Hello, ladies and germs, boys and girls.

The Grinch is back again to ruin your Christmas season with Tis the Grinch Holiday Podcast.

After last year, he's no stranger to the spotlight.

And it turns out he might even love the limelight.

You can listen with the whole family as guest stars like John Hamm, Britney Brosky, and Danny DeVito.

Try to persuade the mean old Grinch that there's anything to love about the insufferable holiday season.

Follow Tis the Grinch Holiday podcast on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Oh! Hello? Hello? Hello? Hi, George.

Hey, Oli, what's up?

I just want to get this out of the way and address something that happened on last week's episode.

We'll just do this at the top and hopefully be able to move

past it, but I've prepared a short statement, so I'll just get through this. Time. It's a funny thing.

This time last week, I was just a young, athletic, talented guy recording a podcast with my friend. I thought I couldn't

hurt fly, but turns out I can and George's the fly. During a conversation about using humor to

discuss difficult subjects such as mental health, George correctly stated that in the wizarding

world of Harry Potter, shapeshifting creatures known as boggots take the form of their combatant's greatest fears, and can only be defeated once the witch or wizard turns it into a figure of fun and laughs at it.

Full of the unearned arrogance that comes along with being a young, athletic, talented guy.

I falsely claimed this wasn't the case.

I make no excuses for my actions, except I was quite tired.

I only hope that with time, there's that funny old thing again.

Time.

With time, I hope the listeners and most of all my dear friend George can forgive me.

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