WEBVTT - MINI: The Graduation

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<v Speaker 1>Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>You say you found yesterday the saddest song in the

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<v Speaker 2>world is it? Andy by Donnie Parton. I defy any

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<v Speaker 2>human being not to start balling their eyes out during that.

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<v Speaker 2>I haven't heard that song, but I'm afraid this song

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<v Speaker 2>that I suddenly heard out of nowhere yesterday will throw

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<v Speaker 2>shade all over that for sure. Patsy, are you familiar

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<v Speaker 2>with the Abba song slipping through my fingers?

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<v Speaker 1>Ah, I don't even. I can't. With the daughter growing up,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't even. I can't even hear it.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I wish i'd spoken to you yesterday before my

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<v Speaker 2>daughter's graduation, so I think I told you yes. So

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<v Speaker 2>it was my seventeen year old daughter. She's s in

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<v Speaker 2>the last few weeks of year twelve and it was

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<v Speaker 2>a graduation yesterday, so already a very emotional day with us.

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<v Speaker 2>Was my twenty year old daughter two years ago we

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<v Speaker 2>saw her graduating. She's now left home. She's second year

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<v Speaker 2>at University of Melbourne, so already a lot going on.

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<v Speaker 2>This is our last kid going through the school system,

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<v Speaker 2>so a very big day in my family, A lot

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<v Speaker 2>of big emotions to my seventeen year old daughter Lois.

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<v Speaker 3>It was her big graduation and I.

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<v Speaker 2>Knew that she was going to be singing at it,

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<v Speaker 2>which is an amazing on her, and so I was

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<v Speaker 2>already just really excited looking forward to seeing my daughter,

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<v Speaker 2>saying I love hearing a sing and then just before

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<v Speaker 2>I said, oh, by the way, you haven't actually told

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<v Speaker 2>me what is a song you're singing? And I just

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<v Speaker 2>thought it would be a nice up one while they

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<v Speaker 2>played this video, and she goes, oh, it's an Abba

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<v Speaker 2>song slipping through my fingers, and I didn't think that

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<v Speaker 2>I needed to be aware of.

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<v Speaker 3>What it was. I thought, this is being us up

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<v Speaker 3>one for the mums and dads, and a song.

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<v Speaker 2>It's going to be a copy Fernando something like that. Patsy,

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<v Speaker 2>I've never heard this Abba song, so pats imagine then

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<v Speaker 2>when I see my daughter, I'm already bit emotional, like, oh, great,

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<v Speaker 2>she's going to sing, And then I hear the saddest

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<v Speaker 2>song in the world, Patsy.

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<v Speaker 3>It's about a girl leaving home.

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<v Speaker 1>I know she's a young woman now and she doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>need her mummy or daddy, and I when I hear it,

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<v Speaker 1>don't worry. I've got a lump in my throat as

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<v Speaker 1>you're talking about it.

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<v Speaker 2>But perhaps imagine me sat there right so my wife

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't isn't really listening to a song.

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<v Speaker 3>She's filming, un't aught to doing it. She's like looking

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<v Speaker 3>at me.

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<v Speaker 2>She's surprised, startled by the fact I'm shaking, crying the

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<v Speaker 2>limits the opening line. School school bag in hand. She

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<v Speaker 2>leaves home in the early morning, waving goodbye with an

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<v Speaker 2>absent minded smile. I watched her go with a surge

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<v Speaker 2>of that well known sadness. I have to sit down

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<v Speaker 2>for a while, and I think you've got to be

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<v Speaker 2>kidding me. Why can't they just do a nice upsong

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<v Speaker 2>that feeling I'm losing her forever?

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<v Speaker 3>Have I listen to this? This is your daughter singing

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<v Speaker 3>it to you at a graduation hand She leaves home.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm sorry this was too much for her yesterday.

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<v Speaker 2>There should have been a warning. I'm sitting there like

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<v Speaker 2>my I almost want to put my fingers in my ears.

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<v Speaker 3>A watch with a such a.

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<v Speaker 2>Teacher should have and said, hey, listen, this is what

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<v Speaker 2>the song's about.

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<v Speaker 3>Get ready.

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<v Speaker 2>And my daughter knew where my wife and I were,

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<v Speaker 2>so she's looking her ass singing it to us, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking, oh my, does she know the hour in

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<v Speaker 2>the song? Slipping through my fingers all the time. I

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<v Speaker 2>tried to capture every minute, the feeling in it, slipping

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<v Speaker 2>fingers through my all the time. Then two other kids,

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<v Speaker 2>two other girls start singing, her doing the chorus, somethinking

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<v Speaker 2>I am done.

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<v Speaker 3>My wife is still feeling going. She's singing so well.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, when you play us back tomorrow, it's gonna

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<v Speaker 2>be like a double PRIs punch to the heart. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you now, Jackie Boy, in sixteen years time,

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<v Speaker 2>call me, it'd be Gordy's graduation, and would sit down

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<v Speaker 2>and have a chat.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Patsy in five years time, call me this time in October.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll have a chat about it. It's a it's a

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<v Speaker 2>It was a beautiful day. And then so proud, Oh

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<v Speaker 2>my god, so proud. And in the evening we did it

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<v Speaker 2>was a dinner and the music department were the band,

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<v Speaker 2>and they were incredible. So it's like her music coach

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<v Speaker 2>and that she was singing. So they did like a

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<v Speaker 2>covers band, and so we all had a dance in

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<v Speaker 2>the evening as well.

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<v Speaker 3>But I'm telling you.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, I hope I never hear that abasult every again.

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<v Speaker 2>If you go, be careful what you go curious for online,

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<v Speaker 2>you want to go and play it today, just be

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<v Speaker 2>very careful. It's called slipping through my fingers. It was

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<v Speaker 2>too much yesterday, but Christian O'Connell Show podcast