Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eater's episode 1,279.

I'm your host Harry, joined today by Bo and Nate, the two hosts of the State of Politics podcast,

which you should definitely subscribe to on YouTube.

And today we are going to talk about the sad collapse of the grooming, gang, inquiry is sad, but sadly I would say not unexpected.

We're going to talk about the riots that have been going on in Ireland again, and the heist of the century.

But before we get into that, first of all, I'd like to remind everybody that Stelios' ancient Greek virtue ethics course is

available on the website if you go to courses dot lottitas.com that's available and I have

outside of that a special announcement before we get into the horrible news there is good news and

that is people have been asking for a long time if I would be doing a follow-up to the comics

corner series that I used to do with Connor before he left.

And it's taken a little while, but I can say now definitively, yes, I'm doing a follow-up.

It's going to be with Samson, our producer, as a co-host, and not only can I announce this right now,

I can confirm next Thursday, which I believe is,

what is that, the 30th of October, the day before Halloween, will be doing our very first episode.

The show will be called Journey to the East.

It won't specifically just be about comics and manga.

It will also be about general weeby culture stuff and video games, obviously.

And the first episode is going to be live stream for our subscribers on the website, which will be starting at 3 o'clock,

and just in time for Halloween we are going to be covering the Silent Hill video game series,

the original four games done by Team Silent, the movies, and then the

resurgence it's been going through.

So anybody who's been looking forward to anything like that or our coverage of those games

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