The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 4th March 2026

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:15:51.040 about the economy the uk economy yesterday in parliament no one cares okay she's a joke 0.94

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.97

00:19:01.680 go away shut up don't worry about it you worry about you 0.99

00:19:08.720 okay petrol prices petrol prices set to climb within weeks and uk energy bills may jump by 800 pounds a 0.97

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 0.96

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 0.61

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 0.64

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 1.00

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 0.89

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 0.86

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:45:01.600 and so that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy people that read that idiots 1.00

00:45:05.680 selfish idiots that see that and read that like oh well i don't want to run out of petrol 1.00

00:45:11.200 i'll go down and do that um 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.69

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.90

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 0.99

01:02:20.560 he's a silly old sausage fingered nothing of a man king charles 0.99

01:02:29.040 friends with jimmy savile type person he's not going to dissolve anything 0.98

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 0.76

01:03:40.240 they're not then they're not they're not really anything are they so they should join restore 0.95

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 0.93

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 1.00

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 0.97

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 0.59

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 0.92

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

01:09:03.040 the day ahead if you can carpe diem seize the day if you can i know it's not always possible but

01:09:08.800 try and do something that matters try and do something of value

01:09:11.040 try and do something that matters try and do something that matters if possible all right then

01:09:15.120 try and do something that matters if possible all right then until tomorrow morning take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 04, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 4th March 2026

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