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Alex, hello.
Hi.
In the absence of us speaking because we haven't actually spoken for a couple of days.
No, it's been a while.
I've come up with a new newscast trademark gimmick.
Would you like to hear it?
I would love to.
So I had this phrase in my head rattling around in there.
It's pretty empty.
Newscast of thousands.
Oh, what does that mean?
Well, I didn't know what it meant.
And so then I thought, right, I need to just come up with what this actual format is.
And so what I've come up with is we want to get to the number 1000, but we get there by people sending in either news stories that they've seen or things that are happening in their lives that have a number attached that we can then investigate and bit by bit we'll add them all together to get to the number 1000.
Wow.
I love it.
So, like, I've just had triplets.
That's three.
Exactly.