This week Alex Regan from the Run Fatdad Run podcast joins us with our first Depressed CEO case study in a while: Humphrey Smith, the reclusive boss of Samuel Smith's Brewery. No phones, no swearing, no music, and almost no photos of the man himself.

He shut one pub because a customer swore and another because the kitchen wouldn't make his favourite chocolate fondant. When floods split Tadcaster in two, he wouldn't let the temporary road bridge go up on his land.

Also this week: food scanning apps that say everything will kill you, a family of peas used as emotional blackmail, a Christmas dinner that is three courses of sausage, and why Celebrity Traitors is now the Champions League final for anyone in their mid 30s.

Find Alex on Instagram: @runfatdadpod

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Greggs is everywhere now, so we've pitched the only logical next step: Greggs The Musical. The steak bake is your Gaston, the sausage rolls are the chorus, and everyone learns that we are all friends in the warm counter. Then the pigeons arrive.

Jim's health journey also raises a serious question: how much protein is in a snake? He has the numbers, a plan for a snake bake, and would still rather eat one than touch Huel.

Elsewhere: how many kisses you can put on a professional text, what your emojis really mean, a real novella about a woman who falls in love with the Sheffield Arts Tower, why every kids Christmas film teaches nothing, who cleaned up the flooded houses in Home Alone, Trump's tiny hands against King Charles's sausage fingers, whether Not Like Us is overrated, and Andy Burnham as a needy Prime Minister messaging the whole country at 2am.

If you can hear a bass line, that's an algorave in the building. Please moan in the comments.

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Fran’s GP has replaced its receptionists with an AI called Emma, which cannot understand a Sheffield accent and kept looping her back to the start. After half an hour she gave up and described an entirely fictional incident involving a baby, a horse and a banana skin. The AI read it back. She confirmed it. It is now on her record.

We also investigate Jim’s fireproof envelope, which contained a photograph of Bill Roach, a single 1992 cigarette and a colostomy bag. No satisfactory explanation was given.

Elsewhere: Scott returns from Spain with something resembling Covid, GP forms now explicitly ask patients not to send photographs of their genitals, a man loses a thousand pounds on roulette, and a helter skelter inflicts genuine physical damage.

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