Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Itas, episode 1,278 for Tuesday the 21st of October 2025.

I'm your host Luca, joined today by Josh, The Fermanator.

Aye. He said he'd be back and he is. And also a good friend of the show, Louis Brackfall. How are you, sir?

Very well, yourself. Yeah, very well. Thank you. Thank you for coming in. I'm saying very well. The pin here, I just realised. I don't have a flag pin. Got to be raising the colours, man. Shame. Much shame. It's my divided loyalties. I'm going to have a half Scottish, half English one now. Oh, I thought you were going to go Cornish. Well, according to ancestry, I'm only like 3% Cornish. Oh, well done.

She's weird.

Well done. one. Oh, I thought you were going to go Cornish. Well, according to Ancestry, I'm only like 3% Cornish.

Oh, well done. She's weird. Well done. Anyway, today we're going to be talking all about the vote

against the president-elect of Oxford. We're then going to be talking about what the Home Office

is trying to hide from us, and then we're going to be defending the Lord of the Rings

against the latest series of baseless attacks. And I can assure you, yes. And I can assure you,

ladies and gentlemen, ahead of time, rest assured that we will have only correct, based, and

definitive takes during that segment. So with that all said, before we do begin

actually, I just also want to point you towards my own show of Chronicles because it was a bit

of a tech issue on the website this weekend, so not everyone was able to see it go up. And

I've started the first of a two-part series looking at Shakespeare's

Romeo and Juliet. It was a lot of fun to record. If you listen to it as well, I do attempt

many of the lines, read a few monologues myself. It's quite funny actually because the camera

wasn't on, so I was just able to stand and perform them.

It was very fun.

Anyway, so if you're interested, go and check out one of, what I have to say about, one of Shakespeare's classics.

You're reading all of the sort of romantic lines, so it's going to be like, if you listen to it, you're slowly seducing the audience.

Yes, I am Romeo and Juliet in the piece in a real bipolar sort of romantic, a very

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