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Hi, it's Nick in the Today Podcasts.

And it's a mole here alongside Nick and feeling very, very lucky, aren't we?

Because we are getting an absolute, what's a useful metaphor here, but the bucket load, no.

Deluge.

Deluge.

Deluge. A deluge. Avalanche. Avalanche of fantastic questions. A growing number from our growing number of listeners. And thank you so much. We couldn't let those questions go to waste. So here we are doing another bonus question and answer episode. The problem with deluge and avalanche is they sound a bit negative, don't they? We need a positive word. Flood is also negative.

Not good. Growing...

Oh, let's just do it.

Now, Now we're only a couple of weeks out from that general election and there are 335 brand new MPs to get to know.

You learnt all their names, yeah?

I've learnt all their names.

I've met all of them.

I've got all their numbers. We're on first name terms. And I've worked out lines of attack and questioning with each of them when they have the privilege of coming on the Today program. You? The rest of the year off then. I had a funny thing is I popped into Westminster for a coffee after doing another podcast.

And in the coffee queue and a slightly bewildered guy, nice man comes up and says hello.

And we start talking about how the fact that two weeks earlier he'd been teaching class,

whatever it was, eight or something, and kind of thought that was what he'd be doing now.

And it turns out he's a member of parliament.

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