The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 04, 2026


Breakfast With Beau | Wednesday 4th March 2026


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 9 minutes

Words per Minute

147.99374

Word Count

10,283

Sentence Count

9

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

As always i am joined by my producer Little Harry this morning to discuss the latest in the world of news and current affairs including the latest on the Middle East energy shock for markets, the oil price crash and more!


Transcript

00:00:00.000 morning you all right i hope you are another day another dollar okay it has just ticked past eight
00:00:20.720 in the a.m greenwich meantime on wednesday the fourth of march in the year of our lord
00:00:24.640 2026 as always i am joined by my producer little harry how are you this morning good sir
00:00:28.880 morning great and you are the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters thank
00:00:37.440 you for joining me without you it really isn't a thing uh just let you know a couple of technical
00:00:41.360 hitches this morning it's possible the bow show wouldn't even happen this morning there's problems
00:00:46.240 with the pc yesterday one of the big main producer pcs out there i don't know anything about technical
00:00:51.600 things i'm quite a boomer when it comes to technical stuff but we've got it sorted but i haven't got
00:00:56.400 all my screens like normal i'm relying on my actual mobile phone for the time and things so i'll be
00:01:02.640 reading the super chats off of these big screens not not my little screen here stuff so a bit
00:01:07.360 different today okay that little bit of housekeeping side let's just jump straight into it what's going
00:01:12.240 on this morning works multiple iran as you can imagine i'll try and talk about a few other
00:01:16.000 stories that aren't iran where they crop crop up i'll tell you who wins most out of all this
00:01:23.360 andrew and mandy andy and mandy can you imagine in the andy and mandy camp they're like thanks mr
00:01:31.680 trump thanks bibby i owe you one got me off the hook i wouldn't shut up about it and now now no one
00:01:40.720 cares apparently well if you believe fleet street all right what is fleet street the front papers the
00:01:45.920 front pages of the papers what are they talking about right trump mocked starmer
00:01:51.680 trump talked in the oval yesterday the german chancellor was there and obviously no one really
00:01:58.160 cares and particularly american reporters don't really care what mertz has got to say about anything
00:02:02.000 really today so it's just a trump uh uh a chance to grill trump a bit and uh yeah he threw shade at
00:02:09.760 starmer it's quite funny said you cut off all trade with spain because spade uh spain on on board
00:02:18.240 i don't do that i wonder if he'll actually do that i doubt it he said he would
00:02:21.360 okay trump mocked starmer and middle east energy shock for markets again not really well we'll get
00:02:28.880 into actually i mean it's in asia some of the asian markets equity markets in asia some of them have
00:02:34.960 been quite hard hit now uh but as for the actual price of crude uh we'll talk about it more but
00:02:42.320 yeah not not so much they're exaggerating basically although you may find even quite quickly that it
00:02:48.400 actually does cost more to buy some petrol at the petrol station even though in britain i mean and even
00:02:54.320 though in britain we never really got hardly any crude certainly not refined petrol or anything from
00:03:00.560 iran not much anyway well global markets are all interlinked it is a complicated thing all right
00:03:09.760 let's have a look then the telegraph the daily telegraph starmer is no churchill all right let's
00:03:14.160 just jump straight into this so there's there's chancellor mertz they're the leader of germany
00:03:20.240 and trump and they had a little meeting there it's funny actually because uh the things that
00:03:25.280 trump was complaining about keir starmer for and spain just let you know spain are completely not
00:03:34.080 on board most countries one way or another are either entirely on board countries like new zealand
00:03:40.960 and australia are like completely on board loads of countries are on board like cheering israel and the
00:03:47.360 us on a lot of countries are sort of me a bit like britain and a few very few are just like no
00:03:54.880 i don't want anything to do that completely disagree with it well spain is one of those
00:03:59.200 of all places spain's the current government of spain anyway is um pacifist isn't the word but
00:04:06.160 they're just not they were one of the countries when trump was trying to get european countries to
00:04:10.800 increase their nato spending from two or three percent up to five percent spain was the one main
00:04:17.360 country really that just refused just said no you can put all the pressure on us you want mr trump
00:04:23.200 we're not spending any more money on nato how do you like us now and in this iran thing they're like
00:04:29.840 no you can't use our bases america doesn't need spanish air bases does it to fight a war in the
00:04:35.520 gulf region it doesn't need them at all nonetheless it annoyed the donald
00:04:42.880 anyway the point is is that all the things trump was moaning about for places like spain and great
00:04:48.240 britain mertz has actually got very very similar position and he just had to sort of sit there
00:04:54.240 quietly and trump every now and again turning to him saying oh but but germany's cool germany's great
00:04:59.440 this guy next to me is like way better than angela merkel used to be but the reality is his position is
00:05:06.480 quite similar or very similar in fact it was in the russian news let's just quickly have a look at the
00:05:11.440 russian news uh where is it uh one second here okay there in the russian news if i scroll down a bit
00:05:20.240 yeah look mertz doubts strikes on iran may bring about political change in tehran that's the same
00:05:25.680 position as as starma right but yet to just sort of sit there quietly while trump as a pop at starma when
00:05:34.640 he actually thinks the same thing apparently directly after that meter after the cameras off
00:05:41.280 in that meeting in the oval office apparently according to insider reports mertz said to trump
00:05:50.080 something along the lines of i'm paraphrasing of course but he's like chill out on starma like
00:05:54.160 he's not that bad it wasn't that bad like i'm sure mertz didn't say it in that tone and intonation
00:06:00.880 and with that that word choice but okay all right so u.s president attacked prime minister over
00:06:07.600 lack of support for iran war saying he ruins relationships yeah it wasn't like a full-blown
00:06:14.800 angry angry rant from trump but it was reasonably strong words considering we're supposed to be
00:06:22.960 the united states closest ally obviously we're not obviously that's israel isn't it
00:06:30.880 but you know historically the special relationship and all that sort of thing
00:06:36.320 what we did during the wars all right so trump said stuff like
00:06:42.080 what did he say he said this guy starma he's no churchill well yeah tell me about it
00:06:49.360 later even said this isn't the age of churchill yeah he said he he ruins relationships
00:06:54.480 he said he just said he's very disappointed you know i'm not happy with the uk um yeah those other
00:07:04.000 things again it's one of the main stories in the british print media but once again in the scheme of
00:07:11.040 global global politics the grand strategy of this war in the in the middle east doesn't really matter
00:07:20.400 does it especially seeing as trump has ultimately got his way but we are now letting them use chagos
00:07:26.080 and the base in cyprus which they don't need but he has got that out of us anyway as you see uk fast
00:07:35.760 jets are doing stuff we shot on uh the raf shot a iranian drone out of the sky in over in jordan
00:07:45.680 we'll probably see a clip of that later so trump got what he wanted ultimately that we are doing
00:07:52.400 stuff albeit really quite limited but
00:07:58.000 the mainstream media suddenly seems to be really hawkish it's funny over the weekend and even on
00:08:04.240 monday they were like flapping around like a wild geese oh no oh no mr trump's doing something
00:08:11.040 net is doing stuff oh no oh no when is when's it gonna end now a couple days later it's like
00:08:17.520 starmer isn't going hard enough and strong enough on all of this make up your mind god
00:08:27.360 okay all right britain has been attacked and our aircraft carrier is stuck at home
00:08:34.800 okay so that's another thing that's in the british media at the moment
00:08:37.920 big story all day yesterday and this morning is the readiness of our navy the royal navy the once
00:08:45.760 global spanning master of the seas yeah that's that's a while ago that was that was a while ago
00:08:58.240 i think it's funny when some foreign people often americans we're always americans it could come from
00:09:02.960 anywhere they say oh brits need to come to terms with the fact that they're not like
00:09:08.240 hegemons of the world anymore they're not a great power anymore it's like yeah we know
00:09:13.200 yeah we know that's been the case since like 1948 or something yeah we're perfectly aware
00:09:21.200 don't worry about it we've got no delusions of grandeur
00:09:24.000 but okay still in the scheme of things the the royal navy is what is probably in the top 10 most
00:09:34.080 powerful navies in the world something like that because most countries haven't got anything to speak
00:09:38.160 of right most countries even quite big rich countries relatively big and rich countries have got hardly any
00:09:46.880 navy navy mostly but anyway we've got two aircraft carriers the prince of wales is sort of the main one
00:09:55.600 i think that's a picture of the prince of wales there we've got two aircraft carriers and the point
00:10:00.240 of having two aircraft carriers why do you need two why do you it's to do with contingency so that if one
00:10:05.840 is ever sunk heaven for fend if one is ever sunk or just damaged or it's just refitting because these
00:10:13.360 sorts of ships you need to refit them all the time clean them of barnacles and all sorts of stuff
00:10:21.840 that you have another one as a contingency so that any given time you've got an aircraft carrier ready
00:10:28.320 to rock and roll at any given moment that's the point of having two nuclear nuclear submarines which
00:10:34.880 you've also got so that at any given moment we've got one out there that's ready to fire trident missiles
00:10:40.720 and rain nukes on someone all right well both our aircraft carriers are in portsmouth
00:10:50.000 or is it plymouth anyway both of them are in um are in port being sort of refitted
00:10:57.600 well that's the whole point of having two air uh that's the whole point of having two is that that
00:11:03.760 isn't that that doesn't happen that that isn't the case it's cloud show isn't it really cloud show all
00:11:10.080 right um and a few people are saying well lots of people are saying defense analyst type people
00:11:15.280 are saying it's like we you sort of knew this was coming probably i mean even a normal person like
00:11:21.120 me was saying for weeks right it's in the mail america's moving aircraft carriers around they're
00:11:26.640 moving mid-air refueling aircraft around it's something's almost certainly going to happen and
00:11:31.360 you would hope that number 10 or the foreign office would actually have some inside information
00:11:38.720 if they weren't actually invited to the planning stage exactly they'd still have some sort of
00:11:42.800 inside skinny on what was going to go down and so maybe not have both the aircraft carriers just sitting
00:11:48.800 there or speed up the refitting of one of them as quickly as possible or something or at least move
00:11:54.880 some of the other royal navy ships we've got loads of other quite a few other ships at least move some
00:12:01.440 to the the region at least some to defend cyprus so there's sort of nothing there the last sort of
00:12:08.240 warship we had in the waters around cyprus was around christmas time or new year time new year's time
00:12:16.800 so now they've decided we'll see it in a bit they've decided they're going to move one destroyer
00:12:25.040 was it missile destroyer well the hms dragon it's called
00:12:31.280 it is like an anti-aircraft type ship but just one and it's not going to get there for like day a week or more
00:12:37.600 it's just a bit of a to be honest it's just a bit of a lame weak wristed response
00:12:48.960 from from the mod the british ministry of defense the equivalent of you know okay all right
00:12:58.080 uh was there any other smaller stories there um
00:13:01.520 um yeah students from four countries barred we'll talk about that in a moment that's one of the
00:13:07.600 non-iran stories that will come up okay the times the venerable times there's a picture of
00:13:12.720 tehran with explosions going off all over the shop yeah apparently the biggest waves of attacks from
00:13:21.920 u.s and israel are still yet to happen
00:13:31.040 suppose it makes a bit of sense yesterday i said as a strategy that didn't make sense what they're
00:13:35.440 waiting for reading a bit more and thinking about it a bit more i guess maybe what it is i think maybe
00:13:43.360 what it means is
00:13:47.840 the only now of they basically taking out most of iran's air defenses you know like sam's surface
00:13:55.120 to air missiles so before now they couldn't fly loads and loads and loads of fast jets deep into
00:14:03.040 iranian airspace because the fear of them being taken out by missiles so you take out their their
00:14:09.360 missile capability they surface to air missile capability you take that with your missiles first
00:14:15.440 and some like stealth fast jets right but then once that's achieved and you've got complete air
00:14:25.120 superiority in the in the skies above persia then you can fly crazy amounts of fast jet sorties
00:14:32.960 and i suppose at that point the bombing will increase like the precision bombing on individual
00:14:39.840 buildings individual things will increase even more i guess that's why i guess that's what it is
00:14:47.360 or america might not and israel might not want to send fantastic amount of their most expensive missiles
00:14:54.960 that might get shot out of the sky by iranian anti-missile missiles they don't want to do that yet until
00:15:01.040 all the iranian anti-missile missiles are taken out and then so i guess it so i guess that's what it is
00:15:10.080 yeah expect expect uh even more heavy bombing in iran that's what they're saying you've got to take
00:15:17.600 them at their word i don't think i don't think they're bluffing are they
00:15:21.040 right hegseth doesn't really bluff doesn't need to does he all right pm is no churchill says trump as
00:15:33.120 tensions rise yeah significant fallout from the economy that's another thing to mention then this
00:15:38.720 morning that um yesterday was the the spring statement rachel reeves rachel thieves rachel from
00:15:45.680 accounts the silly woman that is somehow the chancellor of the exchequer made a a statement
00:15:51.040 about the economy the uk economy yesterday in parliament no one cares okay she's a joke
00:15:58.400 and her statement's like immediately out of date right anyone that really knows they're talking about
00:16:04.960 an economist or a trader a commodity trader or equities trader a bond trader anywhere in the world
00:16:10.960 you're not listening to what rachel reeves has got to say make sure you're saying oh in the future
00:16:14.960 next later this year or in two years time then inflation will be like this and gdp growth will
00:16:20.560 be like this everyone's like you don't know you we don't have any faith you know what you're talking
00:16:24.240 about and why are you saying this in the middle of a war where all the chips are in the air
00:16:33.600 like what you're talking about rachel is immediately out of date
00:16:37.280 you're a joke a bad joke
00:16:46.480 real economists and traders we're not sitting there on tenterhooks waiting for what what rachel
00:16:53.920 reeves is going to say and then start making trades and working out analysis off the back of what she says
00:17:01.600 no
00:17:09.440 not remotely
00:17:12.960 okay the eye paper
00:17:16.400 uk to hit historic uh high tax burden well yeah i mean that's real that's true
00:17:22.080 we are taxed a crazy amount in britain
00:17:25.600 a little crazy amount
00:17:26.640 well that's socialism for you that's leftist economic theory just tax them
00:17:31.200 tax them until there's nothing next
00:17:34.400 that's sort of their one play really
00:17:37.360 centralize the economy as much as humanly possible and tax the kulaks until the pips go squeak
00:17:44.640 brilliant
00:17:45.040 brilliant
00:17:51.600 okay war spreads across the middle east as trump rages at stormy us president personal dislike of pm grows
00:17:58.720 this is not winston churchill quote this is not winston churchill we're dealing with
00:18:03.680 again yeah tell me about it he's super weak he's so weak
00:18:10.240 that's a bit of boiled cabbage just nothing
00:18:19.200 okay i'll just read the blurb a bit because it sort of says it all
00:18:23.520 uk scrambles warship to cyprus i don't know if it's about scramble they're taking their time don't they
00:18:30.240 anyway uk scrambles warship to cyprus four days after conflict begins
00:18:34.960 it's sort of an afterthought isn't it it's sort of a a token afterthought
00:18:40.400 following iran attack on raf base and political outcry
00:18:43.920 pm under pressure from white house and gulf states over his response so far
00:18:50.960 again if i was kirsten i just wouldn't bow to any of that pressure
00:18:56.800 you know like dubai is annoyed we didn't move a ship quick enough to cyprus it's like
00:19:01.680 go away shut up don't worry about it you worry about you
00:19:08.720 okay petrol prices petrol prices set to climb within weeks and uk energy bills may jump by 800 pounds a
00:19:16.560 year as tehran targets shipping and oil
00:19:20.960 and we don't get our energy from there largely almost entirely we buy most of that sort of thing
00:19:28.160 from the united states or from places in north africa and we got a bit of north sea oil and stuff don't
00:19:36.640 we and if britain doesn't buy natural gas or crude much from iran iraq kuwait qatar not really
00:19:50.480 shouldn't really affect us too much but there you go still
00:19:52.320 as i said earlier there are global markets so it does still affect
00:19:58.480 it is still affect but now energy bills go up even more they're supposed to be going down well they
00:20:03.040 will be going down in the next couple of months because the government put in some
00:20:08.400 some sort of hard stops on it so if you're a brit watching this hopefully your energy bill will go down
00:20:14.880 to the tune of 100 pounds maybe a bit more over the next couple of months but then over the midterm
00:20:23.040 over the next six months or one year it may go way up beyond where it was where it is now so all right
00:20:32.720 airstrike on building being used by top clerics to choose next supreme leader yeah that was
00:20:37.760 interesting where obviously the ayatollah is dead he was martyred
00:20:45.280 um they had to pick a new one they put together a little committee
00:20:50.640 a little sort of working group whatever you'd call it to pick the new one and then it'll go to
00:20:57.200 sort of a larger body a sort of a larger it's nothing like a parliament or congress or anything but
00:21:02.560 just a larger body of the mullahs religious leaders clerics i don't particularly like that
00:21:08.480 word cleric but all right whatever larger body to sort of formally stamp it and pick the next ayatollah
00:21:15.280 well uh the building that was being held in they knew that was being held in that got smashed
00:21:19.440 by the israelis or the us one or the other yeah it does seem like the united states and the israelis
00:21:26.080 are not mucking about it's not like a half measure is it it's like they're going all out to they're going
00:21:32.160 all out all right like like you like the iranian regime think it can still sort of carry on much as
00:21:43.600 before no you have to go underground you have to do all this stuff in underground bunkers and things
00:21:53.280 like you're in the blitz if they can get you they'll get you it seems like doesn't it
00:22:02.560 all right uh lebanon dragged into war with israel that's the other big thing so israel is invading
00:22:09.920 lebanon right now southern lebanon some reports i saw yesterday saying that um the israeli army wants
00:22:17.600 to go downtown anyone who doesn't know that means going all the way to beirut sending their army all
00:22:24.000 the way to beirut israel have quote unquote invaded lebanon at least southern lebanon loads of times
00:22:30.960 loads and loads of times well quite a few times anyway it's not that new even in the last couple
00:22:35.600 of years they'll do incursions into lebanese territory it's not unheard of not even close to
00:22:42.160 being unheard of before now in the past in the last few decades they've gone all the idf divisions have
00:22:48.800 gone all the way to beirut more than once i think so the idea that in the middle of all of this
00:22:54.800 bibi's gonna send his army all the way to beirut yeah looks like he's gonna do that yeah just one
00:23:02.160 more front in this now quite big war probably the white in fact it's the widest biggest war in the
00:23:07.520 middle east in my lifetime easily now because even the second gulf war in 2003 it was confined largely
00:23:19.120 to the deserts of mesopotamia iraq it didn't turn into a whole region wide war did it so this is probably
00:23:29.920 the biggest conflagration in the middle east in modern times basically i would have thought
00:23:36.720 well i mean in the in the 21st century at least let's say that not in modern times because that
00:23:42.960 would include like world or one world or two i don't mean that obviously okay all right yeah
00:23:48.880 israel going into lebanon i think they want to take out i think neti wants to annihilate hezbollah once and
00:23:55.120 for all i mean can't really blame him from his point of view from his point of view
00:24:07.120 they try and kill israeli people all the time so i mean just imagine an equivalent in your country
00:24:15.760 you would want to try and wipe them out if you could right to end them i suppose all right so
00:24:21.920 france sends major naval deployment to eastern med including aircraft carrier yeah the french have
00:24:28.240 got an aircraft carrier and they're sending it to the eastern mediterranean right off just off the
00:24:34.240 coast of israel and lebanon there near cyprus in a way and the idea that they're getting there before we
00:24:39.920 are tiny bit embarrassing okay israel launches new attacks on tehran and hezbollah as u.s tells americans
00:24:50.560 to leave middle east and closes embassies it's not going to be over anytime soon do not be surprised
00:24:57.760 if it's still going on beyond five weeks from now okay the daily mail pure slop trying to pretend it's
00:25:04.080 not pure slop but you scratch the surface and it is pure slop all right there's the there's our aircraft
00:25:11.120 carrier or one of them the prince of wales completely not ready it's been stripped down
00:25:17.680 completely stripped down that would take weeks months before that's ready
00:25:24.560 a prime minister who trump mocks as no churchill and a navy fleet stranded in port it's not exactly
00:25:31.600 stranded it was scheduled work but nonetheless nonetheless take the point starmer takes the great
00:25:38.960 out of britain yeah again tell me about it nearly everything he does makes us less great makes us
00:25:49.360 weaker undermines us pretty much everything he does really not even including any of this i mean
00:25:57.680 right okay all the papers are suddenly hawkish about it suddenly he hasn't done enough quick enough
00:26:02.880 on monday it was like not not this at all particularly on sunday and monday
00:26:13.040 but now they've decided
00:26:16.880 i mean don't look at who owns these papers and who they are and where their ultimate loyalties might lie
00:26:23.600 they got the call from the nathaniel rothschild everyone be hawkish now
00:26:37.040 all right the mirror uk warship to middle east enter the dragon
00:26:44.560 classic bruce lee film enter the dragon if anyone doesn't know you've seen enter the dragon harry
00:26:48.640 oh i haven't no okay don't worry about it i just feel like there's a lot of things references in um
00:26:58.480 cultural references in the world if you're very young like harry harry's only 20 years old
00:27:04.160 you just wouldn't get i mean enter the dragon it's like from the 70s it's like 50 years old film
00:27:09.600 nearly 40 50 years old okay but enter the dragon okay there is hms dragon look he's got a dragon painted
00:27:22.480 on it that looks a bit like the welsh dragon doesn't it maybe it is it must be it is okay this one warship
00:27:31.520 not even that big of a one not that powerful it is for like taking out um missiles and drones though
00:27:37.520 that is what it is uh we're sending that one ship to defend all of cyprus or help defend it
00:27:47.200 the airbase should be able to defend itself but there you go that's being done it's a complete token
00:27:50.960 gesture isn't it government says deployment is defensive but fears grow over terror attack at home
00:27:59.200 pm stands up to trump abuse as scramble on to evacuate uh stranded britons yeah so there's still
00:28:06.000 loads of people quite quite stranded in like dubai mainly but a few other places right there'll be
00:28:12.400 some in qatar and bahrain or kuwait or whatever right the sun wants to tell you something about
00:28:19.360 jordan about katie don't care pure slop ship happens i said ship ship happens that's actually mildly funny
00:28:29.680 to me i always take the mickey don't i i always take the always cast shade at the sun's puns that's not
00:28:36.560 a bad one it's pretty simplistic but ship happens okay that's all right i'll give you that one that
00:28:43.440 made me smile when i first saw that one this morning as trump blasts keir as no churchill pm sends one
00:28:50.000 destroyer to defend raf base yeah enter the dragon ship happens
00:28:59.040 all right the financial times mid-east energy energy shock batters markets again not really
00:29:06.240 well okay in the in the far east places like south korea
00:29:12.720 like for example the thailand stock exchange had to close early because it was getting so battered
00:29:22.480 but again does the thire stock exchange really matter all that much if you're not tired
00:29:28.880 if you're not invested in thire stocks
00:29:33.280 do you care about that does it matter ultimately
00:29:36.320 like if you if you don't hold shares in south korean energy companies that have done really badly
00:29:52.240 what's it matter all right all right the point is is that a lot of asian markets equities even bonds
00:29:58.960 have tumbled quite a lot you know like the south korean stock exchange like lost i can't remember the
00:30:08.640 exact numbers but it's something in the ballpark of lost four or five or six percent in one day
00:30:12.960 yesterday and since this started has lost something like 12 so pretty disastrous i suppose reasonably
00:30:18.880 disastrous but not again not sort of end of times disastrous not sort of oh oh and the other thing
00:30:24.880 to say is that all these markets were all-time highs they were overvalued anyway japan south korea
00:30:31.280 places like that their stock markets were sort of almost if not all-time highs so inflated overvalued
00:30:37.840 as it was so some sort of market correction was going to be in the mail anyway
00:30:44.560 and as for as for oil again don't buy the hype that it's been spying it hasn't like yesterday
00:30:53.520 on average because all sorts of crude from all different places in the world are priced differently
00:30:58.080 but on average the price of a barrel of crude at some point nearly touched 85 a barrel and then came
00:31:05.120 down a bit again no biggie no massive biggie before this thing started the price of a barrel was just shy
00:31:13.120 of 80 dollars so it hasn't it's been a bit volatile a bit up and down within that within that window
00:31:20.480 but it hasn't just spiked to like 100 120 suddenly or anything like that no lng as well or natural gas
00:31:29.280 again same sort of thing uh well worse but not as bad so before this thing started again i can't
00:31:38.240 remember the exact numbers but it will be in this ballpark it was like um i think something like
00:31:44.000 a spike 60 or 70 cents and it's gone up to now something in the ballpark of a dollar 40 or a buck
00:31:52.640 50. right so you could call that a spike and it did that very quickly okay we can call that spike
00:31:59.600 is it disastrous or anything no if you go back to only just 2022 or something it was at like seven or
00:32:06.800 eight dollars
00:32:10.000 and it's now like a buck 40 a buck 50.
00:32:12.080 so you can talk to me all about the terrible spike in numbers and energy's gone through the roof it
00:32:19.920 just hasn't it just hasn't
00:32:25.120 just put it in perspective but the financial time says
00:32:30.560 war-fueled equities route spreads to sovereign bonds yeah a little bit in some places in asia
00:32:42.080 well see oh by the way i'm saying all this it's not to say that there won't it might not cause
00:32:47.440 ultimately some sort of giant market crash or something if i'm just saying right now it isn't
00:32:55.680 okay iraq to halt oil production as iran threatens key route
00:33:03.840 yeah it looks like iran's strategy is isn't it to
00:33:07.440 screw with the energy production infrastructure of all the countries it can that are in range of its missiles
00:33:19.600 it's a bit of an all on that well they are under threat of being completely annihilated
00:33:23.600 the regime so i guess it's like the last flailing last ditch attempt it seems really to me it seems
00:33:31.040 it seems pathetic seems bitter and resentful
00:33:40.080 i was talking to faraz about the other day and i said it feels i said how does this make sense how is
00:33:44.000 any of this in iran's ultimate interest it doesn't make sense and he just said it makes sense to them
00:33:51.360 right it's matt looking in on it from the outside it looks mad iran's strategy of doing that
00:33:58.000 it looks like surely counterproductive so you're making bitter enemies of everyone around you now
00:34:04.560 and they will just side with israel and iran now how does that make sense and he just says it makes
00:34:09.600 sense to them what else can you say
00:34:15.200 i said it feels like someone has been jilted by a beautiful woman so they throw acid in her face
00:34:21.920 like you rejected me so i'll make sure everyone rejects you forever just pure vindictive bitterness
00:34:36.080 nothing more than that it seems to me i mean maybe it will work for them maybe iran's strategy of trying
00:34:43.280 to destroy all their neighbors energy infrastructure will work for them ultimately i don't think it will
00:34:49.120 especially if the united states and israel have got the political will to see it through to the end
00:34:57.360 whatever that means which it seems like they have it seems like the donald and netty are prepared to
00:35:06.320 see it through come what may doesn't it it feels like that it seems like that okay because that's the
00:35:12.640 thing when anyone fights the united states anyone they're like we just need to hold out long enough
00:35:16.720 until there's enough us casualties and uh in america the the sentiment at home will be such that the
00:35:23.120 the president or the congress or whoever will be forced to stop it's like yeah that doesn't that's
00:35:27.680 hardly ever worked like in vietnam 10 years of vietnam eventually
00:35:34.880 50 000 combat deaths 60 000 combat deaths and then presidents start getting cold feet and like the
00:35:42.880 general population of the general population of the united states start constantly rallying against the
00:35:46.720 war but it will take something like that like five or six deaths nothing a few hundred even a few thousand
00:35:55.040 deaths for us service people that doesn't make the united states get cold feet and just stop usually does it
00:36:04.080 it didn't in afghanistan and iraq
00:36:10.720 so if iran's strategy is hopefully we'll take out a few us service people and then trump will bottle it
00:36:19.840 and stop and stop i don't think so i don't see that okay in fact trump the other day trump was asked about
00:36:28.320 that i said some reporter said um some people are worried even really really anti-regime people in iran
00:36:37.360 saying they're worried that you'll just get bored or something you'll get bored of it and and you just
00:36:44.720 you'll just stop and leave it you won't have the the longevity you won't have the will to keep going
00:36:50.880 and he just he just completely brushed that aside he said i don't get bored i won't get bored don't worry about it
00:36:58.640 all right u.s closes embassies after strikes escalate across the region
00:37:04.320 israel launches new wave of attacks on tehran assets right okay okay
00:37:11.920 the guardian
00:37:12.560 the guardian us and israel intensify iran attacks as conflict widens there we go
00:37:22.000 too late for talks says trump has reports as reports claim death toll close to 800 in iran
00:37:30.560 um yeah people asked about the talks remember remember kushner and whitkoff talking with the iranians in
00:37:39.520 geneva with the omanis supposed to be overseeing that uh what trump just said was said before
00:37:47.840 already but he reiterated that those talks were nonsense iran never as far as trump was concerned
00:37:54.640 trump's calculation was iran were never serious in those talks i'm never serious about it it was
00:38:00.480 going to go nowhere that's all iran has done for decades is say they're going to talk just keep
00:38:06.880 talking agree to things and then not even do the things you know like that deal obama did
00:38:12.880 we'll spend years coming to an agreement finally make an agreement and then not actually do the
00:38:17.040 thing anyway just keep talking and talking and talking and they just trump had had enough obviously
00:38:26.560 had decided they were just the whole thing was a sham which is interesting because the iranians
00:38:31.280 accused the americans of doing that oh you attacked us in the middle of of peace talks
00:38:37.600 it was all the sham you only put both sides say that the other side use peace talks as uh as a sham
00:38:46.000 and aren't serious about peace talks both sides accuse the other of that well
00:38:54.400 well okay here's what it is trump says starman no churchill all right yeah uh limetra oh my god
00:39:06.880 okay the metro grows school tragedy fear as conflict grows trump too late to talk
00:39:20.160 because other people said oh trump might sit down and and do peace with the iranians and that will
00:39:26.160 scupper everything and and he just said no it came out the other day yesterday saying no no no there's no
00:39:31.600 no no there's no more time for talks that ship has sailed we've done that we've tried that no we're
00:39:37.840 going full bore okay this is a story of anyone that watches the news will know i haven't really
00:39:42.400 talked about it on the bow show yet have i that right at the very beginning on saturday morning in
00:39:47.760 fact there was reports that some sort of missile or some sort of strike hit a school a girl's school
00:39:56.320 apparently kids go to school on saturdays in iran who knew but okay apparently there was this school
00:40:03.920 little girl's school and it got hit and loads of loads of the kids and teachers were killed
00:40:09.120 apparently like 150 160 odd mostly kids were killed in that apparently
00:40:18.000 and um right in the south of iran apparently right near or right next to some sort of naval base but
00:40:25.680 whatever um okay now iran and this is their mass funeral now there's like a massive there's
00:40:34.160 loads and loads of coffins on that lorry for little kids apparently the thing is about this
00:40:41.440 of course the iranians accused israel of doing that and israel said we weren't we weren't firing
00:40:49.440 anything near there maybe it was the americans and americans like no we weren't firing anything near
00:40:55.360 there either and as if we at least the americans would do that we would like rubio said we wouldn't
00:41:01.120 dream of deliberately targeting a girl little girl's school why would we i mean it's always
00:41:07.680 possible that something goes wrong something goes awry or they just did do it and they're lying about
00:41:12.480 it anyway as it stands both israel and the united states are both saying look we just simply didn't
00:41:18.400 do it whatever happened there it wasn't us that's what they're saying whether you can believe it or not
00:41:24.080 one or two reports i've seen saying that it was an iranian thing that went wrong somehow
00:41:34.560 and and but now they're using it as a political tool to say look how evil israel and the united states
00:41:41.600 are i mean whatever it is whatever happened there i don't know it's not clear both sides are claiming
00:41:47.680 the other one did it and i don't know if we'll ever know if we'll find out exactly i hope we do one
00:41:54.800 way or another what happened there um but okay that's a big thing relatively big thing right it's
00:42:03.600 the single biggest mass casualty event of the war so far that's a bit odd to me it happened
00:42:10.560 right at the beginning on saturday morning you know if it were to be uh
00:42:19.760 an iranian false flag type thing they did it sort of immediately the timing of it is a
00:42:24.720 little bit suspicious but i don't know i i don't i wouldn't take israel or the pentagon at their word
00:42:32.080 on anything i'm not you know that why would you they're capable of lying about almost anything
00:42:41.440 but but though having said that it it doesn't seem likely that i don't know it's an odd it's an odd
00:42:50.160 thing this girl's school that was hit the arguments that israel and the united states are using to say
00:42:58.320 it wasn't us are plausible i guess that's what i'm trying to say i wouldn't take them at their
00:43:03.120 word but their argument is plausible at least all right okay trump says everything is knocked out
00:43:14.080 in iran everything's knocked out and like their air defenses something and he boasts that the war on
00:43:19.840 iran sparks a bitter new rift with britain okay okay the star panic at the pumps i mean not really but
00:43:31.680 maybe middle east crisis panic at the pumps four courts chaos as war sees fuel prices surge they
00:43:38.800 haven't really surged exactly i think they have gone up at the at the pump but not massively i always
00:43:44.320 find it really disappointing in the human character when there's a tiniest little panic about something
00:43:50.640 and really really selfish people just either go to uh petrol garages and fill up take loads of jerry
00:43:59.440 cans and fill them up or do you remember in the covid thing some people would go to um
00:44:08.240 go to grocery stores go to like tesco's or sainsbury's and buy all the toilet paper
00:44:13.520 so there's a tiny fear the tiniest of fears that there might be a shortage of toilet paper or there'll
00:44:21.440 be a break in the uh chain of of um getting more in so they just buy it all how selfish could you get
00:44:30.160 it's so selfish isn't it i remember it in 2003 was it 2003 or was it even after 9 11 similar things
00:44:38.960 happen i remember that quite clearly people queuing the roads leading to petrol stations just completely
00:44:46.480 blocked with cars queuing to go into a petrol station to fill up and fill up their little jerry cans
00:44:52.080 because like something like the sun or the star will say oh there's panic people are panic buying
00:44:58.880 petrol
00:45:01.600 and so that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy people that read that idiots
00:45:05.680 selfish idiots that see that and read that like oh well i don't want to run out of petrol
00:45:11.200 i'll go down and do that um
00:45:16.080 panic at the pumps all right if you say so the star if you say so sure all right the express the
00:45:22.240 daily express oh it's a good paper one million more will pay tax on state pensions
00:45:29.760 and running our economy into the ground running our economy integrate all right those are the papers
00:45:35.360 uh did oh did we harry did we have a uh a poll this morning i'm not we didn't we failed to have a poll
00:45:44.160 sorry sorry about that people waiting for a poll um yeah it was a bit there's some technical issues
00:45:52.560 this morning all sorts of technical issues two or three different ones basically so me and harry didn't
00:45:56.880 have time to just sort of set up a poll apologies try and do it most days but today we've failed
00:46:04.000 all right all right let's have a look at the newspapers then oh it's already nearly caught
00:46:08.800 two okay what have we got strikes across middle east continues you take as uk charters evacuation
00:46:17.040 flights for british nationals in oman if you can get down to the to oman you might be able to get a
00:46:23.840 flight out um all right so here's the thing here's a story that's not about iran mahmoud
00:46:32.240 the home secretary to stop study visas from four countries due to abuse it's a bit late isn't it we've
00:46:41.840 already been invaded by hundreds of thousands of foreign barbarians but okay i mean i'll take it
00:46:49.520 but it's a bit late isn't it it's like closing the gate half a foot more but still leaving it open
00:46:56.480 after the horses have bolted thanks the story is from um afghanistan cameroon mayanmar burma and the
00:47:08.320 sudan if you came over on a student visa apparently loads of people from that particularly those four
00:47:16.000 countries they come over on a student visa and then when they're here say actually i'm not just a
00:47:22.720 student i'm a refugee and i need to claim permanent residence here i need i'm actually claiming asylum
00:47:28.080 now
00:47:33.280 i was just a student
00:47:36.560 from burma but now from the sudan but now i'm a refugee and i've got to be able to stay and even
00:47:45.520 the labour home secretary is like that's it's being abused the system is being heavily abused
00:47:51.520 the government is clamping down on visa abuse so the uk can maintain its ability
00:47:55.760 and proud tradition of helping those genuinely in need
00:48:02.240 more more safe and legal routes right yeah so just loads and loads of people
00:48:08.720 from that particularly those countries absolutely take the mickey out of our student visa scheme
00:48:15.440 student visa scheme that olukemi and badenoch gloated about widening a few years ago
00:48:27.680 instantly
00:48:30.480 all right there was a thing there was something on the mail i thought was interesting
00:48:36.720 marked for death israel vows to assassinate iran's new leader yeah
00:48:40.160 yeah yeah dubai under assault again here's a picture of dubai andrew tate says nothing's going on
00:48:47.920 there you don't understand reality properly if you think there is call him in two days time
00:48:54.000 it's been two days all right uh cia station hit by tehran's new leader
00:48:59.520 komeini's son reigns wait a minute cia station hit as tehran's new leader komeini's son
00:49:09.920 oh it's his son okay reigns missiles and drones on middle east it's actually
00:49:15.840 ali komeini's son i did hear tell immediately on saturday immediately after the assassination that
00:49:24.240 people started banding names around right away who might be the next one i did hear that his name i did
00:49:29.120 hear his name come up but most people analysts at the weekend anyway said yeah he's in the running
00:49:34.960 he could well be in the running but probably won't be him well it is then okay but he's already marked
00:49:43.360 for death
00:49:46.720 yeah this i thought was mildly interesting who hates who in the middle east as a former british
00:49:51.920 nato commander warns we are on the brink of world war three not really world war three
00:49:56.080 i feel like unless nuclear powers go at each other and there's an exchange of
00:50:04.160 nuclear warheads it's not world war three
00:50:08.720 okay the definitive guide to who is backing trump and who is on the side of the mullahs
00:50:14.720 this was just quite interesting i didn't even agree with a lot of the things like saying
00:50:19.040 turkey and in iraq are on some way pro-iran um and there might be more pro-iran than saudi arabia
00:50:30.240 but i wouldn't call them exactly pro-iran i mean iraq by dint of being infiltrated and subverted by iran
00:50:39.200 over the last 20 years 15 years okay but anyway anyway it's interesting nonetheless if you don't know much
00:50:46.240 about the region that was mildly interesting thing okay um yeah world war three russia have said a
00:50:53.360 number of times they're not going to get involved they're not going to get involved they're not going
00:50:57.440 to try and stop israel and iran and and the united states from doing what they're going to do china
00:51:04.000 even less so i mean let's have a quick look just jump ahead quickly to the chinese news agency nothing
00:51:09.440 nothing nothing it's wednesday i've looked on the last couple on tuesday and monday as well
00:51:16.080 nothing they're not talking about it at all eventually if you scroll down
00:51:23.600 eventually a sweet little chinese kid everything's brilliant in china we're the best and everything's
00:51:28.560 brilliant eventually there's something about iran what you need to know about the repercussions
00:51:34.800 but the main the main news in china and and yesterday and monday just nothing just still
00:51:40.960 talking about how brilliant zhi is it's zhi time zhi economics we're brilliant everything's going on
00:51:48.320 is brilliant all out everything we do and touch is gold the chinese nothing about iran they won't they
00:51:58.160 won't help iran you won't see chinese fast jets in dog fights with f-35s above the skies of persia
00:52:10.880 they're on their own iran are on their own they've isolated themselves massively over the since 1979
00:52:17.120 basically all right andrew finally a little bit of andrew creeping back into the news
00:52:23.040 finally okay where was it where we saw the bits of footage of uh there's one bit of footage where it
00:52:33.920 shows the uh raf shooting a drone out of the sky i think it might be on the mail it was the mail or
00:52:43.840 the express i thought i saw it oh there it is look watch that that's an iranian drone bang
00:52:50.080 the drone's going like 120 150 mile an hour and we shoot a supersonic missile at it i mean the missile
00:52:59.920 we fired at it this is above the skies of jordan boom um the missile we shot it cost like 10 times the
00:53:08.560 amount that thing cost there you go the fear that iran it might still happen but the fear that iran has
00:53:19.680 got like could send thousands of drones at a time in weight mass waves that will get through any air
00:53:29.200 defense it just hasn't materialized yet has it could still happen like the uss abraham lincoln that's
00:53:37.360 sitting somewhere in the gulf of oman well it hasn't been hit by a hypersonic mac5 medium-range
00:53:46.320 ballistic missile it hasn't happened yet has it or that they would send hundreds or they'd send
00:53:52.560 2 000 of those drones the ones we just saw the ones that go 150 mile an hour and an aircraft carrier has
00:54:00.480 got loads and loads of defenses against that loads and loads of different things
00:54:07.120 all sorts of different measures to prevent something like that getting through but if you
00:54:11.920 sent a thousand at a time or two thousand of them some would get through despite the closing weapon
00:54:18.000 systems despite those giant phalanx guns despite all the anti-missile missiles despite the re the
00:54:23.760 various rings of defense around an aircraft carrier if you send enough of those drones even the slow ones
00:54:29.760 some would get through well it hasn't happened yet has it all right iran just wait biding their time
00:54:35.360 waiting for that to happen or was it always a bit of a fiction iran just lying about their capabilities
00:54:43.040 i thought they were going to unleash hell on the uss abraham lincoln
00:54:49.520 waiting waiting
00:54:56.000 most people on twitter over the previous months when occasionally i'll talk about these sorts of
00:54:59.280 things like how powerful an aircraft carrier group is they'll say things like yeah yeah right they're a
00:55:04.160 thing of the past they're so um they're so fragile and so uh open to attack iran will be able to sink
00:55:11.600 it easily or something it's like yeah no i don't don't think so i mean i might be proven wrong well
00:55:17.680 everything i've just said there that take in a day or two or in a week or two might prove to be terribly
00:55:23.040 misguided the abraham lincoln is now at the bottom of the gulf of oman i doubt it i doubt it
00:55:29.040 maybe that if iran are going to do something like that and mass waves of drones or multiple hypersonic
00:55:42.560 precision guided missiles i'm not seeing it yet all right all right well we're nearly top of the hour
00:55:53.040 already all right shall we have a look on this day in history just a quick five minutes quick five
00:55:58.720 minutes of that what have we got okay on this day the fourth of march throughout the centuries what
00:56:03.920 went down okay on this day in 1238 the battle of the sit river mongol forces not mogul mongol forces
00:56:13.280 of batu khan overcome russians under yuri the second ending russian resistance so batu khan one of my
00:56:20.800 favorites one of my absolute favorites one of my absolute favorites he was the son of jochi the house
00:56:26.240 of jochi he was one of genghis khan's sons so batu khan is one of genghis's genghis khan's grandsons
00:56:36.800 and he was just a total total badass invades russia successfully from the east very very few people have
00:56:46.160 sort of invaded russia and won it's one of the classic blunders isn't it starting a land war in asia
00:56:56.560 um batu khan successful the golden hold
00:57:04.480 the history of the mongols is absolutely incredible the generation of three
00:57:09.680 started with genghis khan and ending with his grandchildren basically or kubali khan and stuff
00:57:14.320 absolutely fascinating look into it i've learned to do all sorts of long-form content about it
00:57:18.640 in the past over the last five years i haven't yet but i will do i will do incredible story bet
00:57:24.160 batu khan is one of the all-time greats all right on this day it's often been an inauguration day
00:57:30.000 throughout history the fourth so on this day in 1801 thomas jefferson is the first u.s president to be
00:57:37.120 inaugurated in washington dc because washington dc was built out of nothing built out of swamps
00:57:44.000 there was no city there at all the united states decided they were going to build a new city from
00:57:48.640 scratch really john adams was the first president to even move into the white house when it wasn't
00:57:55.040 even quite finished thomas jefferson was the first one to actually be inaugurated in dc all right on
00:58:01.520 this day in 1861 abraham lincoln is inaugurated as for the first time you know um as the 16th president
00:58:08.480 um in 1902 american automobile association is founded in chicago not as interesting on this day
00:58:15.520 1933 franklin d roosevelt is inaugurated again for the first time as the 32nd president pledges to pull
00:58:23.760 the us out of the depression stating in his inaugural address that the only thing we have to fear is
00:58:30.560 fear itself yeah classic classic line isn't it famous famous words
00:58:41.760 yeah there's no need to be worried too much it's a classic thing isn't it of um confidence
00:58:48.880 not just an individual level but on a national level
00:58:54.000 okay on this day in 2009 international criminal court issues an arrest warrant for sudanese president
00:59:00.000 omar al bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in darfur becoming the first city sitting
00:59:06.400 head of state to be indicted yeah if you believe those indictments he's a psycho all right should
00:59:14.480 we have a look at the oh we weren't even okay there's no rumble rents because we weren't even on
00:59:20.080 rumble today we had some technical issues as i keep saying so there's no rumble rents now and we've got
00:59:25.280 um oh is that today's poll yeah okay okay so my screen down here isn't working so i have to read it
00:59:35.840 off the big screens and we did do a poll only nine minutes ago but harry put will there be world war
00:59:43.680 three and your options was yes bring on the nukes or no nothing ever happens and no nothing ever happens
00:59:52.000 is winning by 81 and 19 with just over 500 votes oh sorry the question was will this be world war
01:00:02.160 three and i i said no it's not world war three is it i mean i think that nothing ever happens
01:00:08.320 paradigm is nonsense but this isn't world war three can can we have something between
01:00:14.800 it's world war three and nothing ever happens anyway if your options were simply yes or no i'd
01:00:21.920 say no and as the votes are ticking in 81 of you agree with that so cool all right all right so we
01:00:29.440 weren't even on rumble today unfortunately we will be going forward again but today we weren't so it's
01:00:34.560 only youtube so it's only the youtube super chats today so i'll quickly read through these what have we
01:00:41.280 got global church history says today in 1665 charles ii declares second anglo-dutch war all right
01:00:51.760 interesting on epochs i've got long form content all about the three anglo-dutch wars or is it four
01:01:03.360 god it's been two or three years since i did that bit of content it is in good detail there's at least
01:01:08.320 three at least three the first ones were under oliver cromwell weren't they there's a real ding-dong
01:01:16.240 back and forth sometimes we'd beat them sometimes they'd beat us one time the dutch navy sailed up the
01:01:21.360 thames and destroyed dettford was it catford or dettford there was a big our main ship building yard
01:01:30.000 they sailed up the thames and destroyed it cheeky that's well cheeky we do that to you you don't do
01:01:39.600 that to us sometimes we'd win sometimes they'd win it was it's an interesting cool war okay set of wars
01:01:46.800 wars okay dem tatis says hiabo what do you think about the advance uk found joining restore what do you
01:02:01.360 think about the advance uk found joining restore do you think that the king should just dissolve parliament
01:02:08.400 to do it himself our king charles the third has not got any hasn't got the backbone to do anything like
01:02:16.160 that so that's off the table
01:02:20.560 he's a silly old sausage fingered nothing of a man king charles
01:02:29.040 friends with jimmy savile type person he's not going to dissolve anything
01:02:34.240 okay and what do i think of uh advanced uk found joining restore i just think advanced uk should
01:02:42.800 is is a failed project it's worth about 150 votes
01:02:48.000 so it's failed it's it's effectively dead or was stillborn really
01:02:54.960 we're going to be painfully honest about it
01:02:58.960 and habib is not the guy so i think it should just if that's what you're saying
01:03:02.320 that should about it joining restore it should just join restore
01:03:07.440 of course it's just fold itself into restore
01:03:12.480 that result and i like nick buckley the advanced uk candidate in gorgton dental i like the guy
01:03:19.200 i think he's a good bloke i feel sorry for him but that result was a brutal defeat brutal they got
01:03:28.480 less votes than the raving monster loony party brutal brutal pure liquid fail for advance
01:03:40.240 they're not then they're not they're not really anything are they so they should join restore
01:03:46.960 stop talking about sieven that colorblind nonsense
01:03:54.080 okay reverend north says this date in 1917 was the first debate in the swedish parliament was held
01:04:04.000 starting the process that would lead to us adopting universal suffrage years later
01:04:08.160 oh i guess i'll take it you're calling for typing from sweden okay that's interesting that's
01:04:15.760 interesting yeah universal suffrage in the early 20th century across like most of europe opening doors
01:04:23.840 one says could starma be related to wurzel gummage again another reference you i'm sure you wouldn't
01:04:30.720 get harry a lot of people that aren't british and old enough just wouldn't who's wurzel gummage
01:04:34.560 it was it was a tv character that was like a scarecrow it was like this battered old haggard
01:04:42.160 scarecrow that came to life this might be like insane but i actually have seen wurzel gummage
01:04:52.080 oh have you yeah but of all things wurzel gummage i mean it's very nearly before my time wurzel gummage was
01:05:00.320 on tv when i was a little kid really little kid i remember it a few times when i was small really
01:05:05.600 small watching wurzel gummage but okay could starma be related to him funny all right uh luke stewart
01:05:14.640 says good day maybe the media just found out how horrible the ir is ir oh islamic republic is it
01:05:23.040 how horrible iran is to its women especially with the the grape girls so they don't go to heaven on
01:05:32.400 death row okay i think i get what you're saying and yeah yeah the media oh just suddenly oh oh actually
01:05:40.160 yeah no iran was a crazy is was is a crazy society horrible horrible society okay max robe says and it
01:05:51.680 looks put it in quotes what about that quote you attributed to him i don't i don't like it but i'll
01:05:58.800 have to go along with it in german how did he say it it can it can lichen i'm sorry max i don't quite
01:06:09.440 get that's a bit garbled to me what about that quote you attributed to him i don't like it but i'll have
01:06:16.400 to go along with it in german how did they say it i mean what you said so be a bit more clear sorry i
01:06:22.800 think i get what you're saying i don't know how did they say it i don't like it but i have to go along
01:06:31.120 with it i guess that's the that's the key point you're saying isn't it yeah okay i mean that's how i
01:06:40.720 feel about this entire war with persia i don't like it it could well quite possibly end in a
01:06:49.040 generation of sectarian bloodbaths just like iraq i guess i'll go along with it because hope just you
01:06:57.440 know fingers crossed it won't and leaving that insane regime in place isn't a good idea either
01:07:03.120 so i don't like it but i'll go along with it it's a horrible situation to be in isn't it it's horrible
01:07:09.280 situation to be in okay luke stewart says bo about the school scene photos hopefully real it looks
01:07:20.480 like the missile had flipped had flipped over and crashed this whole thing seems like a cluster yeah
01:07:26.880 i guess you're talking about that school in southern iran where 150 160 school girls are dead apparently
01:07:34.080 it says a missile had flipped over and crashed yeah i mean whose missile yeah it seems like a mistake
01:07:44.080 either way doesn't it unless it's extremely cynical from the iranians to do it to themselves
01:07:52.080 but that doesn't seem all that likely either does it just in the scheme not knowing one way or another
01:07:58.000 you only have to go with what seems more likely more or less likely but okay if it was a missile that
01:08:04.160 flipped over and crashed i don't know all right and the last one for today principled uncertain
01:08:09.600 uncertainty says
01:08:12.720 uh get harry a cornetto on me for the late poll okay thank you harry says thank you no thank you for that
01:08:23.360 cornetto do you want anything from the shop cornetto
01:08:29.440 anyone who doesn't know this might be foreign it's an ice cream
01:08:32.880 all right um all right well uh we did do a poll better late than never slightly i suppose
01:08:38.560 um going forward tomorrow hopefully we'll have all the technical issues sorted out
01:08:41.760 i have my screen back and everything we'll be on rumble again and
01:08:45.280 and we'll have a poll in time and everything else so all right it has just ticked past eight minutes
01:08:51.840 past nine in the am greenwich meantime on wednesday the 4th of march in the year of our lord 2026
01:08:57.600 you have been the glorious band the chosen few thank you for watching try and make the best of
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