This is a Global Player Original podcast.

Hello and welcome to our end-of-year awards podcast.

Jackie Smith is with us, thank goodness.

But when am I ever not with you? What are you on about?

Well, you weren't there when I introduced the best of episodes.

Oh, I see.

Well, I suppose we could have done that today, couldn't we?

But hey, anyway, you aren't actually here, though, are you?

You are in foreign parts?

I am in the beautiful West Coast of America in California.

Yes.

You do get around, don't you?

Yeah, well, I do as long as the border force strikes haven't prevented me from getting around.

Yeah, we're attempting fate now because we should admit that we're actually recording this on December the 13th.

How was your Christmas anyway?

Oh, I got everything I could possibly have wanted eam joe so did i isn't that funny i ate too much i drank too much i had fun so um this is obviously

being published on new year's eve um do you know how you're spending your new year's eve yet

i'm spending it in San Diego,

so I think possibly margaritas might be involved. Yeah. And perhaps Mexican food, who knows?

I do love a chicken fajita. And of course, I will be, will I be before or after? Is my new year before or after?

Yours is eight hours after mine. Oh, right. Okay. So what will you be, what are you doing this evening?

This evening, Jackie, I will be mostly at home because we have spent the whole of Christmas

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