The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 25th August 2026

00:00:00.000 There you are. Morning. You alright?

00:00:07.440 I hope you are. I sincerely hope you are. Genuinely. I say that every morning. If you say it sincerely enough, it starts sounding insincere. I sincerely hope you all are.

00:00:18.020 Right-eyed and bushy-tailed. Rocking around for the day ahead. Come on, wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey. Come on, the day's half over. Get out of bed, sleepyhead. Come on, come on.

00:00:26.740 Me? Yeah, I'm alright. Yeah, I'm fine, thanks. Yeah, yeah. All good.

00:00:30.000 all good tar another day another dollar i am joined by my producer jack because little harry

00:00:36.040 still way jack how are you this morning good sir i'm doing well bo how about you yeah fine thank

00:00:42.260 you yeah all good all good you guys know who you are the chosen few my glorious band of brothers

00:00:51.000 and sisters without you guys it isn't a thing it's now one minute past eight in the a.m british

00:00:57.000 summertime on Tuesday 25th of August in the year of our Lord 2026 but that's quite enough

00:01:01.900 faffing about isn't it it's really not it's not necessary to have that much fanning around first

00:01:08.100 thing in the morning let's just get straight into it let's do what this show is supposed to be

00:01:11.760 talking about the corporate lamestream media what's in the news cycle the British news cycle

00:01:16.240 today what have we got let's have a look what's that cabal of evil Fleet Street editors hanging

00:01:23.140 on about this morning trying to tell us is or isn't important oh i said i'd have a haircut

00:01:27.440 i obviously failed to do that haven't i got to do that today i had a busy day it's got

00:01:31.320 a really busy day today as well actually so yeah i was more of a vain man i'd care about

00:01:38.380 it but i mean it's a bit late for that innit um right what have we got burnham hints at

00:01:48.900 tax increases of course he does hints at there's going to be loads of tax increases

00:01:55.540 of course there are because that's all leftists know okay

00:02:02.660 uh and halt the hell rides i call them hell rides now i don't know if that's a thing jack

00:02:08.340 you're you're young you're actually like a really old zoomer right yep so is that like an actual

00:02:15.140 because i'm not on tiktok have you got a tiktok no it's just brain rock okay did they actually

00:02:21.700 call them hell rides is this something the legacy corporate lamestream media like boomer editors

00:02:26.100 have made up or is that what they're actually called i've not heard it myself so i think it

00:02:30.340 might be some of the boomers made up just to make it sound worse yeah hell rides of uh i learned

00:02:38.420 over the last 25 hours not just posting on tick tock and other places driving dangerously but

00:02:44.820 actually deliberately go deliberately getting in a police chase apparently part of it some of them

00:02:49.700 the more reckless ones not just driving really really fast and filming yourself doing it weaving

00:02:54.820 in and out of traffic but deliberately goading the police to chase you and then filming it and

00:02:59.940 of course the trend of driving the wrong way down a road hell rides

00:03:08.260 okay the government wants to halt the social media firms from sort of promoting that fair enough

00:03:19.080 you know i've said before haven't i loads of times you know me on this show you know the

00:03:22.460 you know people that are right of center uh want to have the government as small as possible

00:03:27.760 right not a full libertarian but i've got libertarian leanings i want the government

00:03:32.580 to be as small as possible but there are limits right the state should step in sometimes i think

00:03:36.760 I said before you're trying to synthesize like nerve agent in your shed yeah maybe the state

00:03:41.840 should step in and prevent you from doing that it's things like that right for me this raises

00:03:46.960 to that sort of level yeah don't promote driving the wrong like goading police into a chase and

00:03:52.280 then driving down the wrong way of a motorway yeah that's sort of insane that's insane that's

00:03:58.860 To me

00:03:59.780 I mean

00:04:00.840 My evil statist

00:04:04.300 The libertarians come out and fall

00:04:05.420 Statist

00:04:06.100 Well

00:04:08.900 Alright

00:04:10.540 There's times

00:04:11.420 The venerable times

00:04:12.360 What have we got

00:04:13.080 Cleavage is back apparently

00:04:15.380 Don't care

00:04:15.980 The banners on these things

00:04:17.280 Are more and more ridiculous

00:04:18.480 There's one here

00:04:19.420 Some 68 year old woman

00:04:21.020 The banners on it

00:04:24.240 Look

00:04:24.480 On the mail

00:04:25.500 Emotionally battered

00:04:27.280 Physically scarred

00:04:28.140 but still in a bikini at 68 maybe rethink that love have a word with yourself

00:04:33.800 all right these banners uh okay radical plans for thames water put on ice over price tag

00:04:45.460 because there was talk wasn't there there's been talk over the last few weeks or even months

00:04:51.300 before burnham was in that particularly thames water one of the biggest i think it's the biggest

00:04:56.720 Water provider in all of Britain

00:04:58.520 There's only a handful of them for the whole of Britain

00:05:00.240 But it's not a giant place

00:05:01.700 A fraction of the size

00:05:04.700 Of some of the bigger US states

00:05:05.980 Anyway, Thames Water is the biggest one

00:05:08.240 And

00:05:08.900 There was talk of nationalising it

00:05:11.880 Because it's obviously

00:05:12.680 Been terribly mismanaged

00:05:16.460 Almost running to the ground

00:05:19.180 Really

00:05:19.900 Getting close there

00:05:21.460 Something like that anyway

00:05:23.820 And there was talk of nationalising it

00:05:25.540 Because it can't be done much worse

00:05:27.760 Trying to stop the fat cats at the top

00:05:33.140 From just giving themselves crazy bonuses

00:05:35.660 For failing

00:05:37.360 Well that's all been shelved now

00:05:39.460 That's all been shelved

00:05:40.620 Andy Bumham, no sternum burnum

00:05:43.600 Has

00:05:44.260 You turned on that

00:05:46.720 He hasn't got the sternum for it

00:05:53.400 Alright

00:05:53.840 He was in Ukraine today

00:05:55.280 a lot of the a lot of the news today is very very similar to yesterday very very similar

00:06:00.400 focusing largely or quite a bit on that crash and andy bumham and his guyliner his man scara

00:06:09.600 in ukraine look he's sitting there some sort of ukrainian army units to do culture

00:06:16.400 someone handed him a guitar he's having a good time laugh it up clown he's having a good easy

00:06:23.200 who's having a whale of a time played a few bars of a smith's song the smiths

00:06:30.480 jack do you know the smiths nope all right there you go

00:06:39.040 johnny marr morrissey 1980s

00:06:45.360 from manchester do you know did you know did you know fun fact not many people know this

00:06:49.520 Andy Burnham's from Manchester. He's from the North of England, did you know?

00:06:56.520 He doesn't talk about it very often does he? He doesn't mention it very often.

00:07:00.520 He kept that quiet didn't he? He's actually more of a Scouser actually, isn't he, than a Manc?

00:07:07.520 Anyway, he's from the North. He's a Northman.

00:07:12.520 Northman, someone hands him a guitar, of course he sits down and plays the Smiths, doesn't

00:07:18.920 it, of course.

00:07:22.260 Isn't this like a really serious thing you're doing, Andy?

00:07:27.380 Being Prime Minister in and of itself, and then going to a foreign country that's at

00:07:32.020 war with the world's biggest nuclear power, and you're helping them build long-range missiles

00:07:39.500 to attack that nuclear power.

00:07:40.980 oh you're going to sit down all smiles and play a bit of the smiths on the guitar

00:07:45.460 what are you doing what are we doing here what's going on again now what is this

00:07:52.460 shouldn't it be i would have thought and if it was me

00:07:59.760 i was all if i found myself for some sort of visit like this anything parallel to this

00:08:05.640 it'd be extremely somber and serious i'd try and make the optics because they can always

00:08:10.540 capture you doing a smile you smile for half a second and they capture it but i try and make

00:08:17.180 the optics really quite serious and somber not laughing at playing guitar aren't a generation

00:08:28.140 of russians and ukrainians getting slaughtered here

00:08:33.820 are there tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of bereaved families

00:08:40.540 Okay, okay

00:08:42.560 You can play a bit of Morrissey though, mate

00:08:44.520 Good job

00:08:48.880 Britons want Prince Harry to make up

00:08:52.580 And cough up stories

00:08:54.300 According to

00:08:56.400 The Times

00:08:57.480 The Times poll or something

00:08:59.080 That most Britons would

00:09:00.940 When Harry comes back

00:09:02.620 We would rather he pays for

00:09:05.880 His own protection

00:09:07.360 So it's like 5 million quid a year

00:09:09.940 or something seems like brewster's millions is it how does it cost that much seems like quite a

00:09:17.200 higher price tag but most people would rather that they pay for it themselves the family pay

00:09:23.840 for it themselves hasn't isn't harry a bit out of pocket at the moment anyway

00:09:27.700 because he lost that court case with the mail remember that him and elton john and a few others

00:09:36.240 what Liz Curley, a few others, they lost that case and they've got to pay millions and millions

00:09:42.140 and millions. There was something in the news the other day, which I didn't get to on the

00:09:46.860 Beau show, Breakfast with Beau, don't you forget about me, Lotus Eaters Breakfast Club,

00:09:50.100 hashtag them in LBC, where it said they've got to start paying up, it's like tens and

00:09:54.120 tens of millions of pounds. And like the first instalment of it, because that's what quite

00:09:59.720 often happens in Britain, if you lose, if you bring a case and lose, you have to pay

00:10:03.920 The other side's legal costs

00:10:05.300 And if it's a big long case

00:10:07.200 It will be millions

00:10:08.000 Well this is tens and tens

00:10:09.620 And tens of millions

00:10:10.500 Like the first instalment of it

00:10:12.860 Was like nine million or whatever

00:10:14.040 And it's due now

00:10:15.000 Harry's a bit out of pocket

00:10:18.760 Whether he will or can

00:10:20.460 Pay for it himself

00:10:21.260 Whether he'll get his family

00:10:22.460 To pay for it

00:10:22.940 Or whether they'll just all sort of

00:10:25.000 Can you imagine around the table

00:10:26.360 The five or six litigants

00:10:27.560 All rich famous people

00:10:30.120 They all sort of as one

00:10:31.420 Slowly turn to Elton John

00:10:33.200 Hey Elton

00:10:35.900 You wouldn't mind would you

00:10:38.020 You're blatantly the richest out of us all

00:10:42.260 Like even Prince Harry

00:10:45.200 Elton John will be way way richer

00:10:47.500 It's like would you mind bro

00:10:49.180 It's only 9 mil

00:10:50.900 That's peanuts to Elton John

00:10:52.540 I don't know

00:10:55.440 Okay we don't want to pay for Harry's protection

00:10:58.840 Close security not condoms

00:11:02.580 A bit early for that, isn't it?

00:11:07.360 Okay

00:11:07.560 Realistic Burnham hints at tax increases in budget

00:11:11.900 Does he?

00:11:13.840 Of course he does

00:11:14.560 PM says he won't take risks with people's livelihoods

00:11:19.720 That's all your government does

00:11:22.260 But warns of challenging times

00:11:25.360 No talk of reducing spending significantly, no?

00:11:29.800 No?

00:11:30.560 No talk of reducing foreign aid

00:11:32.260 I don't know what foreign aid's gone up, hasn't it?

00:11:34.160 It has.

00:11:37.560 No talk of re-migrating people so that we don't have to pay for their social housing and NHS demands and etc, etc, etc.

00:11:47.020 None of that, no?

00:11:48.100 No?

00:11:48.520 Just more taxes.

00:11:50.080 A bit's funny though.

00:11:51.020 Sit down, pay a bit of the Smiths.

00:11:53.380 Why not?

00:11:58.660 He's having a good time.

00:11:59.640 He finally gets to be on that list of people

00:12:01.980 That have been Prime Minister

00:12:02.940 Up there with Walpole and Robert Peel

00:12:06.420 And the Duke of Wellington and Winston Churchill

00:12:08.080 He's happy, that's locked in now

00:12:09.980 That's safe, that's in the bank

00:12:11.980 He's going home with that, whatever happens

00:12:13.740 He's happy

00:12:16.160 Alright, the Metro

00:12:18.020 Oh, is that Joe Lycett?

00:12:19.880 Oh, he's gross, isn't he?

00:12:22.300 The real demon

00:12:24.080 Is showing there

00:12:26.100 On his face, isn't it?

00:12:26.880 The real degenerate freak

00:12:30.040 Is showing there

00:12:31.280 PM's plea

00:12:37.860 Over reprehensible car vids

00:12:40.200 Time to halt the hell rides

00:12:41.620 I mean yeah reasonable fair enough

00:12:43.320 Yeah I mean as I say earlier

00:12:44.420 I want the state to step in

00:12:47.680 As minimally as possible

00:12:49.920 In things

00:12:50.700 But this does seem crazy

00:12:52.820 Some sort of trend

00:12:55.900 On TikTok or whatever

00:12:56.760 It's not just like

00:13:00.720 It's one or two but people don't actually do it

00:13:03.240 Well it seems like people are doing it though

00:13:04.720 So

00:13:05.140 It's costing loads of lives

00:13:08.240 So

00:13:08.620 Yeah

00:13:10.800 Alright

00:13:13.680 Apparently there is a GoFundMe

00:13:16.740 Or some equivalent of GoFundMe

00:13:18.100 For the two cops that have already raised

00:13:20.320 Three quarters of a million quid

00:13:22.480 For it

00:13:26.760 um it seems like the young men i was gonna say kids a few of them were under i think two of them

00:13:35.480 were under 18 and the others were just over 18 but anyway the young men that did it seems

00:13:40.280 seems increasingly now that they were part of some sort of wider uh crime gang because

00:13:49.080 in the news it's like 11 or 12 arrests have been made in connection to it

00:13:53.160 A lot of them, or some of them, had like a long rap sheet of crimes

00:13:59.440 I think the driver was, well we saw it yesterday, didn't we?

00:14:02.200 The driver was going through a prosecution for assaulting a police officer

00:14:08.480 And or racially abusing a police officer

00:14:10.100 I think the others, some of the others in the car also had criminal histories

00:14:15.640 And yeah, they were part of a wider, bigger group, bigger gang

00:14:19.740 that we're into all sorts of nefarious and criminal things

00:14:23.720 and there's been like a dozen arrests connected to it

00:14:27.600 so you seem like scumbags

00:14:31.900 seems I mean I don't know

00:14:36.100 it's just what's emerging at the moment

00:14:37.760 all right

00:14:41.040 remove footage tiktok

00:14:45.540 tiktok and co are ordered

00:14:48.600 Yeah, 12 arrests linked to tragedy that killed police.

00:14:53.040 Something's going on there, isn't there?

00:14:54.700 Something's going on.

00:14:55.280 Okay, The Sun.

00:14:56.900 What Sloppy Joe is The Sun serving up to us today?

00:15:00.280 You know how us kids like them nice and sloppy.

00:15:05.400 As 12 held over Smash, war on Deadly Joyride vids.

00:15:11.320 Why do they write like that in that cadence?

00:15:13.640 War on Deadly Joyride vids.

00:15:15.400 you don't have to talk like that weird p.m. tick tock vow after crash kill seven right got it

00:15:23.880 okay the express it's a good paper you can read your express now

00:15:35.880 pure globalist slop of course the express your globalist look pretending to be sort of patriotic or

00:15:41.720 right of centre or nativist or anything like that

00:15:45.960 don't try and destroy anyone who really is

00:15:48.440 try and ruin their career, make sure they can't work

00:15:51.480 stuff like that, your filth, your globalist subversion

00:15:54.980 the express

00:15:56.560 revolting

00:15:58.480 as police arrest 12 after A66 horror crash

00:16:02.060 social media firms are warned, remove sick

00:16:05.180 quote sick, danger driving footage now

00:16:07.900 I agree, I mean

00:16:10.520 You know

00:16:12.480 Yeah maybe I should

00:16:15.660 Just get over the sort of

00:16:17.180 The libertarian thing

00:16:18.240 That the state should

00:16:19.220 Practically never

00:16:21.400 Tell private individuals

00:16:22.980 And private businesses

00:16:23.780 What to do

00:16:24.260 But there is a limit right

00:16:25.140 Surely there's a limit

00:16:25.980 I feel like this would be

00:16:31.220 One of those

00:16:31.860 Something about Meghan

00:16:33.560 Don't care about Meghan

00:16:34.700 Don't care about anything

00:16:36.520 Meghan does or says

00:16:37.720 Ever

00:16:38.180 Get out of my face

00:16:40.460 With Megan

00:16:41.380 Ugh

00:16:43.240 Right, The Guardian

00:16:44.120 Oh

00:16:44.440 The Stain Cam

00:16:47.980 Jack

00:16:48.500 Cut to The Stain Cam

00:16:49.880 The Guardian

00:16:51.880 Oh god

00:16:54.820 It's tearing my stomach

00:16:55.520 It's so revolting

00:16:56.500 The Guardian

00:16:56.960 The stink of it

00:16:59.220 Smells like filth

00:17:00.940 Smells like

00:17:01.480 Smells like

00:17:02.860 Smells like

00:17:03.600 Curry

00:17:04.420 And BO

00:17:05.600 And poo

00:17:06.360 The Guardian

00:17:16.320 Burnham accuses Kremlin

00:17:18.240 of outrageous threats to Britain

00:17:20.100 I mean it's not that outrageous

00:17:23.040 We are helping

00:17:24.940 their enemy to kill

00:17:26.840 Russian people

00:17:27.780 Alright

00:17:31.180 There he is with some victims

00:17:34.720 of that war

00:17:35.420 I mean

00:17:40.140 I said it all yesterday

00:17:42.660 didn't I really

00:17:43.120 but

00:17:43.320 our deep state

00:17:45.220 seems hell bent

00:17:47.520 on goading Russia

00:17:48.700 into attacking us

00:17:49.700 that's what it feels like to me

00:17:50.760 There's some people

00:17:55.520 in the chat

00:17:56.300 and some people

00:17:57.240 on comments

00:17:57.920 on Twitter and stuff

00:17:58.860 saying

00:17:59.320 of course there will be

00:18:01.620 ultra pro-Ukrainian people

00:18:03.680 saying things like

00:18:05.100 you know

00:18:05.420 It's called being an ally.

00:18:08.260 Is it?

00:18:09.760 Is it?

00:18:11.260 Why are we?

00:18:11.980 Why are we?

00:18:12.380 Why should we be?

00:18:13.640 What do we get from Ukraine?

00:18:16.880 If we did go to war with Russia,

00:18:19.100 assuming they don't just nuke us into oblivion in six minutes flat,

00:18:23.980 will Ukraine be sending much money and materiel to us?

00:18:29.480 Doubt it.

00:18:31.860 They won't be sending us any money.

00:18:33.280 They embezzle all the money they get given, don't they?

00:18:39.600 Where has all those billions and billions and billions gone?

00:18:42.780 There's something in the chat there, they said

00:18:43.820 If you think that we send crate loads of cash to Ukraine

00:18:48.500 You're out of your mind

00:18:49.240 No, we do, we do

00:18:51.200 America does, loads of countries do

00:18:55.080 Germany

00:18:55.920 Why has it all gone?

00:18:57.960 Is there any auditing of all of that?

00:19:03.280 oh i've just seen on the chat i barely you don't usually look down at the chat

00:19:09.280 input username now says bo blocked me on x oh i didn't mean to i know you're one of the glorious

00:19:16.800 band the chosen few i do block heavily on twitter though if you say something that annoys me i'll

00:19:22.080 just block if i really input username now you're part of the glorious band the chosen few

00:19:27.200 send an email or something i'll unblock you did you say something really annoying though

00:19:33.820 i don't even usually look down at the chat but uh occasionally i do i shouldn't really

00:19:40.920 it's distracting 99% of the time i'm not looking at the chat but

00:19:44.520 all right anyway moving on moving on um um yeah the kremlin outrageous threats to britain

00:19:53.580 They removed their ambassador to us

00:19:55.580 Oh, input username says it's okay

00:19:58.780 The Russians removed their ambassador

00:20:07.600 The full-blown proper senior ambassador to London

00:20:10.580 From Russia

00:20:11.400 Was removed the other day

00:20:14.160 It was ordered home

00:20:15.180 That's not nothing

00:20:19.020 That's not just one more data point

00:20:22.780 among a sea of insignificant relatively insignificant things that's quite a significant

00:20:26.900 thing it sort of speaks volumes i mean one of the things britain and russia have done for um

00:20:32.280 a long time for ever since the cold war is a tit for tat thing like we we send them and they send

00:20:39.240 us loads and loads of like envoys and and people that work in embassies and stuff and a lot of

00:20:43.360 them are just spies it's quite as simple as that effectively not like a james bond spy that will

00:20:48.020 go and kill anyone but just for spy basically connected to the intelligent services one way

00:20:52.400 another um and they will like maybe banish we did we do something they don't like and they'll

00:21:01.400 like banish five trade envoys and we'll banish five of their trade envoys back all that sort

00:21:06.520 of thing let's actually fully recall their ambassador i mean that's a big thing that's

00:21:13.700 sort of i don't think russia are gonna attack us with like kinetic weapons they might do but i

00:21:20.700 think they're gonna but if they were going to you you take your ambassador back first

00:21:27.500 a bit concerning a bit worrying probably all just saber rattling it's probably all symbolic

00:21:31.180 almost certainly just symbolic but nonetheless all right there it is there it is police arrest

00:21:37.020 12 following a crash that killed seven okay this is a story in the news that all nearly they're

00:21:42.780 all going with to some degree as if they're a combat it's almost as though they're a cabal

00:21:47.340 isn't it so much as though they're all in cahoots with each other and it's one giant cabal

00:21:52.540 the corporate legacy lamestream media care leavers early deaths linked to lack of support

00:21:59.340 it's a story that young people under 18 under 24 that go into care quite often

00:22:07.180 when they leave care very soon after they leave care they become an adult and they're not allowed

00:22:12.140 sort of child care anymore they're sent out into the real world now you're grown up now the state

00:22:16.620 Is finished

00:22:17.340 Supporting you

00:22:19.180 Helping you

00:22:19.680 Quite quickly

00:22:21.140 They die

00:22:21.640 Self

00:22:23.380 Self delete

00:22:25.320 Whatever

00:22:25.720 Come to a sticky end

00:22:28.520 One way or another

00:22:29.140 Because it's just

00:22:29.840 I mean it's dark

00:22:32.080 It's horrible and dark

00:22:33.020 But there's like

00:22:35.300 A big trend of that

00:22:36.240 And a lot of the papers

00:22:37.640 A lot of the papers

00:22:40.600 Are

00:22:41.040 Going with that story today

00:22:44.160 Alright

00:22:44.420 The Telegraph

00:22:46.620 this guy was he he was one of the dancers on strictly i think was it i can't remember exactly

00:22:51.580 but he's complaining the bbc didn't treat him well don't care uk handed secrets to foil putin's

00:22:58.540 saboteurs ukraine shares its quote gold mine of battlefield intelligence that will train military's

00:23:06.380 ai so when i first read that this morning i was like okay ukraine are giving us something in

00:23:17.420 return for once i mean it's only a problem because we back them up it's only russian saboteurs in

00:23:24.600 britain is only a problem because of of them and their conflict that we need in my opinion

00:23:28.840 Needlessly are involved in

00:23:30.400 But it's to do with AI

00:23:32.880 We're going to use Ukrainian AI

00:23:37.440 I'm sure that'll work out well

00:23:39.020 Okay

00:23:46.440 Mandelson targeted by a hoax

00:23:48.720 White House text

00:23:49.580 Again it's that person claiming to be Susie Wilds

00:23:52.440 Apparently they

00:23:54.000 Contacted

00:23:55.900 The story doesn't say Mandy was particularly

00:23:58.480 duped by them but he was contacted by this person this hoaxer back when he was actually the ambassador

00:24:05.460 to the u.s at some point on the mandy front interestingly there was a story uh over the

00:24:13.620 weekend we covered it briefly on the state of politics state politics my other channel with

00:24:18.220 nate mr h refuse um and it was a story it wasn't like concrete information he was saying that

00:24:25.340 You know, it's like sources say

00:24:27.280 There's rumours that

00:24:28.760 That kind of story

00:24:30.380 That the prosecution, the CPS case

00:24:33.280 Against Mandelson for actual crimes

00:24:35.200 You know, taking

00:24:35.940 Taking

00:24:38.260 Liberties in office

00:24:40.860 May fall apart

00:24:45.300 Because the CPS, the police

00:24:47.160 Well, more the CPS

00:24:48.200 Saying that too much of the Mandelson files

00:24:51.040 Were redacted

00:24:51.980 And the FBI or the DOJ won't give

00:24:54.740 them the cps the full unredacted files so it's difficult for them to bring a case

00:25:01.020 total stitch up seems to me total stitch up okay

00:25:07.120 tiktok promotes thrilling police chase videos to young people terrible

00:25:14.200 why why would you it's mad it's like they're trying to deliberately subvert

00:25:18.860 our society make it more dangerous very deliberately very proactively

00:25:23.380 Here's a story

00:25:25.460 Michael Deacon says

00:25:27.340 Abbott, Diane Abbott

00:25:28.860 Possible clinical retard

00:25:31.940 Diane Abbott

00:25:32.680 Should pay us reparations

00:25:35.280 Based

00:25:35.900 Based

00:25:37.360 Okay, the eye paper

00:25:40.720 This is a story about Angela Rayner

00:25:43.040 Angela Fridge Rayner, Big Bird

00:25:44.600 Council house boost

00:25:46.700 Rayner reveals plan for 70,000 homes

00:25:49.560 To tackle crisis

00:25:50.540 Yeah, all our invaders need homes, don't they?

00:25:53.380 Yeah

00:25:55.440 The sea of invading barbarians

00:25:58.780 That they're deliberately letting in day after day after day

00:26:01.000 Need homes don't they

00:26:02.040 Otherwise they'll just build shanty towns

00:26:04.340 Already got like tent cities in a lot of the

00:26:06.480 Some of the big cities

00:26:07.960 They'll just start cobbling together actual shanty towns

00:26:11.100 On the outskirts

00:26:11.840 Like India or whatever

00:26:13.920 That wouldn't look very nice

00:26:16.180 So we have to build over our green belt

00:26:18.260 Just stop calling it green belt

00:26:19.780 It's the grey belt now

00:26:23.380 Coruscant of Britain

00:26:25.340 Just make the whole of Britain

00:26:27.200 One sprawling suburbia

00:26:28.940 So that our invaders can have homes

00:26:31.440 Housing Secretary

00:26:33.420 Angela Fridreiner Big Bird

00:26:34.720 Says a government will create a boom

00:26:37.080 In social and council housing

00:26:39.480 To cut number of families

00:26:41.180 In temporary accommodation

00:26:42.640 Why are there so many

00:26:44.060 Why are there so many families

00:26:45.880 Is it the millions of people

00:26:48.720 You've allowed to invade us

00:26:49.860 Those families

00:26:51.020 Not just those families, there's also Brits aren't there, native white Brits who need houses

00:26:56.020 We've had a housing crisis ever since the war

00:26:59.900 Again on State of Politics, State of Politics

00:27:02.380 Over the last few Sundays I've been doing a series all about post-war Britain

00:27:06.420 A 10, 15, 20, 25 minute video each week about each Prime Minister since the end of the war

00:27:13.280 And every single one there's an element in there of a housing crisis

00:27:17.400 Of course lots of houses were blown up during the war weren't they?

00:27:20.480 During the war

00:27:21.200 Got my Uncle Albert beard

00:27:23.540 Yeah, ever since Attlee

00:27:26.900 To now

00:27:27.560 There's been a housing crisis

00:27:28.640 So if you let

00:27:29.620 Hundreds of thousands

00:27:30.460 Millions

00:27:31.080 Millions more people in

00:27:32.780 Yeah, it's quite a serious

00:27:34.420 Housing crisis

00:27:35.240 Yeah

00:27:35.640 £10 billion

00:27:36.840 Handed to councils

00:27:38.860 And housing associations

00:27:40.520 To build 70,000 new homes

00:27:42.320 Across England

00:27:43.020 60% of them

00:27:44.680 Must be social housing

00:27:46.280 Andrew the Fridge Rayner

00:27:47.960 Big Bird

00:27:48.520 Plans to build on

00:27:49.860 green belt as she reclassifies as a grey belt brilliant right relatively small amount of

00:27:58.260 open green belt we've got left just build over that so bommalians can have a roof over their

00:28:06.140 head current cost of temporary accommodation is ruinous for councils yeah letting millions of

00:28:14.280 more people into a small island that's already got very very high population density is ruinous

00:28:19.420 all round isn't it not just for councils or the nhs or schools for roads for everything for crime

00:28:26.860 rates particularly sex crime these people per capita it's not that white native white people

00:28:34.780 don't also commit sex crime they do i understand that politics joe i understand that navara media

00:28:40.940 per capita it's through the roof

00:28:43.340 Gotta have houses though

00:28:47.500 They've all got to be able to access a dentist though

00:28:50.160 Boost for builders

00:28:53.200 Although no help yet for UK's first time buyers

00:28:56.340 Yeah, they don't care about first time buyers

00:28:57.900 They don't care about first time buyers

00:29:01.320 The financial times

00:29:03.940 The FT

00:29:05.260 Look, it's all fun and games

00:29:07.060 Fun and games

00:29:13.340 People, do you really think Putin, if he's not stopped in the Donbass, is going to just keep going?

00:29:23.580 Do you really think that?

00:29:25.040 Am I the naive one for thinking that's not likely?

00:29:28.640 Or are you the naive one for buying into a liar?

00:29:32.020 An old, a reheated Cold War liar?

00:29:36.680 Isn't the Donbass largely Russian-speaking?

00:29:39.580 Ethnically Russian?

00:29:41.400 Isn't it?

00:29:43.340 Is it not

00:29:44.480 Okay

00:29:46.920 Missile lock

00:29:49.120 Burn them on Kiev mission

00:29:50.420 Yes great

00:29:51.340 Yeah laugh it up

00:29:52.280 Trump pledges to bump Canadian car tariffs

00:29:56.280 Of 50% after trade talks collapse

00:29:58.440 President fumes at neighbour

00:30:01.180 Ottawa determined to fight back

00:30:03.240 At Mark Carney

00:30:04.020 Auto industry wounds of pain

00:30:07.180 So here's actually a reasonably

00:30:09.100 Large story

00:30:10.280 uh today about the the the trade war and tariff war between the us and canada oh canada

00:30:18.920 it's heating up they're trying to do a deal at the moment i have been for the last few days

00:30:25.600 i mean it's been rumbling on for the whole time but he's out and they they've left the table now

00:30:32.820 both sides have walked away both sides accusing the other side of making unreasonable last minute

00:30:36.640 demands

00:30:37.260 Canadians coming out

00:30:40.760 and saying the Trump administration

00:30:42.880 is just being unreasonable, they're trying to destroy

00:30:44.780 our auto industry

00:30:45.800 Trump saying Canada has just been

00:30:48.660 taking the mickey out of the United States for

00:30:50.440 years and years and years

00:30:51.660 it's time we started

00:30:54.680 treating them normally rather than living

00:30:56.620 off our buck, the Canadians

00:30:58.620 are eating our lunch, all that stuff

00:31:00.660 if something

00:31:02.760 ends up with a 50% tariff

00:31:06.640 When it gets sorted out

00:31:07.920 Before it comes to that

00:31:08.600 Trump's done that a bunch of times

00:31:10.320 Hasn't he's threatened tariffs

00:31:11.640 And then

00:31:13.300 At the last minute

00:31:14.780 Sort of has made it

00:31:15.660 It was part of the art of the deal

00:31:17.080 Is it

00:31:17.620 That Mark Carney

00:31:20.840 Used to be Governor

00:31:22.280 Of the Bank of England

00:31:22.860 Remember that

00:31:24.000 Saying he's going to

00:31:26.420 Stand strong

00:31:27.620 Against Mr Trump

00:31:29.760 I mean

00:31:32.640 Both sides

00:31:33.520 Do

00:31:34.360 Need each other

00:31:37.120 Trade is a two way thing isn't it

00:31:38.480 The United States is much more rich

00:31:42.040 Its industrial base is much much bigger

00:31:46.220 So some clips of

00:31:47.920 Of Canadian ministers

00:31:52.160 Senior people

00:31:53.120 Saying we Canada are an economic powerhouse

00:31:56.420 Not really

00:31:58.360 Saying things like

00:31:59.180 I'd like to see the United States

00:32:01.120 Continue to function without our resources

00:32:04.260 Without our oil

00:32:06.160 No they'll be fine

00:32:07.360 The United States is a net exporter of oil

00:32:09.720 It's fracking industry

00:32:11.820 Just in the last 10 years

00:32:13.860 Has exploded

00:32:15.040 If it came to it

00:32:17.440 If it came to a real real real crunch

00:32:19.400 The United States doesn't need Canadian oil

00:32:21.840 Doesn't need to buy Canadian cars

00:32:25.900 Doesn't need to

00:32:27.840 Can you say the other way around

00:32:31.260 Would Canada's economy be

00:32:34.260 Terribly hurt if it couldn't sell things to the United States

00:32:37.160 It would hurt Canada more, but anyway

00:32:40.400 It's obvious, I'm stating the obvious here

00:32:42.200 Alright, the mail, ugh, globalist slop again

00:32:45.840 They're going with a story of

00:32:47.520 Concerns growers' prescriptions surged 21% in 5 years

00:32:51.260 Record 1 in 7 on antidepressants as pill-use rockets

00:32:57.260 That's concerning, that's worrying

00:33:00.700 One in seven people in England were prescribed antidepressants last year

00:33:06.300 Worrying figures show

00:33:07.700 Yeah, he's worrying

00:33:08.640 Feels like they're handing them out like candy

00:33:13.860 You just go to the doctor and you say

00:33:20.920 I feel a bit depressed, I feel a bit anxious

00:33:22.340 And they're like, oh, do you?

00:33:23.120 Well, here's a prescription for antidepressants then

00:33:26.620 Is that the best way to deal with things?

00:33:30.020 haven't we seen this sort of thing in other countries as well the united states and a few

00:33:33.900 other the other countries where doctors seem to i mean in america it's a bit of an oxycontin thing

00:33:41.960 wasn't it oh there's something wrong anything wrong you're in some sort of pain in some way

00:33:47.380 oxycontin straight away just that well my kids a little bit unruly oh put them on um

00:33:55.000 Ritalin or whatever

00:33:56.560 What is it

00:33:57.060 There's all sorts of drugs

00:33:58.880 Aren't they

00:33:59.140 They give kids

00:33:59.780 Especially young boys

00:34:01.080 To make them sit down

00:34:02.040 And calm down

00:34:02.500 And be quiet

00:34:03.000 Loads and loads of people

00:34:07.500 Getting diagnosed with

00:34:08.540 Autism or Asperger's

00:34:10.120 Various types of that

00:34:11.440 Or just

00:34:11.820 An anxiety

00:34:13.060 Disorder of some type

00:34:14.820 Millions and millions

00:34:16.760 And millions of people

00:34:17.600 Feels to me like

00:34:20.540 It's being overdiagnosed

00:34:21.620 But I'm no doctor

00:34:22.300 I'm no doctor

00:34:22.960 So

00:34:23.260 Shouldn't really

00:34:24.560 I haven't got

00:34:26.180 One in seven

00:34:28.420 One in seven

00:34:31.640 Seems crazy

00:34:34.720 There was a vigil

00:34:38.240 For the joyriders

00:34:39.660 The five joyriders that

00:34:41.080 Killed those two cops

00:34:44.040 And themselves

00:34:44.680 And it was just like

00:34:46.980 Well you can see for yourself the image

00:34:49.480 Um

00:34:54.560 i mean i don't know what to say it's like a bunch of douchebags

00:35:04.080 the mirror a mouthpiece for the labor party the mirror what have we got here exclusive maternity

00:35:11.520 crisis this is horrible mums talk to give birth in cars after the shock decision to shut busy

00:35:18.800 Hospital unit

00:35:19.800 How did it get to this

00:35:21.280 And it's saying that

00:35:22.720 This particular hospital

00:35:23.600 Was in Devon

00:35:24.440 In Devon

00:35:26.160 Closing its maternity unit

00:35:28.380 And just giving women

00:35:29.900 Advice that

00:35:31.800 If you do find yourself

00:35:33.640 Just giving birth

00:35:35.440 In a car

00:35:36.100 On a motorway

00:35:36.980 On the hard shoulder

00:35:38.660 Of a motorway

00:35:39.200 This is what you should do

00:35:40.000 This is how you should behave

00:35:41.000 This is how you should

00:35:41.580 Yeah good

00:35:44.460 Good question

00:35:45.500 The mirror

00:35:46.100 To be honest

00:35:46.700 How did it get to this

00:35:48.160 How did it get to this?

00:35:50.540 How did it get to this, the mirror?

00:35:52.740 Why is the NHS so crazily overstretched that it's broken?

00:35:57.480 Because we've imported between 10 and 20 million new people since 1997

00:36:01.700 And the NHS just simply, obviously can't deal with that

00:36:04.540 Is that the reason?

00:36:07.160 If anyone talks about that

00:36:08.680 If anyone talks about re-migrating

00:36:11.280 Deporting, if millions must go, millions must go

00:36:14.200 If anyone talks about that

00:36:15.080 Then the mirror will try and destroy them

00:36:18.160 the mirror will try and character assassinate them

00:36:20.740 but we're supposed to believe that you care about how did it get to we know how it got to this

00:36:27.400 we know you're going to pretend you don't know oh how did it get to this nobody knows

00:36:34.680 the strange death of the nhs okay okay the star

00:36:41.700 Graham Dot

00:36:47.420 Anyone remember Graham Dot

00:36:49.200 The snooker player

00:36:50.240 He was world champion

00:36:51.360 I think he was world champion

00:36:52.220 Oh yeah he was

00:36:52.920 Ex world champ

00:36:54.460 Guilty

00:36:55.120 Graham Dot

00:36:55.880 Snooker legend

00:36:57.640 A child sex abuser

00:36:58.940 Dot's victim

00:37:00.480 Primary school boy and girl

00:37:02.260 He's successfully convicted

00:37:06.380 It's not just like allegations

00:37:07.580 Or that

00:37:08.840 He's on trial for

00:37:10.540 And he's had his trial

00:37:11.440 one was found guilty a primary school boy and girl graham dot graham dots are wrong

00:37:19.620 there you go who knew

00:37:21.500 all right they're the front pages they're the increasingly disgusting and absurd and

00:37:30.860 infuriating front pages from the BBC from the legacy corporate lamestream media today

00:37:35.540 all right we're checking with the price accrued we often check in with the price accrued there

00:37:39.640 go down a little bit holding pretty steady considering everything that's going on in the

00:37:43.640 in the persian gulf holding pretty steady but down a touch from yesterday about the same

00:37:51.480 91 for a barrel of brent just over a shade over 84 for a barrel of west texas it's remarkable that

00:38:00.760 it's as low as it is and it's as steady as it is you know as i say most mornings doesn't really

00:38:07.320 translate into what we pay at the pump let's have a look at our poll jack if you can bring up the

00:38:12.680 poll for me so we can see what did we ask you guys this morning we have to have a look here we go

00:38:21.880 oh we asked you who is the biggest embarrassment to the british people and your options were

00:38:28.920 keir starmer andy burnham rishi sunak and liz truss it's like just more embarrassing

00:38:37.320 okay well

00:38:40.120 queer starlin the starlin bot 2.0 with his 15 patches to make it function even remotely

00:38:49.660 normally wins with 56 percent 56 percent if you say keir starmer was the most embarrassing

00:38:56.020 andy burnham already only a few weeks in 24 percent rishi sunak 18 percent and list trust

00:39:01.920 too i mean this trust was a bit of an anomaly wasn't she really a historical anomaly

00:39:09.120 she will be on the list of prime ministers for all time but a true sort of asterisk by her isn't

00:39:15.440 there really some sort of asterisk barely prime minister well not barely she was of course legally

00:39:25.200 Rishi Sunak, only 18%

00:39:30.380 I was terribly embarrassed by Rishi

00:39:32.460 It was a real slap in the face

00:39:36.160 A Hindu man in number 10

00:39:39.960 Celebrating Diwali or whatever

00:39:41.400 What is that?

00:39:46.600 It's like a humiliation ritual level thing

00:39:48.580 Anyway, alright, here's Starmer 1

00:39:50.780 That one, alright, let's have a look

00:39:52.340 What else have we got? I was already 22

00:39:53.900 That went quick

00:39:54.680 That was about 10 minutes there

00:39:55.960 That was 40 minutes

00:39:56.840 Really?

00:39:59.080 Alright

00:39:59.560 Let's have a look at some of the other stories

00:40:00.980 Before we do on this day in history

00:40:02.080 I can't be too late today

00:40:04.020 I've got to record an epochs

00:40:05.240 Continuing my series on

00:40:07.580 Constantine

00:40:09.900 This week recording all about how he conquers

00:40:13.700 The East and becomes the main

00:40:15.700 Well the sole emperor of the entire Roman world

00:40:17.920 It's good stuff

00:40:20.240 Plan the paywall

00:40:22.100 Consider sign up to lotusfeasers.com

00:40:24.320 The website

00:40:24.820 Because it was £5 a month

00:40:26.000 Bronze team membership

00:40:26.800 Thousands of hours

00:40:28.880 Of content behind the paywall there

00:40:31.060 Not just my show

00:40:32.020 We add up

00:40:34.260 Stuff Josh Firme did

00:40:35.620 Stelios

00:40:37.640 Harassed

00:40:39.520 Dan Tubb

00:40:40.560 I'm sure it will be

00:40:41.700 In at least a thousand hours

00:40:43.200 Mine alone is knocking

00:40:44.660 300 odd episodes

00:40:46.640 An hour

00:40:47.660 An hour and a half a piece

00:40:48.440 It'll be 500 odd hours

00:40:50.980 Of just me

00:40:52.100 all right lockerby bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start this is interesting to

00:40:58.580 me being fascinated by the lockerby bombing i was one of those things for some reasons

00:41:06.820 like morbid morbid really fascinated by chernobyl right things like that yeah so this guy um this

00:41:16.900 guy the state of that apparently he actually built the bomb that blew up pan am 103 killing

00:41:28.260 270 people the biggest terrorist event on british soil of all time in 1988

00:41:36.500 a plane full of largely americans there's like a 40 or 50 odd brits and the rest are all americans

00:41:42.900 it was flying to america flying up over up over scotland up over the

00:41:50.100 sort of iceland greenland way and down to the east coast of america

00:41:53.460 and uh libyan intelligence services blew it up

00:41:58.020 the whole big story about why they did that the back and forth with the united

00:42:01.540 states and libya and gaddafi and i'll get into here

00:42:05.860 haven't got 40 minutes to explain it really but

00:42:09.380 the libyans blew up this airplane and it fell out of the sky over a small

00:42:12.260 scottish village called lockerby killed some people in lockerby as well landed on them

00:42:18.340 imagine that you're just sitting at home one evening watching tv that falls out the sky on you

00:42:25.460 apparently this guy built the bomb what's his name uh abu aguila muhammad keir al marimi

00:42:35.940 Alright

00:42:38.200 Remember we got this guy

00:42:41.080 This guy

00:42:42.140 Al Magri

00:42:45.200 He was convicted

00:42:47.760 The only person ever to have been convicted

00:42:49.420 For it

00:42:50.360 Fully convicted

00:42:53.240 Sort of planning it

00:42:54.720 And was put in prison

00:42:57.720 And then

00:42:59.740 The Scottish authorities really

00:43:01.260 Gordon Brown ultimately

00:43:02.680 Let him out

00:43:05.940 i'm making that up no they let him go gordon brown texture like sun just let him go

00:43:16.460 he said he's got cancer we did have cancer but he said i've got cancer and on like

00:43:22.280 on a humanitarian basis you should let me go back and live my last few

00:43:26.980 days in in libya gordon brown was like yeah all right then

00:43:31.520 he'd actually die of cancer relatively soon after that but not straight away

00:43:38.700 oh did he return to a hero's welcome in tripoli yeah yeah

00:43:42.920 yeah anyway this guy's now on trial for it as well this trial was meant to begin in america

00:43:56.240 in the united states in washington dc i believe uh yeah it was meant to start tomorrow but it's

00:44:01.080 being postponed because new evidence nearly 40 years later 37 years later new evidence has emerged

00:44:10.360 that's it it's so so messed up the lockerby story anyway all right

00:44:17.080 ah the lockerby saga everything about it is terrible gross and horrible i hate it all right

00:44:24.680 what else inside the asylum center quote holiday camp in essex a gym football pitch snack bar

00:44:36.060 and 17 minibuses to ferry migrants into towns leader of essex county council was given access

00:44:41.980 to weatherfield former raf base this is what he found and he says it was like a holiday camp

00:44:48.220 they've got access to gyms and football pitches and a doctor at all times or more than one doctor

00:44:54.300 And just loads and loads of amenities and things

00:44:56.340 Just Gibbs

00:44:57.160 Loads and loads and loads of Gibbs

00:44:58.480 For our invaders

00:45:00.140 They're invaders

00:45:00.820 I'm not going to call them refugees

00:45:02.520 I'm not going to call them even economic migrants

00:45:05.320 They are chancers

00:45:07.620 They are young men

00:45:09.620 Who are trying to get things for free

00:45:12.080 From a soft touch state

00:45:15.740 That's simply all they are

00:45:17.560 They're invaders

00:45:18.720 Should come to an end

00:45:22.400 To pull all these people

00:45:23.380 Just clear them out

00:45:24.360 Just clear them out

00:45:25.940 Just send them back

00:45:27.340 To their countries of origins

00:45:29.220 Their shitholes of origin

00:45:30.960 I'm not supposed to swear am I

00:45:35.840 On the breakfast show

00:45:36.680 Apologies for that

00:45:39.040 Apologies

00:45:40.660 Any kiddywinks in the room

00:45:43.400 Sorry mum and dad

00:45:45.540 Sorry

00:45:45.840 I forget myself sometimes

00:45:47.180 It's just

00:45:48.360 A bit more than infuriating though isn't it

00:45:53.380 That we're paying for our invaders

00:45:58.180 Mad!

00:45:59.180 Fairly a precedent in all of history

00:46:01.980 Fairly a precedent in all of history

00:46:03.580 Look, here's the vigil for those crazy hell riders

00:46:07.180 That killed those two cops and themselves

00:46:11.980 Alright

00:46:14.580 Okay

00:46:18.380 When you're allowed to mourn, you're dead, but

00:46:20.980 Not really in particular good taste, is it?

00:46:25.080 Whatever, whatever

00:46:25.820 Alright, let's do On This Day in History, shall we?

00:46:29.300 I like doing that bit

00:46:30.020 You guys seem to like me doing that bit

00:46:31.240 On This Day in History, the 25th of August

00:46:33.080 Down through the centuries

00:46:33.960 What happened of note?

00:46:35.320 Let's have a wee look-see

00:46:36.520 Okay, on the 25th of August

00:46:38.480 In the year 1609

00:46:40.340 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope

00:46:43.060 To Venetian lawmakers

00:46:44.160 Including the Doge

00:46:45.360 Which is the ruler

00:46:46.240 Of Venice

00:46:47.000 Leonardo Donato

00:46:49.660 The Dogecoin of Venice

00:46:52.960 Yeah, Gallo Galli, fascinating life

00:46:56.180 I've talked about him before, written an article about him

00:46:59.160 Wasn't the first person ever to sort of grind lenses and make a telescope

00:47:03.680 But he's actually far from the first person ever to do it

00:47:07.200 But he's famous for doing it and did it very, very well

00:47:11.820 For example, he's the first person we think almost certainly to have seen the moons of Jupiter

00:47:18.300 He called them the Medici planets, didn't he?

00:47:24.500 He was under the patronage of the Medici in Florence

00:47:28.720 Oh, the Medici stars, sorry, he called them

00:47:33.320 The Medici stars

00:47:34.360 And it shows, doesn't it?

00:47:36.980 If there's other bodies orbiting another planet

00:47:40.660 Then the Earth isn't necessarily the centre of all things

00:47:47.580 all things everything in the firmament everything revolves around the central thing which is the

00:47:55.880 earth ah but i can see with my own eyeballs that that's not the case at the very least there's

00:48:02.720 other things orbiting jupiter so do we have to rethink our uh our sort of model of the cosmos

00:48:11.360 Yeah you do

00:48:13.000 Galileo

00:48:16.720 Rome didn't particularly like Galileo

00:48:20.840 Saying those sorts of things

00:48:21.820 Anyway that's a long story

00:48:22.720 They stopped him from saying it

00:48:28.000 They threatened him with torture

00:48:29.720 And put him under house arrest for the rest of his life

00:48:31.880 For noticing reality

00:48:33.480 Okay on this day in 1619

00:48:35.960 Slavery begins in mainland British colonies

00:48:38.560 Of North America

00:48:40.360 When the first known African captives, approximately 20

00:48:43.280 Land at Point Comfort, Virginia

00:48:45.480 Before being sold or traded into servitude

00:48:48.020 That's a shame

00:48:48.980 Terrible

00:48:50.320 Never on this website and websites like it

00:48:54.800 Never really talk about on this day in history

00:48:56.400 The abolitionist movement did XYZ

00:48:58.980 Achieved XYZ

00:49:00.100 Very rarely forever do that

00:49:02.180 On this day in 1718

00:49:06.320 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana

00:49:08.420 And found New Orleans

00:49:09.600 New Orleans. Interesting. I'd like to visit New Orleans. I don't know why.

00:49:19.600 Would they? Okay, on this day in 1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth,

00:49:26.240 England bound for the Pacific Ocean on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour.

00:49:30.240 Lots of different ships over the centuries have been called the Endeavour.

00:49:34.400 On my own history theme show, which is called

00:49:36.640 Bo Dade's Epochs, which is on the Lotus Eaters website,

00:49:40.600 lotuseaters.com, find the paywall there,

00:49:42.980 which you would have to sign up to,

00:49:44.340 maybe consider it for as little as £5 a month

00:49:46.240 of Bronze Team membership.

00:49:48.200 I've got long-form content all about the life and career

00:49:51.100 and adventures of James Cook.

00:49:52.400 He was in conversation with Luca Johnson,

00:49:54.660 that Luca Johnson.

00:49:55.660 He's really good.

00:49:56.220 He knows his stuff.

00:49:57.020 He knows his onions, old Luca, young Luca.

00:50:01.880 And we had such a long conversation.

00:50:03.360 I think we made it three or maybe even four parts

00:50:05.620 A few hours, three, four, five hours

00:50:08.060 Of us talking about James Cook

00:50:09.800 And everything he did and saw

00:50:11.400 Fascinating life

00:50:14.900 Fascinating life

00:50:15.980 Came to a sticky end as well, didn't he?

00:50:19.180 Okay, on this day in 1894

00:50:21.100 Japanese scientist

00:50:23.020 Shibasaburo Kitasato

00:50:27.840 Say that ten times fast

00:50:30.160 Discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague

00:50:33.240 And publishes his findings in the Lancet

00:50:35.540 Good, that's good, excellent

00:50:38.520 Plague bacillus or whatever it's called

00:50:42.460 I can't remember the proper thing

00:50:43.800 Good, it's just an infection isn't it

00:50:46.320 I think it's just like a

00:50:47.680 That's all the plague is

00:50:49.800 I say oh, it's a terrible one of course

00:50:51.800 It's just like a viral infection I think isn't it

00:50:55.360 The plague

00:50:55.800 So like today, certainly if you get it early enough

00:50:58.760 You can just have antibiotics and you'll get better

00:51:03.240 Am I going to start talking about, am I going to spend the next 10 minutes talking about the Black Death?

00:51:07.900 1347, 1448

00:51:09.420 No, I've done that a number of times, haven't I?

00:51:12.980 Okay, I won't do that

00:51:14.520 Alright, on this day in 1944, the German commander Dietrich von Koltitz surrenders Paris

00:51:20.320 to the free French forces of Philippe Leclerc

00:51:23.680 disobeying Adolf Hitler's orders to destroy the city

00:51:27.680 President of the provisional government of the French Republic, Charles de Gaulle

00:51:32.860 Gives a famous speech at the

00:51:34.800 Hôtel de Ville

00:51:35.660 There's a picture of it

00:51:37.320 The Arc de Triomphe

00:51:39.500 Yeah, the liberation of Paris

00:51:42.500 Fascinating stuff

00:51:45.300 Again, so much that could be said about that

00:51:48.980 So much that could be said just about

00:51:50.900 Charles de Gaulle really

00:51:52.320 I might do a life of

00:51:54.800 De Gaulle at some point on Epochs

00:51:56.420 I think I will

00:51:57.540 And some of those people

00:51:59.480 Almost like in a historic novel

00:52:01.900 where they pick someone that's born and dies just at the right time to take place to take part in

00:52:08.120 loads of events all the great events for like a generation or more like richard sharp

00:52:12.940 in the sharp novels place him at a really specific point in time and just have him present at loads

00:52:19.300 and loads of interesting things so he's like charles de gaulle's one of those people in real

00:52:22.280 life that sort of did that i don't know fascinating life all right liberation of paris 1944 okay on

00:52:30.020 day in 1990 u.n security council authorizes military action against iraq to uh for invading kuwait

00:52:36.340 i said forever as well the first iraq war i'm fascinated by both iraq wars but

00:52:40.900 gulf war one operation desert shield and then um operation desert storm i found fascinating it was

00:52:47.860 one of the first things when i was like 10 11 i was like just about old enough to be like be

00:52:54.020 paying attention and remember it to this day you know there were things slightly earlier in the in

00:52:58.820 the 80s i remember the berlin wall coming down but i feel like even though it was only a couple

00:53:02.500 of years earlier a year earlier i didn't really understand exactly i remember watching it on tv

00:53:08.100 and stuff um but for gulf war one sort of was paying attention i remember like asking my dad

00:53:15.700 and other adults what's that though why is that happening why is that and they explained it to me

00:53:19.540 as it played out over a few weeks why is that though who are they why are they saying that

00:53:24.100 And so ever since then, I've been fascinated by it

00:53:28.100 It's a relatively small thing in the scheme of human conflict

00:53:32.100 Stormy Norman Schwarzkopf, anyone remember Stormy Norman?

00:53:36.100 Yes, Saddam invades Kuwait

00:53:40.100 For the money really, because he bankrupted himself

00:53:44.100 Fighting Iran for 8 years, or whatever it was, longer

00:53:48.100 Invaded Kuwait, also as like

00:53:52.100 vengeance as well an old George Bush senior poppy that's what the Bush family

00:53:59.580 called George Bush senior like pop father pop poppy George Bush senior said this

00:54:06.340 thing this aggression will not stand we're gonna put together a coalition of

00:54:10.220 the willing we don't want Saddam invading Saudi Arabia we can't possibly

00:54:14.120 have that at all costs that must be stopped

00:54:18.540 Operation Desert Shield, but really we need to kick Saddam out of Kuwait, Desert Storm.

00:54:28.540 Things all over very quickly, like 100 hours was it?

00:54:33.540 One of those examples where the air campaign largely got it done.

00:54:38.540 Like in Afghanistan in 2001, there were boots on the ground of course,

00:54:42.540 but the air campaign largely got it done.

00:54:46.540 okay all right i could bang on about gulf war one for ages let's see what's this last one here in

00:54:52.220 the on this day in 1991 linux was born when lioness torvalds sends an email announcing his

00:54:58.140 project to create a new computer operating system i'm such a boomer when it comes to tech things

00:55:03.020 i don't know much about that and i'm not that interested i am sort of a little bit interested

00:55:07.500 in the history of technology but i don't care about links i can't code i've got no intention

00:55:12.300 of ever learning to code some people that's sort of fascinating and they know all about it and they

00:55:18.460 can bang on about linux for ages but i'm not one of those people i'm afraid

00:55:25.100 all right let's have a look at our rumble rants and super chats we do our rumble rants first on

00:55:31.260 this show don't we we know which side our bread's buttered on there's no reason to it's completely

00:55:36.060 arbitrary i've just decided we do rumble rants first is global church history going to be in

00:55:40.380 at number one yes reigning defending and still champion of the rumble rants on the bow show

00:55:49.180 is global church history that's his real name he's christened global church history

00:55:52.580 of course he wasn't i'm joking all right you say he always gives us two factors doesn't he

00:55:58.380 first one here you say uh today in 325 ad the first council of nicaea publishes its creed

00:56:05.080 ending its first phase it goes on to write canons and define other doctrines yeah

00:56:10.120 you've hit something that again i could happily sit here and talk for

00:56:16.380 a couple of hours about it in fact where i'm doing my current series

00:56:22.720 the current series on on epochs this is mirror mirroring to me so it's not it's not anyway my

00:56:32.720 current series on e-post talk about constantine i'm going to talk all i talk all about the military

00:56:38.980 side of it the political military side of it i'm going to do all of that up to the end of

00:56:43.180 constantine's life but then at the end after that i might well i will do at least one episode maybe

00:56:49.640 two talking about everything to do with religion in the age of constantine because i'm largely

00:56:56.200 reading from the account of edward gibbon edward gibbon's seminal decline of all the roman empire

00:57:00.660 And in that, that's what Gibbon does

00:57:02.720 After he talks about Constantine's military campaigns

00:57:04.820 He then goes on to do a couple of chapters

00:57:07.900 Actually very, very, very good

00:57:09.540 All about religion, paganism and Christianity

00:57:13.320 And it's fascinating stuff

00:57:15.880 If you're interested in the early church

00:57:17.740 I mean, historians talk about late antiquity and early Christianity

00:57:22.520 Anyway, the First Council of Nicaea is unbelievably pivotal

00:57:26.880 Unbelievably pivotal

00:57:28.400 as global church history says that there it publishes well it publishes the nicene creed

00:57:34.920 about the holy trinity and everything and also writes canon and defines other doctrines so yeah

00:57:40.900 they said that basically the church was in a bit of disarray in the early fourth century

00:57:45.760 different bishops from around the mediterranean whether it's from alexandria or antioch or rome

00:57:53.660 Or wherever

00:57:54.180 And they're all running around with different ideas

00:57:56.920 Of what God is

00:57:58.140 What Jesus was

00:57:59.660 When Christmas should be

00:58:01.540 When Easter should be

00:58:02.420 All different ideas

00:58:03.720 And they're just causing schisms and problems

00:58:06.580 All over the shop

00:58:07.980 Constantine says wait, wait, wait, wait

00:58:11.080 Stop, stop, wait

00:58:12.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa

00:58:12.640 Pump the brakes here guys

00:58:14.860 Let's get together

00:58:16.380 Yeah

00:58:17.100 Let's get together

00:58:18.440 We'll have a council

00:58:19.400 An ecumenical council

00:58:20.560 At Nicaea

00:58:21.900 That's a place, Nicaea

00:58:23.660 And we'll decide

00:58:25.500 And if you can't decide, I'll decide

00:58:27.960 Just get together

00:58:30.160 What is or isn't in the Bible

00:58:31.620 What is or isn't canon

00:58:32.960 And everything else, loads of other things

00:58:36.120 Like the nature of

00:58:37.560 The Holy Trinity

00:58:39.460 You guys decide

00:58:41.080 And I'll give you a while, months or whatever

00:58:43.420 And if you can't decide, I'll be the final arbiter

00:58:46.020 I'll decide then

00:58:47.720 If you really can't

00:58:49.560 Is that not pivotal?

00:58:52.540 Is that not of interest if you're a Christian

00:58:54.540 Fascinating

00:58:56.500 Fascinating stuff

00:58:57.360 Anyway, on Epochs

00:59:00.620 I'll talk all about it

00:59:01.500 In a few weeks

00:59:03.720 I find it fascinating

00:59:06.700 Okay, and the other factoid

00:59:08.860 We've got here

00:59:09.560 From Global Church History, you say

00:59:11.900 In 1515, Havana, and then you put brackets

00:59:14.680 Ooh la la

00:59:15.340 Was founded

00:59:17.740 I don't know what you mean by ooh la la

00:59:19.820 Am I missing something?

00:59:22.540 Anyway, in 1515, Havana was founded, obviously, in Juba

00:59:27.440 Yeah, by one of the early, very early, of course

00:59:30.600 Spanish conquistadors

00:59:33.500 That island is very, it was very, very swampy

00:59:39.360 Malaria-ridden, mosquitoes

00:59:41.840 Not a great place, just a trading post, basically

00:59:44.560 For the Spanish to go on to the New World

00:59:50.180 Okay, there you go, it's interesting

00:59:51.340 Havana was founded on this day

00:59:53.000 Okay, what else have we got?

00:59:55.320 More rumble rants

00:59:56.120 Pigdog 5150

00:59:58.000 The next three or four are all you

00:59:59.900 So if you don't mind, I'll read them in a row

01:00:03.180 You've put, morning

01:00:04.080 Maize harvest went well

01:00:07.000 Corn harvest went well

01:00:09.040 Oh good, oh good

01:00:10.820 If your livelihood, I don't know if it does

01:00:13.320 But if your livelihood depends on that

01:00:14.460 Great, great news, brilliant

01:00:15.520 It went well, good

01:00:16.380 Thanks for the positive vibes yesterday

01:00:19.440 No, you're welcome, of course

01:00:21.300 um had one trailer wheel snap off and one flat tire so not awful to clarify i work for a big farm

01:00:29.620 my family have a small farm all right okay okay so it sounds like one trailer wheel snapping off

01:00:37.640 one flat tire it could be could have been worse okay he then say saw an interview with a brit man

01:00:44.560 who went to fight in ukraine he said how they would leave with several trucks of met several

01:00:49.380 trucks of men and weapons stroke ammo and half of the trucks of gear would peel off and not arrive

01:00:57.460 only anecdotal evidence there from pig dog 5150 but yeah

01:01:06.740 something extremely odd something extremely unconventional with the way in which ukraine

01:01:15.060 have conducted that war.

01:01:18.500 How is it that Zelensky's mum and dad are extremely rich now?

01:01:22.300 How is that?

01:01:29.300 It would be naive of me to ask, wouldn't it?

01:01:32.100 Just get on board.

01:01:35.340 Pigdog5150 said,

01:01:36.820 The Brit soldier guy said this was a regular occurrence.

01:01:39.780 Lots of weapons sent to Ukraine have ended up in Africa

01:01:42.780 And Middle East on black markets

01:01:44.540 We've just got to support Ukraine have we

01:01:49.820 For as long as it takes

01:01:51.920 Even if it means we get struck by Russia

01:01:55.580 Not interested in that little

01:02:00.060 That freak little goblins war

01:02:02.080 Isn't the Donbass ethnically Russian?

01:02:06.480 Culturally Russian?

01:02:10.200 Fallen Firebird says

01:02:11.600 I've said it before

01:02:12.680 And I'll say it again

01:02:13.380 We are depressed

01:02:15.060 And medicated

01:02:16.940 Because there is a

01:02:18.300 Profound

01:02:19.220 Inverating

01:02:20.920 Malaise

01:02:21.900 About our entire

01:02:22.720 Modern civilization

01:02:23.640 We're an upside down

01:02:25.700 Anti-world

01:02:26.640 Profound statement

01:02:29.920 Can't disagree

01:02:31.600 Don't disagree

01:02:32.160 Yeah there's some sort of

01:02:33.520 Profound malaise

01:02:34.700 Going on

01:02:36.380 Whether imposed from above

01:02:37.560 Or not

01:02:38.080 Whether manufactured

01:02:39.720 Whether it's sort of

01:02:41.600 by design but yeah couldn't disagree with you or couldn't couldn't disagree with you sir

01:02:47.900 um some sort of profound malaise afflicting us yeah

01:02:52.980 let's go back to basics or something back to the old school way of doing things in various ways

01:03:02.640 that'd be my that'd be my prescription okay pig dog again says reishi was easily the most

01:03:09.320 embarrassing i feel like that very embarrassed by the the trust episode i mean it's mildly

01:03:17.120 embarrassing but whatever she didn't have time to get embarrassing really did she truly embarrassing

01:03:22.260 starmer and burnham are embarrassed but i was really i was embarrassed by reaching the most

01:03:27.020 i would say um you say he was easily the most embarrassing having any foreigner or pagan or

01:03:32.560 heathen as prime minister is a national and global disgrace yeah that's sort of how i felt

01:03:36.880 Fallen Firebird says

01:03:39.580 Ree Lockerbie

01:03:40.520 Watched an aviation documentary once

01:03:42.580 And it vividly described

01:03:44.560 The perspective of a woman

01:03:46.820 Who thought the world was ending

01:03:47.980 When the sky started raining

01:03:49.260 Metal meteors

01:03:50.220 Really stuck with me

01:03:51.360 Yeah

01:03:51.580 The accounts of some of the people

01:03:52.920 In Lockerbie that evening

01:03:54.540 Yeah

01:03:56.320 Terrifying

01:03:57.740 Terrifying yeah

01:03:59.720 I've watched loads of documentaries

01:04:00.960 About Lockerbie

01:04:01.480 Loads

01:04:02.600 Yeah

01:04:05.100 Terrible, crazy event

01:04:07.860 Okay, and the last one here

01:04:11.840 Last one, Brandt, is from Piglock again

01:04:13.600 He says, sadly, the invasion we're paying for

01:04:15.800 Also comes with barbaric actions by the invaders

01:04:18.180 As I get older and learn more about what has been allowed

01:04:21.560 How are we not at war with the powers that be?

01:04:26.020 A reasonable question

01:04:27.520 A reasonable question

01:04:29.760 People are scared aren't they

01:04:35.700 Most people

01:04:42.820 Most people

01:04:44.140 And this isn't a pop of people

01:04:45.640 That are anonymous online

01:04:46.860 I think it's very important

01:04:47.860 That it's possible to be anonymous online

01:04:50.520 But most people

01:04:51.680 Don't even put their real face and name

01:04:54.080 On Twitter

01:04:55.620 Or they make a YouTube video

01:04:57.120 And it's just

01:04:57.680 Most people are not even prepared to do that

01:05:01.400 Professors that have got tenure

01:05:04.040 They can't be fired

01:05:05.360 They're not even prepared to stand up

01:05:07.700 Like someone like Jordan Peterson

01:05:09.280 And say no, this or that is wrong

01:05:10.920 Most people are just scared

01:05:15.560 They feel like they've got too much to lose

01:05:17.220 Most people haven't got

01:05:23.860 Most people are scared to

01:05:25.720 Do what Lotus Eaters do

01:05:27.580 Use your real name

01:05:28.220 Your real face

01:05:28.820 And rant about it

01:05:31.020 Five days a week

01:05:32.720 That's rare

01:05:36.260 Relatively rare

01:05:37.200 Right

01:05:37.680 So to actually go to war

01:05:40.260 With the state

01:05:41.020 Yeah

01:05:43.560 Basically no one

01:05:46.520 Is doing

01:05:47.360 Would do that

01:05:48.220 That's the way it goes

01:05:50.860 Isn't it

01:05:51.160 Like with these things

01:05:52.000 With revolutions

01:05:52.720 Throughout history

01:05:53.540 Said it before

01:05:54.680 The analogy of an elastic band

01:05:56.180 Stretch and stretch

01:05:57.120 and stretch and stretch maybe for years years and years and years before it snaps i mean you look at

01:06:01.200 for example the just one example the russian revolution that was bubbling away and boiling

01:06:08.340 away for generations and generations and generations the whole question of serfdom

01:06:13.240 actual slavery a type of indentured slavery it nearly happened in 1905 but then another 12 years

01:06:20.700 go by before it finally happens it needed world war one throw that on top before finally the

01:06:26.120 elastic band snapped so it takes a lot for that elastic band to snap a lot

01:06:32.360 often it's sudden not necessarily when you think it would be if people didn't

01:06:36.500 do anything after this or that happened they never will people didn't do

01:06:39.680 anything after Manchester Arena they never get they didn't do anything after

01:06:43.220 Southport they never will it's not how that works it's not how that works

01:06:49.680 It's an elastic band

01:06:51.420 And suddenly

01:06:52.280 Suddenly it snaps

01:06:54.440 And the final straw

01:06:57.000 Isn't necessarily

01:06:58.760 Rarely is

01:07:00.180 The most egregious thing to have happened

01:07:02.760 It would just be the final straw

01:07:05.280 That broke the cameras back

01:07:06.120 Lots of revolutions

01:07:09.660 Throughout history

01:07:10.500 It takes a lot

01:07:12.440 For it to finally

01:07:14.360 Kick off

01:07:16.040 all right let's have a look at our youtube ones there's about 20 odd let's read through them

01:07:24.240 lydia dragonborn

01:07:28.600 lydia dragonborn says hi bo hi you all right thank you for reading the news so i don't have to

01:07:36.960 my pleasure uh i wasn't sure about you at first but you've grown on me a cool face

01:07:42.920 A cool emoji with sunglasses on

01:07:45.100 Oh thanks, I appreciate that

01:07:46.720 I appreciate that, I really do

01:07:48.620 Cheers love

01:07:50.180 Lydia Dragonborn

01:07:52.320 Welcome aboard, part of the glorious band

01:07:55.120 That shows a few my band of brothers

01:07:56.400 And sisters

01:07:57.520 I appreciate that, it's nice to hear

01:08:00.300 Nice to hear, okay

01:08:02.000 Andrew Hut one

01:08:04.780 Says thanks for making me smile

01:08:07.220 Every morning and a big smiley

01:08:09.100 Emoji face

01:08:09.920 Yeah my pleasure, thank you

01:08:12.920 Sometimes it's really blackmailing off, if I can bring any sort of entertainment to me, if I can bring any sort of

01:08:19.920 The comedy stylings of Bodade, the Bodade experience

01:08:23.680 You've got to keep it light hearted

01:08:27.220 I remember when I first started, and we had Callum here, you remember Callum?

01:08:32.500 And I was like, I think it was the very first time I was ever on the Afternoon Podcast

01:08:36.180 And it was something really, really blackmailing

01:08:38.580 And before the show

01:08:41.020 I was like to Callum

01:08:41.800 I was like

01:08:42.000 I don't know how I can

01:08:42.800 Do this without it being

01:08:44.520 Crazily depressing

01:08:45.880 And horrible

01:08:46.400 Horrible

01:08:46.820 And he was like

01:08:48.260 Just

01:08:48.640 Try and do it light hearted though

01:08:51.580 Because

01:08:52.000 Because that's the way

01:08:54.340 It's sort of got to be

01:08:55.580 Otherwise it would

01:08:56.240 It would crush you

01:08:57.280 The audience don't necessarily

01:08:58.380 Want someone just dour

01:08:59.480 And somber

01:09:00.680 And sad

01:09:01.400 And annoyed

01:09:02.260 And depressing

01:09:02.800 They don't want that 100%

01:09:04.560 And he's right

01:09:07.260 He was right

01:09:07.720 Of course he was

01:09:08.500 okay i make you smile every morning brilliant 20 quid as well andrew hutt won thank you sir

01:09:18.040 appreciate that cheers really really generous there really generous okay james leap heaven

01:09:23.560 says our pm plays heaven knows i'm miserable now i'm not sure i don't think it was that

01:09:31.860 that's another morrissey song right it's it's heaven knows i'm miserable now is that the smiths

01:09:38.440 Or is it just a Morrissey song?

01:09:40.260 I should know that.

01:09:40.760 I probably should know that.

01:09:41.320 I don't know that off the top of my head.

01:09:42.940 I don't think that was a song he played.

01:09:45.320 But that would have been apt, wouldn't it?

01:09:48.360 Would have been much more apt.

01:09:51.020 Okay, Double A Batteries 2001.

01:09:53.680 That's what this person's called themselves.

01:09:55.240 At Double A Batteries 2001 says,

01:09:58.200 I'm sure Morrissey would absolutely loathe Burnham.

01:10:00.820 Yeah, I bet he would.

01:10:01.480 Yeah, Morrissey's a little bit based, isn't he?

01:10:03.700 A little bit based.

01:10:05.460 The real life Morrissey.

01:10:06.420 I bet he would

01:10:08.440 yeah I bet he'd hate Burnham

01:10:09.500 yeah

01:10:09.680 and the Labour Party

01:10:11.880 in general

01:10:12.760 for flooding us

01:10:14.160 with rapists

01:10:15.160 that's what they've done

01:10:18.040 well and the Conservative Party

01:10:21.260 okay

01:10:23.060 I don't want to speak for Morrissey

01:10:24.240 he doesn't take kindly

01:10:25.580 to such things does he

01:10:29.160 have him on

01:10:29.840 Morrissey if you ever see this

01:10:31.480 come on Lotus Eaters

01:10:33.040 we'll talk to you

01:10:33.840 Luca

01:10:34.820 Luca's a massive fan

01:10:36.040 He's actually done content about Morrissey, hasn't he?

01:10:38.640 Luca, one time

01:10:39.320 Loves Morrissey, doesn't he?

01:10:42.580 I think more the music of Morrissey

01:10:44.220 But, well, Morrissey's music is heavily involved

01:10:46.860 By his world view, isn't it though?

01:10:49.120 Can't really, can't really separate the two entirely, can you?

01:10:52.120 You're not even close

01:10:52.700 Morrissey's alright in my book

01:10:54.640 Well alright

01:10:57.380 Okay, Dr Molotov says

01:11:00.220 Hey Bo, miss you babe

01:11:02.720 I made an Android app

01:11:08.500 For playing long form audio files

01:11:10.260 Offline

01:11:10.780 Like my Epox downloads

01:11:12.320 Oh an Epox fan

01:11:13.160 Brilliant

01:11:13.920 Called Mun Player

01:11:15.900 It's free

01:11:16.480 No ads

01:11:16.980 No data collected

01:11:17.780 If people want to try it

01:11:19.040 Oh well there you go

01:11:19.820 Dr. Molotov there

01:11:21.000 Mun app

01:11:23.620 M-U-N

01:11:24.420 Mun

01:11:24.800 Oh sorry

01:11:26.100 Mun player

01:11:26.620 Sorry

01:11:26.900 Mun player

01:11:28.340 One word

01:11:28.920 M-U-N

01:11:29.960 Player

01:11:30.500 Mun player

01:11:31.520 There you go, I just gave you a free plug

01:11:34.480 You're welcome

01:11:35.880 It's my pleasure, my pleasure buddy

01:11:38.140 Hey Bo, miss you babe

01:11:42.240 Alright

01:11:44.500 Aristotle Luton, that's their name

01:11:46.980 Says, morning Bo, morning

01:11:48.200 Great epochs

01:11:51.160 On Henry VIII, oh thanks

01:11:52.780 It was a series wasn't it, a little mini series I did

01:11:54.880 You like that one, thank you

01:11:56.880 Latest figures

01:11:58.860 State 275,000 Russians

01:12:01.140 And 1.5 million Ukrainians dead

01:12:03.960 Not including

01:12:05.080 Wounded

01:12:07.360 Crazy numbers

01:12:08.620 Yeah if those numbers are right yeah

01:12:10.120 1.5 million

01:12:14.420 Ukrainians

01:12:16.200 Dead or wounded

01:12:17.000 Casualties

01:12:18.780 1.5 million

01:12:23.700 But look

01:12:26.700 But look at that

01:12:31.140 It's all fun and games.

01:12:32.980 A generation mauled.

01:12:35.480 A generation of Ukrainian men mauled.

01:12:37.780 What for?

01:12:39.120 What for?

01:12:40.420 For the Donbass region.

01:12:43.060 That's already effectively Russian.

01:12:47.560 Don't they speak Russian there and consider themselves Russian?

01:12:50.700 Do they not?

01:12:53.740 Well, battlefield reality is under Russian control.

01:12:58.520 It's very, very unlikely to be wrestled back for them.

01:13:00.540 1.5 million ukrainian men and counting dead or wounded right oh that's not included wounded

01:13:06.780 1.5 million dead not included not including wounded just outright dead a million and a half

01:13:14.060 okay

01:13:21.500 yeah there'll be people in the chat and in the comments just insisting it goes on for as long

01:13:28.060 as it takes what are you talking about what are you talking about you've bought a liar you've

01:13:35.200 bought a grotesque blood-stained liar get a clue james lee pevenhall says car racing on the record

01:13:47.360 peugeot won the first race oh sorry car racing on the road sorry car racing on the road

01:13:54.100 Peugeot won the first race

01:13:56.080 I don't know exactly what you're referring to there

01:13:57.680 Sorry, I don't know exactly what you're referring to

01:14:01.080 On the road

01:14:03.680 I don't know what you mean

01:14:04.700 I have to Google that

01:14:07.960 Is that a new type of racing?

01:14:12.760 Road racing?

01:14:15.200 Rally?

01:14:16.640 I don't know what you mean

01:14:17.420 LMP1?

01:14:18.820 What are you talking about, sir?

01:14:20.580 I'm interested to know, be more specific

01:14:21.980 Okay, MQSSS

01:14:23.820 Says, watched yesterday

01:14:25.740 Surviving in Victorian times

01:14:27.680 On Banijay history

01:14:30.120 With Anne Whittacombe

01:14:31.720 She was a feisty one, RIP

01:14:33.320 Yeah

01:14:34.140 Yeah

01:14:35.860 Yeah that surviving Victorian times thing

01:14:39.500 I saw a number of those, I think I saw at least a bit of the one

01:14:41.700 With Anne Whittacombe in it as well

01:14:42.760 Yeah she was feisty, yeah

01:14:45.640 I didn't agree with everything she said

01:14:47.380 I did agree with a lot of what she said

01:14:49.500 More than most politicians

01:14:51.880 I agreed with what she said

01:14:53.820 what an unbelievable thing

01:14:56.660 the particulars of that murder as well

01:15:02.900 off the charts brutal

01:15:06.420 poor Anne Whittaker

01:15:12.800 what a great

01:15:15.200 you can't spend too long dwelling on the scene

01:15:19.000 of that

01:15:20.160 so I'm going to move on

01:15:22.940 I can't, honestly.

01:15:25.140 Ah, poor Anne Winnikin.

01:15:27.840 God.

01:15:30.060 Okay.

01:15:32.800 Pete TQ61IN.

01:15:35.160 That's supposed to be something else, but anyway, Pete.

01:15:37.420 Pete says, do you concur, Bo Sunak was most embarrassing?

01:15:42.380 Yeah, that would be my pick.

01:15:43.540 Yeah, it's one of the very few times when I don't agree with the winner in the poll,

01:15:48.000 because Starmer won, didn't he?

01:15:50.400 Yeah, it's one of, I think maybe the second time ever, is it?

01:15:52.940 Maybe the third time ever, my view is different from what you guys won in the poll.

01:15:59.080 I would have clicked Rishi Sunak on that.

01:16:01.760 Yeah, yeah, I would have done.

01:16:04.280 Okay, Daniel D. King says,

01:16:06.520 Someone mentioned the Witten the other day.

01:16:08.960 I can't find anything on the website.

01:16:10.940 Where can we find more info?

01:16:12.720 Cheers.

01:16:13.540 Oh, I don't really know.

01:16:15.580 I don't have anything to do with that, particularly.

01:16:17.700 Well, I don't have anything to do with that.

01:16:19.180 i mean dm uh was it maven politic i think he used to organize it all but now doesn't if

01:16:29.060 if i'm sure he'd probably know anyway carl would know josh firm would know uh big big

01:16:37.500 harry robinson would know um who else uh iron age agriculturalist marcus how you doing buddy

01:16:46.680 Yeah

01:16:49.800 There's a few people that would know

01:16:51.240 Maybe even email lotus eaters

01:16:53.860 They could point you in the right direction

01:16:55.480 But I off the top of my head can't tell you

01:16:57.660 Sorry I'm not going

01:16:58.860 And don't really

01:17:00.560 Pay much attention to it

01:17:03.020 But there you go

01:17:04.220 Maybe ask

01:17:06.660 Josh Firm, I think he's the host, Big Josh Firm

01:17:09.460 The Firminator

01:17:10.060 Harry Robinson speaking

01:17:12.220 You follow them or they follow you on Twitter

01:17:15.360 so you could at them and ask them.

01:17:17.300 Or send us an email.

01:17:19.260 I'm sure we'll be able to point you in the right direction.

01:17:20.780 All right, the last three here,

01:17:23.200 CarmichaelCookieDoughFootjob

01:17:24.580 at Carmichael underscore cookie dough underscore foot job

01:17:32.800 says, on this day in 1835,

01:17:35.760 is this going to be a,

01:17:36.800 I'm feeling an Eamon Holmes set up here.

01:17:39.780 Let me just read it.

01:17:41.400 No, I don't think it is.

01:17:43.940 Okay, good.

01:17:45.360 I think, I'm not sure, but I saw one little news story

01:17:48.140 that said, like, Eamon Holmes is really, like, unwell.

01:17:54.000 So, I'm going to...

01:17:57.860 Not that I've encouraged all the Eamon Holmes jokes particularly,

01:18:03.980 but, yeah.

01:18:09.160 Get well soon, Eamon, in all seriousness.

01:18:12.260 100% for reals

01:18:14.620 Seriousness

01:18:15.640 Super serial

01:18:16.300 Yet well seen

01:18:17.800 Okay

01:18:20.100 Back to

01:18:21.260 Carmichael Cookie Dough Footjob

01:18:22.780 Says

01:18:22.960 On this day

01:18:23.620 In 1835

01:18:24.740 Newspapers announced

01:18:26.200 That Batman existed on the moon

01:18:29.740 They say all sorts of things

01:18:33.440 Don't they

01:18:33.740 They used to say all sorts of things

01:18:34.740 That a comet were coming past

01:18:36.860 And the cyanogen gas

01:18:38.760 In the tail of a comet

01:18:40.440 Was going to poison the whole earth

01:18:41.680 Or those man-made canals on Mars

01:18:46.460 Or whatever

01:18:47.800 Also, in 1958

01:18:51.200 Instant ramen was born

01:18:55.120 Ramen noodles

01:18:58.700 Is that what you mean?

01:19:02.080 Also, I had my teeth cleaned today

01:19:05.260 Okay, excellent

01:19:06.420 Dental hygiene, very important

01:19:08.900 Okay, the second thing

01:19:10.200 The second one also from Carmichael

01:19:12.660 Cookie Dough Footjob says

01:19:13.820 It's the Smiths not Morrissey

01:19:16.480 Okay so

01:19:17.460 Heaven knows I'm miserable now

01:19:20.200 That is the Smiths

01:19:22.760 Not just solo Morrissey

01:19:24.140 Okay good to know

01:19:26.360 Okay and the last couple here

01:19:28.420 So the last couple

01:19:29.720 The penultimate one for today is

01:19:31.500 Ninja Noodle 0944 says

01:19:34.680 Ceausescu is a big example

01:19:36.900 Of the people having enough

01:19:38.140 Yeah, yeah, yeah

01:19:38.980 The Romanian dictator Ceausescu

01:19:41.080 Yeah

01:19:45.780 When the normal people just rose up

01:19:48.260 And they'd had enough

01:19:48.880 How much did they put up with

01:19:50.940 Over the decades of Soviet rule

01:19:53.760 Communist rule

01:19:54.620 Took a lot

01:19:58.280 Funny, I thought populism was just a delusion

01:20:02.960 It's funny

01:20:04.080 I thought nothing could ever be done

01:20:06.500 Without an elite

01:20:08.140 James Lee Pevenhole says Paris Rouen 22nd of July 1894 first motor race oh cool in 1901

01:20:22.820 motor racing made to be on closed circuits in Pau France and then you just put the French double

01:20:29.860 exclamation mark I did an epoch one sort of a bit of a one-off I think it was like episode 50 or

01:20:36.540 maybe 52 for like the one year anniversary for epochs i decided to do something a little bit

01:20:40.840 different not sort of classic history and i did the history of racing history formula one in fact

01:20:49.600 um with uh thomas do you remember thomas uh because he's into racing we actually did

01:20:57.240 competitive karting as well i like thomas um that was i think that i thought that was a great

01:21:02.780 conversation it's one of a few times people said what's your favorite or what one did you enjoy

01:21:07.260 most i've cited that one a couple of times i talked all about when we talked the bulk of the

01:21:12.780 conversation was about the history of formula one but we for the first like half hour or so

01:21:16.780 maybe a bit more i talked all about early racing from the very beginnings of the very first time

01:21:23.120 men ever tried to race horseless carriages yeah love it interesting to me to me i know it's not

01:21:31.380 everyone's cup of tea a lot of people don't care about racing today but it's one of my things i

01:21:35.080 like all right that's the last one okay oh oh jack's pointing me to one more rumble rent that's

01:21:41.740 come in or two more rumble rents that's come in two more rumble rents have come in uh so i'll read

01:21:47.260 them why not uh from global church history how are you sir global church history with a rare

01:21:52.460 Second comment

01:21:54.880 You've put

01:21:55.920 You put

01:21:58.980 Get me on to do

01:22:00.960 St Constantine stuff

01:22:02.340 I could be a guest

01:22:03.280 My stuff on it got reposted

01:22:05.180 By a few big historians last year

01:22:06.860 As it was the anniversary of Nicaea

01:22:08.940 I even said it was the best that year

01:22:11.180 If it was the best that year

01:22:12.880 Well I've nearly finished it now

01:22:16.080 I would consider having you on

01:22:18.860 You do have to

01:22:19.520 Carl Benjamin does like people

01:22:20.820 To have their real name and face though

01:22:22.380 made one or two exceptions in the past and even that was sort of an extreme exception

01:22:30.700 you'd have to show your real name and real face and come to physically come to swindon

01:22:34.680 and i've nearly finished the constantine stuff but i wouldn't rule it out you clearly know your

01:22:42.020 stuff so that's what i say to that okay and the final one here from pig dog again says i miss

01:22:49.140 callum i love his youtube channel which is at britannica one full stop legend says pig dog

01:22:57.820 yeah callum's good callum's good i like old callum he's a funny guy good bloke all right all right

01:23:07.540 that is the show though that is the last one there so it's now 23 minutes past nine in the

01:23:11.040 am british summertime on tuesday the 25th of august in the event on 2026 you've been the

01:23:15.320 glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters thank you for joining me without you

01:23:23.620 it really isn't a thing try and make the best of their head if you can type a dm you know seize

01:23:27.760 the day it's the most valuable thing you'll ever have by orders of magnitude your time

01:23:30.820 try and make it count if you can i'm don't i won't get too preachy about it but you know

01:23:35.280 days on this earth are finite that's the dark reality of it when you're young it doesn't feel

01:23:41.560 like that does it feels like you've got endless days you really haven't it's probably later than

01:23:45.800 you think try and make your time count if you can all right then until tomorrow morning take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 25, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 25th August 2026

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