December 4, 2025 • 12 mins
ASK UNCUT: Ash Wicks joins the show to chat Family Secret Santas, Matty J may have been caught out with something he stole from the hospital when Poppy was born, and we chat Chaotic Christmas Moments
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
A good pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn brady
Worth our windows down if my world reason the dust,
only good gabs all day.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I've done much, but yeah I'm not. I'll biget and
what I want.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It don't matter where this is the pickup?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, Manny J do you always I feel like we
have so much access to Hollywood these days and superstars
that you feel like you're across their life. And it's
always weird to me when something big happens in Hollywood
and I've got no idea who the person is. So
Miley Cyrus just got engaged.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I didn't know she had a boyfriend, That's my point.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So she's been with her partner for four years, what
I know, and they just got engaged.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Was she Can I be really dumb for a second.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Was she married to the Hemsworth?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
She was engaged.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I feel like they broke up last week.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No, they broke up like six years ago or something
like that. But her fiance's name is Maximo Mirando. I
think he's like, he's a musician.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
He's very he looks like a muso.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well they look like brother and sister to me.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I can't believe Marley's only thirty three. Really thirty three
makes sense to me because it's like she she's done
so much.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What makes me feel better like she's done so much?
You know those young people that make you feel bad
about yourself because you're like, wow, you've kicked so many goals.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I hate those young people.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The nipper snappers, I know, bloody.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hell makes me feel guilty about not doing enough with
my life.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Come on, it is Thursday, which means it's time for
the one and only Ask gun Cut.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Friends of mine have always come to me with their problems. Okay,
that's just the type of person that I am. I'm
very open and very warm. And one friend in particular
came to me and I had to stop him. I said,
wait WHOA. I was like, how would you feel about
talking about this on the radio show? And he said, sure,
this is a voice. Brittany. You may know him.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You have met him before, you've sourced our ask gun Cuts.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, he's been there marinetting for a few days now,
so he've got to wait till Thursday. But his name
is Ashwicks. Can do a podcast called Two Gutting Dads And.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Here he is.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh hi, Ash Hello, guys, how are you are?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You actually experience some problems and he's Matt really the
first person you go to.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh absolutely, here's the voice of reason. So I'm actually
I feel very privileged to be on the show this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So what is your problem?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So every year, my beautiful wife for April her family
do a secret Center. Yeah, but this year I asked
the question whether I can be not involved or whether
I have a choice to be involved or it's just
mandatory because I'm married to her. That's my dilemma.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Your question is just do you have to do the
Chris Kring.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I have to do it. I do it every year.
I've had enough.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Okay, Can I ask Ash? How does it normally unfold?
What time of the day do they say, now it's
time for secret Center, But.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It usually happens I would say after the food, but
before for the sweet tree.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So regardless of it, if you are involved in the
secret Sander, you're there anyway. So you're not saying like, hey,
I don't want to go to the Christmas like are you?
Are you all there anyway? You're just saying I just
don't want to contribute the present and I don't want
to get one.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm there, but I'm protesting, Maye, you are being a grinch.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Sorry, hang on, hang on, Brittany, just before you start
attacking our guests. What is the ballpark price that you
have to work within the budget for the gift?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Look, it's usually one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
What sorry, but what that means is you're only buying one.
You're actually saving money. You don't have to buy ten
people's presents. You have by eight peoples. How many people
it is? It's ash, You're already there. It's one day
a year. Just get involved, Get involved so the kids
can see it's all merry and happy. It's not a
big deal.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's all very awkward.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Buy lid.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I don't know. Look, I've always found Christmas very awkward.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But no one knows it's you because it's a secret.
So no one knows that if your present was awkward.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
But is it a secret? I feel by the time
you get to the Christmas day, everyone already knows who
has to Why can't we just get together, have a meal,
celebrate the day, and move on with our lives.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Look, ideally that could be great, but the rest of
the family has committed to the Chris Kringle.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Can I ask a question just to everyone right now?
Does anyone out there actually enjoy Secret Center? Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Okay, all right, and producer Grace is NodD in, well
we know you don't, grinchy.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I just know this. I will be down the coast
and if you would like to spend the day with
me and my family, you're more than welcome. We will
not do Secret certder. The invitation is there, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's once a year, Thank goodness, it's once a year.
Get involved. Put your little sander hat on. If you're
just being lazy, ash get a vouchike, you can get
them one.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Not being lazy at all, I'll have you know it
that as a child we did not have a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
In might have.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well that's more reason for you to get involved.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, I'm very sad in my ways. I have endured
it for fourteen long years now, and on this fifteenth year,
I would like to say I don't want to be involved,
but apparently I don't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And so your wife has said you're in it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, the repercussions aren't worth the fight, I would say,
but I still I'm stubborn. And I want to try
and stand my ground in some capacity.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's a fight you're not going to win, so I
pray for you as you stay strong.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Buddy.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'm in your corner. I'm cheering you on.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Guys, I can always rely on you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I just think get involved is one day a year.
This is not a big deal. Makes her feel a
bit special.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, I know. I just wanted to just like send
him down that road, just see if he do it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He will do it. I reckon, he's going to turn
up with no present.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I reckon he will. Hey, you know Poppy my third child.
She is now ten weeks. I was going to say nine.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
No, she's older than that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm pretty sure I know the age of my own child.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I reckon.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Week. We call Laura later and double check. But one
of the best parts of Poppy being born was the
fact that you get the blanket in hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I didn't even know that. What do you mean you
get a blanket, you get to keep it?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, I always thought, Brittany, and obviously you haven't had
kids just yet. Yeah, but when you're in hospital the
baby is born, they do like, you know, skin on
skin straight onto Laura's chest. Yeah, it's a beautiful moment.
After a little while, after a few minutes, the midwife
or the nurse where was in the room is like, oh,
I'll just get baby. They have to then do some
(06:24):
medical testing, They weigh the baby. They also at the
same time do a little bit of a cleanup as well,
just a little wipe full bath, and then they wrapped
the baby in a beautiful blanket. And our local hospital
it was like a white blanket with pink and blue
stripes on it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, that's a very standardized baby hospital blanket.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Now. I always thought, Brittany, that that was then yours
to keep, Like I thought that was like, I just
thought that was just you know, that was kind of like.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like the gift from the hospital.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I thought so, And you used to be working in
a hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, that's it's not a gift.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, I'm absolutely positive. Think of how much money they
would turn through if every single baby they gave the
blankets away too.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, but you look at all the utensils that they
use as part of birth, and they get thrown away,
like when you that's the same thing, right, tomato tomato.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
But they pulled her out with salad spoons.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
They get thrown away. But I know they don't get
thrown away.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They get sterilized.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, they don't. They get thrown away one time used baby.
That's what the that's what they told me. That's what
I told me. I was in the birthing suite. I
think I know. But a friend of mine they gave
birth recently, and the midwife they do a four week checkup,
and she went in there and she's like, how's it
all going, Like, yeah, it's really good. And then she
looked at the baby and went because she was wrapped
(07:48):
in the hospital blanket. And then the midwife yanked the
blanket off the baby then and there.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And this isn't Poppy.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
This is another friend who got a kid.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So they also stole the blanket.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I just think every parent out there, we're taking the blankets.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But the hospital took the blanket back at the visit.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well, that's why I don't think it's been well communicated
to families after they have a baby.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So are you doing a bit of a PSA to
like parents out there that not to steal the blanket
because it's actually not a game.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I do think it's one of those things that no
one really knows what the right answer is. I think
people do. I think the midwife may have got her
rules confused a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Did you just wheel out the crib as well and
just you know what they sleep in when they're born?
And we're like, well take this home as well.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I took a laptop from reception.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, of course, and the computer, the desktop.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Phone to the chair pillows are great that Laura was using.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I can imagine what your house is for. Hey, Maddie,
Jane and I have been giving away a thousand dollar
Eyeja gift card all week. All you had to do
was call up and give us your chaotic Christmas moment.
And we've had some absolute bangers.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We've had some belts ete. But I want to know
this is not chaotic related, but but it is food related.
Are you more of a hand goal a turkey gow
or do you have chicken? What do you go to?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I love turkey, but where a prawn? Christmas family? Like,
we're a turkey ham and prawns. But like for me,
Christmas has to have prawns.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Pork is the crackling in the mix. Not anymore?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Do you know what I did?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
When you're actually you just tell me.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
My job was to bring the starters, and I got
sent this huge wheel of cheese from a company and
I was like, oh, bingo, I'll be on the cheese.
Well it was you know how they're wrapped in like
that wax paper, and so I didn't know what it was,
but I knew it was a big slab, like a
bigger than a.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Dinner plate, like huge.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's a lot of money, beautifully wrapped and everything. And
I said to everyone like, I'm on starters, so I'll
get chea. I've got cheese and crackers. I've gone, And
I talked it up like I'd spent loads on it.
And then when we got there and unwrapped it, it
was actually a Christmas pudding, so we had no cheese
starters digging.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
We're going to flip things and do dessert first. Guys.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Anyway, this isn't about me. We have Jess on the line. Jess,
what is your Kota Christmas moment?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Hey? My cousin's boyfriend was planning to propose to her
at Christmas and he hid the engagement ring inside the
Christmas cracker, and so she was going to open it
up and it was going to be this great surprise,
get on his knees, propose. But he got up to
go to the toilet and my little brother grabbed all
the crackers and rearranged them all. He was just playing
(10:32):
with them all and he didn't realize that it had changed.
So we want to propose. There was this like a
bottle opener in there. Man man had the engagement ring.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So did he did the proposal come first? And then
the cracker was supposed to open and the ring was
coming out or was the cracker supposed to open? The
ring flung out? And then he proposed, so she did.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
The crack out with him, and then he dropped to
a knee, and so she's like to be looking in
the cracker trying to fish out the prize and like
look at the little joke. And then he's like proposing,
and she's like what not with her? What is this
with a bottle like a bottle opener el And he
already got her a handbag that she hated. So that
(11:14):
was already like a bad start to the day.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And then NaN's like, yes, I will marry.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
You, and it's like, oh my god, I've never seen quality.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Did they get engaged that day?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
In the end, they did, but she actually wasn't happy
about it either. She's like, I don't really like a
Christmas engagement, Like I wish I had my own day
for this.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Do you know it's sort of fair? I just think
spread the days out because otherwise they're all celebrated on one.
It's like having your birthday and Christmas.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Do it fair?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Change the day?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Do you think it happens in fair, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah, Jessica Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh, I also don't want to get engaged on Valentine's
Day either, same thing. No, No, you don't spread your days.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Nothing happens or your birthday, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Or your birthday. Do you know what? I'm pretty sure
after I said that, ninety nine point nine nine per
cent sure. My brother also proposed his partner on Christmas Day.
Inside the Christmas present, I thank you for calling up.
You have won yourself a thousand dollars ID gift card.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
That's amazing. I'm actually hosting for the first time ever
this year, so that is so good. I'm going to
impress everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, make sure you actually get cheese and don't mistake
it for idea
A good pickup with Britt Hockley and Laura Burn brady
Worth our windows down if my world reason the dust,
only good gabs all day.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I've done much, but yeah I'm not. I'll biget and
what I want.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It don't matter where this is the pickup?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hey, Manny J do you always I feel like we
have so much access to Hollywood these days and superstars
that you feel like you're across their life. And it's
always weird to me when something big happens in Hollywood
and I've got no idea who the person is. So
Miley Cyrus just got engaged.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I didn't know she had a boyfriend, That's my point.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So she's been with her partner for four years, what
I know, and they just got engaged.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Was she Can I be really dumb for a second.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Was she married to the Hemsworth?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
She was engaged.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I feel like they broke up last week.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No, they broke up like six years ago or something
like that. But her fiance's name is Maximo Mirando. I
think he's like, he's a musician.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
He's very he looks like a muso.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well they look like brother and sister to me.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I can't believe Marley's only thirty three. Really thirty three
makes sense to me because it's like she she's done
so much.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What makes me feel better like she's done so much?
You know those young people that make you feel bad
about yourself because you're like, wow, you've kicked so many goals.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I hate those young people.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The nipper snappers, I know, bloody.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Hell makes me feel guilty about not doing enough with
my life.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Come on, it is Thursday, which means it's time for
the one and only Ask gun Cut.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Friends of mine have always come to me with their problems. Okay,
that's just the type of person that I am. I'm
very open and very warm. And one friend in particular
came to me and I had to stop him. I said,
wait WHOA. I was like, how would you feel about
talking about this on the radio show? And he said, sure,
this is a voice. Brittany. You may know him.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You have met him before, you've sourced our ask gun Cuts.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, he's been there marinetting for a few days now,
so he've got to wait till Thursday. But his name
is Ashwicks. Can do a podcast called Two Gutting Dads And.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Here he is.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh hi, Ash Hello, guys, how are you are?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You actually experience some problems and he's Matt really the
first person you go to.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh absolutely, here's the voice of reason. So I'm actually
I feel very privileged to be on the show this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So what is your problem?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So every year, my beautiful wife for April her family
do a secret Center. Yeah, but this year I asked
the question whether I can be not involved or whether
I have a choice to be involved or it's just
mandatory because I'm married to her. That's my dilemma.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Your question is just do you have to do the
Chris Kring.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I have to do it. I do it every year.
I've had enough.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Okay, Can I ask Ash? How does it normally unfold?
What time of the day do they say, now it's
time for secret Center, But.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It usually happens I would say after the food, but
before for the sweet tree.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So regardless of it, if you are involved in the
secret Sander, you're there anyway. So you're not saying like, hey,
I don't want to go to the Christmas like are you?
Are you all there anyway? You're just saying I just
don't want to contribute the present and I don't want
to get one.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm there, but I'm protesting, Maye, you are being a grinch.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Sorry, hang on, hang on, Brittany, just before you start
attacking our guests. What is the ballpark price that you
have to work within the budget for the gift?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Look, it's usually one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
What sorry, but what that means is you're only buying one.
You're actually saving money. You don't have to buy ten
people's presents. You have by eight peoples. How many people
it is? It's ash, You're already there. It's one day
a year. Just get involved, Get involved so the kids
can see it's all merry and happy. It's not a
big deal.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's all very awkward.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Buy lid.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I don't know. Look, I've always found Christmas very awkward.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But no one knows it's you because it's a secret.
So no one knows that if your present was awkward.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
But is it a secret? I feel by the time
you get to the Christmas day, everyone already knows who
has to Why can't we just get together, have a meal,
celebrate the day, and move on with our lives.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Look, ideally that could be great, but the rest of
the family has committed to the Chris Kringle.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Can I ask a question just to everyone right now?
Does anyone out there actually enjoy Secret Center? Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Okay, all right, and producer Grace is NodD in, well
we know you don't, grinchy.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I just know this. I will be down the coast
and if you would like to spend the day with
me and my family, you're more than welcome. We will
not do Secret certder. The invitation is there, guys.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's once a year, Thank goodness, it's once a year.
Get involved. Put your little sander hat on. If you're
just being lazy, ash get a vouchike, you can get
them one.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Not being lazy at all, I'll have you know it
that as a child we did not have a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
In might have.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well that's more reason for you to get involved.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, I'm very sad in my ways. I have endured
it for fourteen long years now, and on this fifteenth year,
I would like to say I don't want to be involved,
but apparently I don't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And so your wife has said you're in it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, the repercussions aren't worth the fight, I would say,
but I still I'm stubborn. And I want to try
and stand my ground in some capacity.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's a fight you're not going to win, so I
pray for you as you stay strong.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Buddy.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'm in your corner. I'm cheering you on.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Guys, I can always rely on you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I just think get involved is one day a year.
This is not a big deal. Makes her feel a
bit special.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, I know. I just wanted to just like send
him down that road, just see if he do it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He will do it. I reckon, he's going to turn
up with no present.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I reckon he will. Hey, you know Poppy my third child.
She is now ten weeks. I was going to say nine.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
No, she's older than that.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm pretty sure I know the age of my own child.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I reckon.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Week. We call Laura later and double check. But one
of the best parts of Poppy being born was the
fact that you get the blanket in hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I didn't even know that. What do you mean you
get a blanket, you get to keep it?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, I always thought, Brittany, and obviously you haven't had
kids just yet. Yeah, but when you're in hospital the
baby is born, they do like, you know, skin on
skin straight onto Laura's chest. Yeah, it's a beautiful moment.
After a little while, after a few minutes, the midwife
or the nurse where was in the room is like, oh,
I'll just get baby. They have to then do some
(06:24):
medical testing, They weigh the baby. They also at the
same time do a little bit of a cleanup as well,
just a little wipe full bath, and then they wrapped
the baby in a beautiful blanket. And our local hospital
it was like a white blanket with pink and blue
stripes on it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, that's a very standardized baby hospital blanket.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Now. I always thought, Brittany, that that was then yours
to keep, Like I thought that was like, I just
thought that was just you know, that was kind of like.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like the gift from the hospital.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I thought so, And you used to be working in
a hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, that's it's not a gift.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, I'm absolutely positive. Think of how much money they
would turn through if every single baby they gave the
blankets away too.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, but you look at all the utensils that they
use as part of birth, and they get thrown away,
like when you that's the same thing, right, tomato tomato.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
But they pulled her out with salad spoons.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
They get thrown away. But I know they don't get
thrown away.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
They get sterilized.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, they don't. They get thrown away one time used baby.
That's what the that's what they told me. That's what
I told me. I was in the birthing suite. I
think I know. But a friend of mine they gave
birth recently, and the midwife they do a four week checkup,
and she went in there and she's like, how's it
all going, Like, yeah, it's really good. And then she
looked at the baby and went because she was wrapped
(07:48):
in the hospital blanket. And then the midwife yanked the
blanket off the baby then and there.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
And this isn't Poppy.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
This is another friend who got a kid.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So they also stole the blanket.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I just think every parent out there, we're taking the blankets.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But the hospital took the blanket back at the visit.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well, that's why I don't think it's been well communicated
to families after they have a baby.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So are you doing a bit of a PSA to
like parents out there that not to steal the blanket
because it's actually not a game.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I do think it's one of those things that no
one really knows what the right answer is. I think
people do. I think the midwife may have got her
rules confused a little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Did you just wheel out the crib as well and
just you know what they sleep in when they're born?
And we're like, well take this home as well.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I took a laptop from reception.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, of course, and the computer, the desktop.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Phone to the chair pillows are great that Laura was using.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I can imagine what your house is for. Hey, Maddie,
Jane and I have been giving away a thousand dollar
Eyeja gift card all week. All you had to do
was call up and give us your chaotic Christmas moment.
And we've had some absolute bangers.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We've had some belts ete. But I want to know
this is not chaotic related, but but it is food related.
Are you more of a hand goal a turkey gow
or do you have chicken? What do you go to?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I love turkey, but where a prawn? Christmas family? Like,
we're a turkey ham and prawns. But like for me,
Christmas has to have prawns.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Pork is the crackling in the mix. Not anymore?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Do you know what I did?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
When you're actually you just tell me.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
My job was to bring the starters, and I got
sent this huge wheel of cheese from a company and
I was like, oh, bingo, I'll be on the cheese.
Well it was you know how they're wrapped in like
that wax paper, and so I didn't know what it was,
but I knew it was a big slab, like a
bigger than a.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Dinner plate, like huge.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's a lot of money, beautifully wrapped and everything. And
I said to everyone like, I'm on starters, so I'll
get chea. I've got cheese and crackers. I've gone, And
I talked it up like I'd spent loads on it.
And then when we got there and unwrapped it, it
was actually a Christmas pudding, so we had no cheese
starters digging.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
We're going to flip things and do dessert first. Guys.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Anyway, this isn't about me. We have Jess on the line. Jess,
what is your Kota Christmas moment?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Hey? My cousin's boyfriend was planning to propose to her
at Christmas and he hid the engagement ring inside the
Christmas cracker, and so she was going to open it
up and it was going to be this great surprise,
get on his knees, propose. But he got up to
go to the toilet and my little brother grabbed all
the crackers and rearranged them all. He was just playing
(10:32):
with them all and he didn't realize that it had changed.
So we want to propose. There was this like a
bottle opener in there. Man man had the engagement ring.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So did he did the proposal come first? And then
the cracker was supposed to open and the ring was
coming out or was the cracker supposed to open? The
ring flung out? And then he proposed, so she did.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
The crack out with him, and then he dropped to
a knee, and so she's like to be looking in
the cracker trying to fish out the prize and like
look at the little joke. And then he's like proposing,
and she's like what not with her? What is this
with a bottle like a bottle opener el And he
already got her a handbag that she hated. So that
(11:14):
was already like a bad start to the day.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And then NaN's like, yes, I will marry.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
You, and it's like, oh my god, I've never seen quality.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Did they get engaged that day?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
In the end, they did, but she actually wasn't happy
about it either. She's like, I don't really like a
Christmas engagement, Like I wish I had my own day
for this.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Do you know it's sort of fair? I just think
spread the days out because otherwise they're all celebrated on one.
It's like having your birthday and Christmas.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Do it fair?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Change the day?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Do you think it happens in fair, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah, Jessica Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh, I also don't want to get engaged on Valentine's
Day either, same thing. No, No, you don't spread your days.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Nothing happens or your birthday, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Or your birthday. Do you know what? I'm pretty sure
after I said that, ninety nine point nine nine per
cent sure. My brother also proposed his partner on Christmas Day.
Inside the Christmas present, I thank you for calling up.
You have won yourself a thousand dollars ID gift card.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
That's amazing. I'm actually hosting for the first time ever
this year, so that is so good. I'm going to
impress everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, make sure you actually get cheese and don't mistake
it for idea
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