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Lovely to have you back, Frank.

Thank you, it's lovely to be back.

It's terrible that Mamad Ali has died and made your part my growing up.

I was just watching him on the telly there with a guy called Howard Cassell

who used to interview him quite regularly.

And Howard Cassell once thought the way to handle him was to use big words

so that Mamad Ali wouldn't be able to know what he was talking about

and slightly put him down a bit.

And Ali was saying, I'm so marvelous, I'm the greatest, I'm the greatest of all time.

And he said, you're very truck-y-land.

He said, I don't know what truck-y-land means, but if it's good I'm it.

Straight in, straight in.

He also said that he was so fast that he could put his bedroom light off

and get into bed before he got dark.

My partner, man.

He was.

Exactly.

Yes, absolutely magnificent.

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