Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,426. I'm your host,

Harry, joined today by Stelios. Hello. And Luca. Hello there. And today we're going to be

talking about how Restore, not Restarm, Restarmour, how Restore are over the target, because

there are a load of hit pieces against

them right now from all sorts of publications, and it should be very fun. We'll also talk about

Merkel receiving the order of merit, a more deserving candidate I can't think of, frankly.

And I'm going to be doing something a little bit different in talking about how the left lies to you

by examining some of the works that they actually produce, examining the world as it exists now,

and we can compare, contrast, and analyze it against our understandings of the world.

So I hope you'll stick around for that. It should be an interesting discussion, kind of a mini book club.

Would that anything else that we'd like to say before we begin?

Yes, the latest episode of Chronicles is out, ladies and gentlemen, and this time I'm delighted to be talking all about the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

It's one of my absolute favorite poems, and Alastair, good editor, has managed to help infuse this particular episode with

essence of Iron Maiden throughout it all as well. Anyway, it's one of my absolute favourites.

Coleridge has so much to say, you know, about divinity and about respect for nature. But he

coats it all in this wonderful Gothic manner. And really,

it's actually quite a reactionary text when you look at the reductionism of the Enlightenment

and the sort of the material philosophy that it all led to. So this is the first part of the

analysis. I'm actually going to record the second after the podcast today.

So get a head start and go enjoy it.

Fantastic. Have you considered more Iron Maiden-based Chronicles?

Yes.

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