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Ever wondered why Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé seem to pop up everywhere over Christmas? Join our father-daughter duo as we share a festive laugh over these music icons and a cheeky story about Bublé’s frosty feelings towards more Christmas gigs. We take a trip through time to uncover the roots of Christmas, reminiscing about childhood nativity plays and our merry tradition of on-air gift exchanges. With a sprinkle of nostalgia, we dive into an interactive quiz that promises to test your holiday knowledge and tickle your funny bone.

From ancient evergreens to sushi ornaments, our lively chat about Christmas decorations will have you counting the quirky ways holiday decor has transformed. We recall the good ol’ Blue Peter craft days and the American pizzazz that has reshaped our approach to holiday lights. A gentle nod to the timeless mistletoe and its modern-day charm wraps up our decorative journey, highlighting the community spirit sparked by decorating for charity.

Our holiday plans are bursting with cheer, kicking off on December 19th with a whirlwind of festivities. We blend English and American traditions, swap tech upgrades for easier fun, and spice up Boxing Day with a curry cook-off. New Year’s Eve calls for a cozy themed movie night at home. Our festive playlist gets a boost from Christmas song bingo, while lively quizzes keep us on our toes. Join us for laughter, trivia, and a gift exchange that celebrates the season’s warmth and humor.

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Speaker 1:

Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok links in bio.

Speaker 2:

Us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok Links in bio. Hello and welcome to this very special Christmas episode of Bonus Dad, bonus Doctor. There, yes, you grunge, but today is the release of this podcast. Sorry, let's start that again. The day of the release of this podcast is actually Boxing Day, so happy Boxing Day if you're listening to us on Boxing Day. Hope you had a lovely.

Speaker 1:

Christmas. It's weird because we're recording this on the 8th of December.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean, it's still Christmas Eve time, isn't it? It's not like we're recording.

Speaker 1:

I know the songs have already started. They have. Yeah, they're in the shops. And I'm just now not listening to the radio at all because just you know mariah's mariah and buble have been defrosted. They're out, they're free.

Speaker 2:

yeah, they're running around and, yeah, can I share something with you that I recently learned? Actually, go on, because you've mentioned it. I'm not going to mention this at all, but I can't remember where I saw it, but this guy was on a chat show. Let's say it was graham norton I've seen this. I know what you're gonna say and he said that he wanted to do something with michael buble it was jack whitehall.

Speaker 2:

It was a jack whitehall, yeah he was like yeah, um, so I want to do this christmas episode. And he went I've got to stop you right there. This is michael buble and he's got. I've got to stop you right there. Please don't let me do a christmas thing anymore. Like he's, he apparently doesn't like christmas.

Speaker 2:

He hates it because all he's ever asked to do is christmas, which is a shame, because Michael Bublé's voice is incredible, like he's got a really, really good voice and he yeah, poor guy just being asked. It must be so annoying. He's like I don't want to do any more Christmas things, and that's so fair. That's so fair.

Speaker 1:

So this episode we're going to do slightly different. We're going to do a mixture of a few episodes. We are the kind of set of this one. So I've done a little brief kind of where Christmas has come from. But I'm going to make that very brief because when I said to Hannah I'd researched the history of Christmas she kind of rolled her eyes and went oh, davey's going. All history again.

Speaker 1:

I groaned and there's like there's so much here You're going to have to do Reader version, I am, I'm gonna do a very bridge version, okay. And then we've we. Last year, we, we gave each other presents, didn't we, we?

Speaker 2:

did?

Speaker 1:

we opened them on air we did and we're doing the same again this year yeah, because, uh, it was fun trying to describe it as an audio podcast.

Speaker 2:

It's hard to describe and I had well, you had to describe a wooden whale last time, so yeah, and I went. I, I actually got last went thoughtful and I bought my bottle today in preparation for this.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, a water bottle that says bonus store truck.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, where's your?

Speaker 1:

whale. My whale's in my office. It's in my office and it does its job. You said, whenever I'm having a bad day, I look at it and it makes me laugh. Good, it cheers me up. It cheers me up. But we're also going to do a quiz.

Speaker 2:

We are Just a little bit of a quiz, a christmas quiz we'll have to do a percentage on on what we've, a percentage of the.

Speaker 1:

I don't have to do maths. Aren't I maths?

Speaker 2:

yeah, yeah, oh, dear lord maybe I didn't get the memo.

Speaker 1:

We're supposed to do 15, so we'll just kind of go over very, very briefly, hannah, very, very briefly, the origins of christmas and where it kind of comes from. So I did a bit of a Google and I had a little look and it said that the origins of Christmas are a blend of religious and cultural traditions tracing back to various historical influences. Now, we've said this before, haven't we? With these types of festivals, especially with Halloween, there's a lot of things coming together to create one festival. And yeah, there's the pagan festival of Saturnalia, which is an ancient Roman festival honoring Saturn, the god of agriculture. That was held between December the 17th to December the 23rd. So they think that was that festival, pulled in with Yule, which was another festival by the Germanic people back then, and that involved feasts, yule logs. Yes, love a Yule log, love a Yule log.

Speaker 2:

I love Cadbury's mini rolls, like the mini version. Yeah, I've also tried to make a Yule log, unsuccessfully. It broke, but it was still tasty and the ganache was.

Speaker 1:

Oh, ganache, I love that word, it's a great word, great word. Sorry, but then of course, uh, jesus was born, of course, in may, and and, uh, the christians then adopted christmas as being part of that festival and kind of inserted that that is the true meaning of christmas yeah yeah, uh, so I'm going to, and one of the things that we've actually had recently, of course, with the birth of christ right, is nativity plays yes and you've been in nativity play oh my gosh, yeah, many years ago yeah brought back a childhood trauma memory.

Speaker 1:

I know those things and. But did you know that Chad Kroger from Nickelback he actually loves appearing in nativity plays no way he really does. He's been a shepherd, he's played the innkeeper, he's even played the back end of a donkey, but he never made it as a wise man.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I thought you were. What did you think to that? You lulled me into a falsehood of security there. I was like, oh, that's really cool. Maybe he does it for a charity effect.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

He couldn't cut it, as a poor man stealing, could he?

Speaker 1:

No no.

Speaker 2:

For sake, that's such a dad joke.

Speaker 1:

It really is, isn't it? Do you like that?

Speaker 2:

Oh sorry, it really is, isn't it? Do you like that? Sorry, listeners, switch off now. Podcast is done.

Speaker 1:

This is our last episode, but one thing I did look at. So modern day Christmas is actually a lot of festivals coming together to what it is today.

Speaker 2:

Modern day, christmas is a consumer oh, 100% surprising nightmare.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I don't like, as I'm in marketing as my job, the Coca-Cola thing yeah, that completely changed Santa's look. It did from green to red so it's like what? Where does it end? Yeah the advertising end. John Lewis always puts out a Christmas advert every year. Sainsbury's do a Christmas advert every year and it's like the competing of the adverts. When does Christmas come back to being traditional families getting together?

Speaker 1:

I think it's you know it's whatever you want to do. Yeah, it's whatever you want to do and how you want to celebrate it. If you want to, you know, if you want to celebrate Christmas as Christmas or if you just want to celebrate Christmas as an agricultural festival, absolutely crack on, Do whatever you want to do. But one thing that when I did that Mitchell came up with that I did actually have a little bit of a Google over was was the. You mentioned Christmas decorations, where your decorations came from.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so we this conversation come from the fact that Mitchell and I tend to have a little walks around our state all times of year, but particularly at Christmas we go quite a lot, and recently so we started in November and we started counting how many houses had had christmas lights and I started to record them. Uh, on each walk, and like the first walk we did in november it was um, I'm just trying to find it we saw 22 houses. So, november the 21st, 22 houses were lit with christ lights.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then when we went out again on the 25th of November, 56 houses had Christmas lights. Same route.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then when we went recently, there was 142 houses with Christmas lights. So that got us. We talk as we're going around, but that got us talking. We also make bets.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we're able to see how many there would be, and whoever wins has to buy the other one something from the co-op, because that's on route, because by the time we've got round to the co-op we know if someone's won or not. Pretty much. So we've been doing this and he was like you should talk about Christmas decorations, because obviously, even maybe in your time, were Christmas lights a thing? What were decorations like on the tree?

Speaker 1:

I saw a meme the other day and it did make me laugh and it was a blue pita.

Speaker 2:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And it was where they got two coat hangers right and two wire coat hangers and put them end to end. So, almost like I can't think of the shape, sorry, bauble, no, not Bauble, no, it's a certain, not like a circle, square, hexagon, pentagon, not pentagon, but the four one. I can't think of the Trapeze. No, trapeze is three, but anyway, they put the tensile around the wire hanger but then they stuck candles on it, okay, and it was like that's gonna go up. Well, yeah, yeah, that's, and this would. They were showing it on blue peter on how to make diamond, diamond shape. That's what I'm thinking of.

Speaker 1:

yeah, yeah trapeze is also four like it's like this with the two sides yeah, I'm not very good with that you have a moment here yeah, but I had a quick look about the origins of christmas decorations and did you know that pre-Christianity the winter solstice was being celebrated and that was one of the festivals that turned into Christmas and evergreens were used as a symbol of life and renewal, and that was the Egyptians, the Romans and Druids used evergreens. Trees, Trees evergreen trees to decorate temples. So that's kind of where the Christmas tree came from. Where the tree came from, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

So that's the first decoration.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But what decorations did you have as a kid, like what was on the tree?

Speaker 1:

It was very similar to what it is now. Right, yeah, yeah, no, no, no. Not much has changed.

Speaker 2:

I think nowadays, like people are putting like I've got a friend who's been putting like they've got like sushi on a string on their tree, something a bit more obscure, they've got like little crabs or something, or they've got like not what I'd call winter traditional. Things Like sushi isn't a winter traditional thing that. I would think of no. So I think now people are maybe just branching out to their own individual taste and I've noticed recently this year that people are embracing kind of the tacky decorations again okay it went from classy to kind of like tacky is kind of cool.

Speaker 2:

So the bright colors there, do you remember those foil things that fall? I know my, my grandmother and I know what you mean. Ceiling yeah yeah, like poked up. I don't know if they were pins or whether they were blue tack. Um, and I think doesn't denwe and nanny kath also do that they have things on their ceiling I love the fact that you call my dad denwe, and then denwe and nanny kath.

Speaker 1:

I love that he is is granddad.

Speaker 2:

I would call him granddad, but his pet name is Denwy. Yeah, if he doesn't mind, he loves it, denwy. So yeah, but don't they have also like decorations stuck on their ceiling, is it? It's that generation.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I think it does, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Whereas you guys don't do that.

Speaker 1:

No, we're very kind of minimalistic when it comes to that Very minimalistic. Me and your mum actually had an argument the other day about the Christmas tree.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I feel like we had to get you in, to help you get it out of the loft, but I feel like with the Christmas decorations as well, it's a difference between being kind of the classy and the tacky. Now there's this, I don't know. It's kind of gone back on itself. We're going back to tacky. It's just fashion, isn't it?

Speaker 1:

It is, it's gone a bit retro, gone a bit retro.

Speaker 2:

Did people have lights on the houses as well when?

Speaker 1:

you were growing up as a kid, not so much, I think. That's kind of something that's.

Speaker 2:

I think there were.

Speaker 1:

But I mean, it's phenomenal.

Speaker 2:

It's incredible, and it's mostly for charity, isn't it?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So that's for animals? I think yeah.

Speaker 1:

They always get the one house who's like, nope, I'm not doing it yeah.

Speaker 2:

There's a heather set as well. I think it's something to do with the death of a little boy from a disease. They all do it for that charity as well. So it's like a community effort and I really like that about it. But I imagine the lights weren't as extravagant 21 years ago as they are.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, no, no, I don't know. Yeah, I'd say, that's fair.

Speaker 2:

I do think maybe we've got kind of America to thank for that as well, because I know that-.

Speaker 1:

There is a big influence.

Speaker 2:

They're like go home or go home, aren't they Like with their lights, and I think that has kind of influenced a little bit of our culture and why we really like I've got lights on my house, but not crazy lights Did you?

Speaker 1:

you sent me the teenage dirtbag house the other day, didn't you? I did, I did, yeah, people go like crazy with their lights.

Speaker 2:

But yeah, anyway, sorry, I know.

Speaker 1:

I've gone a bit off piste. No, that's all I mean. Holly Ivy and Mistletoe were a pagan thing that got brought into. Mistletoe is quite problematic now, so confession. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

We have mistletoe in our house and it's fake mistletoe, yeah, but it might have been hanging up all year because we forgot to take it down. We just thought it was so funny that we just left it up. Yeah, and everyone sometimes walks in and sees it. They're like, oh, it's been there all year.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, can't be half.

Speaker 2:

Mitchell put it up on the ceiling, never took it down. I can't reach it, so it's his fault.

Speaker 1:

The modern Christmas tree tradition. So we had the evergreens back in ancient times with Egyptians, romans and Druids, but the modern day one actually comes from Germany. There's a lot of German influence with decorations. I mean the Advent wreaths also originated in Germany. The first glass ornaments were produced in the German town of Lauscha in the 16th century, being mass produced in the 19th century. The Germans also invented tinsel.

Speaker 2:

Oh God, yeah, I hate tinsel.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, Edward Johnson, who was associate of Thomas Edison, created kind of revolutionized how Christmas decorations were with lights, Wow so yeah, oh, I like him. Yeah. And then the inflatable decoration started in the 1990s. So quite new, yeah, quite a new thing. Big old, wobbly men. Wobbly men, then yeah. And then of course we've got there's regional variations, like in Mexico they've got paper lanterns. In Sweden, the Yule goat is a traditional decoration. Okay, a goat, a goat.

Speaker 2:

So we have reindeer and they've got goats.

Speaker 1:

They've got goats.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so yeah, do goats like ride the sleigh, Is that?

Speaker 1:

I don't know. Okay, I don't know. I'm sorry, but yeah, reading through that, we've got the Germans to thank for a lot of the decorational side of things.

Speaker 2:

Random fact, fun fact, if you will. Yeah, I should let other people tell me they're fun actually, but the tree that's situated in Trafalgar Square every year for Christmas is donated by Norway. Is it really Just thought I'd let you know? Yeah, hope that isn't on your quiz.

Speaker 1:

No, yeah, I hope that isn't on your quiz. No, no, it isn't. That's a fun fact. No, that that isn't. No, it's not.

Speaker 2:

I don't think it's on the quiz yeah, um donated by norway, so thank you, norway yeah, me and your mum.

Speaker 1:

We had a difference of opinion, shall we say, because, I'll be honest, yeah, when it comes to christmas, your mum does it. I mean for two reasons one, I don't like christmas, and also when I decorate the tree I get it wrong.

Speaker 2:

So she does it to be honest, she's been like that since I was a child, so much so that I actually never decorated the home tree yeah she never let me, which is child abuse. And, uh, my lovely nana actually allowed me to decorate the one that we had in the salon. It was uh when, when I worked in the hair salon, I was allowed to decorate that one.

Speaker 1:

We're allowed to put one thing on, aren't we?

Speaker 2:

we have one thing each yeah which has now been slightly extended to mitchell as well.

Speaker 1:

So we've all got one of this, yeah, yeah, that we're allowed to put on.

Speaker 2:

But even then I feel the eyes on me when I'm like you're kind of putting it somewhere on the tree funny, because we have all one thing to put on, but she tells you where to put it, so it kind of takes the magical way.

Speaker 1:

So, yeah, um oh, she, um, yeah, but the she put the lights up the other day and it's that same thing where you know, like the outside lights and I know I mean I have this thing about outside lights, Like why. But I know she says she does it for like the kids in the estate and whatever as well. But we were sitting there last night and we were watching telly on our big hundred thousand million inch screen and even your mum went, can you go and turn the lights off? She said they're starting to do me in Because they were kind of coming in through the window and they were flashing that quickly.

Speaker 2:

Oh, you could just put them on still, or the twinkle, that's quite nice.

Speaker 1:

So we just went and turned them off. But yeah, they'll come down fairly soon. Yeah, yeah, not too long, not too long. So that's kind of yeah, I didn't want to go too much into the history of Christmas, I just thought I'd just kind of briefly go over it.

Speaker 2:

Shall we talk about what we're going to do for Christmas as persons. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Because what are you? I don't actually know what you're doing.

Speaker 2:

Well, my Christmas, oh sorry yes. Today is Boxing Day.

Speaker 1:

Where did you spend Christmas Day.

Speaker 2:

Oh God, this is hard to answer in third person.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I went round my mother-in-law's and had a lovely meal where we done Secret Santa with.

Speaker 1:

Who did you get Secret Santa for? No, don't answer that, just in case.

Speaker 2:

Can I answer? I can answer. Well, actually you can answer it. Yeah, because this?

Speaker 1:

comes out afterwards.

Speaker 2:

This is coming out afterwards. I got Willow as my Secret Santa.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Willow is my sister-in-law, so my brother-in-law's girlfriend, and we have this thing we use a program to make Secret Santa happen, so you don't get who you got last year and you don't get your partner. So we do it electronically and you get to put a wish list on and I hit the jackpot. You could bleep that out because she asked for a record.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, she asked for Jagged Little Pills.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you told me this.

Speaker 2:

So I got those. And she's quite into frogs, so I got her these really cute fluffy frog socks to go with it. Awesome, because our budget is like 30 pounds or so I think the record was like 10, it was 20 quid or something. So, to to build up the the thing, I got some socks as well. But yeah, like I know, I know willow really well, so I hit the jackpot with her the socks.

Speaker 2:

She hadn't put on our wish list, but I think she'll like them, like cozy things, and she likes frogs, so cool. Hopefully we're all good there. But yeah, she, um, yeah, I absolutely hit jackpot and got her, but I don't know, obviously, who got me yet, because we're not in the future yeah, yeah but, but. But.

Speaker 2:

My christmas actually starts technically on the 19th right because that's my last day of work and there's there's a christmas works do, which I'm very excited to go to, and then my run club has a christmas do the next day, on the 20th, and then on the 21st we're going around um my father-in-law's for pre-christmas christmas, so we're opening presents like it would be christmas day, mother-in-law's christmas day and then yours boxing day. Yes, so today. So when this episode comes, we, we're actually together. We're actually together, we're together. That's crazy.

Speaker 1:

Cool.

Speaker 2:

And I assume that's when we're going to put the decoration on, because I don't think we're seeing you before Christmas now.

Speaker 1:

No, we're not Actually. That's a good point. You know what we're doing.

Speaker 2:

Boxing Day, don't you? Yeah, but inside the house.

Speaker 1:

And the good thing is because we've got the telly where it is and the size of the telly, and now we can actually cast straight from the laptop to the telly. That will make it a lot easier than what we did last time. Yes, because we can Bluetooth it now rather than wired. Yes, so that will make it easy.

Speaker 2:

Hopefully. Yeah, Because I had to control it on the floor last time. That was a nightmare, yeah so we're doing that, and I know that mum and Mitchell are cooking together as well.

Speaker 1:

They are cooking curry together, which is quite sweet we're just going to watch, I guess. I think I don't know what we're going to do should we just have a little little jam session? Yeah, we could do that, couldn't we? Yeah, so yeah that's what we're doing for Christmas just as an aside, do you know what I bought last week? Bought a couple of guitar hangers.

Speaker 3:

Oh no.

Speaker 1:

So I can put the guitars on the wall upstairs. Yeah, that's very exciting. I haven't had my electric guitars out for ages because it's a mission to get it out. Because I've got so many amps and that it's a bloody nightmare, but anyway so. I can put the guitars up on the Can we?

Speaker 2:

But no tell us what I was doing. Oh sorry, what are you doing?

Speaker 1:

Christmas Day. I apologise, I'm going to Anthony's, are you? Yeah, lovely, yeah, so we're going to a wedding on the 29th. So you are. Which is Hills or Hillary's niece's wedding?

Speaker 2:

Congratulations.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so we're going to go round to Anson Hills on Christmas Day.

Speaker 2:

You're going to have a part English part American Christmas Day. How cool an experience of that, yeah, yeah, I wish I was there.

Speaker 1:

So we've got Hillary's family coming over from America.

Speaker 3:

Very cool.

Speaker 1:

So, yeah, that's going to be amazing. I don't quite know how Ant and Hill are going to pull it off, as in the amount of people that's going to be there.

Speaker 2:

I imagine there'll be help from other people oh yeah, but I've just been in the room.

Speaker 1:

There's going to be a lot of us. There's going to be a lot of us. It should be really cool.

Speaker 2:

I think they'll be fine. Yeah, everything will be cool.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and then Boxing Day we're seeing you. Then, of course, we're then going to the wedding.

Speaker 2:

Yes, am in between Christmas and New Year's, so I guess, after this podcast come out, I'm going for a walk with a friend. But Christmas no, sorry, new Year's Eve we have no plans at all and we have spent the last few Christmas Eves ill at home and I think we're just going to spend it at home. We're going to try, and I think Mitchell wants to watch a movie where something happens at the stroke of midnight like oh, like the snap. Like the snap.

Speaker 1:

Or stroke of midnight like oh, like the snap, like the snap, or something like that. So we're going to find there's the Lord of the Rings one as well where it goes.

Speaker 2:

So it begins, yeah so yeah, we're probably going to do something like that, but nothing crazy we've not got any plans.

Speaker 1:

We don't know what we're doing New Year's. I don't think we've even thought that far ahead. I don't know. Your mum will probably know she's got in something.

Speaker 2:

We're also before we go on, because I assume we're going to do the quiz next. That's what.

Speaker 1:

I was going to ask Are we going to do the quiz next or are we going to open the presents?

Speaker 2:

Does the present affect the quiz at all?

Speaker 1:

No, we'll do that at the end, then We'll do the present at the end.

Speaker 2:

We'll leave it at the end. But before we go on to the quiz, I just and I are participating in Christmas song bingo. So if we hear organically either Wham Last Christmas, mariah Carey, all I Want for Christmas is you. Elton John's Step Into Christmas or Slade's Merry Christmas. Everybody, we tick it off. It's just a bit of fun, and the first person to tick off everything loses basically. So, we've got that going on at the moment, which is fun. I haven't actually been able to tick off anything.

Speaker 2:

I've not heard any Crystal songs organically. We are. We've excluded from the bingo. Is the reels on Instagram because Mariah Carey is for that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, exactly, exactly. So yeah, should we go with the quiz? So do with the quiz. So should I ask you? So I've got a mixture. So I've got 15 questions. Okay, I've got a mixture.

Speaker 3:

So I've got 15 questions, okay.

Speaker 1:

I've got some multiple choice ones. I've got some true or false questions Okay, and I've got some open-ended questions as well.

Speaker 2:

I have 10 questions.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

They are all guess the lyrics.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so I did worry that we were going to, because I looked, I researched some questions.

Speaker 2:

I went all music. Unless you have any music questions, I I respect some questions.

Speaker 1:

I went all music, you went all music. Unless you have any music questions I'm not very good with.

Speaker 2:

Christmas music. I know. That's why I feel like a challenge for you.

Speaker 1:

This is going to be a tough one.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so do you want to go first?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'll go first. You're now going to get the answer to this question.

Speaker 3:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so which country started this is a multiple choice, by the way which country started the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree? Was it A Norway, was it B Germany, was it C Canada or D England?

Speaker 2:

I'm going to go with B Germany because the Germans did everything. But I think, had we not had that discussion before, I probably would have guessed Norway, because they were the ones that donated the tree to Trafalgar Square. So I'm going to go with B.

Speaker 1:

AndB is the correct answer. It is Germany. It is Germany. I'm going to give myself a tick. Yeah, do you want me to do first five ones and then we'll do one each? Because you've only got 10 and I've got 15? Sure, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think that works.

Speaker 1:

So what is the best-selling christmas song of all time? Is it a white christmas by bing crosby? B. All I want for christmas is you by mariah carey. C last christmas by wham. Or d jingle bell rock I god I would.

Speaker 2:

so I don't know what A, B, C or D was, but I would. It's got to be Mariah Carey. She's everywhere.

Speaker 1:

You think Are you locking it in? I'm locking it in. Final answer. Final answer I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. I'm surprised by that. Yeah, bing Crosby, white Christmas. One nil In the movie Home Alone. I've never seen it. Where are the McAllisters going on vacation when they leave Kevin behind? Is it multiple choice? Is it Paris? Is it New York? Is it Paris? Okay, is it New York? Is it London or Miami?

Speaker 2:

All very odd places to go for.

Speaker 1:

Christmas. So A Paris, b New York, c London, d Miami.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to go New York. Never seen the movie.

Speaker 1:

Paris.

Speaker 2:

Of course.

Speaker 1:

It was Paris.

Speaker 2:

Most Christmassy city in the world no-transcript. Most Christmassy city in the world.

Speaker 1:

Question four what traditional Christmas decoration is actually a parasitic plant? Is it A Holly, b Mistletoe, c Poinsettia or D Ivy?

Speaker 2:

I'm going to go with Poinsettia.

Speaker 1:

Actually mistletoe Frick. Yep, it's B Mistletoe. I don't know if you'll get this one, I'm not doing well. So which of the following reindeer With poinsettia? Actually, mistletoe Frick. Yeah, it's B mistletoe. I don't know if you'll get this one, I'm not doing well. So which of the following reindeer is not mentioned in the night before Christmas? Oh my God, is it A Dasher, b Prancer, c Comet or D Rudolph?

Speaker 2:

I'm going to go with C Comet, because I've never heard of Comet or D Rudolph. I'm going to go with C Comet because I've never heard of Comet. No, should I have heard of Comet?

Speaker 1:

I don't. I've never heard of Comet. I've heard of the others, but I've heard of Comet. Who's Comet? One of the reindeer, apparently.

Speaker 2:

If it's Rudolph, I'm going to lose my shit.

Speaker 1:

Okay, then your shit is about to get lost. It was Rudolph. Rudolph is not mentioned in the Night Before Christmas, wow.

Speaker 2:

There you go, it is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer I've only won so far. I'm not doing well.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I hope you do just as bad I'm going to do shockingly bad Okay.

Speaker 2:

Is it my turn?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you go question, then I'll go question.

Speaker 2:

Okay, okay, oh okay. I've currently got one green heart because I couldn't find the tick. I just want you for my own, more than you could ever.

Speaker 1:

Oh, have I got to finish the letter? Yeah, no.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

You win. Okay, I'll give you a green heart. The next five questions I have are true or false. You've got a 50-50, 50-50 chance here, hannah 50. You got a 50-50, fitty-fitty chance here, hannah Fitty.

Speaker 2:

Fitty-fitty, what's your first?

Speaker 1:

question the tradition of hanging stockings comes from a Dutch custom, true or false? True, false. It comes from a tradition associated with St Nicholas.

Speaker 2:

How dare he?

Speaker 1:

Yes, okay. Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away this year to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special. Okay, there we are. Jingle bells was originally written as a thanksgiving song. True or false?

Speaker 2:

false. It's true, isn't it? It's true. Oh my god, I can't even get the 50-50s. You're here where you should be. Snow is falling as the You're Go again.

Speaker 1:

You're here. I'm trying not to sing it, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2:

You're here, you're here, when you should be.

Speaker 1:

Where you should be.

Speaker 2:

Snow is falling as the.

Speaker 1:

I have no idea.

Speaker 2:

Do you know the song?

Speaker 1:

I don't.

Speaker 3:

You're here when you should be. Snow is falling as the Crow flies. Carolyn sings.

Speaker 1:

Alright, okay Now, I don't know that song.

Speaker 2:

Kelly Clarkson Under the Tree. Underneath the Tree. You should know that that album is An amazing Cricket's album.

Speaker 1:

Okay, the abbreviation Again, true or false. The abbreviation X-mas, oh god, comes from the Greek language, true or false? The abbreviation X-mas comes from the Greek language, true or false, go with true. It's true. The X comes from the letter Chi, which is the first letter of Christ in Greek. That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's the most beautiful time of the year.

Speaker 1:

It's the most.

Speaker 2:

Lights fill the streets spreading.

Speaker 1:

Something and cheer oh. Fill the street spreading something and cheer oh joy and cheer, happiness and cheer.

Speaker 2:

I think I might have to give you that one so much cheer oh, so much cheer it's the most beautiful time of the year oh, wasn't the song.

Speaker 1:

I thought it was spreading so much cheer. It's actually Justin Bieber oh, okay, I'm going to give that one to you. I've not heard that one. I didn't know Bieber had done a Christmas song.

Speaker 2:

I've chosen some modern-ish ones.

Speaker 1:

Okay, the highest grossing Sorry, the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time is how the Grinch Stole Christmas. Okay, true or false?

Speaker 2:

As in Jim Carrey.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, as in Jim Carrey.

Speaker 2:

I think that might be false.

Speaker 1:

False is correct. It was actually Home Alone.

Speaker 2:

I thought it might be, yeah, although I was thinking of Die Hard for some reason. No, die Hard popped into my head. My brain went to Die Hard a little bit. Yeah, Santa, tell me if you're really there. Don't make me fall in love.

Speaker 1:

Santa, tell me if you're really there. Don't make me fall in love. You've got white hair. No, I've fallen off my chair again.

Speaker 2:

Tickle me under there again if you won't be here next year. So santa, tell me if you're really there, don't make me fall in love again if you won't be here next year. That doesn't rhyme, that's that I mean. It sounds better when ariana grande it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's oh okay.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I don't know if I just that's not even a close rhyme.

Speaker 1:

Near rhyme she's trying Okay. In the song the Twelve Days of Christmas, there are 364 gifts given.

Speaker 2:

God yeah.

Speaker 1:

True or false?

Speaker 2:

Okay, oh, is it every single time as well?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's 12. What's the maths there?

Speaker 3:

12 times Five golden rings.

Speaker 2:

How many? What was the figure? Again Sorry, 364.

Speaker 1:

Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves no, it'd be closer to and a partridge in a pear tree, I think what the maths is. Yeah, 300, you've got 50-50 chance, true or false.

Speaker 2:

I think it's false, false, false, false, false, false, true. Oh, bugger tits. True, I'm not doing well.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

Santa, can you hear me? I have been so.

Speaker 1:

Good To it than that. Uh, clever Important Santa, can you hear me? I have been so Good, taller than that Clever Important Santa, can you hear me?

Speaker 3:

Santa, can you hear me? I have been so Hairy.

Speaker 2:

I can't give you that no Good this year.

Speaker 1:

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll take that, yeah, okay, now I've got five open-ended questions for you.

Speaker 3:

Oh my, good Lord yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay, now I've got five open-ended questions for you. Oh, my good lord, what is the name of Scrooge's deceased business partner in A Christmas Carol?

Speaker 2:

Tiny Tim, it's not.

Speaker 1:

Tiny Tim, it's not Tiny Tim.

Speaker 2:

I don't know. Actually I don't know the story well enough. No, I'm going to have to forfeit that.

Speaker 1:

Okay, it's Jacob Marley.

Speaker 2:

Never in a million years. Okay, oh sorry. One, it's Jacob Marley. Never in a million years, oh sorry.

Speaker 1:

One, two three four five, six.

Speaker 2:

We're on number seven.

Speaker 1:

There's a world outside your window and it's a world of Pain, sorry.

Speaker 2:

I mean, you're not far off.

Speaker 1:

I don't know. No, I don't know.

Speaker 2:

Would it help if I sang it?

Speaker 1:

No, no, no.

Speaker 2:

You know the song.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I know the song, but I don't know the lyric.

Speaker 2:

There's a world outside your window, and it's a world of dread and fear.

Speaker 1:

Oh, it's a dread and fear. Okay, which plant often used as a Christmas decoration, has red and green foliage and is known as a Christmas flower Poinsettia? Poinsettia, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Get that one, okay. Oh, christmas lights Light up the street, light up the firework.

Speaker 1:

What? Never heard that before. I don't know what that is at all.

Speaker 2:

Because it's Coldplay, did you?

Speaker 1:

We're in a Coldplay song knowing that I would never have probably heard it. That's so funny. Well, no, I'm not going to get that at all. No, no.

Speaker 2:

It's oh, christmas lights light up the street, light up the firework in me.

Speaker 1:

Oh, you said that in such a depressing voice.

Speaker 2:

Well, it's Coldplay, it's Coldplay, so I've got to stay on vibe.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay. In which modern day country was St Nicholas born?

Speaker 2:

Germany.

Speaker 1:

No no.

Speaker 2:

Gems have let me down again.

Speaker 1:

Turkey.

Speaker 2:

Turkey, I wouldn't have guessed.

Speaker 1:

that Is that why we eat turkey at Christmas?

Speaker 2:

Probably not.

Speaker 1:

No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2:

Iced tea imported from England.

Speaker 3:

Turkey Iced tea imported from Spain, towels imported from Turkey's imported from Spain, dals imported from Turkey. Turkey imported from me.

Speaker 1:

Is this the next question, or are you just randomly singing?

Speaker 2:

I'm just randomly singing musical songs.

Speaker 1:

Oh right.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you know the one I'm talking about. Shake it up, shake up the.

Speaker 1:

Bailey's the warnings.

Speaker 2:

Shake up the happiness dude.

Speaker 1:

Advocar. Why do people drink?

Speaker 2:

Advocar at Christmas Because it's very close to eggnog.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it is. It's a sister of eggnog. Hang on, what is it? Snowballs? Snowballs, yeah. Advocar and lemonade yeah, but these are Advocar and baby sham.

Speaker 3:

Ugh.

Speaker 1:

I know that used to be a thing when I was little.

Speaker 2:

That's wrong.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm sure that used to be a thing.

Speaker 2:

Okay, what's your next question?

Speaker 1:

Okay, what do people traditionally place on top of a Christmas tree?

Speaker 2:

There's two. It could be an angel or a star.

Speaker 1:

It is two. It's either an angel or a star. Yeah, so you get. No, you can have two points for that. You can have two points for that.

Speaker 2:

Okay, last one for me then.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I've got five more nights of sleeping on my own, four more days until.

Speaker 1:

Santa comes home.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that's so good, baby comes home. You're coming home, but I'm definitely going to give you that. Okay, that's so close the answer. That's my last one.

Speaker 1:

Okay, you got four out of ten. Excellent. This is the last question for you. Yeah, in the 1964 tv special rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, or? Sorry, I'll start again. I read that completely wrong. So in the 1964 tv special rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, what was the name of rudolph's elf friend?

Speaker 2:

how the hell am I supposed to know that I?

Speaker 1:

don don't know. A comet, then no, hermie.

Speaker 2:

I would never have got that in a million years.

Speaker 1:

Are my questions hard?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, your questions are well hard. One, two, three, four.

Speaker 1:

I just googled Christmas.

Speaker 2:

Christmas, I got five questions right out of 15 and you got four questions right out of 10. So, you got 40%.

Speaker 1:

But you got more questions right, but I got a better percentage.

Speaker 2:

No, because I got two points for one question as well.

Speaker 1:

Ah, right, okay.

Speaker 2:

And I can't do maths but, I'm pretty sure we're both really shit at this yeah.

Speaker 1:

How many did our listeners get right?

Speaker 2:

How many did our listeners get right is?

Speaker 1:

what we need to know. We need to know, we need to know, we need to know.

Speaker 2:

That was the weirdest quiz format we've ever done. I don't think that worked, but it's fine. Thanks, listeners, it's Christmas. It's Christmas, we're both drunk. So no, we're not, really, I've been drinking water. Should we do the present?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay, so okay yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, okay. So I'm going to give you the present.

Speaker 1:

Hannah's passed me her present and I'm passing Hannah my present.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so would you like to describe what it looks like without opening it?

Speaker 1:

So I have a box, a wrapped box, with robins on.

Speaker 2:

I have. It's not quite box shaped, but it's in some sort of box at the bottom and then it tapers off to something thin at the back. So I'm guessing there's some sort of creature. Feels quite soft in the middle.

Speaker 1:

Okay, okay, would you like to open yours? So I will open my box. It's quite a small. I say we want to say box. It's a fairly I can hold it in one hand.

Speaker 2:

It's not like a yeah, it's not, and it's not amazon parcel, oh my god I can't get in it? Well, yeah, it's because my tape was being yeah, it's uh I like that paper. By the way, I like your paper too.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, your mum wrapped that.

Speaker 2:

We've both gone very recyclable.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

We're very sustainable.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, your mum wrapped that.

Speaker 2:

We always come here by car together as well.

Speaker 1:

Very sustainable. I love you. I love you, right? That's amazing.

Speaker 2:

How cool is that? That is awesome. It's limited edition as well.

Speaker 1:

It is. You've got me a pop figure. Yeah, from Stranger Things. Yeah, and it's Eddie. Yeah, that's amazing, that is awesome. Thank you, I thought it was like.

Speaker 2:

D&D related. Yeah, as soon as I saw it, I was like I was wracking my brain trying to think of something cool. Yeah, because last time I got you something weird, but this time I was like I'm going to try and actually.

Speaker 1:

That is awesome, thank you. Oh, I can't take him out of the box, can I?

Speaker 2:

No, you can absolutely take him out of the box.

Speaker 1:

Oh, no, I might have to leave him in the box. Okay, well, you can leave, but yeah it's. Eddie, that's Eddie from Stranger Things. That's awesome.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's so cool that was pretty impressive when I found that, oh, this is perfect did you get it online or did you get it from there? In a store.

Speaker 1:

I went to the one opposite the forum no, no, no.

Speaker 2:

I went Longwater near the range. They've got loads in there. Oh amazing, yeah, oh Amazing, yeah, oh cool. I'm going to open mine now.

Speaker 1:

You open yours, open yours. I feel like mine's not as good. What?

Speaker 2:

have you done? Mine's not as good.

Speaker 3:

What's going on here?

Speaker 2:

Okay, okay, when spit happens, give me a squeeze. I think it's a stress ball llama. Yeah what it's Okay.

Speaker 1:

I need to get into it. It's called the Karma Llama. Come out, come on, little man.

Speaker 2:

It's called the Karma Llama, oh my God, he needs to have a good name. Oh, oh yeah, he's good yeah.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, he's, I got a decent one, he's got some good squish in him yeah. I have a stress cloud.

Speaker 2:

Well, because I just saw it and it was like you, like llamas. When you press it, it's like eye comes out. I love it.

Speaker 3:

It's great.

Speaker 2:

This is great. I think this we have swapped roles now. Yeah, I went for something mildly thoughtful this time and then you went for something very weird that I haven't described. So basically it's a squishy llama. It's even got a little saddle painted on it. Yeah, it's giving me a rather odd look, but he's very. I love him.

Speaker 1:

he's great oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah it's a him. But what made me laugh is that you text me yesterday yeah and yeah, how's this for a coincidence really weird. Yeah, you text me. Yesterday you put in the text you put mitchell suggested also a quick discussion around christmas decorations and llamas. Sorry, that should be lights.

Speaker 2:

Autocorrect yeah, it autocorrected when I put in lights to llama yeah that's so weird yeah, and I was just filled with, because it's not like squishies, it's, it's not your normal like stressful, like it doesn't have beads in it or anything. No, it just feels like air almost. It's a good one, good squeeze, and it says when spit happens, give me a squeeze yeah because llama spit. Yeah, this is hilarious. Does he smell good? Okay, it smells like rubber. I don't know what I was expecting, but I gave it a good whiff and it smells like rubber.

Speaker 2:

I I love it. Thank you so much. Yes, he's coming with me. Well, he's gonna sit on my, my work desk when someone gives me aggie, giving him a squish. Yeah, giving him a squish.

Speaker 1:

That is so cool little squeezy llama, oh yeah perfect there you go. I hope you like eddie. Oh, eddie's, eddie's going pride of place. I put my little room upstairs.

Speaker 2:

I was thinking either at home or again on your work desk. I don't know if you want a collection of things on your work desk.

Speaker 1:

I could take him to work, I could put him on my work desk.

Speaker 2:

I don't know. It's obviously up to you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But I was thinking again of your work desk, but I thought something less weird.

Speaker 1:

Okay, weird, okay, yeah, see, yeah, no, that would, that would work at work well, that was very exciting.

Speaker 2:

I I'm so happy with my little llama, my little, my little stress stress ball llama. I loved having to describe that on air. If you enjoyed this episode of bonus dad, bonus daughter, we have plenty more in the bank. Uh, give us a listen. And because, because it is Boxing Day, have an incredibly good Christmas. Boxing Day, and just remember, there's days between New Year and Christmas that everyone seems to mould into one, and our next episode will be the 2nd of January, so we actually won't see you, guys until the New Year.

Speaker 1:

Yes, so I hope you've had an amazing Christmas, have an amazing week, have an amazing new year. We'll see you just before you go back to work. Yeah, in 2025.

Speaker 2:

2025, here we go. Yeah, that's weird, isn't it, I know? Yeah, that's weird.

Speaker 1:

That's my 50th year. Jesus, you're going to be 50 next year?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, mitchell's 30.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Eddie's 60.

Speaker 1:

I know Crazy. Who's going to be 40? We've got to find someone. We've got to find someone who's going to be 40.

Speaker 2:

One born in 85.

Speaker 1:

85, yeah, okay, yeah, if anyone is born in 85 and turning 40 next year, we will have a triple quadruple. I can't search that, but I can search by title, actors, year and categories like romantic comedies or sci-fi.

Speaker 2:

What we just activated an iPad, someone's iPad, I don't even know whose that was.

Speaker 1:

I don't even recognise that voice.

Speaker 2:

And we're going to leave it there. We're going to leave it there On the spookiness. Yeah, have a fantastic Christmas and New Year. We'll see you in the New Year.

Speaker 1:

See you in 2025.

Speaker 2:

Bye-bye, outro Music.