Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaders, episode 1313.

Unlucky for some, as the bingo players say, although we are perhaps so late that it should be 13, 13.1 or something, shouldn't it?

I'm joined by Stelios and special guest, Josh.

Hello, I'm not that special though.

And I might as well do the date because Callum never did it and I argued with him at the time so I kind of feel compelled to.

It is the night for December the year of our Lord 2025.

So there is that.

And we're going to be talking about how the EU can't keep its finger off the self-destruct button,

how right wingers are dangerous to children and a bit of nightmare nightmareish maga midterm stuff coming up so so there is that um and before we go any further

i have to thank um blood for the blood god um who has donated another 200 pounds um to our

eating and drinking expenses which is well-timed because we've got our Christmas

dew coming up. So that is very much appreciated. He's obviously trying to corrupt us to the

ruinous powers, but if he bribes like that, I think we should consider it. So here. Yes, very good.

Have you guys heard about this,

this EU thing where they're trying to find X out of existence?

Yeah.

I have heard about that and it seems just a little bit politically motivated.

I got that sense from it as well, yes.

Almost like there's some sort of disagreement about the existential questions

facing our civilisation and they sort of don't want to go through the route of debating

it civilly. They want to find them out of existence. Well, it is the sort of thing the EU does. However,

the main gist of what I wanted to achieve in this segment was kind of reframing it slightly,

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