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Speaker 2: my weekend is this.
Speaker 3: I love the sound of breaking up.
Speaker 2: I I'm telling now, at the age of forty seven,
Speaker 2: the horror when you go, oh God, no, the world
Speaker 2: that opens up when you break a window in your
Speaker 2: house at the age of forty seven is exactly the
Speaker 2: age of the same horror that you felt when you
Speaker 2: were thirteen. Last time I broke a window, I was thirteen.
Speaker 2: It was a soccer ball, practicing free kicks in the
Speaker 2: garden and my aim wasn't quite good enough, and my
Speaker 2: mum happened to be literally washing up in the kitchen
Speaker 2: by the kitchen window looking into the garden has this
Speaker 2: big old leather football. You know, when you know it
Speaker 2: was curving. I mean, David Beckham would love the curve.
Speaker 2: I put on that literally aiming for the wall. It
Speaker 2: was aiming for the all, but that ball was aiming
Speaker 2: for the window and my mama's.
Speaker 3: Face and it just went.
Speaker 2: Shattered, glass falling in and into the washing base and
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Why you do.
Speaker 3: All I heard was bucket money.
Speaker 2: You know you work out there as the subtext going on.
Speaker 2: So that was back when I was thirteen in.
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, I've been trying to convince my wife, right,
Speaker 2: when you are in a relationship and to be married
Speaker 2: for a while, it's like you're running a business together,
Speaker 2: and so any new purchases have to be preappoo vibed
Speaker 2: by the other kind of shareholder, okay, And I'm trying
Speaker 2: to convince her in the garage to see if I
Speaker 2: can have an indoor kind of golf setup where I
Speaker 2: can practice my swing.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about the setup Andy Lee's got, No,
Speaker 3: he's got a professional beach.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's Jeff Bezos. What I need is a
Speaker 2: more budget version of that. So at the moment I've
Speaker 2: been looking at is it two budget to have a
Speaker 2: washing line with some old secondhand rugs? Draights over that
Speaker 2: and I whacked the ball into Okay, So if anyone
Speaker 2: does know about a very budget home golf setup, please
Speaker 2: let me know what to do. So my wife said, fine,
Speaker 2: but does you not practice any golf inside the house
Speaker 2: or outside the house. Now I did agree on that
Speaker 2: right the golf swing. However, over the weekend I was
Speaker 2: getting very frustrated, put the final touches to my book,
Speaker 2: and so I just thought, I just need a distraction.
Speaker 3: Five minutes I.
Speaker 2: Picked up golfers will know this my pitching wedge, okay,
Speaker 2: and this is for more shorter shots. Okay, it's got
Speaker 2: higher loft on. It should get a bit of height,
Speaker 2: all right. So I thought I can practice this in
Speaker 2: the house. This is the only club I've got some
Speaker 2: control over. Keyword here inside the house.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking it's not the swing. I'm not like going
Speaker 2: fall back with it. I'm just going back three or
Speaker 2: four inches. I'm still learning how to play golf is
Speaker 2: the other thing. I don't have any control anyway. Unless
Speaker 2: the first shot right, I can see the dogs. I'm
Speaker 2: lining it up right, and I remember my coach told me, okay,
Speaker 2: so it's just a very small pendulum, okay, body weight forward.
Speaker 3: I hit a very good.
Speaker 2: Pitch shot right that was too good for the small
Speaker 2: distance side it to cover, and it just hit at
Speaker 2: the golf ball whacked that window cracked like a spider's web,
Speaker 2: opened up right and straight away the kids come running down.
Speaker 3: What was that? And I'm literally stood there. I'm thirteen again.
Speaker 3: The grounded and the first.
Speaker 2: Of the said Mom's gonna go mad, and then run
Speaker 2: back up to ring her.
Speaker 3: That's an up in the house, right then, let my phone.
Speaker 2: My phone is going barely seconds later, tell me they're joking, Chris.
Speaker 2: She just loses it. She cracks an even bigger problem
Speaker 2: than the window pane. But do you know what, You
Speaker 2: can sort the glacier out on Monday. Anyway, how did
Speaker 2: you break a window? Let's get some calls in, Mick,
Speaker 2: how did you break the window?
Speaker 3: Wasn't I It was my brother.
Speaker 1: He managed to break two windows in the same location,
Speaker 1: in the same manner within a week.
Speaker 3: That's incredible. Tell us about the first.
Speaker 1: Break, Well, he used to walk down the corridor towards
Speaker 1: their room, sort of kicking his shoes off as he
Speaker 1: went and flicking them into the bedroom footloose. One of
Speaker 1: them went through the window above he's.
Speaker 3: Dead, which is a great change to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was issued with a severe reprimand the window
Speaker 1: was replaced, and a week later he managed to do
Speaker 1: the same thing in.
Speaker 3: The manner with the old kicking off the shoes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I wasn't party to a conversation that took
Speaker 1: place between him and my father, but needless to say,
Speaker 1: the performance was never repeated.
Speaker 3: That's incredible, make great story, well told. Thank you now
Speaker 3: worries kids, Scott. I'm good, Scott.
Speaker 2: I heard you had a great weekend. Thanks for colling
Speaker 2: the show. How did you break the window?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it's three weeks ago. We were having a
Speaker 4: dinner party and we're making a homemade bavioli and the
Speaker 4: kids were messing around out the back. So I went
Speaker 4: out and told moss I come back in. They tried
Speaker 4: to make a joke me and we're carrying on at
Speaker 4: the window and I went to knock on the window,
Speaker 4: hit at once in me hand went straight through. A
Speaker 4: bit of glass went straight through my hand. And yeah,
Speaker 4: blood squirting everywhere like a horror movie. So obviously everybody's panicking.
Speaker 4: We'll call an ambulance, We'll go to hospital. I refused,
Speaker 4: we were going to dinner first, So I put my
Speaker 4: t shirt around it.
Speaker 3: Square, quite a little bit of blood in there for
Speaker 3: a bit of exercause.
Speaker 4: Everybody's going that you've got to go. You're turning what
Speaker 4: And we went to the hospital an air and a
Speaker 4: half later.
Speaker 3: And after you had that ravioli, after we.
Speaker 4: Had the ravioli. Three days later, I had surgery to
Speaker 4: sew back the muscle belly, but I did get to
Speaker 4: finish a raviolid.
Speaker 2: Banging on that window, Scott to put notice your you
Speaker 2: didn't put your finger, that you put your whole fist
Speaker 2: through it.
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