Hello and welcome back to the Spikes Podcast I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week as ever we have Spikes editor Tom Slater and joining us this week we have spiked contributor Candice Holdsworth.

Good to be here.

Thanks for inviting me.

Coming up on today's show, we have Joe Biden's visit to Ireland,

Elon Musk versus the BBC,

and the curious rise of Dylan Mulvaney.

So Joe Biden touched down in Northern Ireland earlier this week

to pay tribute to the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

As we speak, he's in the Republic of Ireland and I think it's fair to say he's enjoying that

leg of the trip rather more.

He's gone on this sort of who do you think you are style tour visiting distant relatives,

10,000th degree cousins or whatever it might be.

Candace, I mean what have you made of this version of Joe Biden you know he's been very

keen to say that he's Irish if anyone doesn't know that by now they must be living

under a rock I mean what do you make of that kind of I think we've all been waiting for the Biden Gaff,

and he did not disappoint with confusing

the black and tans with a rugby team,

which was just an amazing moment,

even better than Rashid Senuk,

which I didn't think he could top, thinking that was Rishi

Sunak's name.

Yeah, I think Democrat voters in the US are very attuned to the Irish-American communities.

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