Hello and welcome back to God Save the King. I am your host and

Barbara and I can confirm I do have a special guest with me today but I can

also confirm it is not Megan

Markle we are not the new home of her new adventures with podcasting after her

Spotify podcast is is no bore by mutual agreement but Russell Myers is back

and we're a royal editor well actually he's king of royal things but his new title is

far too long and important to repeat it every week in his head would get

far too big for any crown that could

give him to him. So Russell, hello, lovely to see you. Hello, I was quite excited

though and I thought I was going to be the special guest and then this was some sort of

big you know new relationship we were

going to have. Thank you very much I appreciate it. Well listen if mega

market does want any tips on podcasting, come to us, obviously.

I mean, to be fair, she, her podcast did win some awards. We won an award as well.

We won an award, you know, not being big-headed or anything, but we're doing all right.

I mean, yeah, just a little, are we going straight in?

We might as well go straight into the Spotify news.

Yeah, there's lots of, there's lots of other exciting things to talk about,

grand outfits, big plans, all sorts of things to look at what's been going on

in the UK side of the world, but let's yeah, let's handle that big news from America first and the end of you know it's one of the big deals that Megan and Harry signed. It was meant to run for longer but they probably won't be getting all of the money from it.

And then there was a pretty brutal verdict from Bill Simmons head of podcast innovation and monetization

at Spotify and he made some pretty choice comments in his own podcast. I won't do swearing because we don't swear on this show,

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