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Welcome, welcome, welcome and ho ho ho, Merry Christmas. This is a secret unannounced bonus edition

of the distraction pieces podcast. It is Christmas Day. I hope you all have an lovely one with

your family and it is tradition on Christmas Day that people settle down and watch the Queen's

speech. Well, I decided to give you an alternate option there and give you the King's speech. Now,

there's numerous reasons for that. Number one, I mean, it seems arrogant that I've called it the

King's speech, implying I am the podcast king, but I definitely am. You know, I'd say

Adam Buckster and Richard Hairy and all those guys, they're all comedians, so they have to take

the role of gesture, gesture, gesture, whereas I am the noble king of your podcast in world.

Yeah, that's not the reason it's called King's speech. It's King's speech because of the Queen's

speech, but also because of the subject matter. And I'll get onto that shortly. Before I do,

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