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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a very outspoken Christmas. It's the

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Speaker 1: most magical time of the year, so we thought it

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Speaker 1: was time to get in the festive spirit and talk

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Speaker 1: all things Christmas with our mum and dad. Welcome Mom

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Speaker 1: and Dad. Now our listeners might remember that Mum is

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Speaker 1: probably sorry, Dad's already falling her face. But our mum

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Speaker 1: is the biggest supporter of this show. She knows the

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Speaker 1: old intro word by word. But Dad, you didn't know

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Speaker 1: the name of this show until a little while ago.

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Speaker 1: Can we put you on the spot? What is it?

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Speaker 2: Signed?

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Speaker 3: With our spoken?

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Speaker 1: Correct? Now? Last Christmas we did have two engagements, so

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Speaker 1: both Brandon and Dale came to you. Dad asked for

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Speaker 1: your permission, and you didn't exactly know when Dale was

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Speaker 1: going to propose, but you knew that Brandon was going

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Speaker 1: to propose on Christmas Eve. What was your reaction when

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Speaker 1: Amy walked into Christmas Eve dinner with a ring on?

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Speaker 3: I knew what had happened because Dale came and asked me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but did he say Christmas Eve?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: But I thought it was fairly obvious.

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Speaker 1: And did you say, did you think that Brandon was

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Speaker 1: going to ask Christmas Eve as well? Because didn't he

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Speaker 1: bring you up?

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Speaker 3: I believe that he did actually say Christmas Eve?

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Speaker 1: Oh so you so you actually knew that both were

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Speaker 1: going to propose on Christmas Eve?

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Speaker 3: I think so? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Did you think to be like, oh shit, actually Brandon,

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Speaker 1: just so you know, I think Dale might be or you.

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Speaker 2: Just didn't nothing to do with me?

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Speaker 1: Did you know anything? Mum?

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Speaker 2: I knew absolutely nothing.

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Speaker 1: I have to say, growing up with your mom and dad,

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Speaker 1: you did make Christmas very special, even though we used

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Speaker 1: to call Mom the Grinch a little bit when we

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Speaker 1: were older, because Dad was a little bit more Christmasy

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Speaker 3: You got that right.

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Speaker 1: Where do you think that came from?

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Speaker 2: Dad?

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Speaker 1: Though? Was that from your parents being super Christmasy?

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Speaker 3: Or quite possibly? I believe yes.

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Speaker 1: So who was it? Was it more Grandma or was

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I think it was a combination of both of them.

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Speaker 1: So, Dad, what were some of your Christmas traditions when

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about it this morning, and one stands out.

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Speaker 3: It's not very exciting, but it's just something that sticks

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Speaker 3: in my mind. Was every Christmas morning wake up to

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Speaker 3: a heavy cellophane Christmas stocking filled with a few little goodies,

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Speaker 3: but there was always an orange in it. No idea

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Speaker 1: I've only just heard like the other day that it's

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Speaker 1: meant to be at the bottom of your stocking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: is that just an Australian thing or do you think

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Speaker 1: it's English?

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Speaker 3: Because I think it might be English.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, custom What about you? What were your traditions?

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Speaker 4: One of them that I remember is we did have

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Speaker 4: a pillow case at the end of our bed rather

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Speaker 4: than a stocking. So every Christmas morning when I was little,

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Speaker 4: I would wake up and unwrap the gifts and then

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Speaker 1: So how come we didn't get a stocking or pillowcase

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Speaker 1: on our beds? You always put them under the tree.

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Speaker 1: What made you change it? Probab because you kept opening

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Speaker 4: Probably I just thought it was cute because I guess

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Speaker 4: the three of you running down the hall with your

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Speaker 4: father with a very old camera videoing you.

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Speaker 1: Was kind of Yeah, it was the only time we

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Speaker 1: had fun. Bit. I remember the only time we woke

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Speaker 1: we'd run into your room, Mum, and you were still

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Speaker 1: can we please open the presents? And you'd be like,

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Speaker 1: Dad has to set up the camera and it would

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Speaker 1: we'd just be waiting at the door so excited. Why

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Speaker 3: Ah, because there was a lot of technology involved, fiddling

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Speaker 1: I feel like we should share some snippets from some

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Speaker 1: of those Christmas videos because they're pretty epic, especially Mum,

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Speaker 1: when you had to pretend that you really liked those

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Speaker 1: were the happy pants that Dad got pants.

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Speaker 4: They were atrocious. And I remember seeing a very good

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Speaker 4: friend of mine at Mitchen shopping Center wearing said happy

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Speaker 4: to see.

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Speaker 1: What about what is the best and worst Christmas present

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Speaker 2: Dad?

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Speaker 1: Worst gift?

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Speaker 3: Somebody used to give me a book every year, which

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Speaker 3: was all very us but because I basically read for

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Speaker 1: Can I put it out there? Why that there's gas,

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Speaker 1: because that's quite offensive because that was our papa's tradition.

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Speaker 1: Every year he'd give a book, So it does taking

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Speaker 1: a swipe there. I love that tradition because Papa got

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Speaker 1: us into Harry Potter, But Dad didn't.

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Speaker 2: You used to have a.

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Speaker 1: Joke that your parents used to give you interesting gifts.

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Speaker 1: Remember the hour you got?

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, that was in there older years there when

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Speaker 3: they did the sort of early form of online shopping.

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Speaker 4: I remember your mother gave you some sunglasses one year

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Speaker 2: Shock.

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Speaker 4: I remember one Christmas, Amy unfortunately got given looked like

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Speaker 4: a second hand pottery whale that was chipped and really

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Speaker 1: And I reckon the same person who will remain unnamed

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Speaker 1: also gave KOs so I feel like it was a

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Speaker 1: soap on the rope, but I remember there was some

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Speaker 1: kind of pubell, there was something. It was definitely a

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Speaker 4: Also, another gift you girls were given when you're fourteen

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Speaker 4: or fifteen were the andies and brass.

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Speaker 2: Set that you sort of looked at and went, what the.

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Speaker 4: That lingerie thing.

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Speaker 1: Now, I think this must be a very English tradition

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Speaker 1: because our grandma from Chelsea did it. But Dad, can

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Speaker 1: you tell us exactly how a Christmas pudding should be

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Speaker 3: It should be served with coins and lucky charms and

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Speaker 1: So there was a debate. Okay, So I told Dale

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Speaker 1: So apparently he had no idea that people put coins

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Speaker 3: Well, you can't use the modern coins because the metals

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Speaker 3: that they're made of. See old pre decimal type coins

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Speaker 3: that you could I would use, which was safe to

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Speaker 1: But Grandma put twenty cents in or was it okay?

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Speaker 1: Because she'd clean them and boil them and then put

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Speaker 3: If you've cooked them in some of the metal, smart.

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Speaker 1: Leap show okay, because I remember one Christmas, Auntie Drinda

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Speaker 1: had Christmas at her house and she put two dollar

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Speaker 1: many serves of Christmas put Now, we got paid out

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Speaker 1: at school because we believed in Santa Claus for quite

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Speaker 1: a while, probably a lot longer than some of our friends,

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Speaker 1: and they were told to continue to lie to us.

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Speaker 1: When did you realize that Father Christmas wasn't real?

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Speaker 3: I don't remember what adre it was, but I think

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Speaker 3: it was probably when I heard my mother creeping into

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Speaker 3: The traditional should have been earlier.

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Speaker 1: Was that.

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Speaker 3: I remember, as a young boy going out in the

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Speaker 3: in the sky to see whether I could see Father

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Speaker 3: Christmas sleigh and I still do it till the every

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Speaker 1: Oh do you remember, I'm gone call and Auntie Daily

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Speaker 1: had a Christmas Eve party. I'm not sure why they

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Speaker 1: remember Bindy said our cousin Bindi was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I just saw Santa in the sky. And I still

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Speaker 1: feel like I can remember seeing a flash of red.

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Speaker 3: It's probably a shooting star.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably.

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Speaker 4: I don't actually remember when I found out the truth

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Speaker 4: quite old, maybe about year five, and I think one

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Speaker 4: and I remember saying, what's the effect, Well, if you

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Speaker 4: it being really sad that you had to find out

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Speaker 4: that way. But having taught are you five class this year,

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Speaker 4: most of those kids don't believe in Father Chriss, which

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Speaker 1: I remember, though, I feel like we were sus on it,

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Speaker 1: and we used to try and get Father Christmas to

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Speaker 1: and then we told our friends Thomas and Michael, could

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Speaker 1: they do the same and we'll compare the signatures. But

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Speaker 1: with it. I was gonna say, though, because we didn't

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Speaker 1: that we behave? Like? What was the sort of lead

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Speaker 4: I think your father often would get to the phone

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Speaker 4: and was going to call Father Christmas if you went behaving,

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Speaker 4: So that was you were pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I had his direct number.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember vividly remember that we were up late

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Speaker 1: one night. I think we were like singing bizarrely to each.

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Speaker 4: Other, and then you were like, if you ain't shut up,

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Speaker 4: I'm calling it right now.

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Speaker 1: And like you pretended that you were on the phone

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Speaker 1: to him, and then we try and redial the number

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Speaker 1: to try and get through to father.

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Speaker 2: You were very clever, you were suspicious. I'm not sure now.

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Speaker 1: Christmas lights have always been incredibly special to Kate, Sophie

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Speaker 1: and I think because of the huge effort Dad you've

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Speaker 1: always put into the Christmas lights. What kicked off the

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Speaker 1: Christmas light tradition for you? And I able to tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit about the unspoken competition on the street.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what actually kicked it off. I suppose

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Speaker 3: my father would put some lights up out the front,

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Speaker 3: but not to any great extent. I spoke. Perhaps that

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Speaker 3: I don't know, But in terms of competition on the street,

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Speaker 3: I was never aware of any competition. Well, maybe it

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Speaker 3: was just mine not been the best anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think because we started helping you with the

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Speaker 1: It's because you had literally the flimsiest holder had to

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Speaker 2: Both of us put them together.

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Speaker 4: That was hell because that was the present from Santra

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Speaker 1: I have a fond memory. I don't know if it

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Speaker 1: I remember Dad, you would always when High five would

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Speaker 4: I think it's the getting everything ready for Christmas rather

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Speaker 4: One Christmas we did go to your AUNTI Drinda's place,

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Speaker 3: Oh? There are just so many, but I think one

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Speaker 2: Ten I thought you had.

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Speaker 1: I thought you had an oyster eating competition too.

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Speaker 1: possible that they could, and because there was the tongue there,

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Speaker 1: they'd always freak out. And I remember giving Stewart, who

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Speaker 1: was probably four at the time, a teaspoon of orange

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Speaker 1: juice and he cried.

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Speaker 4: One of the traditions that I remember and always love

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Speaker 4: was my dad used to go to the bookshop, the

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Speaker 4: local bookshop, and by every single person a book, and

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Speaker 4: he would write in pencil in the cover whose book.

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Speaker 2: It was nothing was wrapped.

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Speaker 4: He just came out on Christmas Day and would hand

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Speaker 4: books out because he just was encouraging kids to read

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Speaker 4: and everyone to read.

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Speaker 1: And that was Dad's favorite present. I think. Confused, Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: that was that was so sweet because that would just

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Speaker 1: be an additional thing. It was always at the end

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Speaker 1: of if we were there for lunch, he'd hand out

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Speaker 1: all of the books.

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Speaker 4: And when he got older, he didn't do it. And

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Speaker 4: everyone's on Christmas night, where's my book? I can't believe

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Speaker 4: I haven't got a book to read over summer.

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Speaker 1: What's so funny, though, is just how different your families were,

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Speaker 1: because I could never imagine Papa Can and Grandma coming

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Speaker 1: out with books for everyone. It was just like a

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Speaker 1: different viable together for the lunch. And the main difference

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Speaker 1: was at the Goodwins you had to wait till after

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Speaker 1: you ate to get your present. But at the Tour

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Speaker 1: buts was like present was the first thing that was

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Speaker 1: happening as soon as you got there. Did you know

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Speaker 1: that some people actually like even in the morning that

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Speaker 1: have kids, they make them wait until dinner time to

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Speaker 1: give them a present.

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Speaker 2: That's so mean.

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Speaker 4: One difference between my Christmas was we didn't have alcohol,

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Speaker 4: and the tour has had.

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Speaker 2: A lot of alcohol.

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Speaker 3: What are you implying?

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Speaker 1: Everyone keeps asking us. Everyone can't believe that the three

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Speaker 1: of us don't really drink. Do you think that that

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Speaker 1: is an influence from your family? Then? Mom, maybe.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you didn't want to put your sword down?

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Speaker 1: No, No, that wasn't it. Did you guys make a

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Speaker 1: conscious effort when we were little. Did you sit down

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Speaker 1: and say we want to make Christmas extra special? Or

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Speaker 1: did it just sort of happen? Because I feel like

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Speaker 1: we are one of those rare people who had a

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Speaker 1: really good experience at Christmas. Well like all of our

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Speaker 1: partner seems to not be that fuss about Christmas. What

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Speaker 1: we do.

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Speaker 3: I think it just happened. I think it was just

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Speaker 3: a natural thing.

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Speaker 4: Well, we both came from big families, so Christmas wasn't

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Speaker 4: sort of three people around a table, you know. It

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Speaker 4: was lots of people, lots of fun, lots of young kids,

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Speaker 4: lots of you know, cousins playing together, that sort of thing,

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Speaker 4: And I think that made.

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Speaker 2: Christmas really fun.

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Speaker 4: As a young girl, I remember our family was always

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Speaker 4: late to everything, and one Christmas we spent still not

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Speaker 4: me now unpunctual children. I can't vouch for that. But

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Speaker 4: when we were visiting a very toffee aunt at Walkerville,

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Speaker 4: which is sort of one of those suburbs in Adelaide,

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Speaker 4: and she had a big house with a tennis court,

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Speaker 4: and she was so particular about being on time. So

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Speaker 4: this year, when we were going out to Auntie Marney's place,

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Speaker 4: Mum and Dad put.

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Speaker 2: Our clocks on an hour.

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Speaker 4: So when we arrived on tom everyone was absolutely shocked.

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Speaker 4: And years later we were told that's because the what's

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Speaker 4: been put on an hour.

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Speaker 1: Now, to wrap things up, we want to get some

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Speaker 1: recommendations from you about your favorite Christmas movies that people

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Speaker 1: should be watching. Dad, what about you.

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Speaker 3: I've been hearing on the radio that some Bruce Willis

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Speaker 3: film that's ultra violent, Well Diehard, that's correct. No, I'm

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Speaker 3: not recommending that at all. I'm actually having seen it

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Speaker 3: several times. I'm wondering why it's a Christmas movie. Yes,

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Speaker 3: that's simply because it's set at Christmas time.

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Speaker 1: I think men, I think a lot of men try

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Speaker 1: and say that they want to watch that movie as

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Speaker 1: an excuse for the Christmas. That's not your favorite.

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Speaker 3: I have to be a Christmas Vacation.

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Speaker 1: Yes, obviously I watched it last night and I loved

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Speaker 1: it so much, and I said to Reese, can you

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Speaker 1: please watch it properly with me because he's always on

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Speaker 1: his phone and whatever. And he sat next to me

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Speaker 1: and then fell asleep within the first ten minutes.

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Speaker 3: Actually, can I mention the worst Christmas show I've seen recently?

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Speaker 3: Gordon Ramsay's Christmas at Home. It was the most boring

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Speaker 3: show I have ever seen. Gordon did not swear once.

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Speaker 3: That was probably what I made it even more boring,

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Speaker 3: and in then we turned it off. It was just

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Speaker 3: so dull and interesting.

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Speaker 1: Whereas kids growing up or was it a repeat n.

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Speaker 3: The kids would have been teenagers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about you, mum?

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Speaker 4: I think one show that I remember was the Worst

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Speaker 4: Christmas of My Life.

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Speaker 2: It was hilarious.

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Speaker 1: I actually watched this the other day if you're looking

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Speaker 1: for it is on YouTube, really poor quality. I just

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Speaker 1: was laughing out loud. It was so funny because there's

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Speaker 1: a series The Worst Week of My Life. So this

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Speaker 1: is the Christmas version obviously, where Howard his in laws

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Speaker 1: are very toffee and he just seems to stuff everything up. Also,

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Speaker 1: I want to recommend Grumpy Old Women Christmas. I found

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Speaker 1: the DVD in Goolwar at an op shop. We need

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Speaker 1: to watch it on Christmas Eve. I reckon it's so funny.

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Speaker 1: I recently watched I Think It's Jingle all the Way

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Speaker 1: with Arnold Swartzenegger where he has to find his son

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Speaker 1: this action figure that's basically sold out everywhere at Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's so funny. I think I used to fall asleep

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Speaker 1: in that one, but you've got to persist and watch

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Speaker 1: to the end. It's very unbelievable. But my recommendation other

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Speaker 1: than National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is Christmas with the Cranks.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed that. I think it's on It was actually

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Speaker 1: on Netflix, so well, thank you mom and Dad for

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Speaker 1: making this morning a bit more Christmas in. I do

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Speaker 1: hope everyone has enjoyed. It was a little bit off

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Speaker 1: topic of influences, but we do hope you have a

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Speaker 1: very merry Christmas. We will move back to our regular

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Speaker 1: scheduling next week. We may be a day or two

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Speaker 1: late after Boxing Day, but we will be back to

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Speaker 1: our regular show and we aren't taking a break for

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Speaker 1: Christmas like every other podcast. So you've got to be

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Speaker 1: of a Burncy. Yeah, you can rely on us for

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Speaker 1: some content and this podcast was recorded on the traditional

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Speaker 1: land of the Ghana people of the Adelaide Planes. We

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Speaker 1: pay respect to the elders past and present. I love

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Speaker 1: seeing where people are listening from, So if you are

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Speaker 1: doing something Christmas Eve whilst you're listening to this, please

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