The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 5th May 2026

00:00:00.000 hello you morning you're right i hope you are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed rocking around for

00:00:10.180 the day head good stuff oh what me yeah fine need a bit of a haircut don't i when you're

00:00:19.780 bald and you go for the bonehead look you gotta keep it super short i'm overdue i'm joined by

00:00:25.900 My producer, Little Harry, how are you this morning, good sir?

00:00:28.340 Morning, yeah, I'm all good.

00:00:30.220 Good.

00:00:30.900 And you're the glorious band, the chosen few, my band of brothers.

00:00:34.420 And sisters, you know who you are.

00:00:36.020 You don't need to be told who you are.

00:00:37.540 You're the best among us.

00:00:38.720 Watching the Bo Show live, getting involved in the chat and the poll.

00:00:40.980 We've got a poll, right, Harry?

00:00:43.060 Yeah.

00:00:43.740 Good.

00:00:45.100 What more could a boy ask for?

00:00:48.300 What are you going to do?

00:00:48.940 Watch Jeremy Kyle, get real.

00:00:51.480 Have a word for yourself.

00:00:55.900 Should we stop faffing about?

00:00:58.060 Should we just stop fannying about and get on with the show?

00:01:03.260 What's the legacy corporate mainstream media rattling on about this morning?

00:01:07.980 That cabal of evil Fleet Street editors trying to tell you what is or isn't important.

00:01:11.460 Lying to you by omission every single day.

00:01:17.460 What have they got?

00:01:18.180 What slop are they serving up for us this morning?

00:01:19.880 Right, we've got rival Circle Starmer and bid to reopen Hormuz,

00:01:24.960 Push his region to the brink

00:01:26.540 Still 1.00

00:01:27.480 So it's another Starmer and Iran day 0.99

00:01:31.440 Anything else of note really 1.00

00:01:35.380 There was that Met Gala thing

00:01:36.800 And I'll be passing over that

00:01:38.520 Don't worry about that

00:01:39.160 Oh I know my people

00:01:40.160 I know my people well enough 1.00

00:01:41.140 You don't care about slop like the Met Gala

00:01:42.720 But we'll see it 0.99

00:01:44.160 The Met Gala

00:01:46.480 Where really rich and famous people

00:01:49.040 Mainly women 1.00

00:01:50.980 Dress up 1.00

00:01:54.960 It's important stuff

00:01:57.680 Alright

00:02:00.260 Circles Rival

00:02:02.060 The Times, The Venerable Times

00:02:04.800 Amanda Knox 0.89

00:02:06.720 Foxy Knoxy

00:02:07.560 Says why I'm doing a comedy show 0.54

00:02:09.920 Don't care

00:02:10.520 Labour MPs plot Starmer's pooch

00:02:13.780 Or plot Starmer pooch

00:02:15.800 After poll losses

00:02:17.140 Pooch obviously is just a German word for sort of a

00:02:19.660 Coup 0.96

00:02:20.640 Like the Beer Hall pooch 0.57

00:02:23.320 Open letter will demand PM's resignation date 0.78

00:02:28.160 So the story is

00:02:29.020 That there's just

00:02:30.800 There's rumblings

00:02:31.580 Oh yeah, there's rumblings

00:02:32.300 That they're going to do that

00:02:33.940 Not that they have

00:02:34.640 There isn't actually a letter from Labour MPs

00:02:38.580 Demanding

00:02:39.120 Queer Stalin's resignation date 1.00

00:02:42.600 But they're talking about it 0.89

00:02:44.420 That's the news

00:02:45.360 People keep saying

00:02:52.560 that it's emerging that it's it the main front runners are Angela Rayner Burnham and Streeting

00:02:59.580 the other names aren't really getting mentioned all that much at this stage you know like

00:03:03.680 Shabana Mahmood or Yvette Cooper or Lammy himself but Burnham isn't an MP Rayner's still Angela

00:03:12.960 the Fridge Rayner Big Bird is still under stealing under investigation by his majesty's revenue and

00:03:18.020 customs and west streeting is a wet lettuce who's totally compromised by the mandelson thing and

00:03:23.900 and he's going to lose his seat in the next year election west streeting will definitely lose his

00:03:28.440 seat his majority is really small it's like i can't remember exact number but it's 600 five or 600 or

00:03:34.320 something in like ilford or barking a massively foreign enclave ilford and barking it's like

00:03:43.520 you've touched down in lahore it really is so he's going to lose his seat next time that'd be

00:03:49.800 funny if streeting won this leadership thing became prime minister and at the election lost

00:03:56.660 his seat i don't think that's ever happened before i think that has never ever happened before sitting

00:04:00.940 prime minister losing their seat rishi came close didn't he well not that close but

00:04:04.260 that would be funny i mean embarrassing but

00:04:09.640 Alright, so they're circling

00:04:13.520 There's a Starmer pooch in the offing

00:04:15.360 Increasingly more people

00:04:20.000 Who know what they're talking about

00:04:21.880 People who it's their job

00:04:24.480 Their day job

00:04:25.660 To keep their ear to the ground

00:04:27.880 And know really what the feeling is

00:04:31.360 Inside Parliament

00:04:32.520 They're saying

00:04:34.620 And more and more of them are saying

00:04:36.380 Starmer's a dead man walking politically

00:04:38.900 all right there's some who is that that's not oh that is nicole kidman gosh she must have some 0.99

00:04:46.900 work done she looks different nicole kidman at that met gala thing and some silly dress okay

00:04:53.140 iran shatters gulf ceasefire over u.s after u.s offers straight support okay so let's talk about

00:05:00.860 Iran a bit then, another sort of big story of the day. Yesterday was a day of, well the

00:05:08.060 last 36 hours even more, was a period of just claim and counterclaim. Iran's saying loads 0.55

00:05:16.600 of things, Americans saying that's just not true, and then America's saying things that

00:05:19.940 they've done, and Iran's saying that's not true. Both sides are doing that. First of

00:05:28.460 i suppose where to pick up the story it's a never-ending cycle of events and data points

00:05:34.160 isn't it but first of all iran said they had they had struck a u.s warship outside of america's

00:05:42.260 blockade and then america said well centcom the u.s navy the pentagon just said well that's just

00:05:52.160 not true and over the coming day or so iran basically started saying oh well you know maybe

00:05:58.140 okay maybe not maybe we fired near it um so there you go there's that

00:06:04.340 just a claim and counterclaim and then america says it was uh ushering said it sent some ships

00:06:12.180 warships through the straits of hormuz and you might say no they didn't that hasn't happened

00:06:16.720 it just simply hasn't happened and then america said they escorted one or two you know non-military

00:06:23.040 ships like a south korean one or a british one or something through the straits of hormuz and

00:06:27.560 Iran say no they didn't

00:06:29.720 Just both sides 1.00

00:06:33.540 Doing that but they did 1.00

00:06:35.340 Iran did 0.98

00:06:36.860 Fire some things off 0.98

00:06:39.340 Well they shot drones and missiles

00:06:41.800 At the UAE

00:06:43.000 Again

00:06:45.040 Andrew Tate most affected

00:06:48.980 Andrew Tate's credibility for understanding

00:06:55.980 Reality most affected

00:06:57.360 So that sort of definitely happened

00:06:59.680 That's sort of true

00:07:00.680 Well a couple of things

00:07:04.880 Iran sent out some of their small boats

00:07:07.000 Basically like speed boats 0.98

00:07:08.940 Not much more than speed boats

00:07:10.040 Because all their big ships are at the bottom of the sea

00:07:13.280 Basically 0.85

00:07:14.260 And usually when they send out these little swarms

00:07:19.000 Of really small boats

00:07:20.840 Usually according to reports

00:07:23.540 I've never been there

00:07:24.400 I've never been to the Straits

00:07:25.300 Apparently they usually send out something in the order of 20 to 40 of them

00:07:29.580 To sort of swarm around a big tanker or whatever

00:07:33.480 And this time they only sent 6 or 7

00:07:35.680 And those were promptly blown to bits by the United States

00:07:40.620 So, you know, you can say

00:07:46.260 Well, Higgsif and Trump have said all of it before

00:07:50.980 They have said, even a few weeks back already

00:07:53.000 they said all of iran's navy is gone they don't have a navy anymore they said well not entirely

00:08:01.160 i mean mostly any big you know like cruisers or destroyers and things that sort of thing

00:08:07.240 they're all gone i think but they still got these small boats but even those

00:08:12.680 there's not very many of them left where they used to deploy 20 to 40 of them on a regular basis now

00:08:19.560 it's only like half a dozen or so and they get immediately destroyed so

00:08:28.840 is iran's ability to even send little those little boats fast fast boats um is even that

00:08:38.920 very very very near the end of being able to even do that we don't know but yeah basically just

00:08:45.400 Well, as the headline says there

00:08:47.960 Iran shatters Gulf ceasefire

00:08:50.000 There isn't really a ceasefire, is there?

00:08:54.080 I mean, it's obviously not full-blown

00:08:55.900 Hundreds of attacks a day

00:08:57.940 Of cruise missiles deep in Iran

00:08:59.820 America and Israel haven't started doing that again

00:09:03.080 But there's not a ceasefire, is there?

00:09:08.400 Some ordnance is getting fired off

00:09:10.460 Some missiles and drones

00:09:11.800 And return fire from the Americans is happening

00:09:16.500 You can't, it's not a ceasefire then, is it?

00:09:18.240 You can't, not true, 100%

00:09:20.220 Alright, let's move on

00:09:22.100 In fact, let's talk about it in a little bit more detail

00:09:23.860 What did I, was it in the mail?

00:09:27.380 Yeah

00:09:27.640 Headline in the mail

00:09:29.800 Trump threatens to quote, and this is a true social media quote 0.88

00:09:33.320 Blow Iran off the face of the earth 0.77

00:09:35.720 Again 0.99

00:09:39.740 After shots fired at ships

00:09:41.760 After declaring project freedom

00:09:43.460 To end strangleholding strait

00:09:45.420 So this article just details everything

00:09:49.800 Oh they mentioned the price of oil there

00:09:51.060 Shall we have a quick look at the price of oil

00:09:52.180 Shall we

00:09:52.820 West Texas $104 a barrel

00:09:58.160 Brent $113

00:10:00.180 It's actually about the same as yesterday

00:10:03.620 Was it a touch lower

00:10:05.920 From this time yesterday

00:10:08.320 but about the same i mean you can see there on the graph the volatility even in one day

00:10:14.880 the volatility of it went down back up to about where it was it is volatile like i think it

00:10:21.560 fluctuated something in the order of two percent in normal times completely normal times fluctuation

00:10:26.720 of two percent is quite a lot right now during this whole thing half the course isn't it

00:10:34.120 I'll tell you who will be making a killing out of all of this.

00:10:42.160 Oil commodities traders.

00:10:45.040 I used to work for a company.

00:10:46.780 So I think I've said a number of times, haven't I?

00:10:49.240 I was never a trader.

00:10:50.260 Let's be clear about that.

00:10:52.780 It's like saying, I used to work for a football team or a Formula One team.

00:10:56.960 I wasn't a driver.

00:10:57.700 I wasn't a player.

00:11:00.640 But yeah, they sit at a trading desk all day long.

00:11:04.520 and bet either way on it going up or down you can shoot it you know essentially betting on

00:11:09.080 the price going down of course you can bet on it going up and so they just sit there all day

00:11:14.680 they know what they're looking at it's their job just keep getting in and out of the market

00:11:19.080 just constantly all day long and the volatility is the that's what makes money so that people

00:11:27.080 like that will be loving it absolutely loving it unless they make the wrong call of course

00:11:32.280 and then you get fired pretty quickly

00:11:34.900 yeah so the price of oil crude on the open market

00:11:41.880 still higher isn't it it's it's higher but once again not astronomically higher but then does that

00:11:49.820 really reflect what you pay at the pump not really huh not really still you know said it before i'll

00:12:00.520 say it again if you'd asked me before this whole thing started the united states and israel been

00:12:05.360 at war with iran for three months straits of hormuz completely closed for three months essentially

00:12:10.160 on and off um would the price of oil still be as low as that even though it's higher would it be

00:12:16.720 as low as that i would have said no all right should we move on how else have we got the eye

00:12:22.860 paper, pardon me, Sir David, David Attenborough, National Treasurer, he's 100, it's just about

00:12:33.380 to be 100, or is he just past 100, anyway, people throw around the term like National

00:12:38.480 Treasurer a bit too much don't they, a bit too easily, a bit flippant, like Wayne Rooney

00:12:41.900 is a National Treasurer, Paloma Faith is a National Treasurer, David Attenborough though,

00:12:48.520 It truly is

00:12:50.440 100

00:12:53.440 Good in isn't it

00:12:56.040 Alright 1.00

00:12:59.200 Middle East cease fire

00:13:02.000 In peril as tensions flare over Straits of Hormuz

00:13:04.500 Okay back to

00:13:05.400 Labour 1.00

00:13:06.720 The queer starling 0.99

00:13:08.620 Leadership rival circle Starmer

00:13:11.000 As local election quote bloodbath

00:13:13.260 Looms for Labour

00:13:14.580 Set to be a bloodbath isn't it

00:13:18.520 It really is.

00:13:21.560 Nigel's going to be over the moon.

00:13:23.380 Are you ready for all the images of Nigel laughing hysterically?

00:13:28.760 Perhaps with a pint in his hand.

00:13:30.520 Perhaps with a cigarette on the go in the other hand.

00:13:40.080 Okay, the little blurb says,

00:13:41.480 because it's about the best you get, isn't it,

00:13:42.600 on the front of the eyepaper,

00:13:43.480 it's about the best you get from Fleet Street.

00:13:45.400 Starmer's political future hanging in the balance

00:13:47.920 as he faces his hardest week in politics,

00:13:51.020 with Labour on course for devastating losses to reform and Greens

00:13:54.500 in high-stakes local elections.

00:13:57.260 Political expert says the elections, quote,

00:13:59.760 look like being an absolute bloodbath for an incredibly unpopular Prime Minister

00:14:03.860 leading an incredibly unpopular government. 0.87

00:14:07.820 I mean, where's the liars? 0.79

00:14:09.900 Scanning for liars, no liars detected.

00:14:14.640 PM's main leadership rivals, Burnham, Rayner and Streeting,

00:14:17.920 face hurdles if they were to launch a challenge there is a widespread speculation that they

00:14:23.440 remain on maneuvers that's the thing that as they're saying i see more people using that

00:14:28.720 turn of phrase you know plotting i think he details is on maneuvers some reason that they're

00:14:37.920 liking that turn of phrase at the moment all sorts of machinations behind the scenes on maneuvers

00:14:47.600 but middle east crisis and fears of spooking the bond markets uh may offer stay of execution for

00:14:53.840 keir starmer's career shaky isn't it it's uh one of those things uh well it's a classic thing in

00:15:01.200 history isn't it that you can't change your leader now you can't get rid of me now because we're in

00:15:06.880 the middle of a war you don't change horses midstream okay that's a classic thing we're not

00:15:15.360 really at war though are we like giving money to ukraine is not really at war trying and failing

00:15:23.040 to send one frigate to cyprus isn't really at war is it so it's a so it's a shaky argument

00:15:31.360 and then oh you can't you can't change because it might it might spook the bond markets

00:15:37.040 i mean a little bit i'm not saying it wouldn't but is that a good enough reason to stay with a

00:15:42.560 failing government and a leader that is the least popular prime minister of all time is that a good

00:15:47.840 enough reason that the bond markets might move a little bit off the back of it you know it's sort

00:15:54.400 of it's the bottom of the barrel isn't it from from starmer and starmer's people that that's

00:15:58.640 what they're saying uh we're in the middle of a middle east crisis i mean we're not aren't we

00:16:04.160 the bond markets like you care about the bond markets wouldn't you have cut spending if you

00:16:09.040 cared about the bond markets but now the bond markets matter right okay

00:16:19.760 scraping the bottom of that barrel all right the metro

00:16:29.680 metro absolute slot anyone who's only listening to this the banner is some hysterically laughing 0.97

00:16:34.320 African woman, old African woman 0.95

00:16:36.300 It says there was once 1.00

00:16:38.460 A woman from North London, okay don't care 1.00

00:16:40.240 Don't care, right 1.00

00:16:41.600 Starmer walks EU tightrope

00:16:44.100 Okay this is one of the other stories, he was in 0.62

00:16:45.840 I think Armenia

00:16:47.840 Was it? I think Armenia

00:16:50.400 Yesterday, some sort of big

00:16:52.300 EU summit

00:16:53.040 I might be wrong about that

00:16:55.240 Somewhere like Armenia, okay

00:16:58.100 They were all there, all the big players were there

00:17:00.020 Starmer turned up

00:17:04.320 And, well, various data points came out of it.

00:17:08.500 They're a little bit dry, a little bit boring, but basically, in a nutshell,

00:17:12.680 it's about drawing us Britain closer and closer to the EU,

00:17:18.280 undermining and unravelling Brexit in all but name, effectively.

00:17:22.740 More of that.

00:17:24.360 In the dying throes of his tenure as Prime Minister, he's decided to do that.

00:17:34.320 That's the kind of man he is

00:17:36.940 That's his world view

00:17:37.740 Okay he's walking a tightrope

00:17:40.080 PM6 closer ties to Brussels

00:17:43.200 That no one wants

00:17:44.140 Unless you're mad

00:17:45.600 Unless you hate Britain

00:17:46.380 Unless you hate Westminster being sovereign

00:17:48.380 PM6 closer ties to Brussels

00:17:50.560 At summit

00:17:51.400 As Trump tensions put Europe under threat

00:17:53.840 But opponents accused number 10

00:17:56.980 Of unpicking Brexit

00:17:58.040 After reports of £1 billion

00:17:59.720 Quote pay to pay deal

00:18:01.540 So that's the story that

00:18:04.020 There are countries in Europe

00:18:07.280 That aren't actually part of the single market

00:18:10.400 That might not even necessarily use the euro

00:18:13.800 But they do want to

00:18:15.800 Or really need to trade with Europe

00:18:18.140 With all their partners

00:18:18.980 I think Switzerland

00:18:20.680 Take Switzerland for example

00:18:22.660 I think they're one of those

00:18:23.440 So they want to be able to trade

00:18:24.860 They're landlocked right

00:18:25.720 They're completely surrounded in every way

00:18:27.740 By all the other European countries that are in the EU

00:18:29.880 They want to, need, to trade with them

00:18:34.020 and the eu because it's the way the eu is because it's a type of

00:18:40.180 it's like a type of they're gangsters as far as i'm concerned 0.74

00:18:45.140 it's an extortion racket on some level it's a disgusting thing um in order to let switzerland

00:18:52.180 trade with them of course trade is a two-way thing switzerland has to pay the eu hundreds of

00:19:00.260 millions of pounds a year just to just to be able to trade with them in any way you know pay to play

00:19:08.900 just because the eu is sort of the more powerful partner in that binary between switzerland

00:19:15.540 switzerland and the eu obviously the eu is a much bigger more powerful richer

00:19:20.020 populist thing in every way so so so they've got the dominance they're like the chip leader

00:19:24.820 right the the the dominant party in that so if they wanted to and they do they could just press

00:19:32.300 their thumb on switzerland's forehead and go no you've got to pay us an extortionate amount of

00:19:37.180 money to even begin to trade with us we could handle not importing any swiss swiss stuff we

00:19:43.780 could we could absorb absorb that it would ruin you if you couldn't sell to us though so we're

00:19:50.180 extort you nice isn't it that's nice how is that not gangsterism effectively

00:19:58.100 anyway they're doing the same to us i want to do the same to us

00:20:02.020 it's not a done deal it's not like it's not like a formally legally binding done deal or anything

00:20:07.460 but starmer weak as he is the weakest man ever to be prime minister is he

00:20:13.540 they want to make us pay a billion pounds a year that's a year not just a one-off payment no

00:20:18.100 one billion pounds every single year year on year just to begin to trade with them

00:20:24.260 starmer goes the starmer bot goes over there okay yes we'll pay that fine sure whatever you say 0.99

00:20:32.980 what's an absolute cretin

00:20:42.980 lovely cup of tea i had a sugar in it this morning i don't usually

00:20:48.100 99% of the time, my tea is sugarless, fancy one this morning, there you go, for your information,

00:20:57.160 The Guardian, oh, The Guardian, sorry, I know some people hate me doing that, that joke,

00:21:10.280 i think it's funny all right the guardian um look there's what on the banner nobody's going out

00:21:19.200 what just happened to britain's nightlife well yeah yeah it's been destroyed in a part of swindon

00:21:24.340 near where we live just one little example of irl there used to be loads and loads of bars and a

00:21:31.100 few nightclubs they're all closed there's like one weatherspoons left one and that whole area

00:21:35.640 that whole sort of district of the town a lot of towns have it don't they like the the party

00:21:39.200 district like the going out bit of town tons and tons of bars all in a row a few nightclubs

00:21:44.240 all right near each other they're all closed and boarded up and have been for years now

00:21:50.720 yeah because the tories and now labor don't like that don't want that 0.91

00:21:58.080 muslims don't like that don't want that don't like drinking and revelry and having fun so 1.00

00:22:03.120 the government is largely in hock to them they don't care about businesses do they 1.00

00:22:07.680 Two pubs a day

00:22:09.400 Close in Britain

00:22:10.300 Two pubs a day on average

00:22:13.180 Because they hate

00:22:16.240 They hate people congregating

00:22:18.120 And talking

00:22:18.740 And having fun

00:22:20.020 And drinking

00:22:20.560 And stuff

00:22:21.220 They hate it

00:22:22.960 They want you in a little pod

00:22:24.200 On your own don't they

00:22:25.100 Atomised and isolated

00:22:27.220 On your own

00:22:28.320 You can eat bug paste

00:22:29.820 You can eat bug paste

00:22:32.240 In your tiny little cell

00:22:33.700 And only watch things

00:22:36.420 they say you're allowed to watch that's what they want isn't it

00:22:43.700 all right the guardian trump's bid to reopen hormuz pushes region back to the

00:22:47.700 brink iran denies u.s claims to have destroyed

00:22:51.300 boats and intercepted missiles oh yeah where

00:22:54.900 yeah another counterclaim so where you're not the way the oh

00:22:59.380 that's gross sorry about that it's gonna happen

00:23:04.420 Spittle for you

00:23:07.980 It's real life

00:23:08.340 We're live

00:23:08.780 What can you do

00:23:10.340 Where the US said

00:23:13.240 They'd blown up

00:23:14.320 Some of these

00:23:14.840 About six or seven

00:23:15.800 Of these small

00:23:16.680 Fast boat things 1.00

00:23:17.620 Again Iran just came out 1.00

00:23:19.960 And said no you didn't

00:23:21.100 That didn't happen

00:23:22.160 At the moment

00:23:24.940 Both sides are just doing that

00:23:25.740 Whatever the other side says

00:23:26.860 Almost

00:23:27.380 That's in their favour

00:23:29.500 The other side's just going

00:23:30.460 No

00:23:30.660 That's not true

00:23:31.600 That's not real

00:23:32.080 Didn't happen

00:23:34.420 All right

00:23:36.220 Move to AUSPM could lead to chaos

00:23:42.340 That's the other thing that the

00:23:43.580 Like sort of the Starmer camp are saying

00:23:45.580 It's just chaos

00:23:46.740 It would just be

00:23:48.160 Well yeah maybe probably

00:23:49.680 A bit internally

00:23:50.720 Yeah a bit

00:23:52.400 Surely that's better isn't it

00:23:57.780 Than just continuing on with a leader

00:24:01.240 Who is just hemorrhaging support

00:24:05.180 For himself and the party

00:24:07.200 Don't cause chaos

00:24:11.180 It's already chaotic, isn't it?

00:24:12.880 You're already endlessly doing U-turns

00:24:15.020 It's already very, very chaotic government, isn't it?

00:24:20.180 So

00:24:20.380 Don't cause chaos

00:24:24.660 Or party unity

00:24:25.620 Just the final appeal

00:24:26.820 We must have unity

00:24:30.160 I mean must we

00:24:31.660 I mean I'm talking about

00:24:33.800 I'm referring to

00:24:34.860 The Labour Parliamentary Party

00:24:37.560 We must have unity

00:24:39.360 I bet a lot of them are thinking

00:24:40.800 Must we

00:24:41.240 Why

00:24:41.680 Just so you can still

00:24:45.040 Sleep in the flat

00:24:47.540 Above number 10

00:24:48.360 Really

00:24:49.360 The whole country's going to

00:24:51.220 But the party's being

00:24:52.180 Completely eroded

00:24:53.200 Made to look

00:24:54.640 Completely terrible

00:24:56.240 But you still want to go to Chequers

00:24:59.860 so we can't do anything about it no i don't think so all right the financial times

00:25:06.080 putin's shown his face he wasn't hasn't been seen for a little bit you know it's a classic

00:25:13.100 they always do it with putin for some reason like the the anti-russian lobby all over the west if

00:25:20.180 people haven't seen putin for a while they start saying he's terribly ill he's probably dead he

00:25:29.860 They do it with Trump below, don't they?

00:25:31.920 Trump's got a bruise on the back of his hand.

00:25:33.620 He's probably dying.

00:25:36.980 Trump looked a bit tired today.

00:25:39.280 He's probably dying.

00:25:41.620 Do you fear for Trump's health?

00:25:43.660 He looked a bit tired.

00:25:44.900 I mean, okay, so Putin surfaces after laying low.

00:25:50.220 Not a story, is it?

00:25:52.220 I remember ages ago, like what?

00:25:54.160 Must be maybe four years ago or three, four years ago.

00:25:57.260 relatively soon into the war with ukraine but a fair few news cycles in a row like a week or two

00:26:05.840 even there was semi-constant talk of putin dying like he's dying he's got some terrible disease

00:26:13.040 cancer whatever he's on dialysis he's gonna die any moment just just pure lies

00:26:21.440 Iran warns US not to enter Hormuz Strait 0.94

00:26:27.680 And launches drones at UAE

00:26:29.380 It must be so frustrating, mustn't it 0.97

00:26:32.500 For those neighbours of Iran

00:26:33.760 That America does something or says something

00:26:36.200 Israel does something or says something

00:26:38.480 And you get hit 0.57

00:26:41.320 It's like Qatar or Bahrain or UAE

00:26:43.180 Mr Trump does a truth social

00:26:45.860 Texas does a press conference

00:26:48.220 And you get droned

00:26:49.820 I mean it's not funny

00:26:52.800 That's a laugh of like

00:26:54.440 Despair almost

00:26:57.720 Do I feel sorry for the

00:27:02.580 The Arab Emirates ultimately

00:27:04.940 No 1.00

00:27:05.540 They're very oppressive aren't they

00:27:09.180 If you go there and you film stuff

00:27:11.300 You just film reality

00:27:12.480 And it makes them look bad in any way

00:27:14.940 You put it on the internet

00:27:15.740 You find yourself in a dungeon 1.00

00:27:17.120 they're really quite repressive i shan't shed a tear for the plight of the arab emirates

00:27:28.140 ceasefire comes under strain tehran threatens american warships uh response to new trump

00:27:34.880 plan okay all right i'm about peter teal and ai i don't really care special special report

00:27:43.280 The nightmare of trying to save our son Jack from ISIS

00:27:46.380 And bring him home

00:27:47.360 This guy

00:27:48.640 I can't remember his surname now

00:27:50.840 But it's Jack something or other

00:27:51.960 A British dude, completely British dude

00:27:53.720 Born and raised in Britain

00:27:55.720 You know, he went to a normal school in Britain

00:27:58.660 At some point 0.54

00:28:00.040 Decided he wanted to be a militant Islamist

00:28:04.240 And went and fought for ISIS

00:28:06.560 At one point he was

00:28:13.040 contacted his mum and dad who were just like completely really they seemed completely normal

00:28:17.400 feel really sorry for him actually they seemed like completely normal like suburban mum and dad

00:28:23.520 obviously they i don't know if it's really their fault or not why he went mad

00:28:29.020 they seemed completely innocent at one point he was messaging them this years back during the isis

00:28:34.700 years i need some money i really need a little bit of money just please please please help in

00:28:39.280 any way and they sent him a little bit of money i don't know a few hundred maybe very very low

00:28:43.700 thousands not a fantastic amount of sum of money but he was like saying he's you know he's starving

00:28:48.700 or whatever he sent me a bit of money and they did that's illegal i mean he was in a in a war

00:28:54.200 zone fighting for an enemy force so that's illegal they got prosecuted for that they're just they've

00:29:00.380 just got empathy for their son uh it must be horrible it must be really horrible to have a

00:29:09.260 kid that you tried to raise well you did everything you could to try and raise them properly

00:29:15.500 when they get into adulthood when you can't control them anymore you know they're in their

00:29:20.140 early 20s and if they decide they absolutely want to do something like go and smoke crack

00:29:25.500 endlessly and deal crack or something like that or go and fight for isis or something

00:29:31.820 it must be terrible what can you do

00:29:33.100 Maybe they did raise him to be a wrong one, I don't know

00:29:40.020 All right

00:29:44.420 What have we got here

00:29:46.520 Top pollster, Starmer will not lead Labour into general election

00:29:50.580 John Curtis, you know John Curtis? 1.00

00:29:52.320 Anyone who's foreign might not know John Curtis

00:29:53.640 Every time there's an election, a general election

00:29:56.860 Or even this local election

00:29:57.900 They'll probably wheel him out for this local election

00:30:00.100 he's like a typical professor egghead dude he's all right i quite like him but he's like a like

00:30:07.120 a cliche professor egghead and his analysis is usually very very good i'm not having a poppy

00:30:14.480 that's to say i quite like him um they wheel him out and he says makes his little predictions

00:30:20.880 they're usually quite accurate and he basically he knows what he's talking about to be fair he

00:30:25.640 he does know what he's talking about and he says john curtis says it is a matter of when not if

00:30:30.920 the prime minister will be replaced as party prepares for damaging local elections results

00:30:38.760 i would say well over half the time maybe most of the time maybe as high as 80 or 90 percent of the

00:30:44.840 time you can take what john curtis says to the bank okay the daily telegraph inside

00:30:55.560 the sad broken world of britney spears don't care uh oh well just quickly very quickly say

00:31:02.200 she has been charged with dui a minor dui there's various grades of how bad a dui can be

00:31:11.320 she's been charged with a minor one okay someone at that met gala don't care about that

00:31:18.120 yes look there you go two pubs close every day this year after tax grab by reeves well done

00:31:25.140 thanks for that and yet and yet they'll come out i have the brass neck to come out on like

00:31:31.620 laura kunigsberg on a sunday morning or something and say we really care about the high street

00:31:35.580 as a party as a government we care loads about small businesses and the high street

00:31:40.940 do you though you obviously don't you obviously don't because your policies lead to

00:31:48.780 hospitality stuff restaurants pubs etc etc just closing down on a on a on a nationwide scale

00:31:57.660 on a visible scale go to any high street any high street in the whole country most of it's

00:32:03.780 if it's not a some sort of chicken shop a vape shop a turkish barbers a nail shop if it's not 0.53

00:32:11.940 a front for organized crime it's boarded up repeated over you got the you got you got

00:32:18.020 greggs you got poundland you got a few tescos

00:32:26.020 they've destroyed the high street destroyed it

00:32:28.180 Because they're socialists

00:32:31.720 That's what they do

00:32:32.260 They hate people owning things 1.00

00:32:34.460 They hate the class of people that own 0.94

00:32:37.540 They hate it

00:32:39.300 Met seeks a UK trial for Madeleine's suspect

00:32:46.320 Madeleine McCann

00:32:48.020 Harry, do you remember

00:32:49.380 Is that before your time, Madeleine McCann?

00:32:52.760 Actually, I do know of Madeleine McCann

00:32:55.700 Oh

00:32:56.240 Or it's just that big of a story that it's

00:32:58.940 Yeah, yeah, yeah

00:33:01.320 Okay

00:33:01.740 I think the original incident of her disappearance

00:33:05.020 Would have been

00:33:05.620 When you was like a little kid though, right?

00:33:08.820 It's a long time ago now

00:33:09.780 Yeah, yeah, it would have been like

00:33:11.820 Four or five

00:33:13.600 Right

00:33:14.400 Okay

00:33:15.440 So the story here, thank you

00:33:17.300 The story here is

00:33:18.480 Met

00:33:18.900 London police

00:33:20.880 Well, a trial in Britain

00:33:23.480 For sort of the main suspect of it

00:33:26.240 And it's the same guy that's been under suspicion

00:33:30.540 For years and years and years now

00:33:31.800 There's not some new break in

00:33:33.300 Particularly new break in the story

00:33:35.920 Some new suspect

00:33:36.980 It's the same guy 1.00

00:33:37.860 It's a German dude 1.00

00:33:38.760 That writing's too small for me to read 1.00

00:33:40.720 It's that German guy

00:33:42.440 That people have sort of suspected

00:33:44.920 Ever since

00:33:47.520 I mean

00:33:50.380 I've watched

00:33:51.280 Like probably most people

00:33:53.660 followed the story on and off over the years and i've also watched loads of documentaries about it

00:33:59.160 what's that geordie dude oh you probably won't know how about this i can't remember the guy's

00:34:02.900 name some geordie dude who's people in the chat might even say it did a really long series all

00:34:08.280 about it on youtube and i think he even got i think he might have got in trouble with the police

00:34:11.600 for sort of um like libel or something is a is a good uh the chat doesn't seem to be saying it

00:34:20.740 immediately i don't always have the chat in front of me but i have today um anyway anyway i've

00:34:26.820 watched loads and loads of documentaries about it loads of different angles about it as many

00:34:31.980 as you can imagine and anyway anyway the police obviously think they've got a strong enough case

00:34:40.080 to convict him or the cps have but we can't really be extradited from germany because we're not in

00:34:47.480 the eu now when we used to be in the eu that sort of thing was relatively straightforward and now

00:34:52.540 we have to actually strike some sort of deal with germany before we can do that but that's not

00:34:57.560 impossible it might take a bit longer but it's far from impossible um you know i think that geordie

00:35:04.540 guy oh sean atwood oh richard hall no richard hall that's it richard hall i think he was claiming

00:35:12.800 that like the the uh the mum and dad are behind it jerry and kate were behind it i think he got

00:35:21.200 in trouble though they did bring sniffer dogs that can smell death and especially trained dogs

00:35:30.000 that could like cadaver is it cadaver dogs are they called anyway they can smell blood i think

00:35:34.720 and and death like incredibly well unbelievably well and those dogs smelt it in that apartment

00:35:42.800 and the boot of their car.

00:35:50.340 That's a matter of fact.

00:35:51.300 I can't be prosecuted for libel or slander or whatever.

00:35:54.160 That's a matter of record.

00:35:58.580 Make of that what you will.

00:36:01.200 Okay, let's move on.

00:36:02.780 Toxic Starmer kept away from local elections campaign trail.

00:36:07.760 Right, yeah, Labour, the strategist, I suppose,

00:36:10.940 at Labour don't want Starmer himself going door to door occasionally very very senior politicians

00:36:15.880 the Prime Minister even will do that usually more for a general election and it's only really a

00:36:20.880 photo op right it's not about that extra leaflet getting delivered is it but they've decided they

00:36:25.720 don't want that because he's so unpopular it's just not good optics for them it's better just

00:36:31.060 to keep him away here's a tiny little story it's only a tiny little story here little last thing

00:36:39.540 just almost like an afterthought thing on the front page

00:36:41.740 two dyers car driven 1.00

00:36:43.520 into German crowd, oh right 1.00

00:36:44.860 alright 0.89

00:36:46.460 in Lapsig

00:36:49.740 in Germany

00:36:51.260 two people killed

00:36:54.980 three seriously injured, another twenty odd

00:36:57.480 injured

00:36:59.100 guy drove a car

00:37:01.960 at speed through some sort of shopping mall

00:37:03.680 somehow, something like that

00:37:05.080 I don't know, I don't know all the details but

00:37:06.960 What do you reckon

00:37:10.160 That they just described him as a

00:37:12.280 Do you think they might do this

00:37:13.680 Describe him as just a German man

00:37:15.860 But don't give you his name

00:37:16.940 But do say that he was suffering from mental illness

00:37:19.840 And they don't know what the motive is

00:37:23.340 Yep that's exactly what they've done

00:37:26.520 That's exactly what they've done

00:37:27.520 That's the MO isn't it

00:37:30.040 That's the MO

00:37:30.640 What's the likelihood

00:37:36.220 that he will have when we find out have an islamic name

00:37:39.860 i'm only speculating

00:37:44.200 okay there's a a cruise ship which has been hit by some sort of virus which you get from mouse or rat

00:37:53.860 excrement and a few people have died on a cruise ship

00:37:57.460 all right the express oh it's a good paper esther ranson says something don't care

00:38:07.160 labor commissioner a police commissioner joins candidate's husband who posted anti-semitic

00:38:14.620 rants fan ban police czar campaigns with man behind vile abuse it convoluted anyway do you

00:38:22.980 remember, do you remember, what is it, a few months ago, six months ago was it, I can't

00:38:27.200 remember how long ago, Maccabee Tel Aviv, the Israeli football team, came to play a football

00:38:32.980 game, football match, at Villa Park in Birmingham, a massively Muslim city in Britain, Birmingham,

00:38:40.540 and the police, the white police chief, completely took the side of Islamic protesters,

00:38:48.560 The Islamic people, many Islamic people in Birmingham

00:38:54.580 Just simply didn't want an Israeli team there at all 1.00

00:38:58.340 Certainly didn't want their fans to be able to go in the stadium 0.98

00:39:02.880 The sort of white police chief, the Labour police chief commissioner 0.87

00:39:07.700 Just absolutely sided with them 0.92

00:39:09.900 Well now the story on the front page of the Express, it's a good paper

00:39:14.920 Says that he has sided with some other Labour

00:39:19.260 I guess local Labour candidate

00:39:21.100 Who said more anti-Jewish things

00:39:25.700 A police leader slated over a ban on Jewish football fans

00:39:31.620 Campaigned with a Labour candidate

00:39:33.460 Whose husband was linked to vile anti-Semitic abuse

00:39:38.100 There you go, front page of the Express

00:39:43.200 the mirror here's a here's a doozy the mirror but there's nigel farage there massive letters stop

00:39:51.280 him nigel farage who's actually just complete milquetoast weak sauce containment just more of

00:39:59.360 the same uni party but even that must be stopped stop him right we've got a quote here from this

00:40:06.580 little old lady 93 year old dorothy do you see you ask a nobody an absolute absolutely no

00:40:15.180 nobody plucked out of utter utter obscurity by the mirror

00:40:20.140 utter obscurity a 93 year old okay at 93 former nurse dorothy is speaking out for the first time

00:40:29.900 in her life is she you mean you've plucked her from obscurity and decided to quote her on the

00:40:36.500 front page she's speaking out

00:40:40.660 probably just been speaking quite speaking out all the time but you've

00:40:44.740 decided to amplify her voice all right dorothy's speaking out for the first

00:40:49.460 time reform tried to close her care home to

00:40:53.700 to evict her friends from the place they feel safe

00:40:56.900 they saw an easy target but these terrified pensioners fought back

00:41:00.740 and dorothy is urging all of us to do the same stop him 0.54

00:41:06.500 So, as far as the Mirror is concerned, even Nigel Farage is like some evil Nazi or something 0.99

00:41:14.220 who just wants to kill old people. 0.99

00:41:17.780 Bad, isn't it?

00:41:18.980 If anything, Reform and Nigel Farage are super, super pro-old people, retired people, pensioners.

00:41:27.640 Their policy platform seems to bend over backwards on their behalf, if anything, isn't it?

00:41:32.160 Mira just

00:41:35.180 Let's just tabloise for you

00:41:37.000 Just leftist

00:41:37.820 Leftist slot

00:41:38.680 Pure leftist

00:41:43.240 Leftist slot

00:41:44.160 Nigel Farage 1.00

00:41:50.660 Wants to kill like 1.00

00:41:51.540 Old people or whatever 1.00

00:41:52.460 Or terrify them 1.00

00:41:53.840 Turn them out on the street

00:41:55.460 No he doesn't

00:41:58.120 No he doesn't

00:42:00.280 You know, I, and here at Those Tities, we sling lots of muck at Nigel and Reform

00:42:08.580 But only, or I can only speak myself, but only when I feel it's necessary

00:42:13.120 If he's being completely slandered and maligned and lied about, I'll point that out as well

00:42:18.080 Here is obviously the case

00:42:19.760 This old lady, who is she? 1.00

00:42:27.780 Who is she?

00:42:28.760 stop him yeah right our poll reveals cost of living is number one voter priority 0.98

00:42:35.720 that or mass immigration that your town has been invaded by foreign people who per capita commit 0.64

00:42:42.640 insane amounts of crime particularly sex crime that's probably actually number one isn't it

00:42:47.020 military families back pm over stance on iran war okay nation divided question mark revisit the key

00:42:54.000 battlegrounds oh do you so you can put a leftist slant on absolutely everything well done well

00:42:58.640 done I'd stop him yeah reform are gonna do amazingly well on Thursday so good luck with

00:43:10.120 that editorial staff at the mirror good luck good luck the Daily Mail trying to pretend

00:43:22.200 And it's not utter globalist slot when it is.

00:43:27.520 A leading dietician says,

00:43:29.740 My simple tricks to cram your diet full of the one nutrient that will keep your brain young.

00:43:34.820 Don't care. Shut up. Get away from me. 1.00

00:43:38.020 Exclusive.

00:43:38.860 Tory leader says,

00:43:40.020 There must be consequences for shoplifting and vandalism in explosive local elections intervention. 0.61

00:43:46.560 Olukemi Badenok, the Nigerian woman, has made an intervention.

00:43:52.200 didn't you guys have 14 years to do that sort of thing and wasn't Olukemi Badenoch in government

00:44:01.380 as well during that time they didn't do any such thing so why should we believe you now

00:44:07.480 here we go Olukemi says Britain needs zero tolerance on crimes that make our lives a

00:44:13.460 misery it'd be nice just don't believe you'd do anything of the sort I don't believe you

00:44:17.500 Don't believe the Tories

00:44:20.080 On anything ever again

00:44:21.600 They had their shot

00:44:22.860 The last 14 years

00:44:24.220 Before Labour got in

00:44:27.040 That was their shot

00:44:28.820 To sort of be a real government

00:44:30.500 And they blew it

00:44:31.520 They blew it

00:44:32.860 Not interested now

00:44:36.660 Not interested

00:44:37.500 Be gone 1.00

00:44:38.020 Go away and die 1.00

00:44:39.520 Tory party 1.00

00:44:40.320 Go off and slink into a corner 1.00

00:44:42.440 And die 1.00

00:44:42.860 That's all you deserve 1.00

00:44:43.980 Exclusive

00:44:46.940 Dramatic twist as Blake Lively settles lost suit

00:44:50.260 With co-star Beldoni

00:44:52.040 Don't care

00:44:52.680 Don't care

00:44:54.900 The sun

00:44:55.640 Here we go

00:44:57.080 Channel crossing crisis

00:44:58.680 Just one more small boat and arrivals hit 200,000

00:45:03.460 That's in total over like 8 years

00:45:06.840 200,000 though

00:45:07.940 Record toll is size of York

00:45:12.060 200,000 is the population of York

00:45:14.220 The city of York

00:45:15.060 200,000

00:45:17.860 Look at the state of that

00:45:19.600 Look at the state of them 1.00

00:45:20.900 Where are all the women and children 1.00

00:45:21.820 Where are all the refugee women and children

00:45:24.180 There was a story the other day

00:45:27.460 Two women died

00:45:29.440 Or one woman and a kid died

00:45:31.640 On one of these boats

00:45:33.600 Some reports that they were just

00:45:36.260 Raped and beaten to death

00:45:38.120 And thrown over the side

00:45:39.000 Some reports were saying

00:45:42.180 Look at the state of this

00:45:44.660 This is an invasion by foreign barbarians 1.00

00:45:47.160 Every single one of them is a criminal 1.00

00:45:48.860 By definition

00:45:49.700 Regardless of what they've done before in their life

00:45:52.000 This is illegal to do this

00:45:53.880 So by definition

00:45:56.520 Every single one is a criminal

00:45:58.080 So just put them up in hotels 0.98

00:46:02.180 And then disperse them

00:46:03.320 Operation Scatter around the country

00:46:05.460 Mad, madness

00:46:06.740 What treason

00:46:07.760 What absolute treason that is

00:46:10.280 A few speedboats with a few Royal Marine Commandos on it

00:46:17.380 Would stop this in one day, in one afternoon

00:46:19.780 Only 7,612 get deported

00:46:26.380 So out of 200,000 over the last 7 or 8 years

00:46:28.660 Only 7,612 of them have been deported

00:46:31.840 A few people try and stand for Keir Starmer and the Labour government

00:46:36.940 Saying he's deporting way more than the Tories did

00:46:39.460 Yeah, and it's still an absolute drop in the ocean

00:46:42.520 Don't try and tell me Keir Starmer's tougher

00:46:48.420 Ultimately

00:46:50.600 In terms of deportations

00:46:52.820 Might be able to show some statistics

00:46:55.880 A little graph

00:46:56.640 Where what he did was slightly higher than what the Tories did or something

00:46:59.640 But it's still not doing it, is it?

00:47:02.120 It's still allowing us, in essence, to be invaded 1.00

00:47:04.740 By foreign beastmen 1.00

00:47:09.460 The star, utter utter slop 1.00

00:47:14.360 About spider attacks

00:47:15.800 Spider attacks surge

00:47:19.680 Look, there's a picture of a spider there

00:47:21.400 Perhaps a false widow

00:47:22.940 And the spider's saying

00:47:25.540 Look, they've put a speech bubble

00:47:26.680 The spider's saying

00:47:27.800 With great power comes great responsibility

00:47:30.400 It's a Spider-Man quote, isn't it?

00:47:35.960 Spider-Man

00:47:36.640 I quite like calling Spider-Man, Spider-Man

00:47:40.100 Calling Superman, Superman

00:47:43.600 Batman

00:47:45.600 No? Okay

00:47:48.560 Bightmare

00:47:50.200 You know, sounds a bit like Nightmare

00:47:53.060 Bightmare

00:47:54.120 Clever isn't it? Clever wordplay

00:47:56.340 False widows blamed for Surge

00:47:58.340 Okay, alright, that's front page news

00:48:00.400 Alright, okay

00:48:01.200 Mad

00:48:02.820 Oh look, it's already 10-2

00:48:06.080 Quick look at some of the websites then

00:48:09.120 Poverty and technology leading to record levels of slavery in the UK

00:48:13.060 Is it? Is that what's leading to it?

00:48:15.220 Poverty and technology is what's causing modern slavery in the UK 1.00

00:48:18.120 Not that foreign people that have come over here 1.00

00:48:23.100 Use modern day slavery 1.00

00:48:26.000 Just Britain, just Brits do it now 1.00

00:48:28.640 Just a Brit, it's just 0.99

00:48:29.860 No, what it is, is that other people 1.00

00:48:35.660 Other foreigners come over

00:48:37.120 And in their culture 0.99

00:48:40.400 In their world

00:48:41.320 It's acceptable to

00:48:42.840 Use what is essentially

00:48:45.500 A modern day slave 0.96

00:48:47.060 So they do 0.85

00:48:50.260 In Leicester, say 0.97

00:48:52.380 Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi people

00:48:59.020 In Leicester 1.00

00:48:59.700 Use Vietnamese slaves 1.00

00:49:01.580 Oh, but it's about poverty 1.00

00:49:05.000 And technology

00:49:05.780 And it's just Britain 1.00

00:49:06.760 Eritreans 1.00

00:49:10.900 And Vietnamese 1.00

00:49:11.520 Right 1.00

00:49:14.320 It's just white British native people 0.98

00:49:16.440 Doing that is it 0.94

00:49:17.700 Not really

00:49:18.140 No

00:49:18.360 Not really

00:49:18.920 But no

00:49:19.600 According to the BBC

00:49:20.760 There's poverty and technology

00:49:22.140 Is leading to it

00:49:23.000 Okay

00:49:31.100 The Express

00:49:33.160 There's a couple of stories

00:49:33.880 In The Express was there 1.00

00:49:34.620 Oh yeah, migrant mayhem 1.00

00:49:37.900 Small boat migrants arrive 1.00

00:49:39.560 Okay 1.00

00:49:40.740 This story 1.00

00:49:42.940 Foreign criminals cost Britain 1.00

00:49:44.400 £630 million 1.00

00:49:46.460 That would be a year, wouldn't it?

00:49:48.940 To imprison

00:49:49.460 And the top nation is no surprise 1.00

00:49:52.180 Albanians

00:49:54.700 I'm just going to say it

00:49:56.340 Albanians

00:49:58.000 Albanians, Romanians and Indians

00:50:02.560 Albanians 1.00

00:50:04.620 There you go, they're the top foreign nationals in our prisons 0.99

00:50:07.620 Statistically, so hashtag not all Albanians 0.98

00:50:14.040 Statistically Albanians commit crimes per capita on an astronomical level 0.98

00:50:19.060 As do Romanians 1.00

00:50:23.520 It's a statement of fact 1.00

00:50:29.000 Simply a statement of fact

00:50:34.620 all right

00:50:37.620 the sun says the small broke thing is out of control

00:50:41.980 yeah it is yeah obviously completely out of control

00:50:43.980 all right it is now 10 to 9

00:50:48.320 just got an itchy shin

00:50:52.580 sorry about that

00:50:54.280 shall we have a look at the

00:50:57.080 on this day in history you guys seem to like me

00:50:59.540 doing that segment I like that segment

00:51:01.200 On the 5th of May

00:51:05.100 Down through the centuries

00:51:06.220 What happened of note

00:51:07.040 Let's have a quick look

00:51:08.200 By the way

00:51:09.700 If you watch the Bo Show regularly

00:51:11.000 You'll know that I've threatened

00:51:12.180 To use a different website

00:51:14.120 I spent a bit of time the other day

00:51:16.640 Looking at them

00:51:17.740 And all the other ones

00:51:18.700 I made the judgment call

00:51:21.580 All the other ones are worse than this

00:51:22.900 They're more woke 1.00

00:51:24.740 More stupid 1.00

00:51:26.060 This is actually the best one 1.00

00:51:28.320 I think

00:51:31.200 Anyone out there finds a similar website

00:51:34.360 That's better than this one

00:51:35.840 Tweet me, at me

00:51:38.040 Or am I, at History Bro 1

00:51:39.960 On Twitter

00:51:41.080 I'll be interested, I'll have a look

00:51:43.080 Alright, on this day, on the 5th of May

00:51:44.940 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan

00:51:47.400 Becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire

00:51:49.160 I've talked a bit about Kublai Khan before, haven't I?

00:51:51.940 Pretty sure

00:51:52.360 Absolutely fascinating

00:51:53.800 Beyond Genghis Khan himself

00:51:55.420 The most interesting Mongol ruler, I would say 1.00

00:51:59.180 Of course he stayed out in the east

00:52:01.360 Mongol invasions went all the way through 0.80

00:52:04.240 To Europe, to Russia 1.00

00:52:05.560 They sacked Kiev 1.00

00:52:07.720 They swept through India 1.00

00:52:12.580 They attempted to take Japan 0.91

00:52:15.540 But Kubla Khan stayed in China 0.98

00:52:18.000 And

00:52:20.160 Yeah, absolutely fascinating

00:52:23.780 Can't even begin to scratch the surface

00:52:25.960 Of his career

00:52:26.900 and life here

00:52:29.380 but

00:52:30.100 after Genghis himself

00:52:33.220 the great Genghis

00:52:34.660 if you're interested

00:52:37.300 look up Kublai Khan

00:52:38.160 alright

00:52:39.180 panic of 1893

00:52:40.780 financial panic that is

00:52:42.620 the panic of 1893

00:52:44.980 causes a large crash

00:52:46.400 on the New York Stock Exchange

00:52:47.840 on

00:52:48.740 on LotusEaters.com

00:52:54.720 behind the paywall

00:52:55.820 Consider signing up for as little as £5 a month

00:52:57.920 On the front seat membership

00:52:58.500 I've got a long form conversation with Dan

00:53:01.200 Dan Tubb

00:53:01.940 All about various economic crises

00:53:04.660 Everyone knows the Wall Street crash of 1929

00:53:07.240 Don't they

00:53:07.680 There's been loads more

00:53:10.200 Loads more

00:53:11.820 There was a big one in

00:53:13.340 Or two

00:53:14.160 But there was at least one big one in the 1870s

00:53:16.580 When Ulysses S. Grant was president

00:53:18.500 There was another big one in 1893

00:53:21.140 The Panic of 1893

00:53:22.580 and so yeah there's a bit of long-form content where me and dan sort of go through a lot of

00:53:29.100 them like what actually happened what caused that why did that you know why did that happen

00:53:32.320 what was the consequences of it etc etc where any lessons learned so that's there if you're

00:53:39.100 interested in that on this day 1941 ethiopian emperor highly selassie returns triumphantly

00:53:46.720 to addis ababa again this website seems to like highly selassie is that the second or third time

00:53:51.720 I think that's like the third time in the last

00:53:54.140 Or since January they've mentioned Haile Selassie

00:53:56.380 For some reason 0.95

00:53:56.980 One of the people running this website is a Rasta 0.98

00:54:00.500 A Rasta man

00:54:02.240 Haile Selassie

00:54:04.500 I haven't talked about him before because he's come up before, haven't I? 0.90

00:54:07.560 And how the Italians 1.00

00:54:08.660 Took Ethiopia

00:54:10.000 At the beginning of World War II 0.97

00:54:12.280 Sorry, before World War II even 0.73

00:54:14.800 Haile Selassie

00:54:16.300 Had to sort of flee

00:54:17.300 Because he would almost certainly be imprisoned, maybe even killed

00:54:20.280 The British liberated Ethiopia

00:54:25.640 Or what did they call it?

00:54:28.680 Abyssinia 0.88

00:54:29.160 And Haile Selassie got to return

00:54:32.920 Lived to be a very old man into his 80s I believe

00:54:36.340 It's like the 70s or is it even the 80s? 0.99

00:54:41.160 Eventually Ethiopian communists 0.54

00:54:42.840 Murdered him and buried him under a toilet 0.99

00:54:46.060 Womp womp

00:54:50.280 On this day, 1955, West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers. 0.64

00:54:57.960 It's interesting to note, isn't it?

00:54:59.020 Ten years after the end of World War II,

00:55:02.260 before France, Britain and the United States let West Germany be a country properly again.

00:55:10.000 It's interesting to note that, isn't it?

00:55:12.540 What was their capital? Bonn?

00:55:14.920 Wasn't it? Bonn?

00:55:15.620 On this day in 1965

00:55:18.980 First large scale US Army ground units

00:55:22.120 Arrive in South Vietnam

00:55:23.360 What would that be?

00:55:25.500 General Westmoreland lands at Da Nang, isn't it?

00:55:29.120 When I was young

00:55:29.960 When I was in my 20s

00:55:30.760 For a long time

00:55:32.060 I was fascinated by Vietnam

00:55:35.040 I actually happened to that

00:55:38.180 Being a history nerd, right?

00:55:39.980 And half American

00:55:41.040 You know

00:55:42.820 My wheelhouse is really the ancient world

00:55:45.420 The classical world, the classical mega training world

00:55:47.320 That's my true forte, if you like

00:55:49.180 That's what I formally studied

00:55:50.880 But beyond that, a lot of, as you can imagine

00:55:54.380 English history and American history

00:55:55.900 That's why I've got quite a lot of content about American history

00:55:58.080 Anyway, when I was young, I was fascinated by Vietnam

00:56:01.600 Just loads and loads of detail

00:56:03.100 I wanted endless detail about it

00:56:05.040 So yeah, that would be Westmoreland landing at Da Nang

00:56:08.200 Unopposed

00:56:08.880 They put like garlands round his neck and stuff

00:56:12.900 There's like a photo of that

00:56:15.420 okay on this day in 1980 siege at iranian embassy in london ends when the sas and police storm the

00:56:21.660 building harry you want two hours of me talking about the iranian embassy siege of 1918 in in

00:56:30.940 all the detail you could want really it's there it's there yeah anti-ayatollah iranian terrorists

00:56:43.820 Stormed the Iranian embassy in Kensington in London

00:56:47.020 Hold people hostage 0.96

00:56:48.740 Eventually shoot a guy

00:56:53.120 Because they weren't getting their demands

00:56:54.520 The police say

00:56:57.820 We're out

00:56:59.560 Send in the lads

00:57:01.860 Send in 2-2 SAS 1.00

00:57:04.360 Kill them all 1.00

00:57:05.400 Which they did 1.00

00:57:09.600 Well one survived

00:57:10.400 Because he pretended to be a hostage

00:57:11.800 As they were bundling them out of the building

00:57:13.560 It's all there, it's all there behind the paywall

00:57:17.120 Alright, on this day in 1981

00:57:20.060 After 66 days on hunger strike

00:57:22.240 26 year old provisional IRA member

00:57:24.480 And British MP Bobby Sands

00:57:27.000 Dies in May's prison

00:57:30.260 Nine more hunger strikers die in the next three months

00:57:34.600 Yeah, Bobby Sands

00:57:37.500 If you're old enough, people will have heard of Bobby Sands

00:57:40.460 Even though I was only born in 1981

00:57:42.280 And I still heard of and know about Bobby Sands

00:57:44.360 And his hunger strike

00:57:45.980 Because he wanted to be treated as a political prisoner

00:57:50.660 Not just a normal prisoner

00:57:51.900 I don't really let you do hunger strikes anymore, do they?

00:57:58.540 You try and go on a hunger strike

00:57:59.860 After a certain while

00:58:00.840 They'll strap you to a gurney

00:58:03.140 Maybe even give you drugs

00:58:05.540 So you don't really resist 0.98

00:58:06.660 And then they'll jam a pipe down your throat 0.85

00:58:08.880 And false food into your stomach 0.99

00:58:10.020 Bobby Sands 0.93

00:58:16.960 A terrorist

00:58:19.380 Alright 0.95

00:58:20.400 Let's have a look at the Rumble Rants and Super Chats 0.95

00:58:24.760 Shall we? 0.98

00:58:28.020 Alright

00:58:28.660 Who's in at number one on the Rumble Rants?

00:58:32.820 Who do you reckon?

00:58:34.320 Who do you reckon?

00:58:35.900 It's only global church history, isn't it?

00:58:38.160 Thanks, I'm talking directly to Global Church History now

00:58:43.040 Thank you sir, I really appreciate it, the dedication

00:58:46.780 You've got to admire the grind

00:58:49.640 Global Church History says

00:58:52.100 Today in 553, that would be the year 553 AD

00:58:56.040 The 5th Ecumenical Council met under St Justinian and Theodora

00:59:00.940 That would be the Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire

00:59:04.600 And his wife Theodora

00:59:06.240 Attended by the likes of 0.65

00:59:09.220 St. Jared of Ethiopia

00:59:10.540 And Roman the Melodist 0.93

00:59:12.420 Briefly reuniting Christendom 0.86

00:59:14.660 I think I've got

00:59:18.640 A mini-series all about Justinian

00:59:21.100 On

00:59:22.540 On EPOGS

00:59:23.720 Three episodes largely focusing on

00:59:26.580 Belisarius, Justinian's Generalissimo

00:59:28.920 But also just as well talking about

00:59:30.900 Everything Justinian related

00:59:32.180 Yeah

00:59:35.460 Harry, cut to the camera where people can see.

00:59:38.660 And on my channel, History Bro,

00:59:41.340 I've got another couple of bits of content talking about Justinian.

00:59:44.580 There was one where I compared the lives and reigns and careers

00:59:50.060 of Justinian I and Justinian II, two very, very different men.

00:59:55.600 That's fake, by the way.

00:59:56.700 Look, that's the thing you get when you get 100,000 subscribers on your channel.

01:00:00.880 I haven't got 100,000 subscribers.

01:00:02.640 I've got like 20-odd.

01:00:04.700 22 if you consider going over there and subscribing to it so that's fake harry's put that there

01:00:09.580 that's not real just be clear oh if history bro had a hundred thousand subs that'd be nice um

01:00:21.100 so yeah justinian sorry global churches you just did it absolutely fascinating because you say

01:00:26.540 briefly reuniting christian yeah because the western roman empire by the sixth century mid

01:00:31.660 6th century had been conquered a couple of times over by various barbaric peoples justinian in the

01:00:38.460 east the eastern roman empire the byzantine empire he decided he was going to reconquer the west

01:00:44.860 for the the romans and and christendom which he briefly did he sent belisarius his generalism over

01:00:52.060 and they briefly did do that reuniting christendom because of course there's one main church at that

01:00:57.260 point the the great schism between eastern orthodoxy and roman catholicism is not till

01:01:02.780 the 11th century is it that's not till what like the 1050s is it this 11th century that obviously

01:01:08.140 hadn't happened yet so justinian reuniting the empire and christendom briefly okay cool

01:01:18.460 gwff says what's your thoughts and feelings on the following quote and it's a horace walpole

01:01:26.540 quote that says what is called chance is the instrument of providence

01:01:32.220 that's a great quote is it very pithy very succinct

01:01:39.660 yeah i like it classic sort of 18th century

01:01:46.060 pithiness

01:01:49.180 yeah cool it's a good one for gian barber morning sir you say good morning bow

01:01:53.820 good day ahead question mark i've got to record an epox then there'll be some state of politics

01:02:00.820 stuff after in the evening i've got to record but it should be an all right day

01:02:04.760 yeah should be good uh you say i just found out that one of the characters

01:02:11.080 in in sports commentary died today john sterling yankees baseball how can they unpick brexit

01:02:19.940 it without another referendum so first of all i'll say i don't know john sterling i don't know

01:02:24.840 john sterling i'm afraid i'm sorry i'm not that into baseball i do quite like baseball follow it

01:02:30.520 very very tangentially very tangentially i'm a boston red sox fan when i was a little kid

01:02:38.600 someone bought me because my initial is b when i was a kid someone bought me a boston red sox

01:02:44.100 baseball cap with the big B on it that's it that's enough for me to pick a baseball team

01:02:50.320 the Red Sox when they won the World Series a while ago 10 years ago was it 15 years ago

01:02:56.280 that was cool I watched the whole World Series I don't know John Sterling sorry and then the

01:03:02.220 other thing you say how can they unpick Brexit without another referendum well I mean yeah

01:03:07.700 it's a good question and it's we talked before didn't we I don't know if you saw that morning

01:03:12.500 that beau show where they talked about the so-called henry the eighth laws where you can

01:03:17.780 get things through parliament if you're sneaky and shameless enough you can kind of get things

01:03:21.940 through parliament where they can unpick brexit to an extent they can sort of largely unpick it

01:03:29.640 they can unpick it in all but name yeah to formally completely go back on it to formally

01:03:34.880 join the eu again i'm sure i would have thought they would need another referendum they certainly 0.92

01:03:41.060 need another act of parliament but what they can just do is like sneaky rats like snakes

01:03:46.260 they can just largely undo it well hopefully starmer won't be the prime minister for him

01:03:56.040 very much longer whether whoever comes after him is even more brexit hating who knows harry can

01:04:02.920 you bring up the youtube super chats on my screen for me please you make it so engage all right oh

01:04:09.520 there's only a few today there's only four today oh did we do the poll i didn't mention the poll

01:04:14.080 can you make the poll come up now should i just quickly do the poll it's a bit late isn't it you

01:04:19.460 should do it in the middle of the show don't i bet all right we got we said will trump finally

01:04:24.420 blow iran off the face of the earth because that was the thing he said on true social again just 0.85

01:04:28.900 the other day if you don't do what we want open the straits of hormones etc i'll blow you off the 0.99

01:04:35.400 face of the earth we asked you and i said to harry don't give them a maybe make it a yes or no

01:04:40.640 just a yes or no so what have you put okay 22 percent of you say yes trump will blow iran off

01:04:49.400 the face of the earth 78 of you say no i mean if i was going to take that i would have clicked on

01:04:56.120 know, he might know, but I do. So, again, me and my audience, of the same mind, 78% say

01:05:12.860 no, yeah. The classic, classic boy who cried wolf thing, it's not, I'm not saying he won't

01:05:19.840 do it at some point, but if you keep threatening the same thing over and over again and then

01:05:24.260 not doing it putting lines in the sand and then not doing it like what do you expect people to

01:05:30.160 think all right let's have a look at the youtube super chats all right bill wilson 1225 says

01:05:41.520 i'm starting to think charles charles the first had a point

01:05:45.660 What that parliament is

01:05:50.380 Is bad or should just be closed down

01:05:52.240 If it's not doing things properly

01:05:54.660 Yeah

01:05:57.600 Opening doors one says

01:06:03.280 Pubs closing equals

01:06:05.500 Form of economic jihad 0.97

01:06:08.140 Scumbags 0.99

01:06:09.960 You say 0.99

01:06:10.860 Yep

01:06:12.200 Totally agree with that

01:06:13.540 Totally agree with that

01:06:15.660 yeah it's part of it it's an element of it um the next one for a decent amount of money

01:06:22.460 from Seth Child Sanders says do you guys have have rank choice voting nationwide

01:06:32.060 just curious if you're worried about sinking Farage with Rupert Lowe

01:06:37.600 even if he is the preferable choice

01:06:42.840 night from wyoming keep up the good work okay so you're from wyoming and it's night time there so

01:06:50.360 cool interesting to know thanks for the thanks for the money as well appreciate that really we

01:06:55.300 really appreciate that um rank voting like so you've got a first second and third choice sort

01:07:01.240 of thing and that that that whole paradigm yeah we don't have that do we we just don't have that

01:07:05.300 in Britain um sorry yeah I don't know what to tell you we don't we don't have that um

01:07:12.900 what you're saying you're worried about sinking Farage with Rupert Lowe even if he's the preferable

01:07:19.020 choice yeah oh yeah what can I say we don't have it how things might be different if we did

01:07:27.580 it seems to be on some level i i like it and appreciate it and see the benefits of it

01:07:35.580 on another level some other level it seems sort of needlessly complicated

01:07:40.000 have one man one vote it's a classic thing is that is that really working for us at the moment

01:07:47.420 perhaps not you could argue not okay all right the penultimate one today is from pants hayder

01:07:55.980 Who just says

01:07:58.360 I wear a dress 0.92

01:08:01.620 That's all you say

01:08:05.380 I wear a dress

01:08:06.700 Oh

01:08:09.320 I just done the thing

01:08:11.100 I wear a dress

01:08:15.060 Than the old Bart Simpson trick

01:08:21.000 They are funny

01:08:23.840 They are funny

01:08:25.680 and finally we've got Phil Marshall Dawn Browning

01:08:29.120 just sends 10 Aussie bucks and doesn't say anything

01:08:32.660 or there's a little thank you emoji

01:08:34.360 dancing around animated gifting

01:08:36.860 so thanks for that Dawn

01:08:38.920 appreciate that

01:08:40.340 thank you love

01:08:41.780 appreciate it

01:08:42.800 alright that's the show

01:08:44.140 it's now 8 minutes past 9 in the AM British Summertime

01:08:46.700 on Tuesday the 5th of May in the year of our law 2026

01:08:49.920 you've been the Gorris Band

01:08:51.220 the Chosen Few

01:08:51.920 my band of brothers and sisters

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01:08:55.580 Without you guys

01:08:56.060 It's not a thing

01:08:56.480 It really isn't

01:08:57.260 Try and make the best

01:08:59.080 Of the day ahead

01:08:59.640 If you can

01:09:00.200 I know it's not always easy

01:09:01.140 When you've got a job

01:09:01.900 And families

01:09:02.520 And all sorts of

01:09:03.560 Responsibilities

01:09:04.840 Often it's not easy

01:09:06.240 But if you have

01:09:06.760 If you've got some free time

01:09:07.760 Try and make it count

01:09:10.300 Try and do something

01:09:10.840 Valuable with it

01:09:11.460 You'll never have it again

01:09:12.280 You'll never have this day again

01:09:13.900 In your life

01:09:14.400 Once it's gone

01:09:15.100 It's gone

01:09:15.460 You've only got a finite

01:09:16.820 Amount of them

01:09:17.520 Try and make it count

01:09:19.360 Okay then

01:09:19.880 Until tomorrow morning

01:09:24.700 Thank you.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 05, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 5th May 2026

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