MINI: Duke of Edinburgh

Patsy shares a hilarious story about her daughter's Duke of Edinburgh award experience, where she had to complete three activities: volunteering, developing a skill, and being physically active. Christian recalls his own experience with the award, which involved living outdoors in the UK, and shares a funny anecdote about Prince Philip heckling him at a speech. The conversation takes a turn when Patsy's dog, gets loose and chases a cat, propelling her daughter through the air. 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Perhapsy, how was
your day? Yesterday?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Had an interesting day. Our daughter who is fourteen, is
doing her Duke of Ed at school.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh good honor, yeah, which.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Is brilliant worldwide scheme. And they have to do three things.
So they have to do a three activities essentially. One
volunteer and she's cooking at the local soup kitchen near school,
which is great. Another skill has to be like a
skill essentially, so she's going to do piano for that
and keyboard in a music class. And the third by.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Really lowering the bar.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Duke of Venory used to be to have to live outdoors
for a week in the UK.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's really extreme.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh really, you know you have to go like hiking
an orient and they camp out for like a week.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
There's like the Bronze silver gold version of it, the
gold one. I think it's about ten or twelve years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I was invited to Saint James's Palace to do a
speech toward recipients of the Gold Award ones and I'm
doing this speech and then the main man comes in
of the Duke.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yes, Prince Philip starts heckling me.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Shas back in his nineties, right, I've never seen him before,
my low really funny it was in his n Yeah,
I think it was ninety two at the time. Ninety
one ninety two. Incredible Prince. But it starts heckling me right,
And I then said to him, are you here to
get your not dead yet ward? And he sent me
a note a couple of days later he just signed
it Jukes.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Still not dead yet. But these kids had.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Like lived outdoors for a week. It was like, really
extreme what they've done.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Oh well, maybe she's gone the easy way out.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
So might be the Australian version eat tin tam, befriend
a hobo.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
So third activity has to be physical. So she said,
you know what, I'll just walk the dog. And I thought, oh, okay,
what you called.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Duke right now is spinning in his odal gray dog.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
What the dinosa? What the dinosaur? Yes, that's a dingo.
Some of them like that.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
It's a big dog in to be fair.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
So it probably is in extreme sport. And we found
out This dog is called far Lap, a big boy
is very dull. He's not quite a great day in size,
but he's not far off it anyway. So she took
him for a walk. Only he saw a cat walking
along and bolted. Well, oh my goodness, so.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
She's wearing that's in the news, shewear last tense.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
He saw a cat. He ate a cat.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
No, no, he didn't eat it. He just likes to
chase them anyway. So he pulled her with such force
in the lead that she flew out of her thongs.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh no, maybe new listeners need to know this. It's
like a sort of quarterly event on the show. Pantsy
will have some tool store about someone being pounds through
the air.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Seriously, always come out of this.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Patsy who was once butted.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
By goat, I was butted by a god hoterrific got
air out.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Of her gun boats. The gun boats are still in
the mud right now. Pers he hasn't landed evidence.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Your family need to tie up their laces.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Got more than hawks.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
It was It was like a It was like a
reinvention of that, only it was alady.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
This time the left on the pavement get or she.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Was flying almost horizontal through their.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Wonder woman.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Anyway, So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
She might have to get another physical activity because that
did not go. Did you do Pats, No, we didn't
have it.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
In some sort of nerd school, it would have done it.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
I was more debating in the realm.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yes, I didn't have time.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I may have What are you the debate captain?

Speaker 5 (04:08):
I was a debate captain? Yes, yes, I was a
third speaker. So I would come in at the end
and then wrap it up.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
How many were was it timed?

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yes? So you'd go and you'd get the topic.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Then you'd get an hour to prepare, and then you'd
get Each team has three speakers and you can speak
for about seven to nine minutes.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
And so are you selecting from the team? Do you
have a big team?

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Know that you pretty much go through in a team
of three or four, there's three speakers, and.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Then you've got sort of the guy on the bench.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
How we're going to do next week on the show
Debate Week, You've got a song a song on an
ad rate to prepare start the Debate Championships. The inter
Show Debate Championships next week.

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