Merry Christmas everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of Fish. Hang on a second. It's not Friday. What's this doing here?

It's a bonus episode. That's right. You've been good and Santa's brought you an audio present.

An extra goodie that you weren't expecting. What you're about to hear is the first letter of our audio book of the year 2018.

We sat in a studio. We read out our book. It lasts about nine hours long. It's all of us interjecting on each other.

We really love it and we thought as is Christmas Day,

can you not interject on each other? Just as we've done.

That's right. Okay. So yeah, we were in the studio. It was a long, long hard session of us constantly interjecting all over each other.

Shall we just say on with the show? It's the letter A and then by the rest of it. Okay, on with the show.

A in which we learn why flies can't fly with American Airlines,

whose reputation might be tarnished by working with the White House,

who bought Russell Crowe's Jockstrap,

how to tell your astronauts from your astronauts,

and why the Belgian army are such mummies boys.

A.A. Okay, we're starting the book with A.A. Good place to start.

No ad vac news this year. That's tragic. But we found quite a lot of A.A. news, didn't we?

Too much, I would say.

Okay, here's one American Airlines, which is an A.A.

They banned passengers from traveling with emotional support insects.

Did that affect many people?

No, probably not even that many insects either, right?

Yeah, I don't know how emotionally supportive insects can be.

So American Airlines, they changed their rules on emotional support animals this year.

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