serves as its first chair

01:09:40.660 Does it? Does it?

01:09:41.920 Yeah, okay

01:09:42.860 On this day in 2017

01:09:46.700 Iraqi Prime Minister

01:09:48.120 Haida al-Abadi proclaims victory over Islamic State forces in Mosul

01:09:54.060 Mosul, sort of more in the north of Iraq

01:09:57.800 Isn't Mosul where, isn't that where one of the ancient Assyrian cities

01:10:04.080 Basically Mosul is built on top of one of the ancient Assyrian cities there

01:10:09.240 Anyway, anyway, anyway, that's an aside

01:10:11.480 The Iraqis and the Syrians

01:10:15.480 Among others, Kurdish forces

01:10:18.040 Defeating the Islamic State 1.00

01:10:20.580 Probably for the best 0.99

01:10:22.100 Not that a lot of those forces are 1.00

01:10:23.900 A great deal better than the Islamic State 0.99

01:10:26.740 In various ways 1.00

01:10:27.620 But still 0.97

01:10:29.960 The Islamic State 0.98

01:10:31.100 Difficult to come to any other conclusion 1.00

01:10:34.200 That they were scumbags 1.00

01:10:35.220 That should be whacked from the earth really 1.00

01:10:36.560 All right 0.98

01:10:41.460 Okay, should we do

01:10:44.120 That was the last one

01:10:44.740 Should we do our Rumble Rants and Super Chats

01:10:46.120 Should we do that

01:10:46.960 Let me do this with my mic

01:10:47.860 Because I can see the left hand side of my screen

01:10:49.180 Okay

01:10:51.740 Our Rumble Rants

01:10:52.640 Will Global Church History be at number one?

01:10:55.680 No

01:10:56.040 I believe I might have seen him in YouTube though

01:11:01.540 Harry, can you bring up my YouTube?

01:11:05.380 Super Chats

01:11:06.260 so i can check that yes the global church history is in there but we always do the

01:11:14.540 rumble rants first so so we'll do it first

01:11:17.020 sigil stone 17 uh regular contributor and uh commenter and things and like things like

01:11:25.720 and funny on on twitter as well uh got a good sense of humor you say in fact sometimes you

01:11:32.800 say things are a bit too spicy to read out on the bow show so what do you say it okay i think it's

01:11:37.620 not doing anything too too blue or spicy you say it definitely undermines trump when he says that

01:11:44.820 about iran but then calls japan who's japan an islamic republic great diplomacy don that won't

01:11:52.940 have consequences and good morning bow i didn't know that donald ever called japan an islamic

01:11:58.840 Republic I didn't know that one passed me by did you do that okay but yeah Donald Trump's style

01:12:06.400 of diplomacy if you've got to call it that is uh unconventional I mean it it definitely is

01:12:13.500 unconventional unconventional is it effective though sometimes it really is isn't it in fact

01:12:19.640 quite often it really is not always the way he handled the Greenland thing so far seems to have

01:12:26.960 been counterproductive so far seems to have been counterproductive for u.s interests

01:12:31.260 thing in iran doesn't seem to have been managed or handled all that well although i was watching

01:12:39.680 dr steve turley yesterday and he was making the argument that everything although he that is the

01:12:43.860 sort of this is the sort of take steve turley would have he was saying that everything that

01:12:48.860 the united states has done since february in iran it's all a plan to have ebbs and flows

01:12:54.700 Peaks and troughs in

01:12:56.760 When there's action going on

01:12:58.840 When there's not 0.88

01:12:59.800 And allowing Iran to come back at certain points 0.93

01:13:03.260 In order that their war material 0.98

01:13:05.140 Is brought out so that America 0.97

01:13:06.580 Can destroy it

01:13:08.120 And it's all some great master plan from the White House

01:13:10.980 And the State Department and the Pentagon

01:13:12.540 And trust the plan bro

01:13:14.280 It's all perfect 1.00

01:13:15.200 Iran just keeps falling into the US traps 1.00

01:13:17.840 Again and again and again

01:13:18.840 Steve Turley

01:13:21.240 May be true

01:13:23.640 I don't

01:13:24.700 think so doesn't feel like that it'd be true his stories might look back at this in years to come

01:13:32.220 and say america was playing 5d chess the whole time and it worked perfectly in the end

01:13:37.100 all right we don't know but um yeah trump's diplomacy is unconventional isn't it all right

01:13:45.640 the next one oh i think it's just a membership thing when it comes up in red yeah

01:13:50.420 tyranny no one gifted one subscription oh thank you that's very good that's very good

01:13:57.620 to somebody called jabberi 308 and a bit further up i can see they did it again to

01:14:05.520 intelligentsia intelligentsia

01:14:10.560 so thanks for that tyranny number one okay and the next super chat luke st luke

01:14:19.600 Luke Street

01:14:20.460 Luke Stewart

01:14:23.020 G'day Bo

01:14:24.420 Oh yeah 0.99

01:14:24.780 G'day mate

01:14:25.420 How good

01:14:27.660 And everyone

01:14:29.460 Hope you all have

01:14:30.400 A great weekend

01:14:31.240 As of tomorrow

01:14:31.920 Friday the 10th

01:14:33.720 My birthday

01:14:34.260 Oh happy birthday

01:14:34.960 For the 10th

01:14:36.440 I'll be spending

01:14:38.320 Three days

01:14:39.020 Fighting in

01:14:41.780 Caboolture

01:14:44.960 I don't know

01:14:48.140 What that word is

01:14:48.900 Caboolture

01:14:49.780 At the Abbey Medieval Festival

01:14:51.640 Oh

01:14:52.220 That sounds cool

01:14:53.380 That sounds cool

01:14:54.440 I like reenactments

01:14:55.260 I think there's a

01:14:56.040 Tewkesbury thing

01:14:56.720 Isn't there

01:14:57.100 The Battle of Tewkesbury

01:14:59.500 Reenactment

01:15:00.460 Anniversary thing

01:15:02.120 This weekend

01:15:03.980 I think Luca was

01:15:04.640 Talking to me about it

01:15:05.980 Caboolture

01:15:08.500 I feel like I should know

01:15:09.560 What that is

01:15:10.020 Is that like a

01:15:10.580 Is that like a

01:15:11.280 Specific type of

01:15:12.280 Jousting or something

01:15:13.200 I feel like I should know

01:15:14.560 I'm sorry

01:15:15.020 Sounds cool though

01:15:16.160 Sounds good

01:15:17.180 And happy birthday

01:15:18.400 for the 10th okay luke again says i will admit

01:15:24.960 i i did like cool and dan's talk about maybe that's a typo there you've written i did like

01:15:34.440 cool and dan's talk about bumham saying that labor has now had three different leaders with

01:15:40.480 the socialist corbin it must be leaders with the socialist corbin the robot queer starlin and now 0.67

01:15:47.020 the man of the north was it you mean oh cool you must have meant carl carl and dan's talk okay it's 0.82

01:15:56.840 all making sense sorry carl and dan do their sort of political talks don't they i think they're

01:16:01.320 behind the paywall are they on like c just.com do you consider sign up for as little as uh five

01:16:06.060 pounds of policy membership yeah dan and carl doing just sort of one off once a week or so

01:16:10.700 Political talks

01:16:11.800 So yeah 1.00

01:16:14.200 Local mosque futurism 1.00

01:16:16.300 Oh you were the guy who claimed you would get up 1.00

01:16:18.760 Super early in the morning to beat global church history

01:16:21.300 Five minutes past nine in the a.m.

01:16:28.880 No cigar sir I'm afraid

01:16:30.580 No don't blame you though

01:16:32.480 It would take a superhuman effort

01:16:35.720 To beat global church history

01:16:38.120 Certainly on any sort of consistent basis 0.99

01:16:39.880 it's unlikely anyway local mosque futurism says the swedish empire is so interesting because even 0.96

01:16:49.180 at its zenith their resources and population are always weaker than their rivals they would they

01:16:54.520 were just built different great leaders great organizations yeah the story of the swedish

01:16:58.520 empire through what the 15th 16th 17th 18th century yeah a bit like the british empire

01:17:06.300 in the sense that, just punching way above their weight, yeah, in terms of population, industry, all sorts of things.

01:17:13.300 But they were built different, they just had a great sort of work ethic, they had a great sort of,

01:17:18.300 quite a very strong sort of political system, quite strong homogenous society, of course.

01:17:27.300 Yeah, yeah, the Swedes punching above their weight in the medieval, late medieval period, early modern period.

01:17:34.300 yeah absolutely okay and the last rumble rant today is from dragon lady chris

01:17:39.100 who says andrew johnson not grant oh oh fair enough uh 1868

01:17:44.420 wasn't there a presidential election in 1868 where grant got in is that right can that be right

01:17:50.820 or was it 70 i can't remember off the top of my head but okay you say andrew johnson fair enough

01:17:56.980 fair enough hands up sure not grant oh you say that sorry i should continue just reading your

01:18:03.040 thing you say grant didn't take office until 1898 sorry bow no no no do correct me honestly

01:18:10.260 if i say anything factually incorrect tell me i i would like to know i hate people that try and

01:18:20.120 pretend they didn't get something factually wrong when they just did that's terrible i think that's

01:18:24.740 terrible you know like the two or three times i've got something factually wrong like there was one

01:18:30.660 that there was that murder up in northern ireland where i'd only saw a few seconds of the clip and

01:18:36.780 i thought the victim was black and he wasn't i just got it wrong i just said it wrong next day

01:18:41.200 full attraction 100% hands up the time i got uh hugh edwards and eamon holmes mixed up hands up

01:18:47.120 yep got it wrong sorry sorry sorry okay it was andrew johnson not grant that was president in

01:18:52.780 eight in 68 good good all right the youtube ones youtube ones global church industry in another

01:19:01.900 one reigning defending and still only one uh only one factor this morning though you tell us today

01:19:11.180 in 1540 henry the eighth divorced anne of cleves i'm actually doing a series all about henry eighth

01:19:20.220 right now on on epochs my history theme show behind the paywall and uh the last episode last

01:19:27.580 sunday's episode was the period where um he marries anne of cleeds and then very quickly annuls that

01:19:34.060 marriage and then very quickly has thomas cronwell's head chopped off for advising him

01:19:38.220 poorly and as a scapegoat for all the problems with the dissolution of the monasteries that

01:19:42.780 was last sunday's that's the last epochs that's on the website is that

01:19:45.980 275 episodes

01:19:49.460 Hundreds and hundreds of hours of content

01:19:50.920 It's a good deal

01:19:53.200 £5 a month

01:19:53.680 Alright

01:19:54.020 Thanks Global Church History

01:19:55.840 Yeah, out of Cleves

01:19:56.660 The Flanders Mayor

01:19:58.120 They both didn't like each other

01:20:00.680 When they finally met each other

01:20:01.800 He said

01:20:03.020 That she

01:20:04.500 Smelt

01:20:05.220 And she looked horrible 1.00

01:20:06.020 And she was ugly 1.00

01:20:06.680 And she 1.00

01:20:08.280 Apparently sort of

01:20:09.800 Recoiled when she first saw him

01:20:11.160 He's like

01:20:11.940 Oh he's way older and fatter

01:20:13.320 Than people told me

01:20:14.300 Ugh

01:20:15.140 And he's got a gammy leg

01:20:17.080 That's like

01:20:18.560 Infected and stuff

01:20:20.340 They both didn't like each other

01:20:23.720 So anyway

01:20:24.340 More detail about that

01:20:27.400 Okay

01:20:28.280 Tiger, spelt T-Y-G-R-8

01:20:31.580 Tiger

01:20:33.460 Thanks for super chat

01:20:35.260 Says

01:20:36.020 I don't have Iran war fatigue 0.73

01:20:40.120 I have Israel fatigue 0.96

01:20:41.800 Fair enough 0.97

01:20:45.140 based you know you're not a good you know you're not a good people when you keep making hitler

01:20:50.420 look like oh i can't finish reading that not that because of t's and c's because we might

01:21:04.200 get a strike or a warning or even just yeeted off of youtube

01:21:07.240 It's not that I don't appreciate

01:21:14.620 The super chat

01:21:17.160 And even the sentiment

01:21:18.740 I can't

01:21:20.660 It would get the channel in trouble

01:21:23.400 It's a shame 0.71

01:21:25.840 People say oh coward

01:21:27.060 This is the game

01:21:29.580 There's parameters and rules to this game

01:21:32.040 I'm afraid

01:21:34.040 Can't just say anything

01:21:37.240 if i finished reading that out i don't think i'd get a knock at the door from the police

01:21:43.980 but youtube would have an issue with it they would have an issue with that

01:21:47.600 it's my job to try it to try and not get strikes and uh warnings or the channel yeeted

01:21:56.080 okay moving on max robe what have you put here

01:22:07.560 lion's lolly gobble truck wait is this a thing where if i read it out i'm saying something

01:22:15.080 i'll just read it out okay i think those are funny anyway what you're saying

01:22:18.040 it's like you've put lion's lolly gobble chalk bombs for the frisians

01:22:29.880 emily for a store says how much is the mist pounds is behind greens today good question

01:22:35.960 good question yeah let's have a deep dive into the green party's finances shall we

01:22:43.000 yeah see if there's anything nefarious or dodgy there yeah

01:22:52.200 where's muffin alley getting his money from where's david paulden getting his money from

01:22:58.360 okay emily forrestore again says youtube wouldn't let me post factually about irgc yeah

01:23:06.480 youtube just a rumble rental super chat or just in the the chat or on youtube there's loads of

01:23:12.600 things that they it won't allow you to do and say yeah loads you've got keywords if you type that

01:23:19.280 it's just no be aware of that a lot of people say oh like you're you've made a channel

01:23:27.700 you've got a channel on youtube and then people then you see people in your chat saying why have

01:23:33.080 you blocked me or why why are you censoring what i'm saying no it won't be the person it'll be

01:23:38.260 youtube doing that you can't handle what i'm saying in the chat no it won't be us it really

01:23:44.820 won't probably it'll be youtube you've typed something youtube just automatically says no

01:23:51.060 you can't do that can't say that it's getting more and more and more censorious as well another one

01:23:57.480 from emily from restore says says 12 shears on a global mission

01:24:04.280 kr8882 says um are you going to mention rupert on joe rogan oh yeah oh yeah yeah so because this

01:24:17.160 show is really supposed to be about the legacy corporate mainstream media news and they're just

01:24:19.920 not mentioning that of course but yeah because you talk about it yeah so it happened yesterday

01:24:23.800 it dropped yesterday evening i believe was where i first saw it yesterday evening um so last night

01:24:29.480 i watched probably about two-thirds because it's quite long it's over two well not long long for

01:24:33.560 joe rogan but it's like two hours plus isn't it it's over two hours and i only had a relatively

01:24:38.760 small window of time yesterday evening to listen to watch it listen to it i put it on times one

01:24:44.360 and a half speed and i got through about two-thirds of it uh yeah so i thought it was

01:24:51.400 interesting i mean it's just it's a rupert lowe interview so i didn't see i didn't hear or see

01:24:58.520 anything that was like a real bad clanger from rupert lowe like oh god why is he saying that

01:25:03.720 i didn't see anything it seemed pretty solid actually again i've still got another probably

01:25:08.300 half hour maybe even as much as 40 minutes left to watch which i will do um yeah they were just

01:25:14.700 talking about he was talking about the rape gang inquiry for most of it um joe rogan saying like

01:25:20.120 How is that

01:25:20.660 How has this come about

01:25:21.640 Like what

01:25:22.200 What's going on

01:25:23.240 Rupert O just explaining

01:25:24.760 Yeah

01:25:25.040 Everything from sort of

01:25:26.740 The EU 0.99

01:25:27.880 To Windrush 1.00

01:25:29.020 To 1.00

01:25:29.500 The Labour Party

01:25:30.920 The mainstream media

01:25:31.680 Ignoring it

01:25:32.380 The mainstream media

01:25:33.660 Have basically ignored it

01:25:34.660 The rape gang inquiry

01:25:36.400 Well and the actual 0.55

01:25:37.340 Crimes themselves

01:25:38.100 And it goes back

01:25:39.160 Years and years and years

01:25:39.960 So yeah

01:25:42.900 I mean maybe tomorrow

01:25:44.420 How about that

01:25:45.220 Maybe tomorrow

01:25:45.840 Once I've finished watching

01:25:47.100 The last third or so of it

01:25:48.540 I'll talk about it

01:25:49.820 in a bit more detail tomorrow if you like but you can bet your bottom dollar the legacy corporate

01:25:54.920 mainstream media won't be talking about it it doesn't fit their globalist agenda does it

01:26:00.560 somebody talking about neapuri pakistani grooming and rape gangs torture and rape gangs 0.90

01:26:09.020 Torture 1.00

01:26:10.240 Pedophile rape gangs 0.72

01:26:12.900 Yeah 0.98

01:26:15.180 Tatum2733 says

01:26:18.920 Mark my words

01:26:19.880 Oil crisis before December

01:26:21.500 Tatum2733 is calling it

01:26:25.720 That's his prediction

01:26:27.240 Maybe

01:26:29.220 Maybe we'll see

01:26:30.160 We'll see

01:26:31.580 I feel like a lot of the world's oil markets have

01:26:35.220 Adjusted or at least

01:26:36.960 Began to

01:26:38.840 Profoundly adjust

01:26:41.140 Where they're sourcing their crude from

01:26:44.900 Like where

01:26:47.340 Giant amounts of crude oil

01:26:49.120 Flowed through the states of Hormuz

01:26:51.280 On oil tankers

01:26:53.160 Particularly to the east

01:26:55.280 To places like China and even

01:26:57.120 Taiwan and stuff

01:26:58.880 Where all this has gone on

01:27:03.620 They have started to

01:27:05.620 source their crude

01:27:07.160 and natural gas

01:27:08.680 from other places

01:27:09.940 because

01:27:10.280 the straits for me

01:27:12.320 is too volatile

01:27:13.060 and is likely to stay

01:27:14.320 volatile for some time

01:27:15.960 one way or another

01:27:16.820 but maybe you're right

01:27:18.780 maybe you're right

01:27:19.340 the crisis before December

01:27:20.360 you say

01:27:20.760 alright

01:27:21.320 Pope John Edgar IV

01:27:25.400 that's their name

01:27:26.360 says

01:27:26.820 I tune in daily

01:27:28.160 if only for the

01:27:29.060 on this day

01:27:29.740 good morning sir

01:27:30.460 oh thank you

01:27:31.020 thank you very much

01:27:32.560 I like doing that bit

01:27:33.860 you guys seem to like me

01:27:34.840 doing that bit

01:27:35.340 Thanks for the super chat sir

01:27:38.420 James Lee Pevenhole

01:27:42.520 Says

01:27:43.460 9th of July

01:27:45.180 USAAF

01:27:47.460 Deny finding a disc

01:27:49.300 US Air Force

01:27:51.020 USA Air Force

01:27:52.640 Deny finding a disc

01:27:54.880 On the Brazell Ranch

01:27:57.200 In New Mexico

01:27:57.820 They tell Brazell

01:28:00.240 Is this the Roswell thing

01:28:03.080 They tell Brazell

01:28:04.660 To say it was the wreckage

01:28:06.580 Of a weather balloon frame

01:28:07.740 That's Roswell isn't it

01:28:10.060 Yeah

01:28:10.300 On LotusEaters.com

01:28:13.580 For free

01:28:14.200 Freemium in it's entirety

01:28:15.460 Not behind the paywall

01:28:16.660 There's a long form bit of content

01:28:18.120 With me and

01:28:19.020 I mentioned it yesterday

01:28:19.900 Didn't I?

01:28:20.580 Me and Devon Tracy

01:28:21.520 A.K.A.

01:28:22.480 Atheism Unstoppable

01:28:23.460 Fear the Root

01:28:24.960 It's only like a couple of weeks old

01:28:27.900 Two or three weeks old

01:28:28.820 Talking about UFO

01:28:29.960 All the history and modern

01:28:31.360 UFO

01:28:32.800 UAP

01:28:33.460 Phenomenon

01:28:34.640 Everything from Roswell to the Tic Tac

01:28:37.740 And more

01:28:38.380 Bob Lazar

01:28:39.280 Two sceptical guys talking seriously about it

01:28:42.980 Are you interested in that?

01:28:44.860 It's there, it's free

01:28:45.540 Lootocetus.com

01:28:48.740 Okay

01:28:50.020 You're saying it's the anniversary

01:28:51.900 Of

01:28:54.080 The US Air Force

01:28:56.500 Trying to intimidate a normal person

01:28:58.600 Into accepting a liar about

01:29:00.460 Oh no, it might not be a liar 1.00

01:29:04.640 okay last two here sav ricks says uh the really bad guys are using angry blacks and 0.97

01:29:17.040 self-guilty whites as revolutionaries to create a quote permanent consuming class quote

01:29:25.040 all seeded centuries ago quite possibly it's one reading of history

01:29:30.080 Ceded centuries ago

01:29:33.240 I mean

01:29:34.600 An argument can be made

01:29:36.860 Okay, and last one

01:29:43.120 Tatum2733 says

01:29:44.620 The US is nearing operational

01:29:46.780 Operational minimum

01:29:49.100 In Oklahoma

01:29:50.000 The US is nearing operational minimum

01:29:52.960 In Oklahoma

01:29:53.880 I'm not sure exactly what you mean

01:29:57.560 What you're referring to there

01:29:58.520 Oklahoma

01:29:59.560 is that the base of the b2 spirit or i thought that was missouri maybe

01:30:05.240 operational minimum or exactly i've heard that term is that just where they're running out of

01:30:14.460 running out of munitions or whatever i'm sorry tated i can't really give you much of a response

01:30:21.880 i'm not at home to be sure uh what's being said there all right okay that's the show it's now

01:30:29.120 on exactly half past nine in the ambridge summertime on thursday 9th of july in the

01:30:33.200 available 2026 thank you for joining me really thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you

01:30:37.580 without you guys it's not a thing it's just not a thing is it this is your show it's for you

01:30:43.380 i am merely your humble host all right try make the best of the day ahead if you can i know it's

01:30:52.020 not always easy when you've got a job and family and all sorts of stuff that you've just got to do

01:30:56.340 If you've got free time

01:30:58.020 Any free time

01:31:00.120 And you can use it as you see fit

01:31:01.520 Use it wisely

01:31:02.780 Try and do something valuable with your time

01:31:04.880 Don't waste it

01:31:05.760 Because you've got a finite amount of it

01:31:08.000 And you're probably less than you think

01:31:09.120 You'll never have this day again in history

01:31:11.760 You'll never have this day again in your life

01:31:15.040 A finite number of days on this earth

01:31:18.000 Try and make them count if you can

01:31:19.440 Alright without being too preachy about it

01:31:20.880 Until tomorrow morning

01:31:22.080 Take care

01:31:26.340 We'll be right back.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 09, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 9th July 2026

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