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today we're here in winter wonderland in

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London we're gonna be talking all about

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Christmas asking the population of

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London what they want for Christmas

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whether they've been a good boy or if

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they are they expecting coal let's find

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out

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finally nice to see you in real life

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yeah how long have you been fans as long

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as it would take me two idiots tigereye

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did you win did you win this solo I did

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yeah well over there how did you how did

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you win it you put a pound on you get

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one two three hundreds and Bob's your

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uncle a new girlfriend

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I've actually fried that's Australian

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Monday don't find out to Melbourne on

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Monday then I'm out to Sydney so my

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Christmas list apart from a six-pack I'm

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gonna get a few nice vests few five

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panel supreme hats materialistic

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today really I haven't really

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more just my family is quite split up so

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for everyone's kind of beat gay rock

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really - Hannah what is on your

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Christmas wish list this year a good

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cuddle that's about it oh really just a

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good cuddle on the sofa or someone in

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your family that's very cute I was going

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to offer you a cuddle but we're not on a

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sofa okay are you other than cuddles the

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most important thing about Christmas

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probably having nieces and nephews who

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get excited about Santa and opening

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presents and probably fuelling their fun

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and acting like a big kid what do you

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think is the most important thing about

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Christmas and I'll go to use that

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I think family because it's like the

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time again you see everyone knows people

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come back for Christmas and see people

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you care about

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so do you not do you are you not in the

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same location most of the year you -

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yeah we are

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we work together so ok very literally in

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the same location intense but then a lot

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of friends from uni coming back and then

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obviously family all coming together

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like with me my family is quite close so

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we don't really have to travel that far

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but obviously some families all over the

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world and stuff like that yeah get

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together yeah yeah ok sick family was it

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always like that when you were a bit

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younger maybe maybe something else I'd

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say it's about 80% family

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do you still believe in Santa Claus I

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wish I did

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I wish I did I know it's sad isn't that

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I should even say it is do you believe

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in Santa Claus so this still suggests

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that I'm suggesting something else how

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old were you when you found out real I

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do I want to say it was maybe like eight

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or nine I think you know yeah I think

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it's my brother told me other brother

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who's two years older than me whose boat

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was everything so he got there first

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I can imagine yeah my sisters were quite

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kind to me oh really how when did you

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find out I was here three what's here

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three yeah I think is seven or eight but

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yeah my mum told me eventually

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my little brother at moment he's 8 and

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he still doesn't know so ok so you can't

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watch this video yeah I know they're

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going to really kind of dire straits now

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though and they put like a ripped pieces

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of red fabric on the fireplace and stuff

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so and they'll cover like their

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footprints in talcum powder so it looks

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like this foot prints and yeah Wow yeah

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I mean they're really going for it

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that's the full shebang yeah yeah yeah

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do you still believe in Santa everyone's

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growing up in my family's oK we've we

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found out last year how did you find out

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I think I just figured out how you're a

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smart gloat I don't I disagree I don't

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know yeah I just think I figured out how

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I think my parents sort of eventually

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just went one Christmas like what do you

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want and then I told them their lot

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right you do know we get that for you

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maybe they wanted the credit I think

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it's actually I think is sometimes we've

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probably got a bit too happy with that

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so then they just for know we want the

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phrase

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they start getting a little bit jealous

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so do you not believe in Santa anymore

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unfortunately not that was crushed for

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me

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when was that crushed when I was about

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five three older brothers that crushed

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it yeah do you remember the moment when

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you when you found out em yeah when my

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brother said Santa's not real so I ran

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upstairs and realized my mom was

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wrapping all my presents for me so I

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crushed her dreams in my house so my

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Christmas will be Christmas Eve I have

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to I have to go to church with mom and

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dad yes I go to church every Christmas

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Eve since I was God knows when and then

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we come back we have a dinner we have a

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little bit of nibbles it's not really

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food most bits and bobs of everything I

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mean potatoes cocktail sausages 3:07

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play a bit of frustration bit connect

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for after the classic board games and

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then on Christmas Day we wake up go for

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the stock in go for everyone's presents

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have a big gross but about three o'clock

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and in the morning we probably have

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Prosecco champagne coupe ears and then

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Boxing Day it's pretty much the same

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where else is date I have a good time

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wake up Christmas Day I do Christmas

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dinner

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so I told it that yeah I do Christmas

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dinner put on all the spreads family

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arrived uh all the presents so now we

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could not really what's the best

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Christmas present you've got ever or

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maybe one of the best

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less pressure on it probably one of the

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best I've had is I got me and my brother

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were both into football so we got a big

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football Gulf in our back garden I

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remember those days and you take a day

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to build it yeah yeah yeah yeah we got

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it built

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obviously mom was getting annoyed

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because we were turfing up the grass and

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she's a gardener so she took pride in

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our garden yeah we ruined it or I got a

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bike once a tricycle when I was Latin

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inter-site bike ride a bike so probably

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those two it was this when you were very

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little or when you found out this Center

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wasn't real I was really little

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the goal I knew it was from them okay

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but the bike that's good what about

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yourself step I genuinely is probably

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the most useful very functional might be

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bad that you've used it loads we have a

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habit of ending up our nights in A&E

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what's the worst Christmas present

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you've ever received worst Christmas

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present I I think mine is just the

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standard body sets that you just it's

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not the blender cosmetics you use like

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the shower gel and body spray yeah and

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they're not the ones that you use but

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you feel obligated to you somehow you've

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got them she don't a far away a full set

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so it's always at every every year what

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would your reaction be to opening it

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what sad ones you audibly say well

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that's all for today guys that thank you

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very much for watching this episode we

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do hope that you have found these

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interviews interesting and useful for

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your English if you found it tough to

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understand these native English speakers

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when they were talking I recommend that

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you come to our next live lesson on

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Wednesday the 20th of December in which

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Charlie and I will be explaining some of

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the expression and vocabulary used by

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