Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Happy Father's Day to you yesterday, Christian.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Jack is like he's stumbled to remember.
Speaker 2: My name Apple for the teacher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Patsy. How is Chris his father's day?
Speaker 2: Had a lovely day? Thank you? Yes, Yes, very nice day.
Speaker 1: Breakfast in bed and all the frills. Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: off for breakfast in bed. I've never gone for that
Speaker 1: option because it's too much mess. I get too stressed
Speaker 1: about the flakage in the bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never had it, but I don't aspire to
Speaker 2: it for the same reason.
Speaker 1: It was good to have better aspirations as well, rather
Speaker 1: than having my bread. It's always always hashtag life goes
Speaker 1: having a meal in bed. Mine yesterday was a Yeah.
Speaker 1: It started Saturday afternoon my wife and I because my
Speaker 1: wife comes up to me and goes, do you know what, Chris?
Speaker 1: This is the I don't think anymore we should buy
Speaker 1: presents on their behalf because they haven't got each other something.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna do you know what.
Speaker 1: I've had to get you something, but I'm not giving
Speaker 1: it toorrow. They should have to just sit with the concert.
Speaker 1: Why are we now sting this role? On the eve
Speaker 1: of my day? I said, tell you what, all that
Speaker 1: all that stuff you got for Mother's Day, you have
Speaker 1: got nothing unless I had to go out and actually
Speaker 1: buy it. They didn't get you a single thing. Oh
Speaker 1: but the candle, the story went. I told them to
Speaker 1: tell you that you would have never had a single.
Speaker 2: Gift, So you write the meaning behind it.
Speaker 1: I have to sell them into a story. It takes
Speaker 1: weeks of production the thing. I said, So why on
Speaker 1: the eve of my one this no more thing? So
Speaker 1: I'm going to get nothing and weren't going to sit
Speaker 1: in some awkward standoff on my father's Day? Why did
Speaker 1: we start this at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2: Do you think if he was left afpter them? Because
Speaker 2: they're almost adults now, you know, in their mid teen.
Speaker 1: If that's what adults says, the world is screwed.
Speaker 2: Screw you think they will get you nothing.
Speaker 1: Percause they got the teenagers. It's all about them and
Speaker 1: it has to be so anyway, my wife said, fine, fine,
Speaker 1: when I have got you something, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: even know if they're going to wrap it up. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: So Anyway, fast forward to Father's Day. I am now
Speaker 1: super excited about Father's Day because I know it's going
Speaker 1: to be some drama and an argument between the three
Speaker 1: of them. Of course there is straight away the kids
Speaker 1: picked this thing up, but by the way, they forgot
Speaker 1: there was even a gift. I saw the gift wrapped.
Speaker 1: They sat down and just handed me their cards, and
Speaker 1: I left a gap, and then there was like looks
Speaker 1: between my wife and then and they went, oh, oh
Speaker 1: almost my point notes over there went this is already
Speaker 1: amazing favorite Father's Day. They have it the wrong way.
Speaker 1: My wife goes, no, it's and twist something up. It
Speaker 1: looks like a lampshade. I open it up and it's
Speaker 1: clearly not from them. First thing is something which I'm
Speaker 1: super excited about. It's a fireproof leather apron for when
Speaker 1: I'm using the smoking. Super excited about that. It's got
Speaker 1: a big pouch at the front. It's fireproof, right, I
Speaker 1: kept telling people that this is fireproof. The other thing
Speaker 1: was some pot that you would stand a chicken on
Speaker 1: the top of and I can put in the smoker.
Speaker 1: Not being picked by the kids. Then they give me
Speaker 1: their homemade cards and he's two beautiful paintings that they've
Speaker 1: done as well, which is really really nice, better than
Speaker 1: any gift. Then open up one of the cards from
Speaker 1: Lowis the almost fifteen year old, and I could tell
Speaker 1: it looked like she'd set out a load of thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for this, and it looked like she'd got
Speaker 1: opted for There was six. I get the friend she'd
Speaker 1: left room with a card for ten out that was
Speaker 1: a really big gap. While we got to six and
Speaker 1: lots of love. Lois pay them there for seventy eight.
Speaker 2: Ninety odd number as well as first.
Speaker 1: One of them was thank you for teaching me to
Speaker 1: ride a bike. That's eleven years ago. That's eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but perhaps that's eleven years ago. That's in there every
Speaker 1: year right there. I'm like, we're over that. Thank you
Speaker 1: for the thanks, but come on, it's eleven years ago.
Speaker 1: We can't still going. Hey, by that time I took
Speaker 1: you to rider bikes, you didn't even ride a bike anything.
Speaker 2: You like an artist. We love your old kids, you
Speaker 2: new stuff not so much.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that riding your bike again. Flash back
Speaker 1: to two thousand and nine. Then the last or us
Speaker 1: I think this is a compliment. I'll take it as
Speaker 1: a compliment, well, simply thank you for not being a normal,
Speaker 1: boring dad. Yeah, but perhaps all I keep to hear
Speaker 1: is the word normal. So what does that mean? Thank
Speaker 1: you for being an abnormal dad. The Christian O'Connell Show
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