Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Midweek we do midweek scores, give us a chance to
Speaker 2: look back on the first half of the week so
Speaker 2: far Monday, Tuesday and a little bit of Wednesday, and
Speaker 2: see how we're doing so far. Are we winning the
Speaker 2: week or we losing it? Let us know how you're
Speaker 2: doing textas show four seventy five three one oh four three.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you about the man in the corner
Speaker 2: today who is not the man he always is, poor
Speaker 2: Jack Post. When he came in this morning, the head
Speaker 2: was bound. There was a sad man shuffling at the studio.
Speaker 2: Every morning when he comes in, he bounces in. There's
Speaker 2: a Jack Post bounce, I call it. He's a happy,
Speaker 2: go lucky guy when he turns up here. But this
Speaker 2: morning sadness, sadness in the eyes. Tell everyon what's happened
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 3: Mate?
Speaker 4: It's a complete whitewash this week.
Speaker 5: And I'm four kneeled down, Oh Jack, I said, at
Speaker 5: six o'clock this morning, I've been defrauded. My account has
Speaker 5: been compromised, and I rang the bank two hours on
Speaker 5: the phone trying to get to the right department.
Speaker 3: This is not acceptable. Is that you obviously can't name
Speaker 3: your bank. That is wonderful.
Speaker 2: I want to be disgusting, isn't it? It should be you've
Speaker 2: been you've lost money, someone's broken into So I finally
Speaker 2: doesn't want to say that it's millions.
Speaker 5: I finally had someone tell me, oh, you need to
Speaker 5: be at the disputes department, but they've gone home for
Speaker 5: the day.
Speaker 4: They went home at five four thirty.
Speaker 2: People get defrauded at midnight. Find out also that that's
Speaker 2: not good enough.
Speaker 5: Then on Monday, I said I had left my sports
Speaker 5: jacket on my Virgin flight home from the Gold Coast.
Speaker 5: Called them. They said, still hasn't come in. Sometimes it
Speaker 5: takes a few days to come in. You know what, though,
Speaker 5: when we do find it, it might not be in
Speaker 5: Melbourne because it's been flying around on the plane.
Speaker 4: It could be anywhere.
Speaker 2: So how you meant to get it back? I heard
Speaker 2: the song for Sarci on the floor. It's Forsanci in
Speaker 2: the overhead locker. Very sad that that gold one. Isn't
Speaker 2: it that you weren't the weekend.
Speaker 3: Millions? The Massachi jacket? What where are the other losses
Speaker 3: coming in? Man?
Speaker 5: Yesterday? I got cut off in my street and I hunked.
Speaker 5: The guy was very angry already with everything else going on.
Speaker 5: Then I pull up of my house. He pulls up
Speaker 5: in front of me. It's my new next door neighbor's brother.
Speaker 5: I've been trying to make a good impression with my
Speaker 5: new neighbor. We want to be friends with them. And
Speaker 5: then we awkwardly the wow wow.
Speaker 4: The number four.
Speaker 5: As I'm going putting myself off to bed, thinking there
Speaker 5: can't be anything wrong to go wrong anymore. The day
Speaker 5: is over, It's all done. I opened the laundry door
Speaker 5: and the hinges popped off, honestly, like a cartoon. A
Speaker 5: screw bounced out of the hinge at me and hit me.
Speaker 5: And now it's projectile, and now it's hanging off just
Speaker 5: the top hinges.
Speaker 2: And was it Clintos to go? Did a lot of
Speaker 2: you installation? Was this one of your your handyworks.
Speaker 5: I do have a lot of handiwork over the house
Speaker 5: that is falling apart. But Clintoss, if you're listening, and
Speaker 5: I know he's a big fan of gold in the show,
Speaker 5: you did those laundry doors.
Speaker 4: Boy, you did those laundry doors.
Speaker 2: Schemes of her like a Friday sort of job out
Speaker 2: of it when he was just rushing to get out
Speaker 2: the door on the weekend, not GoF Friday.
Speaker 4: So now the laundry dolls hanging off her tingers.
Speaker 3: She got a wait to do that? What's happened to
Speaker 3: the bookcases from last week?
Speaker 4: Oh that's still on the to do list?
Speaker 5: Well, that means such a busy day of losses yesterday
Speaker 5: I couldn't assure.
Speaker 2: And when I spoke to you, you were doing a
Speaker 2: very unjacked thing. You were waiting to get some food somewhere.
Speaker 2: What were you comfort eating?
Speaker 3: Where were you?
Speaker 4: I took myself to Nando's mid mid cool.
Speaker 2: I heard him go, thank you having some food somewhere.
Speaker 3: Nando's warms are sold as it's always there for us. Nando's,
Speaker 3: What did you have dinner.
Speaker 4: For one with a double chicken, pillar and chip?
Speaker 3: Ah. Luckily I had some money left in the bank account.
Speaker 2: You can play that awful You've got no money for
Speaker 2: a Nandos.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell breakfast show podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian, I'm also losing the week. I have a bicycle shop.
Speaker 2: Rain and Mic sales don't when he go together. That's
Speaker 2: why you need to learn from these mixed businesses. Bike
Speaker 2: shop that also does I don't know kebabs or umbrellas.
Speaker 2: You work it out, but I would have a look
Speaker 2: around the bike shop. What can you do with those pumps?
Speaker 2: Can you pump up yoga balls or balloons? If you
Speaker 2: can do burger and tax returns, anything's possible, my friend.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and you have a look around.
Speaker 2: Today, see what else you can do to not be
Speaker 2: so specialist there. I'm also losing the week. Do you
Speaker 2: know what I think any parent listening right now, you
Speaker 2: might have just dropped the kids off the score. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure you can relate with this. One of the
Speaker 2: biggest running battles you have with your kids is about
Speaker 2: phone usage. It is just a daily squabbing and battle
Speaker 2: because as adults we're all addicted to phones. I've just
Speaker 2: been to the toilets here, just walked into one of
Speaker 2: the sales guys who has actually had his face in
Speaker 2: his phone as he's walking.
Speaker 3: Into the toilets. He can't even put it down to
Speaker 3: have a pee.
Speaker 2: I mean's he gonna have a one handed pe or
Speaker 2: he's taking He's got a book on there that he
Speaker 2: needs to read when he sits down.
Speaker 5: You do see that at urinals, people using their phone
Speaker 5: and scrolling while they're peeing.
Speaker 3: We're literally just like taking off.
Speaker 4: I know you do what we do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I sit pats it. They do use many use it, and.
Speaker 2: To us, phones are everywhere we as adults are struggling
Speaker 2: to it's like we work for the phone, isn't.
Speaker 3: It's like it's an addiction.
Speaker 2: And then when you when you see a message ping
Speaker 2: up there you get a little window from release and
Speaker 2: oh I'm important to somebody, somebody who sent me a message.
Speaker 2: So anyway, we've got teenage kids. They're growing into that
Speaker 2: world and it's insiduous everywhere. Well, their friends are on it. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we've had to sort of say listen, by half nine
Speaker 2: in the evening, phones have got to go off. You
Speaker 2: go to bed, and they're like, no, no, no, I like
Speaker 2: to have there and they do the old case you
Speaker 2: can't go to sleep.
Speaker 3: I listened to a meditation podcast. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, have it for meditation.
Speaker 2: So anyway, we've said half nine now curfew, and they
Speaker 2: were going, well, it just feels like you don't trust us. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't trust that you can self regulate because we've
Speaker 2: tried this, and I've tried the app. You know you
Speaker 2: can do screen time, so I can now see. And
Speaker 2: I saw what they've been using for the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, and it's like they're doing a shift like
Speaker 2: an this. If you can't get this right, it's going
Speaker 2: to be even worse. You try and study and do
Speaker 2: well work. So so phones, phones have to come downstairs. No, no, no, no, you.
Speaker 3: Have to trust us.
Speaker 2: I went, okay, all right, but I said, you know,
Speaker 2: we tried that, so yes, I said, look, phones, I'm
Speaker 2: going to take your phones. And then in the morning
Speaker 2: when you get up, the phones are downstairs in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: You don't need them overnight. So anyway, they do all
Speaker 2: this and I think in my youngest one, Lois, I
Speaker 2: think she's she's given all this too easy.
Speaker 3: There's no fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, going to bear, turn the light out, say good
Speaker 2: night to my wife, and I'm lying there in the dark.
Speaker 3: When you're okay, wind about something went, I'm going to
Speaker 3: go upstairs on the check.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: I could hear thudding around up what is going on?
Speaker 2: I go up there. There's a glow from.
Speaker 3: Under the door.
Speaker 2: Normally I knock, you know, because I tell the kids,
Speaker 2: you need to knock if you want to go, and
Speaker 2: mom and dads are okay, I don't knock. I go
Speaker 2: flying in and I went, gotcha. She's she has a
Speaker 2: hidden secret phone I don't even.
Speaker 4: Know phone.
Speaker 1: Her face and.
Speaker 2: The phone jumped out of her hand or the phone
Speaker 2: went I'm getting out here.
Speaker 3: I'm just a phone. I don't want to get caught
Speaker 3: in this. And I slammed the light on our When they.
Speaker 2: Do this in prisons from now, I'm not gonna have
Speaker 2: to do a mattress search.
Speaker 3: Haven't even tossed the room whatever they do.
Speaker 1: She had a hidden contraband phone that I.
Speaker 3: Had when I moved out here, and then hiding a
Speaker 3: draw somewhere.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, smart, this is I mean, so, if
Speaker 2: there are any mums and dads listening that I've got
Speaker 2: a better system that can somehow regulate the kids phone's usage.
Speaker 2: I'm seriously My wife and I googling articles trying to
Speaker 2: work it out every day.
Speaker 3: It is really tough.
Speaker 2: If there are any mumbles and dads who've got a
Speaker 2: good system, please let me know. And also there needs
Speaker 2: to be some consensus, because what happens is you say
Speaker 2: one thing, they go well, Marie, Mom and dad, they don't.
Speaker 2: They're not uptight like you. You feel really judged as a parent,
Speaker 2: you know. Do please let me out if there's any
Speaker 2: mums or dads can help this basic white dad out
Speaker 2: ninety four one four one oh four three. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I lost yesterday at that moment with a contraband phone.
Speaker 2: It's a whole new level.
Speaker 1: I'm not equipped the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast.
Speaker 3: So I need some help. You need some advice ago.
Speaker 2: I've got thirteen year old and fifty year old daughters
Speaker 2: and it's a constantly about a phone usage, and you
Speaker 2: get bored of your own voice having to go at them,
Speaker 2: and it affects your relationship. I generally want to know
Speaker 2: this morning if you have any hard and fast rules,
Speaker 2: tried and tested methods of trying to control their phone usage.
Speaker 2: It's hard because we didn't have this, thankfully growing up.
Speaker 2: I don't envy them at all. I actually feel sorry
Speaker 2: for them, I really do, because it's insiduous.
Speaker 3: Everywhere they go, their friends are all on it.
Speaker 2: Even when the mates come around to hang out, they're
Speaker 2: sat next witch on the couch, but they're on their phones.
Speaker 2: Whereas when we had friends came round, you would go
Speaker 2: and do stuff because you didn't have phones. I wonder
Speaker 2: if we had phones growing up, we probably would have
Speaker 2: found it really hard. And so they don't hang out
Speaker 2: together as sisters. They don't watch TV together in their
Speaker 2: own little worlds like we are as grown ups.
Speaker 3: You see people walking.
Speaker 2: No one can walk down the street anymore, just be
Speaker 2: bored or just see what's around. We're all on our phones,
Speaker 2: aren't We just wanted to be distracted or avoid something
Speaker 2: or other. So yeah, I need to know how we
Speaker 2: deal with this with the kids, so they see to
Speaker 2: take some advice this morning, Olivia.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Bhie, Good morning Christian.
Speaker 3: How are you? I'm good? So what do you do?
Speaker 3: How old are you? Kids?
Speaker 6: So I've got a ten year old and a thirteen
Speaker 6: year old, and my thirteen year old plays a lot
Speaker 6: of soccer during the week, and you know, there's no
Speaker 6: time to socialize, there's no time to interact as a family.
Speaker 6: So I've just put screen time on both their phones.
Speaker 6: So sorry, The ten year old has an iPad and
Speaker 6: the thirteen year old has his iPhone. So from ninetem
Speaker 6: to seven am there's no screen time and conveniently on
Speaker 6: the weekend, there's no Wi Fi at home, I switch
Speaker 6: it off. There's something wrong, you know, I say, there's
Speaker 6: something wrong. They're building houses and they're putting in BN
Speaker 6: and there's so many issues with the electricity and blah blah,
Speaker 6: and they have no idea how.
Speaker 2: I tried all that and their kids, you know, I
Speaker 2: turned it off once so that I found that, just
Speaker 2: turned it on, and then they changed the password.
Speaker 3: I had to ask, well, I told you funny, you
Speaker 3: don't think it's really funny. Here tell me the thing.
Speaker 2: And they've just laughed even more, and I went seriously,
Speaker 2: I begged my own kids to keep with a new password.
Speaker 3: Screwed up.
Speaker 5: This is half the challenge, isn't it. Because kids are
Speaker 5: so savvy with technology that anything you try to do
Speaker 5: to them they can outdo.
Speaker 3: You're dealing with wizards. Y.
Speaker 6: I also forget the charger on the way to soccer,
Speaker 6: so he'll be on the way to soccer, we'd be
Speaker 6: going to training because he trains four nights a week.
Speaker 6: He's in MPL, so pretty full on. And he'll say
Speaker 6: to me with my charger from my friend, my friend.
Speaker 3: That your grandma's have those building projects.
Speaker 4: A char.
Speaker 6: So I just conveniently forget it, and so it's kind
Speaker 6: of it's worked. But for me, it's like, I find
Speaker 6: it really hard to sit there and say, look, let's
Speaker 6: play chess tonight. Let's you know, have family.
Speaker 4: Against the internet.
Speaker 2: I mean to a kids, we're more boring, Olivia. We're
Speaker 2: more boring to a kid, aren't we? Than their phones?
Speaker 2: The phones are interesting. The've got everything on their phone
Speaker 2: and you know you're trying to pitch chess to them,
Speaker 2: or I do the thing.
Speaker 3: Let's just have a chat. They go, they do this,
Speaker 3: they do this right, sat on the phone down? What
Speaker 3: do you want to chat about? And I talked for
Speaker 3: a living. But even I get performance anxiety.
Speaker 2: You know when you get the cash machine, you putting
Speaker 2: that pink and you do the guy behind you seeing it?
Speaker 3: What's that night?
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast, Christian.
Speaker 3: I'm definitely winning the week.
Speaker 2: I've scored a private tour of Amy Stadium before Elton
Speaker 2: John's show on Saturday.
Speaker 3: You're lucky.
Speaker 2: Think that's amazing, get backstays access to see all that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: It's an incredible show. Hopefully we'll be here to do
Speaker 3: it as well.
Speaker 2: It looks like he's canceling New Zealand shows to get
Speaker 2: ready for Saturday night. You'd like to think he's trying
Speaker 2: to get a week of recovery.
Speaker 4: He didn't say that.
Speaker 5: That's a bit of a middle finger to New Zealand Toys.
Speaker 2: Just obviously I'd rather to come back in a year's
Speaker 2: time when I can appreciate new Land a bit more
Speaker 2: and it's a bit healthier.
Speaker 3: You know. He just feels like he's obviously it's a
Speaker 3: long tall he said, he's breaking. He's an old he's
Speaker 3: seventy two.
Speaker 2: You know, we've seen him. He's up on there for
Speaker 2: three hours banging those keys. All right, So trying to
Speaker 2: take advice this warning. What I can do Any advice
Speaker 2: you've got for are denning with the kids and the
Speaker 2: phone addiction, one must call this hour then, Sonya.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Good morning Christian.
Speaker 3: All right, Sonya, so what do you do? How old
Speaker 3: are you kids?
Speaker 7: First of all, so kids are fifteen, twelve and six, right.
Speaker 3: Okay, and the problems with the six year old are
Speaker 3: the worst ones.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, it is. No So the problem obviously with
Speaker 7: the fifteen and twelve, mostly fifteen, they will tear the
Speaker 7: house apart looking for the.
Speaker 3: Phone, like give him a fixed man.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, So we solved the problem. We went to Bunning
Speaker 7: and got us safe.
Speaker 3: And dropped it on the phones.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and we locked them away every night and they
Speaker 7: can't get them till morning.
Speaker 3: This is what I'm going to do.
Speaker 4: A safe. Well, we got here, we got one here.
Speaker 4: We've got to say he's sonya.
Speaker 3: We don't know that. We don't know the number.
Speaker 5: I set the code on it. About a year ago.
Speaker 5: We locked our sound guy used to use an air.
Speaker 2: Horn irritate, so I locked it in the safe and
Speaker 2: we don't know what the numbers. This feels like one
Speaker 2: of those lame radio station competitions where they looked the safe.
Speaker 3: The problem was they can't remember the code. Crack the safe,
Speaker 3: win the tickets.
Speaker 7: Oh no, it's get a safe and problem solved. We're
Speaker 7: been doing it for six months and the safe's big
Speaker 7: enough to sit their laptop in.
Speaker 2: So well, I know, I'm obviously not there in the morning,
Speaker 2: and I should be the only one who have the codes.
Speaker 2: How did they open the safe in the morning.
Speaker 7: Well, you can also get one that has a key
Speaker 7: that opens as well as the code, so you could
Speaker 7: always get They.
Speaker 3: Get that on a soap bar. You know, I've seen this.
Speaker 3: I'll come back wonder they got oxyocetily welding.
Speaker 2: Gear and that busted open and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: That's a great idea, Sony. I'm going to try that one. OK.
Speaker 3: I let you know how I get on. But that's how.
Speaker 1: Thanks mate, No bother the christ John on All Breakfast
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