The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 24th June 2026

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

00:00:26.960 Hope you are, genuinely hope you are.

00:00:30.000 come on wakey wakey take some bakey get out of bed sleepyhead a lot of you aren't even watching it

00:00:36.220 at 8 a.m british summertime are you a lot of you all around the world night time for you guys

00:00:41.880 okay it is it has just ticked past 8 in the end british summertime on wednesday is wednesday the

00:00:48.360 24th of uh june in the year of our lord 2026 you're the glorious band the chosen few my band

00:00:54.180 of brothers and sisters the very best among us as little hurry is off all week i'm joined by

00:01:01.700 my producer jack how are you this morning jack i'm doing well bud good it was a bit of a muggy

00:01:07.680 night though wasn't it yeah it was really hot uncomfortable that's one of the main things in

00:01:12.800 you a little bit of a slow news day today no massive movements with like the persian war

00:01:18.060 or with andy bumham or anything so it's a tiny bit of slow news day also it's the day after an

00:01:24.080 England game you've been warned haven't you that it'll be wall-to-wall football but I'll keep it

00:01:28.500 to an absolute minimum because I know you guys don't really care about that at all but just

00:01:32.180 just be warned that is sort of what the news cycle is today that's what this show is the news cycle

00:01:37.400 in case you want people complain why are you talking about what's in the news cycle this

00:01:40.280 morning well that's what that's what Breakfast with Bo is that's the the concept of the show

00:01:44.960 Breakfast with Bo colloquially known as the Bo Show

00:01:48.400 those breakfast club hashtag the real bbc the lotus eaters breakfast club hashtag the real lbc

00:01:55.480 you can buy one of these mugs if you want off the merch store no pressure basically the best

00:02:04.760 mug you'll ever own though anyway should we just get into it stop faffing about why are we fannying 0.93

00:02:08.240 about god damn it let's get straight into it okay he engulfs uk yeah that's the story i mean i think 0.89

00:02:17.360 that is setting records it was really hot last night it was uncomfortably warm i always feel a 0.98

00:02:23.460 bit silly complaining about the heat because there's some people watching this right where

00:02:28.780 they live in a genuinely hot country and it's way hotter than this all the time but for us

00:02:35.340 like the high 30s is it's warm like right now right now we've got the aircon on i'm like uh

00:02:43.080 he's a bit warm okay all right he engulfs uk and ghana be all right gonna be all right i think

00:02:50.260 that's the thing right so england this should we get the football out the way get the football out

00:02:54.520 the way look football football there it is england played ghana and it was nil nil that's it look

00:03:02.060 from the state of this look oh no oh no look look harry kane head in hands oh no we got thrashed

00:03:08.460 eight nil by garner no it was nil nil doesn't knock us out of the world cup or anything

00:03:13.440 it was just a lackluster performance nil nil that's it that's it okay all right won't say

00:03:22.460 much more about it oh other than that tonight scotland play brazil brazil one of the best

00:03:28.700 teams ever they're not actually amazingly good right now they're like they're top six teams

00:03:34.600 in the world still

00:03:35.280 they're not

00:03:36.680 they're not favourite

00:03:37.820 to win it or anything

00:03:38.640 but they're going to

00:03:39.400 play Scotland

00:03:39.900 I mean you can expect 0.88

00:03:44.400 Scotland to get bashed

00:03:45.780 alright again 0.98

00:03:49.040 that's it

00:03:49.600 that's more or less

00:03:50.680 all I'll say

00:03:51.200 no more sports ball

00:03:54.260 I know the glorious

00:03:54.780 band the chosen few

00:03:55.540 my band of brothers

00:03:56.640 and sisters

00:03:57.080 largely don't care

00:03:59.320 alright so let's do it

00:04:00.440 let's do it

00:04:00.800 the Guardian

00:04:01.460 ugh

00:04:01.920 the Guardian

00:04:03.820 Guardian, who do you think you're talking to?

00:04:09.580 The Guardian

00:04:10.240 Who are you addressing? 1.00

00:04:14.160 Disgusting socialist rag 1.00

00:04:16.000 Subversive slop 1.00

00:04:18.040 Revolting the Guardian

00:04:20.640 Schools, rail and hospitals

00:04:24.220 Suffer as heat engulfs UK

00:04:26.260 That is basically the biggest story today

00:04:28.600 More or less

00:04:29.220 Other than England drew nil nil

00:04:31.120 Temperatures close to 40 degrees

00:04:34.420 Expected amid fears over climate

00:04:37.160 Climate breakdown

00:04:38.900 One of those things is like a

00:04:43.720 In British law

00:04:46.020 L-O-R-E 1.00

00:04:46.880 Law

00:04:47.320 There was like a terrible, terrible winter

00:04:50.600 In like what, 1948?

00:04:54.040 The winter of discontent

00:04:55.360 Was it 1948 I think?

00:04:57.380 47 or 48

00:04:58.180 Well it's like the worst winter

00:04:59.880 Terrible

00:05:00.320 like worst one on record and it's like it just snowed every single day all the way up to march

00:05:04.140 all the canals froze over right there was a really terrible hurricane in the in the 80s what 1987 88

00:05:12.320 terrible hurricane like one the worst ever like loads of trees got blown down a couple people died

00:05:18.680 and 1976 was like our hottest summer on record like oh is it as hot as 1976 is it close to 1976

00:05:29.320 you know the hottest summer of all time well they are saying they are saying that this summer is

00:05:34.580 set to be hotter than 76 all right it is going to be hot like the high 30 or 40 degrees

00:05:45.340 and tomorrow they're saying that maybe today will be the hottest june day ever and then tomorrow

00:05:50.940 will be slightly hotter breaking the record again again 40 degrees as hot as that is for me for a

00:05:57.200 of us here that is swelteringly hot sort of spain on holiday hot but in the scheme of things like

00:06:06.400 if you live in some places in america like the deserts of new mexico or something you'll be like

00:06:11.600 what we have that all the time that's no big deal what's the problem 40 degrees like in france

00:06:18.640 yesterday it was 44 some places in france yesterday if you truly live in a proper country

00:06:26.880 or like in places like um you live in nevada the mojave desert or you live in phoenix arizona or

00:06:32.640 something you'll be like 39 degrees it's nothing but yeah our schools loads of schools are going 0.97

00:06:39.680 to be closed particularly primary schools because the kittywinks it's like dangerous for them they're

00:06:44.400 saying i mean if you're in an air conditioned room and everyone's got plenty of water it's not

00:06:49.920 i don't think it's that bad you maybe don't let them do pe maybe don't do like uh

00:06:54.640 long distance running maybe without any water maybe don't do that but okay and rail we get

00:07:02.260 this in Britain as well I don't know if you get this in your countries and when it gets too hot

00:07:07.260 they make the they make the trains go slowly apparently the heat can like or does kind of

00:07:15.260 warp the rails or not exactly warp them because you wouldn't the trains couldn't go across them

00:07:21.380 tour if it walked them but it just like brings the integrity of the rails into question so you

00:07:28.120 can't go over them at full speed so all the trains go slowly if it gets too hot not all the trains

00:07:32.580 some of them and hospitals and hospitals like the hospitals have got to be super careful i mean

00:07:39.640 yesterday in the england game don't worry i'm not going to talk about football itself but

00:07:42.820 in the england game like about 25 minutes in 20 minutes in they stopped the game for about 20

00:07:50.520 Minutes for like a

00:07:52.400 Rehydration period

00:07:53.940 Or something, they just stop the game

00:07:55.860 I've never

00:07:58.500 Known that before in my life, I've never seen that before

00:08:00.480 In my life

00:08:00.960 Can I think of any time I've ever seen that before

00:08:04.420 That's unprecedented

00:08:05.960 I've never known that

00:08:07.160 20

00:08:10.100 No, they didn't stop it for 20 minutes

00:08:11.920 Maybe like 7 or 8 minutes

00:08:13.900 So all the players could just stop

00:08:16.240 And drink some water

00:08:17.100 That's a thing now, is it?

00:08:20.520 apparently it is okay all right what else have we got starmer meets uh no sternum burnham in

00:08:29.100 frosty handover chat it's one of the data points this morning to do with actual politics

00:08:34.440 apparently the starmer bot and king bumham the first of his name actually met face to face for

00:08:43.440 the first time since Andy Burnham's

00:08:45.340 make-a-field win and

00:08:47.160 insiders described it as

00:08:48.680 a frosty

00:08:50.580 the meeting

00:08:52.600 wasn't the warmest

00:08:55.020 frosty even

00:08:56.460 is the quote

00:08:58.340 that Starmer himself and people in his

00:09:03.180 camp, you know, the team around

00:09:05.300 him

00:09:05.640 they're sort of resentful towards

00:09:09.040 Burnham and his team, yeah he would be 1.00

00:09:10.760 he's been cooed out of power 0.99

00:09:12.820 It's a bloodless political coup d'etat, isn't it? 0.97

00:09:15.560 So, yeah

00:09:16.480 Okay

00:09:19.960 Apparently the meeting lasted about an hour

00:09:23.160 Which, you know, is a fair amount of time really

00:09:26.000 Considering how Starmer usually does things

00:09:28.820 Usually you're, you know

00:09:31.820 You say what you need to say

00:09:33.800 He says what he wants to say

00:09:34.800 And then you're dismissed

00:09:35.460 So an hour is a fair amount of time

00:09:37.300 Apparently they just talked about, you know

00:09:39.420 As smooth a handover as possible

00:09:41.880 okay none of your business says nigel farage of five million pound gift this is one of the other

00:09:51.540 stories yesterday he went on the news um i think it was i think it was actually the bbc

00:09:56.040 anyway one of the mainstream legacy corporate mainstream media tv shows and they asked him

00:10:02.280 about his five million pound gift from that crypto billionaire dude christopher harborn

00:10:08.460 and nigel got sort of oddly sort of a little bit weirdly defensive now

00:10:16.420 i'm trying to try and be fair-handed with this because of course i don't like nigel and reform

00:10:22.360 right okay they treated me poorly that's actually neither here nor there really it's got nothing to

00:10:33.300 do that i think their actual policies at this point and the way they conduct themselves and

00:10:36.840 and their politics is containment and milk toast

00:10:41.340 are not good enough.

00:10:44.240 However, I do still concede

00:10:48.100 that they're better than Lib Dems or Greens or Tories

00:10:51.680 or Labor, like marginally,

00:10:53.300 marginally better than the Tories, right?

00:11:02.120 So this five million pounds gift

00:11:06.840 personally this is my personal take on it you're allowed to be friends with a super super rich

00:11:14.840 person who just wants to gift you money that's okay good for you well done i'm jealous in a good

00:11:22.240 way brilliant good for you i hope i find myself in that situation one day um the key to it though

00:11:30.940 Is whether something was expected in return for that

00:11:34.860 You know

00:11:35.900 If there was actually

00:11:37.860 Whether it was truly just sort of an altruistic gift

00:11:40.760 From that Christopher Harbourn

00:11:42.560 To Nigel for his personal protection

00:11:45.260 And Christopher Harbourn

00:11:48.820 Or whoever Christopher Harbourn sort of represents

00:11:51.340 Or is a front four

00:11:52.600 Whether they expected something in return for that

00:11:55.440 So if that isn't the case

00:11:59.000 Then this is a complete nothing burger

00:12:00.940 It really is a complete nothing burger

00:12:03.000 Nigel's done nothing wrong

00:12:04.120 There's nothing to see here

00:12:05.980 Good on you

00:12:08.040 You friends with a super rich person who gave you loads of money

00:12:10.420 You know, well done

00:12:11.600 But

00:12:13.200 If there is something nefarious to it

00:12:16.960 Then that's important

00:12:19.240 It is really quite important

00:12:20.980 Nigel says

00:12:23.480 That

00:12:25.200 As that headline says

00:12:27.480 It's just none of our business

00:12:28.720 Everyone, the whole world

00:12:29.680 It's none of our business

00:12:31.520 It could be though, it might be though

00:12:34.340 It got weirdly defensive

00:12:37.860 Again I don't want to just needlessly dunk on Nigel and Reform

00:12:42.880 For absolutely no reason

00:12:44.060 Like I find it annoying when Reformers try and dunk on Restore 4 1.00

00:12:48.000 Like little niggly, tiny little niggly things 1.00

00:12:51.200 When it's just really petty 1.00

00:12:54.180 It's not necessary

00:12:55.320 You know, loads of people

00:12:57.540 Not just reformers

00:12:58.600 Loads of restores enemies

00:12:59.780 They'll find the tiniest 0.96

00:13:01.280 Pettiest little silly thing 0.85

00:13:03.040 That's a true nothing burger 0.98

00:13:04.060 It's really nothing

00:13:04.760 And they'll try and amplify it

00:13:06.400 As though it's a massive thing

00:13:07.300 And it's really important

00:13:08.260 When it's obviously not

00:13:09.280 I think that's lame

00:13:11.340 I do really think that's lame

00:13:12.960 But on this

00:13:14.960 As I say

00:13:15.440 If there's nothing to it

00:13:16.860 Then there's nothing to it

00:13:17.780 Fine

00:13:18.200 There might be though

00:13:20.400 Ben Habib said there was

00:13:22.060 And I don't particularly like

00:13:23.080 Or trust Ben Habib anymore

00:13:24.200 Ben Habib said there was

00:13:26.400 Christopher Harbaugh and those

00:13:28.220 And a couple of other people

00:13:29.880 That there is more to it

00:13:31.100 So okay, with all that said

00:13:33.300 And it's being investigated

00:13:34.780 It's £5 million, it is being investigated by like the parliamentary

00:13:37.860 Some sort of parliamentary committee or something

00:13:41.020 Investigations

00:13:43.820 Anyway, it's being looked into formally

00:13:46.060 And we'll see

00:13:48.840 So I'll just leave it at that

00:13:51.380 But Nigel went on TV yesterday 1.00

00:13:52.820 And the BBC presenter, Lady 0.82

00:13:54.700 was like um so you know what have you spent the money on and he just started going he just

00:14:01.560 started saying it you even by asking me that you're putting me in danger it's not true what

00:14:06.740 nonsense is that and he said it's not it's none of your business what i spent i'm not going to

00:14:10.240 tell you it's none of your business i could have given it away to charity it doesn't matter i could

00:14:13.400 spend it on cars it doesn't matter it's my private money i wouldn't ask you how much money you've

00:14:20.960 spent on handbags or booze or something so i'm not i'm you say i'm deliberately pointedly not

00:14:27.580 going to answer that question it's none of your business it might be our business though

00:14:33.900 if you're able to show it's not nefarious the reasons behind it are not nefarious then okay

00:14:42.080 fine if it is well that's just if it is if well then that is corruption then isn't it

00:14:50.960 so we would need to know about that and the way nigel handled it it just it was just a bit odd

00:14:56.720 i won't go any further than that certainly not going to accuse him of any wrongdoing at this

00:15:00.480 point but it was just odd when you're in the public eye everything everything about you

00:15:07.120 everything about your life certainly your personal finances are political he's not a normal person

00:15:13.520 right it's the leader of the party that is leading in the polls

00:15:16.800 quite possibly the next prime minister so it is political his finances are political

00:15:22.500 so just say it's none of your business

00:15:24.100 well all right

00:15:30.380 because if he had nothing to hide i know it's i actually know this is a bit of a weak argument

00:15:36.320 but it's not in it's not complete nonsense though also in this instance anyway if he's

00:15:42.480 got nothing to hide just show just show everyone just go oh this is this is Christopher Harbaugh

00:15:48.720 he's my friend interview him if you want to we'll both sit down together for an interview if you

00:15:55.560 need be we'll have a completely uh plaster off moment we'll do a full hangout we'll tell you

00:16:03.800 everything about it and uh this is what I spent the money on now I didn't actually spend it all

00:16:08.000 on personal um like personal security but there it is i've got nothing to hide i've got nothing

00:16:16.640 to hide there you go the other point about this is that nigel says it was all about personal

00:16:23.960 security that five million pounds was supposed to be spent on his personal security because 0.68

00:16:27.500 he's so in danger that's all fair enough and reasonable right i'm not a fan of nigel farage

00:16:33.640 The man much less the politician 0.97

00:16:35.300 But I wouldn't wish

00:16:36.780 A single hair on his head

00:16:38.600 To be harmed

00:16:40.860 Right

00:16:42.700 Genuinely, genuinely

00:16:44.140 100% for real

00:16:45.280 And he is in some sort of danger

00:16:48.400 If David Amess

00:16:49.460 If you look at what happened to David Amess

00:16:50.720 Then yeah Nigel does need

00:16:54.320 Sort of security

00:16:55.200 And he said the state

00:16:57.040 The police basically

00:16:58.740 Won't hardly ever help him at all

00:17:01.460 Or do anything

00:17:01.960 So it's up to him

00:17:03.120 Fair enough

00:17:04.320 That's all fair enough

00:17:04.940 I accept that

00:17:05.700 I completely accept that

00:17:06.960 People just need to know

00:17:09.920 If there's

00:17:10.540 If there was any

00:17:12.940 Anything

00:17:13.600 That Christopher Harbaugh

00:17:15.340 Expected in return

00:17:17.020 For that money

00:17:17.780 Even billionaires

00:17:20.560 Don't usually

00:17:21.820 Give away five million quid

00:17:23.000 For nothing

00:17:23.620 Again out of pure altruism

00:17:25.780 They might do though

00:17:26.540 They might do

00:17:27.100 Alright we'll move on from it

00:17:28.300 We'll move on from that

00:17:29.080 The Metro

00:17:29.860 Ugh

00:17:30.220 Ugh

00:17:31.840 Metro

00:17:33.080 What's that stink

00:17:34.960 What's that revolting stench

00:17:37.500 Oh yeah it's the Metro 1.00

00:17:38.640 It's like a filthy damp hippie 1.00

00:17:43.440 Okay 1.00

00:17:47.680 After horrors of furnace like France

00:17:51.240 France is even hotter than here

00:17:53.220 Killer heat warnings

00:17:55.300 Yeah there was electrical storms last night

00:17:57.560 I think and the night before

00:17:58.500 Thousands of lightning bolts all across the country

00:18:01.300 It's so humid

00:18:02.680 That's the thing about this heat isn't it Jack

00:18:04.400 It's really humid

00:18:05.460 It's really close

00:18:07.360 Yeah I can't stand it

00:18:09.000 You're always sweaty no matter where you go

00:18:10.520 Even if you're really cool

00:18:11.480 Yeah

00:18:12.640 I actually can handle the humid heat

00:18:17.880 More than like the searing dry heat

00:18:19.940 A little bit more

00:18:21.800 Just accept you're going to be sweaty

00:18:23.300 Now if you've ever gone to Southeast Asia 0.99

00:18:26.000 Or somewhere like the actual like jungles

00:18:28.220 Or anything

00:18:28.600 you just accept you're sweaty all over the whole time and sort of just get over that

00:18:33.400 just get over it i mean not everyone can do it but it isn't particularly comfortable

00:18:38.560 okay all right and where it's so humid you also get like the weather will sort of suddenly break

00:18:45.480 there'll be a downpour all right and lightning okay record 40 degree temperatures possible

00:18:53.840 And risk to life warnings

00:18:56.880 In the Met Office

00:18:58.300 The people that talk about the weather in Britain

00:19:04.000 The Met Office

00:19:04.480 Said particularly for the south of England

00:19:07.660 And parts of the Midlands

00:19:09.340 Even the south west where we are

00:19:11.280 It's going to be so hot

00:19:13.580 That there's what they call a risk to life warning

00:19:16.380 It's only 40 degrees

00:19:19.860 That is super hot

00:19:20.620 But it's not super hot is it

00:19:23.460 It's not like Mumbai hot.

00:19:30.460 UK roasts again after 25,000 lightning strikes in a single night.

00:19:37.260 The eye paper.

00:19:39.540 Look, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a couple of goals.

00:19:44.600 This is his sixth World Cup.

00:19:47.000 He's one of those football players who was brilliant,

00:19:48.880 even when he was like 16, 17.

00:19:50.500 And now, 20 years later or whatever

00:19:53.320 He's still scoring goals

00:19:54.660 He's still one of the best

00:19:55.520 Good on him

00:19:58.180 Kept himself in good shape

00:19:59.280 The price Ed Miliband may pay to become Burnham's Chancellor

00:20:03.080 He's ready to approve

00:20:06.900 Jackdaw Gasfield in North Sea

00:20:09.500 So that's

00:20:10.560 One of the things that's in the news today

00:20:13.280 Starting to look at

00:20:15.360 What Burnham's team, what Burnham's cabinet

00:20:17.540 What his government will look like

00:20:19.340 When he gets into power

00:20:20.680 Because

00:20:21.020 The other stories

00:20:22.400 We'll get to it in a moment

00:20:23.160 Is that one of the other

00:20:24.780 Contenders

00:20:26.100 Other than West Streeting

00:20:27.440 That had been bandied around

00:20:28.840 His name had been bandied

00:20:30.020 Around Westminster

00:20:30.880 Might challenge Burnham

00:20:33.480 For the top job

00:20:34.460 He's also said

00:20:35.520 Like Darren Jones

00:20:36.660 Has also said

00:20:37.520 No I'm not going to do that

00:20:38.280 So almost certainly

00:20:40.760 Burnham will be coronated in

00:20:42.400 In sort of mid

00:20:43.720 Late July

00:20:45.240 No full leadership contest

00:20:48.660 Cosco Starmer, despite everything he said

00:20:51.700 Bottled it

00:20:53.320 And isn't going to be bothered to contend it with him

00:20:55.860 People are saying Ed Miliband

00:20:57.740 Might be the next

00:20:58.680 Chancellor of the Exchequer 1.00

00:21:00.140 That Rachel Reeves is out

00:21:03.960 She's going to be out

00:21:05.700 And he might pick

00:21:07.480 Ed Miliband 0.98

00:21:08.480 Weirdo, absolute weirdo 0.97

00:21:11.080 Ed Miliband 1.00

00:21:11.840 Can't even eat a sandwich without being a freak about it

00:21:15.580 Freakazoid

00:21:16.600 Why is he pretending not to be a freak? 0.94

00:21:18.800 Everyone can see that he's an absolute freak 0.96

00:21:20.500 Anyway

00:21:22.740 He's famously

00:21:25.040 Hasn't he over the last couple of years

00:21:26.640 Being the net zero czar

00:21:28.400 Pushing net zero

00:21:29.680 Destroying our economy in order to push net zero

00:21:32.940 Making energy prices insanely higher

00:21:34.820 Than they would otherwise have been because of net zero

00:21:36.640 That whole world view

00:21:37.940 But perhaps

00:21:40.620 This story is reporting that

00:21:42.320 Maybe

00:21:43.040 Some speculation at this point

00:21:45.440 If he is given number 11

00:21:48.180 I.e. Chancellor of the Exchequer

00:21:51.280 Head of the Treasury

00:21:52.120 H.M. Treasury

00:21:52.880 Chancellor of the Exchequer

00:21:54.500 Gets to live next door

00:21:55.580 To the Prime Minister

00:21:56.220 At number 11 down the street

00:21:57.440 The deal there

00:22:01.060 Would be

00:22:02.000 You, Ed Miliband

00:22:04.460 Get to be Chancellor

00:22:05.120 But you do have to start

00:22:06.500 Drilling in the North Sea

00:22:07.560 The Jackdaw gas field

00:22:09.840 That's one of the two main

00:22:11.780 Gas fields in the North Sea

00:22:14.020 That are sort of sitting there

00:22:14.940 ready to be, literally ready to be tapped

00:22:16.840 whether Ed wants that deal or not

00:22:20.840 I don't know, probably would

00:22:22.400 there's been Chancellor of the Exchequer is

00:22:24.540 probably the second most important

00:22:26.940 office isn't it, after Prime Minister

00:22:28.500 probably, some people would argue

00:22:30.480 it might be the Foreign Secretary

00:22:32.880 is more prestigious

00:22:33.660 or the Home Secretary is more real power

00:22:36.400 unlimited power

00:22:38.500 but the Chancellor of the Exchequer

00:22:40.720 I think most people would agree

00:22:42.120 you know holding all the purse strings okay let's hope not we'll see some more headlines

00:22:50.560 in a moment that people in the the city business and investment people are like saying don't don't

00:22:56.640 let ed milliband be chancellor we'll get to in a moment britain set to break 50 year heat record

00:23:02.460 red weather alerts issued in uk france spain and italy met office forecast 39 degrees this week

00:23:08.820 Smashing UK's June record from 1976

00:23:11.320 See

00:23:11.800 That's the one

00:23:12.640 1976

00:23:13.800 1976

00:23:14.320 Hotest summer of all time

00:23:15.680 Hundreds of schools closed to cope

00:23:19.660 High humidity adds to discomfort

00:23:22.600 29,000 lightning strikes overnight

00:23:24.600 Do not travel warnings on railways

00:23:26.900 Have you ever been in a train

00:23:28.660 When it's packed on a super hot day

00:23:32.040 And it's like an actual sauna

00:23:34.600 And it stinks

00:23:36.020 And there's sort of no escape

00:23:38.540 and the air itself is becoming super heated

00:23:41.440 and the train itself is moving

00:23:43.680 on top of everything else

00:23:44.640 it's moving really slowly

00:23:45.720 crawling along

00:23:46.480 even just sitting there

00:23:47.700 yeah if you don't need to get on a train today

00:23:51.620 and tomorrow

00:23:52.140 don't

00:23:53.100 or I would say

00:23:54.220 that's good advice

00:23:55.020 France records its hottest day

00:23:57.660 since records began

00:23:58.640 hitting 44.3 degrees

00:24:00.920 in Pissos

00:24:02.960 Pissos

00:24:03.740 similar to interior of Sahara Desert

00:24:08.360 say similar i mean not as hot as london is cooking says u.n chief

00:24:16.500 what's the u.n chief got to do with anything u.n

00:24:21.600 spain reaches 40 degrees in the shade

00:24:24.700 it's hot you guys get it right the mirror faraj loses plot over the five million pound question

00:24:34.360 He did seem very, very defensive

00:24:37.580 And

00:24:38.280 Yeah, I mean

00:24:41.620 Sort of petulant

00:24:42.580 I mean, loses the plot

00:24:45.120 I would say that's a slight exaggeration

00:24:47.420 But you're saying it's none of your

00:24:51.120 Literally, that's what you're saying

00:24:52.120 It's literally none of your business

00:24:55.040 To the questioner

00:24:56.560 The interview person

00:24:57.900 Chill out

00:25:00.500 You're the head of a political party

00:25:03.000 It sort of is

00:25:03.780 why are you being so weird about it if there's nothing tied all right

00:25:09.940 then we saw the front page oh no garner oh no nil nil draw

00:25:13.660 still got four points it's in in the group stages probably be fine okay

00:25:19.860 heatwave red alert meltdown meltdown health warning schools close and travel chaos

00:25:28.540 it's 1976 record is set to fall yeah that thing and one thing i would say um is if it's really

00:25:36.360 hot like don't jump in a really really cold reservoir or lake or river i saw a little thing

00:25:42.040 this morning where they're saying you put a bit more flesh on the bones of how that kills people

00:25:45.500 never really thought about this before but if you're not used to that you're really hot

00:25:49.900 you jump in a reservoir or lake or whatever and it's really really cold

00:25:54.600 And you've jumped in

00:25:57.420 So you're submerged, way submerged down

00:25:59.520 And it's so cold that you involuntarily

00:26:03.780 You're not used to something like that

00:26:04.920 And you just involuntarily gasp water in you

00:26:08.500 Because it's the shock of it, right?

00:26:12.060 But you're underwater, that just fills your lungs with water

00:26:14.640 And then you're not even buoyant anymore

00:26:16.780 So you're in a terrible, terrible situation immediately, right?

00:26:23.120 Unless someone immediately pulls you out

00:26:25.800 And then what pumps your lungs

00:26:27.500 Or whatever

00:26:27.900 Yeah

00:26:31.300 That can happen

00:26:34.380 That does happen

00:26:35.040 So just be careful about that

00:26:37.980 Don't do that

00:26:39.420 If you're going to get in somewhere really cold

00:26:42.320 Just maybe ease yourself in

00:26:43.820 Rather than just jumping straight in

00:26:45.520 So you don't

00:26:46.700 As a reflex

00:26:48.900 Fill your own lungs with water

00:26:51.180 Oh horrible really isn't it

00:26:53.580 Horrible

00:26:53.940 Loads of people die

00:26:55.440 Quite often kids

00:26:56.280 Very often kids

00:26:57.540 Horrible

00:26:58.920 Be careful

00:26:59.960 Be warned

00:27:00.400 That's a thing

00:27:00.940 Okay the sun

00:27:05.340 England nil 1.00

00:27:07.240 Ghana nil 1.00

00:27:07.820 See they're obsessed with it 1.00

00:27:09.060 Don't worry about a thing

00:27:13.600 Because every little thing

00:27:14.500 Is gonna be alright

00:27:15.820 Singing don't worry

00:27:17.740 It's gonna be alright

00:27:23.180 You get it

00:27:24.100 It's a Bob Marley song, isn't it?

00:27:26.100 Yeah? 1.00

00:27:26.940 They treat you like such idiots, don't they? 1.00

00:27:28.800 You know that Bob Marley song? 1.00

00:27:31.040 Here's a pun on that

00:27:32.280 Oh, okay, great

00:27:34.220 Okay

00:27:35.420 A Daily Star

00:27:38.620 Getting into the slop now 0.56

00:27:39.740 Who's that girl? 1.00

00:27:42.120 I don't care

00:27:42.660 I don't really care

00:27:43.540 I don't care

00:27:45.100 What is it, Madonna?

00:27:46.000 Is it?

00:27:46.300 I don't know

00:27:46.540 Three lines back to drawing board

00:27:49.620 It's the Boston Stranglers

00:27:51.580 The game took place in Boston

00:27:52.840 That's it, we'll move on

00:27:54.020 The Financial Times

00:27:55.080 Again, even there going with it's hot

00:27:56.900 Starmer risks clash with Bumham

00:27:59.360 Over Defence Investment Blueprint

00:28:01.140 Premier wants to publish plan

00:28:03.300 Challenger, Bumham

00:28:04.560 Insists on right to review

00:28:06.380 The military spending

00:28:08.500 Reeves' position is in doubt

00:28:10.800 Well, she's almost certainly out

00:28:11.960 Or will be

00:28:13.480 So where Starmer's going to stay on until

00:28:18.900 Well at least

00:28:20.480 What July the 17th or something

00:28:23.120 At least

00:28:23.800 There's a couple of things

00:28:25.460 Between now and then

00:28:27.020 Like a couple of different NATO meetings I believe

00:28:29.340 At least one

00:28:29.940 Where he, Starmer, wants to go there

00:28:33.180 And still act like

00:28:35.280 Like he's

00:28:36.820 In power, I mean he will technically

00:28:38.900 Be in power still

00:28:40.360 But still act like he controls 0.98

00:28:42.100 the government and everything but it's weird because he's uh well it's more than a lame duck

00:28:49.400 isn't it he's he's out he's basically already out he won't be controlling policy he's barely

00:28:56.920 been controlling policy this whole time but he certainly won't be controlling anything

00:29:00.320 in a few weeks but yet he still wants to go to this one of these nato at least one of these nato

00:29:06.940 meetings and strut around like he's one of the big players you're not one of the big players

00:29:12.620 as soon as you announce your resignation you're you're nothing you're just a placeholder at that 0.71

00:29:17.740 point aren't you that's all he's a delusional person isn't he starmer completely delusional

00:29:31.260 it's got a little bit cold he um seems to live on like 0.57

00:29:34.940 Different planet to the rest of us

00:29:37.200 Starmer

00:29:38.420 What does he think he's doing

00:29:42.360 What does he think he's playing at

00:29:43.740 Okay

00:29:44.720 The times, the venerable times 1.00

00:29:47.900 What the style A-lists wear 1.00

00:29:50.120 In Heatwave, don't care 1.00

00:29:51.480 Harry Kane

00:29:53.700 Failed to score a goal yesterday

00:29:55.380 Alright, Starmer and Berman are odds

00:29:57.540 Over defence plan, yeah we got it

00:29:59.680 The Telegraph

00:30:03.920 a daily torograph no sternum burnham i'll boost cash for defense

00:30:09.820 prime minister in waiting tells labor mps he will do more do more than starmer to defend uk

00:30:16.680 britain shuts up shop as temperatures soar oh here's a little story church i was going to talk

00:30:22.920 about it the other day but i don't think i did churchill starvation claim video removed remember

00:30:29.720 few days ago it was at the national portrait gallery there's like an art installation video

00:30:35.320 art installation saying that churchill was responsible for the bengal famine of 1943

00:30:42.760 and the lord roberts andrew roberts of belgravia and 50 other peers

00:30:51.480 i mean a bit of spittle it happens we're live um

00:30:57.240 They wrote an open letter saying

00:31:00.660 This is just wrong

00:31:01.780 And remove it

00:31:03.260 And it looks like

00:31:04.000 Well the National Poultry Gallery

00:31:05.160 Have

00:31:05.560 Have done so

00:31:07.080 Okay

00:31:08.600 The Daily Mail

00:31:11.980 The Mail Group

00:31:12.700 Complete slop

00:31:13.480 Lions tamed 0.91

00:31:14.340 Okay

00:31:14.760 Don't put economy

00:31:17.280 At mercy of Red Ed

00:31:19.020 Growing alarm among city leaders

00:31:21.960 That's basically business and investment

00:31:23.860 Over prospect of

00:31:26.220 a bum ham installing left-wing net zero zealot ed milliband as chancellor andy burnham andy burnham

00:31:32.780 was last night facing demands to rule out appointing ed milliband as chancellor senior

00:31:38.300 figures from the world of business joined forces with even burnham backing labor mps

00:31:45.980 to warn that the energy secretary would uh wreak havoc if he was put in charge of the economy yeah

00:31:52.540 Yeah, I would have thought so, yeah.

00:31:54.340 I would have thought so.

00:31:55.560 His father was a full-blown Marxist.

00:31:58.020 Full-blown.

00:31:59.560 Died-in-the-world Marxist.

00:32:01.040 And he is some sort of crypto-communist, as far as I'm concerned.

00:32:05.240 Certainly extremely left.

00:32:08.580 Full-blown socialist, basically.

00:32:10.720 Why would you want him in charge of the purse strings?

00:32:16.220 Okay.

00:32:17.380 The Express, it's a good paper.

00:32:19.260 we can read your express now

00:32:23.020 Nigel Farage leads Brexiteer anger

00:32:27.140 as EU seeks reset talks with Andy Burnham

00:32:29.500 don't let them get away with Brexit sell out

00:32:33.080 the express

00:32:35.860 this is wolf in sheep's clothing stuff

00:32:38.260 this is adjacent to the Fabian society stuff

00:32:41.700 the express

00:32:42.280 look

00:32:43.080 they're pretending

00:32:45.100 don't be fooled

00:32:46.460 They're pretending that they're patriotic

00:32:49.520 And on your side

00:32:50.240 Look at their little emblem

00:32:51.560 It's like Crusader person 1.00

00:32:53.220 They'll put the Union Jack on there 1.00

00:32:55.260 The White Cliffs of Dover

00:32:56.540 They're on our side 0.96

00:32:57.680 They're on the side of Brexit

00:32:59.020 Don't be fooled for a split second

00:33:01.760 They're as much globalist and subversive

00:33:04.800 As all the others

00:33:06.320 As all the others

00:33:08.320 If there's a movement like Restore

00:33:11.240 Or anything

00:33:12.200 Like Tommy Robinson

00:33:13.420 Any sort of nativism

00:33:15.240 Or real patriotism

00:33:16.440 Even Sivnattery

00:33:18.480 Even that

00:33:19.880 They'll try and undermine it

00:33:23.640 And destroy it

00:33:24.420 And character assassinate all those involved 0.99

00:33:26.900 And the whole nine yards

00:33:28.600 So never buy this

00:33:30.920 The mail do the same thing

00:33:32.380 Try and pull the same trick

00:33:33.380 The telegraph do sometimes as well

00:33:35.020 That they're actually on our side

00:33:37.580 No they're not

00:33:39.800 No they're not

00:33:40.980 This is all fakery

00:33:42.080 This is all just to try and sell you a paper

00:33:45.280 Or get a click

00:33:46.000 They're globalists

00:33:51.020 When it comes down to it

00:33:53.000 They've just decided to be pro-Brexit

00:33:57.320 Because they've made the calculation

00:33:59.820 That will sell some papers for them

00:34:01.920 When there's an actual nativist movement 0.99

00:34:05.280 They'll try and kill it 0.99

00:34:08.300 They'll try and 0.97

00:34:10.920 Take for example how they treat anyone in reform

00:34:15.480 Let alone restore

00:34:16.820 Let alone restore

00:34:18.220 Anyone in reform that said anything too spicy

00:34:20.880 They'll try and destroy you

00:34:22.880 They'll try and destroy Tommy Robinson 0.89

00:34:25.200 Or whatever

00:34:26.080 Pretty weak stuff

00:34:30.620 They want the best for the country

00:34:35.540 They care about Brexit do they

00:34:37.060 Yeah look there's a picture of the White Cliffs

00:34:39.140 And a union flag 0.99

00:34:40.080 Filth

00:34:45.080 pure filth 1.00

00:34:47.080 liars 1.00

00:34:48.580 liars upon liars upon liars 0.99

00:34:50.560 okay that's the front pages 0.92

00:34:52.900 should we have a look at our poll

00:34:54.900 we usually have a look at our poll at this point of the day

00:34:56.920 don't we

00:34:57.380 Jack if you could bring that up for me

00:35:00.020 where have we got it

00:35:01.600 what did we ask you guys

00:35:03.080 we asked you about a thousand votes

00:35:06.200 just over a thousand votes

00:35:07.320 do you want Ed Miliband to be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer

00:35:10.380 okay it's one of those days where the poll is

00:35:12.080 hopefully

00:35:12.660 Just a slam dunk 0.58

00:35:14.420 We tee you up

00:35:15.200 And you do an alley-oop slam dunk on it

00:35:17.880 Hopefully

00:35:18.320 Yeah, 89% of you say no

00:35:21.640 11% of you say yes

00:35:24.260 You best be trolling me there

00:35:27.140 You best have accidentally clicked on yes

00:35:32.240 Or you're trolling me

00:35:33.900 That's the only things I'll accept

00:35:35.540 Otherwise

00:35:36.040 Get out

00:35:38.720 Go on, get out 1.00

00:35:40.060 Bugger off 0.94

00:35:40.720 This isn't the podcast for you

00:35:42.080 i don't mean that i don't mean that don't go i still love you baby don't go we can make this

00:35:46.940 work we can make this work come on don't go

00:35:50.800 all right no really don't go

00:35:56.880 shall we look at the price of oil we'll usually have a look at the price of oil as well on the

00:36:02.340 boat show don't we at least very briefly let's have a quick look check in on it what we got

00:36:05.760 it is west texas at 73 a barrel brent brent crude just shy of 77 a barrel

00:36:14.700 remarkable really isn't it about the same or ever so slightly less

00:36:21.000 than the price of crude at the beginning of that war with iran

00:36:25.780 remarkable all right should we have a see if there's any other sort of stories of note there

00:36:32.580 one or two stories of note i've been told i need to finish around nine or ten past nine at the

00:36:37.200 latest today for sort of technical production reasons so i whipped through a couple of stories

00:36:42.740 oh look there you go that darren jones some people in the westminster bubble were saying

00:36:46.140 darren jones being whispered in the corridors of power darren jones might might uh launch a

00:36:53.980 leadership bid against burnham but sometimes there's an argument isn't there that just for

00:36:58.960 sort of propriety's sake that there's something there's something not like really kind of not

00:37:04.800 quite right and unfair about a coronation political coronation that for sort of propriety's sake there

00:37:11.840 should be some contest but even that darren jones is saying no he won't do that he's probably been

00:37:16.720 offered a sweet job i think most certainly that's what it will be okay um oh peter morrell remember

00:37:27.520 him that's um that's we jimmy cranky's ex-husband nicholas sturgeon

00:37:36.480 fan dabby doisy he got five years and three months in prison

00:37:41.840 for embezzling 400 grand there you go that was his sentence he probably only served like two years

00:37:48.160 right two and a half years maybe still being banged up in a scottish prison for two years

00:37:54.080 probably not going to be fun big fat old butterball like that it's not exactly it's not hard now is he

00:38:03.680 oh that's what you get for embezzling 400 grand i think theft embezzlement i think theft is really

00:38:09.360 bad a really bad crime i think it's horrible i think i think he should have got a custodial

00:38:14.160 sentence for that yeah that's my feeling now a matter of record that the s p

00:38:24.080 Was harbouring a criminal for a long time

00:38:27.160 Former DUP leader, Sir Geoffrey Donaldson

00:38:30.060 Guilty of child sex offences, including rape

00:38:32.780 That's weird, isn't it?

00:38:35.280 It seems like, it's almost like

00:38:36.600 Loads and loads of politicians 0.91

00:38:37.920 Even the very most senior politicians are criminals

00:38:40.240 It's almost like you can get that impression, isn't it?

00:38:43.020 DUP, the Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

00:38:45.300 The Unionists

00:38:46.180 If anyone doesn't know

00:38:48.680 In Southern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland

00:38:51.640 therefore ireland but in northern ireland they largely want to remain well the protestants there

00:38:59.380 want to remain part of the union britain and so their party is the dup this guy used to be the

00:39:07.900 leader of them and uh yeah he's been on trial for like six weeks or ever for uh for being a sex case

00:39:15.480 Including at least

00:39:19.320 More than one rape I think

00:39:21.080 But at least one rape 0.94

00:39:21.820 Of not like little kids

00:39:24.200 But still girls that were under age

00:39:26.240 He's been found guilty of it 0.98

00:39:27.400 He hasn't been sentenced yet

00:39:28.440 But he's been found guilty

00:39:29.480 These people 0.75

00:39:35.080 Gross 0.98

00:39:38.720 Gross

00:39:39.400 What else can you say 0.89

00:39:40.360 I mean the word gross

00:39:43.460 Doesn't do any sort of justice 1.00

00:39:44.920 is it what a wrong and what a filthy piece of trash uh okay 0.98

00:39:54.920 like darren jones again saying no i'll just take a i'll just take a sweet job rather than actually 0.98

00:40:00.920 try and become leader myself he probably doesn't have the numbers he doesn't even have the numbers

00:40:04.760 who knows bill gates bill gates went in front of a um that committee to to like epstein transparency

00:40:14.920 It was a while ago

00:40:16.840 Like a week or more

00:40:17.760 A while ago

00:40:19.680 A little while ago

00:40:20.320 He went before

00:40:21.180 But it was behind closed doors

00:40:22.220 But they do release the transcripts

00:40:23.980 And the transcripts have just been released

00:40:26.660 And they just asked him

00:40:28.240 They just asked him loads about his affairs

00:40:31.000 Because that was one of the big things

00:40:32.460 That came out in the Epstein file dump

00:40:34.240 Wasn't it?

00:40:35.020 That there was some really odd email

00:40:37.600 Epstein had drafted

00:40:38.840 And then sent himself

00:40:40.040 Which looked very much like

00:40:42.480 An attempt to blackmail

00:40:45.040 Bill Gates

00:40:47.100 Wasn't it

00:40:49.420 Remember all that

00:40:50.740 So they just asked him loads about his affairs

00:40:53.280 Bill Gates

00:40:55.380 And his connection to epilepsy

00:40:56.960 The thing I found interesting

00:40:58.580 Because I don't care about all the various affairs

00:41:01.500 Bill Gates had

00:41:02.200 He definitely had at least three

00:41:03.880 For example

00:41:04.740 One was some sort of Russian 0.97

00:41:08.100 PhD doctor woman

00:41:10.180 One was a professional bridge player

00:41:12.740 One, he just had a few affairs with women, right?

00:41:18.560 Over the years, over years

00:41:19.980 Melinda found out and they stayed together for another few years

00:41:24.980 But in the end she left him

00:41:25.880 They're famously divorced now, aren't they?

00:41:29.360 Okay, I don't care about that 0.99

00:41:32.100 Like Bill Gates is a cheating douchebag 0.99

00:41:36.220 Yeah, surprise, surprise 1.00

00:41:37.580 Yeah, he's a weirdo little freak douchebag 0.99

00:41:40.580 Okay 1.00

00:41:41.060 Who cares, I don't care about that 0.99

00:41:43.660 Never liked him anyway, he's a weirdo freak 0.60

00:41:46.340 Yeah, just throw this data on top of that

00:41:49.380 Got it

00:41:49.840 What's important though, isn't it

00:41:53.700 Is who Epstein was

00:41:56.480 What Epstein was

00:41:57.860 What was he really

00:42:00.140 That's the crux of the matter 0.54

00:42:01.440 We all know Bill Gates is a freak

00:42:06.060 right

00:42:08.880 what matters is what Epstein was and what he was doing and it seems from this article I read the

00:42:19.440 whole article it's a reasonably long article um I don't didn't really get to the bottom of it there

00:42:26.420 were some questions about that when they said you know that email that he he drafted which looked

00:42:31.760 like it was going to be a black man attempt or was a black man attempt what do you think about

00:42:35.560 that what's your thoughts and feelings on that like give us your take and bill gates is just like

00:42:39.560 oh no and that's it that's basically it it alleged that didn't it if you remember do you remember

00:42:46.560 it alleged that bill gates had got an std from some russian woman some russian woman and that

00:42:54.200 he'd asked epstein to get him anti-std drugs medicines and that he was he needed them for

00:43:05.720 his std and that he was he's surreptitiously secretly slipped the the medicine to melinda

00:43:15.760 gates his wife at the time and bill gates said i never had an std that bit's nonsense

00:43:22.420 i never had an std he said it a number of times i never asked for any medicines i never needed

00:43:29.960 any i never gave anyone them covertly all that bit of it is just crazy nonsense i don't know

00:43:35.400 anything about that that's what bill gates said

00:43:37.900 so once again but look there he is like they're buddies proper good buddies

00:43:43.740 spent loads of time together loads of time um like bill gates went to his island a bunch of

00:43:52.200 times. Obviously, Epstein hooked Bill Gates up with women, one way or the other, not necessarily

00:44:06.960 underage girls. That's one of the things Epstein did. If you were so rich and famous, that

00:44:17.760 you can't just go to sort of some sort of normal brothel or you can't ring up some sort of normal 0.56

00:44:24.320 escort because as soon as they see you they're like they know who you are

00:44:27.800 you can't do that so you need if you're going to get if you're going to get prostitutes 0.55

00:44:34.960 you need to get a prostitute who you can trust won't just immediately the second they leave

00:44:41.100 your presence they immediately um tell the news about it right it's pretty it's pretty straightforward 0.98

00:44:47.760 right you're bill gates and you're bored with your wife of 27 years and you want to get with 0.83

00:44:54.300 some ridiculously hot much much much younger russian woman that's what you want you're bill

00:44:59.560 gates and that's what you want epstein can hook you up with that discretion that's what epstein 0.88

00:45:06.840 will give you discretion these women these women will never talk jeffrey will see to that it's

00:45:12.280 pretty straightforward isn't it but then jeffrey knows all your secrets then though doesn't he

00:45:20.840 if he did want to destroy you he's got all the receipts then though hasn't he

00:45:29.160 it's not that complicated is it all right

00:45:32.600 uh was there any other stories peter morel we jimmy cranky's husband look one of the players 0.92

00:45:42.020 for ghana is uh allegedly a rapist or maybe a rapist what's his name thomas thomas party

00:45:51.920 was party this dude here plays for ghana used to play for arsenal is is currently facing a

00:45:58.940 criminal trial on several rape charges

00:46:01.040 in England against British or English

00:46:02.940 women I believe

00:46:03.540 he's out

00:46:07.240 on bail is he

00:46:08.140 some of the

00:46:13.000 England players didn't want to shake his hand

00:46:14.780 or give him a high five

00:46:15.700 because of that

00:46:17.340 alright

00:46:20.940 shall we have a look on this day in history

00:46:22.800 it's already quarter to I'm supposed to finish the show

00:46:24.780 about nine or just after nine

00:46:26.860 so let's

00:46:28.940 Rumble Rants and Super Chats to get through as well.

00:46:30.820 All right, let's do on this day in history, 24th of June,

00:46:32.860 down through the centuries, what happened of note?

00:46:34.760 We've got, in the year 1497,

00:46:36.800 John Cabot claims parts of North America for England

00:46:40.040 in what is now Eastern Canada,

00:46:42.220 believing he has found Asia in Newfoundland.

00:46:46.340 Yeah, it took quite a while, really,

00:46:48.720 in the age of discovery for them to accept

00:46:52.340 that the new world, both North and South America,

00:46:54.900 wasn't Asia.

00:46:55.640 Christopher Columbus went to his grave

00:46:59.560 Believing that the Caribbean was

00:47:01.480 The Spice Islands

00:47:02.460 Or rather part of

00:47:04.800 Part of Asia

00:47:06.340 Went to his grave thinking that 0.95

00:47:08.600 Alright

00:47:11.560 On this day in 1509

00:47:13.540 Henry VIII is crowned King of England

00:47:15.420 In Westminster Abbey

00:47:16.460 Doing

00:47:17.500 On the

00:47:19.180 On Epoch's doing Henry VIII at the moment

00:47:22.600 Remember it was always supposed to be his brother

00:47:24.440 He had an older brother didn't he

00:47:26.260 Arthur

00:47:26.560 Henry VIII was never meant to be king

00:47:28.420 It was always going to be his older brother Arthur

00:47:30.620 And they groomed

00:47:31.540 Brought up Henry VIII to be

00:47:33.700 In the church

00:47:35.160 But then his older brother Arthur

00:47:37.620 Just died of natural causes

00:47:39.580 And Henry VIII became king

00:47:43.900 When he was quite young

00:47:44.560 I think he was like 17

00:47:45.700 18 was he

00:47:47.640 So he became king quite young

00:47:49.360 Okay on this day is when he was

00:47:52.180 Crowned in Westminster Abbey

00:47:54.120 On this day in 1812

00:47:56.320 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée

00:47:58.580 Numbering half a million

00:48:00.060 Those numbers are disputed

00:48:01.740 Some say more, some say less

00:48:03.600 About half a million

00:48:05.000 Begin their invasion of Russia

00:48:06.940 By crossing the Neiman River 0.96

00:48:08.400 And I've got like what

00:48:09.800 A nine, ten part series about Napoleon

00:48:13.180 That was sort of the key moment for Napoleon

00:48:15.560 That decision

00:48:17.100 To invade Russia in 1812

00:48:24.120 He never recovered from that decision

00:48:27.560 The Peninsular War was already going very badly by 1812 in Spain

00:48:33.560 Napoleon decided he needed to take out his last giant, giant enemy, the Tsar

00:48:42.120 If you've ever watched The Princess Bride you'll know that it's one of the classic blunders 0.67

00:48:45.320 getting involved in a land war in Russia 0.91

00:48:47.880 One of the classic blunders 0.95

00:48:49.720 He did get all the way to Moscow 1.00

00:48:51.160 Better than Mr Hitler did 0.95

00:48:53.020 Army Group Centre, Operation Typhoon 1.00

00:48:55.120 He did better than them 0.83

00:48:56.000 He got to Moscow and occupied Moscow 0.92

00:48:58.320 But the Tsar and his armies

00:49:01.040 Tsar Alexander just retreated further

00:49:03.040 Into the effectively endless hinterland of Russia

00:49:06.100 Waited him out till winter, general winter

00:49:08.660 And Napoleon had to retreat back westwards

00:49:13.040 Through the Russian winter

00:49:16.200 And lost most of his army to exposure

00:49:19.320 and then never ever regained the strategic initiative again the russians effectively

00:49:28.140 the russians and then the prussians chased him all the way back to paris over the course of

00:49:35.260 the next year he never recovered it was the beginning of the end all right we'll talk about

00:49:43.100 that for hours and hours and hours in fact already have haven't i good word to do it again

00:49:47.780 maybe i'll do long form epochs of series of epochs just about the 1812 russian campaign of napoleon

00:49:53.860 bonaparte do it in silly detail that'd be cool i'd like that i'd enjoy that okay on this day in 1853

00:49:59.060 u.s president uh franklin pierce signs the gadsden purchase buying 29 670 square miles

00:50:05.780 which is 76 800 square kilometers from mexico for 10 million dollars which is now southern arizona

00:50:12.740 and southern new mexico yeah one of those great land purchases done under duress of course

00:50:18.340 absolutely done under duress um there's the the american mexican war mexico didn't really have

00:50:26.660 much of a choice in in that america the united states was gracious enough to give them any

00:50:32.260 money they could have just completely annexed it if they wanted to okay there's much more to that

00:50:37.780 story can't go into it here need to get finished up on this day in 1930 first detection of an

00:50:43.780 airplane using reflected radio waves a precursor to radar by us naval research laboratory engineers

00:50:49.700 in anacostia washington dc yeah interesting it was largely actually the the british later in the

00:50:58.020 30s that sort of perfected radar yeah the first one the americans interesting to note because

00:51:06.180 history usually thinks it was the brits that did it first like the manhattan project they think

00:51:10.420 all the americans were the first to conceive of the splitting of the atom and that you could make

00:51:16.980 a nuclear bomb and that no that was british that was the likes of uh rutherford at the cavendish

00:51:26.420 laboratory in cambridge when the americans first saw is this possible they came to the brits and

00:51:33.300 And said is this possible

00:51:34.440 And the British said yeah

00:51:36.560 They thought

00:51:38.820 If he was going to make a nuclear bomb

00:51:41.520 A sort of fissionable

00:51:43.680 Enriched uranium

00:51:45.940 It might be like

00:51:47.520 40 tonnes

00:51:48.400 It might be the size of a building

00:51:50.280 And the Brits 0.65

00:51:52.980 The British physicists

00:51:54.360 No no it would be possible

00:51:55.720 It would be possible to make a thing only a few pounds

00:51:59.460 Big, the core

00:52:00.200 Anyway

00:52:02.460 Anyway, on this day, 1948, Soviet Union blockades West Berlin by stopping access by road, rail and water

00:52:09.540 Yeah, so the Berlin airlift

00:52:11.180 Stalin decided because Berlin sits in East Germany 0.73

00:52:15.440 And West Berlin was just basically an enclave of the Western Allies

00:52:21.900 The United States, Britain, France

00:52:23.160 The United States mainly

00:52:25.780 And old Joe Stalin wanted to cut that off 0.96

00:52:29.740 and cut that little enclave out

00:52:35.220 to have the whole of Berlin under his control.

00:52:38.020 But the Americans decided to do an airlift,

00:52:41.780 just fly in and drop all the supplies needed 0.86

00:52:45.660 for half a city, daring Stalin

00:52:50.180 to sort of shoot those aeroplanes out of the sky,

00:52:52.380 which would have been World War III at that point,

00:52:54.440 wouldn't it?

00:52:56.020 The Americans had nukes

00:52:57.940 and the russians didn't at that point is that right when did the russians first get there i

00:53:02.520 think it was after that so starling blinked basically the berlin airlift goes on until

00:53:09.200 early 1949 but at that point starling sort of relents and blinks okay on this day in 2022

00:53:17.720 u.s supreme court overturns roe versus wade eliminating the constitutional right to choose

00:53:23.440 abortion in a 6-3 vote. Yeah, good in my opinion. Roe v. Wade led to untold numbers of unborn

00:53:32.180 babies being murdered. That's my opinion. So good. Good that it was overturned. It was

00:53:40.260 always a travesty. In my opinion. All right, shall we have a look at the Rumble Rants and

00:53:46.340 Superchats? Again, if we're going to end by nine or five, ten past at the latest. Let's

00:53:51.120 have a look at the rumble rants first we always do the rumble rants first don't we oh there's

00:53:57.640 not that many super chats today okay all right rumble rants have we got global church history

00:54:02.380 in at number one yes we do mr history first name global middle name church surname history

00:54:11.780 says, on this day in 474 AD, Julius Nepos was made Western Emperor, in brackets, some

00:54:21.600 call him the last, brackets, all right, okay, yeah, I wouldn't, it's Romulus Augustulus,

00:54:28.360 isn't it, pretty sure I've done, well, I have done content about that, haven't I, I'm pretty

00:54:36.420 sure I've done long-form content about Romulus Augustulus in the last, I don't know, I don't

00:54:41.780 yeah oh no I have yeah yeah there's at least one episode on there where I remember in conversation

00:54:48.080 with Carl talk about some of the last events that led up to the the destruction and ending

00:54:54.680 of the Roman Empire in the West I mean like Alaric already sacked Rome in like 410 AD

00:55:02.200 You know, so like 60, 65, 70 years or whatever 0.61

00:55:06.320 Before that

00:55:08.140 Some people say

00:55:11.020 All different historians disagree over when really

00:55:14.320 When exactly

00:55:15.260 When de facto

00:55:17.280 The Western Roman Empire ended

00:55:20.680 Most people, including me

00:55:23.200 Will say it was Romulus Augustulus

00:55:25.300 Which is about this time

00:55:27.600 It's like one year later or whatever

00:55:28.880 Some historians like to say

00:55:32.080 That it was that

00:55:32.800 Nipos

00:55:33.820 Julius Nipos 0.96

00:55:34.700 No

00:55:36.220 Romulus orchestras

00:55:38.020 Okay

00:55:38.440 And the second

00:55:40.580 Factoid you've got for us

00:55:42.040 This morning

00:55:42.460 Global Church History

00:55:43.260 You say 0.86

00:55:43.900 The Battle of Sloyes

00:55:47.240 Was won

00:55:47.860 With 166 ships

00:55:50.620 Captured

00:55:51.760 In 1340

00:55:53.440 That's Edward III

00:55:57.820 Edward III, 100 Years War, Edward III, a naval engagement with the French, just off the coast

00:56:07.880 of modern-day Belgium-Holland, where Belgium-Holland are, right there, just off the coast.

00:56:15.780 Really, really, really pivotal battle. It's one of those battles that a lot of people haven't heard

00:56:20.080 of. If you're a history nerd, you will have heard of. It's just completely pivotal. If that went

00:56:25.100 the other way history could have would have been really quite different quite possibly

00:56:32.380 so yeah it's a key one talk all about it if you're interested

00:56:36.060 when i took when i do the when i did my long-form content about edward the third

00:56:42.940 there you go you can see the sign up for as little as five pound a month sponsor membership

00:56:48.620 okay let's get through the rest pigdog5150 says my comment from yesterday

00:56:54.140 Burnham father a father a Roman legionary oh yeah I remember that I didn't get what you meant

00:56:59.960 okay you're going to explain it hopefully here cool um should have been centurion was my favorite

00:57:07.100 scene from life of Brian where his mother tells him his father was a Roman hilarious film oh okay

00:57:11.980 I get it I get it now because he there was that thing he's not the messiah he's a very naughty boy

00:57:17.780 but Burnham's a messiah without a matter okay I've got it now yeah that is quite a funny scene 0.99

00:57:23.300 actually when when she tells him his father was a roman okay good well thanks for uh thanks for

00:57:31.800 clarifying that okay st luke the aussie aussie st luke luke stewart says g'day bo g'day mate

00:57:40.520 and everyone how are you all doing this chilly wednesday evening oh it's not chilly it's faking

00:57:47.180 is it chilly on when in down in oz would be your winter wouldn't it

00:57:55.820 at night in winter even in australia could be chilly um if you don't get to do a video

00:58:05.060 reading out rupert lowe's rape gang report asmongold did a seven-ish hour stream on it yeah

00:58:10.200 i said that i was it was it this it was monday wasn't it it was monday this week

00:58:14.560 I did a good sort of 10, 15, maybe even 20 minute bit

00:58:18.260 Didn't I about it 0.98

00:58:19.840 And I gave props to Asmongold for that 1.00

00:58:22.380 Yeah

00:58:22.800 I watched a big chunk of it myself 1.00

00:58:25.420 Yeah, absolute props to Asmongold 1.00

00:58:29.780 Yeah

00:58:31.940 I did a good service to the world

00:58:34.000 Certainly to England for that

00:58:36.500 Appreciate it 1.00

00:58:38.440 Asmongold, if you ever see this

00:58:39.960 I genuinely appreciate that

00:58:44.560 i can't say that with any more sincerity thank you sir okay pig dog 5150 says

00:58:53.640 worked finance for 20 years left three years ago to be farmer oh drinking seven liters a day

00:59:00.620 it's a bit warm don't miss the air con office one bit oh cool decided to actually go out and

00:59:07.720 do a real job yeah i worked in well i also worked in finance for about 18 years 19 years

00:59:17.320 at some point yeah obviously didn't change to become a farmer but at some point you're like

00:59:23.320 that's enough okay i'm done okay made a little bit of bank but i'm done this is destroying my soul

00:59:31.800 what am i doing

00:59:33.820 what am i doing here okay on paper i've got a good job and stuff but

00:59:41.920 what what am i really doing here is this what i want to do this is what i want to do with my life

00:59:50.280 yeah okay you got out after 20 years they give you less for murder sometimes don't they

00:59:55.360 well done for getting out though like getting out of the hood

00:59:59.580 escape the hood escaping a finance career okay next couple next three next oh all the next four

01:00:10.300 all the remaining ones are all luke stewart so i'll whip through them because i need to just

01:00:14.320 turn nine so i need to sorry about that luke but i'll just i'll just read them get through them

01:00:17.560 he said i found a funny meme hard times make strong men strong men make good times good times

01:00:23.180 make liberal women liberal women make hard times uh what's your opinion i think that's highly

01:00:30.520 accurate i mean yeah yeah sounds sounds quite accurate in various ways next one is you said

01:00:38.560 um i want you want humid come to queensland it fluctuates between 80 and 99 humidity

01:00:46.100 and then we average between 25 and 35 degrees on a normal day and we consider anything under 18

01:00:52.200 the ice age here, yeah, Queensland, yeah, oh god, I was going to say, yeah, some places

01:00:58.840 in Australia, northern Australia, up in like Darwin and stuff, yeah, like 40 degrees is

01:01:06.260 no big deal, it's par for the course, okay, the next two, where did you get the idea to 0.61

01:01:13.400 call him bum hand i don't call him um bum ham could call him bum hand that is funny too 0.95

01:01:22.740 we're going to need a new name for them now that queer starlin is leaving i don't know i just i've 0.96

01:01:29.440 always had uh quite a sort of a churlish not churlish a sort of a childish puerile sense of 0.97

01:01:36.520 humor like if your name rhymes with anything like bum or dick or whatever 0.98

01:01:43.340 like the playground like you're nine years old 0.98

01:01:47.560 i've still got a sense of humor that's like yeah quite um

01:01:52.280 yeah anything like that burn is quite it's close enough to bum that's all it's as simple as that

01:02:00.560 is it burnham bumham all right you get it and they say did you check up on that paul palsland

01:02:09.120 fellow no i didn't who is looking who is looking at two years in jail for clearing a river

01:02:13.640 that was just completely clogged with bags of garbage no i didn't sorry i should do i will do

01:02:19.820 okay i will do sorry about that was that in australia was it you'll have to let me know

01:02:25.180 if that was in australia but i'll have a look at that sounds like a terrible terrible miscarriage

01:02:29.580 of justice ridiculous all right and then um we've only got a few super chats youtube super chats

01:02:35.400 this morning so i'll read those and then we'll finish the show okay what have we got here ben 0.68

01:02:41.400 kane 294 says morning bo morning uh thanks for making bald sexy again

01:02:46.920 it's basically me and sean connery

01:02:56.620 thank you that's very flattering ben

01:03:01.860 okay thank you appreciate it okay uh mr dicky bingo not dinky bingo mr dicky bingo who i've

01:03:11.600 met in real life and he's a great bloke he said

01:03:14.320 whomever bumham picks there'll be a deluded pinko yeah oh god yeah yeah yeah that's the thing most

01:03:25.640 of the people that are there now, big, big, big chunk of the government cabinet that's

01:03:29.800 there now, will remain in place. Loads of them. Almost certainly. Yvette Cooper, Mahmood,

01:03:39.180 Miliband. Yeah, a whole bunch of them. Or they said even Rachel Reeves won't be the

01:03:47.020 Chancellor anymore, but she'll probably still be in cabinet somewhere else. They'll move 0.99

01:03:50.040 it's a culture or something. Only one or two of die, die hard Starmer ultras will be completely

01:04:01.320 out. It'll be largely the same government. So I'm saying maybe Lammy is out. Yeah, and

01:04:11.740 they'll all be deluded pinkos. Yes, because that's what it takes to be a Labour MP. Horrible, 0.91

01:04:19.140 Isn't it? It'll be much the same

01:04:20.920 It'll be the same stuff, all the same stuff

01:04:23.240 More safe and legal routes, running the economy

01:04:25.460 Into the ground, da da da da

01:04:26.620 Alright

01:04:29.400 Maxentius Decimus 0.98

01:04:32.540 Says, Sargon, please look at the 0.58

01:04:35.100 Montreal Shooter Manifesto 1.00

01:04:36.640 Yeah, I heard about that

01:04:38.860 Made a video about that for State of Politics

01:04:41.280 State of Politics, the other night

01:04:42.720 Apparently it was an incel one, one of those incel ones

01:04:45.480 That's what I heard

01:04:46.940 I haven't read the manifesto myself

01:04:48.400 I just saw a headline saying that

01:04:50.400 Sargon, please look at

01:04:52.580 Montreal Shooter Manifesto 0.99

01:04:53.840 My advice to any incels 1.00

01:04:59.920 Go to the gym, get in shape 1.00

01:05:02.560 Start reading

01:05:03.560 Make yourself an interesting person

01:05:05.920 And get in shape

01:05:07.480 You won't be an incel for very long

01:05:09.960 If you do those two things, I guarantee you

01:05:12.280 Alright

01:05:15.080 Ben Kane again says

01:05:16.920 any comments on the sun's next p.m. poll and then you just say Rupert 60 percent oh I don't know

01:05:24.040 the sun's next p.m. poll what there's one that's out and it says Rupert 60 percent is that the

01:05:29.600 case that sounds cool I wasn't aware of it until I just read that so maybe I'll talk about that

01:05:34.720 tomorrow maybe I'll find that and talk about that tomorrow if that's true nice nice okay and last

01:05:43.160 one luke stuart st luke gets involved in rumble rents and super chats brilliant all right he say

01:05:48.300 you've put no pool from my country

01:05:53.340 maybe there's meant to be a comma there i don't know you've put no pool from my country britain

01:05:59.640 apparently he didn't have a permit or something i don't know exactly what you're talking about there

01:06:04.300 you're replying to somebody else called paul the guy who cleaned up the river

01:06:08.340 Oh

01:06:09.480 Right

01:06:11.680 Oh yeah, I'm sorry, you're quite right

01:06:14.240 Paul Powlesland, right

01:06:16.160 No, Paul was from your country, Britain

01:06:18.980 He was a British guy

01:06:19.780 Apparently he didn't have a permit or something 0.99

01:06:22.400 Okay, okay, got it, perfect

01:06:23.580 I'll look that up

01:06:25.300 Luke, because you're a super fan

01:06:28.240 I will look that up

01:06:30.900 Okay, one more

01:06:31.880 It's just ticked in from Azzy

01:06:33.620 Another super fan

01:06:34.620 It says

01:06:35.520 it says any advice for being disciplined i'm s at it i'm s-h-i-d at it disciplined just set

01:06:44.180 yourself goals that's the classic thing set yourself a goal whatever it is an achievable one

01:06:48.760 put the bar higher but make it achievable and then in your mind it's easier said than done this

01:06:55.000 in your mind you are going to achieve that goal whatever it is even if it's a right jack jack

01:07:01.480 you're a gym bro jack's actually a full proper gym bro of decent decent upper body and everything

01:07:07.380 how do you discipline yourself what do you do what mental games do you play

01:07:10.780 uh i just mainly focus on at least twice a week going to the gym i mean if you miss a day it's

01:07:18.140 not the end of the world but as long as you make it up by going at least twice a week

01:07:21.560 then you will see gains you will see improvements like don't punish yourself if you miss one day

01:07:28.000 just try and get back on it the next day

01:07:31.480 Jack's a proper gym bro. He's got lats. Sometimes people in the office just call him lats.

01:07:35.920 He's got proper upside down V, small waist, massive upper body. So that's proper, proper

01:07:43.580 advice. Don't beat yourself up, but set a goal. And in your mind, you've got to be like,

01:07:47.400 I'm going to get that goal. I'm going to do it. Make it achievable.

01:07:53.520 It's on you. It's on you. Once you're an adult, right, and you've got no parent, no teacher

01:07:59.020 telling you you must do xyz it's just on you yeah learn to set yourself achievable goals and learn

01:08:05.040 to achieve them easier said than done though isn't it all right all right i'll stop being

01:08:13.480 preachy that's the show it's now eight minutes past nine in the am british summertime um on

01:08:19.580 wednesday 24th of june in the year of our law 2026 thank you for joining me thank you for being

01:08:24.400 the glorious band the chosen few my band your brothers and sisters try and make the best of

01:08:27.780 day ahead carpe diem stay safe stay hydrated um the most valuable thing you will ever have is your

01:08:35.540 time by far so i make account if you can all right then until tomorrow morning okay

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 24, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 24th June 2026

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