Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,387.

I thought we're 500 ahead of what we actually have.

It's very, very ambitious of me.

For the 1st of April, 2026, I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Josh and Stelios.

Hello everyone.

And on this auspicious April Fool's Day, Stelios and I are Mediterranean maxing. We're like your Mediterranean bodyguards. Yes. I should just take the tie off this waistcoat. Yeah, I should have. We're trying to manifest the summer. It's been cold and miserable here for too long. Yeah. Well, I'll wear, I'll med-max another day. Anyway,

today we're going to be talking all about the anti-racist action, inaction, and how actually

this entire, the entire project of anti-racism has not produced the results that are best for

anyone involved, really. We're then going to be talking about the British government lying to us because it's a day in the week in the year in the 21st century and in Britain.

It's not the most unusual thing to happen, but it's something that no one else has noticed except me,

and I'm very annoyed and disappointed

everyone except me.

You're a perceptive man.

And then we're going to be talking, having some fun out, we're talking all about the Canadian

leftists of Canada getting utterly humiliated.

Yeah, not all leftists, it's the new Democratic Party, the one that was led by Jack Mitt Singh.

Okay. Yeah, we're going to talk about them and they have been absolutely ridiculous.

Okay, great. And then before we do, just a few announcements. I have a new chronicles out where I'm talking all about the Barcai by Euripides. It's a fantastic play. It's a tragedy about the birth of tragedy,

about the arrival of Dionysus, Interhellus, arriving in Thebes and all of the Barcic rituals.

Dionysus is a god of theatre and wine and festival. It's about all of these things being brought into Greek civilization

and how some tragedy and fear had to take place first

in order to get to the good stuff.

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