November 26, 2025 • 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome Along to the podcast. Thursday, the twenty seventh of
November twenty twenty five. We've got some special guests on
the podcast today who've bought along cupcakes. Tom and Lara.
How are you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We are full of Christmas spirits.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Aren't you?
Speaker 5 (00:18):
So you guys are both dressed as Christmas elves and
this I'm so glad you are because I saw you
walk into the building before and I said, the Jerry
on here this morning, and I was like, I think
I've just seen Tom Sainsbury walking and dressed as an elf,
and Jerry goes, no, I don't think that was him,
and I went, oh my god, I've just seen a
guy dresses an elf and assumed it was Tom Sainsbury.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Tom Sainsbury doesn't dresses an elf.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
How offensive.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
So imagine my delight when I and saw that, in fact,
you are a dressed.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I love that. Dreamy was so like certain.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I was Tom Sainsbre that's not his nature and are
you like are you like?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm a little bit disappointed that he's just as an elf.
It's kind of ruined my kind of No.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, no, I mean I thought Drew's Boomer dead.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, I should have put my nylon heavily nice shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah but no, I just but you have you have entered.
And the interesting thing is you're here to talk about
a Christmas Crisis, that's right, which is a show that
you guys are in.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's right, ynamotion, you got it?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What's done.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So we've been doing shows. We've done thirteen shows over
the years, and it's a that we say it's a
comedy dance show, but we go hard with the dancing.
So it's really good dancing. A few dancers in there,
but lots of actors that are kind of giving it
their all with dancing, and they're all around a theme.
In this particular one, for the very first time, we're
doing a Christmas kind of themed one called a Christmas Crisis.
(01:39):
So people come along and have a great time but
just love watching the dancing.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And the dynamotion is the entire audio is already made,
including the music and the dialogue, and then everybody mimes
along to the audio which already exists.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Is that right, that's right?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We say, did we started that as a sort of
a stick to make it look like bad overdubbing for
a James Bond parody we did years ago and then
we just kind of loved it. And also it saves
us because often we're quite puffed from all the dusk
and we don't have to like it through a scene.
But the other thing that it lets us do is
bring in kind of another cast of comedians and voiceover
(02:22):
artists to do all of those voices as well.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
It's a great idea we should do that for a
radio show, a better radio host to overdubb it, and
then we just lip think it on the day.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So have there been like I mean, I know this,
but who are some of the famous names who have
been in these shows over the years. Well, in this
show we've got Chris Parker, yes, loved, much loved, much loved.
We've had Harry McNaughton, but unfortunately his opportunity leave this year,
so he won't be rest and he's heard his finger
(02:52):
and his finger, he's heard his finger, but much loved,
but much loved as well despite the fact he's heard
his finger.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, a few other familiar faces, maybe not quite as
big names, but over these Ollie drivers come and done
a cameo for us.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
One year, A householder. He's a household name was he
playing a bad cop.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
A bad cop, yeah, yeah, yeah, closed.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The devil most weeks this character.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I'll asked you guys a question before we came in.
Is this the earliest you've ever donned in elf costume?
Both in terms of the calendar and the clock, So
obviously twenty seventh. I'm sort of leaning December if I'm
going to elf costume.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Try to keep them contained.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Do you know what I don't? I question if I've
ever actually dressed up as it. I've done Center, I've
done Center multiple times, but I don't know if I've
ever done and.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How I was just thinking that too early in my career.
I used to do a lot of like funny jobs
at mauls and things, dressed up as various characters. But
I don't think I've ever done an elf.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, certainly not at seven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Certainly not at this time of the morning.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, I would have thought to your December one is
probably the first. It's a little bit like putting up
the Christmas tree. But still, you know, I've already had
one of your cupcakes that you're delivering. Who made the cupcakes?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I did the baking yesterday, and Tom and I did
the icing together this morning. Team effort.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We wake up early and did the ganesh. Lots of
piping involved in that. Now you can probably tell which
ones I was more creating. This is the one that
Lara was kind of more creative.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Oh really, what are you the reindeer?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That's the more the collapsed Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Oh yeah, that looks like the.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Can you run through the plot line for a Christmas crisis?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Of course we can.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, so we sort of weave together four tales of
Christmas woe. We've got a Hallmark thread, which is sort
of my character, the baker running a cupcake maker cupcake
shop that's sort of crumbling in this economy. We've got
climate change, we've got the clause, we've got the clauses
going through a tricky breakup. And we've got the elves
(05:08):
who are sort of crumbling under consumerism team who's kind
of taken over. They used to be artists and now
they're sort of packing warehouses.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So there's a punk element to it. But I'll just
say with so Lara pays Ashley the cupcake maker, but
a prince comes in to make a big order of cupcakes,
but she doesn't realize. She thinks he's the courier. So
it's the old classic and he's like the prince after him,
but she used to go and deliver the cupcakes. It's
all very inspired by Oh, Shakespearean. We were thinking more
(05:40):
kind of like cheesy kind of hallmark for returning home
to your hometown and falling in love with the turkey farmer,
that kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And then we sort of culminate the whole thing and
this sort of mash up of movie references. Die Hard
of course, Speed too, Cruise Control is.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Their home alone reference.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh these flashes of us?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, Love actually, yes, I put one in last night. Actually,
that's the new writing that.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I've got so few family Christmas traditions, but for some
reason we've got one that none of us have agreed
to and none of us actually want to do, but
it happens every year, and it's watching Love actually, and
it culminates in an argument between my mother and I
about how.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Good or bad a guy that Alan Rickman?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Right, no, yes, Alan Rickman and the guy with the signs.
So in my mind, and I've had this theory and
I'd love to run it past you evidently you're you're
across this movie. Yes, the girl who's trying to get
with Alan Rickman has side piece for lack of a
bitter term. And I think the guy who shows up
(06:46):
at the mate's missus dare with the signs. I reckon
they're the same character. I reckon they are just as
bad as each other. One of my mates showed up
to my door with signs, trying to convince my message
to give me the flack and go with him. I
reckon that there's the same energy as the girl who's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'm going to be watching this with a new lens.
I'm going to watch it again, going yes, face, it's
such a you can just keep discussing. Actually, here's a new.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Christmas tradition for the start an argument with your mum
about this. Well, you do it every year, and it
brings us close to I've.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Still never seen it, That's what I feel like.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I may as well.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I have, And I've even been part of love Actually
parodies over the years involving signs and who fucking hasn't
done that?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But it feels like this this you're set up right
here right now in the studio lens itself to science
m Christmas. I'm going to come out and.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Signs out here. Yeah yeah, but you see, I don't
understand what the signs are. I don't have no context.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
There's your homeworks.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I think read the discourse before going into the film.
So you really appreciate it because honestly, so much as
speed about this movie really yeah, okay, very divisive, and
I just say about Christmas Crisis. It's it's ninety minutes
long plus interval, but we cram it including pretty much,
and we cram all of that craziness into them.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah. No, I've been to dynamosion shows in the past
and they are amazing. They really are amazing. Can we
take a break and come back with more in a moment, please.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I think this is the earliest the Christmas spirit has
descended on the studio. We came in this morning and
there was, as you can say, in front of your
tinsel set up on the on the desk.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
We don't know who did it. We presume the.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Ghost of Christmas Past just came through and dropped it off.
And hasn't it said almost everywhere? Yeah, Almo theator.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They chose the twenty seventh of November. Yeah, that's because
I like I would get it if it was the
first of December.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Not a lot makes sense around me to be and
it's kind of it's kind of that sort of place.
Things are pretty random, and look, I'm not sure how
I feel about the tinsel on the table. It's I'm
not sure how I feel about the yule Tide starting
before the first of December. I mean, I'm strictly everything
needs to start on the first December, and then when
(09:04):
it does start for me, we were talking about it
earlier on Actually, for me, the last two weeks of
work before Christmas, before you break up, before you put
your cheers on the desks and break up. Every day
is a Friday, but it's only for the last two weeks,
(09:25):
and then the rest of the time. I think you've
just got it. You've you've got to keep going about
your business. Otherwise nothing happened.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I feel the same. And here we are. Ironically, that's
hard doing a pantomime kind of Christmas show and getting
the word out there isn't this.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well full credits. You're turning up in costume though, I've
got to say that's impressive. You really know what you're wearing.
Someone about it.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I'm saying that you guys are begint.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
We're talking about this on the show this week about
I've been accused of being a bit grinchy. Not yeah,
I've got to tell I've got to touch the grunches
about me and and so, and if it's a you know,
for a bit of self development, I've bought in and
so I have. I have taken to buying my partner
Christmas tree decorations throughout the year so that at this
(10:12):
time of year I am I am part of it again,
spelling out into November. I don't know how I feel
about that, if I'm honest with it. But Jerry the
other day was he was taught how to erect the
Christmas tree. But you guys right away, yeah Christmas tree erection.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Are we talking the real Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Or the real.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You guys fate Christmas tree people.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I'm a fake Christian?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Are you both fake Christmas tree people? For fake Christmas tree?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Vickiing Ross Sainsbury they always have a real pine tree
in the corner. But it's just like it's a it's
a gamble out, what's it going to? What shape is
it going to be? This time.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I do love where I've been collecting some old Christmas
photos from the cast and I do love and miss
the real Christmas tree branch all sort of like, you know,
sparse in the middle. It's terrible shape.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, with the angel on the top side.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeh, I miss that. I missed that, But I think
it's the I just think it's the like the sort
of maintenance and work required with the real one. When
the needles fall off, then you've got to do something
with it afterwards.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes, doing something with it afterwards. Just check it into
the green bout beside the motorway.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, you're buffet over the neighbor's fence, or you just
check it on your boom, check it on your How
long does that thing take to buy?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
To great?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's quite remarkable, but literally a tree. There is an option.
There's another option for you, low you'd be pleased to
know about this. You can go to a place that
I went to the other day in Sandrigan, bell Morral
and a mesa Christmas tree and this is not a
plague for them, but they've got a giant You can
go and choose your own tree, whatever size you want,
and then Mike Lovely Mike chops it down for you,
(12:00):
and then and then he will you can choose it,
and then they will drop it around to your house.
They will erect it for you. It's not that much more.
I'm talking about for sixty bucks on top of your
Christmas tree. They will bring it into your house. They
bring it in in a bag so it doesn't drop
a single needle. You don't get the needles in the
(12:20):
boot of your car, which you can't forever bloody vacuuming
coming over.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But next year you're still finding you started on the sack.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They take it away for you too.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And then you've got the experience of the pine smell
rafting through your heart.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Is just the player, not a plaque. It's not a plaque.
Is this the one where you're driving to Mount Albas.
It's just just on the side of their main road.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
On the side of the main road.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Do you know the bloody property.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Going from You're going from Dominion Road to Eden and
then there's this property with a like a concrete well.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's like a Christmas tree farm and the middle spit.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they're sitting on a gold mine there.
I think it's like four acres or something they've got.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
What are they doing when they take those away?
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I mean, forgive me, I'm not a horticulturalist, but could
you just plug that much back into the ground and
it'll keep grind for next year? Or no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
No, once you chop it, it's die. It's dead, and
then it will just but you're kind of just.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
So it's like a flower in a bucket drinking water.
The trend. But how long does it take? How long
does it take to grow to satisfy satisfactory song?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I think it's a couple of years. So they are
running at any given time. They've got different sizes that
they're running different years. Yeah, and I think they've got
another property somewhere else where they also bring them in from.
But but yeah, it's a great service, I've got to say.
So I've signed up this year to that service. And yeah,
I'm getting my seven foot tree delivered.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Are you gone to the seven foot Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
On December the on December the sixth, Friday afternoon, it's
arriving and they're going to bring it in and they're
going to erect it for me. And and the other
thing that Michael taught me is that all Christmas trees
have a good and a bad side.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Real Christmas trees Christmas, Yeah, I believe that, Yes, because.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Of the sun. Yeah. So which you have a way
north side of Christmas tree because obviously tree goes to
its so.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They're also orientate it to the direction that it should
be dissiplayed them with your height.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Your seven foot was no problem to put the star
or the angel on the top.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Right. I'll get up on a step, get up on
a step. But I like to give that job to
someone else. Tom, I've got children, and the decorating of
the Christmas tree is a wonderful time when you'll gather
around and argue over where your things go and the
ballbles and that and that general creative and artistic design
for the tree. And if I had my way with
my mild O c D, I would have the same
(14:48):
baubles with one set of lights. You know, I want
some I want some uniformity.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Saying that I've got a hodgepodge of bables from all
over the world.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I actually have ancept tree and I haven't broken it
to anyone else. That no one's going to get to
decorate it except me.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Concept I've got a concept.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I've been I've got some I've got some new decorations,
and I've got a plan in my head and I
really want I've let the kids be in charge. We've
got a blended family, and I've let the kids be
be in charge for.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
A couple of long, for too long.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
First year, I was like, I'm the new guy on
the scene. I better just let them do it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's not what I want to doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I mean last year, I was like to think of
the children in this year, I'm like, it's my years
to try.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I feel like the hodgepodge just gives more individuality. Plus
you can they can each one can mean something. And
also you've got like a history of us.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
And it brings me into Christmas because I'm like you said,
they're bubble there, that's a hen Can's actually from the
Heineken factory.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So are you using your Christmas as a conversation stuff?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
It's a brag, hey, But otherwise I'll be up to
my own just crushing past by myself.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So you know, it's probably better. Lara and Tom, thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Thank you, good luck with the thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It's called Christmas. Christis that's right. It's onic Q Theater
win tenth.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
To the twentieth of December.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Thanks, thanks, loves, thank you.
Welcome Along to the podcast. Thursday, the twenty seventh of
November twenty twenty five. We've got some special guests on
the podcast today who've bought along cupcakes. Tom and Lara.
How are you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We are full of Christmas spirits.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Aren't you?
Speaker 5 (00:18):
So you guys are both dressed as Christmas elves and
this I'm so glad you are because I saw you
walk into the building before and I said, the Jerry
on here this morning, and I was like, I think
I've just seen Tom Sainsbury walking and dressed as an elf,
and Jerry goes, no, I don't think that was him,
and I went, oh my god, I've just seen a
guy dresses an elf and assumed it was Tom Sainsbury.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Tom Sainsbury doesn't dresses an elf.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
How offensive.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
So imagine my delight when I and saw that, in fact,
you are a dressed.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I love that. Dreamy was so like certain.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I was Tom Sainsbre that's not his nature and are
you like are you like?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm a little bit disappointed that he's just as an elf.
It's kind of ruined my kind of No.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
No, no, I mean I thought Drew's Boomer dead.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, I should have put my nylon heavily nice shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah but no, I just but you have you have entered.
And the interesting thing is you're here to talk about
a Christmas Crisis, that's right, which is a show that
you guys are in.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's right, ynamotion, you got it?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What's done.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So we've been doing shows. We've done thirteen shows over
the years, and it's a that we say it's a
comedy dance show, but we go hard with the dancing.
So it's really good dancing. A few dancers in there,
but lots of actors that are kind of giving it
their all with dancing, and they're all around a theme.
In this particular one, for the very first time, we're
doing a Christmas kind of themed one called a Christmas Crisis.
(01:39):
So people come along and have a great time but
just love watching the dancing.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And the dynamotion is the entire audio is already made,
including the music and the dialogue, and then everybody mimes
along to the audio which already exists.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Is that right, that's right?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We say, did we started that as a sort of
a stick to make it look like bad overdubbing for
a James Bond parody we did years ago and then
we just kind of loved it. And also it saves
us because often we're quite puffed from all the dusk
and we don't have to like it through a scene.
But the other thing that it lets us do is
bring in kind of another cast of comedians and voiceover
(02:22):
artists to do all of those voices as well.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
It's a great idea we should do that for a
radio show, a better radio host to overdubb it, and
then we just lip think it on the day.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So have there been like I mean, I know this,
but who are some of the famous names who have
been in these shows over the years. Well, in this
show we've got Chris Parker, yes, loved, much loved, much loved.
We've had Harry McNaughton, but unfortunately his opportunity leave this year,
so he won't be rest and he's heard his finger
(02:52):
and his finger, he's heard his finger, but much loved,
but much loved as well despite the fact he's heard
his finger.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, a few other familiar faces, maybe not quite as
big names, but over these Ollie drivers come and done
a cameo for us.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
One year, A householder. He's a household name was he
playing a bad cop.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
A bad cop, yeah, yeah, yeah, closed.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The devil most weeks this character.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
I'll asked you guys a question before we came in.
Is this the earliest you've ever donned in elf costume?
Both in terms of the calendar and the clock, So
obviously twenty seventh. I'm sort of leaning December if I'm
going to elf costume.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Try to keep them contained.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Do you know what I don't? I question if I've
ever actually dressed up as it. I've done Center, I've
done Center multiple times, but I don't know if I've
ever done and.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
How I was just thinking that too early in my career.
I used to do a lot of like funny jobs
at mauls and things, dressed up as various characters. But
I don't think I've ever done an elf.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, certainly not at seven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Certainly not at this time of the morning.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, I would have thought to your December one is
probably the first. It's a little bit like putting up
the Christmas tree. But still, you know, I've already had
one of your cupcakes that you're delivering. Who made the cupcakes?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I did the baking yesterday, and Tom and I did
the icing together this morning. Team effort.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We wake up early and did the ganesh. Lots of
piping involved in that. Now you can probably tell which
ones I was more creating. This is the one that
Lara was kind of more creative.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Oh really, what are you the reindeer?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That's the more the collapsed Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Oh yeah, that looks like the.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Can you run through the plot line for a Christmas crisis?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Of course we can.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, so we sort of weave together four tales of
Christmas woe. We've got a Hallmark thread, which is sort
of my character, the baker running a cupcake maker cupcake
shop that's sort of crumbling in this economy. We've got
climate change, we've got the clause, we've got the clauses
going through a tricky breakup. And we've got the elves
(05:08):
who are sort of crumbling under consumerism team who's kind
of taken over. They used to be artists and now
they're sort of packing warehouses.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So there's a punk element to it. But I'll just
say with so Lara pays Ashley the cupcake maker, but
a prince comes in to make a big order of cupcakes,
but she doesn't realize. She thinks he's the courier. So
it's the old classic and he's like the prince after him,
but she used to go and deliver the cupcakes. It's
all very inspired by Oh, Shakespearean. We were thinking more
(05:40):
kind of like cheesy kind of hallmark for returning home
to your hometown and falling in love with the turkey farmer,
that kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And then we sort of culminate the whole thing and
this sort of mash up of movie references. Die Hard
of course, Speed too, Cruise Control is.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Their home alone reference.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh these flashes of us?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, Love actually, yes, I put one in last night. Actually,
that's the new writing that.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I've got so few family Christmas traditions, but for some
reason we've got one that none of us have agreed
to and none of us actually want to do, but
it happens every year, and it's watching Love actually, and
it culminates in an argument between my mother and I
about how.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Good or bad a guy that Alan Rickman?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Right, no, yes, Alan Rickman and the guy with the signs.
So in my mind, and I've had this theory and
I'd love to run it past you evidently you're you're
across this movie. Yes, the girl who's trying to get
with Alan Rickman has side piece for lack of a
bitter term. And I think the guy who shows up
(06:46):
at the mate's missus dare with the signs. I reckon
they're the same character. I reckon they are just as
bad as each other. One of my mates showed up
to my door with signs, trying to convince my message
to give me the flack and go with him. I
reckon that there's the same energy as the girl who's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'm going to be watching this with a new lens.
I'm going to watch it again, going yes, face, it's
such a you can just keep discussing. Actually, here's a new.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Christmas tradition for the start an argument with your mum
about this. Well, you do it every year, and it
brings us close to I've.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Still never seen it, That's what I feel like.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I may as well.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I have, And I've even been part of love Actually
parodies over the years involving signs and who fucking hasn't
done that?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But it feels like this this you're set up right
here right now in the studio lens itself to science
m Christmas. I'm going to come out and.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Signs out here. Yeah yeah, but you see, I don't
understand what the signs are. I don't have no context.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
There's your homeworks.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I think read the discourse before going into the film.
So you really appreciate it because honestly, so much as
speed about this movie really yeah, okay, very divisive, and
I just say about Christmas Crisis. It's it's ninety minutes
long plus interval, but we cram it including pretty much,
and we cram all of that craziness into them.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah. No, I've been to dynamosion shows in the past
and they are amazing. They really are amazing. Can we
take a break and come back with more in a moment, please.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I think this is the earliest the Christmas spirit has
descended on the studio. We came in this morning and
there was, as you can say, in front of your
tinsel set up on the on the desk.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
We don't know who did it. We presume the.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Ghost of Christmas Past just came through and dropped it off.
And hasn't it said almost everywhere? Yeah, Almo theator.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They chose the twenty seventh of November. Yeah, that's because
I like I would get it if it was the
first of December.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Not a lot makes sense around me to be and
it's kind of it's kind of that sort of place.
Things are pretty random, and look, I'm not sure how
I feel about the tinsel on the table. It's I'm
not sure how I feel about the yule Tide starting
before the first of December. I mean, I'm strictly everything
needs to start on the first December, and then when
(09:04):
it does start for me, we were talking about it
earlier on Actually, for me, the last two weeks of
work before Christmas, before you break up, before you put
your cheers on the desks and break up. Every day
is a Friday, but it's only for the last two weeks,
(09:25):
and then the rest of the time. I think you've
just got it. You've you've got to keep going about
your business. Otherwise nothing happened.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I feel the same. And here we are. Ironically, that's
hard doing a pantomime kind of Christmas show and getting
the word out there isn't this.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well full credits. You're turning up in costume though, I've
got to say that's impressive. You really know what you're wearing.
Someone about it.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I'm saying that you guys are begint.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
We're talking about this on the show this week about
I've been accused of being a bit grinchy. Not yeah,
I've got to tell I've got to touch the grunches
about me and and so, and if it's a you know,
for a bit of self development, I've bought in and
so I have. I have taken to buying my partner
Christmas tree decorations throughout the year so that at this
(10:12):
time of year I am I am part of it again,
spelling out into November. I don't know how I feel
about that, if I'm honest with it. But Jerry the
other day was he was taught how to erect the
Christmas tree. But you guys right away, yeah Christmas tree erection.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Are we talking the real Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Or the real.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
You guys fate Christmas tree people.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I'm a fake Christian?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Are you both fake Christmas tree people? For fake Christmas tree?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Vickiing Ross Sainsbury they always have a real pine tree
in the corner. But it's just like it's a it's
a gamble out, what's it going to? What shape is
it going to be? This time.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I do love where I've been collecting some old Christmas
photos from the cast and I do love and miss
the real Christmas tree branch all sort of like, you know,
sparse in the middle. It's terrible shape.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, with the angel on the top side.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeh, I miss that. I missed that, But I think
it's the I just think it's the like the sort
of maintenance and work required with the real one. When
the needles fall off, then you've got to do something
with it afterwards.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes, doing something with it afterwards. Just check it into
the green bout beside the motorway.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, you're buffet over the neighbor's fence, or you just
check it on your boom, check it on your How
long does that thing take to buy?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
To great?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It's quite remarkable, but literally a tree. There is an option.
There's another option for you, low you'd be pleased to
know about this. You can go to a place that
I went to the other day in Sandrigan, bell Morral
and a mesa Christmas tree and this is not a
plague for them, but they've got a giant You can
go and choose your own tree, whatever size you want,
and then Mike Lovely Mike chops it down for you,
(12:00):
and then and then he will you can choose it,
and then they will drop it around to your house.
They will erect it for you. It's not that much more.
I'm talking about for sixty bucks on top of your
Christmas tree. They will bring it into your house. They
bring it in in a bag so it doesn't drop
a single needle. You don't get the needles in the
(12:20):
boot of your car, which you can't forever bloody vacuuming
coming over.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
But next year you're still finding you started on the sack.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They take it away for you too.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And then you've got the experience of the pine smell
rafting through your heart.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Is just the player, not a plaque. It's not a plaque.
Is this the one where you're driving to Mount Albas.
It's just just on the side of their main road.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
On the side of the main road.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Do you know the bloody property.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Going from You're going from Dominion Road to Eden and
then there's this property with a like a concrete well.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's like a Christmas tree farm and the middle spit.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they're sitting on a gold mine there.
I think it's like four acres or something they've got.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
What are they doing when they take those away?
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I mean, forgive me, I'm not a horticulturalist, but could
you just plug that much back into the ground and
it'll keep grind for next year? Or no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
No, once you chop it, it's die. It's dead, and
then it will just but you're kind of just.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
So it's like a flower in a bucket drinking water.
The trend. But how long does it take? How long
does it take to grow to satisfy satisfactory song?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I think it's a couple of years. So they are
running at any given time. They've got different sizes that
they're running different years. Yeah, and I think they've got
another property somewhere else where they also bring them in from.
But but yeah, it's a great service, I've got to say.
So I've signed up this year to that service. And yeah,
I'm getting my seven foot tree delivered.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Are you gone to the seven foot Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
On December the on December the sixth, Friday afternoon, it's
arriving and they're going to bring it in and they're
going to erect it for me. And and the other
thing that Michael taught me is that all Christmas trees
have a good and a bad side.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Real Christmas trees Christmas, Yeah, I believe that, Yes, because.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Of the sun. Yeah. So which you have a way
north side of Christmas tree because obviously tree goes to
its so.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They're also orientate it to the direction that it should
be dissiplayed them with your height.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Your seven foot was no problem to put the star
or the angel on the top.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Right. I'll get up on a step, get up on
a step. But I like to give that job to
someone else. Tom, I've got children, and the decorating of
the Christmas tree is a wonderful time when you'll gather
around and argue over where your things go and the
ballbles and that and that general creative and artistic design
for the tree. And if I had my way with
my mild O c D, I would have the same
(14:48):
baubles with one set of lights. You know, I want
some I want some uniformity.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Saying that I've got a hodgepodge of bables from all
over the world.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I actually have ancept tree and I haven't broken it
to anyone else. That no one's going to get to
decorate it except me.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Concept I've got a concept.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I've been I've got some I've got some new decorations,
and I've got a plan in my head and I
really want I've let the kids be in charge. We've
got a blended family, and I've let the kids be
be in charge for.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
A couple of long, for too long.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
First year, I was like, I'm the new guy on
the scene. I better just let them do it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's not what I want to doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I mean last year, I was like to think of
the children in this year, I'm like, it's my years
to try.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I feel like the hodgepodge just gives more individuality. Plus
you can they can each one can mean something. And
also you've got like a history of us.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
And it brings me into Christmas because I'm like you said,
they're bubble there, that's a hen Can's actually from the
Heineken factory.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So are you using your Christmas as a conversation stuff?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
It's a brag, hey, But otherwise I'll be up to
my own just crushing past by myself.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So you know, it's probably better. Lara and Tom, thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Thank you, good luck with the thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It's called Christmas. Christis that's right. It's onic Q Theater
win tenth.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
To the twentieth of December.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Thanks, thanks, loves, thank you.
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