Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters, Episode 1,347 on the Wednesday, 4th of February, Year of Our Lord, 26.

We are joined by Bo and special guest Josh.

Hello, I'm not that special.

Well, no, I think you're quite special.

Special needs guests.

No, no, no, no.

Generally special.

And today we're going to be talking about Andy and Mandy.

Only there in the news.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're going to be talking about how new information reveals that Epstein was in fact

Russian.

So we can all breathe a sigh of release.

We don't have to go near anything uncomfortable because you can criticizeise the Russians, so that's good. And attempts to destroy X.

Mm-hmm. Right. So, yes, that's what we got for you.

All right then, so we need to talk about Prince Andrew, or the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew. Artist? Yeah. So has he been stripped? Is he like still a prince? No, no, he was stripped of Hr. He's just, he's merely Andrew Mountbatten Windsor now. So he's a Mr. now? Yeah, Mr. Mountbatten Windsor. Oh, that's downgrade, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. posh double-barreosh, double-barrelled name, so it's not all lost for it. If he wants to be a prince again, he's going to have to do the Megan Markle thing, where he goes and finds a princess and marries them to become a prince. Make sure she's the right age this time. Yes, that would help. Should really be Mr. Saxe-Berg and Gotha. That's more my view on it. But the thing is, we've got to cover it because it's in the news. I mean, it's all over the news. If anyone watched Breakfast with Bow, the Bow Show, you'll know that for the last two, arguably even three days, been talking about it, and we talked a little bit about it on podcast, but because it's in the news so much, we haven't done a whole segment on just Mandy, we can do that. So I'm actually going over stuff. I've already said a couple of times, but let's tell the story again, because it's such a sort of a big one. On the, again, the breakfast show, it was every single front page this morning every single one without fail it was

full Andy and Mandy right so we got we got to cover it really it's what we do here I mean

it's our jobs right so all right well should just dive straight in um I've got a lot of glare on

my screen so I can't necessarily see it all Simpson have you even got up my links there can you get? Can you get my links up? I don't think they're my links. So I'll just start by saying, oh, there we go. Oh, well, let's have a look at this little clip of the right honourable David Lammy. Intellectual powerhouse. Is a man of considerable expertise. He's the right man for this moment to be our ambassador.

He's been a business secretary and Northern Ireland secretary. Of course he's worked in the European Commission.

And I he brings all of that to bear working as our ambassador in the United States.

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