Speaker 1: Four finger discounted series. It's the four figure This Game
Speaker 1: Christmas Special for twenty twenty five. You know, this is
Speaker 1: our tenth Christmas Special. Tenth anniversary. Oh my gosh, long
Speaker 1: time doing this show.
Speaker 2: Absolutely wonderful, wonderful stuff.
Speaker 1: If you're having a fantastic holiday season, this is being
Speaker 1: released on Christmas Eve for all our patrons. You listen
Speaker 1: to this on the free feed. Have you all had
Speaker 1: a good Christmas last week or of holiday season last week?
Speaker 2: I'm very confused, but happy holiday season to all who celebrate.
Speaker 1: It's because our patrons, our supporters. They get the show
Speaker 1: early and ad free. Oh of course that makes a
Speaker 1: bunch of sense. No, you get you get presents. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, the annual President giving time. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you guy, he's present here. I even give you a
Speaker 1: little wrapped it up and put a little tan out
Speaker 1: a foot.
Speaker 2: I was going to wrap yours up, and then I thought, no,
Speaker 2: I just box this up. And but on a second
Speaker 2: one exit the frame. Present. You open your President at first, okay,
Speaker 2: and you take yours out of the bag. All right,
Speaker 2: but thank you very much. Present.
Speaker 1: What was the two things that you asked me for?
Speaker 1: Let's hope I got the right things.
Speaker 2: I look, I know it's not a surprise, but at
Speaker 2: the same time, what you get instead is satisfaction, like,
Speaker 2: oh my goodness, me, it's.
Speaker 1: The same faction of opening a present. It's not opening
Speaker 1: a presence.
Speaker 2: Fun.
Speaker 1: Rip it open, Rip that bitch open. Yeah, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: the right things, you bitch.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna put this up on camera, but
Speaker 2: also talk about what is because we're doing audio and visual.
Speaker 2: But as all, this is a movie called Fade to Black.
Speaker 2: It's a horror movie from the ninety eight. Its very obscure.
Speaker 1: I read the description and I was like, this sounds fun.
Speaker 2: It does. Yeah, look, it's kind of sleazy and weird,
Speaker 2: but also yeah, pretty entertaining.
Speaker 1: Ship the name of price text on it. Oh no,
Speaker 1: but hopefully i'mformed down. I was like, but GV currently
Speaker 1: has a thirty enough. Sorry, we just recorded a South
Speaker 1: Park episode where Jimmy was front and center, So now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be saying, le Jimmy expert. That's not coming
Speaker 1: out till next year, so hold your horses. Getting a
Speaker 1: lot of shit in the can because Nicholas Danley are
Speaker 1: over for Christmas, so we're getting all this stuff getting a.
Speaker 2: Lot of shit in the can. Because we also talked
Speaker 2: about mister mister my friends that head Star Toys. This
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense for a guy because it's
Speaker 2: about a movie Neude who gets horribly bullied and then
Speaker 2: decides to take horrible revenge on his tormentors using various
Speaker 2: techniques from the movies. Good stuff, And this is a
Speaker 2: nice four K version that is shock a block.
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of special features yep.
Speaker 2: A bunch of audio commentaries with the people involved and
Speaker 2: people who weren't involved but who just like the movie.
Speaker 2: And they're just a lot of extra stuff on the
Speaker 2: extra disc. So thanks dandoh you're welcome. Here's my next present. Yes,
Speaker 2: this is the This is a book called The Star
Speaker 2: Wars Archives by Paul Duncan and it's the fortieth anniversary edition.
Speaker 2: So this is about the This is about the original
Speaker 2: trilogy and it says on the back the definitive exploration
Speaker 2: of the original trilogy. So it's going to be like
Speaker 2: full of great artwork on set to pictures.
Speaker 1: Do you give a share to our friend Toby by
Speaker 1: the way, who sorted this out for us to well
Speaker 1: in toads.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the.
Speaker 1: Last minute things. So it was just like they weren't
Speaker 1: going to get it in times, and he went and
Speaker 1: picked it up for me and brought it back to
Speaker 1: his house.
Speaker 2: Oh what a legend. Yeah, yeah, he's like a little
Speaker 2: Christmas elve is. Yeah, so shout out. But yeah, Merry
Speaker 2: Christmas to Tobes as well. But yeah, Star Wars Archives.
Speaker 2: They also did one on the prequels and I said, no, think.
Speaker 1: You like, I'm assure you don't mean the prequel one.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh god. As recently mentioned on another
Speaker 2: four Finger disca an episode tried to reach fandom Menace terrible,
Speaker 2: not good at all. But I guess what, these are
Speaker 2: good movies and I'm looking forward to reading this.
Speaker 1: Book about it. And the book looks great, like I looked.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna have to get me one
Speaker 1: of these.
Speaker 2: I think this is from our friends at tash and
Speaker 2: by the way, who put do really great art books
Speaker 2: and movie books there. So this is the sign of quality.
Speaker 2: Here's another tagline, the best book on the greatest saga
Speaker 2: in the word.
Speaker 1: It's probably the best way to sell the book, right, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: this is the best Star Wars book. You know you've
Speaker 1: got a good book when it's got a bit of
Speaker 1: hif geare. That's why I'm always I love a good book.
Speaker 1: Pick it up, your hold in your hand, oh man,
Speaker 1: truly presence, Thank you Dan, no problem, my different presence.
Speaker 1: I'll reach into this goodie bag here. I pulled something
Speaker 1: out here. This looks like something I can play on
Speaker 1: a record player. Sure is Oh it's the seventh soundtrack
Speaker 1: seven score? I should say, is it?
Speaker 2: The score is going to get any Nine Snails or
Speaker 2: Trent Resident doing what to fuck You like an animal?
Speaker 2: But Howard Shaw's music for seven is fantastic and this
Speaker 2: looks like a pretty loaded set as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is a double album? I believe so Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: four signs perfect, exactly what I wanted.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, You're very very welcome. Oh god, I
Speaker 2: don't know I'm talking about the first time I ever
Speaker 2: saw seven. But I went to I didn't know a
Speaker 2: whole lot about it. I'd seen a trailer. I thought
Speaker 2: this movie looks pretty cool, had a terrible hangover, went
Speaker 2: to melbourneuse I was going to review it, and saw it.
Speaker 2: I was like the only person in this Melbourne cinema
Speaker 2: and it was a big screen.
Speaker 1: A fucking rockstar when you just paid to watch movies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of. It was kind of an unforgettab Exien
Speaker 2: because you've seen seven right, that movie is fucking demonic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all think we see the head in the box,
Speaker 1: but we don't correct. Yeah, but it's also was like, oh, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: now that's a pretty neat hook. Oh he's killing people
Speaker 1: by the seven Deadly Sins. What an interesting story. That's
Speaker 1: darker than it and it gets fucking.
Speaker 2: Positively satanic cursed movie.
Speaker 1: But the best endings are really good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But and the music is a big, big part of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Howard Shaw was a terrific composer, did a lot of
Speaker 2: work for Saturn That Live and also did the music
Speaker 2: for the Lord of the Rings. Enjoy.
Speaker 1: But I said, there's two bags here. Correct, what's in
Speaker 1: bag number two? It feels hard rock, hard, stiffy? Correct?
Speaker 1: What Oh you got vagabone? You didn't getvagabone perfect. We
Speaker 1: both wanted a book. We both wanted something else. You
Speaker 1: wanted your media physically physical media, isn't it It isn't Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: cool physical media and a book. No, I'm getting I
Speaker 1: know I'm getting mature when I want a book for Christmas,
Speaker 1: and I've got it Tim Curry's vagabone book. This looks
Speaker 1: fantastic Tim Curry, what a man?
Speaker 2: Oh exactly. Yeah, and apparently is a really good autobiography.
Speaker 2: So yeah, did he he wrote him himself, of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And look you've got people on the back saying how
Speaker 2: good it is. Idol, Yes, Susan Sarendon and Lacy Shaber
Speaker 2: from Mean Girls and Party five.
Speaker 1: Sure. Eric Idol said that he spoke to Rob.
Speaker 2: The night before he died. Yeah, only moly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Brack Obama photographic dinner with him that
Speaker 1: night or something. Yeah, anyway, I'll get them before he
Speaker 1: talked about that and going down to South let's get
Speaker 1: into that again. But yes, thank you sir. You'll bury
Speaker 1: a good book, as you said, when it's hardcover all
Speaker 1: the way, love it.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you all. Right.
Speaker 1: Now, what we do here on the Christmas Specialists? First
Speaker 1: of all, what do you doing for Christmas?
Speaker 2: That's a good question. With Loo's family, we're actually having
Speaker 2: a bit of a get together the Sunday before Christmas,
Speaker 2: so it'll be on like that twenty First, we're going
Speaker 2: to just have a get together for a nice meal
Speaker 2: and get together and all that kind of stuff. And
Speaker 2: then on the day itself, I will spend the morning
Speaker 2: with lou and her kids, just you know, it'll be
Speaker 2: a bit of trading of gifts and whatnot. But then
Speaker 2: we're heading down to Saint Leonard's down the coast here
Speaker 2: to my sister Margo's house, which is a lovely place
Speaker 2: on the water. Going to be a big Davis family celebration.
Speaker 2: My sister Prue's three kids are going to be there.
Speaker 2: They're normally off sort of doing things with their various
Speaker 2: in laws, but they're all going to be there, sister
Speaker 2: Adwena's kids. Yeah, no, it's it's going to be really good.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to it so great. Yeah, that'll be it'll
Speaker 1: be a nice what's your Christmas tradition? What's the thing
Speaker 1: that you like to make sure you do on Christmas Day?
Speaker 1: You should watch a lot of the Rings back in
Speaker 1: the day, didn't you? That was unboxing? Well don't yeah,
Speaker 1: don't step on the question, of course. Yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: if that, I'm sorry, I'm going to butcher your surname here,
Speaker 1: La Chemignon sounds very fancy. Yeah, yeah, she's got a question.
Speaker 1: What's a non negotiable. She's probably it's chemin Ant's how
Speaker 1: it's spelled it correctly, dickhead.
Speaker 2: Asking what's a non negotiable?
Speaker 1: So we're going to be getting to the Patreon questions
Speaker 1: in a moment.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that certainly. But do I have any.
Speaker 1: I have to watch Mother Christmas Carol, let's have it
Speaker 1: on the TV at some point.
Speaker 2: I'll have to have some Christmas movie on, probably the
Speaker 2: night before and maybe O recently watched Scrooge. They didn't
Speaker 2: recently watch Screwge.
Speaker 1: So look not to be about the Hannah mar Barer
Speaker 1: Christmas special.
Speaker 2: Or were Charlie Brown Christmas or something like that. Look,
Speaker 2: maybe go old school and put on It's a Wonderful
Speaker 2: Life or something like that, or to be sort of
Speaker 2: a modern cliche. No, no, put on die Hard or
Speaker 2: Lethal Weapon both Christmas movies, lethal Weapon take movies Christmas. Correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's like Marge being not Proud. Is that
Speaker 1: a Christmas episode or does it just say place for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Because you said March Proud is not a christis episode.
Speaker 1: So if that's not a Christmas episode, then it is
Speaker 1: Diehard a Christmas movie?
Speaker 2: Now you may be he'd explode someone said the other
Speaker 2: day that I was like, well, you know, if he's
Speaker 2: not going to La for the Nacotomy Plaza Christmas party,
Speaker 2: and the story doesn't really happen, does it doesn't know,
Speaker 2: It's like maybe he could.
Speaker 1: Be going anyway.
Speaker 2: Die hard, as I always say, Dieters for life, not
Speaker 2: just because the.
Speaker 1: Guy wearing a sand has hat.
Speaker 2: It's Christmas movie, correct, Yeah, and he gives a John
Speaker 2: McClean a kiss. John Clane's like, what the hell man
Speaker 2: La the California.
Speaker 1: The I mean the guy gets killed in the chair.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeaheah.
Speaker 1: So I've got a pop of that. And the kids
Speaker 1: are like, what's all that red stuff on him? I'm like,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: It's Cranberry. Though.
Speaker 1: We for the first time ever, well you've got a
Speaker 1: it's very hectic. Is it the first time ever that
Speaker 1: I think that we're here once for Christmas? Maybe no,
Speaker 1: because Nicholas dad or stepdad dad Ray has only come
Speaker 1: to Australia once and it was for our wedding, which
Speaker 1: was in February s I don't think he's ever been
Speaker 1: here for Christmas. Nichola says, I have memories of them
Speaker 1: being here for Christmas. I just don't recall that being
Speaker 1: the case. Interesting, but I could be wrong. But it's
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time he's been to
Speaker 1: a show over a decade. So we're gonna have Nicholas
Speaker 1: family over from the UK. They're on a plane right
Speaker 1: now as we speak. They've just bordered the plane. They're
Speaker 1: going to be flying here. It's going to be tired tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But when they're arriving's to be thirty five degrees, so
Speaker 1: they're going to be not happy thirty five tomorrow. It's
Speaker 1: thirty four today and thirty five tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Holy moly. Yeah, the way house tomorrow. Yeah, have fun
Speaker 2: working faster, being a little Christmas elf getting people out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to have a mad house. Was going
Speaker 1: to be good, Nicholas. I can just tell. This is
Speaker 1: the most excited Nicholas been for Christmas in a long
Speaker 1: time because she gets to see her family a Christmas time.
Speaker 1: It's marvelous. Yeah, Nicola gave up everything to come living
Speaker 1: here with me, so, you know, house awful people, but
Speaker 1: it's going to be great.
Speaker 2: It's gonna betrass.
Speaker 1: Sister Benice's coming over with her with my niece Isabelle,
Speaker 1: I'm actually an uncle, but because because I don't live here,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel the same. But yeah, I'm uncle
Speaker 1: Brendan and she bring her partner Nicko, and Ray and Julie.
Speaker 1: Nichola's parents are coming over as well. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: Were saying here.
Speaker 1: No parents are staying in an airbnb, sister, partner and daughter
Speaker 1: staying here. But Christmas Day is here. Christ's Lunch is
Speaker 1: gonna be here this year to save the hassle.
Speaker 2: How old is Isabelle.
Speaker 1: Six months younger than Alliyet six and a haine?
Speaker 2: Okay, they're also play time for the kids. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So they're gonna all share the bunk bed, So
Speaker 1: Holly and isabel on the bottom bunk, all on the
Speaker 1: top bunk.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Alis was a little playlist the movie's gonna watch a
Speaker 1: night time in the projector. The kids are so excited.
Speaker 2: It sounds rad it sounds very rare.
Speaker 1: Cousin isabel over for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Lovely? It is indeed lovely, lovely.
Speaker 1: And if you're a fan of the One About Friends,
Speaker 1: We're going to get those guys on the podcast One
Speaker 1: About Friends to reviewer Friends episode with us because Nicola,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you'll look back at this in five ten
Speaker 1: years and Goo, I'm glad I reviewed every set of friends.
Speaker 1: I had a podcast with mom, dad, sister all on Brilliant,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do that and a lot about friends.
Speaker 1: But let's get into the Patreon question. So we threw
Speaker 1: it out there last minute Christmas Special questions to our patrons.
Speaker 1: You want to be a supportive as Patreon. It is
Speaker 1: available in the link in the description of this podcast
Speaker 1: for as little as just one dollar per month. I
Speaker 1: think it's yeah, two dollar per month. You get access
Speaker 1: to the to the Facebook Facebook Grip where you get
Speaker 1: to throw a question to us. So next year, but
Speaker 1: this first one here, as we were touching on earlier
Speaker 1: from a vet says what's non negotiable for Christmas Day?
Speaker 1: And I will saying non negotiable for me is I
Speaker 1: usually have the Christmas movie on your yours? Was the
Speaker 1: Boxing Day thing?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Now it's Ali and I has gone to the Boxing
Speaker 1: Day tests with second year a straight going taking my
Speaker 1: dad and Nicholas dad to the Boxing Day test day
Speaker 1: one or two.
Speaker 2: Lou and I were probably just hitting the Boxing Day
Speaker 2: sales because we were sort of like trading.
Speaker 1: Are they still a thing though, because like, yeah, now
Speaker 1: it's got Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we just want
Speaker 1: to get ship up befo Christmas.
Speaker 2: I mean I was asking Lou what she wanted. I
Speaker 2: mean I had various ideas and about just about I
Speaker 2: want you well that's the given. Yeah, just titled a
Speaker 2: bowl on it big.
Speaker 1: But but it's like like maybe this, but maybe that
Speaker 1: because yeah, as you said, you know Black Friday and
Speaker 1: Somber Monday's already been.
Speaker 2: Is like I kind of jumped the gun on a
Speaker 2: bunch of stuff that I wanted and she was kind
Speaker 2: of the same. I am not exactly sure. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: think about certain things. And then she said, how about
Speaker 2: we just hit the sales together on boxing go up
Speaker 2: to Melbourne or something and they will have a night
Speaker 2: out in Melbourne and all that. So that actually sounds
Speaker 2: like kind of cool. Yeah, we may well do that.
Speaker 2: That sounds good. I was just keeping one of the
Speaker 2: boxing days going to be crazy in Melbourne. Well, I
Speaker 2: know one hundred thousand people for the cricket alone, that's true.
Speaker 2: But they got that new tunnel so you can get
Speaker 2: into Melbourne's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently a ne tunnel. I haven't used to yet.
Speaker 1: You gotta pay to use it sometimes. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: don't think is the driving one. I was a driving
Speaker 1: one open. I thought it was just the train tunnels open.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the driving one's open as well. Are
Speaker 1: you sure? I'm pretty sure the city Link or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, I thought I was just to get
Speaker 1: on the train. Are you sure the driving ones open?
Speaker 2: I think they had on the news the other night
Speaker 2: people driving cars through it. Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, that's.
Speaker 1: A Christmas present for Everybody's something we can enjoy. It
Speaker 1: works final over a Melbourne big build, finally sort of complete. Right,
Speaker 1: next question here, Chris Lee. Have either of you pulled
Speaker 1: my two cents cheap out story on a Christmas gift
Speaker 1: for a sibling? I never have because I always like
Speaker 1: to spoil people for Christmas. I know of someone who
Speaker 1: once bought somebody a chocolate bar for Christmas and I
Speaker 1: was like, dude, you could have done better than that.
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Was it the famous do buy chocolate but like it's
Speaker 2: like twenty six bucks a bar?
Speaker 1: No, it was just it was just so you're sitting
Speaker 1: there with you know, you're vaping and you've got this,
Speaker 1: and you've got that, but you've bought your sister a
Speaker 1: chocolate bar for Christmas? What are you doing? Buddy got
Speaker 1: her twigs? It was I think it wasn't a Snickers
Speaker 1: because that would have been even funnier. I've had a spider.
Speaker 2: Listeners to the show will probably guess who received this
Speaker 2: job at bar?
Speaker 1: I do, Come on, what are we doing anyway?
Speaker 2: I never have.
Speaker 1: No, I don't like, yeah, we do want cheap out
Speaker 1: of gifts. No, have you ever repurposed a gift?
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: I've done it with with birth the kid's birthday stuff
Speaker 1: Alia stuff for his birthday. He never opened it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we're now giving this to the next kid for his birthday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds about right. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 2: done that either.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I mean it'll probably sit there gathering dust and not
Speaker 2: being used or something like that. But no, I don't
Speaker 2: think I've ever repurposed.
Speaker 1: And I have a lot of things in my house
Speaker 1: that I got and I go, I like knowing I'm
Speaker 1: going to be able to use it one day, like
Speaker 1: a book to read or a movie watch, and it
Speaker 1: just sits there for a decade and I'm like I'll
Speaker 1: get to it one day. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, yeah, it's just finding the time.
Speaker 1: The rat race of life.
Speaker 2: I mentioned you give me the red. I mentioned this
Speaker 2: the other day to a friend of mine. I think
Speaker 2: I've got stuff that I received last year for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I haven't opened it.
Speaker 2: And I haven't opened I mean, like one one's a book.
Speaker 2: It's like still in the plastic, beautiful coffee table. We're
Speaker 2: going to like I can't wait to look through this
Speaker 2: and like a whole year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the other thing was a coffee machine that I got,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I've just been keep keep on
Speaker 2: making myself instant coffee in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's like, you're got a coffee machine. You haven't opened it?
Speaker 2: Correct, Wow, I know I feel really bad about that.
Speaker 1: Really should feel bad about that one.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but then Luke came back from Bali recently
Speaker 2: and brought me some of that. It's the coffee beans
Speaker 2: that have got the wildcat eats it and it goes
Speaker 2: through this instance and they shit it out, and people
Speaker 2: go through the wildcat shit and they get the beans
Speaker 2: that have been undigested and grind down on a coffee
Speaker 2: Apparently it's really delicious.
Speaker 1: So I've got some of that. So that's a good
Speaker 1: excuse to break out the coffee machine and do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and have cat Pool coffee. Brad Mull says here this
Speaker 1: is not really a Christmas question. He says, more fortigure
Speaker 1: discas it was mentioned in an earlier podcast that teams
Speaker 1: can't really relate to anyone the show. I remember saying that.
Speaker 1: But basically, yeah, we qutioned, is that.
Speaker 2: We're talking about another pod? Have you been listening to
Speaker 2: another podcast?
Speaker 1: The kids can enjoy it, adults can enjoy it, but
Speaker 1: can teens really enjoy it? And he says it is
Speaker 1: it more that the fact that you get to your
Speaker 1: teen years and you stop watching the Simpsons because the
Speaker 1: other things that do. But then we've discussed how some
Speaker 1: people love season thirteen, fourteen, et cetera because they were
Speaker 1: younger fans. Then well it's just the question of the
Speaker 1: answer of you like, you have nostalgia for what you
Speaker 1: grew up with. Certainly, so there are people out there
Speaker 1: who grew up with teen year of the Simpsons and
Speaker 1: it's what was on TV when they're a kid, and
Speaker 1: they had the nostalgia for us, So of course they're
Speaker 1: going to enjoy it. Will they say it's better. They
Speaker 1: probably don't think it's better, but it's just what they
Speaker 1: what they like more because they have the nostalgia connection
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think they're either. I
Speaker 2: don't think they're really looking into it as a relatability
Speaker 2: as well. I think they're more looking to it for
Speaker 2: laps and nothing else.
Speaker 1: It's a good point though, in the sense that maybe teens.
Speaker 1: I don't rembly watching The Symptons all that much when
Speaker 1: I was a teenager because he's got other shit to do.
Speaker 1: But it's like to show you watch when your kid,
Speaker 1: and then you sort of hit your twenties, you're like,
Speaker 1: what's that watch? Oh Simpsons? It's comfort, you know. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: And as you get old and old and you're like,
Speaker 1: I can show the kids the Simpsons. So maybe there
Speaker 1: is like that period of your life where it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break for the Simpsons and come
Speaker 1: back to it.
Speaker 2: Oh. Certainly. I think there are times when you hit
Speaker 2: maybe thirteen, fourteen through till maybe your early twenties or
Speaker 2: so twenty one, maybe when it's kind of like time
Speaker 2: to put a wee childish things and explore what it's
Speaker 2: gonna what's the artner teamer that's gonna make guy guy?
Speaker 2: You know when you're trying to forge a new identic.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's just me. Yeah, So you sort of put
Speaker 2: the stuff that you enjoyed when you were a bit younger,
Speaker 2: assigned somewhearing band shirts and whatnot correctly.
Speaker 1: I like, these guys, do you do you know who
Speaker 1: they are? And not that one? Not the one everyone knows.
Speaker 2: No. I think I think you're right. I think you've
Speaker 2: answered Brad's question. Well.
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Speaker 1: slash four Finger Discount. Alex Nicholas heel after a Christmas
Speaker 1: Carol and Treasure Island? What classic story would you like
Speaker 1: to see the Muppets? Do? I think we've answered this question. Before.
Speaker 1: What's a class? What's a classic story like Christmas Carol,
Speaker 1: Treasure Isle, what's another one of those stories?
Speaker 2: Once upon a time in Hollywood you can have like
Speaker 2: Kermit as Kermit as Leozy, Fozzy Beer as a Brad Pitt,
Speaker 2: and Miss Piggy as Margo Robbie.
Speaker 1: You could well, who's working on the Miss Piggy film
Speaker 1: with them? Mimmistone, Oh it's Emistone and Jennifer Lawrence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is that going to be?
Speaker 2: No idea, but I'm guessing that they saw, oh wow,
Speaker 2: we turned Barbie into a light and bride comed that's
Speaker 2: also a Taylor feminist empowerment. Who else who could we
Speaker 2: do that with Miss Piggy?
Speaker 1: That's a fat shep with the whole thing about Miss
Speaker 1: Piggers is fat SHEMMYO. That's the gag, is it?
Speaker 2: I never really viewed Yeah, I was viewed as kind
Speaker 2: of like she's just a diva.
Speaker 1: It's just like the fat half a pig. That's sort
Speaker 1: of like the game.
Speaker 2: Never I never viewed it that way. But then I'm
Speaker 2: sensitive and you know, enlightened.
Speaker 1: People don't like because she's a deva, but also that
Speaker 1: it's like the fact that she's you're you think you're attractive,
Speaker 1: you think you're a man made Come on, pig like that.
Speaker 1: That's a gag.
Speaker 2: This is not dissing Babs in any way, But I'm
Speaker 2: I was viewed Miss Picky is kind of like a
Speaker 2: pisstake on Barbara streisand who's not a conventional beauty but
Speaker 2: sort of attractive. I mean, you go back to the
Speaker 2: seventies and dog in a movie call WhatsApp Doc. I
Speaker 2: remember seeing that when I was a kid and going, wow,
Speaker 2: is Barbara.
Speaker 3: Streisand did anything? Mecha streisand well, yeah, but yeah, not
Speaker 3: a conventional beauty, but carried herself like I'm the most
Speaker 3: beautiful and charismatic and talented person in the world and
Speaker 3: expected everyone to followus it and it's they sort of did.
Speaker 3: It was like the Strats in effect before the Stras
Speaker 3: in effect. So that's how I kind of view it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I never yeah, and I'm not as big
Speaker 2: a muppet guy as you, but I never viewed anyone
Speaker 2: sort of making. I never saw the comedy in the
Speaker 2: dichotomy of like she thinks she's all that, but she's not. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just thought, no, Miss Piggie kind of is all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, memories of them just going yes, shot
Speaker 1: pig as if they say, like, you're not beautiful.
Speaker 2: Because isn't is it in Muppets Take Manhattan or whatever?
Speaker 2: Where is it Charles Groden has got like a crush
Speaker 2: on or something?
Speaker 1: No, no, that's the mp Caper. Yeah, I know I
Speaker 1: always be this picky is I won't say wow, she's
Speaker 1: kind of hut because that's that's a Jessica Rabbit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but now I find that really interesting. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised that that's the path they take
Speaker 2: with the movie if it actually happened.
Speaker 1: What's what's a classic tale they could do? Though?
Speaker 2: Oh? Classic one? Well, let's see Christmas Carol Treasure.
Speaker 1: On classic tails. Could they do the Wonker Chocolate Factory?
Speaker 1: Could they do maybe Fuzzy Bear like Fozzy Chocolate Factory.
Speaker 1: I know you probably do that. But and because then
Speaker 1: you've got the various muppets. Could be the various kids
Speaker 1: being naughty and whatnot?
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe something like the Three Musketeers, like or about
Speaker 2: Robin Hood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okvis Robin Hood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this Piggy has made Marion. Yeah, who would be
Speaker 2: the who'd be like the Sheriff of Nottingham. Then who's
Speaker 2: the Who's traditional sort of villain in the air well,
Speaker 2: this is where you get you know your Yeah, Michael
Speaker 2: Caine and the Christmas Carry, Tim Curry and the Treasure
Speaker 2: on Alan Rickman sadly no longer with us, and he
Speaker 2: already already did share for Nottingham. But like Michael Fassbender
Speaker 2: or Tom Hiddleston, Yeah, some English guy, it'd be him,
Speaker 2: quote unquote some English guy, Dann. We've done it again.
Speaker 1: It can happen. Holy Ship. Kermit's nephew is called Robin,
Speaker 1: So you can have some sort of could Robin Robin Hood?
Speaker 2: Why not have have from how big are you on
Speaker 2: Robin Hood? You know sort of the is Will Scarlett
Speaker 2: actually Robin Hood's brother, because that happened in robin Hood
Speaker 2: Prince at Thebes. I don't know it turned out that,
Speaker 2: you know, Christian Christian slaters. Will Scallet turned out to
Speaker 2: be like Robin Hood's half brother.
Speaker 1: Disney. You do Disney films like snow White, Sure you
Speaker 1: do all those films.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all public domain. Yeah, but then it'd be
Speaker 2: good to sort of do the tie in Lion King
Speaker 2: a land beauty and the Beast lots of films. Sure,
Speaker 2: I'm very big. I'm kind of hot on my Robin
Speaker 2: Hood idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Becausehood sort of out of it. Don't really talk
Speaker 1: get Robin Hood.
Speaker 2: Anymore, No, but it's it's something that keeps getting redone
Speaker 2: all the time, and usually not to diminishing returns. But
Speaker 2: it's like, because there's a new Robin Hood series out now, yeah,
Speaker 2: with someone like some Australian guys that's playing the lead muppets.
Speaker 2: We've probably had some English guy and now we've got
Speaker 2: some Australian guy muppet.
Speaker 1: Robin Hood is a four part mini series based on
Speaker 1: the upt It's in Mupper comics, so I knew it
Speaker 1: was too good to be And yeah, we have Kermit
Speaker 1: as Robin Hood there. Okay, Sir Robin of Locksley, I
Speaker 1: did not show for noting him as Sam the.
Speaker 2: Robin of Frogsley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so anyway, make make it, make it a live
Speaker 1: action film, live action film, and get your pals down
Speaker 1: there on guard to write it. Yes, indeed, I know
Speaker 1: they did the Haunted Mansion, which was for me though
Speaker 1: at the moment the Muppets is the voice of Kermit
Speaker 1: is so wrong at the moment, it's like you're washing
Speaker 1: it going. This just isn't the Uppets, Like, I literally
Speaker 1: can't do it?
Speaker 2: How about parts of the Caribbean Treasure Island already anyway?
Speaker 1: But I'm going with Robin Hood Ye all right, Mike
Speaker 1: Salter Chris mus food you wish was around all year
Speaker 1: and Christmas food you would happily never see again. Never
Speaker 1: been a mince pie guy for Christmas pudding. I like
Speaker 1: Christmas pudding, but it is a mince pies. Yeah. Not
Speaker 1: a fan sweet Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't say that there's something that I really go
Speaker 2: wild for but occasionally have one time that's actually not bad.
Speaker 2: But it's like I wish they had them every all
Speaker 2: year round.
Speaker 1: Hot cross buns. You wish you had a war year
Speaker 1: round esically with the variants and.
Speaker 2: Guess what, you know, it's Christmas is going to be
Speaker 2: done in a few days and then they're going to
Speaker 2: put a cross buns on this ship.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the Christmas food? I don't think of
Speaker 1: any Christmas foods that are only around it. Like we
Speaker 1: talked eggnog with Bill Oakley last week, did.
Speaker 2: And finally discovered that you know, it probably does have
Speaker 2: eggs in it, But mainly it's just like a drinkable custard.
Speaker 1: But we don't really think we have to give you
Speaker 1: a sugar shock. Surely we've got an Australia now we'd
Speaker 1: have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah you went, Yeah, if you want to sue makeabone.
Speaker 2: If you went elderly, you'd probably find it.
Speaker 1: Are there only like variants that come out of Christmas
Speaker 1: time any other time?
Speaker 2: How how many people you know sort of have turkey?
Speaker 1: I'm going to say the frozen turkeys in the freezer,
Speaker 1: like stocked to the brim at this time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I can't think of many times that I
Speaker 2: would have turkey throughout.
Speaker 1: Turkey is not a roasting. It's always roast beef, roast
Speaker 1: chicken pretty much. Yeah, you get a wooly roast chicken.
Speaker 2: And if you're feeling kind of you know, adventures like
Speaker 2: about some roast pork.
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't pork anymore, but yeah, exactly, I agree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the thing is the Aussie summer special is roast
Speaker 1: turkey from the Delhi ROAs chicken from the Delhi bread
Speaker 1: rolls like lettuce and tomato whatever.
Speaker 2: But Christmas food you wish was all year round.
Speaker 1: Or you happily never see again for fruit mince.
Speaker 2: Parts, and you would never see again.
Speaker 1: Oh I wish turkey with all you around. I mean,
Speaker 1: well it is around all year, but I just I
Speaker 1: should make it a year round thing. Correct stuffing, good stuffing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well a man bill when we when we spoke
Speaker 2: to them, we talked. But we've got to get that
Speaker 2: recipe off. Yeah the chestnut, one chestnut. I can nicke
Speaker 2: have chestnuts thing.
Speaker 1: Fuck Nikola, you make it, I'll eat it. Chris Clark
Speaker 1: potentially for one for Nikola. Speaking of Nicola, but do
Speaker 1: you guys prefer a white Christmas or a hot Christmas.
Speaker 1: I've never experienced a white Christmas. I've just experienced a
Speaker 1: cold and wet Christmas. Wasn't fun. Nicholas like great you
Speaker 1: indoors by the fine, I'm like, yeah, me come back
Speaker 1: yard creek, like you know when yet it's Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: a house full of people. You know that you can
Speaker 1: at least go outside. You go outside, have a smoke,
Speaker 1: or you go some play some cricket, or just go
Speaker 1: outside get some fresh air. What that's cold outside? It's
Speaker 1: like we're inside and we're stuck.
Speaker 2: Here with anyone. I've only ever had a couple of
Speaker 2: white Christmases, and there's one that I remember distinctly. When
Speaker 2: I was about fourteen or fifteen or so, we were
Speaker 2: staying at this place called Western Manor just outside Oxford.
Speaker 2: We lived in Oxford when I was about nine or
Speaker 2: ten years old. We lived there for about a year
Speaker 2: and we'd go back.
Speaker 1: Everyone canobi right when you met everyone can?
Speaker 2: He met him in London. Well, I didn't really meet him,
Speaker 2: saw him across a crowded apartment store and said, getting a.
Speaker 1: Rock caut stiff and you have to walk away. I did,
Speaker 1: this is not the druid you're looking for it and
Speaker 1: walked off. Hope, but it is. Should we take our
Speaker 1: shots up and kiss? Sorry for sir.
Speaker 2: Sir Alex looking and spituring his forced ghost in the
Speaker 2: corners looking. I was going, you guys, you fucking guys.
Speaker 1: Thing is, though, people listen to this haven't heard our
Speaker 1: Erection day review yet.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: So so jump into the future, go listen to that,
Speaker 1: then come back and listen to this, and you'll just
Speaker 1: laugh your ass off Direction day for our south Park
Speaker 1: podcast already.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, the upshot of that story is that
Speaker 2: I did see sir Alginners in the department store in
Speaker 2: London when I see him in the Flesh when I
Speaker 2: was about ten years old, and even then had enough
Speaker 2: now not to go up and say trying to do
Speaker 2: Jedi mind trick, because he kind of looked like, I'm
Speaker 2: just here to get some stuff for the grandkids. Fuck off.
Speaker 1: No, it was at least you saw him though, that's
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah in the wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we what was.
Speaker 1: Your first thought when you saw him? We were like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, oh we couldn't believe.
Speaker 2: It were Yeah.
Speaker 1: I sort of did a bit of a double days,
Speaker 1: like really, but did you see him as Obi Wan
Speaker 1: or did you see him as the actor?
Speaker 2: I saw him as Allegy in this yeah, because yeah,
Speaker 2: you just looked like your uncle. Yeah, what a big guy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you went over to I'm sure. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you'd like Winket Year or something. Hopefully, yeah, hopefully,
Speaker 1: but that's not really never know.
Speaker 2: We'll never know, but I'll just have that memory, like
Speaker 2: I have this memory of Western Manor because we went
Speaker 2: back a couple of years later. Some of my sisters
Speaker 2: worked there as waitresses, and uh, we always had a
Speaker 2: real appreciation for the place and we were staying in
Speaker 2: like a little cottage on the grounds was huge. I
Speaker 2: mean it was like Downton Abbey. Yeah, and woke up
Speaker 2: on Christmas Day and they'd been just a snowfall overnight
Speaker 2: and it was fucking perfect. It was exactly what you'd want.
Speaker 2: And yeah, when it's like, oh it's cold, but snow snow.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But after about five minutes, like I think, I'm
Speaker 2: going back inside and I'm gonna watch doctor know a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of stuff, And but I had and I remember
Speaker 2: just looking at the windows.
Speaker 1: This is perfect.
Speaker 2: This is just ideal, and that memory is just going
Speaker 2: to be in my head. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's a lot of it. But of course
Speaker 1: I'm growing up in Australia, spent many many years here,
Speaker 1: and Christmas is just synonymous with summer. The norm is,
Speaker 1: you know, you go to the cricket on Boxing Day
Speaker 1: and well, yeah, all you can outside a barbecue.
Speaker 2: Jump in the pool, or go to the beach or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: Blue has Christmas Swim this episode, Yeah correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So for me though, it's weird because growing up we
Speaker 1: watched so much American media. But I never once thought
Speaker 1: I can I never once thought as a kid Why
Speaker 1: is there snow outside at Christmas time? No, every Christmas
Speaker 1: special we watch it's always snow outside. But I never
Speaker 1: thought that.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. America in the UK did a really
Speaker 2: great job of trying to export the whole. I mean,
Speaker 2: everyone knows the lyrics. I'm dreaming of a word Christmas.
Speaker 2: But dah, da da dah. I don't think we ever
Speaker 2: felt like, oh shit, we're missing out by not going
Speaker 2: out and throwing snowballs at each other on Christmas stuff.
Speaker 2: I never thought that. I think it something Australia did
Speaker 2: really well. It was like, no, you're in Australia, and
Speaker 2: in Australia at summertime, and and Christmas is summertime.
Speaker 1: It's going to pool and play cricket, and yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's about Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Chris, I guess the answer is for Dan or no,
Speaker 2: we prefer a hot Christmas your neck? What do you think?
Speaker 1: What's mister Hank?
Speaker 2: You think.
Speaker 1: That is not what I asked you, mister Hanking. Come on,
Speaker 1: Brad Mull, I know that's different question, Brad mull. He's
Speaker 1: got another question here, Brad Mull. It may have been
Speaker 1: discussed in a previous episode, but why start the Simpsons
Speaker 1: recaps at season seven, there's some classic episodes from earlier seasons.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they are left for special look back episodes.
Speaker 2: What bread was my understanding that these were Christmas questions? Also,
Speaker 2: why's that the well? I don't know it. Did Brad
Speaker 2: start listening when I started on the show.
Speaker 1: When he started in season ten? Does he know there's
Speaker 1: a whole library of episodes out there?
Speaker 2: Bred, Brad, you might have considered becoming a patron and
Speaker 2: you'll get access to.
Speaker 1: Well is a patron?
Speaker 2: I'm so confused, Brad, you might want to go be
Speaker 2: a upper tier patron.
Speaker 1: Why it's up the Simpsons recaps at season seven? I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: There's plenty of episodes before season seven. And that's our
Speaker 2: Christmas gift to you, Brad, the information that there are
Speaker 2: episodes of four Finger Discount that take into acount the
Speaker 2: episodes before season seven.
Speaker 1: I think maybe maybe on our Patreon, though the first
Speaker 1: six seasons aren't on there. We didn't start at Patreon
Speaker 1: till like season seven or eight.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Well, there's your Christmas present for Brad is get
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Speaker 2: I love the Dano's putting on his Okay, go to
Speaker 2: this part on the screen. I've heard this boys many
Speaker 2: many times when we were doing stuff by the zoom.
Speaker 2: Can you hear me now? Okay, have you tried doing this?
Speaker 1: Mike selected?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going very very hard to be patient, but
Speaker 2: sometimes they can fuck this guy. He's not saying that
Speaker 2: to you, Bratt, He's obviously saying that to me.
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Speaker 1: get guy unfortunately, but you do get the guy that Springfield.
Speaker 1: Revisit the episodes, correct, Yeah, yes, John Looney let's be
Speaker 1: a grinch looking back. Is there anyone in your past
Speaker 1: that you would go back and give them a terrible gift?
Speaker 1: Maybe revenge or for any other.
Speaker 2: Reason, John, there's not the season for this kind of
Speaker 2: revenge based thinking.
Speaker 1: But is that just fun? Though?
Speaker 2: Well? True dish best serve cold.
Speaker 1: I take gifts back from people and deserve them.
Speaker 2: Person you would go back and give them terrible gift?
Speaker 1: How did you give your terrible gifts? Like their their
Speaker 1: mother's head and them, Yeah, their parents.
Speaker 2: Maybe just you know, put some ship in a plastic bag,
Speaker 2: in a paper bag and lighted on fire on their doorstep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buy them like season fifteen of the Simpsons on DVD.
Speaker 2: And give it, or you get them some that have
Speaker 2: got the regular box and someone got like the head.
Speaker 1: Boxes, you get the head shaped box.
Speaker 2: How can I put this on my shelves? There we go? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's the best answer, John. I think we'd
Speaker 2: give them the DVD boxes that are poorly shaped and
Speaker 2: you can't put on your shelf.
Speaker 1: It. It was such an era though, wasn't it of
Speaker 1: novelty boxes?
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, I got I'm had much shair of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you look at that and goes, why did
Speaker 1: we do it? But you see the picture on like
Speaker 1: easy DVD and what that looks fucking cool? Like there
Speaker 1: was a there was a feature on a collection where
Speaker 1: it was like all the DVD's were inside Bender's head
Speaker 1: and it looks great, But where the fuck do you
Speaker 1: display that?
Speaker 2: This is what an ungrateful prick I was. When I
Speaker 2: was reviewing movies and TV shows and things like that,
Speaker 2: I had an inn with someone at twentieth Century Fox
Speaker 2: and their Home Entertainment division and this, and they brought
Speaker 2: out the first for alien movies and they did it
Speaker 2: in like an alien egg kind of thing, and I said, wow,
Speaker 2: I really love these movies. I hate this set. Can
Speaker 2: I return this to you? And you're given to me
Speaker 2: like a regular box?
Speaker 1: Please you?
Speaker 2: When you did this, no, probably like thirty something who
Speaker 2: got a fort the people at Fox. Oh I see
Speaker 2: what you mean. Yeah, it was a primo thing. And
Speaker 2: it wasn't It wasn't like a Christmas I see here
Speaker 2: the Alien anthology. It was like, I just want it
Speaker 2: in a box. I can put it on my shirt.
Speaker 1: That's a cool fucking box though, Man, that's a real
Speaker 1: cool box.
Speaker 2: You're the one the egg shaped. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't like that.
Speaker 1: It is there. I know it.
Speaker 2: Man, I gave it back.
Speaker 1: You didn'tly gave it back. You realized what you could
Speaker 1: have sold it for. Now this one just sold for
Speaker 1: eleven hundred and twenty five YUS dollars.
Speaker 2: Probably could have paid it up. Man, had a nice
Speaker 2: chunk of my mortgage.
Speaker 1: Can you take this back? I don't want this ship.
Speaker 1: I just want the discs?
Speaker 2: Yeah, can I there's a there's a regular version of
Speaker 2: it's kind of the regular version, please. Yeah. I wasn't
Speaker 2: thinking straight. Kendy g G.
Speaker 1: What would your dream Christmas vacation be hanging out with
Speaker 1: Katy G. I think that's what it would be, Kady
Speaker 1: GB somewhere on the coast, on the coast, Yeah, having
Speaker 1: a swim dream Christmas vacation. Look, yeah, part of me
Speaker 1: I mentioned that Christmas memory of Christs might not be
Speaker 1: with the family at the time. Take that out of
Speaker 1: the equation, because we always want to be of our
Speaker 1: family on Christmas. But if it's you're gonna be with
Speaker 1: your family, where with the dream vacation be? If it
Speaker 1: was just me sort of rolling solo or with always
Speaker 1: or whatever always. I like the idea of something tropical,
Speaker 1: idea of it being like Disneyland, that kind of thing
Speaker 1: Christmas time. I think kids, the kids while they're young,
Speaker 1: like something like that would be cool.
Speaker 2: No, I think I like the idea of a beach,
Speaker 2: but somewhere, but a beach with shade.
Speaker 1: A hustle and bustle of it, And they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: fun though that You want the relaxing vibe of just
Speaker 1: being by the water. Yeah, but we get the literally
Speaker 1: we have that whenever we want.
Speaker 2: That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1: But you know, maybe we're living the dream.
Speaker 2: This is our dream Christmas vacation, Katie Well, tell us
Speaker 2: about yours and the in the comments past.
Speaker 1: It would be fun to go to the theme parks
Speaker 1: over with the kids. I'm looking for to do it. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: uh Andy d do Australian Christmas cars depict a sun
Speaker 1: drenched Santa sipping mehitos on the beach. What other strange
Speaker 1: seasonal reversals are you privy to when it comes to
Speaker 1: traditionally wintry Christmas imagery.
Speaker 2: I think we do see a lot of Santa in
Speaker 2: board shorts and things like that on the beach. Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about mahidos. So I think we
Speaker 1: probably we never used to be probably be like a
Speaker 1: VB or something. It used to always be like the
Speaker 1: traditional like santy with he suit on. Now it's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's Australia mate. Sanda's on in a dinghy. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got his he's got his big beard and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And there's a bit of dos on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably got his nice red jacket on or something.
Speaker 2: But he's probably got boardies and thongs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got the dancing Santa. We've seen the dancing center.
Speaker 2: In our life, I have not. We'll do that after this,
Speaker 2: after we record it.
Speaker 1: This life stized dancing Santa. And he's wearing of course
Speaker 1: you too. He's wearing a beach shirt as a sleeveless shirt,
Speaker 1: like you know, like a dress shirt. It's like a
Speaker 1: beachy colors and he's wearing board shorts and thongs.
Speaker 2: Delightful, delightful, delightful. One of the strange seasonal reversals. Are
Speaker 2: you proving to when it comes through traditionally? I think,
Speaker 2: as we said, Andy, I mean, yeah, we're used to do.
Speaker 1: What you do in summer is what we do at
Speaker 1: Christmas time. Basically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, essentially it's hit the beach or you know, play
Speaker 2: games outside and.
Speaker 1: Literally go like Boxing Day and Christmas is literally you know,
Speaker 1: Christmas he spent with the family. Boxing Day, you get
Speaker 1: out to go the beach or whatever.
Speaker 2: There's not rugging up, it's stripping down. Yeah, Brad Muller's
Speaker 2: chimed in here. Unless it's from a novelty saw. No,
Speaker 2: they all have him in snow or a tree and
Speaker 2: snow is seen through the room's window.
Speaker 1: I think stories are really starting to sort of Australia
Speaker 1: Australian Christmas because the tourists coming into like we want
Speaker 1: to prove that we were in Australia for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Was He Santa? Was He?
Speaker 1: Santa? Ian astley favorite least favorite Christmas song? Though Nikola
Speaker 1: loves this song, right, I'm gonna get a lot of
Speaker 1: hate this here because I know it's beloved in the UK.
Speaker 1: Last Christmas I can take or leave it. I just
Speaker 1: I don't need to hear that song again. Ever, some
Speaker 1: songs just don't work for you, and that one just
Speaker 1: does not work for me. I don't need to hear
Speaker 1: Last Christmas ever again.
Speaker 2: I know there's a story to I mean not. I mean,
Speaker 2: not a story behind the song, but there's a story
Speaker 2: in the song. And there's like, is it a Christmas song?
Speaker 2: It's Christmas in it? Well, it's it's the Christmas, it's
Speaker 2: the March being I'm proud of Christmas songs and that
Speaker 2: you know, does it take plays at Christmas or is
Speaker 2: it Christmas?
Speaker 1: It was just you know, I mean, what's George Michael going,
Speaker 1: what makes money Christmas song? I'm gonna write a love song,
Speaker 1: just say christ you didn't break my heart at any
Speaker 1: It was that Christmas.
Speaker 2: The most Christmas thing about it is that he gave
Speaker 2: Andrew Ridgeley a like co credit or something and there
Speaker 2: and for Riginal is just like, yeah, kitching, is it
Speaker 2: my least what's your least least favorite? My least favorite is?
Speaker 1: I don't like the Little Drummer boy. I was talking like,
Speaker 1: I'm talking like, well, are we doing mainstream? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: don't know, bum bum yeah. Of the carols, I can
Speaker 1: just take a leave. I'm like, ah, I don't need
Speaker 1: to hear any of these carols. True, but there is
Speaker 1: the I think I probably said the same thing last
Speaker 1: Christmas time if we were asked about Christmas song. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know the Christmas Carol goes. I love that
Speaker 1: one of the bells. It is actually, yeah, least favorite
Speaker 1: Christmas song. I won't say it's all I want it
Speaker 1: all I want for Christmas because that's a bit sort
Speaker 1: of it's a and it does well for the catchy song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, at least favorite Christmas song.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but i'll I'll tell you one that
Speaker 1: I'm being a fan of Paul McCartney's Christmas Time for.
Speaker 2: Christmas Time you think I am. I think I'm not.
Speaker 2: Not I think I am. You are, Okay, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think it's really nice. I don't rate it that much.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't shocker. The Beatles have written better songs,
Speaker 2: most of the Beatles. It's just Paul McCarty. Well, Paul
Speaker 2: McCartney has win written better song.
Speaker 1: I think for me, it's just like it just feels
Speaker 1: like Paumac can't saying they went Christmas jingle, let's just
Speaker 1: write one now. But it just feels like it feels
Speaker 1: like it feels so orchestrated that song.
Speaker 2: I don't know to mean, it feels like like they're
Speaker 2: just hanging out and just talking about what's going on.
Speaker 2: It just it doesn't. I suppose it is calculated to
Speaker 2: some degree, but it doesn't feel as calculated, something like
Speaker 2: a ball. All I want is Christmas, simply wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 1: If someone did someone made a cover but it was
Speaker 1: sounding like the Beatles actually sang it. I'm like Revolver
Speaker 1: or something. It actually sounds like a Beatles song.
Speaker 2: Okay. Interesting.
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Speaker 2: Have been watching The Beatles anthone, Did you ever watch that?
Speaker 1: I started watching it and I was I was too tired.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this isn't the kind of documentary
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to be switched on for this. Yeah. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: like previous interviews.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm not.
Speaker 2: As big a Beatles out as you, but I'm telling
Speaker 2: their life through their own words. Yeah. I just adore it.
Speaker 2: I remember I got it on DVD years ago, maybe
Speaker 2: like a decade or so ago. I's think I should
Speaker 2: learn more about the Beatles than it was on Sailor
Speaker 2: JB on Boxing Day and I just mainlined it was like, wow,
Speaker 2: do you mean the CDs? Know I'm talking about the documentary?
Speaker 1: Is that old? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's been remastered and I think they've got
Speaker 2: a new episode.
Speaker 1: Oh see, I thought this was new. I've never seen
Speaker 1: this before because the Battles Anthology was like a collection
Speaker 1: of CDs. Yeah, was there a movies? It's the documentary
Speaker 1: about came with it? Okay, I never saw that of
Speaker 1: it came with it. I got it separately, Okay, I
Speaker 1: never saw that. The CDs was like, you know, rare
Speaker 1: B sides and things like that. Recordings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on Disney plus Friend of the Pod.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Christmas song? My favorite Christmas song mine
Speaker 1: is Tom Petty's Christmas All Over Again. I fucking love
Speaker 1: that song.
Speaker 2: One by Darling Love. This woman named Darlan Love and
Speaker 2: she's got a song called Christmas Baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I only knew Darling loves a Marvel singer. I really
Speaker 2: knew her was Roger Myrtle's wife and the Weapon movie.
Speaker 2: She's great, Roger, you're being an asshole. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: What's what's the one that started? Gremlins Christmas?
Speaker 2: The Snow on the ground Christmas?
Speaker 1: It is? It's the Greandlins one Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, is it nothing? Gremlins one? That's yeah, we
Speaker 1: are confused. Great song Christmas, the Snow on the Grohound. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's one about being alone on Christmas as well.
Speaker 1: Alone on Christmas?
Speaker 2: Is alone on Christmas?
Speaker 1: I don't know that one, and you know, play it
Speaker 1: for her quickly, dird.
Speaker 2: Dirt, dirn't do don't I'm on jingle but want to
Speaker 2: be alone on Christmas? Okay, yeah, now that's it's starting
Speaker 2: to make a little more sense. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just have alone too New York. He's alone on Christmas?
Speaker 1: All right? Yeah? But Christmas all over again by Tompany
Speaker 1: is my favorite. Right, final question here is more do
Speaker 1: you have fake snow over there? Defeat film more festive? No,
Speaker 1: because we don't need it to film more festive. Festive
Speaker 1: to us is summer beach pool. That's Christmas. That's what
Speaker 1: festiveness feels to us. Yeah, it's like it's interesting where
Speaker 1: people who have a white Christmas go. You must really
Speaker 1: want a white Christmas, right, It's like we really don't know.
Speaker 1: We never never once wanted that.
Speaker 2: No, we prefer sand, even though it's rough. Of course.
Speaker 2: You do you even get bro? Do you even get
Speaker 2: snow in snow? Not that long ago?
Speaker 1: Not where we are though?
Speaker 2: Oh well no not in Geelong, No, no, no, but
Speaker 2: we have snow. Yeah, but he's asking over there, I'm
Speaker 2: assuming he means Australia and would you try deep brid
Speaker 2: Christmas putting? The answer is yes.
Speaker 1: Why did he deep fight anything? I don't know. They
Speaker 1: still do it, but there was a while they were
Speaker 1: fish and chips offs like deep fight Mark. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I never tried that. I never tried it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I looked at it. I was like, there are levels
Speaker 1: to unhealthiness. And I looked at I go, that was
Speaker 1: already bad for me. I don't need to be word
Speaker 1: for me double bad. I was always fascinated though, by
Speaker 1: how they managed to deep fry chocolate and not melt
Speaker 1: it correct? Do they freeze? And maybe they freezing.
Speaker 2: I think they do. I think you're having a nice
Speaker 2: chili bowl of water. And then yeah, I think that's
Speaker 2: all the questions, all right, and one last that last
Speaker 2: one did five Christal Yeah, that's it. That's that's the
Speaker 2: Christmas special we've done. That's the Christmas special. Hey, yes,
Speaker 2: uh Dan, it was very merry Christmas to you, to
Speaker 2: Nicola and to your extended family. It's coming out to
Speaker 2: shack up under your roof. I wish you the very
Speaker 2: best of everything for the holiday season and for twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. Otherwise. It's a great, great pleasure doing doing
Speaker 2: business with you.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's been a fantastic year. Next year's going to
Speaker 1: be even better. Things seem to be on the right.
Speaker 2: Really explain how.
Speaker 1: Mary Chris is to what one of the names's got
Speaker 1: Lovely Luise, you've got the prodigy. Felix is the prodigy, yep,
Speaker 1: and then the other two and.
Speaker 2: The other joy good year for all our school is
Speaker 2: for her. By the way, she had a very good
Speaker 2: time and she did very well on her ATAR. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what atar. And that's a year twelve exams. Oh,
Speaker 2: we used to call them our h C or v C.
Speaker 2: It was a v C v C.
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah.
Speaker 2: One was the hsc Atar. It's called the at an
Speaker 2: at score, and hers was very good.
Speaker 1: Be an do you haters, don't.
Speaker 2: Be a hated but no, she did well. And Isaac's
Speaker 2: doing very well evening. So yep, there's that, and there's
Speaker 2: also yeah, the extended well not extended Davis family, but
Speaker 2: the Davis family.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, well, thank you again.
Speaker 2: Pleasures. Mind, I shall see you. The camera's up, but
Speaker 2: we actually short hands. See I'm still looking at the camera.
Speaker 2: Remails not you did like blast half an hour. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna let him go.
Speaker 1: It's Christmas.
Speaker 2: He's such a he's such a give him that present.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your book and enjoy what else.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for those lovely gifts.
Speaker 1: Yes, I said to Nicholas, I was reading it last
Speaker 1: night and I go, this sounds like a really good movie,
Speaker 1: and Nicola goes, maybe Garle you borrow.
Speaker 2: It, said, you've got to get your real No, my brother,
Speaker 2: you've got to get your own.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, it wasn't the movie. It was
Speaker 1: the book. Like, this book looks really good. I'm manage
Speaker 1: to by you or maybe gy can just lend it
Speaker 1: to you instead of buying another fucking book.
Speaker 2: The Lovely Lawise and Nicole, Nicholas and the Lovely Luise
Speaker 2: and Nicholas and cut from the same cloth.
Speaker 1: Nicholas like, you know, shit in. I spent the last
Speaker 1: week getting shit out.
Speaker 2: It's tibal withdrawals as opposed to deposits.
Speaker 1: Well, I looking stuff and I'm like, oh, but holy
Speaker 1: you still love this, Nicholas, like, just don't used to
Speaker 1: used too, don't don't look at this. It's got to
Speaker 1: be gone and you won't even know that it's gone.
Speaker 1: If you look at it, you'll know that it's gone.
Speaker 1: Then you'll be sad. That is US four four figure
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Speaker 1: fantastic holiday season, and we shall be back next week
Speaker 1: with another episode. I can tell you what it is,
Speaker 1: but it's an interview with someone who you, guys absolutely love.
Speaker 1: Has appeared on various shows. I know that he's ever
Speaker 1: actually been on the Simpsons of Futurama quite a few times.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yes, someone's saying he's part of the main cast. Yes,
Speaker 1: some people would say that they would be corrected to
Speaker 1: do this. And you're gonna enjoy here. I wonder who
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Have we talked about some people during
Speaker 1: Have we actually named people throughout this episode?
Speaker 2: Know there's someone else?
Speaker 1: Yes, So next week is going to be a really
Speaker 1: fun interview. Look at for that in your feeds.
Speaker 2: That's our surprise gift to you. Yeah, and once again
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the camera that's.
Speaker 1: Not on, mister Davis. Any final words for those incredible
Speaker 1: listeners out there. The final words for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, everybody,