The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 11th August 2026

00:00:00.400 Morning.

00:00:06.300 You alright?

00:00:09.040 I hope you are. Sincerely hope you are.

00:00:12.640 Me? Yeah, good. No, I'm alright. Yeah, I'm fine. Yeah, cheers.

00:00:15.100 Cheers for asking. Yeah, yeah. All good.

00:00:18.060 Okay, wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed rocking around for the day ahead.

00:00:21.960 I do hope so. As always, I'm joined by my producer, Little Harry. How are you this morning, good sir?

00:00:25.640 Morning, yeah, I'm all good.

00:00:26.640 great it is just gone eight in the am british summertime on tuesday the 11th of august

00:00:32.860 in the available 2026 and it seems like the other day we were starting the bow show right

00:00:36.660 the beginning of january it's now august how about that all right let's uh let's stop faffing about

00:00:42.800 really quite enough fannying around for one morning let's just get straight into it what

00:00:48.620 have we got what's the legacy corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning what's in the

00:00:52.260 news cycle at least on fleet street the british print media today we've got 45 million brits in

00:00:58.400 drought drought a bit hot all the reservoirs all the reservoirs have 100% dried up there's no water

00:01:06.660 you can't buy evian you're gonna die of dehydration not and not so small boat crisis

00:01:17.640 yeah they got those super dinghies the old super dinghies coming out all right let's have a look

00:01:25.080 the mirror absolute leftist globalist labor party slop the mirror jeff bezos is gonna buy liverpool

00:01:34.920 not the city liverpool liverpool football club liverpool football club

00:01:40.280 well his uh consortium is gonna buy a big chunk of it anyway probably

00:01:46.920 Are you a Liverpool Football Club fan?

00:01:50.760 If so, how do you feel about that?

00:01:52.380 Do you care?

00:01:52.960 Is it a good thing?

00:01:53.640 Will you be able to pump loads more money into it?

00:01:56.060 Do you not want that?

00:01:58.980 I don't care. 0.62

00:02:00.580 Right, 45 million Brits in drought areas as fifth heatwave.

00:02:05.980 It's not really, they're not really heatwaves.

00:02:07.460 They keep saying this, it's the fifth heatwave, the fifth heatwave.

00:02:10.100 Just, it goes above sort of 34, 35 degrees.

00:02:15.160 And they're calling it a heatwave

00:02:16.700 If it dips in and out of that

00:02:18.660 It's a new heatwave

00:02:19.700 Is it?

00:02:20.180 It's just summer

00:02:21.020 It's just summer

00:02:22.340 It's just a hot summer

00:02:23.940 That's all it is

00:02:24.400 Okay

00:02:24.600 As fifth heatwave

00:02:26.100 Of the summer hits

00:02:28.200 And wildfires take hold

00:02:29.800 Don't worry about if they're set by humans or not

00:02:33.680 The country's left high and dry

00:02:36.400 Don't leave me high

00:02:37.760 Don't leave me dry

00:02:41.560 love that song yeah and there's a picture of a maiden castle in dorset which is an iron age

00:02:50.960 hill fort and again the grass has gone a bit yellow i love an iron age hill fort me love it

00:02:58.480 i'm the top history nerd will travel a fair way just to go to one of these

00:03:02.420 what is it at some point in the iron age at the top there at the top there would have been a

00:03:08.380 settlement a small village a very small town a village hamlet or whatever right on top there

00:03:14.160 and all these are just earthwork defences because the country was well there's some sorts of war

00:03:23.360 going on constantly between different peoples and tribes in the iron age of course the settlement

00:03:30.360 is long gone the earthworks remain an elaborate set of defences this is quite a good one actually

00:03:37.160 in dorset it's quite a few in wiltshire actually the ancient landscape of britain is littered with

00:03:44.120 them anyway there's one and the grass has gone a bit yellow that's all that's all it's just summer

00:03:55.000 sometimes in a british summer sometimes there's there's not much heat at all there's really not

00:04:00.920 like you'll get a week that's a bit warm and that's it like a few years ago i know two three

00:04:06.280 four years ago that we sort of didn't have a summer it got a bit warm for honestly like one

00:04:11.720 week and that was it and then other summers it is it can be really quite warm right for a while for

00:04:19.200 an extended period of time i remember loads of times when i was a kid all the grass was scorched

00:04:24.080 yellow loads of times like most summers making out like it's all right it is quite a hot summer

00:04:34.540 i must admit you know one of the driest on record i'm not saying it's not but get it in perspective 1.00

00:04:42.760 all right the eye paper look at look at that look at that look at the size of that 230 migrants 0.81

00:04:53.200 invaders invaders it's not called them migrants they're invaders 230 migrants cross-channel in 0.81

00:04:59.660 mega dinghy

00:05:00.380 they say buckling boat could have

00:05:05.640 led to tragedy, well not when they're immediately

00:05:07.940 being picked up by the RNLI

00:05:09.720 on Border Force

00:05:10.420 immediately

00:05:12.320 smugglers, and they've all got, it seems to

00:05:15.620 nearly all have life vest on

00:05:17.640 smugglers transporting

00:05:19.720 largest number

00:05:21.040 per boat, despite 42%

00:05:23.840 drop overall this year

00:05:25.340 that's not right, that's not right, I stole statistics

00:05:27.520 this morning and yesterday

00:05:29.140 where it plots the line graph going up of how many are crossing from 2022 23 24 25 and this

00:05:36.680 year and it's just on par with them talking about 42 drop overall that would have to be a really

00:05:43.800 really specific way of measuring that what exactly they mean by that there's no 42 drop

00:05:48.160 anyway as other papers will say we'll see this morning that's about as many people as you get

00:05:54.740 On a Boeing 737

00:05:56.180 That's like an aeroplane's

00:05:58.420 Worth full of people

00:05:59.880 230 people

00:06:01.520 The biggest mega dinghy so far

00:06:04.620 So is it super dinghy or mega dinghy

00:06:06.140 Mega dinghy

00:06:07.240 Hyper dinghy 1.00

00:06:09.140 Nearly all young 1.00

00:06:14.400 African 0.95

00:06:15.520 Fighting age individuals 0.50

00:06:18.720 Sub-Saharan or North African 1.00

00:06:21.680 Need all of them 1.00

00:06:22.540 Invading us 1.00

00:06:24.780 The French police doing nothing about it 1.00

00:06:27.180 Nothing about it

00:06:28.160 Standing there watching it happen

00:06:30.400 And then our

00:06:32.920 RNLI or Border Force or whatever

00:06:34.500 Just

00:06:34.760 Making sure that they definitely reached over

00:06:38.740 Great

00:06:39.660 Cost us millions of pounds

00:06:43.080 God knows how many violent crimes

00:06:44.820 Or otherwise organised crimes

00:06:47.740 Or sex crimes

00:06:48.580 Some of these people might commit

00:06:50.220 Who knows 1.00

00:06:51.880 how many women's and families lives will be destroyed by a rape from one of these individuals 1.00

00:06:59.200 just asking 0.97

00:07:02.460 it's an invasion of barbarians 0.90

00:07:08.020 45 million people in uk now living in drought three quarters of england and all of wales now 1.00

00:07:15.900 officially in drought with 30 degrees forecast this week after the driest july since record

00:07:22.660 began records began in 1836 i'm not saying it's not dry unusually dry but get it in perspective

00:07:30.200 but they won't they don't they're deliberately not are they heat warnings issued and 12 reservoirs

00:07:36.760 at risk of running out of water as 71 of england in flash drought a flash drought what are you

00:07:43.820 talking about with no sustained rain on horizon wasn't there just a story

00:07:48.460 yesterday about how it has rained was that friday days merge into one 27

00:07:55.180 million living under water use restrictions

00:07:58.460 not really you can turn your tap on there's no real restrictions they would

00:08:01.420 just rather you didn't water your garden

00:08:03.740 rather you didn't use a hose pipe or you didn't fill up a kiddies paddling pool

00:08:08.300 but there's no actual restrictions you don't turn on your tap and nothing

00:08:11.340 comes out

00:08:11.980 120 firefighters

00:08:15.880 tried to stop

00:08:16.740 New Forest wildfire

00:08:18.060 the size of 140

00:08:19.440 football pitches

00:08:20.200 from spreading

00:08:20.900 hmm

00:08:21.620 let's not question that

00:08:23.120 let's not question

00:08:24.340 whether that's a

00:08:24.920 legit wildfire

00:08:25.880 there was a story

00:08:28.760 I covered it on

00:08:30.340 State of Politics

00:08:30.980 State of Politics

00:08:31.540 the other day

00:08:32.200 from the BBC News

00:08:33.600 which they very quickly

00:08:34.860 memory hold

00:08:35.520 very quickly

00:08:36.220 difficult to find

00:08:37.380 unless you specifically

00:08:38.320 search for those words

00:08:39.560 in the headline

00:08:40.140 And it was that French authorities, because there's been lots and lots of wildfires in France and Spain, haven't they?

00:08:46.120 Particularly France, down in the south near Bordeaux.

00:08:48.960 French authorities have said they've arrested over 420 people for arson.

00:08:57.420 They've said that 9 out of 10 of their wildfires have been set by humans deliberately.

00:09:02.020 and the bbc news article reporting that reported it with a constantly with the angle of still

00:09:12.180 somehow we don't know how these fires are being set who knows who could say

00:09:15.620 at the same time you know they do that they'll give you the actual factoids the actual facts

00:09:22.760 of what's going on but also lots and lots of editorializing before in the middle and after

00:09:27.340 Try and spin it a certain way

00:09:29.180 Like we don't know, we just don't know

00:09:31.280 And also climate change though still

00:09:33.420 And also climate change

00:09:34.360 But 9 out of 10 of them were set by humans

00:09:36.220 420 arrests 0.97

00:09:38.540 Right

00:09:41.840 We're supposed to believe that all these wildfires

00:09:44.240 Is just climate change

00:09:45.580 And yet there's actual evidence

00:09:51.100 Actual data points that it's not, largely not

00:09:53.260 Because some actual genuine wildfires

00:09:56.260 will happen every summer without fail won't they no way to avoid that all right they also say the

00:10:02.120 ipaper a one million pound quote golden hello for water boss as failing firm responsible for major

00:10:09.380 leaks excess sewage dumping and record debt yeah that's frustrating and annoying isn't it yeah

00:10:14.960 these water companies have mismanaged things haven't they reservoirs are going a bit drier

00:10:22.400 Than they usually do in a normal summer

00:10:24.100 Is it because you've mismanaged them

00:10:26.780 You haven't invested in them properly

00:10:29.780 Is it not just because the climate change is so extreme

00:10:33.880 The man-made climate change

00:10:35.960 Driven by man-made CO2 in the atmosphere

00:10:38.020 Is it that

00:10:42.040 Or is it that you've mismanaged the reservoirs

00:10:45.040 And the amount of leakage

00:10:46.520 So-called leakage

00:10:47.460 Is astronomical

00:10:49.340 Is it more that though

00:10:52.400 Okay, the Guardian

00:10:57.720 What's that stench? It's burning my nose

00:11:01.700 Oh, that's gross

00:11:03.280 I'm going to puke 0.88

00:11:04.600 Oh my god

00:11:05.220 It's the Guardian, that's what that is 0.96

00:11:09.480 Absolutely sickening stench 0.93

00:11:13.700 Firefighters

00:11:15.740 Raise alarm over surging

00:11:17.660 Unprecedented summer blazes

00:11:19.660 Okay, well done

00:11:20.400 There's been a big earthquake in Colombia

00:11:23.300 Here's a real story

00:11:24.100 A real story of natural calamity

00:11:27.440 Colombia

00:11:30.340 In Colombia there was a big earthquake

00:11:32.300 And a bunch of buildings collapsed 1.00

00:11:34.980 They don't have Japanese style regs

00:11:40.100 And so far

00:11:41.740 Well this morning

00:11:42.820 Even like the hour or so

00:11:44.320 This morning I was watching the mainstream news

00:11:46.700 And looking around

00:11:47.680 The death tolls going up

00:11:50.400 It's like 200 odd or so at the moment

00:11:53.000 I'm sure it will go higher and higher

00:11:54.260 They're saying that like

00:11:55.560 Even like some hospitals are affecting

00:11:59.060 Stuff and that will have like a

00:12:00.560 You know like a knock on effect

00:12:02.480 So yeah

00:12:05.840 Columbia suffered a big earthquake

00:12:08.480 You can expect

00:12:09.200 Hundreds and hundreds

00:12:10.740 Maybe thousands of people

00:12:11.640 To have been killed in that

00:12:12.880 Here's a worry

00:12:17.340 You know

00:12:18.020 I've said it before

00:12:19.720 it's very very glib and i don't mean it to come across as glib as it is going to sound

00:12:26.760 right but it's best not to live in a rickety building in an earthquake zone i know it's

00:12:34.440 like you can't help it if you're poor or whatever but it's like living in tornado alley in the

00:12:41.720 In the United States

00:12:44.720 And you live in a house that's just made of, like, wood

00:12:48.720 And then a tornado comes and blows it away

00:12:51.720 Literally destroys it, it's like

00:12:53.720 I've got sympathy for you, of course, of course, of course, of course

00:12:56.720 Of course! But

00:12:59.720 You knew it was a possibility

00:13:00.720 It's like living on the side of an active volcano

00:13:03.720 And then one day it erupts

00:13:05.720 And pyroclastic flow, like, destroys it

00:13:08.720 Like, yeah

00:13:11.720 It's easy for me to say as an Englishman, we haven't got any volcanoes, we haven't got any fault lines

00:13:17.320 We don't get earthquakes, we get tiny, occasionally once in a blue moon we get a tiny sort of

00:13:21.540 One on the Richter scale type thing and you barely feel it

00:13:24.780 Maybe your wardrobe rattles a tiny bit, that's once in a blue moon, that's it

00:13:28.400 It's easy for me to sit here, I know, I know

00:13:32.300 It's easy for me to sit here and just say, don't live in Tornado Alley

00:13:35.660 I don't mean it like that 1.00

00:13:37.140 Maybe don't live in a ramshackle building in Colombia

00:13:42.640 Yeah, I don't

00:13:43.720 I'm not saying that

00:13:44.660 I feel sorry for him

00:13:50.420 Again, if you've got no money to move somewhere else

00:13:54.900 Do something else

00:13:55.740 Alright, here's a story

00:14:02.100 Pressure on banks

00:14:03.460 That's not like your high street bank

00:14:05.060 That's Aaron Banks, the man

00:14:06.440 Pressure on Aaron Banks

00:14:08.180 Over surveillance of reporters

00:14:10.120 Odd

00:14:12.780 What's going on there?

00:14:18.300 People know who Aaron Banks is?

00:14:20.220 Do we?

00:14:21.240 Harry, do you know Aaron Banks?

00:14:22.360 Do you know about him at all?

00:14:23.680 Ever heard of him?

00:14:24.420 No

00:14:24.720 Okay, okay

00:14:26.360 I'll explain it

00:14:28.180 Barry?

00:14:30.780 Who's Barry?

00:14:31.780 There's no one in the story called Barry

00:14:32.840 Harry

00:14:33.700 Is my

00:14:35.380 My Zoomer bellwether

00:14:36.900 Okay Aaron Banks is

00:14:40.340 A rich dude

00:14:41.400 Really really rich dude

00:14:42.260 And he's been in and around

00:14:43.740 Sort of the

00:14:44.420 The Brexit

00:14:45.980 UKIP sphere 0.96

00:14:47.240 For yonks 0.94

00:14:48.340 Years and years and years

00:14:49.520 He's like a funded UKIP

00:14:51.900 For quite a while

00:14:52.940 He was involved

00:14:54.660 Him and Tyce were involved in

00:14:56.180 You know like getting

00:14:57.220 Winning the Brexit campaign

00:14:59.180 And referendum

00:15:00.080 And all sorts

00:15:01.540 He's in and around

00:15:02.240 Nigel's sphere

00:15:03.440 He's given reform a bit of money, I believe, I think

00:15:06.940 Even last year, wasn't it?

00:15:09.620 He actually ran for something

00:15:10.780 He was one of the mayoral things

00:15:13.680 For reform

00:15:14.600 I can't remember what one

00:15:16.840 It was like the West Country mayor or something

00:15:19.300 I can't remember the exact thing

00:15:20.400 And he nearly won as well

00:15:21.960 Now, first thing to say, before I go any further

00:15:24.580 I don't mind Aaron Banks

00:15:25.840 I'm not here just to completely throw scorn at Aaron Banks

00:15:30.520 I mean

00:15:32.120 I don't agree with absolutely everything he ever says

00:15:37.200 But I don't, far from hate the guy

00:15:38.760 Far from hate the guy

00:15:39.420 I feel like his heart is kind of in the right place

00:15:44.080 He's on the right track sort of thing

00:15:45.360 He's on the right side of the aisle as far as I'm concerned

00:15:49.160 But anyway, anyway

00:15:50.180 He has reformed

00:15:52.260 So, but this story is

00:15:55.920 Apparently he's actually

00:16:00.180 spent money on like uh getting private investigators private dicks to uh follow reporters various

00:16:11.380 reporters like i think sunday times ones and other ones and and well they're not sure exactly how

00:16:15.940 many or how deep that rabbit hole goes that's sort of what this story is about the guardian

00:16:21.520 because this is in the guardian you know someone like aaron banks is the arch enemy of the guardian

00:16:25.980 Aaron Banks is someone the Guardian would love to see destroyed

00:16:30.100 Let's just quickly read a bit of it

00:16:35.360 The businessman and Reform UK donor Aaron Banks

00:16:39.280 Is facing calls to lay out the extent of his surveillance of journalists

00:16:44.480 Which has been described by an industry body

00:16:48.160 God knows who that really is

00:16:49.380 As quote, an attack on democracy

00:16:51.860 The News Media Association

00:16:54.140 which represents regional and national media

00:16:57.580 raised concerns after banks appeared to admit at the weekend

00:17:03.320 to hiring private investigators to spy on Sunday Times journalists

00:17:07.500 the revelations first reported in the New Statesman

00:17:10.660 had led to fears that other journalists examining the funding of reform

00:17:19.420 and Nigel Farage including those of The Guardian

00:17:22.240 could have been targeted he goes on a bit but that's sort of yeah

00:17:26.240 uh so i guess it's one of those stories i'm gonna have to file in in the folder of

00:17:37.620 i'll wait and see if there's anything there like for reals i have to wait and see if mr banks

00:17:45.940 Has in fact done anything

00:17:47.880 Like terribly wrong

00:17:49.220 And or criminal

00:17:50.140 Or whether

00:17:51.260 There's not really much to it

00:17:53.400 And it's certainly not criminal

00:17:54.700 I don't know

00:17:55.900 Sounds dodgy

00:17:57.800 Doesn't it?

00:17:58.140 A little bit

00:17:58.540 A little bit

00:17:59.060 Sounds a bit

00:18:00.500 Well okay

00:18:06.160 That's the story

00:18:06.760 I guess I'll leave it there

00:18:07.700 I guess I'll leave it there

00:18:08.380 I wonder if it will

00:18:09.020 Come to anything or not

00:18:10.180 But

00:18:10.460 Could just be the Guardian

00:18:12.820 Stirring

00:18:14.000 S-stirring

00:18:15.320 and it's not really

00:18:18.400 it's not really anything

00:18:19.800 or

00:18:22.100 Aaron Banks could have broken the law massively

00:18:23.920 and it's like really bad and it's like a massive

00:18:26.240 scandal and he'll go to prison

00:18:27.380 I doubt that but

00:18:29.600 who knows

00:18:30.540 could just be the tip of the iceberg

00:18:33.440 and Banks is involved in lots and lots

00:18:36.100 of nefarious things

00:18:37.080 alright

00:18:38.760 alright we'll move on

00:18:43.300 PC Harper's killers

00:18:45.860 Must be released

00:18:49.080 Number 10 told

00:18:50.160 So this is in the news cycle

00:18:51.780 A bit this morning again

00:18:52.940 Burnham's came out yesterday

00:18:55.680 And said something like

00:18:57.320 I'm paraphrasing people

00:18:58.100 I'll do everything I can

00:18:59.780 To prevent these two killers

00:19:01.420 Two of the three killers

00:19:02.440 Hero cop PC Harper

00:19:04.420 From getting released

00:19:08.500 But again the like

00:19:10.020 What like the courts

00:19:11.780 Or the prison estate

00:19:12.900 Have said

00:19:14.920 They must be released

00:19:16.680 Massive overhaul of all of that

00:19:21.200 Would happen if it was up to me

00:19:22.580 Alright, the Metro

00:19:23.360 The Metro

00:19:26.760 Gross, stop it

00:19:28.920 Get some help 0.98

00:19:29.880 Not cool

00:19:31.880 Not cool bro

00:19:33.540 We see you 0.94

00:19:35.380 Filth

00:19:37.880 Right 0.99

00:19:38.800 The Metro

00:19:39.840 Again, they've gone with a picture

00:19:40.820 Where the grass has been scorched a bit

00:19:42.400 Harry we flip back to the main camera

00:19:48.980 The grass has been scorched a bit

00:19:53.680 There you go

00:19:54.420 It never rains but it pours

00:19:59.420 One million Chinese forced to flee Typhoon Dolphin

00:20:03.640 As Britain braces for yet another 36 degree heatwave

00:20:07.440 Look they've juxtaposed

00:20:10.000 A hot Britain 0.99

00:20:11.460 With a wet China 1.00

00:20:14.440 So 0.97

00:20:17.760 Well let's talk about it a little bit

00:20:22.280 I did see in the news yesterday

00:20:23.840 Was it on Sunday and yesterday

00:20:25.140 That there's all sorts of crazy flooding going on in China

00:20:28.200 At the moment

00:20:28.780 China is a land

00:20:31.360 That suffers terribly

00:20:34.240 From flooding

00:20:35.380 They've got three giant rivers haven't they

00:20:37.660 Three giant giant giant rivers

00:20:39.920 and i've said this before and i'll say again if you go on wikipedia for example or anywhere on

00:20:47.580 the internet google you want a list of all the giant floods that have affected china over the

00:20:52.680 years over the centuries over the millennia where thousands sometimes tens of that sometimes

00:20:58.600 hundreds of thousands sometimes millions of people die in china from like giant floods

00:21:04.060 Like the Yancey

00:21:05.700 Or the Yellow River

00:21:08.140 Or the myriad tributaries

00:21:10.700 Flood and swell and just

00:21:12.780 Loads of people are killed

00:21:15.680 It's not quite as bad these days

00:21:20.060 For a few different reasons

00:21:20.940 There's dams and people are a bit more

00:21:23.600 The state are a bit more on it

00:21:26.260 Than they would have been in medieval times

00:21:29.400 Or ancient times

00:21:31.280 But nonetheless

00:21:31.880 So there you go

00:21:33.060 the metro decides i guess they're getting a bit bored with just simply the grass has gone a bit

00:21:38.500 yellow they're going to add to that imagine in the in the in the bullpen at the metro what we're

00:21:45.840 going to do tomorrow guys what's the front page going to be tomorrow what's our angle

00:21:49.200 well it's hot it's hot isn't it that's been working for like two weeks now

00:21:55.160 we're going to go with that are we can we not we're not do something a bit better can we not

00:21:59.860 add to it it's a bit getting a bit old hat isn't it should we what can we do oh there's flooding

00:22:06.580 in china yes we'll juxtapose the aridness of britain the wetness of japan uh china

00:22:21.220 okay the sun what slop have we got in the sun oh louise has split from her husband

00:22:26.180 Louise Redknapp

00:22:30.260 She hasn't been Redknapp for years, has she?

00:22:34.400 She was my favourite one out of that girl band, I think

00:22:36.920 Alright, what have we got?

00:22:41.480 The small boat thing

00:22:42.420 The Sun have decided they're going to sell most papers

00:22:44.760 Get most clicks by pretending to ultimately care about the small boat invasion

00:22:50.080 Record for one vessel

00:22:52.520 Not so small boat crisis

00:22:54.200 230 migrants on 49-foot mega dinghy 0.84

00:22:57.400 Kraft holds more than an easy jet flight 1.00

00:23:00.940 This crossing to cost us £25 million in tax

00:23:04.780 Just this one boat, £25 million

00:23:06.280 Look, to make the point how big the dinghy is

00:23:12.900 Look, they've cropped the image

00:23:14.120 And said, look, the rest of this picture is on the back page

00:23:17.060 Imagine, just try and imagine

00:23:22.620 because this dinghy is massive right just try and imagine the the people smuggling gangs

00:23:30.540 in calais in the par de calais it might not be it might be a bit further up the coast even as

00:23:35.600 far as belgium who knows wherever it is but this giant dinghy must be held in a warehouse or

00:23:42.600 something must be held somewhere and then to blow it up it's like the size of a bouncy castle or

00:23:49.380 whatever to blow it up you'd need like a mini generator type you need some sort of machine

00:23:54.460 to spend quite a while blowing it up get all the people get all the life vests get it all together

00:24:02.540 it's not like you quickly get a ready-made dinghy out the back of a an estate car or out the back

00:24:12.240 of a van you just dry it's not like that is it it will take a fair bit of logistics and time and

00:24:18.000 energy to sort of make this thing a reality and the whole time the french authorities do nothing

00:24:29.600 sort of unbelievable isn't it that the whole time the french police must essentially

00:24:35.600 just be watching just watching it oh look they've pulled out this giant bouncy castle

00:24:42.800 scale dinghy

00:24:44.480 let's see where they're going with this

00:24:47.640 let's see what happens

00:24:50.880 let's not intervene too soon 0.99

00:24:52.720 they've got a machine thing to blow it up

00:24:56.820 it's not just going to be one guy on the little plastic thing

00:24:59.440 it's not that is it, it won't be that

00:25:01.240 oh they're getting out a little mini petrol generator thing

00:25:06.560 half an hour blowing it up, whatever it is

00:25:11.120 The French police just, let's see where they are going with this

00:25:15.920 Hundreds of people, over 200 people turn up

00:25:20.800 Spend a while putting all their life vests on

00:25:23.360 The French police are like, hmm

00:25:25.620 Let's not intervene just yet 1.00

00:25:28.780 It's a beggar's belief 0.99

00:25:34.140 It's a beggar's belief

00:25:37.740 The Telegraph

00:25:41.780 Harry Potter TV star

00:25:45.460 I don't agree with 0.99

00:25:46.380 Rowling's transfuse 0.53

00:25:47.900 You're a bit late on that

00:25:48.620 I don't even

00:25:49.320 I've watched the Harry Potter films

00:25:50.520 I think I've watched all of them

00:25:51.540 Maybe there's one I haven't seen

00:25:52.780 I'm not that interested in them

00:25:54.040 I don't recall who

00:25:56.680 That was in it

00:25:58.000 Like the last two or three films

00:26:00.960 I saw like once

00:26:02.100 Kind of

00:26:02.680 They were on TV at Christmas

00:26:03.800 Or something

00:26:04.140 I was kind of paying attention

00:26:05.660 Don't remember who she was in it

00:26:07.680 You're a bit late to the party though, aren't you, love?

00:26:09.840 Whoever you are

00:26:10.400 You don't agree with Rowling's transfuse 0.87

00:26:12.660 Aren't you a bit

00:26:13.400 You're like two, three years too late

00:26:15.660 To be chiming in with that

00:26:17.380 Good one

00:26:19.640 Whoever you are

00:26:23.280 Okay

00:26:25.240 The Tory graph pretending it cares about invasion

00:26:28.100 It obviously doesn't

00:26:29.100 Because when you get a party like Reform or Restore

00:26:31.540 They actually want to do something about it

00:26:33.540 You'll demonise them 1.00

00:26:34.880 Trying to destroy them from every vector 0.99

00:26:36.880 You can possibly think of

00:26:38.300 But now

00:26:40.540 We're supposed to believe that you care about it 1.00

00:26:42.240 No limit to migrant mega dinghies 1.00

00:26:44.920 French 1.00

00:26:46.760 Lifeboat service warns that more

00:26:48.580 Asylum seekers will be piled onto boats 1.00

00:26:50.860 After record 230 1.00

00:26:52.340 Cross channel in single trip

00:26:54.580 French

00:26:56.660 Lifeboat service warns

00:26:58.200 Oh well thanks

00:27:00.300 Thanks for that

00:27:02.400 That's 230 less 1.00

00:27:04.160 It's sort of crazy African beast men in your country, isn't it, France? 1.00

00:27:09.460 So, yeah, it's in your interest to just get them gone, isn't it? 1.00

00:27:15.720 Meanwhile, you keep the European open borders, essentially.

00:27:21.940 I see.

00:27:23.560 I see.

00:27:26.440 Another headline here.

00:27:27.480 Burnham spitting in our faces, if I mean, by freeing killers, says harp a friend.

00:27:33.200 Yeah.

00:27:34.160 It's obviously not just that P.C. Harper's Killers

00:27:37.080 The whole policy is spitting in our face

00:27:39.680 Spitting in the face of people that want to be safe

00:27:42.660 That value the rule of law

00:27:45.020 Yeah, spitting in our faces, yeah, absolutely

00:27:48.860 Britain faces worst food security crisis in decades as drought spreads

00:27:55.220 Again, I don't really think so

00:27:56.700 Because we haven't been reliant on our own agriculture for a long time, decades

00:28:04.160 What the drought is going to stop

00:28:05.880 Shipping and aeroplanes

00:28:08.200 That bring in our food

00:28:09.320 That we import from all over the world

00:28:11.080 No

00:28:12.320 So what are you talking about?

00:28:14.320 Again, just fear mongering

00:28:15.120 Oh, all our crops are dying because of drought

00:28:17.640 No, there won't be any corn

00:28:18.800 What?

00:28:21.140 It's not the 18th century

00:28:22.500 We import most of our food

00:28:26.080 Because our agriculture

00:28:29.200 Has been gutted out, hollowed

00:28:31.060 And ruined a long, long, long time ago

00:28:33.160 You go in a Tesco's or a Sainsbury's

00:28:36.420 All the shelves are stacked

00:28:37.840 With everything you could ever imagine

00:28:39.100 Limes

00:28:40.680 Bananas

00:28:43.000 Stuff from all over the world

00:28:45.340 Lamb from New Zealand

00:28:48.000 Beef from Argentina

00:28:49.560 Whatever

00:28:50.380 On and on and on

00:28:51.440 Weird and wonderful fruits

00:28:54.660 Fruits and veg

00:28:56.100 From all over the world

00:28:57.480 And we don't grow a fantastic amount of our own food

00:29:01.980 But now we're supposed to be scared about food security

00:29:05.860 Because it's been a warm summer

00:29:07.140 No, it's not really how it works

00:29:10.140 Charles Moore of Telegraph

00:29:15.000 Says, leftist culture warriors may yet take advantage of our day debacle

00:29:20.560 What, like the Telegraph yesterday?

00:29:22.460 Like Tim Stanley yesterday?

00:29:25.920 Don't you mean?

00:29:26.920 Those leftist culture warriors

00:29:28.300 china spire camera firm the based near navy hq remember we talked about that story briefly

00:29:36.420 yesterday special forces british special forces were practicing with drones cameras on drones

00:29:44.900 and that some of the components in them were made by china and somehow somehow

00:29:50.000 the footage of it was being beamed directly back to china maybe not directly but the chinese were

00:29:57.780 getting it somehow. Apparently their HQ was based near the Navy HQ. I don't know why the

00:30:08.460 Chinese have got such a boner for Britain. I don't know why. I don't know why. If we're 1.00

00:30:13.920 such a nothing threat to them, why do they spend so much time and energy on espionage

00:30:19.020 and counter espionage against us? If our Navy and our army is so tiny and insignificant,

00:30:26.380 Our economy is so tiny and insignificant compared to theirs

00:30:29.320 Our industrial output is just a tiny minnow 0.85

00:30:32.100 Compared to their giant bear moth

00:30:33.600 Then why are they seemingly

00:30:36.080 Constantly infiltrating everything we do

00:30:39.340 From our politics to our industry to our military

00:30:43.000 Why is that? 1.00

00:30:46.920 Do the Chinese, and this is a genuine question 0.72

00:30:48.940 Do the Chinese do the same to France and Germany? 0.74

00:30:52.520 For example, just for example

00:30:53.700 They do the same to Italy and Spain

00:30:56.180 Why do they care so much

00:31:02.040 About Britain

00:31:03.480 Weird

00:31:04.420 Weird

00:31:05.400 Okay

00:31:10.840 Here's a

00:31:12.200 Worrying story

00:31:14.040 Widdicombe's suspect

00:31:15.980 Linked to Farage arson

00:31:18.780 They've got that guy haven't they

00:31:22.900 apparently seems very likely hasn't been found guilty yet but seems very very likely is the

00:31:29.260 suspect who smashed Anne Whittaker's head in with a hammer in her own home well a few months ago I

00:31:38.360 think it was a few months ago a year ago or something maybe more like a year was it April

00:31:44.660 25th I can't remember anyway not too long ago six months to a year ago something like that

00:31:49.560 Someone put an incendiary device through Nigel Farage's letterbox

00:31:53.240 Of one of Nigel Farage's homes

00:31:55.000 It didn't burn the place down

00:31:59.520 It sort of burnt the door a bit

00:32:01.040 But that was it

00:32:01.920 But that could have burnt down that entire property

00:32:05.980 And Nigel and some of his loved ones

00:32:09.180 Might have potentially been killed or whatever

00:32:12.060 So the fact that it was

00:32:14.680 Effectively sort of a failed arson attack

00:32:17.500 Or it only sort of burnt the door a bit

00:32:19.560 It's sort of here nor there

00:32:21.800 Is it really

00:32:22.740 The thing itself is sort of terrifying

00:32:26.200 Is it not

00:32:26.920 Anyway Nigel came out yesterday I believe

00:32:30.100 And just said

00:32:31.060 He gave very very very minimal information

00:32:33.600 He just said

00:32:34.240 That he believed

00:32:37.040 And or the police were investigating

00:32:39.800 A link between that incident

00:32:42.080 Of which they never caught anyone for

00:32:43.980 And Whitcomb's murder

00:32:46.260 And that was it

00:32:48.260 It was left at that

00:32:48.880 There was no more detail than that

00:32:51.460 But, you know, the suggestion is

00:32:52.920 The inference is

00:32:53.960 That it might be, could be

00:32:56.420 The same guy, the same guy

00:32:58.460 Or if the same guy is part of a bigger

00:33:03.180 He's not truly a lone wolf

00:33:05.200 If he's part of some sort of bigger

00:33:07.220 Sort of domestic

00:33:09.180 Leftist

00:33:10.540 Terrorist cell

00:33:12.360 Hellbent on 1.00

00:33:15.320 Trying to kill reformed people 1.00

00:33:16.880 Don't know, we don't know any of that

00:33:20.520 But Nigel did say

00:33:23.300 And I think the police have confirmed

00:33:24.600 That they're looking in their enquiries

00:33:26.340 At a link or possible link

00:33:27.900 Between Anne Wilkins' murder

00:33:30.520 And that arson attack on Farage's front door

00:33:32.700 Worrying, isn't it?

00:33:37.120 Concerning, absolutely concerning

00:33:38.940 Of course

00:33:39.480 Okay, the Daily Mail

00:33:43.160 Pure slop

00:33:45.620 Yeah, slop 1.00

00:33:47.780 Try to wear the skin suit of something patriotic 1.00

00:33:51.720 And or nativist 0.97

00:33:53.020 When it comes down to it 0.97

00:33:54.360 It's anti-white, anti-British 0.97

00:33:56.180 And globalist 0.92

00:33:58.180 Labour's channel nightmare

00:34:00.760 As giant 49 foot long craft 1.00

00:34:02.940 Carrying 230 migrants 1.00

00:34:04.380 That's more than a Boeing 737 1.00

00:34:05.840 Reaches Britain

00:34:07.080 Today's small boat crisis

00:34:09.800 Became a big boat crisis

00:34:11.440 It's not a real big boat

00:34:13.580 Forrest Gump, there's a Forrest Gump quote

00:34:17.940 It is a real big boat, Forrest

00:34:19.800 It is though

00:34:20.740 It's bigger than the Jenny

00:34:23.880 Forrest Gump's boat

00:34:26.640 Should I stop talking about Forrest Gump?

00:34:28.620 None of this has got anything to do with Forrest Gump

00:34:29.960 Yeah, so they're saying

00:34:33.320 Look here though, look at that

00:34:35.780 Look at this

00:34:36.260 What crimes will they commit?

00:34:42.420 That's my real worry

00:34:43.540 The amount of money it cost us is annoying and infuriating and unsustainable 1.00

00:34:49.280 But my real concern is the number of lives of native Brits they will ruin 1.00

00:34:54.940 Organised crime, violent crime, sex crime 1.00

00:34:58.960 That some of these people might commit

00:35:01.800 We've got 190 rapes a day 0.98

00:35:06.600 Roughly, statistically on average in this country

00:35:10.240 One of the rape hotspots of Europe

00:35:15.440 It's only us and Sweden 0.99

00:35:16.880 It's only Sweden that's got worse per capita than Britain

00:35:20.020 Every single one of those 1.00

00:35:23.140 Sort of ruins a life

00:35:25.080 Even ruins a whole family in a way

00:35:27.000 Every single one of those is

00:35:28.980 An unspeakable atrocity

00:35:32.020 How many of these men

00:35:35.720 These men

00:35:36.660 Will do something along those lines

00:35:39.020 Sometimes words fail me a bit

00:35:49.220 Of how incensed I am

00:35:53.740 That they allow this invasion to go on

00:35:56.960 But today, or yesterday, Andy Burnham's just not talking about it

00:36:02.520 He's just not talking about it

00:36:03.960 He had a little photo op down at Dover, didn't he?

00:36:07.320 Last week

00:36:07.960 They plonked him in front of the White Cliffs of Dover

00:36:11.400 And he did his serious face

00:36:12.980 We must do more

00:36:14.400 The crossings are down

00:36:17.580 But we must do more

00:36:19.440 Particularly looking at more safe and legal routes for them

00:36:23.060 What?

00:36:27.860 What?

00:36:29.520 People have a breaking point

00:36:31.240 Exasperating

00:36:36.420 it really is truly truly exasperating okay the times the venerable times they go with that same

00:36:43.620 picture look they go with police probe where the widdekombe suspect linked to faraj arson yeah

00:36:50.700 there you go it's the same guy running around doing all sorts of crazy crazy stuff

00:36:57.640 Burnham demands plan to keep PC killers

00:37:04.540 PC's killers in jail

00:37:06.840 Prime Minister confident of success

00:37:09.280 Despite warnings that it will be impossible to prevent release

00:37:13.300 Is there some sort of power struggle on some level

00:37:17.480 Between number 10 and the authorities that release people early

00:37:22.440 There shouldn't be any struggle

00:37:24.460 If Burnham really wants to, really really wants to

00:37:27.060 Said all this yesterday, didn't I?

00:37:28.420 He really wanted to spend political capital

00:37:30.680 To stop it happening

00:37:33.220 In fact, reverse the whole policy

00:37:34.780 He could

00:37:35.260 He could

00:37:36.480 He's a Prime Minister with a large majority

00:37:39.120 He could do whatever he wants

00:37:41.640 Almost, in essence

00:37:43.140 Politically speaking, he can't do anything he wants

00:37:46.780 You get it?

00:37:49.080 He could if he wanted to

00:37:50.140 If he really, really wanted to

00:37:51.100 But he doesn't

00:37:52.800 He'll make loads of noises

00:37:53.840 Like he tried really hard to

00:37:55.040 He's listening to everyone

00:37:56.040 He's tried really hard to

00:37:56.900 but just couldn't

00:37:57.900 The Express

00:38:01.120 it's a good paper

00:38:03.040 I'll read The Express now

00:38:04.840 Tory leader warns P.M. Burnham

00:38:09.080 over fresh hikes to pay for spending

00:38:11.080 spree, Olukemi Badanoch 0.91

00:38:12.780 the Nigerian woman, the anchor baby 0.99

00:38:14.680 who somehow finds herself LARPing 1.00

00:38:16.640 as the leader of the opposition, who really should

00:38:18.840 go and get involved in Nigerian politics

00:38:20.980 the land of her ancestors 0.99

00:38:22.140 instead is here somehow

00:38:24.880 And because of some sort of insane out-group preference

00:38:28.860 The Tory party finds herself the leader of the royal loyal opposition

00:38:34.700 She says, rule out new taxes to prevent more hardship

00:38:38.040 I don't care what Olukemu Badenoch says

00:38:40.440 Don't trust her, not interested in anything the Tory party do or say

00:38:44.420 Don't believe them

00:38:45.740 Okay, the financial time, the FT

00:38:50.260 wall street big names join nvidia to build 500 billion dollar ai financing package well done

00:38:56.900 landmark lending plan yeah well done big data center push brilliant brilliant chip maker shares

00:39:06.000 wobble private capital capital cultivated okay good good wasn't there stories i didn't get to

00:39:14.220 them yesterday on on friday but there's all sorts of stories on thursday friday over the weekend and

00:39:18.100 yesterday more and completely separate stories all about how various ai firms all sorts of them

00:39:26.280 are a little bit concerned that their various ai models keep trying to hack out of their

00:39:33.980 out of their sandboxes where they're being being made being squeaked they keep trying to hack out

00:39:43.360 Of their own secure environment

00:39:45.240 And get on the general internet

00:39:46.740 And once or twice when they have

00:39:48.580 They just start hacking things

00:39:49.840 Quite a few different stories

00:39:53.700 From completely different companies

00:39:54.880 In different places of the world

00:39:56.060 Where that's

00:39:56.640 I've seen at least four or five

00:39:58.780 Of that exact same story effectively

00:40:01.280 And then occasionally you'll get

00:40:03.760 Some little quote at the bottom

00:40:06.280 From someone saying

00:40:07.240 Yeah it is a bit worrying

00:40:08.600 Yeah yeah

00:40:09.400 Anyway push ahead anyway

00:40:13.360 Rework all of the economy and society

00:40:16.000 To make giant data centres

00:40:18.100 Hundreds of billions of dollars

00:40:21.300 Just keep going

00:40:22.060 Just keep rushing towards that cliff edge

00:40:25.280 Don't say I didn't warn you

00:40:29.920 Don't say I didn't warn you

00:40:31.280 You get people in the comments I'm sure from this 0.97

00:40:35.320 Saying Bo's such a liar 0.91

00:40:36.180 Bo doesn't understand what he's talking about 0.99

00:40:38.160 Such a boomer

00:40:40.540 Such like an 80s kid

00:40:43.260 You don't understand

00:40:44.180 Don't I?

00:40:45.840 Don't I

00:40:46.340 Don't understand human nature

00:40:50.000 That will keep building something that's dangerous

00:40:54.100 Haven't humans done that over and over and over again

00:41:00.140 Building something that's extremely dangerous

00:41:03.780 It's quite clear it's extremely dangerous

00:41:06.020 And they keep going anyway

00:41:07.620 Because for some people there's a profit to be made in it

00:41:10.060 That's what's going on here, isn't it?

00:41:14.380 Isn't that what's going on here?

00:41:16.120 Some people, powerful people that are already rich

00:41:19.100 Think that they can become more powerful and more rich

00:41:21.900 If they do this thing

00:41:22.840 Despite the fact that it's obviously a concern

00:41:26.300 It's obviously dangerous

00:41:27.940 Alright, again

00:41:32.900 Don't say it didn't warn you

00:41:34.480 When at some point there's some giant collapse

00:41:36.820 Technological and or economic collapse

00:41:40.540 Because AI ran amok

00:41:42.760 Somehow, somewhere

00:41:43.800 Right?

00:41:46.040 A big company

00:41:46.480 Maybe one of the big exchanges

00:41:48.000 Might be like the NASDAQ

00:41:49.040 Might be the FTSE

00:41:49.880 Whatever it is

00:41:51.380 Some sort of

00:41:53.000 Or just one of the massive banks

00:41:55.300 Like Citibank or something

00:41:56.660 Or Barclays

00:41:58.480 Or JP Morgan or something

00:41:59.500 Whatever

00:41:59.980 Deutsche Bank

00:42:02.760 The World Bank

00:42:03.900 They used AI

00:42:04.820 to control loads of things

00:42:07.420 and it goes mad, it goes crazy

00:42:09.140 effectively

00:42:10.280 stops doing what it's supposed to do

00:42:12.100 and causes some sort of giant problem

00:42:13.920 and collapse

00:42:14.840 now will out Sam Altman

00:42:19.320 or Elon Musk or whatever, someone

00:42:21.180 go oh we didn't know, we didn't think

00:42:23.320 that that would

00:42:24.300 yeah that wasn't part of the plan

00:42:27.300 we apologised

00:42:28.220 meanwhile there's some sort of

00:42:31.420 giant collapse and loads and loads of people

00:42:33.220 Go hungry and become homeless

00:42:35.100 Don't have jobs anymore

00:42:37.060 And the AI

00:42:39.360 Tech bosses and investors on

00:42:41.340 Wall Street will just go

00:42:42.140 Yeah we didn't see that

00:42:45.540 Coming

00:42:45.920 It's pretty obviously

00:42:55.480 Coming

00:42:55.880 Some sort of

00:42:59.240 Giant disaster because AI

00:43:01.120 couldn't be controlled properly. I bet my mortgage on it. I really would. All right,

00:43:10.960 The Star. What sloppy joe are they going to serve up to us here? The Daily Star knows

00:43:17.600 we like those sloppy joes nice and sloppy. Amazon is primed to buy Liverpool Football

00:43:24.000 Club. There we go. Look, they've shopped Bezos in a Liverpool shirt. Brilliant. You'll

00:43:31.060 never deliver alone.

00:43:34.220 There's just this

00:43:34.940 consortium bids for Reds.

00:43:37.640 Anyone who doesn't know,

00:43:39.540 Liverpool fans

00:43:40.720 sing a song

00:43:42.040 about how you'll never walk alone. 1.00

00:43:46.600 You're foreign, 1.00

00:43:48.080 or you're very, very young, 1.00

00:43:48.900 or you just never, ever care about football whatsoever.

00:43:51.460 They quite often sing,

00:43:52.660 you'll never walk alone.

00:43:54.060 You'll never deliver alone.

00:43:56.680 Clever. Clever wordplay, isn't it?

00:43:58.580 Alright, that's the headlines.

00:44:01.060 It's the increasingly absurd

00:44:04.200 Really quite infuriating headlines from Fleet Street today

00:44:08.380 Alright, let's have a look at our poll

00:44:10.220 We usually do our poll about this time of the show, don't we?

00:44:12.480 Harry, can you bring that up for me?

00:44:13.340 Oh, you've already done it

00:44:13.940 Out ahead of me

00:44:14.600 Alright

00:44:15.080 What have we got here?

00:44:16.880 900 plus votes

00:44:17.940 We asked you guys this morning

00:44:20.380 Are Iranian assassination attempts against Trump a credible threat? 0.99

00:44:26.060 I came up with that one this morning 1.00

00:44:27.080 71% of you say yes, the ayes have it

00:44:30.500 29% of you say no

00:44:33.060 Well to the 29% of you

00:44:35.160 Let's have a look 0.59

00:44:37.200 A story that's front and centre

00:44:40.280 Top story on the mail

00:44:41.820 Mail online on the website

00:44:43.180 Boom

00:44:44.060 Trump smuggled off Air Force One

00:44:47.380 In a catering cart

00:44:48.640 As part of an elaborate ruse

00:44:50.580 To switch planes 0.70

00:44:51.700 And foil potential Iranian assassination threat

00:44:54.600 Trump's secret escape 0.72

00:44:55.940 Well to the 29% of you said no

00:44:57.920 The Secret Service don't agree with you

00:45:02.040 They should know, shouldn't they

00:45:04.420 Unless this is all some sort of truly, truly elaborate scam

00:45:09.020 Just to make the President look scared

00:45:11.100 Or something

00:45:12.680 That's not what's going on here, is it?

00:45:15.060 That doesn't make sense

00:45:15.920 The Secret Service think that there's credible Iranian threats

00:45:21.220 Against Mr Trump's life

00:45:23.480 Yeah

00:45:28.360 So the president's got more than one plane

00:45:31.520 That he can fly around on

00:45:33.120 In fact there's two Air Force Ones aren't there

00:45:35.380 There's two

00:45:36.140 There's a backup one at all times

00:45:37.940 But on top of that

00:45:39.520 There's other planes

00:45:40.760 There's like one plane 0.95

00:45:41.680 That the Qataris gifted Donald Trump

00:45:45.340 Not too long ago 0.98

00:45:46.700 If you remember this

00:45:49.460 Because I'm interested in military and civil aviation

00:45:52.240 Fascinating

00:45:53.460 by air force one the various iterations of air force one they have been over the years and um 0.71

00:45:59.220 the qataris just gave him one and but he didn't trust that it wasn't just you know completely

00:46:05.900 bugs and stuff so they've spent ages sort of refitting it to make sure it's not bugged or 0.87

00:46:11.700 bombed or whatever but then even that they could he didn't really trust they must have had some

00:46:18.000 So you see this

00:46:19.380 Can you see

00:46:20.320 There's a vehicle under there

00:46:22.700 Like a little lorry

00:46:23.540 Little lorry

00:46:25.840 And apparently this

00:46:27.200 And this is Air Force One

00:46:28.420 And this lorry

00:46:30.920 It's part of catering

00:46:33.880 And there's like a door

00:46:35.400 Or some sort of trap door

00:46:36.420 Or something in Air Force One

00:46:37.480 And this lorry can go up

00:46:38.600 Underneath it

00:46:39.380 And maybe there's like 0.99

00:46:40.560 A dumb waiter 0.99

00:46:41.120 Like a big dumb waiter type thing 1.00

00:46:42.320 I don't know exactly 0.97

00:46:43.020 But you can load things

00:46:44.360 In and out of Air Force One

00:46:45.480 Via this truck

00:46:48.000 And they smuggled Trump

00:46:52.080 Apparently this is the story

00:46:53.040 They smuggled Trump off of Air Force One

00:46:54.840 Onto this lorry

00:46:55.760 Where no one can see that that happened

00:46:58.180 And then this lorry just went somewhere else

00:47:01.340 And they put him in a cart

00:47:03.100 Or is this the catering cart they're talking about?

00:47:07.040 Anyway, ultimately they took him to a completely different aircraft

00:47:10.700 Something else entirely

00:47:11.760 A military aircraft

00:47:13.920 Like just a full-blown military aircraft

00:47:17.500 was it like a hercules type thing i can't remember they took him onto a c32a plane

00:47:26.780 just just a minute an air force military one he was flying out of ankara in turkey this is like

00:47:32.940 about a month ago when there was like a big nato meeting and he's flying from there to the uk and

00:47:37.540 then on to back to the united states and so he flew out on an air force c32a not air force one

00:47:46.140 or the qatari version of air force one they've got because according to them

00:47:53.740 iran iranian assassination threat a potential iranian assassination threat

00:48:01.260 all right there you go interesting if true unless the mail have just got it all wrong

00:48:09.180 and this story is complete nonsense which is possible i don't think so but possible isn't it

00:48:14.140 I just thought that was an interesting story

00:48:16.380 Reasonably interesting story

00:48:18.580 Alright it's already 10-2

00:48:20.580 And I can't spend ages today

00:48:22.300 Because I do have to record my epochs

00:48:24.440 It's epochs recording day

00:48:27.080 You want to hear more about Constantine the Great

00:48:29.140 Don't you? In fact this Sunday

00:48:30.340 It's like the good stuff about Constantine

00:48:32.420 It's when he starts, basically starts the Civil War

00:48:34.820 He starts the 20 year plus

00:48:37.040 Long process of

00:48:38.700 Making himself not merely one of four

00:48:40.980 Emperors but the sole Roman Emperor

00:48:43.000 In the whole world

00:48:44.600 It's the best bit of the story of Constantine

00:48:47.280 I've got to record that later

00:48:48.260 So I can't be here all morning

00:48:50.180 Let's go, let's crack straight on to

00:48:53.220 Well, one last thing

00:48:57.520 Remember this guy

00:48:59.620 Everyone's just distancing themselves from him now

00:49:05.060 He's cancelled all his book tours and all his lectures and stuff

00:49:08.000 A majorism professor is just a thinking man's Lee Andrews

00:49:13.840 Beggars belief that woke Cambridge and BBC made him a postway

00:49:16.800 It doesn't really beg a belief though does it

00:49:18.360 Because that's what they endlessly do 1.00

00:49:19.860 They find a black or brown person 1.00

00:49:22.100 And regardless of who they really are 1.00

00:49:24.000 What they really are

00:49:24.960 Will promote them as the best thing since sliced bread

00:49:27.940 Because of a weird fetishised outgroup preference

00:49:32.160 Not that weird is it

00:49:34.460 Or one of the things I think it was in the mail again

00:49:37.260 Someone's, like, they asked a

00:49:39.360 Yeah, they asked a student

00:49:40.980 Look, boss of Britain's largest

00:49:43.260 Teaching union distances himself from

00:49:45.280 Plagiarist and professor Jason Ardy

00:49:46.920 As student claims, academics

00:49:49.480 Lectures were, quote, mostly

00:49:51.360 Nonsense, quote, yeah

00:49:53.420 I can believe that 0.88

00:49:55.100 Mostly nonsense, yeah, I can believe it

00:49:57.540 Alright, let's do on this day in history

00:49:59.580 The 11th of August

00:50:01.500 I like doing that bit, you like doing that bit

00:50:02.840 On the 11th of August, down through the centuries, nay the millennia

00:50:05.500 What happened of note? Let's have a quick look

00:50:07.500 Something about Mesoamerica, the ancient Mayan calendar, is it?

00:50:11.440 What have we got?

00:50:12.160 In the year 3114 BC

00:50:14.940 It is traditionally considered the start date of the Mesoamerican long count calendar

00:50:21.960 Used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilisations, notably the Maya

00:50:27.180 It's a very, very good collection in the British Museum, actually

00:50:30.840 a lot of people think the british museum is sort of mainly ancient egyptian mummies a bit of greek

00:50:36.540 and roman pottery and that's it but no it's one of the greatest collections of all sorts of treasures

00:50:45.180 from all over the world they've got really quite a good central american mesoamerican collection

00:50:50.840 there's all sorts of things there it's actually quite good if you're interested in that check it

00:50:57.000 it's free to get into the british museum by the way i'm not being paid i'm not being paid by the

00:51:01.080 british museum to shield for them it's just one of my favorite places on earth it really is my

00:51:06.680 cathedral love it okay on this day 1945 allies refuse bear this in mind allies refuse japan's

00:51:16.760 offer to surrender on the condition that emperor hirohito retains his status hmm

00:51:23.160 Hmm

00:51:26.500 That's odd because

00:51:29.360 My history is a little hazy

00:51:31.820 Gracchus 0.96

00:51:32.360 But when the Japanese do finally surrender

00:51:35.120 Or rather the Allies do accept their surrender 0.86

00:51:37.020 They did still allow Emperor Hirohito

00:51:39.540 To remain Emperor of Japan

00:51:41.240 Didn't they

00:51:41.660 Interesting

00:51:44.900 That's odd isn't it

00:51:47.060 It had been the policy of the Allies

00:51:49.580 Ever since what 0.75

00:51:50.580 Ever since Casablanca in 1942

00:51:52.540 It has been our policy of unconditional surrender 0.85

00:51:57.040 both in Nazi Europe 0.88

00:51:59.540 and in Imperial Japanese

00:52:02.840 Asia. We won't accept 1.00

00:52:06.640 any conditions. It's 100% surrender, 100% on our terms.

00:52:12.340 That was the political line.

00:52:16.340 Even if that means we basically have to incinerate all your cities.

00:52:22.540 and yet even up to the 11th of august 1945 that was still the policy and then well just a few

00:52:32.820 days later a couple days later but what is actually uh the actual victory in japan day

00:52:38.640 it's only a few days from now isn't it is it tomorrow even anyway anyway we did eventually

00:52:44.960 the americans truman and macarthur did eventually say all right we'll accept your surrender and

00:52:52.900 emperor hirohito could still be emperor all right then if this puts an end to this then okay

00:52:58.960 so it wasn't unconditional surrender in the end in japan

00:53:03.220 was it so why not so if you eventually let hirohito remain why not accept to surrender

00:53:13.620 much earlier if that was their only condition, earlier. It's easy to sit here in hindsight,

00:53:20.460 talk about that, isn't it, but. Okay. On this day in 1954, formal peace treaty ends over

00:53:29.760 seven years of fighting in Indochina between the French and the communist Viet Minh. Yeah,

00:53:35.720 that is very interesting, the prelude to the US involvement in Indochina, nowadays Vietnam.

00:53:43.620 The French had been there

00:53:45.120 We talked about this before, didn't we, a few days ago

00:53:46.880 A few weeks ago

00:53:49.840 The French involvement

00:53:51.800 Going back to the 19th century

00:53:53.500 In what is today 0.93

00:53:55.240 Vietnam was more than 0.56

00:53:57.060 Just Vietnam, isn't it?

00:53:58.880 Also big parts of Laos, Cambodia

00:54:01.320 Thailand even 0.99

00:54:02.280 Yeah, the French 0.98

00:54:05.140 Finally forced to sort of basically 1.00

00:54:07.620 Basically scale down

00:54:10.520 Everything colonial they've got in

00:54:13.620 indochina vietnam but it's the height of the cold war isn't it the height of the cold war

00:54:18.580 there was domino theory um they were feared that if the communists were successful in north vietnam

00:54:27.460 they would certainly take over south vietnam and on all the way through southeast asia

00:54:33.540 actually completely insane way to look at things history leftist history since then

00:54:40.580 There's poured scorn on the domino theory

00:54:42.260 That is just completely wrong-headed

00:54:43.940 And completely insane

00:54:45.080 No, not really

00:54:45.680 Well, in the end, didn't South Vietnam turn communist?

00:54:49.260 Ultimately, ultimately

00:54:50.340 Isn't it communist to this day?

00:54:52.660 Isn't Cambodia communist to this day? 0.52

00:54:56.440 Alright, on this day in 1988

00:54:57.840 Al-Qaeda is formed at a meeting between Osama Bin Laden

00:55:01.300 Ayman Al-Zahari and Dr. Faddle

00:55:04.060 In, where was it?

00:55:05.280 I wonder where Al-Qaeda was formed

00:55:06.820 Peshawar, Pakistan 1.00

00:55:08.420 Alright

00:55:08.980 Alright 0.99

00:55:11.540 Pakistan 0.95

00:55:14.760 Not Saudi Arabia 0.90

00:55:19.300 Osama bin Laden is a Saudi

00:55:20.960 Not a Saudi Arabia, no 0.60

00:55:22.040 Not in Afghanistan, in Pakistan 1.00

00:55:24.720 Right 1.00

00:55:25.720 A member Osama bin Laden was finally found 0.84

00:55:29.900 If you believe that account 0.97

00:55:30.800 Finally found and killed in a compound in Pakistan

00:55:33.640 Pakistan

00:55:36.020 not saudi arabia not egypt

00:55:42.780 pakistan okay on this day in 2003 nato takes over command of the peacekeeping force in afghanistan

00:55:51.900 in its first major operation outside europe in its 54 year history yeah

00:55:55.980 nato has just become bigger and more powerful and more belligerent since the collapse of the

00:56:03.820 Soviet Union. Remarkably, isn't it? Remarkably. Getting involved in the Kosovo crisis and

00:56:11.780 all that sort of thing. Getting involved in Afghanistan. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty

00:56:17.380 Organization. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization set up to basically counter the Warsaw Pact

00:56:24.560 and Soviet influence in Eastern and Central Europe is now putting boots on the ground

00:56:29.680 In Afghanistan

00:56:30.800 Hmm

00:56:33.200 Trying to justify his existence

00:56:37.840 Alright

00:56:40.080 There we go

00:56:41.540 Shall we have a look at our rumble rants

00:56:43.460 And super chats

00:56:44.260 Rumble rants first

00:56:46.540 Is global church history going to be in it at number one

00:56:50.540 No

00:56:51.540 He's not

00:56:52.580 And new

00:56:53.580 We have a new

00:56:54.480 Perhaps he was too early

00:56:56.540 That's happened before

00:56:57.540 Apparently it could be too early in the rumble rants

00:56:59.880 And it doesn't register

00:57:00.540 Or it doesn't come up on my screen

00:57:01.660 First in today is Dragon Lady Chris 0.99

00:57:05.740 The belt 1.00

00:57:07.980 The championship belt 1.00

00:57:10.020 Goes to Dragon Lady Chris 0.99

00:57:11.780 Who says 1.00

00:57:13.220 Happy belated birthday

00:57:14.860 Oh thank you, it was my birthday

00:57:15.760 Thank you very much, appreciate that

00:57:17.940 Happy belated birthday

00:57:18.800 Sorry a big storm knocked out our internet yesterday

00:57:23.340 I hope the day was properly seized

00:57:26.620 yes thank you you had a big storm new in america i hope you're all right i hope everything's all

00:57:33.220 good but thank you for the belated birthday wishes okay 14 barber says morning mate hope

00:57:39.040 you had a great birthday thank you i was wondering on epochs have you covered mad jack churchill no

00:57:45.380 not yet anyway uh i wish we'd make make more desalination plants because drought is a silly

00:57:53.700 thing for an island yeah again yeah that's a good point actually make a desalination plant that's

00:57:58.980 taking sea water and making it not salty anymore making it so you could actually use it drink it

00:58:04.580 even lots and lots of countries in the persian gulf rely on that massively places like kuwait

00:58:09.460 or whatever or qatar bahrain um yeah if we had a desalination plant or two would help wouldn't it

00:58:18.660 Mad Jack Churchill

00:58:20.820 No I haven't

00:58:21.480 I haven't yet

00:58:22.120 Maybe I should do it

00:58:23.020 At some point

00:58:23.440 I've talked about

00:58:24.720 Normandy before

00:58:25.560 He was at Normandy

00:58:26.140 Wasn't he

00:58:26.420 I've done a couple of

00:58:28.200 Couple of times

00:58:31.020 On D-Day

00:58:32.060 Or the anniversary

00:58:32.700 Of D-Day rather

00:58:33.540 I've talked all about

00:58:35.420 D-Day

00:58:36.080 And I've mentioned him

00:58:36.780 In passing

00:58:37.300 But the whole epoch

00:58:38.440 Is just about

00:58:38.980 Mad Jack Churchill

00:58:39.780 Would be good

00:58:40.760 It's an incredible life

00:58:41.640 But I haven't done

00:58:42.960 So thus far

00:58:44.880 Fictagius says

00:58:46.400 When Labour say

00:58:47.900 small boat crossings are down it's to hide the fact that super dinghies can carry up to three

00:58:52.920 times as many people selective stats to lie to the public right yeah yeah yeah classic that's

00:58:58.840 the thing government always always do is they'll come out with some fact some new statistic but

00:59:03.700 it's just a very very contrived statistic to spin things a certain way whether it's unemployment

00:59:11.800 figures or how many people have invaded us yeah that's what they do that's what they do

00:59:18.120 whole teams of people essentially should do that to perform that task

00:59:23.720 it's called the comms department okay next one jeffrey farnell on the next two are both

00:59:36.520 jeffrey farnell let me read both of them we've even put one of two so i'll just read it in one

00:59:40.180 You say, one of the reasons leftists are pro-immigration and see the borders as morally wrong

00:59:45.920 Is that they believe people simply seeking reprieve from the third world is a legitimate cause for asylum

00:59:52.000 This idea, of course, makes no sense

00:59:54.860 Is demographic suicide, and yet over the last 30 years or so

00:59:59.640 Has infiltrated common normie thoughts so much that they now need reprogramming with common sense

01:00:05.340 Absolutely couldn't agree more with what you've said there

01:00:07.180 Every single thing you've said there, absolutely correct

01:00:09.800 Normians think

01:00:13.660 Oh it would be morally wrong 1.00

01:00:16.740 Not just to allow infinite Africans 1.00

01:00:19.080 And Middle Easterners 0.65

01:00:20.140 And Bangladeshis and Pakistanis and Indians 1.00

01:00:22.520 Into our country 1.00

01:00:23.700 Even if they're coming from countries 1.00

01:00:24.800 That aren't war torn

01:00:26.900 Or anything at all

01:00:27.840 Albanians, Indians 1.00

01:00:29.360 Must have endless amounts of them 1.00

01:00:32.500 Otherwise it's sort of morally wrong

01:00:34.160 Yeah

01:00:35.100 They've had their minds screwed with

01:00:39.060 have had their sense of what is normal and sensible ruined yeah they need to i guess they

01:00:44.460 need to be reprogrammed in some way absolutely agree with everything you said there jeffrey 0.56

01:00:49.300 all right the next three the next three are all pig dog one five five one five zero so i'll read

01:00:57.280 them all in one go if you don't mind you've put uh re-desalination plants someone else mentioned

01:01:04.000 once salt is removed the salt water brine is dumped into the sea and kills the lower life

01:01:10.020 and has massive negative impact on the food chain not good i didn't know that that's interesting

01:01:15.940 i did not know that okay can't they dispose of the salt some other way if they really wanted to i

01:01:21.300 guess but okay and then you put i agree the warming is natural cycles however crops are producing less

01:01:29.500 due to the heat we are irrigating every day with increasing costs we farmers have to absorb your

01:01:35.820 farmer i didn't know that i expect food prices to soar okay you're a farmer i didn't know that

01:01:44.340 that's interesting then the last one you've put in it's a quote so you're saying um a good name

01:01:50.280 is better than fine perfume and one's day of death is better than his day of birth

01:01:56.460 And that's a quote from someone

01:01:59.020 And then you've put

01:02:00.080 May you continue to make a good name for yourself

01:02:03.200 For many years to come, keep up the good work

01:02:05.820 Oh, thank you very much, thank you very much

01:02:07.060 I've not heard that quote, I wonder who said that

01:02:08.960 You'll have to let me know who actually said that quote

01:02:10.760 It's not a bad quote

01:02:11.820 Okay, then we've got Global Church History

01:02:14.980 Mr History

01:02:18.480 It's his first name, his Christian name is Global

01:02:21.480 His middle name is Church

01:02:23.940 And his surname is History

01:02:25.220 That's why he was christened

01:02:27.600 No, I'm joking

01:02:28.660 Of course that's a joke

01:02:29.640 But he was late to the party today

01:02:33.080 8.57 0.52

01:02:34.900 Got beaten to the punch by our dragon lady Chris

01:02:38.720 Okay, anyway

01:02:39.680 We've got our daily to global church history fact word

01:02:43.300 So it's okay

01:02:43.920 So not all is lost

01:02:45.240 Okay, what have we got?

01:02:48.120 You put

01:02:48.400 Yeah, I must have been too early

01:02:50.700 Oh, classic too early syndrome

01:02:52.460 Ah, global church history

01:02:54.880 too good it's too early that's his problem it's too diligent he's too on the money all right he

01:03:03.840 said um today in 1378 ad robert hooly was murdered in westminster abbey and oh okay so that's the

01:03:12.320 one robert hooly who's that it's not ringing a bell he was murdered in westminster abbey robert

01:03:20.800 Hooli, 1378, I'm afraid that's not ringing a bell, sounds like something I should absolutely

01:03:28.900 know about, it's not ringing a bell I'm afraid, Harry, Harry why don't you, you see that name

01:03:35.740 there, Robert Hooli, just type that into Google, bring up a wiki page if there is one, I have

01:03:41.720 to refresh my memory on that one, a murder inside Westminster Abbey, feel like I should

01:03:45.780 absolutely feel like that's right in my wheelhouse oh oh the earl mortimer okay all right you're

01:03:55.480 okay the earl of oxford right okay mortimer mortimer sorry you've used his his actual

01:04:01.440 real name not his title history remembers him largely as mortimer okay okay cool and on this

01:04:10.420 day in 1415, Henry V set sail from Southampton with his 12,000-man army for France.

01:04:19.860 Got a massive series all about Henry V. What is it, like 13 parts, 15 parts, something like that?

01:04:27.520 Each one an hour, an hour and a half a piece. It's like an audiobook-level detail of me talking

01:04:33.300 about Henry V, and, well, largely the 1415 campaign, because there's much more to his

01:04:40.800 life. He doesn't die until, like, what, 1422, and there's a massive campaign in 1417 as

01:04:46.480 well, when he takes Rouen. There's quite a lot more to Henry V's life than just the

01:04:51.720 1415 campaign. That's what he's most famous for, like the Agincourt campaign. If you want

01:04:57.060 hours and hours and hours of me, talking about that, you can just have it on in the background

01:05:00.440 While you're doing the ironing

01:05:01.380 Or whatever

01:05:01.960 While you're playing a computer game

01:05:04.120 Listen to me

01:05:05.300 Let me tell you the story

01:05:06.280 In fantastic detail

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01:05:12.740 Alright

01:05:14.900 Last two rumble rants for today

01:05:16.940 We've got

01:05:17.380 TF2 is better

01:05:18.800 That's what they've called themselves

01:05:20.920 TF2 is better

01:05:22.840 And you've put 1.00

01:05:23.920 Practicing homosexualist 1.00

01:05:26.680 Olubo the fridge 0.99

01:05:28.080 Dadanok

01:05:28.780 Who somehow finds himself laughing

01:05:34.040 As the host of the real BBC

01:05:35.920 I like it

01:05:38.700 Funny

01:05:39.860 I will have to make some sort of

01:05:43.160 Photoshop or AI generated image

01:05:45.860 To reflect what was said there

01:05:47.520 I like it

01:05:49.200 Okay

01:05:49.740 Hugh Mann 17

01:05:51.360 Hugh as in the name Hugh

01:05:53.160 Mann with a double N

01:05:55.060 Hugh Mann 17

01:05:56.840 Says

01:05:57.460 Many happy returns, Beau, belatedly

01:06:00.740 Thank you, thank you, I appreciate it

01:06:02.520 Hope you had an excellent celebration

01:06:04.640 Keep up the great work

01:06:05.800 Cheers, buddy

01:06:06.680 Really, really appreciate it

01:06:08.380 You're my people

01:06:09.640 Without you guys, this isn't a thing

01:06:11.080 You're the best people on earth, basically

01:06:13.720 Tune in to the Beau Show Live

01:06:15.500 Impeccable taste, if nothing else

01:06:17.120 Alright, Harry, can you bring up the YouTube superchats for me?

01:06:20.980 Because you have to do a couple of clicks on that for me

01:06:23.440 As the all-powerful producer

01:06:25.160 Alright, there they are, there we are

01:06:26.740 let's go, there's about 20 of them

01:06:29.320 I suppose, let's read

01:06:30.920 let's start reading them out, Stu Sutton

01:06:33.020 1977, very often first

01:06:34.980 isn't he, very very often first

01:06:36.640 he's the YouTube equivalent of global church history

01:06:39.000 you have to get up early in the morning

01:06:40.940 to beat Stu, quite literally

01:06:43.080 okay, you've said

01:06:44.040 not understanding my comment

01:06:47.220 that the water shortages were Eamon Holmes

01:06:49.300 fought yesterday was criminal bow

01:06:51.000 did I not, did I not

01:06:52.540 a bit like Eamon Holmes

01:06:55.040 and new

01:06:56.480 Did I not understand it?

01:06:59.180 Did you say

01:06:59.520 Did you make a name

01:07:00.200 In a home joke

01:07:00.680 And I didn't get it

01:07:01.700 Well apologies

01:07:02.640 If that was the case

01:07:03.420 Was it a really subtle one?

01:07:06.880 Being really subtle

01:07:07.800 Anyway

01:07:09.600 Apologies for that

01:07:11.460 Alright next one

01:07:13.760 Calzetti says

01:07:14.860 Happy belated birthday

01:07:16.020 Both

01:07:16.280 Cheers buddy

01:07:16.720 Cheers buddy

01:07:17.400 Calzetti is sometimes

01:07:18.660 In first as well

01:07:19.520 It's out of Stu

01:07:20.500 And Calzetti very often

01:07:21.820 Who's going to be in first

01:07:22.740 On the YouTubes

01:07:23.360 Alright

01:07:24.620 Thank you

01:07:25.460 Thank you

01:07:25.840 Appreciate that

01:07:26.460 Double A Batteries 2001

01:07:29.440 That's what they're calling themselves

01:07:30.940 At Double A Batteries 2001 says

01:07:32.880 Bo should do an entire Breakfast with Bo show

01:07:36.060 In Scouse

01:07:36.700 Hey now calm down

01:07:38.060 I couldn't keep it up

01:07:42.480 I probably couldn't keep it up

01:07:43.500 Really really thick Scouse as well

01:07:46.220 Not just a little bit of Scouse

01:07:48.060 But real Scouse

01:07:49.600 Like steep deep Paddy Pimlet Scouse

01:07:52.100 I couldn't do it

01:07:53.940 I couldn't do it 1.00

01:07:55.700 Rips the old throat out 0.94

01:07:57.580 If anything 1.00

01:07:57.920 I think the Scouse accent's quite funny

01:08:03.500 Some people think it's like gross

01:08:06.800 Don't they

01:08:07.220 Horrible sounding

01:08:08.300 I think it's alright 1.00

01:08:09.400 Sometimes on a woman 1.00

01:08:11.640 Sometimes it's quite nice 1.00

01:08:13.880 Quite endearing

01:08:14.600 Occasionally

01:08:15.560 Some people really don't like it

01:08:17.140 Do they?

01:08:17.400 Anyway

01:08:17.580 Anyway

01:08:19.560 I couldn't do a whole episode in Scouse

01:08:21.260 I couldn't do that

01:08:21.780 That would be absurd

01:08:22.980 all right david betts 1180 says still haven't heard from some friends in cali colombia and

01:08:34.980 messages are going undelivered city of cali in colombia you've got friends there and they're

01:08:42.460 not and they're undelivered messages oh dear the problem is the entire country is on a fault line

01:08:47.480 Oh, yeah

01:08:47.940 Oh, well, fingers crossed they're all right

01:08:49.740 Yeah

01:08:51.600 Oh, that's a concern, isn't it?

01:08:53.800 Sorry to hear that, David Betts

01:08:55.520 Oh, God

01:08:57.120 Yeah

01:08:58.760 Fingers crossed

01:09:02.100 It's so trite, isn't it?

01:09:03.420 To say thoughts and prayers

01:09:04.360 Or something like that

01:09:05.000 Say, oh, well, I hope they're all right anyway

01:09:06.580 Next thing

01:09:07.140 But

01:09:08.220 What can you do from this distance?

01:09:11.740 Nothing

01:09:12.020 Yeah, well, I just genuinely hope they're okay

01:09:15.380 Concerning undelivered

01:09:18.500 Okay

01:09:21.720 Having said that

01:09:23.920 I'll just move on

01:09:25.100 Carboot Bounty

01:09:27.800 Have you ever been to a car boot sale

01:09:30.220 And found something brilliant

01:09:31.140 Something that's actually worth

01:09:34.160 A fair bit of money actually

01:09:35.400 It's quite a rare thing

01:09:36.260 And they're selling it for 50p

01:09:37.960 Carboot Bounty says

01:09:41.000 Morning Bo

01:09:41.860 seen that youtube raised monetization threshold for new creators hence please shout out my new

01:09:49.240 channel the car boot bounty well there you go just did check out the car boot bounty yeah youtube

01:09:55.840 changes the goal posts all the time all the time the hardest thing if you if anyone out there wants

01:10:01.400 to start a channel that's to be a youtube creator whatever the hardest bit is going from zero going

01:10:08.120 From the very beginning

01:10:08.840 Day one

01:10:09.460 Was zero subs

01:10:10.400 And no videos

01:10:11.280 Going from that

01:10:12.300 To getting monetised

01:10:13.800 That's the hardest bit

01:10:16.540 By a long way

01:10:17.800 And if YouTube

01:10:20.280 Have just

01:10:20.860 Just moved the threshold

01:10:23.800 To make it even more difficult

01:10:25.500 In other words

01:10:27.880 You'll have to toil away

01:10:29.300 Quite hard

01:10:30.120 For nothing

01:10:30.820 For quite a while

01:10:32.140 And then even when you do

01:10:34.020 Get monetised

01:10:34.660 You'll make very very little

01:10:35.700 For quite a long while

01:10:36.640 Unless you get lucky

01:10:37.600 if you get lucky and you suddenly just one of your videos goes viral you suddenly get 50 000

01:10:42.620 subs which doesn't happen very much anymore that's quite rare you'd have to be very really

01:10:47.340 quite lucky so good luck to you and people should check out the car boot bounty there you go because

01:10:54.220 he's part of the glorious band the chosen few okay rodney that's their name at rod underscore

01:11:03.420 says the unending flood of invaders is due to corrupt compromised governments that do the

01:11:10.140 bidding of the wef yeah i think so and maybe not just the wef i'm increasingly less likely to

01:11:17.140 attribute loads and loads and loads of stuff just to the wef but there's lots of lots of other

01:11:21.680 organizations and cabals of people like the wef wef adjacent lots of ones we haven't most people

01:11:27.700 haven't even heard of a lot of people haven't even heard of yeah they're certainly corrupt and

01:11:31.720 Compromised, certainly

01:11:32.800 That's definitely true, yeah

01:11:35.140 Yeah

01:11:36.560 Absolutely

01:11:41.520 Right, the other one is, the next one is also Rodney

01:11:43.740 Who says, I must echo

01:11:45.380 Rupert's catch

01:11:47.800 Cryer, millions must go, yeah

01:11:49.520 If it means millions must go, then millions 1.00

01:11:51.780 Must go, from zoomers to boomers 1.00

01:11:53.640 Aim high, vote low 1.00

01:11:55.520 Don't think reform are going to get it done

01:11:57.080 Alright

01:11:59.020 Erwin Romulus says

01:12:01.720 Every hot and dry summer in the UK reveals hundreds of sites of significant archaeological interest.

01:12:07.280 Yep.

01:12:07.940 With modern drones mounted, with modern drone mounted Liadar,

01:12:12.880 investigation is relatively cheap.

01:12:15.700 You are for thin yellow grass.

01:12:18.940 That's true, actually.

01:12:19.820 There's been a couple of stories I've seen over just the last day or so,

01:12:23.640 where with some riverbeds drying up.

01:12:25.520 There's a story, I can't remember if it was the Rhine or the Danube.

01:12:29.740 I think it was the Rhine or the Danube.

01:12:31.120 It's one of the very, very big rivers where some of its banks have been dried up more than many, many years.

01:12:39.660 And it revealed new archaeology, basically, just sitting there in the mud.

01:12:45.560 I can't remember what it said.

01:12:46.420 It said something like, I can't remember if it was Roman era or medieval era archaeology just sort of sitting there for the first time in years and years and years.

01:12:56.100 and like a world war ii like a nazi motorbike may have been crashed there obviously in the

01:13:01.980 40s or whatever yeah interesting lidar is great if i was elon rich bill gates rich

01:13:09.300 i would consider investing a few million in lidar technology or perhaps not the technology but

01:13:18.460 actually get airplanes to do lidar over areas more even more than people already do

01:13:24.760 I would do that for sure

01:13:26.900 That could reveal all sorts of incredible stuff

01:13:29.600 All over the world

01:13:30.840 You can do it just with drones now

01:13:34.640 You don't actually have to get a little Cessna up there

01:13:36.440 Just a drone

01:13:37.020 That'd be cool, that'd be great

01:13:39.080 What else have we got here

01:13:42.820 James Lee Pevenhall says

01:13:45.840 Hot summer, low rivers reveal shopping trolleys

01:13:48.460 Nazi motorbikes and shopping trolleys

01:13:52.520 Rodney again says

01:13:55.880 IIRC

01:13:57.540 Air Force One is whatever

01:13:59.280 Aircraft POTUS is aboard

01:14:01.000 Good point, fair point, that's true

01:14:02.960 That's true, it's just a cool sign isn't it

01:14:05.640 Yeah

01:14:05.880 But, you're absolutely right

01:14:08.540 But, colloquially

01:14:10.900 Speaking, it's that same

01:14:13.180 Tricked out aeroplane isn't it

01:14:15.160 But you're right, you're right

01:14:16.000 Yeah

01:14:18.540 Fair point, fair point

01:14:20.380 Well, I stand corrected

01:14:21.980 Okay

01:14:22.780 Thomas Glover 92

01:14:24.960 Bo have you ever been to

01:14:27.820 Castle Ring

01:14:28.760 Castle Ring Hill Fault near

01:14:31.640 Cannock Chase

01:14:32.640 Very near to

01:14:35.460 To Bo Desert the ruined manor house

01:14:37.820 I told you

01:14:38.860 I told you about with your name

01:14:41.580 I'm not sure if I have

01:14:44.220 Cannock Chase

01:14:45.860 I'm not sure if I have

01:14:47.600 I don't think I have

01:14:48.460 I've been to quite a few

01:14:50.540 Like quite a few

01:14:51.980 I don't remember all of their names.

01:14:55.040 Okay, I'll have to Google that and check it out.

01:14:58.000 But I don't think I have.

01:14:59.660 I do love a good hillfall.

01:15:01.540 Just walking around it.

01:15:03.900 Using your imagination what might have gone down here at one point.

01:15:07.380 All the lives.

01:15:09.500 All the lives that have been played out here.

01:15:15.920 Even battles, perhaps.

01:15:17.820 Okay.

01:15:20.240 James Lee Pevenhall again says,

01:15:21.600 Epochs, did you cover the Anarchy, Stephen and Matilda, Robert of Gloucester and Randall IV, Earl of Chester?

01:15:28.520 Yes

01:15:28.760 Yes, I've done that

01:15:31.100 And also actually, in more detail

01:15:32.840 On my own channel History Bro, and there's no paywall on that one

01:15:38.480 I go into the Anarchy and Stephen of Blois and Empress Matilda

01:15:45.680 In more detail, in fact, on a History Bro video

01:15:48.640 But also on epochs

01:15:51.840 See I've covered it twice

01:15:55.340 Yeah it's there

01:15:56.620 I'd suggest probably going over to History Bros

01:15:59.940 Because if you want to know about that one

01:16:01.320 That bit particularly

01:16:02.220 Because it's longer

01:16:03.300 It's longer form there

01:16:04.920 In a bit more detail

01:16:05.920 So yeah I have done it

01:16:07.560 Yeah

01:16:09.080 Stephen and Matilda

01:16:10.940 Ending ultimately

01:16:13.580 Ultimately wasn't it

01:16:15.680 In the rise of Henry

01:16:17.820 the second henry plantagenet yeah okay all right the last three here we've got 0.98

01:16:27.340 cg mam 8923 cg mam i don't know how you want that read out but okay you put we mock indians

01:16:35.740 yet tartar is our biggest private employer outside supermarkets building our only battery plant india

01:16:42.060 Supplies 50 to 60% of our

01:16:44.000 Farmer ingredients too

01:16:45.240 They're a monopoly, yeah and that's a travesty

01:16:47.860 Yeah, fair point if all those

01:16:50.220 Facts are true

01:16:51.700 Okay, and that's a travesty

01:16:53.740 And should be reversed 1.00

01:16:54.600 We shouldn't rely on India 1.00

01:16:58.020 For anything 0.99

01:16:58.800 India 0.84

01:17:01.700 Okay 0.99

01:17:03.220 Head on to it one here, Carmichael

01:17:05.760 Cookie dough foot job 0.98

01:17:06.680 Rule name

01:17:09.000 Sadius Bungo McTick Pop

01:17:11.480 they're gonna give us an update on on the posh totty he's trying to catch last few days it has

01:17:21.100 been okay carmichael underscore cookie dough underscore footjob says it is i thaddeus bungo

01:17:26.680 mctip pop and i bring and i bring greetings on this day in history i will be making mad

01:17:32.100 delton arms gains okay he's going to be making mad delton arms gains at the gym and i just farted

01:17:42.620 one thing i'll say about carmichael cookie dough footjob real name thaddeus bungo mctip pop

01:17:50.100 is that he's got a sense of humor i think we can fit i think we can say that without any

01:17:57.140 will shadow of a doubt the man's got a sense of him mad delton arm gains yeah big go big or go

01:18:05.140 home it's all about the pump bro all about the pump okay and the last one is is the very last

01:18:16.280 one is also car michael cookie dough foot job who says also happy birthday bro thank you thank you

01:18:21.420 Appreciate it

01:18:22.380 Really really appreciate it

01:18:23.900 Alright that's the show

01:18:25.400 It's now

01:18:27.140 18 minutes past 9

01:18:28.540 In the a.m.

01:18:29.000 British summer time

01:18:29.660 On Tuesday the 11th of August

01:18:31.240 In the year of our Lord

01:18:31.900 2026

01:18:32.560 You've been the glorious band

01:18:34.680 The chosen few

01:18:36.120 My band of brothers

01:18:37.620 And sisters

01:18:39.080 Thank you for joining me

01:18:39.960 Without you

01:18:40.680 It isn't a thing at all

01:18:41.800 It really isn't

01:18:43.180 Try and make the best

01:18:44.100 Of the day ahead

01:18:44.660 If you can

01:18:45.200 I know it's not always easy

01:18:46.060 When you've got a job

01:18:46.700 You've got loads of responsibilities

01:18:48.120 Most of your time

01:18:49.300 Is stolen from you

01:18:50.480 In essence isn't it

01:18:51.240 And you've got to do things for other people

01:18:53.540 Like your boss or whatever

01:18:55.180 If you haven't, if your time is your own today

01:18:57.780 Try and make it count

01:18:59.660 Carpe diem, seize the day if you can

01:19:01.620 Your time's the most valuable thing you will ever have

01:19:05.900 By orders of magnitude

01:19:08.020 And it's finite

01:19:09.120 Unfortunately it is finite

01:19:10.880 It doesn't feel like that sometimes

01:19:12.060 Especially when you're young

01:19:13.240 But it really, really is

01:19:14.600 If you can, try and make it count

01:19:16.560 Alright, I don't want to get too preachy about it

01:19:18.080 I don't want to tell you what to do and what not to do

01:19:20.100 But just bear it in mind

01:19:20.960 Your time is the most valuable thing you will ever have

01:19:24.900 Alright then

01:19:25.980 Until tomorrow morning

01:19:27.360 Please do take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 11, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 11th August 2026

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