The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 you all right how are you on this fine frosty morning in britain they said it was warmer

00:00:09.540 now it's warmer today didn't feel warmer felt like the coldest morning so far

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00:00:37.520 in today's a good day isn't it with the climb down on the id cards if anyone hasn't seen this

00:00:41.720 you heard about this you've seen this let's get into it first of all then uh the front pages of

00:00:47.100 the newspapers uh the bbc says that the biggest stories are trump tells iran quote help is on its

00:00:53.100 way and the rail deal again i think the biggest story today is the id cards but we'll get into it

00:01:00.460 we start with the guardian oh really

00:01:04.760 really the guardian is still a thing is it okay the guardian remembering alan rickman

00:01:14.840 remembering robin hood prince of thieves harry have you ever seen robin hood prince of thieves

00:01:20.480 with kevin cosner i haven't

00:01:22.820 he was good in that as the evil sheriff of nottingham threatening to cut people's hearts

00:01:31.140 out with a spoon iconic stuff right back to the news donald trump says help is on its way

00:01:37.680 those are trump's words trump calls on iran's protesters to remain defiant president uh it's very

00:01:46.900 small for me president uh president's vow hints at u.s military action amid reports of 2 000 killed

00:01:52.900 yeah i saw some news coming out last night saying

00:01:55.620 um that even the regime itself are admitting to something in the order of 2 000 deaths

00:02:03.800 other people were saying you know the higher end of the estimate is like 12 000 but the regime itself

00:02:10.860 say it's 2 000 so you can only sort of assume it's it is somewhere between 2 and 12 000 either way

00:02:18.840 that's a lot isn't it i mean if it was a couple of dozen that's uh that's a lot isn't it if there

00:02:24.440 was a couple of dozen people killed by like police in london that would be mad we'd never ever ever

00:02:30.420 stop talking about it it would go down in history uh so like if it's in the thousands if it is indeed

00:02:37.300 in the thousands then uh that's bad i mean imagine a street a normal street 100 yards long with like

00:02:44.340 20 bodies in it that would be an atrocious thing so 2 000 right so it's ongoing still in iran there's

00:02:53.880 loads of loads and loads of stories in the news all about iran still again today from all different

00:02:58.960 angles um you know for example the foreign office yvette cooper mrs balls uh summoned the iranian

00:03:07.820 ambassador to sort of tick him off

00:03:09.940 sort of frown in his general direction wag her finger at him 1.00

00:03:14.980 and um iran's being cut off economically in various ways further than it already is

00:03:21.000 and uh and yeah whether there will be military action sort of imminently

00:03:25.520 one way or another against iran um coming from the us uh i saw one news it was only one in fact i

00:03:33.880 haven't seen it across the board suggests it might not be accurate but i did see one report saying that

00:03:39.700 america are closing or trying to close iranian airspace that really is a prelude to some sort of action

00:03:46.420 nearly always um so if that i only saw that on one report so you know at this stage take that with a

00:03:54.260 pinch of salt but if that starts coming out if that starts being the news then yeah there will will

00:04:00.940 almost certainly be something going on the united states want air superiority complete complete air

00:04:06.760 dominance if they're going to start doing doing stuff certainly with manned fast jets and all that

00:04:14.480 sort of thing okay what else we got northern powerhouse rail gets 45 billion pound backing

00:04:20.720 so that's a big story that is one of the big stories today in the british uh press um that the government

00:04:26.300 it's a queer starlin has said that uh they're going to give they're going to give uh loads of money 0.95

00:04:34.520 to build much more rail infrastructure particularly in the north of england because that hs2 project

00:04:40.280 uh they scrapped like a northern bit of it the northern stretch of it i believe um and so to

00:04:47.980 make up for that and other things and just sort of fairly poor rail networks in the midlands and north

00:04:53.300 of england they're going to finally pump 45 billion pounds into that you know make a some of the details

00:04:59.460 make a better rail connection between manchester and liverpool uh make a better connection between

00:05:06.000 like um birmingham and sheffield or whatever all that sort of thing okay i mean it's fairly sorely

00:05:13.280 needed i traveled on the trains through the midlands and the north not too long ago and it was pretty

00:05:18.660 poor it was a pretty poor service it was really it was quite bad to be honest i mean people moan

00:05:25.600 about the trains in britain but then when you go to a third world country you realize oh actually it's

00:05:30.960 not that bad it's not perfect might not be as perfect as the french railways or something but it's

00:05:35.480 actually in the scheme of things still pretty damn good well even in the scheme of things my

00:05:41.300 experience going on trains to the north was really really bad okay so they're going to put more money

00:05:48.360 into that doubts cast on extent of microplastics in humans well that's good that that's nice to hear

00:05:54.420 if that's true there's been reports before if you've seen them at various points that every human has

00:06:00.900 got loads and loads of microplastics in them

00:06:03.080 well if if that's not quite as true as it first seemed or not you know that that's a welcome bit

00:06:12.480 of news let's hope we're not all just filled with microplastics

00:06:17.620 the tory graph the daily telegraph trump help is on the way help is on the way

00:06:26.780 you've got to take him at his word really haven't you at this stage at this stage of his second

00:06:32.100 presidency presidents are much more uh willing to make bigger moves in their second term

00:06:39.340 because they know at least they personally never have to seek re-election so they don't have to worry

00:06:46.140 about pissing off a huge amount of the electorate because they're never going to have to go to the

00:06:52.660 ballot box again so trump is sort of off off the hook off the chain uh if he says help is on the

00:06:59.440 way you've got to sort of take him at his word i mean we'll see whether it'll be today or in coming

00:07:05.420 days regimes killers and abusers will pay a big price u.s president warns strikes on nuclear sites

00:07:14.840 military bases and the ayatollah are on the table yeah i saw trump say saw trump trump say whether it was

00:07:22.120 truth social or something um to the people of iran said remember the names of the individual people

00:07:29.360 that are like doing the the killings and are like being repressive remember their individual names

00:07:37.000 because at some point we'll we'll like get revenge on them for you or something like that or that was

00:07:42.100 the implication you know it's like um i mean it's tough words it's tough talk relatively isn't it i mean

00:07:48.820 it's it's it's rabia uh saber rattling rabia rabia settling it's saber rattling as about as hard as it

00:07:56.820 gets isn't it um white house deeply concerned about secret china embassy plan good great yeah

00:08:03.760 it's so weird it's not weird i suppose but it's it's odd to notice that the u.s government the state

00:08:10.360 department and and the white house and things care more about our interests and the interests of

00:08:16.240 british natives than our own government like many times over more and more times it was in the news

00:08:23.560 the other day that the state department came out and poured scorn on starmer for refusing to ban

00:08:29.640 first cousin marriage right so the state department cares literally cares more about us than our

00:08:35.060 government man yeah the white house the white house is much more concerned about chinese espionage

00:08:42.900 and signals intelligence espionage going on in london than our government what a mad thing that is

00:08:49.920 some smaller headlines there in the telegraph says uh maccabee rail police police chief uh could cling

00:09:01.680 on okay lawrence of arabia portraits gets warning i've done a big bit of content with luca johnson all

00:09:10.240 about lawrence of arabia and i've read seven pillars of wisdom and listened to the audio book

00:09:13.520 of seven pillars of wisdom t.e lawrence lawrence of arabia's memoir many many many times and watch

00:09:19.100 the film the david lean film loads and loads of times i love the story of lawrence arabia it's a great

00:09:23.360 story uh but there's portraits of him wearing the agal and the arabian robes there's portraits of him

00:09:31.840 in like the national gallery national portrait gallery they're now saying that's uh it's

00:09:36.080 inappropriate that little story there says it might be inappropriate for these days

00:09:41.080 god when we get rid of this whole paradigm of things being offensive more and more and more

00:09:49.620 and more and more things are being offensive must be just banned i can't wait for sort of the end of

00:09:54.700 that if it ever comes i mean i hope it does madness why would we why would anyway

00:10:00.560 mansion tax could affect 1.5 million pound homes

00:10:06.400 i mean a couple things i'll say about that one very few people have got a 1.1 million

00:10:14.760 pound home those that have you would think would be able to afford a little more tax not that that's

00:10:22.800 not that that's the point that's really not the point um but that will actually affect relatively few

00:10:29.360 people plus you could live in a big home that you might have inherited or you've put all your wealth

00:10:35.520 into the mortgage of it and although you live in a 1.5 million pound home you actually haven't got much

00:10:41.920 or any real like liquid wealth and any little extra tax like that tips you over the edge of into

00:10:49.920 bankruptcy but uh that's social that's leftist economic thought for you just keep taxing people

00:10:56.960 just keep taxing them how dare you stop paying money more increasingly amounts of money to the state

00:11:06.160 um crisis hit water boss says bills have to rise does he oh does he again anyone who's not in britain

00:11:12.960 will and anyone who's in britain will know that the cost of water is quite a lot like your water rates

00:11:19.520 your water bill that comes through in most of england even in the south west it's thames water

00:11:28.000 and um it just costs quite a lot of money it's not it's not cheap anymore

00:11:33.440 well it used to be when i first sort of went out on my own lived moved away from home and started

00:11:36.960 paying all my own bills and all that sort of thing your water rates was a relatively small amount um

00:11:43.520 you know sort of even on a small wage it wasn't difficult to cover it but that's not the case 0.99

00:11:49.760 anymore and you're saying it's got to rise even more and thames water is as a company in stupid 0.77

00:11:56.480 amounts of debt completely mismanaged their own affairs like to a catastrophic degree oh but now rates 0.65

00:12:04.160 have to rise even more do they brilliant okay bft financial times help is on its way trump's trump

00:12:12.960 tells iranians white house sends strongest signal yet uh of possible military action protesters encouraged

00:12:20.080 to take over institutions and save names of killers to find tehran ready to face attack and says dialogue

00:12:27.360 with us still open there you go so iran again i mean overnight in the evening in the afternoon and

00:12:37.440 evening of yesterday yesterday the 13th of january again the news cycle became basically saturated with

00:12:44.000 iran stories earlier in the morning if you watch yesterday if you watch the bow show yesterday

00:12:49.280 uh then the the actual headlines were uh iran was kind of sparse in there uh but once again today

00:12:56.960 it's all over the news we'll see i'm sort of expecting i may well be wrong i mean there's a i mean

00:13:03.680 there's a good chance of what i'm about to say is wrong like 50 plus is but i'm kind of expecting

00:13:07.840 something to happen today maybe tomorrow or in terms of military action

00:13:12.800 because when trump says he'll do something when the rhetoric is dialed up this far it's usually

00:13:21.360 sort of in the mail it's sort of it's it's like imminent thought really maybe not maybe not again

00:13:27.760 i give myself 50 50 on on that prediction all right what have we got the times all right the time says

00:13:35.120 treasury new business rates would double for thousands of pubs well yeah it's their job isn't it

00:13:40.480 they're the one that are doubling rates so of course they knew

00:13:47.760 new starma u-turn over compulsory id digital ids here we go all right so this is a story for a lot of uh

00:13:54.560 for most people in britain that is the real real interest which affects their lives or would have

00:14:01.920 affect their lives um that it came out it was leaking leaking like a sieve last night

00:14:10.480 uh uh mid-evening sort of time out of number 10 that uh sir queer's government was going to do a u-turn 0.92

00:14:20.400 on the compulsory id cards now a couple of things one it's great right brilliant hallelujah

00:14:28.880 but two let's not get carried away just yet for a couple of reasons one it's not that they're

00:14:34.160 scrapping the idea in total it's just the compulsory element of it so they still want to do digital id

00:14:42.160 cards uh but they'll put the onus on the employer to make sure all their employees are sort of digitally

00:14:52.080 registered it's not up to the individual person to have a personal digital id card and if you don't

00:14:58.480 get that you won't be allowed to work so they'll still be digital ids but it's not exactly it won't

00:15:06.080 be compulsory yet well and that's the other thing that's the other thing to sort of bear in mind be

00:15:11.280 a little bit cautious of is that you know you just know they haven't dropped the design right they

00:15:18.560 haven't abandoned that that goal that plan if they if and when they can try and bring it back revive it

00:15:26.240 you know they will i mean they've been trying to do this for years haven't they since the blair years

00:15:31.040 over 20 years if and when they think the time's right they'll try again yeah but for now it's sort

00:15:38.080 of a stay of execution in a sense um you know to take the small wins if and when you can um you know

00:15:46.880 i think it is nice right a little bit of a white pill for once probably the first actual white pill on

00:15:52.880 the bow show we're a week and a half in and it's the first one that speaks volumes doesn't it

00:16:00.080 um but yeah the uh the the sub bit of headline there says scheme is government's 13th abandoned

00:16:07.760 policy yeah i talked already on breakfast with bow about starmer's propensity to u-turn

00:16:14.800 yeah yeah 13 u-turns in what a year and a bit that's pretty bad record u-turn record pretty bad

00:16:24.800 you know not just because it's embarrassing as i said the other day not just because your detractors

00:16:28.960 can say uh you don't know what you're doing you know even one u-turn is an embarrassment pretty bad

00:16:34.640 embarrassment to do 13 in a year or so is more the other thing is is that when you have a policy as the

00:16:40.480 government you then expect your mps certainly senior mps members of cabinet or whatever to go

00:16:47.680 out there into the world and make the argument for it go on news channels write articles for

00:16:54.400 legacy mainstream media defending the policy saying it is the you know it's the right thing to do it's

00:17:00.960 the right thing to do and um and we're all rock solid behind the policy and we'll never abandon it

00:17:07.360 and then so when the leader does abandon it everyone's got egg on their face pretty badly

00:17:14.560 starmer can't stop u-turning it looks like well it's weakness isn't it he's a weak man in every

00:17:19.440 possible sense did you ever see him trying to keep up that that that punching bag did you ever see that

00:17:24.240 harry you know okay like there's a clip most a lot of people out there would have seen it where he was

00:17:32.480 visiting a gym like i don't know what he was doing opening a gym or announcing more monies for gym

00:17:36.800 or gyms or something or other they put boxing gloves on him and had him hit a had him hit a bag

00:17:42.160 and it was the most

00:17:46.880 it was the most physically unimpressive thing you've seen you know when someone's completely

00:17:50.080 uncoordinated like you ever see someone try and swing a golf club who's never done it before

00:17:55.120 and it's like really something like that right where it's like the most uncoordinated

00:18:00.000 anyway um the physically weak it's a bit of an ad hominem but anyway but just politically morally

00:18:08.640 weak weak weak weak weak weak weak weak the only thing he's able to have any strength any backbone about

00:18:14.720 is something that touches on his position as prime minister then you'll get tough right if he has to

00:18:22.560 remove the whip from some people he's tough enough on that because it affects his direct authority and

00:18:28.240 power and stuff so anyway back to digital id cards um yeah it's good you know i'll take it last night

00:18:36.080 when the news came through like a good day huzzah all right uh what else we got help is on its way again

00:18:47.760 the help is on its way quote from trump um that guy that may well be the first person to be hung by

00:18:54.400 the iranian regime for being a protester they do like to pick out one individual person with these

00:19:01.200 things don't they all right the mail the mail says uh now digital id cards won't be compulsory

00:19:10.000 straight to the point there very point very straight to the point no need for any puns or anything on

00:19:15.280 that one the eye paper join the revolution trump urges iranians labor promises new rail links for the

00:19:23.280 north but not until 2030s so after labor are out of power they will lose the next general election you

00:19:32.480 know almost certainly right saw something over overnight about um starmer's

00:19:37.840 the polling his personal sort of approval rating and i don't know if it's a joke or not but they

00:19:46.720 said his approval rating was lower than hitler's approval rating in april 1945 could that possibly be

00:19:54.880 true but it's super low i mean he is he is it has been shown for for real definitely for real for a

00:20:01.840 matter of record that um his his popularity is the lowest of any prime minister ever

00:20:09.600 like going back to walpole going back a couple of centuries plus

00:20:14.480 nobody likes him or what he's doing right they both dislike his policies and his government and what

00:20:21.280 they do and say and him personally but he is he is um obnoxious isn't he he's he's he's unlikable 0.71

00:20:32.880 on it in every way because you get some people in politics that are sort of like got a they're a

00:20:37.760 charisma vacuum like gordon brown right rishi sunak was pretty slimy wasn't he he was a bit of a

00:20:44.880 a hall monitor type person but even gordon brown and rishi sunak you know they had something about

00:20:52.000 them something small small thing about them where you could see okay i don't despise this person to

00:20:58.160 their very very core in some context they might be all right to be around right i think sitting down

00:21:05.600 and having a meal or a drink with rishi sunak wouldn't be it wouldn't be like nails down a chalkboard

00:21:11.920 would it you it wouldn't be too bad having a conversation with golden brown might be mildly 1.00

00:21:17.120 interesting but keir starmer right what what can you say what is there what honestly what is there

00:21:23.680 about him and his character and his person that isn't just like you know just like oh god really

00:21:33.440 all right back to the papers yes the story of um they're gonna spend loads of money on northern rail

00:21:40.000 stuff so rachel reeves will today unveil plans for new rail lines and upgrades between major

00:21:46.320 northern cities but with just 1.1 billion pounds in firm funding and no start or completion dates

00:21:53.520 for projects northern powerhouse rail scheme will be delivered in phases

00:21:59.600 firstly upgrades to existing lines in west yorkshire including improvement services

00:22:04.480 between leeds and sheffield york and bradford okay the next phase due to start in the 2030s

00:22:11.760 includes a new route between liverpool and manchester before plans to improve connections across the pennines

00:22:18.080 become the focus all right well if dr beeching in the 60s hadn't basically annihilated

00:22:26.560 most of britain's rail network perhaps there would still be lions across the pennines

00:22:30.880 the fact that there isn't decent really really decent rail connections between liverpool and

00:22:36.720 manchester i mean there are you can get a train from liverpool to manchester of course you can

00:22:40.480 but the fact that isn't sort of you know cutting edge good quality one is a little bit of an

00:22:45.360 of an embarrassment i mean when you look at the history of rail got some good content with alex

00:22:49.920 masters alex the steam guy masters on the website talking about the history of railways and and steam in

00:22:56.160 general um you know it's a venerable stretch from liverpool to manchester the fact that it's underfunded

00:23:02.960 and a bit of a bit of a state is is embarrassing if there's any bit of train line in the world which

00:23:08.800 deserves to be good perhaps it's it perhaps it's that uh okay what else they've got uh

00:23:18.720 labour's northern mayors including andy burnham expect to back plans to unlock growth oh yeah of

00:23:23.840 course it would yeah investment in your region in your area of course you're gonna back it okay

00:23:29.440 chancellor will confirm intention to build a new link between birmingham and manchester after axing of

00:23:35.360 hs2 north but only one uh but only once other projects are delivered in the 2030s okay so there we go

00:23:44.720 the train story the mirror let's move on the mirror oh yeah jamie bulge is one of jamie bulge's killers

00:23:51.840 i think john venables um is up for parole and his mum obviously jamie bulge's mum obviously he's not

00:24:00.800 keen on that anyone who might not know if you're very very young harry do you remember the murder of

00:24:07.280 little jamie bulge is that before that must be before your time surely i think yeah i think that was like

00:24:11.920 a little bit before my time before you were born even yeah so anyway two kids that were like 10 or

00:24:21.200 11 years old murdered a little toddler who's like two or three years old terrible terrible unbelievable

00:24:27.200 unbelievable um and one of them's coming up for parole now um

00:24:32.880 right northern powerhouse pledge the rail deal again i won't keep going on and on and on about it

00:24:42.560 but that's big in the news today labor reveals 45 billion pound plan for new lines and infrastructure

00:24:48.560 pm says millions will benefit as he promises to end train misery okay i wonder if he'll roll up his sleeves

00:24:54.800 you know they're serious when starmer says he's going to roll up his sleeves he says he's going to roll

00:25:01.520 up his sleeves in stopping the small boat dinghy invasion of course didn't do nothing we had record 0.60

00:25:07.280 numbers anyway okay the metro uh

00:25:10.880 the metro hate the metro so so ah nearly said nearly swore there it's so bad it's so bad it's so bad

00:25:28.640 who are the who are the editors of the metro who are they

00:25:33.200 okay they go with uh north of sea catastrophe trial begins russian captain did nothing to avoid

00:25:42.320 us tanker this is a story about back in last year i think it was like spring or summer last year

00:25:48.320 um a russian tanker hit a ship another ship um off the coast of britain off the coast of scotland

00:25:57.520 and um one person died on on that ship um and apparently because you know tankers move relatively

00:26:06.560 slowly and they've got a giant turning circle of course like giant so wherever they're heading

00:26:13.760 it's sort of clear where they're heading long before they get there and the story is that like

00:26:17.600 this tanker knew it was going to hit this other ship like half an hour before it did and yet the

00:26:22.880 captain there is accused of doing nothing like in other words deliberately did that like deliberately

00:26:29.040 rammed a russian tanker deliberately rammed a ship and now the now that captain's on trial for it

00:26:40.080 there you go that's what the metro thinks is front news front news story today

00:26:45.760 the express it's a lovely paper elderly living in poverty could exceed two million

00:26:53.600 warning that pensioners are taking drastic measures to make ends meet right this is why a lot of

00:27:00.960 people have got a problem with mass immigration and the welfare system because our people are living 0.62

00:27:08.720 in poverty two million two million if it was two hundred thousand that would be a disgrace

00:27:15.760 if it was two thousand that would be a disgrace we should be a country where like our elderly people 1.00

00:27:25.200 don't have to fear that they might freeze to death or starve to death

00:27:31.680 right with the amount of money we give away in foreign aid and in the welfare bill to people that have

00:27:36.320 just simply got on it got on an airplane and come here and now they get like a housing and and on and

00:27:45.360 on and on and on and yet our elderly people to the tune of two million or could be could exceed two million

00:27:52.240 there's something deaf profoundly wrong isn't there definitely wrong with that 0.90

00:27:59.840 like on a more on an ethical level

00:28:01.680 how can you argue that that that isn't terribly terribly wrong

00:28:12.400 all right the sun are they gonna do a pun oh they are oh there you go

00:28:16.400 i'm gonna do a pun right budget tax grab fallout guinness

00:28:22.320 pint of guinness up by four p some tipplers to be weaker or some tipples rather some tipples to be weaker

00:28:31.920 reeves knew a five thousand pound pub hits yeah because it's her idea because she's implementing it 1.00

00:28:37.680 the in reaper

00:28:42.560 like the grim reaper the in reaper

00:28:44.800 dear the sun

00:28:50.880 you don't have to do lame puns all the time

00:28:56.240 that's all

00:28:58.320 no one's forcing them to are they

00:29:01.120 no one really is like oh i can't wait for the sun's new pun on the front page no one's doing that

00:29:07.040 i don't know i don't know it's up to them of course but i just i never all the puns i just think it's

00:29:13.360 lame really lame

00:29:16.080 okay the daily star the sloppiest of the slot although sometimes breaking an important story

00:29:21.440 uh trump the art of the steel

00:29:24.960 like he's stealing greenland the art of the steel

00:29:27.600 arctic troll prez posts pic of himself gazing at greenland so that was actually quite funny um

00:29:35.600 the other day last friday i did that big news conference didn't they with jd vance and um

00:29:39.760 and marco rubio that hour and a half long odd press conference in the white house and at one point

00:29:46.560 trump as you can see in that image at one point trump just got up and walked to the windows behind

00:29:53.200 himself and looked out the window because there's loads of renovation building going on at the white

00:29:56.480 house isn't there that's a story in and of itself um and he just like with all the cameras on and

00:30:02.080 everyone watching and waiting and listening he just got up and like went to the back window and

00:30:05.840 had a quick look out the window and he like came back and was like wow it's great what's going on

00:30:09.760 out there all that stuff since then if anyone's not on the internet if anyone's not perma on the

00:30:14.480 internet isn't on twitter all day every day since then people have made loads and loads of photoshops

00:30:19.520 or ai generated images of different things outside the window that trump's gone and had a look at

00:30:24.800 it's quite funny i think it's reasonably funny in fact someone on twitter the other day

00:30:28.480 like um shopped or ai generated a picture of the islander magazine

00:30:36.960 islander magazine buy it it's out now while they last they will sell out so there's a truly a finite

00:30:44.320 number of them cole refuses to do a second print run so once they're gone they're gone get the islander 0.90

00:30:50.960 anyway someone photoshopped that image a massive image outside the windows that trump had gone up to

00:30:55.840 look at and like he turns around he's like wow it's great you know it's funny uh so but it looks

00:31:01.760 like trump himself or the the white house probably not trump personally sitting there on photoshop

00:31:06.800 but someone at the white house put in a massive as you can see there a massive um

00:31:13.920 image of a map of greenland that trump has gone to just look at it and admire it

00:31:17.920 kind of funny all right kind of funny okay those are the front pages let's have a look at um oh there

00:31:28.000 was one real quick back towards the top i wanted to spend a tiny bit more time on if you notice there

00:31:34.000 there wasn't much talk there was there of um

00:31:40.480 of of of anything epstein related um i thought i'd saw it on the front pages maybe maybe i got it

00:31:47.440 slightly wrong um i thought i'd saw on one of the front pages that there was a small story about bill and

00:31:53.920 hillary clinton and the epstein probe um and indeed there was bill clinton was supposed to appear before

00:32:03.680 uh the comey proceedings yesterday and just didn't okay sorry not comey coma james comey and james

00:32:12.800 coma are very two very different people let's be clear about that don't confuse james comey with james

00:32:19.360 coma which i just did no james coma his proceedings um looking into the epstein all the epstein stuff

00:32:28.720 bill clinton was supposed to appear and yesterday and didn't and hillary clinton's supposed to appear

00:32:33.360 today and said she's not going to all right let's have a quick read of this it's from sky news

00:32:40.480 clinton's refused to test it refuse to testify in republican-led epstein investigation risking

00:32:46.880 contempt proceedings so it's much like actual court where if you if you're subpoenaed or you've got

00:32:54.240 a court summons you can't just not turn up or if you do you're in trouble for that you're actually

00:32:59.120 in trouble for that in and of itself as a whole different thing now if you don't turn up you're

00:33:03.600 not at liberty to just not turn up to court right

00:33:06.480 except that looks like what bill did yesterday and what hillary intends to do today

00:33:20.880 uh republican representative james coma said the committee leading the probe will meet next week

00:33:26.160 to hold former u.s president bill clinton in contempt okay maybe i was wrong about bill clinton supposed to

00:33:31.520 be there yesterday let me read let's let's read a little bit of this bill and hillary clinton have 1.00

00:33:34.960 said they will refuse to testify in a republican-led investigation into uh into convicted sex

00:33:40.880 offender jeffrey epstein every person has to decide and this is hillary clinton's words i believe

00:33:46.400 every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country

00:33:54.880 its principles and its people no matter the consequences uh this is this is an investigation

00:34:01.520 into jeffrey epstein what are you talking about what are you talking about the clintons wrote in a

00:34:10.480 letter published on social media for us now is that time oh is it oh okay trying to get to the bottom of

00:34:18.560 epstein things that's the line in the sand for the clintons where they're no longer prepared to cooperate 0.53

00:34:24.960 is it okay okay bit weird

00:34:35.760 the letter was addressed to republican representative james coma he chairs the house representatives

00:34:41.440 oversight committee whose epstein probe was slammed as legally invalid by the clintons quote legally

00:34:48.480 invalid quote by the clintons is it legally invalid i don't think it is actually i think it's perfectly

00:34:53.680 valid i think you're just you're just trying to say it's legally invalid because you're going to get

00:34:57.360 in trouble almost certainly or at the very least have to sit there and embarrassingly say i don't

00:35:02.720 recall over and over and over again it's not legally invalid in what way is it legally invalid

00:35:10.240 there's an act of congress wasn't there the epstein transparency act that was the actual name of it

00:35:15.680 i don't think there's anything legally invalid about this

00:35:21.440 okay um he said the committee will meet the coma he said the committee will meet next week to hold

00:35:30.560 former u.s president bill clinton income in contempt um which could potentially lead to criminal charges

00:35:37.200 the clinton said this was quote literally designed to result in our imprisonment end quote

00:35:42.080 well on some level that actually might not be an entirely incorrect statement on to some degree

00:35:48.240 on some level it's actually not all about the clintons is it it's actually bigger and deeper than them

00:35:54.400 right if they've done anything wrong then it would only only be justice wouldn't it if they had to

00:36:00.240 answer for for any crimes they may have committed but it's not all about them it's not literally designed

00:36:07.120 to result in our imprisonment it's much bigger than that former secretary of state hillary clinton who 0.86

00:36:14.240 ran against donald trump in 2006 in the 2016 presidential election is due to appear before

00:36:18.960 the panel on wednesday i.e today with a committee spokesperson saying contempt proceedings could also

00:36:25.680 be initiated against her if she fails to testify the clinton said in their letter um that they had

00:36:31.360 provided the quote little information quote they had to aid the investigation

00:36:38.400 little information didn't bill clinton fly on epstein's lolita express private airplane to that

00:36:45.920 dodgy little island like 20 times

00:36:51.760 didn't epstein visit the clinton white house like 17 times

00:36:56.880 weren't they really actually really close acquaintances

00:37:03.600 they've got very little information now and what little they have do have they've already provided

00:37:09.840 dodgy shady clinton's super shady they also accused mr coma of selectively enforcing subpoenas against

00:37:18.400 them oh the poor clinton's oh the poor clinton's oh so terrible they're such victims

00:37:25.280 as they said other former officials were allowed to provide written statements about epstein to

00:37:31.520 the committee like why do you need to see us in person you let everyone else do it by by writing why

00:37:36.400 do you want to i mean actually one to be to be fair um it is it is obviously as well though

00:37:44.000 politically charged and republicans on the hill if they can make famous senior democrats

00:37:51.920 even x ones if they can sort of embarrass them and things

00:37:56.960 on tv because it'll be on like c-span or whatever or forbes and if it's really embarrassing it will go

00:38:02.880 around the world um if they can do that they will so i'm yeah i'm not going to pretend it isn't

00:38:08.400 politically charged it is but but still that's the that's the that's the game don't feel don't

00:38:14.640 shed a tear for the clintons oh no um and this is what the clintons wrote as well they said there

00:38:23.040 is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics well there is there

00:38:30.320 is isn't there so partisan politics is an element of it as i just said but the idea that there's no

00:38:36.320 plausible explanation other than that no no no no no no no no no you've got questions to answer

00:38:41.200 bill and hillary a lot of questions

00:38:47.040 mr coma said after bill clinton did not show up to testify on tuesday all right so he was supposed to

00:38:52.160 testify yesterday and failed to turn up

00:38:57.360 mr coma said no one's accusing the clintons of any wrongdoing we just have questions

00:39:02.080 questions questions which may well lead bill knows to accusations of actual wrongdoing no right

00:39:16.000 anyone uh would admit they spent a lot of time together i.e bill and jeffrey anyone must admit

00:39:22.640 mr coma saying anyone must admit they spent a lot along a lot of time together because they did

00:39:26.400 that's a matter of record isn't it mr coma told reporters adding that most americans wanted mr

00:39:31.840 clinton to answer questions about his ties to epstein who died in prison while awaiting trial

00:39:36.960 for sex trafficking charges in 2019 mr coma claims epstein visited the white house 17 times during

00:39:43.200 mr clinton's prejudice presidency and that mr clinton was on board epstein's private plane

00:39:48.640 more than 20 times more than 20 times there's trump doing a statement saying i was never friends with

00:39:55.120 epstein well i was for a while but then i threw him out of mar-a-lago years ago anyway everyone knew

00:39:59.920 epstein everyone that doesn't mean anything if you knew epstein and uh i liked bill clinton actually

00:40:05.120 he's always been nice to me uh but he has probably got some questions to answer and um and anyway why

00:40:10.000 you still talk about epstein this is trump's biggest fail in my opinion right i've put on a maga hat

00:40:17.280 there's many images i've even retweeted deliberately images of myself in a maga hat semi tongue in cheek

00:40:23.840 broadly speaking i'm on board with the magic maga project broadly speaking i'm on board with

00:40:27.920 the donald but when he does things bad i will criticize it when he does things i don't like

00:40:32.560 i don't agree with i'm gonna say so this is the biggest foul he's dealing of the epstein thing

00:40:38.320 is the is the biggest stain on his reputation and his character for me

00:40:46.720 because it's dodgy it's just dodgy as hell just rip the plaster off rip the band-aid off 0.71

00:40:53.360 let's have the full truth they're probably not going to do that last time pam bondi was asked a

00:40:58.800 while ago a few months ago was jeffrey epstein an intelligence asset either of the usa or israel

00:41:03.760 she's like oh we still don't know we'll look into that i'll get back to you on that uh

00:41:12.960 okay let's finish reading this article real quick there's only a couple more paragraphs

00:41:16.400 mr clinton's friendship when the financier is well documented throughout the

00:41:19.600 the mr clinton's friendship with the financier is well documented throughout the 1990s and early

00:41:25.520 2000s but mr clinton has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with epstein i mean yet

00:41:33.200 the trump administration due to pressure from its republican base has ordered the us

00:41:38.640 justice department to release files related to the criminal investigations into epstein to comply with

00:41:43.520 the transparency law passed by congress something which they've signally failed to do properly

00:41:49.600 haven't released everything remotely and what they have released is like always been always been

00:41:54.000 highly highly redacted so barely a limited hangout that's like an intelligence services term a limit a

00:42:02.880 full hangout i.e truly ripping the plaster off and being completely truthful or a limited hangout i.e drip

00:42:08.720 feeding bits of truth bits of information a limited hangout that's what they're doing with the the epstein stuff

00:42:16.880 you know that's what they've done with the jfk murder for 60 years you can you can make a limited hangout last 60 years

00:42:27.360 it seems if you're the the the swamp you can make that happen mr trump also used also used to be friends with epstein

00:42:38.480 uh but he said he cut off relationship the relationship before the financier was accused of sexual abuse

00:42:43.360 uh they definitely parted together in the like the 90s didn't they that's again that's a matter of

00:42:50.640 record there's there's images and testimony and all sorts of evidence that they would they were

00:42:56.000 definitely friends and associates and had a good time together even if you do have to go back to the 90s

00:43:04.000 for that mr coma indicated that the committee uh would not try to get testimony from mr trump about epstein

00:43:12.080 as he said uh it could not force a sitting president it could not his committee could not force a sitting

00:43:18.400 president to testify okay well maybe they'll have to wait till trump's out of office

00:43:26.160 and who knows where the whole process will be at that point all right that was just something that

00:43:30.320 didn't really appear on the front pages of the british news which and barely registered on the american

00:43:35.520 news but i thought was was interesting it was actually newsworthy we'll see if hillary decides to bother 0.98

00:43:45.360 turning up today i suspect she's not going to if bill didn't yesterday she's probably not going to

00:43:52.160 today and then maybe just maybe they can be charged for contempt some form of contempt

00:44:03.040 lock her up lock her up 1.00

00:44:08.240 i mean all right let's have a look at the actual websites

00:44:11.200 the bbc obviously run with the the uh the iran stuff so i won't go into that because we've talked

00:44:22.800 about that already ministers drop plans for mandatory digital id to work in the uk okay chris mason the

00:44:29.280 climb downs stack up for starma yeah yeah they are yeah obviously obviously i'm not a fan of the labor

00:44:36.240 government also queer himself as i've made abundantly clear in this stream alone and yet despite that

00:44:43.120 despite like a partisan take despite a right leaning angle you cannot deny that the climb downs the u-turns

00:44:53.360 are stacking up they just they are okay at least 22 dead as crane collapses onto train in thailand

00:45:00.800 unfortunately sounds bad only trump can stop putin polish president tells bbc

00:45:12.320 yeah i mean

00:45:15.680 the polish couldn't stop putin i don't believe the angle that putin has got designs on

00:45:23.280 belarus or poland or like the former east germany or estonia and lithuania and all those

00:45:30.240 countries i don't believe that angle it doesn't seem to have real designs on the rest of ukraine

00:45:37.920 it's just sort of that donbass region because they're all heavily russian speakers and think of

00:45:44.080 themselves not everyone there of course but a lot of them i think the majority think of themselves

00:45:49.200 more as russian than ukrainian so he's got a claim there he's trying to press that claim but

00:45:54.640 i don't believe that putin would invade poland if he could anyway if he did

00:46:04.800 i don't think the polish would probably be able to stop him all on them all on their own they 1.00

00:46:09.840 probably would need billions from the rest of the world and the help of the americans and all that

00:46:14.560 sort of thing so even though i don't buy that angle still the polish president is probably not wrong 0.88

00:46:20.320 all right first leukemia patient to receive pioneering treatment on nhs says it is quote

00:46:26.560 very sci-fi quote oh good if there's a new if there's a new leukemia treatment that's so good

00:46:35.600 it's sci-fi good sounds good global temperatures dipped in 2025 but more heat records on ways scientists

00:46:44.560 warm again that's a bbc for you isn't it even though we're in a deep chill it's getting colder and colder

00:46:50.160 still even in the middle of that trying to push the global warming agenda classic classic bbc

00:46:55.680 greenlanders brace for summit that could shape the arctic's future and their own yep bulger killer

00:47:02.400 john venables set for parole hearing actor keitha sutherland arrested over alleged assault of a ride

00:47:08.480 share driver so did he get like an uber or something and then end up attacking the driver

00:47:14.480 i don't know maybe i'll look into that for tomorrow naughty boy keitha sutherland

00:47:20.160 that's news to me that's the first i've seen of that new liverpool to manchester rail link as

00:47:26.480 government revives a northern powerhouse rail chef not embarrassed by one star hygiene rating at

00:47:32.640 michelin-starred restaurant if that is just what it says it is you probably should be embarrassed

00:47:37.120 one star hygiene is really really bad you need you should have five like four is a bit three is

00:47:43.920 probably wouldn't eat there two is definitely wouldn't eat there one is are you kidding me

00:47:51.680 so chef not embarrassed by that quick look what is it let's have a quick look

00:47:57.360 unit sheer restaurant and rooms

00:48:04.560 all right in wales and just be warned probably don't eat there probably for you in your interest not to

00:48:12.960 eat there all right itv trump warns of very strong action against iran if protesters are executed yeah

00:48:21.280 oh it's just loads and loads of iran stories um to strike or not to strike trump weighs his options

00:48:29.200 on iran at least 22 killed after crane falls on passenger train in thailand oh so that is bad

00:48:36.320 if 22 are killed then you know that a few dozen more are terribly wounded or maimed for life

00:48:41.600 that looks like a bad one uk schools are bringing in american style lockdown drills as youth violence

00:48:51.040 rises really in the latest of a series of reports into how violence is impacting young people itv news

00:48:59.440 has been given exclusive access to a classroom lockdown rehearsal

00:49:05.920 never the britain british schools never used to suffer from things like this a few years ago

00:49:09.760 before we were invaded by infinity bomb aliens infinity bomb aliens it was never really a thing i mean

00:49:19.040 it once in a blue moon sure but not like that that schools had to practice lockdown

00:49:28.240 rehearsals for lockdown drills in case there's a massive spree of violence suddenly out of nowhere in a school

00:49:34.800 all right let's move on channel four

00:49:49.440 uh

00:49:50.080 channel four

00:49:54.320 i will coach channel four i think if i was prime minister i would be i'd get in my first day get in

00:50:00.240 wave on the front steps of downing street walk in while the cabinet office people will politely clap

00:50:08.960 here as you walk in you get the nuclear clothes for the nuclear submarine i'd sit down i'd say right

00:50:16.800 cut all all foreign aid 100 not one more penny as of this moment and bring me the bbc royal charter

00:50:26.720 to rip up and all the funding that the state gives channel four we're ending that right now

00:50:36.080 i'm talking today today that's what i would do they say iran protests uh new evidence of uh systemic

00:50:45.760 slaughter or systematic slaughter as at least 2000 killed you know that's does look like the lower estimate

00:50:52.400 is 2000 increasingly looks like it's not just israeli or pentagon propaganda and lies it looks like

00:51:02.240 it's that sort of is a reality ayatollah khomeini is not going anywhere says former iranian advisor

00:51:10.320 yeah i wouldn't expect i wouldn't expect the ayatollah to flee iran i would expect him to stay to the

00:51:15.680 bitter bitter end that is sort of the where's he going to go anyway really right you can't do an

00:51:25.600 edr mean and go to saudi arabia the saudis obviously being sunni they hate the shiite they would hate a 0.73

00:51:33.600 shiite ayatollah they wouldn't he's a heretic to them you know where's he going to go to russia would 0.59

00:51:40.160 russia really want the headache of that is he going to go to china would china really want the headache of

00:51:46.160 housing the ayatollah in exile no one would no one wants the other 1.00

00:51:53.680 the ayatollah's regime the iranian regime has sort of alienated themselves from most of the world

00:52:00.400 over the decades trump tells iranians to keep protesting and promises help trump has military

00:52:05.760 action in mind says former u.s diplomat oil prices spike after trump's threat to intervene in iran okay

00:52:11.200 you get it you get it sky news sky news more than 500 pubs tipped to close this year right yeah yeah

00:52:22.400 that's what the government want as few pubs as possible tax them into oblivion that's what they

00:52:27.760 want that's very very deliberate and then they'll come out and gaslight you and saying oh we want to

00:52:33.440 save we want to save the hospitality industry we would like to it would be good wouldn't it if

00:52:38.800 if the hospitality industry and pubs weren't completely wiped out wouldn't it that's all

00:52:43.040 gaslighting it's very very deliberate the daily mail iran's deadly vow is there anything other than

00:52:51.360 the iran story migrant on disability benefits who brought a screaming and crying children to 0.98

00:52:57.200 retirement home says eviction would breach human rights despite deluge of elderly neighbors complaints

00:53:03.440 these people woman identifying as a man is raped in all-male psychiatric hospital ward

00:53:15.120 okay

00:53:17.920 something about michael jackson this tiny detail in michael jackson's music videos could finally solve

00:53:23.600 mystery of who really fathered his children oh slop you've moved into slop there moving on then don't

00:53:28.240 care you've lost me there don't give me slop okay the express rachel reeves has just slapped taxpayers in

00:53:37.760 the face it's enough to make you sick yep oh there's a few stories about andrew and you faces another

00:53:44.400 humiliation as king gives disgraced ex-duke uh new moving deadline yeah i see a few few details about um about

00:53:53.920 andrew there's just even further and further sort of disgrace and ignominy um well he's not prince

00:54:01.120 andrew anymore he's just andrew mountbatten windsor isn't he he hasn't got an hrh he's not

00:54:06.560 formerly a member of the royal family the royal family he's obviously still a member of their family but

00:54:11.280 he's not a royal anymore and they're even sort of stripping him of his sort of royal residence

00:54:16.640 and as much as they possibly can it's funny because it's not funny haha it's funny interesting

00:54:21.680 to note that andrew himself has never admitted to doing anything wrong he did that that car crash

00:54:28.000 interview and it was just so bad that everyone including his own family were like no one believes

00:54:35.760 that no one believes you you're obviously obviously guilty to this day andrew still maintains that i

00:54:43.040 don't know that woman i don't think i've ever met her and yet his own brother the king is like no bro

00:54:51.520 never not buying that all right we're actually just five minutes from the end so let's do some super

00:54:56.880 chats all right on rumble rents tom rat 247 says during training my teach my teacher wife had a friend

00:55:04.320 who had to quit after her mother died and the tax man got increasingly belligerent about uh clawing the

00:55:10.240 inheritance tax out of her oh yeah the government love their inheritance tax oh you just died pay up 1.00

00:55:19.440 oh what you've just had a family tragedy pay us

00:55:23.280 they love inheritance that's another thing i'll get rid of on day one bring me all the inheritance 0.95

00:55:27.680 tax legislation we're going to write something to repeal that a hundred percent no inheritance 0.93

00:55:32.640 tax zero that's one things reform have said i'm not sure if they backtracked on it or not but

00:55:37.120 they used to say anyway when i was in reform reading all their policies trying to be up on

00:55:41.520 all their policies they had a thing of back when richard tice was leader of zero inheritance tax yeah

00:55:47.280 surely that is just state-sponsored theft surely no it's a it's a completely socialist thing that they

00:55:55.520 don't want generational wealth they don't like rich families they don't like old money so we'll have

00:56:01.120 inheritance tax get rid of all of that get rid of that disgusting thing inheritance tax okay davil

00:56:10.000 again on rumble rant says good morning from denmark good morning good morning would you consider adding

00:56:16.160 a fun quick jingle soundboard effect when switching newspapers news segments it's not a bad idea harry

00:56:22.160 what do you think can we work something out like that yeah sounds good one of my friends my actually one

00:56:27.840 of my real friends irl said i should have a a soundboard with all different funny sounds on it

00:56:34.160 that would be amazing

00:56:37.600 it might lower the tone a bit but it would probably be it would be quite funny like a whack whack oops or

00:56:43.680 whatever or something you know like a laser gun sound or something a fart sound it would lower the

00:56:51.040 time would it okay uh bbc not bbc youtube youtube super chats little tesla 9733 says ben habib says be

00:57:01.040 careful about digital id starma is just implementing it in a different way yeah they would yeah at some

00:57:05.680 point whether it's starma or someone else further down the line they will try and implement it they

00:57:10.400 won't have given up they won't have like actually properly given up the entire concept forever yeah

00:57:15.840 yeah yeah ben habib's right to say that i would imagine absolutely um he's in the silence says uh

00:57:28.160 merry gregorian passover 14th day of the first month

00:57:31.200 ignatio username you go you got no username oh i got no username yeah i always find it hard to read

00:57:47.600 stuff when there's like no spaces i got no username says i will throw a party the day bill and hill bite

00:57:55.760 the dust and you are all invited the breakfast club yeah shouldn't really celebrate when people die

00:58:02.480 but sometimes can't sort of can't help it can't help at least sort of an inner smirk

00:58:11.040 right when pol pot died i was like good i'm not saying bill and hillary clinton was anywhere near as

00:58:18.000 bad as pol pot i'm not saying that but you know right pa grunt says i honestly think there's so

00:58:29.600 many wealthy rich and famous people involved i guess you talk about the epstein stuff uh presidents

00:58:33.920 prime ministers royals ceos etc that they're afraid the entire system will come down me so be

00:58:40.640 it yeah couldn't agree with you more pa grunt couldn't agree with you more yeah you're absolutely

00:58:45.840 right there's so many famous and powerful people involved that they'll do anything of rather than a

00:58:52.480 full hangout it's got to be limited hangout going forward indefinitely and as for me yeah so be it i

00:59:00.800 want that plaster ripped off that band-aid ripped off post haste yes please that is the swamp trump said

00:59:10.400 he would drain the swamp this is the swamp

00:59:16.720 get it done bro light a fire under it don get it done all right

00:59:24.560 diviram et machina et machina diviram et machina says morning morning you doing all right you okay

00:59:34.080 yeah great funny less than two weeks in i'm already sort of starting to get into my

00:59:42.000 my flow in some sort of sort of organic everyday things that i say and do hopefully just keep

00:59:49.360 building them the best ones are sort of just organic ones aren't they um okay so it is very nearly

00:59:56.320 striking the hour of 9am greenwich mean time on wednesday the 14th of january in the year of our

01:00:02.640 law 2026 it has in fact just struck 9am so thank you for tuning in as always today is the the first

01:00:12.400 day of the rest of your life try and make it count you'll only have this day once in history once in

01:00:17.440 your life can never be repeated the day's half over already make it count carpe diem seize the day if

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