Speaker 1: What the moon? Shut up and dance twelve and it's
Speaker 1: past six Monday morning, Christian O'Connell's show for Keem Squarehouse.
Speaker 2: Don't know how else with you and your wife.
Speaker 1: But my wife her highlight of the weekend minus Friday night.
Speaker 1: My wife says, Sunday, Sunday's a day of doing things, Chris.
Speaker 1: We clean on Sundays too, that's us right, And I
Speaker 1: get anxious on a Saturday night.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, what's waiting for me?
Speaker 1: Even then, given I've never given my task until Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: I think otherwise she knows I'm at risk of flight,
Speaker 1: like I might just run away. Actually, so I woke
Speaker 1: up Sunday and then she was like, actually, do you
Speaker 1: know what, Chris, Today's a day we need to do X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z. And one that was my job was
Speaker 1: to get my carcher out and strip away all the
Speaker 1: varnish that she made me put on the back deck
Speaker 1: two years ago. Too dark, Chris, too dark. Just put
Speaker 1: that on and stripping it prepare take it all off.
Speaker 1: So you know, when you start somethinking the whys, this
Speaker 1: is going to take a lot longer. I thought, just
Speaker 1: stripping away the varnish on that with the jet washer. Right,
Speaker 1: just to do a small section, say about one foot
Speaker 1: by one foot, took about ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, not an easy job.
Speaker 1: And not just that right, because you got to push,
Speaker 1: you gotta hold it on tracing and then listen to
Speaker 1: this guy, you got to hold it on. My hand
Speaker 1: was getting small with the laxic acid build up in
Speaker 1: my forearms and my biceps. It took me a couple
Speaker 1: of hours, and halfway through I realized this is today.
Speaker 1: This is all I'm going to have to show for
Speaker 1: That was like, Sisyphus is doing this back deck. So anyway,
Speaker 1: my wife then is also getting my nettinies my haut
Speaker 1: to get our seventeen year old daughter or a seventeen
Speaker 1: year old daughter, she needs to tidy up as well.
Speaker 1: Now you went to your kids who in teenage years,
Speaker 1: you come at them on a Sunday and say you
Speaker 1: need to tidy and clean the car and all these
Speaker 1: things that she promised she would do to have the
Speaker 1: advance on her pocket money. I said to my wife
Speaker 1: during the week when she said, hey, listen, if you
Speaker 1: give me pocket money early, I'll do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: The week. Yeah, that isn't happening. Get her to do
Speaker 1: it now or it's never going to be done. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: having a right it was like an insurgence battle, right
Speaker 1: with someone throwing bombs you on the street. But my
Speaker 1: wife goes to me, you go up there, right, She's
Speaker 1: just slammed the door on my face, and I go,
Speaker 1: it's okay. I operate from a different way. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of like a horse whisper for teenagers.
Speaker 2: Take the jet washer's defense.
Speaker 1: Start clean down her bedroom. Yes, she accused me of
Speaker 1: having I've written this down so I've not heard this before.
Speaker 1: Toxic productivity. Actually I laugh like that, Joe, that is good.
Speaker 1: I said, let me just get my phone and write
Speaker 1: that in there that. I went, Wow, you put that.
Speaker 1: They bandied that toxic word around now a lot. Toxic productivity.
Speaker 2: Well, now you can put toxic in front of everything.
Speaker 2: That's if that's the case.
Speaker 1: I said, your behavior in now toxic teenager ing for you,
Speaker 1: Mum and I. So we're meant to clean all this up.
Speaker 1: So we have this running battle for a couple of hours,
Speaker 1: me her and my wife. My wife is texting me going,
Speaker 1: can you go up there again? And I have to
Speaker 1: keep going, and she says, what is it now? What's
Speaker 1: mum setting you up to do? Anyway, yesterday evening to
Speaker 1: create some sort of peace, I did something I haven't
Speaker 1: done since I was a kid, and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I saw that she was watching TV by itself. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to watch something together? Shouldn't? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: saw that shod a bowl of Coca Pops. I went
Speaker 1: and got a bowl of Coca Pops. It's a brave
Speaker 1: new world at fifty. Why have I waited so long
Speaker 1: to have Coca Pops again? I reckon the last time
Speaker 1: I had a chat I was a kid.
Speaker 2: And not even that having it not at breakfast is
Speaker 2: just an added bonus on top of.
Speaker 1: That, someday you get a bit of the old Sunday blues.
Speaker 1: I've now worked out a way finally, not no more
Speaker 1: where you've got bowl of Coca Pops on a go