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Speaker 3: I'm Britney Saunders and I'm all right hey.
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Speaker 2: Ho ho ho ho ho ho. Coming up in this episode,
Speaker 2: we're actually out of office, darling, so you are getting
Speaker 2: a couple of little bonus episodes to tie you through
Speaker 2: till we come back in the new year. Today's episode
Speaker 2: is all things Christmas. Although we went off track a
Speaker 2: little bit there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone's invited to my house.
Speaker 2: Yeah Christmas. Yeah, lots happening, lots happening. But anyway, thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us over this Christmas break. Let's get straight
Speaker 2: into the episode, deal meandl let's go LEAs Christmas high
Speaker 2: On Britney Saunders.
Speaker 3: No, oh okay, this is Christmas bitch.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, we can mix it the fuck up
Speaker 1: so I'm going to say, I'll tell you what my
Speaker 1: recommendation of the week is.
Speaker 3: You what what.
Speaker 1: My recommendation and Royal flush for this Christmas episode that
Speaker 1: we're just diving straight into is at Christmas time, get
Speaker 1: out the speaker and play Pentatonics Christmas music.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Pentatonics is like a singing group if you don't know
Speaker 1: who they are, a capella vibes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a cappella. It's just their voices.
Speaker 1: They are amazing and their Christmas songs are like they
Speaker 1: give you goosebumps. So play like, don't worry about Mariah,
Speaker 1: don't worry about Michael.
Speaker 3: Play Pentatonics. Okay, that's my advice.
Speaker 2: I do love boobs, little bit, little bit of boobs
Speaker 2: at Christmas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's good too, But Pentatonics is where it's at.
Speaker 1: Fucking lay that on Christmas Day everyone.
Speaker 2: I've never got around them, so I'll have to do this.
Speaker 1: Their Hallelujah like it gives you goosebumps.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's my royal flush. Well great, what's your
Speaker 1: Christmas Royal flush?
Speaker 2: Mattch Oh my Christmas Royal flush this year? Well, can't
Speaker 2: be bothered. Sorry, Christmas this year I've just.
Speaker 3: Been I mean, I believe it because you were so
Speaker 3: into it last year.
Speaker 2: I know, look and every year I am. It's just
Speaker 2: been twenty twenty four. I don't know if anyone else
Speaker 2: is with me on this, but this year has just
Speaker 2: been a very busy, full on year and I just
Speaker 2: cannot be bothered. Obviously as well with the rent increase
Speaker 2: and then moving. You know, we're in our new house now.
Speaker 2: It's all fabulous, but like there's been a lot. I
Speaker 2: feel like I haven't bloody stopped. I had the thirtieth
Speaker 2: Ariana Grande Taylor Swift like my real work so much.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, this just is so hard keep up
Speaker 2: with all of these celebrities and my friendship with them.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just feel like this year couldn't be bothered.
Speaker 2: With Christmas?
Speaker 3: Sweet, what are you getting Sky for Christmas? Can you
Speaker 3: give any no?
Speaker 2: Boy? Because he'll listen. He's a big scroller, so he'll
Speaker 2: listen to this.
Speaker 1: I can tell you one thing I got AJ what well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one of AJ's presence. I kept getting
Speaker 1: these ads for these shirts that you can get and
Speaker 1: it's like a I don't even know what to describe
Speaker 1: the shirts has, you know how usually like men's shirts,
Speaker 1: it's got like rappers faces all over it and then
Speaker 1: the big fight at the top, like a gangster sort
Speaker 1: of shirt.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, there's these businesses now that do that that you
Speaker 1: can put whatever faces you want on it and whatever
Speaker 1: writing at the top. But it looks like a full
Speaker 1: like wrapper fifty cent shirt nice.
Speaker 3: And so I got one. It says sneaky and peanut.
Speaker 1: And then I found the ugliest photos that I could
Speaker 1: of the dogs, like of them like doing fucked up faces,
Speaker 1: and I got him that. But it looked just from
Speaker 1: a glance, he'd be like, oh, that's like a fifty
Speaker 1: cent shirt or whatever, but it's actually like your dogs.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: You should get one for sky and just put all
Speaker 1: photos of you and put like all right, hey, but
Speaker 1: they look they look cool?
Speaker 3: Am I keeping you up?
Speaker 2: Oh? It's the end of the year. I'm on in
Speaker 2: your leve like sorry, I'm like six times. Hey, you
Speaker 2: don't everyone get four weeks or something. I think I've
Speaker 2: had my four weeks lead across?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Do you taking me last two weeks?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And I've got to use that mesick leave as well.
Speaker 2: Don't forget about your sick leave people, all right, and
Speaker 2: don't forget this is this is something you can take
Speaker 2: into twenty twenty five. Mental health days can be used
Speaker 2: as sick leave. Don't forget if you're just like I
Speaker 2: can't do it today. Take a mental health day, get
Speaker 2: a doctor's certificate, whatever you need to do.
Speaker 1: Do you know that that's actually really interesting topic. I
Speaker 1: know this is like not a high scrollers topic, but
Speaker 1: it is now. Do you know that, like people feel
Speaker 1: extreme guilt around calling in sick even when they're legitimately sick. Yes,
Speaker 1: And that's something that I talk about on Big Business.
Speaker 1: But as a boss myself, like I couldn't care less
Speaker 1: if someone's having a sick day, Like just from the
Speaker 1: employer's POV. All of you out there that have a
Speaker 1: boss or you have a job and you get anxiety
Speaker 1: around calling in sick. I mean I can only speak
Speaker 1: from me as a boss, but I don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck if you're having a.
Speaker 2: Sick but think you're a unicorn, because I have worked
Speaker 2: in plenty of places where me calling in sick is
Speaker 2: like the worst thing I could do to my manager wrong,
Speaker 2: and my manager are like they're not going to be
Speaker 2: able to go and I've let the team down. About
Speaker 2: That's how it is. In a lot of workplace, we're llegal.
Speaker 3: For people to treat their stuff like that.
Speaker 2: A lot of things should be illegal, but here we are.
Speaker 1: And like, I find it weird if my staff were
Speaker 1: to ever like feel guilty about calling in sick to us,
Speaker 1: because we're like, that's fine, like take the day, I
Speaker 1: hope you feel better soon. Yeah, the fact that people
Speaker 1: would be out there like, oh, you've let the whole
Speaker 1: team down and you're sure you can't like if I
Speaker 1: shoot me if I fucking was like that as a boss, Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you sure you.
Speaker 2: Can't come in? And also I remember I used to
Speaker 2: just there were plenty of times I just had to
Speaker 2: go into work sick, which obviously isn't responsible, but like
Speaker 2: you know, we had. I've worked at places where we
Speaker 2: started let's say five six am, and the policy is
Speaker 2: like you must give two to three hours notice or
Speaker 2: whatever it might have been if you are sick. But
Speaker 2: like I've woken up at four thirty for my five
Speaker 2: am shift, so it's like I haven't the windows passed,
Speaker 2: And now I'm like you know, and I know that
Speaker 2: if I don't go in, there's literally no one there
Speaker 2: to do the job, and they won't be able to
Speaker 2: get anyone in because it's four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: Better well, you know here we are. That's that, isn't it? Anyway? Christmas?
Speaker 2: It's a Christmas week, it's a Christmas show, and we're
Speaker 2: talking all about Christmas this week. As you know, we're
Speaker 2: obviously on our little holiday break at the moment, but
Speaker 2: NOV likes to sometimes take a break over the break,
Speaker 2: and we said, no, we love our scrollers and we'd
Speaker 2: like to give them just a couple little.
Speaker 3: Didn't we do this last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I know, really really out.
Speaker 1: Here doing the absolute most when aren't we? Oh no,
Speaker 1: can we just fucking stop?
Speaker 2: But that's why the universe loves us?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it's true. So are plans for Christmas?
Speaker 2: Mattch God, I never know, and I never know till
Speaker 2: the day. You know, broken family vibes. You've got to
Speaker 2: go round of bloody seven different houses, see everyone and
Speaker 2: do everything. And I have seven lunches, seven dinners figure
Speaker 2: it all out. So I always just say my thing.
Speaker 2: If you are from a family like mine, where you've
Speaker 2: got to commit to seeing all these people in one day.
Speaker 2: I actually just don't make a plan with anyone. I go,
Speaker 2: what's your plan? And then I go, well, we'll pop
Speaker 2: in when we can, and I still get to everyone.
Speaker 2: And if you've already eaten your lunch and I've missed out,
Speaker 2: not my problem. That's fine. I'm still here, we're still
Speaker 2: spending time together. I hope you enjoyed your lunch. I
Speaker 2: didn't need any. And then you just don't set up
Speaker 2: the expectations, and then I guess disappoint people in a
Speaker 2: way because if I go, all right, I'll come to
Speaker 2: yours for lunch, and I'll come to yours just after lunch,
Speaker 2: and I'll come to yours here, and then Christmas Day,
Speaker 2: you're enjoying yourself a little bit too much here, and
Speaker 2: then the other one gets pushed back a little bit,
Speaker 2: or you miss the lunch because the traffic on the
Speaker 2: freeway was ridiculous. You know, I just don't really set
Speaker 2: an expectation for anyone on Christmas Day. I just say
Speaker 2: I'll be there at some point throughout the day and
Speaker 2: see you when I can, And if I happen to
Speaker 2: land on lunch, I'll sit down and have lunch with
Speaker 2: you and if not, say la V. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean. But what about you? What are your Christmas plans?
Speaker 2: Because I know you always do your big beer pong tournament.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Christmas is looking a lot different these days. Last
Speaker 1: Christmas was really sad for me. Why because my mom
Speaker 1: stopped talking to me.
Speaker 2: Oh just before Christmas.
Speaker 1: Just before Christmas last year, just spilling the tea on
Speaker 1: my personal life. I don't really talk much about my
Speaker 1: personal life on social media, but like you always say,
Speaker 1: the podcast is like the little safe corner on the internet.
Speaker 1: So in December last year, my mum cut ties with me.
Speaker 1: Long story messy. It's not the first time that this
Speaker 1: has happened. So last Christmas, I was just like feeling
Speaker 1: sorry for myself. We just went to AJ's mom's for
Speaker 1: lunch and then came home and just I was just
Speaker 1: depressed because I didn't get to see Nana or anything.
Speaker 3: Because this is the whole fucking thing. So this year
Speaker 3: it's equally as sad, but a bit more exciting because AJ.
Speaker 1: And I will be in our new house. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's like the one good thing. Usually my Christmas would
Speaker 1: be brunch at NaN's, but I can't go to NaN's anymore,
Speaker 1: which is fucked.
Speaker 3: If you don't laugh, you cry.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I don't see Nana on Christmas anymore.
Speaker 3: Is will be the second year I'm not seeing her,
Speaker 3: which is so fucked.
Speaker 2: Didn't she not come over to visit you at your house?
Speaker 3: She can, but she'll be with Sharon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but for brunch, right, So what happens later in
Speaker 2: the day. Could you not pop over at a different time?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not allowed there. Oh okay, yeah, it's that fucked. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So all we're doing for Christmas this year is having
Speaker 1: everyone over to our house, which I'm actually really looking
Speaker 1: forward to because we're our back deck, our barbecue and
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, anyone fucking come, yeah, like anyone from
Speaker 1: like cause I've got a weird family to like my stepmom,
Speaker 1: who isn't my step mom anymore, but she's been my
Speaker 1: step mom my whole life kind of thing.
Speaker 3: That's who we usually do the beer pong with.
Speaker 1: But like, I can't be fucked on all the way
Speaker 1: out there, and we just want to stay in our
Speaker 1: new house. So my thing is we're having all day
Speaker 1: and night at our house, and anyone that we know
Speaker 1: that wants to come bloody come.
Speaker 3: Like we're hosting all day and all fucking night.
Speaker 1: Yep, so we might end up doing beer pong at
Speaker 1: mine who knows nice. But just this will be the
Speaker 1: first Christmas in age in my whole life where I
Speaker 1: haven't gone anywhere, Like it's just at our house. So
Speaker 1: we're having AJ's whole family over in the day. We'll
Speaker 1: do the barbecue and everything. I'm really excited for prawns.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I do love prawns on Christmas. Surprisingly. I
Speaker 2: know everyone knows I've met seafood, but I do love
Speaker 2: a prawn.
Speaker 3: You like seafood, but I've.
Speaker 2: Said this before. It's it's fish that like a fish cocktail,
Speaker 2: get it away from me, A salmon, get it away
Speaker 2: from me. A save the raw fish can't do that.
Speaker 2: I love. I love a salt and pepper squid or
Speaker 2: a calamar. Right. I love a prawn, especially like a
Speaker 2: honey prawn from a Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 3: Do you like fresh prawn?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I can do fresh pro Christmas.
Speaker 1: Favorite thing about Christmas Just when someone's like, what do
Speaker 1: you need me to bring? Honestly, three kilos of prawns
Speaker 1: each of you is one of each.
Speaker 2: There is a lot of admin with a prawn on Christmas,
Speaker 2: I will say that isn't there because you've got to
Speaker 2: tie up in its own bin bag, and then you've
Speaker 2: got to make sure you put it out, And when's
Speaker 2: the bins getting collected? It doesn't Yes, got to put
Speaker 2: it in the freeze. It doesn't see they live.
Speaker 3: And then knowing a j.
Speaker 1: Christmas, knowing this year's Christmas prawns will be getting thrown
Speaker 1: out next year because they're going to be shoved in the.
Speaker 3: Back of the free Oh my god, a new fridge.
Speaker 3: It's just so exciting.
Speaker 1: I am excited for this Christmas, even though my family's cooked.
Speaker 2: I think I'm excited for next Christmas. I think this
Speaker 2: year has been a bit hectic. I think this has
Speaker 2: been a bit hectic, and obviously Sky and I are
Speaker 2: in a new space. We're only just in the new
Speaker 2: space for a few weeks. Like there's no point in
Speaker 2: us going all crazy with Christmas this year. But I
Speaker 2: do think next year. I've always had the dream of
Speaker 2: what are you doing.
Speaker 3: Putting my feet up on the tap?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, nice, I've always had the dream of hosting
Speaker 2: Christmas at my house Oh, my.
Speaker 1: Family decided I want to decorate the fucking table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we've always lived in like apartments, so we've
Speaker 2: never had the space and it doesn't make sense as well.
Speaker 2: So but now that we've got the house a little
Speaker 2: bit more space for people, I think next year will
Speaker 2: I will be able to be bothered for Christmas?
Speaker 3: Next Ye'll be bothered this year, You be bothered next year?
Speaker 2: Okay, gorgeous. Well, I don't think I'll get all the
Speaker 2: way up to bloody Newcastle for Christmas, so I won't
Speaker 2: be popping in on Christmas Day. Sorry, that's okay.
Speaker 3: We can have our own Christmas party? Yeah, us and.
Speaker 2: Kate, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: We should do our own just before Christmas or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she can host it because I can't be bothered,
Speaker 2: come to mind. Oh yeah right, you host it then, right.
Speaker 1: I'm like, our house is open house party every weekend.
Speaker 2: Well, don't get two cocky, because the scrollers will show up.
Speaker 2: You saw how they acted at that glaze that the
Speaker 2: fate event earlier. This year, you'll have two hundred girls
Speaker 2: bagging on your door with glazing in their hands.
Speaker 3: Same, bring prawns. I'm letting them in. Can you shop
Speaker 3: at my house with three killers of prawns fresh.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, and so what's your what's your situation with
Speaker 2: the prawns, Because for me personally with the prawns, I've
Speaker 2: got to pass about three or four prawns to my
Speaker 2: dad and say, peel those for me pleasure.
Speaker 3: I just rip in and do it myself, and I
Speaker 3: eat the poushoo.
Speaker 2: Oh you eat the pushoot. Now you've said that before,
Speaker 2: haven't you. Yeah, push shoot, maybe.
Speaker 1: A little bit of seafood sauce. But I just love
Speaker 1: like cracked salt on them and just eat them as is,
Speaker 1: or a bit of lemon love, a bit of like
Speaker 1: the seafood sauce whatever that is. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: pale orange.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what that is, but it's young
Speaker 3: like is it mayonnaise with something.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, I used to go prawning with
Speaker 2: my granddad actually in the Entrance Channel, if anyone's familiar
Speaker 2: on the central that on a full moon, we'd go
Speaker 2: out there and we'd do the prawning and we'd catch
Speaker 2: some prawns light nets, yeah, in the nets, and then
Speaker 2: I'd always save one prawn, usually the biggest and I'd
Speaker 2: put him in a little Chinese takeaway container and I'd
Speaker 2: take him home, and that'd be my pet for about
Speaker 2: four or five hours till it died.
Speaker 3: This is a dumb question.
Speaker 1: Yes, when you go prawning and you have the nets,
Speaker 1: do you just like scoop them up?
Speaker 3: You leave it there for hours?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, here we go. You're ready, all right? So you
Speaker 2: always do it on a full moon because the prawns
Speaker 2: are attracted to the light. Oh wait, sorry, maybe the
Speaker 2: thing is you don't do it on a full moon
Speaker 2: because what you need is your net and a torch,
Speaker 2: and you shine the torch at the top of the water,
Speaker 2: and the prawns are attracted to the torch because they
Speaker 2: think it's the moon or something. And then you scoop
Speaker 2: them all up in your.
Speaker 1: And so the prawns are alive when you scoop them up.
Speaker 1: And then how do you kill them?
Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Do you just wait for them to die from being
Speaker 3: out of the water.
Speaker 2: To be fair, I was doing this when I was
Speaker 2: like six years old, so I have forgotten, and Granddad's
Speaker 2: no longer here for me to be able to ask
Speaker 2: him what we did. It's kind of sad, but I'd
Speaker 2: assume like, no, I have a fond memory of him
Speaker 2: having like a bucket in the garage with them all in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe they will just die of starvation.
Speaker 3: Fucking hell No.
Speaker 1: See again, I've stuck with the dilemma, thinking way back
Speaker 1: to episodes, back when I felt bad for the baby
Speaker 1: monkey on the leopard.
Speaker 3: I feel bad for that. By the way, Hannah, did
Speaker 3: you look up that photo?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she put it in the video, So.
Speaker 1: Like, I feel bad for the monkey that I knew
Speaker 1: that was gonna be killed by the leopard, But then
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad for the fucking prawns.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, go google girl. We've just discovered that to
Speaker 2: kill crustaceans, you chill them to render them insensible sensibile,
Speaker 2: followed by killing through splitting or spiking to.
Speaker 3: Now like prawns.
Speaker 2: Ever, Yeah, I think Granddad did put it in a
Speaker 2: bucket and then in the fridge in the garage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the poor thing there you go, frozen to day.
Speaker 2: I'd always save one, and I'd think that I was
Speaker 2: saving its life and it would die the next day anyway,
Speaker 2: because it's sitting in a little plastic container.
Speaker 1: Oh but anyway, anyway, look I looking forward to eating prawns.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite part of Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I also what else do we have on Christmas? See,
Speaker 2: we're not a bigum. We obviously don't do a turkey.
Speaker 2: We are sometimes if Dad can be bothered a ham,
Speaker 2: he does a really good ham.
Speaker 3: Cold meats, salads, bread rolls.
Speaker 2: Oh, so we do hot. We do hot. And we've
Speaker 2: had this conversation before. I'm having a bit of dajavou.
Speaker 3: Well, it's my Christmas issue, so I can make whatever
Speaker 3: I want. Do a potato bake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no potato.
Speaker 3: Baked salad on the sign, some prawns.
Speaker 2: I'd rather a potato bake and a potato salad. I
Speaker 2: find potato salad a bit fucked. Oh and I hate
Speaker 2: a coleslaw, and I hate a pasta salad. Yucky pasta salad.
Speaker 1: When I put it in my mouth, the first bit
Speaker 1: is good, but the after taste it's like chemicals.
Speaker 2: Mmm. So true, No shit, you not, no pasta salad.
Speaker 2: Get it out.
Speaker 1: Next time you get a past of salad from the shops,
Speaker 1: Put in your mouth, bite it, swallow it and wait
Speaker 1: for that after taste.
Speaker 3: It's like pen ink. M Just saying, there you go.
Speaker 2: What else do we have On Christmas Day? We always
Speaker 2: have her pudding, and Grandma makes her custard, and we
Speaker 2: and Granddad used to make his pudding. But now Dad
Speaker 2: has taken the reins of doing the Granddad's pudding. I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's made it this year or not.
Speaker 2: I'll have to tend him a text. Because you've got
Speaker 2: a grandaded have it hung up in the kitchen. You
Speaker 2: gotta let it hang for two weeks or something. It
Speaker 2: start his bloody. Put in six weeks in advance, and
Speaker 2: we go over in December and the puddings and would
Speaker 2: be hanging in the kitchen. I got no idea what
Speaker 2: the process is, but apparently it does something, and then
Speaker 2: we'd pair that with Grandma's homemade custard. Grandma also used
Speaker 2: to make it bread and butter pudding as well. She
Speaker 2: doesn't do that that much anymore because one year no
Speaker 2: one ate the bread and butter pudding, and she went out,
Speaker 2: no one must like it, and then she never made
Speaker 2: it again.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: You got me all excited. I'm going to make all
Speaker 1: sorts of sweets. Yeah, I'm going to go all out.
Speaker 3: I never hosted.
Speaker 1: I hosted Christmas once like two years ago, three years ago,
Speaker 1: and we didn't do all that much and like.
Speaker 3: Chas made all food. Now it's on me.
Speaker 2: Yeah see I love it. I love Entertown.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do it. I'm going to be there.
Speaker 2: I want to have all the the and everything, like homemade.
Speaker 2: You know, sure have a chip bowl or something like that.
Speaker 2: But like I want to make those little puff pastry
Speaker 2: Christmas trees again that I made last year. I loved those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what you need to make.
Speaker 1: Actually one of the fake girls made it on her
Speaker 1: first day at work this year, but it was Christmas crack.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I seen with like.
Speaker 1: The saladas all crunched up in it and it's like
Speaker 1: chocolate with saladas in it.
Speaker 3: Everyone needs to make that this year. Amazing salty and sweet.
Speaker 2: Nice. Well they've only got a couple of days a
Speaker 2: bit late now, isn't it. Hopefully you can get your
Speaker 2: shit sorted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry everyone, you're.
Speaker 2: Doing any Boxing Day sales or anything?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we always do Boxing Day at Fate, although I
Speaker 1: will say Boxing Day is not.
Speaker 3: Like what it used to be because of Black Friday. Friday.
Speaker 3: Oh there's Joel crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah.
Speaker 3: He went that way.
Speaker 1: Boxing Day used to be massive, but now it's Black Friday.
Speaker 1: Like Black Friday has taken over Boxing Day. So Black
Speaker 1: Friday sales.
Speaker 2: I know how crazy is Black Friday was crazy this year.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of businesses make seventy percent of
Speaker 1: their revenue Black Friday for the year, not us.
Speaker 2: Well, people really hold out till Black Friday. Because I
Speaker 2: remember earlier in the year my Great Protein water launch
Speaker 2: with Muscle Nation, and I had a lot of people say,
Speaker 2: because it launched in October, Black Friday's November, a lot
Speaker 2: of people were like, Oh, I'm going to wait until
Speaker 2: Black Friday to purchase it, which is totally fair in
Speaker 2: this economy. Do what you need to do. But I
Speaker 2: was like, that's so surprising that you'll Because I'm not
Speaker 2: a waiter, I'm like, I need it now.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of people are I'll.
Speaker 2: Shop around to get the best deal, but I want
Speaker 2: it now.
Speaker 1: No, A lot of people do wait for sales periods,
Speaker 1: which is great. I love a sale, I love a
Speaker 1: bug and I love saving money. But I'm also a
Speaker 1: business owner. Yeah, and I think of it in a
Speaker 1: different way as well. Yeah, but yeah, that's our Christmas
Speaker 1: anyone can come to mine. I've got no family.
Speaker 2: My god, this is a satisfaction. We're meant to be
Speaker 2: h jolly, jolly, jolly.
Speaker 3: Don't laugh, you fucking cry.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if anyone wants to come over, it's three
Speaker 1: kilos of prawns's entry.
Speaker 2: Don't because people will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't come over.
Speaker 2: But also I just I can't fucking be bothered. I'm sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what's your question, Hannah, get on the mark, get on
Speaker 2: the bike. What do we got on?
Speaker 3: Just use my hello, have a question. It's actually Fate related.
Speaker 3: I feel like last year, did you an aj do
Speaker 3: the boxing? Do cell all by yourself? Really die?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What are you hiring? Like are you having people working? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was one of the biggest mistakes that
Speaker 1: I've ever made. So every year at Fate, all of
Speaker 1: our warehouse staff and office staff have two weeks off
Speaker 1: over Christmas. That's just the way that it's always been.
Speaker 1: We've always done that, and I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: people say to me, that's fucking wild that you are
Speaker 1: an online business and you're key full time staff all
Speaker 1: have that two weeks off every year, because like that's
Speaker 1: your fucking like Christmas box and day, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: That's just the way we've always done it, like since
Speaker 1: the beginning of Fates. And we're never not going to
Speaker 1: say to people, no, you can't have two weeks off
Speaker 1: at Christmas. People can take the time off whenever they want.
Speaker 1: But last year, I guess that's when we were at
Speaker 1: like our biggest Like Fate has continued to continue to
Speaker 1: get bigger and bigger each year, so like Boxing Day
Speaker 1: gets bigger and bigger each year, and so a Jan
Speaker 1: and I worked through that two week period last year
Speaker 1: and we did our Boxing Day sale and we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we fun like just the two of us. It's
Speaker 1: thousands of motherfucking orders thousands, And I'm still not recovered
Speaker 1: from it. I'm still not Like, I'm still tired.
Speaker 2: And I remember you we were canceling things, you know,
Speaker 2: in that celebratory time. We were meant to do state,
Speaker 2: to do a Christmas Day with Kate, and you had
Speaker 2: to cancel, which is totally fair to do it, but
Speaker 2: I think you know you also need to take that
Speaker 2: time that time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're a lot more prepared this year, so
Speaker 1: we learn our lesson from last Boxing Day, because yeah,
Speaker 1: AJ and I worked that two weeks straight packing orders
Speaker 1: and with two people and thousands of orders, Like you're
Speaker 1: just never fucking getting through it. Like we got there eventually,
Speaker 1: I think it took us two to three weeks. But
Speaker 1: this year, for the first time ever, we've hired casuals
Speaker 1: in our warehouse. So up until last year, it was
Speaker 1: only full time employees in the Fate warehouse, which means
Speaker 1: everyone had annual leave to use, which means the whole
Speaker 1: warehouse wasn't there.
Speaker 3: And like it's really.
Speaker 1: Hard to because it's like customer service as well, like
Speaker 1: they are all on leave as well. But now we
Speaker 1: have warehouse casuals and we've even hired for warehouse Christmas casuals.
Speaker 1: So we have gone out and found people with availability
Speaker 1: over that two week period kind of thing, and we've
Speaker 1: trained them up so that there's always going to be
Speaker 1: someone there, Like we give them days off, like we're
Speaker 1: not going to make people work on fucking Boxing day
Speaker 1: or whatever, but just as long as the orders get
Speaker 1: to eventually kind of thing, rather than it just being
Speaker 1: AJ and I. Yeah, there's people in those positions. Will
Speaker 1: it be just them or will AJ and I go bucket.
Speaker 1: We're going in because it's just wild.
Speaker 2: And so what about your full time girls? Are they
Speaker 2: are you like you're having the time off or they
Speaker 2: can work if they want.
Speaker 1: They all they can all have whatever time off they want.
Speaker 1: But also like if they want to come in and
Speaker 1: do a day or do two days, they can as well.
Speaker 1: We don't force anyone to have leave, we never have,
Speaker 1: but we also won't decline anyone's leave. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there's some of them that are going to like
Speaker 1: come and do these two days here and these two
Speaker 1: days they're coming and going. But we've also got the
Speaker 1: casuals in place now so that they can.
Speaker 3: Be the ones in the depths of the orders.
Speaker 1: Nice when the fucking pile is like that being but anyway,
Speaker 1: that's that you live and you learn. I'll be on
Speaker 1: the back deck eating brawnze if any no one needs me.
Speaker 3: I don't want it. I don't want to do it again,
Speaker 3: but I probably will like.
Speaker 1: AJ And I can't sit at home knowing, you know,
Speaker 1: like when there's thousands of orders, You're like, I can't
Speaker 1: sit at home knowing that it's a smaller team and whatever,
Speaker 1: So we just fucking go in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to try not to.
Speaker 2: I feel like that that would be one of the
Speaker 2: biggest parts about Like, if I was to run a business,
Speaker 2: handing over control would be.
Speaker 3: It's very hard, so hard. It's very hard. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: you have to do it.
Speaker 2: I just want to do everything myself.
Speaker 1: If you want to grow a business, you can't work
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 3: You have to work on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, Wow, you can't work.
Speaker 1: In the business to grow it. You have to work
Speaker 1: on it, which means you can't be in it. You
Speaker 1: can't be packing the orders, you can't be replying to
Speaker 1: the emails.
Speaker 3: Even though you want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You can't grow a business forward if you're working in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, there's some wisdom for you. What's your Christmas message
Speaker 3: to everyone?
Speaker 2: Matt By This SMIs message is God, bless and be gay.
Speaker 2: I hope you'll have a fabulous holiday season whatever you
Speaker 2: are celebrating, or however you're celebrating. Hope. Oh God, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to do a Hello speaking Oh my god, We'll
Speaker 2: be right back.
Speaker 3: Oh Hello, I'm actually just in the middle of recording
Speaker 3: a podcast. Can I call you back?
Speaker 2: Okay, And sorry for that brief interruption. We're back back
Speaker 2: to my heartfelt fucking Christmas message or whatever funk I
Speaker 2: was saying. I hope you fucking have a good fucking
Speaker 2: Christmas or whatever with your fucking family or friends or
Speaker 2: whoever you've got around. And you've got no one, then
Speaker 2: fucking whatever. Just have a good day by yourself. Try
Speaker 2: to have a heartfelt moment here we are.
Speaker 1: Don't miss message to everyone out there is eat lots
Speaker 1: of prawns, even if you don't like them.
Speaker 3: You do, eat the pooh shoots.
Speaker 2: I'll get rid of it.
Speaker 3: Put lemon on it. And salt specifically like not table salt,
Speaker 3: but like the cracked salt so it's a bit flaky
Speaker 3: on the top. Make some sangria if you drink alcohol.
Speaker 3: I might make a nice sangria and play Pentatonics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nice play Pentatonics. What a full circle moment, Wrap
Speaker 2: it round, Wrap it round at the start.
Speaker 1: Pe n t A t O Nix georgeous Pentatonic.
Speaker 2: Big shout out to Pentatonics. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for joining us on this very random Christmas themed episode.
Speaker 3: But make the least Christmas theme fucking Christmas episode.
Speaker 2: But you know what that's been the fibe of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. I think we'll do better in twenty twenty five, okay,
Speaker 2: which is just around the corner. So have a fabulous
Speaker 2: week celebrating with your family, and thank you trollers for
Speaker 2: joining us again if you have, and if you haven't,
Speaker 2: then you won't know about this, so don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: There will be another episode out this Friday, of course, with.
Speaker 3: Dow Ye specials.
Speaker 2: No no, that's next week. No use specials next week?
Speaker 3: Oh is it? Well, I'm just getting ready early.
Speaker 2: God. Anyway, Joe, I'm better. Let you go. We gotta
Speaker 2: put up the mistletoe.