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Speaker 1: Hello, out louders, it is Jesse here. I am wishing

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Speaker 1: you the marriest Christmas and happy Holidays to anyone who celebrates.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe we are finally, finally here? The thing is,

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Speaker 1: be canceled about Christmas. Look, we're not grinches. It's all

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Speaker 1: for a bit of fun. But Claire at the time

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Speaker 1: was ridiculously pregnant. Never had anyone been more pregnant. My

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Speaker 1: a lot to get off our chests. You get the picture.

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Speaker 1: But our feelings about Christmas have not changed. So if

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Speaker 1: here is a little treat enjoy. Hello and welcome to Canceled,

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Speaker 1: the podcast that looks at silly celebrity crimes and assigns

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Speaker 1: on with our lives. I'm Jesse Stevens and I'm joined

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Speaker 1: by Claire Stephens. Claire, do you have a lazy girls

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Speaker 1: story for us today? I do, and there's one I

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Speaker 1: was to the email podcast at Mymaya dot com dot au.

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Speaker 1: I hol if people are bothered as an email, that's

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Speaker 1: by this, I know. And another thing is this email

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Speaker 1: and it's not. It never kind of has caps no,

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Speaker 1: it just says lazy girl story for you. Recently went

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Speaker 1: to Bali for a girls trip. However, my friend Steph

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Speaker 1: listener of the podcast Love Is Stair, was keen throughout

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Speaker 1: the whole week to get her nails done. On the

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Speaker 1: is it's too hot for meat and so anything you

422
00:24:37,847 --> 00:24:42,207
Speaker 1: have is covered in flies. I'm not a prawn person,

423
00:24:43,047 --> 00:24:46,047
Speaker 1: but when did we all accept that when we ate prawns.

424
00:24:46,447 --> 00:24:49,487
Speaker 1: We'd have bowls of water on the table where we

425
00:24:49,607 --> 00:24:53,687
Speaker 1: dipped our dirty fishy little fingers during COVID, and then

426
00:24:53,767 --> 00:24:57,207
Speaker 1: keep peeling the prawn And then someone's always like, I

427
00:24:57,327 --> 00:25:01,967
Speaker 1: ate the head, I ate the poos, I ate the eyes,

428
00:25:02,647 --> 00:25:10,767
Speaker 1: Yah yah, God, just have chicken eyes meal. Why should

429
00:25:10,767 --> 00:25:13,727
Speaker 1: we do this? Oh? For a year, it's fits revolting.

430
00:25:15,127 --> 00:25:18,407
Speaker 1: But the thing is, with all this said, lots of

431
00:25:18,447 --> 00:25:28,247
Speaker 1: reason to cancel Christmas. I woke you're looking forward to it. Absolutely,

432
00:25:28,327 --> 00:25:31,367
Speaker 1: It's my favorite time of I love it. I said

433
00:25:31,367 --> 00:25:33,727
Speaker 1: to my partner, Hey, I'm recording a podcast in seven

434
00:25:33,767 --> 00:25:37,167
Speaker 1: minutes about Christmas. You're Jewish? Anything to add? And he said, no,

435
00:25:37,327 --> 00:25:40,207
Speaker 1: I'm not offended by Christmas. I'm Jewish. I'm not offended.

436
00:25:40,727 --> 00:25:44,327
Speaker 1: And I went, well, there you go. The thing is,

437
00:25:44,327 --> 00:25:47,527
Speaker 1: I love a present. I've always loved a present. I've

438
00:25:47,527 --> 00:25:50,927
Speaker 1: always got bad presence from my mum, who, over the

439
00:25:51,007 --> 00:25:52,927
Speaker 1: years I believe was trolling me. But now I look

440
00:25:52,967 --> 00:25:54,807
Speaker 1: back on it and I go, no. She had four

441
00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:56,687
Speaker 1: kids under two and a half. It was actually a

442
00:25:56,687 --> 00:25:59,327
Speaker 1: really stressful time. And then she had one kid cry

443
00:25:59,527 --> 00:26:02,607
Speaker 1: for Christmas morning and go, you don't know me, and

444
00:26:02,647 --> 00:26:06,287
Speaker 1: that was coping until I was twenty nine. Top contenders

445
00:26:06,327 --> 00:26:09,847
Speaker 1: for bad presents for you include a blender. A blender definitely,

446
00:26:10,127 --> 00:26:12,007
Speaker 1: But then she started trolling me, like the year that

447
00:26:12,047 --> 00:26:14,047
Speaker 1: I wanted nice bras from Bras and Things. So she

448
00:26:14,127 --> 00:26:15,607
Speaker 1: got me like a thing that had the Bras and

449
00:26:15,607 --> 00:26:17,047
Speaker 1: Things logo, and then I opened it and was the

450
00:26:17,087 --> 00:26:19,687
Speaker 1: ugliest dressing gown and I was like, is this funny, dude?

451
00:26:20,567 --> 00:26:25,767
Speaker 1: Is this funny? You're money money? And I go, I

452
00:26:25,807 --> 00:26:28,927
Speaker 1: want this perfume and she'd be like, well, how about

453
00:26:29,327 --> 00:26:32,727
Speaker 1: this fake one I got from this stupid shop. And

454
00:26:32,767 --> 00:26:34,767
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I'm not gonna wear it, So

455
00:26:34,927 --> 00:26:38,807
Speaker 1: joke's on us. I don't get it. Jack and the

456
00:26:38,887 --> 00:26:42,287
Speaker 1: our brothers they get a present like me, you mum, yeah,

457
00:26:42,327 --> 00:26:45,087
Speaker 1: and it's three candles, but they don't think to remove

458
00:26:45,167 --> 00:26:50,647
Speaker 1: this chicken that's like three ft one guys. Come on.

459
00:26:50,887 --> 00:26:54,367
Speaker 1: Another thing that comes up at Christmas that I do

460
00:26:54,447 --> 00:26:58,487
Speaker 1: want to talk about is Christmas move I can't do them.

461
00:26:58,527 --> 00:26:59,007
Speaker 1: I can do love.

462
00:26:59,047 --> 00:27:01,367
Speaker 4: Actually, whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world,

463
00:27:01,847 --> 00:27:04,927
Speaker 4: I think about the arrivals gate at Hethrow Airport. Seems

464
00:27:04,927 --> 00:27:06,367
Speaker 4: to me that love is everywhere.

465
00:27:07,407 --> 00:27:09,567
Speaker 3: Often it's not particularly dignified or he.

466
00:27:09,487 --> 00:27:13,567
Speaker 4: Was worthy, but it's always there, fathers and sons, mothers

467
00:27:13,567 --> 00:27:18,727
Speaker 4: and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. If

468
00:27:18,767 --> 00:27:21,127
Speaker 4: you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling, you'll

469
00:27:21,127 --> 00:27:24,967
Speaker 4: find that love actually is all around and.

470
00:27:24,927 --> 00:27:27,807
Speaker 1: I can do absolutely no, that's a league of its own.

471
00:27:27,847 --> 00:27:30,327
Speaker 1: But the whole genre of like, I watch Christmas movie

472
00:27:30,327 --> 00:27:34,687
Speaker 1: every day and Christmas. The weird thing about me is

473
00:27:34,727 --> 00:27:38,247
Speaker 1: that I do actually watch it. So Netflix has all

474
00:27:38,287 --> 00:27:42,607
Speaker 1: those like a Christmas Prince, a Christmas Prince too, et cetera.

475
00:27:43,047 --> 00:27:45,367
Speaker 1: Isn't it always just like someone going back to their

476
00:27:45,367 --> 00:27:48,047
Speaker 1: home town for Christmas and they rediscover an old love.

477
00:27:48,047 --> 00:27:51,367
Speaker 1: There's snow and not always tay kiss on Christmas. Absolutely correct,

478
00:27:51,487 --> 00:27:53,687
Speaker 1: And so that is my criticism that we have the

479
00:27:53,727 --> 00:27:57,407
Speaker 1: same plot that we get away with because it's about

480
00:27:57,487 --> 00:28:00,247
Speaker 1: Christmas and Australia's tried to do it in the heat,

481
00:28:00,287 --> 00:28:03,127
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh no, no, no, oh, not the same vibe. No,

482
00:28:03,247 --> 00:28:05,967
Speaker 1: it's got to have the snow and the snowy outfits.

483
00:28:06,367 --> 00:28:09,807
Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan did a Christmas movie.

484
00:28:10,367 --> 00:28:12,167
Speaker 3: When people look at me, all they see is the

485
00:28:12,207 --> 00:28:13,927
Speaker 3: spoiled daughter of the Hotel Magnet.

486
00:28:15,167 --> 00:28:19,047
Speaker 1: I'm coming then coming in. I just want people to

487
00:28:19,087 --> 00:28:21,087
Speaker 1: remember me from more than my last names. They are

488
00:28:21,247 --> 00:28:23,847
Speaker 1: so so, so bad and I'm sick. And we've said

489
00:28:23,887 --> 00:28:26,007
Speaker 1: it before. I mean, this is something that's come up

490
00:28:26,007 --> 00:28:29,527
Speaker 1: a lot, is the cancelation of the Christmas album. Well,

491
00:28:29,607 --> 00:28:33,487
Speaker 1: your career's in the toilet. You can't just record Silent Night. No.

492
00:28:33,887 --> 00:28:36,807
Speaker 1: I think that we're gonna move on from it, because

493
00:28:36,927 --> 00:28:39,527
Speaker 1: Michael boublaz self pointed King of Chrisman coming out of

494
00:28:39,567 --> 00:28:44,527
Speaker 1: his cave, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

495
00:28:45,047 --> 00:28:46,927
Speaker 1: I don't like it because we've said he's trying to

496
00:28:47,007 --> 00:28:50,327
Speaker 1: own something that isn't his tone. It should be shared. Yeah,

497
00:28:50,567 --> 00:28:52,607
Speaker 1: and Mum puts it on on Christmas and I have

498
00:28:52,727 --> 00:28:57,487
Speaker 1: memories of tension because she's sweating and stressed. Dad's moving

499
00:28:57,567 --> 00:28:59,927
Speaker 1: furniture frantically that doesn't need to be moved. I've got

500
00:28:59,967 --> 00:29:05,007
Speaker 1: a ship present, I'm crying and Michael Boublair is going bells.

501
00:29:05,687 --> 00:29:09,887
Speaker 1: Then you're shut up, Michael Boublay, why we're listening to

502
00:29:09,927 --> 00:29:13,447
Speaker 1: an album? Because even now someone has a stereo and

503
00:29:13,487 --> 00:29:15,007
Speaker 1: there's an album playing, and it's like, do we not

504
00:29:15,007 --> 00:29:17,487
Speaker 1: have a Spotify Yeah, no, someone has a physical CD.

505
00:29:17,767 --> 00:29:22,007
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I got a Christmas album from Sanity, Like,

506
00:29:22,087 --> 00:29:24,767
Speaker 1: where did you get that Christmas album? Why are we

507
00:29:24,847 --> 00:29:25,847
Speaker 1: going to play one?

508
00:29:25,887 --> 00:29:26,207
Speaker 3: Maria?

509
00:29:26,527 --> 00:29:29,687
Speaker 1: I know she's the nulmbour one. She is the queen

510
00:29:29,727 --> 00:29:44,967
Speaker 1: of Christmas. But there will be think about who's not

511
00:29:45,007 --> 00:29:47,327
Speaker 1: had a very good year. I mean we probably haven't

512
00:29:47,327 --> 00:29:50,407
Speaker 1: even seen it, but there'll be launches of Christmas album.

513
00:29:50,527 --> 00:29:53,367
Speaker 1: Oh I have recorded a Christmas album. Oh there's something

514
00:29:53,407 --> 00:29:56,487
Speaker 1: I didn't as it already exists. I can access every

515
00:29:56,527 --> 00:30:01,367
Speaker 1: Christmas song ever written on Spotify immediately, which actually, now

516
00:30:01,367 --> 00:30:03,767
Speaker 1: that you say it, what we're really getting to is

517
00:30:04,807 --> 00:30:09,687
Speaker 1: Christmas can feel repeated. Oh my god. Maybe that's why

518
00:30:09,927 --> 00:30:12,687
Speaker 1: children try and gate keep it, because it's like for adults,

519
00:30:13,487 --> 00:30:15,847
Speaker 1: it comes around and you're like, this is a lot.

520
00:30:15,927 --> 00:30:19,567
Speaker 1: We just did it. Yeah. Yeah, and even like Christmas

521
00:30:19,607 --> 00:30:22,247
Speaker 1: concerts and like if you go to church and they

522
00:30:22,327 --> 00:30:26,047
Speaker 1: do the Nativity plan, yeah, and you think seen it.

523
00:30:26,807 --> 00:30:29,287
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I know how it ends. I know

524
00:30:29,327 --> 00:30:31,207
Speaker 1: how it ends. Yeah, and you're gonna tell me again,

525
00:30:31,247 --> 00:30:33,967
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna do a Carolyn the Domain type thing,

526
00:30:34,807 --> 00:30:36,727
Speaker 1: kissing carols and it's like it's not better or worse

527
00:30:36,767 --> 00:30:40,527
Speaker 1: than I've ever had it before. It's incredibly similar. It

528
00:30:40,527 --> 00:30:42,447
Speaker 1: does need a freshen up. I think we need a

529
00:30:42,487 --> 00:30:45,127
Speaker 1: new love. Actually, that's a good point. I'd be watching

530
00:30:45,167 --> 00:30:50,247
Speaker 1: that every yeah. Yeah, and the holiday and Amanda.

531
00:30:49,887 --> 00:30:51,527
Speaker 3: Are in exactly the same place.

532
00:30:51,767 --> 00:30:55,687
Speaker 1: Where do I want to go by myself depressed at Christmas?

533
00:30:55,807 --> 00:30:57,767
Speaker 3: Just six thousand miles apart?

534
00:30:58,047 --> 00:31:01,967
Speaker 2: That makes sense. We switch houses, cars, everything big.

535
00:31:02,407 --> 00:31:03,727
Speaker 1: I need you to answer this.

536
00:31:04,007 --> 00:31:05,847
Speaker 3: Are there any men in your town?

537
00:31:06,727 --> 00:31:10,207
Speaker 1: The holiday is brilliant, it's brilliant. Yeah, absolute masterpiece. But

538
00:31:10,247 --> 00:31:12,727
Speaker 1: I do think we need more variety because we're settling

539
00:31:13,527 --> 00:31:17,207
Speaker 1: some terrible art when it comes to Christmas. That's why

540
00:31:17,247 --> 00:31:18,087
Speaker 1: people get grinchy.

541
00:31:21,527 --> 00:31:32,167
Speaker 3: Cheer up, dude, that's Christmas, Jesse.

542
00:31:32,287 --> 00:31:39,367
Speaker 1: It's time for charges and sentences. My only charge for

543
00:31:39,487 --> 00:31:45,127
Speaker 1: Christmas is that we do seem to reserve the joy

544
00:31:45,167 --> 00:31:51,167
Speaker 1: of it for children and start gatekeeping. So, as you

545
00:31:51,207 --> 00:31:53,847
Speaker 1: said at the beginning, I would argue strongly, Christmas isn't

546
00:31:53,887 --> 00:31:56,807
Speaker 1: just for the children. And that thing is weird. And

547
00:31:56,847 --> 00:31:59,287
Speaker 1: I don't know why we start acting like we're too

548
00:31:59,327 --> 00:32:02,127
Speaker 1: good for Christmas. We do so like we've grown out

549
00:32:02,127 --> 00:32:05,007
Speaker 1: of it. No, so you always make fun of the

550
00:32:05,087 --> 00:32:08,927
Speaker 1: kid after lunch, He's like presence, presence, presence, No, that

551
00:32:09,407 --> 00:32:11,607
Speaker 1: saying what we are all thinking, and that's why you

552
00:32:11,687 --> 00:32:14,767
Speaker 1: plan to seed. I go after the loudest, naughtiest kid. Yeah,

553
00:32:14,807 --> 00:32:17,327
Speaker 1: and I go, oh, you know, I heard they don't

554
00:32:17,327 --> 00:32:21,647
Speaker 1: want to do presents till dinner and they I've been there,

555
00:32:21,647 --> 00:32:26,887
Speaker 1: going pres present. Let's start a chat. Let's start a chat.

556
00:32:27,007 --> 00:32:29,207
Speaker 1: And so I just think we do gatekeeper and we

557
00:32:29,287 --> 00:32:31,407
Speaker 1: pretend we're too good for it. Oh, we won't do

558
00:32:31,447 --> 00:32:34,167
Speaker 1: presence for adults. My charge for Christmas is really all

559
00:32:34,167 --> 00:32:37,727
Speaker 1: the above, and my sentence is presence for adults. Yeah. Absolutely, money,

560
00:32:38,207 --> 00:32:40,247
Speaker 1: not like, oh we'll do a little silly Chris Kringle

561
00:32:40,327 --> 00:32:41,167
Speaker 1: that eighty bucks.

562
00:32:41,247 --> 00:32:41,287
Speaker 2: No.

563
00:32:41,487 --> 00:32:44,207
Speaker 1: I know they can't living crisis, but I want something nice.

564
00:32:44,367 --> 00:32:47,807
Speaker 1: Oh silly, let's do silly. No. I want you to

565
00:32:47,887 --> 00:32:51,687
Speaker 1: think about me on one day of your life, and

566
00:32:51,887 --> 00:32:55,487
Speaker 1: I will go at midnight the night the night before,

567
00:32:55,527 --> 00:32:58,487
Speaker 1: and I will find a boxing nearly boxing day sale

568
00:32:59,607 --> 00:33:04,487
Speaker 1: where even no, my sentences stop, the gate keeping stop.

569
00:33:04,807 --> 00:33:08,327
Speaker 1: Christmas is for everyone. I love that. Yeah, what a

570
00:33:08,367 --> 00:33:12,007
Speaker 1: beautiful festive message. Look, thank you so much for joining

571
00:33:12,087 --> 00:33:14,847
Speaker 1: us on this episode of Canceled. We want to know

572
00:33:14,927 --> 00:33:17,727
Speaker 1: your like, whether you want to cancel Christmas, what your

573
00:33:17,767 --> 00:33:20,647
Speaker 1: reasons are for canceling Christmas. We should put like a

574
00:33:20,687 --> 00:33:23,367
Speaker 1: box up on our Instagram. It's just like reasons to

575
00:33:23,407 --> 00:33:25,687
Speaker 1: cancel Christmas. Follow us on Instagram. We will have a

576
00:33:26,007 --> 00:33:29,207
Speaker 1: link in our show notes. Canceled is produced by Telsapezas.

577
00:33:29,327 --> 00:33:34,967
Speaker 1: Who's just us, the lack of structure, the lack of

578
00:33:34,967 --> 00:33:36,847
Speaker 1: work we went into. Since we're sorrys did you just

579
00:33:36,967 --> 00:33:38,087
Speaker 1: rant about Christmas?

580
00:33:38,327 --> 00:33:38,527
Speaker 4: Yeah?

581
00:33:38,807 --> 00:33:43,407
Speaker 1: Yep, pretty much. Yes, checked out, Delisa. We have checked

582
00:33:43,447 --> 00:33:46,967
Speaker 1: out out and you should too. Canceled has audio editing

583
00:33:47,007 --> 00:33:50,087
Speaker 1: by Tom Lyon and we will be back next week.

584
00:33:50,247 --> 00:33:58,047
Speaker 1: Bye out louders. I hope you enjoyed this episode and

585
00:33:58,087 --> 00:34:01,047
Speaker 1: if you want more lolls over the summer break, that's

586
00:34:01,167 --> 00:34:05,047
Speaker 1: very fortunate because Canceled is dropping lots of episodes over

587
00:34:05,087 --> 00:34:07,967
Speaker 1: hot pod summer. Will pop a link in the show notes.

588
00:34:08,407 --> 00:34:10,927
Speaker 1: We have plenty of mum Mia out Loud coming for

589
00:34:11,007 --> 00:34:13,487
Speaker 1: you too, so make sure you follow us in your

590
00:34:13,527 --> 00:34:16,967
Speaker 1: favorite podcast app and you will never miss an episode.

591
00:34:17,247 --> 00:34:18,127
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas again