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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Very Christmas, everyone.

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Speaker 3: My favorite Christmas tradition has become over the last three years.

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Speaker 3: We do this thing on Christmas Eve with my family,

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Speaker 3: which is just simply a book exchange. So you do it,

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Speaker 3: Chris Kringle, but it's got to be a book that

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Speaker 3: you get for somebody else and it's a sweet tradition.

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Speaker 3: It actually comes from Iceland or Sweden or something like that.

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Speaker 3: So then on Christmas Eve we all get a brand

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Speaker 3: new book and we sit around and read the books,

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Speaker 3: drink hot chocolates, play Christmas music. It's very sweet and

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Speaker 3: wholesome and I encourage everybody to do the same.

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Speaker 2: Patsy, what do you like to do over Christmas?

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Speaker 1: I love to or all of our family likes to

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Speaker 1: go down to Frankston Foreshaw where they do the sand sculptures.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen that?

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Speaker 1: Every year and they've just moved it to Bonio so

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Speaker 1: it's just a little bit out, but it is worth

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Speaker 1: the drive across Melbourne to go see these. They have

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Speaker 1: a theme ex to you one year with Disney and

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Speaker 1: they do all the principle. These things are massive.

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Speaker 2: How did he do.

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Speaker 1: It's a special I think they put a special glue

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Speaker 1: in with the sand, I think, and then they spray

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Speaker 1: it quite regularly with like like.

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Speaker 3: A mist of water.

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Speaker 1: I guess to keep keep bombing it together.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just a list of water.

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Speaker 1: Close it down, build You see them like waving the

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Speaker 1: water across. So that's one of our favorite things to do.

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Speaker 1: The other is to hit the road and go back

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Speaker 1: to our old area of northeast Victoria and all the

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Speaker 1: wineries there.

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Speaker 4: Love it.

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Speaker 1: Just Brown Brothers and Oxley and mill Low and all

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Speaker 1: the cheese shops and the mustard shops.

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Speaker 2: Lovely doing a taste.

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Speaker 4: And at lunchtime when the sun's out and he got

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Speaker 4: it all over the vines.

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Speaker 2: That is beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's God's country.

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Speaker 3: It's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: And swimming in the rivers there is introducing Audrey to that.

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Speaker 1: She's always used to, you know, chlorinated pools. It's like

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Speaker 1: where you get.

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Speaker 4: In the river.

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Speaker 1: That's how we've led to swim, just that sort of

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Speaker 1: down to earth.

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Speaker 4: Country living a love it one thing we always doing

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Speaker 4: Christmas Eve, and we'll be doing it, says the kids

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Speaker 4: who are very young now, the older teenagers on Christmas Eve,

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Speaker 4: we're all open a present and it's like pajamas and

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Speaker 4: they were then all gone to put them on, and

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Speaker 4: we're ready. We're dressed for Christmas. Eaching not matching. No, well,

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Speaker 4: my wife does someth well, the daughters get like real

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Speaker 4: nice sill ones, and I'm always some sort of dweeby

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Speaker 4: dad thing, like some harmle old check pants.

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Speaker 2: Like one year they were like really tight. That's my story.

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Speaker 2: It was the end of last year's COVID. I remember

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Speaker 2: sitting down them and my backside split.

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Speaker 3: On pajamas, which are usually pretty forgiving.

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Speaker 4: Well, well these, I'm sure these were a fashion thing.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's our thing on Christmas Eve.

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Speaker 4: Christmas to me, it isn't about the main day, Christmas Day,

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Speaker 4: I love my favorite day of the year. It would

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Speaker 4: always be Christmas Eve. I love them moment on wake up.

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Speaker 4: I'm actually more excited on Christmas Eve than I on

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Speaker 4: Christmas Day. I love Christmas Eve. But they could bottle

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Speaker 4: what that excitement is. And I know it changes as

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Speaker 4: you get older and that you'll never grab what it

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Speaker 4: was like again as a kid, but.

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Speaker 2: I still love it.

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Speaker 4: It's the potential of what's coming the next day and

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Speaker 4: it's almost here.

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