WEBVTT - A Very Outspoken Christmas 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.840 Welcome to a Very Outspoken Christmas. It's that time of 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.360 year to crank Mariah Carey in the car and begin 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.800 your Christmas shopping. Our names are Amy Kate and Sophie Torber. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.079 We're identical triplets and during the festive season, we have 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.479 an identical opinion. Christmas is the most wonderful time of 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.799 the year. In this special series, we're discussing all things 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.880 Christmas with help from some influential Australians. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.760 For you, Glenn Colco, you go, Glen Cuco. And when 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.199 Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that Jimney Day, 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.959 He's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:35.639 of the nuthouse. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.360 Thank you so much for joining us for our first 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.680 episode of a Very Outspoken Christmas. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:45.720 Gosh, this is. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.480 Literally a career highlight for me getting to speak about 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.279 Christmas because anyone that knows us knows that we are 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.560 obsessed with Christmas. Our lives change for the better around 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.560 mid November. We become nicer people all round. I feel 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.880 we do. Throughout the years we have been known to 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.760 drop a lot of money on Christmas decoration. I've got 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.880 to say we still don't have about some hill Christmas tree. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.160 We haven't gone to that extreme of spending one thousand 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.200 dollars yet, but so I for you were sending them 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.399 to me last night. Well, I was crunching the numbers, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.240 but I could only afford a very poor man's version 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:14.720 of the tree. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:16.440 It's not worth it. I got to go. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.640 I've got to wait till it's on sale in the 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.840 boxing day South so I might have one more year 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.720 of a real Christmas tree. Which, you know what, last night, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.240 I was getting so excited because I was googling real 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.360 Christmas trees because last year I feel that we got 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.440 a little bit ripped off. I mean, I wasn't happy 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.960 with my own Christmas tree choice. So I thought I'd 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.160 better actually do the research, and there were some really 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.360 cheap ones up in the hills that I might actually 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.160 look at. I feel like this year we've got to 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.520 have another Christmas tree competition because us Torbert's we're all 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.119 about competition. So we will get a listeners to vote 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.120 on who has the best Christmas tree. Well, I'm just 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.360 so relieved because finally I am not competing against my 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.800 hideous red carpet. I will be moved into my new 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.520 house which has neutral carpet, and I'm very excited. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.320 Didn't they then Christmas tree lights so people have to 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.280 drive all the way out to norwhere was a Saturday? 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.320 They invented him Russ because people forgot how to have 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.320 a fun, old fashioned family Christmas and are satisfied with scorny, dead, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.640 overpriced trees that have no special. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.920 We should probably get into why we have decided to 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.680 do a Christmas podcast. It is obvious we are obsessed 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.560 with Christmas, but we really have to give a shout 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.480 out to our dad, who really started our pure love 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.360 for Christmas. It's funny because people who meet our dad 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.560 would have no idea that he becomes the biggest softy 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:30.640 every Christmas. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.720 You kind of think it was our Mum, wouldn't. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.760 You, poor Mum, because dad is so over the top 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.720 with Christmas. Sometimes she gets called the Grinch because she 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.080 tries to reel it in a little bit. Can I 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.000 just say Mum is no longer the Grinch because last 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.160 year she bought a three hundred dollars Santa Clause, like 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.320 this massive Santa Claus. We'll have to share a photo 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.320 of it, and I feel like that lost her her 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.959 Grinch status because that was the coolest Christmas buy I've 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:53.280 seen in. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:53.919 A couple of years. 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.320 Well, we should probably get back into Dad, because, as 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.040 we said, Dad really sparked our love of Christmas. He 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.440 was the one who get the precedence of having a 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.040 real Christmas tree. Every year it would be one of 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.480 our turns to go down to Safm with Dad and 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.960 pick up a Christmas tree. And this is really showing 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.440 our age because back then I remember the trees being 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.720 only twenty dollars. My favorite bit of the day of 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.840 getting the Christmas tree was when Dad would come back 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.120 with the tree and he'd proudly show the two of 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.079 us who hadn't been able to come because they would 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.160 drive this big van around so we couldn't all fit 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:23.840 in there. Fad, it sounds like something like it was 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.720 just enormous man. They'd drive a Torgo van and he'd 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.560 come home and proudly present us with this tree. And 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.280 then he had this tiny like red holder for the 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.880 tree and it stands stand sorry, and it would have 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.840 a rubber band in it and it would like the 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.200 tree would always fall down there every year, and he'd 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.600 come in and he'd have his pants were like showing 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.200 off his bum crack and he'd be swearing because this 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.320 tree would not stay up, and it was hilarious. But 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.360 that was my favorite Christmas tradition. It would be working 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.480 out how long would actually take for Dad to get 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.080 the tree out. You'd hear every swear word known to mankind, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.080 and then you'd bring the big box down of Christmas decorations, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.240 and then all the lights would be completely tanged, and 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.600 then that would take forever to do. So you're almost 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.960 like half trying not to have an argument with everyone 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.320 whilst also blaring Christmas music and trying to have a 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.320 great time. But I feel like that's what the holiday 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.480 is all about. There's always a little bit of hostility 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.080 in the air. Just on the topic of Dad and 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.240 Christmas trees. I've got to say, I'm still absolutely crushed 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.800 that they've gone out and got a fake Christmas tree. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.200 So when we all moved out eight years ago, Dad 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.920 decided that he would no longer buy a real Christmas tree, 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.360 and he got some fake tree from Mayer. And it's 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.800 not about some hill tree. It's a very It's one 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.719 of those trees where it's like it hurts your fingers 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.520 to put the decorations on like it's just and that's 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.280 what you've got to have, because we still go over 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.640 to Mum and Dad's on Christmas Morning to open our presents, 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.159 and it just doesn't have the smell of a real 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.159 Christmas tree. Do you know what one thing that we 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.480 have to turn on on Christmas Morning is? Does anyone 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.120 else have those lights? And they play that horrible music, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.080 But it just reminds me of Christmas Morning as a 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:53.960 child because it'd always be on and it would just 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:55.760 be blaring in the ears, but you'd have to have 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.440 it on. Talking about the smell of a Christmas tree, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.200 can I just give a little hot tip here? I 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:01.520 went out and bought one of those I don't know 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.599 if I'm pronouncing the brand right, but it's a choir 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.360 the candles, and they have a candle that spells. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:07.800 Exactly like a Christmas tree. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.320 So if you've got a fake one, I would highly 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.000 recommend getting one of those candles because it smells amazing. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.479 I am against innocent trees being cut down in their 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.800 prime and their corpses grotesquely dressed in like tinsel and 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:20.680 twinkly lights. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.720 When do you guys think it's appropriate to actually start 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.159 celebrating Christmas. Oh, as early as possible, I think, especially 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.320 in twenty twenty, I'm seeing a lot of people are 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.080 celebrating early November, and I've got no issue with that. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.920 I think as soon as Halloween's over, Christmas is just starting. Look, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.160 I am all about celebrating Christmas early, but I think 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:40.880 you've got to wait for the Christmas patgeant and then 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.240 you can start decorating. Would you guys think that there's 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.679 a specific marker that signifies that Christmas has actually started. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.720 I really think it's when the jacaranda tree start blooming, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.360 the beautiful purple flower. We live in an area while 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.520 our parents live in an area where those are everywhere, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.720 So as soon as that starts happening, I'm like, oh 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.440 my god, it's Christmas, isn't It's when Cole's are war 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.120 Worth starts stocking Christmas stuff, so it's always they start 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.920 with like little puddings, and then Maya will start having 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.880 their decorations. Once Maya have the decoration set up, that's 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.359 when I feel like you can officially start celebrating. I 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.359 personally think it's when the Christmas song start playing as well. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.120 It was out marrying on the Weekend, which is a 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.000 shopping center here, and I felt so Christmas y. I 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.400 was so happy hearing those songs playing. Yeah, we're talking 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.360 about Christmas songs. What is everyone's favorite Christmas song? Because 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.320 I'm gonna say, I mean, I feel like it's quite obvious. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.040 I think we all like all I want for Christmas 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.119 is you. I think that's top two. That's god level 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.000 of Christmas song. I'm also a fan of Holy Jolly Christmas, 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:34.960 which is a bit of a random one. It's because 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.880 it reminds me of our dad because one year he 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.080 played it on repeat for the whole Christmas just to 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.960 see if my mum's brothers noticed. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.120 No one noticed. That was surprising. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.920 I also do like I'm a big fan of Hillary 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.440 Duff's Christmas album, and also some of Taylor Swifts Christmas Wrong, 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.960 Oh my Gosh, and Britney Spears is Christmas? What about 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.640 Michael Boubla of course as well, when you're putting the 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.560 tree out, that's some great white ground music. I think 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.560 we should put together a bit of a Christmas playlist 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.680 that we can for listeners to get into. It should 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.960 be played when everyone's putting up their Christmas Treuth so 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.480 we should get onto that. What about Christmas food? Because 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.480 I feel like food is one of the best things 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.760 about Christmas. Do you guys have any traditional Christmas dishes 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.480 that you like to cook? For me, it has to 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.320 be a Nigella Lawson recipe. She has a Christmas book 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.720 that we have been using for years. Apart from that, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.480 I also love to do a gingerbread house and I 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.200 feel really sad if I haven't done one, like we've 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:24.680 been known. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:25.680 To do them on Christmas Eve. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.320 I always love to be in control of the Christmas 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.560 Day menu because since we moved out of home, we've 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.560 nearly had Christmas at our house every year, like dinner, 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.360 so I love cooking all the veggies, like that's when 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.080 I really know it's getting close to Christmas. What else? 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.920 I love doing cheesecakes and like lots of different desserts. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.160 Our Mum always cooks three particular chocolates and I loved 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.000 helping her make those when we were little. It's really 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.280 the heavier the better on Christmas, even though like when 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.920 it's hot, sticky, it's the last thing you feel like, but. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:54.800 You know you've got to do it. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.520 Oh, You've got to have cherries as well, I feel 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.800 like when cherries are around, that is like Christmas time, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.440 do you know what I feel like? These it's all 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.560 about recreating the Christmas that our grandma would put on. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.600 What about Advent calendars. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.760 Oh my gosh, I was eyeing some off at the 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.400 shop yesterday because they're on sale, and I've last year 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.480 I missed out on getting one. They literally like sold 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.520 out everywhere. But we were really lucky because Mum would 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.400 buy us one and our grandma would buy us one, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:18.920 and we were never allowed. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:19.200 To have chocolate. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.840 So even though it's that crap like cooking chocolate taste, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.040 it was so exciting to have two chocolates. You know what. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.040 I'm going to health kick this year. So Dale and 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.720 I keep joking that I'm going to get an Advent 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.720 calendar and open up the window and there's gonna be 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.760 like a shot of magnesium or something like that. I mean, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.040 I've been seeing some like weird Advent calendars, like coffee ones, 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:36.640 but I haven't seen that one yet. I saw a 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.319 friend's Advent calendar on the Iconic. It was so cool. Really, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.960 everyone's going out, you know, creating some really different ones 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.199 this year that aren't just food based okay. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.079 People tomorrow morning to dam Sata's coming down. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:54.920 Oh my god, see here, I know him. Well. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.120 I think we should go back and kind of reflect 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.679 on our childhood and to why we love Christmas because 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.400 I know about other people, but we believed in Santa 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.600 for a very long time. You know, they say that 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.960 the smart kids pick up on it, but I don't 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.360 think so. I think it's the kids that are smart 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.600 that want to keep it alive because what you get present, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.240 you get the magic of Christmas, you know, well, Joy, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.559 it's the kids with an imagination, that's right. Well, I 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.560 still remember Mum. It was kind of when we were 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.600 cluing up on the fact that, you know, FC wasn't real, 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.480 and she'd say, those who do not believe do not receive. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.800 So I think that helped us along the way. But 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.000 the funniest thing is, as I said, I think we 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.240 were around eleven or twelve when we stopped believing in Santa. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.920 And it was a really terrible moment. Our year five 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.000 teacher he announced to the class that we would be 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.839 replying to the little kids. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:42.720 Let us to Santa. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.120 Yeah, our buddies, let us to Santa, because as everyone knows, 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.200 he's not real. Now, I think three hearts in that 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.080 classroom broke. I just thought it mustn't be true, because 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.800 this teacher was actually one of the best teachers we 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.080 ever had, and I actually thought that he was so 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:57.840 magical and cool that he. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:58.400 Was Santa Claus. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:09:59.640 Yeah, I know that he was trying to get us 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.839 off the same if you've been Santa, Well the funny. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.440 I mean, that's just delusion right there. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.480 Well, I do remember once we'd because we used to 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.760 leave gifts out for Santa. And I remember one year 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.080 we found the gifts that we had left out, and 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.040 Mum sort of told this story that she wanted to 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.200 keep them because they were so beautiful. But we have 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.959 gone to the efforts of trying to get Santa's autograph. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.760 So we told our childhood friends, look, this year, you 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.040 get it, and we'll get it and then we'll compare it. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.599 But unfortunately they already knew Santa wasn't real, and so 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.760 they claim they claimed, do you know what. I used 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.400 to have this photo that I took off the front 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.000 page of the paper, and it was a photo of 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.960 Santa at the pageant and I got the signature on it. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.720 So I used to have it up all year round, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.959 and do you know what, I'm so dumb because it 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.240 looks so much or it is Dad's hand writing. It 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.880 is literally says Merry Christmas, Amy from Santa. The other 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.600 funny thing I can remember is the threats over Father 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.800 Christmas if you're being naughty. I remember our dad would 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.520 pretend to ring Father Christmas up and tell him how 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.760 naughty we will be. And as soon as he started 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.520 dialing that numbers, you do whatever he'd ask you to do. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.720 I remember he once got through, so we tried to 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.160 redial the previous number. Of course it didn't go to 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.400 the North Pole. But I think it's really cool now 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.840 because there's these amazing apps that parents can get on 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.600 their phone and it's kind of automated, so it sounds 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.480 like you're talking to Santa. We actually said our grandparents 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.600 a couple of years ago, and they couldn't believe it. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.040 So I'm really glad they have things like that because 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.160 hopefully the spirit of Father Christmas stays around for a 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.360 bit longer. Because of course kids have now got Google 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.400 that they can just google is he real or not? 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.360 Do you know what is so funny though, because the 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.000 thing for me is I think how the kids not 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.920 pick up on it that they go into a store 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.360 and there's one Santa in mind, there's one in David. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.800 Can I answer that because they're Santa's help, That's right. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.680 I was about to say that I would always think 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.200 that the real Santa was the one in the pageant, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.360 and also the one who appeared at carols by candlelight. 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.559 We've got to say, we're talking about the pageant, and 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.040 that's a very Adelaide thing. So I assume that everyone 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.439 had the Christmas pageant, but it seems like we were 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.640 born into the right state. So basically it's like the 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.840 Thanksgiving Parade, except it's Christmas themed and there's these special 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.280 floats that go around the city and at the end 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.560 there is Santa Claus on a float and then he 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.480 goes up to the Magic Cave in David Jones and 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.200 all as well. So I feel like Adelaide listeners they 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.600 will definitely relate to this. You always wanted to be 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.960 the girl that got to ride on Nipper and Nimble, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.080 which were the two horses. There were always two very 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.120 pretty girls riding on the horses, and I desperately wanted 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.800 to be one of those girls. So fun one of 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.680 the girls in our class got to be on the 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.360 horse because her dad worked at the bank which puts 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.880 on the pageant. And I remember being at the pageant 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:31.760 and we ran into her and Mum made us take 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:32.319 a photo with it. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.080 Even at that age, it was patronizing. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.440 Yeah, I mean, do you know what other than the 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.720 girls who rode on Nipper and Nimble, I love the puddings, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.760 there were just these people that were in this putting 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.480 outfit and just their legs or the snowmen. But you 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.280 know what, one ride that you did not want to 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.640 be on. There was this big old bus and everyone 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.920 is like always like forty degrees when the pageant's on 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.120 it everyone's like crammed into it and they're like hanging 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.760 out the windows waving just back onto the snowmen. I 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.680 remember there were people dressed up as snowmen. I saw 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.640 one of the snowmen with the head of it off, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.600 smoking a cigarette and that just ruined things for me. Well, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.960 I'm actually really jealous because one of Riesa's friends has 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.800 been in the pageant a couple of times and was 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.320 saying that she was going to be in it again, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:12.760 and I fell a saying can. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.120 I be in it too. What would you want to be. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.360 I would want to be associated with father Christmas float. 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.199 I think, oh, what is it like, not mother clause, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.880 but there's like a pageant. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.320 Yeah, no, I wouldn't mind being that. That would be 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:24.760 quite good. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.959 What about the blue on a line. There was always 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.400 a blue line at the pageant and you weren't allowed 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.120 to cross that line. And I remember it feeling very 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.400 serious that you would get, you know, a limb taken 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.120 off if you're going to cross this line. Would you 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.440 know what's crazy? So I was talking to some of 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.000 Riesa's friends who were parents, and they said that it 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.200 is now the norm that people go down and save 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.720 a spot at the pageant at like four am. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:47.679 That's insane. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.480 I was like what, and they're like, yeah, that's just 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.160 a thing. You can't get a spot if you don't 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.160 do that. Yeah, that's taking it to another level. But 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.200 I do really respect that at the first of this dinner, 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.880 you get your family around and tell them. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:02.080 All the ways they have disappointed you over the first year. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:03.120 And is there a tree? 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.320 No, instead, there's a Paul requires an old decoration. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.480 I find tinsel distracting. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.199 Well, moving on to what actually goes onto the tree, 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.120 and I feel like our grandma, which is our dad's mum, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.600 really inspired our love of decorations. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.200 So she was very. 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.960 Particular about how she set up the decorations in her house. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.840 And one decoration that was really special to her was 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.040 a little English soldier because she was from Chelsea and 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.160 moved across to Australia when she met our grandfather in 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:32.520 the war. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.640 Just a little backstory for you. So it was really cute. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.960 So when Grandma got older, she couldn't actually put the 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.400 decorations up herself, so our grandpa would put the decorations 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.480 up and she would tell him exactly where she wanted them. Well, 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.920 this particular decoration had to be exactly within her eyeline, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.840 so when she was sitting on the couch she had 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.720 to be able to see it, which I think is 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.600 very very clever. We've actually carried that on now because 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.160 we got a lot of our grandparents' decorations when they 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.560 sadly passed away, so we always make sure that little 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.560 Soldier in our eyeline now. The funniest thing is when 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.880 we all moved out from one another, we didn't care 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.560 about who got certain bits of furniture, what we cared 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.680 most about was who got what in the Christmas decorations box, 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.440 because we have all of our grandparents' old stuff and 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.760 it's so sentimental to us. So we've actually decided that 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.920 this particular soldier, he is going around to each person's 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:20.800 house every year. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.400 Do you know what I love? It was so funny 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.000 what people placed value on. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.040 Well, I am still cut that Amy took the very 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.080 expensive candy shop. That really annoyed. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.120 have to put this up on our Instagram. I feel 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.160 like I won out of this Christmas decoration exchange. For 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.120 those who don't know. At Maya, they sell these amazing 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.800 little villages and one of them we bought when we 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.600 all were living together, was a candy shop and has 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.520 gingerbread people in it. It's got people making lollies in 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.040 a factory, and I picked that as my number one decorations. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.720 There wasn't really any back and forth. It was just 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.280 like I'm having this and no one and stuff everyone else. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:56.360 Well, I would love people to. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.320 Go to our Facebook group, which has outspoken the podcast, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.440 and I want you just tell us what your favorite 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.000 Christmas decoration is and if you've had to steal any 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.920 decorations from your family members. That's actually made me think 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.120 perhaps I should steal the candy shop. Well that should 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.280 be you know, passed around. No, these deals have already 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:12.880 been hatched. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:13.840 We're not redoing it. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.440 I want to look them straight in the eye. I 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.560 don't want to tell them what a cheap, lying, no 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.080 good rotten for a flushing, low life, snake licking, dirt 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:28.520 eating and bread over stuff, ignorant, blood sucking, dog kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.880 fat ass, bug eyed, stiff leg it's body, lip wear, 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.360 a headed sack of monkey shit. He is he hey loya, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:37.440 holy shit. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.280