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Feisdhaughn, thanks for me I've spent.

As you will have deduced, everyone, it's not just me and Dominic this week,

it being the last episode of the year, we thought we threw a little Christmas party.

Yes, we thought it would be nice to have a festive episode and invite our two producers onto the show to come and share some Christmassy stories from across Europe. Welcome, Katz and Vojik. Nice you

could join us. Hello. Thanks for having guys.

I hope you've got some festive snacks with you.

Yes, you were ordered to bring festive snacks. There's no fun, like forced fun. What have you brought?

Okay, so I did the age-old Dutch tradition of buying a whole bunch of chocolate letters in the second week of December

because we've just had a Sinsa

class so that's actually the chocolate letter moment so now they're really really cheap so it's

actually not a Christmas snack but you can get hundreds of them what is with the chocolate

letters thing like why do you have them I don't actually know what the story is behind them

they start appearing in like November and then you give them to

the people that you care about. Is it supposed to be the letter of their name? Yeah, it's supposed to be

the letter of your name and then I just have a lot of S's because those were the ones on offer.

But it's really nice because it's kind of easy and then you can still make someone feel so special.

Like there's such a, it's such a primal joy in being like a chocolate letter with my name on it.

You should have bought enough to spell out the Europeans.

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