Hello and welcome to this week's Sunday Chups. Mickey here, first of all hoping you're

all safe and not too blown off course by Storm Eunice, who has proven herself a right

windy Nana. In this Chups, I am joined on the Zoom by Sarah Kendall, comedian and creator

writer and star of the excellent Sky One series Freight, which first hit our telly's

back in 2019. Freight 2 has already aired in Australia and finally, finally arrives

on Sky One over here on February 23rd. I am delighted to report having sneakily seen

the preview. It's been well worth the wait. A little recap on Freight Season 1, set in

the late 80s, it starts with Sarah Sammy Cooper, who had renamed herself Simone and swapped

small town Australia for a tofs-like in London, thrown penniless back into Newcastle,

the Australian one, not the Jordy one, after the death of her husband. Sammy and her two

kids, Lenny and Tash, moved back into a childhood home with Mum Jean, a recovering alcoholic

and brother Jim. Oh, Jim, a full-time idiot. Sammy's very, very, very, many self-acgrandizing

lies very quickly begin to unravel and it all ends with Sammy Sun Lenny holding a smoking

gun. It's charming, smart, sincere and funny, and Freight 2 continues to superb work.

And both seasons tackle some really big meaty themes, domestic violence, addiction, money

struggles. So naturally, Sarah and I kicked off with a pretty horrific chat about toenails.

I think I need to clip a toenail, but I'm not going to do it now. I can feel it through

my sock. And when I put on my sock today, I thought that toenail needs to clip me, otherwise

I'm going to wear a hole in the sock. You know, like with winter, your toenails can kind

of, they're a bit of a runaway trend during the winter, because you're never really looking

at them. Less sunshine, they grow more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're constantly, you're

sort of getting, like, putting on your socks and shoes in the dark in the cold mornings.

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