Good afternoon folks. Welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eases for the 8th of October,

2024. I'm joined by Bo and Luca Johnson. the podcast the lot of the lot of

for the 8th of October 2024 I'm joined by Boa and Luca Johnson and today we're

going to be talking about the return of the king the butler p a I've really enjoyed

Trump's return and then we're going to be talking about the King of the

Internet Elon endorsing Trump and why he is doing so. And then we're going have a bit of

a tangent on Morrissey, because apparently Morrissey keeps saying things that are

politically pertinent, which I think is very

interesting which is why he's very unpopular these days in his circles of

musicians isn't he he just can't help himself. Yeah.

Morris is a noticer.

He's very much a noticer, isn't he?

This is a lot of things and he doesn't have to keep his mouth shut.

It's superb.

But yeah, before we go and get started, after the podcast we're going to be doing a round table on the corruption of Tolkien.

You may have noticed there is a huge amount of subversion in the

Tolkien sphere should we call it the worst culprits being the Tolkien society

themselves big Tolkien being the Tolkien society themselves.

Big Tolkien.

No, no, the Tolkien society is awful, absolutely awful.

Riddled with intersectionality and...

It's not just riddled with it, it is overflowing with it and it's awful and

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