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October 19, 2025 • 8 mins

Lisa and Russell opened the phone and text line this morning to ask about those things your parents let you do that they really shouldn't have after Lisa found a story about a surgeon who let her 12 year old daughter drill a hole into a patient's head. Some of the things you guys got up to are mind blowing!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to open up the phones and talk about
the things that your parents let you do that they
perhaps shouldn't have now. On Friday, there was a story,
a story in the news that was very much wait
what what happened? A brain surgeon in Austria is on
trial accused of letting her twelve year old daughter drill

(00:24):
into a patient's skull during emergency surgery. The patient, the
poor unknowing patient, was a farm worker who'd been rushed
to hospital after a tree branch fell on his head.
Apparently the surgeon's daughter is interested in medicine well, and
that goes to i've heard of work experience with that

(00:45):
new step to take a kid to workday, and she
pleaded with her mum to let her witness the operation.
So they gave hers some surgical scrubs and let her
into the operating room. The trial prosecutor says that's not
where it ended, though. Mom then let her drill a
hole into the guy's exit disposed skull cap unassisted. She's
admitted bragging that her daughter had drilled her first hole,

(01:08):
telling the court she did it out of stupid motherly pride.
She's been sacked, not surprisingly as has her assisting surgeon
and the trial continues unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Terrifying, really smart as a brain surgeon.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
That one.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, that's to let your kids do that.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah. And as we said at the time, it reminded
us immediately of the case back in the nineties of
the pilot that led his teenage son fly the plane,
disengage the autopilot and.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
A crash on aeroflot.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, it was an aeroflotter USh, Yes, it sure was.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
We would love to hear from you. What did your
parents let you do that they shouldn't have, especially especially
in a working situation like a said brain surgeon Carolyn
from Hillary's Hi, what irresponsible parent thing happened to you?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well? When I was sixteen, I was going through a
phrase where I was enjoying Stephen King in a.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Few horror movies yeh books, But my mom and I
decided that we watched The Exorcist.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm fifty five now.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I had nightmares for ten years.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
I went working in the Kimberleys, and I will wake
up thinking that my bed was shaking and that the
devil was coming to possess me. Honestly, have never been
able to watch or reading another horror story since and
it's a running joke in my family that mum let
me watch it.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Well, it was proper scary, it was, I mean, just
taking her foul language out of it is still still scary.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh and yes, and we watched the Young r Raged
Bed of course, So Carolyn, your parents didn't take note
of the parental guidance warning on the television.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Carolyn, thank you so much for for fessing up.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Thanks Carolyn.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
John In come, good morning, Good morning, Lisa.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Good what did they let you do?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, they used to let me drink that's homemade red wine.
Oh when I was.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Twelve twelve, that's not unusual.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
So they were.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
They were in the wine business, were they.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, that's stuff like the kicking placency O and not wine.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah. Ten minutes you.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Could just about stand and spoon up in it.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
So they didn't mind giving it to you to sleep.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, a method in their manners there, I think, John, Yeah, probably.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I've never for it.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well did you did you get into the wine business yourself?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
No? Well just do I'm serious?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yes, just a good just a good customer rather than
a maker of it.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
John, thank You's done you any harm? No Mark in
Huntingdal Hello.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Good morning, Hello, how are you guys good?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
What do they let you do?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
My mother she used to water plants on me, quite
a few plants, the marijuana plant.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Did you know what?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
She was watering tomatoes?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, yeah, tomato plants until they started to get a
little bit heary and she started wondering, what the hell's
going on here?

Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's that rare Harry tomato mom.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Fuck yeah. And the funny thing was she was a lawyer.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well you pulled the ball over her eyes? Or did you?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Or did you?

Speaker 1 (04:45):
She knows how to speak and we're not to speak.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Thank you, Mark, Thank you Mark, Thank you for fessing up.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Harry Tomatoes.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
On the text line A four seven six ninety six,
ninety six ninety six, a lot of texts from people
talking about being allowed to dry, you know, on farm
because Paul and Yanjebup says, Dad used to let me
drive his truck from home to the yard. It was
about three k's when I was eleven. Lisa in Parmelia says,
I started to learn to drive when I was nine
and was driving tractors on the farm by age ten.

(05:15):
We thought the town needs were a bit odd because
they didn't know.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
How to drive.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I always think about, and I'm a city kid, not
on the farm, but I always think about being standing
up in the back seat of the car, just leaning
over the front bench seat talking to.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
We used to stand up in the back of the youth. Yes,
because I grew up on a farm. I was driving,
probably started about eight or nine.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
We didn't have We didn't even have seat belts in
the back seat, let alone kid's booster seats.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Only allowed to drive on the farm, though, was never
allowed to drive on a main road. No, definitely, there
was a line in the sand. But other than that,
go for it cafully.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
This one from Neili Mindari, who says I used to
go to school in Meriden and boarded. I was fourteen
or fifteen. I had permission from mother to allow me
to smoke finding school. Only myself and one other kid
were allowed. We'd go back to the boarding lodge for lunch,
fire up and maybe sell.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Some to the other kids.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I'm just looking at Neil's a it's about the same
as I don't remember that rule.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Neil, Neil, that's uh, that's different.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Geez, must have been quite a note from your mother
to get you over the line with that one. We've
got Paul on the line from several grove Morning.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Paul. So, back in the eighties, my dad was a glazier. Yeah,
and that's someone who kicks windows and glass and everything.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
He used to have a two two sweet truck with
a frame on either side of the back of the truck,
glass on. Yeah, and he used the letter. He used
to let us sit in the middle of a frame
because we're in enough room in the cab. So when
where you go out with job, we'd sit in the
back in the middle with all the glass.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
In the middle of the glass.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
But Paul, if it was going to fall off, you'd
hope it did fall the other way, wouldn't you out
onto the road?

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Because because when dad was that busy the movie glass
on both sides of glass on the outside and on
the inside.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Paul, is your dad heard of O H and s
at all?

Speaker 1 (07:21):
There was no there was there was nothing, you know.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
That's so that's.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's horrendous.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
And the other thing is we used to actually tie
the glass on with right where now they use frames
with suckers and pushes the glass.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
So well, glad you survived, Paul, you're still alive to
talk to.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Us about it very much now.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
We've just had a text through from Michael in Ferndale.
My father used to work at w R E. Weapons
Research Establishment, and my brother and I were allowed to
make rockets, bombs, smoke bombs and mortars in our backyard.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Was a kid's dream.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
My brother retired an F eighteen hornet pilot and I
became a building services engineer. So I guess all's well
that ends well?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, absolutely well done.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I think you will

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Set your kids up for a great career.
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