Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eater's for the 11th of November 24, also known as Armistice Day.

And today I am joined by Bo and Dan.

Hello.

We're going to be discussing, or at least Bo is going to be discussing Armistice Day,

and your segment is titled, Lest We Forget, of course, that famous phrase.

I'm going to be talking about the recent goings on in Amsterdam,

where gangs of Muslims were hunting down Jewish people

when there was a football match going on.

And Dan, you're going to be covering how Trump has affected Bitcoin.

Amongst other things. It's all going rather well.

Just the announcement of him becoming president has helped the economy.

He's been pretty good for markets.

And so, yes, I suppose we may as well get right into it.

Take us away, Bo.

Okay, well, 106 years ago today, the Great War, the so-called War to End or Wars, came to an end.

There was an armistice was called, 11am on the 11th of the 11th, 1918.

Americans call it Veterans Day. We call it Armistice Day. Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday, but today is the day. So we always try and, or I always try and mark it on Lotusseaters.com. There's a little

poem I read by Siegfried Sassoon. We can see on the side there, one by John McCray and

Florida's feels that's two years ago now. So every day, every year we try and do something,

or I mark it being the resident history nerd. So I thought today we could talk about the actual

armistist. I'm fascinated by World War I, even though my background, actual academic background,

undergrad, is ancient history, classical history. I'm a fan of all history, particularly fascinated by World War I, always have been.

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