Breakfast With Beau | Tuesday 12th May 2026
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Summary
Today the government might fall, today the government may fall, and today we re here for it. It s a big day in the world of news, and it s not a bad day at all. Breakfast with the chosen few, and a cup of tea to get you through the day.
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morning you're all right hope you are bright eyed and bushy tailed wakey wakey eggs and
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bakey come on the day's half over come on let's go let's go let's do it get out of bed sleepy head
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big day today the government might fall today we're here for it it is just turned one minute
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past eight in the a.m which is summertime what we on tuesday tuesday isn't it tuesday the 12th
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of may in the year of our law 2026 as always i'm joined by my producer little harry how are you
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this morning good sir morning i'm all good good the disembodied voice of the godlike little harry
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there at the controls you're the glorious band the chosen few you're watching this live you're
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the best among us couldn't ask you anymore thank you thank you occasionally i get a moment or two
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in the mornings to have a look at the chat people speculating on what kind of suit
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might be wearing lisa c 1987 called it it's a blue day i'm blue
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all right lovely hot cup of tea straight from the kettle there
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all right should we stop faffing about stop stop all this fannying about shall we and get into it
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it's an important day it's a little bit like uh groundhog day actually because it's water
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will starmer but very different to a groundhog day because it's happening it looks like it's
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happening the collapse of the government does look like it's happening oh one other thing i've
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got to say real quick real quick get it out of the way real quick get it away a little bit of a
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shill gotta do it so much time and effort has gone into it other people i don't do any of this stuff
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but if you did want to buy lotus eaters merch look there's lotus eatersmerch.com on our website
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there's breakfast with this breakfast with bow merch I don't create any of this
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is wondrous look at that mug look that's this mug the new style mug slightly
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okay all right this week 10% off in honor of the 100th show you the other day so
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you go all right just a quick chill gotta do it part of the job all right let's get on with the
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news so when i say it's wall-to-wall starma oh god oh boy truly wall-to-wall it's probably one
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of the days one of the two or three days we've had so far on the bow show where it's genuinely
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there's not one exception it's every single front page all the way down to the sun and the star
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and every single every single website look carrie bring these up look starma starma starma
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Starmbot, well, number 10, but still Starmer, Starmer, Starmer, so, okay, you get it, so be prepared for that this morning, although, to be fair, if it warrants it, it warrants it, you know, like the day of war starts when the Ayatollah was blown up, something like that, or something like this, you can't blame editors for going with it, they have to, really, don't they, they have to.
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it may well be that the government collapses today
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or imminently there's a there's a cabinet meeting at half past nine this morning in about an hour
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and a half that could spell the end of starmer and the government all right what have we got
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here cabinet turns on starmer and you have been murdered metaphorically not exactly that's a
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reference to that tv show traitors but politically murdered okay so a lot of a lot has happened in
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the last 24 hours 23 hours since last time i spoke to you guys my band of brothers and sisters um
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a lot a lot happened so if you if you watched the bow show yesterday i was talking all about
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starmer was set to do set to do a speech his sort of so-called last chance speech which he did it
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only about 15 20 minutes was it wasn't fantastically long no great detail the only thing he said of
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any substance and like policy stuff was that he intended to nationalize steel british steel
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but you know no sort of concrete plan or anything right let's talk about that let's go through it
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chronologically exactly what happened so mid-morning ish time he does his speech and interestingly
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it was like a conference speech where they're clapping every other line he gets a little round
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of applause when he first goes up there they keep clapping and clapping and clapping and clapping
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like at conference so just pure sycophants a room full of sycophants
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that's weird that's odd that's not a great look i was reading off a teleprompter i believe so
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again not spontaneous if ever you're if ever you're gonna be spontaneous and shoot from the hip
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talk off the cuff be as genuine and authentic as possible that might have been the time to actually
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really wear your heart on your sleeve a little bit no it's just a 15 20 minute rehearsed speech
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with no real substance what a surprise he didn't take responsibility i mean he said the words i
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take responsibility but then went on to not really not affect especially in the q a afterwards
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not really taking any any real responsibility not accepting that he's the problem
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you know that people on the doorstep in these local elections a lot of them were saying
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it's starmer i don't like starmer i will not vote for starmer not really accepting that
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because when you're in government when the individual members of the government including
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the prime minister themselves when they become the headlines over and over and over and over
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and over again that's a problem it's not supposed to be particularly about you well about your job
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anyway when the headlines are i remember the end of the tony blair years or and the various tory
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ones in the last few years when day after day after day it's about will he or won't he step down
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it means you can't really govern all that well your ability to govern is damaged heavily he's
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the labor backbenchers and the labor party most people in it other than the staunch diehards
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whose political flag is tied to his mask mast whatever happens to him happens to them other
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than those people who will defend him to the end of the earth they didn't really buy this speech
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his last ditch speech they just came out you know straight away saying uh no what was that
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you've had all your chances to fix it and that's it they're backing away no amount of pleading
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no about no amount of rationalization there's no more words
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that window of time where words might have made a difference is over now
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and you want it you want it bad obviously he wants to stay in power doesn't he he wants to
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be prime minister for another 10 years he was saying he wants it still and they're just backing
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away from you it's horrible horrible feeling well he deserves it doesn't he's a terrible leader
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terrible terrible terrible leader just like a robot man a very very very hard left you know
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as a younger man two left for the fabian society i don't know imagine being two left wing for the
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If he could have got away with that politically
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If you go out on the street and protest about that
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We mentioned before, didn't we, that Catherine West
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Sort of started the idea that there's going to be a vote of no confidence in Parliament
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20 percent of the parliamentary labour party which is 81 mps would need to be up for that
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so that's sort of the magic number by late afternoon early evening yesterday it starts
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trickling oh there's now 50 53 57 62 right everyone everyone in the world all the chattering classes
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everyone else watching on counting these labour mps as they openly say i would vote for that if
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it ever came up in the house um and then we had sort of aids ministerial aids quitting
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right so the sort of junior minister directly under uh we're streeting and the one directly
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under lammy david lammy but four in total quitting resigning from government they're not in cabinet
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The government is just the smaller leadership cabal
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cabinet is technically basically like the most inner sanctum of power
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and um so the president and he said presidential aides so the ministerial aides four of them three
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then four of them quit um so that's very close to cabinet members themselves quitting isn't it
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now when that happens historically even in my lifetime i've seen this happen so many times
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when cabinet members start resigning it's sort of over sometimes sometimes a government or a leader
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can survive one or two of those maybe if they're not already mired in
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in like sort of endless controversy and endless speculation about their own job
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maybe then right you've got a normal stable government and one of your ministers quits over
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something okay you can survive that but when the whole question is about the prime minister's
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position himself and people cabinet members start quitting it's it's sort of over the idea of
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cabinet is collective responsibility that's at the heart of it the idea is that you're all
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supposed to be on exactly the same page at all times that's what cabinet is a legal collective
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responsibility that's why whenever you get a cabinet minister in normal normal times
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get a cabinet minister who says something ever so slightly different to what the prime minister
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said their i their view their idea of any particular policy is ever so slightly different
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to the party line papers and the media will jump all over that and all there's division in cabinet
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there's division in cabinet even though there might not be or barely any okay you get it so
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if one resigns stands on principle resigns well the house of cards you've just knocked you just
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flicked one of the cards out from the bottom of the house of cards so we haven't had any cabinet
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as far as i'm aware at the time of recording haven't had any full cabinet members resign
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but that will be the next thing but when their aides resign
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so it's all over really it's certainly all over for starmer a few people this morning even saying
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it's over you've just got to resign it's done don't drag the party in the country and parliament
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through some sort of acrimonious process of being formally legally removed just just resign you've
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got to it's you're done perhaps something like that or something similar something adjacent to
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that happened yesterday anyway then some of the big beasts including shibana mamood the home
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Secretary and Yvette Cooper, the Mrs. Ed Balls, the Foreign Secretary, apparently according
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to reports, went in there and said you should resign or at least, you know, make a statement
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about when you're going to leave. That's another card flicked out from the bottom of
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the structure. The biggest, the most powerful people in the country under the Prime Minister
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I no longer have confidence in the Prime Minister
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that's roughly where we are at the moment the ball is obviously now in his court
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so there was due to be a cabinet meeting today anyway just as a normal course of events if
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nothing was going on there would still be the tuesday morning cabinet meeting at half past
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nine which is summertime so in about an hour an hour and ten minutes that was always going to
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happen regardless of anything that's happening this morning you can only imagine the atmosphere
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in there what that's going to be about that's crunch time that's truly it's truly judgment day
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isn't it don't you get it the left of the labor party's out there
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it can't be bargained with it can't be reasoned with it doesn't feel pity or pain or fear
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and it absolutely will not stop ever until Starmer is dead politically
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judgment day all right cabinet turns on Starmer
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I think if in your cabinet you're by definition
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Essentially we'll whip through the headlines a bit
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Because they all go to print at various points in the evening yesterday
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the time saying 75 they've all got more or less the same picture more or less from that speech
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he did yesterday the ill-fated i'm not going anywhere speech don't create chaos
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the left of the labor party don't care about chaos
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the left of the labor party see keir starmer and nearly everyone in the cabinet
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We're streeting, we'll talk about that in a moment
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Mahmood among senior ministers urging PM to consider his position.
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Without Andy, we can't possibly win at the next general election.
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It barely makes sense, the Andy Burnham thing, to me.
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The timing of it doesn't add up, doesn't make sense, does it?
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It may well be that by mid-morning, half 10, 11, midday,
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remember when may had to do it when boris had to do it you know walks out of number 10 and just
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does a little two minute five minute speech saying i resign that might happen this morning
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okay the idea that burnham someone in probably the manchester region doesn't have to be manchester
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probably manchester one of the sitting labour mps pretends there's a reason why they've got to
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resign you can't i don't think they can just resign for no reason for purely party political reasons
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but they'll make up some reason on their health they want to spend more time with their family
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suddenly something like that okay they resign triggers a by-election that takes what a month
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at least isn't it at least then burnham wins that no guarantee of that no guarantee of that whatsoever
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is there anything is there any such thing as a safe labor seat even in manchester
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a historically safe Labour seat in Manchester right now.
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They thought that Gorton and Denson one was a lot, didn't they?
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They thought that was an absolute gimme, a slam dunk.
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Matt Goodwin, unlikable plagiarist idiot, Matt Goodwin,
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There'd be a whole leadership race and election
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the all the ducks are aligned for that and others say no listen it's not so that's not a gimme
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him actually winning the seat isn't isn't a gimme then he would have to win a leadership election
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a lot of people saying he would have the numbers for that but it's not it's not it's not guaranteed
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doesn't as I say it barely makes sense to me if he'd got it in that Gaunton and Denton time okay
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maybe now we'd and he's already an mp right now it all makes some kind of sense but
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he isn't that's why i'm talking about west streeting the stars are lining for west streeting
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as angela rayner even as well is still hasn't got her revenue and customs thing resolved
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so out of the remaining big beasts it could be i bet a lot of them will throw their hat into the
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ring but the the bookies say people that know what they're talking about and count up the
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various blocks of mps say that west streeting's got the numbers
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wedge streeting who will definitely i bet my bottom dollar that he will definitely lose his
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seat at the next election he's got majority of 600 odd five or six hundred or something like that
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He hasn't got a clear great vision for the country
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Who thought he could get to power by joining the Labour Party
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yeah he is he does have a pocket i said before who's he but he's the guy i think they've got
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uh the the telegraph i've got like a podcast thing and he's the guy on that
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but um just weak sauce yeah just a weak nothing weak roosted limp lettuce nothing boy
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I don't think it's a good paper, that's an Alan Partridge reference
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It's a ridiculous rag, a little better than The Guardian
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And The Metro, The Standard, all of them are
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with the slight exception sometimes of the telegraph they're all the same anti-white
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filth a lot of it pm on the edge says the subversive express pm on the edge ministerial
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aids quit as speech bombs at least 80 labor mps demand his exit starma set to face crisis cabinet
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yeah can you imagine the atmosphere in there i said that earlier i was going to touch on that
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okay it's like a relationship it's like being dumped dumping someone or being dumped it's very
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very awkward isn't it the cabinet are basically dumping him no it's not nice
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i'm afraid and then put up with whatever the screaming and shouting the pleading the tears
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whatever yeah in about an hour from now that's going to go down in the cabinet office
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and i suspect he'll go down screeching try and refuse he'll try and who knows
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He doesn't feel like the type of politician, the type of man, the type of robot man, that will accept it.
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He might just, like, call a general, snap general action.
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He's threatened it, or his people have leaked that they might do that, threaten that.
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Or he'll effectively go peacefully, quietly, by doing a little speech at, like, 11am outside number 10.
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like the king sort of got to open parliament i would have thought
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i would have thought could they push it back i don't know i mean maybe they can
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push that back but then if there is going to be a vote of no confidence in the chamber in the house
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of commons then you need parliament open to do that obviously this is all assuming sama just
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doesn't quit assuming he doesn't do a little speech in an hour and a half time saying he
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got to go through putting the king through that not that i care personally
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about king charles charles iii the sausage fingered
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saxcombo gotha not that i particularly care about his blushes but
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still a bit unseemly to put him through that
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put the country through that knowing that the whole thing is laughable
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Okay, so that's on the cards as well, potentially, possibly.
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And then, you get like, assuming they get 81 MPs, which I'm sure they will.
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Or the cabinet, half the cabinet or more just resigns.
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So there isn't a government, really, at that point.
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And go through the rigmarole of actually having a vote of no confidence and all that in Parliament.
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it is best if he resigns isn't it it's absolutely best if he just resigns
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you know on a number of levels in a number of ways it's best for the party and the country
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again not that i care about the internal chaos of the labour party bring it on the more the merrier
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i mean that's the other angle people have said and it's not a not a stupid take that it's it's
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better that if Keir Starmer stays because he's so unpopular that it just means that their final
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defeat at the ballot box in 2029, the next general election, would be more complete the longer he's
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there. As I say, that's not a stupid take. Strategically, that's fine to say that, and I
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agree with it to some degree. But however, think of it, couldn't you also make the argument,
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as I'm about to, that if your ultimate goal is to see the Labour Party ruined at the next general
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election which is everyone's goal unless you're in the party right couldn't you say that if they
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replace him because the electorate hate that they hate it then they replace him with someone worse
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say they replace him with wedge street in and the left of the labor party cue him out quite quickly
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like the list trust thing or not as quickly as list trust because that was a remarkable set of
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events but the Labour Party keep hating on their own cabinet because they don't like West Street
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in because West Street is like a Blair rap i.e. on the right of the Labour Party not these right
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wing at all there's just in endless more chaos in the Labour Party because they don't like
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West Street in either he's not left wing enough for them or somehow they go through the complete
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crazy set of events to get Burnham in Burnham does get in it's the dream ticket
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andy and ang the dream ticket and they draw the whole country even further to the left
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than starmer ever did doesn't all that in all those different scenarios doesn't that add up to
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a really really bad result for labor in 29 potentially quite easily i would argue
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a worse result than if you just kept starmer till 2029
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either way it would be terrible for the Labour Party at the ballot box
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there's no I don't see any way back unless which is their great long shot
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their great hope Andy Byrne gets in as leader and Prime Minister and then turns
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everything around unites the Labour Party has an amazing set of policies and
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governs amazingly and the whole country get behind him and love him
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We've been telling you for years and years and years
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The left of the Labour Party living in cloud kicking land
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Including the Home Secretary and the Foreign Secretary
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yeah he's teaching over the brink he's his center of balance is beyond the
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brink isn't it okay the eye paper stummer mutiny grows with
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Labour Party in open revolt against PM mounting pressure on Starmer to resign
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after make or break speech fails to stop rebellion spreading through Labour ranks
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at at least 70 MPs have called for Starmer to quit with four ministerial
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aides resigning including allies of west streeting the health secretary west streeting
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is understood to be ready to make a move for the leadership ambitious if the prime minister is
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forced to resign with other senior labor figures also preparing to run there'll probably be a fair
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few half a dozen a dozen people that have got no realistic chance to that's the thing when there's
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a leadership election you know you're not the guy you know you haven't got the experience or you're
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not old enough or you haven't got the gravitas you certainly haven't got a block of MPs big
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enough behind you to actually win but you throw your hat in the ring anyway to sort of signal that
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in the future years now maybe decades from now just keep your eye on me I'm someone that is
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interested I want the party in the world to know that I am interested in being the leader one day
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so a bunch of people do that always Angela Rayner says Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham
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quote shouldn't have been blocked quote from returning to parliament so she's whether she
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wants the job herself or whether she's going to be a sort of crazy andy burnham partisan
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partisan manipulate events to just try and get him back so that he can be the leader and she can be
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his deputy what exactly is the fridge's game what's big bird playing at exactly exactly
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all right so she says it was wrong for andy to be blocked and her allies claim she's ready to
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strike a deal with him with andy burnham okay one senior government still said uh told the eye paper
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that the number of starmer loyalists in cabinet was shrinking yeah you're right okay the mirror
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let's whip through this then the mirror labor in chaos rebels turn on starmer got it the mail
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disgusting globalist slop trying to win this wear the skin suit of the patriotism
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it's absolute leftist slop globalist slop ultimately in the final reckoning
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government in chaos after his last ditch reset speech fails dismally a coordinated avalanche
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of mps okay you get it you get it you get it the financial times same picture summer reset
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speech didn't work right okay okay the metro oh harry the stain can one oh the metro don't don't
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want yeah make me sick it'll make me physically sick the metro don't care forget it forget it
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okay they're the front they're the front pages all right is it time for uh it's quarter two
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time for our poll let's have a look at our poll what did we say today
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oh a bit spicy a little bit a little bit blue keep it clean we went with
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the uh our poll today we asked you guys is wes streeting a pitcher or a catcher
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So I don't mind my Prime Minister being homosexual, as long as he's a power top.
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he becomes like the king consul right like dennis thatcher he's a dennis thatcher guy
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and he's in number 10 he lives in the flat above number 10 and he's got the ear of the
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prime minister at all times right it could be look at like the shock on his face look at
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like i wonder what my wife is doing and saying and who she's talking to and what
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card she's playing right now like this exact minute or what what was it like in in the bulls
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household last night what was their conversations okay just bear that in mind in against sakir
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starmer's leadership is now growing despite a last-ditch attempt to rally the party yesterday
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from Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister from Downing Street,
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about what is going to happen before the Cabinet meeting?
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going to be repeating her call for Keir Starmer
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to set a timetable in front of all her colleagues in that meeting?
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Well, listen, I have stood here many times over the last year or so,
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talking about whether it is time for Keir Starmer to go.
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he has had another stay of execution but this morning in all honesty it does feel different
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it does feel as though we might be in the end game and that things could come to a head within hours
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because yeah okay that's enough what she said there i think is the case it feels like
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we're in the end game not really the beginning of the end but sort of the end of the end might
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be wrong right he might get super stubborn about it but it feels like I put the government
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collapsing today this morning this afternoon at 50 50 probably more than 50 50
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okay there you go there you go that's the biggest story by far today by a long long way all right
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shall we have a look at on this day in history last five ten minutes of the show
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And then we'll get to the Rumble Rants and Super Chats as always
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Glorious Band, The Chosen For You, My Band of Brothers and Sisters
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You know what's going on here, you get the format
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Alright, shall we have a look at what happened on this day in history real quick
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Reasoning the slave trade is morally reprehensible
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Of William Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement
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i have oh yeah it's there in conversation with mr kyle benjamin yeah long form long form bit
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of content what couple of hours or whatever all about william wilberforce and the abolitionist
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movement usually people that hate this country and the west and white people will just omit
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talking about william wilberforce they didn't used to when i was growing up but these days
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they just talk about the evils of the slave trade and you know reparations and gibbs you've got
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endlessly say sorry and give them endless amounts of money and they just won't talk about abolitionism
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late 18th century early 19th century abolitionism now from a moral point of view
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we did away with it the british among the first
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went beyond that tried to stamp it out use the royal navy to try and stamp it out all around the
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world william wilberforce okay in line on this day in 1914 nazi blitzkrieg and and conquest of
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france begin with german forces crossing the muse river yeah very interesting was reading well
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listening to an audiobook about a week ago all about that stuff
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where mr hitler's army thought it was a bad idea you know didn't we try that like 20 years ago to
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invade france it didn't work out well did it he was like no and hitler was just like no we're
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doing it we can do an opposite schlieffen plan instead of a massive left hook round
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belgium to the sea and round we're gonna do it the other way we're gonna go massive left hook
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and we're gonna go through the ardennes forest you can't do that it's too dense it's like no
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we'll make it happen we'll work and it did only bloody did the battle for france over very very
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I'll talk about it a fair bit actually in that bit of content
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The Soviet Union lifted its blockade of West Berlin
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starting close that off trying to trying to squeeze west berlin and just take all of berlin
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to be in the soviet sphere so the allies decided to airlift millions and millions of tons of
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material food everything everything half a city needs and you know putting the ball back in
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starling's court are you going to start shooting our airplanes out of the sky
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attempting that berlin airlift if so it's world war three
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so at that point stalin did blink basically he was like well i'm not prepared to start world war
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a real crisis moment interesting thing the berlin airlift read up about it if you're interested in
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the cold war fascinating little bit of history there on this day in 2002 former u.s president
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jimmy carter arrives in cuba for a five-day visit with fidel castro becoming the first president of
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the united states in or out of office to visit the island since castro's 1959 revolution interesting
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jimmy carter an interesting guy most people like him some people hate him think he's he was just
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super weak most people kind of i kind of liked him obviously it's before my time but you know
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looking back on it president in the 70s in 2002 he was an old man he only died recently didn't he
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And he died recently, like a year ago or something.
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On this day in 2008, Wenchuan earthquake, measuring 7.8 in magnitude,
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occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 87,000 and injuring 374,643,
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leaving homeless between 4.8 million and 11 million people.
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if you look on say wikipedia or something and you look at a list of all the earthquakes and floods
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that have happened in china over the years you'll probably be amazed how many there are and what the
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casualty figures are for them like that's once in in a century once in a millennia thing no no it
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happens all the time sort of all the time going back to the earliest records
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but the whole yancey river the whole yancey valley is flooded out or whatever
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i'd be worried if one day there's such a massive earthquake that it
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that three gorges dam breaks and the giant reservoir behind that goes down river
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okay but the Chinese ever since the Maoist era have been obsessed with dams for some reason
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okay all right shall we have a look at the Rumble Rants and Super Chats
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what have we got here all right the Rumble Rants who's in at number one it's global church history
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isn't it because of course it is i respect the ground okay he sent in at two minutes past seven
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in the a.m i'll get up i'll get up early speak global church history what does he say he usually
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gives us to uh too little on this day in history things so we've got today in 113 a.d trajan erects
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his column cool yeah interesting fascinating i've been thrown on at rome a number of times looked
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up at that column with my own two eyeballs. There's also a full-size plaster cast replica
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of it in the Victorian Albert Museum in London. Also seen there. Trajan, one of the greatest
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emperors. If you don't know, just super quick. He went on various campaigns. He was a military,
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one of the military emperors just before Hadrian. Went on this giant campaign to the east and
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just swept all in his path like a modern day alexander or near there's some great lines
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particularly in gibbon or is it in plutarch even where letters would come back from the east to
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the senate in rome sort of every day or every week saying i've just conquered another kingdom
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i've just taken another kingdom vassal and on and on and the people back in rome the senate
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couldn't believe it it's just like you just can't stop winning he actually suffered a little bit
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from sort of winning too much like alexander he takes such a massive swathe of land that you can't
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realistically hope to actually ever govern it anyway trader a remarkable emperor and general
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one of the one of the best to ever do it and then he made a column literally just come and round it
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in a spiral like freeze freeze form is a story various stories of all these victories
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it's in rome it's just outside the forum just on the other side of the street to the forum
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still there to this day incredible right okay you also say global church history in 1593 the
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playwright thomas kidd was arrested and tortured for his writings against the quote strangers
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immigrants who now made up 30 of cities like norwich don't know a great deal about that
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I'm afraid I can't give you much comment about that
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Not too much, sorry about that, interesting point though
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says allegedly david lammy was going to pop in and tell keir he had to go but he couldn't
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remember what number in downing street he lives at keir lives at yeah david lammy if his performance
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on celebrity mastermind is anything to go by has got the mind of a child like not even a particularly
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brilliant child like a normal bog standard seven-year-old eight-year-old has somehow got
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to adulthood without picking up any real general knowledge. How can you go through life as
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an adult without knowing why anything is the way it is? Not understanding any references?
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It's only DEI why he's in the position he's in, isn't it? It's the only reason.
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He's truly, truly stupid. Truly. I mean, as a matter of fact.
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To be around the time of the next general election
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Somewhere in Manchester, Andy Burnham to win it
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right I would have thought all that sometimes Labour I know Ed Miliband changed all the rules
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I believe but sometimes Labour leadership elections can take ages like didn't the Corbyn one
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take like four months or something I think the rules have changed since then but nonetheless
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you would need at least a couple of months maybe three months maybe more I don't know
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And he threatened an election if they forced him out
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Well let's do a general election and you all lose your seats
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as well as being sort of unimaginative and a robot-like person i think he's also
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relatively bitter and vindictive as well relatively you may well do that i wouldn't
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get past him okay and the last rumble rant today from busted brian says any insight bow into claims
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of restore cancelling saskia teague speaking at some event over some kind of inappropriate tweet
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regarding the pick of the white and british council members well not any special um insight
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but charlie downs went on twitter yesterday and cleared it up just said yeah we are that was
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some sort of internal error to block her from doing that we apologized he apologized to her
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apologized to the party members that were alarmed by that it was some sort of internal error we're
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not perfect we're still growing as a party um and drew a line under it said sorry it shouldn't
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happen again it won't happen again that's what that is bit of a storm in a teacup to be perfectly
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honest i think um hopefully saskia will be allowed to speak next time not too much a big deal the
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old the ex-tory boy term reform cards thought it was some sort of brilliant win some sort of wedge
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to ruin the party yeah no it's not a big deal all right let's go over to the youtube super chats
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there's a dozen or so of these so let's whip through these cowboy dud said oh you've given
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us a on this day in history thing what have you got there okay on this day in history 1215
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english barons issue king john the ultimatum that led to magna carter also wilberforce's first
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speech against slavery 1789 okay cool so we already talked about wilberforce didn't we
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and the other one the barons in 1215 against king john
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do you reckon i've got long-form content all about the age of king john and magna carter
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yeah more than one long-form video actually talk about it in loads and loads loads of detail if
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if you're so inclined if you want to hear me talking about all that telling you the story
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about all of that you consider signing up to bronze team membership get behind that paywall
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it's good value for money all right the next one what is it mini mobile review is that what that
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says it's a one long word mini mobile review says when is new irelander magazine out bow oh i don't
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know i know rory's working on it right now but i don't know the exact date little harry do we know
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do you know no okay i haven't got an exact date for you but i would have thought it'd be in the
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next month or two something like that i hope that hasn't just piled loads of pressure on rory and
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he was like no it won't be for ages yet i don't know sorry can't tell you but it definitely will
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be one i mean 100 will be one we've got as usual some of the bigger hitters on the distant right
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writing for it so you go but i don't have an exact date for you sorry okay harry hobag says maybe
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streeting will be labor's uh didius julianus didius julianus what did i have to remind i can't
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remember what was how what what parallels would there be between streeting and didius julianus
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Okay, there's probably a really good reference there
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that he'd stay in after the election after the elections uh he has to the end of the week
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nd he has so far maybe it was meant to be mb he has so far what do you reckon well as i say i put
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his chances of uh the chances of him coming out this morning on this afternoon and resigning at
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50 50 maybe slightly more than that i don't see him getting past the end of the week whether he
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stays whether he stays on as sort of the interim leader as like a ghost leader a ghost prime
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minister until until someone else is elected or until well he will do that he'll probably stay on
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as leader probably who knows it could play out a number of different ways there's probably about
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a dozen different ways things could break it could play out i see him as like his actual
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Marxist clowns Burnham, Lammy and Rainer become PM
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Even though it damages our country in the meantime,
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the strategic thinking is that's actually ultimately not bad
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because it means at the next general election, whenever that is,
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The accelerationist angle, the accelerationist view.
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I've got a little bit in me that's accelerationist,
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but I don't want my country to be damaged any more than it needs to be.
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we'll see we'll see all right dewey 135 says when's the lotus eaters and count dankular boxing
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match happening that won't happen there's only a few of us here i mean rory plays rugby big harry
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does goes to the gym lays a proper gym bro and i think does a bit of sparring and stuff
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they want to have a fight with dank or one or two dank's minions fine i'm too old for that stuff
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yeah ac1d helm said did you hear about about amos yee getting jumped harry do you know what that's
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talking about i'm so glad you've asked i'm glad that we've got this donation right this is i don't
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know can you set yourself up slightly is that possible yeah yeah uh so i i don't think that
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be talking about this uh again probably okay he is a convicted child sex offender uh again
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convicted child sex offender okay uh and he got banned yeah yeah and he got banned from uh going
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to a convention because he uh has social media accounts advocating for cp and c-slam content
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so a guy at this convention jumped him and there's just so many videos about it but the
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the guy's being uh i think he has a court date okay all that was news to me i've never heard
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all the presidents in fact after i finish my monarchy series which will take probably a few
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years yet maybe i'll do one on all the presidents one after the other from washington down to
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the donald jimmy carter and the rabbit what's that reference to the rabbit i'm not sure
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i don't know but okay we'll do one on all the presidents in fact i've already got some long
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form content on uh history bro harry go to go to that camera already got some content on history
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bro about some of the presidents there's one about george washington one about thomas jefferson
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one about ulysses s grant and do one about teddy roosevelt soon
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okay uh last two or three here zeitgeist 3208 says um they're all catchers there's not a pitcher
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among them i reckon that's part of the problem yeah they they're all into baseball and they all
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want to be the catcher in a game of baseball. Charles Smith 956 says, Bo, would you or any
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other Lotus Eaters be open to a chat about neuro-inclusion? I think it is fundamentally
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misunderstood and would love to chat. I don't know what neuro-inclusion is, I'm afraid. It sounds
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like something josh firm might be interested in josh firm's got properly like got a postgraduate
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level uh degree in psychology he's very interested in the mind and all sorts of things i don't know
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exactly what neuro inclusion is maybe tweet josh even though josh isn't a formal permanent member
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of lotus anymore he is still more than a friend of the show and still comes in and makes content and
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stuff so tweet at him see what he says all right and the very last one today dewey 135 again says
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oh doe e 135 i said dewey 135 and he's correct me it should be doe e 135 okay i'll try and
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remember that going forward all right that's the show it's now 15 minutes past nine in the
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am british summertime um i am on the podcast today i believe i was supposed to be on on
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last friday i was absolutely physically exhausted truly physically exhausted and luca said bro
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i'll go i'll go on the podcast for you today you go home and go to bed which i gladly took him up
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on i'm repaying the favor today i'm on the podcast so i'll see you at 1 p.m today you've been the
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glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters thank you for joining me um until
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tomorrow do try and make the best of your day carpe diem see you today if you can try make the
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most of your time most valuable thing you'll ever have don't sound like a broken record i'm getting