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Speaker 2: and I can do that for you. It would be
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Speaker 2: and I will skype, zoom or give you a phone
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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning Monday morning. Welcome to The Christian O'Connor Show.
Speaker 2: How everyone had a great weekend. Good morning, Patsy, morning,
Speaker 2: Good morning Jack.
Speaker 5: Good to see you guys.
Speaker 2: How are you Patsy? We are lucky to be in
Speaker 2: this studio with this guy right now because this guy
Speaker 2: is a world record hoole. Technically yes, no, you are.
Speaker 2: Every one of you at the game yesterday, the g
Speaker 2: set a new world record the largest crowd at a
Speaker 2: sports event or any event in the world since the
Speaker 2: beginning of COVID last year in February.
Speaker 4: That's amazing and what I mean, it's great to be back.
Speaker 4: It was my first day back at the footy since
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, so what a way to go back with
Speaker 4: eighty thousand fans on.
Speaker 2: Cut to the chase a win. Come on, it's good
Speaker 2: for Melbourne, it's good for Australia.
Speaker 5: About the outcome, but the outcome was sweet.
Speaker 2: You have a very different way of telling that story.
Speaker 2: If you've lost yesterday you beat the Pies. It's an
Speaker 2: amazing game.
Speaker 5: Love it, love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've got the They definitely have won more ANZAC
Speaker 4: games than us over the recent like last ten years,
Speaker 4: so so good to get a win against them.
Speaker 2: And to see all those Pies fan walk in, all
Speaker 2: the Pies fans walking leaving early as well, there's just
Speaker 2: something delicious about it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: I've had three years have been laughed at for a
Speaker 2: D's fan, So I'm only just recently John what it's
Speaker 2: like to have an unbroken winning streak. At the moment
Speaker 2: I read yesterday the I think nineteen sixty four is
Speaker 2: the last time that the Diace went six and nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty four just the concept ticket to ride was a
Speaker 2: number one tickets to ride. It was the last time
Speaker 2: we had this. Well, what was it like? Yes, I
Speaker 2: was there on Saturday, number it must have been amazing
Speaker 2: yesterday for that Yeah, I mean pat and tickets you
Speaker 2: won't going Friday, Yeah, watching.
Speaker 5: No, it was the last minute thing.
Speaker 4: A friend got them from his girlfriend's stepdad had.
Speaker 5: You know those things.
Speaker 4: Where you don't even question where the want a lot
Speaker 4: of It's like I've got three to start the.
Speaker 2: Phone call we made Friday four million dollars price, so
Speaker 2: you're getting tickets to go to.
Speaker 4: The d to ask too many questions about you? Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: I mean yes, I'll see you there. I loved it, honestly,
Speaker 4: like the things that usually annoy him about big crowds
Speaker 4: at the foot is like wining up for beers, lining
Speaker 4: up for food, getting on the train with a crowd
Speaker 4: of people.
Speaker 5: I'm actually enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Day, isn't it? Oh?
Speaker 5: Definitely?
Speaker 4: And just the fact that everybody is grateful that we
Speaker 4: can be back. Not many places in the world can
Speaker 4: be back like we are here in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: No, it's amazing. I was there on Saturday night, and
Speaker 2: obviously because it's the evening and the g always looks
Speaker 2: it's just different in the evening. It's like two different stadiums.
Speaker 2: And when they that light up the G God, it
Speaker 2: just makes on the eve of a very special daylight
Speaker 2: and that day that thing they do with they turn
Speaker 2: those massive floodlights out and then it's just suddenly there
Speaker 2: were I think there were like fifty four fifty five
Speaker 2: thousand there on Saturday night. And if it's in England,
Speaker 2: there's always because this is so many people. When there's
Speaker 2: a silence, there's always a couple of videos they just
Speaker 2: aren't right, and because it's the look look that numbers
Speaker 2: and you have somebody we've been drinking all day and
Speaker 2: just want to be idiots basically, But on Saturday night
Speaker 2: there wasn't a single It was proper silence, and it's
Speaker 2: it's it makes what you're remembering. You cannot help but
Speaker 2: even fit it in a greater way, or you could
Speaker 2: see or you could hear. Was just occasional a bit
Speaker 2: of noise from above from the seagulls, but there was
Speaker 2: utter silence there. You got candles and torches. They've got
Speaker 2: the huge caldron there on fire. The two teams are
Speaker 2: lined up before they do their version of battle, and
Speaker 2: then they did the last Post. That is one of
Speaker 2: the most remarkable pieces of music in the world, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's incredible, especially when there's someone doing it live. Then
Speaker 2: they did the national anthem for New Zealand. And then
Speaker 2: Australia and then there was this huge raw. Suddenly it
Speaker 2: comes back on alive because there's a game to play.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Sarah and I went on Saturday night and
Speaker 2: it was an amazing atmosphere at the g was incredible.
Speaker 2: Was too huge games over the weekend, like you said,
Speaker 2: Jack as well, because there's so many people when you're
Speaker 2: spilling out afterwards, there's this energy we haven't had for
Speaker 2: a very long time. So no, very lucky to have
Speaker 2: that over the weekend and two wins.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: On Saturday night. Then before the D's game, my wife
Speaker 2: and I had been invited by the MCC so formal
Speaker 2: was this invite to come to dinner and some kind
Speaker 2: of special dinner the tie that's want to tie. I
Speaker 2: didn't even know where my ties were. You know you
Speaker 2: were a tie because you have a proper job, you'll
Speaker 2: know your ties are Panicking Saturday, do I need to go?
Speaker 2: And by I don't, well what are my ties?
Speaker 5: Even had to dress up for three years.
Speaker 2: It was so strange. You can to remember, I don't
Speaker 2: watch a YouTube video again about how to tie time.
Speaker 2: This needs to be done right as well. It's the MCC,
Speaker 2: I'll be thrown out. We went to this the committee
Speaker 2: room at the NCC, and it felt like we were
Speaker 2: going into some inner sanctum. The people that worked there
Speaker 2: were very mature.
Speaker 5: Men, what like old Butler's.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Really they had aprons on, Oh, they actually had.
Speaker 2: Some of them were so experienced. Can I don't want
Speaker 2: to be rude here, amazing service, but looked like they
Speaker 2: might have actually been the great great grandfather of Don Bradman, right,
Speaker 2: faultless in their service? And have you been in perfore,
Speaker 2: mister O'Connell.
Speaker 5: They've been at the MC day one.
Speaker 2: Yes, get this then. So I'm going to the toilet
Speaker 2: and I don't know where the toilets are because I've
Speaker 2: never been to the inner sanctum of the MCC. So
Speaker 2: I'm hind to taunts. And a guy goes, can I happy, miss?
Speaker 2: And I go, yeah, I'm just looking for the toylets.
Speaker 2: He goes, they're just r in there. Have you ever
Speaker 2: been in them before? And I went no. He goes,
Speaker 2: I hope you don't find this crew. But when you
Speaker 2: do go in, if you can head to the cubicle
Speaker 2: that's furthest in front of you and he goes this,
Speaker 2: he stepped back and he goes enjoy the view as
Speaker 2: I'm walking away. Go Does he think I'm some sort
Speaker 2: of wide eyed bombing what I'm going? Does he even
Speaker 2: work here? Anyway? I go into the men's bathroom, okay,
Speaker 2: and then I spy what he meant and I queue
Speaker 2: up to see what I can only score is one
Speaker 2: of the greatest views of my life. You go to
Speaker 2: the toilet as gentlemen can do stood up. There's a
Speaker 2: window that's amazing. I couldn't believe I took a photo.
Speaker 2: I won't share it because it's a strange reflection of
Speaker 2: me going to the toilet taking a picture of myself.
Speaker 2: It's not a good look online. Okay, It's just one
Speaker 2: to show nobody other than myself on my phone. If
Speaker 2: I'm run over my car, they have to unlock my phone.
Speaker 2: That's my most recent photo. I hope people don't think
Speaker 2: I'm into taking peace of myself while I go to
Speaker 2: the toilet. I'm not. I was enjoying the view.
Speaker 5: I'm only at the committee room once.
Speaker 2: All those other photos were just me getting the angles
Speaker 2: right in the filters right. But as I'm stilling under
Speaker 2: the toilet, there's an amazing view out over the MCG.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you watch the game, why you don't miss
Speaker 5: any of the action?
Speaker 2: I kept going back to the toilet for chips. I didn't
Speaker 2: eat to go to that old guy. He's got a
Speaker 2: worse bladder than me.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: One of things when I was looking up during the
Speaker 2: silence at the G and they're doing light at the G,
Speaker 2: and I was just seeing all the seagulls. Right. I
Speaker 2: know this might sound strange, but go with me. Right,
Speaker 2: you see a lot of them when you're watching a
Speaker 2: game sometimes we've ever been to the MCG. You see
Speaker 2: all those seagulls, right, Yeah, they say swoop and they
Speaker 2: they just sort of fly around a top level. They don't.
Speaker 2: Why don't they swoop down or anything.
Speaker 4: I think it's got something to do with those wires
Speaker 4: that criss cross over the top of the ground.
Speaker 2: Are those for the cameras?
Speaker 5: No, I thought the same thing, But I'm pretty sure
Speaker 5: is it?
Speaker 2: What can I do that?
Speaker 5: I think it's the seagullder turret.
Speaker 2: Well, they hate wise.
Speaker 4: I don't know why because there's huge gaps between the
Speaker 4: wires and I Yesterday I was thinking the same things,
Speaker 4: like why don't they just get through the gaps? They
Speaker 4: obviously want to come down here.
Speaker 2: Are they're electrified or is it some kind of like
Speaker 2: force field.
Speaker 5: I think it's building some kind of electric force.
Speaker 2: Or it's like a noise that we aren't aware of.
Speaker 2: But you know, dogs can only hear a certain frequency,
Speaker 2: same with those seagulls or birds where it's like a
Speaker 2: really but what is the I thought the wires were cameras.
Speaker 5: No, no, that's not the spider camera or whatever it is.
Speaker 5: That's something different.
Speaker 4: I think it can't be a noise because they get
Speaker 4: close to it on the top side. They just don't
Speaker 4: ever come under into the ground.
Speaker 2: And what about do you know that in some EPL
Speaker 2: games and like Chelsea match Denit they have patrolling hawks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they have a hawk man. It literally it's got that
Speaker 2: big old swede leather glove. I would follow anyone ever
Speaker 2: if they've got anyone those swede gloves that an hour
Speaker 2: or hawk sits on, that is just an amazing But
Speaker 2: they have hawk man.
Speaker 5: We had wedge tail eagles for a little bit. I
Speaker 5: don't know why they stop it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at the g they used to have two one
Speaker 4: on at either side, like two chees squads?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my, what what for each team? So a
Speaker 2: team which the captor would turn up with that big
Speaker 2: old brown glove and this hawk on his arm, release
Speaker 2: the tiger hawk.
Speaker 5: And whoever caught more seagulls would get more point bonus
Speaker 5: for the gals. And I think they wouldn't fly freely though.
Speaker 5: I think they were tethered to the top of the ground.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so I think.
Speaker 5: That's why they stopped it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cruel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they didn't want him to catch actually catch
Speaker 4: the seagulls and then the dead seagulls would be falling
Speaker 4: from the sky.
Speaker 2: But during a dull game, what a great thing though,
Speaker 2: who watch that catch one? You get bonus price. They
Speaker 2: can turn it into something. Does anyone know why those seagulls?
Speaker 2: And that's our takeaway. That's the kind of footy and
Speaker 2: analysis you get on a Monday on this show. How
Speaker 2: about those seagulls up there? Huh? Forget about the action
Speaker 2: down then? He No seagulls. Why don't they fly under
Speaker 2: those cheese cutting wires?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's got something to do with the
Speaker 5: wires though.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: So on Friday's show, we did make it happen for Divina.
Speaker 2: Divina emailed us Cutle of weeks ago saying, the thing
Speaker 2: I'd love to do on my bucket list is crush
Speaker 2: a car in a tank. Friday it happened. She was
Speaker 2: so happy. I mean, that's the sound of what it's
Speaker 2: like when you're ticking off a big thing you never
Speaker 2: thought you got to do on your bucket list. Happiest
Speaker 2: person in the world in that moment in a fifty
Speaker 2: two ton tank and she crushed not one, but two cars. Amazing.
Speaker 2: There's something just joyous about that. And it's all started
Speaker 2: when Michelle emailed the show about her husband, Dave Sherwood,
Speaker 2: who was going to be turning forty and on his
Speaker 2: bucket list was to throw a TV out of a window,
Speaker 2: and we made that happen. So the tank crashing thing, right,
Speaker 2: took a lot of effort off air. You know, we're
Speaker 2: not going to boy you with how hard we had
Speaker 2: to work, but it took a lot. You know. The
Speaker 2: like five people from this show drove out to Gippsland
Speaker 2: on after Thursday's Breakfast show, a three hour drive out
Speaker 2: there and then obviously you know Friday morn they're in
Speaker 2: a muddy field. There was fog there. You know a
Speaker 2: lot of people went out there to like film it,
Speaker 2: and it's very dangerous, could be very careful conditions that
Speaker 2: you wouldn't normally have when you're doing radio basically. So
Speaker 2: there are people out there on those five male person
Speaker 2: team who all had areas of responsibility. Rea in the
Speaker 2: studio knows where we're going with this. Now you notice
Speaker 2: he's leaning back from that microphone. You'll need that microphone
Speaker 2: in a minute, lad. We had a meeting on Thursday
Speaker 2: right where we said Rio, the reason why you're going
Speaker 2: out there as a producer is to commentate because Divina
Speaker 2: is just going to be so happy. You know, Divina
Speaker 2: is going to be doing this. You are our eyes
Speaker 2: there commentating outside the tank at what we are all
Speaker 2: imagining and seeing the theater of the mind as the saying.
Speaker 5: Rate paint the picture for us. We're not there, so
Speaker 5: tell us what you're seeing.
Speaker 2: So you know you were in that meeting, you heard
Speaker 2: me very clearly say you're going out there for a
Speaker 2: six hour round trip to commentate. You heard me say that. Cool, No,
Speaker 2: because I was just listening back to it over the weekend,
Speaker 2: and I'm hearing large gaps of silence. I mean, he
Speaker 2: could have said something here, there's a gap there. He
Speaker 2: had one job. Well, he's just watching having a good time.
Speaker 2: Is he real? There's their space? Here we go. Essentially,
Speaker 2: we're just hearing some noise. Our guy who's gone out
Speaker 2: there to commentate? You had nothing else to do? The
Speaker 2: everyone else had jobs to do. Holy how guy on here?
Speaker 2: We had this from him?
Speaker 5: Did we send Rio out there to describe what we
Speaker 5: had a meeting yesterday?
Speaker 7: Rio?
Speaker 2: Where are you? Man? You guys were doing great with
Speaker 2: diveated the cars. Can you go out for six hours
Speaker 2: just to watch by what you have to out there?
Speaker 2: But it is an insane in the cars. The last
Speaker 2: ten seconds getting ready to say good bye, you guys
Speaker 2: are doing such a good job.
Speaker 7: Count the second.
Speaker 2: Oh so you know what this is? Rio is looking
Speaker 2: very awkward here. This isn't your fault.
Speaker 5: Oh that's good.
Speaker 2: No, it's not your fault. This is our This is
Speaker 2: my fault. Oh cool.
Speaker 5: I wasn't going to say that, but if you're happy
Speaker 5: to say it, I am, and we can.
Speaker 2: Just know it actually is Rio? What is this is?
Speaker 2: A lack of training. I feel like I've let you down. No,
Speaker 2: it is, and I take full responsibility because we can't
Speaker 2: expect you to go out there and do that without
Speaker 2: proper training. I'd like to apologize to you. RhE, I
Speaker 2: think I've let you down. It's a negligent care of duty.
Speaker 5: We've thrown you in the deep end. We don't even
Speaker 5: know if you can swim yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what we'd like to do is you need
Speaker 2: more training so this can never happen again. We don't
Speaker 2: want to be in a situation where this has happening.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're having a good time staring at a field.
Speaker 2: Training should have kicked in here.
Speaker 8: That is.
Speaker 2: So rio. What I'd love to do is for you
Speaker 2: never to be in that situation again.
Speaker 5: But thank you so much.
Speaker 2: No, that's great. So tomorrow morning it's training. We'd love
Speaker 2: you to go out onto the streets of Melbourne on
Speaker 2: the phones. We're sharpening up skills that I think a
Speaker 2: doormant that just need training up. Don't they chat you
Speaker 2: would have? You've done years with Hamish Shenandy, been trained
Speaker 2: by them before.
Speaker 5: You be a man on the street, before you can
Speaker 5: be a man in the studio.
Speaker 2: To be the sharpest blade, you must be forged in
Speaker 2: the fire. And tomorrow you're going into the fire.
Speaker 5: And am I going to get training before going into
Speaker 5: the fire.
Speaker 2: The best way to do training, I always think it
Speaker 2: is to be thrown off a cliff and build wings
Speaker 2: on the way down Rio. Tomorrow, you're going to go
Speaker 2: out to the bus stops of Melbourne. Melbourne has some great.
Speaker 4: Bus stops and we have the ever check in with
Speaker 4: the bus stop for Melbourne.
Speaker 2: You know you're going out to the bus stops of
Speaker 2: Melbourne and you're going to get on a bus. I
Speaker 2: want you on that bus. You're just going to commentate
Speaker 2: on the radio about what you can see on that
Speaker 2: their bus and this will sharpen up your skills.
Speaker 5: I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I was hoping to thank you, thank you, my mentor
Speaker 2: for training me up. As you go out into the
Speaker 2: I've think we've got some production here. There is a
Speaker 2: song called bus stop and they said you've got to
Speaker 2: learn this by the way to sing on the bus
Speaker 2: Tomorrow bus stops are red singing OREO to do the
Speaker 2: bus stop again.
Speaker 1: That's it, Jack, Patty join in.
Speaker 2: Are you rete to do the bus tomorrow morning?
Speaker 5: You will be doing.
Speaker 2: So tomorrow morning. Yeah, you go to the bus stops
Speaker 2: of Melbourne. Okay, to do the bus stop. You got it,
Speaker 2: my friend, you're the bus start just say this one's
Speaker 2: just one e rear. You should know the words by now.
Speaker 2: He comes in three seconds. There he is. He knows
Speaker 2: his song faster. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: That's it?
Speaker 2: Then he goes around once more. Okays, bust up? Are
Speaker 2: you ready?
Speaker 1: Cut up?
Speaker 2: All right, so you've got twenty four hours to learn
Speaker 2: this sting tune. But tomorrow morning on the show. Then
Speaker 2: you're out to the bus stops. Yeah, thank you so much. Training,
Speaker 2: you know, you know, you're like you're like, I'm like
Speaker 2: your Yoda. Okay to your young Luke. Okay, you need
Speaker 2: to be trained up. So tomorrow you just go on
Speaker 2: the bust and then live on it. Just describe what's
Speaker 2: going around, what color cars, stuff like that, who's driving them,
Speaker 2: how do they look. It's really the extraor the mine
Speaker 2: is sharpening up those skills.
Speaker 4: And if you still don't feel like you're ready by
Speaker 4: the end of tomorrow's show, the train stations of Melbourne
Speaker 4: await you on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Wednesday, the trains tram Thursday it's all there for you. Rioh,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show.
Speaker 2: Podcast every Sunday, every single Sunday. Since the moment I
Speaker 2: left home when I was eighteen, I always call back home.
Speaker 2: Still do that even Australia. I've been doing it since
Speaker 2: the age of eighteen now forty eight and so yes,
Speaker 2: I was catchup my dad and we was talking about
Speaker 2: the funeral of Prince Philip and he was saying how
Speaker 2: it's been extraordinary in the UK right. Obviously there's wall
Speaker 2: to all coverage. There were in the BBC drop programs
Speaker 2: for like days to cover everything that was going on,
Speaker 2: even though there really wasn't a lot going on before
Speaker 2: the funeral anyway, it's because the BBC obviously has all
Speaker 2: this protocol they observed and that there have been one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand you know, there were a lot of people, yes,
Speaker 2: at the g seventy three thousand people and that's a
Speaker 2: lot of people. Imagine one hundred thousand people complaining all
Speaker 2: about one thing. They were going, yeah, it's sad about
Speaker 2: the old guy die. We were meant to watch the
Speaker 2: final of Master Chef. One hundred thousand people complaining to
Speaker 2: the BBC about where is the final of Master Chef?
Speaker 5: What do they take TV off the air while they're
Speaker 5: in their period of morning.
Speaker 2: Everyone was going, yes, it's very sad about but who's
Speaker 2: going to win the final of Master Chef? We been
Speaker 2: watching the last eight weeks and they canceled it. They
Speaker 2: showed it like three days later. People were in this
Speaker 2: we take cooking. It shows very sis. In the UK,
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand people complain to the BBC about it.
Speaker 2: What late.
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: Emails over the weekend late to the party, Christian, I wish,
Speaker 2: for the life of me, I could remember the name
Speaker 2: of a segment you used to do with various strange
Speaker 2: flavor combinations. I think you mean Michelle snat Genius. It
Speaker 2: was last year or even the year before. There was
Speaker 2: a guy you had on who recommended Sultan vinegar chips.
Speaker 2: This was the thing we used to do where you
Speaker 2: would recommend your strange flavor combinations. We will pick two
Speaker 2: and make them ourselves and give them other double thumbs
Speaker 2: up or down for a snack. Genius, Christian. There was
Speaker 2: something on there where a guy recommended sort of viingar
Speaker 2: chips with chicken twisty combo. Vaguely remember this well. We
Speaker 2: tried this over the weekend. It was very nice, but
Speaker 2: we took his sort of vingar chips and added a
Speaker 2: box of cheesels. We tried the twisty combos in both flavors,
Speaker 2: but discovered cheesels in the mix. Halle Lulia highly recommended
Speaker 2: that you guys try this. Not great for the waste,
Speaker 2: but the food combo and the Hallelulia in unlocks is incredible.
Speaker 2: That's from Michelle. We got to open it back up
Speaker 2: that we need to try this again. I do remember
Speaker 2: a couple of weeksky I tried my own snack genius.
Speaker 2: I bought some chips and the fish and chip shops
Speaker 2: and the really hot chips. I noticed I had some
Speaker 2: leftover spaghetti bolognaise, but just the sauce. I put the
Speaker 2: put hot cheese on the chips in the microwave with
Speaker 2: the bolignaise sauce and made what I can only describe
Speaker 2: as genius.
Speaker 5: It actually sounds good.
Speaker 2: I would have won. I would have won Master chefferd
Speaker 2: this email. Here was it? Last week on the show,
Speaker 2: we were doing Famous in the gym. Yes after producer
Speaker 2: Tom reckons he saw Bruce Springsteen working out in your
Speaker 2: normal gym.
Speaker 5: The morning, the morning of a concert.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Christian, I can corroborate, good word. I can corroborate
Speaker 2: the Bruce Springsteen sighting my brother in laws in Perth
Speaker 2: four or five years ago, and that's when Tommy thought
Speaker 2: this was he also saw Bruce on the loose. There's
Speaker 2: a new game there, Bruce on the loose, Bruce on
Speaker 2: He confirmed seeing Bruce on the loose in the gym
Speaker 2: in Perth. They ignored each other. You're right, brother in law,
Speaker 2: because they knew each other and they don't even need
Speaker 2: to say hello, respectful of each other's prowess. I promise
Speaker 2: if my brother in law ever says Spruce on the
Speaker 2: LuSE again in Perth, he will call and try and
Speaker 2: win twenty thousand dollars for the charter of It's choice.
Speaker 2: Who's calling, Christian Alistair, Thank you very very much if
Speaker 2: you want to email the show, but anything you've heard
Speaker 2: us talking about slack genius some a year and a
Speaker 2: half ago, Christian at christiano'connell dot com dot au.
Speaker 1: Thanks Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Every Monday, we go around the team. We try and
Speaker 2: pick a song that sums up our weekend Patsy, what's
Speaker 2: the view? How's your weekend?
Speaker 3: Mate had a great weekend and this is my song
Speaker 3: from the weekend. It's oh so quiet. So Saturday morning
Speaker 3: we all had a bit of a sleeping but that
Speaker 3: meant that we have swimming lessons. You know, Saturday is
Speaker 3: like all of you, Yeah, stand on the docky pad
Speaker 3: at the moment.
Speaker 5: You used to kickboard.
Speaker 3: Chris nine year old does Saturday is you know sport.
Speaker 3: It's like back to back sport. Yeah, it's a busy itinery. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we had swimming. We slept in, so basically we had
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes to get ready to go to the pool.
Speaker 2: So when you're saying slept in, what time is it?
Speaker 2: Because people should know you get up earlyer than anybody
Speaker 2: else on this team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got apply quarter past nine.
Speaker 2: You live in Tasmania, so she's really early getting that
Speaker 2: old ferry every day to come over to our hear
Speaker 2: and Richmond. But you do get up really early. So
Speaker 2: what was your lying until.
Speaker 3: Yeah about nine fifteen?
Speaker 7: Holiday?
Speaker 2: Well, I could never do that either.
Speaker 3: We haven't done that for ages anyway, all of us
Speaker 3: did so basically at like nine thirty. Chris, who drives
Speaker 3: you know, like head of the family says, okay, we've got.
Speaker 2: It's such a nineties eighties family, isn't it. Head of family?
Speaker 2: The father will drive farther, always drives this revolutionary talk,
Speaker 2: the feminarties. Father drives in this house. It's the way
Speaker 2: it's It is the way it'll always be.
Speaker 3: We've got fifteen minutes to get ready.
Speaker 5: Everyone needs to be ready or we're going to be late.
Speaker 2: Right father is waiting there se behind the world.
Speaker 5: If that doesn't wake us up to stand bed.
Speaker 2: Ostious nominated Chris is life story the Father about Chris
Speaker 2: in that driving seat.
Speaker 3: There's method to his madness driving Miss Patsy because he
Speaker 3: can project and know exactly what's going to happen. So
Speaker 3: I said, okay, I'm going to have a quick five
Speaker 3: minute shower. He said no.
Speaker 2: I say, why would he sign off that no woman
Speaker 2: can have a five minute shower?
Speaker 3: He said, no, Petrini, you have not got time to shower.
Speaker 3: And I said, well, what time are we leaving? He said,
Speaker 3: the bus is leaving at nine forty five. It is
Speaker 3: now nine thirty five. I said, five minutes. I have
Speaker 3: a quick shower, check on my tracksuit. Trust me, I
Speaker 3: will be reading off a transcript.
Speaker 2: Because it felt like, now we're really in this hyper detail.
Speaker 2: And I said to what did he say that? I
Speaker 2: told him the details?
Speaker 5: Really? Did you get that? Stenographer? Just read that back
Speaker 5: to me? Anyway?
Speaker 2: I go for the record to father, Sorry, carry on,
Speaker 2: it's thirty five wheels up, but nine forty.
Speaker 3: Five, Yes, so I've got my share. At nine thirty five.
Speaker 3: I was out and dressed by nine forty.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, that's huge. That's why I did it.
Speaker 3: But they were gone already.
Speaker 2: They left with me just to celebrate that. I wish
Speaker 2: I had the bulls to do that, never ever doing that.
Speaker 5: Left without me, not even hay.
Speaker 7: Leaving now.
Speaker 2: Far away, so no one quick ordering the car with hand.
Speaker 5: They got five minutes to escape.
Speaker 3: I heard crickets in the house. They had left without me.
Speaker 2: They crept out, and I was on time in the
Speaker 2: bus the bus. I was on time. Oh no, what
Speaker 2: did you must have been so upset?
Speaker 3: Well, I was because I always go to a sport.
Speaker 2: I always I'm on. Be honest, Be honest about your
Speaker 2: first reaction. Be honest. Now what you can't hear? This
Speaker 2: was utter relief?
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't.
Speaker 5: You got a free morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Saturday morning with swimming all the that's stinking of Paul.
Speaker 2: You're not in your baby there with your clothes on.
Speaker 2: It's horrible, horrible start your weekend. No human should that
Speaker 2: might be relieved. I fall to my knees. Thank you, bod.
Speaker 3: I should have, but I stupidly got in my car
Speaker 3: and so I drove.
Speaker 1: Around corning.
Speaker 2: Bibles, backyards. Time Chris off All get here Christian Christian
Speaker 2: O'Connell show, Pat He's got Lucky Saturday morning, then left
Speaker 2: behind while her husband took Awdy off to the swimming
Speaker 2: lesson for Saturday Sports. Honestly, I'm jealous, Pats. I remember
Speaker 2: when my kids were gonna have to do that Saturday thing.
Speaker 2: I'll go and watch them swimming that stinking not pool
Speaker 2: on your clothes. I remember one Saturday, right the kids,
Speaker 2: it was my turn to go right well, the kids
Speaker 2: said to my wife, Oh, dad didn't even watch me.
Speaker 2: He was spending ages chatting up all the other moms.
Speaker 5: That because that's the best place to pick up people
Speaker 5: Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: I think ever happened to my wife? How do you
Speaker 2: think about you? And I came fifth Jackie Boy washed
Speaker 2: a song what's the song? Further sums up your weekend, Jack.
Speaker 4: Well, I feel lucky this weekend as well because I
Speaker 4: got to go to the big Anzac Day clash yesterday
Speaker 4: and I didn't expect to because I hadn't got tickets.
Speaker 4: It was sold out well before the game started. And
Speaker 4: on Saturday night I got a text from my mate
Speaker 4: who we go to games with, who said, hey, I've
Speaker 4: got three tickets.
Speaker 5: Do you want to go to the footy?
Speaker 4: I've thought great, he texted back straight away, And then
Speaker 4: I thought and realized there's four of us in the
Speaker 4: friendship group that go for the Bombers, and whenever we
Speaker 4: go to the game, all four of us go together
Speaker 4: since childhood. We've known each other.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 5: He's been given three tickets by you know, a friend
Speaker 5: of the family.
Speaker 2: This is tough. It's a Sophie's choice, isn't it.
Speaker 4: It is a real So it felt like a weird
Speaker 4: friendship tribal council. And that's why the survivor theme is
Speaker 4: my son for the wet nds.
Speaker 2: Welcome to bumba idem All right, I had only three
Speaker 2: went off to the g So what do you fight
Speaker 2: each other? What do you have to do.
Speaker 4: I think I was lucky I got the first text.
Speaker 4: I think I was lucky because I live right around
Speaker 4: the corner from my mate.
Speaker 2: You know why you got the invite? Shows chilling? Yeah,
Speaker 2: hanging with him and Andy here, get us in with
Speaker 2: the team. Yeah, postman goes up first. I get it.
Speaker 4: No, I honestly, I live right around the corner for
Speaker 4: you know he's I bet he's that. I would just
Speaker 4: look out the window and see him walk into the
Speaker 4: station in his bomber jumper, and yeah, it's too risky
Speaker 4: for him not to invite me.
Speaker 2: Just actually spend your weekend standing at the window looking
Speaker 2: for mates. I'll play by yourself, Posty. They call him.
Speaker 2: Go around the back of his house, down the same
Speaker 2: way you find us.
Speaker 4: I sadly, our friend Gabriel did not make it to
Speaker 4: the game. He's a great friend of ours, and he missed.
Speaker 2: How do you think what went? What took it from
Speaker 2: four to three? How did do you think your mate
Speaker 2: made it call?
Speaker 4: That's an awkward situation for my mate Matt, who got
Speaker 4: the tickets to sort out. I don't have to really
Speaker 4: speak to Gabriel about why he wasn't chosen.
Speaker 2: This boyhood friendship group apart.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe it's a location thing because our friend Gabriel
Speaker 4: moved down to the South Side.
Speaker 2: He lives inisif of Ascomo press conference.
Speaker 5: Now out of sight, out of my.
Speaker 2: Brutal and not just that you put some lovely photo
Speaker 2: up on Instagram. Gabe will be following you, like, here's
Speaker 2: what you could have won, Gabe.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Christian o'connells Show podcast.
Speaker 2: My weekend had two like a footy gamer two two
Speaker 2: very distinct halfs. Saturday was amazing, saturd night great at
Speaker 2: the g see the d's go six and zero. And
Speaker 2: then there was yesterday. Yesterday felt like and every single
Speaker 2: mom and dad were teenage children. You'll have had a
Speaker 2: day like my wife and I yesterday where you actually
Speaker 2: feel like they got together night before and went, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: when they wake up, let's just screw with them. Every
Speaker 2: single minute of the day a constant battle. I felt
Speaker 2: like I was behind a barricade that hadn't been asked
Speaker 2: to be behind. I woke up with nice intentions and
Speaker 2: said to my wife, why we wake the kids up
Speaker 2: a bit earlier and all go out for breakfast together.
Speaker 2: Next thing we know we're having a massive, full scale
Speaker 2: family argument that we may need to have family therapy
Speaker 2: together on the beach with the dogs. And I'm sometimes
Speaker 2: you're in an argument and you rise above it, or
Speaker 2: you're thinking, what are we arguing about? And at one
Speaker 2: moment I hear my wife yelling at me, Chris, Chris,
Speaker 2: what do you think? Back me up here? And the
Speaker 2: kids look at me and they're like looking at me,
Speaker 2: going grow some balls down. They don't know what's the
Speaker 2: right answer.
Speaker 5: You just walk into the ocean.
Speaker 2: Going, just keep going, a constant running battle. Yesterday and
Speaker 2: then it peaked at four o'clock and this is the
Speaker 2: song that sums up yesterday, the power out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: Both of our daughters, we've conceded with the piercings like
Speaker 2: pincushions they've got. I thought was ear rings, okay. Then
Speaker 2: it was like we want seconds. All of our friends
Speaker 2: have got seconds, which means two piercings in the years.
Speaker 2: And then it was the nose piercing, right, and this
Speaker 2: we weirdly struggling wife and I. Wife and I were like,
Speaker 2: this will affect your chances of employment when you're older.
Speaker 2: You'll be judged if you go to run a law firm, Google,
Speaker 2: Barkley and Mongo. They will take one look at this
Speaker 2: and sa'll not represent this firm. And they were like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to work is some stuffy old law firm,
Speaker 2: you know? And then I made the mistake of going, actually,
Speaker 2: my world, there are loads of it. Were piercings. You
Speaker 2: don't even think twice about. One's glaring at me like
Speaker 2: wrong answer, yes, sir. At four o'clock one of the
Speaker 2: kids can't name them, cannot name them. One then goes, oh,
Speaker 2: if I don't sort this nose pissing out, They're sending
Speaker 2: me home from school tomorrow. I'm like, what, Yeah, they've
Speaker 2: got a school rule about you know those piercings cover
Speaker 2: them up or have like a sea through one. I'm like, well, look,
Speaker 2: sometimes in life there are just rules. You've got to
Speaker 2: pick your battles. An hour and a half we had
Speaker 2: talk about why schools, why the world has rules?
Speaker 5: Well, you didn't make the rules of school. That's not
Speaker 5: your fault.
Speaker 2: But you know who I am in this situation they're
Speaker 2: projecting me. I am the man. Like I said, I
Speaker 2: don't want to represent the man.
Speaker 1: I'm the man.
Speaker 2: I'm the man, and then you am the man, and
Speaker 2: I'm not really a man. I'm barely a man anatomically.
Speaker 2: It's the only thing that makes me a man. Something. Yes,
Speaker 2: so it's a bed of sack shell of a man
Speaker 2: that woke up. They were like, yeah, I was yet
Speaker 2: sent home from school. No, no, that is that is
Speaker 2: not there are there are rules in life. You don't
Speaker 2: have rules, and I went I do. Actually there are rules.
Speaker 2: Even in my job. There are hard rules where you
Speaker 2: come up against it. And that's the world. There are
Speaker 2: gonna be sometimes where they don't make any sense for you.
Speaker 2: But the world and this is a really horrible thing
Speaker 2: if you do understand, but the world isn't actually made
Speaker 2: for us. We have to try and carve out our
Speaker 2: own way in it. And sometimes there becomes well you
Speaker 2: can't carve anymore, and you've got to work out your
Speaker 2: own bit of independence. You've got to you've got to
Speaker 2: sort the nose ring out. They don't They will send
Speaker 2: you home.
Speaker 4: But they are the protest generation. Like anytime they come
Speaker 4: up against something they're not happy with, they're like, well,
Speaker 4: I'll take a stand, I won't go to school.
Speaker 2: Well I said this. I didn't want to crush them, okay,
Speaker 2: because actually is really interesting one. Everyone wants to have
Speaker 2: their voice felt, and they should do. I said, why
Speaker 2: didn't you ask to sit down with the school and
Speaker 2: just explain your viewpoints out? I respect you have to
Speaker 2: have rules. Could we just have a conversation, a dialog about.
Speaker 4: Essentially taking the argument we're having now between dad and
Speaker 4: daughter and take that to the school?
Speaker 2: Well known, Jackie, by your rules, not my school. I
Speaker 2: had him to you for a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: You sort it out.
Speaker 2: Why am I going to sort this out? Oh? There
Speaker 2: have been in the morning for me sometimes this show anyway,
Speaker 2: I remember, did you have any piercings as a kid?
Speaker 2: I my mate, right, Toby Pierce, my em I got
Speaker 2: my ear pierce when I was sixteen, and he did
Speaker 2: it diy. We did a couple of beers and he
Speaker 2: got a clothes peg that put left it on there
Speaker 2: for about five minutes, took the clothes peg off, got
Speaker 2: a safety pin and put it through. Do not do this.
Speaker 2: I got a severe infection and had to go to hospital. Right,
Speaker 2: I had to have some injections of blood poisoning. Another
Speaker 2: mate of mine he got two frozen sausages either side
Speaker 2: of his isn't it the same thing? Safety pin through it?
Speaker 2: Did you have any piercings?
Speaker 4: My mum and dad were pretty lenient, but the only
Speaker 4: thing they do he said no to a piercing I
Speaker 4: wanted to get, and then thank god I didn't get.
Speaker 5: Eyebrow piercing. And they said, part of.
Speaker 2: Me wish is we could go back in a time machine.
Speaker 2: I pay your mum and Dug some money so that
Speaker 2: we could just see the photo of you with a
Speaker 2: bin in her ice baby and eyebrown piercing. Aren't you relieved?
Speaker 2: Sometimes for the nose? All right? Teenage rebellion smash the system.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell shoe podcast.
Speaker 2: Last this morning. How do you rebel as a teenager? Christian?
Speaker 2: I also pitched my own ears. My parents didn't even notice.
Speaker 2: Parents were a lot slacker in the eighties. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: is certainly true. I brought it, brought a motorbike without
Speaker 2: to my parents didn't go well when they finally found out,
Speaker 2: how do you hi?
Speaker 5: How do you conceal that around your mate?
Speaker 2: You walking around? Then then get it on the hog.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you hide a motorbike, Christian. I
Speaker 2: also pierced my ear and my mom went so mad.
Speaker 2: She thought it was common. She didn't speak one word
Speaker 2: to me for a fortnight. Do you have that there
Speaker 2: was other words to get in the silent treatment, Sarah.
Speaker 2: My parents were called socialists, so my sister and I
Speaker 2: rebel by studying law and science and working for the
Speaker 2: financial sector, an oil industry. You've got to take Romanian
Speaker 2: wins wherever you can, Sarah. That's amazing. You became the man. Listen. Kay,
Speaker 2: I got a text to my daughter a couple of
Speaker 2: months ago to say she just had a nipples pissed.
Speaker 2: All I could reply was, oh, all right, let's go
Speaker 2: to lines now we got Katherine. Good morning, Catherine, Good morning. Hey.
Speaker 2: Have you had a great weekend? Catherine? How did you
Speaker 2: rebel as a teenager?
Speaker 6: Well, when I was in high school, and perhaps I
Speaker 6: may have been underage at this point, a friend of
Speaker 6: mine always had her parents away at holiday houses, so
Speaker 6: we would have some sneaky parties at her place, and
Speaker 6: I would tell my parents that, oh, it was pizza
Speaker 6: and DBD nights and we were just having girls nights
Speaker 6: just at her place, just a few of us girls.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The best friends were always the ones whose parents
Speaker 2: used to go away off for the weekends. You know,
Speaker 2: the kids keep encouraging us to go away for the weekend.
Speaker 2: It went for me none on this.
Speaker 8: Well never, when opportunity knocks, you've got to take the call.
Speaker 9: And so we did.
Speaker 8: And at my twenty first birthday, that friend went up
Speaker 8: to my parents and said, you know, all those nights
Speaker 8: we had pizzer and DVD actually we.
Speaker 9: Were having parties with boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't do that. That's shocking, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: She called have a good week, Heather, good morning. She
Speaker 2: didn't know that chat. I don't want to. So the
Speaker 2: whole studio shook them with iron man posts. So it's
Speaker 2: fast through it there.
Speaker 5: Heather is ready to say.
Speaker 2: You know, Heather, good morning, Good morning Heather. How do
Speaker 2: you rebel as a teenager? Mate?
Speaker 9: I wouldn't recommend it now, but I to steal my
Speaker 9: dad's cigarette in the middle of the night and then
Speaker 9: go and stand on the toy street and blows the
Speaker 9: cigarette up into the sta.
Speaker 2: The fact this is like you know, being bathed in
Speaker 2: the moonlight at midnight. You were having a cheeky fag.
Speaker 9: A cigy Yeah, well, I've liked them with matches and
Speaker 9: throw the matches out the window and wrapped this cigarette
Speaker 9: in a toilet paper. But what I didn't realize is
Speaker 9: my dad had the window was covered, so all the
Speaker 9: matches were building up, and when my dad went to
Speaker 9: paint he found them and I blamed.
Speaker 2: Of course you did, that's right, he Thank you very much. Cool,
Speaker 2: have a good week.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show.
Speaker 2: Yo, momma highlights me over the weekend was getting to
Speaker 2: hear the story about some of you may be familiar
Speaker 2: with this man, Curtis McGrath. Saturday night, Like I said
Speaker 2: at the start of the show, that my wife and
Speaker 2: I have invited to some dinner before going to watch
Speaker 2: the DS game at the MCG by the MCC and
Speaker 2: obviously this was the big game on the eve of
Speaker 2: Anzac Day and one of the people who was a
Speaker 2: guest inn room was a manage just as Curtis McGrath,
Speaker 2: and I guess he's straight away. He was paralympium and
Speaker 2: a gold medalist in twenty sixteen in the kayaking. This
Speaker 2: guy was there because to talk about how you know,
Speaker 2: we always have to on Anzac Day and over the
Speaker 2: weekend remember those who sacrificed their life. There are also
Speaker 2: a lot of veterans and injured army person as well,
Speaker 2: of which Kurtis is one of them. This is amazing
Speaker 2: his story. Do you guys know about this guy? N
Speaker 2: I was literally blown away. You know, sometimes you can
Speaker 2: we take our lives for granted, right, It almost becomes
Speaker 2: an ordeal. Everything is an all dinner. I've got to
Speaker 2: go and do this. Oh, how are we going to
Speaker 2: get out of here? It's raining? And then I heard
Speaker 2: his story and I was a completely different lens of
Speaker 2: my own life and how lucky we are. This guy
Speaker 2: was in the army. He was offered the chance to
Speaker 2: go out he's a combat engineer, to go out to Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: He didn't have to go. He was offered a chance
Speaker 2: to go, so he didn't really have to go, but
Speaker 2: he chose as what he signed up for. This is
Speaker 2: what we go for. So he went out to do
Speaker 2: with and he had in Afghanistan, which is one of
Speaker 2: the most dangerous jobs to do. You have to go
Speaker 2: and clear for lambmites. He triggered off an ied on
Speaker 2: these improvised explosive devices and in an instant his life changed.
Speaker 2: Both of his legs beneath the lee and knee were
Speaker 2: blowing off right, and you know when you go, I
Speaker 2: can't even imagine the pain. We can't can't think that
Speaker 2: the most amount of pain we've ever been in. That
Speaker 2: isn't that? So he said, At first, it was just
Speaker 2: that this numbing shock as he prompts himself up on
Speaker 2: one elbow, and there's like debringing dir all over him.
Speaker 2: He managed to prop himself on one elbow and not
Speaker 2: quite understanding what just happened. In a heartbeat, and then
Speaker 2: he says that his legs are next to him, they're
Speaker 2: not connected to him, and then suddenly there's this unbelievable
Speaker 2: pain and he reelis a straight away. He's with two
Speaker 2: or three others in his unit. They're very inexperienced. He's
Speaker 2: the trained first aida, but he's just lost both of
Speaker 2: his legs and he's now bleeding out rapidly, and he
Speaker 2: realizes that the next couple of minutes with that, he's
Speaker 2: either going to lose his life. He has to tell
Speaker 2: them what to do. Imagine that in that spit second,
Speaker 2: you've got to realize, I'm going to have to take
Speaker 2: charge of my own destiny right now. So he's lying there,
Speaker 2: his legs have been blown off he has to tell
Speaker 2: them what amount of morphine to put in, how to
Speaker 2: apply the tornt case. While he's got all the pain
Speaker 2: going on. He does this, he also realizes, like the
Speaker 2: helicopters gon a minute, they will take him to an
Speaker 2: army base. He'll be transferred to people who haven't got
Speaker 2: time to understand how much morphine he's already have, and
Speaker 2: if they administer too much they will kill him. So
Speaker 2: these seconds of all this information in a war zone,
Speaker 2: active war zone, he has to tell these guys. He's
Speaker 2: yelling at them right to tear his clothes off helf's chest,
Speaker 2: because they will do that on the airplane, right on
Speaker 2: him in sharpie, how much morphine, what his vitals are
Speaker 2: so they can see it immediately, to keep him alive.
Speaker 2: So this is going to all this is going on.
Speaker 2: He does get airvax right nineteen minutes, they're with him
Speaker 2: right plying his torner case. They keep them alive. The
Speaker 2: last word he says to his comrades in that moment
Speaker 2: is I guess you'll see me at the Paralympics. As
Speaker 2: a bit of banter. Four years later, four years later,
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, we can't imagine what's like to be rehabilitate
Speaker 2: that he just gets into sport again as a way
Speaker 2: to give himself purpose in his life and it ignites
Speaker 2: something in it. Four years after losing his legs beneath
Speaker 2: the knee, he wins gold at the twenty sixteen Para Olympics.
Speaker 5: What a story story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and at the closing ceremony, right, he's holding the
Speaker 2: flag for Australia.
Speaker 5: Isn't that amazing? We Go, is he going to Tokyo?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: We I was just literally blown away by a story.
Speaker 2: And he was saying, how when he got on this
Speaker 2: plane to Germany, right where there's this state of the
Speaker 2: art facility that saved people's lives who've had awful injuries
Speaker 2: like Curtis, he just thought to himself, well, I'll be
Speaker 2: the worst one on the plane. He said, I wasn't
Speaker 2: on this plane. Imagine this. I didn't know this happened
Speaker 2: on this plane. Inside a plane, there are actual makeshift
Speaker 2: operating theaters. And he said, while he's there, they're doing
Speaker 2: absolutely like ten hour eleven hour operation surgeons up in
Speaker 2: the air at thirty thousand feet. You know, we're there
Speaker 2: having our slacks and drinks and you get nudged around.
Speaker 2: How are you? How is that even happened? I didn't
Speaker 2: even know they actually did stuff like that, he said,
Speaker 2: he wasn't the worst. By long stretching, he realized I'm alive.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get through this. But yeah, Curtis McGrath,
Speaker 2: if you're feeling today on a Monday, like we all
Speaker 2: do sometimes, like oh my god, it's a Monday, it's
Speaker 2: a start of the week. I've got the dentist tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Just think about that. Sometimes we take it all for granted.
Speaker 2: How lucky we are to actually be alive. So yeah,
Speaker 2: look it up online. It's an amazing story. I think
Speaker 2: he's written a book about it as one rightly so,
Speaker 2: Curtis McGrath, we'll see him in Tokyo. The Christian o'connells
Speaker 2: Show podcast Monday Morning, let's do it. It's just another
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Speaker 2: On Friday Show. This is the joy sound. This is
Speaker 2: actually what it sounds like. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 2: whether it's bliss, but anyways, Devena in a tank, in
Speaker 2: a fifty two ton tank crushing two cars live on
Speaker 2: Friday Show, ticking off her bucket list.
Speaker 4: You can see the videos and photos of her on
Speaker 4: our Facebook pageant Instagram and that is pure joy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a great photo of her at the
Speaker 2: end of it. She's got double thumbs up. Right, you're
Speaker 2: not let you a kid on Christmas Day with the
Speaker 2: brand new bike, right, double thumbs up, grinning from it
Speaker 2: to ear a real big grin. It actually cheers you up.
Speaker 2: This all started then us trying to tick off a
Speaker 2: makeap and for you bucket list. Things. When we heard
Speaker 2: about Dave Sherwood who was turning forty, his wife Michelle say,
Speaker 2: could you help me? His bucket list is quite unusual
Speaker 2: one when he turns forty on a Friday, he'd love
Speaker 2: to be like a rock star. Through a TV through
Speaker 2: a window. We found a house, second floor, big old
Speaker 2: TV donate by you guys. And this is what sounded like.
Speaker 2: That is what it sounds like, a TV going through
Speaker 2: a window. And then now we went on to Divina.
Speaker 2: So we managed to get hold of the tank, We
Speaker 2: managed to get hold of cars donated by you guys.
Speaker 2: What can we make happen for you? This comes from
Speaker 2: Pauline Christian just got to work Friday morning after listen
Speaker 2: to Divina on the show loved him. I'm turning the
Speaker 2: Big six to so this year. The big thing I'd
Speaker 2: love in my bucket this is a full on pie fight.
Speaker 2: You know you've seen this in movies, custard pie fight.
Speaker 2: You don't do that in movies anymore. They now, what
Speaker 2: was the last time you saw a full on pie fight?
Speaker 2: Not in the last what two decades in movie making?
Speaker 2: I have plenties rellies, friends and workmates, so love to
Speaker 2: join in and you guys could too as well. That's
Speaker 2: from Pauline Christian. I've been listening to make it happen
Speaker 2: on the bucket list, and why I'd I'd love to
Speaker 2: do is swim with sharks. They're always fascinated me and
Speaker 2: I'd love to look one straight in the eye. I
Speaker 2: don't think they offer that experience. We can gather and
Speaker 2: just look it in the eye, you know, stare one
Speaker 2: out who blinks first. Not sure how it would sound
Speaker 2: on the radio. Well, producer Rio, we know what he
Speaker 2: did with them, went all that way to commentate and said,
Speaker 2: nothing is take a microphone down there and go I toy'.
Speaker 5: Looking at the shark right now?
Speaker 2: Yes, whoa all? The shark just blinked and you know
Speaker 2: they blinked. But I do love this one for Megan Christian.
Speaker 2: After the trouvel in the world and living in other countries,
Speaker 2: now back home in Australia for fourteen years, I'm settled
Speaker 2: into the life of a mother and wife. However, what
Speaker 2: I'd love to do for my fiftieth birthday this year
Speaker 2: is blow something up. I mean, we've done this, We've
Speaker 2: done this. I think it's about leveling up now, guys,
Speaker 2: whether it be participating in a deminition of a building
Speaker 2: or blowing up a car. As long as it's a
Speaker 2: big explosion, I don't care. Please help me shed my
Speaker 2: hon drum existence for my fiftieth and let me start
Speaker 2: a new decade with a big bang. Megan, this is
Speaker 2: a great one. I don't know. I don't know how
Speaker 2: we go about getting this show anywhere near explosives? Do
Speaker 2: you imagine all the paper what the team had to
Speaker 2: do to go anywhere near a fifty two ton tank
Speaker 2: in a muddy field. Hugely dangerous. It can crush a car,
Speaker 2: It could easily crush this little team. How do we
Speaker 2: get anywhere near explosives? But anyway, Megan, I love it.
Speaker 2: And if you've got any and you'll listen to this,
Speaker 2: email me Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au Christian, Hello,
Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell Show Podcast in a city obsessed fueled by
Speaker 2: caffeine and coffee. Today is Thank your Barista Day. How
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Speaker 3: Not today, I haven't, but I have previously.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, he's a pride. Thank you. That's the way
Speaker 2: Patsy works. If she said, happy birthday to you once
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. I'll never expect it again.
Speaker 5: That thank you, omar. That should last you a month.
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Speaker 2: our team half of us don't drink coffee. You don't
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Speaker 5: No, I don't drink. I feel jittery if I drink coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm terrible. Yeah, whereas you chug it? No?
Speaker 3: On, this is my second actually third coffee bag for
Speaker 3: the day. But once the show is there's a coffee bag.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They're brilliant, really yes, yes, Robert Harrett said his name, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm afraid that's number two. My son effects thirty five percent,
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