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Outspoken Christmas Eve Special · Outspoken the Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to this very festive episode of Outspoken.
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  Speaker 1: I am so excited to be in your ears on
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. What an absolute honour. It is a sacred day,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah, I said in yesterday's episode that Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Eve is actually my favourite day of the year. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you think it feels more Christmassy on Christmas Eve? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of commentary around the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Christmas day it kind of drops off the excitement because
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  Speaker 1: I think I enjoy more of the lead up to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas I think after Christmas morning yes I enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: lead up and then I think the magic of Christmas
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  Speaker 1: morning and also going out and seeing if your milk's
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  Speaker 1: been drunk or your carrots have been chewed or whatever
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  Speaker 1: yeah have you seen those parents that create kind of
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  Speaker 1: like you know when the footy's on and they run
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  Speaker 1: through like a paper banner yeah they set up a
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  Speaker 1: wallpaper banner so What they do is they cover the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing so you can't even see into the room
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  Speaker 1: in Christmas paper and all the kids run through it
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  Speaker 1: and see the Christmas tree with all the presents around it.
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  Speaker 1: How cool is that? That's pretty cool and I'm guessing
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  Speaker 1: that it helps stop any little eyes from peering down
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  Speaker 1: and seeing their parents wrapping presents. I've seen another thing
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok where the dads will dress up as Santa Claus. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I love it. And they'll get like the mum will
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  Speaker 1: wake up the kids and be like, shh, watch, he's
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  Speaker 1: coming up. I love that. I love the comments because
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  Speaker 1: someone's like, I tried this once and my kids didn't
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  Speaker 1: go to sleep after. Oh, truth. That would, yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: would be hard to get them back to bed. I
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  Speaker 1: remember one Christmas Eve and our dad used to go
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nuts with Christmas lights. He's done a very nice
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  Speaker 1: effort this year, but it's not what he used to do.
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  Speaker 1: Like he used to have like 20 sets of Christmas
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  Speaker 1: lights up. And Amy, when we used to still share
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  Speaker 1: a room, all three of us, up until we were
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  Speaker 1: about nine, you had your bed across the window. So
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  Speaker 1: you had the best view of the Christmas lights coming in.
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  Speaker 1: And I could kind of see them from my bed too.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember one Christmas, Dad used to have a
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  Speaker 1: timer on the Christmas lights, but it malfunctioned and the
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  Speaker 1: lights went on at like 2am and you're kind of
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  Speaker 1: like woken by them. And I thought I heard Santa
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  Speaker 1: on the roof as well. And I remember just not
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  Speaker 1: being able to fall asleep from that point. We had
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  Speaker 1: a brush fence and I remember a few times looking
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  Speaker 1: out the window and thinking that the brush fence was
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  Speaker 1: the sleigh. Oh, and there was that one Christmas Eve,
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  Speaker 1: we went to our uncle Paul's house and All our
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  Speaker 1: extended family was there and our cousin rushed over and goes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, girls, I just saw Santa and pointed at
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  Speaker 1: the sky. And I was just, my mind was blown.
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  Speaker 1: Like it was so exciting. Yeah. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: into Christmas present etiquette. I know by now everyone will
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  Speaker 1: have hopefully wrapped their presents. That's a goal for me.
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  Speaker 1: But I know that I'll have a couple of ones
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  Speaker 1: that I will have to wrap before I go to
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  Speaker 1: bed on Christmas Eve. Yeah. every year that happens to
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  Speaker 1: me but what do you think about gift cards are
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  Speaker 1: they thoughtful or lazy I love a gift card I
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  Speaker 1: actually think it's really thoughtful to give someone something so
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  Speaker 1: they can get something that they actually want because often
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  Speaker 1: you just get a load of crap you don't want
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  Speaker 1: you don't want in your house and it's not lazy
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  Speaker 1: either because you have to actually go on physically you
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  Speaker 1: should get one the thing is though I would feel
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  Speaker 1: differently if it was my partner getting me a gift
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  Speaker 1: card because I think that's lazy I think that's like
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  Speaker 1: a little bit thoughtless I think Dale's really scared about
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  Speaker 1: what to get me this year because remember we had
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  Speaker 1: that laugh about how we'd purchased some stuff off of
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  Speaker 1: Timu and then I found the Timu thing and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't give it to me. See, on our side of
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  Speaker 1: the family, we've decided to do a Kris Kringle, just
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  Speaker 1: like the three of us and our husbands because we'd
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  Speaker 1: prefer to spend the money on the babies. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: it's quite funny because I'd– well, Disclaimer, I actually do
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  Speaker 1: know who Sophie has got because she can't keep a secret.
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  Speaker 1: She told me too. She literally, like I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: have to try and pry the information out of her.
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  Speaker 1: I also know who Dale has. Well, I stuffed up
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  Speaker 1: and I accidentally, because mum knows because she was making
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  Speaker 1: sure that we all, like we did it through an
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  Speaker 1: app and we were like, imagine if someone just, everyone
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  Speaker 1: gets me. And so I was talking about a present
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  Speaker 1: that I had purchased for my Kris Kringle. And then
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  Speaker 1: I said it out loud and Rhys was in the
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  Speaker 1: other room. But he was totally thrown. He thought I
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  Speaker 1: had someone completely different. So I was, like, really smug
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  Speaker 1: about it. And then I'm like, damn it, you heard.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, I was saying that whoever has Dale, and
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  Speaker 1: it could be me, should have got him. There was
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  Speaker 1: a hat on Uncle Reco that said Timu Slut. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I just thought it was so funny. I'm like, you
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  Speaker 1: should have got it for him for Christmas. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a great one. But you've become a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a Timu Slut, I reckon. I have become a Timu Slut.
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of Christmas decorations off Timu. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: As in, yeah, for my, we were talking about it
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  Speaker 1: in the other episode. For your tablescape. Yeah, my tablescape.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it just cracks me up using the
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  Speaker 1: word tablescape. It just sounds so wanky, doesn't it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it does. Who do you think I have for Chris Kringle?
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  Speaker 1: I reckon you've got me. I'm hoping you do. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not denying, I'm not going to confirm it. Who do
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  Speaker 1: you think you've got? Hang on, I don't want to. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: who do you think, no, who do you think that
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  Speaker 1: you have, do you mean? Oh, sorry. Well, I know
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  Speaker 1: who I've got. No, no, I thought you said who
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  Speaker 1: do you think you've got. No, I'm saying who do
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  Speaker 1: you think I have? I don't want to say because
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  Speaker 1: I already said I knew who Soph and Dale have. Oh, true. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to give it away. Okay. Interesting. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So for the Kris Kringle present, have you got a
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  Speaker 1: nice present or joke present? Oh, nice. Are people doing
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  Speaker 1: joke ones? Well, because you said the Teemu slut thing. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: but like that's a small present. That's a small portion
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  Speaker 1: because we're spending a hundred bucks. I hope no one's
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  Speaker 1: done a mean present for me. Oh, no. Dale's got me.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely think Dale's got me. I'm not saying anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what Dale's got for the present
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  Speaker 1: for whoever he's got. I haven't helped him. Well, how
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  Speaker 1: do you know who's got then? He told me who
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  Speaker 1: he had. Why? I don't know who Rhys has got.
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  Speaker 1: He's very secretive about this. I was saying how Dale
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  Speaker 1: was really scared of what to get me for Christmas
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  Speaker 1: and he revealed, I don't know, some part of my
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  Speaker 1: Christmas present. I thought you picked it out. No, no. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I did. I picked something out. But he's got me
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  Speaker 1: this Christmas bauble which plays a video. I've never seen them.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, surely you've seen them. I'm like, I have
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  Speaker 1: not seen these online. I saw a magnet version of those. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But like it's not, yeah, like it just, it plays
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  Speaker 1: a song. And he said that he had to tell
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  Speaker 1: me because he wanted to put photos or videos of
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  Speaker 1: Harry on it, but he didn't really have any on
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  Speaker 1: his phone because men never take videos. Oh, that's a
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  Speaker 1: whole other topic. Rhys and I have decided that rather
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  Speaker 1: than trying to guess what each other wants, because I
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  Speaker 1: Last year I felt like I had a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a gift fail. So I got him this really nice
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  Speaker 1: leather laptop bag from Aquila and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's really nice. And then he got me all these
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  Speaker 1: like different thoughtful things. It was like, you know, your
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  Speaker 1: first Christmas with Jack book and then it was like
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  Speaker 1: some Pooh Bear Christmas pyjamas and a Christmas jumper with
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  Speaker 1: like the personalized on with our family on it. It's cute.
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  Speaker 1: New Balance shoes, all these really cool things. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I've only got him sort of like
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  Speaker 1: one big gift. And then it turned out, I know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks after Christmas, he revealed that he
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  Speaker 1: actually already had a brown leather laptop bag. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was from Amazon or something. And I felt terrible.
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  Speaker 1: But then I was like, hang on, you only had
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  Speaker 1: me to organise a gift for. I had to organise
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  Speaker 1: a gift for Jack and all of our whole family
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  Speaker 1: and your family. So that sort of went, the guilt
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  Speaker 1: went away. But Reece is so hard to buy for because,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, he doesn't really like, He likes clothes,
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  Speaker 1: but he's got so many and I wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 1: pick them out for him. He's got his own style.
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  Speaker 1: And then I end up buying him shoes and he's
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  Speaker 1: got like 50 pairs of shoes. So we've decided that
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to buy like a bigger ticket item
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  Speaker 1: together that we actually need. So I have been wanting
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  Speaker 1: a king bed for so long. We've got two golden
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  Speaker 1: retrievers that share our bed. But do you think we've
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  Speaker 1: had time to organize it? No. So we're probably going
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  Speaker 1: to get it in the Boxing Day sales. But then
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I feel like I need to get something
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  Speaker 1: small for Reece to unwrap. And it's really hard to
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  Speaker 1: come up with a nice gift that's small, that's not
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  Speaker 1: very expensive because that was the whole point to save money. Well,
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  Speaker 1: do you know what I've got, Dale? I think I
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  Speaker 1: can say on this podcast. Yeah, he's not going to listen. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he asked for some Ray-Ban sunglasses. So I got those
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  Speaker 1: sunglasses for him and I thought that was kind of
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  Speaker 1: it because we'd said, oh, we want to spend X
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  Speaker 1: amount on each other. But then he kept saying like
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  Speaker 1: how he'd got this thing and he'd really, I know
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  Speaker 1: he spent more on me. So I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be that person that's got given the shit present. So
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  Speaker 1: I went out and I've bought It's a digital camera
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  Speaker 1: but it looks like an old school camera and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the screen on the back and that is
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  Speaker 1: so huge. That's cool. Like he loves all that sort
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  Speaker 1: of old school stuff and it takes it like an
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  Speaker 1: old sort of film camera. I've never even heard of them.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. Yeah, and then because Dale doesn't really take
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  Speaker 1: photos in it so he can take photos of Harry.
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  Speaker 1: Get some better photos for the bauble so he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to verify them with you. Yeah, exactly. And then
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  Speaker 1: I also got him because he loves Pokemon and he's
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  Speaker 1: got a Nintendo Switch. I got him a Pokemon game.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully he likes it and … I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing a Christmas photo shoot of Harry over the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days. Oh, that's so cute. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get them all printed. Can you do one
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  Speaker 1: of those? Yeah, yeah. I'm keen. Do you think you're
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  Speaker 1: good at pretending to love a bad gift? No, I
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  Speaker 1: think my face says it all. We have the most
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  Speaker 1: expressive faces. Like Jack has got that from me. Everyone's like,
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  Speaker 1: why is he so expressive? I'm like, it's from me.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, Sophie's so good at faking stuff. Like
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  Speaker 1: because Sophie and I work together. She's fake, Ron. Because
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  Speaker 1: Sophie and I, we have our PR agency together and
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  Speaker 1: I can't do all that fake like But do you
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  Speaker 1: think she can be fake? Like say Brandon gave her
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  Speaker 1: a gift that she didn't like. Do you think she
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  Speaker 1: can fake that? Because I think it's easier when you
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  Speaker 1: don't know the person. Yeah, I think she could fake something,
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  Speaker 1: but then eventually like a few days later would say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I hate that. See, Rhys and I still have the
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  Speaker 1: ongoing joke about when he got me a shower caddy
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas. And it wasn't the only gift. Like this
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  Speaker 1: sounds so spoiled because he got me so many other
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  Speaker 1: lovely things. But it was the Christmas before our wedding.
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  Speaker 1: So our wedding was like literally like a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks after. And I was like, This is so unromantic.
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  Speaker 1: Like we're getting married in a few weeks and you've
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  Speaker 1: bought me a shower caddy. The shit presents beginners, husband
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  Speaker 1: and wife. Yeah. Yeah, now we're nearly three years married
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  Speaker 1: and we've decided not to give each other a gift
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  Speaker 1: and just buy a bed. But, yeah, I was terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Like I can't hide it and actually like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why. One of my love languages must be gifts
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  Speaker 1: because when people aren't thoughtful, like I actually felt like crying. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Dale said the other day and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he was joking, we were talking about how for my car–
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  Speaker 1: we need to put a better sunshade up for Harry.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And he said something like, I've purchased it
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  Speaker 1: for you for Christmas. And I was like, that's not
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas present. i said what and i said that's
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  Speaker 1: not a christmas present i said he's your son too
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  Speaker 1: so the shirt's for him it's not it might be
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: going yeah and he's like and he's like oh no
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  Speaker 1: i'll just give it to you then i was like
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  Speaker 1: wait sorry like see i suppose it depends how you
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  Speaker 1: grow up like i think Rhys is really into like
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  Speaker 1: practical gifts. And then I've tried to be more practical
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  Speaker 1: with his gifts because it's so difficult. He is born
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  Speaker 1: on the 14th of December. So I've got to work
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: out a Christmas gift and a birthday gift. And you
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  Speaker 1: can't do the same present. Like you can't do a
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  Speaker 1: combined one. But then I was really practical for his
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  Speaker 1: birthday present. I got him an annual membership to the
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  Speaker 1: zoo so he can take Jack all the time. You
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  Speaker 1: really are old, you guys, having your bed in the zoo.
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  Speaker 1: I know. But I thought it was good because it's
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  Speaker 1: like he told me, oh, no, don't waste your money
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  Speaker 1: on me. Like we'll just spend it on Jack. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well. That sort of covered the basis, but
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  Speaker 1: it's for him. Do you know what one of my
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: favorite things to do on Boxing Day is go and
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: watch influencers' stories or TikToks of how they have spent Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: It used to be the Kardashians' Christmas Eve party that
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  Speaker 1: I loved watching. But yeah, I can't wait for all
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas Day vlogs to come out. Like even though
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  Speaker 1: they take a while, they're so good. And I'm loving
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: Vlogmas this year. Well, did you hear, sorry, on that,
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  Speaker 1: did you hear that Molly Mae said that she is
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: spending Christmas just with Tommy and his family? Yeah, I
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: thought that was a bit controversial. I'm sure her family
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: will be annoyed. Maybe it's because they didn't spend Christmas
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  Speaker 1: last year together because they were broken up then. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: it made me think, are her family still angry at him?
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  Speaker 1: But she said it was because her sister Zoe and
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: brother-in-law Danny have just moved into their new home. So
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  Speaker 1: what I take from that is I think they do
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  Speaker 1: live quite close to Molly and Tommy. Or maybe Molly
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  Speaker 1: and Tommy are further away now in that new house.
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  Speaker 1: But she said because her sister Zoe and brother-in-law Danny
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  Speaker 1: have just built their house and moved into it. That's
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: why they're not doing Christmas with each other. Sounds a
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: bit sus. Because often the family will sleep over at
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  Speaker 1: Molly's house. Oh, God. Yeah. Also, I feel like you've
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: got to do Christmas at the best house. Like if
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: you've got a rich relative that's got the standout house,
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  Speaker 1: you should have it there. Yeah, 100%. Like at our
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: auntie and uncle's coach house. Yeah. Like if you guys
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: had some fuck-off like $ 5 million mansion– I'd be having
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: Christmas there. I'd be sleeping over there. I'd be spending
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: the lead up to Christmas there. Yeah. Slightly different topic,
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  Speaker 1: but how have you gone with organising Harry's Christmas gifts?
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  Speaker 1: I'm stressing about it because everyone keeps asking me as well, like,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: what should I get for Harry? And I don't know,
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: just to put it out there, this is pre-recorded, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: We're recording on the 18th of December. So you obviously,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: you probably can't order anything. Have you seen the gift
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: guides on TikTok? Yes, I watched a few of them.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm thinking is I want something practical. So
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: he's getting a ball pit, like a boucle ball pit
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  Speaker 1: from mum and dad as one of his presents. I've
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: got him some clothes. I've got him like a really
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: cute country road jumper and some little country road socks
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  Speaker 1: that are on sale. I'm thinking of getting him some
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: soft play stuff, but I was doing my research the
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: other night and I just couldn't find anything I liked.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: It's expensive as well. It was either like $ 600 for
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: some soft play stuff that looked cool or it was
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: like some really garish bright colors that came up. This
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  Speaker 1: is what I found difficult because I thought I'd already
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: purchased all of Jack's presents. You know, I've spent quite
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: a bit on them. And then when I put them out,
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this doesn't look like a lot because obviously,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: you know, you've got FC's gift too. And then like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, do I need to get him more? Like,
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  Speaker 1: do I need to go down to, Kmart and get
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: him some sort of cheaper stocking stuffers. But then I'm like,
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: he's going to get so much from everyone else. I
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: saw this TikTok and it was like, if you're second
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: guessing how many presents you've given your kids, don't give
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: them any more. And it showed their house and it
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: was just like chaos. True. That's actually a really good
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: point because we got him a sort of bigger ticket item.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: It was like a Yoto player. Oh yeah. So I
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: like to have, it's sort of a selfish present because
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: I kind of want to have my phone back because
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: I'm in the stage where he has to be listening
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: to music whilst eating breakfast or in the car. But
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: then that means I can't like talk on the phone
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: to you or, you know, listen to a podcast or
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: something like in my headphones because It's a gift to
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: you and him. Yeah, and it's apparently really good because
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: they can pick their own song and skip them and
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. So I'm excited for him
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: to get that. Well, you were talking about that and
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, I might just buy Harry a CD player.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: But this one's portable and you can take– You can
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: get portable CD players? Yeah, but then you've got to
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: get CDs. Yeah. Do they even sell them anymore? They
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: don't get them at op shops. Yeah, but you've got
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: to listen to that crap a lot. Like I would
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: just get in the O2 player. I've got my AirPods.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: I want to get into some quickfire would you rather
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: Christmas style questions. So Kate. Would you rather host every
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: year or never host again? Host every year. What about you? Yeah,
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: I think I'd rather host every year. I love it.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Would you rather cook or clean? Cook, definitely. Like a
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: million times over. I was going to say cooking and cleaning. Yeah,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: I could do both normally. Would you rather no presents
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: or no food? It's funny because I was just saying
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: that presents are part of my love language. But does
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: that mean no presents for me? I think it means
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: no presents in general. I think you've got to go.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Keep the presents then because I think that's what makes
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: it most special for kids. What's everyone doing? Yeah, but
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: kids don't care about the food as much. Like I
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: think the magic of Christmas is Santa and presents. Like
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: I think if that was gone. I mean, if it
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: was just presents for me, I'd pick food. Yeah, I'd
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: forgo presents for me. Like I'd have the food instead.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Would you rather Christmas at home or away? So overseas somewhere.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I'd love to do a white Christmas at some point,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: but I'd have to have all my family there. Like
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: if my family wasn't there, but definitely at home. Like
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I think it would be cool to do it once,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: but I think that even though, say if you went
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: to New York or London for a white Christmas, I
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: still don't think it would feel Christmassy, even though that
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: is like the epitome of Christmas vibes because we're so
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: used to summer Christmases. Do you know what I'd prefer
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: to do? If I was wanting to have a white Christmas,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I'd prefer to go like maybe for like a week
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: over there or two weeks but in the lead up
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: to Christmas and then have Christmas Day at home. True.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Brandon's family, I remember one year they went to Bali. Yeah,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do a Christmas in Bali like that. I
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: would just feel wrong. Definitely post-Christmas. What would it feel
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: wrong because it's so hot? Because it's fucking hot here.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I just like being at home. I like having my traditions.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I like the Christmas tree. In terms of Christmas traditions,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: are there anything that you've brought in this year now
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: that you are a mum? I feel like Christmas traditions
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: become super important when you start your own family and
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: it's a chance to actually create your own. Well, Harry's
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: only eight months, so there's not really anything that I've
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: brought in per se. But I think as he gets older,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I'll definitely be looking for some more Christmas traditions to
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: bring in. Well, you're doing a Christmas Eve box, aren't you?
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: We spoke about that earlier, how it was meant to be.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I literally had forgotten. It's sitting right next to me.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I've got to paint the box. I've forgotten about it. Oh,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: my God. It was something I thought about. Why don't
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: you just save it for next year then? Yeah, maybe.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: And just change it to December 1st box. It literally
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: says on it Christmas Eve box. That can be changed.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Paint over it. Also, I want to do one where like–
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: before Christmas, maybe one of his presents will be in
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the box because I feel like kids get so excited
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and they can't sleep. So at least give them something
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve. It's so cute because our mum has
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: absolutely spoiled our son's rotten and she's been purchasing gifts
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: all throughout the year. And she said that she went
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: to wrap them and realised that they were all books.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: So she's gotten so many things that she's now been
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: giving them a few in the lead up to Christmas.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: So she's got a book that she's already given Jack
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: and going to give Harry and Luke a And then
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: she knitted them each a Santa Claus. It is the
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: cutest thing ever. And it's so funny because you line
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: them up and they're all slightly different. It reminds me
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: of the three of us, like identical, but there's slight differences. Oh,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: they're so cute. I love them because my Nana made
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: me one. It's like exact same. It's gorgeous. We haven't
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: even discussed how much you're spending on Jack compared to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Luca and Harry, I've realized. Oh my God. Yeah, I know. Well,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, the thing is, they're not really going to
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: chat about what we got them this year, but I
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: think that's important moving forward. Like one can't get a
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: fucking book and the other one's got like a car. Well,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: normally we set a budget, like say, you know, oh,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: let's spend X amount on Harry and Luca. Like if
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I'm giving you a gift, you give one to Jack
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: that's around the same price. I'm so excited. for the
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: boys to open their gifts, even though like they can't
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: really unwrap gifts. I saw this person on TikTok. They're like,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I've spent three hours wrapping presents for my baby and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be opening them all. It's so true.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: The other night I was like trying to perfectly wrap
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: stuff and I'm like, this is just going to be ripped.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Like just get on with it. Stop taking it so seriously.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: But I do like wrapping things nicely. I even sadly
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: looked up on TikTok tips for wrapping and then I'm like,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: this is just too pathetic. I mean, I did watch
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the Meghan Markle special and she gave some good ones
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: as well. Oh, just wrap a bottle of wine in
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a scarf. Yeah. We had a very specific question come through, Amy.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: It's directed at you. Someone asked, I'm still on the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: hunt for a Christmas snow globe with the moving train
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: inside it that I saw in one of your stories.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Ha ha. Not a question, but I loved it. Yes,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I remember getting a message about this on my Instagram.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Did you not reply? No, I replied, but they're not
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: from Adelaide. Oh, so she can't get it. Yeah, so
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it's from the Christmas shop in Adelaide, which is on
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Goodwood Road at, I believe, Cumberland Park. Oh, that is
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the best shop. Every year I'm like, I'm going to
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: go in there, but then I end up just driving past. Well,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I've told this story on the podcast, but for those
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: who haven't heard it, I went in there the other
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: day and this guy said that they had a couple
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: come in and spend like, I think it was like
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: $ 15, 000 just on Christmas decorations in one hit. Oh my God,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: that's insane. Yeah, it was like getting huge nutcrackers and everything.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I dream to be that wealthy at Christmas time. Like
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I'm not someone that's like all about money, but when
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: it comes to Christmas time, I'm like, I wish I
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: was wealthy because I would just love to go nuts
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: on the Christmas decorations. You know, when they say, oh,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: if you ever won Lotto, there'd be signs. Yeah, there
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: would be. Like I'd have fucking like seven foot high
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: nutcrackers out the front of my house. I think that's
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: like a 10 meter inflatable gingerbread man that looks like
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: ginger candy from Shrek. I'd have that. Would you? Actually,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: that might be a bit garish. Would you have someone
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: come in to do your Christmas tree? Like you know
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: how Molly Mays had her Christmas tree perfectly designed? I
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: was thinking about this the other day. Because I have
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Harry now, it took me forever to put my Christmas
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: decorations up. I actually think I would pay somebody and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I'd have one tree that maybe I'd decorate myself. See,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: if you're filthy rich though, you probably have a nanny. Oh, no. Yeah.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah. The thing is, if you were,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: if you've got a nanny, then why, why would you
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: feel bad about paying someone to decorate your house? No,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: but I like putting the Christmas tree up, but in
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: saying that I will. Small things like I, like for example,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Dale has done an amazing job at the lights outside
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: this year. But would I pay a professional to do
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it next year to save Dale if I won the lottery?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Of course I would. Oh yeah, the thing, oh yeah,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I can't stand stringing up Christmas lights or taking them down.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And also like it's hard to store decorations. So for example,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the seven foot nutcrackers that I want, I mean, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: suppose if I won the lotto, I'd have a huge store. Oh,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: but they'd probably be rented, let's be honest. Have you
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: seen those mega rich people who they build a house
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and they specifically build a cupboard into the wall to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: wheel out their like 10 meter high Christmas tree? No,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: but do they keep the decorations on it? Yes, so
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it literally just, I'm sure you've seen them. No. They
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: literally just push it back in. It's like on wheels, decorated.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. Okay, so this woman wasn't filthy rich but
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: it was just a regular Christmas tree but apparently she
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: had like a thousand ornaments on it or something and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: she saw, yeah, must have seen something similar where you
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: wrap the tree in cling wrap and then so you
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: don't have to decorate it again. I was like. Don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: like that. That's apparent. That's apparent. Yeah, but I feel
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: like the tree would be all squashed. It's like this
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: year with mum and dad's Balsam Hill tree, dad, accidentally
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: folded the branches the wrong way and the tree looks
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a bit wonky it kind of looks like and then
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: what is it like the English Christmas tree I'm actually
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: cut because I love my Christmas tree but I saw
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Sophie Jane Miller's got the real European fur one and
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like I kind of wish I bought that just
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: for a bit of a difference that as a secondary
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: tree yeah see I'm so disappointed because I have a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: small balsam hill tree and Kate you'll realize I mean
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: my office is an absolute tip but you notice it's
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: not up this year because where is my cat Winnie
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: She's already chewed through one section of lights on our
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: main Christmas tree and tried to like. Has Dale fixed
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: it though? Not yet. He's an electrician. He'll be able
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to fix it, but he hasn't had time to fix
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it yet. But I've got the little one and I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: was too scared to bring it in because she kept
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: climbing in. Could you put it outside for Christmas? Yeah,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: we'll be putting it outside. Okay. Well, I think that's
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: where we're going to wrap things up. I think we
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: would bloody talk about Christmas for another 30 minutes, but
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've got things to do. Things to cook. Well,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I've definitely got things to do today. I'll be running
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: around the kitchen, I think, between looking after a small child.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone actually picked up on it,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: but Kate and I have children. We've become those annoying
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: people that just talk about how hard it is to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: be a mum and having children and whatnot. Well, I'm
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: sure there are some other mums listening that are nodding
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: their heads in ignorance. Well, that is where we're going
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to leave things today, but we hope you have an
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: absolutely amazing Christmas. We will be back in your ears
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: for a subs episode, so if you're desperate for content,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that will be dropping on Thursday. Which is Christmas Day,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: so actually maybe we'll put it out on Boxing Day.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I think probably you don't need an episode on Christmas Day.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: And we'll also be back in your ears next week
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: with fresh episodes. If you did enjoy this podcast, we'd
• 22:38
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• 22:41
  Speaker 1: episode was recorded on the traditional land of the Kaurna
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: people of the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect to elders
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: past and present.