530 - The War on Christmas
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Every year you will hear stories about how "they" want to cancel Christmas - so how much truth is there to it? Are ‘they’ really trying to cancel Christmas?? We go through a few examples over the years and try to get to the bottom of it, including the infamous Winterval Festival in Birmingham!
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 00:04:31 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
This was recorded live at the Oasis Comedy Club in Perth in 22/11/2025!
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
The Winterval Myth by Kevin Arscot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/08/winterval-modern-myth-christmas
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2011/11/christmas-mail-winterval
https://6abc.com/archive/7820429/
www.vox.com/2015/11/10/9707034/starbucks-red-cup-controversy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Block. Happy Block. And what better way to celebrate Block? And 10 years of do go on than hitting the road. We are doing some shows around Australia and New Zealand. All the shows have sold out. So we've added extra shows in Perth, Brisbane, Auckland and Wellington. Yeah. So exciting. So exciting. You know, you never know. You never know people are going to want to come. And people are coming all over Australia and New Zealand for us. |
| 0:25.6 | That's right. |
| 0:26.2 | And if you want to come to go to dogoonpod.com. |
| 0:30.0 | We'll see you there. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On, the Christmas special live in Perth. |
| 0:50.8 | How you doing out there? |
| 0:54.8 | Ho, ho, ho, my name is Dev Warnocky, and as always, I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. |
| 0:59.6 | Hello. |
| 1:02.0 | Quick question, how good is it to be Christmas? |
| 1:07.6 | And Jess? |
| 1:08.8 | I wish I was never Christmas. |
| 1:14.3 | I was going to say I wish Jesus was never Christmas I was gonna say I wish Jesus was never born and that's that was why I didn't say it |
| 1:17.8 | that was why I never said that |
| 1:20.2 | you dodged a bullet |
| 1:21.6 | good instincts up here |
| 1:22.8 | yes we're here this is |
| 1:25.4 | we've worked out maybe our 11th Christmas episode. |
| 1:28.0 | It is our 11th Christmas special. Wow. The 11th day of Christmas. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, drummer boys drumming or something like that. Yeah, Lord's a leaping. Lords are leaping. |
| 1:37.3 | Piper's piping. |
| 1:39.3 | And a part of a patron. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. |
| 1:44.6 | And to you. |
| 1:45.1 | And, etc. |
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