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Hello, it's just before 11:00 p.m.
on Sunday night, and we're doing a breaking newscast episode because Joe Biden has announced he is withdrawing from the us presidential race.
He published a statement on social media, and it's quite long, and he talks about his record.
But then the key bit is when he says, it's been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president.
And while it's been my intention to seek re election, I believe it's in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.
So if ever an event merited an emergency breaking newscast, it is this.
But I'm not sat here in the studio alone late at night because Justin from Americast is here.
Hello, Justin.
Hello.
Shall we get on with actually, what is our second newscast?
Americast collaboration of the last 72 hours.
Someone's put on x.
That's fantastic.
Have you ever seen Zulu, the film?
Yes.
Okay, they've got, they've got the main character from Zulu looking to the camera and saying, it's emergency podcast.
Sir, there are thousands, thousands of them.
I have actually seen that meme, but I'm slightly ashamed of it anyway.
Right.