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

00:00:00.000 Morning. You alright? I do hope you are. I really do sincerely hope you are. Me? Yeah, I'm alright. Yeah, thanks for asking. Cheers. Yeah. As always, I'm joined by my producer, Little Harry Howie, this morning, good sir. Morning, I'm all good.

00:00:18.000 The omniscient, omnipresent voice of the all-powerful producer there

00:00:22.200 It is just ticked in the 8am, British Summer Time

00:00:25.640 On Tuesday, no wait, is it Tuesday? Wednesday? I've lost track of days

00:00:30.100 It's Wednesday, isn't it? Wednesday now, yeah, it is Wednesday

00:00:33.180 Wednesday the 22nd of July in the year of our Lord

00:00:38.320 2026

00:00:39.320 Should we stop faffing about though? Stop fanning about

00:00:43.780 Let's just get straight into it

00:00:46.280 what's that uh what's the legacy corporate lamestream media banging on about this morning

00:00:50.200 what's that cabal of quite frankly evil fleet street editors lying to you about by omission

00:00:55.800 if nothing else as they do every single day okay what have we got let's see what we got

00:01:03.240 for you the glorious band chosen for you my band of brothers and sisters right burnham's power play

00:01:07.720 And Widdicombe hit 21 times with a hammer

00:01:10.080 Oh, Grimm, yeah

00:01:13.940 Some of the details of Van Widdicombe's

00:01:15.840 Assassination came out yesterday

00:01:18.160 So it's on the front pages today

00:01:20.040 So it's a Burnham and Widdicombe day

00:01:24.300 Basically, they're the two stories

00:01:25.900 That absolutely dominate the front pages

00:01:27.760 Of the

00:01:28.200 Of the papers

00:01:31.160 Shall we just get straight into it?

00:01:32.580 The Metro, oh

00:01:37.720 who do you think you are sorry sorry who do you think you are what do you think you're doing 0.99

00:01:45.040 trying to subvert our country filth you're filth 0.84

00:01:54.760 Anne Whittacombe's murderer accused in court and struck on head 21 times with hammer

00:02:00.160 I've got to talk about a little bit because it is the first or second biggest story of the day

00:02:06.620 as horrible as it is that's mad i mean for a start look at the cult drawing i did there's

00:02:13.780 another cult drawing another one that actually looks more like the guy because we've got a

00:02:19.620 photo of the guy apparently the guy the police say it is that guy there's another cult drawing

00:02:25.680 which does look more like him whereas this cult drawing looks like a brown person doesn't it it

00:02:30.860 looks like a turkish person or something doesn't it i guess it's just a really bad drawing in fact

00:02:37.600 i think on some of the other papers they've got the they go with the other draw yeah they go with

00:02:42.420 the other drawing look but it looks actually like a bit more like the guy it's supposed to be

00:02:46.960 i guess if you only listen to the audio of this i can't help you um yeah so that looks so so what

00:02:56.420 was this drawing about when it first came out yesterday like people on twitter including myself

00:03:01.800 were like wait what's going on doesn't look anything like him but i guess i guess is simply

00:03:06.740 a case of that particular cult artist in not being that good or like too much a liberal use of like

00:03:17.980 brown shading on him anyway that's besides the point really isn't it sort of not really the point

00:03:25.000 here he came into her home because the front door was unlocked or even open because it was a heat

00:03:30.800 wave but she lives in a really rural place remote rural and remote she wouldn't expect anyone to do

00:03:37.340 a home invasion and it's baking hot so you leave your front door open mightn't you so it seems he

00:03:44.200 just strolled straight in she was in her kitchen having lunch because it was about midday or

00:03:48.700 whatever roughly and I guess he just goes straight up to her and just hammers her in the head 21 times

00:03:55.540 and then it seems from some of the details she was still just slumped in a chair so he

00:03:59.920 tipped her out of a chair onto the floor face first took her wallet or purse or something and left

00:04:07.560 the ordeal lasted about two minutes apparently according to pathologists or whatever the police

00:04:15.640 And she wasn't found until the next day by her gardener

00:04:19.420 When she was found face down on the kitchen floor

00:04:21.180 What an unbelievably, unbelievably brutal thing

00:04:29.880 That is what is called overkill, isn't it?

00:04:38.720 Sometimes someone will stab someone else like a hundred times

00:04:41.320 Overkill

00:04:42.500 Like the first two or three blows would have been enough

00:04:47.340 That you just keep going and going and going

00:04:50.520 Absolutely off the charts brutal, isn't it?

00:04:57.020 Well, I'm honestly, in Bo's Britain, if he was found guilty beyond all doubt

00:05:00.060 That's a hanging

00:05:01.620 Faux show

00:05:03.640 100% slam dunk

00:05:06.280 Execution for that

00:05:09.640 You forfeited your right to life

00:05:11.520 A crime like that

00:05:13.860 I mean, you can only imagine that he was like, you know 1.00

00:05:20.460 He's a real loser 0.99

00:05:22.800 Absolute leftist 1.00

00:05:24.940 And he took all his rage out on Anne Whittacombe's head

00:05:29.420 In those moments

00:05:30.380 Everything, his parents, his relationship

00:05:34.420 Women, politics, the whole world

00:05:36.520 He got to take it out on Anne Whittacombe's head 1.00

00:05:40.200 With a hammer 0.99

00:05:40.800 Scum, absolute filth 0.99

00:05:43.680 I mean, it's 1.00

00:05:45.220 Alright, that's it, I mean, that's all I'm going to say about it

00:05:47.840 That's all there is to say about it at the moment, isn't there, really?

00:05:51.160 Frankly

00:05:51.560 It's on the front page of all the papers

00:05:57.240 Suspect's ferocity of violence

00:06:01.560 In a planned, targeted, two-minute attack

00:06:04.320 As ex-MP ate lunch in her kitchen

00:06:10.800 okay the sun

00:06:15.060 prime minister burnham's vat cut clash

00:06:20.620 he's gone back on a number of things already he said it seems about tax allowances and various

00:06:29.080 other things we'll get into it there's a picture of shakira and jlo okay

00:06:35.460 Widcombe Horror and hit 21 times with hammer by this guy apparently this guy

00:06:43.280 murder suspect in court ex-mp killed as she ate because it was the first it was the first hearing

00:06:52.380 at the Westminster Magistrates Court where they just asked him for a guilty plea or sorry not

00:06:58.100 even that I mean asking for his name and address confirmed that he's the person some prosecutors

00:07:03.740 to outline some of the details of the case and then that's it it's adjourned until the full

00:07:07.880 trial which won't be for a while yet okay the mirror is the first cabinet meeting

00:07:15.080 accused in court and hit 21 times with hammer right got it it's going to be all the front

00:07:21.140 pages basically nearly all of them in um with to do burnham and politics and things

00:07:26.720 He said

00:07:28.400 Apparently

00:07:29.820 Because cabinet is behind closed doors effectively

00:07:32.860 You're allowed to come out

00:07:34.180 In the normal course of events

00:07:36.040 If you're a member of the cabinet

00:07:37.080 You're allowed to come out

00:07:37.800 And then start talking about it

00:07:39.080 Or even minutes are taken

00:07:40.480 But there's no cameras in cabinet

00:07:42.180 A live feed of cabinet

00:07:44.560 That's not a thing

00:07:45.220 So

00:07:45.400 Apparently

00:07:46.880 He implored

00:07:49.400 And that's the word that keeps getting reported

00:07:50.640 He implored his cabinet

00:07:52.120 To find

00:07:53.600 Spending cuts

00:07:56.100 now just that just that data point

00:08:01.700 oh lovely cup of tea put sugar in it this morning

00:08:07.320 99 times out of 100 i don't do that just fancied it this morning

00:08:12.720 um apparently he implored his cabinet to find spending cuts in order that he can

00:08:20.000 spend in other places on the other things he wants to do like capping bus fares

00:08:26.180 it's going to be the most radical change in 40 years no no just just a joke um that 0.99

00:08:34.760 that's bad that's stupid in my opinion you're the leader dude you're supposed to come into power 0.97

00:08:44.100 with a plan you're supposed to tell them what they're doing now not ask them what to do how 1.00

00:08:49.400 to do it it's crazy isn't it to me he's going to sit there in the first cabinet meeting say guys

00:08:56.300 any ideas any question any any uh let's start spitball let's start brainstorming how to how

00:09:01.760 you can cut your department so i can spend money how i want to spend money no what is that it

00:09:08.640 should be the case that he's got this master plan he should be saying right now you do this you do

00:09:16.360 that you move shuffle around here you do this you do xyz and then you can do xyz and then we can do

00:09:21.720 and i've got this overarching grand plan this idea where's that

00:09:28.840 he hasn't got that

00:09:33.480 just like in a war you've got like um you know all your your senior staff officers

00:09:39.560 you're the co you're the overall field marshal or something you sit down everyone's waiting for your

00:09:45.880 your plan of campaign and you go right guys what you got any ideas

00:09:54.760 what we're in trouble then we're in real trouble haven't you got the plan haven't

00:09:59.240 you got the ideas you're supposed to have the overarching grand plan the strategy

00:10:05.480 the co the co goes any ideas on strategy fellas and you're already in the field your army is

00:10:12.040 He's already in the field

00:10:12.880 A bit worrying

00:10:15.940 A bit concerning

00:10:18.420 I don't think he's got a

00:10:20.640 Ten year plan

00:10:21.900 Not a good one anyway

00:10:23.400 He thought he was supposed to come out with his ten year plan yesterday

00:10:26.200 He didn't did he?

00:10:29.160 Did I say that?

00:10:30.080 He might be waiting all summer

00:10:31.120 Or he just might never ever do it

00:10:32.580 He might come out today

00:10:34.580 Who knows?

00:10:35.340 We don't know do we?

00:10:36.540 He's not really telling us

00:10:37.660 Anything of any substance

00:10:40.380 Is he?

00:10:42.920 things like um oh we're gonna increase the in the uh tax allowance oh no we're not

00:10:48.760 we're gonna cap bus fares how you gonna pay for that don't know

00:10:51.640 we're gonna end uh rough sleeping how you can do that don't know

00:10:59.800 hey the daily express

00:11:04.600 it's a good paper

00:11:05.320 you can read your express now i'm being ironic of course it's not a good paper it's pure

00:11:13.700 globalist slop like all the others and try and destroy anyone to the right of

00:11:17.920 all you came in bad enough all right 0.62

00:11:21.560 andy under attack for unfunded vat cut yeah everyone's saying oh okay you've said a number

00:11:29.180 of things about what you want to do even if they are just broad strokes of the brush you've said

00:11:32.560 a number of things. How are you going to pay for any of that? Good one. Caught hears she,

00:11:45.920 Anne Widdicombe, was killed in a two-minute kitchen attack caught on camera. Yeah, apparently

00:11:50.740 she had some sort of camera in her kitchen. Maybe it was even, I think, did she even sometimes

00:11:57.500 Do podcasts

00:12:00.300 Or appearances

00:12:01.720 Like internet appearances

00:12:02.880 From her home 0.96

00:12:03.940 Well she definitely did that

00:12:04.780 I don't know if they're ever

00:12:05.420 From her kitchen

00:12:06.120 I don't know 0.79

00:12:06.980 Apparently she had some sort of 0.99

00:12:08.040 Camera there that was 0.54

00:12:08.900 And it caught it 1.00

00:12:09.760 Anne was hit 21 times 1.00

00:12:11.660 On the head with a hammer 1.00

00:12:12.520 Right okay 0.97

00:12:13.220 Again same story

00:12:14.440 I managed to capture

00:12:16.200 A bit of him in the back

00:12:17.440 Of the police car

00:12:18.340 Or the police van

00:12:19.460 As he was driven to

00:12:20.280 Or from court at some point

00:12:21.420 That's her actual kitchen

00:12:23.180 That she's in

00:12:23.820 Very macabre isn't it

00:12:27.500 Okay, they're all going with the 21 blows to the head with the hammer bit, story.

00:12:37.000 Fashion high-flyer who lost her job at 50 and ends up on benefits, don't care.

00:12:41.880 Day two sees a raft of un-costed promises and the first mutiny from a sacked Starmerite

00:12:47.840 echoing the nation by asking, who's going to pay the bill for Andy's largesse, largesse,

00:12:56.620 Generosity, handing out money.

00:12:58.440 Who's going to pay for that?

00:13:00.380 Hmm?

00:13:01.440 Don't know.

00:13:03.540 And, and Whittacombe.

00:13:05.640 Mashed in the head again.

00:13:07.700 The IR paper.

00:13:09.960 Cost of living, cost of living, cost of living.

00:13:13.300 Does that mean a bit of a sort of education, education, education?

00:13:16.680 Anyone doesn't know that?

00:13:17.540 That was one of Tony Blair's sort of main sort of slogans.

00:13:22.380 Soviet-era Maoist-type slogans.

00:13:24.840 Tony Blair.

00:13:25.240 education education education i think that's what that will be echoing burnham is cost of living

00:13:31.760 cost of living cost of living he's only ever going to tinker around the edges isn't he doesn't

00:13:36.360 it's not the most radical change in 40 years it's not close to that it's moving the deck

00:13:40.880 chairs as a fraction of an inch new prime minister orders his cabinet find ways to cut uk prices

00:13:47.600 And offer hope

00:13:48.720 Hope that all the prices

00:13:52.400 Only go up by 2.6%

00:13:54.940 Consistently

00:13:56.860 Instead of 6 or 7% 1.00

00:13:58.380 Well great hope yeah 1.00

00:14:00.180 Great white hope

00:14:01.460 For the British economy

00:14:02.580 Andy Bumham

00:14:04.560 Who's got no sternum

00:14:07.020 No sternum burnum

00:14:08.160 With his student politics

00:14:12.120 And a moan about Maggie

00:14:13.800 If his government collapses

00:14:16.480 His leadership collapses

00:14:17.660 The economy collapses under his watch

00:14:19.780 You'll just blame Thatcher, won't you?

00:14:23.440 Blame Thatcher, probably

00:14:24.560 Not Harold Wilson

00:14:28.660 No, not Clement Attlee

00:14:30.780 No

00:14:31.440 Thatcher, right

00:14:33.600 Okay

00:14:35.420 Typical electricity bill

00:14:40.340 Will fall by £45 a year

00:14:43.240 From October

00:14:44.480 what is that if that's not moving the deck chairs quarter of a mil on the sinking titanic thanks

00:14:52.940 thanks andy 45 quid a year a year if you said a month that would still be like there'll be nice

00:15:01.700 i'll take it but it's like it's not really gonna change your life is it 45 pound a year

00:15:10.340 okay as andy burnham removes vat from them on his second day is that all that will amount to

00:15:24.920 doesn't really make sense to me removing vat from why would they why should there be vat

00:15:31.400 on electricity bills in the first place be a good question

00:15:34.940 I'm going to remove that and it saves you £45 a year

00:15:41.380 Okay, okay

00:15:45.220 That is sod all, really, isn't it, in the scheme of things

00:15:49.180 Burnham will need to raise taxes

00:15:52.480 Claim senior economists

00:15:54.540 I mean, claim senior economists

00:15:57.040 Or risk failing to deliver on a raft of his bolder policy pledges

00:16:01.660 We're in a very, very finite space here

00:16:07.340 When it comes to money and spending

00:16:09.100 The incomings and outgoings of the Treasury

00:16:12.020 A very finite space

00:16:15.580 If he wants to spend on anything really

00:16:19.620 He'll have to come at the expense of something else

00:16:21.920 Serious reform of our taxes required

00:16:27.060 If New PM wants to target wealth

00:16:31.660 Institute for Fiscal Studies Chief tells the IPAPER.

00:16:34.740 Yeah.

00:16:36.100 Yeah.

00:16:38.020 Defence spending set for boost.

00:16:40.580 Well, because John Healy is now the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

00:16:44.040 who was, until a few weeks ago, the Defence Secretary,

00:16:47.100 who quit Starmer's government because the Treasury

00:16:49.360 wouldn't give the Defence Department a few billion more.

00:16:53.420 Well, now he's in control of the purse strings.

00:16:56.400 So you would think, you would hope that, at the very least,

00:16:59.180 You would think that at the very least

00:17:02.540 The Treasury, Mr. Healy's Treasury

00:17:05.380 Will now find that money from somewhere

00:17:08.760 Surely with the optics of him not doing that

00:17:12.000 Or failing to do that

00:17:13.120 You can imagine the Right Honourable Mr. Wesley Streeting 1.00

00:17:18.240 Practising homosexualist 0.99

00:17:19.320 Who's now the head of the Defence Department

00:17:21.580 Will be saying in Cabinet

00:17:24.820 And behind closed doors in various ways

00:17:26.600 Will be saying to Healy

00:17:27.460 you're going to give me all the money i want basically or most of it because

00:17:34.140 that's what you quit government over so surely you can't refuse now

00:17:39.800 okay defense spending for boost set for boost with chancellor john healy likely to u-turn on

00:17:47.880 key reeves veto and join canada project yeah so reeves we know didn't we said no the defense

00:17:55.460 The Department of Defence can't have more billions

00:17:58.500 The yearly budget is already something up and around

00:18:03.020 I can't remember the exact number

00:18:04.760 But it's up and around 80 or 90 billion a year

00:18:07.040 Something like that

00:18:07.840 And they wanted it increased by another 15 billion

00:18:11.700 Remember all this?

00:18:13.940 And Starmer and Roof said

00:18:14.820 No, best we can do you

00:18:16.600 Is 13 and a half billion

00:18:18.760 And that's what made John Healy resign

00:18:22.020 And the Starmer government collapse

00:18:23.600 Actually

00:18:24.560 and then during that we know after that and between that and now on that and about a week

00:18:29.800 ago or so they said oh actually the treasury said actually we haven't even got that 13.5 billion

00:18:37.280 we said we have we promised it to you but we'd have to be found from somewhere right now

00:18:41.220 we don't actually have it any of it

00:18:45.100 Britain isn't rolling in money

00:18:53.720 We give a lot of it away

00:18:55.280 And waste it on things

00:18:57.460 Like somehow spending

00:19:01.040 Untold billions on

00:19:03.820 A little bit of train track

00:19:06.740 That runs from London to Birmingham

00:19:08.220 Things like that

00:19:10.240 On welfare

00:19:12.400 For our invaders

00:19:14.520 What a crazy thing

00:19:18.220 Machiavelli would be turning in his grave

00:19:20.620 I think historians will look back on it

00:19:24.140 And say, wait, Great Britain

00:19:26.020 Not just Great Britain, other countries as well

00:19:27.420 Germany, France

00:19:28.820 They sort of bankrupted themselves

00:19:31.620 They ruined their economies

00:19:32.880 In order to afford

00:19:35.380 To pay for housing and benefits 0.92

00:19:37.860 Of the people invading them

00:19:39.700 What an insane thing that was

00:19:44.600 What's the psychology behind that, they will ask

00:19:50.520 It's just people like Burnham, isn't it?

00:19:52.840 It's just people like Starmer and Burnham

00:19:54.000 They just think it's the right thing to do

00:19:57.140 Apparently

00:19:58.420 That's what they claim

00:19:59.780 It wouldn't be in line with British values

00:20:09.900 If we did anything other than that

00:20:11.500 What?

00:20:13.740 What?

00:20:18.420 Sack Starmer loyalist

00:20:20.040 Raises doubts over how VAT cut will be funded

00:20:22.980 By a scrapping digital ID project

00:20:25.500 In row with number 10

00:20:26.780 Already

00:20:27.620 already a bit of the story is

00:20:30.440 enemies of Burnham

00:20:34.380 and his team and his project

00:20:36.680 his agenda for government

00:20:37.840 are already sort of piping up

00:20:39.980 enemies within the Labour Party

00:20:42.560 so there's the far left of the party

00:20:44.700 and then there's the

00:20:46.620 ex-Starmarites who have just all been

00:20:48.500 purged 1.00

00:20:49.040 both of those

00:20:51.040 gunning for Burnham

00:20:54.380 already

00:20:54.860 coming out on briefing, you know, talking to journalists about how Burnham is doing things

00:21:02.760 wrong. I don't have a clue, that sort of thing. The disunity in the Labour Party is a sight to

00:21:11.080 behold though. Anyone who's not a Labour Party loyalist, everyone, just watch on with like a

00:21:20.600 rye a smile, just like anyone who wasn't a Tory, watched the Tory party rip itself to

00:21:27.760 pieces, the Liz Truss thing, with the destroying Boris, the Liz Truss debacle, and then the

00:21:38.000 Rishi Sunak abomination, and then them get absolutely shellacked at the ballot box, anyone

00:21:46.380 Well, it's not a Tory boy, an acting full-blown Conservative Party chill.

00:21:51.680 Just watching that with glee, right?

00:21:54.080 Same goes for this with the Labour Party.

00:21:55.640 Yeah, yeah, get him.

00:21:57.020 Yeah, ex-starm rights and left of the Labour Party.

00:21:59.200 Yeah, get Burnham, get him.

00:22:01.640 Make sure he hasn't really got any power to do anything. 1.00

00:22:03.960 Make him look stupid. 1.00

00:22:04.740 Make yourselves look stupid. 1.00

00:22:06.300 Yeah. 1.00

00:22:10.780 It's not funny, really, is it?

00:22:11.940 It's the country.

00:22:12.600 It's out of my country.

00:22:13.460 Humiliating itself 0.56

00:22:15.720 Eating its own tail

00:22:16.860 Meanwhile the economy falls off a cliff

00:22:24.360 The high street is dystopian

00:22:26.780 Truly dystopian

00:22:27.600 And we're invaded increasingly more 1.00

00:22:29.580 By foreign beast men 1.00

00:22:31.120 Who go around raping 1.00

00:22:32.860 Murdering 0.98

00:22:34.220 It's not funny at all

00:22:38.220 Yeah, the unity of the Labour Party

00:22:44.040 Is non-existent really

00:22:45.140 Surprised, isn't it?

00:22:46.960 I guess, maybe it's not surprising

00:22:48.540 But it used to be

00:22:49.960 It never used to be like that

00:22:53.140 If a party, any party

00:22:55.060 Got a big majority

00:22:56.740 Think back to the Thatcher years

00:22:59.800 Or to the early Blair years

00:23:02.700 Or most, all the Blair years really

00:23:03.980 The party's got a big majority

00:23:06.200 And all they've got to do

00:23:08.620 They can argue amongst themselves

00:23:10.320 And be factional and infighting

00:23:13.040 As much as they want

00:23:14.060 Behind closed doors

00:23:15.880 As much as you like

00:23:17.940 Behind closed doors

00:23:19.200 Hate each other 0.96

00:23:20.320 And nip at each other's ankles 0.99

00:23:21.980 All you want 0.65

00:23:22.660 Just do it behind closed doors

00:23:24.180 And when the government

00:23:25.560 Your leadership

00:23:26.200 Have a vote in parliament

00:23:28.520 You all vote for it

00:23:30.680 Nearly all vote for it

00:23:31.900 Even if you don't like it

00:23:33.620 And you can moan and complain

00:23:35.480 and catfight behind closed doors but when it comes to it when it comes to the the formal thing the

00:23:40.980 main thing the make the big show of voting as one in parliament so i get a new bill through a new

00:23:46.900 act of parliament through you fall in line and you do as the government asks you to do because it's

00:23:53.200 your party that's how it always used to be not always of course it's largely how it would be

00:24:02.040 You've got this incredible privilege

00:24:05.680 That you're part of that gang

00:24:07.560 You're part of that cabal

00:24:09.660 That gets to make acts of parliament

00:24:13.200 An incredible privilege

00:24:18.220 To be a part of that

00:24:20.980 Well, nowadays

00:24:23.820 The way the Tories behaved in the last few parliaments

00:24:27.180 And the way the Labour Party are behaving now

00:24:28.760 None of that seems to exist anymore

00:24:31.340 I mean what is the point in having a whip system

00:24:33.760 Doesn't seem to work very well does it

00:24:36.120 What's much of the point

00:24:37.340 You like threaten them and conjole them

00:24:39.400 This is a three line whip now

00:24:40.540 Oh is it and they're all like is it so don't care

00:24:42.360 There's like no unity at all

00:24:48.660 Well good good

00:24:51.440 I don't want this Labour government

00:24:54.160 To be able to do anything further

00:24:56.020 Don't trust them to do anything

00:24:58.360 That's in our interests now

00:25:01.340 I'd like Andy Burnham to be hamstrung as a politician, to get that clear

00:25:06.920 The other day I said something about trying to do everything in your power to stop Ed Miliband from regaining his seat

00:25:16.360 Of course I meant politically, a couple of people in the comments are like, you can't say that

00:25:21.620 Of course I meant politically, of course I meant that

00:25:24.620 I have to say every single time

00:25:31.340 i make any sort of uh statement like that destroy them beat them politically

00:25:39.760 yeah it would be good if andy burnham can't really do anything because i don't trust him

00:25:48.100 to do anything that's in our interest okay oxbridge cabinet 17 out of 28 went to oxford

00:25:55.460 or cambridge don't really care about that depends who they are doesn't it depends who they are

00:26:00.980 Depends what they studied

00:26:02.100 Depends what job they've got

00:26:03.460 In and of itself

00:26:05.000 I don't care about that

00:26:05.860 Why not?

00:26:07.100 Might have

00:26:07.700 May well

00:26:08.520 Have had a very very good education 1.00

00:26:10.760 Some of the older people

00:26:11.840 Some of the old Blairites

00:26:13.440 Some of the older people

00:26:14.100 In their 50s or 60s

00:26:15.440 May have had like a non-woke

00:26:17.580 First class education

00:26:18.960 From Oxford or Cambridge

00:26:20.240 Nothing wrong with that

00:26:21.120 Some might not have done

00:26:26.100 It depends doesn't it?

00:26:29.300 They would be moaning

00:26:30.260 The other way

00:26:30.940 wouldn't they? Some people would be moaning, none of them went to Universal, none of them

00:26:34.960 went to Oxford and Cambridge. Okay, the times, the venerable times. Notting Murders Health

00:26:45.880 Trust faces manslaughter inquiry. This is the story about that guy, what was his name?

00:26:52.800 Callocane, Valdo Callocane

00:26:54.800 The foreign 1.00

00:26:57.140 Black man 1.00

00:26:57.940 Who came here, had 1.00

00:27:00.200 Some terrible mental health issues 0.84

00:27:02.600 Wasn't sectioned

00:27:05.400 Wasn't

00:27:06.640 Banged up

00:27:07.560 Was allowed out onto the streets and murdered three people

00:27:10.900 In Nottingham

00:27:12.060 Two young people

00:27:14.780 And an older dude

00:27:15.560 And apparently now

00:27:18.620 The actual mental health

00:27:20.300 Institution

00:27:21.540 Well the trust

00:27:23.760 That really should have

00:27:25.200 Done better

00:27:26.820 With regards to Mr. Valocaine

00:27:30.420 They themselves

00:27:31.880 Are facing a manslaughter inquiry

00:27:34.320 Yeah, fair enough

00:27:35.440 Yeah, look into it

00:27:37.120 Why was this monster

00:27:39.660 Allowed out?

00:27:41.100 Why was he in this country in the first place?

00:27:43.580 He was in the wrong country, wasn't he?

00:27:45.600 He shouldn't have been here, should he?

00:27:47.620 Why was he here?

00:27:51.540 But they're all having a good time

00:27:55.320 They're laughing it up 0.99

00:27:56.220 Yeah, laugh it up, clown

00:27:57.180 Yeah, look, it's all brilliant 0.95

00:27:59.240 Ha ha ha ha, ha ha

00:28:00.800 Yeah

00:28:01.580 You're not residing over a sinking ship

00:28:05.420 Ha ha ha, yeah

00:28:06.280 You got no mandate from the people

00:28:08.400 How funny

00:28:09.460 Burnham signals cuts

00:28:16.880 Should be a comma there

00:28:18.720 Signal cuts to pay for spending pledges

00:28:21.280 burnham signals cuts to pay for spending pledges so

00:28:26.280 not a cut not a decrease in spending overall he wants to just spend in other places so stop

00:28:32.800 spending here so we can spend there aren't we already in massive amounts of debt unsustainable

00:28:39.200 amounts of debt that you want to cut spending in general gross no no no not that though

00:28:46.600 Cabinet told to find savings to fund promises on energy bills

00:28:50.960 Council houses, utilities and bus fares

00:28:54.320 Apparently in that cabinet he just said

00:28:56.460 Guys, you've got to go out and find some spending cuts in your departments

00:29:02.540 Because I need the cashola for other stuff

00:29:05.200 Any ideas? How are you going to do that?

00:29:07.720 Anybody? Anybody? No?

00:29:10.060 Because I, Burnham, don't have any clear-cut solid ideas

00:29:13.480 Apparently, otherwise why would he even ask?

00:29:16.600 It's all funny though, yeah, yeah, yeah, brilliant, well done, well done Andy

00:29:21.800 You get to be on that list of people that have been the Prime Minister

00:29:25.920 It's all you ever wanted, wasn't it?

00:29:31.140 Don't worry about that you're going to be presiding over a shadow of a nation that once was

00:29:37.540 Don't worry about that

00:29:39.520 You get to be in that list along with greats like

00:29:42.820 Wellington and Robert Peel

00:29:44.820 And Lloyd George and Churchill or whatever

00:29:48.020 You want to be Tony Blair, doesn't he?

00:29:50.440 He wants to be Tony Blair

00:29:51.220 He wished he could have been in Tony Blair's position in 1997

00:29:57.240 It's not 1997 anymore, Andy

00:29:59.900 You're not Tony Blair, Andy

00:30:03.260 Why has he picked so many Tony Blair people?

00:30:06.780 His cabinet is full of old Blair rights, isn't it?

00:30:08.720 what half of them is it

00:30:14.720 he wishes he was Blair well too late for that

00:30:24.160 the financial times burn and backs away from rising tax allowance not rising tax tax allowance

00:30:31.520 to show fiscal discipline that's what he's going to do is it when he's right right you're going to

00:30:34.960 raise taxes here and there and everywhere and say this is fiscal discipline this is being prudent

00:30:42.480 this is the the right thing to do they hold their hand like it's the right thing to do

00:30:51.600 not cut spending no not deport millions of people that are a net drain on the country no

00:30:58.480 Not cut foreign aid

00:31:00.640 No

00:31:00.920 That's not the right thing to do

00:31:02.840 Just tax everyone else more

00:31:04.820 That's fiscal discipline

00:31:07.900 That's what that's called

00:31:08.820 Alright

00:31:15.400 The Guardian

00:31:17.800 Oh dear

00:31:18.420 Oh dear

00:31:19.660 Look at you

00:31:22.980 The state of you

00:31:25.440 Have a wash 1.00

00:31:27.680 Disgusting, you stink 1.00

00:31:30.600 You smell 1.00

00:31:32.400 The Guardian 0.99

00:31:34.420 Dear The Guardian, you stink 0.98

00:31:36.480 Of BO 0.85

00:31:40.440 And curry

00:31:42.300 And poo

00:31:44.180 That's what The Guardian smells of

00:31:47.560 Burnham implores cabinet to find ways to tackle cost of living crisis

00:31:51.940 Ha ha ha

00:31:52.860 Andy Burnham

00:31:56.320 Look, everyone, he's got more charisma than Starmer, didn't you know?

00:31:59.920 Got to vote for us in 2029 now.

00:32:07.620 Look, average voter of the UK that doesn't really know what's going on most of the time,

00:32:11.680 doesn't really pay any attention to politics.

00:32:13.540 Look, he's more personable than Starmer.

00:32:15.600 He's slightly less of a robot than Starmer.

00:32:17.780 You can vote for us now.

00:32:19.340 You can have hope now.

00:32:21.940 This face inspires hope in you, doesn't it?

00:32:26.320 Look, he's a good guy, he's a nice guy, he's a man of the people 1.00

00:32:30.480 He's just a normal fella from the North 1.00

00:32:36.960 He's not an insane Fabian, commie, pinko, leftist, student activist, idiot 1.00

00:32:44.640 He's one of us, one of us 1.00

00:32:48.760 He's gonna inspire hope in politics

00:32:53.800 He's gonna make the country great again

00:32:56.320 Sure. Sure. Sure he is. All right. That picture again, that doesn't look like him, does it?

00:33:11.000 That looks like a dude that would work in a kebab shop.

00:33:16.280 That looks like a dude that would bring you your Uber Eats. I've never once used Uber Eats in my

00:33:21.120 life, never nor will I, but I know the type. You're too lazy to go and get your own McDonald's.

00:33:30.480 So you just eat or Uber Eats. Some dude turns up on an electric bike that you've stolen

00:33:35.200 to give you, to hand you your McDonald's because you're too lazy to go out and pick

00:33:40.120 up your own Big Mac. And he looks like that.

00:33:42.240 It's an interesting story

00:33:49.560 Trump furious at foreign secretary role for Miliband

00:33:52.700 Trump doesn't like Ed Miliband

00:33:54.100 He knows who Ed Miliband is

00:33:55.440 Ed Miliband was leader of the Labour Party, wasn't he?

00:34:00.280 Remember that?

00:34:04.220 And during that period of time

00:34:05.760 Before and after as well, I believe

00:34:07.240 Ed Miliband's on record

00:34:08.660 Saying all the sorts of things that the leftists say about Trump

00:34:11.860 Things David Lammy had said about Trump 1.00

00:34:14.620 He's just a terrible, evil, stupid man 1.00

00:34:18.880 All those things 1.00

00:34:19.760 He wants to be king, he's a fascist or whatever 0.92

00:34:23.580 Trump knows who Ed Miliband is 0.78

00:34:28.460 White House, quote, deeply concerned, quote

00:34:32.040 At Burnham's cabinet choice of Ed Miliband at the Foreign Office

00:34:36.340 Warning, serious diplomatic repair is needed

00:34:39.820 as US President hasn't forgotten former Labour leaders' past fierce criticism.

00:34:47.080 It's quite easy to please Trump, isn't it?

00:34:50.740 In a sense.

00:34:52.280 You've just got to kiss up to him a bit. 1.00

00:34:56.500 You've just got to not talk about him and treat him like a dick. 1.00

00:35:02.240 That's sort of all he really asks. 0.99

00:35:04.020 Right

00:35:08.600 But people on the left

00:35:10.160 Many people on the left

00:35:10.980 Can't do that

00:35:13.480 They're not capable of doing that

00:35:15.300 They're not capable

00:35:18.020 So that'd be interesting

00:35:23.520 I'd be interested to see if

00:35:26.080 The White House

00:35:26.940 Trump himself

00:35:28.740 Or Marco Rubio

00:35:31.620 Who is the State Department

00:35:33.020 right he's Miliband's equivalent they will meet at some point wonder how much or at all if they

00:35:40.160 will really sort of snub him make him look silly in some ways wonder if they will whether Rubio

00:35:48.100 will do that or whether Miliband will actually be in the Oval the Oval Office and Trump will do

00:35:53.300 something you know a little bit embarrassing the way they sat Starmer down remember that

00:35:59.440 And J.D. Vance gave him a bit of a talking down to

00:36:06.660 I wonder if they'll do that with Miliband

00:36:08.620 Will Ed Miliband be tough enough to handle that?

00:36:14.420 Sorry, tough enough to handle that?

00:36:19.160 Does anyone remember that? Harry, do you know what I'm talking about there?

00:36:21.540 You might not...

00:36:22.860 No

00:36:23.140 Okay

00:36:23.760 A few years ago, it was when Ed Miliband was leader of the Labour Party

00:36:28.420 Or running to be leader of the Labour Party

00:36:30.120 Sort of fairly semi-famous

00:36:32.680 Interview, sat down with Jeremy Paxman

00:36:34.280 And Jeremy Paxman said

00:36:35.540 People just don't think you're tough enough, Ed

00:36:37.620 That's the problem, you seem weak

00:36:39.460 You're not tough enough

00:36:41.100 And Ed Miliband said

00:36:43.160 Oh, I am tough enough

00:36:44.800 What did he say, tough enough?

00:36:48.780 He fluffed the word tough

00:36:50.520 When trying to argue that he was tough

00:36:58.420 That's enough

00:37:00.860 Okay

00:37:02.980 How to prepare a teenager to take the throne

00:37:06.680 Very difficult 0.84

00:37:08.020 Very difficult

00:37:09.880 I mean he almost certainly won't get to the throne

00:37:12.320 That's Wills' boy isn't it George

00:37:14.140 He'll be King George at some point

00:37:18.560 Probably

00:37:19.620 But probably not too easy

00:37:22.200 In middle age or late middle age

00:37:23.760 His father's only what 25 years

00:37:26.660 30 years at most

00:37:28.340 older than him so he won't be king for a long time but probably yeah we've had a number of boy kings

00:37:37.140 ruling in their minority throughout the centuries haven't we a number of them if you uh anyone

00:37:43.220 watches bow days epochs they'll know i've gone through the monarchy and all the way up to edward

00:37:51.060 the sixth himself a boy king actually we've had a great number of them how do you prepare a child

00:37:57.620 How do you tell a child

00:37:58.880 One day you should be king

00:38:00.480 How does that not like

00:38:02.340 Ruin their mind in some ways

00:38:04.980 Their psychology

00:38:05.640 How do you keep them grounded

00:38:07.820 I don't know

00:38:08.460 Doesn't really matter much these days anyway

00:38:11.000 Our monarchs

00:38:12.040 Have very very little

00:38:14.940 Very little real power

00:38:16.820 These days

00:38:18.900 Okay the telegraph

00:38:20.460 The daily torograph

00:38:21.580 Angela the Fridge Rainer

00:38:23.620 Big Bird

00:38:24.240 Is walking to number 10

00:38:25.560 There's no other story than that

00:38:27.620 It's not like a big story

00:38:29.100 Like she's done or said something important

00:38:30.480 Or

00:38:30.800 You know she's 7 foot 2 1.00

00:38:37.220 And weighs 500 pounds 1.00

00:38:38.560 I'm really laughing at that one

00:38:43.460 Yeah

00:38:44.840 Okay

00:38:46.160 PC Harper's killers

00:38:49.520 Set for early release

00:38:51.280 Anyone remember this story

00:38:53.700 This guy here

00:38:54.260 That little picture of a little guy there

00:38:55.900 He was a policeman, PC Harper

00:38:57.760 He was investigating the report that a quad bike had been stolen

00:39:02.120 Somewhere in a semi-rural area, I think

00:39:06.460 I don't think it was in a suburban or a metropolitan area

00:39:09.900 I think it was, anyway

00:39:10.840 He was going to investigate that

00:39:14.760 Then when he got there, there was three people there

00:39:17.120 Younger people, I think they were only very young

00:39:19.120 And they just tried to flee the scene

00:39:21.240 Somehow, somehow his ankle got caught up in their toe rope

00:39:25.680 And as they got in a car and fled away

00:39:28.680 He was dragged down the road

00:39:30.720 For like a mile

00:39:32.460 At like 40 or 50 mile an hour

00:39:34.540 And he killed him of course

00:39:36.820 And like 0.96

00:39:41.280 Terrible

00:39:43.740 One of the details I read this morning was that

00:39:46.260 Like it ripped nearly all his clothes off

00:39:48.280 And he was so mutilated that when people found it

00:39:50.980 They thought it was like a deer carcass

00:39:53.160 Or something

00:39:53.680 The driver of the car isn't set for release

00:40:01.240 But the other two people that are in the car

00:40:02.760 And you are still responsible in part for stuff like that, right?

00:40:07.680 They were given something like 13 years in jail

00:40:10.700 In 2020

00:40:12.680 So they're only six years into a 13 year sentence

00:40:17.100 And they're going to be released

00:40:18.320 So you're responsible in part for doing that to a police officer

00:40:29.480 and you serve six years

00:40:31.840 Doesn't seem enough does it

00:40:37.040 Burnham backtracks on income tax giveaway

00:40:42.120 Already the U-turns begin

00:40:43.700 Already the U-turns begin

00:40:46.740 if Starmer was known for perhaps his greatest legacy is the number of u-turns he performed

00:40:54.340 was it 20 odd or more in the end in the space of what two years 18 months remarkable

00:40:59.600 for a normal government for a normal government that lasts many years many many years

00:41:07.260 you would think you would hope you'd be forced into one or two maybe three u-turns

00:41:12.620 It would be quite rare

00:41:14.020 You should go years on end without having to do any U-turns

00:41:17.220 Most of what you do in government

00:41:20.100 In a way, in a sense

00:41:22.060 Is to prevent you from having to do U-turns

00:41:26.440 Because they're so embarrassing

00:41:27.720 Right

00:41:31.440 Everything that goes on behind closed doors

00:41:34.500 All the backroom dealings

00:41:38.180 In a sense

00:41:41.140 is so that you don't have to do u-turns so that the party line always looks as though it was

00:41:48.020 immaculate and correct from inception sort of the job of government is it the job of government in

00:41:54.540 various ways in various ways other than ruling is to not look incompetent that's one of the main 1.00

00:41:59.700 that's one of the main jobs of a government is to not look stupid and incompetent 0.99

00:42:05.880 To give the impression that you know what you're doing 1.00

00:42:10.140 It's always the way

00:42:12.340 In a fight

00:42:15.440 In a war

00:42:17.100 Give the impression that you're confident

00:42:19.460 And can win that war or that fight

00:42:21.320 That's a big part of it, isn't it?

00:42:23.960 Big, big part of it

00:42:25.000 To give the impression

00:42:26.800 To make it seem as though

00:42:29.480 You're not just bumbling around incompetently

00:42:33.180 You have to keep backtracking and U-turning

00:42:36.360 On what you've just done and said

00:42:37.780 I think probably history will conclude

00:42:43.780 That that's Starmer's legacy

00:42:48.080 The U-turn Parliament, they might call it or something

00:42:53.700 Here, the U-turn Supremo Starmer

00:42:59.680 Or something, I don't know

00:43:01.120 Burnham already backtracking on stuff he said

00:43:03.140 He's basically the same guy as Starmer

00:43:08.220 With a tiny bit more charisma

00:43:10.300 And a lot more guyliner

00:43:11.900 Basically the same guy

00:43:13.240 Thameswater brings in hosepipe ban

00:43:18.200 As it fights a nationalisation

00:43:20.040 I've talked about it a bit before haven't I

00:43:24.140 About privatisation and nationalisation

00:43:27.300 And the left and right divide

00:43:28.760 Over all of that

00:43:30.120 I told you, didn't I, that even though nationalising things is really a leftist thing, a socialist, even communist thing

00:43:38.060 Sometimes though, sometimes, it is in the nation's best interest

00:43:43.560 It would have to be if those privatised companies fall into the hands of malevolent forces, companies, owners

00:43:53.740 That mean to just run it into the ground

00:43:56.300 Like you allow your train system to be bought by France and Italian companies

00:44:00.480 That just completely mismanage it

00:44:01.880 Or you allow your steel industry to be bought by Indian and Chinese companies

00:44:06.380 That just deliberately, perhaps deliberately, completely run it into the ground

00:44:11.820 Well, Thames Water is one of those

00:44:16.300 Where I guess I would rather it be nationalised

00:44:20.020 Because they can't do much more of a worse job than the private sector has done with Thames Water

00:44:25.260 Is there anything more vital than your water supply

00:44:31.200 Truly of national importance

00:44:36.340 Truly an existential crisis

00:44:39.620 If people can't get water anymore

00:44:42.080 Okay, if it needs to be nationalised

00:44:47.760 Fine then

00:44:51.480 Rolls-Royce may ditch Britain for Germany

00:44:55.820 Well, they're already owned by BMW

00:44:57.000 So

00:44:57.500 You didn't know that?

00:45:00.140 No?

00:45:00.520 Rolls-Royce?

00:45:01.960 Yeah, yeah

00:45:02.380 Oh, the BMW Group bought them years ago

00:45:04.380 Oh, yeah

00:45:04.880 They might just move it to Germany

00:45:09.860 Yeah, that's what you get

00:45:12.760 If you tax businesses an insane amount

00:45:16.880 If you tax people an insane amount

00:45:20.000 Those that have got the ability to just leave

00:45:22.420 Do

00:45:22.880 Are you listening Gary Stevenson

00:45:27.420 Is that his name

00:45:30.080 Stevenson or Stevens

00:45:31.100 I can't even remember the dude's name

00:45:32.760 That's what happens

00:45:35.880 Companies and or people

00:45:38.500 That feel themselves

00:45:40.360 Just being robbed

00:45:42.040 State sponsored theft

00:45:43.720 Dressed up as taxes

00:45:45.920 They'll just be like

00:45:48.120 Well, I don't need to stay here for this.

00:45:51.160 I don't have to.

00:45:53.360 I've still got enough capital to go somewhere else.

00:45:57.500 So I will.

00:45:59.520 Pretty straightforward.

00:46:01.800 Yeah, Rolls-Royce moving to Germany.

00:46:04.600 Yeah, well, it's already owned by BMW, so...

00:46:08.560 Yeah.

00:46:10.800 John Bolton.

00:46:11.680 What are you talking about, John Bolton?

00:46:13.420 You need to worry about your court case, John Bolton.

00:46:15.540 John Bolton says

00:46:17.700 Here's how Trump can reset the war in Iran

00:46:21.000 Just be quiet now, John

00:46:22.400 Dude, you've had your time

00:46:25.780 On the stage of history

00:46:28.040 It's time for you now to just worry about

00:46:31.480 Your own legal problems

00:46:33.340 Aren't you looking, John

00:46:36.140 Dude, aren't you staring down the barrel

00:46:39.420 Of going to prison for the rest of your natural life

00:46:42.040 writing a book which gave away state secrets

00:46:47.100 you are aren't you

00:46:49.820 but you're still going to try and pretend

00:46:52.100 that you strut around on the world stage

00:46:54.300 and you're the master of geopolitics and foreign affairs

00:46:57.560 and you know how everything works

00:46:59.440 how the world goes round

00:47:00.540 and all your ideas are the best ideas on everything 0.97

00:47:03.140 just shut your mouth 0.98

00:47:06.840 and go into obscurity now John Bolton 1.00

00:47:09.080 scumbag 0.98

00:47:10.440 John Bolton, give me a break, get him off my screen 1.00

00:47:13.620 Disgusting 1.00

00:47:14.700 Filth, let's have a look at the price of oil 0.99

00:47:17.860 We do that on this show, don't we, from time to time

00:47:20.700 Right now, West Texas is trading at a shade over $85 a barrel

00:47:26.120 Brent crude knocking up close to $92 a barrel

00:47:29.920 Going up, isn't it?

00:47:32.180 Last night was the 11th straight night of CENTCOM

00:47:36.460 Hegseth and Mr. Trump bombing Iran

00:47:40.080 Deep into Iran

00:47:40.820 All over Iran 1.00

00:47:42.760 The 11th straight night

00:47:44.180 Iran saying we're just at full scale war now 0.88

00:47:46.360 That memorandum of understanding 0.98

00:47:48.500 That's way in the rear view mirror

00:47:50.020 They're back at full

00:47:51.780 Almost basically full blown war

00:47:53.440 Very close to the height of it

00:47:56.100 In what March 0.97

00:47:57.020 Iran

00:48:00.460 Shot some missiles the other day

00:48:02.660 Into Jordan 0.99

00:48:04.020 Jordan

00:48:04.700 And killed one or two or three

00:48:07.980 It's complicated, over different days

00:48:10.800 Killed someone, a US service person in Jordan

00:48:14.500 And a couple of other, two or three other people

00:48:16.420 Were killed in other places, in American bases in the region

00:48:19.400 And America is striking dozens and dozens and dozens of targets

00:48:24.360 Inside Iran, even deep into Iran

00:48:26.300 Night after night after night for the last 11 nights

00:48:28.660 And there doesn't seem to be any

00:48:29.940 They're not saying they're going to stop doing it tonight or anything

00:48:32.640 It's just on again

00:48:33.700 It's just all on again

00:48:35.220 That's odd

00:48:39.940 Because within a few days of the war starting in February

00:48:42.240 I distinctly remember

00:48:44.240 Hegsif and Rubio and Trump

00:48:47.260 Coming out and saying

00:48:48.200 Nearly everything Iran has got is gone now

00:48:52.260 Doesn't seem to be the case does it 0.99

00:48:56.600 Just doesn't seem to be the case

00:48:57.700 Someone like Dr Steve Turley

00:49:02.680 Pardon me

00:49:03.660 Someone like Dr Steve Turley

00:49:05.100 Will tell you it's all part of the master plan

00:49:07.660 Trust the plan bro, it's very nearly done

00:49:09.820 Is it?

00:49:11.740 Didn't Trump come out and say this will be a 3-4 week affair

00:49:14.620 Right at the beginning of it

00:49:15.540 We're now in month 5

00:49:18.380 Not week 5

00:49:19.220 Month 5 0.92

00:49:20.460 The Iranian regime doesn't seem to be collapsing

00:49:27.500 In any way, shape or form

00:49:28.580 They've got some sort of thing

00:49:30.300 It's called like a mosaic defence

00:49:31.980 Where individual IRGC or Iranian military

00:49:36.020 Various bits of it

00:49:37.260 Broken up into independent sections

00:49:41.260 30 odd

00:49:42.020 Like a mosaic

00:49:43.180 And each one of those can and does act

00:49:46.740 Effectively independently

00:49:48.120 They don't need

00:49:49.060 The idea is

00:49:50.060 They don't need orders from Tehran

00:49:52.620 Or anyone else 0.88

00:49:55.120 A many-headed hydra in other words

00:50:01.980 How can the United States destroy that regime

00:50:08.780 Without boots on the ground

00:50:09.980 I'm not sure if they can

00:50:11.460 And yet

00:50:14.160 All the analysts are saying

00:50:16.980 There's no appetite

00:50:19.000 There's no appetite in the Oval Office

00:50:22.280 And at the Pentagon

00:50:23.380 For boots on the ground

00:50:26.080 US boots on the ground anyway 1.00

00:50:27.540 The Kurds don't seem like they're capable of it 1.00

00:50:31.900 At the moment 1.00

00:50:33.140 So

00:50:35.900 It's just this

00:50:38.360 Just bombing each other

00:50:40.540 I can only imagine that eventually 1.00

00:50:43.740 Iran will have nearly all their military assets

00:50:47.600 Destroyed 0.98

00:50:48.880 Eventually

00:50:49.580 How long will that take though?

00:50:52.720 Trump's only got another couple of years

00:50:54.640 Hasn't he?

00:50:55.880 Midterms are soon, aren't they?

00:50:58.740 They've only got two years after 0.99

00:50:59.740 Can Iran hold out for that whole time 0.99

00:51:02.720 Until there's a new prez 0.95

00:51:03.820 And that new prez may or may not

00:51:06.960 Want to continue this policy

00:51:09.140 Who knows 1.00

00:51:11.680 It does seem to be Iran's 1.00

00:51:14.640 Grand strategy 1.00

00:51:15.760 To just hold on, hold out 1.00

00:51:17.720 Take as much bombing as the US and Israel 0.95

00:51:20.940 Are prepared to do 0.98

00:51:22.020 And just hold out

00:51:24.520 Just cling on

00:51:25.220 Yeah, just rule over a country of ashes

00:51:30.220 Because now the US are hitting like bridges and infrastructure things

00:51:34.500 Not just military targets

00:51:35.620 All sorts of other things are being hit now

00:51:38.620 But the Iranian regime just, you know, they're saying

00:51:46.220 We retain the right to control the Straits of Hormuz

00:51:51.240 And we'll never give up our nuclear ambitions

00:51:53.280 that's truly the the red line in the sand isn't it even more than sort of the proxy question of 0.87

00:52:00.980 hezbollah and all that sort of thing controlling the straits of homus and their nuclear arsenal

00:52:07.520 and ability to enrich uranium to a weapons grade purity that's the thing that the us and israel 0.84

00:52:13.220 are completely and utterly insisting on and they're the same two things that iran is completely

00:52:18.900 and utterly insisting on not budging on oh all right a stalemate then isn't it

00:52:29.380 okay here's a slightly interesting story i think judge rules trump must hand over

00:52:35.380 records sought by bbc and defamation case just quickly to say i think it's a mildly

00:52:39.060 interesting story today trump's suing the bbc asking for 10 billion dollars which would

00:52:46.820 completely ruined the bbc there's no way the bbc hasn't got 10 million dollars let alone 10 billion

00:52:52.740 to just give away um because of that panorama show they did where they cut up his january 6th

00:53:00.180 uh speeches they just edited it um in a in a dishonest way to make him look like sound like

00:53:10.740 he was just calling for violence on capitol hill that day which he wasn't quite the opposite in

00:53:17.060 fact um and he's suing them for it and it's just the trial has finally started in florida it's in

00:53:23.300 in florida and um yeah both sides in discovery were supposed to give the court all documents

00:53:32.100 the bbc handed over like 87 000 pages of documents and the trump side only handed over 735 pages

00:53:39.380 which were largely news articles and material pulled from the internet

00:53:43.480 and the BBC said that's not fair, that's not fair, Trump needs to hand over loads more documents than that

00:53:48.680 and the judge said yeah you probably do

00:53:52.680 that's it, that's the story there, it's an ongoing thing, I'm

00:53:56.680 interested to see, very interested to see, the result of that case

00:54:01.080 I hate the BBC 0.99

00:54:04.080 They are scum and have been never since the 1920s 1.00

00:54:08.140 Oh yeah, look, there's a story of these two 1.00

00:54:11.820 Idiot scumbags who dragged that cop to his death 1.00

00:54:16.780 They're going to be let out after six years 1.00

00:54:19.160 Alright, what's the time? Oh, it's already nearly nine

00:54:22.760 What other stories did we have of that? Oh, look, Andy Burnham

00:54:25.760 You want to cap bus fares? Hey Andy

00:54:27.700 We need you to sit in a bus and look like a normal guy

00:54:31.720 Don't wear a tie, don't wear a tie

00:54:33.000 Sit in a bus, lean out of it with your elbow out like you're normal

00:54:36.840 And we'll snap a picture

00:54:39.600 And then that'll be perfect for when we talk about policies to do with bus fares

00:54:44.480 Yeah

00:54:45.360 West Street in court laughing and joking about early prisoner release

00:54:55.880 That's who they are

00:54:59.080 That's who these people are

00:55:00.920 Why would you do that?

00:55:05.480 Why would you be laughing and joking about it?

00:55:09.140 Unless your view of the world, of Britain

00:55:13.540 Was that you wanted to make it less safe

00:55:17.300 More dangerous

00:55:19.020 Unless you wanted to

00:55:20.460 You were happy to see the fabric of our civil society

00:55:24.080 Torn apart like wet tissue paper

00:55:26.080 If that were the case

00:55:28.000 Then perhaps you would laugh and joke about it

00:55:30.920 If he was a socialist, in other words

00:55:33.320 If he was a Fabian and or a socialist

00:55:35.800 Then it would be funny, wouldn't it?

00:55:38.280 It would be something to laugh and joke about

00:55:39.980 He'll lose his seat next time

00:55:47.160 Ilford North, innit?

00:55:49.520 Certainly in Ilford

00:55:50.400 I know Ilford

00:55:51.080 Ilford's near my neck of the woods

00:55:53.540 I was born and raised in Essex, East London

00:55:55.700 London Borough of Havering

00:55:57.620 Travelled, been to Ilford

00:55:59.880 A dozen, two dozen times in my life

00:56:02.720 Travelled through Ilford

00:56:04.260 Thousands of times

00:56:05.540 To and from uni and work for nearly 20 years

00:56:08.380 Travelled through Ilford

00:56:09.340 I know Ilford

00:56:10.160 I know Ilford

00:56:12.380 It's entirely colonised 1.00

00:56:15.700 By Indians 1.00

00:56:16.620 Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, entirely 1.00

00:56:19.120 You get a train in rush hour 1.00

00:56:23.000 Morning rush hour through Ilford

00:56:24.840 You pull up, the train pulls up

00:56:27.180 On the platform at Ilford

00:56:28.640 This is no exaggeration

00:56:31.280 I swear to God this is no exaggeration

00:56:33.900 The platform could be a platform in Delhi

00:56:37.880 Six rows deep of Indian people

00:56:44.100 Perhaps Pakistanis and Bangladeshis

00:56:46.660 That's his constituency

00:56:48.780 You think and his majority last time was tiny

00:56:51.320 Was it a few hundred?

00:56:52.720 I can't remember the exact number

00:56:53.640 Was it 400, 600 odd?

00:56:55.060 Something in that ballpark

00:56:55.800 Under a thousand I believe

00:56:58.640 So Mr Wesley Streeting 1.00

00:57:00.900 The practicing homosexualist 1.00

00:57:02.220 Who is now head of our defence 1.00

00:57:03.600 Will lose his seat at the next election

00:57:06.800 I will bet my mortgage on that 0.95

00:57:08.300 So laugh it up clown

00:57:10.300 Have a good time while you're still in power

00:57:12.960 Because you've only got another couple of years

00:57:14.900 At most

00:57:15.440 And then you're on the scrap heap of history, brother

00:57:17.980 Alright

00:57:22.480 Shall we do all this day in history?

00:57:26.060 You guys seem to like that bit, I quite liked it

00:57:29.280 On this day, down through the centuries

00:57:31.780 On the 22nd of July, what happened, I've known

00:57:34.720 Okay, on this day, in 1099, Godfrey de Bouillon is elected first defender of the Holy Sepulchre of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

00:57:42.420 During the First Crusade

00:57:43.720 Do you remember a week ago or so, we talked about how the Crusaders, the Franks, the Western Knights

00:57:50.560 Were able to get inside Jerusalem

00:57:56.060 Against all odds 0.99

00:57:57.760 Remarkable they ever got out of Antioch

00:58:01.340 Let alone got to Jerusalem 0.57

00:58:02.620 Let alone got inside Jerusalem 0.91

00:58:04.640 Oh they did though 0.95

00:58:06.060 And their leader, nominal leader

00:58:08.340 There was sort of more than one leader

00:58:09.420 But probably their main leader

00:58:11.220 Godfrey de Bouillon

00:58:12.100 They made him

00:58:15.140 Because the whole point of the crusade

00:58:16.620 Was to save the church of the Holy Sepulchre

00:58:19.520 And the Rock of Golgotha

00:58:20.480 And all that sort of thing 1.00

00:58:21.120 Save it from the ravages of the Muslim hordes 1.00

00:58:26.060 So there you go, you did that 1.00

00:58:29.520 We held on to Jerusalem for a couple of generations after that 0.63

00:58:35.400 I say we

00:58:38.540 European people, shall I say

00:58:42.780 Okay, on this day in 1456

00:58:45.780 Hungarian army under John Cunyadi 0.98

00:58:49.660 I think I'm pronouncing that right

00:58:50.880 I've read a bit about him in the past

00:58:52.780 Defeats the forces of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II 0.79

00:58:55.860 That is the Mehmed the Conqueror 0.88

00:58:58.260 The one that got inside Constantinople for the first time in 1453 0.89

00:59:02.300 Mehmed the Conqueror finally takes Constantinople

00:59:07.880 Modern day Istanbul 0.98

00:59:10.140 Finally takes it off the Byzantines

00:59:13.980 The Christian Byzantine, Eastern Roman Empire 0.97

00:59:16.760 Finally falls after centuries and centuries of trying 0.99

00:59:20.420 And then pushes on 0.99

00:59:22.640 Pushes on into the Balkans and Eastern Europe

00:59:25.480 But John Hunyadi

00:59:28.900 Maybe pronouncing that incorrectly

00:59:30.640 Defeats them

00:59:32.940 Or ends the siege of Belgrade 0.98

00:59:34.540 Halting Ottoman expansion in Europe for 70 years 0.98

00:59:37.500 In subsequent generations 0.98

00:59:39.940 They got as far as Vienna, didn't they?

00:59:43.800 But for a while there

00:59:44.780 John Hunyadi is able to

00:59:46.880 Stem the bleeding

00:59:48.860 So to speak

00:59:50.160 On this day in 1515

00:59:52.200 First Congress of Vienna

00:59:53.400 Settles issues between Poland and the Holy Roman Empire 0.50

00:59:56.500 Demonstrating the Habsburg's growing influence

00:59:59.220 So there's more than one Congress of Vienna in history

01:00:02.060 Be aware of that

01:00:03.260 Like there's multiple treaties of Paris

01:00:06.000 Treaties of London

01:00:07.820 There's loads of them in history

01:00:10.160 If you go on Wikipedia there will probably be this ambiguation thing

01:00:13.460 Which one do you mean?

01:00:15.560 Yeah, Congress of Vienna

01:00:16.620 In this instance

01:00:17.680 You know, in the early 16th century

01:00:20.960 It's to do with Poland and the Holy Roman Empire

01:00:23.980 Okay

01:00:25.320 We're right at the beginning of the Reformation there aren't we

01:00:28.320 We're right at the beginning of the time of Luther

01:00:30.840 The wars of religion 0.96

01:00:32.140 Okay

01:00:34.300 On this day in 1942

01:00:36.300 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto

01:00:38.640 Are sent to Treblinka extermination camp

01:00:42.000 On this day in 1963

01:00:45.600 Sarawak achieves independence from British colonial rule

01:00:48.880 Sarawak basically in Malaya

01:00:51.460 What was called Malaya

01:00:52.480 It's Borneo really

01:00:53.780 The giant island of Borneo

01:00:56.460 Big part of that

01:00:58.440 Sarawak

01:00:59.580 1963

01:01:00.820 So that would be after

01:01:04.540 What was called the Malayan crisis

01:01:06.720 The Malayan crisis playing out

01:01:08.880 All through the 50s 0.88

01:01:09.900 And into the early 60s was it

01:01:12.800 A bit like

01:01:15.540 It wouldn't be that late

01:01:16.560 Anyway

01:01:16.800 A bit like

01:01:18.880 Vietnam in the sense, in the limited sense, that they feared that communism was just

01:01:25.860 going to take it over entirely. Far from a completely unfounded concern. And so that

01:01:33.040 must be stopped, just like Vietnam, right? The domino effect. Can't allow South Vietnam 0.99

01:01:37.740 to fall to communism because then the rest of the Far East or the world might fall to 0.97

01:01:41.800 the Reds. Same sort of thing in Malaya. Must fight some sort of guerrilla insurgency, 0.89

01:01:47.000 counter-insurgency war in the jungles and cities of Malaya

01:01:51.460 to prevent communism from taking over the Malayan crisis

01:01:55.120 Well, at the end of all of that, not many years after

01:01:57.980 Borneo achieves its independence from British colonial rule

01:02:01.420 Yeah, not in our interest really to have Borneo as an overseas possession

01:02:08.700 Far more of a headache than it was ever worth, surely, but okay

01:02:13.420 On this day in 2011

01:02:15.680 Norway is the victim of two terror attacks

01:02:18.080 A bomb blast targeting government buildings

01:02:20.120 In central Oslo

01:02:21.500 And a massacre at a youth camp

01:02:23.080 On the island of Utoia

01:02:24.940 I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly

01:02:26.240 Yeah so that's that Anders Breivik

01:02:27.800 Do you remember that?

01:02:29.020 Harry do you remember that?

01:02:29.820 Were you still a little kid?

01:02:31.540 Were you young?

01:02:33.420 Yeah I think I would have been

01:02:34.640 We'd have been like 12 in 2011

01:02:38.920 Do you remember that too?

01:02:40.140 I guess it's a bit dark

01:02:41.060 And you're maybe a bit too young to

01:02:43.420 remember it well anyway so for zoomers or people may not have heard it some guy called anders

01:02:52.360 brevik just a lone individual norwegian man blew up a building was it a car bomb i can't remember

01:02:58.860 blew up a building in the middle of uh oslo and then there was an island like a retreat holiday

01:03:07.480 island thing just off the coast where i think it was lefties wasn't it i think it was like the

01:03:13.020 socialist party some some norwegian version of their socialists had like a camp a holiday camp

01:03:20.100 getaway thing for the youth camp so like teenager age kids that wanted to be in on in the socialist

01:03:29.680 some sort of socialist party movement of norway dozens or hundreds of them hundreds of them on

01:03:35.960 this island this youth camp and he went there dressed as a policeman with loads of guns and

01:03:40.440 ammo killed loads of them loads of them dozens and dozens wasn't it i can't remember the the toll

01:03:48.480 really really ruthless and brutal really and he's playing the part of like after the firing starts

01:03:58.600 and there's just mass panic and confusion he's going around pretending to be a cop like rally

01:04:03.000 on me i'm a cop i'm an armed cop here i'm i'm here to save you from the terrorist incident that's

01:04:08.060 going on very very dark and cynical isn't it and when they would sort of rally to him

01:04:13.480 for safety that's when he mows him down so he got a really really high body

01:04:18.500 dead kill count

01:04:20.520 and his brevet

01:04:25.100 horrible okay alright so that's uh that's the last one of those should we do our rumble

01:04:33.360 rants and super chats we do that at this time of the show let me do this with my

01:04:37.800 microphone so I can see the left-hand side of my screen screen is global

01:04:41.080 church history gonna be in at number one he is and new

01:04:46.560 someone beating to yesterday although I think he said he put in his comment too

01:04:50.400 early and somehow rumble didn't register it so he's too efficient yesterday

01:04:57.520 well we've only got one today that's rare we've only got one rumble rent all

01:05:01.500 but it is global church history. He tells us this, today in 1587 AD, colonists arrive to re-establish the Roanoke colony.

01:05:16.220 On lotusetis.com, my history theme show, O'Day's epochs, literally hundreds without exaggeration,

01:05:23.580 hundreds of hours, hundreds of hours of content, a body of work built up over five years.

01:05:27.740 on there do you think i talk about the roanoke colony yeah oh it's there got a whole long form

01:05:34.940 bit of content all about sir walter riley who bankrolled that wanted to go himself but queen

01:05:38.920 best prevented him from physically going himself anyway that's older than uh jamestown some people

01:05:44.220 think jamestown is the first english colony in the new world no it was roanoke island

01:05:48.880 off the carolinas if i recall correctly it was a complete failure when people returned to to it

01:05:56.540 a few years later, see how it was doing, it was deserted. Looks like the people were staring

01:06:03.280 down the barrels, starving to death, and they decided to go inland and throw themselves 1.00

01:06:06.520 on the mercy of the Native Americans. Probably. We don't know. It's a little bit of a Mary 1.00

01:06:10.540 Celeste mystery, kind of.

01:06:14.540 Global church history tells us that in 1587, colonists arrived to re-establish the Roanoke

01:06:19.860 colony. Yeah, because the first one turned into a ghost town. No one really knows exactly

01:06:25.980 what happened exactly interesting interesting isn't it okay and then he also tells us that on

01:06:32.940 this day in 1812 sir arthur wellesley wellesley the duke of wellington defeated the french at

01:06:40.820 salamanca ah classic i quote from sir charles oman quite a lot when i am doing my histories on

01:06:47.560 the monarchy but what sir charles oman professor sir charles oman of oxford university is best at

01:06:53.860 known for his magnum opus is a very very long insanely detailed history of the

01:06:58.600 Peninsula War which is the the Spanish and Portuguese and English against the

01:07:03.520 French in the Napoleonic era in Spain the Peninsula being the Spanish

01:07:07.480 Peninsula the Peninsula the great work by Sir Charles Oman a bit about Salamanca

01:07:14.500 the battle of Salamanca there super

01:07:18.220 So the English, with Portuguese help, have taken Suedad Rodrigo, we've taken Badios, and we can now push into Spain itself.

01:07:32.920 And we decide we'll push Marmont back from Salamanca. 0.81

01:07:38.580 If we can beat him at Salamanca, the road to Madrid itself is open, and it will cut off salt down in the bottom at Cadiz.

01:07:45.980 So Marmont and Wellesley

01:07:50.860 Shadowing each other for a few days

01:07:53.660 Marching through the Spanish countryside

01:07:55.820 Shadowing each other

01:07:57.000 Neither prepared to give battle unnecessarily

01:07:59.360 In the end

01:08:01.220 Marmont coming down from Valladolid

01:08:03.800 And Wellington coming up from Salamanca

01:08:10.940 Finally one day

01:08:12.580 The Duke of Wellington looking out over the battlefield

01:08:17.380 What might potentially be a battlefield

01:08:18.880 He's got the eye, hasn't he, Wellington

01:08:20.960 He can read a battlefield perfectly

01:08:23.140 Knows exactly what he's doing

01:08:24.680 True master, never lost a big battle

01:08:26.340 Never

01:08:27.160 Wellington, one of the greatest commanding officers of all time

01:08:32.320 Wellington

01:08:32.720 His eye for what's going on

01:08:36.380 And what is dangerous and what isn't

01:08:38.380 Seeing what mistakes the enemy might make

01:08:40.440 absolutely razor sharp one point he sees Marmont trying to flank him a bit trying to move

01:08:47.900 his Marmont's left wing around Wellington's right wing and Wellington sees that he's

01:08:57.060 overstretched himself slightly there ever so slightly and that he Wellington has got some

01:09:02.400 extra reinforcements behind the line and even though it's only really really a very very slight

01:09:09.660 error a very very slight risk being taken there by marmal wellington sitting on his horse having

01:09:15.980 some lunch eating a chicken leg he sees that he spies that throws the chicken leg over his

01:09:22.060 shoulder and says by god that will do orders starts throwing around orders

01:09:32.780 and thus the battle of salamanca takes place and uh we win and the road to madrid is open

01:09:39.660 salt has to retreat from the south of spain the whole peninsula war is blown wide open

01:09:47.340 just because the duke of wellington saw that marmont had ever so slightly extended his right

01:09:54.780 love it absolutely love it okay

01:09:59.020 you think i've got a three-part episode talking about the the uh the peninsula war

01:10:04.940 early epochs in conversation with one mr kyle benjamin do you think i've got that there

01:10:07.980 Oh, it's there. It's all there. All there. All right. Oh, and actually, Global Church

01:10:14.800 has been given a third factoid for the morning. He says, it's also St. Mary Magdalene's Day.

01:10:19.740 Oh, right. Mary Magdalene, a fascinating, interesting figure from the Gospels.

01:10:25.220 Well, and apocryphal and Gnostic writings as well. 0.96

01:10:29.500 I mean, some say she was a prostitute or a reformed prostitute. There's nothing in the 0.94

01:10:37.960 a particular speech from pope gregory i in like the late sixth century that said that she was

01:10:45.960 might have been a reformed prostitute there's nothing in the canon in the actual gospels

01:10:51.720 saying that some say she might have been jesus's lover and that's not in the in the gospels there

01:10:57.800 are again there are apocryphal and gnostic writings may suggest that i haven't read all of those

01:11:04.360 Very few people have

01:11:06.360 But she was like the apostle of the apostles

01:11:09.360 She's sort of painted in the Gospels as one of Jesus' first apostles, disciples, followers

01:11:18.360 Like her and Peter really

01:11:21.360 Perhaps the rocks on which Jesus' ministry is founded

01:11:27.360 She's there at the crucifixion and stuff

01:11:29.360 And the resurrection and all that 0.94

01:11:34.360 Fascinating figure. Fascinating, interesting figure.

01:11:38.420 And Global Church History tells us that it's St. Mary Magdalene's Day today, the 22nd of July.

01:11:45.740 All right, let's have a look at our YouTube ones.

01:11:48.960 There's a fair few here, 20 or more.

01:11:54.700 Oh, another Rumble Ranch just popped in there from Hugh Mann.

01:11:59.040 Hugh Mann 17 says,

01:12:00.600 for us had a great chat with ghost of based uh of based patrick henry yesterday on badlands media

01:12:06.980 which is on rumble worth a listen thank you for all you do bow exclamation mark no thank you

01:12:12.580 thank you for being in the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters okay

01:12:19.760 for us had a good uh a good chat with this based patrick henry ghost sorry ghost of based patrick

01:12:25.460 Henry interesting okay for us he's a very very interesting guy certainly knows his onions about

01:12:30.860 a whole number of things so no doubting that okay good good to know all right now the YouTube ones

01:12:38.680 what have we got here Kiefer Brown 1337 says on this day in 2011 oh you've done the same you've

01:12:46.300 done the Anders Breivik thing you've said 77 are killed as Norway suffers its deadliest terror

01:12:51.180 attacks since the second world war at the hands of eamon holmes okay i'm getting i get it now

01:12:56.860 i get it now for anyone who might not know one time a couple of months ago probably the worst

01:13:06.880 blooper error i've made on the bow show not too bad really for sort of knocking seven getting

01:13:12.980 on towards eight months hundreds that would be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours

01:13:17.260 the worst one I did I went to talk about um Hugh Edwards and I just said Eamon Holmes

01:13:24.760 I know the difference between Hugh Edwards and Eamon Holmes I know they're two completely

01:13:31.200 different people I am aware sometimes it happens if you talk for hundreds and hundreds of hours

01:13:36.500 you're going to make mistakes like that and my brain is thinking Hugh Edwards I'm envisioning

01:13:42.040 envisioning Hugh Edwards but my mouth says Eamon Holmes oh poor Eamon Holmes I did correct myself

01:13:49.460 straight away after after the show like on Twitter and I think on the YouTube comments as well saying

01:13:55.460 apologies that was a good faith error genuine error I know the difference between Eamon and

01:14:01.120 okay so yesterday someone made a joke I didn't even get out of the time but that

01:14:06.340 that Eamon Holmes is responsible for things it's a joke now is it an in joke on the Bo show

01:14:11.820 But Eamon Holmes is responsible for things, even terrible things, he didn't do

01:14:17.120 So for comedy purposes, very, very dark comedy purposes

01:14:23.600 Kiefer Brown has decided to mistake Anders Breivik for Eamon Holmes

01:14:29.760 That is very, very dark humour

01:14:36.160 okay we do know that it wasn't Eamon Holmes that did that conducted that mass casualty event in

01:14:48.580 Norway let's move on let's move on Kiefer Brown again says you can't fix Cozzy lives alongside 0.63

01:14:54.880 Project Ukraine I don't know what you're saying there we can't fix Cozzy lives alongside Project

01:15:01.380 ukraine i don't know what cosy lives is i have no idea what that means sorry sorry no idea okay

01:15:08.820 brendan lucas 9732 says but bo if i have to spend 10 minutes going out of mcdonald going out for

01:15:15.600 mcdonald's breakfast that's 10 less minutes looking at you and then a big heart on it

01:15:20.300 just eat guy says hi oh well thank you the just eat guy when he says i go thanks for that by the

01:15:30.540 do watch breakfast with bows on lotusseaters.com podcast of the lotusseaters i do like the stream

01:15:36.620 by the way do uh make sure you're subbed to the channel press the thumbs up button and get the

01:15:41.980 bell on i need to say that every single day without fail i need to work that into my opening

01:15:48.060 little spiel the opening monologue bit don't i i need to remember to do that i really do

01:15:52.620 Tell the Just Eat guy to watch the bow show

01:15:56.860 He might deport himself

01:15:58.480 Okay, Brendan Lucas again says

01:16:01.420 Lots of anoraks say Helen can be black because she's a myth

01:16:05.380 No 0.91

01:16:07.800 Does that mean we can make the Nigerian spider god 0.97

01:16:12.640 And their pantheon Sean Bean or something 1.00

01:16:16.620 Right, yeah

01:16:17.520 People saying that

01:16:21.640 It's okay to depict Helen

01:16:23.640 As a sub-Saharan African person 1.00

01:16:26.020 Just be completely suspicious of them 1.00

01:16:28.520 That they've got nothing but bad

01:16:30.180 Intentions in their heart

01:16:31.340 They will hate us and our culture

01:16:33.960 And our history and our heritage 0.94

01:16:35.340 Hate it 0.83

01:16:36.400 Okay Helen is mythical

01:16:42.520 At the very least semi-mythical

01:16:44.860 Granted

01:16:46.020 Nonetheless, the semi-mythical character is described in Homer as pale

01:16:52.460 Blonde-haired, pale, swan-necked, white-armed

01:16:55.780 You don't mistranslate it

01:17:00.040 People say, oh, it's the translation

01:17:00.960 No, no, no, no

01:17:02.060 Stelios, of Lotosita's fame

01:17:04.260 He's obviously fluent in Greek, it's his first language

01:17:07.080 And can read ancient Greek

01:17:08.820 And he says, no, no, there's no...

01:17:11.260 Ask him, ask anyone

01:17:12.540 There's no ambiguity about Homer's words, the original words

01:17:15.860 of the epic poem and she's white-armed she's pale she's blonde-haired so there is in black 0.77

01:17:22.780 and white simple if you want to change that subvert that pervert that okay but don't pretend

01:17:29.340 you're not deliberately perverting it don't tell me it's okay and tell me you haven't done anything

01:17:36.500 wrong okay oh do we do a poll i forgot to read out the poll bring up the poll for us harry

01:17:46.820 because it was about the odyssey wasn't it if i recall yeah there we go 1300 votes

01:17:52.580 nearly 13 and a half hundred votes there we asked you guys do you plan to see the odyssey in the

01:17:58.260 cinema it's an overwhelming win for the no vote 95% of you say no again it's a

01:18:06.480 little bit of teeing you up so you could knock it out of the park a little bit

01:18:11.900 no a cool 95% of you say no you've got no intention of going to the cinema to

01:18:17.020 see it good who's the other 5% get out just get out who are you what do you

01:18:27.760 want here? You're in the wrong place. Don't go. Don't go. Don't go. I still love you.

01:18:31.420 We can make this work. I didn't mean that. I was joking. I was obviously joking. Don't

01:18:34.420 go. Don't leave me.

01:18:40.220 All right. I'm still finding that joke amusing. Okay, probably I won't ever get old at this

01:18:45.960 point if he hasn't started to get old yet. He probably won't. Okay, what else have we

01:18:49.220 got? Looks like anoraxi... Kiefer Brown again says, on reflection, the 2011 attack... This

01:18:54.760 It's going to be another really dark joke about the Anders Breivik.

01:18:57.460 Let me quickly read it, like in my head, before I, um...

01:19:02.000 On reflection, a 2011 attack was too recent to jokingly attribute to Eamon.

01:19:07.420 Poor taste.

01:19:08.220 Besides, Holmes' worst crimes were committed centuries ago.

01:19:13.560 It's just building on the joke that he was, like...

01:19:19.120 Well, like, the destruction of the ghouls in 40 BC.

01:19:22.740 In the 40s BC

01:19:25.000 That was actually Eamon Holmes

01:19:26.200 Or something, or whatever 1.00

01:19:28.340 The almost complete annihilation of the Hittite civilisation 0.97

01:19:34.020 In like 1200 BC 1.00

01:19:36.160 Was actually Eamon Holmes

01:19:38.260 It's quite funny

01:19:41.400 Alright

01:19:42.160 Let's move on

01:19:44.520 Daniel D. King says

01:19:47.480 If we were to get a base to King George

01:19:49.380 How much power

01:19:50.780 Could he wrestle back from Parliament

01:19:53.080 What influence could be placed upon him

01:19:55.760 Can he fix it

01:19:56.760 I don't think so

01:19:57.820 I mean I don't know

01:19:58.500 But I doubt he could wrestle back

01:20:00.660 Hardly any power from Parliament

01:20:03.040 Now what influences could be placed upon him

01:20:06.400 Can he fix it

01:20:07.080 I don't think so

01:20:08.060 Those days are long gone

01:20:09.720 Even in the Victorian era

01:20:11.980 Like even as far back as sort of the 1840s, 1850s 1.00

01:20:17.040 Queen Victoria tried to wrestle a tiny bit of power back from Parliament

01:20:22.160 And was completely shut down

01:20:23.940 Completely shut down

01:20:26.140 Like a good 150, knocking towards 200 years ago

01:20:30.920 Before kings could

01:20:32.520 I mean, I don't know, George V

01:20:35.880 These days

01:20:39.000 I mean, perhaps if the king actually led a military coup d'etat

01:20:47.040 Maybe then

01:20:50.200 But that's just not going to happen, is it?

01:20:53.560 Based King George

01:20:54.700 Would he do that?

01:20:55.780 King George, what would he be?

01:20:56.620 The seventh?

01:21:00.620 The kid that's just a little kid at the moment 0.97

01:21:02.740 Grows into a man

01:21:04.260 He becomes like a

01:21:05.540 He becomes like a Hannibal type figure 0.89

01:21:10.460 An Alexander figure

01:21:11.780 Completely politically and militarily fearless

01:21:15.820 Rolls the dice of chance

01:21:18.700 Over and over again

01:21:19.600 And wins

01:21:20.120 Is that what he's going to become?

01:21:21.640 I doubt it

01:21:22.320 I doubt it

01:21:23.180 Looks like a

01:21:24.420 Just like a

01:21:25.240 Okay

01:21:27.220 Who knows

01:21:27.760 Alright

01:21:28.600 Calzetti says

01:21:31.560 McDonald's Brighton 0.97

01:21:33.580 Not a white face behind counter 0.95

01:21:35.280 Yeah 0.99

01:21:35.560 I can believe that

01:21:36.680 Completely believable

01:21:37.760 Rinse wins

01:21:41.200 6'7

01:21:41.940 6'7

01:21:42.740 Says

01:21:43.800 7 foot 2

01:21:45.060 500 pounds that's the big show of angela the fridge rainer big bird seven foot two 500 pounds 0.79

01:21:52.140 and then laughing crying smiley faces that's worth five quid every day of the week ordered

01:21:58.640 irelander six took less than five days to get great job cool yeah if anyone remembers the early

01:22:03.940 days of irelander at least i don't know all the details because it's not really my realm or

01:22:08.540 domain in lotus eaters at all um i know we had all sorts of headaches and problems with at least

01:22:14.120 The first two issues

01:22:14.960 Of sending them out

01:22:15.680 It's not straightforward

01:22:16.400 Do you want to mail

01:22:18.440 Thousands of things

01:22:19.840 All over the world

01:22:21.460 Potentially at least

01:22:22.260 All over the world

01:22:23.100 Think that's straightforward

01:22:24.300 It's actually not

01:22:25.340 It's actually sort of

01:22:27.100 A bit of a logistical

01:22:27.960 Nightmare

01:22:29.200 It seems

01:22:30.020 You actually need

01:22:32.460 A whole project manager

01:22:33.600 Type thing

01:22:34.280 Set up

01:22:34.780 To manage that

01:22:35.860 Anyway

01:22:36.900 Seems like now

01:22:38.020 I believe

01:22:38.520 Issue after issue

01:22:40.780 Getting more and more

01:22:41.460 Better

01:22:41.860 Like most things

01:22:42.760 You need a bit of practice

01:22:43.800 so nowadays i believe i think i hope that islander deliveries are a lot better than they were to

01:22:50.640 begin with so good less than five days to get it brilliant good stuff great to hear okay keifer

01:22:57.440 brown 1337 says boots in iran lindsey graham smiles up from below yeah lindsey graham always

01:23:04.520 wanted that didn't he always very very hawkish was uh senator graham wherever there was a sniff

01:23:12.360 of war. He was on board with it, wasn't he? Emily for restore says US should send IRGC back to the

01:23:20.900 C6. If they want to, if Trump's policy is to make sure at all costs that Iran can never ever have a 0.93

01:23:29.540 nuclear weapon, that regime will need to be toppled, won't it? Does seem like it's not going to be 0.96

01:23:36.400 possible without boots on the ground, but who knows? Mr. Dickie Bingo, how are you, sir? Good to hear

01:23:41.800 from you says disdain cam needed for bbc mentions bo oh yeah that'll be tons yeah maybe i should

01:23:49.980 every time i mention at least maybe at least like the trump defamation case of the bbc and quickly

01:23:55.900 turn to disdain cam for that yeah yeah good call maybe i will people like the disdain cam thing

01:24:03.160 don't they all right emily for restore again says also trump for the win versus the bbc yeah i hope

01:24:10.720 he wins yeah i hope he wins and bankrupts them and they have to close as an organization yeah

01:24:16.180 they are a detriment to our society at this point brendan lucas again says interestingly

01:24:24.640 i had a chat with my friend that helen is a historical heuristic and while we agree the

01:24:31.480 romans would be like why is she black alexander would be like i like it makes sense to me

01:24:36.840 Okay 0.78

01:24:39.280 I mean, okay, fair point

01:24:43.060 Yeah 0.96

01:24:45.600 That you would only race swap Helen of Troia 0.93

01:24:48.840 If you wanted to humiliate the Western tradition 0.90

01:24:55.100 If you wanted to rub dirt in its face 0.98

01:25:00.300 It's the only reason you'd do it

01:25:06.840 Don't tell me about its diversity and inclusion

01:25:10.060 And all that sort of thing, no

01:25:11.440 Helen of Troy 1.00

01:25:13.300 You know, make it some sub-Saharan woman 1.00

01:25:17.880 And tell us that it's believable 1.00

01:25:20.700 She's the most beautiful woman on earth

01:25:22.200 No

01:25:23.580 No, the only reason you would do that

01:25:26.720 The only reason

01:25:28.100 Is to be deliberately subversive

01:25:32.140 And to pour scorn on Western history and heritage 0.75

01:25:36.820 Literary history and heritage

01:25:38.400 There's no other reason

01:25:40.620 It's a revolting thing to have done

01:25:44.820 What are you playing at Christopher Nolan?

01:25:53.860 Okay

01:25:54.460 Last two here

01:25:55.780 Iron Mad Andy Lyon

01:26:00.640 One long thing

01:26:02.700 Difficult to read

01:26:03.220 Iron Mad Andy Lyon

01:26:06.140 Dandy like

01:26:07.860 Okay, I'm not sure

01:26:11.520 Alright, it says

01:26:12.600 Long time listener, first time caller

01:26:14.160 Oh, welcome aboard

01:26:15.480 In holidaying beyond the Iron Curtain

01:26:18.820 So have time to watch live

01:26:21.000 Alright, so you're further east

01:26:22.300 So it's a bit later in the day for you

01:26:24.560 Oh cool, good

01:26:25.120 Here's some folding money to celebrate

01:26:28.840 Oh, thank you very much

01:26:29.680 Thank you very much

01:26:30.620 Really, really appreciate it

01:26:32.000 Cheers

01:26:32.860 It would be

01:26:35.180 Oh it would be

01:26:36.220 I am a dandelion

01:26:37.460 I am a dandelion

01:26:39.520 Surely it's to be read

01:26:40.360 Okay good

01:26:41.500 Thank you

01:26:42.080 Welcome aboard

01:26:42.680 The first band

01:26:43.740 The chosen few

01:26:44.220 My band of brothers

01:26:45.040 And sisters

01:26:47.020 Okay 0.99

01:26:47.500 And the last one here

01:26:48.220 Brendan Lucas again says

01:26:49.240 Why was Dunkirk

01:26:51.020 Historically accurate

01:26:52.020 To the point of using

01:26:52.980 The right model of Spitfire

01:26:54.460 But not a single boar head 1.00

01:26:56.460 For the Ithicans 1.00

01:26:58.440 Seems lazy 1.00

01:26:59.860 Yeah

01:27:00.480 You can make films

01:27:01.780 That are historically very accurate

01:27:02.900 If you want to

01:27:03.680 Yeah

01:27:04.440 He didn't want to did he

01:27:06.320 It's a deliberate decision isn't it

01:27:08.940 Very very deliberate decision

01:27:11.520 With the odyssey there

01:27:13.540 To make it all

01:27:14.540 Weird

01:27:16.740 And perverse

01:27:18.740 Subversive 0.57

01:27:22.200 Yeah boycott it

01:27:23.620 Don't watch it

01:27:25.040 One more just popped in

01:27:29.440 Why not read it out

01:27:30.240 What was the longest lived

01:27:33.080 Greek success estate

01:27:34.400 Oh, I don't know

01:27:35.780 Greek success estate 1.00

01:27:37.460 The longest-lived one 0.51

01:27:37.980 Probably the Ptolemy's in Egypt

01:27:39.280 Would it not be?

01:27:42.320 Would it not be? 0.95

01:27:43.380 That lasted longer than the Seleucid Empire

01:27:45.460 Didn't it?

01:27:48.720 So the Ptolemy's in Egypt, right?

01:27:50.600 All the way up to Cleopatra

01:27:51.880 And, you know, Mark Antony in Augustus' days

01:27:56.040 She's still a Ptolemy, isn't she?

01:27:58.880 She's Cleopatra VI Ptolemy 0.99

01:28:00.920 So I guessed that one

01:28:02.500 if that if that's what you're asking i think

01:28:05.540 all right there you go that's the show it's now 28 minutes past nine

01:28:11.060 in the a.m british summer time on wednesday the 22nd of july in the event

01:28:15.020 all 2026 thank you for joining me without you isn't a thing

01:28:17.220 my band of brothers thank you appreciate it you're the best among us

01:28:21.200 tuning in live to the brochure thank you from the bottom of my heart genuinely

01:28:24.760 thank you all right try make the best of the day

01:28:27.640 ahead carpe dmc is the day if you can it's the most valuable thing

01:28:31.400 You will ever have your time

01:28:32.320 Try and make it count

01:28:33.080 You're at liberty to do something

01:28:36.420 That you want to do with your time today

01:28:39.100 Try and make it count

01:28:40.080 Try and do something valuable with it

01:28:41.420 It's finite

01:28:42.780 Your time on this earth is finite

01:28:44.420 Probably later than you think

01:28:46.520 Alright I'm not going to get too preachy about it

01:28:48.400 Until tomorrow morning then

01:28:49.880 Take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 22, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 22nd July 2026

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