Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S03 EP48: Twas the night before Christmas...

Episode Date: December 24, 2021

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and member terms apply hello I'm Rob Beckett I'm I'm Josh Willickham welcome to parents in hell the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky. So, to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern-day parenting each week we'll be chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also be hearing from you, the listener, with your tips, advice and of, of course, tales of the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their trials theirs. theirs. I trials theirs. I trials trials trials tri-a. I they're coping. Or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also be hearing from you the listener with your tips, advice, and of course, tales of parenting woe. Because let's be honest, there are plenty of times when none of us know what we're doing.

Hello you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Can you say Rob Beckett. And can you say Josh Widdicum? This way you go. Well done. Okay, that's, oh, do I guess? Do I guess? Yeah. Have you got the gut location? Okay. Very, I think she, I'm getting she's a teacher. She's got like half Miss Trunchball, but half Miss Honey vibes. Doesn't say, but I can see it. I can see where you're coming from. Yeah, but it doesn't say where she's from. Oh, no, no, it says where she's from.

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Yes, well should we quickly say that? It's her daughter Sadie. Fuck it, no, it's Christmas. Who's two? And she is our second and last child. She's hard work and brilliant. We have Freddy who is four. Oh, that's like, and that was Sadie and Freddie.

the mom's name? Sarah. Thank you Sarah for that. There we go. Merry Christmas Rob. Merry Christmas, Josh Widdickham. So release day tomorrow? Yes, can you believe it? Well, no, let's be honest. We're recording this early so far away from release. Yeah, I'll do this a bit earlier. Right, let's talk about this. What's your Christmas morning looking like? What's your Christmas? At current, at the moment, there's no restrictions. Yeah. We their their. We their. We their. We their. We are. We're. We're. We're. We're. We're. We're their. We're. We're th. We're th. We're th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the their. their. their. the the the the the their. the the the the the the the the the th. the the the the th. the their release. their. their. the, at the moment there's no restrictions. We're just we're still being seeing photos of Boris Johnson in a garden having cheese and wine from last May. We're that vibe of the news. I don't know what's going to happen between now and Christmas. Yeah. There's probably about six photos that we haven't seen yet that coming out. So many. So many fed leading up to Christmas. It's an awful advent calendar.

My favorite bit about that photo is this was just one bloke on his own in the corner of the garden. Who the fuck is he? What a loser? Anyway. What is he is? He's the only one sticking to the bloody guidelines, Josh. He's representative of the rest of the country. Yeah exactly. Anyway. He's northropshire. A bit of sat. Oh yeah, I've got it. You want it. Merry Christmas. Um, so the big news is, what am I doing with my Christmas day? Well, I've made a big decision. Yeah.

For the first time in a few years, I'm not going to, I'm not going to drink a breakfast drop. Okay, all right. Okay, fair enough. Is this sort of an all year all? It is an all year. It's a 365 day a year unless I do any long haul flights on Stagdews. So I was going more for what's your plan with the kids, but you've literally just started what you're drinking around just thinking of it. No, no, no. The kids will be there. But I normally have a Bucks Fizz with breakfast. I'm get a little bit merry in the morning. Are you joking? Oh, on Christmas Day? Yeah, not every day. Well when you said what we've done recently, I was like

before the last recent years. And then then basically get a bit of recent years. And then, then basically get a bit of merry-a the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th me me me me me th. th. th. th. th. thi. thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty to be merry to be merry thirty their to be merry to be merry to be merry their their their their their their to get a bit a bit a bit a bit a bit a bit a bit to get a bit to get a bit to get a bit th. th. Yeah, get a bit th. Yeah, get a bit th. Yeah, get a bit th. Yeah, get a bit th. Yeah, get a bit th. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. Yeah, th. B. Yeah, th. B. B. Yeah, th. Yeah, thr. Yeah, thr. Yeah, th. B. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, thr. Yeah, thr. Yeah, thr. Yeah, thirty, thirty, thirty. Yeah, then you sort of sober up a bit and then have a drink about, like have some maybe a little bit of champagne or proseco about lunchtime and then absolutely cane it. Yeah. Then red wine with dinner and then maybe some cocktails. My brother's gonna come around. He might do some cocktails. So I've got my mom and dad coming around and my brother and his girlfriend. And then it's me their two kids. My mom and dad are staying overnight,

and then they'll come about leavenish. My brother and his girlfriend will come about leavenish. So we'll do bloody marries, and they're, because I'm doing all the dinner, they're in charge of cocktails. Lovely. So you're doing dinner on my dinner? I do dinner on my dinner. Oh well done Rob. Oh thanks mate. That's really, so is that your, how much of your day is taken up doing the dinner?

I get it from Monson Spencer's. That's my big treat. Yeah, because it is, it's not cheap. It's Christmas day, why not? And a lot of that is in trade you just shove in. I do man potatoes. My mom does the oven. So it isn't too bad, it's just a lot of in and out of ovens. Very nice.

But I do own potatoes. I cannot bear shop bought potatoes or frozen potatoes. It's an absolute non-starter. So I've trod all over your day. Let's do your day for us. I'm more interested in yours. Okay. And can I ask some questions then? What's happening in the presents then? What time your daughter's getting up? Well, we've got a fucking dog now, aren't we?

Oh, mate. Shit. So, right, what we normally do is, for getting dog is the kids, when we wake about sixish, they're come in our rooms, come in our room, and have rooms, separate rooms. But because your parents there, you're going to have to sleep in the same bed for one night only. Yeah, I'll be in with my mom and Lou will be in with my dad. It'll be fine. Anyway, so, but what we do is we normally come to our bedroom about six and do stockings on our

bed, right? That's what we normally do. But I don't know, we might have to go and do stockings downstairs to see if he's down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down their can wear to have photos taken and stuff as they're opening presents and then we go downstairs to see if he's been. Yeah. And then we do the big presents under the tree, smash them all out in the morning. Do you do all the presents before breakfast? All presents before breakfast. Bloody how Rob. Blah that's a kind of the madness. Double conced. That's a double. that. that. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. Yeah. Yeah. th. Yeah. Yeah. th. Yeah. th. th. the the the their their their their their their the. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th source. Whoa you're going for a grade. Top level shit. There's none of that in my house. Not a kind of fun. And then then it's I'll do some breakfast but breakfast is a bit more of a casual what's everyone fancied some egg and bacon like not a big sit down dress of breakfast I have whatever they want and it's quite cash kind of thing. That's how morning.

And your door was playing with the presents. And then my mom and dad will come down and watch open the big presents, but they probably won't see him do the stockings on our bed. But we might have to just come down and do stockings downstairs. And will you do your presents at that point as well? Yeah, sometimes. This is a little tip. parents that are sort of probably their first Christmas or they've got young kids. But basically now we like to open our presents in front of the kids that we've got each other just because the kids care and they want to see us do it and it's a nice things to do. But what we did one year when we had like a eight month old and like a two year old,

they don't really know what's going on or give is get them to bed Christmas Eve and then over a glass of wine give each other your presents and you can properly see each other open them, you can chat about them and look at them and get them out and then put them somewhere safe because if you try and do that in the morning it's so rushed and you never properly do it and then it gets like boxing day or Christmas night or you're trying and it's a nice little couples moment which can get lost when you've got the kids so I would I recommend that I am not a fan of a present based on a key as you can imagine Rob no watch watch well no we let they have to take turns yeah yeah you've got to do turn that's that's a bare minimum yeah the thought of the thou th the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th that's that's that's that's th's th's the the the the th's the the the the that's the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th's th's th's th's th's th's th's th's th's th's th's th's th's th's th's things things I's things I's things I's the I's thee I's the I's the I's the I's the I's the I's the the the the thethrough under the tree is not my scene at all. Oh no and also I hate when they're all dressed and they do it

later on than a day. I find being festive so hot and itchy jumpers I just can't bear it I put it on every year I've swept me head off and then I'm just wandering around in a black t-t-shirt because I can't deal with a jumper I don't want to wear a Christmas jumper Rob. I I I I want to wear one. The problem with nostalgia and tradition is normally it means old shit material and uncomfortable clothes. Of course it does because they know you're going to buy it anyway. Exactly. I just want to wear a tech fit night track suit all day. It's all all I want to wear. That's like that, do you know what, Rob, that's fine. So what's your Christmas morning look like? Get up, stocking on our bed. 4.30 a.m. Well, we don't know yet, do we, Rob? At the time of recording, we don't know. If it is 4.30, you're obviously just going to sit up and wait for your daughter to wake up basically. Yeah, I'm not going to get her up.

So what time does she get up? Well, I don't know whether she'll get up earlier because it's Christmas Day. So she tends to get up about seven. So just a mid two and a half hours after my tend to open up. Well now ours get up at six, they've been waking up a quarter to six recently and they really hardcore early rises again. So she'll come in, do stocking. And then Rose's mom will be staying and then we'll go down stairs. And then she'll play with stocking. So you're well done for saying stairs. Yeah, that was said my daughters were coming and we'll do stockings on the bed I thought I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make a joke here. You should have. Shut off I regret it now. So I regret it now. My wife and daughters

will force to wear stockings I've purchased and then we'll all have a bath. Go downstairs. We can go downstairs so we can get on with our day having done that. Got that out the way early doors. And then get the stockings and presents in? Anyway, let's stop being rude. What are we doing to? It's Christmas. Stop it. No, you. I've gone mad. Right. So we've done stockings upstairs, all the fan. Right. Breakfast. We'll do breakfast before the tree presents. What's all breakfast? What's all breakfast? Well? the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their. the stock. the stock. the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stocking. And the stocking. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. And the stock. We the. We the. We the. We're. We're. We're. We're. We're. We're. the. We're. We're. We're. they. St. Stockings. Stockings. We're. We're. St. Stockings. Stockings. We're. We're. St. Stockings. Stockings. We're. the. We downstairs all the fan right breakfast yeah we'll do breakfast before the tree presents what small breakfast bagel well my wife and mum will have bagels with smoked salmon that that's nice nice breakfast I can't do this year Rob my Christmas tradition that I all the thing your bagel cream cheese okay seems quite sad. Okay, so you wake up, cream cheese bagel, what were your daughter of just a normal

cereal kind of thing? Uh, she'll have a bagel with probably jam. Okay, fair enough. You'll have a bagel, you guys. I'll have gone to get them for the 24-hour bagel place on Brickley in the night, the day before, normally, but obviously I'll have to get them delivered this thea.......... the, the, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, tho, tho, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, the, tha, that, that, that, that, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to threat, that, threat, that, that,them delivered this time. And then, but you eat before presents. I can't believe we do it, we do it. We get, you push it through on the, on the stocking presents, that gets her through. Then we come to presents,

which, I'll be honest, this year we've had to implement. I've had to say we've got ook over the whole day. I'm a wife basically. She was so behind with making the Christmas dinner. So Rose does all the cooking? Rose and her mom. I do my veggie. I think I think I do my veggie cooking. Well I think doing the cooking is better because you don't have to do any parenting.

Do you get all the best bit of parenting in the morning, like presents, stockings, blah, but you're like, I'm just, Lou, do you mind just doing that? I've just got to check on and just make something. Yeah, that's good, isn't it? Yeah. Right, yeah. I'm just saying, so what is your Christmas, you tell me what your Christmas dinner is? And I'll tell you what mine is. Mine is, and I'm going to say this now, and I tho, and I'm, and I, th, th, th, th, th, th, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, that, that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, th................ Yeah, th. Yeah, th. th. that's, th. that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, her mom, they're going chicken this year because they've decided they actually don't, they've realized after about 38 years my wife has realized she doesn't actually like turkey enough to do turkey.

So they'll love that. But the chicken seems a bit boring, didn't it? Well, at least turkey's festive. Like if you're not going to go chicken, go for like, a nice beef or pork. Well, they, they, they, they, they, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. After, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. After, th. th. th. thi. After, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thiiaa. thii. thia. thi. thi. After, after thi. After, after I think roses a veggie? No. She more or less is from living with me, but... But it does, yeah, so it dips in and out for big occasions. Yeah, exactly. She's a big game player. Oh yeah, mate. She can't move for a lamb, can you? the Easter, loves it. Exactly. Exactly. If the situation dictates it, she's eating meat. May, day, bank holiday, she they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they the they they the they they they they they they they tha. they're the. thathea. thatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheat. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. t. tip. tip. tha. tipe. thae. tipe. tipes. tipes they're having with all the trimmings. Oh the turkey a chicken with all the

trimmings like normal festive pigs in blanket stuff like that? Yeah all of that stuff. So they eat that and your daughter will eat all that. Yeah what what you what can have lasagna any time. You can have you can have roast potatoes anytime. Yeah but let's say you doesn't go with that. It does Rob. He doesn't go with gravy. Do you know what if I was lasagna in in summer I do miss the roast potatoes. No you're mental. That's too much carb. After lasagna with salad and cold sloathe in summer. What have the lasagna with salad and coleslaw in summer. What are the other...

Have you ever toyed of anything other than vegetable as a vegetable lasagna? It just makes me upset. You've been indoors for 10 days. He's been indoors for 10 days and you're in a vegetable lasagna with potatoes. That's some sort of... Some sort of... Some sort of... That's a break down. So then I'll do that and then we've got friends coming, they'll have the chicken.

And, oh no, do you know what? One of our friends is coming and she's vegetarian and she's on board the lasagna train. She's on the board of lasagna train? Yeah. This is disgusting. Great power come, great responsibility. A lot of people listen to this. You can't just be banding around vegetable lasagna as if it's okay. Also, as well I do think for next year, I think I'm going to suggest this, Josh, I can't bear you to have a vegetable lasagna three years on a row. Not three years, 38. Okay, well, what about this? You do your vegetable lasagna but also let's start please send in suggestions of what vegetable or vegan thing you can have a Christmas dinner that makes it feel special. And if it is a nutloaf go fuck yourselves. Yeah no nut roast or nutloafs get that out and what will do Josh next year you can do your vegetable lasagna but also maybe this new dish great often that's a good idea lovely work right do you want to know what I've got

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I've got a bit carried away. So I've got seafood starter, also got a Cornish cruncher, which is like a cheesebake thing, so you can dip bread in it. Sounds lovely. A vegetable selection. I've got a toffee pudding crown. Oh my word. Not Christmas pudding. What did you what you got? We've just well I never eat the dessert it's Christmas pudding isn't it? It's crap. Well don't don't get it then. Well no but I just I ate so much chocolate and so many

biscuits over the Christmas period I never want the pudding. I don't think I don't think Christmas is for you. What do you mean. You're th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th I th th th th th th I th th th th the th. I th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm the Christmas the Christmas th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm the Christmas. I'm the Christmas. I'm th. I'm th. I'm the Christmas the Christmas th. I'm the Christmas th. I'm th. I's th. I's the Christmas th. I's th. I's the Christmas th. I's th. I's the th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm thin. I'm th. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I th. is for you. What do you mean? You're tapping out too early, mate. You've got no, you get the traditional stuff and then get the stuff everyone likes. That's how it works. You get the Christmas pudding that no one eats and then you light it and do all that. But you also have a sticky tough puberty pudding. I've also got've got, I've got a Brussels brass gratin, ceramic dish not included, fucking cheapskates.

I've also got some prawn cocktail, I've got too much, I've also got, I've gone for three meats. You're on for three meats. What have you gone for? Turkey, pork, beef. How big is your oven? I've got two ovens. Oh, here he is.

The big man, two s, 16 bins. Unbelievable. I'll have two ovens next year, mate. When is your oven being delivered? January. Thank God, because the original date, which I moved because I thought it was too close to Christmas, we'd have been locked down with COVID. So thank God.

Oh God, so it's coming in January, your French oven. Yeah. But yeah, I've ordered way too much, but what I'm doing is Boxing Day, I've got all loose family coming over, plus partners that eat quite a bit, so all that's going to be stuff for cold meat, mash and snacky bits the next day. So we're having leftovers down boxing there. So I've got too much but that's enough to, so I could do all my cooking on Christmas Day and then it's already Boxing Day for the Hangover. Great stuff. So that's what I'm doing. Oh, it sounds good. And what's your Christmas evening like?

Games? We don't do games. No, normally I just, I just collapsed. I just collapsed. I might play games this year't know what watch a film or something like that. You watch strictly Christmas Strictly with the kids probably. Yes Christmas strictly with the kids fair enough. Oh and we do play Yorkshire pudding catch which I've told you about I have of course. Yeah of course. They launched launch launch pushed

the Christmas today. That's always good fun. I used to be like it because it the the the Christmas it the Christmas it the Christmas it the Christmas it the Christmas it the Christmas it the Christmas it want at any time. So the Christmas film doesn't really matter now. Well I would say I would watch Robin Romish versus the Christmas special on Christmas night. Oh there we go. That's what I would watch or one night in Altin Towers is quite Christmasy. Oh yes. A lot of fun you Alex Brooke and Roshine. Or yeah. Why not? Why not treat yourself? I thought it was New Year's Eve. There's there. There's the there. There's the the the the th. There's the th. There's th. There's the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would th. I would the th. Ro th. Ro. Ro. Ro. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. Roe. I would th. I would th. to the last leg on Christmas Eve. Oh, is it? I thought it was New Year's Eve? There's one on Christmas Eve as well, Rob. With Giant and Lumley in the Darkness and Big Zoo. What's the darkness?

Oh, the band! The band! Oh, God! But you know what? You don't have a good one. What? Alex and Adam, John, John Darts in the Darkness. That's my nickname.

Watch Roman Romash, Christmas special. You can watch it on Sky, can't you, Rob? Well, let's stop plugging on the Christmas special. I am also in a Channel 4 Christmas special with John Richardson and Lucy Beaumont. Oh yeah, when's that on? Ummah Christmas? It's all all all. Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. Christmas. It's all. Christmas. It's all. It's all. It's all. It's all. It's all. It's all. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the. the. the. the. the. th. th. th. time. I did the recognition as well. God, let's stop blagging it, let's just start talking about her too. But the reason why we don't watch any tele at Christmas is because we're fucking on it too much. You're bloody well on it, Rob.

We're bloody well on it. Are you going to watch the Queen's speech? No, no, it's probably just some, I've got a, uh, Bing Crosby, LP, we'll have a little bit in a background, but I, um, it's more just strictly and whatever's on the tele I think. And we'll have a few cocktails, then my brother's in charge of cocktail, so I think he's gonna do a couple of a bit more, because the plan is, bloody then in the evening, espresso martinis or something that's

got a bit of kick to get us going again. That is ideal. I think it'll be the first time I've drunk in like two weeks. Yeah, so I'm very excited, can't wait. And yeah, and then New Year, new podcast, we're going to do another podcast on the 28th, 28th. which will be a catch up, how how how how how how how how how how how how how how how how how how how how how how. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th................................................................................................................. th.. the... the.......? 28th which will be a catch-up how our Christmas went. Listen to this one and then see how it actually went. Yes and then we're going to be releasing little best-ofs over the Christmas break so you've got plenty to listen to and then we might have a little break in the start of January and be back with some loads loads of-and-you-a-yes. And please, thus-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wea-wee-wee-wee, th, th-s, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th, to-o, to-o, to-a-a-o, to-a-a-o, th, th, th, th, th, th, th-n, th-n, th-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-s, th, th, th-s, th, th, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-s, tha-s, to-s, to-s, to-s, to-s. to-s'-s'-s'-s'-s'-s'-s, to-s, tha-s, th guests you want us to interview and will be good. Any recommendations or suggestions?

Yeah, and then we'll be back full-mast towards the middle end of January. And in the meantime, there'll be another episode on the 28th talking about Christmas and a few little bestoffs. But until then, Josh, have a wonderful Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas. Enjoy your lasagna, the traditional festive lasagna that every household has, and I will see you to talk about it afterwards.

Merry Christmas, everyone. It's mad to think it's a year since you were building that trampoline. Oh, fuck me, yes. Oh, that just panics me, you remember saying that? Oh, that was a night smear. Oh, big up to any trampoline- to any to any tramping tr trampoline to any to any trampoline to any trampoline to any trampoline to to to any trampoline builders out there Christmas Eve. Oh yeah, the real heroes of Christmas. If you're building a trampoline on Christmas Eve... You're fucked. If you're listening to this and your trampoline isn't already built, give it up. I bet they're in the... someone's gone old. The kids are bed, it's six o'clock. Why don't we have a little wine before we do the the ampoline at about 8 o'clock when they're properly asleep and then they've heard this and your evening's fucked.

But you'll have a story to tell next year. Oh, Merry Christmas one and all. Oh, I feel so festive. Bye. Bye.