Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show Podcast of
Speaker 2: the weekend. We moved our nineteen year old daughter had
Speaker 2: a campus at university where she's been living away for
Speaker 2: the first time this year back home little bit reluctant.
Speaker 2: Did feel like bounty hunters bringing her back in apprehended.
Speaker 2: And Saturday lunchtime we all had a family lunch together. Okay,
Speaker 2: and we're all getting on there. The sun's out, it's great,
Speaker 2: the family's back. I'm feeling happy. And then Ruby, my
Speaker 2: nineteen year old, go, is there's something I need to
Speaker 2: tell your mum. And I've been worried about this for
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. And my wife immediately goes pregnant
Speaker 2: and I went, maybe maybe it's okay to think that.
Speaker 2: She goes, do you think that? Went yeah, but I'm
Speaker 2: want blutting it out. Let's not go to that, let's
Speaker 2: not escalate the situation. But inside I'm actually just tensing up,
Speaker 2: going bracing for impact. But I can see she's smiling
Speaker 2: as we can't be drastic news. And then her younger
Speaker 2: sister goes, I know what it is, and she's widely
Speaker 2: going to kick her out, and went kick you out.
Speaker 2: I said, you know, whatever's happened. You're not being kicked out,
Speaker 2: what has happened? And then she rolls up a sleeve
Speaker 2: there's a new tattoo. Of course I'm like, oh my,
Speaker 2: he is a tattoo. Okay. Second, my wife just goes,
Speaker 2: oh thank god. I thought she's still pregnant. So it's
Speaker 2: when they were very very young, right, they had They
Speaker 2: were very very close. They still are now, but it
Speaker 2: changed everything when you know one's moved out now and
Speaker 2: it's it's changed their relationship, but they miss each other massively.
Speaker 2: But anyway, when they were really really young, they still
Speaker 2: love watching this movie. It's an animated movie. There's a
Speaker 2: whole studio called Studio Ghibli which make these beautiful movies
Speaker 2: like How's Moving carst So if you've got kids, get
Speaker 2: them to watch it. They're magical movies. They're like spellbinding.
Speaker 2: I used to have like trippy experiences sitting there watching them,
Speaker 2: going don't fully understand why this is so moving. Anyway,
Speaker 2: there was one called Ponto and Ponio is this goldfish
Speaker 2: who's a princess that as soon as I saw the
Speaker 2: tattoo was like, Ponyo, I haven't seen Ponyo. Well, since
Speaker 2: you're about eight, you're nineteen and a half and Ponto
Speaker 2: has been tattooed permanently on your elbow. So yep, she
Speaker 2: got a Ponio tattoo. So sort of she wanted it
Speaker 2: was a message to her sister that you're still with me.
Speaker 2: So and obviously when she says that, you know I'm not,
Speaker 2: I'm getting tearful. I'm going, my god, that's sound having
Speaker 2: my wife is like looking at me like, that's so good.
Speaker 2: We said no more tattoos until she was twenty five.
Speaker 2: It's Ponto and it's okay to have an inkd on
Speaker 2: Chris pregnant Ponyo?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it a message? How long did you have?
Speaker 4: Many weeks or months?
Speaker 3: If she has she had it for without telling mom
Speaker 3: and dad four weeks.
Speaker 2: And I was tracking back because I remember I saw
Speaker 2: her write and it's a very hot down. I kept saying,
Speaker 2: why take the jump off? She was going, oh, it's
Speaker 2: just terrified. You kept saying take the jump off and
Speaker 2: go it's so hot. What is it a student thing
Speaker 2: that you have a big old heavy jump on Pono
Speaker 2: under there waiting to see you. So this morning on
Speaker 2: the show, then secrets you tried to keep from your parents?
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Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Luise?
Speaker 2: What was the secret you try to hide from Mum
Speaker 2: and Dad?
Speaker 1: Morning? Team?
Speaker 4: Was?
Speaker 1: Is my older sister? We found a mouse in the
Speaker 1: laundroom and she decided she was going to keep it
Speaker 1: as a pit, so she went and hit it in
Speaker 1: one of Dad's big outdoor in the paddic gum boots.
Speaker 1: And after about an hour and a half of begging
Speaker 1: and bargaining with me of i'll let you play with
Speaker 1: this toy, I'll let you play with that toy, or
Speaker 1: I'll give you this, I'll give you that, I caved
Speaker 1: and told Mum that there was a gross little mouse
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 2: Gum Oh snitches get stitches.
Speaker 1: Well live you siblings, of course.
Speaker 3: Wow we do you remember all that bartering used to
Speaker 3: do when you had something over or they had something
Speaker 3: over you. Wow, we talk about the art of the deal,
Speaker 3: all that sort of trading that used.
Speaker 1: To go on.
Speaker 2: And you're right, I let you play with this. You
Speaker 2: can have my bike.
Speaker 1: Oh you never let me go on. She remembers it
Speaker 1: to this stay.
Speaker 2: Of course, don't tell them, don't even saying it.
Speaker 1: On the show.
Speaker 2: We should also talk about pets you were trying to
Speaker 2: keep secret as well, rats and rodents and stuff like that. Luise,
Speaker 2: thank you very much, your story mate. Have a good day, Felicity.
Speaker 2: Hi Hei guys, Yeah, welcome to the show for the
Speaker 2: sta What was the secret you tried to hide from
Speaker 2: your parents?
Speaker 4: Okay, Mike was kept for sixteen years. My brother and
Speaker 4: I we used to have a little table and cheese
Speaker 4: in our dream. We shared a bedroom and we told
Speaker 4: my mom that I tripped over that and put a
Speaker 4: hole in my leg, actually cracked my leg, but we
Speaker 4: did it. We were jumping from our wardrobe onto our
Speaker 4: single bed, had a little bar underneath. Smack under that.
Speaker 2: And what you made a pact to never speak of
Speaker 2: what really happened.
Speaker 4: That's right, we were too scared. So on my twenty
Speaker 4: first my brother and I were talking about it and
Speaker 4: we were just laughing, we should tell mom the truth.
Speaker 4: And yes, Mum was shocked.
Speaker 2: She did not know you're kidding. She must have known
Speaker 2: you were jumping from the top of the wardrope down there.
Speaker 4: You know, idea that that's well. She probably knew that
Speaker 4: we used to do that, but she had no idea
Speaker 4: that that's how I did my leg. So and so
Speaker 4: to this day, and I'm now a fifty year old
Speaker 4: with a nice five cent hole in my shin.
Speaker 2: It's a momento from your childhood, isn't it. You know,
Speaker 2: it's a little it's like a little souvenir. Also, as
Speaker 2: a kid, just out of time, you could just wait,
Speaker 2: blissful time, jumping from one thing to the other, just
Speaker 2: leaping in your mind. You're not Indiana Jones
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