Speaker 1: Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: So this Sunday, big moment for our family. Our last
Speaker 2: daughter leaves home. So Lowis who's eighteen, she's off to university.
Speaker 2: So we're moving around this Sunday. And yesterday she was
Speaker 2: packing a suitcase. That bit was fine. Then I went
Speaker 2: to her bedroom. All the posters have come down from
Speaker 2: her bedroom.
Speaker 3: It was it was just a room, Jack, It's not
Speaker 3: her room.
Speaker 2: Because actually, when you're a teenager, the way you show
Speaker 2: mom and dad in the world who you are right now,
Speaker 2: who you dream of being, or what you're passionate about,
Speaker 2: are the posters on the wall. It's all the passions everything.
Speaker 2: It's the actors and actresses she likes, it's the musicians,
Speaker 2: it's the images. It was literally like going into a
Speaker 2: museum of her. Whenever went to a bedroom and certain
Speaker 2: posters would come down and I'd never say, oh, you're
Speaker 2: not that anymore, and something new would come up and
Speaker 2: I'd know more about where she was in her and
Speaker 2: what she was assionate about, buy what was on the
Speaker 2: contents of our bedroom. Or It's like literally is like
Speaker 2: a dank old gave in there with the clothes on
Speaker 2: the floor, but the posters have all been taken down
Speaker 2: because they've got to go to where she's going to be.
Speaker 3: It's like her essence has been packed away.
Speaker 2: And it was a gut punch and I went in
Speaker 2: there was like the posters are down, and she was like, yeah, they've.
Speaker 3: All got to come down. I was like, kind of
Speaker 3: leave one up?
Speaker 2: Should you go? So we were Then I was like going,
Speaker 2: not that, I don't care about that one. Can I
Speaker 2: have this one?
Speaker 3: So I kept one of myself. But you would have
Speaker 3: been through that.
Speaker 2: We've all been at that, those ages where those posters
Speaker 2: were everything. And then the sad thing is, at some
Speaker 2: point you stop us have grown up, you become too
Speaker 2: boring for posters. You don't putting up posters anymore. Why
Speaker 2: aren't there posters for grown ups?
Speaker 1: I used to go to the Voyager video store in
Speaker 1: our neighborhood that sold you know those poster racks the
Speaker 1: house where the big botanic frame, botanic frame and you
Speaker 1: flip through them, and I used to love and looking
Speaker 1: through the bend.
Speaker 2: And then you look the banned ones. Then it was
Speaker 2: scantily clad women. There was the one with the ten
Speaker 2: play with scratching the backside. There were some fet looking
Speaker 2: dudes in dungarees who did not work in any kind of.
Speaker 3: Garage or car auto shop that I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And then you get to the comedy ones, like like
Speaker 1: beer goggles type thing.
Speaker 2: That's right, Dad's man cave, and like monkeys scratching their
Speaker 2: heads stuff like that. You're right, those were the flow
Speaker 2: of those you through those big metallic screens.
Speaker 3: Bigger than so. What were the posters on your bedroom?
Speaker 1: I had all my favorite bands, Green Day, No Effects.
Speaker 1: I had a big poster of the Big Day Out
Speaker 1: the year the Beastie Boys came.
Speaker 3: Even though I didn't go to that bigure the poster,
Speaker 3: but you felt like you were there because you had
Speaker 3: the poster on your wall. Patsy, what did you want? Posters?
Speaker 3: You have? Anyone?
Speaker 2: I had Andrew McCarthy, the actor.
Speaker 3: I had Inexcess. I had Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swayze
Speaker 3: and Baby in a Dance.
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