Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a very outspoken Christmas. It's the
Speaker 1: most magical time of the year, so we thought it
Speaker 1: was time to get in the festive spirit and talk
Speaker 1: all things Christmas with our mum and dad. Welcome Mom
Speaker 1: and Dad. Now our listeners might remember that Mum is
Speaker 1: probably sorry, Dad's already falling her face. But our mum
Speaker 1: is the biggest supporter of this show. She knows the
Speaker 1: old intro word by word. But Dad, you didn't know
Speaker 1: the name of this show until a little while ago.
Speaker 1: Can we put you on the spot? What is it?
Speaker 2: Signed?
Speaker 3: With our spoken?
Speaker 1: Correct? Now? Last Christmas we did have two engagements, so
Speaker 1: both Brandon and Dale came to you. Dad asked for
Speaker 1: your permission, and you didn't exactly know when Dale was
Speaker 1: going to propose, but you knew that Brandon was going
Speaker 1: to propose on Christmas Eve. What was your reaction when
Speaker 1: Amy walked into Christmas Eve dinner with a ring on?
Speaker 3: I knew what had happened because Dale came and asked me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but did he say Christmas Eve?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: But I thought it was fairly obvious.
Speaker 1: And did you say, did you think that Brandon was
Speaker 1: going to ask Christmas Eve as well? Because didn't he
Speaker 1: bring you up?
Speaker 3: I believe that he did actually say Christmas Eve?
Speaker 1: Oh so you so you actually knew that both were
Speaker 1: going to propose on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3: I think so? Yes?
Speaker 1: Did you think to be like, oh shit, actually Brandon,
Speaker 1: just so you know, I think Dale might be or you.
Speaker 2: Just didn't nothing to do with me?
Speaker 1: Did you know anything? Mum?
Speaker 2: I knew absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: I have to say, growing up with your mom and dad,
Speaker 1: you did make Christmas very special, even though we used
Speaker 1: to call Mom the Grinch a little bit when we
Speaker 1: were older, because Dad was a little bit more Christmasy
Speaker 1: than Mum.
Speaker 3: You got that right.
Speaker 1: Where do you think that came from?
Speaker 2: Dad?
Speaker 1: Though? Was that from your parents being super Christmasy?
Speaker 3: Or quite possibly? I believe yes.
Speaker 1: So who was it? Was it more Grandma or was
Speaker 1: it more Grandpa?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I think it was a combination of both of them.
Speaker 1: So, Dad, what were some of your Christmas traditions when
Speaker 1: you were a child?
Speaker 3: I was thinking about it this morning, and one stands out.
Speaker 3: It's not very exciting, but it's just something that sticks
Speaker 3: in my mind. Was every Christmas morning wake up to
Speaker 3: a heavy cellophane Christmas stocking filled with a few little goodies,
Speaker 3: but there was always an orange in it. No idea
Speaker 3: why there was.
Speaker 1: I've only just heard like the other day that it's
Speaker 1: meant to be at the bottom of your stocking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that just an Australian thing or do you think
Speaker 1: it's English?
Speaker 3: Because I think it might be English.
Speaker 1: Yeah, custom What about you? What were your traditions?
Speaker 4: One of them that I remember is we did have
Speaker 4: a pillow case at the end of our bed rather
Speaker 4: than a stocking. So every Christmas morning when I was little,
Speaker 4: I would wake up and unwrap the gifts and then
Speaker 4: I wrap them up again and pretend I hadn't seen them,
Speaker 4: so that when we were allowed to come out and
Speaker 4: actually open the presence, I had to put on some
Speaker 4: acting skills.
Speaker 1: So how come we didn't get a stocking or pillowcase
Speaker 1: on our beds? You always put them under the tree.
Speaker 1: What made you change it? Probab because you kept opening
Speaker 1: them and yeah, because you couldn't control yourself.
Speaker 4: Probably I just thought it was cute because I guess
Speaker 4: the three of you running down the hall with your
Speaker 4: father with a very old camera videoing you.
Speaker 1: Was kind of Yeah, it was the only time we
Speaker 1: had fun. Bit. I remember the only time we woke
Speaker 1: up really early was probably Christmas morning, and I remember
Speaker 1: we'd run into your room, Mum, and you were still
Speaker 1: in bed. I think Dad was up and we'd be like,
Speaker 1: can we please open the presents? And you'd be like,
Speaker 1: Dad has to set up the camera and it would
Speaker 1: take so long, and you'd have the door closed and
Speaker 1: we'd just be waiting at the door so excited. Why
Speaker 1: did it take you something to set the camera up there?
Speaker 3: Ah, because there was a lot of technology involved, fiddling
Speaker 3: about making sure it was in the right position, the
Speaker 3: right height, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like we should share some snippets from some
Speaker 1: of those Christmas videos because they're pretty epic, especially Mum,
Speaker 1: when you had to pretend that you really liked those
Speaker 1: were the happy pants that Dad got pants.
Speaker 4: They were atrocious. And I remember seeing a very good
Speaker 4: friend of mine at Mitchen shopping Center wearing said happy
Speaker 4: pants for the first and only time, being so embarrassed
Speaker 4: to see.
Speaker 1: What about what is the best and worst Christmas present
Speaker 1: you've ever received?
Speaker 2: Dad?
Speaker 1: Worst gift?
Speaker 3: Somebody used to give me a book every year, which
Speaker 3: was all very us but because I basically read for
Speaker 3: a profession, I didn't actually do much reading for leisure.
Speaker 1: Can I put it out there? Why that there's gas,
Speaker 1: because that's quite offensive because that was our papa's tradition.
Speaker 1: Every year he'd give a book, So it does taking
Speaker 1: a swipe there. I love that tradition because Papa got
Speaker 1: us into Harry Potter, But Dad didn't.
Speaker 2: You used to have a.
Speaker 1: Joke that your parents used to give you interesting gifts.
Speaker 1: Remember the hour you got?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, that was in there older years there when
Speaker 3: they did the sort of early form of online shopping.
Speaker 4: I remember your mother gave you some sunglasses one year
Speaker 4: that looked like blowfly glass.
Speaker 2: Shock.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: I remember one Christmas, Amy unfortunately got given looked like
Speaker 4: a second hand pottery whale that was chipped and really
Speaker 4: badly rapped.
Speaker 1: And I reckon the same person who will remain unnamed
Speaker 1: also gave KOs so I feel like it was a
Speaker 1: soap on the rope, but I remember there was some
Speaker 1: kind of pubell, there was something. It was definitely a
Speaker 1: secondhand gift.
Speaker 4: Also, another gift you girls were given when you're fourteen
Speaker 4: or fifteen were the andies and brass.
Speaker 2: Set that you sort of looked at and went, what the.
Speaker 4: That lingerie thing.
Speaker 1: Now, I think this must be a very English tradition
Speaker 1: because our grandma from Chelsea did it. But Dad, can
Speaker 1: you tell us exactly how a Christmas pudding should be
Speaker 1: served up?
Speaker 3: It should be served with coins and lucky charms and
Speaker 3: lit on fire and lit on fire with brandy.
Speaker 1: So there was a debate. Okay, So I told Dale
Speaker 1: about how we should get some coins prepared for Christmas
Speaker 1: this year, and he didn't know what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: So apparently he had no idea that people put coins
Speaker 1: in puttings.
Speaker 3: Well, you can't use the modern coins because the metals
Speaker 3: that they're made of. See old pre decimal type coins
Speaker 3: that you could I would use, which was safe to
Speaker 3: use because they are made of a different metal.
Speaker 1: But Grandma put twenty cents in or was it okay?
Speaker 1: Because she'd clean them and boil them and then put
Speaker 1: them in after Yes, ok.
Speaker 3: If you've cooked them in some of the metal, smart.
Speaker 1: Leap show okay, because I remember one Christmas, Auntie Drinda
Speaker 1: had Christmas at her house and she put two dollar
Speaker 1: coins in. And I've never seen our cousins have so
Speaker 1: many serves of Christmas put Now, we got paid out
Speaker 1: at school because we believed in Santa Claus for quite
Speaker 1: a while, probably a lot longer than some of our friends,
Speaker 1: and they were told to continue to lie to us.
Speaker 1: When did you realize that Father Christmas wasn't real?
Speaker 3: I don't remember what adre it was, but I think
Speaker 3: it was probably when I heard my mother creeping into
Speaker 3: my room to put the stocking me into the bed.
Speaker 3: The traditional should have been earlier.
Speaker 1: Was that.
Speaker 3: I remember, as a young boy going out in the
Speaker 3: backyard when it was dark on Christmas Eve, walking up
Speaker 3: in the sky to see whether I could see Father
Speaker 3: Christmas sleigh and I still do it till the every
Speaker 3: day today.
Speaker 1: Oh do you remember, I'm gone call and Auntie Daily
Speaker 1: had a Christmas Eve party. I'm not sure why they
Speaker 1: did that because it was a one off, and I
Speaker 1: remember Bindy said our cousin Bindi was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I just saw Santa in the sky. And I still
Speaker 1: feel like I can remember seeing a flash of red.
Speaker 3: It's probably a shooting star.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably.
Speaker 4: I don't actually remember when I found out the truth
Speaker 4: about Father Christmas, but I do remember you girls were
Speaker 4: quite old, maybe about year five, and I think one
Speaker 4: of your teachers alluded to the fact that potentially if
Speaker 4: other Christmas was not real, and you came home very upset,
Speaker 4: and I remember saying, what's the effect, Well, if you
Speaker 4: do not believe, you do not receive. I just remember
Speaker 4: it being really sad that you had to find out
Speaker 4: that way. But having taught are you five class this year,
Speaker 4: most of those kids don't believe in Father Chriss, which
Speaker 4: is really sad.
Speaker 1: I remember, though, I feel like we were sus on it,
Speaker 1: and we used to try and get Father Christmas to
Speaker 1: sign a letter, and we used to ask for his autograph,
Speaker 1: and then we told our friends Thomas and Michael, could
Speaker 1: they do the same and we'll compare the signatures. But
Speaker 1: apparently they already knew that Santa wasn't real, and we're
Speaker 1: told by their mum and dad just to go along
Speaker 1: with it. I was gonna say, though, because we didn't
Speaker 1: have Elf on the shelf, how did you make sure
Speaker 1: that we behave? Like? What was the sort of lead
Speaker 1: up with Santa? Was there a lot of threats going on?
Speaker 4: I think your father often would get to the phone
Speaker 4: and was going to call Father Christmas if you went behaving,
Speaker 4: So that was you were pretty good.
Speaker 3: I had his direct number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember vividly remember that we were up late
Speaker 1: one night. I think we were like singing bizarrely to each.
Speaker 4: Other, and then you were like, if you ain't shut up,
Speaker 4: I'm calling it right now.
Speaker 1: And like you pretended that you were on the phone
Speaker 1: to him, and then we try and redial the number
Speaker 1: to try and get through to father.
Speaker 2: You were very clever, you were suspicious. I'm not sure now.
Speaker 1: Christmas lights have always been incredibly special to Kate, Sophie
Speaker 1: and I think because of the huge effort Dad you've
Speaker 1: always put into the Christmas lights. What kicked off the
Speaker 1: Christmas light tradition for you? And I able to tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about the unspoken competition on the street.
Speaker 3: I don't know what actually kicked it off. I suppose
Speaker 3: my father would put some lights up out the front,
Speaker 3: but not to any great extent. I spoke. Perhaps that
Speaker 3: got me interested, or perhaps it was the film Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 3: I don't know, But in terms of competition on the street,
Speaker 3: I was never aware of any competition. Well, maybe it
Speaker 3: was just mine not been the best anywhere.
Speaker 1: Well, I think because we started helping you with the
Speaker 1: lights when you sort of refuse to put I suppose
Speaker 1: refuse to go to the level we wanted you to
Speaker 1: go to. And I do remember there was an incident
Speaker 1: where because your house has like a big brush fence
Speaker 1: and some trees out the front, I do remember trying
Speaker 1: to cut some branches down.
Speaker 3: I remember that, and the shrubs still showing signs of
Speaker 3: that mutilation.
Speaker 1: I remember though. It was about three o'clock and we
Speaker 1: didn't realize you were coming home early from your work
Speaker 1: as a teacher, and just the fear when I saw
Speaker 1: you drive in. We were like halfway through cutting this
Speaker 1: branch down. You ran out the back like you ran
Speaker 1: behind the houses. So we've got this alley way behind
Speaker 1: the house, and Amy ran and dragged the huge bush
Speaker 1: behind it, and you lost it dub when you got home.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm going to raise the point now. You mentioned
Speaker 3: that once I tired of actually putting the many, many
Speaker 3: many lights up every year, and you took over from me.
Speaker 3: You took over from us from a certain extent, because
Speaker 3: you would put them up, but when it came time
Speaker 3: for them to be taken down, there was no sight
Speaker 3: of you anywhere seen. And that's why in the end
Speaker 3: I cut it right back, because I remember being at
Speaker 3: the top of a very high ladder, wabbling in the wind,
Speaker 3: taking down lights, and I thought, what the hell am
Speaker 3: I doing up here?
Speaker 1: We always seemed to be we'd always seemed at that
Speaker 1: time to be on holiday, like we'd be in Penang
Speaker 1: or something. Just by pure I've got a bone to
Speaker 1: pick with you as well. Why did you get rid
Speaker 1: of the real tree, because as soon as we moved
Speaker 1: out of home you refuse to do it. And I
Speaker 1: need to ask if we organized a tree to be
Speaker 1: dropped off and picked up at your house, would you
Speaker 1: swap over back to the real tree.
Speaker 3: No. Why Beside the hassle going out and actually getting it,
Speaker 3: the real hassle was getting the damn thing to stand up.
Speaker 3: And you could almost bet that the day of the
Speaker 3: tree was to be put up would be a hot,
Speaker 3: humid day, and so I'd be wrestling with this bloody
Speaker 3: Christmas tree trying to get it.
Speaker 1: So that was a tradition.
Speaker 2: To see how it might have.
Speaker 3: Been the tradition, But I am now past the age
Speaker 3: which I wished to do that more.
Speaker 1: It's because you had literally the flimsiest holder had to
Speaker 1: be held on with like a rubber band. This one
Speaker 1: that I've got it's Papa's old one. It just slots
Speaker 1: right in. What about if you upgrade to a bow
Speaker 1: some hill Christmas tree? Because I feel like your Christmas
Speaker 1: tree is looking a bit shit.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I'm offender, right, Kate, We'll get a bouill
Speaker 2: tree when one of you has all right.
Speaker 1: Deal Kate, Kate, you'll take that off our hands. You're
Speaker 1: getting married to take one for the team.
Speaker 4: One thing I will say about the lights, Hugh did
Speaker 4: a great job for about twenty five years, maybe so.
Speaker 4: Once the lights didn't go on was when people in
Speaker 4: the neighborhood started to complain. No one said at the time,
Speaker 4: what great lights. It's got a couple over the years.
Speaker 4: But as soon as the lights went on, people.
Speaker 2: Were complaining, where are your lights?
Speaker 4: Because we always bring our children past your house and
Speaker 4: your lights aren't there.
Speaker 1: So this week at work, Sophie and I were chatting
Speaker 1: to one of our clients and he had a little
Speaker 1: bit of a dilemma. He was asking us, how much
Speaker 1: do you think you should spend on a child for Christmas?
Speaker 1: So he's got two kids. His wife wanted to spend
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars on each kid. One of these kids
Speaker 1: was two and a half years old. What do you
Speaker 1: think is a good amount? Because we were saying this
Speaker 1: guy is from Melbourne. We think there's a Melbourne amount
Speaker 1: and maybe an Adelaide amount that people spent.
Speaker 4: I think maybe five hundred when they get older, possibly
Speaker 4: maybe teenagers, but I guess it depends for a two
Speaker 4: year old, No way, what do they need that's five
Speaker 4: hundred dollars They don't even know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, and you gets. I was looking up
Speaker 1: toys that came up for some of Resa's friends' kids,
Speaker 1: and they're so cheap. You could get heaps of stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe when it comes to bikes, but I
Speaker 1: don't think bikes are that expensive anymore because I remember
Speaker 1: one Christmas, you guys got us bikes and Dad put
Speaker 1: them all together.
Speaker 2: Both of us put them together.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, both of you put them together. And remember
Speaker 1: Sophie's was the wrong one and you only realized once
Speaker 1: it was all together.
Speaker 2: I still remember putting them together.
Speaker 4: That was hell because that was the present from Santra
Speaker 4: and you were still young and had to get you
Speaker 4: into bed. And then operation puts three vikes together on Christmas.
Speaker 1: So Dad, do you think that's outrageous, though, for someone
Speaker 1: to spend five hundred dollars on their kids, I think
Speaker 1: it's a bit I do remember, Mum, there was one
Speaker 1: Christmas Day where your oven blew up and it was
Speaker 1: a little bit stressful.
Speaker 4: I just had a new kitchen done relatively recently, and
Speaker 4: a new oven, and yes Christmas Day, I'm all the
Speaker 4: veggies are in there cooking away, and they really weren't
Speaker 4: cooking because the oven had ceased to work. So I
Speaker 4: remember my brother came out and was frying all the
Speaker 4: getting the fry pans out and putting the potatoes in there,
Speaker 4: and I was really upset.
Speaker 1: I remember he was trying to calm you down, and
Speaker 1: for one second I thought you were going to tell
Speaker 1: him to f off. Like I'd never seen you so angry.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a forty degrees that day.
Speaker 2: It was hot, and he was about the only one helping.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: I was helping.
Speaker 4: Oh maybe you could wear that. Lots of other people
Speaker 4: were sitting around, probably thinking where.
Speaker 2: Is the food? Dad.
Speaker 1: I have a fond memory. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was this same Christmas Day, but one of the Christmases
Speaker 1: that you hosted, you and Mum, you decided to play
Speaker 1: have a Holy Jolly Christmas on a loop for about
Speaker 1: I think I went for about three hours to see
Speaker 1: if any of Mum's family noticed. Nobody did.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 1: Is that your favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 3: I just love it. When we've finished here, I'm going
Speaker 3: to go home and listen to it. Must be burl
Speaker 3: Ive's version.
Speaker 1: One of my fondest memories is actually of Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: because it would always seem like when we were younger,
Speaker 1: we'd all get into this big fight in the day
Speaker 1: because stresses were boiling over. You know, you were getting ready.
Speaker 1: We were probably being little shits and fighting, and I
Speaker 1: remember everything would be suddenly okay when the Christmas Carols
Speaker 1: came on, everyone was sort of unite to watch them.
Speaker 4: I love the Christmas Carols. You have to watch them
Speaker 4: on Christmas Eve. I remember when you were young, I'd
Speaker 4: rap presence up in front of it. But now my
Speaker 4: ultimate aim is to sit down and watch, particularly Anthony Khlea.
Speaker 4: I love him sing amongst others, but he's my favorite.
Speaker 1: I remember Dad, you would always when High five would
Speaker 1: come on, you would try and make us laugh because
Speaker 1: everyone would have been arguing. Anyway, you come down and
Speaker 1: sometimes you try and replicate that outfit. So I remember
Speaker 1: one year you put garbage bags on as a costume. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know it might be hard to pinpoint, but do
Speaker 1: you have a fondest Christmas memory?
Speaker 4: I think it's the getting everything ready for Christmas rather
Speaker 4: than the actual Christmas time Christmas days lovely. I think
Speaker 4: it gets harder now for me, particularly with now that
Speaker 4: my dad's not here and my mum's not particularly well,
Speaker 4: because they're the sort of glue that keeps the family together.
Speaker 4: So if I could have another Christmas again with my parents,
Speaker 4: that would be lovely.
Speaker 1: Oh what about a memory from when we were little
Speaker 1: that it stands out to you?
Speaker 4: One Christmas we did go to your AUNTI Drinda's place,
Speaker 4: which mean says quite a mansion, and she had us
Speaker 4: in the good room, and I was so stressed because
Speaker 4: you were very young and at the age when you
Speaker 4: were dropping food everywhere, thinking oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it all worked out work.
Speaker 1: I do remember that Christmas. It was amazing because Auntie Drinda,
Speaker 1: I don't I think she had it bought in. It
Speaker 1: was the most amazing gingerbread house I've ever seen. It
Speaker 1: was one of those really, really fancy ones, and I
Speaker 1: remember that we were able to take stuff from the
Speaker 1: Gingerbread House and that was pretty amazing. But I do
Speaker 1: have such fond memories obviously of Grandma and Grandpa and
Speaker 1: Nana and Papa hosting Christmas mostly, But this year I'm
Speaker 1: hosting Christmas and I've got some new times.
Speaker 2: So excited you are too, well, thank you.
Speaker 1: Than I've got a few surprises that Cameron and Stewart
Speaker 1: us have been working on because I feel like it's
Speaker 1: really nice to have old traditions, but we want to
Speaker 1: bring in some new funny ones as well. Dad, what
Speaker 1: is your favorite Christmas memory?
Speaker 3: Oh? There are just so many, but I think one
Speaker 3: of them was my record attempt at eating the greatest
Speaker 3: number of fruitment spies. I think it was up around the.
Speaker 2: Ten I thought you had.
Speaker 1: I thought you had an oyster eating competition too.
Speaker 3: But that wasn't that was not a christ.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it wasn't it Right before you you had
Speaker 1: us and that there's some people were saying that maybe
Speaker 1: you had triplets because you'd eaten so many oysters.
Speaker 3: There was some suggestion mar fifty six oysters.
Speaker 1: Oh, so many oysters were there.
Speaker 3: That was a seafood buffet or you can eat.
Speaker 1: And how were your guts feeling on Christmas night after
Speaker 1: eating twelve minutes pies?
Speaker 3: Not great? And that's one of the things today. Of course,
Speaker 3: I have to not pig out this Christmas because we
Speaker 3: have a very important event coming up in late January
Speaker 3: and I have to maintain a decent weight for that,
Speaker 3: so I won't.
Speaker 1: Be able to pick out well, that's because Dad refuses
Speaker 1: to buy a new suit. So one of my fundest
Speaker 1: Christmas memories is being at Granmar and Grandpa's house, and
Speaker 1: I remember that the men in particular would get very drunk.
Speaker 1: So when you're younger, you don't realize that they're drinking
Speaker 1: lots to get drunk. You just think that that's what
Speaker 1: you do at a party. Somber Grandma and Grandpa would
Speaker 1: have sprites and cokes, and we down about five cokes
Speaker 1: during the night because that's what the parents were doing.
Speaker 1: But I remember Papa Ken was really drunk and he
Speaker 1: ended up sitting on one of our uncle's laps and
Speaker 1: he was pretending The uncle was pretending that he was
Speaker 1: Santa Cot and he's like, you have such a bony
Speaker 1: bum to Papa Can and all of us, like all
Speaker 1: the kids inside were just loving it because we got
Speaker 1: to stay up so late while you were all doing
Speaker 1: this outside. I remember, you know it was good Christmas
Speaker 1: if Grandpa had purple lips from the wine and he'd
Speaker 1: sort of take you out by a hand and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: did you have a nice day, and be so cute.
Speaker 1: I think Grandma made Christmas very special too, because she
Speaker 1: would do this big buffet and you'd have like oysters.
Speaker 1: So Dad would be down that end and it would
Speaker 1: be a Christmas tradition for Grandma to have tongue on
Speaker 1: the menu. And with our little cousins, we used to
Speaker 1: do a eating competition who and you'd have to we'd
Speaker 1: blindfold our cousins and try and find the grossest thing
Speaker 1: possible that they could, and because there was the tongue there,
Speaker 1: they'd always freak out. And I remember giving Stewart, who
Speaker 1: was probably four at the time, a teaspoon of orange
Speaker 1: juice and he cried.
Speaker 4: One of the traditions that I remember and always love
Speaker 4: was my dad used to go to the bookshop, the
Speaker 4: local bookshop, and by every single person a book, and
Speaker 4: he would write in pencil in the cover whose book.
Speaker 2: It was nothing was wrapped.
Speaker 4: He just came out on Christmas Day and would hand
Speaker 4: books out because he just was encouraging kids to read
Speaker 4: and everyone to read.
Speaker 1: And that was Dad's favorite present. I think. Confused, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that was that was so sweet because that would just
Speaker 1: be an additional thing. It was always at the end
Speaker 1: of if we were there for lunch, he'd hand out
Speaker 1: all of the books.
Speaker 4: And when he got older, he didn't do it. And
Speaker 4: everyone's on Christmas night, where's my book? I can't believe
Speaker 4: I haven't got a book to read over summer.
Speaker 1: What's so funny, though, is just how different your families were,
Speaker 1: because I could never imagine Papa Can and Grandma coming
Speaker 1: out with books for everyone. It was just like a
Speaker 1: different viable together for the lunch. And the main difference
Speaker 1: was at the Goodwins you had to wait till after
Speaker 1: you ate to get your present. But at the Tour
Speaker 1: buts was like present was the first thing that was
Speaker 1: happening as soon as you got there. Did you know
Speaker 1: that some people actually like even in the morning that
Speaker 1: have kids, they make them wait until dinner time to
Speaker 1: give them a present.
Speaker 2: That's so mean.
Speaker 4: One difference between my Christmas was we didn't have alcohol,
Speaker 4: and the tour has had.
Speaker 2: A lot of alcohol.
Speaker 3: What are you implying?
Speaker 1: Everyone keeps asking us. Everyone can't believe that the three
Speaker 1: of us don't really drink. Do you think that that
Speaker 1: is an influence from your family? Then? Mom, maybe.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you didn't want to put your sword down?
Speaker 1: No, No, that wasn't it. Did you guys make a
Speaker 1: conscious effort when we were little. Did you sit down
Speaker 1: and say we want to make Christmas extra special? Or
Speaker 1: did it just sort of happen? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: we are one of those rare people who had a
Speaker 1: really good experience at Christmas. Well like all of our
Speaker 1: partner seems to not be that fuss about Christmas. What
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 3: I think it just happened. I think it was just
Speaker 3: a natural thing.
Speaker 4: Well, we both came from big families, so Christmas wasn't
Speaker 4: sort of three people around a table, you know. It
Speaker 4: was lots of people, lots of fun, lots of young kids,
Speaker 4: lots of you know, cousins playing together, that sort of thing,
Speaker 4: And I think that made.
Speaker 2: Christmas really fun.
Speaker 4: As a young girl, I remember our family was always
Speaker 4: late to everything, and one Christmas we spent still not
Speaker 4: me now unpunctual children. I can't vouch for that. But
Speaker 4: when we were visiting a very toffee aunt at Walkerville,
Speaker 4: which is sort of one of those suburbs in Adelaide,
Speaker 4: and she had a big house with a tennis court,
Speaker 4: and she was so particular about being on time. So
Speaker 4: this year, when we were going out to Auntie Marney's place,
Speaker 4: Mum and Dad put.
Speaker 2: Our clocks on an hour.
Speaker 4: So when we arrived on tom everyone was absolutely shocked.
Speaker 4: And years later we were told that's because the what's
Speaker 4: been put on an hour.
Speaker 1: Now, to wrap things up, we want to get some
Speaker 1: recommendations from you about your favorite Christmas movies that people
Speaker 1: should be watching. Dad, what about you.
Speaker 3: I've been hearing on the radio that some Bruce Willis
Speaker 3: film that's ultra violent, Well Diehard, that's correct. No, I'm
Speaker 3: not recommending that at all. I'm actually having seen it
Speaker 3: several times. I'm wondering why it's a Christmas movie. Yes,
Speaker 3: that's simply because it's set at Christmas time.
Speaker 1: I think men, I think a lot of men try
Speaker 1: and say that they want to watch that movie as
Speaker 1: an excuse for the Christmas. That's not your favorite.
Speaker 3: I have to be a Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 1: Yes, obviously I watched it last night and I loved
Speaker 1: it so much, and I said to Reese, can you
Speaker 1: please watch it properly with me because he's always on
Speaker 1: his phone and whatever. And he sat next to me
Speaker 1: and then fell asleep within the first ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Actually, can I mention the worst Christmas show I've seen recently?
Speaker 3: Gordon Ramsay's Christmas at Home. It was the most boring
Speaker 3: show I have ever seen. Gordon did not swear once.
Speaker 3: That was probably what I made it even more boring,
Speaker 3: and in then we turned it off. It was just
Speaker 3: so dull and interesting.
Speaker 1: Whereas kids growing up or was it a repeat n.
Speaker 3: The kids would have been teenagers.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about you, mum?
Speaker 4: I think one show that I remember was the Worst
Speaker 4: Christmas of My Life.
Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
Speaker 1: I actually watched this the other day if you're looking
Speaker 1: for it is on YouTube, really poor quality. I just
Speaker 1: was laughing out loud. It was so funny because there's
Speaker 1: a series The Worst Week of My Life. So this
Speaker 1: is the Christmas version obviously, where Howard his in laws
Speaker 1: are very toffee and he just seems to stuff everything up. Also,
Speaker 1: I want to recommend Grumpy Old Women Christmas. I found
Speaker 1: the DVD in Goolwar at an op shop. We need
Speaker 1: to watch it on Christmas Eve. I reckon it's so funny.
Speaker 1: I recently watched I Think It's Jingle all the Way
Speaker 1: with Arnold Swartzenegger where he has to find his son
Speaker 1: this action figure that's basically sold out everywhere at Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so funny. I think I used to fall asleep
Speaker 1: in that one, but you've got to persist and watch
Speaker 1: to the end. It's very unbelievable. But my recommendation other
Speaker 1: than National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is Christmas with the Cranks.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that. I think it's on It was actually
Speaker 1: on Netflix, so well, thank you mom and Dad for
Speaker 1: making this morning a bit more Christmas in. I do
Speaker 1: hope everyone has enjoyed. It was a little bit off
Speaker 1: topic of influences, but we do hope you have a
Speaker 1: very merry Christmas. We will move back to our regular
Speaker 1: scheduling next week. We may be a day or two
Speaker 1: late after Boxing Day, but we will be back to
Speaker 1: our regular show and we aren't taking a break for
Speaker 1: Christmas like every other podcast. So you've got to be
Speaker 1: of a Burncy. Yeah, you can rely on us for
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