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Well, welcome for them. I forgot what the name of the podcast was.

What a brilliant start, Jackie.

It's been a bit of a week, hasn't it, Grant?

Welcome to Four the many,

and I am delighted that I still have with me, Grant Tucker.

This is like my last dance.

It is.

Yes, this is one last turn before the return of Ian Dale.

What a palava.

Can you believe it?

I cannot believe the sense of guilt to have.

It's only been a week since Ian announced that he was off to go into politics.

And now he is back on LBC. He'll be back on the podcast soon.

But last week when things, so we say, got a little bit

hairy, we both kind of held each other, didn't we, Jackie? Well, the interesting thing, of course,

was that we, we recorded last Thursday, didn't we? And both of us knew that he had decided he

needed to withdraw, but he hadn't announced it yet, which of course he did with that interview on Nick Ferrari on Friday morning.

So we couldn't say anything about it.

And loads of people were saying to me, and including, you know, when I did GMB, oh, Ian, oh, that's great, isn't it?

He's going for the seat and how's it going? And I was

going, I can't, yeah. I had people text me going, when are you going down to Leaflet? I was like,

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