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Morning, Esther. You've just spent all of your podcast energy ranting about skiing when you should have been doing on the podcast, but you were doing it as your sort of part of it.

So before you sit down and record this podcast every week, you do a sort of warm-up rant and like off-mic.

But quite often a lot of it should be on mic.

And then we turn the microphone on and you sit there with your arms folded in total silence it's quite weird. I come up on my coffee and I've done with my thing. Bloody coffee. Neil's job to turn on the microphone. We were having an excellent rant about skiing. Anyway, we were

talking about skiing because on Friday starts half term and basically it seems like everyone

in the whole world is going skiing apart from us.

Yeah, they're just, well, including Neil, that's the thing.

Yeah, so next week, no podcast because Neil's going skiing.

Yeah, he did offer a replacement and I said no.

And can you, and the two sort of Ponzi, North London middle class poshos sitting around here,

well, Neil's up the fucking ski school.

I'm into that bray ski.

But I feel looked down upon by skiers socially.

And so I've now got my podcast producers sitting there looking forward to going

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