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Hello and welcome to our New Year's edition of The Fall of Many podcast with me and the lovely Jackie Smith.

Hello.

Hello.

What's with the lovely bit?

Have you had a good Christmas?

It's Christmas-y, so it's goodwill to all men and Jackie Smith.

I'm like your little Christmas angel.

And have you had a lovely Christmas?

Yes, I'm sure I will have done.

Yes, what did you think of the Christmas edition of Mrs. Brown's Boys?

Well, it is one of my favourite things, as you will know, Ian.

And I enjoyed it, along with the Queen's speech, which I listened to in the morning, of course.

As opposed to watch it, yeah.

Right. Just to make clear, we are recording this slightly before Christmas,

but just to be honest.

Now, we like to do a round-up of the year every new year,

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