Welcome listeners to the dream restaurant. Welcome listeners to the dream restaurant. We've been expecting

you for some time. It's nearly the end of 2025 and it's time for our annual best of year episodes featuring

all of our favourite clips from the last 12 months of off menu.

As usual, we will be reading the script that Benito has written verbatim, including this bit,

but in an unusual twist, this year he's written this while very ill and hopped up on Lemsip. So who knows whether any of it makes sense. Yes, apparently we've released 47 episodes in 2025, but Benito could have added that up wrong. Anyway, welcome to part one of our favourite clips of the year. And Benito, you motherfucker, you didn't even write that I'm ill as well. You're putting all the illness on you. I've also dragged myself out of bed to do this.

Hmm, we must have different scripts and that's not in my one. Oh yeah, well, I've got a different one. I'm on the Google Doc. Stillall Sparkling. That's the question. We always start with Stillor Sparkling Water in the Dream Restaurant, and that's how we're kicking off our best of clips. After over 300 episodes, we're still amazed at the response to this question.

My name's the great Benito.

I'm a sick. And that's how we're kicking off our best-of clips. After over 300 episodes, we're still amazed at the response to this question.

My name's the great Benito. I'm a silly little lad.

Here are clips from Daisy Ridley, Emily Campbell, Sally Phillips, James Norton, Reese James,

Kunaer, and Rod Gilbert.

We always start with still a spark than water, Daisy. Do you have a preference? Still, please. Very, very to the point. I struggle to understand sparkling water. You struggle to understand it. Yeah. You can't even conceive of it. Like, I have a few sips, but it's one of those things that when people are just having glass after glass, I think, oh, it's just like a, it's not for me. No.

Yeah, that many glasses is kind of crazy. I think if you're having more than one glass to spark than water, then that is quite psychotic. I'll glug it. Yeah, that's so strange. Point made. If it's mixed with something, like I'm a big fan of a fizzia elder flower. So if you've got elder flower cordial on there, chug away, but not about itself.

Chug away at the elderflower cordial.

What is it about because I've never been able to get on with elder flower cordial? Really? But I would say my mum, my sister, my partner, all huge fans. So I clearly... You're trying to make this agenda thing? Oh dear.

Oh, no, I've done it.

I didn't even realise. Yeah. What you're saying there is... I'm making it a gender thing. You ladies love elderflower. That's what you're trying to say. Why do the ladies love elderflower? I don't know why the ladies plural do, but I love it. Yeah. I gave up fizzy drinks years ago for Lent, so I never really went back to the big brands.

I don't know if you're allowed never really went back to the big brands.

I don't know if you're allowed

to say it on here,

the coax

and what have you?

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