Folding Pocket It's time now for the chipping forecast, issued by Folding Pocket on behalf of Andrew Cotter, Eddie Pepperall and special guest Ian Carter.

Hello, Chipping Forecast fans.

Hello, good morning.

Welcome to the 12th of December.

Welcome to the 12th of December.

A date so good it needs a welcome. Ian Carter, a regular special super-duper guest, is here. Have you got your Christmas decorations up yet, Ian? Yes, I put the lights up yesterday on the hedge outside and the Christmas tree, got the Christmas tree at the weekend, feeling very festive, very hard. I would imagine for you, Andrew, this is your favourite time of year. This is just up your street, isn't it, Christmas?

Yeah, no, it's not up my street. It's so far and beyond, it's you turn left at the end of my street, carry on going, then turn right, then you join the motorway, and you drive for five hours, then you get to an airport, get on a plane,

and you fly to another continent, and that's how far away Christmas is from my street.

I would quite happily hibernate.

It would wake me up in the 4th of January when all this nonsense is over.

Eddie, Christmas decorations, are you bored? No, they're not up. We haven't put them up for a few years. We've had excuses in the past, like moving and then not hosting. We might have to put them up this year, which I'm not looking forward to very much. But I'm not as far away from Christmas as you are, although I think I'm getting that way. I'm no worried that Eddie's microphone is. It doesn't sound quite as deepened and lustrous as it usually does, and now he's looking quizzical. But give me, let's all a little bit of live level on the podcast, Eddie. It's not live, but I mean, it just sounds a little bit more tinny. I'm not sure what's going on there. I don't know. No, let's do a live mic check on the pod. So I go to preferences. References in Zoom. Yeah. And what microphone is showing up there. Road. Yeah, no. That's a, yeah. All good. Oh, is it turned around the right way?

Well, actually, that could be the problem because I had some issues yesterday. I don't think it is turn around the right way. So if you just don't screw it slightly. I'm looking at the back of it where it's made in China. That's why it's tinny, isn't it? Right, turn it around the other way. Just turn it around the other way to give it a test before you. So just man, just, there we are.

Oh, no, no, that isn't right.

Hang on.

This is quality broadcasting.

Oh. the other way to give it a test before you. So just manually, just, there we are. Just, oh, no, no, that isn't right.

Hang on. This is quality broadcasting. Well, I mean, it's broadcasting. Try that. That's better,

isn't it? Look. Oh, it's like, I don't know, he's got a beautiful voice. It's like Michael

Boubley's just walked into the room. Is it? Walking in a winter wonderland and selling supermarket

stuff. Everybody's selling stuff,

even Michael Bubli. There we are. Good.

So Eddie's mic is turned around the right way.

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