1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Carl and Brighter and you're listening to the question, you know, 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Carl's show podcast. My heart goes out to where any 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: parents who are having a tough time, and more importantly, 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 1: their kids are having a tough time at the moment, 5 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: how can they not be, especially if you've got teenagers, 6 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: because I found it really hard over the weekend because 7 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: the thing that you want to do as a parent 8 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: when you've got teenagers or any kids, like you know 9 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: you and your daughter already, Patsy, is you want to 10 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: try and make things better. 11 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: When they having tough times. And at the moment, you 12 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 2: can do that in small ways. 13 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: But it was like yesterday, my seventeen year old Ruby, 14 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: she was having a really tough time. She's supposed to 15 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: be revising at my right, she's got that she's in 16 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: a year eleven, so big exams, and you know, she 17 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: sat there looking at all this, you know, the pressure 18 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: on grade and especially in year eleven going into year twelve, 19 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: it's a big year for all of them in their lives, right, 20 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: and she's okay, she's got to do a couple of 21 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: hours of vision revision at that any time, right, is 22 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,599 Speaker 1: just horrendous. Even the word still put you know, I 23 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,959 Speaker 1: don't need to really revise. And she was like, how 24 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: long is this going to go on? How long are 25 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: going to be locked down? I said, I don't know. 26 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: You know, we can hope that it's September second, but 27 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's actually a really hard thing, as apparent, 28 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: to be confronted when you don't have you don't have 29 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: any power over it. 30 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: It's really hard. So anyway, yesterday. 31 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: Evening, after a couple of hours of really grumpy, sighing revision, 32 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:22,639 Speaker 1: wherever you were in the house you could hear this. Oh, 33 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:28,839 Speaker 1: I took the dog out for his third walk. Just anyway, 34 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: and even the best I could do, right, there were 35 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: no snacks. 36 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 2: In the house. 37 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: And then they were almost turning on me like I 38 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: was a snack And I went, there aren't anywhere out 39 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:36,279 Speaker 1: of snacks. 40 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 2: Out of snacks. I'll get some after I come back 41 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: from the show tomorrow. 42 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: It's one of the main reasons to leave the house, 43 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: Dan Sledge, for sure, go on a snack run. 44 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 2: I'll get some on the way home. Okay, we don't 45 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 2: have any snacks. 46 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: All I had was and I suppose to what was 47 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: but half eight yesterday evening, was some breakfast cereal and 48 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: some milk, and so we all I sat down with them, 49 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: the three of us written our bowls. So it's noise, 50 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: isn't it when you're clanking? Have that on that bowl 51 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: and that, and what is it about? 52 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: Breakfast cereal is at its best in the evening. 53 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 3: I love substitute it for dinner. 54 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes it works, absolutely works. 55 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: I don't know what it was. 56 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: It actually made us just take the sting out of 57 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: a fuggy day yesterday. It was actually, I don't know 58 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: why it tastes. The moment is dark. Breakfast cereal tastes 59 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: so much better, and I can't work out what it is. 60 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: And I was sending kids, this is actually just a 61 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: undeniable facts of life. Breakfast cereal is better in the evening, 62 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: ten times better. At least, it's just an undeniable truth. 63 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 1: It's a life truth. It's a fact of life. And 64 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: I want to know if you've got any more that 65 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: are undeniable, real facts of life. I know we talk 66 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: about facts that I've been birds and the bees and 67 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: where kids came from, but I think they're more important 68 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: ones that you need to also tell kids about, not 69 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: just where they came from not the Stalk Baby, and 70 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: that is that actually, breakfast cereal is better in the evening. 71 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 3: The other one that is a breakfast that I love 72 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 3: at nighttime pancakes. Oh god, I'll sub in pancakes for 73 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 3: dinner and. 74 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: I'm going to have that one at my sleep. Then 75 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: there will be sort of more fugs this week. I 76 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: think we're a vision. 77 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: Pancakes in the evening. Yeah, that could be a game changer. 78 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast yesterday evening. I was telling the 79 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: kids how breakfast cereal in the evening tastes so much 80 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: better than breakfast cereal in the morning. 81 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: This is an undeniable fact of life. Thank you very 82 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 2: much everyone who's sharing their real life facts. Christian. 83 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,399 Speaker 1: Even the pub at six pm into bright sunlight after 84 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 1: a good afternoon drink, It's so much better than leaving 85 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: the same pub at midnight after an evening session. 86 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 3: I really actually feel discombobulated when you come out in 87 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 3: a still day. 88 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 2: That's a lovely feeling as well. Thank you very much. 89 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: The res already Christian is Stonkate Triangular cut sandwiches always 90 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: taste better than the normal just squares they do. 91 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 2: Why is that cheap? 92 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: No? Brand name garlic bread is better than any fancy 93 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: labeled one true grubby other better. Why is it that 94 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: the kitchen sink tatwater tastes so different to the same 95 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: water that comes out of a bathroom tat and Zach 96 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: Kira saying in brackets, I think bathroom tat water is better. 97 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 2: There, I've said it. It's the whole John bon Jovi, 98 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 2: Richie sad mor thing, isn't it. That's why it's out 99 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 2: there at the back in your bedroom. 100 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: The milk at the bottom of the cereal bowl ought 101 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: to be bottled and sold separately as well. 102 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: It tastes so much better than milk. 103 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 3: Especially if you're a co. 104 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: When carrying anything heavy awkward to your car, your keys 105 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: are never in your pocket. 106 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 2: You need them to be, Tom, that's true. 107 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast