- Hello lovely people.
- How are you?
- Welcome to the very first video of Vlogmas 2020.
It's been a year.
- Yes.
- Which means that we need to have kind of
a long-ish intro to this video.
So if you've come back to watch it for the second time,
or really you've just kind of wanna see me
hearing new things for the first time
with my brand new fancy hearing aids,
then please do skip to the time code
that is on the screen right now,
it'll also be in the description
with a natura like clickable things.
You can just click it and it takes you straight there.
Cause we have to talk (chuckling).
Not between us, it's okay.
- Okay, okay.
- Don't worry, okay.
So it's not like a marriage thing.
We go, we need to talk.
- Yeah
- Very awkward.
Jesus.
- That would like top off 2020, wouldn't it?
You see made me think about things actually.
Apparently we'll move on.
- Move on.
Okay.
So first of all, we have to say that I have done wokeness,
I think like the last four years,
and I really loved doing it because I actually love
Christmas.
This year has to be a bit different because a lot
of stuff has happened to everyone this year,
as we're all aware.
So well done to everyone for getting to December.
And there are things that have happened in our lives that
you're of course aware of, if you follow us on Instagram,
you will have seen our house being built.
Sometimes the ceiling fell in,
there was a trench for a while.
Yeah.
- Till Patchouli barking at men coming into our house.
- Yes,yes,yes.
- Men coming into my house.
One of them walking in on her on the bath.
Jessica.
- I didn't know she said that online,but yes.
I build walked on me in the bath.
I didn't know that he had arrived am dead.
So we bought this house in 2019 thinking, yay,
it's a project.
We'll do it up.
It would be great.
2020 was always the year that we planned to do that,
we would you know go away for a few weeks to
interesting exciting destinations.
- Go on holiday, get to friend's houses,
go out to restaurants, get out of the house for a bit.
- Yeah ,stay in the latest trip for a few weeks, maybe.
Yeah, no.
And we have started moving and then a global pandemic hit.
And we were sort of stuck in the building.
- Yeah.
I mean, its worse things to complain about.
- Of course.
- At least we can feel like at the end of the year.
- We walk away with something(Chuckles).
- We've got like something that we can look at
and be like, wow, we achieved this this year.
- Yeah, Yeah.
But it's definitely been difficult.
They've also been some personal family things going on,
which we can't really tell you about for privacy reasons,
but have been quite detrimental to us in terms of both.
- And in stress.
It's like tired.
- Physically needing to help out.
And therefore being abit more exhausted.
It interacts a lot with my work in a way,
because I can't work when this stuff is happening.
There's been that.
- Just summarize that, its been a year.
- Its been a year.
- We're all like feeling the stress.
- Did I miss that.
- We have been feeling the stress physically
or emotionally or both.
I always come up with eczema and digestive problems.
And like, my hair comes out.
My body tells me I'm stressed before I realized I have.
- She got full body hives.
- Oh yeah.
- She was like, I'm fine.
- Yeah, I woke up one night and I was like,
my body is covered in hives.
Why?
Anyway then Jessica just feels stressed by like,
just like overwhelming.
- A variety of things.
I think what we've mentioned so far ,
is there anything else am stressed about i've forgotten?
- Lots of reasons for people to be stressed this year.
- Yes.
- We had lots of reasons as well.
- Yes.
So the point is that Vlogmas 2020,
instead of being 25 videos,
one every single day,
is going to be 12 videos.
Hopefully every other day.
But hey, gonna be kind to myself.
- Yeah.
- And it's all right If it comes out in a different way.
- Yeah.
So basically turn on your notifications
to check out when one of the videos come out
or not come out because they will be coming out,
though we can't give you an exact time.
- Yes.
So please don't speculate on what the private thing is.
That's gone wrong.
Thank you.
- No
- Welcome back to everyone who just clicked on that link.
Just skip.
So this video is going to be all about me
hearing new things.
(Jessica)Cause if you follow me on Instagram,
you'll have seen, i've gotten new hearing aids.
(Claudia) Yeah, they're really fancy.
(Jessica) That's super fancy.
- They connect to her phone and
they come with a little charging porch.
- They don't even have batteries.
So I don't lose batteries anymore.
- Well they do have batteries,
but they are chargeable batteries.
- Oh yeah.
- Inside them.
- I can't turn around the house.
- Turn around .
- or you might take that out on my hair.
let me do the other side, but let's have it on that side.
- They're tiny they go in and it's just,
this little tube is all connect.
So if I touch it, it doesn't actually create noise.
Does that?
- What's really interesting, right?
Is that normally it's just the back that does all the work
and it sends the sound down a plastic tube into your ear.
But these if I just got a microphone in my actual ear.
- And it used to be like, if you had wind or ruffling
of your hair and be like(murmuring).
But those ones that do it anyway,
and they don't squeak when the, in your ear?
- No, not in my ear.
- Yeah.
- They just squeak when i hold them.
- They do when she's holding them.
I'm like, Oh my God can you hear that?
She's like, well, no.
- Oh yes.
They connect to my phone, which is fabulous.
It's got an app where I can change the programs
of my hearing aids from all around.
I forget when I do it,it makes a beep quite loudly.
Music.
- What makes them good is what is cool.
But if she was like at like a,
like a talk in a massive like concert hall or something,
she can put the phone next to the speaker and just connect
her hearing aid to it.
- So you click the power button three times.
And it gives you the options for your hearing aids.
So you can do microphone level on the left and the right.
If you want an individual thing, you can change the treble,
the bass put them on different presets, even in each one.
And then at the end live lesson.
- Hello Jessica.
- It's so weird, it plays in my head.
- I love you.
- I love you too baby(kissing).
- Anyway, moving on from how fantastic her hearing aids are.
This video is not even sponsored by them, just so you know.
(Both laughing)
- What this video is actually going to be about is,
since I got these hearing aids, I sort of discovered sounds,
or I could hear when I was a child.
So I experienced sounds then, but since that point
i've not really been able to.
So it's been a very interesting experience
just going around tonight.
Did you know diet coke makes noise?
- Oh, like fizzing noise.
- I have no idea all this time.
Put that out.
Right, i'm fixing this up.
So what we're going to do is, Claudia is going to play me
sounds and I am going to tell her what the sounds are.
- She's gonna describe it and then tell me what she thinks
it is.
- Because I'm coming to sounds quite new in the I've
just gotten what sound is like in the last fifteen years.
- This test is quite hard for anyone.
- Okay, Good.
I experienced sounds in a slightly odd way.
- So that's okay.
- Sorry.
Right, blindfold.
Love is love guys.
- I got a little box here and it's filled with things.
Okay.
- It's just so weird.
- First one.
- Oh goodness.
Wow.
This is multi sounds.
It's lots of things at once.
But it it's a fulling sensation.
A kind of.
- Like a rain, Australian rain.
- I feel like it could be rain,
but the sound doesn't feel contained.
So I don't think it's like a shaker with something inside.
I think it's outside.
Could it be Tinsol?
- Yeah.
- I was going to say we don't have Tinsol.
- Good job.
Next one.
- Am impressed with myself.
- Stop walking around you ruining the test.
- (laughing) Oh, okay.
Okay.
Parts ,it's parts.
One part doesn't move.
Maybe it feels like earthy.
Like a wooden type of sound.
But there's one thing in the middle.
Is it like a Rubik's cube?
- Yeah.
- Way no!(laughing).
- Well done ,stop looking at my box.
- Jesus.
Wow.
- Okay.
Next one.
- Didn't expect that.
Getting emotional actually.
- All right.
Ready?
It's going be a quick one(lighting a matchstick).
(screaming)
(both laughing)
What do you think?
What do you think it was darling?
I'm going to do it again.
- I'm prepared.
- All right, ready?
- Don't make me feel sick that sound.
Okay, it's.
- I mean, sorry.
Kind of smell it as well.
Yeah.
I mean, that's quite a distinctive sound.
- What the hell.
- That's my impression of a match stick.
- I mean i got that from the smell.
- Okay.
- That was a bit of a cheat.
- Okay.
Next one.
- You can control my ears.
I'm just sorry, i am not looking.
Just turn the sound down.
I literally didn't see anything.
- All right, ready?
- Is this a lit match?
Are you holding a lit match next to my head.
- Am not describing it.
- It's crumpling, it's crumbling.
It's crackling.
I'm really concerned you're holding a lit match
next to my head and my hair is about to go on fire.
Properly not because you.
- If you stop talking and listen to as well.
- Is it a candle?
- Yeah.
It was a candle with like a crackle effect.
It's not one tight Christmas. Thanks for that.
Makes it like, it makes it sound like a fireplace also.
Nice.
Or it sounds like popping candy.
- Again you can't control my hearing aids with my phone.
Ooh.
Okay, okay.
There's like crumbling with high points.
I'm pretty sure this is birds.
They're birds.
Is it a rain forest?
Are you playing me sounds of a rain forest somehow?
- No.
(screaming)
(both laughing)
- Jesus Christ.
- It's a Robin.
It got bad sounding well done.
I think it's just the sound of the leaves and the wind.
- That was giving me a lot of like under sound as well.
Like I used to get from my old hearing aids,
if they were on, it was that like.
- It was a little background noise there.
- Microphone noise or mess.
- Yeah.
Because it was recorded with like a quite highly sensitive
audio recorder.
- All right, let's go.
- Next one.
- Ooh.
This sounds like the kind of sound that we use to get
Walter Intell involved.
Of the softness.
It's almost like bits of cardboard almost.
Aah, you're shaking something.
It's in a box.
It's contained.
Literally could be anything.
This sounds like a lump sound.
It's very hard because this is also like the sound of
running, you know like, because it's not continual.
It doesn't end.
Can you flip the thing over?
Oh, it's a tin.
It's a tin.
- Yeah.
- It's a tin.
Huh?
Is it?
Hang on.
They're hot things within a tin.
I'm going to say boiled sweets.
- Yeah.
Have you noticed I've chosen quite
christmas themes and sound?
- I appreciate it.
Thanks for keeping with the theme.
- Get us in the mood.
Right?
Are you ready?
All right.
Put your blindfold on then darling.
- This is a very quiet sound.
Could you turn it up?
- Wait.
- Somehow.
(laughing)
Are you eating just really close to my face?
You going to spit on me.
- What am I eating?
- Did you just put a boiled sweet in your mouth?
- Yeah.
- Oh, the sound of my wife eating a boiled sweet.
- I couldn't quite face that favour,
but none of us ate tropical fruit drops.
So it's passion fruit.
Its nice.
Next one?
- Gearing up.
- Ready?
- Oh, okay.
Hello.
This is bubble wrap.
It's tiny explosions going off.
Firework, firecrackers.
That one must be bubble wrap.
What the hell else could it be?
Please tell me its bubble wrap.
- Well done.
Good job darling.
- Can I just say this is so impressive?
- It was very impressive.
I'm super impressed with myself.
- Why should you use same test with me,
just with my normal ears and see if I am better or worse?
- Am I a super human?
Batman gets to be a super hero through absolutely
nothing other than being incredibly rich.
And that we're able to buy gudgets.
- Exactly.
And Iron man.
- And he does have his core like implanted in his chest.
- Yeah.
But he made that.
He was a human before he put this weird energy hole.
- You say weird just to keep his heart going.
- Next one.
Ready?
- Ready.
- Again?
- It's like a tearing.
There's a very loud, very sudden ,
it feels like it doesn't want to make it happen.
Like a stretching almost.
I'm going to say Tape.
- Yeah cello tape.
Next one.
- Ooh this.
Crinkling.
It's the same.
It's like the fireworks went off again.
But, I'm going to say that,
this is like a tissue paper.
- Yes.
- Oh.
- Well done.
- Oh, wow.
Okay.
- All right, last one.
- Knocking out the bad today.
What do I win?
- Out of the box darling.
Oh, the box.
Last one.
You ready?
- Very loud.
(screaming)
- Okay.
- Don't do that.
(both laughing)
- What was it darling?
- It was a christmas crackle.
Because I like looked at it.
- But I think you would have known.
- Actually no.
I thought that you'd blend the confetti cannon on me.
I was going to tell you off.
I would just say don't point that fake thing.
Oh wow.
- Let's read the doc.
How many letters are there in the alphabet
at Christmas time?
- Eight.
- Why ?
- Christmas
- Oh, I see what you mean Christmas time though.
How many letters are there in the alphabet
at Christmas time?
- Twelve.
- No, only 25 because there's no L, Noel.
Let's be back.
I just laughed.
Ask your friends to get who you're thinking of.
It could be a famous character, like the suggestion below,
but it doesn't have to be, oh, this is gonna take too long.
It was lady Gaga.
Now I've said it already.
I could have at least sung something like.
What's the most famous song?
Oh yeah.
Have fun(kissing).
- Thank you for playing a fun christmas game.
- It was quite fun.
- I am really impressive myself.
I thought it was going to be, yeah.
Wow. Yeah.
- It's like one of those Christmas games that people should
play a bit like pictionary or articulate, but this is like,
can you hear what it is?
- I'm not good to encourage people to sit their deaf rushes
down
- It could be like any person.
- Okay, only inflict this on your hearing.
- No.
Bye bye.
- Stay safe.
And we'll see you in our next video.