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Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Have you changed your name?

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Speaker 3: Perry, who's to start working on the show, told us

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Speaker 3: about his what's his fiancee? Nosy guy was called Michael Clark,

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Speaker 3: A nice respectable name.

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Speaker 2: Right changes the wolf game? Which great name and now

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Speaker 2: is known as wolf?

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Speaker 3: That is, you become wolf like if that's your name,

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Speaker 3: your hair, you have to change your clothes.

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Speaker 2: You got to get rid of Michael's clothes. You're now wolf.

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Speaker 2: Imagine Michael Clark test Captain of Australia.

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Speaker 3: How much better he would have been as Wolfgang class

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Speaker 3: Wolfgang Clark?

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Speaker 2: All right, so have you changed your name? Andrew? Good morning,

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Speaker 2: you've changed your name?

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Speaker 4: Yeah. My father passed away late last year and we're

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Speaker 4: at the funeral and Carl started rating out John and

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Speaker 4: May and my three brothers are looking at each other, gingho,

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Speaker 4: the hell is John away at the wrong funeral? And

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Speaker 4: the backstory is when my father was born, my grand

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Speaker 4: and granddad had an argument on whether this should be

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Speaker 4: called John or Barry. We only ever knew him as Barry.

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Speaker 4: My grandma said, his name is Barry, but he got

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Speaker 4: registered as John. But every time somebody says what's the

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Speaker 4: baby's name? I said, Barry. I mean we always thought

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Speaker 4: his name was Barry until the day passed and we're

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Speaker 4: at the funeral, and we thought we're at the wrong funeral.

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Speaker 2: Andrew, this is incredible.

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Speaker 3: You hear about people finding out stuff they didn't know,

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Speaker 3: you know, about a parent at a funeral, but not

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Speaker 3: about that that's.

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Speaker 2: A completely different name. That's remarkable.

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Speaker 4: And my throat brothers are all looking at each other going,

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Speaker 4: what are we see? What? What's going on here? You do.

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Speaker 2: Funeral, but you're at the right funeral, just a different name.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, John not Barry.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we only we only ever knew him as Barry

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Speaker 4: and his real name was John.

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Speaker 2: So what did you put on the headstone wherever he

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Speaker 2: is now?

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Speaker 4: Barry Barry?

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Speaker 2: Then maybe in a sharpie be brackets.

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Speaker 4: We should have done that in brackets, and that is

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Speaker 4: a great call.

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Speaker 2: Then we're going to give you a pair of gold

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Speaker 2: class double bass tickets.

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Speaker 4: I love that story, fantastic.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry about your dad as well, but it gave

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Speaker 2: us a great laugh with that. Thank you very much, Andrew,

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

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Speaker 3: John James, Welcome to the show, Good morning, I'm good

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Speaker 3: John James.

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Speaker 2: So you changed your name? What's your story, John James.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So when I was probably I think I was

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Speaker 5: twenty years old, I changed my name to Achilles via

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Speaker 5: depot and it was it was just Achille, so there

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Speaker 5: was no surname. It was just like like Madonna, Yes.

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Speaker 3: You're quite right, Beyonce Madonna. Now when you say you

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Speaker 3: were twenty, what else was going on?

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Speaker 2: Hate?

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Speaker 5: Now what happened was my friend, my friends and all that.

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Speaker 5: We all sort of got a step of that movie

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Speaker 5: Troy with Achilles, like the warrior that Brad Pitt played

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Speaker 5: the part. And now I probably thought I was probably

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Speaker 5: good looking at the time, and I was one of

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Speaker 5: those cud too sort of was like, oh, you wouldn't

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Speaker 5: do it. You wouldn't jump off that, you wouldn't run me,

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Speaker 5: so you wouldn't do that anyway. So I said, you

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Speaker 5: wouldn't change your name to Achilles, and so yeah, I

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Speaker 5: was just so I went into the depot and they

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Speaker 5: said it toss thirty dollars to change your name. So

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Speaker 5: what happened was I thought I saw an asterisk next

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Speaker 5: to the bit that sort of said surname, and I

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Speaker 5: said to the guy, I said, why is there an

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Speaker 5: asterisk next to the surname and he said, well, technically

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Speaker 5: you don't have to have it have a surname. And

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Speaker 5: I'm like, oh well, I said, the only thing you

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Speaker 5: can't change your name to is God or Jesus. And

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Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, well I'll have a bit of

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Speaker 5: a chillie and I won't have a surname. And what

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Speaker 5: happened was I actually felt at actually forgot about it.

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Speaker 5: So and I was named after my dad, so John,

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Speaker 5: my actual name has gone through like generations and generations

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Speaker 5: that I forgot about it because it says about six

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Speaker 5: weeks to get approved. And then and then my mum

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Speaker 5: got a like a letter in the mail that just

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Speaker 5: said a chilling are chilling And she's just coming to

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Speaker 5: my room and she's like, what what the hell is this?

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Speaker 5: And I'm like, oh no, and don't give me a

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Speaker 5: new versesy for getting everything. So I didn't know. Obviously,

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Speaker 5: my dad's like losing it. He's gone off the thing,

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Speaker 5: and I worked at his whole work, hadn't And if

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Speaker 5: the thing is about it as well, is if you

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Speaker 5: actually change it by depail, which I didn't know at

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Speaker 5: the time either you actually have to have it for

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Speaker 5: a minimum of two years, so you can't just you

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Speaker 5: can't just like go and change it back. So I

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Speaker 5: had to change the passport my life and I had.

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Speaker 4: Been going to work.

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Speaker 5: For a rather forgettable movie.

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Speaker 4: Yes and yeah, so it.

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Speaker 5: Was all happening, and then that's pretty much what happens.

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Speaker 5: And then in the end I had to get my

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Speaker 5: license change and they couldn't put anything where. So with

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Speaker 5: the computer, doesn't you know how if you're filling out

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Speaker 5: a form, it doesn't just go through to the next

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Speaker 5: line unless you feel something where where the surname was.

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Speaker 5: So they're like, we're going to have to put like

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Speaker 5: a dot there. So it's just a pillies not.

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Speaker 1: I am Symbolnce.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: By the police. They used to like take a photover

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Speaker 5: that and like send it in to make sure it

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Speaker 5: was real.

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Speaker 2: I just need to Achilles followed by a dot. I

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Speaker 2: can't believe you didn't keep it. Were you rushing to

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Speaker 2: get rid of it by the end of the two years.

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Speaker 5: It was when I tried to fly and get my partner,

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Speaker 5: Like when the pass war got changed. There was a

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Speaker 5: lot of complications with that because obviously, yeah, there's obviously

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Speaker 5: a lot of the stuff was going on at that time.

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Speaker 5: Was like yeah, yeah, so yeah, you want to watch.

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Speaker 2: Achilles.

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Speaker 5: I wonder if Achilles was going to come over to

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Speaker 5: the country for different reasons. Yeah, for the two years

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Speaker 5: is a bit of a kick out, obviously because my

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Speaker 5: name has been actually had meaning to it, like John

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Speaker 5: had meaning to it as well.

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Speaker 2: Sure, but just a dumb man.

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Speaker 3: I've got to ask this, what was life like for

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Speaker 3: those twenty four months as Achilles?

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Speaker 5: Now I actually forgot about it, like now that I'm

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Speaker 5: going to going through the story again about maybe going

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Speaker 5: back to it.

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Speaker 3: If it's thirteen bucks, one hundred bucks, this show will

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Speaker 3: pay for whatever it costs to change your name back

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Speaker 3: to Achilles.

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Speaker 2: So he's a great name.

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Speaker 5: I'll invoice you for the thirty bucks.

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Speaker 2: I gladly give it for the best day bucks in

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Speaker 2: my life. They welcome you back to Achilles.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my friends still call me Chills, so it's about

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Speaker 5: a eight double la and so it's like Chill. So

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Speaker 5: my friends still call me Chills, like my old school

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Speaker 5: friends still to this day getting a few phone calls.

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Speaker 5: But they forgot about it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the Achilles are going to label you up on

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Speaker 3: our phone system only as a kidd.

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Speaker 2: Then please call again.

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Speaker 3: What that is one of those stories I'm always going

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Speaker 3: to remember now about this and he told it brilliantly

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Speaker 3: as well. I'm going to give you a price. We're

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Speaker 3: going to give you a pair of tickets for gold

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Speaker 3: class as well. That was Oh, no, brilliant, brilliant story,

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Speaker 3: well told, Kennies. Hopefully we will.

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Speaker 2: Speak again, my friend.

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Speaker 5: We will, thanks man.

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Speaker 2: Maybe tomorrow we have to do Haw's A movie Changed

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Speaker 2: Your Life.

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