Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell.
Speaker 2: Show podcast Christian O'Connell's Show. I know this is sad.
Speaker 2: I can't move on from this when it's a slope
Speaker 2: a hill. I've just googled steepest hills in Melbourne. A
Speaker 2: cyclist has plotted the steep because obviously it's you're a cyclist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know a hill. Gaffney Street sixteen percent gradient? Right?
Speaker 4: That doesn't even sound like that much, doesn't.
Speaker 2: Hardy Street twenty four percent? Do we know what the
Speaker 2: elevation is of this so called non hill that we
Speaker 2: work on?
Speaker 3: En Richmond?
Speaker 4: Can I also tell you I have been to the
Speaker 4: steepest street in the world San Francisco. No, it's in Dunedin,
Speaker 4: New Zealand?
Speaker 3: Really is that right? Which? One great question?
Speaker 4: Let me look it up?
Speaker 3: And I thought you might have had it change. I
Speaker 3: can't remember giving a half as fact. There a tough
Speaker 3: follow up question, what's it cool? A great question? What
Speaker 3: is it bald?
Speaker 4: Is the straight steepest street in the world?
Speaker 3: What kind of gradient you're looking at there? Surely over
Speaker 3: a thirty.
Speaker 4: It goes up ten horizontal meters? What's grading? What's its grading?
Speaker 3: We do an oscar Cereal. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Wow, wow, now that is that? What is Richmond Hill?
Speaker 2: What's the gradient in this place? Three percent? The so
Speaker 2: called hill.
Speaker 4: Seven light weight?
Speaker 3: Light weight? No, no, no, all right.
Speaker 2: What would you find in every single Australian home encyclopedias
Speaker 2: on the bookshelf matches with the Red Lady Christian? There
Speaker 2: was a nineties TV show called Richmond Hill.
Speaker 1: Oh was there?
Speaker 3: It was a weak.
Speaker 2: Neighbours style soapie. We're gonna have to it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to find out about Richmond Hill. That comes from Brendan, Christian.
Speaker 2: What about your nan and grander, that old tea pot
Speaker 2: with a knitted cover sitting on the bench or cupboard.
Speaker 3: You're right, yeah, you don't see there's any more the
Speaker 3: tea cozy. Marie Anne's on the line. Good morning Mary Anne.
Speaker 5: Good morning Christian and gain here you're going.
Speaker 3: Oh, sitting on the top of the hill right now,
Speaker 3: And well.
Speaker 4: It is a bit of a hill.
Speaker 5: It's always been known as Richmond Hill, but.
Speaker 3: It's barely a head. It's a slope.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, But you're a palm, you're a listen.
Speaker 3: We know hills, we know from the land of hills.
Speaker 5: Now, I bet you your parents or your grandparents had
Speaker 5: a croached tourlet role holder.
Speaker 3: My grandparents did.
Speaker 2: You're right round the old knitted little sort of cover
Speaker 2: that the loo rollers used to have.
Speaker 3: Yes, and the toilet seat as well.
Speaker 5: Every game heels head.
Speaker 2: One, every all right, Marian, thank you very much?
Speaker 3: You cool?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
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Speaker 3: When is a slope a hill?
Speaker 2: I'm questioning whether it is right to call this slope
Speaker 2: an ingredient that we work on here in Richmond, Goodwood Street,
Speaker 2: just off Lennard Street. It is not strictly a hill
Speaker 2: somewhat quite a few of actually on. They used to
Speaker 2: be a TV show in the eighties called Richmond Hill,
Speaker 2: produced by reg Grundy Corporation.
Speaker 3: It was like a neighbour's spinoff, Hidden.
Speaker 1: Romances, Honorable Citizens and Dishonorable Husbands, Douglass, What goes on now?
Speaker 1: Richmond Hill coming soon to tin.
Speaker 3: A Thinking about that is eighties, doesn't it? I love that?
Speaker 3: Remember that now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: It ran for only one season on Channel ten. Patsy,
Speaker 2: but just listen the music, the voice over and again,
Speaker 2: the cheating husbands.
Speaker 1: Hidden romances, honorable citizens and dishonorable husbands. Douglass, What goes
Speaker 1: on now Richmond Hill? Coming soon to ten?
Speaker 2: I've just had a look at the sort of synopsis.
Speaker 2: It's the dullest TV.
Speaker 3: Show in the world.
Speaker 2: It had three locations, the police station, the pub and
Speaker 2: the post office.
Speaker 3: How did they get that to go an hour every week?
Speaker 3: Just goggling up bright.
Speaker 4: T is those busy dishonorable husbands.
Speaker 1: You're quite right, hidden romeouses, honorable citizens and dishonorable husbands.
Speaker 3: Don't less?
Speaker 1: What goes on at Richmond Hill? Coming soon to ten?
Speaker 2: Anyway, Jack has been on the steepest hill in the world.
Speaker 4: That's right. Since nineteen eighty seven. It has been Dunedian's
Speaker 4: Baldwin Street. It was a street in San Francisco previously,
Speaker 4: but now they hold the Guinness World Record for a
Speaker 4: thirty five percent gradient.
Speaker 3: And you've gone all the way up.
Speaker 4: It gone all the way up. It, yes, steep, very bad.
Speaker 4: You'll notice, yeah street.
Speaker 3: You yeah, you feed it. You really feel the legs burning.
Speaker 3: Three calls the way up, Jason, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good? Jason? So you you're from Duneden.
Speaker 5: Yes, I was born here. My aunt he actually lived
Speaker 5: on Baldwin Street.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, what are the odds and we're talking about
Speaker 2: it steep.
Speaker 5: She lived about the fifteen house, the fifteenth house up
Speaker 5: and for me it still talk about half an hour
Speaker 5: to get to a house.
Speaker 3: You had to take a couple of breaks and a breathe,
Speaker 3: you take a knee.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. Each each year they have an annual gut
Speaker 5: Buster race where you run up the hill and back
Speaker 5: down it.
Speaker 4: Running down the hill would be dangerous, but running up
Speaker 4: the hills so long.
Speaker 5: They've got a hit of ambulances here for the people
Speaker 5: that fall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet they have. Yeah, all right, Jason.
Speaker 5: You also can't You also can't pack the car beside
Speaker 5: the two facing up or down because the emergency barrick
Speaker 5: might snap and you might lose your car.
Speaker 3: Really have stopped rolling back down.
Speaker 5: You have to pack diagonally because if you're part sideways
Speaker 5: on a strong wind, you might flip the car.
Speaker 2: Now, that is a hill that's on this non hill, Richmond,
Speaker 2: the hill.
Speaker 5: It's something some curves of hit the brake snick and
Speaker 5: gone right through the other side of their road and
Speaker 5: throw into a quarry.
Speaker 2: You are kidding me, No, Well did you put in
Speaker 2: the quarry at the moment of that big hill.
Speaker 5: That's the need in this quarry everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 3: You can't move a flipping quarries.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, give us a call and
Speaker 2: giving us the lowdown on that big hill.
Speaker 3: And guy Dunheaton, you're welcome. Thank you. But The Christian
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