Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you're having a nice day. I hope you're spending time with your family.

You spoke to your friends and you're not spending all your days on YouTube, although watching this video will be good.

So I'll allow that one thing. So what I wanted to talk about today is a weird bit of transatlantic synchronicity.

And I think that on both sides of the Atlantic both in America and the

UK much of our political discourse could be summarized by two stories and they just so happen to

be about squirrels and I've got my resident squirrel expert with me Carl I am something of a

squirrel expert yeah and this is some rather unknown law about you,

is that you once had a pet squirrel.

I did.

I asked my mum, because there were a couple of photos we had of me on the stairs of this

house in Germany.

I used to live in Germany, feeding hazelnot to this little red squirrel.

And she can't find it.

And I was gutted.

And one day, I'm sure this photo will turn up.

I'll put it out on Twitter or something like that.

So people, you know, people see like fat me when I was 14.

I'm not even wearing a shirt in it.

So it's like, God.

But I'm feeding this little squirrel on the stairs. And I will put this photo out at some point just to prove I did have a pet squirrel.

Because basically I'd rescued it.

A friend of mine and I were walking through this particular bit of woods on the way to the north of JhQ.

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