Christian. Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Sometimes your dad might do something

out of character. We're going to call these dad shocks. My dad is 74. And recently at the age of 74,

he's decided to start baking, right? Never had a meal made my dad growing up, right? Never did any

cooking. He's now started baking

which is absolutely no benefit to me as a grown up it's like why couldn't you done that 30 and 40 years

ago i would have loved my dad to make me a cake but the other big thing is my dad uh last weekend went to the

opera for the first time ever that's awesome my dad always leads whenever he's done anything

he'll always first of all tell you how much money he saved.

So he went, it was just 12 bucks.

I went, you can't have gone to London,

because he's a cheap like that.

He can't even get a bag of chips for 12 bucks.

He went, no, it's a local amateur version.

What is that, like the local posties?

Doing Pavarotti? Or he went to see the amateur version of Cozy Van Tuti over the weekend.

I understand an amateur play because you can learn your lines.

But opera is a very skilled talent.

Oh, but they've got to start somewhere, Jack, haven't they?

Well, I don't think they start as amateurs.

I think they just get discovered.

I think amateurs are just people, it's a

hobby for. But anyway, that's why it's $12. So he absolutely loved his first of our

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