Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, my seventy year odd ortter came home from school
Speaker 2: and just said to me, before even hello, just said,
Speaker 2: I need one hundred and seventy dollars. I said, the
Speaker 2: doors shut, the door the door isn't even shut, and
Speaker 2: already we open up this. I'm okay, by the way,
Speaker 2: I've had a nice day.
Speaker 3: How is your day?
Speaker 2: Let's just begin with that and then get down to
Speaker 2: the y you need. I need hundred and seventy dollars.
Speaker 2: I bought Oases tickets the other day. I'm down already.
Speaker 2: What do you need hundred and seventy dollars for? Oh?
Speaker 2: I've managed to get hold of lame way tickets for
Speaker 2: Charlie X. And I'm like, you have to ask for
Speaker 2: the money first. You don't just oh that is smart.
Speaker 2: You've already got the tickets. Now you're doing the whole.
Speaker 2: I said, okay, there's some scalper out there who's coming
Speaker 2: to money off you tomorrow. Yeah, So I said, okay, look,
Speaker 2: I'm okay, fair enough. Then I'll give you one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy dollars, but you have to do one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy dollars worth of work around the house this week.
Speaker 2: And she said fine, and then you go such out
Speaker 2: and went, well, hoover the stairs. And then a minute later,
Speaker 2: I hey this deliberate clanking on the stairs and said,
Speaker 2: oh god, stupid vacuum. Oh God, stupid vacuum. Then she goes, well,
Speaker 2: I don't even know how to do this. You've not
Speaker 2: taught me. Oh if all the money I put into
Speaker 2: your private education, you don't know how to hoover the
Speaker 2: flipping stairs. You have no right leaving home and going
Speaker 2: to university. You need to stay in for another year. Well,
Speaker 2: I teach you these life skills, such as how to
Speaker 2: vacuum the stairs. You do it sideways, or you can
Speaker 2: do this little shunty forward. That's it. You've got this.
Speaker 2: We can get through this together, all right. So we're
Speaker 2: talking about in one in one story, tell us how
Speaker 2: strict your parents were in her mind. This is she's
Speaker 2: now telling us kids, our friends today. My dad was
Speaker 2: so strict he wouldn't let me get Laane Way tickets
Speaker 2: and I'd hoover the stairs. Yes, yes, good money, yeah,
Speaker 2: nine four one four one oh four three. Robin, how soup.
Speaker 2: Are your parents?
Speaker 3: My father was so strict that I was almost eighteen
Speaker 3: going to the Driving movie with a male friend and
Speaker 3: he made her Auntie, his auntie come along, and then
Speaker 3: at the end had to show the ticket that that
Speaker 3: Auntie was really there watching the movie with us.
Speaker 2: A big fan of this. I have not got a
Speaker 2: problem with it. The horse has sadly bolted. Now, oh my,
Speaker 2: can't start doing this too late. Auntie in the backseat
Speaker 2: in the past in between. You've got to be You're
Speaker 2: the passion buffer, aren't you. Otherwise a hand can go
Speaker 2: with here and Hank can go there. Auntie's nodding off you,
Speaker 2: slipper a few wines or something. You know, you know
Speaker 2: what she is. She's an Auntie blocker, and you know
Speaker 2: what she's blocking. Robin, thank you very much his story.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Rob here, come on in, Rob.
Speaker 1: Yeah, morning, Christian, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 3: Rob?
Speaker 2: So how still your parents? In one story, my.
Speaker 1: Parents were so strict that they up and moved us
Speaker 1: from one town to another after my younger sister snuck
Speaker 1: out to a David Bowie concert to remove her from
Speaker 1: the bad influence of her friends.
Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, that is commitment be much extreme one we've heard.
Speaker 2: So what happened?
Speaker 1: Then she asked to go to this concert sort of
Speaker 1: six weeks in advance, got told no, was smart enough
Speaker 1: not to bring it up again. But then just so
Speaker 1: happened to be staying at a friends for that weekend
Speaker 1: and came home and got dropped off and said, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, you owe this lady some money for
Speaker 1: the ticket, And then all hell broke loose. It was
Speaker 1: an interesting time.
Speaker 2: So then you had to move how many k's away?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, probably about five hundred. So he got a
Speaker 1: new job in a new town and we just up
Speaker 1: and left.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's seventeen yards. Water comes home today. I'm
Speaker 2: packing up. We're moving to a duke.
Speaker 3: This leigh wasting.
Speaker 2: I've had time to think about it. We're moving to
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