Speaker 1: Welcome to Them Christian Now Podcast. We want to talk
Speaker 1: now about tight ask parents. Diane luck At a tight
Speaker 1: ass parent. My dad wouldn't let me buy a new
Speaker 1: pair of jeans even though my only pair had a
Speaker 1: broken zipper. He ended up cutting holes and threading a
Speaker 1: shoelace to keep them close. That's going to take some beat.
Speaker 2: That is good.
Speaker 1: A chastity belt he was doing there as well. Ronnie
Speaker 1: Joyce said, tight ask parents. Dad would keep this little
Speaker 1: piece under the end, the right of the end of
Speaker 1: the soap. You know it goes down to a lord,
Speaker 1: and he would join them all together to make one soap.
Speaker 1: You went end up with this horrible, big, lumpy soap.
Speaker 1: That's from Ronnie.
Speaker 3: I guess who told me they do that? Just recently
Speaker 3: a good friend, Andy Lee Kidding takes the tiny soap
Speaker 3: and then shut of.
Speaker 2: A bottle too, is he?
Speaker 4: Wow? We know.
Speaker 1: He should ask one hundred people who else does that?
Speaker 1: Mary Anna, Dad had one of those flat toulstra phones
Speaker 1: attached to the wall with a lock so that we
Speaker 1: couldn't make phone calls during peak time.
Speaker 2: You did you? You have a Titus parent, don't you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: My dad couldn't love a freebie. Right, So when I
Speaker 3: worked at Fox a FAM, I got a free T
Speaker 3: shirt once and I offered it to him, and he said,
Speaker 3: I don't want to go around with people knowing I
Speaker 3: love Fox AFM. But he couldn't get rid of the freebie.
Speaker 3: So he wore the T shirt but took a black
Speaker 3: marker and crossed out.
Speaker 2: The That is unbelievable. That's commitment, not even.
Speaker 3: A full blackout, just an X through it, so that people.
Speaker 2: Knew that he wasn't like that observer like a protest.
Speaker 3: It looks like a boycott.
Speaker 2: Rio. Tell us about your dad.
Speaker 5: My dad very tight as well. He like one Christmas,
Speaker 5: we really wanted a kite. All the kids like a
Speaker 5: really nice fancy kite. But instead of getting us a nice, fancy,
Speaker 5: expensive kite, he got us a plastic bag and a
Speaker 5: piece of string and tie the plastic bag to the string.
Speaker 2: That is shocking.
Speaker 5: We loved it.
Speaker 2: With that plastic bag on a windy day.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to get all right, So titles parents,
Speaker 1: let's also keep an eye on them. Which one's a
Speaker 1: dance and which ones of mums. At the moment, it's
Speaker 1: overwhelming on the dance side. That might be just us
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Speaker 1: My dad had the TV in a locked cupboard and
Speaker 1: they would bring it out in like Russians.
Speaker 3: What save on electricity?
Speaker 1: God? That's well, that is titles, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Christian? My mom we were who about the dance? A
Speaker 2: lot of titles? Mom behavior.
Speaker 1: My mom used to make me eat the Apple Core
Speaker 1: that's from Michael.
Speaker 2: Christy. My mum would turn the tide off.
Speaker 3: Something movie.
Speaker 2: She said water was too expensive. Emma.
Speaker 1: Driving to Queensland every year annual holiday for Melbourne, my
Speaker 1: mom and dad wouldn't buy me macas in case she
Speaker 1: quotes here, I got sick in the car.
Speaker 2: That's sad. What's they ate it?
Speaker 1: They ate maccas. But so I know you can't have
Speaker 1: any of this. You might get set. I mean you
Speaker 1: never have done. But it's a shame because it's delicious.
Speaker 1: Let's get Karen here.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Karen, Hi, Christian, how are you. I'm good, Karen.
Speaker 2: You had a good week? So tight ask parents?
Speaker 6: Yeah, my dad was a bit of a tight ass.
Speaker 6: Took us, my sister and I up to the snow
Speaker 6: one year, which was great. We saw all the other
Speaker 6: kids out going down the hill on their plastic toboggans,
Speaker 6: or the really really rich kids had jet skis. We
Speaker 6: had cheap jet.
Speaker 2: Like the snowmobiles. She got this bok care This didn't
Speaker 2: take us anywhere. I'd love to know. Actually, let me
Speaker 2: chuck into the image of that.
Speaker 7: The fancy kids had snowmobiles, the other kids had plastic toboggans,
Speaker 7: and we had industrial strengths. Plastic Dad worked in the
Speaker 7: building industry. He grabbed some sheets of heavy Judy plastic,
Speaker 7: tied a knot in the corner for our handle, and
Speaker 7: off we went. A bit rough on our bums, but
Speaker 7: it did the job.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, Karen, thank you very much. You cool mate.
Speaker 2: Have a good weekend you too, thank you. Judy. Good morning, Julie,
Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning, Judy. So tight ask parents.
Speaker 4: We had some fancy colored concrete laid in the backyard
Speaker 4: and we weren't allowed to walk on it in case
Speaker 4: we wore it out because it costs so much.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't ruin the fancy stuff, the fancy concrete.
Speaker 1: Wow, I've never ever ever heard that one.
Speaker 2: That's a new one, Judy, that is a new one.
Speaker 2: Bless them. That's incredible concrete last forever.
Speaker 4: I've never seen it war Now it's been over fifty years,
Speaker 4: it's still there.
Speaker 2: Be so Schmick.
Speaker 1: I mean it must be like the most the best
Speaker 1: you can concrete in Melbourne.
Speaker 4: Oh, you know, when you're a kid, everything costs so much,
Speaker 4: you know, and the parents just like, oh, you can't
Speaker 4: replace that.
Speaker 2: You know, cost a concrete when you're grown up.
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