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Hello, little bonus extra newscast election cast because Chris Mason's finally turns up.

Where were you yesterday Chris busy?

I thought I thought I thought I was ringing my underpants out,

standing street, oh blimey, with water getting, I mean, I mean, literally everywhere.

It doesn't really matter when reporters get wet but it's when it gets into the

kit that's the problem and stuff starts sounding weird or not working at all.

So yeah.

Exactly. Some election the sun will shine all the time, you know, oh, apart from one day one.

Oh, hang on, someone's just messaging me.

We shouldn't dwell too much maybe on the back and forwards about the timing or the speculation amongst all the journalists

about whether there's going to be an election or not but we should we should

draw on a little bit. Yeah well it was kind of this is the thing I mean it's kind of

already ancient history isn isn't it?

But it was quite a thing.

You know, Tuesday night I was getting kind of texts from various parts of government thinking,

there's something going on here and then I started to think, I think there's something going on here and then

people who normally pick up the phone the whole time were not picking up the phone which at the

central government is always an indicator almost always an indicator particularly if it goes on for

hours and hours that something is going on.

And I spur the moment decision at about five to nine at Wednesday morning.

I thought, I think I'm going to go on the stay program and say mmm I'm getting the jitters here I think there's something up maybe there isn't they can ring me and tell me if there isn't and the phone didn't ring it didn't ring at 10 didn't ring at 11 didn't ring at 12 didn't ring until after

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