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Speaker 3: Sa Criterion, Yesie, Tracy and Gary and Karen too, King,
Speaker 3: Richard and Dennis joined the crew side voted signs, very
Speaker 3: painted walls and showed out to Keegan who did all
Speaker 3: the floors. Criterion Criterion, Yesie.
Speaker 1: Let's tell you about the amazing story of the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks and save our pubs.
Speaker 2: Where God save them pub.
Speaker 3: Where God saved up Palm.
Speaker 1: Over the last couple of weeks we've been on a
Speaker 1: mission to save Ossie pubs thanks to four extra pubs
Speaker 1: calling somewhere between the first sip and the last laugh.
Speaker 1: It's always a four x. So we found the pub
Speaker 1: we wanted to well, at first we thought it was
Speaker 1: going to be a reno. It is a rhnno moral
Speaker 1: restoration because the pub I know a lot of you
Speaker 1: have seen it on our social account. You can see
Speaker 1: the videos that's been going on over the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. We've got daily updates. We found this beautiful
Speaker 1: pub and a beautiful couple that were running it as well.
Speaker 1: Tracy and Gary up in the place called Helodon about
Speaker 1: an hour and a half outside Brisbane and the Riuo
Speaker 1: and I went up there a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: and fell in love with Tracy and Gary and this
Speaker 1: pub in the whole story. They saw it online. They
Speaker 1: were looking for somewhere, a big family home that they
Speaker 1: could retire to. They sed the grandkids to run around.
Speaker 1: They saw this pub, but then when they moved in,
Speaker 1: they couldn't shut the pub down. And Tracy Gary were
Speaker 1: ideally hoping to retire. They spent the last two years
Speaker 1: as accidental publicans running a pub they did not want
Speaker 1: to be running, but they do it because they care
Speaker 1: about the community and those kind of Aussies, you know,
Speaker 1: people like this. And also the other thing to tell
Speaker 1: you something about Tracy, two weeks into when they moved
Speaker 1: into place, found out that she had MS as well.
Speaker 1: That has not diminished the zest for life that Tracy has.
Speaker 1: She is irrepressible. And we'd be up there this Friday.
Speaker 1: We're doing the big unveil. We're taking the show. We're
Speaker 1: all flying up to No Sleep to Tomba. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: rocking up in Tomba on Thursday night, hitting it hard
Speaker 1: and then the big live show on Friday, and it's
Speaker 1: not just us coming doing the entire show up there.
Speaker 1: We have a very special musical guest singing live. All
Speaker 1: great parts need live entertainment. We've got Shannon no No.
Speaker 1: Only is he doing this banger while a monkey dog
Speaker 1: intimidates him, it's also going to do if he sticks
Speaker 1: around anyway, Let's get the star of all the song
Speaker 1: right now. Tracy joins us live Morning Legends, Good morning,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm great, Tracy, I'm great. We love
Speaker 1: chance you. So what a couple of weeks for you
Speaker 1: and Gary? What have been some of your highlights? Is
Speaker 1: this reno is going around you know, your home.
Speaker 4: Everything's a highlights down to you know, having the walls painted,
Speaker 4: to the sign writing furniture starting to arrive.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 4: It is a world whin. It's something we've never in
Speaker 4: a million years would have believed it would happen to that.
Speaker 1: The sign writer is great, isn't it?
Speaker 4: The guys, Yes, and so totally blown our minds that
Speaker 4: this would happen.
Speaker 1: And Shannon no also then performing live as well Friday.
Speaker 1: That's going to be amazing.
Speaker 4: Yes, we're getting so many Facebook messages and phone calls.
Speaker 1: Did you think Chrity. I didn't you know you had
Speaker 1: a phone line there?
Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, it's just came in the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: Wonderful. Wow. All right, So Tracy, what is happening this week?
Speaker 1: Because obviously it's the last couple of days. You know,
Speaker 1: it's all got to be done Thursday. So what are
Speaker 1: they doing this week?
Speaker 4: So this week, this morning the floors are going in,
Speaker 4: is the paintings being finished off, the carpenter's being finished off,
Speaker 4: the furnitures arriving, everything's coming together this week?
Speaker 1: And has it been chaos for you? And Gary? Because
Speaker 1: this is also your home and you've had a wedding.
Speaker 1: Someone had their wedding reception there.
Speaker 4: The wedding was wonderful. We had million, seventy guests. So
Speaker 4: the wedding, they absolutely loved it. They couldn't believe the
Speaker 4: transformation that the shed had taken over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks actually it's starting to look incredible. I
Speaker 1: see the videos every day now we sense up our
Speaker 1: man in to and Pete. Last week? Was he you
Speaker 1: can be honest, was he any good? It didn't appear
Speaker 1: that he did anything.
Speaker 4: Up there, Christian. He hopped in our dodge and drove
Speaker 4: down the wrong side of the street.
Speaker 1: What he's not even European. What do you mean he
Speaker 1: went down the wrong side of the streets.
Speaker 4: I know people were asking where. I kept saying America.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They just took off like a bed of hell, doing.
Speaker 1: A little part of the street like ad Tracy Chapman song,
Speaker 1: fast car that's peaks like the nervous wreck. It would
Speaker 1: appear all he did was only report back on how
Speaker 1: good the local spar shop is, to get some snacks
Speaker 1: for the trades that were working there.
Speaker 6: And it sounded like he had a lot of bacon
Speaker 6: and egg rolls that you made from Tracy.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, and coffee large cups, short cups, little cups,
Speaker 4: big cup.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry to say he's insisted. I wonder now
Speaker 1: he told me he's going back Wednesday to scout a
Speaker 1: hand to get everything ready. Now I know where's going
Speaker 1: to this is, Go and get more of those bacon
Speaker 1: rolls and coffee from me, Tracy.
Speaker 4: Well hide the carkeets.
Speaker 1: Well, I can't wait to see you Friday morning for
Speaker 1: the big unveil, Tracy. Good luck this week, enjoy all
Speaker 1: and as always a joy to chat you mate.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Christian see you.
Speaker 7: Friday we will the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, big week for us. On the show, we
Speaker 1: are on the road Thursday, No sleep te crew on
Speaker 1: the road Towoomba.
Speaker 2: Watch chapter.
Speaker 1: We are heading it hard Thursday night and then Friday
Speaker 1: morning we are live from the pub that has been
Speaker 1: renovated though last couple of weeks, the greatest pub in Australia,
Speaker 1: the Criterion Hotel in head An on half outside of Brisbane, Queensland.
Speaker 1: That's the show Friday, we are live there for the
Speaker 1: grand unveiling. Now we've had this message, this is exciting.
Speaker 1: An official welcome from the mayor of.
Speaker 8: Where Hey, Christian, It's Tanya Milligan, mayor of the Lochya Valley.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to say a huge thank you for.
Speaker 8: Doing what you are doing for the Criterion Hotel and
Speaker 8: a Haliden community. The pub is a key part in
Speaker 8: the heart of this town and I cannot wait to
Speaker 8: see the transformation this Friday with Shannon nol live of course,
Speaker 8: which will be the icing on the cake.
Speaker 1: Well, she's sort's a muffler voice at the end of
Speaker 1: something kidnapped. At the end of muffled release, Our mayor yes,
Speaker 1: all right, so Mayor Tanya Milligan, a lovely welcome there.
Speaker 1: Please Mayor come down. This is your manor. We're in
Speaker 1: your house, so please come down Friday. How do you
Speaker 1: become How does one become a mayor? Are you voted in?
Speaker 10: Yes, you have to be elected.
Speaker 1: Do you run for office? Yeah?
Speaker 6: They are you voting for the council and the council
Speaker 6: votes to the mayor or? Do you are you voting
Speaker 6: just straight mainlining it to.
Speaker 11: The mayor council, isn't it?
Speaker 1: So you run for office? So shame. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: we had like the you know, like big cities the
Speaker 1: mayor of because they have quite a have a budget.
Speaker 10: Yes, oh yeah, yes, so.
Speaker 1: It's not just a sort of it's not just a title,
Speaker 1: a proper job. You've got those, right, it's the big cities.
Speaker 2: But yeah, not like the town crier or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's an actual They have actual powers
Speaker 6: and responsibility.
Speaker 1: It's a full time job. It's quite well paid, right
Speaker 1: and do they have the chains as well? Now should
Speaker 1: turn up in the mayoral robes and chains because it
Speaker 1: looks incredible that pomp, you know, obviously as a as
Speaker 1: a British guy love pomp and Germany. I hope you're
Speaker 1: going to turn up with the with that mayor the
Speaker 1: mayor robes and they get that big mister T sort
Speaker 1: of necklace. And I'm sure there's a better name than
Speaker 1: mister T necklace. I think mister T models has looks on.
Speaker 1: I don't forget the key to the city, do you reckon?
Speaker 1: They'll give us. That'd be awesome, Wow, the key to
Speaker 1: the hell. I mean there's only three buildings there. One
Speaker 1: of them is the pub, the other one is a
Speaker 1: police station, the other one is that sparse store across
Speaker 1: the road.
Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 1: And then the other big thing. So Friday, we're really
Speaker 1: doing the big unfailing for the accidental publicans that the
Speaker 1: most beautiful people Tracy and Gary, and we have live
Speaker 1: music as well with the one and only you say
Speaker 1: show in a pub, You've got to how Shannon No
Speaker 1: Is going to be singing. He's doing three songs live
Speaker 1: this Friday.
Speaker 7: Christian Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 1: Shannon No our big guest in the Big Friday Show
Speaker 1: live from our renovated pub, the Criteria in Hotel in
Speaker 1: Heled in Queensland. This Friday. Shannon are performing live so
Speaker 1: we're flying up Thursday and then we're staying in a
Speaker 1: nearby town called to Woomba. If anyone has any facts
Speaker 1: about to Woomba, I'm looking for them this morning.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: The Chuckle sisters have been doing some research and I
Speaker 1: can tell these aren't very good. I tell you why. Rio.
Speaker 1: They just came in just now with a piece of
Speaker 1: paper that didn't even know they could even fill a
Speaker 1: piece of paper. It was like a third fall. And
Speaker 1: I went to tell you, what don't you do these?
Speaker 1: And they looked at each other. Oh god, so you
Speaker 1: know what it's like. You know, you do your own,
Speaker 1: You do your own here. They were happy for me
Speaker 1: to do this substant affair, but that is when I
Speaker 1: said you do it, they were like, oh god, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, let's see what they've got. No sleep,
Speaker 1: chuckle sisters, what can you tell us about to Womba?
Speaker 12: Alrighty, to woomber is the second most populous inland city
Speaker 12: in Australia.
Speaker 11: Behind Canbra. That's very impressive.
Speaker 12: I don't know how many inland cities there are, but
Speaker 12: it's the second most part.
Speaker 1: You will find that inland cities isn't a category, is it?
Speaker 1: Adding it is now. I guess maybe who are they
Speaker 1: competing with?
Speaker 2: Orange Camera?
Speaker 1: Do you know what? Let's get all this ready for
Speaker 1: the production. I want to hear that production going tomorrow.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connor Show is live from Australia's second most
Speaker 1: popular inland city. Next fact from Twarmer chuckle, sisters Stephen Bradery.
Speaker 13: And Sonya Kruger were born.
Speaker 10: And raised there.
Speaker 1: That is good, Okay, yeah, alrighty.
Speaker 12: The next one, it's a host of Australia's longest running
Speaker 12: floral festival, Wow Flowers. It was the first warm accounival
Speaker 12: of Flowers that ran since nineteen fifty so it's been
Speaker 12: going for a bloody long time.
Speaker 7: Uh huh.
Speaker 13: Next to Womber, fact in eighteen ninety three, what of
Speaker 13: the show's first appendectomies were performed on a waching table
Speaker 13: into wombar and she survived?
Speaker 1: That's my favorite one, the appendectory fact. This is my
Speaker 1: favorite one. All right, one more, Kaitlyn, what have you got?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be as good as that appendect toy one
Speaker 1: Okay to Womber.
Speaker 11: Claims the Lemington was actually created there.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that is a big flex.
Speaker 11: No solid proof, but we'll stick with it.
Speaker 1: Most sort of country towns claim that they invented the Lamington.
Speaker 1: It's hard to work out who actually did invent the Lamington.
Speaker 1: So to Womba claims that they invented the Lamington.
Speaker 11: They absolutely do.
Speaker 12: Twomberg claims that the Lamington was created there at the
Speaker 12: Harlexton House.
Speaker 11: I don't know what that is, but I believe them.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can go on a little walking tour of
Speaker 1: to Woman when we get the Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Our special guests singing live on this Friday show. Shannon No,
Speaker 1: why because this Friday is the big live pub show.
Speaker 1: We'll be live for the whole show. Friday, we are
Speaker 1: flying up to Brisbane. From Brisbane to to Womber. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: night we're partying hard twenty four our party people into Wimber,
Speaker 1: if that's even possible, and then Friday we are doing
Speaker 1: the show, the big live pub show in heledon the
Speaker 1: pub that we've been renovating the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: the Beautiful Criteria in Hotel. It's the grand unvel. Shannonol
Speaker 1: singing live, doing three songs for us, which is going
Speaker 1: to be incredible and also you can win Australia's biggest
Speaker 1: ever meet. Now as we really get excited about going
Speaker 1: to a part of the country, maybe not many Australians
Speaker 1: know about Helendon And so I've asked the chuckle sisters.
Speaker 1: Those are the producers on the show entitle anyway.
Speaker 10: Phenomena tipillar menomena.
Speaker 1: Chuckle sisters. I've asked you there. Let's looking confused, chuckle sisters.
Speaker 1: I asked you to come up with some Hellden facts
Speaker 1: to educate and ideally entertain all of us. Chuckle sisters.
Speaker 11: What you got alrighty?
Speaker 12: Helendon was the home to the to Australia's largest swimming
Speaker 12: pool in the nineteen sixties. Wow, holding about three point
Speaker 12: four million leaders of spring water.
Speaker 11: That he's equivalent to three Olympic swimming pools.
Speaker 1: That's a huge pool. What do we need such a
Speaker 1: large pool for.
Speaker 11: You will learn as we go down the list that
Speaker 11: they are famous for their spring water. So I don't know.
Speaker 11: They just must have gone this is ripper. Let's make
Speaker 11: a big goal.
Speaker 1: He used to be called helden Water something else. Now, Ah,
Speaker 1: that's not that the name of the town. Yeah, wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: you used to sell it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. It's
Speaker 1: called held and water, but someone has brought them out.
Speaker 1: I guess the way it goes, and it's called something else.
Speaker 14: Now, yeah, it's attraction.
Speaker 1: So that's oh yeah, Come see the large swimming pool
Speaker 1: they would have come for all over Queensland. There's a
Speaker 1: bit of a breakdown pace here.
Speaker 13: Sorry hello the towns Hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 1: Hello Tina. All right, Tina, what have you got? The
Speaker 1: fact about Helendon?
Speaker 13: So the town's mineral spring led to the creation of
Speaker 13: the Halladin Spawater Company became the kirk Soft Tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now it's known as Kirk's.
Speaker 11: It's the original home of Kirks Yeah yeah, true, yeah
Speaker 11: huge yea.
Speaker 12: Three point nine billion cases are sold annually of kirk
Speaker 12: All these facts.
Speaker 1: A page of just come off Kirk's website.
Speaker 11: No, it's an Australian loved brand.
Speaker 14: We all love it.
Speaker 11: Pisido gingerole, lemon squol.
Speaker 14: Anymore.
Speaker 1: That aren't to do like the sandstone is to talk
Speaker 1: of China.
Speaker 11: I'm getting to that us best for last.
Speaker 1: Let me start with the best, all right.
Speaker 12: Helden sandstone is world famous and has been used in
Speaker 12: major buildings like Brisbane City Hall and the Treasury Building,
Speaker 12: but not only.
Speaker 11: That flex China absolutely loves it.
Speaker 1: Day by the mad held sandstone.
Speaker 11: Yes, which is incredible for such a small little town.
Speaker 6: What's that good about the held and sandstone?
Speaker 11: Yeah, Hellden he queens.
Speaker 1: These are the producers.
Speaker 12: High quality sandstone, which is highly sought after. But the
Speaker 12: Chinese developers, so it's just high quality. Obviously they've searched
Speaker 12: the whole world and they said not Helenden.
Speaker 11: Is the best.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah nah, as I would say the Aussies,
Speaker 1: we want some of that delicious Helodon spring water, and
Speaker 1: we'll have some of these sandstone as well. If it's
Speaker 1: good enough for breezy town hall and treasury, we'll have
Speaker 1: it all right. Okay, that's the end of the d
Speaker 1: the best to last, I thought, I thought I got
Speaker 1: the sandstone's the big finisher.
Speaker 12: Also, just remembering that currently only about one thousand people
Speaker 12: live in Heldon.
Speaker 1: Why do I need to remember that? I don't work
Speaker 1: for the Census Department.
Speaker 11: Huge achievements by such a smart.
Speaker 1: To mate and how old spring.
Speaker 13: Anyway, the Begs once for folded the Hellden Spy in nineties.
Speaker 1: Wow, there we go, there we go, we got there. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is a killer one.
Speaker 12: The Beg's in Heldon the Begs and this Friday shedd.
Speaker 6: Wow, long time between drinks for the big act in
Speaker 6: Helendon on nineteen sixty and now.
Speaker 1: Fifty years leave it so long? Do you know what
Speaker 1: this says to me? Okay, Yeah, he's going to do
Speaker 1: his hits. Shannon's going to do his hits. He's going
Speaker 1: to do his version of horses brilliant. He also needs
Speaker 1: to just pay it back to the bee gees. Yes,
Speaker 1: now he's got an Friday morning fever.
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Speaker 1: Today is travel day for me and the team. After
Speaker 1: they show, we will fly up to Brisbane and then
Speaker 1: our and a half of the taxi we are staying
Speaker 1: tonight in till Womba and then tomorrow live for the
Speaker 1: big live pub show in Heldon at the Criteria in Hotel,
Speaker 1: which has kind of become I guess Australia's most famous pub. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely at the moment. Yeah, because of the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks has been renovated. Thank you for ready for
Speaker 1: everyone who's been working so hard up there over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Lot of them given their time
Speaker 1: for free as well. In fact, Pete's into and Pete
Speaker 1: is up there live right now, Pete, you're there on
Speaker 1: the good Good morning guys.
Speaker 15: I have arrived and he's a big day ahead, but
Speaker 15: obviously travel day for you guys. But then on site
Speaker 15: here a lot of things are happening ready for the
Speaker 15: outside broadcast tomorrow when Nolsey takes over the town and
Speaker 15: gets ready for his performance.
Speaker 14: But I guess I've got a few things.
Speaker 15: I'm calling them the hallidin headlines of things you need
Speaker 15: to know that are going on around the place here
Speaker 15: this morning. Most importantly is a last minute a little
Speaker 15: bit of a curve ball today because we're still under renovation, but.
Speaker 14: We actually have a funeral taking place later on this morning.
Speaker 1: It's not that dog, is it.
Speaker 14: No, Dig's fine, I've seen Digger.
Speaker 15: It is unfortunately one of one of the beautiful. Yes,
Speaker 15: So we are in full swing of setup. But then
Speaker 15: also solom trying to get ready for the outside broadcast.
Speaker 15: We'll have a funeral in the middle there.
Speaker 14: There's going to be a lot going on here this morning,
Speaker 14: which I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: So I've arrived. The people that are actually sending somebody off,
Speaker 1: that are actually overcoming a loss and then but in's
Speaker 1: still a building site there today it.
Speaker 14: Is still a building side. At the moment there is
Speaker 14: the blinds.
Speaker 1: The brain people are stating next to someone who's having
Speaker 1: a meeting at five past sex.
Speaker 14: Ye isn't it just live on the air here Christy
Speaker 14: was saying, if you guys.
Speaker 1: She's coming from the world of TV.
Speaker 14: We're talking about the Elite portables.
Speaker 15: We've got a new setup as well, so we're in
Speaker 15: the middle of full setup, live radio and some bits
Speaker 15: and bobs.
Speaker 14: Morning girls, Thanks for your time.
Speaker 1: Now, Pete, the one thing I sent you up the
Speaker 1: ticket sort out was the red carpet and the scissors.
Speaker 1: How have you got on with that? Because obviously I
Speaker 1: want the publicans Gary and Tracy. The reason why we're
Speaker 1: going up the tomorrow is sort of big unvowl and
Speaker 1: so right in the middle of the show eight o'clock,
Speaker 1: I want them to walk down the red carpet into
Speaker 1: their own pub that we give back to.
Speaker 15: Yes, they have great news, We definitely have red carpet.
Speaker 15: Not so great news for the business is I've over
Speaker 15: ordered the red carpet and we now have enough red
Speaker 15: carpet that can pretty much take up the main drag
Speaker 15: of Paladin.
Speaker 1: Order. This is the line, don't we set a world
Speaker 1: record for the world's longest red carpet.
Speaker 14: I'm gonna be honest with you. I think we can
Speaker 14: do that.
Speaker 1: So how many meters? If you got four or five?
Speaker 14: Well, I just ordered a ten meter one.
Speaker 1: But it looks like that's a runway. That is a
Speaker 1: Runwayala there.
Speaker 14: That is a lot in itself. But the reality is
Speaker 14: there's about.
Speaker 15: Five of those roles, so that's kind of there's multiple
Speaker 15: we have a few meters.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we do. Then at the towards
Speaker 1: the end of to my show, let's give away to
Speaker 1: five listens. What do you need some red carpet for?
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be just a VIP and showbies everybody. Everybody
Speaker 1: should have the joy of walking along a red carpet.
Speaker 1: You might have a birthday party the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Image on the first day at work rolled red carpet
Speaker 1: or cars seven it's you're leaving work and rolled out
Speaker 1: your own exit red carpet. Either way, let's use that
Speaker 1: red carpet too soon.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about tomorrow's show. It is the
Speaker 1: big live show show on the road. No sleep till
Speaker 1: to Woomba for me and the dream Team and Pete.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our location for tomorrow where Intern Pete,
Speaker 1: who again was flowing up at great expense to go
Speaker 1: and give us some color pieces, is currently trapped inside
Speaker 1: a vehicle outside of the pub.
Speaker 14: Yes, a nineteen fifty six dodge with four X on
Speaker 14: the side.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful little dodge out by the way. So
Speaker 1: when we were up there, it's stunning that thing.
Speaker 14: It's so great.
Speaker 15: Actually, it's even greater when you can open the doorstow Legitimately,
Speaker 15: both doors I can't open, and no one's taking my
Speaker 15: text messages or calls inside the pub. It's thirteen degrees
Speaker 15: outside and about thirty three inside here at the moment,
Speaker 15: I am absolutely sweet.
Speaker 1: We cannot leave dogs in hot cars or intern peats.
Speaker 14: You legit U.
Speaker 15: I'm sotwat like I can see the guy from a
Speaker 15: distance who are cleaning up the seerage down the road.
Speaker 14: It was just so loud, but no one is paying
Speaker 14: any attention whatsoever. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm actually getting stressed out now that you're trapped in there.
Speaker 1: That was so dangerous crack a window. We got this kid,
Speaker 1: this is this is Gary's love and joy, young kicker window.
Speaker 14: I can't smash the window.
Speaker 15: This is a vintage like this is their prize position
Speaker 15: here at the Criteria Hotel. So lots of things happening tomorrow, guys, obviously.
Speaker 1: Break it down for us. Break it down for us
Speaker 1: in term Pete, this is your chance to redeem yourself
Speaker 1: after your potty language ten minutes ago. Pete, by the way,
Speaker 1: sent me a creepy Crawley apology.
Speaker 14: Yeah I did ye ye ben I's private message.
Speaker 1: So hey heyo thing. Apologies for swearing ten things went
Speaker 1: at once, smashed my hand in the Nora, etcetera. But
Speaker 1: will we super cautious moving on the very profession all right,
Speaker 1: So break it down for us tomorrow morning the show
Speaker 1: goes live at six from the Criteria in hotel. What
Speaker 1: are some of the big highlights to excite the listener
Speaker 1: right now, Pete, the big highlights.
Speaker 15: No matter where you are in Australia, you could probably
Speaker 15: make it in time to Haladin.
Speaker 14: That's right in Queensland. Wherever you are right and if
Speaker 14: you are in the area of Haladin and surrounds, be
Speaker 14: here before six a m.
Speaker 15: When the doors will officially open with the Kreshian O'Connell
Speaker 15: show live from a pub.
Speaker 14: We've been saving pubs for the last month or so.
Speaker 15: This is going to be a huge, spectacular performances by
Speaker 15: shannonol brass bands, extended red carpets, egg and spoon ray
Speaker 15: scissors that cost over six hundred dollars and really they're
Speaker 15: just a bunch of garden shears. To be hundred dollars
Speaker 15: order them from the US and I realized when they
Speaker 15: rocked down here in time.
Speaker 14: No, they're here. They're here already. It's all good. We're
Speaker 14: sordered with that as well. There will be the officials.
Speaker 1: We don't have that kind of money. Seriously, we're not
Speaker 1: on anymore. We don't have bunch.
Speaker 14: Wasn't mean to say that.
Speaker 1: That dose to be going back tomorrow at nine am. Yes,
Speaker 1: the receipt, make sure you got the swing tag on them.
Speaker 10: Good falla.
Speaker 15: It is going to be one of the most incredible
Speaker 15: mornings as we see and guess what he's going to
Speaker 15: be doing a tribute to Darryl Braithwaite, who retired from music,
Speaker 15: performing horses live on stage here, which is just awesome.
Speaker 1: Brilliant stuff. I cannot wait, Pete. We'll see you there
Speaker 1: later on tonight.
Speaker 15: Beautiful And once again, if anyone's listening, please if they
Speaker 15: could come outside and.
Speaker 14: Get out of here literally anyway, seeing.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, guys can't wait, all right, we will tune into
Speaker 1: my morning. It's going a very very very special show tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're abviously very excited about it. Also, you can win
Speaker 1: us his biggest ever meet Trey. The real reason isn't
Speaker 1: all the great stuff we've got lined up for tomorrow show.
Speaker 1: It's to hear Tracy and Gary at the heart of
Speaker 1: this at the heart of this community, in this lovely
Speaker 1: place called headed And is a pub that almost got
Speaker 1: shut down two years ago by Tracy and Gary who
Speaker 1: this place online. I thought, this ancient old pub, we
Speaker 1: can shut this down and make it into a family
Speaker 1: home place that the grandkids can play around. They move
Speaker 1: into it, and then I say's no way we can
Speaker 1: do this. This is the heart of the community. And
Speaker 1: this is what the pubs mean to us. They're not
Speaker 1: just buildings, they are the hearts. It's the front rooms
Speaker 1: of Australia are these country pubs. So tune in to
Speaker 1: hear their story. And the joy you're going to hear
Speaker 1: tomorrow as we hand them back their pub that we've
Speaker 1: been kind of renovating and restoring over the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. It's going to be a very special show.
Speaker 1: Cannot wait to head up there. We see you tomorrow
Speaker 1: morning at.
Speaker 7: Six Christian Connell Show Podcast.
Speaker 1: Australia. This is the Christian O'Connell Show. This morning you
Speaker 1: can probably hear from the rental crowd. We are live
Speaker 1: from the pub guard and good morning, Helldon and the
Speaker 1: criteria in a how to hotel rio. We actually have
Speaker 1: a crowd here. No, this is evy and it is fresh.
Speaker 10: Are you cold?
Speaker 1: Yes? Are you going to be warmed up by some
Speaker 1: brilliant news this morning by Shannon?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, none of those sort of been possible without
Speaker 1: the general support of this man here, Pat from four
Speaker 1: X been around pass four pas four X. We're gonna
Speaker 1: give away some four X right now for knockoff Friday.
Speaker 1: This is the thing we do every Friday on the
Speaker 1: show where we ask you what the best question anyone
Speaker 1: can ask you on a Friday? What time you're knocking
Speaker 1: off our orders? A highlight for you this weekend. Now
Speaker 1: to make your betthers, go out your weekend, go a
Speaker 1: bit smoother. We're going to give away some delicious forests. Pat,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for being at the great support
Speaker 1: of what we've been doing here. Big round fowes on. Pat.
Speaker 1: You are nice, welcome and you might not know this,
Speaker 1: but Pat actually invented four x what had been called
Speaker 1: mister foro egg. Yes, okay, maybe it's my height. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Christian, can you believe this? This is amazing?
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 16: I reckon that is a ripper turnout and that just
Speaker 16: demonstrates what Queensland's all about. So a big world done
Speaker 16: to everyone from the community of Ellen and go Queensland.
Speaker 1: A all right, So calling now thirteen fifty five twenty
Speaker 1: two and so it's what time you're knocking off and
Speaker 1: we away some for its what you're off to Greece today?
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 6: I'm going straight to the airport watching a soccer.
Speaker 1: Use is going to be a real tamper to change
Speaker 1: from him to Greece. Yeah, my suitcase is very confused.
Speaker 6: But if my partner's been in Greece for last three
Speaker 6: weeks barely talk to me. I think he's a little
Speaker 6: bit upset that I'm going to be meeting him over there,
Speaker 6: but I'll be running straight over to Greece after this.
Speaker 1: Of course. Yes, Soccer's in action midday must win game.
Speaker 1: Are you all going to be watching the game at twelve?
Speaker 1: There's about three people here. I forgot him in Queensland.
Speaker 1: It's the wrong shape ball. They're watching replayers of game
Speaker 1: two in Origin.
Speaker 7: Christian O'Connell show go On podcast.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell showed we are live from the grand reopening
Speaker 1: of the pub, even renovating over the last three and
Speaker 1: a half crazy weeks. Shannon not is going to be
Speaker 1: singing live at about five minutes time before that though,
Speaker 1: because we are kind of like handing the pub back
Speaker 1: to the accidental publicans Tracy and Gary this morning. We
Speaker 1: have a several areas that are really being reopened, so
Speaker 1: we're going to have some live simultaneous ribbon cutting right now.
Speaker 1: So Pete, what have you got to be reopened?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Well, obviously we've got Dennis here, has done an incredible
Speaker 15: job during this renovations and of course Pat from Forrest.
Speaker 14: Can we just give them a massive round of appause?
Speaker 7: Four?
Speaker 10: Ex Dennis, what you have done here? Is just incredible.
Speaker 14: I just want to spend a quick mone with Dennis, who.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you do, but we must focus on I
Speaker 1: just watch him, Dennis.
Speaker 14: I know my apologies. Dennis called into your car. I'm
Speaker 14: scared to touch you shoulder.
Speaker 15: But what I want to say is you we were
Speaker 15: here six weeks ago, and just paint the picture what
Speaker 15: you saw six weeks ago to what you're seeing today,
Speaker 15: which you've done as well.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 15: Six weeks ago, as you said, we walk out here
Speaker 15: and it was a pretty blank canvas, which was great,
Speaker 15: but Tracy and Gary had created what you have is
Speaker 15: a nice foundation.
Speaker 17: So we've worked on that and now obviously the four
Speaker 17: x big garden is taking.
Speaker 15: Shape absolutely and Understeed. I've just spotted someone in my
Speaker 15: other eye now and we've been calling him. I think
Speaker 15: we need to do a big all hail to King Rich,
Speaker 15: who is here, who has literally been running this place
Speaker 15: for the last six weeks. We just take a moment
Speaker 15: right now, Rich, honestly to see all hail King Rich.
Speaker 1: This one has given up so much of his company's time.
Speaker 1: He's throwing everything into this.
Speaker 14: You have thrown so much of this.
Speaker 15: Everyone on site here has just been saying the incredible
Speaker 15: kindness and you don't stop.
Speaker 14: Twenty four to seven. How are you feeling today to
Speaker 14: see this finished product?
Speaker 1: Oh? Awesome, it's great. It's very proud.
Speaker 6: I've got all our boys over here that put all
Speaker 6: their blood, sweat and tears into it.
Speaker 2: They should be very very proud of what they've done. Cheers, boys,
Speaker 2: it's not like I did it all.
Speaker 1: Very big part of it.
Speaker 15: As we said, we're cutting ribbons every thirty minutes. We'll
Speaker 15: be opening the toilet hopefully very soon as well the
Speaker 15: bread toilets. We've got pat from four X back. We
Speaker 15: thought we better open the beer guarden officially. Right, So
Speaker 15: we've got the six hundred dollars pair of scissors that
Speaker 15: we accidentally purchased here.
Speaker 14: They are very very sharp.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do a countdown and pat for four X.
Speaker 1: You're going to open up. You have the honors of
Speaker 1: it in real the big garden.
Speaker 16: Big, big congratulations to you both. And here is to
Speaker 16: the four X Big Guard and give it a chee.
Speaker 10: Five four three cutting the river.
Speaker 1: Wow, exciting scenes and right now the excitement doesn't stop. Guys.
Speaker 1: We now cross live to the toilets. It's time to
Speaker 1: reopen the toilets live on the show today. All right, Pete,
Speaker 1: if you head to the bay.
Speaker 15: I shipped over the beer garden because I was on
Speaker 15: my way to the tours. But I realized Tanya the
Speaker 15: Mayor's back and we thought, I we'll just do another
Speaker 15: ribbon gunning at the front while I make my way
Speaker 15: to the toilet.
Speaker 14: Hey, live radio, Okay, tenure, not ribbon.
Speaker 1: So what are you actually reopening now yourself?
Speaker 15: We're just going to open the other side of the
Speaker 15: beer garden, okay, not as pans mine, such a back
Speaker 15: to the program. He's gonna open the other side, okay?
Speaker 15: Or should we just go to talk together now?
Speaker 10: Excuse me going to the toilet, Come on, Tania.
Speaker 18: Great.
Speaker 1: What I like is good morning till the local police
Speaker 1: have come down to the titest. Good morning, arrest that
Speaker 1: many and we are at around the toilets the last
Speaker 1: twenty four hours.
Speaker 14: Apologies, We are at the toilet with the first aid
Speaker 14: man as well. So are you okay?
Speaker 8: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Okayfully opened the tourist first aid man has been reading
Speaker 1: a book for the last two hours. Sorry, a first
Speaker 1: aid book.
Speaker 9: I need to probably say a few words.
Speaker 10: Before we cut the ribbon.
Speaker 14: You didn't say enough before, so let's do it now.
Speaker 9: So I'm thinking, because it is the toilet and it's
Speaker 9: really really important, I will sign twenty six years. I've
Speaker 9: never ever ever opened up.
Speaker 1: The toilets, but it's time time.
Speaker 9: May the flow always be so freely, May the toilet
Speaker 9: paper always be soft, and may the line always get
Speaker 9: get through really quickly when.
Speaker 1: You're in a hurry. Beautiful words, beautifulredibly, please reopen the
Speaker 1: toilets now, opening the.
Speaker 14: Toilet so I guess we'll have to count it down together.
Speaker 2: Far three?
Speaker 1: So why, oh wow, what a big moment of moments
Speaker 1: this morning? All right when we come back, Shannon no
Speaker 1: Is singing live.
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Speaker 1: Over the last four weeks we've been on a mission
Speaker 1: to try and save the pumps of Australia. All thanks
Speaker 1: to four X. We have done something quite crazy, insane
Speaker 1: the last three and a half weeks. No one has
Speaker 1: ever heard of a renovation. Renovations take months and months
Speaker 1: and months. The team here, so many people. We've got
Speaker 1: to thank. We do that the next ten minutes to
Speaker 1: make this possible. This pub looks completely different from the
Speaker 1: beautiful pub, but it already was when we found it
Speaker 1: five weeks ago. So this morning, at this moment, it's
Speaker 1: a very special moment. We've got a red carpet, a
Speaker 1: genuinely massive, very thick, heavy, very heavy that eighteen people
Speaker 1: had to roll out. This thickest carpet I've ever known.
Speaker 2: It's straight from the met Gala.
Speaker 1: Actually from Buckingham Palace. It's King Charles's carpet. And the
Speaker 1: accidental publicans have been calling them, and that is Gary
Speaker 1: and Tracy. This is their home. They brought this as
Speaker 1: a home two years ago and then they couldn't close
Speaker 1: it down. So we're going to give the pub back
Speaker 1: to them now as they reopen it. There's a guard
Speaker 1: of honor being formed as we welcome back to their
Speaker 1: own pub and we hand it back to them. Gary
Speaker 1: and Tracy, come on down the red carpet and then
Speaker 1: Shannon I was going to sing song number two. Guard
Speaker 1: of Honor here utterly confusing, more like a scene from
Speaker 1: a cult if anything to honest, big run up blast.
Speaker 1: So Tracy and Gary, it is time for the giant scissors.
Speaker 1: We give you the honors to do the grand reopening
Speaker 1: off your very own pub, the greatest pub on Earth
Speaker 1: the Criterion Hotel. Now go, yeah, we now give the
Speaker 1: pub back to you now, Tracey, you what a crazy
Speaker 1: couple of weeks has been. How are you feeling today? Overwhelmed?
Speaker 1: It's huge, it is, isn't it. There's just this beautiful
Speaker 1: crowd here. They've all come out because they love what
Speaker 1: you two have done here and what you've really been
Speaker 1: looking after for the last two years and on behalf
Speaker 1: of your community. Thank you very much for looking after
Speaker 1: and keeping this pub going. We're just so thankful that
Speaker 1: you could do it for us and facing the community. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it, doesn't it look incredible? I
Speaker 1: mean it looked beautiful when really when I came here
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. But it's kind of restored
Speaker 1: and now this is a gift for the community over
Speaker 1: the next couple of years.
Speaker 10: It is, it is and she'll live on now are you?
Speaker 1: Are you sick of us? Now? Your eyes say different?
Speaker 1: Now I'm just a little concerned, al right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're here for quite a few of the community. Actually,
Speaker 1: now Big round Blaws are these two legends. Honestly, this
Speaker 1: is what Australia means is people like YouTube. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much for making us feel so welcomed the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. We've loved it this morning. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Everyone who's coming along now? Are we ready
Speaker 1: for song too with Shannon No. Yes, let's bring Shannon
Speaker 1: No back on stage now live on Gold for song
Speaker 1: number two. Big round applause for Shannon No. He's just
Speaker 1: trying to stay warm in front of the heater. Shannon,
Speaker 1: come and join us a song number two. So Shanna,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for doing this. Is this the
Speaker 1: coldest gig you've ever done?
Speaker 18: No, I sadly know, just the early morning things, that's all.
Speaker 18: It's a bit I've getting the vocal cords going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there aren't many rock festivals that are eight in
Speaker 1: the morning for good reason. Well, I have to say,
Speaker 1: isn't his voice sounding amazing this morning? You're belting it out,
Speaker 1: you're surning O, absolutely brilliant. You're the perfect perfect person
Speaker 1: come and sing live this morning. And what a great
Speaker 1: crowd here is terrific.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for coming out. Guys really appreciates.
Speaker 1: All right, ovid Shannon for song too. Thank you.
Speaker 5: There'sh't livn't buy him waiting at the counter of a
Speaker 5: corner shot. He's been waiting down then wait and have
Speaker 5: the day they never ready seen from the hood top.
Speaker 17: He gets boosted around, knock through the crowd.
Speaker 10: He gets to his feet and he said, come on,
Speaker 10: what about in me? It isn't fair. I've had enough.
Speaker 10: Now I walk by shift. Got you see?
Speaker 7: I want to live?
Speaker 17: Ujized take more than you keep.
Speaker 5: There's a pretty girl said at the counter of a
Speaker 5: corner shop.
Speaker 10: She's been waiting back there. We're heading for a dream
Speaker 10: of dreams again, and that they never stopped. Well, she's
Speaker 10: not too proud to cry out.
Speaker 17: Alun she runs through the street and she scream, what
Speaker 17: a butten me, It isn't fair.
Speaker 10: I'm pad enough Now I want my ship. Got you see?
Speaker 10: I wanna live?
Speaker 17: But you just take more than you again, to take
Speaker 17: a step back and see the lead up people.
Speaker 10: They many young and downunds who make the bab.
Speaker 17: Ba.
Speaker 10: She listen as they whisper her.
Speaker 1: Wan tell me.
Speaker 10: Now I'm standing on the corner on the world gone.
Speaker 17: Nobody's changed, nobody's been saying.
Speaker 10: And I'm feeling cold and alone. I guess I'm lucky.
Speaker 10: I smiled a lot, but sometimes I wish for more.
Speaker 19: Then I'm called what about me? It is a fair
Speaker 19: now had nothing? Now wown't my share? Got Jessie?
Speaker 10: I wanna live? But you chat? Take more? Why about me?
Speaker 17: It is a fair?
Speaker 10: Now that nothing? Now I want not take God? You see,
Speaker 10: I wanna leave you chast take more?
Speaker 14: You chat?
Speaker 7: Tan you cha?
Speaker 10: Tan man?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: Don't tell me?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 10: Don't tell me?
Speaker 7: What is bad?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 10: What about him? Give it up for Shannon?
Speaker 1: No The Morning Live on Goals, the greatest pup on
Speaker 1: a what a great song? Not bad way to reopen
Speaker 1: a pub rio?
Speaker 14: Can you see me?
Speaker 1: I got trapped at the back. There's so many people.
Speaker 1: I'm over here. I can't I'm trapped at the back.
Speaker 1: I actually I went for a walking. I'm trapped at
Speaker 1: the back. There's there's such a big thick crowd here.
Speaker 1: How great was that? Shadding No.
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Speaker 1: All right, it is time for us to say goodbye
Speaker 1: and a huge thank you. If there's one thing we've
Speaker 1: learned the last couple of weeks, pubs are really really important.
Speaker 1: Over the last twenty years, sixty percent of Aussie pubs
Speaker 1: have gone by the wayside. And when you see everyone
Speaker 1: here what this community means to this place, and what
Speaker 1: the place means this community. It reminds us how important
Speaker 1: pubs are. Please this weekend, get out your house, get
Speaker 1: off the couch, stop watching Netflix, Go and have a beer,
Speaker 1: Go and get around each other in your local pubs.
Speaker 1: These are really special places. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: making me and my team still welcome in this morning.
Speaker 1: Give yourself some round of applause.
Speaker 18: We love this.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's been such fun. Now are we ready for
Speaker 1: our last song from Shannon?
Speaker 10: Whoo?
Speaker 1: So we once to end with something. Shannon really want
Speaker 1: to do this? He does this song. It's Darryl Breakthwait's
Speaker 1: Horses Big news this week, Dal is no longer to
Speaker 1: be doing it live. He wants to pay homage to
Speaker 1: a great Aussie icon. Another one, Dal Breakthwait. With our
Speaker 1: last songs, we say goodbye to everyone here today. Please
Speaker 1: one more time for his last last morning Shannon no
Speaker 1: here on goals.
Speaker 10: Thanks guys in Big Shay out of Daryl for this one.
Speaker 18: He's a true blue and a really good mind of mine.
Speaker 18: And it's really sad that we won't say him on
Speaker 18: the right anymore. What a stellar career, sir. Here we
Speaker 18: go sing along.
Speaker 2: If you know the words, guys, you will fly.
Speaker 17: We're pied, wear the cold bean blues, or in the sad,
Speaker 17: laughing and having fun, and on the people that she
Speaker 17: knows and the situation she keep us sitting reader.
Speaker 10: No, no, Mae won't fall a pond and you will
Speaker 10: free the beautiful bird.
Speaker 7: Coating side.
Speaker 10: Did you hear her? And she cried so alive and
Speaker 10: to wild over water and Kyle, that's the way it's
Speaker 10: gonna be. And dining, you'll go riding on the hort.
Speaker 17: Said, yeah, way up in the sky and din. If
Speaker 17: you fall, big bicky, you will cry in until you go.
Speaker 10: I'll be right there by your side.
Speaker 17: Indeedn whiz brother win, she will carry up your life.
Speaker 1: I see all the people of.
Speaker 7: The world.
Speaker 17: And but lonely cry, see them trying every way they
Speaker 17: know how.
Speaker 10: To make this spirit pride. Can't you see him?
Speaker 17: He's down on the cryd has it broken away, looking
Speaker 17: on and role that's the.
Speaker 10: Way it's gonna be.
Speaker 17: And dialing you go riding on the horsies, gay, yeah,
Speaker 17: way up in the sky and died.
Speaker 10: And if you fall, pigul be, come on your finery.
Speaker 17: That's the way it's gonna be little died you go
Speaker 17: riding on the horses, yeah, way up in a scared
Speaker 17: and a ting.
Speaker 10: And if you far pick you pick you. That's ways
Speaker 10: gonna be time you go riding on thissis in.
Speaker 1: W a scar.
Speaker 17: Don't do any day there, Bigure, bigure, that's a way
Speaker 17: it's gonna be. T you go riding on the osis
Speaker 17: yeah yeah, way up in.
Speaker 10: A scared and dying and if you fund bigure pick
Speaker 10: you up.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks so much, guy.
Speaker 10: Thanks so much having us let me a pretty shut it.
Speaker 7: Thank you. Christian O'Connell show go On podcast.
Speaker 4: Hey this is Tracy.
Speaker 7: Thanks golden for it, for saving my purpose.