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Sometimes it gets very heated in the studio between the team and sometimes even with you, the listeners, it always seems to be over the smallest of things like do you rinse pasta or if the chicken twisties are better than cheese.

Here are some of the biggest discussions on the show this year.

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Jackie Boy, who is, you know, a hipster, a millennial, a 30-something.

Got himself similar to an old person as.

A top loader.

Well, we're transitioning from a front loader washing machine to a top loader washing machine.

What a transition.

Because the guy, our old washing machine broke.

The guy came out, tinkered with the front loader for 15 minutes, said, no, it's not working.

Charges 200 bucks for the callout fee.

That's awful, isn't it?

It's something you're in you.

Oh, no.

But before he left, he said, you know what?

I recommend you get a top loader because I come out all the time to front loaders have to repair them.

I never go out to top loaders.

So we bought yesterday a top loader.

I didn't know you could still get hold of top loaders.

They feel like a nan and grander thing. That's the thing. I bet Neil Mitchell's got one. You

cleans his smalls in there every day. You walk into the showroom. There's 50 front loaders. There's

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