Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about childhood now and the things that you
Speaker 1: weren't allowed as a kid, because, as you're going to
Speaker 1: find out as a parent, Jack, sometimes you make up
Speaker 1: these random rules because constantly parent is a endless sease
Speaker 1: of demands and opinions.
Speaker 2: Which you had no time to sit down and form.
Speaker 1: Even yesterday, it was like, I want to outside it
Speaker 1: with some friends for lunch, and I need some advance
Speaker 1: in my pocket money.
Speaker 2: How much you have to give me? I'm like, oh God,
Speaker 2: what's the wrong answer. Where's your mom? What does she
Speaker 2: sound this? I understand, I might pens.
Speaker 1: I'm the VP im mind charge of the over office
Speaker 1: VOWL on for and.
Speaker 2: She knows that we are at a crisis point right now.
Speaker 1: My wife is going away with is going a girl's
Speaker 1: weekend tomorrow, so both the kids know four easy days
Speaker 1: coming up. It's kind of like Chris money, Christmas is coming,
Speaker 1: and he wanted me to keep tabs go and ask
Speaker 1: in the same question twice.
Speaker 2: I think it's a bran new day. If you drive
Speaker 2: my car. He must be twenty five. Now.
Speaker 3: As a kid, I felt like I had a long
Speaker 3: list of things that I was never allowed and I'm
Speaker 3: finding out now as my mom's babysitting Gordy a couple
Speaker 3: of times a week. She sent her photo of him
Speaker 3: yesterday in one of those mechanical cars that you get
Speaker 3: at the supermarket hours of fun. I was never not
Speaker 3: once in my childhood was I given two dollars to
Speaker 3: put in that one of those mechanical cars. I was
Speaker 3: allowed to sit in them all I want and ud
Speaker 3: get Vertigo or something. No, no, no, no. It was
Speaker 3: totally about cost saving. So I could sit in the car.
Speaker 2: They're about twenty cent, yes.
Speaker 3: But I was able to use my imagination.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you always see that poor kid just sating it.
Speaker 2: And now that's Jack the origin story. He's in that plane.
Speaker 2: It's not taken off.
Speaker 3: Thirty years later, I see that that rule has been
Speaker 3: lifted and Gordy's allowed to have dollars to the mechanical.
Speaker 2: Car, Golden grandson.
Speaker 4: I feel, oh wow.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of cost saving measures when I
Speaker 3: was a kid. There was. I was never allowed to
Speaker 3: have the mechanical car. Whenever we went to the footy,
Speaker 3: I was not allowed to have food there. We were
Speaker 3: only allowed packed sandwiches from home. Oh no, and anytime
Speaker 3: we went to a restaurant, there was no looking at
Speaker 3: the dessert menu.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to give you a do over, right,
Speaker 1: like a fairest builder's Jack's day off as a kid,
Speaker 1: I'll take you to them all would clam you into
Speaker 1: one of those old I mean six and five old
Speaker 1: age in and I once rush to have a little
Speaker 1: that we get little moves around and they're so mild,
Speaker 1: aren't they.
Speaker 2: They just sort of this sort of tilt a.
Speaker 1: Bit and the lights flash and he press buttons that
Speaker 1: don't even work or do anything like that.
Speaker 2: But then we get so.
Speaker 3: Then we go to the MCG. You pay nine dollars
Speaker 3: for chips and you wouldn't complain about it.
Speaker 2: This is cheap half the rice.
Speaker 3: Then we go eat at a restaurant and we're allowed to, Yes,
Speaker 3: we will look at the dessert menu.
Speaker 1: All right, Jack's day off. I'm going to make this
Speaker 1: happened when the footage seasons come back. Perhapsy, what were
Speaker 1: you denied or not allowed to have.
Speaker 2: As a kid.
Speaker 4: I desperately wanted boot roller skates, desperately one of them
Speaker 4: all my friends.
Speaker 2: Roller boots just the chepot version.
Speaker 4: Cramp that's what I got, And they had lacers on
Speaker 4: the top of them, and they were so bung, but
Speaker 4: I wanted the proper wheung as in busted.
Speaker 2: Means something else.
Speaker 4: I'm not aware of.
Speaker 2: Don't ask me what it means.
Speaker 4: It's very very rueh.
Speaker 3: I do apologize, and.
Speaker 2: Probably to Sexy Lamb. But anyway, so you were denying
Speaker 2: those as.
Speaker 4: A kid, Yeah, No, I couldn't have boot roller skates.
Speaker 4: Mum was a nurse and her excuse used to be
Speaker 4: I've seen far too many casualties with people in roller skates.
Speaker 4: You'll fall over and you'll snap your leg in half.
Speaker 3: But whether you strapping them to your shoe or they're
Speaker 3: built in, what difference does it make exactly same risk.
Speaker 2: You're not picking up great speed either of those things.
Speaker 1: Those kids, especially with those ones like that, you're sort
Speaker 1: of dawdling along like your club he did.
Speaker 2: You're not picking up any momentum whatsoever.
Speaker 4: We had a big local skate scene in our town,
Speaker 4: and in a country town, it's like one of the
Speaker 4: few things.
Speaker 2: To do, so it was tag skate scene.
Speaker 1: Skate scene we are about all those inbred brothers bringing
Speaker 1: their banjos, playing as they skated.
Speaker 4: Dan used to take the tie up ones and all
Speaker 4: my friends had boot ones and I looked ridiculous.
Speaker 3: That's why you had to move out of the country, Chris,
Speaker 3: take me away from this, show me a better life
Speaker 3: for christ the music coming to the Region theater next year.
Speaker 1: Book now all right, So what were you not allowed
Speaker 1: or denied as a kid?
Speaker 5: A bra you're.
Speaker 2: Listening to the Christian o'kyl's show podcast took the about
Speaker 2: what we were not allowed as a kid.
Speaker 1: Chat was saying, how it's never left to go on there,
Speaker 1: you know, in the shopping malls of shopping certains. He
Speaker 1: got the little mechanical rides for very small kids.
Speaker 3: I was allowed on it. I just wasn't allowed to.
Speaker 2: Experience enjoy the rise, Christian.
Speaker 1: I saw a dad who had two kids sitting one
Speaker 1: of those shopping center little cars, shaking it from side
Speaker 1: to side.
Speaker 3: To save a few bucks.
Speaker 1: Must have been.
Speaker 2: Jack's old man.
Speaker 1: That is shocking, Chris, thank you very much that Christian.
Speaker 1: Please tell Pats I fell in pain with the roller skates.
Speaker 1: This is song, Karen Lloyd. I really wanted the white
Speaker 1: boot ones. I got those awful metal ones with the
Speaker 1: straps that would expand as my feet grew. Yep, cost
Speaker 1: cutting a measure for my parents.
Speaker 2: Christian.
Speaker 1: For Tim, he wasn't allowed as the kid's a yo yo.
Speaker 1: Most of the kids has those flash ones that had
Speaker 1: auto freespin. I got the basic wooden one. The wooden
Speaker 1: ones were terrible. Christian. We were growing up. I was
Speaker 1: one of five kids. We weren't allowed potato chips. The
Speaker 1: only time they appeared in the house was when it
Speaker 1: was one of our birthdays.
Speaker 2: Christian.
Speaker 1: I was never allowed to watch TV as a kid
Speaker 1: or have any drink that wasn't watered down.
Speaker 3: Actually, we had a friend like that. Every time you
Speaker 3: went to his house, you have to have water down orange.
Speaker 2: Really really tepid.
Speaker 1: It was barely just like a teaspoon of the actual
Speaker 1: essence of it.
Speaker 2: Make it stretch across four homeopathic.
Speaker 3: Into of orange.
Speaker 2: Christian.
Speaker 1: As a parent, I told my kids that parents aren't
Speaker 1: allowed to put money in the rise at shopping centers.
Speaker 1: Only grandparents can do that. That's from Jane. It's gonna
Speaker 1: Irene here, good morning, Irene. What weren't you allowed as
Speaker 1: a kid?
Speaker 5: Hi? Christian and the kid I wanted a pair of
Speaker 5: levi by Jane's and my mom so did she went
Speaker 5: out and bought some dinner and actually sowed me a pair,
Speaker 5: god bless, which I actually never wore.
Speaker 2: What do you mean sold you a pair, just made
Speaker 2: you a pair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she used to work in a clothing factory, so
Speaker 5: she went out, bought some dinner and yep, a pair
Speaker 5: of jeans.
Speaker 3: Did she have like the pattern for.
Speaker 5: No, no pattern, just leave it, just jeans, blue jeans, denim.
Speaker 4: And they didn't have the you know you need the
Speaker 4: This is when it was all about the sort of
Speaker 4: invasion of American brands into So I was, yeah, poor.
Speaker 5: Old Irene at high school and you know there was
Speaker 5: I was European. There was a lot of you know,
Speaker 5: Australian girls, and yeah I didn't never ever want to school.
Speaker 1: Nope, all Ireen, thank you very much for you called
Speaker 1: us get a Leagueod morning Lee.
Speaker 6: Good morning girls. As a kid, I had the unfortunate
Speaker 6: situation where I really wanted a pair of skate shoes,
Speaker 6: you know, the big high top globes it needs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a period Lee. You probably met my
Speaker 3: ash where we loved his kids enormous shoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And so I was at my dad for years
Speaker 6: to buy me something. Eventually he got around to it,
Speaker 6: and the day he bought it, I threw a big tantrum.
Speaker 6: I can't know what it was about, but I threw
Speaker 6: a big tantrum. And so he took the brand new
Speaker 6: pair of shoes and he made me throw them in
Speaker 6: the viney's bin.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is the day that he bought them.
Speaker 2: This could change a person.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what I learned.
Speaker 1: My lesson for sure, those emotions down, that's the lesson
Speaker 1: out there. That is brutal stuff from your dad. There, lady,
Speaker 1: you were dad?
Speaker 6: Now, yeah I am. Actually I've got one and one
Speaker 6: on the way.
Speaker 2: I bet, I bet you don't.
Speaker 3: Lee.
Speaker 2: There's no way would you do that to your kids?
Speaker 6: I don't think I could. I cried.
Speaker 1: You maybe go do the old dome made me go
Speaker 1: that Vinnie's been nigger.
Speaker 2: You ain't doing that.
Speaker 3: You ain't that, dad, You're not half of what crap?
Speaker 6: Would you? Would you like to hear the kicker?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: On couple ad later he took me back to get him.
Speaker 6: They opened the bin and I hadn't put him in correctly.
Speaker 6: So the next person that came along after me got
Speaker 6: a brand new pair of shoes and I didn't get
Speaker 6: any that's.
Speaker 2: A horrible kicker.
Speaker 6: I wanted you to go into the lesson, but he
Speaker 6: wasn't that mean.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I feel trauma for you.
Speaker 1: Seriously, we're getting second out, passive trauma, the rollercoaster you're up.
Speaker 2: There's so much going on in this. Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for sharony.
Speaker 6: Have a good day, No drama.
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