S3:E3 James' Winter Holiday from Hell

The hosts of the podcast are excited to announce that Visit Rwanda has become the main sponsor for Season 3. They will be flown out to Rwanda for a country review. The hosts also discuss their Christmas experiences, including one host's eventful trip to Spain, encountering the band Blue, and another host's visit to their family home where they found a new family living there. The hosts also mention an unexpected encounter involving drugs and one host getting shot in the head. They then discuss their President of the Week, with one host choosing Barack Obama and the other host, Paul Kagame. Welcome back to the podcast. We're in a different location. We've moved once again guys You know why we've moved Mainly because it's really cold in the main studio, but also because James has a new heater, but also Because we're delighted to announce The visit Rwanda have joined the podcast as main sponsors the season 3 I'm so excited Thank you visit Rwanda so much you have you can it's the best thing that's ever happened to me It's a plan deal that we had known not only have dreamed of but now those dreams have come true Also, they've decided to fly us out to Rwanda to give us a country review and unbiased I can't wait opinion. We can't disclose how much money they've given us But I can assure you it was a lot of money it was a lot so we're they're very generous Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Rwanda. Thank you Paul Kagame Yeah, we spoke with him Yeah, like Paul No, like Paul was letters. Oh, yeah, it's fine. So I've had quite a quiet Christmas Haven't done much. I've been working Matt hasn't been doing much He's been drinking Sleeping that sounds a lot better than the Christmas I've had It was not good Not one not two but three bad situations I was placed in uncomfortable situations if you may Over this Christmas holiday You would like to maybe let some of the listeners know what happened to you this Christmas I'm so glad you asked Okay, so I just began with story one. The first story happened to me on Christmas Eve It was late Christmas Eve and I decided I wanted to go on a flight to Spain. I was at the airport Going on a flight to Spain and Coincidentally ran into Keisha and her family also going on the flight to Spain Yeah, I met them in the airport we were hanging out in the airport and then we fly from London not sure I can't remember. I can't remember. I think it was So I Got on this plate. I got this plane took a flight to Spain and I got I landed and I realized But I had nothing to do in Spain Yeah, luckily I'd booked it And I went immediately home So immediately back out there. Okay, I've got to make it back in time for Christmas this point It was like 2 a.m. Christmas morning. I was like shit. I gotta fly home for Christmas Nobody was snowy. Oh, it was so snowy and I was so scared and then I landed about 7 a.m. and Realized that there were no trains on Christmas and I could there was no way for me to get home So I was just running aimlessly through this Airport frantically trying to find a way home and I couldn't and then I blacked out and I woke up in her I woke up back at home and I've been taken home by the police. Oh, wow Now they just dropped me home and I went to bed And then the next morning, this is back to my I was all they thought it happened to you. Just what an idiot He's run himself into the ground. He just fainted for no reason. Yeah It was so stressful When we say if you're complaining about stress on Christmas, that one was kind of a new James. Yeah But like why did you like the plane? I knew sometimes a man's got to do what a man's got to do I didn't think about the fact that it was Christmas Well, you were just like you woke up in the morning Oh Yeah, I've got nothing to do Like did you leave the airport? What in Spain in Spain? No She's got the Spain. Did he go through border security? No, I think I just turned around and got back on the plane Wow That is quite wild. That's quite well. But yeah, as much as that just don't do that in the future That's my advice to you. My advice to you is don't do that Don't go somewhere with nothing to do if you're gonna get stressed about it. It comes straight back home What are the crazy things happen to you? The second the second crazy thing that happened to me over Christmas Happened one of us one of the days after Boxing Day was like nothing's going on I decided to take a little drive. I drove for Aldi Just like walk through Aldi for a bit and then just got back in my car I don't want anything. It's just something to do on the way home. I got stuck in traffic It was like rammed and I was like like wasn't moving at all. I was like, oh shit. I'm gonna be here for a while And I look over to my left and on the pavement next to my car is the entirety of blue They're all just standing there. I'm like, oh shit It's blue what the fuck and then and you'll never believe this But That is quite weird, well, we have to edit this one out this could get picked up by the Sun I think they've got nothing on him I'll ask his permission. I'll ask his permission. Okay, we'll ring him up. So if you listen to this now It's because we run Damon Albarn up and he gave us permission to tell this story So I do think that it is not a horrifying situation at all because you've got to meet a celebrity That would be yeah, but he was he's worthy, but it was scary. It was late at night as well late at night Why are you doing? Because boards, but I never expected. Yeah. Yeah, you wouldn't have expected Yeah, it was probably 10 p.m. Okay, what was the third thing? Okay, the third thing it might be the worst thing of all that happened to me this this really put the nail in the coffin so around New Year's I Realized that there were a few things back up in Leamington But I wanted to come collect and take back home because I'd forgotten them when I came home So I drove all the way up to Leamington up to the house to collect just a few things from my room To bring them to drive all the way back home. How did you spend in petrol Mike? I can't remember. I didn't drive my dad drove. Oh Yeah Thank you, thank you to Jeremy Yeah Big ups and anyway when I arrived at the house as you guys know When we go home for the fight the breaks like a family moves in and they live here like you know that right? So like when like I went up to the door and knocked on the door and the family opened the door And they were and I was like, oh hi. Hi. Hi. Sorry. I can grab a few things and they were like, yeah Go ahead. So when I went up came all the way to my room, but there was like a teenage girl changing in my room Like an 18 year old girl changing in my room and I unlocked the door and she's like now don't come in don't come in So don't come in. I'm changing. So I went back downstairs. I walked back downstairs. I got a wait now So when I sat on the bottom of my stairs and all of a sudden all you guys were there the whole everyone was there everyone from the house was there and No, I'm beginning to remember Well, I don't we might come on to what the reasons might be later Wow So we you were all there and chatting with the family and you were chatting about the mountain infestation that we have And that we just have like mice running around the house And there was like one running apart as you were speaking in your fuck and talking about how bad it was now We really should call the landlord And then we all decided now guys. I don't condone drugs. I don't use drugs It's not me. I Don't know what subconscious came into nervous. It was a one-off We decided well you were involved as well what we all decided we were gonna we were gonna pick up some some cannabis What's that kind of cannabis? Yeah, what is that? It's a drug Matthew a drug. Yeah Did you give us drugs I've gotta say it wasn't my idea freaking out now. I know this and I also know but I still don't remember this night Yeah, why are you happy James? What else did you have done? It wasn't me who offered the drugs. It wasn't my idea with the family No, it was Keisha's idea to be honest Wow, and then we so we all left the house not the family the family didn't come They didn't want they didn't want drugs. So we left the house and suddenly we were outside my house at home We'd like just teleported there like, you know, sometimes houses do that. It's like a bug They're gonna they'll fix it soon But like it happened to us and so we ended up back at my house and she left me and we walked down the roads To this dodgy looking car and Keisha got in the car. I think it was to buy the drugs I'm pretty sure we just wait that we all wait outside the car like seven of us eight of us and then We were waiting there for a while and then all of a sudden Keisha and this like guy this hoodlum You know the car and they're arguing and they're arguing and then the guy shoots me Yeah in the head You got shot in the head over Christmas, yeah Holy Doctors are saying it's a miracle. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like yeah, you wouldn't know you really wouldn't but you pulled through it really well This is just Wow. I had no idea pick up the NHS. Yeah That's BD That's all that happened to me Wow pretty traumatic to be honest Wow Right, is that your whole Christmas then? Yeah, it's pretty much all that happened ended with you getting shot Yeah, and then you just spent the rest of it in hospital. Yeah, I came out yesterday But you wouldn't think it with you. Yeah, I've done a really good job. Yeah Thank you You never complain I wonder how we forgot I don't even remember being there that night. She's very up to me. It must just be me So we go into our first segment should we do president of the week? Well, we've got Paul Kagame on this week to talk about his president of the week is He's on the phone to me Unfortunately, our brand new microphone delivered by visit Rwanda Is unable to pick up the phone calls that I just have to relate it for me. My president of the week is Barack Obama His tremendous service the african-american community in America There is no American president more attractive than Paul that the black Obama, so he's my president of the week and my wife loved him say all the best so kiss kiss Love you. Love you I Obviously I had to let Paul know that he couldn't be present the week So the deal that we came to was that he could just announce who his alternative Yeah, and can he can the audience ask a question? Yeah, what would you the podcast describe Paul Kagame as a president or would you describe his role in some other way? No, he is a president and then secondary as prime minister, I think okay Yeah, he is Well done Paul 97% in the last election. He's doing well. He's doing well. They love him. They love him So I've been to campus again this week how many times well on this one occasion I got off the bus and I went down on my walk because I often get to campus about 20 minutes early for my Lectures because that's just the way the buses run So I was on a walk down and do you remember what I said last last podcast about the ducks? Yeah, that they seem to be congregating in groups and that's it stuff I remember some of them are now walking around with little red tags on their arms and marching in formation and I've seen them Congregating and beating up the little duck Tragic as soon as I saw that when the ducks came up to me and he delivered the message He said Matthew, and I don't know having you my name So Matthew, you're not ready for what's coming. Then he turned his back and strutted off again by Brittany says Before shooting dead a baby blackbird. He was just chillin on the grass I Was I just didn't know what to say? It was really emotionally quite a lot But I just thought that I should share that with the podcast because if I'm not ready For what they're about to do. I'm not sure what anyone is gonna be ready for but I don't feel ready He really gave he really didn't seem like a good guy. Whoever this This is a Current 1 billion live listeners the word is out some of this for in here Matt how's your warm country? I was just thinking it could be there for we Don't want to try that. Yeah, it's the beer of the week. I don't like madri anyway Yeah, and I would do I really and it's gonna be flat Charlie's been drinking like a fat pint this whole time I'm not willing to give it a bit of the week because I want to compare with a week to the Estrella at the Whitehorse because that was this week I'm Phil the seller was out. I don't like it, but I don't like normal Stella too much of a bitch Oh, yes, your struggle was good. And I'm for three pounds 70 or whatever I can't be a shout out the Whitehorse also sponsoring this podcast. They did the Christmas party Yeah, next time we hope to bring you a very controversial episode. We can't let you know what it is yet We're getting some big guests on big big guests big big household names Yeah, it's a little bit different from some of some of the other things that we've done on the podcast But I feel like we've got to deliver the guests the respect that they deserve Then hear out the message that they want to deliver to the podcast because it's quite passionate and he really really really Strongly Just know lots of passion and debate in the next podcast with a big guest. Make sure you stay tuned like and subscribe It's gonna be huge. It'd be huge. Is that is that everything for the week? Yeah, I think so and Happy New Year and welcome back. Yeah Season three time jump