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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: The Wonder Year. This week is two thousand and one.

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Speaker 2: No One, Jackie Boy, two thousand and one. You're obviously

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Speaker 2: a young latch.

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Speaker 1: I was thirteen years old. Bloody break today, Quiet Boy

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Speaker 1: on the show I did. Two thousand and one was

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Speaker 1: my first ever overseas holiday. Oh god, wow, being huge

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Speaker 1: deal for our family. Mum and dad were saving up

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Speaker 1: for years.

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Speaker 3: Now living here. I understand, Yeah, no wonder you've don't

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Speaker 3: travel more. It's really expensive.

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Speaker 1: And when we went there, we stayed for six months.

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Speaker 1: That's who we went to Europe. I remember my mum

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Speaker 1: saying to me a couple of years out of getting

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Speaker 1: to high school, she said, do you want to go

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Speaker 1: to a nicer high school or do you want to

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Speaker 1: go on the overseas holiday? And we chose the overseas holiday.

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Speaker 3: Good for you, What a great experience. So your parents

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Speaker 3: took you out school for six months.

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Speaker 1: Took me out of school.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember a cool thing to do, especially at

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Speaker 3: that age.

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Speaker 1: I had a bunch of books assigned to me from

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Speaker 1: my teachers, like the geography teacher, history, maths, everything of

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Speaker 1: workbooks that I had to do while I was over

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Speaker 1: there and did you mad rush?

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Speaker 3: A mad rush the day before we go back to

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Speaker 3: school six months later.

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Speaker 1: But it was amazing we did.

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Speaker 3: So where did you go?

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Speaker 1: We did? We started in Ireland, we went, we were

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Speaker 1: in Germany for a little bit, Norway, Sweden.

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Speaker 3: Proper European Tour, thet Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And we were doing house swap where you stay in

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Speaker 1: a family's home and they stay in your home. And

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Speaker 1: it was like an early thing on the internet.

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Speaker 3: It's been early days of the internet two thousand and

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Speaker 3: one Wikipedia was launched, but that's a long long time

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Speaker 3: ago to what it is now. Yeah, how do you

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Speaker 3: find out about it?

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Speaker 1: They were doing it? I remember they did over the internet.

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Speaker 1: House swap. I don't even know if it's a popular

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Speaker 1: thing anymore.

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Speaker 3: I think it is.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it a bit more for like holidays as it

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Speaker 1: opposed to living somewhere for six months? Yeah? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: we were moving around, so we do like three weeks

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Speaker 1: at a time in somebody's house and they would live

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Speaker 1: in our house.

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Speaker 3: So what do you remember it? What stood out?

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Speaker 1: Oh god, I uh, sadly. The first thing I remember

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Speaker 1: is I had my skateboard and looking for skate parks

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Speaker 1: in Europe. That's got nothing to do with kind of.

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Speaker 3: Waste of your mom and dad's money. If I was

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Speaker 3: your mama dad, I'd be fuming. I mean, they must

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Speaker 3: have just broke their backs working eight jobs a week

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Speaker 3: to save the money for the son to only remember

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Speaker 3: about his skateboard.

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Speaker 2: Good lord. They say travel is wasted on the youth,

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Speaker 2: and they are right.

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