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We're relying on 0:01:25.430 --> 0:01:29.490 you guys to pass intern Pete around the five cities 0:01:30.009 --> 0:01:33.179 of Australia. Now it is Wednesday morning. It's just on 0:01:33.210 --> 0:01:36.060 six o'clock. We need to realize he was never going 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:36.740 to make it to Perth. 0:01:37.500 --> 0:01:38.700 No, no, that was ambitious. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.600 That's a separate week. It's just a separate week to 0:01:42.639 --> 0:01:44.820 rely on listeners to get him over to Perth from 0:01:44.900 --> 0:01:48.639 any of the other four cities. However, he's done really well. 0:01:48.780 --> 0:01:51.260 Our boy had a big day yesterday. Let's find out 0:01:51.300 --> 0:01:54.020 where he is. Good morning, Intern Pete. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:02:00.330 Yes, that's right, guys. Sydney, Australia. I have arrived. Yes. 0:02:01.690 --> 0:02:06.250 What a homecoming. What a homecoming in a holiday park 0:02:06.410 --> 0:02:11.530 in Penrith. It's the hero's return. Joseph Campbell wrote about this. 0:02:12.050 --> 0:02:15.890 Every movie is about the hero's return. And easiest is back. 0:02:16.550 --> 0:02:19.070 Oh, God, I'm getting emotional as you say it, honestly. 0:02:19.330 --> 0:02:21.050 And that's not just because I got in close to 0:02:21.070 --> 0:02:23.919 midnight last night and I'm completely, absolutely exhausted or anything 0:02:23.940 --> 0:02:24.300 like that. 0:02:24.620 --> 0:02:25.840 But no, the. 0:02:25.780 --> 0:02:30.540 Adrenaline I am going off is just amazing. Look, honestly, 0:02:30.620 --> 0:02:35.590 huge shout out. Jess Ingenia Avena Holiday Cabin I'm in 0:02:35.610 --> 0:02:37.670 a cabin I'm in a beautiful cabin there's a beautiful 0:02:37.730 --> 0:02:40.810 Daisy the cow that is down the back somewhere and 0:02:40.930 --> 0:02:44.519 I am right in the thick of what Sydney really 0:02:44.700 --> 0:02:47.000 is guys it's just so great to be in this. 0:02:47.060 --> 0:02:50.320 Beautiful city you're just you're just around Penrith you're at 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.140 the foot of the Blue Mountains it looks like I'm 0:02:52.180 --> 0:02:54.519 looking on Google Maps Yeah, absolutely. 0:02:54.540 --> 0:02:56.140 I was having a look on maps as well, because 0:02:56.380 --> 0:02:58.220 when we got in late last night, I had no 0:02:58.340 --> 0:03:01.500 idea where I was, apart from that this is. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:02.560 And you live in Sydney? 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.910 Yeah, that's exactly... I could be in another country right now, but. 0:03:05.990 --> 0:03:06.770 Right, okay. 0:03:06.830 --> 0:03:07.930 He doesn't live in the East, Pete. 0:03:08.670 --> 0:03:10.270 No, it's... Look, it's got everything. 0:03:10.350 --> 0:03:12.890 It's got a... Look, I've got a beautiful welcome gift. 0:03:13.490 --> 0:03:15.870 They left a bottle of wine and everything for me. 0:03:16.230 --> 0:03:22.320 I've got my own exclusive barcode for the Boomgate, 1842. 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.700 Oh, wow, you really are. Staying in the Vegas of Sydney, really. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.140 Honestly, this is a great family place. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.760 Well, make sure, because obviously, you know, after the show 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.550 at 9 o'clock, you've really got to get a wiggle 0:03:33.610 --> 0:03:35.210 on to see if you can make it to here, 0:03:35.230 --> 0:03:38.490 to Melbourne tomorrow, using the kindness of our listeners over 0:03:38.510 --> 0:03:40.730 the next 24 hours. But do make sure you do 0:03:40.770 --> 0:03:42.830 make use of that complimentary pass for the boom gates. 0:03:42.850 --> 0:03:44.130 I will. 0:03:44.230 --> 0:03:47.450 I will absolutely. Maybe stand outside there this morning for 0:03:47.470 --> 0:03:51.140 an hour just booming people through. In and out. No, no, no, no. 0:03:51.180 --> 0:03:53.300 Everyone has their own allocated boom gate. 0:03:53.380 --> 0:03:54.220 Oh, good to hear that. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.620 Good to hear that. Safety first. Safety first. 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.170 Yeah, I shouldn't have given out mine on the radio. Sorry. 0:04:00.180 --> 0:04:00.870 A little bit tired. 0:04:00.890 --> 0:04:02.350 But no, look, incredible. 0:04:06.190 --> 0:04:07.190 Secret code. 0:04:07.270 --> 0:04:08.730 It's not Harry Styles. 0:04:11.330 --> 0:04:13.570 I had such a great day yesterday, though, as well, 0:04:13.590 --> 0:04:14.510 like being on the road. 0:04:14.550 --> 0:04:15.870 And I think, you. 0:04:15.770 --> 0:04:19.310 Know, a real bright side of the show. Yes, he 0:04:19.349 --> 0:04:22.589 has that celebrity name, but really, let's be honest, he's 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.460 a massive fan of the show. Shane Crawford to come 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.940 and save the day to pick me up from the. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.260 Yeah, if he does tune in, Shane Crawford, when I 0:04:31.300 --> 0:04:33.600 moved here eight years ago, was bizarrely one of the 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.050 first friends I made. It was the first phone number, 0:04:36.130 --> 0:04:36.970 but my phone was Croft's. 0:04:37.290 --> 0:04:37.930 Oh, right. 0:04:38.050 --> 0:04:39.570 He was doing this TV show. I don't know if 0:04:39.590 --> 0:04:41.089 any of you remember. It was called Postcards. 0:04:41.530 --> 0:04:45.530 Oh, yeah, like a 4 p.m. Channel 9 sort of situation. Sunday. 0:04:45.750 --> 0:04:47.950 And I moved in. They were like, oh, there's someone 0:04:48.030 --> 0:04:50.490 new we can put on. There's an exotic bird. You know, 0:04:50.610 --> 0:04:51.490 like a zoo. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.359 Melbourne or Sydney Zoo has an endangered species, the pom. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.839 I arrived on the radio, and they were like, we 0:04:58.860 --> 0:05:01.240 should get him on. And normally what it is is 0:05:01.260 --> 0:05:06.180 various people, celebrities, in italics uh show you around their 0:05:06.220 --> 0:05:08.700 favorite places but i'd only just got here so they 0:05:08.740 --> 0:05:12.140 thought shane crawford could show me his favorite places i'd 0:05:12.180 --> 0:05:14.540 never met him before and we had the most fun 0:05:14.580 --> 0:05:17.420 together and then he gave me a lift home after 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.050 filming that's crawf and gave me his phone number and 0:05:20.060 --> 0:05:21.790 then a couple of weeks later i really needed his 0:05:21.830 --> 0:05:24.150 help we were struggling to get the girls into a 0:05:24.370 --> 0:05:28.409 decent school and a cool crawf they had no vacancies 0:05:28.810 --> 0:05:31.089 with an hour the school said there must have been 0:05:31.110 --> 0:05:34.250 an admin error, and they'd opened up two vacancies for 0:05:34.510 --> 0:05:37.049 our daughters. I could give Croft nothing back in return. 0:05:37.710 --> 0:05:40.470 And then a year later, we hired him as, I 0:05:40.490 --> 0:05:45.300 would say, sport's worst ever footy correspondent. I actually had 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.440 to fire him because I remember on one fateful Friday, 0:05:48.460 --> 0:05:51.220 I said, hey, we should now talk about the games. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.260 And he said, do we have to? That's when I 0:05:54.280 --> 0:05:56.470 realized I don't think this guy's heart's in it. But 0:05:56.510 --> 0:06:00.469 he messaged me Monday night. He said, Pete is near me. 0:06:00.530 --> 0:06:03.110 If he's coming near Tweed Heads, I'll pick him up. 0:06:03.150 --> 0:06:05.410 So Croft drove to you yesterday, Pete. 0:06:06.070 --> 0:06:09.010 He drove to me yesterday, picked me up from the hotel. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:09.920 What a legend. 0:06:09.930 --> 0:06:15.580 Just an absolute legend. And the way he's so proud, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.320 he leaves right out in the bush, a moo ball area. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:20.760 And I said, how do you spell moo ball? 0:06:20.780 --> 0:06:23.620 He goes, literally how it sounds, moo and then ball. 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.060 As an Australian, you don't need to worry too much 0:06:26.110 --> 0:06:26.760 about spellings. 0:06:27.770 --> 0:06:28.190 Not at all. 0:06:28.210 --> 0:06:29.390 Literacy not needed here. 0:06:30.310 --> 0:06:32.010 I know. He was just so great. And then I 0:06:32.050 --> 0:06:33.870 had to sort of break it to him that I'd 0:06:33.910 --> 0:06:36.170 organised a meet and greet in Byron Bay, that if 0:06:36.190 --> 0:06:38.070 people wanted to come down and meet him, all that 0:06:38.110 --> 0:06:38.710 sort of stuff. 0:06:38.790 --> 0:06:40.800 Every day with Crawford, every moment, is a kind of 0:06:40.860 --> 0:06:41.620 meet and greet. 0:06:41.820 --> 0:06:43.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.960 Look, I'll be honest with you. I think we said 0:06:44.980 --> 0:06:47.520 the RSL, and then he was like, well, we'll just 0:06:47.540 --> 0:06:48.440 do it at the Bowls Club. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:49.960 So no one really came anyway. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:56.610 How would anyone know? A secret meet and greet. So secret, 0:06:56.650 --> 0:06:59.170 they changed the location from the one we said on air. 0:06:59.190 --> 0:07:02.589 Yesterday at the end of the show, I said the RSL, Byron. 0:07:03.130 --> 0:07:04.230 Yeah, I know, but. 0:07:04.130 --> 0:07:06.230 Then Crawford's like, nah, the Bowls Club should probably be 0:07:06.250 --> 0:07:07.090 better anyway. 0:07:07.170 --> 0:07:08.150 And I was like, okay. 0:07:08.430 --> 0:07:10.550 And then obviously we didn't inform any of, you know, 0:07:10.610 --> 0:07:12.810 all the announcers, here you go, and everyone was just sort. 0:07:12.590 --> 0:07:15.490 Of telling everyone to go here, but we were over here. 0:07:15.570 --> 0:07:20.190 I believe I said yesterday, you two together will be 0:07:20.210 --> 0:07:24.040 like Dumb and Dumber. And it's like the blindly, I've 0:07:24.100 --> 0:07:27.380 heard and seen some of the videos. It's like the 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.680 two distraction brothers. Oh, look at that shiny thing. Look 0:07:29.730 --> 0:07:32.110 at that shiny thing. How a car moved for a 0:07:32.130 --> 0:07:33.490 couple of hours is a miracle. 0:07:34.150 --> 0:07:36.500 Oh, he's such a– I've got to say, he's like– 0:07:36.610 --> 0:07:39.390 and to be fair, like he's been checking in. He's like, oh, 0:07:39.510 --> 0:07:41.770 if you're going this way, maybe you could pop into 0:07:41.810 --> 0:07:44.480 my friend's pub here. Like he just wants to help, 0:07:44.540 --> 0:07:45.540 and that's who Crawf is. 0:07:45.810 --> 0:07:48.240 And that's just like our listeners as well, honestly. Everyone's 0:07:48.260 --> 0:07:49.700 sort of jumping on board. 0:07:50.660 --> 0:07:53.180 Can I just quickly tell you, though, how about this 0:07:53.220 --> 0:07:56.200 for a free lunch? I got to try something I 0:07:56.300 --> 0:07:57.960 never thought I'd ever have in my life. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.560 I went near– I can't speak. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.500 Oh, yeah, that bottle of wine went down well last night. 0:08:07.100 --> 0:08:12.230 PIN code for the bar once that got knocked over. Oh, well, 0:08:12.300 --> 0:08:14.770 I've never heard of that place. Where is that, then? 0:08:15.070 --> 0:08:19.610 Put that into Google Maps. Come on, Mr Bean. 0:08:19.630 --> 0:08:24.050 OK, I went to the Big Banana and I got 0:08:24.070 --> 0:08:29.730 a free lunch. But I tried a burger with grilled banana. No, no, no. 0:08:29.910 --> 0:08:33.449 No, no, no, no, no. I won't have this. 0:08:33.620 --> 0:08:36.459 I will not have this. You have not lived until 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.360 you have tried grilled banana in a burger. 0:08:38.459 --> 0:08:41.080 I'll tell you what you've got. You've got Stockholm syndrome. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.939 You know when you've fallen in love with the captors? 0:08:43.959 --> 0:08:45.259 You've fallen in love with the banana. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.099 The big banana. He did something he never did before. Yes, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.410 they fell in love with the big banana. 0:08:51.199 --> 0:08:54.170 Is there meat and banana in the burger? 0:08:54.370 --> 0:08:55.050 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:08:55.069 --> 0:08:56.110 So it's like a topping. 0:08:56.130 --> 0:08:57.209 The salad, the bacon. 0:08:57.250 --> 0:08:57.750 No, no, no. 0:08:57.809 --> 0:09:02.150 It was literally in there. You guys have heard of tomatoes, right? 0:09:02.429 --> 0:09:05.880 It's almost like a slice of tomato, a slice of banana, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:12.309 some lettuce. beautiful free lunch also had a banana thick 0:09:12.329 --> 0:09:13.629 shake as well i had. 0:09:13.670 --> 0:09:18.020 Oh no stopping up on the banana the heaviest thing 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.059 the banana. 0:09:19.380 --> 0:09:21.240 They um and i don't want to use the word 0:09:21.339 --> 0:09:23.779 celebrity but they kind of rolled me out as a 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.069 bit of a celebrity i went on every single one 0:09:26.089 --> 0:09:27.650 of the rides that they have i didn't know that 0:09:27.670 --> 0:09:30.410 they have roller coasters and they. 0:09:30.309 --> 0:09:32.329 Have so hang on let me just get this uh 0:09:32.370 --> 0:09:35.589 this this chronology right You had a burger with a 0:09:35.630 --> 0:09:38.610 banana in it. Then you had a banana shake. And 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.520 then you went on rides with a full banana-y, thick-shaped tummy. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:43.739 Yep, that's it. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.259 That's 100%. Actually saying it out loud. 0:09:47.459 --> 0:09:48.860 They just had everything. 0:09:49.059 --> 0:09:50.899 I mean, I had a quick little game of mini-golf. 0:09:50.939 --> 0:09:54.520 They've got everything there. So it's just like an incredible place. 0:09:54.540 --> 0:09:57.019 Anyone else seeing, like, if Tom Hanks in the movie 0:09:57.079 --> 0:10:00.340 Big came to Australia? That's the chart version of himself. 0:10:00.650 --> 0:10:01.550 That's Pete yesterday. 0:10:02.790 --> 0:10:03.189 Child. 0:10:04.219 --> 0:10:05.660 All right, we'll catch up in a sec, Pete, but 0:10:05.739 --> 0:10:07.890 well done. And you've made it to Sydney. 0:10:08.569 --> 0:10:09.170 Thank you. 0:10:09.189 --> 0:10:12.650 The Christian O'Connell Show podcast. 0:10:13.209 --> 0:10:14.730 You guys have heard of tomatoes, right? 0:10:14.750 --> 0:10:19.559 I think we all agree that we have discovered the world's, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:25.439 the travel reporter we needed all along. We've seen so 0:10:25.479 --> 0:10:32.189 many travel shows, haven't we? Michael Palin, Rick Stein. How 0:10:32.209 --> 0:10:37.230 many ways can he go around Australia? Rick Stein clockwise, anti-clockwise, 0:10:37.729 --> 0:10:41.920 coast to coast, burb to burb, pint to pint, pot 0:10:41.929 --> 0:10:45.640 to pot. We should commission Intern Pete to do his 0:10:45.739 --> 0:10:49.939 own weekly travel show because when he brings insights like this. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.059 You guys have heard of tomatoes, right? We all go, huh? 0:10:54.130 --> 0:10:56.209 Let me get a pen and paper. What's this you 0:10:56.270 --> 0:10:59.130 speak of? Is this from the first world? You guys 0:10:59.170 --> 0:11:01.779 have heard of tomatoes, right? He is our own Sir 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:06.280 Walter Raleigh. It's incredible. Fair play to Pete. Yesterday he 0:11:06.319 --> 0:11:11.319 did 886 Ks. Wow. Well, that's thanks to the listeners, 0:11:11.339 --> 0:11:16.149 the bright-siders who have passed the Pete. 886 Ks. It 0:11:16.170 --> 0:11:19.289 still blows my mind that this is... Most people go, yeah, 0:11:19.309 --> 0:11:20.970 I've probably done that in a day or two, Christian. 0:11:21.410 --> 0:11:24.450 Australia's such a crazy country where long, long, long, long 0:11:24.489 --> 0:11:27.729 drives are normal. If someone had driven 886Ks in the UK, 0:11:27.770 --> 0:11:31.730 it would be the main news story. It'd be the 0:11:31.989 --> 0:11:35.350 only news story. Actually, right, they'd be in the scene. 0:11:36.250 --> 0:11:40.760 We'd run out of land after 886Ks. So yesterday when 0:11:40.780 --> 0:11:42.939 we said goodbye to our boy, he was in Gold Coast. 0:11:43.420 --> 0:11:47.939 Then he went to Mubal, Byron Bay, Ballina, Coffs Harbour. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.449 Of course, he had the big banana there. Newcastle, and 0:11:51.489 --> 0:11:55.539 then Penrith. Wow. So I'm thinking he's back on track 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.420 to maybe see how today goes during the show today. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.579 I'm willing to bet that we can find people that 0:12:02.620 --> 0:12:05.959 can move him from Sydney to join us on tomorrow's 0:12:06.020 --> 0:12:07.240 show right here in Melbourne. 0:12:07.359 --> 0:12:07.779 Tomorrow? 0:12:08.059 --> 0:12:09.480 Yes. 24 hours. 0:12:09.479 --> 0:12:09.819 24 hours. 0:12:10.260 --> 0:12:12.920 It's what, nine, 10 hour drive, you reckon? 0:12:13.020 --> 0:12:13.260 Yeah. 0:12:13.359 --> 0:12:14.659 Well, no, but don't forget. 0:12:14.819 --> 0:12:15.220 Not even. 0:12:15.380 --> 0:12:19.770 He's past the peak. Someone might have. where they're prepared 0:12:19.790 --> 0:12:23.530 to treat him today to a complimentary flight. Yes, after 0:12:23.550 --> 0:12:26.569 a big day yesterday. Yeah, all the various airlines. The train. 0:12:26.589 --> 0:12:29.539 Oh, yeah, there is a train, isn't there? Is it 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:30.359 the XPT? 0:12:30.780 --> 0:12:31.880 Does it still run from. 0:12:31.739 --> 0:12:32.860 Sydney to Melbourne? I don't know. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.280 I've never gotten a train from Sydney to Melbourne. 0:12:35.439 --> 0:12:39.020 Neither have I. Intercity trains are confusing to this country. 0:12:39.439 --> 0:12:42.689 Everywhere else in the world, there's a well-established national train network. 0:12:43.069 --> 0:12:47.809 Ask anyone about train City City, they go, God, the 0:12:47.849 --> 0:12:51.199 stuff they must have in the Northern Hemisphere. So the 0:12:51.260 --> 0:12:54.079 train would go between these cities that we have here. 0:12:54.359 --> 0:12:56.640 And then every 10 years, one of the governments promises 0:12:56.660 --> 0:12:58.099 they're going to do a high-speed rail. 0:12:58.179 --> 0:13:01.969 And then everyone goes, how much will it cost? What, 0:13:01.989 --> 0:13:04.790 to go to another city that's not my own? No. 0:13:04.809 --> 0:13:07.630 Or they could just come here while we're asleep. 0:13:07.770 --> 0:13:07.929 No. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.880 I'm not paying for that. If anything, walls around these 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.659 cities of ours, they can come to us. We can't 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.900 make it easy to have someone get a pathway between 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:17.780 the two great cities. 0:13:18.439 --> 0:13:21.120 The Christian O'Connell Show podcast. 0:13:21.579 --> 0:13:23.519 Welcome to the Bright Side of the Dial. This is 0:13:23.540 --> 0:13:29.020 the Christian O'Connell Show. So yesterday, when Bright Sider, Shane Crawford, 0:13:29.199 --> 0:13:31.599 he was listening to the show Monday, and he heard 0:13:31.620 --> 0:13:34.240 us talking about Pastor Pete, and then he heard that 0:13:34.260 --> 0:13:36.019 he might be getting as far as Tweed Head, near 0:13:36.059 --> 0:13:39.719 where Crawford lives these days. And Croft offered to drive 0:13:39.900 --> 0:13:42.319 wherever Pete was to go and pick him up yesterday 0:13:42.390 --> 0:13:44.319 and get him a bit further for a couple of hours. 0:13:44.579 --> 0:13:47.390 And then a truckie, Anthony, picked him up in Byron 0:13:47.429 --> 0:13:49.109 Bay and took him on another couple of hours as well. 0:13:49.329 --> 0:13:51.949 This is incredible how well actually Pastor Pete is going. 0:13:52.229 --> 0:13:55.809 I cannot believe he is in Penrith. He's made it 0:13:55.829 --> 0:13:58.400 to Penrith. It must have been so hard for Pete yesterday. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.880 This is how dedicated he is to Pastor Pete. He 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.800 lives in Sydney. He has a nice... Actually, no, it 0:14:03.839 --> 0:14:06.379 flooded over the weekend, didn't it? He has a nice 0:14:06.479 --> 0:14:08.800 damp bed. That's why he's happy to stay in a 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.500 holiday park with free access to the Boomgate and the 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.139 bar as well. But anyway, we've got a whole load 0:14:15.179 --> 0:14:18.959 of video from Shane Crawford and intern Pete together. It 0:14:19.020 --> 0:14:20.900 does feel like they've made a new Dumb and Dumber. 0:14:21.500 --> 0:14:26.010 And they're now doing a travel show around Australia. Croft 0:14:26.050 --> 0:14:28.330 took them on a detour. And again, do you remember 0:14:28.350 --> 0:14:31.670 we said to Pete, it's all about momentum, momentum, clicking 0:14:31.710 --> 0:14:34.210 off the case. Exactly. Not when Croft's in charge and 0:14:34.260 --> 0:14:36.420 Pete's with him. No one's in charge. They went on 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.960 a detour to a beautiful little place called Moble. You 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:39.499 ever heard of this? 0:14:39.700 --> 0:14:40.360 No, I haven't. 0:14:40.380 --> 0:14:43.940 The cow town? Anyway, obviously, Pete yesterday took in the 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.960 big banana. And I know this country has an obsession 0:14:46.979 --> 0:14:47.970 with giant things. 0:14:48.070 --> 0:14:48.190 Mm-hmm. 0:14:48.190 --> 0:14:51.040 90% of them are fruit base. Yes, that's true. But 0:14:51.140 --> 0:14:54.590 I didn't know there's also a giant bicycle. Oh, really? 0:14:55.109 --> 0:14:56.030 Listen and learn. 0:14:56.229 --> 0:14:57.470 Moo Moo Roadhouse. 0:14:57.630 --> 0:14:58.350 We're here. 0:14:58.390 --> 0:15:02.590 We've arrived. And we're going to park just on the 0:15:02.630 --> 0:15:03.870 front of the giant bicycle. 0:15:03.930 --> 0:15:04.290 Look at that. 0:15:04.410 --> 0:15:05.540 Look at that, baby. I'm going to put you on 0:15:05.570 --> 0:15:06.400 that and take a photo. 0:15:06.540 --> 0:15:07.999 Oh, that's it. Oh, my God. I mean, it could 0:15:08.020 --> 0:15:09.840 have been a scene from the castle. Look at that. 0:15:09.859 --> 0:15:13.640 Look at that. It's clearly an oversized bicycle. 0:15:15.260 --> 0:15:16.960 The Christian O'Connell Show. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:17.620 Go on. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:18.840 Podcast. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.259 Day three on Pastor Pete. And yesterday he took in 0:15:22.300 --> 0:15:25.580 the delights of the big banana. And thanks to Shane 0:15:25.620 --> 0:15:28.020 Crawford who introduced him to the delights of a big 0:15:28.739 --> 0:15:30.200 thing I didn't know, the big bicycle. 0:15:30.220 --> 0:15:30.639 Wow. 0:15:31.260 --> 0:15:35.460 And this country really loves a big thing. I remember 0:15:36.750 --> 0:15:40.050 when the show turned eight years old in June this year, 0:15:40.070 --> 0:15:43.450 I wrote eight lessons that I've learned over eight years 0:15:43.489 --> 0:15:46.010 of living here. I never got to do them. No. 0:15:46.050 --> 0:15:49.009 Number six was your love of big things. Do you 0:15:49.030 --> 0:15:50.390 want to hear what I wrote? I would love to hear. 0:15:50.470 --> 0:15:50.670 All right. 0:15:50.950 --> 0:15:53.110 This was lesson six from my eight years of living 0:15:53.150 --> 0:15:57.220 here and eight lessons of watching Australians. Lesson six, they 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.840 love giant things and they will make you stop and 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.979 look at them. Here's something I had to learn about 0:16:03.060 --> 0:16:05.560 Australian road trips. You'll be driving for hours and hours 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.700 and hours, the whole family packed in, and then your 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.330 partner will say the most dangerous sentence in the world. Oh, 0:16:10.350 --> 0:16:12.930 apparently you can go and see something called the Big Banana. 0:16:12.950 --> 0:16:13.050 Yeah. 0:16:13.479 --> 0:16:15.720 You then have to take a detour. You always take 0:16:15.739 --> 0:16:18.440 the detour. You will add 90 minutes to a journey 0:16:18.660 --> 0:16:21.530 you're already three hours into. You will drive off the 0:16:21.630 --> 0:16:24.030 actual route to a different town so that you can 0:16:24.090 --> 0:16:26.430 stand next to, and you have to have your photo 0:16:26.470 --> 0:16:30.430 taken beside, a very large piece of fruit. That's the thing. 0:16:30.530 --> 0:16:33.279 That's the whole event. You drive there, you look at it, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.320 and you go, it is big. Day made. And it's 0:16:36.359 --> 0:16:38.220 not a one-off. There are, and I checked this because 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.720 I didn't believe it, there are hundreds of them. Over 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:46.220 150 of them. Some say over 600. What? Yeah, an 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:51.260 entire country dotted end-to-end with enormous objects. And once you start, 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.170 you can't stop. There's a big banana and a big pineapple, 0:16:54.180 --> 0:16:56.009 which you can actually go inside. The big merino, the 0:16:56.030 --> 0:16:57.690 big prawn, the big lobster. He's got a name. He's 0:16:57.729 --> 0:17:00.150 called Larry. The big mango, the big orange, the big melon, 0:17:00.170 --> 0:17:03.130 the big potato, which, and I'm being kind, is just 0:17:03.170 --> 0:17:06.770 a large brown lump. Then there's the big golden guitar, 0:17:06.790 --> 0:17:09.470 the big gumboot, the big easel, a giant painting easel. 0:17:09.490 --> 0:17:10.030 Big easel? 0:17:10.290 --> 0:17:13.960 Wow. A giant painting easel in Emerald for some reason. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.020 Go figure. The big wine bottle, which is just a 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.700 water tower that some locals looked at and went, you 0:17:19.740 --> 0:17:23.730 know what that needs? To be a 36-meter-high bottle of wine. 0:17:24.030 --> 0:17:26.750 And you know what? They're right. Then there's the backstories. 0:17:27.430 --> 0:17:31.670 The big banana, original 1964, was modeled on a real banana. 0:17:32.750 --> 0:17:35.250 A man and engineer went out and searched for the shapeliest, 0:17:35.330 --> 0:17:39.070 most attractive banana he could find and built a giant monument. 0:17:39.950 --> 0:17:42.260 He went looking for the sexiest banana in Australia. That 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.560 was his job. The Big Merino, 97 tons of concrete sheep, 0:17:46.980 --> 0:17:48.580 is based on a real ram. 0:17:48.820 --> 0:17:50.840 We did a school excursion to the Big Merino. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.370 Did you? It's a stud. It's a champion stud ram. 0:17:53.550 --> 0:17:54.850 I didn't know that. 0:17:55.190 --> 0:17:58.240 And his name? Rambo, of course. 0:17:58.300 --> 0:17:58.860 Good name. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.080 Then there's my favourite one, the big prawn in Ballina. 0:18:01.120 --> 0:18:03.710 They built it in 1989. They built it with no 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.590 tail originally. Oh. For reasons no one has ever explained, 0:18:08.050 --> 0:18:10.100 they made a giant prawn and just left its arse off. 0:18:10.710 --> 0:18:13.330 A tailless prawn for decades. Then it fell apart. It 0:18:13.350 --> 0:18:16.790 was about to be demolished. Who rode in to save it? Bunnings. 0:18:17.310 --> 0:18:23.170 Of course, it's Bunnings. They spent $ 400, 000 restoring lovingly the prawn. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.920 And they finally gave it the tell. It never had it. 0:18:26.940 --> 0:18:28.780 Just get you. Right in the field. So somewhere in 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.040 New South Wales, there's a giant prawn that has waited 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.910 30 years for its own ass. And a hardware store 0:18:33.950 --> 0:18:36.250 paid for it. It's the most Australian sentence you can 0:18:36.290 --> 0:18:39.410