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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1331

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Carl and Beau discuss the plight of liberal women, Nadhim Zahawi's defection to Reform, and how the Twitter algorithm works.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters. It is number 1,331. Can you believe that?

0:05.6

It's been a long time, isn't it? It's five years odd, isn't it now? Yeah. It's Tuesday the 13th of

0:10.4

January, 2006. I'm joined by Carl Benjamin. Hello. All right. I'm all right. And today we're

0:16.2

going to talk about liberal white women are not okay. they're not okay we'll get into that

0:23.0

I'm gonna talk about um also you know say the strange death of crypto Twitter

0:29.0

yeah but this is this is good because it tells us about how the Twitter

0:33.1

algorithm works and it's actually honestly the crypto guys are taking it really badly, but it kind

0:38.8

of makes sense. I don't know much about it. So I'm going to be learning in real time with you.

0:43.1

And I'm going to do a segment all about the latest defection to reform of that Boris Chancellor

0:49.9

fella, Iraqi-born dude. We're going to talk about that. Yeah. Why? What's the thinking behind that?

0:55.2

How is that in their interests? All right. So, should we just jump straight in?

0:59.5

No, we should chill Islander first. Oh, Islander magazine. It's the best magazine. Get it now.

1:06.0

Buy it. To be fair. While stocks last. Yeah, no, no. This this so this is the fastest selling issue of

1:12.9

islander that we've had and it is also the best so there is a limited print run on it get it while

1:18.3

you can because every day i get people can i get a copy of islander two or one no you can't once

1:23.7

it's gone it's gone we're never reprinting them there a moment in history you have are a moment in history. You have to be there for it. And if you weren't there for it, well...

1:30.3

That has always been your line on it, hasn't it? 100%.

1:33.3

Well, scarcity creates value, doesn't it?

1:36.4

It's not just that, though.

1:37.7

It is, I mean, if that were the case, why wouldn't we sell it for more, right?

1:43.1

15 quid is actually not that much.

1:45.0

But, like, it's more, right? 15 quits actually not that much. But like,

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