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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. It's Wednesday, January the 25th.

Can't believe it. I know. Payday. All very exciting. All very exciting. Unless of course you don't get paid and you get paid weekly, in which case, don't make any difference at all because I won't be paying you today. But for the monthly people, it's payday. It's very exciting time, actually. We like it. I've sort of, because I got a tax rebate, I didn't spend as much money last month as I thought I did. So this month, I don't have to put as much money into what I call my spending account because I have a separate account for spending. So when I go out and buy things, put them on the card, it comes out of that account. So you can keep a track on it. It's just called, it's sort of money motivation. I'm trying to

sort of, you know, be very creative with it and make sure we've got enough in here and then here

and then this, oh, such a nightmare, I promise it. It really is. Very stressful. Anyway, guess what

we're nodding now? Oscars, never a dull moment at the Oscars, although normally speaking, it goes, it's just boring. It just goes on and on.

So when you see it on the television, you'll see all the stars, the Bill Nyes, the Colin Farrells, the Paul Meskell.

And then they go down to best costume design, best use of the colour beige and stuff like that.

And they go on for about another two or three hours it's very dull but the

Oscar nominations the full list has been revealed and they've got all sorts of people you know

quite a number of Brits are up for best actor and actress categories and I mean I think this day

is marked Ireland's most successful year in the nominations ever, which is absolutely brilliant.

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