Hi there, folks. Welcome to a brand new year on the podcast of the Lotus Itas Itas.

It's 2026. I'm going to try and remember that, even though I'll probably keep saying it's 2025, but you know how these things go. I'm joined by Dan and Peter McCormack from the Peter McCormack Show. How are you? Good man. How are you? Good see again. Yeah, you too. Our last podcast was pretty good, isn't it? really well.

I got annihilated, but it didn't.

It wasn't that bad.

I was watching the comments too.

It wasn't that bad.

No. You too. Like, our last podcast was pretty good, didn't it? Really well. I got annihilated, but it didn't.

It wasn't that bad.

I was watching the comments too.

It wasn't that bad.

No, look, it's, I think I've thought about it a lot recently.

And we as a country have been slower to grow the independent media and say America.

But we're actually having the conversations which the public want and the independent, sorry, the mainstream media won't, so I think it's important we just keep doing these things. I agree. Right, so today we're going to be talking about new frontiers for Somali pirates because this has been a kind of evolving story over the past, well, over the Christmas period really. And it's just getting worse and worse.

Hot memes have been produced, most of which are two races for me to share, but I will share what I can. And that too. Then we're going to be talking about the Dominic Cummings Spectator podcast, which, did you watch it? I did. Well, I listened to it. Right, right. There were two parts. Did you watch both parts? I was cooking at the time.

So actually, I don't think I did to it. Right, right. There were two parts. Did you watch both parts? I was cooking at the time.

Right. Actually, I don't think I did get the second bit, no. That's the better bit. Yeah, I was going to say, the second bit is where it gets really good. And then we're going to have a discussion about who we should be deporting. Because apparently we're deporting somebody, some people. so, you know, you're not high-fireish, are you?

Hmm?

You're not half-fire.

I am half-irish.

Am I off?

You're on the list. Anyway, let's begin. I think Irish counts. All right, so let's take a look at what happens when a Nordic welfare state system is intersected with Somali pirates. Don't think it goes especially well.

So this has kind of been a bit all kicked off in the last few days.

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