Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian No Show podcast yesterday.
Speaker 2: Lots of great stories about secrets that you try to
Speaker 2: keep from mom and dad, not just as a kid,
Speaker 2: but as a grown up as well.
Speaker 1: Some new ones that have come in. Nick. When I was.
Speaker 2: Sixteen, I wasn't allowed to have a TV in my room,
Speaker 2: but with my fat I remembered the big moment when you
Speaker 2: allowed the TV.
Speaker 1: In your worst thing I ever did for my school, because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't out of a TV. This is this
Speaker 2: is amazing, this this story. I wasn't out to have
Speaker 2: a TV in my room, but with my first real job,
Speaker 2: I brought a small kind of TV. About months before Christmas,
Speaker 2: I snuck the TV into the house and installed it
Speaker 2: in my room. I then wrapped the box in Christmas
Speaker 2: paper and wrote to Nick from Santa on the card,
Speaker 2: place the gift under the tree on Christmas morning. Acted
Speaker 2: all surprised, I think once they realized that thing's.
Speaker 1: Been in this room for ages. He's bought himself, but
Speaker 1: it was it was too late. There wasn't anything they
Speaker 1: could do about it. Nick. I love that one, Darren.
Speaker 2: When I was young, I'd always want to go to
Speaker 2: local milk bar with my friend to play the arcade machines.
Speaker 2: One day, I remember my dad had a fifty cent
Speaker 2: coin collection.
Speaker 1: Did you pursue that coin collection.
Speaker 2: That big jar and then go to the bank or
Speaker 2: supermarket about every six months?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But or is it a coin collection, like a proper
Speaker 4: coin collection, like you would collect stamps and they're one
Speaker 4: of a coin fifty cent points?
Speaker 2: One day I remembered my dad had a fifty cent
Speaker 2: coin collection, some rareer than others. So every weekend I
Speaker 2: take about two to three dollars worth of coins and
Speaker 2: use them to play my games. There were so many
Speaker 2: little bags of coins, let's just say around twenty bags.
Speaker 2: By the time my dad had noticed something wasn't quite right,
Speaker 2: there were only two.
Speaker 1: Or three left. Not exactly A very observant dad was he.
Speaker 2: Let's just say I didn't go to the mill bar
Speaker 2: for a very long time after that. But Liinda, I
Speaker 2: waged school to go to the cricket at the MCG.
Speaker 2: My dad saw me chanting in Bay thirteen live on
Speaker 2: TV A.
Speaker 1: B to the Christian o'crl's show. Podcast is Lindy.
Speaker 5: Oh hi, christ let's Lindy here. When I was fifteen,
Speaker 5: I hit a horse in the house. So we walked
Speaker 5: her up the backsteps, through the laundry and into the
Speaker 5: land room.
Speaker 3: And got a plate and cut the carrots up.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it took photos and Mum was out and
Speaker 5: didn't know anything about it. And then the phonos came
Speaker 5: back and he's Blackie in the house and Mum could
Speaker 5: not believe what she actually saw.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mum needs to go and get her ryce tested.
Speaker 1: I've been great horse. And she didn't notice anything.
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 1: Did you said he let it upstairs? See a horse
Speaker 1: go upstairs? I mean, I don't know how.
Speaker 2: What's harder for the horse going upstairs? Horse downstairs? Mum
Speaker 2: never noticed anything.
Speaker 1: Alex Hi Christian.
Speaker 4: My name's Alexander. I was in high school and I
Speaker 4: thought it was really cool playing skateboarding. But I was
Speaker 4: running like and I thought I'd get one last trick
Speaker 4: in from the boy, and that last treek ended up
Speaker 4: with me jumping off the wall and breaking my arm.
Speaker 4: I hit it with a long sleeved t shirt from
Speaker 4: Mum and then next minute, at the end of her
Speaker 4: someone accidentally knocked my arm and I needlessly yell let
Speaker 4: out a little yelp, and she saw my arm and
Speaker 4: it was all robbing. Fortunately that wasn't too bad to.
Speaker 1: Break, all right, see, because she kept from my dad
Speaker 1: ninety four one one four three. Give us a call, Barry.
Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, how are you. I'm good, Barry.
Speaker 1: How's your week going?
Speaker 3: Oh so goody good plan?
Speaker 1: Good to not Barry? And what are you try and
Speaker 1: keep secret from mom and dad? Basa.
Speaker 3: When I was a ten year old, my mom and
Speaker 3: dad took us camping and my sister and I caught
Speaker 3: a red belly black snake on the Barba River and
Speaker 3: I put it in a pillow case and I bought
Speaker 3: it home. She was sitting on top of it actually
Speaker 3: for six hours as we came back from Barba Forest
Speaker 3: to thank Kill to where we live.
Speaker 2: Barry, don't take this person, but sometimes some Australians terrifying
Speaker 2: me A snake.
Speaker 1: In a pillow case seats what?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she wasn't happy, She was not impressed. My dad
Speaker 3: was a little bit busy too.
Speaker 1: But as parents for you sometimes be so unreasonable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I grow up to be a snowcacher. So
Speaker 3: there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, Barry, thank you very much. You care always
Speaker 1: going to hear from you. Mate, take care, have a
Speaker 1: good day, Alana.
Speaker 6: Alfer Mine in Christian how are you?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm good. Thank you Eleanor and keep a thing
Speaker 2: secret from mom and dad. What's your story for us, Alena?
Speaker 6: Yes, yes. Back in the day when we're able to
Speaker 6: have bumfires, when I was eight my brother was about ten,
Speaker 6: we decided we'd make a donation to the local bonfire
Speaker 6: and went under the house and grabbed the seat of
Speaker 6: four tires. And about a week later my dad went
Speaker 6: looking for them, couldn't find them, and they turned out
Speaker 6: to be brand new set of tires. So I must
Speaker 6: say we're working a very good books for a few weeks.
Speaker 1: God you'd be furious because so expensive.
Speaker 6: I know, I know, but we thought it was a time.
Speaker 1: What a generous donation CuMo tirees. That's a great one.
Speaker 2: Alana will send you one hundred and fifty doll avoucher
Speaker 2: and cheme into her house.
Speaker 1: Can you sell some smelly some Christmas?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: You behind years madam.
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Speaker 2: Got an email from Justine who listens to the show
Speaker 2: and catch up in Perth.
Speaker 1: The People's Republic Independent Republican Purspocourse I still forget that they.
Speaker 2: Are kind of part of a straight I'm surprised they
Speaker 2: let the email go out because of like North Korea.
Speaker 2: She went to Mart McGovern here's an email has escaped
Speaker 2: the border closures into stinky old Victoria, Christian, this happens
Speaker 2: to grown ups as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a tattoo that I got done about
Speaker 1: seven years ago. My dad's still hasn't seen it.
Speaker 2: I don't hide it from him, but I've never told
Speaker 2: him I got it done, and he's never brought it up.
Speaker 2: I don't know whether he's seen it, and is so
Speaker 2: aghast he doesn't. He doesn't talk about it. Then it
Speaker 2: hasn't happened, but I certainly don't. And even sometimes when
Speaker 2: we've been together, the kids will see me with my hand.
Speaker 1: Yet, and I'm not a grown up, I can do
Speaker 1: whatever I want.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Justine's husband and Adam passed his motorcycle test.
Speaker 2: I brought a motorbike. Didn't want to tell his parents
Speaker 2: even though he was thirty two, so would have to
Speaker 2: hide it whenever they were coming around rounded of friends.
Speaker 2: And then one day his mom decided to pop round,
Speaker 2: saw the motorbike out the front and guess that that
Speaker 2: must be his, and so it all had to come
Speaker 2: flying out. He was thirty four at the time, Christian,
Speaker 2: so he catch it quite for two years. So this
Speaker 2: still happens to grown ups as well. So keep things
Speaker 2: a secret from your parents, Ginny, and come on them.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 7: Okay. I was thirteen years old. It was a Saturday,
Speaker 7: and I went into town with my friends. Now and
Speaker 7: I went in. I had hair down to my waist.
Speaker 7: But I decided I wanted to be a punk rocker,
Speaker 7: so I went into the hairdressers and got my hair
Speaker 7: done like a skinhead, so it was like a little
Speaker 7: spiky hairdoo an inch long.
Speaker 4: And then I.
Speaker 7: Looked and I thought, oh my god, I'm going to
Speaker 7: get absolutely killed. So I decided I'd buy a cheap.
Speaker 2: Wigi and just Jillian, I'm guessing. So this is in Scotland.
Speaker 1: You had to go and buy a cheap wig in Edinburgh.
Speaker 7: Ye, Edinburgh, So it's inn like a joke shop, so.
Speaker 1: It looks like a grouch of marks one. It comes
Speaker 1: with the glasses and the fights.
Speaker 7: So I get and of course my mum notices, you know,
Speaker 7: why what the hell you got a wig on for
Speaker 7: But it wasn't till the Sunday night right that I
Speaker 7: went into the shower and she walked. She came into
Speaker 7: the bathroom and I'm not joking. She's about a heart attack.
Speaker 3: She actually shaken.
Speaker 7: I think she thought it was like a man in
Speaker 7: the shower.
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