Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus It is episode 1,266 for, I couldn't help itself,

you've got to emphasise it. For Friday, the 3rd of October 2025, I'm your host, Luca,

joined today by Josh and Nick. Thank you to you both for coming in. You're welcome. And before we

go through our segments today, I just want to remind you, it is Friday,

so we are, of course, having Lad's Hour a little bit later after the show at 3pm. And we're

going to be talking about the great British comedies, something that I'm sure we all hold very dear to our hearts.

And we all have our own favourites, and I'm sure we'll hash it out over

which one is the greatest. You better bloody watch it because it tells me ages to put this together.

Yeah and it's literally the only topic I'm an expert in is comedy apart from post modern American

fiction. So unless that's for doing a lads out of that, this is going to be my best one I've ever done.

We'll do that niche another time.

Anyway, so today we're going to be talking, of course, about the Manchester terror attack that we all

horrifically witnessed yesterday. We're then going to be talking about the latest woke pope.

They seem to just all be woke, really.

In a respectful way that won't inflame the Catholics in the comments, hopefully.

But he is quite woke.

The Pope always has been.

A respectful critique.

And Luther rights...

Deep prodig here, I'm afraid.

And then we're going to be talking about a rare win for South Africa.

So with that all said, let's begin the first segment, shall we? So obviously,

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