The Overshare with Gemma Atkinson - Pies Have NO PLACE at Christmas : Gorka’s Hot Take

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

When Spanish and British traditions collide, there's bound to be some disagreements. Is a Christmas Buffet just a British Birthday Party? And do pies have any place on the dinner table?  We’re unwrapping the real meaning of Christmas, playing some very WET games that you can play this Christmas time, and looking at the differences between this celebration in Spain (staying at home, keeping it family-focused) and the UK (where the cups flow and the buffet table is long!).  Let us know your festive tradition at [e-mail] And follow us across the board @lost.in.podcast  Feliz Navidad!  

A reo original podcast Just a precaution with this episode If you're listening with Little ears We advise that you don't Because we touch on the subjects of Father Christmas We're being asked a lot of questions at the minute by Mia And we want to keep the magic alive So yeah, just a quick warning

Enjoy This is Lost in Translation The Christmas Special Hence Christmas Jumper you've not got a Christmas jumper I mean it's very similar you don't do Christmas jumpers do you No it really upsets me

That's it? Yeah I don't judge But because we're in a safe space And there's other people here I bought you this You will wear a Christmas jumper today Gawker I'm putting my foot down It's Christmas getting the festive spirit Less Grinch

More Santa Claus No Father Christmas Santa Claus is a bit American in it Papa Noel Papa Noel Come on be Papa Noel. Yay.

You know what? I have a reason why I don't wear Christmas jumpers. Are you going to say what? The itches, the fabric itches or something? No. Most of the time I'm the one cooking Christmas dinner. So then I get hot and I don't want to stain it. So then I end up being on a vest or a t-shirt cooking.

You always have a festive apron. I'll give you that. I know. My one says, Ho! Ho! Where's my Pinking Blankets? You did. I don't even know.

that makes sense. No, it did last time. Ho-ho-hoes and it was a lady with a booboes out. Music, please. When I take my top, we must you go. No, I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. Okay, so, I mean, this is, it's the festive colours.

Unfortunately. Is my head okay? Do you know, we've had that jumper for about... 17 years. Yeah, at least six years I've had that Christmas jumper. It's back to front. You had a 50-50 chance. For frig's sake, 50-50, back to front.

It does suit you, though, a Christmas jumper. I love Christmas jumper day at work. Let's be honest. Well, that's suit me. Welcome to Lost in Translation, our very festive pod today, as always. You know how it works now, surely? It's a very safe space for you guys to get involved. We have a chit-chat about the week.

We play some games. We're talking about the festive period. Yes. Thank you for all your comments. for your reviews. It's been brilliant. You can follow us at lost.

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But without further ado, are you ready? I am. Vamos! Coming up. Proximately. Oh, no. You're not inviting us?

You're sexually frustrated, Gorka. If we do a buffet, It just ended up being like a, like I said, like a British birthday party. It's all pies everywhere. It's not enough that I choose the presents. I go out and purchase the presents. I bring them home.

You now want me to wrap them as well. Excuse me. I said I didn't like your Harry Potter glasses and you went, well, I don't like your top. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. We don't know a lot about what's coming up on the show. We have some cue cards for just minor outline bullet points. The producers, though, throw surprises on us all the time, genuinely.

And Molly has got a box with a blanket on. I'm hoping this is a box of puppies, Mole. That one's... These presents. So it's like a secret Santa. This one's for me. Ah! Do you want to open yours first?

It's fine because I know what's in that one actually. Oh dear. Yep. It's not for me so I can know it. Did you ask? No, I just bump into it. Oh, okay. So yeah, you love it.

You open yours then. What do you think is this? Is it a whistle or something? Oh. What is that? Oh. What have you always wanted? Oh, I'm a call.

Coffee machine. That is brilliant. I was like, I thought it was a little like pooze in there. I was like, why is it putting there? Look at your coffee machine. There you go. You can stop moaning now. You've finally got a coffee machine.

Thank you very much. That is brilliant. Oh, I love this. I love that it's so small. And I love that it's also like real size for me, yeah? Is that you trying to say something? Very nice. We can make proper coffee now.

You have to keep that away from it. Benji. You have to keep that away from Benji. Right, I'm going to open mine. Oh my gosh, is it a dog bed? Oh, it's a bed for Benji. I'm here for me. Thank you.

Oh my gosh, Gawker, look. He is going to love that. I got an idea. He's like the king. I got an idea. What? You can move in. you and Benji in that bed, yeah?

I mean, it would be... This will fit perfectly at the bottom of our bed. I was going to say, you could go with him by only one of your teeth would fit in there. Oh, my... One of my boobs? Yeah.

You're sexually frustrated, Gawker. You need to go and have a... Look on your laptop. Oh, no, I'll leave that for someone else. Anybody wants a coffee? Oh, those are brills. There you go, Gemma. Capricino.

One little cup. So tomorrow is the big day. Yes. Father Christmas is coming. Tonight. How exciting. It's been chaotic for us. It always is, I think, at Christmas, isn't it?

Because I've realised Christmas as a parent, it's beautiful and lovely because it's through their eyes again and it's so exciting. But there is that stress level of what do they want, what do they need, where do you put things, where do you hide things. It's beautiful chaos, I think, at Christmas, but... Yes, and especially living with someone like you.

I love Christmas. Which you are like, not like a control freak, but when it comes to birthdays and Christmas and everything. Yes, but you organise six months in advance. So almost, like, in the beginning of November or like October, you're like, we need to get Christmas presents for the children. I'm like, still October. Yeah, because if I, but if I wasn't like that, it would come to this time now, it'd be Christmas Eve now, like today,

and you'd be sat there thinking, I've not got them anything, nothing's been wrapped, no food's been ordered, you wouldn't get anything done. You have to be organised at Christmas. Would you mean I wouldn't get anything done? You can't be your last minute, Larry, on Christmas. Not last minute, Larry, but you just don't stop overthinking. Like, for the next, like, for the past four weeks,

every evening, your thought was, like Christmas gifts. You think I would go enough and then you go like oh this year we don't get them too many gifts just for your gifts for the last six years you've been saying to Mia I don't think this year I'm going to get her too many things

because you know my mom will get her stuff my sister will get a lot of stuff and then you go downstairs and the whole living room is like a bloody toy saras yeah you have toys at us here? Of course we do it's just come back

it's like a bloody toysterer us toys everywhere and you go Gemma what was it called? Just two or three presents. But we've got Benji as well this year. Yes. But if we were in Spain, you'd be celebrating today, which I just find stupidly weird, that

you have a Christmas Eve. No, no, you see, you still, after eight years, you still get any wrong. No, you do something on Christmas Eve as well as Christmas Day. Yes. So on Christmas Eve, we all the family get together. Again, it has to be something with the religion, you know. So on Christmas Eve, we all get together. So, for instance, if I was in Spain, on Christmas Eve, I was, on Christmas Eve, I'll,

around like six, seven o'clock, I will go out to see my closest friends or some of the family that they are not coming to our house, you know, because it depends on the families go to different places. And we will be having like an aperitivo. So having like maybe like a bead or like sangria glass or glass of wine or proselyco, have some chapas. And then we will go each one of us to wish everybody Merry Christmas. It's not Christmas day. Yeah, but you say, Felis Navidad for the next day, yeah? Okay. Always. Anyway, or Feliz Noche Buena.

And then you go to your own house and then, let's say, for instance, when I was younger, sometimes we used to go to my nannas or come to my house and we will be like 10, 12 people in the house. My mom prepared the dinner for everybody. And on Christmas Eve, what we do is have dinner family together, stay up playing Christmas games, playing music, playing like instruments and singing songs. and then you go bed because the next day is when you wake up

and it's Christmas Day because in the old days we didn't have we don't celebrate Santa Claus Santa Claus or Father Christmas is like we call it Anglos a whole is something like

British American is nothing that we have I mean the whole point of Christmas is you know it's the religion like you say but do you ever with that on Christmas Eve my concern is like my sister

she's got three kids and they're all adults now Hadley Tyler and Anushka but she bans them going out on Christmas Eve because one year they did go out and they ruined Christmas Day they were so hung over. In Spain, Christmas Eve

and Christmas Day is a family day. So that's what I'm saying. You can stay up late but you stay in a home. It's a family thing. It's when the family gathers together and like I said you can stay eating like

the chocolate traditional biscuits and chocolates from Spain like for Christmas to run in Polboronis and you stay at home like all the families. Then on a, we call the Noche Buena. And then Noche Vueja is New Year's Eve. And you do the same thing.

You, for example, let's say, on New Year, on Christmas Eve, we went to my grandparents, yeah? Yeah. So then on New Year's Eve, we come to my house, yeah? Put it this way, Jorge, Jorge's my best friend, yeah? So in Christmas Eve, he celebrates in later's parents' house. And then on Christmas Day, they go to Jorge's mom's house. Yeah? Yeah, so it's like what we do on Christmas Day and box. Boxing Day. Then on New Year's Eve, they go all to Jorge's house. Yeah.

Yeah. And then on New Year's Day, you go to a later sister house. Do you understand? Yeah. It's basically you do Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We do Christmas Day on Boxing Day. No, but we do also New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. So do we.

No, you don't. What do you mean? No, we don't. New Year's Eve? What do you think we do? Just sit in? But what you do, New Year's Eve? You go out for a drink and...

You watch Jules Holland. Yes. You do the big... Down, you're single long's eye. It's different. We do a sit-down meal course, like we do the New Year's Eve. We do that on New Year's Day to soak up all the alcohol for New Year's Eve. And we do the same thing on New Year's Day and Christmas Eve.

You're cooking tomorrow for us, aren't you? I am. Like every year. He's doing a full, it's difficult for you because I have to have a nut roast. Uncle Clive's vegan. I don't mind you. I think Clive will bring his own. And then everyone else is eating the turkey.

But we're doing like a Christmas buffet this year. Because last time... Well, that's what she thinks we're doing. No, there's 15 of us. There's too many to be sat around a table. Everyone ends up eating like this, like little lemmings. I think we just push the table. We have the table extension.

Yeah, we've got the extension. But even that, I just think put all the food in trays or pots, whatever, on the table. And just let people help themselves. You see, for me, that's when Christmas loses the magic. Why? Because you're not all sat together. Yeah, because it's supposed to be a sit-down meal for the whole family. We all sat together and eat together.

We will all be sat together. then just not squashed. You see, it ends up like a buffet that looks like a British buffet party. So you genuinely want 15 of us to sit around the table. Well, that's the beauty of Christmas. Like a full turkey in the middle, you know, all there with the song in the background, the candles on,

and we just had together and eat. If not for that, then just go to McDonald's and eat at your own time. Well, it's a bit different, isn't it? No, I know. We'll do that then. We'll take a picture of 15 of us around the table with the extension. That's what I think.

That's for me, for me Christmas, because we all have to be sat together on the table. If we do a buffet, it just end up being like a, again, like I said, like a British birthday party. Well, we do a buffet on Boxing Day. We're going to work, my sisters, our kids do in a Boxing Day. And then New Year's Eve. Which is my worst name a day. Your worst, what day?

Boxing Day. You get chuffed. He always wants to go to the tip on Boxing Day. Yeah, but why I don't like Boxing Day? One of the reasons why I don't like Boxing Day. One of the reasons why you make a buffet on Boxing Day, yeah? Yeah. What do you eat on Boxing Day all the time?

Cheese pie. I love a cheese pie. So the pies everywhere. I had cheese pie the other month. It was my stepdad's birthday. I had three slabs of cheese pie. I'd never had indigestion like it. I was up in the night with indigestion,

and I kept thinking to myself, just lay off the cheese pie. Do you know what I mean? But Tiago loves it as well. I know. It's just, I don't understand pies. I don't like pies. Minced pies.

What about a mince pie? No, absolutely. Nothing is pie. You know that. A mince pie is not. It's not a savory pie. It's sweet, yeah, it's awful. I try them.

It's just raisin with a bit of fresh cream. I don't like raisins. Well, mince pie and fresh cream. It's like an apple crumble, like an apple and raisins since with the means, oh, no. We've got Gawker's parents coming over for New Year's Eve. The first time they've actually been to our new house, the last time they came over, we were in our old house, weren't we? And we looked at flights to go to Bilbao between Christmas and New Year.

And it was like a half-five in the morning flight, wasn't it? and then with kids and stuff. It's expensive for the reason. Yeah. So we said let's just bring them over here. So the flying in on Christmas, no, New Year's Eve. No, before then. The flying in on the 30th, the flying home on the force.

Let me explain this, yeah. Sorry, Mom and Dad. Sorry. Are you dreading it? No, I'm not dreading it. I'm saying, sorry. You are all coming. Well, you two are coming thanks to her.

She's the one. Yeah, he wasn't bothered, which I find insane. I wake up at 7 in the morning, came downstairs. She's having a brief. she goes to be a coca and I was like yes I've been thinking and I have this massive incredible idea like I just generally I have this idea

and I've looked at flights and I'm not more in person to like have a conversation at that time yeah I'm like sometimes I go downstairs she's full of energy or full of beans and I go like Gemma just give me half an hour yeah she was like no no no listen so I thought you know why we don't bring your mom and dad

and look at the flights it's fly directly from Manchester to Bilbao, Bilbao to Manchester at this time, they come this day and they go this day before Mia goes back to school, yeah? It's great, isn't? I'm like... But you have to, because I'm not doing it, if I don't do it for you, or for your mum and dad, really, I do it so Mia and Tiago can see the Nana and Granddad.

You get two sets of grandparents, if you're lucky, and I always think they should have... If God forbid, anything happens to your mummer, one day it will, hopefully years, years down the line. And then if someone says to Mia, what did your Nana and Granddad do in Spain? Imagine if she says, I don't know, I never saw them. I'd feel awful because there's two hours away.

Well, I never saw, I didn't see my grandparents much either, so maybe that's why there is a why. Maybe. I'm used to it because they live in Portugal, so it's a different thing. I saw mine every week. But also, again, she's, in this way, she's like a family person, like she wants to have all the family around every day, any day. Me, the chance that I have to be about myself with no family, the best.

So for me, Christmas, you say, you tell me, oh, on New Year's safe, it's just, us for and Benji watching a movie fantastic she's the opposite we looked at a house recently we're not moving now but we were considering moving and the reason we liked this house is because it had another bungalow in the grounds and I was like oh my gosh and at the exact same time he said what a gym that I'd make and I said I could move my mum and Peter in they could live on the same ground as us but Goku was like no please any husbands there would you like to have your wife's parents next to you

please let me know yeah let me see if you this should be a debate yeah will you agree with me or even wives will you have the annoying parents of your husband no no no I'm not saying

your mom and Peter are annoying yeah I was gonna say I'm saying if you're they help a lot I say wives oh okay the annoying parents of your husband

right yeah Sandra and Peter they are no annoying I love them yeah my mom's gonna bat to you 20 minutes away is great speaking of debate

Should we get into this week? Yes. So in this part of the show, it's all about listening but not judging. So we have a debate that have annoyed each other in the week, but we've had to keep quiet, bite our tongues, and instead angrily message mall and tell her what our issue is. Or even send pictures. And then we have it out here.

So it's kind of like a therapy session, yeah. Yeah. Who would like to go first? You first. Okay. So my debate is that when it comes to decorating the tree, I like making a really big deal out of it. I like putting the music on. I like having some nibbles out.

I like spending a good four or five hours. You do a day of it. Yeah. Make it a full day. Make it fun. You know, get it out of the loft. pause for a little coffee, step back and look what you've done. Put more baubles in, step back and have a little look, get the patio open, fresh airing,

do you know what I mean, festive, fun. Gorka doesn't really like doing any of that. You would either leave it all to me or you'd just say, I'll do it, but I have an hour. I do it in one hour, Jemma. And you do it like any other random chore, like I asked you to put the bin out or I asked you to do the washing up. That's how you view decorating the Christmas tree. but I feel we should spend more time on it we've got kids who will love it

and that's the annoyance for me is that you rush the Christmas tree Okay, I listen, I don't judge but I'm just going to give my opinion Most of the times, I'm never there So you always do it yourself This is what I mean, but now you are here So you should have helped more

Yes, but I'm like I'm always away doing that and I help you, I help you to take everything out but also when I put the balls you go like no, that doesn't go there no, that doesn't go dead so I just go, okay, you do it I make you the coffee, that's fine

but I let you build it, you know? And what about taking it down? Taking it down, I don't mind it. I help you to take it down every year because I'm home always for that. We do take it down quite early actually, don't we? I like everything done and down dusted by like early January.

Which that's one thing that annoys me, for example. What, that I take it down early? On New Year's Day You already want to take it out It annoys me You don't only put it up in time For you don't help me I'm not here

How you want me When I'm on Strickley in London And you always put the Christmas At the same time I'm never here Do you know what When I did strictly in 2017 I didn't tell anyone

But it was going through my mind That I wouldn't be able to put my Christmas tree up Even though I lived on my own I lived on my own for years Before I met you I did always do the whole Christmas tree Oh my I was like Mr Bean I'd go

full out and decorate it and all by myself be like ah and i didn't say anything but our strictly year ran dead close to christmas and my mom and my sister didn't tell me when i came home on sunday they'd done it for me i walked into my house the tree was up the lights the big candy canes and i went i started crying that's how much it means to me genuinely it just brings the home to life i've never been like very christmassy until we've experienced with you the first year and it is true when i when I come to the house so we have two Christmas trees once in the we have like a big

open ceiling landing so we have a big tree there then all the staircase is wrapped up then on the now we have this new thing and when you walk on the land you have double glazed doors so she has around the doors

big archway then he has on the corner Santa Claus they sing ho ho ho it's like Father Christmas is grotto and the little dog then he had now this two like

Nutcrackers, she just bought a month ago. I got sucked in at B&M. About this size, I'd be almost as tall as me. Then you have another massive seven-foot Christmas tree in the living room. But it looks lovely, doesn't it? The kids love it. The socks are hanging on the fireplace, which I love. Stockins, it's not socks, the stockings.

So the only thing we're missing is the reindeer's outside, which probably you also got them this year. And tomorrow I've got some, like, cast a sugar and I always do footprints in wellie boots from my front door because he has a magic key to get in that we're not got a real fireplace so he has a magic key

and he'll leave footprints leading to all the presents so nice isn't it but we actually had a bit of a panic didn't we like a sad moment in that my brother-in-law was with Mia and they were

playing and everything she loves her uncle Rob and he told me he took me her one side and said, Mia had said to him, I'm not sure, you know, if Father Christmas is actually real. She's six. It's honestly, genuinely, and I said to him, what do you mean? And some of the lads in school have got older brothers

and in school they've been saying, it's not Father Christmas, it's your parents. And he said, I said, too, well, if you stop believing, you might not get your gifts. And she said, well, who buy his mummy and Papa gifts? And he says, Father Christmas. And she says, is it not Nana and Ganga then? And he says, no, it's father.

Who buys Nana and Gang Gang Gifts then? So she was already at age six. And it upsets me because with my niece, with Anushka, my niece, we had to tell her before she started high school. She was going into high school. And we had to be like, I remember saying to my sister, you can't let us start high school, Nina, with that. Because they start in September.

She'll be going, oh, he's coming soon, isn't he? He'd be on his way. And the high school kids would be like, what? But it was so much longer back then. Whereas now, with phones and social media and tablets. and I don't want it to be ruined. I found that when I was 7-8. That's young for me.

That's probably why I don't really are into Christmas because I remember very young. And then you got on a point that I knew the Christmas was my parents. So instead of them away for Christmas Day, I used to go like, I know you are Father Christmas or can you give me the gifts before because I want to know I don't want to wait for Christmas. So then I used to get my Christmas gift, for example,

let's say I wanted to have the new FIFA game, yeah, for Christmas. So it was an end of a school. for Christmas so I was to be like I have three weeks off give me the game now so I can play don't give it when it's Christmas because I know it's you so that's really meta. So I mean all my mom and I used to keep the magic alive

for them as long as possible. That's the thing I think like you know your children are no more children when they find out the Father Christmas is your parents because the magic goes. I think it's because a lot of the family members have been saying to her what do you want for Christmas any ideas for Christmas

they need to say write a letter to Father Christmas and I can show them. Yeah, or how about how last year had, your step-mom came to the house two days before Christmas in front of Mia with a bag of gifts. You know, for Christmas. Mia, that's your bag for Christmas gifts.

Mea, that's your bag for Christmas giving me. I went like, but Father Christmas haven't been yet. And I was like, there we go. Anyway, we're keeping the magic alive for as long. Even if you have to dress up as him and fall off the roof, we're doing it. What's your debate? My debate is

We've been talking about it, to be honest, already. So, Gemma loves to wear Christmas jumpers and dress the kids like Christmas trees. Yes. We have a picture of Tiago last year as a Christmas tree. So cute. And she gives the kids lots of presents that I have to wrap. Yeah, you're the rapper. I'm the picker, the buyer and the storage and you rap.

But you're very good at it. I have no patience for rapping. I hate it. I'm one of them, if it's someone's birthday at school, put it in a gift bag with a load of tissue paper like not the you know what I mean like wrapping tissue paper whereas you do like wrapping you find it quite neat

yeah so that annoys you that I don't so it's not it doesn't annoy you it's not enough that I choose the presents I go out and purchase the presents I bring them home you now want me to wrap them as well is that your my little contribution what I'm saying is like she said oh I'm going to get some presents

that's fine and we think like two or three for each yeah but then it's like 10 for each and some of them are big presents Because it's the most wonderful time of the year And it's amazing But you know what's for example for me It's like you get new toys Okay

So then go to the play room And the old toys Or the ones that they are not playing anymore Let's get rid of them Not ready to throw them Let's give them to charity Or take them to the hospital For the children they are there

We do that Yeah but takes A few times to convince you Because you can't just No it's not that It's like The kids know Like if Mia walked in

Remember when we did it With a little She had a little prep kitchen And we took that to the Bleakalt shop And she came into the Playroom and went Where's my kitchen gone? Yeah and what happened

With the Barbie house That she wanted this Barbie house Huge Barbie house Like five foot big She had on her room She played for two days And then what she told you About the Barbie house

She told us to give it to kids Who didn't have toys She was like mommy You know this Barbie house I don't really play with it So why we don't give it to the children then he's there.

That's genuine. But that's because the year before we've taken her toys to charity. Okay. So that's a good thing for her to have.

But let's see. Who agrees with me that it's annoying that he doesn't make the effort to spend hours and hours decorating the tree? And who agrees with Gawker

that he's annoyed that I'm a hoarder who doesn't wrap gifts. Well, I don't like to spend hours decorating the tree so I have an hour to wrap Christmas gifts.

I need to go back to be Mr. Bean and just doing it on my own. Let us know your thoughts at lost. in dot podcast on socials or you can email us and the lovely team at lost in translation at bowermedia.com.uk. Right, we've had our turn.

We're now going to solve your dilemmas. We have the Gorka and Gemma dilemma. Each week, you guys get in touch. You can email us at lost in translation at bowermedia.com. And send in something that's been annoying you, something that's happening. you need help we will try and solve it this week's dilemma comes from F that's all they've said their name is F hi Gemma and Gorka every year we have my in-laws over for Christmas day this started way before we have kids and now I have a six-year-old and four-year-old twins oh my

god but you're knackered that's the dilemma yeah it's become the norm it began with my father-in-law he's on his own bless him then my mother-in-law joined when her plans fell through and now my sister-in-law and her boyfriend come as well. I do all the cooking and all the catering. We have a vegetarian and a Muslim guest. They are always late. Even though they live in the same town. Last year they were so late we'd actually finished eating and their excuse was that wrapping presents took longer than expected. She said like the 25th of December just snuck up and surprise them out of the blue. After that I said we weren't doing it again and my husband agreed but he still hasn't told them. It's just assumed that they'll be

coming to our house as usual. I don't want to fall out with them since they help a lot with childcare, but I'm tired of spending Christmas annoyed and stuck in the kitchen while they turn up late and stay until 2 a.m. We've only got a few magical years left while the kids still believe

I'm with you on that one and I want to enjoy them. How do I get my husband to set the boundaries without causing a family fallout? Ooh, that's that one, you know? That is a tough. Could you, I'm thinking if it was me, what I would do was...

I would make a fun kind of Christmas, not a schedule, but a menu plan, like dinner served at three. Like presents, presents from one, dinner, three. Christmas movies from six. And if they're not on that schedule, it's too late, bollocks to you, you knew what time it was. They can't turn up late.

If someone's gone through that effort to cook a meal for you, it's a stressful time cooking for Christmas dinner. Like I know, I've never cooked Christmas dinner. but how would you feel if all my family turned up late when you've spent all that time cooking tomorrow? To me it's the opposite. They turn on too early.

They do. My mum will say, we'll be there for two and she'll turn up at like 20 to 12. One. For Uncle Clive. Uncle Clive, we already tell him an hour late and he's still been two hours earlier. He's still the first one there.

We say, oh, I told everybody around like two, three, but I told Clive at four. Okay, fine. It's one third and Clive is ringing the bell. He lives on his own Uncle Clive. We love Uncle's life. It's my Godfather. But back to F's point, it is annoying.

Genuine timekeeping for me really, really pisses me off when people are really, really late. A couple of minutes here and there, I always think 10 minutes before or 10 minutes after, if I'm expecting someone, I can work with. I'll do one thing. So I will just do the try of tell them earlier time. That makes sense.

So, for example, if you know they always, for the last five years, they've been always going late. So instead of them One more chance Go like, okay This year at dinner Instead of being at 2 o'clock It's at 12

Probably in you prepare for 2 o'clock They will arrive at 2 o'clock anyway So just do that Oh, she could That's why I do with Jorge When I meet him in Madrid Yeah Because he's always,

That no matter of what It's always late If he's 9 a. I am, he's late Because he's early So then I say Oh let's meet at 10 But for me I know it's like

You'll be there later anyway Yeah If it was us I would throw you under the bus I would just say next time I was with your mum I'd say oh as Gorka told you about Christmas this year and she'd go no why

I'd say oh I have a chat with him because we're not doing it this year and then she'd approach the son about it and say what's all this about Christmas this is the problem not the problem this is the difference between probably Spanish culture and British culture

and I have this conversation with a friend of mine who is British and his partner is Spanish we won't get offended it. We won't make a drum of it. Like, British will take a person and we're like, oh, no, you know, inviting us? If I go to my master and my mom, this is not coming to the house.

Why? Because this, my man will like, okay, fine, see you later. Yeah, not all of us are like that. I won't be bothered. No, but in general, you will go, like, we'll make a fuss of bed. Yeah, you start thinking, oh, what did I say? What did I do? Yes. It's like, for example, if I make dinner, yeah? Or you made dinner and you ask me, you like the dinner and I would like, no. You're like, well, that was rude. I made dinner for you, blah, blah, blah. You don't make sense?

Spanish people are like, do you like the food? No, really. Okay, fine, no worries. But that's not true about everything. I mentioned to you your glasses earlier and you got offended. I didn't get offended.

I said I didn't like your Harry Potter glasses and you went, well, I don't like your top. No, I said... I was like, all right. I was offended. Yeah, but I'm half British now. Yeah, is that how you get away? I'm half British now.

You're like threw it back at me. You just, you have blue light blocker glasses, which I'm all for. But you've got round lens, and I was looking at you and you've worn them a few times out in the house and I've not liked them

and I've not said anything. This is getting another dilemma. The reason why is because I haven't even asked you. Ask you what? If you like them or not. I wouldn't expect you to.

No, do with me. They're your glasses. But I just thought I had to tell you. Have you listen to what I said? I said like, if you make dinner, yeah, and you ask me

did you like the food, I'll go, no. But if I don't, you make food, yeah, and me, I have no way and I would like, well, that was shit. That's rude.

Oh, so you want about if you don't ask for the opinion, don't have it, type thing. Right. If you give me your opinion, for example, I would have got like, thanks. I'll like... I don't know if you can see from this angle. Look down that camera. You can't see the back end of your hat, so it's just like he's got a white...

That's it, yeah. You just got a white tough whilst you're shouting about being offended. No, but that's what I mean. Like, if I haven't asked you your opinion... You'll fire back at me. Yeah, because I could be like... But you took a second time. to lock me up and down, you just went,

well, I don't like your jumper. Yeah, because I... And then looked the other way. Because I didn't ask you. Right. It's different if I ask you, you know. Okay. So for F, she needs to, A, throw your partner under the bus

by saying to the parents while he's not there, oh, as he mentioned Christmas to you this year, we're not doing it at our house. Or just in a text. And she'll be like, what do you mean? And she'll say, oh, ask him. That's what I would do. Yeah.

B, say to your fellow at the ultimatum, if you don't tell him, I'm going to send him a text. then I'm just going to say really sorry we're not up for it this time we want the kids to enjoy it but we'll see you after dinner. Or like Gawker said cut throat straight to them on the phone I'm saying to you right now this is it

set your boundaries because it's the it's the time of year where you mentioned your kids F that you didn't want them to outgrow the magic and stuff they will outgrow it do you know what I mean when it's your kid you've got to be the voice genuinely you don't want to get three four years time and think oh I wish

I should have told them you've got to set the boundaries for yourself because it's once a year and if you're lucky you have about 80 of them so you make the most of them just do the Gemma Goca this year Christmas is in the house

do the same this year Christmas is not in the house I just tell him what we do it he doesn't have a clue what Father Christmas has bought until they're opened on the day my family members are going thanks so much Gawker he's no idea what they've got he's your family members no mine you do it with your mum and dad as well

I don't buy my mum and that gives which I find really odd I'm far away you're not this year they're coming at New Year's Eve is true I give them the flights oh my gosh

how would you deal with this though if you're a listener and maybe you've got a similar problem maybe you're going through it as well please send your advice because we will pass it on Lost in Translation at bowermedia.com.com

or you can comment on our social page at lost. Dot in dot podcast podcast Should we play a Christmas game? This is my favourite game, I think. This is called Carol Chaos. Carol.

I quite like that. We've got a brand new game. We've just been told about this as we came in. We're going head to head. We're testing how well we know each other, but it's the festive edition. Now, we're going to be humming gargling. Do you know what gargling is? Yeah.

We have to guess the right one. With water? We could play this. You can actually play this on Christmas Day with you. family we think we need to have like a waterproof thing yeah it'd be quite good so you basically just hum a Christmas song and you have to have the form of obstruction in your mouth so either water well yeah go with water something safe and the other player has to guess what it is he wants to go first let's do raw paper scissors shoot I won't so you go first

no you I'm the one who needs to guess yeah I got it, jingle bell, jingle bell, jingon bell, jingon all the way. Yeah, what are you saying? What bells? Jingon bell. Jingle, yeah. Jingle bell. Yeah, jingle bell.

Yeah, I thought you said jingon bell. Yeah, jingle bells. Well done. I don't know the lyrics of this one, but that's great. Do you know the tune of it at least? But then what are you going to do? I'm going to repeat the same sentence over and over there. You've swallowed your water.

I'm trying to talk. to you. Oh, okay. I'm going to repeat the whole thing all the time, yeah? Right. I will be careful with your face. Don't spit it at me. Spit away from your mic, remember?

Christmas is you. Mariah Carey. That was good. You do know the lyrics to that. Everyone knows Mariah. Have you swallowed it? Mm-mm. Why?

You're keeping in for the next one? Oh, you scruff. As if you didn't swallow. Okay. Excuse me Do you know that one? You do it again? No, because you know it.

Close, no other end. Oh, I'll do a different part of the lyric. You'll know that bit. Oh, yeah, wait. Santa Claus is coming to town, no? Yes. You better watch out. You better do not cry.

Yay. Santa Claus is coming to town. Yeah. I even did a little harmony for you at the end. You're not making a sound. You need to make a sound with your voice as well. No, like a... Go on then.

No, you're not singing. There's no volume. I don't know. I can't hear you. Last Christmas, Cliff. Way in a manger. Christmas at? Father Christmas, big belly

I give up What is it Santa baby Oh There was no volume You just sounded like you were drowning There was no volume I was like

Extra hard gargle mode For this one gawks If you don't know this one Yeah You've got no Christmas spirit Oh Wimim Whin'gwim

Whin'gwit Wheno Wraimoolew Mourin'rubh It's the ice for me, like ice. Do you know that one? No. Oh.

Who's the most popular reindeer of them all? Rudolph. The red nose reindeer. It didn't sound nothing like that. It did. No, it didn't. People would have been singing along to that shouting Rudolph Gorker, Rudolph. No, it didn't.

Well, it was better than your one with no volume. Volume. Turn your volume up. How can you do it with no sound? It's just like Donald Duck. You need to use your throat, vocals. I don't really use my throat. What did we dance to for Christmas?

It's not that one. I know, but what was it? I don't know. I'm just like all wet now. Come on. Last Christmas. Navi-Dab? Yes. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Oh, God, we're not playing that on Christmas Day because you don't do it. You've got your Christmas jumper on back to front as well throughout all of this. And whoa, it's fine. Anyway, I love that game. Please make goggles at home and play it and let us know. Gaggles!

Gaggles, no? We should do that with your mum and dad on Christmas Eve. Imagine your dad doing that. I actually saw a game the other day that I was. want to do and I save it actually for Christmas. I think it's for Christmas. Well, when you've cooked the dinner, you can do that for us.

Thank you all for tuning in. That's all. We've got time for this Christmas Eve special episode, but we hope you all have a lovely Christmas however you're celebrating. Don't forget to get in touch with us at Lost in Translation at bowermedia.com.com.com or at lost. Dot in dot podcast on social medias. You were lost there?

Yeah, I was lost because I've got water in my mouth. Felice Navidad. Felice and Evida, have a lovely Christmas! I want to wish you a Merry Christmas! I want to wish you a Merry Christmas! Thank you.