Speaker 1: Christian Iconnell The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, just seeing there's
Speaker 1: been a news flash catastrophic oil prices have spite after
Speaker 1: grounded megaship blocks, the Suez Canal, Suez Canal.
Speaker 2: The Seuez Canal, Suez. Everybody repeat after me, Suez Canal,
Speaker 2: the Sewez. He's very proud of that, all right.
Speaker 3: So this big of mega shipping container is literally wedged
Speaker 3: across the Sewers Canal, and twenty five percent of all
Speaker 3: the boats around the world transporting oil and lots of
Speaker 3: other stuff go through there. Well, I need to go
Speaker 3: through there, not for a couple of days. So this
Speaker 3: morning we going to know when have you become super stuck?
Speaker 3: That sort of describing it at the moment, it's superstuck?
Speaker 3: When have you been super stuck? And I've cost my
Speaker 3: company money? This is going to cost so much money,
Speaker 3: millions every single hour holding up all these valuable containers.
Speaker 2: It's good to Catherine. First of all, Good morning.
Speaker 4: Catherine, Good morning Christian.
Speaker 5: I got super stuck when I impaled my car on
Speaker 5: a wheelly bin.
Speaker 2: Amazing. I got ahead the story. What happened.
Speaker 5: When I was eighteen. I was living at home and
Speaker 5: I was driving a Madda three two three station wagon
Speaker 5: and lots of cars at home, so I had to
Speaker 5: park on the front lawn, which was on quite a hill,
Speaker 5: and I was racing out to go to a club
Speaker 5: one night. Jumped in my car, didn't realize it was midnight,
Speaker 5: and reversed at speed and backed over a wheelly bin
Speaker 5: and got the back the wheels of the wheelly bin
Speaker 5: wedged up underneath the bumper of my car.
Speaker 2: Wow, So it was kind of.
Speaker 5: Dangling in mid air, like raining down. I'm wedged on
Speaker 5: the top of his bin. I card three wheel drive,
Speaker 5: so I can't go forward, I can't go back, and
Speaker 5: I'm just going what the heck? So I raced inside
Speaker 5: to ask my dad for help. And I've done a
Speaker 5: few things like this, so he's just like, oh, what
Speaker 5: have you done? Now? Darling comes out and has a
Speaker 5: look and he just he's like oh, and he just
Speaker 5: shakes his head and looks at me and goes back inside.
Speaker 5: So we had to call it Mate with like a
Speaker 5: crane or anything on his truck to come and get
Speaker 5: the car off in the morning.
Speaker 2: Mate with a crane on the back of his truck.
Speaker 3: I mean, I wish we all had that mate, and
Speaker 3: I'll go to contact my mate Bob Brackets with the crane.
Speaker 2: You're busy now with a crane?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Really been again again? And what howpened to you go
Speaker 2: into the club? Did you make it to the club
Speaker 2: or not?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I had to go call a girlfriend to
Speaker 5: come and pick me up. I was supposed to be
Speaker 5: designated driver, but it just it just put it.
Speaker 2: A great I love wedged on a weedy bit.
Speaker 3: And so when did your dad's mate turn up to
Speaker 3: free it with the crane?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Luckily it was a Friday night, so I came the
Speaker 5: next Saturday morning.
Speaker 3: Amazing, that's a great gold You give you a pair
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Speaker 3: story counting.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Greg. I've cost my company money, Greg.
Speaker 2: How much was it?
Speaker 7: Good question?
Speaker 2: It was dollars eight thousand dollars. What were you doing?
Speaker 2: What do you do? You do wrong?
Speaker 8: It was actually aware prints. They misread the so they
Speaker 8: were checking the temperature on the fridge and it was
Speaker 8: meant to be one point two degrees it was actually
Speaker 8: twelve degrees.
Speaker 3: Even you know, I mean, I'm no expert on degrees.
Speaker 3: But that does seem quite a bit off to me.
Speaker 8: One point two twelve, just a little bit, mat Yeah,
Speaker 8: so yeah that I was lost a lot of stuff,
Speaker 8: and yeah it wasn't good.
Speaker 2: And what was what was frozen food.
Speaker 8: Food, milk, drinks, see, lots of stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Greg, thank you very much and cool.
Speaker 3: All right, So eight thousand, I see if we can
Speaker 3: get another caller on its cost their company more than
Speaker 3: eight thousand.
Speaker 6: David, Good morning, Good morning, Christian, Hey game, I'm.
Speaker 2: Good David, welcome to the show. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 3: And so how much can you raise us eight thousand
Speaker 3: dollars worth of damage to your company?
Speaker 6: I think I got that covered, Mike gone back in
Speaker 6: the eighties, always many Adrian Hillard Packard's warehouse where all
Speaker 6: this stuff used to come in from Australia. They had
Speaker 6: a computer which was top heavy and I had to
Speaker 6: move it from one from one storage room to another
Speaker 6: with a with the fourth lift. Now the computer was
Speaker 6: worth about fifty to sixty grand and on one side
Speaker 6: of the skid there was a polystyrene mission. So when
Speaker 6: it was top heavy, I went around the corner and
Speaker 6: it fell over and broke one of the internal parts,
Speaker 6: so that sort of stuffed them up for a little while,
Speaker 6: and they had to wait for another part to come
Speaker 6: in from Mexico. When they sent a party from Mexico,
Speaker 6: waited about one hundred grands and it was sitting on
Speaker 6: top of the palette and I was driving the fourth
Speaker 6: lift and it flew off the palette straight underneath the
Speaker 6: tire and there goes the fifteen thousand dollars replacement part
Speaker 6: and another six months for one to come back in.
Speaker 2: This is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I mean, why did they keep letting you do this
Speaker 3: as well? Old changers? Dave on the fourth lift, and
Speaker 3: this is you know, young kids listening, this is how
Speaker 3: heavy computers used to be. Do you want to move
Speaker 3: a computer now what you put in your backpack? You
Speaker 3: used to have to get a forklift truck to actually
Speaker 3: move a top heavy computer.
Speaker 2: I can imagine. That's why top heavy anymore.
Speaker 6: The center remedy is right down the bottom, David, And
Speaker 6: he said, he said it was so heavy, yet the
Speaker 6: wind blew it off.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, the replacement part come in a package which
Speaker 6: was about one hundred grams, you know, maybe two hundred
Speaker 6: grams for the other or actually come. But back in
Speaker 6: those days the computers used to be eight meg, so
Speaker 6: your home personal computers used to be eight meg. Your
Speaker 6: phone's about two hundred and seven.
Speaker 2: Amazing, David, thank you very much and cool.
Speaker 3: I've cost my company money and like Catherine West, I
Speaker 3: can't west on the Willibins.
Speaker 2: When have you been super stuck? Billy? Good morning, Good
Speaker 2: morning Christian.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was scared an a job at the local
Speaker 7: truck farm when I was younger, and I filled up.
Speaker 7: Finally I filled up the trolley which was sort of
Speaker 7: hang on wheels off the ceiling and you push along,
Speaker 7: and I filled up with probably ten thousand eggs. I
Speaker 7: was pret proud of myself. And then I turned around
Speaker 7: and then tally kept going and actually went off. The
Speaker 7: agent smashed all the eggs everywhere, and no, there's nowhere
Speaker 7: to hide, do you know?
Speaker 2: I like that? Is Betty sod you say this the
Speaker 2: first down your jaw, Yeah and last, first, first, last.
Speaker 3: There's a phone in. There's a phone in tomorrow. First
Speaker 3: and last day. What a great day, the first and last.
Speaker 3: Amaze Another way, he said, you put ten thousand eggs
Speaker 3: in them? Pretty proud of yourself I'd be very proud
Speaker 3: of myself.
Speaker 8: I yeah, it's all right, Yeah yeah, A.
Speaker 2: Great start to what would like a promising career as
Speaker 2: an eggman.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was looking forward to it, but nah, it didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Must make a fantastic sound. Ten thousand eggs fucking at once,
Speaker 2: beautiful big for tatar omelet Benny, thank you very much,
Speaker 2: you killed buddy, don't champ.
Speaker 3: There you go, Spilly formerly the eggman who's got here? Susan,
Speaker 3: Good on to Susan.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Christian. My partner worked for a smash repairer,
Speaker 4: and he clashed a Ferrari tway sixty into an Aston
Speaker 4: Martin advantage and pushed it into a Lamborghini. Glad.
Speaker 3: Oh my word, this is the world's most expensive dominos.
Speaker 3: So it's a Ferrari goes into an Aston Martin goes
Speaker 3: into a Lambo Lamborghini.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to do it, do it right?
Speaker 3: Please take us So what's obviously reversing the first.
Speaker 4: Taking it off the blocks and the stuck on the pedals,
Speaker 4: and the rest was like dominoes.
Speaker 2: Oh my word, at least you're at the smash repairs already.
Speaker 2: Those cars though, I mean the handmade those cars. What
Speaker 2: was the cost of the damage.
Speaker 4: A two hundred pound Oh yeah, it'd be more than that.
Speaker 2: They're about three or four hundred thousand each those cars.
Speaker 2: It's almost a million dollars worth of damage. That is incredible.
Speaker 2: Do you even just go home? Then straight away?
Speaker 3: You don't even apologize, just get out of there. I mean,
Speaker 3: what can you say?
Speaker 4: It was pretty pale when I got a hunt.
Speaker 2: Susan. Great story.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for shore and have a good
Speaker 3: day mate by Bob Chris And I'm good Bob.
Speaker 2: So tell us your story about being super stuck.
Speaker 8: I was super stuck in a toilet in the hard
Speaker 8: Rock Cafe in Cambodia. I had a bit of barwie
Speaker 8: beali so to speak, and went racing into the toilets
Speaker 8: and was first time I had a running with slow
Speaker 8: closing toilet seats. So I pulled the pants down, sat
Speaker 8: on the seat when it wasn't fully closed, and my
Speaker 8: old fellow slipped up underneath and got jammed on the
Speaker 8: between the seats and the and the pit. And I
Speaker 8: got to tell you one hundred and.
Speaker 2: On on my circumcised yourself.
Speaker 8: I had the biggest blood blister, but it took two guys.
Speaker 8: I couldn't get off because I was in that much pain.
Speaker 8: I had that two dollars to help me get out,
Speaker 8: and they were laughing at me while I was doing it.
Speaker 2: So what did you have to cry for help?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Fortunately are only a little que because I was
Speaker 8: either and do it to let them in.
Speaker 2: But we're all around with you. The Cuba Cole the
Speaker 2: blood lister is stuck there. People to get you out.
Speaker 2: You're like that ship stuck in that sews canal. Like
Speaker 2: a little tug bo it's going to catch you out.
Speaker 8: They're not the tug boats from Tim.
Speaker 3: Body intentional units. Oh Bob, that is a hell of
Speaker 3: a story. So we'll give you least we can do
Speaker 3: as a pair of tickets. That's any off the gold
Speaker 3: class fitted cinemas.
Speaker 2: Really very much. No, thank you, Bob. Have a good day,
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