The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 31st March 2026

00:00:00.000 morning you're all right

00:00:14.400 i hope you are i hope you are i am all good another morning what is it tuesday now

00:00:22.620 just ticked past eight in the a.m greenwich mean time or british summer time isn't it

00:00:27.100 8 in the a.m. on the tuesday 33st 31st of march in the year of our lord 2026 as always

00:00:36.880 i'm joined by my producer little harry how are you this morning good sir

00:00:40.720 morning yeah i'm all good i can't hear you i think they'll be able to but i can't hear you

00:00:45.260 there you go that should be solid no still can't hear you all right you are the glorious band the

00:00:51.980 chosen for you, my band of brothers and sisters. Without you it isn't a thing. Shall we just

00:00:59.180 jump straight into it? Okay, we've got this morning, corporate mainstream media banging

00:01:06.100 on about this morning is Scott Mills sacked by the BBC and Starmer's 48-hour ultimatum.

00:01:14.760 Harry, could you bring that up on the screen? There you go.

00:01:21.980 scott mills sacked by the bbc so anyone who's foreign or doesn't really watch or listen to 0.91

00:01:27.500 the radio bbc radio who's scott mills be forgiven for asking yeah he's just uh he's just the bbc

00:01:35.260 radio presenter dude i mean obviously it's the bbc they get giant numbers it's like a few million

00:01:40.720 tune into that every morning radio 2 and it's like their premiere radio slot and whoever has

00:01:47.840 that slot is sort of semi-famous well very famous in radio world and like usually the same person

00:01:57.200 will have it for years and years and then when they get replaced at some point it's like who's

00:02:00.400 going to be next like after this Scott Mills has been fired it's like oh is it going to be Sarah

00:02:04.400 Cox is it going to be Ryland is it going to be like Vernon Kaye is going to get the job who's

00:02:08.860 going to get the job I never listened to the radio never have never have listened to the radio

00:02:14.440 Hardly, hardly ever

00:02:16.740 I never get in and think

00:02:18.340 Oh I know, I'll pop the radio on

00:02:20.020 I don't own a radio set

00:02:22.740 You can get the radio on your laptop as well

00:02:24.320 I never think, oh I know

00:02:25.320 I won't bother watching YouTube

00:02:27.800 I won't bother watching something good

00:02:30.140 I'll put the radio on

00:02:31.520 I mean, but millions of people still do though

00:02:34.020 Millions of people still do

00:02:35.360 Probably older people, is that fair to say?

00:02:41.660 Alright, so

00:02:42.780 Scott Mills

00:02:43.600 man in his early 50s a gay man he's got a male husband okay so he's been sacked now that is

00:02:54.640 all over the front pages of the news today they've decided they're getting bored with iran

00:02:58.640 cabal the fleet street editors yeah a bit bored of iran lads yeah let's do something else

00:03:04.800 can dog pile on scott mills who may or may not have done something terrible

00:03:10.740 Let's all go with that, mostly

00:03:12.820 And Stammer's full take out our ultimatum

00:03:16.980 Which is to junior trainee doctors

00:03:20.180 They've got a union

00:03:22.660 And they're always asking for more

00:03:25.420 Always, always asking for more

00:03:27.120 And they've threatened to do a strike, a walkout

00:03:30.440 A bit out of order

00:03:32.220 If you're a doctor, a policeman or a fireman

00:03:34.220 Don't do strikes

00:03:35.500 Don't do strikes 0.98

00:03:38.120 That's really scumbag behaviour 0.92

00:03:41.000 But the junior doctors 0.99

00:03:42.500 Those of whom are like foreign 1.00

00:03:44.880 Or second, third generation immigrants 1.00

00:03:47.120 They don't care

00:03:47.760 They don't seem to care

00:03:49.140 Getting paid much more than minimum wage

00:03:54.200 Still not a great wage

00:03:57.860 But they're getting paid alright

00:04:00.240 And where they've struck and played all sorts of games

00:04:04.440 Over the last few months or years

00:04:06.800 They got all sorts of concessions out of the government

00:04:11.280 Like the previous Rishi government and stuff

00:04:13.780 One of them was like 4,000 new jobs

00:04:16.220 4,000 more of them

00:04:17.580 And

00:04:18.960 Starmer's saying

00:04:23.200 I'll give you 48 hours

00:04:24.360 Otherwise I'm rescinding that

00:04:25.960 It's all a bit weak isn't it

00:04:28.140 The strikes of yesteryear were so much more badass

00:04:31.120 Nowadays strikes are like

00:04:33.400 A teacher's union say

00:04:35.100 or these junior doctors unions

00:04:37.520 they say, if you don't meet our demands

00:04:39.460 we'll walk out for a couple of days

00:04:41.500 or a rail union, we'll walk out for a couple of days

00:04:43.500 we'll definitely come back after that

00:04:45.580 but

00:04:45.840 and like the government side

00:04:49.180 will be like, oh well we might

00:04:51.300 this little concession we already gave you, we might

00:04:53.360 rescind that, it's all a bit milquetoast

00:04:55.300 compared to

00:04:56.220 how strikes used to go down

00:04:58.580 strikes used to be, the whole point of it

00:05:02.960 was that you walked out

00:05:04.880 indefinitely

00:05:06.100 until you, the workers

00:05:09.140 either couldn't hack it anymore 0.97

00:05:10.440 you had to come back with your towel between your legs 0.98

00:05:12.940 because your family was starving

00:05:14.160 or the government crumbled

00:05:16.980 stakes used to be a lot higher

00:05:20.320 I'm not saying it's necessarily better that way

00:05:21.760 but strikes these days

00:05:23.460 like everything else

00:05:24.200 just seems like a wet lettuce version

00:05:26.420 of how things used to be

00:05:27.700 like a weak, lame shadow of a shadow

00:05:31.520 of the way things used to be

00:05:34.880 All right, anyway, let's get into it. The Guardian.

00:05:44.020 The Guardian.

00:05:47.460 Okay, there's Scott Mills. There's a picture of gay Scott Mills. 0.75

00:05:52.900 Should we get into the story then?

00:05:54.380 Sacked by the BBC over claims about conduct.

00:05:57.580 So, the story is that we don't know exactly what he did.

00:06:04.880 because Scott himself and the person or people I think it's one person who might

00:06:12.980 have been might have been his victim neither of those people have come out

00:06:17.560 and said exactly what it is that he's supposed to have done what his conduct

00:06:22.400 was that is so bad however what it seems like it is what a lot of the report is I

00:06:32.120 don't spend too much time on this because i don't care about scott mills or bbc radio at all 0.81

00:06:37.600 other than to just say you know the bbc is some sort of den of sex criminals the number of sex 0.96

00:06:44.920 criminals full-blown shown to be convicted sex criminals that come out of the bbc is mad 0.95

00:06:52.700 man like way way way way way above average for like the general population i mean how many sex

00:07:01.260 criminals are there per 1 000 people per 10 000 people right at the bbc way above that anyway this

00:07:07.960 is the latest one he hasn't so okay the story is in 2016 no long you know long time ago 10 years ago

00:07:16.200 um he was in trouble with the police over a possible i don't know i don't even know if it

00:07:26.040 was actual full-blown sexual assault or not but some sort of impropriety with a teenage boy

00:07:31.100 right and the police investigated it at the time and found that like there wasn't enough evidence

00:07:40.480 they didn't go through with a full trial and prosecution because they may or the cps

00:07:45.200 made the calculation that they probably wouldn't win at trial

00:07:49.180 the crown wouldn't win at trial so so they don't go through the trial that's how that works

00:07:55.080 they thought there wasn't enough evidence okay doesn't mean you didn't do it

00:08:00.060 it means the authorities don't think they can prove you did it i don't know whether he did it

00:08:05.460 or not i don't know what he did okay so all that happened in 2016 10 years ago and then last week

00:08:13.840 the bbc made a decision what more information what new or more information they got

00:08:20.460 or whether other news outlets other news organs told them we've got some some dirt and we're

00:08:29.720 going to go to print with it about old scott mills your star your star radio dude morning

00:08:35.140 breakfast show flagship dude i don't know any of that but the bbc obviously got some new information

00:08:42.420 and they decided they're just going to fire him straight away or more or less straight away he's

00:08:48.200 taking off the air tuesday or wednesday last week and then over the weekend the bbc told him

00:08:52.960 you're fired dude you're completely completely your contract's done you're not under investigation

00:08:57.520 or anything like that pending no you're done you're fired

00:09:00.540 there you go that's not usually how the bbc do things usually they

00:09:05.860 they do an investigation and keep someone on the books for like

00:09:08.900 weeks or months while they do an investigation i don't usually just

00:09:11.600 fire you outright it suggests that they've got some sort of terrible slam

00:09:16.460 dunk information a scoop but so far the chattering

00:09:21.060 classes and all people like you or i don't actually know

00:09:25.340 what he's supposed to have done what is this thing in 2016

00:09:28.540 just a historical relationship that's the thing that's come out they keep saying

00:09:33.620 it's to do with his personal conduct and a historical relationship

00:09:37.820 that's it that's all we know

00:09:40.880 and that he was sort of in trouble with the police in 2016 to some degree which didn't

00:09:48.040 end in a trial in any way that's it okay that's it that's all over the front pages

00:09:53.460 all right let's move on Scott Mills who cares really Trump threat to obliterate all Iranian 0.95

00:10:02.340 power plants yeah time's running out for the Iranians and their power plants the Donald's 1.00

00:10:08.680 set to blow them up basically they don't open the Straits of Hormuz and just basically accept 0.59

00:10:16.560 defeat which they're not going to do does it everything about the Iranian regime tells me

00:10:23.320 They're not going to do that

00:10:24.400 So

00:10:25.660 They're going to call the Donald's bluff

00:10:30.160 But you don't really call the Donald's bluff

00:10:34.240 You don't really call the Pentagon's bluff

00:10:35.940 They just do the thing they say they're going to do

00:10:38.620 Don't they

00:10:38.980 Alright

00:10:43.160 Small boat deal close to collapse

00:10:46.160 Over safety fears

00:10:47.440 Yeah

00:10:47.760 Worried about the safety of the migrant people 1.00

00:10:53.320 Not the safety of the natives of this island, and who the people are coming in, what kind of backgrounds they've got, their rate per capita of crime. Not our safety, the safety of the boat crossing migrant people themselves. They might drown in the channel. 1.00

00:11:09.440 yeah that's some sort of story this morning looks like uh the deal i think the deal

00:11:15.900 for what it's worth which is almost nothing comes to an end at like midnight tonight i read that

00:11:20.900 somewhere i think that's the case or midnight last night or midnight tomorrow night i don't

00:11:24.460 know soon very soon but what's it worth anyway the french police just simply aren't stopping

00:11:32.840 the boat are they so

00:11:34.280 alright the mirror

00:11:39.320 something about Patsy Kensett don't care 1.00

00:11:43.060 something about Stephen Lawrence don't care

00:11:44.860 exclusive new BBC

00:11:46.920 shame sacked Mills in 2016

00:11:49.180 cop probe star

00:11:50.920 questioned over sexual offences

00:11:52.580 against teen but case dropped

00:11:54.800 due to lack of evidence okay we've been through all that

00:11:56.800 so won't spend any more time on Scott Mills

00:11:58.980 Practising homosexualist Scott Mills 0.73

00:12:03.100 The Sun

00:12:06.340 Another scandal hits Beeb

00:12:08.800 I'm not even going to go into any more details

00:12:10.180 I told you everything you really need to know about it

00:12:11.940 This dude got sacked from the BBC Radio

00:12:17.280 Maybe Sarah Cox or Vernon Kay get a new job

00:12:24.000 BBC Crisis as another scandal hit presenter is sacked

00:12:30.680 See, they've decided on their little WhatsApp message

00:12:33.460 We're going with Scott Mills tomorrow, yeah guys

00:12:35.720 Everyone do a Scott Mills front page, yeah

00:12:39.160 Don't mention Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein

00:12:43.360 And George Osborne and 5th Baron Rothschild, yeah

00:12:47.000 Okay, Scott Mills it is, yeah, got it right

00:12:48.660 Epstein though, they will mention

00:12:53.640 And his daughters

00:12:54.820 Eugene and Beatrice

00:12:56.580 I'll mention those

00:12:57.560 Okay

00:12:58.060 The Daily Star

00:13:00.500 Well we've got

00:13:01.020 Oh Scott Mills

00:13:01.860 J-Lo

00:13:02.860 Looking a bit rough

00:13:04.600 To be honest

00:13:05.040 And

00:13:06.240 And Scott Mills again

00:13:08.400 Oh Scott Mills

00:13:13.000 And the Daily Telegraph

00:13:14.040 Scott Mills

00:13:16.600 Starmer's 48 hour

00:13:19.240 Ultimatum to doctors

00:13:20.540 Junior medics

00:13:22.220 Told to call off

00:13:23.000 strike or 4,000 new jobs will be scrapped

00:13:27.900 big stuff and it

00:13:33.880 cliff edge stuff Beatrice and Eugenie those two princesses Andrews Andrew

00:13:43.600 Mountbatten's two daughters there they're probably not going to be invited

00:13:47.800 to the palace for Easter it's a miss Easter service well the service and the

00:13:53.440 and the palace after I'm gonna be invited to Easter estranged cousins

00:14:05.480 the cousins war Britain faces biggest hit from Middle East energy crisis

00:14:11.960 walls IMF we'll see we'll see we can refine crude into petrol gasoline petrol

00:14:21.260 ourselves diesel not so much we can get crude from anywhere else we can get

00:14:26.720 crude from the United States crude the United States makes more crude like West

00:14:30.860 Texas or whatever loads of makes more crude than it needs it's a net exporter

00:14:35.420 of crude the worst comes to the worst we'll just get all our crude from the

00:14:40.100 United States but then turning that crude into petrol and diesel we can do

00:14:48.260 petrol but not these I mean again we can do diesel but we don't we can't make

00:14:53.300 enough diesel for our own domestic use so not only do we obviously have to

00:14:59.420 import crude we actually have to import some of a quarter or a third or a fifth

00:15:05.700 of diesel already refined diesel

00:15:08.780 well that'll be expensive that'll be expensive relatively expensive if you've got a diesel car

00:15:18.680 then you know

00:15:24.220 probably worst hit worst hit the price of oil let's talk about oil briefly

00:15:30.580 price this morning or an hour or so ago an hour and a quarter ago something like that

00:15:35.700 west texas was about 100 102 and brent was at like 112 odd

00:15:42.480 so again expensive not really anywhere near all-time high and not insanely expensive

00:15:50.800 insanely expensive but high but high there's no doubt about that i'm you know i'm not

00:15:55.000 not saying it's not high and plus as this thing goes on the difference between the actual

00:16:03.280 raw price of a barrel of crude against what you actually pay at the pump will diverge as well

00:16:11.200 i.e the price of a barrel of crude might not be insanely higher but the price of your actual

00:16:19.580 petrol at a petrol station does still keep ticking up for all sorts of complicated reasons

00:16:24.760 okay france digs its feet in over migrant crossing yeah they don't help they won't help us 1.00

00:16:33.020 They're not interested in helping us

00:16:35.560 It's less foreign chancers and criminals in their country 1.00

00:16:39.780 And they're antagonists of ours

00:16:44.940 Always have been

00:16:48.000 It's obviously not like the 14th century, the Hundred Years' War

00:16:50.860 It's obviously not like the Napoleonic era

00:16:54.340 Where we're actually full-blown enemies

00:16:56.220 But they're not our friend

00:16:58.620 They don't think the French are our friend in any way 0.94

00:17:01.420 Like properly, diplomatically

00:17:02.700 On a national level

00:17:03.480 No, they're not

00:17:04.060 Rivals, really

00:17:10.740 Essentially rivals

00:17:12.000 In all sorts of senses

00:17:13.040 Still

00:17:14.380 To this day

00:17:15.320 The times

00:17:16.520 The venerable times

00:17:17.860 This old

00:17:20.700 This old Doris 0.98

00:17:22.780 Reckons sex is great 1.00

00:17:24.340 In your 80s 0.97

00:17:25.120 Do you love?

00:17:27.580 Not interested

00:17:28.660 Starmer gives reckless junior doctors 48 hours to call off strikes

00:17:34.640 Showdown of titans

00:17:38.100 The junior doctors and Sir Queer Starlin 0.98

00:17:41.560 A battle of wills for the ages

00:17:45.420 Okay

00:17:49.560 War brings in 20 million pounds a day extra in energy taxes

00:17:56.020 Windfall may be wiped out though

00:17:58.320 By borrowing costs

00:18:00.280 Britain's borrowing costs are insane

00:18:03.020 Just the amount of interest we pay

00:18:05.420 On our borrowing

00:18:06.600 Insane

00:18:09.840 Insane

00:18:11.540 Our economy

00:18:12.700 Could or may well

00:18:14.400 Collapse at some point

00:18:15.960 Loads of countries are like that

00:18:17.160 They just spend way more than their GDP

00:18:19.780 And then borrow more

00:18:24.080 To keep spending

00:18:25.440 borrow so much that the interest repayments on the borrowing is unsustainable

00:18:33.020 just keep cramming hundreds of thousands of more people on most of which or maybe not most but a

00:18:43.980 lot of which are a net drain on the economy what do you expect an nhs bill which is absolutely

00:18:51.860 Gigantic

00:18:54.120 Astronomical

00:18:55.360 Unsustainable

00:18:58.100 Unaffordable

00:18:58.660 And then

00:19:04.000 You put some leftist Karen

00:19:06.080 Who isn't an economist

00:19:07.380 In as the Chancellor

00:19:09.280 Who quite clearly doesn't know

00:19:12.280 What she's doing 0.81

00:19:13.280 About economics

00:19:15.380 Make the Chancellor Exchequer

00:19:18.860 Some non-economist woman 0.98

00:19:21.820 Who idolises socialists

00:19:27.760 Isn't that the most disastrous thing you could do?

00:19:35.100 Short of someone like John McDonnell or something

00:19:37.160 Slightly less worse than John McDonnell

00:19:40.480 So still terrible 1.00

00:19:41.400 This is a stupid 1.00

00:19:44.360 This is a stupid article from the Times 1.00

00:19:48.460 I got about half way through it 1.00

00:19:50.100 And then just sort of, just couldn't, I couldn't even.

00:19:55.100 World's unhappiest places are just so macho.

00:20:00.300 And it's a story about in places in the world where there's sort of more manliness or macho-ness.

00:20:08.240 Places where men are men. 0.97

00:20:11.740 Places like, what was it, they listed a few places like, what was it, Ghana, Iran.

00:20:20.100 Nigeria

00:20:21.040 Places like that

00:20:23.400 Where the male paradigm

00:20:26.080 Is very very strong

00:20:27.320 They're the most unhappiest places in the world

00:20:30.380 In other words

00:20:32.080 It's making the argument

00:20:32.680 Be a soy boy 0.99

00:20:33.540 Be a weakling soy boy 1.00

00:20:35.200 Cut 1.00

00:20:35.640 Be a weak-wristed nothing man 0.88

00:20:40.720 Right, the Times 0.96

00:20:43.260 Front page, there you go 0.97

00:20:45.380 Be a weakling 0.97

00:20:47.160 Morally and physically and ethically 0.81

00:20:49.380 what he's arguing for front page print front page the times all right the eye paper

00:20:58.900 should we read the quick blurb i'm not sure if it's worth it this morning should we read it

00:21:03.180 we'll quickly run through it pm meets uk fuel bosses as prices rise at the pumps

00:21:08.460 prime minister urges business leaders to help limit fallout from iran war during number 10

00:21:14.960 summit with bosses from energy shipping and banking public wants action on food prices

00:21:19.920 petrol and home energy says starmer in call for joint effort

00:21:23.940 okay so in the cabinet room that's the cabinet room in number 10 these are not other government

00:21:34.720 cabinet ministers they're sort of the titans of industry important people in business

00:21:39.620 He sat around going, let's all pull together guys

00:21:42.140 This needs to be a joint effort guys

00:21:44.200 Come on

00:21:44.980 Just looks super weird and weak

00:21:49.580 Why would you do that, it's like a performative thing

00:21:52.200 You could, should do that anyway

00:21:54.560 But like, to let the cameras in and do it on camera

00:21:58.120 It's just really, really performative to me, it seems

00:22:00.960 Okay, fuel prices in the UK climb

00:22:04.300 With petrol rising to £1.52 a litre

00:22:07.580 on average and diesel up to one pound 81 that is a lot in it for diesel still

00:22:13.180 i mean keep it in some perspective it's more than it was

00:22:18.700 uh i don't feel like it's completely insane like the price of crude still

00:22:24.600 as much as the corporate mainstream media want you to panic and think it's insanely high it's

00:22:30.840 not insanely high okay it goes on to say typical petrol car uh typical petrol car now costs

00:22:37.000 10 pound 55 more to fill than at the start of the war or 21 pound 35 for diesel so to fill

00:22:44.640 your petrol tank up 21 pound 35 more than it already was so that's a lot isn't it it's not

00:22:52.380 nothing, I don't feel like, I don't want to downplay it unnecessarily, but it's not absolutely

00:23:01.300 insane, and for petrol, £10.55 more than it was, you're right on the breadline, the

00:23:14.720 is if you own a car if you if you if you own a car then you've got enough money for insurance

00:23:24.980 road tax mot various other things enough to fill it up anyway so if you've got that sort of wealth

00:23:32.420 ie you're not in true true poverty even if you haven't got much money but you're not in true

00:23:38.580 poverty you can afford to buy and run a car another 10 pound on top of what it already was

00:23:46.260 to fill it up it's probably not going to bankrupt you is it and not that it's good i'm not trying

00:23:51.080 to say it's good or fine or anything i'm all i'm saying is keep it in some perspective

00:23:57.700 people that drive and are very close to the breadline probably extremely annoyed with that

00:24:02.820 take but i'm just saying right it's not 100 pound more all right all right it's not good though i'm

00:24:11.460 not saying it's good or it's fine or get over it it is bad it's not ideal just to be clear but

00:24:18.380 Brent at £112 a barrel

00:24:25.520 Expensive

00:24:28.900 Not crazy

00:24:31.060 PM and fuel execs discuss UK's contingency plan for lower suppliers of diesel and jet fuel

00:24:39.200 RAC instructs drivers to fill up as normal

00:24:42.580 make a deal soon on america and israel make a deal soon or america and israel will obliterate 0.88

00:24:50.820 iran power plants trump threatens quote new and more reasonable quote regime in tehran

00:24:57.400 so yeah he's like he'll threaten them and literally in like the next sentence or next breath

00:25:02.440 call them new and more reasonable so it's sort of a carrot and stick at exactly the same time

00:25:09.300 trying to be nice and trying to talk about making a deal in Pakistan or something but also if you

00:25:15.220 don't we'll destroy you okay that's uh that's Trump's type of diplomacy sometimes it works

00:25:24.600 doesn't it sometimes he does get exactly what he wants by being like that by doing that

00:25:29.060 he's at war diplomacy is done differently once you're actually at war isn't it

00:25:36.000 it is a different beast

00:25:39.600 once missiles and or bullets are flying

00:25:42.940 okay

00:25:43.840 Easter bank holiday, because it's Easter next weekend isn't it

00:25:46.540 set to be the busiest on UK roads in four years

00:25:50.380 with 21 million trips planned, fascinating

00:25:54.180 The Daily Express, it's a good pain

00:25:58.060 Labour urged to help Britain's drivers now

00:26:00.900 and Scott Mills

00:26:06.000 Hey, is the Express Editor in the group? Someone message him, someone message him, we're going with Scott Mills

00:26:11.200 Financial Times, they didn't get the Scott Mills memo, it's probably on page 2 but

00:26:20.700 Okay, the Financial Times, conflict talks, Trump and Iran at odds

00:26:25.880 Breaking news, breaking news, something about AI, French AI

00:26:32.540 Head of Air Canada can't speak French

00:26:34.860 The Metro

00:26:36.680 Alright

00:26:43.920 Okay they go with something completely different

00:26:47.320 In that WhatsApp group

00:26:50.900 The Metro editor say no I'm going with the story

00:26:52.980 About the house that blew up once

00:26:54.360 Tenant blew up home after

00:26:58.640 80 pound rent rise, he died in it

00:27:00.640 He was in the house and he deliberately blew it up with himself in it

00:27:04.860 it was a while ago was it like a year or two ago but now the investigation or

00:27:09.340 something has finished something like that so yeah this guy here this guy the

00:27:15.920 land he rented a house and the landlord put the rent up by 80 quid and that sent

00:27:23.280 him over the edge and he was like well I'm not paying it and they're like if

00:27:26.240 you've got you bro there's like no I'll blow the whole house up if you make me

00:27:31.100 pay more rent, and they were like, uh, and then he just did it, with himself in there,

00:27:37.880 like a suicide, there was a nervous laugh there, it was a suicide, a bit out of order

00:27:46.460 really, on the neighbours, isn't it, talk about a nightmare neighbour, yeah, with his

00:27:56.920 the gas oven he had a gas oven and um yeah and he said to his friend he said to a friend

00:28:03.280 it's going to go up with a bang man tells friend before dying in rubble from huge blast

00:28:09.740 interesting isn't it i would have thought there was other things going on in his life

00:28:16.140 it wasn't like he was perfectly happy and well balanced

00:28:20.360 And then he gets a letter through

00:28:24.680 About his rent

00:28:25.520 And then he does that

00:28:28.020 It's probably right at the end of his tether anyway

00:28:31.680 You would have thought, wouldn't you?

00:28:37.040 Bowtie there

00:28:37.800 Don't wear bowties

00:28:41.720 Alright, that's the papers

00:28:44.440 That's the front page of the papers

00:28:45.420 Shall we have a look at our poll?

00:28:48.520 We did a poll, didn't we, Harry?

00:28:49.800 You made a poll this morning

00:28:50.680 Alright there it is

00:28:54.840 We just asked you guys

00:28:57.080 Do you care about Scott Mills

00:29:00.820 I think a valid question this morning

00:29:04.780 And you had four options

00:29:07.360 Yes a lot

00:29:08.500 Yes a bit

00:29:10.240 No not really

00:29:11.740 And no not at all

00:29:12.880 And no not at all

00:29:15.520 Clearly wins with 70%

00:29:18.000 Yes a bit

00:29:20.980 Oh sorry

00:29:21.920 Yes a lot

00:29:22.680 Got 2%

00:29:24.140 2% of you really care about Scott Mills

00:29:26.740 Scott Mills' career

00:29:29.040 5% of you

00:29:34.620 Care a little bit about Scott Mills and his career

00:29:37.060 And whether or not he's at liberty

00:29:40.140 24% said

00:29:43.720 No not really

00:29:44.640 That's actually a decent chunk

00:29:46.400 24% mildly care

00:29:48.180 The vast majority of you there

00:29:50.920 No, not at all

00:29:53.040 Yeah

00:29:53.620 My people

00:29:55.520 The Glorious Band, The Chosen Few

00:29:58.380 You've got your head screwed on, right?

00:30:02.300 If you've tuned in live to Breakfast with Beau, the Beau show

00:30:05.020 Beau's Breakfast Club, hashtag The Real BBC

00:30:08.420 Then you know what you're doing

00:30:09.920 Don't you?

00:30:11.860 You're a good person

00:30:12.600 One of the very best among us

00:30:14.880 Scott Mills, come on

00:30:18.120 Scott Mills, who cares

00:30:20.800 I wonder if he did, in just pure speculation

00:30:23.240 I'm allowed to speculate

00:30:25.220 whether he did something monstrous back in 2016

00:30:29.620 with that teenager

00:30:31.080 Who knows, Scott and or the teenager themselves

00:30:35.920 have declined thus far to make a statement

00:30:39.520 So, what are you going to do?

00:30:44.880 you would have thought he would have made a statement by now saying I deny any and all

00:30:50.560 wrongdoing you know I didn't do nothing there's nothing to this no just silence

00:30:55.420 doesn't bode particularly well for Scott all right you and I don't care so let's just move

00:31:04.060 on shall we look there's the junior doctors look thinking that they're like some sort of great

00:31:11.460 Thinking they're something special

00:31:14.400 You're a kid training to be a doctor

00:31:17.520 Stop thinking you're like some sort of badass union

00:31:21.900 Kids these days, eh?

00:31:31.560 Labour overhaul non-crime hate incident rules

00:31:34.080 Will they really, though?

00:31:38.540 Quickly read a tiny bit of this

00:31:39.820 the government is to change when police forces in england and wales record non-crite non-crime

00:31:45.080 hate incidents in a bid to end the policing of quote everyday arguments quote new home office

00:31:50.080 guidance will say the forces should only log incidents that are potentially relevant to

00:31:54.300 policing yeah considering you're not considering you're not really solving any hardly any burglaries

00:32:05.060 very very few sexual assaults like hardly any car thefts and phone thefts but you are spending

00:32:11.920 any time whatsoever on in on things that aren't relevant to policing that's mad

00:32:17.660 isn't it it's mad it comes after a review by police chiefs found the system developed in

00:32:25.220 mid-2000s had increasingly seen officers joining to policing debates on social media yeah

00:32:30.580 Come knock at your door

00:32:32.700 Excuse me

00:32:33.680 We're not here to arrest you

00:32:35.160 Because it's a non-crime incident

00:32:36.940 Non-crime hate incident

00:32:37.980 But you said something spicy on Twitter

00:32:40.300 We've come round to just try and tone police you

00:32:44.100 For a few minutes

00:32:44.860 Meanwhile next door's been burgled

00:32:48.580 Crazy isn't it?

00:32:52.380 Crazy

00:32:52.820 However the Conservatives say

00:32:58.400 The move from Labour Ministers

00:32:59.500 Does not go far enough

00:33:00.460 calling it simply a rebrand well yeah so that's what i think it would be they're not actually

00:33:05.380 gonna force the police to stop doing this well before now in fact the government the home office

00:33:10.620 have asked the police to stop doing it and the police themselves said no we're just gonna keep

00:33:14.080 doing it all right uh what else do we have there was something on uh itv i thought was interesting

00:33:28.760 There's the junior doctors

00:33:30.220 £18.62 an hour

00:33:33.200 Is not a fair wage for doctors

00:33:35.360 Isn't it?

00:33:35.840 I mean it's not a great amount

00:33:36.920 But what?

00:33:37.660 What's your problem?

00:33:39.020 It's much more than minimum wage

00:33:40.040 What do you want?

00:33:42.480 Our economy is in the toilet

00:33:44.220 What do you want?

00:33:47.460 I'd rather just take money away from migrants 1.00

00:33:50.240 I bet this dude wouldn't like that

00:33:53.400 Look at the state of it

00:33:55.580 £18.62

00:33:58.740 To an hour is not enough

00:34:00.260 I mean

00:34:00.680 Because you're the only thing that matters

00:34:03.900 You're the only

00:34:06.300 The treasure is just

00:34:08.780 Overflowing with money

00:34:10.600 And they're just not giving you enough

00:34:12.680 Because they're just miserly

00:34:14.960 Is that what it is?

00:34:16.280 Or is it that our economy is completely stagnant?

00:34:20.280 We can barely afford to borrow any more money

00:34:22.960 But it's all about you, is it?

00:34:25.140 Meanwhile people that actually need your care

00:34:29.240 Will have to go without it for a while 0.93

00:34:32.180 Because you're so selfish

00:34:33.540 Yeah, yeah

00:34:35.340 If you're a policeman

00:34:37.560 A doctor, a nurse

00:34:39.260 Or in the fire brigade

00:34:41.340 Don't strike

00:34:42.160 Try and get your demands without striking

00:34:46.440 Because that is scummy

00:34:49.160 Because people just go without care

00:34:51.940 Brilliant

00:34:52.740 I thought that's what you wanted to do

00:34:55.100 Junior doctors

00:34:59.560 Give me a break

00:35:00.620 If they were being paid like under minimum wage

00:35:04.020 Or barely minimum wage

00:35:05.100 Or just a tiny bit more than minimum wage

00:35:06.860 Maybe

00:35:07.160 But like £18.62

00:35:08.560 Alright

00:35:12.240 Cargill Island

00:35:14.380 Keir Starmer

00:35:16.520 Scott Mills

00:35:17.900 Beatrice and Eugenie

00:35:20.060 It's all the same stuff isn't it

00:35:22.240 Got to do an inquiry into exactly how

00:35:24.400 ian huntley got murdered yeah all right there was something on sky news i thought was interesting

00:35:32.260 mildly mildly interesting i think i have to scroll down a fair bit for it um oh yeah here we go this

00:35:41.840 story classic classic stuff going back to sort of cold war stuff russia kicks out british diplomat

00:35:49.900 A diplomat, because Moscow accused them of spying.

00:35:56.660 The FBS, FBS, oh, FSB, FSB, the FSB, which is the KGB, really, the newer version of the KGB,

00:36:07.520 Russia's security service has accused the diplomat of attempting to gather information about the country's economy during meetings.

00:36:14.780 yeah so it always goes people that are quote unquote diplomats in the embassies around the

00:36:21.100 world are a lot of them not all of them of course but a lot of them are spies not necessarily like

00:36:28.300 a james bond spy that will go around with a silenced pistol shooting people or anything

00:36:32.820 like that trying to break into a foreign country's secure location not that type of spy

00:36:39.020 but i just go to trade delegations and i go to other embassies and i go to

00:36:44.660 higher meetings inside or if it's in russia in the kremlin for example or

00:36:49.120 the uh the russian equivalent of the foreign office whatever and just glean information

00:36:55.700 just glean any and all information they can at dinner parties and stuff like reasonably openly

00:37:01.960 like not not full-blown espionage skullduggery secret squirrel with a balaclava on and like

00:37:10.980 abseiling into rooms at night not that but still aspire though but still aspire

00:37:17.080 yeah that's what a lot of diplomats are

00:37:22.640 anyway i mean it's not even that uncommon that to this day if you now and again a story will come

00:37:31.680 up britain has uh expelled a russian diplomat or three russian diplomats and for a tit for tat

00:37:38.420 russia will expel three british ones it's not just britain and russia it's all all countries 0.95

00:37:42.560 we don't seem to ever do anything like that to china incidentally incidentally

00:37:48.860 never we we're never expelling chinese diplomats even though we know for a fact 0.99

00:37:55.120 Their intelligence services are all over us

00:38:00.840 All over us, infiltrate us in all sorts of ways

00:38:05.700 But we never do this tip for tat stuff, we're trying to never

00:38:07.640 Anyway, Russia, Russia's found a British one 0.99

00:38:10.000 Not really that mad, not really that uncommon

00:38:12.900 The FSB, Russia's security service

00:38:17.020 Claimed the British diplomat, quote

00:38:18.940 Provided false information about himself

00:38:21.240 Moscow also accused him of attempting to gather information

00:38:29.840 about the Russian economy during informal meetings

00:38:33.240 The FSB, the main successor for the Soviet era KGB

00:38:43.660 said it had detected an undeclared intelligence presence

00:38:47.700 okay you get it there's a great book i've mentioned it before a number of times i think it's a great

00:38:53.540 book some people think it's not so great but i think there's a great book called spire catcher

00:38:58.820 by an old mi5 guy peter wright great book people in mi5 try and discredit it and say it's all

00:39:08.820 nonsense he was crazy he's a crazy man really it's all a lot of it's lies and um exaggerations and 0.88

00:39:14.020 and it was all like a vanity project for himself. 1.00

00:39:17.860 A lot of other people say,

00:39:19.120 no, that's a really, really incredible book.

00:39:21.000 That's a really good piece of information,

00:39:23.040 a really good literary source of how MI5 and MI6 do stuff.

00:39:26.920 I think that.

00:39:29.260 Because at one point, MI5 were tasked with sort of investigating MI6

00:39:34.500 or investigating themselves, possible moles, Russian moles.

00:39:38.540 This is in like the 50s, 60s, 70s.

00:39:40.480 um and it's built out into mi6 uh it's a complicated really long complicated story

00:39:48.140 anyway that book is really interesting in in interesting in so far as specifically the russian

00:39:56.680 and british relationship how they spy on each other how they have spied on each other over

00:40:03.440 the decades obviously spy catcher is much more in the cold war still 60s and 70s mainly but

00:40:09.800 it all still goes on to a much lesser degree it's dialed down right it's dialed down from those

00:40:14.020 days but still pretty much the same sorts of things go on on a smaller scale slightly less

00:40:20.240 well quite in less intense scale but it's still the same games it's still the same sorts of games

00:40:26.600 that go on by catcher pretty right consider checking it out i think it might be on youtube

00:40:32.520 as an audiobook for free i think i'm not sure about that okay interesting to me interesting to

00:40:39.120 me if you have a look at the Daily Mail what's the Daily Mail got the Mail online Scott Mills

00:40:44.400 is that the picture of the quote-unquote teenager is it I don't know okay it sparks a crisis in

00:40:52.680 the BBC a crisis has been sparked okay there was a story here a fair few Trump things um

00:41:02.460 10 problems that may trap trump in a nightmare scenario in iran marco rubio's dual roles leaves

00:41:10.440 trump quote in informed quote on harrowing iran decisions former national security advisor

00:41:16.260 charges but trump approval rebounds as he scrambles for peace deal in iran

00:41:21.580 as i understand it there's a there's a whole bunch of people in america tds sufferers which 1.00

00:41:28.440 hate the war and try and paint it every possible opportunity as terrible and evil and stupid but a 0.99

00:41:35.000 lot of americans are up for it a lot of americans like it are behind the president and stuff like 0.99

00:41:40.120 no iran is like an export of terror and it is better for the region and the world and america 0.71

00:41:46.280 if they're sort of taken out one way or another or completely degraded loads of americans loads

00:41:53.880 think that and say that who's to say they're wrong who's to say they're wrong i'm not going to

00:41:59.560 all right trump's approval rebounds a little bit okay scott mills and his one million pound

00:42:08.680 home don't care all right the express here's a little story fury at bbc for call to end

00:42:15.900 dog friendly spaces the bbc this is obviously the express reporting on a bbc report that said

00:42:23.640 end dog friendly spaces no no see that's the BBC that's auntie for you really subversive not that

00:42:33.180 long ago not many years ago when I was younger when I was a child when I was a teenager in my

00:42:37.360 20s the BBC was sort of it came across as essentially friendly essentially on your side

00:42:43.300 it wasn't it's always been lefty it's always been extremely left since inception since the 1920s

00:42:49.280 it's always been left but even when i was a kid it would come across as friendly and nice and on

00:42:54.660 your side and essentially patriotic it wasn't but it was still wearing a wolf's coat the sheep's

00:43:02.860 clothing like a good fabian it was always a wolf but wearing its sheep clothing pretending it was

00:43:08.720 on your side it just doesn't it's it's shed that that sheep's clothing isn't it now they come out

00:43:14.960 with something about some foreigner trying to tell you dogs are bad. No, no. Englishmen 0.98

00:43:27.560 and Brits, we love our dogs. Centuries and centuries of tradition of being great fans

00:43:36.600 of dogs. So no, don't tell us we can't have dog-friendly spaces. Dogs aren't welcome.

00:43:43.120 You need to stop having dogs 0.86

00:43:44.760 That's a Muslim thing 1.00

00:43:46.340 We're not a Muslim country 1.00

00:43:47.960 Never been a Muslim country 1.00

00:43:50.880 So don't tell us there's something wrong with dogs

00:43:54.420 There isn't

00:43:55.620 If they've not been brutalised

00:43:58.080 Nearly all dogs are extremely lovable

00:44:02.320 And sweet and cute and good natured

00:44:06.920 Man's best friend

00:44:07.940 Trying to pour scorn on dogs

00:44:11.800 Domestic dogs 0.98

00:44:12.960 Psychos, you psychos 0.99

00:44:15.040 Alright, the sun, Scott Mills 0.97

00:44:17.500 The Mills crisis

00:44:19.240 Some poor 16 year old girl

00:44:21.180 Got stabbed in the back in the street

00:44:23.020 To death 0.87

00:44:23.660 Yep, that's Britain now

00:44:27.280 That's Britain now, that's multicultural Britain 1.00

00:44:28.860 Super

00:44:29.640 Thanks Lisa and Andy

00:44:32.640 Alright, the Trump and the US Marines

00:44:35.120 Frogmen 1.00

00:44:37.260 There'll be other special forces won't there

00:44:39.300 There'll probably be the SEALs

00:44:40.980 frogmen go in first

00:44:43.620 slightly interesting story

00:44:46.400 did a segment on this the other day

00:44:48.520 for my other channel I do with Nate

00:44:50.340 the state of politics

00:44:51.560 about how

00:44:54.960 Kash Patel got hacked by Iranians

00:44:57.140 Kash Patel, yeah

00:45:00.840 the director of the FBI

00:45:02.540 the head man at the FBI

00:45:04.500 is this Indian man

00:45:05.620 okay

00:45:09.300 and his personal emails not his work fbi email but his personal email like a gmail account

00:45:15.140 got hacked by iranians and they released loads of pictures there was nothing all that spicy or

00:45:20.080 embarrassing i mean in and of itself it's slightly embarrassing that the fbi didn't have that all

00:45:24.060 that locked down but nonetheless they hacked into it and released loads of pictures i don't know if

00:45:28.360 there'll be any here of just like him on holiday there's nothing truly embarrassing like him in

00:45:34.340 suspenders or anything but just like pictures of him and his bird on holiday so not really a big

00:45:42.860 deal ultimately other than it's just like shouldn't the fbi have encrypted or somehow

00:45:48.360 somehow made sure his personal gmail account was safe but they didn't they didn't so all right

00:45:58.440 that's a story of mild interest this guy this black dude from Croydon was about to be reminded

00:46:05.920 in custody for being a drug dealer and he just fled the court he's still at large

00:46:11.280 put that on the website that's big news

00:46:17.000 talking about one of John Gotti's henchmen John Gotti

00:46:22.320 Yeah, a mobster

00:46:27.880 One of the last big New York mobsters, really

00:46:31.220 John Gotti there

00:46:33.260 The story about one of his henchmen

00:46:34.860 Alright 0.99

00:46:38.320 This prostitute tried to blackmail one of her Johns 1.00

00:46:44.920 Knocked on his door, saying, give me loads more money or I'll out you 0.99

00:46:48.600 Big news, isn't it?

00:46:51.320 That's really big news

00:46:52.780 Alright

00:46:54.940 Alright, let's have a quick look

00:46:58.120 Oh, it's already 10-2

00:46:59.360 Oh, that's nearly the show

00:47:00.540 One thing I want to hear on the New York Slimes

00:47:03.400 Israel passes law to hang Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks

00:47:08.980 So the death penalty 0.94

00:47:10.040 Yeah, I'm pro-death penalty

00:47:13.120 Yeah, if it's a slam dunk case

00:47:15.000 Like DNA can show beyond any reasonable doubt

00:47:17.660 That you're guilty of a very, very, very heinous crime

00:47:20.760 like murdering loads of little girls or something 0.75

00:47:24.960 and it's 100% the case that it was you

00:47:28.840 so we're not executing the wrong person

00:47:30.720 100%

00:47:32.000 then yeah

00:47:32.980 I'm not interested in the bleeding heart liberal argument

00:47:39.720 that oh no you could never do it

00:47:41.280 no

00:47:41.560 you forfeited your right to live

00:47:43.520 alright shall we have a look at this day in history

00:47:49.080 what's going what happened throughout down through the centuries what happened of note on this day

00:47:54.600 march 31st all right in the year 1146 ad bernard of clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field

00:48:03.960 at vaselay urging the necessity of a second crusade louis the seventh and eleanor of aquitaine

00:48:09.880 are present and join the crusade so on uh sorry

00:48:20.080 On Epochs, behind the paywall,

00:48:22.560 lowseaters.com, consider joining for as little as £5 a month

00:48:25.360 Bronze Team Membership, I've got long-form content about the Second Crusade

00:48:29.520 and specifically one about Eleanor of Aquitaine.

00:48:32.280 I've only done like a biography one about a woman a couple of times.

00:48:36.200 I've done

00:48:37.620 The Maid of Orléans

00:48:41.980 and Eleanor of Aquitaine

00:48:46.040 And

00:48:48.260 A fascinating story

00:48:51.200 Yeah Bernard of Clairvaux

00:48:52.620 Was just a preacher

00:48:54.760 A priest

00:48:55.400 But an extremely influential one

00:48:58.540 You know sometimes in society

00:49:00.700 You have like a thought leader

00:49:02.380 Like they're not the Pope

00:49:04.400 They're not the King

00:49:05.180 They're not the Emperor

00:49:06.040 But for whatever reason

00:49:07.940 Everyone listens to them

00:49:09.900 You know

00:49:12.140 Don't have it so much anymore

00:49:15.320 That sort of thing

00:49:16.260 Do we

00:49:16.520 Because

00:49:16.900 Maybe because of the internet

00:49:18.740 And the information age

00:49:19.740 There's so many sources of information

00:49:21.360 You don't get many sort of

00:49:24.000 Real real

00:49:24.600 Well I suppose you do still

00:49:25.440 Don't you

00:49:25.680 You get some influencers

00:49:27.520 Right

00:49:29.520 Bernard of Clairvaux

00:49:30.460 Was a 12th century influencer

00:49:31.900 And what he said

00:49:33.420 Loads and loads of people listened to

00:49:34.820 Including like the dukes

00:49:35.760 And stuff

00:49:36.220 Bernard of Clairvaux says

00:49:37.920 We need a second crusade

00:49:39.600 To

00:49:40.000 To retake the church

00:49:42.940 Of the Holy Sepulcher

00:49:43.720 In Jerusalem

00:49:44.340 Back off the infidel 1.00

00:49:45.840 And he gave a very very famous

00:49:48.980 Speech calling for that

00:49:50.780 In a field in France

00:49:53.200 And the king

00:49:54.740 Louis VII is the king of France

00:49:56.420 And his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine

00:49:57.920 Joined in

00:50:00.680 So the second crusade

00:50:02.260 The biggest crusade I think

00:50:04.200 I'm pretty sure it is

00:50:05.060 The first crusade actually

00:50:06.960 Did it and got there

00:50:09.540 And retook Jerusalem 0.81

00:50:10.800 Second crusade didn't

00:50:13.380 But they did take loads more lands in the Levant

00:50:17.280 And create many more Crusader kingdoms

00:50:19.820 So it's a really big thing

00:50:22.240 I've got long form content all about the life and career of Eleanor of Aquitaine

00:50:26.800 Fascinating stuff, big thing in European history really 1.00

00:50:31.100 The First and Second and Third Crusade

00:50:33.560 I've got content on all of it, check it out

00:50:35.840 Alright, on this day in 1492

00:50:38.680 Queen Isabella I of Castile

00:50:40.800 And King Ferdinand II of Aragon

00:50:42.820 The Catholic monarchs of Spain

00:50:44.980 Issue the Alhambra decree

00:50:48.340 Expelling Jews from their kingdom 1.00

00:50:50.660 What had the Jews done 0.96

00:50:54.480 To deserve that

00:50:55.880 What had they done

00:50:56.860 Hey enough with the anti-Semitism

00:51:00.300 Even asking what might the Jews have done

00:51:05.080 For that to happen

00:51:07.200 Why did Ferdinand and Isabel feel the need to do that

00:51:10.280 Don't worry about it

00:51:11.940 Don't worry about that

00:51:14.240 It's just general purpose anti-Semitism 0.99

00:51:16.720 Okay, on this day in 1657

00:51:20.780 English Parliament presents the humble petition and advice

00:51:24.080 To the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell

00:51:25.920 Offering him the crown, but he declines

00:51:27.620 Yes, an interesting bit of history

00:51:29.200 After King Charles I, Charles Stewart had his head lopped off

00:51:35.140 A lot of people, the Puritans, the parliamentarians

00:51:40.860 we're like well what do we do now we do still need like a head of state don't we

00:51:44.860 we do still need a single personage to be at the top of things a king don't we still just need a

00:51:53.320 king though the way nearly all our bills and and legislation and uh the constitution as was

00:52:02.440 you know the or everything parliament does it's all it's all fixed in such a way that you sort

00:52:09.400 need a king still so a big chunk of them went to Oliver Cromwell and said will you be the king we

00:52:18.540 still need like the crown in parliament sort of thing and he scoffed and laughed at that he said

00:52:24.000 no you've you seem to have profoundly misunderstood what this whole these two civil wars we've had

00:52:30.740 you seem to profoundly misunderstood what all of that was about if you're asking me to be a king

00:52:36.180 Of course I'm not going to be king

00:52:37.560 King Oliver I

00:52:39.400 No, get real

00:52:41.080 Anyway

00:52:43.000 He took a different title, didn't he?

00:52:45.600 Lord Protector

00:52:46.420 He's happy enough with Lord Protector

00:52:49.160 It's a king in all but name

00:52:51.160 A king in all but name

00:52:52.900 But okay, he actually formally declines

00:52:56.100 To be king

00:52:57.340 King Oliver I

00:52:58.660 Interesting bit of history

00:53:02.780 the Eiffel Tower opens on this day in 1889

00:53:06.420 Eiffel Tower officially opens

00:53:08.600 for dignitaries

00:53:10.100 and an award ceremony in Paris, France

00:53:12.420 designed by Gustave Eiffel

00:53:14.220 and built for the Exposition Universelle

00:53:17.720 at 300 metres higher

00:53:19.680 it holds the record for the tallest man-made structure

00:53:21.960 for 41 years

00:53:23.120 there you go, the Eiffel Tower

00:53:25.520 there's some very interesting photographs

00:53:27.200 of it, sort of mid-construction

00:53:29.300 it's only this high and stuff

00:53:32.460 It's kind of cool, I've been there a couple of times

00:53:35.920 I've been up to the top

00:53:36.860 It takes a while to get up to

00:53:38.760 If it's a nice summer's day and there's loads of tourists

00:53:41.080 It takes ages, it'll take all afternoon

00:53:43.140 You have to queue up for ages

00:53:44.860 And then you get an elevator up to that bit

00:53:47.820 Then you queue up again to get an elevator up to that bit

00:53:50.640 And queue up again to get an elevator to the top

00:53:53.040 And it's packed the whole time

00:53:54.520 Go on a day that's like off-season and overcast

00:54:00.040 And you might just go straight up

00:54:02.460 It took me all afternoon to get to the top, honestly like three hours, four hours, something like that, good view from the top, probably not worth it, just go to that bit, that's good enough, anyway, alright, okay, the Eiffel Tower, on this day in 1920, British Parliament accepts the Government of Ireland Act, known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill, yeah we talked about that a few days ago, didn't we, it came up on this website,

00:54:30.560 But finally it goes through

00:54:32.840 That's basically making Northern Ireland

00:54:34.740 Partitioning Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

00:54:37.080 And letting them rule themselves

00:54:40.500 1920

00:54:42.400 I said then

00:54:45.960 I said before it should have been 100 years before or more

00:54:48.620 It should have been long before 1920 0.58

00:54:51.580 It's crazy that that is

00:54:53.000 Okay, to me anyway

00:54:54.540 It's crazy how late that is

00:54:55.880 1920

00:54:56.620 If it was 1820 it was overdue

00:55:00.520 in my opinion

00:55:02.000 whatever

00:55:04.600 alright

00:55:05.120 it's

00:55:06.000 05-2

00:55:06.920 let's do the

00:55:07.820 Super Chats and

00:55:08.320 Rumble Rants

00:55:08.860 because I need to

00:55:09.640 try and finish

00:55:10.060 close to 9 this

00:55:10.900 morning if possible

00:55:11.620 I've got a busy

00:55:12.300 day recording

00:55:13.240 the books

00:55:13.880 talking more about

00:55:15.520 the Wars of the

00:55:16.020 Roses

00:55:16.260 alright let's have

00:55:17.360 a look at the

00:55:17.900 Rumble Rants

00:55:18.580 we've got

00:55:19.000 Fortean Barber

00:55:19.760 says

00:55:20.100 all

00:55:21.880 cheers Fortean Barber

00:55:22.960 says

00:55:23.680 all the Scott

00:55:24.740 Mills stuff

00:55:25.680 has made me

00:55:26.280 wonder if Carl

00:55:27.100 has thought about

00:55:27.800 setting up a

00:55:28.480 radio station

00:55:29.240 The BBC really must be shut down

00:55:31.460 Or made to stand on its own at least

00:55:33.520 Carl setting up an actual radio station

00:55:38.400 I mean

00:55:40.540 I don't know

00:55:42.200 Of course not

00:55:43.420 But I feel like there's no point

00:55:44.980 You might as well just

00:55:45.640 Like radio's old hat

00:55:46.780 Isn't it?

00:55:47.960 Isn't radio just like

00:55:49.240 Pretty 20th century stuff

00:55:51.080 Most people on the internet now

00:55:54.220 You might as well just do this

00:55:55.580 Something like this

00:55:59.240 I think wouldn't you have to, if you actually want to completely transmit radio for yourself,

00:56:07.160 don't you need to spend millions and millions of pounds on infrastructure

00:56:09.520 and jump through loads and loads of hoops before you're allowed to do it.

00:56:14.280 It's just not worth it. Surely not worth it.

00:56:18.120 Interesting, though. I imagine if we did.

00:56:20.300 Okay.

00:56:22.220 Tomrat247 says,

00:56:23.680 i know exactly what happened in 2016 with scott mills to make auntie fire him he wore a maga hat

00:56:31.820 and went everywhere demanding they make america great again all right did he was he a mega dude

00:56:36.580 surprised they surprised they let him work at all since then then because i believe he was picked to

00:56:43.540 do that radio slot only in like 2024 or something okay and the other one the other rumble rant from

00:56:50.740 tom rat again says not a doctor but thousands of doctors are denied spaces out of uni given to

00:56:58.700 foreign locums i don't mean by locums but given to foreigners most simply moved to australia for

00:57:05.420 better pay and training right yeah our dei has gone out of control yeah i'd rather give the spot

00:57:11.260 to some some young syrian person who wants to be a doctor rather than our own yeah i've heard all

00:57:18.840 about that yeah a lot of them go to australia stuff like that where they won't be completely

00:57:24.880 marginalized for the color of their skin and the country their nationality of origin

00:57:30.140 mad isn't it mad one more's come in one more rumble rant casa dwen says good luck recording

00:57:37.280 epochs today friend thank you i will be visiting sandal castle this evening where richard duke of

00:57:43.100 York died it has a fantastic view and a nice evening walk yeah I'd love to visit that yeah

00:57:48.800 near Wakefield right Sandal Castle in Wakefield just outside Wakefield I covered that it was

00:57:53.660 either last Sunday or the Sunday before the death of Richard Duke of York yeah hope you have a great

00:57:58.200 time I bet it's lovely I've never been there myself I would like to I bet it's lovely okay

00:58:03.460 cool the super chat YouTube super chats in at number one do do do do do do do global church

00:58:11.780 history still at number one you say today in 1146 saint bernard preaches the second crusade

00:58:17.780 and that came in at like even before 8am saint bernard of clervo who was we was talking about

00:58:26.580 global church history knows their stuff but saint bernard of clervo saint bernard yeah

00:58:34.300 preaches the second crusade changed history the second crusade put history on a different

00:58:41.200 timeline if Bernard of Clairvaux hadn't called it that day in 1146 history would have been

00:58:49.940 different well there would have been eventually a second crusade anyway but it would have been

00:58:53.540 different the second crusade was a movement en masse en masse not just like a load of knights

00:59:03.300 like the third crusade but a giant movement of ordinary people and peasants taking the cross

00:59:09.960 and going out to the holy land a giant thing all right chris 281 says surely at this point it's

00:59:19.100 only shocking news when it turns out that someone at the bbc is not a wrongan yeah it's easier to 0.99

00:59:26.180 count the ones that aren't wrongans yeah yeah good point the cayman live says it's crazy how

00:59:34.320 they all care about drivers when the evil fuel companies put up the price but they're happy to

00:59:41.340 keep rolling out ulez and other taxes right yeah yeah i think you put it they don't care i don't

00:59:46.940 care i might pretend they will for a little bit about drivers or whatever pretend they will for

00:59:52.980 briefly for for you know but i don't of course they don't they see the people these leftists

00:59:58.520 They see the people as just a cash cow

01:00:02.160 That's all it is

01:00:05.320 You're quite right

01:00:06.540 Doesn't add up does it

01:00:08.840 Angry Yank says

01:00:11.840 Funny how you expect to both not have a sane energy policy

01:00:16.220 Counting on being able to buy oil from the US

01:00:18.660 To bail you out

01:00:19.840 You're a net exporter

01:00:22.340 And not be willing to help the situation

01:00:26.600 Good luck with that

01:00:27.560 calm down bro

01:00:29.280 calm down

01:00:30.300 you're a net exporter of oil

01:00:33.620 you need to sell it

01:00:40.660 non-crime hate incidents

01:00:42.300 just change the name

01:00:43.420 and no one will notice

01:00:44.480 Sir Keir Starmer probably

01:00:46.040 yeah

01:00:48.240 yeah just change the name of it

01:00:50.280 classic thing governments do 1.00

01:00:52.120 classic things governments do

01:00:54.840 they'll just change

01:00:55.620 slightly change the name or something

01:00:57.160 Or the figures aren't right

01:00:58.160 So they slightly change how the figure is calculated

01:01:01.020 Not changing actually anything really

01:01:02.920 But just spin

01:01:04.960 Just pure spin

01:01:05.740 Just spin it by themselves a little more time

01:01:09.140 The next person's name

01:01:10.920 Is unreadable

01:01:12.580 What is it?

01:01:13.740 Jig Jag Jug XYZ 0.89

01:01:15.840 Okay, wasn't completely unreadable

01:01:17.780 But Jig Jag Jug XYZ 0.87

01:01:20.740 Says 0.93

01:01:21.360 I up count

01:01:24.480 Minus the zero

01:01:26.000 Love you and H

01:01:28.340 Oh cheers

01:01:29.000 Cheers

01:01:29.620 Well thank you very much

01:01:33.420 That's very kind of you to say

01:01:34.280 Very kind of you to say

01:01:35.620 LJMV says

01:01:37.340 What year was the Spanish Golden Age? 0.82

01:01:40.980 Oh wow

01:01:41.440 The Spanish Golden Age 0.99

01:01:42.780 Well

01:01:45.620 Ferdinand and Isabella

01:01:47.420 Is largely considered

01:01:48.600 One of the periods

01:01:51.240 Of the Spanish Golden Age 0.99

01:01:52.500 Sort of towards

01:01:54.440 The height of their

01:01:55.440 Of their powers

01:01:57.240 Or Philip II

01:01:58.180 Probably Philip II

01:02:00.100 Like the day before the Spanish Armada sailed

01:02:03.360 That

01:02:04.920 Then

01:02:05.640 Was it 1688

01:02:11.040 No sorry

01:02:11.880 1588 isn't it the Spanish Armada

01:02:14.400 1587 then

01:02:17.340 It's the Spanish Golden Age 1.00

01:02:19.440 And finally Global Church History says

01:02:21.940 Today in 1885

01:02:23.900 bekuana land is made a uk protectorate i'm not sure where that is i should know shouldn't i

01:02:34.000 somewhere in africa is it the south africa

01:02:37.020 i'm not sure about that interesting though interesting okay you've out history bro'd me

01:02:43.440 there well done cue loss all right that's the show it's just ticked three minutes past nine

01:02:49.320 In the AM on Tuesday the 31st of March

01:02:52.720 In the year of our law, 2026

01:02:54.320 You've been the glorious band

01:02:57.140 The chosen few

01:02:57.880 My band of brothers and sisters

01:02:59.580 Thank you for joining me

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01:03:02.840 Amazing, brilliant

01:03:03.720 Can't ask for any more than that

01:03:04.880 It's for you

01:03:06.880 You make it

01:03:07.760 Without you it isn't a thing

01:03:08.700 Alright, until tomorrow morning then

01:03:10.500 Do try and make the best of the day ahead

01:03:12.400 Your time is the most valuable thing you've got

01:03:15.460 Try and make it count if you can

01:03:17.660 I know it's not always possible

01:03:18.560 But if you can

01:03:19.220 Try and do something valuable

01:03:21.380 Alright

01:03:22.380 Till tomorrow morning

01:03:23.560 Take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 31, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 31st March 2026

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