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This is Top Flight Time Machine.

I am Andy Hotbody Dawson.

Pow, pow, pow!

I am Sam Nifty Delaney.

So what?

Ooh, that was said with some confidence.

I enjoyed that.

I did it in a staccato fashion.

Sam with authority.

I do like sometimes to speak in a staccato fashion because I've noticed, if you watch

some politicians, good politicians, right, like the great orators of the modern times,

which I would say would be, Galloway, the Trinity of great orators of like the modern world. I would say a Blair, Obama and Galloway, the Trinity of great orators of like the modern world, I would say, of Blair,

Obama and Galloway.

Yeah.

Right?

But, and they all at times use it, but it's a trick because what it means is it's, is it

They're tricking us?

They're tricking us because it sounds authoritative.

But in fact, what it is, it's a way of just slowing down, gathering your thoughts,

and you can almost say anything at all.

If you leave a pause, maybe point and nod your head on each word,

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