Hello, and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1389, on Friday the 3rd of April year of our Lord 26.

I'm joined by Josh.

Hello.

And Nick.

Hello.

And we've got a banger podcast for you today.

All upbeat.

We're going to be talking about how excited it is that our humanity is going to the moon for the very first time, how exciting

it is that the British are villains again, and why ethno-nationalism is inevitable. So, with that,

why don't we begin with Josh? Okay, I thought as it's Friday, let's talk about something

actually good, and it is a very good thing,

and that is the Artemis II launch. And although there have been some people saying that,

you know, some of the technology could be better, and, you know, perhaps they could have saved

a bit more money because it's publicly funded, however, I would argue that using resources,

however efficiently, to go up to space and push the frontiers of humanity,

is probably one of the best uses of resources available to humanity.

Who's saying the technology is bad?

I don't know.

Engineer people.

Okay.

I don't know enough about it. I'm a psychologist. I can't weigh in here. If we wanted to use superior technology, why didn't we just get the 1950s stuff out and do that? And then we would actually be to land as well as just go around it. Well, I think the idea is of this launch. I'll play this in the background just so we can actually see the rocket as I talk about it.

Oh, I don't want the music though.

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