Ella Risbridger

And he's so sad.

He's so sad and he wants to get back to his family.

But here's something fascinating.

Consider this.

The last ever holiday episode of Friends is the Thanksgiving episode in series 10 where Tantor and Monica decide not to host Thanksgiving.

I'm so sad.

very nice there's something really wonderful about recording this christmas episode with you and i hope that our listeners will forgive some sentimental because it is after all sentimental garbage but also you're my friend and you're far away and we have been doing this christmas special for many years but we've been friends for even longer and i'm glad we're talking about friends now in our 30s which is when friends ends right is when they get to their mid-30s rather than when we started talking about friends just sort of casually in our early 20s

You know, the idea of your parents saying I'm away for Christmas was so it felt so devastating and destabilizing.

And in some ways, I think, you know, my parents were abroad.

Your parents were obviously in Ireland when we first met.

And I think part of our friendship was being like, OK, let's cling together.

Let's cling together and make a festive.

And the number of Christmas things we have and the Christmas traditions we've had and like beautiful Christmas decorations.

dinners and just Christmas crafts and we've done so many Christmas projects because I think when we were in our early 20s the same age the friends are when they begin friends was about trying to forge tradition in the absence of our families because we were in London trying to forge new lives for ourselves and I remember the first time I cooked Christmas dinner for us and our friends and I truly did not realize this until I re-watched all the Christmas episodes in prep for this episode everybody kept asking me for different kinds of potato and that happens to Monica

No, we didn't make the connection.

I remember our friend Harry, friend of the pod Harry Harris, composer of the pod Harry Harris, just being like, well, is there going to be Dauphinois?

And me being like...

Yes, there will certainly be dauphinoise, like Googling, like what dauphinoise?

How make dauphinoise?

Help, please, dauphinoise.