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So where were you when you heard the news?

I think I was putting on sort of episode 462 of Pepper Pig for some of my children.

And it was a good old-fashioned news alert from the BBC that told me this absolutely extraordinary news.

I was in a car coming home from the weekend, thinking I've got to catch up,

and all the Sunday papers I haven't read, on Laura Coonsberg Show, which I hadn't watched, I was feeling guilty. It's just about to press the button, and then Biden's gone. But he's not gone, has he? But he's not going to fight that. Well, how gone is he? Is one of the questions we should ask? And you know what, Nick, I know just the guy that we should talk to about all this stuff, about American politics, about what happens next, about kind of the morning after, where we really are in the race to be the next US president? Who could that be? Could it be someone we don't have to pay? That would be good, wouldn't it? Not even a taxi. I came in on the bus.

I'll have you know.

We did offer Justin Webb a coffee in the Today podcast mug, but he turned it down.

No, because I've had quite a lot of coffee to wait myself out, because I was at a drinks party, an elegant drinks party in someone's garden.

And my son suddenly comes into view. He's not at the drinks party. He's managed to get access to it and he's got in his hand my phone, which I'd left at home, because nobody ever calls us generally when we're not presenting things, do they? And runs up to me and I'm thinking, what's happened? And all the things go through your mind that could have happened that would require require him. But he's also got a smile on his face, and he just hands me the phone and says, I think you probably ought to answer some of the calls. So there you go. And you needed to, A, because you were presenting an emergency edition of AmeriCast. B, for those who don't know, Justin was our North America editor for many years and is the authority.

So, for one time only, let's do it.

It's Monday.

It's Monday morning on the morning after that dramatic night before.

And it's Nick here in the Today podcast. And it's a mole here too, Anna Fred of Oz.

And yes, it's Justin.

In a room that looks, I have to say, guys, suspiciously like the AmeriCast global headquarters,

but with different props and pinker lighting.

A better music?

No, just different music.

Actually, do we even have music?

I can't remember.

Well, if you've got no music, then we've got music.

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