Speaker 1: Jason Lauren clint here as where are you listening to?
Speaker 1: Nober one hundred? God means what.
Speaker 2: Jason Lawrence reconnects for Christmas.
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't tell you how many people reached out
Speaker 3: to me yesterday saying I love this and I can't
Speaker 3: wait to do it on Wednesday next week.
Speaker 2: We want you to reconnect.
Speaker 3: With someone you miss, not someone you've necessarily had a
Speaker 3: falling out with, someone that you just haven't seen for
Speaker 3: a while because time has flown by. I actually I
Speaker 3: said to you yesterday, Jace, I tried to call you
Speaker 3: and I accidentally called a different Jason my phone and
Speaker 3: they ended up having a twenty minute conversation with a
Speaker 3: friend of mine who I hadn't spoken to him so long.
Speaker 3: And I felt so good about it afterwards. And that
Speaker 3: is what we want everyone in Melbourne to do next
Speaker 3: Tedness Tay, she did, I did?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: I said, this is a pocodile because he called me back.
Speaker 3: I tried to cancel it and then I said, but
Speaker 3: let's chat anyway.
Speaker 2: And it was great.
Speaker 3: It was so nice. So we want to reconnect Melbourne
Speaker 3: for Christmas.
Speaker 1: It is reconnect Day. It's Wednesday. Joe Anne wants to
Speaker 1: be a part of it.
Speaker 4: Morning, Good morning, guys.
Speaker 2: How are where good? Is this struck a chord with you?
Speaker 2: Is there someone you're thinking about?
Speaker 4: It? Has it? Has? There is someone I'm thinking about.
Speaker 4: Her name is Sarah.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: Sarah's from Brunswick and we were best is all through
Speaker 4: primary school, all through high school, even a little after
Speaker 4: high school when I moved to Werribee and she was
Speaker 4: still in Brunswick. We still had that connection. And then
Speaker 4: weddings happened, babies happened, and we just lost part. It was, yeah,
Speaker 4: just lost patch. She did come to my fortieth though, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I just reached out to her, but that was eight
Speaker 4: years ago and we haven't seen each other since.
Speaker 5: When she rocked up at the fortieth was it was
Speaker 5: it like there was no time the past.
Speaker 4: It was it was it really was. We just brought
Speaker 4: back old memories and you know, used each other's nicknames
Speaker 4: that we had.
Speaker 3: Three other nicknames Joe.
Speaker 1: What made a special Joe?
Speaker 4: I think just that we grew up together and our
Speaker 4: families were friends as well. And her mum and dad
Speaker 4: are great. I think they I believe they still live
Speaker 4: in the same count Wound. And yeah, we just spoke
Speaker 4: about things that you wouldn't talk to other people about.
Speaker 1: And right, that's a theme that's coming up.
Speaker 2: You can't make that up with anyone else.
Speaker 3: Joe, do you love the idea of this day of
Speaker 3: reconnecting with an old pelp?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: I do love it, And it sort of gives me
Speaker 4: an excuse too. I mean I probably could. I've only
Speaker 4: got her a messenger, So that's okay. You know, I
Speaker 4: could easily just send her a message.
Speaker 1: But it's just that initial message, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, most definitely.
Speaker 2: So you're going to do it next Wednesday? On Reconnecting,
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 4: I am gonna definitely do it, And I do hope
Speaker 4: she's listening because she'll know exactly, she'll recognize my voice,
Speaker 4: she'll know the history. Her nickname was so Got and
Speaker 4: mine was Joza.
Speaker 3: Well there you go, you know that. So she's listening.
Speaker 3: Get ready next Wednesday, you guys are gonna catch up.
Speaker 5: And you know what, she's at the nail on the head.
Speaker 5: Use this is the reason or excuse to reach out.
Speaker 5: It takes away the awkwardness. Just hey, I heard of
Speaker 5: it reconnect day on Nova. You jumped into my mind
Speaker 5: straight away how you're being.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean you have to have this huge commitment
Speaker 3: that you're going to see each other every week. And
Speaker 3: it's just like, hey, I've been thinking of you, and
Speaker 3: it's so nice to think so fondly of someone that
Speaker 3: you used to spend so much time with and know
Speaker 3: that you've still got it.
Speaker 1: And then you don't have to talk to them for
Speaker 1: another year until we roll this day out again next
Speaker 1: year once again, Reconnect Day. We're going to do it
Speaker 1: next week Saturday Day.
Speaker 3: So if there is someone you're thinking about, just sit
Speaker 3: on it for now, hold it to next Wednesday, and
Speaker 3: we're all going to send a text or a voice
Speaker 3: note or make a call.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I love that nicknames that you've got.
Speaker 3: With friends, you know, because you were laughing at me
Speaker 3: because my girlfriends that sort of started this whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah calls me puddy, pud.
Speaker 5: Yeah puddy, put in my mad age, putty pie, my
Speaker 5: mad age.
Speaker 1: Calls me Rocky.
Speaker 5: Why well, because we used to do community TV together
Speaker 5: and ned stuff up and I'd blow up a short temper.
Speaker 3: One of my one of my very good friends. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's signed like something's never changed.
Speaker 5: Clint.
Speaker 2: You know her. We call her the sheriff.
Speaker 1: Who's the sheriff?
Speaker 3: Her names Janina, and I used to work with her.
Speaker 3: She was the office manager and she was always like
Speaker 3: telling people off, and I'd be like, all.
Speaker 2: Right, I never want as well. The Sheriff's went.
Speaker 3: Down and for fifteen years she's been sheriff. My parents
Speaker 3: call her sheriff.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, for share, I had no idea what her
Speaker 1: actually name was. Yes, it's the sheriff. Sheriff Shares thirteen
Speaker 1: twenty four, ten and.
Speaker 3: Early because you know how you do that, You just
Speaker 3: change from one thing to the next.
Speaker 1: What's your nickname for your best friend?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's embarrassing sometimes, especially when they're like long friends,
Speaker 3: because it becomes like a pet name.
Speaker 5: We are gearing up for reconnect Day, which is next Wednesday,
Speaker 5: where we want you to reach out to someone you
Speaker 5: haven't spoken to in a while.
Speaker 1: But yeah, those best friends you had growing up.
Speaker 3: One of my best friends from school just text me saying,
Speaker 3: what soul because we used to call it other selfish
Speaker 3: and then it turned to soulfish and then it was
Speaker 3: just soul.
Speaker 1: They get shortened over there.
Speaker 4: Raw.
Speaker 3: We even bought her a pet fish, and we called
Speaker 3: it soulfish.
Speaker 5: Thirty, twenty four ten. What's the nickname? You've got to
Speaker 5: be your best friend? It is Jas and Lauren with
Speaker 5: you this morning, Clint here as well.
Speaker 3: We're talking nicknames, Yeah, and some of the worst ones
Speaker 3: are the ones that you can't shake because, like your
Speaker 3: dad gave it to you when you were four, and
Speaker 3: then your.
Speaker 2: Friends caught on to it.
Speaker 5: We're a good made about embarrassing? Were a good made
Speaker 5: went by the name of pants?
Speaker 1: What were they call him pants?
Speaker 2: What are they call him pants?
Speaker 1: A bit of a pants man? You're open. I'm really sure.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 5: He likes to get in a nice pair of pears,
Speaker 5: loves a good slack.
Speaker 1: Loved a good pair of slacks. What pants better when
Speaker 1: you get the crease beautiful? Yeah, you know, just lovely pressed.
Speaker 2: It's like pantsman. Alright.
Speaker 3: I'm thirteen, twenty four ten. What's your nickname? How did
Speaker 3: you get it? Nicole from s Andre's Good Morning?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello?
Speaker 2: What's your nickname? Love?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: As my friend Jody and I have known each other
Speaker 6: since we're six and eight years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm little. I'm a blondie.
Speaker 3: She was a brownie.
Speaker 4: So it was polar bearhead and chop blockhead.
Speaker 2: And how old are you now?
Speaker 4: Fifty three?
Speaker 2: And you still call each other that.
Speaker 6: Yes, we'll ride in cards, we'll say every now's on
Speaker 6: the phone.
Speaker 1: I love that Danny l in the city. What's the
Speaker 1: nickname you've got for your friend.
Speaker 2: Danny ell in the city.
Speaker 6: Well, my best friend and I just got the same
Speaker 6: nickname for each other.
Speaker 4: It's GFND.
Speaker 6: We've known each other for.
Speaker 1: About fifteen years.
Speaker 2: In GFND. Is that that girlfriend.
Speaker 4: Girlfriend nixt door used to live behind.
Speaker 2: Her girlfriend next door GFND.
Speaker 1: I was going all of her friends.
Speaker 2: Oh, it just rolled on and extended, it rolled on,
Speaker 2: jfin d, I like.
Speaker 1: It next door Lezzie. What's the nickname?
Speaker 6: Hi, Jason Lauren. I'm always a big fan. They call
Speaker 6: me duck duck.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 6: Why, we were in high school second year we had
Speaker 6: this what do you call them? Here leading dance and
Speaker 6: there was this chant from the higher level and they
Speaker 6: were like, you walked like a duck. And then my
Speaker 6: friends in high school they were like, oh, you.
Speaker 4: Walk with the.
Speaker 2: Lizzy. So they you've just stuck with duck quack quack
Speaker 2: ever since.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, she wanted to be a cheerleader jazz.
Speaker 4: What did she say?
Speaker 3: She walked like a duck at cheerleading and the boys
Speaker 3: in the year above called it duck.
Speaker 1: It's up there when they called me Paddington Bags.
Speaker 3: But I think she wanted to clarify that she said
Speaker 3: duck dark is why she said, like.
Speaker 1: Back right, Abby, I'm thirteen twenty four ten? Abs? What's
Speaker 1: the nickname?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately?
Speaker 3: Airbags?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 2: When did you get that nickname?
Speaker 1: Can we guess how you got it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well you think yes? I think I don't know how
Speaker 5: inappropriate we can be on air?
Speaker 2: When did you get that nickname? Abby?
Speaker 6: Are you ten or year eleven?
Speaker 2: And how long is it start?
Speaker 4: For?
Speaker 1: Look, I'm a.
Speaker 3: Mom of two now, so it doesn't get run around
Speaker 3: much anymore.
Speaker 6: It does crop off it really inappropriate.
Speaker 2: I bet when you see your school friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and a lot of the boys.
Speaker 1: Safety first.
Speaker 5: There's nothing better than when you're all catching up at
Speaker 5: the pub and they're screaming across to your airbag airbags
Speaker 5: you want to drink exactly right.
Speaker 2: It's the high school ones that you can never shake.
Speaker 5: Also, Abby, I hope you don't mind, but I'm just
Speaker 5: changing all the caller idea in our computer here at
Speaker 5: the studio. Now, airbags, preston whatever you ring now and
Speaker 5: come up as the airbags and preston.
Speaker 2: Jason Lauren.
Speaker 3: Jason Lauren wake up feeling good on number one hundred.
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