The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 22nd April 2026

00:00:00.000 Good morning, are you alright?

00:00:09.340 Nice, lovely cup of tea, fresh from the kettle

00:00:11.020 First thing in the morning, nothing like it

00:00:13.940 I hope you are alright

00:00:15.560 Me?

00:00:16.400 Yeah

00:00:16.840 All good, thanks

00:00:18.240 Like every morning, I am joined by my producer, Little Harry

00:00:21.520 How are you this morning, good sir?

00:00:22.920 Morning, I'm all good

00:00:23.940 Good, good, and you are?

00:00:28.200 Loris Band

00:00:29.120 The chosen few

00:00:31.600 My band of brothers and sisters

00:00:34.860 I pray thee

00:00:36.420 Wish not one man more

00:00:37.620 Okay

00:00:40.620 Shall we just get into it

00:00:41.380 Oh

00:00:41.520 I'll tell you the time of the day

00:00:42.720 It is 8am

00:00:44.000 Which is summertime

00:00:46.120 It's now Wednesday isn't it

00:00:48.720 Wednesday the 22nd of April

00:00:49.780 In the year of our law

00:00:50.400 2026

00:00:51.220 Our time marches on

00:00:52.900 Okay

00:00:53.360 Let's stop faffing about

00:00:55.560 Shall we

00:00:55.960 Talk about what the legacy

00:00:57.500 Corporate mainstream media is

00:00:59.120 Hanging on about today.

00:00:59.980 What's in the news cycle today?

00:01:03.100 Iran and Starmer. 0.51

00:01:05.800 Still Starmer stuff. 1.00

00:01:07.540 Because we had that.

00:01:08.300 So Ollie Robbins gave his testimony to the Selects Miss yesterday.

00:01:10.960 And we've got PMQs.

00:01:12.800 Prime Minister's questions later today as well.

00:01:15.940 That should be interesting.

00:01:19.060 Alright, should we get into it?

00:01:20.300 What is that cabal of evil editors trying to say is or isn't important?

00:01:26.040 What are they lying to you about bio-mission?

00:01:28.300 Still don't really talk about Ireland

00:01:29.920 Everything that's going on in Ireland

00:01:31.640 You didn't know

00:01:33.400 If you only got your news from the papers

00:01:36.720 Or the legacy corporate mainstream media

00:01:38.120 You'd barely know

00:01:39.060 There's all sorts of stuff going down in Ireland

00:01:41.720 About petrol, petrol protests

00:01:44.900 They're very, very rarely mentioned in Epsom

00:01:48.620 There was a thing in the sun yesterday

00:01:50.560 One thing, you have to scroll down a fair bit

00:01:52.580 In the sun, front and centre

00:01:54.320 Okay

00:01:56.200 the papers fleet street what are they talking about we've got starmer on the ropes and sobbing

00:02:02.500 robbins spills the beans i don't know why they call him sobbing robbins a lame lame thing

00:02:09.700 can you bring that thing up on the side okay sobbing robbins i'm not a fan of that ollie

00:02:17.520 robbins he's like a massive remainer a ramona right he was he helped theresa may sort of not

00:02:25.640 Get Brexit done for two years or whatever

00:02:27.460 He's a classic

00:02:30.300 Sort of 1.00

00:02:31.180 Whitehall Mandarin 1.00

00:02:35.320 He and people like him 1.00

00:02:37.980 Are a big part of the problem

00:02:39.400 The reason why this country is in such a terrible state

00:02:41.440 It is

00:02:41.840 However on this

00:02:43.240 On this particularly

00:02:45.920 By the Mandelson vetting

00:02:47.400 Or the lack thereof

00:02:49.000 It doesn't seem to have done anything particularly wrong

00:02:50.900 It doesn't seem to have done anything wrong

00:02:53.100 So let's get into a bit of the details

00:02:55.040 what he said yesterday he did give us remember yesterday i said i wonder if he'll just play it

00:02:59.120 completely safe and not really give us anything new and just say he and the government haven't

00:03:03.360 really done anything wrong or he might give us something a bit more spicy a bit new details well

00:03:08.060 he did do that we did get that he fired back at the government basically um giving us a number

00:03:14.960 of new data points all right the times let's get into it oh if you didn't know if you're foreign

00:03:21.100 perhaps or or maybe you're very young a zoom or something you want to know that the palace

00:03:26.220 the royals they like to um celebrate people that reach a 100 years old

00:03:32.560 it's fair enough isn't it you famously you get a used to you get a telegram from the queen i guess

00:03:39.260 you get one from the king now you reach 100 the palace recognizes you in fact so david attenborough

00:03:48.340 Is due to reach the grand old age of 100

00:03:52.040 Early next month I believe

00:03:54.680 National treasure

00:03:57.000 They throw that around a bit too much now

00:03:58.660 Don't they these days

00:03:59.380 National treasure

00:04:00.080 But I think David Esmer truly is

00:04:03.560 It's difficult to dislike David Esmer

00:04:05.500 Although one or two of his politics is odd

00:04:08.660 But anyway let's not talk about David Esmer

00:04:09.920 He's in the news by the way

00:04:11.180 I'm not just kicking him out at random

00:04:13.120 Okay

00:04:14.020 So Trump and Starmer

00:04:15.900 So should we talk about the Trump or the Starmer thing first

00:04:18.300 I mean the headline here says

00:04:19.180 Trump extends ceasefire with Iran after collapse of peace talks

00:04:22.620 I think our poll is something based around that

00:04:26.140 Whether Trump's blinked or not

00:04:29.620 But let's talk about Starmer first

00:04:30.820 And then we'll talk about America and Trump and Iran

00:04:33.120 And all that sort of thing

00:04:33.940 Starmer on ropes over Mandelson

00:04:36.340 Vetting fiasco

00:04:37.500 Cabinet allies turn on Prime Minister

00:04:39.200 After new allegations that he bullied officials

00:04:42.760 Peers pressure 0.96

00:04:45.440 p.m reeling a sobbing robbins spills beans where did they get that sobbing robbins ridiculous the 0.90

00:04:50.720 metro gross staying can one gross metro revolting here's pressure it's actually more than one there's 0.93

00:05:02.000 another guy this guy here might not recognize his face matthew matt doyle now the lord doyle

00:05:09.840 he was like a press secretary or head of communications or something for

00:05:13.600 keir starmer he also had to leave in disgrace because he was found to be friends with a convicted

00:05:19.520 paedophile not jeffrey not jeffrey epstein a completely different one a different one

00:05:27.920 one of the things that sir ollie told us yesterday was that number 10 tried to him

00:05:33.920 tried to get him matthew doyle or some sort of cushy job in the foreign office as well

00:05:39.360 try to just force that through okay the telegraph labor mp's vent vent fury at toxic number 10

00:05:48.720 cabinet backlash the civil servants claim civil servant claims he was forced to approve manderson

00:05:55.200 u.s role i mean it's already done by the time ollie robbins came into into the fo into the

00:06:02.160 foreign office it's the way it works in the civil service often not always but very very often

00:06:07.360 especially if you're quite senior they'll move you around all over the place you've got a job

00:06:10.880 for life unless you get disgraced and fired you got your flight they move you around all the

00:06:16.960 departments like for a few years you work at the home office for a few years you work at

00:06:21.600 education a few years at health if you're lucky you get to work in the cabinet office or the

00:06:26.080 foreign office so ollie robbins has been all over the place he was at the home office for years

00:06:30.640 he's worked in a number of different things and so anyway he's only worked at the foreign office

00:06:34.080 For a relatively short amount of time

00:06:37.280 In fact he started there a few days

00:06:39.340 After Mandelson was announced I believe

00:06:41.240 Maybe it was a few days before

00:06:42.700 Basically he wasn't involved

00:06:44.680 In the original

00:06:46.600 Vetting and things

00:06:48.200 He wasn't even working there at that point

00:06:50.800 But how he's

00:06:53.160 Responsible, so responsible enough for it

00:06:55.320 That he needed to be fired

00:06:56.960 I'm not entirely sure

00:06:58.380 Okay

00:07:02.820 Okay

00:07:04.080 the angle that the the cabinet are now turning on Starmer we'll talk about that in a moment let's

00:07:09.300 get through a few more of the headlines and then we'll talk about it in some detail all right the

00:07:13.060 mail trying to pretend it isn't complete slop when it is Starmer's support starts to crack as a

00:07:18.760 civil servant plunges the knife into reeling PM and Labour MPs call on the cabinet to act

00:07:25.120 Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper are first to show dissent yeah also David Lammy has voiced a couple

00:07:31.580 of opinions which is funny because I have distinctly remember definitely remember have

00:07:35.440 seen a clip all that long ago of David Lammy crowing about how brilliant it was that Mandelson

00:07:43.460 was ambassador to the US now because David Lammy was foreign secretary at the time

00:07:47.420 how more of this hasn't spilled out over him I don't know there's a clip of him standing in

00:07:55.540 in the main lobby in parliament just saying it's so great Mandelson's the right man for the job

00:08:00.120 it's brilliant he's one of the greatest politicians of our age it's it's brilliant that he's we've

00:08:05.880 we've done this but now he's going oh i always thought it would blow up i always thought this

00:08:10.920 thing would blow up did you did you it's middle band and yvette cooper yvette cooper now she's the

00:08:17.800 she's the foreign secretary at the moment isn't she

00:08:21.640 well quick thing to say about the cabinet thing starmer's position what it is when the government

00:08:28.600 comes out and says anything really the whole idea not always of course the whole idea is that at

00:08:36.280 least at the very least everyone that's in cabinet all say the same thing now very often it's not the

00:08:44.280 case and whenever it's not the case the chattering classes the media will always point it out like

00:08:50.840 oh there's cracks in the government oh they're not all singing from the same hymn sheet

00:08:54.360 there's cracks there's power struggles but in the normal course of events it should be the case that

00:09:00.900 everyone in cabinet have got they're all perfectly in line the pot they all know the policy exactly

00:09:06.200 and they all repeat it basically exactly that's the whole point of cabinet sort of a collective

00:09:11.140 responsibility so they're all supposed to have the exact same sort of level of responsibility

00:09:16.960 for policy. So, if the government, Keir Starmer, funny when they say this, a judge says, the

00:09:25.660 court thinks this or that, you mean just you, the judge, refer to yourself as the court.

00:09:32.040 The government, you mean Keir Starmer. The government thinks, says this, does that. I mean

00:09:37.980 Keir Starmer. So Keir Starmer says one thing, and other people in cabinet go, I don't know

00:09:43.460 about that, I don't necessarily completely agree with that, I don't think that's entirely

00:09:46.320 true. Right, so that's, that is, honestly, that is like the first cracks of them turning

00:09:54.640 their back on him entirely. They're supposed to all say exactly the same thing and back

00:10:00.800 each other up all the time. So Ed Miliband was on TV, I think on Sunday, was it? And

00:10:07.500 Yvette Cooper also has come out and said, when they say, like a reporter will say to 0.63

00:10:11.160 them keir starmer claims xyz keir starmer claims he did nothing wrong and it's all the foreign

00:10:16.800 officers fault and there was nothing wrong with what he did and someone like ed milliband or

00:10:22.880 yvette cooper is supposed to go no yes that's completely right where's the government are

00:10:27.300 completely in lockstep on that that's true that's correct yes if they go no i always thought ed

00:10:33.640 milliband said i always thought i always has concerns about uh nanderson being a u.s ambassador

00:10:39.860 That would really really annoy

00:10:43.120 Starmer

00:10:44.660 And

00:10:46.180 The team around Starmer

00:10:49.240 That they're not perfectly

00:10:51.300 Backing him up

00:10:52.000 And yeah

00:10:54.760 They call it dissent

00:10:56.340 Show dissent

00:10:57.560 Oh well

00:10:59.960 On one of the other

00:11:01.860 Articles

00:11:03.220 It describes him as

00:11:04.560 Dead man walking

00:11:05.760 There you go

00:11:09.840 in the express

00:11:10.860 Labour MPs

00:11:13.020 Bran Starmer

00:11:13.760 dead man walking

00:11:14.580 we got a dead man walking here

00:11:16.740 Green Mile

00:11:20.140 you seen the Green Mile Harry?

00:11:25.700 I haven't no

00:11:26.760 it's a good movie

00:11:29.720 it's a great movie

00:11:31.140 okay

00:11:32.360 it's a dead man walking

00:11:33.560 politically

00:11:34.120 politically

00:11:35.920 as number 10's

00:11:37.780 toxic culture

00:11:38.800 is exposed, so

00:11:40.240 everyone's now saying, not everyone

00:11:44.880 a lot of people are saying that

00:11:46.180 we'll wait till Labour get trounced

00:11:48.820 on May the 7th

00:11:51.260 and then all the

00:11:52.880 Niaves will come out 1.00

00:11:53.920 they'll all stab him in the back 1.00

00:11:56.780 all at once 0.99

00:11:57.300 I can't see how he's not going to get

00:12:00.940 some sort of

00:12:02.980 internal coup or a full blown parliamentary

00:12:04.940 vote of no confidence and

00:12:06.860 Sort of be forced to leave

00:12:09.080 It happens doesn't it

00:12:12.620 It always happens

00:12:15.100 It happens to Ted Heath

00:12:16.000 It happens to Thatcher

00:12:16.820 Blair

00:12:19.060 Cameron walked away

00:12:22.240 But

00:12:22.540 Theresa May

00:12:24.180 Boris

00:12:24.660 And

00:12:27.640 I suspect he's going to be forced

00:12:31.100 To leave

00:12:33.380 After those local elections

00:12:35.000 Alright

00:12:35.800 We haven't even talked about the exact detail

00:12:37.600 of what Ollie Robin said yet, have we?

00:12:40.460 Mandelson vetting crisis.

00:12:42.260 Sac Chief says,

00:12:43.300 constant pressure over Mandy US job.

00:12:45.920 PM faces yet more fallout,

00:12:47.520 but says he is focused on war.

00:12:50.700 Right.

00:12:51.620 Meanwhile, Rainer calls for bold action

00:12:53.700 on living cost rises.

00:12:55.800 She's teeing herself up. 0.99

00:12:57.520 She wants to be the Prime Minister, doesn't she?

00:13:01.100 Angela the Fridge Rainer.

00:13:02.400 I mean

00:13:04.780 You know

00:13:05.940 What on earth

00:13:07.340 What on earth 0.99

00:13:08.600 Angela Rayner

00:13:10.080 What on the

00:13:10.640 True sort of

00:13:12.320 Exercise in humiliation

00:13:13.400 I mean Rishi was

00:13:14.600 A humiliation to me

00:13:15.820 Rishi was an embarrassment

00:13:16.680 Rishi's like some 0.99

00:13:18.320 14 year old 0.60

00:13:19.240 Swat 0.99

00:13:19.720 Like hall monitor 1.00

00:13:21.420 Oily

00:13:23.320 Little 0.97

00:13:24.160 Loser weirdo 0.99

00:13:26.520 Right 1.00

00:13:28.060 Keir Starmer

00:13:29.740 Like some

00:13:30.600 Some 0.79

00:13:31.340 insane robot some insane robot half man half machine more machine than man 1.00

00:13:38.120 but angela rayner's like david lammy or lisa nandy she's really really dumb you know like 0.99

00:13:47.020 say so what you like about someone like gordon brown right gordon brown was a complete and utter 0.97

00:13:52.820 charisma vacuum could have been more dour could have been

00:13:58.180 like sort of like um uh john major was famously like the gray man wasn't he is a spitting image

00:14:06.400 puppet he was like this this gray bureaucrat now but you can't say that john major is really 0.97

00:14:13.720 really dumb can you you can't say golden brown was really really dumb i probably wouldn't say 0.99

00:14:19.660 Rishi is particularly dumb I mean he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer but 1.00

00:14:23.640 he's not like terribly dumb like within hearing him speak for 20 30 40 seconds you're like oh 1.00

00:14:28.980 this is a stupid person this is a this is like a properly low IQ person Angela Rayner is like that 1.00

00:14:36.440 you've all heard her speak right you've seen her in interviews and stuff she's a dummy I would love 1.00

00:14:43.380 to see her sort of quizzed and grilled properly over what she knows about sort of political

00:14:49.760 philosophy or political economy or just everything like when you saw David Lammy go on Celebrity

00:14:54.920 Mastermind just general knowledge I'd love to see Angela Rayner do just a medium difficulty

00:14:59.980 general knowledge quiz I suspect she's one of those people like Lammy doesn't doesn't really 0.66

00:15:06.340 know anything doesn't know anything anyway if i had to at the moment it looks like she's probably 1.00

00:15:14.680 being teed up to be the next prime minister reina angela know nothing reina yeah and she's a cheat 0.99

00:15:23.780 as well right she should cheat she tried to cheat on various things paying paying a certain thing 1.00

00:15:29.700 was it a stamp duty something or other on one of her properties but she she didn't she didn't she 0.99

00:15:36.320 take the nhs to court and sue the nhs it's a scumbag movement all right i just see big harry 0.96

00:15:43.260 there's outside right mate how you doing people started trickling in for the morning quarter past 0.83

00:15:49.260 eight okay still haven't talked about largely what ollie robbins actually said so let's get

00:15:57.280 into that now the uh the mirror goes with eye of the storm

00:16:01.800 storm storm get it it's clever isn't it very very very clever wordplay i have the storm

00:16:13.700 okay the eye paper let's read the blurb on the eye paper because it's about the best you get

00:16:20.720 from fleet street and we'll talk about what he actually said right wounded starmer given public

00:16:25.240 dressing down by his cabinet sacked foreign office chief give uh gets his revenge during

00:16:30.400 interrogation by MPs

00:16:32.340 largely led by

00:16:33.260 the chair of it is Emily Thornberry

00:16:35.640 she's great isn't she 1.00

00:16:37.080 absolutely revolting

00:16:42.420 alright the blurb says

00:16:44.740 number 10

00:16:46.780 according to Ollie Robbins

00:16:47.720 number 10 put department under

00:16:49.180 constant pressure to approve security

00:16:52.000 vetting of Peter Mandelson

00:16:53.220 as Washington ambassador

00:16:54.840 despite the risks

00:16:56.140 so Ollie Robbins tells parliament

00:16:58.060 in repost to PM

00:16:59.520 in fact number 10 has already come out just on on twitter or a formal statement anyway

00:17:06.420 appeared on twitter um in riposte to his riposte parry and riposte riposte between sir ollie and

00:17:15.500 number 10 so okay he said one of the things one of the main things he said that number 10 and

00:17:21.720 starmer put him under constant pressure as this there was this sort of atmosphere of just constantly

00:17:26.980 chasing just get it done get it done just just uh just finish up the vetting on uh on mandelton

00:17:35.220 just get get we need it yesterday you know that sort of thing when a boss does that

00:17:44.500 okay and now that's a little bit of odds isn't it with what

00:17:48.340 starmer's story he didn't say anything like that

00:17:54.260 a little bit odd plus we know don't we that they he gave

00:17:59.860 mandelson the job announced it to the world

00:18:04.260 before the vetting was finished before even ollie robbins was actually in

00:18:09.140 the job

00:18:13.060 okay

00:18:15.460 that is that is not it's just simply not acceptable is it to

00:18:21.080 give someone a super super sensitive job that gets access to like the highest

00:18:26.260 intelligence clearance basically who hasn't done their vetting one argument could be i've seen

00:18:33.000 people from the starmer camp just make the argument almost as an aside just say oh by the

00:18:36.660 way what about this the idea that mandelson had been in cabinet for years on and off for years

00:18:44.560 He'd been a Privy Councillor

00:18:46.020 You know, sort of the inner, supposedly

00:18:48.380 The inner, inner, inner sanctum of power

00:18:50.440 The Privy Council

00:18:51.080 He was a lord, he was already a peer

00:18:54.440 Right, so

00:18:55.220 Does he really need vetting?

00:18:57.880 Has he not already been vetted enough

00:18:59.340 To have, to already hold all those things

00:19:02.380 Well, no, no, no

00:19:03.800 It's a completely different thing

00:19:05.320 Full MI6 vetting

00:19:08.160 To get the most sensitive information

00:19:10.680 That goes between

00:19:12.000 Washington and London

00:19:13.700 Again

00:19:15.360 The ambassador

00:19:16.820 MI6

00:19:17.520 The foreign office

00:19:18.280 It could be

00:19:19.480 Spy stuff

00:19:20.440 Right

00:19:21.140 It could well be

00:19:22.260 Actual sort of

00:19:23.080 Military grade intelligence

00:19:24.400 MI6

00:19:24.940 Military intelligence

00:19:25.620 Between

00:19:26.340 London and Washington

00:19:27.620 It could be

00:19:28.160 The most sensitive stuff

00:19:30.580 Being passed from

00:19:31.380 Our intelligence services

00:19:32.640 Over to the NSA

00:19:33.680 Or the CIA

00:19:34.380 Or whatever

00:19:34.940 So

00:19:35.700 Yeah he's going to need

00:19:37.380 The full blown vetting

00:19:38.420 The full highest

00:19:39.220 Highest level of vetting

00:19:40.120 It's not finished

00:19:41.280 But they give him the job anyway

00:19:42.320 And then after the fact

00:19:45.560 Also keep piling on more pressure

00:19:47.640 To just like

00:19:49.520 Scrap the vetting

00:19:50.980 Because we've already announced it

00:19:52.060 Or something

00:19:52.580 Or just give it the green light

00:19:55.900 Just give it the yes tick

00:19:57.120 Because we've already announced it

00:20:00.040 Just do that

00:20:00.700 Again that's all at odds isn't it

00:20:03.640 With what Starmer was saying

00:20:04.680 The blurb goes on

00:20:06.440 Ex-deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner

00:20:09.020 Tells Starmer he must quote

00:20:10.340 Take bold action quote

00:20:11.980 To restore faith in labour

00:20:13.180 She's just teared herself up

00:20:15.340 Hasn't she

00:20:15.820 She knows

00:20:19.220 Most people know now

00:20:20.140 Starmer's time is

00:20:21.140 Limited

00:20:22.840 He's a dead man walking

00:20:23.680 We've got a dead man walking here 0.82

00:20:26.180 She's just 1.00

00:20:28.460 Bold action

00:20:29.660 Yeah she's going to be

00:20:30.540 This great bold leader 0.99

00:20:31.700 Leader of men 1.00

00:20:32.860 She wears stupid shoes 1.00

00:20:36.220 That would be embarrassing 1.00

00:20:37.040 For a 12 year old to wear 1.00

00:20:38.480 She's a moron 1.00

00:20:40.300 Angela Rayner 1.00

00:20:43.200 Give me a break 0.82

00:20:44.360 Alright

00:20:46.180 Foreign Secretary

00:20:47.880 Yvette Cooper

00:20:48.360 Current Foreign Secretary

00:20:49.280 Yvette Cooper

00:20:49.820 Quote

00:20:50.780 Extremely concerned

00:20:52.000 Quote

00:20:52.320 That Number 10

00:20:53.700 Tried to find 0.99

00:20:54.300 Ambassador Job

00:20:55.100 For Starmer's

00:20:56.260 Spin Doctor

00:20:56.960 That's that

00:20:57.880 Matthew Doyle

00:20:59.300 With quote

00:21:01.120 Strict instruction

00:21:02.040 Quote

00:21:02.580 Not to tell her

00:21:03.740 Predecessor

00:21:04.420 Is he in

00:21:06.820 Cabinet

00:21:07.140 Trust

00:21:07.920 Or is it

00:21:08.640 David Lammy

00:21:09.160 with strict instructions

00:21:11.020 don't tell David Lammy

00:21:11.980 a bit odd isn't it

00:21:15.400 Starmer doing stuff

00:21:16.720 behind the back

00:21:17.540 of his

00:21:18.020 not just cabinet

00:21:19.880 colleagues

00:21:20.580 but really really

00:21:21.400 senior ones

00:21:21.940 you know the heart

00:21:25.460 of government

00:21:25.860 is really

00:21:26.660 the Prime Minister

00:21:28.380 and then

00:21:29.660 the Home Secretary

00:21:30.600 the Foreign Secretary

00:21:31.380 and the Chancellor

00:21:31.980 it's basically

00:21:32.700 they're the most

00:21:33.940 powerful ones

00:21:34.460 by far

00:21:35.160 basically

00:21:35.700 if the Prime Minister

00:21:37.060 is trying to do stuff

00:21:37.960 behind the back

00:21:39.140 Of say the Foreign Secretary

00:21:40.900 Pulling strings

00:21:43.480 Don't let the Foreign Secretary know what we're doing

00:21:45.460 What?

00:21:47.220 You're supposed to be

00:21:47.900 You've kind of got to be all on the same page

00:21:49.800 Pulling together as one

00:21:50.860 Don't tell the Home Secretary

00:21:55.360 I'm trying to do this 0.99

00:21:56.300 It's pathetic 0.99

00:21:57.880 Really pathetic 1.00

00:21:58.740 Okay 0.98

00:21:59.220 PM's former Chief of Staff

00:22:01.080 Morgan McSweeney

00:22:02.100 And Peter Madison Protégé

00:22:05.960 Who was forced to quit over the scandal

00:22:08.540 Denies ordering foreign office to

00:22:10.820 Quote

00:22:11.260 Just effing approve it

00:22:13.100 Quote

00:22:13.620 But may now be called to give evidence to MPs

00:22:17.460 That was one of the things

00:22:18.440 That Olly Robbins said

00:22:20.000 Apparently at some point

00:22:21.740 A political appointee

00:22:23.260 Morgan McSweeney

00:22:24.080 Came to him

00:22:26.960 At the foreign office

00:22:28.920 And said

00:22:29.660 Just effing approve it

00:22:32.100 Like he's Malcolm Tucker

00:22:34.800 Some sort of badass

00:22:38.360 just do it

00:22:40.760 what

00:22:43.640 don't worry about the military grade intelligence

00:22:48.760 that might be spilt

00:22:51.020 might just be emailed straight to someone like Jeffrey Epstein

00:22:53.660 well Jeffrey Epstein was dead but you know 1.00

00:22:55.480 the Russians, the Chinese

00:22:57.440 that's the whole angle as well

00:22:58.900 Manson's compromise could have been

00:23:01.720 it's alleged that he may have been

00:23:05.020 compromised by the Russians and the Chinese

00:23:06.960 Through his business dealings 0.96

00:23:09.360 And that company he had

00:23:10.660 It was like an advisory

00:23:12.880 Lobbying company

00:23:14.600 He took loads of money from the Russians and the Chinese

00:23:17.020 Particularly the Chinese 1.00

00:23:17.920 Don't worry about that 1.00

00:23:21.360 MI6 hasn't done

00:23:23.420 Hasn't finished the vetting

00:23:24.460 Or and or that they have completed the vetting

00:23:27.540 And he hadn't passed it

00:23:28.860 Don't worry about that

00:23:31.240 Called into Morgan McSweeney

00:23:32.360 Just quote just effing approve it

00:23:36.960 weird why did Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer and a cabal of people at number 10

00:23:46.340 why were they so insistent on getting Mandy that job was it just to pay him back for being

00:23:54.020 such a big beast in the Labour Party being such a grandie for all his years of service

00:23:58.940 to the Labour Party was it just that there's something else something else going on entirely

00:24:05.220 other people pulling their strings people way above their pay grade

00:24:08.300 people that run manderson basically and or jeffrey epstein

00:24:14.340 and by proxy what the government kia starmer morgan mcsweeney

00:24:21.180 whoever they are

00:24:27.280 why what you know this is the crux of it all why

00:24:31.840 You know, a lot of it is window dressing

00:24:36.080 Really

00:24:37.080 Ollie Robbins did or didn't do something or other

00:24:40.040 And Keir Starmer says something slightly different

00:24:42.120 About what Ollie Robbins did or didn't do

00:24:43.760 So window dressing

00:24:45.760 The salient thing here

00:24:48.660 Is why

00:24:50.440 Were they insisting

00:24:52.820 So insistent

00:24:54.000 On getting Mandelson that job

00:24:55.720 And putting him in place before vetting was completed

00:24:58.220 And all that sort of thing

00:25:01.840 why who did they owe a favour to in whose interest was that really really it's obviously not in the

00:25:10.160 interest of the foreign office or the government number 10 certainly not in their interest now

00:25:16.500 because it's all blown up in the face and may even cause the collapse of this government

00:25:19.180 it wasn't in their interest then really was it oh we need mandy i remember lammy's uh

00:25:26.900 David Lammy's little statement in the lobby how great it is it's so great that he's the right

00:25:34.040 man for the job he's the perfect man for the job he's such an amazing political operator Peter

00:25:41.680 Mandelson but we're lucky we're lucky to sort of have him in that role what a boon it is for

00:25:49.180 us uk relations what a boon it is for this country in this government to have such a master such a

00:25:58.460 genius in that role why why why would they like that why would they say that why are they saying

00:26:06.380 sister why do they it looks like they're still lying about it to this day why

00:26:13.820 who's really puppeteering a lot of the stuff behind the scenes here really

00:26:19.180 People like Nathaniel Rothschild

00:26:23.460 People like Les Wexner

00:26:24.620 People like Ehud Barak

00:26:25.780 Don't know

00:26:27.920 Mandy

00:26:32.180 Who really runs Mandy

00:26:34.420 Who handles Mandy

00:26:35.840 I highly doubt Mandy's the top of the tree

00:26:40.000 He's the puppet master

00:26:41.540 I doubt it

00:26:42.520 I highly doubt it

00:26:44.180 Rainer privately warned

00:26:48.520 p.m against appointment did she kept quite about that it's funny isn't it milliband always had

00:26:55.940 concerns lammy always had concerns yvette cooper always had concerns reyna reyna privately warned

00:27:02.640 p.m against appointment really yeah all right if you say so if you say so difficult to believe

00:27:10.660 to be perfectly honest milliband and lammy feared it could blow up yeah right

00:27:18.520 Yeah, right. 0.99

00:27:20.280 David Lammy doesn't know his arse from his elbow, does he? 0.99

00:27:22.560 Well, probably shouldn't even say that word on the morning show. 0.99

00:27:25.380 It's supposed to be clean, isn't it?

00:27:29.200 Lammy doesn't know what he's doing, does he?

00:27:31.540 Really doesn't. 1.00

00:27:32.760 He's truly, truly an idiot. 1.00

00:27:37.420 People point him in the right direction. 1.00

00:27:39.040 He'll walk towards the camera and just start talking about reparations and slavery.

00:27:43.360 What now? What next?

00:27:44.340 I'll go to this meeting now

00:27:46.860 And sit down and have a serious face on

00:27:49.120 And nod a bit

00:27:49.620 He doesn't know what he's doing

00:27:50.580 Like he knew what was really going on

00:27:53.820 He always feared it would blow up

00:27:55.180 Don't believe it

00:27:56.560 Don't buy that for one second

00:27:57.900 Look into what people have given David Lammy

00:28:02.980 In money terms

00:28:04.440 All the people that have donated money

00:28:06.800 Directly to David Lammy personally

00:28:08.780 Who are they?

00:28:10.740 Who are they?

00:28:14.340 Tablet ministers are quietly distancing themselves from PM

00:28:20.620 As Number 10 insists process was followed

00:28:23.120 Okay, so yeah, there's a number of things

00:28:25.940 A number of more things

00:28:27.860 He said that, sorry Robin said

00:28:30.520 That Number 10 wanted there to be no vetting

00:28:34.400 If they had their way there would have been no vetting whatsoever

00:28:38.920 For Mandelson

00:28:41.420 when someone asked him in the committee do you regret anything quite funny he said

00:28:49.820 well i paraphrase he basically said i regret that kia sama's got a terrible sense of judgment

00:28:55.700 in other words he's saying i don't regret anything i did i really don't think i did

00:29:00.220 anything wrong i got into the post after it was already announced and then at that point i just

00:29:04.980 had tons and tons of pressure on me tons to just green light it so i did that's basically my job

00:29:11.400 to do that in the end ultimately i'm just supposed to be the servant of the government

00:29:16.440 the civil servant i'm supposed to do really so in the end i did i i don't even really understand

00:29:23.480 exactly why i've been fired it's entirely unfair um

00:29:31.080 yeah so there's what his story his his uh his narrative is quite divergent from starma's narrative

00:29:41.400 There you go, alright, so that's the main thing

00:29:43.640 I think we've talked about it enough this morning

00:29:45.080 I'd rather talk a bit about Trump and Iran

00:29:47.460 To be perfectly honest

00:29:48.360 Quickly whip through some more of the headlines

00:29:51.400 Um, yeah, the pressure

00:29:53.620 On Robbins from number 10

00:29:55.020 Pressure on Robbins from number 10

00:29:57.580 The sun

00:29:58.720 Just say, yes Prime Minister

00:30:00.960 There's the Princess of Wales

00:30:04.960 Looking radiant as always

00:30:06.140 Um, anyone doesn't know

00:30:08.900 There's a great 70s show called Yes Minister

00:30:11.080 And then season two was

00:30:13.520 Yes Prime Minister

00:30:14.500 And that would be a reference to that

00:30:16.360 Yes Prime Minister

00:30:17.200 They're great shows by the way

00:30:18.400 Really great shows

00:30:19.920 To this day

00:30:21.360 They give you a satirical and accurate

00:30:24.860 Insight into the relationship between

00:30:27.360 Government and Whitehall

00:30:28.580 To this day

00:30:30.560 They're worth watching

00:30:31.720 If you want to know how sausages are made in Great Britain

00:30:34.260 Political sausages

00:30:36.400 You want to know how government works

00:30:38.200 Of course it's a comedy

00:30:39.400 It's a comedy show but

00:30:41.080 Yes Minister

00:30:42.620 And to a lesser extent

00:30:44.200 Yes Prime Minister

00:30:46.540 Absolutely worth watching

00:30:48.100 Very very good

00:30:50.060 Okay

00:30:51.040 The star, the front page

00:30:54.240 Just effing approve it

00:30:56.160 Yeah alright

00:30:59.300 Is that the British Museum?

00:31:04.680 That looks like the British Museum to me 1.00

00:31:06.480 It's a queer starling 1.00

00:31:09.680 At the British Museum yesterday 0.68

00:31:10.960 if that is what that is looks like it okay the express it's a good paper slightly different

00:31:17.660 story here just mention it real quick this guy worked for uh morrison's for years and years and

00:31:23.020 years and years he always did his job well tried to um tackle a violent shoplifter and he got fired

00:31:31.460 for it morrison's urged to reverse sacking of loyal boss for tackling a violent shoplifter

00:31:37.780 Hero manager Sean

00:31:39.440 Must get his job back

00:31:40.740 Poor old Sean

00:31:41.560 Pray for Sean

00:31:42.420 I say that sarcastic

00:31:45.740 I don't really mean it

00:31:46.480 Sarcastically

00:31:46.960 Yeah

00:31:47.780 What a travesty is

00:31:48.880 That you try and do your job

00:31:50.320 You try and confront

00:31:51.640 A criminal

00:31:52.200 And you get fired for it 0.95

00:31:54.380 Crazy

00:31:57.120 Horrible isn't it

00:31:58.680 And the guy

00:31:59.720 Apparently

00:32:00.140 The shoplifter

00:32:01.200 Wasn't just like

00:32:03.240 Some random

00:32:04.100 14 year old

00:32:05.000 Trying to steal a Twix

00:32:06.260 For the first time ever 0.69

00:32:07.200 No, he's like a career criminal guy 0.98

00:32:08.960 Just a complete serial shoplifter

00:32:10.620 A one-man crime wave or something

00:32:12.700 One of the other papers we'll talk about him

00:32:14.180 And violent, and violent as well

00:32:16.960 And

00:32:19.300 Poor old Sean

00:32:22.100 Gets thrown under the bus

00:32:23.560 An injustice

00:32:27.440 Alright, let's talk a little bit about 1.00

00:32:31.060 Iran

00:32:32.140 And Mr Trump

00:32:34.020 The ceasefire

00:32:35.560 Trump's given

00:32:38.960 Iran more time

00:32:42.200 He had a ceasefire that was supposed to run out

00:32:44.460 Around now, is it?

00:32:46.820 Around now it was supposed to run out

00:32:48.080 And he's just given them more time

00:32:49.240 So look, Trump extends ceasefire with Iran

00:32:52.080 After collapse of peace talks

00:32:53.340 So there was supposed to be some sort of peace talks

00:32:55.380 In Pakistan

00:32:56.380 In Islamabad

00:32:58.280 And then the Iranians basically said

00:33:00.340 We're just not even going to send a delegation to that

00:33:02.240 Not interested in that

00:33:03.760 And so the United States didn't send one either

00:33:07.580 Looks like they were going to send

00:33:08.960 Wyckoff and Kushner and maybe J.D. Vance

00:33:11.200 Perhaps not J.D. Vance but anyway

00:33:12.720 And they ended up not sending one either

00:33:15.160 Because the Iranians made it perfectly clear 1.00

00:33:16.860 They weren't going to 1.00

00:33:17.640 So there was no talks

00:33:21.880 Okay

00:33:23.140 So now as I said yesterday

00:33:25.300 Remember try not to accuse me

00:33:28.560 Too quickly of suffering from TDS

00:33:31.000 I am an Anglo-American 1.00

00:33:32.440 broadly speaking i'm on board with the americans and despise islamic theocracy so none of this 1.00

00:33:39.880 is trying to run defense for or stan for the iranians however 0.52

00:33:47.200 the ball was at that point now in in uh trump's court he said four or five times now he's going

00:33:58.160 to blow up all their bridges and power stations and iran just basically folded their arms

00:34:02.280 Dead-eyed

00:34:03.900 Do it then 0.88

00:34:05.760 Do it then

00:34:09.300 And Trump was like

00:34:10.760 I'll give you more time

00:34:13.100 In fact he's extended it indefinitely

00:34:14.620 Again

00:34:18.500 Trying not to suffer from TDS here

00:34:23.180 That's the thing

00:34:24.040 Whenever you criticise Israel or the United States

00:34:26.780 Or Trump at all

00:34:27.640 You've got TDS

00:34:28.420 If you don't do it enough 1.00

00:34:30.920 you're you're you're like a zio or something no i'm just calling it how i see it i've got to call 0.66

00:34:35.880 it how i see it iran didn't blink and trump did blink a bit there you go on true social last night

00:34:45.400 it was close to bridge and power plant day hours just a few hours away again from bridge and power

00:34:52.840 plant day the iranians are like do it do it trump trump goes on truth social statement of president

00:35:03.820 donald j trump based on the fact that the government of iran is seriously fractured

00:35:07.940 not unexpectedly so and upon the request of field marshal asin munir and prime minister

00:35:14.480 shabazz sharif of pakistan we have been asked to hold our attack on the country of iran

00:35:20.220 Until such time as their leaders and representatives 0.92

00:35:23.600 Can come up with a unified proposal

00:35:25.340 Okay

00:35:27.100 I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade

00:35:30.820 And in all other respects remain ready and able

00:35:33.400 And will therefore extend the ceasefire

00:35:35.720 Until such time as their proposal is submitted

00:35:38.760 Indefinitely then

00:35:42.320 And discussions are concluded

00:35:45.640 One way or the other

00:35:46.840 President Donald J Trump

00:35:48.600 It's edging towards taco time

00:35:54.480 Taco taco

00:35:56.180 I mean saying he's chickened out

00:36:01.140 Is a bit much

00:36:01.920 Right

00:36:02.560 That is

00:36:03.320 It's not really chickened out

00:36:05.780 It's not chickening out

00:36:06.700 But

00:36:07.160 But

00:36:09.740 You can't keep threatening to do something

00:36:14.320 And when the other person doesn't budge

00:36:16.460 You then don't

00:36:17.740 I mean, you can, but quite soon no one's going to believe you anymore.

00:36:25.040 I get it, I get it, Trump doesn't want to do it, because he's not a psycho, right?

00:36:29.900 He's not an actual Stalin, he's not an actual Genghis Khan.

00:36:36.420 He doesn't want to do it, but if he threatened it, though, and then a few hours after that,

00:36:43.320 a few hours after that, he tweeted again, we'll blow up your whole country.

00:36:47.740 If you don't come to terms with us

00:36:49.380 Yeah

00:36:53.820 After that

00:36:55.380 Let's have a quick look

00:36:56.220 It's also here somewhere

00:36:58.560 Isn't it

00:37:01.140 Oh anyway I can't find it

00:37:04.380 But yeah

00:37:05.400 Just a few hours after that

00:37:06.560 He's back on true social

00:37:07.560 Saying

00:37:08.020 We're going to blow up everything 0.99

00:37:11.140 That's left in your country 0.98

00:37:12.140 If you don't come to terms

00:37:13.920 Come do a deal with us

00:37:17.740 i mean how many times can you do that this is like the fourth or fifth well this will now be

00:37:23.220 i think the sixth time of going through that giving you a deadline threatening to blow you up

00:37:28.540 if you don't do something by the deadline you get to the deadline and just don't do it i mean

00:37:33.640 i mean the iranians whether it's whether it's because they actually can't come to some sort

00:37:46.160 deal whether their leadership is so fractured and destroyed that may well be the case in fact

00:37:51.420 it may well be the case that they haven't got a single unified leadership at the moment or even

00:37:59.440 it could be the case this could all just be american us uh israeli propaganda psyop stuff

00:38:06.580 but it might not be that the iranians are actually right now going through a power struggle that

00:38:11.240 there's a power struggle in iran between sort of military leaders and like the political religious

00:38:16.320 leaders who is actually pulling all the strings is there any one single person controlling all

00:38:24.060 policy in iran it may well be the case that there isn't so they sort of can't really go to somewhere

00:38:31.440 like islamabad and just make a deal with the united states because they can't they can't

00:38:37.120 sort of what happened it seems as an element of that i think was going on last time they were

00:38:42.240 in islamabad what a week or two ago with jd vance where they would talk about things and then they

00:38:46.960 the iranian side would say uh we need to go back to iran and sort of get permission from whoever

00:38:53.760 before we can agree to stuff it speaks of that their leadership is like completely broken and

00:39:00.560 fractured and there there isn't really one person it's the ayatollah the ayatollah

00:39:08.080 or mainly the second or main e the second still hasn't been seen

00:39:16.160 so he's either dead or terribly terribly wounded isn't he otherwise he would have been seen by now

00:39:21.840 surely so it's all a bit of a mess really isn't it i mean in short everything that's going on in

00:39:30.320 in iran and the blockade and whether trump's gonna go ape pull the trigger let hexif and the

00:39:38.920 and the and the chiefs the chief of staff go berserk in the persian gulf blowing up anything

00:39:45.440 and everything all of that it's all a bit of a mess meanwhile the oil price isn't that crazy

00:39:52.440 let's have a quick look at the oil price in real time west texas 88 a barrel brent just under

00:39:59.100 a hundred ninety seven dollars a barrel this text is eighty eight dollars a barrel it's only about

00:40:04.280 ten dollars more than when this war started reds they're going it's going down as well at this

00:40:12.220 moment in time i mean it's very very volatile literally any second that could click up into

00:40:16.560 the green and you know the price of crude isn't still it's not insane

00:40:24.700 it's annoying really annoying isn't it that the price of petrol and diesel at the pump

00:40:31.280 is so high

00:40:32.420 okay okay that's what's going on with iran look trump says he will extend iran ceasefire until

00:40:44.600 negotiations conclude but iran aren't sending a delegation to do any negotiations at this point

00:40:51.500 anyway what negotiations when will they could how could they possibly ever conclude Iran have

00:40:57.540 made it perfectly clear they're not going to give up their uranium enrichment program it's not going

00:41:02.100 to so so so you've completely blinked you just there's one article I read I probably won't be

00:41:18.220 able to find it but it was last night trump there was an article i think it was in the uh it was

00:41:24.800 either in the washington post or it was in the wall street journal right apparently there was 0.94

00:41:28.020 an article in the wall street journal that said uh iranians are playing trump for a sucker that 0.96

00:41:35.800 was the word right the taco thing that trump always chickens out someone in the wall street 0.99

00:41:42.520 journal wrote an article saying that trump chickened out the iranians think he's a sucker 0.93

00:41:48.040 we're an embarrassment right and and uh trump tweeted about that or true socialed 0.95

00:41:57.280 about that having a pop at that one individual journalist for writing that 0.99

00:42:01.520 and yeah right they're the suckers i'm not a sucker they are i destroyed their air force 0.97

00:42:06.300 and their navy what have they done i'm winning we're winning 0.98

00:42:08.920 Please be above that sort of thing

00:42:15.780 A bit

00:42:16.140 Even normal people

00:42:18.500 I'm just a completely normal person

00:42:21.680 On Twitter I've got

00:42:23.500 Something like 30,000

00:42:24.980 Followers, no big deal

00:42:27.180 Even if you have 300,000 on Twitter

00:42:29.560 You're not really anything big are you

00:42:31.600 But like

00:42:33.300 Even I

00:42:34.120 You have to stand above things

00:42:37.300 sometimes you get some troll get some someone in the comments or whatever just being completely

00:42:42.820 unreasonable just having a just having a pop at you and even that even at that level you've got

00:42:48.980 to pick and choose your fights and ignore people and block them and don't engage with with people

00:42:56.180 just trying to dig at you mostly and that's just uh basically a nobody with 30 000 followers if

00:43:03.220 If you're the president of the United States and you're picking like a fight with an individual 0.82

00:43:11.920 colonist that called you a sucker once, I don't know, I don't know.

00:43:19.360 I would hope that Donald would be above such things. 0.96

00:43:22.960 He obviously isn't.

00:43:23.620 I mean, if we don't know Trump by now, that's what he's like, isn't he?

00:43:27.020 He will pick individual fights with people

00:43:28.820 Because he's got

00:43:30.880 He's got his

00:43:32.800 His feelings hurt a little bit

00:43:35.020 Over something or other

00:43:35.800 But um

00:43:36.960 Okay so

00:43:39.440 Trump was going to blow up all their bridges and power stations

00:43:43.260 And now he isn't

00:43:44.040 And now it's just an indefinite ceasefire

00:43:46.800 Oh it's an off ramp

00:43:49.200 Isn't it

00:43:49.720 It's an off ramp

00:43:52.960 It moves away

00:43:54.920 from a forever war doesn't it moves away from a 2003 iraq style quagmire english quagmire

00:44:02.540 doesn't it let's do that maybe we won't get an outing from the 82nd airborne than the us marine

00:44:10.060 corps after all all right all right let's see what else have we got oh should we just watch

00:44:20.540 this little clip little clip here like two minutes just shy of three minutes let's watch this

00:44:24.920 Harry, can you make sure this comes through on the stream?

00:44:28.320 It was clear just from the number of vehicles

00:44:30.760 crowding the White House car park,

00:44:33.200 a high-level meeting was taking place.

00:44:36.640 A brief glimpse of Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff,

00:44:39.740 a further clue that talks with Iran were not proceeding as planned.

00:44:44.940 And here you can just make out Jared Kushner,

00:44:47.300 Donald Trump's son-in-law,

00:44:48.940 all the president's men here, not in Pakistan,

00:44:52.540 where they were supposed to be negotiating with Iran.

00:44:54.920 The Marine outside the Oval Office, a clue its incumbent was present

00:45:00.440 and then tonight a social media post giving more clarity

00:45:03.940 Donald Trump confirming he would extend the ceasefire

00:45:07.460 until such time as their proposal is submitted

00:45:10.560 and discussions are concluded one way or the other

00:45:13.480 It echoed a conversation I had with him on the phone this morning

00:45:18.720 when he said he was confident a deal would be done

00:45:21.980 he told me we're gonna see you'll know over the next short period of time we're in very good shape

00:45:28.520 we'll get it one way or the other everything is going to work out very well one way or the other

00:45:33.740 it makes no difference president trump welcome thanks for joining us this morning after my

00:45:38.560 conversation with him he went on the phone okay you get it you get it all right then um let's move

00:45:45.500 on to a couple other oh should we do uh before i move on to something else should we do our poll

00:45:50.240 What did we say in our poll today?

00:45:51.560 Harry, can you bring it up for us?

00:45:54.020 Okay, what did we say in our poll?

00:45:55.700 We said, we asked you, has Trump chickened out?

00:46:02.460 Okay, 850 odd votes, something in that ballpark.

00:46:06.560 Oh, very split, very split.

00:46:09.140 Yes, 45% of you say yes, he has.

00:46:13.180 45%. 0.98

00:46:13.580 In fact, that's a win. 0.96

00:46:15.060 The IAs have it.

00:46:16.840 No 28%, maybe 26%.

00:46:19.740 so it's very split personally i personally i would say no personally i would still give him

00:46:26.500 the benefit of the doubt like a chickening out actually losing your nerve i'd say no

00:46:30.660 but it's difficult isn't it it's not straightforward i would say i would give

00:46:35.680 him the benefit of the doubt and he wants to try and give iran every possible opportunity

00:46:42.380 to not get its power stations and bridges blown up i'm still prepared to give trump the benefit

00:46:48.720 bit of the doubt on that for a while for a little bit longer but maybe i'm wrong i would accept if

00:46:55.940 i'm wrong on that that's not a firm opinion that i'll stand by in the hill i'll die on because i

00:47:00.520 could well be wrong you know okay 40 45% of you say yeah he's chickened out 28% say no 26a maybe

00:47:09.540 all right quite split opinion then really isn't it i think characterizing it like trump always

00:47:17.200 chickens out or has Trump chickened out it's just really low resolution isn't it it's like it's not

00:47:22.740 really a case of chickening out or not but I mean we made the poll so anyway anyway you get it it's

00:47:32.020 interesting it's interesting to see when you've come this far in a thing so it's not like Trump

00:47:37.300 is a chicken is it he's not it's not like he's afraid to do stuff right he did this war at the

00:47:44.040 beginning it's not it's not like he's afraid he's a chicken he's not there's a there's all sorts of

00:47:51.860 politics going on aren't there a million and one moving parts in all this thing all of this all

00:47:56.980 right speaking of which let's have a quick look at this this was one of the tankers or cargo ships

00:48:01.680 rather not an oil tank i don't think they just look like an oil tanker but anyway a cargo ship 0.87

00:48:06.420 an iranian one in uh just coming out of the straits of homo's that the u.s military sees 0.57

00:48:12.480 there's the US military helicopters 0.99

00:48:15.480 and marines

00:48:17.740 and Trump said that

00:48:20.520 this particular ship

00:48:21.900 may well have had armaments on it

00:48:23.960 we don't know exactly what armaments

00:48:25.260 from China, from Xi

00:48:26.600 from Winnie the Pooh, Xi Jinping

00:48:28.760 Trump versus Xi

00:48:30.380 Trump versus 11

00:48:33.400 she called it

00:48:35.400 Winnie the Pooh 11

00:48:37.500 anyway

00:48:38.060 US storms

00:48:39.260 Iran linked ship

00:48:40.360 carrying mystery

00:48:41.360 Gift from China

00:48:42.720 That's what Trump called it

00:48:43.540 Gift from China

00:48:44.400 As Trump confronts Xi

00:48:46.660 And says he won't extend ceasefire

00:48:49.040 Well he has though

00:48:50.540 Okay

00:48:51.420 It's a slightly out of date

00:48:52.420 Alright

00:48:53.100 Let's click on this real quick

00:48:55.120 Look there

00:48:58.040 The US

00:48:59.080 US personnel

00:49:00.740 Taking control of this ship

00:49:03.160 Yeah

00:49:05.460 And that Trump says

00:49:06.300 Says it almost certainly

00:49:08.800 China sent sort of arms

00:49:11.000 Iran has probably done a little bit of restocking 0.76

00:49:16.880 Implying that Beijing has supplied the rogue nation with weapons

00:49:21.680 Trump added

00:49:22.360 I'm sort of surprised

00:49:24.100 Because I have a very good relationship

00:49:26.620 And I thought I had an understanding with President Xi

00:49:29.900 But that's alright, that's the way war goes, right?

00:49:36.020 He thought he had an understanding with Xi

00:49:38.380 You're strategic enemies 1.00

00:49:42.840 You're both vying to be hegemen of the world 1.00

00:49:46.300 China and the United States

00:49:50.160 You might have a reasonably cordial relationship

00:49:53.400 Literally between you two personally

00:49:55.420 When you're sitting at a state banquet table

00:49:57.760 And you're nice and polite to each other

00:49:59.500 Your countries, your nations, your empires

00:50:02.680 Are strategic enemies

00:50:05.940 It's been no doubt

00:50:07.320 yeah it sounds a bit blasé doesn't it but it's true that's the way war goes yeah during the

00:50:15.460 cold war the amount of stuff that the united states and the soviets did against each other

00:50:20.480 by proxy is that well it's the cold war the whole cold war the number of times america turns up

00:50:27.200 somewhere or the soviets turn up somewhere and find that the opposition is completely funded

00:50:31.860 and armed and supported by the other side endlessly all over the world so the idea that

00:50:39.380 china might be sending weapons or support in various ways in all sorts of ways to iran

00:50:45.380 because america is in a conflict with them yeah that's the way war goes yeah yeah yeah 0.94

00:50:52.580 you're strategic enemies with china 0.72

00:50:56.360 That's why I was aghast

00:51:00.960 When Biden got in

00:51:01.640 If anyone remembers this

00:51:02.320 Just briefly

00:51:02.720 When Biden first got in

00:51:04.600 Remember him coming out

00:51:06.100 His doddery little walk

00:51:07.480 His like glass eyed

00:51:08.800 Watery eyed look

00:51:10.240 I mean

00:51:11.120 China aren't the enemy guys

00:51:13.460 They're not the enemy

00:51:15.080 Yeah

00:51:15.500 Yes they are

00:51:16.480 Yes they are

00:51:17.360 Of course

00:51:18.320 Of course they are 0.99

00:51:20.000 China's not the bad guys

00:51:25.260 Sure 1.00

00:51:29.740 Alright

00:51:31.040 A couple of other stories before we just move on to

00:51:33.620 On this day in history

00:51:34.820 I thought were of mild note

00:51:36.260 Ollie Robbins, Keir Starmer and Peter Mountain

00:51:38.260 There you go, there you go

00:51:39.020 Alright

00:51:39.680 Oh look

00:51:40.600 That's a million dollar violin

00:51:42.140 Oops, dropped it

00:51:43.060 Well, the conductor knocked it out of her hands 0.98

00:51:44.880 A million pound violin 0.58

00:51:46.780 Oh

00:51:47.040 It's a diff right there

00:51:49.480 Sorry

00:51:49.760 Apologies for that

00:51:51.160 I can't help myself

00:51:52.980 Okay

00:51:55.100 yeah this woman i've never i never watched the x factor i'm sort of forced to watch a little bit

00:52:02.040 of the x factor like over 10 years ago despised it every bit of it i can't stand the x factor

00:52:08.060 any sort of singing contest any sort of anything like that britain's got talent

00:52:12.420 like if i was at a butlins i wouldn't attend those sort of those sort of um contests so why

00:52:21.440 would i put it on my tv i don't know anyway this psycho was apparently an x-factor uh finalist

00:52:29.040 and i don't know if you saw the footage over the weekend she just run someone over

00:52:32.960 in the street in london especially she's having an argument with some other person in the street

00:52:39.040 uh got in her car run her over and then reverse back over again

00:52:42.880 oh right okay all right that's not like an absolute psychopathic thing to do sure all right

00:52:51.440 Oh, in Mexico there was a mass shooting event

00:52:56.380 Or only one person died

00:52:57.580 Or two or three people died

00:52:59.540 And a few injured

00:53:00.520 At one of those big pyramids in Mexico

00:53:03.560 Just outside Mexico City

00:53:04.980 Teotihuacan

00:53:06.620 Am I pronouncing that right?

00:53:08.320 Almost certainly not

00:53:09.120 Teotihuacan

00:53:10.600 Just outside Mexico City

00:53:13.040 Some of those giant pyramids

00:53:14.320 There was a mass shooting event there

00:53:15.960 Oh, well, a few people anyway were killed

00:53:18.180 Alright

00:53:19.580 All right. Oh, a matador got gored in a sensitive place. That's news.

00:53:28.860 Yeah, this one. Bukele. Bukele for the win. I'm a big fan of El Salvador's President Bukele.

00:53:40.800 He went to war with the gangs in his country and won quite quickly. He just actually used state power. 0.56

00:53:49.580 and the army so el salvador was one of the most dangerous statistically one of the most dangerous

00:53:56.060 places in all of central america and now it's one of the safest because he just rounded up

00:54:02.700 loads and loads of members of the ms13 gang and the other big gang in that country

00:54:07.480 thousands and thousands of people built a giant giant prison complex and put them all in there 0.73

00:54:13.760 now they're going on mass trial hundreds of skin-headed members of notorious ms13 0.74

00:54:19.860 mega gang put on a mass trial in el salvador charged with 47 000 crimes lovely lovely stuff 0.55

00:54:27.860 yes yes wielding power the way it should be in both britain something like this would happen

00:54:34.500 i'd build a giant prison complex and i would be apt to change loads of laws

00:54:40.380 So that the police and even the army

00:54:43.260 And the judiciary can tackle

00:54:45.540 The insane amount of crime we've got in this country

00:54:49.660 Round them all up

00:54:50.800 Clear them out of society 1.00

00:54:52.740 Put them away 0.98

00:54:55.800 Do what's in the interest of the innocent people

00:55:00.920 Of this country

00:55:02.560 Let's quickly read some of it

00:55:05.420 Hundreds of alleged members of a notorious gang

00:55:07.360 Faced a mass trial in El Salvador on Monday

00:55:09.520 Charged with thousands of crimes

00:55:11.340 Defendants are accused of more than 47,000 crimes

00:55:14.620 Committed between 2012 and 2022

00:55:17.000 Including an estimated 29,000 murders 1.00

00:55:20.960 They would do things in El Salvador like 1.00

00:55:24.660 They would do a roadblock 1.00

00:55:26.080 Going into a big city

00:55:28.580 The police, the army

00:55:29.880 Do a roadblock

00:55:30.840 Stop all the cars

00:55:32.100 Get everyone out 1.00

00:55:34.540 Make the men 0.94

00:55:35.460 It's nearly always the men, right? 0.54

00:55:37.380 Make the men take their top off, their t-shirt off

00:55:39.340 If you've got any MS tattoos, MS-13 tattoos, any at all

00:55:42.740 You're arrested now

00:55:43.540 That's it, you're done, you're done

00:55:45.660 You're arrested just for having a tattoo

00:55:47.280 We'll look into whether you've actually done any real crimes

00:55:50.440 Probably

00:55:51.440 We'll make sure

00:55:53.960 We'll try and make sure you've actually done any crimes

00:55:56.100 But on the strength of a tattoo

00:55:58.140 You're off the street now

00:56:00.100 Until we can prove you're innocent

00:56:02.460 Yeah

00:56:05.800 Because that's what it required

00:56:07.460 To save that country

00:56:09.000 from a nightmare a nightmare el salvadorian courts court system said the trial included

00:56:16.760 members of the national leadership street level leaders program coordinators from across the

00:56:21.160 country and founders of ms13 the gang's leadership is accused of slaughtering 87 people in a single 0.97

00:56:27.040 weekend in march 2022 absolute insane scumbags insane the killings prompted president bukele 0.74

00:56:35.380 to declare a war on the country's street gangs, 0.92

00:56:38.560 which he said controlled 80% of Salvadorian territory.

00:56:42.460 MS-13 is charged with the crime of rebellion,

00:56:44.980 quote, because they sought to establish a parallel state,

00:56:48.040 quote, the Attorney General's office said.

00:56:51.980 Meanwhile, prosecutors said the trial will settle a historic debt.

00:56:55.580 Yes! Justice, real justice.

00:56:59.440 Not the type of social justice that commies talk about, 0.89

00:57:02.900 which in fact gets normal people 1.00

00:57:05.220 raped and murdered 0.64

00:57:06.340 not that, real justice

00:57:08.740 the fates of the detainees

00:57:12.740 will be decided by anonymous judges

00:57:14.640 following proceedings via video link from prison

00:57:17.240 opening the trial

00:57:18.320 the judge stated that the armed group

00:57:19.960 had disturbed

00:57:21.920 the peace of the Salvadorian population

00:57:24.900 and the security of the state

00:57:26.440 for decades

00:57:27.140 and will be tried with the full force of the law

00:57:29.940 state prosecutors said they had ample evidence

00:57:32.280 to request the maximum sentences against the defendants

00:57:35.340 without specifying whether that meant life imprisonment.

00:57:41.520 MS-13 and the rival Barrio 18 gang

00:57:44.680 operate drug trafficking rings and extortion rackets

00:57:47.480 across Central America.

00:57:49.160 Bukele has accused them of murdering 200,000 people

00:57:52.680 over three decades,

00:57:55.700 including about 80,000 who disappeared without trace.

00:58:02.280 the president imposed a state emergency in 2022 which has been used to arrest more than 91,000

00:58:12.560 suspected gang members including thousands of people who were later declared innocent

00:58:16.780 the campaign which has seen McKellie's popularity rating surge yeah of course because it's brilliant 0.99

00:58:23.600 because that's brilliant to go to war with murderous scum yes 0.99

00:58:30.120 Yes. Yes. Just give me a chance, coach. Just give me a chance to go to war with murderous scum. 1.00

00:58:39.060 I love it. 0.99

00:58:42.300 The campaign, which has seen McKenna's popularity rating surge, has resulted in a dramatic drop in crime.

00:58:48.080 In just a few years, El Salvador has transformed from one of Latin America's most dangerous countries to one of its safest.

00:58:54.340 Brilliant. What's not to like about that?

00:58:56.700 Anyone who's sane must surely get behind that and love it

00:59:01.260 Oh no, no, no, human rights groups don't like it

00:59:04.280 Look, but the crackdown has drawn sharp criticism from human rights groups

00:59:08.520 Yeah, you get it? You get it?

00:59:12.840 It's MS-13 and Barrio-18's human right to go around murdering people 0.98

00:59:18.120 Is it?

00:59:20.360 Sharp criticism from human rights groups

00:59:22.540 Denouncing a lack of due process for detainees

00:59:25.520 Reports of torture and more than 500 deaths in prison

00:59:29.920 There you go

00:59:31.660 They do 200,000 murders

00:59:35.740 Including 80,000 that disappeared

00:59:39.040 Including massacres where 80 or 90 people might die in one day or one weekend

00:59:42.920 And you crack down on that and do something about it

00:59:46.060 And stop it happening

00:59:47.320 Human rights lawyers will call you evil

00:59:50.980 Or say you've done something wrong

00:59:53.760 Human rights lawyers

00:59:55.560 Alright you get it

01:00:01.140 Most people watching the Beau show

01:00:02.200 Breakfast with Beau

01:00:02.900 You'll know

01:00:05.260 You'll understand

01:00:05.860 I'm preaching to the choir here aren't I

01:00:07.360 Spread it around

01:00:09.220 Let the wishy-washy liberals

01:00:12.280 Who talk about human rights

01:00:13.580 Let them know that

01:00:16.700 That has been perverted

01:00:17.800 In the favour

01:00:19.340 Of

01:00:20.440 Monsters 0.89

01:00:21.760 That monsters will hide behind human rights

01:00:26.880 Quote-unquote human rights

01:00:29.320 To continue doing the worst things humans can do to each other

01:00:34.220 The concept of human rights

01:00:37.660 Once, perhaps, perhaps, once upon a time

01:00:40.980 A noble and righteous concept

01:00:42.920 Now completely perverted

01:00:45.140 In order to facilitate murderers and rapists 0.79

01:00:49.520 And gangsters

01:00:50.560 Alright, shall we have a look at something else entirely

01:00:59.180 And now for something completely different

01:01:00.880 Have a look at what happened on this day in history

01:01:03.860 Down through the centuries

01:01:04.920 On this day, the 22nd of April

01:01:06.680 What happened of note?

01:01:07.720 Have a look

01:01:08.060 You guys like this section

01:01:09.340 I like this section

01:01:10.220 What have we got here?

01:01:12.420 The Portuguese discover Brazil 0.70

01:01:14.400 Pedro Alvarez Cabral

01:01:17.320 Is the first European to discover Brazil

01:01:19.660 Landing near Monte Pascual 0.91

01:01:22.360 And claiming it for Portugal

01:01:24.440 The kingdom of Portugal

01:01:25.720 Harry

01:01:27.040 Harry

01:01:29.980 Are you there?

01:01:33.380 Yeah?

01:01:34.040 Oh, sorry, there you go

01:01:34.780 Sorry

01:01:35.160 I took my off on the board there

01:01:36.740 Do you reckon on Epochs

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01:01:44.640 Do you think I talk all about

01:01:46.500 The age of discovery 0.88

01:01:47.340 And how the Portuguese

01:01:48.960 and spanish discovered and uh claimed lots of parts of the new world magellan's voyage around

01:01:57.800 the world not long after that oh yeah hours and hours and hours and hours of me talking about

01:02:03.060 that check it out i've had a month bronze team membership it's a good deal hundreds and hundreds

01:02:10.800 and hundreds of hours of content behind that paywall not just me talking about history

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01:02:25.860 PhD level

01:02:26.840 It's all there

01:02:27.820 About a month

01:02:29.180 Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours

01:02:31.000 Old content with Josh

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01:02:34.680 All sorts of different things

01:02:35.740 Alright

01:02:35.920 On this day in 1915

01:02:38.000 The first military use of poison gas occurs

01:02:40.300 When Germany uses chlorine gas

01:02:42.100 Against the Allies along the Western Front

01:02:44.360 At Ypres

01:02:44.860 In France, in World War I

01:02:47.120 In English sometimes called it Wipers

01:02:49.520 I think it's pronounced Ypres 0.85

01:02:53.360 Right, well, 1915

01:02:56.220 So that's the first Battle of Ypres

01:02:57.660 Wouldn't it be?

01:02:59.300 The third Battle of Ypres

01:03:00.520 That's the big one, that's the terrible one

01:03:02.680 Anyway 1.00

01:03:05.020 Yeah, the Germans first used

01:03:07.820 First used gas

01:03:08.840 They said it was so deplorable

01:03:11.720 you can't do that that's insane thing but we'll start doing it now but we're going to do it now

01:03:17.560 in fact quite often very often the wind blows from west to east across belgium and northern france

01:03:26.600 so it's actually better easier for the allies to use poison gas against it because you just

01:03:34.440 the wind just takes it it's no more sophisticated than that you just make sure the wind is blowing

01:03:39.480 In the right direction

01:03:40.920 When you release it

01:03:41.980 And the wind just takes it

01:03:42.840 Over the enemy trenches

01:03:43.640 So 0.69

01:03:45.880 Yeah, the Germans 1.00

01:03:47.880 Probably not all that wise 1.00

01:03:51.100 To have started doing that

01:03:52.860 But

01:03:53.100 Yeah, poison gas

01:03:54.820 The accounts of

01:03:55.700 The accounts of gas attacks

01:03:57.460 About a week ago

01:04:02.420 I re-listened to the audio book

01:04:03.720 Of Storm of Steel

01:04:05.280 Ernst Junge

01:04:07.320 um an amazing book amazing account how he survived world war one's mad like injured like 15 times

01:04:16.040 anyway the accounts various accounts you know from owen wilson on down of gas attacks

01:04:25.000 in world war one truly horrific okay on this day in 1993 holocaust memorial museum dedicated

01:04:31.300 In Washington DC

01:04:32.080 Was it

01:04:32.680 In 1994

01:04:34.060 7,000 Tutsi 1.00

01:04:35.960 And slaughtered 1.00

01:04:37.340 7,000 Tutsis 0.91

01:04:38.960 Are slaughtered

01:04:39.720 By Hutus 1.00

01:04:40.600 In the stadium 0.64

01:04:41.600 At Kibuli

01:04:42.420 I think that's how you pronounce that

01:04:43.840 Kibuli

01:04:44.540 In Miranda

01:04:45.960 Yeah we've talked about

01:04:46.940 We've talked a little bit

01:04:47.700 Haven't we before

01:04:48.200 I think I've talked a little bit about

01:04:49.740 The Rwandan genocide

01:04:51.200 Quite a few years ago

01:04:53.400 15 maybe more years ago

01:04:55.700 I decided I needed to know

01:04:56.760 Everything about that

01:04:57.580 Looked into it

01:04:58.560 Read all about it

01:04:59.180 Watched a whole bunch of documentaries

01:05:00.300 Yeah 1.00

01:05:02.240 The Hutus have been oppressed by the Tutsis for a long time 0.89

01:05:06.080 And not that that justifies any of this whatsoever 0.98

01:05:08.760 But in the end

01:05:09.920 Went berserk 1.00

01:05:13.380 And tried to or did massacre as many Tutsis as they possibly could 1.00

01:05:16.740 Failing killing them 1.00

01:05:19.680 Just chop their hands off 1.00

01:05:20.800 Just chop all their fingers off 1.00

01:05:23.440 Hutus are sort of 1.00

01:05:26.420 A bit more squat 1.00

01:05:28.140 A bit shorter 1.00

01:05:29.220 Tootsies are a bit taller, like longer limbs, they're different ethnically, there's loads

01:05:40.980 and loads of different ethnicities in sub-Saharan Africa if you didn't know, loads, dozens

01:05:44.940 and dozens and dozens, the Hutus and the Tutsis are ethnically different, the Tutsis are sort

01:05:50.500 of taller, longer fingers, often the Hutus would just chop all their fingers off, I mean 0.94

01:05:59.220 Yeah, it's an insane thing that happened there 0.99

01:06:01.820 Insane, okay

01:06:02.920 In 2006, on this day, in 2006

01:06:06.100 The Nepalese security forces opened fire on pro-democracy protesters

01:06:09.820 Demonstrating against King Gayanendra

01:06:12.420 Probably mispronouncing that

01:06:13.820 Injuring hundreds

01:06:15.360 The protests secure the restoration of parliament and a federal state

01:06:18.820 It's interesting, Nepal 0.95

01:06:21.180 If only considering it's such a

01:06:25.100 A mountainous country, relatively low population

01:06:28.620 relatively low population density you know particularly in comparison to India and China

01:06:36.920 Nepal it's basically the Himalayas isn't it Nepal the amount of political unrest they have is

01:06:43.240 a little bit surprising to me a little bit surprising okay on this day in 2016 the Paris

01:06:50.380 agreement on climate change is signed in New York binding 195 nations to limit the increase of the

01:06:56.240 global average temperature to less than 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels

01:07:01.440 and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees.

01:07:07.220 We don't control the temperature of the earth.

01:07:12.540 How about that?

01:07:14.360 Humans are not capable of controlling the temperature of the earth.

01:07:20.720 That's dictated by forces

01:07:24.000 Far outside our ability

01:07:26.420 Yeah

01:07:30.020 Isn't that true?

01:07:32.380 Isn't that the reality?

01:07:34.340 That there are cycles going on

01:07:36.560 Far bigger

01:07:39.040 Longer than our civilization

01:07:41.780 That the sun

01:07:43.580 Dictates weather patterns on earth

01:07:46.200 Far more than anything we could do

01:07:48.360 Far more

01:07:50.720 but you buy the lie that man-made co2

01:07:55.300 something in the order of 400 parts per million that that drives climate change up or down

01:08:01.460 and that we control that therefore therefore we control

01:08:05.420 if the earth's average temperature goes up or down we don't no we're just along for the ride

01:08:13.220 we're probably in an interglacial period if anything over geological time spans thousands

01:08:20.140 tens of thousands of years we're in between ice ages probably

01:08:26.860 oh but we need to rework everything that we our entire economy everything we do

01:08:32.460 so that it can stay within a very very small band

01:08:38.860 insane to me it's sort of all insane to me the hubris of it to think that we control the average

01:08:46.940 global temperature we can control it we can tweak things here and there and make it go up or down

01:08:51.740 no it's way outside our ability to control that

01:08:55.860 that's my opinion i think that's the case i think that's what it is all right

01:09:03.540 um all right that's it should we have a look at our rumble rants and super chats

01:09:09.780 let's let me just let me just do that with my mic so i'm gonna have a look at the rumble rants

01:09:15.360 okay global church history in at number one oh yesterday i said he wasn't in at number one

01:09:20.280 but there was some after the show i was told there's some sort of some sort of technical

01:09:26.500 problem or glitch or something or other that meant um his rumble rank didn't come up on my

01:09:31.620 screen somehow but in fact he had done oh in fact yeah harry's bringing it up somehow it didn't show

01:09:39.160 up yesterday but harry's got it here so from yesterday global church history said on this day

01:09:44.500 1509 henry the eighth became king yes so his older brother arthur died henry should never

01:09:51.140 have been king he had an older brother he died of natural causes okay um in 1519 hernan cortege

01:10:02.100 landed in uh vera cruz and uh so cortez famous have i done content all about cortez

01:10:08.340 have i on history bro somewhere i've certainly talked about it in passing if i haven't done a

01:10:14.880 whole thing yeah his showdown with montezuma and everything fascinating absolutely fascinating

01:10:19.820 um and in 1594 an earthquake completely obliterated san salvador okay i don't know about that one

01:10:26.820 interesting though okay okay uh harry can you get that off the screen so i can see the other ones

01:10:34.160 That was Global Church History from yesterday

01:10:36.260 This morning, in at number 1

01:10:38.160 Reigning, defending

01:10:40.060 Undisputed

01:10:42.460 Global Church History said

01:10:43.880 Today in 404 BC

01:10:45.580 Athens surrenders to Lysander

01:10:47.820 The

01:10:49.780 The Spartan

01:10:52.220 King Lysander 0.58

01:10:53.400 So that would be the end of the Peloponnesian

01:10:56.480 The Peloponnesian War

01:10:58.120 Where Athens and Sparta went to war

01:11:00.280 With each other over about 25-30 years

01:11:02.780 big hiatus in the middle and then alcibiades kicks it off again ultimately in the end sparta win

01:11:11.140 do you think i've got loads of content about the peloponnesian war about alcibiades

01:11:20.680 yeah on my own channel history bro really early on among my first videos

01:11:29.260 I've got is it four four and a half five hours of me chatting to Carl about the Peloponnesian

01:11:35.920 War going through Thucydides the ancient Greek historian who wrote about it Thucydides

01:11:42.220 four five odd hours of me chatting all about that on history bro if you want if you want that if you

01:11:50.520 want to hear me and Carl talk for quite literally hours on end about when Athens and Sparta had

01:11:57.540 their monumental showdown 400 years before christ it's there history bro check it out

01:12:05.140 all right uh global church history also says and in 1724 emmanuel kant was born oh okay right

01:12:13.920 interesting not a giant fan of kant's philosophy to be honest there's no time to go into that here

01:12:24.480 really no time is the type of thing to even scratch the surface takes a few minutes

01:12:29.120 so okay for team barber says morning mate morning the new f1 rule tweaks seem decent

01:12:36.920 yeah apparently they have tweaked how much electrical energy you get as particularly

01:12:41.620 qualifying haven't they um i hate watching starmer slink around like he's haunting number 10

01:12:47.740 He should just go already

01:12:49.720 We've got a restore councillor down here now 0.96

01:12:53.780 Which is great

01:12:54.560 Oh, okay

01:12:56.540 But one flipped over to restore, did they?

01:13:00.200 Because we haven't had the elections yet

01:13:01.240 Did one just flip?

01:13:03.560 Okay

01:13:03.780 Interesting, cool

01:13:05.680 Okay, Tomrat247 says

01:13:09.580 Prediction

01:13:10.280 All of this eagerness to get Mandy into power

01:13:14.280 And Epstein will be linked to a

01:13:16.760 quote davos network which it will transpire starma was auditioning for

01:13:23.160 10 pound rumble rent by d if i'm wrong or by deck 10 pound rumble rent by december if i'm wrong

01:13:33.700 okay interesting could well be i mean what you said there yeah a davos network

01:13:37.700 and starma just wanted to be on the inside of that it could be what you've described there

01:13:45.060 is absolutely not beyond the realms of possibility wouldn't be surprised

01:13:49.540 davos network yeah

01:13:53.240 yeah okay um can we harry you need to bring up the youtube superchats for me let's have a look at

01:14:02.520 those today well we've got only a few today let's quickly do them then because i've got a

01:14:07.580 i've got to record an epox this morning and i'm on the podcast today i'm on the main podcast this

01:14:12.040 afternoon so i've got a full day today full docket all right lone wolf and cub 668 say says

01:14:19.900 going to closely report on keir keir's rent boy trial yeah i can't wait for that yeah i can't

01:14:28.060 wait for that i uh i think that will be very very interesting i hope a lot comes out in open court

01:14:34.220 what exactly that was all about who are they really and what was their motivation for all of that

01:14:39.960 yeah fascinating yeah when it comes out and it's quite soon i think i think the trial starts in

01:14:46.320 a week or two or three at most i can't remember but relatively soon okay i'm going to be reporting

01:14:51.480 on that yeah yeah try and stop me unless at the last minute they do uh like a media blackout or

01:14:59.880 the defendants suddenly plead guilty and so there's no real open cross-examination and it

01:15:07.460 just moves almost immediately to being um sentenced even if that happens which would

01:15:13.960 be very very disappointing but even if that happens i mean that would speak volumes wouldn't

01:15:16.820 it at the moment i believe they've pled uh pleaded innocent so there should be some some

01:15:22.280 sort of cross-examination stuff and but yeah i'll really i'll be reporting on it for sure

01:15:27.300 all right opening doors one says a full tank of fuel is now worth more than my car

01:15:33.600 no it is getting expensive though isn't it it's getting expensive opening doors one again says

01:15:43.180 bo fish and chips ever visited scunthorpe have i been to scunthorpe i'm not sure if i'm not sure

01:15:50.900 i've ever been to scunny have i i'm not sure i don't if i have i don't really recall it very

01:15:57.340 well i might have done when i was much younger or a child um but i love fish and chips depending

01:16:06.780 some fish and chips are much more delicious than others

01:16:10.860 if the batter is nice the chips are done right

01:16:15.100 it's something to go lovely um okay and the last one this morning just a few just a few

01:16:20.140 super chats this morning uh little tesla 9733 says when's the next lotus eaters gig big bow show

01:16:30.320 i don't know we haven't um uh thanks for super chat i don't know exactly when the next one is

01:16:36.980 the last one was basically kind of undeniably a success so we're going to do more last i heard

01:16:45.380 was that we planned to do something in the order of maybe maybe don't quote me on this but maybe

01:16:52.800 like two or three a year something like that so maybe one every four months maybe every six months

01:16:59.780 something like that we've only just done one today next one won't be for at least at least i would

01:17:04.320 have thought a few months but we're definitely going to if all goes to plan if people don't

01:17:09.560 like get hit by a bus or whatever we should be doing more we will be doing more hopefully

01:17:13.780 alright, that's it, that's the show

01:17:16.540 it's now 17 minutes past 9 in the AM British

01:17:18.520 summer time on Wednesday

01:17:20.480 22nd of April in the year of our Lord 2026

01:17:22.440 you've been the glorious band of chosen for you, my band of brothers and sisters

01:17:24.700 thank you for joining me, without you it isn't a thing

01:17:26.320 it really isn't a thing

01:17:29.120 so thank you, try and make

01:17:30.720 the best of the day ahead, carpe diem

01:17:32.720 seize the day, if you can

01:17:34.800 there's nothing

01:17:36.580 more valuable than your time

01:17:38.400 you can never get it back, it's finite

01:17:40.280 and you can never get it back again

01:17:42.500 You haven't got endless days

01:17:44.300 Try to do something valuable with your time

01:17:47.660 If you can

01:17:48.440 Alright until tomorrow morning

01:17:49.580 Take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 22, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 22nd April 2026

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