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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Very Outspoken Christmas. It's that time of

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Speaker 1: year to crank Mariah Carey in the car and begin

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Speaker 1: your Christmas shopping. Our names are Amy Kate and Sophie Torber.

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Speaker 1: We're identical triplets and during the festive season, we have

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Speaker 1: an identical opinion. Christmas is the most wonderful time of

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Speaker 1: the year. In this special series, we're discussing all things

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Speaker 1: Christmas with help from some influential Australians.

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Speaker 2: For you Glen Cow, for you go Clan Cuclo.

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Speaker 3: And when Santa squeezes fat white ass down that Jimmy Day,

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Speaker 3: He's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side

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Speaker 3: of the nuthouse.

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to our fifth episode of a Very

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Speaker 1: Outspoken Christmas. I can't believe that it is only eight

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Speaker 1: days until the big day. It's literally going too fast.

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Speaker 1: I don't want it to be over. Our favorite part

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Speaker 1: of Christmas is definitely the lead up, so we hope

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Speaker 1: that this episode today puts you in a more festive spirit.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, we're joined by the incredible Courtney Magnan.

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Speaker 1: Courtney owns global brand agencies Spin and Cover. Their brother

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Speaker 1: Sam and it's just started her own stationary brand. Courtney

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Speaker 1: is just as obsessed with Christmas as we are, so

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Speaker 1: we think you will thoroughly enjoy today's episode. If you

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Speaker 1: do want to hear more from Courtney, she has her

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Speaker 1: own podcast called She Was the Flyer. We hope you

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Speaker 1: enjoyed the episode.

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Speaker 4: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a dar for

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Speaker 4: my son.

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Speaker 2: I reach for the last one they had, but so

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Speaker 3: As a rain blows upon him.

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Speaker 2: I realized there had to be another way.

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Speaker 4: What happened to the day it was destroyed?

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Speaker 2: But out of that I know holiday was born, a

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Speaker 2: Festivus for the rest of us.

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Speaker 4: That must have been some kind of da She was.

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Speaker 1: So Courtney, thank you so much for joining us for

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Speaker 1: this special Christmas edition of Outspoken.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: We're so excited to have you on because we feel

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Speaker 1: like you love Christmas just as much.

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Speaker 5: As we do.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm so excited, and Christmas is like peak joy

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Speaker 2: time for me, Like I wait all year for this

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Speaker 4: It's so exciting.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for having me starting out.

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Speaker 1: When do you think it is an appropriate time to

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Speaker 1: start getting into the christ Smith spirit? Because this seems

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Speaker 1: to be quite a controversial question for some.

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Speaker 4: I mean for me, Christmas is always in my heart

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Speaker 2: But I think, like with regards to the shops and

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Speaker 4: So I feel like October is fine.

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Speaker 2: Within our family, we always put our stuff up in

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Speaker 2: November because like it's so much effort to put those

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Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like, so we always try and

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Speaker 2: November is like a good start personally, and then I

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Speaker 1: Is there a specific marker that signifies that Christmas has

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Speaker 1: really started for you? I mean for us, I feel

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Speaker 1: like it's Jacaranda trees popping up, or you know, the

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Speaker 4: I think there'd be two different things.

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Speaker 2: One would be like Christmas carols when they start to

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Speaker 4: You kind of get into that vibe then.

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Speaker 2: But also I think for us, the end of year

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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily a positive thing, but you definitely like

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Speaker 5: Do you know what I love?

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Speaker 1: Because a lot of people whose jobs get really busy

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Speaker 1: around Christmas, they tend to hate Christmas. But what do

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Speaker 1: you think it is? I suppose a psychology of at all.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think it is that you love Christmas?

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Speaker 1: Did your family make it particularly special when you're a kid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that we My parents always like went

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Speaker 2: it's always been a really big deal for our family.

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Speaker 2: Will always get together with our extended family around Christmas too,

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Speaker 2: You know, I've never really worked in retail, so I

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Speaker 2: it as like the pinnacle of our year.

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Speaker 1: Do you still have the reindeer hoof? Like is that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my mom still has it.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen a while, but it's like my mum

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love that, thanks to That's okay, I had

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Speaker 4: You could be enthusiastic about some truly crap presents.

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Speaker 6: Wow, what's so great?

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Speaker 6: When did you? I mean, this is a hard one.

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Speaker 1: When did you stop believing in Santa? I feel like

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Speaker 1: we all sort of still have that Santa alive, but

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know, well yeah, when

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Speaker 1: So we were those kids at school who would have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm exactly like that also me, it was I

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Speaker 4: That everything's like unraveling. It's like the two Fairy Theater,

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Speaker 6: That is so funny because that's what happened to us

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Speaker 1: But sadly, I think it was in your six maybe

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Speaker 1: sent letters to Santa, and we actually went home very

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Speaker 1: upset year five, and he's like, oh, you all know

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Speaker 1: by now that father Christmas isn't real and we're like what.

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Speaker 2: My mum was so furious, she like went down to

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Speaker 2: for my daughter? But I feel like people would like

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Speaker 2: catch on a lot earlier. Now we'd be internet and

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Speaker 2: social media, Like, surely kids are sort of catching on

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Speaker 4: I would have thought, exactly right.

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Speaker 1: But I have seen some amazing apps. There's this one

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Speaker 1: and he kind of responds to you, and it's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully that's making up for the fact kids can

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Speaker 1: now Google. Hopefully, I mean, because I think Christmas was

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I think for me because my brother is

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's never quite the same my day.

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Speaker 1: So now when it comes to decorating, Courtney, do you

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Speaker 1: think it the earlier the better, or do you kind

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Speaker 2: No, earlier the better. It's so much efforts to put

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Speaker 2: So you can buy these things like ten dollars.

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Speaker 4: You can buy them at will Worth and it's like an.

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Speaker 2: Adapter that you plug into your power socket and then

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Speaker 4: Set a timer. So the lights go on every day

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Speaker 2: To the minute I walk into my apartment, my lights

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Speaker 1: We need to start implementing that. We're not as organized.

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Speaker 1: But that's a great idea. I was gonna say, you

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Speaker 2: With bolt and hell, it's like, obviously it's not a

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Speaker 2: the real spelling point was that the lights are already

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Speaker 2: regretting that you didn't put them like away organized the

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Speaker 2: You know, that's a nightmare. So I decided that it

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Speaker 2: why I committed to pain the extra money. But they

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're always is. It's funny with Christmas.

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Speaker 1: We always watched the Carols by candlelight with our family

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Speaker 5: But that's just our family.

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Speaker 6: That's more our dad.

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Speaker 2: It's like a bit of a like Christmas shout out

447
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Speaker 2: something like that.

448
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Speaker 4: But usually it's just like you know, denim shorts and

449
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Speaker 4: a T shirt.

450
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Speaker 2: I don't really do anything to over the top because

451
00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:50,440
Speaker 2: it's just so hot and you're just sitting around with

452
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Speaker 2: your family like it's not a fashion show.

453
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

454
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Speaker 1: I love that because yeah, you see these people wearing

455
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Speaker 1: like gowns on Christmas Day. I'm sorry, I'm calling bullshit

456
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Speaker 1: on Kate. I always go casual, and Kate and Sofa like,

457
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Speaker 1: oh you.

458
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Speaker 5: Can't wear that. I'm like, it's like it's at our

459
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Speaker 5: family home.

460
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Speaker 1: Casual is very different than Amy. You remember one Christmas

461
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Speaker 1: She's like, I don't wear I need to borrow all

462
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Speaker 1: your stuff. So you gotta wear You gotta wear something

463
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Speaker 1: in the morning to get a nice photo and then

464
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Speaker 1: you can get like comfy clothes when you overeat.

465
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Speaker 4: In the morning.

466
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Speaker 2: We always like, I'll go to Mums dressed in my

467
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Speaker 2: Peter Alexander Christmas like ones, and so we'll Sam we

468
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Speaker 2: wear our Christmas like Peter Alexander Christmas pajamas always so cute.

469
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Speaker 1: See one year, I actually want to do that really

470
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Speaker 1: wanky thing that I think it's the Kardashians and all

471
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Speaker 1: celebrities seem to do, is like have all the matching pajamas,

472
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Speaker 1: Like I really want to do that, But then it

473
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Speaker 1: comes around and then I see the price and I'm like, oh,

474
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Speaker 1: I'll buy them in Boxing day sale and wear them

475
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Speaker 1: next Christmas, and then it never happens. I think this

476
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Speaker 1: year the three of us to get to get matching pajamas.

477
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Speaker 4: I think them cotton On have some.

478
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Speaker 2: I think cotton On had some really cute like matching

479
00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,880
Speaker 2: MATCHI ones, and they probably will be like a better

480
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Speaker 2: price than Peter can check them out.

481
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Speaker 1: That's probably more of my price limit. Now that I

482
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Speaker 1: bought a house and have no money and.

483
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Speaker 3: I want to look them straight in the eye. I

484
00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:06,639
Speaker 3: don't want to tell them what a cheap, lying, no

485
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Speaker 3: good rotten for a flushing, low life, snake licking, dirt

486
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Speaker 3: eating and bread over stuff, ignorant, blood sucking, dog kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless,

487
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Speaker 3: fat ass, bug eyed, stiff leg it's funny, lip wear

488
00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,920
Speaker 3: him headed, sack of monkey shit he is he hey lojah,

489
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Speaker 3: holy shit, where's the tail?

490
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Speaker 6: And hey Courtney.

491
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Speaker 1: For those who follow you, they will know that you're,

492
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Speaker 1: of course an organizational queen. You've even brought out your

493
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Speaker 1: own stationary line to help others stay organized. What are

494
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,359
Speaker 1: some of your tips for getting organized this Christmas?

495
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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's actually super important because it's a

496
00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,880
Speaker 2: really high stress season for a lot of people. There's

497
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Speaker 2: a lot of pressure involved, and usually you'll spend a

498
00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,080
Speaker 2: lot more money this time of year on gifting people,

499
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Speaker 2: and then it's like, oh, I don't know if I'm

500
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Speaker 2: that friendly with them, but I might feel obligated to

501
00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,640
Speaker 2: buy gifts and it's like, you know, just bloody endless.

502
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,560
Speaker 2: So I think for me, it's definitely about getting it

503
00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,000
Speaker 2: early and really thinking through what I'm buying, because you

504
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,639
Speaker 2: can really save some good money on Black Friday with

505
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Speaker 2: the Black Friday sales if you are prepared enough, So

506
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Speaker 2: why would you pay more? If it just means you've

507
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,720
Speaker 2: got to get yourself together a little bit sooner. So

508
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Speaker 2: I always try and organize myself to make sure I've

509
00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,919
Speaker 2: got like a list so that when it comes Black Friday,

510
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Speaker 2: I can save you know, like thirty percent off everything.

511
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Speaker 4: And also when you go to places like Sephora.

512
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:25,040
Speaker 2: And Mecca, they do like gifts sort of packs for things,

513
00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 2: and so you don't need to give someone the whole pack.

514
00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,880
Speaker 4: You can like pull the packs apart and give like little.

515
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,159
Speaker 2: Stocking stuffers, and you can save money doing it that

516
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,320
Speaker 2: way as well. So it really is about being like

517
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Speaker 2: quite organized to make sure that you do save the money,

518
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Speaker 2: because otherwise it becomes really stressful. You leave it to

519
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Speaker 2: last minute and then you're spending more and then you've

520
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Speaker 2: got all the crowds and everything. And I also feel

521
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Speaker 2: like for me, I always usually do my Christmas shopping

522
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Speaker 2: if I have left it at night, because it's a

523
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Speaker 2: lot less busy later at night during like the Christmas season,

524
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Speaker 2: I have found rather than like on the weekend during

525
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Speaker 2: the day.

526
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love not Christmas shopping at night a tradition

527
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Speaker 1: with our cousins where I think it's the Well in Adelaide.

528
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Speaker 1: There's only one day when it's open like twenty four hours,

529
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Speaker 1: so we'll all go there at like twelve o'clock at

530
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Speaker 1: night and help our cousins get their last minute gifts,

531
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Speaker 1: which is usually hallish though. Yeah, it's always packed and

532
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Speaker 1: it's always just men that are just in there getting

533
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Speaker 1: last minute Christmas gifts there.

534
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Speaker 5: Just in Pandora larning.

535
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Speaker 2: Up, I think here it's like some of the shops

536
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,720
Speaker 2: stay open like in the week leading up to it

537
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Speaker 2: till like ten o'clock.

538
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 4: So if you go there a.

539
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Speaker 2: On like that eight o'clock mark, there's not that many

540
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,199
Speaker 2: people and then the fairy lights are all live up

541
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Speaker 2: and it's Christmas carols go on.

542
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Speaker 4: So it's like really nice vibes and not as busy.

543
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Speaker 2: And also it's like I live in QUEENSLANDCE so it's

544
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Speaker 2: very hot this time of year, and it's like not

545
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Speaker 2: as stressful when you're like carrying all these bags as

546
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:38,920
Speaker 2: people around you.

547
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Speaker 4: In the middle of the day it's like very sweaty.

548
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Speaker 4: So at night is definitely a better idea.

549
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Speaker 1: That sounds so nice. It just is getting me excited

550
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Speaker 1: to go Christmas shopping. It's like something I actually enjoy doing. Well,

551
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Speaker 1: you just touched on before that it gets super busy

552
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Speaker 1: with your businesses. How do you balance your workload and

553
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Speaker 1: also time to have fun Christmas activities?

554
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Speaker 4: Well, for me, it's about prioritizing. Christmas is number one

555
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 4: on that list, just so I've got to make it work.

556
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 2: I like, I don't really know that I have like

557
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,640
Speaker 2: any great advice for that. I am like a workaholic,

558
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,479
Speaker 2: and so I will just work myself as much as

559
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 2: I need to to be able to then make time

560
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Speaker 2: for my Christmas arrangements and like you know, social life,

561
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Speaker 2: and I try to like book them in as far

562
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Speaker 2: out as I can so I get an idea of

563
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Speaker 2: like where I'm going.

564
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Speaker 4: To be at with things and not leave things to

565
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Speaker 4: the last minute.

566
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Speaker 2: So it's about putting the work in now so that

567
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Speaker 2: I'm not leaving everything till last minute.

568
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Speaker 4: Then it's like, Oho, I'm supposed to go to a

569
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Speaker 4: party tonight, but I have to stay at the office.

570
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Speaker 4: So I just try and like prepare myself for that.

571
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Speaker 2: But yeah, balance is not really my strong suit, So

572
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm like the greatest person to

573
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Speaker 2: hear about from the look you.

574
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Speaker 1: Put Christmas as the number one priority, So I feel

575
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Speaker 1: like a lot of people listening will be able to

576
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Speaker 1: relate to that. As a business owner as well, how

577
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Speaker 1: do you keep your staff motivated.

578
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Speaker 5: During the Christmas period? Because I've seen.

579
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Speaker 1: A lot on your Instagram where you do your little

580
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Speaker 1: motivators during the week.

581
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Speaker 5: Do you do lots of that kind of stuff during

582
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Speaker 5: the Christmas period too?

583
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well in previous years we haven't had as many stuff,

584
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 2: so I don't know exactly what I'm going to do

585
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 2: this year, but last year we do, like all the

586
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 2: years prior as well, we've done twelve days of Christmas,

587
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Speaker 2: so we sort of started around this first of December

588
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 2: and then everybody gets to pick like a little lucky

589
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 2: dip gift and so everyone's getting like little things every

590
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 2: single day, and then you know, we have people like

591
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,880
Speaker 2: choose the Christmas carol playlist that they want to put

592
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 2: on and that kind of stuff. But yeah, I always

593
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 2: sort of play games with myself and everybody here is

594
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Speaker 2: really into Christmas.

595
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Speaker 4: We ask it when we hide No.

596
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,959
Speaker 6: Yeap likes Christmas.

597
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: Exactly, and so you know, everybody kind of is very

598
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 2: excited this time of year, so we don't really have

599
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Speaker 2: an issue with motivating our stuff.

600
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Speaker 4: We have a great group of people.

601
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Speaker 2: And you know, we do energizers and games all the time,

602
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 2: so they're kind of used to that. But yeah, it's

603
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 2: just about sort of making it special for them. And

604
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 2: we always do like a normal Christmas party like lots

605
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 2: of businesses do, where it's like, you know, you go

606
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 2: out summer or you do whatever, but we always do

607
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 2: Secret Santa as well, and we also do like a

608
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Speaker 2: one where everybody brings a plate for one of the

609
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: days as well, so that everyone kind of like feel

610
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 2: like they're getting amongst it. And then obviously Sam and

611
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 2: I then pay for one later on in the year

612
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 2: as well for us to like everyone to go somewhere,

613
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 2: but we do one way. Everyone in brings a plate

614
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 2: so that it feels very inclusive, and lots of people

615
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 2: from like different countries with us, so people will bring like,

616
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 2: you know, their mum's Polish Christmas dish and then like

617
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 2: we've got a Brazilian dish and it's all like a

618
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 2: bit cute and interesting.

619
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Speaker 1: Oh well, I want to come and work for you guys.

620
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Speaker 6: I feel like you have a lot of.

621
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Speaker 1: The Christmas atmosphere right like our office. I'm trying to

622
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 1: implement some Christmas decorations at the moment. But Sophie and Amy,

623
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 1: you've got your own business, so you should start doing

624
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 1: stuff for each other. I heard that you guys have

625
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Speaker 1: a Christmas Committee, which is something I feel like Amy

626
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Speaker 1: and I have got a start up. What actually goes

627
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Speaker 1: on in these meetings.

628
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Speaker 2: Well, Christmas gifting is a big deal for us, for

629
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Speaker 2: our clients and for like press and things that.

630
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Speaker 4: We work with.

631
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Speaker 2: So every year we always leave it to the last minute,

632
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 2: and we always like to make it like a big

633
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Speaker 2: deal and make sure it's not just something very general

634
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,719
Speaker 2: that we're sending people. We wanted to sort of stand

635
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 2: out in the gifts that they're getting from everyone, and

636
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Speaker 2: so we try and put a lot of thought an

637
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 2: effort into it. But then we always takes forever to

638
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 2: think of these great ideas and it's always last minute.

639
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 2: So this year we want to just make sure that

640
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 2: we have this committee so that we were getting the

641
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 2: ball rolling really quickly, and there's some really cute ideas.

642
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 2: Now we're doing some videos to support them on social

643
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 2: We have like a whole Christmas tree ceremony that we've planned,

644
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: so everyone's going to attend. We're going to put on

645
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 2: food and stuff for us to put our Christmas tree

646
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,360
Speaker 2: up and like our main floyer and like a whole thing.

647
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 2: But yeah, the Christmas thing is just the Christmas community

648
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,640
Speaker 2: is not assigning. Like someone's in charge of the decorations

649
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 2: for upstairs, someone's in charge for downstairs, and someone's in

650
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 2: charge of gifting, and someone's in charge of like the

651
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 2: decorating for the boxes for the gifting.

652
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,120
Speaker 4: There's like a whole process that goes into it.

653
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 2: And I think there's like everyone apart from like two

654
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 2: stars or on that committee and it's optional.

655
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 4: Everyone can do it if they they don't have to.

656
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 4: I don't want to.

657
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 2: I think there's literally like two people not on the committee.

658
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 2: So everyone's very investig here.

659
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 6: So are they getting fired?

660
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 3: Buggerage?

661
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 6: Let's gold to finish this off.

662
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: We really wanted to do a quick fire Christmas quiz

663
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: with you. Oh gosh, don't worry, it's not scary.

664
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Speaker 5: So gold or colored lights? Which do you prefer?

665
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't believe you're asking me that question.

666
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 2: That it's outrageous of course it's gold.

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Speaker 4: No, definitely not.

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Speaker 1: If you could only watch one Christmas movie this year,

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Speaker 1: which movie would it be?

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Speaker 4: The Grinch?

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Speaker 1: Hot or Cold Custard with your pudding Hot? What's the

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Speaker 1: best and worst Christmas present You've ever received?

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Speaker 2: The best, I would say as a child, I got

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Speaker 2: a cubby house that my dad had like fully made

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Speaker 2: custom and I had like Courtney's Place written on it,

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Speaker 2: so that was pretty cool. And as an adult, Sam

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Speaker 2: bought me a Balenciaga handbag that I wanted like for

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Speaker 2: a very very very long time since I was like

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Speaker 2: a teenager last year, and that was like the dream bag,

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Speaker 2: so that was very exciting. The worst I actually no, yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 2: I don't think I can think of any bad ones.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty boring. But yeah, no, no.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. We just sound ungrateful because I think our worst.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna sound really mean. I hope Mum's not

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Speaker 1: listening what she is, but she feels this present. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, like this is your main present and

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Speaker 1: I'm so.

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Speaker 6: Excited for you to see it. Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: And we opened it and she'd got our degrees framed.

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Speaker 6: Back to the.

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Speaker 1: Questions, the other important one is tinsel or no tinsel?

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't do tinsel. What we do is like

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Speaker 2: the sprinkle of the tinsel material.

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Speaker 4: What do you even call it?

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Speaker 2: You know how like you can get the string and

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Speaker 2: it's like yes, so like you cut it up.

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Speaker 4: And then you like throw it on the tree.

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Speaker 2: So we don't do tinsel, but we do it in

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Speaker 2: that way so it's not like the big like rope

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Speaker 2: of tinsal. It's like the chopped up tinsil. Does that

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Speaker 2: make sense? It's a long strings yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The other one is do you call him Santa

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Speaker 1: Claus or Father Christmas?

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Speaker 4: Santa Claus?

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Speaker 5: But what about.

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Speaker 1: Roast or seafood on Christmas Day?

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Speaker 4: Well? Analogy to shellfish?

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Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go right cool.

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Speaker 1: Well that's all the questions we had. I think you

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Speaker 1: passed our quiz even though it wasn't a past Or

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Speaker 1: Feil thing. But just lastly, we just want to give

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Speaker 1: you a bit of a plug because we've been following

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Speaker 1: your journey on Instagram and you've been sharing a lot

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Speaker 1: about your stationary range, which we absolutely love and we

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Speaker 1: feel like it would be the perfect Christmas gift. Can

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Speaker 1: you tell us a little bit about it? And I

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Speaker 1: suppose maybe some of the items that you think would

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Speaker 1: make a really good Christmas gift this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I launched it yesterday pretty much, I think that,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's been like a world mean at the minute.

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Speaker 4: Like I don't even know what day it is.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what I was thinking trying to start

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Speaker 2: like a side hustle when I already have three other businesses.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I just last year I had like a

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Speaker 2: cancer diagnosis, and so I started to like really reflect

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Speaker 2: on what I was doing this year and like what

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Speaker 2: my passions were, and organization and productivity is like something

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Speaker 2: that I'm really passionate about, something that's really resonated with

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Speaker 2: my followers and people in my life, and so I

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Speaker 2: just thought, like, oh, maybe I should start giving, like

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Speaker 2: making something that like what I do, because I get people.

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Speaker 4: Asking me all the time, like, oh my god, how do.

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Speaker 2: You put your to do list together? How do you

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Speaker 2: do your use your diary? And I always like want

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Speaker 2: advice on that. So I just thought, maybe I'll just

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Speaker 2: make it myself and then give it to people. And

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Speaker 2: that's what I started doing earlier in the year, where

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Speaker 2: I was doing like three principal downloads and then people

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Speaker 2: started saying like, well, we wanted like a physical thing

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Speaker 2: that we can buy, and so I just thought, okay,

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Speaker 2: well I can do that.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Started my own side hustle doing that yesterday. And yes,

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Speaker 2: there's like planners that are like to do note pads.

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Speaker 2: There's also shopping list. There's this really great if I

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Speaker 2: do this with myself quote. They're amazing quote calendar that

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm really obsessed with like quotes and getting

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Speaker 2: your you know, your your mind in a positive place.

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Speaker 4: That started every day, so you sort of flip over

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Speaker 4: to a new quote every day to get your mindset

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Speaker 4: in a good place. And so yeah, and then there's

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Speaker 4: some like keep pens as well.

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Speaker 1: We're in love with your range. So I feel like

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Speaker 1: everyone has to go and check it out. And I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's a perfect Christmas gift. Yeah, even just

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Speaker 1: for like a stocking stuffer or you know, you can

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Speaker 1: go get the quote calendar for your best friend.

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Speaker 6: It's amazing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people have been buying like multiples

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Speaker 2: for Christmas gifts and things like that.

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Speaker 4: Say it's been really amazing.

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Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much for joining us again. If

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Speaker 5: anyone wants to go listen. We just spoke to you.

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Speaker 1: I think it was like during COVID time, like during

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Speaker 1: diet of COVID time. So we'll link the episode below

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Speaker 1: if anyone wants to listen to that. We hope you

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Speaker 1: have a very merry Christmas and thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 4: So I look forward to saying if you buy the

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Speaker 4: Christmas Traders from Baltimore,