Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 15th April 2026
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Summary
This week, we're joined by Edward Dutton to discuss the latest headlines in the UK economy, the fuel price protests in Ireland and the growing cost of living crisis in Britain. We also hear from the BBC's economic editor, Tim Chamelay, on the impact of Iran's nuclear deal with the EU on the UK's economy.
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Oh, what, me? Yeah, I'm all good. I'm all good, Ty.
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We've got a guest today you might have seen, if you've seen the thumbnails on the thumbnail, right? Harry?
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None other than Professor Edward Dutton. So we'll be speaking to him a bit later.
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Probably in 10, 20 minutes, maybe half hour from now, something like that.
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You are the glorious band, the chosen few, my band of brothers.
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It's just ticked one minute past eight, British summertime.
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Wednesday the 15th of April in the year of our Lord, 2026.
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As always, I'm joined by my producer, Little Harry.
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and uh lammy is my kang in the uh in the chat said burgundy suit and red tire before i came
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on air how do you know that how do you know that lammy is my kang how did you
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you can see um okay should we just get into it then this morning what have we got
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what's in the news what's the legacy corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning
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lying by omission don't mention ireland yeah don't mention all the fuel protests in ireland
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and then sending in the army and the police to try and put down normal people that are just
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trying to survive here don't mention that right guys yeah
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uk economy takes triple hit and cheers timmy timmy timmy timmy um that's timothy chamelay
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that's in references one one headline that does that that goes with that so
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Lower growth, fewer jobs and higher cost of living
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We have to measure it in a very very specific way
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To even make the argument that there's any growth
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That's one of the things they've been lying by omission about
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let's have a quick look for you i think it was yeah uh yeah finally something in the sun
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fueling the fury inside petrol price protests paralyzing say that 10 times fast ireland as
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fuming drivers gridlock country over costs so will britain be next yet in ireland for days and days
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and days since the end of last week isn't it or since the weekend loads and loads loads of people
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are protesting in ireland with getting their lorries and their tractors to block roads and
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even like petrol depot places over the fact that their petrol may run out was beginning to run out
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and that it's an insanely it's insanely expensive and when they start airing their grievances they
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start talking about migration as well because it's even worse even further accelerating in
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ireland starting with as much smaller population cram a few million in there it's much more
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accelerated it seems or is than even in Great Britain but nominally about petrol prices and
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things and they're asking their government who's part of the EU right the Republic of Ireland is
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in the EU asking them could you just reduce the giant taxes you've got on fuel so we can afford
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it would you mind and their government's like no and we'll send in the army if you keep blocking
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roads it's the army you get well if not that just full riot police oh
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nice we're asking for something very very reasonable
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okay so you're gonna play it fine okay the the mainstream media at least in britain
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Reeves, Rachel, Rachel Thieves, Rachel from Accounts
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the idiot who's somehow the Chancellor of the Exchequer
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accounts for £1 in every £4 spent by UK government
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there's one thing i saw not too long ago last week one data point saying that we spend more
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on the welfare bill than we get in income tax because the treasury gets revenues in all sorts
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of ways not just income tax of course but still it's a giant one isn't it it's one of the more
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giant things that brings things brings money into the treasury we spend more more on welfare than
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that every year. Completely disastrous, completely suicidal, completely unsustainable numbers,
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isn't it? What is it? It's over 300 billion a year or something like that. The defence,
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they want to up it to like another two and a half billion a year. More, something like
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that. No, we can't find that, she says. Spend over 330 billion or something on welfare?
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we spend something like 4.6 billion a week on the nhs a week and the army all the armed services
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together asking for an extra 2.5 billion a year 2.5 billion a year and she's like no i can't do
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that we need to spend it on people that are invading us and their health care
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in fact they're asking military chiefs to find ways to cut money to the tune of a few billion
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and how does that make sense just how does that make sense it's mental isn't it
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labour's pledged to build 1.5 million new homes under threat don't talk to me about
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It was a fiction from the moment it was said, wasn't it?
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That was never, ever, ever, ever going to happen.
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They were never going to get close to building 1.5 million new homes.
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Angela Rayner, that was one of her things, wasn't it?
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look at this look at this chump look at this dungaree wearing smelly commie what would it
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be like to be a trad wife for a month don't worry about it love don't worry about it okay
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iran conflict could spark recession with britain hit hardest in g7 says the international monetary
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fund probably yeah i can believe it yeah trump says peace talks may restart in two days
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we bought that from iran legitimately we are now sailing it back to china thank you
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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
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you're going to blow us out of the water you're probably not are you so we're just gonna iran's
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letting us through the straits of hormuz so we're just doing it so i imagine trump and rubio and
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they don't want a giant international diplomatic incident they don't want a naval engagement
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really do they with a chinese tanker it's not that not they can't win that
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but politically it looks really bad doesn't it looks really terrible
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you don't really want a big incident with china do they again not that they can handle it
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but it's not ideal is it it's not wanted at this stage
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to escalate the whole thing in that manner so at least a few big tankers just running the u.s
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blockade we'll see how that starts playing out okay the US aren't sending many of their ships
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I thought they might on Monday sending their ships into the Straits of Hormuz they're sort
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of sitting outside of it in like the the Gulf of Aden there sitting outside watching what comes in
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and out okay UK lacking urgency in moving to war footing you don't need to be on a war footing but
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And also, you're not actually doing it, though.
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But we're not actually going to spend money on that
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crazy sobs from start to finish from top to bottom okay the mirror
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something about oasis okay don't care reeves fury at trump oh i bet he's shaking in his boots
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i bet he's sweating buckets at the monumental amount of pressure rachel reeves is putting on him
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Chancellor blasts US over Iran war shambles and economic fallout
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Rachel Reeves has blasted Donald Trump's chaotic war in Iran
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Saying it is hitting British families in the pocket
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Two, three times what it cost not very long ago
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toiletries why don't you go to boots or something just buy a few things you need
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oh it's like 30 quid i've not really got anything here these are just
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these are just these are not luxuries again not not crazy luxury items or items i need
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i don't know how i you know i don't know how really poor people that are right on the edge
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right on the edge of being able to fold things must be really scary if things go up even more
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it will be like depression times like wearing rags and stuff nearly
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a million miles away from that okay the times the venerable times something about harry and
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megan do not care about them do not care what they do or say anymore i'm done i was never
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particularly interested but nowadays like come on he is a real clown isn't he a buffoon and she
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is highly obnoxious neither of them have got anything interesting to say have they that's
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the that's the bottom line right i don't know about you guys but i only ever watch content
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of people or listen to people that i think either they're interesting they've got something of
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interest to say or if they're funny right if you're not funny and or interesting why would
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you ever ever listen to what they've got to say even if they're you know royals or or statesmen
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or or like a-listers or something you know like like robert de niro well what's robert de niro's
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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
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not interested i'm not interested i know that he's not got anything interesting or funny to say so
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iran to give up their uranium enrichment program and iran won't do it america and the united states
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need them to give up on their proxies their regional allies and they won't do it iran want
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america to stop all economic sanctions and they won't do it america's just blockaded all your ports
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america's upped the like economic stranglehold on you now if anything compromise yeah right
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Again, don't hold your breath at people out there.
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Ooh, hoping they'll get back round the table, make a deal.
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Minister in Britain, minister calls for single-sex spaces to be more inclusive.
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Uh, isn't that the point of a single-sex space, that it's explicitly exclusive?
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you know the whole point of a single sex space it's for women isn't it like most men most normal
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dudes in the changing room walking around tackle out don't really care
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some woman walks into the men's changing room you just be like all right love you don't actually
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care you don't feel scared this is women isn't it it's for women women's single sex spaces
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having men in women's single sex spaces that's that's the problem here isn't it that's the
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real thing they need to be more inclusive do they no they don't no they need to be explicitly
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exclusive women only so what's she talking about there bridget phillipson they need to be more
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inclusive shut up love gee god haven't we been through this haven't we had quite a few years of
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this debate trump did a good thing didn't need to be fair to him trump remember when he first got
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he signed loads of executive orders straight off the bat there's a bunch of those no men can't men
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are not allowed to compete in women's sports men are not allowed in women's changing rooms and
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toilets and stuff brilliant simple the crazy leftoid globalists screech about it for a day or
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two and that's it then you get over it and then that's it they call you a bigot for a bit who
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cares about that? Fine, job sorted, job done. About our government, remember when David
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Lammy thought men could have a cervix, remember that? Remember when Keir Starmer was asked
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to define a woman, and couldn't really, just couldn't.
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Reeves dashes hopes of boost to defence spending
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they want to put us in as much danger and peril as they possibly can isn't it it's almost as though
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that's what they're doing chancellor plans plans rise of less than 2.5 billion a year
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despite being ruled britain's quote safety is at peril by lord robertson he used to be a nato chief
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super super senior military uk military dude he says and he should know we're in peril our actual
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safety is in peril at this point all we're asking for is 2.5 billion again you spend
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or nearly double that a week on the nhs spend well over a hundred times more than that
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on welfare every single year well over she's like no can't do it can't stretch to it
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best i can do is ask you guys to cut 3.5 billion
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Meanwhile, UK to send 752 million pounds and 120,000 drones to Ukraine
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his family and other members of that government and his friends and things don't know don't ask
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that you must be a Putin stooge if you're asking that question what you in the pay of the Kremlin
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why are you asking that it's a level of the discourse isn't it so we can't spend an extra
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two and a half billion on our military but we will send three quarters of a billion
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We cannot defend Britain with an ever-expanding welfare bill,
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And who's now lost all confidence in dithering PM
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We can't defend Britain if you keep splurging on benefits
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harebrained know-nothing actor man timothy chamelay
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he criticized ballet and the opera he said no one goes to the ballet or the
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opera anymore i mean very few people do opera opera used in the pre-modern
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massive it was it was huge i look how chariot racing was massive in the ancient world
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it was the main thing chariot racing in the pre-modern world in the 18th 19th century
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opera was big big stuff but people don't go very much anymore do they he's not completely wrong
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there on the ballet you know i've been to the opera once or is it twice many many many moons
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ago now, but I've never been to a ballet, I've never been to a ballet, never been in
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a relationship where she wanted to go to the ballet, so, and I'm not just going to the
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ballet, so, I'm into the opera, you can't understand it, it's nearly always in a foreign
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language, right, usually in Italian or something, you can't understand it, unless beforehand
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you've researched the story, you won't really know what's going on, basically, so, anyway,
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Anyway, Timothy Chamolais said no one goes to the bad hour of the opera
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and apparently ticket sales have gone up slightly off of that
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and the arch chief, some arch chief in Britain,
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has like thanked him, going, thanks, cheers, you know.
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Thanks for that, you've actually boosted our numbers.
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Can't believe I spent that much time on it, to be honest.
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so i can't disagree with it no problem with that does it really help though if you got terribly
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wounded and then he's a cop he's a copper he got badly wounded hurt injured in the line of duty
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there's a there's a little medal make much odds maybe it does maybe it does to them i don't know
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perhaps it's the least they could do i'm not going to pour cold water on this chap
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wall street bankers or the firms themselves anyway record earnings because they know how
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to work volatility right they've got professional traders that know what they're doing bumper hall
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at jp morgan city and wells citibank and wells fargo jp morgan and citibank particularly are
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Some of the two, well not the Wells Fargo Small, but Citibank, JP Morgan, giant bear moths of the financial world.
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They're doing alright. They're alright. They're laughing it up.
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£25 billion in combined profits. Fears for consumer spending.
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Yeah, when you realise you're really poor and you haven't got enough money for everything you might like or need,
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boom how about that should i do a should i do a james o'brien
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no all right stop mucking about actually it actually it genuinely does help to have one
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here here open so i can hear anyway anyway all right harry bring on dutton is he yet oh there
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is oh there is edward how are you sir morning morning morning hello great hello hello hello
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the the the lord dutton first baron dutton how are you this morning you're all right
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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
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manage it you must be a extreme case strategist or something like that i don't know how you can
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manage um getting up so early in the morning well it's two hours you're two hours back from me so
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it's only 8.30 there. Yeah, yeah. Well, as you get older, I'm middle-aged, we're about
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the same age, aren't we, I think. Middle-aged now, I just go to bed earlier, it's quite
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simple as that. I don't sit up till midnight, like, drinking and playing computer games
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anymore, I just go to bed a bit earlier. What time do you go to bed? Well, it depends, but
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I mean, 10 is knocking it now, 10's a bit late for me, so 9, half 9, 10, something
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like that my goodness no i'd go to bed about midnight and um i i used to go to bed about two
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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
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of the time that you'd be sent to bed when you were maybe sort of nine years old yeah some good
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films haven't even started on tv yet by that point right it's like no that was there was there was it
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was like it was like oh it's a sunday night and you've got school the next day and melvin bragg
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is on and should you should you consider is it probably time to go to bed yet or can you just
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watch a bit of melting crap or a bit of news night yeah it's like uh yeah you have a bath
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like weekday have a bath you could watch red dwarf maybe and then straight to bed half past eight
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yeah okay so i wonder if we could get a few takes from you today about everything's in the news
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that's what this show is um so i guess first of all probably the biggest thing what's what's your
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thoughts and feelings about iran and the blockade and mr trump and israel and everything that's
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going on what's your in the broadest sense what's your thoughts or feelings on all that stuff
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um it's funny you asked me about that because it's the one thing that i try to avoid thinking
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about because i think well i just think it's potentially so awful that that um it's it's it
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reminds me i've got that sort of foreboding that i had during covid when covid started and i thought
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well, hang on, this could get really, really bad.
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like speak out against what we're told to believe
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and what we're told we must believe and not think about.
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This is the government just completely losing control.
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because it's just, this really is things falling apart.
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That's what I remember thinking when COVID started,
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that they don't know what's going on they don't know really what's caused it and uh this could
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just just could get terrible and it's the same thing here because we're completely reliant on
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oil and so if uh if we uh and we're more reliant on oil even than we were in the 70s when there
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was the oil crisis the opec oil crisis we were really really really uh for absolutely everything
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and we we use transport a lot more than we used to use it then we don't even have really
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they're concerned that the same thing will happen in the
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it as much as I perhaps should, because I just think
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bronze in the bronze age or iron in the iron age yeah yeah yeah so it's so concerning disquieting
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to you that you'd you don't want to look straight at it something no i i almost i almost i can't
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quite believe it's being allowed to happen like in the same way that with the ukraine war which
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you were discussing just before i just before you tuned me in uh we were so reliant on ukraine for
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food and so then it was the it was the huge producer of our food in britain britain's food
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anyway with the result that british food prices have rocketed up since 2022 to an insane degree
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uh i i can't i don't think it's a coincidence that now you have to have electronic tags on
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basic food items now in in many uk shops yeah yeah um so so so that that just shouldn't have
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happened uh that's just something it shows you that the the terrible fragility of the system
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that we live under this this very fragile system which is which is extremely complicated and there
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and stretched and therefore fragile and so if one thing goes wrong then it all unravels uh like a
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spike like a spider's web and uh it's the same here this is this is if if if this carries on
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if this isn't sorted out then there won't be enough petrol which will mean no flood which
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will mean the end of aviation uh it will mean uh the the end of transportation of food the end of
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everything and prices will skyrocket so it's not good you're you're you're in finland aren't you
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yeah yeah so i wonder whilst i've got someone that here on the line that knows all about finland
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can i ask you a little question about nato i think that's going on with nato and trump talking in the
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last few days again about possibly the u.s pulling out of NATO what's the thoughts and feelings of
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Finns and Finland because it's countries like that that will actually be most affected
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have you got your ear to the ground on that all that sort of thing in Finland
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do they talk about it much um they uh they're not they're not I'm not aware that it hasn't
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come to me I mean I haven't it hasn't come to my attention of late that they have they've been
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particularly discussing any concern about the collapse of NATO, no.
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But they got involved in NATO because, obviously,
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Oh, that's interesting. I thought there might be.
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No, there is massive concern about Russia and concern about drones and drones getting into Finland and things like this.
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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.
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It's like this whole thing when Trump said he's going to invade Greenland
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and in the end he got what he wanted and so he backed down.
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I don't think he's really going to withdraw from NATO.
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But are Finns, just one last question on Finland.
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Is there a lot of people there genuinely, genuinely fear
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that Russia might at any moment actually, you know,
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of infantrymen and you know, the whole nine yards
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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.
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They're probably not, but they like to think that they are.
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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.
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But I know there's not there's no there's no widespread fear here of this country being invaded by Russia.
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There's deep hatred of Russians, particularly among particularly among older people.
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They really, really, really hate Russians and can't stand the Russians.
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But there's no, I don't think there's any genuine fear of imminent invasion or invasion at all.
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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.
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OK, so back to the papers and what's in the news today.
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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.
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send lots and lots of money and material and resources to Zelensky but yet don't seem to be
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able to want to or prepare to spend money a relatively small amount in the scheme of things
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on our defence. I don't know if you heard much of the show earlier but you know spending hundreds
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of billions on welfare in the NHS and can't muster like two and a half billion for spending despite
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being very very bellicose what's all your thoughts and feelings on that whole subject
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well we're it's just it's just this broader attitude towards life isn't it that i think that
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we've we've we've we've we're so used to things be everything being okay we're so used to everything
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being fine we're so used to to nothing bad happening that we that we we no longer plan
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Another thing you could argue is we're so used to living under freedom
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that we no longer plan for a future or a possibility
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where tyrants might become in charge of our country.
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And that's why we've lost so much freedom in the UK
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over the last 30 years in terms of freedom of speech
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and things like that, because we simply didn't,
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like the public order act 1986 and we didn't plan for the possibility that a tyrannical
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anti-freedom government and tyrannical anti-freedom culture would would would take over
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and then would you would use those laws um to to suppress people we assumed that there would be
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reasonable um democratic freedom loving people in charge which stopped being the case but we
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were so used to we were so used to having freedom that we we didn't plan for the possibility of
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losing it, which America, of course, has done because it has these constitutional laws that
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make it very difficult to destroy certain freedoms. And it's the same, I think, with
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things like military spending. If you're so used to peace, or if you assume there's going to be
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peace, then you don't plan for the possibility of war. And then when war does come, which it
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inevitably will because these things tend to move in cycles then um you're in serious trouble
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and uh and you and and you you're not you're not you're not prepared and you should be what you
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should be doing it's logically it's like the idea idea of the old cliche we were talking earlier
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about going to bed early and things like you knew when you were a kid we'll talk about saving money
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for a rainy day you know not not splurging up your splurging away your money when when you have
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it saving it up when you might want something like a new wwf wrestling figure or or or what
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or like the the big wrestling ring thing um or or whatever it happens to be that you could see in
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the argos catalog um and um and and it's the same it's the same here that you have you have peace
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for such a long time you're so used to it you become decadent and so you think well let's spend
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money on our standard of living now so that we all have a high or at least some people have a high
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standard of living and we won't spend things on the vague possibility in the future that seems
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unlikely it will ever happen that there will be a war or there will be there will be conflict and
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then when it comes we don't we don't have it even after world war one bizarrely considering how
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close at hand world war one was um they they started to disarm um under when uh in in the
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wake of the war or whatever when churchill was in government in the 20s they started to disarm
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Britain such that when there then was a war we weren't sufficiently prepared whereas of course
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Germany was exactly the opposite Germany was arming itself um throughout throughout the 30s
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um in preparation for a war was doing it was spending a lot of its money
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and and so that that's that's it's just a fundamental decadent thing that we've done
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that we if you if you we assume there will be peace and there there isn't there um we assume
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that have of course haven't been peaceful since 1945 nonetheless broadly speaking the long peace
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and yeah you describe it as decadent yeah or short-sighted and uh you mentioned there
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throughout history sort of cycles of history many historians like carlisle and spengler many have
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talked about the the sort of shape of history the cycles that if you think the idea that
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history has come to an end that there will never be wars again no no history decides when it's
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come to an end and it hasn't it never will it will never come to end that was like yeah that
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was the whole idea of Francis Fukuyama the whole idea of history liberal democracy has won out and
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we're going to we're going to be happy forever and it's obviously complete nonsense yeah with
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everything else that's ever happened I mean that's what it looked like in the what it what it looked
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like in the I don't know sort of circa 1900 or something like that or 1890 that was was that
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history had come to an end and everything was going to be okay in Britain there was never going
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be another war serious war obviously colonial wars but but a major war involving britain as
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there had been a hundred years earlier with napoleonic war and so forth um and then of
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course within 10 years or so there was there was a huge war so so it it doesn't work like that but
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it feels like that when you haven't had war and you haven't had serious natural stresses and you
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haven't had death and you haven't had whatever for a very very long time then it feels like that
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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.
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It's just natural human. It's natural human psychology and it won't ever change. You're right.
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OK, one moment, Ed. Harry. Harry, I couldn't hear Ed for the last couple of moments there.
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could you uh make sure i could hear him i don't know what happened there sorry about that ed uh
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hopefully we can uh there's no more technical issues um okay would you would you mind saying
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something else for me just to check i can actually hear you um no that's not coming through my
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headphones harry sorry about this i don't know if it's it just cut out in the middle of what
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you're saying i didn't touch anything i imagine you didn't touch anything uh well
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okay so i'm i'm sorry i can't actually hear you at this moment we might have to
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yeah it's not coming through i don't know if the people out there on the actual stream can hear it
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but uh harry you've got a few seconds to sort it out otherwise sorry about that ed sorry about
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that ed um oh i suppose you can still talk i think the people on the stream can still hear you
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I just got a thumbs up but I still can't hear you
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Just let us know next time you might be in Britain
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there you go apologies about that i really can't tell you what happened
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a bit annoying about that anyway a little bit of ed dutton what did you get 15 20 minutes of
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ed dutton we'll have to apologize to him for basically just cutting him off there but
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coming through the headphones and then nothing happened i can only apologize to you guys the
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glorious band the chosen few for sticking with us I really couldn't tell you what happened there
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it's gonna have to be an inquiry I was promised it was fixed all right let's just move on shall
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we it's already gone quarter two so should we just have a look at what happened on this day
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in history before we get to the Rumble Rants and the Super Chats I like doing that you guys seem
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to like that as well what happened on this day in history April the 15th down through the centuries
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Asked me what my favourite Blackadder episode is
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perhaps my favourite episode is in the third season of Blackadder where Robbie Coltrane plays
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Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron is in it and stuff. Love that episode. Oh, anyway, the real, sorry,
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the real, the real Samuel Johnson in his dictionary, it's really important. If you've ever read
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anything from the Middle Ages or even in from the 17th, 18th century, even into the 19th century,
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you might notice people play fast and loose with spelling spelling just simply wasn't standardized
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you can put ease on the end of things and no one's going to say that's not how you spell it
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because it wasn't standardized so okay 1755 sammy johnson's dictionary the dictionary
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very important starting to get us towards some proper spelling okay on this day in 1861
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the federal army of 75 000 volunteers is mobilized by abe lincoln at the start of the american civil
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war again got loads of loads of content all about the american civil war um and of course uh
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at the very beginning of this american civil war the confederacy had a few successes
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people in the north thought it would be a cakewalk one big push and will defeat the
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confederacy on the field and it will be all over first battle of ball run well anyway in the end
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in the end ultimately the union had to put together an army of what like 400,000 or more
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three different three three different four three or four different giant army corps of hundreds of
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thousands apiece it wasn't a case of just some quick 75,000 volunteers quick push one big battle
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one big decisive afternoon and it's all over afraid not unfortunately not okay on this day
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in 1874 first impressionist art exhibition opens in paris featuring monet degas renoir
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pizarro and moriseau there you go i quite like the impressionists i've done content about art
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history some with josh big josh firm on his show he had contemplations i've done a couple of
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different long-form bits of content talk about art and art history and I like sort of classical
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art I like things that are very very high quality that's almost sort of photo quality
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so you know the classic even renaissance masters that's my sort of taste you know something like
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politician or michelangelo or something but of the impressionist i don't mind some of the
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impressionist stuff where you're deliberately not trying to make it photo quality um i don't
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mind some impressionism that's about as far as i'll go okay you know like mornay's got some nice
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things in my opinion i just want to find a cup of tea but there you go okay on this day in 1877
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world's first home telephone is installed in somerville massachusetts at the house of somebody
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called charles william jr okay i didn't know that that one's new to me that really is a tiny tiny
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footnote of history isn't it the world's first telephone some random dude's house in massachusetts
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okay and on this day or we they talked about the titanic yesterday didn't they
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that it first hit the iceberg late at night on the 14th of April
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and then by 20 past two the following morning on the 15th of April
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some survived didn't they, there were some survivors
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I mean it was the biggest, it was supposed to be the biggest
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so yeah giant death toll what quite horrible way to go as well i think drowning in icy water in the
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dark terrifying that was not all that painful you know nowhere near as painful as being burnt
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alive or something but kind of terrifying death okay all right shall we have a look at the rumble
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rants and the super chats let me do this with my mic so I can see the right side
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of my screen all right what have we got oh Harry is that all meant to be on the
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screen this big black square get rid of that that was on the screen okay I should
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plow on with the rumble rents we've got global church history in at number one
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very very difficult hill with uh fortification settlement on top of it very very difficult hill
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to get up for any sort of attackers masada and in the end the romans built a giant slope
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giant giant earthwork slope massive in order to get up there and their siege engines and
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whole legions up there in one go the the jewish people of the day just didn't think the romans
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would do that didn't have the logistical ability to do that um but they did and in the end
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josephus talks about we had someone a question the other day someone asking about josephus
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josephus was actually there he survived very very oh and at the very end a lot of the jews
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killed themselves rather than be a mass suicide rather than be captured by the romans and you
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know probably executed crucified or whatever rather than that they killed themselves but
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Josephus survived that and wrote an account about it okay on this day in 1071 the Normans took Bari
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which was the last of Roman Italy yeah a lot of people might not know but anyone that knows
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history will know but the Normans are you from Normandy well originally from Scandinavia aren't
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they the ancestors of the Normans uh King Rollo and stuff but from northern France basically
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went and had massive conquests in Italy and Sicily
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He actually crossed the Atlantic multiple times in his life
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or in the next generation rather a lot and Christopher Columbus himself did it what three
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or is it four times across the Atlantic and then came back again so that'd be the first time he
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said Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean in the ocean blue in 1492 so he came back in 1493
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there you go interesting okay what else we got 14 barber morning bow morning
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when you said Dutton I instantly thought Yellowstone do you know why
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i don't know either our economy is about to be downgraded surely this can't keep going on
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or downgraded by like the actual um like moodies and stuff like that yeah i won't be surprised
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or like our guilt our uh government bonds guilt-edged bonds downgraded what they're really
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worth okay we also see the ufo files were meant to be out yesterday yeah it was that the u.s
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government the u.s government was saying they were going to release loads more files was that
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supposed to be yesterday and they didn't do it is that right interesting i'm interested in disclosure
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or not necessarily disclosure i sort of suspect the unidentified flying objects we've seen aren't
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from another star system i suspect but who knows i want to know what they are one way or another
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that's what i want what is it that tic-tac what is that what was it i think it's real
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it's real right it's it was physically there what was it chinese russian one of america's own
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projects or from another solar system another galaxy who knows who knows i want to know what
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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
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bro it's just the it's just the uh all the fast jet pilots making it up for for notoriety
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chunderfoot blunderfoot more like okay rick twgp says a russian frigate escorted a russian dark
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fleet tanker right down the english channel on monday yeah i think we talked about it on monday
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show or was it yesterday's show um kept that quiet didn't use sir queer yeah because it's
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embarrassing isn't it it's like we'll get all aggressive get all up in russia's grill and then
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when they do something back you just go okay pretend that didn't happen yeah where uh where's
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blockade of their dark fleet loser yeah i don't know why we we i don't even see why we have to
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try and endlessly strangle russia's economy anyway i don't really buy that that's necessary in any
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way i don't know why their fleet of oil tankers need to be our enemy
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because of the action in the donbass yeah it's not there's nothing to do with us
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Harry, would you mind bringing up the super chats for me?
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The war with Iran is starting to look like the Suez Crisis.
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I've talked about the Suez Crisis before, haven't I?
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at least mentioned it the series crisis yeah look that up if you're interested i need to i haven't
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got a long form piece of content on it but i really should do shouldn't i really should do
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i'm fascinated by it read all about it a bunch of times it's a very interesting thing i rarely do i
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rarely do things that are post world war ii i haven't even got that much world war ii content
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it's much more ancient world and medieval stuff but i still do do 20th century stuff don't i from
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sometimes anyone that knows epochs inside out um could do should do the suiz crisis anyway anyway
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sorry you're saying the iran is starting to look like the suiz crisis israel and britain won on
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the battlefield but economic and international pressures forced britain to withdraw will america
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suffer the same there is another parallel isn't there as well where in the suiz crisis britain
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asked for the united states to help and they refused i think it was eisenhower wasn't it
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And they refused, and that completely scuppered us.
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We weren't able to do what we want and sort of see the thing through
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America is now leading the action and asking for us to help,
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The big difference is that America doesn't actually need us.
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accelerationist I'm not a doomer and I'm not an accelerationist but I do get where accelerationism
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comes from I get the mindset of it I understand it doomerism I don't full-blown defeatism
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doomerism because people need to be made to shut their mouths can go cower in a basement then
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quietly but accelerationism is something a bit different I don't subscribe to it I want as least
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damage to be done possible to my country and people as possible but I do understand it I do
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get it you know we have to pass a certain the idea that we have to pass a certain threshold
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of how things bad will get before the majority of normies wake up and we get their support for
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what needs to be done to save the country I completely 100% understand that the idea that
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if everyone in the country was on welfare well the economy would just utterly utterly implode
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wouldn't it so and i don't want to see that i know someone like gavin bobe who i deeply respect
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i've had on here a number of times two or three times even spoken to gav
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the mosque buster brilliant dude brilliant dude he's an accelerationist and his argument he puts
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forward is is you know it it makes sense it's coherent you know i wouldn't i wouldn't call it
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wrong or insane or anything i mean maybe maybe he's right but things need to collapse to a certain
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extent need to so that we can start the the real fight back pushback maybe he's right you know
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maybe he's right i hope not i want there to be as little damage to my country and my people as
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possible that's me all right what else have we got irwin romulus it was nice to meet you on the
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weekend dude you've said uh thoughts utk on may the 16th utk oh is that what is that is that
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tommy robinson's thing is that what that is i don't know i'm in two minds about uh the expense
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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
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not i'm not going through any tommy things ever again i'm not interested in that not interested
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watching some maoris dance around yes if not yeah not interested in that not interested in that
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no no okay marcos 588 says a world war ii epochs round table with am furious and bead i'd love that
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that'd be great that'd be great i mean i've um earlier just a moment ago i said i haven't got
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all that much world war ii content thinking about though i've got a fair bit to be honest
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fair bit stuff all about kursk stuff all about market garden there's a number of number of
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bits and bobs on there about it yeah a world war ii round table would be that would be great i'd
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like that okay and one last thing did i talk about the poll i think we got ed in ed in earlier
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so we didn't talk about the poll so quickly mention it then the poll we had today says
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does trump have an exit plan we're asking you do you think trump has got an exit plan
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does rachel reeves accuse him of not having an exit plan um i don't think he has a clearly
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defined exit plan does he i don't i don't think so what did you guys think you thought
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The majority of you guys that voted in that poll
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the best of the day ahead it's the most valuable thing you've got will ever have is your time
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it's finite it's probably later than you think try and make the best of your days on this earth
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you haven't got an endless number of them if you can try and make it count try and do something
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valuable with your time all right i don't get too preachy do i until tomorrow morning then take care