1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast 2 00:00:10,613 --> 00:00:11,453 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:11,453 --> 00:00:15,773 Speaker 2: There'd be kicking us off this morning is Kevin Milne, 4 00:00:15,773 --> 00:00:16,613 Speaker 2: Good morning. 5 00:00:16,413 --> 00:00:18,733 Speaker 3: Kevin, Good morning, Franchisca. 6 00:00:18,813 --> 00:00:21,053 Speaker 2: Do you like Christmas? Do you enjoy this time year? 7 00:00:21,933 --> 00:00:25,133 Speaker 3: I don't enjoy this time of year. I like Christmas 8 00:00:25,213 --> 00:00:29,933 Speaker 3: Day and I like I love everything afterwards, the build 9 00:00:30,013 --> 00:00:32,373 Speaker 3: up Christmas is not my favorite time of the year. 10 00:00:32,413 --> 00:00:34,533 Speaker 2: To Beverly, do you have a long list of things 11 00:00:34,533 --> 00:00:35,213 Speaker 2: you have to do? Do you? 12 00:00:35,293 --> 00:00:42,213 Speaker 3: Keivin, Yeah, and usually miles behind in achieving any of those. 13 00:00:43,613 --> 00:00:45,733 Speaker 3: The other thing that was that I get a bit 14 00:00:45,773 --> 00:00:49,093 Speaker 3: frustrated is you get invited to so many different functions. 15 00:00:49,133 --> 00:00:51,893 Speaker 3: And I don't say that to show off, because most 16 00:00:51,893 --> 00:00:56,893 Speaker 3: of them invitations by corporate groups who I've had any 17 00:00:56,973 --> 00:01:01,333 Speaker 3: something to do with during the year, maybe invested some 18 00:01:01,413 --> 00:01:04,053 Speaker 3: money or something like that, And suddenly I mind that 19 00:01:04,173 --> 00:01:07,293 Speaker 3: they want they want to share a lot light lunch 20 00:01:07,373 --> 00:01:09,893 Speaker 3: with me. Before God, I'm not interested in any of 21 00:01:09,893 --> 00:01:10,333 Speaker 3: that stuff. 22 00:01:10,373 --> 00:01:16,253 Speaker 2: Really, Okay, you can politely decline, I promise you. 23 00:01:18,293 --> 00:01:23,213 Speaker 3: My favorite memory of Christmas as a child, I was 24 00:01:23,253 --> 00:01:25,893 Speaker 3: brought up in the Catholic family, so every Christmas Eve 25 00:01:26,533 --> 00:01:29,733 Speaker 3: the whole family, Mom, dad, and the five kids would 26 00:01:29,773 --> 00:01:33,213 Speaker 3: head off in the car to midnight mass. I was 27 00:01:33,253 --> 00:01:35,333 Speaker 3: the youngest, so I'd be woken up in the middle 28 00:01:35,333 --> 00:01:38,653 Speaker 3: of the night, dress and then into the car with 29 00:01:38,693 --> 00:01:41,653 Speaker 3: the rest of the family to head to church. I 30 00:01:41,693 --> 00:01:44,373 Speaker 3: loved getting up in the middle of the night, it 31 00:01:44,493 --> 00:01:48,173 Speaker 3: seemed magical. But just as we're about to head out 32 00:01:48,173 --> 00:01:52,013 Speaker 3: the gate, it seemed every year my mother would announce 33 00:01:52,013 --> 00:01:54,693 Speaker 3: she'd forgotten something. She'd have to head back inside for 34 00:01:54,693 --> 00:01:58,293 Speaker 3: a minute. It used to drive me nuts. Why was 35 00:01:58,373 --> 00:02:02,053 Speaker 3: she always forgetting things? Anyway, Eventually we'd head off the 36 00:02:02,133 --> 00:02:06,733 Speaker 3: midnight mass, getting home again about an hour later. When 37 00:02:06,773 --> 00:02:11,093 Speaker 3: we got back inside something miraculous had happened under the 38 00:02:11,133 --> 00:02:15,373 Speaker 3: tree for all our presence. They went there when we left. 39 00:02:16,253 --> 00:02:18,973 Speaker 3: Father Christmas had been while we were out, and we 40 00:02:18,973 --> 00:02:22,133 Speaker 3: were allowed to open our presence there and then before 41 00:02:22,213 --> 00:02:25,413 Speaker 3: heading off to bed. It wasn't un till many years later, 42 00:02:25,493 --> 00:02:29,493 Speaker 3: Francesca the penny dropped I realized there was a link 43 00:02:29,973 --> 00:02:33,533 Speaker 3: between my mother forgetting something and having to go back inside, 44 00:02:34,013 --> 00:02:37,173 Speaker 3: and the fact that magically there were always presents under 45 00:02:37,213 --> 00:02:40,453 Speaker 3: the tree when we got home. I don't go to 46 00:02:40,533 --> 00:02:43,373 Speaker 3: church anymore. But as a kid, I just loved that 47 00:02:43,533 --> 00:02:48,413 Speaker 3: whole magical midnight mass routine. My only regret was that 48 00:02:48,733 --> 00:02:51,293 Speaker 3: we always seemed to just miss out on seeing Father 49 00:02:51,373 --> 00:02:57,693 Speaker 3: Christmas himself. There were great memories, really, Francesca, and I'd 50 00:02:57,773 --> 00:03:01,133 Speaker 3: like to wish all our listeners are very, very happy Christmas. 51 00:03:02,173 --> 00:03:04,973 Speaker 3: I was at a funeral yesterday of a gorgeous forty 52 00:03:05,013 --> 00:03:08,773 Speaker 3: two year old woman. It'll be terribly missed this Christmas. 53 00:03:09,053 --> 00:03:14,133 Speaker 3: So my heart goes out this year, especially the many 54 00:03:14,253 --> 00:03:17,773 Speaker 3: listeners who will be spending their first Christmas this year 55 00:03:18,013 --> 00:03:19,373 Speaker 3: without a loved one. Yeah. 56 00:03:20,813 --> 00:03:23,653 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's a really lovely thought. You just reminded 57 00:03:23,693 --> 00:03:27,813 Speaker 2: me of one of my sort of childhood Christmas memories. 58 00:03:29,093 --> 00:03:31,693 Speaker 2: When I was little, we used to go to church 59 00:03:31,733 --> 00:03:34,653 Speaker 2: on Christmas Day, to an Anglican church, and we weren't 60 00:03:34,693 --> 00:03:36,933 Speaker 2: allowed to open the majority of our Of course, you know, 61 00:03:37,013 --> 00:03:38,813 Speaker 2: Santa will have arrived, which was great, and maybe we 62 00:03:38,813 --> 00:03:40,293 Speaker 2: were allowed to open one or two presents, but we 63 00:03:40,293 --> 00:03:41,853 Speaker 2: weren't allowed to open the majority of them. Toil we 64 00:03:41,853 --> 00:03:45,333 Speaker 2: got home. I had been allowed to open something before 65 00:03:45,333 --> 00:03:48,333 Speaker 2: we got to church, and then when we left the church, 66 00:03:48,733 --> 00:03:52,693 Speaker 2: the vicarcita said, and I was about five at the time. 67 00:03:52,733 --> 00:03:54,773 Speaker 2: I can still remember sort of, you know, with those 68 00:03:54,813 --> 00:03:58,053 Speaker 2: lovely small dresses that mums used to make and things 69 00:03:58,213 --> 00:04:00,813 Speaker 2: and and what did you get for Christmas? And then 70 00:04:00,853 --> 00:04:02,813 Speaker 2: I promptly lifted up my dress to show on my 71 00:04:02,853 --> 00:04:06,373 Speaker 2: new nickers, much to my much to my mother's home. 72 00:04:06,373 --> 00:04:08,933 Speaker 2: All right, I don't need that. We kind of when 73 00:04:09,013 --> 00:04:13,373 Speaker 2: did you? After that, I just thought, well, got these. 74 00:04:13,613 --> 00:04:17,693 Speaker 3: Here we are you've managed to share up like that. 75 00:04:17,893 --> 00:04:19,973 Speaker 2: I'm happy. I am happy to say that was that 76 00:04:20,133 --> 00:04:22,333 Speaker 2: was something that I was through by the time when 77 00:04:22,373 --> 00:04:26,253 Speaker 2: I was six. So there we go. Merry Christmas to you, Kevin. 78 00:04:26,413 --> 00:04:29,653 Speaker 2: Thank you for those lovely thoughts today. I think you've 79 00:04:29,693 --> 00:04:31,613 Speaker 2: hit the nail on the head there. Lovely to talk 80 00:04:31,653 --> 00:04:36,893 Speaker 2: to you today, Thank you. Eighteen past nine. Sport is next. 81 00:04:37,493 --> 00:04:40,613 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 82 00:04:40,693 --> 00:04:43,493 Speaker 1: to news talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, or 83 00:04:43,573 --> 00:04:45,493 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.