Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast showtime.
Speaker 2: I'm sweating listening to this.
Speaker 3: My name's Johnny.
Speaker 4: You do.
Speaker 5: Good enough for the Great Gatsbeak, good enough for Auntie Dorry.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show, Gold one oh four point three.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Thursday morning. Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 5: Have it a good week, Patsy, Good morning.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 5: You're right? Yeah, seen it flat there like a download
Speaker 5: with a good morning.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, not at all.
Speaker 3: Don't you get your big birthday?
Speaker 6: Yes, my mother was on the phone last night quizzing me,
Speaker 6: and I said, momma know as much as you know.
Speaker 7: Is your mom still listening to the show?
Speaker 2: Oh every day?
Speaker 5: Oh shout out to mama, pats Yeah.
Speaker 6: She lays in bed, mom and dad and listened to
Speaker 6: the show and all our antics until night.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Folks got out of bed like at six half six.
Speaker 2: They're awake at that time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, three hours.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well you know, we met, we met the daughter,
Speaker 5: the family, they're all you know, hey, yeah, Patsy, you
Speaker 5: need to get very excited. It is a treat of treat.
Speaker 5: So Patsy's been birthdays on Monday, but we're on a
Speaker 5: two week break. So tomorrow is our fiftieth birthday celebration,
Speaker 5: a super Bowl of Pats. Oh no, oh, yeah, there's
Speaker 5: a half time entertainment show. Now you need to book that.
Speaker 5: By the way, now I've said that because you're expecting
Speaker 5: something a half seven midway through the show. Yeah, there's
Speaker 5: a half half time entertainment show. Cheerleaders, Pom Poms service.
Speaker 6: You're not I'm not jumping out of a plane or
Speaker 6: touching snakes or yeah, I promise.
Speaker 5: You what you can touch the fiftieth birthday and conda
Speaker 5: out of a plane. I'm worried what you don't need
Speaker 5: to No, no, I promise you right, it's not a trick.
Speaker 7: It's not a trick.
Speaker 5: This is just genuinely you were Actually, the first words
Speaker 5: will be after the tears. You'll just say thank you.
Speaker 7: You'll fall on your knees.
Speaker 2: It feels like a send off, like it's bye bye.
Speaker 5: Pats. Always fantasized about what that day you will be like,
Speaker 5: but I know which way is going to go.
Speaker 7: You'll be sent in Jack and I off.
Speaker 5: You will outlet. You've outlived all the hosts that have
Speaker 5: sat in this chair. You will outlet. You're like a
Speaker 5: cockroach in a new killar falled out. You will survive.
Speaker 5: You will outlive all of us, everyone who's here. You'll
Speaker 5: see each one of us off one by one.
Speaker 2: I think that's huggy Jackie boy.
Speaker 7: What's going on with the baby passport?
Speaker 3: Then it's here.
Speaker 5: Off to America.
Speaker 3: Four o'clock yesterday knocked on the door. The passport arrived.
Speaker 3: So thank you to everybody who said yesterday danding On
Speaker 3: South Sorting Facility is a great facility.
Speaker 8: That were right.
Speaker 5: They were right.
Speaker 7: They sorted that baby passport out.
Speaker 3: There on the move. Special things, particularly to the workers there,
Speaker 3: Rodney who works on the inside, and Dirk who works
Speaker 3: on the outside.
Speaker 5: Together they formed a team like Danny O'shan Ocean's eleven.
Speaker 5: There they got baby Gordon his passport.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was even any special treatment for
Speaker 3: for me asking yesterday. It's just standing sound. They're on it.
Speaker 3: They are on it, so thank you, oh.
Speaker 7: God, he's become a real believer now they are. It's
Speaker 7: like an evangelist.
Speaker 3: Let me show you.
Speaker 5: Let me shout out to Dan Andong.
Speaker 7: Sound Sorting Facility. He get his phone and won. You
Speaker 7: had a selfie with the building yesterday.
Speaker 3: I want to show you his photo for some reason.
Speaker 3: Now he doesn't have this haircut in real life, but
Speaker 3: for some reason, in his passport photo he's got the
Speaker 3: Lloyd haircut from Dumb and Dumber.
Speaker 5: What a baby? He looks like some sort of Russian terrorists.
Speaker 5: Why is that one of the guys from the dm
Speaker 5: AS time. What's going on? That is not a baby.
Speaker 5: He looks like it's a Russian gangster.
Speaker 3: Okay, I hope they let him through on this past.
Speaker 5: We'll not let that person in. They were not let
Speaker 5: that person in.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 5: Yesterday on the show and then we were doing our
Speaker 5: eighties out of the nineties and it's all about the
Speaker 5: letter P. Jack and I rewatched the point break over
Speaker 5: the weekend and went through that, and then the letter
Speaker 5: P was also about the posters you had on your
Speaker 5: bedroom wall and were started to get into a strange
Speaker 5: area with the posters on A warned I've got.
Speaker 7: To be honest. I took us there.
Speaker 5: I made it a little bit weird. And I'm not
Speaker 5: the only one that did this. A lot of other
Speaker 5: people have come forward since my words yesterday about a
Speaker 5: poster I had in my bedroom war when I was
Speaker 5: in my early teens.
Speaker 7: You know when you.
Speaker 5: Had a certain chapter in your teenage journey, things.
Speaker 2: Are changing, raging hormones and all that.
Speaker 5: Thank you back to call the chapter on that being
Speaker 5: raging hormones, raging more raging hormones that they're raging. The
Speaker 5: changes are aggressive for a young boy, a young boy
Speaker 5: who had a a kind of shrine to Sasannah Hoffs
Speaker 5: from the Bengals. Just a poster, but it was right
Speaker 5: by my pillow, so I would literally touch the poster
Speaker 5: before going to bed, all right, And all it was
Speaker 5: was a friendly touch of a young, innocent child with
Speaker 5: raging hormones.
Speaker 7: This is now press conference. My name is Jordan de Going.
Speaker 3: So stroke or just.
Speaker 7: There's no stroking.
Speaker 5: Involved the ranging hormones. There was no stroking involved. It
Speaker 5: was simply just like a pat, nice pat, A nice part.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and pats who you You used to have a
Speaker 7: relationship with some of your posters.
Speaker 6: Jason Donovan his neighbour's poster with his big mullet and
Speaker 6: a pink shirt and I think he had like a
Speaker 6: pink denim shirt and I used to kiss it.
Speaker 2: Every night. It was right up near my bed head.
Speaker 3: And is it true that you cut out a little
Speaker 3: hole on his lips so you could put your tongue.
Speaker 5: Some kind of glory hole.
Speaker 3: That's something else that's just not on.
Speaker 2: That was you with your dragons?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dungeon or those wages hats you and I will
Speaker 5: not be judged by you. There's a teenage boy who basically,
Speaker 5: with his raging hormones, had ten friends. At night, he
Speaker 5: would line up wizards watching him to do. Goodness, those what.
Speaker 3: With your little The wizards had nothing to do with Ragie?
Speaker 5: Why were they in the bedroom?
Speaker 3: Wind just lived there because people thought.
Speaker 5: They live their daddy and were even touching the widows
Speaker 5: the point of the various points of the pentangle.
Speaker 2: And you've still got the same posters?
Speaker 7: Am I not just that Patsy?
Speaker 5: He also this is a guy who who arranged a
Speaker 5: mysterious shelf.
Speaker 3: The shelf existed, The shelf was already above the bed,
Speaker 3: the shelf like a prison boat.
Speaker 5: And who was up there on the top? And what
Speaker 5: she now? She was the top, You are the bottom.
Speaker 5: What we want to know is did anyone else kiss
Speaker 5: my wife used to kiss her? Luke skywalk poster good
Speaker 5: night every night like that before when she was I
Speaker 5: think she was thirty two. Anyone else have a relationship
Speaker 5: with their poster?
Speaker 3: Did you touch your poster in any way?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Was it a kind of shine? And this isn't
Speaker 5: an adult thing. This is when you're a teenager. You know,
Speaker 5: Jack had his little wizards half skepped me through that
Speaker 5: period in my life. Patsy had Jason Donovan. I hope
Speaker 5: you had somebody. The other thing to this, right, So
Speaker 5: posters on your teenage bedroom walls, did you have any
Speaker 5: kind of relationship with them? Touching, patting, winking whatever? It
Speaker 5: was all right, I said winking. Some want to make
Speaker 5: that crystal clip hashtags. It's not winks and it's not
Speaker 5: just and no. The other thing is yesterday we didn't
Speaker 5: read this out on air, but one of you, pat
Speaker 5: said that he had a poster, right, So everyone was like,
Speaker 5: everyone was calling in. They were like, oh, that made sense.
Speaker 5: There were big stars of the eighties and nineties. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then he said he had a poster of Kevin Rudd.
Speaker 5: That's weird, I know, Patsy, this is amazing, right, Kevin
Speaker 5: Rudd in his bedroom a poster of Kevin Rudd.
Speaker 7: Now, nothing against Kevin Rudd.
Speaker 5: Oh it's not a political thing, but these are teenage
Speaker 5: bedrooms who's raging hormones. Are taking him down the poster
Speaker 5: shop and saying, have you got any Kevin rudds literally,
Speaker 5: thank god you're here today. This is the last one
Speaker 5: we had. All the mail and monros have gone and
Speaker 5: we're down to a last Kevin Rudd. There's a load
Speaker 5: of Back to the Future ones, but there's only one Rud.
Speaker 5: There's only one Ruddy. So that's a strange poster. We
Speaker 5: want to know weird posters like that as well, So
Speaker 5: anything to do with posters. Welcome to the poster Our.
Speaker 1: Theo Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Christian, I just finished listening to yesterday's podcast. Do we
Speaker 5: know how Alfred's early morning proposal went? Somem Lisa. No,
Speaker 5: we haven't heard from him since yesterday. We've tried to
Speaker 5: get hold of in the team, trying to reach out
Speaker 5: to Alfred after the show.
Speaker 7: He is in the wind. We do not know what's
Speaker 7: happened or whether it's just wrapping up that poem.
Speaker 3: We can only imagine that she said yes and they're
Speaker 3: out celebrating somewhere and no time to pick up the phone.
Speaker 7: That's not the way I've been pitching it. I've got
Speaker 7: to be honest. I love the optimism thing, all right.
Speaker 5: Nine four one four one o four three posters on
Speaker 5: your teenage bedroom wall? Did you touch them?
Speaker 7: Did you have a relationship with him? Did he kiss them?
Speaker 5: Good night? Jacqueline Christian Juran Duran fifteen year old me
Speaker 5: would kiss Simon Lebon good night every night on the lips.
Speaker 5: Christian bit random, But I had Michael J. Fox on
Speaker 5: my wall. It's not random at all. If he was
Speaker 5: a guy who worked down you know, the print shop,
Speaker 5: that's random. He was one of the biggest movie stars
Speaker 5: in the world. He's like the biggest Stu the eighties.
Speaker 5: Says nothing random about it.
Speaker 3: If you had Doc Brown up there, that's random.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yes, Christian, I would kiss Michael J. Fox good night.
Speaker 5: This is song Heaven with my ice pink lipstick. I
Speaker 5: petted my John Bon Joviy posters so heavily eventually kissed
Speaker 5: away his entire mouth, exposing slobbered clipboard wallpaper underneath. That's
Speaker 5: the spirit of my youth right there. I had a
Speaker 5: double sided poster, one side with Stevin Nix. The other
Speaker 5: was Kim Wilde. I made sure they both got equal
Speaker 5: time facing me in the bedroom throughout the week squad rotation.
Speaker 5: Don't worry, ladies, you're both going to get time with
Speaker 5: the Jase. It's okay. I have bond Jovi and I
Speaker 5: would always kiss him good night. I then started two
Speaker 5: timing him with Johnny depp arrival poster next to him,
Speaker 5: but they both got extra caresses at bedtime. These are
Speaker 5: great nine four one four one o four three. Good
Speaker 5: morning Sarah, Good morning, Christian, Good morning, guys.
Speaker 9: How are you?
Speaker 5: We got Sarah? So Sarah?
Speaker 7: Who was on your bedroom wall?
Speaker 9: I was absolutely utterly obsessed with new kids on the block.
Speaker 9: There was not one piece of my room wasn't covered
Speaker 9: with it. The roof included, and I had doing it
Speaker 9: as pajamas. My nan crocheted, you know and new Kids on.
Speaker 10: The block you know blanket for me and surprised me
Speaker 10: with it. I used to kiss Joe because Joe was
Speaker 10: my favorite.
Speaker 9: Just above my bed, I kiss him good night and
Speaker 9: then I sleep could kissing to the others and they
Speaker 9: thank you for bringing me so much joy today, like
Speaker 9: you guys do.
Speaker 11: I love I love music, and mom.
Speaker 10: Shouted me to their concept and she got me a
Speaker 10: badge of Jordan's.
Speaker 12: I'm like, well, why did you bring me?
Speaker 13: Don't worth it now?
Speaker 14: She was just like she didn't get it.
Speaker 5: This is so delightful. I have to say, this is
Speaker 5: so nice. I love your nan, your mum.
Speaker 7: What an awesome family you had?
Speaker 10: Oh they Yeah, music is just you know, sets me
Speaker 10: free and listening to you guys all day, like I
Speaker 10: never feel sad, really so, and that's how they used
Speaker 10: to make me feel.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's incredible. What was it like when he finally
Speaker 5: got to see them? Did it live up to the
Speaker 5: bedroom hype?
Speaker 15: Absolutely? And I knew all the moves and everything.
Speaker 5: They were huge, weren't they new kids on the block.
Speaker 5: Just massive they were. And it was also a pretty
Speaker 5: internet as well. So actually, in a way I think
Speaker 5: made it bigger. They were somehow bigger because nowadays you
Speaker 5: can see all you're finavorite bands on Instagram and videos
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. The scarcity made it even more potent,
Speaker 5: I think, which is why we video.
Speaker 9: Thanks were so good, you know video hits. I used
Speaker 9: to sit there in front of.
Speaker 10: The TV much video It's constantly and rage, you know,
Speaker 10: the film clips and stuff.
Speaker 5: Look, you know what, Sarah, I've got a pair of tickets.
Speaker 5: I was going to give them away later on the show,
Speaker 5: but you're such a big proper music fan. We've got
Speaker 5: a pair of tickets. All the tickets gone SOEU today
Speaker 5: at Ticketmaster to one Electric Day. It's back at morning
Speaker 5: and Racecourse, Susy Quatro noise works, the Angels, Baby.
Speaker 10: Animal, that would be amazing.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to give you the all right, I'll
Speaker 5: give you the tickets.
Speaker 10: Dragging for me all the time, which I just love.
Speaker 9: So thank you.
Speaker 7: Awesome, all right, Sarah, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You cool.
Speaker 10: Thanks Dal have a great day. Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: Well, christ you know Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 5: Nicky's actually listening to this and she's gone on Google
Speaker 5: and she's trying to find the exact Brad Pitt posts
Speaker 5: that she used to have. She just found it. She
Speaker 5: sent to me. It's the one when he Brad first
Speaker 5: came on the scene of Legends of the Fall, when
Speaker 5: he had that long lash. Yes. Yes, my nan bought
Speaker 5: it for me for my birthday when I was twelve.
Speaker 5: Its ushered me into my teenage years.
Speaker 7: Christian.
Speaker 5: I remember kissing it every single night, kissing brand good night, Christian.
Speaker 5: With the help and friends, I liberated a life sized
Speaker 5: cardboard cut out of Kate Bush from a local record shop.
Speaker 5: Did you steal Kate Number one? At the moment all
Speaker 5: around the world that yeah, you freed her. This is
Speaker 5: in my bedroom for many years. Sometimes I would cuddle her.
Speaker 3: Why is that creepier than the kiss?
Speaker 5: It is so much creepier. It just is.
Speaker 7: We all know you can't explain it, but it just is.
Speaker 5: And then there was a Miss Piggy poster as well,
Speaker 5: who was looking on and looking not too happy with
Speaker 5: the ongoings on.
Speaker 7: That's from Steve Christian.
Speaker 5: I was a massive drawn Travolta fan back in the eighties,
Speaker 5: and I would kiss his big dimple on the post.
Speaker 5: Just seeing some of these names, Erica Elania from Baywatch.
Speaker 5: I haven't said that name in about twenty years, Christian.
Speaker 5: I would kiss her good night. Christian had an early
Speaker 5: Madonna poster, still have it. Always blew her a kiss,
Speaker 5: and then I would bow to Bruce Springsteen the other
Speaker 5: side of the What a performance every night you were
Speaker 5: doing there with it?
Speaker 7: You didn't bown to Madonna?
Speaker 5: But what if you got the confused Some nights, Christian,
Speaker 5: I used to fall asleep under the watchful gaze of
Speaker 5: my Susie Quatro poster that was on the bedroom scening Diane,
Speaker 5: good morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 12: I had a personal relationship with a Darryl Bracewait poster
Speaker 12: on my wall when I was about thirty.
Speaker 5: This is great.
Speaker 7: It sounds like some sort of therapy sharing group, now doesn't.
Speaker 5: My name's Diane, I learned.
Speaker 16: Had a key's passionately saying sweat poster again, somebody else
Speaker 16: said it does the curie right.
Speaker 17: After all, there was an.
Speaker 5: Earlier lady who said that she petted her John bon
Speaker 5: Jovi poster so much it wore out his mouth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of does.
Speaker 11: And now look, come at the station and people can
Speaker 11: hear me.
Speaker 15: This has to stop.
Speaker 5: You need to contain yourself to carry on at work
Speaker 5: or you'll be back there in that bedroom down.
Speaker 4: Oh that's so funny.
Speaker 5: You have a good day, Thank you very much. Cheers, Sue,
Speaker 5: good morning author are you? Yeah?
Speaker 7: But who did you have any your bedroom wall.
Speaker 12: Suite wasn't so much a poster as the insult of
Speaker 12: the cassette tape back in the seventies. Yeah, I wasn't
Speaker 12: allowed to put the poster on the wall. But I
Speaker 12: loved these roles and I used to get the insert
Speaker 12: of that cassette tape and hag it every night I
Speaker 12: went to bed. I was so in love with Derek.
Speaker 5: Why wouldn't you allowed the posters waving some sort of
Speaker 5: teenage penitentiary?
Speaker 7: Did you have the dad John let go from footloose
Speaker 7: ban dancing?
Speaker 3: Even Andy Frey was allowed of poster on the wall
Speaker 3: and big.
Speaker 12: One the posters from el cassette.
Speaker 16: So I was never let it put them on the wall.
Speaker 8: So I used to get the covers and I husband.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, the forbidden fruit.
Speaker 17: Oh I love Jaery.
Speaker 5: These callss are my favorite the year. So this is
Speaker 5: another great call. I'm going to send your price. Oh
Speaker 5: thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 7: I get the feeling you're still hugging the little cassette.
Speaker 5: Right now and we're both in a roll with losty amazing,
Speaker 5: So thank you very much to be call.
Speaker 3: She's getting dreamy.
Speaker 5: At the end, they both were, Oh.
Speaker 7: We're going to get to work. It's all too much Christian.
Speaker 5: Who we're going to Michelle?
Speaker 7: Good morning, Michelle, good morning.
Speaker 12: My daughter says about my daughter. She was between about
Speaker 12: the ages of seven and thirteen, had a Justin Bieber
Speaker 12: poster and was actually a cardboard cutout. She used to
Speaker 12: kiss him three times every night before she went to
Speaker 12: bed all and she's going away for greater than you know,
Speaker 12: one or two nights. She'd have to kiss him those
Speaker 12: extra three times before she would go for so much
Speaker 12: that she kissed his head off.
Speaker 5: Mouth being passed off.
Speaker 3: She kissed his head off, decapitated.
Speaker 5: God, what a story news.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and you know we're still what he's hit in
Speaker 12: the box.
Speaker 5: It's like seven. Oh what calls today, Michelle will send
Speaker 5: your prize. That was outstanding. Thank you very much.
Speaker 12: Thank you, have a great day.
Speaker 5: Our job is supposed to make you guys laugh. You've
Speaker 5: actually really made us laugh. These calls are brilliant.
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 5: Great Courses. Want to thank you very much to about
Speaker 5: posters you had on your teenage bedroom walls and did
Speaker 5: you have some kind of relationship with them.
Speaker 7: I'm so relieved it wasn't just me.
Speaker 5: So many great images today, Justin Bieber's head been kissed off,
Speaker 5: John onn Jove his mouth being kissed off. Heavy scenes
Speaker 5: today guys. Jack was a chatting to with Joel, and
Speaker 5: Jack said, we have to get Joel's story. It's a
Speaker 5: very different take on posters on your wall.
Speaker 14: Good morning, Joel, morning cursing the morning carew there a
Speaker 14: we going, Yeah.
Speaker 5: We're good, Joe.
Speaker 7: So Joe, tell us about the poster on your bedroom wall.
Speaker 14: So in the nineties, as a teenager, probably about fifteen
Speaker 14: sixteen years old, I had a few car posts up
Speaker 14: in the wall and there was one car I had
Speaker 14: an affidi with. I don't know what it was. I
Speaker 14: wasn't a big fan of the model at the timn,
Speaker 14: but that car itself was absolutely gorgeous. And about the
Speaker 14: age of eighteen, I started seeing a girl i'd met
Speaker 14: and she was a car girl and we got chatted
Speaker 14: after a few days of chatting, and she said, well,
Speaker 14: car show on Monday night. Would you like to come
Speaker 14: with gotall be with his car. And I said, oh yeah,
Speaker 14: let's go see his car. And we're theud in the cars.
Speaker 14: And the poster on my wall was actually owned by
Speaker 14: her father.
Speaker 7: That is incredible.
Speaker 14: Yeah, to this day, I actually still have the post
Speaker 14: from his car folded up in a box in my garage.
Speaker 5: Do you know what. There'd be a lot of petrol
Speaker 5: heads and kitas who are dying to probably know what
Speaker 5: that car is. When you get back or next see
Speaker 5: the poster, take a picture of it and send it.
Speaker 9: I know what it is.
Speaker 14: I actually speak to originally, he's a my mechanical advisor.
Speaker 14: As such, I ring him for advice. I bought a
Speaker 14: new car last week. I actually rang him to asking
Speaker 14: midwife on the model of the car and what he
Speaker 14: thought and things like that, and yeah, I'm still I'm
Speaker 14: still in touch with the feel I don't date her anymore, obviously,
Speaker 14: but I'm still in touch with the family and we
Speaker 14: get along the fine. And I even told my family
Speaker 14: about the story of the poster and my bron in
Speaker 14: law I told a few years ago and he didn't
Speaker 14: believe me. And he actually met the gentleman a few
Speaker 14: weeks ago at.
Speaker 5: His house and he was like, Wow, you flashed this
Speaker 5: out now to a movie mate or like a kind
Speaker 5: of podcast series. It's amazing. But whole story about this magical,
Speaker 5: not the result time machine. Bless you all right, thank you, Jay,
Speaker 5: you go one of chat scholers.
Speaker 8: A brainer.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Christian o Carl's Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Please gather around the radio. There's going to be some
Speaker 5: acting that is so powerful right now as we take
Speaker 5: track through the steps that he's going to need to
Speaker 5: do under pressure.
Speaker 3: In just forty eight hours time, that's right, at nine
Speaker 3: thirty Saturday, I'll be in the airport, will recreate airport
Speaker 3: conditions this morning, and I've just got one. I've got actually, now.
Speaker 5: We're already there.
Speaker 7: The sound effects, I've played them off.
Speaker 5: We're there. We're at the airport.
Speaker 7: This is airport ambiance.
Speaker 3: What we needed was a special travel prem that fits.
Speaker 7: In so mate, I think that's my flight sorry carry, No,
Speaker 7: it's not.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 3: The PRAM fits. It's its cabin approved, so it fits
Speaker 3: in overhead luggage. It's tiny. Look at this, it looks
Speaker 3: like the kind of small business suit.
Speaker 5: Patsy wasn't Isn't that like half the size of the
Speaker 5: travel buggies we had when my daughters were younger where
Speaker 5: they needed that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had big, heavy, emo younger things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is just carst eyeing fingers off when you
Speaker 5: were trying to fold them away. So we urged Jack
Speaker 5: because he's flying for the first time with his little
Speaker 5: baby Sonny, it's only four months old. They've got a
Speaker 5: very long flight ahead of them to LA on Saturday.
Speaker 5: You need to get on these travel buggies, and not
Speaker 5: just that, you need to practice under duress assembling it
Speaker 5: and then putting it away because there'd be people queuing
Speaker 5: behind you who are nervous.
Speaker 7: We're all flying again. It's going to be stressful comes Saturday.
Speaker 3: And it isn't unfamiliar prayer to me. This is the
Speaker 3: first time that I've touched it. It came in yesterday.
Speaker 3: And the idea is I get my son in and
Speaker 3: out of this quickly. Like we're in the line for
Speaker 3: the airport.
Speaker 5: I can't do what he's explaining it, like we've never
Speaker 5: heard of such a thing. Also like it's a snake
Speaker 5: oil salesman. The idea is I get my son and.
Speaker 3: Nothing sleeve.
Speaker 6: It's true though people are breathing down the back of
Speaker 6: your neck, an you conscious of taking time putting stuff
Speaker 6: up there by pressure?
Speaker 3: So bort in some versions of my son that we
Speaker 3: can choose from. Oh, either a Sharon footy, a ream
Speaker 3: of paper?
Speaker 5: Have you made your son yet? I mean, how is
Speaker 5: the realm of a four paper from the printer? Meant
Speaker 5: to be a makeshift sun.
Speaker 6: It probably weighs as much as a free kind of
Speaker 6: that Lays brought Audrey's baby, Beyonn in for.
Speaker 5: You to bring an order. Really, seven year old?
Speaker 3: Have we only thought of the ten minutes ago? I
Speaker 3: use the The footy is a good yes, okay, so I'll.
Speaker 5: Hold you do the boarding calls, gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 3: I'll try and wrestle the new treble prayer amount.
Speaker 5: This is the final boarding call for the l A
Speaker 5: flight from Melbourne to l A final boarding call. What
Speaker 5: all pastors, including elderly and those who have babies, please
Speaker 5: make their way to gate three.
Speaker 3: No, I've just passed security and need the treble Prayer opening.
Speaker 7: Harry out mate, I've got an elderly passenger.
Speaker 5: Can you get on with it right? Rio time him?
Speaker 13: Now?
Speaker 5: Okay, go, I wouldn't worry about that water brew thing.
Speaker 5: Just jettison that jackie boy. He's now bent over trying it.
Speaker 7: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: See this? This this already is bad. This is bad, holding.
Speaker 2: Gordon from the feet upside down.
Speaker 5: Could all passengers please now board the plane. We've had
Speaker 5: the elderly people on. There is an idiot stuck in
Speaker 5: the gangway at the moment literally progress. There's an Instagram
Speaker 5: influencer who's ruining everyone's trip.
Speaker 7: No, this is too long. You need to have to
Speaker 7: do this like one handed.
Speaker 5: RHEO.
Speaker 7: What's all the time? Forty seconds so far?
Speaker 3: Plane, I've got it open?
Speaker 5: No, okay to rio the schools of laws? How long
Speaker 5: did it take him? Fifty seconds to get it open?
Speaker 5: And then fifty nine seconds with the baby.
Speaker 3: Just enough time to get on the floor.
Speaker 2: You've got to put the brake on. I don't forget
Speaker 2: to put the brake on or it'll go down the aisle.
Speaker 5: Has anyone ever heard of a baby hurtling into a plane.
Speaker 5: Come on, mister Gone, I need to check your tickets out.
Speaker 5: All right, let's play a song when you come back.
Speaker 5: You've got to get under forty seconds, all right, now,
Speaker 5: you know how work. It's gotta get under forty seconds.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 7: We'll making Jack post practice today.
Speaker 5: What is going to be doing under duress and stress
Speaker 5: Saturday morning at the airport. Every single mom and dad
Speaker 5: when there were babies had to do this high pressure
Speaker 5: task the folding away and then assembling the travel buggy
Speaker 5: while there's a plane load of people desperate to get
Speaker 5: on their seat and sit down.
Speaker 3: We even had a call the last week who said,
Speaker 3: it's not the baby on the actual plane that's the problem.
Speaker 3: It's the transiting. It's getting through security, it's getting to
Speaker 3: the gate. So having this travel plan set up properly
Speaker 3: is my goal today.
Speaker 5: Okay, so we have the airports sound effects. We've gone back.
Speaker 8: So just now.
Speaker 5: It took Jack fifty seconds to get that travel buggy ready.
Speaker 5: You need to be sub thirty is what you need
Speaker 5: to be by Saturday.
Speaker 3: I've got the sharing which is playing my son, my.
Speaker 5: Three month You've just been kicking around the studio.
Speaker 3: He's under what He's tucked under one arm, So I've
Speaker 3: got one arm to get the travel prayer open. Oh no,
Speaker 3: the gates are closing.
Speaker 5: Start the tim out, start the timer rio.
Speaker 3: I've just been through security. Got to get the trouble prayer.
Speaker 5: Maybe if you just focus on less of the acts
Speaker 5: in more than doing. Is that an audition for home
Speaker 5: in a whale or something a bad one at that?
Speaker 2: Oh your fingers.
Speaker 3: I just put my son on the ground for a thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's fine. You see that all the times.
Speaker 5: Twenty seconds it's so much quicker.
Speaker 7: He's gliding through.
Speaker 5: This is he in?
Speaker 3: I feel pretty good? He'll say the stop.
Speaker 5: What are we at? Well done, You've shaved off fifteen seconds.
Speaker 5: You're ready to travel now and.
Speaker 3: I'm on the flight. Bye everybody.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you put him down. You can't be putting
Speaker 6: him on the floor. You need to carry you, you know,
Speaker 6: your baby carry out.
Speaker 5: Hopefully it hasn't required you saying to him after four
Speaker 5: months have been a dad.
Speaker 7: You can't put them on the floor.
Speaker 3: It's like the five seconds for all he was really
Speaker 3: down seconds.
Speaker 5: The Christian Connell Show podcast Christian, I know you've moved on,
Speaker 5: but took about posters you had in your teenage bedroom.
Speaker 5: I had the iconic standard of liver Adam man one.
Speaker 5: I used to hide behind my wardrobe door when I
Speaker 5: was changing in case he saw me. No peaking at
Speaker 5: a man, No peaking all right. Every Wednesday on the show,
Speaker 5: we take your calls the weakest claim to fame? Will
Speaker 5: we ask you what is the weakest claim to face?
Speaker 5: You've got no claim to fame is two weak for
Speaker 5: us today we want to do a special version of
Speaker 5: that where it is only about prime ministers and presidents,
Speaker 5: whether you've got any kind of weak claim to fame
Speaker 5: involving a former leader anywhere in the world here in Australia.
Speaker 16: Business like show business.
Speaker 8: I shook hands with President Clinton across the Crown Casino
Speaker 8: car park back in twenty fifteen. Yeah, I am sorry,
Speaker 8: John Howard, during the time of coming off games. You
Speaker 8: were in there, a wimpy truckty you would a sweep
Speaker 8: in the back of the car.
Speaker 17: The former Prime Minister Malcolm Turndle broke into my parents' house.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell's weakest claim to face.
Speaker 5: We await eagerly your calls and please remember if you
Speaker 5: hesitate like it was such a minor thing, that is
Speaker 5: exactly we celebrate that. It's all about that. No claim
Speaker 5: to fame is ever two week so today anything involving
Speaker 5: a prime minister or a president, a former one, whoever
Speaker 5: it is, wherever you were, we want to hear about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 5: Business, My show Business.
Speaker 8: I shook hands with President Clinton across the Crown Casino
Speaker 8: car park back in twenty fifteen. Yeah, I'm sorry, John
Speaker 8: Howard during the time of the coming off games.
Speaker 3: You were in there a windy tuckty.
Speaker 8: You were a sweep in the back.
Speaker 4: Of the car.
Speaker 8: Former Prime Minister Maltam Turndle broke into my parents' house.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell's weakest claim to face.
Speaker 5: The World Leaders, Edition nine four one four one oh
Speaker 5: four three up. First we have you Bill. Good morning, Bill,
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 11: I nearly ran into the former Prime Minister John Howard
Speaker 11: on my bicycle along the Yarra River.
Speaker 7: So what happened was out for early morning stroll And yeah,
Speaker 7: it was just after.
Speaker 11: Six and I was riding in the work and him
Speaker 11: in his entourage of about half dozen guys came between
Speaker 11: the rowing sheds and just I missed him by a
Speaker 11: couple of cinematers and they surrounded me. And yeah, and
Speaker 11: didn't let me go.
Speaker 15: For a.
Speaker 5: Terrorist who was worried about his carbon footbridge.
Speaker 3: I also like that you call his security details onto.
Speaker 7: The if you mantually get that close to him on
Speaker 7: a bicycle.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and he was leading who was in front, but
Speaker 11: he was wearing his Australian tracksuit, so I couldn't do
Speaker 11: that to him.
Speaker 5: All right, Bill, thank you very much, she called me.
Speaker 5: Having a good day you too, Bye, Joe, Morning Joe.
Speaker 7: What is your week claim to fame involving a world leader?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I was on the same time at the same
Speaker 17: time as the Italian president in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 5: I love the fact that now in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: that's still he finally gets it deserved recognition. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And who was the leader of Italy then?
Speaker 17: I think he was President Casga. He now advertising in
Speaker 17: Italy at the time, and the news that he already
Speaker 17: had arrived in Australia. And I remember it was a
Speaker 17: Friday night. We're leaving Rome and forget to Roam Airport.
Speaker 17: That's the security and there's all these police bodyguards with
Speaker 17: machine guns standing shoulder of the shoulder, and we get
Speaker 17: this scarded to the plane and there's all these street
Speaker 17: tarpets that we're walking under red.
Speaker 15: Tarpet and behind him.
Speaker 17: Ministers right behind us.
Speaker 5: And where did he see? He didn't sit with you
Speaker 5: guys he's stowing the overhead.
Speaker 17: I would ride at the last the last row of
Speaker 17: the planned the seven forty seven, but he was just
Speaker 17: sat in the front. But apparently he got off in
Speaker 17: Singapore when kept on down to Melbourne. But yeah, but
Speaker 17: in Italy old saying that he had arrived. I would
Speaker 17: just be worried about security.
Speaker 8: We were a bit worried. Once we're seeing behind us
Speaker 8: and he was.
Speaker 17: Born in the plain with us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Joe, thank you very much and cool.
Speaker 5: Have a good day, you too, Greg Christian Greg are
Speaker 5: you Greg?
Speaker 7: You just emailed me?
Speaker 15: Yes, I am mom.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, did to give you a call.
Speaker 7: I love this story.
Speaker 5: I thought you've got to do more service than me
Speaker 5: reading it out. I've printed off the newspaper headline though,
Speaker 5: which made the daily mail and news all over the world.
Speaker 5: Please Greg, tell us about what happened to your daughter.
Speaker 15: Well, basically, my daughter was on a tram on the
Speaker 15: way I think at the plump. She was just going
Speaker 15: into work and Malcolm Turnbull was doing a whirlwind tour
Speaker 15: of Melbourne and I would put him on the tram
Speaker 15: and they had all the reporters with him. And I
Speaker 15: think you probably want to do a meet and greet
Speaker 15: with people, and he said opposite my daughter. My daughter
Speaker 15: for fifteen minutes did not look up at all, just
Speaker 15: continually looked at her phone until he went away.
Speaker 5: This is when he was leading the country. The headline
Speaker 5: in the Daily Mail Australia Online that shays Malcolm who
Speaker 5: commuter appears more interested in her phone than the Prime
Speaker 5: Minister sitting opposite her on a tram.
Speaker 7: This was on the one O nine to box eel
Speaker 7: for tram fanas.
Speaker 5: You want to know which one it was.
Speaker 3: But that is everybody knows. On a tram you're not
Speaker 3: meant to make eye contact with strangers, even if.
Speaker 5: They are the.
Speaker 15: Should know better than that.
Speaker 5: I love that headline, Malcolm who Graig.
Speaker 7: That's great. Thank you very much for sharing it with
Speaker 7: us today.
Speaker 8: You're very very welcome.
Speaker 15: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Special version of Your Weakest Claim to Fame involving a
Speaker 5: world leader, whether it's a Prime Minister, former PM or
Speaker 5: a president nine four one four one O four three. Harley,
Speaker 5: Good morning, Harley, good one in Christian.
Speaker 8: How are you?
Speaker 5: I'm good Harley. So what is your weakest claim to fame?
Speaker 5: Evolving a world leader.
Speaker 11: So in early twenty fifteen, I was a manager at
Speaker 11: McDonald's and I served at the Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Speaker 5: This is huge, probably the biggest ones we've had so far.
Speaker 5: And can you remember his order? What was he having?
Speaker 5: He struting him as a nuggets man.
Speaker 8: I think he ordered a quarter pounder.
Speaker 15: The thing that will be sticks in my mind to
Speaker 15: this day is he ordered extra onion.
Speaker 5: That won't sticking your mind, sir, all those years later,
Speaker 5: it's still wedged in there, isn't it? Extra onion?
Speaker 8: Definitely? Yeah, extra onion.
Speaker 7: Any want to ask for extra onion? But then I've
Speaker 7: never led a country. I'm not a leader.
Speaker 5: You know. That's great, Harley, thank you very much. You cool,
Speaker 5: all right, thank you. Tomorrow the show, do we do
Speaker 5: a special serving the stars? Who have you served? Hardly?
Speaker 5: They're kicking that one off early Mark, Good morning Marking,
Speaker 5: Christian Morning.
Speaker 8: Guys Morning Mark.
Speaker 2: Hey make.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 7: That's the kind of vibe you.
Speaker 5: Get on this show.
Speaker 7: Still awkward and low Dan ever.
Speaker 5: Said tho to them.
Speaker 7: Obviously they don't know what to do. They're not prime time.
Speaker 5: Mark. What is your hello?
Speaker 13: My wife and I were on holiday and Saba a
Speaker 13: few years ago, pre kids. So we were lucky enough
Speaker 13: to stay in the adults only winning of the hotel,
Speaker 13: and we we booked dinner in our favorite restaurant. We've
Speaker 13: been there a couple of days, and we were told
Speaker 13: they'd have to check whether there was availability, and we're like,
Speaker 13: what are you talking about that? You know it's not
Speaker 13: that fool We should be fine. So we went out
Speaker 13: that day on a day trip and when we came back,
Speaker 13: there were armed guards at every lift of our hotel
Speaker 13: and we're thinking, what is going on here? We were
Speaker 13: told we could go to dinner, which was you know,
Speaker 13: alls a bonus, and when we got there, we were
Speaker 13: sitting on the table next to Tony Blair and the
Speaker 13: Sultan and BRUNEI wow.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know what I'm more impressed with
Speaker 5: the story that involves a sultan. I've never had a
Speaker 5: phone in like that. We we've always often talked about
Speaker 5: doing Sultan. The phone in a Sultan and Tony Blair
Speaker 5: at the same table exactly.
Speaker 13: And then obviously, you know, throughout the night, nature called,
Speaker 13: so I had to get up and go to the bathroom,
Speaker 13: so I had to get half the arm guards again
Speaker 13: to even do that while.
Speaker 5: By the urinals.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were ever like that was like
Speaker 13: the Secret Service were everywhere. You couldn't get in the
Speaker 13: door of the toilet unless you know. I thought it
Speaker 13: was like the VIP section of a nightclub to try
Speaker 13: and get in. So I'm standing there doing my business
Speaker 13: and then I look over as a gentleman stands next
Speaker 13: to me, and it with Tony himself. We just gave
Speaker 13: each other that you know, nod and got on with
Speaker 13: our business.
Speaker 5: So what you're actually at the sort of committee to
Speaker 5: get into specifics here, but you've put us there. He
Speaker 5: stood at the urinal next to Tony Blair.
Speaker 13: I did, indeed, and.
Speaker 3: It was one of his security detail come into the actual.
Speaker 5: One of his under his parents and get his old
Speaker 5: fellow out and.
Speaker 7: I don't worry, I know how you like to have
Speaker 7: three shakes as well.
Speaker 5: Then he goes back in.
Speaker 13: So they did actually come into the toilet when he
Speaker 13: came in.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Mark, thank you much, all the all the
Speaker 5: detail there. We went everywhere. Have a good day.
Speaker 13: Have a good day there you guys.
Speaker 5: Bryce. Hello, Bryce, Helloa, way We're good bye you right Bryce?
Speaker 8: Oh well, no, it just went silent.
Speaker 4: There forticular, No no, no, just checking out.
Speaker 5: A good time.
Speaker 7: No no, no good Is it all right?
Speaker 5: Bryce?
Speaker 7: What is your claim to fame for us?
Speaker 4: Well, it was the first President's Cup at Royal Melbourne
Speaker 4: and there was me and a few of our mates
Speaker 4: on a whole. This is a golf tournament on a
Speaker 4: hole where we could see the players tay off, but
Speaker 4: they couldn't see where their.
Speaker 15: Balls were landing.
Speaker 14: So we saw all their shots.
Speaker 4: And where the balls landed. So they came down to
Speaker 4: play their shots and one of the players was going
Speaker 4: to hit the wrong ball, and so we're all going
Speaker 4: out to the referee telling him to go and chicken's ball.
Speaker 4: He's going to hit the wrong shot, which means he'd
Speaker 4: be penalized for that whole. So the referee went over
Speaker 4: to the plier and told him, and he turned around
Speaker 4: and he got down and looked at his ball and went,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: My wrong ball.
Speaker 4: He turned around and goes away.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I said, it's pretty cool, and then all suddenly it
Speaker 4: is good work guys from behindest with the double bonzie
Speaker 4: comes up and it was George Bushlinger.
Speaker 5: That impression, what's one of the most powerful ones I
Speaker 5: thought you'd actually put on the phone there.
Speaker 15: Hell, that guy was.
Speaker 16: Guys, can't hear enough?
Speaker 5: And what it is my ring zone your impression of George. Uh,
Speaker 5: it's worth it for the impression. Thank you very much, Bryce,
Speaker 5: brilliant stuff.
Speaker 14: Thank you, good cheers that guy.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Christian No Carl Show podcast.
Speaker 5: All right, we've been taking your calls this morning then
Speaker 5: about your claim to fame involving a world leader or
Speaker 5: a prime minister. And one of them involved Tony Blam
Speaker 5: and the Sultan of Bruney. And we've never had a
Speaker 5: phone call before involving a story involvement. So and start
Speaker 5: waiting for buses. One comes along and then suddenly there's two.
Speaker 5: Matt's called in. He's got a story about the Sultan
Speaker 5: of Brunei.
Speaker 8: Matt, good morning, very good morning, Happy Friday, after you all.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you very much. What is your story involving
Speaker 5: the Sultan of Brunei?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was working sold just over twenty years ago.
Speaker 8: I thought the Sultan Durney family was staying there at
Speaker 8: a call for someone to play PlayStation, but they didn't
Speaker 8: have it, so I just happened to have one in
Speaker 8: the back of my car. Funnily enough, went upstairs and
Speaker 8: sat down on the bed plugging in. Was be able
Speaker 8: to walk out, and the Sultan said, no, no, no,
Speaker 8: you have to stay and play PlayStation with my son.
Speaker 5: What a story.
Speaker 8: I was there for, probably be having an hour playing
Speaker 8: grand Risma.
Speaker 5: What did you play with the Sultan and bruneis son
Speaker 5: grant Orrisma. That's great and obviously I'm taking it. And
Speaker 5: when did you Oh, of course yes, his dad's the
Speaker 5: Sultan of bruneye.
Speaker 8: Other ones.
Speaker 7: Yes, all right, Matt, glad we can squeeze you in.
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, mate, Thanks you.
Speaker 1: By Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 5: So on Monday we announced the great news Billy Joel
Speaker 5: is returning to Australia for one night only right here
Speaker 5: in Melbourne, the only show he's doing in Australia this
Speaker 5: year at the MCG Saturday Night with Billy under the Lights.
Speaker 5: It's going to be incredible December tenth in an always
Speaker 5: live exclusive. Tickets go on sell in about a week
Speaker 5: and a half time July the fourth. More information at
Speaker 5: front hit touring dot com and during the next twenty
Speaker 5: minutes we have Billy Joel on the show.
Speaker 7: So when I was chatting to Billy. We kicked off
Speaker 7: in America over the weekend.
Speaker 5: It had just been Father's Day, so I started off
Speaker 5: by asking Billy how was Father's Day for him?
Speaker 18: Billy Joel, Well, they woke me up and then we
Speaker 18: went fishing. I live on the water, so we went
Speaker 18: out in Oyster Bay and went fishing.
Speaker 5: You've got three daughters, Billy. Can you feel how it's
Speaker 5: shaped you over the years.
Speaker 18: Oh? Yeah, It's one of my favorite things. And what
Speaker 18: I'm doing is I'm getting to relive when my oldest
Speaker 18: daughter was a baby all over again. It's so cute.
Speaker 18: You tend to forget over time how adorable they are
Speaker 18: when they're small, and that's what I'm having right now now.
Speaker 5: It's amazing news you come into Australia. Australia is very
Speaker 5: very excited. Was this decision to come back to Australia
Speaker 5: got anything to do with your kids being into Bluey?
Speaker 18: Yes it does. They're big Bluie fans. We've been watching
Speaker 18: Blue for a while now and I keep telling them
Speaker 18: that that's Australia, that's Australia. So I'm excited to bring
Speaker 18: them there.
Speaker 7: And so it's rare for you these days to leave America.
Speaker 7: This is a big deal. We're lucky to get you
Speaker 7: on the plane.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I don't like being on the road that much.
Speaker 18: I'm a homebody these days. I spend so much time
Speaker 18: on the road in my younger years that I don't
Speaker 18: like being away from home. I don't like being away
Speaker 18: from the family. I don't like being away from where
Speaker 18: I live, and I rarely go too many places anymore.
Speaker 18: I'm pretty much a Homeboddy.
Speaker 7: Why do you still do any of it?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 7: Why do you still do some gigs? Biddy? What does
Speaker 7: it mean to you still now?
Speaker 18: Well, it's a great job. It's the best job in
Speaker 18: the world. You get to play for people who really
Speaker 18: enjoy being with you. You know, you see people's faces
Speaker 18: light up, they sing along, they're having a great time.
Speaker 18: They all go yay at the end of your work,
Speaker 18: and then they give you basketfuls of money. It's a
Speaker 18: wonderful job. I'm a very lucky guy.
Speaker 5: How many years ago I was lucky enough to interview
Speaker 5: Mick Jagger and I said the same thing to him, Like,
Speaker 5: because he goes to this grueling fitness regime, training for
Speaker 5: hours and hours, and you see him live he's NonStop.
Speaker 5: I said, why do you still do it? And he said,
Speaker 5: this is my job. What else would I do? I'd
Speaker 5: get bored.
Speaker 7: This is what my joy is. I guess it must
Speaker 7: be the same thing for you.
Speaker 5: When you're up there and you're hearing people still enjoying
Speaker 5: your music, you're getting a kick that you got to
Speaker 5: have this life. Yeah.
Speaker 18: I've talked to other artists about it too. I talked
Speaker 18: to McCartney, I talked to Don Henley. I've talked to
Speaker 18: Bob Dylan about what are you guys gonna do now?
Speaker 3: Like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 18: And they said, We're gonna keep doing what we do.
Speaker 18: You spend your whole life learning how to do it,
Speaker 18: and you get pretty damn good at it, and it's
Speaker 18: enjoyable to do. What else are you gonna do? Sit
Speaker 18: around and watch the Telly? I mean, it's fun.
Speaker 1: Well, Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 5: We're getting into the second part of our exclusive Billy
Speaker 5: Choe chat right now. When I was chatting to Billy,
Speaker 5: I talked about how, over the last couple of years
Speaker 5: we've seen these amazing rock star movies like The Elton
Speaker 5: John One, Rocketman, The Queen One, with Freddie Mercury. He
Speaker 5: must have been approached over the years about doing the
Speaker 5: Billy Joel movie.
Speaker 18: That's been asked about a couple of times, and people
Speaker 18: have sent me scripts called the Piano Man. It's like, okay,
Speaker 18: that story has been told. You know, I'm not super
Speaker 18: glamorous and typical rock and roll guy. I my home buddy.
Speaker 18: I tend to be kind of boring, but when we're
Speaker 18: on stage, we kick it. But a bio pic of me,
Speaker 18: I don't know. I don't even know if i'd go
Speaker 18: see it.
Speaker 5: I love the honesty, Billy. I love also the fact
Speaker 5: that you're a period in your life now where you
Speaker 5: just know what you like. Now you don't need to
Speaker 5: worry about pleasing everybody else.
Speaker 18: Yeah, that is good about being this age. I'm now
Speaker 18: seventy three years old and there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 18: I don't even care about anymore that I used to
Speaker 18: get all heated up about. Priorities change and things get
Speaker 18: a lot clearer and a lot easier, especially when you're
Speaker 18: this age.
Speaker 5: To tell me this, do you ever get nervous? So
Speaker 5: when you come over to the mcg and I know
Speaker 5: you're used to playing stadium so many over the years.
Speaker 5: But do you ever still sometimes get nerves? What happens beforehand?
Speaker 18: Well, if we've been off for a long time, like
Speaker 18: during this COVID bit, there was a two year period
Speaker 18: where we couldn't work at all, and when I was
Speaker 18: going back to work work in a Madison Square garden,
Speaker 18: I got butterflies. Are we going to be any good?
Speaker 18: Can I still sing? Blah blah blah? Yeah I was nervous.
Speaker 18: I was, but only after a long break. If we've
Speaker 18: been keeping going and playing on a regular basis, No,
Speaker 18: I don't get nervous. That's my job.
Speaker 5: And does it sometimes when you still have the nerves,
Speaker 5: does it remind you how exciting it is to go
Speaker 5: and play live, you know, in front of so many
Speaker 5: people you're on night out, it's always exciting.
Speaker 18: I mean, look, I get asked all the time, what
Speaker 18: do you do? What's your regimen that you do to
Speaker 18: get psyched up for the show? And I say, who
Speaker 18: needs to get sacked up for the show? Well, on
Speaker 18: stage and there's twenty thousand people going.
Speaker 1: Alah, Then you get sacked up.
Speaker 18: They make a lot of noise and you know, girls
Speaker 18: are screaming, and it becomes a community and it's really exciting.
Speaker 18: It's a lot of fun. It's the most fun you
Speaker 18: can have with your clothes on.
Speaker 5: You're right, And I think if there's one thing we
Speaker 5: learn out of all the money things we learned during
Speaker 5: COVID and lockdown, there's something special that happens in that
Speaker 5: live shared experience that's still really magical, isn't it?
Speaker 8: Betty?
Speaker 18: Absolutely, it's a kind of sorcery. It's almost not being
Speaker 18: a musician, it's being a magician because they're getting hypnotized
Speaker 18: with what you're doing. And there's a line in Piano
Speaker 18: Man that I get to towards the enders shows that
Speaker 18: and he knows that it's me. They've been coming to
Speaker 18: see to forget about life for a while, and the
Speaker 18: audience comes out with this sound like yeah, like you
Speaker 18: took them away from the bad news for a while,
Speaker 18: and that's a great feeling.
Speaker 5: And who does that for you? Who do you enjoy
Speaker 5: listening to? Who takes you away for a while? You know,
Speaker 5: when you're out there on your fishing boat and you
Speaker 5: stick on some music, who do you listen to?
Speaker 18: You know what? I listened to classical music. Nowadays, I
Speaker 18: don't know a lot of modern pop. I know Taylor Swift,
Speaker 18: I know Olivia Roudrigo, I know a couple of hits
Speaker 18: here and there, but I don't listen to that often.
Speaker 18: My daughters do. They're the ones who get me to
Speaker 18: listen to the new pop. But I've usually listened to
Speaker 18: class music, and I find it to be thrilling.
Speaker 7: And is that what your mom originally wanted you to do?
Speaker 5: Does she want to steer you to sort of in
Speaker 5: a son who play classical music, you know, rather than
Speaker 5: sort of, you know, noisy rock and roll.
Speaker 7: Is that what mom wanted originally for you?
Speaker 18: No, she just wanted me to be a musician. She
Speaker 18: wanted me to enjoy music. She loved classical music, but
Speaker 18: she also loved Broadway. She liked the blues, so she
Speaker 18: was pretty open eyed about it. She loved the Beatles,
Speaker 18: and so did I. And you know, I was really
Speaker 18: lucky that my mom pushed me to do it. You
Speaker 18: had to learn some classical music to learn how to
Speaker 18: play the instrument, but that helped me a good deal
Speaker 18: as far as writing goes. So I love it all.
Speaker 18: I like all of it.
Speaker 5: I heard you your version of McCartney's maybe. I'm amazed
Speaker 5: you do an amazing version of that. Is that one
Speaker 5: of your favorite McCartney songs.
Speaker 18: It's a fun song to sing. It's way up there.
Speaker 18: He's still singing his original keys. He's eighty years old.
Speaker 5: How's he doing?
Speaker 18: Don't must be the vegetarian day?
Speaker 5: It's all the tofu Billy?
Speaker 18: Maybe so, but it's working for him. I mean he
Speaker 18: can still hit those notes. I've had to drop a
Speaker 18: few keys here and there. I want from being a
Speaker 18: tenant of being a baritone, But I don't mind. It's natural.
Speaker 5: And how will you know, Billy, when you don't get
Speaker 5: that buzz anymore? How will you know when it's when
Speaker 5: it's time? Do you ever think about that? Yeah?
Speaker 18: I think the audience is going to let me know.
Speaker 18: When you finish your show and you get this, you're
Speaker 18: never going to get that. Then it's time to get
Speaker 18: off the bleed stage.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's what you call the last shows you ever do?
Speaker 5: They get off the bleeding stage tour, that's what you
Speaker 5: call your very last shows you ever do?
Speaker 18: Billy Well, I have a whole plan for my farewell tour.
Speaker 18: It's it's going to be like this. You charge you
Speaker 18: know what you usually charge for tickets and The stage
Speaker 18: setup looks like a living room and it's surrounded with
Speaker 18: bulletproof grass. I come out, ladies and gentlemen, Billy Joe.
Speaker 18: I have my little TV remote clicker with me, and
Speaker 18: I sit down and I have a sandwich and I
Speaker 18: watched TV for a while. And the audience starts to
Speaker 18: go boo boo boo, and they boo me, and then
Speaker 18: they throw stuff at the glass, but it's bulletproof so
Speaker 18: they can't get to me. And then about fifteen minutes
Speaker 18: into that, I pick up a microphone and say, hey,
Speaker 18: I just said I was gonna be here. I didn't
Speaker 18: say I was going to do anything. And then you'll
Speaker 18: know that there's a bond between me and that audience.
Speaker 18: They will never pay another nickel to see me again.
Speaker 18: That's a fair goal.
Speaker 3: I get the feeling.
Speaker 7: This is what you're planning when you come to Australia
Speaker 7: in December.
Speaker 5: It is that the show.
Speaker 18: Now we'll do a show.
Speaker 5: Phew, that's good news. People are very very excited about
Speaker 5: you coming over. Betty Well, listen. Thank you very much
Speaker 5: for speaking to us. It's been a joy, and thank
Speaker 5: you for your amazing music over the years. Strangers was
Speaker 5: one of those you know, there are those certain albums
Speaker 5: and songs that remind you of your mom and dad.
Speaker 5: For me, it's that album my mum used to play
Speaker 5: over and over again, both sides on vinyl when I
Speaker 5: was a young kid. So you've been a big part
Speaker 5: of my life as a kid and growing up. Billy
Speaker 5: and I'll be there in December at the MCG when
Speaker 5: he come to Melbourne. So I'm looking forward to seeing
Speaker 5: the show.
Speaker 18: A great We're looking forward to seeing you.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much, Billy.
Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 5: Christian loved hearing Billy Joel on the show. In nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety eight, Billy Joel had a huge gig with Elton John.
Speaker 5: I was lucky enough to be there with my dad.
Speaker 5: The show was smashed by an enormous storm that night,
Speaker 5: I mean really bad, but they both soldiered on. They
Speaker 5: were amazing. I'll be there again, not my dad this time.
Speaker 5: He's no longer with us, but his spirit will be there.
Speaker 5: I'll be buying the tickets. Carl wait to see Billy
Speaker 5: Joel back at the MCG. Nicole love an email. Thank
Speaker 5: you very much, Carl and Brighter.
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Speaker 5: Kim left this message for us yesterday.
Speaker 15: Hey, Christian, it's Kim here.
Speaker 16: This morning, you were talking about Point Break. The movie
Speaker 16: was one of my favorite movies back in the day
Speaker 16: and to day. I still have the original DVD in plastic,
Speaker 16: never opened, thinking that it was going to become limited
Speaker 16: editions sometime in the future. And yeah, that would be
Speaker 16: It's just quite funny you're talking about this and I
Speaker 16: have an original collection.
Speaker 5: Lovely, Kim. It's given us an idea. Maybe we've all
Speaker 5: done that where you put something aside. I know what time,
Speaker 5: that'd be worth some money in the years to come.
Speaker 5: I've said that so many times about stuff which is
Speaker 5: essentially worthless.
Speaker 3: Now we'll be waiting a long time I think for
Speaker 3: a Point Break DVD to become what.
Speaker 7: I want to live in that world.
Speaker 5: Well, that becomes the thing, the new bitcoin, all right, Christian,
Speaker 5: you were talking to the on the show the other
Speaker 5: day about competitions that you'd ent did When we were younger,
Speaker 5: my sister and I entered a raffle at a local
Speaker 5: country show to win a pony A big prize, isn't
Speaker 5: it prize? We didn't win, but as well as up,
Speaker 5: we got a crocheted blanket. That's some Tanya Christian took. Hi.
Speaker 5: About competitions you entered remind me of a story My
Speaker 5: university lecturer told us. He was a mathematician and his
Speaker 5: speciality was linear programming, which is computing using linear equations.
Speaker 5: We don't need to know to optimize in numerical solution,
Speaker 5: he told us. Once he was in the DA Dentists
Speaker 5: weighting room. I had no interest in any of the magazines,
Speaker 5: but he flicked through what he thought was the least
Speaker 5: Dulles Glider's monthly. How can they fill an entire magazine
Speaker 5: of glider talk? Anyway, He found a competition page with
Speaker 5: a puzzle grid, and there were ten locations and the
Speaker 5: object was to find the shortest route to visit all.
Speaker 5: This is Rybazzali, so he entered it. He removed the
Speaker 5: puzzle page, took it home, entered all the coordinates and
Speaker 5: let the computing do all the work. He got his arm,
Speaker 5: sold it down, post it in. He was curious to
Speaker 5: know whether he won, so he went to his news
Speaker 5: agent for the next couple of months and he found
Speaker 5: that he had won his prize, a year's subscription the
Speaker 5: gliding month.
Speaker 7: That's great, And this is an email from Mandy. He
Speaker 7: was actually on a yesterday.
Speaker 5: We're talking about posters on the bedroom wall and she
Speaker 5: mentioned she had that massive Guns and Roses one was
Speaker 5: like a metal one.
Speaker 3: Got from the record store.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Christiana's me Mandy again. As I mentioned, I seriously
Speaker 5: thinking about it. I'd love to have that Guns and
Speaker 5: Roses poster and laminated to save it for any more rips.
Speaker 5: I was wondering, please, if you had been to ask
Speaker 5: on earthf there's anyone who has a giant laminating machine
Speaker 5: that can do one meter with totally The standard is
Speaker 5: a busy show and you can't know what we're actually
Speaker 5: gonna be late for the news. It's always worth asking, Amanda,
Speaker 5: You're quite right. Let's find out, then, what is Melbourne's
Speaker 5: biggest laminating machine. Can anyone laminate a Guns and Roses
Speaker 5: poster that's a meter wide?
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 5: On International T Day, Today's International T Day.
Speaker 7: Oh no, not this story again, Rio.
Speaker 5: It feels like every twelve months he offers up that
Speaker 5: story about empresor shen Nung. I know, other producer of
Speaker 5: other shows must have their favorite go to bits only
Speaker 5: on the show.
Speaker 7: When we have a guy who's got.
Speaker 5: Two degrees and stuck in a you know, an intellectually
Speaker 5: challenging job like this, who wants to hear when it
Speaker 5: is International Tea Day, offers up the story Emperor Shane,
Speaker 5: you can.
Speaker 7: Literally date for diary this time. Next year, the Emperor
Speaker 7: will be back.
Speaker 3: Let's see if I can do it for a memory.
Speaker 3: The Emperor is sitting with a glass of hot water
Speaker 3: and some leaves blue into his water.
Speaker 5: Emperor shen Nung discovered tea in his back guard. Who
Speaker 5: one day win blue leaves or wild tree. You're quite right,
Speaker 5: jack Into's pot boiling water. Sip this intriguing broo. What's this?
Speaker 1: Am?
Speaker 7: I just invented tea and was instantly in charge.
Speaker 5: Why is delicate flavor and refreshing effect. Well, he's got
Speaker 5: it away for the fourth year running, world Ane, Rio,
Speaker 5: look forward to it again. We'll see you next year,
Speaker 5: old friend, gone for now, Empress shen Nung. The last hour,
Speaker 5: we've done two calls about Sultan or Brunei, and it's
Speaker 5: talking about Empress shen Nung. Alright, alright, So on International
Speaker 5: t Day, as we bow down and thank Emperor shen
Speaker 5: Nung and his accidental discovery in his back garden.
Speaker 3: It's so refreshing.
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Speaker 5: of mine. Yes, it's Empreor shen Nung coming back all
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Speaker 5: the show, Rio puts forward that Empress send ning story day.
Speaker 5: Tea songs were looking for your tea songs? Okay, tea songs?
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Speaker 3: Dunk, Yeah, Silba.
Speaker 5: The Emperor didn't invent that sweetie of mine, guns and
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Speaker 5: me how to live my life.
Speaker 7: Coppa, don't preach, damn it.
Speaker 5: I wanted to get a cup to try and act
Speaker 5: that out for a powerful performance. I'll leave it there
Speaker 5: very absolutely shocking.
Speaker 3: There a tea songs? You say, Yes, what brand of
Speaker 3: tea do the muppets love best? Dona's so close.
Speaker 5: I'm with you. The longer the runway, the worse delivery.
Speaker 7: You brought. Shame on, Emperor shen Nung.
Speaker 2: Once was enough.
Speaker 3: We have Billy Joel on this morning with only the
Speaker 3: good char young.
Speaker 5: Gold.
Speaker 3: That don't impress me much.
Speaker 5: What necessary Indian accent as well? But Homer tea, I
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Speaker 7: It's Jackson new feature.
Speaker 5: It's just an accent.
Speaker 3: And the line steeps tonight.
Speaker 5: It's so pretentious about steeping. Even though an Englishman I
Speaker 5: had a steep one. I can't do that. I'll keep
Speaker 5: your silver all right. What have you got tea songs?
Speaker 1: We say, The Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Turning to Mark your time Wasters on International t Day,
Speaker 5: we'll look if your tea songs don't forget UNI end
Speaker 5: for the winner.
Speaker 7: I would walk five hundred camera miles.
Speaker 5: Silver plus, Carli, well done, Whitney Houston, Chai will always
Speaker 5: love you silver plus. So for some reason I thought
Speaker 5: that was from the guy send it in with Whitney Houston.
Speaker 5: He's Michael. End of the show, Tie of the Tiger
Speaker 5: Silver Ols. Just want to have fun. You know that
Speaker 5: is very good, Julie, very good, steep, child.
Speaker 3: Of mind great.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's from Heidio long Way to the Top. If
Speaker 5: you want a rock and roll pour one sugar for
Speaker 5: tea def Leppard, pull some sugar on me a tea
Speaker 5: bagging Miss Daisy. No, No, let's not have that kind
Speaker 5: of language and imagery on this show. Guys, p G.
Speaker 7: Norty Andrew footloose.
Speaker 5: Leaf gold, Rene Well don that's what like it?
Speaker 1: Wrong?
Speaker 5: A Winding Roads gold.
Speaker 7: This one does not work.
Speaker 5: And I've stared it and read it out in my
Speaker 5: mind a couple of times. Totally clips off the herbal
Speaker 5: Kuppa bronze. Yeah, Bohemian rhapso tea gold. Why haven't they
Speaker 5: brought their own brand out of queen based teas? Uh match?
Speaker 7: You wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Speaker 5: I do that song?
Speaker 7: Chris, this is this is timey tiano.
Speaker 5: Mano mano pretty. Joel is at the piano, man.
Speaker 7: Well, don't carry Who let the bags out?
Speaker 5: Gold stand and Papa's got a brand new tea bag
Speaker 5: gold by Who wins the prize?
Speaker 7: Who's best in show?
Speaker 3: Give it to Kerry Piano Man.
Speaker 5: Piano Man is there. Let's talk tomorrow's show. So on
Speaker 5: tomorrow's show, we love to get your stories about serving
Speaker 5: the stars. This came about when we were talking today
Speaker 5: about prime ministers and presidents. What's your weakest claim to find?
Speaker 5: Someone called in used to be the manager of McDonald's
Speaker 5: and served Tony Abbott. Serve the stars? Who have you served?
Speaker 5: And then the big thing on tomorrow's show, the super
Speaker 5: Bowl of pats We're not going to be with Patsy
Speaker 5: on her birthday on Monday, which is a real shame.
Speaker 7: We're on our break.
Speaker 5: However, tomorrow's show is the celebration of Patsy's fiftieth. What
Speaker 5: an amazing, extraordinary life you've had, Patsy, You're a superstar.
Speaker 2: Jee I've had a very blessed life.
Speaker 7: I have and tomorrow you are going to have many blessings. No, no,
Speaker 7: I promise you do.
Speaker 5: You know what. I'm genuinely so excited about you experiencing
Speaker 5: what we've organized for you.
Speaker 2: It's the bucking bull in the car park.
Speaker 7: I beg your pard.
Speaker 5: I know you keep asking me that's on your bucket
Speaker 5: is but do that farm you live out, have a
Speaker 5: fucking Bronco on the show.
Speaker 2: I'm going to read the news on it.
Speaker 3: Next year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, first to Patsy tomorrow morning.
Speaker 7: You will need to bring in trainers.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, and I reckon as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah for grip gloves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bucking ball.
Speaker 5: Patsy's she's still like hot breakfast. I'm like ninety two
Speaker 5: coming up next. Don't usually reading it's on a Bucky Bronco.
Speaker 5: What are you saying?
Speaker 2: Something for grip?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to love driving gloves.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, something that yeah yeah, good fit and gloves
Speaker 5: and trainers.
Speaker 3: Right, okay, and bring a saddle for that ball.
Speaker 5: I like, have we missed a trip with that?
Speaker 7: So much to learn still about this anyway, We see
Speaker 7: it tomorrow morning.
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