The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - November 11, 2026


Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 11th November 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1546 The Importance of Beautiful Things

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1 hour and 16 minutes

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11,640

Sentence count

355

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6

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Toxicity

36

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Hate speech

72

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00:00:00 Morning.
00:00:02 You alright?
00:00:04 Hope you are.
00:00:05 Sincerely hope you are.
00:00:08 Come on, wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey, out of bed, sleepyhead, let's go, day's half over.
00:00:11 Let's do this thing.
00:00:13 You bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, rocking and raving for the day ahead.
00:00:15 I hope so.
00:00:16 It's now 8 in the a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on Armistice Day, the 11th of the 11th, in
00:00:22 the year of our Lord, 2026.
00:00:25 Wednesday, the week's going really quickly.
00:00:27 Seems like just a moment ago it was Monday morning.
00:00:30 All right, as always, nearly always, I'm joined by my producer, Little Harry.
00:00:34 How are you this morning, good sir?
00:00:35 Morning, yeah, I'm all good.
00:00:38 Listen, body voice. 0.74
00:00:40 Your powerful producer.
00:00:41 Coming out of the ether there, slightly disconcerting.
00:00:45 All right, shall we just get on with it?
00:00:48 There's enough faffing about, isn't it, for one morning?
00:00:51 There's no need. 0.99
00:00:52 There's no need for that fannying about. 1.00
00:00:53 Oh, a tiny bit more fannying about. 1.00
00:00:56 Make sure you do the thumbs up on the stream.
00:00:58 youtube algorithm really really cares about that the fan dabby dozy button it really really cares
00:01:04 about it particularly for live streams so do do that if you don't mind even if you're a lefty
00:01:09 hate watching this and do a thumbs down we'll take it it's all engagement that's how it reads
00:01:12 it it's fine do you do that do you do that if you don't mind make sure you sub to the channel
00:01:17 why wouldn't you be that's madness and get the bell on ye olde bell if you want to be notified
00:01:24 of stuff don't you right that is enough fannying about let's get on with it what have we got here
00:01:28 Oh, God, it's a David Walliams day.
00:01:32 Probably the first of many.
00:01:35 Ugh, David Walliams.
00:01:38 I learnt this yesterday.
00:01:39 His real name was Williams, David Williams.
00:01:43 Apparently, when he was a younger actor,
00:01:46 this is just a side note, an incidental piece of information,
00:01:49 but apparently when he was in, as a younger man, as an actor,
00:01:52 some sort of actors' union,
00:01:54 there was another guy called David Williams.
00:01:56 So he decided to fully change his name
00:02:00 To differentiate himself from that other David Williams
00:02:02 Okay, a bit of pointless information there
00:02:06 David Walliams, so-called
00:02:08 Is accused
00:02:10 Harry, bring that up so people can see
00:02:11 So as you're doing the poll, we're getting the poll done ready
00:02:14 I've got a bloodshot eye, one bloodshot eye
00:02:16 Oh God, how's that happen?
00:02:20 Okay
00:02:21 I did sneeze about 50 times this morning
00:02:23 There's a possibility I'll sneeze again
00:02:25 i'm a human being if you put dust up my nose do i not sneeze um okay david walliams accused and
00:02:37 named and shamed so the same thing is more to i think all but one front page is the walliams
00:02:42 affair i'll whip through it quite quickly and talk about some other stories because
00:02:47 i couldn't really i don't really care all that much i believe our poll's going to be along those
00:02:54 just to check with the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters you guys just
00:02:58 to check if you care at all i suspect not or largely not okay all right so the story's just
00:03:05 the facts let's just get the facts out of the way the guardian oh the guardian what is that
00:03:12 what is that fetid bog water stagnant stagnant fetid bog water it's revolting
00:03:21 the guardian and itv news apparently in conjunction did like a three-year-long
00:03:28 investigation into david walliams's sex life well done
00:03:31 slow ironic hand clap for you well done okay well the details seem to be if there's any crime
00:03:41 it was with a 15 year old girl yeah girl yeah i thought he was gay didn't you like she was married
00:03:48 He was married to a model as well, wasn't he?
00:03:50 Back in the early 2010s, he was married to some sort of quite attractive model,
00:03:54 if I recall rightly.
00:03:55 I've not paid close attention to David Walliams' real life,
00:03:59 but I was aware of that.
00:04:00 I believe they had a child.
00:04:03 He's now divorced or estranged from her or whatever,
00:04:05 but he is actually heterosexual. 0.99
00:04:11 It seems his pattern of behaviour is very young ladies.
00:04:15 like and most of them are over the age of consent in britain the age of the heterosexual age of
00:04:21 consent consent is 16 so even though it is like a bit grimy for a bloke in his 30s to be
00:04:32 in a relationship with a 16 year old 17 year old 18 year old 19 year old it's not against the law
00:04:38 it is a bit off isn't it isn't that there's no law has been broken if you wanted if they do that
00:04:42 If they're not coerced into it or anything
00:04:45 There's no law to be broken
00:04:46 So it's mainly that
00:04:48 Like an 18 year old said he groomed her
00:04:51 Well you were 18 so
00:04:52 Again I don't want to play defence on behalf of David Walliams
00:04:56 He does seem like a slimy piece of
00:04:59 I don't like it
00:05:01 Some of his comedy in Little Britain was kind of funny wasn't it
00:05:04 But I don't like David Walliams
00:05:07 I don't want to shill or stan on behalf of a guy in his 30s
00:05:12 Or 40s
00:05:13 Going out with an 18 year old
00:05:14 But there's no crime there
00:05:15 But
00:05:16 Apparently
00:05:17 There is one case
00:05:18 Where the girl was 15
00:05:19 So if that's true
00:05:22 And I guess a court
00:05:23 Will have to decide
00:05:24 If it ever gets to trial
00:05:25 If that's true
00:05:26 Well then that is a crime
00:05:27 Apparently
00:05:28 Apparently he was
00:05:30 He did
00:05:30 I don't think it was
00:05:32 Full sexual intercourse
00:05:33 I think it was 0.79
00:05:34 I don't know
00:05:35 I don't know all the details
00:05:36 But he did some stuff
00:05:38 With a 15 year old girl
00:05:39 Allegedly 0.88
00:05:40 That
00:05:41 Well that would be a crime
00:05:42 Then wouldn't it
00:05:42 believe the story is more that he just used his power his influence as a 30 something
00:05:50 to get into relationships with 15 16 17 18 19 year old girls
00:05:59 that's basically the details uh what other facts are there um that he's been dropped like the bbc
00:06:04 have decided to scrub everything he was ever in more or less there was that part of alton towers
00:06:11 the orton towers theme park i had like a whole area of the park that was dedicated to his child
00:06:16 stories he's written loads of kiddies books as well like 28 of them sold 50 million all over
00:06:22 the world there was a part of orton towers that was dedicated to that that's been closed down
00:06:27 he's published a park uh harper collins uh they've dropped him i believe he's like his
00:06:34 agent and or manager or something or other something along those lines they've dropped him
00:06:41 Jonathan Ross is horrified.
00:06:44 His friend, Jonathan Ross, also a friend with Russell Brand,
00:06:47 is horrified.
00:06:50 He speaks like a bit of a list.
00:06:53 Horrified.
00:06:54 Jonathan Ross is horrified.
00:06:58 Is he?
00:06:59 He knew about it, though.
00:07:00 He definitely knew about it.
00:07:01 There's a clip, I saw it on Twitter the other day,
00:07:04 from like 2004 or something,
00:07:07 with some sort of award ceremony.
00:07:09 David Williams is in the audience.
00:07:11 Jonathan Ross stands up there
00:07:12 Does like a little roast
00:07:13 Or does a joke
00:07:14 And the joke is that
00:07:16 David Walliams goes home 1.00
00:07:17 With 15 year olds
00:07:18 Cuts to David Walliams
00:07:21 In the audience
00:07:21 He's laughing
00:07:22 He flicks Jonathan Ross
00:07:23 The V's
00:07:24 Comically
00:07:24 So why are you horrified now?
00:07:27 You knew
00:07:28 Of course you knew
00:07:28 He was your mate
00:07:29 You made jokes about it
00:07:30 In public
00:07:31 What?
00:07:31 What do you mean you're horrified?
00:07:33 Jonathan Ross
00:07:34 Okay
00:07:34 Okay
00:07:36 They're mainly
00:07:37 That's basically the facts
00:07:39 Oh
00:07:39 Walliams himself has denied absolutely any wrongdoing
00:07:42 He said, in fact there's some little blurb here
00:07:47 Let me quickly read this blurb
00:07:48 The papers feature actor and comedian David Walliams
00:07:51 As he faces allegations of sexual misconduct
00:07:52 After losing a legal bid
00:07:54 To stop the claims against him being made public
00:07:56 The Guardian, whose joint three-year investigation
00:07:58 Along with ITV News
00:07:59 Unearthed the allegations
00:08:01 The paper leads with
00:08:04 David Walliams accused of using his celebrity status 0.92
00:08:07 To prey on young women for sex
00:08:08 welliam strongly denies the allegations in a letter addressed to the media and publicized by
00:08:13 the guardian and published by the guardian he said he was quote not a sexual predator and had
00:08:18 not broken the law he said he realized that at times i behaved thoughtlessly towards other people
00:08:24 and he he's written it in the first person but i won't read it in the first person because that
00:08:28 can get clipped then he said um he said that he had behaved thoughtlessly towards other people
00:08:34 and he had had a casual sexual relationship that he had casual sexual relationships with.
00:08:40 He said he regretted not always taking people's feelings properly into account.
00:08:46 That's basically it.
00:08:48 And his lawyers think apparently when he was trying to get the injunction to gag the media,
00:08:55 threatened to commit suicide or did in fact attempt suicide a couple of times and was sectioned.
00:09:01 Like for his own safety, I presume.
00:09:04 okay that's it that's basically it i think is that all the bases covered and all the papers
00:09:14 today on fleet street that cabal quite frankly evil cabal of fleet street editors
00:09:17 are running with it because they love it so let's just whip through them i don't even bother doing
00:09:24 any more detail you've got the you've got the detail the son he's been named oh a few other
00:09:30 things there's an article uh well they just dredging up every tiny thing he did wrong ever
00:09:36 that aren't certainly not crimes i was reading a bbc article the other night and it said it was
00:09:43 honestly just dredging up anything he did that was ever almost that was like slightly off color
00:09:48 like for example one time when he was the judge on britain's got talent
00:09:51 off camera when he wasn't supposed to be recorded hot mic being hot mic'd
00:09:56 he was rude about some of the contestants so so
00:10:01 apparently one time also whilst not recording he did some sort of nazi salute for a laugh he's not
00:10:09 a nazi he's a far leftist if anything he's not a nazi he did a nazi salute for comedy purposes
00:10:15 remember when you used to be able to do that when basil 40 when people would do that for like a 0.52
00:10:19 moustache throw up a roman salute and and goose goose step around for a laugh remember those days
00:10:26 okay well done progressivism well done you can't do a basal 40 anymore all right the mirror look
00:10:36 there's a picture of jonathan was down there ricky gervais there's walliams with an 18 year
00:10:44 old girl this is years ago i think this is like 20 years ago this picture was taken somewhere
00:10:47 with an 18 year old girl who doesn't look best pleased but i mean she's there of her own free
00:10:52 she's 18 years old i mean i think he's in his early 30s there and she's 18. there's no crime
00:11:01 all right i don't keep standing for him but
00:11:06 there you go
00:11:09 hiding in plain sight what with an 18 year old well yeah because there's no crime there
00:11:17 oh look camilla tommenier said something don't care don't care what that question says about
00:11:21 anything page she'll the Guardian to a German owned Zionist globalist slot the
00:11:28 Guardian the telegraph sorry the telegraph when his face is a police
00:11:33 investigation okay all right what other stories have we got oh yeah US charges
00:11:39 suspect over RAF Fairford plot that's interesting let's quickly whip over to
00:11:43 the main BBC page when they talk about it look three Iran back suspects plotted
00:11:49 attacks including RAF Fairford incident, says US. Bit of a real story. Nearly a quarter of an hour
00:11:57 in, first real story. Okay, yeah, so the US Department of Justice has announced charges
00:12:05 against three Iran-backed operatives that it alleged were involved in a string of plots
00:12:10 in the US and Europe. I believe one of the guys, I'm not sure if it's a connected story,
00:12:16 but one of the guys is actually already in prison in the United States.
00:12:20 Anyway, including this...
00:12:21 Nate of Mr. Hate Review's fame the other day made me aware.
00:12:27 I think this story dropped when I was on holiday in Italy.
00:12:30 He made me aware that one of the suspects in this RAF Fairford thing
00:12:36 is a guy in a wheelchair.
00:12:39 Looks like a black guy.
00:12:41 I don't know if he's Middle Eastern or his ancestry is sub-Saharan African.
00:12:44 Anyway, he's sort of brown coloured 0.89
00:12:46 Certainly not Caucasian 0.99
00:12:48 And he's in a wheelchair 1.00
00:12:49 Not just in a wheelchair
00:12:50 Like he's got a really massive upper body
00:12:53 And legs that don't work 1.00
00:12:54 No, he's sort of highly disabled 1.00
00:12:56 He looked like
00:12:57 They're accusing him of like, what?
00:13:01 Loading and unloading giant barrels of petrol
00:13:04 From the back of a van
00:13:05 What is that?
00:13:07 Has anyone seen that?
00:13:09 Harry, can you Google 1.00
00:13:11 RFF with suspect wheelchair
00:13:13 and then Google Images, something like that.
00:13:15 Okay, get that off the screen for a moment while you do that.
00:13:19 Okay, so the Department of Justice,
00:13:20 the US Department of Justice,
00:13:22 have decided that there certainly was something,
00:13:27 there was some sort of foul play,
00:13:29 there was something criminal, 0.99
00:13:30 there was some criminality to do with Iran
00:13:34 and the RF Airford incident.
00:13:38 Oh look, here we go, bring that back up.
00:13:40 There's the coat drawing of him
00:13:44 There's a picture of him
00:13:50 This guy
00:13:51 This is
00:13:52 Ask yourself
00:13:54 Is this guy
00:13:55 An Iranian state-sponsored 0.77
00:14:00 Sort of terrorist
00:14:03 Trying to attack
00:14:04 The military-industrial might
00:14:07 Of the United States Air Force
00:14:08 At RAF Fairford
00:14:10 Probably not, eh?
00:14:14 I mean, he might have been the mastermind behind it, eh?
00:14:17 Just calling the shots.
00:14:21 I mean, maybe.
00:14:27 Is this what Tehran Centre are sending?
00:14:30 Their best. Their best and brightest.
00:14:34 All right.
00:14:35 Well
00:14:38 The DOJ has decided that there are at least
00:14:41 Some of those guys that are involved in that
00:14:42 There was something nefarious going on there
00:14:44 Alright
00:14:48 We'll see what comes of that, if anything at all
00:14:50 Let's have a look
00:14:53 The Daily Fail, obviously they're going with
00:14:55 They're going with Walliams
00:14:57 There you go, look
00:14:58 This one was 15
00:15:00 This was the 15 year old one
00:15:02 That is a crime, David
00:15:04 yeah
00:15:06 okay
00:15:10 okay
00:15:12 I'm a celebrity jungle
00:15:13 don't care about that do we
00:15:14 do not care about that
00:15:16 the metro
00:15:16 oh
00:15:17 metro
00:15:19 Williams is unmasked
00:15:21 yeah we get it
00:15:22 yeah everyone knew
00:15:22 everyone knew for a long time
00:15:24 some sort of big revelation
00:15:28 the eye paper
00:15:29 I won't bother reading the blurb
00:15:30 I've said it all really
00:15:31 already
00:15:32 Walliams accused of preying on girls as young as 15
00:15:35 Alright
00:15:36 The Independent, Walliams
00:15:38 Walliams again
00:15:39 He prayed on girls as young as 15 0.90
00:15:41 Okay, The Express, it's a good paper
00:15:43 You can read The Express now
00:15:43 David Walliams accused of preying on girls as young as 15
00:15:46 It's almost like they're a single cabal, isn't it, Fleet Street
00:15:52 The Daily Star
00:15:54 Telly's David prayed on teen girls
00:15:56 That's his name now, Telly's David
00:15:58 Some foreigners might not even know Telly 0.97
00:16:02 TV, telly in Britain, some people, I've said telly before to foreign people, and they're like, what do you mean?
00:16:07 You have to say, oh, that's just a British euphemism for the television, the telly, and they're like, oh, right, okay.
00:16:14 Telly's David.
00:16:18 That's his name.
00:16:23 Telly's David.
00:16:24 Right, okay.
00:16:26 The times, the venerable times couldn't help themselves.
00:16:28 They go with Walliams.
00:16:32 HMRC, His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, to snoop taxes, the tax man, to snoop on £2 million homes, inspectors instructed to photograph properties and compile notes in preparation for new levies launch in 2028.
00:16:46 Yeah, because the left want to eat the rich, don't they? They despise the rich. It's the politics of resentment, isn't it? Leftism? It's not even a question. It is. It is.
00:16:55 First thing they want to do is destroy rich people 0.97
00:17:01 For its own sake
00:17:03 It doesn't really ever help the poor
00:17:05 Really
00:17:07 Quite often very very rich and wealthy people are employers
00:17:10 And create jobs and opportunities for people that might not have any job or opportunity
00:17:15 Leftists don't care about that 0.97
00:17:19 Fabians, socialists don't care about that
00:17:21 They just want to destroy the rich for its own sake
00:17:23 Because they're resentful
00:17:25 they've got a chip on their shoulder then it's the middle classes the bourgeois and they go after
00:17:31 them harder if anything they despise the bourgeois the bourgeoisie the middle classes more than
00:17:39 anything well not only have you got a bit of money you were working hard and aspiring to come
00:17:45 to become fully wealthy we can't have that in our socialist society we'll have to steal all of that 0.97
00:17:54 from you then what then anyone with anything i go down to the kulaks the working class people the 0.98
00:18:03 poor people that have got anything at all then they come for them and then when they're finally 0.92
00:18:10 finished stealing everyone else's money then it collapses and you get anarchy and starvation
00:18:17 every single time without fail you want to give me an example of where a social fully socialist
00:18:22 country that didn't happen. Oh, wait. I'll wait for you to give me an example of one
00:18:29 of those. Oh, there isn't one. Right. And this is how it starts, this sort of thing.
00:18:35 The state will snoop on rich people's homes to make sure that they're wringing every last
00:18:41 penny of tax out of them. Gross. There you go. Well done, Labour voters. Well done.
00:18:49 Thanks for that.
00:18:51 Right, the Financial Times is actually not going with Walliams.
00:18:54 Wow.
00:18:55 When one of the cabal break the trend is often the Financial Times, isn't it?
00:19:03 Okay, there's that COP31 conference, you know, the UN Climate Change Conference. 0.96
00:19:10 But you've always got to worry about indigenous peoples, always. 1.00
00:19:14 China and India don't have to. 1.00
00:19:16 like you know the anglosphere australia britain the united states we do 1.00
00:19:22 we can't have power and an efficient functioning energy sector because indigenous peoples 0.82
00:19:31 right but china and india can okay got it anthropic set sites on 1.4 trillion 1.00
00:19:38 value in giant wall street debut ipo shares target short of earlier forecasts claude maker
00:19:48 hopes to raise 64 billion dollars 64 billion dollars um yeah so it's the valuation is likely
00:19:57 to be a bit less than what they thought still 1.4 trillion not to be sniffed out is it 0.95
00:20:01 i don't use ai you could live in a world where you don't just randomly generate stupid pictures 0.80
00:20:10 of like cats or whatever it'd be fine to live in that world wouldn't it how about you read a book
00:20:15 for yourself instead of just asking ai or whatever or just ask google you don't have to ask ai ai
00:20:21 all right they're the front pages i whip through them because it's mainly walliams and i just i'm
00:20:28 finding it difficult to care about the Walliams saga, really am, it won't be the last we've
00:20:34 heard of it as well, and there's more on there, like, what have we got, Tim Westwood, any 0.96
00:20:39 foreigners or Zoomers probably may not have even heard of Tim Westwood, but he's another 0.99
00:20:43 guy who's been around for years and years and years, he's a DJ, DJ, he's like one of 1.00
00:20:51 the original wiggers, isn't he, a white man who loves hip-hop and wears baseball caps 0.66
00:20:56 and dresses like he lives in south-central L.A. in the late 80s.
00:21:02 Tim Westwood.
00:21:03 Apparently he's a complete wronger than what the allegations are.
00:21:10 So at some point it'll be a Tim Westwood day, I would have thought.
00:21:14 Wall-to-wall Westwood.
00:21:18 All right, let's move on.
00:21:19 Shall we have a look at the price of crude?
00:21:21 It's coming down again, coming down even further.
00:21:24 Look, Brent crude.
00:21:25 Let's do a quick refresh so we've got the exact price.
00:21:30 Look, Brent crude trading just over $92 a barrel.
00:21:34 West Texas, $86 a barrel.
00:21:37 Not massively higher than when the war started in Persia in February.
00:21:43 All right, shame it doesn't translate to the petrol pump.
00:21:47 All right, let's have a look at some other stories.
00:21:48 um u.s army soldier suspected of spying for russia arrested in uk russia russia russia
00:21:58 meanwhile at the same time there's a story about uh one of the chinese spires who was the the case
00:22:05 was the case collapsed and he's come out saying you know it really i really wasn't
00:22:12 and here's loads of details showing that i wasn't this guy do you remember a few while ago
00:22:18 I think Harpoor scorned on them as just being spies
00:22:21 But perhaps he wasn't
00:22:24 What was his name? Cash
00:22:24 His surname was Cash
00:22:26 Yeah, Chris Cash
00:22:27 Who was a parliamentary researcher
00:22:29 And he was accused of just sending
00:22:31 And for a quite sensitive committee as well, wasn't he?
00:22:36 It was him and another guy called Chris Barry
00:22:38 Chris and Chris
00:22:38 Chris Cash and Chris Barry
00:22:40 Barry, sorry, Barry
00:22:41 They were accused of spying for China
00:22:44 But then their case collapsed
00:22:45 And now he's come out and saying
00:22:47 I was a patsy 0.96
00:22:49 I was a fool guy for failures in the intelligence services 0.94
00:22:53 Oh yeah, he says he was, quote 0.99
00:22:55 A convenient fool guy for the police and security services 0.80
00:22:58 Who wanted to put espionage threats by foreign states, quote, on the map 0.95
00:23:02 He's saying it really was a stitch-up job
00:23:07 We hadn't really done anything wrong
00:23:09 Oh, he admits he was unprofessionally naive
00:23:12 Okay
00:23:13 Okay
00:23:15 I would have liked that trial to go ahead one way or another
00:23:22 Even if they were acquitted
00:23:24 To see the details of it
00:23:26 Because now it's just his story isn't it
00:23:28 Now it's mainly just his story
00:23:31 Alright but the point is that
00:23:35 There are cases of alleged espionage when it's not true
00:23:41 This US army soldier accused of being a spy for Russia in the UK
00:23:45 All right.
00:23:46 Here's a slightly different story,
00:23:48 slightly different change of gear.
00:23:52 Prince George,
00:23:54 the son of Wills and Kate,
00:23:56 Radiant Kate,
00:23:58 who will be king one day,
00:24:00 probably.
00:24:02 He did a work of art at school.
00:24:05 There you go.
00:24:05 Look at that.
00:24:07 I think that's really good.
00:24:08 I thought it was just worth spending a few seconds on.
00:24:11 I can't draw for toffee.
00:24:13 I'm jealous of people that are really good at drawing
00:24:16 I wish I could
00:24:17 I've said that before and people have tweeted at me
00:24:19 Or put in comments like
00:24:20 But it's just a question of practice
00:24:21 If you just practice loads you will get good
00:24:24 Almost certainly
00:24:24 I've tried that a bit
00:24:26 For a 13 year old I think that's really good
00:24:29 Alright, that's all
00:24:31 Here's a story
00:24:33 A national story in the mainstream media
00:24:36 I'd bring that picture to you
00:24:37 That's quite good
00:24:38 US House blocks bid to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegsic
00:24:43 for now yeah you go so it went before was it Thomas Massey brought it forward a
00:24:50 Republican Thomas Massey might even run for president Thomas Massey he brought
00:24:56 it forward and then it was defeated in in Congress so it won't go any further
00:25:00 for now say defeated it was kicked down to committee level so it just won't
00:25:04 happen. Okay. Pete Hegseth has avoided some sort of long process of destroying his career.
00:25:15 In fact, should we listen to the man himself? Harry, can you make sure the volume's up and
00:25:20 that I can hear it as well? Whatever you need to click, if you can do that. And let's hear
00:25:25 54 seconds of Pete talking about it. What one disgruntled and defeated congressman
00:25:31 Can they hear it? I can't hear that.
00:25:33 Is not oversight.
00:25:35 And it's not accountability.
00:25:36 It's a political spectacle.
00:25:38 A personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment.
00:25:42 Time for one man's final days in Congress to try to do damage to this president, this country, and most irresponsibly, the warriors who defend it.
00:25:54 It's a farce.
00:25:55 And it's a stunt.
00:25:57 And everybody knows it.
00:25:59 Let's be clear about what this resolution actually does.
00:26:03 It tells our enemies, Iran, the cartels, every adversary watching that the United States 0.72
00:26:08 will actually punish its own warriors and its own civilian leadership for successfully 0.77
00:26:14 executing lawful military operations.
00:26:17 This is not patriotism.
00:26:20 This is sabotage.
00:26:24 Listen up, y'all.
00:26:25 It's sabotage.
00:26:27 Called in to Pete Hexeth.
00:26:28 All right.
00:26:29 there you go trump said he's going to stand by him stand by your mail
00:26:35 so pete isn't going anywhere over at the pentagon anytime soon it seems
00:26:41 the the ice maiden is gone though isn't she susie wiles she was being represented i mentioned that
00:26:46 on monday was it yeah trump's um chief of staff susie wiles has been removed kicked downstairs
00:26:54 somewhere, Stephen Miller
00:26:56 is in
00:26:57 okay, so
00:27:00 Hegseth
00:27:01 avoided a bullet there
00:27:04 so to speak, politically
00:27:05 alright
00:27:06 what else have we got, oh it's just Walliams
00:27:10 Waterworld Walliams isn't it
00:27:12 Waterworld Walliams
00:27:14 do we care, there's something about Thomas Markle
00:27:16 let's have a, yeah here we go look
00:27:18 Meghan Markle's dad
00:27:20 in an orange jumpsuit
00:27:23 An orange US prison outfit
00:27:27 Thomas Michael Sr. is thrown in federal prison
00:27:31 After cutting off his ankle monitor
00:27:34 While on bail following his child sex arrest
00:27:37 I thought they'd booked him into a dementia hospital as well
00:27:41 I mean he is old, he's 82
00:27:43 Seems like he had multiple lock-ups around the world 0.58
00:27:48 Filled with some child abuse, child sex images in them
00:27:53 He does seem to have done things wrong, doesn't he?
00:27:58 It does seem to be the case
00:27:59 If all of that is proven to be really the case in open court
00:28:04 So he tried to say that he's got dementia
00:28:11 He needs to be in a dementia home
00:28:12 But then they were like, well no, still they were going to put a monitor on your ankle
00:28:17 So what you say
00:28:19 You can't flee the country I suppose
00:28:21 You can't flee to Mexico or something
00:28:23 Or Brazil or wherever
00:28:24 The Philippines, Thailand, whatever 0.87
00:28:26 And he
00:28:28 He cut that off
00:28:30 You can't do that
00:28:34 Well I mean you can
00:28:35 There's nothing in the laws of physics
00:28:36 It's only like a fabric strap isn't it
00:28:39 It's not made out of like
00:28:40 Titanium or something but
00:28:42 He just cut the ankle monitor 0.98
00:28:47 it off scumbag move that's off sets off all the alarms doesn't they just immediately know 0.95
00:28:54 immediately know you've done that that's how that works isn't it but there'll be someone sitting 0.96
00:28:59 there real life human beings sitting there in some sort of data center or data center is not
00:29:03 the right word some sort of uh office somewhere it just immediately pops up on their screen
00:29:08 this ankle monitor has just been cut off and they ring you up immediately say what's going on what
00:29:13 you're doing and or send the police round to your last known location like immediately so
00:29:19 unless you've got your escape and evasion plan ready to rock and roll for the moment you cut
00:29:26 off the thing which he doesn't seem to have done wasn't that wasn't that sophisticated a plan
00:29:31 don't feel like thomas michael senior is a particularly sophisticated criminal
00:29:38 or sex criminal 0.98
00:29:39 child sex criminal 0.99
00:29:41 allegedly 0.98
00:29:42 he's not sitting on the border
00:29:45 of Mexico
00:29:46 with his escape and evasion plan
00:29:49 ready to rock and roll
00:29:50 ready to
00:29:52 will spin his vehicle
00:29:54 across the border
00:29:55 the second he cuts the tag off
00:29:57 and get away
00:29:58 no
00:29:58 no he just cut the ankle monster off
00:30:01 and they immediately
00:30:01 found out
00:30:02 Meghan Markle's dad
00:30:05 alright
00:30:07 okay
00:30:10 was it oh yeah there's another story i thought was interesting i love this i love this one
00:30:18 trump's ongoing lawsuit against the bbc
00:30:23 love it here we go it's going to happen as well you know with this all this sort of thing it's a
00:30:31 defamation case first and foremost let's say that it's a defamation case
00:30:34 Where Panorama, a BBC programme
00:30:39 Just re-edited his October the 7th
00:30:46 Is it October the 7th?
00:30:48 No, January 6th, sorry
00:30:48 Sorry, two different things
00:30:50 January the 6th
00:30:51 His January the 6th speech
00:30:54 They just re-edited it
00:30:56 So that it looked like
00:30:58 It appeared as though he was calling on
00:31:01 The crowd, the mob
00:31:04 to storm Capitol Hill and the Capitol building,
00:31:10 which he didn't do if you just watch the unedited, unabridged speech.
00:31:16 He wasn't doing that.
00:31:16 In fact, he explicitly said, don't do that, didn't he?
00:31:19 I think a couple of times.
00:31:19 Anyway, Panorama put together an edit where it just showed that.
00:31:25 And Trump, like during the Biden years when Trump was out of power,
00:31:29 when Trump gets into power, he takes the BBC to court for defamation,
00:31:32 For lying about him, essentially
00:31:35 And it's in a court in Florida
00:31:39 Which is a red state, isn't it?
00:31:43 Florida
00:31:43 In fact, the judge presiding over it
00:31:46 Was appointed during the Trump years
00:31:48 In this article, it says Trump appointed him
00:31:51 Trump didn't personally appoint anyone
00:31:53 Well, not judges, anyway
00:31:56 Not district court judges
00:31:57 It happened under his watch
00:31:59 But, alright, so
00:32:00 There's lots of wranglings over whether it will ever actually be a trial
00:32:05 Whether it will ever actually come to trial
00:32:07 Of course the BBC have done everything they can, legally
00:32:10 To prevent it ever going to full trial
00:32:14 Asking for the judge, at every possible point, to dismiss the case
00:32:18 That Trump's claims are not true
00:32:23 But now, finally, it seems like the last hurdle has been cleared
00:32:28 That it will fully go to trial
00:32:29 Trump's asking for 7.5 billion pounds in damages.
00:32:35 If the BBC have to pay even a fraction of that,
00:32:38 it might, well, ruin them.
00:32:40 The BBC isn't swimming in money,
00:32:41 despite the amount of money that they extort
00:32:46 out of the average British person.
00:32:48 Yeah, extortion. 0.98
00:32:49 I consider that a type of gangsterism and extortion.
00:32:51 An extortion racket.
00:32:53 The BBC licence fee.
00:32:56 Yeah.
00:32:56 Despite the millions they get from that
00:33:01 Or even in the low billions
00:33:03 They haven't got much money because their overheads are large 1.00
00:33:07 It's a stupidly inefficient, oversized, bloated 1.00
00:33:12 Bearmouth of a thing 1.00
00:33:15 The BBC, ugh
00:33:17 They haven't got much money to be spending on production of things, have they?
00:33:21 I mean, you look at Doctor Who or something
00:33:24 Or CBBC child programming
00:33:28 It's very, very, very low budget
00:33:30 They haven't got billions to just 1.00
00:33:33 It's not like they're Meta
00:33:36 It's not like they're Zuckerberg
00:33:37 It's not like they're Facebook
00:33:39 They haven't got that money
00:33:40 It may well ruin them
00:33:42 It might end up, if they lose
00:33:44 And a Florida judge orders them to pay something like
00:33:48 Seven billion dollars to Trump
00:33:49 And they do try to pay
00:33:51 Maybe, annoyingly, maybe, just maybe
00:33:54 The British state, the Exchequer
00:33:56 Will bail them out, I don't know
00:33:57 Because it's such an important thing for them, isn't it
00:34:00 The establishment, the deep state
00:34:02 Whatever you want to call it, the blob
00:34:04 In Britain
00:34:05 The BBC is their front-facing
00:34:08 Propaganda organ, isn't it
00:34:10 It's integral to their
00:34:14 Plan, the BBC, isn't it
00:34:16 To beam it into
00:34:18 Everyone's homes
00:34:19 To tell you their narrative, their angle 0.99
00:34:22 Their liars, liars 1.00
00:34:23 is it too big to fail 0.99
00:34:26 would the British government
00:34:29 just bail them out and pay
00:34:31 pay that
00:34:33 so that the BBC can still exist
00:34:35 I hope not
00:34:36 I really hope not
00:34:37 I hope
00:34:38 I hope Trump wins this
00:34:39 and it financially ruins the BBC
00:34:41 and the BBC
00:34:42 stops being a thing
00:34:45 it has to just completely fold
00:34:48 has to sell all its assets
00:34:50 all its buildings
00:34:51 you know fire or not fire just um sat and just get rid of all its employees and it's just no
00:34:59 longer a thing i would love it i would love that if that happened the bbc was completely destroyed
00:35:03 by trump that would be hilarious we don't need the bbc anymore it's out of date it's always been
00:35:10 subversive always since the 1920s it's been left-leaning
00:35:15 I think it's a good way to describe it
00:35:21 The front-facing arm
00:35:23 Of the deep state in Britain
00:35:26 Filth
00:35:29 In Bowes Britain 0.99
00:35:30 It would certainly be stripped of its Royal Charter
00:35:33 At least that
00:35:34 Completely defunded
00:35:36 Maybe
00:35:37 Let it try and survive as just a normal business entity
00:35:41 And it almost certainly would
00:35:43 Irridentally shrink down to a tiny kernel
00:35:45 Or something it once was
00:35:46 Just maybe the world service on the radio
00:35:49 And that's it
00:35:49 Allow that to exist, maybe, in both Britain
00:35:53 Maybe, maybe not even that
00:35:54 Maybe strip it of its royal charter
00:35:57 And then pass more legislation
00:35:59 Saying you're done, we're ending it
00:36:01 Done
00:36:02 I've had enough of your subversion of filth 0.99
00:36:04 Globalism, anti-white, anti-British 0.99
00:36:07 Anti-male, anti-family 0.98
00:36:09 Pro-trans
00:36:11 Nonsense
00:36:12 Okay, Trump blasts BBC as fake news
00:36:17 Fake news
00:36:18 Fake news
00:36:20 After judge rules on £7.5 billion defamation lawsuit
00:36:23 The BBC has hit back saying it has been left surprised
00:36:26 By the judge's decision about the £7.5 billion lawsuit
00:36:31 Leveled at the national broadcast by the president
00:36:35 Let's read a little bit of it
00:36:37 What the judge actually said on stuff
00:36:39 Donald Trump has issued a statement after a judge ruled his lawsuit against the BBC can go ahead
00:36:46 partially blocking the national broadcaster's motion to dismiss the case
00:36:49 Federal Judge Jeffrey T. Kuntz, that's his name
00:36:53 Judge Kuntz, who was appointed by Trump, not personally
00:37:00 made the decision on Tuesday that the President's £7.5 billion defamation lawsuit can continue
00:37:06 Trump is seeking substantial damages over the editing of a 2020...
00:37:09 OK, you have to tell me about the paranormal and the details of it.
00:37:12 Let's see what was the actual...
00:37:13 So Trump said, Trump said on Truth Social,
00:37:15 a huge victory against fake news BBC, a terrible abuser of the truth.
00:37:20 That's not wrong, is it? Where's the line there?
00:37:22 Just handed down by a highly respected district court judge,
00:37:26 Geoffrey T. Kuntz of the Southern District of Florida.
00:37:29 In his powerful ruling, Judge Kuntz wrote,
00:37:32 here the news entity created the story.
00:37:36 panorama the bbc created the story yeah another way of saying that is lying they lied
00:37:44 and the bbc wants them want to pretend that they're the arbiters of truth
00:37:52 they're the masters of everything that is or isn't misinformation or disinformation liars
00:37:59 here the news entity created the story yeah bbc admitted as much by confirming
00:38:05 it had edited a video oh this is still trump talking edited a video to make it appear as
00:38:11 though president trump made a statement he never made he will continue fighting against and
00:38:17 defeating all those who tried to deceive the american people exclamation mark thank you for
00:38:21 attention for your attention to this matter president donald j trump okay let's see what
00:38:25 the judge actually said uh oh the bbc responded by saying we are surprised by this decision but
00:38:33 respect the court's authority and note the case will now proceed to the next stage we remain
00:38:38 confident in our position and will continue to respond through the proper legal process
00:38:42 all very present and correct there from the bbc now what the judge said the judge said
00:38:46 he wrote in his ruling accepting the allegations in uh in the complaint as true the court finds
00:38:52 trump plausibly pled damages where trump alleges a defamation documentary released towards the
00:38:58 election caused reputational harm. It would be difficult for the court to accept a different
00:39:03 framing without completely negating the significance and fragility of political elections.
00:39:10 He also said, editing is often required, however, given the time disparity between the two statements,
00:39:17 two different bits of the speech that they put together, as though he just said one after the
00:39:19 other, that's the heart of the case, is that. Given the disparity between the two statements,
00:39:25 The distance itself tends towards a plausible inference that BBC knew, or should have known,
00:39:31 that the segment they were creating would not and could not have been a truthful statement.
00:39:36 Yeah, lying, lying.
00:39:39 Call it what it is. Call it a spade a spade. Lying.
00:39:42 This was not trimming it around the edges, but creating something different than what was stated in the speech.
00:39:48 Yeah.
00:39:48 yeah the the court determined that trump had uh sufficiently pleaded that the bbc acted with
00:40:01 actual malice the legal standard for a public figure to win a defamation case he will have to
00:40:06 actually prove they did so in court so at this stage i'll move on now but in a moment just say
00:40:11 at this stage it's now there will be a full trial and trump i think from these words from judge
00:40:18 kunst probably win i feel like let's put 20 quid on it right now i would have thought trump will win
00:40:27 will they will the court award trump like the full 7.5 billion dollars pounds sorry pounds not
00:40:38 dollars pounds who knows who knows we'll see i'll be watching this story with bated breath
00:40:44 all right there you go so now 22 should we move on to oh no we do our poll sorry let's do our poll
00:40:51 Harry you need to bring that for me if you don't mind let's have a look what have we got here okay
00:40:56 over 1100 votes today we asked you guys do you care about David Walliams's alleged sex crimes
00:41:05 we ask you do you care about it okay the no's have it 54% of you say no 30% of you say yes
00:41:15 that's not insignificant 30% say yes okay and 16% of you say who who's David Wadams never heard of
00:41:24 David Wadams okay so I mean the no's have it if that was a national referendum and you won it 54
00:41:32 to 30 you would claim a mandate full-time however it isn't a national referendum is it i'm asking
00:41:38 it's me uncle bosey asking you guys the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers
00:41:44 me your local neighborhood history bro
00:41:48 asking his companions whether they care about it 30 of saying yes well that's not to be sniffed
00:41:55 at that's not to be ignored i don't think so okay if and when when walliams is all over the front
00:42:01 pages again I won't completely skate over it as though it's nothing I guess I'll at least spend
00:42:06 a few minutes on it all right all right there you go there you go let's do on this day in history
00:42:13 I quite like doing that bit you guys seem to like me doing that bit just start winding down the show
00:42:17 on this day in history what happened well it's Armistice Day isn't it if anyone watched the
00:42:21 podcast yesterday the main podcast of the Lotus Eaters live at 1 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time every
00:42:27 day I was on it yesterday and I did a segment all about Armistice Day the actual history of the end
00:42:32 of World War One and that will go up on YouTube today because it is Armistice Day today and over
00:42:39 the years at Lotus Eaters every year I think one year I failed to but every year I do some sort of
00:42:44 content marking Armistice Day or Remembrance and or Remembrance Sunday read a few poems
00:42:52 World War I poems like Sassoon
00:42:54 by Siegfried Sassoon or something like that
00:42:56 So this year
00:42:58 it was a segment yesterday about it
00:43:00 and I got today
00:43:01 So actually
00:43:02 on my blazer I was wearing yesterday
00:43:05 I had my poppy on there
00:43:06 and this morning I left that blazer at home
00:43:08 I haven't got a second poppy
00:43:10 on my desk or anything
00:43:11 so apologies I'm not wearing a poppy
00:43:14 Alright, here's what it is
00:43:17 I didn't have time to go home and get it
00:43:19 all right on this day the 11th of november down through the centuries what happened if
00:43:25 no let's have a look okay the main flower on this day in 1620 should be during the reign of
00:43:32 james the first who is the next monarch up on uh my bodades epochs my history theme show behind
00:43:39 the paywall notacetis.com i've just finished queen elizabeth the first good queen best and
00:43:44 The next one will be James I, James of Scotland.
00:43:46 During his reign, the Mayflower, the ship,
00:43:50 the Mayflower is a ship there,
00:43:52 crossed the Atlantic to set up the new colony of Plymouth
00:43:59 in modern-day, what is modern-day Massachusetts.
00:44:03 The Pilgrims, Pilgrim Fathers.
00:44:07 And oddly, I think, kind of oddly,
00:44:11 it wasn't until there was actually on the ship
00:44:14 until they were actually crossing the atlantic before they decided to talk about in detail and
00:44:20 hammer out the details of what of what the politics will be in their new colony
00:44:28 there were some rules like the virginia company had some rules but on board the ship as they're
00:44:33 doing the atlantic crossing they're like wait there's about 100 people on the mayflower what
00:44:38 like 102 103 about 100 people odd um and it's then they're deciding wait how are we gonna
00:44:45 govern ourselves when we get there we thought they might have discussed it beforehand well
00:44:50 they would have done they did but they some people changed their mind once they were on 0.88
00:44:55 bullshit don't like the the the details that how we're going to govern let's do something else 0.57
00:45:01 anyway they came up with the so-called compact the mayflower compact compact a bit of paper one 0.97
00:45:07 side of paper one page it's only like 200 odd words quite short really and what it says they're
00:45:14 not declaring independence from the crown from england not that that's much later down the road
00:45:18 isn't it but it says we're going to be a self-governing colony we will we will elect our own
00:45:24 leaders and everything will be done by consent i mean that's all fair and good when there's only
00:45:31 a hundred people why not some sort of commune self-governing commune by consent yeah great good
00:45:39 when you've got a small number of people that works it's very difficult to translate that into
00:45:43 a large country of millions of people but anyway okay the mayflower compact signed by pilgrims at
00:45:48 cape cod modern-day massachusetts establishing the first framework of government in the territory that
00:45:54 is now the USA. Okay. And the founding fathers that wrote the Declaration of Independence
00:46:01 and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, people like Jefferson, John Adams, you know,
00:46:11 Franklin, they looked back at the Mayflower Compact and were inspired by it, thought it
00:46:17 was very good, thought it was a framework for a much bigger political settlement.
00:46:24 Okay, there you go. Important.
00:46:29 All right, on this day in 1675, German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
00:46:35 demonstrates integral calculus for the first time
00:46:39 to find the area under the graph of the function y equals f brackets x.
00:46:45 That doesn't really mean anything to me.
00:46:48 Sorry.
00:46:49 I've never done calculus.
00:46:51 Calculus. Never done it.
00:46:53 I got a C in GCSE Maths, and I left Maths there, and GCSE Maths in the 1990s didn't include any calculus at all, none, I don't know calculus, so I'm afraid I can't really make any comment on that, that really doesn't mean anything to me,
00:47:16 it's just a it's just a a concept of a finding area under the graph of the function y equals
00:47:26 f brackets x brackets that doesn't i don't know that's greek to me sorry sorry
00:47:33 all right never really needed maths in my adult life beyond simple
00:47:42 adding and dividing, like bills. It's the only maths you really need, isn't it? Unless,
00:47:53 of course, your job requires it. Well, that's something different.
00:47:56 In fact, I have done jobs that have required a little bit of maths, but
00:48:00 nothing like calculus. Not even close. Not even close.
00:48:03 not even tan cos and cyan stuff not even that never had to calculate angles or anything
00:48:15 all right we'll move on from that on this day in 1745 bonnie prince charlie oh this is much
00:48:21 more back in my wheelhouse now bonnie prince charlie uh the young pretender the grandson
00:48:29 son of james ii his jacobite army invades england in in an attempt to restore the house of stewart
00:48:36 to the to the british throne cheeky i'll be talking all about that it'll be next year now
00:48:42 when i do all the students after i've done the civil war
00:48:46 real briefly to say then super briefly super low resolution overview then just to let you know
00:48:53 James II was King of England
00:48:56 James Stuart, James II
00:48:57 The younger brother of Charles II
00:48:59 Youngest son
00:49:01 See the younger son, anyway
00:49:02 Son of Charles I
00:49:03 After the restoration
00:49:05 Charles II comes back
00:49:07 He dies
00:49:07 His brother James II becomes King
00:49:09 Then he's deposed and dethroned
00:49:12 The Glorious Revolution, 1688
00:49:13 We bring over William of Orange 0.82
00:49:16 William and Mary rule
00:49:17 The House of Stuart is out
00:49:18 They're done
00:49:19 The whole House of Stuart is deposed
00:49:20 James II goes on
00:49:23 lives in France in exile, always dreaming of coming back. Never did. His son, the old
00:49:30 pretender, also dreamt of always coming back, reinvading England, sort of Bolingbroke style.
00:49:39 William I style, Henry VII style, he dreamt of that, Stephen of Blois style. At some point,
00:49:47 when the moment's right, coming across the channel and taking back what he thought was
00:49:52 rightly his, the throne, the old pretender. He never did it. He tried in 1715, was it?
00:49:58 It failed ignominiously. So then his son, another Charles, Charles Stuart, now the grandson
00:50:07 of the old James II, the young pretender, he gets an army together, very, very, very
00:50:17 small army, lands in Scotland on, like, the west coast of Scotland, goes down through
00:50:21 scotland through the highlands gathering men along the way they call him bonnie prince charlie
00:50:27 a jacobite rebellion jacobite doesn't it come from the name of james isn't it derived from that
00:50:34 anyway he gets to edinburgh there's a battle kind of small battle at edinburgh he wins
00:50:41 bonnie prince charlie wins he's then gathering momentum all the while keeps going he invades
00:50:46 England. Cheeky. He invades England. He got all the way to Derby. And if you don't know
00:50:55 your English geography, that's right in the middle of England. Pretty much slap bang right 1.00
00:51:00 in the middle. A long way from the Scottish border, he got all the way past Manchester
00:51:05 and Liverpool. He'd hoped that he would gain more and more and more army as he went along
00:51:10 the way in England, but England's like, what? A Catholic steward from France with a Scottish 0.83
00:51:18 army? No, we're Englishmen. We're people from Manchester or whatever. No, we're not
00:51:22 going to join you. No. So he got as far as Derby, which is not that far from London in
00:51:29 the scheme of things, really. And a big army was raised from London and the South was moving
00:51:36 north to meet him and he probably would have lost we almost certainly would have lost so they turn
00:51:41 around and run back with their tails between their legs back to scotland and the jacobite rebellion
00:51:45 fails ultimately and brian prince charlie has to go back to the continent in in ignominious failure
00:51:53 still he got as far as darby
00:51:58 there's lots lots lots more to that story i should be doing it at some point on
00:52:02 Bodade's Epochs, my history theme show behind the paywall on latesties.com.
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00:52:09 Okay, what have we got here?
00:52:10 Okay, on this day, the 11th of the 11th, in the year 1918,
00:52:17 World War I armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect
00:52:21 with hostilities ending at 11am, 11am sharp.
00:52:25 The 11th hour, the 11th day of the 11th month.
00:52:28 i've got a long form bit of content from the second year i was at lotus eaters
00:52:34 like episode 78 or something of epochs where i talk all about 1918 in detail and then i talked
00:52:42 about it in some detail yesterday on the podcast which will go on youtube today as i said so i
00:52:46 won't go on and on about it here again but just to say there's this famous famous carriage train
00:52:51 carriage there that's where it was done Ferdinand Foch's personal train carriage in the forest of
00:52:59 Compiègne just north of Paris where the Germans finally realized they were defeated in the field
00:53:05 and unless they want to lose every last man and or allow the allies to march into Germany proper
00:53:11 they best sign an armistice
00:53:13 2,700, 3,000 odd men died in that last day
00:53:21 Those 11 hours of the last day
00:53:23 Every minute that war went on
00:53:25 Just ticking over, dozens of men
00:53:27 Every minute, being killed
00:53:29 Sort of a famous, semi-famous last charge
00:53:35 The 7th Dragoons
00:53:37 Mounting a charge at half ten in the morning
00:53:40 Completely pointless, completely pointless
00:53:42 anyway there's so many details to it
00:53:46 incidentally that train carriage
00:53:49 where Germany were humiliated
00:53:51 from a German point of view
00:53:52 the scene of where the French
00:53:55 completely humiliated the Germans
00:53:57 a few years later
00:53:59 20 odd plus years later in 1940 0.88
00:54:01 when Mr Hitler 0.69
00:54:03 invaded 0.96
00:54:05 successfully invaded France
00:54:06 took Paris
00:54:08 with his new blitzkrieg tactics
00:54:11 Heinz Guderian's armoured panzer divisions
00:54:16 defeated the French 0.69
00:54:18 Hitler dug out that carriage
00:54:22 Fosche's actual carriage
00:54:23 and forced the French to sign their capitulation in that carriage 0.96
00:54:27 Hitler would sit in Fosche's seat 0.90
00:54:29 and the French delegate can sit in the old
00:54:32 World War I era German seat
00:54:33 complete reversal of fortunes 0.84
00:54:35 Interesting, alright, alright, we'll move on
00:54:40 there's so much that we said about arms this day we'll move on it's not strictly a history show
00:54:44 let's see what happened on this day 1975 Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is it Edward Gough
00:54:51 Whitlam is removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr the first elected Prime Minister
00:54:56 removed in Australian history I should have asked um should have asked uh Marcus I know
00:55:02 agriculturalist about that when he was here uh yeah it's just interesting where he's a Labour
00:55:06 Prime Minister, Whitlam was a Labour Prime Minister, when he got in, of course, because
00:55:10 this is what Labour always do, just massively changed Australia, just bringing in loads
00:55:17 and loads of more welfare and progressive policies and all sorts of things, to the point
00:55:24 where he was acting above and beyond the remit of the government. Anyway, he didn't think
00:55:31 the governor general would just dismiss his government and insist on a new general election
00:55:37 because by that point apparently Whitlam was ruling with like a tiny minority like a majority
00:55:44 a tiny majority a majority of one or something deeply deeply unpopular and you know protests
00:55:50 and stuff anyway he went a step too far I think it's something to do with the upper house can't
00:55:54 remember exactly and the governor general just said right you're not prime minister anymore and
00:56:00 new general elections now a constitutional crisis bit of a constitutional crisis for australia
00:56:06 anyway there was and the opposition guy got in because labor australian labor in the 70s
00:56:14 had gone way too far insanely too far 0.67
00:56:20 that's what they always do is what leftists what reds always do you give them an inch and they 0.94
00:56:24 take a mile because they're shameless absolutely shameless nearly always okay on this day in 1992 0.86
00:56:35 the church of england approves the ordination of female priests well done brilliant well done
00:56:41 on this day in 2004 yasser arafat's death from unidentified causes is confirmed by the palestinian
00:56:48 liberation organization the PLO and Mahmoud Abbas is elected PLO chairman shortly after
00:56:55 yeah I remember that a bit odd so if you're young you might not know Yasser Arafat I remember
00:57:02 mentioning in the office like like little Harry do you know Yasser Arafat have you ever even heard
00:57:07 that name before no feel old yet yeah so no shade at you Harry it's not your fault you're young
00:57:16 So Yasser Arafat was a very, very important historical figure
00:57:21 Through the 60s, certainly into the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s
00:57:25 As a leader of the Palestinians
00:57:27 Or one of the biggest factions of the Palestinians
00:57:30 And then in 2004, I remember this clearly
00:57:32 Because I'm already like, what, I'm like 25 or whatever by that point
00:57:35 A bit younger, 24
00:57:37 So I'm fully adult
00:57:39 Experiencing the world as an adult by that point 1.00
00:57:42 And the Israelis had...
00:57:46 forced him into his compound and there's like literally like um the israeli army and tanks like
00:57:53 right outside of it right outside of it like if he tried to come out he knows what would have
00:57:58 happened i forced him into sort of a house arrest in his own compound um i mean he was old to be
00:58:05 fair he was very old yes very fat by that point and it's just like complete political turmoil
00:58:11 in gaza i think it's in the west bank not gaza i think that's right yeah it would have been in
00:58:16 the west bank somewhere anyway it's just really it would have been very was very very very convenient
00:58:27 for israel should yes arafat himself his person be taken out of the equation he was he was like
00:58:35 the problem now stopping the plo from moving forward and politics from moving forward it
00:58:41 because Yasser Arafat was sort of the bottleneck.
00:58:43 It would have been, or was, very, very convenient
00:58:46 if he was to just stand down, resign, retire, or die.
00:58:54 So there's this standoff, this type of house arresting standoff
00:58:56 for quite a while, like for a few days or a week or two or something,
00:58:59 outside Yasser Arafat's compound.
00:59:01 And then he did just die.
00:59:03 And then he did just die.
00:59:05 Oh, he's dead now.
00:59:06 He's old, remember? He was old.
00:59:07 Anyway, moving on, next thing.
00:59:08 yeah yasser arafat's death from unidentified causes 0.96
00:59:14 he was old though and he was a scumbag i'm not standing on behalf of yasser arafat 1.00
00:59:22 far from it he was a scumbag absolute filth a terrorist a terrorist in my opinion 1.00
00:59:30 but nonetheless nonetheless 1.00
00:59:34 yasser rarefats death from unidentified unidentified causes yep there you go
00:59:42 all right that's the last one let's look at our rumble rants and super chats let me do this with
00:59:48 my mic so i can see the left hand side of my screen is global church history going to be in
00:59:53 at number one is it going to be a good day let's have a look let's have a look see
00:59:57 I've got multiple screens here
00:59:59 so the mouse doesn't always play ball immediately
01:00:01 Okay, here we go, alright
01:00:02 Okay, yes, I guess it's a good day
01:00:04 Raining, defending
01:00:06 and still
01:00:09 Global Church History
01:00:12 the champion of
01:00:13 of Bo Day's Rumble Rents
01:00:16 on the Bo Show, Breakfast with Bo
01:00:17 Hashtag the real BBC, don't you forget about me
01:00:20 Global Church History
01:00:21 who quite often, how are you sir, I hope you're alright
01:00:23 quite often gives us a couple of factors
01:00:26 We've only got two rumble rants this morning.
01:00:28 Is that right, Harry?
01:00:29 Is that right?
01:00:30 Okay.
01:00:31 Global Church Issue says,
01:00:33 Today in 308 AD,
01:00:35 St. Constantine,
01:00:36 that's Constantine I,
01:00:37 Constantine the Great,
01:00:38 was made Caesar,
01:00:40 while Maxentius and Licinius
01:00:42 were made Augusti.
01:00:47 Do you think I've got hours and hours of content
01:00:49 talking about the life and reign and adventures
01:00:51 of Constantine the Great?
01:00:55 Yeah.
01:00:56 yeah not that old as well when they didn't like spring this year or summer
01:01:01 earlier summer this year finally got round to doing Constantine in detail
01:01:05 loads of quotes from Edward Gibbons the decline and fall of Roman Empire it's
01:01:09 good content so yeah makes it real quick to say then if you haven't watched
01:01:17 those epochs there was a tetrarchy Diocletian's rule of four emperors
01:01:23 There were four emperors, two senior Augusti and two junior Caesars.
01:01:29 Constantine's father had been an Augustus, an Augusti in the West, controlling Gaul and Britannia.
01:01:39 And then he died of natural causes, and the men, the Roman army in Britain, in York, Iboricum,
01:01:46 just proclaimed Constantius' son, Constantine, as an Augustus, as an emperor, a senior emperor.
01:01:58 But that wasn't sort of legal, that wasn't sort of formal legal, it was just the army doing that.
01:02:03 Well, the senior emperor, although there's four emperors, there's still one that's like the most senior,
01:02:09 senior of the two Augusti, and therefore the most senior out of all four of them,
01:02:12 Galerius in the east
01:02:14 whose capital was like in Antioch or something
01:02:17 one of the eastern Roman emperors
01:02:19 was sort of the most senior one
01:02:20 who's supposed to appoint
01:02:21 who gets to be an Augustus or a Caesar
01:02:25 he didn't agree any of that
01:02:27 Constantine certainly wasn't his pick
01:02:29 so we've got a constitutional crisis there
01:02:34 or a civil war even
01:02:35 it didn't come to civil war immediately
01:02:36 but so Galerius decides
01:02:40 he's going to reshuffle everyone who's emperor and okay in order to avoid a rebellion or a civil war
01:02:47 he's going to allow Constantine to be one of the junior Caesars he's going to allow him to be
01:02:52 a Caesar not an Augusti of the west Galerius himself will be the most senior of the four
01:03:00 in the east his underling his Caesar will be Licinius and then in the west the senior Augusti
01:03:07 will be Maxentius, and his junior, his Caesar, will be Constantine.
01:03:13 It's a bit complicated, isn't it?
01:03:16 Well, if you ever go to the Forum in Rome,
01:03:19 in one corner of the Forum is a giant part of a ruined building
01:03:23 with big domes, big arched domes there.
01:03:27 It sort of, in one way, kind of dominates the Forum in a way.
01:03:32 They're the basilica of Maxentius from the 4th century.
01:03:37 Anyway, long story short, over the next 20 years plus, Constantine goes on to have a
01:03:46 civil war with Maxentius, defeat him, Galerius passes away but there's two other emperors
01:03:52 in the east, he goes on to defeat those as well, the final one being that Licinius, finally
01:03:58 it's a final showdown between the last two remaining, the last two emperors standing,
01:04:02 Versus Licinius Constantine wins
01:04:05 Becomes the one emperor
01:04:07 There can be only one MacLeod
01:04:08 Constantine, it's a great story
01:04:11 Do you want something like, what, four, five, six hours
01:04:14 Of me telling you about it?
01:04:15 Quoting from Edward Gibbon
01:04:16 One of the greatest histories ever written
01:04:18 The kind of form of the Roman Empire
01:04:19 Do you want that?
01:04:21 Well, if it was £5 a month 0.82
01:04:22 The Protestant membership
01:04:22 You can get it on noteseaters.com 0.66
01:04:24 Think about it
01:04:25 Think about it, boys
01:04:26 Alright, let's move on
01:04:28 Oh, Global Church History's got a second factoid
01:04:31 and he says in 725 AD St Willibald pilgrimaged to Jerusalem
01:04:39 later giving one of our earliest pilgrim accounts
01:04:42 you've out history bro'd me there bro
01:04:45 I don't know much about that
01:04:46 I've certainly not read that account
01:04:48 St Willibald and his pilgrimage into Jerusalem in 725
01:04:54 I have not read that account so I can't really give you
01:04:58 I can't really make much comment on that
01:05:00 You've done me there.
01:05:01 You've done me up like a kipper there.
01:05:03 You've out-history-bro-ed me.
01:05:05 Well done. Congratulations.
01:05:06 Hats off.
01:05:08 Okay.
01:05:09 Merrick Mel, the next two is coming.
01:05:11 There's another one coming.
01:05:12 So the next two are Merrick Mel.
01:05:13 He says,
01:05:14 Trump let Indian conglomerates like Ambani,
01:05:17 is that how you say that?
01:05:18 Ambani,
01:05:19 build a massive Texas oil refinery
01:05:21 and Esser,
01:05:23 the biggest steel plant in US history.
01:05:25 The State Department even bragged on X
01:05:27 about $300 billion in Indian investment.
01:05:31 Yeah, it's weird, isn't it?
01:05:33 HB1 stuff, weird, what?
01:05:35 Yeah, I thought you was going to make America great again.
01:05:38 How is that making America great again, Donald?
01:05:43 Make it make sense, it doesn't make sense.
01:05:46 You're not going to put Americans first, no? 0.82
01:05:48 Right, got it.
01:05:50 Merrick Mel, next one says,
01:05:51 it's funny how DHS and the State Department
01:05:54 posted based stuff on x to show red meat you've put it in commas based stuff on x to to throw out
01:06:01 red meat yeah uh they use spooky words in tweets but people keep falling for it maybe pay closer
01:06:09 attention to money and investments yeah good yeah you're right pay attention to actions not
01:06:16 the words so much yeah doing saying one thing and doing something entirely different yeah
01:06:23 Yeah
01:06:27 He was a die-hard MAGA supporter
01:06:32 He wanted America first
01:06:35 Americans first
01:06:37 How are you still on the MAGA train?
01:06:40 How are you still on the Donald train?
01:06:42 If anyone criticises it
01:06:43 You just accuse them of TDS
01:06:44 Think about it now
01:06:45 Think about it
01:06:47 Probably someone in the chat
01:06:49 Or in the comments
01:06:49 Oh, Bo's got TDS this morning
01:06:50 Really?
01:06:53 Really? You're still going with that?
01:06:58 Okay. 0.96
01:07:00 That was the only Rubble Rancers one. 0.96
01:07:02 Let's have a look at the YouTube ones.
01:07:03 Harry, if you don't mind, you have to do that for me.
01:07:04 Could you make it so?
01:07:06 Engage.
01:07:07 Okay, there they are.
01:07:08 All right.
01:07:10 We've got about a dozen or so.
01:07:13 Mr. Gently Benevolent is in first.
01:07:15 And new.
01:07:18 And new.
01:07:19 A change of the guard.
01:07:19 Mr. Gently Benevolent.
01:07:21 He's been in at number one more than once.
01:07:22 certainly more than once mr gently benevolent a super fan thank you sir thank you for watching
01:07:28 on an almost daily basis and all the super chats you do lovely brilliant appreciate it you've put
01:07:32 all right bo yeah i'm all right not too bad tough you're right after all this brand bollocks
01:07:39 and now is that a swear word is a bit isn't it i don't think it's a strong one anyway
01:07:43 after all this brand b
01:07:45 and and now the non-bald one from little britain i have to check are you spice coals up to dodgy
01:07:57 stuff no one was clean as a whistle never done anything like that in my life i couldn't speak
01:08:08 for anyone else though i don't think so i think all i think all the presenters here are those
01:08:13 suitors are pretty clean, upstanding people. Who knows though, can you ever really know
01:08:20 someone else? It's true though, isn't it? How many times has someone like a serial killer
01:08:26 and members of their own family didn't know? How many serial killers are there and it comes
01:08:32 as a shock to their wife? How many times was there a terrorist, a mass casualty event,
01:08:40 Suicide terrorists 1.00
01:08:41 And their next door neighbours
01:08:42 Or their own brother
01:08:43 Didn't know
01:08:43 Didn't have an inkling
01:08:44 Stuff like that
01:08:45 Okay
01:08:48 I can only speak for myself
01:08:49 Daniel D. King says
01:08:51 Separate offence
01:08:53 Of sex with a minor 0.85
01:08:54 Consent is 16 0.87
01:08:56 But under 18 0.99
01:08:57 Is still
01:08:57 A minor 0.99
01:08:58 A minor legally 1.00
01:09:00 Right 0.96
01:09:02 I mean
01:09:02 Yeah so
01:09:03 If you're
01:09:04 Between 16 and 18
01:09:05 Yeah you're not legally
01:09:06 An adult
01:09:07 But the age of consent 0.51
01:09:08 Is 16
01:09:09 So
01:09:09 Okay
01:09:13 So it'd still be 0.98
01:09:16 Sex with a minor 0.96
01:09:17 But
01:09:18 But no the age of consent is 16 so
01:09:21 Technically they are a minor but it's not a crime
01:09:24 I see what you're saying
01:09:26 I see what you're getting at
01:09:27 Maybe there's a bit of a grey area
01:09:28 I don't know
01:09:29 Certainly by the time these
01:09:34 Young women were 18 0.90
01:09:36 Girls were 18 1.00
01:09:37 There's no crime at that point but maybe you've got a point 0.89
01:09:39 when they're when they're 17 16 and 17 okay yeah gross okay right lives war is this a new person
01:09:48 lives war they've given 20 aussie bucks i appreciate that thank you very much
01:09:53 they've put oh exclamation mark oh greetings from the penal colony
01:09:58 on this day in history 1880 beloved bush ranger ned kelly ah the story of ned kelly
01:10:07 was executed in Melbourne, Australia by hanging, age 25.
01:10:10 He was very young, wasn't he, Ned Kelly?
01:10:12 Yeah, 25.
01:10:15 Reported last words, such is life.
01:10:18 Love you and the glorious chat.
01:10:19 Oh, thank you.
01:10:20 Thank you.
01:10:22 Lovely to hear.
01:10:23 Ned Kelly, the story of Ned Kelly.
01:10:26 Very, very interesting, yeah.
01:10:27 He stood up against what he thought was sort of the tyranny of a faction,
01:10:31 the tyranny of the state, the government.
01:10:33 famously made like homemade armour
01:10:36 didn't they? I think that still survives
01:10:38 doesn't it? Does that still survive somewhere
01:10:39 in a museum somewhere?
01:10:42 Actually little Harry while I continue reading
01:10:44 go and Google images and just type in
01:10:46 Ned Kelly armour
01:10:47 something like that. Ned Kelly armour
01:10:49 Google images
01:10:51 do you mind?
01:10:54 Oh sorry I'll leave you to do the maths
01:10:55 alright the next one is from Crowley
01:10:57 they've got two double zeros in the middle of that
01:11:00 Crowley, Crowley
01:11:01 says good morning Bo, morning mate
01:11:03 all right they put what are your thoughts on this st george's bill some libdem mp is putting forward
01:11:11 i'm i'm sorry i'm not aware of that i'll have to google that later i have to look into that
01:11:15 the st george's bill i can only apologize i don't know any of the details of it so
01:11:22 maybe ask me again tomorrow or in later in the week or next week i'll make sure i look into that
01:11:27 sounds like something i should know about so for today sorry i'll give you an answer but hopefully
01:11:34 in the future i will do all right here we go ned kelly's armor let's have a look at the image is it
01:11:40 is that the real thing or is it a replica is that the real thing i think it might be you know look
01:11:47 at that they eventually put as um as lives war says they he was eventually caught and they put
01:11:54 put him on trial and he was he was hung wasn't he do you say hung yeah hung yeah hanged is that
01:12:00 the real stuff the real armor you know you're in dire straits when you've got to fight the police
01:12:06 the armed police make your own armor looks like uh like the the dark knight from the holy grail
01:12:15 probably got minimal vision minimal field of view through that but okay
01:12:22 okay all right next one is from mr dicky bingo not dinky bingo mr dicky bingo he says we will
01:12:33 remember them all right the fallen we will remember them i've also got content on my own
01:12:44 history bro uh history channel history bro with there's no paywall there all about world war one
01:12:50 remembrance day when the sun rises in the morning we will remember them okay last few here the
01:13:02 field marshal dawn browning quick that's literally written in part of her name field marshal dawn
01:13:07 Browning hyphen quaint says for 20 Aussie bucks very generous thank you thank
01:13:13 you don't appreciate it says why is YouTube trying to break something it
01:13:17 already broke making it even more broken stroke broken a question mark
01:13:21 right is this is this where you people try and type in stuff in the chat or in
01:13:27 super chats and YouTube's just like no you can't do that you can't say that
01:13:29 can't use that word is that what you're referring to people complain about that
01:13:33 all the time rightly rightly complain about that all the time more and more
01:13:36 and more censorship on youtube yeah remember the old days the world west 15 years ago or whatever
01:13:47 when you could put almost anything on youtube say certainly almost anything in the comments
01:13:52 or the chat okay those days are long gone aren't they okay the penultimate one here is from tatum
01:13:58 2733 how are you this morning sir he says bow again all capitals exclamation mark bow
01:14:02 When I rule the world
01:14:04 You'll make
01:14:05 1,111,670 euro dollars a year
01:14:11 Pre-taxes
01:14:12 Nice, I'll take it
01:14:12 I'll take it
01:14:14 More than what I'm earning now
01:14:16 And you say
01:14:18 Doing the breakfast show for Carl
01:14:19 Lotus Eater's bigger than the BBC
01:14:21 Yes
01:14:22 Tatum for world president
01:14:26 That's what I say
01:14:26 Vote Tatum
01:14:27 That's what I say 0.94
01:14:32 Okay, and the last one here
01:14:34 From James Lee Peverenhall, Harry this morning
01:14:36 Who says
01:14:37 Epochs 288
01:14:40 Isn't that like the really recent one, just a few weeks ago
01:14:42 Or even the last one, Epochs 288
01:14:44 Or is it this week, coming weeks one
01:14:46 It's around now anyway
01:14:47 He put, I've got loads of glare at this angle
01:14:50 He says, the other man executed
01:14:52 In the Essex rebellion
01:14:54 Was Thomas Lay
01:14:55 my 10th great-grandfather
01:14:57 arrested in the Queen's Corridor
01:15:00 14th of February 1601
01:15:01 alright, okay
01:15:03 did I fail to mention that in detail?
01:15:06 apologies then for that
01:15:07 yeah, okay
01:15:09 you've got quite a
01:15:10 quite a good lineage it seems
01:15:13 from all the people you say you're related to
01:15:15 yeah
01:15:16 alright, that's the show
01:15:19 it's now 15 minutes past 9
01:15:20 I would have done a long show this morning
01:15:22 but I've actually got a record epochs
01:15:25 today
01:15:25 so got a crack on it's now 15 minutes past nine in the a.m greenwich meantime on armistice day
01:15:31 the 11th of the 11th in the year of our lord 2026 thank you for joining me without you guys it
01:15:35 isn't a thing you've got impeccable taste if nothing else tune in to the bow show live
01:15:39 appreciate it what more could a boy ask for okay try and make the best of the day ahead if you can
01:15:45 your time is the most valuable thing you will ever have try and make it count carpe diem i won't get
01:15:50 too preachy you do you but if you've got your time to do with as you see fit try and do something
01:15:54 valuable with it. You've got a finite number of days on this earth. It's a harsh reality.
01:15:59 Try and make them count if you can. All right, until tomorrow morning then, guys and gals,
01:16:02 take care. 0.75