Test Match Special - No Balls: The Cricket Podcast - New Year, same No Balls

Episode Date: January 5, 2024

Kate Cross and Alex Hartley are together to look back on Alex's bed-bound Christmas, plus a look-ahead to the New Year with some resolutions from your favourite cricketing duo.

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Cross comes in, round, the wicket. Boulder, boulder, leaving a ball alone, Litchfield. I think it's the wobble ball, and it just nips back, it jags back, it's the nipbacker. That is a beauty from Kate Cross, an absolute seed. That is a beauty for cross. Hello, and welcome back to know. all's a great podcast. It's 2024 with me, Alex Hartley, New Kate Cross. Happy New Year, everyone. There's one thing, Crossie, I really want to do for all our fans that voted for us.

I think I really need to do something special for them for this podcast awards. Just say, I wish you a Merry Christmas for 2024. I want to be the first to do it, first to say it. And thanks for voting for us. Well, you still got your Christmas tree up, so it feels illegal, right, in it. Yeah, I want to take mine down on Boxing Day and you said, I can't, I've got to leave it a few days. So I did. And yours is now still here. I've not been here. I don't think that's an excuse. Yeah, I'll do it tomorrow.

Speaking of things really untimely, you've just handed me a book because this is our first one that we've done together for ages. Literally, like a year. No. When was the last time we did one together? Well, we did a live in the summer, so it was at least a summer. But anyway, we've not been together for ages. You've handed me a book.

And inside it, it's called Tess and the Ashes Catastrophe by Jenny Douglas. illustration by Dave Shepard. Inside it, it says to you, Kate, good luck for the season, Jenny Douglas. So thank you so much, Jenny. I'm sorry I've not mentioned this before, but Alex has had it on a bedside table. So I'm going to assume you mean the 2024 season. Yes, that's why the season after the ashes. Yes, not the biggest season we've just ever had, the one after that.

How are you? All right. Yeah? All right, yeah. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. It's 2024. It's 2024.

Did you have a nice Christmas? No. You were poorly. I had a lovely Christmas Eve. Went out for a meal with mum, dad and Harry. Got a bit tidily. Went to bed, woke up with flu, COVID and a chest infection. You were in bed for like four days and you were not well.

So that did ruin the whole festive period for you really, didn't it? Until New Year's Eve, yeah. But then we got to celebrate New Year's Eve together, which we worked out as our first ever one we spent together. That is mad. How was your Christmas? nice thanks got to see the farm got to meet vicky Phoebe she called Phoebe now

the dog what did you not matter before then no Christmas Eve was the first day met they got when I was in India so yeah it was nice but then I love my family love seeing them always when I'm away I think I wish I got to spend more time with them and then I have two days with them and I was like I need to go home so I went back to my flat on the 20s on boxing day even in a boxing day and I was like well why you're going to

I was like oh just you're poorly dad's poorly I don't want to catch anything. My brother and my says to listen to this, so they're going to probably snitch on me, but yeah, there's enough family time around Christmas, didn't I? Well, I was at mum and dads, but bedbound until the 27th. So, boxing day, I slept for 21 out of 24 hours. It was bliss.

So he's done a great time. You've actually had a Christmas that a lot of people would have wanted. Christmas of dreams. Yeah. I actually got to spend a lot of time with kids this Christmas, which was nice. I saw always nice. Yeah, my nieces and my step-nephew, which was good, because the magic of Christmas it's better with kids, isn't it? And you're trying to convince your dad

that he needs to play a game because he's miserable now. But when there's kids there, he'll come and play. Yeah, he's playing Pluto, but he wouldn't play with us today. Oh, there's no kids though, yeah. But no, it was nice, thank you. It was good.

Any nice presies? You got me a Christmas present, even though we weren't doing Christmas presents this year, you got me for my 30th a voucher for a shop. Yes. And my mum and dad used that voucher in the shop to get me some money off of the Christmas wasn't they got me.

Basically, the shops, it's a nice shop, but the thing you wanted was so expensive that you needed more money towards it. So the money I gave you for your birthday, it wasn't enough. So I got some lovely trainers, so thank you. Nice, yeah. Presents, presents, presents, presents. I can't remember Christmas, you know. I know, me neither. I didn't get any perfume this year.

I got some revital ash. Mine. Always good. Yep. Oh, I got a book. A podcast book. Was it by Jenny Douglas? It wasn't.

Help I sexted my boss, but the book. Oh, okay. So I'm going to read that tonight. Tell everyone what you did, your New Year's Resolution. We need to get on to that. Yeah, but this is different story. Tell everyone what you did. Oh, it wasn't good at all.

So my New Year's Resolution, I want to read more and be on my phone less because my time, whatever, that's time stamp on your phone comes up every Monday and I'm like, oh, God's sake, I'm up to 16%, whatever. So I'm going to read more. So I've got a book that Sophie Eccleston of all people recommended to me. and it was so good I was still awake at 4 a.m. reading. You finished the book in one night.

I finished the old book. You stayed up to 4 and finished a book. So good though. You can borrow it as good book. Okay, I will. But yeah, that was my New Year's resolution. Well, you were off your phone? I was off my phone, but then I was like, it's 4 a.m. And I'm up at 8. What if I'd done?

What? Shattered the next day. So it was stupid. Stupid. It feels like summer's on the way now for me. I was just outside your flat, waiting for you. few to let me in and it was the coldest I've been all winter so it really don't feel like the summer's on the way it does so me but it has gone got taken a turn oh it's

a turn I always think when you get to Christmas you're like half the winter's done now yeah we're halfway there and then cricket starts going but it feels like a minute ago that cricket finished I know it goes around so quick I was laid in bed last night and I couldn't really sleep and the thought of oh my god you've retired in my mind for the first time I I was like, oh my God, what am I going to do? Yeah, I guess, because you were still really in the middle of the cricket season when you retired, weren't you? And you weren't enjoying cricket, so actually not playing cricket was good. But now you don't have to prep, you don't have to think about anything.

What am I going to do? When we did the like 20, 23 wrap-up videos and stuff, and everyone's obviously putting stuff on social media. And you put one up and I was like, this is the last year that you can involve cricket in yours. because it was the year that you retired. I didn't involve any cricket in it. No, you didn't. It was all about you drinking. Yeah.

That's how the year went, to be fair. How are you? I'm not asked you. Yeah. Well, all right. Do you not have loved? I've actually loved this. Since we've been back from, well, since I've been back from India,

we've spent loads of time together. And we've not had loads of time spent together for eight years. I know. One thing you don't like is coming to mind because there's nowhere to park. Such a night of part, like, four minute walk away which is really not that bad I know but there is a chance you'll get back

to a car parking ticket but it's probably going to cost me 60 pound to do this episode I'm going to bill you I'm going to send you the bill tell Luke to give you my heart but the podcast we'll do but we're spending loads of time together

which is really nice I've enjoyed that also I've really been getting into the darts I know it's finished now I know it's over and I know this cricket podcast but I've loved the darts you have loved the darts

I've loved the darts but the darts is over and traitors are started. Perfect. So we're going to at least have something to text that now. Do you know what I've loved the most about the darts, which sums us up. We went, obviously, everyone knows we went on the 20th.

We watched Luke Littler's first ever game. We were probably Instagram live during his game. We were because we were chatting about a 16-hold on our Instagram live. If you go back and watch it, because you've not deleted it because someone said we would, so we purposely and stubbornly haven't. But we watched his debut game in this tournament, not really knowing how big he's going to be, obviously,

and how good he was. Do you know he started the tournament with like 400 Instagram followers Now he's got 800,000 It's really crazy But yeah I'm a bit sad That's finished now But it's on in Liverpool

In April so for saying So we should go Okay Got to go on then Have you got anything on your old Sticky Oh crossy I've had a disaster Okay

I got nails Oh yeah For Christmas I thought I'll give myself Some Christmas nails Every time Acrylics Right

Lovely They look great perfect but I'm currently trying to soak them off I'm soaking off two fingers and have been for two hours for disaster off I've had two fingers for an hour and it's still stuck

when you can't sleep later and you're thinking about you retiring you should think about that I think I'll just soak my nails but I think I'm going to have to go to the shop and get them taken off to work because I do they're so tough properly I think you were just going to ask me

do I have anything on my sticking out yeah I've got loads have you loads and loads on those. I'm going to do the Christmas ones first because it's really, it feels really like Christmas is over, so we'll get these done. My dad my dad at Christmas

is hilarious because if you can't find wrapping paper, he just wraps Christmas presents in any wrapping paper. Yeah. He's done it in Tim for one year. Oh wow. Instead of like Christmasy notes to say to Kate from dad. He used post-it notes one time. Oh, yeah, nice. Newspaper. So whatever's

around the heck, but it was birthday paper this year, not Christmas paper. Anyway, he rewrapped up the same present that he's got my mum. He got this her five years ago and he's wrapped it up every single year for her because she's not used it yet. Has he not got the hint? It's a food ninja. It's a belting present, an air fryer.

Yeah. But you more obviously don't want it. Well, she's a good cook. She didn't need it. But it's a really good present. Have you taken it? I did try. But then I was like, I'm going to give her the benefit of the day.

Give her a month. Yeah. She didn't know how to use it, which is why she's not used it. Plug it in, press start. Exactly. Anyway, it just cracked me up that he wrapped up for the fifth time. Oh, they'll be such a better one out now. Five years running.

My sticky note is beers, shot glasses, plastic plates and cutlery. That feels a lot like the things that you wrote down to take fees on the idea. Yeah, that is exactly what that was. That was added to my podcast note. Is that it? Yeah. Is it all you thought? Great.

I'll just fly through these then. You crap me off over Christmas because you turned to me. Oh, no. You said. Do you know, I didn't know that that Belize Navidad song It was a Christmas song until recently. Yeah. You know when you sing it and you're like,

I want to wish you were Merry Christmas. It's Salis Navidad. It says Merry Christmas. Yeah, I know, I know. Yeah, didn't know. Remilat? You also... You can tell we spent a lot of time together

back firing things at each other. That's actually what people have said to you in public because I've been there. We were on the train down to the darts and you were playing Monopoly, go on your phone, And a complete stranger turned around and said, sorry to interrupt, but did you just tell me that you'd spent five bags on Monopoly Go with the most judgmental tone I've ever heard? And I turned around, it wasn't five, it was three.

Right. Three sheets, is what I said. Three sheets. Yes, I have spent three sheets on Monopoly Go, which in hindsight could have just put towards those trainers and got them myself. yeah really just just a random man on the train was overheard like listening to us overheard us and actually really judged you for what you did yeah yeah another last well it's my last christmasy one um i got to bring the mushy peas up the mushy peas that you have on your christmas yeah well i was talking to my friends about this um and i saw them over

Christmas and one of them said that you need locking up i mean that's just not fair is it because I don't need locking up because there's so many people now that say they have mushy peas on their Christmas dinner and and I tweeted on Christmas day saying who's having mushy peas on their Christmas dinner 70 replies and the majority

are saying you're a psycho the Watford Gap has a lot to answer for but then there's a hashtag team mushy team mushy my question to you is why don't you get mushy peas when you have a chippy

Do I get mushy peas gravy and curry sauce I've never seen you have muchy peas Yeah That makes it less weird Because I thought you only had it on Christmas dinner No But I didn't enjoy my Christmas dinner again crossy Because I was too busy thinking about my boxing day sandwich

Which obviously You didn't even get No I got out of bed for it It's only half an hour I was out of bed And I was sat there eating it And I made Harry one And I was watching and eat it And I was like come on then

He went I'm not just saying this Could have been the best sandwich I've ever Really? Yeah. Maybe I'm going to have to have one of these box-and-day sandwiches then. Yeah. I've been bought extra pigs in blankets, just for a sandwich. I said I'd check him out.

So that Mikey Grogan said that you need locking up. So Mikey. Mikey, get in the bin and try and mush your piece grow up. But a question for you. Oh, yeah. I've been doing a lot of scanning on them, the old TikTok recently. How do you see the months of the year in your head? Do you mean how do I see them?

Like, how do you see them? Is it like a list down? January-February mark or is it like a cross like you go across a year January underneath February March all the way to December like a big long list of 12 okay why I don't see them like that what I see them how it is on my iPhone so I see it as like January 1 2 3 4500 so no you don't in your head yeah and then like February so I like scroll in my head no you don't I do that's weird it is weird isn't it yeah yeah that's odd but some people see it across so it's like January, then as if you were writing on a piece of paper, February, March, 8.8.

Their sign calls. So, let us now, how do you see the months of the year in your head? But we did one not so long about how many alarms you've got on your phone. Oh, no, that is mad. She's just showing me her phone and she's got like 40 alarms said. Yes, I have, you've got three. So I've got one for each hour of the day. Three, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.

We've got some of the way. Some of these are definitely napping. They're definitely nap alone. arms. So I have a really early, we've done this, but I've got a really early morning one that's like my airport one. If I'm getting up, it's cheaper the clock, I set that one. And I've got my standard everyday one and I've got my nap alone. And I just changed the times of them. Well, my first one, it was 3.45 in the morning. It said Pakistan time. And that was the last test series that England had out there when I'm flying out there. So I'm just going

to keep that February. Reset my own. Oh yeah. It's coming up, isn't it? Yeah. Right, a bit of cricket. Yeah. There's not much to chat about, really. Well, David Warner lost his baggy green Yeah, he did For me, why was it not in his cricket bag? Yeah, well, the very precious, very, very precious about baggy greens, aren't they? Which rightly so, because you don't want it stolen.

But then, why is it not in a bag cap, a cap bag? Easy for me to say it. I don't know if everyone does the bag briefcases. Well, you've got bag briefcases. Yeah, we do. It's so hard to say. It's hard to say. Yeah, but not everyone uses them because they're quite bulky, so.

But if it lives in your coffin, it lives in your coffin. But Amy Jones has got two sets of pads, two helmets. She's not got space for a briefcase, a hat briefcase. Yeah, that's true. It's, yeah, whoever's got that, by the way, just return it. What a dick? Literally. What are they going to do with it?

Wear it to the local club cricket. And I've got David Warner's cab. Yeah. Strange. I saw Glenn McGraw did something on social media saying, I stole it, so he had to wear a baggy pink the whole test. It was the pink. Oh, it's the pink test. I don't know they're watching much cricket in a minute

actually. You have seen the clip of Ravi Shastry though. I have. Should we play it? If anyone hasn't seen this. 153 all out. If someone went round the corner for a dump and has come back, India had been bowled out for 153

or a drink or whatever they've gone for. Someone went round the corner for a dump. Why? We've obviously commentated and at no point has anything about poo coming to my head where I think I need to say this out loud.

If you went for a dump, you missed it. It was mad though, on it? Yeah, six wickets and eleven balls. Yeah, I mean six for none, that. Mad. Oh, Tristan Stubbs on debut. You got out twice in a day out in a test match. Oh, my God.

He can happen. He didn't have time for a dump. He didn't have time for a dump. James, who I was just with just now, made a really good point, that he was really impressed with how all the lower order were ready to go in. Yeah. But when it's going like that,

It's dominoes, everyone just runs in and gets the kit. I always used to pad up when number seven went in. Yeah, I remember always thinking you went quite prematurely. Because the tail goes bang, bang, bang, all the time. Well, I then told the story of the test match that we had in India now, recently, before Christmas. And I, um, we just got off the physio bed and said, I can relax now. Like, I've just had my massage.

And then you kind of hear that a wicket's falling, so it's no good. And then you heard another wicket's falling. And then I started putting my stuff on. And I was like, oh, wait, no, there's still. we've still got Dino so someone else to go ahead of me I was like oh I've got loads of time I don't know what I'm doing then someone else walked in and I was like okay you pad up

keep going were you lady the night again for would have been if we needed to be well I had put my name forward yeah if you remember Louis actually promised me I could back three yeah well yeah is it me interesting good to know that's it for sticking out so anyone went for a dump and missed that

where you walk Ravi what's doing Henry told me off saying someone was picking their on the radio and I didn't even say someone had got for a dump. A bit different, but yeah, yeah, um, dump. It was a matter. It's my game that. I've not really followed the rest of it, but it felt like a crazy test match. Yeah, I'm a big bash girl at the minute.

Yeah, you're worth, then it. Yeah. Shall we... Who do you want to go upstairs with? Go upstairs? Um, who's the most Christmassy? All the umpires. What about the one that got stuck in the lift?

Yes. Yes. Who was that? Richard Ellingworth. Right, we'll go upstairs with Richard because he got stuck in a left. I'm Troy Deney and I'm Jermaine the phone. And Football First is back. Football Firsts from BBC Radio 5 Live.

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Yeah. Right, I'll be. go on the actual emails then. Hi, Kate and Alex. Hope you well. Long time listener, first time emailing her. Emailing her? God.

Eleanor. He's Eleanor. First time email her. I've been meaning to email the podcast for a while now, but never got round to it. Not sure if you two will remember, but you both presented one evening with another lady whilst I was on TV. It was a short few minute documentary involving the MCC Foundation playing at Lords. Don't know what, when that was. Is that the documentary we did?

Maybe. My question, Alex, is, if you could play one last cricket game with a team of your choice that you've been a part of and want to play against, who would it be? Thank you and Happy New Year from Jaya. Ooh. Ooh. I would play for England,

but I want you involved. You didn't really play when I played. We played two games. Yeah, I want you to play in the World Cup game against Australia that was a nail biter. I want us to play in that together. Okay. That was a good result.

Same result. So I would just play as like Jenny Gunnar or something? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Share a good game? Jen did with the bat, yeah. Oh yeah, I'm in.

I mean? She got 30 odd. Okay, then, yeah. Oh my God, everybody. Listen to this. The crossy texts me after the test match loss. She said I was nailed on for 50. So I thought, I thought, oh, we'll check the score card.

You got seven I didn't You got like seven No I've got my top score 13 19 maybe Nearly 20 I don't think you

About how she must have got I was like she must have got 30 odd She was nailed on for 50 And it really Really made me laugh out loud When I checked the scorecard No I definitely got more than that

Because I hit two fours So I definitely got more than seven I'll die for like an hour I'll give you 14 I'm going to check It just comes up The Indian Women's team beat England by 347 fronts.

It was December. I've got it here. Scorecard. I accept England. Second innings. Kate Cross. Yeah. 16 off 22. Nailed off for a 50. I was like so well-well. Honestly. You got a seed to be fair.

Well, it wasn't, it was a seed. It was a mad ball. But I'm sorry, I'm striving at the 72 there. Two boundaries. I was second highest, run score of our third highest of the day. Yeah, again, I'm not to say You didn't back well When you said I was nailed off for a 50 I was like wow I really felt like I was going to get 50

But I didn't Anyway This is about your Christmas sandwich Cool on then Hi Alex and Kate I tried a new delicacy this year A Hartley Christmas dinner sandwich I had it at Christmas tea time

Two sizes of bread with all the leftovers crammed in turkey stuffing roast potatoes sprouts. I didn't have any mushy peas, so I put cold gravy instead and it was surprisingly nice, so I'll do it again next year. Thanks Alex for the great idea, and that's from Gary. Gary, make it better warm the gravy. Don't have it cold, would you like that? You put on Instagram, we want to know of any of your New Year's resolutions that you've made slash failed already. Rosser Talks Balls said she wants... I always say Rosseth.

Rosa. Or rossa To stop killing plants First of Jan Knock one off my desk It fell and snapped in the process Brutal Savage

This is why I think plants are the biggest myth out there They say that they're like They don't need much attention But plants need a lot of love And they need the right environment And High maintenance

They are high maintenance Yeah You wouldn't let me go on So you slide off my Christmas tree every year And then I said the other day Can we go and get a new tree? Because you wanted to go to a garden centre to get a fake tree and actually you took me to a garden centre and it was

somebody's back garden and it was closed till the 1st of March it was a rogue day that one wasn't it yeah got that did get that a bit wrong but I didn't know you couldn't go to a garden centre for a fake tree you need to go to like B&Q that when I did that you slapped my tree off and you said it looked crap because you got yours and B&M BN Borgings 25 pound it's already got the lights on it genius BBG said my tree looked all right. Another email. First time email a long-time listener.

Hi Kate and Alex. My name is Hugh and I listen to your podcast every night. You make me laugh so much. I play for Stafford Cricket in the under 10s team. Will you be going to the women's game of England versus Pakistan in May? I'm so excited about going and would love to hear all about the games on the podcast and that's from Hugh. Hugh, we will definitely be there. Well, I'm really hoping that I'll be there in a playing capacity.

If not, she'll probably get commentary gigs. If she'll be there. If she's de-20, I won't be there. Yeah. Hugh, we will talk about it on the podcast. I promise you that. Olivia wants to complete her next stage of her umpiring course for new year.

Have you set any resolutions? Yeah. Olivia, that's a great one, by the way. Sorry, I just ignored it. Mine is to be better with friends because I'm quite lonely now. No, but you're not about cricket. It's not funny. Yeah, I've got no mates

so I need to be better at making plans with mates I said this to you I think you're actually quite good at that but I did invite you around for dinner tomorrow night because I thought bad for you Yeah, thank you. You actually said what you're doing tomorrow I was like nothing well then This one's called dogs

It's quite a long one Hello ladies and greetings from Australia I've just listened to a recent edition of your podcast during which you discussed This very formal during which you discussed the fact that one of your dogs had her name changed from Vicky to Phoebe I think the suggestion that Alex

had for calling it help was a great one and it reminded me of a friend of mine who changed the name of one of his dogs. Yes. Yase. Right, so the story, buckle up everyone. John is a long-time mate who owns a sheep station of about 150,000 acres in the north of South Australia. He used motorbikes and Australian kelpie dogs to manage the sheep and occasionally will breed a litter to make sure he's got new dogs coming around to replace the older ones that retire. Going back a few years, one male puppy looked as though it was shaping up as a good prospect, so John began to take him with him whenever he was out looking to round the sheep up. The idea was to get him used to the sight and smells of sheep herding from a young age.

John called the dog Bruce, which wasn't his wife's favourite name. Bruce became a bit of a problem because his recall wasn't good and he used to run off into the scrub and get lost. I'm guessing the scrub is the bush. Yeah. And he'd get lost. He wouldn't answer his recall and John used to get angry with Bruce. He once screamed out to the dog in frustration, come back here. Oh no.

And apparently Bruce immediately came back. This happened a couple of times, so John decided to change the name's dog to fuck you. For some reason, the dog responded to his new name, and since then, fuck yeah, has been one of John's all-time great dogs. Fikia is now retired and has sired his first litter. No names yet, but maybe I'll suggest one of the girls who's called Nobles. Thanks, and best regards, Richard.

That is very good. Yeah. Very, very good. So you're going to, everyone, that'll all get beat out, so you'll just have to guess. But it begins with an a-hapen ends in a... Another last word is a you Oh yeah

Yeah, I'll be in there Yeah Oh yeah But the B-Fat is in you Oh, crotch So as New Year's resolution Is to take more pictures of things I do this year So I can look back at them at the end of the year

Got an app for you It's something called one second a day I've not got an out for them Because you don't know what it's called And you basically take A one second video Of every day of something you're doing every day

and it makes a video at the end of the day at the end of the year well on that we're actually exceptionally good at that aren't we we take photos everywhere all the time so we've documented basically everything in our lives

so to the point go on your phone and tell me how many how many things are in your recent do you any more recent on your albums how many photos I've got well it's photos and videos

isn't it 61,821 I think I'd have a lot I've got 39,000, 2-043 and you've doubled that so who was the person who's doing that as their New Year's resolution? I've lost it,

don't know. Well, good luck with it. Yeah. Yeah, I have to pay for a lot of story. Yeah, I have to do the same. Right, I'm coming on to Instagram because I've read all our emails.

Zane wants to learn to bowl, wobble scene ball, like legend crossy, but got whacked for sixes in a learning. in process. That's fine. Yeah, I still get hit for six off the wobble ball. It's worse it when, oh my God, when you get the nitbacker and it hits the

stuff, it's so sexy. It's so worth it. It's the nitbacker. It jags back. It just nits back. It's jags back. I listened to Agassiz's episode. Really enjoyed it. We're good at podcasting. Really, really thoroughly enjoyed it. If you enjoyed it and you think we're good at podcasting, vote for us. Yes, please do on the sports podcast.

Yeah, we will retweet it. Yeah. I think that must be soon. Because it feels like it's been a while. Yeah, I want to win. I really want to win. But yeah, I really enjoyed that episode. So thanks, Agas, for coming on. I thought he was such a sport.

I did. You took the mic out of him somewhat, and he was great. It was good, wasn't it? So I was like he was enjoying it. Someone says they, their New Year's resolution is to not swear as much. Okay, nice. Good one. Yeah.

Someone's here is to be asleep by 10 p.m. daily. Sent this in at 1am. Perfect. Someone said here, 10,000 steps a day. after averaging 2.7,000 per day in 2023. I've done all four days of Jan so far. That feels to me like a big New Year's resolution. Yeah.

And I read somewhere that you should set a resolution that is achievable because that's why a lot of people fail them because they're just not achievable. Yeah, okay. Like when Harry told me that he was going to do yoga every day for a year. Yeah, didn't even do one day. Didn't do day one.

So maybe this, let me see what this person's name is. Fifi. Maybe 10,000. I mean, she's done four days, But you meant to do 10,000 a day. But only if you, I feel like 10,000 is like, if you've got an active lifestyle. It's quite hard to do 10,000 if you're in an office job.

So maybe make it more achievable as it gets more down, like later down the year. Yeah, I told myself I'm going to start going to the gym. I booked on a gym class today. I was 8th in the queue because it's January and everyone's going to the gym. Oh, yeah. So I was 8th on the waiting list. 20 minutes before the class, I got an email saying, you're in. I said, no, I'm not.

deleted the email and cancelled the cards. Nice. And I keep looking at myself in the room. Going to go to the gym, I just can't be bothered. Josh says to never have mushy peas on my roast dinners ever. So that. It's his New Year's Resolution. Oh, someone said to marry Kate Cross.

David said to stop buying Lego already bought some. New Year's Resolution, go a lesson without listening to No Balls, the Cricket Podcast. I've failed already. Well, we can't condone that behavior, but we are. are going to. Well done. Thank you. Have you got any? Yeah, to be less on my phone, read more books. I've already read two books this year. It's only day four. It's done well. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. I've set Harry's own New Year's resolution of less takeaways. So, well, you told me it was no takeaway, Jan. Yeah. I always do that and then fail by about now.

So today, rather than getting a takeaway, I cook myself some dinner. Yeah. Because I thought, I can't get a takeaway on day four when I've set the no takeaway. Yeah. So I had dry pasta with dry tuna, tin tuna, and olive oil. Right. I can see why you do the takeaways. Yeah. You don't gust of it.

Yeah. You come around to mine tomorrow, I'll cook for you. Perfect. I'm not very good at cooking then. You're better than me. Well, actually, probably not. I want to be dry cheater. If you were going for tea, I'd have made for heat.

I just couldn't be asked going to Stainsbury's. Yeah, I think that's the issue. Yeah. But you'd go down, have to go and pick up your delivery anyway, so you're going half the way there. It's very true. I feel like we need a guest on this podcast soon. Yeah, me too.

Send us your suggestions. Please do. And we did have agos, but that was filmed in June. I'll tell you what. If we win the podcast awards, we'll give you a guest. Who? A big guest. Who?

You're just pulling this out your ass now? Yeah. Because if you go on vote, for us, we'll surprise you with a guest. Should we try? Okay, yeah. Would you, Brendan McCollum? You keep threatening Brendan. I've messaged him. I've messaged Joe Roo. I could message Aaron and Finch.

That would be rogue, but why? Yeah, why not? He's just retired. Joe Rout thinks he's been on this podcast now. I don't ever talked about this on the pub, but we did a thing for Easter charity not long ago, and he came on it and was like, I've promised the girls that I'll come on the podcast for ages. So he thinks that was it.

Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't. And I was like, no, no, no. But I don't think we're going to get him on. I think we've got to just cut the cord with root. Well, you're willing to do that because he's blue-bombed you twice. Probably three times, actually. Three times a lady.

Okay. Right. Send us you suggestions. We'll have a thing. We'll get our heads together. Vote for us. Please vote. Put it on Instagram.

We'll put it on Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it. And if you don't vote for us, We'll block you, like we did with the footman. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Merry Christmas. Happy Easter. Felice Navid Dad.

Little Bradley, my sister's steps them. I said to him the other day. I said, right, I'm going there. Bye. And he was like, have a great Easter. Oh. Okay. Okay.

Thank you. Thanks, and we'll do. All right. Bye, everyone. See you. Oh, email is on. No, boss. podcast to bbc.com.com.com.com.com. It's so good. They said it twice. In the same room, baby.

Yeah, baby. Very Christmas. Happy New Year. Cross. I'm doing round the wicket. Oh, that's... Boulder. Boulder. Laving a ball alone. Litchfield. Think it's the wobble ball. And it just nips back. It jags back. It's the nipbacker. That is a beauty from Kate Cross. An absolute seed. That is a beauty for Cross. Something mysterious plagues County Mayo on the West Coast of Ireland and its legendary Gaelic football team. I believe in the curse.

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