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December 23, 2024 17 mins

Tinsel? Check. Lights? Check. Bad vibes? Oh, definitely check. Wip shares the most horrifying story about how he found something DEAD in his Christmas tree and all of us wanna vom. Is it cursed, or just a tree with a bad attitude?  

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Because it fits in with trade Wiki podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm not going to say that we have had a
bad start to Christmas, but can it be that a
Christmas tree is cursed? It's a funny feeling around our
Christmas set up at home. We've got a couple of
stockings hanging from the fireplace. It's all very picturesque, grind James.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
And we've got a beautiful tree picked up me big.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Tree from Tony and you use real trees.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Real trees.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
So the smell of pine is Heaven just reminds me
of the childhood. And you know, the old man gets
sentimental about the family gathering and presence under.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
The tree and a couple of Christmas thoughts.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
So anyway, last night there was an issue I'm going
to I'm going to go to last night. First, there
was a sound that woke Lisa up.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
We're obviously in secretary.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Come in the window like that. So she runs down
the hallway to me quick, You've got to get up.
Something's happened downstairs. I think there's someone here. I okay,
do you remember.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm there with my mask on for sleep up near
So I'm going to take my mask off. So I'm
annoyed now and my chin strap and my mouthguard.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
So I have to remove body. And you think I'm sick.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Your body is a wonderland.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
So I've got to remove all this attractive apparatus from
my head. And then I quickly jumped to the floor
and Fitzy, I get the baseball bat out from under
the bed.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I've still got that the one that come with blood
on it already, horror movie.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
I marched down the stairs. I said, honey, you stay
up here. You're the last line of defense. If I
can't get them when I go down, then you're going
to have to save the kids.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
You're like the sacrificial element.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I go down, bat loaded, so over the shoulder, ready
to swing. What's happened is a stockings fallen from the
fireplace hit a ball ball that smashed on the floor.
And that was just a weird turn of events. So
I said, it's all right, honey, I worried out. What
go back to bed and save yourself. You don't need

(02:15):
to worry about the kids.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Glass ballbles have it?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh yeah, there's a couple of glass bables. We put
them high so the kids don't knock them. But it
was obviously high enough to then be hit by the
stocking as it fell off the tree. It fell off
the fireplace. Anyway, that was one thing.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
You talk about, the.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Beautiful smell of a real Christmas tree, and I love that.
But all of a sudden, since the weekend, it's been
a strange sort of smell around.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
The tree just doesn't it just doesn't smell the way
it's meant.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
To, because a good tree will fill a room and
you walk into the house and go, oh my god,
Christmas is here. So I'm sniffing around trying to work
out what's going on. I'm thinking maybe one of the
Christmas decorations is moldy. But was that kind of moldy smell?
Then it worked out what it was. Somehow a small

(03:08):
rat has got into the container at the bottom, like
the Christmas stand, and it's drowned in the water inside
the Christmas stand and started to rot.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
So while you put it up, or once you put
it away last year.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, no, no, because it wasn't there when I put
it up, because I washed the tub out.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, wash the tub out.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
And then there's a little spike at the bottom, and
you stick the tree on the spike and then you
bring it inside. So somehow a rat has come into
the house and got it into the container that was
then full of water and drowned.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well, there's a few rats around Rose Bay. Was it
a council member or was it a local politician?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't check out the rat close enough to know
which person it was from the area.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Go cha.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
But I then had to fish it out, So I
did the dog Poos style trick of hand in the
plastic bag to drag a rat out to put into
the bin, Open the windows and pump up the smell
of pine. Guys, because it stinks in here.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
That's a sign.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
It feels like a really bad stunder Christmas. Maybe Santa
has left that for you thinking, or that could be
a sign of the year that you've had you rat?
Is it the year of the rat?

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Tom? I thought it was. Wasn't it a dragon? Ash?
Does Ashnow? Does anyone know what year year of the Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, of course if you knew this, But it is,
of course the year of the wooden Dragon.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
I've heard of the mud dragon. I don't talk about
the wood wood dragon.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, would It's just a drag and he's a carpenter
really good with wood.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Next year, it's so hoping that things are better. It's
the year of the snake, fingers crossed.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Maybe a couple of my Christmas speed ruined already made.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
If I was if the kids are playing, if Jack's
playing up, I'd wrap up the rap and I'd deliver
it under the train for the fits.

Speaker 5 (05:15):
In Whipperie podcast.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Work drinks or a Christmas party is gone, and if
you were affected yesterday by the storm that came in,
we'd love to hear from your thurteen and twenty fourteen.
But I do love a good work drink because this
is the thing. It's the end of the year. You know,
Christmas just around the corner. You can relax, you don't
have any schedule, and you know, I'm gonna let my

(05:39):
hair down because it's starting to get a bit warmer.
And how good is it? The thing is, though, some
people can go a little bit too hard and they
wake up in places that they didn't even know that
they went to sleep in. I've got a great viral
video for you. So we're looking at here, so okay
up on the screen. It's amazing because before I play
the video for you, here have a look at the

(06:00):
bed and.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
It looks like as bedroom i've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah, so that there's folded clothes on top of the
bed and stuff like that. So this is an unbelievable
effort that this young Australian guy has nestled himself into
this bed and it's not even his house. Have a
listened to this?

Speaker 6 (06:23):
Why are you?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Why are you get in here? What was the drinking
for a work party?

Speaker 7 (06:37):
What did you come in.

Speaker 8 (06:39):
On?

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Nice? Camouflaged?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
You know, like an animal might bear himself into the
dirt under the bushes, He's camouflaged himself into the bed.

Speaker 7 (06:49):
I'm surprised that these people even found him.

Speaker 9 (06:51):
It must have been washing day or ironing day, because
it looks like it's the.

Speaker 7 (06:54):
Spare room stuff everywhere.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
I love how he goes and the last thing he
can remember is I just went out for a few
work drinks.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Oh my god, I've told you that story fits about
that made of mind. I won't say his name, But
he got to his house and he'd been out for
work drinks. He was dressed as a stormtrooper and he
couldn't find a keating into his house, turned around at
the front door and saw the front door of another
house across the road open. So there he was as
a stormtrooper and he just wandered into that house it's

(07:25):
midnight and slept on the couch and weed on the couch. Oh.

Speaker 7 (07:29):
It was one of those.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Woke up with the two girls yelling at him, saying,
get out of my house.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Stormtrooper, you have weed on the couch.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Oh, saying the urine is with you.

Speaker 9 (07:43):
They were very cool, calm and collected. I have to say,
I think if I found somebody randomly sleeping in my
spare room, I wouldn't be taking a video.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Or Jovi be calling the police, wouldn't you?

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Absolutely I accident and you guys are going to have
a crack at me here. But dently did it. When
I first started seeing BJ and we had a house
party and I ended up in the wrong bedroom.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh what was the other person's one of.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Her I was alerted by BJ when one of her
friends came in and said, Ryan has just came. It's
just jumped into the bed and he's lying next to me.

Speaker 9 (08:19):
Ah, and how did you explain yourself out of that one?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (08:22):
I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
I just woke up like that kid and said I
do all I can remember, as I just had some.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Work during the accidental swapsy.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Who woke up in your house? That ain't twenty four
to ten? Young fella over the weekend, unfortunately, woke up
in an elderly couple's house. They started filming, and he
woke up in the bed and said, this was.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
The drinking for a work party. Yes, you were. It's
a bit waiting for a mate, isn't it. Danny, Welcome
to the show. Where'd you wake up?

Speaker 10 (08:50):
I woke up in the wrong hotori room?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Did you get into the wrong hotel room?

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Danny?

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (08:56):
When I was going back after the gig, went back
to the hot room and then I was like already
like about to pass out, and the doors already a
jarb So I thought that was my room with the
number room, and as I went in, I just quickly
passed down on the bed, and then next second I
saw someone shaking me and I was like, oh, what's
going on? What are you doing in my room? And

(09:19):
then they hit and I just bolted it out of
the room.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
And had you got into bed with somebody else?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (09:25):
No?

Speaker 10 (09:26):
No, luckily, like it was like a thing. Two single
beds and.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
How much would you freaking come about your hotel room
and you've walked in there someone just passed out in
the bed in.

Speaker 7 (09:38):
The morning and you hadn't heard them.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Very scary or room set. That's room service that I
didn't order. Natalie in the Blue Mountains, did you find
a stranger in your house?

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Ah?

Speaker 8 (09:49):
Yeah, we found multiple strangers in our house when I
lived at CSU and Bassist over the bassst one thousand weekends.
We would every morning find people either in the couch,
in the shower.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Do you live near the track net?

Speaker 6 (10:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:05):
The cottage that we had was the closest cottage to
the to the track, and we didn't believe that when
we got told people would break in, and they break in.

Speaker 9 (10:14):
So it's not even as though your security was poor
and they just wandered in an open door.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
No, I mean security back then.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
You know what it would be there. It would be
blokes that would be so sick of their mates and
being on the mountain that they just needed a nice
comfy bed that they'd be prepared to break into your
house to sleep very much.

Speaker 8 (10:37):
My family in the shower family, Yeah, a young family
in the shower together.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Unbelievable and you might as well just leave the doors
open next year so they don't damage the locks.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Debs and Wednesday you winds? Are you with the culprit dev?
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (10:55):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Unfortunately I woke up on a New Year's Day in
someone else's house, no idea where I was. Had to
try and walk to find a train station. Wonder what
the hell happened that lot? That night? Eilash just stuck
in my hair. I was right, I alcohol other stuff. Unfortunately,

(11:17):
the next few days I had met these people and
they said, oh, you're that girl that did such and
start and I'm like, oh my god, help me.

Speaker 10 (11:27):
What the hell?

Speaker 4 (11:28):
What was the nearest train station? Where were you? Where
did you end up?

Speaker 6 (11:33):
I was in Western Sydney, and unfortunately the trains weren't
working that day, so I had to catch a bus
and my head was hanging out places.

Speaker 8 (11:44):
It was not frigging.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Do you know where there are any photos taken? Many
who got.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no there was. I was making friends
with everyone and unfortunately, when I drink, some bad stuff happened,
so there was definitely photos. There was videos, and yeah.

Speaker 9 (12:02):
Maybe maybe lock yourself up on New Years.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Maybe alcohol is not the best way forward.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
I don't know who we go. I mean, Dead's story
was amazing, but Natalie has been copying it for every
Bath bathist that's on. She gets a family that breaks
into her house, so I think she deserves the temple
and Webster doesn't.

Speaker 8 (12:20):
We So the with the cake, Whichie podcast.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Was celebrating, and last night, well done to the team
at Nova threw an awesome Christmas party. I mean I
gave gave a couple of awards out to me on
stage Jomas Bryan.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
The theme was iconic albums album covered you guys, I
didn't go.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
I went as rubbed tug Tugger rum tum Tugger from
Kats the Musicals.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
I could have been.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
That's not an album cover.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well it is if you're into Cats the musical.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Please don't judge me for my rubb and tugging.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
You only had one costume at home, had nothing to
do with the theme.

Speaker 9 (13:04):
And I think, mate, yeah, I think that costume has
been on high rotation.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
You were bad bunny, weren't you? Yes?

Speaker 1 (13:11):
I found a bunny outfit from our Easter celebrations here
and in the cupboard.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Yeah, Bad Bunny.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
One of the who went along Maddie producer. She was
what would you what was she was?

Speaker 4 (13:24):
She was the naughty nurse from the Blank one eight too.

Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yeah, your costume was amazing, Maddie, because I.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Injured myself and you didn't look like an official nurse.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, poor Maddie caught the Metro from Crow's Nest dressed
as these and then had to do a line change
at Central to then to then go to New Town.

Speaker 7 (13:44):
I'm surprised you arrived.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I've never seen so many guys have panic states of emergency.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Someone called out to her, My heart was Central that
they were sick. Could they help her please?

Speaker 4 (13:54):
That you can't do at work on the metro?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Kay, you were right, it was on high rotation. The
cat suit originally made last year, made two of them.
Tommy has won at home as well because because we've
been to parties as sick Fred and Roy two cats
from the Vegas.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Shows Sick Free Sick Freeze.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
So anyway, the reason the cat suit made an appearance,
and this was two nights ago and Francesca had a.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Sort of Christmas thing at her school and it was
called wild Night.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
So wild Night was for Wild play, so you had
kind of a jungle theme.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
So for two weeks she was saying, you have to
come along as the cat Can you wear the cat suit?
Please wear the catsuit.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
And then even one of the teachers, Miss Maddie mess
Maddie said, what's your dad going along as? I hope
he wears his cat suit. So there was a lot
of build up and pressure for the cat suit. Mind you,
she was just wearing some sort of leopard print thing.
Lisa put a leopard print thing on and here I
am in a white zoot suit, like a white onesie
with furs stuck on it. From spotlight it it's lost

(15:08):
a bit of a I think it's got a few diseases. Anyway,
just to paint a picture of the kids getting into
it and the singing and the fun of the night.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Have we got a bit of school performance? Yes, so
this is you know, they came in for the music
and you know they're doing sort of jungle dances and
so you know it's got a bit of a drum
and had a bit of a bang and all.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, you know, you're not in Thailand, you're just around
the corner at the local school. Then what was interesting
is I arrived, if I can take you back to
the entry. Lisa had promised me that on the group
chat all the dads had confirmed that they were also
dressing up when I got there as full cat. And

(15:56):
I'm avoiding making many obvious joke's code Richie.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
I turned up as a cat. Not one other father
addressed up.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
The scribe was there?

Speaker 7 (16:09):
Ever?

Speaker 3 (16:10):
I had a T shirt on that had a tiger
head on.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
It, like you know that brand Ken Hardy, No, Ken
you Ken Joe can the very fancy brandiger on the front.

Speaker 9 (16:22):
It's a tiger on the front front when you're wearing
Kenjo whatever.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
That was devastating news. As I looked at my wife
and turned around with my.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
Tail attached between your legs.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
You tell me between my legs.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
And the only joke I had for the night was
should see what I left in the kidy litter?

Speaker 9 (16:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Really good.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
The other issue that I had was I didn't consider
the fact that some of the kids might be scared
by the outfit.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
Well it's not it's not a pretty little No, it's.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Not like a cute cat.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
As you said, it's a Well I didn't think so,
but you know what fits I I sort of adapted
the outfit and I put the tiger head on that
I wore to Hughey's party one time when I got
beating up in my tiger suit, so I had the
tiger head on as well, and just when I entered
the kindergarten.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
The feedback wasn't great. I I listened to this book.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Take your hat off.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
It's okay, it's just a it's just an outfit. It's
just so Look he missed that miss down on the party.

Speaker 7 (17:28):
Are you sure you had the mask on?

Speaker 8 (17:29):
Or no?

Speaker 7 (17:30):
Was it without the mask? It was scaring?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
You want to see real whiskers?

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Did you graduate? Mate? Are you going you one?

Speaker 8 (17:37):
No?

Speaker 3 (17:38):
I struggled with the two piece puzzle, but I'll be
back again next year.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
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