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Listen to the Playbook 11 podcast or watch our previews on YouTube via Playbook 11 channel. Welcome to staying relevant. The podcast hosted by two best pals, Peter James Wicks and me, Santos. And I am sorry about the rusty voices you may hear. We could be a little bit hung over.
What? I know. Oh, hunger. Yeah. Yeah, we're ****. Yeah. We were in that last night with ****. I haven't done this for a while. I feel bad. I will be swearing today. I won't be drinking because I'm still drunk. Why you? Potentially. I don't know. Wow.
I could be. You're handling it very, very well. Well, I've just kind of gone into default peeps. But anyway, if you don't like swearing, go f*** off. If you don't like drinking, we're going to talk about it a lot. This is Monday's episode, which means it's the main episode. You'll be able to watch that on Friday on YouTube. And we normally do a bonus episode. We'll decide how we get on later if there's going to be a bonus episode, which comes out on a Sunday. And you can watch on a Sunday, which means you can catch us on a Monday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday. Not bad.
Lovely. Follow rate review. Do all that crap you know about now. Subscribe to the YouTube. Very, very important because we have a really good behind the scenes vid coming out. Do we? Yeah. Of what? Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. What was that? Pardon? No, we didn't take any videos last night.
We'll just light. Oh, okay. We've got amazing videos coming out on the audience. Yeah, there's something real cool coming. Yeah, hell, you would not believe it. Don't miss it. Be there, be square. I think it's tiny. There's no other way of starting this podcast than we are a bunch of fucking rock stars. Yeah, that's right. We sent it. We absolutely docked. We docked hard.
No, we didn't. You docked. Oh, I did, but I was always going to. We had some good performances. We had some disappointing performances. We had some performances that were expected. We had a surprising performance. I'm so excited to hear these. So yeah, we'll go through it, but I wouldn't say rock stars and I wouldn't say we all went for it. I think we sent it.
Yeah, I mean, the only thing that you sent for was a cab to go home. No, that's such a lie. I'm not having that. I had about 30 Kamikazees. We'll get through it. Okay, all right, fine. But I want a chance to keep my case later down the line. Yeah, you complete your case, but it's already over for you. No. So last night was the Christmas party. This is the morning after the night before. It's 11 o'clock. Everyone had to be. We purposely did this because we just, it's just a little test for everyone. It's the first big night out just to see who made it, who hasn't. Everyone made it, which is great. We are missing one team member in here who's currently throwing up in the toilet. Yeah.
but we won't name names. But hey, here we go. We are going to do a run through of last night, bit by bit, because I think some of us don't remember some part. Some bits got weird that I would like clarification on. Now, everyone knows if you come out with me, it's part of the numbers game, so we will just do the roll call now. One. Two. You can tell who's not here. So three is throwing up.
7 lovely we all made it back, which is nice I was captain for the evening as you can imagine Pippa was vice captain, but then was quickly demoted and There was a surprising promotion they could not believe that by the way when the promotion got sound not gonna say it was yet But absolutely shocked yeah, and I must say did a very good job Where would you start sir? Well, I think
I think we start really by the hotel bar. What we'll do then is this was a meticulously planned Christmas pie by me. I was not involved.
Hotels are booked. Everyone had rooms. They could check in at different times. We had a meeting yesterday. Everyone just went and did their thing, blah, blah, blah. Hotel bar, 7pm. Everyone was there. I mean, I was there at 6.30 just to make sure. And because I wanted to drink. Then people started flocking down. Everyone was pretty much there at 7, apart from Sam, who arrived at court par 7. But we'll allow that. That's 15 minutes. We'll do that.
Okay. I told everyone to dress up smart. Sam, do you want to explain that? Yeah, it was a bit of a weird one because I feel like it's so interesting, isn't it, that like when we go on a night out, we all try and appease Pete. So I feel like subconsciously we all went, we need to dress like Pete. So we all turned up every single one of us.
in black. Like, blacked out everything. Like, we were going to a fucking funeral, even though it was meant to be a party. And Pete turned around and goes, why is everyone looking like me? It was great. I really enjoyed it. It was, honestly, like, it kind of felt like everyone, because I'd said dress smart, everyone thought, what would Pete like? That's exactly what I did. I was sat home. I was even on the phone to Pippa. And I was going, Pippa, I don't know what to wear. I was like, do I go for, like, the Pete Black shirt, the Pete Black t-shirt, the Pete Black trousers?
Then you hung up on me and you said, you didn't like what I said. You went no and hung up. OK. I'm a navy. I must say, it was Sam at the start of the evening, quite awkward from you. What would I do?
I don't think you really knew how to behave on your first Christmas party as a boss. He's got a night in his set lens. Sam Walton told everyone that they look lovely, apart from Pippa, who just went, you know, look right. Which was actually to be fair, quite nice from you, because you normally tell her she looks like shit. And then goes, oh, she's like my sister, so it's fine. But you told her when you look nice, you then shook their hands.
No, I don't know, because I don't know why. You've got to feel it out. I feel like, first, work, Christmas party, people are judging. Our employees are judging us on that night out. And so I just didn't know whether they wanted like, did they want to be touched? How did they want to be touched? And like, held, and like, so I just went for the handshake. But then it was like the handshake, the double handshake, I thought was... Well, the double handshake was the one that Kira got. Yeah. And she sort of went, ooh. Yeah, okay.
Oh, wow. We know we sell then. But I don't understand why you needed to act differently on the parties to what you do when you just sell over here. Well, no, because it was the work do. And we're the bosses. This is work. No, because we need to set an example. And I think we did. And you thought that was the best way to do it. Oh, OK. All right. So that was that. We had a couple of drinks. We then went up into my room, just for a little pre-drink. That was nice, actually. We all had a lovely little chat up on Sam. What would you mean?
I was there. Yeah, you were there, but you put the radio on to listen to yourself.
because it was about the time you were on. So Sam stood in the corner listening to himself on the radio and turning it up on his bits while we were all at the Christmas party. It just so happened that in Pete's room the radio was set to hit the radio and I just turned the volume up and went hey guys listen I'm on the radio and then no one turned around so I turned it up even more and then no one gave a shit which actually really hurt my feelings because
I just thought that was quite cool. So we had a little pre-drinks, a little champagne and whatnot. Josh is the only member of the team that doesn't drink. So at this point, we're only a couple of... I mean, I'd been drinking his lunch, but everyone else, only a couple of drinks in, so it was quite nice. So Josh, it was okay for Josh at this point. I did order up to the room, because I had the champagne weight in a virgin
a cocktail, sorry, not a virgin. Just a virgin for Josh. What wrong place to forget? And one virgin for Josh. No, a virgin cocktail. So he had a little virgin meat, which was done because I did think of Josh. I thought of everyone. We thought of him. We're going to get to it. You really thought of Josh a lot as the night unfolded. I didn't have a wink. That's made it sound like a fool.
I thought about it, man. Over virgin Josh. Josh isn't a virgin. I can't confirm he spoke about it last night. He loved sex. Oh, no. Oh, Josh. So, at this point, about ready to go, because we had to get for the table. Sam started a speech.
No, I feel like before you go out on any sort of work, dude, the bosses have to make a proper like, you know, a rallying call to everyone to let everyone know how we've done what we expect in the future, how proud we are of people. Yeah. I thought it was great. Can I ask why you did them sort of hourly throughout the night? I just really enjoy them.
Right, okay. I really enjoy a speech. I've realised that about myself. Actually, at one point, me and Pete took individual members of the team outside just to give them a pep talk. If you heard that noise, that's just Annalise Beck from Throwing Up. That's number three, if you didn't know. So you missed the roll call, so should we just try it again? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Here we go, all together again, lovely. You've got just a little bit sick then, you jump a donut.
We took some of the team out on their own, just tell them how well they've done, which was really fun actually as well, because that was like we were double teaming them, which I really liked, because we were both facing them, and we were like two bosses being like, hey, come out here and let's tell you how well you've done. Yeah, but the problem with that was we did it twice and then gave up. So we didn't actually get round to everyone, because the main reason for that being that it was cold for Sam outside. Yeah.
Pete kept on being like, come on, just bring him outside. It was so cold that I started complaining in front of the employees. Yeah, the first one went on for a while, the second one was, yeah, no, you're doing a great job, let's go back in. And then we just didn't bother with anyone else. So sorry about that, guys. So anyway, we get to the restaurant. Oh, God, the restaurant, the, the restaurant that Peter booked. Yeah, which was all booked, which was, I mean, I had a lovely time. You nearly punched the bartender. I mean, he was fucking smart.
Pete turned around and he goes, we're within five minutes being there. He goes, I've got to throttle the bartender. No, no, no, no. OK, that makes it sound at five minutes. No. How long were we waiting for the drinks? Ages. 20 minutes. 20 minutes. It wasn't five minutes. It wasn't like asking for the drinks. It wasn't there in front of me in seconds. I'm asking for the drinks. And he fucked off for 20 minutes. I had a fucking wank kind of fag called his mum, came back and said, dummy, don't go. Called his mum after the wank. Still hadn't fucking done the drinks.
And at that point, I was thirsty. I'd been in the car for at least seven minutes. TV Ted actually got a really nice call out from a random strange at the bar as well, about your shoes, which was really nice. Ted was wearing some very jazzy shoes, and then turned around and said, wow, look at you. Yeah, was this before or after Ted wandered around the bar asking people, paracetamol, before the night I began? Oh my God, I forgot about that. Ted asked me to ask the bartender if he had power acetamol for his headache. He had a pre-night headache. But did I, did I not cure it?
Dr Wicks, thank you. What did you do? I said, have another fucking drink and a full fat coke, you'll be fine in 15 minutes. Full fat coke! You need a bit of sugar, you'll be fine. It's so true though, isn't it? It did not work. It was great. Done, done.
I will be honest, at this point, we did start to see the effects of the alcohol and some of the members of the team. I don't want a single Annelise out, but I'm going to. Annelise, at this point, I think she lent in and told Pippa and Kira, I'm a little bit tipsy. This is before we sat down.
This was before we'd ordered. Before we'd ordered, oh my God. We did have our first tequila at the bar. We did, we did, and that's where you, so I've known Pete, obviously, years and years and years, and so I know how, and TV Ted knows as well, how like a night out would Pete normally sort of goes. It's sort of like a tequila in between courses, a tequila before we sit down, and a tequila before we get the bill.
And it was interesting seeing how the team reacted to the intermittent tequila. What did you notice? I noticed at the start the paper made a grave error in telling the rest of the team that she was very good at throwing it over a shoulder. So we all watched her like a hawk.
And she nearly threw up on the first one. She sort of like peated out near the end to be fair. And Elise knocked it back, but I'm not sure that was for the betterment of her night. And Keira is just a fucking trooper. But I think we're going to get onto that in a little bit. Yeah, we will get onto that. Just really quickly. Seating plans at these kind of Christmas do is a really vital. OK, I disagree that they're vital because there is only seven of us. I didn't feel like we needed a seating plan. But obviously it's staying relevant. What we did was made it fucking weird.
And no reason. Next time I will have to do boy-go, boy-go. Yeah, I need to see it. Because what it looked like was that we were speed-dated. Because all the boys sat on one side, all the girls sat on the other. So I just went and sat with the girls to make it. Like a school disco? It was weird. It was like, oh, we can't sit near the girl. It was like, what the fuck? So we all sit there, and then Pete was like, well, we can't do this. So as all the boys, then Pete and the girls on the other side.
And it was really nice, though, because I feel like it was just me and my honey's on the bench. Yeah. And I was sat in between Ted and Josh. And that was we found out so much about Josh, by the way. He's one of the most fascinating guys I've ever met. This is where we're going to dissect different parts of the night. So we're up to the meal now. You've got live singers, you've got bits going on. Different conversations happening mainly with the Ted, Josh.
and Sam. Great side of the table. Yeah. On our side, Annalise didn't say a word. No, she did, but she was mainly talking to herself. But we did find out that Annalise is a great singer. Oh, yeah! A professional singer. We also found out that Kira can hold a tune, apparently. What does that mean? Sorry, what does it hold? How does holding a tune work?
You told us that, yeah. Didn't I? I told us. We were talking about... To be fair, I can hold a chill. Oh, I can hold a chill, yeah, yeah. I did karaoke recently, and that's what... And you know I'm out. Okay, so there's absolutely no backup. You think you can hold a chill. Yeah, okay. Yeah. I can hold it part time. Okay, sit down, part time. What was interesting about Anne-Lease was, though, is that we asked to hear the professional singing and got told absolutely not. And also, I think you were wondering, away from vomit at that point as well. So it was probably a good idea that you didn't sing.
But talking to musical talents within the group, we also found out something else. The most famous person in staying relevant is Josh.
This was absolutely mental. Minding my own business, I'm in a chat, I'm in a three-way chat with me, 10 Josh. He waxed out Spotify and goes, that's my song there. Five million listens later. I did not just whip it out and say, that's me randomly. Josh, you whipped it out, slammed it on the table, went, that's my band, by the way.
What Josh did was he found his moment, he's been there for a couple of months to really just go, this is who I am. And he did it when we were all drunk. He waited until the moment where everyone else was drunk, because for maximum, he'd done it so well to go and shut up. He'd done it drunk, I was amazed.
shocked. I actually went round the table. I actually went and got beat. I was in a conversation with Pippa. I would stop the table. Josh, digital Josh, was in a band and just one of his songs has five million plays on Spotify. What did you want a singer?
No, no, no. Drums. Oh, you're just banging away. All right. Mate, we are grunging. I'm not sure it's grunge. Is it not grunge? Is that grunge? Is there someone singing on it or is it just instrument? Is that garage? Are you on garage? It's not garage. Oh, it's a woman. Yeah. Look, good. She's playing. Sorry. Sorry.
No, no, she is, she is great. Sorry, I just didn't, I just didn't. It's mad, isn't it? There were women allowed to sing this. I just, I just wasn't seeing it. And now I love it. It's giving me, like, hints of Evan, Evanescence. Yeah! Yeah. Is that what you based on? I taught with them. Evanescence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is real. No, no, I swear to God. Yeah, around, around Europe, we did their European tours. It's just when you were 16 as well. No, no, this was...
If you're lining me up, I'm just going to point out, Josh, when I'm hungover, I've got even less patience than normal. If you are just on a windup here, I'm going to punch you in the throat. If this is serious, it's getting weird now, because when I pass 24 hours, you keep impressing me. Can you explain what you mean by taught? You were there three times with them.
Yeah. Jesus fucking Christ. Do you know the main lady from Evanescence? Yeah, Amy, yeah. Oh, God. Jesus Christ. Aim dog. We don't text or anything, but... Should we go on the pod? To be honest with you, I think Josh should be our next guest. Yes, Josh, that's fucking me. Like, when we hired you, did you not think to be like, oh, by the way, on this fucking weed?
Like, I don't think you needed to mention that because it was quite a parrot. Yeah, but he probably could have mentioned the band. You know what Josh did to me? He goes, he goes, he goes, one of the, uh, one of the strangest moments I had was when I was in Russia and I was, uh, just traversing the Russia-Ukraine border with the band and I was like, what the fuck is going on?
He was like, yeah, we got caught in a demilitarized zone. Like, who are you? Like, who are you? Because when we put up a photo earlier in the night, I've got comments all down the DMs. No one's talking about me. No one's talking about Pete. Strictly Pete Wicks. Jungle Sam Thompson. They're just talking about fucking Death Rose Josh. They're talking about murder Josh. The majority of it is serial killer.
Yeah, it's serial killer Josh and then you're just a band person. Well, it's not just a band person. I think that could be a cover-up. Who are you? I can't work him out. I've just, you know, I've lived a life. I have lived. Josh is in the last 24 hours is really doing some weird things to me. You fingered my drink, actually.
That is, as you know, what a lovely segue. Pete, would you like to explain yourself on that? In a caring way, I really appreciate it. Can I preface really quickly about what Pete's luck on an eye out? Pete is, like, you know, he's given the numbers and stuff. Once Pete finds out that Josh is like a non-alcoholic,
I'd add to the soundline. Once he finds out that he's a non-drinker, he will put his arm around him. He'll put people in cabs. He's a very caring person on a night out. Maybe a bit too caring, in some ways. I went full daddy on Josh.
I treated him like he was that my actual child. I know. He says he's your age. We were ordering drinks and and shit. I was ordering Josh like little like juices for like cut like shots. I didn't want to but they all some of them look the same. So I also like his royal tester. I was dipping my finger to make sure it wasn't alcoholics. I didn't want any alcohol to touch his lips. But then I realized that that was weird because we don't know each other that well. And also he's used to me calling him a.
So every time you go, you can have that one. It was what I was doing. And it got a little bit weird. I then pulled in for a 20-minute chat about how much I liked him. I saw that. I was at the table, wasn't it? And that got weird. Yeah, remember that. You can get word in edge ways. And then I made an executive decision to promote Josh to vice-captain.
Yeah, that was a moment. That was a moment. That was weird. We all shared it. No, it's just weird for you. I don't know. I'd like to understand what led to my demotions. I thought I was doing quite well. What led to your demotion was, I mean, we're getting onto it a little bit later, but you were the most disappointing person. Oh, no, it's normally me.
No, it's not because you were... No, it's not. It's because... No, it's not because you were pissed at the end of the night, so you weren't responsible. I lost a lot of trust in you last night as my VC. And the conversation that I'd had with Josh and the new things that we found out about Josh made me believe that he is potentially someone I could rely on. Oh, my God!
There was another time actually when we were by the bar. I'd also like to just stop that and just say, I still don't overly like him, but he's doing things to me at the minute that are making me question why I'm drawn to him. But I don't know why, because I still don't really like him and I still find it very awkward being around him alone. In the group, it's okay, but I still don't think we could just have a one-on-one.
It will happen. Well, let's not push the boat too far, right? We've had a really, we've broken the ice, you're on the up mate. The revelations about Josh came thick and fast, but then everything got completely sidetracked because a bit of Mariah came on and that's when shit got fucking wild. Well, that's when Sam stood up and sung on his own.
No, no, no, no, no. It's just no one had heard the song come on, so I had to get everyone's attention. No, no, they hadn't heard the song come on. It was mad that the live band and singer singing it. But yeah, it wasn't background music. Mate, we're getting our nankies up. Nankies, hankies up. And we were lit. Nankies. It's hot, I don't know. I'm still a bit old. No, kins and hankies. We're like, yeah. We're getting our nankins up. We're just swinging them round on tables. Yeah. No, we won't. It was just you. Yeah, yeah, but it was fun. Every other table was sat down. No, people was enjoying it.
Well, that's why she was at this point, demoted. That was actually very close to the demotion. Yeah, it was, it was, it was getting very weird. So anyway, so we had dinner. That was great. We then moved on to string feathers. G'day. Tim Williams here from playbook 11. If you're interested in dream 11 and want help picking your squad with expert Aussie insights, we've got you covered. Form New Zealand international returns superstar Indian Premier League commentator Simon Dole.
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What could be said? And I don't think you fully know what happened. I don't know if you remember, but I've got flashbacks of some weird shit. I remember there was a stripper pole. Yeah. There was a leopard print throne at one point. There was TV Ted. Yeah. That's where he really came into his own. Two of the most worrying bits for me and I'm not entirely sure how they happened was
You and your pants. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I might shoot. More worrying than that was my fascination with Josh took it to another level, because I was doing body shots off of him. Which you then afterwards went, are you OK with this? Are you OK with this? Just in case the alcohol seeped into his belly button? Yeah, but I made sure there was a night because I sucked it right out of there. And at the time, I didn't know what I was doing.
Yeah, but the weird things about that, that's weird if like me and you did it because we were a bit drunk. Josh doesn't drink. Josh was sober, letting his drunk boss lick alcohol from his belly bar. So you didn't lick it, you didn't like it. Oh no, I literally sucked it up out of there.
I, every last drop of it. H.R. No. The weirdest part of that is, like, I was like, you were sober and allowed here, but the eye contact was the bit that was weird for me. This makes me look really bad. Not you. Yeah. I promise me, Josh, I don't think it's you that's coming across bad in this.
The bonding was fun. This is when we... This is when I realised, by the way, that we had build a team. This is when I realised that we had a community. What body shots? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had pole dance, we didn't have any strippers, by the way. Absolutely not. But we had pole... But you didn't need one. That was exactly... I think now flashbacks, I think that's what you were saying. We don't need one, I'll do it. And no one wanted that. I'd say you what? I've got some good core strength.
I worked that pole, yet you've got good core strings, but not clean pants. And that was the biggest problem for us all. All right, because you'd obviously just been for a piss and didn't shake properly. The grey pant wasn't working for you. Pete took me outside the stripper pole area and had a word with me and put me up against the wall.
And then apologize to me, because he felt really bad. He got emotional. OK, yeah, I cried last night. OK. That is water. What a ton of events. So anyway, shots strip a pole against the wall. Pete cries. Then what happens if we start to get towards the end of the night? So the usual happens. People start to make their exits. First to go, unsurprisingly, Sam.
Well, 230. Yeah, to be fair, to be fair. Yeah, it was 230. Sam first to go. We all knew that was going to happen. That was fine. What I wasn't expecting, but I normally do, is let me know you get home safe. But no, I had to walk him out to his car. I didn't want to go alone. I had to walk him out of the club, across the road.
and open the door for him to put him in the car. Then we'll back in the club, and as I get back in the club, the next group will be VC, vice captain Josh, Pippa and Elise were going, so I then walked them out and ordered them a car. I came back and then the last, the three musketeers were left.
Now, at the start of the evening, I called that the surprise person of the evening would be Keira. Yep, you did. I could see, although I only know her name literally two weeks ago, but I always, whenever I looked her in the eye, I always thought to myself, she has potential to be an alcoholic.
and I can spot them, am I lost? You fucking can't because he actually whispered it to me before, mate Kira, before the night even started, he went, she's gonna be a problem. No, no, no, no, I thought she's gonna be my friend, I can feed it. Yeah, he called it. And actually the first drink, I remember I said to Kira, you were, you were drinker and she went, oh yeah. And we high-fived and I thought, there was no hesitation there. Kira Ted and I,
We finished the night together. We left at about quarter past four. Quarter past four? I was only going like an hour and a half after us. Yeah, but that was because they'd shut. Oh, right. And we were the last ones to leave. Oh, no. Everyone, all the sick, all the girls, the dancers have gone, all the other people had gone. We were set in darkness. Oh, no. Oh, no, that's my worst fear. That's my worst. Even I left at 2.30 when what have I done? And I am going to say this.
We were potentially looking for somewhere else to go. Oh, no. After that. Yeah. We were, but I made the call and went, no, let's go back to the house. Who was it? Ted O'Kira, who fancied it more? I'll be honest with you.
we were all up for it. Even I questioned it. And then something came up. I just wanted to check Josh was all right. So we went back to the hotel and that was that. But we finished up. But my performance of the night, and I am going to rate you all. OK, here we go. This is huge ratings. Don't look sad, Pipper. You might get something. You might have a shock. In last place,
And that's mainly through disappointment is Pippa. No! No! No, it doesn't matter because this is all round performance. This isn't just based on what all did. You were captain and then you lost it because you let me down. And it's singing when Sam was singing and we spoke about said you're really good on singing. And this is another reason that you've been demoted because this sort of soulkin is not what I'm looking for.
All right. Just take your fucking rating and shut the fuck up. So, poor paper and people are normally really, really enjoy going out of paper. I've been out a number of times. I just feel like you let us all down there. Not so much all of us, but you let yourself down. Really sorry everyone. Yeah, that's all we wanted. Okay. To be fair, she had a podcast to produce today. Yeah, we have a podcast to do. You have no idea what's coming your way today, but I had to be ready for. Prep. You have to go to prep. Yeah.
And also, I'd just like to point out this is that she knew she was going to be disappointed last night, because when we got back to the hotel, just before we were all going out, she popped to the shops for a leucosade sport in preparation. Do you want a leucosade sport? I just want it to be firing on all cylinders for today. Someone's probably lost. It's great. So I'm going to put you down in last position. Next up is a... I can't really split the two of you, but it's Annalise.
And Sam fuck off as if as if I got mate well, you're just there because you didn't really do you just need to Sam bar
So I'm going to go Annalise and then Sam. Can I just quickly say it's just one little thing. I genuinely last night was sinking shots left, right and centre. It's not all based on how much you drink. Yeah, I know. It's what you bring to the party. Absolute legendary status. Well, no, because you spent an hour and a half focusing just on Josh's band career. Yeah, but that was just so funny. You ignore everyone else.
And to be fair, you only picked up the shots when everyone was depleting. Because you thought, this is my moment to shine. Yeah, and I really did feel like a shined at the end of the night. I felt like the industry fellas was real. I really came on strong. And you lasted longer than I thought you were, but you were still first to leave. Did you get on the pole? I'm not sure that's... Yeah, and I think maybe that is why you left. So, yeah, you're up next. Hey, third last! Happy days! Now it gets tough for me. I'm actually going to put Ted in next.
Yeah, I would agree. Ted's always there. Ted's stable. Ted is stable. He's always there for me. I know I can rely on him to be there to the end. He's just fucking solid, solid work, but he was out shot last night by two people. One, by the non-drinker, just based on the fact that I still don't understand it, but I had a fascination with him last night. Yeah, Josh, he really came into your own last night. And he was vice captain. He looked after him and he messaged.
despite the fact I asked all of you to do it. Didn't we discuss that? You were going to do it. Josh messes to say that you've got them all home safe. Well, I'd just have to see that message like that. But last night's best performance is Kira by an absolute love. Kira! Not a match, Kira!
Well done. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, you should someone shake a hand. Fucking hell. No, let's stop with the hand shaking. It's fucking weird. Give me a double shake. My own performance. I'm also going to rate. I'll give you a six. I... Sorry, I don't know if you misheard me there when I said I'm going to rate. Okay. Not my best.
It's what I'm going to say to that. It was a standard Pete night, but it was my first big night drinking since strictly. And it just wasn't hitting how it normally does. I'll be honest, so I'm a little bit out of practice. Do you know what you did as well? Pete, who do you need? For quite a bit last night as well. I've got on string fellas, and it's like, because it's your domain. Yeah.
You're out and about. Jono, you're a man about town. You've got to see a man about a dog over here. You're over there, you're doing this, you're doing that. Well, because I haven't been for a long time, I had to go and say a long catch up. So I did have a... You left the team. Well, because they were incapable of... At least go for it, I was sick. Shall we just bring a bucket in for it? But yeah, I had to do that and I thought he was incapable of wins. And by the time I got back, it was the time that people started leaving. Which was weird.
Anyway, so that was the first big night out from staying relevant. The big Christmas do, and I really feel like we're close together. Like, actually, just know what? One more speech. Well done. So what, not really. One more couple of words. Well done to each and every one of you. We knew you picked you for a reason. For the night out. Well, just for good stuff. Yeah, well done, good stuff. Yeah.
So... And if there's any inappropriateness last night... Oh, there was an awful lot of that. Then Pete Wicks is your HR. Yeah. I feel like... We have... Really bonded. I feel like we're a fucking team now. You know? The word team gets thrown around quite a bit. I feel like... Bandy. Bandy. Bandy'd round the room. But I really feel like not only are we A team...
There's no I team. Well, there's no I and get in all pain. There's no I in team anyway. You'll get that. Yeah. There's no there's no I in the peaches to a pointed at the only person over the age of 35 here. There's no I in team, but there is a we in team. And that's what we are a family. There isn't a we in team. You know what I'm saying?
No. It's tea in tea. Really? What? Well, they were done. Oh, OK. All right. This is our last podcast of 2024. So that big speech you did last week, just imagine we've just done that this week, because it's the last one of the year. So do you want us to do a speech now? No, no. Well, I feel like we've said it all, haven't we? But you also, last week, we talked about something else on the Christmas special, don't know if you remember.
We were like talking about what would you do if something happened? Do you remember? No. We said, what would you do if a load of Carol singers? No, don't give me that bother. I know what I mean. You ain't having any fun. No, no, no, no. No, you can't be fucking serious. It's still what we're all hugging over.
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open state.
Oh, we're going to get away.
to ride on a one horse open, say, oh, we trail those gingos
You're so good at beatboxing. Oh my god. Wow. Hello. Brilliant. Brilliant to everyone. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Oh, God, that was amazing. Right in your ear hole as well. It was right in my ear. You actually have fabulous voices. Genuinely, and I mean that, but I fucking ate Christmas cards. Please do not fucking sing anymore. That is it. No, they've not. Oh, fuck off. Should we do one more? One, two, a one, two, three, four.
What the fuck was that? Ready? I'm so ready. Are we really doing it again? Oh, fuck. I love this one.
Guys, I just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas from us and the Encore Choir, everybody! Thank you so much! That was very good, guys. Merry Christmas from staying relevant and Peter James Wicks! Why have you ruined it by fucking me in the back of the head? Sorry, sorry. Oh, that was amazing. Guys, that was class. Thank you so much. The Encore Choir, everybody.
This has been a staying relevant production.
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