The Unmade Podcast - Ultimate Fantasy Advent Calendar (full compilation)

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

Here are all the gifts Brady and Tim shared for Advent in 2025.Patreon supporters will have enjoyed these daily through December. But don’t miss our newly appended outro (about 3:58:00)And Patrons can go to the Request Room for a final chat, debrief, and questions about the process - plus some general festive chat and a “mini Christmas sermon” from Tim.The Request Room Christmas Special - https://www.patreon.com/posts/146498257If you’d like to play a bingo game while listening, here is a grid (contains spoilers) - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5990824849fc2b4c4fe4211b/t/6949ab9632295c68ccec89ab/1766435747220/mega+grid.jpgSupport us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFMJoin the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unmade_Podcast/Catch the episode on YouTube with accompanying pictures - https://youtu.be/NqXUv9cdt8EList of all the gifts with AI-generated valuations - Feel free to copy and have a play around (contains spoilers) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13p3nnIoPUmkK5CThXbkso4VdonUZuTeDVP_jmezglcQ/edit?usp=sharing

Merry Christmas to all you civilians. Merry Christmas, everybody. Ho, ho, ho. So what we're doing today, just a quick intro from us before we get straight into it. Obviously, throughout December, Tim and I have been doing the ultimate fantasy advent calendar where we give each other gifts every day.

Money is no object. Resources are no object. Logistics are no object. We can just run free. And from the first to the 24th of December, we released all these episodes for Patreon supporters on the request room feed. But as promised, we're now releasing all of it altogether as one big mega, mega episode for everyone.

This is going to be quite the journey, isn't it? I mean, the Patreon supporters have been on the wonderful journey throughout Advent each day, but this is going to be quite a listen. Quite repetitive times, perhaps, I'm not sure. But hopefully to be enjoyed. and Tim and I will be back at the very end of the episode to say Merry Christmas again probably and Patreon supporters can also go to the request room today

for a final reflection on the project where we answer some questions and talk a little bit about it as well so if you're a Patreon supporter and you don't want to sit here and listen to it all again you don't have to do that but you can go to the request room feed and have a little listen to a bit more of your old friends Tim and Brady on Christmas Day. Merry Christmas everybody. Enjoy the Advent journey.

Well, it's the first of December. It's the first edition of my ultimate fantasy advent calendar idea where Tim and I are giving each other incredible presents. Money is no object. Logistics is no object. It's all about passion and love for each other. Let me be the first to say to you, Merry Christmas. Oh, well, thank you. It is only the 1st of December, but it's never too early. And it is Christmas season. It is. If we're doing an Advent calendar, we're in, then we surely are in the season where we can say Merry Christmas. Can I just say, we've started actually watching a lot of Christmas movies already in our house. And I've only noticed for the first time how much kind of importance and magic is imbued into the whole idea of the spirit of Christmas.

Well, that's already explaining what it is. There are so many movies where the spirit of Christmas and Christmas is like so sacred and important. and like the key to the movie. But it's so nebulous as to what actually is going on here. It's just, you know, we've got to give Jimmy back the spirit of Christmas to save the farm and all this. It is weird. I think the spirit of Christmas is basically just a blanket excuse,

like to eat what we want at one time of the year. Like just basically to eat yummy food. It's all about the food, actually. A few decorations, sure. But they're just there to justify as eating the food. The spirit of Christmas, though, almost in Christmas movies becomes like, you know, like a bit of a macuffin, like a, there's no point to it.

Like, it's just like the treasure everyone's trying to get, whether it's the special diamond or the, you know, the plans to the death star or whatever it is. It just becomes like this kind of excuse for the movie to exist. Yeah, the Alexa. Yeah. Anyway, before we start pooping Christmas, let's do our Christmas gifts. Can I give you the first gift? Please, please.

I'm going to open. Now, are we going to have, hang on. Hang on, hang on, before this, I want to know, are we going to, like, do we open a door? Like, how am I going to... I'll have an opening door sound effect, okay? Here goes the opening of the door. All right. Although, Tim, as you can see, behind your door, there is only a set of keys because your first prison is actually parked in the driveway outside.

I have gotten you the original 1982 Trans Am that was used as kit in the first ever episode of Night Rider. Oh, man. Man, I was thinking about buying this very thing for you. Let me tell you, Tim, what I've learned. There's a chap name Joe Huth, and he's also got a business partner called A.J. Palm Grain, and they're collectively known as the Knight Rider historians. And Houth in particular is a bit of a Knight Rider nut.

And he has built a garage behind his home in Pennsylvania, and he has two screen-used. kits. He has the very first kit from the pilot episode, which I have now bought for you of Mr. Hooth. He also has a later stunt car that was used in seasons three and four of Night Rider. This, but the one I've got you, this 1982 Black Trans Am, it's the one that you see barreling towards the screen in the opening credits of Night Rider, that classic shot in the desert. It's that actual car. It was originally purchased by a Saudi prince in the 1990s. He like paid for it.

And then he never claimed it. And it just sat at the auction lot for years and years and years and years. And then years later, Houth and this palm green guy bought it and restored it. It spent some time in the museum in L.A., but now it's in Pennsylvania at Houth's personal property. Houth was quoted as saying, it's such a blessing to be the caretaker of something I adored so much as a kid and still do as an adult. But Tim, with my unlimited budget, I have. bought the original kit, the original night rider car used in episode one. Wow.

And I'm giving it to you for Christmas. My goodness me. Wow. I have to say, that's quite a gift. Thank you. I thought you'd like it. I thought you'd like it. I've always wanted to zip down and get some milk from the shops in kit.

Imagine that. Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, the red light going back and forward. Oh, nice. What would you do with it? Sorry, what are you going to do with it? Are you going to park it down in the car park under your flats? Or are you going to get a special storage unit for it? Or are you going to loan it to the Birdwood Motor Museum up in the Adelaide Hills?

No, I mean, that's right. There is a bit of a car sort of theme around Adelaide because of the Motor Museum. So I'll probably pull it out for those sorts of runs. But I just like the idea of cruising around in it. Yeah. I have a funny feeling. Church on Sunday, pulling up and kit. That's right.

I have a funny feeling. and I'll see when I get in it. But, you know, the trouble with these really hot cars from that era is that they were all made before power steering. So I have a funny feeling that it may be a little bit more difficult to drive than we think. But I'm sure the speed will be there. And there's Kit, and I can talk to Kit. It's like the great thing about Kit, of course, is that it was like a Siri before Siri. You can chat and ask questions and responds with your name.

That's right, Michael. Actually, this original 82 Trans Am didn't have like. the dashboard and all the stuff inside that you see in the TV show. Oh, okay. But Huth has recreated it and lovingly restored it and put it inside the Trans Am. So you will have the full kit experience. So enjoy that. Enjoy it.

The full kit and caboodle. Nice. Can I open my door? You may. You may open your door. Okay, here I go. I'm opening the door. Your first gift in the ultimate unmade...

Fantasy? Adventure. Whatever it is. Advent calendar, yeah. Is the original ice axe used by Sir Edmund Hillary climbing Mount Everest. Oh, where is it? Does it exist? Where is it? It does exist. It's in the Auckland Museum. You can actually buy replicas, but I've not bought you a replica.

No way. You're far too special. Yeah. In negotiation with the Auckland Museum, they have. have decided. Let it go, have they? Let it go. You made them an offer they couldn't refuse. And because they've got all these replicas, they're like, well, I guess we don't need this old one anymore. And so I've purchased it. And I'm giving it to you for Christmas. I love this. Thank you so much. This is going to look beautiful. I'm going to get it specially framed by the framing shop just down the road. Nice. I'm going to get it like nicely put in a frame

recessed with a nice little gold plaque underneath saying what it is. I'm going to put it next to my signed Edmund Hillary photo that I have here. But this is amazing, man. This is very thoughtful. People may have a mental image of what the axe looks like, but let me describe it. It's about, the handle's about a metre long. It's nice, strong wood. It's a bit like a hoe, I guess.

Not a hoe, rather, a pick, really. It's got a pick on one side, a bit of a scoopy bit on the other. Not dissimilar to some of the unmade spoons that we have, although not quite as scoopy as the scoopy bits on those. Yeah, yeah. But very handsome acts. The sort of thing you could pull out and walk around the house. You could dress up as death at Halloween, for instance, like a grim reaper.

It's got that aspect to it. Really nice. Could go out in the backyard as well and, you know, plant a few saplings and... Very handy in the garden. Indeed, that's very good. Very effective in snow. If you ever wanted to climb a mountain, it's very snowy. I believe it has form in that area as well.

I wish I'd had it when I went up Ben Everest recently. But, yeah. I'll have it for next time. I'll have it for next time. This is a lovely gift, man. I really appreciate this. It would also look really cool, like stuff down. You know where like He-Man used to keep his sword?

Like just down behind your neck or where William Wallace, it would look cool sitting back there as well. Just walking around town with that over your back. With an ice axe. Yeah, I might attract this attention of the local constabulary as well. but yeah, walking around town with an ice axe. But then when I explain, this is Edmund Hillary's ice axe that was used when he climbed Everest with Tenzing. The place would be, as you were. There you go.

It's a lovely piece. It's a lovely peace. Are you happy with that? Thank you. That is a great present. That is great. I didn't even know that was still like, you know, a thing. So, yeah.

And I thought I knew a lot about the Bealee Center of Everest in 1953, but brilliant. Thank you very much. Like I said, there are a quite. a few imitations around that you can buy, but I've bought you the original. The original. The New Zealand government went into a secret cabinet meeting to consider Tim's offer and they accepted. Indeed.

Thank you very much. We'll be back tomorrow, December 2nd, for more gifts. December 2nd, time for more gifts. Day 2 of our ultimate fantasy super duper advent calendar. Do you want to go first this time, Tim? Shall I open my door and see what you've got me? Absolutely, absolutely. I'm bursting with excitement to give you. No, right, here we go. I'm opening the door. I can't wait to see what I've got. Here we go.

What is that? Now, I know you said the other day when on the podcast episode we were explaining the kinds of things we can and can't give. And you said, Tim, you say, for instance, you couldn't buy me the moon. Well, turns out I have bought you the moon. This is a piece of moon rock collected during the Apollo 11 mission. genuine moon rock for you. Wow. How did you get that? I just bit on eBay. No, no, I do.

You mean the ones that are stored like in Houston that I went and did a video about? Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't know if they're the very same ones, but certainly this one was set aside. Turns out they didn't need it. They go, well, we've got all these ones here. These, I don't know what we're going to do with this one. They've got pretty strict rules about giving those things away. So you've obviously really done some negotiating there.

I've done a lot of negotiations. A little bit of money, but I don't want to get anyone in trouble. So I'll say negotiating. And I've pulled this nice fist-sized, lovely moon rock. Wow. And it's for you. Genuinely from the moon. This is not like a meteor or something that's like, you know, floated through space and then landed,

genuinely picked up off the moon by either one of the two guys. What are their names again? Neil Armstrong and the other guy that came second. Buzz O'Don. Yeah. That's right. Bus light, yeah. Buzz Aldrin.

Put in their pockets, brought back, put aside, sat in storage, now goes into the Advent calendar, doors opened, now goes to you. Genuine piece of moon rock. I'm really happy with that. Thank you very much. That's much better than what I've got you. Can I say I went into the big vault where all the moon rocks are stored that were brought back from all the Apollo missions.

And Apollo 11 by far was the smallest because they brought. the least back because it was the first time and all the various reasons you can imagine. And I looked into the glass case. It's all like vacuum sealed. You can't like open it. But I looked in and there's all these tin trays. I couldn't actually see those particular rocks. I saw a lot of moon rocks, but I couldn't see those ones because they were still stored in their tin trays.

And I said to the guy who was showing me around, I wish I'd thought of this in advance because he could have prepared it for me. the thing I would most like to have seen would have been what's called the contingency sample so when Neil Armstrong came down the ladder stepped on the moon said his thing the first thing he did was use a stick with a scoop on the end

and scooped up a bit of dirt a bit of dirt and rock and stuff that was just near him and stored it in case something went wrong and they had to leave immediately like you know quick Neil go up the ladder something's gone wrong you've got to blast

off the moon straight away they didn't want to go all the way to the moon and come back with nothing. Yeah. So he definitely would have some soil and rock with him. That was called the contingency sample. It wasn't chosen scientifically or to meet certain criteria like a lot of the other stuff. It was just grab it in case. Grab something.

Yep. Yeah. I would like to have seen that. I didn't see it on my visit. That's something I would like to see and know more about. What's happened to the contingency sample? Is it still there? What does it look like?

But the fist-sized rock that you got me, that's almost as good. So thank you. Maybe with the contingency, maybe like he got that and then, you know, how they did a couple of spacewalks, maybe then later on when he got some really good samples, maybe he just threw the contingency stuff back on the moon. Like, maybe it's back up on the moon. I don't know. I doubt it, but you could be right. You could be right.

I don't actually know. They only did one walk, by the way. They didn't get in and out on Apollo 11. Later Apollo missions, they did get in and out of the ship and stayed for a day or two. But Apollo 11 was one moon walk. I just like the idea of him being at the lunar module, just opening the door and just throwing stuff out, like garbage, you know what I mean?

Like, I don't need this stuff. Like when you get to the servo and holiday and you're just like... They did that. They did that before they took off. They threw out their boots and they threw out bags of like excrement. Oh, really? Because they didn't, they wanted as little weight as possible on the module when it took off. So they did throw out anything they didn't need before they took off out the door.

I'll tell you what would have been an amazing gift if this had happened. is, you know how yesterday I gave you Sir Edmund Hillary's ice axe? What if they had taken that ice axe to the moon and then gone out on the moon and excavated some moon rock with the same axe and then brought that axe back? And so this is an axe that's been to the top of Mount Everest and to the moon. Do you know what they did take to the moon on Apollo 11? They took a piece of the Wright Flyer,

which was the original plane that the Wright brothers used for the Moon. the first ever flight at Kitty Hawk and a little fragment of that plane was taken to the moon and back on Apollo 11. Wow. Wow. That would have been a nice present too, man. Would you like to open a door to receive a present from me? Would I? Wow. Go on then. Go on. All right. I'm opening it. Now, Tim, I know you love a bit of history, right? I consider you a bit of a history buff. So I've decided to give you an item of historical significance and curiosity that I think would be a lovely thing for you to have on your desk or coffee table as maybe a conversation piece. And this piece of history relates to Napoleon. Napoleon, right. Napoleon. Napoleon died in 1821,

and they did like bit of an autopsy and medical examination. Yeah. And one of the things that famously happened And I remember reading about this as a boy in one of those books of amazing facts about the world and thinking, that's amazing. So now I'm going to give this to you. They actually, legend has it. And more than legend has it. I think they did cut off Napoleon's penis. And it was preserved. It was preserved.

And it's passed through several owners over time. It's a very shrouded and a bit of mystery. I hope it's shrouded. But it was most recently acquired in 1977 for $3,000, which is the equivalent of about, I don't know, $15,000, $16,000 today by a urologist and artifact collector called John K. Latimer. He has since died and he left it to his daughter, who is currently in possession of it. She has been offered up to $100,000 for it and has not sold it. still has it as far as I know. It's very rarely seen. I saw a photo online, but I don't think it's legit. Maybe it is, but she's never allowed a photo or video of it since she's had it.

But people have seen it. And one person famously described it as resembling a piece of leather or a small shriveled eel. There was a documentary on Channel 4 here in England a while back. They described it as very small, measuring about 3.8 centimetres, 1.5 inches. Well, he was a little guy, wasn't he? And so... Yeah. Also, it's like dead and shriveled. You know, I imagine, you know, I don't want to cast aspersions. No, indeed, you're sure.

The current owner has allowed about 10 people to see it. There was an expert called Mark Evans who saw it, and he said, I've seen a lot of penises from a chihuahua to a sperm whale. This one is so withered. The last place I would have expected to find it was in New Jersey. It's strange how the withered penis has ventured further around the world than Napoleon ever did.

Apparently it's kept in a nice leather presentation case. So I've been over to New Jersey. I've seen it. I've made an offer. It's been accepted. And now, for you, Tim, from me, may I present you with Napoleon's bone apart? Hang on, let me get some gloves.

That is a nice leather satchel, thank you, I like the leather satchel, I might use that. What are you going to do with this? Well, I mean, what wouldn't you do with it? Just sort of displayed in the kitchen. Yeah. Look, it's, it's, I'll put it over with my son, Tom Hanks book and other mementos. Nice. Well, I really don't know.

I'm overcome. I just don't. What does one do? I mean, do you keep it in a safe? Does it need to be in a vacuum-sealed sort of room of some kind? I don't know how it's be, I presume it's been embalmed or I don't, it's not entirely clear to me how it's preserved. Yeah. If it's in liquid or it's, you know, I don't know.

I don't know. But it's yours now. Well, Brady, thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. I appreciate it. As you know, I've often asked for Santa to bring me Napoleon's private member. But I never thought this wish would come true.

There it is. All right. We'll be back tomorrow with more gifts. Will we top Napoleon's penis? Find out on the 3rd of December. Welcome back everyone. Ultimate Fantasy, dream, Advent calendar time. It's time to open door three. Tim, would you like to open your door first? I have a present for you there. I promise you it is not the penis of a historical figure. Well, thank goodness for that.

Yeah, go ahead. All right, opening the door. Oh, what's this? Well, I thought this would catch your eye and you'd appreciate this. This is, of course, the original. Guernsey or jumper or football shirt, depending on where you're from. This was the football Guernsey worn by Dustin Martin in the 2017 AFL grand final. His match worn football Guernsey in which he won the Norm Smith Medal for Best on Ground in the game. It also is the year he won the Brownlow Medal and it was a breakthrough premiership win for your beloved Richmond Tigers. I believe this was last sold at auction for about $20,000. The Guernsey he wore in the 2020 Grand Final sold for $75,000 sometime later,

and this one must be worth more. So I think this must be worth at least $100,000. I'm not going to tell you what I bought it for, but I was able to use some contacts to get my hands on it. And it now belongs to you. Wow. This is a unique object indeed. because this was an away game for the Tigers,

so of course this is why it's so yellow, as opposed to black with a bit of yellow. Yeah. Normally the Richmond wear black with just a yellow stripe, but this is quite a bright yellow one. Unusual for a Richmond Guernsey, but it's the one he wore, it's the real deal. This is nice.

I like this. This is a lovely gift. Still a faint smell of sweat. I thought it smelled familiar. That's right. That's the dusty smell. Oh, well, there you go. Incredible.

Well, he, of course, played in three premierships for Richmond, but this was the first. And this is, I think this is, this is the one, oh, he won the Norm Smith medal in all three. He was the best player on the ground in all three. But he also won the Brownlow medal that year for like the MVP of the whole league for the whole season. So this feels like the most special of the three. And even though it doesn't look typically Richmond, because it is bright yellow, I thought this was the one you should have. Well, thank you. Thank you. This was a significant. What are you going to do with it? Well, I'll just wear it, obviously. I know it's traditional to put them in a frame, but they all look pretty cliche in a frame.

I think I'm just going to fold it up nicely amongst my other t-shirts and just put it on from time to time, wear it around the house, go out for a kick of the footy. Yeah, absolutely. You're not going to lie on your deathbed and think, oh, that was nice in a frame for 30 years. You'd rather be lying on your deathbed wearing it. Wearing it. I want to be buried in it. That's right. Fantastic. Well, thank you very much. This is a very lovely possession.

You are welcome. It's the least I could do after you gave me a piece of the moon last episode. Yes. Can I open my door and see what you've got me? You can. You can. All right. Here I go. Let me just rattle back. And there we go. I've opened the door. Oh. Oh. What's this? Well, I've been, I was deciding between which to get you, the hat or the whip. and I've gone with the hat.

This is Indiana Jones's hat from Raiders of the Lostark. Right. Nice. Yes, that's the one I'd want. Not the Crystal skull one. Not the dial of destiny. I couldn't. That's right.

I nearly got the dial of destiny. That's on eBay. But no, this one I had to go to a proper auction house for. Right. They can't give away the dial of destiny. People keeps giving it back. So this is a fedora, right? Yeah, yeah, this is a...

No, no, no. It's like an Australian style. Have a look. Have a look under the top and see what branded is. Well, quickly Google it. Oh, okay, yeah. I don't know what kind of hat it is. I notoriously have a very big head and struggle with many hats.

So I hope Harrison Ford has a big head, so it will fit on mine. I do believe Harrison Ford has a very big head. It's actually, it's a Herbert Johnson, right? Okay. Which is a, it's kind of like a fedora, but it's got a, it's more of an Australian style. I've always been very proud of this fact because it's more high than wide. You know, like an American cowboy, very wide hat. Yeah.

Whereas, you know, the sort of more English Australian kind of one is sort of higher in the middle, not quite as wide. So there's a bit of an Australian feel. I read once that the prop master, who. who bought this together with Harrison Ford, when they had it, spent some time like punching it and sitting on it and beating it up before they used it in the film, so it would look more worn. Well, was there just one used in the film? Is this the only one?

Or do they have like several? Yes, for the purpose of this exercise, I'm going to say there's only one for Raiders of the Lost Dark, and this is it. Nice. Well, this is quite something. Raiders the Lost Dark. I've talked before on the podcast about how special this film was in my childhood.

Still in my top 10 films of all time, one of the all-time great films. And I think he chose correctly. I think if I had a choice between the hat and the whip, I would choose the hat. I would probably also like that little idol from the opening scene, the gold idol. Yeah. And the Ark of the Covenant itself. Yes. They would also be good props to have.

But it's probably got to be the hat, doesn't it? That's probably the one you want. Yeah. I think the hat is the iconic, because you can see it all the time. He looks like Indiana Jones with the hat on. Yeah. And you've got plenty of whips. So.

Thank you very much. I've enjoyed that present. I was just thinking about him. We've got a nephew living staying with us at the moment. And he's never seen it came out over dinner last night any of the Indiana Jones films. And I'm like, well, that's it. All bets are off. We're sitting down tonight.

And did you show it to it? him? No, no, no, no, like, as in tonight. I'm talking to this now the next day. So we're going to watch it tonight, Raiders of the Lost Ark. I think, I just want to watch them all through. You're going to watch Raiders of Lost Dark shortly after recording this. So I will see this hat again soon. All right. But knowing that it is now here in my office in a glass case. That's right. I'll wait till the movie starts and he gets into the flow of it and then he gets the hat and then I'll say, I've, my friend got that hat. Are you serious? I go, yeah, I bought it for Advent. Lovely. Lovely. We really, we really do push the boat out for Advent, Tim and I. It's our favourite time of year.

We buy all sorts of stuff. Moon rocks, hats, penises, you name it. Well done. Wear it round the house. You can leave your hat on. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. over and see my wife straight away.

Of all the hats. Fourth of December. Four days into December already. Can you believe it? I can't believe it. Time goes fast, doesn't it? It does. Where's the year gone?

It's the time of year where you have to say where? I've been saying that since April. Yeah, I've been saying this is about January 2nd. December doesn't slow down though, doesn't. Even though Christmas Day goes for a long time. time, the rest of December speeds up to compensate for Christmas Day, I think. And just a little trade secret. Tim and I have recorded a few of these in advance, and I've like programmed them to

go up on the day. So we could be dead. And people are still getting these episodes. They're just being churned out all the way through Advent, all the way up. From beyond the grave, it's possible. Wow. Yeah. That'd be quite a legacy, wouldn't it?

Well, for a few weeks. Yeah. Anyway, on that happy note, Tim, do you want to give me a present first? I think it's my turn to get the first present today. Okay, okay, okay. Listen, I'm going to go, I've got a bit of a film theme to my gifts for the next few. So I've moved into that kind of world. Tell me when to open the door.

Go for it. Open the door. It's open. Oh, oh. I know. I know. This is a bit familiar to you. Luke Skywalker's return.

the Jedi, lightsaber. Oh, look, I'd be lying if I didn't say I saw this coming. Yeah. Because obviously I have

a replica of my own that I've had for many years. And I mean, now that I've got the real one from the film. You'll have to be more careful, that's for sure. The other one,

these are real buttons on it, man. Don't want to turn this on around Edward, you know. Look, I don't know. I mean, this is a magnificent gift and I will treasure it. I don't know how I feel about it, Because I already have a replica that has this sort of story behind it, you know, this mythical

story from my childhood. And now I've got the real thing. It's like, I don't know what to think or what to say or what to do. This was, this was my way of actually, I've always envied your replica. And I thought, the only way you'll ever go to part with that replica is with the real thing. So I was managed to pull some connections, pay a significant amount of money. And here you go. You deserve it.

I appreciate it, but you're not having my replica. What? I've had that replica since I got my first job. It was the first thing I bought with my first paycheck. It was my first decadent purchase. And I've traveled all around the world with it. It's always sat on a shelf, no matter where I've been and where I lived, it's like, it's part of me. My replica, my handmade replica that isn't even licensed merchandise.

It was just made by some backyard lathe expert. My backyard replica is more valuable to me. than even this one from the film itself. Get out. Get out. But that one doesn't even work. Look at this one. Press that button. I remember when Luke Skywalker used that lightsaber,

because this is his green one, obviously. He lost his blue one when he had his hand chopped off. Turn it on, and you'll see. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Oh, yes, very nice. But anyway, yes, so this is the green one. It was a new model.

and I obviously saw Star Wars and the Empire Strikes back and I thought lightsabers were pretty cool but it was when Luke Skywalker went haywire with that green lightsaber on the sail barge Yeah That's when I fell in love with lightsabers It's somehow thicker, it's a green And it's a thicker light saber

It is thicker, yeah That was the moment I fell in love with lightsabers And that's why I loved the return of the Jedi lightsaber More than the Star Wars lightsaber Yeah, yeah totally Yeah, they were the beta sort of, you know, have a go one. That was the upgrade. It was fantastic.

Do you reckon lightsabers for the Jedi's were like iPhones, like that every year there was like a big convention and they'd pull out a new one? Some guy at a skivvy had come out and go, well, here we go. This one's got a thicker blade. The headphone jacks at the other end.

It's all about the camera at the end of the day. The camera's taking photos. When they went Bluetooth, that was amazing. And it got to a point where, like, you know, they were still cold lightsabers, but really everyone was just using them as cameras. That's right. They suck now, though. They don't lay flat because of the big lens.

It's really annoying. No, terrible. You have to hang them off your belt. And I wonder if you could buy covers for them as well, like, you know, and you could get official covers from the lightsaber manufacturers or, like, cheapos from Amazon. Well, you know, maybe they have, like, little knives that are just sort of, like, to be hidden in your boots.

and they're sort of like, they're the lightsaber air, and they're just a little bit small. Light daggers. The light dabber air. Dagger air, that's nice. Anyway, having this film prop is another magnificent addition to my collection, so thank you very much. Well, you could just sell it. I mean, you could re-gift this one. I'm sure there are plenty of people that would happily take it.

If you're not going to re-gift your old one to me and replace it with this one, then you could re-gift this one and keep your original, your question. unquote, original. I could have it behind your door right now. That would be a nice bit of regifting. Actually, there we go. That's one taken for you. That's true, yeah?

No, I'm going to keep it. This is a lovely present. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. It's a little bit obvious, but it's too obvious to get passed, I have to say. You had to do it. But it's come pretty early, you know. It's not, you know, Christmas Eve gift.

Yeah, you're raising the bar for what you're going to give on the 24th. But, yeah. Yeah, just the better versions of all sorts of other stuff that you all. already own as well. Would you like to open your door? I would. I would. Here we go. Go on. So Tim, obviously you are a man of music. You love music and popular music.

So obviously I'm going to have to throw a few music gifts in here. And I can tell from the look in your eyes that you recognize this already. Oh, is that what I think it is? It might be. It might be. Just say it to confirm. confirm that it is what I think it is. So this is obviously an object made of glass.

It's a glass pyramid object. It's a trophy that was awarded to a very famous star, that star being Prince. Can you tell what this is? Is this the American Music Award from 1990? Are you serious? The Special Achievement Award,

awarded to Prince at the end of the ceremony. I know, I know this award ceremony means a lot to you. It was a real impression experience for you. You watched it a thousand times on VHS and the end of the night, the big award at the end that was given. Obviously, numerous awards were given to the likes of new kids on the block and Millie Vanilli and other musical greats.

But at the end of the ceremony, the award that was given to Prince, the Special Achievement Award was this one. And I thought if I was going to give you one memento of that night, one thing from that night that was most special. It was either going to be the Millie Vanilli Award or this one, and I decided to give you the Prince one. So this is Prince's Special Achievement Award that he got on the night. Wow, that's amazing.

I mean, I would have loved the Millie Vanilly one, but Prince is just a little bit more talented than them even. And this is very special. That's cool, having watched it all those years ago, now to have it here in my hands. Yeah. Incredible. Thank you, man.

That's okay. I went back and watched Prince's receiving. of the award. How well do you remember that? I remember he took, like, the applause was so long that he just, you know, had to stand there and stand there and stand there. But he also wasn't, it was one of those, you know, at the time you think, oh, the applause are so strong, he can't even get a word in. But there's also kind of like, well, let me stand here looking shy and bashful, which makes you clap even longer and longer. So I don't know if he was, you know what I mean? Like jeering them on as much as he was, uh. Your memory is good. But then he just started doing the speech while they were still applauding.

and it was really short and feeble and unimpressive. Yeah. It was almost like he didn't want to be there. He did this tiny little feeble speech. You could hardly hear it and then he walked off the stage. Very uncharismatic. I mean, I know he's a guy who when he performs is quite charismatic and was quite shy otherwise, but this was a pretty disappointing speech.

Well, similar to Michael Jackson, he's not known for his oratory. Like, they're known for their sort of. groovy moves and, you know, their high singing voices and so forth. But they're not, you know, there's no sort of, I have a dream. No, this definitely wasn't I have a dream. But it was still the defining award of a ceremony that was defining in your musical journey. And now it's yours. How did you get it? Well, I contacted Prince's estate and said, you know, have you still got all the trophies and prizes? And they said, yeah, we still got some of them. And then they said they still had that one.

Yeah. And then I said, look, my mate Tim watched that on tape and really liked it. And we're doing this Advent calendar thing on our podcast. And they said, I made podcast. And I said, yeah. And they said, we think Prince would have loved what you're doing with Unmade Podcast. And it's the least we can do to send this to two other people who we consider to be on a similar creative plane to Prince himself. Wow.

Wow. That is, they really said that. That's incredible. They did, yeah. We should get them in charge of our estate one day because they're talking us up more than they're talking up prints. I can't remember the exact words or if it's even true, but it was something like that.

Right, okay. A bit of a Christmas story, that one. Thank you. Yeah. Lovely. There's two more gifts for the shelves. Both of those will fit on shelves as well. They're both quite ornamental shelf type items.

So nice stuff. Good stuff. Good day. A wonderful day. Don't you love Christmas? I do. It's just, I do when I'm getting a present like this every day through December. This is incredible.

Oh, indeed. I can't wait for tomorrow. Fifth of December, 20 days to go till the big one. 20 days, I know. Gosh, so many gifts. I mean, we're going to have to get a whole new gift room for all the stuff that we're getting. Amazing. Well, funnily enough, you won't be able to put yours in a room

because it's time for another edition of our ultimate fantasy advent calendar we really need to decide on the name for this but um Tim if you'd like to open the door am I going first okay here we go here we go oh here is a present for you now obviously I can't give you this I've just given you like a voucher because this is an experience that I have booked for you oh you're right I have arranged for you to have an entire week all to yourself and with any help as you may require recording in the Abbey Road studios Oh, wow. Just you can do whatever you want.

I know you've been working on a bit of music in your spare time. You might just want to jam with some friends, record some stuff. You might want to record a few sermons or podcasts or whatever you like. From Abbey Road. Lovely. Abbey Road. You've got prime use of all the facilities for a whole week. Wow.

No one else will be there unless you invite them. Well, I'm going to need some engineers and producers and stuff to actually get the stuff going. Otherwise, I'll just be walking around the empty place wondering where to turn stuff on. And someone who can play guitar. I'm going to need a few artists as well. In fact, I'm probably, strictly speaking, not required. What are you going to do? What are you going to do with your week in the Abbey Road Studios?

The first thing, I have a song. I've been perfecting a song, working on a song through most of the year, and I really love it. And I'm going to record that. And after that, I don't know. I think I need to write another song. So I'll probably try and write a song to say, I wrote this song in the studio at Abbey Road. might do a couple of sermons. It's not a bad idea,

although that doesn't really need Abbey Road, but just to be able to say, this is live from Abbey Road, Tim preaching. That's a funny thing to do. I might do that once. Nice. You invite me in to come and do an unmade?

Yes, of course. That's a great idea. We should do an unmade podcast live from Abbey Road. That's cool. Yeah. Should we get Carmen and Quentin over and do a bit of sofa shop? We could do us. Yes, we could do another massive.

I wonder if we could use the whole orchestra there in big studio. one. Whoa. Nice. That would be awesome. That would be good. Massive. All right.

Well, the date is yet to be determined, but I've got it all booked for you. A whole week, Abbey Road. Cost me a pretty penny, so I hope you enjoy it. Nice. Okay. Well, look, I really, really, really appreciate this. This is fantastic. This is really, really great.

Thank you, Brady. You're welcome. It's the least I could do for all the support you've given me through the year. Can I open my door and see what you've given me for present number five? Yes. Yes. Here I go. I'm going to give it a big, it's a big heavy door this. Here I go. Oh. Yes, I know. I know that you are, hang on, it's not what you think, because I know that you are a real Steven Spielberg fan and have all the way through your youth. And so today I thought I'd get you a, I was like, what precious memento can I get from Stephen Spielberg? And I contacted his people and had to talk to them. And I've managed to get you, look behind you outside, man, through the window.

And you'll see the truck pulling up with the real gates from Jurassic Park. Wow. That's fantastic. You can have them installed at your house. He's pulling up now. Aren't they awesome? Aren't they amazing? They're way bigger than I imagined.

They're way taller than my house. I'm going to install them. at the front of the house. I'll talk to my wife. I'm sure she'll be absolutely fine with it. It's very in keeping with her taste. Every time you come home, you'll be going, just to walk through the gate and come home.

How awesome is that? That is amazing. I don't know what to say. Thank you. Thank you. Aren't they big? That's massive, isn't it? I love that awesome.

They could easily end up being the biggest present given. They could. They could. But that truck outside, hang on, he's, well, yep, no, he's right. He's good. Careful, don't watch those power lines. Watch those power. I have to say, it perhaps wouldn't have been my first choice if you said I could have anything

from Jurassic Park. Oh, really? I can think of other things. I would have chosen. Oh, no, but these are just, these are certainly the biggest gift, apart from one of the dinosaurs. Yeah, I mean, they make a statement. They make a statement. And I think everyone on my quaint English street is going to really enjoy them.

They certainly stand out. Do you think you'll have any problems with the council at all? Oh, no, I don't think so. I don't think so. They'll just assume someone's built a theme park there or something, won't they? They'll look at it and they'll go, how did you do this? And I'll just lean and go, I'll show you. Okay, what would be if there was one thing else from Jurassic Park that I could have given you?

What would it be? I mean, if it was going to be this big, I probably would have gone for the T-Rex. The T-Rex? The T-Rex. I couldn't get the T-Rex. If it was going to be like, you know, more practical, maybe the cane with the piece of amber on top and the mosquito in it. Nice. Yes, yes.

That's a very braidy thing. I thought I'd go a bit bigger than that. Strictly speaking, the Spilberg estate didn't, that people didn't allow us to have these gates. So we had to do it the old-fashioned way, and that is pull up in the middle of the night, put a couple of ropes over the and then touch them to the back of the car and drive off, and they just sort of ripped off and dragged them down the road. Nice. Thank you very much.

Very thoughtful, as always, and I would expect nothing less. Let us go for now and prepare our presence for day six. You better get out there and tell that guy he's on your front porch, which make sure he doesn't install them back to front. I'm already getting a few angry looks from Dave down the road, so I better go and have a chat to him. December 6. Can I go first this time?

Yeah, so you're going to give me a gift, yeah? I'm going to give you a gift, that's right. A big super advent calendar. All right, here I go. I'm opening the door with a big six painted on the front of it, almost as big as those Jurassic Park gates you gave me yesterday. Yes. There we go.

Oh. Now, I know you think, I know it's a soccer ball, but turn it around. Okay. It's Wilson. This is the Wilson soccer ball from Castaway. Your favourite Wasn't he a volleyball? What?

Isn't it? I thought it's a soccer ball. Don't look. I always thought he was a volleyball. Oh, maybe it's a volleyball. They look so similar. They do look similar. Well, you're holding it.

Have a look. What's it like? Is it soccer ball size or volleyball? They're similar sized, aren't they? And now it's all brown and got a face painted on it and weird hair all over it. It doesn't even look like either, really. Yeah. Oh, so this was the prop from the film.

Like, I imagine they used a few in the film. What one's this the one you've given me? This is the main one. one of the backups. This is the important one. Right. Oh, wow. The important one.

That's nice. This is the one that his hand, the first one they used where his bloody hand went onto it. So, Tom Hanks, I thought this was just so resonant. Firstly, it's a soccer ball in my mind. It may not be a soccer ball, but I thought that resonates with Brady loves soccer. Then it's not just from your favorite Tom Hanks movie, but it's got Tom Hanks's blood on it. So this is kind of like a, you know, religious artifact for you to some degree. I mean, I doubt Tom Hanks' actual blood.

was used in the film. I hope it was. No, no, I'm sure. Let's go. Let's go with it. It was. Yes. All right. It was his actual, I'll have to get some DNA work done to confirm that. I'm saying here that. Don't do that. Don't do that. That's not necessary. Just trust me. Like, I trusted you that it's a soccer ball. Wilson is a volleyball. I have now confirmed. A volleyball. He's a volleyball. Well, if you don't like it, I mean, I can take it back. If you don't, you know, if you're really not interested. I could have got you one of the friggin' roller skates, couldn't I? Oh, no, the ice skates. That'd be right. I get your roller skates and they're skates. I get your soccer ball and it's a volleyball. Have you even seen Castaway? He's got some roller skates that he's rolling around with on the sand. That's right.

Very nice. Very nice. Wilson the volleyball. I'm happy with that because it is my favorite Tom Hanks movie. Yes. And one of my all-time favorite movies. So it's not as in keeping with a few other things I would display in my office, but it will definitely be a talking point when people come around. So they say, is that what I think it is? And I'll be, yep. Is that the real one? Yep. That's the real one. That's the real one. That's the real one. And if you don't believe me, look at these DNA tests. Well, yes, that's right. I'll get you, maybe I'll get you that tomorrow. I'll get you some DNA tests.

That's something you can do. Well, speaking of blood and DNA, I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised with your gift today. So why don't you open your door number six and see what I've got you? Oh, gosh, okay. Blood and DNA. Okay. Here we go.

There we go. Mm. What do you think? Well, my goodness. That's not what I expected. No. Well, I didn't, I thought, I didn't think they would sell it to me, but they did. Tim, I know, you know, it's so hard when, you know, your friend is such a religious man.

What do you get, what religious artefact do you get for, you know, a man who has dedicated his life to Jesus? And I thought, well, no, I'm getting it. Tim, I present to you, the shroud of Turin. Wow. Gosh, that's the real shroud. That's it. That's the actual shroud. I thought you just got me like an unmade podcast towel with my face on it from our merchandise store.

You probably don't reckon. I did wash it before giving it to you because I thought it looked a bit dirty. So it's a bit whiter than you. Bit of nappy sand, fixed it right. A bit of bleach. That is the shroud of Turin, just for you. The shroud. Now, this wasn't verified.

Once again, I think I might do a DNA test just to check that it really was the proper shroud that was on Tom Hanks. Sorry, I'm Jesus Christ So now that you have the Shroud of Shuin This legendary cloth that, you know, Legend has it was the burial cloth of Jesus imprinted with the kind of his body print Perhaps in some kind of supernatural way When he was resurrected.

Wasn't it kind of just that he was like bloody And then this is the blood marks on it? Isn't that what that caused the show? There is that argument. And then there's also this argument that it was imprinted by some kind of burst of energy caused by the resurrection. So it's got a long and storied history. There's been numerous tests and things done to verify and unverify.

It's authenticity. Whatever you believe about anything, I think this is a nice artifact for Tim to have. Well, it's interesting. I thought it was pretty categorically, you know, dated. Carbon dated. Yeah, yeah. Different. So basically you've just bought me a cloth, really.

A hoax. A hoax, that's right. But a famous hoax. A famous hoax. Yes, that's right. I guess that's why you could buy it. They were obviously auctioning it off now that they know that it's not genuine. No good.

No good. Yeah. It's just, so what are you going to do with it? Well, what do I do with it? I mean, it's always good to have another towel, isn't it? I mean, you know. In Turin itself, where it's kept, they don't get it out very often. When I went there, it was locked up in its box.

It's quite rare that they actually unfair it for people to look at. And when they do, obviously, you know, cues around the block. I was thinking, if you hung it up the back of Malvin Uniting, you know, you could bring in some new people. You were always about getting more bums on seats, more eyeballs, more ears, spreading the word. It could just bring in some new parishioners. With the shroud of Turin, yeah.

It would perhaps be renamed the shroud of Melvin. The shroud of Melbourne. Yeah, you'd have to rename it. I like that. What about the shroud of Tim? I think that's probably the... We already have the Shrout of Tim. You can buy that in our merch store.

That's true. Yeah. Look, this is, yeah, an interesting artifact. An interesting artifact. Yes. Yeah. Nice. Thank you.

Thank you. Yeah. Yes. It is interesting. As a religious person, what do you think about the strategy? And I guess you just think nothing of it. You just think it's a side show, you know? Oh, absolutely.

Yeah. I think nothing of it. Yeah. I'd be, let's one of those. I'd be absolutely, a bit like the Hitler Diaries. Like, very, very, very unlikely. Fascinating if true. But then that's even, that would be more.

interesting because then you could find out stuff, whereas this you'd go, okay, it's true. What does that mean? Jesus died and was wrapped in a cloth. Well, we know that already, you know. So, there you go. Okay. Well, I don't want to say you sound ungrateful for this gift, but... I think I feel a bit like this gift, like you did the other day when I gave you the return

of the Jedi, lightsaber. I feel a bit like, well, I've, you know, I'm... Yeah, okay. Thanks. Sure. Okay. Okay. I've already got a shroud, the shroud of Tim.

I'm happy with that shroud, but this is an older one. Thank you. Thank you. You win some, you lose some. 7th of December, another day, another magnificent gift from the Tim and Brady Fantasy Ultimate Advent Calendar. We're each going to get a present from the other. Money, logistics, nothing blocks us from getting what we want for each other.

Tim, do you want to open your door and see what I've got you? Yeah, sure, sure. I think you knew this was coming, but today, the day. Go ahead. All right, here we go. Ah, yes. Yep. Yep. There we go.

Small black credit card sized, face of the kernel on it. Wow. They do exist. I got you a KFC black card. That's incredible. Yep. By golly.

It's yours, man. You've got the keys to the kingdom. Of all the gifts you give me, nothing will be used more regularly. than this object. There we go. I've heard there is a limit. I've been doing a little bit of research

and I asked a few questions when KFC gave it to me. Obviously this small metallic card. You are limited to $200 or £200 worth of KFC a day. So you can't just like, you know, buy KFC for everyone in Adelaide. Oh, right, okay. But in fact, $200, you probably can't even buy enough for your family. but there you go. $200 a day up to free KFC,

but it's also just the prestige and the cachet of being a holder. And no one, no one deserves it more than you. I think this is the kind of card that, you know, when you got your order of Australia, you get like the proper one, like the medal, but then you also get a little pin to wear on your lapel just to indicate you've got one. I feel like this is the same.

There should be a tiny little credit card, pin that I put on my lapel just so people, and it's like, oh, that guy's been awarded the KFC in a card. Yeah, that would be nice. Just a little, yes. A real status symbol, yeah. Why small, though? Why not a huge banner or flag that you carry around? Just even bit like a bucket. I have to wear a bucket on my head just to say, oh, that guy's a bucket head. He's been awarded a lifetime supply unlimited, mostly of KFC. This is great. This is, see, you know what I love? A gift that's used to. This is useful, man.

So thank you. I mean, a lot of our gifts are amazing, but this one's useful. Are you saying the shroud of Turin that I gave you yesterday isn't useful? I can tell you after eating $200 worth of KFC a day, I'm going to need the shroud of Turin to wipe my hands of all the oil. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm probably not doing any favours for you or any health kick you may be on, but I thought you had to have one after all this time.

I am on a bit of a health kick, which you know what that means? That means I've earned it. I've earned it. The rest of my life eating. Yeah. Limitless KFC. Thank you, man. That's fantastic.

You're welcome. That's really great. All right. Hang on, hang on. Before we go, and I'll just safely put that in my wallet. Yep. There we go.

All right. Okay. Can I open my door? Should I? Let's go. Open your door. Yes, yes. All right.

And you'll, it's just an envelope, but open the envelope. Okay. And for everyone else, I'll let them know, you have been awarded a two-hour tennis lesson with Roger Federer. There we go. Oh. A couple of hours hitting with Roger Federer. I mean, that is thoughtful, Tim, and I'm sure it would be very gratefully received. But he's retired.

I mean, what's the point of me teaching him anything now? It's the sheer honor. I coached Roger Federer. Very well done. Yes. Yes, that's great. There you go. Okay.

Well, two hours. I mean, typically it's an hour. Why did you choose Roger Federer? Normally, well, Regist, he's the greatest of all time. Really? Better than Djokovic? Better than Adal? Better than Alcoraz?

Sorry, he is, well, we don't know about the other two. Alcoraz may be better. We'll see. But he's the best that we know of in an enjoyable way. He just plays the most fantastic tennis. He's the one you'd most want to play like. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, style-wise.

He makes you want to play tennis. Djokovic is admirable, but in a Pete Sampras, a little bit boring kind of way. So Federer is, yeah, you just never know what you're going to get. You know, it's just amazing. And I see why you do that, too, because Federer and I both have a one-handed backhand, unlike, you know, Djokovic, you have the same thing. two-handed backhand. So I'm probably more in sync. More in sync with Federer. Evenly match. I mean, that's what's going to happen. Federer and I're going to turn up. He's going to look at me for a

few minutes and go, well, I've got nothing to teach you. Should we just have a set? A couple of sets. Let's have a go. That's why I thought I'd give you a couple of hours. You know what I mean? A few, one hour maybe where you can show him a few things and then the second hour when he's warmed up, you can really go toe to toe, which will be one of the great matches, I think. Where have you booked the lesson for? Center court down there in Wimbledon. Okay, nice. Nice.

Yeah, I know that's a bit of a drive for you, but I hope you're okay with that. No, that's good. That's good. It's only a couple hours, so you've got to go out there and make the most of it. Don't be late. No, no. He doesn't like that, no. I found.

Yeah. I could take a couple of sets off him, I reckon. If you played against, like, you know, Roger Federer or someone like that, like a three set match, best of three sets. Do you think you would take any points off him at all? Well, he's got to do an unforced error at some stage, doesn't he? But for that to happen, I've got to get it back to him. So could I return the serve?

That's one thing. You'd like to think you could return the server, and then maybe he hits the net or mishits. You couldn't return even his second serve. Your best hope is that he tries something showy of one of your serves and hits it long or why for some reason. Yeah, no, that's right. Yeah. But then, but then I get to have a serve.

So, you know, there you go. No, that's what I said. It'd be yourself. It'd be, yeah. Yeah, oh, yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, so, all right, well, I appreciate that, you know, tennis lesson with Roger Federer. It's going to be fun.

I'm up for that. If you're up for at the end of it, I think he might give you a racket, you know, just and sign something for you and take a couple of photos like he does with a lot of the kids. That'd be nice. I'd appreciate that. I'd probably, if I play tennis with Roger Federer for two hours, I'm probably going to want to get a photo of the experience at the very least.

Sure. Sure. Okay. We can do that. Yeah. No, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, uh, that's kind of included. Yeah. Now I've got to think about what to wear.

What am I going to wear? Yeah, I mean, you could put some tennis gear on, I guess. That wouldn't be out of place. Yeah. I'm not going to wear my usual black track suit pants and a t-shirt. No. Put a cap on too so you don't come in with your sort of unmade podcast hair. That would be advisable.

All right. Excellent. Thank you very much. It's a lovely gift. December 8. December 8. We're making our way. We're getting through them. Let's open door number 8. Who's first? I think it's me first, isn't it, to get my present?

Okay. I open it up. All right, here we go. What have you put in here, Tim? Now, pull out those papers and have a look at them. I know you won't make a lot of, and then underneath there's like a CD, but if you look, the papers, this is sheet music, right? Yeah. If you have a look at the title on the front page of the sheet music, it says, I'll tell our listeners, The Brady Theme by John Williams. This is a piece of music composed for Brady called The Brady Theme by the wonderful composer,

film composer, John Williams. And that's the sheet music of it that he's got there signed to you. And then there's a recording of it with the London Symphony Orchestra. performing the Brady theme. That is lovely. That is so thoughtful. How would you describe it? How would you describe the music to someone who hasn't heard it?

What's the kind of the vibe of it? It's sort of bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Oh, so it's like, quite kind of adventurous. And it's not like, it's not like. He has used it before in Indiana Jones. It's not like, it's not like sort of mournful on that like Luke Skywalker watching. the sunset. It's more adventurous. No, it's a marvelous. What I gave, the brief

that I gave him is I say, you know Brady, and he goes, yep, I know Brady. And I said, okay, I want it to be, imagine if it was the Brady movie, and this was the opening fanfare. Here we go. Here's Brady, right? And this is what he came up with, and it's just, oh, glorious, gloriously Brady. Wow. You've got to put it on and listen, really. All right, let's put it on.

All right, well, then let's have a listen for the first time to the Brady theme by John Williams, no less. There you go. I get it. Yeah, that's your song. That's your theme. I get it. That should play every time I walk in a room now.

If nothing else, it makes me feel very prepared for your funeral. It's like I know what we're playing. Okay. Do you want to open your door? See what I got you? Be careful. Make sure there's no one around as you open the door here because this is a very valuable item,

and we don't want it being stolen. Oh. It's been stolen. and before. Okay. Okay, now I'm on my own here. All right, here we go. Tim, I present to you,

acquired from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., and now yours, the Hope Diamond. The Hope Diamond. Wow, that is... You know, it's even bigger than I thought. Yeah? I didn't know how big it was.

I've heard of the Hope Diamond, of course. It's legendary. But all the stories, it's like, oh, you get thrown in a pocket, you know. And I guess the only diamond I have in my mind is that kind of diamond in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. You know, that's like the diamond in my mind because it's probably the first diamond I saw. And, you know, in the restaurant at the start that gets mixed in with the glass and stuff.

Well, the hope diamond is around that size. Yeah, well, no, this is, but it's a bit, it's bigger than I thought. Okay. Well, lovely. And it's got that slight bluish tinge to it, you know, famously it's a blue diamond, not a Oh, that'll buff out, man. Don't worry about that. Yeah, this is lovely.

I'll give that a good clean. Okay, good. So obviously passed through many, many hands. It's been owned by royals. It was French royalty, British royalty, eventually acquired by a banker named Hope, where it got its name, and then through even more hands and famous jewels,

sold from person to person, famously associated with bad luck and curses. Numerous people who've owned it have had a little bit of misfortune. Not all, though. I'm sure you won't. And I'm sure you won't. But I just thought it's so,

iconic and famous and it's always used as, you know, it's always used as the yardstick for something that's really valuable, you know, oh, the Hope Diamond. So I just thought you'd like to have it. I thought you'd, I thought you'd like, I thought you'd use it in a few visual gags from time to time. Maybe in sermons, you know, talking about, you know, things as valuable as the Hope Diamond and everyone in the congregation would just like nod. And then you go, and by the way, and you could just pull it out of your pocket.

That's right. I thought that'd be really impactful in your sermons. If I'm preaching on hope, for instance, speaking of hope. Speaking of hope? Hope Diamond. Here we is. Here we go. Here we go again.

Here we go again. Yes, we get it, Tim. You own the Hope Diamond. You don't have to incorporate it into every sermon. That's why I like the Hope Diamond. It's like a prop for sermons. Yeah. I like that like small-minded attitude that like you get something worth like

priceless millions and millions and millions and it's just like how can I incorporate this into my everyday normal life? This is how can that can be used at work? This is, I know. This could be a great prop if I'm preaching on hope. Because it has to be used. It can't just sit in a case. That would be wasteful.

No, no, indeed. That's right. It's not just beautiful. Like, its value comes from how useful it is. Exactly. All right. There we go. Nice. Thank you, Dirk Diamond.

Enjoy it. Enjoy it. Enjoy it. Should I get it cut? Like, isn't it one of those diamonds where if you cut it properly, you get lots of diamonds that are worth lots? Well, the Hope Diamond, as you can see, because it's in your hand there, is already cut in a very brilliant way.

And it has been cut and recut numerous times over the years. And in fact, the last person who owned it, who was a... Who bought it off? No, no, I got it from the Smithsonian. And in fact, Tim, the last person who owned it was a jeweller Harry Winston. He's a New York jewel, a very famous. You've probably heard of Winston.

Jewelries. You've probably heard of Winston Jewelry in New York and that. Before he donated it to the Smithsonian in 1958, I think he may have given a slight cut, cut one of the facets on the bottom to make it look even more brilliant. And he then toured it around America to make it more famous and then donated it to the Smithsonian. Wow. So, yeah, it's value now. I don't know. It was insured for 250 million in 2011. So goodness knows. now what it would be worth. Golly gosh. But it's yours. It's all mine. Wow. Make your way along to Melbourne Uniting people. Tim May just pop it out in a sermon.

I might wrap it in the shroud of Turin. That would be quite the show. I think we won't lose it. There you go. You're definitely going to need more security there at Melvin. Oh, well, can I just say that is extraordinarily generous of you? Like, really? No, you're worth it.

Wow. Thank you. You're worth the Hope Diamond to me. That's great. Thank you, man. Thank you for the Hope Diamond. And Merry Christmas. December 9, December 9, it's time for our Ultimate Fantasy Advent calendar.

Tim, go and open the door. Open door number 9. I got something in there for you. All right. I'm excited today for some reason. This doesn't get old, does it? It really just builds up. I mean, the Hope Diamond yesterday.

I mean, gosh, who knows what I'm going to get today? This is the cheapest, simplest one I've got you. I picked this up at a flea market. Oh, right, okay. I just saw it there for sale and I thought Tim's going to want that. But it is in mint condition, and it's got all the parts and everything as originally sold and the original box. Oh, okay. Let's open the door.

Tim. Castle Grey Skull. Wow. Fantastic. That's so cool. This is great from He-Man. Yeah. Oh, wow.

This was the holy grail of toys for many youngsters. And I just imagine you would have liked to have had Castle Grey Skull when you were. Oh, yeah, but I was not allowed to. No way in the world. No, no. Well, now you have it. A toy Castle Grey Skull from back in the day, back from our childhood. I found it in mint condition, hardly used.

I don't think it's even been taken out of the box. Fantastic. It's still wrapped in the plastic and everything. That is yours. Finally, somewhere to put my he-man figure and battle cat. Just been sitting on my desk up until now. And now can return to Castle Gracegold. This is cool.

This is really cool. I really love it. It does look really awesome, doesn't it? Where are you going to put it? I'm not sure I can take it to work to put it in my church office, where I do have some toys for kids to play with. But I'm not sure Castle Gracegoal suits the church office. So I think it's going to be at home here.

I think it's going to have a prominent place up on the shelf. That's where it's going to be. Okay. Play with it or just look at it? Every morning I'll stand in front of it and I'll say, By the power of Griskel, I have the power! And then switch the coffee machine on. Yeah, let's switch the coffee machine on and that's how I start my day.

What a great way to start every day. It's just like my little liturgy to get going. That's great. All right, enjoy that. Have you got something for me? I do, I do, I do. All right. Now, once again, this is going to be, this is now, open, sorry, open the door.

Okay, there we go, over there we go. Oh, it's a bit rusted. There we go. I got it. All right, now listen, take out the envelope again. There we go. Okay. Now, while you're opening that, this is a, you'll see a signed letter from Matt

groaning, who has invited you to be feature as a character as Brady Haren on an episode of The Simpsons. Oh, that's interesting. It's called Homer's objectivity. Yeah. You're going to feature as a walk-on cast member in an episode of the Simpsons. That's fantastic. Isn't that cool?

What am I going to do? What's my role going to be? Am I going to be a goodie or a baddie? Am I going to be funny or serious? No, you're going to be you. You're going to be you. Like, the Simpsons go on a trip to London and they go around and Homer wants to go to the Royal Society to, you know, see all sorts of cool stuff like from Isaac Newton and stuff.

And he comes in and you just happen to be there filming that day. Yeah. And so you get talking and you show him stuff. And he accidentally sits the Prince of Payer, you know, like Isaac Newton's book on fire and stuff. And you're there and you like put it out and then you head off around London and, you know, adventures. ensue. That sounds like so much fun. And what an honour to be part of such an iconic TV show. So you're on there, not just your voice playing someone else. You're like Brady-Haron character. There you go. Do I get to voice myself? Yes, of course. Of course.

Oh, right. Oh, wow. That's great. Do I get paid? Just to be clear, this is a gift. I had to pay a lot of money for this to happen. The Royal Society wasn't ordinarily part of their plotline plans. No. So I've managed to, yeah, incorporate. I don't imagine Homer Simpson being massively interested in the early works of Isaac Newton manuscripts, but they'll make it work. I'm sure it'll work.

Do I share any screen time with any other characters or just Homer? No, the whole family's there, but Homer's the one who just kind of, you know, bumbles and accidentally sets it on fire and all that kind of stuff. But Lisa's the one who's really interested. She's like, I want to look at the interesting stuff, whereas, you know, Homer wants to get off, you know, just of the fun stuff. But they go there. And then you go up to Stonehenge.

There's all this kind of English stuff that happens there. I can just imagine it. Oh, what fun it will be. Do you think The Simpsons has lost its mojo? I stopped watching it years ago, but I always hear people saying it's lost its mojo. But I can't even comment. It's been so long since I engaged. Yeah, no, I haven't watched it for years and years either.

but I feel like it's like a touchstone, you know what I mean? Like it's like, I know there's like American dad and family guy, and they're all a little bit more nasty and, well, funny and biting. You know, humour's just become so much more edgy. So I'm sure the Simpsons now looks a bit like the Flintstones, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. But I think it's witty and I think it's the touchstone. I think it's the sort of classic one.

So that's the one to be on, whereas the others will go. This one seems to be persisting. It'd be a real honour to have yourself like Simpsons animated too, isn't it? Like that's like a legitimately. I mean, you can obviously do fake ones, but to be properly animated on the Simpsons. Wow, that's a pretty big honour. Thank you. There you go, man.

Well, Merry Christmas. Yeah. Same to you. We'll be back same time tomorrow with more gifts in our Ultimate Fantasy Advent calendar. By the power of grey skull. December the 10th, double figures. It's getting real now, man. It's getting real.

The presents are piling up. Already, I know. And now, and we're really, we're still a few weeks out. My goodness me. I know. I don't know where we're going to put all these. I may have to re-gift a few of the things you've given me. I'm not sure.

I may. I don't want to, I don't want you to catch me out, but we'll see. Oh, no. Is there something that's sitting by the front door? You're like, well, that's, you know, next chance I'm going to drop that off at Goodwill, like a secondhand store or something. I'm going to put it down. I'm going to put it down now.

I should have, we should save this, later, but let's put it down now. If you had to re-gift one of the things I've given you so far, which one would you re-gift? I can give you a quick reminder of what I've given you if you need it. I think it was, what did you give me first? Oh, no, it was the kit car. And, yeah, no, please remind me from there in order.

Napoleon's penis, the football jersey. Okay, you don't have to go any further. The penis is already on eBay. Like, I'm sorry, man, it's out there. I'm not holding on. You're not keeping Napoleon's penis? No. That's be such a talking point.

It'd be such a cool thing to pull out at parties. I'm not pulling out a penis at a party to make conversation. Even if it is Napoleon's. No. I can't agree with you there. I think that was a great gift. But it's up to you. I would re-gift.

If the things you have given me so far, I would re-gift probably... Oh, you have given me good presents, man. I know. Either the Jurassic Park Gates or the Wilson. bowl, I guess. Is it because it's too hard to store the volleyball? I don't know. Anyway, enough of this negativity.

Let's get back onto it with more gifts. You've got real room to improve, man. You've got plenty of weeks to go. Number 10, what is it today? Come on. Can I go first? It's an even number day, so I think you go first giving me the present. Oh, is there a patent?

Oh, okay. Yeah, I have been alternating. Okay. Oh, well done. Okay. All right. I'm going to open this, this hefty door once again to see what Tim's given me. Here I go. Oh, yeah. That's a good. Okay, I've got it. Oh. Oh. You're going to need, you know, you may need shades. It's very shiny. It's as shiny as a national guitar. This is not just any national guitar.

This is the national guitar from the cover. of Brothers in Arms the Dire Straits album. This is it. This is the one. I recognised it immediately that it was the first album. I think it was the first album I bought as a cassette. I bought it as a cassette. And played it in my little clock radio cassette player thing

that I thought was the height of technology over and over again. Reading along the lyrics in that little fold-out cassette liner they used to have where the lyrics would be written so small. There's no way I could read it now with my. current eyesight. You needed a magnifying glass to read those, read those things. But of course, I recognise this shiny silver guitar from the cover art. It's burned into my retinas. Yeah, if you don't recognise it, you just need to throw it up into the air and then that's how you'll get that image of it. It's up against the back, of course, of course the background is the sky and clouds and

there's this shiny silver guitar. Was there any significance to the guitar? Was it one that, you know, the band used in any way? Or was it just chosen because it was a, shiny silver guitar. Do you know any of the story? No, I really don't. It's always been in the back of my mind. The only thing I can tell you is it doesn't appear on the album. Like, there's nothing less like the dire strait sound than a national guitar. It's kind of the guitar that you would, like an old blues person would play with a sly, you know, bown or now, you know, sort of from the Mississippi Badlands. Yeah, yeah, that's what it's kind of for. Mississippi Delta is shining like a national guitar.

Well, that's right. Yeah, yeah. So that's a Paul Simon lyric. I know, I did get your reference. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's a really nice gift. It's an album. It's probably still, I probably still rate it as perhaps my favourite album.

Because I do love all the songs on it and for sentimental reasons. And to have the guitar that is used in the cover artwork, which presumably was a real guitar. These days, it would be done with AI or digital imagery and stuff. But I'm assuming that was some kind of real photo in some way. That's a lovely thing. How did you get it?

How did you obtain it? I, well, it was, I had to bid for it, as you can imagine. I had to sell Napoleon's penis to get the money to bid for it. Okay. It's quite a lot. Mark Knopfler, the lead singer and guitarist of Dire Straits, is it that stage of his life that a few of those folks are coming to where they're just sort of dispensing with all the clutter in their life.

They're selling guitars. They're selling them for charity, and I managed to purchase this one at an auction for charity. Being Britain's best ever selling album, it was in high demand. I had to bid quite strongly for it. But I won. And I've decided to give it to you. It holds some other record that album as well, like the first one to sell like a million CDs or something.

Or it's got some record to do with the first to sell a certain number of a certain format. It may have been one of the first released. Yes, it's around that time in Australia. That's Whispering Jack, the album by John Farnham, the first album sort of major release on a CD. And I think it's probably being 1985, 86. I think that's probably the one for the UK. It may have been the first big million seller or something as a CD format. You wouldn't sell a million CDs in the UK, surely.

Surely not one in every 60 people bought it as a CD. It's really up there. Some people do. Some people do. It's, you forget, it's very prestigious to sell a lot of records. records in the UK, whereas it's very lucrative to sell them in the US, where there's a heck of a lot more people, but the artists aren't as good. So, but yeah, no, it would have sold a million. It would have gone up there. But it's up there with like Oasis as what's the story,

morning glory to sell, you know, ridiculous amount. George Michael's Faith, I think, has sold a crazy amount in the UK. Look, there is a selfish reason inside this as well. I'm, I just want to be I'm whenever I visit your place, I'm always frustrated that I go like a week or two without a guitar. So I just like the idea that there's a guitar laying around your lounge room. And the fact that it's the national guitar from Dyer Straits' cover is just like, oh yeah, cool, but it's just nice to have something in my hands. I just thought if Mark Knopfler was doing like a big sell-off, you might have tried to get one of his old headbands or something like that. It's just for tennis.

Yeah. All right. Oh, dear. That's not a good look. Would you like a gift from me? Oh, would I? All right. Go on then.

Go on. Let me get to the door. Hang on, hang on. Oh. So again, this is, unfortunately, this is a voucher because we have to have the thing made. But I've already paid for it. It's all paid for and good to go. Good.

But they're just going to await your final design before they actually go ahead and manufacture it. It will be manufactured here in Bristol because Bristol is one of the leading places in the world to have these things manufactured. And I've spoken to the. people at Cameron Balloons I've decided to go with. I have got you a hot air balloon. What's shaped like what? Well, that's up to you. And the design that can go on, I thought you might go for a classic, just a classic design, but you could freestyle it if you want. But I've got you a hot air balloon that you can then, you might want to get a hot air balloon license. That's up to you. Or have professional pilots fly it for you. But I always think these are wonderful things

to have, not just for the joy of a hot air balloon flight, but the promotional value. But the promotional value. Everyone looks at them. And if you have something on it, I think they're great billboards. So I was thinking maybe Malvin Uniting or maybe something, you know, maybe just a bit of a bit of, a bit of Jesus or something, you know, something that you want the world to know about. I know it's one of your big missions in life. A big cross. I'm not sure that would fly in the same way. A cross, well. Not shaped like a cross, but it could be shaped like a big Jesus head, that sort of buddy Jesus, you know, with his thumbs up. Or you could just have the balloon. shape but with a cross on it, but you might want something a bit more modern, a bit more funky,

you know, a bit of John 316 maybe, or maybe you just want to have like a big Richmond Tiger or, you know, just your face. Yeah, I think that's a bit pre-t. Look, I love this gift. I think this is a wonderful gift. In fact, there's something in me that wants to say, oh, I wonder how much they are to buy. But I, no, I don't think I'd put anything too preachy on it. I think I would make it beautiful, stunningly beautiful somehow. Just nice looking, yeah, just a cool. Maybe you could just go British Racing Green.

Just good, yeah, I could, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Anywhere you particularly like to fly up? I would fly it. So you're getting it from Bristol, but presumably you're, I know I'm open the door and it's there, but you know, I can take this with me back to Australia. I could have it shipped. Yeah, you pack them all up and they're quite heavy once they're all folded up.

You need like four people or so, I'd say, to carry it. like but there are about the size of smaller than a dining table when they're all packed down into a bag so we'll have it we can have it shipped here you can take it all around the world i'll also i've also paid for a basket so it's going to come with its own basket oh yeah burners and all all the other stuff you need it's a i've gone for six person basket i've got you oh yeah nice yeah a room to lay out that means i've got room to lay down that's nice do you know what though it may be because i live in bristol uh which is like a hot air balloon one of the hot air balloon in capitals of the world. It may also be because I've had a bit to do with the hot air balloon

world because of some filming I used to do with a hot air balloonist. So I have spent time traveling with her to different hot air balloon places. But I feel like when I was growing up in Adelaide, I pretty much never saw hot air balloons. I have very little memory of hot air balloons. I don't think there are, I don't remember ever seeing them ever really flying over Adelaide. Do you ever see them in Adelaide? No, not Adelaide. You do in Melbourne. You often wake up and see them across Melbourne. That's a real feature. Okay. And I don't know why. I would have thought the rain and the wind and the busyness and the power stations and, you know, the air clutter was much busier in Melbourne. I would have

thought Adelaide with its big open, we're on the border of a desert, would have been perfect. Do you know what it is? This is me just speculating. It actually may be because Adelaide is such a narrow plateau with mountains on one side and the ocean on the other side. You've probably got very little room to manoeuvre before you either hit the mountains, which I imagine could be bad, or go out over the sea, which is even worse. Yeah. So maybe Adelaide is just not well suited geographically to hot air ballooning. Maybe you are going to have to take it out to the Flanders Rangers or inland a bit.

But, you know, take it where you want. It's yours to do with this, you please. Maybe I could take it. Firstly, maybe I could get Richard Branson to fly it down to Australia for me. I know that he's into that kind of thing. or um but i don't presume this is one of those ones where you get to sort of take it you know on a major millionaire balloonist kind of adventure no no it's not it's not a distance balloon they are they are a different kettle of fish but yeah i i you know the more i think about this

i really like this gift i really like it maybe because of all your gifts it feels like it's like oh yeah right oh yeah this is really cool like this is it feels tangible like it's possible I think that's probably the thing that I've actually arranged for it to be designed in the shape of Napoleon's penis. Actually, that would have been a good promotion for brothers in arms if they'd actually had a national guitar up in the sky like that. You look up and see the album cover. That would have worked really, really well if they'd thought of it. Nice. Well, there you go.

Enjoy your hot air balloon. Let me know once you finalized design, I'll let the company. know, and we'll have it made and shipped over to you. Great gift. I actually really delight in this gift. I like it a lot. Enjoy that because your next one is going to be an absolute dud. Okay. All right. Well, yes, I'll see you tomorrow on December the 11th. December 11. You know what that means? No. What does that mean?

Another gift from our Ultimate Fantasy Advent calendar. Oh, oh right. Sorry, I thought you meant there was something significant about December 11th. But no. Yeah. Getting an ultimate fantasy gift from Brady. I know. I know. I mean, but we're doing that every day leading up to Christmas.

So there's nothing distinct about it. Your legs 11. But here we are. So I'm excited. I can't help but be excited. Open the door. Open the door. All right.

Here we go. Oh, my word. Well, obviously, after receiving a hat from you, the original Indiana Jones hat, I have decided to return the favour and give you a hat. of some historic import. And do you recognize this hat? No, not really.

Okay, well, let me tell you what it is. This is the hat, the actual hat, the original hat, worn by Molly Meldrum, the Australian music expert, on national television in Australia, on the night that he introduced the premiere of Michael Jackson, music video, remember the time. Right. Yes.

On a current affair, that was, I think, or just after a current affair. I think it was a bit later. I think it was a bit later in the evening. This was a big moment in Australia because we'd already had the black or white music video from Michael Jackson, and that which had just been a sensation. And when it was announced, there was another big music video coming. I don't know. I just remember we were all just so hyped for it.

Oh, totally. Yeah. It was premiered on National Terrestrial Teasional. television and we all stayed up for it to watch it and molly meldrum who was kind of this music he was like the doyen music expert tv personality who would interview music celebrities and all that and he he was famous for wearing these hats these there was his trademark he'd wear these kind of yeah it's kind of like a cowboy hat isn't it yeah yeah a bit like a cowboy hat and he would always wear it and he came up on television and spoke for a few minutes about here's

the video this is going to blow he'd already seen it this is going to blow your mind everyone this is amazing. Right, the clip we're about to see was put together by a hot young Hollywood director, John Singleton. It's an all-black cast, and there are some stunning visual effects. And then it was shown. And I just remember this is a big night in our lives, and I want you to have something to remember the night by, and what better thing to remember it by than Molly Meldrum's hat. But here it is, the Australian premiere of Michael Jackson with Remember the Time. This is quite an artefact. That's quite, I mean, Molly Meldrum, Everyone in Australia knows Molly Meldrum.

And of a certain generation, I guess. He's been off the scene for about 10 years now because he sadly had an accident. Did he? Yeah, he fell off a ladder in his house and hit the concrete. And while he recovered, he was in a coma for a while. No way. He doesn't really make appearances, except every now and then I think he's in the audience at the Logies. But I have a feeling it's kept low profile, but he's not in a good way.

Yeah, that's sad. He was a real legend. The hat was his trademark. That's right. He was everywhere. he's, it was, um... And because you were so into music, and because you lived in Australia, I felt like in many ways you had no choice, but to have a lot of your music culture sort of funneled

through him for many years. It was my favourite segment on Hey Hey, Hey, at Saturday, when they did Molly's melodrama and he'd hold up a few albums and stuff. It was just like, oh, here we go. I mean, I love the whole show, but it was like, this is my bit, right, an album. So, yep, yep, no, Molly Meldrum. As I grew older, I have to say that whilst I, um, I, um, I, um, You know, it's kind of the dream job for me in a way to be the kind of Molly Melvin,

just basically, you know, talking about music and being involved in the music world without having to produce anything. Without needing any musical talent. No, not at all, not at all. Although he was a bit of a record producer early on. In fact, his claim to fame as a very young man. He was a bit of a studio runner for the Beatles at one stage in Abbey Road, which was sort of one of those happy accidents really early on.

and he did a little bit of production later on. But no, no, he's basically just, yeah, an interview guy and all the rest of it. But, yeah, so here's his hat. And I just remember, yeah, that's a defining moment is that night. I remember hearing the song and being quite perplexed by the song. It was a total anti-climax. I mean, the video was very expensive and well-produced. Yeah, with Eddie Murphy and didn't it?

It had Eddie Murphy and Iman in it. Yeah, yeah, sort of an Egyptian theme, yeah. And it was really shocking what Michael. Jackson looked like he'd like changed his look again and you were really shocked by by his appearance as you off as you as you as you as you as you as you, when you didn't see him for a while. But I feel like it was the beginning of the end for music videos though because like black or white like you know, I mean it's a big call beginning at the end. There's still a big deal. But it felt like they were like these one off events because there was no internet and you know,

they were these and and and it was the last time I remember like the premiere of a music video being this moment that stopped to the nation. And I, I, I, think because the song was, I think the song was a little bit disappointing. I think it was a bit like, yeah, it probably wasn't worth staying up to watch that. And I don't remember ever being excited like that again for a music video premiere. They know that sort of stopped being like that after that, at least to me. Yeah, yeah, that's true. It is generally regarded. That was 1991. And that year is regarded as kind of the end of the sort of massive, certainly big budget music video in that way. Because that's the same year you had Guns and Roses November

rain, which is seen as like the absolute peak, you know, of like ridiculous over the top, massive helicopters kind of thing. And Michael Jackson was more of the special computer effects kind of thing. And that was a novel. But that, of course, it wasn't very novel after a while. Now it's just everywhere. And you look at everything and go, well, that's just AI and all the rest of it. So I do remember you coming in the next morning and us talking about it at school. And I remember you saying, look, I heard the song for a second time on the radio coming into school. And you're going, I kind of get it now. I do kind of get it.

And I remember going, it's no good, it's no good. But after a while, it is sort of a charming little song. It's got a little groove to it. But I wouldn't have listened to it for 20 years. No. It's never on the greatest hits albums or anything, is it? So anyway, there you go. There's the hat.

Enjoy that. Well, there you have it. Michael Jackson, we can remember the time. And you can all relax because I have no intentions of going into any explanations about the clip. Although when he kisses her, no, look, I wouldn't dare. Now listen, don't miss the first edition of Hey Hey, it's that day on February the 15th

because that is when we're going to launch this sensational new contest, giving two lucky people the chance to fly to all aid. For dinner with Michael Jackson. You got something for me? Oh, right, yes, yes, sorry. I was just all having my own little Christmas moment here wearing the hat and looking at myself in the mirror with the hat.

And I'm like, oh gosh, I've forgotten. Yes, all right, all right. I'm going to open the doors. I want one too. Let's see. Okay, there we go. Open sesame. Pulling this bad boy. All right. Well. Hmm. Now, this is a very, this is again, this is just a little card, but look closely at the card and you'll see a logo that you're very familiar with. Hmm. The Lego logo. All right. Yes. Of course. Yes. Now, this is, this is something that is very rarely done, but I've managed to negotiate. And that is a,

This is a voucher. I guess it's a voucher, but it's a permission, an invitation from Lego, Lego, for a bespoke Brady-Harran designed Lego thing. Set. So, set. I can design my own set. You can decide what it is. Pick any object, any building, anything, any person, and they will create a Lego set for it.

They'll make five of them. Uh, if, if, if, if they like the idea, they might turn them commercial, but otherwise they will make five of them for you. One for you to make, one for you to keep. Because I know you're very big on buying Lego stuff and not making it, putting it away in your mouth. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What happens to the other three? One for Edward and then, and then just two more. Um, so. So this is a wonderful gift. Yeah. Wow. How big are you going to go? What are you going to have made? Your house you grew up in your house now. Edward's, Edward, like Edward, from top to bottom at this age. I need more time to think about this, right? I definitely need more time to think about this. My first instinct, though, my first thing I'm thinking of is, because they've already got the Apollo 11 moon landing set, you know, and most of the things I love, they've kind of already got sets off,

like, you know, Star Wars thing. Because I'm so much target audience for Lego, it seems like every time they bring it a new set, it's like something I would have suggested. Right, even now. The last two sets they've brought out are Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory and the Goonies. It's almost like they're going just through my childhood and ticking everything off the list. Yes, yes, yes.

But one thing I would like, I don't think they've ever done this. I would love a Mount Everest, a summiting Mount Everest set. So, I mean, you probably couldn't do the whole mountain. You certainly couldn't do the whole mountain to scale. But I would love like Mount Everest with some kind of, some kind of nod to geographic accuracy. and perhaps a little Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay mini-fig, you know, to be at the top that you put on there. So like a little, maybe a little Mount Everest diorama or model type thing. That's my first instinct.

I'd like some more time. There are other things I can think of. Obviously, the Black Stump building in Adelaide springs to mind. Oh, yes, yes. The original advertiser building in Adelaide? Yes, yes, all these things. you know, my childhood homes do occur to me as well, but I need more time. But this is like, but this is a wonderful gift and I appreciate it.

I look forward to executing it. And I'm hoping I'll come up with something so good that they're going to mass produce it. Well, they do, they do, you do have some time, but they need to know in 15 minutes. So that's the dead life. Okay. All right. So think quick. I'll go and have a thing.

But in the meantime, thank you very much. Thank you very much. What a wonderful gift. What a wonderful gift. Do you incline towards going for something vast or something very specific and not small, but you know what I mean? Everest feels like a bit of a waste. Like that's just a heap of brown, like a massive... Yeah, it's going to be a lot of white and grey.

Although Everest does have this famous thing also called the Yellow Band. There's one of the strata's of rock in the geology there. The rock is a bit yellow than the rest. And it's quite a distinctive landmark when climbing Mount Everest near the end. you go through the yellow band. So, you know, you could have a yellow band today, which would be a nice little nod to that. There's a couple of famous formations.

There's a formation called the Hillary Step, which is a difficult little bit that Hillary and Norgae had to negotiate before they got to the summer. So you could have, you know, the Hillary Step. So you could, you know, build in different ridges and different interesting, I mean, for an Everest enthusiast, there's a lot to work with.

You would see it just as a pile of white and grey bricks, but I'd get really excited by, oh, look, there's the South Summer and the South Cole. There's the three steps coming up the other ridge there from the Tibet side. To me, Mount Everest is like a, I have quite a... Like a puzzle. Well, I have quite an intimate knowledge of all its bumps and rocks and, you know, so to be able to build it and see it and touch it and stuff would be, I'd really enjoy that, so, yeah.

Does sound like it needs to be quite large, though, something that you might stand around a couple of metres high or something. Well, I wasn't thinking that big. I was thinking of something that could be sold in the shops. I mean, I'd love one that was like huge. That took up a room. That would be really fun. But I was thinking of something a bit smaller.

These days they make a few sets like, you know, the Millennium Falcon and some of the ships and the Titanic. And I was thinking that kind of size. Right. So about the size of a small table. I mean, I'm right on the wrong trap. I'm the wrong person to make this or to build it or buy it. Because already I'm thinking, oh, it's just going to be all brown pieces. And then of course you say white.

And I go, oh, yes, of course. I meant white pieces. It's brown underneath. but that's irrelevant. Yeah. Yeah. But you could also Easter egg it, you know, you could have things inside it because it's going to take up so much volume.

So obviously there would be some hollowness involved in the insides. But sometimes when they make their sets, they have little Easter eggs and compartments. You can open and things inside. So maybe you could have things inside it as well. I don't know what they would be, but maybe little nods to Everest and Mountain Climbing Law, you know, pull this little compartment out inside.

There's a little diorama set of, you know, Mallory and Irvine and Ryanhold Messner's part. Oh, Ryanhold Messner. I know that name. Yeah. It's famous mountaineer. He's done Everest.

First person to do Everest without oxygen. No, no. He's that there's a Benfold's five album called The Adventures of Reinhold Messner. Yeah. He's like the most famous mountain climber ever for like, he was like, you know, Alpinist classic mountain climber.

So you could have a little tribute to him and some other famous famous mountaineers. Would you put the famous rubbish that's all around the top of Everest? Would you add all that in there as well? Yeah, well, I know. And some people are going to be thinking, oh, you're going to have bodies on there and stuff, little mini figures strewn around the place.

That would be a bit macab, I think. I don't think, I don't think Lego would go down that path with me. So I probably wouldn't do that. I'm not going to have green boots on there or anything like that. Yeah, yeah, fair. Okay, fair enough. Yeah. But it's yours.

They would, if you ask them. They would for these five if you ask them, because it's all yours. Very nice. All right. Cool. Two more gifts in the bag. Let's do it.

Let's head off and we'll be back again tomorrow. See you tomorrow. Well, everyone, it is the 12th of December. And welcome again to our 12th Advent calendar. Did we decide on a name, Magic Unmade Podcast Advent Calendar? Ultimate Fantasy. Ultimate Fantasy. Ultimate Fantasy at Advent Calendar.

Advent Calendar. where we're giving each other Advent gifts. Well, we've stored them behind doors and we're opening them up. So after quite an onerous period of wrapping and storing behind these doors, we're finally able to open them up. And so 12 is an even number,

which means you get to go first. Do the honours. So I'm going to open a door to get my present from you. Hang on. We've got these huge steel doors here. They've got these massive locks, but I'm going to... Oh, that's...

Oh, that one was a bit rusty, but there we go. Oh, oh. I know it looks small, but look closer. You're going to like this. Is that what I think it is? It is, it is. And I know it's not the first of these you've got, but this is a very special Omega Speedmaster.

This Omega Speedmaster watch has been to the moon on the arm of Neil Armstrong. Well, that's, that is quite the coup. It is. I didn't know this still existed. And also, like, he didn't wear his Speedmaster on the moon, of course. He didn't wear it on the moon. What are you talking about? He wore it.

He left his on the spacecraft. Buzz Aldrin wore his on the moon. Oh, right. Well, it's been, look, it's been to the moon. Look, let's not, I mean, Yeah. Look, if you want to re-gift it, feel free to re-gift it, man. Let's lay a date.

But it's been to the moon. This is, this was a couple of million dollars. and I had to outbid the National Air and Space Museum for it. I'm quite surprised they dropped out of the bidding, actually, but I'm very pleased to have secured it for you. What do you think about that? I'm happy with this. I'm happy with this gift.

I feel like our bar's getting very high when you're like, no, you know. Tell me another watch you'd rather have. Tell me another watch you'd rather have. No, there isn't one. Neil Armstrong transferred this to the Air and Space Museum back in 1973. So to finally prize it from them and get it into my ownership is something I've long been working towards. So well done. I was amazed they were happy to take $2.2 million for it, which is, yeah, I was surprised, but you're worth every cent, man.

Well, you wait till you see how expensive your prison is today. Look, man, this is, I mean, I knew I was going to get a watch because I love my watches. And I do have like a speedmaster, which is kind of a replica in the same style as this one that went to the moon. But to have the actual one that went to the moon, that's a little bit special, I guess. You know, I can't complain about that. That is going straight to the pool room. Right. In Australian parlance.

The other option was Prince William C-master, but I thought you might prefer Neil Armstrong's. Speedmaster. Yes. Just a little bit more. Yeah, no, I think, I think that. I mean, Buzz Aldrin's speedmaster did go onto the surface of the moon. He walked around on the moon with it.

But that's gone missing. I believe it was sent through the post and went missing and was never seen again. What do you mean he wore it on the moon? Surely it's too fat to go around his spacesuit. No, they had these adjustable Velcro straps that could make it really, really fat. And it literally did go around those big fat cuffs of the spacesuit.

And if you look at pictures of Buzz Aldrin on the, the moon and other astronauts on the moon, you can see this big, you know, this black Velcro strap around the huge big fat cuff of the, of the space suit. And you can literally see the speedmaster there on the moon. I believe there was some kind of problem with some timing or clock device in the lunar module when they landed on the moon. And Neil Armstrong took his watch off and left it like on the dashboard, so to speak, as like the in-house clock on the spaceship. And then he wasn't wearing it when he went down onto the moon. But of course, the Speedmaster was the watch that was certified to work on the moon, you know, which Omega aren't shy about telling people.

So all of the astronauts were supposed to have speedmasters. I think one astronaut, at least one may have sneaked another brand up, but they don't like to talk about that. It's the speedmaster that they were all wearing. We won't mention the other brand because we are sponsored by Omega and I look forward to receiving what they have for me in the mail. Marvelous present, Tim. And you're right, I can't, I can't think of a watch I would rather receive. I can't. Probably second place would be one that was just auctioned in the last week or two.

It was on the Titanic, to do with the sinking of the Titanic. That went for about one or two million dollars recently. Oh, wow. It was like a pocket watch. That was a nice one. But no, it's got to be, and it's got to be Neil Armstrong's as well. Even though he didn't actually strap it on for the walk, you know, he's the man, isn't he? Yeah, yeah.

Great present. Nice. All right then. I'm just going to, I wasn't going to give you this one today, but I'm going to do a bit of reshuffling of my doors here because I want to outdo you for cost. To be fair, almost everything I'm getting used worth more than that. But let me go to this particular one. All right, here we go. Okay.

There we go. Oh. Look at that. I bet you recognize that. Isn't that massive? That is. That is. How did you get that in there?

Wow. I don't know. That's a fair question. Of course, this is a painting you will recognize. Mm-hmm. Have you ever heard of a painting called The Mona Lisa? I have heard of the Mona Lisa. That's right, yes.

Yeah. Well, I haven't got you the Mona Lisa. No, no. I've got you the painting that sits opposite the painting the Mona Lisa's looking at. Oh, which I believe is the wedding feast in Cana. Is that right? It is. It's the wedding of Cana by Paolo Veronese.

Veronisi? I don't know how, you know, I'm sure people know better than me. This is, of course, a representation of the famous wedding at Cana from the Bible where Jesus did a little bit of a sleight of hand and turn the water into wine. This is, well, it was until I obtained it, the largest painting in the Louvre collection. And of course, famously, and because it's so big, it has to go in a big room, and the biggest room in the gallery is the one where the Mona Lisa's kept, because they need room for all the tourists. So, the Mona Lisa is actually looking, gazing over the heads of all the tourists at the wedding of Cana on the wall opposite. It's a huge, huge painting. It's nearly seven by ten meters,

seven meters high, ten metres across. It has a pictorial area of over 67 square meters, the most expansive painting in the museums collection. You're probably wondering how I got this. So it wasn't like at the gift shop, it wasn't there. sort of, you know, as an op-one of the many overpriced options. No. I've read that it could be maybe 200 to 400 million dollars worth if it was sold. But I didn't have to worry about that because, as you know, security that lives pretty lax these days and I managed to just walk out with it. Nice, nice. Pulled up with a truck and a ladder, did you? Walked up. It wasn't easy with a painting that's 10 metres across, but I managed to slip under the coat. There's something about walking out

with something so large that people assume, well, I guess he's just, I guess he's authorised because no one would be too that audacious, would they? So there you go. Who's going to steal the wedding of Cana? Well, I did for Tim. Fantastic. I don't know. I don't know where to put this. Part of me was thinking, you know, the obvious place is the church, Malvin Uniting. You could put up on the back wall there. So like the Mona Lisa, you could be looking at the wedding of Cana when you are preaching to your congregation, along with the shroud of Turin, which I know you've now got up there as well.

Yes, yes. After I gave you that earlier this month. But I was also thinking it's about the same size as like the front of your apartment. So I was thinking maybe you could bolt it to the front of your apartment and all the people driving by in the street could look up at it as they went past. In the rain, you reckon? Put a bit of perspex over it so it doesn't get wet. Right, okay.

Adelaide's a pretty dry climate, so I think you'll be around. Oh, that's true, that's true. This is a great gift. I remember the first time that I saw this. I can remember the moment. I remember looking at the Mona Lisa and then turning around and going, oh my gosh, look at that.

And I got a photo with my wife in front of it, which I had, you know, like on my Facebook sort of headline photo for years and years. So I'm kind of really familiar with this. And I never thought I would own the original. And here it is. No, I bet you didn't, but now you do. Gosh, this is turning into really quiet.

an amazing unmade podcast fantasy advent calendar period i mean really it's pretty special i didn't expect anything like this 400 million dollar painting that i stole from the louvre just for you that is very generous you are very generous thank you man who would have thought when you opened door one and got kit from night rider it would escalate to this that's right that's right well that was pretty special too that was thank you brady thank you Thank you so much for this. I really, I'm so blessed. This is really quite a Christmas miracle. December 13, unlucky for some, but not us when we're opening doors on our ultimate fantasy Advent Christmas calendar. And Tim, if you would like to open a door, I've got you something a little bit special today.

All right, here we go. Oh, this one's come up. Easy. Yes. And, well, here we go. Look at this. That'd be a nice piece of furniture there Yeah I know you own a lot of clothes And a stylish man So I thought you might want a new wardrobe To keep your clothes in

Right But I bet you weren't expecting this one I know it's kind of old and ornate And maybe not in keeping with the style of your house But I think Surely you will be happy to store your clothes In the original wardrobe Owned by the family of C.S. Lewis

No way That was the inspiration for the warden Oh, wow. This is it. This is the real one. It is, yeah. I've obtained it. I made an offer to the Wade Centre Museum in the US, and they've shipped it over.

Of course, this wardrobe stood for many years in the Lewis family home in Belfast. It was later transported to the kilns, C.S. Lewis's home in Oxford. But now, after a long time in the US, it belongs to you, Tim, and you can have it there in your home in Adelaide. There are stories from one of C.S. Lewis's cousins that as children, the Lewis brothers and the cousins used to play in this wardrobe and they'd all climb in. Yeah. And they'd sit in there and C.S. Lewis would tell them tales of adventure and stories in this wardrobe. And of course, we all know what happened with Narnia and the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe and the likes. So this is the wardrobe. And you know I had to get you something, C.S. Lewis.

And there were a few options, but for a few reasons, which may become apparent later. this month. This is what I went for. Okay. Because it's practical too. You can use it. Oh, no, I'll definitely use it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how else am I going to get to another world? So it's, you know, I mean, this is the way into Narnia. So, you know, very practical. Yeah. Thank you. Would you like to go to Narnia? Would you feel safe doing it? Or would you be too scared to go through and go into Narnia? Oh, no, it'd go to Narnia. Yeah, no, that's fine. Yeah, no, lovely. Yeah, no, very happy to go to Narnia. This is, this is a wonderful gift. This very good. You're right, it is practical, useful. And it's, I mean, it's beautiful too. Golly gosh.

It is. Yeah. What a charming piece. Old school furniture. Lovely. I love old school furniture. Thank you. The only thing is every time someone comes to visit your house now, they're going to want to see it, of course, because it's so famous. So you're going to have to keep your bedroom pretty tidy. Oh yeah. No, I like a nice tidy, very ordered bedroom, so that's good. Okay. Perfectly fine. That's fantastic. Well done. Man, thank you very much. That is, that's a great gift. I like that gift very much indeed. To think that I own the very location where C.S. Lewis, you know, kept his underpants. All right.

Can I open my door? It's totally your go. Yes, absolutely. Go ahead. All right. Looking forward to this. Can you top the C.S. Lewis wardrobe?

Here we go. Let me just pull that back there. Flat that switch up there. turn the and there we go one of the things that I've been thinking about by way of explanation

is how to improve on a few things that you had in your bedroom when I first met you or soon after and I know you had this little picture and you love this little picture because it was just of its time

but this is the original piece slide from the film of the Lion King. This is from the original painted, you know, created original print that was then duplicated and sent out of the,

I guess you call it the enthronement, the presentation of Simba, the classic moment at the beginning of the Lion King. When Rafiki like holds him up on pride rock. That's right. And the Jesus light shines down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is from the original film.

Nice. I know that makes it quite. small, but niche kind of like, but it's, it's classy going, this is, this is the one. You can, and I thought you could maybe mount it on a sort of a backlit kind of small frame of some kind and sort of switch it on and off and handmade, hand drawn this was, was it? Hand creation. Well, it was one of the last films that was made that way before they, you know, Toy Story came soon afterwards, we moved to computer graphics and that kind of thing.

But no, this is done the old school way, which I think makes it kind of more of a beautiful artifact really. Love a bit of Lion King. That's fantastic. Thank you very much. That's really nice. I mean, it is my favourite animated film. So to have something so special from that, this hand-created cell of the iconic moment of the Lion King is something I will treasure. Very nice, very thoughtful. Maybe one day you'll pass it on to, you know, your son, who will pass it on to your son, and such is the circle of life. such it is i'm sure i'm sure edward will inherit this cell one day when i fall off into a ravine and get trampled by wildebeest that's right he will take it and when you die

you become the grass and antelopes eat the grass and so it is it would be my pleasure to be eaten by an antelope oh there we go wow golly a couple of uh a couple of uh couple of uh a classic piece of something very large, something very small, but wonderful gifts all the same. The great thing about my gift, of course, is it fit inside the card. So that's nice, you know. I didn't get you a card, but it could have fit inside a card. There was nothing unlucky about the 13th.

I guess it's not a Friday. I did just fall into a ravine. All right, it's December 14, and we're opening some more doors on our unmade podcast, fantasy Advent calendar Ultimate fantasy By the end of By December 25th

I'll have got the name right No you won't No you won't So you're going to give to me first Yes yes please open up This is I have to hang on Before you open wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait Okay okay okay

This one's a bit a bit zany Okay Like as in I'm not sure Okay Yeah you may re-gift this one But I just want to wanted to give it to you just for the charm of it, okay? Well, you've piqued my curiosity.

Let me open the door. And, well, there it is. In all its pinkness, do you remember? Now, it might look a bit crazy until you pick it up. Okay. Or pick him up and put your hand into him. It is, and this is the real one, there's only one, Ozzy ostrich. Ozzy ostrich.

Ozzy ostrich is like a... Of course, for those who don't know, he's like a puppet of an ostrich. He was like the sidekick to the host of like a variety show that was on every Saturday night in Australia called Hey, Hey, Hey, it's Saturday. The host was a guy called Darrell Summers, and he sat next to this big pink ostrich that, I don't know, just like said things and quipped a little one-liners and stuff like that while it sat next to him. And he, you know, he's an Australian icon. An icon, mainstay of our childhood. It was a real treat to stay up for it, or to the end of it. I guess, you know, because it was kind of 6.30 till 8.30, that kind of thing.

Oh, yeah, 6.30. About 6 o'clock, my dad would go down to the McDonald's on Morfitt Road and get us all McDonald's and bring it back and we'd have our McDonald's as we watch the star have, hey, hey, it's Saturday. All the regular guests and segments and, uh, but Aussie, Ozzy ostrich, you know, was like the face of the show, along with Daryl Summers, the human host. The funny thing about Aussie ostrich at the time is you didn't think, you really did suspend belief. You didn't watch the show going, oh, the puppet said this now. It was just like they were there because they would chat to one another and talk and he would talk to the guests. And so, like,

Tom Cruise or Clint Eastwood would come out and be interviewed on the show and Ozzy would be like making, you know, asking questions as well. And it was all, it was also natural. So I thought this is, this is an iconic, an iconic piece of Australian television. Are you going to keep Ozzy ostrich? Well, first of all, before I decide that, where did he, how did you get it? Where has it been kept until now? What's, what's been at story? do you know? Well, the puppeteer, you know, the person

behind Ozzy ostrich, Mr. Carroll, died. And so it was sort of gifted back to Channel 9. Channel 9's going through a bit of a rough time and there was a bit of a fire sale. Okay. And so a few things have been sort of, you know, able to be gone. And I managed to get in

quick enough and nice. Got in, yeah, about $95 or so I think I paid for Ozzy Austrians. What do you think the Aussie Austerie? puppet would sell for if it came up for auction. Maybe like $20,000 or something. Yeah.

Some Australian, you know, businessman or entertainment personality or Richard Wilkins or someone would buy it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kamal. Okay. That's, that's, I will keep it, Tim.

I will store it in this, in a lovely box and put it up in my little attic storage cupboard. I'm right shelves. It's not something you'd display for all your English friends when they come around so you can do a big explanation

and go look how amazing this is and they just deadpan you. You know, I probably would. I probably would. It would be pretty amazing coming into my office every day and having Aussie ostrich looking at me. Like, that would pull a lot of nostalgia strings

every morning. So, yeah, I'm going to, I will display him here. I'll display him here in my office. You could get him taxid, I guess, you know, like stood up in a particular way. You know what I mean? which are, um, yeah, and there he is. Yeah, of course he was always sitting. He sat, people probably thinking of this standing up ostrich. He was kind of always sitting on the desk.

So his legs kind of draped over the front of the desk, didn't they? And he was like, his body was sitting on the desk. It was very much like, it was very much like Sesame Street, where, where there's humans and there's a puppet and you just don't, the puppets and the humans interact and after a while, you're just kind of looking at characters, really, except everyone was human, except for this one puppet. Oh, and pluck a duck. But I thought it didn't get you pluck a duck because no not today you're still

you've still got but there are still barrels to be scraped as we get come towards December 24 you're not that desperate not yet we're only a little way

into the second week of December go on then Tim open your door okay here we go oh there we go well

look at what's that you like it you like it Nice first impression? Well, first impression is if it is what I think it is, then I'm very happy. Oh, good. Well. Is it what I think it is?

Shall I tell you what it is? Please put me out of my misery. Obviously yesterday I gave you CS Lewis's wardrobe. Yes. And I can imagine in the back of your head you were thinking, well, that is pretty cool. Obvious connection with the wardrobe as well, making it extra C.S. Lewis. But you were probably thinking, Brady, why didn't you get me? me his desk. I would have loved his desk, you know, where he did his writing. And that's because,

instead, I got you this desk, because I thought you'd prefer this desk. This is Nick Cave's desk. Oh, really? That he famously had in his office in Brighton in the UK and where he did a lot of his greatest work. He had this fantastic office that became his, like, special place that he would go and work. You've done a little bit of research. That's charming, man. I've done a lot of research. Of course, It's a bit bittersweet because I think later he decided that going into this secluded cave, so to speak, wasn't the healthiest thing for him. And he doesn't do it anymore. And he gave away his whole office, basically, which then became a touring exhibition, a tour of the world. Yeah, I saw that.

Yeah. So this is that desk, you know, the tour is all wound up now. And they were deciding what to do with all this stuff. And I said, look, if you're going to throw it away, don't. my friend Tim would love this. So a lot of Nick Cave's finest work was done at this desk. It's quite a big desk, lots of room for you to spread out and do stuff. And I know your desk there and your office there at the church is very useful,

but it sort of looks, it's a bit like me. You've got sort of a bit of an IKEA one still, have you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, just a practical desk, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I thought, ah, you should replace that and instead use this one. Yeah, so here you go. Nick Cave's desk is now Tim Hines desk. There you go. Wow. This is great. This is good. Really, really appreciate that. That's really fantastic. He's been giving away a lot of stuff. In fact, he gave away his whole library recently, just like gave it all to Oxfam. And Oxf, like, just sent it all down in boxes to Oxfam. And Oxfam did like a special, hey, we've got all Nick Cave's books and stuff. And so, of course, people came and, you know, from everywhere to buy them. And I was about to send you a text going, would you mind going down to Hove, Oxfam in, you know, near Brighton and just.

just get something, but I knew you wouldn't. So, but I would have done that. Of course I would have. But I, I, um, but it wasn't that big a deal. But I, um, I gave him my book once. I hope my book didn't end up down at Oxford. I don't think it probably went and made at home. But this is cool.

This is a lovely thing to own. Thank you. Thank you. I like a nice, good piece of furniture. And I've got two now in two days. And I'm really excited about that. Thank you. Yeah.

Yeah, you're very welcome. Enjoy that. I'm going to, of course, put a type. brighter right in the middle of this. That it's going to suit it really perfectly. Well, hold your horses, man. There's more presents to happen. Oh, no.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay. See you tomorrow. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. December 15. We're closing in on Christmas. It's time for another gift. Go on, Tim.

Open door 15 there. I've got something for you behind that door. Oh, this is exciting, especially after what you said yesterday. All right, here we go. All right. And, oh, oh, is it, is it, is it something inside the box? Well, is there? Go on.

Let me open the box. And, oh, now, what, who's where, what, how, when. Nice, hey. Nothing, but nothing. For someone who collects old typewriters, I thought this one would appeal to you. Look at that bad boy. What's, what's the story? Well, obviously, I'm assuming you immediately recognize.

recognise this as an Imperial 58. Yes. But this isn't just any Imperial 58. I managed to enter into some long and protracted negotiations with the Imperial War Museum here in the UK. They were reluctant to let it go. But when I told them how much you liked typewriters, and I explained the whole Advent calendar thing, they said, yeah, fair enough.

We'll make an exception. And they've parted with it so that Tim can own it. This is an Imperial 58 typewriter used. by none other than Winston Churchill. Wow. This was his typewriter that he banged out many of his most important documents and speeches during World War II. For years now, it's been on display in the Churchill Warrooms in London. Yes, I've seen it there.

I've seen it before. I knew I'd seen it before. Wow. Yeah, well, now it's yours. Now it's your typewriter. To do with as you will. You can display, if you like, as a museum piece yourself. Or get some new ribbons and ink and stuff,

and maybe you could start banging out a few sermons on it. Maybe I could. Maybe I could. Nice. Wow. Oh, this is very nice. This is a, this is a classy gift, this one. There were a few to choose from when I was scouring the world for brilliant typewriters. And obviously, you know, some of the great books were written on them. And there's like Ernest Hemingway's got a typewriter or two banging around that I thought you might like.

Yeah. I just thought, Tim, for Tim, I think the added gloss of it being Winston Churchill's would add a certain Genesequa. and that's the one I decided on for your Advent calendar. I hope I made the right choice. Oh, no, that's a good choice. Yeah, I mean, this typewriter pretty much won the war, didn't it? Speech is coming out of this and, you know, the way they rallied the Allied forces. No, lovely, lovely work.

This is lovely, beautiful. And not something I would have chosen myself, but that's not to say I don't want it. It's actually like a surprise. Like, oh, my goodness, wow. Nice. Yes. Much like me with my Aussie ostrich puppet. Not something I would have chosen

necessarily But now it's mine Anyway Seeing you were a little bit picky About which Speedmaster Had been to the moon that I got you The fact that you were willing To keep Ozzy ostrich

I think is quite incredible That's great Anyway Let me open my door Let me see what you've got for me Because I'm excited I've got a feeling I've got a feeling this is going to be a good one

All right here we go Open Sesame Get this bad boy You're going to have to find something to play this on. Or maybe you just want to keep it as a wonderful art attack. Heart attack. A wonderful artifact because I know that you've watched it many, many times. And you can see it signed, a signed copy of a VHS video of Golden Goals. Oh, so this was a VHS compilation that had all the great goals scored in the World Cups

up to, I think it was between 66 and 1986. because there was no World Cups after 86 when this video was made. Right. Yeah, and I used to watch it again. I heard about it from a friend at school, and then I saw it in a supermarket and convinced my mum to buy it, and I would watch it over and over and over again. And it's why I have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of all World Cups between 1966 and 1986.

Yeah. I know everything. I would watch it over and over some fantastic goals. You said it was autographed. I hope it's autographed by who I think would have autographed it. Indeed. Indeed. Indeed it is.

His picture's on the front and he scored the great goal that both started and concludes the video. Is it, is it him? Is that who I think has signed it? The very same. Oh, is that, hang on, there are two signatures on it? Oh, are there? Wow.

Wow, maybe it was already signed when I got it. Yes. I've got... This has been signed by... Maradonna, Diego Maradona, and Pelle. Oh, see, I thought, I thought that was Madonna. I thought she'd signed the wrong thing, and I wasn't going to highlight that. And I was just going to point out the Pele one, but no.

I have to say, if I took home a copy of Golden Goals, and it was autographed by Madonna, that would be a winner for both me and my wife. Yes, exactly. It was a massive Madonna fan. So she would be well excited by a video signed by Madonna. If you didn't want it, I was going to put it in her fantasy advent calendar. But no, that is a great relief, that it's Maradonna. That would actually mean it's worth more then, surely, than if it was Madonna.

No, that's fantastic. Thank you very much. I'm very pleased with that. I'm not going to risk playing it and ruining the, breaking the tape. But seriously, there is more value in the autographs. You know, the funny thing, I met, you remember one time I did a video with Jay Wilgoose Esquire, who is like the musician behind public service broadcasting. He did like a,

I did a video with him one time. Okay. Anyway, he's a musician here in the UK. And he's really into football. And we were talking afterwards, just talking football. Yeah.

And it turns out he also owned that video as a boy and had like bonded with it and imprinted with it and knew it off by heart. And it was like suddenly we were like old friends. We were like like, like, all war buddies. And we could just talk about all our favorite goals on that video. And it's like, I think for. for young soccer football fans of a certain generation. This is like, this is our thing.

This was a video we all had. All our mum's bought it in the supermarket for us. I reckon it's probably, because of course there's not a huge amount of footage, particularly in Australia, of course, but it's not like today where you can turn on to a sports channel or the internet and so forth. It's just watching a game is just when the game's on, you don't get to choose it. It might be once a week. And of course, a goal might only happen once or twice in that game.

so you might see one goal a week on free to air TV. Yeah, yeah. Now, now you can just go and look at every goal ever scored anywhere anytime. But back then, this was like the curator list of goals you were allowed to see over and over again. And so I did. Yeah, yeah. All right. Very nice.

Very nice. Thank you very much. Good thing about a VHS too is it sits up nicely on the shelf too. You know, it kind of sits there to display nicely. Yeah. Nice display piece. You're right. December 16.

Here we are. Here we are, man. And a Merry Christmas again to you. Merry Christmas. Every day we do this. Can I tell you something interesting? I was speaking to my wife, Kylie, before recording this episode. Good. And I said to her, give you an idea, something to get Tim. What do you think I should get Tim for the fantasy Advent calendar? You know, explained how all works. And she said, oh, okay, let me think. Her first suggestion, she said, have you got him anything KFC related? And I said, yes, of course. So then she sort of started thinking a bit more. And she said,

how about the shroud of Turin? And I said, already got it for him. And then she said, oh, how about a recording session at Abbey Road? And I said, already got it for him. Everything she was suggesting I'd already got. I'm surprised you didn't suggest Napoleon's penis. But like, it shows how on the money I am or how predictable you are or how much my wife and I think alike. But she was just suggesting gift after gift that I'd already gotten you.

Oh, wow. Well, that's convenient if you ever go shopping for me, I guess. You're not going to be fighting. He'd like this. No, he'd like this. He doesn't like that. You don't know him like I know him. I mean, I can see you guys. I know him better than you. We were in total agreement. Our Tim Sinnergy, what about something Nick Cape? I already got it. Everything she came up with. But first, it's time for you to give me a present. Yes, indeed it is. shall open this big cumbersome door. Go for it. Here we go. Jiggle, jic-jik, there we go. What have we here?

I'm surprised you couldn't hear it purring. Right. This is, look, if we can get it out and you can hop in. This is a 1965 Mustang for those listening. It's a beautiful yellow, which might seem like an unusual colour, unless you were watching closely when Brandon Walsh bought his first car on 90210. This is his Mustang. I don't remember that.

I don't remember that. I have to say, if you were going to get me a yellow first car, I wouldn't have minded Daniel Laruso's yellow car that he got from Mr. Miyagi and Karate Kid. Oh, right. Well, you know, that would have gone down to. But I thought the cliche present would have been the Delorian. You know, everyone seems to be on about back to the future. I'm so sick of back to the future.

And back to the future reunions and they've got back together. And now there's a stage show. And I've bought a Delorean. And this rich guy's got a bullet. It's like, no, I never want to see another Delorian in my life. This is what you need. A 1965 Mustang from 902.1. Yeah, nice.

And, you know, related to my. spiritual brother, Brandon Walsh, played by Jason Priestley. Yeah. Wow. Nice. What a nice car too. Don't you remember that he saves up for this? He works at the peach pit and he gets money and gets his own car. Yeah. But he doesn't get it checked out. And so it breaks down in the middle of the road. And so he's, you know, dad's not very happy with him for not having it checked out beforehand. And so Brandon learns a little life lesson there. And, um, right. And now I've got the lemon instead. No, it's not a lemon. It's a beautiful car. It's a beautiful car. It's just that it needed a little bit of work and gets fixed up.

All right. But yeah. Well, very nice, very nice. Not the most practical when you've got a three-year-old, but a nice gift. Maybe it can be my little weekend run around, you know, when I'm going and having a little hoon on my own. Not practical. Man, give him 15 years and he'll be pulling jicks with this car like you wouldn't believe. Yeah, good point.

Good point. It's a beautiful car. It's a beautiful car for maybe not for an English winter, but you will look, it will stand out, that's for sure. Very nice, very nice. Well, would you like to open your door, your door number 16? I've got something for you as well. I hope it's Luke Perry's, I hope it's Dylan's Porsche because that was a cool black Porsche that Dylan had on 902 and O, but I have a feeling it isn't. It's not.

I've already got you kit. That's true. I can't have too many cars. Okay, oh, let me open this. Let's have a look. Oh, I'm actually reaching forward with my hand opening, which is, I don't know why I'm joking. You're a real, you're Daniel Day Lewis. You're really getting into character. That's right. Yes, this is method acting. Well, here we go. Here's your gift. Very blingy, very shiny. It's something that caught my eye this week, and I thought, I'm going to get that for Tim.

It is very shiny. What is it? So this was specially made and has been made famous by Kendrick Lamar. Right. So I believe is quite famous, singer, musician person, I believe. Yeah. I believe he is too. He's a rapper. Yeah, I know who he is.

Anyway, he wore this famously on the cover of his fifth studio album. And he's since been spotted wearing it during a performance at Glastonbury. It's become quite a talking point online. It was made specially for him by. Tiffany's, the jeweler. This is a diamond-encrusted crown of thorns modeled on the famous crown of thorns as worn by Jesus on the cross.

The original, yes. Originally. Yeah, he made it cool before anyone else. Because, you know, I always like getting you something a little bit religious, religious iconography, something Jesus. And other than the cross itself, what's more Jesus than the crown of thorns?

Yeah. And yet also something that's in, you know, zeitgeist and popular culture and music. And so I thought, I'm getting you this. Wow. It was designed over the course of 10 months. Yeah. It features 8,000 cobblestone micropave diamonds. Nice.

Just as I like it. 137 carrots worth. It weighs 200 grams. It required more than 1,300 hours of work by four craftsmen. to hand-set the diamonds. And I just thought, I'm getting it. I'm getting it for Tim. So I called up Kendrick Lamar's people.

I said, look, I know you like it, I know you're wear it. I know it's become very associated with you. But, you know, I want something nice for day 16 on the calendar for Tim. And he said, all right, Brady. I've always been an unmade fan. Yeah. It's the least I can do.

Least I can do for Tim. Wow. So now it's yours. Can you imagine getting up the front of Malvin, Uniting, like at Easter and giving like, you know, your Easter sermon wearing this, diamond-encrusted crown of thorns from Tiffany's. Well, that's...

Your statement piece. It is certainly is a statement piece. Well, I mean, I mean, it's fascinating and it's wonderful. It's an incredible gift. Thank you. I'm not sure what I think about it. I don't know, yeah, I don't know what the message is. I don't know what the messaging is here.

I guess people have worn crosses for years and years and, you know, diamond crosses and so forth. This is going to the next level, isn't it? So the symbolism of the crown of thorn. at the crucifixion, presumably is it was something else to hurt him and make him suffer, but it was sort of riffing on, oh, you think you're a king or a prince. That's right.

Here's your crown. Right. So it was being a bit kind of, I don't know. What's the... Well, it's mocking him, actually, really. Putting a purple robe and putting a crown in him, oh, here you are, you're a king, and then he's a failure. And so there's great shame that's going on.

Okay. So I'm not offensive. It's not offensive or blasphemous. I guess some people might find it that way. I don't find it that way. I do. I think it is, I don't know what the message, yeah, it is confused messaging though, isn't it? Like it doesn't, like, does it understand what the Crown of Thorns means? Or is it kind of, you know, taking the meaning and turning it on its head and making it something beautiful and blingy? I don't know, I don't know what's going on here, but I just thought, I'm getting it for Tim. Something different. I'll tell you, because it's so confusing, it's probably safe that it's in my hands.

and I can control it from here on. I feel like you'll be able to find some messaging there as well. Oh, I will be able to. As with everything I give you, I just think, I want to see this used in a sermon somehow. Yes, yes. That's my limited thinking. I'm struggling to see the link between Crown of Thorns and Christia. Oh, yes, no, hang on, I think I can think of one.

Jesus, boy. No, the diamonds, though, you know. The diamonds, there's also that notion piece. Yes. No, that's, well, that's interesting. It is, ironically, it's worth less than if we had the real crowd of thorns, of course, which were presumably from roses or something like that. Yeah, yeah, no.

Well, this is an interesting gift, that's for sure. It certainly is an interesting gift. It will go over in the section next to Napoleon's penis as being intriguing things on display. Intriguing. Those little details from the crucifixion story. like the crown of thorns and gambling over his robes and all that sort of stuff, you know, those intricate details. Are you a believer that they really happened?

Or do you think they're like embellishments over the years to make the story a better story? Or is it important to you if they happened or not? Well, the actual death and the method of death is pretty well established in, you know, the Roman Empire. I mean, they crucified thousands and thousands of people. So that's not a unique thing to do. It's not like they went, oh, he's a Christian. put him on a cross. Like, it's actually, it's the other way round, right?

So they just crucified everyone. The purple robe is, you know, all these details for me lend weight to the story. They're the sort of details you wouldn't make up. And it's very legitimate. Of course, they beat him and they mocked him and they made him carry his cost through the city. All of that's just pretty standard fare. This kind of thing is the kind of thing that seems to be done to mock him

because he said he was a king of the Jews. and we have this record that he, you know, had a sign over the cross. I am the king of the Jews that the Centurion put up there. All of that, there's nothing, there's no reason why all of those details wouldn't be true. If anything, it lends, you know, if you were to say, oh, this was added later, it would just make it a more shameful event. Like, it's, I mean, the great thing about the cross is that it's of absolute utter failure,

you know, like, it's like, well, here's this king, apparently, and he's been slaughtered and shamed, stripped naked, and died. That's the kind of ironic, beautiful thing about it. So yeah, I'd say all those things were true. Can I ask you another question about religion and Jesus that I was thinking about today? I don't know if this is the forum, but... Nope, nope, just one per day. There's another question behind tomorrow's door. I was thinking this morning about like babies and little children, right, and how they, sometimes they don't sleep well at night and they cry or they poo their pants and make a mess and all the things babies do.

And then I was thinking, would baby Jesus have done all that stuff? Or would he have been like this perfect child that was just a joy to bring up? And I'm sure you're going to say to me, no, he would have been a normal kid because he was sent down to have a normal human life. But he was also, you know, a version of God. And he was able to when he wanted to call upon the wisdom of God and call upon miracles. So he did have access to these superpowers.

So could the superpowers have been imbued with him when he was in baby form as well? Basically, I'm asking what kind of baby would Jesus have been? A very Christmassy question. In every way, I think it's really important to understand that Jesus is not like Superman. There's this Greek heresy early on called dosatism, and this is the idea that Jesus is kind of like Superman. That is he's like got superpowers. but when he was, you know, in the early parts of Superman, he's a baby, but he lifts a car up. It's like, oh, how did I do that?

That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about someone fully human and fully man. And so miracles that occur in adulthood occur because of people's faith and his power. But it's not like, oh, my goodness, I can, you know, turn my cereal into KFC. How did that happen? It's not that kind of power. But he did. But he turned water into wine.

He did do super. things. Yes, yes. On his, on, uh, in a particular circumstances for, for, for, like on purpose for a particular reason in a particular context. It's not like, oh, my goodness, now I can fly or anything like that. It's not like he had these powers that were somehow that he had to learn to control. They were things that he deliberately did as a choice. And I doubt he did them as a child. I think they were things. The only thing we have about these silent years of his life between his birth and then when he's 12, when he goes up to the temple to pray, it just says that he grew in stature with God and man, you know, so it sort of has this idea that he did grow up and mature

in a pretty normal kind of way. Okay. So that's all I would say about that. I imagine he would be a normal baby. I also, you'd like to think he wouldn't be a difficult baby, but there's all these language, there's this language in the Christmas carols as well about, you know, no crying he makes, I love the, and I don't know where they get that from. Like, of course he would have cried as a baby. Tender and mild. Yeah, he was, you know. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. All the prophecies that are not, obviously, thousands of years beforehand about what he would be, all talk about his normality. There's no distinctive features. He's not particularly good looking. You know, he's, you know, they're all about him being a man of sorrows and an ordinary person. All right. Well, from these two ordinary people, Merry Christmas, everyone.

And we'll see you tomorrow for day 17. Five golden rings. Well, it's the 17th of December, which traditionally is the day when I invite Brady to open up a door to the Advent calendar. We're moving through very fast now. This is very exciting. We're deep into December exploring the ultimate unmade fantasy advent calendar. What do you mean things are getting faster? We're still just doing one every 24 hours.

We're still releasing it at the same time each day. But don't you think December speeds up the closer we get to Christmas? It just feels like suddenly where, oh my goodness, it's all tumbling in very, very fast. I'm sure it could be explained somehow by Einstein. I'm sure there's relativity involved or something. But you're right. The days do get faster closer to Christmas, no doubt.

In the Northern Hemisphere, are they getting quicker? I mean, of course they're getting longer down here, daylight saving. But is it nighttime earlier? in the northern hemisphere. They're really short at the moment. I mean, it's really dark by about 4pm here in England now. Oh, right, yeah.

Yeah. Mm. Does that mean you eat sooner and just go to bed earlier and then sleep for like 24 hours or something and then wake up again? I wish. I wish. God, I wish.

Man. So, Tim, would you like to open Door 17 so I can give you this present? Would I? Wow. Here we go. Here we go. Oh.

Oh. Oh, wow. Now, I'm going to upset a few people here. We're going to lose a few listeners. Oh, no. Because I'm going to talk about the thing you must never talk about on a podcast or on the internet or on social media or anywhere. I'm going to talk about artificial intelligence. Oh, no.

Chat, GBT. Why is that something we can't talk about? Why is that? Shh. Shh, man, we can't talk about it because people get really upset. Oh, right, okay. All right. Yeah, okay, okay.

I'll keep it quiet. So I decided, because sometimes I'm just curious about what will happen, I decided to ask chat GPT, what should I get Tim Hine from the internet for Christmas? Oh, wow. And we had a bit of a chat about it, me and chat. We have got you a, a, little special bundle of Christmas presents chosen by Chat GPT for you. And then I've taken, I've gone out and bought them.

Is this a sign of desperation? Have you run out of joyful gifts on your list for me? I mean, really, have you scraping the bottom of the barrel? Yes. So, Chat said, when I asked the question, chat said, that's a lovely and thoughtful question. Since Tim Hine is both a church minister and a podcaster and apparently enjoys ministry, theology, music, alternative music,

family and thoughtful reflection, the best and most lavish Christmas gift for him would combine meaningful Christian ministry, creative podcast usefulness, and personal luxury or comfort. Personal luxury? Where they get that from? I don't know. I don't know. Just because I have a diamond-encrusted crown of thorns from...

It doesn't mean I like it. So here is your bundle. You can see it's been thoughtfully all packaged up there. Yeah. Let's take these things out one at a time. There are one, two, three, four, five, six items in it. The first item is a Shaw MV7i smart microphone and interface. Oh, right.

These are good microphones. This is quite similar to the microphone I use, actually. It may be the same one, I'm not sure. But it's the premium. microphone and built-in audio interface for podcasting music and interviews. It's flexible for travelling, speaking to us and home use. Nice, nice, good, good to have a microphone. Yes, thank you. Now, to go with that, we have a Paradise Row London leather home and away gift set, a luxurious handcrafted leather travel and work set, which includes a desk mat, laptop sleeve, passport cover,

which is ideal for someone balancing ministry, travel, writing and speaking engagements. There's a personalised option. You could engrave initials or a meaningful date phrase to make the gift special and one of a kind. Well, that's nice. Apparently this reflects dignity, sophistication and thoughtfulness and is something a church minister and podcaster might appreciate beyond the everyday gear. Nice. Well, I am into leather, so that's nice.

Good stuff. Well, good news for you then because present three in the bundle is an Aspirinal of London A5 zipped padfolio, an elegant leather padfolio, great for sermon notes, theological reflections, planning, journaling and church admin. Ah, nice. That's great. This place is going to be smelling like a cowhide factory in no time. Now, in your padfolio, you can put your scrivener personalized black roller pen with its 12-carat gold finish, a refined high-quality pen,

An ideal companion for the padfalia for sermon writing, journal reflections and everyday notes. Yeah, the pen might end up on eBay. That sounds a little bit too bling for me. No, no, no. It says the pen feels more like a legacy tool than a casual pen. It's good for someone dedicated to ministry and thought. Well, thank you. I've got my trusty lammy that I use. Thank you. Straight from chat GPT to Brady's mouth. Well, maybe you'll like this Revere 9-carat gold, small cross-pendant necklace. A modest but meaningful piece of jewelry reflecting Christian faith

could serve as both a symbol of identity and a keepsake. It fits well for someone whose faith is central, wearable yet subtle, not overly flashy. Man, it's not just that what you've given me, it's how you're explaining it. It's just so beautiful. Thank you. It's heartfelt. This is from the heart. Last but not least, Tom Ford-Ombre Leather-O de Parfume gift set, a high and fragrance, a nice personal luxury for a busy minister podcaster who spends a lot of time speaking or meeting people. It offers a bit of self-care and indulgence, a thoughtful nod to rest and dignity beyond work, which many pastors rarely prioritize. So I'm going to rest more if I'm wearing a little bit of Tom Ford fragrance. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. An ombray leather. I don't know

whether the perfume smells like leather or it comes in a leather case, but I think it might be the smell. So we're really doubling down on that smell of leather. That's right. This is going to be an episode of Yellowstone right here in my office. Wow. So there you go, man. The ultimate gift for a podcaster pasta.

Wow. I said to chat, wow, that sounds amazing. Can you draw me an image of what this little bundle is going to look like when I give it to Tim? Would you like to see it? Oh, yes, I would. Very much so. Not that you're not looking at it right now, of course, but here we go. Well, show me what they came up with. There you go.

Oh, wow. Look at that. Oh, gosh. So it's black. When you said leather, I always imagined brown. I mean, what I'm looking at here is brown, but this is a black representation. That doesn't match the gift in front of me. It's a bit more, the chat's got a bit more corporate and a bit more, yeah, not quite the look I was going for.

But there we go. There you go. The sure mic is nice. That's great. Look, this is all lovely. Well done, man. We'll see about the fragrance. I mean, you know, that's a whole other thing. It's the thought that counts and I thought to ask chat. You did? You thought I'm not going to think about this anymore. I'm going to pull it together. No, no, okay, lovely. Thank you, man. That's yours. Thank you. Thank you. Can I get a present from you now? Would you like this? Or would...

I'm going to open the door and see what you've got me. I'm sure you've put a lot more thought into it. Here I go. And... Now, you may have seen this online, and I know this is very on brand, but you couldn't afford to do it yourself, and so I've managed to get it from someone who could afford to pull it together. This is, all of this is Bill Gates's periodic table wall.

Ah. Incredible. I know people who make these. In fact, I think I know the person who made Bill Gates's. Oh, really? Okay. Yes, yes. I know a guy who runs a company that makes these things.

These are these installations you can get of a periodic table where each position on the table, which could be like a recess or a box or something, contains an actual sample of the element itself. And Bill Gates famously has a very big and impressive one outside his office. I know some people who've met Bill Gates and have seen this in real life. Well, I didn't know someone else made them. I may have got it cheaper.

This one I obtained, it was up in the, sadly, the divorce settlement between Bill and Melinda Gates. This came onto the market. And it was one of those, you know, who gets it? And then I said, well, look, I'll take it. And that seemed to settle things and help negotiations move forward. There's 118 elements and they're all real physical samples of everything, except some of the unstable, radioactive kind of materials, which are represented by a card.

Wow. Are you going to have this built into your house somehow, or are you going to put it? I think I will have to go here in my office. I don't think Carly would have it in the house. Right. But I'll put it here on a wall in my office. I've got a bit of room. Move a few things around.

I'll fit it in. This is a really nice gift, man. I really enjoy this. I would get a lot of pleasure from this. And I would enjoy having my visitors around and showing them as well. I think that's what Bill Gates loves about his is people just stop and look at it. And that's a real talking piece. Yeah.

I don't think he use it for science education purposes, man. No. I don't think that's the record. No. Or like if he needs like elements to like build microchips and stuff. Yeah. Or just remind himself as a reference tool. Yeah, what's number, what's number 12 again? Let me go out into my foyer, yeah. Or quick, we're building a new computer and I need some silicon. That's okay, I've got some over there in my office.

That's right, that's right. Yeah. If, if, if, I mean, I'm assuming everyone would be aware that you did a whole series on the periodic table, periodic table of videos. It was sort of one of your first big projects, wasn't it? It was. It was. engagement with each of the elements on the periodic table? Yes, kind of a big deal. I forgot that most people probably don't know that I do that. They just think that I sit here and talk crap with you. I didn't mean most people.

Some people may never have gone and watched it. I think we've reached a point where it's quite possible. More people don't know that I do those videos than do. So thank you for reminding me to remind them that I have this special connection with the periodic table because I make lots of videos of our elements. This was one of the first things you did. And then I know you went back and refilmed some of the elements and updated them. Is that like an ongoing project, man?

Or is it pretty much? Ongoing. Ongoing. And it's a very long, eternal process. So we did all 118 elements in the space of something like six weeks or something. Yeah. So some of them were very short, brief cursory videos. Some of them are less than a minute long.

And then the channel kind of blew up and became very popular and famous. And then we were like, oh, okay, well, let's do really proper, big elaborate videos about each element. And we just slowly do that at the moment at a much more leisurely pace. But the new videos are very detailed and a lot more interesting than the original. So yeah, I'm, as I speak to you now,

tomorrow I am going to Nottingham. I'm meeting with Professor Polyakov. And we are making a whole new video about the element gadolinium. We're updating our gadolinium video. We're filming it tomorrow. I don't know when the actual video will be published, But yeah, as we speak, I'm going through and doing them all again and again.

My life is a journey through the periodic table. And that is why this is a wonderful gift. Well, and certainly I'm sure at some stage this wall will feature in those videos. How awesome to be able to run your finger along and point and go today. Here we are, girls and boys. Let me show you something. Let me show you something on the shelf behind me that you can actually see, but I'm going to go and get up for you.

Yeah. I kind of already I kind of already have one Tim but you can buy these quite cheap on Amazon here's a little mini one I have made of it's a block of perspex Oh yeah And inside with each element you can see there

Is a tiny tiny speck of each element Embeded in the Perspex So it is one of these It's three dimensional see it Yep yep yeah no I see that That's like a little mini version of the present I bought you yeah It is and I'm also

Skeptical about some of the elements in there that they're legit, but that's a whole other story. Right. But just to show how much I love the idea of this, here's a mini one. But now you've got me this big granddaddy one. I'm over the moon. That's great. Man, when you're filming new versions, when you've got something that's so popular,

and then you're effectively replacing that video with a new video, don't you think people feel a connection? Or is the idea to get more views because people are, hey, come and now watch the new version of this? I think the project's been around so long. that most people may be unaware of them or realize that they're very outdated and old. And I think people, the impression I get from the comments and how people react is, oh, great to finally see you finally got around to updating this one.

Right. Can't wait to see what you update next. So I think people get that it kind of blew up on us and now we're just methodically doing them all again. So you're not viewed like George Lucas going back to Star Wars and making little improvements and everyone hates them? No. No, okay. No, no.

Yeah, it's more like I made a TikTok and people are now saying, wow, you should make a motion picture about that. Oh, okay, sure. Yeah, right. Well, that's great. Thank you, Tim, for that lovely present. It is December the 18th, seven days to Christmas, six days to the end of this advent calendar, extravaganza.

It's climacting, surely. Climacting? It's climaxing. That's the right word. It's certainly building to some kind of crescendo. Indeed. Although I'm going to pull back the throttle a bit here and, well, you will get to that when I give you your present. Oh, well, hang on.

What do you mean? Okay, all right, all right. You'll see. All right. Let's get you out the way first. Open it up, quick. All right. Here we go.

Opening the door. What do we go? All right. Whoa, what have we here? The unmistakable colour of God. green, baggy green, man, pull it out and put it on. This is Sir Donald Bradman's Baggy Green cap, the original. Oh, my goodness, oh my goodness.

This is, I think there are a couple of Don Bradman Baggy Greens banging around. No, no. To have one is a map. Oh, no, well, there's an Indian tour cap, but this is the 1946-47 Ashes cap. Now, for those, listening, if you don't know, this is the Babe Ruth of, you know, the Australian great sport of cricket. Legend, the greatest cricketer of all time. Don Bradman. He's the, he's considered by many the greatest sportsmen of all time.

If you look at how far ahead of his peers he was statistically, like how far back the next person is, there's no sports person or athlete who's more ahead of the second place person than, then, then. Don Bradman. He was quite extraordinary. And Australian cricketers for the longest time have worn these distinctively shaped baggy green caps when they play. And receiving one of these baggy green caps when you become an Australian cricketer is a bit of a rite of passage. You know, this aura and mystique surrounding the baggy green team, which you as an Australian and me as an Australian are very familiar with, is more of a recent phenomenon. Oh, I'm aware of that. Yeah. Yeah, it really, it wasn't, they weren't considered quite the mythical objects that they are now, but they are still rare. And to have the cap worn by the greatest of the mole, I mean, that's as good as it gets.

That's an incredible gift. Thank you very much. It's a very English kind of style as well, you know, not unlike a flat cap. Do you think you'll wear this out like on a cold, wintery London morning there? But of course the irony is the English. cricket team, they don't wear baggy caps like this at all. Their caps are quite fitted and more of a tradition, more closer to a baseball cap. Yeah, they are. The English cricket caps. Yeah, I know. These are lovely. No, man, I will not be wearing or even touching this cap of Donald Bradman's.

This is going straight into a glass case and getting special protective UV glass and going on display. This is, this is a sacred, sacred object. But you'd look all peeky blinders and, you know, cool with it. on man, especially if you wore it backwards, you could write poetry in a French cafe. Did I ever tell you my Australian Baggy Green Cap story from the centre of South Australia? I'm sure you have, but please, I can't remember it at the moment. I'm sure I've heard it many times, but... I'm sure you have too. I'm sorry.

So I was working on a story at the advertiser, the newspaper in South Australia where I work. Yep. And myself from the photographer went on this assignment to the centre of the state, to the heart of the outback, to this remote farm. It was a huge farm. It was a farm or a cattle station that was roughly the size of England, that kind of size.

It was huge. And so when we went there to do this story and this interview, we had to stay there for the night as well. And the interview was with the person who ran the farm. And it happened to be a woman. She had, which was quite unusual at the time,

probably quite unusual now still. She had, I think, divorced maybe her partner from memory. Right. And had inherited. and ran the place with staff, of course, but she ran the farm. And this night that I was visiting there, she had a bunch of other friends who were staying with her on a little holiday, and they were all women.

They were all women quite a bit older than me, but they were great fun. And they said, come and have dinner with us. We had dinner. Then they cracked out the wine, and we're all drinking wine. And myself and this young male photographer were there, and I think it was a bit of fun for them, these older women having these young lads there, and they were showing off and giggling and laughing and it was a really fun night. And then at some point in the night,

the woman who ran the farm, the owner of the farm said, did you know that my father played cricket for Australia? And I was like, no, it's amazing. He played a few games of cricket for Australia. And she said, yeah, I've still got his baggy green cap. And I said, no way. And then she said, wait here.

And she went out of the kitchen, this kitchen where we were all sitting around the table, getting drunk on red wine. And she walked back in, wearing like her apron and jeans and farmer's outfit and the apron because she'd been cooking and an Australian baggy green cricket cap. Wow. An authentic.

And it was such a surreal experience. And she wore it for the rest of the night while we were drinking and laughing and mucking around and having a fun time with these older ladies. One of them wearing an Australian baggy green cap. That's classic. Crazy night. Crazy night. And then we went out and slipped into the shirt.

shearers quarters, like a couple of shearers. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Wow. I wonder what they're worth, they would be worth something. There's only been a few hundred test cricketers. So even from a player who may have only played a couple of tests or, you know, I don't know how many this guy played, but my guess is five, ten, fifteen thousand dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Depending on the cricketer. Don Bradman, a lot. A lot. This is into the millions. In fact, this is the sort of thing, it's actually at the National Museum of Australia now. It's a highly significant, obviously. No, it's in my hand. Well, no, it was, is what I mean when I purchased from their gift shop. And brought to you here. I was surprised to see it in the gift shop of the National Museum,

but I guess that might have been a, an error. Well, Tim, I've also got you a clothing garment-type present. If you want to open your door. Oh, okay. Here we go. Nice. There we go. Nice. This is, I mean, it is, really, you think so? Because of course it is like an iconic, famous, cliche thing to give a dad figure like you a pair of socks at Christmas. Yeah, yeah. So I've got you a pair. I've got you a pair of socks. Now, I'm sure to you they look like just a plain pair of white socks.

But I was thinking, what's like an iconic pair of socks? How can I put a twist on a pair of socks for our Ultimate Fantasy Advent calendar? And I was thinking, famous socks, famous socks. What socks are famous? And this is what I came up with. Please explain. I mean, I'm happy just to have the socks. They look lovely.

I mean, thank you, man. I'm pleased. Do you want me to give you a clue where these socks are from? Okay, give me a clue. Okay, ready? Do do do do do do do do do do do. Just tick those old records off the shelf. The risky business socks?

Are these? Yes. These are the socks that Tom Cruise wears when he slides along the shiny floor doing his old-time rock and roll routine in risky business. That's an eye. And now they're yours. That is an iconic piece of Hollywood wardrobe. My goodness me. Oh, golly, that's great.

So there you go. They're the socks. They're the ones he wore. And now they're yours. I'm going to have to get myself. a nice tall trophy, take my pants off, put on a shirt, slide across our apartment floor. There you go.

That is a cool thing to pull out and say these, guess where these come from? These are these. Tom Cruise's risky business socks. What other socks could I have got if I'd thought longer? Can you think of any famous socks? Oh no, I mean who Not really

There's not a lot of sock action In films Are there people with You know like Does Ronald McDonald have You know Fancy's socks or Yeah but they've got to be one

It's got to be one pair though doesn't One pair of socks So you know I mean obviously there are famous pairs of socks Was Neil Armstrong wearing socks When he walked on the moon? Probably but they're not famous They're everywhere but they're invisible

That's right So I feel like If it has to be socks that are famous for being socks, the first place my head went was Tom Cruise sliding in on those socks in risky business. In Castaway with Tom Hanks, is there a sock scene where he pulls off socks

and uses them for something in particular? Maybe, yeah, but yeah, but it's not really like leaping into my head. No, he doesn't draw a little face on them and become friends like he does with Wilson. Yeah. No, I think these are the only classic socks of all time. They're yours.

What are you going to do with them? Look, because Tom Cruise is little, I'm not sure they're going to fit me on a regular basis. So I'm not going to use them to play tennis with or something like that. Displaying them also is a bit weird. So I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them. I'll put them in my sock drawer for the time being. And I'll think about it. I'll think about it.

All right. Can I just ask, how can you prove? that they are. How do I know you've not just gone down to the sports store and bought some socks? Oh no, I've got, I did a thorough investigation. I've got certificates of authenticity. Certificates like multiple certificates of authenticity, right. Yeah, I've got a chain of custody. I've got it all together. Tom Cruise himself was heavily involved with the process. Was he? Was he? Wow. Yeah. Did he have them at his house or did he just authorise him when he saw them? No, no. He, there were like special microchips involved and he had them in

a security box, like a safety deposit box. Oh, yeah, right. And a bank and, yeah, yeah, it was, they're the real deal, man. Don't worry. They're not, you're not pulling the wool over my eyes. Okay. All the cotton. That's right.

No, okay, fair enough, I believe you. And I will take some time to consider my next move. But thank you. There's a famous scene where Mr. Bean also put some socks in his ears. Remember that? There's a lovely Mr. Bean scene. Those are the only other socks I can think of that are given a prominent place in a film. December 19, are you ready to delve again into our ultimate fantasy Advent calendar, Tim?

You know, I get the spark of joy every day we do this. Every day, the anticipation, it's awesome. Yeah, it's like, I wish it could be Christmas every day. And it is, at least for December. It is, yeah. Tim, we've, we've had some items that I would describe as hard to get. Yes. And we've got them.

Yes. But I've outdone myself today if you'd like to open your door when it comes to things that are hard to Yeah, go ahead and open the door. Okay, here we go. Oh, wow, what do we got here? So if you just move Jimmy Hoffer's body aside, because that's easy compared to what I've got. Oh, really?

Have a look at those. I mean, obviously, you will recognize them immediately, although maybe not in this shade of colour. That's what's really special. But they were hard to get in any shade of colour. I can't. Is it? Is it?

I'm in disbelief. Yes, it is a pair of Dieter New Yorkers. your preferred glasses designed. The real ones. That was discontinued and it became almost impossible to get. So I've managed to get you a pair of Dita New Yorker glasses frames. I haven't put the glass in because you'll obviously want to get them to your prescription. But to make it even more amazing, I had these specially made in British Racing Green.

You know, this is unbelievable timing. I went, I've just been to the optometrist. three days ago. Yep. He said, I cannot believe you're still using those lenses. My goodness me, we need to do, and we went into all the lenses. And he says, you know, these new supersonic lenses we're going to give you. They're not going to fit in those frames because these frames are now a bit old and brittle,

much safer to put them in new frames. And I was like, darn it, darn it. I did a Google again. I couldn't find them. I walked up Rundel Moore. Dieter don't make them anymore. I was literally been sitting for three days going, I wonder what I'm going to do about frames. I don't want to have to choose new frames.

This is unbelievable timing. Thank you, man. You are welcome. And I thought the British Racing Green might be a nice touch. Yes, yes, I do. I like that. It's just a bit of a twist. Yeah, nice.

Yeah, because from a distance, they still look dark. It's not like, you know, you've gone red or something. Yeah. But, so it's the distinctive Tim shape, but just with that little certain something. Fantastic. This is a wonderful. This is my favourite. gift so far. Wow.

Yes. Nice. And to think I spent all that money on the Hope Diamond. I know. Hope Diamond. Gosh, everyone knows where that is, but no one knows where the Dita New Yorkers are. You've got a man in your favourite colour. Thank you. Wear them with pride. Thank you. Thank you. I'll take them straight down to Stuart. My optometrist, legend. They're in Gawler Place. And in Adelaide and he'll get onto it. He's going to be a He's going to be, where did you find these? I know. And in British Race and Green.

I know. I know. We're going to high five and then he'll take them and away we'll go. Do you break glasses a lot? No. No. Not break. I scratch.

I drop them all the time, you know, and they scratch. Right. Be careful with these ones, man. Can I open my door and see what you got me? You can. You can. Warning, it's another clothing item, okay? That's all I'll say for now, but you won't guess what it is.

This is boring. No, no. This is the last of the clothing item, but you need this. And I was able to purchase it. And I think this will be classy. So here you go. All right. Here we go then.

All right. Opening the door. There we go. Well. Hmm. I know you're a bit of a fan of a waistcoat being sort of a gentleman suit wearing kind of English man. So. When did you last see me wear a suit?

When you went and got that thing? thing from Prince Charles. And I was thinking, yeah, yeah. Every gentleman has a waistcoat, surely, in England. But I just thought, this is, of all the waistcoats, can you guess, can you guess just looking at it, whose waistcoat this is? That looks a little bit like the waistcoat worn by.

Yes. Now, let me have a think. Let me have a think. Who does Tim. Hand Solo in Star Wars. Oh, my goodness. That is a nice waistcoat. That is a nice one to wear.

I know you have quite a lot of those off-white, colourless, you know, ripped down to your chest, long-arm t-shirts that he wears. Yeah. This will go perfectly with that. That is nice. Hands Solo's waistcoat. Well, I wasn't expecting that. Oh, I wish I'd had that when I went and met the king.

I know, I know, I know. That would have been, he would have been like, he would have been like, He would have been like, oh, so, tell me a bit about what you do. And I would have said, bugger that, Charles. Check out this waistcoat, this hand solos. My word, who is your tailor? Oh, fuck. Very nice.

Or I would have walked in and he would have gone, going somewhere solo. Thanks. Of all the Star Wars merch I could have asked for, I mean, you've already given me Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. Yeah. Second on the list would not have been Han Solo's waistcoat, but there you go. What would you have wanted instead? I mean, I could have got your Princess Leah's gold bikini, but I don't think you could fit into that anymore. I mean, if it was going to be Han Solo, you know, and not the Millennium Falcon, or a model of the Millennium Falcon, probably his blaster.

Yeah, but I do want to get you more hardware. I feel like that's a bit typical. Yeah. Yeah. And all that weaponry. It's not sending a good message to the kids. Yeah. And I didn't want to get software because that's boring.

So I got menswear. So there you go. Yeah. All right, nice. I'll take it. It's cool. It's cool. Try it on.

Try it on. Show me how it looks. Yeah. All right. What do you think? Nice. Yeah. Yeah.

It's good. Nice fit. Got that Harrison Ford physique going on here. And you can button it up too. He can't button it up. Nice. Nice. There you go.

Thank you very much. Very nice gift. See you tomorrow on the 19th. See you then. Merry Christmas. Deck 20, let's get straight to it, man. Ultimate Fantasy Advent Calendar. Door number 20.

I'm opening first, aren't I, to get a present? So let's do it. Make this big old door open. Well, hello. Yes, well, he's been waiting for you in there. But he's very excited to get, he's going to, oh, there he goes. He's giving you a lick already. Fantastic.

Oh, that's wonderful. That's wonderful. So I've got you, this is a beautiful, this is a Catalan little sheep dog, but you're not going to guess who he is. Who is? He is, and you can name him yourself, right? It's up to you. But he is the son of, the son of, the son of, the son of, the son of, the son of the son of the son of the son of Einstein from back to the future. Oh.

Well, I can tell you my wife's going to be very. excited about this. Oh, yes. The pressure on us to be getting a dog at the moment is nearing unbearable proportions. So I've, I've said middle of next year, but I think she was secretly hoping it was going to happen at Christmas. And, well, now it has. And now it has. It's beautiful. I like this. I know I didn't get you the DeLorean from back to the future. I thought this was much better. I also love, I know you love little puppy dogs. And I know, of course, being Einstein as well, I know he's sort of, you know, the son of, the son of, the son of all the way through. I'm going to let you choose the name.

I was going to go with Isaac, but, you know, as in Isaac Newton. Right. But I'll let you confirm that because I know naming dogs is quite precious. Okay. But there we go. The son of Einstein from back to the future. He has been to the future. Well, he's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather traveled in time.

What a lovely dog. And with a bit of Hollywood pedigree. That's right. lover, a lover. Well, there we go. A dog. And remember, dogs aren't just for Christmas, although luckily this one is. Yes. He's for the week of Christmas, that's right. He's for Advent. Yeah. Well, Tim, in an unbelievable coincidence, I have got you a living animal today as well. So if you would like to open your door, you can find out what I've got you. Oh, right. Okay, here we go. Here we go.

Oh, there we go. Yeah, it's a cow. Wow, it's incredible. What a beautiful beast. I know. Well, Tim, as you know, I have some connections in the scientific world. I know some people that can do some clever stuff. I know a few geneticists and other people.

And I've put them to work this year. And they've been doing some work. It involved a few of the team that cloned Dolly the sheep. They were involved. A few other people were And I also brought in some experts from South America And we've done it We've done it

We have created a cow Which you can directly milk To get Farmers Union iced coffee From its udders Wow, that is incredibly innovative and convenient Thank you Yes So I'm imagining

you can probably just leave it roaming out there in the Adelaide Parklands, not too far from you. Yes. Each morning when you go out and walk Brooklyn in the parklands and let him stretch his legs, you can just mosey on over to your cow with a bucket. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Have a little tug on the old udders.

And get him in a nice coffee. Straight, straight from the sauce. That's incredible. They had to actually splice in some South American coffee bean jeans into the cow's jeans. It's amazing how they did it. It's amazing. I didn't think it would be possible, but they pulled it off. That is pretty incredible.

And each of the others, it's the same nice, perfect strength. It's not like one of them's, you know. Perfect. If you wanted, you could even get down under there and just drink it direct from the others if you wanted. That's all I've ever wanted. That's... Now, what am I going to name her? I know.

I know. Graham. I'm going to go with Graham. Traditionally, I know a male name, but look, who cares, you know, these days? And so, yep, Graham, our cow, she is beautiful. Named after my housemate from many years ago, who famously drank nothing but Farmer's Union nice coffee and smoked cigarettes and drove his combi van and worked at KFC. It sounds like a superhero now, I think back on him.

Legend, he'd love to see. Quite an influence on your life. He was. He was. I took up smoking and Farmer's Union Ice Coffee for quite a while afterwards. So Graham. That's a great idea. Graham can wander around Victoria Park. That's wonderful. What a gift. Most people probably remember by now, but Farmers Union Ice Coffee is a coffee-flavored cold milk that is sold primarily in South Australia. It's a famous South Australian brand and South Australians are very proud of it and very devoted to it to the point where quite often if they move into state, they will have Farmers Union ice coffee shipped to them so they can still drink it.

I mean, it's hard to know what's worse for you, the sugar in the Farmers Union or the cigarettes. But it's still acceptable to have Farmer's Union iced coffee. It's absolutely wonderful, particularly on long trips, particularly in the car driving. I always associate it with driving. Just an absolutely wonderful companion. All right. And now we have Graham and even better companion. Hello, Graham.

Oh, nice. running out there in the fields with Little Isaac. Thank you, man. Thank you. That is a wonderful cow for Christmas. Remember, though, cows aren't just for Christmas. No. With their giant heads.

I do love cows. Your mum's going to be over the moon with this present too, isn't she? Oh, my goodness. Oh, yes. She's going to name all the cows she had when she was young. Oh, gosh. She'll be out there at the parklands herself every morning. Oh, T, T.

Isn't it wonderful? I would love to have a cow in our parklands. That's wonderful. Now, Graham. Off you go. Off you go there. Lovely work. The 21st of December.

Go on then, Tim. Yank that door open. Oh, this is exciting. You always get something special for your 21st, so I wonder if you get something special on the 21st of December. My word, you're getting something special, that's for sure. Have a look at that.

Now, I know it doesn't look like much. It's just a bunch of cardboard boxes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it does. But let me explain. I've been doing something very sneaky behind your back, and it's all come to fruition today. Because those cardboard boxes contain all the papers and documents

that you've written in your professional career, all the articles you've had published, your book, of course, drafts of your book, other books that you've pitched and considered, all your public sermons and published sermons, all the lectures and classes you've given, any other documents I could get my hands on. They've all been there in those boxes. And for the last couple of years, I've had Dr Rowan Williams going through them all with a fine tooth comb. This is famous bishop, archbishop of Canterbury, of course, from 2002 to 2012.

A famous theologian, a writer. and he has, after going through all your documents, Tim, written a book at my request. It's all done and published. And here it is a comprehensive guide to the life, works and theology of Timothy J. Hine. Hang on, is this him putting some input in? Or is it him compiling from my input? No, there's analysis and he's spoken to other top theologians around the world, other experts. He's been flying all over the place.

He's interviewed people. He's spoken to people. And there is analysis and critique. But it's also a really good guide to help people understand your theology and how it's developed over the years. And I spoke to Dr. Williams earlier and he said, it's the best thing he's ever written. Right. He thinks it's amazing.

He thinks you're amazing. And he can't wait for this document to get out there. It's kind of a... He said to me, actually, he made an interesting observation. We were having a little chuckle over it earlier when we went for coffee. He was saying to me, he feels like he's kind of bookended his career now because his PhD, his thesis, was a document called the theology of Vladimir Nikolaevich, Loski, and exposition and critique, where he went in really deep on this sort of this theologian.

And he feels like he's done it again and he's done it even better this time because he's been able to draw on more wisdom. and he's really happy with it. He's managed to find someone even more obscure to... Vladimir Nikolivich-Loski. Have you heard of him? No, he's a Russian Orthodox theologian. I've never heard of him, no.

Ah, well, there you go. But anyway, who cares about that? That was back in 75, a year before you were born, but now Dr. Williams has turned his gaze onto all your work and written what he thinks is the work of his life. Wow. That is quite a thing for him to say. typically generous, maybe too generous, bordering on lying.

But that's incredible. Wow, that is fantastic. Of course, what he'll find amongst his work is quite a bit of his own work. Some quotes certainly and some influence from The Marvelous, gently spoken and highly insightful Rowan Williams. And generously eyebrowed. He has quite legendary eyebrows. He does. He's, yeah, from that, I don't know if it's a generation of academics in particular who just sort of let the hair go. But it's marvelous to see. Thank you. This is, I don't really know what to say. I can't imagine a greater waste of his time. But I guess perhaps you've been generous to him financially. Perhaps this is something he's thought, well, this is a nice little learner on the side. It started that way.

I did make a payment for his time, but halfway through, he said, Brady, I should be paying you. Tim's amazing. He particularly enjoyed some of your comparisons between the four Gospels and the Beatles. He thought that was a nice little analogy that you've drawn upon over the years. Oh, yes. Yeah, but there are a few other things. He really enjoyed a lot of your sermons because I gave him recordings of all of those and said, you know, Sometimes he just popped one on, put it on the headphones when he went out for a walk.

What about, what do you know? I mean, I look forward to reading this book. Oh, by the way, forward by the Pope. The Pope, really, the current Pope. Wow. Gosh. Wow, that's quite, again, generous. I wouldn't have thought he was as hard up for cash.

I would have thought he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, I mean, to be he did it more because he's an unmade fan. Right. And he's, and he's, and he, he did it as bit of a favourite to me because he's always been really into number fire. He's a bit of a Brady guy, is he? Okay. Yeah. But he, he said, he was good. He liked it. Well, he, he does have access to some pretty good, um, historical science papers from Galileo and so forth. So, you know, I can understand, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he's understand how he would have developed a passion. Just one question. What did Rowan Williams think of some of the early reviews that I did for the Flinders University paper, The Empire Times? Loved them. Yeah? Love them. And he said it showed, it sort of foreshadowed some of where your

theology was going in the future. He found them really, really useful. He was really grateful for them. Right. I can imagine he would have poured over the interview with Ben Gillies, the drummer from Silverchair, 1997, that would have been a particularly interesting. Yeah, there's actually a little excerpt of that on the back dust jacket. Is there? Yeah. Writing. He also watched some old VHS tapes of your work in some of our school plays.

Oh, yes. Yeah. Some of the acting work early. It was thorough. It was thorough. Once he started, he was like a dog with a bone. He went and met with your mum for a week. Oh, dear.

Oh, I hope that influence doesn't come through too much. It does lose some objectivity. Thank you, man. That's an amazing gift. Do you know what he's called the book? What's it called? Did you say that it has a title? Yeah, a comprehensive guide to the life, works and theology of Timothy J. Hine.

Wow. A comprehensive title. That's going to really draw them in. That's great. Just does what it says on the tent. Thank you. Man, that's wonderful. Do you know how long the print run is?

How many have been printed? How many copies? They've started with 200,000. Have they? Because they think, well, they think it's going to be huge in Holland. Yeah. And obviously, they're expecting a lot of sales in the Melbourne community. Yes.

They will sell one to Malvern. Yes, we have a little library here, and I will ensure there is one purchase. So they will sell at least one. No, that's going to be, it's going to be huge. It's going to be huge. Get it in. Well, people, those first editions, they are worth buying. So, and when I say they're worth buying, I mean, they're not really worth buying.

But seriously. Very good. Thank you. That's great. I can't wait to see what you've got me now. May I open my door and see what's in there? You certainly may. You certainly may.

Here we go for it. Let me get my claws onto this and fiddle with that lock and pull it up. There we go. What have we here? Yeah, no, I know. It's only barely fit in, but I thought we had to get you one of these, as I thought through your passions and what you would like. This is, you can hop straight on if you like. It's the great bed of wear. This is probably one of the largest and one of the most significant and famous beds of all time. It's a large oak floor poster bed for those that are not familiar, carved all the way around, which was originally housed for many years in beautiful, inn in Hurtfordshire. It was built in 1590 by a carpenter there

but then has ended up and I've managed to purchase it from the gift shop in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. No, the VNA, look at that. It's a big sort of ornate four poster bed with curtains and all sorts. It's from around, well, from as early as 1590. Why have you got me this massive old-fashioned bed?

Well, as you know, a famous, well, as you may not know, and others may not know, it famously can fit four couples, although that's not recommended. But that's just giving you a sense of the size. Okay, right. Would you just because you love sleep? And I thought, you're a great passion for sleep and going to bed deserves the most, like a bed that's like a room in itself. So this is, as I trolled through the world, the world of beds, Bedfordshire, as we might call it.

Right. It's sad that this does come from Hartfordshire and not Bedfordshire. I know, I know, I know. This is the most ornate, old, beautiful, massive, significant bed I could find. And it's also kind of, you know, it's English. And so I thought that might be something that suits your adopted homeland as well. Many who have used this bed have carved their names into its posts. What is it just famous because it's old and big?

Like has anyone famous slept in it? Well, it's, I think it's become like a work of art. It's so massive and it's so beautiful and it's being carved in a very distinctive sort of style. But then it's been moved around and owned by a few different people who, you know, have owned it. And over time, its ornateness has become significant. like a significant piece of furniture, and it's been exhibited in a few exhibits across time as well. It was a toss-up between this and the bed

that John Lennon and Yoko Ono did their famous bed in in New York, but that's more about the occasion than it was the bed, really. So I've gone with this huge bed. A huge bed. Well, what can I say, but thank you? The weird thing about such an ornay, an expensive bed, of course, that is that the majority of the time you'll spend in it, you'll be unconscious, you'll be sound asleep.

But in those few minutes before you go to bed, you can draw the curtains. Always as a kid love the idea of a bed where you could like draw curtains around the four posts. So it's like your own little cubby house. That always seemed pretty cool. So you can do that. Wow. And when you wake up in the morning, it's the same deal.

It's like your own little cubby house world in there. You could, you'll probably put a TV in there, get that installed. Yeah. That would be pretty cool with no glare from lights and so forth. Edward would love sitting there watching movies. Just me, my wife and three other couples by the sounds of it. It is apparently, though I had not heard of it before I started trawling through Bedfordshire, it is the most famous, one of the most famous pieces of furniture in history.

Never heard of it. Never heard of it. Well, and now it's yours. Man, it's the 22nd of December. Mm-hmm. Time for us. It's counting down now, not many to go. Not many sleeps. Not many sleeps. There's a feeling of climax as we move towards Christmas Day.

Let me tell you, if this all climax is on Christmas Day, Santa has a big job ahead of him if we're to be astonished on Christmas morning because... Yeah. This has been an incredible journey. It's not much left. Yeah, I know. Golly gosh. The C.S. Lewis cupboard is nearly bare.

But I believe you're giving to me first. Please. So I guess I'd better... It's already. It's already. 22. Here we go. Be careful, but it's all ready. Okay, I'm pulling it open now.

Oh, ho ho. Now, this is one where you might want to pull out the white gloves. Okay. It's these, these look clearly closely. You got them on there? Yep, no movement. These are the rare papers from Albert Einstein of his sketches and notes on general relativity. Oh, nice.

$18 million worth last sold to me. Yeah. And now you're just giving them to me. And I'm giving them to you. There's 54 pages there. Yep. You can see one of the coolest things about these, right, is not just their significance, but you can see there's like, they're really cool because there's like corrections and stuff.

Like there's mistakes and corrections and errors. And as you can see his thinking, famous science. Albert Einstein, of course. It's kind of like a real glimpse into his like thought process and what was going on. So I was thinking we've, you know, done a bit of Isaac Newton and I know you've, you've sort of worked with a lot of significant different scientific objects. In fact, you have a YouTube channel about it? Have you, have you ever before encountered? I know you've never previously owned. Have you ever before encountered these papers? I have not. I've never seen them. No, I've had very little to do with sort of Einstein materials and documents. A lot of Newton stuff because the Royal Society has so much Newton stuff and a lot of other scientists, particularly British ones. But no, very, very little Einstein. So having these here in the house and on the shelf is quite the coup. I've never been a big like Einstein man, really. He's never captured my imagination the way some other scientists do. But maybe that's just because of, my lack of exposure. So maybe now owning these $18 million papers will change my perspective. Well, I certainly hope this isn't one of those books like you get from your mum at Christmas that

you go, oh, right, yeah, that's like close but not really what I'm interested in. And it sits on the shelf. Like, I hope this doesn't turn into one of those sorts of situations. It might. It might, you know. It's in his own handwriting. Yeah, I know, but that just makes it hard to read. and yeah. For those people who are maybe not familiar with general relativity and special relativity, the difference between them what it all means, do you want to give us a quick, like, overview? Well, I've actually prepared a YouTube clip about it somewhere.

Right. Yeah. Now, the general theory of relativity, this is the one that is something that's like if it's hit in one direction, it has to, an equal and opposing force comes back in the other direction. Is that relativity? I would say no, that's not. Right, okay. No, no.

It's not the E equals MC squared. Is that, that's not general relativity either, is it? I think you're looking more at kind of time moving slower and faster at different speeds and things like this. Space frames of reference and gravitational stuff. This is the idea that time actually strangely curves inside black holes, but he didn't do any black hole work, did he? We've got curves. we've got things like time goes slower and faster depending on how fast you're traveling, things like that.

So if you go, like if you go away on a spaceship, like, you know, get close to the speed of light for many, many years. Right. And you come back, you come back to Earth. You know, you may have just aged a year or two, but other people will have aged a hundred years and things like that. This isn't the sort of the idea that, you know, okay, if I'm on a train and the train's going 100 miles an hour and I walk to the front of the train, I'm going faster than.

100 miles an hour. Well, no, you are in the right kind of frame here. This is frames of reference, and these analogies are used. Yes. And the other thing that's worth noting is I think, I always think, I think special relativity and general relativity are the two types. And I think special relativity is like the less important one. General relativity is the important one, I think.

Mm-hmm. Well, it's all in the papers, man. It's in the papers. He's written it all down for you. So. I've got him here. They're like cheat notes. That's right.

If you took these into a physics exam, you'd be home and host. So I think on one of the pages, page 44 or something like that, if you look, he's written special relativity and then he's got general relativity and he's like underlying general relativity. Because that's clearly the more important one. Okay, I'll check it out. Check it out. Yeah, he's got like a little asterisk next to it as well.

It's a nice present, man. It's thoughtful. Thoughtful. It's unbelievable. This is a wonderful present. Well, I mean, I think you've just gone, Oh, Brady, science, Einstein. I have not.

I have not. You'll see that I've been, as you'll see, in tomorrow's Advent gift, this is building towards something. Oh, okay. And I like that you've made some of your own little notations and additions to these papers as well, like your own thoughts, like, you know,

I like what you've written here where it says, this is because of God. That's right. It is because, actually, I think that was Einstein's, isn't that he's in his own hand? I don't know. It's a suspiciously like yours, man. My favorite quote from Einstein is he says,

don't worry if you struggle with mathematics. My struggles are greater than yours, which is a great quote. That's a true quote from him, yeah. How about you open your door? Because I've got something special for you. All right, all right. Oh, hello?

What's this? Hmm. Well, I thought, if I want to get something special for Tim, like, you know, I want to go to someone who really knows him well. And who's going to give me better advice than your mum, Mrs. Hine, Auntie Dawn. Oh, dear. So I sent your mum a message. I explained what we were doing. And I said to her, I made absolutely explicitly clear to her that you have all the money in the world, all the power in the world. you can get Tim anything for Christmas, anything at all. It can be wild and crazy, serious, funny, sentimental, whatever pops into your head, just follow your heart. But there was no limit on your resources here. Right. So she gave it some thought.

She gave it some thought. Where do you think she might have landed? Did she buy me a horse? Well, it's clearly not a horse in front of me, so no. No. No. So given the whole world as her oyster, your mum decided the best Christmas present for you

would be a very expensive woolen cardigan. Well, nice. She said, Tim loved to wear Jerry, your dad. Jerry's your dad. Tim loved to wear Jerry's old cardigan, but it wore out. I think it was pale green with lovely buttons, just a plain pattern, pure wool, one pocket, no collar. I do not know where he got it.

Probably Mowie. He had a friend who worked at a men store in Mowie. I'm off to bed. I've been at a church service tonight. So Tim, here it is the best replica I could have made of a pale green woolen cardigan with lovely buttons made from pure wool with one pocket and no collar. Wow.

Enjoy. Enjoy that. That's cool. Do you know this cardigan of which she speaks? Oh yes, yes, yes. Yeah, I started raiding dad's cardigans. Dad's worn the same, wore the same clothes my entire life, right? Through the 70s, 80s, you know, into the 2000s. Yeah. Old people do. And he, but he had these really cool cardigans that he had from ages ago. I didn't think they were cool in the 80s when I was young. They were just daggy old person cardigans. However, when the 90s emerged and Kurt Cobain started wearing like grungy retro clothes, I suddenly looked at Dad's cardigans differently and thought, oh, hello, I'll have one of those. So I started wearing them. And I still, and I actually

really love cardigans. I still wear cardigans now. But I think the genesis of it is that moment of clarity where you see retro gear on a rock star that your parents happen to own because they're a little bit older than everyone else's parents. So there was one time when I was staying at your house and we, I think we were having like a sleepover and we were in the lounge and your parents had gone to bed. Yeah. And we were mucking about and laughing and making too much noise. And your dad came out and gave us a right telling off. But because he'd been in bed, he came straight from bed.

He was wearing absolutely nothing except a really skimpy pair of red underpants. Yes. Very skimpy. Did you raid those after he passed as well? I mean, do use those. You know, I do, I know the red jocks. Yes. red jocks.

Legendary. We speak about them at least once a month. That's right. Even Superman's red jocks aren't as legendary as, uh, and, um, more regularly worn than dad's red jocks were.

They, they, um, I remember the moment when, um, like a little while after my dad had died. There is the moment when, you know,

you go into your dad's clothes and it's like, oh my goodness, what are we going to do with these? And I do remember the moment when mum, you know, turned to me thinking she was being generous and efficient saying, look, like, we're looking at the sock drawer and the underwear and all that and her going, oh, look, you can, Tim, you should, you know, just help yourself to anything here that you might want. Like, oh, bonus, mum, that'll save us this year.

Wow. Waste not want, not. I said, mum, look, look, there's a couple of jackets, you know, a suit. I'll keep for post, you know, just because it's legendary because, like, for instance, the safari suit that I think you, you came around and. borrowed one time for a fancy dress party. I kept that, one other jacket, I think, that was kind of retro cool. And the other stuff went to the secondhand store.

And, of course, the socks and undies, they went in the bin, yes. Right, right. Okay. Including the famous red jocks, I don't remember there being a moment. If I had thought about it, I would have got them and framed them and given them to you. Oh, dear. Very nice. There we go, Tim.

Oh, I wish I'd thought of it while he was still alive. too. I would have got them and got him to sign them and then frame them for you. That would have been an awesome, awesome gift to send to you. It would have been quite the something. All right. Thank you, man. Thank you for this wonderful, wonderful warm cardigan. It's December 23, the penultimate day of our ultimate fantasy advent calendar. I'm going to open this big door here and see what Tim's got for me. Go for it, man. All right. Here we go. If it gets any easier this There we go

Whoa ho, okay Explain what I'm looking at here Well with this gift You move into what we might call a twin axe man In rock and roll That's a term I think I've made up Which devises a person who owns twin axes Two guitars

I know I bought you the guitar that was on the cover The National Guitar from the cover of the Brothers in a Hums out a little while ago. Yep. And I've bought you another guitar, which you might think is...

I thought you were going to have bought me another axe because of course you gave me Edmund Hillary's axe from Mount Everest. Oh yes, of course. Yes, no. So I thought, oh, Tim's got me another ice axe,

but no, he's got me two guitars. Two guitars. Okay. What's this new guitar you've got to go with my other one? I can't believe you can't recognise this guitar. This is... It does look familiar.

Yeah, yeah. Well, you remember. yesterday. Yesterday's gift, I got you the papers from Albert Einstein, his sort of documents and manuscripts and so forth on general revelativity. And today, I've, I thought, if I'm going to get you another guitar, I couldn't go past this. This is the guitar from... Let me guess. Let me guess. Is this the guitar that Marty McFly plays in Back to the Future?

No. No. No. but good guess because there is the dog Einstein so that's close no as you can see it's much more uniquely shaped I know what this is I know what this is go again is this the is this the sort of the steampunk guitar that Yahoo Sirius plays in the film Young Einstein

yes yes this is this is the guitar on which young Einstein invents rock and roll unbelievable this is the movie prop, very good. It's not just a movie prop. Plug it in. Have a go.

This is awesome. So the Australian 1988 legendary movie Young Einstein, which is sort of a, you know, a fictional, funny take on if Albert Einstein was born in Tasmania, a state of Australia on an apple farm,

but happens to have a way with science and experiments. He put bubbles into beer and all sorts of things happen. And he also invents rock and roll using using some of his theories of which i'm not entirely like mass energy equivalence kind of you know theories that as well i've you know i won't go into now i bore you but there are youtube explanations that uh that brady and i have created between us uh for you to watch on on such things um it was a legendary movie this is an amazing guitar it was a good film i

mean at the time i didn't have much science knowledge but it did have a bit of clever science in it as well. Like there was some, there was some medicine put in with the dog food. And it's a comedy film, obviously. But yeah. Yeah. So, a second guitar in my advent calendar. This, uh, you really, you really are playing to my interest here, aren't you? I'm happy to take the national guitar back, if you like. I'll happily have that one. But this one, I think more is, is more of like a display guitar. You're not going to play this one. You can't play the guitar for one thing. Do you know what kind of guitar it was?

Is it a purely made up sort of steam punky one? Or is it like a, is it based on a real one? Oh, that's a good question. It doesn't look like it's based on anything. I think it's just sort of, yeah. I mean, it's kind of based on, he starts off with a violin. So in some ways it's kind of like a cello turned sideways, although it's not that big of viola and with all sorts of bits and pieces on it.

Okay. I would love it. That would be a cool idea, actually, for a podcast is to talk about things like this. Maybe it's more of a YouTube clip. Like, you know, how did you come up with this particular iconic... Prop. Prop. That's the word I'm looking for. Yeah, yeah.

I know they do that in documentaries about films and things like that. But this is a particularly interesting, unique piece of Australian film prop stuff. And now it's yours. Thank you very much. And if you'd like to open your door, I have a special present for you. Right. All right. Okay.

So Tim, see there's that little bottle there on that plinth. Hmm. What is this? What fragrance do you wear these days? What's your perfume or your aftershave that you wear? Have you got a signature scent? I do have, as we call it in our family, a sniff. My sniff is Davidoff Adventure.

Right. I've been using that for about a decade, yes. Oh, I remember after you were seduced by the Ewan McGregor advertisement. That's right. I bought it purely because I like the picture of him and I just happened to like the smell. Yeah. Well, that all changes today, Tim, because I have had a new signature scent created specifically for you. Oh. Wow. Wow. And I was to start, first of all, I had to decide what perfumery I wanted to create it. And I could have gone for, you know, the big French houses or something Italian. But for some reason, I thought you'd want it to be British. It just seems more you. So Tim, I chose

Flores, which is England's oldest perfumer. They still operate, founded in 1730. Wow. Based on German Street, London. They're at the historic heart of British luxury grooming. They hold multiple royal warrants, including from Queen Elizabeth II and

King Charles III, and they're renowned for classical refined compositions and meticulous craftsmanship rather than mass appeal. Right, right. I had a chat, I sat down with them, I told them a lot about you, your interests, your passions, things that smells that I thought you might like. And they got to work.

And they have created this new signature scent, which is called Number 1976, in honour of you. It's called Number 1976, a gentleman's reverie. Wow. Golly gosh. Can I talk you through the scent? Well, that is a challenge, but yes, no, please do. this is, hang on, just to be clear, this is not something, it's not, they're not saying this smells like me, they're saying this is something that's quintessentially Tim for me,

is that right? You're going to wear it and it's going to become your scent. You're going to like the smell of it. People will smell it and associate it with you. Right. And I don't know, maybe it will be released to the public, but at the moment it's just for you. They've created a special stock of it just for you. They've got the secret recipe. And I'm going to, I'm going to read to you that is a description of the scent. This is, this is a bit of purple pro. is so strap yourself in. But because people can't smell it. Obviously you can smell it.

You've got the bottle there. But I want everyone else to know what it smells like. So here we go. Number 1976, a gentleman's reverie. A Tim Hine-inspired fragrance from Flores. Opening with a quiet confidence, number 1976, unfolds as an urbane gourmand wrapped in tradition. The first impression is a polished leather accord,

supple and reassuring, warmed by the faint sweetness of pipe tobacco smouldering in the background. A gentle bitterness of fresh ground coffee emerges, lending depth and gravitas, never sharp, but dark and velvety. At the heart, an unexpected richness reveals itself. Boisenberries, steeped as if in fine preserves, bring a subtle, wine-dark fruitiness, folded seamlessly into a smoother cord reminiscent. of rum and raisin ice cream. Creamy, faintly boozy and indulgent without excess, this gourmand character is restrained, dignified, and unmistakably florist in its discretion.

As the fragrance settles, it takes on a contemplative, almost sacred quality. Notes inspired by historic English churches appear, cool stone, bees-waxed pews, and a whisper of incense lingering in the air, A soft, savory nuance, evocative, not of the kitchen, but of comfort and memory, suggests a warmth of fried chicken rendered abstractly as golden crust, gentle spice, and toasted grain rather than literal food.

The dry down is enduring and composed, leather deepens, tobacco softens, and the church-like mineral calm anchors the sweeter facets, leaving behind an aura of gentle indulgence and British eccentricity worn close to the skin. Number 1976 is a fragrance for evenings by lamplight, for conversations that linger, and for those who appreciate tradition enriched by imagination. Wow, I'm yours, man. That's great. There you go. I was, and because I was smelling it while you were reading it, that was really quite an evocative experience, I must say, yes.

1976. That's a great. So that's its name or is that it's like, it's code? Its full name is number 1976, a gentleman's revelry. Right, right. Lovely. Inspired by Tim Hine, produced by Flores. Wow, this is, that's a really, really thoughtful gift.

Thank you very much. You're welcome. It's sort of weird to smell something that is made for you. You sort of go, I do like it, so that's the important thing. It's not like I've gone, oh, that's weird. But you would think I would like it, listening to all that as course. The more important thing is that your wife likes it. Well, I guess that's true.

That's true. Yes, it will be a shift, and you do get used to someone with a particular sniff who moves to another one, but hopefully this doesn't feel too foreign. Yeah. Or maybe she'll like that. Maybe, maybe. It's like, oh, here you are. It's like a whole new man. And that green cardigan and now this new scent, what's going on?

The other day you're wearing the Hope Diamond. I never know what's coming next. December 24, Tim, it's the last day of this Advent calendar extravaganza. It really does feel like Christmas now. I mean, really, I mean, I know tomorrow's Christmas. but this is the climax of our fantasy advent. What's it called again? The Unmade Ultimate Fantasy Advent Calendar. Okay, okay. Yep.

Well, here we are. Yeah, thank you. All right. Door 24. Can I open my door first and see what you've got for me? All right. You're going to know, as soon as you see it, you're going to know what it is. All right, here we go.

I'm opening it up. Oh, well, there you go. There it is. Yes, there it is. There it is right there. Tell everyone what it is. No, no, no. I wouldn't want to take that pleasure away from you.

You go ahead and tell people. As I've been thinking through what to get Brady, I know there's been a couple of cricket gifts and a few things, but I had to save this because I thought the ultimate, the ultimate gift, even more significant than Sir Donald Bradman's cap. Man, Merry Christmas, I've brought you, the ashes. The ashes. The ashes earn.

Wow. This is a very small little trophy that is contested between Australia and England and cricket. That contains, symbolically contains a little ashes inside it, a little ashes earn. And this is the trophy that they play for for many, many years. That's currently been contested as we speak. And, well, I can't imagine what the value of this is. It's the holy grail of cricket. It is.

It is. Amazing. Totally irreplaceable. Tell us the story because this is a, the Ashes refers to a particular tour of England to Australia when they got absolutely demolished. Like a century ago, didn't they? They played, England played against Australia. It was before cricket was very formally organised. Yeah.

But it was like an official game between Australia and England and England. And England lost. and a witty newspaper article was written and I think it said something along the lines of the body of English cricket will be cremated and the ashes return to England Yes, yes. And so this idea of the ashes existing was created

and then soon after a small little urn which I think was just secondhand it may have even been just like a commercial container that contained medicine or something. I have read about it but it's all fallen out of my head now. Yeah, it's not a problem. earn it's much too small it's just this tiny yeah no it's a tiny it's it's much smaller than your hand and it's a little brown brown container well you've got it there hold it up man you've got oh yeah

there we go there i'm holding in my hand and i think the the tail is that a bale which is this small little piece of wood that is part of a cricket stumps in a game of cricket part of the the frame or the sticks that you aim at in cricket there's these tiny little small sticks on top called bails one of them may have been burned after a game and some of those ashes put inside the urn and then this this has become the trophy that Australia and England play for which is comical because it's so small

they have a large larger version of it made of crystal that the players all hold up these days at the end of games and can spray champagne around but the actual proper proper trophy it very rarely leaves England now it's at this museum at Lords at the home of cricket and it's like it's like the ultimate

trophy, the ultimate thing. It's like this, like, mythical object in Australia, England, cricket rivalry. It's kind of like if there'd been a famous baseball game, you know, they got home plate and suddenly, you know, like burnt home plate and put it inside a little container and it's like, here is the, so it really does become like the, you know, the Holy Grail. Incredible, irreplaceable. And now it's yours. I mean, it's not far. I mean, it's still in England. So that's, know, English people calm down.

They've not left the shores of England. Well, they will be soon if I get my way. I'm taking these straight back to Australia. Are you really? It's where they belong. I can be stored at the Adelaide Oval or something. But yeah, well, thank you very much, Tim. This is, yeah, I guess this kind of is the ultimate piece of cricket memorabilia.

So what more could I've asked for? I've had your name inscribed on the side. Is that okay? Oh, nice. Nice. Maybe I'll put it in my will that when I die. some of my ashes be put in there as well. Okay, well, shall we finish off with a present for you?

Don't get too excited. This is just going to be an envelope. Go ahead and open the door. Oh, okay, all right, okay, there we go. Correct, you are. It is an envelope. Thank you, man. I'll just put that with the other cards to the side and we'll move on.

It's funny you should say that. It's funny you should say that because this is kind of inspired by that sentiment, because you know sometimes for your birthday or Christmas, instead of like a present, you get like a voucher or a certificate from someone. And it says, instead of buying you a present, we have donated $200 to cleaner water in Africa and stuff like that.

People make a donation instead of a present. And like, I think they're a great idea and it's a great thing to do. Sometimes you might be thinking, well, wouldn't have minded a present, but yeah, that's still really nice. Yeah, yeah.

I've kind of pulled one of those on you here, man. I have given you a certificate here, and this certificate is for some fundraising I've been doing and a donation I've done, but I'm doing it in your name. Right. It never really feels like you've done it, though, when someone does it in your name, do they? It's like the other person's done it

and you're kind of along for the ride. But anyway, no, that's, no. There we go. I've made a donation in your name, Tim. And I obviously wanted to pull this joke on you Since we started the project But I couldn't decide what the donation should be And I've been a little bit inspired by

A suggestion from one of our Patreon supporters called Matt So I've kind of riffed on an idea from you Matt But here's what I've done I did want to do a donation for Tim And this is what we've done Can I read what the certificate says? Please do

Where is it going and how much is it? Well, I think you're going to be impressed Tim In lieu of a gift, $160 million has been given to create an endowment for the Tim Hine Institute for Trauma Care and Ministry. This institute, to be headquartered in the former Traraghan Post Office, but with offices to be established around the world, will bear Tim's name in perpetuity. The institute shall exist to equip, educate and sustain emerging pastors, chaplains and ministry leaders who serve individuals and communities affected by trauma. Grounded in dignity, care and restoration,

the Institute will stand as a place where understanding meets practice and where healing is supported with excellence and integrity. The Institute shall administer grants and scholarships dedicated to the formation of new pastors and ministry leaders. These resources will support education, training and supervised practice with particular attention given to those called to serve in high need and understanding. served contacts. May this institute stand as a lasting testament to service with compassion,

courage and care. Well, that was incredibly well put chat chibi tea. I appreciate it. There's a bit of everything in there. There's a bit of everything in there. No, look, man, that, well, that is, that is a lovely idea. That is a wonderful idea. $160 million. That's a good start. It's a good start. It is a good start. Yes. I, I, I don't think anyone would disagree, but it's a good start. And I was doing a bit of reading, and there is a bit of spare space in that former Terragan Post Office. And it's a nice building. I think it's a good place to put the headquarters.

It's one of my most favourite buildings ever. I really love it. I really love it. Of all the things in Taralgan, that's the one thing I'd save, I'd think. Fantastic. Look, that's a unique and beautifully thought-through idea. Thank you. Yes.

Nice. Very nice indeed. All right. All right. Would I get sort of like a cool office and stuff in there? Yes. Well, I mean, you're probably going to get tapped up for a senior management role pretty early, I imagine. It's cool.

It's a very handy access across the road to one of our old video stores as well. So that's great if I wanted to go over and get like, Herbie Goes Bananas or, you know, Return of the Jedi, then that's where I'd go. So that's great too. Yeah. And if there's any particular group of people who are in desperate need of trauma care, it is people who grew up in Tarraghan.

It's just down the road as well, you know, like less than a kilometre down the road in a straight line to the Taralgan skate park where I inflicted some trauma on my backside and my knees but left traumatised essentially because of the shame that I inflicted upon myself. through some very ordinary skateboarding. Okay, well.

Gosh. That's it. All done. Done and dust it. We're all done. We're all done. Okay, so all the episodes are going to be bunched together now and released tomorrow on Christmas Day for if you want to listen again or if, you know,

it's obviously for those people who aren't Patreon supporters. But, you know, we've got to let them. We'll let them know what happened after the fact, hey, you know. They have to cram them. They haven't been on the journey, like, They haven't. They haven't. They didn't experience it in real time. But, you know, and hopefully we'll record a little extra chat as well as a request room bonus to go out on Christmas Day as well with that. Again, just for the patrons. Just so you've got something just for you on Christmas Day as well. Because you're special. Don't tell everyone else, but you're special. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you for being supporters of the podcast throughout the year. We really, really, really value it. We really, really, really value it. Couldn't do it without you. Thank you.

That was exhausting. I cannot believe you are still here. Well done. I can imagine you are now. It's late on Christmas Day. You've had a feed. You've been sitting in the chair. You've missed the Queen's Christmas message if you're in the Commonwealth because you've been on the journey with Tim and Brady through Advent. Incredible. I hope you did it with the whole family. I hope while you were having your roast dinner and all that sort of stuff and all the trimming. you said to the family, everyone, everyone, shh, I'm going to put this on the smart speaker, have a listen to this. And they put it on and you're all just in celebrated Christmas in utter silence, listening to Tim and Brady. Perhaps you haven't eaten yet. Perhaps you've thought, no, we're going to do this first.

Then now, and I'm sorry, now it's time. We're going to wait. Get into the turkey. Okay, you can tuck in, everyone. You've made it. Yes, that's right. Enjoy your Christmas lunch. Thank you for listening.

Can I say there are probably, there may be some other listeners as well who have found themselves as many people do working on Christmas Day and perhaps this has been your soundtrack working or doing some other task and so we want to say a very special Merry Christmas to you. I'm glad you had some company throughout the day. I'm glad it was our company. It was a pleasure to journey with you and I hope that you get a well-earned rest soon to. Oh Tim, that's very, very righteous of you. Very good. And can I just say a special Merry Christmas to all the orphans out there. Because, you know, it's pretty sad being an orphan.

And Christmas is hard. But I just want to say, I love you too. And can I also just say... Can I, hang on a second, hang on a second. No, you've done the orphans. Let me just... Who do you want? Who do you get?

I want to say orphans who wear glasses. Because I know what it's like. to go through Christmas wearing glasses. My prescription's done. They're all scratched. You know, just waiting to sort of afford and get a new pair. It's been a busy time. So orphans who wear glasses in particular, a very special Merry Christmas to you.

And that's all we have time for now. No, no, no, no, no, no, please. Before we go, it wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be right to finish the show without me saying. A very special, special Merry Christmas. to all the people who Tim hasn't wished a Merry Christmas to because, you know,

Tim forgets a lot of things. He forgets a lot of people and some of you may be feeling sad and having struggles and be going through difficult times. And Tim hasn't wished you a Merry Christmas but I just want you to know that your good friend Brady

wishes you a Merry Christmas and Tim didn't, but I did. And a Merry Christmas from me as well. Just be happy. All right, so let's let me just just wrap. to everyone who is alive today and who has ever lived, Merry Christmas.

And can I also wish it Merry Christmas to people who are going to live in the future, who Tim overlooked? Those people are our future. They're the most important people because our future depends on you. And I want to wish you and Merry Christmas. I just want to apologise to those people in the future that I forgot to wish Merry Christmas. who will be facing Christmas without my best wishes. All those future Christmas is coming.