Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 21st January 2026
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1 hour and 19 minutes
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161.90472
Summary
In this week's episode, the lads discuss all the latest in the news, including the return of the Queen Elizabeth II, the arrival of a giant Chinese embassy in London, the removal of the Iron Lady and much, much more!
Transcript
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morning all right how you doing hope you're fighting fit this morning bright-eyed and
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bushy-tailed ready to go raring to rock and roll for the day ahead harry how you doing my producer
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little harry what's up yeah i'm good good good uh okay we had a little bit of feedback from
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yesterday tiny bit of housekeeping before we dive straight in yeah everyone didn't like the
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beckham stuff just the celebrity slop great good you're my people we're all on the same page
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you are the glorious band the chosen few you're watching breakfast with beau the beau show
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the lotus eaters breakfast club beau's breakfast club the bbc the bbc
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all right well okay well there is those more beckham though today in the headlines and things
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so i shall skip over it as much as possible yeah happy to great and go forward all that sort of
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thing you know if it's just real slop i'll try and do is keep the slop to an absolute minimum
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shall we let's do that right let's jump straight in then europe condemns trump's new colonialism
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is new colonialism didn't you know trump wanting to protect the waters around north america that's
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colonialism and beck's bites back so it's still beck's all right the guardian
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f the guardian i'm not supposed to swear i can't swear can i really but but f them
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all right the guardian europe condemns trump threats on greenland as new colonialism
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and there's emmanuel macron wearing sunglasses indoors don't wear sunglasses indoors
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is that just a sort of any it's not an english thing is it i think it's just a normal person thing
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take your hat off indoors unless there's a specific reason for it don't wear a hat indoors don't wear
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glasses indoors don't wear sandals and socks you know it's pretty straightforward stuff 101 stuff
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macron does a speech at weff at the the davos weff conference
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didn't even bother taking his sunglasses off a bit french isn't it
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macron leads resistance i mean to u.s president's goal of controlling arctic ireland why why does
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why does anyone really outside of denmark care like properly care enough to sort of make it an
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international issue and like send troops there and make a difference does it make to macro
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and french people say for uk or german the average german french or british person
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difference does it make to in fact well the difference it would make is that the waters
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might be a bit safer from russian or chinese influence but okay
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so yeah finally happened finally happened the deadline was supposed to be yesterday the self-imposed
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deadline which was like the fifth one or whatever they finally kept to it and the answer is yes
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so just one more example this is quite a big one as well bigger than much i think bigger than most of
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the other examples perhaps with the exception of chagos of our government just clearly acting not in our
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interest not just like there is an argument to be made that it is in our interest no no it's 100%
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not in our interest 100% i don't see any argument for it well okay on paper the argument is that it
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will just give us better we're likely to get better trade deals with china going forward simply because
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we've appeased them again that's a word that's sort of uh steeped in all sorts of connotations and
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baggage that comes with that the word appeasement but this sort of really does feel like appeasement
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because um starmer's going to china soon in the next few days i believe it is the next few days
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he's going to china the first time a prime minister first time he's gone first time any prime minister has
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gone since like 2017 or 18 or something like that prime ministers don't often go to beijing but um
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he's going in a he's going in a few days and uh yeah he wants to get a little pat on the head from
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winnie the pooh doesn't he good good boy good puppy well done now a couple other quick details on this
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before we move on um the main real worry not just it was not just that it's the biggest embassy in all
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of europe completely sort of unprecedented weirdly giant embassy complex of buildings not just one
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building a complex of buildings not just that it's that and that's sort of a bit extraordinary but
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if you've been watching the bow show or keeping your eye on the news at all you'll know that the
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real issue the real concern proper national security concern is that under that building is also a hub of
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all sorts of fiber optic cables and telecommunications cables and even on the chinese plans there's like a
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build various building elements going on down there that they've grayed out on their plans and it looks
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like they i mean unless you're really really naive it does look like they're going to try and attempt
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some sort of signals intelligence espionage type caper i mean mi5 there's another somewhere later down
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we might see there's a headline somewhere other saying with mi5 saying that is still a worry sort of
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formally coming out and making a statement saying you know that is a worry then i saw another headline
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saying that some of the powers that be in london said well we're just going to move that hub
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that telecommunications fiber optics hub place thing that's under that building we're just going to move
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that we'll spend a bit of money like a few million or whatever it takes a few weeks worth of
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of uh builders and we'll move that so the chinese won't be able to do any like actual intercept
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signals intelligence intercept stuff so if they do that if they do do that
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my concerns are largely dealt with i don't necessarily want a giant chinese embassy in tower hill
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but if it's not like a danger like an actual danger then i'm not too worried you know ultimately
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i'd rather not have it but so if they do that if they do move this thing
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because that that was my concern i guess that's most people's actual concern like are they really a
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danger because in the weeks and even months leading up to this you get various reports completely
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conflicting reports from our own intelligence services mi5 and mi6 gchq all that sort of thing
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one day there'll be a story saying oh it's no big deal the chinese aren't really much a threat we've
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looked into this specific issue and it's not a threat and then you'll see another paper on another
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day saying yeah no we've been saying it's a threat we've said it's a threat like six times over the last
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few months it's definitely a threat of course it's a threat so you get you seem to get mixed messages a
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little bit anyway there what there was a headline earlier in another paper saying it is still a
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worry jailed nurse let be will face no new charges so that's that convicted child killing nurse lucy
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let be i mean as far as i understand she's already convicted and lost her appeal has she not of uh... convicted in
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so if her appeals have failed she's not getting out of prison ever ever ever easily many times over
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but they were trying to slap new charges on her and the story there is that there are no new charges
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she doesn't make any difference is it she's never getting out of prison
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um... i won't say too much about the the let be case
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um i followed it at the time i think most people did i watched a documentary or two
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at the time that sort of came on the telly or one on youtube one on the telly i believe
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now those documentaries the angle taken in those documentaries is that just that she's completely
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and it was it was you know she's completely it's high time she was caught
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um the the the only bad thing is that she wasn't caught earlier that sort of angle
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right and anyone else who knows who keeps up with the news there's a there's a whole narrative there's a
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whole group of people that say she's innocent i think even peter hitchens is one of those
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some some serious people um you know like ex-judges and things say the prosecution against her was um
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like floored in loads of different ways and the police were like looking for looking for a scapegoat
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sort of thing so in other words what i'm trying to say here is that it seems to me that there's
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is a strong case of for her guilt uh but there's also not a completely nonsense argument for her
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innocence now beyond that i haven't looked into it because i'm not in and of itself fantastically
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interested in that story right i i'm a history nerd i like a global global politics a bit i'm a big picture
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guy you know i do like geopolitics and stuff like that you know and and history so i haven't spent
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a fantastic amount of time really properly looking into investigating all the details all the he
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said she said elements of everything that has gone on and around the let be case but i know people have
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got some strong feelings about it on both sides as well um but yep i'm gonna tim paul this one
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i'm gonna plant myself firmly on the fence actually that's not fair tim paul doesn't actually do that
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very often he's got a rep hasn't he tim paul for being a fence sitter i think he used to do it a
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lot more than he does now very often he's got very strong opinions one way the other tim paul anyway
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don't know why i'm suddenly talking about simple lucy let me i don't know i don't know i don't intend
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to read all about it either right i just don't i can't bring myself to like really really care that
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much about it okay moving on the independent they go david beckham still top of the thing macron and
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his sunglasses stupid stupid globalist traitor emmanuel macron he's sporting shades oh oh to aid
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recovery from an eye condition oh apologies i did not know that okay if that's true if that reporting is
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accurate if he's actually if it's for medical purposes all right i'll take it back a bit
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i think you've got to do that when you're wrong not just people that are like on the internet or
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whatever but just in life it feels good it feels good to admit you're wrong oh no all right all right
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i got it wrong fair enough no no you were right fair dues you know when people are wrong and you're
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proven to be wrong then they just stick to their guns regardless it just gets embarrassing
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quickly don't do that don't do that try and worm out of it squirm out of it no that's not exactly
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what i said you you didn't quite understand what i meant what i really meant was just admit you're
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wrong all right he's got an eye condition well fair enough then i wonder what it is all right
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yeah accusing accusing trump of new colonialism
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macron takes aim at bully quote bully trump he's calling trump a bully
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all right i never really heard him call like the chinese government bullies
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they act much more like a bully don't they on the world stage
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french leader calls for rule of law over brutality that's a quote rule of law over brutality
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trump hasn't done anything yet what do you mean brutality what threatening you with a
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10 tariff because you you were trying to because you were goading him that's brutality is it
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hasn't been any brutality yet well at all over greenland thing calm down immacuel emmanuel
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he's such a oh he's such a weirdo i think weirdo so he calls for rule of law over brutality in thinly
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veiled swipe from davos because he's already at davos trump is going there now i believe he's
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he he flew there last night so he's going to set to speak there today on wednesday
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today wednesday the 21st um in thin thinly veiled swipe at davos hours after u.s president
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launches yet another attack on nato allies with rent against keir starmer's chagos silence yeah
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we reported it yesterday that he did a true social didney calling our government and starmer
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guilty of an act of great stupidity or something wasn't it so the papers are still talking about
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that a bit today okay the ft the financial times rift with europe deepens as trump warns no going back
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on greenland u.s leader u.s leader u.s leader firm on seizure i guess of greenland staying firm on it
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hostility rattles investors doesn't take much to rattle the markets to be honest does it
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literally a few words from a lectern and the markets are rattled they panicked a bit
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uk comes under fire i guess from that's from trump on true social prospect of davos talks so when when
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when the donald turns up to uh switzerland davos the ski result of davos in switzerland
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it's expected or obviously it will be the case that he'll he'll get to sit down have a powwow
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for take our take with all the different leaders sort down hopefully hopefully you know iron some
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things out one way or another um i saw trump in a press conference yesterday or overnight um and he
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did say something that was i think sort of interesting or true or telling or whatever it is he says he said
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someone asked him about what's your relationship with starmer and macron and he said oh no they're good
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they're all right i mean they're liberal but they're all right um they need to sort their countries out
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again where's all the liars in any of that but he said when i'm there they're nice to me
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so when i'm not there they like they get up all on their heart you didn't say this this is my
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paraphrasing now when i'm not there they get up all up on their high horse they get all airy and they
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talk big but when i'm there they're sort of meek little kittens and they're always really nice to me
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and sort of you know essentially go along with what i'm doing and what i'm saying and bow down
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again metaphorically it's interesting is it how even in this day and age even when we're talking
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about national governments and billions of pounds and dollars getting thrown all over the place on
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on the strength of a word still it matters if you're physically there if trump's physically in a room with
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starmer or macron then that makes like a world of difference it's interesting people are funny human
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do you find all that sort of thing interesting okay what else has the ft got china wins go ahead for
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vast embassy after spire chiefs our spire chiefs declare risk mitigated there you go so there's a there's
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a problem there saying that the our integer service say oh the risk's not that bad actually uh it's not
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that bad we'll see again i saw other information this morning where it's like mi5 say risk is higher
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than ever or whatever you know you get conflicting reports you really do on that element of it the times
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the venerable times goes with beckham i'm not going to talk about it nothing's changed by the way
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just to quickly say real quick on the beckham story even though it's all over the place nothing has
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changed it's the same story as yesterday in essence okay that's all i'll say that's all i'll say don't
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worry moving on mi5 will move sensitive cables away from china embassy says spies
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they always say spies spooks you work for mi5 or mi6 you're a spook they're all spires
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on a pc you're a spy are you all right yeah okay so there you go there you go right so look at the
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difference between that uh the ft says the risk is mitigated financial times says that they're going
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to move the cables away so oh well i hope they do i really hope they do they they've got to have
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they you've got to surely you can't you can't trust the chinese government not to take the mickey
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that's what they do isn't it they take the michael out of everyone around them all the time every
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opportunity that's their special move that's their signature move isn't it
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to be sneaky and do do anything like that that's in their interest
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untrustworthy as a government i'm not saying that about all chinese people
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the government the ccp the chinese communist party we're just going to trust that they're not
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going to do something like that get real get real we'll work something out trump tells nato
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president attacks britain's quote stupid quote uh chagos deal yeah but so trump is you know he
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wants to work something out with nato i hope they can i really hope they can now but i i step back
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here to step back from it right and as an englishman
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don't i don't really care about greenland right i'd rather those waters are
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i'd rather those waters are controlled by the us navy and coast guard or the danish navy and coast guard
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then completely free for all for russia and china particularly china i would rather that's the case but
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i don't actually really care when i look at it i stand back zoom out calm down take a deep breath
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i look at it i'm like denmark just make a deal if trump's that insistent about it and it is in the
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interests of greenland it is in the interests of the safety of the north atlantic
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then mark just make a deal you're going to get stubborn for no apparent really really good reason
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and force donald trump to do some sort of military intervention you
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why don't you just make a deal and get loads of money for it
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isn't it like an annoyance to you anyway like isn't greenland like a drain on your resources anyway
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haven't most danish people i've ever spoke to always moaned about greenland
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just make a deal surely that's just the expedient thing to do isn't it the prudent thing to do the
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reasonable rational thing to do just make a deal with with the us okay in fact harry i said we're
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going to do a um we're going to do a poll yes have you have you got that is it is it up yet is it live
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yeah yeah it is yeah okay listen there's a lot of interference on your mic oh is it better no so
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i'll turn the mic off and i'll stop talking to you i have to sort that out for tomorrow i don't know if
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you heard that out there it's really really fuzzy like really really poorly tuned in radio station
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don't know what that is we'll have to sort that out we'll look into that okay so apparently there's
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a poll hopefully there's a poll and it was just about greenland i just said do you think trump's
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right about greenland it seems oh there you go harry's just brought it up on my screen the question
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was simply the wording because the wording on any sort of thing is really matters um oh can you bring
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it up again harry it was there now it's gone away again okay is trump doing the right thing with
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greenland and it's come back you guys the glorious band the chosen few the wonderful audience of
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breakfast with bow say that 70 of you say trump is right and 30 say no so although that is right an
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overwhelming win for yes it's not like you know it's not close to unanimous is it 30 percent
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is a decent chunk of view decent chunk of people that say no if it was 90 like you know 90 plus
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percent i'll say you know the general consensus at that point you can say most people or audience
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members of the bow show most of you think that but when it's 30 percent
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fair enough but 70 of you maybe it's skewed because a lot of the uh the audience here
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is like a us not that always not that all us people are going to be of one mind about trump
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and greenland but nonetheless i think like a third of the audience on this show is us people although
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i think that's after the fact as well because it's still very early in the morning isn't it in the us
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still very very very early in the morning on the east coast and it's the middle of the night it was the
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last night even still on the west coast so anyway that's interesting 70 i thought it might be closer
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than that i thought it might be you know knocking 50 50 in and around 50 50 60 40 but no okay 70 30 all
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right at least my take my general take of denmark do a deal seeing your interests and everyone's
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interest isn't it at least that's not completely off the mark and 98 of you hate that view and disagree
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with that view all right okay pardon me let's carry on police wanted let me to face 11 further charges
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charges yeah and the cps have said no so if the police think there's 11 extra charges on top of
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everything else i don't know okay the eye paper raf and navy i guess royal navy in talks to join
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nato force in arctic yes if you remember yesterday uh we sent one guy britain sent one guy to greenland
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in that sort of nato nominally nato effort to send troops and do exercises in greenland
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we said one guy maybe we're going to send more stuff now rf and navy all against trump's wishes
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and the state department's wishes of course surveillance units from uk military could join a
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tripwire that's quite a tripwire quote of troops stationed in greenland don't really know what i mean
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by a trip i've never really heard that particularly in in sort of military parlance
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a tripwire a tripwire of troops is that new i don't know okay nato allies shot up security to reassure
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skeptical donald trump that europe can defend itself
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in yourself against who exactly russia is it again it's all about that
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just don't think right i just don't think putin and russia is a military threat
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yeah that's a street in extremely old-fashioned view a cold war view
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has got massed tank divisions on the border of east and west germany and it's just a matter of time
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to those those armored divisions dozens maybe hundreds of armored soviet tank divisions
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bounce into the plains of west germany and everyone all of europe and america will have to fight a world
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war three in the plains of west germany because the soviets plan to get all the way to the channel and
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maybe beyond we don't like that's not what putin's it's a million miles away from what putin is doing
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or thinking or capable of even we don't live in that world okay the eye paper understands arctic
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development uh arctic deployment could include sea and air reconnaissance units including boeing p8
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poseidon maritime aircraft used by raf to monitor russia's shadow fleet yeah that poseidon is sort of a
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cutting edge cutting edge airplane thing i'm very interested in military and civil aviation on the
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podcast of the lotus eaters a lot of sorry on the website lotus eaters.com on my channel or my show
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epochs bodades epochs i've got a bit of content there where i talk about the history of military and civil
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aviation in conversation with tim davies raf squadron leader retired tim davies who knows
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his onions knows a thing or two about aircraft military aircraft actually flew fast jets for a living
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so anyway fascinated by the let me just carry on with the news that p8 poseidon aircraft is sort of
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a cutting edge thing and we may be sending according to this report we may be sending it there only norway
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germany and the uk have p8 poseidon planes designed for anti-submarine warfare i mean well we germany and
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britain we're gonna start tracking and doing exercises against and maybe looking to actually do uh hot operations
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against u.s submarines it's all nonsense isn't it it's not none of that's gonna happen it's not about
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it's all a bit of a storm in a teacup isn't it really i think and the paper but the papers love
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it don't they they've got to sell they've got to sell their papers so they love it but whether nato's
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going to like actually you know go to war with itself or the european nato countries against the us
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over greenland so so right we i think we can all agree that's not going to happen although it seems
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to me that's a very very very very very crazily unlikely event no one's really talking about that
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or even realistically suggesting to happen that's not going to happen right so then it begs the
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question why are why are we sending why is like germany france britain finland whatever sending uh
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hardware to greenland and doing exercises there you've got no intention you're not going to war with
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the pentagon are you so what are you doing so what are you doing it's just all performative
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virtue signaling we hate the donald crap like get over that get over that and do a deal with him
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right the metro online rent stuns world not really
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not really let's talk about trump's talk about trump's truth social post from like over a day
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ago or two days ago is it now they're only just getting around to it uh the one where he said
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about the chagos islands and the and that the the british government is stupid
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all that sort of thing online rents not rents pretty reasonable statement stuns world not really
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only if you're only if you're only if you're a hand-wringing pearl-clutching tds victim
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if you ever got a metro anyone out there in the london area
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you'll know then you'll know exactly what i'm saying exactly what i mean
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it's really really thin for a start there's barely anything to it
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and it's just it's just classic globalist multicultural race communist tds
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ball plop every single day without fail the angle of everything they do and say
00:29:46.700
it's the worst it's the pits all right the torograph daily telegraph fix your country trump tells starmer
00:29:51.900
yeah he's right well yeah yeah starmer fix our country he's got no intention of doing any such
00:29:58.540
thing as he it's a picture of wills the prince of wales who will be king one day assuming he outlives
00:30:06.940
his father which he should there's no reason why he shouldn't i don't know why i went there with that
00:30:12.780
he will be king one day the man who would be king william there looking happy with a pint
00:30:20.060
all right mps uh demand review of let be convictions as cases closed so yeah that's to say it's just
00:30:27.100
some serious people have got proper concerns about the let be conviction even even mps
00:30:37.420
all right i'll move on from that because i really don't know when it's quite a serious thing like that
00:30:42.220
they're like loads of babies died right it's really serious it's the furthest thing from flipping
00:30:46.620
it's the furthest thing from something i want to give a proper take on without knowing admitting to
00:30:53.260
myself i don't know enough about it so we'll just move on from that okay the daily express so it's a good
00:31:11.340
oh kemi badenoch the nigerian woman who leads the conservative party has said pm is out of his depth
00:31:18.940
in new world order you're out of your depth love you're way out of your depth struggling to keep
00:31:27.740
your head above the water way way way out of her depth although she's not wrong on that starmer too
00:31:34.940
is out of his depth it's funny the three the three leaders three biggest leaders in in in our political
00:31:40.220
system the prime minister secure starmer or lukemi badenoch and edward davy the leader of the libdem
00:31:49.340
all three of those people are terribly out of their depth aren't they aren't they all three of them
00:31:57.420
for kemi to say to starmer you're out of your depth that's actually funny to me
00:32:03.980
she's actually more out of her depth than he is even though he is i think she's more so in my opinion
00:32:11.500
and then they're not serious people they're not statesmen are they they're not they're not great
00:32:15.100
intellects they're not experts or masters in anything they're like they're joke they're joke
00:32:22.060
people ed davy the most is a real joke of a man right and as a as a political mind their particular
00:32:28.780
their political acumen their sort of being their their razor-sharp political nous
00:32:38.140
all three of those people don't have never never shown to me have shown any of that any whatsoever
00:32:50.620
tory leader kemi badenoch says trump quote is dead right quote over al chagos surrender
00:33:06.460
yeah gotta give her that but i mean when you're in opposition
00:33:10.140
it's usually the case that you just disagree with the government at every turn
00:33:15.580
not every turn of course if they're just sort of obviously slam dunk morally and ethically correct
00:33:22.140
on something or the government happens to say something that's one of your keystone policies then
00:33:26.940
you agree but if it's anything that's a bit shaky you try and find any crack in the government's
00:33:31.420
argument in the government's position don't you um and if it's something you genuinely disagree with
00:33:42.060
um then you will so the chagos islands you know for a conservative it should be a it should be a
00:33:46.620
a slam dunk argument to be able to make you're dead wrong on that yeah and that the president is dead right on it
00:33:56.860
don't be too proud i think to agree with people that you don't like and most of the time disagree with
00:34:02.860
right for example for example i was for example you know i was happy when the maduro was captured
00:34:07.420
or happyish it could still destabilize venezuela um but that just just so happens to line me up with
00:34:15.500
people that i really really don't like and i'm not comfortable agreeing with but that's the way it is
00:34:21.020
right so i agree that trump is dead right about the chagos islands and that lines me up that puts me in
00:34:26.140
bed politically with kemi badenoch oh so be it i don't like kemi badenoch i hate her pretty much
00:34:33.260
hate her i think she's you know fifth columnist whatever all those things she was a traitor she
00:34:39.180
was in government wasn't she for a big chunk of those 14 years it's a big part of the problem
00:34:45.340
but i agree with her on that never be too proud to do that don't cut your nose off to spite your face
00:34:51.100
all right let's keep moving on the daily star what slop have they given us oh they're becks it's just becks
00:34:58.700
the daily mail most of the front page about the beckhams although now the other bit is mi5 warning
00:35:06.460
to kowtow kia as pm gives china go ahead for super embassy security service says uh it can't eliminate
00:35:16.460
the risks okay there's quite mixed messages isn't it one of the early headlines was saying well we're
00:35:22.860
just going to move the thing so it should be a wrap the risk will be mitigated because we're just going
00:35:26.700
to move the the thing don't worry about it we're all good bro but there it says we can't we can't
00:35:36.700
keir starmer doesn't care what mi5 says on this he obviously doesn't care he's had months and months
00:35:41.980
and months well his whole time in office really to ponder it and think about it and come to a measured
00:35:46.700
decision all that stuff just decided to do it so why he would care at this stage that mi5 are going oh
00:35:52.940
actually there is still actually it's a bit of a risk though he doesn't care he obviously doesn't
00:36:04.940
sex lies and videotape beck's lies and videotape how funny oh how funny the sun is
00:36:13.500
okay let's go with the um the actual websites then bbc verifier like the bbc trying to remind
00:36:26.060
you they're the arbiters of all truth verifier we always tell the truth in everything we say
00:36:31.900
and report but also there's this other extra layer of verification we do for you on your behalf
00:36:36.620
bbc don't trust them do you not trust them the vast majority of the time photos leaked to bbc
00:36:45.340
show faces of hundreds killed in iran's brutal protest crackdown
00:36:51.260
right does it something actually interesting to say i think
00:36:56.300
um what the news omits on any given day is interesting isn't it isn't it remember wasn't
00:37:05.420
that long ago basically a week ago this time last week maybe a bit more towards the beginning of
00:37:10.140
last week it was wall to wall iran wasn't it everything's going off in iran all the thousands
00:37:17.660
of killings in iran it's like the the worst thing since 1979 as far as the ayatollah's regime is
00:37:25.180
concerned you know on and on and on wall to wall and now just a little dicky bird basically i mean
00:37:32.380
that's a story there but you know on the front pages and even on the websites last couple of
00:37:36.780
days if you remember we had to look at i mean reasonable detail to me hardly anything basically
00:37:40.700
nothing about iran just gone quiet about that now
00:37:47.180
the editors and all the powers that be have decided
00:37:51.980
it's not interesting now there's nothing to see here nothing to talk about innocence
00:38:05.900
it's it's it's pretty evil the way the legacy corporate mainstream media operate how they conduct
00:38:14.860
how clear it is really that the whole thing all of it is a gender driven
00:38:20.940
folks it's not in their interest now because it looks like those protests
00:38:24.220
aren't going to well they're not going to result in the imminent
00:38:28.780
collapse of the mullahs and the ayatollah's regime in the islamic republic of iran so
00:38:36.700
that's not in line with the angle the take that the corporate mainstream media was taking
00:38:40.780
it's basically an embarrassment what they were sort of saying was going to happen
00:38:44.540
is not going to happen that's slightly embarrassing to them so that's it so just don't talk about it anymore
00:38:48.300
yeah it's like when there's a murder like a really bad murder and they think it was done by an evil
00:38:53.740
white man turns out it was done by a brown person so they just never talk about it again how many
00:38:58.380
times have we seen that how many times have we had that a few times i remember the damalola taylor case
00:39:04.380
if anyone out there's british old enough will remember there was a little black boy who'd come
00:39:09.260
over from africa damalola taylor and he got stabbed to death sadly of course sadly he was only little
00:39:15.580
he's i don't know what is he 10 12 maybe 13 i don't know he's quite he was a kid
00:39:20.860
and he got stabbed in the leg in like a stairwell somewhere and they thought it was the powers that
00:39:27.020
be the well the bbc the mainstream media assumed it had been a racist killing by some white boys
00:39:35.580
and so his name was plastered all over the place all the time for years it was like damn alone
00:39:39.740
say they didn't catch the killers for quite a few years and it was like stephen lawrence
00:39:45.660
he's like the name damalola taylor was like stephen lawrence it was in the headlines all the time
00:39:49.740
damalola taylor was sort of shorthand for uh racism racist violence and stuff finally they
00:39:55.740
caught the killers as two brown boys never hear a peep about damalola taylor ever again literally never
00:40:02.860
ever his name will never ever come up again that's what we're dealing with right iran iran it's
00:40:11.420
waterball iran we're gonna have we're gonna have regime change stop it don't talk about it nothing
00:40:22.060
bit cynical that's being kind isn't it that it's a bit cynical to behave like that that the argument
00:40:29.500
that you're simply reporting what's going on in the world like objectively fair-handedly fair-mindedly
00:40:36.060
it's not what's going on is it it's obviously not what's going on these people right trump doubles
00:40:43.580
down on greenland ahead of davos visit says there is uh no going back yeah that was the thing
00:40:49.260
that donald said and people say you know are you gonna you you know you should you turn it's the
00:40:53.660
right thing to do the denmark nato the european countries are wrong and trump's like no there's
00:40:57.740
no going back now i'm committed to this do a deal demar do a deal
00:41:08.620
an opinion piece from the bbc says trump is shaking the world order more than any president since world
00:41:12.940
war ii um yeah i don't know i don't know about that i mean nixon and lbj shook the world a bit i would
00:41:21.100
say more than donald trump i don't know is it it's an interesting thing to say it's quite a statement
00:41:28.620
to say that shaking the world order more than any president since world war ii i mean ike made some
00:41:34.140
big moves back in the 50s i think we used to i think people of my generation and younger and maybe
00:41:42.940
a little bit older than me me in my mid-40s and younger we're used to a world that's pretty
00:41:51.020
in the west anyway that's pretty placid it's been pretty placid some historians have called
00:41:57.260
uh called it the long peace since 1945 the long peace we used to kind of used to a world you know
00:42:05.180
i was born and raised all my formative years are in the 1980s and 90s we used to a world where there
00:42:10.140
aren't big seismic changes we used to our whole experience is the cold war petering out and coming to an end
00:42:16.940
world nothing more than that nothing more seismic than that well most of history is much more
00:42:25.660
turbulent most of nearly all the time to have a long peace that lasts like 70 odd years knocking 80
00:42:32.860
years whatever it is that's actually quite unusual in the sweep of history so i think we're just not a
00:42:40.060
lot of people and not sort of used to bigger moves going off all over the place but that is more than
00:42:49.340
all um yeah and the waters are you know not going to be quite as tranquil as they were in the 1990s let's
00:42:56.780
say i think there was a particularly low ebb in human history for drama sort of the 1980s 1990s early 2000s
00:43:07.020
i think we're just moving out of those remarkably calm waters that's all really it's not that like
00:43:15.180
it's not that trump is trump's more like the no a president who acts like trump
00:43:19.820
is more more the norm than not i think leaders that act like putin or xi
00:43:29.340
that's more than all again throughout the 80s 90s early 2000s the leaders of russia and china was sort of
00:43:35.980
very quiet really in the scheme of things it's not they didn't do anything but you know in the
00:43:39.820
scheme of things it's pretty dialed down well we're just moving out of that phase that's all it is
00:43:46.460
that's all it is don't worry don't worry too much it's not like people say there was one chat where
00:43:52.380
was it i saw it someone put a chat uh right at the beginning of the show before we'd even started
00:43:58.140
can you can you quickly get the super chats up harry
00:44:00.620
someone said yeah principled uncertainty who i like and follows me on twitter and stuff is good
00:44:06.940
guy he said it's time to accept reality the emperor has gone mental curtis was right it's time time to
00:44:14.380
dig a bunker and pretend it was all a lot yeah i'd say no don't the emperor hasn't gone mental it's more
00:44:22.460
normal if anything like the idea that curtis yavin anyway i don't trust him as far as i could throw
00:44:28.140
him um that it's time is everything's going to hell in a handbasket it's time to get in the anderson
00:44:34.300
shelters it's time to build a bunker and give up on the world it's all done for no no no no you've
00:44:38.620
lost perspective no no you've lost perspective we've been in extremely calm waters and now there's a
00:44:44.860
little bit of a ripple that's all that's all that's going on a little bit of a ripple trump talking
00:44:49.740
big about greenland calm down it's not it's not that it's not that bad it's not that big of a deal
00:44:59.740
i would say that's my opinion okay driver killed in spain train crash days after high speed collision
00:45:04.700
yeah so apparently there's been another train crash in spain not quite as deadly this time but still
00:45:10.780
people have died so a second you know big train crash in spain where at least the driver was killed
00:45:18.380
uk homes to get 11 billion pounds for solar and green tech to cut energy bills
00:45:24.140
you know they want they want everyone to have solar panels on their roofs don't they if you live in
00:45:27.900
a house that is driving test cheats cheating soars as candidates turn to bluetooth headsets
00:45:35.900
and impersonators what how does that make any sense how can you
00:45:39.180
i don't care okay move on from that and then the beckham so they're moving into slop so we shall we
00:45:46.220
shall move on all right what's the itv news saying oh it's nearly quarter two let's get on let's move
00:45:52.860
whip through these a bit trump says you'll find out about greenland people saying what are your plans
00:45:58.460
then okay if you must have it if you're insisting that you must have it what are your actual plans
00:46:04.300
what you're going to do then and it's like you'll find out again if it is military intervention anyway
00:46:10.060
he's not going to tell them because obviously you're not going to obvious said that a number of times
00:46:15.420
whenever he's going to do something military and people ask him it's like don't don't ask me that
00:46:20.060
obviously i'm not going to tell you the actual military operations like the order of battle i'm
00:46:25.660
not going to tell you that give me a break um all right let's move whip through a bit because i'd like
00:46:29.740
to get to some science news we got some feedback yesterday where people said they was interested to
00:46:32.780
see a bit of science news or space news even so let's see if we can get to that sky news
00:46:39.740
let's go yeah let's just let's just move on oh yeah daily mail look at the state of the daily
00:46:44.220
mail trump uh sorry beckham beckham a beckham story a second a third a fourth beckham story
00:46:52.860
trump's trump heads for davos after air force one electrical fault drama and issues new greenland
00:46:58.380
threat yeah so that's a little bit of a story that is a air force one plane had some sort of issue
00:47:03.580
on its way flying to switzerland and he had to turn back i think that i'm pretty sure there's two air
00:47:08.620
force one planes like two identical ones like a backup one a contingency one so when you see air force one
00:47:15.100
there's actually there's two more or less identical ones of those you had to turn back and um getting
00:47:20.700
the other one it's not much of a story is it it's not a big deal really but seen a few headlines
00:47:25.980
more one headline all about that there you go the express lead with beckham the sun leads with
00:47:32.140
beckham there's one story in here wasn't there if i scroll down a bit there's one story i saw in the
00:47:36.620
sun that i thought was it was interesting um let's see if i can find it well zoe bull's got a new
00:47:43.340
boyfriend someone set a statue of cristiano ronaldo a lot you know oh yeah vegan yeah yeah i'm one of
00:47:50.460
those people who thinks that shamina begum it's right that she'd been a shamina begum was stripped
00:47:56.300
of her citizenship and then it went all the way to the highest court in the land for her appeal which
00:48:03.660
she then lost so i think that's good i think that's right i don't want somebody like her i don't want
00:48:09.340
an is islamist reformed or otherwise in my country and i don't believe the thing that she was groomed
00:48:15.580
against her will to leave the country when she was 15. she was just a kid she didn't know what she
00:48:19.740
was doing she was manipulated into it one i don't think that's the case i really don't think that's
00:48:25.420
the case and two at 15 you don't know the difference between right and wrong like at 15 you don't know
00:48:32.220
because it was already known that isis you know like behead people set people on fire in a cage
00:48:37.100
all that sort of thing and at 15 she didn't know she couldn't understand what was wrong anyway i don't
00:48:42.380
believe it i don't she did loads of terrible things didn't she she showed little to no remorse that her
00:48:50.060
babies had died there's reports that she sewn explosives into vests on behalf of isis fighters
00:48:57.980
she was part of the morality police within the isis regime oh no no no no she said was it like the
00:49:05.660
manchester arena bomb she expressed sympathy for the uh the attacking the attacker of the manchester
00:49:20.060
why on earth people would argue to have her back why on earth some sort of thing like peter hitchens the
00:49:28.860
christian angle forgiveness we must forgive them no i'm not forgiving her no i'm not forgiving her
00:49:37.180
an absurd take all right the new york slimes trump heads to davos amid deep worries about us european
00:49:48.380
there you go trump says you'll find out how far we'll go on greenland air force one turns back
00:49:53.020
has france's president finally lost his personal touch with trump he never had a personal touch with
00:49:57.100
trump like trump were ever warned to macron and was like a big good buddy with macron
00:50:02.620
as if never all right let's have a look at this with just a few minutes left let's see if we can
00:50:09.500
get some science news and or space news okay news from space
00:50:16.620
no ball this australian cow has learned to use tools an australian cow has learned to use tools
00:50:23.420
has it with its hoofs nasa ends support for planetary science advisory group
00:50:29.980
that's a shame but nasa funding does seem to you know get smaller and smaller over the years
00:50:36.300
i wish they still had a shuttle program or a few or a newer updated version of the shuttle in some way
00:50:43.100
because to get to the international space station or anything like that you have to go up
00:50:46.700
the russians have to send you on like a soyuz capsule or the chinese
00:50:50.060
companies right the americans nasa haven't got a proper delivery service to get to and from the
00:50:57.100
space station um not that britain has britain hasn't even got any sort of space station boris
00:51:03.500
wanted to build one didn't he in cornwall there was talk of it there was plans of it
00:51:09.100
and then whitehall or this or the subsequent government said uh yeah no i'm not going to do that
00:51:13.980
but we're part of isa aren't we the european space agency
00:51:20.620
britain do as is actually quite good that's one of the things we don't make steel anymore
00:51:25.020
or get coal out of the ground or manufacture many things but one of the things britain does do is
00:51:29.420
like super super high-end technology and manufacturing you know like stuff for space
00:51:34.860
for example stuff like that aerospace cutting edge aerospace stuff we actually do that quite well
00:51:39.820
sort of world leader in some in some ways um so yeah quite often sometimes anyway british companies
00:51:48.380
that like build or help build components for satellites and stuff like that so um but yeah
00:51:54.140
i wish nasa did have like a a modern shuttle shuttle shuttle equivalent program it's a shame they
00:52:00.300
it's real shame they don't i wonder if they will you can blame obama for cutting that i blame obama
00:52:13.500
it's big mike's birthday the other day see that
00:52:17.900
nasa is making last ditch attempt to contact tumbling mars orbiter yeah that's a shame it was
00:52:22.540
one of the mars orbiters you people might have heard of the the mro the mars reconnaissance orbiter
00:52:27.660
but there's actually quite a few various um orbiters around mars and that one what one was
00:52:35.500
it i can't remember exactly which one was it uh but it's been tumbling it's coming to the end of
00:52:39.900
its life anyway uh maven that was it the maven mars orbiter um it's been up there for 12 years
00:52:49.020
not a bad innings i think it was about the time they expected it to die anyway i think or maybe it
00:52:54.140
even done slightly better than expected getting 12 years out of an orbiter not too bad not too bad
00:53:00.300
might hope for more sometimes it's funny about spacecraft various things uh probes and orbiters and
00:53:06.620
and landers even sometimes they like die straight away more or less for whatever reason sometimes they
00:53:17.340
occasionally they they do like the the voyager probes going way out beyond the solar system
00:53:28.620
still alive occasionally sending back data we sent them out in the 70s the 1970s and they're still
00:53:35.820
working honey all right so yeah unfortunately maven started tumbling and it's it's gone basically
00:53:43.500
it's almost certainly just dead it's gone shame shame what can you do what can you do there's no
00:53:52.300
rescue mission possible for that you can't fix it like hubble that time remember that hubble in the
00:53:57.660
90s had to fix it i've actually had to fix hubble in inverted commas fix uh more than once i think
00:54:04.540
there's been two or even three missions to do that all right just space news then star lab the power of
00:54:11.180
scale designed to scale human presence science and industry in space star lab cool yeah cool
00:54:23.020
i can't wait for i can't wait for um artemis 2 well i can't wait for artemis 3 when humans go back to
00:54:28.780
the moon hopefully this year or next year and i hope they'll be able to sort of in various ways sort of
00:54:34.860
prove it beyond any doubt sort of be able to have sort of an overwhelming level of proof that it's
00:54:41.100
it's real it's not a psyop it's not just all done on a set in hollywood or something you know that it's
00:54:46.780
all just it's all just a bit of um desert it's just like you know the mojave desert at night and
00:54:53.660
they've played around with camera settings to make it look like the moon i hope they'll be able i really
00:54:57.740
do hope they'll be able to sort of illustrate that it's a hundred percent definitely real and it will
00:55:03.020
put to bed um the the naysayers of people that say like you can't go to the moon we're not going to
00:55:09.740
the moon that's all a liar we'll see well hopefully all right defense appropriations bill for 2026 funds
00:55:18.140
space force at 26 billion dollars presses pentagon on golden dome yeah so there's there's the the
00:55:26.060
the us actually has space force doesn't it like a whole extra arm of the of the military essentially
00:55:31.580
right so they've got the the army the navy the air force the marine corps at the coast guard and space
00:55:38.860
force 26 billion now to an englishman or anyone else in the world that sounds like a fantastic amount of
00:55:45.980
money right like james webb only cost nine or ten billion that's like a 20-year project one of the
00:55:52.620
greatest things well it is the greatest tool mankind has ever produced that only cost in the
00:55:57.580
order of nine to ten billion over 20 years so getting 26 billion a year for that year's budget
00:56:05.580
i think that's what it is um seems like a fantastic amount of money well it is obviously a fantastic
00:56:10.780
amount of money but is it a great deal in the scheme of what space force is what they try to
00:56:16.380
achieve i.e complete full spectrum dominance of space i don't know i don't know it's interesting
00:56:23.660
it's interesting all right we're getting towards the top of the hour i did have a conversation with
00:56:28.540
the editors and even mr karl benjamin yesterday saying i don't have to stop at the stroke of nine
00:56:34.380
so i'm not going to be constrained to do that to try and wrap everything up get all my timing so that
00:56:38.700
on the stroke of nine or one minute past nine everything's wrapped up um that's an arbitrary
00:56:43.340
that's a self-imposed arbitrary thing so but i won't go much past nine unless it's a day where
00:56:49.420
i've got tons and tons to say and there's loads and loads of absolutely fascinating news which must
00:56:53.340
be discussed in depth in which case i will but um so today i'll start i'll start wrapping it up but um
00:57:01.020
no need to worry about finishing bang on the stroke of nine all right what's the last tab we've got oh yeah
00:57:08.060
on this day all right let's do little five minutes because people like this that was the other bit of
00:57:11.180
feedback we got yesterday that a lot of people were saying they liked this day in history segment
00:57:16.940
at the end at the end of the show and i really like it gives me a chance to show off doesn't it
00:57:25.260
that's what it's all about isn't it showing off anyone that's a content creator
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you're just showing off that was the thing i was taught when i was raised that's one of the worst
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things you can do stop showing off all right on this day in history 21st of january in the year 1525
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swiss anabaptist movement is born when a bunch of people whose names i won't bother reading out
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and a dozen others baptize each other in the name of one of their mothers in zurich breaking a thousand
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year tradition of church state union yeah the anabaptist very sort of interesting sector of um
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breakaway sect of protestantism the anabaptists anabaptism is like means sort of re-baptism
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one of their many ideas they're like puritans they're like the purest of the pure puritans almost
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it's not exactly right people that know their history really well will say that's very low
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resolution to say that but anyway they're certainly protestants they're certainly not catholics their
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idea was that if you baptize a baby that's not sort of righteous because the baby had no choice
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you've got to be an adult with a reasonable rational mind and know exactly what you're doing
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before you can accept the word before you can accept sort of the light of jesus christ into your soul
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so there's something wrong with baptizing babies it's not like wait till they're wait till they know
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about the gospels and everything before and then let that person of their own free volition
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get baptized and then it's all good then it's square then heaven's happy so anabaptism is like re-baptism
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like you know adult baptism is a thing to stay isn't it
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of course in the 16th century i didn't go down very well with the catholic church the popes were not
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fans of anabaptists in fact in catholic controlled areas they'd try and round up and kill all the
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anabaptists if they could there's a great story about uh munster the city of munster in modern day
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germany where the anabaptists took it over and the catholics besieged it the prince bishop the
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catholic prince bishop of munster besieged his own town which had been seized and captured and
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controlled by the the rebel heretic anabaptists brilliant story brilliant brilliant brilliant
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story dan carlin's got a great podcast on that prophets of doom one of the early dan carlin ones
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one of my favorite podcasts of all time it's long form for four hours brilliant brilliant story okay
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quite often the execution for anabaptists was drowning and so the catholics or even other protestant
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sects who were at odds with them would say that's your third baptism your first baptism when when
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you was a little baby which you didn't recognize your second adult baptism when you became an anabaptist
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and your third one when we execute you want to be baptized how about that okay let's move on in this
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on this day in history in 1789 the first american novel william hill brown's the power of sympathy
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is published by Isaiah thomas i must admit i've not read that the power of sympathy i don't even know
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about it so can't say much about that i'm sorry there's any william hill brown fans out there i can
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only apologize in 1793 louis the sixteenth of france is executed by guillotine in paris following his
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conviction for higher treason by the newly created french parliament the convention national during the
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french revolution yeah there's lots of made content all about the french revolutions one or two early
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early epochs all about it if you remember the not too long ago a few days ago there was we did a thing
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it came up on this day in history that he was convicted well they cut his head off pretty quickly didn't
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they within a couple of days they they locked his head off um they had him under arrest really there's
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this story about the very famous important story in the in the life of louis the 16th where they had
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him under arrest and even the most of the real real hardliners weren't particularly arguing for his
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execution somewhere but it looked unlikely that they were gonna earlier in 17 in the 1790s
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because it all kicked off big time in 1789 didn't it so in those intervening years they just had him
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essentially under arrest and only the hardest lion people were calling for his execution and it didn't
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look like they were going to execute him but then he tried to escape well he pretended he was sort of
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on side with their calls basically but then he had tried to try to escape and obviously if he not
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obviously but the story is that if he had of escaped he would have then become the figurehead or if not the
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leaders of armies various sort of uh foreign armies or even french french renegade french uh exiled
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aristocrats and armies would be led into france to try and defeat the the revolutionaries so when
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after he tried to escape which he failed to he nearly got away really nearly got away but he failed
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they brought him back to paris now like right we've got a we've got to execute you
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whilst you're alive you're a proper problem we can't have you breathing anymore because
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you will always be sort of a lightning rod for our enemies so off when your head i'm afraid louie
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in 1452 nehru's congress party wins india's first general election yeah it's a big big moment big moment
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in 1968 the battle of caisson begins at the caisson airbase one of the most publicized and controversial
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battles of the vietnam war they're very interesting one i'm also fascinated by vietnam it's one of the
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things when i was young or a teenager started my um started my fascination with history um
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vietnam so yeah case i was a big one that's one of those ones where um classic sort of vietnam when it
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came to an any sort of set piece battle when the north vietnamese vietnam showed up in any real
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force and tried to take on the us forces in an actual battle they get their ass is absolutely handed
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to them that was one of the things the americans always have always done very very well particularly
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in the second half of the 20th century by 1968 on the actual battlefield if you try and go toe-to-toe
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with them you will lose you will be outgunned and out fought out generaled but of course that's not
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what a lot of vietnam was about was it was about search and destroy missions going into the jungle and
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getting ambushed um yeah case on the biggest basically the biggest battle yeah the u.s air force base at
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case on the north vietnamese tried to attack it got whooped they got whoop lard all right okay let's uh
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start rounding out let's have a look at the uh the rumble rants and the super chats okay on the rumble
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rants uh cater is peribus says uh 100 million dollars 1946 dollars is 1.9 billion in 2026 dollars
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okay i i can't remember why was i talking about 100 million dollars in 1946 i can't remember i'm sorry
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but yeah that's inflation for you look that's inflation for you same person says harry truman
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tried to buy green oh sorry you've explained yourself there sorry harry truman tried to buy
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greenland for 100 million dollars 100 million dollars in gold in 1946 sorry okay that all makes sense now
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so at those prices i wonder if trump offers the denmark two billion dollars is that a fair price
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is that a good deal it's probably quite cheap i think denmark could probably ask for more than that
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you know if america's prepared to spend 26 billion dollars a year on space force
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they could spare more than two bill for greenland you know the greenland could if they do do a deal
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they could ask for and like reasonably get quite a few billion quite a few billion i mean it's a
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massive bit of land greenland it's my it's mostly glacier isn't it but who knows the resources under
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there god knows who knows fantastic riches potentially and just for strategic purpose it's
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worth more than a low number of billions right if elon bought twitter for what was it 44 billion
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surely greenland's worth as much as twitter well not surely i don't know maybe not
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what do you think okay exile 29 says uh the cables argument with the chinese embassy is a red herring
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an embassy that size gives them the ability to scale up intelligence activity in the in the uk
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should be stopped on principle fair point good point yeah right no good point
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i agree with you i said in an earlier bow show what was it last week or even in the first week of
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the bow show i said i wouldn't have sold them the land at all i wouldn't have let them buy
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that real estate at school let alone the ability to renovate the premises however they like
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including underground rooms that they want to build and then gray out on the on the on the blueprints
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yeah i wouldn't let them the chinese come to i'm prime minister the chinese ambassador or the chinese
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government let let me know that they want to buy that i'll be like no kidding me of course not
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of course that's the royal mint in fact thanks for reminding me we're going to turn it into a museum
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the entire royal mint complex and more no you can't have that he's right on general principle
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yeah do i want dozens hundreds maybe thousands it will be thousands actually i think it'll be thousands
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of chinese embassy workers diplomats in inverted commas in london no no it's all spy games
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it's all espionage and counter espionage don't want them get out of my country all right um youtube super
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chats i read that one by a principle of uncertainty about that the world has gone like reality the
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emperor has gone mad what's the next one he's in the silence says my island uh my island just reach
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adelaide oh okay hopefully english uh nationalists don't get prescribed as a hate group so it won't be
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my last yeah hopefully yeah hopefully the home office doesn't just say like new culture forum and
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lotus eaters you're just domestic terrorists now and you're done that's the end of the story fingers
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crossed you never know do you right paul joseph watson goes off to gitmo bay in an orange jumpsuit let's hope not
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yeah i shouldn't laugh it's not funny is it luke stewart 6155 says g'day bo
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quite enjoy your 6pm hour news segment since since to hear what's going on in the world we're dealing
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with a shark attack down south and a crocodile attack up north and we had a dingo attack
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um so obviously an aussie there um oh yeah how good i uh that's the thing the brits always say about
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the aussies isn't it that um you've got like dangerous wildlife there sharks gators dingoes
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extremely poisonous spiders and snakes and stuff we got nothing here and that's why the aussies think
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we're just like whinging palms we're just like wussies we're wussies compared to aussies
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now there's literally there's hardly anything dangerous in britain like an adder the worst
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snake we've got is an adder and they're very very very rare anyway very very rare uh no big
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properly dangerous spiders nothing like that no wildlife other than the beast of bodmin there's no
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like actual big predators in the wild like a badger or a fox is the worst you'll get or a deer might
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a male deer might try and like run at you it's a bit worrying isn't it but beyond that and that would
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be super rare deers are mostly skittish aren't they so there's no real dangerous wildlife in britain
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where you go down under you've got funnel webs in the corner of the room you have to check your shoes
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in case there's a a lethally dangerous spider in your shoe don't ever paddle in the sea great white
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great white alavia don't go paddling in the in the creek a croc croc could get you okay
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next one uh reverend north reverend north says uh it is a matter of perspective uh but from a us
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perspective a greater good of the west perspective it is right i guess you're talking about um
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uh the greenland thing the eu refused to see china as an enemy yeah it's weird isn't it
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yeah it's weird why are they why do they refuse to see their own intelligence services tell them they
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are anyone with an ounce of sense can see they are so why are they pretending they're not
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good point yeah fair enough hex 1986 says canada and france bend to china us is the bastion can't disagree
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with you i can't disagree with you it's a statement of fact isn't it not at this point
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reverend north again says i prefer denmark and europe keeping it and keeping china out i prefer denmark
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and europe keeping it and keeping china out right okay they simply refuse to yeah it seems like they
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are they seems like the future i don't know denmark's got the the the budget to keep china
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out of greenland if it wanted to hasn't got the budget it's not a big enough country it's not big
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enough populist enough and rich enough for that for that task and again that's not a dig at demo i'm not
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trying to dig out denmark here isn't it just not a matter of reality
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even if they went on you know even if they went on a hundred percent total war footing total economy
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everything geared every person in the country straining to to make a big enough navy military navy
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it would still wouldn't be enough would it i don't think denmark's not very big
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all right there you go yeah it says they simply refuse to um i've been i've been to the us i would
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not tolerate china in greenland either oh oh sorry had i been the us i would not tolerate china on
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greenland either yeah if you look at it from their point of view like i said the other day you look at
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it from a hexis point of view so why are we putting up with this denmark you're our closest ally are you
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like so you've got to do something somebody's got to do something about this and you're not going to
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are you i think all right uh jacobwolf6288 um doesn't say anything but just sends 10 bucks thank you for
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that same person does say something um oh wait wait sorry my things just glitched out bear with me two
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seconds okay jacobwolf then sends another 10 bucks and says genuine question uh is it wise for the us
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to declare martial law over the minnesota issue within the week or is it more wise to wait until
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until i'll after three until after the midterms um i mean interesting question fair question
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i don't know i don't know the answer to that i could just give you my opinion
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i would say don't worry about the midterms too much if law and order is at stake you can't just
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sort of wait really it's not like that chad do you remember chad or the chas enclave in uh was it in
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port was it in portland was in oregon or uh the washington state i can't remember you remember chas though
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now that seemed like more like a situation where it was okay for trump to just sort of sit back fold his
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arms it's like go on then let's watch it play out yeah i could send in the national guard i could send
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in hundreds of thousands of riot police to start thumping some skulls but do you know what let's
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just watch it sort of self-improach you know i don't think that i don't think the ice situation
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minnesota is really that i feel like you've got to get my personal opinion again kind of got to get a
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handle on it right away straight away you can't just wait for the midterms that would be my feeling
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but i don't know who knows your question is a good question and um there's no necessarily
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right or wrong answer to it it's just whatever you would feel but there we go okay sketch sketch
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therapy 1218 says uh nato can't militarily defend itself from immigration and infiltration
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uh why i trust you uk will be the first muslim nuclear power in nato but not the last
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so dupes 149 says driving test cheating will lead to highway deaths yeah probably will yeah
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yeah unfortunately yeah that's sort of third wells for third welders for you largely don't care
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daniels bocker says i want another 40k carnival thingy of trump
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with with macrony being horus or something funny also i can't wait for island of fire the first four
01:15:43.500
were were were a jolly to read oh thank you yeah good uh luke stewart 6164 says um please read super
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okay um jack white 5073 i want to read the jack white from the white stripes
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i doubt uh oh for 20 bucks though thank you says uh my first time super chatting i have some book
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club recommendations clinton cash partners in power the secret life of bill clinton myth of the robber
01:16:20.620
barons the gray lady winked confessions of a tax collector oh interesting thanks yeah okay i've heard
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of i'm aware of one or two of those books um yeah i think maybe i'll do a bit of content one day about
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maybe if and when bill and or henry pass away um a look back at particularly bill's life
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all of his life and um some of the allegations that have swelled around him for most of his life not
01:16:51.900
just the epstein stuff all sorts of other stuff not just the monica lewinski scandal all sorts of other
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stuff about bill clinton he's dodgy as hell uh all right jack white says jack white 5073 again says
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plus some series to cover for lads our dragon ball you you who's hack su show full metal alchemist
01:17:18.700
brotherhood fate stay night ultimate unlimited blade works black cover i don't know most of those
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i must say i don't know most of those sounds like a lot of sort of japanese stuff um i'm afraid
01:17:35.900
principal uncertainty again said big love bow any chance uh potley
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can have yudkowski or so or stories on to discuss asi doom i don't know what i don't know hardly any of
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as i do i don't so i'm sorry prince once i see you've lost me there a bit
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um i'm in my fortunes i'm not up with all the the lingo i'm pretty much online right i'm on twitter all
01:18:09.180
the time i know most of most of what's going on and most acronyms and most zoomer speak most
01:18:14.380
internet speak but a few things there i don't know i don't know what that is or who they are
01:18:21.180
yudkowski don't know who that is sorry or or sorry series i don't know who that is so
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all of this could be moot moot if they are right read uh if anyone builds it everyone dies
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okay i'll check that out i will google that i will google that then and the last one's the
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149 says um have you read street without joy by bernard fall i'm afraid i haven't i'm afraid i
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haven't but i'll i'll check that out as well i'll have a quick google of that see what that's all about
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okay that's the show you've been the glorious band the chosen few it is now 18 19 minutes past nine in
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the am on uh wednesday the 21st of january in the year of our law 2026 thank you for watching
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um remember that today is the first day of the rest of your life do try and make it count
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carpe diem seize the day if you can until tomorrow then take care