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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Very Christmas everyone, Oh.

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Speaker 3: Guys, what was your favorite Christmas present as a kid? Jack?

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Speaker 2: One of my earliest memories actually is getting a cricket

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Speaker 2: bat and ball from my dad for Christmas. And this

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Speaker 2: actually sums up my dad really well. I was playing

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Speaker 2: cricket with him in the hallway of the house and

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Speaker 2: trying to get the bat ball for the first time ever,

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Speaker 2: like just trying to get the hand eye coordination, and

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Speaker 2: my dad finally bold one that I got in sweet

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the bat and went back to

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Speaker 2: him and he caught it. I said, like, that was

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Speaker 2: a good one, Dad, I hit it well, and he goes,

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Speaker 2: not really because I caught you out.

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Speaker 3: Oh that that stuff stays with you.

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Speaker 2: That's my earliest memory.

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Speaker 3: That will change. Now you will become a dad. You'll

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Speaker 3: go the other way. Now you'll go.

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Speaker 1: Australia.

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Speaker 3: Patty, what was your favorite Christmas present as a kid?

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Speaker 1: Mine was my baby Alive doll and I got her

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Speaker 1: when I was about five, and I remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: she was one of those interactive dolls that dirty is

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Speaker 1: her nappy and stuff like.

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Speaker 3: A real markets and this baby soils itself happy and she.

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Speaker 1: Had a you know, you put the bottle in her

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Speaker 1: mouth and she'd drink her bottle.

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Speaker 3: But I remember she sound boots she could come with.

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Speaker 1: She came with all this prepackaged food and I'd already

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Speaker 1: used it all by Boxing day. So then I got

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Speaker 1: moments to make up some mashed potato and pumpkin and

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Speaker 1: I fed her that. Only after a few days she went,

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Speaker 1: you know, she's a bit smelly and it had gone moldy.

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Speaker 2: She's got rotting food inside.

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Speaker 3: Changed a couple of days either I had to throw

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Speaker 3: her out.

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Speaker 1: Well, she was moldy inside. She's staying.

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Speaker 2: Steady alive no more.

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Speaker 3: I had two favorite Chris presents as a kid. First

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Speaker 3: one when I was seven years of age. I was

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Speaker 3: a massive fan. I was obsessed and actually still am

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Speaker 3: as a grown up with Evil Can Evil and you've

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Speaker 3: probably seen the evil can Eevil stunt bite where you

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Speaker 3: had this kind of toy evil on his bike you

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Speaker 3: could wind up and I used to make my own

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Speaker 3: ramps in the garden. I remember being out there Christmas

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Speaker 3: Day and boxing there. Obviously in England it's cold, it's

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Speaker 3: wet like that, but just reving that up and making

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Speaker 3: these jumps, and just like real life Evil, it is

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Speaker 3: a pretty lousy stunt man. But that to me, in

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Speaker 3: my mind, I was with Evil making these ramps. Even

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Speaker 3: the word ramps is childhood to me. I love that

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Speaker 3: toy so much I wish I could still have it.

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Speaker 3: And then for my thirteenth birthday, I got my favorite

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Speaker 3: ever Christmas present. I literally couldn't sleep. I was almost

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Speaker 3: sick the night before because I knew it was coming.

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Speaker 3: And Amaco two two Silver Star with Mushroom Oakley grips.

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Speaker 3: I loved that it was out Christmas Day. My mates

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Speaker 3: got theirs as well. And know when you add your

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Speaker 3: two or three best buddies, I remember being out of midday.

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Speaker 3: I was allowed to go out with two hours before

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Speaker 3: Christmas dinner and we just cycled around the woods be

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Speaker 3: to us. I actually think that's one of my happiest

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Speaker 3: times of my life, to cycle of mates on Christmas

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Speaker 3: Day on our BMX BIS.

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Speaker 2: One thing that we will never get back again is

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Speaker 2: that proper anticipation the night.

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Speaker 3: Before, a feeling in the world. I'll never have it again.

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve, I remember I shared a room with my

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Speaker 2: brother and we just could not get to sleep for

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Speaker 2: hours on end talking about what we might be getting

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Speaker 2: the next day. You'll just never get that feeling back again.

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Speaker 3: I'd say that though, what comes really close and you're

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Speaker 3: going to find this out in the next couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Your journey that starts actually becoming a dad. When you

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Speaker 3: have kids, you do get again. You can feel even

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Speaker 3: though my girls are now fifteen seventeen, they will still

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Speaker 3: be Yeah, they still did the thing they did when

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Speaker 3: they were ten years younger than that, when they grabbed

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Speaker 3: the present and they sort of shake it. I think

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Speaker 3: this is that, and this might be that, so you

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Speaker 3: still can get again. I remember about I think it

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Speaker 3: was eight years ago on Christmas Day. I said there's

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Speaker 3: something I've hidden in this room that we're going to

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Speaker 3: all do this year, and I'd printed off the tickets

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Speaker 3: to go to Disneyland. They knew nothing about it, so

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Speaker 3: they well, I didn't think there was a time. Didn't

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Speaker 3: run that one past. Missus O'Connell just crashed it like

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Speaker 3: the FBI looking for evidence. And then they also got

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Speaker 3: on video somewhere where when they found out what they

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Speaker 3: were they were. You know, think you said as a kid,

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Speaker 3: you would just scream and jump up and down where

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Speaker 3: you were so excited, So you can still capture that

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