Ricky Gervais: Armageddon out today PLUS The Office Christmas specials turn 20!

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Calorogus Shark Media. Merry Christmas,
thank you for choosing to spend a few

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minutes with me and your years.
Today there is comedy news and Hi,

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I'm Johnny Mac Griggy Gervais. Armageddon
new special out on Netflix today. I

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you've got a clip for you.
I have trimmed this a little bit because

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he says some naughty words and we
don't do that on this podcast. But

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here's Ricky. It's very sad,
but we all die. We all know

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we're going to die, and we
all do die, so it doesn't really

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matter if we die one at a
time along the way or all at once

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in one big fine lamageddon. The
result is we're all going to be dead

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one day, and we're all going
to be dead forever. And I've been

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to a lot of funerals in my
time. You live this long, you

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know a lot of people, they
die, and I don't mind funerals because

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it's the end. I mean,
I hate weddings so much, hope you

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know what I mean. And then
needy and arrogant, Oh do you want

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to come up watch us for twelve
hours? No? And then you go,

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oh right, yeah, when is
it? And they go two years

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time. They know you haven't got
an excuse for two years time, so

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they just have to hope that one
of them dies. Ricky had previously said

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in a statement, for the next
two thousand years, people will remember.

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The twenty fifth day of December is
the day Armygedon was released on Netflix.

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There has been some controversy about this
show a joke about terminally illed children.

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I talked about that as the first
story in Thursday's podcast if you want to

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go back when social media user said
we can all take a good joke,

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but this is below the belt for
Ricky and that one part of making jokes

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about ill children is funny vile.
Another user said this is the most vile

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attempted comedy I've ever seen. Sick
and dying children wish for a video for

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him and he mocks them like this. Shame one you, Ricky Gervais.

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This is quite the Christmas episode so
far, isn't it. As I recapped

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on Thursday, I'll do it again
quickly here, Ricky told BBC Radio five

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Live. People don't analyze the joke. They feel something. That's what the

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offense is. It's feeling. That's
why I'm offended. It's quite meaningless.

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What do you want me to change? Some people were circulating a petition to

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have Netflix at at the special,
and Ricky responded, good luck. I'll

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even retweet it. From Rolling Stone
UK, The Office UK's Christmas specials turned

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twenty this month, Ricky said,
I'm still very proud of it. Despite

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experiencing fame. Before the Office,
Ricky had a short lived pop career and

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two Channel four TV shows. It
was David Brent who helped him break through.

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Ricky said, The Office is where
all those big opportunities really started for

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me. It was the thing I
tried my hardest at and I got an

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a growing up. As comedy fans, writes Rolling Stone, Ricky Gervais and

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Stephen Merchant were well aware of the
power Christmas specials held on viewers and saw

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them as something to aspire to when
developing their own sitcoms. I guess that's

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why Ricky released a special today good
Call, because you know, after the

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morning, it's kind of like,
what are we going to do? Watch

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football? And then you need something
to watch. I'm looking forward to watching

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this one so I can finally include
my top comedy specials of twenty twenty.

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Three or not included, and maybe
it's not good. I think it's going

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to be good. Steven Merchant said, Christmas TV was a big part of

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my childhood, sitting down as a
family and watching a Christmas edition if something

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felt like in a k That's why
we did Christmas specials for extras in the

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Office because they felt significant. So
the fact that this features on lists of

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favorite Christmas TV is very pleasing.
Ricky likes that The Office is twelve episodes

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and done. He said we didn't
want to do a third season because we

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always thought Faulty two hours was the
paradigm. Well, somebody better tell John

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Clees he's bringing it back, Merchant
said, without the specialis a bonus.

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Merchant added, we were worried would
run out of steam. I mean,

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how many embarrassing faux pas can we
have David Brent make And how long is

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this simmering romance between Tim and Dawn
gonna go on? I don't know.

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Apparently you could have done four seasons
and then had them get married and then

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brought in Ed Helms and had the
show go downhill in quality could have done

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that. Merchants said there was anxiety
around quality control dipping and it not being

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as good. Yeah, I think
I could show them a model for that.

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Originally conceived as one long episode,
but later split in two by the

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BBC, The Office Christmas specials aired
on December twenty sixth and twenty seventh,

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two thousand and three. Catching up
with David, Tim, Dawn, Gareth

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and the rest of the Warnham Hog
Office. A year after we last saw

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them, battling redundancy and swiftly fizzling
fame, we find and David Brent at

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his lowest eb while Tim is still
recovering from his awkward attempt at winning Dawn's

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heart in series two's Bittersweet finale,
where Down went to Florida, where her

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boyfriend Lee Ricky said, we thought
the hook could be to the first two

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seasons had gone out and the characters
were now aware of it secretly. It

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was always about fame in comedy.
David Brent thought he was a comedian.

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It's all about ego, being loved
and please please make me famous. It

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was nice to show that things didn't
always turn out well and he had the

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wrong sort of fame. Merchant says. By two thousand and three, the

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reality TV format had become quite set. By that point, you'd have shows

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a bit of downtime, and then
they'd revisit the old Ganga sey what they

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were up to. It seemed like
a natural way of doing it. In

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that downtime, David Brent had been
busy. He spent his nights making guest

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appearances at dive bars. It's a
nomadic existed, spent either alone in his

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car, in cheap hotels or haunting
backstage. Harry as showing us David Brent

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at his bleakest but also his most
sympathetic. Ricky said, I wanted people

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to feel it. It was a
fake documentary, but had to be real.

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When people are crazy comedy characters,
you don't care about them when something

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goes wrong, whereas if you've earned
it, it resonates because you suddenly feel

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responsible. Someone can be an idiot
in the office, but they might go

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home and cry for all we know. So I wanted that discomfort. I

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want us to feel a bit guilty
about what we do to normal people because

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they want to be famous. Merchants
said, I think perhaps we took it

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too far. I was in a
pub playing pool in the night. The

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second episode aired and some guys next
to me said, did you see The

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Office last night? And his friend
said, yeah, it was all right,

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but that ending was a bit depressing. I wanted to lean over and

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go it was a two porter.
Go home and watch the second one,

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because there's a happy ending. From
The Independent, Ricky Gervais was not impressed

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by Jamie Oliver's Christmas turkey hack,
which Oliver showed on a recent episode of

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The Graham Norton Show. The short
clip shown on Norton shows Jamie Oliver securing

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a bay leaf to a clement sign, using a clove to stab the fruit.

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Jamie Oliver then microwaves at the clement
sign until piping hot before placing it

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inside his raw turvity's cavity. Jervase
jumped in and said, sorry, how

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is that a recipe? Stick an
orange up a turkey's butt? How's that

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a recipe? We all know that
Diehard is a Christmas movie, but Gabriel

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Iglesias has a point. Gremlins is
a Christmas movie. He says, there

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are Christmas trees, there's snow,
and you know the Gremlins destroying Santa clauses.

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All right, I'm not sure how
comedy related this one is, but

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it made me laugh when I was
prepping for today. Apparently, in Ireland

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there's addition called the Twelve Pubs of
Christmas. Love it. Irish Central rites

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on Christmas Morning all over Ireland they'll
be countless people thanking they're lucky stars.

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Not because they're looking forward to opening
presents. It's because they know that once

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Christmas arrives they no longer have to
suffer the wrath of the Twelve Pubs of

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Christmas hangover. Santa Con may be
happening in the US now, but as

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usually, the Irish come out on
top in terms of how to properly have

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the crack. This Christmas time brought
up crack recently cr aic. No,

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we're not doing rock cocaine. Crack
means fun, all right. How does

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this work? Over the course of
an evening, you, along with your

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sisters and brothers in indulgence, visit
twelve bars an attempt to have a drink

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in every one of them. Okay, that's pretty straightforward. You wear Christmas

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jumpers or sweaters or Santa hats.
Okay, we know how to do that.

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But Iris Central points out anyone who
thinks the hardest thing about the night

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is to drink twelve points. Should
think again because there are rules vary from

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group of friends, but here are
some of the rules that you might follow.

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No drinking with your right hand in
the first pub. No pointing at

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people in the second pub. No
talking to anyone you know in the third

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pub. No sitting, resting,
or leaning in the fourth pub. I'd

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fail there, And no using the
restroom in the fifth pub. I'm definitely

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out, and so on and so
on. There's usually a maximum limit of

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thirty minutes per pub and a designated
rule keeper with a whistle to keep the

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guy on track. What if you
break a rule? Will you face a

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penalty? You might have to gulp
down a large amount of your drink ire

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centil rites and nearly every twelve pubs
this author has ever tended is usually added

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with a happy consensus to stay put
around bar number six or seven, with

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fellow twelve pubgoers only too happy to
enjoy the crack and merriment in the bar.

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Then braave the cold, rainy December
warmth in search of another from Harper's

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bizarre fifty Christmas Movies That'll make you
less miserable this season. I'm not going

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to read all fifty. Let's skim
down this and see what I find.

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The Santa Claus Okay, that's number
one. Jingle all the way, Get

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Santa Home alone. Two, The
Grinchtoole Christmas, Ernest saves Christmas forgot that

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happened. I'm just waiting to see
if there's an Adam Sandlor movie on here.

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There's gotta be right el pH at
number seventeen, Scrooged at nineteen,

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Christmas Vacation at twenty trading places.
How's that a Christmas movie? You can

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tell me on Facebook. I don't
care. No Sanilor on there. Isn't

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that surprising. There should be some
sailor on there. I'm gonna ask chatchpt

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to write the plot of an Adam
Sandler Christmas movie. Okay, it has

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called it The Christmas Chaos Crusaders.
Chat Ept's plot. Adam Sandler stars as

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Dave. I'm reading this. It
just printed a lovable but perpetually unlucky guy

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who has a deep passion for Christmas
but always seems to find himself in holiday

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related disasters. Dave lives in a
small, tight knit neighborhood. It takes

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Christmas decorations and festivities very seriously.
One year, Dave's neighbor, mister Johnson,

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declares that he will win the annual
neighborhood Christmas decorating contest at all costs.

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This is the Eddie Murphy plot.
Chat EPT. That's what I've been

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saying, that Eddie Murphy Christmas movie
that just came out, that that should

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have been an Adam Sailor movie.
The Internet agrees with me. I'm not

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even reading the rest of this.
The Christmas Chaos Grusaders come on chat GPT.

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Not only is that a bad Adam
Saylor movie, it's not even original.

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That's your company needs for today.
Merry Christmas, see you tomorrow.