Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,364 Monday the 23rd of February, 2026.

I'm your host, Luca, joined today by excellent co-host Firas and Stelios.

Hello.

And today we're going to be talking all about the cartels absolutely wreaking havoc in Mexico. We they going to be talking about how the media basically went gone.

You know, they've all joined together, they've all called the banners and the waging war on restore,

which was inevitable, of course.

And then we're going to be talking about the cancellation of Poland's Theodon, one of the great heroes of Western civilization.

Yep.

And it'll be...

Who charged in the fields of Pelinor?

Yes.

Against the Ork.

Sometimes known as Vienna.

And it should be a good history, cultural segment, but also topical as well because of stuff going on in the news.

Before we get through the segments, though, let's just talk about the fact that Farras has a

real, Realpolitik at 3 o'clock. You can be talking all about the most recent developments with

Iran. Yep. And also, I just wanted to draw people's attention to the fact that I've had two chronicles come out and not really been here to promote them.

So I just wanted to draw your attention to them because I'm really happy with them. They're good work as far as I'm concerned.

One is Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. So if you don't want to have your understanding of this classic tale tainted by the

recent film that's come out, you can always go over to my chronicles and I'll give you a

more accurate reading of what Bronte meant with this classic piece of work. And the other one is a

wonderful conversation that I had with medievalist

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