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Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Friday the 29th of October.

Before we go any further, important announcement.

It's where the producer goes like that.

They do this big sort of gulp.

Yesterday on LBC, we ran the news

that LBC has now got its biggest figures in 48 years. And somebody wrote in and said, can you

let me know how big Steve Allen's audience is? Well, all I can tell you is, the word is huge. Huge. I've actually got a bigger audience

than another radio station in total, which only goes to prove the public are never wrong.

So thank you very much indeed. And as I say, we've always had great figures on this program,

always for

donkey's years you know ever since the spike was invented which means that you come off one

program and then all of a sudden people in anticipation of the next program push the figures

through the roof so you get this artificial spike thing that sort of pops up and it's yes I mean

it's it's sort, it's very nice because

Darren is my warm up. He's my warm up man. And then I pass on a very healthy audience to Nick

Ferrari. So in response to that one person who was curious, because all of my regular listeners

know exactly that we have the best audience going, we have the biggest audience. And now to

discover we've got a bigger audience than another radio station is hilarious, especially for this time in the morning. But anyway,

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