Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Every Friday, before you head into your weekend, we give
Speaker 2: you a chance to confess, cleanse yourself, so cathartsit release.
Speaker 2: Share the dumb, idiotic thing you did this week. We
Speaker 2: all do these things that share them together. We want
Speaker 2: to know, why are you a genius this week?
Speaker 3: Genius Smart Einstein, Genius of the Week.
Speaker 1: Got in my car, went to put my laptop in
Speaker 1: the back of the car, realized I was in someone
Speaker 1: else's car.
Speaker 4: There was a baby seat in the back.
Speaker 1: Five am I get out to my car, open the door,
Speaker 1: pitch black, sit down. Thirty seconds later I realized I'm
Speaker 1: in the passenger seat waiting for someone to drive me.
Speaker 1: My husband, I think, is your genius of the week.
Speaker 1: He lost his reading glasses and then he deduced that
Speaker 1: the local raven who lives around our area must have
Speaker 1: stolen them.
Speaker 4: All right, why are you a genius this week? I'll
Speaker 4: go first.
Speaker 2: This week on the show, I was talking about how
Speaker 2: had to work counsel internet, and.
Speaker 4: I said how I did it and take an hour
Speaker 4: and seven minutes.
Speaker 2: We didn't say there was a big chunk of that
Speaker 2: was I called up the wrong provider.
Speaker 4: They were like, we can't find his assist and I
Speaker 4: was like, here we go.
Speaker 2: You people do this, yeah right, yeah, yeah, you're just
Speaker 2: trying to get me frustrated so I don't cancer.
Speaker 4: When it's not going to work with me. Look again,
Speaker 4: my friends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how long did it take to realize que.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go into the full tech busy
Speaker 2: show calls breaking up? He went hello, Hello, no hung up?
Speaker 2: And you shudder almost threw the phone. Aware God, no
Speaker 2: one else can see the shear stupidity.
Speaker 4: You're like, oh my god, how am I still alive?
Speaker 4: How I haven't got this far into life? Perhaps? Why
Speaker 4: you a genius?
Speaker 5: Isem? Well, I've done a couple. Actually, I went to
Speaker 5: the supermarket the other day. I took love God's car
Speaker 5: and he's got one of those automatic ignition buttons you
Speaker 5: don't have, like very fancy anyway, So I got out
Speaker 5: of the car and it wouldn't lock with the remote thing,
Speaker 5: and I'm thinking, what's it doing? I didn't turned it off?
Speaker 4: I do that with still well yeah, and.
Speaker 5: Then last night I got out of the car. I
Speaker 5: had a couple of disposable coffee cups I needed to
Speaker 5: throw in the bin. And I had my phone and
Speaker 5: my purse and my keys in one hand and the
Speaker 5: coffee cups in the other, but I threw my phone
Speaker 5: and keys in this into the bin.
Speaker 2: Been a long week, for very very emotional week.
Speaker 5: And you could hear it hit the bottom of the
Speaker 5: recycling So I just say it's because I am not mom.
Speaker 3: I am not doing it.
Speaker 5: And she had to, like Chris had to lift her
Speaker 5: up to step.
Speaker 4: A scene from Annie.
Speaker 5: She's like, you better double my pay for this. This
Speaker 5: is disgusting, Mom.
Speaker 4: Let's great, Patsy and Jack, why are you genius?
Speaker 3: This week, I have a chip tooth. I chip when
Speaker 3: I was younger, and I've actually got a veneer on
Speaker 3: the corner of one of my front teeth.
Speaker 4: Oh that gold one. It looks really cool.
Speaker 3: This week, Bianka had a big pack of popcorn to
Speaker 3: serve ready for the birthday party. And on Sunday night
Speaker 3: I saw it and I wanted me some, but I
Speaker 3: didn't want her to know that I was tucking into
Speaker 3: the popcorn. So it was a big plastic bag with
Speaker 3: a tape top, and I tried to undo the tape
Speaker 3: so I wouldn't be noticed.
Speaker 4: A perfect grime wasn't.
Speaker 3: Coming undone, so I put the tape between my teeth
Speaker 3: and started you think on it, and I've pulled the
Speaker 3: veneer off my You.
Speaker 4: Did catch yourself. You got to get the dentist out,
Speaker 4: but I've got to go back to the dentist.
Speaker 2: Oh no, otherwise you're going to get some lock tight
Speaker 2: glue or something, or do it yourself.
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Speaker 4: Why are you a Genius this week? Andrea? I hear
Speaker 4: this is a live Genius of the week that's happening
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, gracious, your producer rang me back from
Speaker 1: an email that i'd sent about previous bright moments. While
Speaker 1: she'd called me, I was in the middle of being
Speaker 1: locked out of my house already this.
Speaker 4: Morning, in the middle of trying to get the kids
Speaker 4: in the.
Speaker 1: Cant screaming at them about not being organized and not
Speaker 1: taking responsibility for their.
Speaker 3: So where are you right now?
Speaker 1: On my driveway with the kids in the car. We're
Speaker 1: just about to leave. But when we're about yeah, we've
Speaker 1: locked ourselves out of the house. So we have to
Speaker 1: get around to the neighbor and get into the backyard
Speaker 1: that way so the kid can get through the dog
Speaker 1: door and get it in the house again.
Speaker 4: How small is the cat?
Speaker 1: I've got a large labrador and skinny kids, So good
Speaker 1: go me and Copra on this one. But and if
Speaker 1: you'd known how I'd woken up this morning. My kids
Speaker 1: borrowed my plug in charger last night without asking, so
Speaker 1: I put my phone on with an alarm to meet
Speaker 1: my girlfriend for a run, only to find out that
Speaker 1: my phone had actually twitched itself off without any power
Speaker 1: because it wasn't actually plugged in.
Speaker 2: Andrew the biggest audients we have with our teenagers about
Speaker 2: stealing charging cables and that they're constantly stealing mind it's
Speaker 2: always when you're aout to run out of power as well.
Speaker 1: I own more shares an Apple than I should. When
Speaker 1: it comes to buying.
Speaker 2: Power, I try and get those cheaper ones and then
Speaker 2: the top of the town. My friend had an Apple storey.
Speaker 3: To do that with the Apple Watch.
Speaker 6: Get the charger, Andrea, I hope it all works out, okay,
Speaker 6: for you're.
Speaker 4: Right, Thank you, thanks for thinking of us on your
Speaker 4: moment crisis. All right, take care of you. Let's get
Speaker 4: to Jennifer Nout.
Speaker 7: I'm Christian, I'm your genius.
Speaker 2: Of the week.
Speaker 4: What have you done?
Speaker 7: I have a beautiful neighbor who had a birthday, and
Speaker 7: she'd gone out to lunch. So I wanted to put
Speaker 7: signs all up the street and all over her house
Speaker 7: wishing at your birthday, because she's such a brilliant neighbor.
Speaker 7: And I went outside with no pockets in my clothing,
Speaker 7: and I put my keys somewhere really safe because I
Speaker 7: need the for my car and to get in and
Speaker 7: lock my house. She came home and asked me to
Speaker 7: come in because I left cake in there for her birthday.
Speaker 7: And she said, come in for coffee and a cake,
Speaker 7: and I said, okay, I'll be in. So I looked
Speaker 7: for my keys so I could lock the door as
Speaker 7: I go out because it's a deadlock. Couldn't find my keys.
Speaker 7: I turned the house upside down, ripped everything, even the
Speaker 7: washing machine apart, to find my keys. I found them.
Speaker 7: Where do you think they were? They were inside my
Speaker 7: brast They got so warm that I couldn't feel them,
Speaker 7: and I felt such an idiot and an old fool.
Speaker 3: Washing machine one hundred parts.
Speaker 7: I had clothes and it was raining, so I put
Speaker 7: my clothes in the washing machine. I thought I'd probably
Speaker 7: put them in with the clothes.
Speaker 4: Oh gotcha. Otherwise, I thought, did you use it as
Speaker 4: someone kind of hambag or something in the branch.
Speaker 7: I was freaking out.
Speaker 4: You would have been, You would have been, We all
Speaker 4: would have been.
Speaker 7: Pretty silly, said I won't get that one too fast.
Speaker 4: You won't.
Speaker 7: Lesson learns absolutely
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