The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

It's going to pass me about the second week of the school holidays

and how hard it is to entertain kids,

especially when they're heading into teens.

I still think that kids have a lot more at their disposal than we ever did

because when you used to get palmed off on an elderly relative like I did,

it was never my...

I'd always have to go and stay for a week with my nan and grandad.

I remember when I got a bit older and wiser, I said, how come my younger sister Louise doesn't

ever go? And my mom went, they're unstable people. And I was saying, I know. At the time, I thought,

good parents. You're right. They are crazy folk right. Heavy smokers and drinkers. It was only last couple of years. I was like, wait, hang on a minute. I went there every

week for a year with those crazy

folk. They would

literally do nothing. You just sit

there all day watching

daytime but TV and then you might get

a couple of bucks to go to the milk bar.

And this is because there was no

streaming. There's no phones.

It wasn't even like shows for kids on during the day.

I remember you used to get so bored.

You were just improvised stuff.

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