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So I was driving the car because I had to drop my daughter off somewhere and then I had to go somewhere.

I was going down to Cumble because I was doing a thing with Mark Jenkins and the phone rings in the car.

And I've now got it set up on this, what you got hands free, you know, also lenders in the car.

Hands free. And this voice. Yeah. And this voice comes on the phone, which is you.

And it says, and of course, I firstly, I think if you're ringing me on a Friday, then something terrible has happened.

Yes. Like I've said something in the podcast and my whole family is going to prison, right? And then you say, now, I have to tell you that there is going to be a strange announcement at 1030.

I think, oh, heavens above, he's leaving or he's going to prison or we're both going to prison or something terrible.

Then of course, it turns out the announcement was at 1030 Simon Mayo. Is it member of what is it member of the British Empire?

Apparently so. So what does that actually mean? Your Lordship, your your highness, your royal.

Oh, Queen. It has where a 30. Sir, he is a good lemon from his head with you.

Yeah, all of that. Sir, I think is fine. It's just apart from that, you know, I hang on. Sir is not mb is not sir. That's no sir Anthony Hopkins.

Yeah. No, I don't you don't get any title with an mb you don't get any title. It's what do you get?

It's also the lowest. It's also the lowest because the OBEs are higher. And the CBEs are higher still. Rick, wait, we've got to sing a B.

Yes, I know, but I don't, I mean, I like Rick and everything, but that's not as important. So tell me how what happened? Did it arrive on a silver platter?

Did a flunky with a footman? Was it a coach dragged by four mice that had been magically transformed into horses by Helena Bonham Carter?

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