Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show, Melbourne's Gold one oh four
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Speaker 2: If you can hear these words, it means that the
Speaker 2: phone system is down. We've tried everything to stay alive
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Speaker 2: hear my words? This is the end of the world,
Speaker 2: The end of the world. Friends, The phones are down.
Speaker 2: Patsy's done her normal bit of the Queen of positivity
Speaker 2: on the show. Simply came wondering and went, heads, will
Speaker 2: have to roll the news the news phone. The news
Speaker 2: phone was down yesterday, which meant I couldn't call out
Speaker 2: and get free red carpet to ket to me and
Speaker 2: my family the bat phones dead heads, well have to wrong?
Speaker 2: Why were you fired from that job at Gold? One day?
Speaker 2: The pommy guy couldn't take a phone call, so I
Speaker 2: had to go.
Speaker 3: The news reader said I had to go.
Speaker 2: She called it head after roll, friends, not just that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if phrases winding me up. You know,
Speaker 2: I can't stand to lose a great call story, so
Speaker 2: phrases texted in here. The only way we can communicate
Speaker 2: this morning is through smoke signals with you and text
Speaker 2: messages collect our producer. They can also leave messages on Facebook.
Speaker 2: That's what you kind of RSL community radio stations do.
Speaker 2: Come on, we can't be reduced to that. But Phrases
Speaker 2: has texted in here going I have a seriously funny
Speaker 2: story to tell you, guys. Phraser, you're making it worse late.
Speaker 2: Just during that five second jingle, passes five three people
Speaker 2: they've gone. We don't even know what they do. We
Speaker 2: might need to rehire them. Pass by lunchtime. But they're
Speaker 2: being marched out the building right now. How do we
Speaker 2: cope with no phones? We go old school to snail mail.
Speaker 2: It's not it's actually email, electronic mail, your late la
Speaker 2: party emails. Do you know? Was it? Last week on
Speaker 2: the show we were talking about grandparents claim to fame? Ye?
Speaker 2: Do you guys know what a game is called Truego?
Speaker 4: It's like a croquet, is it?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I think it's a proper outside like a mallet. You
Speaker 4: gotta mallet, I think right?
Speaker 2: Okay? Good morning, Christian. My Nana's kind of fat. She
Speaker 2: was a True Go superstar. She was a champion in
Speaker 2: South Melbourne True Go Club. She was on television in
Speaker 2: a show that was either called who said Australian TV
Speaker 2: isn't very good. Waight up, what's it called? Name that
Speaker 2: sport or what is that sport? Either name that sport?
Speaker 2: How do you get half an hour? An hour? And
Speaker 2: name that sport? Or what's it called? What is that sport?
Speaker 2: She was very serious about the game. Lots of people
Speaker 2: men wouldn't even want to play her. The high score
Speaker 2: you could get was twenty. She would routinely get nineteen
Speaker 2: or twenty. I love to listen to you guys in
Speaker 2: the morning, full stop, amusing, full stop. Thank you, Linda.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: From what I can tell Google images, trugo is like
Speaker 4: a reverse croquet, so you hit it backward through your legs.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, this is from Luke Christian last week on
Speaker 2: the show. But you're talk about your friend who's bringing
Speaker 2: his dad's ashes or some of them back from London
Speaker 2: here to Melbourne. Yes, they arrived yesterday. I saw a
Speaker 2: picture of his dad's passport photo. I said last week
Speaker 2: how the airliners said, abstutely fine and bringing on some
Speaker 2: of your dad's ashes. You just need to bring his passport,
Speaker 2: even though his dad is no longer physical form.
Speaker 3: And he's only bringing a bit of his dad.
Speaker 2: His dad out, but I'll tell you what he's s
Speaker 2: a spitting image of his ashes saw and he showed
Speaker 2: me the photos yesterday. Christian. We used to have a
Speaker 2: cocker Spaniel called Molly. She was joined at the HIT
Speaker 2: with my wife and when we moved to Australia, we
Speaker 2: to try and work out a way to sneak her
Speaker 2: ashes in and she passed away just we moved out here,
Speaker 2: but we didn't want the bloody authorities taken away. I
Speaker 2: don't think the best way to speak about border patrol.
Speaker 2: It's bloody authorities. I love that Border Patrol show Australian border,
Speaker 2: but it is great, you know what. You actually just
Speaker 2: can't work out how people thought this will be no
Speaker 2: briggie to bring a dead light and Antlerson or something
Speaker 2: into the country. So we don't this isn't. I don't
Speaker 2: know if we can read this out. So we sowed
Speaker 2: the ashes into one of my kid's teddy bears and
Speaker 2: got the kids to take the teddy on the plan.
Speaker 2: I can't use your kid as an ashes mule, sir,
Speaker 2: on the trayer on the plane with us when we
Speaker 2: moved over. Job done. She still has the Teddy bear
Speaker 2: on the dress in the bedroom five years later. Not
Speaker 2: sure if it's weird, but it's up there that the
Speaker 2: dead dog is still inside in the ashes. That's from
Speaker 2: Luke Christian. Are you're talking about pranks you played on
Speaker 2: your dad? Yeah? I still need to get Lois back.
Speaker 2: She said to me the day, Hey, what happened to
Speaker 2: this revenge prank? I told you it's just gonna be
Speaker 2: sad for you. It's gonna be so obvious what you're doing.
Speaker 2: I need some sort of pranks a planner to get
Speaker 2: her back. Otherwise it's like I've got no game anymore.
Speaker 4: Revenge is best so cold, though, So I think it's
Speaker 4: good that you put some distance between her prank on you.
Speaker 2: So wait five years.
Speaker 4: I still do it by the end of the week
Speaker 4: so we can hear about it on the show.
Speaker 2: Not that long, Kristin pranks you played. We used to
Speaker 2: have this table in our living room. It's only small,
Speaker 2: about four foot in length, and it had screw on
Speaker 2: legs in Everyone mom and dad have a table with
Speaker 2: screw on legs. Daddy used it all the time for
Speaker 2: his tea and biscuits. So one day I loosened one
Speaker 2: the legs while he was in the kitchen taking up
Speaker 2: a nice plate of biscuits, making a cup of tea
Speaker 2: after day at work. I heard him coming and I
Speaker 2: raced up to my room. That's where pranks are best
Speaker 2: to join from, aren't they up in your bedroom? Waiting
Speaker 2: for the swearing and chaos to begin. I couldn't stop
Speaker 2: giggling at this impending doom that was about to befall him.
Speaker 2: Great word there, Anthony. All I heard was a clutter
Speaker 2: of cutlery and a series of really loud f bombs,
Speaker 2: and then another expleted as they came down to see
Speaker 2: not only tea splashed over the floor, but sadly all
Speaker 2: the tea had gone onto his poor groin area as well.
Speaker 2: He was actually holding his groin in crying in pain.
Speaker 2: But it was still a great prank that comes from
Speaker 2: Anthony Christian. I get that the tin fall on the
Speaker 2: top is annoying for Jack. These are ideas to stop
Speaker 2: Jack's dog from getting up on the kitchen top. But
Speaker 2: doesn't she jump on the bench first then go up
Speaker 2: to the worktop.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a built in bench seat, so it's actually
Speaker 4: as long as the bench top. So I guess we
Speaker 4: could stuck up chairs or something on there.
Speaker 2: But it would you put the tin four on the bench.
Speaker 2: But still like many years on there, She's not gonna
Speaker 2: like that. But then you roll it away when you
Speaker 2: come home.
Speaker 4: So every morning, I mean I get up, We get
Speaker 4: up a quarter to five every morning. Put some aluminium
Speaker 4: foil out. Yeah, roll it out too hard, try.
Speaker 2: Christian Harry goes on to say he's got very well
Speaker 2: behave spaniels. That is a great shut up line for
Speaker 2: any single guys out. They just go up to a
Speaker 2: lar and go I've got very well behaved Spaniels. Thank
Speaker 2: you Harry for your email.
Speaker 1: Look Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show, Melbourne's Gold one oh four
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Speaker 2: We're doing our last movie coup of the year, one
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Speaker 2: Cannabase and Prosecco and our Lovely Company as well and
Speaker 2: a great funny Christmas movie with Will fell. So what
Speaker 2: we're doing giving away these last twelve seats is on
Speaker 2: five top of Tuesday, a Christmas special the last half
Speaker 2: an hour. The phones have penned down, so we've just
Speaker 2: rebooted them. The phones are now working so we could
Speaker 2: take your great stories. So it's an all Christmas special
Speaker 2: last week of the show this year, it's an all
Speaker 2: Christmas special today on five Topic Tuesday. Here are the
Speaker 2: five topics that we're looking for your stories on. You
Speaker 2: only had it a few minutes. Who's got a sad story?
Speaker 2: You got that amazing present you wanted on Christmas Day?
Speaker 2: Within hours it was broken. Jack tell us the sad
Speaker 2: story about Inspector Gadget.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had lots of moving part. His neck would extend,
Speaker 4: his hat would open, but his hand would shoot off
Speaker 4: like a rocket, and we lost his hand in the bush.
Speaker 3: Never found it again.
Speaker 2: It's a very Australian kind of injury. He lost his
Speaker 2: hand in the bush. Unique Christmas traditions that only your
Speaker 2: family have. What are you? Unique Christmas to days that
Speaker 2: only your family carry out? The toy that got away?
Speaker 2: What's that toy that you asked for but then you
Speaker 2: didn't get. They gave you something else. They ignored what
Speaker 2: you wanted and got you something cheaper or worse. The
Speaker 2: toy that got away? You still think about it to
Speaker 2: this day. Who's that guy unwanted or uninvited Christmas guests?
Speaker 2: And what's the oldest Christmas present you still own?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: Despite the the phone's been down, we have had some
Speaker 2: people been emailed in the show for five to its
Speaker 2: Tuesday Christian. A couple years ago, I got my husband
Speaker 2: he wanted a remote control buggy for Christmas, so I
Speaker 2: went and brought it. It's a very expensive thing. I
Speaker 2: took it to my parents' house to hire it to
Speaker 2: Christmas Day and I was showing my dad and my
Speaker 2: dad said, let's get it out and have a play
Speaker 2: with it now. So we pulled it out. This thing
Speaker 2: was really powerful and quick. We were playing with it
Speaker 2: for about ten minutes and then I had to go
Speaker 2: and accidentally flipped it over and smashed the bumper. This
Speaker 2: is amazing. So you haven't even given it to your
Speaker 2: husband and you've broken it. My dad tried to fix
Speaker 2: it with glue. We then repackaged it all up. I
Speaker 2: re wrapped it and on Christmas I handed it to
Speaker 2: my husband. He went out to play with it, and
Speaker 2: again the bumper fell off within a couple of minutes
Speaker 2: and we said nothing, thank you very much, Karen Christian.
Speaker 2: This is a story about a broken Christmas present. It
Speaker 2: was all my fault. I broke my daughter's Christmas present.
Speaker 2: After about ten minutes she opened it. It was one of
Speaker 2: those Barbie fairies with wings. Just imagine that, right, you're
Speaker 2: a little girl. And he prayed of getting your Barbie
Speaker 2: with wings letters let us, let us still, Christian. It
Speaker 2: was a Barbie fairy with wings. You would insert a
Speaker 2: plastic pull string and pull it to make Barbie fly.
Speaker 2: My daughter tried it a few times, couldn't get enough
Speaker 2: gumption going. I then said, hand it here, you're not
Speaker 2: doing it properly. I tried to show it how it
Speaker 2: should be done. Christian'm afraid to say I pulled it
Speaker 2: too hard. Barbie hit the roof, bounce off the TV
Speaker 2: stand and broke her wings. Barbie couldn't fly anymore. My
Speaker 2: daughter was in tears all Christmas day. Dear, oh, dear Simon.
Speaker 2: All right, give us a call nine four one O
Speaker 2: four to three lines and now open for the Ald
Speaker 2: Christmas Special off time five top of Tuesday. We'll take
Speaker 2: your stories next.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell breakfast Show Melbourne's Gold one oh four
Speaker 1: point three.
Speaker 2: So it's a five Top of Tuesday Christmas special this morning,
Speaker 2: all stories to do with Christmas, and the five phones
Speaker 2: are what is the oldest present you still own? Who's
Speaker 2: that guy? Unwanted or uninvited Christmas guests? The toy that
Speaker 2: got away? You know, the one toy that you wanted,
Speaker 2: you asked for, maybe you wrote to Santa for and
Speaker 2: then what turned up was not what you requested normally
Speaker 2: for me, a cheaper or crapper version, unique Christmas traditions
Speaker 2: that only your family do, and you only had it
Speaker 2: for a few minutes, Like Paul Simon's daughter and the
Speaker 2: broken Barbie that couldn't fly anymore Christian. I still got
Speaker 2: Fozzy Bear my first Christmas gift when I was nine
Speaker 2: nine months forty two years ago. That's incredible. And someone
Speaker 2: else has still got their Rupert the Bear annuals from
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty eight and nineteen sixty nine. They'd be worth
Speaker 2: quite a bit of money. And I don't know about you, Pats,
Speaker 2: but I found Rupert the Bear one of the most
Speaker 2: disturbing and terrifying things from my childhood.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we had him out here, did we?
Speaker 2: Oh, you must have done, sort of a strange kind
Speaker 2: of albino bear in sort of checked pants. And he
Speaker 2: had a mate with him who was a gnarly sort
Speaker 2: of twig called Rackety or something used to give everyone nightmares.
Speaker 4: I remember Ruperah, Actually he did come here.
Speaker 2: Did he look at him?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Stuff, No he's not you are you looking at that
Speaker 2: photo with his twig mate.
Speaker 3: No, he's just a cartoon character.
Speaker 4: A white bear with yellow stuff.
Speaker 2: Albino bear and the red roll neck and the yellow
Speaker 2: check pants. And then I had a terrifying TV theme
Speaker 2: tune as well, Ruper Rupert the Bear. He knows your name.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Helen.
Speaker 7: Good morning morning guys, love the show.
Speaker 2: Oh bless you head, and thank you very much thanksgiving
Speaker 2: us to cool this morning. Which Christmas story are you
Speaker 2: calling about this morning? House?
Speaker 8: About the unique Christmas tradition?
Speaker 2: Oh great, what's it for you guys?
Speaker 8: So my family, we've always lived on the main road,
Speaker 8: no matter which house we've lived here. So every year
Speaker 8: we have a tradition where everyone dresses like somebody has
Speaker 8: to dress up as Santa for the year. And that's
Speaker 8: not where it stops.
Speaker 9: So the point is, though, that you have to go out.
Speaker 8: On the main road. You're going to try and make
Speaker 8: as big as a fool of yourself as you can.
Speaker 8: You're got to dance around and see how many cars
Speaker 8: you can get to toot you while you dance along
Speaker 8: the main street dressed at the Santa. And then it's
Speaker 8: always bonus points if you can get the tram driver
Speaker 8: or someone to kind of toot you or wave at you,
Speaker 8: So bonus points for trams. If you can get more trams,
Speaker 8: the better.
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what, it is a nice tradition,
Speaker 2: isn't it. It's a lot of effoot as well, but
Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well it brings a lot of cheer to the neighborhood.
Speaker 8: You'd see the little kids in the car's way started.
Speaker 3: And how do you choose who goes in the suit?
Speaker 8: Well, last year it was my brother, so maybe it
Speaker 8: might be this year my turn. So we'll have to
Speaker 8: see how that plays out.
Speaker 2: So if it was me, I'd be tempted to maybe
Speaker 2: show a different side to Santo and just drop my
Speaker 2: car stop mooning at people. Go oh god, kids don't
Speaker 2: see Santa like that. Why Santa vomiting into a bin?
Speaker 2: All right? Helen, Thank you very much and cool.
Speaker 10: All right, thank you.
Speaker 2: Alana, Hi, hi Nana. Welcome to the show. What's your
Speaker 2: story for us? This morning?
Speaker 11: We had an.
Speaker 9: Unwanted guest Christmas. Unfortunately no one else would take you uncle,
Speaker 9: and we've well we've unfotunately got it. And we were
Speaker 9: sitting down at the Christmas table. So we've been talking
Speaker 9: and eating for a while. And during the dinner he
Speaker 9: sent to my sister and said who are you? And
Speaker 9: she was twenty two. He'd don't know for years.
Speaker 2: Or you can do a whole phone in one day
Speaker 2: about uncles. I don't think a lot of those stories
Speaker 2: are broadcast or what. There's something about uncles, isn't There
Speaker 2: often strange characters uncles slash inappropriate as well. There and
Speaker 2: a lot of families have got a strange uncle in
Speaker 2: the mix. Alana, that's a great one. Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for giving us a call. All right, thank you,
Speaker 2: thanks all.
Speaker 11: Mary, Hello, Kristin, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good, Mary, welcome to the show and I watch
Speaker 2: your story first morning.
Speaker 11: Well, our story is that from the late eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 11: we make my late grandmother's Christmas pudding and we include
Speaker 11: the old shillings and pens from pre decimal pre nineteen
Speaker 11: sixty six from Australia. Yes, and you can only use
Speaker 11: those otherwise they're poisonous. So each year I have to
Speaker 11: boil them and each and put them in the pudding.
Speaker 11: My pudding's hanging. Now you have to hang it for
Speaker 11: six to eight weeks on the hook and then you
Speaker 11: warm it up on Christmas Day. Now you cut through
Speaker 11: and you get the coin, but I have to buy
Speaker 11: it back from everybody otherwise I don't have the coins
Speaker 11: to keep the tradition going. So it's really fun and
Speaker 11: it's such a yummy recipe.
Speaker 2: And this has been going on since the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 11: Yes, the late eighteen hundreds. My late grandmother had got
Speaker 11: it from you beforehand, and luckily that's mum had it
Speaker 11: written down and I made it a few times with
Speaker 11: my late mum and I in longhand wrote down all
Speaker 11: the steps to ensure that I could keep the recipe
Speaker 11: into its original form.
Speaker 2: What a wonderful tradition to keep alive and do all
Speaker 2: these generations of your family. Tell me what does it
Speaker 2: taste like? Because obviously a lot of those older recipes
Speaker 2: they were using food stuff that they had around a
Speaker 2: different scarcity. Does it taste nice?
Speaker 11: It tastes so nice. It's so rich with the beautiful
Speaker 11: Australian sultanas and currants.
Speaker 6: And that in it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's and of course you put a lot of
Speaker 11: brandy in it.
Speaker 2: That's it, and you step far to it.
Speaker 11: No, no, not yet already when I cook you. If
Speaker 11: I'm not careful, the alarm goes off.
Speaker 7: So though if I did that, we.
Speaker 2: Would all right, Mary, that's lovely, thank you very much
Speaker 2: to give us a call. Thank you all right? So
Speaker 2: the five tours today, if your Christmas stories are, what's
Speaker 2: the oldest present used to own? Who's that guy I wanted?
Speaker 2: An uninvited Christmas guest? The toy that got away? Unique
Speaker 2: Christmas editions that your family have and you only had
Speaker 2: it for a few minutes. The Christmas toy that broke
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day?
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell breakfast show, Melbourne's Gold one oh four
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Speaker 2: Five to Tuesday. We've done a Christmas theme one today.
Speaker 2: You only had it a few minutes. About toys that
Speaker 2: broke on Christmas Day, like Jack's Little Inspector, gadget, Christmas
Speaker 2: traditions only your family have the toy that got away?
Speaker 2: You know, the one that you begged mom and dad for,
Speaker 2: you worked to Christmas, Father Christmas for and then you
Speaker 2: never got at Your parents got something else in there instead.
Speaker 2: Who's that guy you've had none wanted on an uninvited
Speaker 2: Christmas guest? And what's the oldest Christmas present you still
Speaker 2: own to this day? Any of those? Give us a
Speaker 2: call nine four one four, one oh four to three
Speaker 2: before the news they squeezing a few of you. Lisa,
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Hello Lisa, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in. Which one are you calling in about? Mate?
Speaker 6: The present that got away?
Speaker 2: Brilliant? What did you ask for? What did you want?
Speaker 6: My brother and sister and I asked for it. Tampoline?
Speaker 6: What did you And we got a trampoline and we
Speaker 6: got to the back door and my dad was jumping
Speaker 6: on it and then did a bum drop and went
Speaker 6: straight through it.
Speaker 2: I could visualize it. Then the old man, he's had
Speaker 2: a couple of eggnogs, big belly of Christmas turkey and stuffing,
Speaker 2: and then the trampoline is no match for Dad. The
Speaker 2: trampoline quit on the spot and Dad went through a
Speaker 2: bum drop. As well. So I think he's on the
Speaker 2: Olympic moves and now they're synchronized. Bum drop, Lisa. That's
Speaker 2: a great story. Thank you very much for giving us
Speaker 2: a call. And you're more the welcome to come and
Speaker 2: join us tonight for ELF if you're around.
Speaker 9: Fantastic, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Great, we see you down there.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's got a Sue good morning, Sue.
Speaker 10: Hello, Hi guys.
Speaker 12: Hell are you Yeah?
Speaker 2: We're good Sue. That's the cooler show off you go.
Speaker 13: I've got the one that didn't last too long. A
Speaker 13: two years ago, we were doing the right thing and
Speaker 13: bought ol boys those twelve vaults car things that you
Speaker 13: can herber in in the backyard.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've seen those. They look greatful.
Speaker 4: It's easy one that they actually get in.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, like little Lamborghinis and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: And so we did the right thing night before, change
Speaker 13: the batteries up and everything. The kids were herbing around
Speaker 13: the backyard and both of them burst into flames. But both.
Speaker 2: This story went quite real soon and then the kids are.
Speaker 13: All right, We're fine. The kids were fine. Kids were fine.
Speaker 2: Yes, yet recall.
Speaker 13: And it wasn't much to recall me.
Speaker 2: I mean I guess they're getting the full driving experience
Speaker 2: with Lamborghinis. I mean they can be dangerous cars, but
Speaker 2: that what excitement on Christmas Day? Yeah?
Speaker 10: Pretty much.
Speaker 2: And with the boys, okay, did they find it fine?
Speaker 13: They were quite young. I think they are about five
Speaker 13: and three maybe at the time age.
Speaker 2: To be trapped.
Speaker 3: In five, they're too young to remember.
Speaker 2: The trauma come back.
Speaker 3: Itself in different ways.
Speaker 13: I'm thinking that's why Weatherson drives like a maniac.
Speaker 2: Now, all right, so that's a great one, Sue. Do
Speaker 2: you want to come and watch Elf with us tonight?
Speaker 13: Unfortunately I can't. I'm sorry, so please pay it forward?
Speaker 2: Will I pay for it?
Speaker 13: Have an amazing Christmas guys, and.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you very very much, very sweet. Dennis.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, big d Okay, wish
Speaker 2: when are calling it about Dennis?
Speaker 7: I'm telling him about the gift that I never got.
Speaker 2: What didn't you get? What did you? First of all,
Speaker 2: what did you want? Dennis?
Speaker 7: Well, I was raised in a really strict religious household,
Speaker 7: and I was asking for years and years and years
Speaker 7: to get a toy gune, but my parents would never
Speaker 7: agree to it. And then one day they said, oh yeah,
Speaker 7: we'll get it for you this Christmas really psyched up
Speaker 7: waiting for Christmas and then my person came out and
Speaker 7: it was really thin, unrepped with bloody thinking comics.
Speaker 2: I used to love tinting comics, but it is no
Speaker 2: toy gun for a kid. And like I said, Thinness,
Speaker 2: lets you know that disappointment is contained with.
Speaker 7: Yourself.
Speaker 2: For seventy special spike gun that they would try and
Speaker 2: get on a plane or undetected.
Speaker 7: I can still feel the disappointment, Christians.
Speaker 2: It stays with you, doesn't It leaves a mark on your.
Speaker 7: Soul, never goes away. So enough having to make my
Speaker 7: own toy guns, and I think they're better than the
Speaker 7: ones I could possibly buy.
Speaker 2: But that's even more terrifying. A boy that you see
Speaker 2: playing who's got a homemade gun. Watch that kid, he's
Speaker 2: on a watch list. All right, Dennis, you've actually coming
Speaker 2: tonight and have a drink with us and watching ELF.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it sounds like a plan.
Speaker 2: Excellent. We paid it forward. Dennis, will see you down
Speaker 2: there tonight. Thank you very much. All the great stories
Speaker 2: are coming through. Christmas Special on five top of Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Christian and talk this morning about the Christmas Day toy
Speaker 2: that didn't last long. They got broken. When I was younger,
Speaker 2: all I wanted for Christmas was a penny skateboard. On
Speaker 2: Christmas morning, I got the penny board, went to the
Speaker 2: local park to test it out. I was having a
Speaker 2: little bit of trouble using it, so my dad decided
Speaker 2: to show me.
Speaker 3: So much harder than you think to write.
Speaker 2: And how many stories have you got about? And then
Speaker 2: Dad got hold of it like the Barbie fairy that
Speaker 2: he just got too much of it, yanked to and
Speaker 2: her wings flew off. He got on and started moving it,
Speaker 2: but we just heard about the dad doing the bum
Speaker 2: and drop and the trampoline, breaking it before his kids
Speaker 2: could even get on it. On Christmas Day, here goes Sunday.
Speaker 2: We tried to super glue with this great work, but
Speaker 2: then my granddad prefers to his car one. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: it ruined my I was five, Christian. I'm in my fifties.
Speaker 2: I still still dread Christmas the nightmares of the penny
Speaker 2: baarning broken twice. You got two sets of fathers, two
Speaker 2: generations of fathers, Sophie. That's incredible. Kylie has got two
Speaker 2: stories here. Unusual Christmas traditions One year, my family went
Speaker 2: to carols by candlelight at the Mayor Music Bowl and
Speaker 2: it was rained out. The only thing still dry was
Speaker 2: the contents of our eski, which contained booze and food.
Speaker 2: So we went home, got changed, and I had a
Speaker 2: fresh picnic blanket on the front room floor and ate
Speaker 2: off that. Every year since my now grown up children,
Speaker 2: this is lovely. Every year since my now grown up
Speaker 2: children love to set the pink blanket picnic blanket on
Speaker 2: the floor and have picnic food and watch carols by.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful story. And then who's that guy? For dinner?
Speaker 2: When I was young, my mother asked me to invite
Speaker 2: the family from across the road. They were quite isolated
Speaker 2: and deeply religious for Christmas dinner, which was our main
Speaker 2: sort of roast dinner. I accidentally invited them and at
Speaker 2: one point, you're in the mill, one of the children
Speaker 2: in the family started singing Happy Birthday Jesus. My grandmother
Speaker 2: yelled out, bless him, he thinks, bless him, he thinks
Speaker 2: it's someone's birthday. Got to know of this kid. All
Speaker 2: good signs for the rest of the Christmas dinner, and
Speaker 2: soon my mum was mortified. We've in all being told
Speaker 2: to be on our best behavior with our religious neighbors.
Speaker 2: We never saw them again. We invited them around a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks later, but they refused to come. Kylie,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. Let's go to Kelly. Good morning,
Speaker 2: Hi Christian, Hey Kelly, welcome to the show. Which one
Speaker 2: are you calling in about?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 10: The one that got away?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, what toy did you want?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 10: It was my kids. They were given a giant remote
Speaker 10: control shark that was inflated with heliums and they took
Speaker 10: it outside and it floated away and the remote troll
Speaker 10: did absolutely nothing. But the next day there was a
Speaker 10: story on the news about a pilot in christ Church
Speaker 10: that was startled by a giant flying shark.
Speaker 4: Do you think it can really travel that far?
Speaker 10: Possibly because it floated away really really quick.
Speaker 2: Balloons, don't you? They go for miles crossin over there.
Speaker 2: That's a great one, Ketty, thank you very much. You cool?
Speaker 2: Thank you by Michelle. Hello, Michelle, off you go. What's
Speaker 2: your story for us?
Speaker 12: I got the one that got away? Santa got in
Speaker 12: our children a trampoline, one of those lightweight ones with
Speaker 12: the net and it was a stormy, really really stormy
Speaker 12: Christmas morning and went outside to see what Santa has gosh,
Speaker 12: and the trampoline was gone and it was over. It
Speaker 12: had gone over the.
Speaker 8: Then into the paddy.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was all ripped, all the netting results and
Speaker 12: the youngest burst into tears because you know, he was
Speaker 12: that was his Christmas present.
Speaker 2: Center didn't bore it down.
Speaker 3: Were the pegs.
Speaker 13: Amateur there, just putting the pegs, But anyway it got
Speaker 13: patched up and all that.
Speaker 12: But yeah, it was quite funny. He's just completely gone.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Michelle. Thanks for killing him.
Speaker 12: Mane, thank you.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's squeeze one more quarter in Jackie, good morning. Hi,
Speaker 2: how are you christ I'm good jack and I hope
Speaker 2: you well. Thanks for giving us a call this morning.
Speaker 2: So you've got a story about the toy that got away?
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, so many years ago I wanted Amulven bicycle.
Speaker 5: They were the bicycles that were in at the time,
Speaker 5: and my dad decided that, you know, obviously money was
Speaker 5: a big tight so he braked entered Machister's old bicycle
Speaker 5: instead put new grips and new pedals on it.
Speaker 9: So that was a fiscal I got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you know what. I bet there are so
Speaker 2: many people who've got stories about hand me downs that
Speaker 2: were repurposed and regifted, repackaged and repainted to make it
Speaker 2: look like to a simpler child with the smaller brain,
Speaker 2: this was a brand new, shiny gift just for them.
Speaker 2: I bet there are so many people listening to this
Speaker 2: going yeah, that happened to me most Christmas as well.
Speaker 2: If you were a younger brother or sister, Jackie, thank
Speaker 2: you very much, you cat you fantacy coming to Elf tonight.
Speaker 5: Yes, that would be grown. I'd love to bring my
Speaker 5: daughter with me.
Speaker 2: Please do yep, bring whoever you want. We see down
Speaker 2: there for a drink and a love tonight.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
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