Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Loadseter's episode 1,423 for Thursday, the 21st of May,

even, not June yet, getting ahead of myself, for 2026. I'm your host, Luke, joined today by

Harry and Firas. Hello. And today we're going to be talking to you all about how APAC strikes again.

We're then going to talk

about how the fact that modern writers just can't seem to finish, make a good ending for their

series. It seems to be a dying art. The quality of slop is ever declining. Even the slop is

slopping. And then we're going to talk, speaking the slop, we're

then going to talk about Modi's migrant madness, as he just seems to throw migrants in with every

trade deal that he tries to create. Before we get...

Every McDonald's happy meal sold in India comes with a free Indian.

You have no choice.

You just have to take him.

Right, before we get into the first segment,

ladies and gentlemen, two announcements for you.

We have the latest chronicles by popular demand.

Dan and I have sat down to talk about the second novel of the Flashman

papers, Royal Flash, where our anti-hero Flashman is caught up in the machinations

of Lola Montez, a very famous 19th century nymphomaniac, and the uh, the, uh, the will of Otto von Bismarck.

And it's very interesting, very fun watching Flashman tried to navigate his way through

those two very different temperaments. So anyway, all good fun. Dan and I had a great laugh with

it. If you're interested, go check it out. Also, something else to say is that the

Lotusy is live event footage for our prequel debate on whether or not the prequels were

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