Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast. Before I tell you
Speaker 1: about the song that sums up my Easter break, I
Speaker 1: have to play this song which is a big part
Speaker 1: of my childhood and our best summer yours as well.
Speaker 1: Very very sad news about comedy legend passed away Tim
Speaker 1: brook Taylor of complications from You know what part of
Speaker 1: the greatness that was because you get up down? What
Speaker 1: a theme too, what a show huge all over the world.
Speaker 1: The Goodies the first thing I have a queued up
Speaker 1: for to get my copy of The Goodies vinyl album
Speaker 1: signed by the Great Trio, and later on managed to
Speaker 1: do quite a few things with them as well. We
Speaker 1: came close to getting they had. Remember the famous tandem
Speaker 1: bike Pats. Yeah, there were guests on a TV show
Speaker 1: we used to do and we were trying to find
Speaker 1: a four seater bike so that we could all ride
Speaker 1: it around under. We couldn't get it in time, which
Speaker 1: I was gutted about. But I used to love the Goodies.
Speaker 1: I don't know what a big hit it was down
Speaker 1: here as well, like a lot of classic Buddhist shows,
Speaker 1: but that kids show was just silly, smart kitten calm
Speaker 1: as well. I was watching some YouTube clips of theirs
Speaker 1: that are still up there now. Kitten Kong still funny now,
Speaker 1: still makes me laugh. A giant kitten running them mop
Speaker 1: in London, But yeah, rip Timbrook Taylor. So the song
Speaker 1: that sums up my Easter break though, is about what
Speaker 1: happened over the weekend. What was I think in last week?
Speaker 1: Because the kids were I think everyone, if we're honest,
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks of this, we've been going
Speaker 1: through ups and downs and sometimes you really just it's
Speaker 1: just overwhelming. And for teenagers somebody going through teenage stuff
Speaker 1: as well, and then you've got this going on and
Speaker 1: not the hardest thing for them is dismissing their friends
Speaker 1: and feeling that they have it. They can't just get
Speaker 1: out and just get out of the house. And you
Speaker 1: need a teenage that energy they need to get out.
Speaker 1: The four walls contain the energy that that FuG they've
Speaker 1: got going on so much that we had when we're
Speaker 1: growing up as well. So I said to them last week,
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of other ways and anything
Speaker 1: else we could do just to try and you know,
Speaker 1: get a shift of attention. And I said, tell you what,
Speaker 1: if you want to redecorate your bedrooms. Now you're old
Speaker 1: enough to have it done however you want. We've almost
Speaker 1: been living in a house a year. I said, you
Speaker 1: can do it however you want. Fast forward to the weekend,
Speaker 1: two days painting all weekend. Three coats needed to turn
Speaker 1: a bedroom from a lovely cream magnolia into burnt orange.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, interesting choice, interesting.
Speaker 1: I would say this. It looks great now. All four walls.
Speaker 1: So first of always said do three and the back or.
Speaker 2: A feature walls? Sometimes the design shows like the block
Speaker 2: of feature.
Speaker 1: Guys think like a teenager. Teenage thinking is about it's
Speaker 1: all in or nothing. There is no medium, there's no
Speaker 1: three wall, one wall. Okay, that's a compromise. Teenagers do
Speaker 1: not compromise. They earned that later on her life. Life
Speaker 1: is nothing. But then less compromise for us adults, isn't
Speaker 1: it not. As a teenager, you're idealistic. You want to
Speaker 1: burnt orange bedrum, you get a bone orange bedroom. I
Speaker 1: tell you what. It looks great, more like a terry cotter.
Speaker 1: I would say, a terry cotta kind of color. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very kind of Spanish colonial look to It looks nice,
Speaker 1: but it needed three coasts obviously she's never painted perform
Speaker 1: in her life. And at first I've got all the materials,
Speaker 1: the masking tape, the dust sheets, and I said, look,
Speaker 1: I'll do it with you. She went, no, boyfriend's going
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 3: It with me.
Speaker 1: O punching her heart. There's still a little fist dent
Speaker 1: there now from where she put that fist right in
Speaker 1: the heart. And then all of a sudden, boyfriend obviously
Speaker 1: realized it's hard work painting, right.
Speaker 2: Doesn't it's like to do a whole room like that
Speaker 2: is you're looking at a couple of days at least, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there'd be another. I gotta do some more touching
Speaker 1: up today. Yesterday. I got to be honest, my attention
Speaker 1: to detail was getting it a little bit away from me.
Speaker 1: So anyway, boyfriend didn't fancy doing it, so I was
Speaker 1: brought in from the sidelines as a very enthusiastic I
Speaker 1: was lording it up for an hour. She went, just
Speaker 1: don't speak to me about why you're in here. You're
Speaker 1: indivdual doing it because there's nobody else to help me
Speaker 1: do it, and Mums doesn't want to do it. Please
Speaker 1: don't talk to me.
Speaker 2: Just paint hours of awkward silence.
Speaker 1: I was silence, okap, and then she realizes, you know,
Speaker 1: I started suddenly. I had a really emotional moment. Actually
Speaker 1: one point, when we open up the first tin of
Speaker 1: this orange paint, I did what my dad did. I
Speaker 1: went and got the old stirring stick and as I'm
Speaker 1: doing I said, you need a stick because the paint's
Speaker 1: been sitting for our house. You have to stir it.
Speaker 1: You know, anytime you open this back up, if I'm
Speaker 1: not around, you need to do use paint. Ever again,
Speaker 1: you need to have a stick, and it's and you
Speaker 1: stir up the paint. As I'm thinking, God, this is
Speaker 1: literally me walking in a footprint that was already laid
Speaker 1: down by my dad him, teach you about this. And
Speaker 1: as I'm showing you how to do the maskin on
Speaker 1: the skirting boards and all that kind of thinking, this
Speaker 1: is I'm teaching her my dad taught me. It was
Speaker 1: a lovely little hand me down, maybe miss my dad.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so Saturday we actually had quite a good laugh.
Speaker 1: It took about six or seven hours. The first two
Speaker 1: hours chat you would have had this. It's the boring
Speaker 1: bit is the prep work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and prep work, people said, to us, is ninety
Speaker 2: percent of how can you paint? Jobs going to come
Speaker 2: out if you mask it or properly and you clean
Speaker 2: the walls properly. I tried and do shortcuts. So tell
Speaker 2: me how like you're cutting in and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: How good a job did you do with that? Because
Speaker 2: you can get lazy with that stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, because it was orange and I don't want to
Speaker 1: get anything on the skirty balls because it will look
Speaker 1: terrible because it's such a bright, vivid color, right, and
Speaker 1: so obviously she had never painted before and she was
Speaker 1: learning it, and I was talking about the brushstrokes and
Speaker 1: how you have to be really really delicate when you're
Speaker 1: cutting in. It's horrible, but you have to cut in there.
Speaker 1: And she was going, I'll do that. I've got more
Speaker 1: nimble hands, and I was thinking, please do because I
Speaker 1: don't want to be screened at by my wife, by
Speaker 1: my forty something shaky hands than I. I was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should definitely do that. So we did all that
Speaker 1: and then I said it's going to need a third coat.
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. She was like, oh, look, can you do that?
Speaker 1: I said, well, I thought, this is what we're doing together.
Speaker 1: She did it for half an hour me yesterday and
Speaker 1: then bugging off. I was left there three hours alone,
Speaker 1: right feeling sick from all the fumes, trying to breathe
Speaker 1: out of a window, and honestly, it was like looking
Speaker 1: out of a window like I was in a cell.
Speaker 1: Because yesterday was a really nice sunny morning.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: But I was up a ladder by myself doing the
Speaker 1: third coat. But it is a nightmare doing it, and
Speaker 1: some of that cussing in that I was doing yesterday
Speaker 1: was angry painting. I am nervous about what it's going
Speaker 1: to look like today in the cold light day. So
Speaker 1: I've done Ruby's bedroom. Okay, that's the burnt orange. This weekend,
Speaker 1: we've got to get into this next about what you did,
Speaker 1: your ideas of a teenage makeo for your bedroom. This
Speaker 1: weekend we do Loises. She wants it jet black black,
Speaker 1: all four walls jet black, jet black. When she told me,
Speaker 1: she said, Mum's going to like it, and I went,
Speaker 1: it's not just mum's decision, and she went jet black
Speaker 1: and my balls went up to my throat. I'm going
Speaker 1: have to take this.
Speaker 2: To the ball like a photography dark room.
Speaker 1: It's for body black. So that's what it is this weekend.
Speaker 1: All right, So give us a call. What did you
Speaker 1: do to your teenage bedroom? What was your black the
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast, So cast your mind back.
Speaker 1: Did you do what you considered at the time to
Speaker 1: be an amazing bedroom makeover when you were a teenager.
Speaker 1: So my thirteen year old wants to want to me, sorry,
Speaker 1: let's get that clear. Wants me to paint her bedroom
Speaker 1: black this weekend. I've got the paint. It's black. I
Speaker 1: tried to say, hey, what about Yeah, like a graphite
Speaker 1: gray could look pretty cool. She went black.
Speaker 2: The guys at the paint store shouldn't have sold you black.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's just for you. If you're no, we're
Speaker 1: going to do your favorite. No, No, it's you're right,
Speaker 1: it's reckless. No one's doing me a solid favor. Rather,
Speaker 1: let me get that. So yeah, this weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean, but you also to paint over a black
Speaker 2: bedroom wall.
Speaker 1: My wife, I said, we have to resell this Chris
Speaker 1: with wipe money off the house.
Speaker 2: At least do like blackboard paint that she can ex
Speaker 2: drawings on, like chalkboard paint.
Speaker 1: You think she's in her mind. She's Bitie Eilish. Seriously,
Speaker 1: she's got a crystal ball in the room. She's doing
Speaker 1: pentagrains and stuff like that, chalk paint and why did
Speaker 1: you play with this spinning top? You've got some hot
Speaker 1: wheeled cars, all right, So we're talking about teenage bedrooms.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Sarah's on the line. Good morning Sarah,
Speaker 1: the old producers and come on Sarah.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Christian, good morning.
Speaker 1: Hello mate. Hope you were he had a nice used
Speaker 1: to break. Tell us about your teenage bedroom.
Speaker 4: I desperately wanted to change my whole colors to black
Speaker 4: as well, and unfortunately my mum wasn't let me. It
Speaker 4: was probably thinking back to it now, it was probably
Speaker 4: because she didn't want to have to paint it or
Speaker 4: painted later on. But it was something that stayed with
Speaker 4: me for a long time. So when I found out
Speaker 4: I was pregnant and decided I wanted to decorate the nursery,
Speaker 4: there was no even thinking about what color I was
Speaker 4: going to do. It was just going to be black.
Speaker 4: There was no choice.
Speaker 1: This is amazing.
Speaker 4: I went to you know and got the paint, and
Speaker 4: as a heavily pregnant woman got there and painted nursery black.
Speaker 1: That is amazing. You only ever see really pink or
Speaker 1: blue or kind of pastel neutral colors for the Yeah,
Speaker 1: the nursing never black. This is amazing at the Adams family.
Speaker 4: Very stylish, very stylish, beautiful white furniture and lots of
Speaker 4: gold accents.
Speaker 3: It was very nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that looked good. Actually, all right, Sarah, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. You cool, Stay.
Speaker 3: Safe, Thanks Christian?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Producers? Come on, we're back, baby, can't
Speaker 1: be a lot like that, fee fee Fiona, good.
Speaker 3: Morning, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 1: Tell me about your teenage bedroom.
Speaker 3: Right, my son wanted his walls to be painted purple,
Speaker 3: and because we're in a rental, obviously I couldn't do that.
Speaker 3: So what I did was I hung fabric. We went
Speaker 3: out and got purple fabric and I just covered the wall.
Speaker 3: Nice place. It was just lovely and I'm still there
Speaker 3: to this day.
Speaker 1: Is that right? How many years is that it still
Speaker 1: got the purple fabric on the wall.
Speaker 3: Well it's about five years now, but it's really lovely.
Speaker 1: I bet that. All right, Fiona? Thank you.
Speaker 3: It means as well, we can just take it down
Speaker 3: and we don't have all the extra work today.
Speaker 1: So you're saying that I just shay to my thirteen
Speaker 1: year old maybe just get some black fabric.
Speaker 3: Yes, I just put it off and then it can
Speaker 3: be taken down again when the notion of the black
Speaker 3: silver and there's no harm done to the wall.
Speaker 1: Fiona is okay? If I give you her number, could
Speaker 1: you set to because actually I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 3: If she scares me, I would tell her and I
Speaker 3: would even common jo for her.
Speaker 1: Okay, bless you if you, thank you. The Questian O'Connell
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