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It's Friday.

It's the 25th of February.

And I have to be honest, after yesterday,

and the complete turnaround of the program,

we had to. There was no two ways about it. I thought,

you know, we're going to be inundated, you know, we're sort of people saying, oh, you know,

we want the, you can't do that, unfortunately. But of course, what was even funnier were people

going, oh, he does interviews. And you go, yes, that's how I started at LBC. I did a magazine program, a news-based program.

That's what I did. I did the news. I also did news-based programs.

In fact, I used to do a program every day for about three or four years called LBC Reports Midnight, which was a roundup of all the day's news.

So no hardship for me to do interviews, but it was helped yesterday by the fantastic lineup of guests that we had.

Simon Marks at the beginning of the program who is just wonderful.

And who else do we have on yesterday? I'm trying to think.

Matthew Thompson was brilliant. Matthew Thompson was brilliant.

Matthew Thompson was brilliant. Even he was a bit surprised at Steve Allen, who normally does

light end, because I've changed. I've had so many different incarnations of the program.

We've had magazine-based program. We've had newspaper-based program. We've had, you know,

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