Speaker 1: Welcome to a Very Outspoken Christmas. It's that time of
Speaker 1: year to crank Mariah Carey in the car and begin
Speaker 1: your Christmas shopping. Our names are Amy Kate and Sophie Torber.
Speaker 1: We're identical triplets and during the festive season, we have
Speaker 1: an identical opinion. Christmas is the most wonderful time of
Speaker 1: the year. In this special series, we're discussing all things
Speaker 1: Christmas with help from some influential Australians.
Speaker 2: For you, Glenn Colco, you go, Glen Cuco. And when
Speaker 2: Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that Jimney Day,
Speaker 2: He's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side
Speaker 2: of the nuthouse.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us for our first
Speaker 1: episode of a Very Outspoken Christmas.
Speaker 3: Gosh, this is.
Speaker 1: Literally a career highlight for me getting to speak about
Speaker 1: Christmas because anyone that knows us knows that we are
Speaker 1: obsessed with Christmas. Our lives change for the better around
Speaker 1: mid November. We become nicer people all round. I feel
Speaker 1: we do. Throughout the years we have been known to
Speaker 1: drop a lot of money on Christmas decoration. I've got
Speaker 1: to say we still don't have about some hill Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: We haven't gone to that extreme of spending one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars yet, but so I for you were sending them
Speaker 1: to me last night. Well, I was crunching the numbers,
Speaker 1: but I could only afford a very poor man's version
Speaker 1: of the tree.
Speaker 3: It's not worth it. I got to go.
Speaker 1: I've got to wait till it's on sale in the
Speaker 1: boxing day South so I might have one more year
Speaker 1: of a real Christmas tree. Which, you know what, last night,
Speaker 1: I was getting so excited because I was googling real
Speaker 1: Christmas trees because last year I feel that we got
Speaker 1: a little bit ripped off. I mean, I wasn't happy
Speaker 1: with my own Christmas tree choice. So I thought I'd
Speaker 1: better actually do the research, and there were some really
Speaker 1: cheap ones up in the hills that I might actually
Speaker 1: look at. I feel like this year we've got to
Speaker 1: have another Christmas tree competition because us Torbert's we're all
Speaker 1: about competition. So we will get a listeners to vote
Speaker 1: on who has the best Christmas tree. Well, I'm just
Speaker 1: so relieved because finally I am not competing against my
Speaker 1: hideous red carpet. I will be moved into my new
Speaker 1: house which has neutral carpet, and I'm very excited.
Speaker 4: Didn't they then Christmas tree lights so people have to
Speaker 4: drive all the way out to norwhere was a Saturday?
Speaker 2: They invented him Russ because people forgot how to have
Speaker 2: a fun, old fashioned family Christmas and are satisfied with scorny, dead,
Speaker 2: overpriced trees that have no special.
Speaker 1: We should probably get into why we have decided to
Speaker 1: do a Christmas podcast. It is obvious we are obsessed
Speaker 1: with Christmas, but we really have to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to our dad, who really started our pure love
Speaker 1: for Christmas. It's funny because people who meet our dad
Speaker 1: would have no idea that he becomes the biggest softy
Speaker 1: every Christmas.
Speaker 3: You kind of think it was our Mum, wouldn't.
Speaker 1: You, poor Mum, because dad is so over the top
Speaker 1: with Christmas. Sometimes she gets called the Grinch because she
Speaker 1: tries to reel it in a little bit. Can I
Speaker 1: just say Mum is no longer the Grinch because last
Speaker 1: year she bought a three hundred dollars Santa Clause, like
Speaker 1: this massive Santa Claus. We'll have to share a photo
Speaker 1: of it, and I feel like that lost her her
Speaker 1: Grinch status because that was the coolest Christmas buy I've
Speaker 1: seen in.
Speaker 3: A couple of years.
Speaker 1: Well, we should probably get back into Dad, because, as
Speaker 1: we said, Dad really sparked our love of Christmas. He
Speaker 1: was the one who get the precedence of having a
Speaker 1: real Christmas tree. Every year it would be one of
Speaker 1: our turns to go down to Safm with Dad and
Speaker 1: pick up a Christmas tree. And this is really showing
Speaker 1: our age because back then I remember the trees being
Speaker 1: only twenty dollars. My favorite bit of the day of
Speaker 1: getting the Christmas tree was when Dad would come back
Speaker 1: with the tree and he'd proudly show the two of
Speaker 1: us who hadn't been able to come because they would
Speaker 1: drive this big van around so we couldn't all fit
Speaker 1: in there. Fad, it sounds like something like it was
Speaker 1: just enormous man. They'd drive a Torgo van and he'd
Speaker 1: come home and proudly present us with this tree. And
Speaker 1: then he had this tiny like red holder for the
Speaker 1: tree and it stands stand sorry, and it would have
Speaker 1: a rubber band in it and it would like the
Speaker 1: tree would always fall down there every year, and he'd
Speaker 1: come in and he'd have his pants were like showing
Speaker 1: off his bum crack and he'd be swearing because this
Speaker 1: tree would not stay up, and it was hilarious. But
Speaker 1: that was my favorite Christmas tradition. It would be working
Speaker 1: out how long would actually take for Dad to get
Speaker 1: the tree out. You'd hear every swear word known to mankind,
Speaker 1: and then you'd bring the big box down of Christmas decorations,
Speaker 1: and then all the lights would be completely tanged, and
Speaker 1: then that would take forever to do. So you're almost
Speaker 1: like half trying not to have an argument with everyone
Speaker 1: whilst also blaring Christmas music and trying to have a
Speaker 1: great time. But I feel like that's what the holiday
Speaker 1: is all about. There's always a little bit of hostility
Speaker 1: in the air. Just on the topic of Dad and
Speaker 1: Christmas trees. I've got to say, I'm still absolutely crushed
Speaker 1: that they've gone out and got a fake Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: So when we all moved out eight years ago, Dad
Speaker 1: decided that he would no longer buy a real Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: and he got some fake tree from Mayer. And it's
Speaker 1: not about some hill tree. It's a very It's one
Speaker 1: of those trees where it's like it hurts your fingers
Speaker 1: to put the decorations on like it's just and that's
Speaker 1: what you've got to have, because we still go over
Speaker 1: to Mum and Dad's on Christmas Morning to open our presents,
Speaker 1: and it just doesn't have the smell of a real
Speaker 1: Christmas tree. Do you know what one thing that we
Speaker 1: have to turn on on Christmas Morning is? Does anyone
Speaker 1: else have those lights? And they play that horrible music,
Speaker 1: But it just reminds me of Christmas Morning as a
Speaker 1: child because it'd always be on and it would just
Speaker 1: be blaring in the ears, but you'd have to have
Speaker 1: it on. Talking about the smell of a Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: can I just give a little hot tip here? I
Speaker 1: went out and bought one of those I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm pronouncing the brand right, but it's a choir
Speaker 1: the candles, and they have a candle that spells.
Speaker 3: Exactly like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: So if you've got a fake one, I would highly
Speaker 1: recommend getting one of those candles because it smells amazing.
Speaker 4: I am against innocent trees being cut down in their
Speaker 4: prime and their corpses grotesquely dressed in like tinsel and
Speaker 4: twinkly lights.
Speaker 1: When do you guys think it's appropriate to actually start
Speaker 1: celebrating Christmas. Oh, as early as possible, I think, especially
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, I'm seeing a lot of people are
Speaker 1: celebrating early November, and I've got no issue with that.
Speaker 1: I think as soon as Halloween's over, Christmas is just starting. Look,
Speaker 1: I am all about celebrating Christmas early, but I think
Speaker 1: you've got to wait for the Christmas patgeant and then
Speaker 1: you can start decorating. Would you guys think that there's
Speaker 1: a specific marker that signifies that Christmas has actually started.
Speaker 1: I really think it's when the jacaranda tree start blooming,
Speaker 1: the beautiful purple flower. We live in an area while
Speaker 1: our parents live in an area where those are everywhere,
Speaker 1: So as soon as that starts happening, I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's Christmas, isn't It's when Cole's are war
Speaker 1: Worth starts stocking Christmas stuff, so it's always they start
Speaker 1: with like little puddings, and then Maya will start having
Speaker 1: their decorations. Once Maya have the decoration set up, that's
Speaker 1: when I feel like you can officially start celebrating. I
Speaker 1: personally think it's when the Christmas song start playing as well.
Speaker 1: It was out marrying on the Weekend, which is a
Speaker 1: shopping center here, and I felt so Christmas y. I
Speaker 1: was so happy hearing those songs playing. Yeah, we're talking
Speaker 1: about Christmas songs. What is everyone's favorite Christmas song? Because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I mean, I feel like it's quite obvious.
Speaker 1: I think we all like all I want for Christmas
Speaker 1: is you. I think that's top two. That's god level
Speaker 1: of Christmas song. I'm also a fan of Holy Jolly Christmas,
Speaker 1: which is a bit of a random one. It's because
Speaker 1: it reminds me of our dad because one year he
Speaker 1: played it on repeat for the whole Christmas just to
Speaker 1: see if my mum's brothers noticed.
Speaker 3: No one noticed. That was surprising.
Speaker 1: I also do like I'm a big fan of Hillary
Speaker 1: Duff's Christmas album, and also some of Taylor Swifts Christmas Wrong,
Speaker 1: Oh my Gosh, and Britney Spears is Christmas? What about
Speaker 1: Michael Boubla of course as well, when you're putting the
Speaker 1: tree out, that's some great white ground music. I think
Speaker 1: we should put together a bit of a Christmas playlist
Speaker 1: that we can for listeners to get into. It should
Speaker 1: be played when everyone's putting up their Christmas Treuth so
Speaker 1: we should get onto that. What about Christmas food? Because
Speaker 1: I feel like food is one of the best things
Speaker 1: about Christmas. Do you guys have any traditional Christmas dishes
Speaker 1: that you like to cook? For me, it has to
Speaker 1: be a Nigella Lawson recipe. She has a Christmas book
Speaker 1: that we have been using for years. Apart from that,
Speaker 1: I also love to do a gingerbread house and I
Speaker 1: feel really sad if I haven't done one, like we've
Speaker 1: been known.
Speaker 3: To do them on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: I always love to be in control of the Christmas
Speaker 1: Day menu because since we moved out of home, we've
Speaker 1: nearly had Christmas at our house every year, like dinner,
Speaker 1: so I love cooking all the veggies, like that's when
Speaker 1: I really know it's getting close to Christmas. What else?
Speaker 1: I love doing cheesecakes and like lots of different desserts.
Speaker 1: Our Mum always cooks three particular chocolates and I loved
Speaker 1: helping her make those when we were little. It's really
Speaker 1: the heavier the better on Christmas, even though like when
Speaker 1: it's hot, sticky, it's the last thing you feel like, but.
Speaker 3: You know you've got to do it.
Speaker 1: Oh, You've got to have cherries as well, I feel
Speaker 1: like when cherries are around, that is like Christmas time,
Speaker 1: do you know what I feel like? These it's all
Speaker 1: about recreating the Christmas that our grandma would put on.
Speaker 3: What about Advent calendars.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I was eyeing some off at the
Speaker 1: shop yesterday because they're on sale, and I've last year
Speaker 1: I missed out on getting one. They literally like sold
Speaker 1: out everywhere. But we were really lucky because Mum would
Speaker 1: buy us one and our grandma would buy us one,
Speaker 1: and we were never allowed.
Speaker 3: To have chocolate.
Speaker 1: So even though it's that crap like cooking chocolate taste,
Speaker 1: it was so exciting to have two chocolates. You know what.
Speaker 1: I'm going to health kick this year. So Dale and
Speaker 1: I keep joking that I'm going to get an Advent
Speaker 1: calendar and open up the window and there's gonna be
Speaker 1: like a shot of magnesium or something like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been seeing some like weird Advent calendars, like coffee ones,
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen that one yet. I saw a
Speaker 1: friend's Advent calendar on the Iconic. It was so cool. Really,
Speaker 1: everyone's going out, you know, creating some really different ones
Speaker 1: this year that aren't just food based okay.
Speaker 3: People tomorrow morning to dam Sata's coming down.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, see here, I know him. Well.
Speaker 1: I think we should go back and kind of reflect
Speaker 1: on our childhood and to why we love Christmas because
Speaker 1: I know about other people, but we believed in Santa
Speaker 1: for a very long time. You know, they say that
Speaker 1: the smart kids pick up on it, but I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I think it's the kids that are smart
Speaker 1: that want to keep it alive because what you get present,
Speaker 1: you get the magic of Christmas, you know, well, Joy,
Speaker 1: it's the kids with an imagination, that's right. Well, I
Speaker 1: still remember Mum. It was kind of when we were
Speaker 1: cluing up on the fact that, you know, FC wasn't real,
Speaker 1: and she'd say, those who do not believe do not receive.
Speaker 1: So I think that helped us along the way. But
Speaker 1: the funniest thing is, as I said, I think we
Speaker 1: were around eleven or twelve when we stopped believing in Santa.
Speaker 1: And it was a really terrible moment. Our year five
Speaker 1: teacher he announced to the class that we would be
Speaker 1: replying to the little kids.
Speaker 3: Let us to Santa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our buddies, let us to Santa, because as everyone knows,
Speaker 1: he's not real. Now, I think three hearts in that
Speaker 1: classroom broke. I just thought it mustn't be true, because
Speaker 1: this teacher was actually one of the best teachers we
Speaker 1: ever had, and I actually thought that he was so
Speaker 1: magical and cool that he.
Speaker 3: Was Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that he was trying to get us
Speaker 1: off the same if you've been Santa, Well the funny.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's just delusion right there.
Speaker 1: Well, I do remember once we'd because we used to
Speaker 1: leave gifts out for Santa. And I remember one year
Speaker 1: we found the gifts that we had left out, and
Speaker 1: Mum sort of told this story that she wanted to
Speaker 1: keep them because they were so beautiful. But we have
Speaker 1: gone to the efforts of trying to get Santa's autograph.
Speaker 1: So we told our childhood friends, look, this year, you
Speaker 1: get it, and we'll get it and then we'll compare it.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately they already knew Santa wasn't real, and so
Speaker 1: they claim they claimed, do you know what. I used
Speaker 1: to have this photo that I took off the front
Speaker 1: page of the paper, and it was a photo of
Speaker 1: Santa at the pageant and I got the signature on it.
Speaker 1: So I used to have it up all year round,
Speaker 1: and do you know what, I'm so dumb because it
Speaker 1: looks so much or it is Dad's hand writing. It
Speaker 1: is literally says Merry Christmas, Amy from Santa. The other
Speaker 1: funny thing I can remember is the threats over Father
Speaker 1: Christmas if you're being naughty. I remember our dad would
Speaker 1: pretend to ring Father Christmas up and tell him how
Speaker 1: naughty we will be. And as soon as he started
Speaker 1: dialing that numbers, you do whatever he'd ask you to do.
Speaker 1: I remember he once got through, so we tried to
Speaker 1: redial the previous number. Of course it didn't go to
Speaker 1: the North Pole. But I think it's really cool now
Speaker 1: because there's these amazing apps that parents can get on
Speaker 1: their phone and it's kind of automated, so it sounds
Speaker 1: like you're talking to Santa. We actually said our grandparents
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and they couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: So I'm really glad they have things like that because
Speaker 1: hopefully the spirit of Father Christmas stays around for a
Speaker 1: bit longer. Because of course kids have now got Google
Speaker 1: that they can just google is he real or not?
Speaker 1: Do you know what is so funny though, because the
Speaker 1: thing for me is I think how the kids not
Speaker 1: pick up on it that they go into a store
Speaker 1: and there's one Santa in mind, there's one in David.
Speaker 1: Can I answer that because they're Santa's help, That's right.
Speaker 1: I was about to say that I would always think
Speaker 1: that the real Santa was the one in the pageant,
Speaker 1: and also the one who appeared at carols by candlelight.
Speaker 1: We've got to say, we're talking about the pageant, and
Speaker 1: that's a very Adelaide thing. So I assume that everyone
Speaker 1: had the Christmas pageant, but it seems like we were
Speaker 1: born into the right state. So basically it's like the
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Parade, except it's Christmas themed and there's these special
Speaker 1: floats that go around the city and at the end
Speaker 1: there is Santa Claus on a float and then he
Speaker 1: goes up to the Magic Cave in David Jones and
Speaker 1: all as well. So I feel like Adelaide listeners they
Speaker 1: will definitely relate to this. You always wanted to be
Speaker 1: the girl that got to ride on Nipper and Nimble,
Speaker 1: which were the two horses. There were always two very
Speaker 1: pretty girls riding on the horses, and I desperately wanted
Speaker 1: to be one of those girls. So fun one of
Speaker 1: the girls in our class got to be on the
Speaker 1: horse because her dad worked at the bank which puts
Speaker 1: on the pageant. And I remember being at the pageant
Speaker 1: and we ran into her and Mum made us take
Speaker 1: a photo with it.
Speaker 3: Even at that age, it was patronizing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, do you know what other than the
Speaker 1: girls who rode on Nipper and Nimble, I love the puddings,
Speaker 1: there were just these people that were in this putting
Speaker 1: outfit and just their legs or the snowmen. But you
Speaker 1: know what, one ride that you did not want to
Speaker 1: be on. There was this big old bus and everyone
Speaker 1: is like always like forty degrees when the pageant's on
Speaker 1: it everyone's like crammed into it and they're like hanging
Speaker 1: out the windows waving just back onto the snowmen. I
Speaker 1: remember there were people dressed up as snowmen. I saw
Speaker 1: one of the snowmen with the head of it off,
Speaker 1: smoking a cigarette and that just ruined things for me. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm actually really jealous because one of Riesa's friends has
Speaker 1: been in the pageant a couple of times and was
Speaker 1: saying that she was going to be in it again,
Speaker 1: and I fell a saying can.
Speaker 3: I be in it too. What would you want to be.
Speaker 1: I would want to be associated with father Christmas float.
Speaker 1: I think, oh, what is it like, not mother clause,
Speaker 1: but there's like a pageant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I wouldn't mind being that. That would be
Speaker 3: quite good.
Speaker 1: What about the blue on a line. There was always
Speaker 1: a blue line at the pageant and you weren't allowed
Speaker 1: to cross that line. And I remember it feeling very
Speaker 1: serious that you would get, you know, a limb taken
Speaker 1: off if you're going to cross this line. Would you
Speaker 1: know what's crazy? So I was talking to some of
Speaker 1: Riesa's friends who were parents, and they said that it
Speaker 1: is now the norm that people go down and save
Speaker 1: a spot at the pageant at like four am.
Speaker 3: That's insane.
Speaker 1: I was like what, and they're like, yeah, that's just
Speaker 1: a thing. You can't get a spot if you don't
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, that's taking it to another level. But
Speaker 1: I do really respect that at the first of this dinner,
Speaker 1: you get your family around and tell them.
Speaker 2: All the ways they have disappointed you over the first year.
Speaker 4: And is there a tree?
Speaker 1: No, instead, there's a Paul requires an old decoration.
Speaker 3: I find tinsel distracting.
Speaker 1: Well, moving on to what actually goes onto the tree,
Speaker 1: and I feel like our grandma, which is our dad's mum,
Speaker 1: really inspired our love of decorations.
Speaker 3: So she was very.
Speaker 1: Particular about how she set up the decorations in her house.
Speaker 1: And one decoration that was really special to her was
Speaker 1: a little English soldier because she was from Chelsea and
Speaker 1: moved across to Australia when she met our grandfather in
Speaker 1: the war.
Speaker 3: Just a little backstory for you. So it was really cute.
Speaker 1: So when Grandma got older, she couldn't actually put the
Speaker 1: decorations up herself, so our grandpa would put the decorations
Speaker 1: up and she would tell him exactly where she wanted them. Well,
Speaker 1: this particular decoration had to be exactly within her eyeline,
Speaker 1: so when she was sitting on the couch she had
Speaker 1: to be able to see it, which I think is
Speaker 1: very very clever. We've actually carried that on now because
Speaker 1: we got a lot of our grandparents' decorations when they
Speaker 1: sadly passed away, so we always make sure that little
Speaker 1: Soldier in our eyeline now. The funniest thing is when
Speaker 1: we all moved out from one another, we didn't care
Speaker 1: about who got certain bits of furniture, what we cared
Speaker 1: most about was who got what in the Christmas decorations box,
Speaker 1: because we have all of our grandparents' old stuff and
Speaker 1: it's so sentimental to us. So we've actually decided that
Speaker 1: this particular soldier, he is going around to each person's
Speaker 1: house every year.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I love? It was so funny
Speaker 3: what people placed value on.
Speaker 1: Well, I am still cut that Amy took the very
Speaker 1: expensive candy shop. That really annoyed. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to put this up on our Instagram. I feel
Speaker 1: like I won out of this Christmas decoration exchange. For
Speaker 1: those who don't know. At Maya, they sell these amazing
Speaker 1: little villages and one of them we bought when we
Speaker 1: all were living together, was a candy shop and has
Speaker 1: gingerbread people in it. It's got people making lollies in
Speaker 1: a factory, and I picked that as my number one decorations.
Speaker 1: There wasn't really any back and forth. It was just
Speaker 1: like I'm having this and no one and stuff everyone else.
Speaker 3: Well, I would love people to.
Speaker 1: Go to our Facebook group, which has outspoken the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I want you just tell us what your favorite
Speaker 1: Christmas decoration is and if you've had to steal any
Speaker 1: decorations from your family members. That's actually made me think
Speaker 1: perhaps I should steal the candy shop. Well that should
Speaker 1: be you know, passed around. No, these deals have already
Speaker 1: been hatched.
Speaker 3: We're not redoing it.
Speaker 2: I want to look them straight in the eye. I
Speaker 2: don't want to tell them what a cheap, lying, no
Speaker 2: good rotten for a flushing, low life, snake licking, dirt
Speaker 2: eating and bread over stuff, ignorant, blood sucking, dog kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless,
Speaker 2: fat ass, bug eyed, stiff leg it's body, lip wear,
Speaker 2: a headed sack of monkey shit. He is he hey loya,
Speaker 2: holy shit.
Speaker 1: Well, as you can reb we tell we are all
Speaker 1: very competitive about Christmas and decorations, and something that really
Speaker 1: set us off as kids was Christmas lights because we
Speaker 1: had to have the best house in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, we were really lucky to live in a neighborhood
Speaker 1: that a lot of people put Christmas lights up. I mean,
Speaker 1: I suppose that's kind of bad when you are competitive
Speaker 1: because you feel like your house has to be the best.
Speaker 1: It pains me to say this, but our house was
Speaker 1: not the best. Colonel, like guards is the best on
Speaker 1: the street. We grew up on the street called East Parkway,
Speaker 1: and our rivals were funnily enough, on West Parkway, so
Speaker 1: we always told our friends we hate West park Where
Speaker 1: we hate them, but secretly, deep down, being Christmas lovers,
Speaker 1: we did really enjoy their beautiful display.
Speaker 3: Oh oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: It was the most beautiful display and the most gorgeous
Speaker 1: house as well, which I think really helped because we
Speaker 1: have a real hang up on the fact that our
Speaker 1: house has a big brush fence and it really blocked
Speaker 1: our beautiful light display. I feel like we would have
Speaker 1: been up there with West Parkway if we didn't have.
Speaker 3: That bloody fence.
Speaker 1: Do you know how many times we asked our dad
Speaker 1: to just rip the fence down. Well, do you know what,
Speaker 1: when I was looking for a house, I kept saying, Terese,
Speaker 1: I'm being dead serious. We need to look at this
Speaker 1: house to see what the Christmas light display will look like.
Speaker 1: And I'm so pleased because the house we bought does
Speaker 1: not have a fence and it has a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunity for Christmas light. Well, we did actually take matters
Speaker 1: into our own hands. One year, when we were on
Speaker 1: Uni holidays, Dad left to go to work. So we
Speaker 1: decided that we were going to cut down some of
Speaker 1: this tree that we said was obstruct the view of
Speaker 1: the Christmas lights. And the worst thing was we did
Speaker 1: it probably an hour before he was getting home, probably
Speaker 1: because we hadn't gotten up until like one pm in
Speaker 1: our UNI days, and then we're like, we've only got
Speaker 1: a small window of time. The worst thing was we
Speaker 1: saw him coming down the street and he used to
Speaker 1: drive this little green briner.
Speaker 3: And we were like, oh shit.
Speaker 1: So we quickly grabbed this branch and we dragged it
Speaker 1: down the side of our house, but we got sprung
Speaker 1: and Dad was so mad.
Speaker 3: That's the thing.
Speaker 1: While our dad is incredibly merry over Christmas time, he
Speaker 1: can also be a very scary individual. So he didn't
Speaker 1: want to be caught in the act of cutting down
Speaker 1: his beloved tree. You've got to say, I don't think
Speaker 1: Sophie and I were as on board about cutting down
Speaker 1: the tree. It was really led by Amy. I just
Speaker 1: remember you being up there and you're like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is fine. I don't think Dad's even over it.
Speaker 3: You No, he's not.
Speaker 1: An thing is I had to saw it down by myself.
Speaker 1: There's been so many times where I've risked my life
Speaker 1: as well on the roof putting up Christmas lights.
Speaker 3: Because Dad told us he was too old to do it. Well,
Speaker 3: there is one rule.
Speaker 1: We would always put the Christmas lights up when we
Speaker 1: were old enough to, but we always left them up.
Speaker 1: Our poor dad had to take them down in February.
Speaker 1: Lights are one of our most favorite Christmas traditions. Another
Speaker 1: one is that we have to have a Christmas sleepover
Speaker 1: with our cousins a few days before Christmas. Otherwise it
Speaker 1: just doesn't feel like it. So this tradition started when
Speaker 1: we were about thirteen and our cousins were around like
Speaker 1: five and seven, and at first it was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a drag, but it's turned into such a
Speaker 1: fun thing. So over the years we've done these obstacle
Speaker 1: courses for our cousins. We've also gone like stayed up
Speaker 1: till five am and gone and got baby chinos from McDonald's.
Speaker 1: It was because when we were at UNI, we never
Speaker 1: got up early. We would stay up all night, and
Speaker 1: we knew that we would not get up early enough
Speaker 1: to have breakfast at McDonald so we actually just pulled
Speaker 1: an all nighter. We saw our cousins yesterday and we've
Speaker 1: already been planning to lock in a date for our
Speaker 1: Christmas sleep over, and there was talk of getting baby Chinos.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a really great Christmas tradition that
Speaker 1: we've been able to keep. Okay, we've already discussed we're
Speaker 1: going to be having it at your new house. We
Speaker 1: just can't be there. We're all going to have a
Speaker 1: sleepover in the family room. Well that's okay. His parents'
Speaker 1: house is pretty close, so he can go sleep there. Well,
Speaker 1: I suppose another tradition we have with our cousins late
Speaker 1: night shopping. So in Adelaide, there's really only one night
Speaker 1: where the shop stays open all night and then all
Speaker 1: into that morning.
Speaker 3: Oh how sad do we sound?
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: So that day we go with our cousins shopping and
Speaker 1: we always go around like eleven or twelve, and it's
Speaker 1: the day when our cousin normally buys a present for
Speaker 1: his girlfriend, which we always have to help him select.
Speaker 1: The funniest thing is when they try and buy something
Speaker 1: for their mum. And one of our cousins, Stewie, he
Speaker 1: is so meticulous with everything, like a decision has to
Speaker 1: be thought over and questioned, and it's like, just get
Speaker 1: the fucking hands, like it doesn't matter, you know what.
Speaker 1: My favorite late night shopping memory is when I decided
Speaker 1: just out of nowhere to buy a basketball game.
Speaker 3: So it's one of those those two shooter games, and.
Speaker 1: We decided to put it together at like twelve o'clock
Speaker 1: and Sophie, you were trying to get to sleep, and
Speaker 1: we would just know I was trying to sleep too,
Speaker 1: because I had to work the next day. Well, I
Speaker 1: had a six am shift, and I didn't want to
Speaker 1: miss out in the shopping.
Speaker 3: I stayed for a bit.
Speaker 1: I wake up at four o'clock in the morning to
Speaker 1: this sound of balls hitting against a wall, and I
Speaker 1: it was like, what the fuck is going on? And
Speaker 1: then I came down in the morning and I was like,
Speaker 1: what is this doing in our family room?
Speaker 3: It was massive. It was a little Christmas present from
Speaker 3: me to me.
Speaker 1: It was just a typical Amy purchase. Amy buys a
Speaker 1: lot of stupid shit. Another tradition that we have had
Speaker 1: for the past nine years is holding a Christmas white party.
Speaker 1: And when we say party, it's not really a party gathering,
Speaker 1: a select gathering of people and everyone wears white clothing
Speaker 1: because I think it was like a big thing on
Speaker 1: Gossip Girl at the time or something like that. But
Speaker 1: we've held on to that tradition and the photos always
Speaker 1: look really nice. Well, one of the traditions of the
Speaker 1: White Party is that we play Can of Worms at
Speaker 1: the end. Well, I don't know, people might not remember
Speaker 1: the show. There was a show called Can of Worms
Speaker 1: where controversial questions were asked, but we've taken it to.
Speaker 3: A next level.
Speaker 1: So we've got to the point where we actually have
Speaker 1: everyone write a question and it goes into a hat
Speaker 1: and then people have to randomly pull it out. The
Speaker 1: worst part is that we often have family members at
Speaker 1: this event, so we're all piss week and we always
Speaker 1: refuse to answer the questions. But questions are so crude.
Speaker 1: I remember when we first moved into our house at Brighton.
Speaker 1: It was really funny because we had this.
Speaker 3: Big bowl of questions.
Speaker 1: And no one threw them in the bin, and then,
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to us, our mum came over I think to
Speaker 1: help clean up when.
Speaker 3: We were there, and she read through some of the questions.
Speaker 3: We were really embarrassing.
Speaker 1: We were twenty four at the time with mum's like
Speaker 1: who wrote those questions? That were like some of our
Speaker 1: friends did, it wasn't us. My favorite bit was were like,
Speaker 1: did you read them all? She's like, I read too,
Speaker 1: and I had enough. The best thing, though, is the
Speaker 1: last couple of years one of our friends who is
Speaker 1: in his fifties, no you's he in his sixties.
Speaker 3: Sixties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So one of my old work colleagues he comes
Speaker 1: along and he is like the host of Canniboy. He's
Speaker 1: a radio presenter, so he's got this incredible voice, so
Speaker 1: he hosts the night. It is so much fun. It
Speaker 1: is hilarious. I already want to start writing questions for
Speaker 1: it now because I feel like it's a bit old
Speaker 1: hat now, some of the questions that you've really got
Speaker 1: to go there. But it is awful when you have
Speaker 1: new guests there who don't really know what to expect.
Speaker 1: A few times I think people have been offended and
Speaker 1: like we had some pretty good inclusions last year. Some
Speaker 1: of Dale's friends came and they were great at Can
Speaker 1: of Worms. So I feel like it's going to be
Speaker 1: a good year this year, So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: Gretchen switch sides with Katie, but I'm always on your left.
Speaker 4: Well that was when there were three of us, and
Speaker 4: now the tallest go in the middle.
Speaker 3: The whole dance will be backwards.
Speaker 1: I'm always on your left and right now you're getting
Speaker 1: on my last nerve switch. What about Christmas gifts for
Speaker 1: significant others because we're all living with our boyfriends now,
Speaker 1: do you guys think that there needs to be some
Speaker 1: kind of spending limit set or is it just sort
Speaker 1: of a free for all. Well, the first Christmas that
Speaker 1: Brandon and I spent together, I feel like it has
Speaker 1: made it difficult because we've spent so much money. Brandon
Speaker 1: got me a beautiful necklace from Sarah and Sebastian, which
Speaker 1: was incredibly expensive, and then I bought him also an
Speaker 1: expensive present because I got win from UK that he
Speaker 1: was buying me something. So we tried to have a
Speaker 1: rule to just stick to one hundred dollars now, but
Speaker 1: you can't. Yeah, you can't totally. First year, No, it
Speaker 1: is difficult. I mean, Reason and I have been having
Speaker 1: the same conversation because we've just bought a house and
Speaker 1: we've kind of you know, a poor now, so we're like, God,
Speaker 1: we might be making each other Christmas presents. Who knows
Speaker 1: what our financial situation will be like, but I do
Speaker 1: think it's important to have a discussion about what the
Speaker 1: budget is because it's really awkward if you get something
Speaker 1: and then someone gets you something that's so much more expensive. No,
Speaker 1: and I could still be done a time delay and
Speaker 1: beds character ceilings and slip slowly into madness. What would
Speaker 1: I wear? Another one is the Christmas Day outfit. This
Speaker 1: is one that stumps me every year. Every year I
Speaker 1: regret what I've worn because last year I'm like, yep,
Speaker 1: I'll get a nice dress. I bought this really tight
Speaker 1: dress that I'm like, why am I wearing this? At
Speaker 1: my uncle and Auntie's hair? And you can't even enjoy
Speaker 1: eating because you just feel like bloated, and you like,
Speaker 1: I think you've got to go with baggy clothes. I
Speaker 1: always get in trouble on Christmas Day because you guys
Speaker 1: always have a go at me because I'm not dressed
Speaker 1: up enough well, because you always want to.
Speaker 3: Borrow something, you know, to real that do you know what?
Speaker 1: I'm not organized though, like you know, you just sort
Speaker 1: of like go, oh, what can I borrow?
Speaker 3: Well one Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: I've had two Christmas Days where I've had to work
Speaker 1: as a journalist on the days, and I remember I
Speaker 1: just couldn't even be bothered to change. I just wore
Speaker 1: a Christmas jumper and it was one that I can't remember.
Speaker 1: It had like some kind of rude slogan. I remember
Speaker 1: getting a photo with Grandma and just thinking, oh, this
Speaker 1: is like quite a rude Christmas jumper. Something that I
Speaker 1: find so challenging every year is knowing when do you
Speaker 1: do your tan for Christmas and New Years?
Speaker 3: That is so hard, first world problem, but it is
Speaker 3: a problem.
Speaker 1: It is such a problem because you know they're a
Speaker 1: week apart from it or a few days apart from
Speaker 1: each other. You don't know which event is more important.
Speaker 1: We you've got, like your work Christmas party you've got,
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a white party, we've got and
Speaker 1: then also New Year's Eve comes around so quickly and
Speaker 1: you're just like, oh my gosh, when am I meant
Speaker 1: to do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really difficult.
Speaker 1: I mean you could be like me last Christmas and
Speaker 1: coat yourself in BONDI sands, rock up to Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: dinner looking green to the Grinch it was not a
Speaker 1: good look. Or turn up to the Audi with your
Speaker 1: pants inside out. A year ago now, I actually came
Speaker 1: across that photo, and it rocks me to my call
Speaker 1: that I actually was out in public like that.
Speaker 2: These capitalist fat cats are in the profit margin.
Speaker 3: I'm reducing your total number of times these guys.
Speaker 1: Are coming coming. Santa is not a COMI personally, I
Speaker 1: love Christmas Eve, possibly more than I love Christmas Day.
Speaker 3: It has a real feeling to it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of more magical than Christmas Day because when
Speaker 1: Christmas Day rolls around, it already have that feeling that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Be upset when it's over, despite it being magical.
Speaker 1: I do remember so many Christmas Eves that were spent
Speaker 1: arguing because we'd always have Christmas Lunch a lot of
Speaker 1: the time at our house, and of course tensions would
Speaker 1: would rise over this. Well, I think Christmas is a
Speaker 1: really stressful time because there's so many people that you
Speaker 1: need to see, and there's all the juggling of which
Speaker 1: relatives you see, so there's always that pre Christmas argument
Speaker 1: about who's seeing who, and then it's about who's doing what.
Speaker 1: So I suppose if you're having your relatives over, then
Speaker 1: you've got to pull your weight a little bit more.
Speaker 1: But we'd always the funniest thing was all the fights
Speaker 1: would be the same, like it would be over something silly,
Speaker 1: and then our dad would always have a way of
Speaker 1: making up with everybody. It would be as soon as
Speaker 1: Carl's by candlelight came on, he would get really into
Speaker 1: it and make everyone laugh. Our dad is known for
Speaker 1: sitting there and commentating the whole thing, taking the piss
Speaker 1: out of everyone. I remember when High five used to
Speaker 1: perform and at one stage they were wearing like really
Speaker 1: ridiculous outfits. He ran in the kitchen made an outfit
Speaker 1: out of a garbage bag and that was like the
Speaker 1: highlight of everyone's night.
Speaker 3: It was so funny. No one could be angry at
Speaker 3: each other after that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose for us as kids, we had to
Speaker 1: go to bed really early on Christmas Eve, and because
Speaker 1: we had our light display outside. I still remember the
Speaker 1: lights were still on and they'd be like blaring.
Speaker 3: Into your room.
Speaker 1: And I still remember one Christmas where they turned on
Speaker 1: at like two am on Christmas morning and they stayed
Speaker 1: on for the whole night. So it was really hard
Speaker 1: to get any sleep because we were listening out for Santa.
Speaker 1: You just couldn't fall asleep at all. On Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: it was. It was like hell on earth. He'd wake
Speaker 1: up at four and be like can we get up now?
Speaker 1: And be like no. Do you know what?
Speaker 3: I remember?
Speaker 1: Even when we were twenty Sadly, Sophie and I shared
Speaker 1: a bedroom until we were.
Speaker 3: Like twenty four.
Speaker 1: I remember one Christmas you were like, guess what I've
Speaker 1: got you?
Speaker 3: And I guessed it was like a Cudashian bag or something.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so really cute.
Speaker 1: Okay, and I In a lead up to Christmas, we
Speaker 1: had a share TV and we would watch this show
Speaker 1: called The Role Family, and every night we would watch
Speaker 1: the same Christmas episode and I got in so much
Speaker 1: trouble because it was on a VHS and somehow I
Speaker 1: accidentally recorded over a section of that video.
Speaker 3: I've never lived it down. I was so mad.
Speaker 1: Anyone who is wanting to get into the Christmas spirit,
Speaker 1: please go and watch it.
Speaker 3: It is the best show, you.
Speaker 2: Know that my head? How can I forget and ever replaced?
Speaker 2: Because every time Catherine wrapped up the microwave and kissed
Speaker 2: my pants and forget who I was for half hour
Speaker 2: or so.
Speaker 1: Well, moving on from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day and
Speaker 1: one of our family traditions was the fact that Dad
Speaker 1: would record us opening every single present. It was so
Speaker 1: annoying because you'd rush down the hall ready to see
Speaker 1: your presence and Dad would be like, with a cigarette,
Speaker 1: hold on, got to set up the camera and that'd
Speaker 1: be a further ten minute.
Speaker 3: Well, there was some.
Speaker 1: Bargaining over what time you were allowed to get up,
Speaker 1: so we have always been people that sleep in, but
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day we wanted to get up as early
Speaker 1: as possible to open our Christmas presents. So, as Sophie said,
Speaker 1: Dad would finally set up the camera and it would
Speaker 1: be on a tripod.
Speaker 3: So I just love there was no editing involved. Do
Speaker 3: you see Daddy turn it on? Do you seem kind.
Speaker 1: Of like wander around and then suddenly we would be
Speaker 1: allowed in the room, would burst in and I just
Speaker 1: remember watching back one year. I don't know what TV
Speaker 1: show it was from, but every present we opened, we're like, wacky,
Speaker 1: Do I want to go and find the video and
Speaker 1: post it to our group because there is a hilarious
Speaker 1: scene where Mum is opening a Christmas present from Dad
Speaker 1: and she gets those happy pants but you know those
Speaker 1: really popular bright pants, and you can tell she absolutely
Speaker 1: hates them and she's like, I love them, Hugh, and it's.
Speaker 3: Just absolutely classic.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad we don't do that tradition anymore. I
Speaker 1: would hate to watch myself back opening here. I'm going
Speaker 1: to bring it back. I mean, we're a videography company.
Speaker 1: I think we should do it this year. We'll getting
Speaker 1: into what we would actually do. Generally, it would be
Speaker 1: dinner at our grandparents' house and lunch at a Nana
Speaker 1: and Pappa's house. Oh my gosh, I have such fond
Speaker 1: memories of these Christmases. Our grandma, as we said, really
Speaker 1: sparked our love of Christmas, and she would go all out.
Speaker 1: It was actually amazing. She'd do this full on buffet,
Speaker 1: you know, serve yourself of salads and seafood. And one
Speaker 1: hilarious tradition she had was buying a tongue. That was
Speaker 1: the best because we would have so much fun blind
Speaker 1: folding our cousins and trying to force them to eat
Speaker 1: like gross things we found on the table. And one
Speaker 1: year we tried to feed our cousin tongue, but we
Speaker 1: actually just gave him chicken and he freed out. Well,
Speaker 1: the whole reason why Grandma had the tongue was. It
Speaker 1: was a tradition when she was in England that she
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to bring here. So our grandma was
Speaker 1: really the only one who would eat the tongue, but
Speaker 1: one year our cousin brought her boyfriend who actually ate
Speaker 1: it as well, and we couldn't believe it. Our dad
Speaker 1: and uncle would also always have an oyster eating competition
Speaker 1: and it was foul. I think he ate something like
Speaker 1: fifty oysters one day.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they did that with mince pies as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the apparently before we were born, that's when dad
Speaker 1: broke the record of eating the most number of oysters,
Speaker 1: and people have claimed that that's.
Speaker 3: Why he's had triplets. Very potent, do you know what?
Speaker 1: The other tradition was we'd always have a Christmas pudding
Speaker 1: and there'd always be coins in it. And I remember
Speaker 1: one of our aunties held Christmas Day at her house
Speaker 1: and she was quite well off, and I remember she
Speaker 1: put two dollar coins in the pudding and we couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. Like I used to hate Christmas pudding, but
Speaker 1: I remember I had about four pieces just to get
Speaker 1: the money from it. But apparently some people don't do that,
Speaker 1: so I was telling Dale about don't put money in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I was telling Dale about how you get money
Speaker 1: in Christmas pudding and his family have never done that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brandon's family hadn't done it. He had to googled it
Speaker 1: to show them what was actually a thing? Is it
Speaker 1: like an English thing? Because I know Grandma used to
Speaker 1: do twenty cent pieces and I think Nana and Papa did.
Speaker 3: It as well.
Speaker 1: Let's do a poll on our instagram. If you're listening
Speaker 1: to this, go to our instagram which has Outspoken Underscore
Speaker 1: the Underscored podcast, and vote if you put coins in
Speaker 1: your Christmas pudding. Aside from the money in the pudding,
Speaker 1: there was also another really exciting tradition that Grandma would
Speaker 1: buy I'd say probably one hundred bond bonds, yeah, something
Speaker 1: crazy like that. She'd always be like, twelve little cousins,
Speaker 1: can you go get the bond bonds? And they'd have
Speaker 1: to hold this huge pot of bond bonds and then
Speaker 1: like another bus and they weren't just crap bon bonds,
Speaker 1: they were like cool stuff in the bond boar. I
Speaker 1: love how they weren't put on the table like most
Speaker 1: people put the bon bon on the table in front
Speaker 1: of the person. This was just like a sport of
Speaker 1: bond bonds. They were the most expensive bond bonds and
Speaker 1: she would get them in the sales every year. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that just reminded me when I was saying the word
Speaker 1: bond bond, because it sounded really weird. Some people call
Speaker 1: them crackers as well, so it's funny to hear what
Speaker 1: people actually call them. But one year Grandma decided that this,
Speaker 1: you know, fifty bond bonds wasn't enough. She bought a
Speaker 1: giant bond bond. So this was I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be exaggerating, but it was almost like the
Speaker 1: size of a person, this bond bond, and it was
Speaker 1: it had little bon.
Speaker 3: Bonds inside of it.
Speaker 1: I think if one more person said the word bon bon,
Speaker 1: I will go nuts. We're moving on to lunch at
Speaker 1: our nana and Papa's house. Now, they were a little
Speaker 1: bit more low key than our grandparents. They always had
Speaker 1: their little fake tree that we would help them decorate,
Speaker 1: and I think what was so beautiful was our Papa
Speaker 1: would always try and come up with a seating plan
Speaker 1: that would suit everyone. So there were certain people that
Speaker 1: he thought would get on better than others and it
Speaker 1: was just so cute. One thing I will also always
Speaker 1: remember is our papa would buy every single grandchild a
Speaker 1: book and you would then spend the holidays reading that book.
Speaker 1: And that was as well as obviously a present, but
Speaker 1: it was just a really nice idea. Oh That's how
Speaker 1: I got into Harry Potter, and I will always be
Speaker 1: grateful for that present. We're talking about the seeding plan before.
Speaker 1: One thing that's super awkward is when you get into
Speaker 1: your early twenties and you're still sitting on the kids table.
Speaker 1: Like it's a real kick in the dick when you're
Speaker 1: on that table because you're like, I'm not quite considered
Speaker 1: an adult here, and it's kind of embarrassing.
Speaker 4: For the next two months, your entire life, all your music,
Speaker 4: it is Christmas music. All the TV you watch is
Speaker 4: Christmas TV, your Home docor is Christmas Home DACA your
Speaker 4: lifestyle changes.
Speaker 1: Now, to wrap up this episode, let's get into some
Speaker 1: Christmas recommendations. Now it's early November. What are you watching
Speaker 1: this time of year? Amy, Well, I've got to recommend
Speaker 1: YouTuber l Darby because she has already started putting up
Speaker 1: some amazing Christmas vlogs.
Speaker 3: She started in October.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's been super early with the Christmas logs, which
Speaker 1: I'm loving, and I did really respect the fact that
Speaker 1: she put her Christmas decorations up on the first of November,
Speaker 1: which actually signified the first of the UK's lockdown, so
Speaker 1: she was trying to spread a bit of Christmas cheer,
Speaker 1: which was lovely. I've got to say, I just love
Speaker 1: the relationship between Lle and her sister.
Speaker 3: They're so cute.
Speaker 1: They were out at Costco getting hot chocolates. It almost
Speaker 1: made me wish I was having a white Christmas this year.
Speaker 1: It's funny because it's the first time I've actually got
Speaker 1: into her vlogs, and on the weekend I kept saying, okay.
Speaker 3: Hey, sis, hey, sis hey boom.
Speaker 1: I'm really getting into Saffron Barker's vlog She is another
Speaker 1: British YouTuber. She always does what I Eat in a
Speaker 1: Day videos and she usually does Christmas theme videos, which
Speaker 1: is so much fun to watch. She's already done an
Speaker 1: advent calendar one, but unfortunately it was just a bit
Speaker 1: of a cell for the body shop. Talking about food videos,
Speaker 1: I love when Anastasia kings North does her McDonald's Christmas videos,
Speaker 1: so they go through exactly what all the Christmas the
Speaker 1: items on the McDonald's menu are.
Speaker 3: Do they have Christmas specific McDonald's items?
Speaker 1: Why don't we get them here? They have Christmas Burgers,
Speaker 1: They've even got Christmas like Sundays and mcflurries. I feel
Speaker 1: really ripped off. I'm yet to start watching actual Christmas movies,
Speaker 1: but I think this weekend I'm going to kick off
Speaker 1: with Elf. I feel like that's a really good start
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie. I like to save my classic Christmas
Speaker 1: movies for like December.
Speaker 3: What about you, guys.
Speaker 1: I watched Elf last year a little bit too early,
Speaker 1: and I wish i'd saved it till December. I must say,
Speaker 1: I feel like Christmas with the Cranks is a good
Speaker 1: November movie because it's got elements of Christmas. But they
Speaker 1: hate it, so it's not you know, you don't have
Speaker 1: to be as Christmas y. I watched Holiday, which seems
Speaker 1: to be a very divisive Netflix new movie that they've
Speaker 1: brought out.
Speaker 3: I have to agree with the critics. It was absolute garbage. Sure,
Speaker 3: it was watching it terrible.
Speaker 1: I mean, the only redeeming feature was the main character,
Speaker 1: who everyone thinks is an asshole. He was in fact Australian,
Speaker 1: so it's good to see some Australians being in American
Speaker 1: movies at the moment. I do love Home Alone and
Speaker 1: I was never someone who grew up watching Homeland. Like
Speaker 1: we never watched it as kids. Oh my god. My
Speaker 1: ex boyfriend used to watch it on repeat at Christmas time.
Speaker 1: It was so weird, Like I never watched it with him,
Speaker 1: but he literally would call me when he was living
Speaker 1: into State and be like, oh, yeah, I just watched
Speaker 1: Home Alone again.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've got funny mixed feelings about that.
Speaker 3: It's a cute movie. I really like it.
Speaker 1: I feel like you should add it to your Christmas
Speaker 1: movie list. Well, I think everyone should jump into our
Speaker 1: Facebook community and share their favorite YouTubers to follow up
Speaker 1: Christmas time and also their favorite movies. Can I just say,
Speaker 1: are there any Australian influencers who are actually doing vlogmas?
Speaker 3: Because I can't think of any it's too lazy, I think.
Speaker 1: So if there is anyone that you guys all follow
Speaker 1: that is doing vlogmass and is an Australian influencer, let
Speaker 1: us know because.
Speaker 3: I want to follow them.
Speaker 1: Well, I think we better wrap it up there because
Speaker 1: we could talk for the next two hours on this topic. Now,
Speaker 1: we thought it was important to start this series by
Speaker 1: talking about why we love Christmas so much and going
Speaker 1: through some of our Christmas traditions. But the rest of
Speaker 1: the series we've made up by a number of guests
Speaker 1: we're going to have on the show. Next week, we're
Speaker 1: going to be having Victoria Devine. We're so excited to
Speaker 1: have her. She is, of course from she's on the
Speaker 1: money and she's going to be sharing some important Christmas
Speaker 1: budgeting tips as well as her own Christmas tradition. So
Speaker 1: we cannot wait to bring you that episode.
Speaker 4: At the act of the
Speaker 1: End, after think