The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 15th April 2026

00:00:00.600 Morning. You alright?

00:00:06.520 I hope you are. I genuinely hope you are.

00:00:10.220 Oh, what, me? Yeah, I'm all good. I'm all good, Ty.

00:00:13.820 We've got a guest today you might have seen, if you've seen the thumbnails on the thumbnail, right? Harry?

00:00:18.760 Yeah. The good professor.

00:00:22.100 None other than Professor Edward Dutton. So we'll be speaking to him a bit later.

00:00:27.040 Probably in 10, 20 minutes, maybe half hour from now, something like that.

00:00:30.000 We'll have him on, get his input.

00:00:32.520 You are the glorious band, the chosen few, my band of brothers.

00:00:36.340 Thank you for joining me, and sisters.

00:00:38.820 Without you, it's not a thing, is it?

00:00:39.940 It's really not a thing.

00:00:40.940 It's just ticked one minute past eight, British summertime.

00:00:43.940 What, Wednesday?

00:00:44.900 Wednesday the 15th of April in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:00:47.800 As always, I'm joined by my producer, Little Harry.

00:00:49.920 How are you this morning, good sir?

00:00:51.460 Morning, yeah, I'm all good.

00:00:53.860 Good, okay.

00:00:54.420 and uh lammy is my kang in the uh in the chat said burgundy suit and red tire before i came

00:01:02.820 on air how do you know that how do you know that lammy is my kang how did you

00:01:08.500 worrying

00:01:11.180 you can see um okay should we just get into it then this morning what have we got

00:01:19.100 what's in the news what's the legacy corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning

00:01:23.080 lying by omission don't mention ireland yeah don't mention all the fuel protests in ireland

00:01:28.300 and then sending in the army and the police to try and put down normal people that are just

00:01:31.540 trying to survive here don't mention that right guys yeah

00:01:33.940 uk economy takes triple hit and cheers timmy timmy timmy timmy um that's timothy chamelay

00:01:43.720 that's in references one one headline that does that that goes with that so

00:01:48.800 Okay, UK economy takes triple hit

00:01:52.340 Let's have a look at the iPaper then

00:01:57.540 A lot of the stories are about the UK economy

00:02:00.680 And defence spending and just economy stuff

00:02:03.060 UK economy takes triple hit from Iran war

00:02:07.720 Says the iPaper

00:02:08.700 Lower growth, fewer jobs and higher cost of living

00:02:12.100 Even higher cost of living

00:02:14.280 Even fewer jobs

00:02:17.300 Lower growth

00:02:19.380 We haven't got any growth essentially

00:02:20.780 We have to measure it in a very very specific way

00:02:23.720 To even make the argument that there's any growth

00:02:25.980 We can't have much lower growth

00:02:28.940 So recession

00:02:30.320 We're looking at a recession then

00:02:31.680 Okay

00:02:32.640 Say that then

00:02:34.300 Alright

00:02:38.140 Impact of Trumpflation

00:02:42.780 Starting to become clear for UK

00:02:45.260 Petrol, energy and mortgage costs

00:02:48.200 Set to keep climbing

00:02:49.200 They could cut tax on petrol

00:02:53.120 Couldn't they?

00:02:54.120 Could do that for us 0.98

00:02:55.140 Like in Ireland

00:02:59.500 I mentioned the Ireland stuff didn't I?

00:03:01.060 That's one of the things they've been lying by omission about

00:03:03.420 For quite a few days now

00:03:04.740 If you don't know

00:03:07.680 Actually there was one thing

00:03:09.800 I think it was in the sun

00:03:11.600 Let's have a quick look

00:03:14.020 let's have a quick look for you i think it was yeah uh yeah finally something in the sun

00:03:19.940 fueling the fury inside petrol price protests paralyzing say that 10 times fast ireland as

00:03:27.120 fuming drivers gridlock country over costs so will britain be next yet in ireland for days and days

00:03:33.500 and days since the end of last week isn't it or since the weekend loads and loads loads of people

00:03:38.540 are protesting in ireland with getting their lorries and their tractors to block roads and

00:03:42.540 even like petrol depot places over the fact that their petrol may run out was beginning to run out

00:03:50.040 and that it's an insanely it's insanely expensive and when they start airing their grievances they

00:03:55.300 start talking about migration as well because it's even worse even further accelerating in

00:03:59.700 ireland starting with as much smaller population cram a few million in there it's much more

00:04:05.700 accelerated it seems or is than even in Great Britain but nominally about petrol prices and

00:04:12.540 things and they're asking their government who's part of the EU right the Republic of Ireland is

00:04:17.040 in the EU asking them could you just reduce the giant taxes you've got on fuel so we can afford

00:04:22.920 it would you mind and their government's like no and we'll send in the army if you keep blocking

00:04:28.360 roads it's the army you get well if not that just full riot police oh

00:04:38.760 nice we're asking for something very very reasonable

00:04:47.880 okay so you're gonna play it fine okay the the mainstream media at least in britain

00:04:55.960 on Fleet Street, don't want to talk about that

00:04:58.940 don't want to mention that, okay

00:05:02.640 Reeves, Rachel, Rachel Thieves, Rachel from Accounts 0.99

00:05:07.220 the idiot who's somehow the Chancellor of the Exchequer 0.99

00:05:10.680 Reeves accused of 1.00

00:05:14.540 blocking defence spending as welfare now

00:05:18.420 accounts for £1 in every £4 spent by UK government

00:05:21.680 there's one thing i saw not too long ago last week one data point saying that we spend more

00:05:30.780 on the welfare bill than we get in income tax because the treasury gets revenues in all sorts

00:05:37.160 of ways not just income tax of course but still it's a giant one isn't it it's one of the more

00:05:41.160 giant things that brings things brings money into the treasury we spend more more on welfare than

00:05:47.940 that every year. Completely disastrous, completely suicidal, completely unsustainable numbers,

00:05:54.860 isn't it? What is it? It's over 300 billion a year or something like that. The defence,

00:06:03.500 they want to up it to like another two and a half billion a year. More, something like

00:06:09.980 that. No, we can't find that, she says. Spend over 330 billion or something on welfare?

00:06:15.700 we spend something like 4.6 billion a week on the nhs a week and the army all the armed services

00:06:25.480 together asking for an extra 2.5 billion a year 2.5 billion a year and she's like no i can't do

00:06:34.020 that we need to spend it on people that are invading us and their health care 1.00

00:06:41.380 completely insane 0.58

00:06:45.900 completely insane

00:06:48.100 UK military chiefs

00:06:56.580 are asked to find

00:06:58.260 3.5 billion in savings

00:07:00.180 and prepare for war

00:07:01.760 as defence investment plan

00:07:06.280 delayed again

00:07:07.060 the strategic defensive initiative

00:07:10.040 plan thing they had

00:07:11.360 They drew up

00:07:12.240 It's funny isn't it

00:07:15.480 That the establishment

00:07:16.200 Not funny

00:07:16.980 Ha ha

00:07:17.460 Funny

00:07:18.720 Maddening

00:07:19.480 That the establishment

00:07:22.680 The blob

00:07:23.460 Whatever you want to call it

00:07:24.540 They're quite bellicos

00:07:28.560 Aren't they

00:07:28.980 They're quite hawkish

00:07:29.920 It's like they

00:07:30.700 It's really like

00:07:31.720 They want a war

00:07:32.640 With Russia 1.00

00:07:33.240 Feels like that doesn't it 0.99

00:07:35.680 Extremely aggressive

00:07:36.820 But

00:07:38.380 Won't spend any money

00:07:40.300 On defence

00:07:41.140 in fact they're asking military chiefs to find ways to cut money to the tune of a few billion

00:07:53.840 and how does that make sense just how does that make sense it's mental isn't it

00:08:02.800 labour's pledged to build 1.5 million new homes under threat don't talk to me about

00:08:06.900 It was absurd.

00:08:08.460 It was a fiction from the moment it was said, wasn't it?

00:08:11.380 It's under threat.

00:08:13.000 Yeah.

00:08:15.700 That was never, ever, ever, ever going to happen.

00:08:17.980 They weren't going to get close.

00:08:19.460 They were never going to get close to building 1.5 million new homes.

00:08:22.820 Angela Rayner, that was one of her things, wasn't it?

00:08:24.480 Angela the Fridge Rayner.

00:08:27.300 Big bird.

00:08:31.300 Yeah, 1.5 million new homes.

00:08:33.240 You may as well say a trillion new homes.

00:08:36.900 Britain's going to build

00:08:40.000 200 billion new homes

00:08:42.360 Just pie in the sky nonsense isn't it

00:08:46.180 It's under threat, yeah it's under threat

00:08:47.980 British economy is forecast to rebound

00:08:53.800 Quicker in 2027, don't hold your breath

00:08:55.760 Don't hold your breath

00:08:57.500 Okay

00:09:01.020 The Guardian

00:09:02.020 Don't want 1.00

00:09:06.220 look at this look at this chump look at this dungaree wearing smelly commie what would it 1.00

00:09:14.900 be like to be a trad wife for a month don't worry about it love don't worry about it okay 1.00

00:09:19.400 iran conflict could spark recession with britain hit hardest in g7 says the international monetary

00:09:26.100 fund probably yeah i can believe it yeah trump says peace talks may restart in two days

00:09:35.220 So a little bit all about the blockade

00:09:38.480 Mr Trump's blockade

00:09:39.500 There are a fair few stories

00:09:43.440 That some ships are just

00:09:45.380 Sailing through his blockade anyway

00:09:47.980 Like at least four

00:09:49.560 One report I said this morning

00:09:50.420 At least four

00:09:50.960 Like big massive

00:09:51.820 Those giant oil tankers

00:09:53.380 One

00:09:54.200 At least one

00:09:54.880 At least one Chinese one 1.00

00:09:56.360 China just being like 1.00

00:09:57.800 No 1.00

00:09:58.140 No

00:09:59.300 We bought our oil

00:10:01.600 Or gas

00:10:02.420 One way or another

00:10:04.540 we bought that from iran legitimately we are now sailing it back to china thank you

00:10:09.140 that's sort of calling the u.s navy's bluff in a way it's like what you're going to do stop us

00:10:14.400 you're going to blow us out of the water you're probably not are you so we're just gonna iran's

00:10:19.360 letting us through the straits of hormuz so we're just doing it so i imagine trump and rubio and

00:10:27.280 they don't want a giant international diplomatic incident they don't want a naval engagement

00:10:32.240 really do they with a chinese tanker it's not that not they can't win that 0.90

00:10:37.200 but politically it looks really bad doesn't it looks really terrible 0.85

00:10:41.140 you don't really want a big incident with china do they again not that they can handle it

00:10:48.260 but it's not ideal is it it's not wanted at this stage 0.55

00:10:53.020 to escalate the whole thing in that manner so at least a few big tankers just running the u.s

00:11:01.400 blockade we'll see how that starts playing out okay the US aren't sending many of their ships

00:11:08.540 I thought they might on Monday sending their ships into the Straits of Hormuz they're sort

00:11:13.340 of sitting outside of it in like the the Gulf of Aden there sitting outside watching what comes in

00:11:20.080 and out okay UK lacking urgency in moving to war footing you don't need to be on a war footing but

00:11:28.040 Okay, if you guys insist, you should be.

00:11:31.180 And also, you're not actually doing it, though.

00:11:33.760 It's mad, isn't it?

00:11:34.760 This government's mad.

00:11:37.020 We need to be on a war footing. 0.70

00:11:38.600 Mr Putin's an imminent threat.

00:11:40.900 A clear and present danger.

00:11:42.300 The Russians, the Russians, the Russians. 1.00

00:11:44.400 But we're not actually going to spend money on that

00:11:47.860 or actually move to a war footing.

00:11:51.960 We're not actually going to do that, though.

00:11:54.520 crazy sobs from start to finish from top to bottom okay the mirror

00:12:02.020 something about oasis okay don't care reeves fury at trump oh i bet he's shaking in his boots

00:12:10.080 i bet he doesn't know what to do with himself

00:12:13.460 i bet he's sweating buckets at the monumental amount of pressure rachel reeves is putting on him

00:12:24.520 No exit plan and no idea 0.94

00:12:28.040 Chancellor blasts US over Iran war shambles and economic fallout 1.00

00:12:32.840 Rachel Reeves has blasted Donald Trump 0.63

00:12:36.000 Donald Trump blasted

00:12:38.360 He's on blast

00:12:40.180 Rachel Reeves has blasted Donald Trump's chaotic war in Iran

00:12:49.480 Saying it is hitting British families in the pocket 1.00

00:12:53.020 Well it is, I mean that is true 1.00

00:12:54.120 Especially if you're driving diesel, right?

00:12:58.340 Bites of food

00:12:59.260 Bad

00:12:59.940 Go to Tesco

00:13:03.180 Buy just normal food

00:13:05.760 Oh, it's like

00:13:07.420 Two, three times what it cost not very long ago

00:13:10.440 Just a few years ago

00:13:11.520 Want to buy a joint of pork or something

00:13:17.440 Way expensive

00:13:20.760 Way expensive

00:13:22.540 toiletries why don't you go to boots or something just buy a few things you need

00:13:27.800 oh it's like 30 quid i've not really got anything here these are just

00:13:31.600 these are just these are not luxuries again not not crazy luxury items or items i need

00:13:37.320 i don't know how i you know i don't know how really poor people that are right on the edge

00:13:46.660 right on the edge of being able to fold things must be really scary if things go up even more

00:13:52.900 it will be like depression times like wearing rags and stuff nearly

00:14:01.900 a million miles away from that okay the times the venerable times something about harry and

00:14:09.400 megan do not care about them do not care what they do or say anymore i'm done i was never 0.97

00:14:15.660 particularly interested but nowadays like come on he is a real clown isn't he a buffoon and she 0.97

00:14:25.000 is highly obnoxious neither of them have got anything interesting to say have they that's 0.86

00:14:30.120 the that's the bottom line right i don't know about you guys but i only ever watch content

00:14:36.020 of people or listen to people that i think either they're interesting they've got something of

00:14:42.500 interest to say or if they're funny right if you're not funny and or interesting why would

00:14:47.100 you ever ever listen to what they've got to say even if they're you know royals or or statesmen

00:14:53.340 or or like a-listers or something you know like like robert de niro well what's robert de niro's

00:14:59.620 got to say about something he's really he's super famous he's an a-lister he's a don't care and i'm

00:15:03.540 not interested i'm not interested i know that he's not got anything interesting or funny to say so

00:15:10.280 Look at this

00:15:11.960 Bring the picture back up Harry

00:15:13.940 Look at his face 0.99

00:15:16.220 What a buffoon 1.00

00:15:20.160 Truly a buffoon 1.00

00:15:26.400 Signs of compromise 0.96

00:15:29.160 As US and Iran hint at fresh peace talks

00:15:31.200 I don't buy that

00:15:31.900 They're miles away

00:15:33.180 What fresh peace talks

00:15:34.160 What signs of compromise

00:15:36.380 America and Israel need

00:15:39.780 iran to give up their uranium enrichment program and iran won't do it america and the united states

00:15:46.220 need them to give up on their proxies their regional allies and they won't do it iran want

00:15:51.880 america to stop all economic sanctions and they won't do it america's just blockaded all your ports

00:15:57.400 america's upped the like economic stranglehold on you now if anything compromise yeah right

00:16:05.760 Again, don't hold your breath at people out there.

00:16:07.900 Ooh, hoping they'll get back round the table, make a deal.

00:16:11.260 Yeah, not likely.

00:16:14.880 Minister in Britain, minister calls for single-sex spaces to be more inclusive.

00:16:19.500 Uh, isn't that the point of a single-sex space, that it's explicitly exclusive?

00:16:24.580 Is that not the whole point of that?

00:16:28.440 Mental.

00:16:29.540 Bridget Philipson, MP.

00:16:32.640 Mental. 0.99

00:16:33.120 you know the whole point of a single sex space it's for women isn't it like most men most normal 0.78

00:16:39.120 dudes in the changing room walking around tackle out don't really care

00:16:45.120 some woman walks into the men's changing room you just be like all right love you don't actually 0.63

00:16:52.640 care you don't feel scared this is women isn't it it's for women women's single sex spaces 0.59

00:16:57.140 having men in women's single sex spaces that's that's the problem here isn't it that's the

00:17:03.000 real thing they need to be more inclusive do they no they don't no they need to be explicitly

00:17:08.180 exclusive women only so what's she talking about there bridget phillipson they need to be more

00:17:16.000 inclusive shut up love gee god haven't we been through this haven't we had quite a few years of

00:17:21.580 this debate trump did a good thing didn't need to be fair to him trump remember when he first got 0.78

00:17:29.200 he signed loads of executive orders straight off the bat there's a bunch of those no men can't men

00:17:35.220 are not allowed to compete in women's sports men are not allowed in women's changing rooms and

00:17:39.820 toilets and stuff brilliant simple the crazy leftoid globalists screech about it for a day or 0.69

00:17:46.920 two and that's it then you get over it and then that's it they call you a bigot for a bit who 0.87

00:17:53.660 cares about that? Fine, job sorted, job done. About our government, remember when David

00:18:00.680 Lammy thought men could have a cervix, remember that? Remember when Keir Starmer was asked

00:18:04.760 to define a woman, and couldn't really, just couldn't. 0.57

00:18:08.300 Okay 1.00

00:18:17.740 Reeves dashes hopes of boost to defence spending 0.99

00:18:22.340 She's not interested in us being safe

00:18:24.820 Is she? 0.91

00:18:26.700 She'll talk war 1.00

00:18:27.540 The whole government and cabinet 1.00

00:18:29.140 They'll talk war

00:18:30.000 They'll be hawkish about war

00:18:31.780 But don't want to actually spend money on it

00:18:34.120 It's almost like isn't it

00:18:35.660 It's almost as if

00:18:36.940 they want to put us in as much danger and peril as they possibly can isn't it it's almost as though

00:18:43.160 that's what they're doing chancellor plans plans rise of less than 2.5 billion a year

00:18:49.380 despite being ruled britain's quote safety is at peril by lord robertson he used to be a nato chief

00:18:57.080 super super senior military uk military dude he says and he should know we're in peril our actual

00:19:05.820 safety is in peril at this point all we're asking for is 2.5 billion again you spend

00:19:10.700 or nearly double that a week on the nhs spend well over a hundred times more than that

00:19:17.940 on welfare every single year well over she's like no can't do it can't stretch to it

00:19:25.060 best i can do is ask you guys to cut 3.5 billion

00:19:28.880 Chancellor plans rise of less than 2.5 billion

00:19:36.160 Meanwhile, here's a story on the ITV News

00:19:38.940 Meanwhile, UK to send 752 million pounds and 120,000 drones to Ukraine

00:19:47.700 Alright, alright, alright

00:19:49.620 Sure, alright

00:19:52.020 I see, I see, I get it, I understand

00:19:56.220 We see you

00:19:58.780 our safety

00:20:01.640 is nowhere near

00:20:04.180 the top of your priorities

00:20:05.400 got it

00:20:06.940 thanks

00:20:10.920 oh we've got to send

00:20:15.080 £750 million

00:20:17.100 so Zelensky and his

00:20:20.000 friends and family can embezzle it

00:20:21.840 great

00:20:22.260 Where did we ever have an audit

00:20:29.120 Of all the untold billions

00:20:31.700 That was being sent to Ukraine

00:20:33.500 Did we ever have an audit

00:20:34.260 Of exactly where that money ended up

00:20:36.620 And exactly what it was spent on

00:20:38.500 Has any of it ended up

00:20:47.120 Quite literally in the pockets 0.97

00:20:49.680 Of Zelensky 0.52

00:20:51.860 his family and other members of that government and his friends and things don't know don't ask

00:21:00.160 that you must be a Putin stooge if you're asking that question what you in the pay of the Kremlin

00:21:03.980 why are you asking that it's a level of the discourse isn't it so we can't spend an extra

00:21:12.900 two and a half billion on our military but we will send three quarters of a billion

00:21:17.640 and 120,000 drones to Ukraine

00:21:21.640 on top of the billions we've already sent them

00:21:24.860 for a war they can't win.

00:21:29.920 Okay.

00:21:31.500 Okay.

00:21:33.180 The Daily Mail, complete globalist slop,

00:21:34.820 trying to pretend it isn't.

00:21:36.160 Something about Kate Garraway.

00:21:37.300 Don't care about Kate Garraway. 1.00

00:21:39.840 We cannot defend Britain with an ever-expanding welfare bill,

00:21:43.540 says Lord Robertson.

00:21:44.500 Not the Daily Mail's words

00:21:47.860 But those of the ex-Labour Minister

00:21:49.700 Starmer tasked with writing his defence review

00:21:52.460 And who's now lost all confidence in dithering PM

00:21:55.520 Dithering PM

00:21:58.380 In the sun

00:22:00.880 I know the sun's quite sloppy

00:22:02.160 But still

00:22:02.880 They were going

00:22:03.800 Indefensible

00:22:06.120 We can't defend Britain if you keep splurging on benefits

00:22:09.700 Army of critics

00:22:11.360 army of critics

00:22:14.260 tell Starmer

00:22:15.120 as forces starved of funding

00:22:17.760 look at him

00:22:19.500 trying to be serious

00:22:21.080 trying to be like

00:22:21.740 he's some sort of

00:22:22.480 serious politician

00:22:23.320 when in fact

00:22:27.620 he is 0.98

00:22:28.780 a traitor 1.00

00:22:30.340 just endlessly acting

00:22:31.860 against the interests

00:22:32.820 of this nation

00:22:33.400 mad isn't it

00:22:34.400 absolutely insane

00:22:35.460 absolutely insane

00:22:37.400 everyone that voted

00:22:38.520 Labour at the last election

00:22:39.780 Well done

00:22:44.360 Thanks

00:22:45.200 Labour voters

00:22:48.120 Labour voters

00:22:50.500 This day and age

00:22:51.400 Really

00:22:51.840 Really

00:22:53.680 Alright

00:22:55.880 What have we got

00:22:57.000 Oh the metro

00:22:57.520 The metro

00:23:04.560 This is the thing about

00:23:07.340 Cheers Timmy

00:23:07.980 Remember at the top of the show

00:23:09.020 Timmy

00:23:09.360 there's timothy chamelay vacuous actor there

00:23:15.900 harebrained know-nothing actor man timothy chamelay

00:23:20.940 he criticized ballet and the opera he said no one goes to the ballet or the

00:23:27.260 opera anymore i mean very few people do opera opera used in the pre-modern

00:23:32.880 period opera for anyone who had any money was

00:23:35.100 massive it was it was huge i look how chariot racing was massive in the ancient world

00:23:41.100 it was the main thing chariot racing in the pre-modern world in the 18th 19th century

00:23:47.740 opera was big big stuff but people don't go very much anymore do they he's not completely wrong

00:23:53.500 there on the ballet you know i've been to the opera once or is it twice many many many moons

00:24:04.540 ago now, but I've never been to a ballet, I've never been to a ballet, never been in

00:24:09.560 a relationship where she wanted to go to the ballet, so, and I'm not just going to the 0.57

00:24:14.380 ballet, so, I'm into the opera, you can't understand it, it's nearly always in a foreign

00:24:19.220 language, right, usually in Italian or something, you can't understand it, unless beforehand

00:24:22.720 you've researched the story, you won't really know what's going on, basically, so, anyway,

00:24:30.480 Anyway, Timothy Chamolais said no one goes to the bad hour of the opera

00:24:34.520 and apparently ticket sales have gone up slightly off of that

00:24:39.040 and the arch chief, some arch chief in Britain,

00:24:44.380 has like thanked him, going, thanks, cheers, you know.

00:24:48.160 Thanks for that, you've actually boosted our numbers.

00:24:50.340 All right, bit of a nothing story, isn't it?

00:24:51.980 Classic metro slop.

00:24:54.300 Absolute slop.

00:24:55.380 Can't believe I spent that much time on it, to be honest.

00:24:57.540 The express, it's good.

00:25:00.480 It's a good paper, The Express

00:25:04.680 They go with something a bit different

00:25:07.500 Former police officer urges the government

00:25:09.820 To give injured 999 workers a medal

00:25:12.280 People that work for ambulance services

00:25:18.080 That get assaulted or something

00:25:19.160 Or much more often police officers

00:25:21.220 That get wounded in the line of duty

00:25:23.220 Wake up PM and honour heroes

00:25:26.620 Hurt in line of duty

00:25:27.740 so i can't disagree with it no problem with that does it really help though if you got terribly

00:25:35.200 wounded and then he's a cop he's a copper he got badly wounded hurt injured in the line of duty

00:25:43.180 there's a there's a little medal make much odds maybe it does maybe it does to them i don't know

00:25:49.500 perhaps it's the least they could do i'm not going to pour cold water on this chap

00:25:56.000 at all

00:25:57.260 but

00:25:57.880 it won't make any real difference

00:26:01.560 if you've got a little medal or not

00:26:03.700 not a little medal, I don't know

00:26:05.220 I'm not trying to belittle it

00:26:06.700 alright, make up your own mind

00:26:09.940 on that, make up your own mind

00:26:10.940 the Financial Times, the FT

00:26:12.200 Wall Street Bank earnings shatter records

00:26:15.660 as traders thrive

00:26:18.200 on Iran war volatility

00:26:19.640 great, as everyone else gets poorer

00:26:22.120 quite literally and in real terms

00:26:24.420 wall street bankers or the firms themselves anyway record earnings because they know how

00:26:32.520 to work volatility right they've got professional traders that know what they're doing bumper hall

00:26:41.200 at jp morgan city and wells citibank and wells fargo jp morgan and citibank particularly are

00:26:49.360 Some of the two, well not the Wells Fargo Small, but Citibank, JP Morgan, giant bear moths of the financial world.

00:27:00.040 In terms of sort of assets under management.

00:27:04.820 They're doing alright. They're alright. They're laughing it up.

00:27:08.800 £25 billion in combined profits. Fears for consumer spending.

00:27:13.220 Yeah, when you realise you're really poor and you haven't got enough money for everything you might like or need,

00:27:18.100 then you stop

00:27:19.380 spending money

00:27:19.860 don't you

00:27:20.200 because you realise

00:27:21.960 you're going to need it

00:27:22.780 alright I'm getting

00:27:26.140 some sort of

00:27:26.900 signs

00:27:27.480 that perhaps

00:27:28.600 the good professor

00:27:29.980 is Harry

00:27:30.880 talk to me

00:27:31.860 is coming on

00:27:33.500 yeah

00:27:34.320 I can't hear

00:27:35.640 you've got to

00:27:35.940 press the button

00:27:36.440 before I can hear

00:27:36.980 okay

00:27:37.300 I'm getting a thumbs up

00:27:38.400 getting a thumbs up

00:27:39.420 I've got to wear

00:27:40.040 headphones

00:27:40.460 because you remember

00:27:41.160 when Rupert Lowe

00:27:42.120 Lowe B1 Kenobi

00:27:43.400 was on

00:27:43.700 there was a bit

00:27:44.020 of an echo

00:27:44.380 wasn't there

00:27:44.760 I've got to wear

00:27:46.320 headphones

00:27:46.800 boom how about that should i do a should i do a james o'brien

00:27:52.140 i've my big jug here james o'brien jug here

00:27:58.100 no all right stop mucking about actually it actually it genuinely does help to have one

00:28:07.360 here here open so i can hear anyway anyway all right harry bring on dutton is he yet oh there

00:28:13.460 is oh there is edward how are you sir morning morning morning hello great hello hello hello

00:28:20.360 the the the lord dutton first baron dutton how are you this morning you're all right

00:28:26.380 i'm i'm okay yeah i i'm admiring your ability to get up so early i don't know how you how you

00:28:32.240 manage it you must be a extreme case strategist or something like that i don't know how you can

00:28:37.440 manage um getting up so early in the morning well it's two hours you're two hours back from me so

00:28:43.320 it's only 8.30 there. Yeah, yeah. Well, as you get older, I'm middle-aged, we're about

00:28:48.400 the same age, aren't we, I think. Middle-aged now, I just go to bed earlier, it's quite

00:28:52.280 simple as that. I don't sit up till midnight, like, drinking and playing computer games

00:28:56.760 anymore, I just go to bed a bit earlier. What time do you go to bed? Well, it depends, but

00:29:05.440 I mean, 10 is knocking it now, 10's a bit late for me, so 9, half 9, 10, something

00:29:11.460 like that my goodness no i'd go to bed about midnight and um i i used to go to bed about two

00:29:17.680 and um that's how i used to do that's that's not nine nine thirty i think i used to that was kind

00:29:24.040 of the time that you'd be sent to bed when you were maybe sort of nine years old yeah some good

00:29:29.340 films haven't even started on tv yet by that point right it's like no that was there was there was it

00:29:35.560 was like it was like oh it's a sunday night and you've got school the next day and melvin bragg

00:29:38.820 is on and should you should you consider is it probably time to go to bed yet or can you just

00:29:45.240 watch a bit of melting crap or a bit of news night yeah it's like uh yeah you have a bath

00:29:50.580 like weekday have a bath you could watch red dwarf maybe and then straight to bed half past eight 0.90

00:29:54.960 yeah okay so i wonder if we could get a few takes from you today about everything's in the news

00:30:02.980 that's what this show is um so i guess first of all probably the biggest thing what's what's your

00:30:08.060 thoughts and feelings about iran and the blockade and mr trump and israel and everything that's

00:30:13.660 going on what's your in the broadest sense what's your thoughts or feelings on all that stuff

00:30:18.240 um it's funny you asked me about that because it's the one thing that i try to avoid thinking

00:30:25.020 about because i think well i just think it's potentially so awful that that um it's it's it

00:30:31.520 reminds me i've got that sort of foreboding that i had during covid when covid started and i thought

00:30:36.460 well, hang on, this could get really, really bad.

00:30:39.740 And in fact, so bad that although in general,

00:30:42.460 I tend to feel myself a bit of a contrarian,

00:30:45.500 like speak out against what we're told to believe

00:30:47.660 and what we're told we must believe and not think about.

00:30:52.400 This is so bad.

00:30:53.540 This is the government just completely losing control.

00:30:57.340 And so best to sort of shut up about this,

00:31:00.320 because it's just, this really is things falling apart.

00:31:03.620 That's what I remember thinking when COVID started,

00:31:06.300 that they don't know what's going on they don't know really what's caused it and uh this could

00:31:10.940 just just could get terrible and it's the same thing here because we're completely reliant on

00:31:15.840 oil and so if uh if we uh and we're more reliant on oil even than we were in the 70s when there

00:31:23.440 was the oil crisis the opec oil crisis we were really really really uh for absolutely everything

00:31:30.900 and we we use transport a lot more than we used to use it then we don't even have really

00:31:35.600 most people don't even have things like

00:31:37.840 functioning fireplaces in their houses

00:31:40.240 so if we lose oil we're in serious

00:31:42.300 trouble. I understand that they've got very

00:31:44.160 serious problems now in certain countries

00:31:45.920 with petrol

00:31:46.600 so in Australia

00:31:49.520 there's now serious problems with

00:31:52.000 enough petrol. In Slovenia

00:31:53.780 they're rationing petrol

00:31:55.520 In Ireland

00:31:58.460 there's such a problem in Ireland

00:32:00.380 right now. Sorry, Carol

00:32:01.820 Yes, I hear it's resulted in kind of

00:32:04.180 rioting in Ireland and stuff like this

00:32:06.220 that's not really being reported in the UK

00:32:08.120 for some reason, possibly because

00:32:10.180 they're concerned that the same thing will happen in the

00:32:12.180 UK. If we can't get

00:32:14.080 enough petrol, there will be

00:32:15.320 complete loss of control

00:32:18.360 anarchy.

00:32:20.720 So that's why I haven't thought about

00:32:22.240 it as much as I perhaps should, because I just think

00:32:24.220 it's a terrible,

00:32:26.560 terrible possibility.

00:32:27.640 It really is a marker of

00:32:29.700 civilizational decline. If we can't get enough

00:32:32.120 petrol, that's like not getting enough

00:32:33.520 bronze in the bronze age or iron in the iron age yeah yeah yeah so it's so concerning disquieting

00:32:39.960 to you that you'd you don't want to look straight at it something no i i almost i almost i can't

00:32:46.420 quite believe it's being allowed to happen like in the same way that with the ukraine war which

00:32:52.100 you were discussing just before i just before you tuned me in uh we were so reliant on ukraine for

00:32:58.980 food and so then it was the it was the huge producer of our food in britain britain's food

00:33:06.020 anyway with the result that british food prices have rocketed up since 2022 to an insane degree

00:33:12.900 uh i i can't i don't think it's a coincidence that now you have to have electronic tags on

00:33:18.820 basic food items now in in many uk shops yeah yeah um so so so that that just shouldn't have

00:33:28.020 happened uh that's just something it shows you that the the terrible fragility of the system

00:33:33.180 that we live under this this very fragile system which is which is extremely complicated and there

00:33:38.620 and stretched and therefore fragile and so if one thing goes wrong then it all unravels uh like a

00:33:44.040 spike like a spider's web and uh it's the same here this is this is if if if this carries on

00:33:50.020 if this isn't sorted out then there won't be enough petrol which will mean no flood which

00:33:54.720 will mean the end of aviation uh it will mean uh the the end of transportation of food the end of

00:34:02.680 everything and prices will skyrocket so it's not good you're you're you're in finland aren't you

00:34:10.120 yeah yeah so i wonder whilst i've got someone that here on the line that knows all about finland

00:34:15.500 can i ask you a little question about nato i think that's going on with nato and trump talking in the

00:34:21.300 last few days again about possibly the u.s pulling out of NATO what's the thoughts and feelings of

00:34:27.400 Finns and Finland because it's countries like that that will actually be most affected

00:34:32.940 have you got your ear to the ground on that all that sort of thing in Finland

00:34:36.680 do they talk about it much um they uh they're not they're not I'm not aware that it hasn't

00:34:43.500 come to me I mean I haven't it hasn't come to my attention of late that they have they've been

00:34:47.760 particularly discussing any concern about the collapse of NATO, no.

00:34:50.940 Oh, okay. Oh, that's interesting.

00:34:53.120 But they got involved in NATO because, obviously,

00:34:57.520 they're on the border with Russia,

00:35:00.440 and there's the concern about being invaded.

00:35:08.600 But there's no general chat about fear

00:35:14.920 about the collapse of NATO in the news, no.

00:35:16.640 Oh, that's interesting. I thought there might be.

00:35:20.820 No, there is massive concern about Russia and concern about drones and drones getting into Finland and things like this.

00:35:33.620 So, for example, a recent headline was about a drone warhead being detonated in southeast Finland because there's no major discussion about the possible collapse of NATO.

00:35:44.700 I don't think people believe Trump.

00:35:47.860 It's like this whole thing when Trump said he's going to invade Greenland

00:35:50.160 and in the end he got what he wanted and so he backed down.

00:35:54.820 I don't think he's really going to withdraw from NATO.

00:35:58.480 All right, okay.

00:35:59.700 But are Finns, just one last question on Finland.

00:36:03.100 Is there a lot of people there genuinely, genuinely fear

00:36:07.120 that Russia might at any moment actually, you know,

00:36:11.300 start rolling tank divisions

00:36:13.380 onto Finnish territory

00:36:15.200 you know, whole battalions

00:36:17.400 of infantrymen and you know, the whole nine yards

00:36:19.460 is that a genuine fear?

00:36:21.360 No, not really.

00:36:22.780 I thought not, I thought not

00:36:24.980 because sometimes war hawks here

00:36:27.180 say that, you know, people in Poland

00:36:29.100 or Belarus or Finland or Estonia or Latvia

00:36:31.340 or whatever, that they're all sitting

00:36:33.120 they're terrified of Mr Putin

00:36:34.500 that they're terrified the Kremlin's

00:36:37.220 just about to annihilate them

00:36:39.320 but I don't feel like that is actually true

00:36:41.200 I think I think I think they they well, first of all, with NATO, they like to think that they're that they're protected by NATO.

00:36:47.100 They're probably not, but they like to think that they are.

00:36:49.480 But secondly, I don't I don't I think maybe I don't know if it's to do with being a rich country and decadence or whatever.

00:36:56.900 But I know there's not there's no there's no widespread fear here of this country being invaded by Russia.

00:37:02.040 There's deep hatred of Russians, particularly among particularly among older people.

00:37:07.100 They really, really, really hate Russians and can't stand the Russians.

00:37:13.560 But there's no, I don't think there's any genuine fear of imminent invasion or invasion at all.

00:37:18.960 Oh, OK. Interesting. Good to know.

00:37:20.920 OK, that's enough about Finland.

00:37:22.980 Thanks for letting us know that because it's difficult to get a perspective on something like that unless someone's actually there or living there.

00:37:29.620 OK, so back to the papers and what's in the news today.

00:37:31.740 A lot of it is all about the economy and, like, British spending, i.e. various things, various data points to talk about, the idea that we spend so much on welfare and the NHS and relatively little on defence, and yet our establishment, the blob, whatever you want to call it, is really quite hawkish quite a lot of the time.

00:37:54.360 send lots and lots of money and material and resources to Zelensky but yet don't seem to be

00:38:01.600 able to want to or prepare to spend money a relatively small amount in the scheme of things

00:38:07.500 on our defence. I don't know if you heard much of the show earlier but you know spending hundreds

00:38:16.040 of billions on welfare in the NHS and can't muster like two and a half billion for spending despite

00:38:21.740 being very very bellicose what's all your thoughts and feelings on that whole subject

00:38:26.740 well we're it's just it's just this broader attitude towards life isn't it that i think that

00:38:33.040 we've we've we've we've we're so used to things be everything being okay we're so used to everything

00:38:40.240 being fine we're so used to to nothing bad happening that we that we we no longer plan

00:38:47.460 for a future in which bad things might happen.

00:38:52.020 Another thing you could argue is we're so used to living under freedom

00:38:55.620 that we no longer plan for a future or a possibility

00:39:01.280 where tyrants might become in charge of our country.

00:39:05.520 And that's why we've lost so much freedom in the UK

00:39:07.600 over the last 30 years in terms of freedom of speech

00:39:10.640 and things like that, because we simply didn't,

00:39:13.240 we passed laws and we didn't plan,

00:39:16.040 like the public order act 1986 and we didn't plan for the possibility that a tyrannical

00:39:21.320 anti-freedom government and tyrannical anti-freedom culture would would would take over

00:39:26.540 and then would you would use those laws um to to suppress people we assumed that there would be

00:39:31.740 reasonable um democratic freedom loving people in charge which stopped being the case but we

00:39:37.940 were so used to we were so used to having freedom that we we didn't plan for the possibility of

00:39:43.020 losing it, which America, of course, has done because it has these constitutional laws that

00:39:47.620 make it very difficult to destroy certain freedoms. And it's the same, I think, with

00:39:54.000 things like military spending. If you're so used to peace, or if you assume there's going to be

00:40:01.200 peace, then you don't plan for the possibility of war. And then when war does come, which it

00:40:08.040 inevitably will because these things tend to move in cycles then um you're in serious trouble

00:40:13.880 and uh and you and and you you're not you're not you're not prepared and you should be what you

00:40:20.100 should be doing it's logically it's like the idea idea of the old cliche we were talking earlier

00:40:24.720 about going to bed early and things like you knew when you were a kid we'll talk about saving money

00:40:28.480 for a rainy day you know not not splurging up your splurging away your money when when you have

00:40:33.600 it saving it up when you might want something like a new wwf wrestling figure or or or what

00:40:38.720 or like the the big wrestling ring thing um or or whatever it happens to be that you could see in

00:40:45.360 the argos catalog um and um and and it's the same it's the same here that you have you have peace

00:40:51.420 for such a long time you're so used to it you become decadent and so you think well let's spend

00:40:56.640 money on our standard of living now so that we all have a high or at least some people have a high

00:41:02.080 standard of living and we won't spend things on the vague possibility in the future that seems

00:41:07.080 unlikely it will ever happen that there will be a war or there will be there will be conflict and

00:41:11.300 then when it comes we don't we don't have it even after world war one bizarrely considering how

00:41:16.060 close at hand world war one was um they they started to disarm um under when uh in in the

00:41:24.120 wake of the war or whatever when churchill was in government in the 20s they started to disarm

00:41:28.780 Britain such that when there then was a war we weren't sufficiently prepared whereas of course

00:41:35.040 Germany was exactly the opposite Germany was arming itself um throughout throughout the 30s

00:41:40.420 um in preparation for a war was doing it was spending a lot of its money 0.73

00:41:44.760 and and so that that's that's it's just a fundamental decadent thing that we've done

00:41:49.520 that we if you if you we assume there will be peace and there there isn't there um we assume

00:41:57.300 that the good times will last

00:41:59.520 forever, that the strawberries and cream will

00:42:01.400 last forever and they never do

00:42:03.320 but when they're there

00:42:05.380 we do things like Gordon Brown did

00:42:07.060 like selling off all our gold

00:42:08.740 at low prices

00:42:11.040 and all of these kinds of decadent things

00:42:13.440 and then finally we're paying for it now

00:42:14.980 Yeah, yeah

00:42:17.100 some historians have called it

00:42:18.780 the long piece, of course that's 0.99

00:42:21.320 quite a European

00:42:23.120 or American sort of perspective

00:42:25.500 there's certain places in the world

00:42:27.100 that have of course haven't been peaceful since 1945 nonetheless broadly speaking the long peace

00:42:32.660 and yeah you describe it as decadent yeah or short-sighted and uh you mentioned there

00:42:38.260 throughout history sort of cycles of history many historians like carlisle and spengler many have

00:42:43.440 talked about the the sort of shape of history the cycles that if you think the idea that

00:42:49.100 history has come to an end that there will never be wars again no no history decides when it's

00:42:55.800 come to an end and it hasn't it never will it will never come to end that was like yeah that

00:43:01.340 was the whole idea of Francis Fukuyama the whole idea of history liberal democracy has won out and

00:43:06.500 we're going to we're going to be happy forever and it's obviously complete nonsense yeah with

00:43:11.760 everything else that's ever happened I mean that's what it looked like in the what it what it looked

00:43:16.200 like in the I don't know sort of circa 1900 or something like that or 1890 that was was that

00:43:21.780 history had come to an end and everything was going to be okay in Britain there was never going

00:43:24.980 be another war serious war obviously colonial wars but but a major war involving britain as

00:43:30.820 there had been a hundred years earlier with napoleonic war and so forth um and then of

00:43:35.720 course within 10 years or so there was there was a huge war so so it it doesn't work like that but

00:43:40.500 it feels like that when you haven't had war and you haven't had serious natural stresses and you

00:43:45.360 haven't had death and you haven't had whatever for a very very long time then it feels like that

00:43:49.720 And that's when you make these decadent decisions to invest money in nonsense and in just luxuries rather than actually planning for the possibility that there won't be a luxury.

00:44:03.340 It's just natural human. It's natural human psychology and it won't ever change. You're right.

00:44:10.640 OK, one moment, Ed. Harry. Harry, I couldn't hear Ed for the last couple of moments there.

00:44:16.100 could you uh make sure i could hear him i don't know what happened there sorry about that ed uh

00:44:21.520 hopefully we can uh there's no more technical issues um okay would you would you mind saying

00:44:27.360 something else for me just to check i can actually hear you um no that's not coming through my

00:44:32.920 headphones harry sorry about this i don't know if it's it just cut out in the middle of what

00:44:38.640 you're saying i didn't touch anything i imagine you didn't touch anything uh well

00:44:44.340 okay so i'm i'm sorry i can't actually hear you at this moment we might have to

00:44:52.120 yeah it's not coming through i don't know if the people out there on the actual stream can hear it

00:44:57.160 but uh harry you've got a few seconds to sort it out otherwise sorry about that ed sorry about

00:45:05.820 that ed um oh i suppose you can still talk i think the people on the stream can still hear you

00:45:11.940 Would you let us know

00:45:13.220 I just got a thumbs up but I still can't hear you

00:45:16.120 Just let us know next time you might be in Britain

00:45:17.880 If I can actually, possible

00:45:19.340 Have you come in, physically sit with us

00:45:21.620 Just take the earphones off

00:45:25.280 Yeah, no, I can't hear you, Harry

00:45:28.900 I'm sorry about that, Ed

00:45:30.180 We'll have to let you go, I'm afraid

00:45:31.980 Because I just simply can't hear you

00:45:34.140 I'm sorry about that, it's a technical issue

00:45:36.600 Yeah, your frown says it all

00:45:39.020 Shall I come out and come back in again?

00:45:41.940 there you go apologies about that i really can't tell you what happened

00:45:49.260 a bit annoying about that anyway a little bit of ed dutton what did you get 15 20 minutes of

00:45:58.080 ed dutton we'll have to apologize to him for basically just cutting him off there but

00:46:02.660 coming through the headphones and then nothing happened i can only apologize to you guys the

00:46:08.960 glorious band the chosen few for sticking with us I really couldn't tell you what happened there

00:46:16.780 it's gonna have to be an inquiry I was promised it was fixed all right let's just move on shall

00:46:23.640 we it's already gone quarter two so should we just have a look at what happened on this day

00:46:28.820 in history before we get to the Rumble Rants and the Super Chats I like doing that you guys seem

00:46:33.180 to like that as well what happened on this day in history April the 15th down through the centuries

00:46:38.940 What happened of note

00:46:40.340 Okay, on this day

00:46:42.920 In 1755, Samuel Johnson's

00:46:45.760 A Dictionary of the English Language

00:46:47.920 Is published in London

00:46:49.380 Someone on

00:46:52.000 Someone on the State of Politics

00:46:54.600 My show with Mr H Reviews

00:46:58.100 State of Politics

00:46:58.680 Asked me what my favourite Blackadder episode is

00:47:02.140 And I've got at least half a dozen

00:47:04.960 Which I think are brilliant

00:47:05.940 I like them all

00:47:06.660 And in the end I said

00:47:08.760 perhaps my favourite episode is in the third season of Blackadder where Robbie Coltrane plays

00:47:15.840 Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron is in it and stuff. Love that episode. Oh, anyway, the real, sorry,

00:47:24.620 the real, the real Samuel Johnson in his dictionary, it's really important. If you've ever read

00:47:28.660 anything from the Middle Ages or even in from the 17th, 18th century, even into the 19th century,

00:47:35.800 you might notice people play fast and loose with spelling spelling just simply wasn't standardized

00:47:45.620 you can put ease on the end of things and no one's going to say that's not how you spell it

00:47:50.820 because it wasn't standardized so okay 1755 sammy johnson's dictionary the dictionary

00:47:58.020 very important starting to get us towards some proper spelling okay on this day in 1861

00:48:06.240 the federal army of 75 000 volunteers is mobilized by abe lincoln at the start of the american civil

00:48:12.460 war again got loads of loads of content all about the american civil war um and of course uh

00:48:22.360 at the very beginning of this american civil war the confederacy had a few successes

00:48:29.760 people in the north thought it would be a cakewalk one big push and will defeat the

00:48:36.960 confederacy on the field and it will be all over first battle of ball run well anyway in the end

00:48:46.120 in the end ultimately the union had to put together an army of what like 400,000 or more

00:48:52.980 three different three three different four three or four different giant army corps of hundreds of

00:49:00.500 thousands apiece it wasn't a case of just some quick 75,000 volunteers quick push one big battle

00:49:07.680 one big decisive afternoon and it's all over afraid not unfortunately not okay on this day

00:49:16.660 in 1874 first impressionist art exhibition opens in paris featuring monet degas renoir

00:49:24.900 pizarro and moriseau there you go i quite like the impressionists i've done content about art

00:49:31.340 history some with josh big josh firm on his show he had contemplations i've done a couple of

00:49:36.780 different long-form bits of content talk about art and art history and I like sort of classical

00:49:44.500 art I like things that are very very high quality that's almost sort of photo quality

00:49:49.580 so you know the classic even renaissance masters that's my sort of taste you know something like

00:49:58.980 politician or michelangelo or something but of the impressionist i don't mind some of the

00:50:07.820 impressionist stuff where you're deliberately not trying to make it photo quality um i don't

00:50:13.960 mind some impressionism that's about as far as i'll go okay you know like mornay's got some nice

00:50:20.280 things in my opinion i just want to find a cup of tea but there you go okay on this day in 1877

00:50:25.700 world's first home telephone is installed in somerville massachusetts at the house of somebody

00:50:32.040 called charles william jr okay i didn't know that that one's new to me that really is a tiny tiny

00:50:37.700 footnote of history isn't it the world's first telephone some random dude's house in massachusetts

00:50:45.700 okay and on this day or we they talked about the titanic yesterday didn't they

00:50:49.540 that it first hit the iceberg late at night on the 14th of April

00:50:53.960 and then by 20 past two the following morning on the 15th of April

00:50:59.120 it goes down

00:51:01.520 with the loss of most people on board

00:51:05.800 some survived didn't they, there were some survivors

00:51:07.360 but a loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 lives

00:51:12.300 pretty bad

00:51:13.680 I mean it was the biggest, it was supposed to be the biggest

00:51:16.700 liner of the day

00:51:18.780 so yeah giant death toll what quite horrible way to go as well i think drowning in icy water in the

00:51:27.680 dark terrifying that was not all that painful you know nowhere near as painful as being burnt

00:51:35.640 alive or something but kind of terrifying death okay all right shall we have a look at the rumble

00:51:44.660 rants and the super chats let me do this with my mic so I can see the right side

00:51:52.580 of my screen all right what have we got oh Harry is that all meant to be on the

00:51:56.720 screen this big black square get rid of that that was on the screen okay I should

00:52:02.900 plow on with the rumble rents we've got global church history in at number one

00:52:08.440 Still in at number one

00:52:09.580 Okay, Global Church History says

00:52:15.180 Today, in 73 AD

00:52:17.880 Masada fell to the Romans

00:52:20.100 That's a very interesting bit of history

00:52:23.160 73 AD, sort of the first Roman-Jewish war

00:52:26.300 In 73 AD 0.99

00:52:27.860 The Romans had won a lot, basically 0.91

00:52:30.720 In the last pockets of Jewish revolt 0.99

00:52:34.060 Held out in a hill fort

00:52:35.480 very very difficult hill with uh fortification settlement on top of it very very difficult hill

00:52:42.480 to get up for any sort of attackers masada and in the end the romans built a giant slope

00:52:49.960 giant giant earthwork slope massive in order to get up there and their siege engines and 0.86

00:52:56.540 whole legions up there in one go the the jewish people of the day just didn't think the romans 0.97

00:53:02.780 would do that didn't have the logistical ability to do that um but they did and in the end

00:53:08.520 josephus talks about we had someone a question the other day someone asking about josephus

00:53:12.640 josephus was actually there he survived very very oh and at the very end a lot of the jews

00:53:17.780 killed themselves rather than be a mass suicide rather than be captured by the romans and you

00:53:22.840 know probably executed crucified or whatever rather than that they killed themselves but

00:53:27.080 Josephus survived that and wrote an account about it okay on this day in 1071 the Normans took Bari

00:53:36.540 which was the last of Roman Italy yeah a lot of people might not know but anyone that knows

00:53:43.540 history will know but the Normans are you from Normandy well originally from Scandinavia aren't

00:53:49.260 they the ancestors of the Normans uh King Rollo and stuff but from northern France basically

00:53:55.020 went and had massive conquests in Italy and Sicily

00:53:59.020 and all over the place.

00:54:02.520 A lot of Norman conquests in Italy and Sicily.

00:54:05.540 So there you go.

00:54:06.400 And the last one you said,

00:54:08.140 in 1493, Columbus returned to Seville

00:54:11.740 after his first crossing of the Atlantic.

00:54:14.380 He actually crossed the Atlantic multiple times in his life

00:54:16.840 after the first time.

00:54:19.000 After he showed it could be done,

00:54:21.160 people did it immediately,

00:54:23.180 started doing it immediately

00:54:24.080 or in the next generation rather a lot and Christopher Columbus himself did it what three

00:54:29.660 or is it four times across the Atlantic and then came back again so that'd be the first time he

00:54:35.420 said Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean in the ocean blue in 1492 so he came back in 1493

00:54:41.760 there you go interesting okay what else we got 14 barber morning bow morning

00:54:46.300 when you said Dutton I instantly thought Yellowstone do you know why

00:54:51.320 i don't know either our economy is about to be downgraded surely this can't keep going on

00:54:59.400 or downgraded by like the actual um like moodies and stuff like that yeah i won't be surprised

00:55:08.280 or like our guilt our uh government bonds guilt-edged bonds downgraded what they're really

00:55:18.200 worth okay we also see the ufo files were meant to be out yesterday yeah it was that the u.s

00:55:27.240 government the u.s government was saying they were going to release loads more files was that

00:55:30.260 supposed to be yesterday and they didn't do it is that right interesting i'm interested in disclosure

00:55:35.840 or not necessarily disclosure i sort of suspect the unidentified flying objects we've seen aren't

00:55:44.060 from another star system i suspect but who knows i want to know what they are one way or another

00:55:49.120 that's what i want what is it that tic-tac what is that what was it i think it's real

00:55:55.900 it's real right it's it was physically there what was it chinese russian one of america's own

00:56:04.980 projects or from another solar system another galaxy who knows who knows i want to know what

00:56:12.180 is i want to know what's going on don't you i don't but i don't buy a thunderfoot it's just a bird

00:56:19.580 bro it's just the it's just the uh all the fast jet pilots making it up for for notoriety

00:56:26.360 chunderfoot blunderfoot more like okay rick twgp says a russian frigate escorted a russian dark

00:56:38.620 fleet tanker right down the english channel on monday yeah i think we talked about it on monday

00:56:42.400 show or was it yesterday's show um kept that quiet didn't use sir queer yeah because it's

00:56:49.000 embarrassing isn't it it's like we'll get all aggressive get all up in russia's grill and then

00:56:53.600 when they do something back you just go okay pretend that didn't happen yeah where uh where's

00:57:02.060 blockade of their dark fleet loser yeah i don't know why we we i don't even see why we have to

00:57:11.600 try and endlessly strangle russia's economy anyway i don't really buy that that's necessary in any

00:57:18.000 way i don't know why their fleet of oil tankers need to be our enemy

00:57:23.440 because of the action in the donbass yeah it's not there's nothing to do with us

00:57:30.220 It's nothing to do with Great Britain, is it?

00:57:34.560 Nothing.

00:57:36.560 All right.

00:57:37.700 There, the rumble rights.

00:57:38.460 Can we have the super chats?

00:57:39.300 Harry, would you mind bringing up the super chats for me?

00:57:45.320 Okay.

00:57:46.380 Only a few this morning.

00:57:48.240 All right.

00:57:49.420 Brandon Warsfold says,

00:57:53.200 The war with Iran is starting to look like the Suez Crisis.

00:57:56.720 That's interesting.

00:57:57.340 I've talked about the Suez Crisis before, haven't I?

00:57:58.800 At least in passing.

00:57:59.480 at least mentioned it the series crisis yeah look that up if you're interested i need to i haven't

00:58:04.980 got a long form piece of content on it but i really should do shouldn't i really should do

00:58:08.840 i'm fascinated by it read all about it a bunch of times it's a very interesting thing i rarely do i

00:58:13.840 rarely do things that are post world war ii i haven't even got that much world war ii content

00:58:18.700 it's much more ancient world and medieval stuff but i still do do 20th century stuff don't i from

00:58:23.380 sometimes anyone that knows epochs inside out um could do should do the suiz crisis anyway anyway

00:58:30.060 sorry you're saying the iran is starting to look like the suiz crisis israel and britain won on

00:58:35.580 the battlefield but economic and international pressures forced britain to withdraw will america

00:58:42.120 suffer the same there is another parallel isn't there as well where in the suiz crisis britain

00:58:47.920 asked for the united states to help and they refused i think it was eisenhower wasn't it

00:58:52.260 Ike was the president, I believe.

00:58:56.120 And they refused, and that completely scuppered us. 0.93

00:58:59.120 That cut our legs out from under us.

00:59:01.040 We weren't able to do what we want and sort of see the thing through

00:59:03.800 in any sort of long-term way.

00:59:05.680 Ultimately screwed us badly.

00:59:08.700 There's a parallel there, isn't there?

00:59:09.980 America is now leading the action and asking for us to help,

00:59:13.200 and we're like, no.

00:59:16.960 The big difference is that America doesn't actually need us.

00:59:19.620 We needed America in the serious crisis.

00:59:21.440 We needed them.

00:59:22.260 Trump doesn't need

00:59:26.220 Britain does it

00:59:27.920 Just doesn't

00:59:29.080 Okay

00:59:30.160 Anime Chad Party

00:59:32.320 Great name 0.64

00:59:32.820 Said

00:59:33.260 It would be funny

00:59:34.680 If literally everyone

00:59:35.880 Was on welfare

00:59:36.720 I mean

00:59:40.080 Okay

00:59:43.560 A certain type of funny

00:59:45.840 The second one

00:59:47.620 You also say

00:59:48.160 Maybe it's a bit

00:59:50.460 Accelerationist

00:59:51.340 Yeah that is

00:59:51.900 accelerationist I'm not a doomer and I'm not an accelerationist but I do get where accelerationism

00:59:59.600 comes from I get the mindset of it I understand it doomerism I don't full-blown defeatism

01:00:05.900 doomerism because people need to be made to shut their mouths can go cower in a basement then

01:00:12.660 quietly but accelerationism is something a bit different I don't subscribe to it I want as least

01:00:20.820 damage to be done possible to my country and people as possible but I do understand it I do

01:00:25.920 get it you know we have to pass a certain the idea that we have to pass a certain threshold

01:00:31.200 of how things bad will get before the majority of normies wake up and we get their support for

01:00:37.140 what needs to be done to save the country I completely 100% understand that the idea that

01:00:43.820 if everyone in the country was on welfare well the economy would just utterly utterly implode

01:00:49.320 wouldn't it so and i don't want to see that i know someone like gavin bobe who i deeply respect

01:00:54.560 i've had on here a number of times two or three times even spoken to gav

01:00:59.840 the mosque buster brilliant dude brilliant dude he's an accelerationist and his argument he puts

01:01:08.060 forward is is you know it it makes sense it's coherent you know i wouldn't i wouldn't call it 0.98

01:01:14.880 wrong or insane or anything i mean maybe maybe he's right but things need to collapse to a certain

01:01:21.280 extent need to so that we can start the the real fight back pushback maybe he's right you know

01:01:30.520 maybe he's right i hope not i want there to be as little damage to my country and my people as

01:01:36.620 possible that's me all right what else have we got irwin romulus it was nice to meet you on the

01:01:43.440 weekend dude you've said uh thoughts utk on may the 16th utk oh is that what is that is that

01:01:54.580 tommy robinson's thing is that what that is i don't know i'm in two minds about uh the expense

01:02:00.920 of going seems like it might be a bit of a sivnat picnic if that's what it is i'm not sure uh i'm

01:02:08.200 not i'm not going through any tommy things ever again i'm not interested in that not interested

01:02:11.460 watching some maoris dance around yes if not yeah not interested in that not interested in that

01:02:18.180 no no okay marcos 588 says a world war ii epochs round table with am furious and bead i'd love that

01:02:31.920 that'd be great that'd be great i mean i've um earlier just a moment ago i said i haven't got

01:02:39.280 all that much world war ii content thinking about though i've got a fair bit to be honest

01:02:43.740 fair bit stuff all about kursk stuff all about market garden there's a number of number of

01:02:50.820 bits and bobs on there about it yeah a world war ii round table would be that would be great i'd

01:02:58.140 like that okay and one last thing did i talk about the poll i think we got ed in ed in earlier

01:03:05.220 so we didn't talk about the poll so quickly mention it then the poll we had today says

01:03:12.720 does trump have an exit plan we're asking you do you think trump has got an exit plan

01:03:18.480 does rachel reeves accuse him of not having an exit plan um i don't think he has a clearly

01:03:24.760 defined exit plan does he i don't i don't think so what did you guys think you thought

01:03:29.360 Oh well

01:03:31.500 20% of you say yes

01:03:33.080 60% of you say no

01:03:35.080 And 20% of you say maybe 0.97

01:03:37.140 So that's a firm win for no's

01:03:39.200 The majority of you guys that voted in that poll

01:03:41.880 Think he hasn't got

01:03:43.740 An exit plan

01:03:44.940 Bit worrying

01:03:49.420 If that is the case

01:03:50.520 Bit worrying

01:03:51.760 Alright that's the show

01:03:53.980 Apologies we had to cut off the good professor

01:03:57.480 A little early

01:03:58.140 We will get him back though

01:03:59.280 Okay so it's now

01:04:02.620 Four minutes past nine

01:04:03.440 In the AM

01:04:04.580 British summertime

01:04:06.360 On Wednesday the 15th of April

01:04:08.280 In the year of our law

01:04:09.040 2026

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01:04:25.120 Really though

01:04:25.560 Without you it's not a thing

01:04:26.460 It really isn't a thing

01:04:27.240 Alright try and make

01:04:28.760 the best of the day ahead it's the most valuable thing you've got will ever have is your time

01:04:34.180 it's finite it's probably later than you think try and make the best of your days on this earth

01:04:42.020 you haven't got an endless number of them if you can try and make it count try and do something

01:04:46.720 valuable with your time all right i don't get too preachy do i until tomorrow morning then take care

01:04:58.760 Bye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 15, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 15th April 2026

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