The hour calls for audacity, circumspection too of course, but audacity all the same.
"Have you ever been to Bar Shu?" Funnily enough, we have, I said, and for the second time that hour called for the bill.
"People often ask me, 'How are you sleeping?' and I say 'I sleep like a baby – I wake up every hour calling for my mother,'" he said.
Europe was "poisoning politics in my own party", he said, defending his decision to hold the referendum, though he also joked: "I sleep like a baby – I wake up every hour calling for my mother".
He asked Congress to raise the minimum wage $7.25 to $9 an hour, called for legislation to ensure women are paid equally to men and announced a commission to improve the voting process.
Along with thousands of South Africans, Sawas marched in protests swelling by the hour, calling for Zuma's resignation.
And now he's on 24-hour call for every programme from Torchwood to Loose Women.
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