The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 1st April 2026

00:00:00.000 morning

00:00:07.480 you alright

00:00:09.840 I trust you are

00:00:12.320 I hope that you are

00:00:14.000 me yeah

00:00:16.820 I'm alright

00:00:17.480 I'm alright

00:00:18.120 it has just ticked past

00:00:20.420 just that moment

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00:00:24.620 British summertime

00:00:26.540 on Wednesday

00:00:28.180 it's now Wednesday

00:00:28.820 the 1st of April

00:00:29.880 April Fool's Day in the year of our Lord

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00:00:32.900 As always I am joined by my producer

00:00:36.020 Little Harry how are you this morning good sir

00:00:37.720 Morning yeah all good

00:00:39.000 Cool cool cool I could hear him that time

00:00:41.720 Great and you are of course

00:00:43.520 The main event

00:00:45.480 The glorious band

00:00:49.120 The chosen few

00:00:50.780 My band of brothers

00:00:53.340 And sisters thank you for joining me

00:00:55.900 Pardon me

00:00:57.900 For he who listens to my breakfast show this morning

00:01:02.180 Shall be my brother

00:01:03.080 Be he in air so vile

00:01:05.620 Today shall gentle his condition

00:01:07.420 And men of England now abed 0.97

00:01:08.980 Shall think themselves accursed that they were not here

00:01:11.160 Anyway that's quite enough of that

00:01:13.740 I didn't plan to say that

00:01:15.800 It just came out

00:01:16.620 Alright shall we just have a look at the corporate mainstream media

00:01:20.140 What they're banging on about this morning

00:01:21.540 Alright what have we got

00:01:24.820 What have we got

00:01:25.460 that evil cabal of Fleet Street editors

00:01:28.180 they want to tell you what is and isn't important

00:01:32.000 alright, Trump tells UK

00:01:34.300 to go get your own oil

00:01:35.800 and King sent to US

00:01:40.020 ok, so it's all over the papers

00:01:42.340 we've got The Guardian first

00:01:43.400 ugh, The Guardian

00:01:46.960 whenever this BBC website

00:01:50.300 puts The Guardian first

00:01:51.360 it's always like, give me a moment to ease into the show

00:01:53.720 come on, it's still early

00:01:55.180 anyway the Guardian it's all over the papers that Trump says get your own oil

00:01:58.920 and I want to have a look at the actual truth social post he did because it's it's a bit more

00:02:06.600 than that it's not straightforward as just get your own oil bro sort of thing so it's slightly

00:02:11.320 more nuanced what he actually said than that but that's what they go with for the headlines

00:02:14.600 in fact yes they had a super chat from someone I believe they were called angry yank and I was a

00:02:20.000 bit dismissive but it was a fair point to be honest and I'll paraphrase Angry Yank but they

00:02:26.020 said you know it's a bit they basically said it's a bit rich for Britain to just because I said

00:02:31.180 we'll get our crude from America America's a net exporter of crude we'll just get our crude from

00:02:37.500 America and he was like it's a bit rich to just rely on that when you're not prepared to actually

00:02:42.760 fight in the persian gulf i was a bit dismissive i was like you know you're an exporter dude like

00:02:50.680 what do you want you know what you want to sell it you need to sell it what's the problem but

00:02:56.140 he has sort of got a point trump has sort of got a point but also though but also it's not entirely

00:03:04.100 fair is it i don't think from our point of view well let's have a look at the actual truth social

00:03:11.680 What did he actually say before we look at loads of headlines where Trump just says, get your own oil?

00:03:17.080 What did he actually say?

00:03:18.280 All right.

00:03:19.200 This is the whole post.

00:03:20.040 I'll read it.

00:03:21.060 He said, all of those countries that can't get jet fuel, because crude, there's loads of cuts of a barrel of crude oil.

00:03:30.240 Everything from the sludge that runs massive tankers, massive ships, all the way up to like Naphtha.

00:03:36.680 There's loads of different, anyway, jet fuel is obviously one of those.

00:03:39.620 All right.

00:03:40.140 Okay.

00:03:40.340 So all the countries who can't get jet fuel

00:03:42.460 Because of the Straits of Hormuz

00:03:43.940 I mean

00:03:46.260 It was something you and

00:03:47.800 You unilaterally decided to do

00:03:50.400 We weren't invited to the

00:03:52.480 Table on it

00:03:54.320 I mean you did it

00:03:55.840 Come on let's be fair

00:03:57.520 Because of the Straits of Hormuz

00:04:00.720 You mean because of what you did

00:04:02.220 In the Straits of Hormuz

00:04:03.520 Like Keir Starmer found out about it on the news

00:04:08.740 Like everyone else that Saturday morning

00:04:10.140 all right because of the straits of hormuz like the united kingdom singling us out we're supposed

00:04:15.180 to be busy mates we're supposed to be best of friends the first the first ally the special

00:04:22.220 relationship you're singling us out again all right like the united kingdom which refused to

00:04:30.500 get involved in the decapitation of iran we weren't ready i mean sorry and that's not sarcastic sorry

00:04:38.220 genuinely sorry the shame on us truly we weren't ready our navy is in a completely terrible state

00:04:45.220 and that's on us but we weren't ready you know again it's on us but don't ask us for an aircraft

00:04:54.140 carrier when we didn't have one seaworthy okay we refuse to get involved uh i have a suggestion for

00:05:04.520 you number one buy from the us we have plenty there you go that's what i was saying to angry

00:05:09.100 yank basically it's like okay so where the headlines say get your own oil he's not saying

00:05:14.660 you you won't be able to get your own oil bad luck hard cheese old boy no he's saying buy it

00:05:21.920 from us though but you can still buy it from us and do we're a net exporter we want we need to

00:05:28.680 sell it so buy it from us and uh we will we almost certainly will right it's a no-brainer

00:05:37.000 yeah we will we will we will do that buy from the u.s we have plenty good stuff and number two

00:05:43.180 build up some delayed courage oof go to the strait and just take it

00:05:49.800 Oh, just steal the natural resources of Iran. 1.00

00:05:56.800 I don't see many US Navy ships running the gauntlet of the Straits of Firmus at the moment.

00:06:06.800 Okay, just take it.

00:06:10.800 You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself.

00:06:13.800 I mean, fair point.

00:06:14.800 I mean, it's a bit annoying to the British ear, but it's a fair point, isn't it? 1.00

00:06:18.800 isn't it

00:06:19.260 I mean it is

00:06:20.100 yeah

00:06:20.420 as I said

00:06:21.520 it is a shame

00:06:22.360 in embarrassment

00:06:23.440 that our navy

00:06:24.260 is so lame

00:06:25.180 at the moment

00:06:25.720 so it's frustrating

00:06:30.080 and annoying to hear

00:06:30.640 but he's not wrong

00:06:31.480 you have to learn

00:06:32.540 to fight for yourself

00:06:33.180 I mean yeah

00:06:33.600 the USA won't be there 0.99

00:06:35.020 to help you anymore

00:06:35.920 whatever

00:06:36.900 like

00:06:37.440 we're not allies anymore

00:06:39.060 almost

00:06:41.380 I mean it's not

00:06:42.020 what he's saying

00:06:42.440 is it but

00:06:43.040 if he was uncharitable

00:06:44.640 that's what you could

00:06:45.300 read into that

00:06:45.900 just like you

00:06:47.960 weren't there for us

00:06:48.780 Don't be weak dude

00:06:49.620 That's a bit weak

00:06:50.840 That's a bit playground

00:06:52.360 You did that

00:06:54.100 So I'm going to do that

00:06:54.800 Come on

00:06:55.180 Come on

00:06:56.240 We won't help you anymore

00:06:59.180 Just like you weren't there for us

00:07:00.600 We haven't been there for each other

00:07:02.620 A number of times

00:07:03.380 Over the decades

00:07:04.000 Since we had all tea

00:07:04.620 Both ways

00:07:05.180 Both ways

00:07:06.120 Yeah

00:07:07.360 Both ways

00:07:08.700 Alright

00:07:09.880 Iran has been 1.00

00:07:11.860 Essentially

00:07:12.480 Decimated

00:07:14.060 Well

00:07:15.000 They are still firing

00:07:16.660 Quite a lot of ordnance

00:07:17.740 into their neighbouring countries.

00:07:21.300 So, again, I don't see many US ships

00:07:24.060 actually running the Straits of Hormuz at this moment.

00:07:26.960 They may be very close to being completely collapsed,

00:07:28.780 who knows?

00:07:29.540 They probably are, actually,

00:07:30.860 but at this exact moment,

00:07:33.380 on the morning of the 1st of April,

00:07:37.280 I wouldn't fancy, you know,

00:07:41.040 sailing a small ship through the Straits of Hormuz,

00:07:43.560 just hoping nothing falls out of the sky

00:07:45.380 from the Iranian side.

00:07:47.740 the hard part is done well if you say so i mean okay go get your own oil president donald j trump

00:07:57.280 okay for me the key point about all of that is where he says buy from us or buy from the u.s

00:08:03.860 so okay yeah so we won't run out of crude then hopefully or definitely pretty much so he's not

00:08:10.420 saying you're cut off from the straits of homoos and we're not going to sell to you anymore and 1.00

00:08:15.260 you're screwed totally screwed now no it's just buy it from us it's like we almost certainly will 0.91

00:08:20.440 then thank you until we get our North Sea oil drilling back up and running so okay that's the 0.99

00:08:28.900 full post because I thought I'd read it out just because you know the papers just only do a tiny

00:08:37.160 bit of it right and they give you a different impression of what he actually said they just

00:08:41.600 keep running with Trump says get your own oil it's more than that isn't he does say that he

00:08:46.900 literally says go get your own oil okay he does say that but there's more to that statement isn't

00:08:53.360 there a fair bit more key bit is you can still buy it from us and we want you to still buy it

00:09:00.100 from us all right okay just bear that in mind when we're looking at the the headlines go get

00:09:08.100 you know the guardian go get your own oil trump tells uk in outburst against allies

00:09:12.840 so if you just read that it would be like if you don't send your navy to the straits of homus

00:09:17.940 and steal oil from iran then you can't have any oil you like you could read that into it couldn't

00:09:23.720 you but that's not what's going on exactly is it that's not all right france stops israeli

00:09:32.720 flying weapons in its airspace in latest EU pushback. That's funny, I thought Macron

00:09:37.880 was really hawkish on this whole thing. He's changed his tune, hasn't he, really?

00:09:43.060 Presidential elections in France. I think next year, he surely lose Macron. That's a building,

00:09:53.540 I believe, in Beirut, being blown up by the Israelis, I believe. All right, the Express, 1.00

00:10:00.080 it's a good paper. Farage says, Labour has no migrant plan B, it's ludicrous. Yeah, have 1.00

00:10:10.560 you got a plan B, Nige? Have you? No? Sure, plan B. Don't hear you talking about putting 1.00

00:10:15.160 the Royal Marines, the SBS in the channel. What's your plan, really? You got a fleshed

00:10:24.160 plan okay angry president lashes out at allies again as europe's fuel suppliers dry up trump

00:10:32.440 tells uk to go get your own oil okay they're nearly all running with that they're nearly all

00:10:39.120 running with that the times the venerable times children incentivize to get adhd and autism

00:10:47.580 diagnoses yeah that's the thing I don't be too harsh I don't really annoy

00:10:54.000 anyone in the audience that has genuinely got ADHD or autism but when I

00:11:00.960 was a kid and when people older than me when they were young you were just a

00:11:06.300 little bit weird what you didn't have autism you didn't have ADHD you were

00:11:12.000 just a little bit weird you're probably higher functioning actually 0.94

00:11:17.580 you're just a bit of a nerd. Like lots of people I know now, a fair few people, younger

00:11:25.380 people, Zoomers and below, they say they've got autism. To me, anyway, just to me, it's 1.00

00:11:35.820 been over diagnosed. It's like real autism is when you're mentally disabled and like 0.95

00:11:41.440 they have to put a crash helmet on you when you go to sleep, or not even when you go to

00:11:45.860 sleep and you have to be kept an eye on at all times because you might just start hurting people

00:11:50.180 or yourself like and you can't hold a conversation that's that's proper autism if you're just a

00:11:56.340 little bit higher functioning a little bit weird a little bit awkward is that really like autism

00:12:02.000 i guess it's only on the spectrum but it's not autism as i knew it growing up maybe it is but

00:12:10.940 just feel like it's slightly over diagnosed like ADHD what like nearly all boys have got ADHD or

00:12:19.580 ever like a 10 12 year old boy like finds it difficult to sit down and sit still in school

00:12:27.260 now that's being a normal little kid that's being a normal boy you want to go out and run around

00:12:33.860 and play football all day and just sitting there for hours on end completely attentively listening

00:12:39.740 to a teacher is difficult for most boys right so just they all got adhd no is it just like is it

00:12:47.380 the human condition of being not just boys girls as well but off more often boys no it's just the

00:12:53.860 condition of being like a 10 12 year old boy you've got way too much energy and you're not

00:12:59.960 predisposed towards sitting down and listening completely obediently

00:13:05.440 Alright, I mean, that's just me

00:13:09.440 Spire suspect MP wife, quote, was all over senior naval officer

00:13:14.920 Do you remember a week or two ago it broke a story

00:13:18.520 That there's a Labour MP, what was it, Joanie something, what was it?

00:13:22.120 Joanie Reid, a Labour MP

00:13:24.480 Her husband, I think I called him Mr Potato Head

00:13:28.100 He had a slightly Mr Potato Head head

00:13:30.020 That's rich coming from me, isn't it?

00:13:31.980 Anyway

00:13:35.140 He

00:13:36.540 He looks like he

00:13:38.940 Well he's been arrested and he's going to go on trial

00:13:41.440 I believe for being an actual Chinese spy

00:13:42.980 Well the story there is

00:13:44.780 She said oh I had nothing to do, it was a complete shock to me

00:13:47.120 Couldn't believe it, I had no idea

00:13:49.180 Story there

00:13:51.440 Saying that like a year ago

00:13:53.340 Or so, a while ago, a little while ago

00:13:55.080 A year or two ago

00:13:56.080 She was up at the Fast Lane base

00:13:59.200 Anyone who's foreign who might not know

00:14:00.580 the British nuclear submarines

00:14:03.860 their base is up in Scotland

00:14:06.620 at a place called Fastlane

00:14:07.860 and it's like you know

00:14:09.000 one of the most sensitive

00:14:09.960 military places

00:14:11.640 on the whole of the islands

00:14:12.620 if not the most sensitive place

00:14:13.880 come on

00:14:14.280 and she went up there

00:14:16.420 as her capacity as like an MP

00:14:17.940 because she was on

00:14:19.240 what was it

00:14:20.280 the Armed Forces

00:14:21.340 paramilitary scheme

00:14:24.100 something like that

00:14:27.420 something like that

00:14:28.060 paramilitary that's not right

00:14:29.320 I can barely read it

00:14:30.220 so small but anyway she was on some sort of proper parliamentary uh body

00:14:34.520 to sort of formally go and visit there and apparently the story is there something about

00:14:42.880 how she was flirting with or just acting inappropriately in some manner or other with

00:14:50.320 one of the senior officers of the submarines like so much so so much so that she was like

00:14:59.760 removed from that body, that Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme body thing.

00:15:07.600 If there's anything there, whether she just had a couple too many drinks and just forgot

00:15:13.000 herself a bit, or whether it was something to do with she was trying to get sensitive

00:15:17.400 information out of a senior naval officer, nuclear submarine officer, in order to pass

00:15:22.840 it on to her husband, who would pass it on to the Chinese, don't know. Of course, don't know, but...

00:15:29.760 you might be able to spec, you might want to speculate on that

00:15:32.840 might not, of course

00:15:35.180 I'm not formally accusing

00:15:37.060 Joni Reid MP of such a thing

00:15:38.980 she'll probably take me to court 0.98

00:15:40.000 but that's the suggestion

00:15:42.520 that might have been going on

00:15:44.200 alright, well, ok

00:15:44.940 get your own oil, Trump tells Britain

00:15:48.260 President says

00:15:51.340 show some courage

00:15:52.600 cost of filling car passes

00:15:56.040 £100

00:15:56.540 pounds depends on the size of the engine and whether you're using petrol diesel but all right

00:16:04.460 a bit of a sweeping statement there uk sends more soldiers yeah we're sending a few more soldiers to

00:16:09.360 only a few more not thousands of tens of thousands like the americans but um it passes 100 pounds

00:16:16.340 as i said yesterday only about 100 pound sorry only about 10 pounds more than it was though

00:16:23.560 So it's already quite expensive, relatively expensive, compared to other places in the world.

00:16:29.000 In general, in the US, gas is way cheaper just to begin with.

00:16:37.260 If it's diesel in Britain, it's more like £20 more than it was already.

00:16:42.960 Okay, alright. It's expensive to fill up your car, one way or another.

00:16:46.060 The Metro, ooh, Metro.

00:16:49.680 Don't want that. Horrible, horrible.

00:16:52.200 get your own oil Trump tells UK and allies I started it you finish it

00:16:57.680 I mean again it's not exactly what you're saying this I mean there's an element of that to it but

00:17:04.200 it's not really what you're saying is it but okay president's new swipe at Britain but he's looking

00:17:08.780 forward to a terrific visit with Charles that's the other thing they've decided because they were

00:17:12.960 I mean gnarring weren't they about whether they're going to send Prince Charles Prince Charles

00:17:16.960 force of habit, sorry

00:17:17.900 40 odd years, force of habit

00:17:19.880 King Charles, King Charles III

00:17:21.800 they were umming and ah-ring

00:17:23.420 the British establishment

00:17:24.480 where they were going to send him over there

00:17:25.740 for like the 250th anniversary celebrations

00:17:28.580 in the United States this summer

00:17:29.880 they've decided they are

00:17:33.920 he is going to

00:17:34.840 Trump's always got on with the royal family

00:17:38.240 he really likes them

00:17:40.140 so, good I suppose

00:17:42.420 the last little remnant

00:17:44.140 the last thread of the special relationship

00:17:46.680 for what that's been worth has it been worth much ever since like korea in the 1950s the

00:17:53.520 special relationship there's no special relationship between trump and starma is there none

00:17:58.120 no i'm pretty sure their real real real inside feeling is that they hate each other i'm sure 0.64

00:18:06.540 they do trump probably thinks of starma as some weakling little pissant do they come on 1.00

00:18:13.520 and i think starmer thinks of trump as like some some big meathead idiot fascist or something 1.00

00:18:23.220 probably they probably hate each other like deep deep down for real okay all right i started it 0.99

00:18:33.160 you finish it i mean it's not exactly what it is but i thought of an analogy where it's like

00:18:41.360 This is from the Americans, think of this 0.76

00:18:43.460 Try and think of it from our point of view

00:18:44.920 Right, imagine you're walking down the street

00:18:47.900 With your best, with someone who's supposed to be your best friend

00:18:50.800 Right, you're just walking down the street

00:18:52.200 On the other side of the road are like some dodgy looking gangster dudes

00:18:55.960 Right

00:18:56.940 Your best mate, without saying anything to you 1.00

00:19:00.100 Just pulls out a gun and starts shooting at them

00:19:02.800 Right, and they start shooting back 0.57

00:19:04.540 Then your mate goes to you 0.84

00:19:06.320 Quick, give me your gun 0.95

00:19:08.360 Quick, start shooting back, give me your gun

00:19:10.940 And you're like, I haven't got a gun. 0.67

00:19:11.980 I didn't bring a gun.

00:19:12.740 I didn't know we were going to be in a gunfight.

00:19:15.200 Like, what do you mean?

00:19:16.760 I haven't got a gun.

00:19:17.860 Well, I've got a gun, but it's at home and it's in bits.

00:19:21.980 And he goes, fine, I didn't need your gun anyway. 0.99

00:19:24.780 It's a crap gun anyway. 1.00

00:19:26.320 You're like, what? 1.00

00:19:27.540 What?

00:19:29.580 That's sort of what it feels like for Brits.

00:19:31.420 Sort of exactly that.

00:19:32.540 It's like, what?

00:19:36.280 Something like that.

00:19:37.080 okay the financial times another plane trump library plane reveal so when presidents leave

00:19:47.120 office for ages now what they often do is they have some sort of memorial building made for them

00:19:52.480 like a library often right going back to kennedy or even before they'll have some sort of or truman

00:20:01.540 i think from truman onwards one of the things the state does for a president after they leave

00:20:10.360 offices there'll be some sort of memorial building trump's one i mean they all do it

00:20:14.600 trump's one's going to be some sort of big tower and he was asked about it yesterday he's not sure

00:20:20.800 whether it's going to be uh offices or a hotel or or or what trump said i don't want it to be a

00:20:27.140 library all the others do that i do that i'm not interested in that we'll make it we'll make it uh

00:20:33.620 because obama's one he built it in chicago and it's like really really over budget and

00:20:39.680 anyway trump says he's going to build this big tower and in the foyer of it he wants a full

00:20:45.400 size mock-up of would that be full size i don't anyway he wants i think a full size mock-up of

00:20:51.880 Air Force One, like in the atrium, in the lobby of it, like that. I think that's just an artist's

00:20:59.740 impression of what it would look like. There you go, all right. Brent crude set for biggest

00:21:07.960 monthly price rise on record as war takes toll. Level breaches $119 a barrel. Let's have a look

00:21:15.640 at let's have a look at the price of crude right now in real time oh a hundred and three dollars

00:21:27.560 yesterday i told you didn't i at like about 7am which is summer time it was about 112

00:21:34.200 so it's come down look all red nearly all red there all coming down

00:21:39.880 west texas is up a bit but still but still down in the most recent minutes

00:21:44.040 so look west texas is at 101 a barrel brent is at 103 a barrel same higher you know above that

00:21:52.320 what i've told you before that that psychological benchmark of 100 a barrel

00:21:56.360 but nowhere near all-time highs look there you can see it you see just to the right

00:22:04.260 that green graph chopped off a cliff price comes steadily down both brent brent and

00:22:11.940 West Texas

00:22:13.780 ok

00:22:14.920 yep

00:22:17.420 so

00:22:17.960 obviously the price was

00:22:21.180 different at the time that the financial

00:22:23.200 at the moment when the financial times went to print

00:22:25.360 with this

00:22:25.940 because Trump did a press conference yesterday in the Oval

00:22:29.400 and he obviously asked

00:22:31.360 all about the war and he said

00:22:33.080 that he expected

00:22:34.460 that the Americans

00:22:36.740 will be finished, will be

00:22:38.760 done and out of the region

00:22:40.820 in two or three weeks he said not always great to give your enemy like an actual time frame they

00:22:47.740 just have to hold on till then and then they win strategically in their terms well will israel

00:22:53.320 stop will iran stop different question probably not but the donald says the americans will be out

00:22:59.080 in two to three weeks and that sent the oil price down and it sent asian markets or all markets

00:23:06.380 sort of equities markets

00:23:08.120 back up

00:23:10.020 Asian markets rebounded strongly

00:23:12.440 off the back of that

00:23:13.260 and Wall Street

00:23:14.080 so there you go

00:23:20.380 there you go

00:23:21.680 but I suppose at the time of going to print

00:23:24.500 the FT

00:23:27.060 was still scaremongering

00:23:30.080 about $119 a barrel

00:23:31.500 alright

00:23:32.820 I mean it's volatile isn't it

00:23:35.420 That's the thing I keep telling you, it's volatile.

00:23:36.640 It was 119, now it's like 102.

00:23:39.540 So what's that?

00:23:40.220 A sixth of the price fell off in just a few hours.

00:23:44.080 A fifth or a sixth.

00:23:47.780 Trump rebukes allies over suppliers.

00:23:50.160 US fails to rule out Iran invasion.

00:23:54.260 So yeah, still the possibility of boots on the ground to a limited extent

00:23:59.100 on some of the islands in the Persian Gulf.

00:24:03.180 We'll see.

00:24:04.100 We'll see.

00:24:04.480 The big ships, right, like the USS Tripoli or the USS Portland or whatever, they will have to sail through the Straits of Hormuz. So if Iran can sort of just rain down missiles and drones, I mean those ships will have all sorts of air defences and other smaller ships giving them extra air cover and air defence. 0.60

00:24:31.180 and whilst they travel through there you can imagine the skies will be filled with US and

00:24:36.960 Israeli fast jets to try and protect them as much as possible they probably will be able to protect 0.85

00:24:41.600 them from drones because drones just are very slow aren't they 120 mile an hour that's like a

00:24:47.720 turtle's speed very very very slow but a missile if you want to shoot one of their hypersonic

00:24:54.920 missiles like Mach 3 or Mach 5 or something difficult to defend against that there's enough

00:25:04.440 of them anyway okay all right we'll see we'll see if they for the US to send a flotilla an

00:25:11.240 armada through the Straits of Hormuz up to the top to get to that Karg Island

00:25:15.480 that's cold now

00:25:22.440 we shall see

00:25:23.580 get a load of this

00:25:25.960 get a load of this one

00:25:27.620 Hegseth's broker

00:25:30.320 looked at buying into

00:25:32.360 defence fund in lead up to Iran

00:25:34.340 attack

00:25:34.860 cheeky

00:25:37.660 cheeky SOB

00:25:40.220 Morgan Stanley is a Morgan Stanley

00:25:44.260 broker

00:25:44.680 if anyone doesn't know broker is just someone that sits between you the investor and and the

00:25:56.640 actual buying of the thing whatever it is whether you're buying equities commodities bonds currency

00:26:03.840 whatever right broker is essentially a middleman i worked in brokerage for with brokerage for a

00:26:12.120 long time. Well, for a while. I know a fair bit all about the world of brokerage. And

00:26:18.920 they take their little cut. Every time you want to buy or sell something, they take their

00:26:21.560 little cut. Pure parasites. Pure parasites. If you can trade for yourself, do do it. Don't 0.99

00:26:30.020 go through a broker. Screw them. Anyway, Hegseth Broker wants to invest in defence funds. 0.96

00:26:38.780 Naughty

00:26:41.740 Gross

00:26:43.260 Like we saw haven't we over the last couple of weeks

00:26:46.260 All sorts of spikes in trading

00:26:48.280 Just before events go down

00:26:50.040 Because insider people just know

00:26:51.820 That something's about to happen

00:26:52.900 Just make money off of it

00:26:55.240 Dirty

00:26:56.440 Dirty

00:26:57.800 Insider trading

00:27:00.020 The Daily Mail

00:27:00.940 Utter globalist slop

00:27:02.500 We're trying to pretend it's not

00:27:03.640 Amid fuel crisis

00:27:04.940 President tells UK

00:27:06.280 Go get your own oil

00:27:07.880 That wasn't his whole statement, though, was it?

00:27:10.820 It was basically, try and get your own oil if you can.

00:27:15.600 If not, buy it from us.

00:27:18.700 And we'd obviously be like, yeah, as we said, our Navy isn't up to scratch,

00:27:23.140 so, yeah, we'll buy it off you. Cheers.

00:27:28.080 OK, Trump's taunt exposes a PM without a plan.

00:27:32.360 So the mail, going with the angle, less outright TDS,

00:27:36.520 less outright throwing shade at Trump himself

00:27:39.760 and more channeling it back

00:27:43.640 towards Starmer himself

00:27:45.020 a little bit about Scott Mills

00:27:48.140 had their fun dogpiling yesterday

00:27:50.580 moved on quite quickly from it

00:27:53.200 mostly on the front pages

00:27:54.240 there's a little bit of a remnant of it here

00:27:55.820 the BBC ignored warnings about DJ Scott Mills a year ago

00:27:59.560 the sun

00:28:03.820 the sun's still going with it

00:28:06.080 because it's sensational, isn't it?

00:28:08.580 It's a bit more sensational than just more Donald Trump stuff.

00:28:13.020 Axed DJ sex scandal.

00:28:15.160 Beeb knew about Mills probe.

00:28:17.340 Kept on air despite quiz.

00:28:20.860 A police interview is a quiz. 1.00

00:28:24.060 They talk to you like you're an idiot, 1.00

00:28:26.140 like you're a little child, don't they? 1.00

00:28:28.720 All right.

00:28:29.580 The Mirror.

00:28:30.800 Scott Mills again, all right. 0.83

00:28:33.360 Weld pays for Trump lunacy.

00:28:35.180 That's how they're characterising it 0.97

00:28:36.740 The whole world is paying for Mr Trump's lunacy 0.83

00:28:41.140 A bit tedious 0.91

00:28:42.720 I mean that Iranian regime was a menace 1.00

00:28:45.360 Wasn't it?

00:28:46.480 Was it not?

00:28:47.760 It was wasn't it?

00:28:48.860 It was a complete menace wasn't it?

00:28:51.180 Alright

00:28:51.480 The world would be better off if Iran had 1.00

00:28:55.800 Just a much more normal

00:28:57.620 Polity 0.99

00:28:59.100 And civil society wouldn't it?

00:29:01.400 In the broadest scheme

00:29:05.180 In the broadest sweep of history

00:29:06.460 It's better if there aren't Islamic theocracies 1.00

00:29:08.960 Controlling large countries 0.71

00:29:10.820 Is that not better?

00:29:14.000 Okay

00:29:14.440 Just standing for the Donald a tiny bit there

00:29:18.220 Alright

00:29:19.800 This is oil your fault

00:29:23.880 Do you get the clever wordplay there?

00:29:29.260 like this is all your fault as if the donald is like blaming the uk for things not going

00:29:37.140 quicker and faster and more efficiently on the military front for not sending

00:29:40.640 our aircraft carriers which weren't seaworthy

00:29:43.700 again right it's to our shame and discredit that neither of our aircraft carriers were

00:29:55.600 seaworthy or any real frigates or anything hardly any okay but that was the case though that was the

00:30:01.180 reality in february and still to this day right that just is the case okay what a shame on us

00:30:09.040 again sure okay now the reality is though that we can't send an aircraft carrier you snap your

00:30:16.820 fingers you do something history changing on one saturday morning and want us to sail an aircraft

00:30:24.740 carrier there like that weekend or the next week at the latest but it's not seaworthy even if

00:30:32.560 Starmer did have the political will to do it which I don't think he did but even if he did

00:30:36.320 we couldn't again that analogy of the your mate walking down the street he says keep firing back

00:30:41.740 or he runs out of ammo he's like give me your gun you know I haven't got a gun on me

00:30:47.060 if I had a gun I would consider very much consider giving it to you right now off

00:30:53.720 returning fire myself but I don't have a gun so don't get annoyed with me that I can't give you

00:31:02.700 a gun right now because I haven't got one on me you know this is the way the the what the mirror

00:31:11.800 the mirror characterizes it president calls his straight crisis then he tells UK to sort out his

00:31:17.260 mess that's the way they characterize it i mean he hasn't really asked us to exactly sort it out

00:31:24.220 is he but all right all right okay the higher paper the higher paper king sent to us on mission

00:31:32.460 to salvage century of friendship

00:31:34.120 but donald has always really liked the royal family the concept of them and the individuals

00:31:40.840 the individual members of it he like thought it was like some sort of truly truly great

00:31:47.240 honour to go to Buck House

00:31:49.440 and sit next to the

00:31:51.420 Queen and have a meal with her. 0.88

00:31:53.440 That's one of the highlights of his life or whatever.

00:31:57.160 And he gets on well with

00:31:58.500 King Charles, I nearly called him Prince Charles again.

00:32:02.040 Gets on really well with King Charles

00:32:03.480 and

00:32:03.860 he likes the glitz and glamour of it all.

00:32:07.120 Fair enough, fair enough.

00:32:10.120 So King sent to

00:32:11.320 salvage century of friendship.

00:32:13.480 Palace confirms Charles III

00:32:15.200 state visit to America, minutes

00:32:17.100 after trump's latest outburst when he tells uk to go get your own oil trip is laced with jeopardy

00:32:25.500 for king because of u.s president's toxic relationship with starma and other nato

00:32:31.120 allies over iran war i mean there's the one this cop is it worth this but is one good thing about

00:32:37.420 having a monarchy a constitutional monarchy i.e he hasn't really got any power but he is the head

00:32:43.860 of state, right, is that he can do diplomatic things like this, like he sits above, he just

00:32:52.020 sits way above Parliament and the Lords, right, he sits above government policy, doesn't

00:32:59.600 he, and so he can go and visit the Trump and just be like, even agree with him, yeah,

00:33:04.720 I mean, it's almost not worth it, just that, but it can be done, it's like that.

00:33:17.640 Ground invasion possible as oil price climbs and talks stutter.

00:33:25.300 I mean, the oil price isn't climbing, it's come down since yesterday.

00:33:28.520 Since yesterday, it's come down.

00:33:30.900 So, okay.

00:33:34.720 The lawyer's centre of sexual offences investigation into BBC star Scott Mills was under 16, police say.

00:33:44.720 I mean, what it looks like, just a tiny one minute, one minute on Scott Mills and that's it.

00:33:50.720 It was investigated between 2016 and 2019, before they decided not to go to trial.

00:33:56.720 But the actual offences were supposed to have taken place between 1997 and the year 2000, when he, Scott Mills, was in his twenties. And this child, who was under 16, male child, was under 16. So it might have been, like, he basically had a boyfriend who was 15, when he was like, 23, 25 or something.

00:34:21.720 So still like

00:34:26.180 Still with the statutory rape wouldn't it 1.00

00:34:30.280 Still be paedophilia 0.99

00:34:31.440 Homosexual paedophilia 0.99

00:34:33.160 But if he actually 0.93

00:34:35.600 If it was a relationship

00:34:36.420 A historical relationship

00:34:38.040 Between like a 15 year old boy

00:34:41.320 And a bloke in his 20s

00:34:43.020 Mid 20s

00:34:44.000 And that's putting the nicest possible spin on it

00:34:49.720 We don't know

00:34:50.500 whether he wasn't actually

00:34:53.480 a consensual relationship

00:34:57.020 albeit an underage one

00:34:58.280 who knows, I don't know

00:34:59.540 maybe Scott Mills did something truly

00:35:01.000 monstrous

00:35:03.700 truly monstrous

00:35:05.080 against this kid's will

00:35:07.360 I don't know, no one knows

00:35:08.400 seems the younger person in question

00:35:13.120 was under 16

00:35:14.100 so 0.89

00:35:14.600 gross 0.93

00:35:17.840 Trump tells Britain

00:35:20.040 get your own oil on the same day as king charles's official visit to the united states is confirmed

00:35:25.340 president rants starmer over energy crisis caused by his own war on iran while defense chief again 0.92

00:35:32.620 ridicules our navy yeah our navy's crap yeah we get it yeah yeah we're not we're not denying it 0.96

00:35:40.200 we can't deny it yeah it's true yeah right in that analogy he's like give me a gun you know i haven't 0.99

00:35:46.800 got all going on me? I've got one at home. It's like, yeah, there's a crap one as well, yeah.

00:35:49.980 It wouldn't have been any good even if you did bring it. It's like, oh, okay. 0.97

00:35:56.000 Okay.

00:35:59.700 Could you have told me you was about to start shooting?

00:36:03.820 Okay. End of special relationship. I don't think there's been a special relationship

00:36:08.740 since the 50s. I really don't. They think it's all over. It is now. Trump is grumpy.

00:36:16.800 What? That's so dumb, isn't it? 1.00

00:36:20.480 For anyone who's foreign, can I even be bothered to explain? 1.00

00:36:23.140 They think it's all over.

00:36:27.180 In 1966, when England last won the World Cup, the Football World Cup, the Soccer World Cup,

00:36:35.520 it was 3-2 up against Germany, West Germany, in the final.

00:36:40.100 And it was right at the end of the game.

00:36:42.780 Some fans were even beginning to run onto the pitch.

00:36:45.460 it was like seconds from the final whistle and the commentator sees that the game's still going on

00:36:51.300 the final whistle hasn't blown he sees some people starting to run on the pitch and he says

00:36:55.840 they think it's all over and then england scores another goal to make it 4-2 and obviously obviously

00:37:03.300 winning the game and in the same breath he goes they think it's all over referring to and then

00:37:08.780 he scores he goes it is now right anyone in britain knows that it's part of popular consciousness

00:37:14.420 Everyone in Britain would know that

00:37:16.820 If you're from Denmark or the United States or whatever

00:37:18.440 You might not know that

00:37:19.260 It's just a famous thing if you're British or English

00:37:21.980 They think it's all over, it is now

00:37:23.840 Got it?

00:37:26.020 They think it's oil over, it is now

00:37:28.900 Trump is grumpy

00:37:33.240 No comma there 0.51

00:37:34.400 They think it's oil over, it is now, Trump is grumpy

00:37:38.040 What?

00:37:39.320 What? 1.00

00:37:39.680 so dumb so dumb all right there's that new jag jaguar car the woke one with their crazy woke 1.00

00:37:53.640 ad that no one's bought well not no one but like i think a few dozen in the whole world have been 1.00

00:37:59.480 bought this jag decided to completely completely rebrand themselves as something sort of like

00:38:06.720 Completely new

00:38:07.860 And like all woke

00:38:09.420 And weird

00:38:10.620 They went from selling tens of thousands

00:38:13.800 Or even hundreds of thousands

00:38:14.820 A year

00:38:16.160 To like none

00:38:16.960 Or like a dozen

00:38:18.480 Or something

00:38:18.960 Just completely collapsed

00:38:21.200 Just completely destroyed themselves

00:38:22.960 Because they went woke

00:38:24.980 Go woke, go broke

00:38:27.580 Or whatever the saying is

00:38:28.400 Alright, the Toreograph

00:38:29.740 There we go

00:38:30.160 Something about Harry

00:38:31.040 Don't care

00:38:31.760 Or Harry's tried to sue

00:38:34.200 A load of papers again

00:38:35.080 Okay

00:38:36.960 Navy not ready for war

00:38:39.320 Says Sealord 0.97

00:38:40.040 Yeah

00:38:40.360 Yeah we know

00:38:42.200 Yeah

00:38:42.500 Yeah

00:38:43.180 Yeah

00:38:43.740 Yeah

00:38:44.320 Yeah obviously yeah

00:38:45.620 Pressure piles on Starmer

00:38:47.560 To raise defence spending

00:38:48.680 As US mocks

00:38:49.880 Ailing armed forces

00:38:51.340 Yeah

00:38:54.820 Give me your gun bro

00:38:55.860 Hand me your gun

00:38:56.540 It's at home

00:38:57.840 Yeah 0.99

00:38:58.540 And it's really crap 0.98

00:39:00.080 But isn't it 0.98

00:39:00.460 It barely works

00:39:01.240 It's like a pea shooter

00:39:02.120 Anyway isn't it

00:39:02.980 It's like a tiny little 2-2

00:39:04.900 and, like, it keeps jamming, doesn't it?

00:39:06.560 It's like, you just asked me...

00:39:08.580 Yeah, it's not a great gun, yeah.

00:39:14.520 Okay.

00:39:15.640 All right, that's the front pages.

00:39:16.740 That's the front pages.

00:39:17.440 All right, shall we have a look at our poll?

00:39:21.500 Here, bring up my poll.

00:39:24.520 Engage, make it so little Harry.

00:39:26.780 Boom, here we go.

00:39:28.820 We asked,

00:39:30.180 are you interested in the Artemis II

00:39:32.420 crewed mission to the moon?

00:39:34.900 a bit disappointing really

00:39:36.880 still a win

00:39:38.660 66% of you say yes

00:39:41.000 34% of you say no

00:39:43.060 I'm fascinated by it

00:39:44.600 it's one of the greatest things that's happened in my lifetime

00:39:46.580 I would say

00:39:47.200 James Webb's telescope is

00:39:49.400 the best thing that's ever happened in my lifetime

00:39:51.680 I would say

00:39:52.420 this is probably the second best

00:39:54.560 to me

00:39:55.360 only 66%

00:39:59.220 to those 66%

00:40:02.000 you're my people

00:40:04.080 boom brilliant the other 34% get out go on get out you're not welcome here this isn't the this

00:40:12.620 isn't the morning show for you don't go don't go I was only joking I was joking dude bro I was

00:40:18.800 joking don't go I still love you we can make this work come on come on I didn't mean it I didn't

00:40:23.760 mean it please stay please stay now I would have hoped for more than that so the question is are

00:40:33.640 Are you interested in it? To say no. Just no.

00:40:36.600 Nope, not interested in that. Next.

00:40:40.440 It's like one of the greatest achievements of all humanity

00:40:43.000 in the last 50 years, in the last half-decade.

00:40:47.440 You're not interested in it at all?

00:40:49.940 Alright, still.

00:40:52.140 Still, 66 to...

00:40:53.740 66 to 34, if that was a national referendum,

00:40:57.160 you'd claim an overwhelming victory, wouldn't you?

00:41:01.120 Wouldn't you?

00:41:01.440 so okay I'd hoped it would be in the 80s or 90s all right all right let's have a look then let's

00:41:10.580 have a look at the websites it's already 22 let's have a quick whip through the website shall we

00:41:15.340 we'll talk about Artemis 2 the uh that 34% of you that are not interested in it um I'm going to talk

00:41:23.460 about it for a minute or two because it's happening today in fact we just go straight to it get it

00:41:28.440 out of the way for that 34% of you. What's happening today? We haven't been to the moon 0.99

00:41:36.180 since, what, 1972? Is it 1973? 1972, I think. Gene Cernan, last dude to step on the moon,

00:41:44.720 was it? 1972, I believe. And we're going back to the Artemis II mission. Actually, let's

00:41:53.660 just have a, I've got a picture, skidoosh, there we go, that's the, the space, uh, space

00:42:01.640 launch system, that's the modern equivalent of the Saturn 5, it's massive, that's like

00:42:07.280 bigger than Big Ben, well you can see the tower there, what is it like, 12, 15 stories

00:42:14.280 tall, that tiny bit there is where the four humans are going to go, it's going to fly 0.94

00:42:18.800 I took the moon, five days there, five days back,

00:42:22.520 400,000 kilometres or whatever, a quarter of a million miles,

00:42:27.980 just fly round the moon, slingshot round the moon,

00:42:30.040 we're not going to land on the moon, that's not until Artemis 4,

00:42:32.880 this is Artemis 2, come back.

00:42:35.920 Just a proof of concept, make sure we can do that first,

00:42:39.120 like Apollo 8, Apollo 11 was the one that landed on the moon first,

00:42:43.340 if you believe that.

00:42:45.100 Well, they got up to Apollo 16, was it 17?

00:42:48.800 Anyway, Apollo 8 did this in like 1968, Christmas 1968, Apollo 8 did this mission, just slingshot

00:42:59.340 around the moon and come back, go around the dark side of the moon, so that's what they're

00:43:04.100 going to do, it's going to take off today, like with weather permitting, at some point

00:43:09.360 between, well I think, like, something like 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock in the afternoon Florida

00:43:18.200 of time today which is like between 11 half 11 and half one in the morning british time

00:43:25.060 so wherever you are again weather permitting there's two high winds or it starts raining or

00:43:32.480 there's a thunderstorm or something then they'll put it off they'll put it back if there's one a

00:43:36.740 last minute fueling problem not unheard of far from unheard of it'll be put back but if all goes

00:43:41.500 well if the weather there's a good weather window later today again six or

00:43:48.260 seven or eight p.m. Eastern Florida time this will this will they'll light the

00:43:58.020 candle and we'll be going back to the moon humans will be and there's the

00:44:05.340 crew in the in the blue there four people so picture of them that there you

00:44:09.780 go that's the commander dude so they're sending a commander a black dude a woman and a canadian

00:44:16.640 a canadian okay he's the pilot he's the commander and these are two other people

00:44:27.140 all right um there'll be a couple of records the the the geometry the the the orbit they're going

00:44:36.900 to take around the moon if you believe it's all real is actually a wider bigger orbit than apollo

00:44:42.640 8 ever did or any of the apollo missions so they'll actually be going further away from the

00:44:47.340 earth than any other humans have ever been it's like a higher orbit around the dark side of the

00:44:53.680 sun dark side of the moon so they will be going further away from the earth than anyone ever

00:45:00.700 And when they come back, they'll be entering the Earth's atmosphere at the fastest speed anyone has ever attempted to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

00:45:10.900 Like 25,000 miles an hour.

00:45:14.440 I hope the heat shields hold, of course.

00:45:17.500 That'll be the most dangerous bit of the mission, by far, is the re-entry bit.

00:45:26.000 Okay, I wish them good luck. I'm interested in it, fascinated by it.

00:45:28.880 I think it's amazing. I think it's brilliant.

00:45:30.700 I think it's

00:45:32.820 I haven't really got the words

00:45:36.820 I think it's amazing

00:45:37.580 If they do it and they pull it off

00:45:40.060 To even try it

00:45:41.340 To even try it is stupendous to my mind

00:45:44.720 Wonderful

00:45:46.020 A wonderful thing for all of humanity

00:45:47.780 Thank you NASA

00:45:49.040 For spending the money

00:45:51.720 And the time on it

00:45:52.840 Wonderful

00:45:54.660 Alright

00:45:55.260 I'll be watching that

00:45:56.800 There was a story

00:45:59.240 yeah look at look at this clapham place in london clapham security guards tells of moment he was

00:46:07.740 forced to lock customers inside store as mobs of feral youths that's how they're describing it

00:46:12.780 mobs of feral youths run wild after met police warned of easter holiday link-ups there you go

00:46:20.880 um i think on the sun they also had a bit of this there we go street chaos dozens of

00:46:29.000 hooded youngsters that's how they're describing them not feral youths

00:46:33.480 hooded youngsters on high street

00:46:36.640 high street shops as cops rush to scene 0.98

00:46:40.000 let's call it what it is, it's the black kids 0.99

00:46:43.860 oh is that racist to have noticed 0.99

00:46:46.940 is that racist to have eyeballs and notice that it's all black kids 0.99

00:46:52.180 99% you see the odd white face in there 0.96

00:46:54.720 There'd be 99% plus 1.00

00:46:57.720 Giant mobs of black kids running amok 1.00

00:47:01.620 Mass theft and civil unrest 0.99

00:47:06.820 For no reason, nothing sparked it off

00:47:08.900 There was no George Floyd killing

00:47:10.360 There was no Rodney King beating

00:47:14.420 Nothing, nothing

00:47:15.200 They just decided they were going to do it and did

00:47:16.740 Oh, you think it's a unique thing

00:47:19.240 It's just a one-off crazy random

00:47:20.980 No, no, relatively common

00:47:22.880 Relatively

00:47:23.800 Number of times

00:47:25.880 Number of times 0.98

00:47:27.000 You're not allowed to notice they're all black kids 1.00

00:47:30.580 No 0.99

00:47:31.080 Just going to call them hooded youngsters 1.00

00:47:32.900 Yeah

00:47:33.840 Just call them feral youth

00:47:35.760 Alright

00:47:39.860 That's Britain now 0.84

00:47:41.740 That's Britain 0.83

00:47:43.180 Brilliant

00:47:44.580 Brilliant

00:47:45.840 Alright

00:47:50.760 Was there something

00:47:51.320 There was something in the express

00:47:52.520 i thought was of mild interest was there oh yeah this brits urged to mask up as new cicada 1.00

00:48:00.680 covid variant set to become dominant in uk no no i'm not masking up no i'm not doing it

00:48:06.920 if it's something extremely extremely terribly lethal like aids becomes airborne or ebola becomes

00:48:18.580 airborne okay but no it's just the flu it's just a cold or whatever no i'm not messing i'm not 0.98

00:48:25.920 wearing that stupid nappy thing on my face again no no no no i'm not doing that no no go screw 0.98

00:48:31.560 yourself all right the new york times the new york slimes trump says u.s will be out of iran 1.00

00:48:39.640 within two to three weeks okay trump claims he halted nuclear threat from iran i thought he did

00:48:46.700 that with Midnight Hammer last summer, no? Despite evidence to contrary, says the New

00:48:52.320 York Times. New York Times got a reporter on the ground, if they, in Iran, double-checking

00:48:59.420 the Iranian nuclear facilities. Okay. All right. Trump seeks to redefine regime change

00:49:11.980 in war against Iran. Yeah, one of the things he said yesterday, he said, the regime has

00:49:15.860 been changed that's sort of i mean that's his angle now that's what he's saying um in the sense

00:49:24.800 that all the leadership or more or less nearly all the leadership that were in place at the

00:49:30.180 beginning of this thing they're all gone now they're dead so in that sense i even like the

00:49:35.060 next tier down they're all gone a lot of the next tier down they're all gone so in that sense the

00:49:39.640 regime has changed okay in that sense fine but the actual you know in the true sense it has it

00:49:49.840 hasn't changed though has it because it's still a continuation of that those ayatollahs from 1979

00:49:55.400 and the the continuation of that regime hasn't changed so again classic politicians thing of

00:50:02.680 just changing the exact meaning of words trying to trying to re-spin what you said before to make

00:50:09.100 it all line up and make sense perfectly but okay he also said he also said look we're gonna he said

00:50:15.780 we're gonna get out of iran in the next two or three weeks with or without a deal

00:50:21.200 right so there you go oh quick look at le monde the french newspaper with everything that's going

00:50:33.180 down in in France in a worse state in some ways you could argue than Britain and Germany

00:50:39.380 sort of demographically and everything that's going on in the world the state of France

00:50:43.820 the terrible terrible sectarian nightmare France is staring down the barrel of 0.99

00:50:48.800 Le Monde has a story about cheetahs in Somaliland

00:50:53.600 the trade in cheetahs between Africa and Arabia

00:50:58.860 here you go all right should we have a look at this day in history what happened on this day

00:51:06.140 in history is now 10 to see that for the last bit of the show what happened on april fool's day down

00:51:10.700 through the centuries of note april the first let's have a look okay on this day in five to

00:51:16.700 five to seven a.d by zantine emperor justin the first names his nephew justinian the first as

00:51:23.900 co-ruler and uh successor to the throne so as i've mentioned a few times on epochs

00:51:29.100 harry

00:51:30.360 there you go on epochs my history theme show behind the paywall on otocetis.com

00:51:40.060 do you consider becoming a member for as little as five pound a month bronze team membership

00:51:43.780 on that show and on my own channel history bro when it's all free there

00:51:48.320 got a fair amount of content talk about justinian justinian the great justinian the first a number

00:51:53.680 of times, and his general, his generalissimo Belisarius, all sorts of stuff, the Nikkei

00:51:59.180 riots, whole long-form thing, just about the Nikkei riots, Justinian I, completely pivotal,

00:52:04.220 massively fascinating and important, Eastern Rome, by his own time, Roman Emperor, in the

00:52:08.240 6th century, Justinian I. On this day, his uncle, Justin, names him co-ruler. So Justin,

00:52:17.620 Justin was just a, I say just, but he was just a general, he was never in like the royal

00:52:22.100 family line of succession and he'd come from nothing his father was like a complete peasant

00:52:28.480 literally just like a sheep herd or something justin joins the army the roman army eastern

00:52:34.680 roman army rises up to become general there's some sort of complete chaos political chaos and

00:52:41.920 military coup only finds himself emperor out of nowhere justin the first out of nowhere

00:52:47.680 Becomes

00:52:49.480 The ruler of Byzantium

00:52:51.960 The Eastern Roman Empire

00:52:52.800 And where he's old and infirmed

00:52:55.560 He decides he's going to name a co-ruler

00:52:58.200 His nephew

00:53:00.540 And thus Justinian I

00:53:03.660 Enters the stage of history

00:53:05.600 Brilliant stuff

00:53:06.860 Okay, on this day in 1748

00:53:09.620 The ruins of Pompeii are discovered

00:53:11.680 By a Spaniard

00:53:12.600 I've been there

00:53:14.520 Been there a couple of times, is it?

00:53:17.680 Amazing, amazing Pompeii, just outside Naples, in Italy of course, just outside Naples, a little town on the foothills of Mount Vesuvius, Mount Vesuvius in the ancient world, what is it during the reign of Nero is it, what is it, 79 AD is it, 78, 79 AD, I should know exactly, anyway,

00:53:41.220 Mount Vesuvius erupts

00:53:43.580 In the ancient world

00:53:44.680 Completely covers this town of Pompeii

00:53:47.780 In pumice and ash

00:53:50.100 Completely, completely covers it

00:53:52.360 Meters deep, meters

00:53:53.400 And yeah

00:53:59.220 In the late 18th century

00:54:00.860 It's sort of rediscovered

00:54:02.040 And ever since then

00:54:03.680 It's been excavated

00:54:05.420 In fact there's still a big portion of it

00:54:07.880 Unexcavated, a big portion

00:54:10.100 there's like a bit of a modern Italian town on it

00:54:13.160 anyway, if you're even remotely interested in history

00:54:16.920 particularly Roman era history

00:54:18.720 if you've got any sort of historical imagination

00:54:21.440 visit it

00:54:24.120 and Herculaneum, there's another place even closer to Vesuvius

00:54:26.860 called, well in the modern Italian, Herculano

00:54:29.740 but the ancient Romans, Herculaneum

00:54:31.780 equally as fascinating

00:54:33.780 you can walk around ancient Roman streets basically

00:54:36.160 go into ancient Roman houses

00:54:38.100 Crazy

00:54:41.080 There's still like graffiti on the walls

00:54:42.700 And stuff

00:54:43.380 Mad

00:54:45.880 Walk through an ancient Roman house

00:54:47.760 A real one

00:54:48.260 Walk out into their back garden

00:54:49.620 Their little portico they've got

00:54:50.640 Or whatever

00:54:50.960 See the little fountain they've got

00:54:52.640 Walk through the streets

00:54:54.700 There's an amphitheatre there

00:54:56.620 It's

00:54:56.960 To me

00:54:58.320 Mind blowing

00:54:58.800 Any history nerd

00:54:59.680 Mind blowing

00:55:00.700 Couldn't recommend it enough

00:55:03.200 It's totally worth it

00:55:04.920 There's a few places in the world

00:55:06.140 That they say go to that

00:55:07.240 Go see that

00:55:07.820 It's great, it's famous

00:55:08.800 You get there, it's really underwhelming

00:55:10.900 For me, Pompeii is not underwhelming

00:55:13.260 It lives up to the hype

00:55:16.520 And then some, for me

00:55:17.500 Alright, let's move on

00:55:18.460 Could talk about Pompeii all day

00:55:20.140 On this day, 1948

00:55:22.260 The Big Bang Theory, not the show

00:55:24.100 The actual theory

00:55:25.240 Proposed in the scientific journal

00:55:28.600 Physical Review

00:55:29.560 Is first put forward by a few different cosmologists

00:55:33.080 The Big Bang

00:55:33.960 There you go, interesting

00:55:36.840 i was watching a video just the other day that said the big crunch might happen instead of space

00:55:43.120 expanding forever some recent uh which is like the consensus and then there's just be like

00:55:51.560 entropy and the heat death of the universe eventually it'll just keep expanding into

00:55:56.020 darkness and nothing forever one theory saying that some new research to do with dark energy

00:56:03.400 and dark matter might mean in a few billion years more dark energy and dark matter which they think

00:56:11.560 is responsible for the expansion of the universe might lose its battle ultimately against gravity

00:56:16.300 gravity will win and there'll be a big crunch take another few billion years but then the

00:56:21.340 whole universe will come back down into a tiny singularity again and over and over and over

00:56:25.940 Who knows, who knows

00:56:28.860 Maybe God made it all in six days

00:56:32.580 On this day in 1974

00:56:35.020 The Ayatollah Khomeini

00:56:36.900 Calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran 1.00

00:56:39.040 Notice 1974

00:56:40.560 So five years before

00:56:42.940 It actually happened

00:56:44.080 On this day in 1976

00:56:46.080 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found an Apple

00:56:48.940 Computer in the garage of Jobs'

00:56:51.220 Parents' house in California

00:56:52.500 Okay, Stevie Jobs

00:56:55.080 and the wads

00:56:55.740 on this day in 2001

00:56:57.680 the Netherlands becomes the first country in the world

00:57:00.840 to make same-sex marriage legal

00:57:03.120 did they?

00:57:07.660 well done

00:57:08.420 alright

00:57:09.580 let's have a look at our

00:57:14.040 let's have a look at our

00:57:16.240 rumble rants and super chats

00:57:17.300 let's have a look, we've got quite a few rumble rants

00:57:19.360 so I'll quickly whip through them

00:57:21.040 because it's very nearly nine

00:57:21.960 let's do that so I can read them

00:57:24.460 st luke 91 luke stewart says good day bo getting ready to drive down to armadale a single little

00:57:34.660 five and a half hour drive for easter event about a hundred or so viking warriors running around a

00:57:41.280 pine forest lovely sounds great sounds great i love that i love that sort of thing battle reenactments

00:57:47.220 and all that stuff i'm not into it like myself personally getting dressed up and taking part but

00:57:51.300 going to that sort of thing or going to like a medieval fair and there's guys dressed up

00:57:55.680 as like medieval knights actually on horseback you know stuff like that love it yeah yeah

00:58:02.060 a viking warrior one wicked cool okay 14 barber says morning bow all right yeah i'm all right

00:58:08.800 thanks cheers cheers geese uh i agree we should uh get our own oil from the north sea yeah right

00:58:15.300 yeah it's crazy that we ever ever it's people like ed milliband isn't it crazy environmentalists

00:58:21.960 told us that the burning of fossil fuels was somehow wrong and bad not that you drive that

00:58:27.480 that drives up co2 and that drives climate change to a catastrophic degree it's all just not true

00:58:33.620 is it it's nonsense yeah we should never have stopped drilling large scale in the north sea

00:58:38.840 you're quite right uh start by buying from canada us or norway uh while we get tapping our own we

00:58:46.480 shouldn't rely on others all the time yes absolutely yeah absolutely of course should be

00:58:52.160 that sort of thing should be a statement of just sort of undeniable should be undeniable shouldn't

00:58:56.760 it um of course of course kasser dwan said the islamic republic is a bad regime but being a 0.89

00:59:04.080 to Israel and destabilizing the region is also bad.

00:59:07.080 Britain is weak, but the US effectively made that happen in World War II.

00:59:13.080 Too long, didn't read. It's complex.

00:59:16.080 Yeah.

00:59:19.080 Yeah.

00:59:24.080 The United States ever since World War I was looking to cripple and dismantle the British Empire.

00:59:30.080 We're a rival to be world hegemon.

00:59:34.080 All right, St. Luke again, to be honest with, to be honest with Iran, the only way to deal with them, the US needs to find a way to arm the populists so they can have a little viva revolution against the Islamic Republic. 0.72

00:59:51.180 Yeah, Trump just didn't seem up for that, did he?

00:59:54.560 When the Kurds in the north were making some noises, perhaps that they could give us some help, give us some air cover, bro. 1.00

01:00:00.460 He's like, no.

01:00:04.080 Right, that's how we wanted to play it.

01:00:06.120 I think he just wanted to be out of there relatively quickly.

01:00:09.800 He didn't want a forever war.

01:00:11.320 He actually doesn't want to be the forever war guy.

01:00:16.160 Okay.

01:00:17.360 Luke again says,

01:00:18.520 With this whole autism, ADHD, ADHD thing,

01:00:22.600 in Australia the only way a white man could get any government assistance 0.75

01:00:26.420 is if they are disabled. 0.87

01:00:28.680 I could see when they're putting a lot of white kids on it. 0.62

01:00:33.580 Okay. Yeah. Endlessly hand out to minorities but not the indigenous, well not indigenous, not the white population. Okay. So Luke again. Because until I was diagnosed on the spectrum, I got no help from the government as got diagnosed. I was given help which allowed me to get the job I have as a support worker helping other people.

01:00:57.860 Oh good, well I'm glad you got support for it

01:01:00.540 Good, excellent

01:01:01.460 RickTWGP says

01:01:05.000 It's £8.63 for a gallon of diesel

01:01:08.480 Which is around $11.50

01:01:11.880 I'm self-employed mate and it's killing me

01:01:14.520 Well, sorry to hear that

01:01:16.040 Yeah, diesel worst affected, right?

01:01:18.220 Diesel's up way more than petrol

01:01:19.920 As a percentage of what it was at the start of the war

01:01:21.980 Yeah

01:01:22.580 I'm sorry to hear that

01:01:24.560 What else can I say?

01:01:25.280 I do empathise

01:01:26.060 I do empathise

01:01:28.220 £8.60 a gallon

01:01:32.180 It's not in line with how much a barrel of crude has gone up, is it?

01:01:38.380 That's way more than the barrel of crude has gone up, isn't it?

01:01:43.480 Alright

01:01:43.780 Luke says

01:01:45.240 To be honest, I don't really trust Trump with timetables

01:01:48.120 He never really sticks to them

01:01:50.400 He says

01:01:50.800 He won't bomb you for two days

01:01:52.740 And then he bombed you next day

01:01:54.020 i kind of like the unpredictability yeah when it comes to military matters like that

01:01:58.620 it's deliberately part of the calculation isn't it very much so like particularly i remember the

01:02:03.520 that midnight hammer mission mission we said oh we're going to look at it in the next two weeks

01:02:08.480 we're going to make some sort of decision then it was like the next day very very deliberate isn't

01:02:12.840 it very very deliberate and then fair enough fair fair game in love and war there's not really any

01:02:20.500 rules are there really you do whatever you need so what you think you need to do to win okay to

01:02:27.060 quick team off from luke says don't forget iran also funds a lot of terrorist organizations uh

01:02:32.920 and and and on oil most countries are like ours decided let's be green and not produce our own

01:02:39.340 right yeah yeah yeah i don't deny some people say that it's not true it's a liar that iran export

01:02:45.440 or has exported terror around the region and around the world i don't i don't think so i think

01:02:49.280 there's plenty of evidence that they have and finally luke says the next poll should be who do

01:02:56.300 you think is going to collapse first iran or cuba it's not been looking for them if you believe all

01:03:01.400 the news coming out as some people don't right yeah interesting cuba cuba's next on hegsith and

01:03:09.280 rubio's list isn't it seems to be and trump's list does seem to be all right um the youtube

01:03:15.920 things Harry you have to do that for me engage okay there they are okay only a

01:03:22.980 few we had more rumble rents than superchats today this only happens once

01:03:26.680 or twice that's quite rare all right so the superchats global church history in

01:03:30.920 at number one and still the reigning defending undisputed global church

01:03:37.680 history says today 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini became supreme leader oh that's

01:03:42.500 interesting so in 1974 he calls for a revolution and what exactly five years later to the day

01:03:50.360 becomes a supreme leader if global church history isn't right and i've got absolutely no

01:03:54.860 doubt that he is interesting exactly five years to the day okay cool well interesting not that cool

01:04:03.820 but interesting

01:04:04.680 okay

01:04:06.100 Sam Jones

01:04:09.640 our team

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01:04:19.520 thank you then

01:04:20.080 for that super chat

01:04:20.820 says

01:04:21.060 thank you for all you do

01:04:23.000 for us band of brothers and sisters

01:04:24.560 please mention the state of politics

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01:04:59.280 Okay.

01:05:00.200 Thanks for the super chat there.

01:05:01.580 Lovely stuff.

01:05:02.520 Okay.

01:05:03.140 The Shadowling

01:05:05.660 The Shadowling one 1.00

01:05:07.780 Says 0.93

01:05:08.220 I am of the opinion that ADHD and autism

01:05:11.740 Diagnose

01:05:12.700 Became the replacement for attending

01:05:15.580 Private school for the lower middle class

01:05:17.980 In order to assess

01:05:19.380 In order to access

01:05:21.500 SEND schooling

01:05:22.880 What SEND schooling is it

01:05:24.240 Do you just mean good school

01:05:28.000 I don't know

01:05:29.120 I'm not sure what SEN schooling is

01:05:31.060 SEND schooling sorry

01:05:31.980 but the other point you make is funny

01:05:34.800 starting when

01:05:36.780 Blair made fees

01:05:38.720 taxed

01:05:39.860 okay yeah

01:05:41.440 I honestly think that ADHD and autism are

01:05:44.540 over diagnosed

01:05:45.440 I might be wrong I'm not a doctor

01:05:47.280 I'm not claiming to be a doctor

01:05:49.080 would never do such a thing but

01:05:50.860 that's just what it feels like to me

01:05:52.860 okay

01:05:54.620 Stedman Wheelis

01:05:59.020 Stedman Wheelis

01:06:00.860 I hope I've read that right

01:06:02.360 Says 0.93

01:06:03.040 Very good early morning from Texas

01:06:05.520 Good morning sir

01:06:07.040 Happy to finally catch a morning show

01:06:09.860 Bo the content Chad

01:06:12.400 The only one worth staying up for

01:06:16.660 Cheers buddy

01:06:17.180 I'm the best of the Spice Carls

01:06:18.460 Blatantly

01:06:19.480 Come on

01:06:20.740 Blatantly

01:06:22.300 Thank you for that money though from Texas

01:06:25.260 Lovely stuff

01:06:25.820 So Jutes149 says

01:06:27.260 I'm not a massive space geek

01:06:30.160 But yes, Artemis 2 is big

01:06:31.800 They're not leaving Earth's gravity

01:06:34.280 But they will be in the Moon's gravity well for a bit

01:06:40.320 Yeah, that's right, yeah, they're not going completely

01:06:42.320 Well

01:06:44.840 No, they are leaving Earth's gravity, aren't they?

01:06:50.160 They are

01:06:50.740 In between the Moon

01:06:55.020 Because it's a long way, it's like a quarter of a million miles, isn't it?

01:06:58.980 In between they are

01:07:00.100 Well okay

01:07:02.880 Maybe not the Earth's gravitational

01:07:04.720 Entirely its influence

01:07:06.460 Okay in that sense

01:07:07.700 Okay you're right

01:07:08.380 But okay

01:07:10.340 There's different shades aren't there

01:07:11.980 Alright well we'll move on

01:07:14.800 Okay and the last one

01:07:17.420 Oh the shadowling has

01:07:19.320 Very quickly just said

01:07:21.380 That SEN schooling means

01:07:22.920 Special educational needs

01:07:25.680 Okay got it

01:07:26.900 So in order to get special educational needs

01:07:29.880 You have to get a diagnosis first

01:07:32.180 I see what you're saying

01:07:32.680 Alright, alright

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01:08:08.200 how sincerely it's meant as well just can't all right well until tomorrow morning then do try

01:08:14.720 and make the best of the day ahead you've only got it once you'll only have this day once in

01:08:18.780 your life your time is the most valuable thing you've got don't waste it if you can

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01:08:25.000 Try and do something valuable with it

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 01, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 1st April 2026

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