Welcome to another exciting edition of Plank of the Week.

Unfortunately, we're still not in a position to video this particular episode,

so we're going to do it as an audio podcast only.

And I'm delighted to say for the first time joining us is Joe Hemings,

psychologist to the stars, and indeed me occasionally.

Joe, a very warm welcome to Plank of the Week.

Thank you very much, Mike.

Very, very much looking forward to your selections.

And Russell Quirk, who I have to say as a bit of a veteran of Plank of the Week,

has been on it quite a few times in various different guys.

It's Russell, housing expert, property man, a man of many parts, really.

Welcome back, Russell.

Thank you, Mike.

Can't plead you keep having me back but thank you on you haven't done anything yet to

dissuade me from having you back now um we've explained to joe how this all works even

though she does listen to it on a regular basis and so we're going to try and basically get

three nominations for plank of the week out of joe um i've got a terrible feeling joe that

you might be a bit of a token lefty on this show.

Well, I would say I was probably quite middle ground, maybe during the left,

but I think for your show purposes, I am really quite seriously for our left wing.

Right.

Does that mean you're going to nominate the senior advisor to the government for Plank of the Week?

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