Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 3rd of March 2025.

For some reason I've gotten the notes dock, it's 2024, so apparently I don't even know the year.

I am Josh and I am joined by the Stelios.

Hello everyone.

He's got his glasses on today. He's the Stelios.

If he takes them off, he's just Stelios.

Yeah, exactly.

And today we're talking about Trump and Zelensky's meeting. if he takes them off he's just Stelios. Yeah, exactly.

And today we're talking about Trump and Zelensky's meeting, also features J.D. Vance, of course.

I'm going to be talking about the trend of Roman salutes.

And then we're going to be talking about a theatre in Paris getting taken over by some very highly qualified academics.

They're the most scholarly of gentlemen and there's a beautiful irony to it.

And this is one of those stories.

They don't come up very often, but they're just sort of the perfect analogy. Exactly. Yeah. And there's a really deep analogy, as you said, with cultural issues,

because they are recreating a traditional of excellence and cultural excelsior.

That's right. They're bringing in all of their microscopes and engineering equipment, aren't they?

Exactly.

And some of them have doctors in engineering?

Have I heard correctly?

Very well qualified people.

Right.

Take us away, Stalios.

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