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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Because you love LuAnna we think you'll enjoy this from Shouldn't Laugh But!
Laura’s son, Alfred, has started karate and worships his sensei. Meanwhile, Carmen has joined a posh gym and wants to punch every gym wanker in sight.
Plus, they discuss a baby who was born holding an IUD (the ultimate LinkedIn story when he’s older) and the unveiling of a Tina Turner statue in Brownsville, USA - it’s simplyyyyy the worst.
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| 0:00.0 | Right my loves, now time to thank our partner for this episode, booking.com. |
| 0:04.3 | Okay, tell me this hasn't happened to you. You book a trip. You are feeling very smug, very |
| 0:09.5 | organized, only to see something way nicer literally the next day. Always. Do you know what? I |
| 0:14.9 | once booked what I thought was a perfect little boutique hotel and then immediately I found a place |
| 0:19.7 | that had a private hot tub on the roof. |
| 0:21.9 | I was fuming. Oh babe, I once booked a rustic cottage turned up it was rustic all right. No Wi-Fi, |
| 0:29.0 | no heating and a pig in the garden who looked like he wanted to fight me. Well, this is why I've learned |
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