🎙️ BONUS | Susie's Son's Gnarly Surfing Injury

**Susie O'Neill** (0:05)
Welcome to the Bonus Podcast, everyone. Great to have your ears listening today.

**David Lutteral** (0:09)
Yeah, we've got a lot on this weekend, so we're going to let you get back to that. There's too much sport on for it. Waste your time listening to this shit. So, Susan, you have something to say?

**Susie O'Neill** (0:17)
Well, I'll tell you a little bit about my, about being a worried mum. I don't know. I've got two seconds. No one's going to listen to this podcast, are they? Yeah, just Cliff.
Because most of my kids are overseas doing different things. They're in their 20s. So, like one's in South America, dangerous, very dangerous place to travel by yourself. The other one's a surf guide over in Indonesia. Day three as being a surf guide. He fell off and he's cut his head open. And he's got six stitches. Like seriously cut his head open. Like really sliced his head.

**David Lutteral** (0:47)
It looks bad, yeah.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:48)
And now I'm really worried that it's going to get infected and it's near his brain. It's not going to get infected over there. Because the other surf guide is the one that stitched it up. That's what you need. And I said to...

**David Lutteral** (0:57)
He didn't crack his skull, so I think his brain's all right, because the brain's inside the skull.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:00)
Oh, it's inside the skull.

**David Lutteral** (1:01)
So it's just a skin thing.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:02)
Oh, okay, that's right. I don't think his brain's affected. Anyway, the point is I just want to say that I'm worried. And I wanted to tell everyone in the podcast I'm worried.

**David Lutteral** (1:10)
You might as well wear a swimming cap when you go surfing though.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:12)
Yeah, mate, yeah, good idea. It's a good idea.

**David Lutteral** (1:14)
It'll look like an idiot, but who cares?

**Susie O'Neill** (1:17)
Oh, one of those helmets.

**David Lutteral** (1:17)
You know how the surfers can wear helmets now?

**Susie O'Neill** (1:19)
They got the surf helmets.

**David Lutteral** (1:20)
It needs to stay dry more so than protection, I think.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:23)
Talking about embarrassing, wearing embarrassing things. Once when I was swimming, I actually sprained my... I was really young. I must have been 12
And I sprained my thumb playing tennis. Anyway, I had to have it all bandaged up. Not a big deal, but the bandage had to stay waterproof. My mom, this is one of... I still really remember this as a...

**David Lutteral** (1:39)
Don't tell me it's a Coles bag or something.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:41)
What did she do? A rubber glove, like washing up.
She made me wear her rubber glove to swimming.

**David Lutteral** (1:52)
And then rubber bands.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:53)
Yeah, because I had to kick on a kickboard.
What colour was it? Pink. Whatever they were back then, blue or pink.

**David Lutteral** (1:59)
And she duct taped around it, said, oh, what are you going to do?

**Susie O'Neill** (2:02)
And I was so embarrassed. I still really remember. I can feel the embarrassment of my mom doing that to me.

**David Lutteral** (2:07)
That's one of those things you'll never forget.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:09)
Why did she do that? Everyone was laughing. I mean, we were kicking. I remember everyone was, you know, when you can tell everyone's talking about you and laughing.

**David Lutteral** (2:15)
She's never going to make it ever.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:16)
Look at her.

**David Lutteral** (2:17)
Your mom wasn't thinking that. She was thinking how to protect my poor princess's hand.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:21)
But the other kids weren't.

**David Lutteral** (2:22)
Did you get a nickname from that, like Glovey O'Neill?

**Susie O'Neill** (2:24)
Yeah, Old One Glove.

**David Lutteral** (2:25)
Old One Glove?

**Susie O'Neill** (2:28)
Old One Glove Suzanne? No, I didn't, but I really remember it.

**David Lutteral** (2:32)
And this was when Thriller was kicking around, probably, was it?

**Susie O'Neill** (2:35)
Wouldn't it have been on yet? Thriller wouldn't even have been invented.

**David Lutteral** (2:39)
He was Jackson 5 He hadn't worn the glove yet.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:41)
He wasn't singing yet.

**David Lutteral** (2:42)
It was his brother.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:43)
That's pretty funny. Yeah, it wouldn't even be on.

**David Lutteral** (2:46)
You know, it was a Black Power salute, Mexico City, 1960 You're always very progressive with that, so.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:52)
Yeah.

**David Lutteral** (2:53)
So you were making a statement against humanitarian issues.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:57)
Yeah, I wasn't really, but don't...
Mum's like embarrassed. Mum's embarrassed children, so I'm really trying not to get in. Mum will still do it to me. That'd be a fun phone topic. How'd your mum embarrass you? That's a good one. Yeah, we could do that next week.