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You're waiting for me to say something, aren't you?

Well, what am I going to say?

I mean, that was one hell of a busy newsday yesterday, right?

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.

So, as the fallout from that interview was being discussed in living rooms and offices around the world yesterday afternoon,

the royal family was debating just how to respond

to the ghastly accusation of racism from the princess of wokeery. Megan Markle, who deliberately

set a hair running by making out that a member of the same royal family had made a racist

remark about her unborn child, Archie. The queen, of course, was Serenity herself. And when a statement

was issued late yesterday afternoon, it was firm, it was clear, and it was

typically classy, unlike the tenor of the Oprah Winfrey fan fest where nothing was questioned,

no challenges were made, and the Duke and Duchess of Netflix were given free reign to make smear

after smear about their own relatives.

And the reverberations, of course, didn't end there.

Shortly after the palace statement came out, there was another bombshell. Pierce Morgan, the star

of Good Morning Britain, who you've just heard on the news there, dramatically quit the show

after walking off the set yesterday morning during a row with weatherman Alex Beresford. Of course,

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