Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast
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Speaker 2: week's three Topic Tuesday, where you have many ways to
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Speaker 1: This morning on the show then or nine four one
Speaker 1: four one four three.
Speaker 2: Tell me in one story how strict your parents were
Speaker 2: for me? Was?
Speaker 1: I was never.
Speaker 2: Allowed to own a denim jacket until I was sixteen.
Speaker 2: It was like they thought, if he gets one before that,
Speaker 2: we're going to lose him to the denim gangs home
Speaker 2: in the street looking for confused teenagers like our boy Christians.
Speaker 1: And of course, well, you know, it kind of puts
Speaker 1: you off it. Then you get sixteen and you feel like,
Speaker 1: I want that denim jacket anymore. What was it for you? Jack?
Speaker 1: In one story? How strict were your parents were?
Speaker 3: My mum was so strict about the M fifteen rating
Speaker 3: on movies that I wasn't allowed to watch any ms
Speaker 3: before the age of fifteen. I went to the city
Speaker 3: one time as a fourteen year old with a bunch
Speaker 3: of friends, new friends at high school and we bought
Speaker 3: tickets to Romeo Must Dive.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I remember that movie.
Speaker 3: And then I got cold feet. As we were going
Speaker 3: into the cinema. I was like, my mum will not
Speaker 3: like this, and I said I was watching it, and
Speaker 3: I went home tickets already more feeling sick.
Speaker 1: I'm not in them. I've got a cold. I can't
Speaker 1: sit here enjoying Romeo Musky is that rapper in that?
Speaker 1: To remember who was in that? Romeo Stye, I've still
Speaker 1: never seen it, so I can't wow. Wow, all right,
Speaker 1: linees open.
Speaker 2: Then tell us in one story, just one story, how
Speaker 2: strict were your parents? On nine four one four one
Speaker 2: o four three? And then this is the news today, Paul.
Speaker 2: Last night on stage on this big global tour that
Speaker 2: she's on at the moment, Olivia Rodrigo fell through the stage.
Speaker 2: Literally there was a manhole or trap door open for
Speaker 2: some reason. She fell through it.
Speaker 1: You can actually hear that thud. Poor thing.
Speaker 2: She is okay in my mind. You can't see, but
Speaker 2: you can hear her. That's like you, No, she's on
Speaker 2: the stage. Welcome to Melbourne. Wast be looking at all
Speaker 2: this going. We need to check the stage of trap
Speaker 2: doors and King Charles Sweep all stages Charlie Boy for
Speaker 2: Republican trap doors.
Speaker 1: That's why he's bringing his own blood.
Speaker 2: He's ready for your Australia.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Sometimes it's just a hostage.
Speaker 2: That is a protopotized her way out of that.
Speaker 1: That is very good. That is total positivity Tuesday. There.
Speaker 2: The reason why we weren't while we're playing that out
Speaker 2: and telling about that is the Willking fuel stories of
Speaker 2: falling falling through ideally trap.
Speaker 1: Doors, any holes, any holes, man holes? What do you
Speaker 1: fall through?
Speaker 2: Any holes? Nine for one four one oh four three.
Speaker 2: Remember one thousand dollars is up for grabs for star
Speaker 2: caller of the show. Whenever we hear great story every week,
Speaker 2: we give it away straight away. Nine four one four
Speaker 2: one o four three. All right, So the first two
Speaker 2: tell us in one story how strict your parents were?
Speaker 2: And then what are you falling through? Any holes? Ideally
Speaker 2: a manhole, trapdoor, hatches.
Speaker 1: Look, Christian Connall Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's show. I'm really looking forward to again your
Speaker 2: stories about both of these. First one, tell me one
Speaker 2: story how strict your parents were like this, Christian, my
Speaker 2: dad was so strict that my friends.
Speaker 1: Nicknamed him the warden. Warden's coming. Let's out.
Speaker 2: I need to search as romantosis mattress right now nine
Speaker 2: four four one oh four three. Tell us in one
Speaker 2: story how struct your parents were? And this one after
Speaker 2: Olivia Rodrigo was in Melbourne last night and fell through
Speaker 2: a hole in the stage. She is okay, but she
Speaker 2: did it fall through a hole in the stage, So
Speaker 2: we want to know what have you fallen through? Nine
Speaker 2: four one four one oh four three? What holes have
Speaker 2: you fallen through? Christian I had very strict Greek parents.
Speaker 2: My mother refused to let me get a bicycle in
Speaker 2: Brimary And High school. She told me they were way
Speaker 2: too dangerous. I'd be killed by a car, so I
Speaker 2: had to walk to a wrong school while Mace would
Speaker 2: just ride home. One day, I borrowed a mates bike
Speaker 2: after school to see what I was missing. Within five minutes,
Speaker 2: I was head to head with an oncoming car and
Speaker 2: it swerved.
Speaker 1: In the nicke of time.
Speaker 2: Maybe she was right, Michael Yanakis, I reckon that was
Speaker 2: your mum one hundred percent. Who was that mysterious bearded lady?
Speaker 1: It was Mamma Yanikis.
Speaker 4: I wasn't allowed to ride to school either, and so
Speaker 4: I was in year twelve.
Speaker 3: Didn't you tell us you you used to swim to
Speaker 3: school in the crate.
Speaker 4: One of those we swim in the creek during lunchtime.
Speaker 4: We had a craik run through the backroom.
Speaker 1: Jack and I used to swim to school. Some of
Speaker 1: the kids did it next break.
Speaker 4: I never said I swam to school. That is a
Speaker 4: ridiculous name.
Speaker 1: We went on a raft or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you did.
Speaker 1: Go back to the tape.
Speaker 4: Go back to the tape, you Christian.
Speaker 2: Growing up, my parents were devout Mormons and were very
Speaker 2: overprotective when it came to content. I consumed bracket ned Flanders,
Speaker 2: so when Christmas would roll around, I got the stock
Speaker 2: Standard And you remember.
Speaker 1: These thirty dollars thirty bucks.
Speaker 2: Sanity gift card from a relative represented a challenge for
Speaker 2: the ten year old me. I vividly remember attending Sanity
Speaker 2: with my parents and looking through all the CDs. I
Speaker 2: had an offer to buy one I could afford with
Speaker 2: my gift card. Finally I settled on Simple Plans album.
Speaker 2: I saw there was no explicit content Morning on the cover,
Speaker 2: and I thought perfect. I found the one However, being
Speaker 2: ten years old, I didn't quite understand what the name
Speaker 2: of the album was, hinting at still not getting any
Speaker 2: Upon handing the CD to my very protective parents, they
Speaker 2: took one look and gave me another CD instead, Wholesome Family,
Speaker 2: Tap Dancing Penguins, The Happy.
Speaker 1: Feast, No Simple Plan for You.
Speaker 2: I'm still not getting any No, and I love this
Speaker 2: one Christian.
Speaker 1: When I was fifteen, I was invited.
Speaker 2: To go to the movies with a new group of
Speaker 2: friends I made at summer camp. We're going to see
Speaker 2: a movie called The Inside Man with Russell Crowe. This
Speaker 2: is in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Now, I had a.
Speaker 2: Pretty long run time compared to most of the movies
Speaker 2: at the time, like Austin Powers An American Buyme. After
Speaker 2: begging my dad was allowed to go to the movie,
Speaker 2: but he would not extend my curfew by a single minute.
Speaker 2: Determined to go, I still went back to lead two
Speaker 2: thirds of the way through Tennis Day. I still don't
Speaker 2: know how Inside Man where Russell Crowe ends.
Speaker 1: We have to find out.
Speaker 2: Does anyone know how Inside Man with Russell Crowe from
Speaker 2: ninety nine?
Speaker 1: How does it end?
Speaker 2: Please let me know? Nine four one four one, four three.
Speaker 2: We have some brilliant stories and calls lined up next
Speaker 2: about in one story, how stript were your parents? And
Speaker 2: also what holes have you fallen through? We go to
Speaker 2: them next.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's show, tell me in one story how strict
Speaker 2: were your parents?
Speaker 1: It's come from Pete Dixon. Christian.
Speaker 2: Mum caught me sipping a beer at a school formal, drove
Speaker 2: me home without saying a word.
Speaker 1: An hour later, I was in his sleep in bed.
Speaker 2: She pursted into my room and started reading Bible passages.
Speaker 1: To me for two hours.
Speaker 2: We pray for you. The Devil's come for him. We
Speaker 2: weren't allowed to watch neighbors. No reason given, Christian. My
Speaker 2: dad was so strict. I was not allowed to he
Speaker 2: to the house until I was seven teen years old,
Speaker 2: and although all through high school I had to sit
Speaker 2: out the back of the house and do my homework
Speaker 2: until my college hours.
Speaker 4: Shock, isn't that my Chris? Because his dad used to
Speaker 4: do that. Pat would never trust him with a house key.
Speaker 1: What do you think he was going to do?
Speaker 4: I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 3: Probaly, he's safer inside the house that roaming around outside
Speaker 3: the house of waiting again, and it was like.
Speaker 4: He almost had to earn his trust to get just
Speaker 4: a housekeep.
Speaker 2: Christian, my parentcil so street. They didn't let me go
Speaker 2: to a green light disco to primary school. Remember crying
Speaker 2: for hours in great faith grade five that I couldn't go,
Speaker 2: and they still refused me to send me to something
Speaker 2: that was happening in the middle of the afternoon. And
Speaker 2: that is, of course a bewitching hour, isn't it the
Speaker 2: middle of the afternoon. It's not midnight, it's the middle
Speaker 2: of the afternoon, Mary Anne. Christian you're talking to there
Speaker 2: about falling through hrles in a just arsenal for Joseph
Speaker 2: and the Technicolor Dream Go, I missed my which meant
Speaker 2: one of the other brothers miss his, and he fell
Speaker 2: into the band Pip and landed on the eighty year
Speaker 2: old piano.
Speaker 1: This is why we need to search your stories of
Speaker 1: falling through holes on nine four one four one four three.
Speaker 1: Good morning, count him Ah, Hi Christian, good morning. I
Speaker 1: understand you're on the train.
Speaker 5: Yes I am, so. It's quite embarrassing. Anyway, I'll tell
Speaker 5: you my story, but yes, I fell through a toilet
Speaker 5: this is going back about.
Speaker 6: Forty years ago.
Speaker 1: He fell through a toilet.
Speaker 5: Yes, what have I My sister locked us out and
Speaker 5: I climbed through the toilet to get in. We had
Speaker 5: said these flats and the flats so I was going
Speaker 5: head first and then I thought I better turn myself around,
Speaker 5: and then to myself around, jumped on the toilet bowl
Speaker 5: and the whole bowl broke chat his premium leg. Oh
Speaker 5: my god, twenty one. I was in year nine at
Speaker 5: the time, so going to school and craptures every day. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but that was very, very funny. Oh he's funny now,
Speaker 5: not at the time.
Speaker 1: No, I know about you. Not full of lolls that count.
Speaker 1: And thank you very much the story, and thanks you
Speaker 1: colling in on the train a lot of problem. Thank you, Susan.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Hi Christian.
Speaker 7: My parents were so strict that when I went for
Speaker 7: my driver's LIGHTNSE and I passed, I wasn't allowed to
Speaker 7: drive the car until the day was satisfied that I
Speaker 7: had the skill. So my dad used to take me
Speaker 7: out in the car and he had his hand on
Speaker 7: the handbrake ready to pull it up. Every time Johny.
Speaker 1: Would make it worse.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yep, yep, yep, and he'd tell me what lane
Speaker 7: had been and I had to do this until he
Speaker 7: was satisfied that it was okay for me to drive,
Speaker 7: even maybe crones did.
Speaker 2: I could well, so despite you know, state elected examiners
Speaker 2: with an agreed test that is not easy to pass.
Speaker 2: In my mind, your dad's got a clipboard and it's.
Speaker 1: Like go again.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh. He had that. He his hands so
Speaker 7: tightly held onto that am brake and I was shaking.
Speaker 7: I was sweaty.
Speaker 1: You'd be more nervous.
Speaker 2: It actually more dangerous to be nervous driving like that.
Speaker 2: It's putting you in more risk.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that was dad. That's how strict
Speaker 7: they were.
Speaker 2: Strict they were, Susan, thank you very much the story mate.
Speaker 2: Have a good day you too, Babe Cowen, and good morning.
Speaker 6: Good morning here, Christian.
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm good, thank you. On the show,
Speaker 1: so strict parents in one story tell us how straet
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 6: Definitely I had the strictest parents that. When I was
Speaker 6: little and I got invited to birthday parties, I actually
Speaker 6: went with a pre passed lunch, a water bottle, a
Speaker 6: vegimite sandwich and a piece of fruit. And they even
Speaker 6: went so far because I wasn't allowed to eat the
Speaker 6: food at the party. They even went so far to
Speaker 6: wrap up a gift that if the other parents had lollies,
Speaker 6: like a lolly hunt or anything like that, that they
Speaker 6: gave the parents the lollies that if I found lollies,
Speaker 6: I got extra changed.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is a lot.
Speaker 6: That is very strict. Needless to say, I didn't go
Speaker 6: to very many parties after a very long time. Oh so,
Speaker 6: and once I left home, I partied like there was
Speaker 6: no tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Two streets.
Speaker 6: I partied like. I partied like it was nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: And are those wild days over now? They're still on?
Speaker 6: Oh no, No, I'm fifty next year and I'm partying
Speaker 6: like there's no tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Really making up for lost time. I don't keep blaming
Speaker 1: the past.
Speaker 2: Seventy still playing hard. That great story, Thank you very
Speaker 2: much when he made us laugh. Thanks, go on and
Speaker 2: have a good day.
Speaker 7: No worries you too, babe.
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