WEBVTT - A Very Outspoken Christmas 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:04.280 Hello, and welcome to a very outspoken Christmas. It's the 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.320 most magical time of the year, so we thought it 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.880 was time to get in the festive spirit and talk 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 all things Christmas with our mum and dad. Welcome Mom 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.840 and Dad. Now our listeners might remember that Mum is 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.320 probably sorry, Dad's already falling her face. But our mum 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:20.639 is the biggest supporter of this show. She knows the 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.040 old intro word by word. But Dad, you didn't know 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.079 the name of this show until a little while ago. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.480 Can we put you on the spot? What is it? 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:32.960 Signed? 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.800 With our spoken? 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.640 Correct? Now? Last Christmas we did have two engagements, so 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.400 both Brandon and Dale came to you. Dad asked for 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.800 your permission, and you didn't exactly know when Dale was 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.760 going to propose, but you knew that Brandon was going 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.720 to propose on Christmas Eve. What was your reaction when 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.120 Amy walked into Christmas Eve dinner with a ring on? 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.639 I knew what had happened because Dale came and asked me. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.240 Yeah, but did he say Christmas Eve? 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:00.560 No? 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.480 But I thought it was fairly obvious. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.720 And did you say, did you think that Brandon was 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.080 going to ask Christmas Eve as well? Because didn't he 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:07.640 bring you up? 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.520 I believe that he did actually say Christmas Eve? 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.360 Oh so you so you actually knew that both were 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:14.720 going to propose on Christmas Eve? 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:16.000 I think so? Yes? 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.920 Did you think to be like, oh shit, actually Brandon, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.920 just so you know, I think Dale might be or you. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.039 Just didn't nothing to do with me? 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:27.880 Did you know anything? Mum? 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.119 I knew absolutely nothing. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.240 I have to say, growing up with your mom and dad, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.800 you did make Christmas very special, even though we used 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.240 to call Mom the Grinch a little bit when we 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.280 were older, because Dad was a little bit more Christmasy 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:40.839 than Mum. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:42.280 You got that right. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.119 Where do you think that came from? 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:44.360 Dad? 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.200 Though? Was that from your parents being super Christmasy? 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.400 Or quite possibly? I believe yes. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.520 So who was it? Was it more Grandma or was 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:52.240 it more Grandpa? 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:52.440 Oh? 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.480 I think it was a combination of both of them. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.680 So, Dad, what were some of your Christmas traditions when 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:57.280 you were a child? 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.720 I was thinking about it this morning, and one stands out. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.480 It's not very exciting, but it's just something that sticks 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.840 in my mind. Was every Christmas morning wake up to 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:12.040 a heavy cellophane Christmas stocking filled with a few little goodies, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.840 but there was always an orange in it. No idea 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:17.640 why there was. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.880 I've only just heard like the other day that it's 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.080 meant to be at the bottom of your stocking. Yeah, 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:23.960 is that just an Australian thing or do you think 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:24.400 it's English? 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.200 Because I think it might be English. 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.600 Yeah, custom What about you? What were your traditions? 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.400 One of them that I remember is we did have 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.240 a pillow case at the end of our bed rather 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.280 than a stocking. So every Christmas morning when I was little, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.359 I would wake up and unwrap the gifts and then 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.280 I wrap them up again and pretend I hadn't seen them, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.160 so that when we were allowed to come out and 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.639 actually open the presence, I had to put on some 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:52.600 acting skills. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.480 So how come we didn't get a stocking or pillowcase 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.960 on our beds? You always put them under the tree. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.400 What made you change it? Probab because you kept opening 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.040 them and yeah, because you couldn't control yourself. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.600 Probably I just thought it was cute because I guess 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.560 the three of you running down the hall with your 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.680 father with a very old camera videoing you. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.840 Was kind of Yeah, it was the only time we 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.079 had fun. Bit. I remember the only time we woke 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.160 up really early was probably Christmas morning, and I remember 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.440 we'd run into your room, Mum, and you were still 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.560 in bed. I think Dad was up and we'd be like, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.400 can we please open the presents? And you'd be like, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.040 Dad has to set up the camera and it would 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.600 take so long, and you'd have the door closed and 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.520 we'd just be waiting at the door so excited. Why 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.360 did it take you something to set the camera up there? 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:41.240 Ah, because there was a lot of technology involved, fiddling 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.400 about making sure it was in the right position, the 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:44.880 right height, all that sort of stuff. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.280 I feel like we should share some snippets from some 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.560 of those Christmas videos because they're pretty epic, especially Mum, 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.880 when you had to pretend that you really liked those 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.520 were the happy pants that Dad got pants. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.200 They were atrocious. And I remember seeing a very good 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.680 friend of mine at Mitchen shopping Center wearing said happy 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.800 pants for the first and only time, being so embarrassed 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:06.400 to see. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.000 What about what is the best and worst Christmas present 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:10.880 you've ever received? 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:11.520 Dad? 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.120 Worst gift? 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:18.440 Somebody used to give me a book every year, which 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.880 was all very us but because I basically read for 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.320 a profession, I didn't actually do much reading for leisure. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.960 Can I put it out there? Why that there's gas, 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.520 because that's quite offensive because that was our papa's tradition. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.440 Every year he'd give a book, So it does taking 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.880 a swipe there. I love that tradition because Papa got 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.159 us into Harry Potter, But Dad didn't. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:40.880 You used to have a. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.400 Joke that your parents used to give you interesting gifts. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:44.839 Remember the hour you got? 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.599 Oh yes, that was in there older years there when 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.960 they did the sort of early form of online shopping. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.720 I remember your mother gave you some sunglasses one year 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.479 that looked like blowfly glass. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:04:59.839 Shock. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:02.640 Oh. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:07.039 I remember one Christmas, Amy unfortunately got given looked like 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.039 a second hand pottery whale that was chipped and really 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.320 badly rapped. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.919 And I reckon the same person who will remain unnamed 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.279 also gave KOs so I feel like it was a 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:18.760 soap on the rope, but I remember there was some 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.839 kind of pubell, there was something. It was definitely a 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:21.880 secondhand gift. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.159 Also, another gift you girls were given when you're fourteen 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.720 or fifteen were the andies and brass. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.880 Set that you sort of looked at and went, what the. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:34.480 That lingerie thing. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.840 Now, I think this must be a very English tradition 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.000 because our grandma from Chelsea did it. But Dad, can 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.159 you tell us exactly how a Christmas pudding should be 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:42.800 served up? 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.160 It should be served with coins and lucky charms and 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.760 lit on fire and lit on fire with brandy. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.799 So there was a debate. Okay, So I told Dale 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.760 about how we should get some coins prepared for Christmas 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.000 this year, and he didn't know what I was talking about. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.960 So apparently he had no idea that people put coins 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:02.840 in puttings. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.000 Well, you can't use the modern coins because the metals 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:11.360 that they're made of. See old pre decimal type coins 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.359 that you could I would use, which was safe to 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.120 use because they are made of a different metal. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.280 But Grandma put twenty cents in or was it okay? 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.200 Because she'd clean them and boil them and then put 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:22.840 them in after Yes, ok. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.480 If you've cooked them in some of the metal, smart. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.400 Leap show okay, because I remember one Christmas, Auntie Drinda 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.679 had Christmas at her house and she put two dollar 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.520 coins in. And I've never seen our cousins have so 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.520 many serves of Christmas put Now, we got paid out 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.840 at school because we believed in Santa Claus for quite 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.159 a while, probably a lot longer than some of our friends, 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.200 and they were told to continue to lie to us. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.200 When did you realize that Father Christmas wasn't real? 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.640 I don't remember what adre it was, but I think 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.120 it was probably when I heard my mother creeping into 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.479 my room to put the stocking me into the bed. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.640 The traditional should have been earlier. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:01.000 Was that. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.359 I remember, as a young boy going out in the 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.000 backyard when it was dark on Christmas Eve, walking up 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.760 in the sky to see whether I could see Father 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.600 Christmas sleigh and I still do it till the every 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:14.520 day today. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.559 Oh do you remember, I'm gone call and Auntie Daily 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.840 had a Christmas Eve party. I'm not sure why they 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.960 did that because it was a one off, and I 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.680 remember Bindy said our cousin Bindi was like, oh my god, 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.640 I just saw Santa in the sky. And I still 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.560 feel like I can remember seeing a flash of red. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:30.920 It's probably a shooting star. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:31.880 Yeah, probably. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.720 I don't actually remember when I found out the truth 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.520 about Father Christmas, but I do remember you girls were 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.000 quite old, maybe about year five, and I think one 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.320 of your teachers alluded to the fact that potentially if 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.360 other Christmas was not real, and you came home very upset, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.480 and I remember saying, what's the effect, Well, if you 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.080 do not believe, you do not receive. I just remember 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.720 it being really sad that you had to find out 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.119 that way. But having taught are you five class this year, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.280 most of those kids don't believe in Father Chriss, which 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.440 is really sad. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.880 I remember, though, I feel like we were sus on it, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.120 and we used to try and get Father Christmas to 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.360 sign a letter, and we used to ask for his autograph, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.720 and then we told our friends Thomas and Michael, could 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.000 they do the same and we'll compare the signatures. But 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.680 apparently they already knew that Santa wasn't real, and we're 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.840 told by their mum and dad just to go along 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.880 with it. I was gonna say, though, because we didn't 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.720 have Elf on the shelf, how did you make sure 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.800 that we behave? Like? What was the sort of lead 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.920 up with Santa? Was there a lot of threats going on? 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.240 I think your father often would get to the phone 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.480 and was going to call Father Christmas if you went behaving, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.000 So that was you were pretty good. 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:40.400 I had his direct number. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.840 Yeah, I remember vividly remember that we were up late 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.000 one night. I think we were like singing bizarrely to each. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.080 Other, and then you were like, if you ain't shut up, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.160 I'm calling it right now. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.040 And like you pretended that you were on the phone 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.160 to him, and then we try and redial the number 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:56.840 to try and get through to father. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:02.520 You were very clever, you were suspicious. I'm not sure now. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.679 Christmas lights have always been incredibly special to Kate, Sophie 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.000 and I think because of the huge effort Dad you've 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.079 always put into the Christmas lights. What kicked off the 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.880 Christmas light tradition for you? And I able to tell 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.760 us a little bit about the unspoken competition on the street. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.160 I don't know what actually kicked it off. I suppose 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.360 my father would put some lights up out the front, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.960 but not to any great extent. I spoke. Perhaps that 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:32.800 got me interested, or perhaps it was the film Christmas Vacation. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:38.640 I don't know, But in terms of competition on the street, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.600 I was never aware of any competition. Well, maybe it 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.400 was just mine not been the best anywhere. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.760 Well, I think because we started helping you with the 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.000 lights when you sort of refuse to put I suppose 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.000 refuse to go to the level we wanted you to 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.800 go to. And I do remember there was an incident 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.319 where because your house has like a big brush fence 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.520 and some trees out the front, I do remember trying 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:01.920 to cut some branches down. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.200 I remember that, and the shrubs still showing signs of 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:06.079 that mutilation. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.439 I remember though. It was about three o'clock and we 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.040 didn't realize you were coming home early from your work 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.840 as a teacher, and just the fear when I saw 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.240 you drive in. We were like halfway through cutting this 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.520 branch down. You ran out the back like you ran 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.800 behind the houses. So we've got this alley way behind 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.600 the house, and Amy ran and dragged the huge bush 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.200 behind it, and you lost it dub when you got home. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.720 Actually, I'm going to raise the point now. You mentioned 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:36.240 that once I tired of actually putting the many, many 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:41.480 many lights up every year, and you took over from me. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.720 You took over from us from a certain extent, because 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.120 you would put them up, but when it came time 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:54.319 for them to be taken down, there was no sight 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.719 of you anywhere seen. And that's why in the end 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.040 I cut it right back, because I remember being at 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.840 the top of a very high ladder, wabbling in the wind, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.760 taking down lights, and I thought, what the hell am 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:08.720 I doing up here? 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.800 We always seemed to be we'd always seemed at that 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.240 time to be on holiday, like we'd be in Penang 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:18.440 or something. Just by pure I've got a bone to 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.719 pick with you as well. Why did you get rid 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.640 of the real tree, because as soon as we moved 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.600 out of home you refuse to do it. And I 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.520 need to ask if we organized a tree to be 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.320 dropped off and picked up at your house, would you 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.040 swap over back to the real tree. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.320 No. Why Beside the hassle going out and actually getting it, 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.480 the real hassle was getting the damn thing to stand up. 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.720 And you could almost bet that the day of the 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.000 tree was to be put up would be a hot, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.800 humid day, and so I'd be wrestling with this bloody 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.000 Christmas tree trying to get it. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.520 So that was a tradition. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:51.480 To see how it might have. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.880 Been the tradition, But I am now past the age 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.920 which I wished to do that more. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.319 It's because you had literally the flimsiest holder had to 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.480 be held on with like a rubber band. This one 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.280 that I've got it's Papa's old one. It just slots 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.839 right in. What about if you upgrade to a bow 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.400 some hill Christmas tree? Because I feel like your Christmas 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.160 tree is looking a bit shit. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:18.559 Oh wow, I'm offender, right, Kate, We'll get a bouill 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.320 tree when one of you has all right. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.679 Deal Kate, Kate, you'll take that off our hands. You're 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.520 getting married to take one for the team. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.319 One thing I will say about the lights, Hugh did 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.640 a great job for about twenty five years, maybe so. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.920 Once the lights didn't go on was when people in 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.800 the neighborhood started to complain. No one said at the time, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.439 what great lights. It's got a couple over the years. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.160 But as soon as the lights went on, people. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.880 Were complaining, where are your lights? 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.880 Because we always bring our children past your house and 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:49.800 your lights aren't there. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.480 So this week at work, Sophie and I were chatting 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.240 to one of our clients and he had a little 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.720 bit of a dilemma. He was asking us, how much 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.600 do you think you should spend on a child for Christmas? 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.440 So he's got two kids. His wife wanted to spend 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.240 five hundred dollars on each kid. One of these kids 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.640 was two and a half years old. What do you 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.760 think is a good amount? Because we were saying this 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.640 guy is from Melbourne. We think there's a Melbourne amount 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.680 and maybe an Adelaide amount that people spent. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.160 I think maybe five hundred when they get older, possibly 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.040 maybe teenagers, but I guess it depends for a two 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.240 year old, No way, what do they need that's five 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:26.839 hundred dollars They don't even know. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:28.880 Yeah, I know, and you gets. I was looking up 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.280 toys that came up for some of Resa's friends' kids, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.440 and they're so cheap. You could get heaps of stuff. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.360 I mean maybe when it comes to bikes, but I 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.640 don't think bikes are that expensive anymore because I remember 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.800 one Christmas, you guys got us bikes and Dad put 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.560 them all together. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:44.400 Both of us put them together. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.840 Oh sorry, both of you put them together. And remember 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.920 Sophie's was the wrong one and you only realized once 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:50.840 it was all together. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.480 I still remember putting them together. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:56.240 That was hell because that was the present from Santra 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.840 and you were still young and had to get you 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.600 into bed. And then operation puts three vikes together on Christmas. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.080 So Dad, do you think that's outrageous, though, for someone 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.560 to spend five hundred dollars on their kids, I think 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:11.640 it's a bit I do remember, Mum, there was one 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.000 Christmas Day where your oven blew up and it was 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.000 a little bit stressful. 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.480 I just had a new kitchen done relatively recently, and 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.000 a new oven, and yes Christmas Day, I'm all the 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.920 veggies are in there cooking away, and they really weren't 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.720 cooking because the oven had ceased to work. So I 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.200 remember my brother came out and was frying all the 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.960 getting the fry pans out and putting the potatoes in there, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.360 and I was really upset. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.480 I remember he was trying to calm you down, and 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:39.880 for one second I thought you were going to tell 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.200 him to f off. Like I'd never seen you so angry. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.080 Wasn't a forty degrees that day. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.760 It was hot, and he was about the only one helping. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:47.040 I was. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:47.680 I was helping. 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.360 Oh maybe you could wear that. Lots of other people 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.440 were sitting around, probably thinking where. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.320 Is the food? Dad. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.120 I have a fond memory. I don't know if it 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.000 was this same Christmas Day, but one of the Christmases 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.080 that you hosted, you and Mum, you decided to play 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.720 have a Holy Jolly Christmas on a loop for about 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.400 I think I went for about three hours to see 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.320 if any of Mum's family noticed. Nobody did. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:10.680 That's correct. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.000 Is that your favorite Christmas song? 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.800 I just love it. When we've finished here, I'm going 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.360 to go home and listen to it. Must be burl 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:21.160 Ive's version. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.480 One of my fondest memories is actually of Christmas Eve, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.920 because it would always seem like when we were younger, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.000 we'd all get into this big fight in the day 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.960 because stresses were boiling over. You know, you were getting ready. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.680 We were probably being little shits and fighting, and I 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.760 remember everything would be suddenly okay when the Christmas Carols 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.120 came on, everyone was sort of unite to watch them. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.280 I love the Christmas Carols. You have to watch them 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.360 on Christmas Eve. I remember when you were young, I'd 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.680 rap presence up in front of it. But now my 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.000 ultimate aim is to sit down and watch, particularly Anthony Khlea. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:59.520 I love him sing amongst others, but he's my favorite. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.440 I remember Dad, you would always when High five would 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.480 come on, you would try and make us laugh because 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.680 everyone would have been arguing. Anyway, you come down and 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.040 sometimes you try and replicate that outfit. So I remember 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.680 one year you put garbage bags on as a costume. Yes, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.880 I know it might be hard to pinpoint, but do 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.840 you have a fondest Christmas memory? 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.960 I think it's the getting everything ready for Christmas rather 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.040 than the actual Christmas time Christmas days lovely. I think 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.280 it gets harder now for me, particularly with now that 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.840 my dad's not here and my mum's not particularly well, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.680 because they're the sort of glue that keeps the family together. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.320 So if I could have another Christmas again with my parents, 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:38.200 that would be lovely. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.720 Oh what about a memory from when we were little 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:42.880 that it stands out to you? 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.800 One Christmas we did go to your AUNTI Drinda's place, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.080 which mean says quite a mansion, and she had us 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.000 in the good room, and I was so stressed because 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.040 you were very young and at the age when you 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.920 were dropping food everywhere, thinking oh my goodness. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.640 But anyway, it all worked out work. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.320 I do remember that Christmas. It was amazing because Auntie Drinda, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.280 I don't I think she had it bought in. It 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.320 was the most amazing gingerbread house I've ever seen. It 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.800 was one of those really, really fancy ones, and I 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.879 remember that we were able to take stuff from the 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.840 Gingerbread House and that was pretty amazing. But I do 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.520 have such fond memories obviously of Grandma and Grandpa and 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.080 Nana and Papa hosting Christmas mostly, But this year I'm 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.720 hosting Christmas and I've got some new times. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.800 So excited you are too, well, thank you. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.439 Than I've got a few surprises that Cameron and Stewart 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.560 us have been working on because I feel like it's 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.560 really nice to have old traditions, but we want to 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.320 bring in some new funny ones as well. Dad, what 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.000 is your favorite Christmas memory? 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.360 Oh? There are just so many, but I think one 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.760