The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 8th April 2026

00:00:00.000 uh shall we just get into it what is in the news today what is the legacy corporate mainstream

00:00:04.240 media banging on about when they try to tell you is important and what isn't what are they lying

00:00:09.860 about by omission perhaps more importantly all right today it's obviously an iran day a lot

00:00:14.100 has happened in the last 24 hours in the last 20 hours or so fair bit back and forths fair bit's

00:00:20.160 happened so we'll have to go through all of that uh there's kanye a bit bit more yay news

00:00:24.960 and the moon some more a bit more moon stuff so that's that's what we got today that's what that's

00:00:31.800 on the docket for us this morning shall we have a look all right the front pages fleek street

00:00:38.480 the british print media okay they say world holds its breath

00:00:43.800 and no can do kanye can no can do they shorten kanye to can with a k okay world holds its breath

00:00:54.560 and no can do all right they start with the mirror the kanye ban very quickly because i'm not really

00:01:00.980 interested in kanye particularly no interest in his music whatsoever almost zero interest in his

00:01:06.940 life and what he does and says but he has been banned from the uk the government home office

00:01:11.300 have formally officially banned him from entering the uk hate preachers fine kanye west no deal

00:01:18.640 actual convicted terrorists from our foreign countries not only can you come here you can

00:01:25.640 run for council oh you think i think that's an exaggeration you think that's a far-right fantasy

00:01:30.140 no no that's that's real that's true but kanye west no dice all right and that whole festival

00:01:38.160 that whole music festival um what is it the wireless festival i think it was in finsbury

00:01:44.340 park i think yesterday i said it might be in hyde park it's finsbury park it's cancelled

00:01:47.660 whole thing's cancelled he was supposed to be headlining it for three straight days i heard

00:01:52.480 this morning well he obviously can't now and so uh that whole thing's cancelled shut it down

00:02:00.620 all right now the mirror mixes up well not mixes up deliberately does two things at once here one

00:02:10.180 the the space story the moon story and the donald trumpy ran thing all in one they go with the

00:02:16.280 headline an extraordinary glimpse of earth from the orion spacecraft that was the little capsule

00:02:22.220 that the nasa astronauts are in um glimpse of earth from the orion spacecraft after a journey

00:02:28.500 that represents the very best of humanity yet our precious home continues to be torn apart by the

00:02:34.040 worst of it and as a maniac in the white house threatens to obliterate a whole civilization

00:02:40.300 mirror just calling him a maniac all right could argue he's far from that but

00:02:51.220 maniac they go with world holds its breath so first of all that image of the moon of the

00:02:59.320 earth setting this earth set above the lunar horizon of course a lot of people even a big 0.96

00:03:07.640 chunk of the of the audience of the bow show think that that's fake and or gay

00:03:13.700 that's just fake that's just ai i obviously don't think that 0.98

00:03:19.480 but there you go earth set 2026 in uh in hd all right well we'll have to just quickly straight

00:03:30.160 away then get into what's happened with iran over the last well i spoke to you like 23 hours ago

00:03:36.720 didn't I was it so a lot has happened since then first of all about 19 18 19 hours ago

00:03:43.420 Trump went on truth social because as I reported yesterday his deadline was going to be 8 p.m

00:03:50.960 eastern u.s time eastern time 8 p.m that was when he was going to destroy all their bridges and

00:03:58.240 power stations so yesterday but obviously many hours before that about 18 19 hours ago now

00:04:06.580 He wrote on Truth Social

00:04:08.700 A whole civilisation will die tonight

00:04:13.300 Never to be brought back again

00:04:16.300 So I'm saying

00:04:20.400 Does he mean nukes there?

00:04:21.280 What do you mean?

00:04:22.340 A whole civilisation is going to die

00:04:23.580 Do you mean nukes?

00:04:25.440 He didn't mean nukes

00:04:26.660 They came out and said

00:04:29.260 Where people started speculating that

00:04:31.000 J.D. Vance and others

00:04:32.980 And Trump came out

00:04:33.740 And the Pentagon said

00:04:34.800 We're not talking about nukes

00:04:36.440 we're not talking about nicks but still those are extremely strong words aren't they i mean

00:04:43.040 extremely a whole civilization will die tonight you could very easily without without acting in

00:04:49.900 bad faith think are you going to genocide them all what does what do you mean i think what he

00:04:56.920 meant was just destroy their their infrastructure anyway a whole civilization will die tonight

00:05:05.040 never to be brought back again I don't want that to happen but it will probably but it probably

00:05:09.940 will however now that we have complete and total regime change of the personnel he means the actual

00:05:18.420 regime hasn't changed but okay perhaps a lot of the personnel has now we have complete and total

00:05:23.120 regime change where different smarter and less radicalized minds prevail maybe something

00:05:28.320 revolutionarily wonderful can happen who knows all caps who knows we will find out tonight one

00:05:35.540 of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world 47 years of extortion

00:05:41.100 corruption and death will finally end god bless the great people of iran so that's what he said

00:05:47.440 yesterday day yesterday morning u.s time right and a lot of people like up to and including the

00:05:57.240 un a lot of people they're like whoa you know that's that is super strong words a whole

00:06:04.720 civilization is going to die tonight and as the as uh the mirror and a lot of other papers are

00:06:14.860 going with the world was holding its breath i stayed up late last night deliberately to sort

00:06:19.760 of see it happen if it was going to be a shock and awe moment where there's sort of cameras

00:06:23.980 rolling one way or another and just images footage starts rolling in

00:06:30.380 of loads of explosions and stuff didn't happen i've become aware now of a meme

00:06:36.940 a taco meme the taco meme taco trump always chickens out so it didn't come to destroying

00:06:44.460 a civilization some sort of peace deal some sort of ceasefire and we'll talk about it was reached

00:06:53.980 Now, before I just go into the exact details of it,

00:06:56.580 some will say, many are already saying,

00:06:59.180 Trump chickened out, Trump backed down, Trump blinked.

00:07:02.800 You could see it that way.

00:07:04.780 You could argue, though, that Iran blinked. 0.68

00:07:08.860 You could argue that Trump's made a great play.

00:07:14.040 He sort of got what he wanted, ultimately, an off-ramp.

00:07:18.920 He's managed to remove himself from a forever war situation, maybe.

00:07:23.980 but you could say he blinked he you know he chickened out he capitulated whatever

00:07:31.240 I'll let you decide I think that's best isn't it I think that's best I always think that's best

00:07:37.280 instead of letting headlines dictate what you think about something take in the details of

00:07:44.340 what did or didn't happen what was or wasn't said and then make up your own mind isn't it

00:07:48.120 we're all we're all adults don't know why the corporate legacy mainstream media sort of insist

00:07:52.500 on trying to make you think a certain thing just tell me the just tell me the details just tell me

00:07:56.620 the facts and i'll do the rest thanks so that's what i'll try and do here but of course i'll give

00:08:03.860 you my opinion as well but you know you're not obliged to go along with that of course i'm not

00:08:10.860 your keeper but that's what the legacy corporate mainstream media do want to do isn't it this

00:08:15.940 happened and this is what it means and nothing else it's like all right okay so so he said on

00:08:22.680 truth social that whole civilization will die tonight then quite close to the 8 p.m eastern

00:08:28.380 deadline was it like two hours before an hour and a half before so very close would have thought

00:08:34.560 airplanes might well be in the air very close to that deadline something happened it sort of broke

00:08:41.040 news what was it about half eleven last night our time the news broke that there had been some sort

00:08:48.360 of deal reached okay so let's have a look let's have a look what was said so this is this is on

00:08:58.100 Trump's true social but it's a cut and paste of what Tehran said and it comes from just to be

00:09:04.940 clear oh what's going on there sorry one technical moment my truth social oh it's just that was it

00:09:11.880 um it came from their foreign minister person let's let me tell you his name

00:09:19.600 Syed Abbas Abbas Aragachi Minister of Foreign Affairs is he the de facto leader well this

00:09:28.940 statement came in his name and it says on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran I express

00:09:34.860 gratitude and appreciation to my dear brothers the prime minister of pakistan sharif and field

00:09:39.820 marshal i don't know why to put t he what he but anyway the field marshal munir for their tireless

00:09:45.860 efforts to end the war in the region in response to the brotherly request request of prime minister

00:09:52.140 sharif of pakistan in his tweet twitter isn't real life yeah it's just international diplomacy

00:10:00.840 is done on Twitter sometimes

00:10:04.680 sorry, X

00:10:07.440 in response to the Pakistani Prime Minister's tweet

00:10:12.660 and considering the request by the US for negotiations

00:10:15.720 based on its 15 point proposal

00:10:18.160 as well as announcement by a POTUS, President of the United States

00:10:21.120 about acceptance of the general framework of Iran's

00:10:24.220 this is a bit of a key point

00:10:25.000 of Iran's 10 point proposal

00:10:26.780 as a basis for negotiations

00:10:28.640 i.e. their terms not the US's terms

00:10:31.940 i.e. you stop attacking us we'll stop

00:10:49.280 for a period of two weeks

00:10:51.380 that's the other key bit here

00:10:52.780 it's not like it's over indefinitely

00:10:54.520 it's over now

00:10:55.300 no for a period of two weeks

00:10:57.340 I mean it's breathing space isn't it, it's something

00:10:59.180 It's better than a whole civilisation dying tonight

00:11:01.840 For a period of two weeks

00:11:03.860 Safe passage through the Straits of Hormuz

00:11:06.020 Will be possible via coordination with Iran's armed forces

00:11:09.340 And with due consideration of technical limitations

00:11:11.780 End of statement

00:11:13.200 Didn't make it clear whether that included American tankers or not

00:11:17.460 But okay so that's their statement

00:11:19.000 They said, basically said

00:11:22.120 At least for two weeks

00:11:23.380 And on some of their conditions

00:11:26.040 They still control the Straits of Hormuz

00:11:28.700 They'll stop firing stuff 0.99

00:11:32.880 If the other side stop firing stuff

00:11:35.100 I mean

00:11:37.040 Two weeks

00:11:38.640 But is it an off ramp

00:11:39.820 Is it finally some de-escalation

00:11:42.280 It seems

00:11:43.260 Well it did avert

00:11:44.280 A night of heavy heavy heavy bombing

00:11:47.280 Okay

00:11:49.920 Trump said then

00:11:51.260 He said

00:11:53.640 Based on conversations with Prime Minister

00:11:55.920 Sharif and their field marshal and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force

00:12:02.300 being sent tonight to Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the complete

00:12:06.920 immediate and safe opening of the Straits of Hormuz that's a point isn't it we'll talk all

00:12:14.320 about the sticking points in a moment but let me just read it Trump wants the complete immediate

00:12:18.740 and safe opening of the Straits of Hormuz I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a

00:12:23.940 period of two weeks. This will be a double-sided ceasefire. The reason for doing so is that 0.67

00:12:36.980 we have already met and exceeded all military objectives and are very far along with a definitive

00:12:41.920 agreement concerning long-term peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East. We received

00:12:47.080 a 10-point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.

00:12:51.980 that's probably the key passage in this that line that that trump believes it's a workable basis on

00:12:59.760 which to negotiate almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to

00:13:04.300 between the united states and iran but a two-week period would allow the agreement to be finalized

00:13:09.220 and consummated on behalf of the united states of america as president and also representing

00:13:14.000 the countries of the middle east it is an honor to have this long-term problem close to resolution

00:13:21.020 Thank you for your attention to this matter

00:13:22.820 President Donald J. Trump

00:13:24.280 Okay before we go any further

00:13:27.500 Sort of the key things

00:13:29.920 The most salient things about all of that

00:13:32.220 Well one first of all

00:13:36.740 It's probably good isn't it

00:13:38.760 That all Iran's power stations and bridges weren't blown up

00:13:40.940 For the well being of the

00:13:42.980 Completely average innocent person of Iran 1.00

00:13:44.720 Okay 0.97

00:13:45.420 But now the detail of it

00:13:48.940 Trump says there didn't he

00:13:50.560 That he thinks Iran's 10 point proposal

00:13:53.840 He believes it to be a workable basis 0.86

00:13:56.000 On which to negotiate

00:13:57.180 Right

00:14:00.100 I mean good

00:14:01.480 If that's true fine good hopefully

00:14:03.300 But they said

00:14:07.140 They also talk about their 10 point proposal

00:14:10.180 And

00:14:11.120 We don't know all the details of that 10 point proposal

00:14:14.560 But it's

00:14:15.300 It's basically that 0.98

00:14:17.220 Iran will still completely 0.98

00:14:18.960 completely and utterly control the Straits of Hormuz and all their, all the sanctions,

00:14:25.520 economic sanctions against them are to be lifted.

00:14:31.960 I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, I don't want to be a pessimist about this, but I feel

00:14:37.040 like that's something ultimately the White House and the State Department won't agree

00:14:40.580 to, don't want to agree to, well they definitely don't want to agree to that, whether they

00:14:44.100 will is something else, maybe Trump will strike a deal.

00:14:48.960 and so the whole element of this that it's actually just a two-week period not a full-blown

00:14:55.600 full-blown peace deal forevermore it's a two-week hiatus if things turn hot again

00:15:03.900 it might be it might be over exactly that that iran iran wanted more

00:15:10.840 than was realistic from the american point of view will this will this hold will this ceasefire hold

00:15:18.100 and as for the straits of hormuz itself is it now because trump in his in his truth social about

00:15:27.100 civilization is going to die tonight he said immediate complete and media opening of the

00:15:32.040 straits of hormuz is it is it well according to reports and i can only tell you what is coming out

00:15:38.120 through the news this morning see i'm not there with my own two eyeballs standing on that promontory

00:15:43.540 or in the UAE looking at shipping but it we're told that it is open like Iran have opened it

00:15:51.860 and they're not going to fire any missiles at anyone that doesn't necessarily mean though

00:15:55.240 that shipping is now just flowing through there at all for a number of reasons the main reason is

00:16:02.240 sort of slightly slightly more boring down-to-earth reasons for like insurance insurance shipping like

00:16:09.440 big company insurance companies like lawyers of London for example there are many but let's just

00:16:12.760 say lawyers of london they're like they'll be suspicious of that they'll be wary still

00:16:17.280 they'll be like are we going to ensure shipping to go through there like right now like right now

00:16:22.540 uh well i think we'll have a wait for a minute and see what happens here let's see where he's

00:16:28.520 going with this um so there will be some shipping going through there in fact there is there is

00:16:33.960 something but is it just completely flowing freely like it did before this war started no not yet

00:16:40.600 so we'll see exactly how that plans out today or over the next few days a week or two even well

00:16:48.060 over the next two weeks we'll see how that plays out but in theory on paper nominally

00:16:53.040 the Straits of Hormuz is supposed to be open

00:16:55.440 all right markets rebounded particularly Asian markets Asian markets were hit

00:17:05.500 hardest by all of this really equities and commodities and currencies and things they've

00:17:11.500 rebounded sharply what's the price of oil down should we have a look in actual real time the

00:17:14.980 real thing the real deal holyfield all right west texas is at 95 dollars about just shy of 96 dollars

00:17:21.420 a barrel brent brent crude is a touch over 94 usually brent is more than wti but anyway they're

00:17:33.160 both under a hundred bucks we've talked a bunch of times haven't we about the

00:17:40.180 psychological that psychological barrier ceiling floor of a hundred dollars a

00:17:47.020 barrel so they're both hundred you can see all red they're nearly all red well

00:17:51.820 the price of crude around the world came down sharply and significantly

00:17:58.360 all right all right so that's quite a lot to have happened in the last

00:18:05.560 23 hours isn't it well less the last 20 odd hours

00:18:08.900 all right so that's basically it now the front pages of the

00:18:15.620 british print media all went to print before

00:18:20.220 this this peace deal this ceasefire was agreed so they're all behind the curve a bit they're

00:18:28.040 saying we're holding our breath is Trump going to destroy Iran tonight so that's the way it goes

00:18:33.640 things can and do move so quickly especially these days that it's very very very easy to be a little

00:18:41.580 bit behind the times I mean on my other channel the state of politics state politics can you cut

00:18:46.320 to the stain can for a quick second on my other channel state politics we record every other day

00:18:54.800 usually and if we talk about something that happened one day before that or two

00:18:59.400 days before that you quite often see a video that we actually recorded a 48

00:19:04.020 hours ago sometimes slightly more often less but and a good number of times we

00:19:10.940 recorded something and it's already out of that I mean completely out of date

00:19:14.240 that's how fast the world moves now right so even all papers they're all out

00:19:20.260 of date already all right what a wonderful picture that is if you believe

00:19:23.540 it's real wonderful or inspiring beautiful beautiful thing i think okay the metro

00:19:29.600 the metro humanity's historical new view they say of a world in deep trouble

00:19:40.440 there you go mixing them both up

00:19:44.020 a few stories okay new airstrikes as iran is told civilization will die tonight by trump

00:19:53.540 They also hit yesterday, the Americans, hit that Karg Island very hard.

00:19:58.080 Dozens, maybe 50 explosions heard on Karg Island. 0.90

00:20:01.660 But they didn't send in the full-blown amphibious...

00:20:04.660 You know, they didn't send in the Marine Corps and the 82nd Airborne.

00:20:08.100 But they did bomb it. 0.59

00:20:13.640 So, okay.

00:20:16.220 A new view of our world in deep trouble.

00:20:19.140 Okay.

00:20:20.460 The Daily Mail, complete and utter globalist slop,

00:20:22.900 trying to pretend it isn't. There's where Iran thought that the Americans were going to blow up

00:20:28.900 all their power stations and bridges. They organised human shields, get loads of women 1.00

00:20:32.780 and kids to stand right by the power stations and or bridges. Nice. Whether these people are

00:20:43.820 coerced or not, I have got no idea. I imagine some were, some weren't. I imagine a lot of them

00:20:48.540 weren't I don't know I don't actually I don't really want to speculate on that whether these 0.88

00:20:53.120 people were coerced or not but loads of women and kids go and stand there go and die for the ayatollah

00:20:58.540 if needs be all right headline is night the world hurled its breath and prayed

00:21:07.440 after Trump's unhinged declaration that a whole civilization will die tonight

00:21:13.740 Iran peace talks go to the wire as women and children form human shields around bridges and

00:21:18.220 power plants okay another thing to say about it you know you could say Trump blinked you could

00:21:26.440 say it was a great deal like you could say he's you could argue I wouldn't argue that he just

00:21:32.640 completely chickened out or anything no I'd say it's masterful he'd be a bit strong but he does

00:21:41.620 seem to have manipulated things doesn't he hasn't he to a point where he basically got what

00:21:48.200 he wanted, i.e. an off-ramp and the Hormuz Straits reopened. That's what he wanted, that's

00:21:55.000 what he needed in the final reckoning, wasn't it, politically? And he's got that, has he

00:22:00.660 not?

00:22:04.620 Make your own wind up.

00:22:05.940 Alright, the Daily Telegraph. 0.96

00:22:08.240 Trump, Iran's whole civilisation will die. Well, it didn't. World leaders call for calm

00:22:13.940 as President doubles down on his peace ultimatum.

00:22:18.200 And there's a picture again of Earthset.

00:22:21.640 HMS Dragon back in port after tech failure.

00:22:24.060 That's the story of our one frigate, HMS Dragon,

00:22:27.000 Enter the Dragon,

00:22:28.820 sent to the eastern Mediterranean, to Cyprus,

00:22:31.480 and on the way, he broke down.

00:22:35.140 Well, you could characterise that.

00:22:37.600 The MOD are saying,

00:22:38.940 oh, no, it was always a scheduled stop for routine maintenance.

00:22:44.860 Most other people are saying,

00:22:46.000 no it broke down a bit didn't it i mean it's not it's not like it's going to sink it's not like

00:22:50.840 it's got a hole in the in the hull um there was something wrong with their water filtration system

00:22:56.260 or something or other something relatively minor but nonetheless it's had to stop and refit a bit

00:23:02.120 again just from getting from england to cyprus a little bit a little bit embarrassing stroke

00:23:11.260 Massively embarrassing

00:23:12.620 Alright HMS the dragon

00:23:14.840 Enter the dragon

00:23:15.520 Is not fighting fit at this moment

00:23:19.320 Barely muster one frigate

00:23:25.800 Alright

00:23:26.440 The Guardian

00:23:28.700 The Guardian 0.54

00:23:31.960 A skin crawl

00:23:34.840 They say

00:23:35.980 Outrage and fear

00:23:38.200 As Trump warns whole civilization will die in Iran

00:23:41.020 pope condemns truly unacceptable threats and urges end to war yeah loads of worldly world

00:23:48.040 leaders yesterday during the day after his whole civilization will die truth social posts and

00:23:53.040 before the thing was met loads of world leaders were like like calm down don't do that don't do

00:23:59.620 that even the un were like we don't this is crazy this is a bit crazy all right and they go with

00:24:06.540 that picture as well and there you can see the bit of the scale of it when i posted this picture

00:24:11.460 on twitter yesterday of course you've got loads of flat earthers and space deniers quite a few of 0.83

00:24:17.320 them saying how could you believe this you're so dumb it's not even the right scale and stuff well 0.79

00:24:25.440 there's a zoomed out image where you can see the scale that's so green screen bro 0.98

00:24:30.320 Them saying they feel sorry for me

00:24:36.480 That I've bought it

00:24:37.320 What can you do?

00:24:42.720 What can you say?

00:24:43.400 What can you say?

00:24:46.320 It's almost funny

00:24:47.720 If it weren't so

00:24:48.720 Tragic

00:24:51.200 Alright, the times

00:24:52.360 The venerable times

00:24:54.000 They tell us

00:24:56.380 Rainer

00:24:56.940 The fridge

00:24:58.660 Angela the Fridge Rainer

00:25:00.760 will go into battle for Labour

00:25:02.700 before taking fight to PM

00:25:04.200 just a story saying

00:25:05.140 that at the local elections

00:25:06.480 that are coming up

00:25:06.920 at the beginning of May

00:25:07.540 was it the 7th of May

00:25:08.500 she's going to go

00:25:10.600 all around the country

00:25:11.320 campaigning on behalf of Labour

00:25:12.560 and then

00:25:14.800 and then what

00:25:18.440 and then there may be

00:25:19.600 some sort of leadership contest

00:25:21.180 against Keir Starmer

00:25:21.940 because Labour

00:25:23.100 are going to get trounced

00:25:24.300 aren't they

00:25:24.720 it'll be a big night for reform

00:25:26.560 they will win big

00:25:27.900 I'm sure of it

00:25:29.300 Tories and Labour will lose out massively

00:25:32.840 Giant reform wins

00:25:36.800 In victories

00:25:37.500 In councils

00:25:38.840 And Keir Starmer may well be facing

00:25:43.220 I suspect he will

00:25:44.160 That's my prediction

00:25:45.540 He'll face a leadership challenge at that point

00:25:47.880 Kemi Badenoch

00:25:50.700 Odoo Kemi Badenoch

00:25:51.620 May also face some sort of 0.90

00:25:54.140 Leadership challenge

00:25:55.440 There's less rumblings about that

00:25:57.380 But I have heard rumblings

00:25:58.200 Oi there's rumblings

00:25:59.140 I have

00:26:00.060 It may well happen

00:26:01.180 Who knows

00:26:02.560 It would be funny if

00:26:03.600 Off the back of these local elections

00:26:05.240 Both Olukemi

00:26:06.900 And Keir

00:26:08.260 Lose their jobs

00:26:10.200 I think Keir Starmer is in trouble

00:26:15.020 I really do

00:26:15.880 I don't think

00:26:16.580 He may well not be

00:26:19.060 Prime Minister two months from now

00:26:20.480 Very possibly

00:26:21.740 But who then

00:26:26.160 Cooper

00:26:27.940 The fridge herself

00:26:30.440 David Lammy

00:26:31.740 Lammy is my king in the chat

00:26:34.880 We'll love that 0.94

00:26:35.820 Accelerationist troller extraordinaire

00:26:41.820 Lammy is my king

00:26:44.580 Okay 0.84

00:26:46.460 US

00:26:48.240 We won't use nuclear bombs

00:26:50.340 White House issues denial on social media

00:26:53.540 After Trump threatens a

00:26:54.920 whole civilization will die if Iran fails to agree deal yeah so people did say almost immediately

00:27:01.620 what do you mean the whole civilization you're talking about nukes you're gonna nuke them

00:27:04.600 they came out very quickly really quite quickly say no no no no calm down calm down calm down

00:27:09.620 we're not going to do that okay the eye paper we saw sites that no human has ever seen say

00:27:20.400 crew members artemis crew members orion crew members uk makes plea for peace after trump

00:27:27.520 threat to wipe out whole civilization i i won't read the blurb because we've gone through it all

00:27:31.960 i've already we've already talked about all the salient points really um but the uk tries to

00:27:38.700 make a deal in fact was it on one of the other uh one of the other websites it leads with

00:27:45.680 Keir Starmer. Keir Starmer... I can't remember where it was.

00:27:49.520 One of the other websites said, Keir Starmer has broken his silence.

00:27:56.000 It's like nobody cares. Nobody cares what Keir Starmer is going to say about this.

00:28:02.240 Oh, there you go. Look, the Express. It's a good website. Keir Starmer breaks

00:28:06.960 silence on Iran's ceasefire. Nobody cares, dude. Nobody cares. Even we, the British. 0.58

00:28:15.680 you really i mean okay the daily star what slop have we got a bit about kanye okay they go with

00:28:25.160 you ready for this pro-trump americans mega americans in the in the audience ready for

00:28:30.640 this orange man baby tantrum whole civilization will die end of the world as we know it it's the 0.60

00:28:37.800 end of the world as we know it and trump feels fine on the spot there all right orange man baby 0.91

00:28:46.600 tantrum really not just telling you what he said but their editorial and this is what you should

00:28:52.880 think that he's an orange man baby throwing a tantrum the daily star okay okay the financial 0.53

00:29:06.860 times moon gaze space voyages head for home they're on their way home they should be back in what four

00:29:12.860 days three and a half days the most dangerous part of the mission as i've said haven't i

00:29:17.020 will be re-entering into earth's atmosphere at the fastest speed any re-entry has ever been

00:29:21.180 attempted something like 25 000 miles per hour 25 000 miles per hour

00:29:29.820 i better have engineered those heat shields perfectly

00:29:36.860 It would be scary. That would be terrifying, wouldn't it?

00:29:42.280 Alright, let go with that more zoomed out picture to give you some perspective of what it is.

00:29:49.240 Is that Arizona?

00:29:54.760 Is that a remote Canadian island?

00:29:58.480 Is it a lump of cheese?

00:30:01.720 Is it just complete AI?

00:30:03.700 Just a model? Oh, it's only a model.

00:30:06.860 or is it real i think it's real um okay oh hedge funds hedge hedge funds ramp up uh wages bets

00:30:14.600 against european stocks as war cast shadow short position surge short is betting on

00:30:20.840 prices going down a short position i.e we think your economy is going to tank

00:30:26.500 one way or another we're going to make a bit of bunts out of it cheers cheers hedge funds

00:30:32.180 all right um oh exodus estimate estimates exodus estimates show 30 000 britons fleeing uae

00:30:44.600 since start of iran conflict

00:30:46.680 andrew takes credibility of having good takes most affected okay the sun they lead with yay

00:30:56.940 They lead with Mr. West

00:30:59.360 Music festival axed

00:31:01.040 The whole thing's axed

00:31:02.560 Chaos as West banned from UK

00:31:05.420 Government finally

00:31:07.060 Acts on rapper

00:31:08.040 No can do

00:31:09.500 Alright, complete slop

00:31:12.940 The Express

00:31:14.640 It's

00:31:15.340 It's a good paper

00:31:19.080 Rhiannon

00:31:21.400 They go with something slightly different 0.57

00:31:22.320 Rhiannon White's mother, this lady that was murdered 1.00

00:31:25.460 By an illegal immigrant 1.00

00:31:28.720 A boat immigrant person 1.00

00:31:30.420 Because she wouldn't give him biscuits 1.00

00:31:32.940 Stabbed her in the neck with a screwdriver 0.62

00:31:35.160 Her mother blames Keir Starmer 1.00

00:31:40.700 For her murder by a channel migrant 1.00

00:31:42.480 UK a laughing stop 1.00

00:31:45.020 For not stopping the boats

00:31:46.280 Yeah

00:31:46.600 Yeah

00:31:48.780 It's true

00:31:51.580 It's true

00:31:53.120 It's probably

00:31:56.120 She would be alive today 1.00

00:31:57.940 If they'd stopped the boats 0.90

00:31:59.360 If they'd just put 1.00

00:32:00.900 A few Royal Marines

00:32:02.880 4-2 Commander or something

00:32:04.020 Half a dozen speedboats

00:32:06.500 100 dudes, tops 1.00

00:32:08.240 She'd be alive 0.62

00:32:11.460 Wouldn't she?

00:32:12.980 Would she not?

00:32:15.720 A laughing sort of bad joke

00:32:17.000 Terrible

00:32:17.600 A laugh of despair

00:32:19.760 We're a laughing stock 0.95

00:32:23.440 It's ridiculous 0.58

00:32:24.320 There's no other conclusion to come to 0.75

00:32:29.300 That they want that invasion to continue

00:32:31.280 It's an invasion

00:32:32.020 And they want it to continue

00:32:35.460 Actively, proactively

00:32:36.780 It'd be the simplest thing in the world

00:32:41.160 For the Prime Minister to call a cabinet meeting

00:32:43.240 Or a Cobra meeting

00:32:44.160 Say right, defence

00:32:46.260 Hop over the road

00:32:48.980 To Whitehall

00:32:50.380 Hopping over to the MOD

00:32:51.340 Get some generals

00:32:53.220 To send a few Royal Marines

00:32:56.000 Into the channel right now

00:32:57.520 Today

00:32:58.240 They could do that any given day

00:33:01.220 Couldn't they

00:33:02.100 They're very very very deliberately and actively

00:33:07.620 Making the political decision

00:33:09.300 Day after day after day

00:33:10.560 To not do that

00:33:11.700 Treasonous

00:33:15.120 Treasonous stuff

00:33:17.620 To fail to act on that

00:33:19.960 Alright shall we have a look at the websites

00:33:21.420 Oh no our poll first

00:33:22.540 We got a poll

00:33:24.220 What did our poll say Harry

00:33:26.960 We asked you guys

00:33:28.800 Over a thousand votes

00:33:30.720 Was it right to ban Kanye West from the UK

00:33:34.640 Oh an overwhelming

00:33:37.780 An overwhelming win for no

00:33:39.960 So no vote

00:33:41.220 8% of you say yes

00:33:44.600 87% of you say no

00:33:47.180 And 5% of you say maybe

00:33:49.160 So that's a stonking win

00:33:52.640 I wouldn't agree with everything

00:33:56.280 Kanye West has ever said

00:33:57.780 Far from it

00:33:59.980 I actively don't like his music

00:34:03.620 The small amount I have heard

00:34:04.800 I think it's like some sort of din

00:34:07.240 I'm not interested in that

00:34:08.500 That's not the point here is it

00:34:10.920 It's about the freedom of movement

00:34:12.200 It's about the freedom of expression

00:34:13.440 Isn't it

00:34:17.180 The freedom of expression, the freedom of movement as well, so

00:34:19.640 So that's the bigger thing here

00:34:22.640 Good, they're both showing why people

00:34:24.180 87% of you

00:34:25.660 Say

00:34:26.780 He shouldn't have been banned from the UK

00:34:29.680 Yeah

00:34:30.140 Right, good, cool

00:34:32.700 You're right, you're right

00:34:34.340 Absolutely agree with you 0.99

00:34:35.940 Who's that other 8%? Get out 1.00

00:34:38.320 No, don't, don't

00:34:39.540 Okay, should we stay, please

00:34:42.540 I didn't mean it, I was joking

00:34:43.400 Alright, should we have a look at the websites then?

00:34:47.180 let's have a look at their websites this morning

00:34:49.500 uh okay it well it's much of the same a lot about

00:34:54.540 trump and iran of course as you can imagine a little bit about yay

00:34:59.500 there's a story in pictures i don't want to i'm not deliberately trying to

00:35:02.620 infuriate the space's fake people i'm really not

00:35:07.340 this isn't purely to goad you i'd be talking about this anyway

00:35:12.140 so okay there's that picture in full resolution

00:35:17.180 I think it's one just one point the on their way there the Sun lined up behind

00:35:23.860 the moon that image there

00:35:29.620 effectively a solar eclipse sort of a trans lunar solar eclipse view okay

00:35:38.980 there's a view of earth looking back

00:35:43.620 People say that's fake, I don't believe it's fake, I mean, I think what's interesting from that image is how you can see the atmosphere is really, it's really like a thin veneer, the atmosphere, how thin the atmosphere is on the earth, compared to the scale of the earth itself.

00:36:04.460 it's just like a tiny little film around around the marble tiny little film you can see some

00:36:12.160 aurora aurora borealis up there aurora sorialis down there in fact i'm not sure where the poles

00:36:21.120 are on here anyway a little bit of aurora going on fantastic stuff i think looking out the window

00:36:30.800 people say earth is is flat though and all this must certainly be fake

00:36:42.280 you can't get into orbit you can't even get into all rockets

00:36:47.600 go up and then they come straight down in in the bermuda triangle nothing's ever got into

00:36:53.700 even low earth orbit let alone flown away from the earth enough to capture the whole thing

00:36:58.880 In one image

00:36:59.740 All of that is impossible and fake

00:37:02.200 Alright

00:37:05.640 It's a strange 0.98

00:37:10.080 Malaise, psychological malaise 1.00

00:37:12.820 I think

00:37:13.980 I think

00:37:16.820 Right, here's a little story I thought was

00:37:18.960 Interesting out of Australia

00:37:21.420 Oh yeah, how good

00:37:23.460 Well it's not good, it's terrible 1.00

00:37:25.720 There's an Australian man, this man 1.00

00:37:27.980 who like 10 years ago, 15 years ago

00:37:31.480 won a Victoria Cross

00:37:32.760 it was then that I was

00:37:37.540 awarded the Victoria Cross

00:37:39.840 those were the days

00:37:44.340 he's a Victoria Cross recipient

00:37:46.620 the highest military award for gallantry

00:37:48.680 showing Dash and Ilan in the face of the enemy

00:37:51.700 he's now up on trial for murder, war crimes

00:37:54.800 now i will suspend complete judgment on that

00:38:00.520 um because i actually i have read about it but i don't know it in fantastic detail one way or

00:38:08.100 another so i'll just tell you what's being reported it was back in like 2011

00:38:11.880 2011 he got the the vc for stuff he did in the years before that of course going back to like

00:38:19.980 2009 in Iraq and Afghanistan or Afghanistan so yeah the headline is top Australian soldier

00:38:26.140 charged with war crimes to remain in jail on remand his name's Ben Roberts Smith I'll read

00:38:32.800 a touch of it Ben Roberts Smith Australia's most decorated living soldier will remain behind bars

00:38:37.900 after his lawyers did not seek bail over charges of alleged war crimes in Afghanistan Robert Smith

00:38:42.760 Roberts Smith 47 was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and charged with five counts of war

00:38:49.560 crime and murder before being transferred to a police cell on wednesday lawyers for the victoria

00:38:53.680 cross recipient did not immediately apply for bail roberts smith roberts smith denies all wrongdoing

00:39:00.780 previously calling the claims egregious egregious egregious the the criminal case comes after a

00:39:09.000 defamation judgment in 2023 found that the formal corporal in australia's sas killed several unarmed

00:39:15.260 to afghans between 2009 and 2012 the years-long defamation proceedings initiated by robert smith

00:39:22.500 himself i someone called him a liar or a murderer and he tried to take them to court for that for

00:39:27.940 defamation sometimes away you've got to be very careful taking someone's court for defamation

00:39:33.900 because if you lose then you're in real trouble because then it's on record that the courts have

00:39:40.040 decided you are the thing they alleged you to be i'm thinking of um um a deborah libstadt

00:39:50.600 david irving or even um oscar wilde oscar wilde back in the days the 19th century when it was

00:40:03.020 illegal to be homosexual somebody somebody called him or not somebody the marcus of greensbury 0.66

00:40:08.820 The father of one of his gay lovers 0.98

00:40:11.360 Called him gay 1.00

00:40:12.160 He called him a criminal 1.00

00:40:13.960 He was gay of course 0.99

00:40:17.140 And he said 0.92

00:40:19.400 No I'm not, I'm going to take you to court for defamation

00:40:21.100 He then lost

00:40:21.780 So 0.96

00:40:22.480 The court found that he was right

00:40:27.180 And you were wrong

00:40:27.680 So now you're in trouble for that crime

00:40:29.360 That he's accused you of

00:40:31.160 Now you have to go on trial for that crime

00:40:32.380 It's like David Irving

00:40:35.380 And Deborah Libstadt

00:40:36.100 She said you're a Holocaust denier 0.54

00:40:38.040 you're a liar as a historian he said write a defamation case for that and she 0.85

00:40:43.920 won it so now it's on record that you must be then by definition by default 0.98

00:40:48.080 the thing she said you were whether whether these court cases are fair or

00:40:53.800 whatever I mean in this case I don't know I really I really couldn't tell you I'm

00:40:57.720 not going to give any judgment I really don't know enough about the case and the

00:41:00.180 details of whether the defamation case he brought against whoever was right or

00:41:05.260 role in the first instance. Nonetheless, the court decided that he was wrong. Robert Smith

00:41:11.980 lawyers argued that the alleged killings, he's alleged to have murdered people in Afghanistan,

00:41:17.420 but his defence lawyers argued that the alleged killings were either legal as they took place

00:41:22.280 during combat or did not happen at all. Defamation cases are typically dealt with in the civil court

00:41:27.840 system which requires a lower burden of proof. The judge in the defamation case found that on

00:41:31.840 the balance of probabilities there was substantial truth to allegations of war crimes by robert smith

00:41:37.240 who received australia's highest military honor for bravery in 2011 in the criminal case robert

00:41:43.240 smith robert smith faces one charge of the war crime of murder one of jointly commissioning a

00:41:48.840 murder and three of aiding abetting counseling and procuring a murder the maximum penalty for

00:41:55.460 the charges is life in prison okay there's a bit more detail but okay you get it so he's being held

00:42:00.140 on remand all right i thought that was sort of an interesting story the way service people

00:42:07.600 now in the west obviously the australia is in not in the west but you know i mean

00:42:13.060 how soldiers often are brought up on criminal charges for things they did in in combat

00:42:22.440 Sometimes I imagine it will be just and right to do that

00:42:29.460 Often not

00:42:31.180 Alright, shall we move on from that a bit

00:42:34.780 Shall we move on from that

00:42:35.800 Shall we have a look at the mail, the mail online

00:42:38.180 Obviously they go with Trump

00:42:39.380 They go with Mr. Trump

00:42:43.080 And everything

00:42:44.540 There was one story I thought was mildly interesting

00:42:47.020 If I scroll down here a bit

00:42:48.280 Oh no, apologies

00:42:50.720 it'll be on the sun sorry there's one on the sun down to the wire it all went down to the wire it

00:42:55.920 was only about 90 minutes odd i think before that blitz was supposed to start on iran it did go down

00:43:02.180 to the wire um primrose hill man was stabbed on primrose hill it's coming to diversity is coming

00:43:10.120 to a place near you even if you live in a very rich part of london very rich leafy part of

00:43:17.100 London iconic London beauty spot so it's all coming to you don't worry about it you can bury

00:43:25.140 your head in the sand for a while but they mean to smear it across the entire country even if you

00:43:33.100 live in a little town rural village they proactively talk about it and haven't they for quite a while

00:43:37.100 that your your tiny little village your hamlet is probably too white isn't it it needs diversity

00:43:42.580 So, okay, you can live in Primrose Hill, but 1.00

00:43:45.500 There's no escape from it

00:43:49.480 Or you want to move to Canada or Australia

00:43:52.740 It'll come for you there

00:43:54.580 It'll come for you there

00:43:57.160 Alright, is this the story?

00:43:59.020 Yeah, just a little story

00:43:59.980 Remembering Chandler

00:44:01.220 Remember Matt Perry?

00:44:04.180 Chandler are friends

00:44:05.300 Not to be confused with the 19th century US Admiral

00:44:09.580 all matt perry he died of a ketamine overdose didn't he in his own uh hot tub and this woman

00:44:19.980 uh supplied him the drugs and it's just um and she talks about her life in prison she went to 0.67

00:44:27.300 prison for it full full-blown prison for it she ran some sort of ketamine dealing empire out of 1.00

00:44:31.640 her home in la she's from britain as well by the way looks a bit like a younger cheryl tweedy 1.00

00:44:37.180 doesn't it? Cheryl Cole, doesn't it? I thought it was at first when I was scrolling down. I was like,

00:44:40.920 oh, what? Did Chandler have an affair with Cheryl Tweedy? No, no, no. It's a completely

00:44:47.220 different woman. Yeah, poor Chandler. I like Chandler. All right. Quick look at what was said 1.00

00:44:57.180 in Le Monde. Trump again. Oh, it's just Trump. Sorry. It's just Trump. All right then. It's

00:45:03.920 getting called to about quarter two let's have a quick look at on this day in history shall we

00:45:08.460 last five minutes five maybe ten minutes before we get to the rumble ransom superchats what

00:45:13.040 happened on this day in history you guys seem to like that section I like doing that let me get

00:45:18.640 rid of the remnants of my cold tea bring up my reserve water okay on the 8th of April down

00:45:30.320 through the centuries what happened of note what have we got here in the year 1767 the ayatana

00:45:36.440 i'm probably butchering that pronunciation ayatana kingdom in present-day thailand

00:45:42.000 falls to burmese invaders yeah interesting i know a little bit a little bit about uh the history of

00:45:48.220 southeast asia more about cambodia i've been to cambodia i was very very interested in the kamer

00:45:53.700 still am very very very interested fascinated really by the kamer civilization and that whole

00:45:58.820 part of the world as you can imagine modern day cambodia thailand burma or is miyama used to be 0.53

00:46:05.700 siam um they've all been at war with each other since time immemorial right the way france and 0.54

00:46:13.260 germany the teuton and the gaul or the briton and the gaul we've been at war with each other 0.59

00:46:18.840 always more or less on and off right it's the same with those places as you can well imagine

00:46:24.280 just how it goes isn't it um so there's a civilization in siam modern day thailand

00:46:30.760 roughly very roughly um and it had lasted since like the what's like the 14th century 14th century

00:46:39.080 up to the 18th century um and the the capital wasn't bangkok it was that place ayutana and

00:46:47.320 eventually they went through a period of decline and collapse and economic ruin and in the end the

00:46:52.040 The Burmese, modern-day Myanmar, invaded like a year-long, year-and-a-half-long-year siege 0.74

00:47:01.700 to take that capital city, which they did, destroyed it. 0.82

00:47:06.680 Anyway, Siam, Thailand moves into a new phase, a new period.

00:47:11.100 They make a whole new capital.

00:47:12.760 They take Bangkok as their capital going forward.

00:47:14.400 Anyway, interesting stuff, if you're interested in that part of the world.

00:47:17.660 the Venus de Milo, the Gummy de Milo.

00:47:22.420 That is the Venus de Milo there,

00:47:25.060 thought of as a paragon,

00:47:28.320 almost a perfect example of antique sculpture

00:47:31.340 from the ancient world.

00:47:34.680 We're told that in 1820,

00:47:37.120 the famous ancient Greek statue, the Venus de Milo,

00:47:39.080 is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.

00:47:44.260 It's very lifelike, isn't it?

00:47:45.920 I mean it's also stylised in some ways

00:47:48.080 But in later centuries

00:47:50.500 Later periods

00:47:51.400 When art historians

00:47:54.340 Look at this

00:47:54.980 Like the Byzantine period

00:47:56.720 Or the late antiquity

00:47:58.320 The art style was not

00:48:00.400 That sort of fairly hyper realistic

00:48:03.460 Yet centuries and centuries before

00:48:06.160 They'd mastered it really

00:48:08.220 Like that could be

00:48:09.640 A renaissance master

00:48:12.120 Couldn't it

00:48:12.540 That could be something by

00:48:14.220 Michelangelo

00:48:15.380 couldn't it no like 2 000 years before michelangelo or something a remarkable thing

00:48:21.820 a remarkable thing okay on this day in 1886 william gladstone multiple time prime minister

00:48:29.800 was he promised to four different times like not just winning four elections one off the other

00:48:34.860 being prime minister losing being out of power and then coming back i think he did it for certainly

00:48:39.000 three i think it might have been four times gladstone dominated a whole generation of

00:48:44.200 politics one way or another. Late 19th century, late Victorian politics, William Gladstone.

00:48:48.900 Fascinating person, figure. Very, very dour. Very, very, very interesting person, William

00:48:54.340 Gladstone. He introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill in the British House of Commons.

00:48:59.940 Do you remember it wasn't too long ago, a week or two ago, we talked about how the final

00:49:03.780 Home Rule Bill wasn't passed until like 1922? 1922? And I said how it was long overdue by

00:49:12.340 that point i mean a century or more two centuries well you can see there that by 1886 they're sort

00:49:18.840 of actively trying to do it but it still wouldn't be like another you know knocking 40 odd years

00:49:25.520 35 years or whatever before it actually happened interesting on this day in 1898 the battle of

00:49:33.420 atbara river which is the anglo-egyptian forces defeat 15 000 sudanese during the mardist war

00:49:40.500 a turning point in the reconquest of sudan i think i've mentioned before haven't i a book called

00:49:47.740 the river war by none other than one sir winston churchill brilliant book i'm not a giant fan of

00:49:55.100 the politician i'm a huge fan of churchill the writer and historian churchill as a young man

00:50:03.020 he was in the lancers he was a cavalryman young man in his 20s personally fought in that war

00:50:09.320 even killed in action

00:50:12.120 some Sudanese soldiers

00:50:14.660 ran them down with his lance

00:50:16.460 and pierced them 0.91

00:50:17.300 said it was brilliant

00:50:18.940 said it was one of the greatest achievements of his life

00:50:20.580 it was great, he loved it

00:50:21.580 anyway

00:50:23.820 The River War, the book The River War

00:50:25.860 I believe it's all on YouTube and abridged

00:50:27.680 obviously for free

00:50:29.580 give it a listen

00:50:31.520 while you're doing the ironing

00:50:33.900 while you're washing up

00:50:34.640 while you're playing a computer game

00:50:36.000 listen to it, brilliant, brilliant story

00:50:37.480 brilliant narrative

00:50:38.260 very very well written anyway we ended up the egyptians asked us

00:50:43.520 to help them put down a mardist revolt in sudan which eventually we did getting all the way to

00:50:51.500 khartoum the capital of the mardi and eventually taking it but an element of that was the battle

00:50:57.740 at atbara river loads and loads and loads of fascinating detail about all of that okay on

00:51:04.080 this day in 1913, China's National Assembly opens in Peking, the first free democratic

00:51:11.880 parliament in Chinese history, and one of the very few. So that's after they deposed

00:51:21.360 the last emperor, the last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi. Talk about a fascinating life. Gladstone

00:51:31.640 and Churchill almost pales in comparison to the life of Puyi the last emperor is a small child

00:51:37.140 when he was deposed in like 1912 was it briefly came back briefly used as a puppet by the Japanese

00:51:43.620 during World War II so many ups and downs yeah so there was a period there before the communists

00:51:51.660 got in because the communists don't get in until after the war it's in the late 40s isn't it Mao

00:51:56.600 gets in so you've got sort of a free democratic period very briefly in china then basically

00:52:02.820 warlords nationalist warlords chan kai-chek and stuff uh there's a long story long story on my

00:52:10.000 own channel history bro i've got a long very long form what an 18 part series about mal the life and

00:52:15.620 career of chairman mal and the first couple of episodes of that i'm just setting up and talk all

00:52:19.480 about the china that mal was born into and i talk all about all of that stuff there so if you're

00:52:25.820 interested in that consider having an open to history bro some of the earliest videos I did

00:52:29.940 you'd have to scroll down to find those but they're there if you want that all right on this day in

00:52:35.420 2004 humanitarian ceasefire agreement on the conflict in Darfur is signed by the Sudanese

00:52:40.400 government and the two rebel groups ending hostilities amid a 45-day ceasefire there you

00:52:46.980 go won't talk about that too much too messy all right it isn't a history show let's do the

00:52:54.780 rubble rents and super chats shall we all right let me do this with my mic so i can see the left

00:53:01.120 hand side of my screen we've got rumble rents here they are global church history in at number one

00:53:09.100 and still and still the reigning defended undisputed champion of rumble rents on the

00:53:18.240 Bojo, Global Church History, straight in, pre-8am, yeah, quarter to a, you say, on this

00:53:26.280 day in 217 AD, Caracalla was assassinated, oh yeah, Caracalla, very interesting, one

00:53:32.180 of the worst despotic Roman emperors there ever was, he's up there, he's considered up 0.77

00:53:36.260 there with Domitian and Caligula and Nero, absolute, absolute psycho, terrifying person 0.93

00:53:42.060 to have been around, killed his own brother, in the end, was he murdered, he was assassinated

00:53:47.640 by his own men wasn't he? Some Praetorians. Praetorian. They just murdered him on the 0.54

00:53:54.280 road. He's on the road somewhere or other in the east. Gets out of his carriage to relieve

00:53:58.320 himself. His own soldiers come up behind him. Stab him up. Alright, that's Caracalla. He

00:54:06.500 was assassinated on this day in the year 217 AD. On this day in 1271, Babers conquers 0.99

00:54:14.560 Crack de Chevalier, oh, Crack de Chevalier, one of the greatest crusader castles ever. 0.60

00:54:23.720 I think I don't talk about it in detail on Epochs, Epochs of the Lotus Eaters.

00:54:28.960 Consider going to lotusseaters.com, sign up for as little as £5 a month,

00:54:31.980 prostitute membership. Yeah, I've got a long-form bit of content, just all about castles.

00:54:38.700 And we'll talk all about the Crack de Chevalier there, it's in modern-day Syria.

00:54:41.560 i'd love to visit it myself during the isis conflict it got a little bit damaged but it's

00:54:47.260 far too big to actually really be ruined or anything um google it if you're even remotely

00:54:52.240 interested in sort of 12th 13th century castles eventually conquered by babers okay on this day

00:55:01.360 in 1904 the entente cordial was signed interesting which is of course the pact between the united

00:55:10.620 kingdom or the british empire as was and france that we've got each other's back if anyone

00:55:18.460 germany attacks any of any of our stuff anywhere in the world we've got each other's back the

00:55:25.840 entente cordiale okay interesting right oh you haven't think i haven't got content talking all

00:55:32.540 about the origins of world war one well it's not in conversation with godfrey bloom xmep godfrey

00:55:37.540 bloom okay oh it's all there okay for tea and barber for tea and barber thank you sir you're

00:55:44.780 always in in the nearly always in the chat in the uh rumble rants and super chat so thank you very

00:55:50.100 much you say morning shame about the technical issues yesterday yeah really still had i was

00:55:57.560 coming right to the end of the conversation anyway wasn't it it was literally the last question he

00:56:01.620 was answering the last question so we got a solid 40 minutes old didn't we with uh the honorable

00:56:07.520 member for great yama um but yeah shame we apparently in the last 24 hours all the producer

00:56:14.180 guys have done some sort of overhaul and nothing like that should happen again but yeah it's a

00:56:19.600 shame it's a shame oh well only missed really in reality a minute or two was lost of potential

00:56:27.240 rupert load content so not the end world but it is uh a shame as you say yeah a little bit of a

00:56:34.000 hopefully it will never happen again

00:56:35.400 showing back the technical issues yesterday

00:56:38.440 but what's a great guest

00:56:40.000 yeah I mean it's a privilege right

00:56:42.040 he doesn't have to do things like this

00:56:43.860 he can pick and choose whatever he wants

00:56:45.360 so

00:56:46.060 right

00:56:47.800 Earthset is so beautiful

00:56:50.240 yeah what an incredible picture

00:56:52.340 I agree

00:56:53.000 I'm glad about the ceasefire

00:56:54.840 hopefully it leads to peace

00:56:56.000 well fingers crossed

00:56:57.320 yeah I mean

00:56:58.020 Trump said

00:56:59.680 Iran is sick of it

00:57:01.980 and so is everyone else

00:57:03.860 that's almost verbatim maybe not the exact phrase phrasing and wording but he said that

00:57:08.220 everyone is sick of it yeah right mystery yeah okay st luke 91 luke street luke stewart says

00:57:18.840 g'day bo uh i saw a video from from home front war front they're talking about one major issue

00:57:27.520 for iran is running out of water if you look at egyptian history drought seems to end civilizations

00:57:32.720 for a time, yeah, I mean, yeah, ancient

00:57:34.880 truly ancient Egyptian

00:57:36.300 history and civilisation is riddled with

00:57:38.680 examples of drought

00:57:39.580 which caused

00:57:41.540 whole regimes and monarchies can collapse

00:57:44.740 off the back of it, the civil unrest that results from it

00:57:46.720 and stuff, yeah

00:57:47.140 yeah, it'll be a problem for Iran, certain parts of Iran 0.99

00:57:50.780 of course Iran is very, very big

00:57:52.140 but certain parts of Iran are very distant

00:57:54.320 like the Gidrosian wastes

00:57:56.240 the Gidrosian wastes down in the south

00:57:59.120 there's massive rivers

00:58:02.700 as well though so freshwater rivers and all sorts of things but yeah some parts we ride it would be 0.79

00:58:06.340 a problem if the united states or israel were to bomb their desalinization plants to bits that

00:58:13.560 would cause a problem okay a fair few or all the three or four others are all from luke stewart so

00:58:20.340 i'll get through them or the next three rather you say luke uh so you wouldn't need an you wouldn't

00:58:27.660 need to nuke them if you want to enter civilization the amount of times i read something

00:58:32.560 about history they have a good time then a bad drought that ends the dynasty civilization

00:58:39.520 right yeah similar point as before yeah there was no real there was no question that the americans

00:58:45.920 were going to nuke them i don't think there's no question despite what you could read into what

00:58:52.400 trump said that was on the cards but it wasn't really was it realistically okay luke again says

00:58:57.340 and then the government complains their recruitment is s and they have to bring in conscription

00:59:03.720 i'm talking about army numbers i imagine that would be in response to and finally you say

00:59:12.500 um i don't think the ceasefire with iran is going to last long could be right could be right i don't

00:59:18.140 know i i suspect it won't hold indefinitely okay but you said you don't think it was going to last

00:59:26.240 very long i think it will kick up again in about a week when the u.s realized that iran was just

00:59:33.000 trying to drag their feet and rearm quote to fight again quote yeah maybe very very well maybe

00:59:39.240 that's far from the realms of impossibility that that's exactly how it plays out that one way or

00:59:45.600 another iran cross various red lines that the state department on the white house have got

00:59:51.380 they're like no that's not what we agreed to that's not what we that wasn't the deal that's

00:59:55.240 not what we thought the deal was rather more accurately so it's back on trump has said as

01:00:00.780 well he explicitly said if if it needs to go back on we could do that very easily i think quote very

01:00:07.480 easily yeah so you may well be right you may well be right okay the youtube super chats harry you

01:00:15.160 you have to do that for me if you wouldn't mind all right here they are they're on my screen now

01:00:19.920 There's a fair few of them, actually, or 10 dozen or so.

01:00:23.860 Let's get through them.

01:00:25.660 Kay Kariah says,

01:00:28.820 Nice to see the UK's right-wing shills can save face by expressing outrage at the YI ban in the name of free speech

01:00:38.340 after blackening the name of anyone who practised statilatory.

01:00:49.920 Or state-dolatory

01:00:52.200 Is that a word? I don't know that word

01:00:53.780 I think I've got a reasonable vocabulary

01:00:56.660 But I don't know that word

01:00:57.640 In the name of Israel 0.83

01:00:59.540 Right, okay, I think I get the point 0.97

01:01:02.620 You're saying

01:01:03.300 Yeah, I guess I agree

01:01:08.220 If I get what you're saying

01:01:09.500 Okay, thank you anyway

01:01:12.040 For the half-decent amount of money you've given in that super chat

01:01:14.220 Okay, Chris281

01:01:16.220 Again, for a decent amount of money

01:01:17.880 You say

01:01:18.240 i sub to a flight tracking app i'm seeing large transport military planes flying from the us to

01:01:26.120 uk europe and then to here bracket cyprus and the middle east cyprus mail cyprus mail latest

01:01:35.840 headline is uk just sent 24 merlin mk2s here i'm skeptical the merlin is that the helicopter

01:01:42.940 I should know that

01:01:44.340 Anyway, I think they're the helicopters

01:01:46.340 Okay, so you're saying

01:01:48.300 That you're still just seeing lots and lots of

01:01:51.120 Military materiel

01:01:52.840 Being built up

01:01:54.100 At least in Cyprus, at least in the 0.94

01:01:56.440 Western Mediterranean 0.51

01:01:58.380 Okay, yeah

01:02:00.800 I can believe it, I can absolutely believe it

01:02:02.820 I don't think it's

01:02:05.140 I don't think this thing's over

01:02:06.580 Like properly over, over

01:02:08.140 Okay

01:02:10.540 Thanks for the super chat

01:02:12.080 Anime Chud Party 1.00

01:02:14.360 That always makes me laugh 1.00

01:02:15.540 Where did you come up with that

01:02:16.960 I mean it's funny

01:02:18.080 I'm not having a go

01:02:18.960 Where did you get that from 0.98

01:02:20.200 Anime Chud Party 0.87

01:02:21.800 Says 0.91

01:02:25.320 Working night shift

01:02:27.760 So I can watch you 1.00

01:02:28.960 Hire from Az

01:02:30.080 Oh thank you

01:02:30.920 Cool

01:02:31.140 Is that Arizona

01:02:33.940 Just put Az 0.98

01:02:35.420 A-Z 0.97

01:02:35.880 Is that Arizona

01:02:36.680 Cool thank you

01:02:38.500 Appreciate it

01:02:39.280 Appreciate it

01:02:40.480 Thank you

01:02:41.580 anime chad party what a name brilliant brilliant all right brandon lucas says for a half decent

01:02:47.980 in the background of us acting with moral superiority or is it us in the background of

01:02:55.520 us acting with moral superiority against trump trying to intimidate the iranians and maybe

01:03:00.680 succeeding the dragon breaking down is probably the biggest military story yesterday yeah i mean

01:03:07.240 as far as Britain's concerned certainly as far as Britain's concerned yeah I mean I would say

01:03:13.040 the heavy bombing of Karg Island was a bigger story overall but as far as Britain is concerned

01:03:18.440 yeah yeah how embarrassing is it it's embarrassing it's like the most token of token efforts ever

01:03:25.480 and even that couldn't just sail from Portsmouth or wherever it was Southampton wherever it was

01:03:31.720 can just sail in one go to Cyprus, no, it had to stop for, yeah, Brandon Lucas again,

01:03:40.700 for even more amount of money, thank you sir, appreciate that, says, I'm not sure why the

01:03:46.420 Type 45s aren't seen, the type, the frigate, right, the Type 45, Enter the Dragon, aren't

01:03:53.560 seen as a singularity of scandals, entirely bespoke systems, so not only extremely expensive,

01:04:01.720 uh due to small economy of scale because we don't make a point very good point we don't

01:04:07.000 mass produce these things so each one's like a little bespoke jewel thing highly engineered 0.78

01:04:12.920 to very very high tolerances and everything but massively expensive but rarely break in due to bae

01:04:21.800 stock hysterics okay bae the the manufacturer would it be british american aerospace bae

01:04:31.720 Due to stock hysterics

01:04:34.340 Rarely broken in

01:04:36.800 We don't even get to use them very often at all

01:04:38.640 If ever, hardly ever

01:04:39.720 All good points, all great points

01:04:41.580 Okay, Brendan Luce again says

01:04:44.500 Tugendhat

01:04:46.180 A British politician friend

01:04:48.060 I don't know, Tory isn't he, Tugendhat

01:04:49.460 He hasn't switched to reform yet

01:04:51.520 I don't know, I think he's still a Tory

01:04:53.440 Tugendhat also said on question time 1.00

01:04:55.840 Type 45s are

01:04:57.560 Our sole missile defence 0.71

01:05:00.180 Of Ireland

01:05:01.620 the only missile defense of islands no patriots no iron dome the thing that broke down yesterday

01:05:08.000 yeah uh i'm not sure if that's right i'm not i'm not saying you've got it wrong or anything i just

01:05:14.980 don't know i thought there were i thought there were other surface to air things at that cypress

01:05:20.080 base are they not maybe you're right maybe you're right i thought there were other things but

01:05:24.940 certainly in terms of just an actual like navy asset like a ship in the water sitting in the

01:05:29.820 bobbing it will be the only one pretty sure that's true that's right it's not much is it

01:05:35.580 although cyprus the the raf bases on cyprus are not likely to come under any sort of sustained

01:05:41.260 attack are they so yeah you're right you're right okay zen gunman zen gunman says i have no problem

01:05:52.200 banning kanye from permanent residence in the uk i do have a problem with banning kanye from coming

01:05:58.320 to the uk temporarily to talk uh yeah fair point i probably agree with that probably agree with

01:06:03.360 that we don't need him permanently do we he should be allowed to turn up on holiday at least

01:06:08.840 go and sing a few songs for a few days it's not really a danger to our society is it all right

01:06:18.060 brendan lucas again says matt perry is actually related to commander matt perry is that true is

01:06:25.600 right i never knew that for anyone who doesn't know in the late 19th century or early 19th

01:06:30.880 century japan was closed closed society they didn't trade with anyone particularly or very

01:06:36.240 very very minimal in the end the united states went over there with modern 19th century modern

01:06:41.920 ships just like sailed into kyoto bay or tokyo bay just said you're like at the point of a of a

01:06:48.640 cannon you're trading with us now there's nothing japan could do about it because they only had like

01:06:55.280 Like wooden junks or whatever.

01:06:57.100 They were completely outclassed and outgunned in terms of technology and everything. 0.92

01:07:01.400 Japan changed their ways profoundly after that moment.

01:07:06.640 The commander, the US commander of all of that was a guy called Matt Perry.

01:07:10.120 Matthew Perry.

01:07:13.360 Brandon Lucas says he's related to the Matt Perry Chandler.

01:07:17.160 Chandler Matt Perry.

01:07:19.200 Oh, I never knew that.

01:07:21.200 Interesting.

01:07:22.460 Okay, alright.

01:07:23.160 AnimeChudParty again says

01:07:25.860 What's your favourite video game

01:07:27.920 Probably Civ 4

01:07:32.280 Sid Meier's Civilisation 4

01:07:35.040 Not any of the later or earlier Civ games

01:07:38.320 Just Civ 4

01:07:39.280 I do like San Andreas

01:07:42.660 Okay

01:07:45.720 Erwin Romulus says

01:07:48.880 A VC winner can never be stripped of their world

01:07:51.660 even if sentenced to death do you think the lefties will demand uh robert smith lose his

01:07:57.760 some will i imagine yeah oh yeah some people people that hate australia or any sort of

01:08:05.980 australian achievement in any way i'm sure would yeah and the last one for today comes in from

01:08:13.160 anime chad party again saying have you ever thought about doing an epox on logic gates and

01:08:19.620 computers i know ancient greece had mechanical computers um not really it's not really one i

01:08:25.960 think oh they had what is it the the uh oh i did an article about it the antikythera mechanism

01:08:33.720 that's not what it's called i can't remember there's a particular sort of mechanism device

01:08:37.420 thing they found didn't they which which definitely dates from the ancient world and it seems to have

01:08:41.620 loads of cogs and gears and things whether you could call it i mean maybe you could technically

01:08:47.480 call it a mechanical computer i don't know but actually doing a whole epoch so like the history

01:08:53.220 of logic gates and computers i'm afraid it's not really my thing i'm afraid it's not really my thing

01:08:59.800 quite technically inept to be perfectly candid with you like at a level i did english lit

01:09:06.020 history and ancient history so all humanities and then undergrad i did ancient history then

01:09:12.460 postgrad i did politics politics policy and government so proper science like a level or

01:09:19.980 undergrad degree science computer science it's not my thing i'm afraid i could spend ages learning

01:09:26.120 about it but i'm i'm not going to i'm afraid sorry to say but there is an article out there

01:09:30.220 on notice.com uh free uh an article i wrote ages ago four years ago or so um about that i can't

01:09:39.060 I remember something Kythera mechanism, but I wrote about that.

01:09:44.400 So there's that there.

01:09:46.520 Basically asking the question, how is this possible?

01:09:49.280 How are there no other examples of this?

01:09:50.920 It seems to us the archaeological record shows this one thing they made.

01:09:55.360 How is that possible?

01:09:56.460 That's not how things work.

01:09:58.120 You don't go from nothing to gears and cogs.

01:10:00.880 Small, precision-engineered, would be by hand,

01:10:05.800 but essentially precision-engineered cogs and gears.

01:10:09.060 How does that work?

01:10:10.360 How does that, you know, it's interesting.

01:10:12.040 Sort of a quirk of history and an anomaly of history.

01:10:14.440 Alright, so, that's the show.

01:10:17.480 That's it for today, I'm afraid.

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01:10:31.700 11 minutes past 9 in the AM, British Summer Time.

01:10:34.800 On Wednesday, the 8th of April, in the year of our law, 2026.

01:10:36.980 Try and make the best of the day ahead, if you can.

01:10:38.580 You've only got it once

01:10:39.840 You really have

01:10:41.160 Carpe diem

01:10:41.780 Seize the day

01:10:42.380 The most precious thing you've got

01:10:44.520 Is your time

01:10:45.300 Especially if you're young

01:10:47.220 You think you've got endless days

01:10:48.480 Not the case

01:10:50.300 If you can

01:10:51.740 Try and make it count

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01:10:52.700 Until tomorrow morning then

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 08, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 8th April 2026

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