December 23, 2025 • 30 mins
Lizzie Eastham and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.
On this week’s show
“Another Very Studio 1 Christmas”
It's Christmas Eve, if you haven't finished your Christmas shopping... well too bad!
Sam and Lizzie are joined by a few friends to look back at Christmas Past and how some things have changed.
Studio 1 welcomes any input from our listeners. If you have any experience or thoughts about issues covered in this episode or believe there is something we should be talking about.
You may also be interested in joining our choir of angels and telling your story.
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A special thank you to David Burston; Emma Myers; Shayne Allan; Stephen Eastham and Shaun Oliver.
This program was made possible with support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Find out more at https://cbf.org.au/
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S1 (00:13):
Most vivid memories I have with actually opening up a
large looking present. I think I was about oh 4
or 5, and it was actually, um, the first wheelchair Barbie.
S2 (00:30):
This is studio one with Sam Rickard and Lizzie Easton
on Vision Australia radio.
S3 (00:42):
Hello, I'm Sam.
S4 (00:43):
And I'm Lizzie.
S3 (00:44):
And this is another very studio one Christmas here on
Vision Australia Radio.
S4 (00:50):
Yes, it's Christmas Eve and if the shopping hasn't been
done by now, it never will be.
S3 (00:55):
We tackle such tough topics as. What is your favourite
Christmas movie? When do you know it's Christmas? And most importantly,
were the reindeers in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer nothing
but a bunch of cowardly bullies.
S4 (01:09):
As we always say at this point, please do get
in touch with the show whether you have experience with
any of the issues covered on this week's episode of
Studio One, or if you think there's something we should
be talking about. You never know. Your story and insight
may help someone who's dealing with something similar.
S3 (01:25):
Or if you agree with me about Rudolph. Anyway, you
can email us Studio One at org. That's studio number
one at org.
S4 (01:34):
Or of course if you're over the age of 16,
you can drop us a note on Facebook by going
to facebook.com.
S3 (01:43):
This is, of course, a very Studio One Christmas. So
we've broken out the lollies, the Christmas treats, and we're
just going to go all gushy and sentimental.
S4 (01:55):
Yes, indeed we are.
S3 (01:56):
So why do I think that the reindeers in Rudolph
the Red Nosed Reindeer were a bunch of cowardly bullies? Now,
I've been thinking about this since I was in school,
and I first heard the song and think about it.
This poor animal had what they considered to be something different,
and they were picking on him. And they kept on
(02:18):
picking on him up until the authority figure found a
use for him. And all of a sudden, surprisingly enough,
they all wanted to be his best friend again. They
loved him.
S4 (02:28):
Oh, no.
S3 (02:28):
That's just that's flaky. That's pathetic.
S4 (02:31):
It's an age old story, unfortunately, Sam, isn't it?
S3 (02:35):
Oh, I mean, who hasn't been in that situation?
S4 (02:38):
I mean, just replace Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer with Lisa,
the scrawny eight year old with long red hair, you know?
And if she turns out to be the smartest one
in the class, when all the kids suddenly love her
because she can help them get all good grades. It's
an age old story.
S3 (02:54):
Exactly.
S4 (02:55):
Just replace Rudolph with any character and you get the
same thing.
S3 (02:58):
That's right. So it makes it makes a Christmas classic
into a somewhat darker tale. That's the way I see it.
Talking of Christmas, though, we were at a Christmas party
yesterday and you were out there singing this song about
a guy called Noel.
S4 (03:13):
Who's Noel? Noel.
S3 (03:14):
Noel? Noel.
S4 (03:15):
Noel. Noel? No, it's not Noel. No no no no
no no.
S3 (03:22):
I could picture this.
S4 (03:22):
Guy.
S3 (03:23):
Back in ancient in Israel who's, you know. My name's Noel.
It's a funny name. You're the first guy called Noel. Noel?
S4 (03:28):
Well, I don't think Noel is his name. I think
Noel is a word that means something. And as a Christian,
I should know. But you know what? I don't. I'll
humbly admit right now, I don't know what Noel is.
You know what? Actually, if anybody does know, you can
email us at studio number one at Vision Australia. And
(03:49):
please let me know, because I am one uninformed person
right here.
S3 (03:53):
Yeah, we are tackling all the important stuff.
S4 (03:55):
All the important stuff.
S3 (03:56):
Yeah. Talking of which, though, I mean, we have asked
a few friends, um.
S4 (04:01):
A lot of questions.
S3 (04:02):
Their thoughts on Christmas. And we will also talk about, well,
we'll answer some of these, um, about four years ago,
I did exactly the same show with Matthew, and my
first memory of Christmas was when I was three and
the city of Darwin got blown away.
S4 (04:21):
Ah, yes.
S3 (04:22):
Um, so that's my tale all up. So that's the
first thing I remember about Christmas is being evacuated. So
what's your first memory of Christmas?
S4 (04:30):
Well, nothing is, um, tragic or dramatic or as, uh,
high paced and action filled as that. My first memory
of Christmas is getting a car. You know, one of
those cars there, a miniature car, and the kids can
sit in them, and they can press the pedal and
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steer them around. Well, somebody thought it would be a
good idea to get the blind girl a car like that. So,
my poor father, I do remember running down the side
of the road telling me which way to go, running
in front of me so that I could steer this car.
That's my first memory. Of course, I would have been
about three.
S3 (05:09):
Yeah, you could have started a whole new sport. Blind motorsports.
You just think about that.
S4 (05:14):
Yeah, except my dad's gonna have to learn to run
about 50 times faster than. Than what he was.
S3 (05:20):
It'd be like the.
S4 (05:21):
100.
S3 (05:21):
Times a blue heeler beside you to bark once for
left and twice for right. Anyway, let's ask everybody else.
S5 (05:30):
I was probably about three, maybe, maybe four. And I
remember there being a whippersnapper wrapped up under the Christmas
tree for my dad. And I had desperately wanted a
little teddy, uh, black, like a Scottish terrier. And, um,
was thrilled when that's what was under the tree for me.
(05:51):
All right. That's good. Yeah, that'll that'll be it. Oh, no.
S6 (05:55):
That's a good question. Um, I think my first real
memory of Christmas was when I got a a swimming pool.
One of those tarpaulin things with the little metal tubes.
You screw them together and you fill it with water and. Yeah.
S7 (06:06):
How old were you then?
S6 (06:07):
I can be about 3 or 4.
S8 (06:10):
That would have been living in Frankston some time. Some
some many years ago. I reckon it would have been
about 3 or 4. Yeah, they had a real Christmas tree, right.
But they couldn't stand it up properly. So they had
two ladders either side of it. They put um fishing
line on it and uh, they had one person each
ladder trying to get the fishing line up and pegging
(06:30):
it to the, nailing it to the wall, so to speak. Oh, crikey.
That would have been probably 1981, 82.
S1 (06:39):
One of the most vivid memories I have of actually
opening up a large looking present. I think I was
about oh 4 or 5, and it was actually, um,
the first wheelchair derby ever. And um, it's 1998 and uh,
(07:01):
of course, back then they, they would share a smile, Becky.
And it was for charity, but it was my favorite toy.
And then of course, later editions in the year. In 2000,
my parents got me the wheelchair racing Barbie in in
celebration of the 2000 Paralympic Games.
S8 (07:23):
I do still have those.
S1 (07:25):
I don't have the original, but funnily enough I did.
I actually saw them and actually bought them back in
their original packaging. So they were at my parents house
taking up all the space where them. Why shouldn't we
take up space?
S9 (07:42):
One year our parents got us three boys sat down
in the lounge room and they said instead of spending
all wasting all this money on Christmas presents and all
this Christmas thing, what do you think about if we
go for a holiday and we just get a couple
of Christmas presents, but most of the money will spend
on going for a holiday. So basically we jumped in
(08:06):
our old Holden HQ station wagon and traveled around Australia.
Every Christmas. We'd go, uh, went to Mount Gambier one year. Um,
we were trapped in, uh, Bundaberg when the cyclone hit
up in Queensland Way and everyone else in the caravan
park left. But because we weren't very well off with
(08:29):
the cash, um, we had a choice. Either stay through
the storm or go home. So we decided we'll stay
through the storm. And it was. That was a a
pretty interesting Christmas, being up in a strange place. And
when we got up the next morning after the storm
had hit and the cyclone had hit the hub in Townsville,
(08:51):
I think it was, um, the caravan park was just empty.
There was only one caravan in the caravan park and
it was the caravan that we were staying in, which
was a permanent side band that was done up like
a gypsy vein and everyone else was gone. Whereas two
days before, the caravan park was just packed with people
(09:14):
and it was right on the coastline. So you were
right at the ocean's edge, and half the caravan park
was like underwater from the sea. So that was the
interesting Christmas. But it was great adventure. Instead of wasting
money in presents, we had something that lasts for a lifetime.
The memories of spending that time with our parents.
S3 (09:35):
My most recent Perfect Christmas was last year and because
we were not in Adelaide for it, we were on
a cruise ship and it was a terrific Christmas. We
started with cocktails and we finished with cocktails and we
had an awfully great time. What's your best memories of Christmas?
S4 (09:50):
Um, well, you know, my favourite memory of Christmas was
actually the year Stephen and I got together. So let's
rewind the clock back to 2020. And I didn't know
that you could buy live Christmas trees. Now, the Ystems
have always, unbeknownst to me, had a tradition of buying
(10:13):
a live Christmas tree. So one day I go to
visit Stephen, where he was living at the time, and
there was a full sized live pine tree cutting in
the lounge room and the lounge room smelt divine, the
pine tree smell and the smell of cooking turkey. And oh,
(10:35):
it was just my first Christmas with Stephen. It was
like a fairy tale. It was. It was amazing. It
was absolutely. I can never forget it.
S3 (10:44):
Who got the job of sweeping up the pine cones, though, Stephen? Oh, well.
S4 (10:48):
I said you wanted the tree. You can clean it up. No,
I never said that. But he he he was he's
always been very good with that.
S3 (10:54):
All right, back to our choir of angels. What have
they got to say?
S9 (10:59):
One year, me and the kids were going to walk
around town and look at all the Christmas lights. So
I got my big sound system set up, and I
put the speakers on the front veranda and I thought,
we haven't got Christmas lights, but we're going to play
Christmas music. And I put, um, Colin Buchanan's Aussie Christmas
CD on, and we put it on repeat. And we
(11:21):
just went walking around town and the sound system was
that loud. We could hear the music all over town.
And on Monday, um, back at school, uh, people were saying,
was that you playing all that Christmas music the other night?
We could hear it all, you know, because it was
like a very loud sound system. So we walked around
(11:42):
town looking at all the Christmas lights, listening to the
Christmas songs. And yeah, there was a few comments on
the way. Uh oh. Isn't that cool? Someone's playing Christmas music.
I wonder who it is. And I'm there walking with
my kids, going, yeah, it's me. But I didn't tell anyone.
S5 (11:57):
When my extended family of you know, well, you've you've
spoken to Carly, um, my cousin and, uh, we'd always somehow,
on Christmas Day, end up at our grandmother's place, and
there'd be this smallest little Christmas tree in the corner
about three foot high, which was usually just the the
little pine tree that sat on her front veranda. And, um,
(12:19):
we'd get there sort of early morning and then you'd
just as every, all the other families turned up, you'd
just watch this sea of presents grow to cover what
seemed like, you know, a third to half of the, uh,
the lounge room floor. And then we'd, uh, then we'd,
we'd end up having Christmas lunch, and then everyone would
everyone would gather in the lounge room to go through
(12:40):
the great present giving. And it was, uh, it was
always a lot of fun. And then it'd just be
adults sleeping in the afternoon and chaotic kids running around
on sugar, custard, pudding, ice cream, highs and that going nuts.
But it was always traditional baked hot Christmas. Ridiculous for
the Australian summer. But, um, it was it was always
so good just being around huge family.
S1 (13:01):
I grew up in a very close knit Community. And, um,
a lot of my neighbors were actually from overseas and
so they wouldn't have any family around for Christmas. And
so from when I was about 11 or 12, my
family would actually chuck this big dinner celebration on Christmas
(13:28):
Day or Christmas evening, as it were, and we'd get
all of these jugglers into our house. And we had
we'd have like about 40 to 60 people in our
house just because they had nowhere else to go. Those
are my favorite memories, because it's just about sharing, because
(13:53):
you just in good company with people that you know
and people that you care about, and you can have
a laugh and a drink. And, uh, we had a
whole pig on the spit one year, so that was
pretty exciting. I've never seen a full animal being cooked before.
So yeah, it's just a lovely experience and it still
(14:17):
goes on every year.
S6 (14:18):
Some of my fondest with Mum and dad. I mean, granted,
a couple of times at Christmas time I wasn't too
well because I had this nasty habit of getting bronchitis
around Christmas time used to annoy me no end. But, um, yeah,
I've got I got a good old those couple of years. Uh,
I think I've got a robot for one year and
a typewriter, and I was heavily into the, uh, He-Man
(14:39):
and the Masters of the universe at the time, so
I was collecting those as well. Uh, one of the
fondest memories I have was with my brother back in 96, thereabouts. And, uh,
I just scored this, uh, cooking mobile phone. It was
a Nokia 6220 with talks on it. And, uh, that
(15:01):
year was a really hot Christmas Day and Santa Claus
came in on the fire truck. And there was a
tradition that I found out about. It started one year
when Santa Claus came around on the fire truck, and
all the kids used to hit him with their super
Soakers and whatnot, and it just sort of stemmed from there.
So you had people on their balconies and whatnot with
(15:23):
their hoses and their super soakers and all that, and
they were pelting Santa with water and the fire truck,
the dude driving the fire truck, they got wise to it.
So they started pelting them back with a fire hose.
S8 (15:34):
Once upon a time, a little Stevie got a Dukes
of Hazzard car set and Dukes of Hazzard slot car
like little cars and whatnot. And my stepdad used to
spoil me rotten with that sort of stuff, because all
I could really do was sit in front of the telly,
like when other kids went out riding their bikes and whatnot.
I wasn't really allowed outside because nobody knew what I
(15:55):
could do, or I was a little mischief maker and
always got myself in trouble. 86 Christmas Time I got
a slot car set. Let me. Stepfather put it on
a board for me. The one I had the jump
in the middle and everything. He also got me a, um,
a Puffing Billy or some smokey, um, train set, and
(16:15):
that was already on a, um, like a a layout. Nice.
And I got other things. I got a, um, I
got my first aftershave, which was a, a glass bottle
of Old Spice. And I just remember, like, all for
a Christmas smelling old spice and the smell of the
Christmas tree and mingling together and everything. It was just.
(16:38):
That was perfect.
S3 (16:42):
So we've tackled first Christmases and favorite memories of Christmas. Sometimes, though,
life changes. And whether it's for the good or for
the bad and, well, sometimes it just is different. And
so I did ask a couple of people how things
are different now, especially when they have kids and they
have families of their own.
S5 (17:03):
It's all comes down to my wife, because she's the
one who actually really organizes our entire lives, and very
grateful for that. So we, uh, have a Christmas Eve
tradition where on the Central Coast, here we go down
to Pearl beach on Christmas Eve, and we spend, you know,
that's when everything's done. We spend the the day floating
(17:24):
around in, in the water, and we have mangoes and
just beautiful picnic and that on the beach and just
hang out there for the day. And then on Christmas Day,
we usually have croissants with ham and cheese, um, in
the mornings and often a seafood with. We, we do
a lot of sashimi now for for lunch smoked salmon
(17:46):
and oh, so good. And, um. Yeah, really just, uh,
laze around and and have, um, you know, a great day. Um,
the girls always come into our bedroom early in the
morning with their Santa stockings and go through those on
our bed, which is which is a lot of fun.
So yeah. See what the what the big fat man
bought them for Christmas.
S6 (18:07):
I really haven't any because, uh, the last several Christmases
I spent at home. And if I, if I've got
something worth eating, I'll cook it up and eat it.
The worst thing about living alone is Christmas time, if
I'm being honest. Um, I'm hoping, you know, when I
finally get to my final destination, I will be able
to make new memories and traditions. Because I will have
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my wife to spend Christmas with.
S8 (18:31):
Yeah. Heaven on earth for a poor little bugger. I
feel so sorry for you all. I want to cry.
S9 (18:40):
Well, it's a time of contemplating, relaxing and, um, enjoying
meeting new people compared to, uh, worrying about what I'm
going to get so and so for Christmas. How much
money have I got for Christmas and all that sort
of thing? At this stage, I just focus on I'll
do the best I can do and then just relax
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and enjoy meeting different people.
S8 (19:04):
Christmas turkey if there's lots left over. And so we
got Christmas turkey for like 3 or 4 days or
until it starts smelling.
S6 (19:11):
That's about Christmas dinner. Dude, you always you really have
a race man or a turkey or race piggy or whatever. Yeah.
You know, you always got enough left over for sandwiches
until New Year's Day. That's like.
S10 (19:21):
Oh, I'm glad that's alright.
S3 (19:27):
How have things changed now that you have sort of your,
your miniature family with the, uh, the, the two dogs
or surrogate children as they were.
S4 (19:35):
Yeah. Well, I mean, not only have we got the
two dogs, but we've got, uh, Amy and Jesse, Steven's
kids as well. I used to spend Christmas with my parents,
and it would be that pretty much from Christmas Eve
till New Year's Day, or just after I would spend
with them. Because, you know, I'd spend time with the
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family for Christmas, and then I'd do stuff with the
family for New Year's Since I've entered into a relationship
with Steven. And now that we're married and live together
and all that, my Christmases revolve around them him, Amy,
Jesse and the two dogs. So yeah, we no longer
go out for Christmas Day to our other family's house.
(20:17):
We actually have it at home. Because the other hard
thing is that when you're blind, you know, or vision
impaired and you can't drive, it's very hard to find transport,
reliable transport at that for Christmas. So we have made
it a rule. Now that we are, we stay in
and if people want to see us on Christmas Day,
they can come to us because yeah, it's very hard
(20:40):
to get that that transport there. As for traditions, yeah,
the live Christmas tree, as I mentioned earlier, Steven makes
his own turkey, which I mean most families do anyway.
And the tradition that has become a big thing with Laci,
we used to wrap her presence up and let her
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tear them open. And we also had a big water
shell for her to play in, which she did every Christmas. Um,
now with Mackenzie, we've got two, two lots of dog
presents to wrap. Okay, so that's gonna make things interesting.
And two Christmas dog cakes to make.
S3 (21:16):
Well, okay. Um, Mackenzie and Lacey, block your ears. What
have you. What have you given them for Christmas?
S4 (21:22):
Well, Mackenzie has a new nylabone, and she has some toys.
I'm a bit hesitant to give her any of the
mainstream commercially kind of bags of smack hose, because she
has a very sensitive stomach. However, Lacey has, uh, doggy toothpaste,
which she's not going to be too impressed about, and
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she has got a few little treats. Uh, and I
did get them both a pig's ear each because they
can eat both. Eat pig's ears. So, Lacey Mackenzie, I
hope you're not listening.
S3 (21:56):
So it's going to be an exciting time at the
eastern household. All right. So we're now looking at the
one of the most important things for the Christmas period.
And that is movies. So do you have a go
to Christmas movie that you like to experience?
S4 (22:12):
I don't I don't watch movies as a rule. I'm
not a TV or movie person at all, so I
don't have a Christmas movie.
S3 (22:21):
I am kind of forced to, um, experience multiple times
love Actually. Um, I don't have anything against the movie
in general, but it's now got to the stage where
I've probably memorized every line of it. And it's not
that I like watching it frequently, it's just that somebody
else who shall remain nameless tends to watch it several
times during the year.
S4 (22:40):
Well, we know who that is, don't we?
S3 (22:41):
Exactly, exactly. But what does everyone else got to say
about it? Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
S1 (22:48):
I think my favorite Christmas movie is, uh, the Eloise
at Christmas time or The Polar Express.
S3 (22:55):
And why do you like those movies?
S1 (22:56):
Oh, because, um, it's just entertaining to watch a little
kid growing up in a hotel and being chased around
by her nanny, played by Julie Andrews. And they're just
like the Polar Express because it was something so different
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at the time. Just the animation quality and the, um,
songs that my parents and I and my brothers would sing. And, uh,
it's the one movie that we can all put on
and offer to sit down to watch it, which never happens.
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We never sit down to watch TV together at all.
So it's a really sweet moment.
S9 (23:43):
I have a go to Christmas song. It's, uh, Colin Buchanan,
the Aussie jingle bells. Dashing through the snow and holding
rusty Ute. Kicking up the dust in the boot Kelpy
Brown side singing Christmas songs. Christmas is a song.
S5 (24:03):
I.
S9 (24:04):
Really remember. I don't really remember Christmas movie because there's
so many of them, but I can remember, uh, Colin
Buchanan's The Aussie Jingle Bell Song quite well.
S8 (24:15):
My favorite Christmas movie is The Polar Express. That's. No,
that's you.
S6 (24:21):
Know, yours is Die Hard.
S8 (24:23):
That's right. Die hard and Polar Express. And I'm there
talking for sure.
S6 (24:28):
Die hard is a Christmas movie. I don't care what
anybody says.
S7 (24:31):
Okay.
S6 (24:32):
And my favorite Christmas movie, on the other hand, is
Polar Express. Oh.
S11 (24:36):
Okay. What what's your favorite Christmas song?
S6 (24:40):
I wrote many a year. It was Blue Christmas because
the thing was, um, produced and sounded so happy when
it was anything but.
S8 (24:47):
Steven BrewDog wet nosed Cross Breed by Kevin Bloody Wilson. Well,
bringing in the sheep like everybody else.
S3 (25:01):
Now, when do you think it's Christmas? When do you
think it's started? What's your, um, measure?
S4 (25:07):
Well, I was thinking about this, and my first answer
was going to be when Pam asks me to promo
the audio described Christmas pageant, but I don't know if
that's true. I know it's Christmas when oh my gosh,
this is hard. Oh.
S3 (25:27):
Mate, I'll tell you what, as Lizzy has, uh, gone
into deep, deep thought, I will tell you my marker,
because over the years there's been several things in. And
you can't rely on the shops, for example, because sometimes
it's Christmas in late September, according to them. But I
know Christmas is coming up and we're past the no
point of view of, um, yeah, the point of no
(25:49):
return when those damn calendar shops show up in, um,
in the various shopping centers. That seems to be the
start of the whole rush towards the end of the year.
S4 (25:59):
I know it's Christmas when the Christmas carols start to
be played, and I also think now that I've started
attending church, I know it's Christmas when they announce that
we're about to start advent. Okay. And yeah, because advent
starts as of the 1st of December. So that's when
(26:20):
I know it's Christmas.
S3 (26:21):
Well, indeed. In fact, I as far as I remember,
it was about ten years ago or even longer that
one of the, um, the shop assistants union actually tried
to get more money over the Christmas period for the
turmoil and trauma of its workers, who had to listen
to Christmas carols and Christmas music for the whole, uh,
day and would be coming home, um, humming and whistling
(26:45):
these annoying songs. I'm not sure how that went, but
I did hear it was a case that actually did
go as far as the, um, industrial court. That would
be an interesting thing to know. But in the meantime,
what does everybody else think?
S12 (27:00):
I don't want a lot for Chris. No.
S8 (27:03):
When you start hearing Mariah Carey singing, no. You know,
it's Christmas when you walk through your front door and
the trees all set up and everything's all done, and
the first thing you smell is the smell of the tree.
If you got a fresh one, it is a pine tree,
a proper Christmas tree. You know, it's Christmas when everything
is done and you get this warm feeling in your heart.
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You know it's Christmas when you start feeling like Christmas spirit.
S6 (27:28):
You know it's Christmas when you get as excited as
you did when you were smaller. And you remember the
fun you had with the with the rallies before they
became obnoxious.
S5 (27:41):
When the days get ridiculously hot. There's a smell of
smoke in the air, and you walk into every shop
and you hear Mariah Carey, and my sister starts to
tell you how many ridiculous amounts of Christmas lights she's
buying to redo her whole house that year.
S1 (27:56):
You know, it's Christmas when Pogues Fairytale of New York
gets played at least three times.
S9 (28:05):
It's in the air. People are talking about it. The
shops are promoting it. Um, children, grandchildren. Everyone's talking about it,
you know. Uh, what do you want for Christmas? What
are you getting for Christmas? We're going out for Christmas.
What are we going to do for the holidays in Christmas?
And also, I live in a coastal holiday location, so
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the town gets really busy at Christmas time because lots
of people come here for their holidays.
S3 (28:36):
That's a wrap for this week. A big thank you
to Emma meyers, David Burstyn, Sean Oliver, Stephen Eastham, and
Shane Allen. And a special apology to Jodie and Neil.
Owing to technical problems, we were not able to use
the fantastic interview we did with you. And of course,
thank you for listening. That includes our listeners on the
Reading Radio Network. You can also find a podcast of
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this show on Apple, Spotify, Google, or your favorite podcast platform.
S4 (29:05):
Join us on New Year's Eve for a wrap of
the year.
S3 (29:08):
Yes, really looking forward to that. And all that remains
now is for us to wish you, our dear listeners,
a very Merry Christmas.
S1 (29:16):
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
S13 (29:18):
Very, very, very Merry Christmas to everyone out there.
S9 (29:21):
Merry Christmas everyone, and may the New Year bring lots
of presents and exciting new things.
S6 (29:27):
Merry Christmas.
S13 (29:28):
Merry.
S8 (29:28):
Christmas, ho ho ho!
S2 (29:30):
Studio one was produced in the Adelaide studios of Vision
Australia Radio. This show was made possible with the help
of the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Find out more at cbsnewyork.com.
S3 (29:45):
Merry Christmas. See you next year.
Most vivid memories I have with actually opening up a
large looking present. I think I was about oh 4
or 5, and it was actually, um, the first wheelchair Barbie.
S2 (00:30):
This is studio one with Sam Rickard and Lizzie Easton
on Vision Australia radio.
S3 (00:42):
Hello, I'm Sam.
S4 (00:43):
And I'm Lizzie.
S3 (00:44):
And this is another very studio one Christmas here on
Vision Australia Radio.
S4 (00:50):
Yes, it's Christmas Eve and if the shopping hasn't been
done by now, it never will be.
S3 (00:55):
We tackle such tough topics as. What is your favourite
Christmas movie? When do you know it's Christmas? And most importantly,
were the reindeers in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer nothing
but a bunch of cowardly bullies.
S4 (01:09):
As we always say at this point, please do get
in touch with the show whether you have experience with
any of the issues covered on this week's episode of
Studio One, or if you think there's something we should
be talking about. You never know. Your story and insight
may help someone who's dealing with something similar.
S3 (01:25):
Or if you agree with me about Rudolph. Anyway, you
can email us Studio One at org. That's studio number
one at org.
S4 (01:34):
Or of course if you're over the age of 16,
you can drop us a note on Facebook by going
to facebook.com.
S3 (01:43):
This is, of course, a very Studio One Christmas. So
we've broken out the lollies, the Christmas treats, and we're
just going to go all gushy and sentimental.
S4 (01:55):
Yes, indeed we are.
S3 (01:56):
So why do I think that the reindeers in Rudolph
the Red Nosed Reindeer were a bunch of cowardly bullies? Now,
I've been thinking about this since I was in school,
and I first heard the song and think about it.
This poor animal had what they considered to be something different,
and they were picking on him. And they kept on
(02:18):
picking on him up until the authority figure found a
use for him. And all of a sudden, surprisingly enough,
they all wanted to be his best friend again. They
loved him.
S4 (02:28):
Oh, no.
S3 (02:28):
That's just that's flaky. That's pathetic.
S4 (02:31):
It's an age old story, unfortunately, Sam, isn't it?
S3 (02:35):
Oh, I mean, who hasn't been in that situation?
S4 (02:38):
I mean, just replace Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer with Lisa,
the scrawny eight year old with long red hair, you know?
And if she turns out to be the smartest one
in the class, when all the kids suddenly love her
because she can help them get all good grades. It's
an age old story.
S3 (02:54):
Exactly.
S4 (02:55):
Just replace Rudolph with any character and you get the
same thing.
S3 (02:58):
That's right. So it makes it makes a Christmas classic
into a somewhat darker tale. That's the way I see it.
Talking of Christmas, though, we were at a Christmas party
yesterday and you were out there singing this song about
a guy called Noel.
S4 (03:13):
Who's Noel? Noel.
S3 (03:14):
Noel? Noel.
S4 (03:15):
Noel. Noel? No, it's not Noel. No no no no
no no.
S3 (03:22):
I could picture this.
S4 (03:22):
Guy.
S3 (03:23):
Back in ancient in Israel who's, you know. My name's Noel.
It's a funny name. You're the first guy called Noel. Noel?
S4 (03:28):
Well, I don't think Noel is his name. I think
Noel is a word that means something. And as a Christian,
I should know. But you know what? I don't. I'll
humbly admit right now, I don't know what Noel is.
You know what? Actually, if anybody does know, you can
email us at studio number one at Vision Australia. And
(03:49):
please let me know, because I am one uninformed person
right here.
S3 (03:53):
Yeah, we are tackling all the important stuff.
S4 (03:55):
All the important stuff.
S3 (03:56):
Yeah. Talking of which, though, I mean, we have asked
a few friends, um.
S4 (04:01):
A lot of questions.
S3 (04:02):
Their thoughts on Christmas. And we will also talk about, well,
we'll answer some of these, um, about four years ago,
I did exactly the same show with Matthew, and my
first memory of Christmas was when I was three and
the city of Darwin got blown away.
S4 (04:21):
Ah, yes.
S3 (04:22):
Um, so that's my tale all up. So that's the
first thing I remember about Christmas is being evacuated. So
what's your first memory of Christmas?
S4 (04:30):
Well, nothing is, um, tragic or dramatic or as, uh,
high paced and action filled as that. My first memory
of Christmas is getting a car. You know, one of
those cars there, a miniature car, and the kids can
sit in them, and they can press the pedal and
(04:51):
steer them around. Well, somebody thought it would be a
good idea to get the blind girl a car like that. So,
my poor father, I do remember running down the side
of the road telling me which way to go, running
in front of me so that I could steer this car.
That's my first memory. Of course, I would have been
about three.
S3 (05:09):
Yeah, you could have started a whole new sport. Blind motorsports.
You just think about that.
S4 (05:14):
Yeah, except my dad's gonna have to learn to run
about 50 times faster than. Than what he was.
S3 (05:20):
It'd be like the.
S4 (05:21):
100.
S3 (05:21):
Times a blue heeler beside you to bark once for
left and twice for right. Anyway, let's ask everybody else.
S5 (05:30):
I was probably about three, maybe, maybe four. And I
remember there being a whippersnapper wrapped up under the Christmas
tree for my dad. And I had desperately wanted a
little teddy, uh, black, like a Scottish terrier. And, um,
was thrilled when that's what was under the tree for me.
(05:51):
All right. That's good. Yeah, that'll that'll be it. Oh, no.
S6 (05:55):
That's a good question. Um, I think my first real
memory of Christmas was when I got a a swimming pool.
One of those tarpaulin things with the little metal tubes.
You screw them together and you fill it with water and. Yeah.
S7 (06:06):
How old were you then?
S6 (06:07):
I can be about 3 or 4.
S8 (06:10):
That would have been living in Frankston some time. Some
some many years ago. I reckon it would have been
about 3 or 4. Yeah, they had a real Christmas tree, right.
But they couldn't stand it up properly. So they had
two ladders either side of it. They put um fishing
line on it and uh, they had one person each
ladder trying to get the fishing line up and pegging
(06:30):
it to the, nailing it to the wall, so to speak. Oh, crikey.
That would have been probably 1981, 82.
S1 (06:39):
One of the most vivid memories I have of actually
opening up a large looking present. I think I was
about oh 4 or 5, and it was actually, um,
the first wheelchair derby ever. And um, it's 1998 and uh,
(07:01):
of course, back then they, they would share a smile, Becky.
And it was for charity, but it was my favorite toy.
And then of course, later editions in the year. In 2000,
my parents got me the wheelchair racing Barbie in in
celebration of the 2000 Paralympic Games.
S8 (07:23):
I do still have those.
S1 (07:25):
I don't have the original, but funnily enough I did.
I actually saw them and actually bought them back in
their original packaging. So they were at my parents house
taking up all the space where them. Why shouldn't we
take up space?
S9 (07:42):
One year our parents got us three boys sat down
in the lounge room and they said instead of spending
all wasting all this money on Christmas presents and all
this Christmas thing, what do you think about if we
go for a holiday and we just get a couple
of Christmas presents, but most of the money will spend
on going for a holiday. So basically we jumped in
(08:06):
our old Holden HQ station wagon and traveled around Australia.
Every Christmas. We'd go, uh, went to Mount Gambier one year. Um,
we were trapped in, uh, Bundaberg when the cyclone hit
up in Queensland Way and everyone else in the caravan
park left. But because we weren't very well off with
(08:29):
the cash, um, we had a choice. Either stay through
the storm or go home. So we decided we'll stay
through the storm. And it was. That was a a
pretty interesting Christmas, being up in a strange place. And
when we got up the next morning after the storm
had hit and the cyclone had hit the hub in Townsville,
(08:51):
I think it was, um, the caravan park was just empty.
There was only one caravan in the caravan park and
it was the caravan that we were staying in, which
was a permanent side band that was done up like
a gypsy vein and everyone else was gone. Whereas two
days before, the caravan park was just packed with people
(09:14):
and it was right on the coastline. So you were
right at the ocean's edge, and half the caravan park
was like underwater from the sea. So that was the
interesting Christmas. But it was great adventure. Instead of wasting
money in presents, we had something that lasts for a lifetime.
The memories of spending that time with our parents.
S3 (09:35):
My most recent Perfect Christmas was last year and because
we were not in Adelaide for it, we were on
a cruise ship and it was a terrific Christmas. We
started with cocktails and we finished with cocktails and we
had an awfully great time. What's your best memories of Christmas?
S4 (09:50):
Um, well, you know, my favourite memory of Christmas was
actually the year Stephen and I got together. So let's
rewind the clock back to 2020. And I didn't know
that you could buy live Christmas trees. Now, the Ystems
have always, unbeknownst to me, had a tradition of buying
(10:13):
a live Christmas tree. So one day I go to
visit Stephen, where he was living at the time, and
there was a full sized live pine tree cutting in
the lounge room and the lounge room smelt divine, the
pine tree smell and the smell of cooking turkey. And oh,
(10:35):
it was just my first Christmas with Stephen. It was
like a fairy tale. It was. It was amazing. It
was absolutely. I can never forget it.
S3 (10:44):
Who got the job of sweeping up the pine cones, though, Stephen? Oh, well.
S4 (10:48):
I said you wanted the tree. You can clean it up. No,
I never said that. But he he he was he's
always been very good with that.
S3 (10:54):
All right, back to our choir of angels. What have
they got to say?
S9 (10:59):
One year, me and the kids were going to walk
around town and look at all the Christmas lights. So
I got my big sound system set up, and I
put the speakers on the front veranda and I thought,
we haven't got Christmas lights, but we're going to play
Christmas music. And I put, um, Colin Buchanan's Aussie Christmas
CD on, and we put it on repeat. And we
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just went walking around town and the sound system was
that loud. We could hear the music all over town.
And on Monday, um, back at school, uh, people were saying,
was that you playing all that Christmas music the other night?
We could hear it all, you know, because it was
like a very loud sound system. So we walked around
(11:42):
town looking at all the Christmas lights, listening to the
Christmas songs. And yeah, there was a few comments on
the way. Uh oh. Isn't that cool? Someone's playing Christmas music.
I wonder who it is. And I'm there walking with
my kids, going, yeah, it's me. But I didn't tell anyone.
S5 (11:57):
When my extended family of you know, well, you've you've
spoken to Carly, um, my cousin and, uh, we'd always somehow,
on Christmas Day, end up at our grandmother's place, and
there'd be this smallest little Christmas tree in the corner
about three foot high, which was usually just the the
little pine tree that sat on her front veranda. And, um,
(12:19):
we'd get there sort of early morning and then you'd
just as every, all the other families turned up, you'd
just watch this sea of presents grow to cover what
seemed like, you know, a third to half of the, uh,
the lounge room floor. And then we'd, uh, then we'd,
we'd end up having Christmas lunch, and then everyone would
everyone would gather in the lounge room to go through
(12:40):
the great present giving. And it was, uh, it was
always a lot of fun. And then it'd just be
adults sleeping in the afternoon and chaotic kids running around
on sugar, custard, pudding, ice cream, highs and that going nuts.
But it was always traditional baked hot Christmas. Ridiculous for
the Australian summer. But, um, it was it was always
so good just being around huge family.
S1 (13:01):
I grew up in a very close knit Community. And, um,
a lot of my neighbors were actually from overseas and
so they wouldn't have any family around for Christmas. And
so from when I was about 11 or 12, my
family would actually chuck this big dinner celebration on Christmas
(13:28):
Day or Christmas evening, as it were, and we'd get
all of these jugglers into our house. And we had
we'd have like about 40 to 60 people in our
house just because they had nowhere else to go. Those
are my favorite memories, because it's just about sharing, because
(13:53):
you just in good company with people that you know
and people that you care about, and you can have
a laugh and a drink. And, uh, we had a
whole pig on the spit one year, so that was
pretty exciting. I've never seen a full animal being cooked before.
So yeah, it's just a lovely experience and it still
(14:17):
goes on every year.
S6 (14:18):
Some of my fondest with Mum and dad. I mean, granted,
a couple of times at Christmas time I wasn't too
well because I had this nasty habit of getting bronchitis
around Christmas time used to annoy me no end. But, um, yeah,
I've got I got a good old those couple of years. Uh,
I think I've got a robot for one year and
a typewriter, and I was heavily into the, uh, He-Man
(14:39):
and the Masters of the universe at the time, so
I was collecting those as well. Uh, one of the
fondest memories I have was with my brother back in 96, thereabouts. And, uh,
I just scored this, uh, cooking mobile phone. It was
a Nokia 6220 with talks on it. And, uh, that
(15:01):
year was a really hot Christmas Day and Santa Claus
came in on the fire truck. And there was a
tradition that I found out about. It started one year
when Santa Claus came around on the fire truck, and
all the kids used to hit him with their super
Soakers and whatnot, and it just sort of stemmed from there.
So you had people on their balconies and whatnot with
(15:23):
their hoses and their super soakers and all that, and
they were pelting Santa with water and the fire truck,
the dude driving the fire truck, they got wise to it.
So they started pelting them back with a fire hose.
S8 (15:34):
Once upon a time, a little Stevie got a Dukes
of Hazzard car set and Dukes of Hazzard slot car
like little cars and whatnot. And my stepdad used to
spoil me rotten with that sort of stuff, because all
I could really do was sit in front of the telly,
like when other kids went out riding their bikes and whatnot.
I wasn't really allowed outside because nobody knew what I
(15:55):
could do, or I was a little mischief maker and
always got myself in trouble. 86 Christmas Time I got
a slot car set. Let me. Stepfather put it on
a board for me. The one I had the jump
in the middle and everything. He also got me a, um,
a Puffing Billy or some smokey, um, train set, and
(16:15):
that was already on a, um, like a a layout. Nice.
And I got other things. I got a, um, I
got my first aftershave, which was a, a glass bottle
of Old Spice. And I just remember, like, all for
a Christmas smelling old spice and the smell of the
Christmas tree and mingling together and everything. It was just.
(16:38):
That was perfect.
S3 (16:42):
So we've tackled first Christmases and favorite memories of Christmas. Sometimes, though,
life changes. And whether it's for the good or for
the bad and, well, sometimes it just is different. And
so I did ask a couple of people how things
are different now, especially when they have kids and they
have families of their own.
S5 (17:03):
It's all comes down to my wife, because she's the
one who actually really organizes our entire lives, and very
grateful for that. So we, uh, have a Christmas Eve
tradition where on the Central Coast, here we go down
to Pearl beach on Christmas Eve, and we spend, you know,
that's when everything's done. We spend the the day floating
(17:24):
around in, in the water, and we have mangoes and
just beautiful picnic and that on the beach and just
hang out there for the day. And then on Christmas Day,
we usually have croissants with ham and cheese, um, in
the mornings and often a seafood with. We, we do
a lot of sashimi now for for lunch smoked salmon
(17:46):
and oh, so good. And, um. Yeah, really just, uh,
laze around and and have, um, you know, a great day. Um,
the girls always come into our bedroom early in the
morning with their Santa stockings and go through those on
our bed, which is which is a lot of fun.
So yeah. See what the what the big fat man
bought them for Christmas.
S6 (18:07):
I really haven't any because, uh, the last several Christmases
I spent at home. And if I, if I've got
something worth eating, I'll cook it up and eat it.
The worst thing about living alone is Christmas time, if
I'm being honest. Um, I'm hoping, you know, when I
finally get to my final destination, I will be able
to make new memories and traditions. Because I will have
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my wife to spend Christmas with.
S8 (18:31):
Yeah. Heaven on earth for a poor little bugger. I
feel so sorry for you all. I want to cry.
S9 (18:40):
Well, it's a time of contemplating, relaxing and, um, enjoying
meeting new people compared to, uh, worrying about what I'm
going to get so and so for Christmas. How much
money have I got for Christmas and all that sort
of thing? At this stage, I just focus on I'll
do the best I can do and then just relax
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and enjoy meeting different people.
S8 (19:04):
Christmas turkey if there's lots left over. And so we
got Christmas turkey for like 3 or 4 days or
until it starts smelling.
S6 (19:11):
That's about Christmas dinner. Dude, you always you really have
a race man or a turkey or race piggy or whatever. Yeah.
You know, you always got enough left over for sandwiches
until New Year's Day. That's like.
S10 (19:21):
Oh, I'm glad that's alright.
S3 (19:27):
How have things changed now that you have sort of your,
your miniature family with the, uh, the, the two dogs
or surrogate children as they were.
S4 (19:35):
Yeah. Well, I mean, not only have we got the
two dogs, but we've got, uh, Amy and Jesse, Steven's
kids as well. I used to spend Christmas with my parents,
and it would be that pretty much from Christmas Eve
till New Year's Day, or just after I would spend
with them. Because, you know, I'd spend time with the
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family for Christmas, and then I'd do stuff with the
family for New Year's Since I've entered into a relationship
with Steven. And now that we're married and live together
and all that, my Christmases revolve around them him, Amy,
Jesse and the two dogs. So yeah, we no longer
go out for Christmas Day to our other family's house.
(20:17):
We actually have it at home. Because the other hard
thing is that when you're blind, you know, or vision
impaired and you can't drive, it's very hard to find transport,
reliable transport at that for Christmas. So we have made
it a rule. Now that we are, we stay in
and if people want to see us on Christmas Day,
they can come to us because yeah, it's very hard
(20:40):
to get that that transport there. As for traditions, yeah,
the live Christmas tree, as I mentioned earlier, Steven makes
his own turkey, which I mean most families do anyway.
And the tradition that has become a big thing with Laci,
we used to wrap her presence up and let her
(21:01):
tear them open. And we also had a big water
shell for her to play in, which she did every Christmas. Um,
now with Mackenzie, we've got two, two lots of dog
presents to wrap. Okay, so that's gonna make things interesting.
And two Christmas dog cakes to make.
S3 (21:16):
Well, okay. Um, Mackenzie and Lacey, block your ears. What
have you. What have you given them for Christmas?
S4 (21:22):
Well, Mackenzie has a new nylabone, and she has some toys.
I'm a bit hesitant to give her any of the
mainstream commercially kind of bags of smack hose, because she
has a very sensitive stomach. However, Lacey has, uh, doggy toothpaste,
which she's not going to be too impressed about, and
(21:45):
she has got a few little treats. Uh, and I
did get them both a pig's ear each because they
can eat both. Eat pig's ears. So, Lacey Mackenzie, I
hope you're not listening.
S3 (21:56):
So it's going to be an exciting time at the
eastern household. All right. So we're now looking at the
one of the most important things for the Christmas period.
And that is movies. So do you have a go
to Christmas movie that you like to experience?
S4 (22:12):
I don't I don't watch movies as a rule. I'm
not a TV or movie person at all, so I
don't have a Christmas movie.
S3 (22:21):
I am kind of forced to, um, experience multiple times
love Actually. Um, I don't have anything against the movie
in general, but it's now got to the stage where
I've probably memorized every line of it. And it's not
that I like watching it frequently, it's just that somebody
else who shall remain nameless tends to watch it several
times during the year.
S4 (22:40):
Well, we know who that is, don't we?
S3 (22:41):
Exactly, exactly. But what does everyone else got to say
about it? Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
S1 (22:48):
I think my favorite Christmas movie is, uh, the Eloise
at Christmas time or The Polar Express.
S3 (22:55):
And why do you like those movies?
S1 (22:56):
Oh, because, um, it's just entertaining to watch a little
kid growing up in a hotel and being chased around
by her nanny, played by Julie Andrews. And they're just
like the Polar Express because it was something so different
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at the time. Just the animation quality and the, um,
songs that my parents and I and my brothers would sing. And, uh,
it's the one movie that we can all put on
and offer to sit down to watch it, which never happens.
(23:37):
We never sit down to watch TV together at all.
So it's a really sweet moment.
S9 (23:43):
I have a go to Christmas song. It's, uh, Colin Buchanan,
the Aussie jingle bells. Dashing through the snow and holding
rusty Ute. Kicking up the dust in the boot Kelpy
Brown side singing Christmas songs. Christmas is a song.
S5 (24:03):
I.
S9 (24:04):
Really remember. I don't really remember Christmas movie because there's
so many of them, but I can remember, uh, Colin
Buchanan's The Aussie Jingle Bell Song quite well.
S8 (24:15):
My favorite Christmas movie is The Polar Express. That's. No,
that's you.
S6 (24:21):
Know, yours is Die Hard.
S8 (24:23):
That's right. Die hard and Polar Express. And I'm there
talking for sure.
S6 (24:28):
Die hard is a Christmas movie. I don't care what
anybody says.
S7 (24:31):
Okay.
S6 (24:32):
And my favorite Christmas movie, on the other hand, is
Polar Express. Oh.
S11 (24:36):
Okay. What what's your favorite Christmas song?
S6 (24:40):
I wrote many a year. It was Blue Christmas because
the thing was, um, produced and sounded so happy when
it was anything but.
S8 (24:47):
Steven BrewDog wet nosed Cross Breed by Kevin Bloody Wilson. Well,
bringing in the sheep like everybody else.
S3 (25:01):
Now, when do you think it's Christmas? When do you
think it's started? What's your, um, measure?
S4 (25:07):
Well, I was thinking about this, and my first answer
was going to be when Pam asks me to promo
the audio described Christmas pageant, but I don't know if
that's true. I know it's Christmas when oh my gosh,
this is hard. Oh.
S3 (25:27):
Mate, I'll tell you what, as Lizzy has, uh, gone
into deep, deep thought, I will tell you my marker,
because over the years there's been several things in. And
you can't rely on the shops, for example, because sometimes
it's Christmas in late September, according to them. But I
know Christmas is coming up and we're past the no
point of view of, um, yeah, the point of no
(25:49):
return when those damn calendar shops show up in, um,
in the various shopping centers. That seems to be the
start of the whole rush towards the end of the year.
S4 (25:59):
I know it's Christmas when the Christmas carols start to
be played, and I also think now that I've started
attending church, I know it's Christmas when they announce that
we're about to start advent. Okay. And yeah, because advent
starts as of the 1st of December. So that's when
(26:20):
I know it's Christmas.
S3 (26:21):
Well, indeed. In fact, I as far as I remember,
it was about ten years ago or even longer that
one of the, um, the shop assistants union actually tried
to get more money over the Christmas period for the
turmoil and trauma of its workers, who had to listen
to Christmas carols and Christmas music for the whole, uh,
day and would be coming home, um, humming and whistling
(26:45):
these annoying songs. I'm not sure how that went, but
I did hear it was a case that actually did
go as far as the, um, industrial court. That would
be an interesting thing to know. But in the meantime,
what does everybody else think?
S12 (27:00):
I don't want a lot for Chris. No.
S8 (27:03):
When you start hearing Mariah Carey singing, no. You know,
it's Christmas when you walk through your front door and
the trees all set up and everything's all done, and
the first thing you smell is the smell of the tree.
If you got a fresh one, it is a pine tree,
a proper Christmas tree. You know, it's Christmas when everything
is done and you get this warm feeling in your heart.
(27:25):
You know it's Christmas when you start feeling like Christmas spirit.
S6 (27:28):
You know it's Christmas when you get as excited as
you did when you were smaller. And you remember the
fun you had with the with the rallies before they
became obnoxious.
S5 (27:41):
When the days get ridiculously hot. There's a smell of
smoke in the air, and you walk into every shop
and you hear Mariah Carey, and my sister starts to
tell you how many ridiculous amounts of Christmas lights she's
buying to redo her whole house that year.
S1 (27:56):
You know, it's Christmas when Pogues Fairytale of New York
gets played at least three times.
S9 (28:05):
It's in the air. People are talking about it. The
shops are promoting it. Um, children, grandchildren. Everyone's talking about it,
you know. Uh, what do you want for Christmas? What
are you getting for Christmas? We're going out for Christmas.
What are we going to do for the holidays in Christmas?
And also, I live in a coastal holiday location, so
(28:26):
the town gets really busy at Christmas time because lots
of people come here for their holidays.
S3 (28:36):
That's a wrap for this week. A big thank you
to Emma meyers, David Burstyn, Sean Oliver, Stephen Eastham, and
Shane Allen. And a special apology to Jodie and Neil.
Owing to technical problems, we were not able to use
the fantastic interview we did with you. And of course,
thank you for listening. That includes our listeners on the
Reading Radio Network. You can also find a podcast of
(28:59):
this show on Apple, Spotify, Google, or your favorite podcast platform.
S4 (29:05):
Join us on New Year's Eve for a wrap of
the year.
S3 (29:08):
Yes, really looking forward to that. And all that remains
now is for us to wish you, our dear listeners,
a very Merry Christmas.
S1 (29:16):
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
S13 (29:18):
Very, very, very Merry Christmas to everyone out there.
S9 (29:21):
Merry Christmas everyone, and may the New Year bring lots
of presents and exciting new things.
S6 (29:27):
Merry Christmas.
S13 (29:28):
Merry.
S8 (29:28):
Christmas, ho ho ho!
S2 (29:30):
Studio one was produced in the Adelaide studios of Vision
Australia Radio. This show was made possible with the help
of the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Find out more at cbsnewyork.com.
S3 (29:45):
Merry Christmas. See you next year.
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