Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and welcome to the spike podcast and happy new year I'm Fraser Meyers and back with me as ever we have

Spike's editor Tom Slater. And joining us this week in the studio we have Spike

columnist Luke Gitos. Coming up on today's show The Rise rise and fall of Andrew Tate, the latest from the grooming gang scandal, and the emptiness of Rishisunak and Kir Starma.

So Andrew Tate,

Tate, possibly the world's most famous man on the internet at least, maybe people in the

real world don't know who he is, has been arrested in Romania just before the new year under suspicions of people trafficking.

I mean we're going to put that arrest to one side for a moment and let's just talk about the tape

phenomenon a little bit. I mean he came to attention most recently with this kind of spat

with Greta Thumburg on Twitter. Tom do you want to tell us a bit about that?

Yeah so he basically sort of sent for Greta Tumburg by talking about how many supercars he drives and you know all the carbon emissions that they spew out and so on.

So I forget what he what the specific message was but you know suggesting that she she should he should get in contact with her or whatever so she her or whoever runs her social media more likely fired back with this very retweeted and liked tweet saying yes here's my email please do enlighten me small

Dick Energy at get-a-life.com widely seen to have won that particular round not least

because in his follow-up video Andrew Tate in his kind of Romanian warehouse slash mansion smoking a cigar did this very lame

response video you know I've not been owned I swear Exactly. Which some people on the internet

speculated was actually the spark for his arrest or that I don't think that's

necessarily been corroborated by the authorities in Romania. So you know, aside from

anything else you do think how tragic it is that that is how

2022 probably had to end, which is a kind of very high profile Twitter about

between Greta Tumberg and Andrew Tate, the two totems of our era, the best we can

produce apparently. And Luke, I mean... of our

era,

and the best we can produce apparently.

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