Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: One thousand dollars up for grabs.
Speaker 3: Three ways you can win the money and share your stories,
Speaker 3: unusual dates you've been on, Things that old people love?
Speaker 2: And what happened on your school trip? Good morning, Olie,
Speaker 2: good morning?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: We're good?
Speaker 3: Oni, welcome to show. You had a good week? And
Speaker 3: which one are you calling in?
Speaker 2: About?
Speaker 4: What old people love?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What do old people love?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: I do a lot of work in people's homes, and
Speaker 4: I do a lot of elderly and I always find
Speaker 4: they love bridge magnets.
Speaker 2: What is the accumulation of them? You like tons of them?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 4: Yeah, their bridges are just chokers. They're full of them.
Speaker 5: Maybe because you've lived a long and successful life, you
Speaker 5: get the more magnets.
Speaker 2: If it's just adds up over the decades, right, But yeah,
Speaker 2: are you right?
Speaker 5: I'm thinking of my grandparents and their fridge head so magic.
Speaker 3: They use the magnets for healing when we're not there.
Speaker 3: They're placing them on on authoritic joints.
Speaker 2: That's a great one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've always got like the magnet for the doctor
Speaker 4: or a trade. I guess it's a good reminder of
Speaker 4: another thing.
Speaker 5: I always, yeah, I always if I got away overseas,
Speaker 5: I'll always buy a magnet from my grandparent.
Speaker 2: You're on shaved ground, mother. Do you think they love
Speaker 2: as a coaster as well?
Speaker 3: Don't you don't put that you don't even think about
Speaker 3: putting that drink down on bear wood that coaster like
Speaker 3: they're on you with the coaster.
Speaker 2: OI, thank you very much, you killed mate. Have a
Speaker 2: good weekend.
Speaker 4: Thank you to sir.
Speaker 2: Now I'm heading the fifty. Is that what you call
Speaker 2: someone like me, sir? An older person?
Speaker 5: You probably have a pretty sizable magnet collection yourself.
Speaker 2: Nicole Nicole, good morning, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good Nicole, and I hope you're well. And uh,
Speaker 3: what are you calling it about? Which one?
Speaker 2: School trips?
Speaker 1: I'm calling about school trip? Yes, So we went on
Speaker 1: school trip and there was a two seater wing thing
Speaker 1: that sort of went up in the air. There was
Speaker 1: a person at the bottom, person at the top, and
Speaker 1: as the person came down from the top, the chair
Speaker 1: actually spun on an axle. Yep, And I didn't tie
Speaker 1: my hair up, and as I was the chair was
Speaker 1: coming down, it started swinging and my hair started raveling
Speaker 1: and the next thing I know, I'm screaming. So they
Speaker 1: had to stop it. And as they stopped it, they
Speaker 1: stopped it as the hair was right against my scalpe.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And they had to cut it, like, cut me free
Speaker 1: with scissors. So I walked around the rest of the
Speaker 1: school camp with a great big bull patch.
Speaker 2: Basically like a month. Yes, Fryer, Oh my god, that
Speaker 2: sounds agony.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't fun.
Speaker 5: How long did it take to grow back?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: It took a good twelve months to go back.
Speaker 2: What did you like school photos? You put a little
Speaker 2: wig on there? Or what do you do?
Speaker 1: Well, Luckily it was kind of mid You.
Speaker 3: Can do a comb over.
Speaker 1: Basically, it was a comb over and a lot of
Speaker 1: hat and school photos had already been done.
Speaker 2: Nicole, funny story. Have a lovely weekend, you too, Thank you. Matt.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Matt, Good morning, Christian Things old people love
Speaker 4: My My wife's grandmother was in love with Murder, she wrote,
Speaker 4: and so much so that she would watch it all
Speaker 4: day long, and as she her memory faded, she changed
Speaker 4: channels on Foxtail to the Foxtail Plus two channel, and
Speaker 4: the same episode was sad again, and she'd go, oh good,
Speaker 4: this is nice, and she'd rewatch the next.
Speaker 2: Episode of episode. Oh I think I know who the
Speaker 2: killer is. To put some money on this.
Speaker 4: She loved it so much so that in the end
Speaker 4: we win. Then finally passed away. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: we played the same music to open.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love that.
Speaker 3: What a great thing to do. She would have loved that.
Speaker 3: I bet I got a smile at a sad occasion
Speaker 3: as well. At the funeral, it.
Speaker 4: Did amaze several people laugh and they all clicked on
Speaker 4: quite quickly as why we were playing.
Speaker 2: It and what it was. Oh that's great, Matt, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. You cool. Have a nice weekend. You
Speaker 2: two Grisson nine four one four one O four three.
Speaker 3: So unusual dates, we haven't had any of those yet.
Speaker 3: We've got any stories of unusual dates. Things old people love.
Speaker 3: I'm really enjoying these calls coming through. And also what
Speaker 3: happened on your school trip?
Speaker 1: Well Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 2: I've just gone down a murder.
Speaker 3: She wrote wormhole Here guest stars when they were very young.
Speaker 2: Joaquin Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix.
Speaker 3: The joke up was in an episode of Murder she
Speaker 3: wrote along with a very young Brian Canston, Courtney Cox,
Speaker 3: George Clooney, Neil Patrick Harris. That's amazing, And then it
Speaker 3: ran for years and years. All right, we're starting to
Speaker 3: get the stories of coming through. Then about strange dates,
Speaker 3: she went on unusual dates. Christian went on a first
Speaker 3: date and she brought her parents along.
Speaker 5: That's ego.
Speaker 2: It's intense.
Speaker 3: Christian, we were about seventeen, went out on the first date.
Speaker 3: We got the train to the city to watch a movie.
Speaker 3: It was a funal since she was lovely, but her
Speaker 3: sixteen year old brother tagged along with us the whole time. Christian,
Speaker 3: I had an unusual date one on a date with
Speaker 3: a twenty five year old man who didn't have his license,
Speaker 3: so his friend drove him to pick me up.
Speaker 2: All three of us.
Speaker 3: Then went to time Zone and I ended up third
Speaker 3: wheeling them. Excuse me, madam? All right, unusual dates, things
Speaker 3: are people love and what happened on your school trip.
Speaker 2: Let's get a Tania here.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Tannia, Good morning, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good, Tania?
Speaker 3: So wish you only calling in about an unusual date,
Speaker 3: unusual date.
Speaker 6: I think my husband's listening to so he doesn't know
Speaker 6: I've called in. On our first date, he drove me
Speaker 6: home and learned to see if I was the one.
Speaker 6: So he wound up the windows, locked them, and then farted.
Speaker 5: And you say, you're still married.
Speaker 6: Ten years later, we're still married.
Speaker 2: That was his litmus test for the one, the one.
Speaker 6: It was quirky and funny. So I was like, well,
Speaker 6: this is different.
Speaker 2: You remember it. Wow.
Speaker 5: I don't want to say too much because you're married. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but red flag for me.
Speaker 3: I heard participated and taking your story, China, and I
Speaker 3: heard her go and you stayed with him. We're not
Speaker 3: really meant to editor allize on their lives, but on
Speaker 3: that one, I'm with you, O.
Speaker 2: Mecca.
Speaker 3: Uh, China, that's something else, all right, Chiny, thank you
Speaker 3: very much for carl. Let's squeeze in Susan before Patsy's news.
Speaker 2: Susan, Hi, how are you? I'm good? An unusual date?
Speaker 2: What happened? Susan?
Speaker 7: Okay, So my husband's also listening. Like ten years so
Speaker 7: back in the day when we were on our pay
Speaker 7: plates and poor people because we do only just started working.
Speaker 7: My husband had a h Q Holden premier, not a
Speaker 7: holding a premiere and he needed the the dips the
Speaker 7: dip switch to make his head his high beams come
Speaker 7: on and it could be like a little button down
Speaker 7: near the accelerator.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 7: So we trundle out to lavidon car Wreckers and it
Speaker 7: was like pick apart, so you had to go out
Speaker 7: there with your too part. So he picks the part
Speaker 7: and he goes quick, put it in your pocket and
Speaker 7: we'll just walk out of here, real casual. So we're
Speaker 7: just casually walking out and I've got all this buddy
Speaker 7: high beams switched thing in the pocket and he's just
Speaker 7: like walking out casually with his tools. So yeah, our
Speaker 7: first date was like a grand theft audo.
Speaker 5: Really, it's not even just the fact that he wanted
Speaker 5: to steal. It's like he took you to.
Speaker 2: The car Wreckers like time, and you're still with this.
Speaker 4: Guy thirty years later.
Speaker 2: Red flags had been invented. You didn't know about.
Speaker 1: We didn't know Christian Connell's show podcast