I mean, I'm ding, dang short. You need to sort your finances out, mate, because God knows what you're doing with those 50-pound notes, stuffing them up your ass every night.

Hello, and welcome to our last trawl special before we revert back to business as usual. The next time you hear from

us will have been trawling in earnest, having gone back to scrolling through our phones like

crazies to bring you the bad, mad, weird and wonderful from the world of news and politics, or

politics, politics, which was a term that we coined last year. No doubt we'll have been WhatsApping each other

very earnestly toward the end of the Christmas break, trying to decide what to cram into new

episodes. And our brains will be rested, as will, our poor thumbs, which really do scroll through

social media so you don't have to, which is always our pleasure,

never return, do you know what I mean? But that said, we were very grateful when we asked you

for your best bits and for questions and so on so that we could make this episode before normal

business resumes. Yes, and by this point, after all the festive merriment, perhaps you're up for a bit

of a lone time and feeling quite happy to plug into a pod like this and chill. So let's kick

off with some of your questions. Gemma, do you want to go first? Yes, so we had one in from Michelle,

so thank you. And Michelle said, I would love to know how you gals met. And was it instant

friendship slash kinship? Oh, I think you should lead on this, Gemma. You tell a nicer story than I do.

Okay, fine. Right. So it's quite a while ago now, bad on dates, but let's say three years,

something like that. And I had followed Marina, as had many other

hundreds of thousands of people, and just thought, God, this woman's great. I love her tweets.

I find them so interesting. And why does she look really cool too? So I was like, you know,

kind of like a fan of her tweets and looking and all the rest of it. So then when I found out she

had been booked, and she followed me back at some point. When I found out she'd been booked for

the Jeremy Vine show, which I'd been doing regularly since it started, I was like, oh, I'm

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