Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: We had a great call from Mary who had a
Speaker 2: famous neighbor.
Speaker 1: My house was on the news because I was an
Speaker 1: neighbor of Chopper read. I just walked into my front
Speaker 1: room and saw Chopper and Mark Jacko Jackson, who was
Speaker 1: his best man, wearing kilts, having a smoke on my
Speaker 1: front baranda. So there was footage of my house with
Speaker 1: me looking confused in the window and Chopper and Jacob
Speaker 1: What loo can for.
Speaker 2: Your weakest claim to neighbor eat fame? Jack You any
Speaker 2: significant neighbors over the years.
Speaker 3: Yes, young singer songwriter from Australia, Angie mcmahton, Triple J
Speaker 3: Lover her parents live.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, we're retaking a couple of steps back
Speaker 2: from Triple J.
Speaker 3: Her parents leave over the back fence and two doors
Speaker 3: down from the.
Speaker 2: Jack A chess Moove. Olympic gold medalist Steve Hooker moved
Speaker 2: into my road about eight months ago and he had
Speaker 2: a street party and all I knew was he was
Speaker 2: a new neighbor. I didn't know who he was. And
Speaker 2: he's wearing a baseball cat right, He's with his dog
Speaker 2: and We're just chatting and he's talking about the radio
Speaker 2: show and he's I think he knows the boys Hamish Nandy.
Speaker 2: So we're just having a chat. And then I started
Speaker 2: to say, what are you doing? He does something to
Speaker 2: do with housing at the moment, and then he said,
Speaker 2: you know, I used to be an athlete. I'm not
Speaker 2: aware this is an Olympic medalist. Okay, so just give
Speaker 2: me the benefit of the down here. I go, okay, right,
Speaker 2: lot a decent level, like for the state, and he goes,
Speaker 2: he must have been killing him, right, some idiotic pom
Speaker 2: you've got. If I had a gold medal, I'd wear
Speaker 2: that around everywhere. Okay, I'd have it on permanent. It's
Speaker 2: a necklace, just an a dormum. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit better on that. I went, oh, what
Speaker 2: like national? I was like, well done, that's it wrong.
Speaker 2: He goes, actually, no, I went to the Olympics and
Speaker 2: I went, oh, did you win anything? He goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: a gold actually yeah, I went ten minutes. I'm inflaming
Speaker 2: around here. Why do you say who you are? He goes, well,
Speaker 2: I just didn't want to do a big flex. So
Speaker 2: now whenever I share a go, Hey, Steve god Medalist,
Speaker 2: how are you neighbor? So? All right, so we're looking
Speaker 2: for your weakest claim to neighbor leave fame. This is
Speaker 2: the Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right, we're doing the
Speaker 2: weakest claim to fame. It's a special version of weakest
Speaker 2: claim to fame of famous neighbors that you've lived near.
Speaker 2: I was about to saying, next all, we're indeed near
Speaker 2: to like Jack? Which was was it across the back
Speaker 2: fence and four down dark fencing?
Speaker 3: Two down Joe down.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Singing songwriter Andrew McMahon's parents.
Speaker 2: All right, just quickly go to lines Lara, welcome to
Speaker 2: the show. So famous neighbors, who have you lived near?
Speaker 1: It was actually Greg Norman's caddy in the seventies.
Speaker 2: Brilliant, love it. This is great next door right next door?
Speaker 1: And I was actually playing out the front in the
Speaker 1: morning and he was coming to pick Greg Norman came
Speaker 1: to pick him up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Actually think it'd be the other way around.
Speaker 2: Yes, I thought that'd be the candies job.
Speaker 1: No, No, it was him.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Okay, how are you.
Speaker 2: Who do you live next to?
Speaker 1: Them?
Speaker 2: Who's famous? Yeah?
Speaker 1: My very right next door was Michael wend an Olympic champion.
Speaker 1: He was nineteen sixty eight, seventy two Olympics. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a swimmer, and he taught all my brothers to swim,
Speaker 1: and they're brilliant swimmers. And got to me, the youngest
Speaker 1: of the family, and he goes, nah, nah, just stick
Speaker 1: the dog paddling. You're no good. Ah. He said, if
Speaker 1: there was an Olympic sport for dog paddling, you'd win.
Speaker 1: But I just couldn't put my face under the water
Speaker 1: and swim.
Speaker 2: And can he swim? Now?
Speaker 1: I no? Not really, not the best.
Speaker 3: And was Michael Winner's job a swim teacher or are
Speaker 3: you just asking for favors as a next door neighbor.
Speaker 1: Oh, definitely favors. Yeah, he had this nice he was
Speaker 1: only renting there and he had this nice above ground
Speaker 1: pools and yeah, he tried to teach us all to
Speaker 1: swim and I failed.
Speaker 2: Image of like everyone in suburbs, like coming around to
Speaker 2: his house permanently just queuing up for swim. He never
Speaker 2: wanted to be given.
Speaker 1: Well, there was five of us.
Speaker 3: We all queered up.
Speaker 2: Yes, doggie, thank you very much, you Cola, thank you Claire,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show, Claire, welcome, Thank you. Yes, back
Speaker 2: in the late nineties, I used to live next door
Speaker 2: to Jamie Jury. Nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were really good friends. We used to something together.
Speaker 2: Those kind of friends with some oil on my back, Yeah,
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I used to look after his garden because
Speaker 1: he was always a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah he came to our wedding.
Speaker 1: I used to look after his daughter tailor now.
Speaker 2: And then, and yeah, they were the good old days.
Speaker 3: Used to get free free back backstage passes to his comforts,
Speaker 3: and yeah, had lots of fun living next door to him.
Speaker 3: So was he excuse my ignorance for Jamie Jury? Before
Speaker 3: he was a television presenter, he was a singer. What
Speaker 3: worries concerts?
Speaker 2: I do you what I know? Magic Mike, Magic Michael.
Speaker 3: I thought he was just a good looking TV he
Speaker 3: is Vegas and everything.
Speaker 2: Well, one day he wrapped up at my front door
Speaker 2: and he wanted some sugar, and all he had around
Speaker 2: him was a towel. That's the oldest one in the book.
Speaker 2: He's having having a cup of tea. Which is it?
Speaker 2: Jamie Jury on the doorsteps Christian O'Connell Show Podcast