The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 19th August 2026

00:00:00.000 morning you're right oh you know I hope you are I genuinely hope you are me yeah

00:00:12.440 I'm fine as always I'm produced but produced I'm joined by my producer

00:00:18.000 little Harry how are you this morning sir morning I'm all good this and body

00:00:22.480 voice of the all-powerful producer there it is now just ticked past 8 in the

00:00:27.560 in British summertime on Wednesday the 19th of August in the year of our law 2026 you know you

00:00:32.640 guys know who you are you're the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters

00:00:35.740 thank you for joining me without you it isn't a thing why am I sitting in this seat well got a

00:00:40.820 guest it's none other than big Harry Robinson hello there I'm all right cheers yourself yeah

00:00:48.160 but I had a bushy tailed working around for the day ahead massively hungover let's see no not

00:00:53.100 massive hungover no no not massively oh no no not at all i'm fine just slept just slept in a

00:01:00.300 little bit longer than i intended that's all that's okay okay good do you think where uh on

00:01:06.280 the website they put like a special guest special mystery guest and it's like it's but it it's you

00:01:14.200 it's yeah i wanted to address that but there's no way to address it without seeing me in a bit

00:01:18.740 out of order well no no that's fine that's fine like it's not like it's just you're in the office

00:01:24.000 anyway you're in the office already i do just think like oh it's just it's just me though guys

00:01:27.760 it's just me i saw i saw what was it that um that lady old speed she put out something in response

00:01:34.720 to like oh we've got a special guest announcement with the silhouette which i just thought that's

00:01:38.440 just obviously me doing like the finger gun stuff okay um and she was like oh i'm excited and

00:01:43.580 everybody thought it was her on twitter everybody's like oh lotus eater's debut i can't wait for it

00:01:49.100 i was like it's just me guys yeah it's just it's just me but i think when they do that a lot with

00:01:53.860 josh there's a special guest coming in it's josh no disrespect to josh of course i love big josh

00:01:59.420 firm the feminator of course but like it's not but he is just josh yeah it's not that special one day

00:02:05.340 we're gonna have to make it back for all the baiting that we've done and actually get the

00:02:08.500 ghost of chairman mao in the real mao yeah the real mao for one episode hashtag the real mao

00:02:14.620 all right let's that's plenty of faffing around there harry that's far too much fannying around

00:02:19.900 to be perfectly honest no fault of yours no fault of yours that's on me let's have let's get straight

00:02:24.520 into it now what is the legacy corporate lamestream media banging on about this morning

00:02:27.880 what's in the news cycle what was uh what's fleet street what sloppy joe's is fleet street

00:02:32.580 serving up to us this morning all right we've got look at my husband that's the queen camilla

00:02:37.240 parker bells talking about uh sausage fingers and his struggle with cancer and vlad plots revenge

00:02:44.680 vlad the impalers plotting revenge against the ottoman empire no no no i mean i meant mr putin

00:02:50.680 plotting revenge against us for building drones and sending them to ukraine and other things

00:02:59.800 has there been more leaks well it's just part of the ongoing so it's a big part of the news cycle

00:03:04.760 yesterday was that the russian embassy in in london have said like you'll pay the price that's

00:03:12.440 literally they're quite i'm paraphrasing ever so slightly isn't it almost exactly the quote

00:03:15.780 you're going to pay a price for this uh fair great great we are we are all at war with them so

00:03:23.620 yeah and of course it's not just sending drones it's also loads of stuff like our special forces

00:03:29.500 trained loads of their people we've given them loads of material war material uh loads of

00:03:35.440 different stuff lots of special operators on the ground who have to be the ones to

00:03:38.560 operate it so right yeah yeah we'll give them some high-tech kit relatively high-tech kit

00:03:43.360 and then they don't know how to use it so i have to send at least a few guys over there

00:03:48.020 military advisors that's old that's that's been used for decades and decades it's just military

00:03:53.120 advisors oh okay it's just 30 000 military advisors oh okay it's not that many by the way

00:04:00.380 in ukraine i was talking i was thinking more of like vietnam where i was like there's a few

00:04:04.660 military advisors it's a few thousand military advisors a few tens of thousands of military

00:04:08.660 advisors that's what they did in vietnam to begin with ramping it up anyway anyway all right let's

00:04:13.140 get into it what's the front page it's the sun yeah so for some reason they've decided because

00:04:17.860 suppose it is silly season it is august the stories are a little bit yeah right nothing amazing so

00:04:24.820 they've decided that on a lot of the papers the story will be about uh charlie sex coberg gother

00:04:31.520 and his sausage fingers where he got cancer he's had cancer hasn't he got better i got better though

00:04:38.540 and um for a while they knew he had cancer but it wasn't in like it wasn't public right well yeah

00:04:45.980 there was there was the speculation of this basically the size of his fingers everybody

00:04:50.240 knew that something was going wrong but you know there's always speculation about the health of

00:04:54.660 particularly old people it's like what was it when trump had some black marks going around on his

00:05:00.220 hands i saw people sending photos if they ever bruise on the back of your hand yeah where they

00:05:05.000 would put in a thing that is actually quite telling yeah uh but but it's oftentimes it's

00:05:11.540 of speculation and stuff like this but i'll be honest i'm i'm not one who's particularly

00:05:16.940 interested in like uh the royal family these days as far as i'm concerned they abdicated any and all

00:05:24.480 duty that they had to the country a long long time ago soon as somebody like elizabeth was

00:05:29.040 for instance selling out rhodesia oh really go back that far well i mean it's a pretty

00:05:34.640 bad stab in the back isn't it really well i mean she doesn't control policy but no i still i get

00:05:40.580 it when we did a while ago now what a year or more ago we had that Rafe Heidel Mancou fella in

00:05:46.280 oh yeah and we did a round table if you want it I can't remember it was definitely him me and Carl

00:05:50.620 and someone else I can't remember who the other person was what was the subject about the kings

00:05:53.280 and queens tier list oh I definitely going back I definitely wasn't on that William the Conqueror

00:05:58.060 and Rafe and Carl both insisted that Queen Elizabeth II was sort of A tier or S tier whatever

00:06:05.060 S tier

00:06:06.080 and I was like

00:06:07.000 was she?

00:06:08.300 What notable

00:06:08.880 I called her

00:06:09.720 Elizabeth the absent

00:06:10.780 Yeah what notable

00:06:12.000 achievements did she have? 0.98

00:06:14.880 Yeah no

00:06:15.260 it's not necessarily

00:06:16.460 her fault

00:06:16.900 because like I say

00:06:17.500 real policy

00:06:18.640 has been wrested away

00:06:19.840 from the monarch

00:06:20.480 a long time ago

00:06:21.780 but nonetheless

00:06:22.600 she stayed

00:06:24.060 completely silent

00:06:24.980 while we

00:06:25.600 went through

00:06:26.760 a massive

00:06:27.240 period of decline

00:06:28.420 and invasion even

00:06:30.020 The problem was

00:06:32.240 from what I know

00:06:34.100 she stayed completely silent for basically everything including the complete destruction

00:06:39.240 of her own nation and empire except for when it came to coming out publicly in support of things 0.65

00:06:45.040 like attacking Rhodesia or um defending her sex criminal son well that one too

00:06:53.580 anyway anyway I didn't I didn't hate I guess I had despite saying all of that I had some just

00:07:01.380 residual affection for the queen the old queen still regardless it's more it's more just like

00:07:07.860 sentiment oh she was there for ages she'd been there since the she is like a maternal grandmother

00:07:12.500 to us all sort of a thing yeah can't really blame a grandmother for like the things other men did

00:07:20.520 but anyway anyway back to chucky boy so there was a window of time where he had cancer they knew he

00:07:27.200 had cancer but it hadn't been sort of released to the public public didn't know and camilla

00:07:30.920 as part of her royal duties had gone some sort of um cancer facility just a general part of her

00:07:38.360 duties as i say uh and wasn't able to say anything and she's just done an interview

00:07:44.820 saying that she really wanted to say something but couldn't that's it that's the story oh well

00:07:52.100 that front page news baby front page the sun is like just throw it on there yeah we've got nothing

00:07:59.220 nothing we've gone with the grass that's gone a bit yellow too many days in a row now so we need

00:08:04.120 something else so camilla on king's cancer look at my husband nothing stopped him what stopped

00:08:09.540 him from walking around slowly and places doesn't do hard graft does he uh i mean sorry surely on

00:08:15.960 the like grass is a bit yellow so surely the front page news should be in that case it started

00:08:20.460 raining again yeah it's finally started raining again yeah for all of our american fans out there

00:08:26.580 you don't understand how refreshing it is for an englishman to finally look out of the window after

00:08:30.780 years of baking after months of baking what feels like years of baking sun and see a beautiful

00:08:36.920 gorgeous refreshing gray sky oh it warmed me cockles it did yeah lovely stuff to see the

00:08:46.040 overcast grey there was where was it oh yeah there we go on the express met office names 154

00:08:53.680 uk areas facing very heavy rain on thursday tomorrow yeah so maybe the climate alarmist

00:09:02.120 print media can chill out a bit i can't i can't wait for friday when everybody's complaining

00:09:07.560 about the rain again oh there's floods there'll be flash floods get us back into the cycle

00:09:12.340 everybody come on flooding you know literally almost literally go from one day it's a heat

00:09:17.960 wave britain's on fire to flooding we literally don't have reds red enough for the maps to convey

00:09:24.380 how hot it is in england right now i think that was something that i saw newsrooms were apparently

00:09:28.540 worried about like we're running out of shades of red they just have to go to like black well yeah

00:09:35.320 so dark red then it's just black i'd seen a few maps where it was like 38 degrees it was

00:09:40.500 edging on black yeah get a grippy yourselves come on okay the express it's a good paper you can read

00:09:48.720 the express do you like partridge do you watch alan partridge a little bit before your time

00:09:54.900 i've seen a little bit of steve coogan here and there he makes great cameo at the beginning of

00:09:58.880 tropic thunder oh yeah he gets blown up yeah where his head gets blown up yeah that is quite that's

00:10:05.420 quite a funny scene of my death actually that yeah my dad made me watch um 24 hour party people

00:10:10.780 okay okay it's a blaster in the past god it's been yeah i know right uh i've seen i've seen

00:10:16.460 the trip which you referenced last time i was great the trip's great i've not watched much

00:10:20.980 alan partridge but the clips that i've seen have uniformly been great so you know okay yeah just 0.67

00:10:27.000 to be clear i don't really like steve coogan the man he does seem like an utter douchebag and oh

00:10:30.800 yeah but a lot of his comedy is funny i think well you can appreciate the work i saw a clip

00:10:36.720 yesterday it was horrible of sir ian mckellen reciting some presumably misattributed shakespeare

00:10:44.240 writing on oh racist anti-immigrant riots that were going on in the 1500s probably wasn't shakespeare

00:10:51.840 all right and he was just using it to go like see even shakespeare wouldn't have agreed with

00:10:55.920 restore and reform really that yeah he was doing that kind of thing he actually said restore reform

00:11:02.080 i don't think he used but but he was basically gesturing towards them it's like ian you're an

00:11:07.120 actor you're a fantastic actor um please shut up about everything else yeah just a lovey

00:11:14.000 oh yeah ultra liberal theater lovey we don't need we've we've gone with your politics 0.99

00:11:20.880 for a few generations now ian sir ian where's it got us our women raped

00:11:27.360 uh our demographic damaged bloody theater love is okay the daily express queen speaks for the

00:11:36.880 first time about keeping charles diagnosis a secret i was longing to sell tell someone the

00:11:41.520 king had cancer again that's the story interesting that out of everything in the world they could go

00:11:45.680 with the papers are deciding to go with exactly the same story in the same angle on the same

00:11:49.600 it's funny this is just kind of where the royal family exists in in modern politics and modern

00:11:56.960 news cycles is that they're basically a bunch of gossips like what part of your what part of your

00:12:03.720 duty should be to like be itching absolutely itching to go to the press to tell everybody

00:12:09.440 about your husband's health that's all they are they're just there so that front pages can have

00:12:15.740 some juicy gossip news when's when's when's the last time outside of andrew the papers reported

00:12:20.720 on anything related to the royal family that wasn't basically big gossip yeah well they quite

00:12:26.960 often go with a picture of kate middleton always looking radiant of course uh uh but yeah it's of

00:12:35.380 no value is it it's of no substance they don't they don't say anything of value that's good or

00:12:39.780 important in any way it's just here they are they appeared in public again but that is their job

00:12:44.780 they are sort of constitutional monarchs parliamentary right yeah they're not they

00:12:50.540 don't wield any power do they like any really when you look at it the opening of parliament

00:12:56.220 and all the red boxes they get it's just given to them by government they don't they don't have

00:13:01.980 any real power but um yeah so that was part of the discussion this morning briefly on it because

00:13:06.480 i'm not that interested in the royal family either yeah i'll leave that stuff to dan

00:13:10.360 Wootten no shade at Dan Wootten I like Dan Wootten but I'm just not interested in it a lot of people

00:13:15.660 are though a lot of people are aren't they that was part of the thing that the discussion today

00:13:20.080 on like the mainstream news in the morning that it's a different royal family now like the queen

00:13:25.980 the old queen would never have talked about such things right if her mother the queen mother or

00:13:30.520 prince philip had had a cancer scale ever you would not get the queen doing an interview talking about

00:13:35.180 it even a few months later you just wouldn't whereas now you certainly wouldn't get a quote

00:13:40.560 from her saying that she was she was just itching i was itching to go to the press and tell them

00:13:46.420 about my personal family drama well like even if you were even if you were a normal person even if

00:13:53.560 you weren't the king the king or queen just like that's weird well it is i don't know so it's funny

00:13:59.840 some people when they get cancer or any sort of like terminal or very very serious disease

00:14:06.960 some people turtle up and go ultra private and try not to tell anyone a bit like walter white 0.67

00:14:12.680 they won't even tell their own family some people other people many other people go the other way 0.50

00:14:17.520 they want to scream it from the rooftops it's cathartic to talk about it they want they want

00:14:22.300 the world so they need everyone else to know because it's something off of their chest

00:14:25.580 people deal with it differently but yeah i mean you know okay it does seem that a touch

00:14:32.920 that she'd want to just just off the top of my head as well because i can see the next one's

00:14:37.800 going to be bloody royal family as well the mirror yeah when i when i say like the only

00:14:42.840 time you hear about them is gossips you do hear about them one other time which is when either

00:14:47.260 the king himself uh comes out to say by the way i love islam islam's my favorite thing ever i 0.63

00:14:54.980 actually hate christianity i really love islam or it's prince william going to like the wef and 0.97

00:15:01.400 talking about how much he loves net zero and globalism and wants to bring all third worlders 0.94

00:15:05.700 into england or going to the caribbean or sub-saharan africa and putting on some silly head 0.83

00:15:09.840 dress yeah looking like a goon those are the only times that the royal family aren't just gossip 0.96

00:15:15.540 that's that's the serious statements that they do make are all uniformly horrible and reprehensible

00:15:21.140 yeah

00:15:22.080 I'd like to

00:15:23.560 perhaps find

00:15:24.340 a different family

00:15:25.260 and that's closer

00:15:27.860 to the

00:15:28.220 the old house

00:15:29.300 of Wessex

00:15:29.800 or something

00:15:30.280 could we ever

00:15:30.980 trace back

00:15:31.880 a long lost

00:15:33.280 descendants of

00:15:34.320 I don't know 1.00

00:15:34.880 long shanks

00:15:36.140 the actual

00:15:37.560 plantations

00:15:37.960 have you ever

00:15:39.440 seen the film

00:15:40.000 King Ralph

00:15:40.700 it's pretty old

00:15:41.540 no I haven't

00:15:42.380 in that

00:15:45.100 is John Goodman

00:15:46.180 and 0.94

00:15:47.200 it's just a silly 0.96

00:15:48.320 film but 0.94

00:15:48.780 all the royal

00:15:49.680 family get

00:15:50.340 accidentally electrocuted when to death whilst trying to take um a group photo oh dear and so

00:15:55.840 there's no royal family left but the british state need a royal family so they've got to find

00:15:59.660 they find an heir and it's john goodman a big fat brash american man he's like the the closest

00:16:06.320 living descendant his name's ralph and he comes over and they make him king ralph and comedy in

00:16:12.260 shoes oh because they take him to buckingham palace and things i think it's john goodman is

00:16:16.760 that right what if we what if we found a long lost like completely lost forgotten by history

00:16:22.360 descendant of harold godwinson go back to when things really got off track and set the record

00:16:28.220 straight finally yeah that would be great yeah godwinson i'll take it i'll take it okay royal's

00:16:34.120 secret turmoil camilla's anguish over king's cancer queen uh speaks for first time about

00:16:40.620 keeping illness private okay we got it we got it the telegraph uh this is just an individual story

00:16:45.040 there was some wildfires in Greece um and a couple I think newlywed couple yeah honeymooning couple

00:16:51.720 took a helicopter to get away from it and it crashed and they died that's horrible yeah

00:16:56.620 I don't know why I've said it before but if they if I put uh if I was the editor of a newspaper I

00:17:04.760 would very very very seldom put just an individual story of tragedy like that on the front page

00:17:10.720 anyway if it was a massive thing that was had all sorts of political significance like say

00:17:16.560 the hemi novak thing where it was in it was undeniably sort of in the news cycle and of

00:17:23.840 importance and there was a public discussion around it all okay there it's just two random

00:17:28.920 people got killed unfortunately i don't know if that's like national news and then you get their

00:17:34.800 happy faces plastered on the front page well they say if it bleeds it leads well that's the thing

00:17:41.520 they know the formula and they know what sells and also it's not just the big national newspapers

00:17:46.780 the local papers do it as well yeah they do yeah last last year i was look i was just in a um in a

00:17:52.080 co-op i was taking a look at the newspaper stand and the local chronicle had this face of this two

00:17:58.600 these two people on it a young boy and his father and it just said mountain tragedy and it was that

00:18:05.280 they'd both tried to i think they tried to go up um ben nevis or snowden or something and taken one

00:18:11.420 of the particularly tricky trails and slipped off and they were both just died from died from

00:18:16.380 brutal injuries from the fall and i've just got their happy smiling faces of two locals and one

00:18:22.100 of them's like a 10 year old boy staring back at me and all i can think in my head is like

00:18:26.760 oh they were probably so excited so that they could go on this little trip together they were

00:18:30.900 going to have they were going to share these memories and it ended up killing them and i was

00:18:33.740 just like this has just put me in an awful mood and that's kind of the point right is there so

00:18:39.660 that i've got this two faces staring at me going oh you're dead now oh my day's ruined thanks

00:18:44.920 and the more horrible it is the more they seem to revel in it as well right yeah like quite often

00:18:50.540 just like yeah here's some horrible thing where a bunch of people died and some kid got mangled

00:18:55.040 but isn't quite dead yet.

00:18:56.300 See? See?

00:18:58.820 How does this improve my understanding

00:19:01.220 and knowledge of the goings-on in the world

00:19:03.120 right now?

00:19:04.260 It pushes tragedy in my face.

00:19:06.300 It's just not news.

00:19:07.180 By journalists and newspaper editors.

00:19:10.300 Questionable level of humanity. 0.96

00:19:12.160 Yeah, they're evil.

00:19:14.760 I'm going to cope, King said, of cancer.

00:19:17.720 His Majesty was determined to plough on

00:19:19.420 with work despite diagnosis, Queen reveals.

00:19:21.580 Right, we've got that.

00:19:22.280 we've got that patients die after nhs hospital rationing the nhs is a see that seems like a

00:19:30.860 more important story than all the rest of it to me the health outcomes for most nhs trusts

00:19:36.940 are terrible you get terrible treatment not every single one it really is almost potluck

00:19:43.380 which hospital you go to some are really good but many aren't they're completely overextended

00:19:49.960 Completely overextended

00:19:51.920 Loads of DEI hires 1.00

00:19:53.380 Well, just foreign people 1.00

00:19:55.480 That don't even speak English properly 1.00

00:19:56.600 As the doctors and nurses

00:19:57.860 They don't seem to care

00:19:59.720 The amount of money we spend on it 0.77

00:20:02.880 Rationing, okay, right

00:20:04.520 There's rationing in the NHS now

00:20:06.080 Where's all the money gone?

00:20:08.320 Where's the insane amount of money gone?

00:20:11.640 Paul Heaton, the industry has never respected me

00:20:14.440 Who's that?

00:20:15.980 Oh, it's from the, um

00:20:17.360 Oh, what's the band?

00:20:19.180 You'll know

00:20:20.200 It's the

00:20:20.680 I don't know

00:20:21.800 You don't know

00:20:22.600 It's the

00:20:24.020 That's why I'm asking

00:20:24.940 It's that 80s band

00:20:26.360 They've got some famous songs

00:20:27.400 Oh

00:20:28.060 I've forgotten now

00:20:28.820 It's gone out of my mind

00:20:29.540 Maybe someone in the chat will say

00:20:30.860 Oh

00:20:31.540 As soon as it comes up

00:20:32.780 You'll know

00:20:33.220 What's the poll today

00:20:36.420 By the way

00:20:36.960 I see that he's put a poll

00:20:38.100 What's the no winning for

00:20:39.920 I think we asked

00:20:40.720 Well we saved that

00:20:41.540 We saved that for

00:20:43.660 Oh okay

00:20:44.640 After we've done the thing

00:20:45.460 But it's about

00:20:45.880 It's about Putin anyway

00:20:47.420 It's about Russia

00:20:47.940 Oh right 0.93

00:20:48.460 If you asked me

00:20:53.220 I'd had a good poll in mind

00:20:54.800 Personally

00:20:55.220 But you know

00:20:55.760 Oh we could ask you

00:20:56.680 Next time

00:20:57.200 Yeah yeah yeah

00:20:57.900 I'll say

00:20:58.680 Beautiful South

00:20:59.540 There we go

00:21:00.100 The Beautiful South

00:21:01.480 I have heard of them

00:21:03.300 But I don't think

00:21:03.820 I've ever heard them

00:21:04.700 So

00:21:05.080 And if they've got

00:21:06.760 Some famous songs

00:21:07.560 I suppose it is old

00:21:08.500 I mean that picture

00:21:09.520 Looks like it's from the 1980s

00:21:11.060 But

00:21:11.220 I love loads of old bands

00:21:12.460 But you know

00:21:13.120 Don't worry about it

00:21:13.620 Okay the Metro

00:21:14.300 Gross

00:21:14.940 The Metro

00:21:15.540 Ugh

00:21:16.080 Why are you a thing

00:21:21.120 Okay

00:21:21.500 UK made weapons blitz targets in Russia 0.98

00:21:25.160 That's odd English

00:21:26.540 UK made weapons blitz targets in Russia 1.00

00:21:29.440 Good one

00:21:31.020 Prime Minister sticks to his drones

00:21:33.740 As Vlad plots revenge

00:21:35.680 So again that's the story where

00:21:38.040 We've been selling

00:21:40.940 Or giving one way or another

00:21:42.840 The

00:21:43.420 the ukrainians munitions kinetic weapons firing them into russia or they're firing them into

00:21:52.380 russia killing russians blowing up billions of dollars worth of russian assets apparently

00:21:56.920 and the russians were angry about that said a few words like you'll pay you'll pay the price

00:22:02.740 and burnham came out and said no we stick by ukraine 100 i think that was the quote

00:22:09.260 100 we stand shoulder to shoulder with ukraine and sort of always will kind of a thing i'm

00:22:16.960 paraphrasing slightly i mean is is this a an update it's just the same things over and over

00:22:22.780 again uh britain says we're sticking by ukraine of course we are i mean they're our ally we've

00:22:28.480 been sticking by them for the past four years it'd be be a pretty awful rug pull at this moment

00:22:33.860 four years in to go and pretty awful for them yeah brilliant for us i i know but on like an

00:22:41.420 international like we wouldn't be very trusted as allies from that point on would we um the other

00:22:47.960 thing is well i don't every few months you get a story about vladimir putin has said he's going to

00:22:55.180 like literally destroy the west he's going to actually set off some nukes and just kill

00:22:59.580 everybody and then nothing happens and the conflict just continues as it is so 0.51

00:23:03.860 like as far as i'm concerned like russia is just all talk when it comes to this sort of stuff they

00:23:09.240 just keep sending more men into the meat grinder as does ukraine and the whole thing is not

00:23:14.340 progressing so well yeah nicely true logically yeah i don't think i don't think mr putin's gonna

00:23:21.400 sort of drop the big one on london no i i don't think he's gonna wouldn't be a great idea

00:23:29.460 thermonuclear weapons

00:23:31.260 one on Edinburgh

00:23:33.580 one on Manchester

00:23:34.860 one on Bristol

00:23:36.280 one on London

00:23:37.040 boom

00:23:37.540 the whole island

00:23:38.840 irradiated

00:23:39.660 I don't think that's

00:23:41.600 going to happen

00:23:42.060 no

00:23:42.340 freed from our oppressors

00:23:43.860 yeah

00:23:44.320 okay

00:23:47.360 just a little

00:23:48.580 tactical one

00:23:49.400 on the city of London

00:23:50.340 yeah

00:23:50.580 just a little

00:23:51.200 yeah

00:23:51.680 yeah

00:23:53.000 we just want

00:23:54.060 they just want

00:23:55.340 Parliament 0.88

00:23:55.920 take out Westminster Abbey

00:23:58.080 just that it's a joke just a very very very small tactical nuke yeah although i mean a few months

00:24:06.920 ago was it as much as six months ago i don't think maybe quite that a few months ago the

00:24:10.460 russians released some sort of um uh well quite literally a propaganda video talking about their

00:24:18.900 newest nuke i think it was actually about their newest delivery system their newest missile they've

00:24:23.320 got and there was just like an ai generated or some sort of animation of what it what it looks

00:24:29.200 like flying through the sky you know and what it would look like like it's blast radius should it

00:24:33.460 hit something and they chose in their animation should it be fired on on a city london not not

00:24:42.560 washington no not washington yeah london yeah well you know maybe they were trying to appeal to us

00:24:48.680 maybe we'll win those

00:24:50.660 Lotus Seaters over

00:24:51.680 we're not going to fire nukes on cities

00:24:54.860 but if we did

00:24:56.020 London's as good as any

00:24:58.400 totally at random

00:25:00.680 totally at randomness

00:25:01.880 could be any city in the world, London

00:25:03.500 oh, alright, okay

00:25:06.120 bit worried

00:25:08.160 okay

00:25:08.920 alright, the Independent

00:25:11.260 there's that young happy couple who are now

00:25:14.080 cinders, thanks for that, the Independent

00:25:15.860 thanks for that, thanks for bringing us that, brilliant

00:25:17.800 that's news. Burnham hits back at Russia threats over UK drones in Ukraine. Prime Minister insists

00:25:23.780 Britain fully backs Kiev in war against Putin despite Kremlin embassy's sinister warning that

00:25:29.580 supply of unmanned aircraft for military use will carry consequences. Well it probably will just

00:25:36.540 not as definitely not nukes right almost certainly not any sort of real military intervention but

00:25:41.740 there's a whole bunch of other type of what would you call it asymmetrical there's all sorts of

00:25:46.960 things they can do espionage yeah um like electronics warfare disinformation propaganda

00:25:54.260 campaigns all sorts of things there's a number of other things at their disposal which they do

00:25:58.880 up to and including you know actually like poisoning people assassinating people

00:26:02.920 and so we can we can do all the same to them as well to an extent i mean we don't manufacture

00:26:11.580 polonium for example remember Sasha Litvinenko was that was uh what was the polonium thing

00:26:19.260 where they poisoned Sasha Litvinenko with polonium in his tea in a highly highly radioactive material

00:26:27.740 insanely radioactive material should you ingest any it's going to kill you that must have been

00:26:32.460 a horrible way to go oh yeah really really bad it destroys the lining of your stomach

00:26:36.620 so you can't so you can't uh you won't digest anything yeah so you actually starve to death

00:26:43.020 oh god and in fact i think in the end i may be wrong about this but i think in the end

00:26:47.100 the way it works like radiation poisoning is that like the you can't even they can't even

00:26:52.700 give you morphine for the pain and stuff because it your veins won't even hold it in the end

00:26:57.500 it's a horror i think that might be not that is the case with extreme radiation poisoning i'm not

00:27:03.420 not sure if that's what actually happened to Litvinenko but yeah yeah to die of radiation

00:27:07.800 poisoning is a terrible terrible terrible terrible death but I mean I always remember the one where

00:27:14.400 they put what was it the the rice in in the end of the umbrella oh right and stuck somebody with

00:27:19.240 it and then he was just dead yeah that's uh that's proper old school what was that that's a classic

00:27:23.620 that's the 50s or 60s wasn't it that's real cold war stuff yeah love it yeah uh or Novichok nerve

00:27:30.000 have you mentioned Novichok actually you always get some people saying oh you still believe that

00:27:34.040 do you that's not real well well all right maybe maybe but the Litvinenko Polonium 210 thing is was

00:27:41.420 real that was definitely a match of record I always just think whenever when it's like Russian

00:27:46.700 espionage disinformation destabilization campaigns I always just think of a an old joke that I saw

00:27:54.220 where it was some uh like Putin and some other guy talking and going we need to destabilize the

00:27:59.000 west all right what plans do we have well we're planning on opening their borders and flooding 0.71

00:28:03.360 them with the rate that with the dregs of the third world and it's like dr evil whether like 0.90

00:28:07.560 they've already done that to themselves all right then okay well i know i know next we'll flood 0.88

00:28:15.760 their economic markets with junk bonds that will end up crashing after an enormous bubble is but

00:28:21.860 erupts they've already done that to themselves yeah all right then okay we'll i don't know uh 0.99

00:28:30.400 we'll legalize we'll get them to legalize gay marriage and they'll all start transitioning 0.96

00:28:36.080 their children uh 10 years from now they've all done that as well it's like what are we supposed 1.00

00:28:41.920 to do then yeah they're destroying themselves far more thoroughly and quickly than we ever could

00:28:47.720 yeah yeah okay the guardian oh absolute commie champagne socialist slop the god it's truly 0.52

00:28:58.700 subversive isn't it truly truly subversive right burn them pledges to get all rough sleepers off

00:29:04.440 streets by christmas by this christmas that'd be a bit of an ask won't it considering like there's

00:29:10.840 massive tent cities in a load of uh in a load of our cities and they keep cramming hundreds and

00:29:16.000 hundreds of thousands of more people in year after year it's a bit contradictory given that

00:29:20.020 they're at the same time part of his government have pledged to make rough sleeping legal right

00:29:26.540 yeah well yeah they want to decriminalize any sort of level of rough sleeping which works so

00:29:34.040 well in california isn't there always already a massive housing crisis for those that aren't even

00:29:39.040 actually fully homeless rough sleepers there's not enough houses already and we've got quite a

00:29:44.580 lot of rough sleepers and i don't i think that's a self-imposed target he's just he's got no chance

00:29:51.720 of reaching why would he do that say that anyway i mean also like if you see rough sleepers

00:29:58.440 obviously but maybe there'll be one or two who are genuinely in a really rough period of life

00:30:04.080 and have no other choice but the amount of options that local councils and social care and stuff

00:30:08.880 affords to people who are homeless right now like if they are not sleeping indoors in a bed somewhere

00:30:17.600 it's because they've chosen to i don't know maybe sometimes that's the case sometimes but

00:30:25.280 no i don't know i just think that homeless people are rough sleepers the very least give the nate

00:30:30.160 white white native white brits the first or the first help but that's not what they will do is it

00:30:36.800 Okay, here's how we bring up the image

00:30:39.600 There's a picture of Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn doing a fist bump

00:30:42.940 It's odd that they've got them in dresses though

00:30:47.020 Oh wait

00:30:50.260 So it's not Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank 0.98

00:30:52.880 Sorry, it's the Williams sisters

00:30:54.880 Sorry, my mistake

00:30:55.740 Genuine mistake there

00:30:57.800 I absolutely thought that was Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank

00:31:01.420 um but it's uh it's it's the william sisters no comment okay ulez led to lung boost for children

00:31:14.180 in london well if that's true that's something isn't it cost a lot of money okay if that's true

00:31:20.740 good uh here's an interesting story meta sued by 29 states in landmark trial in u.s so this is um

00:31:28.720 in the u.s them gunning for the zuck and meta making the argument he's lost a couple of high

00:31:34.920 profile cases very very recently there's one in new mexico i think there's another one in

00:31:39.160 was it california anyway a couple more high profile cases on top of a few more in the last

00:31:44.060 year or two arguing that meta has quite literally harmed people damaged well not just meta it's like

00:31:51.780 what facebook end is it also instagram instagram yeah and other stuff um that it's too addictive

00:31:59.300 and it damages people psychologically particularly children i mean they'll yeah they'll they'll be

00:32:05.540 going with the whole like algorithmic manipulation angle i mean they've been good in for meta and

00:32:10.880 zuckerberg in particular for ages thing is i'm i'm i'm not entirely uh against the argument that

00:32:19.460 Yeah, social media, especially if you're younger, is really bad for you.

00:32:25.060 Sure.

00:32:25.960 I mean, I think I've even seen some studies recently where they were talking about like there was this experiment where they did a cohort of people,

00:32:33.100 I think 40 people who for 30 days straight had to go without their smartphones and they were just replaced with flip phones.

00:32:40.940 So they were still able to contact one another and they were still able to get all of the essential services that you get from a phone.

00:32:46.660 They just can't go on the Internet and scroll for ages, right?

00:32:49.460 and they found that by the end of the 30 days their quality of life had improved

00:32:53.980 their uh levels of reported happiness had skyrocketed they were actually being more social

00:33:00.740 with one another because they were actually organizing to meet up with people because

00:33:04.800 they couldn't just get a quick update of what all their friends were doing on the screen

00:33:07.740 and they were engaging more actively in hobbies and other community activities so like i i i

00:33:15.460 genuinely believe like um that all of it's really bad for you but u.s states and governments like

00:33:24.180 that when they're attacking these companies they'll be doing it for their own reasons

00:33:27.100 oftentimes it will not be from an altruistic sense of like we need to improve people's lives

00:33:31.380 it'll be from a sense of no we need the algorithm so that we can manipulate people operation creep

00:33:36.700 that is part of a it's part of a broader plan broader strategy goal aim of censorship

00:33:44.400 that oh you we must allow us to censor you because of the kids won't you think of the kids

00:33:50.480 now all ages are censored from anything we want don't want you to see but anyway i am not sure if

00:33:58.060 i don't know if it's really meta and zuckerberg's ultimate responsibility it's like

00:34:04.900 isn't it the responsibility of the individual or if it's a child the the parent because then where

00:34:12.880 does the buck stop i mean it's it's a classic thing like i can understand that and you know

00:34:18.180 like i i do appreciate it people should regulate and moderate their own behavior but at the same

00:34:22.940 time yeah we do have to accept that people like zuckerberg have a a huge amount of power over

00:34:30.180 people over people through the use of like algorithms i don't want to go to back for the

00:34:34.840 poor billionaire tech bro yeah i mean if it was just the case of people moderating their

00:34:40.580 their own behavior people wouldn't have been so eager and gunning for jack dorsey when elon musk

00:34:46.440 bought twitter everybody accepted that elon musk buying twitter was going to be beneficial to a lot

00:34:51.200 of people because he would administer it differently open up speech and search so like if it if it's

00:34:57.420 important for elon musk to run twitter in a particular way it's kind of it's not right to

00:35:02.840 pretend that it's not important that mark zuckerberg runs his platforms in a way as well

00:35:07.180 although to be fair facebook is actually has a huge cohort of um radical boomers on it

00:35:14.020 who uh appreciate people like us and right-leaning radical oh yeah yeah oh okay cool

00:35:20.520 although because i'm not on facebook i got banned off there years ago long for i don't really i

00:35:25.120 don't really use it i never ever i can't go if i ever get recognized in public if it's from younger

00:35:30.060 people it'll be they'll recognize me from youtube or twitter or something if it's older people they

00:35:35.600 all know me from facebook okay i was at a punk gig a few uh a few months ago and some older people

00:35:41.240 came up to me as they didn't even know my name they were just like oh you're that guy you're

00:35:45.480 that guy what what from facebook it's like oh not what i was expecting but they they loved it you

00:35:52.500 know oh fair enough fair enough yeah i'm not on there i've got no desire to go get back on there

00:35:57.940 in any way shape or form but um yeah it's again the question of is it the sort of the platform

00:36:03.700 itself which is to blame you know the idea that i don't know if you if you see a terribly

00:36:14.800 sort of a terribly violent or distressing film is it the cinema itself which you would take to

00:36:21.540 say or cinema the theater yeah and then you take them to call probably not or if you get if

00:36:29.620 terrorists are communicating with each other via telephone do you take the telephone company to

00:36:34.260 court you know what i'm saying right no i do i i do understand that the argument that you're making

00:36:40.000 yeah it's like i do think there's a there's a there's a difference there but i do get what

00:36:44.960 you're saying okay let's move on then well just to say sorry before we move on from that it does

00:36:50.280 look like probably meta and loads of other social media over the coming months or a few years

00:36:56.740 Probably will

00:36:58.680 Because of this

00:36:59.580 Probably will sort of change the way they operate

00:37:02.680 Reasonably

00:37:03.960 Profoundly

00:37:05.400 Be made aware

00:37:06.940 Especially if you're young, especially if you're a child

00:37:09.340 Probably they will become a lot more censored

00:37:12.420 So, there you go

00:37:16.460 If you're under 18

00:37:18.060 And you use Facebook and Instagram

00:37:20.480 And stuff

00:37:20.980 Probably will be a lot

00:37:22.540 The rules, regulations will probably get tightened up

00:37:26.460 massively because otherwise meta will keep being exposed to lawsuits that cost them tens of

00:37:32.920 millions hundreds of millions of dollars a pop even meta can't survive like a slew of those

00:37:39.140 yeah just be a business decision well well right away right away it's a business decision well

00:37:44.740 yeah oh right well we can't do that so the internet's completely censored for you now

00:37:50.520 all right i will i will say for what i was saying about how like bad it can be especially for young

00:37:56.720 people people in chat were also mentioning that like that well the same people in these governments

00:38:02.200 who are making these lawsuits saying oh you can't damage teenagers like that also did damage a lot

00:38:06.940 of young kids and teenagers through covid lockdowns so yeah these people aren't altruistic these people

00:38:12.020 aren't good people they're doing it for their own reasons like you know for me during covid i had a

00:38:16.840 great time i was i was like the only person i know who was very productive during covid

00:38:22.160 uh taught myself music theory started practicing guitar again wrote a load of songs started reading

00:38:27.840 books way more than i used to i had a grand old time so many people i know younger than me are

00:38:33.240 like oh yeah i completely lost my social life during covid and i never got it back and i go

00:38:39.300 like oh yeah i guess i was kind of i was a bit of an exception actually and loads of people are like

00:38:44.060 oh i can never i've never recovered from it so yeah i must admit i i was working here were you

00:38:50.660 working here even already through uh i joined october 2021 so that was just at the tail end of

00:38:56.480 of uh covert lockdowns and then ukraine happened and then they were like oh okay right well i was

00:39:01.100 working here and i didn't really we worked all the way through it because we were like classes

00:39:06.320 media or whatever allowed to just work through it so it didn't actually impact my life all that much

00:39:11.940 so i just worked straight through it all and i was worried they were going to stop us from going

00:39:16.780 on trains which would have really affected me i was going back and forth to essex at the time but

00:39:20.840 they never actually did that so anyway yeah but that's not the point yeah if you were young

00:39:24.780 particularly if you were young or very old we've had could have had a giant giant impact

00:39:32.520 giant impact okay the iron paper no rough sleeper on streets by end of 2026 pledges rainer angela

00:39:40.240 the fridge rainer big bird every homeless person across england will be offered a bed by christmas

00:39:46.860 the housing secretary announces oh she's announced it she said it so that will become a reality

00:39:52.260 yeah sure it will uh questions remain over how the 442 million pound pandemic inspired pledge

00:40:00.400 will be delivered with 5 000 people on the streets i think it's more i would have thought

00:40:06.280 this more than that if you include they're just not including a whole bunch of foreign people 1.00

00:40:10.060 even in tents are they uh we see the challenges that face out our town centers and we don't want 1.00

00:40:16.040 that in our modern society rainer tells the eye paper like like she can rework society councils

00:40:25.740 and regional mayors will now be expected to find new accommodation for people don't worry about

00:40:31.200 there's not enough accommodation already hotels hostels and empty homes are there many empty

00:40:37.720 homes where have we heard this one before some but some may resist working towards this goal

00:40:42.440 the christmas pledge will be a major test for andy bumham's drive to end rough sleeping

00:40:48.500 declared on his first day as prime minister sorry go ahead oh what's funny i think you had a slip

00:40:58.140 of the tongue for a moment there what's that that's all i couldn't tell you okay couldn't tell

00:41:03.320 you maybe the audience picked it up no sternum burnham king bumham the first of his name king

00:41:09.800 of the north i do i do love how your your nicknames for him seem to have been plucked straight out of

00:41:16.740 a primary school playground oh god maybe maybe you used to get called that on the primary school

00:41:26.580 ground so you if he ever catches a glimpse of this you're just going to send him reeling back

00:41:30.160 into like ptsd flashbacks oh nate came up with that one oh okay well we can when when andy burnham

00:41:36.400 has this inevitable public nervous breakdown we can thank nate for that i'm not above like 0.78

00:41:41.200 playground insults andy burnham loves his mum he lives in her bum

00:41:46.100 that's also an alan partridge line by the way i didn't just conjure that out of thin air

00:41:53.780 that's partridge shouldn't go i shouldn't find that so

00:41:56.780 the point was like don't the hotels and hostels and such have enough strain trying to put up with 0.90

00:42:04.520 all the um all the illegals that we have in the corner yeah yeah and now you're going to dump a 0.97

00:42:09.280 load of like crackheads on them as well yeah like my missus when we first moved here she worked in 0.64

00:42:17.360 one of the hotels that was housing these people the illegals for a while and she said you know 0.96

00:42:22.220 they it was a fancy hotel it was a it was a round tree by hilton right they closed off an entire wing 0.51

00:42:29.340 of the hotel just to house illegals and she said that was you know she came along with me she'd 0.62

00:42:35.000 heard some of the stuff that i was talking about and complaining about she's like yeah you know

00:42:38.420 fair fair play i love you harry so i'll come along with you and then she saw it firsthand and she's

00:42:42.820 like oh these people are disgusting they're really rude they just trash the place the rules just

00:42:49.540 don't apply to them they've got they've got completely different manner and culture to us 0.95

00:42:54.180 i don't like this um and you know that was a nice hotel and that when she was the staff so i feel 0.60

00:43:00.360 for the staff that have to put up with these people what was the name of that woman who was 0.99

00:43:03.920 working as staff for one of these places behind the bar and one of them just followed her to a 0.68

00:43:08.900 train station and murdered her oh riannon white yeah riannon white you know she's a victim of 0.96

00:43:14.560 this these policies and now you're going to throw a bunch of crackheads in there with them as well 0.98

00:43:19.120 i know they're trying to destroy the fabric of our society don't they like angela the fridge

00:43:28.480 reiner big bird has got the has got the audacity the brass neck to talk about what she wants what

00:43:34.760 should be the case in our modern society you're ruining it your parties are ruining it and you're

00:43:41.800 pretending that you're fixing it it's it's contemptible isn't it it really really is

00:43:48.480 all right let's move on the times the venerable times meta hid the truth about impact on children's

00:43:54.540 mental health well that's one other element to that story is that apparently meta themselves

00:43:59.340 did do research or analysis in some way into the sort of the uh the amount of damage that their

00:44:04.140 stuff may may be doing to sort of the psyche of children found that it wasn't good and then sort

00:44:11.780 sat on that

00:44:12.860 that's a bit shady

00:44:14.140 yeah

00:44:14.400 that's a bit shady

00:44:15.880 it's a bit slim shady

00:44:16.660 that isn't it

00:44:17.320 yeah

00:44:17.780 it's the real slim shady

00:44:19.320 that

00:44:19.640 okay

00:44:20.500 power shift

00:44:21.880 puts growth in hands

00:44:23.200 of number 10 north

00:44:24.500 are they still going on

00:44:25.780 with that

00:44:26.220 Burnham transfers

00:44:27.000 responsibility from

00:44:28.200 Whitehall

00:44:28.500 as a true real life

00:44:30.220 bona fide

00:44:30.940 actual northerner

00:44:32.680 man of

00:44:34.120 north

00:44:34.660 how do you feel

00:44:36.440 Cheshire

00:44:36.620 some would

00:44:37.100 some would argue not

00:44:38.360 but I'll

00:44:38.900 I'll accept the

00:44:40.260 I'll accept the market

00:44:41.460 surely anything north of like wolverhampton's that's that's what i think that's what i consider

00:44:45.540 it yeah yeah so what do you think about number 10 north is it an embarrassment to you are you

00:44:50.100 like yeah go andy it's embarrassing it's it's really cringeworthy okay and it comes across like

00:44:57.860 as somebody who wants to see the people of this country and even wider britain and i would even

00:45:04.820 argue ireland as well much as they like to reject us uh united uh under a particular cause and under

00:45:12.720 sentiment with one another it just seems like petty regional factionalism right yeah unnecessary

00:45:18.540 it seems to me yeah i mean when it comes to stuff like uh opportunities for people up north

00:45:24.060 that's good right the north after thatcher the closing of the mines and stuff like that

00:45:29.400 the north was pretty heavily hit especially in some of those old mining towns and such

00:45:33.560 so i don't mind there being more opportunities like when manchester started to get media city

00:45:37.800 where i went to university having a headquarters of bbc in the north itv on all these different

00:45:44.500 places that's good that kind of stuff is good because it gives people opportunity obviously in

00:45:49.360 that kind of career but you can expand on that and make it so that not everybody has to work

00:45:53.600 in bloody call centers like i had to for ages um but like moving number 10 to the north that just

00:46:00.660 comes across like like resentful grievance uh type behavior from a guy who's kind of just trying

00:46:07.900 to show his manchester supporters like oh i'm still one of you don't worry i still love oasis

00:46:13.480 i still love me some stone roses and morrissey you don't need to worry about me i'm a bona fide

00:46:21.060 i am is pointless there was a picture where was it there was oh look look there it was look

00:46:32.580 andy burnham oh well the story is about andy burnham's uh accepting four hundred three hundred

00:46:39.740 forty five thousand pounds in donations plus entering glassbury tickets they put got a picture

00:46:44.000 of him there with no mank boys together you got a bigger picture of him with noel oh there they are

00:46:51.020 So he's from Manchester

00:46:54.740 If anyone isn't aware 1.00

00:46:56.480 He's a mank

00:46:58.500 He's from Manchester 0.99

00:46:59.920 Never heard this

00:47:01.600 I was going to say

00:47:02.140 He's actually more of a scouse

00:47:03.720 Oh I don't know

00:47:05.620 I think he's actually

00:47:07.120 Closer to Liverpool than Manchester

00:47:10.480 I don't know that

00:47:12.440 These things bleed over into each other

00:47:14.080 Some have argued that Manchester and Liverpool

00:47:17.740 Should just have a massive dense urban area

00:47:20.320 built between them and turned into a gigantic mega city but i don't want that i think that

00:47:25.640 would ruin both places like san angeles in demolition man yeah i don't i don't want that

00:47:31.760 i actually quite like man paul i quite like the when i talk about how much i like dislike petty

00:47:37.420 regional factionalism like this i actually quite like it when it's more quaint like the way that

00:47:43.060 scousers and manks will like shake their fists at one another despite being right next to one

00:47:48.020 i quite like that it's charming this is not charming yeah okay let's get back to the

00:47:55.220 headlines uh what else have we got the male complete globalist slop trying to pretend it

00:48:01.220 isn't um the earl spencer princess diana's brother is going to is releasing a new book

00:48:07.980 talking about the wake of after diana's death when lady d was killed in a car crash in paris

00:48:14.860 with Dodi Al-Fayed.

00:48:17.060 And more tragedy.

00:48:19.060 Yeah, yeah, more tragedy.

00:48:20.860 Horrible story to make you feel bad.

00:48:23.040 Girl, little girl, child,

00:48:25.240 left fighting for life

00:48:26.340 after being plucked from water

00:48:27.680 in rescue operation

00:48:28.720 at Shoreham by a sea.

00:48:30.680 Three from same family

00:48:31.800 drowned in tragedy at the seaside.

00:48:34.020 Great, thanks for that.

00:48:35.300 Apparently one of the details was

00:48:36.520 one of them,

00:48:37.600 I don't know who exactly,

00:48:38.680 one of that family got twisted up

00:48:40.420 in a net that was out of sea.

00:48:42.580 And I guess the others

00:48:43.260 Went in to try and save them

00:48:46.160 And three of them drowned

00:48:47.860 And one of them's little kids

00:48:49.580 Fighting for their life

00:48:50.720 Jesus Christ

00:48:52.440 One thing I would say is

00:48:55.440 Stating the obvious

00:48:56.920 Don't go in the water

00:49:01.000 Unless you're quite a strong

00:49:02.080 Relatively strong swimmer

00:49:03.280 Don't go in the sea

00:49:04.380 Don't go out beyond paddling in the sea

00:49:07.580 Unless you know for sure

00:49:09.260 That there's not any sort of undertow

00:49:11.320 And you're a reasonably strong swimmer

00:49:12.680 i mean all right the ft the financial times oh yeah uh inflation has gone up a little bit in

00:49:23.340 britain it's now 2.9 percent gone up ever so slightly so that's the that that's the stars

00:49:31.420 what slop of the star got for us hosepipe bands but clarkson's look look that's clarkson's clarkson's

00:49:37.760 pub and that he's still got a bit of lawn left how has he done that cunning jezza keeps grass lush

00:49:45.040 with borehole water trick he had an actual borehole or well you might say i suppose uh

00:49:51.680 sunk on his land where he can get water straight from it thereby bypassing the hose pipe ban and

00:49:57.920 look jezz has still got a bit of green grass that's front page news they could report on anything

00:50:02.160 going on in the whole world and uh but that's front page news clarkson clarkson's got a borehole

00:50:09.200 on his land and uh thank thank you daily uh daily star thank you for bringing us that that's great

00:50:16.620 journalism yeah we needed that where would we be right as the heat wave is over that's a public

00:50:22.440 service they're doing this there giving us this information it's vital stuff in the public interest

00:50:26.920 isn't it cheers that's it that's it and there we go we ended on the most important news that's the

00:50:34.600 increasingly absurd frustrating front pages so the guy in the chat who said oh whoa harry's wife

00:50:39.320 helped out the migrants i mean she worked at a hotel that was housing them and uh if you want

00:50:47.680 to consider that every staff member of hotels is complicit in it uh no like these are just people

00:50:54.900 working normal jobs and the bosses or the corporation goes oh we're going to take a load

00:50:59.980 of money so that we can house these people and the staff members oftentimes suffer quite badly

00:51:05.500 from it and end up really hating these people because they are all of the horrible things that

00:51:12.020 we've described before or they just get murdered by them so you know yeah yeah um okay let's have

00:51:19.160 a look at our poll little harry if you could bring up uh the poll we asked you guys today

00:51:24.180 just shy of a thousand

00:51:25.480 very very close

00:51:26.380 to a thousand people voting

00:51:27.560 do you think

00:51:28.860 Mr. Putin

00:51:29.580 actually has designs

00:51:31.160 to invade

00:51:31.760 Eastern Europe

00:51:32.500 or the Baltics

00:51:33.340 that was my one

00:51:34.740 I came up with that one

00:51:35.380 this morning

00:51:35.660 next time you're in Harry

00:51:36.680 seriously

00:51:37.400 if you want to do the poll

00:51:38.900 pick the poll

00:51:39.540 we'll do that

00:51:40.440 I've got it right up here

00:51:42.040 what I'm going to ask

00:51:42.600 next time

00:51:42.980 okay is it something

00:51:43.600 really obscure about music

00:51:44.840 I mean I can just

00:51:47.200 give it away right now

00:51:48.100 no no save it

00:51:48.620 save it

00:51:48.920 alright

00:51:49.440 I want to save it

00:51:50.900 I want it to be

00:51:51.640 a mystery for me

00:51:54.020 up until the moment i click on it all right then okay all right so mr do you think mr putin will

00:52:00.140 actually invade eastern europe or the baltics and the eyes look the nose have it sorry sorry

00:52:05.560 the nose have it to the tune of 80 a cool 80 81 say no 19 say yes 20 sticking up and around

00:52:18.040 there um over a thousand votes now so there you go eight out of ten of the glorious band

00:52:23.920 the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters uh don't believe the narrative

00:52:29.460 as i don't that mr putin's got designs on what like minsk and warsaw and berlin

00:52:39.380 and wherever and the baltics estonia latvia lithuania i mean what do you think given the

00:52:45.680 massive struggle that they're going through just to get the um the what are they called the donbass

00:52:50.340 yeah the donbass the oblesques um oblasts or oblasts those territories those the donbass region

00:52:57.780 yeah the donbass region just the amount of struggle that they've gone through to get them

00:53:00.880 it would be pretty rich if they managed to get them to say like oh now we can mount a full scale

00:53:05.920 western invasion yeah across the entire north to south of eastern europe that would be insane

00:53:13.380 they just they can't do it unless they were going to go full-scale nuke warfare which they're not

00:53:20.840 going to do because everybody else in the world would just nuke them as well yeah it it would be

00:53:25.060 ridiculous of them to even consider it just from a tactical perspective can we practically do this

00:53:29.540 no but putin wants to recreate the winter war of invading finland or push tank divisions recreate 0.87

00:53:37.420 the push of 1944 early 45 all the way to berlin and then also at the same time be opening up a

00:53:44.140 front across all the rest of the north to south of that territory as well now i just think it's

00:53:49.120 it's a it's a crazy obviously wrong narrative obviously phony now to me to me i say obviously

00:53:57.520 it's just it seems obvious to me but maybe if you want to say that if we gave them concessions right

00:54:02.820 now that 10 or 20 years down the line they would maybe regroup get their resources together and

00:54:10.660 maybe try and push a little bit further and be like cheeky one step at a time but that would

00:54:15.560 that would be a centuries-long project to do something like that yeah funny whenever i say

00:54:20.420 stuff that there's always someone that's gonna say are you actually in the pay of the kremlin

00:54:24.540 you're taking that russian money you're taking the rubles now we're not paid that much mate

00:54:30.380 yeah

00:54:31.580 no I also sling a load of shade at Putin 0.99

00:54:33.920 call him a murderer and a gangster 0.99

00:54:35.800 a murderer and a gangster 0.99

00:54:38.780 that's what he is 0.98

00:54:39.360 also let's be clear

00:54:40.560 he is Russian yes 0.99

00:54:41.900 I'm more likely to get poloniumed 0.94

00:54:44.020 I'm more likely to get Litvinenko'd 0.80

00:54:46.020 than take rubles

00:54:46.820 or that's what he says at least

00:54:51.020 that's what I would say

00:54:52.340 if I was taking the rubles

00:54:53.340 thou doth protest too much

00:54:56.340 okay

00:54:58.580 alright let's do

00:55:00.200 dade or is that dade rovsky oh my god there's a reason you look like a russian philosopher i knew

00:55:07.480 it dada dadevich i am getting more and more sort of lenin i think unfortunately no i mean it's a

00:55:14.720 strong look thank you that's very kind that's very kind are you going to grow your hair out again or

00:55:21.700 have a beard or do a skinhead you change your look regularly that's your look isn't it changing

00:55:26.480 your look i'm just gonna i'm just gonna keep the hair as it is right now probably go for a trim soon

00:55:31.800 so you know i'm a i'm i'm 30 now i'm a i'm a grown you gotta get serious yeah it's time to be serious

00:55:37.660 although i probably won't grow a beard no more legolas uh well i mean maybe 10 years from now

00:55:42.460 when i hit 40 you know i'll start pining for the old days go crazy for the big 4-0 yeah uh but no

00:55:50.380 the beard i just can't be bothered getting through the itchy phase to be honest yeah that is a bit

00:55:55.560 annoying um or uh would you ever go super short would you ever try a skinhead just see what it's

00:56:00.420 like i'm worried about what the shape of my head is like without hair is the concern yeah what the

00:56:07.480 actual shape of the back of your skull what if i've got a weird shaped hair what if somehow

00:56:12.840 magically i literally have a crease directly down the center of my skull so it looks like a bell end

00:56:20.280 like is that a thing it's unlikely it's unlikely but these are the things that race through my

00:56:27.040 mind if i ever consider it so in the chat says baby's jealous oh absolutely oh i'd love to have

00:56:32.660 a proper haircut what if i have a cone head i want it just goes to a single point

00:56:37.480 i'll get my my 1993 blonde curtains back i had curtains at one point sent a part in

00:56:45.780 oh yeah i think i've seen that was the fashion a picture or two that was the fashion i had long

00:56:50.560 hair once upon a time really long past my shoulders yeah yeah wearing a pony was this

00:56:55.000 in the early 90s late 90s even oh i don't think i got rid of that until the year 2000 it would

00:56:59.820 have been it was already out of date because it sounds like it would have been like a very

00:57:03.080 grunge thing yeah not exactly grunge more like do you remember the band like reef oh yeah yeah i

00:57:09.720 know that not exactly grunge well not grunge but just like um 90s old rock yeah yeah more like that

00:57:16.760 yeah more like that but it wasn't did we do that song oh oh raise your hand place your hand oh yeah

00:57:23.440 yeah that's it yeah yeah that sort of thing so yeah but i was thinning i was balding already

00:57:31.920 when i was like i mean i realized i was thin on top when i was like 16 yeah by the time i was 18

00:57:37.840 1920 my hairline was receding they didn't have the wide range of treatments for that back then

00:57:45.360 that they do now do i would have never gone under the scalpel anyway never well no even like

00:57:49.520 finasteride and stuff like that people use that just to help prevent it from uh prevent it from

00:57:54.000 thinning now much i've known plenty of guys like a friend of mine who i've known since primary

00:57:58.400 school started thinning about 19 and had a like receding hairline to about there by the time he

00:58:04.960 was 21 and so all of a sudden just you noticed it because one day whenever you'd go to the pub he

00:58:10.680 like beanie okay beanie anywhere and everywhere you've got to embrace it tim paul tim paul i'm

00:58:18.540 talking to you now tim embrace it dude it's just it's there's nothing quite like a sean scalp i

00:58:26.800 suggest you try it um yeah once you have a skinhead a bonehead after a while it's fine you get used to

00:58:33.760 it's not a problem or just go real or just go real old school and embrace the norwood and do

00:58:39.320 like do like old school just just slick it back like you like i i saw i was tragically i was at 0.71

00:58:46.860 a funeral it's worse than being just a bonehead in it i was i was at a funeral earlier this year

00:58:51.780 and i felt like i was looking the guy who was giving the speech at the funeral uh was like an

00:58:56.640 old throwback to a type of guy you've not seen since the 60s or 70s he was this uh squat broad

00:59:03.220 um like portly bloke he had a he had a great big mustache and he had hair that had receded all the

00:59:10.080 way back there but the rest of it he kept long and slicked back it was down to about his his like

00:59:18.280 his collar and i was like i've like you men like you were all the rage in like darts clubs back in

00:59:26.460 the 60s and 70s i know because my dad showed me the pictures but now you're like a dying breed

00:59:31.560 yeah you don't see that yeah i respect it it's a rare look it's a rare look when i was a kid 0.88

00:59:37.300 like a little kid loads of times i had a skinhead or like a number two number three

00:59:41.500 skinhead just very very short hair yeah so the idea of having a very very short haircut

00:59:46.100 was not an anathema to me it's just again if you've had hair all your life and then you start

00:59:52.820 to go like you have a fine head of hair like you could tell you start to go bald and you think oh

00:59:56.940 it's the worst thing in the world if you shave it off honestly after just a few weeks a few months

01:00:02.160 it's just that's just you now yeah people get people get used to it people get used to it real 0.99

01:00:06.260 quick you get used to it real quick it's not the end of the world i'll never one or two women don't

01:00:11.260 like it one or two women are like i would never date a bald guy but most of them certainly after

01:00:16.480 a certain age 25 or whatever they don't really care it's more about what you can do for them

01:00:22.140 and your personality rather than your haircut well either way your personality isn't your haircut

01:00:27.520 all right so something i even have to worry about my dad's 73 and still has a strong full head of

01:00:33.500 hair and all my all my family have very strong hairlines it runs in uh runs in the bloodline

01:00:39.860 stop showing off now this

01:00:41.480 all right let's do our oh no wait we've got on this day in history

01:00:47.340 oh got that you guys like me doing that bit i quite like doing that bit let's have a quick

01:00:51.200 Look at on this day in history, down through the centuries, on this day, what happened

01:00:54.180 of now?

01:00:54.520 Nay, the millennia.

01:00:55.620 All right, on this day in 43 BC, Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman

01:01:00.440 Senate to elect him consul.

01:01:02.140 You ever read the Res Gestia Divi Augusti?

01:01:06.940 No.

01:01:07.640 No.

01:01:09.560 Octavian later wrote an account, My Achievements, Res Gestia, the achievements, the deeds of

01:01:16.740 the divine Augustus.

01:01:18.680 Great line in that.

01:01:19.820 One of the all-time great lines.

01:01:21.200 we said at the age get this imagine this imagine if you could say this about yourself

01:01:25.760 at the age of 19 on my own initiative and at my own expense i raised an army with which i set free

01:01:34.220 the republic i gave the republic back its liberty that had been oppressed by the the faction uh the

01:01:40.960 tyranny of a faction imagine you could say that about yourself imagine yeah remarkable it is

01:01:48.800 pretty awesome yeah i mean anyway that's what that is in 43 bc you know only a year or year and a bit

01:01:54.580 caesar's killed in like march the odds of march 44 bc so a year and a bit later lots of stuff

01:02:02.700 happened in that year because octavian is not only against the murderers of his great uncle but also

01:02:09.120 mark anthony who's supposed to be on his side anyway events dear boy events transpire and he

01:02:16.040 finds himself at the head of an army and he can march on rome sulla style marius style and force

01:02:22.940 the senate to name him consul at the age of 19 youngest consul ever remarkable all right anyway

01:02:31.740 so much do you think i've got long-form content all about augustus on epochs you know i suspect

01:02:37.360 that you may more than once talk about it uh one of them's a long-form conversation with am apostolic

01:02:44.360 majesty who's a true genius who knows way way way way more than me about everything so check that

01:02:49.840 one out it's a really good conversation that one okay the first photograph in on this day in 1839

01:02:55.280 uh louis duguerre or louis duguerre's duguerreotype photographic process with complete working

01:03:02.980 instructions is published free to the world in paris as a gift from the french government

01:03:07.340 okay this is one of the well apparently the first photo that's got a human being in it if you see

01:03:11.580 figure there oh yeah that's fantastic it's quite good quality isn't it considering it's a great

01:03:17.500 photo yeah quite like the composition even he had it he had it sorted from the start didn't he

01:03:23.740 i i always find it fascinating i've said this in fact my very very first video ever ever

01:03:29.340 on history bro so just behind you the thing on history right there just by harry oh this that

01:03:35.900 yeah on my very very first video i talk about the photography from the american civil war

01:03:42.700 and what a profound change that is to sort of the human story that kind of suddenly suddenly

01:03:49.340 we've got real images of real people in the real world before that of course seems obvious to say

01:03:55.260 but before that you've only got paintings and wood sketches and drawings and then boom it's

01:04:01.820 It's the real thing, real images of real people, real places.

01:04:05.520 What sort of a fantastic thing that is,

01:04:08.500 from the point of view of the historian, at least.

01:04:11.120 Anyway, OK, I find the history of photography absolutely fascinating.

01:04:14.060 On this day in 1942, World War II,

01:04:15.880 over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers are killed,

01:04:18.520 as well as some free French Czechs and Poles

01:04:22.220 and a few American Rangers, I believe,

01:04:23.980 were killed, wounded or captured during the raid on Dieppe in France.

01:04:27.680 Do you know anything about the raid on Dieppe?

01:04:29.820 I'm not familiar with it.

01:04:31.820 kids these days i'm sorry i'm sorry i you've got to remember i am a product of the failing

01:04:37.420 british uh school system i went i went to a comprehensive i did fair enough um yeah no uh

01:04:45.660 the raid on yep uh the slaughter on the shingles what was it called operation jubilee where old

01:04:52.140 joe starlin really really wanted a second front opened up on on in the west so old winnie this

01:04:58.820 a failed attempt to open it up.

01:05:02.840 Winnie dreams up a raid on Dieppe,

01:05:05.120 which is on the coast of Normandy. 1.00

01:05:07.800 Sends in a whole bunch of British and Canadians

01:05:09.960 and a few others, I'd say Czechs, Poles, Americans. 0.99

01:05:13.080 The idea was to just do a whole raid

01:05:15.560 on the town of Dieppe for a day. 0.95

01:05:17.920 And a big part of the plan was to make the Luftwaffe,

01:05:21.400 what remained of it in the West, 0.98

01:05:23.620 all flock there to defend it

01:05:26.320 and that we'd have a massive RAF contingent ready

01:05:29.800 to dogfight with them in the skies.

01:05:32.420 The grand strategic idea was to try and take out 0.59

01:05:35.380 what remained of the Luftwaffe.

01:05:36.900 But it never even got that far

01:05:38.100 because most of them were slaughtered on the beaches

01:05:40.740 with a few small exceptions.

01:05:44.060 The German defence at Dieppe was just far better than we thought.

01:05:49.280 So it was, I mean, the raid on Dieppe is shorthand 0.93

01:05:52.780 for an example par excellence of a failed raid yeah a complete waste of lives yeah a little bit

01:06:00.980 a little bit okay all right on this day in 1988 iran and iraq begin a ceasefire in their eight

01:06:07.460 eight-year-old war at 11 p.m um that's interesting the iran iraq war is a very very interesting

01:06:14.280 thing um i should do i should do a bit of epoch over the years i've uh read a a fair bit about

01:06:22.740 it i've read around it and sort of for that whole region um like a massively pivotal thing i mean

01:06:30.120 out of it both both the history of iraq and iran is sort of mass mass completely put on a different

01:06:37.360 timeline because of it um it's huge like the second sorry the first gulf war is sort of in

01:06:44.620 many ways a direct consequence of it or saddam's invasion of kuwait is a direct result of it which

01:06:51.340 then desert storm is a result of that and and on and on and on and on so very consequential yeah

01:06:58.160 okay on this day in 1991 conservative members of the communist party in the soviet union

01:07:02.480 attempt to depose

01:07:03.920 Mikhail Gorbachev

01:07:05.380 in a coup d'etat

01:07:06.560 I think you know about that

01:07:08.320 have we not talked about that before

01:07:09.220 it's when they tried to

01:07:10.420 because Gorbachev doesn't

01:07:11.640 actually leave office

01:07:12.440 until December 91

01:07:13.400 well they tried to get him

01:07:15.040 you've probably told me about it before

01:07:17.800 and he was in one of his

01:07:18.700 holiday dashers

01:07:19.880 his holiday sort of home

01:07:21.440 and Yeltsin and other factions

01:07:24.500 tried to depose him

01:07:26.100 and it very very nearly worked

01:07:27.480 but didn't quite

01:07:28.380 but Gorbachev only held on

01:07:30.100 until December anyway

01:07:31.040 yeah

01:07:31.440 very very interesting if you're interested in the final days weeks months of the soviet union

01:07:38.060 i find that fascinating that little window of time the last year or two of the soviet union

01:07:43.060 very very very interesting falling apart and everybody kind of knows that it's falling apart

01:07:46.940 yeah right yeah exactly what happened in what order and who said what to who i found that

01:07:51.100 fascinating so check that out in your own time um okay and on this day in 2010 operation iraqi

01:07:57.060 freedom winds down as the last of the united states brigade combat teams cross the border

01:08:02.100 into kuwait and out of iraq there's a picture of them some of them super free now mr bush's uh

01:08:12.340 war in iraq rummy i wonder what people like rumsfeld and paul wolfowitz and richard pearl

01:08:21.620 i wonder what they thought what their thoughts and feelings were when like what would be under

01:08:28.120 obama wouldn't it when obama basically pulls out of iraq or when mr biden pulls out of afghanistan

01:08:34.460 and they're like uh i mean by then they probably thought like well what we were hoping to be uh

01:08:40.300 to achieve has been like paul paul wolfowitz this may shock some in the audience paul wolfowitz

01:08:47.440 did not actually care about the liberty and well-being of the iraqi people this might this

01:08:53.340 that's a very cynical thing to say harry something tells me that donald rumsfeld was not

01:08:58.580 was not um waking up in cold sweats every single night considering the plight of the poor afghani

01:09:06.860 women yeah perhaps perhaps i am too cynical in saying such a thing but i would imagine that by

01:09:15.140 2010 you know obama was a king drone striker uh their strategic objectives had shifted by then

01:09:23.740 they were probably like all right yep cool killed a lot of people in iraq got rid of saddam

01:09:27.680 jobs are good yeah i doubt dick cheney was losing much sleep about the plight of

01:09:32.960 the children in some rural satellite town around basra

01:09:36.820 yeah yeah fair point fair point unlike humanitarians like us oh of course

01:09:42.900 course cool all right let's do our uh rumble rants and super chats uh where we have global church

01:09:49.940 history in at number one we have he gives us another couple of factoids every single day

01:09:53.540 he says the first one here is today in 1561 mary queen of scots arrived in scotland

01:09:58.480 to take the throne yeah that's interesting i haven't got up to mary queen so it's on my epochs

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01:10:18.560 cost you anything does it um i haven't got up to mary queen of scots yet well i've doing over five

01:10:23.260 years doing a series on all the monarchs going back from to roman britain i'm up to just finished

01:10:27.880 henry the eighth so next still got a ways to go next will be edward the sixth it's not long before

01:10:33.160 mary queen of scots got to edward the sixth short live short short rain bloody mary again a short

01:10:39.620 reign and then we're into good queen bess elizabeth the first and part of her story is mary queen of

01:10:45.060 scots so maybe by the end of the year i'll be talking all about mary queen of scots there

01:10:49.380 we did we did learn credit to them about mary queen of scots in school oh did you yeah they

01:10:55.800 kind of gave us a bit of a whistle stop tour of a couple of the tudor kings and queens we never got

01:11:01.340 a full breakdown of anything like the war of uh war of the roses um shame or anything like that

01:11:07.020 there was a little mention

01:11:08.040 of William the Conqueror

01:11:09.440 do you want a breakdown

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01:11:25.940 or the life of

01:11:27.820 William the Bastard

01:11:28.680 Duke of Normandy

01:11:29.320 King of England

01:11:30.040 got three four part series

01:11:32.180 just on that

01:11:32.580 the Harrying of the North 0.96

01:11:33.960 yeah 1.00

01:11:34.660 bastard 0.99

01:11:36.600 okay all right merry christian and the other fact we got from global church history 0.74

01:11:41.260 he says on this day in 1745 bonnie prince charlie did the same i.e arrive in scotland and claim the

01:11:48.140 throne uh which began the second jacobite uprising yeah i get what obviously i haven't got to that

01:11:52.760 yet but in time i will do that in uh all sorts of detail i think i talked about bonnie prince

01:11:57.960 charlie here before i'm pretty sure i have i remember talking about how that he got as far

01:12:01.460 as derby definitely got beyond manchester and liverpool i think he got down as far as derby

01:12:09.860 cheeky trying to march on london and conquer england cheeky in it clearly it would have been

01:12:15.620 my derby ancestors that held him back he's dub is that have you got ancestors from derby then

01:12:22.260 is that oh yeah no no it's in derby of course it is yeah no the entire like my mum's uh my mum's

01:12:30.420 maternal side comes almost

01:12:33.040 entirely from Derbyshire

01:12:34.200 and my grandad was born there

01:12:37.200 as well

01:12:37.720 oh yeah because you consider yourself a Mercian don't you

01:12:40.760 oh I am Mercian

01:12:42.400 I am Mercian

01:12:43.260 or the Northumbrian

01:12:45.800 back at least 500 years there

01:12:48.140 19th century industrialists, textile factories

01:12:50.980 and such

01:12:51.580 so if there were kingdoms, there was a kingdom of Northumbria and a kingdom of Mercia

01:12:54.740 you would be a Mercian partisan

01:12:56.360 absolutely yeah 0.95

01:12:57.760 cool carry on the legacy of offer my friend i'd be there offers offers dyke 0.88

01:13:05.620 yeah keep the walsh out okay the next few are all from pigdog5150 so if i if you don't mind 0.90

01:13:12.880 i'll read them sort of more or less in one go unless they're completely different things

01:13:15.580 all right the first one say maybe a spelling error or perhaps a mishearing or misunderstanding

01:13:19.900 it wasn't special guest it was

01:13:22.540 what's that can you read that spowlcast i don't i don't know

01:13:28.260 spowlcast did i just say it wrong did i just i don't did i just flub my words when i said it

01:13:36.480 i don't know what you're referring to there maybe okay sorry pig dog don't understand exactly what

01:13:41.500 you see maybe i just said it wrong apologies if i did okay elizabeth the next one from pig dog

01:13:45.680 again says elizabeth the second the silent queen who said nothing as her land was invaded and her

01:13:50.760 people murdered and her girls in terms of service no one who loves britain should have any love for

01:13:57.320 the royals hard to disagree hard to disagree at this point and i don't i think this king has

01:14:06.200 broken his coronation oath i think he broke his coronation oath he's supposed to be the head of

01:14:11.600 the church of england oh yeah yeah if nothing else seems to have broken just loves islam so 0.87

01:14:17.700 much though yeah pig dog again says uh was sausage fingers turned into into a newt i got the reference

01:14:25.900 remember i said he got cancer but he got better oh yeah it's a reference to what the holy grail

01:14:30.300 isn't it she turned me into a newt i got better that is a funny line that's john clee's isn't it

01:14:38.000 the wonderful is that is that right before they decide that they're going to

01:14:41.060 test if she's a witch by what was it weighing her against a duck or something yeah and obviously

01:14:46.120 she's heavier than a duck so like witch witch the thing is that's not that far from the truth in the

01:14:52.780 sense that the concept of quite often the the trial was things like seeing if they sink or

01:14:59.340 swim throwing oh i remember that witch in a pond or a lake or something if she drowns if she sinks

01:15:05.100 and drowns she's not a witch but if she floats she is a witch or she can swim she is a witch

01:15:11.620 so they fish her out and burn her oh right okay okay some say before anyone gets their fedora on

01:15:19.880 in the comments oh actually that's apocryphal that rarely if ever actually happened well

01:15:24.340 let us have some fun yeah all right 14 and barber says morning chaps all right yeah i'm all right

01:15:31.460 thanks mate how are you all good i hope um the rain shat it down last night exclamation mark

01:15:36.860 there you go

01:15:38.180 I watched a documentary last night

01:15:40.020 on Johnny Ramone's tribute gig

01:15:42.260 and I think when the big rock bands

01:15:44.740 go rock

01:15:45.400 when they go

01:15:47.460 and I think when the big rock bands

01:15:51.020 go rock will die out

01:15:52.540 oh when the big rock bands go

01:15:54.720 rock will die out

01:15:56.200 I see 0.64

01:15:56.900 I'm sorry don't be a grammar Nazi

01:16:00.900 will die out weird times

01:16:03.100 that's one for you clearly Harry

01:16:04.600 Uh, I mean, I'm not one for saying that rock is dead, but, like, the torchbearers of modern rock play what I would argue is, like, ascended elevator music.

01:16:18.080 A lot of the ones that are, like, capturing the minds of the youth right now are just people who stitch together takes of fancy guitar playing with a trap beat behind it, and it's just horribly boring, and there's no excitement behind it.

01:16:30.040 so there needs to be a revival or at least some new development of uh of the genre that's actually

01:16:36.460 exciting and i say that for metal as well most of the genres that i'm talking about i like you think

01:16:41.300 you could do that do you think you could change the game of how a man plays guitar uh not how

01:16:46.780 man plays guitar oh i'm not that innovative i'm not that good uh but i do write a good song if i

01:16:52.900 ever got the chance to uh actually you know play it to a large audience i think i'd do pretty well

01:16:58.360 for myself oh cool good okay next one pig dog again says uh we got a bit of rain here too last

01:17:04.620 night raining all day today uh yay for rain main issue is too much rain could mean field runoff

01:17:11.900 and a whole load of mess to tidy up the muddy flooding the joys big dogs are a farmer dude

01:17:16.880 yeah sorry just just one thing just to correct myself on the last one actually there is one

01:17:21.780 cool rock scene in the world going on right now uh which is the australian psych rock scene

01:17:27.920 there's loads of great bands that come from that the problem is they uniformly have terrible band

01:17:32.560 names which are embarrassed to say out loud which limits the amount of reach that they can get but

01:17:38.320 there's loads of great music coming from that so check out australian psych rock if you want good

01:17:42.560 old-fashioned like exciting rock music sounds lame as hell i'll stick with pink fluid the pink

01:17:50.020 floyd's great too i'm joking i'm a philistine i really am a philistine when it comes to it

01:17:54.900 um totally joking it may be great okay uh 14 bible says uh another one says i can't believe

01:18:01.380 you got king ralph actors mixed up john goodman was in the flintstones you meant amon holmes

01:18:06.600 not the worst thing you've got him mixed up with i guess

01:18:10.440 joking you know the joke right you know the in joke oh because you keep saying amon yeah yeah

01:18:16.680 Once, keep that one.

01:18:17.620 And once mixed him up with Hugh Edwards.

01:18:19.440 You can't stop going on about the very many crimes of Eamon Holmes.

01:18:23.920 I'm not going to be allowed to forget that blooper.

01:18:26.940 And they're not going to let me.

01:18:28.660 Nor should they, nor should they.

01:18:29.840 Along with all those people you blinded.

01:18:31.920 Yeah, there's hundreds of people I blinded.

01:18:34.040 I think thousands, really.

01:18:35.160 By insisting that they look at the eclipse through a welder's mask of low grade.

01:18:40.120 When the civil suit comes through, I'll be a character witness for you.

01:18:43.600 Okay.

01:18:44.120 It's all right.

01:18:45.400 I'm not going to paint a great picture

01:18:47.180 I was going to say that will make all the difference

01:18:49.940 You'll be a character witness

01:18:52.660 He's completely untrustworthy

01:18:54.260 I believe he did it

01:18:56.480 On purpose

01:18:57.760 Okay

01:19:00.360 The Somersetian

01:19:02.360 Is that how you say that?

01:19:04.100 The Somersetian yeah it looks like it

01:19:05.740 The Somersetian

01:19:06.840 Says good morning Bo and Harry

01:19:10.000 I wanted to ask you both a fun question

01:19:12.200 If that's alright

01:19:12.920 Of course it is.

01:19:13.940 Do you have a favourite band or musician?

01:19:16.240 Mine is Dream Theatre.

01:19:17.460 Their music is incredible.

01:19:18.720 Have a good one.

01:19:19.880 Wasn't the poll when you were on the other week about Dream Theatre?

01:19:22.360 Yeah, it was.

01:19:22.800 Okay, so.

01:19:24.040 Yeah.

01:19:25.200 My favourite band's probably Silosis.

01:19:27.040 Reading, heavy metal band.

01:19:28.400 They write really great songs.

01:19:30.640 I've never heard of them.

01:19:31.540 I wouldn't expect that you'd heard of them.

01:19:32.820 Never heard of them.

01:19:33.900 Who's your favourite then?

01:19:35.420 Off the top of your head.

01:19:36.640 I don't know.

01:19:37.040 It's one of those things like,

01:19:37.920 what's your favourite film?

01:19:39.500 I haven't got one favourite film.

01:19:40.680 It depends what mood you catch me in.

01:19:41.880 or what's your favorite song, what's your favorite band?

01:19:43.860 I haven't got one, but I don't know, like maybe,

01:19:47.620 I don't know.

01:19:50.600 The Who, The Rolling Stones.

01:19:54.200 Are you just naming like rock bands from the sixties?

01:19:57.560 No, they're the songs that,

01:19:58.880 I feel like they've got the great,

01:20:00.160 The Who for me have got like a very, very good hit

01:20:02.600 to miss ratio, you know, like there's a certain band

01:20:05.820 and they might have loads and loads of albums

01:20:07.500 and a lot of their songs you actually don't like.

01:20:10.040 And then when you find a band where it's like,

01:20:11.160 It's nearly every song.

01:20:13.640 I could say that about The Who, perhaps.

01:20:16.720 Rolling Stones seem to have a very, very good hit-to-miss ratio for me.

01:20:20.340 I've never really listened to anything other than the singles from The Who.

01:20:23.800 Oh, really?

01:20:24.360 Yeah, yeah.

01:20:24.960 Fair enough. 0.96

01:20:25.660 I know they're a bunch of great musicians.

01:20:27.540 Shame about Pete Townshend being a bit of a romp.

01:20:30.320 Where's the book, Pete?

01:20:32.440 I thought you were doing research, Pete.

01:20:33.860 Where's the book?

01:20:34.620 Wasn't it research for a book, Pete?

01:20:36.860 You're not going to publish the book, no?

01:20:37.940 if you don't know what we're talking about

01:20:42.020 just look at

01:20:43.960 the controversies section

01:20:45.960 of his Wikipedia page

01:20:47.280 where's the book Pete

01:20:51.380 Pig Dog against another

01:20:53.940 couple, one of two

01:20:55.580 the lawsuit against Remington

01:20:57.700 Arms by the families of Sandy Hook

01:21:00.020 shooting victims resulted in

01:21:01.880 a $73 million settlement

01:21:03.660 how someone uses a legal product

01:21:05.960 isn't the manufacturer's fault

01:21:07.400 two of two however meta facebook tiktok etc are manufactured to be addictive and they know the

01:21:14.200 harms that they do and they do it anyway for profit and control evil people jail them all

01:21:18.940 it's a reasonable point yeah yeah i mean that's that's that's how i kind of see it

01:21:25.820 yeah they know what they're doing they do it on purpose fair enough no fair enough again i don't

01:21:30.720 want to be seen to be going to bat for the evil tech rose i just don't want society to be jumping 0.99

01:21:37.700 in front of the bullet for mark zuckerberg no suck let me protect you yeah let me give my life 0.97

01:21:44.540 for yours mark no uh i just don't want society to be end up like on a slippery slope to sort of 0.98

01:21:50.060 insane degrees of censorship that's all not that i'm really i really want zuck to have billions

01:21:55.960 more dollars or anything but all right anyway okay fallen firebird says it's liberal dogma

01:22:03.560 that modern cultural interconnection reduces hatred but from everything i see in current year

01:22:09.240 that direct connection just makes hatred burn hotter because we see what they are

01:22:14.760 yeah that's true the more exposure to them that you have the less you like them typically in in

01:22:21.960 practical reality a little bit a little bit why do you think all the lib dem areas love them

01:22:30.840 because they don't have to be around them i've seen a few videos even recently where they say

01:22:36.440 make the argument point out that it was liberals largely liberals and dems in the united states

01:22:42.440 at least that were insisting on police body cam cameras all the time they're like that backfired

01:22:49.080 oh yeah because that backfired what they were assuming was that it would just reveal video 0.98

01:22:54.240 after video of uh cops shooting black people for no reason white cops murdering black men for no 0.99

01:23:00.760 reason and then you get the video it's like routine traffic stop oh we tried to shoot the 0.99

01:23:04.720 officer oh we tried to assault the officer oh we escalated oh the white cops did everything they

01:23:11.620 possibly could for ages to not shoot him and they gave in the end he gave them no choice

01:23:16.500 or it's a video of a routine traffic stop

01:23:20.100 where the female police officer

01:23:21.480 accidentally shoots the guy in the head for no reason

01:23:23.780 it's not funny

01:23:25.280 I don't know why I laughed at that

01:23:26.540 yeah

01:23:27.720 it's like Sam Hyde said

01:23:30.000 if you get pulled over 1.00

01:23:31.360 and it's a female cop 1.00

01:23:33.020 you better hope that you've got your vest on 1.00

01:23:36.240 you want some Kevlar on you

01:23:38.320 you better hope

01:23:39.960 that you said your prayers that morning

01:23:41.900 I feel like though

01:23:43.800 maybe it's just me

01:23:44.940 it's relatively easy not to get shot by a cop just do just be polite and do everything they say

01:23:52.640 is that that hard Dave Chappelle made this point is that that years ago like certain communities

01:23:59.340 are still yet to internalize this message like just just do exactly as they say and be polite

01:24:06.500 even if they're being a dick to you you won't get shot if you do that you almost certainly won't get

01:24:12.100 shot word to the wires okay intelligentsia says have a tea energy drink on me gents cheers again 0.96

01:24:23.920 giving 10 bucks there appreciate it uh definitely looking more lenin like beau you should do a show

01:24:30.720 with sam hyde aka chotsky that might be funny if me and sam hyde wore like those like 1915

01:24:38.000 1917 style clothes

01:24:39.740 Did a show

01:24:42.080 Entirely in character

01:24:43.140 Yeah and we're actually arguing Marxist Leninist

01:24:45.900 Trotskyist doctrine

01:24:47.100 Him as Trotsky and me as Lenin

01:24:49.900 Arguing over the Menshevik question

01:24:51.960 Yeah just turns into a debate on minutia

01:24:54.160 Sam

01:24:54.700 That's a genuine offer if you wanted

01:24:56.540 He's a bit too big to play Trotsky

01:24:59.220 Isn't Sam Hyde massive isn't he like 6'4 or something

01:25:01.820 Yeah he's huge

01:25:03.360 Trotsky was a little fella

01:25:05.280 Anyway 0.94

01:25:06.780 that's what they want you to think

01:25:09.200 that was

01:25:11.160 Stalinist propaganda actually

01:25:12.680 that actually would be quite funny

01:25:14.380 get Sam

01:25:17.060 to argue Trotsky at talking points

01:25:19.280 and I'll argue Leninist ones

01:25:21.340 my new

01:25:22.820 headcanon is that Trotsky was

01:25:25.060 actually a huge bruiser

01:25:27.060 of a man and instead of

01:25:28.520 removing him from the photos

01:25:30.600 like he did with others that Stalin just had them

01:25:32.800 shrink him

01:25:33.420 So to embarrass

01:25:37.660 That's more humiliating

01:25:40.300 Than wiping them out

01:25:42.480 From the record entirely

01:25:43.780 Okay

01:25:45.140 Special said with a lisp

01:25:48.780 Apparently I said special with a lisp

01:25:50.400 Called out

01:25:52.680 Sorry about that

01:25:54.440 Can I only apologise

01:25:55.760 Special

01:25:56.840 Special needs

01:26:01.300 Alright the YouTube one

01:26:03.360 special club at school

01:26:04.760 we had one of those

01:26:09.440 we had like what was it the gifted and talented

01:26:11.600 club at my school

01:26:12.860 and me and all the other kids just went

01:26:14.860 oh we're going to the special club

01:26:16.580 we're going to the special club

01:26:18.640 my mummy says I'm so gifted I'm special

01:26:21.320 oh god that's getting clipped

01:26:22.720 you said all that in the first person

01:26:24.920 obviously that's getting clipped

01:26:26.320 sorry I'm just having flashbacks

01:26:29.600 to being really horrible

01:26:30.920 to some very innocent children

01:26:32.560 Kids can be brutally mean, can't they?

01:26:34.820 Brutally mean.

01:26:36.520 Okay.

01:26:37.000 Daniel D. King says,

01:26:38.240 Mr. Putin, don't forget to send a tactical to Brad Fordistan.

01:26:44.360 Yeah.

01:26:44.800 I mean, can't condone.

01:26:46.980 Formally.

01:26:47.900 Can't condone that.

01:26:50.260 Okay.

01:26:50.600 Casually, though.

01:26:51.540 Well, informally.

01:26:53.080 Yeah, yeah.

01:26:55.900 Emily Forrestor says,

01:26:57.480 Weird how the mainstream media forgot the principle of

01:27:00.700 if it bleeds it leads when it came to the grape and torture gangs wouldn't want to help the far

01:27:06.940 right yeah that's an interesting yeah good observation emily yeah yeah yeah very odd isn't

01:27:12.780 it weird weird weird how they decided to do that again and again and again for years on end yeah

01:27:20.980 okay cg ma'am says bo really want to come really want to commend you on how right you were about

01:27:27.860 But AI is not just large language models, as your other hosts think.

01:27:32.720 Try...

01:27:33.480 Agentic?

01:27:35.100 Agentic AI, like called Cowork.

01:27:38.580 It creates docs, PPTs.

01:27:40.700 What are PPTs?

01:27:41.660 I don't know.

01:27:43.780 Organizes your desktop and more.

01:27:45.860 Maybe personal planning timetable, something like that?

01:27:49.420 AI, potentially, is so much more than large language models.

01:27:54.460 that's one tiny tiny tiny tiny corner of what ai is or could be of course there's loads of like

01:28:01.240 little tiny busy work that can be streamlined by stuff like that whenever i and other people

01:28:06.800 raise concerns about ai they're like it's just a large language model bro it's just it's just a

01:28:12.140 glorified search engine what are you worried about it's like yes it's more than that i think

01:28:17.780 but llms are just the uh most publicly visible yeah because a lot of that stuff claude co-work

01:28:24.320 that'll be used but i assume by companies streaming streamlining processes it's a

01:28:29.840 ai could be a used utilized for a million and one things okay stonyland stonyland is that how you

01:28:40.480 want that stonian is it because it's two eyes am i is a failing me okay stonian then i thought one

01:28:47.680 of those was an l okay it says bo looking very dapper and green this morning

01:28:54.320 thank you very much thank you very much uh nice surprise to have uh resident eye candy big harry

01:29:00.920 on this morning too thank you very much eye candy that's why they keep me around folks how do you

01:29:06.720 feel about clearly not for my takes how do you feel about being objectified they're just a piece

01:29:11.300 of meat well you know i'm i'm more than just my body i've got a soul in here folks and i'd like

01:29:16.680 you to acknowledge that i'll take it i also take it yeah cheers a little bit of an ego boost there

01:29:23.700 like where people like or men like don't objectify me really you take what you can get bro

01:29:30.980 come on get real yeah stop complimenting me has said no man ever yeah yeah unless you end up at

01:29:37.180 the wrong bar at night you know oh well then yeah yeah then it's like please sir stop complimenting 1.00

01:29:42.320 me yeah yeah get away from me dude yeah right belgians are evil trust me that's their name 1.00

01:29:49.340 at belgians are evil trust me says hashtag motivational wednesday grandma frisian 0.98

01:29:57.740 they've written that i didn't just stutter um still high achiever despite shame because of 0.84

01:30:03.920 ample dutch low saxon gronigan blood at least i'm not belgian

01:30:09.740 okay count your lucky stars i get i suppose i get what you're saying yeah

01:30:16.820 yeah it's best it's best not to be belgian isn't it i think that's i think that's a broad

01:30:21.980 statement of fact you can just say seems to be the thrust i mean who wants to be belgian

01:30:28.120 belgians maybe i doubt it true maybe okay callum 29d says uh meta will build their app around

01:30:38.660 neurobiology with the attention to hijack the dopamine system they have uh specifically designed

01:30:44.860 their app around this i didn't know that and if that's true that's a concern i was gonna say but

01:30:51.680 they've basically already done that and but the thing is it's not just facebook that's true

01:30:54.960 have you heard about that i didn't well i mean the the whole point of the algorithm is to kind

01:31:00.020 of like hijack your dopamine hijack your well i suppose it's not that far-fetched hijack the

01:31:05.000 pleasure responses of your brain so it can keep giving you a quick fix but that's not just

01:31:08.600 like meta is probably one of the uh one of the lesser offenders on something like this like

01:31:16.200 tiktok's going to be way worse and frying people's brains with like quick seven second

01:31:20.820 um clips that you can just scroll through infinitely um just to keep your attention

01:31:26.700 hooked do you remember a few years ago what was oh god the worst example of this was there were

01:31:31.880 those um people there was a live streamers on tiktok and it was all like thoughts pretending

01:31:37.440 to be pretending to be video game npcs and people live could throw money or emojis at the stream

01:31:44.960 and they would recite random npc lines from video games and they would just stand still there smiling

01:31:51.420 and then they would just throw out the line of perform actions i do remember now just remember

01:31:55.460 that i remember yeah i saw one or two clips on twitter yeah that's complete brain rot yeah and

01:32:00.220 that's what like platforms like tiktok are built for right yeah and then one or two of these thoughts

01:32:04.940 make a load of money out of it oh everybody they all make loads of money out of this stuff because

01:32:08.800 there's loads of people who've had their brains hijacked by this stuff who are just like oh i

01:32:13.600 don't exist in the real world anymore i only exist on this screen through this screen is how i get my

01:32:19.060 social interaction so i'll throw money at this funny internet person don't forget to throw money

01:32:24.180 at these funny internet people though but that is hyper sad like a young man i can actually i i would

01:32:34.180 never have a pop at incels i've got sympathy for them if anything but imagine that you're like an

01:32:40.140 actual incel i'm not necessarily an incel just very lonely i've been out of a relationship for

01:32:44.500 a very very long time and you're reduced to like your favorite ethot and you want her to act like

01:32:50.680 a computer game npc wow what kind of dark space is that in your own mind in your own psyche that 0.96

01:32:56.780 you want that you'll pay for that that's where you want to ironically have to tell them you should

01:33:02.000 you should go outside yeah you've got to stop you've got to stop and go outside and meet a

01:33:07.180 real person touch some grass yes yeah geez geez louise all right what else have we got here uh

01:33:15.600 mq sss i don't know if they want to pronounce it some other way but mq sss who regularly donates

01:33:20.480 by the way super chats thank you very much says uh beau is rocking the look you got the look you

01:33:26.780 know that song oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i've got the look at least this morning the three-piece suit

01:33:33.300 a jacket trousers and waistcoat uh was first introduced to britain by king charles ii in 1666

01:33:39.180 yeah i mean nothing like the modern suit in fact the modern suit largely is the product of somebody

01:33:47.160 a bit like george brummel aka beau brummel the man i was named after again it's not the modern suit

01:33:53.780 but the idea that you would have a jacket blazer style jacket a whisker and a necktie again nothing

01:34:00.660 like modern neckties but a collar with a necktie that's early 19th century i imagine whatever king

01:34:07.480 charles was wearing was a lot more uh ornamented it was it's a fair point and you're not wrong but

01:34:12.560 it's nothing like a modern suit actually but i mean even the early 19th century bowbrum when

01:34:17.040 they change from being like a fop to a dandy you know like you can you imagine the uh original uh

01:34:23.080 you got in your mind a cliche of a french revolution man who's got short trousers and

01:34:29.620 high stockings oh yeah he looks like a word beginning with f that i can't say on youtube

01:34:34.640 oh you think so yeah okay i'll change from that to long trousers well anyway anyway the history

01:34:42.620 fashion most people don't don't don't care about that but mqss gives us a good uh good factoid on

01:34:47.380 that all right uh jane james lee pevenhole says the north manchester was a small hovel in in the

01:34:54.460 hundred of southford southfordshire within the earldom of chester my wire chromosome is from the

01:35:00.800 third earl that's cool the third earl of manchester so would that be going back are we talking like

01:35:09.280 I think the earldom of Chester

01:35:13.080 Would be like the third earl of Chester

01:35:14.900 Then wouldn't it

01:35:16.500 Yeah that would be going back

01:35:19.020 A long while because Chester's been there for ages

01:35:21.040 At the earl of Manchester in like

01:35:22.980 The civil war times but if it's the earl of

01:35:25.220 Chester

01:35:26.540 Then yeah that could be going back to

01:35:28.260 God knows when like the early Norman period

01:35:31.160 I don't know anyway

01:35:32.480 Okay can't remember I don't know off the top of my head

01:35:34.040 Interesting though thanks for that James Lee Pevenhall

01:35:36.120 Next one Tatum

01:35:37.700 2733 again a regular super chatter says like caesar like caesar before a statue of alexander

01:35:45.400 i feel ashamed before octavian of as i have done nothing uh of note at similar age but history

01:35:52.920 might open soon smiley face if anyone doesn't know that's the story of julius caesar in his 30s

01:35:59.560 saw it was visiting saw a statue of alexander the great who obviously achieved great things

01:36:05.880 as a very very young man he died at what 31 33 33 yeah uh alexander was and again by the age of 19

01:36:13.480 20 he was sort of he was a king and invading persia and stuff judy caesar stood was called

01:36:21.320 into what suetonius is it maybe tacit anyway according to one of the ancient accounts uh

01:36:28.840 stood before a statue of alexander and wept at his own lameness compared to alexander

01:36:37.540 his own inability to have achieved anything well you know made up for it and also you can

01:36:45.920 you can have the same thing thinking about octavian like oh he achieved such amazing things so young

01:36:51.320 people had to get more of a move on back then you see i've talked about this before

01:36:56.980 just language and university for years caesar shouldn't beat himself up and in various ways

01:37:01.540 achieved far more than alexander in the end alexander was given a kingdom he was a prince

01:37:07.420 his father died and he just becomes king an army a brilliant killing machine was already created

01:37:13.740 for him on the verge of about to invade persia already alexander fell into a perfect time and

01:37:21.480 space caesar didn't caesar had to build nearly everything for him for himself from scratch

01:37:26.180 fight for it tooth and nail every inch of the way

01:37:28.560 so I don't think

01:37:30.760 Caesar should have beaten himself up too badly

01:37:32.420 okay next one is Field Marshal Dawn Browning

01:37:34.340 20 Aussie dollars and it doesn't say anything

01:37:36.740 but a big emoji of

01:37:37.980 some sort of fruit with

01:37:40.580 is that a pear?

01:37:42.300 is it a pear? looks like a pear

01:37:43.880 with the word goal on it and a sweatband

01:37:46.640 charming

01:37:48.320 thanks Dawn cheers love appreciate that

01:37:50.300 honestly really do thank you very much

01:37:52.060 okay Tatum again says

01:37:54.320 current numbers of migration

01:37:55.780 or an equivalent number of full-grown rhinos

01:38:00.260 entering the UK yearly, but no other migration,

01:38:03.800 what would you prefer? 1.00

01:38:05.180 Surely we'd have an easier time with the rhinos.

01:38:07.340 I'll take the rhinos.

01:38:09.480 There's tried and tested methods for controlling rhinos.

01:38:14.180 Yeah.

01:38:15.080 And we could just...

01:38:16.180 Like, the zoos will be overflowing,

01:38:17.960 but we can always build more zoos.

01:38:20.040 We can just pen them in.

01:38:21.320 We can take one of the moors,

01:38:22.500 one of the larger moors, maybe.

01:38:24.220 The South Downs or something.

01:38:25.420 Nature reserve

01:38:26.200 Just make like the highlands of Scotland

01:38:29.640 One giant rhino reserve

01:38:32.000 Millions and millions of rhinos

01:38:34.880 Okay, James Lee Parenthold again says

01:38:39.080 Henry VIII's best trusted men

01:38:41.100 Sir Robert Lee and Sir Benedict Lee

01:38:43.740 Sir Robert's son was Sir Anthony Lee

01:38:47.020 Thomas Cromwell's minder

01:38:48.280 Sir Anthony's son was Sir Henry Lee KG

01:38:52.100 Queen's champion

01:38:53.620 Okay

01:38:54.680 if you say so

01:38:55.860 none of those names

01:38:56.680 particularly ring a bell

01:38:57.680 with me

01:38:57.860 obviously Thomas Cromwell

01:38:58.620 yeah

01:38:59.320 okay that's interesting

01:39:01.420 thanks for letting us know that

01:39:03.800 David

01:39:04.540 bet you pay £10

01:39:05.500 for the privilege of that

01:39:06.880 I feel like I should

01:39:07.360 give you more time

01:39:07.980 but I don't

01:39:08.520 I just

01:39:08.980 I don't know

01:39:09.680 Sir Robert Lee

01:39:11.680 or Sir Benedict Lee

01:39:12.460 I'm afraid

01:39:12.940 any relation to Robert E. Lee

01:39:14.580 or Stuart Lee

01:39:16.300 now that would be

01:39:19.080 embarrassing wouldn't it

01:39:20.120 Bruce Lee

01:39:20.840 oh

01:39:22.120 I don't know how

01:39:23.900 that would work

01:39:24.600 Probably not a relation of Bruce Lee.

01:39:27.120 Brandon Lee?

01:39:28.120 Question mark.

01:39:30.200 Don't get me started on the death of Brandon Lee.

01:39:32.500 Oh, tragic.

01:39:33.000 Or Bruce Lee.

01:39:35.400 Oh, yeah, yeah, to be fair, they both died young, yeah.

01:39:37.660 And in suspicious circumstances, though.

01:39:40.140 Oh, yeah.

01:39:40.560 Odd events.

01:39:42.500 Oh, the set, we just happened to accidentally have a prop gun

01:39:45.780 that had a real bullet in it.

01:39:47.280 Whoops.

01:39:47.900 Talking about Brandon Lee.

01:39:48.940 No, wasn't it a case, it wasn't a real bullet,

01:39:51.120 it was that there was some something object jammed down the barrel and a blank even a blank gun does

01:39:57.320 there's a lot of force yeah yeah barrel and it just fired it out and he died yeah horrible way

01:40:03.280 to go yeah okay david betts 1180 says uh bullied out my yeah bullied out my last metal band as

01:40:13.020 they are lefties oh you can talk to yeah sad sad to hear a lot of cases like that there are a lot

01:40:18.240 of still good really good people in the scene but uh all the people in like gatekeeping positions

01:40:23.080 uh tend to be awful awful narcissists and um and posers uh who also are left wingers politically

01:40:34.080 speaking they hate people like us it's a shame that your band also happened to be like that 0.89

01:40:38.400 sorry to hear about it hopefully you can do something else though don't give up the dream

01:40:43.480 brother okay max robe says when special was first made a phrase it took about 2.5 milliseconds for

01:40:51.580 school kids to ridicule it yeah yeah special very special okay and the last one here from

01:40:59.940 the field marshal dawn browning white again says big harry have you and chris guard made an album

01:41:05.860 together yet not that not that i'd buy it oh thank you thank you for the vote of confidence

01:41:10.860 who's chris guard is that what is that a guy that's in your no no chris and i aren't in a

01:41:15.600 band together we did a song together last year he's the mad australian bloke he used to do all

01:41:19.840 the music for like aa and people like that okay um but we did one song together last year i'd love

01:41:25.860 to do more music with him but he's in australia so and he's already in a band in australia so it

01:41:32.280 makes it kind of difficult i do have a band right now we're called the mandrakes and we've got some

01:41:36.620 songs coming out soon uh we'll be recording vocals for them uh on saturday so you know

01:41:43.360 watch this space we you may have some new music from me soon enough anyway

01:41:47.360 and maybe even some new music involved with this this business but you know you'll have to wait and

01:41:52.840 see cool okay so we've got the podcast later today as every day every weekday are you on it

01:41:58.800 yeah i'm on it with connor and someone else connor thompson yeah yeah the connor thomlinson

01:42:05.740 off the internet

01:42:06.540 of internet fame

01:42:07.540 yeah of New Culture Forum fame

01:42:09.660 yes

01:42:10.000 okay

01:42:11.180 yeah

01:42:12.080 he'll be on

01:42:13.200 and I don't know

01:42:13.920 who the third presenter is

01:42:15.160 but I'm sure it'll be

01:42:15.960 someone good

01:42:16.400 because we only have

01:42:17.580 good people

01:42:18.000 right I was gonna say

01:42:18.760 it would have to be

01:42:19.480 the dream team

01:42:20.440 always

01:42:21.400 whatever combo it is

01:42:22.720 it's the dream team

01:42:23.320 it's the dream team

01:42:24.160 on any given day

01:42:24.900 okay alright

01:42:25.800 that's the show

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 19, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 19th August 2026

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