Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Itas, Episode 1,408 for Thursday, the 30th of April, 2026. I'm your host, Luca, joined today by two very fine gentlemen, Stelios and Bo. How are you both? I'm really well. How are you? Yeah, I'm all right. I'm looking forward to you. 40A, there's a movie with John Kizek and Samuel L. Jackson.

Is it? A man? I'll tell you worth for it. You're much more schooled on like the classic films than I am. It's a horror movie, which is an adapt, it's a very good adaptation of a short story by Stephen King. Okay. I'll add it to the list. I'll get to it. gentlemen, we're going to be talking all about His Majesty's visit to the colonies, to the list. I'll get to it. Anyway, today, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be talking

all about His Majesty's visit to the colonies, to the United States. We're then going to be talking

all about the business executive from hell, and then we're going to be concluding things

by talking about the pandemic of crime that is now scattering itself across our high streets up and down

the country. Before we get into all of that, though, I do just want to, once again, raise awareness

for a fantastic conversation that Stelios and I had a gargantuan-three-part series talking all about

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica. He was the royal

librarian at the great library of Alexandria, and he wrote possibly what is the definitive telling

of the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, Jason and the Golden Fleece. And so we had a really

great time discussing all of that.

And we really think you'll enjoy it. So if you want to check it out, you can go and subscribe

on the website, £5 a month and get access to that and all of the other fantastic premium content,

such as Epox, that we have on the website. All right, with all of this said, shall we crack on?

So, rejoice, my friends, because we now have a king in America again.

It turns out.

So there was a notice that was put out towards the end of last month.

And obviously, it goes to say, even though that this was announced to be happening, all of these things are planned months and months in

advance, of course, between both nations. And so this will have been long in the works. But

nonetheless, on the 31st of March, it was declared, I suppose, if we want to get medieval

about it. By royal decree, that on advice of

his majesty's government and that the invitation of the president of the United States,

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