Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1222 on the 14th of October 24.

I am joined by Stelios.

Hello everyone.

And also Josh.

Hello there.

And today we are going to be talking about

rehabilitation of the R word. Stelios is going to explain how little rocket man is putting the

kaboom back into civil engineering. How these roads didn't blow themselves up. Yes, they

didn't blow themselves up. And I will be talking about how to make you very wealthy if that is something that you're interested in. Also, if you would like to buy a copy of the Islander edition 2, you can't because you've left it too late and orders have closed. So you're going to have to wail in purgatory for the next three months waiting for the next edition to come out. And I'd also like to thank the nice people at Robbins Forge for sending us some lovely key fobs.

So thank you very much.

And also this, which is a stamp.

I believe there might have also been some stationary holders as well.

There's a whole bunch of stuff.

Yes.

Thank you.

Just people send us nice stuff, which is lovely, including Robin Swartz.

Thank you very much.

Right.

So with that, let's dive into Josh.

Yes.

So I'm going to be talking about language today.

And obviously language is very political. We talk about that all the time. And the left tries to control language because if you control language, you control what people think to a certain extent. And that's not really controversial. I think we all understand that. And it's also a sort of bipartisan view of language. And so if we wish not to grant them power,

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