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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Very Outspoken Christmas. It's that time of

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Speaker 1: year to crank Mariah Carey in the car and begin

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Speaker 1: your Christmas shopping. Our names are Amy Kate and Sophie Torber.

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Speaker 1: We're identical triplets and during the festive season, we have

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Speaker 1: an identical opinion. Christmas is the most wonderful time of

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Speaker 1: the year. In this special series, we're discussing all things

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Speaker 1: Christmas with help from some influential Australians.

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Speaker 2: For you, Glenn Colco, you go, Glen Cuco. And when

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Speaker 2: Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that Jimney Day,

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Speaker 2: He's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side

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Speaker 2: of the nuthouse.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us for our first

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Speaker 1: episode of a Very Outspoken Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, this is.

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Speaker 1: Literally a career highlight for me getting to speak about

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Speaker 1: Christmas because anyone that knows us knows that we are

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Speaker 1: obsessed with Christmas. Our lives change for the better around

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Speaker 1: mid November. We become nicer people all round. I feel

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Speaker 1: we do. Throughout the years we have been known to

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Speaker 1: drop a lot of money on Christmas decoration. I've got

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Speaker 1: to say we still don't have about some hill Christmas tree.

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Speaker 1: We haven't gone to that extreme of spending one thousand

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Speaker 1: to me last night. Well, I was crunching the numbers,

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Speaker 3: It's not worth it. I got to go.

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Speaker 1: I've got to wait till it's on sale in the

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Speaker 1: of a real Christmas tree. Which, you know what, last night,

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Speaker 1: I was getting so excited because I was googling real

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Speaker 1: with my own Christmas tree choice. So I thought I'd

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Speaker 1: have another Christmas tree competition because us Torbert's we're all

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Speaker 1: about competition. So we will get a listeners to vote

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Speaker 1: on who has the best Christmas tree. Well, I'm just

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Speaker 1: so relieved because finally I am not competing against my

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Speaker 1: hideous red carpet. I will be moved into my new

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Speaker 4: Didn't they then Christmas tree lights so people have to

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Speaker 2: They invented him Russ because people forgot how to have

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Speaker 2: a fun, old fashioned family Christmas and are satisfied with scorny, dead,

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Speaker 1: We should probably get into why we have decided to

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Speaker 1: do a Christmas podcast. It is obvious we are obsessed

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Speaker 1: out to our dad, who really started our pure love

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Speaker 1: for Christmas. It's funny because people who meet our dad

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Speaker 3: You kind of think it was our Mum, wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: You, poor Mum, because dad is so over the top

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Speaker 1: with Christmas. Sometimes she gets called the Grinch because she

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Speaker 1: just say Mum is no longer the Grinch because last

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Speaker 1: Grinch status because that was the coolest Christmas buy I've

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Speaker 1: Well, we should probably get back into Dad, because, as

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Speaker 1: we said, Dad really sparked our love of Christmas. He

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Speaker 1: and it just doesn't have the smell of a real

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Speaker 1: else have those lights? And they play that horrible music,

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Speaker 1: But it just reminds me of Christmas Morning as a

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Speaker 1: the candles, and they have a candle that spells.

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Speaker 1: So if you've got a fake one, I would highly

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Speaker 4: I am against innocent trees being cut down in their

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Speaker 1: When do you guys think it's appropriate to actually start

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Speaker 1: celebrating Christmas. Oh, as early as possible, I think, especially

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Speaker 1: I really think it's when the jacaranda tree start blooming,

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Speaker 1: So as soon as that starts happening, I'm like, oh

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Speaker 1: personally think it's when the Christmas song start playing as well.

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Speaker 1: It was out marrying on the Weekend, which is a

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Speaker 1: was so happy hearing those songs playing. Yeah, we're talking

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Speaker 1: I also do like I'm a big fan of Hillary

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Speaker 1: Michael Boubla of course as well, when you're putting the

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Speaker 1: I love doing cheesecakes and like lots of different desserts.

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Speaker 1: Our Mum always cooks three particular chocolates and I loved

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Speaker 1: Oh, You've got to have cherries as well, I feel

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Speaker 1: like when cherries are around, that is like Christmas time,

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Speaker 1: do you know what I feel like? These it's all

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Speaker 1: about recreating the Christmas that our grandma would put on.

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Speaker 3: What about Advent calendars.

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Speaker 1: So even though it's that crap like cooking chocolate taste,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to health kick this year. So Dale and

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Speaker 1: like a shot of magnesium or something like that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: everyone's going out, you know, creating some really different ones

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, see here, I know him. Well.

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Speaker 1: I think we should go back and kind of reflect

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Speaker 1: I know about other people, but we believed in Santa

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Speaker 1: the Christmas lights. And the worst thing was we did

438
00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,119
Speaker 1: it probably an hour before he was getting home, probably

439
00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,119
Speaker 1: because we hadn't gotten up until like one pm in

440
00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:09,840
Speaker 1: our UNI days, and then we're like, we've only got

441
00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,879
Speaker 1: a small window of time. The worst thing was we

442
00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:13,520
Speaker 1: saw him coming down the street and he used to

443
00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,200
Speaker 1: drive this little green briner.

444
00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,120
Speaker 3: And we were like, oh shit.

445
00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,919
Speaker 1: So we quickly grabbed this branch and we dragged it

446
00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:20,879
Speaker 1: down the side of our house, but we got sprung

447
00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,160
Speaker 1: and Dad was so mad.

448
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:22,639
Speaker 3: That's the thing.

449
00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,520
Speaker 1: While our dad is incredibly merry over Christmas time, he

450
00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,080
Speaker 1: can also be a very scary individual. So he didn't

451
00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,720
Speaker 1: want to be caught in the act of cutting down

452
00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:32,360
Speaker 1: his beloved tree. You've got to say, I don't think

453
00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,960
Speaker 1: Sophie and I were as on board about cutting down

454
00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,439
Speaker 1: the tree. It was really led by Amy. I just

455
00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,120
Speaker 1: remember you being up there and you're like, yeah, this

456
00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,639
Speaker 1: is fine. I don't think Dad's even over it.

457
00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:42,639
Speaker 3: You No, he's not.

458
00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,080
Speaker 1: An thing is I had to saw it down by myself.

459
00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,040
Speaker 1: There's been so many times where I've risked my life

460
00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,440
Speaker 1: as well on the roof putting up Christmas lights.

461
00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,080
Speaker 3: Because Dad told us he was too old to do it. Well,

462
00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:51,920
Speaker 3: there is one rule.

463
00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,840
Speaker 1: We would always put the Christmas lights up when we

464
00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,280
Speaker 1: were old enough to, but we always left them up.

465
00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,440
Speaker 1: Our poor dad had to take them down in February.

466
00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,199
Speaker 1: Lights are one of our most favorite Christmas traditions. Another

467
00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,960
Speaker 1: one is that we have to have a Christmas sleepover

468
00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,840
Speaker 1: with our cousins a few days before Christmas. Otherwise it

469
00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,280
Speaker 1: just doesn't feel like it. So this tradition started when

470
00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,639
Speaker 1: we were about thirteen and our cousins were around like

471
00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,520
Speaker 1: five and seven, and at first it was a little

472
00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,639
Speaker 1: bit of a drag, but it's turned into such a

473
00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,159
Speaker 1: fun thing. So over the years we've done these obstacle

474
00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,879
Speaker 1: courses for our cousins. We've also gone like stayed up

475
00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,639
Speaker 1: till five am and gone and got baby chinos from McDonald's.

476
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,560
Speaker 1: It was because when we were at UNI, we never

477
00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,840
Speaker 1: got up early. We would stay up all night, and

478
00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,480
Speaker 1: we knew that we would not get up early enough

479
00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,120
Speaker 1: to have breakfast at McDonald so we actually just pulled

480
00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,880
Speaker 1: an all nighter. We saw our cousins yesterday and we've

481
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,080
Speaker 1: already been planning to lock in a date for our

482
00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,000
Speaker 1: Christmas sleep over, and there was talk of getting baby Chinos.

483
00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,280
Speaker 1: So I think that's a really great Christmas tradition that

484
00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,600
Speaker 1: we've been able to keep. Okay, we've already discussed we're

485
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,560
Speaker 1: going to be having it at your new house. We

486
00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,119
Speaker 1: just can't be there. We're all going to have a

487
00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,320
Speaker 1: sleepover in the family room. Well that's okay. His parents'

488
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,560
Speaker 1: house is pretty close, so he can go sleep there. Well,

489
00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,360
Speaker 1: I suppose another tradition we have with our cousins late

490
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,000
Speaker 1: night shopping. So in Adelaide, there's really only one night

491
00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,440
Speaker 1: where the shop stays open all night and then all

492
00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:06,160
Speaker 1: into that morning.

493
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:07,359
Speaker 3: Oh how sad do we sound?

494
00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:07,639
Speaker 2: I know.

495
00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,359
Speaker 1: So that day we go with our cousins shopping and

496
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,560
Speaker 1: we always go around like eleven or twelve, and it's

497
00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,119
Speaker 1: the day when our cousin normally buys a present for

498
00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,520
Speaker 1: his girlfriend, which we always have to help him select.

499
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,639
Speaker 1: The funniest thing is when they try and buy something

500
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,560
Speaker 1: for their mum. And one of our cousins, Stewie, he

501
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,760
Speaker 1: is so meticulous with everything, like a decision has to

502
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,480
Speaker 1: be thought over and questioned, and it's like, just get

503
00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,240
Speaker 1: the fucking hands, like it doesn't matter, you know what.

504
00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,639
Speaker 1: My favorite late night shopping memory is when I decided

505
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 1: just out of nowhere to buy a basketball game.

506
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,000
Speaker 3: So it's one of those those two shooter games, and.

507
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,200
Speaker 1: We decided to put it together at like twelve o'clock

508
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,439
Speaker 1: and Sophie, you were trying to get to sleep, and

509
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 1: we would just know I was trying to sleep too,

510
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,239
Speaker 1: because I had to work the next day. Well, I

511
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 1: had a six am shift, and I didn't want to

512
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:53,199
Speaker 1: miss out in the shopping.

513
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 3: I stayed for a bit.

514
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 1: I wake up at four o'clock in the morning to

515
00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 1: this sound of balls hitting against a wall, and I

516
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 1: it was like, what the fuck is going on? And

517
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 1: then I came down in the morning and I was like,

518
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,120
Speaker 1: what is this doing in our family room?

519
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,119
Speaker 3: It was massive. It was a little Christmas present from

520
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 3: me to me.

521
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 1: It was just a typical Amy purchase. Amy buys a

522
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,440
Speaker 1: lot of stupid shit. Another tradition that we have had

523
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,439
Speaker 1: for the past nine years is holding a Christmas white party.

524
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 1: And when we say party, it's not really a party gathering,

525
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 1: a select gathering of people and everyone wears white clothing

526
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:27,920
Speaker 1: because I think it was like a big thing on

527
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 1: Gossip Girl at the time or something like that. But

528
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 1: we've held on to that tradition and the photos always

529
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,639
Speaker 1: look really nice. Well, one of the traditions of the

530
00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,119
Speaker 1: White Party is that we play Can of Worms at

531
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 1: the end. Well, I don't know, people might not remember

532
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 1: the show. There was a show called Can of Worms

533
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,640
Speaker 1: where controversial questions were asked, but we've taken it to.

534
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,359
Speaker 3: A next level.

535
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: So we've got to the point where we actually have

536
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,640
Speaker 1: everyone write a question and it goes into a hat

537
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 1: and then people have to randomly pull it out. The

538
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 1: worst part is that we often have family members at

539
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 1: this event, so we're all piss week and we always

540
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 1: refuse to answer the questions. But questions are so crude.

541
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: I remember when we first moved into our house at Brighton.

542
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 1: It was really funny because we had this.

543
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 3: Big bowl of questions.

544
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: And no one threw them in the bin, and then,

545
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to us, our mum came over I think to

546
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: help clean up when.

547
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 3: We were there, and she read through some of the questions.

548
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 3: We were really embarrassing.

549
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: We were twenty four at the time with mum's like

550
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 1: who wrote those questions? That were like some of our

551
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 1: friends did, it wasn't us. My favorite bit was were like,

552
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 1: did you read them all? She's like, I read too,

553
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: and I had enough. The best thing, though, is the

554
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 1: last couple of years one of our friends who is

555
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 1: in his fifties, no you's he in his sixties.

556
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:33,120
Speaker 3: Sixties.

557
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, So one of my old work colleagues he comes

558
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 1: along and he is like the host of Canniboy. He's

559
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,199
Speaker 1: a radio presenter, so he's got this incredible voice, so

560
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: he hosts the night. It is so much fun. It

561
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: is hilarious. I already want to start writing questions for

562
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 1: it now because I feel like it's a bit old

563
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 1: hat now, some of the questions that you've really got

564
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: to go there. But it is awful when you have

565
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: new guests there who don't really know what to expect.

566
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 1: A few times I think people have been offended and

567
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,720
Speaker 1: like we had some pretty good inclusions last year. Some

568
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: of Dale's friends came and they were great at Can

569
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 1: of Worms. So I feel like it's going to be

570
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: a good year this year, So I'm looking forward to it.

571
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 3: Gretchen switch sides with Katie, but I'm always on your left.

572
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 4: Well that was when there were three of us, and

573
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 4: now the tallest go in the middle.

574
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 3: The whole dance will be backwards.

575
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 1: I'm always on your left and right now you're getting

576
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 1: on my last nerve switch. What about Christmas gifts for

577
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: significant others because we're all living with our boyfriends now,

578
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: do you guys think that there needs to be some

579
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 1: kind of spending limit set or is it just sort

580
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: of a free for all. Well, the first Christmas that

581
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,239
Speaker 1: Brandon and I spent together, I feel like it has

582
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: made it difficult because we've spent so much money. Brandon

583
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 1: got me a beautiful necklace from Sarah and Sebastian, which

584
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 1: was incredibly expensive, and then I bought him also an

585
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,679
Speaker 1: expensive present because I got win from UK that he

586
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,679
Speaker 1: was buying me something. So we tried to have a

587
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: rule to just stick to one hundred dollars now, but

588
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: you can't. Yeah, you can't totally. First year, No, it

589
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: is difficult. I mean, Reason and I have been having

590
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: the same conversation because we've just bought a house and

591
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: we've kind of you know, a poor now, so we're like, God,

592
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: we might be making each other Christmas presents. Who knows

593
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,959
Speaker 1: what our financial situation will be like, but I do

594
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 1: think it's important to have a discussion about what the

595
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: budget is because it's really awkward if you get something

596
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: and then someone gets you something that's so much more expensive. No,

597
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: and I could still be done a time delay and

598
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: beds character ceilings and slip slowly into madness. What would

599
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: I wear? Another one is the Christmas Day outfit. This

600
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: is one that stumps me every year. Every year I

601
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: regret what I've worn because last year I'm like, yep,

602
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: I'll get a nice dress. I bought this really tight

603
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 1: dress that I'm like, why am I wearing this? At

604
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 1: my uncle and Auntie's hair? And you can't even enjoy

605
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: eating because you just feel like bloated, and you like,

606
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: I think you've got to go with baggy clothes. I

607
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 1: always get in trouble on Christmas Day because you guys

608
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: always have a go at me because I'm not dressed

609
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: up enough well, because you always want to.

610
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 3: Borrow something, you know, to real that do you know what?

611
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,360
Speaker 1: I'm not organized though, like you know, you just sort

612
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: of like go, oh, what can I borrow?

613
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 3: Well one Christmas Day.

614
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: I've had two Christmas Days where I've had to work

615
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: as a journalist on the days, and I remember I

616
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: just couldn't even be bothered to change. I just wore

617
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: a Christmas jumper and it was one that I can't remember.

618
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: It had like some kind of rude slogan. I remember

619
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 1: getting a photo with Grandma and just thinking, oh, this

620
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: is like quite a rude Christmas jumper. Something that I

621
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: find so challenging every year is knowing when do you

622
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: do your tan for Christmas and New Years?

623
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 3: That is so hard, first world problem, but it is

624
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 3: a problem.

625
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: It is such a problem because you know they're a

626
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: week apart from it or a few days apart from

627
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: each other. You don't know which event is more important.

628
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 1: We you've got, like your work Christmas party you've got,

629
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a white party, we've got and

630
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: then also New Year's Eve comes around so quickly and

631
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: you're just like, oh my gosh, when am I meant

632
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 1: to do it?

633
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really difficult.

634
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: I mean you could be like me last Christmas and

635
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: coat yourself in BONDI sands, rock up to Christmas Eve

636
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: dinner looking green to the Grinch it was not a

637
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: good look. Or turn up to the Audi with your

638
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: pants inside out. A year ago now, I actually came

639
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: across that photo, and it rocks me to my call

640
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: that I actually was out in public like that.

641
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 2: These capitalist fat cats are in the profit margin.

642
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 3: I'm reducing your total number of times these guys.

643
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: Are coming coming. Santa is not a COMI personally, I

644
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: love Christmas Eve, possibly more than I love Christmas Day.

645
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 3: It has a real feeling to it.

646
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: It's kind of more magical than Christmas Day because when

647
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: Christmas Day rolls around, it already have that feeling that

648
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna.

649
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 3: Be upset when it's over, despite it being magical.

650
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: I do remember so many Christmas Eves that were spent

651
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: arguing because we'd always have Christmas Lunch a lot of

652
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: the time at our house, and of course tensions would

653
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: would rise over this. Well, I think Christmas is a

654
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,199
Speaker 1: really stressful time because there's so many people that you

655
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: need to see, and there's all the juggling of which

656
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: relatives you see, so there's always that pre Christmas argument

657
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Speaker 1: about who's seeing who, and then it's about who's doing what.

658
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Speaker 1: So I suppose if you're having your relatives over, then

659
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Speaker 1: you've got to pull your weight a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: But we'd always the funniest thing was all the fights

661
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Speaker 1: would be the same, like it would be over something silly,

662
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Speaker 1: and then our dad would always have a way of

663
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Speaker 1: making up with everybody. It would be as soon as

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Speaker 1: Carl's by candlelight came on, he would get really into

665
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Speaker 1: it and make everyone laugh. Our dad is known for

666
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Speaker 1: sitting there and commentating the whole thing, taking the piss

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Speaker 1: out of everyone. I remember when High five used to

668
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Speaker 1: perform and at one stage they were wearing like really

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Speaker 1: ridiculous outfits. He ran in the kitchen made an outfit

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Speaker 1: out of a garbage bag and that was like the

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Speaker 1: highlight of everyone's night.

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Speaker 3: It was so funny. No one could be angry at

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Speaker 3: each other after that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose for us as kids, we had to

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Speaker 1: go to bed really early on Christmas Eve, and because

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Speaker 1: we had our light display outside. I still remember the

677
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Speaker 1: lights were still on and they'd be like blaring.

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Speaker 3: Into your room.

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Speaker 1: And I still remember one Christmas where they turned on

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Speaker 1: at like two am on Christmas morning and they stayed

681
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Speaker 1: on for the whole night. So it was really hard

682
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Speaker 1: to get any sleep because we were listening out for Santa.

683
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Speaker 1: You just couldn't fall asleep at all. On Christmas Eve,

684
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Speaker 1: it was. It was like hell on earth. He'd wake

685
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Speaker 1: up at four and be like can we get up now?

686
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Speaker 1: And be like no. Do you know what?

687
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Speaker 3: I remember?

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Speaker 1: Even when we were twenty Sadly, Sophie and I shared

689
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Speaker 1: a bedroom until we were.

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Speaker 3: Like twenty four.

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Speaker 1: I remember one Christmas you were like, guess what I've

692
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Speaker 1: got you?

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Speaker 3: And I guessed it was like a Cudashian bag or something.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so really cute.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and I In a lead up to Christmas, we

696
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Speaker 1: had a share TV and we would watch this show

697
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Speaker 1: called The Role Family, and every night we would watch

698
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Speaker 1: the same Christmas episode and I got in so much

699
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Speaker 1: trouble because it was on a VHS and somehow I

700
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: accidentally recorded over a section of that video.

701
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Speaker 3: I've never lived it down. I was so mad.

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Speaker 1: Anyone who is wanting to get into the Christmas spirit,

703
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Speaker 1: please go and watch it.

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Speaker 3: It is the best show, you.

705
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Speaker 2: Know that my head? How can I forget and ever replaced?

706
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 2: Because every time Catherine wrapped up the microwave and kissed

707
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Speaker 2: my pants and forget who I was for half hour

708
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Speaker 2: or so.

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Speaker 1: Well, moving on from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day and

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Speaker 1: one of our family traditions was the fact that Dad

711
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Speaker 1: would record us opening every single present. It was so

712
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Speaker 1: annoying because you'd rush down the hall ready to see

713
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Speaker 1: your presence and Dad would be like, with a cigarette,

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Speaker 1: hold on, got to set up the camera and that'd

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Speaker 1: be a further ten minute.

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Speaker 3: Well, there was some.

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Speaker 1: Bargaining over what time you were allowed to get up,

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Speaker 1: so we have always been people that sleep in, but

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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day we wanted to get up as early

720
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Speaker 1: as possible to open our Christmas presents. So, as Sophie said,

721
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Speaker 1: Dad would finally set up the camera and it would

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Speaker 1: be on a tripod.

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Speaker 3: So I just love there was no editing involved. Do

724
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Speaker 3: you see Daddy turn it on? Do you seem kind.

725
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Speaker 1: Of like wander around and then suddenly we would be

726
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Speaker 1: allowed in the room, would burst in and I just

727
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: remember watching back one year. I don't know what TV

728
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Speaker 1: show it was from, but every present we opened, we're like, wacky,

729
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Speaker 1: Do I want to go and find the video and

730
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Speaker 1: post it to our group because there is a hilarious

731
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Speaker 1: scene where Mum is opening a Christmas present from Dad

732
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Speaker 1: and she gets those happy pants but you know those

733
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Speaker 1: really popular bright pants, and you can tell she absolutely

734
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Speaker 1: hates them and she's like, I love them, Hugh, and it's.

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Speaker 3: Just absolutely classic.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad we don't do that tradition anymore. I

737
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Speaker 1: would hate to watch myself back opening here. I'm going

738
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Speaker 1: to bring it back. I mean, we're a videography company.

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Speaker 1: I think we should do it this year. We'll getting

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Speaker 1: into what we would actually do. Generally, it would be

741
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Speaker 1: dinner at our grandparents' house and lunch at a Nana

742
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Speaker 1: and Pappa's house. Oh my gosh, I have such fond

743
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Speaker 1: memories of these Christmases. Our grandma, as we said, really

744
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: sparked our love of Christmas, and she would go all out.

745
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Speaker 1: It was actually amazing. She'd do this full on buffet,

746
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Speaker 1: you know, serve yourself of salads and seafood. And one

747
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: hilarious tradition she had was buying a tongue. That was

748
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Speaker 1: the best because we would have so much fun blind

749
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Speaker 1: folding our cousins and trying to force them to eat

750
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Speaker 1: like gross things we found on the table. And one

751
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Speaker 1: year we tried to feed our cousin tongue, but we

752
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: actually just gave him chicken and he freed out. Well,

753
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Speaker 1: the whole reason why Grandma had the tongue was. It

754
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Speaker 1: was a tradition when she was in England that she

755
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Speaker 1: kind of wanted to bring here. So our grandma was

756
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Speaker 1: really the only one who would eat the tongue, but

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Speaker 1: one year our cousin brought her boyfriend who actually ate

758
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Speaker 1: it as well, and we couldn't believe it. Our dad

759
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Speaker 1: and uncle would also always have an oyster eating competition

760
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Speaker 1: and it was foul. I think he ate something like

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Speaker 1: fifty oysters one day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think they did that with mince pies as well. Yeah,

764
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Speaker 1: but the apparently before we were born, that's when dad

765
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Speaker 1: broke the record of eating the most number of oysters,

766
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Speaker 1: and people have claimed that that's.

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Speaker 3: Why he's had triplets. Very potent, do you know what?

768
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Speaker 1: The other tradition was we'd always have a Christmas pudding

769
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Speaker 1: and there'd always be coins in it. And I remember

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Speaker 1: one of our aunties held Christmas Day at her house

771
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Speaker 1: and she was quite well off, and I remember she

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Speaker 1: put two dollar coins in the pudding and we couldn't

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Speaker 1: believe it. Like I used to hate Christmas pudding, but

774
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Speaker 1: I remember I had about four pieces just to get

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Speaker 1: the money from it. But apparently some people don't do that,

776
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Speaker 1: so I was telling Dale about don't put money in it. Yeah,

777
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Speaker 1: so I was telling Dale about how you get money

778
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Speaker 1: in Christmas pudding and his family have never done that. Yeah,

779
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Speaker 1: Brandon's family hadn't done it. He had to googled it

780
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: to show them what was actually a thing? Is it

781
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Speaker 1: like an English thing? Because I know Grandma used to

782
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Speaker 1: do twenty cent pieces and I think Nana and Papa did.

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Speaker 3: It as well.

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Speaker 1: Let's do a poll on our instagram. If you're listening

785
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: to this, go to our instagram which has Outspoken Underscore

786
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: the Underscored podcast, and vote if you put coins in

787
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Speaker 1: your Christmas pudding. Aside from the money in the pudding,

788
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Speaker 1: there was also another really exciting tradition that Grandma would

789
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Speaker 1: buy I'd say probably one hundred bond bonds, yeah, something

790
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: crazy like that. She'd always be like, twelve little cousins,

791
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Speaker 1: can you go get the bond bonds? And they'd have

792
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Speaker 1: to hold this huge pot of bond bonds and then

793
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Speaker 1: like another bus and they weren't just crap bon bonds,

794
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Speaker 1: they were like cool stuff in the bond boar. I

795
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Speaker 1: love how they weren't put on the table like most

796
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Speaker 1: people put the bon bon on the table in front

797
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Speaker 1: of the person. This was just like a sport of

798
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Speaker 1: bond bonds. They were the most expensive bond bonds and

799
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Speaker 1: she would get them in the sales every year. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: that just reminded me when I was saying the word

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Speaker 1: bond bond, because it sounded really weird. Some people call

802
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: them crackers as well, so it's funny to hear what

803
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: people actually call them. But one year Grandma decided that this,

804
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Speaker 1: you know, fifty bond bonds wasn't enough. She bought a

805
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Speaker 1: giant bond bond. So this was I mean, I don't

806
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Speaker 1: want to be exaggerating, but it was almost like the

807
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Speaker 1: size of a person, this bond bond, and it was

808
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Speaker 1: it had little bon.

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Speaker 3: Bonds inside of it.

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Speaker 1: I think if one more person said the word bon bon,

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Speaker 1: I will go nuts. We're moving on to lunch at

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Speaker 1: our nana and Papa's house. Now, they were a little

813
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Speaker 1: bit more low key than our grandparents. They always had

814
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Speaker 1: their little fake tree that we would help them decorate,

815
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Speaker 1: and I think what was so beautiful was our Papa

816
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: would always try and come up with a seating plan

817
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Speaker 1: that would suit everyone. So there were certain people that

818
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: he thought would get on better than others and it

819
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Speaker 1: was just so cute. One thing I will also always

820
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Speaker 1: remember is our papa would buy every single grandchild a

821
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Speaker 1: book and you would then spend the holidays reading that book.

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Speaker 1: And that was as well as obviously a present, but

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Speaker 1: it was just a really nice idea. Oh That's how

824
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Speaker 1: I got into Harry Potter, and I will always be

825
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Speaker 1: grateful for that present. We're talking about the seeding plan before.

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Speaker 1: One thing that's super awkward is when you get into

827
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Speaker 1: your early twenties and you're still sitting on the kids table.

828
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Speaker 1: Like it's a real kick in the dick when you're

829
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Speaker 1: on that table because you're like, I'm not quite considered

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Speaker 1: an adult here, and it's kind of embarrassing.

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Speaker 4: For the next two months, your entire life, all your music,

832
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Speaker 4: it is Christmas music. All the TV you watch is

833
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Speaker 4: Christmas TV, your Home docor is Christmas Home DACA your

834
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Speaker 4: lifestyle changes.

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Speaker 1: Now, to wrap up this episode, let's get into some

836
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Speaker 1: Christmas recommendations. Now it's early November. What are you watching

837
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Speaker 1: this time of year? Amy, Well, I've got to recommend

838
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: YouTuber l Darby because she has already started putting up

839
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: some amazing Christmas vlogs.

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Speaker 3: She started in October.

841
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's been super early with the Christmas logs, which

842
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: I'm loving, and I did really respect the fact that

843
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: she put her Christmas decorations up on the first of November,

844
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,719
Speaker 1: which actually signified the first of the UK's lockdown, so

845
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: she was trying to spread a bit of Christmas cheer,

846
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: which was lovely. I've got to say, I just love

847
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: the relationship between Lle and her sister.

848
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Speaker 3: They're so cute.

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Speaker 1: They were out at Costco getting hot chocolates. It almost

850
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: made me wish I was having a white Christmas this year.

851
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Speaker 1: It's funny because it's the first time I've actually got

852
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: into her vlogs, and on the weekend I kept saying, okay.

853
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Speaker 3: Hey, sis, hey, sis hey boom.

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Speaker 1: I'm really getting into Saffron Barker's vlog She is another

855
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: British YouTuber. She always does what I Eat in a

856
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: Day videos and she usually does Christmas theme videos, which

857
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: is so much fun to watch. She's already done an

858
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: advent calendar one, but unfortunately it was just a bit

859
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Speaker 1: of a cell for the body shop. Talking about food videos,

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Speaker 1: I love when Anastasia kings North does her McDonald's Christmas videos,

861
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Speaker 1: so they go through exactly what all the Christmas the

862
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: items on the McDonald's menu are.

863
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Speaker 3: Do they have Christmas specific McDonald's items?

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Speaker 1: Why don't we get them here? They have Christmas Burgers,

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00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 1: They've even got Christmas like Sundays and mcflurries. I feel

866
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: really ripped off. I'm yet to start watching actual Christmas movies,

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Speaker 1: but I think this weekend I'm going to kick off

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Speaker 1: with Elf. I feel like that's a really good start

869
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Speaker 1: a Christmas movie. I like to save my classic Christmas

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Speaker 1: movies for like December.

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Speaker 3: What about you, guys.

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00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: I watched Elf last year a little bit too early,

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Speaker 1: and I wish i'd saved it till December. I must say,

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Speaker 1: I feel like Christmas with the Cranks is a good

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Speaker 1: November movie because it's got elements of Christmas. But they

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Speaker 1: hate it, so it's not you know, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to be as Christmas y. I watched Holiday, which seems

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Speaker 1: to be a very divisive Netflix new movie that they've

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Speaker 1: brought out.

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Speaker 3: I have to agree with the critics. It was absolute garbage. Sure,

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Speaker 3: it was watching it terrible.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the only redeeming feature was the main character,

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Speaker 1: who everyone thinks is an asshole. He was in fact Australian,

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Speaker 1: so it's good to see some Australians being in American

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Speaker 1: movies at the moment. I do love Home Alone and

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Speaker 1: I was never someone who grew up watching Homeland. Like

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Speaker 1: we never watched it as kids. Oh my god. My

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Speaker 1: ex boyfriend used to watch it on repeat at Christmas time.

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Speaker 1: It was so weird, Like I never watched it with him,

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Speaker 1: but he literally would call me when he was living

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Speaker 1: into State and be like, oh, yeah, I just watched

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Speaker 1: Home Alone again.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I've got funny mixed feelings about that.

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Speaker 3: It's a cute movie. I really like it.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you should add it to your Christmas

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Speaker 1: movie list. Well, I think everyone should jump into our

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Speaker 1: Facebook community and share their favorite YouTubers to follow up

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Speaker 1: Christmas time and also their favorite movies. Can I just say,

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Speaker 1: are there any Australian influencers who are actually doing vlogmas?

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Speaker 3: Because I can't think of any it's too lazy, I think.

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Speaker 1: So if there is anyone that you guys all follow

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Speaker 1: that is doing vlogmass and is an Australian influencer, let

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Speaker 1: us know because.

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Speaker 3: I want to follow them.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think we better wrap it up there because

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Speaker 1: we could talk for the next two hours on this topic. Now,

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Speaker 1: we thought it was important to start this series by

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Speaker 1: talking about why we love Christmas so much and going

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Speaker 1: through some of our Christmas traditions. But the rest of

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Speaker 1: the series we've made up by a number of guests

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Speaker 1: we're going to have on the show. Next week, we're

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Speaker 1: going to be having Victoria Devine. We're so excited to

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Speaker 1: have her. She is, of course from she's on the

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Speaker 1: money and she's going to be sharing some important Christmas

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Speaker 1: budgeting tips as well as her own Christmas tradition. So

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Speaker 1: we cannot wait to bring you that episode.

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Speaker 4: At the act of the

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Speaker 1: End, after think