WEBVTT - MINI: Christmas Traditions

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

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<v Speaker 2>Very Christmas, everyone.

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<v Speaker 3>My favorite Christmas tradition has become over the last three years.

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<v Speaker 3>We do this thing on Christmas Eve with my family,

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<v Speaker 3>which is just simply a book exchange. So you do it,

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<v Speaker 3>Chris Kringle, but it's got to be a book that

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<v Speaker 3>you get for somebody else and it's a sweet tradition.

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<v Speaker 3>It actually comes from Iceland or Sweden or something like that.

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<v Speaker 3>So then on Christmas Eve we all get a brand

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<v Speaker 3>new book and we sit around and read the books,

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

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<v Speaker 3>wholesome and I encourage everybody to do the same.

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<v Speaker 2>Patsy, what do you like to do over Christmas?

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<v Speaker 1>I love to or all of our family likes to

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<v Speaker 1>go down to Frankston Foreshaw where they do the sand sculptures.

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<v Speaker 3>Have you ever seen that?

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<v Speaker 1>Every year and they've just moved it to Bonio so

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<v Speaker 1>it's just a little bit out, but it is worth

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<v Speaker 1>the drive across Melbourne to go see these. They have

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<v Speaker 1>a theme ex to you one year with Disney and

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<v Speaker 1>they do all the principle. These things are massive.

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<v Speaker 2>How did he do.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a special I think they put a special glue

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<v Speaker 1>in with the sand, I think, and then they spray

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<v Speaker 1>it quite regularly with like like.

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<v Speaker 3>A mist of water.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess to keep keep bombing it together.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's just a list of water.

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<v Speaker 1>Close it down, build You see them like waving the

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

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<v Speaker 1>The other is to hit the road and go back

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<v Speaker 1>to our old area of northeast Victoria and all the

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<v Speaker 1>wineries there.

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<v Speaker 4>Love it.

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<v Speaker 1>Just Brown Brothers and Oxley and mill Low and all

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<v Speaker 1>the cheese shops and the mustard shops.

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<v Speaker 2>Lovely doing a taste.

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<v Speaker 4>And at lunchtime when the sun's out and he got

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<v Speaker 4>it all over the vines.

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<v Speaker 2>That is beautiful.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just it's God's country.

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<v Speaker 3>It's beautiful.

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<v Speaker 1>And swimming in the rivers there is introducing Audrey to that.

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

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<v Speaker 1>where you get.

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<v Speaker 4>In the river.

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

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<v Speaker 1>down to earth.

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<v Speaker 4>Country living a love it one thing we always doing

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<v Speaker 4>Christmas Eve, and we'll be doing it, says the kids

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<v Speaker 4>who are very young now, the older teenagers on Christmas Eve,

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<v Speaker 4>we're all open a present and it's like pajamas and

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<v Speaker 4>they were then all gone to put them on, and

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

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<v Speaker 4>my wife does someth well, the daughters get like real

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<v Speaker 4>nice sill ones, and I'm always some sort of dweeby

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<v Speaker 4>dad thing, like some harmle old check pants.

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

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<v Speaker 2>It was the end of last year's COVID. I remember

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<v Speaker 2>sitting down them and my backside split.

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<v Speaker 3>On pajamas, which are usually pretty forgiving.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, well these, I'm sure these were a fashion thing.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, that's our thing on Christmas Eve.

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<v Speaker 4>Christmas to me, it isn't about the main day, Christmas Day,

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<v Speaker 4>I love my favorite day of the year. It would

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<v Speaker 4>always be Christmas Eve. I love them moment on wake up.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm actually more excited on Christmas Eve than I on

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<v Speaker 4>Christmas Day. I love Christmas Eve. But they could bottle

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<v Speaker 4>what that excitement is. And I know it changes as

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<v Speaker 4>you get older and that you'll never grab what it

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<v Speaker 4>was like again as a kid, but.

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<v Speaker 2>I still love it.

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<v Speaker 4>It's the potential of what's coming the next day and

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<v Speaker 4>it's almost here.

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