Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 3: Over the last three weeks back home to the UK
Speaker 3: see mom and sister family traveling with me, my wife
Speaker 3: and our six year old daughter.
Speaker 4: It's been a.
Speaker 3: Very ah, it's been very combatible times at times, because,
Speaker 3: like I said, it's my wife and my six year
Speaker 3: old teenage daughter.
Speaker 4: Both of those.
Speaker 3: Women and trainee women, big characters, big energy. Then we're
Speaker 3: traveling around a lot lot it's like a band on
Speaker 3: a world tour that will get tempers were getting frayed
Speaker 3: a lot and I don't know whether it's some mother
Speaker 3: daughter thing.
Speaker 4: We all have these kind of roles in family, and mine.
Speaker 3: Is often to be peacekeeper, which drives my wife nuts
Speaker 3: because she's very easy to be everyone's friend, isn't it Chris.
Speaker 4: Switchland over there? Yeah, who do you think?
Speaker 3: No matter how that war when they're still getting all
Speaker 3: that Nazi gold they were quids up at the end
Speaker 3: of that war. Anyway, various points of the three week
Speaker 3: epic trip around Europe that I've just come back from yesterday,
Speaker 3: I was actually making a note yesterday the airport on
Speaker 3: the wait to come home to Melbourne.
Speaker 4: Of where in the world.
Speaker 3: They had arguments, okay, and it's quite I know, even
Speaker 3: a massive one they had once on a beach in Broom.
Speaker 3: Then there's the cafe where one that walked out in
Speaker 3: Port Douglas. I can now top off west of England
Speaker 3: where we're in a beautiful place called Cornwall, right down
Speaker 3: the west of England, lovely down there on a ferry.
Speaker 3: The captain this ferry, by the way, was the oldest
Speaker 3: man I've ever seen. Seriously, he looked like Captain, but
Speaker 3: not Captain Bird's Eye, Captain Bird's Eye's great great grandfather.
Speaker 4: Right, he was a real old salty sea dog.
Speaker 3: And he got up to this little crow's nest and
Speaker 3: the're on this tiny, wonky little fairry. And they didn't,
Speaker 3: you know, normally get in like a boat and you're
Speaker 3: going somewhere half now they tell you where their life
Speaker 3: jackets are.
Speaker 4: None of that, none of that.
Speaker 3: And then I saw that he had a young assistant
Speaker 3: who was I swear to god, he was was reading
Speaker 3: a book like very intently called Mastering the Sea.
Speaker 4: Right, thinking this ain't good.
Speaker 3: He got old Captain Birds out there, and then his
Speaker 3: mate who sooniously finished this is obviously going to have
Speaker 3: a mutiny on this boat. We're all going to be
Speaker 3: like that Tom Hanks movie, wasn't Tom Rax, Cats and Fills.
Speaker 4: Mastering the Sea. And he's really like, well, now this
Speaker 4: book ends, he's really really getting into it.
Speaker 3: Anyway, wife and my wife and my six ron old
Speaker 3: they get into a massive realm. It was a day
Speaker 3: before this family wedding and they were arguing about who
Speaker 3: was going to have what time spots to get their
Speaker 3: hair done. I didn't even know that women have to
Speaker 3: get their hair done.
Speaker 4: On the day of the wedding. Of course, there was
Speaker 4: no thought.
Speaker 3: For what I need to get done or I think
Speaker 3: on the day of the wedding. But they start having
Speaker 3: huge great rail so I can also now and then
Speaker 3: the course and to Plymouth Ferry. In our world autless
Speaker 3: of arguments. So I want to open up now a
Speaker 3: world utless of where you've had in the world. Might
Speaker 3: be on holiday, wherever it is with a partner, with family,
Speaker 3: wherever it might be a workstro anywhere you had an
Speaker 3: argument in the world, call us up, just let us
Speaker 3: plot it on our world. Outlets of arguments on nine
Speaker 3: four one four one oh four three. Where can you
Speaker 3: give us Patsy? Where we're going to go in the world.
Speaker 5: Just very recently, this one went for a few days
Speaker 5: in fact, Mount Coronet Peak in Queenstown, just very recently.
Speaker 5: This break absolutely stunning. It was all his first day
Speaker 5: at the snow. Anyway. We went to the ski hire
Speaker 5: shop to hire our gear and it was this place
Speaker 5: was absolutely bursting at the seams. You can imagine parents,
Speaker 5: school break kids. These skis don't fit these boots. So Chris,
Speaker 5: it's just his worst nightmare. He just wanted to get
Speaker 5: in there, get our stuff and get out and go
Speaker 5: to dinner.
Speaker 4: Too much fath too MUCHA and why put extra layers on.
Speaker 5: On holidays to stay dry and warm, somewhere warm. No, No, we're.
Speaker 6: In the snow.
Speaker 5: It was a snow holiday anyway. So he was trying
Speaker 5: on his pants and I said, Chris, they are miles
Speaker 5: too big. I think you need to ask for like
Speaker 5: at least two sizes smaller. They'll fall off your hips. No,
Speaker 5: they'll be right.
Speaker 4: Pants whatever they call them, that's right.
Speaker 5: Well, you don't want to be flapping in the breeze
Speaker 5: as you come down the slopes.
Speaker 6: You take of human cannon ball, become all those guys
Speaker 6: in a wingsuit where he's.
Speaker 4: Actually airball from mister red.
Speaker 5: Bull anyway, wouldn't be told. He said, no, no, no, I
Speaker 5: know boats, let's just go to dinner. We're going to
Speaker 5: be late for our dinner booking, and I'm all right anyway.
Speaker 5: I kept checking in with him even as we got
Speaker 5: on the bus to go up to the mountain. That morning.
Speaker 5: We were right outside the ski shop and we were
Speaker 5: like mega early fifteen minutes earlier. I said, listen, while
Speaker 5: we're sitting there, I said, you've got time, Like, there's
Speaker 5: no one in there. Why don't you just go in
Speaker 5: and all you need to do is swap the pants. Look,
Speaker 5: I'll do it for you. No, it's fine anyway. So
Speaker 5: we get up to the top of the mountain and
Speaker 5: they annoyed him all day because they would not stay
Speaker 5: on his hips.
Speaker 4: So what do you mean they're falling down?
Speaker 5: They're falling down, like completely falling down site for.
Speaker 3: Other kids out on an innocent family ski tchip a
Speaker 3: man's bare arm from Werribee.
Speaker 4: It was not good that double moon up there at
Speaker 4: the top of Corr.
Speaker 5: So his his solution was he had to get his
Speaker 5: scarf and tied it around his waist. Yes, it was
Speaker 5: the only way he could keep them.
Speaker 6: Up was a scarf.
Speaker 4: Or black belt.
Speaker 5: He looked ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I bet you'd love to say I told you so
Speaker 4: all the time, Jackie. Well, where can you add us?
Speaker 4: So we've got coin at peak.
Speaker 6: I'll put a pin. In Bangkok, Thailand, when I was nineteen,
Speaker 6: I traveled there with a friend of mine and we
Speaker 6: were trying to stay on a slim budget. So we
Speaker 6: were sharing a room a lot of time, even sharing
Speaker 6: a double bed, and we were getting sick of each other.
Speaker 4: I was snoring.
Speaker 6: I was getting annoyed at this snoring. He was waking
Speaker 6: me up at the night. And then what pushed us
Speaker 6: over the edge was I got a tattoo. Of course Thailand.
Speaker 6: I didn't know until halfway through the tattoo that you're
Speaker 6: not meant to go to the beach or go swimming
Speaker 6: in the ocean for two weeks after it, and our
Speaker 6: plan was to go down to the islands of Thailand
Speaker 6: and enjoy. So telling my friend and we were already
Speaker 6: tense with each other, Tell you, my friend, we can't go.
Speaker 4: To the beach, and it's a beach holiday.
Speaker 6: We had a proper storm off, did you wow?
Speaker 3: We all right where in the world then from atlas
Speaker 3: of arguments can you give us?
Speaker 4: This is the Christian O'Connell show.
Speaker 3: Podcast, roping up an atlas of the world. Where in
Speaker 3: the world can you take us to where you've had
Speaker 3: an argument? Cushion and managed to crack it with my
Speaker 3: entire family, Meg mid dog sled in the middle of
Speaker 3: remote Sweden. Now I've done that with the family. It's noisy, it's.
Speaker 4: Cold, and those dogs make a lot of noise as well.
Speaker 6: There's no storming off John into the Arctic wilderness.
Speaker 3: Stuck on a sleigh together. And I'm guessing you're doing
Speaker 3: it as a Christmas experience as well. Whenever there's a
Speaker 3: big expectation like we've come all this way to have
Speaker 3: all this experience and all this money, that's when it's
Speaker 3: like the perfect storm for a big mountain down?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 3: A lot of these involved dislands? Fact, we should keep
Speaker 3: this going this week and actually we should break down
Speaker 3: the Disneyland rounds into where exactly in the Magic Kingdom?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: So nine four one four one o four three, Where
Speaker 3: can you take us in the world where you've had
Speaker 3: an argument?
Speaker 1: Janine, come on in Good Morning, team, how are we all.
Speaker 4: We're good, Janine, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: Mine is the happiest place on earth, Disneyland, Anaheim.
Speaker 4: Let's get into it.
Speaker 3: So I've been to that one where was the row set,
Speaker 3: the scene the sort of outside.
Speaker 7: The Rapid river Ride river ride. So we were traveling
Speaker 7: with our three kids, five, eight and ten. Now someone
Speaker 7: was having I think a few behavioral issues due to
Speaker 7: all the preservatives in two over there. My husband and I,
Speaker 7: honestly we nearly divorced in the middle of Disneyland, honestly
Speaker 7: telling me, Janine, you've got to shut your back. You've
Speaker 7: got to shut you back. Someone's going to nick your bag,
Speaker 7: and my other son's having his little tanty, and I said,
Speaker 7: for God's.
Speaker 4: Sake, it'll be all I should offer divorces there. You
Speaker 4: go on the raad together and then you leave separately, and.
Speaker 6: You can buy a photo of your last moment together
Speaker 6: as a mouse mat.
Speaker 7: So he went one way. I went onto the Rafa
Speaker 7: River Ride with the three kids. But you know, we
Speaker 7: continued our trip. We've just celebrated twenty five years marriage.
Speaker 7: So something something well done.
Speaker 3: Felt more like a sort of endurance thing. Then you
Speaker 3: just like finished a marathon.
Speaker 4: I did it, I wouldn't do it again. It's awful thing,
Speaker 4: all right, Janine, awesome story. You have a great week.
Speaker 4: Thanks calling the show.
Speaker 7: Thanks very much.
Speaker 2: Bye.
Speaker 4: Teresa. Good morning, Teresa.
Speaker 1: Oh good morning. Look on my Monday started off. But
Speaker 1: now I've got heart palpitations again and I've got a
Speaker 1: bit of reflex thinking about this story. We were in
Speaker 1: Venice about to catch a train with our kids and
Speaker 1: my husband. Because he's a tighter us, he wanted to
Speaker 1: go and quickly grab a one dollar beer from somewhere,
Speaker 1: and you know we're not He wanted to grab a
Speaker 1: one dollar beer because that's what he did, and he
Speaker 1: left it to the last second and we had to
Speaker 1: board the trainer. I'm feeling sick telling you about this.
Speaker 1: Because I had the passports, I had the kids. We
Speaker 1: were forced to get on the train. The train wasn't
Speaker 1: named as to where it was going, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what the hell I'm going to kill this man when
Speaker 1: I see him, I'm going to punch him in the express.
Speaker 1: Oh look, it was just terrible and he was just
Speaker 1: and then it gets I'm thinking everything was fin until
Speaker 1: he saw my face and I said, I do not
Speaker 1: want to speak to you, because if I do, it's
Speaker 1: going to be really, really bad. But you've left me
Speaker 1: on this train. I didn't know if you were going
Speaker 1: to make it all for a dollar beer. Seriously, seriously,
Speaker 1: do you men do that?
Speaker 4: It's a good price a dollar in this story, I'm
Speaker 4: all thinking that is so.
Speaker 1: Cheap in but you don't do that with three young
Speaker 1: children and your wife waiting to think.
Speaker 4: It's exactly when you need to do it.
Speaker 3: Because of that said situation, I want to take him
Speaker 3: by a couple of travelers.
Speaker 4: That this trip trip.
Speaker 1: He wasn't hurt.
Speaker 4: Hight Teresa. I hope the acid reflux calms down.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Guys, have a good day.
Speaker 4: And you Teresa. And then we go here Daniel, Yeah,
Speaker 4: how are you doing?
Speaker 3: We're good, Daniel, sir? Where in the world do we go?
Speaker 3: And we've been to just been to Venice? Where are
Speaker 3: you taking us?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: I didn't get a dollar yere, but I totally would.
Speaker 2: We were in Kenya and we were on a big
Speaker 2: intrepant tour for sixteen days and we need a yellow
Speaker 2: fever vaccine to get back into Australia after the trip.
Speaker 2: So the trip goes from Kenya into Uganda, and we
Speaker 2: had our last night in Kenya and then we're on
Speaker 2: the bus to Uganda. That's like a ten hour bus ride,
Speaker 2: and our intrepid leader gets a text message from the hotel.
Speaker 2: She comes up to us and going, do you have
Speaker 2: your yellow fever booklets? And my partner goes ghost white,
Speaker 2: starts rubbing through the bag and then looks at me
Speaker 2: and goes, what the hell, I thought you cleaned the room?
Speaker 4: And argument, I thought you cleaned room.
Speaker 3: I thought you were cleaning the room, and that once
Speaker 3: you stop rummaging in the bag, it's never in there.
Speaker 2: Was it was not in there.
Speaker 6: You should the responsibility of being the last one to
Speaker 6: look around the room. It's too much responsibility.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: I was in the shower and she left and she
Speaker 2: grabbed bags, and I thought she grabbed everything, but turns
Speaker 2: out I didn't know.
Speaker 3: We have it, We have a golden rule. Whoever is
Speaker 3: the last person leaving the room must do the sweep.
Speaker 3: And it can't be one of the kids. You cannot
Speaker 3: trust them.
Speaker 2: So you agreeing with her.
Speaker 4: Yes, ye, last man must see it's on that.
Speaker 2: I excepted all responsibility at the end, but it still
Speaker 2: was not enough and it was bad. So the hotel
Speaker 2: beat us to the border and we tipped them a
Speaker 2: stack of money and then we got our passports back
Speaker 2: and we got back into Australia.
Speaker 4: So you know what about money change the situation.
Speaker 3: How many times you've been somewhere in the world where
Speaker 3: it's you cannot and then you offer them some money.
Speaker 3: Yes you can, You really can with money, Daniel, Daniel,
Speaker 3: thank you very much.
Speaker 2: You call me no, no worries, have a good wind,
Speaker 2: cal a brighter not you're
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