Well and welcome to the podcast of the Lothitus episode episode 827 for today, Friday the 12th of January,

2024.

I'm your host Connor joined by Bo and Josh.

Hello.

Anyways.

And today we'll be discussing how no one's fighting at the moment,

talking about the low recruitment levels in the Army, how American Airlines, not just American Airlines,

the brand, but other American Airlines, are trafficking children and the Hootie Troubles, the situation down near the

Yemen and the impacts. Is it Hootie or Hootie? I'm not, I'm an Englishman, yeah, I don't want to do the terrorist organization the who-tos. Yeah

I don't feel like respecting them enough to pronounce it properly, but anyway, I'm sure we'll get corrected by everyone in the comments

No announcements today, nothing particularly

interesting going on. Thanks for joining us. So that further ado. Great way to

start a podcast. Nothing interesting going on. Anyway, here's Josh. Well, let's get

a good topic. How about something interesting for one? Well. Well, what I thought I thought we had talked about today is that nobody wants to fight for their country anymore and this is interesting because in some ways it's you know self-evidently bad and in some

ways I think is also good and I think we're going to break down how and why in a sort of

discussion and I'm going to go through just what's been reported recently and my main reason for talking about this today because this has been in the news for the past couple of months and I'm going to talk about some of the coverage on it but the main reason I wanted to look at it is this

because I think this article cuts at why lots of countries certainly in the

West are struggling to get the numbers that they want is that there has been a sharp decline in white

recruits that hasn't been reflected in other demographics which I find interesting and I'm just going

to read a little bit about this from the article, not too much,

just to fill in some of the details and then we can sort of discuss what we think about it.

So the Army's recruiting of white soldiers has dropped significantly in the last half decade,

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