Episode 494 - The Christmas Special
The Kickabout With Johnny Vaughan
Radio X
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
A Christmas special by name, and not a lot else, but there is a generous serving of Pigs in Blankets at least.
Instead, Johnny and Gav try to work out which breed of dog would be best suited to rescuing England on their current Ashes tour.
You can hear The Kickabout live on Radio X from 11am every Saturday. Get in touch on kickabout@radiox.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | The Kickabout with Johnny Vaughn. |
| 0:08.1 | Radio X. |
| 0:14.9 | Good morning to you. I'm Johnny Vaughn. This is your Christmas special. Kick-em-out. A Christmas special |
| 0:25.1 | turned a turn to build-up to the special weekend special. Forting Spixures. |
| 0:30.5 | Forting spixir. That's what I said. That's Cameron the Whopin' Woods. You're right there. |
| 0:34.7 | Yeah, I'm really good. |
| 0:36.4 | Waving Goods. Are you right there? I'm pretty Yeah, I'm really good. Waving Goods. |
| 0:38.7 | Are you right there? |
| 0:39.6 | I'm pretty good, Bonnie. He came in, Waving Goods. Yeah, sure I did. Waving Goods, Gavin Woods. Sure. I like that. Oh, yeah. Fari Gell. Harry Felt here. And Voney John. And Vonnie John. but only yours works. |
| 0:53.0 | Gavin Woods, |
| 0:53.7 | oh, waving goods. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay, ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:56.6 | this is our kickabout Christmas special. The last kickabout of this year, except it's not. We've got one on the 27th, so I've already changed that. Right, okay. And I made that decision then. Exactly. You're going back. But the one on the 27th, that's like a best off. It's a best off. |
| 1:11.0 | This is like where we're fully... |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, think of it as like sports personality of the year. |
| 1:16.3 | I very much so, for the purists, this is a kick amount. |
| 1:21.2 | I mean, the other one's very much the best of. |
| 1:23.2 | This is one that really counts. |
| 1:24.9 | It really stands for its... |
| 1:26.3 | On its own two feet. This one can really stand its own two feet. And if you've got to say, is this one is going to be a lot more of a loyal servant to the club? If anyone personifies loyal servant to the club, it's royal husband, that it. But you never just say to the club, if you're saying loyal servant, you also then give the full club name. |
| 1:46.1 | Like, he's a loyal servant to West Ham United Football Club. |
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