Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, we had some great calls on the week is
Speaker 2: Claim to Fame. One of our favorite ones was this
Speaker 2: one about Fredo frogs.
Speaker 3: My grandfather invented the Freda frog when he was fourteen.
Speaker 3: He worked at mac Robinson's and it was going to
Speaker 3: be a mouse. Pop turned around and said, wow, the housewife.
Speaker 3: They're scared of mire, so why don't we make it
Speaker 3: a frog? And his boss said, well, you make the
Speaker 3: mold of the frog and we'll do it now.
Speaker 1: We don't want to look into the varidity of that.
Speaker 1: Why ruined a good time? Have we got that? He
Speaker 1: was fourteen? Even though I kept this in this morning,
Speaker 1: going maybe will we miss it?
Speaker 2: He was forty no when he was fourteen, So imagine
Speaker 2: what you were like at fourteen. You're just going to
Speaker 2: go up to what the board meeting, you know, R
Speaker 2: and D we search and development.
Speaker 1: You went to be sweeping the floors.
Speaker 3: My grandfather invented the Freda frog when he was fourteen.
Speaker 3: You worked at mac Robinson's. It was going to be
Speaker 3: a mouse. Pop turned around and said, wow, the housewife,
Speaker 3: they're scared of mire, so why don't we make it
Speaker 3: a frog. And his boss said, well, you makes the
Speaker 3: mold of a frogen, we'll do it muchinic.
Speaker 1: Where was a forty You weren't even even a fourteen
Speaker 1: year old.
Speaker 2: Here in the rest, I'm about to set seven and
Speaker 2: go wait a minute, and I go how old are you?
Speaker 1: Fourteen?
Speaker 2: The housewives, Christian and I would just go out, well
Speaker 2: you make it. This is amazing. So we've got to
Speaker 2: go back into this. We're doing a special bush now.
Speaker 2: The weakest claim to fain simply to do with the
Speaker 2: subject of inventions. So maybe it's a distant grandfather, maybe
Speaker 2: it's your dad or your mum. Any claim to faine,
Speaker 2: no matter how weak it is to do with inventions.
Speaker 2: Best time we get by house some of the morning.
Speaker 2: We've got gold class, double bar passed to go to
Speaker 2: gold class. Do you have a story like this.
Speaker 3: My grandfather invented the preda frog when he was fourteen.
Speaker 3: You worked at mac Robinson's and it was going to
Speaker 3: be a mouse. Pop turned around and said, wow, the
Speaker 3: housewives they're scared of mice, so why don't we make
Speaker 3: it a frog? And his boss said, well, you make
Speaker 3: the mold of a frog, and we'll do it.
Speaker 1: And the rest is history. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian, I also related to the guy that invented the
Speaker 2: Fredo frog. He was my grandmother's grandmother's uncle. Come on,
Speaker 2: hate to see this. Yesterday we never heard from you.
Speaker 2: Now suddenly everyone wants to be related to the guy,
Speaker 2: the fourteen year old boy genius that invented.
Speaker 1: The Fredo frog. Everyone wants to start. It's nasty to see, Christian.
Speaker 2: I hate to bring this late to the table, but
Speaker 2: yesterday I need to let you know this. I was
Speaker 2: walking my daughter to daycare. It was raining, so I
Speaker 2: have my umbrella. After dropping her off, the rain stopped.
Speaker 2: With the umbrella now closed, I proceeded to walk home
Speaker 2: using the umbrella as a cane. I felt empowered. Plus,
Speaker 2: he made the walk back up and steep hill a
Speaker 2: lot easier pass. His husband needs to cane before his
Speaker 2: fiftieth hashtag team walking cane.
Speaker 1: You're right, it becomes the cave. He doesn't because then
Speaker 1: he goes to stick and then before I know it
Speaker 1: will be on a zimmer frame again.
Speaker 2: All right, so we're doing a special of the weakest
Speaker 2: clean to Fane. Anything to do with your claim to
Speaker 2: fane to an invention on nine four one four or
Speaker 2: one four three kickings off this morning.
Speaker 1: We have hello, no, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: So you're on your way to school. But the sound
Speaker 2: of it, yeah great, okay? And what is your claim
Speaker 2: to fain to do with inventions?
Speaker 1: Elena?
Speaker 4: Well, once I had a substitute teacher and he told
Speaker 4: us that his dad invented the summer Rold chocolate.
Speaker 2: The one was cocinut on it.
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: And how did that come up? Were you were you
Speaker 2: doing a subject on inventions.
Speaker 4: Or yeah, we were doing English class and then we
Speaker 4: were talking about chocolate and then he just brought it up.
Speaker 1: A bit of a flex, isn't it.
Speaker 2: You know, if you've got that in the family, why
Speaker 2: wouldn't And was everyone impressed?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you would have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How did he say? How was another family came up
Speaker 1: with the idea?
Speaker 4: No, he didn't.
Speaker 1: Do you like the summer roll, Eleanor it's not my
Speaker 1: favorite chocolate? It's got coconut.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's my mom's favorite chocolate that I like it too?
Speaker 2: Do you have it's normally old people that like chocolate
Speaker 2: were coconut in Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely? All right, Well, you have a nice schooler.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for giving us a call.
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, bye bye, oh bless you and
Speaker 2: you thank you.
Speaker 1: Graham. Good morning, Hey, gown, I'm good.
Speaker 4: My grandfather invented the taxi moder.
Speaker 1: The meters are in taxis all over the world.
Speaker 4: Oh well, in Australia specifically, it was called the Martinder
Speaker 4: and it is what turned into what the taxi meders
Speaker 4: are there? Gyes right?
Speaker 1: Okay, so did they already have them overseas? And he
Speaker 1: just came, I know it was.
Speaker 4: I was invented here in Australia by my grandfather.
Speaker 2: And what's your granddad's name, Joseph Martin? Right, brilliant, the
Speaker 2: Martin meter. Get it all right, Graham, thank you very
Speaker 2: much and cool cool.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Michelle. Good morning, Michelle, good morning.
Speaker 3: How are you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm good. Let me get your great grandfather invented the
Speaker 1: Fredo frog.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no no, But I.
Speaker 1: Do have a sister that likes to tell tool stories.
Speaker 4: And from from the day it happened to this day,
Speaker 4: she claims to have invented schoolies on the Gold Coast.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I.
Speaker 2: Used to have, haven't we all got a friend that reckon,
Speaker 2: they invented something like the ipoord or but this.
Speaker 4: I went from a country town in New South Wales
Speaker 4: and she claims that.
Speaker 3: When high school finished back in eighty she and her
Speaker 3: friends went to the Gold Coast to celebrate the end
Speaker 3: of school and.
Speaker 4: From there on it became schoolies.
Speaker 1: The rest became history.
Speaker 4: That's it wrong.
Speaker 1: As well, what are the origins of schoolies?
Speaker 2: That is it's your mate, that's my sister, your sister, reckon,
Speaker 2: she invented school is in a Gold Coast. That is incredible.
Speaker 2: What are you, Michell? I'm going to give you the
Speaker 2: gold class tickets. That's a brilliant minutes off.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, fabulous, thank you very much.
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