In many ways, she was my lodestar.

And growing up in suburban Southeast London in the 90s, I, you know, her music really gave me permission to be weird.

And she was, you know, she was a woman of the people.

She was the people's queen, like the people's princess, but one better than that.

And now, you know, I'm struggling, boys.

I am.

It's true.

Well, we're gonna get each other through it.

Yeah, as we've all lost the magic blood grandma.

Yeah, we have.

And has special blood, yeah.

Yeah, it's pushed the, um, it's pushed the, um,

it's pushed the, like, human instrumentality madness, um, it's pushed the, like human instrumentality

madness button for everyone over a certain age in this country. Mm. It's fun. Uh, hello. It is,

it's TF, uh, coming to you live from, uh, the situation room. Uh, we're all wearing

black, live from Balmoral. Uh, yeah, we're all wearing black. Like, in the, on the BBC,

they wear like black ties, whereas Riley's made us all wear like Birkine black stuff. So like, we're all

like, total necks and like weird boots. I'm wearing a black tie, but it is made of PVC. I've,

I've been weeping openly for the last 12 to 14 hours. And the funniest thing about

this, and you will be, I'm going to let you look behind the curtain here. Normally Riley

pulls back the curtain, but I'm going to pull back the curtain. You'll find this out later on.

Well, she's there. We record, it's called The Prestige. We recorded an episode, a pre-recorded an episode that was originally going to come out in two weeks time, where we were like, oh, the first two weeks of Liz Truss's prime ministership, nothing, nothing's happened, you know.

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