The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 17th February 2026

00:00:00.000 morning you all right hope you're doing well right idem bushy-tailed fighting fit

00:00:20.480 rearing for the day head it has just ticked past 8 a.m greenwich mean time on tuesday the 17th of

00:00:27.040 february in the year of our lord 2026 i'm joined by my producer little harry how are you this morning

00:00:31.260 good sir morning yeah we're good great and you are the glorious band the chosen few

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00:01:09.320 what is the world to talk about without with no further ado enough of that nonsense we'll have

00:01:13.160 enough of that we'll have no singing here let's jump straight into the news um what is the world

00:01:20.400 world talking about today what does that evil cabal of fleet street editors 0.56

00:01:25.500 want to try and make you think is important today all right faraj forces elections u-turn

00:01:33.600 that's good credit where it's due i throw tons of uh tons of shade at niger reform do you think they

00:01:40.240 are a containment project from top to bottom but sometimes they do good things if they do and say

00:01:44.600 good things i'll give them credit for that you know if they're american democrats or whatever if

00:01:50.580 aoc said something good and based or something i agree with i'd say so okay uh and tributes to

00:01:58.160 godfather star robert duval died robert duval oscar winner brilliant actor wasn't he robert duval

00:02:06.380 brilliant 95 though he was so fair unions so fair unions end of an era though robert duval one of my

00:02:16.100 favorite actors everyone liked robert duval didn't they anyone not like gene hackman and robert duval

00:02:23.140 no right okay the eye paper faraj forces elections u-turn triggering next threat to starmer's leadership

00:02:31.640 so yeah let me quickly read all the blurb and then we'll go into it in a bit of detail so it says

00:02:35.360 uh labor abandons plans to postpone may local elections after legal challenge from reform

00:02:41.300 faraj hails reversal of plan as a victory for reform and democracy in this country

00:02:47.340 but refuses to apologize for tax pay cost as government agrees to pay reform legal bill

00:02:52.360 about a hundred grand as well not peanuts anyway labor expected to lose control of six councils in may

00:03:01.680 uh piling further pressure on starmer local authorities are quote experiencing whiplash

00:03:08.300 quote from challenging government decisions making it quote almost impossible end quote to plan

00:03:14.360 effectively for residents council leaders say cabinet reshuffle likely coming in months as starmer

00:03:20.820 battles to save his premiership he might not be here in months all right so that's one of the main

00:03:26.220 stories this morning if you remember if you watch the news if you watch breakfast with beau

00:03:31.000 or um or just the main lotus eaters podcast or if you don't live under a rock in britain you will know

00:03:40.080 there's been a story rolling on for weeks and weeks months and months that labor the government the

00:03:45.860 labor government wanted to oh we're planning to just cancel loads of local elections all the local

00:03:52.100 elections are happening in may what is it the 7th of may and it's a few hundred councils around the

00:03:57.100 country and at first they were saying we're just not going to have these elections this year we're

00:04:02.240 going to do it next year and at first there was talk that it would be loads of them dozens and dozens

00:04:08.700 and dozens maybe a hundred or more anyway it came out that finally their the details of their plan

00:04:14.040 it was going to be 30 councils now even that is loads if it was one council for a very specific

00:04:19.840 decent reason okay if it was two or three for very very good reasons maybe anything beyond that

00:04:27.240 and if the reasons are shaky at all it's like no no no there's something deeply suspicious and wrong

00:04:31.820 going on here anyway it's going to be 30 councils and the reasons that the government the central

00:04:38.920 government as well not even the councils themselves the central government in westminster were saying we're

00:04:44.160 going to do this because there's there's all sorts of boundary changes all sorts of i won't bore you

00:04:50.360 with the details but all sorts of technical reasons why it would be slightly more difficult for them to

00:04:55.880 to have these elections

00:04:57.320 pardon me um but not good enough reasons everyone that was looking on even lots of councillors themselves

00:05:05.660 are saying no this this that's not a good enough reason um because if you don't hold these

00:05:11.800 elections people can say legitimately they can say they can say without exaggeration you're perverting

00:05:19.300 democracy itself people need to be able to go to the ballot box and have at least that small amount

00:05:26.920 of say over their own country it's already a bit of a lip service to democracy isn't it local elections

00:05:34.320 and parliamentary elections it's not a direct democracy is it like classical athens where every citizen

00:05:39.520 gets to vote on anything of importance already it's only a representative democracy and then

00:05:45.920 those representatives rarely do what you actually wanted them to do what they said they would do

00:05:50.280 so it's already only like a slither of democracy anyway you're going to rub us even of that you're

00:05:55.080 going to take that away from us even so there's an uproar everyone had criticized it obviously bad

00:06:01.020 knock ed davy that uh dave pulled and the greens guy and uh and reform everyone everyone was

00:06:10.520 criticizing it but it was only nige so credit where credit's due it was only nige and reform that

00:06:14.960 actually were going to take it to court or were taking it to court they're going to take the

00:06:19.000 government to court over it and i believe i might be wrong about this but i believe it was going to go

00:06:26.700 to the the supreme court it was certainly going to go to some sort of much much higher court it wasn't

00:06:31.500 just like a local magistrate in westminster it was going to going to go to high court and uh already

00:06:36.320 reform would spend apparently if you believe the accounts uh had already spent something in the

00:06:41.540 order of a hundred thousand pounds on that process

00:06:43.800 and it looked like they would win in court they would defeat the government and the courts would say

00:06:53.340 no government you the government have got to have these elections

00:06:58.780 the reasons you're putting forward not to our ball plot it doesn't make sense it doesn't add up do it

00:07:06.520 you've got to do it so it looks like the government had seen that this was the way it was going to go

00:07:12.320 they were going to lose if it went all the way to court and through a trial and a decision they would

00:07:17.320 lose so they just they they just backed down they capitulated they they did a u-turn another u-turn

00:07:23.920 throw it on the pile of starmer u-turns so they're going to have these elections and in fact they're 0.79

00:07:29.260 even going to pay i think out of the public purse which is annoying so you know the taxpayers money pay

00:07:36.380 reform back for the hundred grand they spent on this that bit's a bit annoying but the main point

00:07:43.760 is that they did a u-turn on something that was you know damaging to democracy

00:07:48.980 for what that's worth i mean 30 30 councils is not nothing that's quite a lot it would have been a few

00:07:56.380 million different papers are saying different numbers but something like between four and five

00:08:01.320 million maybe people would have been denied a vote would have been denied that small amount of say

00:08:07.240 they get over their local authority a few million people that's quite a lot isn't it so and the

00:08:12.980 councils out of 30 of them i think i can't remember the exact numbers it was last night i was looking

00:08:18.160 at it and reading about it but something like 20 odd 15 or maybe 20 of those councils were labour run

00:08:23.040 five or ten of them were conservative run and a few a smattering of others that there's no clear

00:08:29.680 party ruling that council so in other words it would have benefited labour most and the tories second

00:08:38.120 most to not have those elections because they're likely to very likely to lose control of the council

00:08:46.280 if not the control of the council pass entirely over to reform i expect reform will do very well at

00:08:55.000 these local elections i expect labour and the tories particularly labour to get smashed absolutely

00:09:03.140 get smashed in them it may smell the end of sakir's leadership entirely his own party may well pull the

00:09:11.580 trigger after that point on getting rid of him because none of them want to take over really and i kind

00:09:17.700 of get it from a cynical point of view it's not even that cynical is it no one wants to take over the

00:09:22.420 leadership of the labour party before that but you're going to take over the the party and then

00:09:28.960 immediately get smashed in local elections doesn't look good does it so you wait for him to take all

00:09:34.000 that muck he can shoulder that embarrassment then you get rid of him makes more sense doesn't it 1.00

00:09:42.180 okay let's go it's the main story today by the way it's not exactly wall-to-wall local election u-turn

00:09:48.720 but it nearly is it nearly is on the front pages anyway all right the financial times what have we

00:09:53.440 got holiday spirit china greets lunar new year okay starmer abandons delay of 30 council elections

00:10:02.220 after reform legal challenge labour acts on advice see though they were given legal advice it's like you

00:10:07.300 will lose you can let reform take you to court but at there you will lose so you've got to cut your

00:10:15.780 losses now the only reasonable thing to do the only prudent thing to do would be to cut your losses

00:10:20.900 now back down and do a u-turn all right latest setback for pm yep farage uh tells reed to quit

00:10:29.920 rachel reed i get i imagine it's not gonna be john reed is he still alive even no right no that's rachel

00:10:37.760 reeves who's reed then oh i don't know who cares

00:10:41.000 oh he's the one isn't he the minister in charge of all that stuff he's the minister i believe in

00:10:49.000 would have been in charge of all that yeah like the the it's not like the local authorities minister

00:10:55.460 or something like anyway okay local authorities up for grabs yeah yeah there'll be a load of change of

00:11:01.560 councils right there there'll be a load of change of councils rubio marco rubio secretary of state

00:11:08.340 hails orban's role as essential to us and backs him in the election fight yeah good victor orban's

00:11:14.360 like kind of based isn't he basically or he's not really i don't know if he's based exactly but

00:11:20.460 he's not he's not on board with the entire globalist agenda is he

00:11:24.860 oh yeah good the guardian guardian

00:11:35.020 a pack of sickos all right there's robert duval in uh as a much younger man i mean he doesn't look

00:11:46.960 95 there does he 95's not a bad innings is it as i said all right poor old robert duval

00:11:54.700 anger is pm abandons plans to delay may elections okay um

00:12:01.520 did you ever see the godfather harry i know you're very young but did you ever see those films

00:12:08.140 yeah you have yeah they're really good okay cool yeah i really like godfather one and two

00:12:15.940 did you like god have you seen god or godfather one two and three yeah yeah yeah what did you think

00:12:21.720 of godfather part three it was not as strong as the other two

00:12:27.540 that's a very kind thing to say that's the kindest possible spin you could put on it yeah it's crap

00:12:34.820 i think godfather one is among the best films ever i'm not going out on a limb here loads of people

00:12:41.340 say that i really do think it's great i think godfather two is superb possibly better and godfather

00:12:49.080 three is an abortion it's terrible i i i hate it i kind of hate it it ruins the other two in a way 0.96

00:12:56.740 sophia coppola is terrible actress it's really really annoying it's annoyingly bad to me

00:13:03.280 like somehow um michael isn't like you don't care about michael i don't like um

00:13:12.900 anyway anyway in the book i love the book as well i've read the book a couple of times mario puso

00:13:20.180 and uh duval's character tom hagan the irishman in the book he's a much much bigger character he's

00:13:27.840 quite a big character in the films isn't he oh actually robert duval didn't even bother turning

00:13:31.580 up for for part three did he he's not even in it he was obviously read the script or something

00:13:38.600 it's like uh no this looks lame this looks lame as hell 0.80

00:13:42.780 like how does how does al pacino turn in a bad performance in godfather three how's that possible

00:13:51.700 how did francis full coppola make al pacino crap in that film anyway in the original book tom hagan's

00:14:02.840 a massive character there's this whole backstory about him about how vito corleone picked him up out of

00:14:08.460 nowhere and sort of kind of saved his life and um his his friendship going back to childhood with

00:14:14.180 uh there's just loads all about tom hagan in the book that they don't put in the films

00:14:20.320 and last time i reread it which wasn't that long ago maybe a year ago six months ago

00:14:24.940 um i was daydreaming to myself if there was ever a spin-off film just call it hagan have a whole film

00:14:32.000 about the early life of tom hagan anyway anyway let's move on to the news just a little bit about

00:14:39.880 duval there okay the mail the daily mail absolute slop in denial that it's not slop

00:14:48.560 a full police inquiry into andrew is the only way to restore trust in the monarchy

00:14:57.080 even then a full police inquiry into king charles's connection to jimmy savile

00:15:05.520 might go some way to restore trust in monarchy

00:15:08.700 in 14th major u-turn humiliated pm pm has to abandon plans to cancel local elections

00:15:20.480 starmer forced to face wrath of voters yeah

00:15:23.320 something about posh spice and cruise now they one of their other sons cruise we're not going to even

00:15:30.620 talk about it okay starmer's plan to delay elections abandoned council to vote uh council vote back on

00:15:38.900 as reform forces u-turn right claims that romeo i don't know how you pronounce it i think it's romeo

00:15:45.060 uh was bully were covered up that's the new cabinet secretary i believe a woman already saying that

00:15:52.280 she's a bully uh the thing about bullying in high office or someone that's like a cabinet secretary of 1.00

00:15:58.460 something someone that's the ceo of a company if it's real bad bullying like giving people dead arms all the time

00:16:04.880 giving people noogies like physically hurting them and stuff like that sort of bullying okay

00:16:11.700 if it's they're just a super strong character and they shout at people and and and chew them out verbally

00:16:17.800 all the time i don't see a problem with that kind of if it's to an egregious level if it's absolutely insane

00:16:24.660 okay but if it's not that then often you would need someone like that like a bull of a character

00:16:31.840 to be cabinet secretary or to be the ceo of a big company or whatever

00:16:36.780 often you get people get accused of being a bully and it's like are they really a bully or is it just

00:16:44.940 that they're like they're quite strong they know their own mind and they won't take any nonsense from

00:16:48.740 anyone ever and that you would need a character like that to do certain jobs

00:16:53.200 i don't know in this case i really don't know how bad she is but sometimes you hear people are like

00:17:00.960 bullies and like it's like oh all right or other people around them accusing them of being a bully just

00:17:07.640 wusses 0.67

00:17:10.500 i've worked for bosses that most people in the world would call a bully

00:17:16.940 just man up just get on with it you just deal with them you just you just deal with it or you

00:17:23.540 meet them head on don't let them bully you i mean

00:17:26.520 all right all right the tory graph stummer u-turners is on cancelled elections all right

00:17:34.780 four million denied right to vote in attack on democracy no wonder this council doesn't want

00:17:39.800 you to vote labor has weaponized law to thwart democracy revolt over cancelled elections right

00:17:45.760 so let's just walk to wall there um here's a story there trump attack attacks milliband over energy

00:17:52.380 deal with loser newsom yeah apparently there's been some sort of deal struck between california just

00:17:57.580 the state of california and the uk over some sort of some sort of deal worth quite a few quite a lot

00:18:04.540 quite a few hundred millions of pounds or dollars seven hundred odd million dollars or pounds um

00:18:13.340 yeah for like renewable energy stuff i think it will create jobs in britain i think that money's

00:18:17.980 largely going from california to the uk and anyway trump says the whole thing's a nonsense and newsom's a loser

00:18:26.380 well we'll see in the next uh presidential election won't we i uh

00:18:37.420 i suspect it will be a newsom ticket might be wrong i suspect the dems will put up old gav next time

00:18:46.460 and he'll probably face what either advance or rubio you would have thought they're the two biggest

00:18:50.460 horses aren't they the two biggest beasts in the republican party right now who knows you could get

00:18:55.500 someone come out of nowhere but rubio and vance seem to be they're likely to don't they at the moment

00:19:05.500 uh imagine that what like let's say vance jd vance versus gavin newsom they go to the american public who

00:19:12.460 do you want i actually never used to really like rubio i never used to really trust or like rubio

00:19:21.260 particularly but since this trump administration i like him a lot more a lot more if he could act

00:19:29.260 like that as president because before this he always seemed a bit i don't know weak is strong

00:19:35.500 he's too strong he wasn't particularly weak but he never seemed to stand out and really you know

00:19:45.340 anyway since he's been under trump he's sort of i think maybe given him uh

00:19:52.540 courage is that the right word given him uh like steeled him like he has i feel like he has

00:20:00.140 stepped up to the plate to become a statesman other than just some other ambitious senator

00:20:07.580 uh you know i i sort of believe him when he says some says big things you know not everyone can do that

00:20:16.300 um i don't feel like he's particularly larping rubio

00:20:22.380 if he was as strong as he is now under trump as president himself you know just completely unapologetic

00:20:29.420 now we're doing this whatever it is that's what you want in a leader whether you like the united

00:20:34.940 states or not he could do that i'd probably rather him than vance personally anyway imagine if it was

00:20:41.900 rubio versus newsom at the next general next presidential election could be well could well could well be what

00:20:50.060 we get anti-semitism is rife in uk says trump's czar oh really just british people are just more

00:20:59.100 anti-semitic than they used to be is it nothing to do with mass importation of muslims no mention of

00:21:04.060 that but there you go all right the metro the metro

00:21:18.940 god damn metro all right uh my happy place with pro green professor green is he still around

00:21:26.060 is he still trying to be a thing professor green get lost professor green

00:21:34.780 uh after metro uncovers ai dark side pm vow to stop the bots classic slot from the metro

00:21:43.020 i was funny i thought that all these progressive people main like loads of lefties or loads of

00:21:47.340 people tech bros most people like ai ai is the new thing ai is the best thing ever now they're saying

00:21:52.620 it is bad there's a dark side to it and there's too many bots

00:21:55.900 to do the online safety we have to curtail everyone's freedom of of expression and freedom

00:22:04.860 of speech freedom of thought because of bots because of ai bots we didn't realize whoever's

00:22:11.580 done the front page as well from the metro i get the feeling that the people that put together the metro

00:22:16.140 are like middle-aged or older or boomers or just idiots don't really know what they do it's all about 0.88

00:22:22.060 but ai bots and they've got pictures from uh that fit that film what is it ai or whatever um

00:22:31.100 i robot or whatever and they're not actual robots why have you it's weird it's like you don't

00:22:38.460 understand what you're talking about like profoundly don't understand all right the little line says

00:22:43.420 online safety worries uh online safety worries every parent says starmer as he considers social media ban

00:22:52.780 but plans will be gaffer taping a pothole if big tech won't play ball warns campaigner

00:22:59.660 yeah it's like um there's some terrible tick-tock trend or something that you can

00:23:05.260 you can die in if you're not careful so we've got to ban freedom of of expression for everyone then

00:23:15.580 wheel out a grieving mother can we do that have we got a grieving mother anywhere

00:23:19.260 let's exploit her grief yeah yeah yeah will her out

00:23:29.420 can't have people talking amongst themselves and exchanging ideas freely can't have that

00:23:36.940 let's find ourselves a grieving mother and exploit her pain 0.99

00:23:45.180 filth absolute filth all right the daily star

00:23:50.780 what have we got here tribute to godfather star deval dies at 95

00:23:54.620 yeah in the book as well mario puse book there's loads about how um veto chooses tom hagan to be his

00:24:07.260 conciliere his sort of right-hand man and that you would because he's irish in it tom hagan he's not

00:24:13.660 a sicilian and that was unheard of and all the other families sort of see that and they call the

00:24:18.140 corleone family like what they call them like the the irishman or something they call them like the

00:24:23.420 irish family or something i can't remember um and that that actually causes loads and loads of problems

00:24:28.700 a big part in the book a big element of why the families end up going to war and stuff is because

00:24:35.980 veto picked hagan to be his right-hand man

00:24:38.380 they don't really stress that or even really say it exactly in the films

00:24:46.060 a little bit of a little bit of godfather trivia for you there the book is really great

00:24:51.020 you can even get it on i think it's entirely on audiobook on youtube for free listen to it

00:24:58.380 listen to it while you're doing other stuff

00:25:01.900 okay the independent oh there there deval is as kilgore

00:25:08.380 have you ever seen apocalypse now harry

00:25:13.740 it is really good yeah no you gotta see that see it so that when martin sheen dies

00:25:20.780 we can talk about it yeah there he is this kill girl smell that you smell that 1.00

00:25:28.860 you don't get the reference to you no

00:25:32.940 it's nothing like the smell of napalm in the morning the whole stinking hill

00:25:36.860 no okay i'll move on

00:25:40.620 smells like

00:25:43.980 victory that's my robert deval that's my kill girl impression there you go that one's for free

00:25:50.380 brilliant film that apocalypse now isn't it brilliant brilliant film okay another star

00:25:53.820 farmer u-turners local poll uh delays uh delays abandoned nigel farage forces labor into retreat

00:26:00.700 over plan to postpone council elections affecting 4.5 million voters as ministers change course quote

00:26:06.620 following legal advice quote with only 11 weeks to go yeah okay and it's not long until that uh that

00:26:14.220 um that uh by-election i think that's a week on thursday

00:26:23.900 so a week and two days out not long at all vote nick buckley i say

00:26:29.500 is the advance uk candidate but you want advance and restore maybe i think yesterday i said yesterday

00:26:39.100 it looked like ben habib was definitely going to just roll into restore maybe now not so much over

00:26:43.900 the last 24 hours ben seems to walk that back a little bit i don't know all the details but people

00:26:48.460 are talking about how he's playing touch touch hardball with rupert i don't know about all of that

00:26:54.220 anyway why not vote nick buckley he's a friend of this channel if you live there of course

00:26:59.740 definitely would be nice if labor didn't win just to screw with starmer no one's voting tory no one's

00:27:09.100 voting tory in matchester or anywhere really who wants the tories so is a defunct and defeat greens

00:27:15.420 let's not let the greens win come on the greens are disgusting they're more commie than labor aren't 1.00

00:27:21.340 they they're more commie than the workers socialist party they're arch arch insane commies 0.71

00:27:30.220 and islamophiles the green parties don't vote green party so really

00:27:36.620 out of reform and um advance and matt goodwin don't trust matt goodwin as far as i could throw him

00:27:44.540 don't trust him as far as i could throw i don't trust you matt

00:27:47.100 we see you yeah we see it's pretty it's kind of obvious what you're doing

00:27:59.580 who you are it's kind of obvious matt all right the daily express

00:28:08.460 pm secretly plotting to lock us back into the eu yeah there's loads of details of uh various

00:28:14.060 things starmer's doing he wants to apparently he's making a deal he is making a deal in the process of

00:28:20.540 with vanderlion and in the eu to have much closer ties on what defense some sort of shared defense

00:28:27.260 policy and some other things i think energy yeah it was energy was the big thing as well that we're

00:28:33.340 like locked into their energy policy and it's done on some sort of sliding scale depending on how big

00:28:41.740 our economy is compared to theirs and stuff so again we'd have to the net result of all of that is that

00:28:48.380 we pay them loads of money billions and billions of pounds and we're locked into an energy policy

00:28:54.300 that may not be almost certainly won't be ideal for us why are you doing that so queer why are you 0.93

00:29:00.220 doing that bro why who asked for that didn't we have a referendum about all this crazy crazy everything

00:29:09.660 he does everything he does is uh not in the national interest isn't it kind of everything

00:29:18.380 mad mad mad he will go down history as one of the worst m pms of all time all right the mirror 0.89

00:29:31.660 exclusive social media plea save our next generation there you go there's the poor grieving mother

00:29:40.460 that in this instance they've decided in instance have decided to trot out

00:29:44.940 to get you to agree with having your own freedom of speech and expression curtailed

00:29:57.020 the sun after fury oh yeah this is one of the sun look at this this is their front page

00:30:08.620 line of duty h-bomb villain id twist so there's this program for anyone who doesn't know anyone

00:30:13.020 doesn't particularly watch tv or anyone who isn't from britain there's a show called line of duty

00:30:19.260 just a show a fictional scripted drama show on tv these are the characters in it there you go

00:30:27.580 and the whole front page of the sun today is about but then something like the new series

00:30:33.500 it starts the last series ended on a cliffhanger and now the new series is started and there is going

00:30:39.420 to be some sort of reveal who the arch baddie is in it that's the front page of the news of the of the

00:30:44.780 sun the front page some some tv show it's quite popular i understand i've never watched a single

00:30:54.220 moment of it i've got no intention of

00:30:58.140 it looks completely bland but no intention of watching a second of it and even though it's reasonably

00:31:04.140 popular it's not insanely popular it's not like uh it's not like a whole cultural phenomenon or

00:31:10.140 anything but there you go that's the front page there's a new series of line of duty starting that's

00:31:16.380 important according to the editor of the sun mental they're mental all right that's the front pages let's

00:31:25.820 have a wee look at our um our poll what did we ask today harry what was what did we pose

00:31:34.220 today we said uh should britain have closer ties with the eu there you go all right and so a resounding

00:31:45.180 win again in line with my thoughts and feelings 83 of you say no i mean you're the glorious band in

00:31:51.260 the chosen few i can rely on you guys you're my people i can rely on you guys um we're simpatico

00:32:04.700 83 of you say no good which is the correct answer 1.00

00:32:10.220 um 10 said not sure which is always fair enough i think if you don't really know enough about things

00:32:16.380 that's fair enough to say isn't it uh but a dirty dirty seven percent of you say yes

00:32:27.020 there's the door don't really hit you on the ass in the way out no don't go no don't go stay 0.99

00:32:35.340 okay i still love you we can make it work

00:32:40.380 there you go now 84 boom that's a win if it was a referendum on something

00:32:45.180 you'd claim for all time that you've got a mandate of heaven on that one wouldn't you all right let's

00:32:51.820 move on uh okay let's have a look at the normal websites where's my mouse okay there it is

00:33:04.380 all right uh bbc clinton oh this is rich this is rich hillary clinton accuses trump administration of 1.00

00:33:12.060 epstein files cover up in bbc interview okay a little bit but when you look into the details

00:33:18.380 what she's coming out with is the most insane you know that kind of thing if you accuse your enemies

00:33:24.540 of the things you do she's just done a 180 on on everything like she's accusing them of getting 1.00

00:33:30.860 you've got to get the files out they're they're slow walking it um what was the other thing she said

00:33:36.620 um she said um like that sunlight is the best disinfectant yeah right she said everyone should

00:33:45.660 testify sorry hillary wasn't it you and bill just like one week ago or two weeks ago that were 0.94

00:33:53.100 subpoenaed to testify and you refused and it was only when you were being threatened with

00:33:57.660 further prosecution that you relented now you've wanted on that and pretending and pretending it's

00:34:04.700 always been your position and she says things in that interview that are quoted saying we've always

00:34:10.780 been on record of saying everything should come out and the sunlight is the best disinfectant and

00:34:15.020 everyone that's involved should testify and and it's the trump administration that have done all the

00:34:19.740 wrong things about all of this even though under the biden and obama years and things

00:34:28.620 they didn't they didn't do anything with the epstein stuff

00:34:34.940 i mean talk about talk about lying talk about uh oh they're just the worst aren't they the clintons

00:34:41.900 hillary clinton hillary clinton hillary clinton gross gross i remember that time just before when

00:34:50.540 she thought she was uh gonna beat trump she tweeted it was her own birthday and she said she tweeted a

00:34:56.940 picture of herself as a child saying happy birthday to this future president because all the polls in 2016

00:35:05.260 all the polls were saying she would win i remember i remember it clearly very very clearly

00:35:12.380 i was already in my mid-30s or whatever um but yeah all the polls were saying she's going to win

00:35:17.420 and it will almost certainly be a landslide um she will be the next president like right up to the day 1.00

00:35:24.140 before the election before the vote absolutely everyone thought she would be president and obviously she 1.00

00:35:31.820 did as well gross it's the worst just the absolute worst type of human just look at it look at that

00:35:40.860 you want that to be the rule of the it's like this sort of sort of an insane karen you can sort of see

00:35:46.940 the insanity in her eyes am i overstating this you can sort of see the watery the watery boomer

00:35:54.060 insanity the entitled the entitlement sort of mad karen

00:36:02.540 all right talk about all sorts of things look i i think everyone should testify who is asked to

00:36:08.060 testify you were asked to testify and you did everything in your power not to they came that

00:36:12.140 close to sending the us marshals around putting you in handcuffs and forcing you to testify oh but

00:36:17.100 now you're saying you think everyone should testify these people shameless absolutely shameless

00:36:27.340 we will show up what we think it would be better to have it in public

00:36:30.620 really really i just want it to be fair

00:36:38.300 i want everyone treated the same way

00:36:41.980 actually that's what you're saying now okay we have nothing to hide we have called for the full

00:36:47.820 release of these files repeatedly have you we think sunlight is the best disinfectant

00:36:52.540 the most disinject that's been very kind disingenuous

00:36:55.260 all right what else have we got um facing a demographic catastrophe ukraine is paying for 0.78

00:37:13.500 troops to freeze their sperm yeah it's a a lot of the men folk in ukraine are being killed

00:37:21.180 to the point where it's changing it will change their demographic

00:37:27.580 how many deaths are enough zelensky 0.96

00:37:32.620 how many you're gonna you're gonna wipe out all the fighting age men of ukraine 1.00

00:37:39.340 and then still lose anyway

00:37:43.820 i mean trump's calling might see later when we look at the washington post or the

00:37:48.380 the new york times there's an article there oh no it's on it's in the russian one

00:37:52.780 where trump's saying zelensky needs to come to the table asap we wait we're waiting on zelensky

00:38:00.700 i mean how many men are you gonna you're gonna have you're gonna butcher all your fighting age

00:38:04.220 men is that what you're gonna do but people have said pro-ukraine people

00:38:08.860 they said what if it was your country though like how would you come to the table if say kent 0.99

00:38:17.020 or cornwall had been invaded by france let's say just making this up but you know

00:38:23.100 be invaded by france and you'd had a

00:38:26.460 like how how many how long before you just gave that up and just conceded it came to the peace table

00:38:31.580 and um accepted that you'd lost that bit of land

00:38:36.540 well if so many englishmen would if we'd done the battlefield thing for a few years three four

00:38:43.340 five years whatever it is if we'd done that for years and we were losing so many men that it was

00:38:48.540 ruining our demographic for all time then i would come i would be talking about and advocate for

00:38:54.620 coming to the peace table and letting france keep cornwall or kent then if that was the case

00:39:03.820 right a portion of the country isn't worth all the fighting age men in it is it i don't think so

00:39:12.380 well go on then the slava ukraine then the pro-ukraine people then great

00:39:16.220 great there will hardly be any ukrainian men left in the world then well done well done brilliant 1.00

00:39:22.780 all right let's have a look was there anything on itv news was there a couple of stories worth

00:39:34.460 talking about look there's new sermon ed miller band to complete two men that are basically retarded as 0.98

00:39:42.300 far as i i'm concerned basically retarded men 0.98

00:39:46.540 they're spending hundreds of millions of pounds on nonsense oh here's a story at a tay tay concert

00:39:56.060 a taylor swift concert in austria uh some muslim man was going to try and blow it up and kill loads 1.00

00:40:02.140 of people you know like ariana grande style they don't like music

00:40:10.220 they go an austrian man just an austrian man a 21 year old austrian man

00:40:14.220 just an austrian man has been charged with terrorism offenses and is accused of planning

00:40:18.860 to carry out an attack at a taylor swift gig in vienna the unnamed defendant

00:40:25.580 had declared allegiance to the to the islamic state group

00:40:29.020 by sharing propaganda material he's just a man he's just a 21 year old austrian man

00:40:35.180 again they don't like music

00:40:36.620 like in isis you can't have music no music that's haram or dancing dancing is definitely haram

00:40:48.540 a woman without her head covered bare arms singing and dancing

00:40:56.060 that's satanic that's satanic that's monstrous you can't have that best try and blow it up but

00:41:04.220 any fans that like that they really deserve death don't they blow it up

00:41:08.940 that's they're thinking that's what happened with the ariana grande thing it's all terribly haram and

00:41:16.940 un-islamic

00:41:20.780 ariana grande and her fans or tay tay and her fans

00:41:27.580 look look she's like she's happy and singing and dancing and comfortable in her own skin

00:41:33.500 can't have that

00:41:39.980 just an austrian man just a 21 year old austrian man

00:41:46.540 that's what we're up against you know

00:41:50.140 choose to ignore it if you want bury your head in the sand if you want about all of that

00:41:57.260 or wake up and understand that this is the sort of threat we're dealing with

00:42:01.820 we've got millions of these people people that think like that or have ideas and a world view

00:42:09.420 that's quite similar to that adjacent to that you've allowed millions of them into our countries

00:42:20.060 can pretend that that's not the case

00:42:22.380 right can be politics joe or something can be the guardian or whatever and pretend

00:42:27.020 it isn't a massive massive ongoing threat

00:42:34.460 pretend someone like me noticing it and talking about it is just just a crazy bigot

00:42:40.620 just a crazy racist although islam isn't a race is it it's a religion

00:42:47.740 or you can face up to the truth reality

00:42:50.700 there are lots of people like this 21 year old austrian man

00:42:57.020 that would want something as simple as a music concert to be destroyed

00:43:03.980 can't have music and fun and women aren't covered up can't have singing 1.00

00:43:09.420 all right sky news young boys who don't know their fathers they're lost are they part of the problem

00:43:23.020 far be it from me to give any sort of answer to that

00:43:26.380 oh but also completely unrelated loads of uh young people arrested for steamy mobile phones

00:43:31.340 there you go hundreds arrested for phone theft in london as met police calls on courts to stop releasing offenders

00:43:45.020 yeah mobile phone theft particularly in london is gigantic isn't it

00:43:49.180 danny dyer there mockney with his extremely exaggerated cockney accent

00:43:54.940 he's not that cockney by the way danny dyer you're having a bubble bath ain't you

00:44:01.820 isn't he's exaggerating he's pretending there he cares about the how pure water is the water supply

00:44:08.940 i tested our water supply did you danny did you it was fascinating was it was it you're fascinated by it yeah

00:44:16.540 yeah people actually from essex and east london all know that danny dyer is a mockney

00:44:32.860 all right let's have a look what else have we got the mail yeah this is a one-off story but it's in

00:44:37.980 the news a bit today this guy here some teenagers 15 and 16 year olds thought he was a paedophile

00:44:46.780 i'm not sure whether he is or not the article i read the article i read a couple of articles about it

00:44:50.780 they never confirm whether he was or not they definitely don't say he was

00:44:54.940 so i can only sort of assume he wasn't this guy was like in his 40s late 40s 49

00:45:01.180 they thought he was a paedophile so they beat him to death

00:45:06.860 or they throw stone they threw rocks at him i don't know if actually deliberately meant to murder him

00:45:13.180 but they did kill him i mean they were convicted of manslaughter they threw rocks at him and so

00:45:17.900 some obviously hit him in the head and he died and when the police arrested the teenager sort of at the

00:45:23.100 scene they said uh we we thought we did the right thing because the police was he was a pedo and the

00:45:29.980 police aren't going to do anything about it so we did the right thing if anything they didn't know he

00:45:33.420 was dead at that point anyway he did die terrible crazy story ridiculous ridiculous story

00:45:46.860 all right what is there oh uh william and kate never really liked beatrice and eugenie apparently

00:45:52.860 they're andrew's daughters and obviously that's king charles's son and his wife so they're cousins

00:46:00.380 these two are his cousin and he never really liked him anyway particularly so he's not he's

00:46:04.700 not going to struggle to sort of cut them out they're disgraced by proxy because of andrew

00:46:13.580 all right uh the pure slop something about millionaire influence influences pure slop won't

00:46:20.540 even look at that don't care about that fergie oh look she's like oh there's a thing like the 1.00

00:46:27.100 picture of dorian gray where you're so evil well it's not actually it's the opposite isn't it in

00:46:33.420 dorian gray all the evilness gets put onto a portrait that's kept in the attic and you look youthful

00:46:37.820 forever but normal people well you're so evil for so many years that you actually start looking evil

00:46:45.660 like chumps gears i think like sarah ferguson like fergie yeah that the evil's really starting to

00:46:52.940 show through now really starting to show through all right oh yeah there's trump trump makes scathing

00:47:02.780 swipe against ed milliband's climate pact with the us yeah he just said it's like foolish and and stupid

00:47:10.860 and all of that all right let's have a look the sun there's pure slop today an individual case of

00:47:16.060 someone that was abused as a child and out of an ant and deck his dog has died oh look what a good boy

00:47:23.900 but yeah his dog died big news um that paedophile that some kids beat to death a pot a really big

00:47:33.020 pothole sinkhole sorry sinkhole really big sinkhole that hasn't been fixed for a year important stuff

00:47:39.900 isn't it really important stuff um the the lose track at the winter olympics is cut is too hard

00:47:48.220 it's a bit concrete hurt in the back of some of the athletes it's a bit hard there you go someone

00:47:54.140 someone individual person got hit by a car oh look boom

00:48:02.620 he didn't die though they don't show you if he died he's essentially all right but the person was on

00:48:06.780 the phone on their car so don't don't drive around on your phone because you might hit someone

00:48:12.860 another fight in the street you know important stuff important stuff from the sun there you go

00:48:17.100 all right let's jump across the pond let's jump across the old pond to the new york slimes us and 0.50

00:48:23.100 iran gear up for nuclear talks amid rising tensions yeah i think the iranians have got a few weeks they've

00:48:29.740 got three weeks before the uss gerald r r falls the second carrier group steams across the atlantic

00:48:37.820 around the around the cape around the bottom of africa into the arabian sea that will take about

00:48:47.100 four weeks roughly and once the us have got the abraham lincoln and the gerald fall there

00:48:55.420 a whole contingency an extra carrier group for contingency then they can start doing what they

00:49:05.580 want really in the skies above persia and trump said that has said that to like the the iranians

00:49:13.820 you've got four weeks we're going to give you four weeks and then if you haven't sort of made a deal

00:49:18.460 with us if you haven't capitulated to what we want you to do basically then

00:49:21.580 you know stuff's probably going to start happening so

00:49:28.060 in iran slain protesters memorials will test state crackdown

00:49:33.100 all right ukraine and russia hold peace talks but expectations are low now

00:49:41.020 it looked like they were going to start coming to the table didn't it about a week ago

00:49:44.140 both sides sort of making noises that they were prepared to make a deal

00:49:47.100 but that seems to have they've backed away from things like that a bit now whether it's

00:49:53.660 zelensky this time or not because over the last year or so it's been mainly been putin

00:49:59.660 but zelensky saying i'm ready to talk let's talk let's talk and it's putin going no no i don't want

00:50:03.260 to i don't need to now it's flipped again whereas the russians want a deal and zelensky seems to be

00:50:08.940 dragging his feet i mean all right well there you go let's have a look at the uh the washington post

00:50:19.500 popular anger burns in iran after crackdown as trump turns up pressure as the trump

00:50:23.820 administration heads into nuclear talks with tehran after a government crackdown killed thousands

00:50:29.260 widespread outrage has not abated iranians say

00:50:32.700 mitch mcconnell is the loser in the race to replace him in the senate so yeah mitch mcconnell

00:50:40.860 is oh look he's so vacant

00:50:45.260 he almost looks like a cartoon tortoise

00:50:50.940 uh he's so vacant he's lost his marbles has he he's lost his marbles you see a while ago a few

00:50:55.260 months ago he was talking to the press and just sort of mid-sentence just sort of goes all vacant

00:51:00.220 like forgets what he's talking about so yeah he's going to be replaced uh because he's suffering

00:51:09.580 from senility i don't know is there something wrong there shan't shed a tear for mitch mcconnell though

00:51:17.980 never liked the man never ever liked him

00:51:22.940 us versus them the battle that okay it's not an important something about an individual

00:51:26.540 town somewhere in virginia all right the aussies the aussies the taxpayer will have to pay for 0.78

00:51:33.180 poorly planned renewable energy infrastructure of course because it costs an absolute arm and a leg

00:51:39.340 and never really works properly so get used to that everyone in the west whose governments insist on

00:51:46.540 doing this insist on ruining the energy sector and economy of your country for boondoggles

00:51:52.860 a bunch of isis brides want to come back from syria 1.00

00:51:59.660 into australia of course they do all right wasn't that much in japan other than

00:52:05.580 look this the this rarest of pokemon cards sold at auction for 16 and a half million dollars not yen dollars

00:52:13.660 16 and a half million bucks for one pokemon card

00:52:25.660 that's no that's not uh it's not peanuts is it all right the the uh the chinese same as always

00:52:32.860 uh the russians here we go there was one the story that yeah look ukraine better come to the table fast

00:52:38.220 says trump like we're waiting on you guys now really to come to terms with the fact you've lost a lot

00:52:46.940 of territory in the donbass it's historically russian territory most of them speak russian most of them

00:52:53.580 despite a a clearly uh corrupt plebiscite most of the people there do want to be russian it seems

00:53:08.220 yeah the germans someone the other day accused me of like not don't talk about ukraine you don't

00:53:16.060 know anything about ukrainian history nonsense got long-form content about ukrainian history going

00:53:21.180 back to the 7th century on the epochs of the lotus eaters so i do know a fair bit about ukrainian

00:53:26.460 history let's let's talk about the the uh let's talk about the the ninth century in ukraine what became

00:53:34.780 ukraine let's talk about that i could talk about that for hours could you let's talk about the

00:53:38.380 kiev and russ let's do a couple of hours about the kiev and race you want to talk about soviet era

00:53:46.780 ukraine i can talk about that i've read all of the uh gulag archipelago there's loads and loads of

00:53:52.860 details about the relationship between white russia and the ukrainians in that talk about that for hours

00:53:59.420 could you know a fair bit about ukrainian history thanks these people they often say that if they

00:54:09.100 don't agree with you it's like you just don't know anything about it really like don't talk about art

00:54:14.300 history don't have an opinion about art because you know nothing about it well what if you do though

00:54:19.420 what if you do okay in build in the um uh same as always just talking about car crashes and and the

00:54:33.900 weather a fair bit um in build even build go with that pokemon card thing big news don't worry about

00:54:42.620 the destruction of your country and things your demographic replacement and impending civil 1.00

00:54:47.500 potential civil war here is a pokemon card story about pokemon the french who are france's second

00:54:54.860 homeowners don't care okay um the space news there wasn't a great deal of space news uh china still

00:55:02.540 um testing and launching things um all right should we just move on to on this day in history

00:55:09.900 because i like that you guys like that let's do that all right what happened on this day the 17th of

00:55:15.260 february in history in the year 1568 the treaty of adrian opel representatives of the holy roman

00:55:22.380 emperor maximilian ii and ottoman sultan selim ii agree to a peace plan ending the war between the

00:55:28.780 habsburg monarchy and the ottoman empire maximilian agrees to provide a cash quote present quote and

00:55:34.860 ruling authority is granted to the ottomans in transylvania moldavia and wallachia

00:55:39.740 so yeah this is like this is a fair long time after um flagged the impaler got content all about

00:55:46.220 flagged the impaler uh this is quite a while after that like 100 years or so after so um uh but yeah

00:55:53.420 this is you could argue around the time of the higher watermark of the ottoman empire's encroachment into

00:56:00.060 europe um yeah so it's in and around these generations where the the the ottoman um scourge 0.96

00:56:14.940 gets as far it gets quite far into eastern europe southern eastern europe i mean transylvania what

00:56:20.060 that's like modern and uh moldavia that's and wallachia it's like that's modern romania hungary bulgaria

00:56:26.220 that whole region right you know they've taken all of greece it's way up in the balkans and beyond

00:56:32.940 um so yeah sort of sort of worrying times a lot of western europe and like start finally to become

00:56:41.180 genuinely concerned about about uh the sultan in constantinople sorry istanbul

00:56:49.500 all right in 1865 union forces led by william tecumseh sherman capture the state capital of

00:56:58.380 of columbia south carolina the city of columbia in south carolina the city is ablaze by nightfall

00:57:05.340 fanned by high winds devastating much of the city it is not known which side set the fires

00:57:12.380 that's one of those things um fascinated by the civil war made all sorts of content about the civil war

00:57:19.820 long-form bit of content with benjamin boyce talking about ulysses s grant and william

00:57:24.860 tecumseh chairman he's marched to the sea 60 miles in ladder to 300 to the main

00:57:33.100 yeah he had an army group an army corps 60 miles wide that marched straight through georgia smashed and

00:57:39.420 burnt atlanta raised atlanta georgia marched all the way to the main the sea marching through the carolinas

00:57:46.220 making his roads while he went through the swamps of carolina all the way to columbia burn that down

00:57:53.580 now most people think sherman himself and the union forces burnt down raised destroyed atlanta and

00:58:02.540 columbia well atlanta certainly it was more the case really that the confederate forces as they left

00:58:09.900 burnt it down because they thought they they thought it was like a tactical

00:58:17.980 to prevent the union forces from getting what was there but the union forces already had all their

00:58:24.540 own material and food and everything they needed um as it says there is not known which side started

00:58:30.220 the fires it might have been the retreating confederate forces anyone from the south would

00:58:34.860 say that's nonsense william sherman william to come to sherman was a monster and a butcher and it 0.50

00:58:41.100 must have been him it must have been the evil yankees that did it well i mean read the accounts in detail 0.77

00:58:47.020 and um you'll see that it's not that it's not the sherman's forces didn't do terrible things in that march to

00:58:56.220 the sea they certainly did things that would be considered atrocities these days but it's not as black and 0.56

00:59:02.540 white as you might think it's not as straightforward as the union just everything that evil evil was 0.97

00:59:08.620 done was the union that the confederates didn't deliberately try and leave leave a scorched earth

00:59:14.220 policy right that's a thing isn't it if you're retreating don't leave a single pig for the advancing

00:59:22.140 forces you do you do a scorched earth policy on your own country right

00:59:26.060 it's not inconceivable is it all right on this day in the 17th of february in 1786 sardines were first

00:59:37.020 canned by julius wolf in east port maine oh that's important isn't it that's what a weird bit of

00:59:45.500 trivia and knowledge that is in 1972 the british parliament votes to join the european economic

00:59:50.540 community yeah terrible stupid idea yeah always always a bad idea all right let's uh go to because

01:00:01.100 we're very near the top of the hour let's have a look at the rumble rents in the super chat says we've

01:00:04.620 got one rumble rant from johnny logo who says a full epstein list is out okay cool yeah i think that

01:00:11.980 was yesterday they released that but um if there's an even fuller one great um good

01:00:22.780 where hillary clinton said it um is in in a disingenuous way i mean it i mean it sincerely

01:00:30.300 sunlight is the best disinfectant let's get it all out in the open if anyone needs to be prosecuted do

01:00:36.460 it all right on youtube the super chats a global church history says aim higher vote low

01:00:45.100 then he ruins it you're in it mate he says aim higher vote low crown lamby oh i can't agree with

01:00:51.660 the last sentiment can't can't go with you on that one aim high and vote low yes crown lamby

01:00:57.340 okay thanks for the super chat anyway um dylan lindsey 6794 says bo are you going to join restore

01:01:09.100 and run for mp well i'm already a member of restore or was like the the straight away straight away

01:01:18.460 run for an mp well that's a conversation that will need to be had if they want me i'll do it

01:01:22.780 loads of people have asked me this on twitter loads of different times and i've always said the same

01:01:25.980 thing i said it also on the state of politics state of politics my channel with nate off mr h reviews

01:01:32.940 um i said it on there and tweeted it out a couple of times if they want me i'll do it i can totally

01:01:39.100 understand they might not want me i'm a little bit toxic i've said loads of super super spicy things

01:01:45.660 right loads on twitter loads of examples of me calling people ridiculous insults f-bombs c-bombs all 0.93

01:01:53.340 over the place i might be a bit too toxic on if not if they want me i'll do it sure i'll do it but

01:02:01.260 if they don't i don't mind it's not my life's ambition to become an mp i would like to do it

01:02:06.780 i would be interested in do it but it's not my whole raise on debt it's not my reason for being

01:02:13.100 i can never be complete as a man unless i'm a member of parliament i'm not one of those people

01:02:17.660 it's my childhood dream but um if they want me i'll do it i mean it is it is like a ball lake

01:02:25.580 like badly badly the process of running is extremely difficult and extremely tiring

01:02:34.540 and then being an mp is also very very stressful and tiring and you might get charlie kirk you might

01:02:41.500 get david amist it's a genuine worry isn't it nonetheless despite all of that if they want me

01:02:48.060 i'll do it well i'll give it a whirl probably wouldn't win with the best will in the world

01:02:52.380 anyway i i would have thought i'd run in swindon south and the incumbent is the transport secretary

01:03:01.100 with a half decent majority behind her heidi alexander

01:03:04.540 a disgusting fat woman see they might not want me because i say stuff like that 1.00

01:03:12.780 she's got a half decent majority so um probably probably wouldn't win anyway 0.99

01:03:18.380 um yeah if they want me i'll do it put it that way all right uh

01:03:25.100 krish 281 says isn't bullying code for actually asking the civil servant to do their job right yeah yeah right

01:03:35.500 yeah dear civil servant actually do your job oh you're bullying me oh i'm being bullied don't ask

01:03:42.140 me to actually turn up to the office and do my job yeah fair point mr gently benevolent says uh

01:03:51.980 work for bosses who are bullies yeah a lot of people have yeah be honest beau is colgon bullying you

01:03:58.540 do you want us to speak to his dad

01:04:04.220 now carl is uh i must say you might think this is just under duress and i've got to say it i don't

01:04:10.060 at all carl is a great boss he's a great boss he's very hands-on he doesn't micromanage

01:04:16.540 and he's a friend he's he's he's he's just a friend who happens to sign off on paychecks

01:04:24.780 yeah he's a great boss okay

01:04:29.980 uh lap code 92 just a few bucks to keep to keep this bromance going soldier on lads cheers cheers

01:04:39.020 for the few bucks the bromance me and my audience

01:04:50.460 luke stuart 6155 says good day i hope you're doing okay dumb question i thought rubio said

01:04:56.700 he would back vance okay well fair enough if you said that i'd either forgotten that or didn't see

01:05:01.180 it at the time if he just has already said that it's a bit early to say that isn't it but anyway

01:05:05.100 if you said that might go back on it if the polling says he could be the prayers he might

01:05:10.300 go back on that but okay uh dumb question i thought rubio said he would back vance a lot of people think

01:05:15.500 it will be advance and rubio ticket yeah maybe yeah i mean that's totally yeah so vance

01:05:22.060 vance is prayers rubio is vice prayers yeah advance rubio ticket yeah i mean quite possibly

01:05:28.220 and then maybe even after that rubio gets a shot it's not always the case but very often isn't it

01:05:33.660 that the vice president it's it's they're they're the the crown prince they're the

01:05:41.500 they're the president in waiting absolutely not always the case but often yeah okay

01:05:46.860 what else have we got quite a few more got a few more here uh principled uncertainty said uh i'd rather

01:05:53.180 be unalived by a general secretary polensky in 202 after a noble trier 1.00

01:05:59.980 then farage win and sell out the uk for clout okay i'd rather be unalived by a general secretary

01:06:10.460 polensky i guess you're missing a digit there in 2028 2029 uh after a noble trier then farage win and

01:06:20.300 sell out the uk for clout okay i mean i sort of see what you mean yeah i sort of see what you're saying

01:06:23.660 yeah all the reform people are like you can't possibly split the vote the vote isn't being split

01:06:30.780 there's one party that's for mass remigration and all the others that aren't

01:06:36.700 and so no vote is being split on that count and so you can't possibly vote for anyone other than

01:06:41.820 reform because you just end up with labor not necessarily doesn't really make any real sense

01:06:46.140 i'm not interested in that argument anymore that's what kept the tories in power for 14 years

01:06:50.380 no no i'm gonna vote with what i want actually i'm gonna vote with what i want

01:06:59.100 screw you screw nigel screw tuss zia yusuf matt goodwin ugh all of them get away from me 1.00

01:07:09.980 all right 40 and barber says sweet haircut bow and the beard looks tidy af

01:07:21.020 look into that one harry harry are you there

01:07:30.460 all right yeah that one

01:07:31.340 yeah thank you thank you it's good of you to say um okay and the last one global church history again

01:07:44.460 says today in 1776 gibbon's decline and fall is published oh that's interesting that's great one of

01:07:51.660 my favorite books of all time i'm constantly rereading the decline of fall by edward gibbon

01:07:56.460 i've got more than one copy nearly always got one by my bed and as soon as i finish reading it more or

01:08:03.340 less give maybe a few months i'll go around and start reading it again got it on audiobook listen to

01:08:09.420 it on audiobook i'm sort of obsessed with gibbon's decline and fall of the roman empire it's great um

01:08:16.380 i honestly think it's one of the greatest pieces of literature ever non-fiction

01:08:21.660 it's superb give it a read once you get your ear in it's quite antiquated i mean it's late 18th century

01:08:27.500 so it's not easy to read but once you get used to it you know like shakespeare at first it's sort of

01:08:32.300 difficult to get into but once you get used to it brilliant i advise anyone to listen to it on

01:08:38.700 audiobook or read it so thanks for that global church history brilliant good to know all right that

01:08:44.780 is the show it's now ticked eight minutes past nine in the am greenwich meantime on tuesday the 17th

01:08:49.820 of february in the uva law 2026 you have been the glorious band the chosen few thank you for tuning

01:08:54.380 in really sincerely thank you without you it's not a thing is it it's not a thing you make it it is you

01:09:00.140 guys um try make the best of the day ahead you've only got it once it's later than you think in life

01:09:07.820 you've only got this day once ever once it's gone it's gone try and seize it by the scruff of the neck

01:09:14.700 seize it by the lapels make it count carpe diem seize the day okay until tomorrow morning take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - February 18, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 17th February 2026

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