The Debrief - Merry Christmas Debriefers!

Episode Date: December 25, 2023

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Happy Monday and Merry Christmas Debriefers! In this episode we are talking all things CHRISTMAS, from our own personal traditions to yours. We also listen to some of stories of Christmas past whilst debriefing on the festive season. Have a holly jolly Christmas! Love, Kitty and Katie x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🎵 🎵 🎵 I got a rebel soul 🎵 🎵 Yeah, I got a rebel soul 🎵 🎵 I got a rebel soul 🎵 Merry Christmas! Oh my gosh, it's Christmas Day! Merry bleeding Christmas! How are you all doing?

Oh my god, it's so Christmas. It's the most wonderful time of the year Ding dong ding dong Lovely Merry Christmas Peach Merry Christmas Kitty Oh I love our little We've got our little Santa hats on right here

Oh yeah And we've got Do you see we've got our little What are these called? Ornament Little ornamental little earrings Little baubles Very very cute I've got my little you see, we've got our little, what are these called? Little ornament. Little ornamental little earrings. Bobbles. Little baubles.

Very, very cute. I've got my little Mickey Mouse. Oh, I love, I love your jumper. That is the cutest little Christmas jumper. My little crimbo jumper. Oh, it's great. And we've got our fucking festive drinks. We're in the festive season.

This is so, so exciting. Guys, debriefers, Merry bloody Christmas. Merry bloody Christmas. Merry Bloody Christmas. I hope you're having a fabulous day. Whether you're listening to this when you've just woken up or whether you're opening the prezzies and you're getting ready and you're listening to it or it might be the end of the day

and you're now listening to us. Post-lunch. Post-lunch, yeah. Feeling awful. We just want to say Merry Bloody Christmas. We love you. Merry Christmas. Have a fabulous day. Have a fabulous day. Have a fab-u-lous day.

How are you feeling? Oh my God, I'm feeling so excited. I know, I know. It's our first Christmas on the debrief, with the debrief first. We began this year. Journey. We began in January.

We were planning this for months before we launched it, and then the fact it's coming out on Christmas, I'm like, oh my God, this is so surreal! When are you gonna listen to the episode on Christmas Day? When are you gonna listen to it? I think I'm gonna put it around the speakers in my house and make my parents listen to it as we unwrap presents because I am the gift.

You are the gift of Christmas. I'm like, hey guys, guys, guys, guys, sit down. At the end of the day, who makes you all happy around here? That'll be this mug. This mug, right here. be this mug. This mug. This bloody mug. I think I might listen to it. I always try to do like a Sunday, a Sunday, a Christmas run.

Nice. So I might wake up early and then put us in my little ears. Maybe I'll do a Christmas run. Do it. Do it. I tell you, I tell you when I feel like, and you'll be with me. You'll be with me in my ears. When do you usually run?

In the morning. So we kick things off maybe around eight, nine-ish. So I'll go just before then. But let's crack on to it. Let's crack on. So that we can start our intro and tell you all about our Christmas. Happy Christmas to my bestest friends.

I love and adore you so much. Oh my God, I love and adore you so much. Oh my God, I love you too. And I can't wait till when we have kids and we have Christmas together. What? Joint Christmas. We'll have a joint Christmas. Archie's like, please no.

He's like, yay. I'll be in a little manger at your door. Oh, I would love that. It would be brilliant. I would absolutely. It would be so good. It would be so good. Okay, Peach, I'm going to ask you.

Tell me what is your Christmas mantra? My Christmas mantra is. Yes. And it's, you know, as we're a week away from the new year as well. We are, we are. It's to, I do not need to be so hard on myself. Lovely.

And that's really, really nice. And I think it's very easy in the Christmas, it's a relaxing time. I won't say lazy. No. You're meant say lazy. No. You're meant to relax. Yeah. You're meant to kind of slob around.

And I feel like sometimes I feel like I'm not doing enough around this time of year. Yeah, I know what you mean. So I don't need to be so hard on myself. And you might overindulge. You know, one might have a few too mince pies and think, I didn't need that. But you know what? It's bloody Christmas. It's bloody Christmas.

Let's not be hard on ourselves. Yeah, okay. We're grateful all year round so let's just enjoy the moment let's live girlies alright yeah exactly let's let loose

okay I'm going to tell you my mantra for this Christmas again kind of similar themes to you yeah we're coming to the end of 2023 going into 2024 which is an even number

so Katie and I are so excited we are just going to thrive in 2024 because big things are coming in 2024 and you're with me here you know Because big things are coming in 2024. And you're with me here. You know the big things are coming. We can't tell you yet, guys. But big things are coming.

I'm there. Okay, so mine is, I have no regrets, only great memories. Because reflecting back on this year, so much has happened. So many great things. So many things you've had to challenge. So many things that we've overcome. And I think everything that happened, happened for a a reason which we say all the time anyway yeah but i don't look back and think oh i made the wrong decision there i think oh god no i learned so much yes you know yeah i'm

not looking back like what an idiot i'm like what a legend what a legend So guys, go into the Christmas day with appreciation and just enjoy what's going on right now because this is going to be the only 2023 Christmas you have. So make it count. Oh, big time. Make it bloody count. Make it count for the big man. Yeah.

Santa. Not Jesus. Santa. Papa Claus up there, right? Papa Claus. Or as Archie calls him, Father Christmas. Father Christmas. Right, tell me your song.

Oh, I'm going first, okay. Tell me your song. So my song is... It's the most beautiful time of the year. Spreading so much tear. I should be playing in the winter snow. But I'ma be under the mistletoe. Yeah.

Mistletoe, Justin Bieber. Need we say more? I feel like there are some Christmas bangers, like boom, boom, boom, boom. Oh, yeah, yeah. Christmas snow's coming down. But I feel like mistletoe is a great one to wake up to. So you're like, boom, roll over, wake up,

sleep in your eyes, and it's like, it's the most beautiful. And you're like, boom, roll over, wake up, sleep in your eyes and it's like, it's the most beautiful, and you're like, shit, shit, Christmas is coming, Christmas is coming. This is so exciting, it's here, it's here, it's here. Okay, tell me, tell me, tell me, what's your song? Mine is Santa, Santa, boy you're the worst. Been a couple months, I wish it was the first. Is it New Year's yet?

Sabrina Carpenter, she's come out with a new Christmas EP called Fruitcake. Which I kind of love. Fruitcake. Loving it. I love it when like, I would love like right now for Olivia Rodrigo to come out with like a pop Christmas album.

I'm telling you, if Olivia Rodrigo came out with a Christmas album, we'd have to go watch her in concert. Just for the Christmas. I love that one. Oh, I love that woman. I'm telling you, the day we get her on the pod,

she's going to come debrief with us. She'll debrief with us. She'll debrief with us. We're like, what the fuck happened there? Look, just tell us the gossip, okay? Tell us the gossip. Let's debrief, okay?

Let's just do it. But I love it when, like Ariana Grande did a similar thing, Sia's Christmas album. I love. But Sabrina Carpenter's just come out with a little EP, and I fucking adore it. It's so good.

How exciting. And it's so pop fun, but not traditional Christmas. Yeah, love it. And I love it. I love that so much. Are you ready, Paige? Are you ready?

Raka, raka, recommendations. Jingle bells, if you didn't know, guys. Bit of an orchestra here. Okay, so for our recommendation for Christmas, it seemed, okay, so we're going to do Christmas food. Okay, so what our favourite Christmas food is and what we're going to say at this time of the year, this is what you should stuff your face with.

Absolutely. So, Katie, what are you stuffing down your gob? Now, you'll find me on this very day. Vegetables. Veggies. Brussels sprouts. Brussels, yeah. I love, there is a lady in a village near my house

called Mrs. Miggins. Oh, shout out Mrs. Miggins. Mrs. Miggins, you are the best woman alive. My mum every year orders she does festive cupcakes but she also does these festive rocky roads that look like Christmas puddings they're like in like a little Christmas

pud circle but it's a rocky road and it's like dunked in white choccy and it has the little like Christmas pudding decoration like a little holly leaf on it oh my gosh that sounds divine. My mum always buys two packs of six. I eat them every, honestly, my family members are like,

"'Kasey, please, hold back this." Yeah, I'm like, "'Where's the Mrs. Miggins?' First thing when I got through the door. I'm like, no celebrations, I want the Christmas buds." Oh my god, that sounds divine. The rocky rose, they're just my favorite thing at Christmas.

Are they gluten free? Could you give them back to me? I doubt they'll make it to you in that time. Yeah, probably, no. Okay, so my fave is, I'm not a Christmas pudding gal, okay? So at Christmas we always do, my dad loves a Christmas pud, so of course we'll have a gorgeous Christmas pud

and all of this. Not a Christmas pud gal. Don't like it at all. So I'm not I do like raisins. I just don't like it all together mushed. I'm like bleh. And the alcohol. I'm like oh it's too much going on. But what I do love is my little one is

a mince pie and custard. That is my Christmas go to and I am so excited because I know today on Christmas Day I will be having a mince pie, bit of sugar and cinnamon on top. Labbered in custard.

Labbered, labbered, labbered, labbered. I can't wait. I can't wait. Look at her face. She can't fucking stand that. I hate mince pies and I hate custard. Mrs. Miggins over there,

get in the corner. Yeah. Yeah. Mrs. Megan's over there getting the call. Yeah. Oh, let's debrief. I think I nailed it. I think I absolutely nailed it.

What's yours? What's yours? Oh, let's debrief oh my god that was amazing I actually think you won like that was so good that was really good I felt you got the essence of Santa like I felt

yeah that's the guy that delivers presents to kids down the chimney he lives in me he lives in you he lives in me he lives in me okay He lives in you. He lives in me. He lives in me. Okay, come on, let's do it. Let's do it.

So, guys, Christmas, Merry Bloody Christmas. We're going to talk all things Christmas, all right? So, Katie, tell me a bit about your Christmas day. What does it kind of look like? When are you getting up? Are you having a nice lie-in? Are you up at the crack of dawn? What's your Christmas day?

I'm up with the cockerel. Yeah. Christmas morning, she's up. See, I have a younger sister, and there's quite a big age gap. But obviously, as we get older, like, she gets older. Shock.

You know, such is time. You know how time's like that and all. So when she was younger, she used to be, like, in my room at, like, 5, 6 a.m. So excited. He's pain! Oh. But now, naturally, so when she was younger she used to be like in my room at like 5, 6am so excited he's pain oh

now but now naturally she still does get quite excited yeah so she'll come in and be but usually I get up around

7, 7, 8 okay that's not too bad that's not too bad then we'll all go downstairs my dad will already be up anyway because he starts cooking Christmas lunch

at about 7 o'clock so he's there like turkeys in the oven he's prepping the roast at this point when your dad's listening to the debrief turkey will be gone like Mrs. Miggins

it'll be in the digestive system it'll be gone then we sit, we do little prezzies then we have a little bit of brekkie gorgeous a little bit of um what's that samosa yes yes box fizz and then samosas i think it's mimosa oh fuck me she's like yeah just have a bit of like a little indian delicacy on christmas day like yeah um so tell, what time you're having Christmas lunch?

You've done all that in the morning. Yeah. What time you're having Christmas lunch? 12.30. 12.30. 12.30.

Okay. Which I didn't think was uncommon until I've met other people. Yeah. But Christmas, like, latest one. Wow.

I would push in it if it's one. Okay, well, I'm telling you, the leeches would be starving at my house, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so we I'm telling you, the leeches would be starving at my house, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so we have quite a leisurely morning,

as do you, in the sense of like, we're not boom, boom, boom, up, up, up. We kind of, I like to go on a little run or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And then we'll all kind of, what's it? Come together. Congregate. Congregate, that's the one.

Together, come downstairs. All the music's on. My parents make it so festive. Then open the presents straight away. So we bring the presents, sit in the lounge, open the presents. We're all around.

We'll probably have a hot chocolate or a samosa. I honestly, she's a water woman. We'll probably have like my mum might have some champagne with my sister and all this kind of stuff dad he's on it with the fucking bin bag he's on it

not one piece of wrapper or sellotape is going anywhere not that is sticking to anyone's arse on Christmas because my dad boom open all the presents now this could this could maybe finish around, depending how we're going, half 11.

Like, maybe. Right, right. You know? We've had a good time. Yeah. And then, you know, maybe a cheeky mince pie or something like that.

And then I, then we'll kind of, we go on a Christmas walk. We do all this kind of stuff. I'm telling you, Christmas lunch, Christmas dinner, whatever you call it,

could be around three or four. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Three or four. And that would last a while as well because your family oh we love a chat don't we we love a lovely chat yeah like a nice dinner at the dinner table it's so i think that's definitely a true i'm this leads on to the next god we're just so good like you should do this for a living like seriously it brings us on to our next thing but i think that's definitely a tradition of ours like we don't just eat the dinner then we're just so good. We should do this for a living. Seriously. It brings us on to our next theme, but I think that's definitely a tradition of ours. We don't just eat the dinner, then we're off. We sit around for hours, and we'll be chatting,

and playing games, and all of this. Okay, but it brings us on to our next section. So we are talking about family traditions. So Katie and I are going to tell each other three of our family traditions and we're going to play two tricks with a lie. Okay? Yeah.

Okay. They're all to do with Christmas Day, guys. Okay. So we have a Christmas koala that sits on our dinner table. Just a little figurine. Okay. We have a Christmas squirrel in our nativity scene

we have a Christmas turd as an ornament oh god fuck two truths and a lie I could see you having the turd as an ornament I could because I feel like that would be quite a funny thing for you guys

when you got it and you put the turd on the tree yeah I think you've definitely got a squirrel in your nativity I just don't know if a koala would fit in your play settings because you set the table

I set the table every year you know that, that's my job you set the table I don't know if there's a home for a koala and I don't think you've ever mentioned Set the table. I set the table every year. You know that. That's my job. You set the table. That's my job. I don't know if there's a home for a koala, and I don't think you've ever mentioned, and then the koala goes there. You know what I mean?

Katie comes over. I'm like, hey, hey, hey, that's where koala sits, all right? But then... Get your batty away. But then I feel like there's also a wholesome story about the koala, which is why you have it at Christmas. We have to meet more all Australian, aren't we? Which makes me think that the turd is wrong,

because then would your mum allow? Guys, this is amazing, isn't it? It's like in a monologue. Katie's just telling us her thoughts. What are you thinking, Paige? I think the turd's a lie. Okay, final answer? Fuck.

But for the record, let's just say I'm wobbly, because I think it's either the koala or the turd because I definitely think you'd have a squirrel in your nativity scene. Three, two, one, answer. Lie, what's the lie, what's the lie? The turd. Wrong!

No! Wrong! Wrong! Is it a koala? It's a koala. Okay, so let me tell you. So we have a little Christmas nativity scene. Yeah.

So we always have jobs in our family like for christmas mine's always setting the table making it look pretty the candles all that kind of stuff and when we were really young when my sister and i were both still at home and we all did the decorating and we have this little nativity set and it's these little figurines and you've got the shepherds you've got mary you've got jesus all this kind of stuff yeah and anyway uh one year i did it i must have been so young like really really young and um we've gone to mcdonald's and there was a squirrel and and i saw the and i saw that there were a few sheep there you know the donkey was there and i thought fuck this squirrel can't miss out it goes at the end of the day it's christ. All right, so I put a little squirrel next to it,

so we've always had the Christmas squirrel. Squirrel's always there, we're like, good man. Okay, Christmas turd as a story. So really, really young, Lily and I made, you know at school, the teachers filled the time. You make things for your parents. So anyway, we had clay, and what was i trying to make i think i was trying to make like a snowman i'm telling you this thing's a log like with two eyes oh

it looks like an absolute life raft like that that that log is saving lives like that turd and we put it out every year and it is the most ugly thing, but, you know, at the bottom it's like, Katie. Like, three or however old it was. But always Christmas Ted. Okay. Always Christmas Ted. No koalas at Christmas, Katie. No koalas.

I knew it! Okay, tell me your two truths. And a lie. So, we will always have a bacon sandwich for breakfast. Oh, okay. We will always watch a Muppets Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve. Oh, no. And we will always nap between 2 and 5 p.m. every Christmas Day.

Right, okay. Thought process. I know Katie naps every, well, Katie's family naps every Christmas Day. But I don't know if you've put the timings in there to throw me off. I thought it was around, did you say two till five? Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's correct because I remember you saying recently like, two till five or one till five at Christmas is a bleak time for the leeches. She's like, sits around, you know, humbug, bar humbug. She's going around caroling to the neighbours. Not a creature was stirring. Not even a mouse. Not even a peach. Not even a peach. Okay, so I'm going to say yes to that. I don't think you've tricked

me with the times. Bacon Butty Christmas Carol. Muppets Christmas Carol. Oh, I know you love the Muppets Christmas Carol, but I just feel like I can't see your dad watching it. No, I think your dad loves it. I think your dad really loves it. Yes, I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. I think your dad really loves it. And this is right because I'm not sure Papa Leach isn't a massive Disney fan,

but I know he likes The Muppets. I think I'm onto something here. I'm gonna say three, two, one, no to the bacon patty. You're wrong. Damn! You're wrong! Oh no! Chris Leeds loves The Muppets.

Yes, yes, okay, back myself up. However, we always take it in turns every year to pick the Christmas film. Oh, that's such a nice, every Christmas Eve, everyone. Yeah, it's never just Muppets Christmas Carol. Oh, okay. But if Chris is picking, he picks Muppets Christmas Carol. So I was right on that.

You were semi-right. No, Chris always whips up a bacon butty in the morning. Oh, damn it. Always whips it up. Oh, that's gorgeous. That's a lovely tradition. Every Christmas. And a samosa.

And a samosa. He's just there with the vegetables, the spices. He's cooking multiple cuisines yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i love it um so what would you are you who's picking this year for your family i don't know i'm gonna try and make it me because i would be picking mickey's twice upon a christmas yes okay probably the best christmas ever all the holiday although my parents don't really like to sit through rom-coms. Did I tell you that when we were really young, every Christmas we watched the Polar Express on Christmas Eve,

and we'd love, like, the... I know so many people say it's creepy, but for us it's such a wholesome memory. We're like, oh, my gosh, and they see them getting into bed, and then they can hear the bells and the trains coming outside. And I remember Lily and I would always be so like, oh, my gosh, this is happening. So tradition for us was always Polar Express

until a few years ago when we said, dare I say it, shall we mix it up? And we did. Yeah, we did. I think that Christmas we watched, oh, the holiday for sure. Oh, I just love Christmas traditions. Like everyone has such different things they do.

And it makes sense to their family. Like, for anyone else. Like, for example, my family for Christmas has always been the four of us. So my mum, dad, my sister and I. And then this year is so exciting because we're having my dad's dad and my auntie and my cousins. And for the first time ever, it's going to be a big Christmas. This is my first ever big Christmas. And it's going to be a big Christmas this is my first ever big Christmas and it's going to be

eight of us and we're all so excited something that we also do Christmas tradition is matching PJs every Christmas oh my god I love matching PJs

matching PJs every Christmas so this year all eight of us are going to be matching PJs and it's just going to be amazing

I've been on the hunt for some satin pinstripe pyjamas because I want to look like a candy cane Katie literally wants a candy cane I'mjamas because I want to look like a candy cane. Katie literally wants a candy cane. I'm like, you're going to just look like a sexy prisoner. I feel like...

In your bloody stripes. I feel like I'll look so put together in a matching satin set of pyjamas. Lovely. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I think that could be a good Christmas tradition for me. Yes, with your little ones. With my little ones.

But we asked the debrief. Yes. Listener tradition. So we asked the debrief. Yes. Listener tradition. So we asked. You answered. Yes. Oh, we've got some crackers. So some of them are interesting.

Some of them are wholesome. Some of them are just downright whack-a-doodle. Yeah, whack-a-doodle. Well, I find, like you said, family traditions mean so much to a family unit. Yeah. Who cares if they look they're silly or wackadoodle yeah you all have such like you stuff you cherish and christmas is the best time for traditions yes because you do it once a year it's your thing it's magical you know and it's

just the best so i haven't heard the ones that you've picked from the debrief listeners their traditions so this one this one's actually quite sweet so tell me this person says hi guys my family has a tradition of leaving riddles on the cards on top of a present oh as to what the present is oh and guessing what the gift is before we open so when they all sit around they have to pick up their present look at the clue yeah the riddle then everyone gets a guess of what's inside and then we open it and show everyone

this it takes a few hours to get around everyone but it's something that's always fun every Christmas oh that's so sweet

I'm like oh my god I'd be there all day oh but I'm not being funny I'm shit with riddles I'm terrible with riddles imagine I'd literally be like oh imagine

you've got like something like it it it's battery charged with riddles. Imagine. I'd literally be like, oh, imagine if you've got like something like, it's battery charged, it gives you pleasure, and you're like, vibrator, and it's like,

no, it's an electric toothbrush, and you're like, oh. No, imagine. Imagine, you'd be so embarrassed. No, imagine they're like, you wear it on your finger and you're like,

oh, a ring? No, that would be the worst. And they're like, no, a ring? No, that would be the worst. And they're like, no. Gloves. Gloves. No, that would be so embarrassing. Honestly.

Or imagine if it's like, it's something you've wanted the whole year, and you're like, it's an iPad, it's an iPad! And you open it, and your granny's got you, literally what my granny got me, a bloody belly dancing outfit, and you're like, are you fucking joking me? Like, not the iPad.

That was the gift of Christmas. My grandma got me a belly dancing outfit, and I're like, you're fucking joking me. That was the gift of Christmas. My grandma got me a belly dancing outfit and I was like, okay. You were like, okay. I was like, just shaking girl. I was like, do the ripples. Yeah, I was like that little Hawaiian doll. Okay, let me tell you one.

Okay, so hey girls, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas. Hope you both enjoy my family tradition. Here we go. So my sister and I stay at my mum and dad's house on Christmas Eve with our families every single year. Oh, that's sweet, isn't it?

We still sit at the top of the stairs on Christmas morning until my mum says we can come down to see what Santa left us. Let me tell you, I'm 26 years old and my sister is in her mid-30s and our husbands and kids now sit on the stairs as well. It's getting really crowded. But girls, I kind of want to ask you, do you define this as an ick or is it wholesome? No, that's so wholesome. That's so sweet.

I bet that would mean so much to their mum as well. Mother duck nailed it. Mother duck nailed it. Oh my God. Can you imagine that? You see your kids up there with their kids. Oh, my God, you cry. You've got your own family. They've created their own family.

Oh, my God. And now they're doing that. That's so sweet. Girl, that's not an egg at all. That is so sweet. Although, if your husband did it, it would be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The husband, like, shit, let's go upstairs.

Quick. Just him sitting at the top of the thing. Yeah, he's like, did Santa bring anything? And you're like, ooh. Yeah, yeah. Look, we don't anything? And you're like, ooh. Yeah, yeah. Look, we don't double standards on this podcast. We do. But we don't, you know, right?

Everyone enjoys traditions. Okay, don't tell me yours. This person says, hi, girlies. When my brother was born, our uncle got him a teddy bear, which became his favorite toy. Oh. Chartered toys. Cute.

So our uncle sadly passed away just before his first birthday and the bear went everywhere with him and got pretty ragged after a while so my parents did a lot of searching and found the bear online and bought several oh brilliant so every year the teddy would wait in the christ Christmas tree to be picked up by the elves, where he goes to the North Pole and gets pampered, and he came back looking brand new. Oh, my God. And Santa would leave him for my brother. Oh, I got goosebumps.

That is so cute. She says that they write on the little foot of the bear every year. Oh, that's so cute. How sweet is that? God, that's a great idea though that's the magic of Christmas that is the bloody magic of Christmas great job

you're like little one you're thinking you need a bloody you know wash look at the stacia boom comes out the Christmas tree spick and span sparkling clean ass and he's like how cute is that do you know what that is the magic of Christmas. That is the magic of Christmas.

Parents going to that extent. Honestly. Oh my gosh. Talking about the toy change quickly. My parents did it because I lost my bunny and I was literally, Lemmy. I lost Lemmy. And they literally got me another Lemmy

and I never knew. And literally like five years later, they were like, yeah, you know, when you lost Lemmy, we got another one. And I was like, what? I was like, so this isn't fucking Lem's. I was like five years later, they were like, yeah, you know, when you lost Lemmy, like we've got another one. I was like, what? I was like, so this isn't fucking lens. I was like,

this is Lemmy's sister. Yeah. I was like, let me say like, not sure about what to say. But it is so funny. But I didn't bat an eye. I thought,

oh, it's lens. We did the same thing with my younger sister. She had a bunny that she took around everywhere. And we were on holiday in America and she dropped it. Oh no. And weirdly it got handed into Lost and Found and someone else took it.

What? And it was a really grubby looking bunny. So we found the bunny. My mum bought like three more online because bless my little sister. Where's Bun Bun? Oh no. That's so shit.

She said quick, get a few. get a few of them she she was none the wiser none the wiser we're a little switcheroo yeah yeah it's great it's great okay i'm gonna tell you another one so hiya girlies i've got a funny tradition we do every year on our street every house has a sign on their house spelling Noel. Oh, that's so, I love the organisation. How cute is that? I mean, can you imagine? Some streets, some streets go all out at Christmas. What do they mean, like, on their house?

Like, maybe on the roof? Oh, like the American houses where they have, like, all the street lights. Oh, I love that. There's always one, I don't know if you have one in your village, there's always one in the village that genuinely could, like, turn the whole town dark with the amount of power they're using to light up their house bye raider i'm literally like some people are so tacky i'm like i love it it's christmas honestly i'm like they're bloody enjoying christmas yeah i'm like you don't hate don't

hate okay appreciate yeah yeah one year i put it up before my parents got home as a surprise. Aww. However, when my parents got back, they laughed and asked who's Leon. Oh, my God. As a very dyslexic 10-year-old, I didn't see the difference, and I spelt it backwards. Oh, she's... It started as a joke, but now every year I've put Leon up instead of Noel and we even named our dog Leon.

Every year I love it and it makes us laugh. Oh my. That is something I would do. Leon, Leon. It's like Noel, Noel, Noel, Leon. It's like what? Oh my God, no, that would be me. But do you know what is the best thing?

She's trying to do it for her family. She's like, look. She's like, Leon. And they're like, who the fuck is Leon? And they're like, oh, I die. Instead of Papa Noel, Papa Leon. Noel, Leon. I'm dying. Oh. I'm dying.

Oh, I'm dying. That's so funny. I would genuinely, I could see myself doing that. Well, I love how her family just appreciates it now. They named the dog Leon. I fucking love it. And they put Leon up every year.

I mean, that's just, that's embracing it, isn't it? No, that's made my day. That is so good. So sweet. Oh my God, I've got to tell you a quick side note story. When you reminded me, when you were like, what a scrooge.

When I was really, really young, we were coming back from having like a hot chocolate. As we walked back, I mean, I was young, maybe like eight or nine or something. I saw, it was Christmas Eve. I saw this guy in a, it was like a workspace, but all the windows were see-through. You could see all the offices and stuff.

So we walked past the workspace and I was like, oh my gosh, look, that all the windows were see-through. You could see all the offices and stuff. So we walked past the workspace, and I was like, oh my gosh, look, that guy's still working on Christmas Eve. I was eight, nine, didn't understand that people worked on Christmas Eve. I was like, oh, you know, I thought he just hated Christmas. So I literally turned around to my person. I was like, oh my God, look at him on Christmas Eve. I was like, oh, screw you, Scrooge. And literally shouting, I had no idea it was a bad word I had no idea what I said

was offensive clearly I don't know what I was watching my parents were like oh my god my parents were like Kitty I burst into tears I literally burst into tears for the whole of Christmas Eve I was like I can't believe I swore I can't believe I swore and my was like, I can't believe I swore. And my parents then went to the point where they're just laughing at you. They're like, seriously, it's fine. And I'm like, do I apologize? Like that poor bloody man, he's literally just trying to make ends meet.

Screw you, screw. You with hot chocolate round your mouth. Screw you, screwed. Go away. Hot chocolate. Whipped cream. Screw you. I've got, oh my God, whipped cream screw you I've got

oh my god I've got marshmallows in my teeth oh my god I'm dying it's so funny oh my god okay so

on to still on the theme of traditions guys because we're loving it Christmas traditions are the best we are going to tell you some celebrity

yeah traditions for Christmas day. We are going to tell you some celebrity traditions for Christmas Day. Now, we're going to play a little game with them as well. And we're going to tell each other some celebrity Christmas traditions. And we're either going to hit or miss them. Now, for the people who are like, what the bloody hell are they on about?

Hit means, oh my God, absolutely every day. Every damn day. Every day I would slay on that miss is like back away my friends yeah i'm not doing that for christmas yeah okay so you tell me your first one it's my first one someone who gets mcdonald's like gets a takeaway on christmas day like fast food yeah miss 100 yeah 100%. And let me give you my reasoning. For Christmas, my mum is the most incredible host and

cook. I would give nothing more in my life to spend my day eating her food for Christmas. Oh, yeah. Someone's giving me a McNugget. I'm gluten free. I'll be shitting everywhere. That's true. That's not the magic of Christmas. That's not. Having to take an IBS tablet and being in the loo. No, that's not the magic of Christmas. That's not the magic of Christmas, having to take an IBS tablet and being in the loo. No, that's not the magic of Christmas.

That's not the magic of Christmas. So that, for me, that's a big miss. What do you say? I would say miss. Who is it? Who is that? I'm dying to know. Chrissy Teigen.

No way. Yeah, similar to you, I would say miss because I am a terrible cook, so anyone is a better cook than me, but I especially love my dad's Christmas dinner. Yeah, yummy, yummy, yummy. I love it. I look forward to it every year.

Okay, so someone, someone's grandma made them watch the Queen's speech every single year. So now they insist that their kids watch the Royal speech. Obviously, it's not Queen now, so it'll be Charles. Mess. You say mess. I never watch it. Really? But I don't think my family aren't...

Royals, royalists. Royalists, they're not big into the royals, so I've never watched it. Actually, no, I tell a lie. I watched it last year for Charles' first one. Yeah, that was pretty important, wasn't it? But I watched the first, like, two minutes and switched over. Okay. Because I was like, oh, this is important. I should watch this

because it's, you know, first king in a while. Yeah. But it's not as big of a deal in my household. As it is. And it's also very long. I didn't realise how long it was. It's like half an hour now. Can we just kind of wrap this up like three minutes max? Boom. Like, I know it's been a big year,

but like sat down like. Yeah. Yeah. Boom. Like, I know it's been a big year, but, like, sat down, like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to say hit for this. I'm a family of royalists. We love the royals. My parents love the queen.

We love the queen. Like, we thought she was great. However, I will put my hands up that we probably won't watch it live. We might record it. Oh, and then watch it back. Then later, you know. If we're in the flow of things, we probably watch it a, we might record it. Oh, and then watch it back. Then later, you know, if we're in the flow of things, we probably watch it a bit later.

Whereas I know, like, with Archie's family, they all stand up, like, to sing. Do they? Yeah, like, it's very taken very seriously and they watch it live and they all sing them, God save, you know, all of that. Whereas we will watch it, but we won't be like, drop everything quick, quick, quick, quick.

Is it on at, like, three? I believe so. Yeah, but we won't be like, drop everything quick, quick, quick, quick. Isn't it on at like three? I believe so. You'll be in bed. Yeah, because while I'm asleep. Yeah, like everyone's asleep by that point. You'll be in bed. Okay, so you say hit. No, you say miss.

I say hit. It's David Beckham. Interesting. Yeah, I know. Interesting. So he makes all the boys, little Harper, do the speech. Oh, interesting. Watch the speech.

Okay, tell me another. So on a similar vein to food, this person will go to the Waffle House in America with their family for breakfast. Hmm. Okay. Every Christmas they go and they always leave a massive tip as well. Oh, I'm loving that.

I'm loving that. Okay, I'm going to. I'm loving that. Okay, I'm gonna say hit. I don't like waffles, so I'd have a cheeky pancake if that's possible. Like an IHOP kind of. Possibly, yeah. Possibly a gluten-free would be phenomenal. And phenomenal.

I think that's a cute tradition. I think, and for brekkie. For brekkie's great. Like, come on, let's all get our Christmas jumpers on. Come on, scarves, scarves, gloves. Everyone get out. Let's go to the Woff. I think that's sweet.

I think that's really, really nice. So I'm going to say hit. I would say hit as well. I could get behind that. Carrie Underwood. Oh, okay. Okay, so I'm going to tell you another one. This person puts fresh roses on their Christmas tree.

Oh. So for Christmas Day, literally like, it's fresh roses. What are you saying? I would miss. Okay. But I would hit if they wouldn't be visible in the tree. Like I'd love the smell. Oh, the smell.

I'd love the smell of fresh roses but i just think roses in a christmas tree would just look like a rose bush okay i'm seeing i don't know like i can't see how it would look i feel like it would take there also seems they're quite big roses yeah there's a lot going on if there are baubles and other decorations on the tree just chucking a rose in there i feel like it would look a bit weird okay i see what you mean what are you saying do you know what we're a family if we've got a few trays so i'm like oh like a rose tree i'm saying big hit because i'm like i'd love even if it's just in my room like a little rose tray fresh roses i mean you don't get fucking bougier than that having a fresh rose tray you literally boom cut them in the garden

prick your finger put them in the tree the smell of roses are stunning yeah and i'd have like a few pink little red ones like i think it's i think it's the bougiest life red rose red rose tray red and green gorgeous i'm telling you if you can afford it do it go for it and that was jennifer lopez rose tray rose tray That was Jennifer Lopez. Roadstray. Well, yeah. Roadstray. Bougie lady. Yeah, bougie. Bougie lady. Okay, do you have another? My one is this person will put wrapping paper over their kid's doors.

Oh. So they have to physically run through the wrapping paper to get into the room with the presents which i would so do big hit this is like the best thing you've said apparently it will keep them from like also like coming out in the middle of the night as well like oh my god but what happens if you need a wee they get just like bored oh my god this is the funniest thing. I think that is a phenomenal tradition. Isn't that so much fun? Who's this? That's Gwen Stefani.

I love that. Big hit. Biggest hit. Imagine like running down your little gym jams. I love that tradition. And it's almost like they've made the kids

a present. Like, you're my present. Yeah. Oh, that's so cute. I love that. Okay,

I'm going to tell you my last one. So, someone does an annual Christmas party and the last, no not the last one, but in 2019 they had a Christmas party that was so lavish it cost 1.3 million and Sia performed at it. Oh my god, I have a feeling I know who this is.

I mean, if I could afford a party like that, big hit. I would, I think a Christmas party to host is something, like an annual thing people look forward to. Yeah, 100%. I wouldn't want to host a New Year's party because I think that could get out of control. Yeah, pressure as well. But I feel like hosting a Christmas party,

people would be a bit less feral. Yeah, yeah, okay. It's a bit more civilised, Like, it would be great, gorgeous. Everyone gets their own. Like, I'd love to host a big event where people get little goodie bags and little things. Oh, yeah, nice.

Like a proper, like, sit down, like catered event kind of thing. Yeah, lovely. So I would hit if I could. Yeah, yeah. I think, I feel like, because they do it on like a Christmas Eve. That's quite close.

And I'm like, I would maybe go for one year or something, but Christmas Eve is pretty sacred with my family. Yeah. Like we have our tradition, we go to like, like a little carol service and we all come back

and you know, and it's just really special and I don't know if I'd want to get glammed up to be with loads of celebs and I don't know, I think I'd prefer to be, but to be honest, I'm talking shit because I don't know. I think I'd prefer to be... But to be honest, I'm talking shit because I'm telling you,

I'm like... I'm gonna swing. She'd do her Christmas album. I mean, that would be amazing. That would be amazing. I feel like I've never understood the hype of going out on Christmas Eve. Yeah, because I don't want to...

I do not want to be hungover for Christmas Day. I'm telling you. I do not. But you can guess it's Day, I'm telling you. No, no, no. I do not. But you can guess it's the Kardashians. Oh. So that is the Kardashians. Love the Kardashians. Love the Kardashians, absolutely.

So for Christmas, Christmas I truly believe is the most magical time of the year. So magical. There are so many things to consider that are magical. Being around your family, friends, gifts, songs, food, the Santa Claus of it all, the magic, the movies, everything. I want to ask you personally, your Leach family,

what, or just you in general, what is Christmas all about for you? The magic of Christmas. How is it magical? The magic of Christmas has to be my mom always gets the festive candles in oh the house always smells phenomenal so lovely and they only get what kind of candles are they are they like pine so they smell like trees like pine or

cinnamon oh so it just smells like christmas It's always so, so nice. I love our tree. We have a fake tree. We've had that tree for years. It used to be my grandma's. Oh my gosh, wow. So we've had this from before when I was born, and it's just the constant in my life.

I love it, and my mum always spends so long decorating it. I would say the decorations in general, my mum, we have like a little like window, like front window. My mum will always, I'll show you a photo. She actually sent me a... Oh my gosh, I can't wait to see it. She always makes like,

our village has a little competition of like window decorations. Oh, gorgeous. So she always like cuts out like elves and Santas and stuff like that and puts little like cotton on the thing so it looks like snow. Oh my gosh, amazing.

And lights on the window. And I always think that's just lights, like fairy lights keeping it nice and dim, the smell and just the Christmas tree. Yeah. For me, magic Christmas. Absolutely stunning. What's yours?

Magic of Christmas for me, my, much like you, my mum absolutely goes to town on making our house a winter wonderland yeah you know the trees are stunning um the lights are twinkling uh the ornaments are glistening everything is absolutely perfect I think when your lives get so busy when you get older you know as you are with one of your sisters you're out of home yeah um and then your little sisters still at home i think the biggest thing is being all together yeah um i feel that there's no time more special than being sat around with your mom and dad and your sister or whoever it is whether it's you know you're with your friends rather than family it for me it is the company i'm like being able to be with you all on this day yeah and enjoying the

food i mean the food is such a big part of christmas you know the food is so a part of it all but i think for me is the company yeah um if i we can only do three i know we said. The company, 100%. The decorations, there's nothing quite like it. Yeah. And the food. It's got to be the food. The food. I was going to go music, but I'm going to have to say food. Oh, music's such a big one as well, though.

I know, but I like the food. Honestly, no, because music's like a real thing. Oh, it's just you get your songs on and it's like. You know, we have the little Alexa things. Yeah, so do we. So they can play through all the speakers in the house. So Christmas time is in every room. I mean, even that feels magical. It's so magical.

It's so nice. It's so, so lovely. And I'm like, it is the most wonderful time of the year. It's so good. Eeks. E's so good. Icks. Icks. Lovely. Oh, smash that.

Absolutely bloody smash that. Smash that. Okay. So, ick of Christmas. I hate that awkwardness when you open a present. Yeah. And you have either already received the present before or it's just, you don't know what to say.

Like that awkwardness. And I'm kind of scared of it this year because it's always just been my mum, dad and Lily. And I love just, yay! And we joke around with each other yeah but I'm almost scared to give other people presents and then I'm like so basically and you feel you have to explain it's the fumbling around presents I'm like genuinely you could give me a potato and I'm like oh my god I would be so grateful for it but it's someone in the room knowing you've already received

that potato and be and you're thinking do not say a word don't mug me up she's got three upstairs don't don't be doing that don't be doing that my ick my ick's only one i'm sorry that you've been included in this because you went in so passionately people who like mince pies oh i love it why why are you liking them what the? They are the devil's dessert. I honestly don't understand. I don't, like, I've never ever, like my sister, fucking hell, she's. I love them. She loves, everyone loves a mince pie in my family.

I love a mince pie. I think they are revolting. Do you know what's the best as well is like the way people eat mince pies. Some people bite straight into them and I'm like, ah, savage. Some people take the top off then eat the top and then continue i think i could probably eat the top of a mince pie i'm sure covered in sugar she's like shortbread i'm like yeah yummy

someone's like mince pies i'm like what what about? Okay, so let's go on to questions. On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen. What's that? Connor and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. Yes, Paige. Okay. Okay, so I'm on serious question for the Christmas episode. So my Christmas question is for you.

Yeah. What is the one thing you need to feel like it's Christmas? You can only choose one, and I'm going to give you options, okay? Okay, brilliant. So one, food. Two, music. Three, decorations. Four, films. Five, gifts. What's the one thing that without it, it wouldn't be Christmas?

God, it's a toss-up between music and decorations. Fuck. My gut went music. Oh, okay. Because I think Christmas music when it's dark and you're just listening is lovely but i also find it more wholesome when i'm sat there and the tree is there and it's sparkling at me yeah do you know what i'm gonna say decorations i'm there with you girl it's got to be decorations otherwise how else will you know it's christmas yeah i'm there with you girl i mean we could do a christy tegan and have a mackeys but it's Christmas. Yeah, I'm there with you, girl. I mean, we could do a Chrissy Teigen and have a Maccies, but it's just as long

as the tree is up. Yeah. Okay, what is your silly question? My silly question is, scenario. Oh, okay.

You have to spend all of December dressed as Santa until Christmas Day or you can't celebrate Christmas. And when I say like, it's not sexy Santa. Oh no. No, it's Santa sexy santa oh no no it's

because i was like no no not sexy not mrs claus not i was like i'm telling you i'll put a little bit of a patch of fur on me nips and these will be the best christmas presents you'll ever receive no no sexy santa and if i don't do it i can't celebrate christmas gotta wear it all the time otherwise if you take it off can't celebrate christ. And even if you take the hat off, no, you can't celebrate Christmas. Oh my God, it's the end of it. Or you cannot do a single thing related to Christmas in November or December until Christmas Day. And then you can celebrate. But that means you can't listen to Christmas songs.

You can't put any Christmas trees up. You can't watch Christmas films. Go to Winter Wonderland. No gingerbread, no festive drinks. Like you are Oliver fucking Cromwell. You're like, no to Christmas. Oh my God. Crown me as Santa Claus.

Because I'm telling you, I'm telling you. I think I'd have to be Santa. I'd have to be Santa. And at least I do it for a year. It's iconic. I'm like, guys, you know how we do New Year's resolutions? This December, I'm Santa, all right? I'm like, I'm bloody Santa. But I'm telling you, there's not a chance it gets to November, December.

I'm not being able to eat one mince pie, sing my heart out to All I Want for Christmas is You. We've already watched several Christmas shows You. No. We've already watched several Christmas films. I know. We've already been packed in a bit. We literally started in November,

Christmas films. I would be devoured. I'd be absolutely devoured. So, kids? Ho, ho, ho. I'll be coming down your chimney this year.

Oh, yeah. Keep an eye out. Keep a bloody eye out. What are you saying? Are you going to be Mrs. Claus with me? I'd have to be Mrs Claus with you

I can't do no that'd be so sad no celebrations I was listening to Christmas films songs Bonfire Night yeah I'm telling you Peach

as well it might be quite endearing like there might be a man out there that would be like get her on my arm like isn't she a laugh yeah do you know what

actually out of all the things that could attract my husband I think this could be it I think this could be it this would be the defining moment it's like watch me with do you know what actually out of all the things that could attract my husband i think this could be it i think this could be it this would be the defining moment it's like watch me with a you know pot belly and a mustache yeah oh that'll do it yeah that'll do it that'll do it all right guys we have come to the end of our christmas episode i just want to say that this is our last episode of december of 2023 i want to say thank you so much

for being incredible listeners yes we love you thank you we love you so much thank you for writing in as much thank you for supporting whenever you can yeah we are so proud and excited for 2024 all the things to come remember those mantras keep them yeah and be positive and we love you so much and thank you for being here for us have a great christmas bye merry christmas