Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Patsy, morning Jack, this morning, Wow, and can
Speaker 2: I just say happy show birthday to both of you.
Speaker 2: This show is six years old today. Did you actually
Speaker 2: think at the time when we all started working together,
Speaker 2: and we obviously had never worked before, and I'd actually
Speaker 2: never lived in Australia before. Everything was new, new, new
Speaker 2: for me and my family. But did you actually think
Speaker 2: it would work and it would go for a while?
Speaker 2: You can be honest.
Speaker 3: No, I was more confident at the very start, so
Speaker 3: six years ago today, when we did the first show,
Speaker 3: I was confident that we can make something great. There's
Speaker 3: a few weeks in as we started to get the feedback, yeah,
Speaker 3: that I thought, oh, this isn't going to last very yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you didn't actually see the feedback. I saw
Speaker 2: the feedback feedback, Patsy, What do you think?
Speaker 1: What did I think? I didn't think we'd go this long? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I did have that voe confidence.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't wish one.
Speaker 2: So lucky to were Actually Jack said he was confidence.
Speaker 2: You're saying you didn't think it was.
Speaker 1: He said at the start he was. And then when
Speaker 1: the feedback came back, which was quite vitriolic, wasn't it
Speaker 1: at the start? What you had to weather it was? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was bad and we didn't realize how bad it
Speaker 1: was because he didn't share that with this.
Speaker 2: But it was mainly from you. I think that's why
Speaker 2: she made it harder. Was like, I know, it's it's
Speaker 2: actually only from her, all those IP addresses. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was all it was all from Patsy. And then how
Speaker 2: do you feel now, six years late? Do you think
Speaker 2: it's gone quickly? Because my life has gone very quickly
Speaker 2: and because other stuff's been going. And I was just
Speaker 2: telling Jack it is Lowess, our youngest daughter. It's her
Speaker 2: formal this Friday, and then we put our date in
Speaker 2: the diary for September October for her graduation, and it's
Speaker 2: like that's the last kid in a school system. She'd
Speaker 2: go to university hopefully, but it's still like twenty years
Speaker 2: is not.
Speaker 3: And when you first came here and I first met
Speaker 3: your family, she was a twelve year old.
Speaker 1: Ye, yes, she was.
Speaker 2: In November.
Speaker 1: That's what I look at. I remember that launch at
Speaker 1: the pub we had and the three girls were sitting
Speaker 1: on the couch and Audrey was much much younger. But
Speaker 1: I look at the distance of time that your girls
Speaker 1: have grown up.
Speaker 2: I think of an eye. Honestly, that's what I mean that.
Speaker 1: Audrey and that amount of time, like she'll be flying
Speaker 1: the coop. It's like, wow, it's just too fast.
Speaker 3: Six years is all of high school pretty much so
Speaker 3: last week started high school. When she first got here, Yeah,
Speaker 3: high school felt like it went on forever. But the
Speaker 3: last six years, the three of us together felt like
Speaker 3: it's a blinker.
Speaker 2: Well you think about how your your lives are so different,
Speaker 2: your lives, especially yours. Jack. I mean, you're now a
Speaker 2: dad and.
Speaker 3: I'm taking the Gordy on the weekend. It took him
Speaker 3: to the kinder open day and already watching him walk
Speaker 3: around like it feels like he just got to the world. Yes,
Speaker 3: and now he's walking around stuff in kindergarten and a school.
Speaker 3: It is going way too fast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the last Searah my wife were talking last night
Speaker 2: when we were like and she was like, isn't the
Speaker 2: show sit she is tomorrow? I was like, yees, as
Speaker 2: it got it's gone so quickly. It's gone on the
Speaker 2: blink of an eye. It feels at times it feels
Speaker 2: like it has been a long time living here. Often
Speaker 2: people say to me when they find out it's only
Speaker 2: been six years, Like people who've been listening to the
Speaker 2: show for a while, they're going, my god, it feels
Speaker 2: like you've been here longer. Now, six years isn't that
Speaker 2: long a time, But it also is in other areas.
Speaker 2: It's both.
Speaker 3: I wonder if people listening to the show do feel
Speaker 3: like it's been a long time, because I still feel
Speaker 3: like we're new, like we're the new Breakfast show, but
Speaker 3: we're not.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think about, like say, other radio shows, even
Speaker 2: though we're up against I mean, how long has Fifi
Speaker 2: been on Breakfast Radio?
Speaker 3: Years years? Yeah, ten years plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Carl and Jackie, Oh, how old is
Speaker 2: that show? Twenty over twenty years? Six years? Were still
Speaker 2: like the new kids on the block, the old new
Speaker 2: kids on the block. They can't really saying new new
Speaker 2: kids on the way. But anyway, thank you very much,
Speaker 2: shoving one way. You just started listening to show, whether
Speaker 2: it's the last couple of months or the last couple
Speaker 2: of years, or you were here in the early days,
Speaker 2: even when I know a lot of you were listening
Speaker 2: with your arms crossed and followed going he's not from here.
Speaker 2: He doesn't sound like us, He's not from around here.
Speaker 2: Who the hell invited him onto our radios? Thank you
Speaker 2: very much for being a big part of the show
Speaker 2: every single day. The great joy about doing this is
Speaker 2: making a show with you guys. So yeah, thank you
Speaker 2: very much. I tell you what I really feel today,
Speaker 2: nothing but gratitude. My wife and I and our kids.
Speaker 2: Lies would be so different and actually poor if we
Speaker 2: hadn't actually taken a leap to movies. So I'm loving
Speaker 2: still doing the show after six years. I hope we're
Speaker 2: together for another couple of years. Not loads more years,
Speaker 2: but just another couple of years. It's put a little thing.
Speaker 2: It's like a phone contract. You should be able to
Speaker 2: upgrade or you know, maybe get a newer model over
Speaker 2: for a couple of years. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast