Christmas Spectacular w/ Vic & Max! Our Favorite Traditions, Childhood Memories & Holiday Hot Takes

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Vic and Max are ushering in the holidays with a Christmas Spectacular episode filled with nostalgia, tradition, and plenty of laughs. They swap childhood memories, debate the most iconic modern Christmas songs, reflect on the traditions they want to keep or create for their family, and share the sweet (and chaotic) moments that shaped their holidays growing up. From heartfelt gift stories to surprising hot takes on Christmas cards and a rapid-fire Christmas edition of “this or that,” this episode will instantly put you in the holiday mood. Tune in to celebrate the season with Vic and Max and feel all the festive joy!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.4	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.3	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:44.9	Okay, welcome everybody to the Christmas Spectacular.
0:49.9	People were going to find out what this is alongside me.
0:52.3	Like, I got the calendar invite and I had no idea what was going on.
0:55.0	And then you walked into the studio and I gave you a Santa hat.
0:57.8	Santa hat.
0:58.4	I was instructed to have the one forest green item of clothing that I own to wear that.
1:04.2	And here we are.
1:05.6	I just thought it would be fun to do an episode that helped everyone get into the Christmas spirit and just like further
1:12.4	sink in because it is the most wonderful time of year. Christmas is my favorite holiday.
1:17.7	What is your favorite holiday? Is it Christmas? Yeah, for sure. Anyone that doesn't say Christmas or
1:22.9	Hanukkah, if you celebrate that, is just lying to themselves. I think too, last week's episode, The Cry Fest, that was hard.
1:31.1	And so I thought a nice, comfortable ease back in would be bringing you on.
1:35.7	All right, let's go.
1:36.3	You're my buddy, the elf.
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