The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 12th August 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning. You alright? I hope that wasn't a jump scare. People don't like jump scares. Some do. How are you there? You alright? I hope you are. Have a good evening. Come on wakey wakey. I can bakey. Day's half over. Right I don't pushy tailed. Rocking around for the day ahead. Let's do this thing.

00:00:24.960 it's eight in the a.m british summertime on uh wednesday now isn't it wednesday the 12th

00:00:30.080 of august in the year of our lord 2026 eclipse day voting in collection tomorrow

00:00:36.560 it's all going on it's definitely not a slow news day when they're talking about the same

00:00:41.120 stuff there for the last few days last week or more as always i'm joined by my producer

00:00:47.040 to little harry harry this morning guitar morning yeah i'm good

00:00:49.940 is harry real or is it just a soundboard

00:00:55.860 he's laughing at that he is real i assure you he's not that little either it's just we've got

00:01:03.020 an even bigger harry he's taller than me he's bigger than me little harry it's just not as

00:01:08.300 big as big harry robinson that's all that's plenty of faffing about isn't it for one morning

00:01:14.980 There's no need for that sort of fannying around

00:01:17.740 On a Wednesday morning is there 1.00

00:01:18.880 Let's just get straight into it

00:01:20.200 Alright

00:01:21.920 What's the legacy corporate mainstream media

00:01:23.660 Banging on about this morning

00:01:24.860 What is that cabal of evil

00:01:28.980 Oh so evil

00:01:30.260 Truly evil really

00:01:31.140 Fleet Street editors

00:01:32.040 Trying to tell you isn't or isn't important

00:01:35.000 What are they lying to us about

00:01:38.480 By omission

00:01:39.080 If nothing else

00:01:39.980 Alright

00:01:41.220 We've got

00:01:41.980 Andy U-turns on early release

00:01:45.480 The early release of prisoners policy

00:01:47.100 To be perfectly honest

00:01:48.920 I'm seeing different reports

00:01:51.200 In different media organs

00:01:53.020 Some saying he is U-turning on it

00:01:55.060 And some saying he's not

00:01:55.820 A bit of confusion

00:01:58.800 Over at number 10

00:02:00.200 Or number 10 north as may be

00:02:02.840 Or a beach wherever Andy Burnham is

00:02:05.020 On holiday

00:02:05.540 Is he still on holiday?

00:02:09.480 That's cheeky 0.99

00:02:10.040 You coo someone out of power 0.99

00:02:11.600 Two, three weeks later

00:02:14.580 You go on holiday

00:02:15.260 It's the measure of the man isn't it

00:02:18.360 Okay

00:02:20.680 And

00:02:21.380 Hunt on for eclipse glasses

00:02:25.020 Because you really should wear

00:02:26.980 Like special glasses

00:02:27.960 To look at the eclipse

00:02:29.200 You really, really should

00:02:31.320 Especially if it's not 100% eclipse

00:02:34.720 Which it won't be in Britain

00:02:35.840 But we'll talk about it

00:02:36.840 I'm looking forward to it

00:02:40.060 I'm a big fan of that sort of stuff

00:02:41.060 You know, I love space and things and science and stuff

00:02:45.120 I saw the last eclipse in 1999

00:02:48.640 I went all the way down to Cornwall for it

00:02:50.020 Anyway, we'll talk about that when we get to it

00:02:51.220 We'll talk about that when we get to it

00:02:52.340 Alright, what have we got here?

00:02:53.560 The Express, the Daily Express

00:02:54.600 Oh, it's a good paper

00:02:55.860 You can read your Express now

00:02:58.600 It's definitely not completely subversive

00:03:00.300 It's not wearing the skin suit of patriotism 0.84

00:03:03.220 Pretending that it cares about the country 0.74

00:03:05.440 And in fact is as globalist

00:03:07.940 Anti-nativist 0.94

00:03:10.660 As all the other slop

00:03:12.020 It's definitely not that

00:03:13.720 It's a good paper

00:03:15.060 Just 24 hours after

00:03:23.660 Number 10 said it was not possible

00:03:25.680 To keep PC Andrew Harper's

00:03:27.740 Killers in prison

00:03:28.460 PM now says space can be found

00:03:30.840 Andy U-turns on early release plan

00:03:34.040 Yeah but there's other reports

00:03:35.880 Today

00:03:36.960 Saying that he refused to

00:03:39.520 He refused to effectively

00:03:40.800 Refused to rule out the possibility

00:03:43.100 That they would still be released early

00:03:44.800 So

00:03:47.280 Bit of confusion

00:03:49.460 It's not clear what's going to happen

00:03:51.440 Specifically with the killers

00:03:54.000 Of Andrew P.C. Andrew Harper

00:03:55.540 Overall the policy

00:03:58.080 Isn't going to change

00:03:59.560 It doesn't look like

00:04:00.540 What a mad thing

00:04:08.180 What a mad thing

00:04:09.240 Okay we'll get into some more details a bit later

00:04:12.260 Oh Lucy Davis

00:04:14.400 Ever watch The Office, The British Office

00:04:16.400 The Ricky Gervais Office

00:04:17.460 Dawn

00:04:18.640 The actress who played Dawn

00:04:22.100 Lucy Davis

00:04:23.000 Apparently she's got sort of incurable cancer 1.00

00:04:26.080 Breast cancer 0.98

00:04:26.800 And

00:04:28.320 So that's on a lot of the front pages today

00:04:31.540 I wouldn't bring that up or anything

00:04:33.340 But it is on more than one front page

00:04:34.960 So yeah

00:04:36.800 Dawn from The Office

00:04:37.980 She says she's at peace with it

00:04:41.100 But

00:04:42.180 It's harder on her family than her 0.66

00:04:48.500 She's like in her early 50s

00:04:50.900 Alright well

00:04:53.280 I'd say get well seen

00:04:56.900 But it's not

00:04:57.540 Well, not being funny, not trying to be sarcastic there

00:04:59.840 But it's not, she apparently is terminal 1.00

00:05:02.320 Ugh

00:05:04.060 Alright, poor Lucy Davis

00:05:06.160 What can you say?

00:05:08.820 Okay, The Guardian

00:05:09.880 Ugh, The Guardian

00:05:11.140 Really, really

00:05:13.460 Are you for real? Is this real?

00:05:16.420 Are you kidding me?

00:05:18.460 Endless socialist subversive flop

00:05:20.360 Endlessly

00:05:21.000 Ugh

00:05:22.960 We see you

00:05:27.540 We see it. We see what you're doing. Pretty obvious.

00:05:33.480 Sedition. Absolute sedition.

00:05:36.520 I'd put an end to it if it was me.

00:05:42.220 Harry, can you bring the camera?

00:05:45.200 Burnham plan to keep PC's killers in jail could backfire, warns unions.

00:05:51.320 Alarm over inmates to be freed.

00:05:54.100 Comes as probation staff vote to go on strike.

00:05:57.540 Yeah, so probation staff

00:06:00.520 Yeah, they're very, very unhappy with it all

00:06:06.380 And there's more talk this morning as well

00:06:09.040 About Andy Burnham

00:06:10.640 And our equivalent of life without parole

00:06:15.580 We call it whole life orders

00:06:17.680 And there's a couple of other types of imprisonment

00:06:23.820 Where it's not necessarily that you were given a whole life order

00:06:26.580 In the first instance

00:06:28.240 If you just keep re-offending in prison

00:06:31.440 You sort of effectively could spend your whole life in prison

00:06:34.620 You know that

00:06:36.800 That can happen

00:06:41.080 And the wishy-washy liberals

00:06:44.880 Bleeding-heart liberals 1.00

00:06:46.380 And traitor communists 0.99

00:06:49.060 Socialists 1.00

00:06:50.220 Don't like that

00:06:52.000 So Andy Burnham's looking at removing that

00:06:56.060 stopping that so are they a danger to society or not you not just let a probation board make that

00:07:02.780 decision is it a danger to other people if you let them out into the general population or not

00:07:11.980 is that so hard to figure out was that such a difficult thing to oh god yeah this early

00:07:20.700 release thing is insane it really is it honestly is tyce using quote nasty tactics quote to 0.97

00:07:28.140 intimidate journalists writes the guardian obviously that's richard tice dick tice

00:07:37.260 icy ticy the story is who hates me personally i was told probably doesn't know i am anymore but 0.94

00:07:44.540 when i was kicked out of reform he was the leader it was before nigel was the leader

00:07:50.700 he found out about what i'd written found out through hope not hate because hope not hate 0.78

00:07:56.780 i published in the mallard hope not hate gotta be in their body about it he found out

00:08:04.220 at gb news an insider told me and he was furious ordered that i was deselected immediately

00:08:11.900 he was furious that i dare write the policies his party has now got

00:08:17.580 What a weakling 1.00

00:08:21.000 I think Tyce is pretty dumb 1.00

00:08:22.880 Dumb, yeah 1.00

00:08:24.080 Not just sort of like a bit of a 0.99

00:08:27.280 Bit of an oddball

00:08:28.980 He hasn't got much charisma has he

00:08:31.920 I've seen worse, right

00:08:33.140 He's got more charisma than Starmer

00:08:35.920 But he's not exactly overflowing with charisma

00:08:37.900 Is he 1.00

00:08:38.260 I think he's quite dumb 1.00

00:08:40.120 Not David Lammy dumb 1.00

00:08:42.880 Not Angela Rayner dumb 0.99

00:08:44.600 But not far off

00:08:47.580 Again, I've never heard him say anything insightful or intellectual or even witty.

00:08:53.380 Not once.

00:08:55.520 That is sort of the measure of somebody, isn't it?

00:08:58.800 Are you even remotely interesting?

00:09:02.880 Remotely, on any level.

00:09:04.940 Never seen anything from him.

00:09:06.020 Never seen a spark from Thrice, ever.

00:09:10.740 I think he's just a rich guy who wants to be an MP for the sake of it.

00:09:14.420 I think that's all he is.

00:09:15.100 well okay anyway this article says he's not he uses nasty tactics against journalists

00:09:22.220 including a guardian journalist i mean when i read the article it didn't seem that bad i don't

00:09:27.580 know really what is that he didn't even say really what he's done particularly

00:09:30.440 it's just a sort of a general purpose moan because the guardian obviously hate reform

00:09:38.760 And people like Richard Tice

00:09:40.560 Way way more than I ever could

00:09:42.760 For example I don't

00:09:48.100 I don't hate Tice

00:09:49.540 I think he's very very unimpressive

00:09:51.740 I don't hate him

00:09:54.000 Like I wouldn't wish the worst on him

00:09:55.320 I wouldn't try and ruin his life and career

00:09:57.520 Whatever

00:09:57.840 Guardian would

00:09:58.900 Guardian would

00:10:00.160 Any little thing

00:10:02.820 Doesn't even have to be true necessarily

00:10:04.160 Nasty tactics 1.00

00:10:06.040 Dicey Ticey uses nasty 1.00

00:10:08.280 There's not really anything there

00:10:12.360 As far as I could tell

00:10:13.160 Now they've got a story in the Guardian

00:10:16.680 The outgroup loving Guardian

00:10:20.320 The Guardian who hates you 0.98

00:10:22.320 If you're white British 0.97

00:10:23.260 Native white British

00:10:24.400 Native Anglo in any way 0.51

00:10:26.100 White in any way 0.97

00:10:26.780 They hate you 1.00

00:10:27.500 Anyone who's not that

00:10:29.780 They love

00:10:30.740 Look

00:10:32.940 It's front and centre on their front page

00:10:34.520 We are still here

00:10:36.020 A day in the lives of 12 Afghanis

00:10:38.280 women i don't care about afghan women okay i don't care i care about people my country 1.00

00:10:45.560 my people what about the problems in our country what about the problems of all the white native 0.99

00:10:52.140 british women feel like they can't go out on the street unless they get raped by a foreign invader 0.81

00:10:57.740 what about those women what about the ones that already have been no no we'll just talk about 0.92

00:11:01.440 afghan women stay in the lives of 12 afghan women i don't care i don't care get it away from me get 1.00

00:11:07.500 right out of my face, revolting 1.00

00:11:17.500 The Independent, it's hot, brilliant, well done, great journalism

00:11:22.500 It's hot

00:11:25.500 Some like it hot

00:11:27.500 It's a famous film isn't it, Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot 0.96

00:11:30.500 It's a boomer 0.89

00:11:32.500 You can so tell that all the senior people at these papers are all boomers

00:11:37.040 Or slightly younger than boomers

00:11:40.200 All their references are like really old references 0.94

00:11:43.220 So I'm like it hot

00:11:44.880 UK set for summer record

00:11:46.800 Yeah there's that, a Durdle door

00:11:50.740 Down in Dorset, not a million miles from where I'm sitting

00:11:53.480 An hour, a couple of hours drive maybe

00:11:56.100 Natural rock formation

00:11:58.420 Actually I've heard that this beach

00:12:02.400 Is quite often just swamped

00:12:04.320 With foreign people now

00:12:05.380 Indians and Muslims or whatever 1.00

00:12:07.960 They've heard that this is a great natural wonder

00:12:09.620 And we like it and revere it

00:12:10.920 So they'll go there all the time

00:12:13.140 Ruining it

00:12:16.980 Trump hid in catering truck

00:12:21.500 In secret Air Force One swap

00:12:23.020 To fend off Iran assassination threat

00:12:25.120 Remember we talked about that yesterday

00:12:26.240 Our poll yesterday

00:12:27.560 And the story yesterday

00:12:30.780 A couple of the front pages

00:12:32.900 And a couple of the main websites

00:12:34.160 Have picked up on that and reported that today

00:12:36.400 In fact Trump was asked about it

00:12:41.560 Yesterday

00:12:42.760 Like on the tarmac

00:12:44.920 He often takes questions on the tarmac

00:12:47.160 Doesn't he

00:12:47.660 With like jet aeroplane

00:12:50.200 Turbines whirring in the background

00:12:52.520 So he can hardly hear what's being said

00:12:54.180 I don't know why he does that but alright

00:12:56.280 But you do it in a good noise environment, Trump

00:13:00.700 If you're going to take questions from the media

00:13:01.920 No, you're going to do it next to an aeroplane

00:13:03.760 While its engines are on

00:13:04.640 Okay, anyway

00:13:05.360 It's up to him, isn't it?

00:13:07.300 He's the president

00:13:07.780 He was asked about it

00:13:09.560 He just said, look

00:13:10.220 I just do what the Secret Service say, basically

00:13:13.020 If they say that

00:13:14.120 He was asked about it

00:13:14.640 What was the threat?

00:13:15.160 What was the threat?

00:13:15.640 Why did you decide to do that?

00:13:17.040 He was like, if the Secret Service say

00:13:19.200 There's some sort of threat

00:13:20.980 Or they think I should do this or that

00:13:22.360 I just do it 0.68

00:13:23.080 Which is a reasonable answer

00:13:25.580 Alright

00:13:26.120 That's fair enough. What other way can you do it?

00:13:29.780 Let the Secret Service come to you, it's their job to be on top of intelligence and threats and everything

00:13:34.240 and protect your person. That's not your job on a day-to-day basis.

00:13:38.360 They come to you and say, there is this credible thing where you think it's best to do this.

00:13:41.940 You'd be mad to go, no, no, I'm ignoring that.

00:13:47.760 So that's the story, really, and that's all there is to that.

00:13:49.720 Okay.

00:13:52.120 Burnham vows to end throwaway key jail scandal.

00:13:56.120 Yeah, this is what I was talking about, about sort of the whole life order things

00:13:59.460 Andy Burnham has pledged to end the injustice of indefinite jail terms

00:14:03.920 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, is it an injustice or not?

00:14:06.640 Does the individual involved deserve to be in prison?

00:14:10.800 What are you talking about as a general sweeping statement, the injustice of it?

00:14:16.080 It might be unjust to let them out into the public where they hurt people

00:14:20.000 See, this is why

00:14:22.980 This is why

00:14:25.920 Champagne socialists

00:14:27.620 Ideologues 1.00

00:14:28.740 Are dangerous and crazy 0.99

00:14:30.720 Just the injustice

00:14:33.540 Of indefinite jail terms

00:14:36.700 It might be the best thing

00:14:38.560 It might be the most just thing

00:14:40.420 Possible

00:14:41.040 Like a serial killer 1.00

00:14:43.920 Or a prolific child rapist 1.00

00:14:46.340 Or something 0.99

00:14:46.980 He's pledged to end it though

00:14:51.040 Great

00:14:52.140 Okay

00:14:52.880 As part of measures to ease prison overcrowding

00:14:56.560 Oh right, it's just for that reason as well

00:14:58.520 We haven't even got that many

00:15:01.140 In Britain

00:15:02.120 Hardly any

00:15:03.620 Like whole life orders

00:15:05.080 There's very very few

00:15:07.480 I mean it's like a couple of dozen or something

00:15:09.560 Really

00:15:10.340 Our courts very very rarely hand them out

00:15:13.820 Even that Axel Rudicabana

00:15:16.320 I can never pronounce his surname

00:15:17.620 I can never remember his surname

00:15:18.740 Even he didn't get a whole life order

00:15:22.140 Right, they sentenced him to like 50 or 60 years or something

00:15:25.760 And even if and when he lives old enough to get there

00:15:30.980 The parole board may well just slap more time on him

00:15:33.740 Or the Home Secretary can step in

00:15:38.800 So we've got very very few of those whole life orders

00:15:42.480 But then there's that other thing like I say

00:15:44.180 Where you might go in prison for just

00:15:46.460 Robbing a post office

00:15:49.080 And you get 10 years or whatever

00:15:51.180 and then in prison though you kill someone else or you just keep attacking guard prison guards or

00:15:55.980 whatever and they slap another two years on another two years another five years and you

00:15:59.980 basically never get out well you almost certainly will never get out

00:16:04.780 andy burnham wants to stop that the injustice of that is it is it unjust isn't it

00:16:13.580 okay andy burnham wants to ease prison overcrowding and letting out the worst of

00:16:18.060 of the worst, sounds like. And to stop PC Harper's killers from being freed early, the

00:16:23.320 Prime Minister said he is increasingly confident he can find prison space for some high-profile

00:16:28.800 offenders. Options include release of inmates on imprisonment for public protection jail

00:16:35.140 terms, which the Independent has long campaigned to end. Well done, the Independent. But have

00:16:42.320 these people committed crimes that deserve that they stay in prison? Yes or no? Yes or

00:16:48.820 no? They're not looking at it like that, are they? Right, the times, the venerable times.

00:17:04.500 Burnham will keep going until channel crossings are stopped. Don't believe it. I don't believe

00:17:09.300 I don't believe any of that

00:17:10.580 They are not going to stop the boats

00:17:12.200 They're not stopping the boats

00:17:13.340 So Andy Burnham

00:17:15.580 Something like 3,000 1.00

00:17:17.120 Foreign invaders 1.00

00:17:20.260 Barbarians 1.00

00:17:21.320 Who have invaded us 1.00

00:17:24.280 Since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister

00:17:25.880 Just a few weeks ago

00:17:27.600 And

00:17:28.680 When asked about it again

00:17:32.080 He said he would just keep going

00:17:34.600 And do what it takes

00:17:36.120 All that nonsense

00:17:37.020 Just hot air

00:17:38.260 I think he says

00:17:40.520 The gangs have changed their tactics

00:17:44.200 So we must change our tactics

00:17:45.960 Well no you won't

00:17:46.780 You haven't

00:17:47.820 You've got no intention of doing that

00:17:49.380 I know people will have been worried

00:17:52.960 To see those images yesterday

00:17:56.220 That's a classic thing

00:17:57.420 He goes on to say

00:17:58.140 I'm listening to you

00:17:59.000 That's Andy Burnham's whole shtick

00:18:00.760 I'm listening to you

00:18:01.860 I hear you

00:18:03.000 But what's that worth?

00:18:05.540 That's not worth anything

00:18:06.460 If you don't act on it, is it?

00:18:08.260 That's his whole thing, his solemn sort of serious face

00:18:11.040 I'm listening, I can hear, I hear it

00:18:13.620 Yeah, I'm on your side

00:18:15.100 Well then do something about it then

00:18:18.700 Call a Cobra meeting

00:18:20.960 Call an emergency, because it is a national emergency

00:18:24.140 And do something about it

00:18:26.740 Nah 0.97

00:18:27.960 It'll call a Cobra meeting though

00:18:31.420 But about how hot it is

00:18:36.940 Don't bring that up Harry

00:18:38.060 PM to chair emergency cobra meeting

00:18:43.620 Oh about the invasion

00:18:44.960 At Dover

00:18:46.500 No amid extreme heat warnings and wildfires

00:18:49.160 Right look

00:18:50.220 Look at his face

00:18:51.780 Not a very good actor really is he

00:18:56.180 Tony Blair was quite a good actor

00:18:57.980 He'd actually give you the impression

00:19:00.040 That he was interested and cared

00:19:01.940 And was listening

00:19:02.880 And was sincere

00:19:05.880 and wasn't a dyed-in-the-wool traitor.

00:19:09.520 He was quite good at acting like he wasn't that.

00:19:14.340 Andy Burnham needs a few more acting lessons, I think.

00:19:19.240 I'm not buying that you care, Andy.

00:19:22.040 I'm not feeling that you're really inhabiting the role properly.

00:19:30.360 Okay, so we're being invaded, but they will do nothing about it.

00:19:35.880 You say, I know I can do, I know what I need to do, I can deliver, I can deliver, you can stop them in one day, you can stop them in one day if you wanted to, they don't want to, they don't want to.

00:19:53.180 People will say to me

00:19:57.400 We don't want any more crossings

00:19:59.720 I understand that

00:20:01.200 Do you though?

00:20:03.780 You get it

00:20:04.860 You get it

00:20:06.780 But he says he's going to keep going

00:20:09.600 Until he's eradicated the gangs

00:20:12.240 He could send in the special boat service

00:20:16.160 He could send in 4-2 commando

00:20:18.280 There's a number of things you could do

00:20:19.980 A number of things you could do

00:20:23.180 They're not doing it.

00:20:28.180 I don't believe them.

00:20:30.180 I remember, the last time I had any faith whatsoever,

00:20:33.180 when Rishi Sunak,

00:20:36.180 when Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister,

00:20:38.180 he made his slogan for government,

00:20:40.180 his whole slogan for government,

00:20:42.180 was Stop the Boats.

00:20:46.180 Swella Braverman is his Home Secretary.

00:20:49.180 Oh, okay, if they're putting it front and centre,

00:20:52.180 literally seems like their first priority for government, this sort of interim government

00:20:57.900 before there's a general election in 18 months, two years, whatever it was. Okay. Okay, good.

00:21:03.780 Right. Watching then. What are they going to do? What are they going to do? Oh, oh, right.

00:21:07.800 Nothing. It's pure gaslighting. It's pure gaslighting. It's worse than being honest in a way, isn't

00:21:15.060 it? Well, a lot worse than being honest. If they were honest, they'd say, we've got no intention

00:21:18.480 of stopping these small boats, we're not going to secure the border, but they pretend they're

00:21:26.380 going to, what is that, what's the psychology of that, gaslighting you, just wait, just

00:21:36.200 give us a few more, just give us a little bit more time, we'll keep going, we'll keep

00:21:40.060 going we we hear you we're gonna do it and every day failing to do it all right look it's hot

00:21:48.960 there's a there's a river that's dried up a bit mostly oh no oh no so what and by october it'll

00:21:59.260 be bursting its banks and flooding the nearby town just calm down extra safeguards needed for early

00:22:08.880 release say police yeah maybe just don't release them maybe build like one extra

00:22:14.820 prison put up prefab prisons use a repurposed old barracks or school tissue

00:22:21.720 school or something anything rather than letting out dangerous people back into

00:22:26.520 the population

00:22:30.120 extra safeguards needed what does that even mean what does that mean what does

00:22:35.520 mean you're a psychosomatic right the daily telegraph that's nonsense isn't it the police

00:22:43.620 say you're gonna need extra safeguards if we release loads of murders and pedophiles and 0.98

00:22:46.980 terrorists and arsonists and thing what safeguards what what do you mean what just nonsense 0.51

00:22:52.320 all right the telegraph the daily torograph complete slop not interested in saving our

00:22:59.900 demographic explicitly not interested in saving us from demographic decline and replacement very

00:23:07.180 very explicitly owned by a german zionist who doesn't think we've got a right to our own country

00:23:14.440 israel has but we haven't the telegraph right okay

00:23:17.580 is that a far-right fantasy what i just said there my crazy far-right person or is that a

00:23:27.440 Statement of fact, what I just said there

00:23:29.400 It's a statement of fact

00:23:32.400 Police unite to fight early release

00:23:36.000 Unprecedented letter reveals forces anger

00:23:38.920 At inability to keep PC Harper killers in prison

00:23:42.040 The inability, see, you saw it earlier

00:23:45.000 One of the earlier ones, they're saying

00:23:46.240 Andy Burnham will do what it takes

00:23:47.900 He's confident that he can do what it takes

00:23:50.600 To keep these two killers in prison

00:23:52.900 And then they're saying that the police themselves are angry

00:23:56.100 Because he won't, because he won't be able to

00:23:57.920 His inability to

00:23:59.440 Which is it?

00:24:00.720 Which is it?

00:24:02.940 Of course if he really, really wanted to

00:24:05.380 He could make sure they stayed in prison

00:24:07.140 Okay

00:24:09.200 Total Eclipse, your guide to a once in a generation event

00:24:14.060 Shall we talk a little bit about the eclipse?

00:24:18.700 A bit of a palate cleanser for a moment

00:24:20.560 From all the black pills

00:24:21.440 So yeah, there's going to be an eclipse today in Britain

00:24:25.740 If you're in Britain

00:24:26.460 The further west you are 1.00

00:24:29.760 The better it will be

00:24:30.560 You're right on the western isles of Ireland

00:24:32.880 Right on the rest of Ireland 1.00

00:24:34.460 That's probably the best place 0.65

00:24:35.380 Right on the tip of Cornwall

00:24:36.600 That's probably the best place

00:24:37.960 Where I am here in Wiltshire

00:24:40.240 It's not too bad

00:24:41.120 It's not 100% eclipse

00:24:44.200 In fact, I've got a thing here

00:24:45.800 Let me think

00:24:46.180 There you go

00:24:49.200 Nice clear

00:24:50.520 That's where you would see 100% of an eclipse

00:24:54.140 If you were there out in the Atlantic

00:24:56.000 But if you're like here

00:24:58.200 Or even here

00:24:59.320 You know in Ireland

00:25:00.540 You get 95, 96% eclipse

00:25:04.600 If you're in London a little less than that

00:25:08.240 Which is still not bad

00:25:10.900 Now as I mentioned earlier in my little story

00:25:12.640 There was a full eclipse

00:25:14.360 If you were in Cornwall

00:25:15.440 Back in the year 1999

00:25:17.920 I was like 18 years old

00:25:21.680 In the summer

00:25:23.580 Staying out for the summer

00:25:26.200 Went down there

00:25:28.880 Me and some mates

00:25:29.620 Went down there

00:25:30.240 A little camping trip

00:25:31.500 Down to Perrenporth

00:25:32.480 In Cornwall

00:25:33.360 And saw the 100% eclipse

00:25:36.320 With my own two eyeballs

00:25:37.740 Amazing it was

00:25:39.900 It really is quite a surreal experience

00:25:42.120 100% one is anyway

00:25:43.740 It's really quite surreal

00:25:44.800 It didn't just go like a bit dark

00:25:47.660 It went really quite dark

00:25:49.040 Briefly

00:25:49.880 Not all that long

00:25:50.480 Only a few minutes

00:25:51.240 But

00:25:51.560 You might think, oh, it's dimmed a bit

00:25:55.320 No, it goes like almost as dark as

00:25:58.080 Not quite as dark as pitch black night

00:26:00.380 But nearly

00:26:01.680 And yeah, that thing of all the birds twittering

00:26:04.620 They all go silent

00:26:05.360 That's true, that happened as well

00:26:06.880 It was like eerily silent

00:26:08.080 And it got sort of noticeably colder

00:26:11.640 It didn't get cold

00:26:12.320 It didn't get like the middle of the night cold

00:26:13.880 But you noticed there

00:26:15.240 It was noticeably colder

00:26:17.840 And just surreal

00:26:19.880 Just surreal in the middle of the day as well

00:26:21.720 We're standing on cliffs

00:26:23.960 In Cornwall

00:26:24.820 Looking out to sea

00:26:27.040 You could sort of see the darkness come towards you

00:26:30.280 Across the sea

00:26:31.060 Kind of

00:26:32.400 That was surreal, I remember that

00:26:35.720 That was kind of surreal

00:26:36.600 To see well on the horizon

00:26:38.660 The ocean seems to be a bit

00:26:41.220 Dark over there and it's like racing towards you

00:26:44.220 Remarkable

00:26:45.640 And then when you look up

00:26:47.800 The other thing I remember clearly

00:26:49.160 I was looking for Bailey's beads

00:26:51.480 You know what that is

00:26:54.620 When an eclipse

00:26:55.620 Just as the moon comes perfectly over the sun

00:26:58.420 We won't get that this time

00:26:59.960 Because it's not 100% one

00:27:01.080 100% one's the best thing

00:27:03.560 When the moon goes over the sun

00:27:06.000 Just as the last moment

00:27:07.820 Before it completely covers the sun

00:27:09.340 And at the first moment when it moves away

00:27:11.660 From completely covering the sun

00:27:12.980 The rays of the sun

00:27:16.220 Will shine

00:27:17.420 Through the mountains and valleys on the moon

00:27:20.620 And the peaks of those mountains

00:27:25.040 Will still be

00:27:26.460 Obscure in the sun

00:27:28.240 But the dips, the valleys in the mountains won't be

00:27:30.660 So for a moment

00:27:31.500 Instead of getting a crescent of light coming back

00:27:36.580 You get a few dots of it coming back

00:27:39.660 Bailey's beads

00:27:41.880 You're seeing through the lunar valleys

00:27:46.720 I think it's unbelievable

00:27:51.440 Remarkable, I love it

00:27:52.760 The most incredible thing I'll probably ever see

00:27:55.720 With my own two eyeballs

00:27:56.860 Unless I go somewhere else in the world

00:27:59.100 For a 100% solar eclipse again

00:28:01.180 And get lucky enough that it's not cloudy

00:28:04.400 That's the other thing

00:28:05.520 You're waiting for the eclipse

00:28:07.640 You're all stoked for the eclipse

00:28:09.780 And just where you are, it's all cloudy

00:28:11.980 That's it, you don't see it

00:28:13.680 Sounds obvious when you say it out loud, right?

00:28:16.240 But you also need it not to be cloudy

00:28:18.640 So

00:28:19.640 Alright

00:28:22.360 All that said, my little 1999 story

00:28:25.220 This one

00:28:27.020 This one will get

00:28:28.680 In most of Britain, something like

00:28:30.600 Between 90 and 96% 0.98

00:28:32.580 One, so there's still a big

00:28:34.620 Big slither of the sun

00:28:36.120 So you can't really, honestly

00:28:38.160 You can't really just look at that with

00:28:40.440 Like your unprotected eyes

00:28:41.780 Like

00:28:44.240 Yeah, I will say that

00:28:45.600 you can get you can damage your eyes if you do that you think i'll look at it for a little bit

00:28:51.440 like a few seconds my eyes can stand it for a few seconds i wouldn't risk it to be perfectly honest

00:29:00.240 try if you want to see it you know try and get some of these glasses these special glasses

00:29:05.040 or there's a couple of a mutt in my opinion much lamer way of doing it um you can sort of project

00:29:11.600 it onto a bit of paper and there's there's all sorts of articles and websites just google it

00:29:15.680 there's various other things you can do to see like basically a projection of it if you want

00:29:19.360 to see it with your actual eyes i would get those those glasses i was looking at even like five

00:29:26.800 percent of the sun directly don't risk your eyesight come on it's not that's not worth it

00:29:35.760 anyway anyway it's a remarkable thing it's a remarkable thing one one thing i would say

00:29:45.380 oh today as well to let you know the time it sort of starts at about 6 p.m because it takes a while

00:29:51.380 for the moon to move of course uh so it's about 6 p.m i mean it'll be at its height about 7 p.m

00:29:57.040 depending on all this is depending is only roughly independent on where you are in great britain

00:30:01.220 By about 7pm, 7.15pm is when it's late

00:30:05.720 If you're down in Cornwall or you're in Wiltshire or somewhere

00:30:09.320 You're in southern England, around then

00:30:11.100 So early evening, yeah early evening

00:30:15.720 Between 6 and 7

00:30:17.540 Go outside, hopefully it's not cloudy

00:30:21.320 Hopefully you've got a pair of these little glasses

00:30:23.000 Go outside and you can see one of the most incredible celestial wonders

00:30:30.040 you're ever likely to actually see it'll be 60 70 years or something before it happens in britain

00:30:35.060 again so all right okay should we move on so i just i i love all that sort of stuff i love all 0.57

00:30:47.620 that sort of stuff okay middle class areas must house migrants hmm says burnham this is this is

00:30:55.460 burnham number 10 number 10 north now i've said before haven't i

00:31:00.780 that i don't like accelerationism but i'm not a thousand percent against it right there's a

00:31:10.120 five percent of me is accelerationist it's hard to put a percentage on it broadly speaking i'm

00:31:18.520 not for accelerationism i want my country my people to be damaged hurt and wounded as little

00:31:24.300 As possible

00:31:24.960 But

00:31:25.380 I do get the argument 0.53

00:31:26.880 I completely understand

00:31:28.040 The argument

00:31:28.620 That it has to get worse

00:31:30.620 Before it gets better

00:31:31.400 That millions

00:31:32.400 Even tens of millions

00:31:33.420 Of normies

00:31:34.560 Have still got their

00:31:35.520 Heads in the sand

00:31:37.100 Like ostriches 0.99

00:31:37.960 That they need to be 1.00

00:31:40.720 Woken up

00:31:41.240 They need to be

00:31:41.720 Shaken awake

00:31:42.740 Before they'll vote

00:31:46.260 Because there's no militias

00:31:47.760 There's no

00:31:48.140 People aren't going to

00:31:49.800 March on Whitehall

00:31:51.000 And depose the government

00:31:52.240 Like it's 1917

00:31:53.340 It's not happening

00:31:55.320 If there is

00:31:57.580 If we are to save our country

00:31:59.000 It will have to be at the ballot box

00:32:00.080 We're not voting our way out of this

00:32:01.720 Vote harder LaMau LaMau

00:32:02.980 Well there's no other way 1.00

00:32:04.060 Are those vote harder LaMau LaMau people 0.99

00:32:07.240 Going to form any sort of 1.00

00:32:09.340 They're going to actually overthrow the government in any way

00:32:11.300 No of course they're not 0.97

00:32:12.100 No those are coward people that say that

00:32:14.060 So it has to be at the ballot box then doesn't it really

00:32:17.260 Realistically

00:32:18.220 So we need millions

00:32:20.860 Tens of millions of people

00:32:22.320 To vote the right way

00:32:24.660 Vote in their own interest 0.95

00:32:26.200 Their own national and even ethnic interest 1.00

00:32:29.400 Well they need to be woken up 0.99

00:32:31.480 These millions of normies

00:32:33.140 Who insist

00:32:35.020 That they haven't noticed

00:32:38.360 Sort of insisting

00:32:41.020 That they haven't noticed 0.99

00:32:42.920 We're being invaded, murdered and raped 0.99

00:32:45.040 On an insane scale 0.99

00:32:46.380 Well

00:32:47.620 If it takes the Labour Party

00:32:52.100 Smearing these barbarians 0.99

00:32:55.980 Into their middle class areas 1.00

00:32:58.120 If that's what it takes 0.98

00:32:59.920 Then so be it

00:33:00.840 Good then

00:33:03.940 All these Lib Dem voters

00:33:06.160 All these champagne socialist middle class people 0.99

00:33:09.900 Oh it's only horrible racist bigots 0.99

00:33:14.560 From inner cities 0.99

00:33:15.480 That would dare vote

00:33:16.560 Even dream of voting for reform or restore 1.00

00:33:19.000 Talk about mass remigration 1.00

00:33:21.180 Well you live next to a house full of Somalis 1.00

00:33:24.500 And you'll wake up real quick 1.00

00:33:28.860 They're abducting and eating your pets

00:33:36.000 A goose or a swan from the local park 1.00

00:33:38.760 Yeah, Sudanese people 1.00

00:33:41.960 Rural Indians shitting in the street 1.00

00:33:44.640 Sorry about that, any little kiddies in the room 1.00

00:33:50.280 I'm sorry

00:33:50.940 I'm a natural swearer

00:33:54.380 If anyone watches State of Politics

00:33:56.120 State of Politics

00:33:56.720 My natural inclination is quite a potty mouth

00:33:59.920 Sorry

00:34:02.440 It's not that I dial it up

00:34:05.460 In a phony manner for State of Politics

00:34:08.040 I'm dialing it down for this

00:34:09.660 Trust me, I'm dialing it down for this

00:34:11.300 That's me more au naturel on State of Politics

00:34:13.700 Anyway, sorry, sorry

00:34:14.620 Shouldn't say the S word, sorry 0.97

00:34:15.700 These middle class Lib Dem voters 0.85

00:34:19.700 Tory voters

00:34:21.120 That still don't seem to understand the problem

00:34:24.460 Because they've never been confronted

00:34:26.140 By a community of 1.00

00:34:28.900 Bangladeshis

00:34:30.960 Say

00:34:31.900 Community of Nigerians 1.00

00:34:35.580 And they're completely alien ways 1.00

00:34:40.040 And culture 1.00

00:34:40.740 That's antithetical to you 0.98

00:34:42.360 Puts you and your family

00:34:44.780 In danger

00:34:45.760 That they're hostile to you

00:34:49.000 and us. They're not here to integrate. They've got no intention of integrating. They've got no 0.99

00:34:55.040 intention of being kind or nice to you. Quite the opposite. You may well find there's organised

00:35:00.080 crime very, very quickly. You may well find that street crime, violent street crime and or sex

00:35:05.520 crime suddenly goes through the roof. As I say, I'm not an accelerator. I don't consider myself

00:35:12.020 an accelerationist. I want my country and people to suffer as little as possible. If that's what

00:35:16.840 it takes for tens of millions of these normies to wake up, to wake up to what is being done

00:35:24.420 to us, then okay, this measure might actually make a world of difference to us on the right,

00:35:34.220 on the truly patriotic nativist right. Andy Burnham's saying, what the story is, Andy

00:35:40.940 Burnham's saying that where they're going to, you know, trying to make sure that all 1.00

00:35:45.980 these migrants these thousands tens of thousands of migrants a year just the illegal ones just the

00:35:51.240 illegal ones not going to put them in hotels anymore because people didn't like that people 1.00

00:35:56.060 didn't like constant headlines of how much it costs us to put in hotels so we'll put them in

00:36:00.820 hmos but but andy burnham says we're not going to do that just to the poorest communities that

00:36:07.080 wouldn't be fair just to only put the all these invaders into just the poorest communities no no 0.99

00:36:14.440 We'll put them into all areas 0.96

00:36:17.220 Including middle class areas

00:36:18.540 There's literally a quote where he says

00:36:21.060 Even middle class areas must do their bit

00:36:23.440 Okay

00:36:27.580 Again, imagine you live in a rural

00:36:33.100 Semi-rural area 0.99

00:36:34.680 And it's just 100% white 0.98

00:36:36.900 100% white, much as it's always been

00:36:39.580 It's like a quaint little cricket ground

00:36:42.620 In the village green

00:36:43.820 And everyone's

00:36:46.140 Extremely civilised

00:36:48.740 And polite and nice and English

00:36:50.500 And they whack a HMO

00:36:53.280 In the middle of it 1.00

00:36:54.280 And fill it with a dozen Afghans 1.00

00:36:57.120 Right 1.00

00:36:59.360 And they start doing crime

00:37:00.880 And they start doing crime right away

00:37:02.820 Bad crime

00:37:03.420 They start perving on your kids

00:37:05.760 They start hanging around the playground

00:37:07.980 And outside the school

00:37:09.000 The primary school

00:37:10.040 Anyone says anything to them 0.97

00:37:12.340 They threaten to stab them 0.99

00:37:13.820 Okay, okay 0.94

00:37:16.220 Hopefully that changes 0.98

00:37:19.040 The mind of these middle class voters 0.99

00:37:23.260 Hopefully they'll start voting

00:37:26.300 For a party that talks about that millions must go

00:37:29.840 I can only hope

00:37:32.740 I can only hope

00:37:34.180 I've honestly got my fingers crossed that this particular policy

00:37:40.940 This bridge too far, if you like

00:37:43.240 Will actually make a real difference at the ballot box

00:37:48.000 Where hopefully loads of constituencies will go to restore or reform

00:37:55.980 Or whoever

00:37:59.180 Other than the parties that seem committed

00:38:03.120 Committed to flooding us with endless

00:38:06.460 Literally endless, there's no cap 1.00

00:38:07.920 They refuse to put a cap on migration

00:38:10.520 So endless 1.00

00:38:12.600 An endless influx

00:38:14.880 Of people that hate us

00:38:16.400 And mean to do us harm

00:38:17.420 I hope so

00:38:19.940 I really do hope so

00:38:22.160 Alright

00:38:24.660 The metro

00:38:25.440 Oh the metro

00:38:26.860 That is revolting

00:38:29.240 What is that

00:38:30.640 What is that

00:38:32.820 I don't even know what that is

00:38:35.640 Some disgusting piece of carrion 0.56

00:38:38.340 On the ground

00:38:39.120 Revolting

00:38:41.460 Mess

00:38:42.980 I can barely see what it is

00:38:46.520 What it once was

00:38:47.720 Ugh

00:38:49.440 It's kind of my stomach

00:38:50.480 The metro

00:38:52.040 Pure subversion

00:38:52.900 Alright

00:38:53.760 Dustbins

00:38:56.400 Hustings

00:38:57.240 Count vs Farage

00:38:59.660 In our Q&A exclusive

00:39:00.720 Right yeah so

00:39:01.560 Again it's

00:39:02.940 It's the actual vote day

00:39:06.460 Isn't it polling day

00:39:07.120 In Clacton

00:39:08.180 Tomorrow

00:39:08.680 Tomorrow

00:39:09.180 As I said at the beginning

00:39:11.300 the week hopefully we'll have the result for you friday morning i can't imagine there'll be a

00:39:15.780 recount who knows but or more than one recount so we should have the result for you on friday morning

00:39:25.220 france will win it by a landslide of course he will

00:39:29.060 no one's interested in lawrence fox no one's interested in lawrence fox's siv nattery

00:39:34.980 Sort of lovey

00:39:40.680 Weak-wristed

00:39:43.260 Weird world view

00:39:44.840 It would be nice if Kai Stevens

00:39:49.040 He's not going to, I'm afraid 1.00

00:39:50.300 Count Binface is polling reasonably well 1.00

00:39:54.080 For a joke

00:39:54.780 He won't beat Farage, not even close

00:39:57.000 Farage will absolutely stonky

00:39:58.520 No two ways about that

00:39:59.980 Okay, so

00:40:01.040 All a bit of a joke really

00:40:02.680 Then they can restart that parliamentary investigation into him

00:40:06.740 And he'll try and say

00:40:07.800 None of that matters

00:40:08.900 Because I've gone back to the good people of Clacton

00:40:10.760 And got their blessing

00:40:13.440 So none of that matters

00:40:14.700 It will though still, Nigel

00:40:15.800 It will though still

00:40:17.480 It could trigger another by-election in Clacton

00:40:20.880 I still think it was an odd gambit

00:40:26.600 An odd move by Nigel

00:40:28.280 To call this by-election

00:40:29.640 Before that investigation was finished

00:40:32.280 He thinks he's going to draw a line under it all

00:40:37.920 It'll all go away

00:40:40.240 And he can make the argument that

00:40:41.560 There's nothing to see here 1.00

00:40:43.040 Because he went back to the people of Clacton 0.98

00:40:44.800 And stood against Binface and Lawrence 0.97

00:40:48.640 No, no, it doesn't make that go away 1.00

00:40:53.180 I just think, I would not have done it

00:41:00.440 If I found myself in Nigel's position

00:41:02.080 I would not have made that move

00:41:04.480 Just let the investigation play out

00:41:09.100 At first

00:41:10.320 And then start thinking about making moves

00:41:13.280 Start thinking about making a move

00:41:14.800 Some sort of political move

00:41:16.440 Straight after the conclusions come out

00:41:19.600 Of that inquiry

00:41:21.280 Be ready with your strategy

00:41:24.840 Once the final conclusions come out

00:41:27.380 But try and get ahead of it like this

00:41:30.140 It doesn't add up to me

00:41:31.700 doesn't really add up because it just doesn't put the lid back on it does it

00:41:42.020 okay the black wednesday shopping scramble it's not black friday it's black wednesday

00:41:48.260 saying there's not enough of these glasses these special eclipse glasses

00:41:52.100 so many people want them they're running out and there's a scramble for them black wednesday

00:41:57.860 bit of a

00:42:01.940 bit of a stretch from the metro

00:42:04.880 what do you expect

00:42:05.780 what do you expect

00:42:07.300 they're not great journalists are they

00:42:11.080 the Daily Mail

00:42:14.480 a wolf in sheep's clothing

00:42:19.600 the Daily Mail 0.69

00:42:20.700 wearing the skin suit 0.98

00:42:24.500 of a patriot 0.56

00:42:25.460 or a nativist

00:42:27.160 Trying to pretend sometimes that they care about this country and our people

00:42:31.860 When in fact they show their true colours very regularly that they don't

00:42:35.660 They're globalist

00:42:37.540 Anyone who is trying to stop

00:42:40.000 The demographic decline and replacement of our people in our one and only ancestral homeland 0.87

00:42:48.400 People that talk about that want to try and prevent a sectarian nightmare along racial, religious and tribal lines

00:42:55.220 Trying to prevent Britain from descending into

00:42:58.620 A Lebanon, Yugoslavia type hell situation 1.00

00:43:02.240 The mail will try and destroy those people 1.00

00:43:04.420 Try and ruin their reputations and lives and livelihoods

00:43:09.820 I don't trust them

00:43:11.640 I don't think they are actually right of centre

00:43:14.500 Or anything like that

00:43:16.080 I don't think they're patriotic or anything

00:43:18.360 It's just red meat to try and sell papers

00:43:20.000 Alright, Lucy Davis, poor Lucy Davis

00:43:23.960 This is terminally ill 1.00

00:43:25.880 As small boat arrivals

00:43:28.880 Under new PM

00:43:30.360 Hit 3000

00:43:31.580 Just in like a few weeks

00:43:33.420 And unrest grips rural towns

00:43:36.440 Burnham 1.00

00:43:39.080 Middle class areas must take more migrants 1.00

00:43:41.880 Is it the little bit of acceleration we need 1.00

00:43:46.360 It might be

00:43:47.920 It might be 1.00

00:43:50.160 Middle class areas will have to take in more migrants

00:43:56.100 Andy Burnham said last night 1.00

00:43:57.640 Let these Lib Dem voters

00:43:59.960 And middle class Labour voters

00:44:03.140 See what it really means 1.00

00:44:06.300 To live next to third worlders 1.00

00:44:10.520 That have got no intention of integrating 1.00

00:44:12.520 Or even really learning English much

00:44:15.120 And that are involved in organised crime

00:44:17.480 Or just street crime

00:44:18.460 Let them see what that really means

00:44:21.360 And it's not just made up by far-right bigots

00:44:27.180 That it's a problem, that it's an issue

00:44:29.880 That it's not desirable 1.00

00:44:31.420 Let them live next door to a house of Eritreans 1.00

00:44:37.400 Who do nothing but make you feel unsafe 1.00

00:44:42.780 And in fact make you unsafe

00:44:44.820 Maybe it's the little bit of accelerationism we need

00:44:53.380 Alright, the Ayer paper

00:44:55.160 Summer 2026 will be UK's hottest since records began

00:44:58.440 It's going to be hotter than 1976

00:45:00.280 1976, is it hotter than 1976?

00:45:03.480 You could boil an egg on the bonnet of a car in 1976

00:45:06.840 The tarmac was melting in 1976

00:45:10.480 The Financial Times 1.00

00:45:14.880 Oh, Assad's cousin

00:45:16.960 This is quite interesting, a real story

00:45:18.540 In Syria 0.72

00:45:20.400 One of Assad's cousins

00:45:23.680 Who is described as political security

00:45:27.800 He was head of political security

00:45:29.260 Does that mean secret police?

00:45:35.180 If you were too vocal against the Syrian regime

00:45:38.540 And the Assad family

00:45:39.740 Would this guy 0.88

00:45:41.160 Or minions of this guy

00:45:42.520 Come round and make you disappear 1.00

00:45:44.240 May well torture you to death 1.00

00:45:46.640 I'm no fan at all 1.00

00:45:51.380 Of the current Syrian regime

00:45:52.940 Don't get me wrong

00:45:54.420 Not at all 1.00

00:45:55.420 But the Asag family weren't great 1.00

00:45:59.460 They weren't good people really 1.00

00:46:01.100 So it's a difficult job to try and

00:46:05.100 Rule over that part of the world

00:46:08.120 That part of the world has always been

00:46:12.140 A dangerous part

00:46:13.900 Always been a dangerous part of the world

00:46:16.140 A crossroads of the world

00:46:18.200 In various ways

00:46:18.880 That bit of land that today we call Syria

00:46:20.980 Had many names over the millennia

00:46:23.100 A crossroads of all sorts of people

00:46:25.940 From Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

00:46:28.360 And Mesopotamia and Persia

00:46:30.400 And Central Asia 0.99

00:46:31.240 The Central Asian Steppe 0.88

00:46:32.640 And of course from the Balkans

00:46:34.600 And from the Caspian area

00:46:36.420 All come together in that bit of land

00:46:39.420 Today we call Syria 1.00

00:46:40.440 Yeah, always being a land of conflict 1.00

00:46:43.640 Always

00:46:44.160 Really, always

00:46:46.800 It's like a poison chalice to try and rule over that

00:46:49.980 It's always going to be difficult

00:46:51.060 If you don't have a strong man

00:46:52.840 It will be chaos

00:46:55.780 Anyway, again

00:46:57.900 I'm just saying I'm not playing defence 0.58

00:46:59.940 On behalf of the Assad family either

00:47:01.400 Anyway, anyway

00:47:03.940 Assad himself is in Exo isn't he

00:47:07.180 Is he in Russia

00:47:07.800 I believe he lives in Russia doesn't he with his wife

00:47:10.540 Is that right 1.00

00:47:11.620 Anyway

00:47:11.940 One of his cousins that they obviously got

00:47:14.420 He got got

00:47:15.660 He's in a cage now

00:47:17.780 And he's just been sentenced to death

00:47:20.240 As was Bashar al-Assad

00:47:24.180 In absentia

00:47:25.200 If the Syrian regime ever got their hands on him

00:47:30.100 He would be executed it seems

00:47:32.560 He was sentenced to that in absentia

00:47:35.020 Anyway

00:47:36.260 An actual story at least

00:47:38.460 An actual story

00:47:39.540 Alright

00:47:40.360 The star 0.75

00:47:42.820 Actress Lucy Davis doesn't know how long she's got left

00:47:46.140 The son

00:47:51.020 Again the son I gave with Lucy Davis

00:47:53.280 She's got incurable cancer

00:47:55.200 She's at peace

00:47:56.800 Sorry to hear it

00:48:03.040 All the old tabloids 1.00

00:48:06.100 They're all going with Lucy Davis' 1.00

00:48:09.980 Bad diagnosis

00:48:13.400 Alright, they're the front pages

00:48:14.980 They're the front pages for today

00:48:17.240 Alright, should we have a look at our poll?

00:48:20.420 We did a poll, we do a poll every day

00:48:21.760 Most days I forget what me and Harry said we'd do

00:48:24.380 Right at the beginning of the show

00:48:25.840 at like half seven in the morning an hour and a half later i always forget okay what have we got

00:48:30.620 here how he's going to bring it up for me what we got what we got oh we asked you guys are you

00:48:35.720 interested in the eclipse just wanted to get a feeling if you guys are interested we've got over

00:48:40.500 1100 1150 odd votes on that we gave you the options of yes a bit not really and not at all

00:48:49.020 oh and the yes the eyes have it it's pretty much in that exact order so not at all only nine percent 0.91

00:48:56.840 who are you guys get out you're not welcome here go on bugger off this is the wrong show for you

00:49:00.080 don't go don't go i didn't mean i'm joking that was a joke i still love you we can make this work 0.89

00:49:03.740 nine percent say not at all 19 percent say not really

00:49:08.580 32 percent say a bit and coming out on top with 40 a cool 40 percent of you say just straight up yes

00:49:18.360 Okay good

00:49:19.560 Nice

00:49:20.720 Nice

00:49:22.600 I do think

00:49:24.340 People say not at all

00:49:25.960 Really

00:49:27.860 Are you actively

00:49:29.760 Not interested

00:49:30.580 If a full 100%

00:49:32.160 Solar eclipse

00:49:32.820 Was happening

00:49:33.200 Outside your house

00:49:34.080 Someone said

00:49:35.660 Quick come outside

00:49:36.520 You can see

00:49:37.980 One of the most

00:49:38.580 Remarkable things

00:49:39.640 Your eyes will ever see

00:49:40.760 For real

00:49:41.460 You just need to

00:49:42.960 Step outside right now

00:49:43.880 You'd be like

00:49:44.200 Nah

00:49:44.480 Nah I'm watching TV

00:49:46.040 Nah

00:49:47.740 I'm not interested at all

00:49:49.020 I don't know

00:49:52.140 I don't understand

00:49:53.800 I don't understand

00:49:55.180 Alright, what else have we got?

00:49:58.460 Oh, a quick little update on the Tates

00:50:00.760 The brothers Tate

00:50:03.160 They're Islamic converts

00:50:06.880 Andrew says he is, isn't he? 0.98

00:50:12.360 UK prosecutors in America

00:50:14.100 argue that the Tate brothers

00:50:15.640 Are a flight risk

00:50:16.900 Ahead of bail hearing

00:50:17.740 So ever since they were arrested

00:50:19.380 The other day

00:50:20.100 The other week

00:50:20.540 They have been held

00:50:22.160 Effectively on remand

00:50:23.500 What we call remand

00:50:24.460 They're just held in prison

00:50:25.580 And then they've had 0.65

00:50:27.700 The Brits 0.99

00:50:29.420 The British are trying to 1.00

00:50:30.640 Extradite them to Britain 1.00

00:50:31.580 To face trial

00:50:32.420 For alleged crimes

00:50:34.600 The CPS

00:50:35.380 The Crime Prosecution Service

00:50:36.620 Wants to put them on trial

00:50:37.860 In Britain

00:50:38.300 So we have to 0.56

00:50:39.420 Extradition proceedings

00:50:41.000 And the court in Florida

00:50:46.940 Had to talk about

00:50:49.020 Or look at

00:50:49.860 Whether they can be released on bail

00:50:51.740 While all that goes through

00:50:52.920 And the lawyers for the prosecution

00:50:58.240 Or for the extradition

00:50:59.760 Said no you can't

00:51:01.060 You can't let them out on bail

00:51:02.200 Because they'll just

00:51:04.580 Go to another country 0.56

00:51:05.760 They'll just flee

00:51:06.340 And apparently a judge at the moment

00:51:10.760 And a US judge in Florida is considering that one way or another at the moment

00:51:15.400 So, only a small update really on the Brothers Tate and their legal problems

00:51:20.900 Well, we'll see

00:51:24.920 When Andrew Tate was gloating about that a super mosque might be built in the Chocodero right in the middle of London 0.94

00:51:33.840 Right near Piccadilly Circus

00:51:36.000 He went from someone I mildly disliked

00:51:39.640 Wasn't particularly interested in

00:51:41.260 To somebody I actively disliked

00:51:44.360 When he did that, when he came out with that take

00:51:47.920 Floating about it

00:51:51.340 But you're a political enemy of mine then, Andrew

00:52:00.640 We'll see if he gets extradited to Britain

00:52:02.860 Then what sort of case the CPS bring against him

00:52:05.500 And then see if he's guilty of any very, very, very serious sex crime

00:52:10.040 Alright, let's see what else we got 1.00

00:52:12.820 Oh yeah, they're saying Burnham hasn't got any balls 0.98

00:52:16.240 I think it was Nigel who said Burnham hasn't got the balls to stop the small boats 0.98

00:52:22.260 Here's an opinion piece in the Express 0.98

00:52:27.120 Burnham needs to grow a pair

00:52:29.800 Tell us killers will not be locked up, just do it

00:52:35.500 Burnham needs to grow a pair 0.92

00:52:36.860 He's got, on the sun, small balls crisis 0.98

00:52:40.900 Burnham doesn't have the balls to deal with boat crisis 1.00

00:52:44.380 Slams Farage, there you go, after 230 legal migrants 0.99

00:52:47.780 So, the size of Andy Burnham's balls are in question at the moment 1.00

00:52:52.460 Yeah, you know, to be a leader, metaphorically 0.98

00:52:56.780 Let's not talk about his actual, physical, real-life testes

00:53:00.380 Let's not go there 0.99

00:53:01.380 Metaphorically, politically, his balls politically 0.99

00:53:04.560 To be a leader, you do need some balls, right? 0.99

00:53:10.420 You do need a bit of backbone, a bit of spine, a bit of guts 0.99

00:53:14.360 You need trousers, yeah?

00:53:19.680 You need to be able to make really quite difficult decisions

00:53:22.540 Even morally ambiguous decisions

00:53:25.840 Where it's not clear, there isn't one right answer

00:53:28.480 Certainly that won't please everyone

00:53:30.220 need to be able to do that fearlessly over and over and over again not just wring your hands yes

00:53:36.500 we're listening we're going to try to um no need someone who's decisive that's what Keir Starmer

00:53:45.100 wasn't wasn't it that's what that's what Keir Starmer's ultimately his problem was is that when

00:53:49.760 faced with any real big decision it was just like this mumbling bumbling hole clutching nothing man

00:53:55.480 Oh, I don't know what to do

00:53:56.900 Okay, I guess I'll make this decision

00:53:59.440 Oh no, my own backbenchers and the papers

00:54:01.340 Don't think it's a good decision

00:54:02.580 Alright, I'll just U-turn on it then

00:54:03.740 Okay, okay

00:54:04.300 No, no, no, no, no, no, no

00:54:06.020 That's completely wrong

00:54:07.180 You want someone with a vision and a view

00:54:10.660 And sometimes they'll make decisions you don't like

00:54:12.940 Even if they're your fan

00:54:14.720 And 90% of the time they do what you would like to see done

00:54:16.900 Sometimes they won't, though

00:54:18.360 That's a leader

00:54:20.340 That's a leader

00:54:22.080 Burnham's no leader of men, is he?

00:54:25.480 Andy Burnham

00:54:27.460 No sternum Burnham

00:54:29.000 He hasn't got the sternum for it

00:54:31.560 He's barely a man

00:54:34.680 Really isn't he 0.94

00:54:35.440 He's a Fabian 0.99

00:54:37.960 Wet rag 1.00

00:54:39.860 He's an empty shirt

00:54:41.320 He's a nothing man

00:54:43.200 A nowhere man 0.99

00:54:44.140 A child 0.92

00:54:47.600 Like a student activist

00:54:51.740 At best

00:54:53.820 He's weak 0.81

00:54:56.120 A weakling

00:54:57.720 Alright, shall we move on

00:55:04.280 Shall we do understand history

00:55:05.300 5 to 9, why not

00:55:06.840 I'm on the main podcast today so can't be here all morning

00:55:10.120 Tune in at 1pm for that

00:55:12.880 Do like this stream by the way

00:55:14.260 Give it a thumbs up, double thumbs up

00:55:16.020 Make sure you sub to the channel

00:55:20.200 Get the bell on

00:55:21.020 Alright, on this day in history

00:55:24.060 The 12th of August

00:55:24.920 Down through the centuries

00:55:26.040 Nay, the millennia

00:55:26.780 What happened of note?

00:55:29.200 Okay

00:55:29.440 On this day in the year 1121

00:55:31.800 The Battle of Adighori

00:55:33.880 Might be pronouncing that incorrectly

00:55:35.840 Which is the Georgian army

00:55:37.780 Under King David the Builder 0.51

00:55:39.280 Wins a decisive victory

00:55:40.400 Over the renowned Seljuk commander 0.99

00:55:42.480 Igulhazi 0.99

00:55:43.780 No idea how to pronounce that

00:55:45.220 I don't even know about that battle in any detail

00:55:49.160 Why would a

00:55:50.980 12th century battle

00:55:52.780 Between the Seljuk Turks and Georgian people

00:55:55.720 One thing I will say 1.00

00:55:56.780 There's another bit about

00:55:58.380 A little bit about Georgian history

00:56:01.680 But not going back that far

00:56:02.920 Where I've done a long form series

00:56:05.920 On my own channel, History Bro there

00:56:09.260 There's no paywall there, you can go there

00:56:10.580 Got a long form series about the young Stalin

00:56:12.800 Hours and hours and hours

00:56:15.640 Was it a 10 part series? I can't remember

00:56:18.380 Hours and hours and hours talking about

00:56:20.980 The life of

00:56:22.780 Yusuf Yugashili

00:56:24.360 The Loper

00:56:28.160 The milkman

00:56:29.360 The pockmarked one

00:56:30.900 Korber 0.99

00:56:33.220 Stalin

00:56:35.520 From his early life

00:56:37.620 Through to 1917

00:56:40.440 Hours and hours and hours just on that

00:56:42.520 Do you want to know what the childhood was like 0.70

00:56:44.800 Of Stalin

00:56:45.440 From Red Korber

00:56:48.380 He had many, many names.

00:56:50.740 Yusuf Yugashili was his real name.

00:56:52.040 Anyway, in that, I talk all about Georgian history for a bit.

00:56:55.560 Sort of 19th century, 18th into 19th century Georgian history

00:57:00.280 to set up the world in which Yusuf Yugashili was born.

00:57:06.040 Uncle Joe.

00:57:10.820 And, well, Georgia has always been a bulwark, 1.00

00:57:15.600 A stall against the incursions of Islam 1.00

00:57:19.520 To this day they're very, very, very Christian 0.99

00:57:21.560 Very proud of it 1.00

00:57:22.460 Explicitly not Muslim 1.00

00:57:24.880 That's where the Muslim holds 1.00

00:57:27.620 The higher tide in that part of the world 1.00

00:57:29.800 In that region

00:57:30.400 Crashed against 1.00

00:57:32.460 An impenetrable wall of Christianity 1.00

00:57:35.220 The Seljuk Turk 1.00

00:57:38.280 Muslims 1.00

00:57:42.160 Okay, alright 1.00

00:57:43.200 On this day in 1480

00:57:44.800 The Ottoman troops conquer Otranto in southern Italy after a 15-day siege,

00:57:52.040 killing 12,000, enslaving 5,000, and beheading 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.

00:57:59.320 That's odd. I thought it was a religion of peace. 0.84

00:58:04.840 Is it not a religion of peace?

00:58:08.500 That's what David Cameron said.

00:58:11.280 That's what Obama said. Is that not true?

00:58:13.460 Is it not? Did they mislead us with that characterisation?

00:58:18.460 Oh, I guess so.

00:58:24.460 On this day in 1851, American inventor Isaac Singer patents his famous sewing machine.

00:58:30.460 I think to this day, aren't there Singer sewing machines?

00:58:32.460 Is there? To this day? Yeah. Okay.

00:58:36.460 Very mildly interesting factoid that one, but okay, there you go.

00:58:39.460 Oh look, the Model T Ford.

00:58:41.460 On this day in 1908, Ford Motor Company builds its first Model T with Henry Ford himself,

00:58:49.080 which Henry Ford himself tests on a hunting trip to Wisconsin and northern Michigan.

00:58:55.440 Yeah, the Model T, which you can have, you can have it in any colour you like, as long as it's black.

00:59:02.820 That was one of the things Henry Ford said.

00:59:05.160 Henry Ford's a very interesting person.

00:59:06.740 Not great, not necessarily a lovely guy, but very interesting life, very interesting person, Henry Ford.

00:59:11.460 the model t i think if i had bill gates money i might own a model t wouldn't probably drive

00:59:20.340 it around much i'd keep it in like a sort of show garage but i think i'd like to own one

00:59:24.460 just for the sake of it as a piece of massive objet d'art basically

00:59:28.400 interested in that interested in that okay all right on this day in 1981 don estridge unveils

00:59:37.320 The company's first personal computer

00:59:39.180 The IBM PC

00:59:40.560 At New York's

00:59:41.800 Wardorf Astoria Hotel

00:59:43.060 Priced at $1,565

00:59:45.560 With

00:59:46.480 A massive

00:59:48.200 16 kilobytes of RAM

00:59:50.620 Helping to bring computing

00:59:56.400 To the masses

00:59:57.000 $1,500 for 16 KBs

01:00:02.560 You've got to start somewhere

01:00:05.260 You've got to start somewhere

01:00:06.500 There you go, 1981

01:00:09.700 Soon after I was born

01:00:11.520 I was only, what, two days old when that happened

01:00:13.420 Born into the computer age

01:00:17.940 Oh, sorry

01:00:19.820 Born before the age of the personal computer

01:00:22.860 Old school

01:00:25.400 Old school, the old analogue world

01:00:28.840 Yeah, most of my childhood

01:00:31.360 And even early teenage years

01:00:33.440 No one had a computer at home

01:00:35.080 No one

01:00:36.780 You go in someone's house

01:00:38.660 Go around there for dinner or whatever

01:00:40.400 There's no computer in the corner

01:00:42.720 No one's got a laptop

01:00:43.460 No one's got a mobile phone

01:00:44.600 No one

01:00:45.060 No one

01:00:45.800 They just weren't a thing

01:00:46.980 Even into the early 90s

01:00:50.360 You might once in a blue moon

01:00:52.840 See a rich person

01:00:54.380 Very rich person

01:00:55.120 With a massive brick of a mobile phone

01:00:57.400 But essentially all normal people 1.00

01:00:59.160 Certainly any working class people

01:01:01.080 I was brought up very working class

01:01:02.120 No one had a mobile phone

01:01:04.080 No one

01:01:05.080 I was born and raised into an old world that just doesn't exist anymore

01:01:10.160 Just doesn't exist

01:01:11.620 That's a mobile phone at all

01:01:12.980 Not a smartphone

01:01:14.500 Even the old Nokias where you could only send text messages and get phone calls on it 0.98

01:01:18.900 Even those didn't exist I mean

01:01:20.840 The idea of a smartphone

01:01:22.520 When I was a kid and even an early teenager

01:01:24.620 The concept of a smartphone

01:01:27.420 Where you've got a touchscreen thing in your hand

01:01:29.660 And access to

01:01:30.980 A world wide web

01:01:34.340 That has effectively got all the knowledge of human civilization on it

01:01:39.540 And all you need to do is touch the screen

01:01:43.460 There'll be hyperlinks and links to almost anything you want

01:01:47.220 Almost anything you want

01:01:48.480 All knowledge, almost

01:01:51.900 Anything you want to buy

01:01:53.620 Connects to almost anyone

01:01:55.960 That was in your hand

01:01:58.020 That was sci-fi

01:01:58.820 That was beyond what they had in Star Trek

01:02:02.140 Like the old communicators

01:02:04.700 In Star Trek

01:02:05.940 And modern smartphones

01:02:07.440 Way better

01:02:08.460 More advanced than that

01:02:09.380 It was pure sci-fi

01:02:11.060 In fact even sci-fi writers

01:02:12.680 Wouldn't go that far

01:02:13.520 To describe such a thing really

01:02:14.880 Perhaps in thousands of years

01:02:17.400 You might dream of something like that 1.00

01:02:18.780 I look at older people

01:02:25.260 Older than me

01:02:25.880 People that are in there

01:02:27.000 Now that are in their

01:02:28.120 70s or 80s

01:02:29.380 Right

01:02:30.340 And they were born

01:02:31.840 into a world where it was pencil and paper and typewriters and you'd phone up and get an operator

01:02:41.240 hello operator can you put me through to them they grew up in that world

01:02:44.760 they grew up in a world where you'd have to go to the end of the street

01:02:50.700 and get a pail of coal from the coal board and take it home

01:02:56.720 A world where a lot of people

01:03:01.800 Might not have a telephone at all

01:03:03.600 In their home

01:03:04.240 At all

01:03:05.080 Even a landline

01:03:05.900 A lot of people 1.00

01:03:07.420 Poor people 0.99

01:03:08.060 Crazy isn't it

01:03:11.640 Then you get 0.98

01:03:13.340 The modern day Zoomers 1.00

01:03:14.760 And they take it all for granted 1.00

01:03:16.640 And it's not their fault

01:03:17.480 I'm not throwing any shade at them

01:03:18.560 That's the way it always is 1.00

01:03:19.660 The younger generations 0.55

01:03:20.840 Take what they grew up with

01:03:22.040 Completely for granted

01:03:23.040 How could they not

01:03:23.780 How could they not 1.00

01:03:24.620 There's no criticism of Zoomers there 1.00

01:03:26.200 But 1.00

01:03:26.400 You can never really describe that world to them

01:03:30.460 I mean you can describe it

01:03:31.460 But they can never really understand what it was like

01:03:33.460 On the TV there's four channels

01:03:36.740 And then at night

01:03:39.700 At like midnight or whatever

01:03:41.640 All the programming stops

01:03:43.080 And there's no TV all night long

01:03:44.460 No TV

01:03:47.200 If you wanted some sort of entertainment

01:03:50.200 You picked up a book

01:03:51.160 You would have to pick up a book

01:03:53.180 Or have a conversation with someone in real life

01:03:55.280 Not that long ago

01:04:00.460 It's not long ago

01:04:01.200 I'm only 45 right

01:04:02.960 I'm not that old

01:04:03.800 But

01:04:04.640 God

01:04:06.060 The exponential

01:04:07.800 Acceleration

01:04:10.080 Of

01:04:10.840 Of progress

01:04:12.560 That curve's just going

01:04:16.700 Almost vertical

01:04:17.740 When I'm truly

01:04:21.520 When little Harry

01:04:22.500 He's a 21

01:04:23.720 When he's an 80 year old man

01:04:26.380 What will the world be like

01:04:29.680 You almost can't guess

01:04:32.160 If I, in 1991

01:04:34.760 Could barely dream of a smartphone

01:04:37.500 Or couldn't dream of a smartphone

01:04:38.640 No one did really

01:04:39.740 It was just sci-fi

01:04:42.000 And what, like 30 years later

01:04:46.020 It's a thing

01:04:46.800 35 years later

01:04:48.800 In another 60 years from now

01:04:53.180 What will we have

01:04:54.460 We will be the computers

01:04:56.160 You'll have some sort of chip in you at some point

01:04:59.100 A sort of retina thing

01:05:01.140 Hooked up to your brain

01:05:02.720 And you can just think about the internet

01:05:06.800 And it brings up a screen inside your own vision

01:05:09.300 I don't know, I don't know

01:05:10.300 That's just a guess, all that was just a guess

01:05:12.440 Computers will be so important to us

01:05:16.640 The internet, so integrated

01:05:19.880 That we become it

01:05:23.020 In a way

01:05:24.500 Cybernetics

01:05:27.060 The beginnings of becoming a cyborg

01:05:29.460 Becoming completely integrated with it

01:05:31.540 People are almost integrated with their phone, right?

01:05:36.680 I make a point of not being on my phone all the time

01:05:39.120 I make a very deliberate point of it

01:05:42.460 Of not going on Twitter most of the weekend

01:05:45.840 And stuff like that

01:05:46.880 But a lot of people, younger people particularly

01:05:49.020 It's beyond addicted

01:05:50.980 It's not an addiction

01:05:53.240 It's something you might be able to kick

01:05:54.440 No, no, no

01:05:54.900 They've got their phone in their hand at all times

01:05:56.940 At all times

01:05:58.080 If they're not actually actively on it

01:06:00.920 It's on them

01:06:01.660 Physically on them

01:06:02.620 I walk away from my phone

01:06:03.720 Often, leave it in another room

01:06:06.360 Don't want to see it

01:06:07.680 Don't worry

01:06:08.400 A lot of people are not like that

01:06:11.340 If a lot of people

01:06:12.460 If you said

01:06:13.200 Look, we can put a chip 0.99

01:06:14.940 In like the back of your neck 0.97

01:06:16.300 In your spine

01:06:17.080 We can do some sort of retina scan thing

01:06:19.800 And a chip in your brain

01:06:20.740 And you can just surf the internet

01:06:23.960 Inside your own mind

01:06:25.640 And it brings up a display

01:06:27.980 Inside your vision

01:06:29.000 Wouldn't lots of people

01:06:32.060 Just say yes please

01:06:33.500 Just hook it to my veins 1.00

01:06:34.680 Shut up and take my money 0.99

01:06:36.420 Alright, bit of a tangent there 0.99

01:06:43.800 Should we

01:06:44.420 What am I blathering on about

01:06:46.780 Let's get back

01:06:48.180 Wait, where am I, what's going on now

01:06:50.120 what year is it where are we all right let's have a look at our rumble rants and super chats

01:06:54.840 let me do this with my my mics i can see left hand side of my screen is global church history

01:07:00.900 going to be in at number one yeah he is he is in at number one global church history he got two

01:07:10.200 factors for us here today in 1099 b1 bl godfrey defeated the fatimids at ascalon oh brilliant

01:07:20.100 lovely he's talking about Godfrey de Bouillon the first crusade do you think I've got long

01:07:26.640 form content all about the first crusade on my history theme show O'Day's Epox that's behind

01:07:30.800 the paywall do consider signing up at lotuses.com for so there's five pound a month promise to see

01:07:34.440 a membership do you think I've got long form content they're talking all about the first

01:07:37.160 crusade oh yeah yeah yeah for sure Godfrey de Bouillon the the battle of Ascalon so

01:07:42.520 that's like the that's the end of the first crusade that's the final act in a way in the

01:07:48.120 First Crusade, the Crusaders, all the greats, Bohemond of Taranto, Raymond of Toulouse,

01:08:00.180 Godfrey de Bouillon, Tancred, all the greats are there, they get to remarkably take Jerusalem, 0.94

01:08:07.340 and the Fatimids, the Egyptian, North African, Muslim empire, sends an army twice the size 0.96

01:08:16.280 Of Godfrey's 0.97

01:08:17.540 To Jerusalem to take it back

01:08:19.820 And they clash at Ascalon

01:08:22.820 Which is on the coast

01:08:23.600 And even though the Crusaders 0.98

01:08:26.440 The Franks 0.96

01:08:27.220 The Christians are outnumbered 1.00

01:08:29.580 The Latins outnumbered two to one 1.00

01:08:31.160 We still smash them up 1.00

01:08:33.300 Because knights in the late 11th century

01:08:35.780 Are just way better than your average 0.78

01:08:37.820 Fat amid soldier

01:08:38.860 Way better

01:08:40.340 They're almost like a tank on the battlefield

01:08:43.680 Can't be hurt almost

01:08:46.280 Like 1,200 knights and 9,000 foot soldiers

01:08:51.280 Smashes up 20,000 Fatimids, easy peasy 1.00

01:09:00.280 Alright 0.94

01:09:02.280 What else have we got here? The second factoid from global church history

01:09:06.280 That's his real name, that's what he was christened

01:09:08.280 His mum and dad decided to call him, his Christian name, Global

01:09:12.280 They chose as a middle name for him, Church

01:09:15.280 and their surname is history.

01:09:22.880 Okay, on...

01:09:24.480 Of course, that's a joke.

01:09:27.140 On this day in 1812,

01:09:30.280 Wellington entered Madrid.

01:09:31.860 Ah, the Peninsular War.

01:09:33.120 Do you think I've got all sorts of content?

01:09:34.720 More than one episode all about the Peninsular War,

01:09:36.820 talking about it for hours and hours and hours

01:09:37.980 on loadseaters.com.

01:09:38.920 Yes, I have.

01:09:39.980 The Peninsular War,

01:09:41.520 Wellington and the British Army

01:09:43.140 Helping the Portuguese

01:09:44.860 First liberating Portugal 0.97

01:09:46.360 And then all of Spain

01:09:47.520 From Napoleon's legions

01:09:49.740 Yeah

01:09:51.660 Although

01:09:52.260 Where we enter

01:09:54.520 Is it at the Battle of Salamanca

01:09:55.780 I talked about that one before

01:09:56.720 Didn't I

01:09:57.160 When Wellington's watching the battlefield

01:09:59.460 And he sees the

01:10:01.340 He sees the French marshal

01:10:03.580 Make a tiny mistake

01:10:04.960 And he's like

01:10:05.500 By God that will do

01:10:06.520 Then we win the Battle of Salamanca

01:10:08.560 Leaves Madrid open

01:10:10.140 He marches into Madrid

01:10:11.420 But

01:10:12.180 He has to leave later that same year

01:10:14.680 By October 1812

01:10:17.040 Wellington has to

01:10:18.980 Retreat from Madrid 1.00

01:10:20.300 As the French rally and push back 0.99

01:10:22.320 But then it's only like 0.57

01:10:25.120 Less than a year after that

01:10:26.720 We retake

01:10:28.940 Retake Madrid again

01:10:31.020 And don't lose it that time 0.97

01:10:32.580 The Peninsular War was a real ding dong 0.99

01:10:35.180 Back and forth

01:10:35.860 Real back and forth

01:10:38.240 Massive swings in fortune 1.00

01:10:42.180 but after we took madrid the first time it was that sort of broke the back of the french in

01:10:46.580 spain in a couple of different ways there are many more battles big battles even

01:10:54.260 all right good old sir arthur oh sorry the lord wellington rather

01:11:01.300 old nosy okay do you think i've got content just about him just about his life not just

01:11:06.980 the peninsula but all about him as well yeah yeah yeah multiple parts yeah

01:11:12.180 Okay, Geoffrey Farnall says there's an old BBC documentary series called Empire Warriors about the period of decolonisation.

01:11:22.220 Mad Mitch in Aden, Malaya, the Mau Mau's, etc.

01:11:27.120 It was in Kenya, wasn't it?

01:11:28.520 It's remarkably even-handed for the BBC and actually good.

01:11:32.080 Oh, well, interesting. I'll check that.

01:11:34.360 Yeah, the BBC wasn't as insane and subversive as it is now.

01:11:38.960 It's always been left-leaning and a bit subversive

01:11:41.520 But nowhere near as bad as it is now

01:11:43.420 Nowhere near

01:11:44.140 Find some old BBC documentary from even the 90s

01:11:48.200 If not older than that

01:11:50.380 It'll be probably quite fair-handed and reasonable

01:11:52.320 And like a good thing

01:11:53.680 Probably

01:11:54.720 You might still get a slight taint

01:11:58.000 But now it's just completely masked off insanity, isn't it, the BBC?

01:12:04.580 They seem like they can't make a documentary

01:12:06.420 Unless it's anti-white, anti-Western 0.92

01:12:08.920 anti-British. They're just completely captured by our enemies. Yeah, if it's an old one, 0.87

01:12:17.900 it might be good. Yeah, a lot of old BBC documentaries are very good. That's true.

01:12:24.420 Okay. Pigdog5150, the next three are all you, so I'll read them in one go. Morning, work

01:12:31.160 morning. You say you worked finance for 20 years, left to become a farmer. Oh yeah,

01:12:37.020 You mentioned yesterday you're a farmer

01:12:38.800 And I was like oh yeah I'm a farmer that's interesting

01:12:40.820 Left to become a farmer

01:12:42.800 No big deal don't like to brag about it

01:12:45.240 Got to leave some

01:12:47.580 For everyone else 1.00

01:12:48.480 Get enough attention from the ladies 0.98

01:12:51.500 And tax man as it is 1.00

01:12:52.780 Then you put mostly the tax man

01:12:55.320 Then you put only the tax man

01:12:56.760 With the crying and laughing faces

01:13:01.100 Okay

01:13:04.460 It's quite funny

01:13:05.420 Oh and the next one's also

01:13:07.980 Picked Dog

01:13:08.280 Quote yesterday

01:13:09.560 Attributed to Solomon

01:13:11.080 Ecclesiastes 7.1

01:13:13.340 Or 7.1

01:13:14.520 Oh right okay

01:13:18.280 That was a good quote yesterday

01:13:19.640 Wasn't it

01:13:20.580 That's

01:13:21.640 Supposed to be King Solomon

01:13:22.920 Is it

01:13:23.260 Just last week

01:13:25.920 I listened to the audio book

01:13:26.900 Of King Solomon's Mind

01:13:28.020 By H. Ryder Haggard

01:13:29.120 Sorry it's only a

01:13:30.460 Story

01:13:31.060 It's only a boy's own novel

01:13:32.860 It's not

01:13:33.280 Nothing to do with real history

01:13:34.200 Or anything but

01:13:34.700 It's funny you should mention King Solomon

01:13:37.220 Okay

01:13:38.940 And his many wives

01:13:40.700 Okay the next to A Fallen Firebird

01:13:44.700 You say

01:13:45.120 Our normie problem

01:13:47.140 Is largely a lack of imagination 1.00

01:13:50.020 Normies drift through life 1.00

01:13:51.900 Almost unaware that civilizations 1.00

01:13:53.560 Can, do and will end

01:13:56.660 History is always looking for its next victim

01:13:59.100 Very profound thing to say

01:14:02.120 Can't fault you on that

01:14:03.940 and then you put also bow another another novel check how's your writing going uh been injured a

01:14:12.520 long time and looks like been injured a long time and looks like it's going to be a while so i've

01:14:17.480 continued writing my fantasy novel as well get it done son yeah thanks for the kick up the behind

01:14:22.680 there yeah it's going all right actually um over the last few weeks over the last month or so i've

01:14:30.380 done a lot more than i usually do but for me it's a very very slow process i must admit it's sort of

01:14:37.120 an agonizingly slow process for me because i sort of i sort of um and ah and kind of agonize over

01:14:43.840 the nearly all word selection like if it's not really really quite good if i'm not really quite

01:14:49.420 happy with it and then i stall loads i need the muse to be upon me in the first place that sounds

01:14:55.820 so lame doesn't it but I can't just force myself to sit down and write and something good comes out

01:15:01.240 that doesn't work I have to be in almost exactly the right frame of mind the right mood and have

01:15:05.960 thought about it loads and then even then it's like getting blood from a stone to I rewrite it

01:15:13.640 and rewrite it and like then that's not quite the right word and then oh I use that I use that

01:15:18.600 adjective already in this whole novel I can't use it again all that sort of stuff I mean I'm in my

01:15:24.600 head a bit too much to write novels really i'm trying though i am trying hopefully fingers

01:15:28.640 crossed i will eventually get it done but well i will get it done i've promised myself i will get

01:15:34.160 it done it still won't be anytime soon i wouldn't have thought every now and again again like the

01:15:41.680 muse visits me and i'll just like burn i'll get like a thousand words two thousand words out i'll

01:15:48.920 get a couple of pages worth done just like and it's quite good i only need a little bit of

01:15:53.460 polishing but that's rare for me that's rare if I could do that every day if I could do a thousand

01:15:59.000 or two thousand words every day just at night you know before bed maybe after dinner but before bed

01:16:05.680 sit down for an hour or two and just write a solid quality couple of thousand words but I can't I've

01:16:11.400 tried that loads I've tried that for years tried doing that for years and years and years it doesn't

01:16:16.000 work for me for me it just doesn't flow I don't know how people do it I don't know how people

01:16:23.120 write consistently quality fiction day after day after day quality dialogue fictional dialogue

01:16:30.780 how do you do that i don't anyway anyway all right let's move on from that let's move on from that

01:16:35.600 thanks for asking though i appreciate it and the last rumble rant here is robert

01:16:39.760 robert 42069 he says i can confirm that there has been a black market formed in my kids school's

01:16:46.920 parents whatsapp group for eclipse glasses

01:16:49.580 i've got what the last pair of eclipse glasses mums

01:16:55.520 i'll start the bidding at ten thousand pounds

01:16:59.980 what do you say okay one enterprising individual has had enough foresight to

01:17:06.180 buy hundreds from aliexpress i don't know what

01:17:09.720 aliexpress is but okay yeah well good for them they are very

01:17:14.000 enterprising yeah well done i saw a niche in the market capitalized brilliant stories

01:17:20.480 all just time good on them i suppose i mean you just give them out for free that'd be nice wouldn't

01:17:27.360 it that would be a nice thing to do but i guess not all right let's do the super chat the youtube

01:17:34.240 super chats well there's 20 plus of them so let's get through it rodney is in at number one today

01:17:40.160 Rod underscore knee is number one

01:17:42.560 Is top of the pops

01:17:43.620 On YouTube today

01:17:45.560 He says

01:17:46.360 It's painfully clear that most western politicians

01:17:50.000 Are mere puppets of those that want to destroy civilization

01:17:53.320 Yeah it feels that way doesn't it

01:17:54.920 It feels exactly like that doesn't it

01:17:58.300 That they want to destroy our civilization

01:18:01.380 The fabric of our society

01:18:02.740 Our people

01:18:04.800 Yeah it feels like that

01:18:07.920 It really does

01:18:08.900 James Lee Pevenhall says

01:18:12.100 Where your eclipse specs

01:18:14.440 Scientists say

01:18:15.680 The atmosphere is too clean

01:18:18.060 Less filtering

01:18:21.080 The reason why infrared

01:18:23.320 Is getting to the surface and causing heat

01:18:25.820 IR not being absorbed

01:18:29.980 By soot in the atmosphere

01:18:31.520 Infrared

01:18:33.300 Not being absorbed by soot

01:18:35.880 In the atmosphere

01:18:36.540 It's interesting

01:18:37.700 I'm going to see if I can get a pair of these glasses from somewhere

01:18:42.660 In fact, oh no, that's it

01:18:44.240 I'm sure I've got some in a drawer somewhere at home

01:18:46.420 Sure I have

01:18:48.020 Because I don't really want to look at even sort of 4% of the slither of the sun

01:18:54.220 With my naked eye

01:18:55.540 Well, even if you try to

01:18:58.120 You can't for more than a moment

01:18:59.600 It's just too much

01:19:01.160 You can't really, even if you try

01:19:03.240 But if you do try

01:19:04.820 Yeah, don't do that

01:19:06.800 really really don't do that okay MQSSS says will you finally wear your monocle you mean

01:19:16.880 monocle monocle you put monocular to watch the eclipse well burn my eye out even faster

01:19:24.880 I know I'll look directly at the eclipse to destroy your retina I'll do it magnified yeah

01:19:33.640 my face is on fire now my actual eyeball is on fire no okay it's not funny that would be a horrible

01:19:44.200 horrible image that is okay mr dicky bingo not dinky bingo once i misread it first i misread

01:19:50.360 his name i called him mr dinky bingo that's not that's not correct dicky bingo he says how are

01:19:55.640 he says my 97 year old dad used to be a welder um after i've sorted his tea this evening

01:20:05.160 i'm going to get his old welding mask out and watch the eclipse and we can watch the eclipse

01:20:09.760 together nice yeah that'll do it like a welder's thing that would probably way better than one of

01:20:15.540 these and those plastic things you can get cool yeah good idea excellent idea i'd rather that

01:20:24.000 I'd rather a full welding mask

01:20:25.640 To watch it with

01:20:26.760 To be perfectly honest

01:20:27.660 James Leap Heaven Hall again says

01:20:30.380 Volcanoes, Tambora, Krakatoa

01:20:34.520 St Helens

01:20:35.340 And Hunga Tunga

01:20:37.360 Cooled the northern atmosphere

01:20:39.860 Lots of soot, ash and water droplets

01:20:41.960 Absorbing infrared

01:20:44.160 Yeah yeah

01:20:44.880 Giant blasts of ash and soot and pumice

01:20:47.660 Into the atmosphere

01:20:48.660 Will have a cooling effect

01:20:50.220 Yeah yeah yeah

01:20:50.820 So I like

01:20:52.400 There was a classic

01:20:53.440 What it was the early 19th century

01:20:55.460 Like 1820 odd

01:20:58.140 Something like that

01:20:58.900 When Krakatoa went up

01:21:01.680 Big time

01:21:03.160 Down in South East Asia 0.99

01:21:04.860 So much soot and particles

01:21:07.680 Of various types

01:21:08.780 In the atmosphere

01:21:09.800 But in Europe it caused a cooling

01:21:12.360 There was a year where they said it was a year without a summer

01:21:14.960 And it was really bad for crops

01:21:17.160 Crop failing and stuff

01:21:18.140 Oh wait was it the late 18th century actually

01:21:20.040 Sorry was it the late 18th century

01:21:21.540 Anyway

01:21:22.200 Yeah

01:21:24.800 You think, oh, volcanoes release loads of lava and heat

01:21:28.140 No, only in a very, very, very

01:21:30.580 Close to the volcano, is that true?

01:21:33.920 The wider effect is a cooling one

01:21:35.760 Yeah, absolutely right, you're absolutely right

01:21:37.240 100% right, okay

01:21:38.900 Stu Sutton 1977 says

01:21:42.140 The eclipse is just Eamon Holmes blocking the sun

01:21:45.140 Get well soon, Eames

01:21:49.880 It's just a silly in-joke

01:21:52.460 We mean no disrespect by it

01:21:55.520 Okay, we'll see

01:21:56.400 My problem with the Eamon Holmes thing

01:22:00.480 Because I haven't heard any real update on his health

01:22:02.100 Is that one day we might get the news that

01:22:04.660 Mr Holmes has passed away

01:22:07.100 And then all these jokes will be

01:22:09.920 In hindsight

01:22:11.460 Not just in slightly bad taste

01:22:15.480 But in very bad taste

01:22:16.840 Or maybe he would have liked it

01:22:19.600 because he knows us all in good faith

01:22:22.880 and we don't mean anything by it

01:22:23.980 and the joke really is

01:22:25.820 ultimately the comedy is derived from the fact

01:22:28.080 that Eamon Holmes is a lovely person

01:22:29.880 and absolutely wouldn't do anything wrong

01:22:31.900 he's completely innocent of any crimes

01:22:34.020 the comedy is derived from that

01:22:36.680 that he's the opposite person to Hugh Edwards

01:22:40.120 I wonder if anyone will ever let Eamon Holmes know

01:22:47.180 That there's this in joke on this show

01:22:49.600 If he does ever find out about it

01:22:53.820 I hope he takes it in good humour

01:22:58.120 It will soon, Ames

01:23:00.400 For real

01:23:01.220 For real 1.00

01:23:02.340 Okay, TYGR8Tiger

01:23:07.100 Says

01:23:07.760 Get Charlie Downs on the LBC 0.75

01:23:11.800 Low Seaters Breakfast Club

01:23:13.360 Don't you forget about me 0.99

01:23:15.000 Or Slovenia will put an embargo 0.99

01:23:18.640 On all Islander issues henceforth

01:23:20.800 Charlie's been on twice, hasn't he?

01:23:24.300 In fact, I talked to him yesterday

01:23:26.320 I talked to him just yesterday

01:23:27.240 And he will come back on

01:23:28.620 Not immediately or anything

01:23:31.080 Not like later this week

01:23:32.160 Or perhaps not next week

01:23:33.100 But at some point

01:23:34.000 At some point we'll absolutely have him back on

01:23:36.040 100%

01:23:36.780 Well, hopefully, fingers crossed

01:23:39.100 Should do, absolutely should do

01:23:40.360 There's no reason why we won't

01:23:41.760 But, okay, alright

01:23:42.640 Tiger again says

01:23:43.940 Also the reason for the weird spelling of certain words

01:23:47.120 Is YouTube being a CNT

01:23:50.520 Otherwise it doesn't let me send that chat

01:23:55.720 Fair enough

01:23:56.580 No fair enough yeah

01:23:58.480 There's ways around certain things

01:24:00.980 It won't let you type right

01:24:02.800 Or if you type it it's just like no we can't send that

01:24:04.720 We're not sending that

01:24:05.320 There'll be ways around it

01:24:07.080 Nearly always

01:24:08.740 Okay

01:24:10.080 Double A Batteries 2001

01:24:12.080 That's their name says

01:24:12.880 don't apologize for swearing Bo it's passion I thank you I appreciate that it's just this show

01:24:19.880 I agree with you I agree with you thanks saying that but this show when we talked about the

01:24:25.540 concept of it me and Carl and a few others in Lotus he just talked about it at a conceptual

01:24:30.040 level one of the things was because Carl doesn't like swearing in general but every now and again

01:24:36.420 you'll still find the odd f-bomb on the main podcast from time to time even from Carl once

01:24:40.020 blue moon uh it's supposed to be clean anyway lotus eaters but particularly the breakfast show

01:24:46.340 because the idea is sort of breakfast time or even drive time and there may well be little kids in

01:24:51.940 the room it's not it's not likely to be someone just an adult just watching it on their phone

01:24:57.220 there could well be a little kiddie in the room or in the car while it's playing

01:25:02.900 That was their thinking

01:25:05.820 That's the idea

01:25:06.420 So

01:25:06.920 Okay

01:25:07.420 But thanks anyway

01:25:08.620 Double A Batteries 0.98

01:25:09.500 Saying don't apologise for swearing 1.00

01:25:11.120 If you don't mind

01:25:12.160 Hearing me swear

01:25:13.220 Head over to State of Politics

01:25:15.580 State of Politics

01:25:21.660 Where

01:25:23.060 I swear loads

01:25:25.100 I swear loads

01:25:25.660 Me and Nate

01:25:26.180 It's just

01:25:26.580 It's just completely uncensored

01:25:27.660 So

01:25:28.020 Not like every single video

01:25:30.780 Is chocked full of swearing

01:25:31.860 But if and when we

01:25:32.620 feel like we want to we just do all right okay f google 2 or f uk google 2 says says

01:25:47.340 i don't know if there's a typo or something there you put put my grants in cotswold maybe lol

01:25:53.420 i don't know what you mean put my grants in cotswold maybe lol

01:26:02.140 i don't know what that means sorry sorry let's be a bit clearer um okay pete pete tq6in says

01:26:13.900 i'm an accelerationist if it means people who hold pink and yellow signs get botted by

01:26:19.740 by hairy barbarians from wastelands made from sand rocks and flyers i mean yeah it might be

01:26:27.920 yeah i'm not an accelerationist in general but on that particular element of it

01:26:33.380 maybe yeah so you're agreeing with me there i think yeah

01:26:37.340 okay opening doors one and thank you for the super chat opening doors one said

01:26:44.340 Would the palace have a couple of spare rooms 0.51

01:26:48.260 For those poor frightened dentists doctors 0.99

01:26:50.820 Where all the corgis put down 1.00

01:26:52.980 Waste of real estate really

01:26:55.220 Am I being done?

01:26:58.560 What palace are you talking about?

01:26:59.740 Would the palace have a couple of spare rooms

01:27:01.100 For those poor frightened

01:27:02.020 I feel like it's really obvious

01:27:07.120 What that's a reference to

01:27:08.020 Something I spoke about today

01:27:08.980 But I can't remember

01:27:09.640 Harry do you know what that would be in reference to?

01:27:12.960 Oh no clue sorry

01:27:15.100 Okay

01:27:17.400 Sorry about that then

01:27:19.080 Would the palace have a couple of spare rooms

01:27:21.320 What palace

01:27:21.980 Okay alright I've got to move on I'm afraid

01:27:25.100 Kiefer Brown 1337 says

01:27:27.480 Introduce

01:27:29.540 A breakfast with Bo swear jar

01:27:31.620 Harry cut to jar cam 0.97

01:27:35.340 Maybe there should be that

01:27:37.220 That would be quite funny actually

01:27:38.040 That would be quite funny if there was a jar in there every time I

01:27:41.020 Drop the ball

01:27:42.680 I'm like, oh, that's a fiver

01:27:44.180 Fiddle-dee-dee

01:27:46.420 That will be a fiver

01:27:47.540 Okay

01:27:48.340 Ryan D.F. Tobin

01:27:53.860 I never know how you want that read out exactly

01:27:56.520 But I guess it's Ryan D.F. Tobin

01:27:58.560 Says, good morning, mate

01:28:00.840 Morning

01:28:01.200 It is a sign of regression

01:28:04.100 When pleasure begins to be considered

01:28:06.960 The highest principle

01:28:08.360 God bless

01:28:09.360 Yeah, throughout human civilization

01:28:11.520 Yeah, when various sort of conquering peoples become lazy, weak, feckless, indulgent

01:28:24.340 Yeah, when they indulge in luxury too much 0.98

01:28:29.720 Classic example, Mongolian hordes 1.00

01:28:33.760 Once extremely hard, hard-bitten people 1.00

01:28:38.200 Even three, four generations in China 1.00

01:28:41.340 With all the slaves and all the food 1.00

01:28:43.980 And all the jewels they could dream of

01:28:46.680 Suddenly they're weak 0.99

01:28:48.220 Suddenly they're weak as piss 0.98

01:28:50.780 Oh, that's a fiver 1.00

01:28:51.600 Sorry, kiddies

01:28:52.640 I don't know

01:28:55.200 I don't consider the P word to be a bad one 1.00

01:28:57.860 But okay 0.97

01:28:58.400 Alright

01:29:00.600 You're right though

01:29:01.960 Ryan F. Tobin, you're quite right

01:29:04.400 Okay, opening doors one again says

01:29:06.640 I'm not up with politics

01:29:09.680 Is Burnham still jogging

01:29:11.140 I think I saw the other day

01:29:13.300 Or a few days ago

01:29:14.020 There was another thing

01:29:15.060 Another like photo op

01:29:17.500 Where he was doing some jogging

01:29:18.680 Yeah I think that's right

01:29:19.600 It's purely

01:29:21.120 It's absolutely performative though

01:29:22.600 Isn't it

01:29:22.880 Obviously it is

01:29:23.760 I think I did see one

01:29:25.620 Not too long ago

01:29:26.220 Or maybe a week ago

01:29:27.140 Or something

01:29:27.460 When they get all in trainers

01:29:29.580 And shorts and a t-shirt

01:29:30.980 And get a bit of a sweat on

01:29:33.280 Takes him 30 yards

01:29:34.680 To get a sweat on

01:29:35.440 Look, he's jogging, look

01:29:38.420 He's young and vital and fit

01:29:41.020 And a go-getter

01:29:42.440 You're right

01:29:44.520 Okay

01:29:45.420 Carmichael Cookie Dough Footjob says

01:29:49.280 It is our third-year spung-gome at Tick Pop

01:29:52.140 And I am distraught 0.89

01:29:54.720 Ooh, ooh, sorry to hear that

01:29:55.800 What have you got?

01:29:56.280 What have we got?

01:29:57.660 My long-faced love

01:29:59.400 The one who coos me in fluent horse 1.00

01:30:02.640 Has a skeleton in her closet 1.00

01:30:05.060 she is a Labour voter

01:30:07.060 then you put

01:30:09.460 oh bald one

01:30:10.860 I am distraught

01:30:11.800 oh yeah it's not ideal is it

01:30:13.920 it's not ideal

01:30:15.820 if anyone isn't keeping up with

01:30:18.260 Carmichael

01:30:21.060 cookie dough footjob

01:30:21.880 real name

01:30:22.580 Thaddeus Bungo McTitpop

01:30:24.280 if you're not keeping up with his story

01:30:26.280 he's trying to court

01:30:28.920 or is courting

01:30:29.800 a posh English lady

01:30:31.740 she's a Labour voter 1.00

01:30:34.620 I must admit I've had relationships with people

01:30:37.360 Where our politics are really quite different

01:30:39.200 And it's a struggle the whole time

01:30:41.200 It becomes a bit of a struggle

01:30:43.660 To be honest

01:30:44.300 You end up just very very carefully

01:30:47.280 Tiptoeing around not talking about it ever

01:30:49.440 That's not ideal

01:30:50.700 Tell you what's great though

01:30:52.020 When you're with someone whose politics are the same as yours

01:30:54.600 That's really good

01:30:55.820 That's lovely

01:30:56.880 You can both talk about it absolutely openly and freely

01:31:00.320 Bounce off each other

01:31:01.940 And it's good, you don't have to worry about it 0.90

01:31:04.140 Oh, I was going to say something but I won't because that will just annoy her and she will just start an argument

01:31:09.080 It's not a great way to live

01:31:10.840 It's really not

01:31:12.540 And you're both on the same page

01:31:15.400 Good, alright

01:31:20.740 And the next one is also Carmichael, Cookie Doughfoot job

01:31:24.420 Who says, apparently I know more about UK politics than her and she is open

01:31:29.460 How do I help her? I don't want to be too pushy

01:31:33.140 You tell me, oh, Lotus Eater.

01:31:34.980 Well, my advice on that, broadly, is softly, softly, catchy monkey.

01:31:42.800 Trying to ever really browbeat someone into changing their politics or their worldview

01:31:47.220 would never really work.

01:31:50.100 You actually want to change their mind as softly as possible, I would say.

01:31:56.120 Just very, very gently, very, very politely just introduce an idea, a concept.

01:32:03.140 Let that sit with them for days or even weeks

01:32:05.800 Just broadly speaking the concept

01:32:10.600 Say, just say, it's about immigration

01:32:13.280 The concept that to have endless, like an uncapped number

01:32:18.780 Just the concept that there is a problem with that

01:32:22.840 That that's unsustainable or doesn't make sense

01:32:27.020 Or that all throughout human history that's never been the case

01:32:29.680 Whenever anything like that has been even remotely tried

01:32:32.340 It ends in absolute bloodbath and horror

01:32:34.580 Just

01:32:35.520 And then

01:32:37.020 You know even that

01:32:38.440 Even what I've just said

01:32:39.120 Is way too much

01:32:40.180 Just

01:32:40.480 Just touch

01:32:41.640 Just introduce the idea

01:32:43.320 And let it sit as a seed in their mind

01:32:45.220 It may or may not take hold

01:32:47.080 It might not

01:32:48.840 It may well not

01:32:49.380 Trying to actually change someone's mind

01:32:52.420 Very difficult thing

01:32:54.640 And to try and just bombard them

01:32:56.820 With facts and numbers

01:32:57.920 And like try and paint them morally

01:33:00.220 Into a corner

01:33:01.060 Ethically into a corner

01:33:02.320 or something rhetorically like flood them it doesn't that won't work it nearly never really

01:33:11.420 worked so if they're a labour vote and you want to try and change them it's a long process

01:33:18.820 long process

01:33:20.880 i would just start with the broadest possible strokes of the brush and just plant the tiniest

01:33:31.120 of sesame seeds in their mind and walk away here and there it's about the best you can

01:33:36.260 hope for and those as i say those seeds may well not germinate or you can go the other

01:33:45.060 way and you could be like i'm right leaning baby i'm right of center take it or leave

01:33:49.880 it i'm not changing if you want to be with me then take it on board you can go down that

01:33:55.340 route good luck to you it might work it might work you might alpha male it look I don't like

01:34:04.480 your politics don't give me your politics it's my politics on the highway if you want to be in this

01:34:08.720 relationship that's the way it is you could try that you could try that when you're first starting

01:34:16.840 out a relationship it's a delicate thing though isn't it very very delicate flower it's very very

01:34:20.800 very easily crushed so that's that's not probably a good idea is it it's up to you it's up to you

01:34:28.340 I've had that question a few times though in various different ways how do I change

01:34:32.440 like how do I change my dad's mind how do I change my brother's mind how do I change my mum's my my

01:34:37.780 wife's mind how do I do it it's difficult unfortunately the answer is it's difficult

01:34:42.540 okay let's move on last half dozen or so keifer brown 1337 says uh so many dubious good deeds

01:34:52.260 our day equals anti-amon okay car michael cookie dough footjob again says what if amon holmes

01:35:00.480 becomes a serial killer ah well i have i have seen that joke a number of times when i've said

01:35:04.300 amon holmes has done nothing wrong all joking aside amon holmes is completely innocent of any

01:35:08.040 wrongdoing and sometimes people say that you know of that we're aware of at this point in time

01:35:13.640 poor aims get well soon mate

01:35:18.080 okay max robe says put migrants in cotswolds question mark that's all they say there

01:35:27.060 and then they send another one without saying anything and just give another two quid 0.96

01:35:31.180 oh sorry i see right yeah the um smearing out these foreign barbaric invaders into 0.78

01:35:40.940 middle class areas like the cotswolds right shorthand for nice middle class

01:35:48.120 homogenous areas yeah yeah put them in the yeah there's one earlier it was about the

01:35:52.940 cotswolds i guess that's what that was i get it now i get it now

01:35:55.900 yeah fuk google 2 you said it yeah all right okay what else have we got oh and the very last one 0.58

01:36:09.180 here very last one for the day jankus the great jankus the great 9233 says woke california has 0.94

01:36:19.820 power in texas sadly okay i wonder what you're referring to there exactly what you what you

01:36:30.140 mean what is that in reference to it's a shame but yeah woke california has power in texas sadly

01:36:37.760 okay i'm not sure exactly what that's in reference but thanks for the

01:36:42.940 Was I talking about Texas earlier? I don't seem to recall that

01:36:46.480 Anyway, alright

01:36:49.000 Thank you very much for watching

01:36:50.500 That is the show, it's now 37 minutes past 9

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01:37:02.960 On Wednesday the 12th of August

01:37:04.820 In the year of our Lord 2026

01:37:06.040 Thank you for joining me, without you it isn't a thing

01:37:08.120 My band of brothers and sisters

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01:37:18.620 all right then until tomorrow try and make the best of the day you know carpe diem seize the

01:37:24.520 day if you can if you're at liberty to use your time today however you see fit try and do something

01:37:29.240 valuable with it i don't want to be too preachy but it's the most valuable thing you will ever

01:37:32.900 have and it's finite your time on this earth it's finite for you try and try and do something

01:37:38.860 valuable with it try and make it count see you today all right then i won't get too preachy

01:37:43.980 until tomorrow morning take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 12, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 12th August 2026

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