Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Friday, the 6th of June 2025.

I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Bo.

And we are going to bring you today a special D-Day special, aren't we, for the 81st anniversary of D-Day.

So this is really going to be you just cooking in the kitchen, and I'm going to be, you know, listening intensely and providing commentary where it matters.

Okay, cool.

Yeah, well, last year we did this.

So there's no segments today.

It's just one long thing commemorating June 6th.

And last year, if you can see, I did the same thing last year with retired squadron

leader Tim Davis, RAF. And I didn't get through most of the things I wanted to get through.

I mean, an hour and a half isn't really all that long, or an hour and 20, more realistically.

There's so much that can be said. I mean, there's dozens, hundreds of books written about it.

Could do hours and hours and hours and hours of content on it if you wanted to.

So, anyway, last time I talked about as much as I could.

And so this time I'll talk about all different things.

Last time, if anyone wants to go back, what was it, episode 900 and something,

I talked a lot about the Germans last time. I talked a lot about

Romel and von Roenstead and Hitler, Yodel, Keitel. It's a lot about the Atlantic Wall.

Talked a fair bit about Eich Eisenhower and his circus wagon.

Yeah, and the fact that the Germans were really set on the idea that the invasion was going to happen at Calais.

They were convinced.

Yes.

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